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Should you be part of our Family Care Plan?
What is our Family Care Plan?
Our Family Care Plan is a program we created to allow us to remain engaged with our clients after the estate plan documents are signed, so that we might better help our clients fully implement the plan, and establish a schedule for periodic “checkups”, to review our client’s circumstances, and revise and adjust the plan as time goes by, so the plan will work as intended, when needed.
Why is such a thing needed, you may ask?
First, let’s review what is often done when a client signs a Will or other estate planning documents. They are put in a safety deposit box, or at home in a safe place, where they begin to gather dust. The attorney may have told the client that the plan needs to be reviewed every few years, but commonly this is not done. The documents are often next looked at when the client suffers an accident, incapacity, or dies, at which time it is too late to make any changes to the Plan.
And why isn’t that sufficient, one may ask?
Isn’t that how things are usually done? (Yes.)
And, aren’t the documents supposed to be valid without further attention? (They probably will be “legally valid”. Serious problems with estate plans are not usually the result of the documents being invalid.)
Good questions, though. Here are a few things to think about, when pondering those questions.
When the documents are signed do we know:
- When the plan is going to “have to work”? (That is, when is the client going to become incapable or die?)
- What the assets of the client will be at that time?
- Will the way the assets are owned / titled, including beneficiary designations on those assets, be the best under all the circumstances that exist at that time?
- What the tax laws will be at that time?
- What the client’s intent will be at that time as to whom the assets are to be given, in what amounts, and the best way to leave an inheritance (Outright? In trust? Might a beneficiary be disabled, receiving government benefits, or suffering through a divorce or saddled with debts or a lawsuit?)
When we review these issues with clients, often, not always, they appreciate the opportunity to create a relationship with our firm that
a) does not end when the planning documents are signed, but continues so that we can assist the client in fully implementing the plan (which usually requires a review of how assets are owned / titled, and beneficiary designations for accounts which can dictate how assets will pass at death), and
b) establishes a system for periodic checkups of the plan and the client’s circumstances and assets, to allow an opportunity for adjustments to be made, so that the plan works when needed.
There is a charge for participating in the Family Care Plan but we set the fees for the Plan in such a manner as to encourage clients to participate in it.
The Family Care Plan has a number of features that are designed to enhance the likelihood that upon incapacity or death, one’s affairs will be handled in a smooth and pre-planned way, which can avoid the chaos, and worry, and family discord, that can and often does arise, when insufficient planning is done.
Our Family Care Plan will not be appropriate for all of our clients, and we continue to provide traditional estate planning services for such clients. However, we do think that many of our clients, even those with modest estates, can find material benefit in the Family Care Plan.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to hear more about our Family Care Plan.
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Waterford, Connecticut 06385
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Bar patrons in downtown's Heartside and Arena districts can expect to see officers in the area this weekend after shots were fired amid a crowd last Sunday.
A car next to McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, 58 Ionia Ave. SW, was struck, but no one was injured in the shooting just after 1:30 a.m. on June 15.
A witness said a male fired at a group of people standing near a McFadden's wall. The shooter left the area with friends in the direction of Stella's Lounge, the witness said. Police said there have been no arrests.
The shooting raised concern among representatives of BarFly Ventures, the holding company for McFadden’s, Stella's, HopCat and Grand Rapids Brewing Company.
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Knape said downtown crowds have swelled in recent weeks, and employees have reported a notable increase in people who don't enter the bars and restaurants, but gather outside.
Managers don't believe the man who fired shots last weekend was a patron of any of BarFly's establishments.
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On October 18, 2017, the legal recovery community lost a tireless advocate and wonderful human being with the passing of Michael Cohen. Michael was the Executive Director of the Florida Lawyers Assistance Program.
I met Michael when we sat on an ethics panel together. I was honored when he agreed to be interviewed for my book. His lifelong dedication to helping lawyers and law students recover from addiction issues personified the last word of the title of my book: “Redemption.” Below is his full contribution to my book on the topic of Lawyers Assistance Programs. Compelling words of wisdom for both lawyers and law students who may be struggling.
In your experience, what are the three biggest mistakes lawyers make with regards to substance use before you see them, that puts their license at risk?
Refusing to admit to themselves that there’s a problem, believing they can handle it by themselves, and refusing or postponing asking for help, even if they know help is available. Let’s take a look at these three responses, one at a time.
Refusing to Admit to Themselves That There’s a Problem
Alcoholic or addicted lawyers don’t start out by sleeping under a bridge or mainlining heroin. As with most substance use issues, early behavior is likely no different than colleagues in undergraduate or law school and, unfortunately, there’s no way to predict who will wind up dealing with the consequences of this disease. The progression of a substance use disorder can take years, during which time the lawyer will often blame other factors for consequences of their substance use (my partners/the judge were too harsh, my spouse doesn’t understand the pressure I’m under, I was late to court because of the damn traffic). Unfortunately, it’s often not until the consequences are undeniable (arrest, bar complaint, report from a judge) that the lawyer may admit there’s a problem with their use of substances.
I Can Handle This Myself
We are taught from day one in law school that we should be able to out-think, out-argue, and out-reason any problem. After all, we’re the advice givers, not the advice takers. This attitude when applied to a substance use disorder is disastrous. We have no frame of reference for dealing with a deadly medical condition — it would be like saying, “Yup, I have this lump growing in my chest, but I should be able to use my legal skills to deal with it.” I don’t know any lawyer who would say that with reference to cancer, or diabetes, or hepatitis, but it is almost always the thought process that takes place when a lawyer finally acknowledges they may be dealing with a drug or alcohol addiction. Part of this is clearly the stigma that still exists regarding addiction, part is the fear of being taken advantage of by admitting a “weakness,” and part is the belief that addiction is an issue of willpower that can be overcome by our legal acumen. Clearly, this approach does not work for most lawyers dealing with addiction.
Refusing or Postponing Asking for Help
For the reasons above (stigma, fear, belief in their own abilities), most lawyers will not reach out for help, even after they’ve acknowledged there’s a problem. Almost every state now has a lawyer assistance program (LAP) that provides free, confidential help to legal professionals dealing with substance use or mental health problems. Every LAP devotes a great deal of time to getting the word out that they exist and that they’re there to help, but lawyers often refuse to seek that help until it is forced on them by a referral to the LAP by law enforcement or the Bar disciplinary agency. Sometimes, this refusal to seek help is based on the belief of lawyers that they can handle the problem themselves, but it is often the belief that by contacting the LAP, they will be exposing their situation to the Bar and other lawyers, which is not the case.
Every LAP safeguards confidentiality as the cornerstone of its existence, and most are staffed by recovering attorneys and volunteers who have dealt with their own problems. In some jurisdictions, like Florida, confidentiality is protected by Bar rule and by state law unless the lawyer is referred to the LAP by the Bar disciplinary agency or Bar admission agency. Obviously, contacting the LAP or a treatment program before the substance use disorder comes to the Bar’s attention can save an attorney’s license, family, and possibly life, but unfortunately the combination of fear and ego often prevents this.
Based on your experience, in general, what are the three most important things a lawyer who is struggling can do as soon as possible to put himself/herself in the best position to continue practicing law even if there are temporary consequences?
Find out what resources are available and use them, engage in the appropriate level of treatment, and stick with the program.
Find Out What Resources Are Available and Use Them
Once the lawyer has acknowledged that a problem exists, the question is “what now?” Many lawyers “choose” to avoid seeking help out of fear that exposing themselves will result in disciplinary sanctions, loss of license, or loss of esteem because of the stigma still associated with addiction. As noted above, we’re a profession that tells ourselves we can handle any problem by using our big brains. Combating addiction is not something that can be done without help, but there are a number of resources available to an attorney who wants to recover. A good first step is to contact the state’s lawyer assistance program. Some LAPs are part of state Bar associations, others operate independently but cooperatively with state Bars, while others have no connection to the Bar association. In all cases, however, the primary concern of the LAP is confidentiality. A lawyer can approach the LAP, be candid about what’s going on in his or her life, and know that the information will be kept inviolate. Most states have Bar rules that prevent the LAP from disclosing any information, and some states (such as Florida) have both Bar rules and state laws protecting information.
In addition to the state LAP, large firm lawyers may have access to a confidential employee assistance program (EAP) which, like the LAP, can assess the problem and recommend treatment options. Unfortunately, the fear associated with seeking help more often than not prevents the lawyer from asking for help while the problem is still manageable. Sadly, it often takes an outside force such as an arrest or Bar complaint to push the lawyer into getting help.
Engage in the Appropriate Level of Treatment
Once the lawyer has worked up the courage (or hit the level of desperation) to ask for help from a LAP or EAP, it is likely that recommendations will be made about how to best address the issue. These recommendations may range from attendance at twelve-step meetings, to individual or group therapy, to outpatient or inpatient treatment. Very often a lawyer confronted with a recommendation, especially for inpatient or outpatient treatment, will respond with, “I have a practice to run. I can’t possibly disappear for 30 or 60 days,” or “I have a family. I can’t go to outpatient treatment three nights a week for the next few months.” What the lawyer needs to understand is that if the treatment recommendation is not followed, it’s very possible there will eventually not be a practice or family to worry about. Treatment may be a life or career-saving opportunity, and disregarding a recommendation made after an appropriate evaluation often leads to further progression of the addiction and more serious consequences.
Stick With the Program
After having the courage to ask for help and engaging in the appropriate level of treatment, the lawyer’s task is to use the tools they’ve been given to remain in recovery. All too often, the lawyer’s (or more accurately, the addiction’s) thought process after completing treatment and putting together six or eight months of abstinence is, Well, I’ve got this thing beat. I know what my problem was and won’t make the same mistakes again. There should be no harm in having a beer or two. This is a natural reaction to feeling healthier, patching up things at home, business picking up, and life in general getting better. However, discontinuing the measures that got the lawyer there (twelve-step meetings, therapy, etc.) will all too often allow the disease to reassert itself and start the long slide back into active addiction. The correct reaction to life getting better is to continue doing the things that turned life around, one day at a time.
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So on an agent blog this morning someone had written in to talk about how “bad” J.K. Rowling’s writing is. I’ll note that they failed to mark the two times in her Harry Potter books she used a really strange saidism for something Ron said, but really? Really?
And, instead of saying, “Dude, chill on the writing rules”, the agent sort of kind of agreed with the assessment. What the what?
I think writing rules are something that newer writers latch onto because they think if they just follow all the little rules they’ve heard that they’ll be successful. And they assume that if they aren’t successful it’s because there’s some rule they haven’t learned yet.
But go and look at some of the best writers out there. Look at Stephen King. He uses parens in his fiction writing. Seeing that was what finally freed me up to sort of kind of ignore the rules of writing. If I want to use an adverb, by god I will. If I want to use a saidism, I’ll do that, too.
Writing rules are what we should look to when something isn’t working. But not before.
Instead, sadly, it’s the first thing other writers look to when they want to critique someone’s writing. “Hey, I noticed you were telling in this paragraph instead of showing” or “You repeated this word three times in this paragraph.”
Yep. For a reason. Because I didn’t need to spend five chapters getting my characters from Point A to Point B and the repetition of the word was a stylistic choice meant to provide emphasis.
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Watchtower 1946 Nov 1 page 330, Article Let God Prove to be True
The divisive force among the Catholic and Protestant religionists of Christendom is the religious traditions which they follow. The truth of the Bible is a unifying power. After Christ Jesus prayed: "Sanctify them through thy Word: thy Word is truth" he immediately prayed that all his believers, those then following him and those yet due to believe, should be united in one, just as he and His heavenly Father are one (John 17:17-23)
How is disunity over each one?s individual interpretation of the Holy Scriptures now overcome or avoided? Is it because they are united around a visible human organization or around a visible human leader? The answer is No. It is because they recognize Jehovah God and Christ Jesus as The Higher Powers to whom every Christian soul must be subject for conscience? sake (Romans 13:1)
Hence Jehovah?s Witnesses do not claim to be what the religious Hierarchy claims their religious organization to be, namely, the one holding the magisterium or teaching office and hence the Divinely appointed Custodian and Interpreter of the Bible.
The written Word of God does not therefore need the addition of traditions which are the private interpretations of man and of religious organisations. It is not on our own authority that we say the Bible is sufficient without such. The inspired Apostle, Paul, writes his faithful and fellow worker Timothy to that effect saying: "from thy infancy thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Jesus Christ. All Scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work. (2 Tim 3:15-17)
Had the oral traditions of religious men been necessary to complement the Canon of the Bible, Paul would not have said that the inspired Holy Scriptures were profitable to the point of making the men of God perfect in faith and devotion to God. It would have been inadequate and would have left the man of God unperfected.
Watchtower 1881 by the President C T Russell
..their organization was of Spirit; their law for the government of each was love, and all as a whole were put under obedience to ?the law of the Spirit? as it was expressed in the life, actions and words of their Lord.
..it is clearly seen that these present day churches?interpret and enforce the traditions of the elders which make void the Word of God. These take the place of the true Head of the Church ? Jesus and the true teacher and guide to all truth, the Holy Spirit. Hear the prophet Isaiah express it (chap 9:15)
This brings us to our second preposition, viz that all Christians should be joined to this organisation? But says one; Must I not join some organisation on earth, assent to some creed and have my name written on earth? No. Remember that Jesus is your pattern and teacher, and neither in his words or acts will you find any authority for binding yourselves with creeds or traditions of the elders, which all tend to make the word of God of none effect (Mark 7:13) and bring you under a bondage that will hinder your growth in grace and knowledge, and against which Paul warned you to stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and be not entangled with the yoke of bondage (Gal 5:1}
Watchtower 1882 April, Questions & Answers
We are strictly unsectarian?(read 1 Cor 3:1-4) we have no creed (fence) to bind us together or keep others out of our company. The Bible is our only Standard, and its teachings our only creed. We are in fellowship with all Christians in whom we can recognise the Spirit of Christ, and especially with those who recognise the Bible as the only Standard. We do not require therefore that all should see just as we do in order to be called Christians, realising that growth and knowledge is a gradual process; nor do we see reason to expect that any but the Watchmen of Zion will ?see eye to eye (Isa 52:8) until that which is perfect is come.
If all Christians were to thus free themselves from prescribed creeds, and study the Word of God without denominational bias, truth and knowledge and real Christian fellowship and unity would result. The Spirit of the Head would pervade the unfettered members of the Body and sectarian pride would vanish.
Watchtower 1884 February
We belong to no earthly organization. we adhere only to that heavenly organization whose names are written in heave? (Heb 12:23 Luke 10:20)
What think you?...suppose all man made creeds and forms and names were laid aside, or that all Christians met in the One name of Christ, and in earnest simplicity, studied HIS words under the direction of God's Spirit and the explanations furnished in the Apostles writings, would there be long and serious differences, even of opinion?... And so, by whatsoever names men may call us, it matters not to us; we acknowledge none other name than the only name given under heaven and among me Jesus Christ. We call ourselves simply CHRISTIANS and we raise no fence to separate from us any who believe in the foundation stone of our building mentioned by Paul: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and those for whom this is not broad enough have no right to the name Christian.
WT 1895 15 September article "How to Conduct Group Meetings"
Beware of organisation. It is wholly unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek to bind others consciences and do not permit others to bind yours. Believe and obey so far as you can understand God's word today, and so continue growing in grace and knowledge and love day by day.
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Lancaster City is unique – you have to visit in order to understand. It’s exciting, it’s rich in history, heritage and the arts, and there’s an underlying hip urban vibe that permeates the community. The City boasts art in every form, restaurants and cafes, and boutique shops and hotels. Creativity, inspiration, and community envelopes this walkable City.
Come spend a day (or two) exploring. Below are a few insider tips that I believe will help you get the most out of your trip.
Tip #1 – Walk, don’t drive
Plan to walk around the City. Take your time and drink it all in. You won’t want to miss anything. From historic ghost signs to an off-the-beaten-path puppet theatre, this place has it all.
Tip #2 – Find a parking garage
Downtown Lancaster has many easily-locatable and easily-accessible garages. Although you may find street parking, chances are you’ll spend less money at a parking garage.
Tip #3 – Check gallery hours
If you like original art, check out Gallery Row located on the first and second blocks of Prince Street where you will find over 20 galleries. My tip – go online and check out gallery hours first. Not all galleries have the same hours.
Tip #4 – Take a back stage tour
Further down Prince Street, you’ll find what I like to call the “performing arts triangle.” To one side is The Trust performing arts center and directly across the street is The Ware Center; both are owned and operated by local colleges. Within a stone’s throw of these performance spaces is the majestic and historic Fulton Theatre.
These venues allow visitors to tour the facility even if you are not going to see a performance. The Fulton Theatre offers their backstage tour every Friday at Noon (the history is unique and the building is haunted). The Ware Center offers self-guided tours from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday and from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM on Saturday (this building’s architecture is amazing). The Trust Performing Arts Center hosts tours 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Tuesdays and Fridays and from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Saturdays (this building used to be one of Lancaster’s largest banks; ask to see the vault).
Tip #5 – Eat here; shop there
I suggest checking out the menus at Aussie and The Fox and at the Pressroom Restaurant (this place has a great outdoor seating area). Don’t miss Lancaster Central Market, America’s old continually operating farmer’s market, but note the hours: Tuesdays and Fridays from 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Saturdays from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
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Book Review: Free Play
RfG Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall, 1993
by Stephen Nachmanovitch
Los Angeles: Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1990.
This is a marvelous, insightful, elegant and easily readable work on the inner dimensions of improvisation. The author, holding a doctorate in Human Consciousness, performs internationally as a concert violinist; he is a composer, author, the creator of videos and computer software, lectures internationally on a wide range of subjects and creates multimedia works involving dance, theater, poetry, photography, painting and film.
Drawing on personal observations of his own intellectual and emotional processes, as well as those of a wide spectrum of artists, mystics and scientists, Nachmanovitch views improvisation as a master key to creativity, a means of attaining spiritual connectedness and a dissolver of the artificial boundary between art and life. Merely acting within a field labeled as “artistic” does not make it creative; as he points out, “Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.”
This 200-page book, illustrated by 28 paintings (particularly those of William Blake and diverse Oriental Masters), is not organized around discrete topics so much as themes which interrelate Nachmanovitch’s observations on improvisation, creativity and life. Some of the interwoven themes are: the relationship between inspiration and artistic creation; the interplay between form and freedom; the indivisibility of life and art; psychological obstacles to free play; the value placed on creativity in contemporary society; using the power of mistakes; and the importance of practice and preparation in improvisation. Accordingly, one can get value from reading the chapters in most any sequence; the browser and the methodical reader will be very nearly equally rewarded.
It is difficult to reduce the author’s message to a summary statement, as he presents both impressionistic and analytical thought, sometimes side by side. As he points out, “No kind of linear organization can do justice to this subject; by its nature it does not lie flat on the page.” As an example, consider this passage regarding spontaneity: “In improvisation, there is only one time: This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing the [performance], the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one. Memory and intention (which postulate past and future) and intuition (which indicates the eternal present) are fused. The iron is always hot.” (p. 18) I found the insights offered to be honest and helpful, not only to artists but to everyone seeking to open to his or her own creativity.
While much of the book focusses on improvisation in the arts, Nachmanovitch is aware of the possibility of artfulness across all endeavors. Regarding the practice of psychotherapy as a healing art rather than an applied technique, he offers these observations: ” You are immersed in the case itself, letting your view of it develop in context. You certainly use your training; you refer to it, understand it, ground yourself in it, but you don’t allow your training to blind you to the actual person sitting in front of you. In this way you pass beyond competence to presence. To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but you create through your technique and not with it.” (p. 21)
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Many of these drivers will also take part in the event's first race, Friday afternoon's GT90 Enduro. Joining them for the 1.5 hour long race featuring a mandatory pitstop will be Georgia resident's David Richardson (Corvette) and Ricky Sanders (Chevrolet Camaro), Mark Pfeffer's twin-turbo Lotus Esprit, and the www.animationnation.com BMW M3 of Daniel Rogers.
More American muscle, boosted imports and European exotics will be put to the test as the East Coast's top time-attack pilots take on Road Atlanta in the Whelen US TimeTrial Championship, presented by Corvette specialists MTI Racing.
