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SST – Life Experienced As It Should Be!
24/7 CCTV Monitoring
Digitally Enhanced Sound
Whole Home Sound
Home Theater Installation
Audio Visual For Commercial Retail
If your business depends on delivering the ultimate audio visual experience for your clients on a daily bases, SST is the right call.
Our architects and designers have been building out the best sound systems and visual experience for over 20 years. If you have been out to a sports bar or enticed by music and video while shopping in a mall or supermarket in CA. Or AZ, It is likely you have enjoyed one of our Audio Visual Designs. Whether you have a small location with a single screen to deliver a message to clients or you have a multilevel sports bar or club with 50 screens or more.
This is where we excel. Our most recent installations for Buffalo Wild Wings and the customer response is just one example. We plan from the design of the room, intention of use and the fact that multiple programs will be playing and each user experience will need to be individual.
The visual clarity and riveting sound your clients experience will bring them back week after week.
Security And Fire Systems
The Heart of our company is based on protecting our clients. Our 20 plus years of installing complete security systems
Internal Security: We also look to protect our clients internally. This important factor can save business owners from employee disputes. Internal theft, Frivolous lawsuits, and workers comp claims that may arise. Our advanced security system can be your human resources greatest asset. We know you work hard and do your best for your employees, let us do the same for you. Call Now
For Fire we use advanced sensors to detect abnormal heat, smoke and fire supported with cameras that have UV sensors. Quick response and advance notice to clients makes the difference between saving lives property and records. One minute can make the difference.
Corporate Audio Visual
Having a power meeting with your top 50 employees in a conference room and you want your presentation to have an impact? Maybe they are spread out in different conference rooms and buildings around the country, we connect you.
Do you have a big showroom with widescreens up high but want to create a warm personal experience for your client. We know how to achieve this and clearly deliver your brands style through audio and visual design. From the waiting room to the main showroom floor your clients will experience that which you desire.
Every room is different and our engineers will create continuity throughout. Gaining client confidence and creating early is important and you can be sure when SST installs your system your clients’ first impression will be a lasting one
Simple and multifaceted audio-visual Systems. Like a mullet, Business in the front, a
Home theater systems and home theater setup bring your personal entertainment and sport events to life. How real do you want your experience to be? Let SST design the ultimate experience for you, your family
Smart Home Technology
SST redefines Smart Home Technology. Your new smart home system is designed to learn, adapt and perform. You decide how much control you want and our technology will deliver it to the palm of your hand, or simply use voice automation or hand motions. Access front door video communication from anywhere in the world, mobile lighting control, energy-saving climate automation and more. All of our packages and installs are designed to provide convenience, peace of mind and a home life your family can enjoy together. Simplify your life. Take advantage of your new powerful home automation experience.
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* Keeps working in wet conditions and when horse sweats!
* Eliminate the mess – new spill-proof, Easy Pour Spout on larger sizes
* Official Horse Care Partner of the APHA and AQHA
* Protects against biting and nuisance flies, gnats, mosquitoes, deer ticks and lice
* Up to 14 days fly control
Endure fly spray for horses provides repellency, quick knockdown and long-lasting protection against horse, house, stable, face, horn, and deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes. Also protects from lice, ticks and deer ticks that may transmit Lyme disease.
Sweat- and water-resistant fly control formula also features sunscreen and RepeLockTM conditioner for skin and coat that binds to hair shaft. Won’t sweat off!
Contains 0.15% cypermethrin, 0.2% pyrethrins, 1.6% piperonyl butoxide and 5% butoxypolypropylene glycol.
Use after brushing, shampooing and drying. Apply as spray or wipe. Repeat after 5-7 days for initial application. As protection builds, reapply every 10-14 days. Lightweight 50 oz size is ideal for travelling, shows and horse owners with fewer horses. 50 oz and gallon sizes feature ergonomic handle design for comfort, convenience and ease of use, and a spill-proof, Easy Pour Spout. No funnel required – simply refill quart as needed. | <urn:uuid:e698f0e7-e39a-4e12-a0ce-03fba1a2e1bb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.gasshorsesupply.com/endure-fly-spray-32oz.html | 2023-10-03T20:48:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00298.warc.gz | en | 0.873917 | 309 |
Bay State Selectmen Subject of Complaint and Federal Lawsuit
Purge of Conservation Commission Fuels Development Free-for-All in Rehoboth
Boston — Two Selectmen in Rehoboth, Massachusetts should be investigated for wetlands and other violations by the state Department of Environmental Protection, based on a complaint filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Both town officials are also defendants in a wide-ranging civil rights and tort lawsuit filed by a local developer.
The Selectmen are alleged to have politically manipulated members of the town’s Conservation Commission membership in order to harass a local developer. Ken Foley, a former Vice Chair of the Conservation Commission and current Selectman, succeeded in quashing a notice of violation filed against Christopher Morra, a member of the Rehoboth Board of Selectmen. The cease and desist order was issued to Morra after almost a year of his refusal to cooperate with the Conservation Commission. While that notice was withdrawn, approximately 500 feet of a stream were filled, according to the PEER complaint.
The Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act is implemented by volunteer Conservation Commissions in cities and towns across the state. Since these Commission members are often appointed by local Selectmen, it is not difficult for local officials to fire members who do not do the Selectmen’s bidding. As a result, the Wetlands Protection Act is not being enforced in some municipalities.
“In Massachusetts, Conservation Commissions are the backbone protecting the aquatic health of the Commonwealth,” stated New England PEER Director Kyla Bennett, a former wetlands specialist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “In Rehoboth, there appears to have been a breakdown caused by the havoc of hardball politics.”
The lawsuit, filed last week in federal district court, outlines a long series of actions by Morra and his allies to “get” a developer they perceived as a political enemy. Included with the suit is an affidavit by a former member of the Rehoboth Conservation Commission which details how she was pressured to vote against legitimate projects of the targeted developer and was removed from the Commission when she would not go along with the demands.
“Something is rotten in Rehoboth,” added Bennett. “We want environmental protection laws enforced regardless of political faction.”
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The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Tuesday will be 315.74 Turkish liras at 14.00 local time and the lowest will be 197.82 liras at 06.00 local time, according to official figures on Monday.
Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on the electricity market on Monday showed a decrease of 4.8% to 164.3 million liras compared to Sunday.
The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 297.47 liras and 299.24 liras, respectively.
The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Monday was set as 334.99 liras at 14.00 local time and the lowest at 249.98 liras at 06.00 local time.
US$1 equals 6.86 Turkish liras at 1129 GMT on Monday.
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Cost of living in Semarang, Indonesia compared to Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
|Personal Care||- 68%|
WARNING! This comparison is based on only a few data points. At this point it is only a guess. It is based on 175 prices entered by 17 different people.
These prices were last updated on September 11, 2018. Exchange rate: 0.00025 AED / IDR
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Cost of living in Semarang (Indonesia) is 45% cheaper than in Al Ain (United Arab Emirates)
For example, to keep the same standard of living that would require Dirham 17,000 in Al Ain you would need to make just about Dirham 9,398 (Rp 37,919,012) in Semarang.
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Preview – Your First Look At Thor: The Mighty Avenger #4!
Your First Look At Thor: The Mighty Avenger #4!
Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Thor: The Mighty Avenger #4, from the red hot creative team of Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee! Thor and the Warriors Three are en route to Asgard when they take a wrong turn and wind up in Oxford. Captain Britain doesn’t take too kindly to the Norse Interlopers and before anyone knows it, Thor and Captain Britain find themselves in an international showdown for the history books! Thor: The Mighty Avenger #4 has it all: Norse Gods, British warriors, and slugfests galore!
Fans and critics agree, Thor: The Mighty Avenger is a smash-hit!
“…a terrific pairing of writer and cartoonist on a light, whimsical, and accessible new Thor comic…It’s only just begun, but it looks to revel in everything weird and wonderful about the character, and by extension, the Marvel universe.” – Paul Montgomery, iFanboy.com on Thor: The Mighty Avenger #1
“So far Thor, The Mighty Avenger earns three bullets. What gives the book its fourth? The character interaction, the development, the verisimilitude in the dialogue which imbues these literally two-dimensional art figures with emotion and depth.” – Ray Tate, ComicsBulletin.com on Thor: The Mighty Avenger #2
“Langridge’s story is filled with enough bits of Thor’s Marvel-based mythology to make this title an instant hit for experienced Thor fans, but Langridge keeps it loose enough to make this book instantly approachable to Thor rookies.” – Doug Zawisza, ComicBookResources.com on Thor: The Mighty Avenger #2
Don’t miss out on this must-read series when Thor: The Mighty Avenger #4 hits shelves this September!
THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER #4 (JUL100617)
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Pencils & Cover by CHRIS SAMNEE
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Well, technically, there have been nuisance complaints about people keeping bird feeders that attract huge numbers of pigeons and other birds, leading to a bit of, shall we say, environmental downturn in the immedate neighbourhood. It would be reasonable to complain about someone attracting 1,000 starlings that roosted in your yard after feasting at the neighbours.
But butterflies? The mind boggles.
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Company Overview of Visual Sciences, Inc.
10182 Telesis Court
San Diego, CA 92121
Founded in 1996
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Actor Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop who rose to fame as an actor in movies such as “Thief” and “Midnight Run” and television shows such as “Law and Order” died Monday.
A fitting tribute for anyone up for a little DVD/streaming digging would be to check out Farina’s star turn in the Michael Mann-produced television series “Crime Story,” a criminally under-watched show from 1986-1988 that was an amazingly hard-edged, well-acted, crazy-good noir set in 1960s Chicago and Las Vegas.
The show’s verisimilitude was aided not just by Farina’s background as a police officer, but by the fact that one of the actors who played a key mafia henchman, John Santucci, was a hood that Farina used to bust!
Anyway, they don’t really make them like Farina anymore. Watch “Crime Story” to see what a talent he was.
Roll Call After Dark is about what Washington does when it's not at work.
The District of Columbia is a cultural capital where you can you get your kicks from movies projected on the National Mall, lectures on vermouth or Russian avant-garde art. There's always something to do.
Jason Dick is the Hill Life editor for Roll Call and has also worked at Greenwire, CongressDaily and National Journal Daily during his time in Washington. @jasonjdick | <urn:uuid:13c7e87f-af20-41e5-941e-ef12cf6e6982> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://blogs.rollcall.com/after-dark/crime-story-television-thats-a-worthy-memorial-for-dennis-farina/?dcz= | 2014-12-18T17:56:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767301.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00022-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97082 | 315 |
Jeff Duntemann, chief cook and bottlewasher at Copperwood Press, had been publishing his output thru Lulu. Well, for various reasons, he's moved, releasing his latest novel via CreateSpace. He's also got a short story collection that he's trying to put out electronically, entitled Cold Hands and Other Stories. He's got some interesting thoughts on the process so far on his blog.
Many moons ago, I reviewed Charles Sheehan-Miles' novel Republic. After I reviewed his enjoyable work, I rather forgot about it. It turns out that Sheehan-Miles has been making a decent amount of income from the book. At least, he was, until Amazon changed their website. But for those that are interested, you can stop by his blog and hear what he's doing about it. | <urn:uuid:567be84d-895e-4004-97e6-eddfeddf6356> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://podpeep.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-thoughts-on-business-of-publishing.html | 2016-12-06T08:13:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541886.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00202-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988261 | 169 |
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Fifteen singers and six pianists will perform Tuesday, Jan. 14, to show their support for victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated much of the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013.
“Alabama Sings!” will be presented by the Alabama chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and will present music from operas, musicals and oratorios, as well as art songs and jazz. Singers include music professors, alumni and others representing area colleges and universities, including Birmingham-Southern College, UAB, Samford University, University of Montevallo, University of Alabama, Alabama School of Fine Arts and Gadsden State Community College.
Admission to the concert is free, but donations will be accepted and sent to the American Red Cross to assist typhoon victims with staple food items, water, shelter, blankets and other necessities.
Read the recent report from reliefweb.
With winds exceeding 200 mph, the category five storm caused widespread damage. More than 6,000 lives were lost and nearly 2,000 are still missing. Four million remain displaced in the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in Philippines history, and thousands are still vulnerable to disease. More than 14 million were affected by the storm.
As of December, 2013, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated than nearly 60,000 were still displaced in Zamboango, a city that was attacked by rebels a few months before the typhoon hit.
“Alabama Sings!” is a part of a nationwide effort to bring attention to, and raise funds for typhoon victims, and 100 percent of the proceeds raised at the event will go to Red Cross relief operations.
Singers include Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, Jeff Kensmoe, Jennifer Bryant, Won Cho, Laura Harbison Doss, Emily Herring, Joseph Hopkins, Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, Sharon Lawhon, Diane McNaron, Chris O’Rear, Gloria Parvin, Jennifer Roth-Burnette, Melanie Williams and Charles Wood. They will accompanied on piano by Virginia Dismukes, Chase Cooper, Lucy DeSa, Dan Lawhon, Laurie Middaugh and Diana Preoteasa. BSC president Charles Krulak will give opening remarks.
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Typical Detpa Grove flock rams.
WELCOME TO DETPA GROVE WHITE SUFFOLK
Founded in 1981, using our Suffolk stud as a base, we purchased select Poll Dorsets to introduce the "white gene". Over the last ten years we have sourced outstanding White Suffolk sires and selected ewes from various other studs to help build up a high quality ewe flock quickly.
We continually aim to improve performance and productivity on sound structured sheep, and so provide high quality flock rams to prime lamb producers, and sound breeding stock to stud breeders.
Balanced breeding strategies have been set in place to achieve these goals. Modern technology has been utilized - Artificial Insemination to introduce useful genetics and Lambplan for performance assessment. We consider maintaining accurate and detailed records alongside sound management practices essential. Participation in health and Quality assurance programs such as Ovine Brucellosis Accreditation and Ovine Johnes Disease, Market Assurance Program and D.N.A. testing have been keenly sought.
To help speed our genetic progress, generation turnover is enhanced by using the best ram lambs (7 months old) each year and lambing down our ewes from as young as 12 months. Embryo Transfer and J.I.V.E.T programs have also been undertaken to make best use of our top ewes. High lambing percentages are also encouraged in the stud to give an even greater selection and in the last few years we have realised above 165% live lambs.
Our Progress is Measured by:
- Lambplan through across-flock E.B.V's
- Client feedback and successes
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Nov 25, 2013 10:28 AM by Dave Baker
Staying cold and rainy for the next couple of days. Temperatures are going to hold steady in the 30s and 40s day and night with the rains coming down. A slight chance for frozen precipitation will occur over central Louisiana over a short period starting Tuesday afternoon and evening.
An upper level low pressure area is drifting out of the Texas panhandle and will cruise east-southeastward over the next two days. At the same time a surface low pressure area will develop near Brownsville, Texas and drift northeastward toward the Florida Gulf coast. Abundant moisture will stream in off the Gulf of Mexico and lift into the colder air. A steady light to moderate rain will fall today, tonight, and Tuesday. Rainfall totals could exceed two inches over the next two days.
As the upper level low moves across Louisiana, the light rain will continue through Tuesday evening and as temperatures drop some sleet may mix in over central Louisiana. All precip should end by early Wednesday morning. Another shot of cool air will drift in Wednesday, clearing the skies. Early Thanksgiving morning, most of Acadiana will drop into the 20s with 30s along the coast. A nice warm up is expected Friday through Sunday.
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Crown of Sorrow
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Almost 42 percent of the Earth’s population uses social media—that’s an astonishing 3.196 billion people.
A recent survey by Aventri and Little Bird Told Media of 185 event professionals revealed what our industry is getting right about social media use, and what could be done better to leverage the opportunities digital networks offer.
The Social Media Trends for Events survey found that marketing was the number-one use for social media among event professionals, with 96 percent of respondents using it for outreach. More than 75 percent of respondents also used social media for customer engagement, news, and community building.
Facebook is by far the most popular online network used by respondents (90 percent), with only 15 percent using Snapchat. But while Facebook is currently the most popular network in the U.S., Pew Research suggests that young adults are not joining Facebook and prefer Instagram and Snapchat. This indicates that event professionals might need to widen their participation in other apps to capture the next generation.
