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Whether you are in your first marriage or have remarried after a divorce, blended families are a common part of modern society. That being said, it is important to understand that blended families and subsequent marries create important and unique issues when it comes to estate planning. You may need to account for a prior spouse who is still caring for minor or disabled children, and also possibly make sure your current spouse and any children you had together – and any step children – are also taken care of after you pass away. The good news is that estate planning can take all of these factors into account. This is true whether you are putting together your estate plan for the very first time or if you need to update your current estate plan due to a change in your circumstances.
Setting Up a Trust
It is common for married couples to leave everything to one another in their wills, or list their spouse as the sole beneficiary of any assets that allow for this designation. The result is that if one spouse passes away before the other, the surviving spouse will own all of the assets left behind outright. While this may work for some families, when it comes to blended families this strategy may inadvertently disinherit children or spouses from a prior marriage. One way to provide for a current spouse without leaving out children from a prior marriage is to place some or all of your assets in a trust that the spouse can use during his or her lifetime. Once the spouse dies, all of the property in the trust can go to the children from your current and prior marriage, or to other intended beneficiaries.
Beyond Simple Beneficiary Designation
The plain and simple beneficiary designation on assets (like life insurance, bank and investment accounts, etc.) that allow for outright distribution to the surviving spouse can inadvertently wreak havoc on an estate plan when a blended family is involved. These complications can apply to a couple who has children from prior marriages, someone who remarries late in life, or someone on their second or third marriage and beyond.
For example, you may purchase a large life insurance policy and designate your current spouse as the sole beneficiary and pass away shortly thereafter. Since the beneficiary designation takes precedence over your estate planning documents, the proceeds of the life insurance will not be placed in that trust and will be distributed outright to your current spouse. If you had instead named the trust as beneficiary, you could have determined when and how the funds would be spent for the benefit of your heirs. As an example, the funds could be used to provide support for your surviving spouse during his or her lifetime while also allocating a portion to help your children to pay for college, finance a down payment on a first home, pay for a wedding, or start a business. The key is that the money can be available for your spouse, but not with unfettered control, and still available for your children.
Ensuring Your Wishes Are Followed
While you hope that a surviving spouse with honor your wishes even if they are not in writing, you may accidentally disinherit your children. Instead, a knowledgeable estate planner will use your trust as the centerpiece of your estate plan and make sure to coordinate and align the beneficiaries on your assets so that your intent will become the reality once you have passed away. We can explain all of the options available to you and put together a plan that best suits your family’s needs. | <urn:uuid:c439c257-6d85-4768-9839-825df6c6f9f3> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://yuanlawfirm.com/2018/04/30/beneficiary-designations-and-a-blended-family-why-you-need-to-think-before-you-sign/ | 2018-05-25T14:14:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867094.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525141236-20180525161236-00252.warc.gz | en | 0.96682 | 686 |
Nicki has promised to give out some shady awards on the show.
Nicki Minaj is airing the fourth episode of her new Beats 1 Radio show Queen Radio today at 12PM EST. While the initial episodes focused on Nicki's fourth studio album Queen, Episode 3 found the rapper paying tribute to the late Aretha Franklin, and Episode 4 should have a unique concept as well. According to Nicki, she will be giving out a few awards on the show, including such titles as "Cock Sucka Of The Day," Hoe N**** Of The Week," "Queen Of The Week," and "Secret Hata Of The Year." Minaj also mentioned the shady awards while accepting the trophy for Best Rap Video at the 2018 VMAs Monday night. "Tune in to Queen Radio to see who Cocksucker of the Year is going to,” she said.
The last two weeks has seen a lot of activity from Nicki, releasing the name-dropping "Barbie Dreams" and her fourth studio album Queen, feuding with DJ Self, going back-and-forth with her ex Safaree Samuels over an alleged stabbing and a receding hairline, dismissing critics of her work with 6ix9ine, and accusing Travis Scott of unfairly boosting his album sales to keep her out of a No. 1 spot.
It seems possible that the "awards" she's giving out could be inspired by Nicki being named "Donkey Of The Day" by Charlamagne Tha God on Monday. You'll have to tune in to see if Charlamagne happens to be one of those "honored" on the show. Find the link to the episode above. | <urn:uuid:9d7beba8-400d-4736-b0d5-660db39e814e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://cdn.hotnewhiphop.com/listen-to-nicki-minajs-queen-radio-episode-4-news.57836.html | 2019-07-18T23:51:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525863.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718231656-20190719013656-00534.warc.gz | en | 0.972641 | 349 |
Hardware news tagged Playstation
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Google Develops Game Console, Wrist Watch Powered by Android – Report.
Google to Offer Android-Based Gaming Device, Smartwatch
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Sony Sacrificed Motion-Sensing Camera to Offer Lower Launch Price of PlayStation 4 - Report.
Sony Dropped Motion-Sensing Camera from PS4 Bundle to Beat Microsoft on Price
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sony PlayStation 4 Relies on FreeBSD Operating System – Report.
Sony’s PS4 Uses FreeBSD-Derived Operating System
Friday, June 21, 2013
Sony PlayStation 4 Release Date Gets Announced by Retailer.
Sony PlayStation 4 Due In Mid-November in Europe
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Microsoft “Prepared” to Lower Xbox One Price in 2014 – Analyst.
Opinions About Sales of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Are Mixed
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Sony: We Have No Plans to Cut PlayStation 3 Plans Just Yet.
Sony May Not Cut PS3 Pricing Ahead of PlayStation 4 Launch
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sony Ups PlayStation 4 Internal Shipments Projections.
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Ticks are small parasites that suck the blood of a host -- such as deer, dogs, cats or people -- and can transmit serious diseases, such as Lyme disease, through contact. A tick be picked up by a dog running through tall grass or under trees, and it attaches itself to a host by burying its head in the dog's skin. While killing the tick is not difficult, removing it properly from the dog first is important to the health of the dog.
Prepare a glass jar in which you will kill and store the tick once it is removed from your dog. Select a jar with a screw-top lid. Remove the lid and pour in approximately 1/2 inch of rubbing alcohol.
Put on latex or rubber gloves before attempting to remove the tick. Avoid coming into contact with the tick, as tick-borne disease can be passed to humans, as well.
Separate the dog's fur with your fingers to get a clear view of the tick. Pour a small amount of rubbing alcohol over the bite area, covering the tick. A cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol can also be applied.
Grasp the tick with the tweezers, which should have a fine tip for best results. The mouth of the tick will be buried in the dog's skin, with the body protruding above the mouth. Grab the tick as close to the mouth as possible.
Pull the tick straight up with a steady motion. Do not twist or squeeze as you are removing the tick; this could leave part of the tick in the dog's body or push fluid from the tick's body back into the dog's bloodstream, causing infection.
Drop the tick into the jar holding the rubbing alcohol. Screw the lid on tightly and set the jar aside. The tick will die within a few minutes.
Wash the bite area on the dog with warm water and soap. Apply antiseptic or additional rubbing alcohol to the wound. Wash the tweezers and your hands with soap and water, and sterilize the tweezers with rubbing alcohol before using them again. | <urn:uuid:43ffb481-da0a-4bfd-b154-83db6e8873f1> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.dailypuppy.com/articles/how-to-kill-ticks-on-dogs_1503.html | 2015-05-03T10:50:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1430448949947.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20150501025549-00066-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934407 | 420 |
2534 Mission St. (near 21st Street)
Tel. (415) 648-7600
When visitors want a restaurant that encapsulates the Northern California sensibility, Foreign Cinema is the first place that comes to mind. The food produced by Gayle Pirie and John Clark has a sense of place; it's both rustic and refined, hearty but light. Combinations are interesting and finely crafted, whether it's whipped brandade and potatoes with Thai green chiles; ahi tuna tartare tostadas; or four-peppercorn duck breast with candy cap mushrooms. There's something for everyone: private rooms; a covered dining patio where movies are projected along the back wall; an indoor dining room with brick walls and a large fireplace; and a great bar for cocktails. One room even doubles as an art gallery.
Specialties: Beef carpaccio; oysters on the half shell (up to 20 varieties); house-cured sardines; sesame fried chicken; harissa-spiced pork chop; chocolate pot de creme. Brunch: balsamic basted eggs; fruit "Pop Tarts."
Dinner 5-9:30 p.m. Sun., 6-10 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 6-11:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; Brunch Sat-Sun 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
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The Shared Spaces building is a center in downtown Mankato that is home to numerous nonprofit organizations. Brennan Companies was contracted as the Construction Manager at Risk for Mankato Area Foundation to renovate the existing law firm.
This beautiful project was designed with collaboration in mind. There are various offices, conference rooms and work spaces with space for groups to work together. During the project collaboration was important. With an older building, surprises can happen and plans may no longer be accurate. Field measuring were a must. Minor adjustments were made without the need for change orders. This project came in under budget and money was returned to the Owner. | <urn:uuid:edc54e44-f2dd-4314-9707-a8a4bc50f0e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.bcofmn.com/wp-portfolio/shared-spaces-mankato-area-foundation/ | 2022-09-29T17:30:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335362.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929163117-20220929193117-00085.warc.gz | en | 0.984515 | 127 |
3 Things Waitressing Can Teach Us About Marketing
Waitresses are the face of your restaurant experience from the moment you take a seat. Simple mistakes (like onions on your burger) can ruin the atmosphere of an entire meal, while great service can uplift an evening.
I was a waitress once—albeit a horrible one—and while the job was sweaty and frantic, I learned a plethora of useful information. Here are a few marketing lessons waitressing can teach us...
The secret to great customer service
Marketing campaigns often include a side note: Customer service is key. In fact, customer satisfaction (whether online or in-person) has a huge impact on the success of your marketing strategy and business; on average, U.S. businesses lose $83 billion due to poor customer service.
So why might customer service be so important? The answer is simple: people enjoy it when they are taken care of. Waitressing is not only about delivering on the promise of service, but also showing the customer you care about them personally. That way, if something goes south in the kitchen (and inevitably it does), you have the leverage to smooth out those issues.
The same concept applies across all businesses. Truly caring about your customers means good service, which equals good feelings about the company; this allows more leeway during brand crises or even simple mistakes.
Small details can translate to big things
The other day I saw a waitress forget a man’s order at a restaurant. While she swiftly corrected the mistake, the man looked cross for the rest of the meal. Later, I re-checked the restaurant's reviews and found a history of similar mistakes—all ignored.
The takeaway from this: Address the small things now so they don’t become big problems later. As a business it may be easy to ignore minor problems in the grand marketing scheme, but bad news is amplified through the internet and the media. With social media, small problems can quickly be inflated into big issues.
Deliver what people want, but don’t lose yourself
Waitresses, product innovators, and brand managers all want to please their customers. Usually this attitude is good; if there is an angry customer, you should try your best to fix their problem. However, if a family walks up to your taco stand demanding pancakes and waffles, you must draw the line.
Many companies try to reposition or introduce products and services simply because a minority of their target segment wants them to—or because their competitors started doing it.
Don’t sacrifice your core competencies or brand identity just for the sake of customer approval.
A prime example of a company that stays true to itself is Southwest Airlines. This quirky airline has not changed its service model for 35+ years; they trade luxury air services—such as free continental breakfast and onboard electronic entertainment—for lower prices and efficient, seamless flights.
Southwest has been so successful partially because they refuse to trade their core values (customer service, efficiency, practical pricing) for services their competitors provide. They stick to their guns and do what they do best.
Having summer job flashbacks?
What other marketing lessons from your odd summer job experiences can you think of? Share your stories in the comments below!
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Ginkgo-24 120 mg 120 tabs by Source Naturals
- Ginkgo Biloba Extract
- 24% Flavoneglycosides
- 6% Terpene Lactones
Ginkgo-24 is a standardized concentration of prime quality Ginkgo biloba leaves. The extraction yields 24% ginkgo flavoneglycosides (the key nutrients) from a 50 to 1 concentration. The Ginko biloba tree has survived for over 200 million years, virtually unchanged- the Earth's oldest living species of tree. Ginko biloba is used worldwide as an herbal supplement.
Suggested Use: 1 tablet daily, before or with a meal, or as recommended by your health care professional.
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Other Ingredients: sorbitol, stearic acid, and colloidal silicon dioxide.
Suitable for vegetarians and HYPOALLERGENIC: contains no yeast, dairy, egg, gluten, corn, soy or wheat. Contains no sugar, starch, salt, preservatives or artificial color, flavor, or fragrance.
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No, No, Not Roquefort!
Some midnight regulations need to be rolled back, and quickly:
The quintessential French blue cheese found itself the unlikely focus of a trade war after the Bush administration took punitive action for the European Union’s ban on imports of US hormone-treated beef.
America imposed a 100 per cent import duty on a long list of EU products on Thursday, but singled roquefort out for a 300 per cent tariff.
Producers of what the French hail as the “king of cheeses” for its salty tang and creamy finish are furious at the move. They claimed that the action was a parting shot by a Bush administration still piqued by France’s opposition to the Iraq war and that President George W Bush had taken his final revenge against a nation once maligned by Americans as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”.
“Roquefort is a French symbol and we’re paying for its fame,” said Robert Glandieres, president of producers of the cheese, which is made in the Midi-Pyrenees region from sheep’s milk according to a 1,000-year-old tradition.
But don’t worry, in this economy Obama’s going to provide us with all the government cheese we can eat! | <urn:uuid:1193891c-9fdc-472c-bc82-712a4a4ed664> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/22/no-no-not-roquefort/ | 2015-11-25T14:17:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398445208.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205405-00080-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953437 | 280 |
Little Brother is done. LeftBack is their last album. In all honesty, it's not like we haven't seen this coming. Once 9th Wonder left the group, they lost a big part of their marketability and chemistry. GetBack was a great album in its own right, but it just wasn't the same group took underground hip hop by storm with every album and mixtape. They lost a lot of the chemistry that made them so successful in the first place. LeftBack has exactly the same problem: Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh are as good as ever, but their music just isn't that unique anymore.
"Good beats, good rhymes, what more do ya'll want?" Phonte wrote that back in 2007, and it's just as true today - Little Brother cranks out quality music, and there's not much to complain about. Once the beat starts, it's the same formula - Phonte spits some of the best, most clever verses in hip hop, and Big Pooh supports with a louder, blunter style. And as always, it works great.
The beats part of the equation is more of a mixed bag. There are three types of beats here: cheap 9th Wonder knockoffs, R&B wannabe cuts, and the greatness of "24" (more on that later). After opening on a terrible note in "Curtain Call," the production is solid, but completely unextraordinary. The first half of the album is sounds like it was left off The Minstrel Show, and the second half's R&B cuts are both basic and unexciting. They function just well enough to stay out of the way, which is OK when the rappers are this good, but not good enough to make great music.
"24" is the one exception. Khrysis drops a fast, drum pounding beat that sounds like he pulled it straight from 1993. That's a compliment - it's boom bap at it's finest, and that's not even the highlight. Torae joins in the fun, and all three of them are on fire. Phonte takes the cake with his verse (spit a couple of verse, make niggas get up like, "what the fuck is my purpose"?), but they're all at their best. It's a throwback to when Little Brother was a hungrier, edgier group.
The rest of LeftBack sees Phonte getting by on sheer talent. He's easily one of the most clever rappers ever ("If you can't feel this, you sniffin' that Lohan, I'm smokin' that Winehouse"), but he seems more world-weary here than ever. On his solo cut, "Tigallo for Dolo," Phonte raps that he doesn't listen to rap anymore, misses his old rapping style, and doesn't want to keep doing this for much longer. It's a sobering track, to be sure, but LeftBack is a sobering album.
On the other hand, Rapper Big Pooh has one of his best performances. He's always been the whipping boy for Little Brother fans, but if he wasn't rapping next to somebody as loquacious as Phonte, he wouldn't look as bad. With Phonte turning in an underwhelming performance, Pooh shines more than ever. He actually its better with the dry, thumping production in LeftBack, and it shows in his rhymes and cadence, which are both as tight as they've ever been. He's gotten better with every release, and it's fun to see him really hit his stride here.
LeftBack wouldn't be a disappointment if it weren't their last album. But for a group as good as Little Brother, it's disappointing to see them disappear with a relatve wimper. GetBack was one of their best albums, but LeftBack just sounds like tracks that got left off their other albums. It even has two remixes of their old sounds that are basically word-for-word remakes. It's a solid album, but nowhere near as good as it should be.
Music: 12/20 Lyrics: 12/15 Creativity: 5/10
Overall: 3.1 out of 5
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M-Glory is a group of New York City musicians who came together in the interest of making music fun for themselves again. With roots deep in the politi-kil punk scene of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, MG’s lyrical content never strays far from the things they see as axiom, tho it tends to be more personal than other bands and projects they’ve been in over the years.
DEAD CITY RIOT
Dead City Riot is a Punk band from Connecticut influenced by all types of Punk from Hardcore to Ska.
Evil Empire is an eight piece political ska band from the Chicago suburbs. Fuck all inequalities, smash imperialism, keep it real, have fun. That’s our stance. Teach yourself.
Hailing from the Chicago area, Rule 22 is a ska-punk trio. They’ve brewed a style that sounds like a riot in a church with more hooks than a fisherman. Their lyrics spit fire about religion, politics, joy and strife. | <urn:uuid:a2f9c1a4-56e7-4f5d-b2e9-8911eb2392bb> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.reggieslive.com/show/morning-glory/ | 2015-07-29T04:48:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042986022.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002306-00309-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920532 | 208 |
There’s no indication that the Tigers actually want Jimmy Rollins to fill in their now-wide-open shortstop position. But as CSNPhilly.com’s Jim Salisbury reports, a lot of scouts were speculating about such a thing, so Salisbury asked Rollins how he’d feel about it. Keeping in mine that Rollins, as a 10-and-5 guy, has full no-trade protection:
If the Tigers call the Phillies, the conversation won’t last long. As a veteran of 10 years in the major leagues and five with the same club, Rollins has full no-trade rights. He reiterated Sunday that he would not waive his no-trade rights any time soon.
With 2,175 career hits, Rollins is 60 shy of overtaking Mike Schmidt as the Phillies’ all-time leader.
He can’t get that record in another team’s uniform.
“There’s only 30 guys that are their team’s leader in hits,” Rollins said Sunday. “It’s a pretty high honor.”
With the caveat that Rollins’ earned his right to not be traded and doesn’t have to give a reason for not wanting to be traded, it is curious that he publicly offers an individual record is his first reason for not being open to a trade. Last I checked the Crash Davis School of Media Relations tells guys to mention the ballclub first. But then again, Rollins has always been his own man.
For the record, Rollins did say that if the Phillies were “in absolutely last place with nowhere to go” that he’d rethink.
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The other day, I wrote a chapter in which the words did not come easily. It was a first draft, and full of suckage. I had posted about this suckage on Facebook, but added this: “On the plus side, I wrote today.” It was worth celebrating.
A couple of days later, I wrote another chapter that I felt much better about, and celebrated that as well.
Suckage is part of the process. So is self-doubt. I don’t know any writer that doesn’t struggle with either at some stage of writing, be it a novel, essay, screenplay, you name it. Of course I’d like the words to flow easily and effortlessly all the time. But when it doesn’t, I take comfort knowing I can keep working on it until it’s as best as I can make it.
When my husband or I finish a first draft of a novel, we celebrate. Yes, there’s more work to be done, but hey, he wrote a novel! I wrote a novel! As writers, we created this thing from a thought, an idea, an inspiration, and manifested it in words. And now we each get to shape it, refine it, make it even better. The revision process is something we each look forward to.
A couple of weeks earlier, I came across a post by a writer who had also completed a first draft of a novel. To protect this person’s identity, I will use the non-descriptive “them,” “they,” or their” (even though it’s a singular person) and not use any direct quote. Instead, I will share some of the words they used in their post:
Overall, the post suggested that the accomplishment of writing a novel wasn’t as much an accomplishment as it was torturous experience.
I don’t mean to criticize or be judgmental of this author. Rather, I’m perplexed by the contrast of experience between them and me. Why is it that for some writers, the act is anything but joyful, a slog and a crapshoot and a burden of suffering, while for others, myself included, the process, even when arduous, is something to be celebrated? I couldn’t be a full-time writer if I didn’t enjoy it so much. And I believe I would be doing my readers a disservice if I brought such an attitude to the writing day in and day out.
I wonder if the former is the result of the mentality (and the myth) that artists must suffer for their art. In his book Real Artists Don’t Starve, Jeff Goins dispels the myth that a writer, painter, musician, or any artist must suffer for his/her art, or that artists can’t make a living from their art. Moreover, while they’re actively working on making money from their art, artists can see “the day job” as a supporter of their art as opposed to an inhibitor of it (that last concept was an eye-opener to me!).
What is the payoff for the suffering that I saw in that writer’s post, evidenced by their word choice? Are they martyrs to their craft? Does it elicit some kind of reverence from laypeople who might find the writing process elusive, even romantic? I don’t mean to suggest that they are intentionally manipulating their readers for this response. Just a bit of amateur armchair psychology on my part. I’m always interested in what’s behind the behavior.
Or maybe they truly are suffering.
In his 2001 speech at The Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, Ray Bradbury said:
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you’re writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.
I admit I’m an eternal optimist and an idealist. I have written several blog posts about how important it is for me to love what I do and do what I love, and to make a sustainable living doing so, be it writing or any other profession. I’ve even reached the point where I’m not clinging for dear life to that outcome. I also cop to wishing I could bottle my enthusiasm—whether it’s for writing, Duran Duran, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, or a beautiful fall getaway with my husband, to name a few—and giving it to everyone I know (and don’t know!). Who wouldn’t want to feel this good all the time?
I also don’t mean to be glib or naïve with this subject. Some artists, writers, etc. are making art as a means of expressing their pain, be it from depression, trauma, or injustice. I respect and honor that, and know that such conditions aren’t simply cured by “think happy thoughts.” However, generally speaking, if anyone is going to spend most of their waking moments at work, I just can’t see any other means of getting through it other than joyfully. In this context, joy isn’t necessarily synonymous with feel-good, happy-go-lucky. Writing can definitely be difficult. Stressful. Doubt-inducing. It can leave the writer vulnerable to criticism and pressure. But before, after, and even during those things, there can also be accomplishment. Celebration. Satisfaction.
I’ve never heard my husband refer to his novels as meeting his standards of quality. I have heard him, however, say he was proud of every novel he wrote, regardless of how it sold. He wrote the stories he wanted to tell, he told them to the best of his ability, and loved what he wrote.
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This is the very first card I made when I got my January Design Team kit from Verve...I love this card. I had just gotten the large star punch from Stampin Up, and I wanted to see how it fit with the stars in the sets so I could tell all you lovely people!
I love this Crate paper that Julee sent...I just love the texture of it. I really love patterned paper (who doesn't), but I especially enjoy patterned paper that is watercolor texture. It makes me happy.
See how the star is layered with just a tiny mat? It was so super easy! I punched the striped star out of the Crate paper with the Large Star Punch from SU. The Chocolate Chip piece behind it is actually the largest star from Polka Stars. I cut it out (by hand but it was easy) and found that it was a perfect 1/16" mat for the punched star. Cool huh? Then I made it a button by punching 2 little holes and tying a ribbon through.
I loved that this card turned out rather gender neutral. Wouldn't it make such a fabulous graduation card? I thought so anyway. *grin*
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Nov. 1 — A moral from the new federal partnership audit regime is that states shouldn’t fast-track legislation conforming to the new rules.
During a Nov. 1 teleconference, the Multistate Tax Commission’s partnership work group received feedback to a memorandum prepared by MTC staff, underscoring state-related issues arising from the federal rules signed into law November 2015 through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (Pub. L. No. 114-74). The MTC memorandum highlighted proposed revisions and recommendations provided by members of a task force of the ABA tax section’s State and Local Tax Committee and an American Institute of CPAs work group, which have partnered on a project addressing state implications from the federal law.
In a Sept. 15 memorandum discussed during the MTC work group’s inaugural Sept. 27 teleconference, the American Bar Association Section of Taxation task force generally urged state conformity and advocated a model revenue agent report (RAR) statute.
Jonathan Horn, senior technical manager of tax policy and advocacy with the AICPA, said that while states should start considering their response to the federal regime, there is no urgency. Assuming no early opt-in—with 2017 probably being the earliest opt-in period for most partnerships—states likely won’t see audits completed under the new rules until 2020.
“There’s no need, and in fact it could be harmful, to try to rush through legislation at this point, until we know what some of the rules are,” he said.
According to Horn, Treasury guidance isn’t expected until the end of this year at the earliest, or more likely in January. Those regulations will only be proposed at that time, with Jan. 1, 2018, as the federal target for final regulations following a promulgation process expected to include public comments and hearings.
Members of the ABA task force and the AICPA work group are meeting Nov. 16 with Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service representatives to discuss issues and recommendations relating to the rules.
There is also the possibility of Congress passing a technical corrections bill as part of a year-end extenders package or omnibus deal.
As the rules are fleshed out at the federal level, Horn cautioned states that legislation pushed through now will likely call for subsequent changes.
“I think it’s better if we get it right from the start,” he said, adding that “unfortunately, we’re seeing at the federal level where they didn’t get it right from the start,” which is creating implementation problems for Treasury and the IRS.
Bruce P. Ely, partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and co-chairman of the ABA tax section task force, is collaborating on a draft RAR statute that starts with the MTC’s model statute. He said that a blacklined copy of the MTC model language—which may also include input from white papers prepared by the Council On State Taxation and Tax Executives Institute Inc.—likely will be circulated in the next month.
However, the ABA task force reiterated its request for the MTC to take the lead in developing a model RAR statute.
MTC Counsel Helen Hecht noted that a uniform RAR statute would expand the scope of the MTC partnership project. Accordingly, she suggested the ABA task force reach out to Wood Miller and Holly Coon—chair and vice chair of the MTC’s Uniformity Committee—to solicit their thoughts on a uniform statute. She also noted that the MTC’s December committee meetings might afford the opportunity for task force members to address the full Uniformity Committee.
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Discover the ins and outs of EHR/EMR (Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records) with our comprehensive guide.
An electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) is a digital version of a patient's medical history, which includes all relevant information about their healthcare journey. EHRs and EMRs are comprehensive systems that streamline and improve healthcare management and delivery.
Understanding the Basics of EHR/EMR
Defining EHR and EMR
Before exploring the intricacies of EHRs and EMRs, it's essential to understand the difference between the two terms. An electronic health record (EHR) refers to a digital record of a patient's medical history, created and managed by healthcare professionals. It encompasses a wide range of information, including medical diagnoses, treatment plans, medications, allergies, immunization records, laboratory results, and more. On the other hand, an electronic medical record (EMR) focuses specifically on the patient's medical data within a single healthcare organization or practice.
Imagine a scenario where a patient visits a primary care physician for a routine check-up. The physician, armed with an EHR system, can quickly access the patient's complete medical history. This includes previous diagnoses, medications prescribed, and any allergies or adverse reactions. This overview allows the physician to make informed decisions regarding the patient's current health status and develop a treatment plan.
Now, let's consider the same scenario but with an EMR system in place. The primary care physician, limited to the patient's medical data within their organization, may not have access to crucial information from other healthcare providers. This restricted view can hinder the physician's ability to provide the best possible care.
