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The Chief Executive of Wirral Council has been called to appear before a committee of councillors to explain high rates of staff absence, after a report revealed the authority is losing £4.4 million a year caused by absence and sickness.
A new competition by Keep Britain Tidy is inviting residents to vote for their favourite park. All 25 of Wirral's Green Flag parks are eligible, along with the other 1,772 award winning Green Flag Award parks in the rest of the country.
Earlier today, Conservative Councillors and volunteers from across Wirral met in Newton, West Kirby to deliver a letter from Councillor Jeff Green, asking for views of residents on the local Green Belt.
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Government - Written Monday, August 16, 2010 by Jeff DeChambeau - 0 Comments
Every so often an idea comes along that seems to get a lot right, and you’re left with little to do but sit by the sidelines and watch, hoping that it thrives and makes its way to your neck of the woods. San Francisco’s new SFpark.org project is one such idea. Here’s the overview video from their website:
- The retail experience of tomorrow: the same but very different
- My top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 1
- Digitizing Davos
- Less technology + more sleep = more productive 2010?
- Tracking Snacks in the Cloud
- What’s the Curriculum to Build Technology Skills?
- Technology as a Behavior Magnifier
- Monetizing Twitter – Will other companies beat Twitter at its own game?
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Robbie Williams has promised to get naked in the middle of Trafalgar Square if Take That hit number one – and defeat pop rivals JLS.
The singer, who recently rejoined his old band, said he was willing to get his bum out to make sure their new album, The Flood, topped the charts.
He told The Daily Star: ‘If all else fails, nakedness in Trafalgar Square.
‘We might have to get our arses out again. It’s going to be an interesting week.’
Take That famously stripped naked and smeared themselves with jelly in the music video for Do What U Like in 1992.
The band are up against boy band JLS, who will be bringing out their second album, Outta This World, on the same day.
JLS’s self-titled debut effort kept Robbie’s comeback album, Reality Killed The Video Star, off the top spot last November.
Robbie added: ‘JLS are great. When my last album came out and I was No 2 and they were No 1, I gave them a bell and congratulated them. So if the reverse happens, they have my number now…’
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Workbridge Associates is starting a new Microsoft Users Group which will be meeting at their offices in Irvine, CA on October 19th, 2010. I’ve been asked to be the speaker at the first meeting, and since I’ve got sucker written on my forehead I’ve accepted.
As this is a new User Group, I’m breaking out a new slide deck and presentation for the meeting. I’ll be talking about data encryption, the ways to encrypt data at the various levels of the application, the pros and the cons of all the techniques. This deck is actually inspired by a chapter from my upcoming book on SQL Server security which I’ll be talking about a little as well.
Workbridge Associates will be providing pizza, and there is the possibility that cold frosty beverages will be provided (don’t quote me on that, management can always get in the way of that). There is a small parking fee for the lot, but I’m not sure if the lot will be open to the public or not for free at night, so bring a few bucks for parking just in case. Everyone is invited, and since they are a recruiting company they will be inviting a lot of hiring managers, so it may be a great way to run across that new position you’ve been looking for.
The meeting will start at 6:30pm at 4675 Macarthur Court Suite 960 Newport Beach, CA 92660 (they say that their address is Newport Beach, but I’m pretty sure they are in Irvine, it right across from John Wayne Airport).
Hopefully I’ll see you there.
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Indoor plants (or houseplants if you prefer that name) are a nice way to step into the world of gardening, regardless of how much space you have available outside. It’s all fairly manageable in terms of scale and complexity, and you quickly learn the basics of maintaining a plant. You don’t have to worry about the weather, or garden pests to any real degree. Many an avid gardener’s lifelong passion was started with an indoor plant!
More importantly, for those living in high density housing, like flats, or apartments, and that don’t have balconies or outdoor space, indoor plants are the only option if you want your own little personal connection with nature.
Indoor plants are utilised as design features in interior design, and can add interest and a touch of life to an otherwise plain living space. Beyond their aesthetic value, indoor plants have a tremendous health benefit to us, especially in this modern age where we tend to make extensive use of man-made materials, which is not without consequence.
The Health Benefits of Indoor Plants
Here is an extract from NASA-STI (Scientific and Technical Information), and yes, that is the US space agency that builds rockets, satellites, space shuttles and put man on the moon, etc.
NASA describes its STI (scientific and technical information) as “the collected set of facts, analyses, and conclusions resulting from scientific, technical, and related engineering research and development efforts, both basic and applied.” So you can be assured this is hard scientific fact.
What follows is an extract of the article “Plants Clean Air and Water for Indoor Environments” which you can find at:
“Although one of NASA’s goals is to send people to the far reaches of our universe, it is still well known that people need Earth. We understand that humankind’s existence relies on its complex relationship with this planet’s environment—in particular, the regenerative qualities of Earth’s ecosystems.
At a test center in Florida, he was heading a facility that discovered that swamp plants were actually eliminating Agent Orange…
In the late 1960s, B.C. “Bill” Wolverton was an environmental scientist working with the U.S. military to clean up the environmental messes left by biological warfare centers. At a test center in Florida, he was heading a facility that discovered that swamp plants were actually eliminating Agent Orange, which had entered the local waters through government testing near Eglin Air Force Base. After this success, he wanted to continue this line of research and moved to what was at the time called the Mississippi Test Facility, but is now known as NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
He was funded by the Space Agency to research the environment’s natural abilities to clean itself as part of what is now Stennis’ Environmental Assurance Program. The goals were to clean the Center of chemicals left behind through wastes and to supply information to NASA engineers about closed-environment “eco” support that may prove helpful in designing sustainable living environments for long-term habitation of space. A tertiary goal was to provide usable technologies to NASA’s Technology Utilization Program, essentially making the research available to the American public.
The first step for Wolverton’s research was to continue the remediation work he had started with the military. He was tasked with using plants to clean waste water at the NASA Center. To this day, Wolverton’s design, which replaces a traditional septic system with water hyacinths, is still in use. His research then turned to using plants to improve air quality.
…NASA scientists identified 107 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air inside the Skylab space station. Synthetic materials … used to construct Skylab, give off low levels of chemicals… such as formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene, all known irritants and potential carcinogens.
In 1973, NASA scientists identified 107 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air inside the Skylab space station. Synthetic materials, like those used to construct Skylab, give off low levels of chemicals. This effect, known as off-gassing, spreads the VOCs, such as formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene, all known irritants and potential carcinogens. When these chemicals are trapped without circulation, as was the case with the Skylab, the inhabitants may become ill, as the air they breathe is not given the natural scrubbing by Earth’s complex ecosystem.
Around the same time that Wolverton was conducting his research into VOCs, the United States found itself in an energy crisis. In response, builders began making houses and offices more energy efficient. One of the best ways to do this was to make the buildings as airtight as possible. While keeping temperature-controlled air in place, this approach reduced circulation. Combined with the modern use of synthetic materials, this contributed to what became known as Sick Building Syndrome, where toxins found in synthetic materials become concentrated inside sealed buildings, making people feel sick.
“If man is to move into closed environments, on Earth or in space, he must take along nature’s life support system.” Plants.
The solution Wolverton sought was not to make indoor environments less energy efficient or to move away from the convenience of synthetic materials; rather, the plan was to find a solution that restores personal environments. The answer, according to a NASA report later published by Wolverton in 1989, is that “If man is to move into closed environments, on Earth or in space, he must take along nature’s life support system.” Plants.
Before the houseplants were added, … anyone entering the newly constructed facility would experience burning eyes and respiratory difficulties… Once the plants were introduced… the symptoms disappeared.
One of the NASA experiments testing this solution was the BioHome, an early experiment in what the Agency called “closed ecological life support systems.” The BioHome, a tightly sealed building constructed entirely of synthetic materials, was designed as suitable for one person to live in, with a great deal of the interior occupied by houseplants. Before the houseplants were added, though, anyone entering the newly constructed facility would experience burning eyes and respiratory difficulties, two of the most common symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome. Once the plants were introduced to the environment, analysis of the air quality indicated that most of the VOCs had been removed, and the symptoms disappeared.
After serving over 30 years as a government scientist, Wolverton retired from civil service but continued his work in air and water quality by founding Wolverton Environmental Services Inc. The company, based just down the road from Stennis in Picayune, Mississippi, is an environmental consulting firm that gives customers access to Wolverton’s decades of cutting-edge bioremediation research.
Wolverton published his findings about using plants to improve indoor air quality in dozens of technical papers while with the Space Agency and as a simple consumer-friendly book, “How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants That Purify Your Home or Office.” In it, he explains, in easy-to-understand terms, how plants emit water vapor that creates a pumping action to pull contaminated air down around a plant’s roots, where it is then converted into food for the plant. He then goes on to explain which plants and varieties remove the most toxins, as well as to rate each plant for the level of maintenance it requires. The book has now been translated into 12 languages and has been on the shelves of bookstores for nearly 10 years. Wolverton has also published a companion book, “Growing Clean Water: Nature’s Solution to Water Pollution,” which explains how plants can clean waste water…”
So yes, Sick Building Syndrome is a fact, synthetic man-made materials do release toxic and dangerous volatile organic compounds, many of them carcinogenic (cancer causing) into the air inside buildings, and indoor plants do remove them from the air.
Obviously there are others who disagree with the findings of NASA but consider this point. NASA’s agenda is purely scientific, about maintaining conditions that support life up in outer space. Back down here on the ground, this information runs counter to the financial interests of those manufacturing man made building materials, paints, plastics and other synthetics, fuels, solvents, pesticides, cleaning compounds, detergents and almost everything else coming out of the chemical industry!
Top 20 Clean Air Plants
Research has shown that certain indoor plants are better at removing specific chemicals than others.
The following table is from the book “Eco Friendly House Plants” by B C Wolverton (Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, United Kingdom, 1996)
It lists the 20 plants that were rated the highest for removal of chemicals from the air out of the fifty plants tested.
Full sun = min. 5 hrs of sun
|Semi-sun||Easy to grow. Requires high humidity|
|Semi-sun||Easy to grow|
|Semi-sun||Easy to grow|
|Semi-shade||Easy to grow|
|Dracaena ‘Janet Craig’
(Dracaena deremensis ‘Janet Craig’)
|Easy to grow|
|Requires high humidity.
Prone to spider mite.
|Dwarf Date Palm
(Ficus macleilandii ‘Alii’)
|Full sun||Easier to grow than F. Benjamina|
(Nephrolepis exaltata ‘Bostoniensis’)
|Requires humidity and good light|
|Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum sp.)||
|Easy to grow|
(Dracaena fragrans ‘Massangeana’)
|Semi-shade||Very easy to grow|
|Full sun||Easy to grow|
(Dieffenbachia ‘Exotica Compacta’)
|Very easy to grow.
|Full sun||Requires draught-free environment|
|Full sun||Bulb poisonous when eaten|
(Chlorophytum comosum ‘Vittatum’)
|Easy to grow|
The Number of Indoor Plants to Use
NASA’s research recommends 15 to 18 good sized plants in 6-8 inch (15-20cm) wide pots to improve the quality of the air in a 1,800 square-foot (167 square-metre) house.
If you need to scale this down to a smaller space, such as a room or office, the recommendation is a minimum of two plants per 100 square feet of floor space in a building with 8- to 10-foot ceilings.
The rates at which plants clean the air will vary depending on the size of the plant (the effectiveness improves as the plant grows), the temperature of the air and the amount of pollution present.
The area of space surrounding a person, about 0.17 to 0.23 cubic metres (6-8 cubic feet) of it in fact, is termed the personal breathing zone. This is usually areas where an individual remains for several hours working, watching TV or asleep. Plants placed within this zone can add humidity, remove bioeffluents and chemical toxins and suppress airborne microbes.
Plant-filled rooms contained 50 to 60% fewer airborne moulds and bacteria than plant-less rooms.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and their Sources
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) area a group of chemicals that contain organic carbon, and readily evaporate – changing from liquids to gases when exposed to air.
Should you be worried about these pollutants? Are they really a concern?
Most definitely! In case you have any doubts, and haven’t realised that all technological progress comes at a price, then read on.
I’ve included an extract from the National Library of Medicine’s article “Volatile Organic Compounds”
How can volatile organic compounds affect my health?
The health effects of volatile organic compounds can vary greatly according to the compound, which can range from being highly toxic to having no known health effects. The health effects of volatile organic compounds will depend on nature of the volatile organic compound, the level of exposure, and length of exposure.
benzene is “known to be a human carcinogen”; formaldehyde and percholroethylene are “reasonably anticipated to be carcinogens.”
According to the Eleventh Report on Carcinogens published by the National Toxicology Program, benzene is “known to be a human carcinogen”; formaldehyde and percholroethylene are “reasonably anticipated to be carcinogens.” People at the highest risk of long-term exposure to these three volatile organic compounds are industrial workers who have prolonged exposure to the compounds in the workplace; cigarette smokers; and people who have prolonged exposure to emissions from heavy motor vehicle traffic.
Long-term exposure to volatile organic compounds can cause damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system. Short-term exposure to volatile organic compounds can cause eye and respiratory tract irritation, headaches, dizziness, visual disorders, fatigue, loss of coordination, allergic skin reactions, nausea, and memory impairment.
That should clear up any doubts about the nature of these substances.
You may be wondering where how these chemicals get into your indoor living space in the first place.
From the Minnesota Department of Health’s article “Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Your Home“, I’ve reproduced portions of the article for the purpose of reference, as it provides further information on VOC sources.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are a large group of carbon-based chemicals that easily evaporate at room temperature. While most people can smell high levels of some VOCs, other VOCs have no odor. Odor does not indicate the level of risk from inhalation of this group of chemicals. There are thousands of different VOCs produced and used in our daily lives. Some common examples include:
- Ethylene glycol
- Methylene chloride
Where do VOCs come from?
Many products we have in our homes release or “off-gas” VOCs. Some examples of sources of VOCs are:
- Carpets and adhesives
- Composite wood products
- Sealing caulks
- Upholstery fabrics
- Vinyl Floors
Home and Personal Care Products
- Air fresheners
- Air cleaners that produce ozone
- Cleaning and disinfecting chemicals
- Fuel oil, gasoline
- Moth balls
- Vehicle exhaust running a car in an attached garage
- Non-electric space heaters
- Stored paints and chemicals
- Wood burning stoves
Studies have shown that the level of VOCs indoors is generally two to five times higher than the level of VOC’s outdoors. VOC concentrations in indoor air depend on many factors, including the:
Amount of VOCs in a product;
- Rate at which the VOCs are released;
- Volume of the air in the room/building;
- Ventilation rate or the area; and
- Outdoor concentrations of VOCs.
What are the health effects of VOC exposure?
The risk of health effects from inhaling any chemical depends on how much is in the air, how long and how often a person breathes it in. Scientists look at short-term (acute) exposures as hours to days or long-term (chronic) exposures as years to even lifetime.
Breathing low levels of VOCs for long periods of time may increase some people’s risk of health problems. Several studies suggest that exposure to VOCs may make symptoms worse in people who have asthma or are particularly sensitive to chemicals. These are much different exposures than occupational exposures to VOCs.
VOCs refer to a group of chemicals. Each chemical has its own toxicity and potential for causing different health effects. Common symptoms of exposure to VOCs include:
Short-Term (Acute) to high levels of VOCs
- Eye, nose and throat irritation
- Nausea / Vomiting
- Worsening of asthma symptoms
- Long-Term (Chronic) to high levels of VOCs
Increased risk of:
- Liver damage
- Kidney damage
- Central Nervous System damage
What levels of VOCs is safe?
The best health protection measure is to limit your exposure to products and materials that contain VOCs when possible. If you think you may be having health problems caused by VOCs, try reducing levels in your home. If symptoms persist, consult with your doctor to rule out ore serious health conditions that may have similar symptoms.
How do I reduce the levels of VOCs in my home?
The most effective action is to remove the product that gives off VOCs. Most products containing VOCs will off-gas within a short period of time, although some will continue to give off VOCs for a longer period of time.
Some steps you can take to reduce your exposure to VOC in the home are:
- Source control: Remove or reduce the number of products in your home that give off VOCs. Only purchase amounts of chemicals that you know you will use and carefully follow directions on product labels. Remove unused chemicals from the home because stored chemicals in closed containers can sometimes “leak” and release VOCs into indoor air. Check with city or county for household hazardous waste collection sites. For new items consider purchasing:
- floor models that have been allowed to off-gas in the store
- solid wood items with low emitting finishes
- new products that contain low or no VOCs (environmentally preferable products)
- As a last resort, airtight sealers have been used to minimize VOC emissions. Check with vendors of composite wood products to choose a non-toxic sealant to reduce exposure to VOCs.
2. Ventilation and climate control can be used to reduce exposure to VOCs.
- Increase ventilation by opening doors and windows, use fans, maximize air brought in from outside;
- Keep both the temperature and relative humidity as low as possible or comfortable. Chemicals will off-gas more under warmer conditions with high humidity; and
- If you have a choice, perform renovations when home is unoccupied or during seasons that will allow for additional ventilation.
- In summary, the most effective way to limit VOCs indoors is to limit the potential sources of VOCs. Increasing the amount of outdoor “fresh air” into a space can also dilute and reduce VOC levels.
I’m hoping at this point that I haven’t terrified you into filling every square inch of your home completely with plants! The point, which I hope I’ve sufficiently illustrated, with factual evidence from credible sources, is that VOCs are very toxic substances present in our indoor living spaces that can effectively be reduced/removed with indoor plants.
How Plants Clean the Air
Most indoor plants have very high rates of photosynthesis which allow them to grow in very dim light, because they typically grow under the shade of the canopy of tropical or subtropical forests. This attribute also allows them to grow indoors.
The plant’s leaves, roots, soil and micro-organisms work together in a symbiotic relationship to removal chemical pollutants:
Air pollutants are are removed from the air by being absorbed through microscopic pores in plant’s leaves called stomata. They are moved, by a process called translocation, which moves sugars and other substances through the plant, to the root zone, where they are broken down by soil microbes. Some chemicals, are, however, broken down by the plant’s own biological processes without involving the action of soil microbes.
Soil microbes break down the pollutants into substances that can be used as food by the microbes and the plant.
Soil microbes break down the pollutants into substances that can be used as food by the microbes and the plant. Many different types of micro-organisms live in the soil, and one of the many things that they do is to make nutrients available to plants and to detoxifying the soil.
Soil microbes adapt readily to their surroundings, as they have the ability to mutate in response to changes in their environment. The longer they are exposed to toxic substances, the better they become at breaking them down, so, the longer we keep our houseplants, the better they will be in their ability to clean the air.
While most plants open the pores in their leaves (stomata) during the day for photosynthesis, and therefore absorb air pollutants during that time, some plants, including most cacti, succulents, orchids and bromeliads, act in the opposite way, opening their stomata at night, and therefore absorbing air pollutants at night. So, with the right selection of indoor plants, you can continuously purify the air, day and night!
And One Final Note…
Since I’ve mentioned references to the Top 50 plants recommended by Dr. B.C. Wolverton from “How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants that Purify your Home or Office” throughout this article, I thought it best to list the 50 plants to satisfy your curiosity!
Please note, many other plants can also remove chemical air pollutants too, and this is just the list of the ones tested and included in Dr. Wolverton’s book.
|Areca Palm||Chrysalidocarpus lutescens|
|Lady Palm||Rhapis excelsa|
|Bamboo Palm||Chmaedorea seifrizii|
|Rubber Plant||Ficus robusta|
|Dracaena “Janet Craig”||Dracaena deremensis “Janet Craig”|
|English Ivy||Hedera helix|
|Dwarf Date Palm||Phoenix roebelenii|
|Ficus Alii||Ficus macleilandii “Alii”|
|Boston Fern||Nephrolepis exaltata “Bostoniensis”|
|Peace Lily||Spathiphyllum sp.|
|Corn Plant||Dracaena fragrans “Massangeana”|
|Golden Pothos||Epipremnum aureum|
|Kimberley Queen||Nephrolepis obliterata|
|Florist’s Mum||Chrysanthemum morifolium|
|Gerbera Daisy||Gerbera jamesonii|
|Dracaena “Warneckei”||Dracaena deremensis “Warneckei”|
|Dragon Tree||Dracaena marginata|
|Red Emerald Philodendron||Philodendron erubescens|
|Dumb Cane||Dieffenbachia “Exotica Compacta”|
|Parlor Palm||Chamaedorea elegans|
|Weeping Fig||Ficus benjamina|
|Wax Begonia||Begonia semperflorens|
|Lacy Tree Philodendron||Philodendron selloum|
|Heart-Leaf Philodendron||Philodendron oxycardium|
|Snake Plant||Sansevieria trifasciata|
|Dumb Cane||Dieffenbachia Camilla|
|Elephant Ear Philodendron||Philodendron domesticum or Philodendron tuxla|
|Norfolk Island Pine||Araucaria heterophylla|
|King of Hearts||Homalomena wallisii|
|Prayer Plant||Maranta leuconeura “Kerchoveana”|
|Dwarf Banana||Musa cavendishii|
|Christmas and Easter Cactus||Schlumbergera bridgesii, Schlumbergera rhipsalidopsis|
|Oakleaf Ivy||Cissus rhombifolia “Ellen Danika”|
|Lily Turf||Liriope spicata|
|Dendrobium Orchid||Dendrobium sp.|
|Spider Plant||Chlorophytum comosum “Vittatum”|
|Chinese Evergreen||Aglaonema crispum “Silver Queen”|
|Croton||Codiaeum variegatum pictum|
|Dwarf Azalea||Rhododendron simsii “Compacta”|
|Peacock Plant||Calathea makoyana|
|Aloe Vera||Aloe barbadensis|
|Urn Plant||Aechmea fasciata|
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Be brave – that is what this year has brought for me so far. It seems to me to be what God has for me. I have gone to a theme park and gone on a ride. In a few weeks I will be going on a plane with my friends, but not my family – no one to hold my hand. I have also attended the movie theatre for the first time in 20years. You might think these are things that all of us should be able to do. But when, like me, you have suffered from anxiety these things and many others can be a big deal.
