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Until The Ribbon Breaks Kicks Off Lorde Tour With 'Perspective'
British DJ, producer, singer, songwriter and visual artist Until The Ribbon Breaks revealed yet another compelling video to accompany his latest track 'Perspective' ft. Homeboy Sandman, taken from his current EP 'A Taste Of Silver' out now (Republic Records).
This week, the Welsh artist will be embarking on his first North American tour with a full band supporting ground breaking female artist Lorde.
'A Taste Of Silver' is now available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Until The Ribbon Breaks is also working on his debut album, expected to drop in 2014.
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS WITH LORDE
North American Tour Dates
09/24 - The Fonda Theater - LOS ANGELES, CA*
09/25 - The Belasco Theater - LOS ANGELES, CA*
09/27 - The Fillmore - SAN FRANCISCO, CA*
09/28 - Decibel - Showbox at the Market - SEATTLE, WA*
09/30 - Webster Hall - NEW YORK, NY*
10/01 - Webster Hall - NEW YORK, NY*
10/03 - Warsaw- BROOKLYN, NY*
10/06 - Danforth Music Hall - TORONTO, ON*
A Taste Of Silver'
2. Perspective ft. Homeboy Sandman
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IMM Living Hecla Teal & Gold Ring Dish
Named for the Fury and Hecla Straits, a narrow channel of water in Nunavut, Canada. This gold and teal minimal ring holder dish is made from porcelain impregnated with naturally occurring pigments and elevated with a touch of gold. Designed by Flora Lam & Kara Le.
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Zune MVP Harvey Chute has published a great FAQ guide on the new Zune Pass subscription model. The new Zune Pass not only gives you subscription access to tracks from Zune Marketplace. But you also receive ten tracks per month! Take a look at the FAQ for further information.
Inspired by Harvey’s FAQ guide, Zune MVP Neville Williams has also published two walkthrough guides, showing Zune users how they can use their monthly Zune credits to download albums, (one DRM’d and one DRM free) from Zune Marketplace
MVP Harvey Chute is the founder and editor of Zunerama, an independent website dedicated to the Microsoft Zune. Zunerama's user forum has over 7,000 members and 85,000 posts. Harvey also co-authored and was the technical editor for Zune for Dummies, published by Wiley Inc. | <urn:uuid:a1c9faf8-590e-4a3a-9069-3dfdb2507701> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2009/01/16/the-new-zune-pass-your-questions-answered/ | 2017-10-24T00:50:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187827662.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023235958-20171024015958-00038.warc.gz | en | 0.954192 | 180 |
I am using TortoiseGit on Windows for a while now, and it works OK. However, today, it just stopped working. The error I got persistently was:
0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68540000, RegionSize 0x480000, State 0x10000 c:\msysgit\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
More than mildly annoying.
I tried searching the web, and found a number of discussions on similar issues. It was not easy to find one that worked, but in the end it turns out that playing with the base address of the msys-1.0.dll file worked. The error is not really in TortoiseGit per se, but rather in msysgit (which tortoisegit relies on to actually do its work).
The magic incantation that I wound up using:
c:\msysgit\bin>rebase.exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1.0.dll
Posting it here for the benefit of any other poor soul who is hit by the same. Apparently, you might have to change to use different other addresses.
The details of my setup for reference:
- msysgit 1.7.4
- tortoisegit 188.8.131.52
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Colours have a tremendous influence on human health and psyche.
Lack or overabundance of certain colours can cause physical or
emotional disorders. Exposure to colour vibrations is used in the
treatment of a number of diseases and mental problems. The colour of
the classroom walls, curtains or even the teacher’s clothes can
either soothe or irritate students. Colour is also an important tool
in visual thinking. It separates ideas so they can be seen more
clearly; it stimulates creativity and aids the memory. Colour
captures and directs attention. Even conventionally outlined notes
can benefit from colour coding; maps, cluster maps, mandalas, and
most expressive drawings are considerably more effective in colour
(Williams 1983: 107). It is not unimportant, however, which colours
we use to stimulate students. To benefit from using them, we should
know what possible power they have over our students. Then, we will
not expose learners to calming vibrations if we expect them to be
active, or to intellectual vibrations if we expect them to use their
imagination. According to Muths (1994) and Mertz (1995), the most
commonly used colours have the following properties:
Green symbolizes balance and agreement
with nature and other people. It soothes the nervous system. It
gives hope and peace of mind. It is said to be favoured by quiet,
patient, open-minded traditionalists. Too much green, however,
evokes sadness and hidden fears.
Blue is a calming and cooling colour.
It is relaxing for the eyes and cheering for the mind. It promotes
intellectual processes, that is why people who favour it are clever
and industrious, but not always creative. They are exceptionally
just, dutiful and loyal.
Yellow, when bright and sunny,
reinforces the nervous system and helps in analytical studies. It
symbolizes wisdom, shrewdness, ambition and intellectualism of the
left brain. People who like yellow are happy optimists, but also
critical thinkers, who will eagerly defend their views. They often
lack creativity and imagination. Pale shades of yellow, on the other
hand, mean unfavourable emotions like envy or a tendency to plotting
Black is the colour of mystery and the
unknown. It protects people s individualism and makes them seem more
unusual and interesting. People who like black are profound
explorers and original thinkers.
Orange symbolizes vitality, good humour
and creative fantasy. It inspires and invigorates people who
otherwise are apathetic, uninterested or depressed. It is favoured
by sociable extroverts and those who need cheering up.
Red is the most exhilarating colour,
which stimulates vivid emotions of the right brain. It promotes
health, energy and interest. In some people, however, it may evoke
White stands for youth, cleanliness and
nativity. People who like white strive for perfection. They are
submissive idealists, whose dreams are difficult to fulfill.
Pink, if not overused, has a calming
effect. It is a symbol of daydreaming and optimism. It is favoured
by delicate people longing for a feeling of security.
1. Students favourite colours.
It is significant that as many as 24% of all optimists opted for
blue, which is a cheering colour, and 25% of pessimists preferred
green, which could make them even more sad. Students were also asked
how important colours were for them and what colours they favoured
in their learning environment. Most of them claimed that they
disliked brown, they found dirty-yellow or greenish rooms
depressing, and that they considered white chalk and black board
formal and uninspiring.
Experimenting with ways to make my classes more interesting and
lively, I tried using coloured paper for handouts (students in our
college do not have regular handbooks for studying English and learn
from materials prepared by their teachers). For the whole year
students received handouts in six different colours and could choose
the colour they preferred. From the very beginning the reaction was
enthusiastic. Some students knew at once which colour they wanted
and they were ready to fight tooth and nail with their colleagues to
get their favorite color as soon as possible. Other students held a
handful of pages for some time, trying to decide what mood they were
in and what colour would suit them best that very day. Usually,
lively students chose lively handouts, and quiet ones preferred
pale, mild shades. If they happened to receive the colour they did
not desire, they worked slower and concentrated less than when
working with their favourite shades.
Do colours aid the memory for words?
In order to see if colours could enhance students’ memory power,
I conducted a short experiment. I asked 58 students to learn 20
English words and their meaning within five minutes. The words were
written individually on cards in five colours: blue, green, orange,
red, and yellow. All words were connected with business and were
most probably new to the students. Subsequently, students were
tested on all the words.
The results are shown in Figure
3. The results might mean that some colours
drew more attention and helped students’ concentration better than
others. The words printed on blue or red cards were remembered the
best while those written on green had the worst results. It is
interesting that green, most students’ favourite colour, was the
worst memory aid. Its relaxing qualities could have had a
distracting influence on students.
Using colour to teach vocabulary
It is a well known fact that students recall words better when
they read the definitions and draw their own pictures to represent
them than when they read and write the words and the definitions.
Tracing a picture of the definition produces better recall than
writing the definition, and creating one’s own visual image is more
effective than tracing (Wittrock 1977:171–172).
Using colour in a number of ways produces similar results:
students concentrate better, spend more time processing a word, and
find learning more interesting and pleasant. Colour is useful in
both learning and revising, as well as making students and teachers
aware of the way they approach certain tasks. Neuropsychologists,
for instance, give students four pens and have them work with each
pen in a specific order for a specified period of time (red pen for
three minutes, then blue for three minutes, and so on). The results
reveal a good deal about how the students did the task, what was
done first, second, or third (Williams 1986:107). In teaching
vocabulary to more advanced students of English, this technique
might show what information they seek first when working with a
dictionary: whether they look for definitions, equivalents in their
own native tongue, example sentences, synonyms, or other
The most popular uses of coloured chalk or pencils
1. to practice spelling and pronunciation:
underline or colour difficult letter or sound clusters
(e.g., double consonants in accommodation or the sounds in thought);
mark stressed syllables in longer words (luxurious); underline words
in a passage that look nice or ugly to you; draw a picture rep-
resenting a word you cannot remember; decorate the initial or final
sounds/letters that cause difficulty;
2. to remember the word’s grammar:
underline concrete nouns in one colour and abstract
ones in another; mark countable and uncountable nouns in a text with
different colours; underline transitive and intransitive verbs; mark
words which are masculine, feminine, or neuter in meaning; mark
different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
prepositions) with colours;
3. to teach semantic categories and word
underline all words in a text
connected with a given topic (e.g., health, food, travelling, etc.)
with a coloured pencil; underline all words in a text associated
with different ways of speaking (looking, walking, or smiling) in
order to notice the differences in their usage; mark adjectives with
positive and negative meanings with different colours; underline
synonyms or antonyms of certain words; make colourful charts,
mandalas, semantic maps, or idea sketches to practise
4. to practise morphology:
all prefixes and suffixes in a passage and try to find out what they
usually mean; underline the stem of given words to see that they are
related (e.g., satisfaction, insatiable, unsatisfactory); use
different colours to mark prefixes, stems, and suffixes of words on
a list of derivatives (e.g., long, prolong, prolonged, prolongation,
longitude, longish, longing, etc.); and
5. to draw students attention to words and to
let them express their
opinions and preferences in a creative way; underline with different
colours words which have happy/sad or nice/ unpleasant associations
for you; mark words which are easy or difficult for you to remember
or words you would like to remember after the class; colour all
attractive/boring or useful/uncommon words in a passage.
Apart from underlining or colouring words or letters, students
can also improve their retention by colour coding (associating
certain lexical or grammatical categories with particular colours);
making coloured drawings or symbols for words or grammatical
categories to be used in the classroom on flash cards, cue cards,
posters, and overhead transparencies; or using coloured discs to
mark some features of words presented in pictures or magazine
cut-outs (e.g., gender or countable nouns). Teachers can help
students acquire more difficult items of vocabulary by using
coloured chalk or by placing pictures or writing words on coloured
construction paper. Students, on the other hand, can use colour in
their notebooks and for dittos (Allen and Valette 1972:118–119).
Teachers will have their own ideas and will use colour to suit
their own students’ needs. Whether they introduce colourful
flashcards, posters, or notes on the board, they may find them all
helpful and enjoyable. The main advantages of using colour in the
classroom include the following:
• Colouring words helps to concentrate on the task and extends
the time and attention students give to each word to be learnt.
• Underlining words or decorating them with coloured pencils is
an activity no student can get wrong, and the feeling of success is
extremely encouraging for all students.
• Texts and exercises coloured with pencils look more familiar or
personal to students and are much easier to work with than clean
texts when revising the material.
Allowing students to make decisions about what is easy/difficult,
interesting/ boring, useful/useless for them and what they
want/don’t want to remember while underlining certain words with
coloured pencils makes students feel responsible for their results.
In most cases, such a feeling of control makes students aware of the
good side of studying and they start working harder.
Finally, using colour in any way makes students and teachers more
creative. Developing new ideas, drawing pictures, and playing with
words make studying a pleasure rather than a cumbersome duty.
Allen, E. and Valette R. 1972. Modern language classroom
techniques. A handbook. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Mertz, B. 1995. Farben Charakter–Schicksal.
Niedernhausen/Ts.: Falken-Verlag GmbH.
Muths, C 1994. Farbtherapie. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH
Spaulding, C. 1992. Motivation in the classroom. New York:
Williams, L. 1983. Teaching for the two-sided mind. New York:
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With the Internet taking a collective poop in its pants about Apple’s iPhone event a week from today, rumors of an update to the iPod line have begun to take shape as well.
It’s about time the iPod family get an overhaul.
The iPod classic was last updated in September 2009. At that time, it got bumped (back) to a 160 GB hard drive, at the $249 price point. Once the shining star of Apple’s complete product line, the iPod classic has been untouched since.
Many view the Classic as the logical place for Apple to cut down its iPod line. The only model with a spinning hard drive, the Classic offers massive amounts of storage, but feels like a dinosaur compared to Apple’s smaller, flash-based offerings.
When I reviewed the iPod nano as a watch back in April, I wasn’t impressed with Apple’s middle-of-the-road iPod. The touch interface is clunky. It isn’t iOS, no matter how hard Apple worked to make it look like iOS.
While I might be biased with my dislike for the current model, I think the Nano is overdue for an update. Basically untouched since 2010, it’s too small and too hard to operate. I’d love to see it gain support for iTunes Match, but I can’t help but think that adding complexity to the OS and Wi-Fi is at odds with the simplicity Apple usually strives for with its iPod line.
Like the Nano, the Shuffle hasn’t been updated since September 2010. Even then, it was more of a step backwards than forwards, adding the buttons back after the rather poorly-received third-generation model dropped them in favor of VoiceOver-based control.
Out of all four models, I think the Shuffle has aged the least in two years. It’s about as simple as an iPod can be, and dirt cheap. I don’t see the need for Apple to do much with it.
The iPod touch’s aging is the hardest for me to understand. Running iOS, the iPod touch is designed to be a cheaper alternative to an iPhone or iPad.
Assumedly to keep costs down, Apple has the iPhone 4’s A4 system on a chip inside, with 256 MB RAM. While Apple touts the Touch as somewhat of a gaming system, it falls behind the specs of the iPhone 4S and third-generation iPad.
The device sports an non-IPS Retina display. However, that might be about to change. Here’s Rene Ritchie at iMore:
The new iPod touch is getting the same 4-inch, 16:9 aspect ration screen as the new iPhone. Whether it’s the same panel as the iPhone 5, or Apple once again goes for a cheaper panel like the non-IPS one they went with in 2010, remains to be seen.
I think out of all the iPods, the Touch is in the most need of a hardware update.
While I’m not sold on next week’s event being about the iPhone and iPod, I can see Apple wanting to reserve October to be all about the iPad mini. If Apple does share the stage between the iPhone and iPod, I bet only the iPod touch and Nano (if it’s radically re-designed) make the Keynote.
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December 13, 2023
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is out of control.
On November 15, the agency voted to adopt a Report and Order on Digital Discrimination which will divide Americans by race, sex, income level, and many other categories while far exceeding its statutory mandate to prevent “digital discrimination.”
This Report and Order uses a one-page authorization from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to justify 218 pages of regulations that upend decades of Civil Rights precedent. This far exceeds the agency’s statutory authority.
Specifically, the FCC would trade the sound “disparate treatment” standard for the unjust and arbitrary “disparate impact” standard. Whereas longstanding precedent has held that the government or third-party plaintiffs would have to provide evidence of intentional discrimination on the part of a business for them to be held liable under Civil Rights law, now they must only demonstrate that different groups of people use the same service at different rates.
In the context of digital services, this will empower leftist activists to shake down any telecommunications company that tries to expand broadband to unserved areas under the threat of a lawsuit. As they enrich their activist friends, the FCC simultaneously grants itself the power to regulate every single ISP’s:
“network infrastructure deployment, network reliability, network upgrades, network maintenance, customer-premises equipment, and installation”;
- “speeds, capacities, latency, data caps, throttling, pricing, promotional rates, imposition of late fees, opportunity for equipment rental, installation time, contract renewal terms, service termination terms, and use of customer credit and account history”;
- “mandatory arbitration clauses, pricing, deposits, discounts, customer service, language options, credit checks, marketing or advertising, contract renewal, upgrades, account termination, transfers to another covered entity, and service suspension.”
This micromanagement and liability double whammy will chill investment and discourage providers from participating in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which was the entire purpose of the infrastructure law in the first place.
Furthermore, in most cases it is not even the decision of the provider where they get to build. Local and state governments largely control the permitting process that dictates where telcos can operate. If they had their druthers, there is little doubt providers would seek to gain as many new customers as possible from unserved areas.
As the branch of government most representative of and responsive to the people, Congress is tasked with protecting Americans from bureaucratic overreach and the economic devastation that may accompany it. We hope you will hold the FCC accountable for this power-grab and restore the rule of law, rather than the rule of lawfare, to internet service.
Grover G. Norquist
Americans for Tax Reform
American Consumer Institute
Digital First Project
Frontiers of Freedom
Innovation Economy Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Open Competition Center
Tax Payers Protection Alliance
Senior Fellow, FAI
National Taxpayer Union
Center for Individual Freedom
Edward J. Longe, Ph.D
James Madison Institute
Consumer Choice Center
Committee for Justice
Property Rights Alliance
American Family Association
Jameson Taylor, Ph.D.
Family Research Council
Advancing American Freedom
American Principles Project
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In 2010 Apple revealed that they were experimenting with new features for a future iteration of their magic mouse that would include gesture profiles such as tilt, tap, nudge, scoop and slide. The invention also covered force sensors and more. Again in 2012 Apple tweaked their invention so that a future version of the Magic Mouse could process combinations of kinematical inputs such as force and velocity. Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals yet further tweaks have been added to a future version of their Magic Mouse which includes inertial sensors. The hybrid sensor system could also apply to future MacBooks.
Apple states that touch-sensitive panels can be used as an input device to control the motion of a cursor or other navigational object on a computer display screen. One common type of touch-sensitive panel is a touch pad and the other is the surface of a Magic Mouse.
However, various problems are associated with conventional input devices. For example, most, if not all, conventional input devices are inadequate in tracking both large and fine motions. For example, inertial sensing-based input devices typically track large ranges of motion well (e.g., moving a cursor across the length of a display screen), but not fine ranges of motions. In contrast, touch-sensitive pads typically track fine ranges of motions well, but not large ranges of motion. For example, moving a cursor from one end of the display screen to the other end may require a user to swipe his or her finger across a touch pad multiple times before the cursor moves to the other end of the display screen.
Apple's latest Magic Mouse related patent sets out to correct these problems with a hybrid solution consisting of inertial and touch sensors.
Apple's patent FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a hybrid inertial and touch sensing process for Magic Mouse and/or a MacBook Trackpad in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
Apple credits Farshid Hashimi as the sole inventor patent application 20130176242 which was originally filed in Q4 2012.
Patently Apple presents a detailed summary of patent applications with associated graphics for journalistic news purposes as each such patent application is revealed by the U.S. Patent & Trade Office. Readers are cautioned that the full text of any patent application should be read in its entirety for full and accurate details. Revelations found in patent applications shouldn't be interpreted as rumor or fast-tracked according to rumor timetables. About Comments: Patently Apple reserves the right to post, dismiss or edit comments.
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June 12, 2019
Medicine Hat cancer survivor can't say enough about community-based exercise program
UCalgary Across Alberta: Prof Nicole Culos-Reed's program for cancer-survivor fitness and wellness now in pilot stage across the province
When Joyce Nishi was told she had breast cancer in late 2017 following a routine mammogram, she knew what she needed to do.
The hospital pharmacist from Medicine Hat required surgery and underwent four cycles of chemotherapy and a year of intravenous biologic therapy. Just last month she finished treatment and is now considered cancer-free.
But through her personal journey, Nishi also learned there’s more to recovery than the prescribed medical routines many patients endure. As a person who has had cancer, Nishi is now also a graduate of a specialized program that takes a holistic approach to battling the disease, focusing on aspects of both physical and mental wellness.
Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed, PhD, has spent the last two decades working on the idea that building a program of both exercise and wellness into the journey of the cancer survivor can allow them to experience a positive environment with others who are also dealing with the disease. She conducted various studies on the benefits of yoga and/or physical activity (exercise programs) in breast, head and neck, brain, lung, and prostate cancer survivors. In all of them, she found that participants who took part in group-based class delivery tended to stick with the programs, get benefits, and for many, continue to stay active beyond their initial wellness program.
Two years ago, working in partnership her colleague at the University of Alberta, Dr. Margie McNeely, PhD, they received funding from Alberta Innovates to launch a five-year pilot, The Alberta Cancer Exercise program, or ACE. It’s a province-wide initiative that brings trainers and cancer survivors together twice a week for 12 weeks for fitness and wellness sessions that are delivered in a community-based group setting.
“This program is so important because the evidence clearly shows that exercise should be part of standard cancer care,” Culos-Reed says. “There are huge potential benefits and really, no drawbacks to being physically active.
“Cancer survivors deserve support for wellness within their illness journey,” she continues. “This support ensures a healthier cancer survivor, and ultimately, less burden on our health-care system. ACE is a program to which all cancer survivors should have access,” she says, “in order to optimize quality of life.”
Hundreds have already participated
Working with McNeely and now with additional funding from the Alberta Cancer Foundation, Culos-Reed has developed ACE across the province, with multiple program locations operating in Calgary and Edmonton, as well as sites in Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Fort McMurray and, coming later this year, Grande Prairie.
Two years into the five-year funded program, there are more than 1,500 cancer survivors in the database for the program, which runs four times a year. Registrants’ costs are covered by the funding, and after the initial 12-week program, participants are able to register and self-pay for the ACE maintenance program.
“This has been extremely popular, as we’re seeing approximately 70 per cent of our ACE’ers uptake into a maintenance program or transition into another fitness program in their community,” says Culos-Reed.
“Maintenance is so important, as we are trying to support long-term behaviour change in our cancer survivors. We want them to build the habit of being physically active.”
Reaching survivors where they live and work
Programs such ACE are particularly important to people living in rural and remote communities, as they typically don’t have access to the same support resources that are found in larger centres. Organizers match the program to local sites and personnel, and support them by providing the ACE training to allow them to directly deliver the classes to cancer survivors and support persons.
ACE relies on these community partnerships with fitness facilities and cancer support services to deliver the program. Instructors in the communities are provided training through online and on-site methods.
“We can very economically deliver and support exercise classes, and don’t need to reinvent the wheel,” explains Culos-Reed. “By providing a cancer-specific exercise setting, we are helping to build a community that supports wellness in cancer survivorship — one that recognizes the unique needs of this population and can address such needs in an exercise setting.
“This results in a cancer survivor who is healthier and has a better quality of life. Ultimately that translates to less burden on our health-care system.”
Joyce Nishi heard about the program from a friend who works in oncology and who highly recommended it; she also saw a poster advertising the program at the Margery E. Yuill Cancer Centre in Medicine Hat. The program was held at a nearby family leisure centre.
Nishi says her profession and her understanding of the need to learn more about the disease were key factors in her decision to sign up. “As a health-care worker, the benefits of research and the need to do research also motivated me to join the ACE program.”
The future of the ACE program
“For exercise to become part of standard cancer care in Alberta,” says Culos-Reed, “we must be able to show that we can deliver a sustainable model across the province. We also must be able to provide access to these exercise resources where cancer survivors live — not just where they get treated — if we want to support long-term behaviour change.
“ACE is doing this by partnering with local fitness facilities, training those fitness professionals to deliver our safe and effective ACE program, and then supporting cancer survivors by continuing to offer fee-based cancer survivor-specific classes.”
Nishi agrees and says the benefits of the ACE program are not just physical, but also social and mental. “The program provided structure and motivation,” she says. “I knew I had to get to the program even on days when I felt tired or lazy.”
Nishi’s advice for anyone who has the opportunity to participate? “This is one of the best choices you can make for your health and well-being, and I am very grateful for all the support from our local leaders and all the participants.”
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Meet Ilana Nunn Okafor, wife of NBA star Emeka Okafor.
Ilana and Emeka married back in 2012. The couple welcomed their first child, an adorable baby girl, last summer in 2013.