Phil Grabow and Element Tuning's monstrous 500hp+ Subaru STi will be a formidable force, as will R U Faster Than a Redneck TV show contestant Jeremy Rohrs in his SouthSidePerformance Nissan GT-R.
Expect the father and son team of Troy and T.J. Messer and fellow Vette drivers Mike Perkins and best online generic levitra Mike Howard to join them at the top of timesheets.
However, there will be a number of others trying to steal the limelight including former NFL superstar Dez White (Porsche 911 Turbo), Rick MacPherson (Nissan GT-R), Daniel Raver (Subaru STi WRX), Keith Procuik (Dodge Viper), and Michael Oromaner (Mitsubishi Evo X) just to name a few.
Some of the most spectacular racing of the weekend is likely to come from the new Radical Cup prototype sportscar series. Already a worldwide phenomenon, the Radical Cup is quickly gaining momentum in the United States after its inaugural race weekend just two weeks ago at Miller Motorsports Park, Utah. Joining SR8 and SR3 point leaders Gerhard Watzinger and John Falb, new entrants will make up over half the field at Road Atlanta.
Another highlight of this weekend's event will be the social functions for the drivers, their teams, friends and family. ANCO Fine Cheese, one of America's leading distributors and marketers, is supplying specialty cheese for Friday's Welcome Party at the track, while Saturday Night's Banquet features a number of guest speakers including Craig R. Kohrs, Vice President and General Manager of CORSA Performance Exhausts, who recently announced a generous contingency program for both the US GT Championship and Whelen US TimeTrial Championship series.
On-track action commences Friday with practice for all series, with the Road Atlanta GT90 race starting at 3:30pm. Saturday and Sunday's competition begins with the Whelen USTTC at 8:45am. Visit NARRAonline.com for a complete schedule.
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Talk to anyone in the political or business community outside of Britain today and there is only one question on their lips: 'Are you guys seriously going to leave Europe?' The incredulity with which they ask, reflects their view of the wisdom of leaving. Of course, they could all be wrong. But the near universal opinion of friends and interested parties outside the UK should make those of us inside the UK pause.
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December 9, 2012 – As the next Legislature grapples with ways to fund Texas transportation projects, top lawmakers acknowledge that failing to secure a long-term solution is no longer an option. Beyond 2014, the Texas Department of Transportation’s $10 billion annual budget is projected to cover only maintenance, , leaving no cash for expansion or construction. And Texas’ population — and transportation needs — will continue to grow. The chairmen of the state House and Senate transportation committees say they’re welcoming ideas — including a $50-a-year increase in vehicle registration fees. But emerging as a top potential fix is a constitutional amendment to dedicate the sales tax on vehicle purchases to TxDOT. | <urn:uuid:275b0c33-27a9-4190-9650-3438dce2a384> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://muniguy.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/texas-lawmakers-hope-to-tackle-long-term-funding-for-road-projects-dallas-morning-news/ | 2017-06-26T13:48:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320763.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626133830-20170626153830-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.93367 | 142 |
It's time to strip legislators of the antiquated Tulane scholarship perk
Published: Monday, October 7, 2013 at 3:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 7, 2013 at 3:03 p.m.
Each state legislator in Louisiana gets to dole out a full scholarship to Tulane University.
It is past time for this practice — an invitation to abuse and the appearance of impropriety — be halted.
The legislative perk, which is also extended to the New Orleans mayor, was part of a deal in the 1880s that let Tulane switch from a public to a private university.
Even if the deal had a legitimate purpose at one time — which it did not — that purpose has long since passed.
Giving legislators a personal hand in who gets these scholarships is just poor policy.
The university itself could apply a consistent, fair program and award the same number of scholarships, which could be reserved for Louisiana students.
That would certainly achieve the stated goal of the program, to encourage students from around the state to attend the New Orleans university.
But giving the university control of the program would take away legislators’ ability to benefit, either politically or financially, from their powerful positions.
That move would make a lot of sense from a good-government perspective. Unfortunately, the fact that it would take a valuable perk away from legislators has made it difficult to kill in the past.
Some lawmakers treat the program with respect, allowing private groups to vet the applicants to make sure they go to deserving recipients.
Others dole them out to the children of campaign contributors.
These are not tiny gifts, either. Each four-year scholarship has an estimated value of more than $170,000, according to a recent news report.
Like the legislators’ slush funds, which allowed them to stake claim to state money for pet projects outside the process of the state budget, these Tulane scholarships invite abuse and have no legitimate purpose.
The university itself is in the best position to evaluate its incoming students and decide — based on merit or need or any other consistent set of criteria — which of those students are most deserving.
While legislators are barred from giving the scholarships to themselves or immediate family members, they are not prevented from giving them to the family members of contributors.
Allowing lawmakers to personally benefit from a state program goes against whatever the ultimate goals of that program are. The students who get these scholarships deserve to know the process is based on fair criteria, not on whose parents have the best connections.
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January is almost over, and luckily so are the days sans Bundesliga. But did you have the leisure to check June and July for the schedules of the World Cup in Brazil? 64 matches between 12 June and 13 July, with only seven days free from play – that is 27 June and 2+3, 6+7, 10+11 July! Despite the time difference, most matches are scheduled conveniently for the European follower, mainly at 6 pm and 10 pm CET, a few at midnight though, and just one at 3 am (Cote d’Ivoire-Japan on 15 June). So, unless you take four weeks off and book that dream of package holidays to Salvador, Fortaleza or Recife, plan your 9 to 5 – routine and other commitments to allow for the maximum of fun from the most exciting event of the year, possibly.
Football, as well as watching it, requires teams, and your best friend could be the rosetta stone for analyzing the result and the background of a critical match. In absence of leisure and friends, there is no need to despond, install one of these excellent football apps on your mobile cyborg and you’ll be fine.
The thing with apps is what we emphasize here every day: it is not a question of if, but when it is going to happen, and, commonly used as it is for the major leagues, it will be for the World Cup. 2014 might see another appquake mainly due to that. Let’s hope for a stretching tournament, I reckon the letter B will be adamant, with Brazil, the Bundesrepublik, also Bosnia and Belgium.
Football, as has been suggested by George Orwell in the 1940s, is sort of the modern equivalent to war, except for the weapons. I think meanwhile this comparison is too single-edged and from the wrong perspective. Obviously the European perspective 70 years later is an easier one: a gathering of nations in the spirit of play and fight, and a peaceful world cherishing. Although football players account for some of the best quotes ever, I would like to end citing Yogi Berra: “You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you!” | <urn:uuid:cf0af02f-880e-4921-90ca-35eedcc9b74f> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.flyair41.de/?p=1658 | 2019-10-14T20:28:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986655310.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014200522-20191014224022-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.967682 | 456 |
This series, from the O'Reilly Media book Using Drupal, Second Edition, is intended for people who are new to Drupal, provides a tour of its capabilities, as well as definitions for its sometimes obscure terminology. We’ll demonstrate how Drupal can be used “out of the box” to build a simple website. Readers who are familiar with Drupal already may still want to skim through this, as later series in the Using Drupal guide will assume knowledge of all content covered here. By the end, you’ll understand how to perform administrative tasks in Drupal, such as configuring modules, working with content types, and setting up site navigation. This series assumes that you already have Drupal up and running. For assistance with that, check out the Appendix A series, on Installing and Updating Drupal, as well as the helpful Drupal.org Getting Started guide.
To get things started with Drupal, we're going to build out a very basic website. The Mom & Pop, Inc. site project will cover many of the basic pieces you need to grasp the fundamentals of building with Drupal, and are a good foundation for the other series we'll be doing from Using Drupal. We'll take a tour through the administrative settings, create and manage content, work with modules and users, as well as changing the look of our new site. In this first lesson in the series we're going to review the Mom & Pop case study and discuss our implementation plan. | <urn:uuid:6df89246-e5bb-4d13-aa7b-1306a6cc5e5a> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://drupalize.me/videos/case-study-mom-and-pop-inc?p=1252 | 2021-09-16T20:47:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053759.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916204111-20210916234111-00659.warc.gz | en | 0.956764 | 296 |
The Capel Building,Saint Mary's Abbey,Dublin 7
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Brasserie 7 is a bright and spacious addition to the Dublin restaurant scene. Family run, it holds all the attributes and warmth that only a family run restaurant can offer. Our ethos is to bring you tasty food with unbeatable value. Our menu is tweaked and honed day in day out on the feedback we receive from our diners to try offer a continually improving dining experience.
The menu comprises of a dynamic selection of dishes from all sorts of cuisine’s to try cater for all taste buds and we are always open to critique and feedback.
The dining room itself holds many identities as you traverse through its various forms. High ceilings, natural light and beautiful artwork accent the main room while our mezzanine floor offers a more intimate dining experience. We offer a casual style of service which is prompt and professional but still has charm. The Brasserie 7 team hopes to see you soon.
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- a small watermelon
- ½ cup yogurt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
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Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)298 calories; 2 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 1 gram monounsaturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 72 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams dietary fiber; 60 grams sugars; 6 grams protein; 23 milligrams sodium;
- Cut a small watermelon into small chunks (discarding the rind), and freeze them. When they’re frozen, put them in a food processor with 1/2 cup yogurt, 2 tablespoons sugar and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Process until just smooth, being careful not to let it become watery. Transfer to a shallow glass or ceramic dish, and freeze for at least an hour. | <urn:uuid:9822623a-ecd9-442b-a754-1c1dfc6643f0> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014901-watermelon-sorbet | 2020-09-25T02:30:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400221980.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925021647-20200925051647-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.801931 | 229 |
Sunday, 5 January 2014
The shabby tea room
The shabby tea room's colour challenge was kraft, black and white/cream.
I started with a remnant of a Graphic 45 paper, then used the cut out pieces reverse side for the cream & black floral. I've added a 7 Gypsies Sentiment plus vintage lace and pearls.
In a way this is a collage card, but I think it works.
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Rachel’s Gluten-Free Cookbook
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Details: soft-backed, spiral-bound
Pages of recipes: 142
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Apple Raisin Breakfast Bars
- 1/2 C. dried apples chopped
- 1/2 C. raisins
- 1 C. apple juice
- 1/4 C. brown rice syrup
- 1 C. gluten free quick cooking oats
- 1/2 C. Brown rice flour
- 1/2 C. hulled millet
- 2 T. raw sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 C. oil
- 2 tsp. gluten free vanilla
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a medium saucepan, place apples, raisins and apple juice together and boil for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat and stir in rice syrup, set aside.
- In a bowl, stir together oats, flour, millet, sugar and salt.
- Make a well in the center and place eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Add the apple-raisin mixture and stir well.
- Spread batter on a parchment-lined 9x13-inch pan.
- Bake for about 30 minutes, or until it turns golden. Allow to cool before cutting.
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Very exciting. A lucky Nerdtacular attendee will receive one of these bad boys in a drawing before the movie. How cool is that? Too cool, that’s how cool. I wish I could give the donator more props but he want’s to remain anonymous. You gotta love a guy like that. (For the record, that person in the photo with the google eyes is NOT the donator. He was just a stud at last years Nerdtacular, where that photo was taken. It should be said that Rudeboy is a cool dude regardless.) Nerdtacular page for the un-initiated.
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Of course, reading about the kite tournaments made me want to make a kite with Audrey. I assumed I would write one post about the book and the kite we made. But, we never got around to making a kite this spring. I'm hoping to move it to the list of projects for the fall.
In the meantime, I have still been reading, but have failed to update the "Now Reading" section of my blog. First, there was Julie & Julia by Julie Powell. I was in the cookbook section of the library looking for a cookbook, obviously, when I ran across this one. I had seen posters for the movie so I thought I'd give the book a quick read. And, quick it was. This was not quite what I was expecting. I think I envisioned a little more food/cooking talk and less of a memoir. But, memoir I got, which now seems to be exactly what I should have expected since the writer wasn't someone focusing on cooking before her Julie/Julia Project (for those of you who haven't seen the movie trailers, Julie Powell makes it her mission to make all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year). This is daunting task, enough. But what I found jaw-dropping was all the dirt Powell fits between the covers of the book - from affairs to office politics, etc. Of course, I couldn't put it down as I wondered if any of her friends and family were still on speaking terms with her. Those of you sensitive to cursing or Republican jokes - this is not your book. A professor of mine gave this advice on including cursing in your writing: use it sparingly so that it has an impact when you do use it, or, use it so frequently that after a while your reader no longer notices (the movie Good Will Hunting comes to mind). This book lends itself to the latter option. (My professor gave no advice on the appropriate frequency of Republican jokes in writing).
Of course, what I keep thinking about when I remember this book has nothing to do with the personal dramas depicted or the food, really. What sticks out is a little fact about Julia Child: She didn't go to cooking school and begin the career that we all associate with her until she was 37. I have to say, I love this. I'm all about slow starts and late-found passions. I hate the conception that 37 or 57 or 77 is too late to begin again, learn a new skill, find a new direction. I believe in the slow simmer. I would hate to find all my best flavor extracted by a quick boil. Oh no. I want the slow simmer - to get good and aged and seep in new flavors every once and a while.
So now, I've moved on to Julia Child's memoir with Alex Prud'homme, My Life in France. To be honest with you, it's not a memoir I would have imagined myself reading before. If I had to choose a European cuisine to master, French wouldn't be it. Unlike Julia, my favorite city is not Paris (although, I could eat the pain du chocolat I was introduced to there - essentially chocolate baked in a puff pastry - every day). But after reading that she began this whole process of mastering French cuisine at the age of 37, I'm interested in hearing just how this all came about.
So in honor of Julie Powell's brave experiment and Julia Child's inspiration (and the mountain of cucumbers in our refrigerator), I made Julia's Concombers au Buerre, or Baked Cucumbers last night. While these got rave reviews on the website where I found the recipe, and in Julie & Julia, they were a little too tangy for me (I might have used too much vinegar). Maybe I need to try a different variation.
(Oh, I also read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold while in Dallas. It had been on my list for a while, ever since I learned that the narrator is a deceased character, which seemed an interesting perspective for a writer to tackle. Sebold does this creatively and seamlessly, and I flew threw this book in a week.)
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First time joining a public line battle event for Holdfast: Nations at War! It was hella fun! Check it out! It's a mix of proper regiments and random players so it's not as organized as the usual in the server.
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HDMI Switch: Enables high quality HDMI transmission
Multiple HDMI sources can be connected to a HDMI display devices using a HDMI switch. Available in 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 port models, these devices can be daisy chained or cascaded to achieve an even greater configuration. Also available in matrix models with sizes such as 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, 4x4 and 8x8, these devices eliminate the hassle of disconnecting and reconnecting the sources. Working on simple plug and play functionality, a user just needs to plug the input sources to the input ports on the switcher which in turn is connected to the display devices using the HDMI cable. Since it uses only a single HDMI cable to relay the video and audio signals, it also reduces the clutter associated with using multiple cables.
The HDMI switcher is a compact device that is compatible with devices such as computers, DVD players and set top boxes. It does not involve any complex procedures for switching between the sources. Control can be exercised using front panel push buttons, infra red remote control or RS232. The LED on the front panel indicates the status of the selected device. HDCP compliant, this switch ensures that the video signal is not pirated and the viewer gets to see crystal clear and crisp high resolution images. It supports a resolution of up to 1920 x 1200 (1080P) and has a built in repeater/equalizer chipset which can boost digital HD signal length.
This type of video switch is available in both desktop as well as rack mountable versions. Backward compatible with DVI-D, it is also HDCP compliant. Certified by FCC, CE and RoHS, this switch consumes less power and supports a video amplifier bandwidth up to 2.25Gbps/225MHz. Equipped with standard HDMI ports for input and output, this unit provides versatility by allowing different sources to be displayed on different devices simultaneously.
The other one is dvi switch used to split a digital visual interface (DVI) to get the high quality signals. Due to this functionality, remote monitoring and training facilities, educational institutions, corporate offices and boardrooms, control and data centers as well as entertainment facilities all make use of the HDMI switch. | <urn:uuid:c82e3efe-aa2d-4b30-ac36-291ca5f98815> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.kvmstuff.com/articles/hdmi-switch-enables-high-quality-hdmi-transmission | 2016-10-26T05:43:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00426-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910399 | 456 |
Parents steam as strike rolls on
By Bridget Doyle, Ellen Jean Hirst and Naomi Nix
(From Chicago Tribune, September 18th, 2012)
As Chicago children missed yet another day of school Monday, residents throughout the city chanted, cheered and waved signs to let their feelings about the ongoing teachers strike be known.
Parents and other community members donning bright orange shirts rallied in Heritage Green Park with a message to end the strike. Some expressed support for Mayor Rahm Emanuel while others took a more neutral stance, but the underlying message of the group was clear: Get the children back in school.
"These two giants are stepping all over our children instead of keeping them out of harm's way. Either way this goes, the kids should be in school," said Larry Leaks, a South Side resident who said his grandchildren attend CPS schools.
Event sponsors, Education Reform Now and parent group Power of Parents, bused in residents from South and West side neighborhoods to the downtown park.
Rebeca Nieves-Huffman, executive director of Education Reform Now, said the two groups are concerned about the safety of children, noting that many attending the rally were from the "more dangerous neighborhoods."
"Teachers can be in classrooms while negotiations are going on, especially since they say they're close to a deal," Nieves-Huffman said.
Education Reform Now, which also goes by the name Democrats for Education Reform, is an organization started by Wall Street hedge fund managers and has supported many CPS initiatives.
Matthew Johnson, whose five children all either went through or are attending CPS schools, said the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools need to put their egos down and focus on the children. Johnson said parents' voices are being overshadowed in the whole mater.
"Both sides have turned this strike into the issue of 'choice,' but the only choice is children," Johnson said.
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SUI GENERIS MADRID
Sui Generis Madrid
Sui Generis Madrid (SGM) is a multidisciplinary festival of alternative culture , natural result of the evolution of the Madrid Gothic Week en in its tenth anniversary. We remain faithful to the original spirit but expand the spectrum of action and cultural dissemination to explore new approaches and stimuli. The SGM hosts a greater number of literary genres, musical styles and artistic manifestations, awakening interest and curiosity in all types of audiences. Our programming is more complete and heterogeneous than ever and, as always, offers quality cultural contents and provides spaces for debate on issues that we are passionate about that generate unprecedented perspectives.
The main thematic axis of our festival has been, is and will be literature, at the same time container and content of other disciplines. Starting from this symbiosis between arts, Sui Generis Madrid offers a different perspective, promoting reading through film, science, fashion, music and the plastic and performing arts.
The latin expression sui generis (literally, «of its own kind or species»), gives its name to our festival and defines it as it is: original and unusual, unique in the cultural sphere. This has been the case since the Besarilia Cultural Association decided to create this event to promote reading in 2008, based initially on research and dissemination of the urban Gothic subculture. An intense and disinterested work of ten years, endorsed and recognized by the public, critics and institutions. The adventure for love of the art of a visionary, which begins in the Plaza de Felipe II and takes us today to the Castle of Manzanares el Real, supported from the beginning by the General Subdirectorate of the Book of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
Sui Generis Madrid
The Egyptian mythology, full of symbols related to the magical, the transcendental and the occult, is our source of inspiration. The search for light in darkness(lumen in tenebris) is a fundamental key to understanding that ancestral culture and the motivations that drive us. The alternative realities, the creativity, the introspective journey, the expressive desire, the taste for art and the exploration of the unknown are timeless nexuses that converge in our festival and its image.
The logo-symbol of Sui Generis Madrid combines two powerful icons linked to hermeticism and alchemy, whose origins go back to Ancient Egypt: the Anj («the key of life») and the Ouroboros («everything is one»), representing the aforementioned interaction of disciplines that our festival uses as a tool to spread culture, an essential element to achieve vital fullness
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Yearly Forecast 2016 – Sagittarius
Wow, Sagittarius, in 2016 you could not be more into your own interests and developments if you wanted to. It looks like the stars are giving you a free pass to indulge in your own pleasures and pursuits.
As the year begins, eight of the moving stars are in the eastern hemisphere of your chart the hemisphere that is all about you and what you want. Saturn, the wisdom figure, is in your sign, and as you indulge yourself totally, you are taking those indulgences seriously. There is nothing trivial about your personal interests this year.
It's the personal stars though, that add zing to everyday life and they revolve around your love interests. Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be moving quickly through the relationship houses, so that your partner gets some well-deserved attention.