The Importance of Electronic Health Records
EHRs play a vital role in modern healthcare. By providing a comprehensive overview of a patient's medical history, EHRs enable healthcare providers to make informed decisions, enhance coordination and continuity of care, reduce medical errors, and improve overall patient outcomes. Additionally, EHRs facilitate secure and efficient sharing of patient information across healthcare settings. This ensures that key healthcare professionals have access to the most up-to-date data when needed.
Let's explore some of the key benefits of EHRs in more detail:
1. Improved Decision-Making: With access to a patient's complete medical history, healthcare providers can make more informed decisions regarding diagnosis, treatment plans, and preventive measures. This comprehensive view allows for a more holistic approach to patient care.
2. Enhanced Coordination and Continuity of Care: EHRs enable seamless communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals involved in a patient's care. This coordination ensures that all providers are on the same page, leading to better continuity of care and improved patient outcomes.
3. Reduced Medical Errors: EHRs provide built-in checks and balances, such as alerts for potential drug interactions or allergies, reducing the risk of medication errors and adverse events. Additionally, legibility issues commonly associated with handwritten medical records are eliminated, further minimizing errors.
4. Efficient Access to Information: EHRs allow healthcare providers to access patient information quickly and securely, eliminating the need for manual retrieval of paper records. This streamlined access saves time and enables providers to focus more on patient care.
5. Improved Patient Engagement: EHRs can empower patients by giving them access to their own health information. Patients can review their medical records, track their progress, and actively participate in their healthcare decisions, leading to increased engagement and better health outcomes.
Differentiating Between EHR and EMR
While the terms EHR and EMR are often used interchangeably, it's important to note their distinct characteristics. EMRs are limited to a specific healthcare organization or practice, and they generally contain clinical information such as test results, medications prescribed, and treatment history. On the other hand, EHRs are designed to encompass a broader scope of health information and are intended to be accessible across different healthcare providers. EHRs offer a more comprehensive view of a patient's health, incorporating data from multiple sources for a holistic understanding of their medical history.
Let's delve deeper into the differences between EHRs and EMRs:
EMRs primarily focus on clinical data within a specific healthcare organization or practice. They contain information related to diagnoses, treatments, medications, and other clinical aspects. EHRs encompass a broader range of health information. This includes clinical data as well as patient demographics, medical history, social determinants of health, and more.
EMRs are typically accessible only within the healthcare organization or practice that created them. This limited accessibility can be a barrier to seamless care coordination, especially when patients receive treatment from multiple providers. In contrast, EHRs are designed to be interoperable, allowing healthcare professionals from different organizations to access and share patient information securely.
Continuity of Care
Due to their limited scope, EMRs may not provide a complete view of a patient's health history. This lack of continuity can lead to fragmented care and potential gaps in treatment. EHRs, with their ability to aggregate data from various sources, enable healthcare providers to have a comprehensive understanding of a patient's health, promoting continuity of care across different settings.
EMRs primarily capture data from a single episode of care or encounter. They are focused on documenting the immediate clinical information relevant to that specific visit. EHRs, on the other hand, provide a longitudinal view of a patient's health, allowing healthcare providers to track changes over time and identify patterns or trends that may impact their care decisions.
In summary, while EMRs serve as valuable tools within specific healthcare organizations, EHRs offer a more comprehensive and interconnected approach to managing patient health information. The adoption and effective utilization of EHRs have the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery, leading to improved patient outcomes and a more efficient healthcare system as a whole.
The Evolution of Electronic Health Records
The Transition from Paper to Digital
In the past, healthcare records were primarily stored on paper, occupying vast storage spaces and making information retrieval laborious and time-consuming. With advances in technology, the healthcare industry started transitioning to electronic records, resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility. The adoption of electronic health records has revolutionized healthcare delivery. They make it easier for healthcare providers to access and share patient information securely and efficiently.
Milestones in EHR/EMR Development
The development and evolution of EHRs and EMRs have been marked by significant milestones. From the early days of basic digital record-keeping to today's sophisticated and interconnected systems, numerous advancements have propelled EHRs forward. These milestones include the introduction of standardized coding systems, the implementation of interoperability standards, and the integration of clinical decision support tools to assist healthcare professionals in making informed decisions.
Key Features of EHR/EMR Systems
Patient Data Management
One of the primary features of EHR/EMR systems is the effective management of patient data. These systems enable healthcare providers to capture, store, update, and retrieve patient information seamlessly. With EHR/EMR systems, healthcare professionals can access detailed medical histories, view test results, track medication usage, and monitor treatment plans, all in one centralized location. This ease of data management enhances efficiency and ensures accurate and timely healthcare delivery.
Clinical Decision Support
EHR/EMR systems incorporate clinical decision support tools that aid healthcare providers in making evidence-based decisions. These tools can analyze patient data, flag potential risks, suggest appropriate treatments, and provide alerts for allergies or drug interactions. By leveraging these features, healthcare professionals can optimize patient care, reduce errors, and improve patient outcomes.
Interoperability and Data Sharing
Interoperability is a critical feature of modern EHR/EMR systems. These systems allow for seamless sharing of patient data across different healthcare organizations. This ensures that crucial information is accessible to healthcare providers when and where it is needed. Interoperability eliminates the need for manual data entry, reduces duplication, and enhances care coordination between various healthcare professionals involved in a patient's treatment.
Benefits of Using EHR/EMR
Improving Patient Care
The adoption of EHR/EMR systems has resulted in significant improvements in patient care. With instant access to comprehensive patient records, healthcare providers can make more accurate diagnoses, develop personalized treatment plans, and monitor patient progress more effectively. EHR/EMR systems also enhance communication among healthcare professionals, ensuring seamless care transitions and reducing medical errors.
Enhancing Healthcare Efficiency
EHR/EMR systems streamline healthcare processes, leading to improved efficiency. The automation of routine tasks, such as appointment scheduling, prescription renewals, and billing, reduces administrative burden and allows healthcare providers to focus more on patient care. Additionally, the digitization of medical records eliminates the need for physical storage, reducing the costs associated with record-keeping.
Facilitating Medical Research and Data Analysis
EHR/EMR systems provide a wealth of data that can be utilized for medical research and data analysis purposes. Researchers can access de-identified patient data (with appropriate consent) to identify trends, study disease patterns, and develop new treatment approaches. The availability of data collected through EHR/EMR systems contributes to advancements in healthcare knowledge, ultimately leading to improved patient outcomes.
In conclusion, electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) have transformed the healthcare landscape, revolutionizing the way patient information is captured, stored, and shared. EHRs offer a comprehensive view of a patient's medical history, while EMRs focus on data within a specific healthcare practice. The evolution of EHR/EMR systems has led to improved patient care, enhanced healthcare efficiency, and facilitated medical research. As technology continues to advance, EHRs and EMRs will continue to play a crucial role in delivering high-quality healthcare.
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A brand new form of the free player Evil Player was circulated. This player features an easy to use user interface in addition to lack of any “bells and whistles”. The appearance of the program is provided in the form of a window where the tracks that’ll be played are registered. The tune this is certainly becoming played is highlighted in bold. Playback controls are not provided as buttons, as is usually the case, but are hidden when you look at the framework menu that opens when you right-click in the screen. In the same way, you have access to the Evil Player options. The ball player window is made transparent such that it does not interfere with the primary work. This program aids many program languages, including Russian.
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Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday
By Anthony Tommasini
July 3, 2018
KATONAH, N.Y. — Sunday afternoon was steamy, with temperatures in the 90s and thick humidity. But that didn’t deter 60 intrepid percussionists and about 700 curious music lovers from attending a free performance of John Luther Adams’s outdoor work “Inuksuit” at Caramoor, the summer music festival here.
Mr. Adams, who lived for years in Alaska, has written that “Inuksuit” was inspired by the stone sentinels constructed over centuries by the Inuit indigenous people of the Arctic. The music is haunted by visions of melting polar ice.
There is no master score for the 60-minute piece, which can be performed by up to 99 percussionists on whatever instruments are available. Instead, the players draw from a collection of musical materials to create their own realization. The result depends crucially on the character of the site where it is performed. (Earlier this year, a performance took place on both sides of the fence separating San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico.)
Over the weekend, as the musicians rehearsed, they started mordantly referring to “Inuksuit” as “Inuksweat.” Both players and listeners did plenty of sweating on Sunday. But everyone seemed too involved to care.
Doug Perkins, a percussionist who directed the performance, decided more or less where the players would be placed: standing on patches of lawn in the sun or under trees in the shade, kneeling on mulch-filled paths in the woods or hovering over drum sets within the Sunken Garden. The piece began with all the musicians gathered in a group for a period of meditation.
Then, quietly at first, individual performers started blowing through conches, twirling plastic tubes and shaking boxes of tinkling bells to produce an array of drones and whistles, some of them evocative of bird calls. (Mr. Adams is an avid birder.) Slowly, the musicians moved to various sets of drums, gongs, cymbals and more, placed here and there, and began playing. Delicate, halting riffs grew into nervous bursts and, before long, pounding rhythms.
The audience was invited to stroll around close to the players, creating their own individual experiences of the music. Many of the small children in attendance, including Lily, a 2-year-old who had come with me, seemed at once riveted and a bit scared by the pounding rhythms. One little boy standing next to a percussionist flailing away at drums reacted by smiling and dancing.
For me, the music was richest when I stood in one place for a while and let sounds from distant players mingle with nearby flourishes. As the end approached, the music settled down and thinned out, until there seemed to be only tinkling chimes, like the actual bird calls that had been part of the music all along.
On Saturday evening, Caramoor presented a more traditional event: a splendid concert by the festival’s resident Orchestra of St. Luke’s in the open-air Venetian Theater. The conductor Ludovic Morlot, departing next year as the music director of the thriving Seattle Symphony, began with a bracing account of Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians.” Then Benjamin Beilman was the soloist in an exciting performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Playing with rich sound and plenty of brilliance, Mr. Beilman conveyed both dreamy lyricism and heated intensity.
The New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Evidence” revealed an elusive yet engrossing orchestral piece. The 20-minute work is layered with shape-shifting elements: droning low sonorities; restlessly oscillating figures; sonic masses that come in and out of focus; blocks of chords that heave and sway; and, in one surprising turn, a beguiling melodic episode that yearns to settle in but never quite does. For all the contrasts, the piece holds together with unfailing dramatic purpose.
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Starting 1 June 2020, users with a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app on their phones will be able to ‘withdraw’ cash from merchant shops. Retail payments organization National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has allowed cash withdrawals at merchant shops via UPI.
Essentially, any user in need of cash can approach a nearby shop offering this facility and collect cash from the merchant by sending him the amount via UPI. This service is similar to the existing facility of cash withdrawal at point of sale (POS) terminals enabled for debit and credit cards.
In line with the cash-at-POS facility, cash withdrawal through UPI has a daily limit of up to INR 1,000 in tier 1 and tier 2 centres and up to INR 2,000 in tier 3 and tier 4 centres, the notification stated. It further said that only three transactions will be permitted per account per payee UPI ID but doesn’t specify if the limit is daily, weekly or monthly.
Charges for Cash Withdrawal via UPI
Customer Convenience Fee
Up to 1% of transaction value; capped at INR 10
0.5% of transactional value
As per current P2P charges
Source: NPCI. *PSP - payment service provider
This notification comes about two months after digital financial services startup PhonePe launched a similar cash withdrawal ATM service. As per its guidelines, no charges are to be levied on customers as well merchants for availing the facility and there is no limit on number of free withdrawals. Entrepreneur India wrote to PhonePe to seek a clarification on whether the new guidelines laid out by NPCI will replace its own, but did not get a reply till the time of filing the story.
This facility is available to all customers irrespective of whether they make a purchase at the merchant or not. With a daily cap of a meager INR 1,000, it will be useful to users mainly for emergencies. However, the service definitely helps to extend access to easy available cash at a time when the number of ATMs in the country has been declining, as per data from the Reserve Bank of India.
Commenting on the service’s benefit for merchants, Vivek Lohcheb, head-offline business development, PhonePe had said earlier, “The feature helps merchants avoid the hassle of storing cash and making multiple trips to the bank branch to deposit their extra cash.” | <urn:uuid:1916583f-7d01-4b8e-9d5c-c3597d8b85ed> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347843 | 2020-10-28T18:18:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107900200.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028162226-20201028192226-00486.warc.gz | en | 0.922876 | 545 |
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Georgia's rebel TV station loses property
“On January 22, the Prosecutor General's office applied to the court, requesting that Badri Patarkatsishvili's property, including Imedi TV be frozen. The court satisfied the request,” said Dmitry Tikaradze, Tbilisi’s City Court press officer.
Patarkatsishvili, who is said to be the word's richest Georgian, is wanted for plotting acts of terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government.
The London-based tycoon was charged in absentia after recordings were released where the businessman talks of plans to stage unrest, and offers $US 100 million to secure the help of a senior interior ministry employee.
The frozen assets include troubled TV station Imedi. Imedi was raided and closed by the authorities following a day of clashes between police and demonstrators on November 7.
Though the channel re-opened in December, many top journalists and other staff left the channel following news of the alleged coup plot.
Staff at the channel say they will start working again, if Patarkatsishvili sells his share to multinational News Corporation, which currently manages the channel. However, the court's decision to freeze the shares makes any transfer of ownership impossible.
Despite the court's decision, the headquarters of Imedi are still open, and staff are still working in preparation for resuming broadcasts.
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Mozilla has laid in to Apple’s notoriously stringent App Store restrictions and blamed them for the complete absence of a Firefox app for any of the company’s popular iOS devices.
Related: Mozilla retires Firefox Home iOS app
Jonathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox at Mozilla, explained to TrustedReviews that the company has never been able to bring its browser to the OS due to Apple’s restrictions being too much of a hindrance on its technology
“You don’t see us on iOS right now because every time we look at that platform we say we can’t bring meaningful choice. The rules of the iOS store say we’re not allowed to bring our technology,” Jonathan Nightingale, Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox said.
Mozilla’s only real attempt at gaining traction on iOS came in the form of the Firefox Home app that was launched back in July 2010, which gave users access to various elements of the Firefox desktop browser. This allowed Firefox users to access browser history, bookmarks and settings but was eventually canned in September 2012.
Despite never releasing a specific browser app for iOS, Firefox has enjoyed success with its Android app and the company explained that it would continue to support this despite the fact its Firefox OS continues to become more and more popular.
“For us, we look at the entire spectrum of where does the internet exist, where can we bring our values and meaningful user choice to people – that’s where you see us,” Nightingale said. “Firefox for Android really reaches users who are in markets that have high power devices and what they want is the Firefox they know and love.”
When it comes to iOS, though, Firefox doesn’t look like changing its mind until Apple treats third-party browsers like first class citizens and Mozilla will instead focus on its Firefox OS.
“I’m confident I could get the Firefox icon into an iOS device but I think that’s about where it would end. It would be somebody else’s rendering engine, somebody else’s Java script,” Nightingale added. | <urn:uuid:92a7b5d0-b3e5-4df2-8df3-aee7a61b1366> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.itproportal.com/2014/03/11/mozilla-app-store-restrictions-dont-allow-us-bring-meaningful-choice-ios/ | 2018-03-20T04:14:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647280.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320033158-20180320053158-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.944454 | 453 |
Well, it's only another three sleeps until Christmas Day, and following a busy week of a concert rehearsal, a concert itself, a meeting and a Christmas meal/theatre trip, then a week of not really doing much other than watching Christmas DVDs and continuing to make a scrapbook, the Christmas week, although less busy than two weeks ago, is starting to fill up with things to do. Yesterday was the church Nativity production, I'm going out carol-singing on Christmas Eve, and then there's the church service on Christmas Day. The recipe for today is a vegan-friendly Christmassy gingerbread ice cream, inspired by this vanilla ice cream recipe from The Rawtarian and Ally Sheehan's banana and blueberry ice cream recipe. It only needs three ingredients (plus toppings) and a blender, and is rather easy to make, so even if you can't really cook, this is one dessert you can make this Christmas. And on that note, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
2 teaspoons ground ginger
- Cut bananas into slices and freeze in a Ziploc or freezer bag for a few hours or overnight.
- Put the bananas into a high-speed blender and pulse until it reaches a smooth, ice-creamy texture.
- Before you finish blending, add 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence and 2 teaspoons of ground ginger. Blend the mixture for a bit longer.
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Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitrov was among the NFL representatives who left Clemson’s Memorial Stadium impressed by Da’Quan Bowers’ pro day workout today.
“He’s got the talent to be a legit impact player in this league,” Dimitrov said.
Bowers, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus on Jan. 4, said his goal was to convince pro scouts that he has recovered enough to remain a high first-round draft pick.
“The last game I played here, I lost,” Bowers said. “Today I won.”
Bowers, an All-American who led the nation in sacks last season, was projected as high as the No. 1 overall pick late last year, but his stock apparently slipped somewhat due to concerns about the health of his right knee, which he injured in last year’s ninth game against N.C. State.
“I’m not concerned about his knee, no,” Dimitrov said.
Dimitrov also said that Bowers’ versatility – specifically his ability to play in either a 4-3 or 3-4 defense – will keep him among the mostly highly sought players in this year’s draft.
“Everyone’s interested in him,” Dimitrov said. “Versatility along the front is key for being drafted high.”
Dimitrov, along with five other Falcons representatives, were among a 41 scouts, coaches or general managers on hand for Bowers’ workout.
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Where they are How many AC 7.535 (Funasa, 2010) Peru 2.419 (INEI, 2007)
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The Kaxinawá live on the Brazilian-Peruvian border in Western Amazonia. The Kaxinawá villages in Peru are located on the Purus and Curanja rivers. The villages in Brazil (in the state of Acre) are spread along the Tarauacá, Jordão, Breu, Muru, Envira, Humaitá and Purus rivers.
I conducted fieldwork in the Cana Recreio, Moema and Nova Aliança villages on the Purus river, near to the border with Peru. The Peruvian and Brazilian Kaxinawá were separated at the beginning of the 20th century when a group that had been gathered at a seringal (rubber extraction area) on the Envira river relocated to the headwaters of the Purus river, in Peruvian territory, after a revolt against the rubber boss (McCallum, 1989a: 57-58; Aquino, 1977; Montag, 1998). The groups coming from Peru converged with the Brazilian Kaxinawá through marriage, though even today differences in the lifestyle of the two groups can be observed.
Some Kaxinawá groups migrated from the Envira river, where they had been engaged in rubber extraction work, to the Purus. Most of these Envira Kaxinawá settled in Fronteira village and in various nearby settlements. Over the last two decades, the migratory movement has continued with other Kaxinawá arriving from Peru and from the Envira and Jordão rivers settling in villages along the Purus.
In the Alto Purus Indigenous Territory, the Kaxinawá also live alongside their traditional neighbours, the Kulina, for whom this reserve was originally created. | <urn:uuid:2fc718d4-ba16-4fa3-9ff9-8525ba89882d> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/kaxinawa/394 | 2014-10-30T18:10:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414637898644.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20141030025818-00125-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.789761 | 643 |
Anti-government demonstrations in Bulgaria, revolution in Ukraine and now the uprising in Bosnia – Nikolay Nikolov looks at the common trends across the Eastern European unrest and examines the critical juncture of these facade democracies.
Some time ago now (1991), Samuel Huntington published The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. The idea is that democracy spreads around the world from its core countries in Europe and the US, where developed over a long period of time, eventually extending to the peripheries, which experienced quick transitions from various forms of non-democratic regimes to ranging paths of democratization. Post-communist countries were the third-wave final push with their unseen before dual transitions to a market economy and initiation of democratic processes. The Arab Spring and the easing of the Myanmar dictatorship tickled some to consider the rise of a potential Fourth Wave.
But back in 2002, Michael McFaul sealed the term ‘Fourth Wave’ in a World Politics journal article called ‘The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship’. And dictatorship. This is really important. In fact, scholars of democratization like Larry Diamond, Guillermo O’Donnell, Ivan Krastev, Andreas Schedler, to name but a few, have been arguing for a very long time that to speak of waves, of linear progress to democracy and consolidation is empirically and theoretically false. What we see in Eastern Europe, for example, are façade democracy, suspended political authority, lack of civic engagement, media manipulation, questionable (post)Cold-War geopolitical relations – in a word – hybrid regimes, to use Diamond’s term.
Bulgaria, Ukraine, and now Bosnia and Kosovo. A clear path from peaceful protests to chaos and bloodshed. In Europe. Twenty-four (or so) years after the end of the various forms of totalitarianism.
At certain moments, all these nations showed signs of ending their democratic standstill. In Bulgaria, it was the ‘region’s most hailed’ reform period from 1997-2001; in Ukraine, it was the Colored Revolution; for Kosovo and Bosnia – the situation is more complex. But one thing is for certain now, according to Anne Applebaum, the ‘colored revolution’ model is dead: i.e. “the belief that peaceful demonstrators, aided by a bit of Western media training, will eventually rise up and nonviolently overthrow the corrupt oligarchies that have run most of the post-Soviet orbit since 1991.”
The sense of shock and disbelief at what happened in Kiev over the past months has spread to Bosnia and Kosovo last week.
Bosnia is ablaze since Tuesday, when violence erupted in the northern town of Tuzla, a former industrial town, after 10,000 workers were laid off. Their factory was privatized – its investors sold its assets and declared bankruptcy. This, as it seems, was the final straw to an arrogant oligarchic model visible in many post-communist countries. Since then, the protests have spread to more than 20 cities and at least 300 people have been injured. Yesterday, when the municipality building was set on fire, police-officers in Tuzla took their helmets off and joined the protests claiming they “could not hurt the kids”.
Today is a day of clearing the rubble. But it seems that a breaking point has been reached as the monument of the burnt architecture of all that which resembles the ‘corrupt and unaccountable State’ remains.
“We haven’t seen violent scenes like this since the war in the 1990s,” says Srecko Latal, an analyst at the Social Overview Service, for the New York Times. Why now? Why not 6 months ago; why not one year ago? These are question that were directed at the protests in Bulgaria, which reached their largest numbers in the summer. Clearly, the situation is so dire that either nothing or anything could trigger public outrage. In Bulgaria, it was the atrocious appointment of corruption-linked and manipulative- mass-media owner Delyan Peevski, that really did it. It seems that in Bosnia – it is the factory closure in Tuzla that has done it.
Over the past years, the country has suffered one crisis after another – political instability have reduced its chances of joining the EU, ethnic divisions are crippling the functioning of democratic institutions, economic hardship has been sustained by a powerful (un)official oligarchic model. Around 30% are unemployed. Many do not have the time or the energy to sustain a peaceful protest and endure a slow, cultural progres towards a functioning democracy and economy.
Of course violence cannot be the answer. It’s destructive. But desperation clearly takes precedence over dialogue in this case. As one student from Tuzla, Lyla Bernstein, told me today: violence is not the answer but ”just the product of collected rage” gathered over the past twenty years. It’s simple – for the people protesting, the assumption of patience is nonexistent. And it is understandable. There is a level of tolerance that is, as has been shown over and over again in the 20th century, very flexible and malleable among human beings. But it has its limits. And within the Balkan countries this year, the sense of tolerance has been exhausted by the outright public arrogance of the Untouchables – call them mafia men, ex-communist, business elites. It makes no difference. Their capacity to flaunt their economic dominance is one thing, but their increasing ability to enforce their political and legal immunity is apparently too much. It has been, for a long time, a fact that democracy is very dysfunctional. People know that and that has been reflected in enduring low-confidence in the public institutions and voting-rates. Bulgaria is the perfect example. But you can look to Bosnia or Albania as well: all countries where the discourse of corruption and ‘the mafia’ has become ubiquitous.
In Kosovo, it was another matter that reached the breaking point of this sense of tolerance. In Pristina, students occupied the University seven days ago. They have been protesting for weeks after reports showed the Head of the University, among other scholars, to have published articles in fake online journals looking for academic credentials. The Parliament subsequently failed to pass a vote on forcing the resignation of the Head of the University. Clashes became violent on Friday as students threw stones and splashed paint on police-officers in Pristina.
In line with Bosnia, Kosovo is hard-hit with soaring unemployment rates (around 40%) and is often reminded that it is one of the poorest countries in Europe since gaining independence six years ago.
And like in Bulgaria, where the ‘Early Rising’ students occupied the Sofia University (twice) in the past 3 months, the message is the same: ‘Enough. Enough with the circus that the government can claim legitimacy, that the judiciary system is free and fair; this cannot continue any longer.‘
Unlike Ukraine, a country divided into pro-European western Ukraine, and Russia-dominated eastern Ukraine, where #Euromaidan was a direct reaction to steps taken to further isolate the nations from the EU and where the fight is, literally, one of life and death, with clear sides and clear visions of the future, Bosnia and Kosovo and the current signs of violence are a case in point of something else. They have no normative ideal, like the EU for the protesters in Ukraine, which can be emulated; no vision for the future that looks hopeful. The transition period is widely regarded as a fiction only benefiting ‘the few’; and by extension democracy does not literally mean democracy, as it is construed as a mechanism for personal gain and independence.
In Ukraine, the fight is over destroying the foreign influence of a political system; getting rid of the post-totalitarian continuation of the old totalitarian practices.
In the Balkan nations, the fight is about changing the system from the inside. But how can that be done when the people who attempt to do it are marginalized, excluded, silenced, and finally, met with force. In Bulgaria, the biggest weapon against those wanting to rip of the façade of the pseudo-democracy, those who are forcing reform, is the manipulation of the media and the alteration of the truth. Truth is not objective and access is limited. I can see something similar present in Bosnia as the media today are suffocating the public discourse with reports of ‘drug-abuse’, ‘looting’, ‘theft of important archives’, ‘vandalism’.
Bulgaria is in the EU and change is slowly happening, mostly from above with increasingly pressure by the President and, more importantly, by the European institutions. The seven-months long daily protest movement has not as yet managed to force the government’s resignation but has been firstly ignored, then excluded, then ridiculed, and all through-out lied about in the media. Logically, the numbers since the summer have fallen and there is a growing sense of helplessness. But the protesting citizens are not alone; like the protesting citizens in Ukraine are not alone. That does not amount to much, as can be clearly seen today, but it is something that is not present, it seems, in either Bosnia or Kosovo. There, the feeling of desperation at the state of their societies and the feeling of being isolated and alone, is clearly overwhelming. It has lead to a violent escalation. It has brought the international community’s attention back to them. How successful it will be in forcing change is a difficult question, but there has to be a start somewhere. Progress has a point of initiation and that point usually comes with civic (re)engagement.
One thing is clear – democracy does not flow linearly forward. In fact, in many ways it has been altered by the given post-totalitarian regimes, in order to continue the practices of repression from the past. Under the loose notion of democracy, different elites seem able to continue to dominate – either economically, and/or politically, and/or culturally; the one thing they all do is perpetuate the existential crisis caused by the emptiness of the individual transition periods. From Ukraine to the Balkans, the last twenty-four years (give or take) have been an almost uninterrupted period of preaching that yellow is green. “Here, now you have a democracy;” you are free now!” is the visible stream, while the underwater current has been one of underwriting each and every single democratic institution, atomizing individuals through economic hardships and bad politics, and reducing freedom to pseudo-political independence.