According to the report, only 38 percent of respondents use social media for crisis management. This is a missed opportunity for emergency communications for event planners since nine out of 10 social media users access accounts on mobile devices and are therefore easier to reach by this method than any other. Despite the ease of communication for risk management, 42 percent of organizations never collect attendees’ social media information at registration. Other worrying findings from the report indicate that social media efforts are often delegated to one person rather than the team, creating a weak link in coverage, and organizations are relying on "vanity" metrics rather than analyzing engagement, such as hashtag tracking, to plan their social media strategies.
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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by alibee, Sep 26, 2007.
^ Aww, thank you. I try my best
I think it's a combination of the things you say and your avatar, which will make me smile for ages!
Ian does possess an ability to bring the happy. He was the wallpaper on my computer for quite a while. Every time I switched the computer on, it always made me smile
I'm not sure why, but anytime anyway says they think I'm funny, it makes me think of an old Bob Monkhouse joke (I'm not sure whereabouts you live, but if you don't live in the UK, then Bob Monkhouse was a stand-up comedian/t.v host).
"When I told people I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed. Well, they're not laughing now."
I live in the UK so I do know who Bob Monkhouse was.
And who is Ian?
Ian is the owl. I don't know why I named him Ian, but I did. I think it suits him.
OK, Ian the Owl it is
Ian is an excellent name for an Owl...
I have to admit Ian is one of those names I've been actually considering for a baby name... should I have kids.
Hello all I just signed up yesterday (did not notice this threat until now)
Im a 29 year old Dutch guy and been a big Star Trek fan for over 20 years.
Nice forum you got here.
Hey, I'm Sarah. I was a member awhile back, but because the e-mail I used for my other account was hacked fairly recently, I had to rejoin. I've been a Trekkie for almost six years now (as it says in my sig), and my favorite character has always been Spock. See you around the site!
Great another Californian! Are you NorCal or SoCal? Welcome though!
SpocksBondmate what happened on September 14nth?? A.. visitation?
Hi Spock'sBondmate - how are you?
I put this in the red shirt forum a few days ago, but i don't think everyone can see it. i only found this thread now.
Hi all newbies. Good to see you.
We can see you teacake
Quick question: how do I put videos in a post?
You can only do it with YouTube vids.
[ yt ] URL to the video [ /yt ]
-but without the extra spaces.
"There's 2 things I can't stand. People who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch."
Just kidding. Welcome to the board.
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Last week, the Burke Education office conducted our first Burkemobile (yes, Burkemobile!) outreach program at Lincoln Elementary School in Ellensburg. This classroom-based program features three hands-on lessons (ecosystems, fossils, Native Cultures) that bring a unique museum experience to schools and students that normally can't visit us. One of the 5th grade teachers wrote that this was "an amazing day for our students." Next up on the schedule: Gilbert Elementary in Yakima and the Lummi Nation School in Bellingham. We also have multi-day trips in May to Aberdeen and Forks. A special thanks goes to the Burke collections managers and curators who helped prepare specimens for this outreach program!
This photograph shows a model of a wetland ecosystem, created by a team of 5th graders using specimens from the Burke Museum's education collection, including a juvenile Chinook Salmon, pressed Cattail, Monarch butterfly, Muskrat skull, and Great Blue Heron feather.
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Programmable logic control and synchronous link control are two terms used in computer programming for different types of electronics systems. The two types of control systems are both designed to make automation easier in the industries where they are typically utilized. PLC and SLC systems have central processing units and an input-output interface system. The CPU controls the processes in each but does so through the input and output system that connects to the device it controls. Aside from the general purpose of increased automation control, PLCs and SLCs have some significant differences.
Programmable logic controllers are used in applications such as computer networking, motion and process control systems, data storage and handling, and other complex control systems, such as sequential relay control and the use of distributed control systems. PLCs are often used in manufacturing to control machinery responsible for production. Synchronous link controllers can also be used in process-control applications as well as telecommunications-control systems, real-time financial systems, and even in the defense and airline industries. For instance, in the airline industry, SLCs are used in wide area networks, or WANs, to allow for simultaneous transmission and reception of data for critical airline operations. In the financial industry, this kind of technology is needed for the submission of real-time trades on stock markets where getting the most current price on an investment is essential, as is getting the trade submitted before the price changes.
The main difference between PLCs and SLCs is in terms of the type of programming used for each. PLCs are programmed using ladder logic control systems. These controllers are programmed by using external control terminals or software programs that are transferred to the controller using a network connection. In some cases, the programming logic is added to the controller with a removable microchip processor. Synchronous logic control systems tend to be somewhat more versatile in terms of the programming and editing options available. SLCs can be operated independently through multiple communications links. Whereas PLCs typically require dedicated facilities for ongoing control, SLCs use this multiple communications strategy as a way to limit the number of dedicated facilities required to maintain control of the system.
PLCs have evolved over the years to become highly functional devices used across a wide variety of industries. Because of the need for wide-ranging use of these types of controllers, programmers working on PLCs have developed portable microcontroller systems that are used to navigate and change the programming logic used in various types of electronics devices. SLCs, while versatile in terms of the number of access points, do not have the same portability. Instead, SLCs are primarily limited to mainframe systems.
The functionality and programming of PLCs and SLCs highlight one of the other major differences between the two types of controllers. Communications through SLCs can be wide-ranging in terms of the number of points of access because these controllers can be accessed through multiple ports across a network. With PLCs, access to the control and programming of the controller is limited to the number of available physical access ports. This limited access does not mean that the controllers cannot be accessed across a network, but it does limit the number of individuals who may operate those controls at any given time.
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Archive - Mar 29, 2012
A little of this, a little of that as the spring season for high school sports draws near …
Spring is a time devoted to rebirth, renewal and revitalization. At Lincoln High School, the ushering in of the season immediately on the heels of winter’s wicked and sometimes disruptive nature has been greeted by winds of wholesale change.
PAWTUCKET — The city's arts high school was on the itinerary of a visiting group of students from Japan this week as part of an effort to give them a snapshot of American culture.
Thirty-two 16- and 17-year-olds from the Happy Science Academy in Tochigi, Japan spent a day “shadowing” students from the Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Visual and Performing Arts. The boarding school, affiliated with the Happy Science religious organization, houses students in grades 7 through 12.
CUMBERLAND- Antonio Silvestre, 86, of Forest Avenue, passed away Thursday in the St. Antoine Residence, North Smithfield. He was the husband of the late Isaura (Cristina) Silvestre.
Born in Pawtucket, he was the son of the late Manuel and Rosalina (Amaral) Silvestre.
Mr. Silvestre was a self-employed carpenter for many years until retirement.
He loved to read, watch television, especially soccer.
Joseph D. Cardosi
MINDEN, NV- Joseph D. Cardosi, of Minden, NV, passed away on March 21 after a sudden illness.
A memorial service was held on March 29 at 10.00 am at Saint Gall Catholic Church in Gardnerville, NV followed by burial at Eastside Cemetery in Minden.
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The Czech company EXCALIBUR ARMY spol. s r. o. is presenting, at the 11th International IDET 2011 Exhibition of Defence and Security Technologies, a technology demonstrator of the MGC-1 armoured personnel carrier. The presented spectrum of passive, reactive and active technologies of ballistic and mine protection an offer to potential customers enabling them to choose the appropriate system of vehicle protection against envisaged threats relevant to specific deployment roles. This technology demonstrator gives an opportunity for the considerable quantity of still existing original BMP-1s & BMP-2s (and other types of light and medium weight armoured vehicles) to continue in further full-featured operation under the service conditions of the current armed forces. It is possible to substantially improve the protection of the crews of these vehicles that can compare to at least the level of protection of recently introduced combat vehicles whilst requiring considerably lower procurement funds.
The Czech enterprise EXCALIBUR ARMY spol. s r. o. has developed and manufactured, in cooperation with other Czech
and Slovak companies, an upgraded infantry fighting vehicle designated as BMP-M2 SKCZ that complies with
theexisting criteria and requirements for the combat vehicles of this category.
The aim of modernization is to extend the life cycle of vehicles series TATRA T-815 8 x 8 , 6 x 6 and increase their usable properties.
It offers a much cheaper alternative of variation of original vehicles of this series.
Modernization has been performed on singular groups with a view to improve technical parameters, reduce
costs, maintenance and repair needs and finally reach the operating simplicity and comfort, increase the
operation safety and reducethe environmental impact.
EXCALIBUR ARMY spol. s r.o. has developed an upgraded type of the DANA 152 mm Self Propelled Gun Howitzer vz. 77.
The implemented upgrade items keep the well established combat & service features of the DANA system
unchanged and at the same time transform the weapon into an up-to-date and more powerful system.
The DANA-M1 CZ boasts an unbeatable rate of fire, greater firing accuracy, excellent vehicle mobility
and reliable operation of the system. All these qualities predestine the DANA-M1 CZ Self Propelled Gun
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General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM): ”Two drowning men don’t make a swimmer”: That was given in response to questions about GM investing in a closer relationship with PSA Peugeot-Citroen from Garel Rhys, emeritus professor of Motor Industry Economics and director for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School. While Peugeot is actively seeking further investment, GM seems quite content where it’s at with its 7 percent stake in the company.
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA): Price reductions on electric vehicles — which have become the industry trend for several months — won’t hurt demand for Tesla vehicles, at least according to industry observers. Given that Tesla is more bent at unseating BMW and Mercedes, the Model S sedan plays in a whole different league than the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt, and the performance of the Model S alone deserves the premium that the car demands.
Honda Motor Co. (NYSE:HMC): Despite robust demand for its Honda Fit EV, the company will not be manufacturing more units to meet the long waiting list of buyers, since the Fit EV was intended to simply be a compliance car made to meet California’s strict envrinmental regulations. For some EV owners, Honda’s lease-only Fit EV program brings back unpleasant memories of GM’s EV1 program, which saw the vehicles crushed after it was deemed too cost-ineffective.
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Most of our top sellers are bacterial or parasitic formulas, I don’t know how we got this way I guess we love fighting these little fellas. I started hearing from some of our customers that they had Lyme disease so I checked into it and found that over 300,000 people each year in the united states are affected. So, I started to create a formula for it and think I’ve found a combination that will work great for most people. Most people by now know how I feel about bacteria & parasites and that I believe there is nothing better to combat them then homeopathy. This product should only be used with or after the traditional antibiotics that are normally use for this condition. I also believe antibiotics are becoming less effective and do not kill all of the parasites, that is why an alternative formula should be used as well. This formula should be started as soon as possible after infected or bitten. Many cases of Lyme disease are long term “Chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) This product is for both types. This product is made in a state of the art manufacturing facility supervised by the FDA. I personally have a lot of confidants in this product and believe you will see it at the top of the page on Amazon.com within a few weeks. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. | <urn:uuid:edad73d8-789a-4a08-ba2f-05a63c23a642> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.smarthealthnaturopathics.com/LYME-30All-Natural-homeopathic-Formula-%E2%80%A6_p_123.html | 2020-11-25T15:55:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141183514.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20201125154647-20201125184647-00601.warc.gz | en | 0.97033 | 287 |
Proceeds from Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” will be used to promote criminal justice reform.
Mission-related investments are trending at home, while cultural initiatives collide with nationalism abroad.
Jane Chu’s signature initiative explores how creativity intersects with other sectors, and the infrastructure needed to keep it going.
The story of how the nonprofit arts sector got started offers would-be changemakers some clues.
The following endnotes accompany our feature article, “Who Will Be the Next Arts Revolutionary?” published on March 7, 2016: Graphic: The Boom in U.S. Nonprofits / The U.S. Arts Nonprofit Growth Spurt Reliable longitudinal data on the size of the nonprofit arts sector is difficult to come by for this period. In his 1984Read More
John Kreidler’s article offers historical analysis and discussion of the nonprofit arts sectors as a dynamic system.
November 13 attacks further establish cultural venues as potential terrorist targets.
Charitable donations to arts and culture in 2014 rose by 9.2%.
Associate Director, Artist INC UMKC Innovation Center Artist Inc. Programming, is seeking an Associate Director Program/Project Operations. This position is the chief administrator of the suite of Artist INC.programs and is responsible for the program’s consistent achievement of its mission and financial objectives. Artist INC programs are delivered through a collaborative partnership of the Charlotte StreetRead More
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT A federal judge recently ruled that Pandora must continue to pay ASCAP, which represents song writers and publishers, a 1.85% composition royalty. It was a (not entirely clean) victory for Pandora, which was arguing against a rise to 3%. The Future of Music Coalition has a good primer on the issue.Read More | <urn:uuid:2d355aec-b5c8-42b4-8d7a-10468b1ce690> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://createquity.com/tag/ford-foundation/ | 2017-12-17T00:33:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948592202.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217000422-20171217022422-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.927637 | 369 |
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To operate a restaurant efficiently and profitably, a manager has to have his/her finger on the pulse of everything happening in the restaurant at any given time. Table Turn and
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Today is going to be fun. And flustery. You see, my mom is coming for the weekend. And it's raining.
It was 80 degrees last weekend. And it's chilly rain today. What's the deal mother nature? Can't stand to show my mom a good time, huh? Well phooey on you.
We'll have a good time anyway.
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- D-Aspartic Acid can boost test levels
- Optimal Dosage of Vitamin D3
- Boron supports healthy testosterone levels
- Missing other key T-Boosting nutrients such as Fenugreek Seed Extract
- Tribulus Terrestris can increase prostate weight
- Shilajit isn’t 100% proven to work and is banned in Canada
- Some ingredients address the symptoms of low T without fixing the cause (eg. Longjack increases libido but doesn’t raise T levels)
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About The Product
JUST TEST ME is a testosterone booster supplement made by Tim Muriello’s company, Spazmatic Supplements. It costs $44.99 for 30 servings, which in fairness is reasonably priced for a T-Booster.
From first glance, we’re happy that none of the ingredients in JUST TEST ME has been hidden in any proprietary blends. This product even contains some of our favorite test boosting nutrients, such as Vitamin D3 and D-Aspartic Acid. So it’s clear that this company knows what they’re doing.
However, one slight criticism is that JUST TEST ME comes with a huge 12 capsule serving size per day. That’s triple the serving size of normal supplements, and it’s simply not necessary.
We don’t get why this product instructs you to consume 6 capsules at once either; they should at least made this product able to offer 4 separate serving sizes of 3 capsules-per-go, as we know many people that don’t enjoy taking so many pills at once.
In fairness though, if you don’t mind popping pills, then this won’t be a problem. And it’s really not something that would put us, personally, off trying a testosterone booster supplement.
Anyway, we’ll expand on this as we take you through JUST TEST ME’s nutrient profile in the next section. But first, we’ll tell you more about the company behind it.
Who Are Spazmatic Supplements?
Tim Muriello is a big name in the fitness industry and commands a lot of respect from his fans. So it makes sense for him to enter the supplements market with his own products.
His company, Spazmatic Supplements, are still quite new compared to the big boys that dominate. But we’re glad that more and more people are willing to come-in and challenge the already established companies to keep things fresh and competitive. So we salute you, Tim Muriello.
One thing we really like about this company is that they don’t charge ridiculous prices for their products. We actually think that all of their supplements are good value for money, regardless of whether they’re the best available.
But you’re here to learn more about JUST TEST ME. So let’s see which ingredients have been added below…
JUST TEST ME Ingredients Explained
It’s clear that there’s been a lot of time spent while formulating this product. It contains an optimal dosage of Vitamin D3, which is one of the main things that we look out for when choosing a testosterone booster supplement.
Not only that, Spazmatic Supplements has also added a big dosage of D-Aspartic Acid, which also gets a big thumbs-up from us.
In fact, there really isn’t a lot wrong with this product. The only ingredient that we would have preferred not to have been included is Tribulus Terrestris; this is because some studies suggest that it can increase prostate weight, which is something that you should avoid at all costs (as it can lead to serious male health issues).
We’ll take you through each ingredient in JUST TEST ME so you can get a better feel for this testosterone booster. By the end of this review, you’ll have a good idea of how safe and effective this product really is.
Here’s Everything You Need To Know:
We’re glad that more and more companies have started to add Vitamin D3 to their testosterone boosters. If we were to choose only one nutrient to supplement, then Vitamin D3 would be a strong contender for most of the year; this should show you how beneficial it really is.
What does it do? Well, Vitamin D3’s benefits are almost endless. It’s able to improve your general health, while also improving your mood too – there’s a reason most people are happier in the sunshine.
Basically, your skin synthesizes Vitamin D3 when it’s exposed to sunlight. But most people don’t get enough due to working in offices or living in less-sunny countries (not everyone is lucky enough to spend enough time on the beaches in California every day).
