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By Fred J. Robledo, Staff Writer
POMONA — The way Diamond Bar High School boys soccer coach Kemp Wells explains it, the soccer Gods are cruel sometimes, which might explain the Brahmas’ winless December, which included eight losses and a tie in their first nine games.
“We were ahead in a lot of games, they (opponents) would tie it and we would give up,” Wells said. “If we got behind, there wasn’t a lot of fight, we weren’t coming back. It kind of snowballed and was frustrating.”
Since the Hacienda League started, the Brahmas have done a complete 360, winning at Diamond Ranch 2-1 on Thursday for sole possession of first, their sixth win in seven games to improve to 6-9-1 and 6-1 in league. (To continue click thread)
The Brahmas did it after falling behind too.
Diamond Ranch (10-7-1, 5-2-1) was dangerous early, especially on Andres Gallegos’ rifle-like throw-ins that zip across the penalty area.
After a couple near misses early, the Brahmas failed to clear Gallegos’ long throw into the box, and Diamond Ranch’s Ishmael Dimas was there to clean it up, firing at close range for a 1-0 lead in the 13th minute.
The Brahmas tied it on a picture-perfect give-and-get-back short corner kick.
Evan Valpraiso played a short corner to Kase Vollebregt, who gave it right back to Valpraiso with a better angle on goal. Valpraiso fired it across the mouth and buried it far side to tie the score, 1-1, in the 25th minute.
Vollebregt showed he can create and finish too, dribbling away from two defenders and firing the game-winner from 20 yards in the 67th minute for the go-ahead score.
“That’s what he’s been doing lately in league, he’s (Vollebregt) putting the ball away, which is what he’s supposed to do,” Wells said. “He has great footwork, a great shot, and you saw it on that goal.”
More importantly, Wells loved how his team reacted after falling behind.
“This wouldn’t of happened earlier in the year,” Wells said. “We wouldn’t have come back. They know that they’re playing for something now, and sometimes that makes a world of difference.”
Diamond Bar might have got away with a handball in the penalty area in the final seconds. Even Brahmas athletic director Kurt Davies told Wells he thought they got away one with one afterward, but referee’s like to be thoroughly convinced before awarding a penalty-kick in the final seconds.
“Yeah, definitely, there were a couple calls they could have made,” Diamond Ranch coach Jerry Martinez said. “But you know what, that’s soccer, the refs are part of the game. They’re human beings and they make mistakes. That’s how it is. We can’t hang our heads on a refs bad call, if we put away our opportunities like we should have, it wouldn’t come down to a controversy call or non call.”
Diamond Ranch had chances to double its lead early, but Brahmas’ goalkeeper Julian Sanchez played well.
“It was a big game and we had our fair share of chances,” Martinez said “But it comes down to who puts it in the back of the net, not how many chances you get. They had their chances and they put theirs away. At the end that’s what matters.”
Diamond Bar will close out the first-half of Hacienda league action today at Los Altos (9-5-4, 3-1-2), and Wells knows back-to-back wins against the two teams they’re battling against for league supremacy would be huge.
“We would love to get another one, and they’re a good team,” Wells said of Los Altos. “We just have to keep playing hard. You can’t slack off for a second, these teams are too good.”
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Ugly backyards just put a damper on any outdoor occasion. Brown grass and bland lawns aren’t appealing. Your lawn is a place where family and friends can lounge when they visit you so, of course, you want it to look nice. How are you going to learn how to make an ugly yard beautiful? It’s much easier than it seems, a little landscaping makeover can solve this problem while staying inside your budget.
Between using plants, attracting desirable animals, and a few interesting additions you can easily take your backyard from ugly to gorgeous. You just need to know what to do to take your space to the next level.
It’s All About the Plants
A large majority of revitalizing a backyard will be the plant life. Adding an abundance of plant life can bring in a varying degree of desirable creatures, like bees, butterflies, and different species of birds depending on where you live.
All of these creatures help breathe life into your yard, and they all go where the plants are that feed them. If those plants are in your yard you’ll be able to enjoy them, and the critters that come along with them.
Take care of your plants, and you’ll have figured out one way to make that ugly backyard pretty again. It all starts with appealing foliage, but what kind of foliage can you use to make your backyard look pretty and where should you put it?
Give that grass some water. If you’re suffering from brown dry grass you could just be watering it at the wrong time of day, or not enough. There are plenty of reasons for grass to go brown, but once you settle your brown grass problem, you can bring in the fun plants.
If you do everything you can, and your grass still won’t grow green you have a few options: you can reseed your lawn and nurture fresh green grass, or you can have your dead grass removed and replaced with green grass.
Let’s Say It Together; You Need Trees
Too much sun can be a bad thing. If you don’t have trees in your yard you’re going to have a lot of sun. Too much sun can lead to sunburn, and frustration depending on what part of the world you live in.
You don’t want your whole yard shaded though, you need to be able to enjoy at least some sun to get vitamin D. Add one or two broad leaf-bearing trees that are familiar to your region. These trees give you some shade to enjoy when the sun is too harsh, and makes your yard more inviting.
Ivy Can Be Gorgeous
Adding climbing ivy or vines to your backyard can be a beautiful thing. Add this to your yard in places that allow it to climb up the side of your home, on another structure, or a tree.
Regardless of where you try to incorporate ivy or vine plants, they make things more interesting. Grapevines are one kind of running vine that is both appealing and has broad leaves, helping to provide shade to other plant life that may only need partial sunlight.
If you do choose to add ivy to your backyard or nurture ivy that’s already there, we suggest making sure it’s not poisonous before incorporating it into your yard.
Moss Isn’t Terrible
The addition of moss to your backyard can be a wonderful thing, especially when placed around structures. Moss is soft, low growing, and doesn’t need much soil or moisture. This makes moss low maintenance, and when placed strategically, quite beautiful.
When allowed to grow on rocks or logs moss can be quite appealing, especially near water. It’s also quite easy to transplant from one area to another, allowing you to grow the same kind of moss in various places easily.
Flowers All Year Round
Both annuals and perennials have their place in a backyard, especially self-seeding ones. Perennial flowers come back year after year, as do self-seeding annuals. This makes it easier to take care of your plants because you won’t have to replant every year.
Annuals that aren’t self-seeding would need to be replanted year after year, which is great for someone who likes to garden. Be sure to pick flowers that come in colors you like or match them to the color of your house for a unified feel.
The Right Kinds of Animals
When trying to attract cute, fuzzy, or entertaining animals to your yard we suggest being careful. Picking the right plants can bring new life to your yard in both beautiful and devastating ways.
We’re going to go over some of the critters you may want to see in your yard, and how to attract them. This brings a fresh feel to an ugly backyard and makes it feel like a safe haven for all.
Can You Say Fish Pond?
If you like fish, why don’t you have a fish pond in your yard? It makes for an interesting addition to any backyard especially when adorned with additional flowers or trees. Koi do wonderfully in a pond environment and look absolutely stunning, especially when paired with flowering trees nearby.
Birds and the Bees
Birds are wonderful creatures to attract to your lawn. They help cut down on unwanted bugs, while the ones you do want get to stick around. Birds rarely go after flashy butterflies or bees. Depending on the species you attract they’re more likely to take out beetles, caterpillars, worms, and mosquitos.
Bees and butterflies are essential to every garden. Rarely preyed upon, these critters help pollinate your plants and bring a vibrant feel to your ugly backyard. Bright plants and flowers bring these beautiful creatures in and make them want to stay. The plants themselves bring in other bugs, which the birds will want to eat. As long as you have a few trees as we suggested the birds will come.
Can Your Pets Go Out?
If you have cats and dogs you may need to be a little more careful when selecting the different plants for your yard. Some plants can be toxic to our furry friends. You should also be careful of which animals to attract or add to your yard. Some pets are more prone to killing certain animals. Cats like birds, for example.
Making It Interesting
You can add plants, trees, ponds, and more all day long, but what if your yard is just missing something big? There are plenty of ways to incorporate an interesting addition, giving a plain backyard new life.
If you incorporated some kind of structure or space that you’d like people to visit in your yard, why not add in a pathway? Stone pathways give a yard a straight out-of-a-fairytale feeling.
If stones aren’t your thing you may want to make your path out of something else, such as slices of a tree or pre-made walkway slabs. You can make a path out of nearly anything, so don’t be afraid to get creative.
Adding a Building
You can always make an ugly yard beautiful with a new and interesting structure. A gazebo tucked into a corner, or a bridge over your fish pond makes for an interesting addition.
If you have a larger backyard, add a small guest cabin to a secluded corner of your yard. It could be only a few hundred square feet and would provide guests both privacy, and a beautiful place to stay.
Other Creative Additions
Your backyard is your space, so there’s no reason you can’t get creative! Some do it yourself projects might be just what you need. Outside garden ideas can be incorporated into your backyard, brightening up your yard with some wonderful ideas.
You can add things you enjoy, such as an old bicycle or homemade miniature sculptures like ladybugs, you can really add some life to your backyard with a few quick and easy DIY ideas.
Hiring a Landscaper
If you don’t have the time to manage any of these ideas yourself we suggest you hire a landscaper. These people beautify things outside for a living, especially backyards – and they’re good at it. You can get a pretty backyard without having to lift a finger.
If you have a specific look in mind for your backyard, you can talk to a landscaper about your vision. Usually, landscapers are eager to please and they will likely work with you within your budget the best they can.
Don’t worry about how to make an ugly yard beautiful, you’ve got plenty of options to work with. From adding plant life and animals to incorporating a building, there are plenty of things you can do to take your backyard from blah to beautiful.
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Headhunting Services in Pakistan
An in house hiring for a needed employee usually is a time consuming task for the company but with the assistance from headhunting Services, they will take responsibility with this upon supplying the much needed information. The company can go on with their business as usual knowing that a trusted group had been undertaking their search for their man power. The same is with the job seekers, when their names are listed on the professionals list of headhunters, they can work with other matters. See, hiring headhunters is time saving.
The question that arises for organizations seeking for the best employees is in choosing a headhunter and in addition, how the client organization can work successfully with a headhunter.
When you work with a HR Service Providers, a representative of the service provider will handle the screening of applicants to identify candidates who are suitable for the position you need filled. The headhunters will handle the collection of application forms from their Job Portal and then screening them, conducting interviews, running background checks and checking references. Instead of spending hours in the Recruiting process, you can focus on growing your business. You will just need to choose the candidates from among the most qualified ones sent to organization by the headhunting agency.
So, if you are among those that are in search of capable and experienced candidates to fill your managerial level role, get the best Headhunting Servicess not Only in Pakistan but for MENA and GCC countries that can help you by searching and short listing the best candidates for your desired position.
Recruitment Process of Recruitment Agencies
Recruitment agency start ups are challenging, profitable, innovative, time consuming and draw on plenty of emotional strength of the doers. It requires lot of home work, data/ research, capable dedicated followers, inspiring leader who can put his or her experience and skills to work and definitely, it calls for the strength of vision of the owner/ leader.
Today market is so competitive and to achieve growth of your business you should employ most reliable workforce to your venue. This is why Recruitment Process is a key purpose in any sort of effective business. When recruiting workers you need to make right decisions as the price of recruitment, training are high alongside the cost of firings, if the wrong alternatives are made. The majority of companies feel that HR employment is a specialized operation that they really should look for knowledge skills by means of either keeping an in-house HR recruitment unit, or outsourcing the services of a Recruitment agency.
The first Recruitment Process when working with a Recruitment agency is to accurately define the parameters of the job or jobs that need to be filled. This discussion goes way beyond simple facts like salary and overall job responsibilities. The Recruitment Company and the recruiter need to determine all the skills required and the type of personality that best fits the job and any other intangibles that might affect the hiring process.
An Employment outsourcing agency may well have vacancies on their books before they are advertised anywhere. If you are registered with that agency, you will be able to get in front of that particular employer quickly whether you are in Middle East, Dubai, MENA, GCC Countries and Pakistan. Recruitment agencies don’t like to hang onto positions for too long, and will be happy to fill them fast. Make sure that you are ready to go for interviews on short notice so you can take advantage of being one of the first interviewees through the door.
Employment outsourcing agency often ask for feedback for the people who were unsuccessful in getting work. You can speak to your agent, and find out what you did that resulted in you not getting the job. This is valuable information, and should be taken advantage of whenever you are unsuccessful applying for a position.
If you are not registered with any agency, Get registered with e-square Human Resource Management Services, this could be something you can take advantage of.
Payroll Outsourcing Services
Payroll is most dedicated and due diligent work, a team of professional dealing with payroll Service provides for proper payroll management based on the necessities of the company. Payroll Outsourcing service includes Management, Attendance, Provident Fund/Gratuity, SESSI/EOBI and exact payroll reports for accounting purposes.
When you outsource your payroll service to professional company, you need not to worry about adding new staff to deal with the business growth, therefore freeing the owners of these responsibilities at affordable cost.
Payroll processing service is beneficial for both employer and the employees. As this payroll processing companies are highly aware of the legal tax laws, it saves the employee from any legal errors. It is also beneficial to the employer as it saves the time of the employer that would have been wasted in boring calculations and gives the chance to employer to focus on core business activity.
With e-square you have multiple advantages by outsourcing payroll process. Our comprehensive custom made web based online HRIS system & our operational salary administration efficiencies, make it best offer in market today to outsource your payroll processing to e-square.
We maintain all your employee payroll details without duplicating any effort at the month end. We provide automated employee attendance management system (Time keeping), linked to HRIS to save us time. It is flexible enough to cater to every sector’s unique payout calculations parameters.
Outsource your payroll Outsourcing services and experience the right way of running your business with http://www.esquare.com.pk
Employment Outsourcing Services in Pakistan
As far as Employment Outsourcing Services is concerned, there are a lot of such Outsourcing Companies available to choose from. Companies these days just search online for reputed and dependable agencies so that they can free themselves from the task of finding the right candidate.
The Employment Outsourcing Agencies usually enters into an agreement, which is known as Contractual Employment agreement that sets a period within which the concerned employee will work for the employer.
These Outsourcing Companies provide employees to the companies. The services provided by these agencies are cost-effective because they take the full responsibilities of giving advertisements, screening the candidates and handle the whole employment process which is time consuming.
The Outsourcing Companies has a fair degree of experience and specialization in their field. They work at their best potential to satisfy Companies requirements. By communicating your needs, the Outsourcing Companies eventually undertake the laborious task of pre-screening and short listing the best candidates.
If you are looking for authentic and genuine contract employment, then it is best that you choose the right Outsourcing Companies and HR Outsourcing Services for Pakistan, UAE & Dubai for the same. Choosing the right Recruitment Agencies can make lots of difference to your contractual jobs. Most of the agencies that deal with such jobs have their websites online. You can study them first and then contact them for further details as well. These agencies have jobs in different fields. Choose the one that matches with your profile best. Both contract job seekers and job providers can benefit from these online portals.
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GRAND NE INDIA TOUR
Kaziranga and the NE Himalayas
This is a dream trip come true, the combination of the extraordinarily rich wetlands and forests of the Brahmaputra River Valley and the richest montane forests in all of Asia, the Northeast Himalayas. We’ll spend 10 days in the Mishmi Hills in extreme NE Arunachal Pradesh birding up to 2,700 m. (9,000 ft.) right in the core of mountain bird diversity in Asia. We’ll visit two national parks, Kaziranga and Dibru-Saikhowa, in the Brahmaputra River Valley, for some superb wetland birding. A two-day visit to the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and a day in the Digboi oilfields will round out our adventure. Some of the more exciting birds we’ve seen in these areas are: Spot-billed Pelican, Greater Adjutant, Pallas’s Fish-Eagle, Slender-billed Vulture, Indian Spotted Eagle, Oriental Hobby, Swamp Francolin, Blyth’s Tragopan, Bengal Florican, Pale-capped Pigeon, Dark-rumped Swift, Ward’s Trogon, Crested Finchbill, Jerdon’s Bushchat, Marsh and Spot-throated Babblers, Red-billed, Coral-billed and Slender-billed Scimitar-Babblers, Rusty-throated, Spotted, and Tawny-breasted Wren-Babblers, Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler, Jerdon’s and Slender-billed Babblers, Chestnut-backed and Rufous-vented Laughingthrushes, Red-faced Liocichla, Red-billed Leiothrix, Black-headed Shrike-Babbler, White-hooded Babbler, Streak-throated Barwing, Golden-breasted, Yellow-throated, Streak-throated, Brown-headed and Rusty-capped Fulvettas, Grey and Beautiful Sibias, Black-breasted, Pale-billed and White-breasted Parrotbills, Chestnut-crowned and Spotted Bush-Warblers, Rufous-rumped Grassbird, Swamp Prinia, Smoky Warbler, Pale-chinned and Pygmy Blue Flycatchers, Gold-naped Finch, Spot-winged Starling, and Collared Treepie. We could see: Sclater’s Monal, Gould’s or Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Purple or Green Cochoa, Beautiful Nuthatch, Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker, or Scarlet Finch. We are likely to see Indian Rhinoceros, Indian Elephant, and Swamp Deer. There is a remote chance of seeing a tiger. Leader: Ben King. | <urn:uuid:48aaa3d8-bf98-4031-9764-b16a6e10250c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://kingbirdtours.com/capsules/indiagrandne10cap.html | 2023-09-21T21:53:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.839152 | 626 |
as a stay at home mommy of 4, i am constantly looking for ways to save money. a lot of my friends and family find it hard to believe that i have been home for almost 8 years with my children. many times, i am asked for tips on ways i am able to do it. not only by individuals wanting to stay at home with their kids but from others living with tight budgets. here are some tips that may drastically reduce your monthly expenses.
cook at home more often – of course, owning a low cost food blog, i would say that one first! cooking at home, not only saves money but you control the quality of ingredients as well! for working parents, it can be difficult at times with your busy schedules. try finding a balance and prepare dinners from home at least 3 times a week. slow cooker meals definitely helps get dinner on the table faster.
bag lunches go hand in hand. as tempting as it is to buy lunch out while you are at work and escape the daily chaos with a coworker, those dollars add up too.
extreme couponing – i know you have probably seen the extreme couponing tv show. it has many mixed reviews! i stumbled across it one day when i had surgery and we have never looked back. we used to average about $200 a week on groceries for our family of 6 and by the end of that week, those groceries were gone. now, we spend about $60 a week easily for a TON of groceries that we can stockpile. to start, you will need to buy a sunday paper. look for subscription deals in your area. i found a deal that came in the mail, where our papers are $0.47 each, plus they are delivered to our door. we buy 4 papers, so we can have 4 of each coupon. next, buy a binder along with tabs, to organize your coupons. then find ‘couponing 101′ resources that will teach you how to buy items at rock bottom prices. matching a coupon with that rock bottom price means you will pay little to nothing for it. there are many couponing tutorials and wonderful blogs that will teach you step by step and make it very easy for you. my favorites are homemaking mom, moola saving mom,and we use coupons.
cutting the cable – watching tv is our nation’s favorite way of passing time. not only does it entertain us, but also our kids! some moms and dads would not be able to get one chore done without turning on spongebob or yo gabba gabba to entertain their little ones. but cable comes with a price. and for some cable companies, a hefty price. consider lowering your cable package to basic. basic cable is at least $20 less a month than the premium packages. movie channels, sports packages and pay per view increase your bills significantly. another option is cutting out your cable altogether. netflix has just about every tv sitcom, including unlimited streaming movies and their streaming packages start as low as $8. you can save at least $100 from that option alone.
*consider reducing your internet speed, too. we reduced our internet speed one year for a lower priced package and did not notice a difference in the performance of our computers. however, we did notice the difference in our pockets!
cutting the data plan on your iPhone – i know for some of you, this one is rough. take a deep breath and keep reading! a lot of people are surprised that we use regular cell phones, not androids or iPhones. my main argument about not having a smartphone is the ‘data plan’. with smart phones, there is a requirement of a data plan. those data plans start at $20 – $30, which amounts to at least $240 a year. it is hard for me to even consider paying that on top of my internet bill for my home computers! we have 2 laptops and a desktop, so i have been perfectly fine with waiting until i get home, to check my email on one of my three computers!
staying on top of your bills – there are great ways to easily manage your bills and track how much you are spending. my mom uses the old fashion way of writing all her expenses down from her check book. back in the day, my hubby (who is a master in excel) created a spreadsheet for our expenses. but now there are other innovative options of keeping track. we now use manilla and it is free! it is very easy to overspend. try using financial tracking software that has multiple ways for you to track your money, tell you when your bills are due, manage your savings and more.
becoming a one car family – we recently sold one of our cars. my husband works from home and we usually travel as a family most times. for families with working parents whose jobs are on opposites sides of the spectrum, one car may be harder to navigate. car pooling to work with a friend, telecommuting or using the metro may be an alternative. not only will you make some extra money from selling the car, but all the expenses that comes with having more than one vehicle give you more room in your budget. car insurance, registration, personal property tax, repairs, gas, maintenance, oil changes, etc….. is gone.
lowering your utility bill – all you have to do is look up from your computer, and take a quick look at the appliances that you have plugged in that you are not using. computers, ceiling fans, toasters, coffee makers, cell phone chargers… anything that can raise your utility bill, cut it off and unplug it. most energy companies have guides on their websites on how to save energy and help cut costs on your bill. check out your companies website or even energystar.gov website and start saving.
shop online – shopping on websites like walmart, amazon, totsy, and ebay can save up to 50% off of most items, especially electronics. it also gives you the advantage to match prices and compare. i also follow several couponing blogs that post hot deals and special buys on particular items. it is great for christmas time! when i see a price listed that i like or a hot deal, i order it then, and save it for christmas. then i have my christmas shopping done early.
pre-plan your outings/date nights – this one is big for me. i use groupon A LOT! ya’ll know i am a couponer and all about saving money. the hubby and i rarely get date nights. but when we do, the first thing i do, is see what deals are in my area on groupon. japanese steakhouses are my favorite restaurants. groupon had a recent deal for 50% off one of my favorite steakhouses. sometimes they have deals for putt, putt golf, bowling or different activities that we want to do with the kids for a family outing. last year when we took the kids to florida, before i got there, i looked to see what deals groupon was offering in florida. i ended up getting tickets to the a nice petting zoo, a go kart place with an arcade and crocodile park for 60% off! an email from groupon popped up in my inbox for mani/pedis right before my girlfriends and i had our girls night. we got our hands and feet done for half off! it pays to plan in advance. subscribe to groupon’s daily deals.
speaking of pedicures, 90% of the time, i do my pedicures myself. i buy the polish, buffers, nail files, acetone, etc. and keep it in my pedi box. all of those supplies that last for a long time, are probably the cost of one pedicure. when the time comes, i take the time to hook my feet up! the added bonus is the designs on your toes. now, at the salon, you will be charged at least $5 for each design. well, at walmart in the nail polish section, they have packs of beautiful stickers that you place on your toe after you have polished. follow up with a top coat and your done. 100 stickers for $2. you do the math!
scratching the gym membership – i personally do not have a gym membership. i usually buy workout videos to do in front of my tv. however, i have friends that have memberships. some gym memberships start at $20 – $30 a month. if you are like some of my friends, sometimes the money gets wasted if you do not feel like going to the gym regularly. youtube has tons of work-out videos to do from home that are free, and there are tons of websites that show you a series of exercises that you can do at home to achieve a certain goal. going for a jog is a great option as well that costs nothing.
above are merely a few ways that you can positively impact your operating budget. implementing some of them, or others that you may find within your household, will prove to be small sacrifices that yield tremendous results.
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Norland Products Inc. began in
1960 as a manufacturer of specialized gelatin used in the
electronics industry. The concept of its beginning was in
these four parts:
1. Modern industry evolves on technical know-how. The
market we wanted to enter would be dependent on the technical
expertise that we could furnish.
2. This is also the age of specialization. Initially we
decided to concentrate on light sensitive adhesives and
3. Large corporations require substantial volumes to warrant
producing a specific product. We felt that there was a potential
for a small company which could manufacture products that
a large corporation would never consider.
4. We therefore agreed to develop products that had relative
low volume, but were high in value and were technically
During the past
56 years we have developed a line of products that command
considerable interest in the market place. Our relationship
to the camera industry led us to the development in 1973
of a line of ultraviolet curing adhesives originally used
for bonding camera lenses, but later branching out into
military optics, fiber optics, and electronics.
Our office is located in Jamesburg, New Jersey, USA. Products we manufacture include, ultraviolet
curing optical adhesives, UV curing electronic adhesives and fiber optic
equipment. We also distribute a Fish
Gelatin and Fish Collagen manufactured in Nova Scotia, Canada by Kenney and Ross Ltd..
Most of our products are unique and must have high performance
properties with definite advantages to be accepted over
alternative products in the market place. For instance,
our ultraviolet curing optical adhesives are one part adhesives
that cure in seconds when exposed to UV light and are used
for bonding lenses, prisms and other precision optics. The
speed and accuracy allowed by these products are advantageous
to the user but it is the high optical quality and superior
physical performance that leads the customer to choose it
over other products on the market.
Another example is our high purity gelatin. We extract
the gelatin from the skins of cold water fish to make a
unique product used by a variety of industries ranging from
technical to the food and pharmaceutical. Our gelatin is
different than regular animal gelatin in that a water solution
remains a liquid at room temperature instead of a gel. This
offers great advantages in handling the material in production,minimizing
difficulties such as temperature and viscosity control,
yet providing the desirable properties only available from
For the last 10 years we have been supplying interferometric
test equipment to the fiber optics industry. This has been
an evolutionary process because of the changing needs of
the customers to meet more rigorous standards. By investing
the necessary time and money in the computer technology
that has become available in the last few years(speed and
memory), we have made great strides in advancing interferometric
technology to new levels.
Selling to the worldwide market, we get a special satisfaction
from doing things no other company is doing. By specializing
in certain areas, we have developed a reputation of excellence
in our fields. It is this reputation we strive to uphold
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The intrepid Sarah Mazzone of the USA Challenge just posted a nice Cyber Monday list that I urge you to peruse if you still have any money left after buying all the stuff I suggested on my Simply American Black Friday Alert. I bought a bunch of stuff on sale on Friday. For starters, I got two pairs of Hardwick wool slacks for the price of one.
You can get in on this 50% off deal by visiting the Harwick website and making your purchases before COB on Tuesday. I also went to a local shoe store and got a great pair of New Balance 990s for $109.00.
After checking out the firms on Sarah’s Cyber Monday List, a few seemed very intriguing to me.
I have no young ones running about, but if you do, you need to know about Bebe Bella Designs. So much stuff for kiddos is made overseas, but not so with Bebe Bella Designs. They make all sorts of stuff that the young ones require: blankets, bibs, burpies, booties, mittens, hats and scarves. And right now they have some screaming deals. How about a Minky Chenille Satin Backed Baby Blanket, normally $52.00 on sale for only $13.00!
Or a knit beenie for $3.60!
You get the picture.
If you want awesome women’s clothing made by members of our extended American family and you want it for 30% off, you need to get to work. M.I.U.S.’ entire USA made inventory is 30% off until this Tuesday December 2nd. Go to the M.I.U.S. website and use the code holiday14. The M.I.U.S. Collection is the brainchild of Millie Karkof.
This firm doesn’t have a Cyber Monday sale, but that’s ok because they have what I want. It has been rather cold in Seattle the last few days and I want a fleece coat but I don’t want one made in China, Bangladesh or Pakistan. So I plan on ordering Topo Designs’ Fleece Jacket. It is made in Colorado and looks pretty cool. What color should I order?
I’m thinking Olive.
So as you begin to start purchasing your holiday gifts, I urge you to consider gifts made by members of your extended American family as your first choice. Buying American made gifts for the holidays is truly a treble. First, you have the pride of giving a well made product. Second, the recipient will get a well made product that will give them years of use. And third, members of our extended American family will be given the gift of employment so they can provide for their families. Such a deal!
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Hi I know there have been other similar threads but I'm still confused! I have an iTunes ID where the username is my yahoo email address and a MobileMe ID where the username is my @me.com email address. When iCloud is released how will these 2 accounts migrate so that I can get my Apps, Books, Notes, etc to sync and also keep my @me.com email address? I'm sure someone using the iOS 5 beta will know. Thanks in advance! | <urn:uuid:ddc5234c-7177-4b54-99db-1e8479ee1301> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-id-and-mobileme-id-confusion.1173186/ | 2016-08-26T14:11:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982295854.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195815-00148-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958697 | 98 |
Coolest Owl-Shaped Birthday Cake Decorating Idea
This birthday cake decorating idea and inspiration came from the others I found on this site, thank you everyone for the great ideas. I baked a chocolate cake in two different bowls and put them together to form the egg shape (I’m sure there are lots of ways to do this but I used what I already had in the kitchen). I used a dowel to give it extra support.
I used coconut frosting for the tummy and face. I thought the color and texture worked well. I used chocolate frosting for the rest of the body. Dried Pineapple slices were used for the eyes and the end of an ice cream cone for the beak. To make the wings I melted chocolate chips, piped an oval wing shape onto foil and put a ball of foil under this so that it would have a little more shape. Once the wings were cool I just used some extra frosting to "glue" them into place.
I just prepared a normal round sponge cake, turned it on its side and covered it in Buttercream icing before sculpting the outer layer of icing using Regalice (royal icing). I came up with the birthday cake decorating idea for the cake when I learned my boyfriend’s Mum was a science teacher before she retired. It was her birthday and I thought it would be a good idea.
I saw a flat owl cake that just lay on the board and was drawn on plain white icing but I decided to have a go at a three dimensional Owl. When laying the cake on its side, cut a small section off the bottom edge to make it stand flat and also make sure that the feet/claws are nice and thick to keep the cake upright as its very delicate.
I am a kindergarten teacher and my class name is "The Wise Owls". If it is a child’s birthday, they always bring cake to school, so I decided to do the same when it was my birthday. I found a nice picture of Owl from Winnie the Pooh and copied the cake from that.
I just used butter icing, coconut around the eyes with a raisin inside, grated chocolate and coconut on the rest of the body for a white and brown effect. The kids loved the cake!
As a tradition passed on from my mother, the birthday girl gets to decide what kind of cake she wants.
For my daughter’s 4th birthday she requested an owl cake. When asked how she came up with that idea she responded, "my heart told me". I couldn’t argue with that reasoning and set out on the task of making an owl cake.
I started by making two cakes using the Wilton Cake Classic Wonder Mold pan, and one cake in a bread pan. After cooling the cakes I assembled the body of the owl by inverting one dome shaped cake on the cake stand and placing the other on top of it, securing it with dowel rods, to form somewhat of an oval shape. I then cut a kidney bean shape out of the cake from the bread pan for the head. I secured that with dowel rods as well.