The mischievous star Mercury rules the house of love and committed relationships and he stops and starts four times this year, which is out of the ordinary bringing more of those torrid interludes that you do love. This is the kind of year you may have dreamed about in the past and here it is in living color Sag.
Sagittarius Yearly Forecast 2016, Sagittarius Lucky Gemstone, Sagittarius Celebrity
Famous Sagittarius Celebs
Sagittarians are trustworthy and easy going people. They are lively people who enjoy sports and outdoor life. John Abraham and Arjun Rampal are Sagittarians and we can’t say if Sagittarians are universally hot but the ones in Bollywood surely are! | <urn:uuid:40447aa5-8026-4e45-ba75-b09ec6993657> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://www.sitarejewels.com/sagittarius/ | 2018-01-22T08:17:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891196.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180122073932-20180122093932-00536.warc.gz | en | 0.934797 | 329 |
People: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (ABI.BR)
28 Jan 2015
Thompson Motta, Roberto Moses
Mr. Roberto Moses Thompson Motta has served as Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Anheuser Busch Inbev SA since 2004. He was nominated by the holders of class B Stichting InBev certificates. He is Founder and Board Member of GP Investments Ltd. (Bermuda) and is also Board Member of Lojas Americanas SA and Sao Carlos SA. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro in 1981, and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He is Member of the Company's Finance Committee.
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Sunrooms are a luxury. If you’ve been blessed with one, you know that figuring out how to decorate the space can be quite a challenge. Your design choices — from window treatments to paint colors — need to feel cohesive and maximize natural light. And that’s not all. When it comes to a sunroom, comfort is key, since you’ll likely use it to read a good book, enjoy a delicious breakfast or even take a quick nap on any given day.
To help you settle on the right furniture, accessories (full-sun houseplants are a good idea, for instance) and layout for your sunroom, we’ve rounded up some of our favorites across a range of design styles. Here, you’ll find more than enough inspiration to make this windowed space what you’ve always wanted. | <urn:uuid:89095031-faeb-4193-9da5-e38db56a7717> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://indiarightnow.com/index.php/2021/06/29/26-bright-and-cheery-sunrooms-that-are-filled-with-inspiring-decor-ideas/ | 2021-12-03T13:21:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362879.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203121459-20211203151459-00105.warc.gz | en | 0.924336 | 177 |
Several months back I instructed my daughter to delete her snap chat. She did, but she now has it again. She doesn't know I'm aware of her rekindled snap chat. Looking for inventive ways to punish her. * back story- multiple times I have caught her with unapproved social media. This was EXPRESSLY prohibited, especially snap chat. She is 15, not a great stufent barely passing. Generally very sweet, helpful, and kind but just can't seem to follow my rules regarding social media. She goes by the "but everyone else" has it and not having it makes her an outcast etc
My husband passed away two years ago. He was an alcoholic. He died from Cirrhosis and Sepsis. I realize my daughter has alot she is dealing with. She has struggled socially since she was little. She was bullied quite badly when she was in the 4th grade. In 5th grade she became the bully. She has become very mean and abusive. She is bigger than me so when I try and "make" her do something, she get physical with me.
I am a quiet and patient person and have always given her lots of love. I try and give her space and let her know I'm here if she wants to talk. She has been through many counselors/therapists. She is a master manipulator. It's to the point she refuses to go to school and hasn't left her room (except for bathroom breaks/showers) in three weeks. She is obsessed with her cell phone. It's all she does. I have tried everything to get her to engage...nothing works.
I have been looking into therapeutic boarding schools and wilderness programs. Everything else aside....the cost of these programs is insane. $50K for three months?!?! I feel like she needs to be with me especially after losing her dad. Then I think that since she blames me for so much maybe she needs time away from me. I go back and forth with every decision I try and make. I just want her to be happy. I just read a post where someone's advise was to "let them be" and they will "find their way". I sometimes think this is the best thing to do but the more I do that the more disrespectful and hateful she gets. I have zero help and truly don't know what to do. She can't stay in her room any longer...that in itself can't be good for her.
I'm hoping someone has had a similar situation and can shed a little light to guide the way.
TL;DR - I can't demonstrate any criticism towards my 19 yo son without him taking it personally, but if I don't push him he doesn't do anything. Need help on how to help him gain self-esteem and a vision for the future without making him feel lazy and worthless.
My son is an amazing guy (almost said kid). He's smart, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, bold (with other people, not with us). For us...he is lazy, has no motivation to tackle any kind of project or goal, always does just the minimum to get by, has lost his vision for the future. I get frustrated because he doesn't contribute much around the house, but feels entitled to everything for doing nothing. When I point that out, he goes to a dark place of self-loathing, worthlessness, and he demonstrates a fatalistic world view.
The modern era has been pretty tough on kids these days. I actually love millennials, they are so smart and creative, they generally have strong values and a good sense of right and wrong. But in these post-truth days, it's hard for them to hold on to hope for the future which is essential to creating a sense of purpose and meaning.
So, when the conversation turns towards any discussion of his plans, his future, his life or when I get frustrated because he is so damn lazy that he won't do anything for himself or anyone else he begins to demonstrate this very dark world view, he starts spouting vitriol and saying things that he clearly does not believe, and he loses all hope and he begins loathing his own existence.
It is a vicious cycle, because I must admit, sometimes I can be a dick. I get frustrated, I won't tolerate him saying those things, that I know he doesn't believe (ie. like F* the police, they're all killers and racists). And I confront him with his BS. I do cuss sometimes and I do get angry and frustrated. I make sure to tell him that I'm not made at him, the things he is saying, the feelings he is expressing are not him, but what he is doing, what he is feeling is not OK and he needs to fix it. This sends him into a depression for a few days.
I am constantly looking for opportunities to praise him, but any positive feedback I give him makes him feel worse! He says it sounds condescending. I thank him for even the smallest contribution and he hates it because he knows it wasn't a contribution. This makes me think that he is subconsciously NOT contributing to the household or making an effort with his life because he's afraid of doing something that I truly can be proud of.
I don't think he has ever forgiven me for moving our family across the country and making him start high school in a whole new community and he is subconsciously trying to punish me by making sure he never does something I can be proud of. He will occasionally want to pick up a new hobby (mountainbiking), and I get so excited that I immediately buy him the equipment he needs and begin praising him. Which immediately prompts him to entirely give up on that hobby.
Doesn't help that he smokes pot and drinks alcohol occasionally. He's VERY open with me about his use of substances, partly because we do have open lines of communication, which I've worked very hard and made many compromises to keep open; but partly because he knows that if he openly tells me about his drug and alcohol use, he knows that it hurts me. Wouldn't mind some advice on this issue too. I don't think his pot/alcohol use is super-high risk, certainly he is far more in control than most of his friends and other college kids his age, but it is high-risk use at his age and it scares the hell out of me that he's going to (maybe already has) gotten addicted.
So, how do I break this vicious cycle? I need to find a way to get him to see hope in the future, find something to do that he loves and will sink his teeth into, demonstrate that I value his contribution to the family and I'm hurt when he won't do his fair share around the house, and get him to find something other than partying brings him any joy.
I consider myself an excellent communicator, advisor, mentor and role model. But with him, sometimes I lose it and get so frustrated I yell at him. That sure doesn't help. But I feel like I need to yell at him to get him to snap out of it! Because I know that that is not who he is, not what he believes, not what he wants for his life. I know that deep inside he wants to be happy, he wants to accomplish great things, he is a natural born helper (in the Mr. Rogers sense of the word).
This depressing pattern has gone on too long and I need to find a new way to ride-out these mini-storms. I need some new tools for helping him see that he has a great future. I've given him everything he's ever wanted or needed (and yes, that does imply that he is "spoiled" and that's probably true to some degree). I need to find a way to instill a work ethic, learn how to delay gratification, understand that good things don't come easy or free, and the best and most important things in life are love, family, and contributing to a better world. I think I live this with my life, but he clearly rejects everything about me and my life (I think because I hurt him with the move and he can't forgive me for that).
We do have a good relationship. We hug all the time, tell each other "love you", and are almost always able to have gigantic, convoluted and fascinating conversations on nearly any topic. But if the topic turns to his life, his goals, his future, he immediately shuts down. If I push it and want to talk about his future, his work ethic, his contribution (even just around the house, like helping with chores), the cycle starts all over, takes a couple of days to work out. Then we're back to square one.
Anyway, it just helps to write this all out. Trying to get it out of my head because it's literally tearing me apart and I can't stop thinking about it or worrying. Look forward to your thoughts. Thanks.
I'm a recently-divorced father of twin 14 year-old boys. I have shared custody and the kids sleep in their own bedrooms in my house when they're with me. I've recently developed a love interest and am wondering if it's okay to leave them in the house alone while they're sleeping for a couple of hours at night (10 p.m - 12 a.m.) if I'm only ten minutes away? Washington state if that matters, and the only thing I can find in my state law is that there is no law defining an age when they can be left home alone. I leave them alone during the day with no worries, but I'm wondering if the "while sleeping" part is okay as well.
So I’m seeking advise on parenting teens girls. Im a step parent and my husbands 14 year old daughter has been acting out this past year with talking to guys in a inappropriate way, to stealing petty things from our home. Well before I came home from work today he said he dropped her off at a friends house got the address, friends name and so on. She was to be picked up at 9pm. Well as of right now, she has no phone due to her mother taking it away because of her poor actions awhile back. So she was communicating with us through social media. She wrote me around 9 asking if she could stay later cause they were “ night swimming” so we told her yes but be ready at 10pm. Well 10 pm comes and I text her that her dads on his way and to be ready. No response. 10:30 comes still no response. So I try to message her again. Still nothing. Now I know people might be saying why didn’t you get a friends or parents number... i being the worry wart that I am would have but i wasn’t around anyways we show up to the house my husband goes to the door, kid said there was no “daughter name” here. So we instantly freak out. He asked for the parent the mom comes to the door saying she left with 2 boys around 7pm up the street to some apartments to swim. So now we drive over there meanwhile I’m blowing her up and still no response. We get there and The pool was empty and dark. Go back to the friends house, I get out and talk to the sister there. she gives me one of the boys numbers I tried calling no answer. We drive around then I get a message from her asking to spend the night... our response was helllll no you need to call us now. Then I get a “ plz”. So we try to get her to call. But she wouldn’t call. Then the friends sister calls us saying she showed up to their house. by this time it’s 11:45pm. She gets in the car and my husband looses his shit and is yelling and of course she came up with some excuse why she left and it wasn’t her fault yada yada. Now She doesn’t live with us and just comes over for a week or 2 at a time. So as a punishment by husband took the electronics away. But that’s about it. I don’t know what else he should do. And if he should call her mom and let her know. Now a part of of me feels like he’s not going to because this was the first time she actually gave him authority to make a decision on parenting and his daughter goes and pulls this. Now should he let the mom know so she has the same consequences at home as she does here? And besides taking away all electronics what other steps or punishments should he take?
Ours is the house where our two sons' (18 & 20, 20 year old working away in his college town this summer) friends have always crashed, no permission needed. We were always glad to know where they were, good kids all-in-all, very minimal drinking and a little weed, to be honest. The younger guy had a girlfriend last summer, they were hot and heavy for a while. He went on an educational trip for two weeks, came back and immediately broke up with her, swearing off relationships. Well, suddenly, when my husband and I went away overnight last weekend, we noticed a girl visiting on our Ring door camera. She didn't stay long. Last night, she came over while we were home, and our son introduced us for 10 seconds and they went upstairs to the gameroom/kids ' rooms. I went to bed early, and my husband a little later. Neither of us checked to see if she had gone. When I got up, her car was still here. At this point, all we know is her first name and that she's vegan, and her bumper sticker says she loves Colorado. I only know she's old enough to drive. Ok she's just slipped out of the house while I'm writing this. We have always been very strong proponents of open talks about sex, the good and the consequences, and most importantly, preventing disease and unwanted pregnancy. My son is off to college in September (I hope!). He's quiet with a wry sense of humor once you get to know him, and super smart in math. How should we approach this discussion without shaming while still establishing acceptable boundaries, which for me, include don't impregnate your new girl friend in our house and screw up getting in to a good college.
I have very recently, and I mean just last 2 weeks, found myself the new guardian of my 15 year old nephew due to my sisters sudden death. Now, while I am seeking bereavement and family counselling so we can all deal with this, I am 1000% new to parenting, having had none of my own due to my very queer life.
My sister, much as I loved her, was anything but stable. She died leaving behind a teen who has rarely known a clean and supportive house where drugs, yelling, mounds of clutter, or frequents moves were not involved - not to mention a lot of homelessness the last year. I am also expecting him to be behind tremendously for his age academically, but we'll investigate more with the schools in the coming weeks and months. He seems to be excited to start living with me and seeing my ex (he's still local and been supportive of everything that's happened since he watched my nephews grow up), but I know the honeymoon will wane and eventually me and a raging 15 year old will butt heads on things.
While I have a good support network and many resources locally thanks to the area I'm living in, I was hoping some literature/online resources might exist for parenting special needs/teens with trauma to fill in the gaps when we can't see a therapist or go to a support group. Books on parenting in general would be good too. While I am a big reader, most the books I'm finding are for teens coming out of foster care or teens that have grown up with a stable environment with the same parents. But most are for new parents welcoming a newborn into their life.
I'd really appreciate any books, websites, forums, blogs, or reddit threads related to these topics. Or anything else you feel is something that could be helpful. Thank you in advance!
How do we as parents speak into the topics surrounding 13 Reasons Why?
With so many students having seen the show, how do we as youth workers, pastors and parents handle such difficult topics? It’s a question I keep trying to answer well.
I just finished season two and crafted a Processing Guide for viewers, youth workers, pastors and parents. I wanted to share it with you and your team. The full Season 2 guide is available as a free download at www.BeyondTheReasons.com which is my website which hosts tools to face crisis issues.
Just wanted to share!
I have a 15yo daughter whom I love very much, but she doesn't really seem to care about anything. Cleaning her room, doing homework, chores, nothing matters. I am not sure that this would be so bothersome to me except 2 years ago I had brain surgery and I did not recover as we had hoped.
I try to encourage her, to involve her in family and friend events, and it's like she just couldn't care less. It has been two years of this on top of 17 doctors in different disciplines, 1-5 appointments or tests/procedures a week, constant pain, and the loss of my home, job, car, and life.
Still, I make time for her and try to be the best I can be as a mom. I have a very strong family support system, but my daughter treats all of us like we are an inconvenient bother to her.
Honestly, I am sick of it and if I had the means, I would walk away, change my name, and never speak to anyone I know again. I promised that I would do everything I could to get her safely to adulthood, but 2.5 years seems like an eternity right now and I just don't know what to do.
Her dad is non-existent (not on her birth certificate or in her life). She is highly intelligent, a great artist, a taekwondo blackbelt, but she just doesn't care about anything.
I know a lot of my view is obscured by illness and pain. So, anyone have any encouragement, tips, ideas, or funny stories?
“Four Weeks without the Car”: Allstate’s Unintended Parenting Commercial By James L. Casale
The current Allstate Insurance commercial airing daily on TV depicts a teenager pleading his case to his parents after he was engaged in a minor fender bender. For me, the commercial is less about Allstate’s accident forgiveness policy and more about a demonstration of effective parenting techniques. Parents, please pay close attention the next time you see it.
The Scene The parents are sitting up in bed reading as their teenage son enters their room. The boy shows no fear or trepidation. On the contrary, he displays a certain amount of both comfort and cockiness. He states his case eloquently about his fender bender in a narrow drive-through while intimating, but not directly saying, that it is no big deal. Having done his research, the precocious teen proceeds to flatter his parents for being “so smart.” After all, they are Allstate customers who benefit from an accident forgiveness component in their insurance plan.
I See the Seven Cs of Effective Parenting
The parents listen attentively. Their body language is perfect. They are stoic, and there is no grimacing or eye-rolling. Their eyes never leave their son. They show no emotion; they do not interrupt his plea.
Based on this particular scene, communication in this family is evident. He speaks; they listen. All this occurs while each family member remains calm and civil. If parents expect their children to be calm and civil, they must model these characteristics and many others with planned consistency. Kids learn by what they see and not by what is preached to them. We all may have our moments, but consistency, which requires collaboration between parents and a consistent devotion to a parenting plan, is a key ingredient of successful parenting.
The fact that this teenager would enter his parents’ bedroom and initiate this discussion reveals more than just the ability to communicate in this family. It also reveals a connectedness among family members that is characterized by trust, confidence, and open-mindedness. Trust must be part of the family culture if raising lifelong learners, men and women of character, and good citizens are the goals.
After listening intently, showing no emotion or negative body language, and allowing their son to conclude his case, his mother calmly says, “Four weeks without the car.” Hearing the verdict and accepting the decision, the teen executes a perfect 180 and says, “OK, goodnight,” and then he hustles back to his room. They speak; he listens. Communication and connectedness rule.
Among all the other positive techniques displayed throughout this commercial, mom and dad also exhibit a commitment to work with each other and execute a plan that includes all of the above boldfaced Cs as well as providing consequences as they see fit.
Parenting Is Not Easy
As comedian Jim Gaffigan said, “Most of the time, I feel totally unqualified to be a parent. I call those times being awake.” If you are a parent, you already know this, and I want to add that it takes courage to be a parent especially in the rough seas of the 21st century. These are the seas where distractions are limitlessness, where electronic devices rob our children of their childhoods, where face-to-face socializing is passé, where kids are not building forts, playing in empty lots, or enjoying nature, where the self-esteem movement seems to rule our public schools and our homes, where everybody gets a trophy, and where our college students need safe places, counselors, and now “baby goats” (University of Maine) to relieve their stress.
I exhort my fellow parents to hold your heads up high, walk tall, talk straight, coddle less, model your expectations, allow your children to suffer the consequences of inappropriate behavior, create a family mission statement that establishes a culture of learning at home, and devise a plan that includes the seven Cs of common-sense parenting. These tenets will help parents navigate the parenting journey.
Dr. Casale is both a state and national award-winning educator and the author of the highly praised book published by Skyhorse Publishing, Wise Up and Be the Solution: How to Create a Culture of Learning at Home and Guide Your Child to Succeed in School and Life. His second parenting book, Family Pledge: Raising Lifelong Learners and Good Citizens, has also received rave reviews. Both books are available on his website, jamescasalephd.com, in book stores, and online in print and eBook versions.
You: “Did you finish your assignment yet?”
Your child: “Almost” (hasn't started and doesn't plan on turning it in)
Does this sounds familiar?
You work hard. VERY HARD to get the best for your child. The best clothes, the gadgets and most of all, the best education. You have looked for mentors and tutors to help. You have talked to the teachers and have been to the school. However, you are still having the same issues. Your beloved child is still struggling, not being attentive in class, and not earning the grades you KNOW they can earn.
What is the problem???
I have been a tutor and Academic Coach for 5 years to teens all over America that have had the same challenges that your child does. From my study and experience, I have found many insights that crack the code to what the real issue is.
It's not the learning dis-ability label
Past the ADD or ADHD label
Past the Autism label
The real issue is that your child does NOT belong in that school. I'm not saying that your child cannot be successful in that school, but they do not belong.
Picture this. In order to create the circus experience, human beings would go into the wild to capture Elephants and train them to follow their instructions for the amusement of a crowd. Elephants CAN master the act of following instructions, but is that their natural role in the world? To amuse us? No. For instance, the African Elephant's role in their environment is to pull down trees and break up thorny bushes, so that other animals can survive. They also use their tusks to create water holes in dry river beds. The Asian Elephant prevents the overgrowth of vegetation while spreading the seeds of the vegetation is eats. When an African or Asian Elephant is taken from its habitat, they can't do their jobs and therefore, put more work on other Elephants and negatively impact their natural environments and the animals they naturally live with.
Your child was born into this world with an innate role in society. You know what your child is good at. Do they write well? Are they great at building things? Can they sing? Can they dance? Can they make connections between abstract and logical ideas to come up with new and creative solutions for existing problems? Whatever it is, that thing that they are good at is WHY they are here. It is their gift. It is the raw material they were given to build a great life. Their talent.
However, our institutions don't really value that. Our institutions value the structures put in place to build a civilization. To build a man made ECOsystem or ECOnomy. The thing is that we are to work in harmony with natural ecosystems not create our own version of nature. But here we are.