So what is a potential step-forward? Realizing just how deep this underwater current runs in the given society; understanding just how much of a façade there is, how much of a hybrid regime one is facing, and after that really getting back to the basics of democracy, literally: ‘rule (kratos) of the people (dēmos).’ One such initiative that is gaining ground in Bulgaria is an initiative boycotting buying goods from the corporate ‘corner-shop’ Lafka, which is co-owned by Head of the National Security Agency to be Delyan Peevski. Another is the student occupation, which gained incredible public support (almost 80%) after its initiation last year. This seems to be working in Pristina as well but we should wait and see how that develops over the coming weeks.
When the government is unaccountable, when there is an oligarchic economic model, when the media are not independent, when you are a poor European nation, the only way to overcome the incredibly diverse forces of post-totalitarian repression is to actively, collectively, and in a decentralized manner, negate, oppose, ridicule the status quo. Alternative paths to reform need to be tried out and peaceful resolution, obviously, requires precedence. A counter-discourse against the alteration of truth in the public domain must pursue – Facebook seems to be a successful tool for that, for now. That has already happened in Bulgaria and Ukraine. The next step is national engagement – we can see that currently happening in Bosnia. Eventually, the forces will become too strong. The biggest obstacle of isolation from the political process and the reduction of democracy to pseudo-elections can be overcome. One thing that is certain is that when change is forced through, it will not presuppose progress immediately. It will, however, level the playing field, initiate a process of political healing and jumpstart the institutionalization of democracy. One step at a time.
By Nikolay Nikolov
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Best Screenwriting Books
Here is a list of the best books I’ve read as a Screenwriter. Not all of these books are Screenwriting Manuals, but they have all in some way enhanced my understanding of storytelling, creativity, the film business – or myself.
The Writer’s Journey – Chris Vogler
Vogler takes the mythological analysis of Joseph Campbell and applies it to the movies. In fact, the 12 Steps of the Hero’s Journey we use are from Vogler rather than Campbell. I studied under Chris at UCLA and reading his book was a turning point for me. Recognising the emotional spine of the story – rather than focusing on plot – completely altered my understanding of storytlling. If you only read one book on screenwriting, make it this one. I do however disagree with Vogler on Character Arc and have developed my own 12-step Hero’s Emotional Journey. I would recommend you read Vogler – then take a look at my Emotional Journey – then, ideally, come to my Introduction to Screenwriting Course.
The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
When I was studying in LA and doing it a bit tough, reading this book was an absolute epiphany. It’s the transcript of a conversation between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyes for a PBS series in the States, and it makes very clear why stories are so important to all cultures. You can’t really begin to write for your audiences until you understand what it is they’re seeking. Totally inspiring and life altering. A must-read.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
First published in 1948, the book provides the foundation for so much of contemporary understanding of story structure. Campbell literally went off into the woods, read myths from around the world, and concluded there was a monomyth that resonated for all cultures. It’s less accessible than Vogler and makes no mention of the movies, but it will expand your appreciation for the universality of this structure. I would read Vogler first and save this for a little later.
The Art of Dramatic Writing – Lajos Egri
This is a text recommended by almost all the best screenwriting teachers and it’s one I first read when I was studying at UCLA. It was written in 1942 and its focus is theatre but I think that it’s particularly helpful in getting you to understand the connection between theme and idea – how you use your characters and the story to explore the various dimensions of your premise. Highly recommended.
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller – John Truby
I hadn’t looked at Truby in 20 years but I got this out of the AFTRS film school library the other day and was pretty impressed. I particularly like his section on what the character needs – as opposed to what they want.
The Hero’s Two Journeys – MIchael Hauge & Christopher Vogler
I respect both of these guys and this DVD series does a good job of emphasising the importance of marrying the Hero’s External Journey and their Inner Journey. My one qualm, again, is that I don’t agree with Vogler on character arc.
The Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue & Vice for Box Office Success – Stanley D. Williams
Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing is great but its dated theatrical references limit its contemporary appeal to movie screenwriters. Fortunately, Stanley D. Williams Ph. D. has produced a book that explores premise specifically for film writers and uses modern film references. This is no idle academic discussion either – despite the fact that the book is based on his doctoral thesis – it’s second half is a step-by-step guide to crafting your screenplay from the moral premise. He has a formula in the Appendix that relates a film’s moral message to its box office success – but I’m going to overlook that. It’s worth a read.
Myth and the Movies – Stuart Voytilla
This is a companion book to Chris Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey. Voytilla is a disciple of Vogler and has analysed 50 of the great movies in terms of the Hero’s Journey. What you’ll find interesting is how the 12 steps aren’t used singularly or sequentially. Writers draw on these mythological building blocks wherever they feel it will enhance the story and deepen the emotional engagement. It’s a more polished, concise version of what I’ve tried to do with my Hero’s Journey Analyses.
The Technique of Screen and Television Writing – Eugene Vale
This was first published more than 25 years ago and I’m not sure it’s that well known but its chapters on “Anticipation” and “Suspense” I found extremely useful – from page 168 in the first Touchstone Edition.
The Craft of the Screenwriter – John Brady
Features interviews with some of the greatest screenwriters in the film industry including Paddy Chayefsky (Network), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, North by Northwest), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl) and Robert Towne (Chinatown).
The New Screenwriter Looks at the New Screenwriter – William Froug
Features interviews with the screenwriters of more recent films including Dan O’Bannon (Alien), Ronald Bass (Rain Man), Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct), Diane Frolov (Northern Exposure)
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
Formerly married to Martin Scorsese, Julia is a screenwriter in her own right but she is better known for this manual for Recovering Creatives. She takes you through a 12 step process that helps you reconnect with your inner artist. Full of great quotes like this one from Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong”.
The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettelheim
Bettelheim explains the psychological significance and importance of fairy tales to children. It enhances your understanding of the role of storytelling for the individual and society.
Story – Robert McKee
A lot of screenwriters swear by this book but I doesn’t resonate for me as much as the work of Campbell and Vogler. I find the language overly technical and his story paradigm isn’t nearly as helpful as the Hero’s Journey. However, I include because someone you meet will tell you it’s the Holy Grail.
The Third Act – Drew Yanno
This is a book that looks exclusively at the element of the screenplay that brings most writers to grief; the ending. I found the book useful in the way it identifies the various elements that characterise the final reel of a great screenplay. I just have one major reservation. There is little mention of the character growth that I think is essential in generating emotional power for your audience – what’s defined in Step 11 The Resurrection in the Hero’s Journey. He also mentions Saving Private Ryan a lot and I don’t rate the ending of that film specifically because there is no character growth. But it’s still well worth a read.
The Writer’s Idea Book – Jack Heffron
I came across this book when I was putting together my lesson on Movie Ideas. He takes you through the whole creative process from how to stretch your brain right through to giving shape to your idea. He provides 400 prompts to help kick start things. e.g. “Have a character espouse a viewpoint on life with which you very much disagree, but have the character argue it well, citing examples from her life to buttress her stance. Page 85. A great resource to have on hand when the juices are getting like the Murray-Darling. | <urn:uuid:3153470e-544d-4be8-a066-c8282b5e8a3d> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.crackingyarns.com.au/screenwritingresources/best-screenwritingbooks/ | 2014-09-23T02:17:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657137906.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011217-00318-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950452 | 1,669 |
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In the previous episode, Mark hiked to the old Indian Cave and found evidence Tim had stayed there recently. He also found Tim’s shredded, blood-stained clothing and smelled a rancid stench in the wind. Readers chose Mark’s next step; He finds a sharp, strong pointed stick and goes deeper into the woods in search of his friend.
Guess I owe you an apology. I’ve lied to myself so many times about what happened in those woods, guess it’s become a habit. I have to remember that I’m done with lies.
I almost charged blindly into the woods, screaming for him, but somewhere inside of me, my common sense rose up.
Shredded, bloodied clothes? Looked to me like a bear got Tim. How did I think I could save him from a Pennsylvania black bear? I couldn’t. It wasn’t possible.
But that wasn’t going to stop me from trying.
I scrounged around in the brush surrounding the cave until I had a good stick. I tested it with my weight and, despite my shaking hands, cracked off one end to a point. Now, with all the stupidity of my youth, I figured I could somehow protect myself.
All I had to go on was the rancid smell. More than anything, I wanted to turn and run the opposite way from it.
I won’t lie to you again– this time I’ll tell you right out: I bent double in the weeds more than a few times as I followed that stench. I had been hunting enough with the sheriff to recognize the smell of rotted meat. I was pretty sure what I’d find.
I walked as quietly as I could, poking under clumps of dead leaves, in bushes, around fallen trees. I muttered threats,
“Gonna stab me some bear MEAT, make me some bear SHOES, wear me a bear BLANKET, cut me a bear COAT…”
You get the idea. I had probably crossed the line into hysteria back at the cave.
I didn’t need to walk long. There was a clearing not far from the cave. I saw a moving mass of black fur about fifty yards from me under some pine trees. I moved up behind it, just as sneaky as a farm cat stalks its dinner-mouse.
My eyes were glued to that fur, so I never saw the branch below my foot. It cracked hard and loud.
Fear stabbed me. I crouched low with my stick. He would turn and charge. This was it.
But he didn’t turn. He didn’t charge.
My fear sharpened all my senses and I could see now that what I thought was shifting black fur was, in fact, a teeming mass of black flies, rolling like waves. They were all fighting over some prize in the grass.
A prize of rotted meat, the smell announced.
I forced myself to move closer. The shape on the grass confirmed it.
It could only be Tim.
Whatever liquids and acid remained in my stomach left then, stinging every inch of my esophagus. I staggered, lurched, and landed in the grass.
I didn’t stay there long, though. If a bear was edging close to Rivertown, the sheriff needed to know.
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About Your Visit
Our mission is to provide the finest orthopaedic care, from physicians who sincerely care about those they serve. We are dedicated to meeting your orthopaedic needs with skill and compassion. We want to help you prepare for your visit. Please read below to learn how to get ready for your appointment and also what you can expect during your visit.
Before You Arrive
After your appointment is scheduled there are a couple of things you can do to get ready:
- Create your patient portal account
- Complete health forms via the patient portal
- Write down any questions that you want to ask during your exam
Some patients will be able to pre-register online for their appointment through our digital registration tool.
What To Bring
In order for us to provide the best care for you, it is important that you bring the following items to your visit:
- Photo ID
- Insurance information and card
- A referral if applicable (if you do not know if you need a referral, check with your primary care physician or insurance company)
- A list of your current medications
- All previous films –X-ray, MRI, CT, bone scans
- Diagnostic test results
- Information about what treatments and medications have been tried in the past
- Medical records from prior visits that you think may be helpful
- Contact information (Name, address, and phone number) of your referring physician and primary care physician (if different)
- PIP insurance information (required only if you have been in an auto accident)
- Proof of Authorization (required for a visit related to a worker's compensation injury)
Same Day Appointments
We understand that life can’t wait. At OrthoMaryland, we strive to schedule appointments within 24 hours of speaking with you; even on the same day. Please call us at 410-377-8900 during regular business hours to schedule a same day appointment. Please note, availability of same day appointments varies by day, location, and physician.
Moving Through Your Visit
Your appointment begins when you enter our reception area. There are steps involved in your appointment and based on what has brought you to the office you may encounter a variety of care providers before the end of your visit. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time to complete the registration process.
OrthoMaryland is excited to offer a digital method to capture your health history, allowing you to answer questions about your current orthopaedic problem in privacy. Instead of traditional paper forms and clipboards, we have electronic check-in tablets that can be taken to your seat and completed prior to your visit with the physician or therapist. This information is then entered into your private health record for the physician. Maintaining a current and accurate health record is very important to us and we are proud to offer this method of secure check-in visit registration.
In the Clinic
Generally, you will be brought into the clinic area by a Medical Assistant (MA) and your exam will begin. Your MA will take your vitals and gather summary information about your injury.
Depending on the nature of your injury, your doctor or PA-C may want x-rays done. This will occur in our office during your visit. An X-ray technician will escort you to our x-ray suite, conduct the tests and escort you back to your exam room. After x-rays are taken, they will be reviewed by your provider, who will then meet with you.
In some instances you will see a PA-C before you see the doctor. Be sure to write down any questions you have about your injury and bring them with you. Should your injury require durable medical equipment or DME (boot, crutches, brace, etc.) or casting, a member of our team will meet with you to complete this part of the process. Casting and DME dispensation occur in our office.
Once your exam has ended, you will go back to the reception area for check out by a front office associate. At that time, you can schedule a follow-up or physical therapy appointment if ordered by your provider. In some cases, you may meet with a doctor for your initial visit, but follow-up with their PA-C. Paperwork related to your exam can either be given to you in print form, or will be available through the patient portal.
Your Feedback is Important to Us!
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Guest blog post by Kate Canales
Ever wondered why we think of blue for boys or pink for girls, or why bows and floral designs are absent from boys’ clothing? These aspects of children’s clothing – along with the history of boys in dresses and the taboo of trousers – are just a few of the subjects which will be touched upon in a new talk entitled Made to Wear: The role of material culture in constructing children’s gender identities. The talk has been devised by Katy Canales, Assistant curator at the V&A Museum of Childhood and will be delivered at the upcoming Gender and Education Association conference on 23 June 2017 at Middlesex University.
For the last two years Katy has been responsible for the V&A Museum of Childhood’s childhood clothing collection. Her talk has been inspired by this remarkable collection, which spans over 400 years and includes everything from hand-sewn swaddling bands to mass-produced NHS spectacles. Made to Wear will examine the function of clothing beyond the provision of warmth, support and modesty, to convey messages of wearer’s gender, social circumstances, values and community. It will explore the impact of agency as well as socialisation in shaping what children wear.
Using examples from across the collection, Katy will illustrate the emerging trend for gendered children’s clothing and scrutinise the factors that motivated it. Items such as the Layette footwear will be used to pinpoint attitudinal shifts between what was once considered universal, masculine or feminine wear. Ultimately, she will demonstrate how clothing across the centuries has been used to construct the wearer’s gender identity and can be found to inhibit and hinder childhood behaviour. The subject of this talk is part of a future exhibition exploring gender and childhood, which is planned for the V&A Museum of Childhood.
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Extra Cash slots
You may not see so many newspapers being delivered these days, but in Extra Cash, you will be grateful to see the newspapers flying around.
This video slot from NextGen, albeit a dated theme, has a fun and retro feel. It is energetic with jazz-themed background music. The reels are laid out on the backdrop of an old-fashioned residential street in New York where the newspapers will need delivering. The Paperboy is stood on the left and stares in awe at the reels as the game unfolds.
Extra Cash is a traditional five-reel slot with 50 paylines, and with a few lucky spins, you can land some very helpful special features.
How to Play
Adjust your bet level and coin value before you begin playing. The squashed ‘Z’ symbol is your bet level which can be adjusted between 1 and 50. This is representative of your bet lines, so 50 means that all paylines are in play, whereas moving it to 1 will mean you’re just playing one payline. The four piled up coins are your coin value, which can be changed between 1p and £1.
The lower-value icons are the typical card symbols, A, K, Q, J and 10. Matching three or more of these will award you between 5 and up to 150 times your line bet for a full five-of-a-kind match.
The highest paying icon in the game is the newspaper van. You can match between 2 and 5 of the vans on a payline, which will pay out up to 400 times your bet line.
The dog carrying the newspaper in his mouth could win you up to 300 times your bet if you land five dogs on a payline. You will be awarded for matching a minimum of two dog symbols.
You can win between 25 and 250 times your bet for matching up to 5 of the newspaper kiosks on a payline.
The little red cart and the stack of newspapers both have the same value. Match three-of-a-kind to win 20 times your bet, and a five-symbol match will pay out 200 times.
An Extra Symbol to Look For
Extra! Extra! This symbol has hit the headlines! The Wild symbol on the newspaper can substitute for all symbols in standard gameplay. If you’re in need of one more symbol to make your perfect payline, the Wild may be the missing piece that you need.
The Wilds are also valuable as they are. If you can match between two and five across a payline, you will be awarded up to five hundred times your bet amount! Perhaps the most valuable newspapers you will ever come across!
Are there any special features?
Extra Wild feature
During the base game, the paperboy may fling an extra Wild newspaper onto any of the middle reels. He likes to throw those newspapers round so you may as well benefit from it!
On reels 2, 3, and 4, you may see some scatter icons, which are the newspaper printing press, land. Any reels with the scatter icons on are held still while the other reels spin, in an effort to land more matching symbols and make those all-important winning paylines!
Landing three or more scatter symbols during a re-spin can award you free spins! Three scatters gives you 8 spins, four gives you 12, and five gives you a fantastic 20 free spins! What’s more, any Wilds which are thrown onto your reels during the free spins will stay there, so you could end up with a lot of Wilds helping you out with your winning paylines.
The final feature is the gamble. Any win can be gambled by clicking on the hearts/clubs button under the reels. If you correctly guess wither the colour of the suit, you could double or quadruple your win. But be careful, don’t risk your winnings too often, be sensible.
An Extra-Special Game?
This is a great game, with a theme not often used, so it brings some originality to the releases from Next Gen. We love the 3D visuals and the dog is very cute! The selection of bonus features is fantastic, making for a thoroughly enjoyable game, but please be aware of the gamble feature. You don’t want to keep losing all of your winnings.
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eyevis PxP pixelprocessor, the ideal solution for image correction
It comes with a comfortable gamma correction through a 24 bit LookUpTable (LUT) for gamma correction. Freely uploadable curves. For each colour (red, green and blue) an individual LUT can be uploaded.
for alpha shading, pixelwise transparency correction for hot spot correction, blending and masking. A shading map with transparency information for each pixel can be uploaded. the colour correction works by 3x3 colour transformation matrix for colour space transformations. Independent offsets for red, green and blue for brightness correction (black level increase). It has also pixel wise colour correction for shading correction. A shading map with independent transparency information for red, green and blue for each pixel can be uploaded. This can be used for blending, masking and colour correction if some parts of the image show colour shading effects. Thanks to the innovative "resolutionpassthrough technology", the device can be easily integrated into any system environment without the necessity to configure the desired resolution. Embedded resolution analysis. The resolution of the connected DVI-D source is detected and can be read out to ensure a correct resolution setting of the connected Image generators. There is also a DDC-EDID emulation to ensure easy integration with any Image generator. The EDID information can be programmed on the device so that the image generator will always detect the device and will not notice any changes of the connected display. Any setting and parameter can be permanently stored on the device. After a power cycle, no connection to a PC is needed to activate the setting stored last. Without saving the changed parameter, the device will come up with the last stored setting after power cycle. This ensure a safe, easy and user friendly interaction. A preset button can be used to load a standard configuration instead of the saved user configuration. Based on internal processing, the latency is reduced to a minimum of a couple of pixel. This ensures a lipsync fully genlocked processing of live video streams.
The input and output is a singlelink DVI-D for resolutions up to WUXGA (1920x1200@60Hz) or 2k (2048x1080@60Hz).
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eyevis from Reutlingen in Germany is specialized in the development and production of highquality large screen systems and guarantees a continuous further development in hightech, quality and complete specific customer display solutions. Besides the rear projection units, based on the DLP(TM) Technology from Texas Instruments and controllers to manage multiprojection walls, eyevis is also developing intelligent software solutions to achieve a complete, unique and perfect large screen system. The name eyevis stands for quality, innovation, flexible and redundant systems and solutions in the field of large screen visualisation. For every application, whether control room or communications, conference or congress area, foyer, show room, information system, exhibition, convention, event or training centre, eyevis offers a solution tailored to your individual requirements with the best image quality. The product range also includes highresolution TFT LCD monitors and special solutions for simulation and virtual reality applications.
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In 2014 the AMA Pro Road Racing schedule is down to the lowest number of race weekends in 35 years. And to date there has been no TV package announced and factory participation is at a low level not seen since the mid-1980s. There’s even a new alternative pro series springing up, harkening back to the days when Formula USA thrived during a lull in AMA Superbike racing. Yet in spite of the gloomy pre-season outlook of the overall health of America’s motorcycle road racing championship, the news is not all bad.
We may in fact be set to see one of the most competitive Superbike championships in years. The most obvious battle is the one between the main factory teams of Yamaha and Suzuki, but there will be little subtexts that will be interesting to watch as well.
In addition, since wunderkind Cameron Beaubier is finally coming up to Superbike, a move many thought should have happened last year, fans will finally get to see if America’s best hope to eventually move up to GP racing is the real deal. Can he be as good as he appeared to be in the Daytona SportBike class?
For the sake of American racing one can only hope. Much like Ben Spies with Mat Mladin, one thing is certain, if Beaubier someday does move on the GP racing and becomes a star on the world stage, his battles this season against a rider of Josh Hayes’ caliber will have provided him the essential experience needed to make it to the next level.
Yamaha’s Hayes, the three-time AMA Superbike Champion, is back and he’s in a nasty mood. Losing last year’s title to teammate Josh Herrin by way of a spate of bad luck, bad starts and broken machines, Hayes will be eager to regain the title he felt should have been his for a fourth time last season.
At 38 (he’ll turn 39 in April) there is some question if father time will finally start to catch up with Hayes, but don’t count on it. He is supremely fit and one of the hardest training riders in the history of the championship. In fact, Herrin said on particularly hot and humid weekends he would look across the grid at Hayes and all he could think of was how many miles Hayes had put in on his bicycle that week. He’s that fit.
When I called Hayes to ask him his thoughts on the season he was, as you might guess, out on his bicycle training.
Hayes said he is eager to get the season started and see where everyone stands. You can tell he’s most intrigued by his new teammate Beaubier.
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A home elevator is important for a broad range of reasons. Safety and security in navigating multiple levels in your home is just one of an elevator’s features. Whether your needs are for moving people or things, a home elevator creates ease for everyone. In addition, elevators add property value to your home.
Today many healthy, active adults have joint replacement. Saving the stress on injured joints can aid in minimizing treatment while the lifespan of replaced joints can be extended, minimizing pain and discomfort.
Your home should be one place where you can move about effortlessly. If you or your loved one has physical mobility issues, the benefits of an elevator are easy to understand. By eliminating stairs between floors, effortless movement is easy. Freedom to move around your own home will significantly improve your life. A residential elevator will give you maximum mobility with minimum effort throughout the levels of your home. A Gulfside elevator has the quality, durability and safety built-in for many, many years of freeing enjoyment.
Early planning can minimize cost while providing flexibility over time. One of the distinct advantages of including an elevator is the ability to build higher. It is usually less costly to build up as well as architecturally pleasing. An elevator creates ease in living on higher floors, allowing greater privacy and security.
With an elevator plan, you can achieve this freedom. If your home was not planned for an elevator, there are still options. One option is to add an elevator shaft in your existing home. This can often be accomplished depending on the layout. An elevator shaft can also be added to a home’s exterior.
At Gulfside, we also offer vacuum elevators that do not require a shaft. This make vacuum elevators and ideal choice for unplanned installations. One place that many homes can add a vacuum elevator is next to a staircase. Often minimal modification is needed to accommodate a vacuum elevator.
“I was very impressed with the Tech, Bob, who answered questions, explained and made recommendations while he did not rush maintenance. I would give him a 10 out of 10 – highest score or the most stars.”
“The repairman that came to my residence this morning was Jorge A. Her was on time, polite and professional. Jorge diagnosed the problem, explained it in terms that I was able to understand and fixed the elevator. He did not leave until I was completely satisfied with his work and made sure I understood exactly what he did. I would ask if possible, in the future, when I need service that Jorge be sent to my home. Again, thank you for a job well done by a professional.”
“Your technician was polite and quite knowledgeable. He spent time explaining what he was doing and made sure we understood all safety aspects of using the elevator. I would definitely request that he does our annual maintenance.”
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“Excellent‼️ Bob came to do our yearly service and found a glitch with a switch and all is well. He is a true professional when it comes to service.”
“Think Gulfside Elevator is the best for any elevator issues or installation. PROMPT attention always!!!”
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“Just wanted to thank you for responding so quickly to my request to get my elevator running. I had a house full of guests coming that night and needed the elevator. Thanks again-you are a quality company and people!”
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MedPro Safety Products Inc. is a leading developer of safer medication delivery and blood collection systems. The company’s injection and infusion products incorporate needlestick prevention features considered to be the most passive now available on the market as they require little or no clinical training as compared to competitive products.
The company today announced the introduction of its hypodermic safety syringe. The device incorporates a proprietary safety shield that is automatically released during the administration of medicine, covering the needle as it is removed, and thereby enhancing the safety of both the patient and the health practitioner.
MedPro’s passive (automatic) hypodermic safety syringe provides unique features and benefits. The safety mechanism is integrated into the syringe and is activated through the normal process of medication delivery. The shield is automatically deployed over the contaminated needle, reducing the chances of a needlestick injury. It also prevents recapping, removal and reuse of the syringe with the engagement of its auto-diable feature and reduces the chance of blood or drug splatter.
The automatic hypodermic safety syringe is the latest product in the company’s efforts to expand its patented safety technology across a broad range of sectors. MedPro is currently in discussions with several potential partners to explore the commercialization of the hypodermic safety syringe. For more information on MedPro Safety Products, please visit its website at www.medprosafety.com | <urn:uuid:2473cf60-9d14-433f-8e1b-9cfc48a69010> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.com/passive-hypodermic-safety-syringe-introduced-medpro-safety-products-inc-mpsp-469369 | 2017-01-21T10:00:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281001.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929795 | 292 |
MP3: Beautiful Machine
Since then, Alina has been keeping busy, preparing a new full length album and her debut book of essays, both of which are officially available today. Make Your Own Danger is available via limited edition LP/CD/MP3 and her book, You Must Go and Win, is available in finer book stores everywhere. Download a chapter for free over here.
Alina is starting to line up tour dates to promote the album, including a free Largehearted Lit reading Wednesday at WORD Brooklyn which also features John Wesley Harding and baked goods provided by my wife, The Brooklyn Baker.
Stream the entire album:
Keep reading for complete tour dates.
6/8/2011, WORD, Brooklyn, NY Largehearted Lit w/John Wesley Harding (and traditional Doukhobor treats prepared by the The Brooklyn Baker) 7:30 PM
FULL BAND SHOW: 6/9/2011, Joe's Pub, NY, NY, Album and Book-Release Party, 7 PM
6/13/2011, The Make Out Room, The Rumpus Monthly Reading/Music Series, San Francisco, CA, 7:30 PM
6/14/2011, Alexander Book Company, 12:30 pm
6/15/2011, The Record Room, Portland, Oregon
6/16/2011, Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD series, In conversation with Eric J. Lawrence, KCRW DJ and Music Librarian, 7 pm
6/20/2011, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
6/21/2011, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
7/14/2011, Brooklyn Winery, Girls Who Write benefit, Brooklyn, NY w/Deb Olin Unferth, Jami Attenberg, Maud Newton, and Kio Stark
8/18/2011, McCarren Park, 3 Minute Story: Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll, Brooklyn, NY
9/17/2011, The Book Mill, Montague, MA with Jedediah Berry. 8 pm. | <urn:uuid:ad8a3646-da20-45f2-9725-5e1a364957db> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.donewaiting.com/2011/06/07/alina-simone-new-album-new-book-new-tour/ | 2015-01-30T12:31:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00126-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.851234 | 423 |
You can hold your breath: New York will know soon whether Donald Trump will take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo next year.