Currently, Ilana Nunn Okafor is the Director of Public Relations at BDA Sports Management. Prior to working at BDA Sports Management, Ilana worked at Russell Simmons’ Phat Farm as a PR Manager. She also worked for the NBA and WNBA in Basketball Communications. Ilana went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Here’s a video below Ilana going shopping for the family she adopted with the Monumental Sports and Entertainment program called Family-to-Family.
Emeka OOkafor was the second pick in the 2004 NBA Draft out of the University of Connecticut. He was selected by the expansion Charlotte Bobcats and won the 2005 Rookie of the Year Award.
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This past week, I wrote an article for The News-Letter about Haruki Murakami’s book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I wrote the article intending it as a simple “Lit Bit” book review with a simple opening and closing introducing it as a book I chose to read over the summer that opened my thoughts.
After I finished my hurried writing, however, my mind was stuck on the idea of what summer reading was supposed to be. In my article, I had taken for granted the idea that beach reading should be “light.” It shouldn’t be difficult, and we should be able to finish it quickly. But why should more challenging reading not be enjoyable? I was reminded of John Green saying that he didn’t understand why we were willing to spend endless hours trying to complete a single level of Angry Birds but refused to voluntarily pick up a long book. He makes a good point.
And then, of course, my mind, in its endless love for allusions, flashed to Hermione crashing an enormous tome down on a library table in front of the boys, saying, “I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading…”
I find myself agreeing with her death glare. Why should something easy and less interesting or applicable to my life be better? If I am happily simmering on the sand on the breaks between wonderfully exhausting myself in the ocean, why wouldn’t I also want the same for my mind? I started to wonder if it wasn’t better to exercise my mind with something rewarding and delighting, something like Murakami.
I’ve attached the article both as a recommendation to read Murakami and as a demonstration of the point of embarkment of this new train of thought. What do you read during the summer?
Over the summer I do a lot of reading. I’m not bogged down with readings for class, and becoming absorbed in a novel on the beach gives me a sense of satisfaction and calm that I rarely get during the semester. This past summer I read one of Haruki Murakami’s books, having heard his name quite often but not knowing anything about him. I’ll spare you the hyperbole, but I was shocked.
Murakami is a Japanese writer who began publishing in 1979 and still publishes works today. His books have become bestsellers and award-winners in more countries than just his own. While his novels are originally written in Japanese, they resonate with a broader audience since Murakami was raised with a lot of Western influences on his life, especially in terms of the literature he read.
Murakami’s books have been classified as surrealist, science fiction, magical realism and more. This genre confusion certainly applies to Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which I read. The book is actually so confusing and crazy that giving a summary seems impossible, but I will try to sketch the basic ideas. Read More | <urn:uuid:ea71944c-2642-4b08-ae02-474607b0a7d6> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://morestoryblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/ | 2019-04-25T20:54:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578733077.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425193912-20190425215912-00174.warc.gz | en | 0.976712 | 629 |
Clint Huffman Wants to Solve Your Windows Performance Issues
Microsoft Premier Field Engineers are the top-level troubleshooting experts at the company, usually taking on customer problems that can't be solved by looking up solutions on TechNet or getting MVP help on the various Microsoft community forums. MCPmag.com is lucky to have one PFE, Clint Huffman, who has offered to help explore our readers' most vexing Windows performance problems. Write to me at [email protected] with "Help Us, Clint Huffman!" on the subject line of your message if you want some help.
To see some of Clint's work on MCPmag.com, click here and here. Another nifty piece where Clint compares physical vs. virtualized server performance is coming soon.
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I'm not worried about this user specifically, if they did something that got them in trouble then so be it. But what sparked this was a discussion I was having with someone about their answer, when suddenly they stopped responding and their rep now shows as 1. I was a little confused, because the question itself had a good number of upvotes. I checked out their profile, and in fact they seem to have a very positive reputation overall, on many sites, but right there at the top is the notice of a 6-day suspension "to cool down".
After reading through the link provided in the suspension I was still confused, because like I said, they seemed to be contributing positively across many sites, not exhibiting (as far as I could see, anyways) the negative behavior that qualifies for a suspension.
I guess I'm just confused how that can happen. I'm not trying to challenge the ruling or the rules themselves, but I'd like a little insight into how someone can be a good contributor but still run afoul of the system so profoundly as to get a heavy slap into the sin bin? Are there other well-known examples of it? Should I be worried about my own behavior if I can't identify what was bad about someone else's? | <urn:uuid:477bbfce-72ae-4345-90f8-3f27f63535aa> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2437/what-usually-causes-a-user-with-a-very-positive-reputation-to-get-suspended | 2021-10-20T17:05:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585322.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020152307-20211020182307-00417.warc.gz | en | 0.988158 | 256 |
Clarke's acceleration seals thrilling win
Australia 8 for 334 (Clarke 82, Johnson 57) beat England 6 for 333 (Trott 137) by two wickets
The boos from Brisbane turned to cheers in Sydney as Michael Clarke helped Australia hunt down a record 334, their highest successful chase, by two wickets with four balls to spare at the SCG. However, it was a tense finish after Clarke was run out for 82 with seven needed but John Hastings and Brett Lee held their nerve to see the home side across the line and leave a weary England with plenty of soul-searching to do
That will be particularly true of Jonathan Trott, who was involved in key pieces of action in the closing stages after earlier scoring a career-best 137 to anchor England's highest score in Australia and their highest total in a defeat. Then, in the space of five balls, he lost and almost won the match with two contrasting pieces of fielding. Firstly he failed to hold onto Clarke's clip at short fine-leg which burst through his hands for four, but he then produced a pin-point throw to find the Australian captain short as he came back for a second.
It was the third wicket to fall quickly with Australia faltering as the target approached. David Hussey edged behind against Steven Finn to end a key stand of 90 in 11 overs with Clarke - including 50 runs from the batting Powerplay - and Steven Smith, batting with a runner after a hip injury that has ruled him out of Perth, was run out after a chaotic mix-up. However, Hastings edged the winning runs down to fine leg off Chris Woakes - although there was still confusion as the umpires didn't realise the match was over. A match of 667 runs can frazzle the mind.
Australia's top order had laid the foundations in the chase as Shane Watson butchered a 32-ball fifty and Mitchell Johnson responded to his promotion to No. 4 with a well-made 57. As is his style, Clarke took time to play himself in and his strike rate was under 100 until he'd passed his half-century and took the batting Powerplay. He then whipped James Anderson, who conceded the second most expensive figures by an England bowler, over square leg for six and followed that with another boundary as the home side made their crucial push.
Hussey also located the rope after a sluggish start when he tore into the expensive Anderson and suddenly an asking rate over eight-an-over was down at a run-a-ball although an impressive effort from Finn, in his second ODI, gave England a chance at the end. They were handicapped by an injury to Paul Collingwood, who suffered a back spasm on the last ball of the innings and wasn't able to bowl. He came onto the field briefly after 16 overs, but his back began to stiffen up again. It meant England had to find 10 overs between Trott and Kevin Pietersen which cost 72 - although Pietersen did have Johnson stumped.
Johnson had responded with his second ODI fifty which built on a blistering opening from Australia against some wayward bowling. They had nine runs after just one legal delivery and Anderson came in for some fierce punishment in his third over as Watson collected four boundaries with 19 runs coming in total to bring up the fifty inside six overs.
England needed a stroke of fortune to break through when Brad Haddin flicked a leg-stump delivery to short fine-leg where Trott, who'd recently come into the field after recovering from cramp, took a sharp catch to his right. Watson went to his fifty off 32 balls but didn't go any further when he flicked Michael Yardy to midwicket. Callum Ferguson, replacing the injured Shaun Marsh, played nicely for his 46 until being run out but the required rate was never out of hand for Australia.
Despite England's batting problems during this series, characterised by soft dismissals, this was the third time they had beaten their record total after the innings at Melbourne and Adelaide. Trott's hundred was his fourth of the trip following two in the Ashes series and his 102 at Adelaide last week. He took his time to play himself in and didn't strike a boundary until his 40th delivery, his first fifty taking 61 balls. But the next half of his ton came off 39 balls as he collected four boundaries during the batting Powerplay.
Shaun Tait thought he had him lbw on 82, but the decision was overturned on review with the ball sliding down leg, and Trott escaped again with a missed run-out opportunity on 88. He started to suffer from cramp as the hundred approached and, after passing three figures and slamming Johnson through the covers, was allowed a runner until falling in the final over. The last 87 of his runs came from 65 deliveries.
Ian Bell provided the innings with ideal acceleration as he got himself going in the batting Powerplay then showed his inventive skills by lapping Watson and John Hastings for boundaries. He and Trott added runs at nearly nine an over, the sort of dominant partnership England have struggled to produce even in their previous hefty totals.
Andrew Strauss had set a good tone with his second fifty of the series off 52 balls and looked set for three figures until he clipped Smith to midwicket. Kevin Pietersen was threatening to cut loose with two boundaries in three balls off Hastings, but his frustrating series continued when he drove the first ball of the batting Powerplay to mid-off.
The fielding restrictions again threatening to be a curse rather than a blessing, but the five overs produced 43 runs as Trott and Bell began their surge. Still, though, it didn't prove enough and another 6-1 drubbing is on the cards.
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Those so much talked about, vital substances called “antioxidants” can protect our organism from free radicals. These beneficial substances include vitamins A, E, and C, as well as micro-elements such as selenium and carotenoids. From a nutritional point of view, the American National Eye Institute conducted a research which has demonstrated that there are indeed certain nutrients that can ensure the protection of our eyes. The most significant foods that can prevent ocular degeneration are the ones which are rich in beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, zeaxanthin and lutein, zinc and omega-3 fats.
Among these excellent foods we could of course mention carrots. They are full of beta carotene, which is an antioxidant that reduces the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration process. Carrots can be part of salads, soups or they can be part of a side dish for lunch or dinner. They can be added to most anything: hummus, salsa, peanut butter, guacamole and low calorie dressings. Some other foods that are excellent for the good health of our eyes include broccoli, bell peppers and Brussels sprouts. They all provide a good quantity of vitamin C, which is yet another essential antioxidant for the protection of our eyes. These veggies can be steamed, roasted, added to omelets or soups. Also, they may be combined for a delicious “pasta primavera” (spring time pasta), with a little bit of oil and garlic.
Of course, not only fruit and veggies are good for the eyes. Apparently, the meat which is healthiest for the eyes is the ostrich meat. This kind of meat can actually be a substitute for turkey, chicken, pork or lamb meat. It has the quality of absorbing all kinds of seasonings and it contains zinc, iron and a lot of proteins. Zinc is actually one of the most essential ingredients for the maintenance of healthy eyes. Zinc is contained by the retina. This substance is responsible for the good functioning of enzymes which are actually meant to ensure the eyes’ health. Turkey meat also contains a lot of zinc and the B-vitamin niacin which can protect the eyes against cataracts disease. Turkey meat can be used in sandwiches, salads, chili and tacos or burgers.
Another veggie which contains high levels of beta carotene is the sweet potato. As their name suggests, sweet potatoes do indeed have a sweet taste. These vegetables can be included in recipes for dinner side dishes. They can be baked with a small quantity of oil or they can be used for the famous French fries.
Another amazing food that can do wonder to one’s eyes is spinach. This one contains four essential ingredients that can protect one’s eyes. Thus, spinach contains vitamin C, high quantities of zeaxanthin, lutein and beta carotene. All these antioxidants can be found in the macula’s tissue. They have the special capacity of absorbing 40%-90% of the intensity of blue light, and therefore can act like a sort of eyes’ sunscreen. Several research results have attested that if we eat foods which contain a large quantity of zeaxanthin and lutein, our macula’s pigment density can be increased. This means that our retina is better protected, and therefore there is a much lower probability of macular degeneration for our eyes. Spinach is generally eaten as a side dish. However, it can be a delicious salad or omelet ingredient. It is low in calories and rich in vitamins, so there is no reason why to avoid such a beneficial healthy food. The key is to give it a good taste, without overcooking it so as not to lose its nutritive qualities.
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The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS), a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation, and an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), is inviting interested parties to apply for pre-qualification and bid for the design, financing and construction of dam and raw water conveyance structure for the New Centennial Water Source - Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWS-KDP).
The objective of the project is to ensure water security, increase Metro Manila's raw water supply to meet future potable water demand, and as a redundant water source, thereby reducing the total dependency on the Angat Dam reservoir.
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Because hairs on their speckled daybeds baffle the little bees,
foxgloves come out to advertise for rich bumbling hummers,
who crawl into their tunnels-of-delight with drunken ease
(see Darwin's chapters on his foxglove summers)
plunging over heckles caked with sex-appealing stuff
to sip from every hooker its intoxicating liquor
and stop it propagating in a corner with itself.
And this is how the foxflower keeps its sex life in order.
Two anthers—adolescent, in a hurry to dehisce—
let fly too soon, so pollen lies in drifts around the floor.
Along swims bumbler bee and makes an undercoat of this,
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So ripeness climbs the bells of Digitalis, flower by flower,
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It is widely known that in the past, I was a Quaker Minister. I stay away from that term now, because I would rather be known just as a good, solid man, than a Preacher. Part of my reasoning for that is: I feel like we all have the same responsibility before God, to do our best to serve Him. I feel, no one has more or less responsibility in this department. Each one of our lives should be gratefully dedicated to honor and harmonize with God.
Yet, some of us do seem to have a special call in the (spiritual) area of life and I am one of these. So, I accept my responsibility to be a spokesman for Christ, when called upon. Recent events, namely seeing people beheaded in the name of religion, overwhelms my conscience with fervent passion. I feel, I must speak out as a voice of sanity, in a world attacked by religious nuts.
So it will not seem that I am picking on other religions, I remind you of Jim Jones (of a Christian culture), who in 1978 lead 909 people to their deaths by suicide. No, it is not just other religions; . . . . absurdities abound in the name of the spiritual part of life…… And this should be the part of life that makes us the most sound, well rounded and healthy people, possible.
This is not surprising to a man like me, of deep devotion to God. For wherever there is genuine value and treasure, there will always be counterfeits. Faith should be full and free. Yet, when we see such horror in the name of religion; we know that this kind of faith is foolish.
Plainly, There seems to be a lot of confusion about what should and should not be accepted and expected from any kind of religious faith. The following 10 ideas seem to be plain truths, about what is good about faith and when to suspect that religion has turned into insanity.
Current events make it necessary for me to speak out on this subject. So here are some simple guidelines to think about, in determining if your religious influences are inspiring or degrading; healthy or unhealthy.
1- It is healthy to respect people of all faith & persuasions, as long as their belief inspires that which is good & healthy in humankind .
2- If religion is healthy- it inspires virtue-truth-honor-nobility-courage-humility-character-honesty-value & compassion .
3 – My father taught me a wise lesson; my freedom ends where your nose begins and vice versus. Healthy, Religious Liberty is fair for all concerned.
4 – Deep personal devotion to God will always inspire that which is good, uplifting & just; otherwise it is oppressive confusion-not true spirituality..
5 – All belief systems that produce well-being; ascribe to justice and truth; to guiding principles of honesty and love.-
6 – All men & women with healthy beliefs ascribe and follow clear moral codes of conduct.
7 – How can we truly serve God that we do not see & mistreat men that we do see. What we believe must influence what we do in a positive way, for it to be acceptable and right.
8 – God is that Being who’s principles are so good & righteous that they encourage us to be benevolent beings in His image .
9 – Faith should liberate our eyes and heart to be more considerate, caring, courageous, noble souls championing truth.
10 – A healthy faith should make the heart stronger, the mind clearer and the motives purer.
A friend of mine (CJ Jones) said on her FB page this morning as I was finishing this up. “As you go through your day, show kindness to those you encounter and you will feel filled up.” I replied: Such a simple, yet profound way to live. To practice being good to each other. To which she said: “Right? It’s so simple and yet sooooo many people do not do it.” Our faith can not be of positive effect, if our lives are not truly helpful to others.
In conclusion, Paul Johnson in his “History of Christianity” makes the statement “a sincere follower of the truth has nothing to fear from the facts.” Even so, those of us of a sincere faith must be mindful to make sure our faith is leading us to our loftiest accomplishments of humility, love and service. Not deceiving us to become arrogant agents of evil.
Difficult words? I know. But this is a difficult day in which we live and they are needed.
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Gunpowder tea, is one of rosted green tea. It is also called "Ping Chaoqing originates from" water town in Zhejiang province Shaoxing county. Pearl tea is mainly produced in Shaoxing, Yuyao, Shengzhou, Xinchang, Yinzhou, Shangyu, Fenghua, Dongyang and other counties.
Gunpowder tea has thin cord round tight and heavy, uniform size. It smells luster Ukraine smooth and high pure aroma, mellow taste. The tea infusion is bright yellow green.
The history of gunpowder tea:
The natural Gunpowder tea use the one bud and one bud with four or two leaves. The shoots are made of longer leaves. Gunpowder tea has a long history. As early as one thousand years ago, the water level of tea district including Zhejiang, Shaoxing, Xiaoshan, Zhuji, county, Tiantai, Fenghua and other ten counties.The environment here is very good. High dimensional, high altitude and mild climate, especially suitable for tea production.
The methord of making gunpowder tea:
There are three functions of fixing. Firstly, it completely destroys enzyme activity and maintains chlorophyll. Secondiy, it can release moisture and grass gas. Thirdly, it can promote the formation of inclusions. Because of a decrease in water content of tea, tea will become soft, which is convenient for rolling and shaping.
The features of gunpowder tea:
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In August 2009, the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) published the Technology Roadmap for the Fluid Power Industry. The purpose of the Roadmap was to provide NFPA member companies and their research partners with an industry-wide consensus regarding the research and development needs of the fluid power industry. Since its publication, the Roadmap has been used by the NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) to guide their respective research efforts, by NFPA to guide its standards development work, and by numerous NFPA members to inform decisions about research partnerships and product development.
In February 2012, NFPA released an updated document that revisits the six broad areas of Research Challenge identified by the original Roadmap. The update is the product of an NFPA task force comprised of fluid power component manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, and end-user representatives. In preparing its recommendations, the task force discussed research and market progress since 2009, reviewed customer feedback from a forum hosted by NFPA at the 2011 Energy Efficient Hydraulics and Pneumatics Conference, and defined and consulted a new definition for pre-competitive research projects. In its final analysis, the task force agreed to several revisions to the six Challenges, and organized them into categories to reflect the primary strategy that should be pursued in order to address each one.
The Research Challenges are:
Although the task force report suggests several market education and standardization initiatives to assist in addressing these challenges, it prioritizes pre-competitive research discovery applied to new technology development as providing the greatest potential benefit in these areas.
The Market Education Challenges are:
Although the task force report suggests several research and standardization initiatives to assist in addressing these challenges, it prioritizes education and the application of existing technologies and procedures in the marketplace as providing the greatest potential benefit in these areas.
The pre-competitive research, market education, and standardization initiatives aligned with all six Challenges comprise an agenda that can be used by organizations that wish to pursue projects of importance to the fluid power industry. NFPA will use the updated agenda to continue shaping and directing the research efforts of the NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and the CCEFP. With the addition of proposed standardization projects, NFPA will also use the agenda to propose activities for ISO Technical Committee 131, the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to that Committee, and other ISO Technical Committees associated with key end-use industries. With the addition of proposed market education projects, NFPA will also use the agenda to shape and direct a number of educational programs, including the Energy Efficient Hydraulics and Pneumatics Conference, now known as the
Fluid Power Systems Conference, and the
IFPE Technical Conference. It will also use the agenda as a vehicle by which to attract and organize additional funding for the projects and initiatives it describes.
By putting forth this agenda, representing a broad consensus of industry players, and focused on pre-competitive initiatives that will help develop new technologies to benefit the industries, markets, and people served by fluid power, NFPA demonstrates a commitment both to collaboration and to long-term growth and sustainability.
The full task force report can be downloaded here. There is no cost, but a brief registration process is required.
For more information contact Eric Lanke, (414) 778-3351.
The U.S. Department of Energy has published a study estimating the total amount of energy consumed by fluid power systems in the United States.
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Re: [FiM] Bridle Shores Commercial: Bits or Credit 2
Originally Posted by Grif
Silverpine was busy in the meantime, a dancee book on one hoof and his mouth scribbling furiously on another card. He quickly held it up for Sandy.
"Why don't we go dancing together? I could show you a few nifty moves. Salsa's my favourite. Very energetic."
Originally Posted by Benson
"Not really, not a big fan of waltz or ballroom dancing if that's what you mean. Just dancing, like at clubs with my girlfriends, like that Purple's Place, have some salt licks, dance to the beat, etc etc."
Right...club dancing. Sandy was definitely into that, with the loud, irritating beats, the nonsensical lyrics (if there were any), and the blinding lights that give ponies headaches. Fortunately, it was cue card to the rescue. "Why don't we go dancing together? I could show you a few nifty moves. Salsa's my favourite. Very energetic." Finally, they must've left the part of the date where he had to compliment her looks with cheesy lines. Much easier to read this one. "I mean, it's no club or nothin', but it's a lot more upbeat than waltzes an' such."
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In the past, tradition often trumped change. In most professions, people chose a career at a young age, entered their chosen profession and often stayed with a single employer for life. In the 21st century, fewer workers than ever before work for a single employer throughout their career and fewer organizations believe that tradition is necessarily better than change.
In other words, for employees and employers, change is now inevitable, making change management and change leadership increasingly important in the modern workplace. In the past, tradition often trumped change. In most professions, people chose a career at a young age, entered their chosen profession and often stayed with a single employer for life. In the 21st century, fewer workers than ever before work for a single employer throughout their career and fewer organizations believe that tradition is necessarily better than change. In other words, for employees and employers, change is now inevitable, making change management and change leadership increasingly important in the modern workplace.
Defining Change Management
By definition, change management refers to the careful planning and implementation of change. Even in a world where change is everywhere, resistance to change persists. After all, all too often, change in the workplace in introduced in a way that feels forced or top-down. To be successful, change must be understood, realistic and measurable. Change management may be best understood as a philosophy and practice that aims to facilitate organizational change without inciting organizational resistance. It is a set of tools that ensures that change happens in a reasonable way with desired outcomes.
Change Management versus Change Leadership
Change management is a term that is often used in conjunction with change leadership. In actual fact, change management and change leadership mean two different things. Change management, as suggested above, is an approach and a set of tools that helps to facilitate change. Change leadership, by contrast, might be understood as the driving force behind the change process. Said another way, change leadership is about big ideas and bold visions. In a sense, if change management is about taking care of the small details that one needs to attend to whenever change is in the air, change leadership is about attending to the dreams and desires that fuel organizational change.
Training for Change
If one accepts the above definitions and distinctions between the concepts of change management and change leadership, it follows that training for change management is distinct from training for change leadership. Indeed, it suggests that moving forward, organizations need to think seriously about training leaders who can lead change and training leaders who can help manage change, but these may not be the same people. Change leaders are visionary, innovative and often risk taking. They are not afraid of change, however radical it may be, and are always ready and willing to think outside the box. They may or may not work alone or in a highly collaborative way. In short, they are people who are able to conceive of and articulate new ideas and concepts and generate excitement about them. But bold visions can be a hard sell in the workplace, and this is where change managers become essential. Indeed, most change leaders are dependent on good change managers. In contrast to change leaders, change managers need to be involved in soliciting feedback from all members of an organization, taking an organization’s pulse on a regular basis (e.g., determining if the pace of change is appropriate), identifying where the organization is going and evaluating the cost of getting there, and communicating the change process in as transparent a manner as possible.
Training change leaders and change managers, then, is by no means the same thing. Training change managers means training people to recognize the impacts of organizational change and arming them with techniques for change intervention. Training change managers also means training people who can describe and model what change facilitation looks like and help design and implement change while simultaneously assisting employees with the ownership of change and its effects. Finally, training change managers means training people to evaluate change on both quantitative and qualitative levels. In other words, training for change managers focuses on enhancing the communication, facilitation and evaluation skills of people charged with managing organizational change.