Earlier studies suggested that 400IU was enough to consume per day when supplementing Vitamin D3. But more recent studies show that dosages of 3,332IU and above are better at boosting your testosterone levels. The good news is that Vitamin D3 is safe to consume up to 10,000IU per day (although we wouldn’t really advise you to go near this).
Ultimately, consuming between 3,332IU-5,000IU daily makes the most sense. So it’s great to see that Spazmatic Supplements has added an optimal 5,000IU in JUST TEST ME, which is rarer to see than you might think.
D-Aspartic Acid is another great addition to any testosterone booster. So it should be becoming clear to you that Spazmatic Supplements know what they’re doing here.
Simply put, studies have shown that D-Aspartic Acid is capable of raising your T levels optimally when consumed in dosages between 2,000mg-3,000mg. JUST TEST ME contains 3,750mg, which is more than the dosages used in these studies.
Now, a slight concern is that some studies that used larger dosages than 3,000mg suggested that D-Aspartic Acid could have the opposite effect. You can see this study here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384294/
For this reason, we always play it safe and choose supplements containing a max of 3,000mg per daily dosage. However, the study we’ve linked to above used dosages as big as 6,000mg. So you should still be safe with the 3,750mg dosage in JUST TEST ME.
Shilajit Extract is a fairly new addition to supplements. We like that companies have started using different ingredients to the ones more commonly found as it shows creativity in a sometimes stale industry.
Now, Shilajit Extract is believed to boost your testosterone levels and general health. However, it’s a mixture of many essential minerals and metals that is hard to quantify.
It’s for this reason that Canada has banned this nutrient. But in fairness, we don’t think that Shilajit seems likely to cause any harm.
That doesn’t mean that we think it might work though. There simply hasn’t been enough studies conducted on this ingredient to make it reliable yet, in our honest opinion.
Early studies are promising, but we’ll be keeping an eye on future studies to determine Shilajit Extract’s effectiveness. We will mention that if it does work, then it’ll become one of the best nutrients available on the market. So it’s easy to see why Spazmatic Supplements has added this ingredient to JUST TEST ME.
Boron is a dietary mineral that’s shown to help support healthy testosterone levels. This means that it can be beneficial to supplement, but it’s not shown to boost your T levels as high as other ingredients found in test boosters.
So what’s Boron Citrate? Well, this is believed to be the most bioavailable form of Boron, meaning it should be absorped by your body alright.
However, studies have shown Boron to be most effective in dosages of 3mg or higher. As JUST TEST ME contains 200mg, it should be effective here.
Also known as Tribulus Terrestris Extract, this isn’t our favorite addition to any testosterone booster supplement; this is because studies have shown that it’s capable of increasing your prostate weight.
Not only that, studies have also shown that Tribulus Terrestris isn’t actually able to raise your T levels. So basically, this makes this herb an ineffective inclusion in JUST TEST ME, in our honest opinion.
Ultimately, the addition of Tribulus Terrestris is one of the few things wrong with this testosterone booster. And we personally wish that it was left out.
LongJack is also known as Eurycoma Longifolia or Tongkat Ali. It’s basically a herb that’s been used for a long time in Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine), due to the belief that it can enhance your libido.
Now, the good news is that modern research has backed LongJack’s use as a libido booster. However, you might be disappointed to hear that it has no effect on your testosterone levels.
For this reason, we believe that LongJack treats a symptom of low testosterone and not the root cause; if you raise your T, then you’ll experience higher libido anyway.
But in fairness, we’d take LongJack over Tribulus Terrestris any day. So this is still a useful addition to JUST TEST ME.
Also known as ‘DIM’, this is a compound that’s believed to help keep your estrogen levels low, being an aromatase inhibitor (AI). It’s naturally found in vegetables such as broccoli, so start eating your greens!
However, our main issue with this is that an aromatase inhibitor isn’t necessary for a natural testosterone booster. In fact, one of the main benefits of taking a natural supplement is that you’re not at risk from suffering gynecomastia (man boobs) or other estrogen related problems.
Why? Because no natural test booster is going to raise your T levels as high as injecting straight-up hormones does. So sorry to break the news that you won’t be looking ready to step on the stage at Mr. Olympia after taking a natural test booster.
Now, that’s not to say that natural T-Boosters can’t help you pack on muscle mass – they can do that. Just not crazy amounts like synthetics do.
We went off on the wrong topic there, but you get the point. DIM can be useful, but it’s certainly not necessary as you won’t be at risk from man boobs here anyway. We would have much-preferred something tried-and-tested to raise your T levels such as Fenugreek Seed Extract instead.
Indole-3-Carbinol is another compound that’s found in vegetables such as broccoli. It’s also believed to help keep estrogen levels low, and studies have shown that it can help do this.
But as we mentioned with DIM, AI’s simply are not necessary in natural testosterone booster supplements such as JUST TEST ME. You can accept that it’s a good ‘bonus’ addition here though.
We often see Saw Palmetto added to supplements that contain Tribulus Terrestris; this could be because it’s shown to help support healthy prostate levels, and is believed to treat enlarged prostates.
As we mentioned earlier, Tribulus Terrestris has shown to be capable of causing enlarged prostate, so it’s good that Spazmatic has covered all bases here. But in our honest opinion, we would have just left Tribulus Terrestris and Saw Palmetto out of JUST TEST ME in place of a more useful nutrient.
Black Pepper Extract
If there’s one good ‘bonus’ feature in a supplement, it’s Black Pepper Extract. This is because it contains high amounts of piperine, which has proven to boost the absorption rate of nutrients that it’s consumed with.
So while it can’t raise your T levels or anything else, it can help make supplements more effective.
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JUST TEST ME Side Effects
The main issue that we, personally, have with JUST TEST ME is that it contains Tribulus Terrestris; in case you skimmed past everything, Tribulus Terrestris has shown to be capable of causing an enlarged prostate.
There are also question marks over the safety of Shilajit, due to it still being quite ‘mysterious’. And the fact that Canada has banned it from being used in supplements sold in their country is worrying too.
However, you’ll be glad to hear that the other ingredients in JUST TEST ME haven’t shown to cause any side effects.
JUST TEST ME Review Conclusion
Although we do believe that there are a few issues with JUST TEST ME, it’s clear to see that it’s a respectable testosterone booster on the market. And we’ll stick with our opinion that it’s good value for money at $44.99.
This is because JUST TEST ME contains optimal dosages of Vitamin D3 and D-Aspartic Acid, which we believe to be key-players in any T-Booster. In fact, if this product didn’t contain Tribulus Terrestris, then it probably would have been the best value supplement that we’ve seen.
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CNN LARRY KING LIVE
Suze Orman: Keep Your Money Safe
Aired October 4, 2007 - 21:00 ET
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LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, losing your home and your mind because of money?
Cash queen Suze Orman gets down and dirty with finances. She wants you to be filthy rich.
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SUZE ORMAN: You'd better know for sure that you are doing the right thing with your money.
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KING: She tells it like it is.
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ORMAN: Well, if you're looking good but you're feeling horrible because you're broke.
You cannot afford it.
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KING: And she's take your calls and e-mails. We've got a bunch of them.
Suze Orman is here to save your house, maybe your sanity, next on LARRY KING LIVE.
She returns, the always popular, always informative, Suze Orman -- personal financial expert, number one "New York Times" best-selling author, Emmy winning television host. Her most recent book -- there you see its cover -- "Women and Money: Owning the Power To Control Your Destiny".
The last time you were here, Suze -- by the way, we've got a lot of e-mails and a lot of King Cam questions, too.
But the last time you were here, you said the mortgage meltdown situation was very bad, seriously bad.
How is it now?
ORMAN: It's still bad. It's going to get worse.
For who? For those people who bought homes that they could not afford. They bought it with no money down. They went into interest only mortgages. They went into negative amortization mortgages, which means they paid less than what they owed, so their mortgage actually grew.
For those people, is going to be really, really bad as soon as their rates adjust upwards. The Feds aren't going to save them. They're going to lose their homes.
KING: Is this a good time to buy, then?
ORMAN: This could be a very good time to buy only if -- and only if -- you get a price that is a serious steal. You know, right now, we have real estate going to the prices -- in some areas -- back to 2004. There are people who are in such trouble, you could pick up a piece of property right now, 2002 prices. Interest rates on mortgages -- 30- year fixed rate mortgages -- are still seriously low.
So if you're buying a home to live in, I don't care these Cracker Jacks that get on TV and say, don't you dare buy a piece of real estate. Oh, give me a break. You need a home to live in, you're far better off buying now.
KING: Why hasn't it affected Manhattan and Beverly Hills?
ORMAN: Well, it hasn't affected the very high end. And I want you to think about Manhattan for a second. Here you have many of these apartment buildings that are co-ops that you had to buy with what?
One hundred percent cash. Fifty percent cash. You had to be approved by a condo board, a co-op board. So you weren't allowed to buy these apartments -- the majority of them -- with no money down, 80/20 financing, negative amortized loans. You had to have money to buy these things. That's why it didn't affect us.
KING: We have a King Cam question for Suze Orman.
It's from Los Angeles and it's about real estate.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm wondering how the shake-up in the subprime market will affect real estate prices in hot markets?
ORMAN: It's not so much the shake-up of the subprime market that's going to affect real estate.
What affects real estate is this. You have a mortgage. Interest rates are going to adjust up, especially if you have an adjustable rate mortgage.
When that mortgage adjusts up and you can't afford the mortgage payment anymore -- and, possibly, you owe more than what the property is worth, you tend to walk away from that house.
When you walk away from the house, it's now vacant. If the house is vacant, then you go into foreclosure and it starts to bring down real estate prices everywhere in the area.
Look at Stockton. The number one place in the United States for foreclosures is Stockton. Two years ago, it was the number one place of appreciation of real estate.
That's Stockton, California?
ORMAN: That's right, Stockton, California.
KING: It used to be a rule of thumb that your housing-related expenses shouldn't be more than 30 percent of your income.
Is that still about right?
ORMAN: That's about right. But the lenders took that rule and they threw it out the window, Larry. They didn't care how much you owed. They didn't care if you verified your income. All the lenders cared about was could they lend you money so that, therefore, they could make money.
Now, here's the thing that's very important for people to realize. Because many mortgage companies and banks, especially, when they lend you money, what happens is they take that loan and they sell it off. So they don't care if it's a really secured loan or not, because they're not going to be the ones responsible for it.
KING: An e-mail question from Cheryl, Southfield, Michigan: "My present mortgage will be up for refinancing in August of 2008. My interest rate is now 3.25. Should I wait until next year or refinance now?"
ORMAN: Cheryl, it depends. 2008 is just a little bit away. If I were you, I would be refinancing right now. Let me tell you why. First of all, interest rates on 30-year and 15-year fixed rate mortgages are still really low. That's number one. But we never know what the future holds for you.
Do you get in a car accident?
I don't want to be morbid here, but do you lose your job?
Does something happen where you won't qualify for a loan six months or one year from now?
So while things are good right now and if you're going to stay in that house, and you can qualify to refinance, do it now, girlfriend. Do it now.
KING: Another e-mail from Tracy in Baltimore: "Are bimonthly mortgages a good idea?"
ORMAN: Bimonthly mortgages -- and, you know, Larry, we talked about this two weeks ago when I was here -- bimonthly mortgages are simply where you pay -- rather than paying a mortgage once a month, you pay your mortgage payment every two weeks. In a sense, by doing that, you're paying 13 mortgage payments a year rather than just 12. That reduces a 30-year mortgage down to about 25 years, a 15-year mortgage down to about 12.3 years.
Could you do the exact same thing -- let's say you owed $1,200 a month for a mortgage payment. Divide that by 12 and send in $1,300 every single month and you would accomplish the exact same thing.
Either way, OK, I don't love bimonthly, biweekly mortgage payments.
KING: The stock market goes up, it goes down, then it breaks a new record, a new high.
Is this a good time to invest?
ORMAN: It's always a good time to invest if you have time on your side.
What normal person invests for a week from now, three weeks from now?
When you invest in the market, you, hopefully, are investing for 10, 20, 30 years from now. If I were investing in the market right now and I needed to, you know, really have good returns, I would look at it like this. I don't want the market to go up. I want the market to go . Because the way most people invest in the stock market today is through their retirement plan at work. You're putting in monthly payments every month from a 401k or a 403b. If the market goes down, the shares of the mutual funds offered within your 401k plan go down. The more those share prices go down, the more shares you buy with the money you put in. The more shares you buy, the more money you have in the long run -- 20 or 30 years from now when you need this money.
So who cares if the market goes up, if the market goes down?
Just buy good quality and you'll be fine.
KING: What do you think of day traders?
ORMAN: If you know what you're doing, OK. But day traders most likely don't have a place sooner than later to spend the night, because they probably lost everything sooner than later -- I don't -- they -- day trading is for the birds.
KING: I've got a friend, a well-known broadcaster who is whacked. He's up every morning. He lives in L.A...
KING: Every morning at 5:00. He's trading all day.
ORMAN: Markets -- and is he making money?
KING: Some weeks he does, some weeks he doesn't. ORMAN: That's all -- I think day traders are kind of like, you know, gamblers, races, horses. I think the way you invest in the stock market is you buy things every single month. You dollar cost average into the market. And over the long run, you're going to do great no matter what the market does.
KING: Suze Orman is the guest.
Up next, McMansion mania versus a down housing market. Something's got to give. Suze tells us what that something is when we return.
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ORMAN: You'd better know for sure that you are doing the right thing with your money. So I ask you to look into your money, to make sure that you aren't making mistakes. You deserve to have financial freedom. You deserve to make the most out of your money. You deserve to have every day be your birthday. And the only way everyday is going to be your birthday, ladies and gentlemen, is when you have true financial freedom.
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KING: Suze Orman is the guest.
We're helping you with your finances.
Is it ever a good idea to pay off a mortgage early?
ORMAN: I always think it's a good idea if -- and only if -- you're going to stay in that home for the rest of your life. So, you know, some always, they trade, they do this. But once you become 45, 55 years of age sometimes you know you're going to stay there forever. If that's the case, I think it should be your number one priority to pay off that mortgage.
KING: An e-mail from Carrla, Evansville, Indiana: "I'm 45, no mortgage, car payments, credit card or other debt. I have significant savings and investments."
Want to come over here?
"My home is worth about $250,000. I want to add a room, which would cost about $35,000. Should I take out a mortgage to finance it?"
ORMAN: No, you shouldn't take out a mortgage to finance it. You're -- here you are, you're a person. You own everything outright, which says to me you don't like debt. You have savings. You have it, so please just pay for it outright.
KING: Yes. ORMAN: However, you be very careful, because if you think you're going to spend only $35,000 when you build something, you'd make sure that you've budgeted for at least 70, because I don't know one construction project that ever comes in on budget.
KING: An e-mail from Dorothy in Houston, Texas: "I took out a home equity loan for $35,000 about a year ago to buy a second home. It didn't happen. The money is sitting in my bank. What should I do with it?"
ORMAN: It depends. You said, Dorothy, that you took out a home equity loan. There is a difference between a home equity loan and a home equity line of credit. A home equity loan is where the interest rate is fixed for the entire length of the loan. A home equity line of credit is where the interest rate fluctuates according to what's happening in the interest rate environment.
If the interest rate on your home equity loan is lower than what you can get in a C.D. In a money market account -- I mean you can get 5 percent or so in some of these places -- you keep it. If it's more expensive, pay it back. That's how you figure it out.
KING: We've got a King cam question about big wealth and its impact on the economy.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. My question is, I was just wondering if you think that large accumulations of wealth like with Bill Gates and others, and even smaller accumulations of wealth, don't actually themselves act as drags on the economy by bottling up wealth when it might be used for other more productive purposes, like goods and services?
ORMAN: Well, you know, what you have to understand is that a lot of that wealth of those very, very wealthy gentlemen -- and women, for that matter -- they don't have it sitting in cash. They have it sitting in stocks, stock options, other investments, real estate. So they aren't having a drag on the economy. If anything, they're investing it properly and they're probably keeping this economy going, my dear friend.
KING: Now concerning McMansion.
To a lot of Americans, it seems the attitude is bigger is better. A lot of upgrades in amenities when it comes to housing. Thoughts on the McMansion mentality and implication on people's personal financial situation.
ORMAN: I think it's horrific, absolutely...
ORMAN: Horrific. KING: Horrific?