The current public education system works for what it was made for. It's perfect for training human beings to respond to authority in a specific way. It's perfect for training humans to learn commands, to be on time, to follow the rules, to learn discipline. These things aren’t all bad, but sometimes you need to break the rules and follow your on command in order to contribute to humanity in a more meaningful way.
When you really look at society, we do many things to feed our addictions (or traditions). We have huge department stores to feed our addiction of material consumption. We have tons of restaurants to feed our addiction to food. Hell, now we have tons of websites online to feed our addiction to information. Why are we so addicted? Why do we need more and more? What are we looking for? Well, we aren’t looking for anything. It's what we are running from. It's that feeling that we should be doing something else. That yearning to change it all today and do what we really came here to do. That talent. That innate gift that we have and wants to be unleashed on the world. That potential. That power that is suppressed in our kids. For the sake of conformity to society.
Now I’m not saying that society is all bad, but we have gotten to a point where the has be sacrificed for the whole. NOW, your kids aren’t having that. What we are seeing now, is a new generation that has a tough, but exciting road ahead. They have to correct the mistakes of yesterday and create a greater harmony with the planet today. Therefore, their talents are not made for the traditional school construct. Thankfully today’s society is changing to reflect their talents. Their outside of the box thinking. Their outside of the box learning and expression. They are different, yes, but they must not be contained or suppressed, especially with medication. They must be liberated and fearlessly supported in their pursuits.
It's not easy for you. I know. You don’t know the future and you want the best for them. However, you must trust yourself and trust your child. See their true intentions, values and beliefs. Let them know that you believe in them. Let them know that nothing is inherently wrong with them. Let them know that they are valuable and have something to contribute. You love them. Nothing is wrong with them. They are valuable. Don’t let school ruin your child’s confidence to be who they truly are. The world needs your child.
I'm struggling with my 15 year old daughter. Since November we've butted heads, and it's getting worse. Does anyone have any suggestions to help mend our relationship? She is a straight A student, school and club athlete, experimenting with boyfriend and all that entails. Part of it is me not knowing how to parent my little girl that is grown up now, but part is the attitude and stubbornness of my daughter. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am missing my 17 year old today. He has been living in substance abuse programs since September. We started with a stint of wilderness therapy for 3 months last fall, then he tried life back at home (and failed within 6 weeks - ultimately OD-ed on Xanax). He's currently at a therapeutic boarding school, and we have only seen him for a few hours over one parent weekend since January (when he went back to wilderness to detox for a few weeks, and then transferred to the school to start there). Although I am aware that many kids around this age "fly the coop", those kids can also call, text, and come back home. I'm missing my son a lot today, so I just wanted to remind you all to coax your kids out of their rooms (food usually works) and let them know that you love them and simply just like having them around.
Thankfully, we have 3 other teens living at home (15, 15, and 13), but there's still a hole where 17 should be.
Gonna be a long one: I am helping my BF raise his two daughters full time, along with my own daughter. The younger two girls(11 &13) and pretty great kids. Normal kid stuff but tolerable. The older girl(15) has progressively gotten to be more and more trouble. She was nine when we moved in together. At that point she would fabricate crazy stories, hung out with other mean kids, she would sneak around, take food(like eating half a jar of pickles instead of the healthy meal I prepared), she was obsessed with murder and forensic shows and she would lie about so much(and so well). She had a therapist at the time, who she decided to stop seeing, and the therapist supported her stopping therapy. As every year progresses her behaviour has gotten more sneaky and manipulative. We’ve tried to raise her in a living way, include her, guide her, be a good example. We are peace loving hippy type parents(we meditate for goodness sakes). We invite her to join in things, try to hug and love her. She hides in her room all the time(has done so since 9) and tells people we don’t include her. We don’t love her. When we are always trying, only to be told she doesn’t hug, or she doesn’t talk or whatever her reason of the day is. She would take things she wanted and when found out(or found in her room), she would outright deny it. When she started her period at 12 we asked her if she had any questions and she denied even starting her period. Told her we had to know so we could purchase her supplies(but she never would tell us and to this day suspect she probably stole her pads and tampons). I found bloody sheets and underwear tucked in the back of our linen closet and she still denied it. She would flush pads down the toilet and deny it. We found a corner full of used pads in her bedroom when we moved. All the while denying it. She started sneaking out of the house at 12, stealing from stores(caught and brought back by the RCMP), I would suspect things were happening but every time it was brought up she would deny it. She started smoking at 12 and we found half a cigarette in her drawer that she denied as hers. All this time I’m very aware of what’s happening but she lies so easily that Dad wanted to believe her and I started to feel like I was the crazy one. At 13 she started self harming if she got caught doing something she shouldn’t do or if we wouldn’t allow her to do something. I brought structure and boundaries so we thought it was just rebellion against me. But Dad always wanted to believe the best in her so there was never any real consequences to any of it. Fast forward to last year when she got caught for cyber bullying(we found out because he kids Mom and aunt showed up at my house and tore a strip off me, in front of all my neighbours). We took away her phone and attempted to ground her but then she goes to self harm( superficial scratches and as assessed by therapist number 4 and 5 as a way to gain the upper hand on us). Her dad took her to the hospital after the last incident and she lived with her grandparents for four months. Where she continued with therapist number 5. We thought things were getting better. Laid some ground rules to come home(no threats of self harm, be respectful, no drinking, no drugs, no stealing and basically be a good human being). We all start going to group(DBT) classes and she comes home. Things SEEM to be going well. We, in response to the classes, attempted to be more trusting and give her the benefit of the doubt. Things seemed to have changed. Then she asked to have a party at our house. We were so proud of her we allowed it but with rules to be followed and we would be home but make ourselves scarce. Turns out they were sneaking drinking, vaping in our house and when caught they all lied to us. We kicked everyone out and had a calm chat. A couple days later we find out pics were posted to Instagram of them drinking and vaping and we caked them out on it. Calmly. She told us her friends mom bought them logout and she told her that we had alcohol readily available. We were going to call the police on the Mom and a she was going to call on us. Her dad got a furious call from the other mom and he said he wouldn’t talk to her if she was just going to yell. It took three calls but she called down and they chatted. Turns out it was more lies and they had a friend purchase alcohol for them. This upset her dad and she threatened self harm and ran away to her cousins. Telling people she was scared of her dad and making it out like he was going to beat her. Never has he ever. He did slap her one time when she was arrested at 12. So he calls the police to have her returned home( and so he could once agin take her to the hospital if she was going to self harm). The police said they couldn’t make her come home.so she stayed at her cousins. In the meantime she admits to gong in our room and stealing from us, she admits to stealing some liquor from her grandparents(turns out it was actually A LOT). And her dad has basically said she can’t come home if she’s going to use lies and threats as a way to do whatever she wants. My daughter is scared of her(she has threatened her), and feels sick every time it’s her week to come to our place. Everyone is always on edge and honestly no one feels particularly safe. However because she is 15 the police can’t make her come home but they can force us to take her back in. Right now she’s safe where she is(but she is filling their heads full of lies about us and they are filling her head with the idea hat we are terrible parents). He will contact child protective services when they open to find out what to do, but at this point we are at our wits end. 5 therapists, gentle love, talking, guiding, tough love, yelling, everything, we’ve tried everything and nothing works with this kid. If she comes home we all will be under her control again, because she clearly can do whatever she wants without any real consequences. Her dad did finally start seeing what she’s been doing for years but it’s almost too little too late. And of course I get blamed for everything when all I’ve ever done is try to love and provide a structured stable environment with expectations. I’ve even offered to leave the home if I’m really the problem. This has just been a skim of the hints that have happened over the last few years but I honk you get the picture. Now she is smoking weed, drinking, vaping, having sex(we found condoms) and she asked to go on BC as well as lying and manipulating us to get what she wants. We are legally responsible for her in Canada until she is 16, so if you have any advice it would be great. If not and you made it to this point thanks for reading. I just really needed to vent and hope we aren’t alone in this.
I love my children: I wanted to be a mom from when I was 5 at least. Having my first born was a dream come true.
Why is he such a complete a-hole some days and then others he's just such a loving, snuggley, funny as hell kid? Omg when he's being an a-hole I just want to scream. Gah
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Why Doctors Don’t Talk to Pregnant Women About Toxic Chemicals. Freshana Suggest a Simple Way to Start Avoiding the Toxins Pregnant Women Come in Contact with Every Day.
Johns Creek, GA, July 19, 2014 --(PR.com
)-- Freshana Organic Solutions, LLC / The conclusions reached in a 2011 study (Environmental Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the United States: NHANES Environ Health Prespect. June 2011; 119(6): 878-885) found that pregnant women are exposed and come into contact with at least 43 chemicals known to affect fetal development. These include but are not limited to pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), and phthalates, each found in every day home and business cleaning supplies and interfering with hormones. An article by Deborah Kotz in the Boston Globe on June 30 highlighted this with the fact that most Obstetricians and Gynecologist do not talk to their patients about how the exposure to toxic chemicals in their normal day to day life can affect the development of their unborn babies and may cause other health problems later on in life.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist has deemed it “critical” to decrease a pregnant women’s exposure to environmental toxins in helping reduce the incidence of birth defects and other health problems for the developing fetus.
David Elmore, CEO of Freshana Organic Solutions commented on the article by saying, “This article brings to light one of the main goals of Freshana’s organic and natural cleaning products…to make the world a safer and cleaner place and in doing so, no longer do you have to give up quality for safe cleaning. Freshana does this by making products that work as well or better than poison products and in doing so can provide one of the key and necessary steps to reducing the exposure of pregnant women and their unborn babies to these harmful chemicals and toxins that they come into contact with every day.”
The Boston Globe article goes on to say that “a survey published last week of more than 2,500 physician members of that group found that fewer than one in five of them ask pregnant patients about any exposure they have had to unsafe levels of toxic chemicals.” Though “Eighty percent of these doctors agreed that they could have an impact on lowering exposure to dangerous substances, but only about 7 percent said they had any training on the topic, according to the study published in the journal PLOS One.”
Naomi Sotland, the study leader said, “Some things are no brainers and easy to do, like avoiding like avoiding spray air fresheners and not using antibacterial soaps, which are unnecessary and have triclosan.”
Elmore went on to say that if “Doctors simply recommended to their patients look into areas of their home that might have possibility of chemicals and toxins, like cleaning products, they could immediately reduce those types of exposures.” He continued with, “Other major manufacturers of odor eliminators and household cleaning products propagate the environment with harsh chemicals and a strong replacement scents that infuse the environment with toxins that can be harmful to the pregnant mother and developing baby. As Mrs. Stotland said, avoid toxic air fresheners and of course we feel that Freshana’s AIRIA Air Purifier and MAXAM Cleaning Solutions is the perfect answer to solving a part of this very serious prenatal problem.”
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About Freshana Organic Solutions, LLC: 100% Organic AND 100% Effective. The Finest All-Natural Cleaning Products on the Planet. FOS was established in April 2011 by world-renowned chemist Dr. Robert Bayless. With his microencapsulation process, Dr. Bayless helped in the 10 years it took scientists to develop the organic concentrate, which speeds up nature's natural process 1,000-fold. So organic and safe that the product themselves can even be drunk safely.
Though the USDA and other government entities allow companies to call their products "organic" if they have only 95% organic content and 5% chemicals, Freshana does not accept that designation as being safe for consumers. Freshana is 100% all natural, all the time, in all circumstances giving you 100% peace of mind.
Our goal is to make the world a safer, cleaner place. We aim to change the way people look at “organic.” No longer do you have to give up quality for safe cleaning. In other words, our Air Purifier & Cleaning Products work as well or better than poison products — and they are totally organic and safe. Other major manufacturers of “odor eliminators” design products that don’t actually “eliminate”; they simply “mask” odors, propagating the environment with harsh chemicals and a strong “replacement” scent that is intended to only "disguise" the hydrocarbon odor. By only masking, these products infuse the environment with chemicals that can be harmful to people and pets or instigate a very strong allergic reaction.
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Walt Disney World, the vacation kingdom, is a popular and enjoyable place to visit throughout the entire calendar year. The holiday season at the four parks, resorts, and Disney Springs bring out a little bit of extra magic though. In this guide, we’ll cover all of the Christmas festivities including photos, our thoughts, and a few tips on the most wonderful time of year at the Walt Disney World theme parks.
With the size of the resort, going into detail on every single Christmas related thing would make for the longest post ever on this site. That would be no small feat and, frankly, no one wants that. Instead this will be a brief overview of what each park offers. If you want more details than what this post offers, click on links, stay tuned to the blog and please drop us a comment with any questions you have.
Christmas at Disney World generally runs from the first week in November through the first week of January. That can ebb and flow, as Epcot generally starts a little later in November along with some resorts not getting their decor up until mid-November. If you want to be sure to see everything while avoiding the huge influx in crowds, early December is the best time to go. The week of Thanksgiving can be a headache and the weeks surrounding Christmas remain Disney World’s busiest. To some, braving the crowds during a longer work/school break is worth it and the extra holiday festivites are certainly something worth considering. Just know that there is a general trade-off in terms of crowds (again, unless you’re able to swing an early December trip).
Over the last few years, the holiday season has become my favorite time to visit Walt Disney World. Admittedly, part of this is because I’m not a person who tries to ride every single attraction during our trips anymore. If we didn’t take that laid back approach there’s a chance I’d feel differently thanks to the crowds. Still, exploring the decor and extra events while the weather is cooler is an excellent combo and one I ultimately recommend.
Let’s take a look at what each park offers.
Walt Disney World’s castle park doesn’t shy away from decorations. The first steps inside the park are met with views of the train station and the beautiful Mickey Mouse shaped, red and green garden flanked by Christmas trees. Turning the corner into Main Street is no less stunning with a giant Christmas Tree and Toy Soldiers greeting you before heading down Main Street. The decor isn’t subtle in the least but it’s not trying to be. Instead it’s jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Wreaths abound down Main Street and the windows feature more holiday decor. My favorite set of windows is near the fire station and barber shop, with miniature models of Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Enjoying these at the end of the night before heading back to the hotel has become one of our favorite traditions. During the day, the Dapper Dans can be found singing some Christmas tunes throughout Main Street.
Typically, the castle would be lit up in its icicle lights and looking all Christmas-y. This year is different though due to the resort’s 50th anniversary. Instead, the castle will be lit up with Christmas projections.
Magic Kingdom is home to one of the few holiday ride overlays at Disney World, although there are more at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Jingle Cruise is a fun holiday take on the classic Jungle Cruise, inserting Christmas puns and decorations throughout the ride. It’s well worth doing.
Outside of Main Street and Jingle Cruise, Magic Kingdom’s holiday decor is far more subtle and not particularly interesting. There are garlands and wreaths throughout most of the park along with some specialty snacks. Much of Magic Kingdom’s Christmas entertainment will come during Disney Very Merriest After Hours, where select nights are still available. There are shows, attraction overlays, specialty foods and more at this upcharge event. You can check out our review of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, which has several of the same offerings, here.
In 2021, Epcot’s Future World is in disarray. There are construction walls everywhere and Christmas is cancelled. Just kidding. Living With The Land has a mini Christmas overlay that’s fun and interesting but there’s not much else in terms of Future World décor (or Future World attractions, or Future World walkways, or Future World buildings). Thankfully, World Showcase picks up the slack.
Starting November 26th, Festival of the Holidays begins in World Showcase. While the festival as a whole is hit and miss, it does offer some of our favorite Christmas entertainment in all of Walt Disney World. That begins with the Candlelight Processional starting on November 29th. Every night in the America Gardens Theatre, a celebrity narrator is joined by a choir and horn players to tell the Christmas story. Whether you’re religious or not, the show packs an emotional punch and is not to be missed. The Candlelight Processional runs three times a night and is probably easiest to see on the final showing if you’re going the standby route. There are dining packages that include reserved seating and we’d recommend those if you’re going at an especially busy time.
There’s plenty of other entertainment throughout Epcot during the holiday season including gospel music, storytellers at some of the World Showcase Pavilions telling that country’s Christmas tales, and a few of the classic Epcot acts adding a little holiday flair to the mix.
As far as the decor, each pavilion differs. There’s a beautiful Christmas tree near the Port of Entry (the front of World Showcase) that can be seen throughout the park. As usual, the festival offers small plates and drinks at different outdoor kitchens (are they still calling them that?) throughout World Showcase. We only tried a few of them with mixed results and there aren’t as many options as other Epcot festivals. I would recommend using a snack credit on those if you’re on the Disney Dining Plan.
Epcot’s World Showcase is beautiful anytime of year but is especially so at Christmas time. Take the time to see some of the special entertainment. Or maybe just try to see every single Candlelight Processional. Either way it’ll make for a beautiful day and night.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Hollywood Studios does surprisingly well at Christmas time. Maybe it’s due to the low expectations that the park has garnered over the last few years, but the decor is well done.
The front of the park has garlands stretched across the street, from rooftop to rooftop. Like Main Street, there’s some decor in the windows. This certain one below almost ruined every single positive thing I’m going to say about Christmas at Hollywood Studios. I mean, what is this?
With that out of the way, the street is beautiful. Moving further away from the street, things get weirder. There are these miniature figurines in little gardens. I usually like them but also could see them standing over me with an axe when I wake up one night. It’s an interesting way to go I suppose, both in terms of decor and death.
Echo Lake is where the Hollywood Studios Christmas Tree will be found. The California Crazy architecture plays right into the tree, giant bulbs surrounding it in the water, and Santa Gertie. It’s one of my favorite areas to visit during Christmas at Disney World, especially at night, both peaceful and weird.
Speaking of nighttime, Tower of Terror on Sunset Boulevard is lit up at night with projections called Sunset Seasons Greetings. There are four short little shows featuring different Disney characters including Frozen, Toy Story and the Muppets. Along with the projections is fake snow, making for a festive atmosphere. It’s fun to stand here for 15 or 20 minutes and watch the shows cycle through.
Toy Story Land has a few decorations, including awesome oversized character cookies. I believe they’re just decor but I didn’t actually try to eat them. Proceed at your own risk. Toy Story Land won’t wow when it comes to Christmas but there’s a few nicely done additions that I enjoy. Alien Swirling Saucers plays a few Christmas songs while you spin around, Rex has a Santa hat on. It’s nice. Christmas Hamm anyone? (Older gentleman and stroller not included.)
Unfortunately, we can’t leave Hollywood Studios without a major dud. That’s what Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! is. Don’t mistake Disney’s punctuation for my enthusiasm. I usually love fireworks and nighttime spectaculars but this plot is rough. With some characters that I barely recognize leading the show and a largely disappointing soundtrack, I don’t recommend seeing this. The pyro is okay but there are better options. So far, the show has not returned for 2021 so it will likely not be back this year.
Overall, Christmas is when Hollywood Studios is strongest. The decor is well done and most of the entertainment touches are nice. I admire the non-generic decor even if it does impede on my nightmares.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
The surprise of the holiday season goes to Animal Kingdom! A park that has largely strayed away from Christmas décor broke through in 2019 with a few excellent additions. The best of these start near the park entrance in Discovery Island.
During the day, Discovery Island is alive with the Merry Menagerie. These cute, wintery puppet animals are throughout the area interacting with guests. It’s a joy to watch people interact with them and the performers are excellent, encompassing the spirit of the animal. Merry Menagerie is an outstanding addition and one worth spending 15-30 minutes doing, interacting and watching these puppets and performers at work. It’s somewhat simple but so sweet.
At night, Discovery Island is lit up with animal lanterns and other white and silver decor. The Tree of Life has the usual Awakenings at night but this time with a Christmas theme. These are worth hanging out in the area and watching a few. It’s a beautiful show that we prefer to the much bigger Rivers of Light.
There are subtle decorations throughout the rest of Animal Kingdom. Well, DinoLand is not subtle. Having said that, it does look better than usual. Parts of it are kind of like a Zoo Lights event but, you know, with dinos. That might be overselling it as the lights don’t extend all the way throughout the land, still that section looks cool.
Asia doesn’t include much decor except for the beautiful lanterns outside of the Up! A Great Bird Adventure ampitheater. That section is quite beautiful and worth seeing at night. Harambe is equally minimalistic. There’s a simple garland hanging overhead and a few wreaths around. Towards the back of the village there are two makeshift Christmas trees that add to the lived-in feeling of the land. Pandora goes the same route with just a few additions. There are some cool garland additions around the area, as well as Christmas lights around the giant robot.