Training change leaders, by contrast, is about developing the political competencies needed to identify when change is needed and foster the buy-in needed to bring change about. Change leaders, after all, are people who not only have a vision but also have the capacity to materialize a vision. As such, training for change leaders focuses on enhancing a different set of skills than those emphasized in change management training—these skills include organizational awareness, intuition and persuasion. While training opportunities for change leaders continues to lag behind those available to change managers, there is little doubt that in the coming years, training for change leaders will continue to expand.
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Guyana certified as fish exporter to EU
By Chamanlall Naipaul
January 24, 2004
GUYANA has now been approved as an exporter of seafood to the lucrative European Union (EU) market following the official receipt of certification from the European Commission (EC).
Head of the European Commission (EC) in Guyana, Per Eklund, yesterday handed over the official certificate to Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock and acting Minister of Agriculture, Satyadeow Sawh, at a reception in honour of the occasion at Le Meridien Pegasus.
Sawh described the occasion as an historic one with Guyana being the winner, noting that certification was achieved as a result of all stakeholders working in partnership. "Working together is always the preferred route," he added.
The minister noted the significant impact the fisheries sector is making on the local Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as on the lives of the ordinary people throughout the country.
He said access to the EU market has "opened the door wider" for the local fishing industry, but reminded operators of the need for sustainable exploitation of oceanic resources, and the need to maintain international standards of quality.
He expressed the view that the local fishing industry would in the near future move rapidly in the direction of value added fishery products, adding that he envisages that Guyana eventually would export canned fish to Europe.
He also reiterated Government's commitment towards diversification of the agriculture industry and even within the fishing industry, pointing out the establishment of a local aquaculture industry, which presently has over 6,000 acres under fish cultivation.
Eklund disclosed that the EU market for seafood is a massive one with Europeans consuming $26B euros' worth annually. $22.4B of that amount is imported.
He added that indications are that there will be increased consumption of seafood during this year with increase of the EU population moving from 375 million to 480 million during this year.
Alluding to the great potential of Guyana, Eklund urged that it should be turned into action to bring prosperity and economic development for Guyana.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock, Bhowan Balkarran recalled that the accomplishment of certification was a as a result of hard work and the mechanism which started since 1999 with the assistance of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), faced many challenges to meet the very stringent standards of the EU.
He informed the gathering that the legislation governing the quality control system and is very comprehensive and is encapsulated in a 250 page manual.
He further stated that the Veterinary Public Health Unit of the Ministry of Health in enforcing the quality control system.
Local fish processing plants had to undergo modifications to become EU compliant, Balkarran said, disclosing that already one company, Noble House Seafoods, has been approved as EU compliant.
President of the Guyana Trawler Association, Lloyd Piggot, said the certification could not have at a more opportune time in the history of the local fishing industry.
He acknowledged that certification has now created the ability of the local fishing industry to export its products to the EU market, however, he lamented that the higher fuel and production costs, uncertain markets and increased competition are negatively impacting on the local fishing industry.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Noble House Seafoods, Leslie Romalho concurred with his colleague on the latter issue and appealed to the Government to implement measures to counter the difficulties being faced.
The CEO recollected that his company began building a new processing facility in 1997 in accordance with EU standards and certification now is "a dream come true."
He also observed that the fishing industry is at a critical stage, but assured that operators have demonstrated a responsible attitude by abiding with the closed season for trawler fishing in the interest of sustainability.
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What motivates men and women to devote 48 hours or more on a weekend, plus hundreds if not thousands of dollars for equipment, gadgets, shelter, fuel, meat, seasonings, food and beverage for team and guests’ sustenance, entry fees, travel, lodging, and the list goes on — all for the opportunity to serve their pampered barbecue to certified judges who will decide which team has the best chicken, ribs, pork, beef, and best overall?
Motives vary, overlap and change over time. One constant is fun. Fun as a priority, however, has changed over the past 30 years since the Kansas City Barbeque Society was founded. Prize money has taken on increasing importance, but the real glue is fun and camaraderie. Many compete. Few win, but they keep coming back for fun and fellowship.
Ribbons and trophies are important symbols of pitmaster prowess. Teams proudly display their ribbons and trophies at contests and in their restaurants. They are proof of bragging rights as well as motivation to compete again. The first time a team wins a ribbon or trophy, members are hooked.
In the early years of the KC society, the membership roster had fewer than a hundred and the first big contest of the season was the Great Lenexa BBQ Battle in June. In April, prior to Lenexa, the faithful gathered in Dan Haake’s southern Johnson County pasture for spring training.
Each contestant paid for chicken, brisket, ribs and pork shoulder, cut to exact specifications from the same supplier. Awards were dime store ribbons and small plastic trophies with award categories typed on stickers. No cash prizes.
Thirty years have seen lots of change. The society grew from 30 members to more than 20,000 worldwide and from a handful of sanctioned contests to 497 and growing.
Last Saturday the 8th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge in Overland Park had the spirit and feel of classic spring training contests. The challenge hosted twice the number of teams in a suburban instead of rural pasture, and the $4,500 in prize money was much better than dime store ribbons and plastic trophies. I credit it to the teams, judges, VFW organizers, sponsors, food vendors, musicians, contest officials, table captains and other volunteers who were there for fun, fellowship, patriotism and good-natured competition.
A smoothly run barbecue contest doesn’t happen without many hours of behind-the-scenes planning of details such as mapping designated cooking areas, team space assignments, hay, ice, power, restroom facilities, judging logistics, signs, compliance with barbecue society rules, judge selection and volunteer recruitment, to name a few.
Saturday’s 60 KCBS certified barbecue judges, most of whom were master judges, evaluated the 60 teams’ entries on the basis of appearance, tenderness and taste. When all entries were judged and collective scores were tallied, Dirt Road BBQ was crowned grand champion and 913 BBQ Reserve Grand Champion.
Hats off to VFW Post 846 for another successful contest. Kudos as well to the teams, judges, KCBS contest reps Forrest Bruce and Larry Hadley, plus certified KCBS table captains Bruce Bubacz, Bill Capstack and eight others, and the many dedicated volunteers who made it happen. Onward to the ninth contest in 2017!
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Keyword research is one of the most essential components of a good search engine optimization strategy. It gives your campaign direction by helping you find keywords you can target and the ones that your competitors are profiting off of. But it isn’t enough to just find any keywords; over time, going after long tail keywords has become more and more important.
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The first step to finding the right long tail keywords for your business website is keyword research. This is where you find out which keywords are most commonly used on the Internet and give you the ability to reach a competitive search engine ranking. There are three ways that Long Tail Pro gives you to find competitive long tail keywords in your industry.
1. Seed Keywords
The first way you can go about finding long tail keyword ideas is by first coming up with one of your own. That’s what we call the seed keyword. These can come either from your own ideation or by looking at competitors. You can enter as many as five seed keywords on the tool. Long Tail Pro can generate as many as 400 keyword ideas using just one seed keyword.
You may not always want as many as 400, so you can go down to 20 keyword suggestions. The other option you have is to filter keywords based on certain criteria. Long Tail Pro allows you to create filters based on parameters like monthly searches, cost per click, rank value, etc.
2. Competition Analysis
Sometimes the best way to enhance your own search engine ranking is by looking at what competitors are up to. They are, after all, the barrier that stands between you and a high ranking on Google. So the best way to go about ousting them from that position is by gauging their own keyword strategy.
Long Tail Pro has a mode called Competitor Keywords which makes it easy to analyze your competitors’ keyword profile. All you need to do to get it running is to provide a URL to your competitor’s website. Long Tail Pro will run an analysis of the site and give you a list of the main targeted keywords and all the metrics associated with them.
You don’t necessarily have to match your competitor keyword for keyword. But the analysis does give you an idea of which search terms your competitors are going after most aggressively. This may lead to discovering keywords that haven’t been exploited by the competition or ones that you can do a better job ranking for.
3. Manual Keywords
In certain cases, you may already be aware of which long tail keywords you want to target with your campaign. This could be because you’ve already done some of your own research or have keyword ideas that you want to experiment with. In that case, you’ll want to switch to Long Tail Pro’s Manual Keywords tool.
The Manual Keywords mode gives you an idea of just how profitable some of your keywords can be. You can have it accept as many as 200 keywords at one time. Long Tail Pro will accept those as input and generate the metrics that you need to gauge which ones will render the best results. You can do that based on things like the price of the keyword, competition, search volumes, etc.
Long Tail Pro Rank Tracker
At this point, you’ve done your keyword research. You know exactly which keywords you need to target so you go about targeting those keywords in various ways. Now it’s time to find out whether you’re making progress with those keywords. The way to do that is by using Long Tail Pro’s Rank Tracker tool.
The Long Tail Pro dashboard has the Rank Tracker tool positioned on the left vertical menu. Once you click on that option, you can create a new project if you want to organize your research for a specific website separately. You can go directly to the keyword checker once you’ve named your project.
To start off, you’ll have to give Long Tail Pro a URL to the page you want to analyze. You could also direct it to your home page if you want a more general analysis of your website. The next step is to add the keywords that you’re targeting. You can include as many as you want to track.
Long Tail Pro gives you the ability to specify which search engine you want to check your rankings on. You can choose between Yahoo, Bing, and Google. You can also set whether you want Long Tail Pro to track rankings specific to a certain location in case you run a local business.
Once you’ve entered all that information, Long Tail Pro will generate an analysis for all your keywords in tabular form. This table has a few different columns. The first one shows you the location where the analysis is relevant. Next, it shows the search engine rank your website or webpage has for a particular keyword. The software also shows you the rankings from the preceding day, week, and month. That way you get an idea of how you’re progressing over time.
In the last two columns, Long Tail Pro gives you information on when the rankings were updated and when they will be updated next. This lets you know when you can run these analyses again.
You can track your progress with a specific keyword in a more granular way by selecting that particular keyword. Long Tail Pro will show you a keyword ranking chart that visualizes rankings on a day to day basis.
All of this data can be exported in the form of a CSV. You can choose which metrics you want to include in the CSV before exporting it out of Long Tail Pro. You can also export just the rankings graphs out in the form of a PDF, JPEG, or PNG.
Long Tail Pro gives you several ways to manage all the keywords that you’re tracking with its Rank Tracker tool. To see your options, click on the checkbox next to any of the keywords you’re tracking. You’ll instantly see options to add a note about a keyword, delete a keyword, or even move a keyword to another project. When you choose the last option, that keyword is automatically tracked for a different project of your choosing.
Long Tail Pro Competition Analysis
We’ve already seen some of the ways in which Long Tail Pro gives you the ability to keep a tab on competitors. Let’s take a look at what you can find out about your competition using the software.
You can plug in any keyword on the tool and see an analysis of the top rankers on different search engines. Here’s some of the information Long Tail Pro gives you on your competitors’ links:
- Trust flow: A measure of how trustworthy the links on a particular website are considered
- Citation flow: A measure of how popular a particular link is on a specific website
- External backlinks: How many external pages link to a specific page
- Site age: How long a particular domain has been in use
- Indexed URLs: How many indexed web pages a site has
As you can see, Long Tail Pro’s competition analysis gives you a holistic summary of where different websites stand with particular keywords.
Long Tail Pro Documentation and Support
Long Tail Pro gives you a few different ways to find your way around the product. The software’s documentation answers a lot of the common questions that new users will have. The team has a separate page for Frequently Asked Questions about the product. You can also view pages that deal with troubleshooting common issues and go over how to use the product to achieve your long tail keyword research goals.
If all of those options don’t work, you can go to using support. That’s how you would go about getting help for any specific issues you’re facing as a customer. You can reach the support team via both email and chat. The chat is not a live feature, so you will have to wait a while to get a response. According to the team, queries sent in on weekdays usually get responses within 24 hours. Support tickets raised during weekends take longer to be answered.
The Long Tail Pro team also puts on webinars to familiarize people with the product and what they can do with it. These training sessions are available on-demand and lead you through the basics of the product. The team claims that at the end of the session you’ll know strategies to double your online traffic and identify three keywords with low competition in your niche.
Long Tail Pro Affiliate Program
If you do use Long Tail Pro and find yourself enjoying the product, you can make some money by turning into an evangelist for it. This is made possible by the Long Tail Pro affiliate program, which runs on Post Affiliate Pro.
Signing up to be a part of the affiliate program is simple. All you need to do is fill out a quick form and the team will take care of the rest. Once you’re onboarded, you’ll be given your own unique affiliate link. You can share these links wherever you have an audience, whether that’s on email, a blog, or social media channels.
Long Tail Pro pays out a commission of 30% for each new person who becomes a customer using your affiliate link. They also share revenues for any recurring payments that come from that same customer. So you could set up a recurring revenue stream if you manage to sign up a large enough number of customers.
Since Long Tail Pro runs its affiliate program on Post Affiliate Pro, you get a lot of benefits that come with being part of that platform. You can view the overall success of your affiliate campaigns, check conversion rates, and view the status of payments that you’re expecting.
You can also become a part of the affiliate program through ShareASale. The affiliate marketing network lets you easily add Long Tail Pro’s program to your existing inventory.
Long Tail Pro currently has over 2,800 affiliates in its program at the moment. Given the size of that network, the company has dedicated affiliate managers to oversee the operation and respond to queries from affiliates.
Long Tail Pro Pricing
Long Tail Pro gives interested users a free seven-day trial. You can check out all of the software’s features during that time. If you want to continue using it after that point, you will have to choose one of the paid plans. There are three different paid Long Tail Pro plans from which to choose. These differ based on the number of keywords you can look up every 24 hours and the number of keywords you can track over time.
The most affordable of Long Tail Pro’s plans is the Monthly starter plan, which costs $37 per month. It lets you look up a maximum of 800 keywords each day and track 30 keywords. The next tier is called Monthly Pro. With this plan, you can track up to 200 keywords and look up 2,500 of them every 24 hours. Long Tail Monthly Pro costs $67 per month.
The top-of-the-line Long Tail Pro package is priced $147 per month. The Monthly Agency plan permits up to 6,000 keyword lookups every 24 hours and tracks as many as 1,000 keywords. It also allows up to five simultaneous logins, so you can have a small team looking at all your SEO data on Long Tail Pro.
Long Tail Pro also has annual plans if you would like to pay all in one go. The Annual Starter plan is priced $297 for a year. Annual Pro and Annual Agency cost $537 and $1,177 respectively.
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Long Tail Pro Review Final Thoughts
Long Tail Pro is considered one of the pioneers in the industry. This is because of its focus on the long tail keyword as opposed to more generic SEO. That focus has certainly paid off for it since many associate long tail keyword research with Long Tail Pro.
The tool itself is easy to navigate and use. It’s clear pretty quickly what you need to do as soon as you see the interface. It doesn’t do a lot, but whatever it does do, it does well. The various keyword metrics are easy to understand and website rankings data are visualized in an easily interpretable fashion.
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***IF YOU ARE BOOKING A FILL AND I DIDN'T DO YOUR LASHES FILL PRICING MAY BE HIGHER***
Lash extensions are synthetic individual lashes varying in length and weight, which are applied to the natural lash. Care is taken to ensure the length and weight of the extension is no more than the natural lash can handle.
Styles can be customized in many different way including cat eye (longer lengths on the ends) and doll eye (longer lengths over the pupil) as well as textured to look spikey and wispy (think Kardashian or stip lash look) or fluffy and uniform.
Extensions can range from super natural with a single extensions applied to each natural lash up to very full and dramatic with up to 15 extensions per lash. The amount of extensions each lash can hold is calculated by a mathematical equation which takes each natural lash into account as well as the length of the extension I plan to use and the diameter of that lash.
Each natural lash is meticulously isolated ensuring no lashes are stuck together. This is important as each natural lash grows at a different rate and if lashes are clumped together, as one lash grows it can rip the other attached natural lash from the root.
Fills are required every 2-3 weeks to maintain desired look. Aftercare is extremely important to ensure longevity of your lashes!
**It is important to note here that I book up 6-8 weeks in advance so if you are booking a full set it is recommended to go ahead and book 3 or 4 fills as well as there may not be an opening if you wait until your appointment.**
lash extensions: classic lash extensions, hybrid lash extensions, volume lash extensions and mega volume lash extensions.
Volume lashes are a technique which incorporates 2-6 smaller diameter, lighter weight lash extensions into a tiny volume 'fan' which will be placed on each individual natural lash. The number of lashes in each fan will vary depending on the look you want as well as how much weight each natural lash can hold.
Classic Lash Extensions are a larger diameter lash extensions meant to be used as singles. These lashes will be applied one extensions to one natural lash for a natural look that provides a bit more length. This is the most natural look
Hybrid lashes is a combination lash set which combines single, large diameter classic lashes with small volume fans for a unique, textured look. This set can still look natural but provide a bit of added volume and length.
Mega Volume Lashes
Mega volume is an advanced volume technique which applies 6-15 volume fans to an individual natural lash. This is the fullest look and shorter lengths are recommended to maintain the health of the natural lash.
Before Your Appointment
I use super sharp tweezers and separating lashes is a very delicate procedure. You must stay completely still for the treatment. Constant fidgeting will make it difficult for me to do my job and make the appointment take longer.
-I suggest no caffeine before the appointment as this can make it difficult for you to relax.
-Your lashes cannot get wet for 24 hours please workout, shower etc before your appointment!
-A tip to keep you relaxed is bring headphones and listen to music during your treatment.
-Avoid face creams and mascara before appointment
After Your Appiontment
-No moisture of any kind for the first 24 hours following an appointment
-Wash your lashes 2-3 times a week.
-Brush them out once they are dry.
-face creams with glycol or glycerin
-used waterproof mascara before appointment
-foundation or concealers around the eyes migrating
-menstrual cycle (2-3 days before and after menstruation, there is a restructuring of hormones and hormones play a huge role in lash retention)
-increased tears for various reasons.
-excessively oily skin and lashes
-touching lashes too frequently
-sleeping face down on the pillow
Frequently asked questions
Why are eyelash extensions more expensive than the extensions at a nail salon?
Those are NOT eyelash extensions. If you get a full set in less than an hour they are more than likely using cluster lashes. These lashes are glued to multiple natural lashes. The problem with this is that each lash grows at a different pace. If a cluster is glued to 4 natural lashes, the slower growing lashes will be ripped from the root as the quicker lashes grow out resulting in damage that could be permanent.
How long do they last?
Lash extensions are are required to be filled every 2-3 weeks. If you get a set and do not plan to have them filled your set will last about a month. However, be aware that due to the natural lash growth the set will not be FULL for that amount of time. Typically gaps will begin to be visible around the 2-3 week mark.
I have heard extensions ruin your lashes.
Wrong! Improper aftercare or an inexperienced lash tech ruins your lashes. I take special care to not only ensure your natural lashes are isolated to prevent them sticking together, but to also never use a lash that is heavier than your natural lash can handle. That means that if you have a baby lash next to a mature lash, I will be using different lenghts/weights on each of them to ensure each individual looks its best and has the best chance to continue to grow uninhibited.
Can I remove my lashes mysefl?
I highely discourage this. Pulling on the extensions will not only cause your natural lashes to break off but could permanently damage your natural lashes. If you need removal I offer free removal to my lash clients. It takes no time and will ensure your lashes are healthy!
Why arent your mega volume a big and full as some I see online?
I am a stickler for doing things properly. I will never apply lash extensions that the natural lash is unable to hold without damage. A lot of sets you will see on social media are entirely too heavy for the natural lash and could permanently damage the folicle. I have had clients come to me from other lash techs who were doing improper sets and the clients natural lashes were very very short and thin resulting in needing to use much shorter and less dense lashes in order to allow the lashes to regrow.
Can I still use mascara?
100% No. Mascara is nearly impossible to fully remove from the lash extensions. If you are pushing your fill appointments out too far and have visible gaps that require mascara, you are damaging the extensions you still have. Most times I will need to remove the surviving extensions because the mascara clumps onto them creating a thick cluster instead of a nice delicate fan of lashes. Book your fills accordingly!
How long does the appointment take?
A full set ranges from 1.5-2.5 hourse. This will depend on not only the technique you request but also the amount of natural lashes you have!
Why does a fill appointment take almost as long as a full set?
At the fill appointment I will begin with cleansing and prepping the lashes. Then I must remove the extensions that have grown out and have a large gap that the base of the lid due to natural lash growth. This can take some time. After this I can proceed to apply new extensions to the new growth.
Why do I lose more lashes during a certain time of the year?
Typically in the fall is when most people will have quicker lash turn over. This could mean you may need fills more frequently and may not necessarily mean you are doing something wrong. However, spring effects some as well.
Are there any restrictions I should be aware of?
For the first 24 hours following a fill or full set:
Can I get an eye infection?
The only reason anyone with lash extensions will get an infection in improper aftercare. You will have a foreign object on your eye which can trap oil, dirt and debree from the environment and your daily lifestyle. You MUST ensure you are keeping them clean and following proper aftercare.
What is the maintenance like?
Fills are needed every 2-3 weeks.
What if you are unable to fit me in for my fill?
It is your responsibility to ensure your fill appointments are booked in a timely manner. I am typically booked a month in advance and although I will try my best, I am unable to just "squeeze" in an hour and a half appointment. When booking a full set I recommend booking your fill appointments as well. If you are not booked and more than 3 weeks has passed please be advised that your fill appointment may carry an extra charge to compensate for the extra product and work that will be needed.
Do you use real mink?
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Darren spotted the unique shade of ashen grey hair, it was twisted into some complicated, intricate, yet organised braid. He speeds up catching the woman’s attention.
“Hey! How are you?” He asks the girl.
“I… I’m well, I guess.” The woman smiles and Darren finds it odd, it’s not like her usual smile, maybe it’s tighter.
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Darren asks and the woman who looks around awkwardly. “Right, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to ha-”
“I apologise for cutting you off, you have me mistaken for someone else. I’m in a rush, sorry.” The girl brushed off her black blazer and dark jeans before walking off.
Ezra and he were in the same class last year and he thought that they got really close… maybe he was wrong.
“She didn’t know me!” Darren stresses. “She looked right through me!”
“What do you want me to say, you’re making it pretty hard to comfort you!” Calvin tells him as he searches through a pile of clothes. “Have you seen my grey henley?”
“No! I thought that we made a connection last semester. What if I was wrong?”
“Okay, so your Valentine’s day plans are ruined! Mine can still work out, though, I need to find that shirt. Alex said he likes that shirt!”
“It’s a cool shirt, I guess- wait, that’s not the problem! How do I remind her of who I am?”
“You don’t! It’s over for you…” Calvin gets to the bottom of the second pile of clothes. “and it’s over for me too! The shirt is gone, I’ve got to call and cancel.” Calvin goes to grab his phone and Darren swoops down and retrieves it. “Hey!”
“You’re not cancelling, you’ll wear a different shirt. I’ll go to a bar and we’ll both be happy for Valentine’s day…” Darren flops on the bed and sighs.
“Ummm… You are going to class, right?” Calvin ask.
Darren sits up and stares at the man for a moment. “No, I’m skipping.”
“Well, I have to stay behind and start baking… You don’t seem like you’re in a good mood and that’s just going to make me feel worse. With that said, you’ve got to go.”
Darren opens the door and the smell of cinnamon and vanilla hits him hard. Calvin comes around the corner and Darren cringes, there’s icing in his hair and flour covering his front.
“I think I’m going to be sick…” Calvin rubs his stomach. “I started eating the cookie dough and what not and…” He looks down at himself swallowing hard before returning to the kitchen.
“It smells pretty strong in here.” Darren mutters following Calvin where he stands sipping a glass of water. “Why did you make so much?” He ask looking at all the cakes and cookies.
“I didn’t know how much it would make and I thought I should make an extra serving for you…” Calvin explains. “Then, this happened.”
“Well, you’ve got to clean this up before Alex gets here.” Darren tells his roommate.
Calvin turns around and his brow is furrowed. “Umm…” He clears his throat. “He’s not coming.”
“Wait, what did you do? ” Darren furrows his brow.
“I’m going over there instead. I figured you’d want some time alone after your Ezra thing.” Calvin tells him, he’s picked up a large container of baking items and sets it on his bed.
“I told you I wasn’t staying here! I’m going out.” Darren narrows his eyes.