Let’s remind ourselves of the verse in the Bible in 2 Timothy 1:7 which states that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, of love and a sound mind. This was written to a young pastor Timothy as encouragement to keep going with the call God had on his life, even through the tough times. God is saying the same to all of us today. Don’t fear!
The opposite of fear is faith. We need to trust God in all circumstances and not allow fear to have a place in our lives. We need to have a “be brave” moment. This can be hard. Sometimes we just need to remind ourselves to breathe and to remember that God is with us and no circumstance is too big if we put our hands in God’s hands.
The next part of that verse says that God has given us power. Power to do what – power to overcome anything that comes against us or anything new we must face in our daily lives. When we are weak, God makes us strong. Strong enough, with Him, to cope with anything that comes our way. The joy of the Lord is our strength. As we continue to praise God, God’s power within us rises up and we are then strong enough to conquer all enemies. I love what Isaiah 54:17 states -no weapon formed against me shall prosper -why -because I am righteous because of God and my position of strength comes from Him.
God has also given us His love. Perfect love casts out all fear. When we know without a doubt that God loves us, all fear goes. Fear comes because we think we won’t be able to come through what is happening to us. The root cause of fear is death – death to our dreams, death to our work, death to our families. Worry leads to fear. We need to remind ourselves that God is in control and His love in us covers all fear.
Anxiety and fear also leads us to irrational thoughts but God has given us a sound mind. One that can think rationally and clearly. One, like James says where we can ask for wisdom and God will give it to us. How do we get this sound mind? By renewing our mind to the Word of God. Read your Bible, see what it says and do it. Live each day asking ourselves what Jesus would do in this or that circumstance.
So this year determine in your heart that you are going to do one brave thing. That can look different for you and me. Maybe God has been prompting you to talk to your neighbour, make a new friend, write a blog or a song or do something new in Church. Whatever it is, I want to encourage you that you can do it! Take God’s hand and try – and together we will share with each other what those brave things were. Have a great week and keep living the life God intended for you! | <urn:uuid:ffa0924f-f850-4836-8b8a-91217f9f5550> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://livingthelifegodintended.com/2018/03/04/be-brave/ | 2020-07-10T10:18:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655906934.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710082212-20200710112212-00217.warc.gz | en | 0.973507 | 726 |
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Runner volunteers medical expertise at Richmond-area events
Judy Wood’s presence at races means the world to so many in Central Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Although an avid runner and volunteer coach, you’ll find Judy Wood on the sidelines at most Sports Backers events standing by in case of an emergency.
Judy spent three decades in pediatrics and emergency care before starting her own mobile medic business with her husband Steve, a retired Henrico Fire batalion chief.
The two took their passion for helping others on the road with Emergency Training Systems providing emergency care at most of Central Virginia’s largest events.
Judy’s presence means the world to so many in Central Virginia, as just one minute could make the difference between life or death.
And Roy Flournoy couldn’t be more grateful for her contributions.
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Criminal Court Cases
- Assault & Battery
- Domestic Violence
- Parole Violation
- Probation Violation
- Sexual Assault
- Drug Offenses
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The Nebraska Court System consists of special courts, County Courts, Court of Appeals and a Supreme Court. County Courts are courts of original jurisdiction in most criminal and civil cases, except for those which fall under the jurisdiction of a special court. The Court of Appeals is the appellate court which hears appeals from lower courts, and the Nebraska Supreme Court is the court of last resort for appeals of some lower court decisions.
Nebraska County Courts are located in each county of the state, and exercise jurisdiction over misdemeanor cases; civil cases with claims of up to $53,000; small claims; probate; preliminary hearings for felonies; traffic cases and juvenile cases in most counties. Juvenile cases are heard in a separate special Juvenile Court in Douglas, Sarpy and Lancaster counties.
When a County Court hears preliminary arguments in a felony case, it is strictly to determine whether there is enough evidence to take the case to court. If there is, it is sent to the corresponding District Court for proceedings.
Nebraska County Courts have small claims divisions which hear only small claims cases. This allows a time efficient and less expensive way to resolve these types of disputes without clogging the judicial system. Most of these cases involve claims of owed money, personal property and property damage.
Juvenile Courts in Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy counties hear all juvenile cases involving delinquent or neglected children. In other counties, these cases are directed to the corresponding County Court. These courts also exercise jurisdiction over domestic cases involving the care and custody of minors.
Nebraska also operates a Workers' Compensation Court comprised of 7 judges that exercise jurisdiction over the entire state. Judges travel to hearings regarding claims for benefits and enforcing the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act.
Nebraska's District Courts hear primarily felony cases and civil cases with claims of more than $53,000. These are also the appellate courts for decisions of county court cases. These appeals are decided after reviewing court recorded documents and evidence from the original trial.
The state's Court of Appeals was created in 1990 and consists of six appointed judges. Cases from lower courts are almost always heard by the Court of Appeals, unless they involve the death penalty or involve a question of constitutionality. If a defendant or plaintiff is not satisfied with the decision made by the Court of Appeals, they may petition the Supreme Court to hear it.
There are a total of seven justices serving on the Nebraska Supreme Court, which serves as an appellate court for all death penalty cases, those which involve any question of constitutionality or any life imprisonment sentence. Other cases may be heard by the Supreme Court if it decides to grant a petition for further review.
One of the most memorable cases originating in Nebraska was that of Charles Starkweather. Only 19 years old at the time, Starkweather murdered a gas station attendant in 1957. He then talked his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate, into going on a spree with him in 1958 and killing a total of ten people. Starkweather was executed in Nebraska on June 25, 1959. Fugate was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, but was paroled in 1976. | <urn:uuid:c5153ffd-f734-4736-8128-3884960a0aeb> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://recordsfinder.com/court/courthouses/ne/ | 2017-04-24T13:11:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119361.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00295-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947759 | 671 |
LUKE focuses on fabric & innovative details with this zip-through gilet. It is cut from a soft modal tricot fabrication & features a black nylon quilted front. A black, pewter, red striped cord is subtly inserted into the shoulder seam. It’s cut to a relaxed fit, as well, & is finished with the iconic LUKE raised pewter lion head felt badge on the left chest.
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Sad news to report: Jeff Lewis shared that his dog, Casey, died on Saturday, June 4. The Flipping Out dad-to-be revealed the news on Instagram and shared a tribute to his late pet. "Our sweet dog Casey passed away last night. Please keep her in your prayers," he wrote on Instagram on Sunday. "#heartbroken #RIPCasey."
The loss comes during an exciting time for Jeff and his longtime partner, Gage Edward, as the duo are expecting their first child together via surrogate. Jeff shared the news last month in an interview with People. “We are very excited, but I’m also a little terrified,” he said. “I’m trying to decide if I’m more terrified or excited, but I think it’s normal.”
And Jeff is definitely preparing for fatherhood at home, as he recently shared a photo from the in-the-works nursery for their daughter.
To find out some potential names for the Lewis-Edward baby, check out the video below.
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On an average day, even during the pandemic, a handful of anti-abortion protesters line up on the sidewalk outside the Heritage Clinic for Women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and preach at the women who enter. Their faces are familiar to clinic staff, as are their regular schedules.
But last Wednesday, when the clinic opened in the morning, the staff were startled to find 25 to 30 protesters assembling, many of them holding single red roses. Ignoring the no-trespassing signs, they began swarming the clinic’s parking lot, rushing patients as they got out of their cars.
Some wore masks to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, but many did not.
Kelly, the clinic administrator who asked to be identified only by her first name, called the police. She immediately recognized the protest as a “red rose rescue,” an aggressive tactic where anti-abortion activists physically enter clinic waiting rooms and refuse to leave.
In normal times, clinic invasions can be disruptive and traumatizing for patients and staff. But during an infectious disease outbreak, this type of scary stunt potentially endangers everyone’s health.
“Our patients were shaken up, scared,” Kelly said. “We haven’t had anything that invasive since the 1980s.” The protesters did not make it inside the facility, she said, but at least one person attempted to enter through the locked security door at the top of a stairwell.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, emboldened pro-life groups have used the public health crisis to try to disrupt access to abortion.
As governors across the country issued emergency orders to halt the spread of the virus, anti-abortion activists pressured officials to close abortion clinics under the guise of preserving personal protective equipment, a strategy that was temporarily successful in some states. Many are also defying stay-at-home orders to demonstrate outside clinics, leading to arrests in multiple states. “Would be a shame if I was sick,” one protester in North Carolina reportedly said while coughing in the face of an elderly clinic volunteer.
Monica Miller, a Michigan-based veteran anti-abortion activist who created the “red rose rescue” movement in 2017, defended the choice to continue protests during the outbreak in an interview with HuffPost.
“We’re rather frustrated, generally speaking in the pro-life movement, that abortion is being treated as an essential medical procedure,” she said. “When the abortion clinics are remaining open, why should we be calling off our defense?”
In the past month, her group has embarked on four protests at clinics in Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Michigan.
“I just don’t think that love and charity and compassion have boundaries,” Miller said. “The boundaries are drawn by the people that are killing the unborn. I don’t think we have any moral ― and I might even be able to argue, legal ― obligation to respect those boundaries.”
While abortion clinics have experienced an increase in harassment since 2015, the pandemic has ushered in increasingly hostile, aggressive and dangerous behavior, according to the Very Reverend Katherine Ragsdale, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.
“Surrounding and screaming at patients and making it difficult for them to get into the clinic takes on new weight when we’re trying to social distance,” she said. “It threatens patients and staff lives.”
The ultimate goal of such protests is to scare patients out of obtaining the procedure that day, she added. Potentially exposing them to a contagious virus is a very effective way to get women to vacate the premises.
Clinics are currently taking extreme measures to reduce virus transmission, she said, including screening patients for symptoms before they enter the facility, limiting the number of people inside at any time and having patients fill out paperwork in their cars so they are not waiting indoors. Protesters have been surrounding cars and yelling at patients while they are stuck inside their vehicles, she said.
“While they’re using the same tactics as before, they carry heightened effects right now as we’re already living in such anxiety,” she said.
Anti-abortion groups have been energized by the Trump presidency and are increasingly confident that they will be able to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that effectively legalized abortion nationwide. Currently, the high court is considering a Louisiana case that could have broad implications for abortion’s accessibility across the country.
At the protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, anti-abortion activists bombarded patients as they got out of their cars, and tried to talk them out of getting the procedure, according to Kelly, the clinic administrator.
“They were very aggressive, in the patients’ faces,” she said.
Two protesters were arrested and three others, including Miller, were cited for trespassing. Miller denied that her group tried to enter the facility, and said they wore masks and practiced social distancing.
Kelly disputed her account.
“The majority of them were unmasked and they were all grouped very close together,” she said. “Their entire goal was to make it so that we were so distracted and disrupted that we stopped services. Luckily, that did not happen.”
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Our lives pretty much move in a nutshell. We born in a family, surrounded by our parents, grand’s and siblings, grows up in a school or educational environment, went to college in a friendly neighbourhood, and spends most of the lives in an office, home and nearby activity locations. That’s our whole life in a nutshell is. Although, we travel to find the greatest pleasure, but often remain confused about our existence. Are we our bodies or something else? Most of us, still think that we are just what we see and one day, when the time is right, and the life will be completed, we will die, and there will be no longer us in the materialistic form. There will be a funeral held, where people will exchange kind words, and the only place we will exist is the memories of our loved ones. That’s where we will be recreated, but what Online funeral template magazine have found this time, talks about the entirely different theory.
It speaks of the existence of the soul, something that has a bigger power and insight than our body, something that separates our reality to the material body and appearances.
A soul is a spiritual, immortal part of a human being that pre-exists the body and stay alive even after death. It’s the only way people can rebirth and start a new life into a different body. There’s a lot of holy books and religions that talk about the existence of souls and higher energy, but this time, it all is proved at the page of the online funeral template. Let’s get started-:
1 Souls Captured on Photos and Videos
Like, at the different part of lives, people have seen pictures, and videos that somehow a little blurry or carry the ominous sign that exemplifies that souls exist. There’s no pure evident that these cameras are purely capable of doing so or not, it’s very hard to explain, but they somehow give a promising picture. For example-
In a horrible motorbike crash in an area, someone has captured the site and found that it possesses the blurry smoke like the image of the person who had just died. It’s very hard to explain, but it was captured in the video.
2 Near Death Experiences
We all knew that there had been multiple scenarios when someone almost dies and brought back to life. Even on the page of online funeral template magazine, we have shared a lot of real-life stories that talk about the existence of a soul. Here you can have a look. Although Harward Neurosurgeon, Dr Ebin Alexander disagrees, he believes that souls are something that does not exist. But one day, he fell into a coma for a week, due to some severe diseases, during that period he claimed to have a surreal journey into the afterlife, in which he experienced something so real that made him seem human world as artificial. He said that afterlife is filled with love, and the communication was telepathic, after seven days, his disease healed automatically, and he came back to his senses. He was so intrigued by the experience that he had written a book about it- namely, the proof of heaven.
3 Experiment conducted by a Russian Scientist
He heliographed a person using a particular bio-electrographic camera at the time of his death. Curts, the scientist, used to teach physics at St. Peter university and is famous for his research on human energy fields. The bio-electrographic creates a high-intensity electric field and produces a flow around the objects. He has shown how did the life energy leave the body. As per his research, the life first leaves the hands, the chest and the other segment.
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Accession Number : AD0635901
Title : A COMPUTER TECHNIQUE FOR CLUSTERING TASKS.
Descriptive Note : Progress rept.
Corporate Author : NAVAL PERSONNEL RESEARCH ACTIVITY SAN DIEGO CALIF
Personal Author(s) : Silverman, Joe
Report Date : APR 1966
Pagination or Media Count : 74
Abstract : The report describes an advanced computerized technique for clustering work tasks. The ultimate objective of this research is to devise a method for determining the basic technical skills needed to man current and future weapons and support systems in order to provide a basis for the Navy enlisted personnel classification structure required in the next decade. This technique produces homogeneour clusters of task patterns using an input of tasks performed in a simple of jobs. These clusters represent the occupational specialties that exist in a field of work. The most important features of this technique are: (1) its capacity for computer analysis of task patterns of large numbers of subjects; (2) its capability for computer assistance in making research decisions at various levels of task analysis; and (3) its flexibility as a tool of pattern recognition and structuring. With only minor modifications, the computer programs and concepts described in this report should be of interest of those concerned with other clustering, classifying, and taxonomic techniques. (Author)
Descriptors : (*JOB ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL PROCESSES), (*STATISTICAL PROCESSES, DATA PROCESSING), COMPUTERS, HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING, CLASSIFICATION, NAVAL PERSONNEL
Subject Categories : Personnel Management and Labor Relations
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On the morning of Friday the 18th I walked with Christof Kurzmann to the huge castle/fortress in Belgrade near the meeting of the Danube and Sava rivers, remarkable and beautiful in the sun. Afterward I went to the airport with a driver to pick up Peter Brotzmann and Mats Gustafsson to then head to Novi Sad for the first concert on the Sonore tour. I think our last performance together took place during the Tentet tour last April, in London at Cafe Oto (which became the recent album on Trost). We played a single set in Novi Sad which went really well, open and fluid. About 15 people walk out but the rest stay showing their enthusiasm for the music. I went to bed early to try and sleep as much as possible, it would be the only real chance to sleep in the next 10 days and I hoped to make the best of getting as much rest as possible while I had the chance; of course the plan fails and I woke up early, unable to get back to sleep.
Thankfully, we had an easy travel day, about 90 minutes back to Belgrade to play at the Ring Ring Festival, but the driver got lost and “solved the problem” by pulling a U-turn on a highway bridge. I was unfortunately awake for this. In addition, he punishes us for having to sit through our concert the night before by playing the worst Jan Garbarek album I’ve ever heard, over and over until we arrive at our hotel, which appeared to be leftover from Tito’s heyday. The concierge could have played a cameo in a later Fellini film. Sonore opened a double bill with the band QUAT (Blume, Lovens,Van Hove, Vandeweyer), playing an acoustic set on the floor to a completely packed room; our reception is over the top positive, performance exceptional.
Though QUAT looks like a strong group, it was necessary to eat and Mats and I had to dj at a performance by laptop musician Svetlana Maras in the “under construction” Museum of Contemporary Art, so no chance to listen to the other group. The circumstances at the museum were pretty much a train wreck, it was unclear if the dj sets were about creating a party atmosphere and the music Mats and I wanted to play seemed at odds with Maras’ concert. From there it was an hour nap at the hotel, a cold shower in a stall the size of a gym locker with a ripped curtain that directed water all over the bathroom; then a taxi to the airport at 4:30am, a Lufthansa plane Frankfurt where we got a “Lufthansa train” to Koln (that’s a new one and completely ridiculous), to another train to Herne, Germany. After a night and day like that I didn’t expect that the show on the 20th would go well but the organizer, Ulrike Kassler, was extraordinary, really made us feel welcome and made sure that we could relax and focus on the concert. In addition, Jost Gebers of FMP was in the audience- it was an honor to play for him and the evening finished with a very late meal that included the band, Jost, and his wife, listening to Jost and Peter exchange stories. Encore from Ring Ring:
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As per REV HQ: Sludging then grinding, Sick/Tired return with their third release, the follow-up to their LP on To Live A Lie Records. Crushing PV with distinct hardcore and punk influences that will have you laughing in the face of death. Flip it over as the ugly face of small town Ontario thrash, Oxbaker, rage and pound – four racks of unrelenting, pissed off hardcore that carries on where previous releases left off. Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, it’s over now. A lovely pairing of two bands that mix up their sound with hints of ’80s hardcore, powerviolence, and sludge.
1. Sick/Tired – Death Amuses Me
2. Oxbaker – Old Growth
3. Oxbaker – You May Have Water But You Have No Soul
4. Oxbaker – Mountain Of Wealth
5. Oxbaker – The Difference Between Piss & Rain Water
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Did you feel that high school tough guy Raizo "Thunder" Yamada got enough screen time in the Valvrave anime? Well, that belligerent supporting character is about to briefly be promoted to protagonist with Karega Tsuchiya's VVV manga doing a "Valvrave the Liberator - Record of the Bancho Thunder."
Based on designs by Hoshino Katsura, the story running in Jump Square 19 vol 9, on sale this week, explores Thunder's friendship with Nobu and drive to pilot the Valvrave 3/VVV-III "Hikaminari."
Some bonus Thunda designs
and Blu-ray art
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Old School is an inviting kind of place with corrugated metal sheeting on the walls and a bit of the "new rustic" decor going on. You'll be seated and waited on by young kids in Old School t-shirts, that have the training of a four-star restaurant staff. No hipster slacker kids here who make you beg for a refill or cop an attitude when you deign to ask a question about the menu. They are attentive and enthusiastic.
Old School's menu reads like someone's (mine, maybe?) dream menu. It lets you know the thought that was put into each dish. You know immediately there's an experienced chef behind it, but the food is the most down-to-earth comfort food. It's kind of "fancified" home-cooking. Or maybe it's what the chef most likes to eat at home. I'll just say that I plan to work my way through a large part of that menu, and have gotten off to a good start at that goal.
We were there for the first time on their sixth day open and have been back since. All of the owners stopped by to make sure we were happy. Danny told a cute story about bartering recipes with a little Mexican woman for the perfect creme brulee we had for dessert. His father, Dan Parrott, stopped by to talk to us after we were stuffed to the gills and bought us a Pimm's Cup and sat down with us. His passion for, and experience in, the restaurant industry were evident as he told stories about how he ended up in Austin opening first the Old School BBQ bus, which sold award-winning barbecue from an old school bus they named "Big Momma" and now retiring the school bus (not permanently) to open Old School Grill. He was beaming when we said how much we liked the creme brulee, then brought out the pastry chef who had made it and, giving her a big ol' bear hug, talked about his staff like a proud papa.
He told us another diner had complained that his staff was all standing around at the pass. We'd noticed it as well, but just thought they looked ready to pounce when the food came up. Dan proudly exclaimed "I don't have any heat lamps back there!" That's evident in how freshly prepared the food tasted. (Not to mention, I'm finicky about my food temperatures).