“I’ll make a decision at some time pretty soon,” Trump said Monday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
The business mogul has been vague about entering the race and had said recently that he wasn’t interested in a run. But after a group of state Republicans met with Trump earlier this month to encourage him to challenge Cuomo, the developer indicated he would give it some thought.
(PHOTOS: 11 politicians with Donald Trump)
Trump said on Fox that a bid for governor “was not what I had in mind.”
“Let’s see what happens. I had something else in mind, and this was not actually something that I wanted to do,” Trump said.
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Source: UGA Today
Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia Food Services has new meal plan options available to the campus community for the 2015-16 academic year. Block plans with 65-80 meals per semester in the dining commons and Paw Points redeemable at any UGA Food Services location, including retail cafes, eateries and vending, will be available for $1,796 to $2,802 for the academic year.
The decision to create new options came from a growing need to provide more meal plan choices for commuter students, faculty and staff.
"The University of Georgia's dining program is nationally renowned for its exceptional quality and innovation," UGA President Jere W. Morehead said. "I am pleased that commuter students, faculty and staff will now be able to enjoy a wide variety of dining options on campus through meal plans that are tailored to their needs."
Food Services gained support from UGA Student Affairs to implement new plans and worked with the Webb Foodservice Design consulting group to evaluate the dining program. A campus-wide survey of students, faculty and staff showed customers were seeking more variety and a plan geared toward commuters.
"Many off-campus students came to us asking for a lunch-only plan," said Bryan Varin, interim director of UGA Food Services. "The block plan gives even more flexibility by providing them with meals to use throughout the semester. They are not limited to lunch only. If they find themselves on campus during other meal periods, they are still able to eat in our dining commons or retail locations."
Additionally, the division created two new residential dining plans by adding Paw Points to the pre-existing seven-day and five-day all-access meal plans. Paw Points, where one Paw Point is redeemable for $1 worth of food from campus eateries and vending, can be used for snacks.
"The survey gave us a lot of valuable information regarding dining preferences. We plan to use that information as a guide for bringing different retail options to campus in the future," Varin said.
"We have been eager to see more flexibility for students in on-campus dining options, and we are thrilled with these new options," said Victor Wilson, vice president for student affairs. Students spend a great amount of time each day on campus, and dining is an excellent way for them to engage with each other and with the institution."
"We are pleased to acknowledge the collaborative effort of the Student Government Association, Student Affairs and our own Food Services Division in making these new meal plan options a reality," said Ryan Nesbit, vice president for finance and administration. "These plans give our students, faculty and staff greater flexibility to dine in one of our five outstanding dining halls, grab a meal to-go in our retail locations or enjoy a quick snack."
More information on the commuter block plans is listed below. The new plans are currently available and can be obtained online at foodservice.uga.edu.
Available to off-campus students, faculty and staff only
80 Block Plan with 665 Paw Points/semester - 80 meals per semester in UGA Food Services dining commons plus 665 Paw Points per semester to be used at any UGA Food Services location or vending. The academic year 2015-16 purchase price is $2,802 ($1,401/semester).
80 Block Plan with 255 Paw Points/semester - 80 meals per semester in UGA Food Services dining commons plus 255 Paw Points per semester to be used at any UGA Food Services location or vending. The academic year 2015-16 purchase price is $1,982 ($991/semester).
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Making big decisions
Whenever we’re faced with making a big decision in life, we tend to go about it in one of several ways. We may weigh the pros and cons of the decision or look at the consequences. We may ask our friends, family, or peers—whether or not they are actually qualified to help us. We may do some research on the topic or try to figure out what the “normal” response is for whatever situation we’re facing.
While there’s nothing inherently wrong with these approaches, we’re not doing what we should do first. We all know we’re supposed to seek God first in all things, but so many of us only turn to Him for His wisdom and guidance when we’ve exhausted all other avenues. We often say things like, “Well, I guess all we can do now is pray,” as if that’s the last resort we turn to because we’ve already tried all the “better” options.
This is faulty thinking. There is nothing “better,” no better option for helping with a decision than to seek God. He is the creator of the universe and He knows us intimately. He has all the power in the world and has plans to use that power for our own good. So why wouldn’t we seek Him first?
Let’s put this into perspective. Imagine a worker at a factory comes across something he’s never had to deal with before and has to figure out what to do. Instead of asking his employer, who also happens to be the creator of the machine he works on and the one who makes sure it runs smoothly, the worker consults his co-workers, his friends, his wife, his manual, and even the Web.
Why would he do all that when he could simply go ask his employer, the maker of the machine, the one who was sure to know the answer in the first place?
Why do we wait?
Perhaps the factory worker was worried his employer would get upset at being inconvenienced by his questions. He should know how to do it himself, right?
This is not true with God. God loves for His children to come to Him with everything, the good and the bad. He knows that His plan is what’s best for us, so if we need help getting there (which we always do), he wants us to seek Him for answers.
Perhaps the worker thought he should know how to do it himself. After all, it’s his job. God does not expect us to know everything or to do everything ourselves. Quite the opposite, actually. He knows we are human and need guidance, just as sheep need a shepherd.
Perhaps the worker thought his employer might not know the answer. I mean, he did create the machine, but that didn’t mean he still knew how to fix every new problem. New things can come up that we don’t know the answers to.
We don’t have to worry about that with God. He is by nature omniscient and omnipresent. That means he knows everything: past, present, and future. The Bible tells us there is nothing new under the sun. There is nothing we go through today that God doesn’t know about or know how to maneuver through. He is just as relevant today as He was yesterday.
What if the worker viewed his employer as a hard, untrustworthy man? What if he steered him wrong in his advice because he just didn’t like him or he wanted him to fail? Nothing could be further from the truth with our loving God. He wants nothing but the best for us and loves us more than we can even imagine. We can always trust him because He always has our best interests in mind.
Seeking God first
If we do seek God first, however, we can reap so many benefits. First of all, we get to miss out on all the anxiety and restlessness of the long and arduous process of seeking other sources first. Seeking God first gives us a sense of peace that floods our spirits, even if He hasn’t completely shown us the way to go yet.
Don’t be fooled. Going to God first isn’t always a quick, magic bullet fix. He doesn’t always answer you or show you the path right away. Sometimes waiting is part of His plan. Sometimes He needs you to go through something first before He can show you the rest of the way.
His help is often compared to a lamp at our feet showing us the way step by step, instead of a flashlight showing us the whole way. Still, knowing God is in control and that He’ll show you the way in His perfect timing is much better than having an entire path lighted for you but not having a sense of certainty that it’s the right one.
Seeking God first also gives us an assurance that whatever he tells us or leads us to do is what’s best for us. Our God is a perfect and loving God. He will never steer us wrong. Whatever His plan is for us, it is the best plan, and we can only figure out what this plan is by seeking God first. | <urn:uuid:57735257-1c27-44d1-8046-df4732cc3666> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://faithisland.org/faith/heavenly-wisdom-for-making-decisions/ | 2023-09-25T19:15:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510085.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925183615-20230925213615-00359.warc.gz | en | 0.979487 | 1,097 |
This article is one in a series to assist in the setup, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Cisco Small Business products.
A. The SPA allows each line to be configured with a distinct dial plan. The dial plan specifies how to interpret digit sequences dialed by the user and convert those sequences into an outbound dial string. The SPA syntax for the dial plan closely resembles the corresponding syntax specified by MGCP and MEGACO. Some extensions that are useful on an end-point are added.
The dial plan function is regulated by these configurable parameters:
Dial_Plan ( and )
Note: Other timers are configurable via parameters, but do not directly pertain to the dial plan itself.
The Interdigit_Long_Timer specifies the default maximum time (in seconds) allowed between dialed digits, when no candidate digit sequence is complete.
The Interdigit_Short_Timer specifies the default maximum time (in seconds) allowed between dialed digits, when at least one candidate digit sequence is completed as dialed.
The Dial_Plan parameters contain the actual dial plan scripts for lines 1 and 2.
ParName: Dial Plan and Dial Plan
Default: ( *xx | 11 | 0 | 00 | <:1408>[2-9]xxxxxx |
1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxx | 011x. )
The plans contain a series of digit sequences, separated by the | character. The collection of sequences is enclosed in parentheses (' and ').
When a user dials a series of digits, each sequence in the dial plan is tested as a possible match. Matching sequences form a set of candidate digit sequences. As more digits are entered by the user, the set of candidates diminishes until only one or none are valid.
Any one of a set of terminating events triggers the SPA to either accept the user-dialed sequence and transmit it to initiate a call or reject it as invalid. The terminating events are:
No candidate sequences remain
The number is rejected.
Only one candidate sequence remains and it has been matched completely
The number is accepted and transmitted after any transformations indicated by the dial plan unless the sequence is barred by the dial plan (barring is discussed later), in which case, the number is rejected.
A timeout occurs
The digit sequence is accepted and transmitted as dialed if incomplete, or transformed as per the dial plan if complete.
An explicit 'send' (user presses the '#' key)
The digit sequence is accepted and transmitted as dialed if incomplete, or transformed as per the dial plan if complete
The timeout duration depends on the matching state. If no candidate sequences are as yet complete (as dialed), the Interdigit_Long_Timeout applies. If a candidate sequence is complete, but there exists one or more incomplete candidates, then the Interdigit_Short_Timeout applies.
Note: The white space is ignored and may be used for readability.
Each digit sequence within the dial plan consists of a series of elements, which are individually matched to the keys pressed by the user. Elements can be one of these:
Individual keys '0', '1', '2' . . . '9', '*', '#'.
The letter 'x' matches any one numeric digit ('0' .. '9')
A subset of keys within brackets (allows ranges): '[' set ']' (e.g. means '3' or '8' or '9'):
Numeric ranges are allowed within the brackets: digit '-' digit (e.g. [2-9] means '2' or '3' or ... or '9')
Ranges can be combined with other keys: e.g. [235-8*] means '2' or '3' or '5' or '6' or '7' or '8' or '*'.
Any element can be repeated zero or more times by appending a period ('.' character) to the element. Hence, "01." matches "0.", "01.", "011.", "0111.", etc.
A subsequence of keys (possibly empty) can be automatically replaced with a different subsequence using an angle bracket notation '<', dialed-subsequence ':', and transmitted-subsequence '>'. For example "<8:1650>xxxxxxx" would match "85551212" and transmit "16505551212".
An "outside line" dial tone can be generated within a sequence by appending a ',' character between digits. Thus, the sequence "9, 1xxxxxxxxxx" sounds an "outside line" dial tone after the user presses '9', until the '1' is pressed.
A sequence can be barred (rejected) by placing a '!' character at the end of the sequence. Thus, "1900xxxxxxx!" automatically rejects all 900 area code numbers from being dialed.
The long and short interdigit timers can be changed in the dial plan (affecting a specific line) by preceding the entire plan with this syntax:
Long interdigit timer: 'L' ':' delay-value ','
Short interdigit timer: 'S' ':' delay-value ','
Note: The "L=8,( . . . )" would set the interdigit long timeout to 8 seconds for the line associated with this dial plan. The "L:8,S:4,( . . . )" would override both the long and the short timeout values.
The long and short timeout values can be changed for a particular sequence starting at a particular point in the sequence. The syntax for long timer override is 'L' delay-value ' ' with the terminating space character. The specified delay-value is measured in seconds. To change the short timer override, use 'S' delay-value <space>. | <urn:uuid:ed37a797-c7eb-4fb8-b513-4bfb958cc253> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/unified-communications/spa3102-voice-gateway-router/108727-pqa-108727.html | 2016-02-12T08:06:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701163512.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193923-00000-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.842817 | 1,222 |
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice hosted the 13th Annual CUNY IT Conference last week, and we were thrilled to sit in on their panel, Beyond the Physical Bookstore: Realizing the John Jay College Online Bookstore.
During the panel discussion, Robert Pignatello, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration at John Jay College, discussed the diminishing returns of a brick and mortar school bookstore for both students and for the college itself. A textbook savings committee was formed and extensive research was done to investigate options and uncover student needs. The committee found that 77% of students surveyed stated they might not buy textbooks for one or more of their classes due to the high cost of materials. Pignatello and his team realized that it was “time to do something dramatic to reduce textbook costs.”
In just two short months, John Jay and the CUNY system worked with Akademos to develop an integrated online shopping experience for students. During the summer and fall 2014 terms, the new John Jay Online Bookstore saved students over $150,000 off of publisher list price. Students took advantage of all available purchasing options— new, used, rental, and eBook—and scored deep discounts in the Marketplace. The average cost per Marketplace purchase was less than $20.
Additional features of the John Jay Online Bookstore include:
Customized course list – students can login to the store with their CUNYfirst credentials to view a personalized list of all courses they are registered for, along with the required materials in various price-saving formats.
Convenient on-campus pick up – exclusive to orders placed through the online bookstore, students may chose to have their materials shipped to campus for secure and convenient retrieval.
Year-round buyback – students can sell their books back on the Marketplace at any time, and can name their own buy-back price.
For more on John Jay’s IT integration, register for our webinar, How to Implement an Online Bookstore and Reduce Textbook Costs featuring John Jay CIO Joseph Laub. | <urn:uuid:35c64725-c468-4d94-a396-3d43bb77781a> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.akademos.com/blog/page/2/ | 2015-11-26T17:45:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398447769.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205407-00101-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95752 | 420 |
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The event, which was jointly organized by Harris Manchester College and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, celebrated the impact of the Holy Bible on culture, religion and literature.
One of Britain’s leading theologians, Revd Professor Alister E. McGrath, described the background to the King James Bible and the process of translation: “They [the translators] had no sense that they were producing a translation that would dominate the English-speaking world for 300 years.”
“Making the text accessible seems to be the key theme of the translators," McGrath said, quoting 17th century Oxford scholar Miles Smith, who said that producing the King James Version was “like rolling away the stone from a well, that all may drink.”
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Literary expert Professor Jonathan Bate spoke about “the two pillars of English culture”: the “Authorized Version” of the Bible – commissioned by King James I – and the works of William Shakespeare. Professor Bate quipped, “The Authorized Version is the exception that proves the rule that no great literary work was written by a committee!”
Professor John S. Tanner, Brigham Young University’s academic vice president, explored the effect of the King James Bible in America. “It’s had a magisterial impact and influence on our culture,” he said. Professor Tanner reviewed the book’s role in the lives of four prominent figures in United States history: John Winthrop (“the Pilgrim”), Joseph Smith (“the Prophet”), Abraham Lincoln (“the President”) and Martin Luther King (“the Preacher”).
Elder Kenneth Johnson, an emeritus member of the Seventy, shared his personal testimony of the Holy Bible. “It has transformed me as I’ve learned what it teaches,” he said. “The Bible bears witness of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. ..The book is a conduit to inspiration and revelation.”
The event also included tours of historic Bible exhibitions at Harris Manchester College and at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. Symposium participants were able to see the only surviving copy of the forty 1602 Bishops’ Bibles used by the King James translators, which was marked with suggestions, deletions and alterations. Also on display was an early edition of the King James Bible, Martin Luther’s 1522 Bible and George Frideric Handel’s conducting copy of Messiah. | <urn:uuid:4f7391a2-4174-4370-94b6-ac0a73a0cd39> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/oxford-university-and-latter-day-saints-join-for-king-james-bible-symposium | 2015-08-29T03:02:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644064167.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025424-00247-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948198 | 547 |
March 21, 2008 – She settled into her seat on a flight from Chicago to Columbus, taking a clearly stressful call on her cell phone. She hung up to get ready for our flight – looked at me – and said, “How come my son could lay his life on the line for this country – but he has to wait six months for an appointment at the VA for even a Band-aid?”
As we spoke, her despair and anger came into focus. She was a native Ohioan from Oklahoma with a slight Okie twang, on her way to visit her parent in the central Ohio area, and her son had served two tours of duty in Iraq. He was home now with her daughter-in-law and her grandson – but he was waking up with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – night sweats and combat delirium. And her son could not get in to the VA hospital for at least six months.
In Ohio, the nation’s 6th largest concentration of veterans, a legislative committee found out in December that the state ranks 43rd in use of available services and 50th in the amount of disability pay. Legislation growing out of the study will create a new cabinet level department, but with little if any accountability measures over a cumbersome structure that has failed to deliver needed efficiencies for needy Ohio veterans.
So how bad will things get when Iraq and Afghanistan veterans begin to increase the need for services. At the federal level, in a March 6 AP article by Bradley Brooks in Baghdad he reports that:
About 15 soldiers are wounded for every fatality in Iraq compared with 2.6 wounded for every fatality in Vietnam and 2.8 wounded for every fatality in Korea.
29,320 servicemen were wounded in action as of early March, but an additional 31,325 others have been treated for non-combat injuries and illnesses.
The VA predicts it will treat 330,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 – a 14 percent increase over the 2008 estimate of $263,000 costing over $1.3 billion.
The Bush budget requests $93.7 billion for the VA including $41.2 billion for medical care for veterans of all wars which is an increase of $2.3 billion.
In an article posted on opednews.com on March 5, writer Jason Leopold pointed out that VA officials estimate that 60,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are returning with PTSD similar to what I’d heard all too personally on that flight to Columbus.
Leopold chronicled the story of a Marine veteran named Jonathan Schulze who was awarded two Purple Hearts in 2005 after a lengthy tour of duty in Iraq. On January 11, 2007, he sought treatment for PTSD when his parents drove him to the VA hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He was not admitted and told to call back the following day. The VA told him he would need to wait at least two weeks to be admitted. On January 16, 2007, next to a photo of his one-year old daughter, he was found with an electrical cord around his neck in a friend’s basement at the age of 25.
Critics rightly point out that Veterans benefits at the national and state level are plagued with a systemic and political bureaucracy that puts care for veterans on the back-burner both at the national and Ohio levels.
Backlog at the VA
The VA has a backlog of over 400,000 pending medical claims and complaints – especially in mental health care.
In a rare Shadows kudos for U.S. Senator George Voinovich, he rightly points out in a letter to the Senate Budget Committee that the VA’s pending pension and compensation claims were up almost 6 percent from March of 2007 and that 27 percent of claims have been pending for more than 180 days, along with a 50 percent increase since 2003 in claims requiring a disability review which request increases in time and resources.
Voinovich said in his letter to Sen. Kent Conrad that the number of filed claims has increased 45 percent from 578,773 in 2000 to 838,141 in 2007.
At the time of Jonathan Schulze’s death, according to Veterans Today’s website, more than 200,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan had been treated at VA medical facilities according to a Government Accountability Office analysis, which is three times what the VA had originally projected. The GAO study said more than one-third of the cases involved mental health conditions including PTSD, acute depression and substance abuse.
According to Leopold’s article, VA attorneys argued in court papers filed this past February that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were not “entitled” to the five-years of free healthcare upon their return from combat, but instead their treatment was discretionary based on the level of funding available at the VA.
But earlier this month, the Undersecretary for Health at the VA admitted in court that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were entitled to free healthcare and that “there is no co-pay,” according to Leopold.
All of this bureaucracy was supposed to have gone away on October 25, 1988, when Ronald Reagan made the Department of Veterans Affairs a cabinet-level agency. But symbolism seems to have made little progress in the bureaucracy that a wounded soldier must navigate. Here in Ohio – let’s hope we have different results.
Bureaucracy and the Ohio Veteran’s benefit system – Why Ohio files fewer claims
More than any other bureaucracy, when it comes to the structure of Ohio veterans, you have the intersection of patriotism, politics, media image and most of all competing veteran structures that have impacted the way in which state-level veteran’s services are delivered.
The state has long had a Governor’s Office of Veteran’s Services which provides support and training to the various County Veterans Services offices. County offices have varying levels of funding, primarily because they are funded much like schools through property tax at a level of five-tenths of a mill. Because of the disparity of property wealth in different counties, the dollars to those programs vary widely.
When a County office files claims, they then use an outsourced system. Ohio does not employ its own service officers who follow Ohio veteran’s claims – instead traditionally that has been a function of the powerful and politically impactful Ohio veterans’ organizations even though 90 percent of Ohio veterans do not belong to these groups (but probably should given their effective lobby and access to services.)
During the recent Veterans Study Council meetings, a representative of the VA advised the Council that Ohio was at the bottom of the barrel in terms of the number of VA claims filed, the quality or completeness of the claims filed and the amount of money generated by approved claims.
Ohio has the 6th largest number of veterans in the United States an Ohio sub-committee of the Veterans Study Council was told in December. Yet Ohio ranked 50th at the time in the amount of disability pay received by injured veterans and 43rd in veterans’ use of services. In most veteran service categories, Ohio ranked among the bottom seven although recent numbers showed some improvement.
Services for Ohio veterans go through 88-county offices and are process in the VA regional offices. But the services rely on National Service Officers (NSO) given free office space by the VA and paid for by Ohio taxpayers but staffed by the various Veterans service agencies. In 2006, Ohio spent over $1.5 million dollars spread among the:
American Legion, $302,328
Am vets, &287,919
Veterans of Foreign Wars, $246,615
Disabled American Veterans, $216,308
Vietnam Veterans of America,$185,954
Marine Corp League,$115,972
Catholic War Veterans,$57,900
Meritorious Order of the Purple Heart, $56,377
Army Navy Union, $55,012
Jewish War Veterans $29,715
American Ex P.O.W., $25,030
In a nutshell, when a claim is received in the VA regional office from the county offices for veterans’ services, it is assigned to one of the National Service Officers (NSOs) who is there to act as the advocate for the veteran before the VA. That is why in essence, Ohio has outsourced the advocate role to these traditional groups.
But in reading the Subcommittee reports of the Veterans Study Council it becomes clear that a veteran is at the mercy of the resources of the County in which they live and the efficiency of the veterans organization they choose to track and advocate their claims. There appears to be little if no accountability on the process for follow through.
What is disturbing is that after working with the various county veterans’ offices and advocates, as well as the national groups on a comprehensive study that identified these concerns, State Sen. Bob Spada rushed to the table with S.B. 289 which made no recommendations to fix the VA claims processing system but did recommend that “the several veterans’ organizations” should get more support.
The issue that has gotten headlines is the recommendation for a cabinet-level Veterans’ Service Department – much as Ronald Reagan garnered headlines in 1988. But the symbolism of a department has not necessarily diminished the bureaucratic problems at the federal level. The question remains, will Ohio fall into the same PR trap?
While the Strickland Administration’s push for the cabinet-level department is not necessarily a bad sign – if anything it is needed, the legislation written by Sen. Spada appears to have very little impact on the processing of claims which appears to be the real problem for Ohio’s veterans. Instead it deals mostly with changing a Governor’s office into a Governor’s department. In fact, just this week representatives of Governor Strickland on the panel informed some concerned veterans that the legislation creating the new department would likely not include increased oversight of the county and NSO (veterans group) system.
As the bill stands now, after months of study and data about the problems of veterans services, a Legislative Service Commission analysis of the new departmental functions that Sen. Spada included in the bill are limited to:
Developing telephone answering services and a website.
Outreach efforts at conferences and fairs.
Advertising services in print, radio and television.
Broadly calling for the development and improved benefits and services for veterans.
Searching for administrative policies to unify funding, delivery and accountability of policy with no formal recommendations.
Maintaining a cordial relationship with both the VA and several veterans’ organizations.
And adds the Ohio Veterans’ Home Agency and the Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Board to the Department.
You can’t help but think that if this were education funding or other pet peeves of Columbus conservatives, Ohio’s Broad & High crowd would be preaching on the legislative floor for more accountability on how Ohio taxpayer money is being spent in classrooms – on the outcomes-based budgeting that conservatives around Capitol Square preach like a Buddhist mantra.
But it is not.
This is about veterans, and veterans are about the flag and neither liberal nor conservative legislators will take on such a bureaucracy borne from the battlefields of returning vets who spawned the complicated relationships of such diverse organizations in the first place.
No one including Shadows is arguing about the role and need for these veterans organizations to exist and flourish. But in fact, these veterans’ organizations do need prodding and accountability for processing veteran claims as any outsourced service should.
Ohio grants for the NSO officers in VA regional offices should be monitored and judged based on information that looks at the per capita amount of veterans here and in other states and sets up a compliance report with oversight by the new Ohio Department of Veterans Affairs.
It seems logical and in-line with all other Ohio government expenditures that the department should exercise oversight and tracking of all VA claims. That is the surest path away from a bottom ranking in services to Ohio veterans.
If Ohio will not hire its own compliance officers at the VA regional office, which given the clout of veterans groups is politically dead on arrival, at the very least the various service organizations that provide NSO services should be monitored by the newly created department based on:
Number of claims filed, starting at the county level, and continuing through the NSO level;
Completeness and accuracy of claims;
Average time to resolve claims;
Average dollars paid out to Ohio veterans per capita;
Communication and reporting with county offices from the NSO regarding claims status.
Certainly some who are active in veterans’ services groups who receive money from the State of Ohio may bristle at this opinion and couch these views as an unpatriotic attack on soldiers who have paid their dues to their nation.
But the fact of the matter is that this is not a debate over liquor licenses and bingo permits at the local lodge – these issues involve serious veterans’ needs and claims involving their everyday lives.
If the process is outsourced to these organizations – then so be it. But to not hold the same accountability standards on services for these veterans paid for by Ohio taxpayer dollars is benign legislative neglect of the stewardship of Ohio tax dollars.
S.B. 289 seems to be a rushed piece of legislation – the kind of thing legislators take and run with in an effort to wrap the flag around themselves in the next election cycle.
But the stark reality is that true patriotism would wrap that flag around a wounded veteran, a homeless veteran, a jobless veteran, a mentally troubled veteran – to expedite services, not worry about the politics of veterans group funding and future political support.
Save the politics for Novembers this year and in future years.
It’s time to set-aside politics and figure a way to get a Band-aid to our veterans – without all of the bureaucracy. Our national system is bad enough – there is no excuse for a state the size of Ohio to lag so far behind so many smaller states in providing services to veterans.
It’s time to streamline the process and make those within the system accountable here in Columbus and in Washington D.C. This shouldn’t be about politics, it should be about the lady sitting next to me’s very poignant question last month, “How come my son could lay his life on the line for this country – but he has to wait six months for an appointment at the VA for even a Band-aid?”
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You can choose to align with your own personal Divine Being i.e.; Allah, Christ, Yahweh, Archangel Michael etc. You quicken your own Ascension by raising the energy/vibration of what you daily think, feel and act.
The following may work for you as a daily statement keeping your focus positive when negative feelings or thoughts arise. Reality governs my every thought. Truth be the Master of my Life.
In 3rd dimensional consciousness, we bounce back and forth between polarities or opposites such as anger and victim; happiness and sadness; fear and peace; judgment and acceptance etc.
We desire to avoid feeling the more challenging emotions while wanting to experience only the pleasant ones.
As our spiritual journey continues we travel through 4th dimensional consciousness. Do you find yourself swinging back and forth between opposites? You may find yourself eventually in the middle or center point of the polarities. Once you settle into this middle point or stillpoint you may experience calm or peace. If so then this is 4th dimensional consciousness.
5th Dimensional Consciousness
As you experience 5th dimensional consciousness, your consciousness becomes more receptive to infinite possibilities. You may feel an absence of both emotional highs and lows. You may feel apathetic, exhausted, uninspired or withdrawn etc. This indicates attachments to 3rd dimensional consciousness being purged. Rather than seeking validation outside yourself you may begin to discover a growing fulfillment that comes from within.