ORMAN: Horrific. Don't like it on any level.
KING: Why, Suze?
ORMAN: Why, Miss. Orman, do you think that way?
I'll tell you why I think that way, everybody. When you have these huge 25,000, 40,000 square feet mansions, what do you think it takes to run them?
The electricity for air conditioning, for heat, for -- to maintain it?
That has an effect on everybody. You know, you have to look at the world, Larry, and it's not just about money.
What's happening to our resources?
What's happening to our oils?
Where does it all go?
When you have these places for two people that are 40,000 square feet, what are they thinking?
They don't need that. I hate the McMansions.
KING: Is this a good time?
ORMAN: You know, it depends who you are, if this a good time or not.
KING: Well, if you're rich, it's always a good time.
ORMAN: It's always a good time. If you are middle America right now or just you're working to make it and you've gotten yourself in a situation where you owe more than the money that you have coming in, you don't have money to pay for health insurance, it's not a good time. And it's not getting any better at all. I've said it before, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. And I know some people will argue with me on this, but I think the middle class is disappearing. And that's a shame for the most powerful country in the world.
KING: Disappearing by going poorer?
ORMAN: By going poorer. They most certainly are. You know, it's our right to not -- when you look at what our children owe in student loans, when you see that they're graduating with $150,000 of a student loan and they come and maybe they'll get a job for $35,000 if they're lucky. But good luck being able to put gasoline in your car. Good luck to being ever able to pay back that student loan. Your jobs are being outsourced. So many things are happening. They can't afford a piece of real estate. Even though real estate prices have come down, they're still exorbitant.
Yes, it's not a good time.
KING: When we come back, lots more priceless advice from Suze Orman on managing your debt, keeping your credit score high and lots of other things.
Don't go away.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sales of new homes have dropped to a seven year low. And that, we're wondering how...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As you mentioned, new home sales tumbled 8 percent in August, to their slowest pace since 2000. And the median home price tumbled by 7 (INAUDIBLE). That is the biggest drop in almost four decades.
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KING: We're back with Suze Orman.
Kid Rock tomorrow night.
An e-mail question from Cecily in Las Vegas: "My husband and I are 60 years old and made a $100,000 profit from the sale of a home. Should we invest the money or buy another home?"
ORMAN: Oh, how can I answer that for you, girlfriend, because I don't know what you want to do.
But the question is this. You're 60 years of age. Actuarially speaking, if you're healthy, you're going to live another 20, 30 years.
Where are you going to live?
Do you want to simply continue to rent for the next 20 or 30 years or do you want to buy something that again eventually you can own outright?
I think everybody needs a home.
And so why wouldn't you take that money and buy another home?
Sixty, you're a baby, still. You're not that old. Buy another home if that's what you think you should do.
KING: You mentioned that the wealthy have it good earlier. ORMAN: Yes, they do.
KING: Define wealth.
What's a wealthy person to you?
ORMAN: Well, a wealthy person, you know, I've always said in my books that the definition of true wealth is that which can never diminish. Wealth really, Larry, isn't defined by how much money you have. There's some people -- and you can travel in countries that have absolutely no money and you can look at them and their eyes have more wealth in it than all the money in the world could ever buy. And then you can look at some people...
KING: What's wealth to you?
ORMAN: So, meaning what would be a lot of money to me?
What, $25 million?
Is that wealthy?
ORMAN: No, actually, a lot of money to me now, right now, would be about $100 million or up.
KING: $100 million or up?
KING: That doesn't diminish, that you never touch.
ORMAN: That you never touch. Obviously, yes, you know, it used to be oh my God, if you could just be -- have a million dollars. Now, it's $10 million. If you look at it, $10 million invested at 5 percent is only $500,000 a year. It's like yes, you need, believe it or not, wealth...
KING: So it's $25 million of what, by your standards?
ORMAN: It's OK. Not a lot.
KING: Boy, a lot of people are (INAUDIBLE).
ORMAN: I know. But it's true.
ORMAN: But, I mean -- but you asked me and that's what I think.
KING: $100 million. ORMAN: $100 million.
KING: E-mail from Lola, Charleston, South Carolina: "Suze, please help. My husband and I are 47 years old with two kids. Current total salary $95,000. Because of a period of being out of work and not being able to sell our house after we moved so I could get employment, we have $75,000 in credit card debt. Should I tap my 401k to help pay it down?"
ORMAN: I am begging you not to tap your 401k to pay down a credit card. Not only you shouldn't tap your 401k, everybody watching tonight should never ever, ever take a loan from a 401k plan.
The money that is in your 401k, which is a retirement plan with your employer, is money you have never paid taxes on. When you take a loan from a 401k, normally you have five years to pay that loan back.
Pay it back with what?
Money you have already paid taxes on. Later on in life, when you go to take that money out again, you will pay taxes on it one more time. The government is wishing and praying that you take a loan out so that you volunteer for double taxation.
What's wrong with you?
You don't want to do that.
Do not take a loan from your 401k to pay down credit card debt ever.
I just have to say one more thing. Money that's in a 401k or a retirement account, an IRA, if you claim bankruptcy, it is safe and sound. They can't take it from you. So the more money you keep in a retirement account -- if you are in true financial trouble and you ever end up claiming bankruptcy -- the more money you're going to have after bankruptcy.
KING: I never heard of that.
Should you pay all your credit cards every month if you can?
ORMAN: You should never ever carry credit card debt if you don't have to, even if it's at a zero percent interest rate.
ORMAN: Because when you carry a lot of debt against your credit limits on these credit cards, even if it's at a zero percent interest rate, that decreases your FICA or your credit score. When your FICA or credit score goes down, in many states, your car insurance premium actually goes up. So I would not be carrying debt on credit cards.
KING: A question, an e-mail from Rosalyn in Union City, New Jersey: "Should you be saving money when you're in debt?"
ORMAN: Depends at what the interest rate of your debt is, number one, and what your FICO score happens to be. I personally, again, would tell you that the credit card companies right now are doing many things to make sure that they're making money off of you. There are two major credit card companies right now that have actually increased their late payments. They've increased their cash advance interest rates. Credit cards can be very tricky.
So if you have credit card debt, I would like to see you get out of credit card debt first before you save money.
KING: I believe Bank of America and other banks are going to follow -- a dollar a month -- it's going to be $3 to take money out of an ATM machine.
ORMAN: Yes, but...
KING: That always looks cheap.
ORMAN: No, it's not cheap. That's a huge thing. But, remember, they're doing that for people who aren't their customers. Where these banks are really getting people on their credit cards is when they are charging -- for instance, you go and take a cash advance from your credit card. A lot of people can't pay their bills, so they take out cash advances. There's cards out there now that have just raised their interest rate to 29.22 percent if you take out a cash advance -- 22 percent, if you pay...
KING: So pay it every month.
ORMAN: Yes, but the thing is, they're going to -- yes, pay it every month. But if you're taking a cash advance, you can't pay it back, because you need the money or you won't be taking a cash advance. And they're charging you a 3 percent transaction fee besides. Oh, they're getting you totally across-the boards.
KING: Yes. Plus the $3.
ORMAN: Plus -- well, $3 if you're doing it not at your own bank. So, remember, the Bank of America thing is just -- if you're a client of Bank of America, they're not going to charge you $3. But if you're not a client of Bank of America and...
KING: Is that rip-off?
ORMAN: I think that's a rip-off. Let them use your money.
What do you care?
Yes, it's a rip-off.
KING: Because you're paying money to get your own money.
KING: Not bad.
ORMAN: Not bad. It's pretty good.
KING: We're going to take a break and we'll be back with more.
We've got lots more e-mails and lots more King Cam questions for Suze Orman on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE.
Coming up, as bad as the housing and credit crunch are, does she see a recession up ahead?
We'll find out next on LARRY KING LIVE.
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KING: We're back with Suze Orman. On our Website, by he way, CNN.com/larryking. We got a quick vote. Which do you have more of, savings or debt? Right now, 55 percent of the people have said, debt. There's still time to vote. Are you surprised by that?
KING: I thought it would be more.
ORMAN: I give these talks all the time. My normal audience size is anywhere from 10 to 30,000 people. I ask one question when ever I start my talk. Please stand up if you have credit card debt, 99 percent of the audience constantly stands up.
KING: We have a caller, Fargo, North Dakota. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. Suze, what do you think about reverse mortgages for people in their late 70s?
ORMAN: You have to be very careful, just before I answer that, for the viewers watching who don't know what a reverse mortgage is. A reverse mortgage is when normally you own your house outright, you're living in it, you don't have enough money to pay your bills and you think, I know, I'll take the equity of my home out via a reverse mortgage where the bank pays you either a monthly payment to stay there, you can have a line of credit where you can write a check or they give you a lump sum of money.
Here's the key. I like reverse mortgages, especially those FHA approved, OK, however, the cost to get a reverse mortgage, the points up front, the fees are so very, very expensive currently, do I think, as the baby boomers get older and more and more people need to do reverse mortgages, will those expenses come down? I do. If you can wait another year or two or three to take one out, I think its fine.
KING: She's in her late 70s.
ORMAN: You have to be 62 years of age or older to have a reverse mortgage.
KING: We have an e-mail from Newark, New Jersey. I'm in debt management program. Does credit counseling and debt consultation have a negative effect on your credit score?
ORMAN: Depends what type of debt management program you are in. They're two types, one sponsored by the National Foundation of Consumer Credit, where you go to them, they educate you, and you pay them every month. They pay your credit cards for you; they negotiate with the credit card companies to get a lower interest rate. Those do not hurt your credit scores at all.
However, other debt management programs actually tell you if you owe $5,000 in credit card debt, they will reduce the $5,000 you owe by ruining your credit, negotiating with the credit card companies, because you have such a bad credit score, they don't think you'll ever pay them back, don't you ever use one of those. They ruin your whole life, if you ask me.
KING: See a recession coming?
ORMAN: I'm not exactly sure. Some people say we're in a recession, some people say we're on the brink of a recession. I don't care whether we're in a recession or not, to tell you the truth. I look at everyday people in their lives.
KING: If they're in trouble --
ORMAN: If you're in trouble, you're in a recession. Who cares?
KING: E-mail question from Stefanie in Rochester, New York. My IRA funds are now in a stock market, should I move them into a money market until we know just how bad the economy will get with the mortgage crises and its ripple effects? I don't need any money for 20 years.
ORMAN: No. Are you crazy? This is the time for you to stay where you are. All you want to make sure is that the stock or mutual funds or the exchange traded funds that you're invested in are good. Do they have earnings? Do they have a good manager? Are they in an area they should be in? If you don't know what to do, buy an indexed mutual fund or indexed exchange fund. Now is the time to stay the course and dollar cost average, where you invest a specific amount of money every single month over the next 20 years and girlfriend, you'll be sitting pretty.
KING: Suze Orman, she knows her stuff. Another king-cam question, tips on investments. Another king cammer from a young guy looking to invest.
HENRY: Hi, Suze, my name's Henry, I was wondering if you have any tips for those of us without a very large investment budget these days.
ORMAN: Tips for those without a very large investment budget these days. If you don't have a large investment budget, the first tip I can always tell you, want to guarantee yourself an 18 percent return on your money, pay off your credit card debt. Because most of you have $9,000 in credit card debt at an 18 percent interest rate. Get out of credit card debt next, if you want to put money away for retirement, always put money in a 401(k) plan if and only if your employer matches your contribution, which means you put in a dollar, they give you 50 cents. All employers only match up to a specific amount of money, usually 6 percent of your base pay after that. Or if they don't match, do a Roth IRA, if you qualify. It is the best place around to put money.
KING: Caller from Alberta, Canada. Hello.
CALLER: How are you?
CALLER: Good. Three years ago I was sick. My question is this, I have since accumulated $30,000 in debt to three different institutions, the bank and government and a credit card. I have $35,000 in a government registered RSP. Who do I pay and how do I pay it? What do I do?
ORMAN: You pay the government first.
KING: That's the Canadian government.
ORMAN: That's the Canadian government. Because all governments, the IRS here or any taxing authority has the ability to seize a bank account, garnish your wages, so you always pay off the IRS or a student loan for that matter, for those of you listening because you can't do anything about that.
Next, you would want to make sure if you had debt that's secured by the equity in your home, for instance, that debt is the debt you pay next, and the debt that you pay last is unsecured debt, which is always credit card debt, because if you can't pay that, what are they going to do to you? They're going to have to sue you, win a judgment, and put a lien against your house or something. If you don't have one, it's in that order to pay off your debt.
KING: Suze Orman is the quest and when we come back is bad news from Main Street good news for Wall Street. Or does it just seem that way? We will ask Suze that and lots emails too right after this.
ORMAN: Here's what you need to know. You are never going to be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money, how you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it. What happens to your money directly will affect the quality of your life, not my life, not your financial advisor's life, not your banker's life, but your life.
KING: We're back with Suze Orman. We have another king cam question it is related to interest rates and investing decision. Watch.
(UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE): I'm wondering if now is a good time to buy some long-term CDs or do you think that interest rates will go up even higher.
ORMAN: Interest rates actually aren't going to go up for a while. Interest rates are really going down. I want you to think about this, everybody. The Feds have lowered the Fed fund rate from 51/4 to 4 3/4? Have you noticed the interest rate you are being paid on the bank accounts and CDs that is going down. When the Fed fund lowers their rates, the rates that the banks pay you go down.
For those of you right now you are afraid to invest in the stock market, you are afraid to invest in real estate; you want to keep your money in the savings account. Look what's happening to you? You're making less and less on your money. If the Feds continue to lower, which I think you will see them do, you will see that happening. You should be locking up, at least right now, a nine month CD, a one year Cd. Now is the time to lock it and go longer, one or two years, not to stay short term, right now.
KING: E-mail from Robert in Houston. As more and more baby boomers approach retirement age when and under what circumstances should they consider long-term care insurance?
ORMAN: Long-term care insurance is insurance that's very, very important, everybody. The stats are approximately 1 out of 3 of you will spend some time in a nursing home after the age of 65. Medicare will not pay for it. You don't want to end up on Medicaid; you don't want to do that thing that means you're broke. Who will pay for it? You out of your own pocket and you will go financially bankrupt if you don't have long-term care insurance. Perfect age to buy long-term care insurance is 59 if and only if you can afford it, from 59, all the way until 84.
Depends, it would be about $2,000, $3,000 a year. A good company, that premium will stay stable the entire time. But remember Larry, average age of entry into a nursing home is 84. You do not want to buy long-term care insurance at 59, have your situation change and drop it at 75.
KING: Is there a Main Street Wall Street clash.
ORMAN: Sure. There is always a Main Street --
KING: Wall Street is not interested in Main Street?
ORMAN: I don't think Wall Street is interested in Main Street. I'm not even sure that the Feds are interested in Main Street. The Feds lowered their rates so it saved Wall Street. All this happened. But is it really going to help the normal persons that are walking on Main Street? The Fed fund rate is not going to help this adjustable rate mortgage problem.
KING: I know you're a big advocate of taking advantage of employer offered retirement plans. Are there times there might be a better option than putting money in a 401(k).
ORMAN: You bet you there are. If your employer does not match your contribution, I wouldn't be putting a penny in my employer's 401(k) plan if that were the case. I would much rather see you, if you qualify, to have a Roth IRA. If you don't qualify for a Roth, have a traditional IRA or non-deductible IRA, I want to see all of you have money in an IRA.
In the year 2010, no matter what your income, you will be able to convert into a Roth IRA. Currently, your income has to be under $100,000 for you to put money from a regular IRA into a Roth. Roth is where you want to be.
KING: We're going to take a break and we will have more e-mails for Suze Orman in a moment. Right now, let's check in with Anderson Cooper down the hall somewhere. He will host "AC 360" at the top of the hour. What is up Anderson?
ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, "AC 360:" Larry, I've been taking notes on what Suze Orman is saying. Good advice. Tonight on "360," newly released video, perhaps clues on a mysterious airport death. You are seeing the video that we've seen today, the security camera images taken just before Carol Anne Gotbaum died in police custody. What they review we will have that just ahead.
And a deadly armored car heist in the Philadelphia as violet crime is arising across the country. America's birthplace is becoming a killer capitol. We'll look at reasons why, keeping them honest.
All that plus a new twist in the bathroom bust of Senator Larry Craig on "360" at the top of the hour Larry.