I then frosted the owl, buttercream for the face and breast, chocolate for the rest. I used sliced almonds for the breast feathers and face, dried pineapple rings and junior mints for the eyes, a sugar cone piece for the beak and shaved chocolate for the larger feathers. I just used a vegetable peeler to shave strips of chocolate off a chocolate bar. I then created a nest around the owl out of pretzel rods and gumdrop leaves., | <urn:uuid:f3eec497-a303-473d-85ae-0f1c8b4151bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/birthday_cake_decorating_idea/ | 2017-09-25T06:19:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690340.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170925055211-20170925075211-00625.warc.gz | en | 0.9605 | 747 |
I can finally reveal what I have secretly been planning and scheming for the last month. Friday night with the help of my mother(the everything), dad (the financier), Kyle (the dancing boyfriend) and my cousin Naz (the baker) we put a surprise Birthday party together for my other half Courteney( the dancing sister). Saturday marked her 16th Birthday and noted it was her crown Birthday too.
I found a location a little diner not to far from where we stay called On a Roll where we had the party. I invited her closest friends from school and dancing gathered them at the place around 7 pm. It was crazy trying to get everything organised but I got it all done without her knowing a thing, her friends are truly awesome for not letting the cat out the bag. She was honestly miserable thinking nobody cared about her it was so funny to witness. (while we all knew the truth)
Eventually she got there and we all screamed surprise and sang Happy Birthday! It was so awesome she was so shocked that she even started to cry lol
Meanwhile Kyle and I had another sneaky surprise up our sleeve a week before her birthday we planed to do a dance video for her as a birthday gift and it came out amazing. My friend Nic Manshon is a film maker, he helped us out his truly so talented. I got my friends apartment where we shot the video and everything could not have worked out more awesome. We were so in the zone throwing ideas together and we worked our magic. Kyle is an amazing Dancer and I see great things in his future. His passion for dance and the way he performed that day while shooting was electric we could all feel it. After Nic and I were speechless and could not believe that he did that. The filming and creating this piece inspired us in more ways than just creating it for Courteney.
I think the hardest part for me was keeping this gift a surprise. I remember Courteney telling me once “I don’t want anything for my Birthday please just ask Kyle to dance for me” lol (little did she know) We debuted the video at the party in front of all her friends and family. Needless to say she cried again lol (happy tears for sure.)
I love bringing joy to peoples lives and was so happy that my month of conceptualizing and planning worked out so great I could not have asked for anything more. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the video was truly the cherry on top of the Surprise Birthday Cake.
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Calcification in Biological Systems provides a collection of up-to-date papers regarding calcification in a variety of biological systems. The papers are not simple reviews of the literature. Each paper reflects the personal experience of the author(s) and is rich in constructive criticism and suggestions. Topics range from basic molecular processes to general structural problems in systems as different as unicellular organisms and human skeletal tissues. Because calcification is so diffuse in the animal kingdom, this book makes no attempt to achieve a conclusive synthesis of available results and current ideas. Instead, its merit lies in its ability to be useful to investigators with different scientific backgrounds and areas of interest.
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If you’ve been skulking around the strange bits of the internet recently, you’ve probably seen him: a giant, fluffy cat wearing a backpack and clinging to his owner.Mum pleads for help to find teenage son who vanished 10 days ago
He’s adorable. Mysterious. He prompts so many questions, from ‘is that a tiny custom-made backpack?’ to ‘what is he thinking?’.
And for a while, there was another question playing on repeat on our minds: who is this cat?
Now, we have an answer.
Assorted excellent people on the internet have tracked down this cat and discovered his name is P’Bone. He also goes by Bone Bone, and is a fluffy cat living in Thailand.
We’ve reached out to P’Bone and his owner on Instagram to find out more very important things about this cat, such as how he became so fluffy and where he purchased his backpack, but haven’t heard back yet.
So for now, we’re only left with more questions.
Is P’Bone chubby, or just very fluffy?
How did P’Bone get his name?
What does he like to eat?
What conditioner does he use? Because we want it.
Where does he find inspiration?
Is he happy?
Does he ever feel low?
What wisdom can he share with us?
Does he despise the human race? Is he intent on our destruction?
Does he have regrets?
Why is he so fluffy?
And the most important question of all: what’s in P’Bone’s backpack?
We must know.
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Surnames and Family Research Forum Archive
Death Look-Up: Sonnie NORRIS, TX
I would very much appreciate if someone could see if you can find any information regarding the death of my GrGrGrandfather Sonnie Norris, born 1859 in South Carolina. Sonnie lived and died in Harrison County, Marshall, Texas or Kaufman County, Terrell, Texas somewhere between 1910 and 1920.
Any assistance very much appreciated. Thank You | <urn:uuid:147f2e1a-2a30-4c7d-aeb6-38cbd0511811> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.afrigeneas.com/forumcarchive/index.cgi/md/read/id/8312/sbj/death-look-up-sonnie-norris-tx/ | 2015-03-05T10:25:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936464088.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074104-00104-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947558 | 92 |
The challenge over at Heart to Heart Challenges is to create a Father's Day card using scrap paper.
Stampin' Royalty challenged us to create a masculine themed project this week.
And finally the Cupcake Craft Challenge this week was to create "One for the Boys".
My card design is from the CTMH book "Originals" and is called "Triple the Fun".
Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):
June 2010 Stamp of the Month - Wonderful Friend
Cardstock: Barn Red, Colonial White
Ink: Outdoor Denim | <urn:uuid:b842741d-9b6c-40e5-aad8-557760170260> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | http://www.carlacreates.ca/2010/06/ctmh-backcountry-fathers-day-card.html | 2021-04-18T14:15:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038492417.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418133614-20210418163614-00179.warc.gz | en | 0.889538 | 117 |
July 13, 2021 10:10 am
XAU to USD Trading Analysis 13-07-21:
XAUUSD is trading at 1808.00; the instrument is moving above Ichimoku Cloud, thus indicating an ascending tendency. The markets could indicate that the price may test the cloud’s upside border at 1795.00 and then resume moving upwards to reach 1855.00. Another signal in favor of a further uptrend will be a rebound from the support level. However, the bullish scenario may no longer be valid if the price breaks the cloud’s downside border and fixes below 1775.00. In this case, the pair may continue falling towards 1745.00. | <urn:uuid:837734b3-4ea6-451c-ba1e-4d6064758c1c> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://forexnewsbd.com/xau-to-usd-trading-forex-analysis-13-07-21/ | 2021-07-29T13:00:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153857.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729105515-20210729135515-00526.warc.gz | en | 0.847855 | 144 |
Have you ever caught a nosy neighbor looking into your home spying on you? The moment you make eye contact the neighbor is sure to look away, making for awkward interactions in the future. When you’re at home, you should feel free to do be yourself without worrying about peeping Toms. Here are 5 ways that you can increase your privacy at home so that you can walk around in your underwear or dance to your favorite hits without feeling like you’re being watched.
You can increase your privacy and boost your curb appeal at the same time by planting the trees. If you plant larger trees around the perimeter of your home, you can create a barrier that’ll prevent your neighbors and unwanted guests from looking into your home without having to create a fortress.
Invest in Fencing
Want more privacy and security? Consider installing full coverage fencing around your home and you can enjoy your yard with an added sense of privacy. With a full coverage fencing system that’s not transparent, you can create a physical barrier that will block outsiders from looking in and boost the value of your home.
Installing the Right Window Treatments
Have you ever thought, “my neighbor has plantation shutters, why don’t I?”. This is a relevant question if you’ve caught that very neighbor looking into your home. Plantation shutters are easy to open and close so that you can get your privacy when you need it. These shutters are more attractive then ugly blinds and more sophisticated as well.
You probably don’t want guests looking into your bathroom windows. In rooms where privacy is essential, frosting your windows could be the solution. When you frost windows you must remember that remember that you’re limiting the interior view and the outdoor view as well. If you want the option to enjoy the view outside, you should choose a more flexible privacy option like shutters.
If you have a patio, enclose it with a pergola and panels and enjoy an intimate dinner outdoors. You can choose lattice panels that increase privacy but still let light in so you can truly feel like you’re dining outdoors.
With smart landscaping and the right interior applications, you can keep wandering eyes out of your home without having to create a fortress. Don’t feel like you’re living in a fishbowl and create a space where you can kick back in solitude whenever you want to. | <urn:uuid:5db451e6-6cbf-4102-a9b5-47a60f1c589a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://lerablog.org/home-and-family/interior-decorating-and-repair/how-to-increase-your-privacy-at-home/ | 2020-09-24T10:55:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400217623.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924100829-20200924130829-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.938643 | 503 |
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While I have not yet met Mark, my prayers and condolences go out to him and his family…..here is a man trying to help so many others, only to lose his mother in the midst of it all.
Now matter how long we have them, losing our parents is always the hardest. I wish I did not know. | <urn:uuid:b84adcb2-93c7-47bd-9699-d80a9d8f4a8d> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://am1050.com/2012/dorothy-e-neidig-91-from-plymouth/ | 2015-03-01T08:28:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462313.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00315-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975891 | 119 |
Finding your suitable operating systems concepts 10th is not easy. You may need consider between hundred or thousand products from many store. In this article, we make a short list of the best operating systems concepts 10th including detail information and customer reviews. Let’s find out which is your favorite one.
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Operating System Concepts,now in itsninth edition,continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems.The ninth editionhas been thoroughly updated to include contemporary examples of how operating systems function. The text includes content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations. End-of-chapter problems, exercises, review questions, and programming exercises help to further reinforce important concepts. A new Virtual Machine provides interactive exercises to help engage students with the material.
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The text is designed for a first course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the first year graduate level. It also contains additional material that can be used as supplements or as introductory material for an advanced course. Because the authors present concepts as intuitive descriptions, a familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level programming language are the only prerequisites. Important theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. In place of proofs, figures and examples are used to suggest why a result is true.
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By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne has defined the operating systems course through nine editions. This second edition of the Essentials version is based on the recent ninth edition of the original text.
Operating System Concepts Essentials comprises a subset of chapters of the ninth edition for professors who want a shorter text and do not cover all the topics in the ninth edition.
The new second edition of Essentials will be available as an ebook at a very attractive price for students. The ebook will have live links for the bibliography, cross-references between sections and chapters where appropriate, and new chapter review questions. A two-color printed version is also available.
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By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
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DescriptionOperating System Concepts continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The 8th Edition Update includes more coverage of the most current topics in the rapidly changing fields of operating systems and networking, including open-source operating systems. The use of simulators and operating system emulators is incorporated to allow operating system operation demonstrations and full programming projects. The text also includes improved conceptual coverage and additional content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations. New end-of-chapter problems, exercises, review questions, and programming exercises help to further reinforce important concepts, while WileyPLUS continues to motivate students and offer comprehensive support for the material in an interactive format.
8. Formal Methods for Components and Objects: 10th International Symposium, FMCO 2011, Turin, Italy, October 3-5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
DescriptionFormal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design for some time. However, their application to the development of large systems requires more emphasis on specification, modeling, and validation techniques supporting the concepts of reusability and modifiability, and their implementation in new extensions of existing programming languages like Java. This book contains 20 revised papers submitted after the 10th Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects, FMCO 2011, which was held in Turin, Italy, in October 2011. Topics covered include autonomic service-component ensembles; trustworthy eternal systems via evolving software, data, and knowledge; parallel patterns for adaptive heterogeneous multicore systems; programming for future 3D architectures with many cores; formal verification of object oriented software; and an infrastructure for reliable computer systems.
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DPSG International is privileged to host its 5th Annual Inter-School Cultural Fest—VIVACITY 2021, an event that brings us together to make new friends and showcase our talents in Art, Literature, and the Sciences.
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The following is a guest column by Amy B. Dean, the co-author, with David Reynolds, of A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement.
Electoral irregularities and promises of recounts have thrown into question the final outcome of the hotly contested race over a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Yet, these complications notwithstanding, the elections in Wisconsin last week sent a clear message: The conservative attacks by Republican governors represent a losing strategy.
Regardless of the final result of the Supreme Court race, the fact that progressive challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg was able to run a neck-and-neck race with conservative incumbent David Prosser, who just two months earlier had been favored by 30 points, shows a dramatic reversal. Despite almost $2.2 million in spending by right-wing interest groups in support of Prosser, voters outraged by Gov. Scott Walker's recent assaults on workers' rights came out in far greater numbers than expected to oppose the pro-Walker candidate.
Other local races similarly showed that scapegoating unions for states' economic woes is not working for Republicans at the polls. The race for Milwaukee County Executive, a position previously held by Walker himself, took an unexpected turn when Democrat Chris Abele, who had been trailing by 18 points just two months ago, soundly defeated the highly-favored Republican candidate, State Rep. Jeff Stone. Abele, won the seat with just over 60 percent of the vote, after running television ads -- that specifically stressed the ties between Stone and Walker.
More broadly, approval ratings for conservative governors seeking to scapegoat public workers have plummeted. In Ohio, recent polling shows that 43 percent of voters in the Buckeye State disapprove of the way Gov. John Kasich is handling his job, and 53 percent of voters think that his budget is unfair to them. In Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder has seen his disapproval ratings jump from 7 percent in mid-January to 43 percent just two months later. And national polling continues to show significant disapproval for these efforts more broadly. A recently released NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF) showed that 54 percent of Americans opposed the efforts of Republican governors to attack public employees.
However, the fact that conservatives are currently pursuing a losing electoral strategy is not enough for progressives to win in the long run. The labor movement and its allies must seize the current moment and use it as an opportunity to put forward a winning program of our own.
Progressive leaders are right to celebrate all of the hard work at the grassroots level that led to the upheavals in Wisconsin's elections. But we can't set our sights so low that we count a temporary staving off of our opponents' assaults as the best victory we can hope to achieve. Unless we take the confidence we have gained from last week's elections and use it to change the way we organize, this moment will only be a short lull in the frightening downward slide for the American middle class.
Specifically, progressives in general -- and the labor movement in particular -- should take three lessons from last week's elections.
First, we must demand more from our elected officials. In the wake of the battles in Wisconsin, we should have a day of thanks for the 14 Wisconsin state senators who resorted to civil resistance to stand up for what was right. These officials courageously left the state to prevent Walker from strong-arming a vote in the Senate. Going forward, we should use this level of commitment as a new standard. We should hold up their example when prospective officials who are seeking our endorsements vow that they will support our movements.
With this new standard in mind, labor and its community allies can no longer afford to make endorsements based solely on past loyalties or long-standing friendships. We do not need friends; we need champions. And unless public officials who profess to be our friends are willing to take stands like those of the Wisconsin 14, they have not earned our support. Nor can we grant endorsements because officials promise to back a single piece of legislation that benefits our members. This is a path to forever being viewed in the public mind as just another special interest. More than small favors, we need elected officials who consistently stand up to moneyed interests and advance the common good.
This leads to a second lesson: The labor movement needs to be putting forward a public policy agenda that does not just benefit its members, but that demonstrably creates benefits for all working and middle class families. Recent polling shows that Americans believe the voices of working people are not adequately represented in politics. At the same time, they think that unions have too much political power. There is a clear disconnect here. And the labor movement must take responsibility for overcoming it.
Given that unions represent just 12 percent of the workforce, we cannot advocate for public policies that represent only the interests of union members. We must present bigger solutions. We have to be putting forward our own budgets, every year, that bolster the essential community services which people have consistently said they support. We have to advocate changing tax policy and closing loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying their fair share. We must start a broad conversation about what the proper role of government in our society should be. And we must present clear alternatives to the "starve the beast" program that has been at the heart of the radical conservative agenda going back to the 1980s.
A third lesson for the labor movement is that we must rethink the ways in which we represent working people in America. We have to put forward a new definition of union membership that says, wherever there is a critical mass of workers trying to come together to address issues in their workplace, we should acknowledge it as a union. Whether or not these people fit within traditional union structures, we need to develop an open-source movement that welcomes them. There are thousands of workers' centers and professional organizations in this country that are already expanding the definition of employee representation. At a time when traditional union structures are dying, we need to be able to embrace these new efforts, bring fresh faces to the table, and become advocates for an ever broader range of American workers.
Right now, conservative overreach is backfiring and costing Republicans public support. Americans are outraged over dishonest moves by conservative governors to place blame on teachers and other public servants, rather than to propose genuine solutions to our economic problems. The public is right to be outraged. But unless we implement a real program for change in our organizations that can translate this outcry into long-term support for progressive movements, we, too, will be left without a strategy for winning.
Amy Dean is co-author, with David Reynolds, of A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement. She worked for nearly two decades in the labor movement and now works to develop new and innovative organizing strategies for social change organizations in progressive, labor, and faith communities. You can follow Amy on Twitter at @amybdean, or she can be reached via the Web site, www.amybdean.com. | <urn:uuid:283eced8-5a26-4441-ad7e-d793bb4f0303> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2011/04/13/guest-column-conservative-attacks-are-losing-strategy-progressives-mus | 2015-01-25T20:19:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115900471.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161140-00251-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959845 | 1,429 |
Integration provides enterprise-grade security and resiliency for cloud deployments at scale
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced that it is now certified for use with Veritas NetBackup, the industry’s leading enterprise backup and recovery solution. Users of Wasabi hot cloud storage and Veritas NetBackup benefit from more affordable, predictable pricing, simplified cloud storage and data management, and best-in-class security and recovery features to protect against ransomware and other threats, all at enterprise scale.
Veritas NetBackup provides a simple yet powerful solution for enterprise IT to ensure the integrity and availability of their data across diverse environments from every level of an enterprise’s infrastructure. NetBackup’s flexibility supports over 800 workloads, 1,400 storage targets and 60+ cloud providers for complete data protection and scales to any size workload for hybrid, physical, virtual, containerized apps and multi-cloud environments. It also supports disaster recovery (DR) at scale across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments to meet specific recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) while maintaining data integrity through identity and access management, data encryption, and immutable storage that help backup files remain safe and untouched from malicious invaders.
Meanwhile, Wasabi hot cloud storage is 80% less expensive than the hyperscalers with no fees for egress or API requests. All Veritas and Wasabi customers can treat their data as “hot” data for instant access to business-critical data in the moment it is needed. Wasabi is also designed with eleven nines (99.999999999%) of data durability.
As a Veritas Elite partner, Wasabi is also compatible with Veritas Backup Exec™, a unified backup and recovery solution for virtual, physical, public and hybrid cloud environments, and Enterprise Vault, one of the world’s most deployed archiving solutions.
“Wasabi and Veritas together provide game-changing benefits to enterprises looking for a new approach to their data storage and management,” said David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Wasabi Technologies. “NetBackup is one of the largest enterprise backup and recovery solutions in the world. We are proud to bring Wasabi’s high performance, predictability and security to organizations at this scale so they can focus on making business decisions with confidence instead of worrying about their cloud storage costs.”
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Former President Thomas Jefferson would have appreciated the discovery yesterday of an 8-foot tusk, skull and foot bones of a mammoth unearthed at the downtown construction site of a law school named for him.
The remains of the adult Columbian mammoth were found in the East Village, where the Thomas Jefferson School of Law is building its new $68 million campus. Paleontologists from the San Diego Natural History Museum estimate they are about 500,000 years old.
While serving as president in the early 1800s, Jefferson had fossilized bones of a mastodon found in Ohio shipped to the White House so he could examine them, said Rudy Hasl, the law school's dean.
“He was just fascinated with these large creatures,” Hasl said. “It's particularly appropriate that there is a connection between this find and Thomas Jefferson.”
Paleontologists from the museum are excavating the bones for transport to the museum for detailed study. They say the bones hold clues about animal life in the downtown area a half-million years ago, as well as indicators of climate changes that varied from hot to cool in eons past.
“It's a pretty important find,” said Pat Sena, a paleontologist for the museum who identified the bones yesterday morning. “The mammoth itself is a pretty rare find, and this is a really intact skull, foot bones and tusk.”
The museum has collected mammoth tusks elsewhere in the county, but this is its first skull, said Thomas A. Deméré, the museum's curator of paleontology.
“This was the largest land animal of its time,” Deméré said.
Construction workers spotted what they believed was a fossilized redwood Tuesday afternoon, several feet below street level at Island Avenue and Park Boulevard. Sena called for work to stop in that corner of the construction zone yesterday morning when he determined that the fossil was the animal's right tusk.
“I saw a piece of tusk fragment and started digging on in,” Sena said.
The mammoth was 20 percent larger than the modern elephant and lived during a dry period in the area, Deméré said. That's apparent because there is a layer of dirt containing the shells of marine creatures below the bones and another shell-rich layer above the mammoth fossils.
The position of the mammoth fossils – in a stratum that also included the bones of rabbits and rodents – indicates that the mammoth roamed the area at a time when the waters had receded.
Sena, who monitors construction sites for the museum, said he has found mammoth bones in Oceanside, Carlsbad, and the Borrego Springs area.
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For all 3 of you who still check this blog from time to time, here is a recap of what went down in the Moss home over the past 12 months:
Elliot started eating solid food. It was love at first bite.
I continued to craft my dramatic skills. This is my best lion impression.
Elliot had a surgical procedure done, then came down with flu, his first ear infection, croup, and conjunctivitis about a week later. It was not a good month for him!
Oh yeah, and I ended the month with strep throat. The medical establishment loved our family in January!
I turned 4, then shortly after danced the night away with Mommy and Daddy at Mommy's school Valentine dance.
Elliot and I had our pictures taken by a super talented teacher at our daycare.
Spring Break was another rough time in our house for sickness. Mommy had the flu, a sinus infection (that she says was almost as painful as unmedicated childbirth), and bronchitis. I had a few days of some yucky virus that was being passed around our school.
We did get to enjoy a beautiful day outside with Dan and Auntie before my sickness set in. You can also see my banged haircut here. I told Mommy I wanted bangs like Feist. Didn't quite pan out.
We ended the month celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We enjoyed a gorgeous day outside at Dan and Auntie's first place of residence. You can see Auntie's growing baby bump in this shoot, too!
Our entire family participated in our first (and thus far, only) 5K. We came in pretty close to last, but really enjoyed ourselves.
Elliot started sucking his thumb. Little stinker waited until he was 9 months old to pick that habit up.
And I continued to continue crafting my drama mama abilities.
Elliot began to show his daredevil side by climbing just about everything in the house.
Mommy, Elliot, and I survived our first Spring storm (translation: tornadoes all around) sans Daddy. He was at church, as the weather came through on a Wednesday night. Mommy realized just how much she relies on Daddy to be the strong one during these types of emergencies. She really missed his presence!
She was thankful, though, that these flashlights provided both Elliot and I with a necessary distraction while tornado sirens blared.
We celebrated the best daddy around during Father's Day.
And Elliot was finally dedicated at church!
Mommy and Daddy celebrated their 10th anniversary.
And this little guy turned 1 the very next day!
We also took a road trip to visit family in Illinois and Canada.
Madeline Michelle was born to Auntie and Dan!
I started full day PreK, and Mommy started teaching at the school Elliot and I attend!
Elliot also had tubes put in his ears, which ended his inner ear's reign of terror!
Apparently, we did absolutely nothing worth taking pictures of this month.
Or Mommy was so busy juggling the beginning of a school year, learning a new grade level's curriculum (she's teaching 2nd this year), and adjusting to a new school that she barely had time to breathe, let alone pick up a camera.
I dressed as Pippi Longstocking for our church's Trunk or Treat.
And Elliot was a cute little Hobbit.
Elliot learned that spaghetti is awesome and, consequently, experienced his first shower.
We celebrated Thanksgiving at Auntie and Dan's new house with all kinds of family, both biological and hand-picked.
And Mommy got a kick out of the picture I chose to draw at school to show what I was most thankful for.
The month started with an iceapocolypse in the North Texas area. We were pretty much shut down for 4 days. Our electricity was out on the first icy day, so we cautiously drove a few miles to the warmth of Auntie and Dan's house.
Mommy also lost her wedding ring on the third or fourth day of Icemageddon. Over the next week, she and Daddy turned the house upside down looking for it. We're talking emptied the vaccum, searched through the trash, checked the ring traps in all of the plumbing, and took a flashlight to just about every nook and cranny they could find! Still no ring.
Even without the wedding ring, though, we enjoyed a wonderful Christmas season! Celebrating the birth of the Savior is always such a beautiful time.
Mommy and Daddy also started taking classes this month for our family to provide short term care for children in the foster care system. They are really excited to see where God takes our family on this journey!
The Sunday before Christmas I came down with the flu. We were really bummed that I would have to miss out on some of the family festivities. When Mommy was getting a pallet ready for me so I could sleep on the floor in her and Daddy's room, though, something heavy and shiny fell out of my sleeping bag. It was her wedding ring! She's pretty sure she heard heavenly choirs singing right at that moment!
And, more good news: my fever broke just in time for me to join the family at our Christmas Eve service!
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Date of Award
Master of Science in Dental Hygiene (MSDH)
Deborah B. Bauman (Director)
Michele L. Darby (Member)
This document presents a review of the literature addressing education, healthcare, healthcare delivery and finance in Pakistan and the oral health status of the Pakistani people. Considering the enormous unmet oral health needs, the insufficient supply of dental professionals and the current unstructured dental hygiene curriculum in Pakistan, this document offers a mission, vision, and goals for the new dental hygiene theoretical framework for Pakistan. Moreover, it offers recommendations for competency-based dental hygiene education and practice, professional licensing, a practice act, and a dental hygiene scope of practice to help protect the welfare of the Pakistani public, i.e., increasing the number of dental hygiene institutions, establishing the dental hygienist as the primary care provider of oral health services, enhancing the current dental hygiene curriculum, and establishing the Dental Hygiene Council with responsibility for educational requirements and regulation of dental hygienists in Pakistan.
Shah, Musarrat Anjum, "Improving Oral Health in Pakistan Using Dental Hygienists" (2008). Dental Hygiene Master's Papers and Projects. 4. | <urn:uuid:850b56e6-6790-4cc5-af36-6144bf7e21a4> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/dentalhygiene_masters_papers/4/ | 2018-04-24T14:29:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946721.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180424135408-20180424155408-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.832602 | 255 |
LEGAL INFORMATION FOR THE SOLE BUSINESS OWNER IN MELBOURNE
Australian Business Corporate Structures
BUSINESS CORPORATE STRUCTURES
One can build complex structures or simple structures as modules (designed for personal requirements) to isolate property and assets from the high-risk areas of business and personal activity. The basis of the modules builds on the type of structure available such as:
Sole Business Owner or Partnership
Discretionary Trust and Unit Trust
SIZE AND COMPLEXITY OF THE BUSINESS
If one wishes to operate a mowing round franchise, one does not establish a complex business structure. A sole trader structure for such a person is suitable. However, if the business is of significant substance, then the larger expenditure is justified.
There are various options in a situation where one has a larger budget, for example, a company, in which the various parties own, a shareholders agreement can regulate shares and the relationship.
Whilst it is important to make the most appropriate business structure available, it is common for clients to expand too much energy and effort on the establishment of a business itself before it commences to trade or return a profit.
COMPLEXITY AND VARIETY OF THE ASSETS FOR THE BUSINESS SUCH AS PHYSICAL ASSETS AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
A simple business may require little physical assets and with technology, clients can run a business from any location. Technology and outsourcing allows clients to operate with lower capital costs. However, if there are significant physical assets or intangible assets employed or used in the business, it is appropriate to hold the assets in separate structures.
Physical assets such as plant, machinery, and equipment, which the proprietor can receive depreciation allowances can remain in the business entity until their book value is negligible. If the assets still have significant value, (for example specialised machine tools) it may be appropriate to transfer them from the business entity for zero consideration (or written down value if modest) to holding entity at a later point in time.
Private individuals can hold and license to the business entity, computer programs, trademarks, and similar assets, which have a capacity to appreciate.
If they remain in the individual’s name and have capital appreciation, they take full advantage of the capital gains tax concessions presently available to assets, held in individual’s name. The assets remain isolated from the business and if the business takes on further participants; the original ownership of the intellectual property associated with those items is not in dispute at any time. Consider each asset on its merits and endeavour to place it within the business structure where it is most advantageous to the structure at that time.
AGE, PERSONALITY, AND EDUCATION OF THE PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS
The age of the participants in a business structure is important. Persons who are in their middle years are more inclined to look at issues such as succession for their business structure. They may favour a business structure, which would enable a younger participant to become a part of the business and allow an exit from the business in an orderly fashion. In this context, one favours a small private company with a reasonably substantial shareholding. The more flexible and substantial the shareholding, the more one can allow equity participation from other persons before reaching a 50% threshold, which would freshen up any assets in the business. This helps to minimise the impact of capital gains tax when the original participant or founder of the business leaves the business.
The personality and educational qualifications of individuals are extremely important in terms of considering business structures. Many lack personal skills and find it difficult to deal with other people. They are often better to stay in their own individual business structure, and go into arrangements with other people for individual projects. A person with higher levels of literacy and numeracy enables a person to handle a more complex business structure. People should understand precisely the legal implications of any business structure in which they are going to participate. There is no point giving someone a business structure that he does not comprehend.
What capital is presently available?
What capital will be required?
Should the financing be by equity, or by borrowing?
What are the implications?
A separation of a business into separate legal entity is always a good starting point in considering structuring issues. If a business requires little capital, or there is adequate capital available for the business financing without external borrowing, a company is the most efficient and economical answer to operate such a business.
However, if there are a number of participants who are putting in equity into the business, then one must consider the needs of those individuals. Some prefer to purchase shares in a company, whilst others prefer to keep their participation confidential and prefer buying units in a private unit trust.
It is important, when having more than one client contributing equity to a business, to make certain they understand their obligations to one another and have appropriate “exit provisions”, whether in the form of a shareholders’ agreement or unit holders agreement agreed in advance.
Sole traders have everything at risk, as do partners. In terms of external borrowing, the banks and other leading institutions prefer to lend money to companies as against trusts. Documentation is more straightforward and the capacity of the bank to take a direct security over the company by way of a debenture is preferred.
Other persons involved in the business may advance funds to the business enterprise by way of loans. This has the advantage of placing the business entrepreneur (or an associated related entity) in a position of being a secured creditor by the granting of a debenture charge over the company or other form of equitable mortgage or security over the assets of the enterprise. If borrowings are made by the participants in the business to the business itself, then clear guidelines should exist as to the repayment of those loan funds and what form of priority, interest etc.
What are the responsibilities for short-term, medium-term, and long-term growth?
Most start out with the expectation that their business will grow. It is important to discuss at the outset what the realistic expectations are for short term, medium term, and long-term potential growth for the business. If the prospects in the growth of the business are very low, then a less complex structure is useful. If a person only intends to be effectively self-employed in business, then it may be appropriate for that person to maintain a small business structure and a sole business trader arrangement.
However, if there is a likelihood of significant growth in the business and the prospects of requiring either substantial external capital whether it is borrowings or equity, then one should look an incorporated structure.
If there is likelihood for a requirement of participation from a large number of other participants or the necessity to assemble complex skills to undertake the particular business enterprise, then one might be more inclined to look to a private unit trust. The advantage of a private unit trust is that one can structure the unit holdings within the trust in any conceivable form (subject to the agreement of the parties and the imagination if the draftsman). This can allow a large participation of different people at different levels within a significant business or a significant growth path.
If the nature of the growth is a financial growth path requiring either the issue of additional shares or the borrowing of external funds, then the company is the preferred structure with the prospect of some limited liability and isolating the risk of failure to a specific corporate entity.