We've now tried several of their offerings, and all have been outstanding. The first entree I had was their Mac-N-Cheese wedge. That's right, I said Mac-N-Cheese WEDGE. How could I not order that???!!! The menu tells you, "this is not your grandma's mac-n-cheese". They bake it with five Italian cheeses and other Italian herbs, then serve it with a creamy garlic sauce. Oh. My. Here's a pic.
|It's as good as it looks. The cream sauce will be the death of me.|
|Texas Two Thep, named after one of the regulars at Old School's BBQ bus.|
We ended with the creme brulee, which was slightly less custard-y as a traditional creme brulee, but much creamier. This is made in-house with the afore-mentioned legendary recipe.
The next time we went, I had the chicken fried new york strip, which was simply the best chicken fried steak I've ever had, served with the best cream gravy I've ever had. Tender, seasoned perfectly, and a total steal at $11. Get it before they figure out they can charge a lot more for this.
Bill had the Philly Cheesesteak, which he enjoyed, but could have used more cheese...
We ended the meal with the sublime chocolate malt cake, which we agreed was one of our top three chocolate cakes of all time. | <urn:uuid:e7401320-d8fd-43b2-a751-c18ec8b06ece> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.shesfedup.com/2011/08/old-school-grill.html | 2014-09-30T19:52:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663135.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00129-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987272 | 811 |
On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service apologized to tea party groups and other conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status for subjecting them to extra scrutiny.
On Monday, the Associated Press got its hands on a watchdog report from the IRS inspector general that seems to contradict statements by former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman about certain groups getting audited more closely.
According to the report, senior IRS officials in 2010 or 2011 were asked to flag and target groups if their case file referenced phrases such as “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “9/12 Project”; criticized how the country was being run; talked about government spending, government debt or taxes; or lobbied to “make America a better place to live.” Shulman had said at a 2012 congressional hearing that the IRS’ actions were committed by low-level employees and were not politically motivated.
According to the report, Lois Lerner, director of the IRS' tax-exempt organizations unit, "raised concerns" and instructed that the criteria be immediately revised, as reported by AP.
On Jan. 22, 2012, the IRS changed its criteria, asking employees to flag “political action-type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, education on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement.”
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Manager hoping for another enjoyable return to his former club Hartlepool United
Phil Brown is hoping he can enjoy another happy return to Hartlepool on Saturday when Blues travel to Victoria Park.
Brown spent the first seven years of his career with Hartlepool, and has enjoyed a number of happy moments when returning since he left.
And he’d like to add another one to that list on Saturday as Blues look to make it two wins from two in League 2.
He said: “It will be a special match for me on Saturday as I go back to my first club, who offered me the chance to be a professional.
“I spent seven years there as a player and had lots of highs and lows so it’s always nice to go back.
“I’ve done quite well going back there in the past, I think I won there with Preston North End when I was manager there.
“I ended up getting the sack the next day but the result was a good once, so it was a happy memory on the pitch, just not so much off it!
“I’m glad we’re going there now when the sun is shining and it’s quite hot because it’s not a great place to go and play in the middle of winter.”
Brown is expecting a tough test from Colin Cooper’s side, who will be looking to pick up their first win of the season. With it also being Cooper’s first home game as manager, there could be a bumper crowd at Victoria Park.
Brown added: “Colin Cooper is having really his first crack of the whip so to speak and he will be desperate to pick up his first managerial win as quickly as possible.
“It’s their first home game of the season and they’ve lost both their opening games so they will be out to get their first three points on the board.
“We know they will work extremely hard, but so will we, and if we win the battle then we will have earned the right to try and play our football and to push on and win the game.” | <urn:uuid:9eba62a7-baba-485c-b8f1-eaffa0399565> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.southendunited.co.uk/news/2013/august/brown-hoping-for-another-happy-return/ | 2021-01-19T22:03:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519784.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119201033-20210119231033-00435.warc.gz | en | 0.979811 | 454 |
Hey bookish friends. How are you doing?
I am feeling the December slump very seriously. There are a million things to do. I am having a tough time getting more than one or two posts up each week and even the reading is slowing down. I pretty consistently read two books a week, but this week saw me only finishing Wally Lamb's I'll Take You There. I'm still working through Miroslav Volf's The End of Memory and I'm also reading Upstream, a lovely collection of essays on reading, writing, and nature by Mary Oliver. If you are looking for something quiet and beautiful, that collection would certainly fit the bill.
How are you all doing with the reading and the blogging and the holiday prep? | <urn:uuid:e8b1d292-2fb3-468c-9dd7-b30fcdaa1d5e> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | http://www.literarylindsey.com/2016/12/its-monday-and-reading-is-slow.html | 2020-07-03T23:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655883439.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20200703215640-20200704005640-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.980275 | 151 |
If the previous surgery would affect the work requirement and not allow you to meet the responsibilities of the position you are being considered for...then I would say most certainly it could be considered grounds for not passing the medical exam.
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The Cruise lines have 3 primary reasons for requiring the medical exam:
1. Being self-insured, we don't want to take the chance that you have an undiclosed medical condition that could result in us paying to care for you for the rest of your life. Some people try to get jobs on ships only to later disclose a pre-existing medical problem that the cruise line has to pay for.
2.Most crewmembers have safety duties in any emergency. We must ensure that you are healthy and fit enough not only to save your own life, but also the lives of our passengers.
3. Safety duties also require crewmembers who are reliable and not subject to substance abuse that could impair their performance. We test extensively for drugs and alcohol. Any signs of illegal drug use or abuse of alcohol will get you rejected. This is the point where the majority of American applicants fail.
Is there such a "routine" proceedure? HIPAA protects most US empolyees from discrimination based on protected health information, but a requirement to "lift 70lbs" could still be a job requirement. For companies outside of the US I imagine it would vary wildly from one employer to another as to how they made some of their hiring decisions. | <urn:uuid:b8f96ee4-84ad-4c2d-b3e8-a71d869cd1d3> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.cruisemates.com/forum/crewmembers/384667-nervous-about-failing-medical-exam.html | 2015-08-31T19:55:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644066586.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025426-00236-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966425 | 331 |
Today was supposed to be a busy day. One of those days when I think I’ve got the timing all figured out just right so that things will happen exactly as I picture them in my mind: Levi would be at “school”, Calvin would hopefully nap in the car on the way home just long enough to allow me a bit of Mama time to do the myriad of things I need and/or want to do (finish the Easter bunny, organize some paperwork, clean up the back yard…the list goes on.) I could pack my clothes for work later in the day, make lunch for Calvin while he slept so that when he woke up he could eat and have some free time before being strapped back into the car to go pick Levi up and then drop them off at a friend’s house so that I could go to work…phew.
Calvin did end up sleeping on the way home, but woke up shortly after we made it back. I brought him inside and sat with him on the couch. The house was quiet without his big brother romping about or Daddy working in the office. He wanted to nurse, so I cuddled him up and gave him some milk. Soon his eyes began to close and within minutes he was back asleep. Now, many people might think that I could just put him in his crib and he would stay asleep, but this is not the way of my children. They don’t like to be disturbed, moved or transitioned from their slumber in any way shape or form. If I moved him he would wake up and I knew he needed to sleep more. If I stayed put, he would get more of a nap, but I would not get anything done. So it goes.
For the first few minutes I found myself feeling anxious and wondering what to do, but it only took that long before I gave over, for in my arms slept a peaceful child, my baby…the last one I’m going to have. I studied him. I listened to him breathe. I took him in and I relaxed. Really relaxed. I stopped thinking about all that “needed to get done” and focused on the sweet little guy in my arms. I looked at his features…the shape of his head and all the new wisps of hair that have grown; the tiny freckle on the left side of his nose; the curve of his eyebrows and the translucency of the eyelids below them. The hands that reach and grab and pull and clap all day were silent and still and they suddenly looked so big to me. I just watched him sleep and I remembered those days when he was so tiny and would always sleep next to me, on me or in my arms. Where did they go?
These times are fleeting and precious as they pass before us in quick flashes. I couldn’t take a picture of him today, but tucking this memory away with words is just as sweet. My little guy, the one who has me on the go all day was the one who taught me to slow down and just let go for awhile. He reminded me that mothering is so much more than all the things we accomplish in a day; sometimes the important work we do is to stop, listen, watch and breathe…that’s it. This sleeping baby made me focus on what is right in front of me, what is always right in front of me every day. Gratitude and love, gratitude and love… | <urn:uuid:589dd729-b71e-4bdb-b5b6-313806b58766> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://coffeeandlilacs.com/2012/04/04/lessons-from-a-sleeping-child/ | 2018-09-19T04:14:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155817.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919024323-20180919044323-00009.warc.gz | en | 0.990949 | 720 |
Cavoodle Puppy Breeders
We breed Cavoodle puppies at Gympie, north of Brisbane, in Queensland. Being Cavoodle breeders, we often have Cavoodle puppies for sale and we ship them to any Australian city.
We've been animal lovers all our lives and we believe life's pretty boring without pets - such superb companions! Now that we are retired, we're focussing on breeding Cavoodles (lovely dogs) within our home. Our puppies are brought up with our two Siamese cats and receive all of the love and attention they can endure.
Feel free to browse through our website and contact us for further information. Be sure to read our diary where we describe the events at our kennel and the progress of our litters.
About Our Cavoodle Puppies
All our puppies are wormed, immunised and thoroughly vet checked. Our Cavoodle puppies are treated like members of our family. They are bred from our male King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and our female Miniature Poodles. Therefore, our puppies grow to be small adults. They will grow to about 35cm tall (just over a foot) and weigh about 7 or 8 kilograms. All puppies can be flown to anywhere in Australia for an additional fee.
Cavoodles (known as Cavapoos in the United States) are a 'designer' breed. They are a cross between the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Miniature Poodle. This means that the Cavoodles shed very little hair and make perfect indoor pets. They have the beautiful tolerant nature of the Spaniel and the intelligence of the Poodle.
Cavoodles are wonderful with children of all ages and are very tolerant dogs. They are the perfect family dog. Cavoodles love to be trained and learn to do various commands very easily. These dogs are very eager to please and just want nothing more than to make their owner happy. They are happy to live in a home with little or no yard, yet they enjoy going for walks.
They have soft floppy ears, large brows and a compact, round face. Colors can range to solid black, white, Blenheim (chestnut and white), tri-color (black, white and tan) or gold all over. Generally, adults range in height from approximately 25cm to around 35cm; the smaller size an influence from the Cavalier contribution.
Cavoodles are known for their soft, flowing hair. We recommend that you brush your Cavoodle twice a week. For more information regarding the Cavoodle dog click here for the Burke's Backyard Fact Sheet. | <urn:uuid:8d70d073-3768-41a9-9a0e-a14ef41d5204> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://cavoodle.weebly.com/index.html | 2015-03-04T02:48:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463444.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00155-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957239 | 540 |
You know how some entrepreneurs seem to start businesses in their sleep? They create a company, make it profitable or sell it to someone, and then it seems like a week into their "vacation" they're starting another one, and another. The most successful of these seem to have the Midas touch, with each business more successful than the last, as if they can't help but make tons of money.
There's an analogue to this type of personality in the wine world, and it is readily demonstrated by one Steve Clifton. Clifton is best known for his partnership in Brewer-Clifton wines with friend Greg Brewer, but in the last ten years he has started no less than three different successful wine labels, as if he just wanders around and they seemingly fall out of his pockets.
But don't let my joking fool you -- Steve Clifton is a man who knows what he's doing.
After falling in love with wine in college as a waiter in Italian restaurants, his love continued to grow through the 1980's as a young musician and aspiring nightclub owner. In the early 1990's Clifton started making wine in his basement and took a series of jobs in wine sales and marketing where he met Greg Brewer, who was following much the same path. Together they decided to start a winery focused exclusively on combining their love of Burgundian varietals and the appellation in their back yards: the Santa Rita Hills.
Getting fruit from what they call "extreme vineyards" in the appellation, Brewer-Clifton rapidly shot to recognition as on of the best producers of small-lot Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the region.
You would think that Clifton would have his hands full managing one of the hottest new labels in Santa Barbara County, but a few years later he started playing with Rhone varietals, and then suddenly the world was chasing after another new label: Alder Wines (no, they did not ask me before they started it).
Sandwiched in between these two projects, Clifton apparently couldn't restrain his affections for Italian wines or for an Italian educated woman named Chrystal, so he married her and started Palmina Wines, though not necessarily in that order.
Palmina is a small family run operation -- Steve makes the wine and Chrystal manages the books -- focused exclusively on Italian varietals. Chrystal's fluent Italian has helped the couple build relationships with a number of Italian producers who have helped the couple keep their wines true to the old world styles and techniques appropriate for each varietal. This is important, because Palmina is both literally and figuratively breaking new ground in California in its attempts to grow some lesser known Italian varietals.
The winery produces Traminer, Tocai Friulano, Pinot Grigio, and Arneis, along with several Nebbiolo based wines; a Sangiovese and Merlot blend that utilizes the passito method of drying grapes before pressing; a Dolcetto, and a blend of Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Refosco.
Like all the Palmina white wines, this Pinot Grigio was fermented and aged completely in stainless steel tanks before bottling with a stelvin (screwcap) closure. The grapes for the wine come from Ashley's vineyard and the Thompson vineyard. The two vineyards have fairly different characteristics -- the former being a much cooler site with wind and fog influence, the latter being a warmer, sunnier plot. The grapes were picked a week apart and fermented separately before final blending and bottling.
Pale, straw-gold in the glass, this wine has a soft, somewhat shy nose of mineral and Asian fruit aromas. In the mouth it is bright with acidity and flavors of lemon zest, grapefruit, and a pleasant mineral undercurrent that keeps the wine dancing on the palate. The finish is substantial and pleasant, leaving a very nice impression in the back of the throat without a trace of the oily, slightly alcoholic taste that plagues many California Pinot Grigios. This is certainly one of the better examples of that category in recent memory.
I drank this wine courtesy of the generosity of one of my readers (thanks Hector!) with a truly stunning dish of cucumber gelee in tarragon cream, drizzled with cumin yogurt and cumin oil, and sprinkled with cumin seeds. It was a lovely match.
Overall Score: 9
How Much?: $19
This wine is available for purchase on the internet.
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For the Abraham Lincoln football team, the stars seemed to be perfectly aligning just in time for a magical postseason run.
Having dropped their first two games of the season, the Railsplitters had reeled off six consecutive victories heading into their first-round playoff game with Germantown, a team Lincoln defeated on Sept. 16.
It was hard to imagine things not going Lincoln’s way.
After all, they were showcasing a dominant defense that allowed just 38 points during the win streak, including a three-game stretch when the defensive unit allowed just two points. Combine that with the fact that the Railsplitter offense, led by running backs Marquise “Marty” McFarland and Joshua McClam and quarterback Miguel Sanchez, was averaging almost 28 points a game and it was hard to envision an unhappy ending for this team.
But that’s what happened.
On Friday night, the Railsplitters and Germantown played a thrilling rematch that came down to the wire on the scoreboard. In this first-round game, Lincoln entered the final quarter clinging to a 27-26 lead. But with 2:56 remaining, Germantown quarterback Cedric Wright found wideout Myles Brooker for a 15-yard touchdown strike to end Lincoln’s playoff run, 32-27.
ldquo;We knew it was going to be a tough game, one in which we’d have to play close to perfect if we wanted to win,” second-year Lincoln coach Ed McGettigan said from his office on Monday morning. “For the most part, we played exactly like we wanted to. Unfortunately, they just had the ball last. They didn’t show us anything we haven’t seen before … they just made a play at the end of the game that made it their victory instead of ours.”
Up to that point, it could have been either team’s game. Lincoln’s McFarland (15 carries, 106 yards) had two rushing touchdowns to counter an 80-yard kickoff-return score for Germantown’s Bears, giving the Railsplitters a 14-6 lead after one quarter.
The teams then traded scores, with Lincoln’s highlights being a Sanchez pass to senior receiver Sincere Merced and a Sanchez 1-yard rushing score that gave Lincoln the 27-26 lead late in the third quarter.
“Our defense has carried us all year and allowed us to go on that win streak,” McGettigan said. “I did not see them putting up thirty-two points on us, that’s for sure. Earlier in the week I was asked how many offensive touchdowns it would take for us to win, and I said three. We got four of them and it wasn’t good enough. They played to their strengths, ran the ball on us and got the spot passes here and there that were enough to win them the game.”
When Lincoln beat the Bears, 19-14, during the season’s third week, the Railsplitters frustrated Germantown’s vaunted running game, led by Aaron Boyd and Ackeno Robertson. Robertson managed just 15 yards; Boyd was held under 100.
This time around, Robertson had 50 yards and returned a kickoff for a touchdown. Boyd had his best game of the season, amassing 156 yards on just 18 carries. The duo accounted for three of the Bears’ five scores in the game.
“Germantown is very good when they run the ball successfully, and they did that to us,” McGettigan said. “During the week, we said if we could stop their running game again, then we were going to win the game. We couldn’t stop them the whole time, and when we did stop them, their quarterback came up with a couple of big plays, including on the winning touchdown.”
Though deflated by the playoff loss, the Railsplitters have to pump themselves up for three more games, including the Thanksgiving season finale against Father Judge. Lincoln will play Samuel Fels on Friday before meeting an opponent to be determined the following week.
How will they respond following such a crushing defeat?
“Really, I don’t know how it’s going to go,” McGettigan said. “I know that they’re emotionally drained after losing that game. To go from that high of possibly winning with three minutes left to losing the game … it was like their dreams had died. They were crushed.
“It’s going to be hard for us to get them pumped up after that, but we’re going to go with our ordinary routine and have a lot of fun in practice,” he added.
McGettigan is confident, though, that his team won’t fade into oblivion because of that Germantown loss. After a 5-7 season in his inaugural year as coach, McGettigan helped orchestrate a turnaround that has made Lincoln a consistently competitive squad in the Public League.
A new school building, as well as a state-of-the-art playing field, has contributed to a more positive atmosphere on Ryan Avenue. The school’s head football coach and athletic director can sense the excitement on campus.
And one other thing — the Railsplitters still have some football to play.
“We’ll prepare just like we did for the playoff game. We really don’t want to change anything,” McGettigan said. “If we can re-capture that intensity that we showed during the streak, then there’s still a lot of good to come. Thankfully, we get to keep playing, and we definitely have a lot of good football left in us.” ••
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Photo by Spc. Brian Johnson
Under the watchful eye on an instructor from the Oklahoma based Response International Group, Spc. Robert Hodge from Dayton, works to hoist a simulated casualty up a wall, July 9, at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio. Hodge, a member of the Chillicothe based 1194th Engineer Company, is learning the basics of rope rescue as part of the unit’s two week annual training. When complete, Hodge and the more than fifty other soldiers from the 1194th who participated in the training will have completed their first steps to become members of the search and extraction team of the Ohio National Guard’s Homeland Response Force. The Homeland Response Force is one of 10 organizations nationally that can respond to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear disaster.
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A little tale of everyday folk and how sharing and best intentions may not always achieve the results you expect……………..
Peter, Graham, Phil and Rachel have just started their arts course at University in London and are sharing a house. Being arts students they have a lot of spare time on their hands. One evening, after a hard day staring out of the window, they’re in the pub (unusual for students I know!!) and Graham mentions he really needs a car for a part-time job he has on the other side of the city, and can’t get there easily using public transport because of the timing but he can’t afford it with all his other bills.
On further discussion they realise that Phil needs a car one out of every three weekends to travel back up to the North of England. Phil claims this is to see his girlfriend but the other three suspect it’s so his mother can do his washing. Rachel needs a car on alternate weekends to go to Kent. Rachel claims this is to spend a couple of passionate nights with her boyfriend, but the others suspect it’s so she can do his washing. Peter needs a car in the evenings to get him to his job but the others suspect it’s so he can do his washing – he works nights at a serviced launderette.
They’re lucky enough to have a driveway at the house they’re renting so parking isn’t an issue. Having thought about this Graham, the one who has a GCSE in maths and nearly did a social sciences course, suggests that they buy a car and split the loan, petrol and insurance costs every month (as they can’t afford to pay it up front). Any value left in the car at the end of the 3 years they can split equally. To a bunch of arts students this seems like a really clever idea and only requires them to divide by four, which should be ok as Rachel has a calculator app on her i-phone. So they agree to go ahead.
They are paying a contribution of £400 per month for the car, £200 for insurance and £200 for fuel, so after consulting Rachel’s i-phone and one false start which saw them accidentally ringing Rachel’s granny in Sevenoaks, they agree to spilt the costs equally £200 each. For the first few months everything goes well and pretty much as agreed with only a few minor niggles.
Phil’s trips up North however begin to become a bit more frequent as he takes up running and squash thus increasing his laundry requirements, so there is some degree of discontent that he’s getting much more use out of the car (and his mother), and depreciating its value more quickly thereby reducing the amount everyone else will get at the end.
The next thing is that Graham decides University isn’t for him and he’s going to get a full-time job so he won’t need the car as the available options, McDonalds and Tescos, are both within walking distance. This means he can stop paying his 25% share which increases everyone else’s costs. They agree, by which I mean Phil, Rachel and Peter agree, that Graham won’t get any share from the car when it’s ultimately sold despite the agreement they all signed on the back of the phone bill when they set up the arrangement in the first place. This causes a bit of ill will and Graham feels he may have a cause for grievance based on a conversation he had with his shelf stacking supervisor over a hobnob in the storeroom.