KING: I didn't get that one. We'll tune in for that at 10:00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific with Anderson Cooper. We'll be right back with Suze Orman. Don't go away.
Tomorrow night on "LARRY KING LIVE, his name is "Kid Rock." And his exclusive, his first interview since that BMA brawls with Tommie. What really happened?
A new controversy with his ex, Pamela Anderson. What's the deal?
Plus, for the first the first time ever we'll go honky-tonking.
He lets cameras into the place one of rock's wildest characters calls home "Kid Rock" tomorrow night.
KING: We're back with Suze Orman. Another e-mail from Karen in Lawrence, Kansas. I'm a single mom making less than $3,000 a month. At 42, I finally get the importance of saving for retirement. How much should I save a month and how do I figure it out?
ORMAN: You should save as much as you can. This is Suze's rule of thumb. I want you to have at least six to eight months of an emergency fund in a savings account, a lot will pay you anywhere from 4 to 5 percent. Have it sitting there in case something goes wrong, you need money because I don't want you taking a cash advance from a credit card because that's where they're going to get you.
After that, if you own a home and you know you're going to stay in that home the rest of your life, I would want to see you pay off that mortgage, truthfully, before you save money anywhere else. If you don't own a home, now is the time to start saving for a down payment so you can purchase one.
KING: An e-mail from Brian in Los Angeles. I'm four years from retirement. I have about $500,000 saved in CDs. I've always wanted a home of my own. Should I buy one or hold the money for retirement?
ORMAN: Well, where are you living right now? Here's the problem.
KING: Probably renting.
ORMAN: You are renting. And rents in my opinion are going up and up and up. Why are they going up? Because all the people losing their homes can't afford to keep it have to rent. Because they have to rent, landlords now can increase the prices. I would rather see you have a home you can own.
Now, if you're paying $2,000 a month for rent, that's $24,000 a year. Where are you going to get that from? A home once you pay it outright, that's like having a lot of money.
KING: E-mail from Sandy in Illinois, what's the best way to save money for our young grandkids so it won't count against them in college loan calculations and they can't touch it until they're 25.
ORMAN: You see, a lot of you, when you want to put money away for your kids, a lot of you are using what's called uniform gift to minor act accounts. Please don't do that. Because if you put money in an UGMA, that money will count against them for financial aid. If you put money in a 529 plan or savings account to pay for some of their education that will not hurt them for financial aid. That's where you would be able to save it.
However, they're going to be able to touch it before 25. If you really want to lock it up and not have it touched before 25, you just want it in a regular trust with certain stipulations. Please, give it to them when they're 18 and they need it for college, everybody.
KING: A lot of what you're painting here tonight is bleak.
ORMAN: You have to get who Suze Orman is. Suze Orman is the personal financial adviser for the world for people who have financial problems. I'm not your typical financial adviser that says, well, you're really rich; let me invest your money for you. So many rich people come to me. I go, you don't need me. You can have anybody you want. I look for the people who have credit card debt, losing their homes, they don't have any money and they needed advice on what to do. Because that's who I am, I get thousands of people, of course I will feel this way.
KING: And you do it through books and media. You don't have personal accounts. No. I don't have personal accounts. Through my television shows, books, through my talks, I talk about that which most financial advisers could care less about.
KING: We'll be back with our remaining moments with Suze Orman. We'll have a king cam question too. Don't go away.
ORMAN: Let's say you were 25 years of age right now. And you were putting $100 a month away in a good mutual fund or some investments, and you did that every single month, every month, until you were 65 years of age, and you got normal market returns, as the market is doing right now on that money. Do you know, at the age of 65, you would have $1 million?
KING: We're back with Suze Orman. One more king-cam question about a glittering subject. Watch.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Hi. I heard the Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar. With a reclining greenback, are we going to face major inflation in this country?
ORMAN: We may face major inflation in this country not so much because of a greenback and things like that, because we have inflation here, have the highest wheat prices around, look at the price of oil and look at everything that's happening but the decline of the dollar is something you really need to pay attention to. If you think that it only affects those of you who travel overseas, so that it's more expensive to go to Europe or to go to London, that's not true, because our dollar is going down.
When we are bringing products in, we are having to pay more for it and who do you think those stores are going to pass that increase onto? Those of you that shop at the lower end stores, you will be paying more for those goods so it will affect you as well, which is what? Means inflation.
KING: One more call, Atlanta. Hello.
CALLER: Yes, hello.
CALLER: My question is, why is the -- we're closing on a home shortly; I'm trying to find out why the realtor and the loan officer are trying to push us into an arm rather than a fixed rate? What are they getting out of it? Depends. They may be getting more points to sell you that arm. Here's the thing. Arm means adjustable rate mortgage. Maybe for you to qualify for that, because whatever the reason you have going on in your life right now financially speaking, maybe that's what you qualify for. Do you have a good credit score?
(UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE): Are you there, dear?
CALLER: Yes, yes, we do.
ORMAN: Listen, if they're pushing you that way, do me a favor, push them out of your life. If you are in this home, can you get either a 15 year or 30 year fixed rate mortgage? Make sure you put at least 20 to 30 percent down and you will be fine. Are you putting 20 percent down?
CALLER: No, I'm not but I did ask them for a 15 to 30 year mortgage and they completely ignored me.
ORMAN: If you're not putting at least 20 percent down, you will owe something known as PMI private mortgage insurance. Please buy that up front. Go to mgidc.com, Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Corporation, as long as you have at least 10 percent equity in your house you can buy your PMI up front, it is 1 percent of your mortgage amount. That's how you should do it. Do not buy a piggyback loan; do you hear me, Atlanta?
CALLER: Yes, I do.
KING: What are you talking about?
ORMAN: Well here is the thing. If you don't have at least 20 percent down, the lenders don't feel you have enough skin in the game and so they charge you private mortgage insurance ask you do two loans, an 80 percent loan and then usually another loan that piggy backs on top of that.
KING: A second mortgage.
ORMAN: A second mortgage or a home equity line of credit or home equity loan. I'd like to see you buy the PMI up front. How do you do that, it is 1 percent of your mortgage amount, done.
KING: You're always so excited about everything. Do you ever get tired of what you do?
ORMAN: No. I start at 4:30 in the morning. When it's talking about money, to help people make more out of less, nothing makes me feel very excited. If I can change the way people feel, think and act about money, I've done my job.
KING: Do you hear from people?
ORMAN: I hear from thousands and thousands of people everyday.
ORMAN: You betcha.
KING: So you get a reward that way?
ORMAN: That's what I do. I don't do this for the money anymore. I do this because somebody's got to do it. I love doing it. You sat across the desk from people for a long time. You don't see a sparkle like this in somebody's eye unless they love what they're doing.
KING: As always, Suze thanks.
ORMAN: Thanks for having me.
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The 3D-Model shows your application including concrete component (base material), attachment, anchor layout, profile and loads. Based on this information a design is carried out for the selected anchor in real time at any change of the entered data and the result is displayed in the status bar.
Input of geometric data
With a click on the dimension line or on the corresponding value you open the input editor. The editor shows either a single input field – e. g. for the edge distance – or two related fields – e. g. for the attachment (length and height of the plate). Once the new input values have been confirmed with the OK button DesignFiX performs immediately a new design in the background. Some editors also offer the ability to accept the entered value directly for adjacent dimensions (e. g., accept the edge distance for all component edges or accept the axial spacing for all spacing of this axis). In the event that you decide not to change the data (e. g., editor was opened accidentally) you can directly open the editor for the next input value without using the button Cancel.
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With a click on a load value in the 3D-Model you open the input editor for the loads. Depending on the type of loads (design loads or characteristic loads) the anchor offers a single input field or two fields for permanent loads (G) and variable loads (Q). You can alter the partial safety factors in the tabular input window.
Optionally, you can specify on the tab VIEW how the values should be displayed in the 3D view (e. g. with legend). In addition, you can determine whether the value when opening editor shall be marked automatically for direct overwriting. This feature allows you a quick and comfortable data entry.
The function ‘Edit geometry’ and ‘Close geometry’ offers an alternative input option. In the tabular input, you can enter all loads and all geometric dimensions quickly and comfortably. Once you alter any of these values, the 3D-Model and the design are immediately updated in real time in the background. You don’t have to confirm any of the values. By pressing the Return key or the Tab key on your keyboard the next input field is activated directly.
A direct link exists between the input fields of the 3D-drawing and the input window. If the cursor is positioned in an input field of the 3D-drawing then the corresponding field in the input window is marked (hover effect) and vice versa. This makes it easier to navigate. Additional options for dimensioning and displaying additional information (e. g. legends) can be found on the tab VIEW.
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More about: Sen Morimoto
Multi-instrumentalist, saxophonist, rapper, artist, composer, producer, record label owner: Sen Morimoto already has a lot of merits on his CV at only 26-years old. Two years after the Chicago jazz-rap-indie-pop artist’s debut album, he's back with his self-titled follow-up and it's every bit as dynamic and full of life as it’s predecessor.
Sen Morimoto started playing the saxophone at an early age, and although he has taught himself a number of other instruments since, it's the harmonic layers of jazzy saxophone melodies that grab hold of you from the first note of the album’s opening track ‘Love Money Pt 2’ and carries you through all the way to the end.
Where Sen Morimoto’s 2018 debut album Cannonball! could feel beat-based and unpredictable at times, the follow-up is a confident move to a more melodic and coherent sound. Having already been compared to the likes of jazz-rap fusion heavy weights BADBADNOTGOOD, Sen Morimoto is an album full of glimpses and elements reminiscent of funky-jazz-soul à la Thundercat and Steve Lacy, alongside vocal-melodies-floating-into-rap-lines as smooth as the late Mac Miller.
The album's lead single ‘Woof’, clearly set the scene for what was to come with the opening line “I’m too tired for pretending to be happy / Now I’m crying so loud that my dog is barking at me” when released back in July. Lyrical themes are introspective, heartfelt and raw all the way through the album and almost every song feels like an invitation into Sen Morimoto’s personal sphere.
Having spent the last two years on the road touring not only with his own music, but also as a member of Chicago jazz collective Reservoir and together with artists Lala Lala and KAINA, Sen Morimoto has brough some of these collaborative elements with him on the album too – second single ‘Deep Down’ features dreamy vocals from Japanese electronic musician AAAMYYY, the track ‘Wrecked’ a verse by fellow Sooper Records owner NNAMDÏ, ‘The Box’ lines by Chicago rapper Joseph Chilliams and ‘Butterflies’ sees the return of KAINA who we already know from her Cannonball! feature.
As a whole, Sen Morimoto’s sophomore album is a skilful showcase of a young and promising artist’s many musical talents – a collection of genre-blending songs that, despite consisting of pieces picked up from a range of different musical styles, neatly fits together like a jigsaw puzzle with fuzzy, overlapping edges.
Sen Morimoto arrives 23 October via Sooper Records.
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CUNY Queens College takes the colloquial phrase “money is power” to a whole new level, as do other universities. It’s not often clear how budgetary decisions are made at QC; the so-called ‘transparency’ that the upper level administration and student government claim to promote, is seemingly absent at times like these. Nevertheless, The Knight News conducted thorough research to properly inform its readers.
Funds at QC are organized depending on their purpose, and fall under one of the four governing boards on campus. The boards have the same general structure: Each governing body has a board of directors, which are individuals who have voting power in how funds are managed. Then there’s “ex-officio” members, who are part of the board because of the position they have, but aren’t allowed voting rights. Some boards have a large number of voting members, making it difficult to arrange a meeting. As a result, they have various committees with a portion of the members from the board, who meet on a more daily basis to craft recommendations on how funds should be managed. These recommendations are then proposed to the full board of directors, and are subject to approval. Most boards follow parliamentary procedure, specifically being Robert’s Rules of Order.
The Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation, The Student Services Corporation, The Queens College Association and The College Personnel and Budget Committee (P&B) are boards responsible for managing the funds at QC. Each board is entrusted with a different purpose of managing different types of funds. For most of these boards, with the P&B being the exception, six student government officers constitute a portion of the membership, with two of the six being the annually elected Student Association President & Vice President. The other four students are appointed by the Student Association President, with the consent of the Student Senate.
The Student Services Corporation (SSC) is one of four administrative boards on campus. The Corporation collects all student activity fees obtained from students paying tuition, as well as any and all revenue obtained from the Student Union (e.g. space rentals). The corporation has a 18 member board, with four ex-officio voting members. The corporation managed approximately $2.6 million in fees in the last fiscal year, according to the 2019 fiscal year budget on the college’s website.
The Queens College Association (QCA) is a board that moderates the student activity fee given to clubs, Student Association, the QC Committee for Disabled Students (CDS) and anything else related to student life. The board consists of 13 voting members. Six are the aforementioned officers of the Student Association. Three are professors, who are appointed from a panel of six annually elected by the Academic Senate. The other three are college administrators, the last being the college president himself.
The College Association’s funding is obtained from an allocated portion of the finances from the Student Services Corporation. The operating budget of the QCA board is unknown; however, the Student Association’s budget for this year is $106,399. The budget for clubs and organizations is also unknown for this fiscal year, but the Student Association leadership on the board has a past history of being fiscally conservative when it comes to proposing club budgets.
The Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation (AEC) is an administrative board entrusted with providing auxiliary enterprises, such as food services, a campus bookstore, parking, etc., for the benefit of the Queens College students, faculty, and staff. According to its bylaws “the Corporation is organized under the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law and is operated exclusively for the charitable purpose of supporting Queens College.” In layman’s terms, the AEC collects revenue on campus from dining services, venue rentals, the shuttle bus fee, parking, etc. In the past fiscal year, the AEC (and ergo the college) obtained nearly $3.7 million in revenue according to an estimate from the 2019 fiscal year budget.
Lastly, QC has a Personnel and Budget Committee, which according to CUNY bylaws, Article 8, Section 7, is responsible for approving promotions of faculty members to higher ranks such as assistant professor, associate professor, full-time professor and so on. The Personnel and Budget Committee (P&B) has a membership consisting of all department chairs. The P&B is chaired by the College President and co-chaired by the Provost. It is unknown what the budget for the P&B is.
What this information demonstrates is that it’s important – now especially more than ever – that Queens College, particularly its student body, takes note of the people running for student government. The people elected into office have more influence than the general public is made aware of, and as payers of QC tuition, students have the right to know what they’re investing in. | <urn:uuid:686ebb5a-c938-47d2-a578-72d8e3628bbe> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.theknightnews.com/2020/08/12/where-does-the-money-go-how-funds-at-qc-are-organized/ | 2021-08-05T13:38:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155925.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805130514-20210805160514-00122.warc.gz | en | 0.960015 | 1,002 |
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Arthur Bond - lyrics, vocals, synths, drums
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Alexander Bogs - harmonica
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These pearshape beads measuring 7x14mm with through holes are made of a transparent sapphire blue and translucent white givre glass. Variation is a natural property of this type of glass, so each bead has a different appearance. Made in Germany.
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How we work with local communities
Sanitation is serious stuff, and if you’re going to talk with authority on the subject you’ll need a few key phrases.
How about community-led total sanitation? It’s a bit of a mouthful but it’s development-speak for the special approach Toilet Twinning and its partners take.
Over decades of learning, it’s become clear that sanitation projects work best when local people see the need for improved sanitation – and make that change happen themselves.
That’s why our partners spend a long time gaining villagers’ trust, before they ever talk about sanitation.
They bring villagers together in workshops and encourage them to join action groups focused on issues that concern the community, such as farming. Slowly, sensitively, our partners encourage men to allow women to have a say in household decisions, often for the first time. Women carry the heavier burden in terms of collecting water and caring for the family, yet often have no voice.
Our partners help set up small village committees, of both men and women, to look at the link between practices such as open defecation and ill health. For many, this is a revelation: they have never understood why their children fall ill with sickness and diarrhoea in the rainy season. Then, they are keen to have a latrine.
But before latrine-building starts, there’s hygiene education on practices such as handwashing. This is key to behaviour change in the long term.
Our partners involve local people in deciding on the design and materials to be used in latrine building. This means latrines are both appropriate and affordable.
People generally build their own latrine, and this means they are much more likely to continue to use it, and maintain it – ensuring the project is sustainable.