If one is involved in a situation of an entrepreneurial product or something in the nature where the parties believe they can float the company into the stock exchange, then, one can incorporate an unlisted public company for this purpose.
What is the risk profile of the business activity?
Is insurance readily available?
Can the risk be isolated?
One should explore insuring the risks associated with the business, such as product liability, professional indemnity, directors insurance or such like. One must offer this option to the client and to make certain what risks the insurance covers.
Where the level of insurance is impossible to match the risk, the favoured business structure may be essentially one of the two:
An individual conducting the professional practice or the high risk activity; or
An incorporated entity conducting the high-risk activity
If the individual is selected to take the risk, then assets should be in other structures whether they be trusts or in the name of spouses or partners. If the risk can be isolated in an incorporated entity, then this would be the preferred option.
Is the business operating in an existing business structure that one can acquire?
What other existing structures does the client have now?
BUYING AN EXISTING STRUCTURE
When acquiring a business, one should use a fresh structure, which has no previous history risk, attached to it to acquire the business. However, there are exceptions, an existing business structure can have either licences (for example an export licence) a registration (example – real estate and building) which could have significant value. One should therefore consider carefully the vendor structure in this context.
CLIENT'S EXISTING STRUCTURES
The other aspect of “existing structures” is to examine the existing structures that a client already has. A client may have an existing structure, previously used by the client, which can be profitably recycled to the benefit of the client. Alternatively, the client may have substantial and complex structures, which do require any addition. I have always favoured the simplicity approach in terms of keeping business structures and their development under control. Loan accounts in particular are extremely “dangerous” in terms of isolating risk and creating tax issues. There is no point confining a risk to an individual or a structure if that income-producing structure has money owing to it by various asset-holding structures.
Clients may want to retain confidentiality about their business activities and so there is significant advantage in using trusts, particularly unit trusts. There is no requirement to register the unit holdings in a unit trust nor to register or disclose the beneficiaries under a general definition of beneficiaries in the discretionary trust. However, Unit Trusts are favoured as the business entity particularly where there are more than one group of participants in the business entity. With a company, the shareholding is subject to search at ASIC and is public record.
Are there differing roles, contributions, skills, or equity participation from the various participants in the business?
One can create a private unit trust, which has different classes of units with different priorities in terms of ownership of specific assets, participation in terms of return from the business, and returns of equity especially where the parties are keen not to have the complex nature of their arrangements made public.
This cannot be achieved by different classes of shares in a company, however, the constitution of the company discloses the nature of those classes of shares or alternatively the special resolutions required to create those classes of shares or alternatively the special resolutions required to create those classes of shares would have been subject to public registration at the ASIC.
Goods & Services Tax;
Income Tax; and
Capital Gains Tax
One must take into account the various tax considerations of any given structure. Clearly, with a sole trader, tax is payable at penalty rates once the sole trader becomes profitable. Partnerships can split income but in set or predetermined proportions. Partnerships can have flexibility about the manner and method in which to divide profits amongst partners however there is little or no flexibility with tax treatment.
Discretionary Trusts have the advantage of income splitting. Provided a Discretionary Trust has a company as one of its beneficiaries, and then in those circumstances, the liability to pay tax in the discretionary family is capable of being limited to the corporate rate of 30%.
Unit trusts do not pay tax as the taxes are by the various unit holders in accordance with their individual structures. A unit trust can have individuals’ partnerships, discretionary trusts, or companies or other trusts holding individual units or groups of units. The flexibility in a unit trust has great advantage. The tax advantage with the company is the fixed maximum corporate rate of 30%, and franking credits. The tax implications of the GST in internal business structures have been relieved to some extent with the reasonably liberal approach taken by the ATO in terms of its grouping provisions. There was considerable anxiety that creating separate corporate structures within the same, beneficial ownership may lead to the incurring of additional GST but this does not appear to be a major danger.
In terms of capital gains, the concessions given to capital appreciating assets held in the names of individuals are an advantage. Assets such as intangible assets can be held easily by an individual in a business context should be left with individuals if possible (that is, if the individual is not subject to other risk profiles).
Are there industry specific rules, which require particular structures?
There are certain industries that require the participation or the majority of equity or board membership to be of a certain group of people. For example in real estate you will find that there is a requirement for 50% of the board of directors of a corporate real estate licence to be licensed real estate agents.
There are similar rules for architectural practices, legal practices and medical practices and various other professional structures. These rules are relevant when advising people from individual industry groups for their structures.
How can one successfully isolate & protect non-business assets from business (risk) entity?
The general proposition to start with in considering the protection of non-business assets and business risk is to communicate to the client the fact that all businesses carry with them risks. There are obvious risks, for example, in running a trucking business is the high risk of accident on the road. This obvious risk, which is apparent to anyone, varies to down to the more obscure risk for example a drainage contractor who is sinking a trench to put in the drain severs a major power supply risking killing all of his employees and cutting off the power supply to a major industrial subdivision.
These are risks associated with the business, which go outside the actual risk of not running a profitable business. Therefore, establish the nature and the extent of the potential risk in the business enterprise that the client is to engage in.
One must understand the nature of the risks before one can look to balance the cost of the protection and the tax implications, which can sometimes flow from the introduction of new or different structures into the client’s life.
Clients should use companies whether as ordinary trading entities or alternatively as trustees of various trust structures.
Non-business assets should keep a distance from the business. The major non-business asset owned by most people in Australia is the matrimonial home. The spouse of the business proprietor should be the registered proprietor of that home, and the operator of the business should not be on title.
It is very difficult for most people to raise the starting capital for a business without putting the home at risk but one should always review the exposure of that home whenever financial reviews take place.
Whilst there is a risk associated with putting a major asset such as the home in the name of one party (divorce, debt and unfriendly Wills) the isolation of a major asset away from the business is usually a preferred position. There are no hard and fast rules in considering risk management and it is a question of what the parties themselves believe is reasonable.
Having isolated the risk, the most important question then becomes how one move profits from the profitable business entity out of the risk entity and into other assets. As much there has been an attack on the discretionary family trust, clients should still look to discretionary family trust (particularly in a family business context) as the holding structure for non-core business assets (other than the matrimonial home).
A family trust can hold all the shares in a company and be isolated from any risk associated with the business so long as it only ever remains a shareholder. Given the corporate tax rate at 30% one should pay fully frank dividends into the trust.
The business operator can take minimum salary and can salary sacrifice in favour of superannuation and with a correctly managed (self-managed) superannuation fund, the profits of the business can be safely repatriated away from the business entity itself. Even with bankruptcy of the business proprietor, substantial proportions of superannuation is protected under the Bankruptcy Act, assets in the family trust is not available if the matrimonial home is in the same name of the partner or spouse, then in those circumstances, that asset is protected.
It is important that one puts the appropriate structure in place at the commencement of the business and well before the business ever strikes difficulty. It is too late to isolate or save assets “once clients are in trouble”. Sensible protection at the outset is the most appropriate defence. If one puts a business structure in place for proper commercial reasons, it is very difficult for subsequent attacks to succeed.
The most important thing that helps isolate and protect non-business assets is the proper regulation of loan accounts. There is no point having large loans owed to a successful business if enterprise from asset owning structures. If the business or profit generating structure gets into difficulty and falls into the hands of a liquidator, then the liquidator will look to recover loan accounts. This is a constant problem in trying to assist clients in financial difficulty in the business context.
The other issue is the constant requirement of Banks to over secure their loans. The difficulty that most people have with Banks is that they start out in a situation where a Bank will have a Personal Guarantee from a spouse in order to have a security over a house or the matrimonial home. It is very difficult to subsequently unwind that relationship. Banks will often promise to discharge securities or surrender guarantees but never actually do it. The most successful process is to actually get the client to change banks. Whist this can at times be expensive, it is a very effective way of curtaining and cleaning up any old guarantees or previous risk.
Discretionary trusts have the advantages of:
Asset protection; and
Significant internal flexibility as to ownership and distribution
One must assess the state of each individual trust before endeavouring to assess the impact of the proposed tax charges. The proposed introduction of the entity tax application to trusts provides legal practitioners with an opportunity of opening discussion with their clients about current structuring of their trust situations.
If the primary purpose of establishing the trust is asset protection and the holding of long-term capital appreciating assets, then there is little purpose in significant alterations to the trust. The most pressing issue for each trust is to examine the loan accounts. The introduction of the profits first rule would make the repayment of any loan account (after the introduction of entity taxation) subject to tax based on profits first rule. Appropriate steps need to be in place to repay the loan account.
Similarly, trusts should repay commercial loans wherever possible. These repayments are capital items. Where the cash resources are not available, the benefit of the loan accounts is assignable to the parties controlling the trust. Most deed trusts should allow the trustee to accumulate within the trust. This can be done by adding to the general powers of the trustee or alternatively modify the accounts and financial statements aspects of the trust. If further assets move into the trust, it is better to do it by way of gift than by way of loan.
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Automobile accidents represent a significant source of loss exposure for the University. Several types of auto claims can arise, as described below:
Auto Property - UA vehicles
This type of claim is for loss or physical damage to university owned vehicles. Examples include loss or damage from collisions, windshield damage, vandalism, theft, weather, fire, etc. To seek recovery of expenses for damage to a UA owned vehicle, complete an Auto Loss Report and submit to RMS as soon as possible. For questions, contact Joy Baine at 621-3482 or email@example.com
Auto Liability - Property Damage and/or Bodily Injury
This type of claim arises when a private party suffers damage to their vehicle or property, or suffers a bodily injury. Liability claims from third parties must be made directly to the Arizona Board of Regents in accordance with Arizona Revised Statutes §12-821.01. Private parties who wish to make a liability claim for damages incurred from collision with a UA vehicle may contact RMS a Notice of Claim form. Claims are evaluated and adjusted by the Arizona Department of Administration, Risk Management Division. The UA does not control the claims process, adjusters handle claims directly with claimants.
Procedures in the Event of an Auto Accident
- Call 911 and request police and medical assistance as needed. It is recommended that police be called for all collisions, regardless of severity to obtain a third party evaluation of the incident. If local Police are unavailable to respond in a reasonable amount of time, collect as much of the information referenced below as possible, and notify Risk Management Services as soon as possible.
- Render first aid to the extent you feel you can do so comfortably and in good faith. While awaiting emergency response, try to make injured persons comfortable, but do not attempt to move them.
- Provide all requested information to police officers at the scene.
- Do not admit liability or make any promise or representation that any person's damages will be covered by the university or the State of Arizona. Similarly, do not accuse the other driver of fault, or engage in arguments about fault.
- To the extent you can reasonably do so, obtain written names and contact information for all persons involved in the accident, including passengers and any potential witnesses.
- If you have a camera available, and are not injured, take photos of the accident scene, including all involved vehicles to document the event. Also take photos of roadways, hazards, or other possible factors that may have contributed to the accident.
- Persons interested in making a damage claim should be referred to Risk Management Services for claims forms and information.
- Immediately notify Risk Management Services and your supervisor about the accident to ensure all necessary information is obtained.
- Complete an Automobile Loss Report and submit it to Risk Management Services as soon as possible. If U of A employees are injured in the accident, then in addition to the Auto Loss Report, a Supervisor's Report of Employee Injury must be completed for each employee. For information about submitting an online injury report, please see: http://risk.arizona.edu/report-injury
Insurance Issues for Vehicle Property Claims
UA Motor Pool Vehicles - The UA Motor Pool arranges for all repairs to vehicles from their rental fleet, and coordinates all claims with RMS. Renters are required to immediately report all damage to the Motor Pool. Damage or repairs not covered by the State's insurance program will be charged to the renting department.
UA Departmental Vehicles - Departments may make their own repair arrangements for damage to departmental vehicles. To be eligible for insurance reimbursement, an Auto Loss Report must be submitted to RMS within required deadlines, obtain estimates, and have the repair approved before proceeding. Depending on dollar value of the damage, a state adjuster may want to inspect the vehicle before repairs are authorized. Losses less than $100 are not covered. Windshield repair or replacement must be coordinated in advance with RMS to obtain referral to the contracted auto-glass company. For additional information regarding windshield repair, see: http://risk.arizona.edu/insurance/vehicle/windshield-claims
Non-UA Commercial Rental Vehicles - If a rental car is damaged while in U of A use, the rental agency must make a liability claim against the State to obtain recovery of the damages. Always report damage immediately to the rental car agency, and refer them to RMS for guidance and claim instructions. For U.S. rentals, driver should decline all insurance offered by the rental agency, which typically will include a loss or collision damage waiver (LDW or CDW) and any supplemental liability coverage. Liability incurred while using a rental vehicle on authorized UA business is covered by the State Risk Management self-insurance program. As of November 2015, new contracts are being finalized at the level with Enterprise/National and Hertz that will include insurance coverage within the rate structure. This will be announced to the campus (and this webpage updated) once the contract is available for use. Rental vehicles used for non-business personal travel are not covered by UA insurance. Drivers who wish to combine personal use with UA business use (example - vacation time following a conference) should consider their need for additional insurance, at their own expense.
Personal vehicles driven on U of A business - There is no State coverage for damage to personal vehicles. Vehicle owners are expected to have their own insurance, and the mileage reimbursement rate includes a cost factor for this expense. Liability incurred in a personal vehicle on U of A business is covered by the State, but only on an excess basis. Personal liability insurance must be exhausted to address claims before State coverage applies. RMS has developed a Personal Vehicle Use Authorization Form for use by departments document approval of personal vehicle use for UA business.
Insurance Issues for Vehicle Liability Claims
Employees and other authorized persons driving on U of A business are covered by the State for liability arising from their actions, in accordance with the Risk Management Statute A.R.S. §41-621 et seq. Legal defense of claims against the U of A is provided by the Office of the Arizona Attorney General, Liability Management Section. This coverage does not involve defense or handling of driver citations, which remain the responsibility of the driver.
Persons who believe they have incurred damages in the form of property damage or bodily injury as the result of university vehicle use must make their claim against the State of Arizona, in accordance with the requirements of A.R.S. §12-821.01. University officials may not settle liability claims, and may not offer any promise or representation concerning the validity of a claim. Persons wishing to make a liability claim may obtain a form from RMS titled "Notice of Claim Against the State of Arizona." This form is not available online, and must be submitted directly to the Arizona Board of Regents as indicated in the instructions. | <urn:uuid:e04ea060-8595-488b-8022-5e10b2c1febe> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://risk.arizona.edu/insurance/vehicle | 2017-03-24T06:20:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187717.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00481-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931791 | 1,416 |
The upcoming G20 summit is a powerful symbol of China’s rise. But the struggles of pro-democracy forces ahead of Hong Kong’s elections are a reminder that China’s increasing international integration has not brought political liberalization at home.
If Deng Xiaoping were alive to attend the G20 summit in Hangzhou this September, he would probably conclude that things have gone according to plan. The 21st century was supposed to be the time when China would join the club of wealthy nations and return to the international stage – having been preoccupied with wars, revolutions and the recovery from all this frenzy throughout the previous century.
China is now the world’s second largest economy – or even the biggest, if its GDP is adjusted for purchasing power parity. As the host of the upcoming G20 gathering, China finds itself at the center of international attention. Isolated no more, the Chinese Communist leadership now shapes the international agenda in concert with the powers that dominated the 20th century. These “old powers” may not agree with China on many issues, but they would certainly agree that effective global governance is no longer possible without China’s contribution.
But if this weekend offers visual proof of China’s global standing, it will also be a reminder of what the country’s rise was not about. As international diplomats and journalists descend on Hangzhou, the elections in Hong Kong 1,000 kilometers further South are likely to receive much less attention. The recent rise of a new independence movement in the former British crown colony – as well as Beijing’s efforts to nip it at the bud – shows that China’s international integration has not increased democratic rights for its citizens. Instead, Beijing’s leaders have reduced the space for public participation in Hong Kong, which had been promised a high degree of autonomy from the mainland after its 1997 handover to Beijing.
Economic success buffered China from calls for political reforms
Political developments in Hong Kong – as well as within China proper – have proven the argument wrong that economic opening and international integration would lead to political liberalization in China. At the turn of the century, this argument was used to assure Hong Kong’s residents that after 50 years of “one country, two systems” there would no longer be a need for protecting their civil liberties against the authoritarian system next door. More than 19 years down the road, freedom of speech and political participation have been curtailed despite the two systems compromise – and many in Hong Kong’s younger generation feel sold out to China.
China’s leaders believe that their country’s economic success provides a buffer against demands for political reforms and shields it from destabilizing social movements like the “color revolutions” in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Republics or the Arab Spring in the Middle East. Its economic rise resulted in ever greater global integration – from joining the World Trade Organisation in 2001 to hosting the Olympic Games in 2008 or the World Expo in 2010 – while its tightly controlled political system remained intact.
Western crises sped up China’s global integration
China is evolving from a passive “observer of global governance” to a reluctant, but increasingly active participant at a faster pace than planned by its leaders who traditionally put their country’s domestic development first. Unforeseen crises in the old power centers – from 9/11 to the global financial crisis in 2008 – were important catalysts for speeding up this transformation. Western nations needed China’s help and called on it to play a bigger role even though it may not share their democratic values.
Of course China had to make concessions – it had to accept greater scrutiny of its trade practices and to further open its economy to foreign investment, and it bowed to international pressure to let its currency appreciate, to name just a few examples. China is also on the defensive on a number of issues – from tensions in the South China Sea to international accusations of unfair trade practices. But one topic remains off limits: China’s one-party system and societal controls may be the subject of occasional ritualized criticism by foreign leaders, but they are not up for debate.
At least so far, Beijing’s leaders were able to build a rather effective firewall around their authoritarian system. From their perspective, this firewall has to include Hong Kong, especially if this Sunday’s elections should lead to a strengthening of the radical pro-independence forces. So as China basks in national pride as host of the meeting of the world’s largest powers in Hangzhou, the residents of Hong Kong will be left to worry about their own future. For the international community, this weekend is a reminder that China has joined the club – but that it wants to be a member on its own terms. | <urn:uuid:b9cbb4b8-8838-4d85-9eef-58f1c93918fd> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.merics.org/en/blog/celebrations-hangzhou-fears-hong-kong-two-sides-chinas-rise | 2019-06-27T09:27:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628001014.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190627075525-20190627101525-00334.warc.gz | en | 0.960776 | 977 |
Give A Hand
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Helping families heal together. A labor of love since 1974.
In 1974 McDonalds helped open the first Ronald McDonald House and to this day they stand by RMHC in their mission to provide children with support, stability, and the best medicine of all — their families. Each year, McDonald's proudly helps RMHC impact the lives of 7 million children — both in your community, and around the world.
Every penny counts
One way they help is every time you buy a Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal, McDonald's donates a penny to support RMHC programs and services.
Helping is easy
Because they know you care about the well being of these children they offer a number of other opportunities for our customers to also support RMHC:
Throughout the year, you can find RMHC Donation Boxes in our restaurants, where you can contribute directly to RMHC every time you visit. No donation is too small, and every offering provides strength, hope and healing to families to help their children thrive. In 2013, RMHC Donation Boxes alone raised $28 Million for RMHC.
During our National Give a Hand Fundraiser, you can donate directly to RMHC by purchasing a "Hand" for $1, $3, or $5 when you visit a participating McDonald's restaurant. This year, the fundraiser is May 1-10, 2014. You can also donate on line by clicking this link.
Also coming up is the RMHC Day of Change — a one-day fundraising event where you’re encouraged to visit a participating McDonald's Restaurant and help fill the Donation Boxes. This year's event is October 15, 2014 — the 40th anniversary of the opening of the very first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.
At McDonald's, giving is a part of their culture. So whether you're dropping spare change in a donation box, buying a "Hand", or purchasing a Happy Meal, you're helping to keep families together during the times they need each other most.
RMHC is at the heart of McDonald's, and together with customers and RMHC supporters like you, they are able to give back to the communities we serve and make a real difference. | <urn:uuid:b8e14c17-777d-4b6e-a80d-ea4bfa1a9d7f> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://www.mor-tv.com/article/give-a-hand/8359846 | 2018-07-23T15:23:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676596542.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723145409-20180723165409-00309.warc.gz | en | 0.947466 | 457 |
What makes an ordinary taqueria extraordinary? When it’s in the middle of Golden Meadow, way down on Bayou Lafourche. Louisiana’s biggest speed trap (30 mph or else) is now home to Taqueria Puebla, proof that the waves of Hispanic immigration to Louisiana aren’t receding any time soon. TP offers tacos, tortas, and gorditas with a choice of fillings: fajita, pastor chicharron, lengua, pollo, barbacoa, tripitas, chorizo, carnitas, cesina, and bistek. A lunch buffet features chicken and pork tamales, menudo, stews, and beans & rice. The proprietor, a former shipyard worker, has lived on Bayou Lafourche for more than a dozen years. He and his wife do the cooking; she makes fresh masa from scratch for the tamales, as well as delicious homemade chorizo.
Check out Taqueria Puebla on your next jaunt to Grand Isle: the restaurant has satellite TV, shows soccer matches, and sells a small variety of Mexican candy and pastries. Find it at 409 North Alex Plaisance (aka Hwy 3235), across the road from the DMV (so watch out for road-test drivers!); phone 985-475-6255. | <urn:uuid:1479b5a5-b107-41ba-aabe-1c11ca6c2747> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://bouillie.us/2009/02/13/tacos-on-the-bayou/ | 2018-12-12T07:15:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823785.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212065445-20181212090945-00142.warc.gz | en | 0.896952 | 287 |
Angeline E. Saletta, of Elgin, formerly of Elmwood Park, died January 18, 2006. Beloved daughter of the late Philip and Josephine Saletta; loving aunt to Philip (Sherry) Saletta of FL, James (Barb) Saletta of Huntley, IL, Janet (Steve) Harms of Downers Grove, IL, Sue (Ray) Pelletier of LaGrange,IL and Karen (Kevin) Daly of Elgin, IL; many caring family and friends. Funeral services will be on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 11:30 a.m. in the Laird Funeral Home, 310 S. State St., (Rt. 31), Elgin, IL 60123, 847-741-8800, with Fr. Joseph F. Kulak officiating. Interment will follow in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL. Visitation will be on Monday in the funeral home from 10 a.m. until the time of services. | <urn:uuid:64546905-4222-4277-9416-f9bef787f77d> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-01-22/news/0601220042_1_il-elgin-funeral-services | 2017-12-17T08:35:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948594665.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217074303-20171217100303-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.920913 | 210 |
Marco Rubio knows that the border is already secure, right?
Just this week Univision asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ari., “So let me ask you, on the plan that you are proposing, there is obviously a path to citizenship. This path to citizenship is actually based on the recommendation of a commission on border security. How would that work?”
McCain replied: “Actually it will be finally determined by the Secretary of the Homeland Security, because it is not constitutional to have any commission make decisions that are reserved for the Congress of the United States.” …
“Our borders have, in fact, never been stronger,” Secretary Janet Napolitano testified to Congress today.
So if our borders are already secured, that means all 11 million illegal immigrants can instantaneously get citizenship under the Rubio/McCain plan right? | <urn:uuid:400459ba-7967-47a7-9792-f53b8797dd18> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/14/so-marco-rubio-knows-that-the-border-is-already-secure-right/ | 2017-02-25T04:44:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171664.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00043-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963929 | 178 |
Tonight Duke University and the University of North Carolina will play a basketball game on the Duke campus (ESPN, 8pm ET) and thus renew the best rivalry in all of sports. As ESPN reports, for the 78th time, both teams will be ranked while over the last 96 meetings, each team has won 48 games and scored exactly 7,437 points.
As a freshman, Jay Bilas (now of ESPN) lined up for a foul shot in his first rivalry game next to then All-American and future NBA All-Star Brad Daugherty (and also a current ESPN-er), who looked over at him and said, “I’m going to beat you like a rented mule.” Even so, that comment was astonishingly mild as these things go. Every Duke home game, irrespective of opponent, includes multiple iterations of a single chant cascading down from the rafters of venerable, old Cameron Indoor Stadium: “Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell! [Clap. clap].”
That’s about as close and as serious as it gets.
I first sat in Cameron as a student in 1978 and didn’t miss a home basketball game while I was enrolled at Duke. Every game was special – and wild. NBC came to Cameron to do the first national telecast from the arena on January 28, 1979 for a game against Marquette (I was there, of course) and insisted on a time-delay so the crowd could be censored if necessary. But Duke v. Carolina was and is something else entirely. The “Cameron Crazies” will be fired up tonight, of course. As legendary Hall of Fame Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski puts it, the game is a “national treasure.”
I was even “in the house” at Cameron as a student for the #1 moment on many such lists, during Coach Krzyzewski’s first season at Duke. Shortly before this game tipped off, Duke senior and all-time great Gene Banks put on a tuxedo for Senior Day and threw roses into the crowd. He later made sure that the celebration didn’t stop there. With one second left in the second half and a middling Duke team trailing the eventual NCAA Tournament finalist Tar Heels by two, Banks received the inbounds pass above the free-throw line and drained a jumper over Sam Perkins to send the game into overtime. At the end of the extra session, Banks grabbed a rebound with 19 seconds left in the game and hit a leaner to give the Blue Devils the lead and, eventually, the win. It’s a great memory.
I was also at the 7-0 “air ball” game as a student. On February 24, 1979, the Tar Heels were visiting Cameron and both teams were highly ranked. It was Senior Day for the great Jim Spanarkel. Carolina coach Dean Smith badly wanted to take the typically great Duke crowd (not yet known as “Cameron Crazies“) out of the game. After the Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead, UNC point guard Dave Colescott walked the ball past mid-court and started passing it around in their (in)famous Four Corners delay “offense.” Earlier that week, future Solicitor General of the United States (Duke professor and Carolina grad) Walter Dellinger had aggressively argued to me that the Four Corners really was an offensive weapon with Phil Ford at point guard, but Ford was in the process of winning the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award by this time.
In any event, the Heels took more than 12 minutes off of the clock in that fashion while the Duke defense just sat back in a zone and waited. Eventually, the Tar Heels got bored and the ball was passed to center Rich Yonakor on the baseline. He took one dribble and shot. The ball flew over the rim, missing the basket entirely. We fans then created a chant that is still used throughout the basketball world today. “Aiiiiiir-baaaaalllll! Aiiiiiir-baaaaalllll!”
Duke rebounded the Yonakor miss and scored. 4-0, Duke. UNC again went back into the Four Corners and eventually Yonakor got the ball again, shot again, and missed everything again. “Aiiiiiir-baaaaalllll!” It may be my memory playing tricks, but as the object of this ridicule, I recall Yonakor looking completely out of sorts. Duke subsequently made a free throw and got the ball back with about four minutes left in the half, leading 5-0.
At that point, then Duke Coach Bill Foster took a page out of Dean’s playbook and ran his own version of the Four Corners for the remainder of the half. It was a classic move designed to humiliate the hated rivals. Duke held the ball before scoring just before halftime to lead at the break, 7-0. A first half shutout (and Carolina hadn’t even drawn iron). Shot clock advocates were given some great ammunition.
Ironically, the second half was played at a feverish pace – each team scored 40 points and Duke won by the first half margin, 47-40. That was sweet.
Unsurprisingly, after the game, Smith stood up for his strategy, claiming that it was important to take the crowd out of the game. Naturally, he said his approach had failed merely due to impatience and poor execution. A bemused Foster noted in reply that “I’ve been doing this a long time,” he said, “but during the first half last night, I began to think maybe I’ve been doing it for too long. I thought Naismith invented basketball, not Dean Smith.” That was snark worthy of a Dukie.
Sitting in the student section at Cameron on game day, it seemed obvious that Dean was an arrogant blow-hard who sanctimoniously talked down to opponents, intimidated officials and got all the calls. Of course, now that Coach K has passed him on the all-time wins list, I’m more willing to be gracious. Even so, I’m still perfectly willing to argue that Dean — while terrific at recruiting, team development and game preparation — was overrated as a game coach.
This kind of thinking is surely to be expected. We are prone to any number of behavioral and cognitive biases. We rarely set out objectively to review the evidence and reason to the best available conclusion, even when we think we are or set out to do so. Instead, we are usually engaging in an effort at indoctrination by example, often of ourselves. We exhibit confirmation bias and thus reach our conclusions first and only thereafter do we gather facts, but even then it’s only to support our pre-conceived notions and not to undertake anything like careful analysis. We then take our selected “facts” and cram them into our desired narratives (e.g., “Carolina sucks”), even when they don’t fit very well, because narratives are crucial to how we make sense of reality. They help us to explain, understand and interpret the world around us. They also give us a frame of reference we can use to remember the concepts we take them to represent. Perhaps most significantly, we inherently prefer narrative to data — often to the detriment of our understanding. Trying to keep one’s analysis and interpretation of the facts and data reasonably objective – since analysis and interpretation are required for facts and data to be actionable – is really, really hard even in the best of circumstances.
As I have said before, on our best days, when wearing the right sort of spectacles, squinting and tilting our heads just so, we can be observant, efficient, loyal, assertive truth-tellers. However, on most days, all too much of the time, we’re delusional, lazy, partisan, arrogant confabulators. Evidence is what should really matter, of course, but with respect to persuading those we wish to persuade, confidence is at least as important as competence, and emotion matters even more. It’s an unfortunate reality, but reality nonetheless. Indeed, Snopes would not exist without our propensity for not letting facts get in the way of a good story (in a bit of delicious irony, this idea is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain). Augustine had it right more than a thousand years before Descartes: Fallor ergo sum (“I err therefore I am”).
By this point, every investment professional and would-be professional has at least a passing knowledge of behavioral finance and is aware that confirmation bias is its lead actor. I have written about this subject often. Others acting to correct these misperceptions can actually reinforce them, via something called the “backfire effect.” Similarly, attempts to debunk believed myths not based on fact can also reinforce them because they keep repeating the untruth. It seems that people remember the false claim and forget that it’s a lie. And if people feel attacked, especially about something they care deeply about, they resist the facts all the more. Sadly, people will resist abandoning a false belief unless and until they have a compelling alternative explanation – in other words, a better story. We inherently prefer a false model of reality to an incomplete or uncertain but more accurate model.
Confirmation bias comes in three primary flavors. Its standard expression, as noted above, is our tendency to notice and accept that which fits our preconceived notions and beliefs. The current political climate provides daily examples. We routinely accept or explain away the foibles of those we support while jumping all over those of the opposition. My daily Facebook feed is conclusive evidence of this unseemly reality. One person’s depravity and slander is another’s obvious fact. Each side thinks they have chosen the right hero in a fraught morality play with the highest of possible stakes.
But confirmation bias also includes seeing what we expect to see (as when we proofread something and read right over an obvious error) and seeing that which is in our interest to see. This last expression is often called “motivated reasoning.” The shocking and famous Simmelweis Reflex is a reflection of this phenomenon and Upton Sinclair offered perhaps its most popular expression: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
In 2006, researchers randomly mixed and labeled news stories from a single, separate news source as coming from four different outlets – Fox, CNN, NPR and the BBC – and showed them to a random sampling of readers. Significantly, the very same news story attracted a substantially different audience depending upon the network label. Thus, for example, conservatives chose to read stories labeled as being from Fox while liberals ignored them, no matter their actual source and content, and vice versa. In other words, the exact same story with the exact same headline was deemed readable or not solely based upon its apparent source. The conclusion is obvious and unsurprising: “people prefer to encounter information that they find supportive or consistent with their existing beliefs.” Therefore, people generally “wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid,” irrespective of the evidence.