Rachel then feels a bit hard done by when she realises that if she’d gone to Sheila’s Wheels her share of the insurance should be cheaper, so she wants to pay a lower amount even if it means having to put up with the odd patronising advert. Tensions begin to rise in the house.
They then discover that there was £2,000 out-standing finance on the car which they’re going to have to pay but how are they going to split this? They can’t find an app for it but suspect that Rachel’s calulator app could probably help if only they knew which of the virtual shiny buttons to push. Rachel’s daddy, the head of a local council, has offered to help out but Rachel doesn’t feel inclined to accept his offer.
This adds to the upset Peter is suffering as a result of struggling with his David Beckham and his Cultural Impact on Western Philosophy module and who’s drinking increases, making his use of the car more infrequent and his continued ability to pay the monthly amounts more challenging. When he does use the car he tends to leave it behind near a pub incurring parking fines which aren’t covered by their agreement and he can’t afford to pay. Gradually the group begin to fall a bit behind with their payments and the out-standing debt remains unresolved.
On one of Phil’s increasingly frequent trips home he has an accident in the car leaving skidmarks in his wake and damaging the front wing of the car. Once washed, his trousers are fine but the car will need some repairs. This causes problems for the other housemates, further increasing discontent. In addition someone mentions to Peter that this will reduce the ultimate sale value of the car which depresses him further increasing his alcohol intake and causing him to scrawl some very derogatory comments about Posh Spice on the wall of the pub’s toilets.
Two years in, the car is falling to pieces, no one is talking to each other and the car’s about to be re-possessed and laundry has fallen down everyone’s priority list with potentially devastating consequences.
And the moral of the story is…..
- Clubbing together might seem like a really good idea but you need to know the risks.
- People are likely to be happy with things at the start or providing they go well.
- People are a lot more prepared to accept some form of averaging when it’s mostly in their favour.
- Levels of discontent tend to rise as costs increase.
- Change is inevitable.
- No matter how good your documentation is it’s unlikely to cover every eventuality.
- Make sure there’s an effective challenge to any decisions before they’re made.
- Not everyone has access to a daddy with deep pockets!!
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A little Learning is a dangerous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain;
And drinking largely sobers us again.
"What is the State of the Union?" That is an interesting discussion, to which we will be devoting the next 20 years.
Don’t imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert before you have spent at least as much effort on the art of verse as the average piano teacher spends on the art of music ... The scientist does not expect to be acclaimed as a great scientist until he has discovered something. He begins by learning what has been discovered already. He goes from that point onward. He does not bank on being a charming fellow personally. He does not expect his friends to applaud the results of his freshman class work. Freshmen in poetry are unfortunately not confined to a definite and recognizable class room. They are “all over the shop.” Is it any wonder “the public is indifferent to poetry?”
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Lu Liao is a visiting lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Based on a U.S. national survey of 1,899 local governments, she studies local government decision-making and implementation of plans and policies, with a focus on sustainability and climate change. She tries to explore the role of planning in helping local governments implement and balance the economic, environmental, and equity dimensions of sustainability. Liao is also interested in the coordination and collaboration of different levels of governments in mitigating climate change.
Academic Research/Specialty Areas
- Participatory and collaborative planning
- Environmental Planning
- Multilevel Governance
- Climate Change
- CRP 5080 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Planners This course is designed to provide students with a conceptual understanding of geographic information systems (GIS) and sciences, practical hands on experience with GIS software, and understanding of how GIS can be applied to planning practice and research. Students will be introduced to the basic concepts, structures, and functions of GIS as well as their applications and limitations. By the end of this course students should be familiar with a range of available tools and methods to address planning related problems and issues, and be able to conceive of and manage a GIS project. This involves a) identifying a planning analysis/research problem that requires GIS data and spatial analysis to address/analyze the problem; and b) collecting, processing, and analyzing spatial data to interpret the findings.
- Liao, L., Warner, M. E., and Homsy, G. C. "When Do Plans Matter? Tracking Changes in Local Government Sustainability Actions from 2010 to 2015," Journal of the American Planning Association. 86(1), 60-74. (2020)
- Liao, L., Warner, M. E., and Homsy, G. C. "Sustainability's Forgotten Third E: What Influences Local Government Actions on Social Equity?" Local Environment. 24(12), 1197-1208. (2019)
- Homsy, G. C., Liao, L., & Warner, M. E. "Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What are the Connections?" Rural Sociology. 84(3), 516-540. (2019)
- Gradus, R., Homsy, G. C., Liao, L., and Warner, M. E. "Which US Municipalities Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw and Curbside Recycling?" Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 143, 173-183. (2019)
- Liu, Z., Liao, L., and Mei, C., "Not-in-my-backyard but Let's Talk: Explaining Public Opposition to Facility Siting in Urban China." Land Use Policy. 77, 471-478. (2018) | <urn:uuid:1d02d22f-9ad6-458e-9ed0-ec21ebd8029c> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://aap.cornell.edu/people/lu-liao | 2022-05-20T23:28:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662534693.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520223029-20220521013029-00487.warc.gz | en | 0.876323 | 610 |
IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING YOUR HVAC EQUIPMENT
Sometime we take for granted the comfort in our own home. We go day by day, forgetting its a mechanical piece of equipment heating and cooling our home. That piece of equipment, needs to be maintained just like our vehicles. Let's take a second, in this very cold month of February to check a few things, that will help maintain our furnaces. Lets start with filters. Its important to always have a new clean filter, not only for our health, but the health of our furnace as well. If we let our filters get plugged, our furnace will get starved for air, and it will suck all that dirt into the furnace.The Furnace then works harder to maintain our home. If our furnace is working harder (especially older furnaces) things will start to go. Would you run a 20 year old car with dirty oil? Our filter choice is also very important. I always suggest to buy very cheap filters and change them monthly. The more filtration we install before our furnace, sometimes backfires on us for the life of our furnace. We do not want to starve it of air, that's extremely hard on the furnace.
Finally, for gas furnaces, it's important to make sure our chimney vents are clean. We want to look to see if there is Ice around the chimney, and debris around the fresh air pipe. Just this week we went to a home with a gas furnace giving the owner problems. It had a concentric chimney (means both pipes come out of the home in one hole.) Once we pulled off the hood, we see Ice, debris, spiderwebs, and ladybugs in the outer vent. This vent is the "combustion Air" for the furnace, and it was blocked off so the furnace thought there was a problem with the venting, so it wouldn't fire. Once cleaned the furnace fired back up.
If you have an older furnace, don't ignore it until it breaks Sunday night at midnight on Christmas. Gary always says, "dont let your furnace tell you when to change it, you chance it when its best for you" Keep and eye on it, keep it clean, and recognize when it starts acting up. Don't wait for it to fail.
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LONDON — A program of 21 features including a U.K. spotlight will run alongside live events, discussions and shorts at the second Sundance London film and music festival, which runs April 25-28 at London’s O2.The program was drawn from the Sundance Film Festival’s January line-up in Park City, Utah, and was announced Monday by Sundance fest director John Cooper, who said, “We want the program to be a good representation of the festival that just happened.” Amongst the line-up are docu “Blood Brother,” which took home jury and audience awards in Utah, and Lake Bell’s “In a World,” which won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award. The main program features six international preems, including “In a World” and Lynn Shelton’s “Touchy Feely,” the European preem of docu “God Loves Uganda,” and four U.K. preems, including Shane Carruth’s acclaimed “Upstream Color.” Three more features are yet to be confirmed for the line-up. Director of programming Trevor Groth told Variety that Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale,” which won the jury and audience dramatic awards, is in discussions to appear but the filmmakers are waiting to hear about a possible Cannes placement. New for the fest’s second edition is a U.K. spotlight featuring the local preems of Michael Winterbottom’s “The Look of Love” and Jeremy Lovering’s “In Fear,” as well as docus “The Moo Man” and “The Summit.” Live events include the international preem of Alison Ellwood’s docu about rock legends the Eagles, “History of the Eagles Part One,” followed by the band on stage; Canadian musician Peaches giving a live performance following her film “Peaches Does Herself”; plus a perf by stand-up comedians Mike Birbiglia and Jimmy Carr. Birbiglia and Bell also take part in a panel discussion exploring the differences between American and British humor, while other panels feature composer David Arnold and scribes Tony Grisoni, Peter Straughan and Shelton. | <urn:uuid:3559fcae-837b-413b-865c-eba86f92aca7> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://variety.com/2013/film/news/sundance-does-london-jig-1118066918/ | 2013-12-10T13:11:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164019123/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133339-00019-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9505 | 488 |
Learn essential techniques for garments and other projects with guidance from world-renowned experts in online crochet techniques classes.
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Explore the chic crochet cowls, cute stuffed animals, and more that your fellow students have created. And, let them know how much you love their work! Then, upload your own projects for feedback.
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Growing Grit from the Outside
However, remember that we don’t need to be a parent to make a difference. If we just care about them and get to know them and what’s going on in their lives, we can make a positive impact. I’m sure that we have all heard the old African proverb, that it takes a village to raise a child, right?
Besides parents growing grit from the outside in their own homes with their children, extracurricular activities is another great way to build grit. With extracurricular activities there is usually a more objective adult standing in for the parent who is also demanding and supportive. In addition, this other adult and the extracurricular activity itself is designed by nature to cultivate interest, increase practice and produce purpose and hope. And the beautiful thing is that it really doesn’t matter what the extracurricular activity is because all extracurricular activities are playing fields of grit. So, let’s sign our kids up for something so they can spend at least part of their week doing hard things that interest them.
You see, this is how it works… School is hard for our young ones, but for many it’s also boring, or at least not intrinsically interesting. Texting their friends is interesting, but not hard. Extracurricular activities, on the other hand, can be the best of both worlds… They can be hard and fun. In addition, kids who participate in extracurricular activities fare better on every conceivable metric.
Dr. Duckworth talks about a study began in 1978 by Warren Willingham who was the director of the Personal Qualities Project, and which still remains to this day as one of the most ambitious studies ever done to discover what determinants help young people become successful young adults. What he found was the extracurricular activities are a great indicator of future success.
But here was the real secret though… Kids who participate in more than one extracurricular activity and took part for more than one year, who also somehow made great strides became the most successful young adults off all, regardless of what their S.A.T. scores were, or what their grade point average was.
Harvard University has picked up on this fact and bases at least part of their admissions on this. Bill Fitsimmons, the former Dean of Admissions for Harvard says that kid who was consistent and succeeded on one of the extracurricular playing fields of grit, could use that energy and determination for something else purposeful like getting good grades at Harvard, even if that kid no longer participates in that extracurriculars. Sadly, many high schools are facing budget cuts today and are cutting their extracurricular programs…
According to Dr. Duckworth, without directly experiencing the connection between effort and reward that seems to go hand-in-hand with extracurricular activities, all animals, humans included, default to laziness. Calorie-burning effort is after all, something evolution has shaped us to avoid whenever possible. Taking away extracurricular activities and then accusing kids of being lazy doesn’t seem to add up correctly though. We are the adults. We need to do better.
Are you doing everything in your power to make sure that our children have opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities and build some grit of their own?
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Practice consulting firm Dental Practice Solutions (DPS) will host a webinar on reviving the practice after COVID-19 closures. “COVID-19: Your Road to Recovery” will be hosted by DPS founder and CEO Debbie Seidel-BIttke, RDH, BS.
This three-day course will begin on June 4 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (PDT) and continue on June 11 and 18. It is worth 4.5 continuing education credits and will teach practices to implement the best strategies so they can quickly recover from COVID-19. A personalized assessment will include office Super Hygiene Days Strategy to schedule all patients who need a hygiene appointment.
The course will also cover how the hygiene department must include total health for each patient, pictures that paint a thousand words, and how to get patients to ‘own their disease.’ Practices will leave the course with a roadmap on how to quickly recover revenue lost due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Induction Massage Melbourne
If you’re looking to naturally encourage labour from 37 weeks, then this treatment is ideal. It’s the perfect combination of Swedish massage, relaxation, essential oils, castor oil packs and acupressure to stimulate the body’s natural progression into labour. While lying on the table I will apply pressure to key pressure points including on your legs, feet and hands to stimulate labour and also calm the body and mind. The essential oils and castor oil packs I use can be effective at stimulating contractions in the uterus. These can also be taken home to continue the effectiveness of your treatments.
Benefits of a Labour Stimulating Massage
What is involved in a Labour Stimulating Massage?
The massage pressure is generally on the deeper side, and with more direct pressure throughout the session. The massage is non-invasive and I use techniques that are safe for you and your baby. I am highly trained in how to work with your body to engage common reflexology points, and I marry that knowledge with essential oils that are known to help trigger various aspects of labour. I support your body with stretches to open your hips and stretch your back to allow your body to become more prepared for the onset of labour. Lastly, I finish the massage with external application of castor oil to help you feel some of the medicinal benefits of this ancient oil and how powerful it is.
Prior to your session while your feet are soaking in a warm foot spa, I will go over each aspect of the massage, and learn about your needs and preferences to be sure to provide the customized session that is best for you. This is the time for you to ask any specific questions about all of the various aspects of the massage as well as tell me your preferences when receiving bodywork. Furthermore, I want you to feel completely comfortable with everything, and will happily be at your service and ensure you receive the best possible massage for you.
Benefits of relaxation during induction massage
As a women’s therapist, i believe the best way to start labour is to relax mentally and emotionally. And with the greatest benefit from any massage being the relaxation aspect, the 75 minutes of uninterrupted self-care can have wonderful benefits for not only your mind and body, but also for preparing for birth.
When your baby has past his or her estimated date of delivery, or you are facing a deadline for birth to occur due to a medical reason, it can be very stressful. A massage at this point provides you a chance to get out of your head, and relax.
Labour Stimulating Not Labour Inducing
The distinction is very important to note as your massage therapists I am not a medical provider. I cannot induce you. I cannot take the place of a medical induction. I cannot simply touch a few magic points and guarantee that contractions will begin. I can however help your body and mind become more relaxed and prepared for labour.
Speak with your Medical Providing Prior to Receiving a Labour Stimulating Massage
As always, I recommend that you talk with your medical team prior to receiving a labour stimulating massage. Most individuals do not have any reason why a labour stimulating massage would be problematic, but having your doctor or midwife’s verbal permission to proceed is vital. Just as any other natural interventions can impact when and how labour will start, a labour stimulating massage does the same thus being in open communication with your medical team is important for you and your baby’s health and safety.
Book your massage today or call me with any questions!
What is Induction Massage Treatment?
MFW offers you a labour stimulation massage that is gentle and non-invasive and a way to prepare your mind and body for labour and birth. It helps to stimulate the birthing hormones needed for labour and encourages the way for your baby to be birthed and for you to have a smooth transition into labour.
Induction massage treatment is the best way to prepare for childbirth and labour as the real situation of childbirth becomes much easier to handle. The massage treatment is done in a way that whole of the body is stimulated due to the therapist’s highly specialised knowledge of reflexology points. Also, the process of massage stimulates labour and does not induce it. Since every individual is unique and hence our therapist understands your preferences during the foot spa session before proceeding with the actual therapy.
What are The Benefits Of Pregnancy Induction Massage?
The massage therapist at Melbourne Fertility Wellness is experienced in pregnancy induction massage and understands all the procedures to do pregnancy induction massage safely and effectively. The procedure is ideal if you are seeking a way to encourage labour from 37 weeks. The therapist uses products that ensure proper stimulation of the contractions of the uterus thus making labour far more relaxing.
Why Should One Choose Your Labour Induction Massage Treatment?
We have the best therapist with more than 25 years of experience in handling such issues and know the perfect way to offer such customised labour induction massage service. The therapist ensures that the back of the body is stretched enough to prepare for labour more easily.
How to Book The First Session?
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Say, the property is going to cost you $150 per square foot to build and you expect a return on your investment at 10 percent. So, 1,000 square feet at $150 equals $150,000; which means you expect to get $15,000 back after your expenses, including management fees and debt service on the property, and some reserve. "Although in today's market, the return on investment is less than 10 percent and more like 6 percent. Calculate the most you are willing to pay the seller based on the outcome of your cost analysis," Veissi advises. Once you have done all of the analysis and appropriate planning, he says, you still need a contingency. You can think you have it nailed down and all of a sudden something crops up, unsettling your plans, he explains.
If you're planning to build a “dwelling” of any kind on your parcel of land, there is one issue that may seem insignificant at first glance, but it has the potential to make or break a land deal. It's called a “Perc Test” – and if you're dropping some serious coin on land in a rural area, this is an issue you'll want to be sure about before you sink your money into it.
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These can include a requirement that you dedicate part of “your” land that is in the road right-of-way to the local government, causing you now to be working with a smaller parcel. Other rules may require you to build or improve roads, sidewalks, curb and gutter and even to plant trees. In addition, you also may be required to install water and sewer connections and meters for the lots, or to pay capacity fees, impact fees and other assessments when adding the new homesites.
Do you know if the developer had a local brokerage do the sales for the project you mention? You might want to contact the developer, but I'd also suggest you speak with a Realtor first to get a market analysis for the value of your property. Then decide if you want to put your property on the market or if you want to explore contacting either the developer or the owners of properties adjoining yours to see if there is interest.
I think I’m in trouble….because I signed a contract for a 1.23 acre land and I haven’t ordered a perc test…the land couldn’t perc about 8 yrs ago according to the owner…. the piece of land is near other homes, that are build on an acre of land or more…. it is near a state park as well…. There is a stream called gunpowder that is near this area…. I am scared to death right now…. my contract doesn’t have a contingency to a perc test passing…it is full of trees too. So I know the land needs to be cleared… in your experience is there a way to cancel a contract or a way out….the contract has already been sent to a title company….. I need help asap…. thanks
We own about 4 acres with a house on it and a land locked property adjacent to ours is for sale. The owner came by to offer it to us for that reason. It is a 17 acre raw piece of land with a creek and cliffs really is a beautiful property. The town values it at 18K with annual taxes of about $600. He wants 25K for it and has owned it for about 50 years. The value to us is as a private wild life refuge which we could hike and camp. It’s in the Hudson Valley and close to transportation to NYC. We plan to be in our home for at least another 15 to 20 years. Would this add any value to our home or be an asset at the time we sell our home?
The truth about land investing is that most people have no idea how powerful it really is. Land is a massive opportunity that most investors aren't paying attention to – and for the few land investors who know how to pursue this business with the right acquisition strategy, it's an extremely lucrative way to build wealth and financial freedom with real estate.
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ELIZABETH – From October 4 to 22, Union County College will be offering a free ESL course for healthcare workers who are residents of the city of Elizabeth and are over the age of 18. This career training course is for those who want to get a job in the healthcare field, have advanced-level English skills, and are available to participate in the 45 hours of the course.
The course will be offered daily from 9 a.m. to noon or from 6 to 9 p.m. on the 5th floor of the college’s Elizabeth I. Kellogg Building located at 40 West Jersey Street in Elizabeth. This course is for anyone who would like to improve their knowledge of the English language and work in the healthcare field.
Information sessions about this training course will be held on Sept. 23, Sept. 29, and Sept. 30, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Retail Skills Center located on the lower level of the Jersey Gardens Mall by Entrance “D”, at 651 Kapkowski Road. A simple assessment test will be taken during the information session.
To learn more about this free training or to register, call at 1-908-355-4444. To enroll, one will need a social security number.
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The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Customs Service has responsibility for three key functions:
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Since its beginnings in 1888, PNG Customs has contributed immensely to the development of the country as it has grown from strength to strength in spite of increasing responsibilities and challenges.
In late June 2009, the National Executive Council decided on the separation of PNG Customs from the Internal Revenue Commission. This decision will allow Customs better balance its enhanced border protection role with its trade and revenue collection functions.
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Professor Barry Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London explores what happens inside our heads when we recognise a friend or reach for a cup of coffee.
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We dial up Professor Russell Stannard, emeritus professor of physics at the Open University. He thinks humans are fast approaching the end of what it is possible for us to know and understand. Caspar Llewellyn-Smith asks him about some of the themes in his new book, The End of Discovery.
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The 7 Best Under-the-Radar Wine Countries
When you think of wine-producing countries, you may naturally think of Italy, Spain and France. But there's a whole slew of other countries with incredible, local wine to share.
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This country is famous for its world-class beer culture, but Western Germany is home to delicious wines, too. White wines (especially Riesling) are the specialty here and a great alternative to the also-delicious beer options.
VISIT: Try Topdeck Travel's European Escape tour to visit Germany and other top Europe spots.
No South Australian voyage is complete without wine. The city of Adelaide is known as the country's wine capital, and the region is spotted with wineries where Shiraz is sure to be found.
VISIT: Try Topdeck Travel's Down South & Outback tour where travelers stop to make their own wine along the way.
Croatia sits across from one of the world's most popular wine makers – Italy – but this Eastern European country is home to its own delicious wines. Known for its white wine varietals, Croatia houses four major wine regions.
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There are many aspects of Chinese culture we're familiar with, but wine is rarely at the top of that list. The country's Shandong Province is home to one of the best wine countries in Asia, with a warm, coastal climate enabling it to serve this purpose.
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The Royal Wedding has been a huge spectacle for the UK this year, but its wine industry also experienced a major milestone. Earlier this year, the first English wine in history was awarded a royal warrant, putting it amongst the ranks of other famous UK drink classics.