“Oh, I would call him back, but… I don’t want to seem wishy-washy.”Calvin explains.
“You are wishy-washy which is exactly why you changed the date once and now want to change it again!” Darren argues, the he stops. “You just don’t want him here-”
“Okay! Whatever! I don’t want him here, I don’t want him in my space! I’m not comfortable with it after my last year of no dating, the idea of getting back in the game is a little unnerving!” Calvin looks at him intensely then looks down. “Maybe, I shouldn’t- I can’t go to his place, ei-”
“We are going to that karaoke bar, they have the theatre and chorus students performing there tonight. Just tell him I wanted you to go. Just stop panicking.” Darren explains.
After a moment, Calvin seems to cheer up. “That could work.”
“I’m going to run out and get some stuff for class, I’ll see you later.” Darren says as he sets down his bookbag after retrieving his wallet.
“Alright.” Calvin mutters running a hand through wavy brown hair.
Darren lets out a breath of relief as he comes down the stairs, he hears a voice. “Hey, stranger.”
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The 15 Best Workouts for People Who Hate Exercise
Hate working out? Allergic to gyms? Don’t sweat it. Simply choose one of these fun activities and watch your fitness soar.
Finding the workouts you love
Whether you despise exercise or you’ve just never experienced that post-exercise boost of feel-good chemicals hitting your brain, it’s possible that you simply haven’t found the right exercise. So don’t think of it as exercise, per se, think of it as activity—because the science is clear that you need it.
A recent study from the American Cancer Society and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found a link between long periods of sitting and a higher risk of death from cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and diseases related to the kidneys, lungs, and liver; then there’s the increased danger of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and nervous disorders. In the study, prolonged sitting—six or more hours a day—was associated with a 19 per cent higher rate of death from any of these causes, compared to sitting less than three hours per day.
If you’re sitting too much, it doesn’t mean you need to sign up for a gym. Give one or more of the following options a try; you’ll find one that resonates with you—and none of them even feel like exercise. Plus, falling in love with one of these fun activities could lead to new hobbies, new buddies, a new waistline and a new outlook on fitness.
Play video games
If you’re a gamer, then you already have the equipment you need to get your heart pumping—all from the comfort of your living room. “Almost every popular video game platform has a fitness-based game that uses motion-tracking technology,” says Kami Price, a NASM-certified personal trainer and the head trainer at IdealShape. “Not only do they get you up and moving, they can also serve an even more fun purpose by bringing together your loved ones for a little friendly competition and bonding time.” Plus, if you have a tough time getting your kids to go out to play, this is a great baby step to encourage movement and you’ll serve as an encouraging role model.
Set up an obstacle course
Some of the best activities combine fun, the outdoors, and a challenge. “Create your own neighbourhood obstacle course,” says DeAnn Teixeira, fitness director at Skylonda Lodge, Woodside, Calif., which has a kilometre of obstacle routes tucked into a canopy of lush Redwood trees. “Look for playgrounds with monkey bars to traverse, park benches to leap over, balance beams, and climbing walls.” The fun challenge of an obstacle course can also take you back to the days of your childhood and the great memories of being carefree at the playground. The physical and mental challenge will help build confidence in overcoming other obstacles in life.
Hit the batting cage
Take yourself out to the batting cage: “Swinging the bat is a great workout for your upper body, legs and abs,” says Dempsey Marks, an AFAA-certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, and creator of the PreGame Fit fitness program. “You will have so many laughs with your friends and family that the time will fly by. And watch out for the competitor in you that you never knew you had.” She explains that softballs are a bit easier to start with, but then for an added challenge try the hardball cages—you can adjust the speed; as you get better, you can try faster pitches.
Did you ever lose track of time while jumping rope as a kid? You can do it as an adult, too, says Janine Delaney, PhD, known as the Jump Rope Queen of social media, and a former professional ballerina. Delaney is a testament to the engaging, full-body activity of jumping rope. “It’s one of the most effective overall body workouts for any age level,” she says. “It provides a great workout, can be done anywhere, and is a lot of fun.”
Be a kid again
Speaking of childhood favourites, if you have little kids in your life, then you have no shortage of opportunities to run around. Be the cool mom or dad (or the favourite aunt or uncle) by joining in on their fun. “Kids move non-stop,” says Steph Wilberding, founder and head coach of HK Fitness. “Most of us used to do the same. As we get older, we slow down. Remember the game, tag? It’s a game of sprints, which is a great way to get in some cardio, increase your heart rate, and have some fun outside of the gym.” You could also try playing red rover, red-light green-light, Marco Polo, hopscotch, double-dutch, hide and seek, sharks and minnows, a snowball fight, or hula-hooping.
Join a sports league
When you’re playing a sport you love, you won’t fixate on all the exercise you’re getting. “Nearly every city or community has a recreational sports league with a host of teams you can join for a small fee,” says Price. “Most of these leagues also separate the teams into tiers based on skill level and how competitive players want to be. So regardless of whether you’re a weekend warrior looking to relive the glory days, or you just want to have fun, there will surely be something for you.” Consider sports like softball, kickball, dodgeball, tennis, and volleyball fair game.
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Sign up for mermaid classes
If you’ve ever daydreamed about the magical lives mermaids must lead, then it’s time to swim a kilometre in their fins. Really. “Mermaiding is a full-body workout just like swimming, but it adds a fun and magical element of feeling like a mermaid while doing it,” says Christine Dustin, Fin Fun‘s mermaid fitness instructor. The company sells mermaid fins—like a long sock for both legs with a big fin on the end—which you can use to swim like fish.
Work out your face
On days when you really aren’t up for moving your body, lie on your couch and give yourself a face a workout. “Facial Magic is based on a 100-year-old French method of proven resistance exercises that lift, tone and tighten sagging facial muscles and skin,” says Cynthia Rowland, founder/CEO of Rejenuve, Inc., a certified facial fitness trainer, and creator of the Facial Magic facial exercise system. “The exercises can be done anywhere, anytime, while seated or standing. All that’s needed are a pair of cotton gloves, which are used to anchor the muscles and create resistance, and your own two hands.”
Exercise in bed
That time you spend staring at the ceiling before you get up can be put to good use. “Mattress’cising removes any strain you might normally feel when doing these exercises on the floor,” says Erin Berman, in-house fitness, health and wellness expert from Nectar Sleep. Her go-to moves include:
- Pillow prop: Stack two pillows at the foot of your bed. Lie flat on the bed with your feet resting on the pillows and cross your arms over your chest. Breathe in deeply as you pull your stomach in toward your back. Breathe out as you raise your upper body towards your feet. Breathe in as you lie down again. Relax your muscles then repeat five times.
- Diamond reverse crunches: Lie on your back with your arms along your sides, palms facing down. Bring your feet together and open your knees out to the sides so the space between your legs resembles a diamond. Press into your palms and brace your core as you raise your feet up over your hips. From this position, lift your hips up off the bed to push your feet straight up toward the ceiling. With control, bring your hips back to the bed. (Don’t drop your feet.) Repeat five times.
- Jackknife: Lie down with your arms above your head and keep your legs straight. Lift up your legs and arms to meet, then slowly release down. Repeat five times.
- Planking: Get into push-up position on your mattress, balancing on your forearms instead of your hands (which is safer and gives you more control on a softer surface). With your weight on your forearms and toes, align your elbows under your shoulders. Lift your body to make a straight line from your head to your heels. Hold this position for 20 seconds and then rest for 30 seconds. Try doing three reps. For an added challenge, gently step one foot at a time out to the side and back in, alternating each time.
- Arabesque leg lifts: Get on your hands and knees with your shoulders over your wrists, and your hips directly over your knees. Point your left toes, and extend and raise your left leg out to your left side. Bend your knee and bring the leg back in, then extend the leg straight out behind you. Bend the knee and bring it back to starting position to complete one rep. Continue for 30 seconds, then repeat on the opposite side.
Start a dance party
If you’re a music lover, it’s time to get more than just your toes a-tappin’: “Fifty to 60 minutes on your feet while moving to the beat can burn up to 450 calories,” says Arnit Kobryniec, a certified personal trainer in South Florida. So crank up your favourite tunes—you can use headphones or create a party by using a Bluetooth speaker—and dance like nobody’s watching!
You’ve been walking since you were about a year old, and it’s still the gold standard when it comes to movement: you don’t need any special equipment, you don’t need to be a top athlete, you don’t need to change into workout clothes, and you don’t need a gym. One thing that might help: “Using a Fitbit device creates a sense of accountability,” says celebrity trainer, nutritionist, and Fitbit ambassador Harley Pasternak. “Not only are you accountable to yourself as you see the step count slowly crawl up on your device, but with the Fitbit community. You can cheer each other on and challenge each other in a healthy way.” Other activities, like going dancing, hiking, or playing sports, contribute to your daily step goal as well.
Let travel keep you active
Love to travel? Kobryniec suggests trying to complete a 5k walk or run in different cities around the country or world. “This gives you a chance to train at home for the race, plus run, jog, or walk through a city you’ve never seen before,” she says. And you’ll have the perfect excuse to chow down on the local cuisine after the race.
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Let out some of your pent-up aggression in a healthy manner: “Exercises like ball slams, boxing, battle ropes, and tire flips release stress, get you connected with your body, help burn calories and build strength, and frankly are fun,” says Jonathan Jordan, a NASM-certified personal trainer and nutrition coach in San Francisco. “The stresses of living in a city, work, mobile devices, and family commitments can fry your central nervous system, but I’ve found that when I give my clients a channel for relieving that stress, they quickly get with the program.”
Make money on the side
Wouldn’t you just love to earn some cash just for getting off the couch? Well, amazingly, there’s an app for that. “There are apps that offer monetary incentives every time you check in or finish a workout,” says Kobryniec. For instance, Sweatcoin tracks and verifies your outdoor steps using your phone’s accelerometers and GPS location. Those steps get converted into the company’s currency, called Sweatcoins, which you can spend on gadgets, gear, and fitness classes—or donate your earnings to charity. With the app StepBet, you pledge your commitment to your step goals with a bet. Your money is pooled with other players and everyone who completes the challenge splits the pot.
Yes, Pilates seems like a lot of work—but not the lazy way. You can work on your six-pack in bed, stretch your legs in the shower, and firm up your butt during your commute. “You can be doing Pilates all day long without going to a class, watching a DVD, or spending loads of money on a gym membership you’ll never use,” says Kara Tatelbaum, Pilates guru and author of Lazy Girl Pilates, a series of movements you can fit right into your usual routine. Check out these moves:
- Windshield Wipers in bed: Bring your knees into your chest, keeping the small curve under your lower back. Twist your legs, keeping your knees together, right and left keeping your tailbone on the bed, while holding your arms up and parallel, facing toward each other. Repeat eight times.
- Wall Push-Ups in the shower: While you’re waiting for your conditioner to work, put your hands on the wall opposite your shoulders and take a small step back, feet side by side. Sink into a wall-pushup by bending at the elbows until you’re close to the wall, then press back out. Repeat 10 times.
- Marching on the toilet: With both feet planted hip-distance apart, make “genie arms” by holding your left arm out in front of your chest and bend it at the elbow at a 90-degree angle; place the right arm on top of the left. Keep your arms in place as you exhale, drawing your belly button into the spine (feel like you’re zipping up tight jeans). Lift your right knee up toward the ceiling, the foot coming off the floor only a few inches. Repeat the other side for at least 10 Pilates-style “marches.” | <urn:uuid:10e00797-d3d2-4162-99af-03af6faa817c> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.readersdigest.ca/health/fitness/workouts-for-people-who-hate-exercise/ | 2019-06-26T21:19:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000545.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626194744-20190626220744-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.933081 | 3,074 |
Do you need an umbrella policy if you rent?Asked by: Miss Rylee Treutel | Last update: February 11, 2022
Score: 4.5/5 (19 votes)
Yes! Umbrella insurance is a great investment for landlords with one or many rental properties. As a landlord, you are responsible or the health and safety of your tenants and their guests.
Is an umbrella policy a waste of money?
No, an umbrella policy is not a waste of money for people with more than $500,000 in assets. Umbrella policies provide liability coverage beyond the limits of another insurance policy, and even if a policyholder never files an umbrella claim, the low cost of coverage is usually worth the added financial protection.
What does umbrella insurance cover for landlords?
Umbrella insurance policies protect landlords from personal fiscal responsibility in the event of an injury or a lawsuit. Umbrella insurance policies also cover claims typically not covered from standard insurance policies, such as slander, libel, false arrest, malicious prosecution, or mental anguish lawsuits.
Does umbrella cover rental cars?
The beautiful thing about an umbrella policy that covers your liability for damage to a rental car is that it will also pick up claims for diminished value—claims that are not covered by collision coverage.
What is not covered by an umbrella policy?
Umbrella policies do not cover physical property damage. This means that damage to your own home or vehicle would not be covered by your umbrella insurance. If someone steals everything in your house or a hailstorm totals your car, umbrella policies will not step in as coverage.
Do I Need an Umbrella Insurance Policy?
How much does a $5 million dollar umbrella policy cost?
A $5 million umbrella policy costs around $375 to $525 per year, on average. Every policyholder's umbrella insurance premium will vary based on their personal risk factors, so individuals who own more cars or properties will be more expensive to insure, as will people who are particularly likely to be sued.
Why everyone should have an umbrella policy?
An umbrella policy can forestall the prospect of financial ruin due to an unintentional misstep or an unforeseeable accident. You may also wish to consider increasing the liability limits on your auto or homeowners insurance policies.
Does an umbrella policy cover renters insurance?
Your renters insurance will cover the damage to your stuff. However, it won't cover the damage to other renters' property. ... Umbrella insurance acts as a safety net when damages from a claim exceed the limits of your existing home, auto or renters insurance policy. Umbrella insurance coverage may pay the difference.
How much umbrella insurance do I need for rental property?
If you are a landlord, you likely have a substantial amount of assets you want to protect. ... We recommend you get enough umbrella insurance to cover the entirety of your assets. Umbrella insurance policies start at a minimum of $1 million in coverage and can reach up to $5 or $10 million.
What does Dave Ramsey say about umbrella policies?
Protect yourself from a situation like that with a personal liability umbrella policy. In fact, Dave recommends an umbrella policy for anyone with a net worth of $500,000 or more. For a few hundred dollars a year, an umbrella policy can increase your liability coverage from the standard $500,000 to $1.5 million.
Is umbrella insurance worth it Dave Ramsey?
Dear Dave, If you've got a substantial net worth, or if there's just something that gives the impression someone might be able to get a lot out of you, an umbrella insurance policy is a smart buy. ...
How much does a 2 million dollar umbrella policy cost?
$285 – $335 a year for a $2 million umbrella policy.
What does an umbrella policy cost?
An umbrella policy kicks in when you reach the limit on the underlying liability coverage in a homeowners, renters, condo or auto policy. ... For about $150 to $300 per year you can buy a $1 million personal umbrella liability policy. The next million will cost about $75, and $50 for every million after that.
What is the right amount of umbrella insurance?
Umbrella insurance costs roughly $150 to $350 a year for the first $1 million of coverage and about $100 per million of coverage above that. What you'll actually pay depends on where you live (rates vary by state and the insurer's experience there) and how many homes, cars and boats you're insuring.
What is required for umbrella policy?
You must buy a minimum amount of auto and/or property insurance liability coverage before you can add umbrella coverage. Covers incidents that your main insurance might not, such as libel and slander. You must already carry auto or property insurance, usually homeowners, to qualify. Coverage limits start at $1 million.
Does umbrella policy cover dog bites?
An umbrella insurance policy is a pure liability insurance. It covers you from liability for injuries caused by your negligence, no matter how it happened. Umbrella insurance policies can help cover the costs of a dog bite.
Does umbrella cover self defense?
Many people think that if they buy generic liability coverage, often called an “umbrella” policy, they will be protected if they use lethal force in self defense. However, it is against the law for any insurance company to insure you against illegal actions you may commit.
Why is umbrella insurance so expensive?
Increasing Motor Vehicle Accidents – A number of factors have caused motor vehicle accidents to increase nationally. ... The mere increase of motor vehicle accidents provides more opportunities for bodily injury claims to pay out in excess of $1,000,000, which is the catalyst for an umbrella policy to come into play.
How much does a $2 million dollar business insurance policy cost?
The average cost of a $1 million / $2 million BOP policy for a small business is $1,217 per year, and the median is $638. A BOP with $2 million / $4 million limits has an average cost of $1,288 per year, and a median cost of $713.
Can you have 2 umbrella policies?
Yes, you can buy umbrella insurance from a company other than the company (or companies) your auto and homeowners policies are with. For example, I have USAA for both my auto and homeowners policies. I have high liability insurance limits on both at amazingly low rates.
How much does a $3 million dollar business insurance policy cost?
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A $3 million umbrella policy costs around $275 to $425 per year, on average.
Which is a type of insurance to avoid?
Avoid buying insurance that you don't need. Chances are you need life, health, auto, disability, and, perhaps, long-term care insurance. But don't buy into sales arguments that you need other more costly insurance that provides you with coverage only for a limited range of events.
What are the 3 main types of insurance?
- Life insurance. As the name suggests, life insurance is insurance on your life. ...
- Health insurance. Health insurance is bought to cover medical costs for expensive treatments. ...
- Car insurance. ...
- Education Insurance. ...
- Home insurance.
What are some unnecessary types of insurance Dave Ramsey?
- Any Life Insurance For Kids. ...
- Accidental Death Insurance. ...
- Mortgage Protection Insurance. ...
- Supplemental Insurance For Medical Issues. ...
- Cancer Insurance. ...
- Whole Life Insurance. ...
- Talk To A Pro About Your Insurance Needs.
Does umbrella cover death?
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Tonight, it was the boys and me and poker. As I wrote on Feb. 6, when I come home to visit my father now, if at all possible, I coordinate it with one of his poker games.
Since before I was born, my Dad has been playing poker every other Tuesday with the same group of guys. My Dad is the only one who’s still alive from the initial group that played at my house when I was little. I would sit on my Dad’s lap and watch and learn: Bobby started playing when I was in college and he’s still in the group, but the rest of the men came along later.
It’s almost impossible for me to put into words how much I enjoy these poker evenings. I look forward to them as soon as I know I’m coming home next. I’m the only girl who’s ever played with them and only one of two offspring who has. I don’t know if the other kids aren’t interested, but, somehow, that makes at all the more special to me.
It’s an activity my father and I can do together and we don’t have that many of those. My father may be getting foggier as his various illnesses and age make him increasingly frailer, but it’s a big mistake to think he’s not sharp as a tack when it comes to reading his cards. Maybe it’s the equivalent of muscle memory, but he can be forgetful and seem out of it right up to the moment that first hand is dealt, but then it’s game time and he’s a shark. Tonight, after he’d been the only player to go high (we play high/low), which meant he automatically won, one of the other players looked at Dad’s cards to see if he’d been bluffing and my Dad swatted at his hand. I have never seen my father swat at anything other than a fly and I think we were all stunned, but that’s how seriously my father takes his poker. (He hadn’t been bluffing, by the way).
Furthermore, while the games we play are made up by the men and they actually frown upon playing anything that slightly resembles a straight poker game, like Texas Hold ‘Em or Five Card Draw, they are all business and the business is cards. We may talk a little about sports— tonight the big talk was about North Carolina State and University of North Carolina playing each other in the NCAA baseball tournament that’s going on in Omaha—but otherwise, there’s no empty chatter. I enjoy the focus and, quite frankly, not having to hear how everyone is and how their day went. It’s on a need-to-know basis and unless someone brings something specific up, there’s just a general assumption that everyone and their families are good.
Having said that, there’s a gruff kindness and caring that goes on during the game. All the men, other than one, are in their 70s and 80s, but my dad is the least mobile so when we take our ice cream break at 9:30 p.m., he never has to lift a finger. Someone brings him his ice cream exactly the way he likes it —half a bowl, lots of whipped cream— and makes sure he has water. Tonight during the break, for the first time that I’ve heard, the men discussed a player’s children (who are my age). Bill, who brought my father into the game, died a few years ago, preceded by his wife. One of the other members handles the investments from the estate and he and my dad were talking about Bill’s three children and making sure they were faring OK, which, of course, under John’s smart eye, they are.
In the three years since I started playing with the boys, I’ve grown more confident in my abilities. I went from playing twice that first year to probably four or five times a year now and while some of the games still throw me, I’ve got many of them down. So much so that I was the big winner tonight. It’s the second time out of the past three that I’ve played that I’ve taken the men’s money. They may ban me soon... Well, maybe not. I think they’re proud when I win. I’ve done good. They’ve all had a hand in gently schooling me and they can see the improvement I’ve made (now, if I could just get the betting down...)
In fact, in May, my Dad told me that one of the men had called to see if I was going to be in town that Tuesday because they were going to be down a man. Before he phoned the usual round of local substitutes, he wanted to check with Dad on the off chance that I would be in Raleigh. I don’t know if I’ve ever received a higher compliment.
So tonight, as I was counting my winnings, I told the men about this blog and asked if they had a charity they’d like me to donate to. Don brought up Hospice of Wake County. When his wife, Jan, was dying of breast cancer, they were really good to her. He spoke quietly about hospice coming into their home and providing everything to make her comfortable in her final days. It’s my pleasure to make the donation on Don’s behalf. Plus, I took some of his money tonight, so it’s only fair. ; )
June 11: Hospice of Wake County
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Every year, Trillium has the distinct pleasure to recognize several fantastic inclusive employers as part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. These businesses exhibit excellent qualities and we want everyone to know about it! We’ve had various themes from year to year, selecting different aspects of what it means to be a true inclusive employer and selecting those that exemplify each aspect. This year, our King, Pierce and Kitsap County offices selected employers based on these three aspects: best new inclusive employer, the most inclusive workplace, and the most active advocate.
For some employers, hiring their first supported employee can be a bit intimidating. However, nearly all of them quickly realize and celebrate the newfound contributions and benefits! Some can’t wait to hire another, tell their peers about supported employment, or increase the hours and duties of their employee as soon as possible. The winners of the 2016 Best New Inclusive Employer are:
- Bill Korum’s Puyallup Nissan (Pierce County)
- Town & Country (Kitsap County)
- Inspired Results (King County)
When it comes to fostering a healthy workplace environment, some employers take great consideration into the abilities, needs and cultures of their employees. These employers take action, and see to it that their employees feel welcome, included and valuable. The winners of the 2016 Most Inclusive Workplace are:
- Gordon Family YMCA (Pierce)
- Seefilm Bremerton (Kitsap)
- Panera Bread (King)
We at Trillium have found that one of the most effective means to help businesses overcome concerns about supported employment is to hear to it works from their peers. Several of the employers that partner with us are happy to share their experiences and how it has benefited their business, often in unexpected ways. These employers have encouraged other businesses to consider how supported employment can help their company achieve their goals. The winners of the Most Active Advocate are:
- Jimmy Johns (Pierce)
- Catie’s Creations (Kitsap)
- Azteca Mexican Restaurant (King)
We are so pleased to announce these award winners and we thank them for all that they do for their supported employees and for building an inclusive workforce! Want to know where you can find these employers? Check out our Inclusive Business Finder!
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The Sound Of Revelation’s Approaching Hoofbeats from Prophecy News Watch
Those of us eagerly awaiting Jesus’ appearing did not expect to see so many signs of the coming kingdom of the antichrist before going home to be with our Savior. We never anticipated seeing so much vile wickedness and demonic deception before the Rapture.
For that matter, I assumed that the Lord would severely judge America long before now.
“With such failed expectations,” one might ask, “why do I believe Jesus will soon appear to take us home? Why do I remain convinced that we live in the season of His return for His church?”
It’s because the world is so very close to the fulfillment of Revelation 6:1-8, and Scripture assures us that we will be with Jesus in heaven before these riders begin their deadly trek across planet earth.
Can you guess who wrote the following?