While I’m calling these additions small, they are beautifully done and only enhance the park. Going for the loud, vivacious decorations of Magic Kingdom’s Main Street throughout Animal Kingdom would have been a mistake although Santa Claus does sail down the Discovery River from time to time. Instead the park stayed in theme with detailed and subtle décor. Before this year Animal Kingdom wasn’t much of a Holiday park, now it might be the best one.
Visiting the Walt Disney World parks at Christmas is a great experience filled with extra decor and entertainment. As long as your expectations are in check in terms of crowds, we’d recommend that time of year to anyone.
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I think the last time I used a paintbrush (other than painting our house) was close to 20-years ago. Considering how much enjoyment I get from painting, I’m ashamed to admit that I let too many excuses come between myself and a blank piece of canvas. From lack of room, having all my paint supplies stolen, divorce, new jobs, a new marriage, new house, a baby, etc. I always had a reason to NOT paint, and yet I always talked fondly and ‘wished’ I still could.
Finally, my amazing wife and fantastic parents decided to remove one obstacle as a Christmas present, and sent me to the art store with a check so I could get the supplies I needed. It was a wonderful surprise and gave me the kick in the butt to start painting again. Back in college, my preferred medium was oil. I hadn’t ever really tried acrylics, but was leaning that direction since I didn’t want the house stinking of oil paint and thinner. | <urn:uuid:29872710-92b3-4f6d-bc69-5345b19c620a> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | http://www.modernatomicfamily.com/2015/04/ | 2020-08-08T06:20:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737289.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808051116-20200808081116-00356.warc.gz | en | 0.981867 | 212 |
Bee bi bee is a fun design that has multiple uses. Bees represent function, family, nature, and more. Therefore this logo is available to use for anything. It could even function for companies with products that keep bugs away. Bees, of course, represent honey and therefore this logo could be of great use in that area. It is a great addition to any business. Download for free! PSD and AI files included. | <urn:uuid:e85e63bc-a56c-45cb-b6bb-37e7b15d7cac> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.logoinstant.com/bee-bi-bee/ | 2018-04-20T10:55:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125937440.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420100911-20180420120911-00346.warc.gz | en | 0.976882 | 86 |
The Safe Operating Area Calculators (SOA Calculators) are used to determine how much power will be internally dissipated in a product under varied operating conditions. Select the
Using your design’s input voltage, load size, ambient temperature, etc., the calculator will help you design a thermally robust and reliable system. These tools will allow you to draw the SOA curve for a Wavelength Electronics product and, optionally, to also draw a load line for your specific application to easily design your application to fall within the safe operating area. For a product that combines both laser diode driver and temperature controller, use both.
The WTC3243 Circuit Calculator automatically calculates the gain resistor values based on your thermoelectric or resistive heater currents, the PI loop configuration based on your load type, and sensor gain and bias current to optimize your sensor’s responsivity. WTC3243 Details
WTCP Configuration Calculator
Download the Configuration Calculator for the WTCP5V5A Evaluation Board. This easy-to-use component selection calculator simplifies system design and configuration. Simply enter your sensor parameters and the operating conditions for your application and the calculator will determine the Evaluation Board settings to achieve optimal performance. | <urn:uuid:41a3cc37-ccba-4bca-9b22-f11c934ed02d> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.teamwavelength.com/support/design-tools/ | 2020-07-09T20:17:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655901509.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709193741-20200709223741-00242.warc.gz | en | 0.845363 | 247 |
How to Make Easy ham and cheese bake
- 1Lightly spray a 8" x 8" baking dish w/ cooking spray. Heat oven to 375. Unroll 1/2 the dough and cover bottom of baking dish w/ the dough. bake 8 mins.
- 2Top baked dough w/ a layer of cheese slices. Add ham slices on top. Top w/ a layer of remaining cheese. Place remaining dough on top, spread out to cover layers.
- 3Bake 12 mins. Cut into slices. | <urn:uuid:190866a0-c1ec-4730-8892-d0d6ca58e79b> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/main-course-pork/easy-ham-and-cheese-bake.html | 2017-10-17T02:04:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820556.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017013608-20171017033608-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.88632 | 107 |
Komono watches are colorful, bold, and retro-futuristic. Each watch is an escape from the daily routine, bringing personality into a grey world. Despite its smaller size, the sleek Wizard watch maintains a striking appearance.
- Nylon Wristband with Genuine Leather Details
- Japanese Quartz Movement
- Size (diameter): 36 mm
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The project’s purpose is simple: to revive Malaysian English music’s popularity by producing an original English pop compilation album to showcase the talented local music artists, because we believe that our home-grown performers have what it takes to make the next greatest hit. We want to remind the public that the local English music scene is still here and that we have talented local music artists worth listening to.
Got a rough idea about what they are doing? Read more at the WeBePOP Community Page here. Download the app via your google app store or Apple store, start supporting! It is as simple as that, the tip is to get more WeBITS and earning those "WeBe Currency" is simple, just share the project details to your social media channels and be rewarded and you can keep voting after that, up to 5 times a day.
With 10 days to go, it is an uphill challenge but I believe with everyone supporting, Darren and Prashan's aim can be accomplished. It's time to help grow the local english music scene, especially helping the new talents in launching their musical journey with this album.
This will be the first original English pop collaboration album (that’s why we are calling it WEbePOP – as in WE be POP!) that will be produced locally, which features an impressive line-up of our very own local artists . With the help of the webe community, with your pledges and support, their dream album can be brought to life, but more importantly, help our local artists gain the recognition that they deserve.
|Darren (WeBePOP Champion) & James the WeBe Head Honcho|
For all the supporters, you will get a first chance to download the album for FREE! The album will be available to non-webe members at a price either through digital download or the purchase of CDs. All profits will be divided equally with all recording artists. | <urn:uuid:7466af53-8aa8-47a4-9c1e-1d9a28bfc793> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.mikeyip.com/2016/06/webepop-preview.html | 2017-02-19T16:51:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170186.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00121-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951596 | 395 |
Coming off of my 9-2 finish at Eternal Weekend, I felt great going into the Open. Well, more accurately, I felt great about my 75. I, on the other hand, wasn’t doing so hot. I ended up taking off work for half of Wednesday and all of Thursday. I had picked up the dreaded “con crud” at EW the previous weekend. Two of the guys who went to EW with me were some combination of exhausted and sick as well, so the crew that made it from Roanoke to DC for this event was smaller than expected. Back to back out of town events can be rough, so they opted to rest up. I had some reservations about going to the event myself, unsure if I’d be able to play well through the Dayquil daze.
After two consecutive 4-1 MTGO finishes in my pajamas while my head was pounding, I resigned myself to fate. With my medicine cabinet loaded into my bag, I headed to DC Friday after work and registered the same 75 I played the previous weekend.
Day one was a wild ride, I’m not going to lie to you. There was a really fun subgame going on that involved me planning on when I could afford to go to the bathroom and take shots of Dayquil. I got a good laugh out of calculating how much time was remaining in the round vs how long it would take the drugs to kick in, all while pondering how many doses would prove fatal to my ability to play. I settled on three doses of Dayquil over 9 rounds, and balanced them out with two sandwiches from Arby’s; they seemed to be the only thing my body wanted to eat for some reason… Despite the fact that I was feeling terrible, my head was pounding, and I generally felt like I was in a dream-like daze, I managed an impressive 8-1 start on day 1!
2-0 vs D&T
2-0 vs Eureka Tell
2-0 vs Grixis Delver
2-1 vs ANT (off-camera feature)
2-1 vs Grixis Delver
2-0 vs BR Reanimator (off-camera feature)
1-2 vs Elves
2-1 vs Shardless BUG (backup feature match)
2-1 vs D&T (Mike Derczo, off-camera feature match)
Round 1 vs D&T
You know that moment where you friends give up on your chances of winning a match? They shake their head and walk off rather than watch you get pummeled. One of my friends did that once she saw my opponent coming at me with a Batterskull equipped with a Sword of Light and Shadow. At 30 life, my opponent suspected the game was over. They were right. I Vialed in a Mirran Crusader and activated a Stoneforge Mystic to put in a Sword of War and Peace. My opponent had 5 cards in hand, and I already had an Umezawa’s Jitte with two counters. Turns out that adds up to 30 damage in a single Crusader attack. I ripped off my shirt and beat my chest in a display of manliness. Not really, but it was a thought that occurred to me at the time. That one was the Dayquil talking, and I didn’t take its advice.
Round 2 vs Eureka Tell
Show and Tell. He puts in Griselbrand. I put in Mirran Crusader. He attacks me for 7. I attack him for 32 with a Crusader who was flailing around with Jitte and SoFaI. High score! People ask me why I’m playing four Crusader. It’s basically this. Those were the two most impressive examples of Crusader damage from this event, but it wasn’t uncommon for me to do lethal out of nowhere with a Crusader.
Round 5 vs Grixis Delver
I got one of these games for free. We got deck checked this round, and my opponent didn’t register his True-Name Nemesis on his decklist. Whoops. I got a warning for marked cards. Four of my cards had a little bit too much wear, and the judges asked me to replace them. I ended up resleeving my deck after day 1, because I didn’t want to take any chances. I went through the rest of day 2 with SCG mammorth sleeves because they didn’t bring KMCs with them. Daggers! Rest in Peace stranded double Gurmag Angler in my opponent’s hand in game 3, making the win pretty easy from there.
Round 7 vs Elves
Let me just summarize this round by saying that my opponent said something along the lines of “It doesn’t matter how badly I play, I’m so sorry. I have no idea how you are sitting there and still smiling after I played this badly and still won.” My opponent received two GRVs during this match, one for not paying the Thalia tax for a Green Sun’s Zenith, and one for trying to cast a Natural Order as his second spell for turn while I had an Ethersworn Canonist in play. The Elves matchup is so bad that even if your opponent misplays almost every turn (and gets a game loss mid-match for their third GRV of the day), they’ll still probably find a way to win. C’est la vie.
Round 8 vs Shardless BUG
I was not expecting Master of the Wild Hunt as a sideboard card. I’m not sure that it is generally a good idea to play, but boy it sure ate me alive in game 2! My opponent kept a risky, mana light hand that didn’t pan out in game 3. The deck with 4 Mirran Crusader was probably going to get the win here anyway, but it was a shame to watch the third game go down so quickly after two super-intricate games.
Round 9 vs D&T
Mike Derczo got his rematch, but, I ended up winning the equipment war one more time than he did. The games were very interesting and skill-testing, and I enjoyed them immensely. There were a few times where I tried to call bluffs throughout the match, but he always had the Swords to Plowshares he represented when I made the call. I could have played a bit more conservatively, but sometimes you have to just go for it and make them have it. It was almost a card for card mirror match (74/75), and it ended with dueling Sword of War and Peace on the table as well as probably a combined total of 6 or 7 pieces of equipment in play. The math got a little weird since we both had the potential for a ton of life gain, but I connected a few too many times with SoWaP and pressed my life point advantage pretty hard. Ending the day at 8-1 and 7-2 was a solid start for both of us, and we were obviously pretty happy with the results.
Day 1 ended with a hearty dinner at Iron Age, an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ joint of deserved notoriety. After a night of feasting, I retired to my chambers and imbibed the necessary Nyquil to time travel to day 2.
0-2 vs Sneak and Show (3x Omniscience maindeck)
2-1 vs Grixis Delver
0-2 vs Deathblade (backup feature match vs Jon Goss)
1-2 vs Stax
1-2 vs ANT
2-0 vs D&T
The wheels fell off the bus a bit on day 2, and with the exception of the Stax matchup, all of my losses were completely out of my control. I kept good hands and played well, but it just wasn’t in the cards this time. Jon Goss obliterated me with his playset of True-Name Nemesis, the ANT player stormed off before my turn two twice, and my Sneak and Show opponent had Omniscience hands when I had hands that could beat anything but Omni. So it goes. But let’s talk about that Stax matchup…
Round 13 vs Stax
I sit down for my match, and my opponent is like noticeably jittery. When we drew our opening hands, he was super nervously shuffling his cards in his hand. After eyeing him up, I put him on D&T, assuming that he recognized my name and was really nervous about playing the mirror against a potentially better player. He leads on Rishadan Port and passes. I mentally fist pump at my power of deduction, and smile at my hand that is basically unbeatable in the mirror. He follows it with an Ancient Tomb into a Crucible of Worlds…oops, this isn’t D&T, it’s MUD! Then he plays a Smokestack…this isn’t MUD, it’s full on STAX!!! Smokestack eats my board over about the next 6 turns, and he locks me down pretty good. He begins to loop Inventor’s Fair to tutor for various things. He gets a Metalworker on board, and I offer to concede as soon as he can show me a win condition. He says he just wants to play it out. I take this as him wanting to run down the clock, going for a 1-0-1 win, and I concede. I would later find out that he didn’t actually have any other win condition in the main other than Metalworker… I respect you, bro, I really do.
I quickly aggro my opponent out in the second game, and he takes five mulligans in the third game. To be fair, three of them hardly counted since there were off Serum Powder. My opponent began the game with 21 cards in exile, and I notice that a ton of goodies are already in exile. I’m feeling good about this one, but then my opponent landed the third Ensnaring Bridge, and my plan of aggroing him out went down the drain. My plan instead became to deck him. I dumped as many permanents as I could on the board, including using a Gidoen, Ally of Zendikar, which I had boarded in since it could produce Smokestack fodder. It’s at about this time that I could have won this match if I had better matchup knowledge.
My opponent had Crucible of Worlds and Inventor’s Fair. I decided to shut down this engine with a Surgical Extraction. When I looked through my opponent’s deck, I saw, in horror, that their only remaining win condition was a Walking Ballista. If I had opted to wait and nab the Ballista instead, I could have won the game via decking like I intended. Instead, a few turns later, I died to an infinite Ballista laser fueled by Metalworker and Staff of Domination. It’s really hard to guess deck composition of something like Stax since it can be so pilot-dependent, so I won’t say that it was necessarily a misplay, but it was something that was clear to me in retrospect after seeing the list. My opponent admitted that his deck was less than 50% vs the field, but that he almost always knew the matchup better than his opponent, and that gave him a big edge. He went on to top 16 the event.
My finish at 10-5 was good enough for 35th, and Derczo ended up at 11-4 for 15th. We were both very happy with our performances and how the deck felt. I really enjoyed this event despite my personal illness making things a bit tougher on me. I’m glad I have a couple of weeks to rest up before the team open in Baltimore though, I’m not gonna lie. Speaking of, one of my teammates for that event (and my roommate), Harley Cox top 4’d the Open this weekend. Congrats, buddy, it’s been a long time coming. He went X-3 at EW last weekend, and though it took a little convincing to get him to play Eldrazi in a potential sea of Lands, the choice ultimately paid off for him.
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CAN YOU HELP TO IDENTIFY THIS MYSTERY STABLE BELT?
Colours are green and light blue
Possibly Australian but the blue is too light to be 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (QMI)
This is 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment original version belt. Colours from Green for 2 LHR and Light Blue 14 LHR. The belt changed in 1986 to colours of the 11th LHR of Green on Dark Blue which are the official regtimental colours. | <urn:uuid:23b0732c-235c-459d-8e27-b4d5a2cf0675> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://stablebelts.co.uk/mysterybeltaug2011.html | 2017-10-17T17:01:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822145.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017163022-20171017183022-00297.warc.gz | en | 0.89531 | 106 |
George Zimmerman trial outcome causes speculation on the "stand your ground" law.
Taking photos of the secretary of state's house and a pellet gun in your car? Someone's been a busy boy.
Apple is set to investigate a claim that a woman was electrocuted by her iPhone.
"Glee" star Cory Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel over the weekend. Police have ruled out foul play.
"Angel" the dog is said to be recovering well after having her throat slashed.
Heavy rain catches Albuquerque citizens in the metro area off guard.
Jury deliberations for the Levi Chavez murder trial started at 8:30 this morning.
K-Y Intense Arousal gel causes Alabama post office evacuation. No joke.
The morning after the municipal elections, as I was removing droopy “Romero for Mayor” signs from my front lawn while a steady drizzle soaked my jacket into a leaden metaphor for my soggy spirit, I got a cell phone call from a friend (actually, now a former friend) who was calling just to berate me.
At the Mayor Martin Chavez headquarters, doors are locked. Certain people are being allowed inside to watch results. It looks pretty grim from what I can see. The mayor appears stressed. Reporters are pacing the O'Neill's parking lot or hovering near their cars. We've been told Chavez is going to show up at O'Neill's at 9 p.m.
I've covered elections for 20 years, and I've never seen a candidate who holes up behind locked doors to watch election results.
When polls close, results are posted on the doors of the polling locations. It looks like Chavez is receiving results location by location. It's possible that he'll know the results before the public.
The questions will be good. Yesterday, we gathered round a conference room table—we members of independent and public media—and put our collective brainpower into thinking about the city, its direction and its citizens. This won't be politics as usual.
You can show up to make sure that it isn't. I'll be collecting questions from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Bank of America Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. I'll pick a couple of the best ones and pose them to the candidates during the broadcast.
If you can't make it down in person, listen tonight at 7 p.m. to KUNM 89.9. Or you can catch it Friday at 7 p.m. on KNME Channel 5.
Even better, see a live-stream of the event here at alibi.com and live-blog with us. (You should also be able to catch it and join the fray from any of the media partners' sites).
Don't forget about the debate afterparty at Blackbird Buvette (509 Central). Down a Civic Duty (seriously, that's our drink special), listen to some jams by Jessica Cassyle Carr and friends, and discuss the city.
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This picture has nothing to do with RA but this weekend we got to house sit for my brother and sister-in-law. This picture was taken from the back yard. Beauty took it early Sunday morning. She spent the night with us and woke up early. She grabbed my phone and took this picture. It was a great surprise when I woke up. One of the local coffee shops is having a photo contest and it was suggested that I submit this for it. I did but got an email back saying they needed a higher resolution copy. Unfortunately, I don’t have one. Oh well, I like the picture anyway. Those of you who are Facebook friends have already seen it but I just love it so thought I’d share here too!
I’ve mentioned before that I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. I was diagnosed in February 2006. I had spent a year with what I called “The Amazing Traveling Pulled Muscle”! I was at the doctor nearly once a week with pain in a different location every time. The first was my right shoulder. My brother, Beauty and I made a quick trip for my uncle’s memorial service. A very quick trip. We were gone a total of 20 hours and about 15 of that was spent driving. I went to work the next day and couldn’t lift my right arm. My shoulder felt like someone was stabbing me with a red hot poker right in my shoulder joint. Any movement at all was excruciatingly painful. That was the first time I went to the doctor and was told “You have a pulled muscle. Here, have some narcotics!” They didn’t work. Three days later I was sitting at work and watched my left hand swell up and turn red. My left arm started hurting as well. You may recall that my dad died when I was 12? He had a massive heart attack. My mom? She’s had 3 open heart surgeries and a mild heart attack. Pain radiating down my left arm? You can bet I headed for the ER. Interestingly enough they didn’t even check anything with my heart! They ended up telling me “You have a pulled muscle” and giving me more narcotics. Really? And we wonder why so many people are addicted to pain pills???
Over the course of the next year, like I said, I was at the doctor multiple times only to be told that I had a pulled muscle. Finally after doing some research on my own I called and asked for a referral to a Rheumatologist. I ended up going in to my doctor’s office but saw a different doctor who FINALLY ordered lab work! Yes, I had been in this much pain for a year and my doctor never even did any labs! The very last time I saw the man who kept blowing off my very real pain he actually said to me “I got you in here on an emergency appointment. I don’t have time for this.”!!! Needless to say, that was the very last time I saw him. He’s still practicing. He’s even in the same office my girls and I still go to. But I’ve made it VERY clear that none of us will EVER see him again. I would rather take my chances at spending 12 hours in the ER than see him again. Lucky for us we now have an AMAZING primary doctor who actually listens and seems to genuinely care about what is going on with us. I was able to get in with a Rheumatologist that I really like. He understands that I haven’t had insurance for the last couple of years so he works with me for my appointments. He also has been instrumental in helping me get the most expensive of my medications ($2400 a month?!?!?) for no cost.