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Didn't realize Ireland serves more than Guinness? Not many people do. But Ireland has a long history of winemaking, starting with Irish monks. Now, the Emerald Isle is home to a number of vineyards around Cork.
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Thailand's residents are known for sharing bottles of spirits among big groups, but lately they've been popping open bottles of wine with friends. Despite the hot and humid climate, the country has built a number of wineries with vivid rosé, shiraz and more.
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October 28, 2016
Wagman Recognized with National Safety Award
(York, PA ) The American Road & Transportation Builders Association-Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) recently recognized Wagman with the ARTBA-TDF 2016 Contractor Safety Award. This award honors American contractors who have implemented exceptional employee safety programs that demonstrate strong management commitment, safety planning, risk assessment, and employee participation.
Wagman’s submission focused on efforts to implement an innovative program that reflects Wagman’s commitment to safety as a core value. As a finalist, Mike Glezer, CEO and Cory Gaye, Corporate Safety Director, made a presentation “An Evolving Culture of Safety” in front of a panel of industry professionals during ARTBA’s National Convention in Tucson, Arizona. Wagman shared their safety model that engages every employee at some level to increase awareness of safety throughout the organization. Wagman is dedicated to providing a safe work environment and to ensuring that employees return home safely every day.
Mike Glezer accepted the award. Glezer comments, “We are continually implementing best-in-class programs to improve our safety program at Wagman. This award recognizes the commitment from everyone at Wagman who has embraced safety as our part of our culture – our leadership, management, supervision and our workforce who live out our safety program every day.”
Awards were presented in three categories, based on the number of employee hours worked during the previous year: 1,000,001 or more; 500,001-1,000,000; and 500,000 or fewer. Wagman won the 500,001 – 1,000,000 (medium) category.
Wagman, Inc. is a multi-faceted construction firm with major operations in heavy civil construction, full service general contracting, and geotechnical construction services. Founded in 1902, Wagman is a fourth generation, family-owned company with offices in Pennsylvania and Virginia and is headquartered in York, PA. Wagman Heavy Civil is a nationally recognized leader within the industry. Wagman’s core competencies include: design-build, infrastructure, marine construction, bonded concrete overlays, grooving and grinding, and geotechnical construction services. For more information about Wagman, please visit www.wagman.com
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In the past 8 months I have only managed to leave the flat a handful of times. Each time has been a real struggle and been both physically and mentally draining. If you have seen me in one of these instances then my previous post will have no doubt taken you by surprise- shield yourself with makeup and smiles all around and it’s easy to fool anyone. You won’t be aware of how strenuous the walk or bus was to get to where you saw me, the pep talks C has had to give me before even stepping outside, the pleads to C to let me turn around and go back to the flat, the endless stops and tears on route as I burst into panic because a car went past too quickly, because the traffic was too noisy, because there were too many people around, because the thought of even being outside knots my stomach and makes me want to vomit, or because, well, because it constantly feels like there is a black cloud coming towards me which will explode at any time and I’m stuck in this perpetual state of dread and panic and fear.
The battles that the last several months have presented have, for the most part, been confined to C and I. However, the response of the few I have spoken with and also from my previous post have been both heart warming and saddening. The kind words have been overwhelming and yet it is painful to know that some of what I am going through is familiar to so many of you. Those that have experienced mental health struggles will know just how lonely the illness can be. It often feels like no one around you understands what you are going through, they try to give you words of encouragement and eventually you find yourself nodding at what they say in the hope that they’ll stop talking; because yes, breathing is important when having a panic attack but when you’re hyperventilating and feel like you’re about to die there comes a point where all words of advice become futile and you just have to let it run its course. And yes, trying to think positive is helpful but when you suffer from depression and feel like you are trapped in a web of despair it is hard to find the positives. So many people endure some degree of mental illness in their lifetime and yet no one ever really speaks of it unless someone else starts the conversation. It is only then in the comfort of knowing that you are not alone and that someone else truly understands (at least to some extent if not fully) and can empathise with what you are going through, that you feel at ease and somewhat relieved to openly talk about it. This is something I hope changes and I hope that one day there won’t be so much stigma attached to mental health illnesses. In fact, this is partly why I started writing about it. Speaking to others that have had similar experiences has always helped me feel like I’m not completely losing control and so I thought I would write about my own experiences in the hope that at least one person that reads it would find some solace in knowing they are not alone.
Be kind to those around you. Be kind to new faces and be kind to old faces. Be kind to familiar faces and be kind to the faces that pass you by on the street. Just because someone looks ‘fine’, or their social media is filled with pretty pictures, does not mean they are not going through their own hardships and troubles. In a world where social media is so prominent in our daily lives we often find ourselves (myself included) caught in the destructive cycle of comparison. We compare our lifestyles, we compare our travels, we compare our adventures, and we somehow even manage to compare our levels of happiness believing the little snaps that are posted to be a representation of an individual’s whole life. That’s something we could all benefit from remembering; they are just that, little snaps. Whenever you meet someone at an event or in the street, whenever you scroll through your newsfeed on social media all you see is a little snippet of what an individual wants you to see: a piece that they are willing to show, a piece that they are comfortable showing. No one really takes pictures of the pain and suffering they are enduring for all to see online. In fact, it is in human nature to do the complete opposite and hide the harsh truths of the troubles we face. We lean towards only showing our ‘best’ selves, our somewhat ‘flawless’ selves, our ‘prettier’ selves, our ‘happy’ selves, some might even say our ‘filtered’ selves. So I’ll say it again, be kind to those around you: behind the lens, behind the exterior, behind all the filters you have no idea what people are going through.
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Oklahoma City Thunder Case Study
When the Oklahoma City Thunder calls to ask if you'd like to build a retro game featuring their iconic players, you don't take very long to reply, "YES" and begin grinning from ear to ear. At least, that was our experience. OKC is one of the NBA's most exciting and respected franchises, and we've been thrilled to partner with members of their social media and public relations teams to bring to life Thunder Run, your new favorite web game.
The Game Plan
The project objective was fairly straightforward. Create buzz around the Thunder players. Make it fun. Make it shareable. Give fans something to talk about heading into the playoffs and NBA Awards. We just had to let the players and team culture stand on their own… and add a dose of nostalgic, 16-bit fun. The game was released during COVID shutdowns as a way to continue to connect with the amazing OKC Thunder fans and all NBA fans.
Sparkbox was given an open court for the game design. The game mechanics and style were all in play as long as we were able to deliver a great experience before the deadline. We embraced the fast pace and our team's previous gaming experience and focused on a retro-style runner game. Runner gameplay is familiar to most users, which aids in quick adoption, but it also allows a lot of flexibility to inject player personality and fun surprises. We named it "Thunder Run" and ran with it.
Sparkbox believes that content is critical on the web, and a web game is no different. Without an engaging story and characters, well-made gameplay can still fall short.
Thunder Run begins by focusing on the unique qualities of each player. The users are introduced to each of the five featured Thunder players with short, colorful bios as they select which player they want to run with. Dennis Schroder is our Sixth Man of the Year. Steven Adams is our bearded wonder.
The Story Begins
The scene is set with a smoking, broken-down team bus as the game players learn that it's almost game time. Oh no! With no transportation, they need to capitalize on all of those wind sprints from practice and hoof it to the stadium before they miss the opening whistle.
Race Through the Stadium
For the next minute or two, the users get the joy of running to the stadium as quickly as possible, avoiding vaguely familiar NBA team obstacles and collecting Thunder coins, which increase their player speed (but also increase the challenge). It's a short bit of silly fun that's just challenging enough to make you want to try again for a shorter time or to collect more coins.
Join the Game
The payoff at the end is pure nostalgic, pixelated joy as users get to witness their chosen player arrive at the stadium just in time to join the game and make a play. The game wraps up with a player-specific quip from Thunder coach Billy Donovan.
The game is for fun, but of course, it wouldn't be successful if it didn't spread. Our goal is to give fans something to enjoy, talk about, and share. A pre-populated tweet button is obvious and even prods game players to trash talk and brag a little.
Just Under the Buzzer
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Israel’s Favorable Public Image in Greece Boosted by Partnership With Left-Wing Government
One of the most intriguing anomalies in European politics — a government of the far-left in Greece that pursues an openly pro-Israel foreign policy — came under the spotlight in a new paper published this week by a leading Israeli strategic research institute.
Addressing the subject of Israel’s improving image in Greece in a briefing for the Begin-Sadat Center for Security Studies (BESA), academic George Tzogopoulos noted that “an additional barrier tarnishing Israel’s image in Greece was removed” when the left-wing Syriza Party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power in the debt-embattled country’s 2015 elections.
“Though Tsipras had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the past, his tune changed when he assumed his new position,” Tzogopoulos wrote. “In contrast to his pre-election stance, Tsipras treats Israel as an ally, and his foreign policy is reflected in media coverage on both left and right.”
Israel’s vastly improved relations with Greece are almost a decade in the making. Traditionally among Europe’s most pro-Palestinian countries, with a long tradition of antisemitism and deeply hostile to Israel’s ties with regional rival Turkey, Tzogopoulos observed that Greece’s dramatic shift in policy began in 2010.
“George Papandreou, the Greek premier at the time, saw Israel as a critical ally in an era of economic austerity and uncertainty over Greece’s potential default and exit from the Eurozone,” Tzogopoulos continued. “The Greek media followed Papandreou’s lead.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Papandreou in Athens in August 2010, embarking on a strategic relationship that became something for a model for Netanyahu’s subsequent outreach to countries such as India and a number of African states.
The perception that Israel is more widely viewed by Greek journalists as a partner bringing visible economic benefits is another critical factor, according to Tzogopoulos. “This strategic partnership yields positives for Greece in terms of security and energy affairs, and also has a tangibly positive effect on the Greek economy,” he wrote.
Tzogopoulos argued that the “improving image of Israel in Greece could theoretically go hand in hand with a reduction in anti-Semitism. In 2014, the Greek parliament voted in favor of a new anti-racism law that made Holocaust denial, inter alia, a criminal act.”
However, he added, “[N]umbers cannot confirm this, though, as some stereotypes grounded in the thinking of older generations have deep roots.” | <urn:uuid:240b423d-dc84-42ac-a700-c2fc4d69f66d> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/26/israels-favorable-public-image-in-greece-boosted-by-partnership-with-left-wing-government/ | 2019-03-19T20:58:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202131.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319203912-20190319225912-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.950736 | 578 |
Something Special, Book 6 in erotica author Nia Farrell’s Three Graces series, is out today!
Get to know erotic romance author Nia Farrell.
1. Describe your books and your writing style.I’m a multi-genre writer but my recent releases are erotic romances. My Three Graces Trilogy are BDSM menages that have been called new age erotic romance. The first book SOMETHING ELSE is about soulmates who keep reincarnating together. The heroine is a psychic medium who’s been saving herself for the men of her dreams – bisexual American Indian musician Nico White and J.T. Santiago, an ex-Navy SEAL with PTSD. All of the paranormal elements come from first-hand experience, either mine or one of my many psychic friends. Grace, Nico, and J.T. have a very special honeymoon in store when their sequel SOMETHING SPECIAL releases on May 5th. SOMETHING DIFFERENT (The Three Graces Book Two) has Anna James, starving artist and potty mouthed gamer girl who is Nico’s songwriting partner. Their collaborative “music writing night” is base on my personal experience as a songwriter, and her tie-in to Comanche chief Quanah Parker comes from my own family geneaology. She meets her match in part-Comanche twins and triple platinum artists Jackson and Jacob Thomason who perform as No Mercy. SOMETHING MORE (The Three Graces Book Three) was the hardest to write due to the themes of post-rape PTSD and autism. Two of my friends struggle with post-rape PTSD and I have two autistic nephews. The book just touches on some of the daily challenges that they face. SOMETHING MORE is a nominee for Best BDSM Book of the Year, Menage Category, 2016 Golden Flogger Awards. DARK MOONS RISING is my first PRN shifter erotic romance. DARK MOONS RISING is an otherworldly sword-and-sorcery medieval D/s ménage, where a daughter of light finds unexpected sanctuary with two dark lords (handsome as men, stunning as centaurs!) I’m really excited about my upcoming release June 1, with PRIDE AND PUNISHMENT, an erotic retelling of Jane Austen’s beloved classic. Characters that you thought you knew…well, they’re ready to reveal their secret selves. Mr. Darcy is a Dominant. Miss Elizabeth Bennet is submissive. Jane Bennet might be the only “handsome” woman in Meryton, but puppy-like Charles Bingley needs a Mistress. Mr. Darcy doesn’t think Jane has what it takes and separates the couple. His growing lust leads Mr. Darcy to confess his desire to dominate Miss Elizabeth – a proposition that she mistakes for a proposal. Already accused of less-than-gentlemanlike behavior, Darcy must find a way to win the submissive heart of a woman who abhors him. I kept the dialogue as intact as possible, while telling the story from Mr. Darcy’s point of view. Length is 91,166 words/340 6×9 pages.
2. Talk about your process. Where do you write? When do you write? Are you linear or do you write scenes and put them together later? Who are your muses and where do you get your best ideas?I have a home office that I virtually live in when I’m writing. My thought processes may range far and wide, but when my fingers connect with my laptop, I work in linear fashion, telling the story from beginning to end. Sources of inspiration are everywhere. The equine therapy mention in the Three Graces trilogy is based on our local therapeutic riding center, whose riders include veterans with PTSD and children with autism. The books started with the idea of soulmates, inspired by personal experience in this and other lifetimes…except there are only two of us who keep reconnecting.
3. Tell us about your latest release.SOMETHING SPECIAL is BDSM menage erotic romance, the wedding and honeymoon book for Grace, Nico, and J.T. who met in SOMETHING ELSE. Six weeks into the relationship, Grace learns that she’s expecting (despite being on the pill), and plans are made for very special honeymoon at a BDSM theme resort where patrons come to play in the past. The men are giving Grace her capture fantasy…except Nico won’t be the warrior taking her!
4. What is your current project?I have three series that I’m launching. The first is about Replay, the BDSM theme resort in SOMETHING SPECIAL. Book 1 VIKING RAID will be out July 1, followed by TRIPLE PLAY on September 1 and HONOUR BOUND on November 1. The second series are BDSM menage historicals about Grace, Nico, and J.T.’s past live. AS WICKED AS YOU WANT (set in 1868 Chicago and London) premiers August 1. The other series (Touch the Wind) is sultry historical romance written as Erinn Ellender Quinn. Because of its paranormal elements, Book 2 RIDE THE WIND will be out first on October 1. The other books are swashbucklers, set in 1727 Caribbean. TOUCH THE WIND Book 1 comes out December 1. I also have other single titles planned for 2017 and 2018.
5. Now about you… Very generally speaking, where do you call home?I’m a seventh generation Illinoisan.
6. As a reader… What genre do you most often read? What is your all-time favorite book, and why?I read mostly erotic romance and dark romance, with a decided fondness for MMF and MFM menages. Picking a favorite book is like picking a favorite song. I will say that my favorite audio book is the historical novel about the battle of Gettysburg, KILLER ANGELS by Michael Shaara.
7. What do you like to do when you’re not writing or reading?My husband and I are Civil War reenactors. I’m also a Reiki master and a crystal healer who occasionally reads at psychic fairs.
8. We all have guilty pleasures. I enjoy boy bands. There, I said it. What is your guilty pleasure?Dancing with the Stars
9. What superpower would you choose, and why?Miraculous healing. To alleviate suffering and enable people to stay here long enough to learn their lessons so they don’t have to repeat them.
10. If you could live anywhere, you’d choose…Ireland, near the sea
11. I wish _________________ would read my book.everyone (yeah, I dream big)
12. In the airport, you overhear a heated argument between a husband and wife. You:politely ignore it.stop what you’re doing and watch with rapt attention.mention it to airport personnel.tuck it away for use in a future book.
Something Special is Book 6 of Nia Farrell’s The Three Graces series. It’s the continuation of the story of the relationship between Grace Murphy, Nico White, and J.T. Santiago. The book opens with a big surprise for the trio—they’re pregnant. A paternity test identifies the father, but it doesn’t matter. The three are partners for life. And they make plans to formalize their relationship with a wedding.
Together, J.T. and Nico plot the perfect after-wedding surprise for their wife, no small feat when she’s a psychic medium, and after a beautiful celebration they whisk her away to an East coast BDSM retreat to give her the honeymoon experience of her fantasies.
I absolutely love a story with heart. And there’s something so beautiful about the love these three characters share. And this time the story is told from J.T.’s perspective, which adds intriguing insight into how he views their family. Oh, and the ménage sex is hot, hot, hot!
If you’re a fan of The Three Graces series, this book is an absolute ‘don’t miss’. If you’re not familiar with the stories, help yourself to Book 1. Something Special is a worthy addition to the series and I can’t wait for the next one!
Now I know you’re wondering, “But where can I get Nia Farrell’s Something Special and the rest of the Three Graces Series?” No worries. Here’s the link.
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Having been immersed in social media marketing since 2007 when I first hired Mari Smith to teach me what she was learning about Facebook, I have come across so much resistance from clients and entrepreneurs. In 2010 I recorded a five part video series on the 5 reasons people avoid social media and why it’s time to get over it. What amazes me are those 5 core “reasons” are still the same ones I hear day in and day out as I travel and speak around the world.
So it was only natural that I’d write a book that took a deep dive into this topic of resistance. Social Media Myths Busted: The Small Business Guide To Online Revenue is that manuscript. Having a coaching background, I am all about people begin able to transform their lives and businesses. Usually that’s an inside job and requires a bit of honest introspection. The first part of the book uncovers the resistance and subtly coaches the reader through a journey to unwinding resistance and empowering them to create a new perspective on social media that enhances their brand, grows their influence and bring real and profitable relationships in the door.
The very exciting part is that I have an army of social media pros also chiming in throughout the book with their coaching and specific advice on creating revenue online using social media.
Coach Laura Rubinstein is an award winning Social Media and Marketing Strategist, Certified Hypnotherapist, author and speaker. She is the President and co-founder of the Social Buzz Club and creator of the Savvy Social Media Success System. Laura has optimized marketing plans and developed branding strategies for more than 1,000 businesses, celebrities, speakers and authors across the globe helping them create more profits and brand popularity.
With her 22+ years of marketing experience and focus on relationship building, Laura’s creative, innovative, and elegant strategies make her a highly sought after trainer and speaker. She is the author of the Transform Your Body in the Mental Gym program and the Feminine Power Cards (endorsed by John Gray, PhD author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus) which offer practical tools that allow people to make profound shifts in their relationships and professional life. She is a contributing author to 3 Amazon bestselling books including Women Living Consciously. Her blogs are featured on genConnect.com, YourTango, Social Media Mags, as well as her popular TransformToday.com blog. Laura’s unique set of skills, knowledge and experience offer clients and audiences innovative strategies for building irresistible brands, buzz, and profitable and fulfilling relationships on social media. | <urn:uuid:876deaac-6fb4-4423-9ea7-eb51b8b8a0b4> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.socialmediamythsbusted.com/about/ | 2019-08-25T06:40:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027323221.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825062944-20190825084944-00088.warc.gz | en | 0.955959 | 527 |
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The Friends of the Asa Wright Nature, Inc. has been established to promote the advancement of education and conservation science in Trinidad & Tobago by supporting the work and goals of the Asa Wright Nature Centre and;
• to protect its tropical rainforests and other critical habitats and further the educational and interpretive opportunities available to Asa Wright Nature Centre visitors;
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Fine jewellery hand crafted by our team of highly skilled artisans using the purest of metals and age old techniques.
Ahalya's fine gold jewellery is composed of the finest quality 18 and 22 carat gold. The brand works with gold in shades of yellow and warm white in it's signature designs.
These stunning pieces composed of both gold and silver require great speed and skill to craft, as each metal melts at a different temperature. This laborious craftsmanship gives rise to interesting contrasts of colour.
The signature silver jewellery by Ahalya, handcrafted by master craftsmen, features tarnish resistant alloys. The fine silver lends itself to traditional and contemporary designs. | <urn:uuid:88abe9da-9d49-40e1-a234-bf15b2434f9f> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.ahalya.com/collection | 2020-04-06T11:40:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371624083.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20200406102322-20200406132822-00457.warc.gz | en | 0.9241 | 140 |
ROADBLOCKER SECURITY IMPACT TESTED
We feature three roadblocks in our product portfolio. This product is the most used and recommended. It has some of the best test results of any blocker that has been tested to the PAS68 which is basis of CEN EU standards.
High security areas where impacted tested blockers to the PAS standard are required.
Sensitive utility sites, military, industrial, ministries, diplomatic, ports and airports typically.
Width of blocking segment 4m (The tested model)
Depth of segment 1125 mm
Height when raised 880 mm
These roadblockers comprise 10mm thick top chequer plate with an axle load within test criteria and fitted with heavy duty hinges into prefabricated steel housing for setting into ground. The depth of the housing 1400 mm.
The below ground housing contains conduits for cables, hydraulic hose, and for drainage. All in accordance with BS4872.
The hydraulic drive unit is contained in a separate freestanding lockable 1.20 high x 900 wide x 600 mm deep steel cabinet.
The blocking segment raised and lowered by hydraulic operation. The pump valve box and PLC central box housed in the freestanding cabinet. This to be located max 15 m from blocker. Cabinet also includes accumulator if required (See options).