“I have heard the distant sound of hoofbeats. I have seen the evil riders on the horizons of our lives. I am still an evangelist whose one goal is to proclaim new life in Christ, but there is serious trouble ahead for our world, for all of us who live in it, and in the four horsemen of the Apocalypse there is both a warning and wisdom for those troubled days ahead.”
If these things were true back in 1983 when Billy Graham penned these words, how much more so today? How near must we be to Jesus’ appearing?
What sounds do we here today that point to the nearness of the Lord opening the seal judgments of Revelation 6?
THE CLAMOR OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER ON OUR DOORSTEP
Revelation 6:1-2 tells us about the first seal, the first rider:
Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.” And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. | <urn:uuid:60cf8e19-e563-471b-a1ee-cfab9747c5f9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2022/06/22/the-sound-of-revelations-approaching-hoofbeats/ | 2023-10-01T19:51:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00691.warc.gz | en | 0.953707 | 448 |
Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima says that he was ‘surprised’ that investors had such a negative reaction to the Nintendo Switch, as the company’s shares dropped.
The day before the Nintendo Switch was revealed, excitement for the yet-to-be-announced console was so high that Nintendo’s market value increased by $1 billion. However, this didn’t last long as right after the reveal, Nintendo’s stocks dropped by 6.5 percent, wiping that added $1 billion out. Analysts and investors alike just didn’t seem that into the hybrid home console/handheld device.
Speaking to Bloomberg about the Nintendo Switch, the company’s president Tatsumi Kimishima says that he didn’t expect the market to have such a negative reaction to the console’s announcement. “To tell you the truth, I was surprised,” explains Kimishima, “I had wondered about the reaction. But I don’t understand why. And there’s no real point in me talking about the stock price.” The president also notes that Nintendo’s revenue has “fallen for eight straight years” and that it aims to both “increase the number of people who play games” and “deliver all kinds of new surprises to our customers” in an effort to increase income.
Although Kimishima may be clueless as to why the company’s shares dropped, some have suggested that it’s because investors just aren’t convinced that the Switch will be a huge success, such as the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo itself has set conservative estimates for the console, as it’s planning to ship 2 million Nintendo Switch units in (launch month) March. Kimishima also admits that because of momentum, “the first year after [the Nintendo Switch] goes on sale will be extremely important” and so 2 million again seems like a low figure to get the ball rolling.
Also contributing to the uncertainty is that there’s lots that people don’t yet know about the console. The Nintendo Switch’s price and battery life are set to be huge factors on how well the console sells and yet this information will not be revealed until early 2017, in a recently announced Switch presentation. That means that vital information about the product won’t be disclosed until just a few weeks before gamers are expected to drop (what could be) hundreds of dollars on it.
Conversely, confirmation about launch details and hardware (such as the possibility that the Switch has a multi-touch screen) could lead investors to change their minds. Just a handful of games have been confirmed for the platform too, but should Nintendo officially announce titles like the (rumored) new Mario game, this could also make betting on the Switch worth it. | <urn:uuid:ad2c01c6-1142-4eff-80a9-37624a5179a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://gamerant.com/nintendo-share-drop-switch-surprise/ | 2017-04-26T15:37:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121453.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00475-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957895 | 597 |
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NCS Bharti 2022 Ministry of Labor has issued notification of recruitment for 262000 posts: NCS Bharti 2022, NCS Recruitment 2022 Ministry of Labor and Employment has issued recruitment notification for different types of posts under National Career Service. has issued a recruitment notification for 262000 posts, this recruitment will be done on the posts of part time, full time, private and semi government, online applications can be made for these posts, eligibility, age limit, for National Career Service Recruitment 2022. The application fee and other complete information is given below.
NCS Bharti 2022 Vacancy Details
State Wise Vacancy Details
|State Name||Total Vacancies|
|Andaman and Nicobar Islands||89|
|Daman and Diu||11|
|Jammu & Kashmir||581|
NCS Bharti 2022 Age Limit
The age limit for National Career Service Recruitment 2022 has been kept between 21 to 35 years, apart from this relaxation will be given to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes as per government rules.
NCS Bharti 2022 Application Fees
No application fee of any kind has been kept for NCS Recruitment 2022, the candidate can apply absolutely free of cost for this recruitment.
NCS Bharti 2022 Education Qualifications
Educational Qualification for National Career Service Recruitment 2022: 10th, 12th, Graduation Diploma Degree Passed from a Recognized Institute.
How to Apply NCS Bharti 2022
- To apply for National Career Service Recruitment 2022, first of all you have to go to the official website.
- After this you will get the option of State Wise Vacancy Sector Wise Vacancy, select one of them.
- After that you have to click on your state.
- Now you will have the option to filter your job or all the vacancy information will appear below.
- Click on the post you want to apply for.
- Inside it, now you will see the name of your job, qualification age limit and all the information.
- If you want to apply for this position, click on the apply button above.
- Here you have to register as a new user.
- Click on submit button to fill all the information
NCS Bharti 2022 important Links
|NCS Bharti 2021 Online Form||Start|
|Official Notification||Click Here|
|Apply Online||Click Here|
|Official Website||Click Here|
|Join Telegram/ Whatsapp Group||Click Here|
Note- The notification of NCS recruitment has been issued by the National Career Service Portal, in which various companies are recruited for the posts of private, part time, full time, semi government.
For how many posts NCS Bharti 2022 notification has been issued?
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Justice Through Music Releases New Music Video To Galvanize Support Against California's Prop 8 Referendum Opposing Marriage Equality
Video Compares Fight For Gay Marriage To Past Civil Rights Struggles
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Justice Through Music, www.jtmp.org, a national non profit that works with famous bands to bring attention to important social issues, teamed up the band Op-Critical in a music video called Prop 8, to oppose the California referendum that was used to overturn the state's gay marriage law. The video, now on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ls8cIRwuM, looks at the struggle for marriage equality through the lens of past struggles for women's rights, civil rights and voting rights.
Op-Critical's Storm wrote the tune in a 1930's Delta Blues style and recorded it on a 1937 National resonator steel guitar. The video was filmed with Storm on a porch, sitting in a rocking chair playing the steel guitar like so many well known blues artists. "The battle for marriage equality is historic in the same way as past civil rights struggles," he said. "The best way for us to portray that was by channeling past blues masters who sang with conviction about the struggles they were seeing during their lifetimes. The next generation will look back on the gay rights battles with the same dismay we now look at previous civil rights battles. It takes a while for people prejudices to be overcome but they always are. We are hopeful that this video will help and give people a real perspective on what is occurring rather than seeing this as simply a matter of politics or religion."
Op-Critical has offered the tune for download on its MySpace page, www.myspace.com/opcritical, and is donating 50% of the all download sales to the Courage Campaign, www.couragecampaign.org, which has been one of the leading groups working to overturn the Prop 8 referendum. The video is dedicated to all those who have fought for marriage equality, and Justice Through Music and Op-Critical urge viewers to also support the Human Rights Campaign, www.hrc.org.
Support marriage equality. Check out Op-Critical's Prop 8 music video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ls8cIRwuM.
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Women's short-sleeved polo is made from soft breathable cotton, that provides the best comfort for training or casual wear.
It's refined by a small embroidered logo on the chest and by an embroidered writing on the back. The collar is closed by three small buttons.
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What's that you ask, that is so deserving of such a dramatic opening? My ''Cool Card.'' Yes, my licenses have been permanently revoked! I am officially no longer considered cool.
Here is a list of the crimes I have committed, in the past couple of years, that has caused this legitimate action to take place.
- I have done the Mom Dance. In case you are wondering what awesome moves this consist of or secretly wondering, if you are guilty of busting out into it. I can teach it to you really fast. Ready? Ok. Now clap hands, then snap fingers, and repeat. All the while, shuffling your feet from side to side. If you are doing this or have done this, you are on your way to being an ultimate cheese ball. The upside, is that you now possess the power to embarrass the crap out of your kid. You're welcome!
- Googling slang terms. Google is a great friend of mine. I use it to find information of all sorts. Including the meaning of TBH, LMS, and DDT. These are just to name a few, of the very many, abbreviations that are used online these days. I still haven't moved past LOL!
- It takes me five minutes to read and understand a text that resembles this: gr8 2 c u 2day! Btw be bk soon. I hv sum1 u need to c.. K?! TTYL:)
- The thought of even staying out past 10:00, causes me great anxiety. It interrupts my boring routine of mindless internet surfing and cuts into my "me" time. Besides, anything past 8:30 a.m. is considered sleeping in!
- Running away the neighborhood children for being too loud. Yes, I became THAT woman one night. My daughter was trying to sleep and they were disturbing my Bible study. Here is my cool choice of words, " You guys need to quiet it down out here! Where do you live?!? Who is your momma and daddy?!?"
- At a redlight, I am listening to the news radio. While finding out the weather forecast of the week, so I'll know how to dress my kids in the morning, the guy next to me is blasting a song, about how he ''Woke up in a new bugatti!'' BTW, if you have to google this song, you need to turn in your licenses immediately, because of it's absurd popularity.
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More info about the name "Angela"
Angela originates in Greek language and means "God's messenger". It is a feminine form of Angelus. In English-speaking countries it has been used since the 18th century and in the U.S. it was most popular in the 1970s. It was popularized by the English actress Angela Lansbury, who starred in the TV series Murder, She Wrote. Angela was also the name of a Catholic Saint in the 13th century. | <urn:uuid:53be19c3-79b0-463b-9963-f2ce06c68807> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.azbabynames.com/name/angela | 2019-04-21T06:24:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530253.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421060341-20190421082341-00330.warc.gz | en | 0.983786 | 102 |
Sterling silver circle ring
♥ DETAILS ♥
Thickness of the ring : 0.4 mm
Weight : 5.9 grammes
♥ SIZE OF THE RING ♥
You are on a computer : The differents sizes of the ring are on the right of the photo
You are on a smartphone : The differents sizes of the ring are below the photo
♥ SHIPPING ♥
Jewelry is sent in a nice packaging ready to offer !
All the jewelry available on the shop was part of a collection marketed in the 1980's
Turquoise is considered one of the finest semi-precious stones in the world.
Boutique : www.iroquoise.eu
Facebook : www.facebook.com/iroquoise.shop
Instagram : www.instagram.com/iroquoise.shop
Pinterest : www.pinterest.com/iroquoiseshop
- Bank card
Delivery with tracking number
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
You can send me back your item if you finally don't wan't it.
Shipping cost are not refunded
You wan't a paper invoice ?
Just let me know !
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Apr 25, 2019
I am sooooo pleased with this ring it is beautiful, Excellent to deal with and speedy post thank you soooooo much
Mar 29, 2019
Feb 4, 2019
Dec 30, 2018
Très jolie bague sobre et solide. Mon mari était ravi. C'est exactement ce qu'il voulait. Envoi rapide. Je recommande cette boutique. | <urn:uuid:4ac464b9-0979-4f46-b4ce-0361066001f7> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://iroquoise.eu/listing/258953274/circle-men-ring-in-sterling-silver-man | 2019-05-23T04:50:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257100.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523043611-20190523065611-00056.warc.gz | en | 0.692724 | 424 |
If you’re considering hiring a business assistant, it must mean that the workload is getting out of hand. Whether you’re starting a new business or business is just getting huge lately, having someone to help with the extra demand right now is never a bad idea. You need to conserve all of your energy as you handle all of your commitments and not overextend yourself which is where a business assistant comes in.
You may be wondering where your assistant will work from seeing that you’re always on the go, or wonder how you will afford to pay someone full-time with benefits and paid vacation time. Once you realize that it might be over the top to hire an assistant full time to work for you, you may realize that you simply need someone to help with some of your phone calls and appointment scheduling.
That’s where a virtual receptionist might be the answer for you. Here is a look at how they can help you right now and why it makes more sense than hiring a staff member.
What does a virtual receptionist do?
When you’re swamped with too many tasks between emails, networking and general activities to keep your business running, the last thing you have time for is the never-ending phone calls that come in. you don’t have time to stop every time the phone rings nor do you want to have to take them into the night and before the day even starts in the morning.
A virtual receptionist works to handle your calls at any time of day since they are a 24/7 service. They can answer the phone, in any manner you need to be customized to your brand, and they can transfer urgent calls, take messages, book appointments and more. If you’re overwhelmed, your virtual receptionist can be your professional voice letting clients know how important they are to you and how you will get back to them as soon as possible.
Do I really need a virtual assistant?
In addition to all of the help you’ll have with a virtual assistant working for you, but they will be the one that keeps your clients happy, reduces your workload and removes the need for you to hire a full-time staff member.
They can work weekends, holidays, sick days, nights, mornings and anything in between just depending on your needs. You don’t have to feel guilty taking time off or wanting to end the day at dinnertime; simply have your virtual assistant answer your calls, give out general information to FAQs, schedule upcoming appointments and do anything else you may need.
If you’re feeling like customers are being neglected or that you can’t handle the business the way things are going right now, it might be time to bring in extra help. Think about what you could accomplish with the help of a virtual receptionist and if you’d feel more accomplished at the end of each day knowing you had the extra help.
All you need to do is choose a virtual receptionist that understands your industry, choose the times each week you want their help and customize anything you need them to do to help your business.
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High quality genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction of mycobacterium tuberculosis and comparison with human metabolic network: application for drug targets identification
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), a pathogenic bacterium, is the causative agent in the vast majority of human tuberculosis (TB) cases. Nearly one-third of the world’s population has been affected by TB and annually two million deaths result from the disease. Because of the high cost of medication for a long term treatment with multiple drugs and the increase of multidrug-resistant Mtb strains, faster-acting drugs and more effective vaccines are urgently demanded. Several metabolic pathways of Mtb are attractive for identifying novel drug targets against TB. Hence, a high quality genome-scale metabolic network of Mtb (HQMtb) was reconstructed to investigate its whole metabolism and explore for new drug targets. The HQMtb metabolic network was constructed using an unbiased approach by extracting gene annotation information from various databases and consolidating the data with information from literature. The HQMtb consists of 686 genes, 607 intracellular reactions, 734 metabolites and 471 E.C. numbers, 27 of which are incomplete. The HQMtb was compared with two recently published Mtb metabolic models, GSMN-TB by Beste et al. and iNJ661 model by Jamshidi and Palsson. Due to the different reconstruction methods used, the three models have different characteristics. The 68 new genes and 80 new E.C. numbers were found only in the HQMtb and resulting in approximately 52 new metabolic reactions located in various metabolic pathways, for example biosynthesis of steroid, fatty acid metabolism, and TCA cycle. Through a comparison of HQMtb with a previously published human metabolic network (EHMN) in terms of protein signatures, 42 Mtb metabolic genes were proposed as new drug targets based on two criteria: (a) their protein functional sites do not match with any human protein functional sites; (b) they are essential genes. Interestingly, 13 of them are found in a list of current validated drug targets. Among all proposed drug targets, Rv0189c, Rv3001c and Rv3607c are of interest to be tested in the laboratory because they were also proposed as drug target candidates from two research groups using different methods. | <urn:uuid:fc1e5b56-9739-4b7e-9870-a61442bc80e8> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/3925 | 2020-09-26T06:50:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400234232.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926040104-20200926070104-00030.warc.gz | en | 0.944674 | 482 |
Be Excited! The Coolest Stuff ever!
One day a patient came in with a mat that she used for grounding and for pain relief. I touched the mat and within seconds I could feel it working in my head! My ears popped and it felt like my head was clearing.
That's all it took for me to look deeper into this product and open my own online shop. (That's saying something because, after all, I am a Mom who only got up to Level 1 on Tetris.)
Kaitlyn Keyt came up with an ingenious concoction, in her kitchen, of crushed crystals, gem stones, black tourmaline, essential oils and "flubber." When it drys the flubber puts pressure on the crystals and that causes them to discharge a harmonious Piezo current which heals and grounds us! They never wear out and are versatile for many uses! With this flubbery material called Mud Mat or Squishies you can charge your water, balance your food energy, decrease inflammation, decrease pain, etc!
I spent 3 days going over everything Kaitlyn has to offer and whittled it down to few well selected items geared towards relieving pain, inflammation, anxiety and to help with oral health, skin care, hydration and EMF protection.
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Eric Dier has signed a new four-year contract to keep him at Tottenham until 2024, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old England midfielder, who has filled in at centre-back under Spurs boss Jose Mourinho, has been at the club since arriving from Sporting Lisbon in 2014.
Dier said he was looking forward to being part of the club’s future.
“I am really happy to continue here and commit to this new journey we’re on,” he told Spurs TV.
“It’s crazy to think that I have been here for six years now. I have enjoyed it a lot. It’s a fantastic place to be.”
Dier became a key player under Mauricio Pochettino, who also arrived at the club in 2014.
Spurs finished second in the 2016/17 Premier League campaign and reached last season’s Champions League final but Pochettino was fired months later.
“The club gave me my opportunity in England and it has given me so much since then,” said Dier, who has scored 11 times in 239 appearances.
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Master : Luang Phor Nen Kumpeero
Temple : Wat Kased Tung Setti
BE : 2557
Purpose : Charm , Love, Relationship
Material : Metal case containing a tube of charm oil with silver Takrut
Effect : Superb for Attractiveness, Charms and Strong opposite sex attraction. This batch of Salika Tarkut name Yod Maha Saney is blessed by Luang Phor Nen Kumpeero 2 times to help people to become wealthy and united on 29th March 2014.
Biography : LP Nen Kumpeero was born in BE 2523, since young at the age of 7 he have interest in dharma and can contact and be obsessed by Lersi Tafai, a powerful hermit. After ordination, LP Nen Kumpeero set his heart on dharma and meditation. He spent most time on religious journey and holy expedition in Thailand and Laos to learn magic and meditation from many gurus like Luang Phor Kumpun, Luang Phor Phromma, Luang Phor Jaran, Luang Phor Sawaii. Luang Phor P Nen Kumpeero established Wat Ban Kases Toong Setthi, Roi Ed Province in BE2549 to let people worship, meditate, chant and do Buddhist rites. He always teaches people to do good and avoid doing wrong to maintain Buddhism.
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German to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
German term or phrase:Prozessdatenwort
The document is a press release for a software series. This particular sentence is referring to Feldbus interfaces:
Mit einer großen Zahl verfügbarer Schnittstellen wie Feldbus oder Ethernet-TCP/IP (10/100 MB) wartet die Geräteserie LCS mit einer breiten Palette steckbarer Module auf. Interbus-S basiert auf dem IBS SUPI 3 und unterstützt bis zu 16 Prozessdatenworte auf dem Bus und Profibus-DP ist über den SPC3-Controller von Siemens zugänglich.
Since Steffen and Orla answered at exactly the same time with the same answer, I've got to go with the most references and agreementd from other people. Sorry orla! 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Explanation: Hi Joanne - hope all's well with you!
From what I remember from my time at a telecoms company, 'word' is a unit of measurement in network speed (I am open to correction on the exact definition here). I found this kind of use at the URL below. So process data words might actually be fine. | <urn:uuid:701c5ffb-ce13-4555-84d9-befac48e0ad1> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/it_information_technology/880238-prozessdatenwort.html | 2018-01-23T16:54:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891980.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123151545-20180123171545-00137.warc.gz | en | 0.652623 | 355 |
The Jets are 3 and 9. If you are checking the injury report you are most likely a gambling addict.
Friday, 11/16/07 45 Stacy Tutt FB Knee Out 19 Chris Davis WR Shoulder Limited / Questionable 63 Dewayne Robertson DT
86 Chris Baker TE Back Limited 70 Mike DeVito DE Shoulder Limited 63 Dewayne Robertson DT Knee Limited
86 Chris Baker TE Back Limited / Questionable 87 Laveranues Coles WR Calf Limited / Questionable 63 Dewayne Robertson DT
Will be released on Wed 10/24.
86Â Chris Baker TE Back Limited 87Â Laveranues Coles WR Calf Limited 92Â Shaun Ellis DE Foot Limited 10Â Chad
The Jets will release an updated injury report on Wednesday 10/17.
68Â Anthony Clement T Thigh Limited 26Â Erik Coleman S Concussion Limited 87Â Laveranues Coles WR Knee Limited 92Â Shaun
21 Andre Dyson CB Foot Limited 10 Chad Pennington QB Ankle Limited 63 Dewayne Robertson DT Knee Limited 33 Eric
The Jets will provide an injury update on Wed 10/03.
89 Jerricho Cotchery WR-KR Shoulder Limited 21 Andre Dyson CB Foot Limited 65 Brandon Moore G Shoulder Limited 10 Chad
89 Jerricho Cotchery WR Shoulder Questionable 21 Andre Dyson CB Foot Questionable 65 Brandon Moore G Shoulder Questionable 10 Chad | <urn:uuid:4c45777e-aa7b-43d2-9989-c0acff77efe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.jetnation.com/category/injury-report/page/45/ | 2022-12-04T01:29:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710953.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204004054-20221204034054-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.650375 | 309 |
When thrown into the churning tank of education, Bloomz managed to swim with the sharks! Recently the Bloomz team attended the #SharkTankEDU event that evaluates emerging tech solutions to real challenges in school communities, by connecting edtech startups with educator and parent “Sharks”. #SharkTankEDU provides a platform for educators to critically assess the products of… Continue reading Bloomz Makes a Big Splash at #SharkTankEDU
Contest | TCEA Group in the App | Teacher Presenters Bloomz can be used for professional development as well as for Classes. Educators can share resources, organize group events, send reminders and announcements, and more. TCEA Conference attendees and other educators who join the TCEA 2017 Group in the Bloomz App will be able to share resource… Continue reading Join Bloomz at TCEA! | <urn:uuid:a29e2fdb-a84b-4565-aff5-7d8828d62a65> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://blog.bloomz.net/category/conferences/ | 2019-04-19T17:26:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578527865.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190419161226-20190419183226-00364.warc.gz | en | 0.939218 | 179 |
Do you still get Christmas songs stuck in your head after Christmas for a few days/weeks?
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Original oil painting by Liz Vaughn, "Tucson Pink". When a monsoon happens that last all summer long, you just can't help but to try and capture one tiny part of it. Welcome to those lovely pink skies our desert gifted us with this past summer.
Creation date 2021.
12" inches wide by 12" inches high by 1.75" inch deep on canvas. Ready to hang, no frame necessary.
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Ideal Manchester United midfield target reacts angrily after substitution
Manchester United’s lack of creativity in midfield has been somewhat sorted by the introduction of Juan Mata, but David Moyes is believed to still be in the market for an energetic box-to-box player to take the side forward.
The Scottish manager was sighted in Germany watching a Bayern Munich game earlier in the week, and was thought to have sat beside the agent of Toni Kroos – sparking rumblings that the Germany international could be on his way to Old Trafford.
The Allianz Arena star has been heavily linked with the Premier League champions this week, and a reaction in the Bundesliga side’s 2-1 win at Stuttgart on Wednesday night could be encouraging for Red Devils’ fans.
Kroos started the game at the Mercedes Benz Arena, but with the European champions in need of a goal after falling 1-0 behind, he was substituted on the hour mark and replaced by striker Mario Mandzukic.
As Kroos walked from the pitch, he petulantly took off his gloves and threw them in the direction of the Bayern bench in an act of petulance.
Pep Guardiola admitted that the number 39 had a future at the Allianz Arena but could well leave also.
“He is an important player but things can move fast in football. Here today, gone tomorrow,” the former Barcelona boss admitted.
The Daily Mail have led with a story suggesting that Kroos could well be on the move, and that a bid of around £25million would be needed from the Old Trafford outfit to pry the German away from his homeland.
The British tabloid also state that Kroos would demand wages in the region of £150,000 a week to move to England.
The 24-year-old is out of contract in the summer of 2015 and as such there is every chance that Bayern may well look to cash in on the star.
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As it transitions away from manufacturing, the city relies more on service jobs, like in call centers or nursing homes. But they don’t pay well. So local officials are looking for something — anything — that gives the city an identity, a way to distinguish itself.
One of them, quite modestly, is geography. Some trucking distribution companies have come to Springfield because it’s convenient to two big interstates. And incomes did tick up last year. But that doesn’t get Springfield closer to the knowledge economy of tech or finance or design.