We strongly believe that the best way to bring transformation in poor communities is to work with them, rather than doing things for them. It’s all about dignity and self-respect. | <urn:uuid:2953118d-6cdd-4e05-a1b4-fbf205611d13> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.toilettwinning.org/our-approach/ | 2021-05-17T19:46:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992440.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517180757-20210517210757-00029.warc.gz | en | 0.957341 | 419 |
Financial assistance for disabled seniors can be cash, reduced fees for services or services at no cost. The funding agency sets the guidelines for which level of financial assistance you will qualify to receive. All of these types of financial assistance help you reduce your cash outlay, so they all provide budget benefits.
Financial assistance programs benefit seniors by helping them age in place, age with dignity and have opportunities for staying connected and active. Without these programs, many disabled seniors might need to live in an institution to get assistance with their activities of daily living. Some services target all seniors; others are only for disabled people whose disability qualifies them for financial assistance for meeting daily needs and managing health.
Home-delivered meals from the Meals on Wheels program are free for seniors. Seniors who substitute one free meal each weekday get a weekly budget boost. Free or reduced transportation services make it possible for disabled seniors to get to important medical appointments safely, often for much less than driving themselves. Many municipalities provide in-home care assistance with bathing, dressing, meal preparation and housework to disabled seniors. In most states, these services are free for anyone who is Medicaid-eligible. Most disabled seniors can qualify for a substantial reduction of the market cost of these services, even when they are not eligible for Medicaid. Medicare provides health coverage for seniors who are 65 and older; however, you may be eligible for it before you reach that age, if you are disabled. Seniors can get free assistance with reverse mortgages that provide a monthly income from home equity from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Some states also have foreclosure prevention funding specifically for senior citizens.
Typically, the federal government gives money to state and local governments to fund programs for disabled seniors. Large cities often have an office of aging that coordinates services in targeted areas. These agencies identify available services and distribute information to community access points. Senior citizen centers, libraries, churches and health-care providers often have the most up-to-information about programs and the application process.
Myths about grants for seniors abound, along with unscrupulous people who claim to be able to help you qualify, for a fee. Never pay for information about any assistance for disabled senior citizens. The federal Administration on Aging website describes government programs for disabled seniors, and it has links to state and local services. AARP also keeps track of legislation that affects seniors of all ages. You can get accurate information on their website or by calling one of their state offices. | <urn:uuid:fd13ec4a-0289-4c31-a28f-7c7527171153> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.sapling.com/5557594/financial-disabled-seniors | 2017-11-22T01:42:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806447.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122012409-20171122032409-00642.warc.gz | en | 0.953646 | 498 |
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The trial court ruled that IC 31-40-1-2(f) was unconstitutional. The state legislature passed a bill into law which absolved IN from paying for any child placed out of state by the Department of Child Services. That code was amended in the s...
895 N.E.2d 1182 (Ind. 2008)
Defendant was driving under a controlled substance when he flipped the car, killing his then fiancé. At trial he was found guilty and was subject to the habitual offender legislation procured by the state legislature. He was then sentenced to 2...
902 N.E. 2d 206 (Ind. 2009)
Kimco owns an outdoor shopping center. The state filed a complaint to acquire a strip of land along the western border of the property to improve traffic flow to and from the expressway. The state also sought “permanent extinguishment of all r...
760 N.E.2d 156 (Ind. 2001)
An IN attorney was appointed as an attorney for an indigent client and requested compensation for his court appointment.
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Defendant convicted at trial of robbery (felony) and battery (misdemeanor). On appeal, defendant holds he was convicted twice for double jeopardy, thus violating the state’s double jeopardy clause.
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The director calls the boy — one of eight alleged victims, according to authorities — his “hero,” commending his courage for speaking up at such a young age:
“I was enduring a lot of the same things that you’ve come forward and said happened to you, and it was awful. I felt so powerless. I knew what was happening to me, but unlike you, I couldn’t speak about it because no one saw me. I was invisible and my voice was inaudible.”
The “Madea” mastermind opened up on “Oprah” last year about the sexual and physical abuse he endured as a child, calling his childhood “a living hell.” The Sandusky scandal has prompted many other men and women to speak openly about being abused, as the Post’s Petula Dvorak reported.
Perry laments that the boy, known as “victim one,” will have to testify at the trial. Indeed, the child will most likely take the stand at a preliminary hearing in mid-December.
He urges the boy to not blame himself, saying, “the hardest part is over”:
“You may feel all alone when you’re on that witness stand, but just know that there are millions of young boys and grown men who are standing with you — including me. . . . You will get through this; you’ve already endured the worst part at age 11. Now fight on, my young friend, fight on! We are all with you.”
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The ideas for a fairytale wedding are so many, but the choice of Maristella and Enrico surpassed all imagination.
Wedding Photos tell the story of a couple intent to build their life together with joy and determination.
I’m a photojournalistic wedding photographer but not only, I’m also a creative wedding photographer
I do this job because I like weddings and I love people and I love the human element of people being people.
I love travel, as I wrote in my personal biography page, my family and I are always thinking about new destination for our journey.
Sassari is one of our favourite place, I love the city and its incredible story and beauty.
Take a look at my portfolio page, you can see a lot of wonderful love stories a wedding reportage photography of a couple in love.
You can send me and email via my contact page and tell me something about your wedding, you as a couple and something about your dreams and hopes for the wedding day, I’ll asnwer you as soon as I can, to let you know if I could be the photographer of your wedding in Sassari.
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For the stuffy nose, you could try a bulb asperator. If any of your neighbours have young children, they might even have one. Is a rubber bulb about 2/3's as big as the bulb on a turkey baster with a removable plastic nozel at the end. You compress the bulb in your fist, place the nozel gently against a nostril and let go the pressure on the bulb. The suction clears away the snot and mucus. I used this method very successfully on my daughter when she was a baby and I would have used it on my cats, if they had ever needed it. It may not work with this little guy because he doesn't know/trust you yet, but if you think he'll sit still for it, its worth a try.
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At Apple's headquarters, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, unveils new iPod Nano features, including a new multitouch icon screen, new sensors for runners, and the ability to wear the device as a watch. The Nano comes in 7 colors, in an 8GB version for $129 and a 16GB version for $149.
Every time a new tablet computer hits the market, experts speculate whether it could be the one to take down Apple's iPad. CNET's Kara Tsuboi explains why Amazon's Kindle Fire could be its stiffest competition yet.
At the Intel Developer Forum, Google announced it is teaming up with the chipmaker to optimize Android for Intel-powered mobile devices. Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin made an appearance during the keynote address with Intel CEO Paul Otellini to announce that all future versions of Android will use the x86 chip architecture.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini discusses Intel’s notebook venture as the “most satisfying and complete computer experience” ever with a sleeker and lighter design and a long battery life at mainstream prices. The first Ultrabooks have already started shipping from select partners and more will be on the way by the holiday season this year.
ANZ Bank and Visa today issued a joint statement saying how much the bank's 50 staff loved their recent trial of a microSD-powered, Near Field Communication payments system, despite the bank saying on Monday that the microSD technology had not met all of its needs. We take a leaf out of the national broadcaster's book and investigate. | <urn:uuid:3295ffaf-1334-4065-a3b3-5d04edc75be2> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.zdnet.com/topic-mobility/4/?filter=storyTypeVideos | 2014-04-25T07:34:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223211700.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032011-00329-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931195 | 353 |
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Though the weather was soggy and cold on Saturday, October 11, hundreds of hearty New Englanders walked, danced, boxed, zumba’ed and drummed to raise awareness and raise funds for Parkinson’s disease (PD): the first National Parkinson’s Foundation Movement Day Walk in Boston was a resounding success! And what was the overarching message of the day? If you have Parkinson’s disease, find ways to educate yourself, connect, and KEEP MOVING!
Families clad in ponchos and t-shirts braved the rain to honor loved ones and friends by participating. Each family had a story to tell about their experience with PD, including Lana and Jack Farina who are regular participants at the JF&CS Parkinson’s Family Support dance program. Several months ago, Lana and Jack told their children that it would be meaningful to them to complete the Moving Day walk together, as a family. Several of their adult children run a family business, which was started when their parents immigrated to the US in 1940. In order to assemble en mass, Lana and Jack’s children decided to close their shop for the day, which generally does a great deal of business on the weekends. The entire family -children and grandchildren – gathered together on Moving Day and completed the walk to honor Jack, who has PD. Lana and Jack were moved to be surrounded by their family and noted that the only other occasion on which the store had been closed on a weekend was for their children’s weddings.
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Staffing service Hire Road's white cover hints at modernity and organization. Inside, a full-color photo of mountains at sunset plays on the concept of taking the high road. It also acts as a metaphor for seeking top talent who are at their peak. Bold white type adds to the design's cool, modern feel. Contact info is located on the back cover.
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Edgewater Automation's blue and white color scheme is an extremely popular style in the IT industry. A clean-cut sans serif font creates a modern vibe. The minimal layout alludes to the ease of using automated equipment, which Edgewater designs and builds. On the back cover, contact info helps clients reach out to the right office and division. The bottom of the back cover includes the brand’s slogan.
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Claybar Funeral Home
Claybar Funeral Home's dark blue stock crafts a soothing sense of quiet respectfulness and offers a welcome variation from the traditional black associated with mourning. The Metallic Gold foil stamped logo acts as the sole visual component of the design. Its clever use of a calla lily in place of the letter "Y" gives it a positive element to accompany the subdued background, as the lily symbolizes sympathy and appears to be reaching upward, creating a hopeful tone. The gold color lends a note of elegance and warmth to the design.
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Siemens Financial Services, Inc.
With its steel blue background and text, Siemens Financial Services' cover design adheres to the brand's pre-existing colors. Three photos portray blue water, sky, and scientific equipment to allude to the industries Siemens serves. With the photos arranged on the left side, the majority of the cover is open, light blue space, implying that businesses who plan their finances with help from Siemens will have lots of room to grow.
Interior pockets standing at 3" tall abide by the same open style as the cover design, leaving more of the document visible and making it easy to access papers in the back of a stack when placing multiple documents in the pockets.
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Below is an outline on the characteristics of members of the echo boom, Generation Y, the echo boomers. Keep in mind that this is a generalization, an observed concept, and not a conclusive description. Not all echo boomers will identify with this, but it might demonstrate overall trends.
Demographics of Gen Y
- Born from 1977-2001 (estimated)
- Aka. Echo Boomers or Millennials
- Children of Baby Boomers, some children of Gen X
- Oldest holding entry level positions in workforce; youngest in elementary/middle school
- Nearly 80 million in population (larger than the baby boomer population of 72 million)
- Ethnically diverse (34% are Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American)
- One in four live in single–parent households
- 75% have working mothers
- The next dominant generation of Americans.
- Gen Y population will be 32% of total population.
- Average weekly spending by teenagers = $84 per week ($57 of own; $27 or parents)
- Annually: $25B of own money and influence another $187B in purchases
- 66% have savings accounts; 22% have checking accounts; 18% have their own stocks and bonds
- Dollar savvy with adult buying habits and sophisticated tastes (clothing, dining, recreation)
- Majority grew up in dual income families
- Raised as consumers in a media saturated, brand conscious world
- Fostered a distrustful and cynical view of advertising as a whole
- Marketing is most effective as unvarnished truth, irony and humor.
- Likely to support “cause-related” marketing (83% willing to switch brands for a good cause if price and quality were equal)
- Get news on the latest and greatest, what’s hot and up-to-the-minute cool from the Internet – their primary media vehicle
- 1/3 of life on the Internet
- The average echo boomer has at least 2 email addresses.
- First generation to grow up with computers in the home.
- Email is preferred form of communication along with text messaging and instant messaging.
- Enjoy tech gadgets (video games, cell phones, mp3 players.
How do Gen Yers think?
- Conceptual Abilities
- Parallel (rather than linear) thinkers
- Higher input/output
- Apt to begin tasks randomly – perhaps in the middle – as opposed to a traditional starting point
- Graphics oriented, see text as supporting visual material
- Thrive on change and variety.
- Demand quick, if not instant, gratification
- Upbeat, confident, and assertive with high self esteem
- Independent and self-reliant: Used to doing it (and many other things) themselves
- Asserting their “intellectual authority” over parents, teachers, employers because they are more techno-savvy and capable of accessing greater breadth of information quickly.
- High value for education
- 90% of HS seniors expect to attend college
- Strive to continue education through life
- Motivated and Goal-Oriented
- Diverse and Tolerant
- Strong dislike for racism in any form, sexism and homophobia
- High in Volunteerism
- Invest in the social and community causes
- What do Gen Yers value most in life? Family, traditional values, country, planet
- Unlike the Baby Boomer generation, Gen Yers value things other than income and status as being primary in life
- Desire to work in highly motivated and committed teams
- Need to be challenged – look for opportunities for growth, education, apprenticeship
- Strive to work hard and do well
- Up to 20% of their time is spent alone
- Includers – they make people feel welcome and involved
- Lofty financial goals – remember they are spenders!
- Trained to be “Doers and Achievers”
- Limited Employer loyalty – Jobs for life are replaced with short-term contracts
- May have many different “careers” and diverse education/background
- 1 in 5 will be self employed
- Old age postponed by “senior participation”
- 1 in 5 Gen Y women will choose to remain childless
Sell a lifestyle based on trust and emotion – not a product. McD’s now playing Hip Hop music and not talking about their juicy burgers. Why? Selling lifestyle: diversity is key and everyone looks like they are having fun with friends while eating at McDs – it’s about lifestyle. Those who might not like McDonald’s may not like it because they prefer a different lifestyle – perhaps a healthier lifestyle?
- Brand conscious – seek to figure it out what brand aligns with their preferences, lifestyle, standards
- Prefer directness over subtlety, action over observation, cool
- It’s not about reaching the masses; it’s about building a community. Gen Y is community based. Rely on reviews, word of mouth.
- Jones Soda: their website urges fans to send in photos for possible use on their labels. The odds of actually getting selected are low – only 40 are picked each year – but the lure is irresistible because it is interactive. Jones creates an emotional connection. Gen Yers buy Jones Soda not because they are thirsty, but because they want to make a fashion statement…drinking Jones makes you cool!
- Social networking is a tool created by Gen Y to reinforce their communal thinking and a soap box for spreading ideas/preferences through word of mouth.
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Liliana earned her Masters of Environmental Studies at the Evergreen State College in 2017. During her time there, she worked for the Sustainability in Prisons Project as a program coordinator and graduate student researcher. Liliana also worked as a faculty member at Northwest Indian College on the Nisqually reservation, where she taught math and science courses for undergraduate students. Now, she is on to complete her PhD at Portland State University focusing on Earth, Environment, and Society.
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what time do the carparks close tonight?
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Posted 21 June 2011 - 05:14 PMHi all,
what time do the car parks close tonight? We were planning on coming down quite late but don't want to get trapped outside.
Posted 21 June 2011 - 05:17 PMPretty sure that once they're open, thats it and they stay open. You can arrive anytime after that.
Posted 21 June 2011 - 05:29 PM
Pretty sure that once they're open, thats it and they stay open. You can arrive anytime after that.
Perfect, thanks for letting me know
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In Central African Republic (CAR), humanitarians are faced with a multitude of complex and unique logistics constraints. Working together is critical to ensure an effective and efficient response.
In the country’s capital Bangui the Logistics Cluster, which has been active in the country since 2013, coordinates access to common storage services provided by Première Urgence Internationale (PUI). Today, we catch up with Régis Parguez, PUI’s warehouse manager to chat about his role, challenges faced and the importance of warehousing and storage amid a humanitarian crisis.
What does your role as a warehouse manager include?
The role of warehouse manager is to oversee the warehouse’s daily activities, as well as being the link between PUI and external actors. This includes partners for whom I am the main focal point, as well as liaising with the different logistics actors in CAR, such as the Logistics Cluster.
Another interesting component of the work is having the chance to empower the team. I directly manage one person, but I have a big role to play in helping the team to gain new skills, become more operational and autonomous, and provide opportunities to evolve in their field of work.
The other side of the role is more internal. A warehouse manager has to represent its program to the different services. This includes regular contact with our logistics team on current supply and new material investments, or speaking with financial services regarding budget management. I also have to coordinate and oversee performance and new developments regarding the project, as well as liaise with human resources for the management and staffing aspects of the role.
What is the most common misconception about your work?
That the role is only an operational one. As I have to regularly check the stocks to see everything is well-done, supervise tasks (such as inventories), and stay on top of what is in the warehouse, I am rarely directly on the field. For these operational aspects, I have an assistant and a stock supervisor. This allows me to spend more time on representing the project internally and externally, as described above, and on the program development.Régis Parguez (left) and his colleagues. Photo: Logistics Cluster Bangui
What are the most challenging parts of your job?