Normal operating speed average 6 seconds. There is a hand pump in case of power failure.
415 v three phase 50 Hz. (or to suit country requirements)
PLC control voltage 110v/AC
PLC logic voltage 24V DC
Motor size 3 Kw.
Latest version PLC controls with in-built safety features and manual release facility to link all access and automated systems, fire alarms, and other devices.
OPTIONAL VISUAL AND ELECTRONIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT:
- Stop/no entry signs fixed to freestanding post or to drive unit cabinet.
- Traffic lights, LED red/green, 100mm diameter in black casing installed above drive cabinet or on freestanding posts – single or double sided.
- Flashing yellow signal light
- Below ground detection loops vehicle waiting.
- No automatic raising/lowering function visualised with high security blockers
- Additional pump and hydraulic ram heating units for use in extreme cold climates
- Accumulators for fast operation (1.50 seconds) or for a certain number of operations without power.
OPTIONAL CONTROL FUNCTIONS:
(Push buttons supplied as standard)
- Interlock with inner/outer control
- Gate, bollards or blocker - to form checking area
- Induction loop, vehicle waiting
- Key switch override or switch to remote control point
- Access control systems card (Magnetic/swipe/proximity)
- Programmable key pad
- Intercom and handset in freestanding port - dual level for cars and trucks available.
All units hot dipped galvanised to British standard EN ISO 1461 then roadblocker primed and painted black and yellow, drive cabinet powder coated grey. Other RAL colours available.
No pre-casting of Roadblocker pit required, Roadblocker is set into the excavated pit and adjusted with the inbuilt levelling feet. Ducts for cables, hoses and drains connected and concrete poured and consolidated.
- ROADBLOCKER “HT VIPER” SHALLOW MOUNTED IMPACT TESTED AND “HT1 MINI VIPER”
- ROADBLOCKER CAR PARK AND VEHICLE MANAGEMENT
- ROADBLOCKER SECURITY IMPACT TESTED
- SHALLOW MOUNTED “HT RAPTOR” VEHICLE BARRIER
- Rising Spike Barrier
- SHALLOW MOUNTED BOLLARD
- IMPACT TESTED SURFACE MOUNTED MATADOR BOLLARDS
- POWERED RISING BOLLARDS – TRAFFIC CONTROL
- Telescopic impact rated bollard
- IMPACT RATED LOWERING BOLLARDS
- FIFOSS (fence Integrated fibre optic sensors system) “ZABOR”
- FENCE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM TO VEHICLE IMPACT RATINGS
- FENCING HIGH SECURITY
- MEDIUM SECURITY FENCE
- RAZOR WIRE BARBED TAPE CONCERTINA (BTC) AND FLAT WRAP
- HINGED GATES MANUAL AND POWERED
- HINGED GATES IMPACT TESTED - MANUAL AND POWERED
- SLIDING GATES
- SLIDING GATES IMPACT TESTED POWERED
- FOLDING GATES FAST ACTING
- FOLDING GATES IMPACT RATED
- SPECIAL GATES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
- FULL HEIGHT EXTERNAL TURNSTILE
- HINGED PASSGATES & AIRPORT SELF BOARDING GATES
- LOW LEVEL PASSGATES
- LOW LEVEL TURNSTILES
- SINGLE ENTRY PEDESTRIAN PORTAL
- TICKET TERMINALS
- POWERED LIFTING ARM BARRIERS – IMPACT RATED
- BALLISTIC AND BLAST RATED GUARD HOUSES
- UNDER VEHICLE SCANNERS
- MAIL SCANNERS
- POWERED LIFTING ARM BARRIERS – STANDARD AND HEAVY DUTY
- PARKING AND TICKETING SYSTEMS
- COVERT ALARMED PERIMETER SYSTEM (BURIED) USING FIBRE OPTIC TECHNOLOGY
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|Dec 28, 2012, 12:13 PM||#1|
2nd gen synch problem ?
Just been given a 2nd gen touch (16gb)) by my brother.
How can I synch it to my music in itunes, but keep his music on it too.
Everytime I try I get a message that everything on the ipod will be erased if I synch it !
A step by step solution would be mosy appreciated.
Cheers in advance.
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Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 336) Financial Benchmarking
$275 USD / license / month, billed annually ($3,300)
Are you a business leader interested in how your sales and profit performance compares to your peers and industry? Interested in what the short term outlook for your manufacturing segment is? Looking to have more confidence in your strategic decision making? Look no further!
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trench-topshop top-river island jeans-asos shoes-topshop bag-topshop, glasses-topman watch-newlook scarf-topshop rings-asos,newlook,topshop
I am a massive hoarder of coats and jackets, anytime there is a sale in January, I always stock up for the year to come. You ask why? So like I said I’m a coat fanatic and I’m always buying different ones throughout the year. (This can get a tad expensive). That’s why I’ll always pick out at least 2 or 3 during the sales.
I happen to actually forget I had this baby! How could I, I know! That’s what happens when you have so many, you forget what you have (face palm). Browsing through my wardrobe I found it again whilst producing a high-pitched squeal of surprise and recognition at the same time. There and then I decided this would be my new go to coat for the next few weeks.
I love how this trench can just completely transform an outfit. I could literally walk out in converse and jeans and still look somewhat sophisticated and smart (It also makes me feel like an undercover spy!). Want to know the best bit? I picked it up in the sale for £30!
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[mythtv-users] Program not found in PAT!
neil at stfw.net
Fri Aug 24 20:16:45 UTC 2007
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:17:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> What *DID* fix it for me was to delete all existing channels, then do
> scan of existing transports, all working and existing
> recordings/schedules all seem fine.
I can't seem to delete channels. Pressing the delete button in
mythtv-setup pops up the "Are you sure?" requester then does nothing. A
rescan didn't stop the problem.
Death is a nonmaskable interrupt.
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A few weeks ago I popped away for a little girls night out with one of my long time American Friends.
And Lindsay, never one to disappoint, came armed with more than just her vivacious attitude and contagious smile, she showed up with some limited edition American treats!
Girl Scout Cookie inspired Crunch chocolate bars!
Now here’s the thing: up in Canada, we’ve got our own girl guides bringing around the sweets, but let’s be honest, they’ve been half assing it on the cookie front for a number of years… I’ve seen better treats come out of my easy bake oven.
But the girls to the south have more than made up for the northern short falls.
And now, their popular and delicious cookies have pimped up my chocolate bar!
Seriously, if you ever get a taste of these little Caramel & Coconut numbers…
You’ll be giving our girls the side eye too!
GS of America 1
GG of Canada 0
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It’s easy to let thoughts of self-doubt cloud your thinking.
“What if I mess up? What if my work is not good enough? What if I can’t?”
We all lack confidence in ourselves sometimes and that’s completely normal. Even a little bit of self-doubt can be detrimental to whatever you’re doing. As a student-athlete, I can attest to many moments of doubting my abilities in the classroom or on the pool deck. With those experiences, I have learned a few tricks to boost myself back up and restore my self-confidence.
My go-to phrase is “speak to yourself how you would speak to others.” If you’re feeling overwhelmed with negative thoughts, think about if you were to say those things to your best friend or your coworkers. Most likely, you would probably never say those things. So why are you saying those things to yourself? It is definitely easier said than done but try practicing switching your negative thoughts into positives. Instead of saying “I can’t…” say “I can” or “I am not..” say “I am.” With enough practice, it will be easier to fight off self-doubt in the future.
Spend time with supportive people
Motivational speaker Jim Rohn once said that we are an average of the five people we spend the most time with. When it comes to relationships with others, I feel we are greatly influenced by our closest friends and family members. So, how can you have confidence in yourself if the people you spend your time with can’t support your individual goals and aspirations? Surround yourself with people that bring out the best in you and enable you to be great. For me, my experiences swimming in high school and swimming at JMU have been completely different because here at JMU I am surrounded by people that care about me and my successes as much as I care for theirs.
Celebrate your successes
There is no better feeling than saying “Yes, I did that!” Celebrating your own accomplishments can be a great way to boost your confidence. All of your successes can serve as a good reminder that you are capable of anything you set your mind to. If you’re ever feeling down or unable just remember how you felt in those moments of achievement. No matter how big or small, success is success. So give yourself some credit... you deserve it after all! | <urn:uuid:83c806e4-462e-4ed4-a71c-baba33d08539> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.bluestonecommva.com/post/overcoming-self-doubt | 2022-05-22T14:16:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662545548.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522125835-20220522155835-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.968639 | 528 |
Rams TE Tyler Higbee suffered a neck injury in the 1st quarter of Sunday's game vs. the 49ers and is questionable to return. Stay tuned for an update.
Update: Higbee returned in the 2nd quarter.
Rams TE Tyler Higbee (elbow) is active for today’s game vs. the Chargers. He got in just limited practices on Thursday and Friday but never seemed to be in danger of missing this one. See where Higbee lands in the Week 17 TE Rankings.
ESPN's Adam Schefter confirms that Rams TE Tyler Higbee (elbow) will play vs. the Chargers. Higbee only got in limited practices on Thursday and Friday, but there never seemed to be much doubt about his availability for this one.
Rams TE Tyler Higbee (elbow) is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game vs. the Chargers. He got in limited practices on Thursday and Friday and is expected to play, according to HC Sean McVay. Higbee is coming off a huge 9-94-2 line on Christmas, putting him back on the fantasy radar. Just remember that he totaled 6 catches on 8 targets for 38 yards in QB Baker Mayfield’s first 2 games.
Rams TE Tyler Higbee caught 9 balls for 94 yards among a team-dominating 11 targets (39.3%). Higbee also claimed both of the team's TD receptions. No other Ram caught more than 3 passes. TE Brycen Hopkins' 57 yards (on 3 catches) ranked 2nd on the team. No other teammate reached 30 yards.
Rams TE Tyler Higbee (knee) is active for today’s game vs. the Chiefs. He got in just limited practices on Thursday and Friday, so it’s safe to assume that he’s not at 100%. Higbee will also be catching passes from QB Bryce Perkins. That keeps him outside our top 12 TEs for the week.
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For the “American Idol” finale, Phillip Phillips performed a couple middle-of-the-road Phillip-y numbers, but then he got an awesome single for Round 3.
His first song, chosen by “Idol” creator Simon Fuller, was “Stand by Me” by Ben. E. King. It wasn’t our favorite Phillip performance. He could’ve made more of a moment out of it, instead of being so milquetoast. Vocally, it was more on pitch than he’s been before, but it just didn’t do it for us. Jessica easily won Round 1.
For Round 2, we thought for sure Phillip would choose “Volcano,” which we thought was one of his best moments of the entire season. Instead, he goes with “Movin’ Out” by Billy Joel and even with the arrangement being closer to the original than the first time Phillip performed it, it still is a weird choice for us. We agree with Steven Tyler that Jessica won Round 2 as well, though the margin was not as wide.
In Round 3, Phillip got “Home,” a wonderful single that will probably be very successful for him. He easily won the third round, not just because his song was better but because he performed it better.
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TAMPA — Dustin Byfuglien admits he’s not very mobile these days, but that’s not going to stop him from suiting up for the Jets.
The big blue-liner has a painful bone bruise that prevents him from practising and taking morning skates.
Head coach Claude Noel is pondering sitting him down, but Byfuglien is ready to keep trucking.
“It’s never fun to play injured,” Byfuglien said Saturday morning. “It’s something where I’d love to be healthy and it makes putting the equipment on a lot easier.
“I’m definitely going to keep going, keep playing. I can’t let the team down and just gotta keep going.”
The Minnesota native said he would have to decline an invitation if the U.S. asked him to play at the world championship in Finland because of the injury.
The bruise sometimes causes Byfuglien to look flat-footed on the ice, but it hasn’t caused his ice time to drop; he’s been averaging about 25 minutes a game lately.
“It’s not easy getting around,” he said, “but you gotta find a way.”
TAKE THAT, BUDDY
When Andrew Ladd scored the overtime winner on Friday night in Carolina, he beat his good friend and Hurricanes netminder Cam Ward.
Ladd said the tally against his former Canes teammate was a long time coming.
“I saw him after the game and had a good chuckle,” Ladd said. “That’s about it. He’s had my number a few times, so I guess I owed him one.”
BACK TO THE FARM
Even though he was one of the most productive forwards over the last week or so, centre Ben Maxwell was returned to the AHL’s St. John’s IceCaps on Saturday.
Maxwell had five points in five games for the Jets, and he has impressed head coach Claude Noel with his play.
“I wanted to see if he could raise his level emotionally and get more involved in the games,” Noel said. “He played very well for us. He played with really good poise. He was an effective player, both him and (Spencer) Machacek, on minimal minutes. They just continued to produce. I was very impressed with the way he played, and I’m hoping he stays with us.”
IN THE HANGAR
Right-winger Chris Thorburn returned to the lineup on Saturday night after missing nine games with a lower-body injury. He had three hits and two blocked shots in 8:45 of ice time . Right-winger Kyle Wellwood tied a career high in the second period when he notched his 18th goal of the season . Centre Nik Antropov’s four-game goal streak came to an end. Had he scored, it would have been the hottest stretch of his career . The Jets were scheduled to fly directly to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after Saturday’s game. They will take Sunday off, practise on Monday and then take on the Florida Panthers Tuesday night. | <urn:uuid:2f27a00b-f7f1-4d5b-b402-1b8f76f16e33> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://winnipegsun.com/2012/04/01/byfuglien-soldiering-on/wcm/e453a282-6d37-4e84-9db3-23183fe918d4 | 2017-12-12T16:15:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948517350.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212153808-20171212173808-00587.warc.gz | en | 0.982134 | 699 |
How often do you find yourself cleaning out your mouth when you are sick? Although this may seem like a strange question, the truth is that when you are suffering from a cold or flu, it is important to continue to focus on your oral health care. That is because a drop in your health will also lead to a drop in your oral health. To avoid exposure due to dental erosion and an increased rate of tooth decay, make sure you are continuing to clean your teeth during cold and flu season. Here are some helpful tips to remember:
– Always be sure to brush and floss every day with dental tools that are non-abrasive. This includes soft-bristled toothbrushes, non-abrasive toothpaste, and dental floss.
– Due to a heightened risk of dental abrasion after throwing up, it is important to use nonabrasive tools on your teeth to clean them. This can include mouthwash or chewing gum.
– Always make sure your mouth is hydrated, so dry mouth does not occur. To produce additional saliva in your mouth, try chewing sugarless gum. Saliva will help neutralize acids that may be in your mouth.
– Hydration remains one of the most important tools for fighting illness as well as fighting the risk for dry mouth, which can lead to an increased risk for gum disease and tooth decay.
– Be aware that cough drops and other lozenges that we used to help alleviate cold and flu symptoms can easily damage your tooth enamel if you are not careful. Exercise caution when biting into them or you may suffer chipped and cracked teeth.
– Stay completely sugar-free while you are sick, as sugars from several products can increase the rate at which numerous oral health risks can occur.
The time is right to receive tips for oral health care protection during cold and flu season in Lakeport, California. You are welcome to schedule an appointment at Paul Vartabedian, DDS by calling us at 707-263-1496. Dr. Paul Vartabedian and our team want you to learn all about the joys of proper oral hygiene. | <urn:uuid:1683987a-df3e-439c-8b92-f99469a19841> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.paulvartabediandds.com/top-notch-smiles-and-treatments-during-cold-and-flu-season/ | 2023-01-28T03:09:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499470.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230128023233-20230128053233-00641.warc.gz | en | 0.96015 | 440 |
SANTA CLARA (KPIX) — The 49ers will be without their star rookie linebacker Reuben Foster for the foreseeable future. Foster suffered a high ankle sprain Sunday in the 49ers 23-3 loss against the Panthers at Levi’s Stadium.
The first round draft pick injured the right leg while making a tackle on Panthers’ running back Christian McCaffrey. Foster was carted off the field for x-rays, and later returned to the San Francisco sidelines. After the game he downplayed the severity of the injury.
“I’ll be back very, very, very soon,” he said on Sunday.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan had a much less optimistic view of the injury during his Monday press conference in Santa Clara.
“We’re going to put him in a boot,” Shanahan said of the sprain. “Those tend to be a month — that’s my experience with high ankle sprains.”
Foster quickly worked his way into the 49ers starting lineup following a stellar preseason. He racked up 8 tackles in 3 games, and nearly had an end zone interception against Alex Smith in Kansas City.
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The Asian stock markets are expected to open higher on Friday, in anticipation of solid GDP data coming from China this morning. GDP is expected to rise 1.9 percent on quarter and 8.4 percent on year after rising 2.0 percent on quarter and 8.9 percent in the previous three months.
In addition, the U.S. Commerce Department said that the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $46.0 billion in February from $52.5 billion in January. Economists had been expected a trade deficit of about $51.7 billion.
Also, the European Central Bank said that inflation in Eurozone is subject to upside risks and it is ready with all the tools necessary to address them "in a firm and timely manner."
In corporate news, Internet giant Google Inc. said on Thursday after the markets closed that its first quarter profit rose 61 percent from last year, helped by strong demand for its search advertising.
The major U.S. averages were higher on Thursday. The Dow jumped 181.19 points or 1.4 percent to finish at 12,986.58, while the NASDAQ surged 39.09 points or 1.3 percent to 3,055.05 and the S&P 500 soared 18.86 points or 1.4 percent to 1,387.57.
The major European markets also rose on Thursday. The CAC 40 of France rose by 0.99 percent and the DAX of Germany gained 1.03 percent. The FTSE 100 of the U.K. closed up by 1.34 percent and the SMI of Switzerland increased by 1.08 percent.
The Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday as China's Shanghai Composite surged 1.82 percent, while Singapore's Straits Times spiked 1.08 percent, Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 0.93 percent, Japan rose 0.70 percent, Malaysia added 0.26 percent, Indonesia was up 0.2 percent and Taiwan gained 0.08 percent. South Korea's KOSPI shed 0.39 percent.
by RTT Staff Writer
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What does the law say about salaried employee rights in the workplace?
Do you have any? Of course you do and plenty of them!
First - Knowledge is Power! - and Knowledge in this case comes from reading my article on United States Labor Law.
It really boils down to whether you are classified correctly or not, as either exempt or non-exempt!
Do you need protection under the Whistle Blowere Law?
Or do you need a Whistle Blower Lawyer?
The biggest violation of most organizations against salaried employees is in how they charge for sick and vacation time.
Most organizations want it both ways and that simply is not fair!
What do I mean by this as it relates to salaried employee rights?
First the organization expects you to work long hours and more than five days a week. Under normal circumstances this is what we expect to do as a salaried employee.
However, then we turn around and say that we need a couple of hours to take care of some private business during the work day and POW, that’s when they hit us below the belt!
They try and penalize us in some way for taking that time off.
In most states they can’t do this and this is one of those salaried employee rights that we talk about. At best they can charge you for a half a day or a full day, but not deduct you for hours. If they do this it may constitute them considering that you are an hourly employee and may be subject to back overtime pay. Of course you will want to check with a legal professional from your state, or get your hands on a copy of the state rules on classifying salaried employees.
Working for the federal government is a little different which makes no sense, but you have to understand the source. Until you get way up into the higher levels of management everyone is paid overtime if they go beyond 8 in a day or 40 in a week.
Even though it’s sold as an employee manual Standard Legal Software is an excellent source for getting the right information on your specific state and you can pick their software up for less than $35, which is less than an office visit with an attorney.
The software is prepared by attorneys and includes all states. Wouldn’t it be nice to find out if your company is treating you fairly?
Just for your own knowledge exempt generally refers to someone that is not covered under the overtime laws. Now keep in mind you must check with your state but the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides employers and employees with information about the Federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor and record keeping requirements. If you don't have a copy posted in your workplace, Standard Legal can provide them!
This will also help you understand what classifies an exempt employee from a non exempt one.
This will make a difference as it relates to overtime pay!
However, there are very strict rules regarding how to classify someone as an exempt employee, and this is where a lot of organizations go wrong. They are just trying to save money!
It will help you greatly!
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We now take a pause from the war horse discussion to ponder the following question: Is there a Great White Northern Renaissance underway with regards to the boots and blades we know and love?
According to this article from last week’s Toronto Sun, there just might be. It’s an interview with current Skate Canada CEO William Thompson, discussing the golden (not to mention the silver and the bronze) opportunities that they hope to seize when the Winter Olympics come to Vancouver in 2010. From the article:
"We made some mistakes after Salt Lake. Skate Canada didn't do some of the investment in the athlete support programs we needed to," Thompson said. "We didn't do as much as we could have. It wasn't so much lack of money. We had enough ... it was getting a clear vision of how to support the athletes. In the last year we've put in some good sports science programs, lined up psychological training, physiologists, doctors ... that has improved performances. But you can't turn programs on and off like a tap. It takes a while.”
But just as soon as I'm screaming “U.S.F.S., are you doing this too? Are you listening? Helloooooo….” my eyes caught this a few lines further down in the article:
“…but, he admits Skate Canada also is responsible for the identity crisis. Many Canadians wouldn't know (Joannie) Rochette from a round chocolate with nutty bits.”
Ouch! Unnecessary roughness to Joannie! Even if (sigh) it might be true... for now.
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We have laid out some typical ad sizes to show you what they look like.