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An Ounce of Prevention . . .
An employee has a heart attack. Besides concern for the person and the loss of productivity, you can't help but worry about your insurance rates, especially with premiums already skyrocketing 15 percent a year or more. Prolonged illness is a nightmare for employers and employees.
Over the past decade, large employers have tried to control health-care costs through preventive measures such as disease management, a "nip it in the bud" approach that targets high-risk employees and helps them manage chronic conditions--high cholesterol, hypertension and so on--before they turn into bigger, costlier, problems.
Now these programs are available to a wider spectrum of businesses, and the hard sell will pick up as the economy does. "We see an increase in the amount of disease management services being offered and accepted in the workplace, including smaller employers," says Gene Miller, CEO of Landacorp, a disease management company based in Atlanta.
Thanks, but No
The biggest obstacle to making disease management programs work is getting employees to participate. Some programs may be seen as career-busters. "If I sign up for the diabetes [seminar], I'll get off the promotion route because you're afraid my health won't withstand it," says Nan Andrews Amish, an El Granada, California, health-care consultant.
Small employers will face big challenges in protecting employee privacy, simply because their workplaces are small. Employees may be discouraged if a sign-up sheet for depression assessment or HIV screening is posted where everyone can see.
To encourage participation, start by protecting privacy. Make sure health information that can be linked to specific employees can't be accessed by anyone in the company. Sign-ups should be strictly confidential.
Tell employees in writing how information will be used and to whom it will be disclosed. "You'll need firewalls between your company and the provider so employment decisions can never be made based on the information," says Joanne L. Hustead, senior counsel for the Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
At a time when other companies are dropping wellness programs, Sucheta Jain, co-founder and COO of Intelligent Information Systems, a software services company, in Durham, North Carolina, spent $7,000 in 2002 on stress management seminars, healthy snacks and an employee assistance program. It's worth the cost, says Jain, 44. "In these times," she says "they're needed even more."
The cost of disease management programs typically ranges between $1 and $2 per employee per month. A recent study by Hewitt Associates, a global outsourcing and consulting firm, estimates that these programs can provide a $1 to $4 monthly cost savings per employee within two years. Even so, there's debate over their effectiveness, which can be hard to measure given that claims can be inaccurate or out of date.
Health-care companies aren't helping matters, either. "Health plans do a great job of selling disease management programs, but they do an awful job of implementing them," says Dr. Jay Kulkin, medical director of the Women's Institute for Health PC in Atlanta.
So before you sign on, ask hard questions. Find out how the provider contacts employees, how it protects employee privacy and what incentives it offers. Inquire about percentages of participation in its programs, screenings and surveys. "Make them show you how they have decreased expenditures for other companies," Kulkin says.
Besides predicting the effect on your bottom line, think about incentives you can offer, from decreasing employees' co-pays and offering extra time off to giving gifts and bonuses. Start educating employees about how much health care costs the company--a conversation that still isn't making it out of most boardrooms--and send a message that you value good health by creating a work environment that encourages it.
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Waking Up : A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Reprint) (Paperback) (Sam Harris)
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latestNew York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books,Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives.Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris—a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic—could write it.
A guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology considers how to learn from the examples of religious sages and saints from a secular and philosophical perspective without formally committing to religion. 100,000 first printing.
Number of Pages: 245
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Founded in 1870, Torres have been producing this wine since the 1960s. It’s decent wine with a timeless quality to it and fairly good value. I buy it regularly in the summer and it remains popular in Spain. This wine comes in a thin, light bottle which is more environmentally friendly – more producers should do this.
Tasting notes: Pale yellow, fresh floral aromas. The parellada grape gives it a fruity (apple & citrus) taste (it’s one of the cava grapes). Some tropical notes. Dry. Balanced acidity. No real length or intensity, but a little complexity. Unoaked & light – only 10.5% alcohol; ideal summer lunchtime wine.
Wine Colour – White
Price – £7.50
Where do I get it from? Tesco (widely available)
Current Vintage – 2018
Producer – Torres
Grape – Parellada, Grenache Blanc
Region/Country – Catalonia/Spain
Verdict Good wine for the money
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Even Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, vice chair of the Philippines' coronavirus task force, is against easing physical distancing measures on public transportation.
Defying the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of Transportation (DOTr) reduced the required distance between commuters starting Monday, September 14.
The DOH on Monday stood by its recommendation to keep a 1-meter distance per commuter, and Año also aired his own reservations – revealing yet again the discordant voices within the Duterte government in fighting the coronavirus
"Personally, I would like to abide by the 1-meter standard of physical distancing. If we can actually provide more transport to our people rather than reducing the distance," Año said in an interview on ANC.
Año is one of the key Duterte Cabinet secretaries overseeing the government's coronavirus response. Despite his reservations, the government has eased the required distance between commuters, from 1 meter to only 0.75 meter starting Monday.
The government is even planning to further ease the the restrictions to as low as 0.3 meter in the coming weeks, according to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade.
The easing of commuting rules comes as the Philippines continues to record thousands of new coronavirus cases per day. The country's caseload surpassed 261,000 on Sunday, September 13, with more than 3,000 new cases reported for the 6th straight day.
One of the casualties of the coronavirus pandemic is the transport industry.
The pandemic has decimated the maximum capacity of all public transportation vehicles to 50%, further reducing the available options for Metro Manila's struggling commuters.
Transportation groups earlier suggested that the government increase the transportation system's capacity by hiring drivers and transportation service providers like inactive bus companies.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, jam-packed modes of public transport have long been a problem in the Philippines, which has suffered a lack of transportation infrastructure for years. Experts have long feared that public transport, if left unrestricted, can further fuel the rise in coronavirus cases in the country. – Rappler.com | <urn:uuid:690d2332-2313-4f08-a670-42715e35d17a> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.rappler.com/nation/ano-against-easing-physical-distancing-public-transportation | 2020-10-31T22:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107922463.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20201031211812-20201101001812-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.940014 | 439 |
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My Sheri Crafts Entry 10-29
Over at My Sheri Crafts this week it's all about SPORTS!! This page is dedicated to my nephew who is on the football team at Bethel College in North Newton, KS. Win or lose GOD gets all the glory!! Come on over and join in on the sporty fun we'd love to see what you can create!!
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Bristol Bay appealed in 2010 to the Colorado Court of Appeals, arguing the judge was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit on that basis. But the appellate court ruled that “… the issues raised in the two proceedings are virtually identical and were previously resolved against Bristol Bay …”
The Colorado Supreme Court has decided to take the appeal on a couple of issues, including whether a court can hold a previous finding that one party didn’t cause a plaintiff’s harm preclude the plaintiff from later arguing a different party caused that same harm.
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What's keeping the gold shares down, and what can we do about it?
8:13p ET Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Our friend R.S. asks:
"How can we find out how many illegal naked shorts there are on a given gold or silver mining stock? I see that no matter what -- market up, market down, gold and silver up, gold and silver down -- the miners never go up anymore. I own mining stocks. Many people I know own them. No one I speak to who has mining stocks is selling. As a result, I suspect illegal activity by the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, and investment banks. Also, is anyone taking action against these criminals? If there is, I want to participate in such a lawsuit."
Dear R.S.: As far as GATA knows, at present there is only one lawsuit targeting corrupt activity in the gold and silver markets, a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for which GATA consulted to the plaintiffs:
Other than GATA itself, a small, non-profit organization with no full-time staff, gold and silver investors and mining companies have no organization pursuing their interests, the World Gold Council (http://www.gold.org/), which has never said a word about improprieties in the gold and silver markets and the mining share markets, seeming to exist only to insure that there never is a world gold council.
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Golden Phoenix Discusses Royalty Mining Growth Strategy
on '21st Century Business' on Fox Business Network
Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc. has discussed its royalty mining growth strategy on the Fox Business Network program "21st Century Business" with host Jackie Bales. Golden Phoenix's director of corporate communications, Robert Ian, told how the company narrows its focus to project generation and future royalty streams. He explained why Golden Phoenix believes it's better to own joint-venture interests in several producing mines instead of full exposure to just one project.
"21st Century Business" has been airing for 15 years. Previous hosts have included Gen. Alexander Haig, Gen.l Norman Schwarzkopf, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Golden Phoenix appeared as paid programming on this broadcast.
To view the program with Golden Phoenix, please visit Golden Phoenix's Internet site here:
Of course regulation of the commodity and equity markets in the United States has ceased completely and those markets now are largely rigged through high-frequency trading, index futures buying, and naked shorting. While a select few gold and silver mining companies support GATA, most are too scared or stupid to stand up for themselves against the assault. So increasingly gold and silver investors may choose simply to avoid most paper instruments traded in the United States and instead obtain real metal and vault it outside the banking system and even outside the country.
We put your question to gold advocate and mining entrepreneur Jim Sinclair of JSMineSet.com and he quickly and kindly replied:
"There are more factors insulting the gold share group than illegal short sales, which, I believe, now make up only a modest amount of the short sales.
"Our greatest problems are the gold share and gold share index funds, which, to gain income, are lending their shares to any borrower in any amount for any time period the borrowers wish. Right now these funds are the greatest enemy of gold share prices, allowing legal shorting by hedge funds that will maintain their positions short until the market punishes them.
"There is little chance of a bull market in gold shares as long as the supply of borrow-able shares remains as high as it is.
"In short the culprits now are those investors who are long on margin and whose shares thus can be borrowed, as well as gold share funds and gold share index funds. The people who take the gold community's money to invest in their funds are screwing us all blue."
We also asked for comment from GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk, who replied: "I don't think there is any way to measure the number of naked shorts. We're operating today pretty much like the bucket shops of the 1920s that Jesse Livermore wrote about. Any firm willing to go naked short can do so. They just call it 'financial derivatives.'"
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The PKK claimed responsibility for the killing of two police officers in a “punitive action” against the Turkish state guilty of cooperating with Jihadis. Twitter was blocked because it gave access to pictures and videos from the massacre. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and his cabinet met for an “action plan” to improve security on the Syrian border.
Istanbul (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Emotions and tensions ran high in Istanbul as some of the victims of the Suruç attack were laid to rest today. Hundreds of men and women holding hands surrounded the coffins, creating the image of a Kurdish people unwilling to bend to the violence of the Islamic State (IS) group.
Those carried were but some of the 32 people killed yesterday by a suicide bomber who, as a result of DNA tests, was identified as a 20-year-old man from Adiyaman who had joined IS only two months ago.
If the Kurds mourn their dead and bravely declare that they would not surrender, the death toll got longer when two Turkish police agents were found dead, ostensibly killed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK), in a “punitive action” against the Turkish state for “cooperating” with the Jihadis.
In fact, many Kurds and even many Westerners have criticised Ankara for its attitude towards IS since most would-be IS fighters tend to enter Syria by crossing the 911-km Syrian-Turkish border.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself has been accused of using IS against Syria’s Bashar Assad – a de facto supporter of a Kurdish autonomous zone – to counter the aspirations for autonomy or even independence among Turkey’s 15 million Kurds.
The same goes for Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu who yesterday chaired a cabinet meeting to discuss an “action plan” to improve security on the border with Syria, and “stop Daesh and similar terrorist organisations” from achieving their targets. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for Islamic State in Syria and the Levant.
Davutoğlu is probably worried about Monday’s protests and police crackdown in the country’s big cities. The more so since Turkey’s main Kurdish party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, HDP), has called for a rally in Istanbul, next Sunday. Last June, the party won 13 per cent of the vote in the country’s parliamentary elections.
Lastly, the Twitter ban imposed soon after the attack has been reversed by the order of a court in the south-eastern province of Şanlıurfa, where Suruç is located, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
It was initially imposed because Twitter’s internal review process had exceeded the four hours it is allowed under law, and only 50 out of 107 pictures had been removed. Now all of them are gone.
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Definition of ritardando in English:
adverb, adjective, & noun (plural ritardandos or ritardandi ˌrɪtɑːˈdandi)Music
Another term for rallentando.
- No deviations from this basic pulse are indicated - no accelerando or ritardando - but the avoidance of repeated rhythmic patterns prevents the emergence of any phrase-structure comparable to Schumann's.
- When the trumpets entered, their ascending phrase was ritardando to a degree, allowing a gradual and more dramatic crescendo too.
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A nascent Bushwick brewery says one of the nation’s largest beer companies has stolen its whale of a name and started using it — all before the two-person Brooklyn brand could even sell its first pint.
The Brooklyn beer guys behind Narwhal Brewery decided last year that their startup would honor an obscure tusked cetacean that great whale penman Herman Melville once described as “curiously named.”
At first it was smooth sailing for Narwhal Brewery — that is until its owners claim they got harpooned by the California beer-makers at Sierra Nevada.
“We heard that Sierra Nevada was going to release a ‘Narwhal’ beer and I was like, ‘What a coincidence,’ ” said Narwhal Brewery co-founder Basil Lee, who hopes to set up shop in Bushwick in 2013. “We really like the name — to have them come in and take it is really frustrating.”
Lee and his colleague Kevin Stafford registered Narwhal Brewery as a limited liability corporation with the state in April 2011, but the rookie owners — who still work day jobs — didn’t think to file for a federal trademark.
The Chico, Calif.-based company says it cast nets far and wide to see if other brewers were using the arctic marine mammal’s name before filing the paperwork.
“Like all of the beers we’ve launched before it we did extensive searches,” said Sierra Nevada spokesman Ryan Arnold, who claims his company scoured the US Patent and Trademark office, state liquor boards, and consumer-oriented websites such as Beeradvocate.com and Ratebeer.com. “In the searches for ‘Narwhal,’ we found no other beers based or sold in the United States.”
Legal experts say Sierra Nevada would have the upper hand in a court case due to the trademark and because Narwhal Brewery has yet to sell any beer — an activity that can establish trademark rights.
“The federal trademark system definitely benefits whoever registers first,” said Barton Beebe, a professor at New York University’s law school and an expert in trademark law. “These kinds of David vs. Goliath disputes are very common in trademark law. Usually the Goliath wins.”
This isn’t a whale war yet — but the story is murkier than a chocolate stout served 10,000 leagues under the sea.
Lee claims Sierra Nevada, which is now the seventh-largest beer producer in the United States, initially told him it would withdraw its trademark application and sell off only the batch of beer it had made under the Narwhal name.
But Lee says he found out in November through an outside counsel hired by Sierra Nevada that the suds seller had an about face and wanted him to stop using the name.
“It was a bit of a shock,” said Lee, whose company doesn’t even have a liquor license yet, but has entered some suds in festivals and competitions and sold branded merchandise.
Sierra Nevada says it only took the legal route because Lee did first.
“We have never made any threats of litigation, implied or otherwise,” said Arnold. “Ordinarily, we would have been happy to continue the conversation between the parties. But, since they approached us initially via council, we have had to keep all exchanges through each party’s representation.”
Lee vowed to continue his fight — and said all he wants is a conversation with the company, with no lawyers.
“We’d be amenable to discussing a situation where everyone gets to use the name,” he said.
Sierra Nevada hinted that the ocean might be big enough for two brews honoring the spiky-headed sea beast.
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Remember when smart technology was a distant dream we saw featured in TV shows about cutting-edge innovations for the future? Well, the age of smart tech has arrived, and that dream is here now. Reasonably priced smart consumer gadgets are transforming our lives by helping us get organized, secure our homes, and save time, money and energy.
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You can program this thermostat quickly and easily, because Nest has the ability to memorize the temperatures you are most comfortable with. Over time, Nest has been shown to save consumers an average of 10-12% on their heating bills and as much as 15% on their AC bills.
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With this innovative light switch installed, consumers are able to control their lights and fans using the switch itself, an app, or even voice control (with the help of Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa).
Like many other smart appliances, the Wemo Light Switch can be programmed on a timer. It can even be networked with Nest to determine whether you are in the house or not. That way the lights and fans can be switched on or off automatically as you enter or leave.
There is also a mode you can set up while you are on vacation to make it appear to people driving past your house as if you are at home.
3. iRobot Roomba
People have been talking about robot vacuum cleaners for ages, but now you can actually buy one—and it’s pretty amazing.
The iRobot Roomba is awesome not just because it can clean on its own, but because it can reach underneath furniture, get into corners you might forget to vacuum on your own, and more. You can program it right from your smartphone or control it through Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.
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Amazon Echo is a smart speaker which is flying off the shelves—though it faces some steep competition from Google Assistant.
Echo works with Alexa to offer you complete voice control. That means you can effortlessly choose the music service, artist, song or genre you want without pressing a single button.
We’ve sure come a long way from using Morse code to using our voices to do pretty much anything around the house. With Echo and Alexa, you can call and message family and friends, check on the weather, review your calendar, control smart devices throughout your home, and more.
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if you didn’t have to turn back around to check if you closed your garage door when you are heading out? With a smart garage door opener from Chamberlain, that is a thing of the past.
Chamberlain’s smart garage door opener allows you to check whether your garage door is opened or closed using your smartphone. In fact, no matter where you are, you can control it. So if you need to open it to let your kid in after school who forgot his door key, you don’t even have to leave the office.
With smart devices like these finally on the market for everyday consumers, our homes are transforming. They are becoming greener, cleaner, easier to maintain, and more secure. Our lives are also changing. Through our technology and the time it frees up, we are becoming more connected, both to our homes and to each other. | <urn:uuid:8c704a1f-6406-45bc-867e-81b4daafb632> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.tgdaily.com/technology/these-modern-home-gadgets-are-bringing-our-homes-into-the-future | 2018-01-16T15:42:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886437.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116144951-20180116164951-00611.warc.gz | en | 0.948073 | 748 |
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Hamilton in Los Angeles 2020
All residents of Los Angeles are anticipating their turn to watch the famous story with their own eyes. The Broadway show is supposed to stay in L.A. from March, 12 to September, 20 (2020) at Pantages Theatre. It seems you’ve got plenty of time to book the tickets. However, mind the speed they are swept away with! That is why don’t linger much as not to find yourself in a long Hamilton LA tickets line.
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The attendence for Friday’s edition of the Hardin County Fair was estimated at 6,104, compared to last year’s 10,113. The paid gate was 1.090 this year, compared to the 1,806 from 2011.
There were 635 people who watched the Phil Dirt and the Dozer’s concert in the show arena Friday. A year ago, 803 attended the tractor/truck pull. There were 500 gift bags given to senior citizens during the day.
The annual demoltion derby is set to start at the grandstands at 7 p.m. with the tractor and truck pull to begin at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The Hour of Inspiration begins at 11 a.m. Sunday in the grandstands.
Saturday, Sept. 8
8 a.m. – Junior Fair Livestock Sale, arena
9 a.m. – Dog Show, shelterhouse; Open Class Horse and Pony Show, horse arena
10 a.m. – Exhibit buildings open
10:30 a.m. – Special Pie Day judging, arts and crafts building; Conservation Contest, community building
Noon – Rides open
1 p.m. – Homemaker Demonstrations, community building
7 p.m. – Sheep Lead Contest, arena; 3D Demolition Derby, grandstand
8 p.m. – Showman of Showmen and Show Arena Contest, arena
10 p.m. – Exhibit buildings and rides close
Sunday, Sept. 9
7:30 a.m. – Gates open
11 a.m. – Hour of Inspiration, grandstand
Noon – Rides open, Exhibit buildings and concessions open
1 p.m. – Hardin County Tractor and Truck Pull, grandstand
2 p.m. – Sheep Shearing Contest, arena; Pee Wee Swine Showmanship, arena
3 p.m. – Just Kidding Around Goat Fun Day, arena
5 p.m. – Girl Scout award program, community building
6:30 p.m. – OSTPA Tractor and Truck Pull, grandstand
7 p.m. – Junior Fair and Open Class non-livestock entries released
8 p.m. – Commercial exhibits released
9 p.m. – Market livestock released
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The Pandu Ropa trek total distance is approximately 8 kilometers including the trekking and driving time from Manali. The trek will start at Camp Exotica at Hallan which will end at the Pandu ropa camp.
The Pandu Ropa trek is situated at the height of 1,480 feet (3,500 meters) which is quite attractive and a bit challenging to summit. This high altitude is a thrilling activity for the travellers to explore the beauty of Nature right from the middle.
The best time which is considered to be the best for the Pandu Ropa Trek in himachal Pradesh is said to be in between the month of August to November as the snow melts and which made the trek quite convenient to trek.
During these months you can sight the beautiful himalayas closely right from the middle of it and make it memorable for yourself.
Yes, The Pandu Ropa Trek is completely safe to trek. As all the safety precautions are taken care of by the experts and trek leaders.
The trek leaders ensure the tourists follow all the safety parameters of the trek and dos and don'ts as well.
We Thrillophilia as the company also make sure to brief our customers about the trek and its each and every detail right from the head to toe so that each and every tourist should be aware of the situation they will be going through.
The Trek leaders are experienced and capable of handling any medical situation in case it is required on the trek.
Yes, The pandu ropa trek is a beginner friendly trek. The people who are new to the mountain trekking and challenges of nature can join the group to trek.
The beginners who are fit enough and can climb the mountain with the backpacks at the back can take this challenge and summit the trek with the help of expert trek leaders and hikers.
The meals which will be offered during the Pandu ropa trek will carry the variety of delicious freshly cooked food.
The food includes all the 3 meals.
The breakfast will be vegetarian and it will be healthy so that after that you can go for trekking easily without facing any health issues during the trek.
The dinner will have both the varieties of Vegetarian food and non vegetarian food and you can eat whatever dish you want to eat.
Yes, The Pandu ropa trek is not so difficult in comparison to the other long treks of Manali which are situated at higher altitudes.
The Pandu ropa trek is an 8 hours trek which will start from the camp in Manali. The trek requires the basic strength to climb which is normal stamina and a healthy body structure which makes it easy.