This job offers a wide variety of tasks which are all very interesting, but I need to be very rigorous - if you don’t organise yourself, you can very quickly be overpassed. To not forget anything and to keep on top of my tasks, I have my own tools, which were developed by my predecessors and I upgrade them when necessary.
As a warehouse manager, how do you interact with the Logistics Cluster?
The Logistics Cluster supports us with stock management trainings, steering committee, and is an essential link to communicate with partners.
How important is this warehouse in the process of delivering humanitarian items to people in need? What would happen if those warehouses did not exist?
A warehouse is the place to group your items before distributing them. As humanitarian actors deal with big volumes of cargo, they don’t have all the space and/or the capacity to store items in a safe and secure place. A warehouse is a logistic solution to optimise the cost, space, time and work required for storage. Without it, it could be a lot more difficult and costly for humanitarian organisations to ensure their logistics project run smoothly.
Prepositioning relief items can be lifesaving and having a space to store contingency stock is another important aspect of warehousing. Stockpiling humanitarian cargo within a large warehouse is often more convenient for organisations, allowing them to store their goods under a common roof rather than at their own base where space can be precious, and which may not be big enough to store the large quantities required.
The warehouse also offers reconditioning services to help agencies consolidate their cargo, repackage it and send it quickly to communities in need of assistance.Humanitarian cargo offloading at the PUI common storage facility in Bangui. Photo: Logistics Cluster Bangui
What humanitarian items do you usually store in this PUI warehouse?
We store a range of items from across the humanitarian sector. We mainly have building materials, non-food items materials, mechanical equipment (motorbikes, generators), and WASH items among other things. Moreover, we have two stocks for pharmaceutical products in which temperature and humidity are monitored and under control.
The advice you would give to someone interested in this type of work is...
Be organised, empower your team, stay flexible, never forget what you are working for, and enjoy.
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FACILITYCalgary publisher Mark Kolke, in conversation with Aly Bandali
October 23, 2018
We met over lunch. A long one – he’d just come back from a trip to east Africa, India and many other places, 37,000 km. by air in 28 days, checking on work in the field, networking with staff, vision centres, hospitals, NGOs and funders …
Describing his organization’s accomplishments (he’s joined them as CEO this year), goes like this: “this year we’ve only given 3.4 million people eye examinations, we’ve only done 210,000 surgeries, we’ve only dispensed 266,000 pairs of glasses, we’ve dispensed 200,000 doses of antibiotics – and still, there are 250 million people with avoidable blindness”. Aly Bandali is new there. Operation Eyesight, founded in 1963 by Art Jenkins – a Calgary founded and headquartered charity, an international NGO. With a staff of 50 (15 in Canada), a board of 12. Annual budget $5.5 – 6.0 million, all of if fundraised. He asked me to include a link to their ‘donation page’ … click here.
Lets start at the beginning – born in Mengo (just outside Kampala, Uganda), mom was a homemaker, dad an entrepreneur (coffee, and a convenience store), the family was prosperous – but Idi Amin began a purge of Asians. It was leave with two suitcase and your skin or risk death. Aly at 2 1/2, his younger brother, parents and grand-parents were air-lifted to safety. For a year it was a refugee camp in Austria – then, thanks to the Aga Khan’s influence on Canada, many Ugandan refugees were airlifted to Canada. Aly’s family were sponsored by an Edmonton family in 1973. The family settled in. Aly’s school days were “good academically” but focused more on being social – and his ‘hairy legs contest’ victory at Queen Elizabeth High is well behind him now. As for smarts, Class Historian, so ‘good’ was a modest understatement.
He earned a B.Comm at University of Alberta where non academic pursuits were debate club, ball hockey and Toastmasters. After graduation, a job at Canadian Red Cross – a promotion to Diversity Coordinator brought him to Calgary, then Diversity Coordinator for Western Canada; then COO at Canadian Cancers Society, to co-founder/CEO of a talent management software company which he describes as “an opportunity of a lifetime”, involvement in seven HR associations, then a fellowship, then Director of HR at STEP Energy, then founder/CEO of Professional Contractor Solutions Inc. – a service company to independent contractors and then perhaps fate came calling. A lunch with one of his HR mentors, Brian Foster who was Executive Director of Operation Eyesight, an invitation to compete for that job. Aly applied, as did 70 others. He prevailed, winning the job and starting his tenure as CEO in May, 2018. Along the way he married (Farah - they met at 13, he chased her for five years before clinching the sale; they’ve been married 25 years, have two children) - he’s done a lot, and yet he seems to be just beginning …
And he made sure I came away with a better understanding of both the magnitude of the problem his organization is focused on – because, of 7.5 billion people on earth, 253 million have blindness or vision impairment, 80% of which is avoidable. Yes, avoidable.
Why are you successful? “I’m fortunate in so many ways. A country took me in. I feel more confident today than ever – my self-esteem and ego are in check. I no longer take the safe route – I take risks.”
What has held you back? “Me. I’ve been ‘in my own way’. Only in the last 10-15 yrs. have I put myself in situations where I got my butt kicked or my ego attacked. Before that, I wasn’t ready. Being in executive positions at age 27 was great, and it wasn’t.”
I’d been invited to interview Aly and admit to having not done a lot of research ahead of time, and I’m so glad I didn’t. Uncovering what makes a person tick, what their personality is like – and the journey a conversation might take is something I always look forward to with somewhat nervous anticipation, I’m curious what kind of person will show up, what they will reveal, what I will learn and whether the journey will be pleasant. In this case, an expected 90 minutes took 2 ½ hours, and it was every bit as entertaining as it was informative.Nice boy from Edmonton, doing well. Doing much good. Meet him, you’ll like him.
Oh, one other thing, Aly's grandmother and two of her siblings - blind. Avoidable blindness. Some things in life seem to come full-circle ...
How do you see your business – ‘international NGO in the business of eliminating avoidable blindness’ – going forward over the next quarter?
… while ‘business is terrible’ in that we are only doing what we are doing – we do only one thing – nobody is doing it as well as we are. There are still 250 million people we’ve not served who have avoidable blindness.
And over the next five years?
… I see 1,000 villages being blindness free. Our donors will be different, and some large organizations will support us because we can do more and do better work in our field than they can. There will be fewer players – consolidation, but it will be a good thing. We need to focus on mobility, with mind and heart.
What qualities distinguish your preferred colleagues, collaborators and suppliers?
… I’m always looking for value, quality and ethics. Quality in relationships leads to longevity. And yes, I’ll shop for a bargain and in our business every dollar we stretch contributes to doing more …
What distinguishes you that causes people to choose Aly Bandali, and why do they do business with you, why have they hired you, over your competitors?
… Trust. When you meet people they hand you some trust – and then they see what you do with it.
How would you describe your leadership/management style?
… I try to be self-aware, but I’m unfinished! Able to be vulnerable, understanding. I can’t possibly know it all, so I surround myself with right people and try to stay out of their way …
… um … yes, I do.
What do you lose sleep over, what do you worry about?
… I worry, am I making a difference? I’ve always felt a lot of influence and pressure from our parents – to make a difference in the world. In our culture we are encouraged to be ambitious in order to be successful so we can make a difference.
Who or what influenced you most – that has made a difference in your life, or that was a major turning point?
… first, being a refugee – seeing what my parents went through; marriage/family/Farah – the kids part changes your life – living up to the expectations you want to see in them. Community – being part of the Ismaili community, the social structure as well as the spiritual side – and I’m still friends with a core group I grew up with.
… I love spending time with my family, golf (14 handicap).
What do you read?
… mostly leadership books, lots of Twitter … and many online news sources.
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Sermon preached at Our Saviour Lutheran Church on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost (25 July 2010)
Rosie was one of the more memorable students I had early on in my teaching career. A teenage girl more blessed with a quick tongue than with a reliable sense of when and how to use it. What Rosie was thinking was very rarely a secret to anyone nearby. From the point of view of a teacher, you could say that it made Rosie hard to ignore or to forget.
One particular outburst of frankness from Rosie sticks in my memory. We were studying the subject of wealth and poverty from a Christian perspective, and were looking at biblical teaching related to it. And one of the passages we studied was the Lord’s Prayer and what Jesus had to say about asking God to supply our needs in Luke 11. Having got to the end of the reading, her voice rang loud and clear from the back of the room: “That’s just stupid! ” “What do you mean stupid? ” “Well it is, isn’t it, sir! Completely stupid.”
It turned out that her objection was this: If you look around the world, there are lots of Christians praying for good things, even things they really need, and not getting them. It’s not like the Christians of a particular region are immune to natural disasters, famines or wars in those places. The Boxing Day tsunami didn’t leave Christians unscathed. Many Christians must have prayed fervently for their loved ones to be rescued, to no avail. Many weren’t even fortunate enough to have a body to bury at the end of it. They asked for a fish, and were given a serpent, for an egg and received a scorpion.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”
Try telling that to someone watching a loved one die of a terminal disease, in spite of endless prayers for healing. Try telling that to the man or woman, desperately pleading for the joy of human warmth and companionship, seeing their life slip by in unrelenting loneliness. Try telling that to the long-term unemployed, reduced to enforced idleness and hardship, who receive the dreaded note—“I’m afraid we are unable to make you an offer”—not only from every potential employer but also from the heavenly Father. I could go on.
If you feel that your prayers are not being heard, that the words of Jesus in the Gospel don’t ring true in the hard school of human experience, you are hardly alone. This is a dilemma that has plagued the saints of God at all times. Just hear the anguished cries of the Psalmist:
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!
Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
Or most famously of all:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
And met by this barrage of silence, of prayers unanswered despite Jesus’ clear words, we are quickly given to despair. Some despair of God’s goodness, and turn away from Him, in anger or despondency, taking the advice of Job’s wife: Curse God and die.
Other’s despair of themselves, certain that it is some defect in themselves—faith that is too weak, the lack of some necessary ingredient in the prayer, a hidden sin—that is preventing God from answering their prayer.
Either way, God’s apparent silence drives us to doubt Jesus’ clear promise: “Everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Everyone, that is, except I, and the dozens of others I know who are in the same boat with me, who hasn’t received, who hasn’t found, to whom the door appears forever shut. And so, we are left with that terrifying question of another another Psalm: “Has God forgotten to be gracious? ”
But as is so often the case, when we doubt God’s word, it is not because of a defect in God’s word but because of our defective attention to it, together with our mistaken notions of how things ought to be.
Jesus’ teaching in Luke 11 is in response to a request from His disciples: Lord, teach us to pray. And so He taught them, not so much how to pray but what to pray. In other words, Jesus didn’t give us some general rules and suggestions for godly, or effective, or successful prayer. He didn’t say: “When you pray, do it in this sort of way.” Rather, He gave us the very words to pray, the prayer itself: “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, etc.”
And it is to this prayer He attaches the promise:“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.” It is this prayer that He likens to a friend asking for help in the night. It is a prayer for good things, which a loving father would never refuse a son—the ultimate good gift from God being the Holy Spirit. It is the Lord’s Prayer: the prayer given by the Lord, the prayer addressed to the Lord, the prayer accompanied with the promises of the Lord.
This takes us back to where we left off last week with Martha and Mary: with the question of what is necessary and truly good, the difference between Jesus’ priorities and what are ours. In worship, as we learnt from the experience of Martha and Mary, what is necessary and truly good is what God gives us in Christ. And so it is in prayer as well.
What Jesus teaches us in the Lord’s Prayer is what we truly need from God: spiritual gifts. That His name is kept holy among us, that His kingdom come, that we receive bread from Him, that our sins are forgiven, that we are preserved from temptation. And as a friend wouldn’t dream of ignoring the urgent request of his neighbour, much less will God ignore our petition for our needs.
But notice the word “needs”. Not desires, wants or wishes but needs. Jesus promises to us that our heavenly Father will give to us what we need, and He will do so with delight. We run into difficulties when we define our own needs from our perspective and then measure God’s goodness and faithfulness against whether He gives us what we think we need.
This is not to say that our requests are frivolous, or that we should not ask for things in our times of need. Of course we should. Elsewhere, in John’s Gospel, Jesus encourages the disciples to ask for “anything” in His name. However, as Jesus reminded Martha when she was distracted by her serving from the word of Christ, there is only one thing that is necessary. Because there is only one thing that lasts beyond the grave.
Everything else, all the other good gifts of God: health, family, friendships, mortal life itself, will all come to an end. They may come to an end peacefully, at the end of a long and contented life; or they may come to an end suddenly and violently, or unexpectedly, or at the end of a life of hardship and suffering. We may enjoy God’s temporal blessings abundantly or sparingly. But the end of all of them is the same. And so is the end of them who put their trust in them as their only good.
By contrast, God’s kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. The word of the Lord endures forever. The heavenly bread, together with those who eat it in faith, is imperishable. When Jesus fed the 5,000, the crowd went wild and wanted to crown Jesus as their king, and He had to remind them:
“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” (John 6:35)
Now, I am sure that my erstwhile pupil Rosie would greet this saying of Jesus with the same exclamation: “That’s just stupid! ” Because it’s not difficult to demonstrate that there are plenty of Christians among the hungry and thirsty of the world. And plenty of Christians who go short on the temporal gifts of God, gifts of clothing, housing, family, income, health.
But it is not stupid. Because the true daily bread, which Jesus invites us to pray for, is the bread of life, the imperishable and life-giving bread. What would be stupid would be to place our hope in things that have no hope of lasting, and to judge God’s goodness by them. To decide whether God loves us by whether we survive this particular illness, whether we overcome this particular pain, or whether we live in wealth or poverty, is to miss the point. Jesus Himself knew this: on the eve of His own great anguish—an anguish greater than that of any human before or since—He too prayed for relief: “Father, take this cup away from me. But not my will but Your will be done.” For He knew that the Father’s will is the best—and we are the beneficiaries both of the Father’s good will and the Son’s obedient submission to it, God’s ultimate gift to us.
And now, we live in the happy world where we can both have our cake and eat it. All the good gifts we receive come as tokens of our Heavenly Father’s love for us, to be received and enjoyed with gratitude. But even when He withholds the earthly gifts, either for a time or for good, we are nevertheless blessed beyond all measure: children of the heavenly Father, heirs to His kingdom, raised to life in His Son, eating here the bread of heaven as a foretaste of the Kingdom to come, sanctified by His Holy Spirit and kept from the Evil One until sin, death and the devil are destroyed and we will live forever in pure enjoyment of His love for us.
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The Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby Joins Women’s Flat Track Derby AssociationPinky Swears | Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby is proud to announce that as of December 1st, 2010 we have been accepted as a member of The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the national governing body for women’s amateur flat track roller derby in the U.S.
As a new member of the WFTDA, the Hudson Valley Horrors joins the ranks of over 75 all-female, skater owned and operated leagues nationwide that have united to lead the growing sport of women’s flat track roller derby. WFTDA member leagues engage in sanctioned interleague play, including regional and national tournaments. The Hudson Valley Horrors will be a Class B member in the east region.
The Horrors are honored to be part of WFTDA and are looking forward to the exciting, yet challenging 2011 season! Find out more about the 2011 roller derby season schedule, joining our roller derby team and roller derby sponsorship opportunities.
About the WFTDA
Founded in 2004, the WFTDA promotes and fosters the sport of women’s flat track derby by facilitating the development of athletic ability, sportswomanship, and goodwill among member leagues. The governing philosophy is “by the skaters, for the skaters.” Women skaters are primary owners, managers, and operators of each member league and of the association. WFTDA’s operational tasks include setting standards for rules, seasons and safety, and determining guidelines for the national and international athletic competitions of member leagues. All member leagues have a voice in the decision-making process, and agree to comply with the governing body’s policies. For more information, visit www.wftda.com. | <urn:uuid:a0cb95d2-8bc8-4ae5-baf9-52dbb3243371> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.horrorsrollerderby.com/the-hudson-valley-horrors-roller-derby-joins-womens-flat-track-derby-association/ | 2014-04-25T03:45:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223207985.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032007-00122-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956047 | 387 |
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Reinvent Butter to cater to changing French breakfast routines that consume less and less butter at breakfast.