The Americans, the 1980s Cold War spy drama from FX about the complex marriage, family and work of two Soviet spies living as Americans in suburban Washington, DC, and the best show on television (season five debuts March 7 and, in the age of Trump, Bannon and Putin, seems more relevant than ever), illustrates this point beautifully. On an episode back in 2015, the FBI agent played by the wonderful Noah Emmerich is asked about his backstory on another case — three years undercover with white supremacists — by another agent.
“What did it take to fool them?”
“Telling them what they wanted to hear over and over and over again.”
“People love hearing how right they are.”
All of which is a helpful predicate to a perfectly obvious conclusion: people are inherently irrational in the best of situations and fans are full-blown bonkers. If we are exceedingly prone to various mental biases in life generally, when we’re in fan mode we readily go off the rails entirely. And when we’re in fan/rivalry mode, almost anything is possible.
We Dukies hated Dean Smith back when I was a student and loved to see him get what we saw as his comeuppance that afternoon. But with more than 35 years of perspective from my school days, I can now see what a great coach and a great man Dean was (even most Duke fans agree — now, although the enormous academic scandal centering on Carolina athletics raises some doubt). Still, the objective facts demand that we hold Dean in high regard. He won a then-record number of games and (apparently) did it “the right way.” More importantly, he was instrumental in the fight for racial justice even at a time when he didn’t have all that much clout.
On the other hand, when Coach K was named Sports Illustrated magazine’s 2011 Sportsman of the Year (along with Tennessee’s Pat Summitt), that honor was met with more than a bit of skepticism and consternation by many Carolina fans. After the news broke, I couldn’t help but take a peek at the fan-site Inside Carolina‘s message boards for a bit of reaction, since internet message boards tend to take typical fan insanity and ratchet up the level of loony more than a few notches.
I was not disappointed. It was confirmation bias writ large.
Some representative, “Carolina Crazy” comments follow.
- “CongRATulations to coach summit.”
- “To be fair, that Sweet 16 finish with the pre-season #1 last year was a pretty solid accomplishment.”
- “Really. Amazing!! I guess it is sportsman-like to curse like a sailor at officials. I guess it is sportsman-like to teach players to flop to fool referees. I need a new definition.”
- “Coach Rat would’ve been my 1,875,643,325,875,432…th choice.”
- “Leave it to the rat to turn The SI Sportsman of the Year Award, a previously prestigious award, into just another cheesey award.”
- “Does dSPN [for the uninitiated, that’s a common meme for Carolina fans – ESPN being the dook – intentional misspelling and small “d” – Sports Programming Network] own SI too?”
- “Sports Illustrated [long-time home of noted college basketball writer and Carolina alum Curry Kirkpatrick] has hated us for years.”
Here’s my favorite: “I guess it makes sense, if the definition of sportsman is ‘a d-bag who denigrates referees’. K is like the WWF (the environmental group): both make more money than they deserve, both are rotten to the core, but somehow both are believed to be saints.”
Of course, a silly Duke fan had to make a trollish appearance in the thread to tweak the Tar Heel faithful. He noted that “I love any and everything that may ruffle the feathers of the Carowhina cheese and wine fans. Especially anything that pertains to Duke.” That bit of delightful wit (Noel Coward’s legacy is not in danger) got him summarily banned from the site.
As fans, the more reasoned among us at least try to “put some lipstick on the pig” and gussy-up our nuts with perfectly rational-sounding reasons why we are better than them, even though we have long-since decided that it is so, facts notwithstanding. Indeed, some might argue that one of my favorite websites, the Duke Basketball Report, exists for precisely this reason (and I love it nonetheless).
Unfortunately, we make matters worse because we all tend to share “bias blindness” — the inability to recognize that we suffer from the same cognitive distortions that plague other people. Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons) demonstrates it perfectly below.
Daniel Kahneman, the world’s leading authority on human error, readily acknowledges making the same sorts of mistakes the rest of us do. “I never felt I was studying the stupidity of mankind in the third person. I always felt I was studying my own mistakes,” he says. Indeed, despite Sheldon’s claims, none of us is as good as we think we are.
The Carolina fans I quoted above likely believe that they are being cool and objective about Coach K in just the same way that I thought I was being objective about Coach Smith all those years ago. If only.
We all are and remain biased, ideological and inherently tribal. It can be dangerously difficult to bear in mind that we are rarely as right and our motives as pure as we tend to assume. We like to think that we are like judges, that we carefully gather and evaluate facts and data before coming to an objective and well-founded conclusion. Instead, we cut straight to the chase. We are much more like lawyers, grasping for any scrap of purported evidence we can exploit to support our preconceived notions and allegiances. Doing so is a common cognitive shortcut such that “truthiness” — “truth that comes from the gut” per Stephen Colbert — seems more useful than actual, verifiable fact. What really matters is that which “seems like truth – the truth we want to exist.” That’s because, as Colbert puts it, “the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.” Our current political environment — whether focusing upon ridiculous Republican “alternative facts” or upon Democratic party hacks who had readily criticized Republican “obstructionism” but who now seek to lead a noble “resistance” — is replete with the phenomenon.
“Truthiness” captures how, as cognitive psychologist Eryn Newman explains, “smart, sophisticated people” can go astray on matters of fact. Newman’s research has shown that the less effort it takes to process a factual claim, the more accurate it seems, which fits nicely with our seeing what we want to see. In one classic study, for example, people were more likely to think a statement was true when it was written in high color contrast as opposed to low contrast. Easy-to-pronounce ticker symbols (such as KAR) perform better in the markets than their difficult-to-pronounce counterparts (such as RDO), even after just one day of trading. And, astonishingly, claims attributed to people with easy-to-pronounce names were deemed more credible than those attributed to people with difficult-to-pronounce names. As summarized by one analyst: “When we fluidly and frictionlessly absorb a piece of information, one that perhaps snaps neatly onto our existing belief structures, we are filled with a sense of comfort, familiarity, and trust. The information strikes us as credible, and we are more likely to affirm it — whether or not we should.”
Due to our affinity for like-minded people, we seek out people like us to provide echo chambers for our own claims, claims that perpetuate themselves every time we hear them reverberated back to us. Carolina fans go to Inside Carolina while Duke fans go to The Devil’s Den. We are thus neuro-chemically confirmation bias addicts. Megan McArdle sums things up nicely below.
“We like studies and facts that confirm what we already believe, especially when what we believe is that we are nicer, smarter and more rational than other people. We especially like to hear that when we are engaged in some sort of bruising contest with those wicked troglodytes — say, for political and cultural control of the country we both inhabit. When we are presented with what seems to be evidence for these propositions, we don’t tend to investigate it too closely. The temptation is common to all political persuasions [and every branch of fandom], and it requires a constant mustering of will to resist it.”
Carolina fans, I’m looking at you. But I’m trying to look at myself too.
My youngest, a Berkeley grad who also played football at Cal (he’s number 46 in the video below, wherein the team belts out “Bear Territory” in the locker room upon winning the 112th Big Game in 2009 after a late interception of Andrew Luck preserved the Bears’ win), made a telling comment about this tendency, made only half in jest: “I think you’re 100 percent right, except in regards to Stanfurd [those familiar with the rivalry will surely recognize that this spelling is not a typo]. Cal fans aren’t irrational at all about them.”
As a Duke fan, I’m resigned to the reality that lots of people (and especially those wearing the wrong shade of blue) are going to think that Coach K is evil, that Duke gets all the calls and that the Cameron Crazies are a bunch of over-privileged poseurs no matter what a truly objective analysis (more here) of the facts might show. It’s both human as well as all but inevitable (and especially tonight).
Even though our irrationality hurts us in many areas of life, I’ll even go so far as to say that it’s perfectly okay to be utterly irrational about your favorite team. We’re fans — as in fanatics — after all. And one more thing. Go Duke (and go to hell Carolina). | <urn:uuid:cc5070a0-de90-4d36-9e3a-ab8325029ce4> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://rpseawright.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/carolina-crazy-3/ | 2017-07-25T02:41:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424960.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725022300-20170725042300-00113.warc.gz | en | 0.967872 | 4,608 |
Moving home can be very stressful, but it doesn’t need to be. The more you know about what to expect with your upcoming move, the more comfortable you will be overall. By being aware of any of the challenges that you’re going to face ahead of time, you can prepare yourself and plan ahead.
This can go a long way to ensuring that your move to your new home is as smooth as possible. To that end, we’ve gathered together some of the common misconceptions that most people have before they move house for the first time. Read on to learn what is fact from fiction.
1. All moving companies are the same
This could not be further from the truth. Some movers will not be nearly as attentive to your needs or protect your personal possessions as well as others. The best thing to do is you make sure that you have done your due diligence on the moving company. You should be looking to hire a moving company that is well… a company. As you are moving nearly everything you own, you should ensure that the company that you have entrusted this task to is well established and has a great reputation.
2. You can’t plan a move in advance
As soon as you know the date that you will need the moving company to pack up your possessions you should be planning on booking your moving truck. This is for a number of reasons, the first is that you want to make sure that the truck that you need is available. Second, you want to be able to choose the movers that you have in mind and not be stuck with the only one available.
3. When moving, any box will do
When you use a team of professionals to move home you can be sure that the boxes they use will be very durable. If you use any boxes that you find that are not suited to moving and try to do it yourself, you may find that the items that you place in the box become damaged easily. A reputable moving company will also protect your items as they pack them using packing materials so that when you come to unpack the item at the intended destination you will not find any nasty surprises.
4. You don’t need to label every box
By making sure that you label every box that you move with you can make the process of unpacking a lot easier. After all, the last thing that you want to do is have to move boxes from the living room to the kitchen or bedroom. Spending a little extra time to clearly label boxes so that you know what is inside can make a world of difference.
5. I pack everything before the movers come to help
Many professional moving companies actually prefer to pack the boxes themselves. They have a lot more experience in packing boxes and they know the weight tolerances of their boxes too. After all, they are the ones that are going to have to move the boxes so they won’t be too pleased if you have a mix of heavy boxes filled with books and another filled with pillows.
6. Something always gets broken
Many people will assume that not everything will survive the move. When you’re dealing with a team of professionals they should be able to handle your items without breaking anything. Accidents do happen, but you should certainly not be expecting something to be damaged. | <urn:uuid:2b6f845c-8fef-4086-bdb7-87ea82fed84e> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://www.kenscommentary.org/6-debunked-myths-about-moving-homes/ | 2019-02-23T08:22:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249495888.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223082039-20190223104039-00387.warc.gz | en | 0.965085 | 678 |
Online program helps traumatised refugees overcome mental health stigma
A world-first intervention for refugee men who suffer from PTSD has shown promise in a trial, encouraging them to get help.
An online intervention by UNSW Sydney scientists, in partnership with Settlement Services International (SSI), has successfully helped traumatised refugee men overcome the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a randomised control trial has shown. Men who participated in the trial went on to seek more help than those in the control group, and they experienced less self-stigma compared to the control group.
The trial's results were recently published online in Psychological Medicine, an international, peer-reviewed journal.
"Over 70 million people are currently forcibly displaced as a result of war and persecution—their rates of psychological disorders are elevated," says study and trial lead Associate Professor Angela Nickerson from the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program at UNSW Science's School of Psychology.
"The prevalence of PTSD in people from a refugee background is five times higher than in Australia's general population, so PTSD is a devastating burden on refugees' mental health.
"But even though the group's mental health needs are high, their treatment uptake is low. That's a big concern—those who don't access treatment may have an increased risk of ongoing distress and impairment.
"One key barrier to seeking help is self-stigma, or negative beliefs about the psychological symptoms commonly experienced following exposure to trauma and help-seeking."
Greg Benson, General Manager of Client Services and Operations at study partner SSI noted the reality of mental health stigma in recent refugee arrivals.
"SSI is a major provider of on-arrival support to refugees in NSW, and we observe first hand the psychological symptoms and the barriers to seeking help in our frontline work with refugees."
That's the problem the researchers wanted to address with this intervention—aiming to reducing stigma and improving help-seeking behaviour.
A/Prof Nickerson says the intervention is the first of its kind.
"Before our project, there was no intervention to specifically reduce mental health stigma in refugees – 'Tell Your Story' (TYS) is the first program of its kind, and it's so exciting to see the results of it after years of work."
TYS consists of 11 short, interactive web-based modules that contain information, short videos, and activities. Participants completed up to 3 modules per week over a 4-week period.
"The focal point of the intervention was videos featuring Arabic, Farsi and Tamil-speaking men sharing their personal experiences overcoming stigma, and describing how they successfully sought support for PTSD," A/Prof Nickerson says.
"Other interactive activities educated users about PTSD and supported them to develop personalised plans for seeking help. There was no therapeutic assistance, but a computer algorithm was used to feed back responses to various activities to assist men in generating a help-seeking plan."
"SSI has seen the real world benefits in partnering in trials like this, where an online intervention is available to refugees in community languages," said Mr. Benson.
Encouraging results: more men seeking help
103 refugee men with PTSD symptoms from Arabic, Farsi or Tamil-speaking background were randomly assigned to either receive the TYS intervention, or to participate in a control group of men who were put on a wait list.
The TYS participants completed an online assessment of their PTSD symptoms and help-seeking behaviour before the intervention, straight after the intervention, and 1 month after completion.
"One key finding was that men who participated in the intervention sought more help from new sources than those in the control group," A/Prof Nickerson says.
Dr. Yulisha Byrow, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, and the Project Manager believes the positive impact of this intervention relates to the nature of the content.
"We think the reason it worked so well could be because the videos gave participants concrete examples of the potential benefits of help seeking.
"For example, some study participants told us that realistic stories and information helped them understand the psychological state they are experiencing, and that psychological treatment can help them overcome these symptoms.
"The study participants often expressed their appreciation for a culturally sensitive resource that has been developed with their unique experiences, culture, and language in mind."
The findings suggest that evidence-based stigma reduction strategies are beneficial in targeting self-stigma related to help-seeking and increasing help-seeking among refugees.
"Online interventions focusing on social contact may be a promising avenue for removing barriers to accessing help for mental health symptoms in traumatised refugees—that's consistent with previous research," A/Prof Nickerson says.
"What's very encouraging is that participants had accessed more sources of support between post-intervention and follow-up than the control group.
"That's important because previous studies showed that behaviour change is especially difficult to get from self-stigma interventions."
Extending research to larger trials—and women
The authors now want to conduct larger randomised control trials to test some of these hypotheses and disentangle their findings' exact mechanisms.
"We also plan to extend the program to women—we focused on refugee men in this study because they are less likely to access psychological treatment than refugee women, but we'd love to extend this to women, too," A/Prof Nickerson says.
"We also have already made stigma reduction guidelines available to case workers as a result of this research."
"These guidelines have been helpful for SSI's frontline staff working with refugees, to deepen their understanding of ways to reduce stigma," noted Mr. Benson.
Director and Chief Scientist of the Black Dog Institute and contributor to the research, Scientia Professor Helen Christensen, highlights the importance of building on this evidence base.
"Refugees come to our shores often experiencing significant trauma and in desperate need of culturally sensitive mental health resources and services; therefore, it is imperative we understand the barriers that might prevent our refugees from seeking this much-needed help. This research is one pivotal step in the right direction" said Christensen."Our next step is to broaden this evidence-base to address stigma preventing all refugees from seeking help, regardless of age, gender or religion." | <urn:uuid:d60c5034-5322-4b37-91a4-a7c3693c7a65> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-online-traumatised-refugees-mental-health.html | 2022-01-26T21:41:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304961.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126192506-20220126222506-00003.warc.gz | en | 0.954043 | 1,285 |
In the latest nDPI meetup, we have discussed future directions, including extending the current encrypted traffic analysis features. Currently nDPI supports both fingerprint and behaviour encrypted traffic analysis techniques to provide TLS traffic visibility. At ntop we have never liked too much fingerprinting techniques such as JA3 that are used by many popular IDSs and security tools, simply because they often lead to false positives making them a “nice to have” features but nothing more than that.
Recently the IETF is designing a new TLS 1.3 extension named ECHO (Encrypted Client Hello). In TLS 1.3 the only initial handshake message in cleartext is the Client Hello: it is quite important as it contains in cleartext the SNI (Server Name Indication), that is basically the name of the server the client is contacting. ECHO is trying to fix data disclosure, by sending this information encrypted so that a network monitoring tools will be unable to inspect traffic and see if we’re accessing maps.google.com instead of gmail.com. Although ECHO works with cleartext DNS, the idea of Firefox (to date the only browser supporting it) is to avoid any loss of metadata by forcing to use DoH, This is to prevent monitoring tools to see what site has been visited by looking at the DNS traffic. Note that the TLS client encrypts the data in ECHO using a public key that is placed in the DNS of the contacted host (it is stored in a TEXT record named _ensi.domainname). Example:
;; ANSWER SECTION: _esni.hackthetower.it. 1800 IN TXT "/wHuOSrNACQAHQAgKO0MmMYpnkF3QL3YhV0AiwWoqqaTEHp7/lKIzBLLeS4AAhMBAQQAAAAAXsvrgAAAAABe09SAAAA="
In nDPI we support detection of encrypted SNI (ESNI).
TCP 192.168.1.12:49886 <-> 22.214.171.124:443 [proto: 91.220/TLS.Cloudflare][cat: Web/5][197 pkts/17789 bytes <-> 211 pkts/175194 bytes][Goodput ratio: 40/93][6.64 sec][ALPN: h2;http/1.1][TLS Supported Versions: TLSv1.3;TLSv1.2;TLSv1.1;TLSv1][bytes ratio: -0.816 (Download)][IAT c2s/s2c min/avg/max/stddev: 0/0 28/26 1000/1000 139/134][Pkt Len c2s/s2c min/avg/max/stddev: 54/60 90/830 770/1506 77/677][TLSv1.3][JA3C: e5ef852e686954ba9fe060fbfa881e15][JA3S: eb1d94daa7e0344597e756a1fb6e7054][ESNI: 9624CB3C4E230827F78CF5BF640D22DEA33FCC598EA6A32D939905586FBE997B9E68661F8956D4893072E19DE24CD1FB88A9F71FC4CC01BAB5C914FDF96A647D671B5E89859BAEEAB122218688496DF4DF0C328C3D5F940B109CEB2A2743D5CBE3594288A229B8C7E2F88303E3FE1A26A89E5001F2BD936890FEF78F06E05ECC063A68BDB8C18DFAC114CF1FECDB8BE1FC2FEECB2315D27998D682B129FD1E3EB5D7985DCBDC452A1082CCC038E0BF69570FEFAC6BC6FB951F89B6792CADA76403C02CEB5DCE1CE6EDDD16D5F7FB6B85D2B92485448DE0088E421E83F1E28B267FBE3B59AE0496FB845213C271D4C5AC5E9E7E5F6A3072445307FCCEB7306710459991C40CC4DC1FC325154C7974DD780371397805456A19AE23EE88475C1DF07697B666][ESNI Cipher: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256][Cipher: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256]
ESNI is not very useful, and ancillary data such as record keys (used for encryption and places in DNS) are often updated every hour, making the record digest useless to identity the accessed web site (this is because it cannot be used as fingerprint for the contacted site).
You might ask yourself: is this the end of visibility and nDPI? While ECHO has definitively implications on traffic visibility this is not the case, and the reasons are manyfold:
- ECHO will prevent TLS fingerprints to work, whereas behavior analysis will still work. This is good news for nDPI as we’re working since a few months to enhance behaviour traffic analysis and advertising to avoid using fingerprints as they might lead to false positives.
- Operators and security teams can decide to block TLS traffic with these extensions as they prevent them from enforcing traffic policies.
- ECHO is still in draft, so it’s not clear if it will be standardised in the current form.
- While DoH is not mandatory for ECHO, blocking non-operator provided DoH (that nDPI can detect) servers, can mitigate loss of metadata. This means that traffic monitoring and security applications can still have enough hints on metadata leaking from the DNS queries.
- Visibility of CDN-based traffic will be partially affected, this unless the IP address/port will disclose the nature of the traffic as most large companies do (e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/urls-and-ip-address-ranges is used inside nDPI). For non CDNs the IP address is still a good source of information.
- Malware will probably not use ECHO for a long time (today most malware are TLS 1.1 when not using HTTP). However, just to repeat it one more time, we believe that nDPI should detect malware using behavior analysis techniques rather than fingerprints.
- To date the only browser supporting ESNI is Firefox with DoH enabled (https://encryptedsni.com).
- Even if the initial handshake is encrypted, many other things can be observed such as SPLT (Sequence of Packet Length and Time), entropy etc. to complement what will be hidden. So for malware analysis probably ECHO won’t change much, but for traffic visibility traffic monitoring will be affected and some popular open source projects, probably will needs to refocus a bit to be effective.
In summary, expect in the next few years TLS to be completely encrypted and this is good news for the Internet, but not su good for monitoring and security tools. nDPI is already supporting ESNI, and we’ll do our best to keep it update with the latest TLS 1.3 extensions as they will be standardised. ECHO is not the end of TLS fingerprinting, but it can definitively be yet another good reason to look at TLS behaviour instead of limiting the analysis to fingerprint. Stay tuned for more news about using nDPI and encrypted traffic analysis. | <urn:uuid:addc62f0-cf1b-4dba-8de4-88f5b0b21051> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.ntop.org/ndpi/why-behaviour-traffic-analysis-is-good-was-encrypting-tls-1-3-traffic/ | 2020-07-14T16:38:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655897168.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20200714145953-20200714175953-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.854602 | 1,686 |
Seven percent of ArtPrize artists are representing other countries, with Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom leading the contingent of international artists. More than 31 percent of artists are coming from outside of Michigan, with Illinois, New York, Indiana and California leading the group of entries coming from within the United States. Hundreds more will come from Florida, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin among other states.
Artists will compete for a combination of public votes and juried prizes to secure part of the world’s largest art prize, totaling $560,000.
ArtPrize 2013 will take place Sept. 18-Oct. 6. A complete list of participating artists and venues can all be viewed at http://www.artprize.org/entries. | <urn:uuid:9fd9664e-82ce-4479-93c3-6575aba3eceb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fox17online.com/2013/06/22/over-1500-artists-for-artprize-2013/ | 2016-06-29T10:54:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915349 | 158 |
Allard–– Ashley Marie, 25, of Derby, VT passed away suddenly on September 24, 2012 in Eden, VT. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, September 28, 2012 at the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, 4670 Darling Hill Road, Newport with the Rev. Fred Barker and Rev. Carol Ann Barker officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday, September 28, 2012 from 1 p.m. until the hour of the funeral. A luncheon will immediately follow the service at the fellowship hall at the Derby United Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Cayden Gregory Thomas Trust Fund, in care of Community National Bank, P.O. Box 259, Derby, VT 05829. Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch.com . Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, locally family owned and operated.
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Have you tried it with a composite video or scart cable? You'll get a much better picture from the N64 that way. Any Gamecube cable should work fine. Not sure, but the Wii might use the same connector as well. Try your local video game shop.
I'm attempting to tune my Samsung 32" LCD to receive a signal from my Nintendo 64. It has to be plugged into the aerial socket but when I try the auto search for a signal it comes up with nothing. Is there an issue with this device being plugged in this way on HD ready TVs? Or is it something silly that I've missed...
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ARM CEO on giant smartphones; IoT
Junko Yoshida 1/9/2013 1:00 PM EST
In an interview at CES, Warren East analyzed radical changes in the TV business and what ARM can do to speed to roll out of the "Internet of Things". LAS VEGAS – ARM CEO Warren East sat down with EE Times during the Consumer Electronics Show this week to discuss the radically changing landscape for TVs, the slowly unfolding "Internet of Things" and whether the world’s largest processor IP vendor should offer RF IP modules to get IoT off the ground.
Here’s an excerpt of our conversation with East during at CES:
EE Times: What’s the purpose of visiting CES for a CEO like you, besides meeting with customers? What are you looking for?
East: I’m not here to find market trends, because at ARM we already know them. I’m here at CES to see the evidence of what we already know, validate it and make additional connections that create opportunities for ARM.
EE Times: What evidence have you seen so far?
East: In the smart digital world, smart TVs are now turning into 56-inch [screen] smartphones. Greater functions for home automation and home security systems are now performed in software, not in hardware. Usability is becoming increasingly important. Automation is now becoming ‘connected automation,’ transitioning from 8-bit to 32-bit.
So I look for a range of real products at CES – which even someone like mother, for example, would understand as tangible products – and to see if there are encouraging signs. I am here also to see how really usable these products are.
ARM CEO Warren East at CES.
How usable are today’s smart TVs, which you called 56-inch smartphones?
East: User experience is not satisfactory. While technology is in place, the usability is clunky. More evolution must happen to make it easier to use. With the explosion of ARM, what happened in the phone space is now applied to TVs. But today’s TVs are still closed. When consumers want to go to the Internet sites, TVs are still trying to take you to their Internet site. That’s not satisfactory. When things are too much hassle, consumers don’t use them.
EE Times: What has to happen next?
East: We see it as an opportunity. CE companies are going to solve these problems. If they can’t make their products easier to use, consumers will stop using their products.
Should ARM offer RF IPs?
EE Times: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) be the greatest thing to happen to companies like ARM?
East: I wouldn’t necessarily call it that, because it is mobile phones that have just happened — with the biggest scale in the largest volume. If trillions of IoT devices emerge, yes, that’s great. But if IoT is something that starts to happen, it will unfold over a long span of 10 to 20 years.
EE Times: What will ARM need to do to enable IoT?
East: We rolled out last year Cortex M0+, which is built on our Cortex M0. Cortex M0 has been successful, but it is not quite right for smart energy devices. ARM can go a long way, but we must align our business with what’s happening in the industry. We need to see different companies with commercial, vested interests coming together and putting agreements in place. We encourage standardization.
EE Times: Can you give me an example of these standardization efforts?
East: Weightless standard [for machine-to-machine communications] is one. [The new initiative] is working on a standard in white space radio. Weightless is proposing a wireless technology standard for exchanging data [between a basestation and thousands of machines around it] over a longer range but at very low, low power. It’s using wavelength radio transmission in an unused spectrum — where analog TV vacated their broadcast channels — known as white space. When you don’t have to transmit a lot of data – as little as a few kilobits per second, you can do this over a long distance.
EE Times: IoT is very diverse. It needs to deal with different payloads, different wireless architectures, different networks, sensors, energy harvesting schemes, etc. Will ARM need to make broader and more compelling IP offerings?
East: Offering other pieces of IP such as radio modules may be interesting. In theory, if we offer more pieces in the [IoT] jigsaw puzzle, it may make it easier for our customers to assemble them.
But again, we are in it as a business. We need to think about the business model for offering RF IPs ourselves. Maybe, it makes more sense to create an RF equivalent of Linaro, an open source software for ARM SoCs. The question is how penetrated we will be [in IoT] and how big [IoT] will be.
EE Times: How soon will you be ready with such RF IPs for IoT?
East: Right now, we are sensitive to the issue, we’ve made no decisions, and we need to think about the timing that’s in line with the market.
EE Times: Speaking of Linaro, ARM makes money out of licensing hardware IP. A consortium like Linaro provides related software IP for free. The value is increasingly in the software, which ARM is not monetizing. Has ARM missed the opportunity?
East: We’ve explored this topic many times internally. Some software can be licensed but there are huge patent issues we need to overcome. Let’s assume that Warren East Software company gets in the software IP business. But the company must assume a huge risk of going bankrupt if someone claims its software IP infringes his. Meanwhile, chip companies – licensees of ARM, for example – can charge more money by adding software IPs to their SoCs. But Warren East Software company could easily undercut the revenue opportunities carefully tuned by SoC vendors.
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The Los Angeles Daily News reported that a “multiple-vehicle crash shut down the northbound 405 Freeway in Westwood, and five people were injured.” The crash occurred very early in the morning at about 12:40 am, on January 15, 2018. Quick to respond, by 12:50 am, police shut down all northbound lanes and diverted traffic off the freeway.
According to Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Amy Bastman, four vehicles were involved in the Los Angeles car accident and five people ended up being taken to hospitals. Two of the car accident injury victims, a 40-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman, were in critical condition. Three of the men involved in the crash — ages 18, 20 and 40 — were listed in serious condition. Currently, there are no details as to what caused the multi-car accident in Los Angeles.
A car crash like this can be life-changing. When a crash involves several cars, with several injured victims, there will be an investigation as to the cause of the accident. Sorting through the details of this type of late night accident can be complicated. Because multiple cars were involved, it can be difficult determining who is responsible for the crash, and to what extent. It will require sorting through the details of the investigation to determine which driver, or drivers, may be liable to the others for their personal injuries.
Those injured in this very serious Los Angeles freeway accident will need help obtaining medical care, as well as a financial recovery for their injuries and damages, including reimbursement of the expenses they incur in connection with the accident. They can get this help and recovery by filing a personal injury claim against the person who caused the accident. A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer who has experience with sorting through a complicated accident such as this can help the victims get the care and compensation they need.
If you or anyone you care about has been involved in a car accident, please contact Walch Law. We have successfully resolved thousands of complicated car accident injury cases and other serious personal injury cases for over 40 years and we would like to help you. Reach out to Walch Law today! | <urn:uuid:86572392-29b3-4a35-8bea-9acc1edd7916> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.californiapersonalinjurylawyersblog.com/five-people-hurt-four-car-accident-los-angeles-freeway/ | 2021-08-03T02:10:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154408.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802234539-20210803024539-00703.warc.gz | en | 0.978024 | 440 |
Engage Co- Teach - Saddleback College
Engage Co- Teach
Co-Teaching is defined as two certified teachers working together with shared responsibilities in a classroom with groups of students. This teaching tool offers eleven effective, results-based best practices for co-teachers to succeed, both with each other and their students!
This easy-to-use, nicely laminated classroom resource provides a framework of co-teaching strategies organized into three categories – supportive, team and advanced. Developed by Dr. Belinda Karge, these strategies will help guide your co-teaching efforts with insights developed from over twenty years of educational research and multiple co-teaching engagements. | <urn:uuid:5d463011-7348-499e-83be-0ff90700edca> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://thediscoverysource.com/event/engage-co-teach-saddleback-college/ | 2019-09-21T23:27:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574710.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921231814-20190922013814-00083.warc.gz | en | 0.94268 | 140 |
EBANIE BRIDGES has hit out at “haters” who doubted her boxing skills because of her good looks.
The Blonde Bomber, 35, became the IBF bantamweight world champion by beating Maria Roman in Leeds last month.
On Monday Bridges posted a Twitter clip of her unloading on Roman in the ring, leading one fan to reveal he was “completely wrong” about her ability.
In response Bridges tweeted: “You musta been distracted by my boobs and couldn’t see the skill.