This can be a confusing time and debilitating both physically and emotionally. Your inner child/unconscious may feel abandoned, and thus out of fear of being left behind resist your spiritual journey forward into 5th dimensional consciousness.
Turn inward and talk in our mind to your inner child/unconscious. Hear or get an intuitive feeling what they say to you in response. Have a conversation back and forth.
Assure him/her that you love them; “I love you.” Embrace them like the small child that they are. Feel the love that you have for this part of yourself. This is the self-love that you may begin to experience for the first time in your lives.
Leaving 3rd dimensional consciousness involves a sloughing off of old emotional patterns and mental beliefs. Entry into 5th dimensional consciousness necessitates a leaving behind of the old patterns which no longer serve you. Your inner child/unconscious may believe that it is dying.
Our inner child/unconscious connects with our everyday mind which resists. Our mind misunderstands and flies around like a crazy bat engaging in every instance of fear and polarity.
Reassure your inner child that you want them to walk hand in hand with you on your journey towards greater abundance, health and joy. Actually, as your inner child/unconscious represents a part of your emotional nature you need them as much as they need you.
The truth is that you will be unable to make a successful spiritual journey into 5th dimensional consciousness without your inner child/unconscious as they will resist and sabotage your every move, if you ignore them.
Without the cooperation of your inner child/unconscious you will remain stuck in 3rd dimensional consciousness. You will hammer away at the gate of 5th dimensional consciousness frustrated and wonder why no progress is being made.
Attention: realize as the adult in this relationship you no longer have control or are the one in charge of letting go. Your inner child out of fear of the new and unfamiliar territory of 5th dimensional consciousness grasps hanging on for dear life. As the adult, however, your task entails as I said earlier to embrace and love your inner child.
As an adult if you have developed the necessary discipline through meditation you will hold a concentrated one pointed focus. The next step necessitates that you both trust and completely surrender to the Divine as you know it. Then Divine Grace can enter and sweep you both through the gateway of 5th dimensional consciousness into infinite expanding possibilities.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael David Lawrience is the author of Emotional Health: The Secret from Drama, Trauma, and Pain. His book provides ways for improving emotional health, easing pain and stress, healing physical and emotional abuse, and spiritual awakening. See book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Health-Secret-Freedom-Trauma/dp/0615479170
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Keep cool. . .
And close to mom.
As for my own weekend plan, I haven't had a chance to chill out in my cool new retro chair yet, but I figure I still have a day and a half to fit in some serious shade time. The dishes are mostly done (how in the world can two people create thousands of dirty dishes?), the drooping kitchen garden has been watered (and even a little weeded!), and I think everyone's bellies are full—at least for now.
It's time to turn on the oven and bake up a big batch of chocolate chip cookies before roasting tonight's chicken—or else curl up and take a nap.
I hope you're having a relaxing weekend!
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You can bring the chaos home to DVD this June. Chaos Theory will be released on DVD on June 17. The disc will be priced at $27.95 SRP. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer and Stuart Townsend.
The story centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process discovers love with Mortimer's character. Townsend completes the love triangle playing Buddy, the best friend of Reynolds' character who also falls in love with Mortimer's character.
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The Whys of WiFi – Part 4 – Virtual Agenda & Custom Apps can Transform Your Event
- The Whys of Wifi Part 1 article we discussed How to Boost Your Event’s Social Media Buzz.
- The Whys of Wifi Part 2 article Event Exhibitors – How to Heat Up Leads shows how to set up your exhibit as a WiFi Hotspot.
- The Whys of Wifi Part 3 article is all about setting up lead generation Digital Sponsorships begins with Great Event Wifi
Now we will talk about how a Virtual Agenda and Custom Apps can Transform Your Event
We’ve all experienced that event that seemed so promising at the beginning. You sign in, all bright and eager, get your program booklet or app, and then eagerly flip through deciding on which talks and happenings you’d like to attend.
The first talk goes pretty well and the question and answer period rocks, but you have to cut out early to make it to the next talk because it’s on the opposite side of the conference center. So after consulting the venue map – twice – you hoof it over to your second talk of the day.
You make it just in time but rather than a room full of excited people, what you find is a closed door with a note tapped on it that says something like, “We’re sorry. Due to a delayed flight this talk is canceled.”
You lean against the wall thinking about the Q&A period you just ran out of. A little less eagerly than before you pull out your program and look at some other talk options. You can’t decide. And how do you know any of those early morning talks are happening either? The beginning of event disappointment has just shadowed your entire event experience.
You note the Starbucks down the hall and decide to get a coffee instead.
Certainly we all know things happen; flights are delayed, speakers get sick. But what doesn’t have to happen is having one of your starry-eyed attendees hike across a conference center only to find that a talk has been canceled.
Event issues such as this are completely preventable with a virtual agenda. You’ve gone to the trouble and expense of providing WiFi services your attendees need to stay connected. But why not go further to help ensure they have a simple amazing experience?
Using the Internet is a simple way to reach your attendees and alert them to:
- Agenda changes
- Updates of any sort
- Alerts, either event related or world related
- Warnings, weather, Internet safety
- Last minute specials
- Spur of the moment gatherings
In order to maximize the user experience when organizing an event make sure your virtual agenda and other digital information is easy for your attendees to access and use by keeping the following tips in mind:
- Make sure urls and log-in information has been provided both before and during the event in easy to see and find locations, both online and off.
- Encourage users to test any event software out ahead of time so they are comfortable during your event. As they register you can hand them a sheet with how to sign in and maybe even a nearby lounge you can direct them to where they can first sign on – you should have an event staff member who is tech savvy on hand in the lounge to help with any kinks people might have.
- Have your design team/programmer create a virtual agenda which showcases important aspects of your agenda so it’s easy to read at a glance.
- Have clear directions and images online which make it a snap for users to find and go to exactly what they need and want.
- Have a clear and present button or chat box which they can click on for online help during the event.
Going Beyond the Virtual Agenda – Create Custom Event Apps for a truly Memorable Event
There are numerous ways to engage with your attendees and provide more than a place to go online to access an updated agenda. In fact the possibilities are pretty much unlimited.
For instance you can have a custom event app or apps which your event attendees can use with their smartphone, iPad (their own or an iPad they rent from you) or other tablet or computer. You can have custom events apps created that:
- sends them instant changes to the agenda (thereby preventing the scenario first mentioned in this article)
- gives them a place to create their own personalized agenda for the conference
- alerts them with valuable information and spur of the moment activities
- asks for their feedback on talks or other event activities
- includes an attendee directory so people can start networking even before the event begins
- offers polls and surveys in real time
- has the capacity for a personalized dashboard for each attendee
- gives them private chat space
- makes it easy to share event information on their social media
- has a guide of the local area and restaurants (including menus)
- helps them navigate the exhibit hall
- has networking tools
- offers digital coupons
- has conference evaluations
- has virtual booths
- gives them quick Q&A options
- offers interaction with speakers
- social check in
- offers instant messaging
- can be used for voting
- has a place to add photos to share on social networks
- offers travel and accommodations assistance
- hotel information
- gives them the ability to order and pay for event merchandise
One of the great things about custom apps for your attendees is that it allows them to access the schedule and other items of interest without having to go through your website first. The easier you can make it on everyone, the happier they are going to be.
Plus, when you’re creating a custom app and online agendas it provides ample opportunity for branding, both yours and your sponsors.
And very importantly, having your agenda, services, and other information online gives you an unparalleled opportunity to gather metrics and other data which you can use not only during the event, but to help you prepare for a future event so you can be more successful than ever.
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In Friday’s Independent, Johann Hari has achieved a quite remarkable feat.
How I wish that the global warming deniers were right
Are you prepared to take a 50-50 gamble on the habitability of the planet?
In just 1400 words he manages to cram in just about every fallacy from the environmentalist’s handbook: he appeals to the dodgiest of authorities, sells politics, catastrophism and factoids as scientific truth, misrepresents his opponents’ arguments, cherrypicks data, explains human behaviour in biologically deterministic terms and politics in environmentally deterministic ones, and resorts to the green equivalent of Pascal’s wager while accusing ‘deniers’ of religious zeal.
So let’s start at the very beginning, where he ploughs straight in with the ultimate in appeals to authority:
Every day, I pine for the global warming deniers to be proved right. I loved the old world – of flying to beaches wherever we want, growing to the skies, and burning whatever source of energy came our way. I hate the world to come that I’ve seen in my reporting from continent after continent – of falling Arctic ice shelves, of countries being swallowed by the sea, of vicious wars for the water and land that remains. When I read the works of global warming deniers like Nigel Lawson or Ian Plimer, I feel a sense of calm washing over me. The nightmare is gone; nothing has to change; the world can stay as it was.
That’s right – the authority he cites is himself. The insufferably misanthropic and self-important ‘comedian’ Marcus Brigstocke, who has also been to the Arctic to see melting ice – twice – so you don’t have to, did the same thing on a recent edition of the BBC’s Question Time (available in the UK only):
I’ve visited the Arctic twice, and the ice is disappearing. I can tell you that the Inuit people that I met in Greenland, who are not part of some grand conspiracy as Melanie [Phillips] might have it, will tell you, year on year, they are seeing dramatic changes. The ice is reducing significantly. You know, I helped a team of scientists from the National Oceanography centre to carry out their experiments [etc]
We should believe Hari and Brigstocke, their argument goes, because they have access to information that we do not. It’s the very stuff of dodgy dossiers. (Talking of which, Hari initially supported the invasion of Iraq, so we look forward to another article at some point where he confesses how ‘terribly wrong‘ he has been on climate change, too.) What’s more, merely witnessing melting polar ice for yourself is merely evidence that polar ice melts when it’s warming enough. There is a gaping crevasse between what Hari and Brigstocke have seen and what they think it is evidence for – which is that catastrophe beckons. Hari and Brigstocke’s personal investments in the plight of the Arctic means we should be less, not more willing to believe them.
Back to Hari:
But then I go back to the facts. However much I want them to be different, they sit there, hard and immovable. Nobody disputes that greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, like a blanket holding in the Sun’s rays. Nobody disputes that we are increasing the amount of those greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And nobody disputes that the world has become considerably hotter over the past century. (If you disagree with any of these statements, you’d fail a geography GCSE).
The funny thing here is that Hari is correct that nobody would dispute any of these statements, to the extent that even those he has just introduced as ‘deniers’, Ian Plimer and Nigel Lawson, do not dispute them. We can only assume he has read neither of them. Plimer and Lawson hold variously that such statements do not lead inevitably to planetary disaster, that the human influence on warming trends is overstated, that other influences are understated, that the climate system is rather more complicated than such a one-dimensional portrayal would suggest, and that a single-pronged attack on CO2 emissions is undesirable – not that the greenhouse effect is not real or that the world has not been warming. He continues:
Yet half our fellow citizens are choosing to believe the deniers who say there must be gaps between these statements big enough to fit an excuse for carrying on as we are. Shrieking at them is not going to succeed.
What Hari cannot imagine is that large swathes of the public are choosing not to believe the pseudo-scientific hyperbole of alarmists like Hari, even though his very article provides them with all the reason they need. Indeed, in his next breath he resorts to writing off public opinion as the product of primaeval biological urges rather than the result of considered judgement of the available evidence and arguments:
Our first response has to be to accept that this denial is an entirely natural phenomenon. The facts of global warming are inherently weird, and they run contrary to our evolved instincts. If you burn an odourless, colourless gas in Europe, it will cause the Arctic to melt and Bangladesh to drown and the American Mid-West to dry up? By living our normal lives, doing all the things we have been brought up doing, we can make great swathes of the planet uninhabitable? If your first response is incredulity, then you’re a normal human being.
Talk about a backhanded compliment. But as a ‘normal human being’, you are a slave not only to your pre-programmed selfish desires, but also to the mind-controlling propaganda of big business:
It’s tempting to allow this first response to harden into a dogma, and use it to cover your eyes. The oil and gas industries have been spending billions to encourage us to stay stuck there, because their profits will plummet when we make the transition to a low-carbon society. But the basic science isn’t actually very complicated, or hard to grasp. As more carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, the world gets warmer…
Meanwhile, normal human beings are apparently impervious to the onslaught of PR from green pressure groups. As we’ve shown elsewhere, the funds available to the likes of Greenpeace and WWF are orders of magnitude greater than that spent by the ‘well-funded denial machine’.
And there’s more cherry-picking where that came from:
…Every single year since 1917 has been hotter than 1917. Every single year since 1956 has been hotter than 1956. Every single year since 1992 has been hotter than 1992. And on, and on. If we dramatically increase the carbon dioxide even more – as we are – we will dramatically increase the warming. Many parts of the world will dry up or flood or burn.
According to the Met Office’s annual global data series 1850-1998, 1917 and 1992 were exceptionally cold years: there were only 5 years cooler than 1917 in the preceding 66 years; after 1992, the next coldest year was 1878. And we can all play Hari’s game: every year since 1998 has been cooler than 1998, for example.
Moreover, all Hari has achieved here is to restate his initial uncontested premise that the world has been warming over the last century. Just saying it a bit louder this time doesn’t make it any more important or dangerous, or informative as to how to respond. Which is why he has also had to escalate the alarmism.
This is such an uncomfortable claim that I too I have tried to grasp at any straw that suggests it is wrong. One of the most tempting has come in the past few weeks, when the emails of the Hadley Centre at the University of East Anglia were hacked into, and seem on an initial reading to show that a few of their scientists were misrepresenting their research to suggest the problem is slightly worse than it is. Some people have seized on it as a fatal blow – a Pentagon Papers for global warming.
But then I looked at the facts. It was discovered more than a century ago that burning fossil fuels would release warming gases and therefore increase global temperatures, and since then, hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently reached the conclusion that it will have terrible consequences…
By now, Hari has drifted far from his reference point of the physics of the greenhouse and is bobbing around helplessly in a sea of catastrophism. The gap can be bridged only by a blatant untruth. Having started the paragraph with the statement that what followed were the true facts, he just makes it up. ‘Hundreds of thousands of scientists’? And there we were thinking that the ‘2500 scientists of the IPCC‘ claim was overstating things. All the scientists, in all the world, across all the scientific sub-disciplines, probably only amount to hundreds of thousands. And it gets worse with almost every additional word: ‘Hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently‘ reached the same conclusion? Is that even humanly possible? Does he think that each scientist has their own personal ivory tower or something? ‘Hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently reached the conclusion that it will have terrible consequences‘?
A good argument made by just a single scientist trumps even hundreds of thousands of scientists that exist only in someone’s head. So let us quote the University of East Anglia climate scientist, and former director of the Tyndall Centre, Mike Hulme, who is concerned that science is being used to provide certainty over big, complex political issues:
The language of catastrophe is not the language of science. It will not be visible in next year’s global assessment from the world authority of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
To state that climate change will be “catastrophic” hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions which do not emerge from empirical or theoretical science.
Meanwhile Hari hasn’t even got to the end of his paragraph:
…It would be very surprising if, somewhere among them, there wasn’t a charlatan or two who over-hyped their work. Such people exist in every single field of science (and they are deplorable).
So let’s knock out the Hadley Centre’s evidence. Here are just a fraction of the major scientific organisations that have independently verified the evidence that man-made global warming is real, and dangerous: Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, L’Academie des Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the UK’s Royal Society, the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency… I could fill this entire article with these names.
Well, at least he’s not citing citing himself this time. But he is wrong to say that these institutions have independently verified the evidence. Research bodies such as NASA and NOAA do, like Hadley, collect and analyse data, and test hypotheses, but Hari is lumping these together with scientific academies and professional bodies that represent their membership politically, which have simply issued position statements to the effect that the world has been warming, that anthropogenic greenhouse gases probably have much to with it, and that this presents problems. To ‘knock out the Hadley Centre’s evidence’ is to write off, among many other lines of research, its global surface temperature record (HADCRUT), which, along with NASA’s GISTEMP, is perhaps the most scientifically important and politically influential climate datsets in existence.
A further sign of Hari’s ignorance on the matter is that it was the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Centre (CRU) that was hacked, not Hadley. And Hadley is part of the UK Met Office, not, as Hari says, UEA. But Hadley produces HADCRUT in conjunction with CRU, so by Hari’s reckoning Hadley and CRU should both be ‘knocked out’. Which leaves him with a single temperature record, and a bunch of position statements from organisations that exist to represent their members’ interests. Last year, we took a look at the gestation of the statement issued by one of those professional bodies – the American Geophysical Union – and argued that these statements should be seen as political attempts to put science centre-stage of climate debates rather than objective appraisals of the state of knowledge.
And they haven’t only used one method to study the evidence. They’ve used satellite data, sea level measurements, borehole analysis, sea ice melt, permafrost melt, glacial melt, drought analysis, and on and on. All of this evidence from all of these scientists using all these methods has pointed in one direction. As the conservative journalist Hugo Rifkind put it, the Hadley Centre no more discredits climate science than Harold Shipman discredits GPs.
Climategate may not discredit climate science, but neither does climate science uphold Hari’s apocalyptic vision.
A study for the journal Science randomly sampled 928 published peer-reviewed scientific papers that used the words “climate change”. It found that 100 per cent – every single one – agreed it is being fuelled by human activity. There is no debate among climate scientists. There are a few scientists who don’t conduct research into the climate who disagree, but going to them to find out how global warming works is a bit like going to a chiropodist and asking her to look at your ears.
The Science paper Hari refers to is this one by Naomi Oreskes. She does indeed find evidence for a consensus. But it is a consensus only that ‘the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling’. What Hari does not mention is that Oreskes concluded that:
The question of what to do about climate change is also still open
For Hari, the fact of climate change is equivalent to the moral imperative he thinks it produces. To say that ‘climate change is real’, is to say ‘what is to be done’. As with so many other activists, there is no argument about how to interpret climate change statistics to work out a sensible response. So any degree of scepticism, or any argument about how to respond to degrees of climate change with degrees of responses naturally returns Hari to the core, binary, fact: ‘climate change is real’.
Part of the confusion in the public mind seems to stem from the failure to understand that two things are happening at once. There has always been – and always will be – natural variation in the climate. The ebb from hot to cold is part of Planet Earth. But on top of that, we are adding a large human blast of warming – and it is disrupting the natural rhythm. So when, in opinion polls, people say warming is “natural”, they are right, but it’s only one part of the story.
What worries Hari is that the ‘public mind’ has coped with the nuances of the debate. The idea that the extent of climate change and its effects might have been exaggerated is dangerous.
Once you have grasped this, it’s easy to see through the claim that global warming stopped in 1998 and the world has been cooling ever since. In 1998, two things came together: the natural warming process of El Nino was at its peak, and our human emissions of warming gases were also rising – so we got the hottest year ever recorded. Then El Nino abated, but the carbon emissions kept up. That’s why the world has remained far warmer than before – eight of the 10 hottest years on record have happened in the past decade – without quite reaching the same peak. Again: if we carry on pumping out warming gases, we will carry on getting warmer.
Hari wants to claim that ‘two things are happening at once’ – which may well be true – but is not happy with the corollary that it may be more of the natural than the anthropogenic. No scientist could state with the certainty that Hari has that the persistence of post-98 temperatures can be attributed to increases in CO2. ‘That is why…’ Hari claims, but it is premature. It may well turn out to be true, but the point is not that science can or has said anything about global temperatures, the point is that the ‘scientific’ account that Hari gives is intended to make statements about those who would interpret things differently. The scientific account is used to diminish the moral and intellectual character of ‘deniers’:
That’s why I won’t use the word “sceptic” to describe the people who deny the link between releasing warming gases and the planet getting warmer. I am a sceptic. I have looked at the evidence highly critically, desperate for flaws. The overwhelming majority of scientists are sceptics: the whole nature of scientific endeavour is to check and check and check again for a flaw in your theory or your evidence. Any properly sceptical analysis leads to the conclusion that man-made global warming is real. Denial is something different: it is when no evidence, no matter how overwhelming, could convince you. It is a faith-based position.
Which is rather rich coming from somebody who has just demonstrated that he doesn’t know what those he calls ‘deniers’ are denying, or what ‘science says’, let alone somebody who has to make up what ‘science says’ in order to make moral arguments about ‘deniers’. Also on Friday, Hari popped up on the BBC’s Newsnight Review for a discussion on climate change and culture:
Talking about the Arctic, you know, I was out there this summer to report on this. You know, the Arctic in my lifetime has lost 40% of its summer ice. By 2012 the North Pole will be a point in the open ocean
We have no idea where he plucked these figures from. Hari was born in 1979, which, as luck would have it, is when the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) satellite records begin. According to those records, Arctic summer ice has declined by about 30% since then. We wouldn’t want to be too hard on him for what might well have been an honest slip of the tongue. His prophecy (note the certainty of his statement) about an ice free Arctic summer, is far more malignant. The IPCC’s AR4 estimates it will take 50 to 100 years for that to happen. But there was a record melt after AR4 was written, so NSIDC has come up with a ball-park date of 2030 based on extrapolation from recent melting trends. Other estimates range over many decades and well into the next century. We assume Hari must be referring to Jay Zwally’s study, which is mentioned here. If so, he is missing a trick; if he wants a single scientist’s estimate to speak for science, he could have quoted David Barber of the University of Manitoba who predicted an ice free Arctic summer by last year.
At issue is not really ‘what science says’ about the world’s temperature, nor even speculation about the date at which we can expect the Arctic to be free of ice in summer. The majority of climate scientists could easily take issue with Hari’s silly claim, but it wouldn’t be a very interesting read. What is at issue is the way in which Hari carries on not only making up stats such as this, but wielding them as some kind of talisman, which gives him moral authority. His wild speculation about the future of Arctic ice speaks more about the way in which ‘the science’ exists as a means by which Hari can express his shrill internal dialog. He makes stuff up to give himself a voice, and defends it by claiming to be the vessel through which science speaks. He, like the vast majority of scientists, is the sceptic, he announces. Pity that he’s not such a sceptic that he ever checks his own argument. As we’ve said previously, this inability to self-reflect is the symptom of the angry, shrill, non-scientist, moralising, and disoriented journalist-activists such as Monbiot, Lynas, and now Hari. What they write is science fiction. They incautiously assemble scientific factoids, removed from their scientific context, to construct terrifying narratives about the future. This elevates them to the status of planet-saving super-journos, and from this platform their bizarre stories become the device through which they interpret the world. But they are merely peering into their own arseholes, not, as they claim, through the prism of scientific objectivity. What they see is chaos and catastrophe, but what they do not recognise in what they see is that it is entirely their own confusion staring back at them.
Throughout this blog, and in our last two posts in the context of Climategate, we have argued that environmental politics, not environmental science, underpins the war on climate change, and that at the centre of that politics sits the precautionary principle. We are grateful to Hari, then, for supporting our thesis. He ends his article by casting aside all that science and appealing to the precautionary principle in the form of Pascal’s wager:
So let’s – for the sake of argument – make an extraordinary and unjustified concession to the deniers. Let’s imagine there was only a 50 per cent chance that virtually all the world’s climate scientists are wrong. Would that be a risk worth taking? Are you prepared to take a 50-50 gamble on the habitability of the planet? Is the prospect of getting our energy from the wind and the waves and the sun so terrible that’s not worth it on even these wildly optimistic odds?
We’ll leave aside Hari’s claim that ‘virtually all the world’s climate scientists’ agree that climate change is set to render the planet uninhabitable, other than to say that he seems to be confusing ‘virtually all the world’s climate scientists’ with the singular James Lovelock.
So, first, Hari extrapolates from a handful of rather mundane consensus statements about atmospheric physics in order to conclude that there is only one way forward politically. And now he’s telling us that there’s still only one way forward politically even if those consensus statements are wrong. He presents the future as a stark choice between two competing visions – zero carbon or an uninhabitable planet. Environmentalism or death. He reinforces the point with a story:
Imagine you are about to get on a plane with your family. A huge group of qualified airline mechanics approach you on the tarmac and explain they’ve studied the engine for many years and they’re sure it will crash if you get on board. They show you their previous predictions of plane crashes, which have overwhelmingly been proven right. Then a group of vets, journalists, and plumbers tell they have looked at the diagrams and it’s perfectly obvious to them the plane is safe and that airplane mechanics – all of them, everywhere – are scamming you. Would you get on the plane? That is our choice at Copenhagen.
Hari’s little story is intended to be a cautionary tale about which kind of expertise is pertinent, but it fails, as so many dumbed-down analogies fail. In his striving for simplicity, he not only patronises his readers, but he loses any purchase on the arguments in the debate that is taking place. We picked up Andrew Dessler for the same mistake a couple of years ago. Dessler – a former scientific advisor to Clinton – had asked us to imagine the warming world as a child sick with cancer. Would you take the child to the best pediatric cancer specialists, or to non-specialists, he asked:
So Freeman Dyson makes lists. While I’m certain he’s a smart guy, I would not take a sick child to him, and I won’t take a sick planet to him either. In both cases, he simply does not have the relevant specialist knowledge. That also applies the large number of social scientists, computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem. The bottom line is that the opinions of most of the skeptics on the list are simply not credible.
Unfortunately for Dessler, we tested his claim that the IPCC were the specialist doctors in his analogy by counting the specialisms of the latest IPCC report’s contributors. It turns out that many of them were precisely the ‘social scientists, computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem’ that he had complained about. (You can read about WGI here, WGII here and WGIII here). Our detractors argued that we had been disingenuous, and that only IPCC WGI counts, the other two groups – which comprised a much larger proportion of ‘non-expert’ opinions – being less concerned with the ‘Physical Science Basis’, and focusing instead on ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, and the ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’. This misses the point that the arguments about what kind of problem climate change is and what to do about it emerge almost exclusively from WGII and WGIII, not from WGI, yet the putative scientific authority of the IPCC emerges exclusively from WGI.
What Hari, like Dessler, forgets is the difference between the sensitivity of climate to CO2, and the sensitivity of society to climate. Or to put it more broadly, there is a difference between the natural world’s sensitivity to CO2, and human society’s sensitivity to changes in the natural world. Hari and his ilk like to stress the equivalence between the environment’s and society’s sensitivity. They seem to feel that once the scientific case has been made, the political and moral argument has been had and won. This environmental determinism, we have argued, reflects the hollowness of their own outlooks, hence the interminable screeching, hectoring and ranty tone of commentators like Hari, and our favourite, George ‘air travel is like child abuse‘ Monbiot.