The basic temperature which is recorded during the trekking season at Pandu Ropa trek is between 15 degrees to 20 degrees which is thrilling for the trekkers. That's why It is recommended to bring proper winter wears along with you for the trek
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1 STURGEON - CASPIAN SEA Huso huso (Beluga Sturgeon), Acipenser stellatus (Stellate Sturgeon), Acipenser gueldenstaedti (Russian Sturgeon), Acipenser persicus (Persian Sturgeon), Acipenser nudiventris (Ship Sturgeon) Sometimes known as European Sturgeon (Beluga Sturgeon), Giant Sturgeon (Beluga Sturgeon), Great Sturgeon (Beluga Sturgeon), Osetra caviar (Russian Sturgeon, Persian Sturgeon), Sevruga caviar (Stellate Sturgeon), Starry Sturgeon (Stellate Sturgeon) SUMMARY With a lifespan up to 100 years, Beluga Sturgeon are naturally vulnerable to fishing pressure. Poor management, overfishing, pollution, and habitat destruction have contributed to severe population declines of this and other Caspian Sea Sturgeon species. The high value of caviar has posed a major obstacle to stemming illegal trade in caviar. Criterion Points Final Score Color Life History Abundance Habitat Quality and Fishing Gear Impacts Management 0.50 Bycatch 1.50 Final Score 0.80 Color
2 LIFE HISTORY Core Points (only one selection allowed) If a value for intrinsic rate of increase ( r ) is known, assign the score below based on this value. If no r-value is available, assign the score below for the correct age at 50% maturity for females if specified, or for the correct value of growth rate ('k'). If no estimates of r, age at 50% maturity, or k are available, assign the score below based on maximum age Intrinsic rate of increase <0.05; OR age at 50% maturity >10 years; OR growth rate <0.15; OR maximum age >30 years. Historically, most of the world's Sturgeon were caught in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iran, with the remainder coming from China, Romania, the United States, Canada and other nations (Speer et al. 2000). The species that reside in the Caspian Sea are Beluga, Russian, Stellate, Persian and Ship Sturgeons (Speer et al. 2000). There are no estimates of intrinsic rate of increase for these species, and only some values of the other factors were available for the different species. Beluga Sturgeon: k = 0.1, age at maturity is years, and maximum age is 100 years. Stellate Sturgeon: k = 0.06 and age at maturity is 9 years. Ship Sturgeon: k = , maximum age is 30. Russian Sturgeon mature at 11 years (Fishbase 2004) Intrinsic rate of increase = ; OR age at 50% maturity = 5-10 years; OR a growth rate = ; OR maximum age = years Intrinsic rate of increase >0.16; OR age at 50% maturity = 1-5 years; OR growth rate >0.30; OR maximum age <11 years. Points of Adjustment (multiple selections allowed) Species has special behaviors that make it especially vulnerable to fishing pressure (e.g., spawning aggregations; site fidelity; segregation by sex; migratory bottlenecks; unusual attraction to gear; etc.). Caspian Sea Sturgeon spawn in the rivers that feed into the Caspian Sea. Larvae migrate to the sea, where they live until they mature. Mature females migrate back to their river of origin (Speer et al. 2000), and are easily targeted on their journey up-river Species has a strategy for sexual development that makes it especially vulnerable to fishing pressure (e.g., age at 50% maturity >20 years; sequential hermaphrodites; extremely low fecundity). Spawning is infrequent. Beluga Sturgeon spawn only once every 3-4 years (Billard and Lecointre 2001). Persian Sturgeon spawn every 4-6 years (CEP 2004). Ship Sturgeon
3 spawn every 2-3 years (CEP 2004). Stellate Sturgeon females spawn every 3-4 years. Russian Sturgeon males spawn every 2-3 years, and females every 5 years (Billard and Lecointre 2001) Species has a small or restricted range (e.g., endemism; numerous evolutionarily significant units; restricted to one coastline; e.g., American lobster; striped bass; endemic reef fishes). These species are all restricted to a small range, mostly in the Black and Caspian Seas, and a few are found in the Azov Sea (Fishbase 2004) Species exhibits high natural population variability driven by broad-scale environmental change (e.g. El Nino; decadal oscillations) Species does not have special behaviors that increase ease or population consequences of capture OR has special behaviors that make it less vulnerable to fishing pressure (e.g., species is widely dispersed during spawning) Species has a strategy for sexual development that makes it especially resilient to fishing pressure (e.g., age at 50% maturity <1 year; extremely high fecundity) Species is distributed over a very wide range (e.g., throughout an entire hemisphere or ocean basin; e.g., swordfish; tuna; Patagonian toothfish) Species does not exhibit high natural population variability driven by broad-scale environmental change (e.g., El Nino; decadal oscillations) Points for Life History
4 ABUNDANCE Core Points (only one selection allowed) Compared to natural or un-fished level, the species population is: 1.00 Low: Abundance or biomass is <75% of BMSY or similar proxy (e.g., spawning potential ratio). Although there are no estimates of BMSY, abundance of Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea is well below historic levels. Beluga is on the decline in the Black Sea. In the Danube River, the last major spawning river for Beluga in this region, the species is considered vulnerable in the lower reaches, critically endangered in the middle reaches, and extirpated from the upper reaches. Beluga is on the verge of extinction in the Sea of Azov (Caviar Emptor 2004b). In the 1980s, the abundance of Beluga Sturgeon in the Caspian sea was over 18 million individuals. In 1999, abundance had dropped to 8 million individuals, according to the Caspian Environment Programme (2004). Some groups estimate that this value is even lower (Anon. 2004). Abundance of Stellate Sturgeon decreased from 30.1 million individuals in 1991 to 13.9 million individuals in 1999 (CEP 2004). Abundance of Russian Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea declined to 29.2 million specimens in 1999, as compared with 60.5 million specimens in 1978 (CEP 2004). Hatchery-reared fish are being released into the wild to supplement wild populations. For example, about 30% of the Stellate Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea and all in the Sea of Azov were hatchery born in the early 1990s; and a full 96% of Beluga Sturgeon in the Volga River in 2001 were thought to be from hatcheries (CITES 2000). These restocking programs are not successfully replenishing natural or sustainable populations of Sturgeon in the region, nor are hatchery-born fished considered an adequate replacement for healthy wild populations Medium: Abundance or biomass is % of BMSY or similar proxy; OR population is approaching or recovering from an overfished condition; OR adequate information on abundance or biomass is not available High: Abundance or biomass is >125% of BMSY or similar proxy. Points of Adjustment (multiple selections allowed) The population is declining over a generational time scale (as indicated by biomass estimates or standardized CPUE). The populations of these species have been declining. Catches in the late 1990's were about 1,000 tons per year, compared with over 20,000 tons per year in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Speer et al. 2000). The number of Beluga Sturgeon entering Russia's Volga River to spawn dropped from 26,000 annually during to 7,000 in the
5 period. One source indicates that during , an average of only 2,800 individuals were observed (Caviar Emptor 2004b). CITES quotas for Sturgeon catch and caviar export have progressively been lowered since listing Sturgeons under Appendix II as species that may become threatened with extinction if trade is not strictly regulated. The only species for which quotas increased was Persian Sturgeon (CITES Quotas 2003) Age, size or sex distribution is skewed relative to the natural condition (e.g., truncated size/age structure or anomalous sex distribution). Populations of these Sturgeon species have distorted age distributions. For example, there has been no catch of Stellate females over 25 years old or males over 21 years in recent years (CEP 2004). A survey conducted in 2002 by the Caspian Environment Programme (CEP) found only 28 Sturgeon over the entire survey region, of which 85 percent were immature (Caviar Emptor 2004a). Data presented in Billard and Lecointre (2001), indicate that longevity of Sturgeon is presently lower than historical life spans. For example, Beluga Sturgeon can live to over 100 years old, and currently their longevity is estimated at Species is listed as "overfished" OR species is listed as "depleted", "endangered", or "threatened" by recognized national or international bodies. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) lists all 5 of these species as 'Endangered' (IUCN 2003). In April, 2004, the U.S. listed beluga caviar as 'Threatened with Extinction' as defined by the Endangered Species Act (Fed. Reg. 2004). All Sturgeons are listed under Appendix II of CITES as species that may become threatened with extinction if trade is not strictly regulated (2004) Current levels of abundance are likely to jeopardize the availability of food for other species or cause substantial change in the structure of the associated food web The population is increasing over a generational time scale (as indicated by biomass estimates or standardized CPUE) Age, size or sex distribution is functionally normal Species is close to virgin biomass Current levels of abundance provide adequate food for other predators or are not known to affect the structure of the associated food web Points for Abundance
6 HABITAT QUALITY AND FISHING GEAR IMPACTS Core Points (only one selection allowed) Select the option that most accurately describes the effect of the fishing method upon the habitat that it affects 1.00 The fishing method causes great damage to physical and biogenic habitats (e.g., cyanide; blasting; bottom trawling; dredging) The fishing method does moderate damage to physical and biogenic habitats (e.g., bottom gillnets; traps and pots; bottom longlines). Riverine beach seines and fixed nets are used to harvest Sturgeons (CEP 2004). The only legal method to catch fish in the commercial fishery is a 'sweep net,' which is a bottom net which is stretched across the river, and hauled in several times a day (Speer et al. 2004; CITES 2000). In Iran, gillnets are used at the mouths of the river, and scientific trawl surveys may contribute to catch (Anonymous, pers. comm. 2004) The fishing method does little damage to physical or biogenic habitats (e.g., hand picking; hand raking; hook and line; pelagic long lines; mid-water trawl or gillnet; purse seines). Points of Adjustment (multiple selections allowed) Habitat for this species is so compromised from non-fishery impacts that the ability of the habitat to support this species is substantially reduced (e.g., dams; pollution; coastal development). Caspian Sturgeon historically spawned in the Volga, Ural, Kura, Terek and Sulak rivers, but dams have since been constructed on all but the Ural River. The Ural River is now the only river where Sturgeon reproduce naturally, without the aid of hatchery-bred fish. The construction of the Volgograd dam has blocked about 85% of the spawning ground on the Volga River, which was historically the most important river for Caspian Sea Sturgeons. In addition to dams, pollution from coastal development and industry has substantially impacted water quality in the Caspian Sea (Speer et al. 2000). Levels of organochlorine (PCB's, DDT, etc.) were found to be high in all species of Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea (Caviar Emptor 2004b) Critical habitat areas (e.g., spawning areas) for this species are not protected by management using time/area closures, marine reserves, etc. Critical habitat areas are not protected (Speer et al. 2000; Speer, pers. comm. 2004).
7 -0.25 No efforts are being made to minimize damage from existing gear types OR new or modified gear is increasing habitat damage (e.g., fitting trawls with roller rigs or rockhopping gear; more robust gear for deep-sea fisheries) If gear impacts are substantial, resilience of affected habitats is very slow (e.g., deep water corals; rocky bottoms) Habitat for this species remains robust and viable and is capable of supporting this species Critical habitat areas (e.g., spawning areas) for this species are protected by management using time/area closures, marine reserves, etc Gear innovations are being implemented over a majority of the fishing area to minimize damage from gear types OR no innovations necessary because gear effects are minimal If gear impacts are substantial, resilience of affected habitats is fast (e.g., mud or sandy bottoms) OR gear effects are minimal Points for Habitat Quality and Fishing Gear Impacts MANAGEMENT Core Points (only one selection allowed) Select the option that most accurately describes the current management of the fisheries of this species Regulations are ineffective (e.g., illegal fishing or overfishing is occurring) OR the fishery is unregulated (i.e., no control rules are in effect). Local management agencies around the Caspian Sea have not been effective at Sturgeon conservation efforts (Caviar Emptor 2004a; Speer, pers. comm. 2004). In addition, illegal fishing is occurring on a large scale. In 2000, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that half of the world's caviar trade was illegal (Speer et al. 2000). There are no coordinated plans in place, and no sustainability goals. There are export limits in place, but they account for only 10% of actual exports (Speer, pers. comm. 2004).
8 CITES has implemented two bans on caviar exports from the Caspian Sea, for 6 months in 2001, and for 3 weeks in Neither of these bans has had any conservation impact, as Sturgeon are a long-lived species that will require many years to recover (Caviar Emptor 2004a). Despite listing Beluga Sturgeon as threatened, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife has not implemented a ban on imports of Beluga caviar (Caviar Emptor 2004a). On September 1, 2004, CITES again halted global trade of most caviar, including Beluga Sturgeon (Caviar Emptor 2004c). Whether this ban will lead to a recovery of Sturgeon populations remains to be determined, depending on if the ban is well enforced, and if it remains in place for long enough to allow recovery Management measures are in place over a major portion over the species' range but implementation has not met conservation goals OR management measures are in place but have not been in place long enough to determine if they are likely to achieve conservation and sustainability goals Substantial management measures are in place over a large portion of the species range and have demonstrated success in achieving conservation and sustainability goals. Points of Adjustment (multiple selections allowed) There is inadequate scientific monitoring of stock status, catch or fishing effort. The five range States of the Caspian Sea have committed to cooperating on research and assessment efforts. They are supposed to develop an internationally acceptable stock assessment and monitoring system and a transparent, robust and internationally acceptable method for deriving catch and export quotas from stock monitoring data (CITES 2003). There is major discrepancy between the results analyzed by the fishing nations and used to determine quotas, and the analysis by conservation organizations (CITES 2003; Caviar Emptor 2004a). Current assessments are considered to be flawed (Speer, pers. comm. 2004) Management does not explicitly address fishery effects on habitat, food webs, and ecosystems This species is overfished and no recovery plan or an ineffective recovery plan is in place. These species are overfished, but there are no recovery plans in place (Speer et al. 2004) Management has failed to reduce excess capacity in this fishery or implements subsidies that result in excess capacity in this fishery.
9 +0.25 There is adequate scientific monitoring, analysis and interpretation of stock status, catch and fishing effort Management explicitly and effectively addresses fishery effects on habitat, food webs, and ecosystems This species is overfished and there is a recovery plan (including benchmarks, timetables and methods to evaluate success) in place that is showing signs of success OR recovery plan is not needed Management has taken action to control excess capacity or reduce subsidies that result in excess capacity OR no measures are necessary because fishery is not overcapitalized Points for Management BYCATCH Core Points (only one selection allowed) Select the option that most accurately describes the current level of bycatch and the consequences that result from fishing this species. The term, "bycatch" used in this document excludes incidental catch of a species for which an adequate management framework exists. The terms, "endangered, threatened, or protected," used in this document refer to species status that is determined by national legislation such as the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (or another nation's equivalent), the IUCN Red List, or a credible scientific body such as the American Fisheries Society Bycatch in this fishery is high (>100% of targeted landings), OR regularly includes a "threatened, endangered or protected species." 2.00 Bycatch in this fishery is moderate (10-99% of targeted landings) AND does not regularly include "threatened, endangered or protected species" OR level of bycatch is unknown. The level of bycatch is unknown (Speer, pers. comm. 2004) Bycatch in this fishery is low (<10% of targeted landings) and does not regularly include "threatened, endangered or protected species."
10 Points of Adjustment (multiple selections allowed) Bycatch in this fishery is a contributing factor to the decline of "threatened, endangered, or protected species" and no effective measures are being taken to reduce it Bycatch of targeted or non-targeted species (e.g., undersize individuals) in this fishery is high and no measures are being taken to reduce it. While there are no precise estimates of bycatch, a large number of males, juveniles, and other fish species are taken in the nets (Speer, pers. comm. 2004) Bycatch of this species (e.g., undersize individuals) in other fisheries is high OR bycatch of this species in other fisheries inhibits its recovery, and no measures are being taken to reduce it. There is insufficient data available to determine this The continued removal of the bycatch species contributes to its decline. The take of male and juvenile Sturgeon contributes to the decline of the species (Speer, pers. comm. 2004) Measures taken over a major portion of the species range have been shown to reduce bycatch of "threatened, endangered, or protected species" or bycatch rates are no longer deemed to affect the abundance of the "protected" bycatch species OR no measures needed because fishery is highly selective (e.g., harpoon; spear) There is bycatch of targeted (e.g., undersize individuals) or non-targeted species in this fishery and measures (e.g., gear modifications) have been implemented that have been shown to reduce bycatch over a large portion of the species range OR no measures are needed because fishery is highly selective (e.g., harpoon; spear) Bycatch of this species in other fisheries is low OR bycatch of this species in other fisheries inhibits its recovery, but effective measures are being taken to reduce it over a large portion of the range The continued removal of the bycatch species in the targeted fishery has had or will likely have little or no impact on populations of the bycatch species OR there are no significant bycatch concerns because the fishery is highly selective (e.g., harpoon; spear) Points for Bycatch
11 REFERENCES Anonymous. Personal Communication. July Billard, Roland and Guillaume Lecointre. Biology and conservation of Sturgeon and paddlefish. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 10: 355 C392, 2001.Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Caspian Environment Programme. Caspian Sea Biodiversity Database. Online at: Accessed 2 August Caviar Emptor. 2004a. Protecting Endangered Beluga Sturgeon: Timeline. Available online at: July, Caviar Emptor. 2004b. Current Status of Beluga Sturgeon: Summary of Scientific Literature. Available online at: Accesed July 30, Caviar Emptor. 2004c. Breaking News: Wildlife Officials Shut Down Global Caviar Trade. Available online at Accessed 2 September, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). UNEP-WCMC. 2 September, UNEP-WCMC Species Database: CITES-Listed Species Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Caspian Sturgeon Catch and Caviar Export Quotas for Available online at: Accessed 2 September Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Current Trends in the Huso huso fishery in the Caspian Sea and the Beluga Catch and Export Quotas for Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Sixteenth Meeting of the CITES Animals Committee Shepherdstown (United States of America) December Federal Register: Final Determination of Threatened Status for the Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso). April 21, Volume 69, Number 7. Available online at: Accessed July 30, Fishbase Available online at IUCN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2004.
12 Speer, Lisa (Natural Resources Defense Council), Liz Lauck and Ellen Pikitch, Ph.D. (Wildlife Conservation Society), and Susan Boa, Lisa Dropkin and Vikki Spruill (SeaWeb). The Decline of the Caspian Sea Sturgeon and the Road to Recovery. December 2000 Speer, Lisa. National Resources Defense Council. Personal Communication. 2 August 2004. | <urn:uuid:6e201d4f-a6e7-4cdd-b82d-96fb0a12a597> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://sportdocbox.com/Game_and_Fish/70392858-Sturgeon-caspian-sea.html | 2018-09-19T03:50:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155817.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919024323-20180919044323-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.910044 | 4,784 |
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM.
The Vanderbilt Swim Masters in association with the Southeastern LMSC is hosting a USMS Masters Coach Level 1 and 2 Certification Clinic.
Host: Helen Naylor helen.naylor@Vanderbilt.edu
Contact: Bill Brenner email@example.com
Saturday November 3, 2012
9:00am - 6:00pm
Vanderbilt University Student Recreation Center
25th Ave South and Childrens Way
Nashville, TN 37212Link to MapContinue to bottom of this page to register.
Instructors: Mel Goldstein, Kris Houchens and Bill BrennerMel Goldstein
was the 2001 Speedo US Masters Coach of the year, Mel won the 1997 Ransom J. Arthur MD Award that goes annually to a person who best supports the objectives of Masters swimming. It is the highest honor bestowed by United States Masters Swimming. He is a past President of USMS and USMS All American with 255 Individual Top Ten Achievements. Most recently, Mel was inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame.Kris Houchens
The Indy Aquatic Masters coaching staff is led by Head Coach Kris Houchens. Combining an educational background in Biomechanics (Master's degree from Ball State University) with coaching experience across all levels of swimming (high school, DI college, and Masters), Kris brings extensive and proven training methods to our pools. Named the 2007 USMS Coach of the Year, Kris is an ASCA Level V Certified Coach. Bill Brenner
is the Club and Coach Services Director for USMS. He has 30 years coaching experience working with age group, college and Masters swimmers. He enjoys attracting adult athletes to the sport of swimming and coaching all levels of ability. Prerequisites:
You must be a current USMS Member to participate in the course. You must be a member of ASCA to receive certification. ASCA and USMS Membership information is provided on the application for this clinic. ASCA Membership fee is $70 for one year. More information about ASCA may be found here: www.swimmingcoach.orgUpon successful completion of the certification process, including all required memberships, applications and completed tests:
Each person will be awarded a USMS/ASCA Level 1 or Level 2 Coaches Certification certificate and a USMS Certified Coach pin. Fees:
$170 for Levels 1 and 2 Certification. $95 for Level 1 or Level 2 only. Maximum:
Maximum attendance is 40.Who should attend?
Current full-time, part-time or volunteer coaches. Anyone interested in supporting their existing team and coach. Anyone interested in starting a Masters Program.Scholarships:
The Southeastern LMSC will provide full scholarships for its member coaches who attend the class. The full registration fee will be reimbursed upon completion of the course. Coaches outside of the Southeastern LMSC should consult their LMSC for scholarship opportunities.Tentative Agenda:
Saturday November 3, 2012
Open Swim: 7:00-8:15am
Check-In: 8:30-9:00 am
Level 1 and 2 Training: 9:00am to 6:00pm
Lunch: 12:30-1:30pmOnline Registration:
Online registration only. Registration closes at midnight pacific time on November 2, 2012 or when the course enrollment reaches 40.Online registration is Paid by Credit Card:
Your online registration for this course will be paid by credit card and processed by Club Assistant. Please look for "ClubAssistant.com Events" on your credit card statement.Questions:
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On average, each European produces 500Kg of household waste per year and only 40% of them are recycled or reused. EU target for recycling 65% of waste and reduce landfill to maximum of 10% of municipal waste by 2030 and 600Mt of material pontencially recyclable with a value of 5,000M€ are lost.
One of the biggest problem is the lack of information or very hard to find it about how and where to recycle any waste we produce in our day-to-day life. cleanSpot helps you to locate the recycling spots in your city where you can drop off properly the waste we generate in our day-to-day such as batteries, consumer electronics, mobile phones, light bulbs, used oil, clothes and shoes, furniture, toys, books and school supplies, coffee capsules, etc. These recycling spots consist of reuse and recycling centres, mobile recycling centres, drop off points, recycling and specialized bins, charity shops, etc. And all of them in an unique app in your mobile phone or tablet. Also we can easily reach citizenship thanks to our integrated services such as alerts and information services from your favourite cities/towns, list of waste pickup services in your area, geolocated awareness-raising campaigns.
Another problem is the lack of motivation. 4 out of 10 people do not recycle for fear of being wrong and this means a cost of 125M€ per year. The approach Pay-As-You-Throw is being used in some European areas and follows “polluter pays principle” but the transition to this scheme is still complex and high cost. A mixed scheme with a municipal waste management fix charging but this amount being reduced by discounts per recycling could be applied. These discounts also could be offered by Circular Economy and Second Hand entities in order to increase their waste collections. cleanSpot provides a virtual card service where citizens can accumulate reward points each time they recycle. Those rewards points can be redeemed by discounts in municipal taxes or voucher to be used in local stores.
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What is a 50-Word Story?
A 50-word story is a piece of fiction written in exactly 50 words. That doesn’t mean “roughly” 50 words; it doesn’t mean “as close to 50 words as possible”; it doesn’t mean 50 words or fewer. It means exactly 50 words.
As with any other form of fiction, a 50-word story should have a beginning and an end, a plot and character development (even if they are only implied), and a theme, meaning, or purpose of some sort. Many 50-word stories are built around twists or climactic moments.
What is This Site?
Right now, 50WS posts two reader-submitted stories every weekday. To submit your stories for possible publication, see the Submissions page. A $10 prize is available for the best submission each month: see the Top Stories page for more information.
How Did This Site Start?
The original goal of 50WS was for me, Tim Sevenhuysen, to post one new, original 50-word story every day for a year. Between February 22, 2009, and February 21, 2010, I completed that goal, with a bit of help from a few reader submissions.
I started Year Two on July 5, 2010, then came back for more with Year Three, which began on August 1, 2011. During Year Three I shared stories from guest writers on Mondays, and posted my own stories from Tuesday to Friday.
Collections of the best stories from Year One and Year Two are available in book form from my Store. I’m currently working on finishing up the Year Three book for release.
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Which Arab country was the first to recognize Israel after the Camp David Accords quizlet?
Which Arab country was the first to recognize Israel after the Camp David Accords? Egypt.
Which Arab country was the first to recognize Israel after the Camp David Accords Saudi Arabia Egypt Syria Jordan?
Explanation: Jordan and Israel signed the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace in 1994, normalizing relations between the two countries. The answer is as said above. It is Jordan and I placed the proof in the explanation.
What two countries were involved in the Camp David Accords?
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
What state is Camp David?
How did Israel respond to the second intifada?
In response, Israel launched a series of retaliatory air-strikes against Palestinian Authority targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The police station where the lynching had taken place was evacuated and destroyed in these operations.
Which country supports Israel?
Countries That Recognize Israel 2021
Does the US support Israel?
Since the 1960s, the United States has been a very strong supporter of Israel. … More recently, in fiscal year 2019, the United States provided Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid. Israel also benefits from around $8 billion in American loan guarantees.
Which tactic did Palestine use against Israel in 1987?
Beginning in 1987, the Palestinians staged a revolution against the Israelis, which they called the Intifada, or “shaking off.” In December and January of 2008 and 2009, Palestine’s ruling party, Hamas, broke an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire by firing Qassam rockets over the Gaza-Israel border.
What was the significance of the Camp David Accords quizlet?
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The French top 12 females team qualifying competition took place on 15th-17th February at the Convention Center Technopôle Archamps in France.
The teams of Evry, Montpellier, Vandoeuvre and Juvisy qualified to the semifinals that will take place on 22nd-23rd June, simultaneously to the Coupe de France final.
The clear winner of the tournament was Evry with IM Sophie Milliet on first board playing an excellent tournament. The French IM was supported by a very strong team: WGM Sabrina Vega, Alina Rasinaru and Chloë Huisman.
In the battle for the coveted 4th place that guaranteed qualification to the semifinals, Juvisy edged four teams that finished a point behind, thanks to a last round win over Metz Fischer.
The four qualified teams continue to the second phase, which will be a semifinal knockout (1st against 4th and 2nd against 3rd), with a final match in the end.