“Don’t worry your not alone, lots of haters out there can’t get past the boobs… Glad you can see you was wrong.”
Bridges is one of the biggest figures in women’s boxing but her glamourous side and weigh-in antics – often dressing in lingerie before fights – means the Australian’s ability gets overlooked.
And she is clearly fed up at not being taken seriously having hit out at the doubters after defeating Roman, who had held the world title since 2017.
Bridges told DAZN immediately after the fight: “Can I f***ing fight or not? F*** you guys who think I can’t fight.
“I can f***ing fight. I can box, I can fight, and I can look hot on the scales so hopefully, I’ve proved a lot of doubters wrong.
“I feel proud of myself, and I feel extremely happy because it means everything I have sacrificed and all the work I’ve done has been worth it.
Bridges’ record shows she certainly can fight having won eight fights and lost just one since turning professional in 2019.
The fighter only took up boxing in 2016 having worked as a ring girl previously, so it has been quite a rise to becoming world champion. | <urn:uuid:2f60e2df-642b-43dc-a0f9-438696e7e5bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.primefight.tv/2022/04/13/a-lot-of-haters-write-off-my-boxing-skills-because-they-cant-see-past-my-boobs-says-new-world-champ-ebanie-bridges/ | 2022-05-23T14:50:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662558030.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20220523132100-20220523162100-00016.warc.gz | en | 0.977639 | 393 |
90%+ of supplements are synthetic and can’t be used by the body in the same way as natural foods. Could they do more harm than good?
In 2016, siblings Irina and Victor Turcan set on a mission to change the quality of nutrition and the way we consume nutrients. Erbology was inspired by the plants the siblings grew up with and enjoyed as part of their diet. Today, Erbology is a thought leader in plant-based nutrition. We are passionate about discovering and combining powerful plants into foods that help improve your quality of life and taste great.
Erbology was founded as a response to today's fast-paced lifestyles, excessive consumption of processed foods and synthetic supplements, as well as intensive agriculture practices. Erbology products are certified organic, naturally gluten-free and on a mission to create a positive impact on the world around us. We are determined to make wholesome foods more accessible and inspire you to embrace a balanced way of living that nourishes the mindbodyand soul.
In 2017, the company won two grants and released an innovative range of snacks. Partnerships include retailers such as Planet Organic, Daylesford, Revital, Erewhon and more. In 2018, Erbology successfully launched in the US and opened its LA hub. We continue our international expansion and are set to become a global breakthrough food company.
Food as medicine
We believe in the power of plants and a balanced diet, not the synthetic foods that fuel the “quick-fix” mentality.
Erbology is vegan-friendly. We love turning plants into simple nutritious foods, free from added sugar and artificial preservatives.
Our range is certified organic, non-GMO and free from any nasties. That’s because we want you to get the best quality food your body will love. No compromise!
We keep the highest ethical standards and work with partners who share our values. We also use recyclable or biodegradable packaging wherever possible.
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"My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding." Psalm 49:3
Meditation is a lost art for many people today. They have little time to spend musing the hours away. Well if you need some help, and something to focus on to get you started meditating, try the Psalms. Think about David the shepherd boy, all alone in the wilderness of Judea tending his sheep. David sees a cave in grayness of the mountain, he goes in the cave to take a look around. What does he find? What he finds brings him rest from the hot arid desert heat. Come enter the cave and take a look, be refreshed like David was when he went to Eingedi. Living water flowing out from the hidden spring, starting deep within the Eingedi cave...
Bless The LORD
A Hidden Spring
Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are a Hidden Spring to me. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy Name. Bless the LORD, O my soul and forget not all His benefits: He who forgives all my iniquities; who heals all my diseases; who redeems my life from destruction; who crowns me with loving-kindness and tender mercies; who satisfies my mouth with good things; so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's. The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for ALL that are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
Bless His Holy Name!
O LORD You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. You lays the beams of Your upper chambers in the waters; You make the clouds You chariot; You walk upon the wings of the wind; You makes the winds Your messengers, flaming fire Your ministers. O Spirit of the Living God You are a Hidden Spring to all who call on You.
O LORD through Your Word and Your Spirit, You established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not totter forever and ever. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters were standing above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled, at the sound of Your thunder they rushed away. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over, so that they will not return to cover the earth again.
O LORD You sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains; they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they lift up their voices among the branches. You water the mountains from Your upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works. You causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the labor of man, so that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine which makes man's heart filled with joy, so that he may make his face glisten with oil, and food which sustains man's heart.
O LORD the trees drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon which You planted, where the birds build their nests, and the stork, whose home is the fir trees. The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim. You made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows the place of its setting. You appoint darkness and it becomes night, in which all the beasts of the forest prowl about. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. When the sun rises they withdraw and lie down in their dens. Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening. O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them ALL; the earth is full of Your possessions. There is the sea, great and broad, in which are swarms of fish without number, animals both small and great. There the ships move along, and Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it. They all wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good. You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth a Hidden Spring, Your Spirit, and they are created; You renew the face of the ground.
O LORD let Your GLORY endure forever; let the LORD be glad in His Messiah's finished work. You look at the earth, and it trembles; You touches the mountains, and they leap with fire and smoke. How great are your works O LORD, how great are You! The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Therefore because of Your greatness, I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing songs of praise to my God while I have my being. Let my meditation be pleasing to You, my Hidden Spring. As for me, I shall, I will be glad in You my LORD.
Let sinners be consumed from the earth for Your Glory, and let the wicked be no more my Lord. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Bless and Praise His Holy Name. Praise ye the LORD!
This inspired meditation comes direct from the Word of The Most High God (Psalms 19:9;103;104)gives to all the gift of the Holy Spirit, He is the Hidden Spring. It is this Hidden Spring that flows in the Believers life, pouring forth His richness. Giving to us rivers of praise for the Most High God. It is the desire of this ministry to give you rich images upon which you might meditate . We pray you have enjoyed "An In-Spirited Place Of Rest". | <urn:uuid:cc1dcc1e-d088-45d5-b491-7f34d9aba072> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://templeruachyisrael.org/meditation-room | 2019-11-16T01:29:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668716.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20191116005339-20191116033339-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.950618 | 1,281 |
Title of Presentation: Development of a
Primary (Corresponding) Author: Rob Thompson
Organization of Primary Author: NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory
Co-Authors: James M. Kohel, James R. Kellogg, David Aveline, Lute Maleki, and
Abstract: As part of the Earth Science Technology OfficeInstrument Incubator Program, JPL is developing a mobile gravity gradiometer based on atom interferometer technology. This is a significant step towards a new space-borne gradiometer instrument, which can significantly contribute to global gravity mapping and monitoring important in the understanding of the solid earth, ice and oceans, and dynamic processes. In this paper, we will briefly review the principles and technical benefits of atom-wave interferometer-based inertial sensors in space. We will then describe the technical implementation of the mobile instrument and report its status. We will also discuss our implementation plan for the next generation instrument. | <urn:uuid:0299ef8a-c2a7-4f68-8186-fc4b631a327c> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://esto.nasa.gov/conferences/nstc2007/abstracts/Kohel.htm | 2013-12-08T13:01:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163065688/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131745-00088-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.835089 | 196 |
The best photo ever
This is it. This is my 365th photo. It’s the best I’ve ever taken. And probably most important to me.
Don’t be fooled by the size of the little fella in the pic. This one is the oldest image we have. We’re now 5 months in.
Anyway, I want to thank you for all the support, the comments, the likes. All the funny support tickets I get from you guys. Thank you for making tookapic. Because without you there would be no tookapic.
Time flies. And it flies freaking fast. 365 days sounds like a lot. But it feels like I was just starting this project yesterday.
Is this the end? Am I retiring? Hell no! I’ll be seeing you all tomorrow! Tomorrow is tookapic’s birthday. Expect something cool in your inboxes.
- Z Zoom
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So it appears the honeymoon period is final over for the Fuji X pro 1 and I as recently I’ve been having more downs than ups with this camera and I find myself using my Canon EOS 6D more and more, mainly due to it supporting tethered shooting and my love of the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L macro lens which is perfect for portraits.
Our biggest spat to date came when after only two years of use the mount assembly completely died on me without rhyme or reason, rendering it unusable, though eventually Fuji did repair this due to me having to quote the Sales of goods acts 1979
So after getting the camera back from repair I thought I’d give it another whirl for old times sake and see if I could reignite the passion I once had for this petite but powerful camera.
My chosen subject for this liaison was my good friend actress and model Alison Cain Williams. Alison turns 40 this year (believe it or not ) and we though it would be great to commemorate this and show how beauty is not defined by age.
In much of the same ilk as the images I took in Paris, I wanted to keep it quiet raw and stripped back only relying on the ambient light. So here’s some of the images we came up with with a little help from both the 35mm & 60mm Fujinon lens and from Elena Diaz and her hair and make up skills:
All post production done in Adobe Lightroom 4
So despite all my recent set backs with the X pro 1 I have to admit to still having a slight soft spot for this particular camera., but maybe it’s just nostalgia… the image quality and ISO performance does seem to make all it’s little hiccups somewhat forgivable. The only real beefs are with it’s stability and build (the mount assembly should never have died like that) and the AF which is still sluggish (especially when using the 60mm macro lens) despite all the firmware updates..
However I hear on the grapevine that the Fuji X -T1 excels where the X pro 1 one falls short Not only has the AF improved (supposedly) it’s body has a milled magnesium top cover that is also weather sealed and most importantly the Fuji X T1 has a Wifi feature and supports tethered shooting, something I have be bugging fuji about for ages. So maybe it’s time I ended my love affair with the Fuji X pro 1 and moved on to bigger and better things….
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MTH 157 - Elementary Statistics
Presents elementary statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and categorical data analysis. (Credit will not be awarded for bothMTH 157 and MTH 241 or MTH 157.) Prerequisites: Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry, and a placement recommendation for MTH 157. Lecture 3-4 hours per week. | <urn:uuid:07473b4c-a5ee-469d-aca7-c6ad54a831b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/course/mth-157 | 2017-12-15T00:33:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948551501.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215001700-20171215021700-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.76872 | 78 |
Getting to Turner Field via public transportation is easy, particularly considering Atlanta’s bad reputation for transit. The park itself is nice and clean, with three escalators ferrying us to the top level, where we were sitting. Originally constructed as part of the 1996 Olympic complex (it cannot in any way be overstated how much Atlanta loves the ’96 Games), it does not show its age, even if the third escalator broke down while we were on it, bringing to mind Mitch Hedberg’s bit. But let’s not dwell on the notion of being too lazy to take the stairs on one’s way to sitting and watching three hours of baseball. Instead, let’s note that Turner Field has roving Chick-fil-A vendors and a nice view of the downtown skyline.With a seating capacity of roughly 50,000, it actually is bigger than Comerica Park, but even sitting in the top section, I felt closer to the game than one might at some technically smaller parks, and there didn’t look to be a bad seat in the house.
It was good that we were closer to the game, too, because the Royals and Braves, who were off on Monday, were celebrating a belated Jackie Robinson day by having everyone wear uniform number 42 in his honor. This made it difficult to keep track of the players, particularly hitters and pitchers, a difficulty the apparent lack of an active stadium announcer compounded. Swinging hard in the other direction, though, was the overly detailed digital scoreboard in straightaway center that had almost too much information on it to be readily intelligible. Mitigating all of this, thankfully, was an organ player who kept the whole scene loose and made me smile by playing his or her own version of “Call Me Al” everytime K.C.’s Alcides Escobar came up to bat.
The game itself was all about the long ball. Atlanta’s Juan Francisco hit a solo shot in the second to open the scoring for the night, and Kansas City’s Chris Getz answered in the third to even the tally. The Royals manufactured a run in the top of the fourth, and their 2-1 lead lasted until the seventh, when Francisco got out on another solo HR to even the score. The Braves broke the tie the very next inning, when Jason Heyward and Justin Upton hit back-to-back solo home runs, Dan Uggla hit a solo HR two batters later, and the team manufactured a run when they pinch-ran Jordan Schafer for Francisco, and Schafer stole second and scored on a Chris Johnson single. K.C. got one run back in the ninth, but that was all they could muster, as the home team won its tenth straight, and pushed its MLB-best record to 12-1.
An odd moment for the Braves came in the top of the ninth, when relief pitcher Luis Avilan started his pitching motion, froze midway through it, and tumbled forward to the ground. (Video here.) He eventually had to be carted off the field with what later was reported as a hamstring injury. Avilan was one of only two southpaw relievers on the Braves’ active roster. As the AJC notes, however, Atlanta’s bullpen is “deeep,” and they have some replacement options in the minors as well. With the way they’ve been hitting the ball, they should be able to power through Avilan’s absence. (As I write this, naturally, the Royals hold a 1-0 lead in the top of the sixth.)
Two final notes on audience participation: First, they played “Sweet Caroline” late in the game, perhaps as a tribute to Boston, although maybe they always play that song, and second, I could not bring myself to do the tomahawk chant/chop, although it is an impressive display to witness in person. | <urn:uuid:0f919db0-7407-4547-a7f4-a6a274a3c41e> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://aldland.com/2013/04/17/upton-abbey-episode-3-hosting-royalty/ | 2021-04-13T11:18:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038072180.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210413092418-20210413122418-00532.warc.gz | en | 0.976313 | 821 |
Two great product to give, keep or share. This gift pack includes an individually packaged money clip and pendant, so you can give them together, separately, or keep one for yourself. (I won't tell)
Money Clip- Money clips are a great and stylish way to carry cash and your ID. The ultimate in minimalist wallet, use it to carry a couple of cards and your cash, or team it up with a card holder/wallet to keep your cash and cards separate.
• Brushed 20 gauge stainless steel money clip with pewter emblem. • Handcrafted in USA. • Approximately 1.75″ long with 1.25" emblem. • You get the clip, I keep the $2 bill.
Pendant - This fine pewter pendant is striking to look at and comfortable to wear. The design is raised with an antiqued background. It comes on a 21" stainless steel chain, and it would also look great on your favorite chain. This pendant makes a great gift for friends, loved ones, or yourself.
• Handcrafted in USA. • Hand cast fine pewter pendant with 21" stainless steel chain. • Approximately 7/8″ wide and 1 5/8" tall including bail. • Inscription: "Strength Compassion Courage Wisdom"
About the design-
Celtic knotwork patterns have been used for centuries as symbols of connection, protection, and good luck. And, let’s be honest, because they look awesome.
I made this bear because I've always liked bears and what they represent, but I had a hard time finding one that was neither too cute nor too ferocious. They symbolize strength, compassion, courage, and wisdom, but can also be very powerful when pushed too far. This is my second design iteration of the bear. My first attempt didn't capture the quiet strength of the bear. This design captures a good balance: looking friendly and open, and also showing the underlying strength of the bear.
All CelticKnotWorks pieces are proudly handcrafted in the USA. This wolf is my original design, inspired by the Deva Designs Wolf Walker. I make these in partnership with my family business, Deva Designs. | <urn:uuid:0306f663-fd7e-4239-8341-7060dc649866> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://celticknotworks.com/collections/pewter/products/celtic-bear-gift-set-money-clip-in-stainless-steel-and-fine-pewter-pendant-in-fine-pewter-celtic-knot-bear | 2020-10-24T20:47:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107884755.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20201024194049-20201024224049-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.941665 | 455 |
The results of mechanical reclamation of waste moulding sands with furfuryl resin and activators of new generation are presented. The aim of the research described in this study was to determine what effect the addition of reclaim obtained in the process of dry mechanical reclamation could have on the properties of furan sands. The sand supplied by one of the domestic foundries was after the initial reclamation subjected to a two-step proper reclamation process. The following tests were carried out on the obtained reclaim: pH, S and N content, loss on ignition and comprehensive sieve analysis. The obtained reclaim was next used as a component of moulding sands with furfuryl resin, wherein it formed 50% and 80% of the base moulding material, respectively. The strength properties of the ready sand mixtures (bending strength Rg u and tensile strength Rm u ) were determined after the hardening time of 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 24 hours.
A technology of sands with water glass hardened by liquid esters is a cheap and ecologic method of producing moulding sands. Due to these advantages, this technology is still very important in several foundry plants for production of heavy iron and steel castings. Reclamation of the mixed moulding and core sands generates significant amounts of dusts, which require further treatments for their reuse. The results of investigations of a pressureless granulation of dusts generated in the dry mechanical reclamation process of the mixture consisting in app. 90 % of moulding sands from the Floster S technology and in 10 % of core sands with phenolic resin resol type, are presented in the hereby paper. Investigations were aimed at obtaining granulates of the determined dimensional and strength parameters. Granules were formed from the mixture of dusts consisting of 75 mass% of dusts after the reclamation of sands mixture and of 25 mass% of dusts from bentonite sands processing plant. Wetted dusts from bentonite sands were used as a binding agent allowing the granulation of after reclamation dusts originated from the mixed sands technology.
The presented in the paper investigations were aimed at the determination of the reclaimed material (obtained in the dry mechanical reclamation process) addition influence on properties of moulding sands with hydrated sodium silicate modified by colloidal suspension of zinc oxide nanoparticles in propanol. Nanoparticles originated from the thermal decomposition of alkaline zinc carbonate, were used. The results of the reclamation of the spent moulding sand with hydrated sodium silicate performed in the AT-2 testing reclaimer are presented in the paper. Both, spent sands from the Floster S technology and from the technology with the modified water-glass were subjected to the reclamation processes. The following determinations of the reclaimed material were performed: pH reaction, acid demand, ignition loss and Na2O content. The obtained reclaim was used as a matrix component of moulding sands with water-glass in the Floster S technology, in which it constituted 60% and 50% of the sand matrix. The strength properties of the prepared moulding sands were determined (bending strength Rg u , tensile strength Rm u ) after samples storing times: 1h, 2h, 4h and 24 hours. | <urn:uuid:6ec6e929-2ecf-435a-80b8-c65891be4495> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/results?action=AdvancedSearchAction&type=-3&p=0&search_attid1=5&search_value1=Loose+self%5C-hardening+sands | 2019-10-21T16:02:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987779528.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021143945-20191021171445-00001.warc.gz | en | 0.951941 | 663 |
[WpProQuiz 1] Can you coexist with nature? Be Wilderness Savvy and take our quiz to find out if you can identify the good and the bad when camping and traversing through an ecosystem or wildlife habitat.
Imagine waking up to it snowing inside your tent, clearly the consequences of cooking inside the night before. One of my colder nights I’ve spent on expedition and a near hypothermia feeling. Unzipping the tent to find clear blue skies, … Read More
For many years I’ve battled with the idea of leaving technology behind when travelling in the wilderness or needing solar power for expeditions, but in today’s world it becomes a more and more innovative way of improving your journey. Whether a solo traveller … Read More | <urn:uuid:3a93c36d-a187-4f45-a200-9f4b6ea85457> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://tomorrowbear.com/category/travel-tips/ | 2020-10-31T18:54:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107922411.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20201031181658-20201031211658-00018.warc.gz | en | 0.876493 | 159 |
The double standard just keeps on truckin’. The hypocrisy is staggering.
If there’s even a smidge of inconsistency from the right, the media literally explodes with nasty finger pointing. But if it comes from the left, it’s so quiet you might as well be sitting by your lonesome in Death Valley.
To be clear – talking out of both sides of one’s mouth needs to be challenged – left, right and in between. But when a sanctimonious liberal like Kamala Harris thinks it’s A-OK to have LA police officers fly to San Francisco to serve as her personal security detail at the Pride parade, something’s rotten in California. Who knew LA has money to spare for airline tickets, car/food expenses and hotel bills – above and beyond normal officer salary costs just so they could protect an elected official outside of their jurisdiction? They evidently do, because since her election to the U.S. Senate, the LAPD has flown to San Francisco no less than seven times to provide armed protection – to someone who thinks the law abiding shouldn’t be armed. Fervently anti-2nd Amendment, she has made no secret about her views, recently tweeting “We cannot have a civil society without gun safety laws. We need background checks. We need an assault weapons ban. Congress needs to have courage and act….”
But it’s OK for taxpayers from Southern California to pay for Harris to be protected in Northern California (LAPD officers also traveled to Sacramento, Fresno, and San Diego) by officers with guns. This is no less hypocritical than her anti-gun colleague Dianne Feinstein, who admitted being frightened enough at one point to carry a concealed weapon – but ultimately lead the charge against the federal assault weapons ban.
It’s good for me, but not for thee….
Gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom has similar elitist tendencies. In his first year as Lt. Governor, the Los Angeles Times reported the cost for providing his security was up nearly $30,000 above what it had been for his predecessor. Ouch.
This is the guy who eagerly leads the fight against gun ownership – yet he has personally benefited from millions of taxpayer dollars to surround himself with armed security.
During his tenure as San Francisco’s Mayor, NBC Bay Area reported Newsom’s security spending as follows:
“How much does it cost to protect the mayor of a major metropolitan city? In Los Angeles, about $450,000 a year. In Houston, about $339,00 a year. In San Francisco, anywhere between $1 and $72 million.
[On July 7, 2009] SF Appeal revealed…the budget for Newsom’s personal police bodyguards comes out of the San Francisco Police Department’s Investigations Detail, which boasts a $72.9 million budget.”
If the nightmare comes true and Newsom becomes Governor of California, beware of losing more than your guns – your money will vanish too!
Both Harris’ and Newsom’s “I’m more special than you” policy lacks both integrity and intellect. At it’s best, it smacks of disrespect to the millions of law-abiding citizens and at its worst, is downright discriminatory.
Unfortunately, the Harris-LAPD kerfuffle will likely be considered a one-day news story. LA might be feeling a tad bit embarrassed by the outrageous expenditures, but regardless, this is just another example of politicians thinking they are smarter and therefore more entitled than the rest of us. | <urn:uuid:a0f70190-28ea-4d50-bf8f-9becd3b4b962> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.gunownersca.com/2018/09/12/taxpayers-pick-tab-anti-gun-kamala-harris-gets-jurisdiction-armed-security/ | 2019-01-23T14:47:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547584332824.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190123130602-20190123152602-00256.warc.gz | en | 0.96043 | 743 |
NEW Word Map of York Minster Poster.— York360 (@York360) September 14, 2018
Updated to Rich Black. Ideal as a gift for someone who knows York.
Something new to see every time!https://t.co/HkBtf5oZfl@York_Minster @jrtheatre @yorkearlymusic @YorkCocoaHouse @YorkLitFest @indieyorkmap @LittleVikingsUK @YorkMuseumTrust pic.twitter.com/5ruTnP7jqW
York’s first John Lewis department store. The region’s largest M&S. A state of the art Next. Restaurants.. including Giraffe, Costa Coffee, Prezzo, Nando’s, Frankie & Benny’s.
King Richard III Museum & Gift Shop. - Movie
(above) Visit York Minster
York is one of England's beautiful historic cities, located in the north of England in the county of North Yorkshire. York has over 2000 years of history, preserved for us to see today in it's beautiful architecture. From The Romans, Vikings and Normans to the Georgians and Victorians, they have all left a lasting impression on our city. One of the first places to visit is York Minster, which dominates York's skyline, and is one of the largest and magnificent Gothic Cathedrals in Europe.
York today is a lively and busy city full a contemporary shops, restaurants and award winning tourist attractions. Here you can find information you need if you are visiting or living in York. If you haven't visited York yet then what are you waiting for? York is Britain's favourite city!
York has an official Tourist Information Centre at 1 Museum Street and another at York Rail Station. Where you can plan your visit to York, buy tickets to all major tourist attractions, save money with a York Pass, book accommodation, buy souvenirs and pickup a map of York. | <urn:uuid:35565798-e8ca-4c7d-9371-fc04a783565e> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://www.york360.co.uk/ | 2018-10-16T23:51:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510893.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20181016221847-20181017003347-00014.warc.gz | en | 0.887236 | 408 |
SuperBot Entertainment Announces Arcade Stick Support for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
To be a competitive gamer is to be a stickler; this is especially true for top-ranked players belonging to the fighting genre. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale may not be of a traditional nature, but, according to Eurogamer, SuperBot Entertainment will be catering to the more hardcore segment of the demographic with today’s announcement that their upcoming title will support “all popular” arcade sticks.
Fans of the fighting game genre can use their favourite arcade-style controller to play Battle Royale to full effect…Every attack, combo, and strategy that can be performed on the DualShock 3 controller is seamlessly mapped to arcade button layouts. By default, nearly all DualShock 3 controller commands are assigned to the same buttons on an arcade stick. The joystick takes care of the character’s movement and combines with the Square, Triangle, and Circle buttons to perform the full range of 24 unique attacks. In fact, joystick inputs behave exactly the same as DualShock 3 D-pad inputs would, so arcade stick functionality is natively supported in PlayStation All-Stars.
Though most inputs on the DualShock 3 and arcade stick will be identical, the game’s Throw command will have to be altered in the transition. On a traditional controller, players can initiate the ability with the device’s right analog stick; however, as arcade sticks do not tend to possess a second joystick, the Throw command will have to be triggered by an “easy button combination” that SuperBot Entertainment insists is well ingrained in the genre.
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When people came up and asked if I could teach their kids how to play cello I said “Sorry, I’m not a teacher.” I never wanted to be a teacher. I never claimed to be a teacher.
Teaching is not my superpower and that was fine by me. Spending day after day in a classroom with kids who pay attention 1/4 of the time on a good day sounds more like one of Dante’s circles of hell than a career.
I’ve heard that some people do it and actually love it.
They have my deep, deeeeeeep respect and admiration.
For 29 years I was content not being a teacher. Lately, I noticed I am more grumpy and easily irritated lately but I figured it was because of Covid and all the stuff I mentioned last time. My wake-up call happened at work.
I snapped at my boss, “I already told you…”, which I now know is equal to saying “What’s wrong with you”. Which You should never say to anyone, let alone your boss. After an…interesting discussion, we agreed that I’m not good at communicating (already knew that) and I’m also not a good teacher (knew that too). I thanked her for letting me know I was calling people stupid without even meaning to.
What she said made sense, but I couldn’t understand why my boss was complaining that I’m not a good teacher. I thought she knew that. I thought, “I’m not a teacher. I’m not a teacher. Why would you think I was a teacher? Teachers get paid to teach, and they don’t get paid enough. I am not a teacher.”
Then that small voice chimed in, “Are you trying to live like Christ?”
“Well yeah…why? “
There was no response but then it clicked.
Whether people believe in Christianity or not, nearly all worldviews and religions accept that Jesus was a phenomenal teacher.
I never ever ever EVER wanted to be a teacher. But, I can no longer deny that maybe every Christian is called and expected to teach. Teaching is not confined to a classroom, but rather we teach everyone around us just by being around.
We teach how to respond when someone comes at you aggressively.
We teach how to talk about sensitive topics.
We teach what it looks like to take care of a house, dog, or ourselves.
We teach when we don’t even know we’re teaching.
Apparently, I’ve been teaching all along—and teaching poorly. I did all the wrong things like getting easily annoyed and genuinely not caring because I thought it was fine since I’m not a teacher.
There are so many people I need to apologize to…Time to also learn the art of a good apology.
Starting today I accept that I am called to be a teacher. We all are. Thankfully, we don’t have to jump careers and start teaching biology (unless while reading this you felt strongly called to do that). Even with my less-than-enthusiastic, “I guess I am a teacher” mindset, I feel different already. I feel lighter and more willing to try to understand where someone is coming from. Teaching = communicating, and while I’ve been trying to improve my communication, I can’t have one without the other. Maybe one day I’ll be genuinely pleased about this new responsibility, but right now I could cry. And no, they’re not tears of joy.
Teaching requires a lot of time and compassion and effort, which is why I was grateful to avoid it. Before realizing that I am already a teacher, if someone needed help with something, let’s say, technology, I would think, “Well figure it out.” Moving forward, if I want to approach it like a good teacher, it should look like, “Well, what happens if we click here? And this means this because of this. And blah blah blah.” However, I’m afraid of the light blue, impossible-to-see line between being a good teacher and treating someone like a baby…
When I started this blog, a friend asked, “Are you sure that’s what you want to write about? Do you realize, that will never end?” Naively I replied that getting to write about life lessons and fun stories would be fun forever! I focused on the first question. I didn’t understand that actually, in their second question, they weren’t talking about the blog, they meant me.
Growing never ends.
But it’s also entirely optional.
Through this lesson, I had to face the hard reality that I was the problem and yet my life is still worth living. Maybe that connection seems obvious to you, but I struggle with suicidal thoughts. For a couple minutes after talking with my boss, I thought that since I am such a bad teacher I shouldn’t be here anymore. I had no desire or hope to become a teacher and yet everyone expected it of me, so I wanted to quit.
My options were quit or grow, and I didn’t want to grow that way.
Then the voice asked the right question at the right time, and now I’m saving tips and encouragements for teachers on Pinterest.
There was never a time where I wasn’t a teacher—I was a bad one. I wasn’t ready to accept that I needed to be a good one because teaching is the most important job. | <urn:uuid:90f65402-841f-4c0f-a111-160664563bc9> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://windmillways.com/the-most-important-job/ | 2021-04-17T07:28:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038118762.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417071833-20210417101833-00615.warc.gz | en | 0.979607 | 1,203 |
Anne Bårdsgård is a handcrafting expert who studied textiles at the Bergen University College of Art. She has presented several solo exhibitions and participated in multiple public exhibitions as well, both within Norway and abroad. Her works have been featured by Norwegian art museums, Norway´s national arts council, and more. She was raised in Selbu and has always loved knitting; preserving the traditional patterns that have made her home famous worldwide has been her mission since 2013. Her first book, Selbu Mittens, is also available in English. | <urn:uuid:91c54253-d19b-40a6-bd10-c64871679280> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.crossandwoods.com/shop/knitting-crochet/knitting-crochet-books-magazines/books-knitting-crochet-books-magazines/selbu-patterns-anne-bardsgard/ | 2023-01-31T09:27:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499857.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131091122-20230131121122-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.990141 | 112 |
By Paul Cantor
The streets are still talking about the Dipset reunion on this weekend’s BET Hip-Hop Awards, but newcomer Vado, is actually drawing the most attention. Born Teeyon Winfree, the Harlem native’s been quietly building his buzz over the past year by riding with Cam’ron as part of The UN, a separate group that was launched by the veteran MC prior to the Diplomats getting back together.
A slew of mixtapes from the pair have dropped, most notably the DJ Drama-helmed Boss of All Bosses trilogy (parts 1, 2 and 2.5, respectively), and this past summer, the street single “Speaking in Tungs,” dominated New York airwaves.
It also doesn’t hurt that songs like “Large In The Streets” have helped Vado endear himself to new listeners and true school heads by embracing a 90s-era New York flow peppered with his own unique brand of Harlem-inspired slang.
Originally planned as a project with DJ Drama, Slime Flu, Vado’s first official retail mixtape, is set to hit stores October 12. The Ralph Lauren-inspired first single “Polo” featuring Young Dro from the project is just beginning to hit radio stations. Rapfix recently caught up with the budding MC about the Dips reunion, Slime Flu and carving a name for himself.