Now, 6 years after my initial diagnosis and 7 years after the onset of my symptoms, my life is mostly normal. Yeah, I have to take it easy some days and the cold generally hurts. Now that I’ve been on this most recent medication my flares are not as frequent (maybe 1 a month unless I completely overdo it) and aren’t nearly as severe as they were. When this first started I didn’t know how I could live my life with this horrible disease. Now I know I just do. Yes, it’s still horrible but I’ve learned that my body has certain limitations and as long as I remember that, I do ok. I have been blessed with a great job where it’s not overly stressful on me (which causes flares really bad!) and it’s physically not a difficult job. My last job before this was at a big box store and I walked 6-8 miles every single day.
Interestingly enough when I started writing this I was feeling great. This morning I woke up and could barely open my mouth because I’m having a flare in my jaw. Let me just tell you how much fun THAT is! If you have ever suffered from TMJ this is pretty similar. I can’t open my mouth all the way and I can’t bite down all the way. Makes eating interesting for sure! Today was the busiest day of the week at work and all I wanted was to take a nap! That’s what happens when I take my meds before work. Luckily I don’t get all of the common side effects associated with Chemo medicine, mostly because I take such a low dose. I just put a reminder in my phone to take meds on Friday night or Saturday morning so this doesn’t happen again. We’ll see how that works… | <urn:uuid:f25f08a6-15d7-4a0e-ae0b-4ddf388e79e2> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://modeejae.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/living-with-ra/ | 2017-10-19T07:01:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823255.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019065335-20171019085335-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.985283 | 1,181 |
Framed poster Le Créateur
The framed poster Le Créateur is a limited edition series of 5 items. The image was created in 2012 as free work for the expo ’21’. Expo ’21’ was organised by the former Design Vlaanderen, celebrating 20 years of their Kwintessens Magazine. Several graphic designers were asked to design a poster for this event, representing their ‘personal statement’. The last 5 pieces are now exclusively for sale here at LECHAPERON. Continue to read to discover the meaning of the image. Maybe you recognise yourself in it.
- Limited edition series of 5
- Measurements framed poster : 62,4 cm x 87 cm
- Material : multi design white original (paper) / black oak frame
- Framing with vacuum press for a smooth result
- Off-set print technique
- Colours : Pantone Black + Pantone 355 (green) (poster / black frame
- Poster is also available without frame (Click here)
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The ‘little foolish man’ image of the framed poster Le Créateur is an interpretation, a personal statement by the designers, of the creative job as graphic designer : very often graphic design is a very demanding, labour intensive job that implies long working hours and low budgets. Therefore Oeyen & Winters integrated the letters Z O T (meaning ‘foolish’ in Dutch) in their typographical style as a starting point. “Because you have to be a little foolish to do this kind of job”. In addition to that, the word ‘ZOT’ also refers to the devotion and passion of this graphic duo for their job (‘crazy in love’ with their job) and the beauty that they can bring into the world through their profession. The text fragment of Erasmus ‘The Praise of Folly’ also refers to that.
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2007 Academy Award® Nominee
Best Short Documentary Category
Recycled Life, by Leslie Iwerks
"Fernanda is one of the most intelligent story structure experts in the field. Just when I thought I had exhausted every structural option on my documentary Recycled Life, she honed in immediately on what was and wasnít working. For anyone wanting their film to be the very best it can be, a personal story session with Fernanda is a must."
2009 Academy Award® Nominee
Best Documentary Feature Category
The Garden, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
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Expressions of interest are sort for participants in a one off International all Veteran car (pre 31st Dec 1918) rally. This rally will commence from Sydney, 1st March to travel through the scenic Blue Mountains & Western regions and the event will finish at the Pre V swap, Australia’s premier only automotive swap meet with a celebratory dinner on the Friday evening 9th March, 2014. There will be a 3 day organised Sydney tour, commencing 26th February for those who would like to see one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
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Inside the Divine Prefecture, the vast majority of those who cultivated the Method of Light-weight had been from the Fantastic Dazzling Location. It was the best choice spot for growing the strength of lighting, nonetheless it seemed to be the very least suited place for anyone who developed and comprehended other Great Walkways.
Types of top secret was Chen Yi covering?
Who has been it which had required Chen Yi to venture to the Donghuang Site? It didn’t appear to be which he experienced realized any significant feats within the Donghuang Sector. As an alternative, he ended up escaping with him in the future and came along this all way.
“No speculate it’s known as the Terrific Shiny Field,” Ye Futian whispered. The light came up lower through the firmament, and it was obvious on the human eye alone. It turned out a little something extremely awesome. It was actually enough to differentiate that country utilizing locations. It looked as though it was actually a completely independent realm of their own. None of us experienced any concept what kind of drive was effective at leading to a real sight.
Ye Futian searched slightly confused. He noticed that currently Chen Yi seemed to be talking in riddles. His words and phrases ended up not clear by any means.
“Where are we going?” Ye Futian questioned Chen Yi.
“This Great Vibrant Area had been just a town, but it was, in fact, the territory of the Dazzling Temple. In this metropolis, it had been rumored how the damages from the Vivid Temple are there any, and that’s where we have been heading.” Chen Yi mentioned, “Keep really going. I offers you guidelines.”
Before too long, the soaring watercraft shattered throughout the clouds and mist and lastly came to the Great Shiny Domain name.
The natural way, this city was large and had a magical attraction.
However, the sunlight was all over the place. Many individuals had been encountered with light since the day they were delivered. It was precisely mainly because it was anywhere so it was harder to grab and fully grasp. In addition to being brought into this world with this type of power, most the cultivators in the world were incapable of see the good Course of Lightweight, let alone fully grasp it.
Currently, on the void beyond your Great Brilliant Area, a group of persons was touring over the void between your clouds as well as the mists. There were nine people altogether with this team. Below them was actually a hovering yacht flas.h.i.+ng with golden lightweight. It contained a mighty spatial ability of the Wonderful Course. It took them shuttling over the s.p.a.ce continually, switching over the clouds and mist.
That which was it that he want to say?
In the void, there was clearly no mist or clouds—only the sunshine that shone coming from the limitless provider.
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“Then, why performed you get to the Donghuang Domain?” Ye Futian expected away from desire. The Truly Amazing Dazzling Domain name was really a good strategies away from the Donghuang Site. Chen Yi got went over there in early stages of becoming a Renhuang for mysterious causes.
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“I do not, definitely not,” Chen Yi explained, his eye moved out and rerouted on Ye Futian. He smiled, “However, even when I do not a great deal think it, I even now consider it.”
On the other hand, light was just about everywhere. Many individuals has been confronted with light because the working day these were born. It was precisely because it was all over the place which it was more complicated to take and know. As well as being born with such a potential, almost all the cultivators in the world were not able to see the truly great Direction of Light-weight, much less fully grasp it.
At this time, inside the void outside the Great Bright Site, a small grouping of persons was going throughout the void between your clouds as well as the mists. There were nine individuals altogether within this group of people. Less than them was really a soaring vessel flas.h.i.+ng with great lightweight. It covered a mighty spatial energy on the Wonderful Path. It needed them shuttling with the s.p.a.ce regularly, shifting with the clouds and mist.
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At some point, the piloting vessel broke throughout the clouds and mist and finally stumbled on the truly amazing Dazzling Domain name.
“This Excellent Vibrant Website was once a metropolis, but it really was, the truth is, the territory of your Vibrant Temple. Within this community, it absolutely was rumored that the wrecks on the Vibrant Temple exist, and that’s where we have been moving.” Chen Yi mentioned, “Keep proceeding. I provides you with recommendations.”
“Then, why would you question me to come in this article along with you?” Ye Futian asked, and also this concern appeared to hint the heart of the subject at your fingertips.
By natural means, this town was vast and had a mystical attraction.
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“To a certain magnitude.” Ye Futian nodded and persisted, “When I was a teen, I understood an astrologer who could peek within the long term.”
“Where are we proceeding?” Ye Futian expected Chen Yi.
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On top of that, when compared to other websites during the Divine Prefecture, today’s Good Vibrant Site acquired the littlest footprint as most its territory ended up being divvied up by the other around areas. It was will no longer part of the pre-existing Great Vivid Domain name. Some even reported the Fantastic Bright Sector ought to have never existed.
Ye Futian didn’t quite realize what he intended. Have anyone request him to look?
By natural means, this metropolis was substantial and had a magical appeal.
Ye Futian checked pensive when he heard Chen Yi’s dilemma. Fate?
Ye Futian appeared slightly confused. He observed that nowadays Chen Yi seemed to be conversing in riddles. His words and phrases had been not obvious at all.
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The Excellent Shiny Domain was the highest domain name within the Divine Prefecture apart from the Imperial Area. Located on the east part with the Divine Prefecture, it turned out a domain which has been somewhat strange of all 18 internet domain names. Due to the history, the truly amazing Bright Area was surrounded in mystery and was actually a spot to learn for a lot of cultivators.
Ye Futian didn’t quite know what he recommended. Did a person request him to move?
“Then, why performed you visit the Donghuang Domain?” Ye Futian requested beyond interest. The Great Vivid Domain was really quite a approaches from the Donghuang Domain. Chen Yi experienced went there in early stages of becoming a Renhuang for not known causes.
“No ponder it’s known as the Excellent Bright Field,” Ye Futian whispered. The sunlight arrived downwards from the firmament, and also it was obvious on the naked eye. It was subsequently anything extremely marvelous. It was enough to tell apart that continent using their company locations. It looked like it was an independent arena of its own. No person obtained any idea exactly what compel was competent at producing this sort of eye-sight.
“Then, why have you inquire me to arrive below along with you?” Ye Futian inquired, and that issue did actually contact the heart of the subject on hand.
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Traditionally, to create a handmade icon graphic you would need paints and brushes. We will only need a graphic tablet, Illustrator and the DrawScribe plugin. For quick recoloring of a completed icon, we’ll also make use of the Phantasm CS plugin.
This is the fourth and final instalment of the icon design mini series. Let’s get started to complete the learning process!
We will be creating an icon using the Dynamic Sketch Tool, which is one of the tools of the DrawScribe plugin. Let’s adjust the tool for convenience of working on this artwork. To open the Dynamic Sketch Preferences window, double-click on the tool’s toolbox icon or press Enter when already in the tool. Alternatively, select the appropriate item in the fly-out menu of the Dynamic Sketch panel (Window > DrawScribe > Dynamic Sketch panel).
My settings are slightly different from the default settings. Let’s see what I have changed…
You can read about why I prefer these settings in my article How to Combine the Dynamic Sketch Tool and Illustrator CS5’s Width Tool to Fine-tune your Vector Artwork. Open the Dynamic Sketch panel (Window > DrawScribe > Dynamic Sketch panel) and enable the “Edit or continue existing paths” button and set the degree of accuracy and smoothness.
To create a handmade icon, I will be using a graphic tablet. Take the stylus, choose orange color for the fill and with the help of the Dynamic Sketch Tool create the shape of the icon. It should look like a square.
Some of irregularity in the creation of this shape is welcome for a handmade style icon.
Set the relationship between the line width and the pressure on the graphics tablet stylus and the thickness values that will correspond to the minimum and maximum pressure.
Now select the “Round cap” in the Stroke panel in order for the lines to have rounded ends.
For the stroke pick a darker shade of orange compared to the shape of the icon, set the Multiply Blending mode and reduce the opacity to 10% in the Transparency panel.
Take the Dynamic Sketch Tool and create oblique strokes in a place where icon’s shadow fades out (“penumbra“).
Moving to the bottom right corner of the icon, strokes should be wider and denser, overlapping one another. Thus, we create a transition from penumbra to shadow.
The small value of Opacity (10%) gives us a sense of drawing with watercolors or gouache.
The method of creating an illuminated part of the icon is the same as for the shadow. Only in this case, set the Screen Blending mode in the Transparency panel. The color of the stroke can be the same as for the shape of the icon.
I decided to make the edges of the icon less accurate. To enable this, I created some additional paths around the edges, as shown in the picture below, and then placed them below all the objects.
Proceed to the creation of the shape of a mailing envelope. Take the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a rectangle.
Now with the help of the Pen Tool (P) create a path, which consists of two straight-line segments.
Create another path in the bottom of the envelope.
Take the Scissors Tool (C) and cut the lower path at points A and B, then remove its upper portion.
Select all the paths and go to Object > Path > Outline Stroke.
Combine the resultant objects by clicking on Unite in the Pathfinder panel.
Select all the objects of the envelope and click on Minus Front in the Pathfinder panel.
Place the envelope icon on top of the shape; we will be using it as a template.
Take the Dynamic Sketch Tool and outline the shape of the template. For the fill pick a light orange color.
Now delete the template. Create light and shadow on the envelope with the help of the techniques that have been described above.
With the help of the Phantasm CS, you can quickly recolor the created icon. To do this, group the objects and go to Effect > Phantasm CS > Hue / Saturation… and by moving the sliders in the dialog window, you will get the desired color.
I hope you have enjoyed this series on icon design and learnt some new things!
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George immigrated to the United States from Greece at the age of eight. George’s parents lived through World War II as children, with no parents at home, amidst daily life-threatening violence, always wondering whether they would survive the day. George himself saw the horrible effects of the Greek Civil War, which drove away most of his family, friends, neighbors, and countrymen. It left his homeland ravaged. But the Mitris family’s resolve, optimism, and commitment to faith landed them in Rochester, NY where they would begin life anew in their new home.
George grew up with the values that made this country great. Gratitude for the opportunity to work hard and take personal responsibility and accountability for one's actions. With his parents as a model, George always worked while he attended school, from the time he was fifteen years old through his school years, including law school where he worked full time while studying.
George’s commitment to whatever he undertakes earned him not only two law degrees, but also the managing attorney of the Rochester office of his old law firm at the age of 29, but at the age of 30, he opened his own law firm where he’s been helping people in the community ever since. His devotion to his clients has earned him recognition in Top 100 magazine of Attorneys.
While George is an immigrant, Rochester and Monroe County have been his home since he was eight years old. He has lived in the city, attended school 33, and later attended Irondequoit where he graduated from Eastridge Highschool. Now, George lives in Brighton with his three children, Nick, Winston, and Schyler. With his wife of 27 years Slagana Avramoska Mitris, who herself is an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia and has a similar story. They both care so deeply about many community causes. While humble and unassuming, the Mitris family is all about giving back to the community they love so much.
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The Grocery Program is a substantial funding source for the Bon Voyage Party, and it raises money without any additional cost to you! Participating stores donate a percentage of the sales from Pioneer families to the PTSO. This can bring thousands of dollars to Pioneer–just from shopping!
GROCERY PROGRAM OPTIONS:
1. Arbor Farms Market. Just mention Pioneer when checking out and 3% of your purchase will be donated to the school.
2. Busch’s Cash for Education Program. Create a MyWay account at www.buschs.com and click on the “Cash for Education” button in the drop down menu under your name. Select “Pioneer High School ASAN” as the rewards recipient. Use your MyWay key tag or phone number at checkout. Paying with cash, debit, or check earns 5% towards school, credit card payments earns 3%. You may need to re-enroll every year.
3. Kroger Community Rewards. Register your Kroger Plus Card at the service desk or at www.krogercommunityrewards.com. Organization name: Pioneer High School PTSO/ASAN, ID# 82622. You must re-enroll every year.
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I’m excited to introduce the first video of the “At Home with Nikisha” series presented by the website Pineapple.life! In this video I make a guilt free, gluten free “Apple Coconut Crisp” (the healthy version of Apple Crisp). I also talk about what ingredients make it a healthy dessert!
In this new series filmed at my house I will be sharing all things home, from cooking healthier recipes to DIY: beauty care, home remedies, home improvement, home decor, and crafts for yourself and loved ones! You guys will be at home with me as I find ways to live healthy and fresh while on a budget! Just call me the young Martha Stewart!
Head on over to pineapple.life for upcoming videos of the full series as well as more fresh content and a fresh life at home. Also look out for #athomewithnikisha
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A new poll shows high interest -- and a large number
of undecided voters -- for Tennessee's upcoming Gubernatorial primary.
The exclusive WSMV-TV Channel 4 News poll
found that 89
percent of those surveyed were likely to vote in the primary. But only a week
before early voting, the number of likely voters who called themselves
"undecided" was larger than the number who named any one candidate.
Among those voters who did support a candidate, Knoxville
Mayor Bill Haslam currently holds the lead for the Republican nomination. 32
percent of respondents said they intend to vote for Haslam. 21 percent of those
surveyed said they plan to vote for Congressman Zach Wamp. Lieutenant Governor
Ron Ramsey was the choice among 11 percent of respondents. A larger number, 36
percent of those surveyed, said they were still undecided.
The telephone survey involved a random sample of 603
registered Tennessee voters. It was conducted earlier this week by the research
firm Crawford, Johnson and Northcott. The margin of error is +/- 4%
Both Democrats and Republicans were polled because
Tennessee allows voters of any affiliation to participate in one primary. Mike
McWherter is the lone Democrat in the race.
Regardless of their intention to vote in the primary
election, every respondent was asked who they would be most likely to choose in
a general election match-up with Democrat Mike McWherter.
-In a Haslam-McWherter match-up, 60 percent of
respondents chose Haslam, with 34 percent choosing McWherter and 6 percent
-In a Wamp-McWherter race, 59 percent of those surveyed
chose Wamp, compared to 35 percent for McWherter and 6 percent undecided.
-In a Ramsey-McWherter race, 51 percent of those polled
chose Ramsey, with 41 percent choosing McWherter, and 8 percent undecided.
In context, those numbers could reflect the fact that the
Republican candidates have so far campaigned far more visibly than the Democrat,
who is unopposed in the primary.
Nearly nine in ten voters polled said they were like to
vote in the primary election. 73 percent said they were very likely, 16 percent
said they were somewhat likely. 7 percent described themselves as not very
likely, and 5 percent said they did not intend to vote.
The Republican primary is drawing some attention among
some Democrats and many independents. Of Democrats polled, nearly one in ten
indicated they intend to vote in the Republican primary. Among independents, 63
percent said they'll vote in the Republican primary.
Check out the full poll results below:
In the race for Tennessee Governor,
how likely are you to vote in the primary election on August 5th?
Very likely 73%
Somewhat likely 16%
Not very likely 7%
Do not intend to vote in
the primary 5%
If you do vote, and since you can vote
in only one party's primary election, which one will you vote in?
Republican primary 64%
Which one of these candidates do you
intend to vote for in the Republican primary?
Bill Haslam 32%
Zach Wamp 21%
Ronald Ramsey 11%
Regardless of their intention to vote in the primary
election, every respondent was asked who they would be most likely to vote for
in the general election.
Given these different match-ups, who
would you most likely vote for in November to become Tennessee's governor?
Do you generally consider yourself to be a:
Below are the responses issued by the campaigns in the order received:
Haslam campaign press release
An independent poll commissioned by WSMV, NBC's Nashville affiliate, shows Republican gubernatorial candidate and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam with a commanding lead over his closest competitor just eight days out from the start of Early Voting on July 16.
The only poll that matters is on Election Day, but this independent poll fundamentally confirms the Haslam campaign's own numbers, showing Haslam as the man on the move while both of his primary opponents have been flat from the beginning.
The poll shows Haslam leading the Republican Primary for Tennessee Governor with 32 percent of the vote while running a positive campaign focused on the issues most important to Tennesseans: jobs, education and conservative budget management. Des Moines, Iowa-based Crawford Johnson & Northcott market research firm conducted the poll for WSMV earlier this week, polling 603 registered voters across the state.
Haslam was also identified in WSMV's poll as the strongest Republican in the General Election.
With recent endorsements from Reagan economist Art Laffer and UT men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl, WSMV's poll is the newest indication Haslam has the momentum less than 10 days before early voting. Two other recent polls showed Haslam as the strongest Republican in the GOP field, and the campaign recently announced that Mayor Haslam surpassed $8 million in total funds raised from a record number of contributions.
"When this campaign began, we sat down and developed a plan to put us exactly in this position, and we'll continue to execute our plan into the Early Voting period and through Aug. 5," Haslam said. "Crissy and I are grateful for the support we have received thus far, and we'll continue to work hard to earn Tennesseans' support and vote."