REMEMBER…when someone hovers over your ad, it will double in size, so the larger your ad, the more detail will be seen. On the tab Place Your Ad you can see many popular sizes PLUS you can request your own size ad spot using our Art Ad Generator, a unique tool that will allow you to select an ad size to best fit your Art.
You can also add animated Gif files for more impact (see the Drawing category)
To explain the figures and ads seen here, first is the pixel size e.g 16x32
The 2nd figure is the box size, so in this example a 16x32 pixel ad is 1x2 ad boxes
You have multiple choices of ads to choose from. You have taken time
to create your art master piece, now is the time to display it to its full
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By JIM BREWER
Feb. 12 was the first day of work for newly hired Loudonville-Mohican Area Visitor’s Bureau director Donn Larck (pronounced Lark).
Larck is a self-described specialist in the use of social media and digital technologies to promote products.
“I see the Mohican Visitor’s Bureau position as a way to share the joy received as a child exploring all of Mohican, and as an adult enjoying kayaking, mountain biking, snowboarding, hiking and photography in this area,” Larck said after two weeks on the job.
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The math of malaria
Malaria affects over 200 million individuals every year and kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
The disease varies greatly from region to region in the species that cause it and in the carriers that spread it. It is easily transmitted across regions through travel and migration. This results in outbreaks of the disease even in regions that are essentially malaria-free, such as the United States.
Malaria has been nearly eliminated in the U.S. since the 1950s, but the country continues to see roughly 1,500 cases a year, most of them from travelers. Hence, the movement or dispersal of populations becomes important in the study of the disease.
In a paper published this month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, authors Daozhou Gao and Shigui Ruan propose a mathematical model to study malaria transmission.
“Malaria is a parasitic vector-borne disease caused by the plasmodium parasite, which is transmitted to people via the bites of infected female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles,” says Ruan. “It can be easily transmitted from one region to another due to extensive travel and migration.”
The life cycle of plasmodium involves incubation periods in two hosts, the human and the mosquito. Therefore, mathematical modeling of the spread of malaria usually focuses on the feedback dynamics from mosquito to human and back. Early models were based on malaria parasites’ population biology and evolution. But increased computing power in recent years has allowed models for the disease to become more detailed and complex.
Mathematical models that study transmission of malaria are based on the “reproduction number,” which defines the most important aspects of transmission for any infectious disease. Specifically, it is calculated by determining the expected number of infected organisms that can trace their infection directly back to a single organism after one disease generation. The solution to controlling the disease is to arrive at a reproduction number at which the disease-free state can be established and maintained.
Previous studies used ordinary differential equations to model the transmission of malaria, in which human populations are classified as susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered. Likewise, mosquito populations are divided into susceptible, exposed and infectious groups. The threshold below which the disease-free equilibrium can be maintained is determined by varying these parameters.
In order to analyze transmission rates of malaria between regions, multi-patch models are used, where each region is a “patch.” These models study how the reproduction number is affected by dispersal or movement of exposed and infectious individuals from region to region.
The authors in this paper model the transmission dynamics of malaria between humans and mosquitoes within a patch, and then go on to examine how population dispersal between patches or regions affects the spread of malaria in a two-patch model.
After deriving the reproduction number, they determine its dependence on human travel rates. Their analysis shows that reproduction number varies consistently with movement of exposed, infectious and recovered humans. The same is seen to be true for the movement of infected mosquitoes. “A threshold for the persistence of malaria was obtained, below which the disease dies out and above which the disease persists,” explains Ruan. “Analysis of the threshold helps us design effective control measures to reduce disease transmission.”
The authors determine that malaria can potentially die out if movement of exposed, infectious or recovered humans between two patches or regions remains weak; higher travel rates between the patches, however, can make malaria indigenous to both regions. Numerical simulations are performed to corroborate these findings.
The paper thus concludes that human travel is a critical factor affecting the spread of malaria. “The analytical and numerical results confirm that human movement plays a significant role in the geographic spread of malaria among different regions,” says Ruan. Anti-malaria measures should involve more rigorous border screening and regulation, since exposed individuals who don’t exhibit symptoms of the disease—but are infectious—are hard to identify at screenings. “To control malaria, both regional and global strategies are needed,” he says.
Future directions for this research include testing the global stability of this model in more than two patches, and studying other influencers, such as climate. “Climate factors such as rainfall and temperature greatly influence the abundance and distribution of malaria vectors,” Ruan says. “It will be very interesting to study the impact of climate change on the transmission of malaria by considering periodic malaria models.”
About the authors:
Dr. Shigui Ruan is a professor and Daozhou Gao is a graduate student/ teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Miami. This work was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1022728 and NIH grant R01GM093345.
A Multipatch Malaria Model with Logistic Growth Populations
Shigui Ruan and Daozhou Gao, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 72(3), 819–841. (Online publish date: June 7, 2012)
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Since fans know that Daniel Bryan attended the wrestling school that was started by Shawn Michaels, they have been clamoring for WWE to put them together in a dream match. Many feel that it would easily be a match of the year candidate. During a recent interview, however, Michaels burst those bubbles. The former world heavyweight champion stated that he was not particularly interested in working a match against Bryan.
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While the consensus among the internet wrestling community is that either Roman Reigns or Daniel Bryan will end up winning the Royal Rumble match tonight, a dark horse candidate has emerged. Reports have surfaced that WWE is seriously considering giving the honor to Bray Wyatt tonight. He has several people backstage who are pushing for him to be elevated into the top spot because his character has potential to thrive.
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The 2010 Goldstar “hot seller” event, the Bombers Professional Roller Derby is back with live co-ed banked track Roller Derby action for 2011 at San Francisco’s historic Kezar Pavilion featuring the 2010 world champion San Francisco Bay Bombers, who take on the rugged Brooklyn Red Devils. This is an “In San Francisco only” experience. The seats are excellent and priced perfectly for a family-friendly sporting event that is professionally sanctioned by the American Roller Skating Derby. These Roller Derby athletes deliver a suspenseful match and thrill audiences with team-scoring assists. The Bombers are recognized as the finest in all of today’s modern roller derby scene. Come early for warm ups and will call.
Roller derby’s roots started with the 1935 Transcontinental Roller Derby, a simulated cross-country roller skating race between teams of skaters. Over time, this race developed into the modern contact sport of roller derby we see today. The San Francisco Bay Bombers are the most recognized roller derby team on earth and current world champions. The Bombers were originally founded in 1954, and today’s San Francisco Bay Bombers are carrying the weight of a rich dynasty. They skate in the original roller derby style, fielding athletic female and male skaters on each team, alternating squads of play until the final seconds of the bout determine who wins. The Bombers compete on a large masonite banked track roughly the size of a basketball court, unlike amateur leagues that skate on a flat roller rink surface. | <urn:uuid:c99c232c-f34f-43cc-9333-383bbb5359fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://www.goldstar.com/events/san-francisco-ca/brooklyn-red-devils-vs-san-francisco-bay-bombers | 2017-02-27T14:03:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172831.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00538-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907351 | 434 |
SUCH a fun engagement shoot on the farm with Jess & Aaron! Can’t wait for their wedding right after Christmas! 🙂
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You’ve not only captured some great engagement photos but you’ve also put a real piece of Indiana and the Midwest lifestyle in these shots too…
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There were 109 households out of which 35.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.4% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.2% were non-families. 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.19.
In the town the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 99.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $40,469, and the median income for a family was $48,750. Males had a median income of $38,571 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,743. About 2.7% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over. | <urn:uuid:50ba727c-98ef-4df7-bf54-c590dfb93a12> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.reference.com/browse/uniondale | 2015-03-01T21:28:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462555.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00229-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995016 | 303 |
Before I started training at Derby City CrossFit I knew in a vague way that such a thing as weight lifting existed. I’d seen the big dudes in gyms, grunting and flexing in front of mirrors, contorting their faces as they slung weights around. My experience with them the last time I had a gym membership was contending with the heavy weights they left behind that I couldn’t move myself when it was my turn. I also roomed with a competitive power lifter in college, a massive guy that counted his lifts in the 700 and 800 pound range who ate my food out of the fridge and whose mere appearance served as an effective deterrent to dates I brought home that may have had more amorous ideas than I.
Until my own addiction to lifting weights began, I never realized how much went into it. Brute strength goes into it I suppose, but there’s an awful lot more. Part of Ben’s work with me is to instruct me how to use the right form. And that goes beyond when to pull my shoulder blades back and how far apart to set my feet. It seems I have a tendency to close my eyes when trying to lift a heavy weight. Why would anything be wrong with this? I’d have wondered before the first dozen times he yelled “open your eyes!” Benching recently I tried to summon all my strength, screwing my eyes shut in the process. And I couldn’t complete the lift.
“Open your eyes and stop scrunching your face,” Ben ordered, probably feeling like a weary kindergarten teacher reciting the alphabet for the millionth time. My auto response “why” elicited the answer that I have to see what I’m doing to focus. I wasn’t entirely sure I bought it (as if I’m the one that’s the expert here) but I did as instructed. I resisted the urge to make faces and close my eyes, and you know what? I made the lift that time! Who would have thought?
Trying my first remotely heavy dead lift, 5 reps at 120 pounds, this week, I was beginning to struggle 2 or 3 in. The booming instructions came again, “Keep your eyes open!” I kept them open and made the lift. Not great form in many other ways — I have a lot of work to do there — but with my eyes wide open. | <urn:uuid:269366b9-aff4-4d26-86df-7aa75cfd66e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://beheavy.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/open-your-eyes-by-dana-mcmahan/ | 2017-03-30T00:51:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191444.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00126-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979902 | 510 |
So where were we? Ah yes - I'd survived my liquidity crisis at the Venetian double deck blackjack table, and gone to see what the boys were up to before getting ready for dinner.
Let simplify Friday night down to two pieces of wisdom: 1) When you're going out for dinner in Vegas, especially with a large party - just suck it up and go to a quality place. If you try to save $30 a head by going to one of these places that has 300 seats and less than top notch food, you'll end up vastly OVERpaying for the dog food they serve you with attitude. 2) Do NOT, under any circumstances, try to roll 19 guys deep at a gentleman's club. Just don't.
So anyway, after a vicious series of clusterfucks Friday night, Saturday began in unusual Vegas fashion for me: at the pool! We had two cabanas at the Venetian pool - the only problems were a) it was 105 degrees outside, b) I will get skin cancer if I sit in the Vegas sun for more than 4 and a half minutes and c) IT WAS ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE FUCKING DEGREES OUTSIDE!
Still, I hid in the shade of the cabana long enough to down a burger for nourishment, and then head off to the poker room. (Warning: ACTUAL POKER CONTENT imminent!)
I sat in the 2-5NL game for 1 orbit while waiting for a seat in the 5-10NL game. After calling a raise with 88 and flopping top set on a draw heavy board (8-7-3 with two hearts), I raised the preflop raiser's flop bet and took down the pot. On the next hand, I again called a raise with 33, and saw a nearly identical flop: 8-6-5 with two hearts. I decided to get all fancy 2+2 style on the preflop raiser, and just call his flop bet, seeing what developed on the turn.
When the ultimate scare card - the 4 of hearts peeled off on the turn, the preflop raiser checked to me. I smiled on the inside, as I laughed at how easy this game was, and bet out $120. The preflop raiser promptly checkraised me all-in for about $250 more. Fahhhhhhk. I mucked, asking him innocently, "That card didn't scare you at all? Maybe just a little bit? I thought it was a pretty scary card."
He shrugged "I didn't think you had the flush," and now another doucheball piped in "Me neither." I laughed and racked up my chips - realizing I'd given my opponents too much credite - assuming they had brains - and heading for the 5-10NL game that I'd just been called for.
I rounded my stack up to $800 and surveyed the scene: There was a short stacked young gunner who was playing tight seated two to my left, with a Russian former NYC Cab Driver (Russian) between us. On the other side of the table was a Southern Card Rack (SCR), a Middle Eastern Putz (MEP), The Poor Man's Gary Busey (BUSEY), and an Eastern European Calling Station (EECS).
The first hand I played was my old nemesis A-Q. After 1 limper, I made it $50 to go and was called 3 times - I'd be third to act post flop. I kinda liked the flop of K-8-4 rainbow, as I thought the rest of the table viewed me as a tight aggro player, and would assume I had something like at least A-K when I fired out $150 after it was checked to me. It was folded back to Busey, who leaned around the dealer, asking "How much you got left?" I showed him that I had about $600 left. "That's it?" He asked - being a total dick. "That's it," I answered. He nodded and said "All in," just for emphasis - as he had about $4k in front of him.
I laughed and mucked - hey douchball - this isn't my first time at the table! The only question I was asking myself is if I'd make the call with AK there - I don't think so. I made a mental note that I'd be stacking this cockchugger imminently. As it turned out, I had to wait about an hour, until Busey's $20 straddle was called, and I made it $60 to go with TT. Busey called, as did the limper, and we saw a flop of 9-8-4 with two clubs. Busey and the limper checked to me, and I fired out $200. Busey nodded, and like the payoff wizard he was, called. The limper folded, and I watched as the dealer peeled off the 7 of clubs on the turn.
Busey looked up from his food and checked again. Although I couldn't really hate this card more, I thought that Busey would bet here with a made hand - hoping I wouldn't believe him - as he would be wrong to try to trap me - given the tight play I'd exhibited, even if he had proven that he was a calling station. "All-in - $450" I said, sliding my chips forward and counting them down. He nodded, and called - I cringed.
The river was an offsuit jack, and I quickly turned my hand up, declaring "I have a straight." Busey considered the board - eyed me annoyingly - and mucked his hand. I don't think the jack helped me - as he was the type to show his cards if he'd received a bad beat - he likely had something like A-9 or A-8 with the Ace of clubs.
I gave some chips back another hour later in this frigid deck: The Russian opened for $50, and I was next with KK. I made it $160 ($1400 stack), and it was mucked around to MEP - who was a total donkey and moved all in for $600. I began salivating. When the action came back to the Russian, he now moved all in for $790. I jumped out of my seat, not believing the action. "Wow, really?" I couldn't believe I could lay this hand down in this game, especially since I'd already labled MEP as a douche-royale, and these stacks were not deep enough. I took 30 seconds before saying "I call," and turning to the Russian: "You have aces?" "No - queens," he admitted. I turned to the MEP and stated: "YOU don't have aces." He nodded - he did. What? Faahhhhhhhhkkk. Frigid. At this point, the new young gunner to my left said "I guess this would be a bad time to tell you I folded a king," and I groaned.
We turned our hands up, and amidst the oooohs and ahhhhs there were suddenly 20 people standing around our table to see the flop of Q-Q-T. FAAAHHHHHKKKK!!! I couldn't even win the side pot!
Fortunately, Busey still had money left, and was kind enough to double me up again an hour later when I finally found AA. Again the Russian opened for $50, and again I made it $160. Busey cold called $160 from the $20 straddle, and the Russian called as well. The flop was 9-9-5, and Busey bet out $200. The Russian folded, and I instantly pushed in my last $450 - $250 more to him. He shrugged, called, and when I tabled my AA he mumbled something about needing a 4. The kid to my left thought he said he had 4 outs (7-6? 8-7 ??), but in any case, when the J and Q peeled off, he mucked his hand, and I was up again.
The Young Gunner scooped a big pot with A-Q unimproved when he raised preflop, bet the K-8-4 two club flop, and moved in for about 2 times the pot when the turn bricked off. The Russian took the chips he'd gotten with his flopped quad queens and called after some deliberation. It seemed that the Young Gunner had to have at least AK, but when the river bricked off, he said "I missed." The Russian nodded "Me too," and finally the Gunner turned over his AQ. The Russian turned over Ac9c, and the Gunner scooped about 3 dimes - much to his surprise.
Later, SFCEO (Southern Former CEO) sat down in the one seat, and asked the waitress what kind of white wine they served. She began to consult a list of ONE in her head... "Ummm.. Chardonnnay...... ummmm..." The CEO interrupted her "Please bring me the driest white you have," and a look of horror came over the waitress's face. Seeing this, I tried to stifle a laugh, which ended up erupting like a snort. She looked at me for help, and I laughed "Just ask the bartender - he'll know," as the CEO looked at me with wide eyes - shocked by her ignorance.
"Come on," I told him, "To be fair, what kind of doofus orders a dry white wine in the poker room?"
Well, I'll tell you what kind of doofus - the kind of doofus who thinks like this: Busey is clearly on tilt - MEGA-tilt. He has had aces 5 times - and cannot get away from them - each time paying off $1k plus in turn and river bets -and his stack has dwindled. YoungGun opens a pot for $60, and Busey in the SB steams "TWO HUNDRED." Now the CEO thinks for 45 seconds, and mucks reluctantly. The YoungGun mucks too, and I look at CEO, inquiring, "Ace jack?" cause that's the kind of hand this idiot would really like to play here stuck between two raisers. "Nooooo - I'd play Ace Jack there - I had pocket jacks." The Young Gun practically knocks over his chips in disbelief - and I stare with my mouth open, as JJ, aka FridayInVegas is practically the nuts right there against the steaming Busey. CEO explains "You see, if I had Ace Jack it makes it less likely that he has aces there," and my brain immediately shut down as he proceeded to have a discussion about it with the Russian - WHO AGREED!!!
When the Russian and the MEP finally left, I got up to cash out, logging a $687 profit for the four hours, and decided to abuse the Venetian's Pai Gow pit a bit. I sat for an hour, pounding 6 vodka-grapefruits and taking $300 out of the game before I went upstairs to freshen up for our big Saturday night at Tao. We pre-partied in Dave's room, with ample booze and appetizers, before heading down to Tao - preying there would be no more clusterfucks. No matter how carefully you plan, nothing is certain when you have a 19 man party in Vegas. We'd been set up with a booth and a six bottle minimum, and had only to endure the last minute plug job the hostess laid on us, telling us we'd have to get 7 bottles, since it was "a big night." No shit - it's Saturday - it's ALWAYS a big night on Saturday - nice bait & switch you filthy bottle whore - but what could we do - Dave handed over his credit card, and we were led to a quality box above the main dance floor.
I couldn't help thinking it was an error when we ordered Jack Daniels for one of our bottles, and of course I was right, as it was the only thing left at the end of the night. Several bottles into the evening, on our way to 10 bottles, Brian somehow escaped eviction when, in an attempt to "slap an icecube out of Brendan's hand," he instead slapped a full vodka tonic over the ledge of the skybox onto the floor below. I don't know how he talked his way out of that one, but several hours later, we were in a real jam when Brian was down on the dance floor and his little brother Mikey, sloshed out of his mind, attempted to lob a drink to him. I watched from 8 feet away in slow motion as this train wreck unfolded, springing to life screaming "NOOOOOOO," almost exactly like Apollo Creed's trainer in Rocky IV when Drago knocks Apollo out (killing him) and Apollo's head slams against the mat - you KNOW the scene I'm talking about.
Too slow to stop him, I winced as Mikey tossed the drink over, and security suddenly swarmed us like wasps. After tense deliberations which lasted a full 20 minutes, Dave managed to negotiate our continued occupation of the skybox, offering to let the bouncer throttle him if anything else went wrong.
Dirty Dave would never believe that the boys brought back a group of legitimate bona fide KCSH's to our booth - Kansas City Sweat Hogs!!! The girls were probably surprised with the ferocity with which we guarded our booze - Andy whispered to me "If she even LOOKS at our vodka, I'm throwing her the FUCK out of here." See, us happily married men have different priorities - booze over flooze.
We eventually staggered out of Tao after 4am, where I decided to drop a buy-in at the PaiGow pit before retiring to bed for the night.
Sunday morning, I woke up and beat up the double deck blackjack pit for a few hours, doubting that Mikey would awake from his coma in time for our 1pm flight. As I stacked green chips into a tower, Mikey finally called me and stumbled down to the casino floor lugging his two athletic bags, and sweating a mixture of vodka and tequila.
As we headed off to the airport, I realized he was still trashed, and he managed to get himself subjected to a full search at security when he left his sunblock in his bag. The young Irish TSA worker swabbed Mikey's bag with a pad, as I prayed Mikey didn't have any illicit substances. "It's gonna screen high for alcohol and stupidity," I joked to the agent, who replied honestly, "that's ok, if that was illegal they'd fire ME." We ultimately made it through security, and back to NYC in one piece, where I began plotting our next trip...
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◊ Again named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
◊ Tabbed second-team All-SEC by league coaches and an honorable mention selection by the Associated Press.
◊ Finished her career ranked among UGA's career leaders in five different categories - No. 18 in scoring, No. 7 in assists, No. 7 in games started, No. 8 in steals and No. 8 in FG attempts.
◊ One of two Lady Bulldogs - Jasmine Hassell being the other - to start all 35 games.
◊ Led Georgia in assists for the third consecutive season and ranked among SEC leaders in No. 6 in assist-to-turnover ratio, No. 7 in steals, No. 10 in assists and No. 28 in scoring.
◊ Became just the fifth player to lead Georgia in assists three times, joining Teresa Edwards, Kelly Miller, Alexix Kendrick and Ashley Houts.
◊ After 35.4 minutes per game in 91 games played in her first three seasons in Athens, logged just 31.3 mpg as a senior. By comparison, played 30 minutes or more 82 times as a freshman, sophomore and junior.