How did Slime Flu go from a mixtape to an album?
The anticipation, most definitely, [and] the buzz. And Cam felt that we give ya’ll a trilogy of Boss of All Bosses, which is what built my anticipation. He said you might as well put Slime Flu in stores.
How did Drama feel about not doing it anymore?
Drama’s my dude. I’ll have a Slime Flu in stores but after that comes out I’m putting out a Slime Flu with Drama, definitely, and then we putting out Boss of All Bosses 3 with Drama.
The one Drama will produce will have different music?
Definitely. We got over 100 songs, we work every day. I’m leaking songs every week, and those not even on the album. I keep saying album, I mean mixtape.
Did you do anything different with Slime Flu once E1, who’s distributing the project, got involved?
Songs have been off and on the mixtape for almost a year. It’s just been like, put this on take this off, put this on, take this off. Originally the songs for Slime Flu was “Large On The Streets,” “I Got Em,” “Kick in the Door,” “Memory Lane,” “Hard in the Paint” freestyle, for the Drama street version. A lot of songs that are out, the samples couldn’t get cleared so I ended up switching up a lot of songs.
Was that frustrating?
Definitely. It was frustrating because I’m like, ‘this mixtape’s gonna be a classic!’ Then I’m taking songs off that can’t get cleared. I’m like ‘oh don’t do this to me.’ Cam calling me five in the morning, you gotta come to the studio and fix this. Then I’m listening to my other tracks, putting those and thinking now I done got it back to the point where I’m like it’s a classic again, I feel good about it. Then we can’t get it cleared. I’m like, ‘oh producers acting up. Oh man, don’t do this to me.’ So it’s been crazy. I know I been having people wait so long, that’s why I’m gonna keep hitting ya’ll with music until it comes out. I want people to get tired of waiting.
Some people have said Nore is the originator of the slang term “slime.”
I heard that too. I heard Nore say it, but that’s from my hood. Slime was something we grew up on. We been saying slime for over 10 years, that was one of the words in my hood that we known for and anybody from Harlem know that. That’s why I put Nore on [“Slime”], I showed him love. I call him the slime godfather. He was the first one that brought it to the game. He also handed me the torch too, for those that’s asking.
What’s going on with the collaboration album with you and Cam, Gunz N Butta?
They keep pushing it back. It didn’t come out yet. Cam is negotiating a lot right now. We’re trying to see really what’s going to happen for as that, that’s why it’s not being put out yet.
How did “Speaking In Tungs” come together?
I was in the tattoo shop and this dude I know, he’s right hands with a producer. He had sent me a couple songs, I never got a chance to listen to them. I get to the shop, getting a tattoo, and he started playing the beats, all of them was sounding cool. But then that “Speaking In Tungs” [beat] just was crazy, to the point where I had to get up. I told my tattoo guy Andy, ‘chill, let me go hear this beat.’ I’m like, ‘yo that’s your beat?’ He’s like ‘yeah I told you, I sent that to you.’ I said ‘word, send that again.’ From that tattoo spot I went straight to the studio and just rocked the beat. I didn’t even start writing to it until the next day. I just played video games, I smoked, bulls—ted that whole night in the studio just listening to that beat. First thing I said, I’ma start with the hook. It’s nothing to write the rhymes to it. The knock is crazy, [so] I need that hook to be catchy. But the way the hook gotta be catchy, it gotta express me. It can’t be no gimmick hook.
A lot of people felt you got snubbed on the XXL Freshmen cover. Why do you think they didn’t include you?
Maybe at the time they weren’t really on to me, I guess. That came out in a good way though because they wasn’t on to me but then they paid attention because people was upset about it. So they was like, let me listen to this, and let him perform at this [XXL Freshmen concert at Highline Ballroom], see what he can do.
They’ll do another freshmen cover. Will you be on it or are you past freshman status already?
To be honest I feel I’m past that. But if they were to do that, I’ll definitely be thankful, because XXL always showed love to me. I been in about three or four issues already. I feel I’m past that but I’d definitely be honored to be a freshman of 2011.
Cam seems to be occupied now with the Dipset Reunion. But you’re a new dude with a big buzz, is there any part of you that’s like ‘you guys had your turn, let me get mine?‘
Nah, not at all. I was one of the people that influenced him on the Dipset reunion. I told Cam, ‘let’s take over.’ Yeah my buzz is crazy and yeah we can do this on our own, but at the same time, we want an empire. People love movements and people empires. Let’s build that. I say ya’ll already capable of doing what ya’ll do, making hits and just going crazy with the trends and everything. So you bring a new member to the table, which does the same, that smell like a takeover to me. Don’t it?
Jim Jones made a comment about “Salute” being a Diplomat record. Do you think he feels some which way about Cam rocking with you now?
Me and Jim cool. What he was saying was, it’s a Diplomats song. That’s him, Zeek, Cam and Juelz. I’m just with the family. It’s like when Dr. Dre and Eminem made noise. Then he had brought the whole team from Deathrow to the table, Snoop, all them cats. He had his family back together. At the same time, Eminem was Eminem. When they do tours and everything they do as a family, [but] Eminem’s on tracks, you hear him. He always did him.
Do you think people think you’re a Diplomat artist?
Actually people don’t look at me as that. I’m a Harlem artist.
But Dipset is kind of like Wu-Tang, anyone that came out of Staten Island people thought was a Wu-Tang artist, but that wasn’t always the case.
Definitely. But Dipset is big. It’s worldwide. I am a Diplomat artist. I don’t think people will look at it that way, but I am a Diplomat artist. That’s only because they want to hear me rap the same as Jim rap, or Juelz rap or Cam rap.
You think people want to hear you rap like them?
I don’t know if people want to hear me rap like them. But I guess the reason that I don’t rap like them is the reason they don’t look at me like a Diplomat artist. But it’s just like Eminem, he came with a whole different flow and style.
Do you think you can establish your own identity?
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The local Voter Education Coalition has scheduled two events to introduce voters to the 11 candidates for Lawrence City Commission in advance of the Feb. 26 primary election.
The group is sponsoring a meet-and-greet event at 9:15 a.m. Saturday at Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive. The event will immediately follow the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Eggs and Issues breakfast and is open to the public. City Commission candidates will briefly introduce themselves to members of the audience and be available for informal conversations.
A candidate forum is planned from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 7 in the City Commission chambers at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets. The forum will be televised live on Channel 25. Some questions will be prepared in advance by VEC partners, and others will be taken from the audience as time allows. The forum is open to the public.
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Are you ready for some relaxation? Could use a good massage? In need some time to yourself? The number of wellness hotels, health resorts and luxury hotels with wellness and spa facilities has grown significantly in recent years. It has now become commonplace for people in the Netherlands to visit saunas, health resorts or luxury wellness hotels. Perfect for clearing your head and enjoying the warmth and scents that are part and parcel of a good spa. The selection of luxury wellness hotels and health resorts in the Netherlands is growing fast. The Netherlands has much to offer in terms of wellness and relaxation. We set out the options for you here:
Have you considered a wellness holiday close to home? Within the Netherlands, there is a wide selection of luxury wellness hotels with comprehensive wellness and spa facilities. Did you also know that this country boasts health resorts with thermal baths? And how about an intimate natural spa in the polder? In addition, Puurenkuur offers yoga weekends, yoga holidays, meditation weekends and meditation holidays, detox weekends and detox holidays at wellness hotels all across the Netherlands. Indulge in some luxury at a wellness hotel with a private jacuzzi in your room. Our country has numerous wellness centres with ample wellness facilitates situated throughout the Netherlands. The options are wide-ranging: from steam rooms and luxury saunas to Hammams and massages. All with the aim of supporting your wellbeing. Take a post-breakfast stroll through nature reserves, forests, pastures or the beach; saunter through a town or village; enjoy a workout at the gym… and what better way to follow some physical activity than a trip to the sauna or spa for that ultimate sense of wellbeing.
The health benefits of Finnish saunas are widely known. Whilst the lovely scent of lavender in a lavender sauna has a relaxing effect, the smell of a wood-burning sauna carries all your stresses away.
Having a sauna at your hotel adds value to your holiday and benefits your wellbeing. The primary mechanism behind this is enhanced blood flow throughout the body. In a sauna, your heart rate increases to a rate similar to what it would be during a good walk. The increased blood flow stimulates the organs to release toxins faster, eliminating them via the skin’s pores. Regularly frequenting a sauna encourages your body to produce more white blood cells, in turn strengthening the immune system. What’s more, saunas are deeply relaxing and reduce stress levels as you surrender to the warmth and serenity at your chosen resort. Simply let go and enjoy!
Got something to celebrate? Looking for a romantic weekend away? Spoil yourselves with a few added extras in your room, such as a nice bottle of wine or a private jacuzzi. Enjoy the bubbles in in your glass as you soak in the bubbles in the bath. Now that’s a treat! Then get a sound night’s sleep under the cosy duvet of a luxurious bed, waking refreshed and energised the next morning.
Wellness resorts are also termed spas. The word ‘spa’ is an abbreviation of the Latin Sanitas Per Aqua, or ‘health through water’. In Roman times, visiting health resorts or bath houses was simply a part of daily life. The Romans lived according to the motto Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, meaning ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. Spas represented a social meeting place where massages were taken for physical and mental wellbeing. Mental and physical wellbeing remains the guiding principle behind wellness centres today. What has changed over time is the number of facilities, with today’s spas often featuring multiple saunas and steam rooms. Whether you’re booking a wellness weekend, a week’s retreat or a spa day, all aspects of wellness are designed to leave you feeling refreshed and more resilient to everyday stress once you return home.
Enjoy yoga, delicious healthy food and a relaxing stay at a luxury wellness hotel. The Puurenkuur yoga weekends are wellness holidays, mini yoga breaks or yoga retreats spanning a few days to a week. Regardless of the format, yoga and relaxation are at the core. Yoga weekends are led by our team of skilled instructors. The wellness hotels are luxurious and comfortable, with at least four stars. Each of the wellness hotels has been selected on the basis of its wellness-weekend credentials and setting: by woodlands, pastures or the sea. Each wellness hotel boasts an extensive spa; some even have thermal baths. Though short, these luxurious wellness weekends offer true respite.
Check out the overview of wellness hotels, spas and health resorts that host Puurenkuur yoga weekends. Want to find out more? Get in touch – we’d be delighted to chat through the options with you.
If you are going to treat yourself to a wellness holiday, why not do it properly? Layer on some additional luxury and comfort, perhaps? Some wellness hotels and health resorts also welcome guests for wellness weekends and shorter spa breaks. Their goal is simple: to pamper you! Enjoy unlimited massages, relax and recharge at the luxury wellness centre or soak in a private jacuzzi. A luxury spa holiday is the ultimate treat.
Check out the overview of luxury wellness hotels, spas, saunas and health resorts offering these luxury wellness holidays and breaks. Want to find our more? Get in touch – we’d be delighted to chat through the options with you.
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Thermal baths do wonders for one’s health. Indeed - there’s good reason why the Romans took the plunge for treating all kinds of complaints and ailments. The water comes from deep down in the earth, rising to the surface purified and enriched with minerals. The specific minerals the water contains depends on the composition of the ground. As such, each hot spring has different healing properties. There are those that ease rheumatism, pain and skin conditions. Others still help with inflammation and complaints of the digestive or nervous system. Many health resorts also use the thermal waters in the therapies they offer. This creates the opportunity for you to combine a relaxing wellness holiday with optimising your wellbeing and the preventative treatment of physical ailments.
Thermal water can be used therapeutically in various ways. The spa at the health or wellness resort may use the waters as part of a water cure. In this application, the minerals are absorbed by the skin. Other treatments revolve around inhalation, whereby the healing components are breathed in. There are also drinking cures for internal healing. You may notice the results after just a few days, or it may take longer. Whatever the case, the beneficial and relaxing effects of the thermal waters will not escape you. When combined with other delights – such as delicious food, luxury, service and rest – a spa holiday with thermal baths makes for the ultimate wellness holiday.
Check out the overview of luxury wellness hotels, spas, saunas and health resorts with thermal baths or mineral springs. Want to find out more? Get in touch – we’d be delighted to chat through the options with you.
We have something for everyone at Puurenkuur. After all, luxury wellness hotels with wellness facilities come in many shapes and sizes: whether you’re after a sauna or spa in the countryside for a taste of ultimate peace and quiet, or prefer a bustling city where you can enjoy an evening’s sauna at your hotel – with private Jacuzzi perhaps? We even offer a number of hotels where you can enjoy both the town and the country. Feel free to contact one of our wellness specialists to find your ideal wellness hotel.
Visit a unique region of the Netherlands. Domburg and Cadzand-Bad are the only two seaside resorts in the Netherlands to carry the denomination ‘therapeutic’. There is no better place for a wellness holiday close to home. We offer a number of hotels situated close to the beach, where you can blow away the cobwebs then warm your cockles at the spa.
Swap the city for the pastures and greenery of these regions, where we have uncovered a selection of stunning estates and wellness hotels. The perfect surroundings for walks and bike rides.
The peaceful hillscape of Limburg provides the ideal backdrop to our wellness hotels here. With its dense forests, Noord-Limburg represents an equally apt location for a wellness holiday or yoga retreat. Our wellness experts know these spots inside out, and would be happy to help you discover your ideal destination in the Netherlands. | <urn:uuid:86aafa7f-9f90-4cd1-affd-9257a875c57c> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://pureandcure.com/nl/all-hotels/netherlands-l7 | 2021-09-25T21:54:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057775.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925202717-20210925232717-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.935185 | 1,781 |
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Allergic responses to SSRIs; any good choices left?
Posted by Jean on August 11, 1999 at 10:58:15
I am a 50-year-old white female with a history of major depression beginning at age 10. I have been treated successfully with Prozac, Zoloft and Celexa at different times over the past 6 years. However, after months (2 years in the case of Prozac) on these drugs I developed a dose-related skin rash covering buttocks, hips, upper arms and the backs of my legs. This rash is worsened by heat. My board-certified psychiatrist now says I am apparently allergic to all SSRIs, and has suggested MAO inhibiters. I am unwilling to take these because of side effects. A dermatologist biopsied the Prozac rash and the path reports showed "no evidence of allergic reaction" but some sort of chemical interaction was obviously going on, as my psychiatrist agrees.
I took Welbutrin for about 8 weeks in 1996 and found it did not help depression.
Am I out of options here? For the moment I am controlling my depressive feelings with Valium and anger and have not yet loaded the .38 revolver I keep in my closet. However, my knowledge of my psychiatric history makes me feel the clock is ticking down to that inevitable conclusion.
Posted by HFHS.MD-AJ on August 14, 1999 at 16:15:27
The incidence of rash caused by SSRIs is about 2-6%. I am sorry to hear that you had to discontinue these medications that you otherwise found beneficial in treating your depression. You also state that you did not find Wellbutrin helpful. Your psychiatrist may want to consider a trial of other antidepressants such as Effexor, Remeron, Serzone, or tricyclic antidepressants, as well as referral for cognitive-behavioral or interpersonal therapy. Elecroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is another safe and effective treatment for major depression, in those patients who have failed adequate antidepressant trials, are unable to tolerate antidepressants, or are acutely suicidal. It is imperative that you inform your psychiatrist immediately about any suicidal ideation, and to remove any guns from your home.
This response is provided for general information only. Always consult your physician for any health concerns.
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April 8, 2009
Category: local to Portland, Pacific Northwest, photography, plants
16 Comments »
really aren’t ever ordinary
They are gorgeous !
So pretty…. plus I like the vase- also so pretty…
No way! Love! What a capture.
Thanks for brightening my morning.
Happy Love Thursday and Happy Easter/Passover.
i am with you …flowers always come through no matter what stage they are in…can you eve imagine not seeing them that way?!
you have a gift. the simplicity and beauty of your pictures are enlightening and centering and charming!
I agree, flowers are never ordinary. Especially when captured like this – beautiful!!
What a beautiful spring pink
These make me so happy. They remind me of the Easter season and of springtime. And of weddings. But mostly of happiness. Thanks for this photo!
leanne: you’re welcome! They are a familiar wedding flower. Now if I only knew what they were.
toni: so very true
tammy: thanks so much!
elk: I can’t. It’s a good metaphor for beauty in us, I think. 🙂
se’lah: the same to you!
laura jean: I like the vase too. It was so pretty.
sidney: they really were. all the flower arrangements there were gorgeous.
I love it!
These are lovely. Pink is love.
No, they aren’t. Beautiful flowers, captured by an extraordinary woman!
how beautiful! i recognize this, your floral take from our day and it is wonderfully rich! the blue backdrop for the pink is luscious!
robin: clearly that was a great shop for flower photos!
julie: awww, thanks
christina: that it is
I love this one! The lighting, the colors…it’s all so pretty.
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William Jones > Ogier > Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands > Lawyer Profile
89 NEXUS WAY
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-9007
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Counsel Restrucuring and Insolvency
Will advises on all aspects of commercial litigation, specialising in contractual disputes, insurance claims and contentious trust matters. He also has significant experience in contentious restructuring and insolvency matters and is a member of the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Group.
Will’s recent work includes acting for the joint provisional liquidators in the $3.7 billion Ocean Rig restructuring, acting for liquidators and liquidation committees on a number of insolvent liquidations and acting for trustees and beneficiaries in relation to high-value trust disputes. He has also recently advised on Norwich Pharmacal disclosure applications and on the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Will regularly appears in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, in both the Financial Services Division and the Civil Division, and is a member of the Court’s Financial Services Division Users Committee.
Will joined Ogier as a trainee in 2003. He completed his articles of clerkship with the firm and was admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 2005.
Will is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Caymanian Bar Association, the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (Cayman) Limited and INSOL International.
He obtained his Bachelor of Laws, with Honours, from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom in 2001 and his Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, with Commendation, from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2002.
2005 – Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands > Dispute resolution(Next Generation Partners)
Drawing on a robust network of offices across the world, Ogier fields a deep and experienced team which is routinely engaged on high-profile insolvencies, fraud cases, trust litigation, and fair value s.238 disputes. Arbitral award enforcement proceedings and contentious regulatory matters are further core workflows for the practice. The contentious group is jointly led by Cayman disputes head Jennifer Fox, trust disputes chair Rachael Reynolds KC, and global dispute resolution chief Marc Kish. William Jones maintains a robust restructuring and corporate recovery practice, where he handles matters ranging from schemes of arrangement and enforcement actions to contractual disputes and insurance claims. Newly promoted partner Christopher Levers focuses on insolvencies, while fellow counsel Deborah Barker Roye specialises in contentious trust and estate matters. Senior associate Nour Khaleq is also recommended.
Cayman Islands > Trusts/private client
Dubbed by clients as ‘the private client office to beat in Cayman’, Ogier‘s sizeable team is regularly sought out for its capabilities in high-value, cross-jurisdictional contentious and non-contentious matters. The practice is jointly led by global trusts disputes head Rachael Reynolds KC – regarded as ‘one of the brightest fiduciary litigators in the offshore world’ – and the ‘fantastic’ Anthony Partridge, who spearheads the private wealth team. William Jones is an experienced trust litigator whose wide-ranging capabilities encompass contentious insolvencies, contractual disputes and insurance claims. Counsel Deborah Barker-Roye possesses decades of experience in contentious trust and estate matters, including international arbitral proceedings and applications before the Grand Court. Associates Samantha Conolly and Jordan Constable – who joined from Bedell Cristin in August 2021 – are also recommended.
Cayman Islands > Regulatory and compliance
A strong mix of international banks, crypto asset companies and regulators seek out Ogier for its wide-ranging contentious and non-contentious capabilities; recent areas of expertise include handling CIMA inspections, judicial reviews and administrative appeals regarding AML enforcement decisions. Key names to note within the firm include investment funds regulatory head Joanne Huckle; corporate and private client specialist Martin Byers; banking regulatory head James Heinicke; William Jones, who focuses on local matters; and Jennifer Fox, who spearheads the group’s contentious offering. Following her arrival from Bedell Cristin in April 2022, senior associate Megan Mcluskie has worked with various investment managers, funds, and administrators. Dave Sherwin has left the firm.
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Have you ever wondered how to look a 5 pounds less in photos? Here's a tip: crop off one cheek. And since I'm all for extreme measures, I'm cropping off both as shown below.
-- Kay Unger pleated full skirt dress -- Mimi di N leaf belt -- Guiseppe Zanotti peep toes -
For those who seriously want to get rid a few pounds for real and for good (sans cropping tricks), join me here as I challenge myself to shed off a few pounds!
Please bear with this poor little me as I undergo a much needed maintenance because it's no fun to be in the slightly-overweight-for-your-height category. | <urn:uuid:e4f68676-7cb2-49f4-bf63-b3cd7705fb15> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://vitaminnstyle.blogspot.com/2011/07/little-maintenance.html | 2017-08-17T07:40:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102993.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817073135-20170817093135-00184.warc.gz | en | 0.953939 | 144 |
Episode 13 of Twin Peaks, "Demons," originally aired on November 3, 1990, and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. This episode offers important information on the nature of Killer Bob as a spirit who requires a human host. Donna and Maddy fail at their mission to steal Laura's diary when Harold goes mad and threatens them. After James saves them, Maddy begs him to forget about her and get back with Donna. Agent Cooper takes the rescued Audrey to the Bookhouse. After finding out it was Jean Renault who trying to kill him at One-Eyed Jacks, Cooper returns the ransom money to Ben, who pleads ignorant of the whole scheme. Cooper's supervisor, Chief Gordon Cole (played by series creator David Lynch), arrives in Twin Peaks with a lab report and a message from Windom Earle in the form of a chess move. Josie makes a deal with Ben, gets her money, and is forced to leave town with Jonathan. At the Great Northern Hotel, Mr. Tojomura and Ben have a confrontation, but are interrupted by the crazed Leland's song and dance. The episode ends with the interrogation of the One-Armed Man, who reveals clues about Killer Bob by way of his schizophrenic other self, Mike.
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Inside out filled with spicy tuna, cucumber, yam and avocado, cover with salmon, heatstroke, teriyaki, mayonnaise, crispy yam and chives.
8 units: 4 pieces salmon dumplings with some rice and spicy tuna over. 4 units Cornish tuna with some rice and spicy salmon over. With wasabi mayonnaise sauce, garnished with chives
Fresh fillet of salmon with Dijon mustard and cream sauce served on a bed of mashed potatoes.
White cod slices with corn flour and wheat tempura, sautéed with red curry, coconut milk, onion, chili, cilantro and parsley, garnished with peanuts and served with white rice.
Finely sliced raw salmon seasoned with lemon, coarse salt, olive oil, cranberries and purple onion, served on a bed of avocado with toast.
Finely sliced, in balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Served with toast, baby green salad, garlic confie and parmesan cheese.
Sake, litchi liqueur, mango mash, ginger, sour.
Lychee liqueur, vodka Sitron, watermelon syrup.
Asparagus and avocado on top of chopped Hamachi fish, purple onion and mint with sweet chili sauce, sesame oil and lemon.
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In my duffel bag, next to my clean socks, is a Mac Mini, an extra hard disk, and an EyeTV 200 television capture gadget. I had purchased this collection for use in the RV. This, connected with my Directv box, gave me a digital video recorder (DVR) I was able to capture movies and television shows, and to play them back on demand.
When we headed off for Colorado, I grabbed the Mini and associated cables and when we were installed in the Breckenridge condo, I hooked everything up, and for five weeks, had a very usable DVR setup. Yes, there was a bit up configuration to do, getting the software to understand that I was connected to Comcast in Breckenridge rather than Directv, but it was a pleasant experience.
Then we picked up and moved for a few days to Grand Lake, but there was no time for TV there. Then on to Denver, staying in a La Quinta. Now the horrors started. La Quinta used LodgeNet, one of the worst possible options. Not only was there little choice of channels, but it proved impossible to program the LodgeNet's channel selections into the EyeTV software. I did a little experimentation, but found that there was no real connection between the television channels as listed and what was really coming down the cable. In fact, it appears to me that using the EyeTV capture box on that cable gave me access to the pay on demand channels for free. I can't prove it, but we did watch Aeon Flux, and I think that hasn't hit the HBO style movie channels yet. I did notice another channel that probably was the porn channel, but I didn't tarry long enough to get a show or channel identification. Most of the channels, in fact, looked like status screens to some computer system.
And today, we moved to the Hyatt next to the Colorado Convention center. Mary Ann was off attending her events, so I tried to hook the Mini up to the big Samsung flat panel in the room. No luck. In spite of every kind of video input jack you can imagine readily available on the back, this On Command system gave no opportunity to access the video input. You either watched their channels or turned it off. After lots of experimentation, I turned it off, and packed the Mini back in the duffel. Without the ability to see the Mini's screen, there is no chance I can get it running. I do have it boot up with VNC server running, but there is no usable internet in the room either -- not without going through T-Mobile's login screens, and I can't do that blind.
Why is it that the fancier the hotel, the poorer the services, and the more they charge for them? On Command is going into my black book right next to LodgeNet.
------ Late addition --------
There was a Radio Shack a block away, so I picked up an ethernet Cat-5 cable and connected the laptop to the mini. On the laptop, I turned on internet sharing to share my (non-existent) wireless connection out the ethernet. The mini, looking for any available connection, made the connection. Now, with a pathway established, I ran VNC and connected to the OSXVNC server that I had previously installed on the mini.
Step two, on the mini's desktop, I fired up the system preferences and turned on internet sharing to share it's ethernet connection out the airport wireless. Disconnecting the ethernet between the laptop and the mini, I connected the laptop to the mini's wireless network. It worked.
So now, I have a little isolated private wireless network, hosted by the Mac-mini, which can serve all its stored video to the laptops and also serve as a shared file-server ( I used it for on-the-road backups).
Change of Schedule - Henry’s Stories has been on-line and regularly updated for almost two years now, with a mix of new and old stories -- some short and others novel length. ...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology needs the help of vendors to supply their existing electronic health records so the agency can conduct research on the systems to develop procedures for measuring and evaluating their usability.
NIST wants to come up with performance-oriented user interface design guidelines for EHRs as a framework for assessing the usability of EHRs, according to the agency.
[Podcast: 10 minutes with ONC head Farzad Mostashari, MD.]
NIST may also examine relevant instructions, documentation and EHR error messages, the agency said in an announcement in the Feb. 14 Federal Register. Manufacturers can sign up until March 15 to participate.
Providers increasingly rely on EHRs and require more functionality and robust performance from their systems, especially fueled by meaningful use criteria. But providers and health IT researchers have reported uneven usefulness, ease of usability and user satisfaction among EHRs.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national health IT coordinator, has called for a usability framework developed through an open process with NIST and many individuals and organizations.
NIST may accept inpatient and outpatient EHR systems for its experiments.
“NIST will not accept actual personal health information as part of this project,” the agency said.
[See also: Q&A: On the downside of delaying ICD-10.]
NIST anticipates that it will take approximately one year to conduct all necessary research based at its usability laboratory in Gaithersburg, Md. Vendors’ products will not be modified during the research process, the agency assured.
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|1.||"More Or Less"|
|2.||"More Or Less" (Ney Faustini remix)|
|1.||"More Is More"|
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Bar a few scattered appearances here and there, this 12" for Mentha marks Bruno Limma's first fully-fledged outing, although you wouldn't think it listening to the quality contained within this release. "More Or Less" is a brooding dub techno trip with the chords coloured in dark hues for the ultimate wintry experience, which Ney Faustini then nudges up into a sleek minimal house cruiser. "More Is More" takes a funkier route into scatty rhythms and strange samples, albeit with an inherent warmth pulsing somewhere in the middle of the surrealism. "Less Is More" rounds the EP off with a more reflective piece of techno for quieter moments.
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In this paper, we present an alternative design, Eff-MM (Efficient Mobile Multicast), for efficiently supporting multicast for mobile hosts on the Internet. Recently, providing multicast services to hosts becomes popular and many multicast protocols have been proposed for mobile hosts. But the delivery tree whenever a member moves occur will the problem, either a non-optimal delivery route and overheads caused by the frequent reconstruction of a multicast routing tree. To solve problem like this, in this paper used the tunneling range and search method to routing paths around migration places with simple message. The result provides the shortest routes for delivery of multicast datagrams to mobile hosts and reduces frequent reconstruction of the multicast tree reconfiguration.
|Number of pages||6|
|Journal||Proceedings of the Internatoinal Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS|
|Publication status||Published - 2001|
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Page 41. Capt. John Augustus Sutter, founder of Sutter’s Fort, is remembered chiefly as the one who set off the storied Gold Rush. His role in the transition of California from Mexican to American is less widely known but possibly of greater significance than his discovery of gold.
Page 41. Peter H. Burnett, first elected Governor of American California.
Page 42. William Heath “Kanaka” Davis, who with A.B. Gray, Miguel de Pedrorena, Jose Aguirre and William Ferrell, made the first attempt to relocate San Diego from Old Town to Downtown.
Page 42. Ephraim W. Morse, early San Diego merchant, Associate Justice, County Treasurer, County School Superintendent, and City Treasurer. He operated successful business ventures in Old Town for many years.
Page 43. Ruins of Haraszthy’s jail, which could well have served as the source for the adage that “stone walls do not a prison make.”
Page 44. Great Overland Mail Route, including the California Butterfield State Stations. The San Antonio and San Diego line diverged from the main route at Warner’s Ranch for the run down to San Diego.
Page 44. Vallecito Stage Station. It was built about 1851 by James R. Lassiter.
Page 45. John Judson Ames, publisher of San Diego’s first newspaper, the Herald.
Page 45. “John Phoenix,” alias Lt. George Horatio Derby, San Diego’s first and greatest humorist. His writings, crackling with wit and satire, are as amusing and absorbing today as when they were first published over a hundred years ago. Photo copied from a daguerrotype owned by Derby’s great-granddaughter, Mrs. Helen Gray, in 1952.
Page 46. John G. Capron, who established stage and mail lines to Los Angeles and Tucson in the late 1860’s.
Page 46. Advertisement for J. G. Capron’s stage service between San Diego and Fort Yuma. The stage schedule was dependent on steamer arrivals.
Page 46. “The town should be down by the wharf.” Alonzo E. Horton’s conviction on this point, and his energy in promoting the idea, were the determining factors in the location of Downtown San Diego.
Page 47. Alonzo E. Horton.
Page 47. Chalmers Scott, County Clerk, sealed the fate of Old Town when he moved the county records from Whaley House to Horton Hall, in 1871.
Page 48. Horton House, the leading hostelry of downtown San Diego in the Horton Era.
Page 48. Julian City, center of the San Diego County “gold rush” in the 1870’s.
Page 49. Col. Thomas A. Scott, whose plan to extend the Texas and Pacific Railroad to San Diego as its western terminus, led to a “boom” and to a worse “bust” when the plan failed.
Page 49. Frank Kimball led the group of businessmen who sold the Santa Fe Railway on the idea of making its western terminus San Diego instead of Guaymas. This plan, too, ended in frustration when the railroad reneged on its promise and went to Los Angeles instead.
Page 50. A California Southern excursion train from San Diego to Temecula, 1883.