We can all tell stories. You’re about to get on a plane with your family. A group of shrill and sanctimonious journalists from the Guardian and Independent newspapers tell you that, if you take the journey, poor people all over the world will die wretched, horrible deaths. They show you statistics showing how many people have died already, and how many more will die in the future. ‘You will be culpable for their deaths’, they say. ‘Do you want their blood on your hands?’ they ask. Then another group of non-experts arrive. They say that there are many ways to understand the poverty that kills people, and that not taking the journey won’t make such lives any better. The journalists return, they say that the other group are funded by huge corporate interests, and cannot be trusted because they are either mad or bad. They tell you that they have science on their side, that climate change is real and is happening, and that they have witnessed its ravages for themselves. Who are you going to trust,’ they demand, ‘us, or the other group?’ Shouldn’t you take the cautious route, just in case? After all, they might be right. You step down from the plane. But as you walk across the tarmac, you notice that the journalists are now getting on the plane. Some of them are going to Copenhagen. One is heading across the Atlantic to lecture Canadians about their climate responsibilities. Another is off to the Arctic, to see some climate change. | <urn:uuid:12c47094-b78e-41a2-b3ca-1b056d2fc72a> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/12/hari-drama-hari-gaia.html?replytocom=2167 | 2021-06-25T06:49:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487622113.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20210625054501-20210625084501-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.960723 | 5,964 |
California Unemployment Department
The department in this state that handles unemployment insurance is called California Employment Development. If you have questions or issues about filing a new or weekly unemployment claim, they should be able to assist you. We provide the contact information for the California Unemployment Department below including the location, phone number and government website where you can find out how to file your claims, report fraud, find a job for employees and help businesses grow for employers. We also provide the information on how to file for CA unemployment online and file for unemployment over the phone.
If you lost your job at no fault of your own, then it is important to file your claim right away. File your UI claim in the first week that you lose your job or have your hours reduced. Your claim begins on the Sunday of the week you submitted your application. At the time of filing you will need information including your last employer information including company name, supervisor’s name, address and phone number. The last date worked and the reason you are no longer working, the gross earnings in the last week you worked, beginning with Sunday and ending with your last day of work and more. To see if you are eligible to receive these benefits and what additional information is needed when applying, find out how to file your California unemployment claim. As a reminder, unemployment insurance benefits are taxable. You must report any unemployment benefits you receive as part of your gross income on your taxes.
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California Employment Development
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Steve Downie was traded to Tampa Bay from Philadelphia in 2008. (Photo by Gregg Forwerck/NHLI via Getty Images)
Status: Tampa Bay Lightning right winger
Ht: 5-foot-11 Wt: 200 pounds
DOB: April 3, 1987 In: Newmarket, Ont.
First Hockey Memory: "My first skating memory was getting pushed around in a chair on a pond back home. And I was crying because everyone else could skate and I couldn't skate."
Nicknames: "Downs is pretty much it."
Hobbies/Leisure Activities: "Golf, movies, I like sitting on the couch."
Favorite Movie: "Billy Madison."
Last Book Read: "Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter."
Favorite TV Show: "Family Guy."
Musical Tastes: "Country."
Hockey Inspirations: "I was a Toronto guy growing up, so Doug Gilmour, Wendel Clark, the Leafs."
First Job: "Grocery store, stocking apples."
First Car: "A Dodge Neon with white hubcaps."
Current Car: "2008 Escalade (white)."
Favorite Meal: "Lasagna, chicken parm."
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: "Strawberry."
Pre-Game Feeling: "I'm laid back before a game. Like to joke around, like to have fun. That's about it."
Greatest Sports Moment: "Probably winning the gold medal in the world juniors. I'd have to say that. That and scoring my first NHL goal."
Most Painful Moment: "Probably losing to Pittsburgh in the playoffs two years ago."
Favorite Uniforms: "I like Tampa Bay's. Tampa Bay's are good."
Favorite Arena: "Montreal is good. Toronto's good. I like Montreal."
Funny Hockey Memory: "In junior, I had my car got put on jacks by a couple guys and I had to bike to practice, that was pretty funny."
Closest NHL Friends: "I'd have to say my closest are back home, my hockey buddies. (In Tampa?) I'd say Zenon Konopka."
Funniest Player Encountered: "Zenon Konopka. He's got some screws loose, that's why I like him (smiles)."
Toughest Competitors: "Toughest to play against, I'd say (Evgeni) Malkin and (Sidney) Crosby. They really gave it to us, they're good players."
Embarrassing Hockey Memory: "Went out to practice with my skate-guards on once. That was pretty embarrassing when I was in Philly. The guys were laughing at me pretty good. (You fell?) I didn't really...yeah, I fell. Yeah, I fell (smiles)."
Strangest Game: "We played New Jersey and the lights went out halfway through the game and we had to come back the next day. That was wild. It never happened to me before."
Most Memorable Goal: "First NHL goal, definitely. It was against Toronto, in Toronto."
Favorite Players To Watch: "Growing up, Wendel Clark, Dougie Gilmour, Toronto guys. (Vincent) Lecavalier, (Martin) St-Louis – I like to watch them."
Personality Qualities Most Admired: "I like all kinds of personalities – outgoing, funny. I like funny people. People that make a lot of jokes and are outgoing."
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Barrett’s esophagus is a rare condition in which the tissue lining in the esophagus changes color and composition as a result of long-term exposure to stomach acid. While most patients with Barrett’s esophagus do not experience any symptoms, this condition most often affects patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, and as a result may have symptoms such as heartburn, chest pain and difficulty swallowing food. Patients with this condition may have an increased risk of developing esophageal cancer. Treatment for Barrett’s esophagus depends on the severity of the condition and the overall health of the patient, but may include simply monitoring the condition through regular endoscopies, or surgery to remove the esophagus or the damaged cells. Removing damaged cells can often be done using minimally invasive techniques, such as an endoscopy or photodynamic therapy. Your doctor will help decide which treatment option is best for your individual condition.
Bleeding of Digestive Tract
Bleeding in the digestive tract is a symptom that can be indicative of several different diseases, some of which are life-threatening. Many cases of bleeding are a result of ulcers or hemorrhoids, which can be cured easily, but still require prompt treatment. The digestive tract includes the esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum and anus, and bleeding can occur in any of these areas. Depending on the location of the bleeding, some people may not even notice it, while others may experience bloody stools or vomit, as well as dizziness, faintness, shortness of breath or cramping. Other symptoms may be present as well depending on the underlying cause. Digestive bleeding can be caused by a number of different conditions, some of which include:
- Inflammation of the esophagus
- Esophageal tears
- Irritable bowel disease
- Crohn's disease or Ulcerative colitis
It is important to locate the site of the bleeding in order to properly treat this condition. Your doctor can diagnose digestive tract bleeding through a complete medical history and an endoscopy. This diagnostic procedure can often determine the location and cause of the bleeding. Other tests, such as a colonoscopy, anoscopy or barium x-rays, may be performed as well. Treatment for digestive bleeding depends on the underlying cause and whether the condition is acute or chronic. Treatment options can range from simple life changes, to medication, to tumor resection. Chemicals can also be injected during a diagnostic endoscopy to help control the bleeding before further action is taken. It is important to take the proper measures to diagnose digestive bleeding in order to effectively treat the underlying conditions. | <urn:uuid:620de24f-e7e1-4b32-9d90-075827fc0653> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.alliedgastro.com/services/conditions/conditions/ | 2017-06-28T01:56:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322275.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628014207-20170628034207-00060.warc.gz | en | 0.92743 | 554 |
I read a lot of books that I don’t end up reviewing for whatever reason. Some because I wasn’t impressed. Some because I didn’t have the time. Some I just wasn’t feeling it on whatever particular day I finished. I thought I’d start doing a post once a month with just the couple thoughts I shared on Good Reads.
Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery. Read December 27-31 (yes, last month, but it didn’t make it into last month’s post). 4 Stars.
I expected this to be a really light and fluffy read, but it ended up being a lot more serious than I thought it would be. I mean, it’s not super serious, there’s still cute and fluffy moments, but it’s not really as “Chick Lit” as I thought it would be. This is not a bad thing at all, though. I really enjoyed this book and thought the character development was really well done. I loved how each of the sisters were affected differently by the events of their childhood and how it still impacted their lives decades later. I really liked Courtney and Rachel right off the bat. I really didn’t care for Sienna for the longest time, but by the end of the book I was rooting for her. I shipped all the romances. I loved the humor. I definitely recommend this one to Contemporary fans!
The Wedding Season by Samantha Chase. Read January 3-4. 3 Stars.
This was a quick, ok read. I liked the relationship between Ryan and Tricia, but the “fake relationship” aspect of it was very, very short and that kind of frustrated me because it was the main reason I decided to read this one. Ryan’s mother drove me insane and I wasn’t a big fan of Ryan’s brother (and Tricia’s best friend) Sean. If you’re looking for a quick read with lots of romance then you might enjoy this.
Mackenzie Fire (Shine Not Burn #2) by Elle Casey. Read January 2-7. 2.5 Stars.
The latter half of this book was definitely better than the beginning, but it wasn’t quite enough to make up for it. Candice really rubbed me the wrong way for most of the book. I don’t particularly like the phrase “too stupid to live”, but that’s what kept coming to mind in pretty much every scene I read. However, she did grow on me by the end of the book and I liked her and Ian together (even though the romance happened super fast). If you don’t mind a ditzy protagonist, though, you might like this.
Twisted Palace (The Royals #3) by Erin Watt. Read January 4-7. 2 Stars.
Well, that was disappointing. I don’t expect great literary things out of this series, but after how addicting the first book was, I except to at least be entertained. I had to force myself to finish this. My early prediction about the “mystery” ended up being right. All the high school drama seemed really unimportant since Reed is facing a murder charge, but it still got most of the plot focus. Disappointing end to a series that started out so fun.
The Program (The Program #1) by Suzanne Young. Read January 7-8. 3 Stars.
This has been on my TBR forever and when nothing at all was sounding interesting to me I decided to finally give it a try. It kept my interest and I liked it, but I didn’t feel like it was really anything special. Some of the descriptions of depression I thought were really well done, but this is not a “mental health awareness” book by any means (this isn’t a bad thing – but if you’re looking for that be forewarned). I liked the characters well enough, but didn’t really love any of them. I shipped the wrong couple, even though I knew that they wouldn’t end up together and was really suspicious of the guy from the start. I did really like the epilogue, though. It had a few surprises that I appreciated. I liked this enough to read the next book, but this book didn’t blow me away like it has so many others.
Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson. Read January 8-10. 4 Stars.
Overall, I really enjoying Seeking Mansfield. I liked the characters and the romance and the message of self-worth and standing up for yourself. It was an easy and addicting read. Though I thought the middle of the story dragged a little bit with too much teen angst, it did pick back up and I really enjoyed it. I think fans of Mansfield Park would be happy to read this re-telling. Full Review to come.
I Found You by Lisa Jewell. Read January 14-15. 4 Stars.
I really enjoyed I Found You. It’s emotional and intriguing and I could hardly put it down. I thought Jewell did an excellent job of juggling the characters and timelines. I definitely recommend this book and really look forward to reading more from this author. Full review to come closer to release date.
Dead Scared (Lacey Flint #2) by Sharon Bolton. Read January 15-17. 4 Stars.
What!? Why is there no epilogue? This book needed an epilogue! I am pretty unsatisfied with how it ended.
Other than that, I liked this book. One thing I really liked was getting Joesbury’s perspective. Though I wish we got more from him, pretty much everything we got just made me love him even more. The first 3/4 or so or the book lacked the urgency that I enjoyed about the first in the series, but the writing was still engaging enough that I didn’t want to stop reading. As the ending approached it got a lot more suspenseful. Though we find out the answer to the mystery, there is no resolution to how it all pans out and I’m really annoyed about that. Definitely still reading the next book, though.
Lost (Lacey Flint #3) by Sharon Bolton. Read January 17-18. 4 Stars.
This was so good! A mix of psychological and urgent/action-y suspense. Also very character driven. While I was a little upset that we didn’t get Joesbury’s POV again, I liked getting Tulloch’s (though it made me not like her as much) and Lacey’s young neighbor, Barney. We get very little of Lacey’s POV for the first half of the book which I found a little odd, but still worked. The mystery was well done. I had it all completely figured out a couple of times before being proved wrong. While I did eventually guess the murderer before the reveal, it was probably my 4th or 5th guess. This is really one of the best mystery series I’ve read in a long time.
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle. Read January 19-21. 3 Stars.
Maybe it’s because I just finished several books in the same genre that were exceptionally well done, but I found all the mystery and thriller aspects of this book very disappointing. Though there were a lot of reveals thrown in every few chapters, the pace seemed incredibly slow to me. Until the last quarter or so I was just really bored and trying to get through it. The action and suspense did increase towards the end, but it wasn’t really enough to save the book for me. I feel like if you don’t read a lot of this genre then you might like this, but I could predict pretty much every development from the beginning and there just weren’t any surprises until the very, very end. I did very much like how it ended (and I’m talking the last few sentences), but I wish there would’ve been an epilogue to wrap things up. Overall, not a bad book, but not a great one.
Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett. Read January 21-22. 3.5 Stars.
Overall, I did enjoy Alex, Approximately. Even though there wasn’t a lot that was happening, I didn’t really want to put it down. Though I think some of the side plots and character development could have used a little more work, the romance was cute and the characters were likable. I would recommend it to YA Contemporary fans. Full review to come.
Waste of Space by Gina Damico. Read January 26-28. 3.5 Stars.
Overall, I found Waste of Space pretty enjoyable. I loved the satirical view of reality television. Though it did occasionally go a little far into cheesy territory, I thought it was really well done overall. If you’re looking for a humorous, different kind of YA book, I definitely recommend this one. Catchphrase forever! Full review to come.
To Have and to Hold (The Wedding Belles #1) by Lauren Layne. Read January 28-29. 3.5 Stars.
This book had some really cute, if sometimes frustrating, romance. I liked both Brooke and Seth. I dropped the rating half a star though because there was one major theme that kind of infuriated me. Seth doesn’t trust his sister’s new fiancé and wants to check into his background because he loves his sister and doesn’t want her to get hurt. I think this is totally reasonable. I can understand where the sister might get mad about it, but in the big picture wouldn’t she be happy to know if something shady was going on before it’s too late? But Brooke and Seth’s best friend are horrified by it and tell him he doesn’t know what love is…um, NO! Seth was maybe a little stunted in expressing his emotions, but his heart was 1,000% in the right place. Other than that and some slightly too graphic sex scenes, I enjoyed this book a lot.
Making Faces by Amy Harmon. Read January 29-30. 4.5 Stars.
Overall, I just loved Making Faces. It’s not a light book. It hurt to read at times. But it was beautifully written and included some amazing characters and really important messages. I really don’t think I can recommend this book enough. I’m definitely going to be looking up other books by this author in the future. Full Review to come.
Tell Me Three Things and Red Rising. I loved both of these just as much as the first time around. I was a little afraid I wouldn’t like Red Rising as much because one of my favorite things were all the surprises in it (and I have hyped it to death, so how embarrassing would it be if it didn’t hold up), but even though I knew some things were coming, I still just found myself smiling at the twists and turns. If you have not read this series yet – WHY NOT?
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Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick. I feel like I’ve been waiting for this book to become available at the library FOREVER. But it came at one of those times where I just wasn’t feeling it. Lately I find myself sick to death of celebrities. And even though I want to be best friends with Anna Kendrick every time I watch Pitch Perfect, I just couldn’t make myself pick up this book right now.
Someone Like You by Susan Mallery. Officially DNF-ing at 33%. I thought it would be nice symmetry to have the first book I read of 2017 be by the same author as the last book I read in 2016. I’ve enjoyed the other books I read by her, but I just couldn’t get into this one at all. I just don’t care about the characters or the story so far, so I’m calling it. | <urn:uuid:f5f07c4b-1003-4ee7-afa4-3488cabfce57> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://stephaniesbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/erin-watt/ | 2017-07-27T12:37:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549428257.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727122407-20170727142407-00572.warc.gz | en | 0.980543 | 2,552 |
Introduction to XPath
XPath can be thought of as a query language such as SQL. However, rather than extracting information from a database, it extracts information from an XML document. XPath is a language for retrieving from a database, it extracts information from an XML document. XPath is a language for retrieving information from a XML document. XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document. Thus, XPath allows identifying parts of an XML document.
XPath provides a common syntax as shown in figure:-
- XSLT: XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into XML, HTML, or text.
- XQuery: XQuery builds on XPath and is a language for extracting from XML documents.
Benefits of XPath
XPath is desingned for XML documents. It provides a single syntax that you can use for queries, addressing, and patterns. XPath is concise, simple, and powerful.
XPath has many benefits:
- Syntax is simple for the simple and common cases
- Any path that can occur in an XML document and any set of conditions for the nodes in the path can be specified.
- Any node in an XML document can be uniquely identified
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India is a vast country with many states and each state having its own distinct culture, life style and language. As a part of culture, each state has a distinct style of clothing which is little different from others but has a completely different identity of its own.
Phulkari sarees originate from the state of Punjab. Term Phulkari literally means ‘flower work’ which is the style of embroidery that you will find predominantly in all types of women clothes made in Punjab. It is a kind of domestic art that the women of Punjab practiced to satisfy their creative urge and to give as present to their daughters for dowry in marriage.
Some people believe that Phulkari embroidery came from central Asia with the Jat tribes that migrated to India and settled in parts of Haryana and Punjab of India. Phulkari embroidery is very intricate and colorful embroidery with the color red as the most preferred as it is considered auspicious in Hindu and Sikh culture.
Main characteristics of Phulkari Embroidered Saree:
Main characteristic of a Phulkari embroidered saree is that the embroidery is done from the wrong side of the fabric with colored thread. Different shades of threads are used in different combinations of stitching styles to create beautiful designs of flowers, leaves, birds, animals etc. Some of the most popular motifs used in Phulkari embroidery are Karela bagh, gobhi bagh, dhaniya bagh, mirchi bagh and many more.
Today however new motifs have come to replace many of the older ones owing to the global influence. Earlier Phulkari sarees were mostly draped only by the women from Punjab but with time as the markets have opened up and products and services have started to migrate from one place to another, women from all over the globe have started to buy these sarees from offline as well as online stores.
One of the important characteristics of Phulkari sarees is that unlike some other sarees Phulkari sarees are not inspired by religious monuments nor have any kind of religious leanings. Instead, these sarees depict the way of life and happiness in them. They are inspired by life and are therefore multicolored and vibrant.
Style of Phulkari Embroideries on Sarees:
There are several types of Phulkari embroidery are used to decorate sarees. Most prominent embroideries are as follows:
Chope and Subhar:
These two are the most prominent types of embroideries that are done on the sarees worn by new brides. In the Chope style, embroidery is done on both sides of the fabric with only the borders and four corners of the saree being embroidered in fine embroidery. In the Subhar style the saree has a motif in the centre and four motifs on the four corners of the saree.
Til Patra Style:
In this style of Phulkari embroidery, the motifs are spread sparsely like spreading of sesame seeds in the fields.
In this style of Phulkari embroidery the background is made in black or red with yellow or bright red embroidery.
In this style of embroidery mirrors are sewn into the fabric using yellow, grey or blue thread.
This style of Phulkari embroidery uses birds and jewellery like bracelets, earrings and necklace designs as motifs in the saree.
Fabrics used for Phulkari sarees:
Phulkari sarees come in a wide variety of fabrics including cotton, jute, satin, georgette, crepe, chiffon, organza, silk etc. Although originally mostly cotton was the most popular fabric to be used for the saree but now with machines taking over from artisans and Phulkari sarees entering the fashion scene of India, fabrics of different kinds are in use to make gorgeous sarees.
Also with the introduction of machine looms instead of handlooms and bare hands for embroidery work, the stitches in embroidery have become loose and not as intricate as they were before. Instead of cotton threads, today industries have started using silk and other threads that have changed the style and look of Phulkari embroidery.
Phulkari sarees in Fashion:
Phulkari sarees and Phulkari design is high on the fashion pedestal in India. Today designers from all over the country are using Phulkari embroidery in most of their outfits including sarees and Lehenga. Top bollywood actresses like Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra are wearing Phulkari sarees in their upcoming movies and red carpet functions.
Apart from being a big fashion rage in the country, women from all over the globe are enthusiastically buying Phulkari design sarees from India through specialist export houses and online saree stores catering worldwide.
The best part of Phulkari sarees is that they are very attractive and bright colored. Although red is the most preferred color of all the designers, but today you can find Phulkari designs in many other colors as well.
Today apart from sarees, Phulkari embroidery is heavily being used in other products like bags, women shoes and sandals, suits and other outfits.
Innovations in Phulkari sarees:
There are number of innovations that have been made in Phulkari sarees according to changing times and fashion demands. Instead of khaddar that was being used as the fabric for Phulkari outfits, it has been replaced by various different fabrics like cotton, silk, georgette, crepe and many more.
Making Phulkari saree is no more a time pass hobby for the women of Punjab to satisfy their creative urge. Instead it has turned into a full scale industry that employs hundreds of machines and labor to manufacture sarees. Instead of minute detailing of designs by women for their creativity, it has now changed into computer generated designs made by machines. Self hand spun threads have been replaced by fast colored synthetic and silk threads.
Buying Phulkari sarees:
You can find Phulkari sarees in almost all saree stores in your town or city. However, if you do not find one that suits your style or color and wish to look for more, you can find astronomical variety of these sarees in online saree stores from where you can choose from hundreds of designs available in photographs and get them delivered at your doorstep from the cool confines of your office or home. | <urn:uuid:c4de46d5-7c5f-4c03-a892-24174b93263f> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://fashionbuzzer.com/amazing-phulkari-sarees-different-types/ | 2023-03-20T09:35:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943471.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320083513-20230320113513-00763.warc.gz | en | 0.962086 | 1,379 |
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McCartney has been recognised as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist. More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song "Yesterday", more than any other copyrighted song in history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999), and a 21-time Grammy Award winner (having won both individually and with the Beatles), McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2014 he has sold more than 15.5million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr received MBEs in 1965, and in 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.
The Other Me is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie about a teenager who accidentally clones himself as a genius and ends up using his clone to pass school. The movie is the 23rd Disney Channel Original Movie and is based on the book Me Two by Mary C. Ryan.
Will Browning is a seventh grade student who does not perform well in school. His father says that if Will does not improve soon, he will be spending the summer at Camp Spartacus, a boot camp for boys which will help him learn responsibility and discipline. To make up for the grades, Will orders a science project from an organization, "Ocean Pups."
Two scientists, Victor and Conrad, who work there want to move out and work in a "real" lab. They make a breakthrough when they create a process of cloning they call "hyper-cloning". But when they leave, a cloned lab mouse escapes, and their cat chases it all over the lab. It then accidentally knocks over the cloning formula, which drips through a crack in the floor and all over an "Ocean Pups" kit. When Victor and Conrad find out about Will ordering the kit, they decide to spy on the house and take the possible clone back to the lab for experimentation.
Pipes of Peace is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney, released in 1983. As the follow-up to the popular Tug of War, the album came close to matching the commercial success of its predecessor in Britain but peaked only at number 15 on America's Billboard 200 albums chart. While Pipes of Peace was the source of international hit singles such as "Say Say Say" (recorded with Michael Jackson) and the title track, the critical response to the album was less favourable than that afforded to Tug of War.
Background and structure
Upon its release, many were quick to notice that Pipes of Peace mirrored its predecessor in many ways. It was produced by George Martin, it featured two collaborations with the same artist (this time with Michael Jackson; the Tug of War collaborations being with Stevie Wonder), and continued McCartney's alliance in the studio with Ringo Starr, former 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart and his last session work with Wings guitarist Denny Laine. The reason for all of this is that many of the songs released on Pipes of Peace were recorded during the 1981 sessions for Tug of War, with "Pipes of Peace", "The Other Me", "So Bad", "Tug of Peace" and "Through Our Love" being recorded afterwards, in September–October 1982. By November, McCartney would start shooting his self-written motion picture Give My Regards to Broad Street, co-starring wife Linda, Ringo Starr and Tracey Ullman, which would take up most of his time throughout 1983. Due to the filming commitments (and to allow a reasonable lapse of time between his new album and Tug of War), Pipes of Peace was delayed until October for release. | <urn:uuid:d938fdd9-402b-40d9-8a76-8f07f3bc64f2> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://ro.wn.com/The_Other_Me_Paul_Mccartney | 2021-05-17T11:05:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517084550-20210517114550-00059.warc.gz | en | 0.97455 | 884 |
PML-N not part of deal b/w Musharraf, PPP and Establishment: Rashid
Information Minister was talking to media in Lahore.
Pervaiz Rashid referring to former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s press conference on Friday, clarified that Gilani did not say Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was taken on board regarding the deal struck between the establishment, the PPP government and the PML-N to give a ‘safe passage’ to Musharraf.
He remarked that PPP had told PML-N to give indemnity to former president Pervez Musharraf but for the first time in the history of Pakistan a parliament refused to give indemnity to a former dictator.
Gilani had said that PML-N should abide by the deal rather than take action against Musharraf.
Information Minister said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan will be among many politicians who will be invited to the government’s Independence Day rally at D-Chowk in Islamabad on August 14.
He said that the PTI chief, the head of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief, National Party leader Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman are among the politicians who will be invited to the rally. | <urn:uuid:7ac59b16-cd6a-40de-8453-356367958d5c> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://arynews.tv/en/pml-n-not-part-of-deal-bw-musharraf-ppp-and-establishment-rashid/ | 2019-06-18T16:36:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998808.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618163443-20190618185443-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.958681 | 348 |
Grant Gustin & Candice Patton Talk "The Flash" 100th EpisodeThe "Flash" stars discuss the CW series' major milestone. Plus, hear what Candice has to say about surviving to the 100th episode.
Grant Gustin Weighs In on Stephen Amell's Acting as "The Flash"The "Flash" star and executive producer Todd Helbing discuss the logistics behind The CW's upcoming "Arrow" crossover.
'Supernatural' Stars Spill On Season 14 With Rapid-Fire QuestionsJared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles & Misha Collins answer every single question you could possibly have about the new season of their CW drama!
Camila Mendes Explains BF Charles Melton's Nickname For HerAfter the "Riverdale" actress revealed the adorable nickname her BF has for her last night on the PCA red carpet, Camila tells Busy the real reason behind it.
Supergirl's "Parasite Lost" In A Nutshell (Spoilers)Comicbook.com reports the "Supergirl" episode "Parasite Lost" made quite the impact!
The CW Announces Midseason Premiere DatesThe CW's newest season of programming is already in full swing, but fans now have an idea of when their favorite shows will return from winter break.
'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend': Showrunner Spills Final Seasons Secrets'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend': Showrunner Spills Final Seasons Secrets
"Charmed" Cast Can't Wait for Their Halloween EpisodeMadeleine Mantock, Melonie Diaz, Ser'Darius Blain & Rupert Evans tease the spooky episode of their CW show and admit only one of them celebrates the holiday!
"Charmed" Reboot Cast Picks Favorite WitchesMelonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock and Ser'Darius Blain tell which bewitching movies and TV shows inspired them to make their CW series!
Gina Rodriguez In 'Miss Bala' First TrailerA beauty contest winner is forced to work for a crime boss after she witnesses a murder.
"Charmed" Cast Opens Up About The CW RebootMelonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, Rupert Evans and Ser'Darius Blain dish on the show's modern twist and how they're dealing with the pressure of a reboot.
Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki Help Fans With What to Do While You're Missing DeanJared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on dealing with the loss of 'your favorite Winchester brother.'
Daniel Ezra Practiced His American Accent On & Off SetThe British "All American" actor recalls how he got the part of Spencer Paysinger and talks working with April Blair & Greg Berlanti.