"Tennesseans want a serious discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing the state," said Mark Cate, Campaign Manager. "Bill Haslam is having that discussion with them, and they like what they're hearing because he is an experienced leader with the right temperament and proven record of job creation, strengthening education and conservatively managing a budget," Cate added.
Wamp campaign response:
"This new poll is great news for Zach Wamp. His television campaign is just now beginning to take hold, and he's already closing the gap from polls released by Rasmussen and Haslam's own campaign. Zach's got the vision. He's got the momentum. And this is now his race to win."
"The bad news for Bill Haslam is that the people of Tennessee aren't buying what he's selling. Despite spending over $10 million on TV, radio and mail pretending to be something he's not, voters clearly know the difference between a real conservative leader like Zach and a guy who plays one on television."
"This race is like David and Goliath - and Goliath is starting to crumble."
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- Castlevania Order of Ecclesia
I am the blade to banish all evil!
- Release date：Oct 21, 2008
- Platform：Nintendo DS
Returning to life time and again since the ancient middle ages, the evil lord Dracula has driven people to terror. Each time Dracula returned from the dead, the Belmont clan fought him in shadows, wielding the holy whip.
Through their efforts, humanity avoided darkness, securing prosperity.
But early in the 19th century, having lost their ability to resist the darkness, those in positions of power at the time began to search for new ways to counter Dracula.
Our organization, Ecclesia, was born then as one of those countermeasures.
Many organizations were established with the same goal, and day after day they conducted their studies diligently, but each was dissolved when they failed to produce satisfactory results.
But that was when Barlowe, the leader of Ecclesia, finally made a surprising breakthrough that could stand up against Dracula.
A New Hero Rises
• All new Glyph system – over 100 different attack combinations
• Gripping storyline featuring new characters
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The Tennessee Volunteers cruised to a 69-53 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Thursday in the second round of the SEC tournament. It was a ho-hum win over a terrible team, but junior guard Jordan McRae tried to liven things up with a spectacular 360 dunk off a breakaway late in the second half.
The above video shows the dunk, which registers a nice reaction from a crowd that had nearly been lulled to sleep by a boring game up to that point. Kudos to McRae for the effort to try and wake up the crowd.
McRae finished the game with 17 points, three rebounds, two assists, two steals and three blocks.
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There are a lot of different drivers for why we do what we do. Money, fame, fortune, there are as many different reasons as there are personalities in the world but for me, the reason is completely different to the few I've listed above.
I do what I do because I've been to, lived and worked in enough developing countries and small tight-knit communities that I know what such a small amount of help can do for a group of people who otherwise wouldn't have access to that help - the joy of seeing those faces light up and feeling that heart felt, soul deep appreciation, is unparalleled for me and is something that money, fame or fortune can simply never replace or exceed the worth of.
I grew up in a small community south of Perth, in Western Australia and if there's one thing a country upbringing teaches you, it's the strength that comes from giving back to and being part of an active community. I've worked in all corners of the globe and have seen what a relatively small amount of 'Giving Back' can do to a community who otherwise wouldn't have access to any outside help, so I decided to build it into my business model.
Enter my annual commitment to Giving Back: my way of helping out at least one community every year. I also believe in fostering relationships with other organisations that 'speak our language' and I help a few different Partners and Affiliates as you'll see below.
How I Give Back
Every year, I knock on the doors of schools in communities that don't have access to governments who can provide them with excellent teacher training and professional development programs (like ours does in Australia). It's my way of “paying it forward” by volunteering my time and skills to a community in need of teacher training, curriculum development, or whatever their specific skill set entails.
Some of the proceeds from The Library also go towards these projects, providing much needed resources to teachers who otherwise wouldn't have them. If you would like to join me on these experiences or donate to the cause (schools are always in need of basic school supplies), please contact me and let me know how you can help.
Paying it Forward
Paying It Forward #1: Kiribati, 2011-2012
Kiribati School for the Disabled
It all started here, in Kiribati. In 2011 and 2012, after not having much luck finding any portable (and customs friendly) souvenirs to take home, I decided to make some with the photos that I'd taken since being on the island. The calendars were so popular (the other 400 expats were having the same problem), that I decided to mass produce them and give all proceeds to the local School for the Disabled which at the time, was not receiving funding from any government or aid organisation.
Instead of donating money, I teamed up with Tuli Stacey and Ann Clark, who at the time were the Australia volunteer teachers assigned to the school to help train the teachers of the deaf and blind students.
With their help, we choose a range of graded readers, audio discs and teachers books for the school, so that the teachers could learn how to use resources suitable for multi level classrooms. Ann created Braille versions of the books for the blind students, and Tuli helped the students create acted out 'sign' versions of the books for those who had hearing impairments.
The project was so successful we raised over $8000 over two years, and along with it, a very happy tribe of teachers, support staff and students who had a new library of resources that suited many different needs 🙂
Paying It Forward #2: Perth, 2013
Project SEED: Tanzania
One of the teachers I met along my ESL teaching journey is Vicky (Vix) Harris, in Hong Kong, around 2008. She's the master artist behind my Create Real Change piece (read more about the art, and her artwork here) and when she told me about the project she was working on in Tanzania, I couldn't help but get involved.
Vix has quite the history with Tanzania, her parents having lived and worked there when she was a child, then travelling there to volunteer in her 30s, and now this next part of her journey which you'll see outlined below. We decided that getting people to sponsor us to jump out of a plane would be a sensible idea (??) - and we raised over 1000 pounds in the process for the SEED Project.
Project S.E.E.D stands for Self-sufficiency through Environmental Education and Development and is situated in the east of Tanzania in a small village called Zegero. It was founded in January 2014 and is run by James Obanda (Tanzania) and Vicky Harris (UK).
Our aim is to educate disadvantaged teenagers and young adults about agriculture and farming so that they can grow their own fruit and vegetables with a view to becoming self-sufficient. We have also set up a community drama group and would love to start our own primary school in the future. We want to bring people closer together and provide education and support for those who have been affected by malaria and HIV/AIDS.
Paying It Forward #3: Indonesia, 2014
Prima Santhi School: Ubud, Bali
Teacher training and demonstration teaching for a small home grown school started by an ex-politician whose passion to teach English drew him away from a life in politics, and into a heartfelt school which has grown from his living room, into 4 classrooms and over 400 students.
I had two sessions with the staff, where I took them through a way of looking at the tenses in English on a simple grid. Bahasa Indonesia doesn't really have tenses, so being able to see how they all relate to one another visually helps them explain the differences to the students much easier.
We also had a session on creating activities out of thin air, with a few simple ideas that can be adapted into many different language learning opportunities. A friend of mine joined me for the 4th visit, where we got the whole school together for a spelling and vocabulary competition. We needed a long cool drink after that balmy evening!
Paying It Forward #4: Samoa, 2015
Vaiala Beach School: Vailima Village
While on a working holiday in Samoa, looking after the children of a friend I met while working in Kiribati, I had the opportunity to deliver a fun, interactive workshop at a Primary School high on a hill, near the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial. Great views, awesome teachers, we had a ball learning how to incorporate communicative, fun teaching and learning activities into everyday lessons.
We learnt by doing - so yes, they had to pretend they were the students - go Team PawPaw for taking out the winning prize! The teachers let me know they'd started implementing them the following day and were met with resounding enthusiasm from the students - I also got the full, animated story from the kids that night so overall - I think we can say that was a success!
National University of Samoa
I had exactly one hour to convince the Education, Science and IT Faculties of the National University of Samoa that there in fact WAS a way to make boring lectures interactive and engaging, and subjects like Chemistry fun, inspiring and motivating.
There were lots of laughs and in the final activity they agreed that yes, it was in fact possible and that they'd be applying some of the ideas they'd seen demonstrated in the workshop into their classes next term. Nothing like ending a workshop with laughing, joking and general merry making! Pacific islanders are a HOOT and this lively bunch were no exception!
Paying It Forward #5: Samoa, 2016
Paying if Forward 2016 was supposed to be in April 2016, in Myanmar but due to a complete oversight and lack of planning on my part, I was deported on arrival due to having the incorrect visa. #lessonlearned
So what to do instead?
Well, Talofa (hallo) Samoa! Yes, this awesome country was again the recipient of my annual Giving Back pledge. On the back of a Conference Keynote and 3 days of workshops, I added a fourth, complimentary day of workshops for all and any teachers or principals who wanted to attend, on Demystifying English Grammar and Tenses.
I was pleasantly surprised to see 80+ teaching staff turn up, during their holidays, to nut out the complexities of the English language and walk away with over AU$200 in donated resources and prizes. The Samoan people are an absolute hoot to work with, and this day was no exception. Faafetai (thank you) Samoa, for a phenomenal week - and I hope to be working with you again in the future!
Paying It Forward #6: Australia, 2016
If there's one thing I love, it's seeing initiatives in schools that are preparing the future generations for the kind of world that awaits them - and what better than building some entrepreneurial, on the spot thinking skills, than a Shark Tank competition? The Year 6 kids at St Michael's Primary School in Bassendean, WA, had to come up with a revolutionary idea for an app, and 'pitch' their idea to the sharks... one of whom was yours truly! Some great ideas, and some bright young sparks indeed!
Always very happy to donate my time to a forward thinking school that is building entrepreneurial and negotiating skills in their youths. Thanks to Lacey Filipich from Money School and Maker Kids for spearheading the initiative and Darren Lomman of GreenBatch for being the other 'Shark' - a really inspiring afternoon!
Classroom of Hope
Classroom of Hope is a not for profit organisation who exists to help children realise their greatness through life-changing education. They provide access to quality education to children in the developing world by building schools, creating child-friendly schools and providing scholarships, and they partner with local NGOs to implement education projects.
Become a 'Wise Owl' today (like I just did), and help them carry on the inspiring and genuinely needed development work they're doing in the world of education.
Find out more here: http://classroomofhope.org/wiseowls
If you've got a spare 7 minutes and need some serious inspiration. Watch the video. #bethechange
WATESOL is the state industry association in Western Australia that advocates for students and teachers of TESOL and English as a Second Language or Dialect (ESL/D).
I volunteered my time as the Vice President of this association from 2014-2016, and during that time helped WATESOL migrate to a fully digital membership system and online communication system. I was the MC at the international conference that we hosted in 2016, and also donated the Digest of the news, discussions, events and articles that are current in the world of TESOL and ESL/D, which is still part of the current membership benefits. I currently volunteer my time as a member of the General Committee.
Australian Volunteers International
Time for a Change?
Numerous EFL teaching/training opportunities currently available with AVI in a range of educational settings in exciting and challenging overseas locations:
- Ethiopia, Tanzania
- Solomon Islands
- Indonesia, Timor Leste
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Vietnam, Myanmar/Burma
End of year commencements, duration between 7-24 months. https://www.avi.org.au
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First off, thanks to reader “Goats” for poking me.. I needed a kick up the arse to get back to this blog thing.
In August of last year I mentioned in passing that I fitted a solid state drive to an old 2006 iPod Video (aka 5th generation). So I guess the first question is, why would anyone in their right mind want to be using an iPod which is nine years old!? Its bigger than an iPhone, has no touch screen, and small kids would probably point at it and laugh, if they weren’t too busy staring at the device in their hands to actually notice the real world go by.
I did it because I care that when listening to music, I can enjoy the deep bass and high highs of the music, which are thrown out with the bathwater by your average mp3. I spent a while back in 2008 ripping every single CD I owned to FLAC loss-less audio format, and then promptly started to curse every car stereo maker in the world for the lack of FLAC support for 6 freaking years, until some finally started appearing on the market. Home hifi wasn’t an issue as our HTPC could play FLAC out via its digital interface through the receiver, and much good quality music listening was done, but portable audio wasn’t happening.
When we finally bought a car with a native usb iPod interface, I decided that instead of more cursing about FLAC, it was time to investigate ALAC, the Apple loss-less format – so I batch-converted all my FLACs into ALAC format too, and tried them out on an old iPod I bought. Great, except your average 30GB iPod’s capacity is just not adequate, and neither are all the current iPhones, iPads etc. are just as inadequate. I dug through some forums and discovered that people were installing bigger hard drives (yes, actual spinny mechanical drives, crazy, I know!) into old iPods for extra capacity. I snorted, and figured there would be a better way, and came across people putting Compact Flash cards into early iPod Mini’s. Have you seen the price of Compact Flash cards lately? Oh Em Gee. So I wisely decided to go with SSD… $100 and a used 250GB mSATA drive later, I was ready to roll.
Remember, the goal here is to make an iPod I could just chuck in the glove box and leave there attached permanently via umbilical to the car’s stereo, so cheap was the way to go.
So why the 5th Gen iPod?
Advantages of these old iPods is twofold.
First, their electronics. They’re actually the last generation of iPod to use the acclaimed Wolfson DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter – the chip which turns 1’s and 0’s into beautiful harmony). If you’re an audio nerd, you might even appreciate the numbers on the device, SNR 94dB and THD 0.0034% (courtesy of this site here). The various iPhones can’t hold a candle to it. Plus, the 5th gen. is also (just) new enough to also support direct digital-out through the connector, so that when using them in high-quality dock’s, they work as a digital source, leaving your fancy external DAC (or AV receiver for most of us) to do the decoding using its Burr Brown DACs or whatever the marketing says is super whiz-bang!
Secondly, 5th gen iPods are old enough that the storage in them is a good old-fashioned spinny disk (hard drive if you’re fussy), which means not only is there a lot of space inside there, but the interface has to conform to one of the industry standards, and you can therefore buy cheap adapters to convert their interface to other formats, in the case of these iPods, ZIF (Zero-Insertion Force) connectors to the mSATA of the SSD.
Thirdly – its an iPod “VIDEO”! Yes, we actually use them as a video source too – saves carting DVD’s on holiday, and pretty much any tv at rented beach houses will take composite video and RCA audio input. Oh wait, that’s three things – see, this post has 50% more value already!
Stop making me read, show me the mod!
So without further
waffle ado, here’s the simple process:
Step 1 – Assemble ingredients
So here’s what I assembled…
- iPod 5.5 generation
- ZIF to mSATA adapter via ebay
- 250GB mSATA solid state drive (Lite-on in this case, but I prefer touse Samsung ones as they have better power consumption)
- Cheap ebay replacement battery because 9 year old LiPo are capacityless (recycle responsibly!)
- Replacement headphone socket (I won’t go into this replacement here – its just a bunch of small screws and fiddly stuff – most won’t need this)
Step 2 – Format the SSD
Stick the SSD into a handy mSATA to SATA adapter board, and format it to FAT32 using your PC.
Open the iPod with your spudger (thats a thing, apparently), or the cheap plastic one-time-use things that come with your cheap iPod battery.
Then get the SSD and put it into the mSATA-ZIF adapter – they usually have screws, so they’re nice and secure and won’t shake out.
ZIF connectors have a locking flap which hinges upwards at one end. Just hinge it upwards, and the flat ribbon connector comes right out.
Work out which way up the connector goes (the ribbon will also go in upside down -in which case you’ll get a sad iPod when you try powering it up.. just open up again and flip it over).
If you’re like me, you can also cut some bits of thin foam to fill the voids around the SSD so that it doesn’t move or rattle, and there’s a little shock protection.
Swap in the ebay battery at this stage, and before clipping the iPod back together, try powering it up to check.
If all goes well, it’ll tell you to restore the iPod. If it doesn’t say that, somethings not seated right.
Step 7 – Restore the iPod
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Is Kiko Estrada dating someone new?
Netizens can't help but speculate that romance may be brewing between him and Miss World Second Princess, Janelle Lewis, after a video of them together made the rounds on social media.
In one of Janelle's TikTok videos, she lip syncs to a song while Kiko is beside her. The two even share a glance towards the end of the clip.
Janelle's caption read, "@_m.i.s.t.e.r.j #fyp #foryou." ICYDK, 'fyp' is short for 'for your page.'"
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MAC Cosmetics, stylized as M·A·C, is a Canadian cosmetics manufacturer founded in Toronto in 1984 by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo. The company is headquartered in New York City after becoming a subsidiary of Estée Lauder Companies in 1998. MAC is an acronym for Make-Up Art Cosmetics,
Why does MAC still test on animals?
Is MAC Owned By A Cruelty-Free Parent Company? – MAC is owned by a parent company that tests on animals. The parent company is Estée Lauder, and this is not a cruelty-free company Estée Lauder states that they do tests on animals where required by law. This policy makes them a company that still tests on animals.
When was MAC cruelty-free?
MAC used to be cruelty-free. In 2012, they lost their cruelty-free status when they started selling in China, which required for them to pay for animal tests to be performed on their products.
Are Mac products vegan?
Is MAC vegan? – MAC is not a vegan brand, as some of its products contain animal products such as lanolin in its ingredient lists. Products with vegan formulas may not be considered truly vegan either since the company is not cruelty-free. Check out our favourite next. : allplants | Is MAC Cruelty-Free And Vegan?
What brands use animal testing?
Companies Who Test on Animals – The grey area between brands, multinational companies, cosmetic companies, and cruelty-free brands has blurred. Many conglomerates like Unilever, Proctor and Gamble, S.C. Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, Henkel, Church & Dwight, and Reckitt Benckiser are multi-billion dollar companies that operate in many product segments.
Some companies trade in household cleaners, feminine hygiene, cosmetics, toiletries, and even baby food. One of the issues these companies face is that they can’t afford not-to-sell to the growing global demand of Chinese consumers and be cruelty-free. These companies are beholden to shareholders, and lab rats or monkeys can’t stand in the way of profit.
For the top 20 companies that test on animals, we will look at the big multi-product enterprises and cosmetic and fragrance houses that may not test on American soil but sell products in China, where testing is mandatory. For those searching for alternative cruelty-free brands for beauty and skincare products, PETA has a substantial list of Beauty Without Bunnies that are sustainability friendly.
Do Estee Lauder test on animals?
Our Position Against Animal Testing – More than 30 years ago, The Estée Lauder Companies was one of the first cosmetics companies to eliminate animal testing as a method of determining cosmetic product safety. We don’t test our products on animals and we don’t ask others to test for us.
Does Dior test on animals?
Is Dior (LVMH) Cruelty-Free? Dior is NOT Cruelty-Free. Dior engages in animal testing by allowing its products to be animal-tested. Dior is also owned by LVMH, a parent corporation that does engage in animal testing.
Is Garnier cruelty-free?
Conclusion – We found out the answer to the question “is Garnier cruelty-free?” and the answer is yes, Garnier is cruelty-free. They have confirmed that they don’t test finished products or ingredients on animals, nor do their suppliers or third parties. They also don’t sell their products where animal testing is required by law.
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Is NYX makeup cruelty-free and vegan?
Is NYX Cruelty-Free? – While not all of NYX is vegan, all of its products are cruelty-free and are certified by PETA, so you can go ahead and start adding products to the basket! Want some cruelty-free vegan makeup recommendations? Check out our guides to our favourite brands and products here.
Is Loreal vegan and cruelty-free?
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this is a short build log of a FlyduSpider-Hexacopter.
I chose this frame, because the design is very nice and it helps with orientation also i have lifting capabilities. As FC i will use the Flyduino with MultiWii.
Sensors will be WM+ and BMA020. The adavantage of this FC is, i can use MegaPirate as well. So i can easily switch to a 9-DOF-IMU and GPS
I got this nice package from Paul:
alu-Booms in perfect length
one sensor bob
connectors for the Flydubution
First impression of the components were very good. Alu-Booms were perfectly cut and the plates were nicely made.
The batteryplate has four slot holes to balance the copter correctly.
6x Keda 20-26m
6x Hobbywing Pentium 18A (i know they're to big, but i got them cheap )
8" props: 4x black 2x green
battery: Turnigy 2450mAh 30C
At first i soldered the Flydubution. The connectors fit very tight into the holes of the flydubution. I needed a caliper to get them in.
Then i drilled the booms (no pics off drilling, sry) and mounted the booms to the centerplates with M3x20 and headlock nuts:
then i needed 10mm spacers, which i did not found. So i use this construction:
After drilling and mounting i soldered pins onto the Flyduino and the sensors onto the Sensor BOB:
Next step was to mount the motors (using 16 mm mounting holes on the kedas):
Nearly finished! Mounting the ESCs with wire straps to the frame and connecting them to the motors:
Connecting them to the flydubution was a bit tricky, but it worked out well. It was hard to postion the ESCs that the front remains free, so it looks a little bit crowded.