Page 51. Looking east from Front and D (Broadway) in 1888. Right center, Horton House.
Page 51. Louis Agassiz, the great naturalist, called San Diego “…one of the most favored spots on earth…”
Page 52. Horse car lines began operations in 1886. This photo about 1889 is looking east at4th and H Streets. Courtesy Title Insurance.
Page 52. Sweetwater Dam, built in 1888, was an engineering wonder of the day. It was severely damaged in the 1916 “Hatfield’s Flood,” and was repaired and enlarged in 1917.
Page 53. John D. Spreckels came to Son Diego in 1887. His family was intimately associated with the commercial development of the city during the next several decades.
Page 54. Los Coches Trestle, one of the most spectacular sights along the San Diego Flume, was 65 feet high and 1,774 feet long. The Flume, completed in February, 1889, solved San Diego’s water supply problem for the half century following.
Page 55. Parts of downtown San Diego in 1890 still bore the characteristic appearance of the “Wild West.”
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Italian immigrants have long had a hand in shaping New Orleans culture—grazie for the muffuletta, amici!—and their influence plays a role once again in the design of the newly opened Hotel Saint Vincent.
Housed in an 1860s Lower Garden District building that was originally the Saint Vincent’s Infant Asylum, the boutique hotel was renovated with Italian modernist-style touches overlayed on a backdrop of Western European staples. Austin-based McGuire Moorman Lambert Hospitality opened the hotel in June, and the firm’s sister design company Lambert McGuire Design was responsible for the dramatic details that fill both the public spaces and each of the 75 guestrooms.
“Although the orphanage was built during the Civil War, it had remained fairly untouched structurally since it was built, so we approached the building in the spirit of restoration, with the additional intent of layering a new story on top of the historic structure,” says designer Liz Lambert. “We needed a full reimagination of the place. We wanted to create something grand and a little debaucherous.”
Lambert and her design partner Larry McGuire were careful to keep the character of the building intact while adding modern and opulent accents that would appeal to a new generation of visitors.
“My favorite hotels always seem to be properties that have been in a family for a long time and passed along to new generations, who in turn layer their own remodels and personal styles on top,” says Larry McGuire. “Liz and I imagined that it was our turn and we were going to go ’60s and ’70s decadence over the beautiful base layer of New Orleans classic Garden District design that already existed.”
The hotel is among a handful of haute new properties that have opened in the Crescent City in 2021, including the Four Seasons, the Virgin Hotel and the Kimpton Hotel Fontenot. While we’re busy planning our next weekend getaway, read on for a peek into the sumptuous spaces at the Hotel Saint Vincent, with design inspiration oozing from every historic detail.
The guest-only Chapel Club was furnished with the feel of a classic grand hotel salon in mind. This seating area within the intimate bar space draws its inspiration from the exaggerated curves, deep colors and luxe fabrics that defined midcentury Italian design. Brass and marble accents and a black-painted wood floor add to the mod mood.
New Orleans architecture firm MetroStudio made few visible changes to the hotel’s original 1861 architecture. New Bevolo gas lanterns and sky-blue balcony ceilings stay true to a timeless south Louisiana approach.
A Murano glass mirror reflects a Murano chandelier in the entry to ByGeorge, a new in-hotel incarnation of the Austin shop of the same name. A curvaceous green-painted sideboard features rattan insets that play off the woven texture of the chair nearby, while a black marble cocktail table offers a sleek contrast.
Velvet-upholstered rattan seating and a wicker-shaded floor lamp are combined with a jewel-toned rug in the lobby.
A red mohair-upholstered bed stands out against an all-gray backdrop that envelops walls, moldings and ceiling. A bentwood rocking chair gives a nod to the building’s former life as a home for babies and young children.
Guest bathrooms embody the designers’ 1960s vision, thanks to details like terracotta red tiles and custom psychedelic Voutsa wallpaper inspired by Florentine marble book bindings found in the original orphanage’s owner’s ledgers.
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HARRY REDKNAPP will celebrate his first anniversary of being back in charge at Fratton Park on Thursday by claiming it has been the best year of his managerial career.
Portsmouth missed out on regaining third place in the Premiership, and that shows what an incredible job Redknapp has done following his brief defection to bitter rivals Southampton.
People rave about the work Martin O'Neill has done at Aston Villa but surely Redknapp has surpassed him by turning Portsmouth from relegation certainties to European hopefuls.
And yet Redknapp claims he does not know where he will be in a year's time. You get the feeling new owner Alexandre Gaydamak does not fully appreciate what a good thing he's got going at Fratton Park.
Former chairman Milan Mandaric made that mistake when he let Redknapp go - surely Gaydamak's new regime won't follow suit.
Redknapp claims it is his best year in management - and that is no mean feat considering he guided West Ham into the UEF A Cup and led Portsmouth into the Premiership during his first spell in charge.
But this time he has built a strong squad which, against all the odds, is showing the potential to hang on for a UEFA Cup place at least.
It should be a time for Redknapp to be full of optimism and yet he frets over his Fratton Park future. He said: "I don't think there has been a better calendar year for me than this year. It has been great.
"I'm loving it - it couldn't have gone better.
"We have had a great start to the season. If we can hang in there and finish somewhere up near the top it will be great. That is what we are all aiming for.
"But who knows where I could be this time next year? Who knows what is going to happen in a year's time? I signed a three-year contract here in the summer and hopefully I will still be here. But who knows?
"There were a lot of people waiting for me to fail when I returned but I didn't, and no-one can ever take that away from me.
"When I came back here people told me I was off my head.
"They told me 'you have got no chance, you can't keep them up, it's impossible'. But we did it.''
But while Redknapp has worked miracles at Portsmouth already, he insists that finishing among the Champions League places is an impossible dream.
"We can't finish in the top four," insisted Redknapp. "Look at Arsenal's performance against Spurs. Everything about them is fantastic. There is nothing between them, Chelsea and Manchester United really.
"The three are up there, then Liverpool go to Wigan and spank them. Those four are on another level, and Tottenham should be right there with them given the money they have spent.
"After that, anything can happen. I would be delighted if we could finish in the top eight. That would the highest the club has ever finished the Premiership." Redknapp will cer-tainly be regretting two points dropped after Matthew Taylor cored twice - the second from the spot - to help Portsmouth overturn Gareth Barry's first-half penalty.
But having got themselves ahead in the 80th minute, Pompey allowed Villa substitute Juan Pablo Angel to score an equaliser which was deflected off the hapless Sol Campbell two minutes later.
Then poor Pompey ran out of steam after Pedro Mendes was sent off for the second of two needless yellow cards.
Angel, relegated to the bench after Villa's midweek defeat to Manchester City, insisted that they have the new resilience instilled by manager O'Neill to thank for their fightback.
Angel said: "It's happened a few times this season that we've come from behind to get a result. It shows the difference in the side, the character and the commitment to the cause.
"We keep battling, we hang in there and we're getting the rewards. Everyone knows we didn't have a great game in midweek and that we had to respond to that.
"It was the first time this season that I didn't start. The manager makes the decision and I just have to accept it. The only thing that matters is that we got the point. I was desperate to come on and I was on my toes straight away."
O'Neill, who thought Pompey keeper David James should have been sent off when bringing down Gabriel Agbonlahor for the Villa penalty, said: "I thought it was probably a fair result. We just about deserved the draw.
"After going behind with 10 minutes to go I definitely would have taken a draw but we had plenty of chances.
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Police are upping their efforts to find a 30-year-old man missing since last Thursday (February 23).
Sean Blakey left his sister’s house in Harley Street, Cessnock, around 9.30pm to go out. His family grew worried when he failed to return and reported him missing on Friday .
Sean was captured on CCTV cameras at Cessnock Subway station around 9.38pm, but enquiries have revealed he did not get on a train but headed to a bus stop on Paisley Road West. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Sean often keeps in touch with family and friends via social media and is frequently online, but there has been no online activity since he was last seen on Thursday.
He has also been dealing with some personal issues over the last two months, police have said, and his family are understandably concerned and anxious to know if he is safe and well.
Sean is white, bald and around 6ft tall with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a dark grey jacket, blue jeans and blue and white Adidas trainers.
Inspector Kevin Lammie said: “A week has passed and there has been no contact from Sean. This, along with the fact that he’s been dealing with some personal issues, is giving us cause for concern.
“We know Sean enjoys going out with friends and socialises in the John Street area of the city centre where he is well known to bar staff and patrons but no one has seen or heard from him which is unusual.
“I am appealing to anyone who may have seen Sean or who has any information or knowledge concerning him to contact us immediately.”
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Ha nicotine, you suck and I am beating the hell out of you! Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to shout, I miss you so much my friend. I dream of the days we spent together, traveling, drinking coffee, driving to work, taking a break at work, playing games on my phone, just before bed, just as I woke up, waiting for a friend, in the courtyard at the pub, drinking beer. All that is gone now, a fading memory but I will never forget you my beloved cigarettes and all you have meant to me and done for me. Maybe one day we can be together again but no……..I must not think this way, I must let you go because I love you so.
Three weeks, three very long testing weeks. Of course the morons came out to play and push my buttons in my first few days without a smoke but something was different this time, I enjoyed the pain, I enjoyed having to endure the stupidity of mankind that was pushed in my face like a scabby strippers groin. I stayed the course through disaster and turmoil and out rightly refused to relapse though temptation was so very high. I also gained a new even more ridiculous habit, the electric cigarette. It looks like a real one. The end lights up when you draw back on it like a real one. It even lets you inhale some sort of vapour into your lungs and appear to blow out smoke but you know what, it is not a cigarette. Yet for someone so hopelessly addictive like me it has been a whole new thing for me to focus on and obsess over and has helped in some strange way in situations where I may have weakened, whatever works right?
I’m not sure at what point I can cross “quit cigarettes” off THE LIST but it feels a little too early just yet however I have a very handsome moustache of the “trucker" genus which currently is more of a Lemmy-Motorhead growth (minus the warts) that I am quite happy with and can cross “grow a moustache” off THE LIST. I will work it into a few styles over the next few weeks until I get sick of it but for now, my first moustache.
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This coming weekend is the 10km and I have done next to no training in the last week except some gym time so I’m just going to wing it and hope I pull through easily enough this time just because I’m off the cigarettes.
Next goals I am aiming at after completing the 10km are the movie oriented goals as I commence a screenwriting course next week and have recently joined discussions with a group of filmmakers. I should have a short film or two written by the end of the month and also lock in some flight tickets for the travel goals to be crossed off THE LIST early next year but more on that after this weekends run.
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There are no shortages of diets and weight-loss programs, offering conflicting tips and advice. The sheer amount of information can lead many of us to stick our heads in the sand and hope our genes will withstand decades of poor eating and little or no exercise.
“Filtering the plethora of diet information from television, books and the Internet can be overwhelming,” says K. C. Craichy, a leading health researcher, speaker, and consultant on optimized natural health, nutrition, and fitness. “And the many dieting fads can prevent people from establishing lifelong healthy habits.”
Here’s what you need to know about some of the most popular weight-loss programs and plans available today, according to Craichy, who has authored “The Super Health Diet,” a new book to help people successfully navigate this maze of diets and programs.
We’ve all seen the TV commercials for weight-loss centers touting celebrity success stories. For the most part, these clubs provide a strong support network for people who have tried to lose weight on their own and failed.
Many of these programs rely on a point system or prepackaged food they sell to you. But these methods, while successful, can be hard to maintain once you are no longer in the program because they do not promote permanent lifestyle changes or teach you to prepare healthy meals on your own.
From Atkins to The Zone to the new Macrobiotic and Vegan craze, America has rarely been without a diet fad. Many of these programs have helped people lose weight, even though they appear to give contradictory advice – one may advocate a low carbohydrate, high protein diet, while the other an average carb, low protein diet.
The main reason for their success is that most Americans have unhealthy diets and overestimate portion allowances, so any restrictive diet is bound to help them lose weight. But these diets may not prepare you for optimum health and can be inconvenient to follow, especially those requiring unusual foods.
The Mediterranean diet
Several decades ago, medical researchers began to take notice that people living in the Mediterranean, particularly in southern Italy and Greece, had lower rates of cardiovascular disease. They found that their diets contained low amounts of red meat, moderate levels of fish and poultry (once or twice a week), and high levels of fruits, vegetables, nuts, olive oil and legumes.
Craichy says the key factors to this type of diet are the small portions, the use of omega-3 and other healthy fats like olive oil, resveratrol from grapes or red wine, and nutrient dense foods. His own suggested diet, based on years of research, emphasizes small, nutrient-dense portions, along with supplementing your diet with broad- spectrum antioxidants, minimizing sugar, and consuming high quality fats and fatty acids.
To learn more about weight-loss techniques that can work for you, check out “The Super Health Diet” or visit www.LivingFuel.com.
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...A much better story is what happened before I got to the eye doctor. A much better story took place in the cab ride downtown, when I got into a rather interesting discussion about dignity with the driver. It was like a page/scene straight out of "Remains of the Day," except instead of an aging English butler, the main character was a thirty-something Sudanese man. And instead of the English countryside, the setting was L Street. And also, I'm pretty sure Mr. Stevens, the butler in "Remains of the Day" who was played on screen by Sir Anthony Hopkins, never uttered the phrase, "She wanted me to be having sexy on her." (
"People in DC, they don't have dignity," said the driver.
"Hear hear, good chap!" I said.
"They say, to someone like me, disrespectful things because they are very much ignorant."
"Kind sir, whatever does one utter that should be so unbecoming?" I said, whilst buffing my monocle with my plus-fours. (And for the record, despite how disturbing that sounds, this is not when the phrase, "She wanted me to be having sexy on her," came up.)
The cab driver continued: "I give example. One time, I picked up someone in night. This is what made me not ever work in night again." He paused. "Should I tell you? I don't want you to take offense..."
"Carry on, my good man," I said, reapplying my monocle. "As an Englishman, I take offense to only two things in this world: smudged monocles and, of course, dental hygiene."
"She was white, like you, and drunk, like..."
"I assure you I am sober, good man! This flask is full of...tea. And crumpets. Blended together. With fish and chips. And gruel. That's how we eat in England."
"She was from another state. Maybe California or LA. She stay at somewhere like Ritz Carlton in Tyson's Corner. Rich. I take her all the way out there. Long way. As we come near she say, 'I can't believe I end my night with cab driver.' She said with hate. Like I not good enough."
"Cor blimey! She sounds like a manky, pissed up nutter of a scrubber!"
"She sounds like an skanky asshole."
"Yes! She wanted me to be having sexy on her! But was mean and embarrassed because I am not yet a powerful man."
"But you have dignity."
"Yes. Even as cab driver now. This why I refuse her and refuse to work at night. I have standards. I have dignity! But I have ambitions also."
"When I finish school, I will rule people like that one day!"
"Yes! I will be powerful and control them! HA!"
"I will get all beautiful women to ask me to be having sexy on them and they will respect me!"
"It is the American dream..."
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"Cable. He sleeps with her then shoots her in the head."This is Raven you're talking about right?
Her and an old guy who isn't particularly a ladies man and the first thing you think of is them sleeping together?
I can't concentrate on this battle cause I'm too worried you'll masturbate to it you dirty old person.
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Since the Summer Holidays ended Weevily World views have dropped a little but yesterday, despite only one post being published, we received almost 3,000 views!
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A man who seriously injured a woman and her cousin by throwing acid into their car has been jailed for 16 years.
Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar had been out celebrating Ms Khan’s 21st birthday on 21 June when they were attacked in Beckton, east London.
John Tomlin, 25, of Colman Road, Canning Town, admitted intentionally causing the pair grievous bodily harm.
Ms Khan told Snaresbrook Crown Court her birthday “turned into a day where my face was taken away from me”.
“I have been looking at myself in the mirror it upsets me, it brings back the incident on the day, it doesn’t look like me,” she added in her victim impact statement.
Sentencing Tomlin, Judge Sheelagh Canavan said the injuries were “dreadful and life changing”.
She added: “It is becoming all too common an occurrence on our streets that members of the public are pouring water over people who have had acid thrown over them, as if this is some sort of fashionable assault that is being carried out.”
Ms Khan, a Manchester Metropolitan University student, suffered face and neck injuries and was left with damage to her left eye.
She will carry lifelong scars and has suffered from severe depression and anxiety as a result of the attack, the court heard.
Mr Mukhtar, 37, who had to be placed in an induced coma, has permanent scarring to his head, neck and body and has lost hearing in one of his ears.
In his victim statement he told the court he suffers from depression and has tried to take his own life.
“I get flashbacks and am really worried to leave my house, constantly looking over my right shoulder fearing attacks,” he added.
“I am mentally and physically scarred for life. I can’t even have a relationship. It’s enough dealing with myself.”
Tomlin hurled acid through both front windows of the Renault Clio as it pulled up on Tollgate Road.
He was seen on CCTV chasing after the car and emptying the bottle of acid over Mr Muhktar as he sped away.
Witnesses described seeing the victims “jumping around as if they were on fire” in the road as their clothing “literally melted off them on to the ground”.
Tomlin was arrested after handing himself in to the police a month after the attack and said in a police interview that he was “hearing voices in my head”.
The victims had “no previous dealings” with their attacker and Judge Canavan previously described the assault as “somewhat random”.
Speaking outside court, Mr Muhktar branded Tomlin an “animal” and a “coward” and said he “deserves the death penalty”.
“The sentence isn’t long enough, my life has finished, I’m in continuous pain, I can’t sleep and I can’t eat,” he added.
“He should have been given life, he should have done the whole of his life in prison.”
Ms Khan added: “I hope to push through and get on as if it never happened.”
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In my experience, both of these cards earned miles when I experimented with buying money orders from different institutions as a PIN-based transaction.
To be clear – I do NOT recommend buying money orders and depositing it back into your bank account to earn miles. Such activity is easy to trace, and in large amounts will be reported to the government, and there are reports of folks getting their accounts closed for this abuse. Bank of America has blacklisted some folks from ALL of their products (bank accounts, loans etc.) including their credit cards which you may be able to get again (…and again).
Some of you will disregard this, but do so at your own risk.
But this could be a way to earn miles for genuine payments such as mortgage payments, student loan payments, or any payments where you write a check, but don’t earn miles and points. This isn’t a revolutionary idea and such thoughts have been around for years. Over the years, buying money orders with a debit card have earned miles and points, and sometimes they have not earned miles and points.
Terms & Conditions of the Debit Cards
Both debit cards appear to have restrictions in their terms and conditions against earning miles.
The card which earns Delta miles says (bolding mine):
Only PIN Point of Sale [POS] and signature-based purchases (including small dollar purchases that do not require a signature), Internet purchases, phone or mail order purchases or automatic bill payments qualify for mileage earnings. Cash advances, cash portion of a PIN POS sale with cash back, ATM transactions, payments for stored-value cards, wire transfers, money transfers, quasi cash, and traveler’s cheques do not qualify.
The card which earns Alaska Airline miles says (bolding mine):
We take the total amount of POS [point of sale] purchases for a calendar month and subtract any (a) credits related to POS purchases, (b) other adjustments to your deposit account related to POS purchases, (c) cash back from a POS transaction, (d) (d) quasicash transactions, which are transactions convertible to cash and include the purchase of money orders, travelers checks, foreign currency, cashier’s checks, gaming chips, and other similar instruments and things of value.
But in my experience – and I’ve done this for only ~$200 on each debit card – I have earned miles when I bought money orders at these establishments.
However, this could stop anytime since the terms and conditions are written to prevent earning miles for buying money orders. In addition, this is likely unprofitable for the banks involved, and I suspect the ability to earn miles for purchasing debit cards is on its way out.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to buy a money order with a credit card yet, but let us know in the comments if you’ve been able to.
Where Can You Buy Money Orders With a Debit Card?
In my experience, you can buy them at many places including:
The Worlds Largest Retailer. I went to the Money Center and bought money orders.
Certain Grocery Stores. I’ve personally verified this at the store below which is part of the largest grocery chain in the US. Some grocery stores refused to sell me money orders with a debit card, but each store has its own rules, so ask around.
Post Offices: Places where you send mail and buy stamps also sell money orders.
Gas Stations. Some gas stations refused to sell me money orders with a debit card, but each store has its own rules.
The gas station below is part of the same large grocery chain above and sold me a money order with a debit card.
I’m sure there are other places (drug stores, small grocery shops, etc.) where you can buy money orders with a debit card, so ask around.
Buying lots of money orders will arouse suspicion – at the banks and at the places you buy them from. That’s because anyone can buy money orders and deposit them in banks and “launder” money.
If the banks get suspicious, they may file a Suspicious Activity Report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Or they may shut down your account without allowing you to explain the transactions.
Standard Chartered just paid $340 million to settle a money laundering charge with regulators so the stakes are high with banks likely to shut down activity which they feel is too risky.
In addition, most sellers of money orders will ask for identification and take down your social security number, driver’s license and other identifying information if you usually attempt to buy more than $3,000 in money orders at a time, and most will not sell you more than $10,000 worth of money orders a day. But you shouldn’t need such high limits if you use them for genuine transactions.
Bottom Line: Using debit cards to buy money orders to pay your babysitter or to pay your mortgage or student loans could be worth it to earn miles. But be careful and know that the repeated purchasing of money orders can be suspicious and that you could have your bank account closed.
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With the buzzwords of knowledge-based economy and knowledge-driven economy, policy-makers, as well as journalists and management consultants, are pushing forward a vision of change that transforms the way advanced economies work. Yet little is understood about how the knowledge-based economy differs from the old, traditional economy. It is generally agreed that the phenomenon has grown out of the branch of economic thought known as new growth theory. Digesting up-to-date thinking in economics, management, innovation studies and economic geography, this significant volume provides an account of these developments and how they have transformed advanced economies. | <urn:uuid:401830f6-48fd-4e8b-a40a-bb33370ee4e9> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://fidibo.com/book/76748-%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-competing-knowledge | 2020-04-10T08:07:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371893683.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410075105-20200410105605-00516.warc.gz | en | 0.953754 | 136 |
TRNSMT Festival is back for a second year with a diverse line-up, which includes your favourite timeless and emerging artists ready to take over both stages. The festival generously covers multiple dates to amplify your festival experience, providing a huge variation of music to choose from through the five available dates, ranging from 29th June to 8th July.
With the festival fast approaching, we’ve highlighted our favourite acts from each day so you can plan ahead – prepare yourself for a fun-filled day (or five) of running around Glasgow Green to your favourite tunes!
Taking over the first Friday of the festival, we’ll see James Bay with his brand new album Electric Light, alongside Dublin boys The Script and Welsh rock band Stereophonics – first signed in the 1990’s, Kelly Jones and the boys are squeezing in TRNSMT among their worldwide tour to perform a mix of incredible tracks from their ten huge studio albums.
Also playing the main stage are indie heartbreakers Kodaline, along with Yorkshire rockers, Embrace. Jessie J will also perform, mixing up the indie rock filled day with her fun, pop focused set list.
If you want new music in your life, head to the King Tut’s stage to find sets from the likes of Tom Walker, Pale Waves, Marmozets, The Ninth Wave and Slydigs. Be sure to catch British singer-songwriter Sam Fender, who has been named one of the BBC’s Sound of 2018 alongside other huge emerging artists.
TRNSMT have exceeded expectations this year with the king of rock n’ roll himself taking over Saturday night’s main stage. Liam Gallagher and his new album, As You Were, are sure to polish the day off nicely following Manchester lads The Courteeners. Also playing the main stage are Wolf Alice following last year’s album release, Visions of a Life.
The Sherlocks emerged from Sheffield in 2014 and continue to build a growing fan base with the release of their consistently cool, catchy indie singles such as ‘Live for the Moment.’ You can watch them on the King Tut’s stage alongside The View’s Kyle Falconer, who’s due to release his new album this year.
Scottish band The Snuts will also make an appearance, promoting their beautifully chilled, guitar focused tracks from their EP, The Matador. Having previously supported Lewis Capaldi, they have a diary packed with festival dates and a sold out tour – keep your eyes peeled for these boys! They’re on to something.
To finish off the first weekend at Glasgow Green we have Weezer inspired four-piece The Magic Gang and Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy with his incredible heart wrenching tracks. Brisbane based Confidence Man are booked to take things up a notch with their debut album ‘Confident Music for Confident People’. Having torn up Australia’s music scene and now signed to London label, Heavenly, they’re sure to brighten up this Summer’s festivals with their false names and edgy, electronic dance vibes.
Sunday will see the comeback of the Arctic Monkeys; a long awaited return triggering a weekend sell-out. With the release of their sixth studio album (Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino) just seven weeks before they’re due to headline, we can guarantee this is going to be a big one.
Over the final weekend of the festival, we’ll see sets from popular artists Queen & Adam Lambert, The Killers and Jessie Ware. Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi and synth-pop band Chvrches, fronted by the talented Lauren Mayberry, will also be playing the main stage throughout the Sunday.
Friendly Fires are returning to festival season with their anticipated comeback; their new single ‘Love Like Waves’ was released last month following a huge show at Brixton’s O2 Academy – don’t miss them at the main stage on Sunday 8th July.
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Ben Hartman grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Indiana and graduated college with degrees in English and philosophy. Ben and his wife, Rachel Hershberger, own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana, where they make their living growing and selling specialty crops on less than one acre. Their food is sold locally to restaurants and cafeterias, at a farmers market, and through a community-supported-agriculture (CSA) program. The farm has twice won Edible Michiana’s Reader’s Choice award. The Lean Farm, Ben’s first book, won the Shingo Institute’s prestigious Research and Professional Publication Award. In 2017, Ben was named one of fifty emerging green leaders in the United States by Grist. Follow the Clay Bottom Farm on Facebook.
Caryn Hartglass: Okay, now with my next guest. Because we want to eat all of those wonderful plant foods, where are they going to come from?
Ben Hartman, my next guest, is going to tell us a little bit more. He’s got a new book out The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables. Ben grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Indiana. Graduated college with degrees in English and philosophy. Ben and his wife, Rachel Hershberger, own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana where they make their living growing and selling specialty crops on less than one acre. Their food is sold locally to restaurants, cafeterias, at a farmers’ market, and through a community supported agriculture CSA program. The farm has twice won Edible Michiana’s Reader’s Choice award. The Lean Farm, Ben’s first book, won the Shingo’s Institute Prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. In 2017, Ben was named one of 50 emerging green leaders in the United States by Grist.
Welcome to It’s All About Food, Ben. How are you today?
Ben Hartman: Hey, thanks for having me. I’m well.
Caryn Hartglass: I’m glad, I’m glad. I really enjoyed reading your book and I read it rather quickly. At some point, when I’m ready to start my farm, this is going to be my guide. It’s amazing!
Ben Hartman: Hey, thank you. I appreciate it.
Caryn Hartglass: But I guess because you have degrees in English, that helped you write books.
Ben Hartman: Sure, never hurt.
Caryn Hartglass: So I have an engineering background and I love systems and organization. I know a lot of us when we think about the Earth and plants and growing things, it all seems to some degrees mysterious and to some degree difficult to control. Fortunately, the last fifty to seventy-five years, industrial agriculture’s been trying to culture the environment and growing plants with all kinds of toxic chemicals and stuff.
But you’ve come up with a plan that is sustainable and intelligent. And you can actually make some money.
Ben Hartman: Yeah. I think the local food movement is at a point where there actually is some real money in it, if you take the right approach. I try to outline that approach in the book. As you probably know, the lean system began in manufacturing.
Caryn Hartglass: Yup.
Ben Hartman: We’re kind of taking it out of the factory and putting it out onto the farm. A customer of ours approached us and asked if we would be interested in trying out this lean system on a farm. He runs a factory, lives in a trailer company. To be honest, we told him thanks but no thanks. Part of the reason is that factory methods on farms haven’t always turned out sustainable results. In fact, it’s less sustainability. The thing I told him was, “Imagine you’re running a factory without a roof over your head.”
Caryn Hartglass: (laughs)
Ben Hartman: There’s just too much solubility out here. You can’t systematize anything, much less a lean system.
However, in the end, we said yes. Really, at the heart of it, “lean” is about identifying waste and eliminating it from your system. Then delivering precisely what your customer wants, identifying what your customer wants, and really listening and taking your customer seriously. We had to admit that we actually did have a lot of waste on our farm and there was a lot of room for improvement. So we said okay, we’ll try it and see what happens.
We’ve tweaked the system. Not every piece of lean system fits superbly on a farm. However, the basic concept is identifying your waste and get rid of the waste has really given us a boost in profits, and farming is easier to do too.
Caryn Hartglass: This idea of waste and reducing waste is more profitable—and also saves you time—is very powerful, especially now where most of us—not everyone—is talking about climate change. According to drawdown.org, food waste is the third topic they list that can have the most improvement on climate change by reducing food waste. We lose food by so many different steps, but the biggest place that we lose food is on the farm. When you can be better about that, it’s also going to help improve our environment.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh, absolutely. As you might know, the U.S. Department of Ag estimates that 20% of fresh fruits and vegetables that are produced are never even harvested and they’re never even going to leave their seals. Agriculture, as an industry, contributes more to fossil fuels and probable solutions than any other industry. So we have a lot on our shoulders here in the ag industry to take that seriously, and to reduce the amount of fossil fuel consumption and the amount of waste on our farms.
Caryn Hartglass: Yes.
Ben Hartman: Really, it’s good for us too. It’s not just good for everyone else living on planet Earth, it really does help on your bottom line to just cut out the waste and make sure that every seed turns into cash. That you’re not wasting any effort.
Caryn Hartglass: And I was fascinated by so many different steps that you looked at—just about every step in your process—and found ways to make things more efficient and faster. There was one line… I’m trying to remember what it was… But you said the work is tedious but should not be mindless. That applies to everything we do in life. So many things are routine, difficult, and challenging, but so important to be mindful about everything that we do. The discovery can be amazing.
Ben Hartman: Yeah. That’s one of the benefits of applying lean to the business. It declutters your working environment and makes it more easy to slip into a state of flow, where you can focus on the work at hand. And a result in happiness. Research shows that the most productive and the happiest workers, whether they’re on farms or on other places, are workers who have just what they need in front of them and no more. When you can get rid of the clutter, get rid of everything you don’t need and you can focus—it still can be hard work; I don’t want to say that it is not sometimes hard work on a farm. However, you can focus and you can enjoy your work more.
Caryn Hartglass: Now you’ve taken a lot of knowledge from the Japanese.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh.
Caryn Hartglass: I imagine that some of their skills come from a great need for not having a lot of land and needing to be able to grow as efficiently as they possibly could.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh.
Caryn Hartglass: Yeah.
Ben Hartman: That’s true in countries like South Korea and Japan. Their small farming community is decades ahead of ours here. Maybe the tools that we use come from those countries, and the methods and the techniques. The reason is, as you say, they do not have access to large tracts of land. They’ve had to maximize every square foot in order to feed their growing populations.
That is at the heart of the lean system because the first workers at Toyota were rice farmers—Toyota’s considered the originator of the lean system. These rice farmers brought this really lean, no-waste way of thinking onto the factory floor. At the time, just after World War II, when Toyota began, it was a challenging environment to be an automobile manufacturer because the country had just been bombed out. No one was purchasing vehicles in Japan, and there are no stable suppliers for parts. It was a very difficult time to begin in automobile business.