Why Leighton Meester Wouldn't Return to "Gossip Girl"The "Single Parents" star reveals she does not want to go back to her days as Blair Waldorf on the CW teen drama
'Veronica Mars' Reboot Officially Happening: New Details ReleasedThe Veronica Mars revival is officially a Go. | <urn:uuid:5fd16972-9fee-4273-89af-f376723a3e07> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://cwatlanta.cbslocal.com/tag/cw/page/2/ | 2019-06-18T15:07:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998755.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618143417-20190618165417-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.881355 | 628 |
Eternity rings are meant as a symbol of everlasting love. As a fine jewellery piece eternity rings are a wonderful item for a husband to give his wife for numerous occasions. There are no hard and fast rules regarding when an eternity ring should be given as a gift. Traditionally eternity rings are bestowed on anniversaries, special occasions, and even the birth of children.
Hancocks Jewellers provides an array of white diamond eternity rings to their clientele. There are two types of white diamond rings you can expect to discover at Hancocks Jewellers. Eternity rings are either half or fully set, which means the diamonds or gemstones may fit the entire band or just a partial section of the band. Full eternity rings tend to be impractical for most women. The diamonds or gemstones around the bands can be uncomfortable, due to the thickness they create. The full diamond eternity rings are also harder to size than the half set eternity rings.
The half set eternity rings are easier to size because the jewellery designer can modify the band without fear of damaging the white diamonds, gemstones, or coloured diamonds. For this reason Hancocks Jewellers will have a small selection of full eternity rings at specific and average sizes. They will also have a fine jewellery selection of half set eternity rings, like the Platinum Eternity Ring Set with 5 diamonds in a bar style.
The occasion a white diamond eternity ring is presented may vary between buyers, but the selection of white diamond rings will always be available at Hancocks Jewellers. Hancocks Jewellers prides itself on offering high quality fine diamond jewellery to clientele, as well as bestowing excellent customer service on patrons.
The eternity rings presented at Hancocks Jewellers makes up just a portion of their white diamond jewellery. | <urn:uuid:5ea2e011-2c25-4bb6-879a-e860439d9ef0> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.hancocksjewellers.co.uk/blog/occasions-offer-eternity-rings/ | 2017-06-25T07:00:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320443.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625064745-20170625084745-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.925081 | 370 |
I am helping my dad to find a new heeling horse. He is in his 60's and has roped for over 20 years but has had bad luck with the last horse. Just too much to handle. He was not good in the box and would rear, plus he worked too much off of his front end and was a rough ride. Can you please take a look at the video of BK Poco for me and just see if you notice anything that I may have missed. Also does anyone know what sort of dispositions Poco Bueno's usually carry? Thanks much!! | <urn:uuid:aeaf9b48-749b-476e-bcef-eefbb4c05f2e> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.horseforum.com/horses-sale/please-take-look-horse-give-me-57363/ | 2015-10-05T20:03:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443736677918.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001215757-00236-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993159 | 119 |
A 2 page Digital layout of me and my ups and downs of life.
I get happy, I get sad, I get loud, I get quiet. I Love
food, I am out spoken yet keep quiet. I don't
take crap from anyone and don't talk it either.
If I have something to say, I will say it to your face.
I am not a neat freak, yet I like my house to be clean, not cluttered. I am OCD about a few things. I do not trust easily, but when I do I am still cautious. I was a teenage mom, getting pregnant at 16 & I am not ashamed nor embarrassed to admit that. Getting pregnant so young and taking care of my child is one of my life accomplishments I am most proud of. I make mistakes just like everyone and I, just like most people, learn from those mistakels.
I never claimed to be perfect, how ever I do strive for perfection in some areas of my life. I am over weight, but before I got pregnant I was steadily reaching my goal. Sometimes I think I don't like myself and other times I do. I can be a b**** at times.. All of this is part of who I am, and I am proud to be me. | <urn:uuid:2806b6bc-7d6c-4608-920f-616509d0ba31> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/?m=image&id=2499393&type=digital&start=44904 | 2015-03-03T16:00:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463318.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00057-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975911 | 263 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most awesome people on the planet. And he can probably tell you more about every other planet than anyone else.
Guests on the Daily Show can be hit or miss.Neil is never a miss. He's one of those people who you learn something new from every time you hear them speak. He's not only super brilliant but he can explain his ideas to the layman.
His love of science is infectious. When he speaks, I almost want to study science. I don't, but I read more science after watching or listening to something with Neil on it than I normally would. Just listen to him talk about Sir Isaac Newton. | <urn:uuid:996ee34c-e70c-4552-b8e3-0fd76ec77291> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.scottcharris.com/2013/04/day-37-101-days-of-awesome.html | 2019-03-25T16:57:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204077.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325153323-20190325175323-00223.warc.gz | en | 0.972102 | 139 |
We are having a freezing issue with an SBS 2011 server. Seemingly a few minutes past the hour on a regular basis, applications such as Excel will freeze (Not responding) for the user editing a file located on the server. Looking at the server logs, it shows just prior to users experencing freezes, we get an event "schannel" event ID "36887" followed by "numerous distributed COM event ID 10009" there are numerous amounts of these entries. We also get "VSS event ID 8230" appearing just prior to the freezing experienced by the users. A server reboot has had no effect.
Anybody have any ideas?
I agree with taming the memory as stated above.
How many users do you have on your SBS? Have you loaded any other services/application servers in the SBS2011? What kind of backups and how often does it ran?
I used to love SBS for small business with less than 30 employees but as you grow and utilize the "all in one" package, you'll find that you can be very limited and performance is always an issue. Specially when you add other applications or service in the server. You can keep adding RAM as long as you limit the Exchange's usage of memory.
The DCOM errors you got are normal. The VSS events are typical as well. | <urn:uuid:19c20fc0-6d65-41ce-a447-868cf6b0dc1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1935122-sbs-2011-freezing-issue | 2017-10-21T04:01:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824543.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021024136-20171021044136-00121.warc.gz | en | 0.966311 | 281 |
Paintings by Scotland-based artist Cameron Orr. More below.
It took David de los Santos 9 months and 50,000 pictures to compile the following footage (the final video has around 5,000 images). He had to find flowers that would open fairly quickly; the interval between images was anywhere between 1 and 10 minutes. The flowers used include: Lillium, hibiscus, carnations, orchids, dandelions, lilies, daisies, alstroemeria, peonies and nigella damask.
Watch the video of the flowers blooming below.
It’s been 5 days since Zack Danger Brown launched a Kickstarter with the sole mission to make potato salad for the first time. His original goal was $10. More than 3,000 backers have pledged a total of $35,000 and counting.
As more money comes he adds new stretch goals; things like “better mayonnaise” and “call a chef to get a better recipe”. It appears there will now be at least 4 potato salads made, one of which will be vegan. Pledging even $3 gets you a bite of the potato salad mailed to you and he’ll say your name out loud while he makes it. This is pretty much the best Kickstarter ever. Support it here.
Thanks to @elrizzy for the heads up.
The day has finally come! Our very special Herschel Supply & Booooooom bag is now AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE! There is a flag in the top right corner to tell you if you are on the USA or CAN store page.
This month I’ll be hooking people up with Herschel Supply products just for submitting a drawing to our “Drawing On The Past” project, and 3 lucky people will get the special bag you see above. I’ll give away something to one of the next few submitters!
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Membership for new graduates
The benefits of membership with the Ontario Association of Optometrists (OAO) are extensive and can make a profoundly positive impact on your career as an optometrist. As an association representing the majority of Ontario's optometrists, we are able to provide benefits including peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and career support.
Membership has its particular benefits for new graduates, including:
- Specialized continuing education ranging from clinical topics, to how to become a valuable asset in a practice, to financial advice to pay down debt and build financial stability.
- A special new graduate rate for its best-in-class professional liability insurance (PLI), required by the College of Optometrists of Ontario.
- A mentor program which connects new graduates with established practicing members.
OAO provides end-to-end monitoring of critical regulations and legislation and offers the strength of combined buying power for insurance coverage, emergency funding and other safety nets that help secure your future. Additional benefits include:
- Timely updates regarding changes to OHIP coverage, scope of practice regulations and the schedule of benefits.
- Monthly e-mail newsletter from the OAO President with association updates, including government relations efforts.
- Personalized assistance on OHIP billing issues and help unraveling government red tape.
- Best-in-class comprehensive professional liability insurance coverage.
- Members only website portal, with access to online and academic resources.
- Special rates for continuing education events, and access to members only online education.
- Participation in OAO’s children's vision awareness program, Eye See...Eye Learn®.
- Participation in OAO's public education campaign, which drives Ontarians to see OAO members.
Read testimonials about the value of OAO membership.
How can I join?
OAO has developed a Getting Started in Ontario guide to facilitate the process of getting started as an optometrist following graduation. This guide details seven important steps new graduates should take in order to set themselves up for career success.
As a new graduate, you are entitled to special OAO membership rates that acknowledge financial restrictions you face as you begin your career. These rates can be found here.
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SYLACAUGA, Ala. – Imagine a life with no colors outside of black and white. Imagine looking at a tree without its leaves being green, a stop sign without its red glow, and the sky without its blue majesty.
That is the life Sylacauga High School student Victoria Arthur, better known as Tori, lived for 16 years. Color blind since birth, Tori’s vision was essentially like watching black and white television.
The inability to see colors affected her life outside of the obvious ramifications. Tori explained her eyes are very sensitive to sunlight. She has had to wear sunglasses everywhere she goes for years.
She has also had to face many limitations. In terms of being a normal teen and getting a drivers license at age 16, she has to take a different test and retest for her license every few months. Her future goals and dreams of being an aerospace engineer have been affected because aerospace engineers and pilots must be able to see color and have impeccable vision. “It is really hard to be color blind because there are so many things you just can’t do when you are color blind,” Tori said. “I’m in the band and I can’t even see the real color of the grass that I march on.”
Those troubling days for Tori may be over thanks to Sylacauga High School art teacher Shelly Bailey and other faculty and staff.
In January of this year, then 15-year-old Tori was taking a photography class taught by Bailey who had a pair of glasses that allowed Tori to see color. When Tori tried the glasses on, she, along with Bailey, became emotional. “As soon as she put the glasses on and opened her eyes, she looked at me and said ‘its so beautiful’ and as soon as she said that we both started crying,” Bailey explained emotionally. “It was so moving and so powerful. We take for granted that we can see color, but for Tori this was a special day. We sat in the storage room where the glasses were for 45 minutes and cried our eyes out.”
In the following days Tori went to Bailey’s class daily to get the glasses and go on color walks, but the glasses had to stay with her teacher. Little did Tori know there was a plan to purchase a permanent pair of prescription color blind glasses for her own keeping.
Bailey explained she sent an email out to faculty and staff and published a post to Facebook, and the money was raised the money fairly quickly. “People are generous by nature,” she said. “I wanted to make sure she had the glasses she needed, and so many people helped. In one day I had more people ready to help than I needed.”
On Wednesday, July 19, during band practice in front of her peers, Tori received the glasses. Although Bailey wanted the presentation of the glasses to be a surprise, but said this was a hard secret to keep. Regardless, Tori happily accepted the glasses. “It was amazing to see her joy. This was a special thing and it was even better that she got to share the moment with her friends in the band.”
Tori denied she knew the surprise was coming. She described it as unexpected and amazing, and said she is forever thankful for everyone who raised the money. She told SylacaugaNews.com she will now be able to live out many of her dreams. She said she can drive perfectly and will not have to retest every few months for a license. The glasses will also allow her to go through basic training to be a pilot.
Now that she permanently sees color, she has to have a favorite right? She explained she was first amazed by the color red in January, but now purple is her favorite color.
Jeremy Law for SylacaugaNews.com | © 2017, SylacaugaNews.com/Marble City Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. | <urn:uuid:71179c11-a3d1-4758-9981-d83dbb00aec7> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.sylacauganews.com/local/video-colorblind-shs-student-can-now-sees-color-everyday-life | 2019-07-20T03:29:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526408.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720024812-20190720050812-00113.warc.gz | en | 0.988254 | 833 |
(written from a Production point of view)
Masao Henry Kingi, Sr. (born 2 December 1943; age 71) is a stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts as a Native American colonist in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Journey's End" in 1994 and in two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine including being a Jem'Hadar in the episode "The Dogs of War". He received no credit for his appearances.
Kingi was born in Los Angeles, California and is the father of stuntman Henry Kingi, Jr.. His second marriage was to actress Lindsay Wagner – they had two more sons, Alex and stuntman Dorian Kingi. Kingi was nominated for two Taurus World Stunt Awards (for best work with a vehicle 2003 for Showtime and 2004 for Bad Boys II) and has won two awards (2004 for best work with a vehicle in Bad Boys II and 2005 for best specialty stunt in Taxi).
He has performed stunts for many films, including The Omega Man (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972, with Lou Wagner, Ricardo Montalban, and stunts by Tony Brubaker, Erik Cord, Paula Crist, Nick Dimitri, Gary Epper, Gene LeBell, Paul Stader, and George Wilbur), Cleopatra Jones (1983), Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), Delta Fox (1979), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, with Richard Lynch and Anthony De Longis), Dune (1984, with Brad Dourif, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Stewart, Dean Stockwell, and stunts by Tony Brubaker and Scott Wilder), Predator (1987, with Richard Chaves, Kevin Peter Hall, and stunts by Gregory J. Barnett, Gary Baxley, Jophery C. Brown, Tony Brubaker, Doug Coleman, and Joel Kramer), Die Hard (1988), Road House (1989, with Kevin Tighe, Anthony De Longis, and Patricia Tallman), Hook (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Batman Returns (1992), John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993, with Alex Datcher, Lucy Boryer, David Warner, Charles Napier, Betty Muramoto, and stunts by Tony Brubaker and Jeff Imada), The Mask (1994), Bad Boys (1995), Se7en (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, with Fred Williamson, Marc Lawrence, and stunts by Jennifer Caputo, Randy Hall, Anita Hart, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, Dana Hee, Tommy J. Huff, Manny Perry, and Spice Williams-Crosby), The Rock (1996), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Batman & Robin (1997, with John Glover), Amistad (1997), Blade (1998), End of Days (1999), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001, with Joanna Cassidy, Rosemary Forsyth, and Marjean Holden), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Daredevil (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003, with Anthony Zerbe), and Constantine (2005).
Kingi has also performed stunts and stunt acting parts in television series such as The Bionic Woman, The Dukes of Hazzard, Kung Fu (1975, with Ned Romero), T.J. Hooker (1983, with William Shatner, Richard Herd, and Stephen Liska), V (1985, with Duncan Regehr), A Man Called Hawk (1989, with Avery Brooks and Steven Culp), MacGyver (1992, with Keone Young), Walker, Texas Ranger, Soldiers of Fortune, Inc. (1999, with Melinda Clarke, Max Daniels, and Brian Thompson), and Angel (1999, with Scott L. Schwartz). | <urn:uuid:9af8ab7f-2fc1-4602-afc5-b377f7a18dc2> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Henry_Kingi,_Sr.?oldid=1431047 | 2015-07-05T09:50:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097396.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00051-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880232 | 778 |
Looking for great eats? The perfect dessert? A bottle of wine to share with a friend or a craft brew to drink as you catch a game? We can make your culinary travels complete with tons to choose from across the state.
A warm, inviting dinner club, open occasional Saturdays (see blog for menus and dates). Four-course prix fixe menu of homemade... more
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This is a survey post. I’m asking my readers to email me (email@example.com) and let me know which blogs they subscribe to that are criminal defense related.
These can be:
- Criminal Defense Lawyer Blogs
- Prosecutor Blogs
- Law School Professor Blogs
- Law Student Blogs
- Appellate Court Blogs
- Legislative Update Blogs
- Niche Blogs on a Particular Subject of Interest
- Any Other Blog You Think Is Relevant
It’s not necessary that the primary or only focus be criminal justice/criminal defense. I’m looking for new blogs to add to my (and your) readers with this survey.
I will post an update with links to every blog sent to me – including, of course, your own, as well as a list of which blogs are most read by my readers. (I say “My readers” because I recently passed the 30,000 unique visitor mark in 6 months of blogging, and currently my Feedburner Stats show me at an average of 76 Circulation over the last 30 days.)
If anyone uses FeedDemon as their newsreader, I’d really appreciate an export of your feeds. This can be done by clicking File/Export Feeds/All Folders/OK, then save to desktop and forward the OPML file that is created as an attachment. I’m sure there’s a way to export all feeds in other readers, but I can’t give you such a blow by blow description.
If I get a decent amount of responses to this post, perhaps I can try this every 3 to 6 months or so, and criminal defense/prosecutor bloggers will have a good source for new criminal law blogs.
Don’t forget: all repsonders will get (at least) one backward link to their own blog, or static webpage. Thanks in advance.
[Update: Hat Tip to Anne Reed for being the ‘first responder’. Keep ’em coming folks.] | <urn:uuid:343104a8-cfd1-42a5-95e5-905d6be6d2b3> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://blog.austindefense.com/2007/05/articles/other-blogs/top-10-criminal-defense-blogs-part-1/ | 2021-02-26T21:37:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178357984.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210226205107-20210226235107-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.924132 | 435 |
The current affairs podcast presented by William Campbell (right) meets legal scholar Cian Ó Concubhair (left).
If you had to choose between jail and giving the gardaí the password to all your online accounts, would you choose Mountjoy or Wheatfield?
I talk to Cian about new laws that give gardaí the power to demand access to your devices and social media profiles. Can they be trusted? Also, what happened to AA Roadwatch? | <urn:uuid:9e88ca37-a1f0-4c1c-a526-b49de3ff837b> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.broadsheet.ie/2021/07/22/whats-your-password/ | 2022-09-24T20:20:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030333455.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20220924182740-20220924212740-00744.warc.gz | en | 0.954348 | 110 |
It is high time to forget about the nastiness, race-baiting, ex-wives and tax-dodging that is dominating the Republican nomination scrap down in South Carolina and look at the man the GOP hopefuls are so keen to fight: President Barack Obama.
Obama's re-election team and its backers have been quietly plotting his re-election strategy, building up an organisation in key states and raising a gigantic war chest of cash that now tops $220m. Now, it has released its first ad.
The ad is a 30-second spot that is a direct response to a campaign by Americans for Prosperity, an organisation backed by the Koch Brothers, that is also a supporter of the Tea Party movement. AFP have been running a $6m ad campaign poking away at the Solyndra issue, where an alternative energy firm collapsed despite massive federal financial help. The Obama ad is called (rather prosaically): "The Facts About President Obama's Energy Record."
It is going up Thursday in a series of "battleground states" across America. For millions of Americans outside the early primary/caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, this ad will be the first sign that 2012 is indeed an election year and it is going to be a nasty one.
It is also fascinating to look at where the ad is running: Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia and North Carolina. Those are all states Obama won in 2008, including the grand prizes of Virginia and North Carolina, which represented the establishment of a blue toe-hold in the deep red South. But in the end, it is a defensive ad buy. The Obama team is sending the message that they want to try to hold their gains, but they have little sense they could extend them.
That is a fairly realistic assessment of Obama's prospects. But also – this early in the race and with so much money on hand – shows a lack of ambition.
The ad is a remarkable one. But not in a good way.
Given that this is the first ad in Obama's re-election campaign, one might think the team behind Obama would want to stress a positive message, perhaps mentioning some of his achievements: ending the war in Iraq, staving off a Great Depression, saving the auto industry or – if you are feeling militaristic – shooting dead Osama bin Laden. Or perhaps, Obama could have gone on the offensive, feeling ordinary Americans' pain over joblessness and warning that no one should trust the rabble-rousing Republican party with being adult enough to make things better.
But no. To kick off the campaign, the Obama team chooses to mention Solyndra and engage – not with ordinary Americans – but with Charles and David Koch. The reasoning behind this has to be bizarre. One possible explanation is that the Obama team has been reading recent polling looking at his collapsing support among independents. Thus, they are assuming their base is safely secured and want to talk about issues, and fight opponents, likely to influence that middle ground.
Even so, this ad's subject matter still seems a distinctly odd choice. General elections, especially at this early stage, are about sweeping narratives and broad arguments, not the nitty gritty of individual issues. Leave that stuff until the last weeks of the fight.
The ad kicks in with the usual gravelly-voiced gentleman sounding serious. "Secretive oil billionaires attacking President Obama with ads fact-checkers say are not tethered to the facts," he says, in a rather confusing way. The secretive rich folks are not mentioned by name (but we know who they are!) and a screen shot of a Solyndra attack ad is shown. To this humble correspondent, this seems infuriatingly amateurish. If you are going to make the decision to devote your first ad of the campaign to the Kochs, then why not actually mention them.
And showing the Solyndra name (a company still largely unknown to the vast majority of American voters) is likely to do nothing but spark someone's interest. One can easily imagine a voter watching this ad, scratching their head and typing Solyndra into Google and running straight into the AFP campaign. Surely that is not what the makers of the Obama ad intended.
Next, we see a shot of Obama appearing presidential in an office (though he also looks a little like he's giving a one-arm fascist salute … hmmm, poor picture choice). Then, the voiceover says that independent watchdogs have called Obama's record on ethics "unprecedented". Again, this feels like a mis-step. It's a defence to an attack that surely most people have not seen. Faced with this ad, it is again easy to imagine voters, not nodding in agreement, but suddenly wondering who exactly has been calling Obama unethical (and why).
Then, the ad claims clean energy has brought in 2.7m jobs. Which is great. Jobs and the economy are the big issue of the 2012 election and it's about time this ad talked about them. But again, it is framing the issue of jobs against a defence of environmental and energy policy. A couple scenes of people filling their cars with petrol and an oil rig at sea follow as the narrator claims America's dependence on foreign oil has been reduced (a ridiculous, amorphous claim that is virtually unprovable).
Finally, up pops Obama to tell us he approved this message. Which, no doubt, he did. But it is disturbing in some ways.
There is an old rule in politics that runs something like this: never wrestle with a pig, because you'll both end up in the mud – but the pig will like it. In this case, Obama's team is deciding in the middle of January to kick off its campaign with a tussle with the Koch brothers over the issue of clean energy and Solyndra. In my view, that is not an argument that American people really care about yet.
First impressions count for a lot. This was an opportunity to put forward a strong vision and a firm argument for why Obama deserves a second term and why America needs him to win. It was a chance to reconnect with the voters, to look back at the last three years and explain what happened and why. That opportunity was comprehensively missed in favour of elevating an obscure spat with a couple of billionaires that the ad itself – lacking the courage of its convictions – does not dare name.
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I discovered SolderSmoke a few years ago by listening to another pod
cast. Ever since, I have been hooked on this podcast and listen to it
whenever I have time. I have finally caught up and finished episode
142 today. I love the enthusiasm and spirit of discovery and creation
that goes into the stories in SS.
The first time I heard about amateur radio was in high school. It
seemed to be a overly nerdy thing at the time and I wasn't sure what
it was. However, after I started listening to SS, I discovered that
this is something that I wanted to do. So, on New Years Eve with the
kind help of a local examiner (Ori, VA3XW), I wrote my basic and
advanced exam and passed with honours. In Canada, we only have 3
categories: basic, advanced and morse code. I am very excited about
this and I am glad that SS made me make the jump.
You know, every time the word knack comes up, it is portrayed in a
negative way. Someone is "afflicted" with the knack or shows knackish
"symptoms" as if it was a horrible disease. I would like to change
I hereby declare myself blessed with the knack. Ever since I was a kid,
I disassembled various electronics around the house (to the dismay of
my parents). I knew when I was doing something right when I could put
something back together and it worked, or later, it worked better than
before. Despite my parents' persuasion to pursue other branches of
non-technical studies, I made up my mind to study electrical
engineering (must have been a teenage rebellion thing). Nonetheless
I finished school and found a job doing electronics design which I
love. Some of the people that you meet in this field are just
phenomenal. It has been a good career decision and I think it is truly
amazing. Thus, I see the knack as being a gift which I was fortunate
enough to hold.
I think one of the most important aspect of the knack is the desire to
understand and have self reliance on what we use on a daily basis. I
repair my own bikes and I've never bought a ready made computer.
Having a home machine shop greatly helps in this regard too. My first
oscilloscope I designed and built myself:
I have also resolved to build my first rig instead of buying one.
However, work is really busy these days, and it doesn't look like I
will be able to do this soon. One of these days, I will construct my
own rig and wiggle the ether.
I am currently visiting Silicon Valley here in California. There is
much to visit and do here. For example, the De Anza Flea Market
happens every 2nd Saturday (which is my first introduction to a swap
The Computer History Museum is amazing:
For a limited time, you can see Jim William's work bench at the
museum. If you thought your workbench was messy, you haven't seen
Now, imagine having the world's most smartest electronics engineers
having dinner together. That's what the Analog Aficionados Party is about:
On top of that, there are a lot of trade shows which you can go to
check out the latest and greatest of test equipment. They don't have
the same feel as some of my analog oscilloscopes, but they are shiny.
As you can see, this is a paradise for anyone blessed with the knack.
Anyhow, this email is long enough and I hope your eyes haven't glazed
over yet. My best regards to you, Billy, Maria and your wife.
Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics"http://soldersmoke.com/book.htmOur coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http://www.cafepress.com/SolderSmokeOur Book Store: http://astore.amazon.com/contracross-20
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Economic indicators such as inflation levels, interest rates, exchange rates and unemployment. Specifics of the marketing audit in the financial sector, Journal of Academic Research in Economics, 1 3. In some cases, the company forms its own task-force audit team, which is composed of executives or members of senior management.
They have different structures, and they have different goals and priorities, which means they are likely to have different reasons for conducting a marketing audit. It can also be quite an expensive endeavor.
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A marketing audit can be a useful measure at such times providing it has not arrived too late for recommendations to effect a turn around. Draw Marketing audits and its importance to outlining map on how to get to accomplish your long-term goals.
Determine the key persons who will conduct the audit.
Why principles of accountability in marketing are useful in promoting company growth, Journal of Promotion Management, 12 2. We take into account the size and other unique features of the markets and the industry that the company belongs to. The audit can be conducted by the executive to whom the manager reports.
Each of the auditors must possess the required knowledge and experience in order to perform the marketing audit effectively. It also examines their strengths, weaknesses, competences, market share, profitability and customer perception.
A list of problem areas and drawbacks in current situation and find a way to tackle it. It also carries out entry barrier analysis, in which it examines the key financial and non- financial barriers that protect the industry from attacks of new entrants.
However, the main steps may be summarized into three: The same is true in marketing: How many competitors do you have? Outside consultants provide the needed impartiality and generally are able to bring a broader range of experience as well as the most up to date audit methodologies into play.
Examples of issues that the audit will include in its analysis are: This means the audit must not be structured around your product, service, or business. The paper deals with marketing audit and the importance of valued information which can contribute to the detection of opportunities and threats in the market.
How do their offerings compare to yours? A marketing audit provides management an in-depth look and evaluation at the marketing of a business, paying particular attention at how its marketing activities are planned, implemented and managed.
Historical internal records of the company are also considered as primary sources of information, which is why they are subjected for review during a marketing audit.
A marketing activity is being implemented poorly? Comprehensive — The marketing audit covers all the major marketing issues facing an organisation, and not only one or a few marketing trouble spots.
Importance of Marketing Audit for a Company Article shared by: It considers both the internal and external influences on marketing planning as well as a review of the plan itself so it needs to be done properly.
The Marketing Audit Team Selection of the appropriate people to perform the marketing audit is also crucial to its success. This lesson considers the basics of the marketing audit, and introduces a marketing audit checklist.