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PM marks successful visit to Canada by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today marked the conclusion of a highly productive visit to Canada by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. The two-day visit, which included stops in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, was Prime Minister Modi’s first visit to Canada since taking office and the first bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister since 1973.
During the visit, Prime Minister Harper and Prime Minister Modi committed to elevate the bilateral relationship to a strategic partnership and further broadened its scope through a number of important initiatives.
The leaders also saw the completion of memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, education and skills development, and space cooperation, and projects focused on maternal, newborn and child health. Canada and India also finalized all steps necessary for the entry-into-force of the Social Security Agreement, which will take place on August 1, 2015.
Prime Minister Harper also welcomed Prime Minister Modi’s announcement that India will issue visas upon arrival, which will make it easier for Canadians to travel to India.
On the margins of the visit, several commercial agreements between Canadian and Indian companies were announced. With a combined value of over $1.6 billion, these agreements will benefit a range of sectors, including aerospace and defence, education, energy, mining, infrastructure, sustainable technologies, and information and communications technology. They further demonstrate the significant growth taking place in the Canada-India bilateral commercial relationship.
One commercial agreement involving Saskatchewan-based Cameco will see the company supply India with over seven million pounds of uranium over the next five years. This deal was made possible due in part to the Canada-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement negotiated by our Government.
Prime Minister Harper and Prime Minister Modi welcomed the progress made on negotiating a Bilateral Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement and agreed to intensify discussions to finalize the outstanding issues.
The prime ministers also participated in several cultural events where they met with members of Canada’s vibrant Indo-Canadian community. During these events, Prime Minister Harper paid tribute to the tremendous contributions this community continues to make to our country’s social, cultural and economic landscape.
The leaders issued a joint statement reaffirming and further expanding the scope of the new strategic partnership between Canada and India.
- Canada and India have long-standing and positive bilateral relations based on shared values of democracy, pluralism and a mutual interest in expanding trade.
- India is Canada’s largest trading partner in South Asia and is a priority market under Canada’s Global Markets Action Plan.
- With bilateral merchandise trade totalling nearly $6.3 billion in 2014 in addition to the over $1.5 billion in bilateral services trade in 2013, a market of more than 1.2 billion people, and a predicted economic growth of 7.5 per cent in 2015, India represents exciting opportunities for Canadian businesses.
- Canada’s approximately 1.2 million Indian diaspora community is one of the largest Indian diasporas in the world.
- Prime Minister Harper first met Prime Minister Modi on the margins of the G-20 Summit in Australia in November 2014. Prime Minister Harper also visited India in November 2012 and November 2009.
- This is the first bilateral visit to Canada by an Indian Prime Minister since 1973.
“With its expanding population and impressive economic growth, India represents tremendous opportunities for Canadian companies. But we have only begun to scratch the surface of our true commercial potential. That is why Prime Minister Modi and I were pleased by the scope and volume of bilateral initiatives and commercial agreements that took place during his visit. These initiatives will help to further strengthen our relations.” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“Canada and India enjoy a special friendship, underpinned by a vibrant Indo-Canadian community, which continues to make tremendous contributions to our nation’s cultural and economic fabric. It was a pleasure this week to meet with Prime Minister Modi and members of the Indo-Canadian community to further cement the strong bonds that unite our countries.” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper | <urn:uuid:c82f8d06-4378-4e9d-bef6-7b6981ccc48f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://southasiandaily.com/canada/pm-marks-successful-visit-to-canada-by-indian-prime-minister-narendra-modi/ | 2017-05-23T05:06:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607369.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523045144-20170523065144-00433.warc.gz | en | 0.951852 | 836 |
I would also like to have this feature. I like to have the source code of my projects which I compile on a build server on my iPad. But downloading the whole folder also downloads all the .o and other stuff I don't nedd.
this would increase speed, save space on the ipad, and be more green in general.
perhaps it could be in a performance section of preferences, or "mobile performance" as it would be most useful on the ipad/iphone, many full Mac install users would not care or prefer to have all the files.
"ignored filetypes (Global)"
maybe an "Other" or "Experimental" tab for features that have no home yet.
ill think more on this, but good idea.
For PHP applications running on Apache, there are .htaccess files which can be used multiple times in an application to grant or deny access to various folders. So an ignore list is really a necessity. In some cases, these files are also used to enable or disable php.ini settings. Thus, they can in some circumstances be a vital part of an application.
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Every building, whether hospital, school or commercial facility, has a building envelope. It consists of the physical barriers separating conditioned environments from unconditioned exteriors (i.e. inside from outside).
“In my experience, I would estimate that less than 10 percent of project Owners currently invest in true Building Envelope Commissioning (BECx),” notes Granger Senior Project Manager Jeff Tuley. “This can be a huge missed opportunity on new construction, given the numerous benefits commissioning offers and potential risks it can help mitigate.”
According to the American Institute of Architects Journal, research has shown that 40 percent of all building-related problems are due to water intrusion, and this problem is the root cause of more than 70 percent of construction litigation.
“Building envelopes are made up of materials which regulate airflow, heat, water, light and noise – and any time two or more dissimilar materials meet on a structure, this creates a vulnerability,” Tuley explains. “What BECx (also referred to as building enclosure commissioning) does, is create a process for addressing, testing and mitigating these vulnerabilities as early as possible.”
Early Partner Engagement
“Compared with standard construction practices, BECx involves engaging qualified commissioning experts as early as possible. These commissioners evaluate the architect’s design plans, highlighting potential vulnerabilities. Then a construction manager, like Granger Construction, can act to address concerns before construction even begins.
“The earlier BECx begins on a project the better,” Granger Senior Project Manager Ben LeBlanc adds, “since the CM will need to work with the appropriate subcontractors to build and test mockups of the design before actual construction. I have worked on projects where commissioning was treated as an afterthought versus a beginning commitment, and the difference in final quality control is significant.”
“For example, at Michigan State University Federal Credit Union’s Headquarters 2 Building, one BECx mockup required the involvement of over a half a dozen contractors assisting with the build. These were tradespeople who were largely unfamiliar with the mockup process, and spanned everything from steel, metal stud drywall, masonry, glass and glazing and roofing. The key to our success was having the mockups included on the bid documents and early project bulletins. The team also was able to coordinate pre-installation meetings between all trade groups, which helped us determine connection points for dissimilar materials and how everything would fit together.”
“It is important to map out the full chain of events, and have contractors collaborate to know how the whole system comes together. Starting these conversations early in a project also helps create a standard moving forward so all team members know what the expectations are before they even start building. Otherwise you can get on the jobsite, complete the mockup, and realize you had no true quality control or testing metrics set for measuring and replicating success on the actual build.”
Building Envelope Commissioning Benefits
While BECx can be a significant investment for Owners, there are many benefits to consider, the largest perhaps being the reduced risk of potential rework after project completion and turnover.
Doing rework on a building that is already occupied always has a cost. While the immediate financial costs of this rework may be borne by subcontractors or CMs through the warranty process, it is also important to consider the cost noise and disruptions from rework can cause to Owner operations. Also, making repairs and changing a mock up is substantially easier than repairing a detail that is 30’ in the air, requiring a lift and potential impedance on existing operations.
“A leaking roof is an issue not only because it costs an Owner money to fix, but because they now have a leak in their building,” notes Tuley. “Plus, before we even get a phone call with warranty issues, most owners will have their facilities people do research into the issue, so that is a loss of resources to them as well. “BECx is the best investment toward testing the building design and addressing weaknesses before the Owner needs to occupy the space. BECx also helps address the unknown/hidden utility costs that come when you do not have the assurance of an air and vapor barrier-tight building.”
“Water intrusion is the thing everyone thinks of because it is a pain when your facility leaks. But what they don’t see is the leakage of air and additional utility costs that can accumulate over the life of a facility. How much gas are you using to offset the heat cost or how much electricity are you using to offset cooling costs? Another potential issue with air leakage is the increased chance of pest infestation.”
Effective commissioning processes may be a substantial investment, but this process can potentially save tenfold in rework or structural damage on similar types of projects. The key is to evaluate the building design details early in the process and ensure all key players are invested from day one (i.e. owner, architect, construction manager and key subcontractors).
“At Granger, we have seen instances where only one or two partners have been fully invested in the commissioning processes, and this was like having a three-legged stool with a missing leg,” states Tuley. “BECx requires constant communication and collaboration, otherwise you start to see a breakdown in quality control and increased risk for rework. However, when the entire team is invested, it creates the engagement necessary to see this complex task through to completion.” | <urn:uuid:b26fe311-0e57-4eb1-85f8-f041105e5d37> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.grangerconstruction.com/a-case-for-building-envelope-commissioning/ | 2023-03-21T04:22:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943625.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321033306-20230321063306-00283.warc.gz | en | 0.955885 | 1,159 |
The coin pictured above is the coin you will receive. Please don't hesitate to message us with any questions or concerns! The item "1809 1/2c C-5 Classic Head Half Cent" is in sale since Monday, December 30, 2019. This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ US\Half Cents\Classic Head (1809-36)". The seller is "cbg1917" and is located in Austin, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda. | <urn:uuid:d347c1ea-d0f5-4cff-ae89-d8c69e4e1fd1> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://classicfirsthalf.com/en/1809-1-2c-c-5-classic-head-half-cent.php | 2021-12-04T02:07:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362923.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204003045-20211204033045-00170.warc.gz | en | 0.910999 | 115 |
BLT Direct Helps Homes Go Green In 2015
While some people will be resolving to get fit, quit smoking and snag a promotion in 2015, others will be gearing up to slash household energy consumption. BLT Direct is helping eco-friendly homeowners reach their new year’s resolution goals with a vast selection of energy-saving light bulbs at hugely competitive prices.
Buyers can choose from a wide range of products to suit almost every household fitting. From GU10 globes, reflector spotlights and sensor lamps to candles, spirals and multi-tubes, there’s no reason why 2015 shouldn’t be the most energy efficient yet.
The nationwide trend for ‘green’ consumerism is on the rise, with The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Shopping Behaviour reporting that one in four UK consumers are willing to pay more for environmentally-friendly products. This represents an 8% increase in statistics drawn from a study conducted just 17 months earlier. These changing consumer attitudes reflect the UK’s growing appreciation for the need to make responsible and environmentally sustainable choices. The home is the best place to start and in 2015, BLT Direct is calling on Brits to make the switch to energy efficient bulbs.
Steven Ellwood, Managing Director of BLT Direct said, “We’re advocating for a greener 2015 and are encouraging homeowners to consider replacing standard bulbs with energy efficient solutions. As well as helping ease the global demand for energy our ultra-efficient bulbs represent significant financial savings for thrifty homeowners looking to cut costs in 2015”
The Energy Saving Trust estimates that lighting makes up 7% of a typical household’s energy bill. This makes cutting down on lighting costs one of the easiest and most effective ways to save the environment and conserve cash. Most British households use a combination of standard light fittings and down lighters or spotlights. Energy efficient bulbs can be used in all three fittings for an instant eco-friendly boost.
Homeowners determined to cultivate an eco-friendly New Year can choose from BLT Direct’s extensive range of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light emitting diodes (LEDs).
CFLs are incredibly cost effective replacements that offer the same level of brightness for a fraction of the cost. Over the lifetime of the bulb the Energy Saving Trust estimates that CFLs save households £45 on energy consumption. LEDs are also eco-friendly choices that save households £40 a year on your electricity bills. While they do cost more than standard bulbs the investment will quickly pay for itself in the form of environmental and financial savings.
As 2015 creeps increasingly closer BLT Direct is urging households to stock up on energy efficient lighting and get the New Year off to a greener start.
To find out more about BLT Direct and browse the company’s complete range of energy efficient light bulbs, visit: www.bltdirect.com
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QCFF'S FOUNDER, BILL BILODEAU, ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE
The Québec City Film Festival (QCFF) announced today the departure of Programmer and Co-Founder Olivier Bilodeau, who leaves to pursue new challenges. A true and open-minded film lover, Olivier Bilodeau, who has led the programming of QCFF since its first edition back in 2011, has significantly contributed to building up this major event.Mr Bilodeau said that ‘his decision to leave QCFF was heartbreaking but I felt it was the right time to do so especially since the festival is now firmly rooted’. The decision was not only harsh for the organisation but also for himself : ‘I worked with amazing people over those ten years and they will definitely remain a great deal of inspiration for me’, said he. ’I feel honoured I could live all those fantastic moments - now I can leave with so many great memories! I’m truly proud of the evolution of our festival and also that I could help turning Québec City into a film destination, in my own way, benefiting the city and its many artisans. I wish to thank every collaborator who has contributed to the growth of QCFF.” Speaking in the name of the board, Chair Philippe Poulin congratulated a man who is a real passionate about film, deeply interested in people, showing an extraordinary dedication and mentioned: “Olivier is someone unique who managed to leave a specific landmark on our organisation. His tenure will be remembered by his many successes, his vision and his devotion.” As for Executive Director Ian Gailer, he wished to acknowledge “Olivier’s professionalism and charisma”. He added: “We’re facing the departure of an important member, but most of all, I’m losing a colleague whom I look up to as much as I appreciate. He’s always been a precious and supportive friend, no matter what challenges the organisation has undergone.”Collaborating to the Festival since 2014, Laura Rohard will be acting as the transition Programming Delegate until the entire hiring process has been completed. The position is now open on the festival website (www.fcvq.ca) and applications can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.org. QCFF will pursue its mission set back in 2011, i.e to be an accessible, inclusive and bold event, offering film lovers a unique experience, both diverse and bold. QCFF is a dynamic event that is passionate about making films and artists accessible in an informal and original way.
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Today I hosted the first #DataVizChat and I am very happy with the result! There were 8 participants who chatted with me about data visualisation. The aim was to understand the community a bit better and get to know each other a bit better.
As a warm up I asked everybody to introduce themselves by telling us where they are from and how long they are working in the field of data visualisation. The answers turned out to be pretty diverse, participants were from the US, Jamaika, the UK and India and from 17 years to 2 months we had very different amounts of experience. This was actually an outcome I had hoped for, mix of participants who can learn from each other!
As a follow up on this, I was interested how people actually end up working in data visualisation. Is it a conscious choice or rather by chance?
The common theme was that it wasn’t a conscious decision and everybody somehow ended up doing data visualisation. While for some it developed organically as a progression from traditional reporting in excel or more technical data engineering work, at least two of us were actively looking for something different. However that this “something” ended up being data visualisation often seems to be due to chance, be it by discovering a new tool or by being surrounded by people who influence decisions.
From here we kept diverging into a few different conversations.
Mark and Sam talked about the advantages of coming from a technical and a design background respectively and how the influence of support of superiors and colleagues has a huge impact on how smoothly this transition happens.
It also seems that many people have experiences with a bit of a skewed view of data visualisation. With it being their job to “colour things in” and to “POOF make data pretty”, which often seems to be because they don’t know the process before they actually see the finished product.
Apart from these theme related topics, we learned that people have eaten Guinea Pig, Squirrel, Ackee, Balut and Cricket. I let you figure out who that was and what some of those are (just for the faint-hearted, maybe don’t google “Balut”!).
In total we had 8 people joining during the hour with another 3 or 4 chipping in later during the day. What I especially liked was that people I didn’t know before joined, so I personally actually accomplished what I set out to do: Getting to know new people! So a huge thanks for everybody who joined the discussion!
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Staying Cute. One blog at a time.
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August 19th, 2012 at 6:48PM
I refuse to believe she’s only 5’1”
#born this way
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The commander of U.S. forces in East Africa and the Middle East says he has ordered his naval commanders to take a tougher approach to pirates off the coast of Somalia, in an effort to help the region's economy and promote stability. VOA's Al Pessin reports from Washington.
In a year-end VOA interview, Admiral William Fallon said that, in recent months, pirates off the coast of East Africa have become bolder, attacking more and larger ships. So, he decided to do something about it.
"I have given some guidance to our naval commanders, and we've been able to get some approvals to do some things that are a little more aggressive than we had in the past We were pretty much in a passive mode," he said. "We're going to continue to operate in this area and to do everything we can to discourage this kind of activity."
U.S. navy ships recently laid siege to a pirated ship, and prevented the pirates from going ashore for supplies. They were forced to give up the vessel at what Admiral Fallon says was a reduced ransom, paid by the ship's owners. The U.S. Navy also destroyed the small boats the pirates use to get around the area off the coast of Somalia.
Admiral Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, says the piracy hurts the economy of the region because ships' captains are afraid to take their vessels through the area. And, he says, the piracy has a broader impact, too.
"It's the instability of it all," je said. "This kind of behavior, lawless behavior, if it's allowed to continue, just fosters an atmosphere of total disregard for accepted norms of behavior. And one thing leads to another, and if you allow this kind of behavior, whether it's ashore or afloat, typically there's a downward spiral. And that's what I think we've seen in this area. So, we're trying to clean up the neighborhood."
The U.S. Navy has estimated that at least 200 pirates work in the region, and until the recent crackdown, had operated a profitable criminal enterprise, stealing ships' cargos and demanding large ransoms for the return of the vessels and their crews. | <urn:uuid:09bf3c83-d533-4e2b-bd0b-7f54a469eb5c> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2007-12-21-voa61/402416.html | 2019-03-25T23:16:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204461.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325214331-20190326000331-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.978014 | 461 |
In less than a month, we will be welcoming Baby 2 to our family. My c-section is scheduled for April 21st at 11:40am. I have four weeks left of work and am cutting back to 8 hours per night instead of 12. I'm looking at this as a blessing and going to take full advantage of my extra time at home. Over the next month, I plan on enjoying my pregnancy as much as I can. If Mike has his way, this will be our last baby. If this is our last baby, I want to be fully present and remember what it's like to be pregnant. I'm going to spend time just lying on the couch feeling my baby kick and flip all over in my tummy.
Over the next month I also want to soak up E as much as I can. I want him to feel loved and secure and show him there is enough love in our family for both kids. I want to remember E as my little baby before he quickly becomes the big brother.
I'm so excited to meet this baby. Our family has been anxiously awaiting it's arrival and he or she is already so loved. However, this last month will also be very special. I'ts our final days of a family of 3 and I will cherish every moment. | <urn:uuid:089f4156-317a-46ed-a578-c40c3fe4e849> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://jessicagesellchen.blogspot.com/2014/03/over-next-month.html | 2017-09-24T12:06:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690016.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924115333-20170924135333-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.987571 | 265 |
UPDATE: 14 staff members at Heights Elementary in Middleton have been placed on administrative leave after dressing up for Halloween in costumes many parents and Treasure Valley residents are calling "offensive" and "racist."
"They should have some kind of sensitivity training-- some kind of interaction with other cultures, because this-- this is what they are passing on to the kids. So it's normalizing-- for them-- that these kinds of things are acceptable, when, in my opinion, they are not," said Kevin Vallejo, Boise resident.
Actually, Middleton School District has now announced that they are doing just that. Administrators say that this Wednesday, Nov. 7th, there will be an all-district staff meeting for cultural sensitivity training. They say these kinds of trainings "will continue throughout this school year and at the start of each school year moving forward," according to the administration's release.
Days after a group of Middleton Heights Elementary School teachers and staff came under fire for dressing as a border wall and group of Mexicans on Halloween, the district's superintendent announces the employees involved have been placed on administrative leave.
According to Idaho Ed News, the decision was announced Saturday morning at a special school board meeting. After the announcement, the board went into executive session. The superintendent did not disclose the names of the employees involved.
In response to the controversy, Mark Hopkins has been named principal at Heights Elementary “for now,” Middleton said. Hopkins began the year as principal of Purple Sage Elementary, according to Idaho Ed News.
Board members participated in a nearly two-hour executive session before returning to open session and reading a statement condemning the employees’ actions.
Photos of the employees posing in their costumes were originally posted on the school district's Facebook page and then later removed. The entire district's Facebook page has since been taken down.
"A patron reached out to me and was disturbed by the photos and then he shared those with me and I was equally, I was disappointed and I saw some inappropriate and insensitive costumes," Dr. Josh Middleton, superintendent, Middleton School District said Friday.
Friday, the superintendent said the costumes were part of a curriculum unit on character, respect, and kindness.
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Maximum PSI Stage 2 E46 M3 S54 inline-6 turbo kit sets 6-speed E46 M3 1/4 mile record with email@example.com pass
Congratulations to Maximum PSI and Nick G of Technique Tuning (the tuner for the Max PSI kit) for a record setting 1/4 mile pass. The Stage 2 Maximum PSI E46 M3 turbocharger kit managed a very impressive firstname.lastname@example.org 1/4 mile pass. This is with a 6-speed manual car, tuned by Nick G on the stock DME, running the stock internals and 11.5:1 compression ratio. The run took place at the ATCO drag strip located in New Jersey.
No details were included as to the boost pressure run on the MS109 fuel, tire specs (clearly drag rubber), or supporting modifications such as the exhaust or suspension. A video of the record setting run is below and hopefully Maximum PSI provides further details.
Regardless, this an incredible achievement for the E46 M3 and congratulations are in order for all involved. This is definitely a feat that can be replicated by owners of the Stage 2 kit and bodes well for Stage 3 and beyond. | <urn:uuid:69248f82-e69b-4579-b799-1fb2413acab1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.benzboost.com/content.php?3903-Maximum-PSI-Stage-2-E46-M3-S54-inline-6-turbo-kit-sets-6-speed-E46-M3-1-4-mile-record-with-10-43-135-81-pass&page=2 | 2016-06-27T00:27:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943038 | 254 |
IT MAY not be much consolation to the hard-pressed hacks of the rich world, but in many developing countries the newspaper business is booming. According to figures released in June by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), an industry body based in Paris, newspaper sales in Brazil increased by some 12% last year. Over the past five years, circulation has gone up by more than 22%. In India, sales rose by 11%, bringing the five-year increase to more than 35%. Pakistan's newspaper market grew by almost as much in the same period. The trend is similar elsewhere in Asia and Latin America.
The demand for news tends to go up as people enter the workforce, earn more money, invest it and so begin to feel that they have more of a stake in their society. Literacy rates also rise in tandem with wealth. For the newly literate, flipping through a newspaper in public is a potent and satisfying symbol of achievement.
Literacy campaigns by the government and NGOs account for much of the increase in sales of Indian newspapers, according to Ashok Dasgupta of the Hindu, a big Indian daily based in Chennai. Hiring is brisk, he says, and new papers and magazines are “cropping up every day”. Most are small, but the number of big, high-quality national business dailies has risen from four in 2006 to six today. A seventh will appear later this year.
Publishers in India benefit from a long tradition of press freedom. But papers in countries with more meddling governments are also, by and large, doing well. This is especially true of small newspapers. Governments with limited resources are often ill-equipped to monitor a profusion of local and regional newspapers. In Mali, for example, newspapers are popping up “like mushrooms”, says Souleymane Kanté, the local manager for World Education, an American NGO that aims to eradicate illiteracy. The Malian government keeps large national publications in line, Mr Kanté says, but local and regional papers have some breathing room.
China's vast oversight apparatus keeps tabs on big and small outlets alike. But newspapers are thriving there, too. In the past five years sales have increased by more than 20% to 107m copies a day. (By comparison, daily sales in America amount to some 50m.) China's growing wealth helps to explain this. So does a high level of literacy, thanks in part to the Communist Party's investment in education.
Shaun Rein, of the China Market Research Group in Shanghai, says there are also other factors at work. Because all Chinese newspapers are state-owned, they will probably remain cheap even as costs increase and advertisers move online. And Beijing's struggle to limit corruption may also play a part. Some officials see local publications as allies in the effort to unmask crooked regional and municipal authorities, and so favour lengthening reporters' leashes. Others seem to disapprove, leading to rumours of a debate within the upper echelons of the party—unreported by Chinese media, of course.
Newspapers are doing well in middle-income countries, too, according to WAN. In Argentina, for example, newspaper circulation jumped more than 7% last year. Manuel Mora y Araujo, of IPSOS, a consultancy, says media groups from America and other rich countries have not been investing in Argentine news organisations, possibly because their own problems mean that they cannot afford to. Nonetheless, he says, “The press isn't worried—there's tons of advertising.”
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