Here is the maiden flight configuration:
and here is the final version (unfortunatley i broke the topplate from paul, but i will repair it!)
Frame weight: 188 grams
Frame with motors: 576 grams
complete setup: still to measure (updated soon)
Probably sunday i am going to make a video of this "beauty"
and sorry for my bad english.
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Send me what you got and I'll show you what I did (almost everything)
But don't you expect such a nice build log. It's obsolete now... (anyway)
First i will only have the centerplates avaiable, i think for a reasoable price in matt black with a power distribution integrated in 1.6mm G10.
I may have anodized and predrilled arms later, but time will tell, i will offer a PDF with the meassurements of the holes too, so your local homedepot can help in the meantime.
The Flyduspider is ment for 8" props and does his job in this config very well as Norf and Warthox showed impressively.
Bigger Version will come, but be sure, he is fast, as Warthox told, its one of his fastest copters, only with 8", weight ratio is very good.
I hope i am not wrong there Markus, but you told me
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Dreams are the most motivating things in life, believing in your dreams is really important but if you believe the doubts in your mind you won’t achieve the dreams in your heart.
Motivation is powerful Habit
Motivation is a very powerful habit we can practice to get along in life and to reach for our dreams and goals and is the key to inspire one to do something.
Dreams – Short Poems
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Even if you think you can’t cope
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It's already getting a little twitchy about it.
I really want to get back out there and go gallop down the country roads.
The sun has been shining, the temperatures have dropped back down to comfortable levels and every time I lift my head and look out my office window, someone is running by.
I miss the feel of being outside and having the early-morning streets to myself. I miss the post-run glow that lasts all day.
It's like the gods are laughing at me. Tempting me to put my shoes on and get out there. Just a short one. Nothing big. Who's gonna know??
And then I go to the mall after work to pick something up and, as I walk to the store I need, I feel my calves tighten up just a bit. I feel my feet complain just a bit.
Not enough to stop me from running during a regular running week but enough to make me think twice only a few days after running a half marathon. I pushed my body hard and the heat and humidity pushed it harder. I need to give it time to recover before I start putting new pressures on it.
So I will be good. I will rest my legs for a week. I won't cheat and go for a short 30 minute run.
But next week, watch out! Tuesday morning can't come fast enough for my twitchy feet.
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At least 20,000 head of livestock are roaming loose throughout several Southeast Texas counties, said state officials who are working to get feed and water to the cattle and horses that have been without either since Hurricane Ike came ashore Sept. 13.
Agriculture and animal health officials said Ike’s winds and storm surge tore down fences throughout Chambers, Jefferson and Orange counties, allowing the livestock to flee from enclosed pastures – and away from water sources.
Dead cows lay stiff on the sides of roads in Orange County.
Without feed and water for three days, livestock become stressed and many are drinking salt water left behind by the storm. The water will not quench their thirsts.
Contributions of hay, water troughs, feedstocks, such as range cubes, or cash are needed to help keep livestock alive, agriculture officials said.
Cowboy Loren Doucet of the Edwards Ranch in Southeast Texas rode a chestnut quarter horse named Sister to herd cattle from a highway into a raised pasture.
“They were stuck in a field that was full of water, salt water,” he said. “We’re just getting them in where they can drink fresh water.”
It is not yet known how many animals were killed by the storm.
“We can’t put out numbers until we know for sure,” Texas Animal Health Commission spokeswoman Carla Everett said.
The estimate on wandering livestock is preliminary and could rise, officials said.
The state and region’s largest cattle producing organization, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, is joining in efforts to help livestock producers and their animals as part of Operation No Fences: Hurricane Ike Horse and Cattle Relief.
A group of special rangers from the association is assisting.
“The storm surge destroyed pastures and water supplies,” said Dave Scott, the association’s first vice president. “With no grazing land and no fresh water, it’s like those ranchers went into drought overnight.”
In Galveston, about 20 Longhorns roamed empty neighborhoods with one herd sunning themselves in front of an empty, storm-battered hotel named Escapes!.
Elsewhere, two calves wandered amid the ghost town that Galveston has become, spooked when a reporter approached.
“They’ll have a hard time making it,” Kathleen Phillips, spokeswoman from Texas AgriLive Extension Service, said of the several that have been born since the storm hit.
The west end of Galveston Island, while dotted with vacation bungalows and expensive homes, also has undeveloped grazing lands where herds escaped after ranchers fled. Water from Ike’s surge stormed over the shore and across a main beachfront road, and the longhorns apparently had to swim or wade through floodwaters to find high ground.
Those wishing to make contributions can call the Texas Department of Agriculture’s hay hotline at 1-877-429-1998 or another hotline set up by the state’s 4H association at 1-979-845-1213. To donate materials for fencing, panels, water troughs and other non-feed and non-cash donations contact Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association at 800-242-7820, ext. 147, to speak to Tim Niedecken.
Associated Press writers John Gambrell in Galveston and Allen Breed in Southeast Texas contributed to this report.
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A Cyber Thank you
2017 has been an amazing year for our Author Series. It was great traveling and presenting with fellow authors all year. We've traveled, met and made so many newfound friends: authors, fans, reviewers, bookstore owners and editors.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we'd like to thank those who hosted me and Will this year:
February 18, Saturday, Gatsby Books hosted our book launch of DESERT ICE, A Skylar Drake Murder Mystery. It was wonderful to see many friends and supporters.
April 2 we participated in an International Tea, hosted by Sisters In Crime/LA Branch held at the South Pasadena Library. We had our tea leaves read, all good stuff!
Also, this year was our third year participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Hosted by Sisters in Crime/LA Branch.
May 1, Monday, was the perfect month to be a part of the Grand Re-Opening of the Glendale Central Library. Will read from DESERT ICE and Janet participate in a panel discussion.
On June 10, Saturday, we joined in the California Crime Writer's Conference. We discussed the role of Social Media for authors. It was a lively discussion with an audience full of authors.
The following day, Sunday, Will and I participated in the El Segundo Public Library Author Fair. We presented with a group of authors discussing the amazing works of the 1950s authors: Ross Mac Donald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanly Garner, and others.
Bookworks in Albuquerque, New Mexico began carrying our Skylar Drake Murder Mystery Series. We are expanding our book series throughout the Southwest.
(l to r) Will Zeilinger, Janet Lynn, Denise Reich, and Andy Garcia
Our launch party for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable was hosted by Gatsby Books. We presented with two other contributing authors who have short stories in the book.
Will was invited to participate in a panel at the American Association of University Women (AAUW), E. San Gabriel Annual Luncheon. He was one of five authors discussing An Author's Guilty Pleasure: An authors guide to plotting crime. Authors l to r: Nancy Cole Silverman (moderator), Pam Samuels Young, Will Zeilinger, Jill Amadio, and Shannon Muir.
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News from Aptinyx (NASDAQ:APTX) regarding strong trial results have APTX stock soaring higher and higher on Tuesday.
The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company announced “positive results from the first Phase 2 study of its novel NMDA receptor modulator, NYX-783, in 153 patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” The trial reported very strong outcomes, and Aptinyx even said it expects to begin an important study in 2021.
Norbert Riedel, president and CEO of Aptinyx, had this to say about the APTX stock trial results:
“We are very pleased with these impressive results, which surpassed our expectations for this initial exploratory study and clearly indicate the strong potential of NYX-783 to rapidly and reliably address some of the most challenging symptoms of PTSD. People suffering from PTSD have immense unmet medical needs and the few existing therapeutic options offer limited benefit. We believe these results indicate that the mechanism of NYX-783, which modulates NMDA receptors to enhance extinction learning, addresses the putative underlying pathology of PTSD.”
How exactly did the trial work? Well, physicians used the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM 5 (CAPS-5) Arousal and Reactivity score. This scale measures symptoms of PTSD, which can include things like exaggerated startle response, irritability and self-destructive behaviors. When evaluating the trial, Aptinyx reported that both dose levels triggered “clinically meaningful and statistically significant” improvement on this scale.
As a result of this news, APTX stock was up as much as 44.5% Tuesday morning.
On the date of publication, Nick Clarkson did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.
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International Rescue Committee Information Session (Updated 8/10/12)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Thursday, September 13 (2012), School of International Service Beacon Conference Room (SIS 300)
The Career Center will host the International Rescue Committee for an information session on Thursday, September 13, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in SIS 300.
The International Rescue Committee is at work in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities responding to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helping people to survive and rebuild their lives. All students interested in international relief and development are welcome to attend.
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- Hydrogen Ions
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- Ion, Hydrogen
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4-Week Beginner Yoga Series
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Happy New Year from Davis, Calif. (Ras Siddiqui)
The Bangladeshi-American community of Greater Sacramento celebrated Bengali New Year (1422) at the Harper Junior High School in Davis, Calif., Apr. 25., writes Ras Siddiqui.
The Bangladeshi-American community of Greater Sacramento celebrated Bengali New Year (1422) at the Harper Junior High School in Davis, Calif., Apr. 25.
Bangladesh today is respected worldwide for not only its jute products but more recently its ready-made garments and textiles. It is also an educated nation whose people are making a mark worldwide in the areas of science and technology. Many Bangladeshis today are employed in high-tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Sacramento region with a number of engineers working at Intel Corporation in Folsom, and in many other fields in the county or for the State of California.
This Sacramento area group (which includes Davis) may not be large but it remains quite active in all areas including in the MCF in Folsom. Bengalis love their language and literature (Tagore won South Asia’s first Nobel Prize). This New Year celebration is now part of an annual tradition here, and an opportunity for people from both Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, to celebrate their heritage. And they succeeded in doing just that here once again with great food (Bengali sweets and ethnic delicacies like Jhal Muri), music, dance and a great deal of cultural pride!
It was certainly an overflowing crowd, where the native dress of the ladies and the kids stood out. The country is also known as “Golden Bengal” and Gold, Green and Red are used extensively in Bengali clothing.
The ethnic diversity which exists within the Sacramento region includes the Bangladeshi community which is certainly a growing part of it. Bengali New Year or Pôhela Boishakh was officially celebrated on Tuesday, April 14th this year. It ranks behind right behind religious holiday celebrations in terms of fervor but remains an important element in the culture of a beautiful and proud people. Shuvo Noboborsho (Happy New Year) to all our Bengali readers! | <urn:uuid:a4241089-83e5-4b80-9464-2c939d6cb43c> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://siliconeer.com/current/shuvo-noboborsho/ | 2018-08-16T08:06:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210559.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816074040-20180816094040-00137.warc.gz | en | 0.946156 | 455 |
BREG ADVENTURE PARK AT BREGUZZO is the Adventure Park with over 130 exciting activities divided into 10 routes of varying difficulty. Located at the entrance of the Adamello Brenta Nature Park in the heart of the Val di Breguzzo, in a large lawn with equipped areas for picnics, great fun in a safe environment.
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HS0139+0559, HS0229+8016, HS0506+7725, and HS0642+5049: four new long-period cataclysmic variables
UNSPECIFIED. (2005) HS0139+0559, HS0229+8016, HS0506+7725, and HS0642+5049: four new long-period cataclysmic variables. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 443 (3). 995-U124. ISSN 0004-6361Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042610
We present time-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry of four relatively bright (V similar to 14.0-15.5) long-period cataclysmic variables (CVs) discovered in the Hamburg Quasar Survey: HS 0139+0559, HS 0229+8016, HS 0506+7725, and HS 0642+5049. Their respective orbital periods, 243.69 +/- 0.49 min, 232.550 +/- 0.049 min, 212.7 +/- 0.2 min, and 225.90 +/- 0.23 min are determined from radial velocity and photometric variability studies. HS 0506+7725 is characterised by strong Balmer and He emission lines, short-period (similar to 10-20 min) flickering, and weak X-ray emission in the ROSAT All Sky Survey. The detection of a deep low state (B similar or equal to 18.5) identifies HS 0506+7725 as a member of the VYScl stars. HS 0139+ 0559, HS 0229+ 8016, and HS 0642+5049 display thick- disc like spectra and no or only weak flickering activity. HS 0139+ 0559 and HS 0229+ 8016 exhibit clean quasi-sinusoidal radial velocity variations of their emission lines but no or very little orbital photometric variability. In contrast, we detect no radial velocity variation in HS 0642+5049 but a noticeable orbital brightness variation. We identify all three systems either as UXUMa- type novalike variables or as ZCam-type dwarf novae. Our identification of these four new systems underlines that the currently known sample of CVs is rather incomplete even for bright objects. The four new systems add to the clustering of orbital periods in the 3-4 h range found in the sample of HQSselected CVs, and we discuss the large incidence of magnetic CVs and VYScl/SW Sex stars found in this period range among the known population of CVs.
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[PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government (Digest, Vol 13, Issue 18)
manish.dusane at airtightnetworks.net
Tue Mar 20 11:24:10 IST 2007
I am in for this. Count me for active participation.
Not only Microsoft products, but all possible 'non-free' enterprise
softwares that are used by the government.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 12:00 -0700, plug-mail-request at plug.org.in wrote
> Today's Topics:
> 1. Open Office in Government
> (Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho)
> 2. Re: Open Office in Government (Nishit Dave)
> 3. Re: Open Office in Government (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:00:37 +0530
> From: "Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho" <manoj at grahakraja.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] Open Office in Government
> To: <kulk_anand at yahoo.com>
> Cc: plug-mail at plug.org.in
> Message-ID: <004201c7683c$68126170$8e991e0a at sanpc1>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni
> I read your post regarding Open Office in Government Organisations.
> And I fully agree with you that government should not spend public money for
> purchasing MS Office Licenses when Open Office is available for free.
> We are running a Non Government Organisation 'Grahak Raja Jaga Ho' working
> in the field of consumer awareness & awareness about Right to Information
> 'Grahak Raja Jaha Ho' is ready to take your issue seriously & I find
> following plan to force government organisations to use Open Office.
> 1) To get all information about funds spend for purchasing MS Office
> Licenses during the financial year 2006-2007.
> We can get this information by using Right to Information Act 2005. To
> start with we can collect the information from Pune District.
> 2) We can compile a report about funds spend on MS Office Licenses by
> different Government Organisation from Pune District. And I am sure the
> figure will touch at least 1 Crore.
> 3) We will get the report published in all News Papers / News Channels. This
> will help us to gather MASS support.
> 4) We can file a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) asking Why Government is
> spending Crores of rupees on MS Office Licenses when Open Office is
> available for free.
> Thanks with Regards
> Manoj Ovhal
> Pramukh Pracharak
> "Grahak Raja Jaga Ho"
> URL : http://www.grahakraja.org
That's one of the most remarkable things about life; it never gets so
bad that it can't worse - Calvin and Hobbes.
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In the Beginning..
The Actors Workshop was established by Lyn Kidd in 1994 at the request of industry stakeholders. After a year of initial classes, demand grew for midterm training focusing on the skills and knowledge required for working in Film and Television. This led to the one year part time, film and television course.
In 1995, the school moved from its original studio in Fortitude Valley to become a tenant in the Metro Arts Building.
By 1998, after continuous review and improvement of the training plan each year, the school identified the need for quality training pathways for students seeking full time training for Film, Television and Theatre Acting.
In 1999, the Advanced Diploma of Film, Television and Theatre Acting was first accredited and listed on the Australian Qualifications Framework. The course was the first of its kind, offering dedicated dual medium application for the entire duration of the course.
In 2000, The Actors Workshop received its Registered Training Organisation status, certifying it as the quality assured organisation that it is known as today.
In 2001, the need for additional space to supply a full time training strategy led to the school moving from its tenancy at the Metro to its current location, Foresters Hall in Trinity Lane, Woolloongabba. 2001 also marked the first enrolment of students in the accredited training delivery, on a part time basis.
In 2002, the first full time, 2 year Advanced Diploma class commenced and in 2003 these graduates entered industry.
2004 was the 10th year of trading for the school and brought recognition from the film and television and training industries. The school’s founder received the prestigious Kinetone Award from the film and television industry, while the school itself was selected as the Small Training Provider of the Year at the Queensland Training Awards.
In 2004 and 2009, the courses were re-accredited as nationally recognised vocational qualifications for the film, television and theatre sectors.
In 2010 Principal Lyn Kidd and Camera Class instructor Mungo McKay were awarded the Media Mates Award from the Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE for assistance given to the students from the Certificate IV and Diploma of Screen Media.
In 2014 the school celebrates 20 years of delivering quality training in film, television and theatre training. In two decades of training, a little over 200 students can say they are genuine graduates of The Actors Workshop.
Today the school casts many short film and commercial projects a year, supplies hundreds of hours of role play services to community and lists over 30 industry awards achieved by graduates and emerging film makers supported by the school.
And no, the school doesn’t subscribe to VET FEE HELP. Our fees are so low, students can pay as they go. Our Graduates graduate without a debt. | <urn:uuid:e5e86ae4-8d5d-4941-9aeb-a0d09d8a482e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://theactorsworkshop.com.au/the-school/school-history/ | 2017-06-29T10:38:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00586.warc.gz | en | 0.96968 | 557 |
Willis Custom Homes has been an award-winning builder in the Kansas City area for over 54 years. Bob and Patrick Willis have been repeatedly recognized by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City and Kansas City Homes and Gardens for the quality and distinctive designs their homes offer
Willis Custom Homes can be found throughout Johnson County, Kansas and the entire Kansas City area. Their homes can be found in such prestigious communities as Loch Lloyd, Villas of Ironwoods, Century Farms, Tuscany Reserve Village, The Enclave at Highland Villas, Mills Farm, Highlands Creek, WatersEdge, Club Villas at the Links of Lionsgate, Villas of White Horse, Glen Abbey of Leawood, Mission Reserve, and many more!
Bob Willis and his son, Patrick, together build homes specifically tailored to their clients’ discerning tastes. They work with some of the top design professionals in the industry to offer flexibility and originality in styles. From old world English to contemporary or traditional designs, they are committed to detail! From formal estate homes to the casual villa lifestyle, they have the vision to turn their customers’ dreams into reality.
Because they control the number of homes they build each year, they can ensure ongoing communication with their clients and sub-contractors the entire way through the building process, warranty period and beyond. Willis Custom Homes... a building team that works!
"Excellent builder--highly recommend. So happy with the finished product. Patrick is a hands on builder and always has the customer as his priority. I have only great things to say about him and his work. The house turned out to be everything I wanted and more. Would build with them again in a heartbeat!"
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Planet x Esri China (HK) showcases
the Capabilities of Satellite Imagery
Satellite imagery is a compelling tool for discovery and spatial analysis. To unlock the potential of satellite imagery, a powerful platform like ArcGIS is needed. Earth-imaging company Planet, and Esri China (Hong Kong) co-delivered a webinar on the topic of “Geospatial Analysis of Satellite Imagery with Live Demo”, illustrating the capabilities of ArcGIS for Planet’s satellite imagery management and analysis.
In the webinar, Planet pre-sales engineer Baizura Alidin pointed out that PlanetScope Dove Satellites - the world's largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites conducts “line scans” on our earth to provide fresh 3-meter resolution Earth images every day. It offers eight spectrum bands (coastal blue, blue, green I, green I, Yellow, Red, Red Edge, and Near-Infrared) to users for different purposes. In the live demonstration, the capabilities of PlanetScope’s satellite imagery were unlocked by ArcGIS Pro. Deforestation detection on Grass Island (Tap Mun) and deep learning for mapping Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Whampoa Garden were performed by our colleagues as local applications for satellite imagery analysis.
Planet imagery is accessible for ArcGIS Pro users under subscription. The Planet ArcGIS Add-In enables users to search, preview, stream, and download the Planet imagery and base maps directly in ArcGIS Pro.
Planet pre-sales engineer Baizura Alidin showcased the capabilities of Planet’s industry-leading constellations during the webinar.
Grass Island (Tap Mun) vegetation has reportedly deteriorated due to intensive hiking and camping activities. By using Planet’s satellite imagery in ArcGIS Pro, users can measure Grass Island's deforestation level. | <urn:uuid:620871d4-4490-4833-bdd8-6b5eddff3cb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.esrichina.hk/en-hk/news/gisconnection/q2-2022/id3 | 2022-12-03T02:55:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710918.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203011523-20221203041523-00456.warc.gz | en | 0.860387 | 390 |
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