Businesses devote a lot of time and resources in crafting a strategy that will help propel the organization toward its goals.Lipnická Denisa, Ďaďo Jaroslav growing and companies realize its importance for their future growth and success. The appearance of the marketing audit in the marketing literature dates back to In that times the marketing audits were defined as programmed appraisals, critical evaluation of the.
The marketing audit is a fundamental part of the marketing planning process. It is conducted not only at the beginning of the process, but also at a series of points during the implementation of the plan.
Jun 29, · Audits» The Importance of an Audit System to Companies Additionally, it could not manage its affairs, as it would not have the ability to tell the status of its assets and liabilities and. This is the first of a series of articles that will discuss what is a Marketing Audit and its importance; but also: Analysing the external environment.
Marketing Audits and its importance to an organisation As of I am starting to write this essay, an historic and astonishing incident happened in US—Standard & Poors first time downgraded American Federal Bonds form AAA to AA+.
5 Benefits of a Marketing Audit. In Interactive & Social. By Lisa Robbins. On Jul 28, Marketing audits give you an opportunity to take a look at what you’ve done, how you’ve done it, and any positive (or negative) results that may have come of it.
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News From The Nest: Campfire fun tests creativity of little one
My family and I recently went camping at Itasca State Park in Minnesota. The weather was good, scenery beautiful, and company even better. My kids had a blast! First off they thought it was so cool that all four of us got to sleep together in a tent, a small tent. Though my husband and I complained about sore backs and waking up every half hour through the thunderstorms, the busy days and fresh air made the kids sleep great.
Each night we would start a campfire around 9 p.m as the sun started to go down. Our little girl, almost two years old now, would stay up for another half hour or so and then would fall asleep in our arms. I would allow our son to stay up a little later to enjoy the fun times around the campfire, which of course included Smores. I would always set ground rules in advance. He and I would discuss and agree upon the number of marshmallows and chocolate he could have. It turns out he doesn't like the entire Smores sandwich, just the inside components of the treat.
On this particular night we agreed he could have two marshmallows and one row of chocolate (which is three chunks for those of you who are not avid Smores-eaters.) By the time his little sister was ready for bed he had already reached his two mallow, one chocolate limit. As I was laying his sister in the tent I heard him in deep conversation with my husband. When I got back to the fire my husband finished their discussion by saying, "wow buddy, you're gonna have to talk to your mom about that one."
Having no clue what was coming, I kneeled down so I was eye level with my son and listened closely to what he had to say. He began by explaining "every time you or Dad give me a treat by the campfire I forget the flavor."
My response, "huh?"
He started to get very, very serious and restated "every time I have a treat by the campfire I forget the flavor!"
My reply, "the flavor? Of what?"
"Of the marshmallows and chocolate," he said almost sniffling now because this was obviously very tragic for him.
"Oh, so you can't remember what marshmallows and chocolate taste like?" I asked him.
"No, I can't," he said, sniffle sniffle.
Ah ha! This kid is brilliant! His little, tiny brain came up with a way to get Mom to give him MORE marshmallows and chocolate.
So to reward his Oscar-winning performance I agreed to one more marshmallow. I made him sit in my lap and take the smallest bites he could, then told him to let it sit on his tongue and really think about the taste so he would never forget again.
What a little schemer. I was amazed at his creativity and presentation, but also a little concerned as to what precedent we just set. Oh well, at least I stood my ground and told him he would have to wait until the next day to remember what the chocolate tasted like.
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–Unemployment falls to 8.8% in March, a two-year low, as non-farm payrolls swell by 216,000. It’s a good sign of momentum, but obviously the bar for happy news is pretty low. A return to normal employment levels will take a very long time at this rate.
–Tim Pawlenty lays out a few names he’d like to see get the vice presidential nomination in ’12: Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez. All are rising talents in the party, four of the five are governors and three of them (Rubio, Sandoval and Martinez) are Hispanic.
–Liberals have an uneasy history with Jim Messina, Obama’s ’12 campaign manager.
–Mitt Romney will start really raising money this month. His PAC took in $1.9 million in the first three months of this year.
–Early presidential primary polls aren’t useless.
–A political science paper suggests a vote for health care cost Democrats 6-8% in the midterms, or around 13 House seats.
–The Fed’s discount window disclosures have been released, but it will take a while for reporters to sort through 25,000-pages of documents for the word “Goldman.”
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Now no evidence was offered to back this statement up. That is the point of a provocative claim! It is there to make us think of the evidence for or against. I can think of anecdotal evidence.
- My friends in Uganda plant churches in un-churched areas. In a 3-week mission they saw about 1000 people become Christians of who at least 500 have stuck the course in 3 new church plants.
- A missionary to the Congo once told me that when he returned to an area where there had previously been very few Christians, they found around 100,000 new Christians spread between many churches, all desperate for Bibles, training for pastors, and teaching.
- Then there are all the churches that have been planted along the Amazon River, which the Vineyard church documented during the 1990’s.
Clearly church planting can give large scale growth in the Christian church. How does it compare with other forms of growth?
A year ago a student of mine attempted a model of church planting using the limited enthusiasm principle, inspired by a prior visit to Uganda where we saw first hand church planting in action. The resulting patterns of growth gave significant support to the provocative claim. This is a follow-on from the result that revival like growth happens when the reproduction potential of the enthusiasts exceeds a threshold. That threshold is lower if the proportion of susceptibles is higher.
Firstly, a church plant will contain the most enthusiastic members of a church, including people gifted in evangelism. Thus the average reproduction potential is higher and thus growth in the church more likely.
Secondly, there is a higher proportion of enthusiasts in a church plant. This is because such a church is not easy to manage and thus not a good home for those who want to free-ride. If the number of enthusiasts is high enough then a critical mass is achieved which encourages renewal in the church and can bring rapid growth.
Thirdly, as new churches are planted, the susceptible pool keeps widening and thus periodically keeps dropping the revival growth threshold. This again sustains revival growth over a longer period.
Fourthly, if churches keep being planted then they keep themselves fresh and free from institutionalism. According to the congregational lifecycle model, this means there is a longer period of growth before the maintenance plateau kicks in.
One result of church planting is that although, like revival growth, the pattern of growth can be fast, it differs in that the growth is more steady and sustained for longer. Revival growth will burn out quicker, and have less long-term effect. Clearly I have to do further work on this but I think that the provocative claim may be true and more church growth comes from church planting than any other form of mission.
When dealing with the issue of church decline it is so tempting to say “all we need is revival – people on fire for God”. But the work of the Spirit does not exclude strategy. Instead we should say that we need revival AND church planting to save the church (and the nation!). This is the lesson of the Methodist revival. Wesley had the Holy Spirit. There was revival growth and revival was experienced. But they also planted churches, through that generation and later generations. It is the combination of the Spirit and strategy that saw the nation changed and I suspect must be the way forward again. | <urn:uuid:f779ebc0-6bd5-43aa-a915-68fbee823afe> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | http://churchgrowthmodelling.blogspot.com/2010/03/ | 2019-12-07T09:25:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540497022.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207082632-20191207110632-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.970116 | 674 |
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Album Review: The Freeks - "Shattered"
Taste is a funny thing. There is a lot of brouhaha coming from Atlanta that baffles me, which, of course, just showcases my own shortcomings I suppose. It does come at a time when I am able to sort of play Atlanta off of Rome, in an untypical way. I go back and forth between the oldest profession and their precious metals of the southern U.S. and those strange but hep cats from the heart of both the Unholy and Holy Roman Empires, The Freeks, and their newly released "Shattered". I find I favor, and love, the Roman outpourings hands down. Here's an opportunity for you to do the same.
A very cool thing about The Freeks is their stoner history. Band front man, Ruben Romano, was a founding member of both Fu Manchu and Nebula. Whoa. He has again surrounded himself with quality, as shown below:
Ruben Romano - Vocals, Lead Guitar (formerly of Fu Manchu, Nebula)
Bob Lee - Drums (formerly of Claw Hammer, Backbiter, Mike Watt)
Tom Davies - Bass (formerly of Nebula)
Esteban Chavez - Keyboards
Jonathan Hall - Guitar (Angry Samoans, Backbiter)
"Shattered" is their third full LP release, again chock full of incredible concoctions of uniqueness and wonder. The blend of styles and sounds is so profound, so varied, so pregnant, you might find from one moment to the next a sense and a snippet of style and sound from any of a dozen rock genres. The Freeks manage to blend these variances into a cohesive blanket of melodic noise, a fuzz stubble quilt of pure astonishment. There is nothing but magnificence on this album, from song construction and rendition, to a binding melodic sense of destiny. It's more than a garage rock, punk rock, stoner rock amalgam. It manages to deliver something that soars on a level above all that, held aloft by their magnetic underpinnings but propelled forward at breakneck speed on a newly composited sound of pure energy and fun. You'll hear something familiar in each song - a snippet of stoner fuzz, a clang of punk rock riffing, a run of psychedelic mind meld, a retro/blues reminiscence - that will initially and immediately pull you in. Once there you'll likely stay as the mesmerizing concoction of it all is a strong and heady brew of intoxifying wonderment.
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The Lambeth Lions Club
Lambeth, On. Canada
The Lambeth Lions Club was formed in 1977 with Claire McLean as its first president and since the beginning we have and continue to have numerous projects that we support. We are honoured to work with Lions Homes for Deaf People to build homes across the Province of Ontario for people who are deaf, deaf/blind or deaf with multiple handicaps. We are very active in the Lambeth community by supporting various causes, Brownies, HarvestFest , local hospitals, foodbanks as well as the Royal Canadian Legion with our Poppy Program.
Our Memory Box Program supports families who lose a child at the Children's' Hospital in London, because the hospital serves a large geographical part of the Province of Ontario our club has a strong provincial reach in our work.
Beyond the province, we support international programs to eradicate hunger, diabetes, support families battling childhood cancer, vision and care for our environment. We also provide disaster relief, support international student exchange and help with other community, provincial & global needs.
Save this Date: October 22, 2022
The Lambeth Lions Memory Box Fundraiser will once again be held at the Hellenic Comunity Centre
Every journey begins with a single step. One act of service, one encouraging word, one gift of generosity is often all it takes to bring hope where it’s needed most.
Over the last 100 years, the kindness of Lions and Leos has multiplied across borders, oceans, and continents. With over 1.4 million members, we now have an opportunity to truly change our world.
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D-BAD aka DON’T BE A DOUCHE. Each week I get to call out someone/ someplace or something for being a total DOUCHEBAG. Its when I get to vent and take out my frustration on whatever makes me nuts each week, are you in? Feel free to share your D-BAD’S anytime!
Dear Noisy Cell Talking Lady:
Just when I thought my week might be lacking in D-BAD inspiration, I ran into you in the store today. The conversation you were having on your cellphone appeared to be riveting. Not that I was eavesdropping, we merely entered the shoe department to your verbal assault. I’m sure whoever you were talking about would love to know your thoughts and opinions on their new relationship and be thrilled that you let me, my 7 year old and half the store know that they “hadn’t had sex yet.” Awesome. I was actually dying to know… and so was my 7 year old frankly.
It was great to bump into you a second time in the lingerie department while I was searching the discount bin for bargain dainties. I was riveted to hear your thoughts on the state of yet another poor couple’s relationship as you bellowed across the racks “Why don’t they get a divorce? I mean, gaaawd, why doesn’t he just break it off?” Because my dear heart, whether he does or does not initiate a divorce with someone is one thousand percent (and that’s not even real math) none of your business or mine or (again) my 7 year old’s or for that matter the old lady shopping for a girdle. None of us want to know. But we didn’t have the choice. You didn’t even give us a choice.
I’m all for talking on the phone while shopping. Its a lonely business and a ripe opportunity for multi-tasking. But please, for the love of all things good and holy, don’t be a douche and shut the f%$k up. Especially if that’s when you feel the need to play the role of Relationship Judgy Judgerson. The rest of us are not living some Real Housewives of Somewhere life and simply don’t want to know!
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After Thursday's party for the first year, tonight it was the turn of the Masters students to sample our beer tokens. We followed the same pattern as last time, although this time I varied the presentation a bit by having the tablet PC battery go flat just as we were going through the quiz answers. Note to self, don't leave home without the power supply.
After the quiz, and a lot of dicussion about the answer to the last question (it is on the screen above - can you figure out what the question actually was?) we went on to more Guitar Hero and other silly stuff.
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By A.D. Pruitt
Apartment landlords appear to be among the only commercial property owners able to sign new tenants amid the sluggish economy.
But the strength of the multifamily sector is itself related to the troubled economy. There has been an “abnormal slowdown in household formation in recent years,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, says in a new report. “Many young people, who normally would have struck out on their own from 2008 to 2010, had been doubling up with roommates or moving back into their parents’ homes.”
NAR, using U.S. Census data, says that household formation was only 357,000 last year, compared with 398,000 in 2009. That’s way below 1.6 million in 2007. But Mr. Yun said young people have been entering the rental market as new households in stronger numbers this year.
NAR expects vacancy rates in multifamily housing will drop from 5.5% to 4.6% in the third quarter of 2012. Vacancies below 5% generally are considered a landlord’s market, the trade group noted.
Minneapolis has the lowest multifamily vacancy rate at 2.5% followed by 2.8% in New York City and 2.9% in Portland, Ore.
But conditions aren’t as rosy in the rest of the commercial property market with the tepid economy poised to slow demand for space, according to the report.
For the office market, the vacancy rate is forecasted to fall from 16.6% in the third quarter of this year to 16.3% in the third quarter of 2012. The markets with the lowest office vacancy rates include Washington, D.C. at 8.6%, New York City at 10.1% and Long Island, N.Y at 13%.
Retail vacancy rates are projected to decline from 12.9% in the third quarter this year to 12.2% in the third quarter of 2012. San Francisco led with the lowest vacancy rate of 3.8% followed by Northern New Jersey at 6.1%. Los Angeles; Long Island, N.Y.; and San Jose, Calif tied for third place at 6.4% each. | <urn:uuid:b6ddeb09-f28a-47c4-95f5-a4b42db13c54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2011/08/25/coming-next-the-landlords-rental-market/ | 2013-05-23T02:51:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702749808/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111229-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954146 | 467 |
This lively litter of 5 cute fat little Golden Retriever puppies is having fun playing with lots of doggy toys on their bed.
The little pups have rope toys, balls, bone toys, and even a blue stuffed animal.
They look like they are having loads of fun as they tumble around, chew on things and play with each other. Wouldn’t you love to adopt a couple of these rambunctious little pups?
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Pong Dam is categorised as Lakeside / Angling / Bird Watching
Photo Courtesy Marek_Szczepanek
Reasons to Visit
- The Maharana Pratap Sagar reservoir (Popularly known as Pong Dam) lies near Pathankot with its 42 km length and 2 km breadth
- Pong Dam is considered good for Migratory Bird watching, fishing and watersports.
- Accommodation at Pong Dam is limited. There is a Lodge at Dam thats come up recently that facilitates activities in the area.
- Bird watching Destinations in Punjab and Himachal Plains"Maharana Pratap Sagar Dam or popularly known as Pong Dam is situated 50 kms from Pathankot and is visited for its migratory birds. Over 220 bird species have been recorded in and around the lake area. "
- Nearest Airport -Pathankot (50 kms), Jalandhar (100 kms), Dharamsala (120 kms)
- Nearest Railway Station - Pathankot (50 kms), Una (80 kms), Gurdaspur (90 kms)
- Pong Dam is an Ex-Jalandhar / Ex-Jammu / Ex-Amritsar / Ex-Chandigarh / Ex-Ludhiana / Ex-Dehradun / Ex-Srinagar / Ex-New Delhi / Ex-Gurgaon / Ex-Faridabad Getaway
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Ronald Reagan is getting like Monty Wooley in The Man Who Came to Dinner. He won’t go away and continues to make outrageous demands, which makes the entire American household suffer for his self-aggrandizement and indulgence. This despite the fact that he’s dead.
The Republican Party will not LET him go away, invoking his name to squeeze any votes out of his legacy, which keeps getting re-worked and burnished to suit the current packaging needs.
It is amusing to hear Republicans talk about how the Tea Party is disgracing Reagan’s legacy. Huh? He wrote their playbook, and they’re forgetting how Reagan created the template and blueprint for them. The Tea Party is following the Reagan playbook at every step.
Since his death, Ronald Reagan has been lionized and canonized by the American media. Perhaps the greatest myth, and one of the greatest spin jobs in history, is the notion that Reagan’s foreign policy brought the collapse of the Soviet Union. Communism was a flawed political-economic theory whose weaknesses caused it to collapse upon itself. Communism was an ideology built on lies, corruption and the abuse of the very workers it espoused to honor. By accelerating the arms race, and draining American resources for greater needs, Reagan is falsely given credit for bankrupting the Soviet economy. The Soviet political economy had been bankrupt for 70 years, and the military infrastructure was “painted rust.” Sure, Reagan outspent them. But at what cost to us?
The Gipper, The Great Communicator and the Father of the Conservative movement has been lionized as “the sunny guy who brought us ‘Morning In America.’” He is fondly remembered as a genial man and effective governor and president. Effective at what?
What am I not remembering here? What are THEY not remembering here?
Reagan and his cadre never were good sports. I remember The Great Communicator as being the master of double-speak, namely of accusing the opposition of his own sins. Reagan and his boys paved the way for all the excesses of both Bush administrations; “excesses” is a euphemism for a lot of bad things:
Reagan was the first president to brazenly place foxes in charge of the hen houses at the Cabinet level. Reagan Attorneys General Edwin Meese and William French Smith viciously attacked the very civil rights and equal protection laws they were charged with upholding. Until Reagan, affirmative action was a sacred program that gave hope to impoverished Americans.
Under Reagan’s watch it became fashionable to punish people for being poor.
Under Reagan, James Watt and Ann Burford Gorsuch were placed in charge of the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agencies. Their legacies were to auction off the precious natural resources they were charged to protect. Watt gave us the side show of ethnic jokes that managed to offend blacks, women and Jews in one spiel. Gorsuch gave us the Superfund scandal. Remember?
Under Reagan, school lunch programs were severely cut back or eliminated. Ketchup was declared to be a vegetable in order to satisfy nutritional requirements.
Under Reagan, pre-natal medical and nutritional programs for low-income and working mothers were ended. Children died as a result; so did some mothers before they could give birth.
Under Reagan, more high-level government officials were indicted than in any administration in history
Under Reagan, the bizarre fantasy known as “Star Wars” was given billions of dollars and legs. More than 25 years later, it is still walking and soaking up even more billions to protect us from a threat that no longer exists. But it’s great campaign fodder, so it lives.
Under Reagan, most Federal job training and employment programs were ended.
Under Reagan, food stamp allowances were reduced and the new requirements made many needy people ineligible.
Under Reagan, the Legal Aid Corporation was eviscerated. This enabled unscrupulous landlords, corporations and utility companies to abuse consumers, with the confidence that the people they’re stealing from wouldn’t be able to get effective legal assistance to fight them.
Under Reagan, the US went from being the world’s largest creditor to being the largest debtor nation. Until Reagan, a balanced budget was a sacred cow of the Republican philosophy. Under Reagan, the federal budget suddenly became a tool to eliminate the many programs that Roosevelt and LBJ initiated to help people get fed, find housing and jobs, and get medical care. This ushered in the mean-spirited conservative agenda; they eliminated programs they didn’t like by eliminating the revenue through tax cuts and budget cuts. Out of this evolved Newt Gingrich’s now dubious “Contract With America” and the mean-spirited, draconian policies of both Bush Administrations.
Under Reagan, the US military became a tool of political jingoism not seen since Theodore Roosevelt. Superfluous excursions in Grenada and Panama , among other countries did a lot to boost ratings, but not much for national security.
Under Reagan, ketchup became a vegetable. That’s always been my favorite. Reagan’s cutbacks in the federal school lunch program elicited criticism that there was no longer funding to provide a “balanced diet” to schoolchildren, including fresh vegetables. Reagan argued that ketchup is a vegetable because it is red and comes from tomatoes. The “liberal” media yucked it up about that one for few days and then forgot about it as soon as the next outrage got their attention.
Under Reagan, we had our first American president honor Nazi war dead at Bitteburg , Germany .
Under Reagan, it suddenly became dangerous for Americans to travel abroad to countries where we had previously been welcomed. US Foreign Policy under Reagan manifested a profound ignorance about geopolitics, the balance of power and other issues.
Under Reagan, it became OK to sell military supplies to a declared enemy ( Iran ) and use those profits to prosecute an illegal war ( Nicaragua ), and oust other popular elected officials ( El Salvador ). Under Bush Jr., it became OK to re-hire the people who enabled that scandal into sensitive national security positions.
Under Reagan, it was considered acceptable to have made a deal with the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini in advance of the 1980 Election, in order to ensure that the American hostages would remain in captivity until after the election. What could be more unconscionable? Reagan used American lives as political fodder before he was even elected. They were released the day he was inaugurated.
Under Reagan, the American ayatollahs were also empowered. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and other religious right-wing ideologues were brought into the policy-making fold. That led to the ongoing agenda to eliminate a woman’s right to choose a full range of health care options, and not just abortion. It led to censorship of textbooks that didn’t give equal time to creationism as the theory of evolution. It’s not unfair to argue that Reagan’s giving political legitimacy to Falwell and Robertson, was the precursor to Bush Jr.’s “Faith Based Initiatives” that so brazenly dishonor our separation of church and state.
Under Reagan, the need to humor and dignify the religious right led to years of denial and inactivity, while the AIDS crisis reached epidemic proportions. Since AIDS was considered a “gay disease”, Reagan didn’t dare utter the word for his first six years in office.
Under Reagan the Camp David plan for peace in the Middle East came to a grinding halt. Clinton re-started the process to great acclamation and hope, and Bush Jr. let it die again. Is there a pattern here? Reagan turned a blind eye to Israeli brutality toward the Palestinians, demonized the leaders of a legitimate national liberation movement, and ended any pretense of dealing with Israel and the Palestinians in an evenhanded manner. He enabled the hatemongering and brutality of Manachem Begin, Benjamin Natanyahu and Ariel Sharon. The US response to Israel ‘s incursion into Lebanon was to do and say nothing, even when Sharon enabled the massacre of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatilla in 1982.
Whereas Reagan and the Bush boys have fed Israel’s self-destruction by indulging their every “security excess”, Obama has been a true friend to Israel by continuing the tradition of generous assistance, while calling out the elements of realpolitik that need to be recognized. Sadly, many American Jews can’t get past the “Israel Card” in any campaign. “Is it good for the Jews?” the ask; illuminating the profound confusion between Judaism the religion and Israel , the manifestation of Zionist ideology. Not all Jewish people genuflect when Romney says, “Obama hasn’t been a true friend to Israel because BLAH BLAH BLAH . . .”
If this dinner guest hasn’t overstayed his welcome, he might never leave if Romney is elected.
H. Scott Prosterman
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Sebastian Mullaert is known for his work as one-half of Minilogue, collaborations with Mathew Jonson and releases on labels like R&S sub-label Apollo, Drumcode, Hypercolour and Minus with his deep, progressive and utterly unique music style.
We are happy to welcome back Dorisburg after his impressive live before Rodhad last year. Being one of half of Genius of Time, Dorisburg fuses together house and techno with a unique depth and feeling.
Volte-Face is the man behind one of London's best underground electronic parties and labels, BleeD Music. He has released tracks on his own label alongside, Dj Spider, Phil Moffa plus his collaborative project with Daniel Avery as Rote. Having remixed or been remixed by Dj Spider, Dj Nobu, Svreca, Peder Mannerfelt, Iori and Phil Moffa, Volte-Face has really made his mark on the scene in London and globally.
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The crew, who had released the trailer of Ugramm, had refused to reveal about Atul Kulkarni's role in the movie. The film has Srimurali, Tilak Shekar, Hari Priya, Avinash, Padmaja Rao and Jai Jagadeesh in the significant roles.
Talking about his role, Atul Kulkarni said, "I won't say that it's a different role, but it's a character which will be shown in a different way. There's nothing like different characters in cinema, it's all about how the characters and stories are presented on-screen." It is said that Atul Kulkarni plays the role of politician's son in the movie.
Meanwhile, Atul Kulkarni will also be seen in Sandalwood's forthcoming movies - Mythri and Abhinetri. The actor is sharing screen space with Power Star Puneet Rajkumar and Malayalam icon Mohanlal in Mythri, and plays director's role in Pooja Gandhi's Abhinetri.
The first promotional trailer of Ugramm is high on action and dialogue delivery. It gives us a glimpses of aspects such as rage, fear and bravery. Srimurali is seen in a new avatar and it surely looks like this is his comeback movie. | <urn:uuid:c4835cb4-37a0-4247-b521-2009b97df72a> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://entertainment.oneindia.in/kannada/news/2013/atul-kulkarni-role-ugramm-srimurali-edegarike-126496.html | 2014-07-23T20:23:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997883466.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025803-00222-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974445 | 278 |
time to stop peta from doing the WRONG thing.
we need to stop peta from doing the wrong thing “If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course, we’re going to be blowing things up and smashing windows. For the record, I don’t do this stuff, but I advocate it. I think it’s a great way to bring about animal liberation, considering the level of suffering, the atrocities.”
“I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it’s perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through windows. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it.”
The pamphlets that PETA promotes to children are also horrific. The title “Your Mommy Kills Animals” paired with a blood soaked image of a crazed woman wielding a knife would be enough to give some kids nightmares. (They have a Daddy Kills Animals version, too, lest the gentlemen think they’ve been left out.)
PETA Workers Have Taken Pets from People’s Homes
In the article The (Death) Cult of PETA, author Nathan Winograd describes how PETA personnel went into a trailer park, entered people’s homes, and removed and killed their family pets. There is video clearly showing the PETA van pulling up and a person removing a pet to corroborate the story. This is not standard PETA practice (unlike the issues raised above).
“The PETA employees backed their van up to the porch and threw biscuits to Maya, who was sitting on her porch, hoping to coax her off her property and therefore give PETA the ability to claim she was a stray dog “at large” whom they could therefore legally impound. In Virginia, PETA is licensed as an “animal shelter.” But Maya refused to stay off the property and after grabbing the biscuit, ran back to the safety of her porch. Knowing that no one was around—not only because they knew the schedules of the families, but because they paid local children money to leave the area—one of the employees went onto the property and stole Maya. But larceny wasn’t the only law the PETA employees would break. Virginia law requires dogs to be held for five days before they can be killed by shelters. It also requires private shelters like PETA to notify the municipal animal control shelter of any “stray” dogs they take in. PETA would do neither. Within hours, Maya was dead. PETA had killed her with a lethal dose of poison.
Had a surveillance video not been available, the killing of Maya would have remained unknown, as were the fates of other animals who also went missing that same day, but which a subsequent investigation into the killing of Maya by the Virginia Department of Agriculture (VDACS) uncovered were also taken from that trailer park that same day and likewise killed. Among the dead were two four month old kittens, a six month old puppy, a one-year-old lab-mix, and another Chihuahua.“ | <urn:uuid:73ca8a28-51dd-4fce-9d1f-18b8d9ddac05> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PETA-KILLS | 2023-05-28T22:23:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644571.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528214404-20230529004404-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.969982 | 685 |
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