◊ Tabbed MVP of the University of New Mexico's Thanksgiving Tournament, largely due to game-high tallies of 17 points, six steals and five assists in the championship game against the previously undefeated Lobos.
◊ Had 18 assists to two turnovers in a four-game span from Savannah State to Furman.
◊ Played a major role in the decisive 16-4 stretch over final 5:33 of upset at No. 8 Kentucky, scoring five points, dishing out two assists and collecting two rebounds in the 75-71 victory.
◊ With a season-high eight assists at Ole Miss, joined the Lady Bulldogs' top-10 career leaders.
◊ Moved onto her third UGA career top-10 ledger at Mississippi State, tying La'Keshia Frett and Tracy Henderson at No. 10 for games started with 116.
◊ Scored all 10 of her points against LSU in the 2013 SEC Tourney quarterfinals in the first half.
◊ Notched a team-best 16 points in Georgia's upset of No. 4 Stanford in the "Swwet 16."
◊ Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
◊ Led Georgia in average assists (3.4) and steals (2.7) for the second consecutive season.
◊ With another such effort as a senior, would join an elite group who have led the Lady Bulldogs in those statistics for three straight years - Teresa Edwards from 1984-86, Kelly Miller from 1998-2001 and Ashley Houts from 2008-10.
◊ Among league leaders, finished ranked No. 24 in scoring, tied for No. 2 in steals, No. 4 in minutes played, No. 6 in assists and No. 7 in assist-to-turnover ratio.
◊ Failed to qualify for SEC statistical leaders for conference games only due to missing five contests with a sprained knee.
◊ Flirted with a triple-double in the opener against TCU...there have only been two triple-doubles in Lady Bulldog history - Teresa Edwards in 1985 and Tracy Henderson in 1995.
◊ Named SEC Player of the Week on Nov. 21 after averaging 13.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.7 steals during a trio of victories over Georgia Southern, College of Charleston and Southern Cal.
◊ Sprained the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) in her right knee in the Montana State game on Dec. 20 but played the remainder of the contest. Subsequently missed the next two outings.
◊ Returned to action for the first five SEC games before "tweaking" her right knee with 6:02 left in the first half at Mississippi State on Jan. 15.
◊ Did not dress for the next four games. Dressed out and warmed up for the Mississippi State game in Athens but kept her warm-ups on the entire contest.
◊ Expected to return to action at Alabama on Feb. 5 but did so earlier than anticipated when Meredith Mitchell was injured (knot on head) just 2:21 into the game.
◊ Went on to score a season-high 18 points against the Crimson Tide.
◊ Became the 32nd Lady Bulldog to surpass 1,000 career points with 7:42 left in the second half at South Carolina on Feb. 16.
◊ Moved past No. 31 Saudia Roundtree among UGA's career scoring leaders against Marist. James is the first Lady Bulldog to wear "No. 10" since Roundtree's 1996 National Player of the Year campaign.
◊ Tabbed second-team All-SEC by league coaches and an honorable mention All-SEC selection of the Associated Press.
◊ Named second-team All-SEC in pre-season voting of league coaches.
◊ Among SEC leaders, ranked No. 15 in scoring, No. 4 in minutes played, No. 7 in both assists and steals and No. 10 in assist-to-TO ratio.
◊ Led Georgia offensively a team-best 14 times, including 11 of the last 23 contests.
◊ Along with Khaalidah Miller, had a team-best three 20-point scoring games - against Indiana, versus Louisiana Tech and at Florida.
◊ Named to the all-tournament team at the FIU Fun & Sun Classic after playing 80 minutes - in a span of 22 hours - and averaging team bests of 19.0 ppg, 5.0 apg and 3.0 spg.
◊ Scored 16 points in the final 15:50 against Florida in Athens as the Lady Bulldogs rallied from a 16-point deficit to secure a six-point victory.
◊ Missed the Alabama game in Athens to allow a sprained right wrist - originally suffered at No. 20 Arkansas - time to heal. Was available against the Crimson Tide but enjoyed the day off after Georgia raced to a 10-0 lead and maintained a comfortable margin throughout.
◊ Her "DNP" against Alabama was the first of her career and snapped a streak of 55 straight starts.
◊ Pleased a vocal group of about 40 family and friends with a game-high 19 points at Ole Miss.
◊ Scored 11 straight second-half points against Middle Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, including hitting both ends of three one-and-ones.
◊ Earned a spot on ESPN's Top-10 plays after a game-winning putback with 2.9 seconds left against No. 15 Florida State in the second round of the NCAA Tourney.
◊ Named to the www.gballmag.com Young All-America team, one of 10 freshmen honored nationally.
◊ Unanimous pick to the coaches All-SEC Freshman team.
◊ Equaled league record by being named SEC Freshman of the Week five times:
Nov. 16 after scoring a team-high 15 points in an upset of No. 13 Oklahoma;
Nov. 30 after averaging 19.7 ppg in a trio of wins;
Dec. 21 after team highs of 17 points and 10 boards against No. 19 Virginia;
Jan. 11 after averaging 14.0 points in victories over Kentucky - when she hit game-winning three with 17 seconds left in OT - and Florida;
March 1 after averaging 13.0 ppg against South Carolina and Arkansas.
◊ Led the Lady Bulldogs and ranked third in the SEC in minutes per game and also No. 22 in scoring and No. 10 in steals.
◊ Paced UGA in scoring a team-high 12 times, as well as leading in assists and steals in 15 outings.
◊ Reached double digits in the scoring column in 18 games, with three double-doubles.
◊ Notched her first start against Chattanooga and connected on six threes to equal the fifth-most in a single game in UGA history.
◊ Hit clutch shots in late-game situations of several big wins...a three with 2:50 left against Rutgers; a three from the top-of the key with 17 seconds left in overtime against Kentucky; a long three with 1:33 left against Tennessee to put UGA up 49-47; and the final three points of OT in a 49-46 decision over No. 19 LSU.
◊ Exploded for 14 of her career-high 27 points in overtime against Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, connecting on two threes and then 8-of-8 free throws.
◊ Coached by Lynn Whitfield at Bartlett High where she rewrote the school scoring recordbook.
◊ Ranked as the No. 21 prospect in the country by the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report, as well as No. 26 by the All-Star Girls Basketball Report and No. 30 by Bluestar.
◊ Named to the Tennesseean's 2008 "Dream Team" of the top five players in the state regardless of classification.
◊ A three-time all-state honor for Class AAA by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association.
◊ Named Memphis Commercial Appeal's "Best of Preps" Player of the Year as a sophomore, junior and senior, the first three-time winner in the award's history.
◊ As a senior, averaged 25.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Lady Panthers, who finished 25-7.
◊ As a junior, averaged 24.8 points, 7.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 5.0 steals while leading Bartlett to its first state tournament appearance since 1928.
◊ As a sophomore, averaged a District 14-AAA-best 21.3 points per game and helped Bartlett to a 30-4 finish.
◊ As a freshman, started and helped Bartlett post a 30-4 record and win the Region 7AAA championship.
◊ Born July 29, 1991, Jasmine is the daughter of Greg and Janine James.
◊ Her younger sister Destiny was a freshman playing at Jacksonville State in Alabama during 2012-13..
◊ Major: Recreation and Leisure Studies.
◊ Was twice recognized as a member of the SEC Community Service team for women's basketball.
◊ Recipient of the Andy Landers Women's Basketball Scholarship for 2009-10
◊ Recipient of the Val Porter Family Women's Basketball Scholarship foe 2011-12
◊ Recipient of the Vince and Barbara Dooley Scholarship for 2011-12.
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The band accomplished this with exotic instruments– a whistle called an ocarina, pan flutes known as zamponas and quenas (made from lamb bones), rain sticks made from cacti.
And then there was a rattly percussion thing… did the performer really say toenails?
We invite our South American readers to jump in and clarify this.
Whatever their instruments, Jorge Gomez (a native of Colombia), Faustina Cutipa (Peru), Juan Castillo (Chile), Miguel Castro (Bolivia) and Oscar Echevarra (Peru) used them to powerful effect on the Morristown Green.
When they launched into Peru’s most beloved song, El Condor Pasa, Luisa Galdos teared up. Never mind that she has lived in Morristown for 20 years.
“It’s in the heart of every Peruvian,” Luisa said of the song. “It’s home, home, home.”
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HOMETOWN: Fort Walton Beach, Florida
BLOG: 365 Days of Michellesm
CHEAP CHIC: "Never be ordinary. I love to have at least one thing stand out about me, whether it's my makeup, jewelry, or clothes. I love to try new things, but I can't afford to buy the most expensive products. My looks are always affordable but special."
THE BEAUTY BREAKDOWN: "For this look, I wanted to accentuate my lips and try the new hot pink lipstick obsession. I started with a light dusting of foundation and then focused on my eyes. I brushed my entire eyelid up to the brow with a highlighting shadow, then applied gold to the lid. I outlined the crease of my eye with a darker brown, and used a black eyeliner to line my top lid. I finished up with mascara. For my lips I used concealer around the edges followed by loose powder to set it in place. Then I carefully applied my lipstick. The last step is my favorite part because it pulls my whole look together. I place bronzer on my temples and below my cheekbones as well as on my chin and forehead. I swiped on a bright blush and was ready to go! I used CoverGirl Lip Perfection Lipstick in Siren, Maybelline New York's EyeStudio Eyeshadow Quad in Give Me Gold, L'Oreal Paris Pencil Perfect Eyeliner in Carbon Black, Revlon FabuLash Mascara in Black, Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Loose Powder Foundation, and Milani blush and bronzer."
WHY WE LOVE HER LOOK: Michelle's gold eyeshadow makes her skin glow and her standout pink lip color creates the perfect summer smile.
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hickeys are beautiful because they are the only time a bruise results from love and affection rather than harm
"Just because you kissed
someone with scars
doesn’t make you
a hero. "
Yup, it’s about that time again…
haha it looks like its licking the skin
The worst moments at night are those when you lay in bed trying to conceal sleep. Sleep your body has been begging you for all day. And you start to think and remember things about friends maybe a lover and you realize how you have been by your self a really long time.
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Would you like to travel more than your bank account allows you to? Do you enjoy talking to people and experiencing different cultures with locals? Then this platform may be just the thing for you. TalkTalkBnb allows you to see the world for free and mingle with the locals, all while using your language skills. So, where would you like to go?
Somewhere in between Airbnb and Couchsurfing, TalkTalkBnb is a French free social network connecting anyone wanting to learn a language, with travellers anywhere in the world who can help them. Travellers get free accommodation and a meal a day, in exchange for speaking their native language with their host. And hosts get a chance to experience full-immersion in the language of their choice without having to leave their country, or even their home!
Whether you are business person needing to brush up on your languages skills in time for that important meeting abroad, or a student preparing for a dreaded language exam, or if you just want to pick up a new language or refresh a long lost one, TalkTalkBnb can help you bring your language skills back up to speed.
As a traveller, the platform allows you to find free accommodation anywhere in the world, but also to experience authentic culture by living with the locals. Although you commit to spend a minimum amount of time with your host each day, you are not not expected to be with them 24/7, so you'll have the flexibility and time to explore on your own. Indeed a happy balance between time together and time for independent activities (if so desired) is encouraged, to ensure that both travellers and hosts can get the most out of their experience.
Fostering Tolerance Through Understanding
As important as learning and practising languages is per se, through its connecting platform, TalkTalkBnb aims to bring people from different cultures together, and to help foster a more tolerant, cohesive and peaceful world in the process. The initiative is indeed a great example of how the internet can facilitate collaboration, sharing and exchange between people who would not otherwise ever come into contact.
And through the Youth 4 Global Goals initiative, carried out in partnership with AIESEC, the platform also supports youth involvement towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through 6-12 week volunteering placements within local projects abroad.
As we witness growing hate discourse within politics, extremism and radicalisation, as well as the plea of millions of refugees fleeing conflict or poverty, a platform that seeks to build bridges and to nurture intercultural understanding can only be applauded.
Whether as a host or as a traveller, all you need to do to register is create your own profileon the website, and start searching for your perfect destination or language match. And don't forget to send us a postcard! | <urn:uuid:deffebd7-6507-4e36-8d07-cbe1fce4e535> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://en.reset.org/blog/itchy-feet-and-chatty-disposition-talktalkbnb-you-can-travel-world-free-06142017 | 2018-09-20T18:51:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156554.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920175529-20180920195929-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.950819 | 569 |
Feb 23, 2012 6:47 PM
TUCSON - Tiger Woods is done playing today, and he's done playing for the rest of the week.
Winners today include some big names: Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan, Dustin Johnson, Matt Kuchar, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy are among those advancing to round three.
Some who won't be carrying on this week: Ernie Els, Bubba Watson, Ryo Ishikawa and Matteo Manassero.
Ryan caught up with Bubba Watson, who's known for his amazing driving skills, and his down-home taste in automobiles. Check out the video above for more. | <urn:uuid:a4da1f76-3c57-462a-ab5a-291b046a4b0a> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www1.kvoa.com/news/ryan-reports-from-round-2-of-the-accenture-match-play-championship/ | 2015-03-06T14:10:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936469016.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074109-00328-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959469 | 144 |
Category: Minnetonka's Grand Re-Opening | February 28, 2017
Minnetonka’s Grand Re-Opening
Stop by our Newly Remodeled Minnetonka shop on Saturday, March 4 from 4-9 PM for a Grand Re-Opening Celebration! A few teasers… already on the agenda are:
(1) Wine Sampling (We’re unveiling a new wine option)
(2) Beer Sampling (Excelsior Brewing will be pouring and giving away prizes from 5-7 PM)
(3) The potential for Big Prizes as we’re inviting you to share your Minnetonka DAVANNI’S stories and photos — #MTReOpening.
(4) Prize Wheel with some major giveaway prizes!
(5) And so much more!!
So, get a party mood now! Because when we have a celebration, WE HAVE A CELEBRATION! | <urn:uuid:a6385bb0-2483-4b6f-abba-286728b58a28> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.davannis.com/blog/minnetonka-grand-reopening/ | 2018-09-23T11:06:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159193.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923095108-20180923115508-00126.warc.gz | en | 0.87937 | 198 |
Pate fermente sitting for 4 days, maybe longer.
This past friday night I decided to make a pate fermente so that I could bake something hopefully tasty this weekend. Well, this weekend became a bit hectic and I never got around to do anything with it. Hopefully I'll be able to bake something this week but with work and finals coming up, I might not be able to until this weekend. Is there anyway that I can store the pre-ferment or should I just toss it and start over in a few days. I took it out of the fridge last night and it's smelling very very yeasty so I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. | <urn:uuid:a44e1acd-82c9-4579-8028-2dd04e2fe832> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/2771/pate-fermente-sitting-4-days-maybe-longer | 2015-04-02T02:01:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131309986.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172149-00014-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984119 | 143 |
All AG products are built to exact standards in addition to designs based on actual farm requirements. We have always listened to our customers and their needs, resulting in the design of farm machinery to save time, labour, materials and most importantly money.
Garnett Farms Engineering Ltd is a family business with over 50 years of experience in cattle and poultry farming.
“A highly effective machine, the cost of which was recovered in the first winter”
Farm Manager, Harper Adams Agricultural College | <urn:uuid:da574e7d-3066-4da1-91f5-470436f25257> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | http://www.ag-products.co.uk/machines-2/ | 2020-08-09T08:43:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738523.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809073133-20200809103133-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.956283 | 99 |
Yes, you can upgrade compatible Windows 7 PCs based on these requirements with a full license.
||1 GHz or faster compatible processor
||1GB RAM for 32-bit; 2GB for 64-bit
|Required hard disk space
||Up to 20GB available hard disk space
|Required video card
||800 x 600 screen resolution or higher. DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver
||Internet access (fees may apply)
|Other system requirements
||Microsoft account required for some features. Watching DVDs requires separate playback software.
|Additional system requirements
||You must accept the enclosed License Terms, also at microsoft.com/usetermsActivation required • Single license • 32 & 64-bits on USB 3.0 media included
To take advantage of the latest hardware capabilities, we recommend moving to a new PC with Windows 10. | <urn:uuid:c38d5d46-43c2-45af-8726-95543e3a3ea6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dartmsp.com/support-for-windows-7-is-ending/ | 2022-08-10T20:24:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.771195 | 204 |
HM-30 Pump Panel Module
Easy, one-handed operation when plugging in wired headsets.
Mobile Radio Interface Guide
Connect your mobile radio to a Firecom intercom.
Designate colors for specific roles and increased visibility.
3.7V lithium-ion replacement battery for 500-Series wireless headsets.
Portable Radio Adapters
Connect your portable radio to a 500-Series wireless headset.
NFPA-compliant Hanger Hook
For use with a single wired or wireless under-helmet headset.
Long-wearing comfort in a variety of styles. | <urn:uuid:3677bdae-f1b3-4ea7-be23-820391e6300b> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.firecom.com/products/accessories/ | 2022-05-28T08:05:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663013003.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528062047-20220528092047-00338.warc.gz | en | 0.722095 | 137 |
Here is a free program for all to use as long as you are a private user of it[commercial (Biz) users must pay for it]. Irfanview makes an image resizer program that is real handy, not for just avatars but all your image needs. Go to www.irfanview.com
Once you have down loaded the program, open it up and select your image to be resized. On the image pull down tab, click resize, and you have infinate sizing options. Also you can save a bit file as a jpg file. This makes a big difference on what a person can actually see in image size like a 6 x4 instead of 3" x2"as many sites have file constraints too.
Also remember you need to be registered to use an avatar here at DHC. | <urn:uuid:9a6ffe67-0799-4bd3-a14c-8ebc59a29dae> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=547 | 2014-11-29T01:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931011456.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155651-00208-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944181 | 169 |
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO WEATHER CROSS COUNTRY SKIING WILL NOW START AT 11AM
Alberta Sport Development Centers
Alberta Sport Connection partners with the Alberta Sport Development Centers across Alberta. The Zone Chefs for the 2018 Alberta Winter Games in Wood Buffalo are also staff in these centers. Check out the website to see what services they offer to athlete, coaches and parents to help everyone meet their goals.
Zone Playoffs have started. See above for information regarding zone playoffs in your area. | <urn:uuid:096346da-955e-4380-84ce-f4ddb081487b> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://albertasport.ca/alberta-games/winter-games/sports/ | 2018-08-20T06:57:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215858.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820062343-20180820082343-00170.warc.gz | en | 0.903169 | 103 |
Searching on how to use Tez App? Google has launched its payments app for India called Tez. After the demonstration happens last year there is rapid growth in digital payments space and Google is going take advantage of this.This app uses Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and allows users to connect their bank accounts to the service just like BHIM and Phone Pe App. Google has partnered with State bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank with 52 other banks for the service. And you can choose any of the 55 banks available in the list to use this app.
Steps on How to use the Tez app by Google
- First of all, you have to download the Tez app which is available on both Android and iOS platform. You can download the Tez app either from Google Play store or from Apple App Store.
- After you install the Tez app then you have to enter your phone number so that Google can verify you with an OTP SMS.
- After the successful verification of your phone number, the app will ask you to enter you a PIN to protect your Tez App account. You can also use fingerprint or pattern lock to protect the app.
- Now you need to link the app with your bank account in order to send or receive money. To link the app with your bank account you need to click on “Add Bank Account”. It will show you all the available 55 banks from which you have to select your bank name and proceed. Then it will ask you to enter the last six digits of your debit card and card expiry date following which your UPI ID will be generated and will be verified using an OTP. You need to enter a valid card number of your account and register the app using that phone number which is linked to your bank account.
- After this, you can use the app to send or receive money. There is a cash mode in the app and allows you to make payment when the person who you are paying is with you. Just put the phones together, hit the cash button and make the payment.
- There is also a QR code method, which lets you scan a QR code to make the payment. This is very similar to Paytm in which you can send money via QR code.
- You can also send and receive money using the good old IFSC code and bank account number.
- You can also make the payment through the phone number. People who are already using Tez are shown in the app. To make the payment you have to just tap on their phone number and send the payment. Or you can receive it. You can also chat to the person you are paying or getting the payment within the app itself.
Tez is a very light and fluid app. On Android, the size of App is only 7MB and the UI is very clean and minimalistic. There is a feature in which you can send or receive money through your phone without giving your phone number, UPI code or Bank details. And this thing won’t require any special hardware like NFC which we have seen in Android Pay. It uses Ultrasonic sound waves generated via speaker and the receiver can use the inbuilt mic to listen to the sound waves. These sounds are not audible to humans and Google is calling them Audio QR code. This is a very interesting and a unique feature of the App.
Currently, this app is not connected to Android Pay and there is no support for e-Wallets. The Tez app also needs to support credit and debit cards and not just bank accounts. But these are early days of Tez.
Initially, Google has some special offers which include a referral program in which a person can earn Rs. 51 for adding new users to the app. It is also offering rewards to users that can run help users win up to Rs 9000 per year through referrals or they can win up to Rs 1 lakh per week. It is one of the best mobile wallet apps in India.
Install from here | <urn:uuid:7b0417ca-6179-4467-96e0-8acf3b8a1146> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://androidjunglee.com/how-to-use-tez-app.html | 2019-09-20T10:32:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573988.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920092800-20190920114800-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.955587 | 824 |
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