However, they said we’re going to do it anyhow. We want to catch up to the U.S. automakers within three years.
So they set about applying this rice farm thinking to the factory, and they did it. Within a couple of decades, they had outpaced every other auto manufacturer. Became the world’s number one auto manufacturer.
Caryn Hartglass: My first car was a Toyota. (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: Okay, great. And it lasted a long time, probably.
Caryn Hartglass: It did. Absolutely.
Ben Hartman: So Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sent a team of researchers over in the 1980s to figure out just what the heck is going on. That team really clarified the lean system and explained it in such a way that other businesses such as ours could use it and implement it.
Caryn Hartglass: One of the things that I love about it is that it takes into consideration that nothing is stagnant; everything changes, and you have to consistently go with the flow and change along with it.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh, yeah. Change is the one thing that is constant—in the lean system.
Caryn Hartglass: That’s right. (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: The idea is that it’s not just to make your work more interesting. It’s we change… because we’re imperfect, and there’s always a better solution. If you think you’ve found the final solution, you’re probably ready to be shown the door. Because there are no final solutions. There are only implementations of perfection.
In the lean system, they say that perfection is the goal. You want to produce zero waste, absolutely no waste in your system. That is obviously unobtainable. There is always some waste that will come creeping in, one way or the other. However, if that’s what the goal is, you can always come closer.
Caryn Hartglass: Mm.
Ben Hartman: We’ve found every year we grow using different methods. The pacing changes really quick on our farm. We’re constantly finding new techniques, new methods, and new process recipes. It keeps our farm more interesting, and it makes it more profitable.
Caryn Hartglass: And did I read this right? Did you move around what you grow over different parts? You don’t always grow the same thing from the same plot?
Ben Hartman: Yeah, that’s true. There is quite a bit of rotation.
Caryn Hartglass: And why do you do that?
Ben Hartman: The idea behind that is one of the principles of lean is full capacity production. You want to be using every square foot of your factory, or every square inch of your greenhouse.
So what we do is that we see a space that is not used—certainly when a plot becomes open—we work very quickly to put a crop in. As soon as we harvest. For instance, maybe we have a bed of 300 heads of lettuce. Within a couple of hours, we’re going to plant some beets or something else in that space.
We’re constantly in that full capacity production. There’re no spaces that are open for very long. Just by virtue of following that principle, the crops get shifted around quite often.
Caryn Hartglass: You cover so many different things. You have one chapter on weed and pest control.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh.
Caryn Hartglass: Which is a big issue, especially for those of us who want organic food. You grow organically, but you also use organic certification approved methods to handle pests and weeds. And I liked a number of times in the book when you talked about certain methods that people do, you always ended up finding that you liked the methods that seemed to work best were the ones where there was planning and preventative stuff ahead of time rather than having to fix something later on.
Ben Hartman: Yeah. In general, if we want a successful (say) tomato harvest in August, then the real planning for that begins in the previous August. About a year ahead. With soil preparation. With making sure that the infrastructure pieces are in place. And obviously listening to the customers, making sure that you’re growing the right type of tomatoes, the right color of tomatoes.
In that way, farming is unique. Because most crops that we grow take at least two to three months, and sometimes more. Relatively slow turnaround compared to a furniture factory.
Caryn Hartglass: (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: Where the producer can take an order in an afternoon. So we have a very slow turnaround period where I think it means that we have to work extra hard to plan ahead.
Caryn Hartglass: Speaking of tomatoes, you talked about the difference between heirloom, hybrid, and heritage tomatoes. Can you explain that to all of us who don’t really know for sure?
Ben Hartman: Basically an heirloom tomato would be a tomato whose seeds have been passed through the generations. So these are older, traditional varieties. Generations ago, they used to breed tomatoes for their flavor. Hard to believe, isn’t it? (chuckles)
Caryn Hartglass: (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: Now modern tomato breeders are, in general, looking for a tomato that ships. They want a hard outer shell.
Caryn Hartglass: Mm.
Ben Hartman: And they usually want a pretty regular-looking tomato. You don’t want too many funky colors and shapes.
These older tomatoes actually taste really good. On the other hand, these heirloom tomatoes often tend not to be very disease resistant. So a hybrid tomato would be a newer type of tomato that is bred—like I said—to ship and for uniformity.
A newer type of tomato would be a heritage tomato, and a heritage tomato would be a hybrid tomato that harkens back towards heirloom tomatoes. So there are newer types of tomatoes that are more disease resistant, and they have the color and the flavor of those heirloom tomatoes that you’d have.
We grow a mix of all three types, depending on what our customers are asking.
Caryn Hartglass: Right. Now back to weed and pest control because I was going somewhere and then I kind of went somewhere else. (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: Okay.
Caryn Hartglass: The point I was trying to make was when you plan like when you plan for tomatoes or when you plan for so many other things on your farm, you can significantly reduce the number of pests and weeds that are growing throughout rather than having to apply something unpleasant to get rid of them later on. Right?
Ben Hartman: That’s correct. Essentially what we’ve managed—an analogy would be like a carpenter building a house. You’re going to tackle that project with a whole truckload of tools. With weed management, I think it helps to have a lot of tools at your disposal. It’s a complicated subject. There a lot of ins and outs; it depends on the crop that’s going in.
However, a general rule that we use is if that crop is in the ground for two months or more. These would include tomatoes or peppers. As long as we’re using crops, we’re going to be using some type of mulch. Either a plastic mulch or a natural mulch like we use and strip off. If it’s a shorter season crop (two months or less), then we cultivate those crops plain.
Probably the most effective way that we have eliminated weeds from our farm is to simply transplant everything. We use very little dry seeding for the crop. Most of our crops go in between when they’re four to six weeks ahead. That means that they’re also four to six weeks ahead of the weeds. We can get a jump on them. That really cuts out on the weeding that we have to do.
Caryn Hartglass: Now, I imagine a lot of these techniques that you have developed can apply to any size farm or even someone’s garden.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh. The reason is the types of waste that the lean system has identified, they’re ubiquitous. Rachel and I actually have a garden at our home, and those types of waste are in our home garden. They’re in the kitchen, they’re in the garage, they’re everywhere. And they’re in all kinds of work environments. There’s waiting waste, wasted motion—the book outlines the ten types.
And so it’s true. The vegetable growing techniques that we use, we use on a scale of about half an acre. You can certainly use every technique in there on a home garden too.
Caryn Hartglass: Your farm is called Clay Bottom Farm, and you’ve talked about how the soil is clay, actually.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh.
Caryn Hartglass: You have these tables and things about the different types of soils you can have to farm in. But I was surprised because I never thought you could grow anything in clay.
Ben Hartman: It’s a double-edged sword because it’s very difficult to work. It sticks in your house, it sticks to your tools. It’s very hard to transplant into. However, clay holds so much nutrients that you need to add very little fertility to it.
Basically what we did was we added lots of weeds, lots of grass clippings, lots of pasture toppings—lots of organic mulch. We made a lot of compost. We added that and mixed it in, and that really loosened it and made it a workable soil. We’ve been very happy with it.
Caryn Hartglass: You have two young children now, right?
Ben Hartman: That’s correct, yeah, I have two. One and three.
Caryn Hartglass: One and three. And they’re out there helping out on the farm.
Ben Hartman: I mean, I would use the word “help” in air quotes. (chuckles)
Caryn Hartglass: (laughs) Because there were some pretty good pictures in your book. (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: Yeah, we actually love and adore our kids. One of the many benefits of leading up our property and our farm, the one that I am proudest of, is that it frees up a couple days a week that I can spend on our kids.
Caryn Hartglass: And you can even take a vacation.
Ben Hartman: And that we have plenty of time for vacations. I had five camping trips with them last year.
Caryn Hartglass: Oh my goodness.
Ben Hartman: It’s an absolutely chill way to farm with kids, as long as you have the time and energy to do it.
Caryn Hartglass: You also talk about how you’re going to decide what to grow and how, to some extent, let your customers lead you—or pull you, I think the term was.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Caryn Hartglass: So what are the trends right now? What are the customers demanding?
Ben Hartman: Most people in the U.S. now eat outside of the home, most of the time. And for the minority of foods that we eat are prepared in the home. What’s trending is foods that are prepared, which means that it fails to rest on, are really booming. Especially these artisan restaurants. We’ve noticed the last five or six years in our business that our sales for restaurants went from 20% to the point where you see most of our food now, 50%, goes to restaurants.
What that means is that we’re doing a lot of listening to chefs. You can do what I do with anywhere. I go in, I talk to each of our chefs, and I try to eat a meal at each of the restaurants that we deliver here. And we’re serving the menus. I’ll ask, “Hey, chef. What’s new on the menu now that’s here?” and “Could we plant crops that are complimenting what you’re doing?” I can offer suggestions too. But in general, we take their lead and really try to listen closely.
According to lean, there are basically three questions that you need to ask your customer:
1. What will you want, what’s the specific product that you’re after?
2. When do you want it?
3. How much do you want?
Very simple. It’s not very difficult to address and answer these questions. However, it does take a little extra effort.
We found that a very simple technique is to go to each of our customers, each of our chefs, and ask them a version of these three questions. And then we pull a calendar out for the coming year and we file their orders. We get them what they want, when they want it, and the right amount throughout the growing season. The closer that we are to answering and delivering on those questions precisely, then the more profitable we are at the end of the year. And that’s basically our farm system.
Caryn Hartglass: Okay, so what did they ask for last winter?
Ben Hartman: Fennel is becoming more popular because it has a lot of uses. For instance, we have our microbrewery that shreds their fennel and puts it on their hamburgers. There’s another restaurant that makes a fennel slaw; it’s like a coleslaw that’s half-fennel. There’s another restaurant that’s roasting them.
Caryn Hartglass: Wow, nice.
Ben Hartman: They’ll cut into little half-inch, little French fry shapes, and they roast them. They make a wonderful side dish.
Caryn Hartglass: Wonderful. I lived in the south of France in the early ‘90s, and fennel is very popular in French cuisine. I guess the American chefs are figuring that out now.
Ben Hartman: Uh-huh. And another one that’s becoming more popular is rhubarb.
Caryn Hartglass: Really?
Ben Hartman: Rhubarb’s an older, traditional vegetable. However, there’s so much you can do with it, including drinks. There’s a traditional rhubarb drink that some places are starting to use.
Caryn Hartglass: Oh wow.
Ben Hartman: And obviously desserts. There’s a whole range of desserts and other fruits you can mix it with.
Caryn Hartglass: And what does rhubarb look like when you grow it?
Ben Hartman: It grows low to the ground. Looks like a small bush with large elephant-eared shaped leaves. The chefs, they like the rhubarb ripe. They like the bright red stalks. They want a lot of color.
Caryn Hartglass: Yeah, I’ve seen the stalks sold in stores, but I didn’t know what the entire plant looked like or where those stalks came from.
Ben Hartman: Mm.
Caryn Hartglass: (chuckles)
Ben Hartman: It’s very easy to grow them in your home because they’re perennial. You can plant it once and you can harvest it for ten to twenty years.
Caryn Hartglass: Right. Well, this is just fascinating and—what we’re talking about now is The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables, but you had a book previous to this that kind of goes along with it, right?
Ben Hartman: Yeah, my first book is just called Lean Farm. That talks about the lean system in general terms and explains it in such a way that I think farmers can wrap their heads around it. Then I give examples of how we apply lean, in some cases, on our farms.
Then the new book which is just coming out a week ago is called The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables. This one gives you detailed information on how to grow crops, whether you’re home garden or market grower. I tell you everything that I learned in the last fifteen years.
Caryn Hartglass: (laughs)
Ben Hartman: It’s the book that I wished I had and available when I began.
Caryn Hartglass: You talk in the book about how most of your customers you try to keep within a ten-mile radius, and that also helps keep your system lean because you’re not wasting money on travel. And that’s really the way how all farms should operate. Shouldn’t we have farms near the population and working together?
Ben Hartman: It’s actually the way that all farms used to operate. It’s only been in the last two to three generations that we’ve kind of gotten used to this idea that we can ship our food across the world to whoever wants to pay enough to eat it. The reality is within 100 miles in just about any part of the U.S., you can grow such a wide range of crops. If you want to start as a small-scale farmer, there’s really no reason to look very far from home. And I say keep your food as close to home as possible.
Caryn Hartglass: Those are great messages. Ben Hartman, thank you so much for joining me today. I loved reading your book. Thank you for creating this system that is going to be so helpful to so many people.
Ben Hartman: Hey, thank you for having me. Thank you.
Caryn Hartglass: You’re welcome. Ben Hartman, The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables, published by Chelsea Green, one of my favorite publishers.
Well, that wraps up another It’s All About Food show. I’m so glad you joined me. And remember, if you’re still thinking about Plant-Powered and Thriving, we’re starting tonight. Go to thriving.foodrevolution.org/join/.
I’m Caryn Hartglass. Thanks for joining me on It’s All About Food. Have a delicious week!
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Part A: In Good Company
The website in question is where you, right now, can go to listen to live recordings of New York’s Alarm Will Sound ensemble performing original commissions at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, including work by composers Clint Needham and Liza White.
It is where CHROMA, the London-based chamber-music group, posted the world premiere of Rolf Hind’s piece for featured clarinet soloist, “Sit Stand Walk.”
And it’s where London’s Barbican Centre has uploaded numerous Beethoven recordings by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, under the baton of Kurt Masur.
It is not the website of a leading classical publication. It is not the online culture section of The New York Times or the London Guardian. It is not a digital offshoot of WQXR or NPR, or of big-eared KCRW for that matter.
No, it is SoundCloud.com, and it has quickly become, with good reason, the default go-to site for music hosting by all manner of musicians, not just aspiring pop stars and bedroom beatmakers, but also those involved in new and experimental composition and performance. The following overview is intended to provide an introduction to making use of SoundCloud, including some tips for maximizing one’s efforts, as well as some passing contextual and tactical thoughts on why SoundCloud has proved as popular and functional as it has.
Part B: Crash Once, Twice Shy
New music makers have numerous reasons for wariness before taking the time generally necessary to master yet another online music-hosting platform.
Why even try, when so many services have let you down before? All that fine-tuning of a personalized MySpace page, only for the user base to up and leave it like a ghost town? All that effort in uploading a project to Archive.org, only to discover that the tag processing is unwieldy? All that work getting music into iTunes, only to have track previews limited to 30 measly seconds, and to be left wondering how, other than linking, you might actually promote your music?
The issues with music-hosting platforms are cultural as much as they are technological. Viewed as a whole, the variety of barriers to having proper online representations suggest something akin to a digital-era conspiracy to keep complex music off the Internet.
Here are some of the hassles:
There is sound quality. At least since iTunes debuted and introduced a particularly low-grade format (128kbps) as an audio standard, the sonic compression of digital music has not suited the dynamic range of most music that doesn’t fall within the broadly defined realm of “pop.” Over time, the standard MP3 file sizes have, thankfully, enlarged (320kbps tends to be the norm), but online streaming is currently supplanting MP3 files, and frequently that means, indeed, a low-fidelity presentation of recorded sound.
There is categorization. Few if any online services handle the taxonomy and typology of adventurous music well. Most music websites have a field for the artist and a field for a song, and little to address the informational void. The sites are already living in a post-album world, and they do little to make nice with recordings in which things like composer and conductor and performers and soloist are important. On a particularly bright and cheerful day, one might consider the Internet a fascinating and massive experiment in New Criticism, every piece of music floating out there virtually free of context.
And there is the basic typographical matter. It’s something that so-called desktop publishing presaged, a situation in which corners are routinely cut in favor of oversimplified—and thus meaning- and pronunciation-altering—decisions regarding haceks and accent marks and umlauts.
SoundCloud.com doesn’t solve all these problems, but it does offer a solid and adaptable foundation for musicians to use to share their music.
Part C: Setting Up the Account Is Just the First Step
Here are some simple instructions on setting up and making use of a SoundCloud.com account.
Step 1: Sign up. You can do this by associating your new account with your Facebook account, or you can create an account directly on SoundCloud.com. The latter is recommended because there’s no significant benefit to the former. You can always associate the accounts later.
Step 2: Fill out your basic profile. The fields (City, Occupation, etc.) are straightforward. Here is one suggestion, though: strongly consider using a single word, or a phrase with no spaces, as your “profile” name. The profile name serves various purposes, including being your SoundCloud account URL. To join SoundCloud isn’t simply to access virtual real estate. It’s to participate (more on which in Step 5), and having a single memorable identity is key to making your presence on SoundCloud effective.
Step 3: Fill out your “Advanced Profile.” Keep your Description brief, maybe 200 words, tops—and consider using rudimentary HTML tags, such as <b></b> to bold key words and to structure the text. Enter URLs for essential web locations, and don’t overdo it. Your website, Twitter, and Facebook are likely sufficient. Enter too many, and your listeners won’t know where to click. You can use the <a href=”URL”></a> tag in your Description if you want to, for example, link to a record review or interview that appears on another website.
Step 4: Upload tracks. As with the creation of your account, the uploading of a track will require you to fill in various fields. They’re pretty straightforward (Title, Image, Type). There aren’t multiple fields for participants. However, the Description field allows for simple HTML, so you can use that space not only to list participants (performer, composer, etc.) but to link to their SoundCloud accounts or websites or both. Make note of that “Show more options” button: it pulls up a whole bunch of additional useful fields, including simple ways to add commerce links so you can sell the track or related material. The easiest way to go about this all is to set the track as Private until you’re happy with all the text and other details, and only then make it public.
Step 5: Participate. That bears repeating: Participate. Even if you’re employing SoundCloud primarily as a promotional tool, think of it as a party—you’re not going to meet anyone if you just stand there (unless you’re wearing a funny T-shirt, or blessed with remarkable cheekbones). These things take effort.
To begin with, “follow” people—follow musicians you work with; follow musicians you admire. Some will follow you back, and that will be the start of actually communicating on and through SoundCloud. You’ll find, in time, that you will look at the Following/Followed lists for people you like, and take a cue as to whose music to look at. Furthermore, the people whose music you do follow show up in your SoundCloud home page, so you will be kept abreast of their activity—not just what they post, but what they have commented on.
Also, embed your tracks elsewhere (on your blog, for example), and encourage others to do so. One of the beautiful things about SoundCloud is that it has elegant “players” that you can use to embed a track or a set of tracks into a post on another website. For example, the track below is from a project I recently completed, in which I got over 60 musicians to remix the first movement of the Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a, by Dimitri Shostakovich. The original recording was by the fine Los Angeles ensemble wild Up, who graciously provided the source audio for the project.
And, finally, be sure to comment on other musicians’ uploaded tracks—that is, see SoundCloud for what it is, not just a music-hosting platform, but a platform for communication and collaboration. Comments come in two forms: standard and “timed,” the latter of which appear at a distinct point along the chronology of the track. You’ll see the “timed” comments along the track just above.
Step 6: Dig in. There is far more you can do on SoundCloud. The coverage above is intended simply as an introduction. For example, you can create Sets of tracks that provide additional context. You can join Groups, which in addition to collating tracks by some semblance of shared cultural activity (field recordings, serialism, toy piano) provide for discussion beyond the confines of a single recording. There are Soundcloud apps that allow you to do additional things with and to your tracks. Everything described above is free, albeit with a space limit on data storage, but you can elect to pay for a premium account and access additional resources. (The limits to SoundCloud are worth noting. For one thing, this is all “fixed recordings.” If you specialize in algorithmic music, you’ll be posting finished recordings, not live generative sound. Also, SoundCloud is a business, and as such monitors what is posted; it is especially attentive to copyright violation, so if you tend toward the aggressively plunderphonic, be prepared to have your track removed—or your entire account for that matter.)
Step 7: Make it new. The structure of SoundCloud suggests itself as a neutral space. In many ways, it has defined itself as the anti-MySpace. Where MySpace became overloaded with design elements, SoundCloud keeps it simple. This simplicity suggests SoundCloud less as a place and more as a form of infrastructure—if MySpace was a city that never slept, SoundCloud is the Department of Public Works. Its elegant tool sets provide structure but don’t define or fully constrain activity. For the more adventurous participants, SoundCloud is itself a form to be played with. Some musicians have used the “timed comments,” for example, to annotate their work as it proceeds. Others have fun with the images associated with their tracks, posting sheet music or workspace images. Some create multiple accounts for different personas or projects. Others have used the limited personalization options to colorize the embeddable player and make it look seamless within their own websites and blogs.
It’s arguable that the most productive users of SoundCloud recognize the fluid nature of the service and post not only completed works, but works in progress. They upload sketches and rough drafts and rehearsals: this keeps their timeline freshly updated, helps excuse the relatively low fidelity of streaming sound, and further invites communication with listeners—many of who are fellow musicians themselves.
Ready to make some noise?
You can use platforms like SoundCloud to participate in NewMusicBox’s “Sound Ideas” challenges and easily share the music you create. Craft responses to prompts from:
Selections from submitted tracks will be featured in an upcoming post.
Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996. It focuses on the intersection of sound, art, and technology. He has written for Nature, the website of The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Down Beat, and numerous other publications. He has commissioned and curated sound/music projects that have featured original works by Kate Carr, Marcus Fischer, Marielle Jakobsons, John Kannenberg, Tom Moody, Steve Roden, Scanner, Roddy Shrock, Robert Thomas, Pedro Tudela, and Stephen Vitiello, among many others. He moderates the Disquiet Junto group at Soundcloud.com; there dozens of musicians respond to weekly Oulipo-style restrictive compositional projects. He’s a founding partner at i/olian, which develops software projects that explore opportunities to play with sound. He lives in San Francisco in a neighborhood whose soundmarks include Tuesday noon civic alarms as well as persistent seasonal fog horns from the nearby bay. He also resides at twitter.com/disquiet. | <urn:uuid:5135e850-221e-4043-a270-7fa0ed2f3cef> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/the-procedural-hows-and-theoretical-whys-of-soundcloud-com/ | 2014-10-31T13:32:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414637899702.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20141030025819-00175-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934175 | 2,552 |
We’ve always been committed to helping people to stop smoking and we’ve taken this commitment one step further and pledged our support to help deliver a Tobacco-free Generation of Scots by 2034. (by ‘tobacco-free’ we mean an adult smoking rate of 5% or less). We’re joining around eighty other organisations across Scotland who share this ambitious goal.
The Charter has six key principles based around protecting children from second-hand smoke, preventing young people from taking up smoking and supporting people to quit.
There are many different methods available to make your stop-smoking journey easier. Just pop into the pharmacy any time for a chat (or fill out this form) and we can develop a plan specific to your individual needs.
The Fresh Air-shire Smoking Cessation and Prevention team work closely with Toll Pharmacy and hold a clinic in the pharmacy every Tuesday from 8.45am until 5.30pm. This clinic was initially set up as a Varenicline pilot site however its success has meant it has become a regular feature within the pharmacy. Appointments can be made in person at the pharmacy or by contacting the Fresh Air-shire helpline on 0800 783 9132.
If we all work together on this, the children who are just going into nursery school now can be the first generation to grow up free from the harm caused by tobacco.
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31 Jan Three is a magic number
Not sure why but I have for a long time talked about things in threes. Three most important things. Three things we need to do this week. Three reasons why. Yes, the things we work on can get complicated – but only if you let them. My talking in threes seems to help. It helps me focus. I also hope it helps me get my message across to others.
On Friday we took one of the digital marketing teams we work with to meet the digital marketing team in a similar but different organisation. Each person had the opportunity to discuss what they do with their equivalent. It was one of those things that is easy not to get around to but worth every bit of effort when you do. I was thinking about what we got out of it and what we learnt – as individuals and a team. A lot more than three things (I hope) but perhaps the most important included;
- An antidote to “we’ve always done it like that”.
- Renewed enthusiasm for what we do.
- That different organisations often face very similar challenges.
That’s probably how I will describe the outcome of our day when I discuss it tomorrow. As for whether three is in fact a magic number I am not sure but you can certainly read what Wikipedia has to say about the number three. Some cultures actually think three is a pretty unlucky number … | <urn:uuid:ceaa782f-907a-4ea3-b9eb-8b9348936a6c> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://cinchdigital.com/three-is-a-magic-number/ | 2021-01-23T14:52:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703538082.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123125715-20210123155715-00327.warc.gz | en | 0.978075 | 292 |
One week ago, Twitch announced they would be implementing a new system to notify streamers and allow them to take action when copyrighted audio is detected in their streams, but this new-and-improved process has already shown some issues. Yesterday, streamer and YouTuber Lythero called out Twitch for changing his stream settings because of a DMCA warning for a silent part of his broadcast.
In the email provided by Lythero on Twitter, Twitch claims the songs “Harvest/Famine” and “Kick Down the Doors” were detected within the first 16 seconds of his stream, leading to a DMCA warning. But when taking a look at Lythero’s VOD, the first 28 seconds of the broadcast are clearly silent.
The popular YouTuber also claims Twitch changed his settings after the DMCA warning.
“Heyyy @TwitchSupport You’ve just messed with my settings as a warning to not stream copyrighted music.” Lythero said. “Very concerning.”
Lythero isn’t the only streamer who’s had trouble with DMCA as of late. Back in January, many streamers like Hasanabi and DisguisedToast received DMCA takedowns on their Twitch channels after streaming copyrighted TV shows. Even further back, in October 2020, hundreds of Twitch partners received DMCA notices for copyrighted music, leading many to delete every Twitch clip they had ever created.
None of these DMCA issues seem nearly as egregious as receiving a warning for complete silence at the beginning of the stream, however, like what Lythero has been hit with. | <urn:uuid:800e679c-3cc1-4dae-942e-fb21cb683379> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/streamer-upset-at-twitch-over-false-dmca-warning | 2022-05-26T07:42:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662604495.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526065603-20220526095603-00497.warc.gz | en | 0.970652 | 335 |
the year 2000 America was treated like a pesky third world
nation in need of regime change. Those who had been out of
power for eight long years chose not to endure that humiliation
any longer. They decided to win and they weren’t going to
let something as insignificant as democracy stand in the
usual the media gave us the wrong story. We were told that the
disputed election was caused by hanging chads and butterfly ballots
that led Jews to vote for Pat Buchanan. Of course the coup plot
was hatched in May of 2000 when 57,000 Floridians eligible to
vote were purged from the rolls.
only was the real story unreported, but the media feeding frenzy
over the wrong issue led to the establishment of new and more
insidious forms of voting fraud in the United States. When
the story of punch cards and touch screens was reported over
and over the solution seemed simple. America needed new voting
mechanisms to prevent a Florida repeat in future elections.
The media said that Congress had to act. The American people
joined in the demand for action. However, the result has made
vote manipulation easier than ever before. In 2004 voter
purges will be only one weapon in the vote thieves’ arsenal.
The technology that was supposed to assure the integrity of
the electoral process has already undermined
enacted the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. Shrewdness
on the right wing mandates comforting titles for horrific legislation.
The Patriot Act has eviscerated civil liberties and the Family
Flexibility Leave Act eliminated overtime pay for American
workers. HAVA will use voter identification requirements and
fraud prone voting machines to help Republicans gain and maintain
political power. HAVA requires that states must adopt Florida’s
centralized voting roll systems in order to receive funding
for electoral improvements. Greg Palast and Martin Luther King
III spelled out the
perils presented by these new rules. ”The controls on the
50 secretaries of state are few – and the temptation to purge
voters of the opposition party enormous. African-Americans,
whose vote concentrates in one party, are an easy and obvious
requires anyone registered to vote after January 1, 2004 to provide
a driver’s license, student identification or the last four digits
of their social security number in order to cast a ballot. The
law requires that paper ballots be given to those unable to verify
identification on election day, but it is inevitable that malice,
confusion, or incompetence will turn eligible voters away from
polling sites. HAVA will make voting rights more tenuous than
they were before the fiasco of 2000.
place dramas will not be the only impediment to a fair election.
Computerized voting machines have already been implicated in
unexpected and suspicious election results in races across
the United States. In 2002 polls showed Georgia’s Democratic
Senator Max Cleland defeating his Republican challenger, Saxby
Chambliss by 49% to 44%. Not only did Cleland lose, but by
a margin of 53% to 46%. The new computerized voter machines
that also declared a Republican victory in the Governor’s race
produced no paper verification of results. The losses to Democrats
in Georgia were
a surprise, but the system now in place does not allow for
a means of determining if fraud occurred.
member of the United States Senate has a more comfortable relationship
with voting machines and the corporations that make them. Republican
Senator Charles Hagel’s 1996 victory in Nebraska was also unexpected.
Until 1995 Hagel was chairman of American Information Systems
(AIS). When Hagel first ran for the Senate he neglected to
disclose that information as required by Senate ethics rules.
After a merger in 1997 AIS became Electronic Systems & Software
(ES&S). ES&S is the manufacturer of all voting machines
in the state of Nebraska and has counted 85% of the votes tallied
for Hagel in his 1996 and 2002 campaigns.
financial interest in a voting machine company is a minor issue
compared to the connection between President Bush and Diebold
Inc. of Canton, Ohio. Diebold is one of the largest manufacturers
of voting machines in the country. In a 2003 fund raising letter,
Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell felt comfortable in declaring his
commitment to “…helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for
the president next year." Public response to the letter
chastened Mr. O’Dell into pleading
ignorance and naiveté. A man who is among the “Pioneers
and Rangers” who raise contributions of at least six figures
for the Republican party now calls himself a political novice.
However, O’Dell was not so chastened that he withdrew his company
from consideration for Ohio voting machine contracts.
has plenty of help among the Republican political leadership
in delivering his swing state to Bush. The Republican Secretary
of State, Ken
Blackwell, must have the most ironic surname in America.
This Black man’s actions do not bode well for the Black residents
of his state. If Mr. Blackwell had his way Diebold and other
machines would have been in use already. Fortunately other
Ohio public servants take their jobs more seriously and are
taking their time in determining when and whether to allow
Diebold and other voting machine manufacturers to count their
to George W. Bush and his clique America is like a banana republic
in need of outside observers to insure that the ballot is protected.
Former President Jimmy Carter has monitored elections in nascent
democracies all over the world. He may not have to go very
far this November. Perhaps he should observe the vote count
in his own state of Georgia.
Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in . Ms.
Kimberley is a freelance writer living in New York City. She
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I'm trying to create own Build Log plugin, I found on the page http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TCD3/Typical+Plugins#TypicalPlugins-ViewBuildLogTabs
Implement interface ViewLogTab and add the implementation to the build server using call WebControllerManager.addViewLogTab(aPluginName, this)
but I cannot found the method of WebControllerManager's object in the latest version of web-openapi.jar. So it seems to me information is not up-to-day.
Could somebody help me? | <urn:uuid:0dd188a8-1791-47c0-86ee-74b2adb15004> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206788055-Build-Result-Tabs-3-1-x- | 2020-07-09T15:37:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655900335.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709131554-20200709161554-00509.warc.gz | en | 0.767312 | 127 |
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