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Review: Gods of Gold, by Chris Nickson
Severn, 2014. 212 pp. $29
The gasworkers’ union of Leeds, England, has walked off the job, and management has called in scabs (“blacklegs,” in British parlance) to break the strike. The union men will defend their turf with their fists, if necessary, whereas the owners have no qualms calling in the army and having the police read the Riot Act, which would allow the troops to fire on anyone refusing to disperse. That prospect appalls Detective Inspector Tom Harper, who grew up in a poor Leeds backstreet, and whose loyalties lie with the strikers. But such are the social tensions of 1890. And in a city where gas lights industries and the more affluent homes and shops, the police are there to support the rights of property, with justice often coming a distant second.
If Tom needed any further lessons in that hard truth, he has them in the case of Martha Parkinson, a nine-year-old girl who’s gone missing, and whose drunken, deadbeat father has been murdered. Desperate to find the girl alive, Tom enlists the aid of the Parkinsons’ neighbors, who’d normally look on the constabulary as enemies. But because it’s a missing child, who could have belonged to any family–and because Tom used to walk the beat in that neighborhood, where he built a reputation for honesty and fairness–the locals agree to help. But information comes in minuscule grains, and people fear even to reveal that little, which tells Tom that someone powerful is behind the crimes against the Parkinsons. Sure enough, that power causes ever-increasing mayhem, as more murders follow. But though Tom’s immediate superior sympathizes with the detective’s dedication (though not his politics), orders are orders, and Tom has to devote himself to protecting the strikebreakers when he fears that young Martha may die, if he doesn’t find her soon.
Among the many pleasures Gods of Gold offers is this strong sense of time and place. This is a short novel, and Nickson spends few words on description. Yet he shows the grit underfoot, how the poor age prematurely because of hard work or drink, the darkness that envelops their homes, or the filthy air of Leeds:
From November to March soot lingered around town in clinging, harsh palls of dark fog. It made men cough and spit black phlegm, the stink of industry the price of the town’s success. The snow was grey before it even touched the ground.
In such a place, life has sharp edges and crime its attractions, as with the man “who’d never held a real job but made his living like a magpie, stealing the shiny things he saw.” Images like that stay with me.
Nickson takes care to sketch in the background characters. Tom’s sidekick, Billy Reed, is an ex-soldier who drinks too hard–trying to forget the war in Afghanistan–and who loses his self-control, beating a witness who refuses to talk. This is the stinking guts of police work, and Nickson papers over nothing. The difficulty of apprehending a criminal, and the lack of resources that limits the police, come through loud and clear in small details, as when Tom is forever having to walk places to conduct his investigations, should the horse-drawn tram not be running, or he’s feeling too light in the purse to pay for a hackney.
On a lighter side, Tom’s engaged to marry a widow, Annabelle, who owns a tavern and a couple bakeries. She’s a businesswoman with a mind of her own, and she constantly surprises him with new ideas. When first introduced, she’s installing light bulbs in her tavern and tells Tom that electricity is the future–which is not only correct, it’s an understated comment on the strike, a suggestion that what Leeds is fighting over will soon pass, no matter which side wins. More importantly, she’s got more money than Tom does and greater financial security, a gender-role reversal that feels different from what he was taught to believe. But wise, loving soul that he is, he sees nothing wrong in it. Feminism in late Victorian England; how refreshing.
Gods of Gold promises to be the first of a series, and that’s good news. But if I had my druthers, I’d want Nickson to pay attention to a couple literary tics. His narrative sometimes repeats itself, as with “how-could-he” questions (“how could Tom prove such-and-such, if. . . .”), which I take as authorial worries that the reader won’t connect the dots. Rest easy, Mr. Nickson; your narrative speaks for itself. And though he excels at the “no–and furthermore” aspect of storytelling, fashioning the case one bit at a time, as with a mosaic, a few setbacks get resolved a mite too easily, as with the consequences of Billy Reed smacking a witness around too hard.
But I look forward to further installments of Detective Inspector Harper’s exploits.
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It is important the board see as many union members as possible from each school site.
We are standing up for what is right and shining a spotlight on questionable practices.
Please see a rep tomorrow before or after pizza with the principal (at lunch) with any questions.
ATTEND THE BOARD MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT, TONIGHT.
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As blood circulates, it exerts pressure on the walls of the arteries. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is characterized by a persistent increase in this pressure, even when a person is at rest. The disorder is one of the most common chronic health problems in the United States, affecting nearly 74 million Americans. High blood pressure is also the most important risk factor for stroke—the third leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause of disability. If left untreated, this “silent killer,” as high blood pressure is often called, is a primary cause not only of stroke, but also of coronary heart disease, heart failure, kidney disease, and blindness. | <urn:uuid:45327d57-06a8-4f9d-8d77-ff65c819a236> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dnatube.com/video/4840/Hypertension-and-Stroke-Health-Tip | 2022-08-16T19:50:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572515.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816181215-20220816211215-00597.warc.gz | en | 0.954892 | 141 |
Chairperson Kenny Peters has called a meeting of the Town of Souris Planning Advisory Board Committee for Thursday, September 27th at 12pm (noon) in the Council Chambers, 3rd Floor Town Hall.
Topics to be reviewed:
Proposed Seniors Housing development on PID 899187 (2.96 acres of land presently owned by the Town of Souris). Proposal is to rezone the land from Open Space to Multiple Family Housing, and transfer the land to David and Wendy McQuaid for purposes of developing 4 five unit Senior friendly housing units on this property. (Seniors, people with disabilities, veterans) Proposal and development was reviewed by Professional Planner Derek French. Derek will be present at the meeting to present his report.
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This month Congress decided to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It wasn’t that gays could not serve; it was that gays were not allowed to make an issue of their sexuality by publicly flaunting and expressing it.
I have heard from a very reliable source that those serving in top military positions have said privately (several months ago) that if “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (the law enacted by President Clinton that forbade the military to ask a potential volunteer about their sexuality) was repealed it would destroy the military!
The reason is that, under this law, a person couldn’t make a big deal of their sexuality by expressing it in public. Now that the law has been lifted, soldiers coming out of the closet will distract from the real business of the military: fighting wars and being combat ready.
This will also open up a huge door for an inordinate amount of counseling, and also for sexual discrimination lawsuits if a person identified as gay feels they are being maligned. Another distraction will be the tremendous amount of time, money and training needed to shift the culture of the military so they will now be “gay sensitive.”
This is in spite of surveys clearly showing the Marines Corps and those in combat situations overwhelmingly disapproved overturning the ban. The only ones in the military who approved overturning the ban were the paper-pushers—not those in the front lines of battle who would be the most affected by the unnecessary distractions that will come with all of the above.
It is not as though most in the military are prejudiced against those who identify themselves as gay. It is that gays were already able to serve since they were not forced to divulge their sexual preferences before joining the military.
Truly, in combat it is not about being gay, straight, black, white, rich, or poor. It is about totally focusing on being combat ready as a unit instead of worrying about the sexual orientation of individuals! It would be just as wrong for a person in the military to talk about “black power” or their “white supremacist” views since doing so would put the focus on certain individuals and distract from the main agenda of winning wars.
This is another example of the far-left humanistic agenda caring more about their ideology than about what’s best for this country!
It is my opinion that Adm. Michael Mullen (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Robert Gates (Secretary of Defense) both sold out this country by being politically correct so they could keep their jobs. Although I don’t know either man and could be wrong, this is my humble opinion based on the common sense that they should know more than most!
To prove the point that this was more ideological than practical: This was just another step towards the legalization of same-sex marriage, a point made by Vice President Joe Biden last week when he said that “marriage equality” is only a matter of time because of this new precedent set by the military. Both he and President Obama are now saying their views on gay marriage are “evolving.” It is my belief their views have always been that of most other far-left politicians. Same-sex marriage has always been on their agenda but they couldn’t admit it because they know the majority of the American people have rejected same-sex marriage state-by-state.
They would have never been elected if they said same-sex marriage was one of the things they wanted to accomplish. They are artfully using the strategy of gradualism, taking decades to accomplish their goal by passing one law after the next so that, after a while, the average American becomes desensitized and eventually approves of this new shift in culture.
I hope they are wrong. The far-left thought that after Roe vs. Wade became law in 1973 there would be no further debate on abortion and that the American people would become overwhelmingly “pro-choice.” But, thankfully, the opposite has happened and the country is becoming more pro-life, with more doctors refusing to perform abortions (something I’m sure ObamaCare will try to stop).
My hope is that the next Congress would reinstate “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and also repeal ObamaCare. If they don’t our nation will continue to decline and eventually lose much of its power and influence in the global community.
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Balance these wooden, faceted stone-shaped blocks to create your own sculpture. Young children will be delighted by what they build, and in doing so learn the joy of process and how to trust their judgment. Sure they’ll be developing their scientific reasoning, planning, mathematics, motor skills and more, but most importantly they’ll be fascinated and having fun while doing so. This Rose & Rex wooden block favorite is loved by all ages!
Materials & Safety
Materials: Oakwood coated in a water-based paint
Details: Contains 10 pieces
Dimensions: 6" x 2" x 1.5"
Made in Brooklyn
Care: Spot-clean with damp cloth
Age: 3 years+
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The study found mortality after hip surgery greatly by age and sexA multivariate logistic regression analysis published today in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume, that the variables postoperative postoperative mortality, ones that can not be controlled with pre-operative medical procedures. Until now, the literature has contradictory, but this study shows that had both period from fracture surgery and the time of the admission to surgery, no significant relationship with early postoperative mortality. ‘ Therefore, while from a humanitarian standpoint , it is desirable to provide a for for fractures of the hip, commit soon medically safe medically safe, this do the proposal that an operation must 24 hours 24 hours after admission to have been proven to improve the results to be incorrect..
Read the full text article.the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery – British Volume is a leading orthopedic journal with an impact factor of 1,JBJS-Br published twelve issues per year of high-quality, peer-reviewed investigation, leading supervised by an international editorial by editor James Scott.The journal was first published in 1948, published by the British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, a registered charity , and with the objective of development and improvement of education in orthopedic surgery and allied branches of surgery the dissemination of knowledge about new and improved methods of teaching and practicing orthopedic surgery in all its branches..A little over one in ten people knew that they used the suggested two spoonfuls of of sun protection products that cover around the entire body, while wearing a Swimming costume. One-fifth to acknowledge to not use sun cream even.
A total sample size was in 2140 adults. March 2013 – The fieldwork was from the 20th undertaken. That survey was conducted through online. Which wide figures are weighted and representative of all UK adult . Taken to precautions to protect for sunburn -.. People was well less likely to have are using sunscreen in Great Britain, to two fifths Password of men either regular, or never been valid sunblock use, compared to an fifth so foreign. In the UK, the suns rays more than capable burning the skin it is important it is important not to let get sunburn you out.
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" From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34
looks like a relaxing activity to do in all your free time:):):)
HA! Yeah well, my laundry is piling up whilst I work on the videos...oh well, only so many things I can do at once. I am sure I should be working on packing for the move and all too, but can't seem to get on it...
Beautiful dresses!I had a friend growing up whose mom was talented at sewing like you are. She was always making dolls, dresses, etc. for her. OH I had the worst time coveting her gorgeous mommy-made things!!Heatherj
I am really enjoying your videos on dress making!! I think maybe...just maybe...I may get some nerve up to try it myself! I have a granddaughter and maybe a little sundress would be a great place to start. My 12 years old would need sleeves, so maybe I will wait til I get a sundress down first! I can't wait to see you attach the skirt.
Awe, I never get to watch these lil' videos, and I just clicked yours, and you have the cutest voice!! Such a soothing lil' mama voice!! :) Hope you're enjoying your pregnancy!
Jessica,I went back and looked at your Sunbonnet Sue quilt. It is darling! I made one almost exactly like it at the SAME time you were making yours...My granddaughter was born in September 08, so I had worked on it over the summer. I did mine a little different than you did...they look like the same pattern though. I hand appliqued mine down with needle and thread and then hand quilted the quilt. I do alot of hand work, as it is my favorite form of needlework. Takes a long time, but it is very enjoyable for me. I showed a picture of my grandaughter's quilt at the end of this recent post http://piecesfromme.blogspot.com/2009/06/has-it-been-2-years.htmlMy blocks are 12 inches with 2 inch sashing so it measures 50x50. It was a fun quilt to make...kinda like playing dress up or paper dolls picking out all the little matching dresses and bonnets!
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Dec 16, 2010, 4:59 PM EST
UPDATE: Not so fast on the Soriano stuff. Mark Feinsand just spoke to a Yankees official and he downplayed the idea, saying “the price is going to be too high.” And it will be too high, objectively speaking, for a setup man. But it’s not like the Yankees (a) couldn’t use the help in the pen; and (b) could’t afford it. And as some of you mentioned in the comments section, filling out the pen could help shake Joba Chamberlain free for a trade. I mean, sure, the Yankees don’t see him as a starter anymore, but someone might, and he could form the basis of a package that could get a useful starting pitcher in return.
According to a source with knowledge of the Yankees’ thinking, the Bombers are “exploring” the option of signing Soriano, the All-Star closer who pitched last year for the Rays. With plenty of money to spare in the wake of Cliff Lee’s return to Philadelphia, the Yankees have held preliminary discussions with Scott Boras about Soriano, the source said.
Soriano used to be the best setup guy in baseball. In New York he’d have that role again. And, if it was a three-year deal, he could be Mariano Rivera’s heir.
In other news, if the Yankees did get Soriano — and if the Red Sox don’t find a sucker to take Papelbon — they and the Sox would have four of the top eight closers — at least in terms of saves — from the 2010 season on their rosters. Which is cool with me because (a) who cares about saves; and (b) both the Jenks and Soriano signings would address legitimate needs for each team, but you figure a lot of people will freak out about this.
- Jayson Werth to serve five days in jail for reckless driving 30
- Keith Law’s top 100 prospects list is out 28
- Great Moments in Media Arrogance: Marshawn Lynch edition 163
- Nationals sign former Blue Jays closer Casey Janssen 10
- Ichiro Suzuki’s deal with the Marlins is worth $2 million 34
- Orioles acquire outfielder Travis Snider from Pirates 37
- Not so fast on the Bud Selig Hall of Fame talk 50
- Blue Jays sign president and CEO Paul Beeston to extension through 2015 26
- Great Moments in Media Arrogance: Marshawn Lynch edition (163)
- Rob Manfred, new Major League Baseball commissioner, suggests ban on defensive shifts (118)
- Why “Deflategate” would never happen in baseball (96)
- The Yankees are going to try to get out of paying A-Rod his contract incentives (83)
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Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who was the voice of Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh films, has died aged 82.
Winchell voiced Disney's Tigger from 1968 to 1999
He was a popular children's TV host in the US, and first voiced Tigger in 1968 in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won an Academy Award.
Winchell also voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs and Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, as well as voicing other Disney and Hanna-Barbera productions.
He was also an inventor, patenting an artificial heart in 1963.
His other patents included a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter and an invisible garter belt.
Winchell last performed as Tigger in 1999, in Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving.
Lisp and laugh
For Tigger, he created a slight lisp and laugh, crediting his British wife with Tigger's "TTFN" catchprase - "ta-ta for now", itself coming from BBC radio comedy It's That Man Again.
In 1974, he earned a Grammy for best children's recording with The Most Wonderful Things About Tiggers from the film Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.
Born in 1922 in New York, Winchell contracted polio aged six but beat speech impediments as he learned to throw his own voice.
In 1988 he told the Associated Press news agency: I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago. He said, 'We're both in the same business. I use cartoons and you use dummies and we both entertain children.'
"That was long before I started working here. Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices. I said, 'Gee, that must be fun.' And here I am." | <urn:uuid:2cd6b60a-de56-40cd-a7a1-701d852d6c61> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4624547.stm | 2014-11-27T21:27:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931009179.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155649-00106-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961415 | 389 |
Joseph Damamme published a post on the Strasbourg observers’ website on « Disability and University (pragmatic) Activism: the pros and cons of Enver S*ahin v Turkey« .
Economic and time constraints are often used as a justification for refusing or delaying necessary changes to the environment that would allow persons with disabilities to be more included in society. A balancing exercise between these constraints and the rights of these individuals was the subject of the ECtHR Chamber judgment Enver S*ahin v Turkey (only available in French for now). Therein, the Court clarified somehow the content and contours of the State’s (and the University’s) responsibility, when faced with accessibility requests by their students with disabilities. The positive outcome of the Court’s ruling contrasts with some missed opportunities and unanswered questions that are addressed by Judge Lemmens in his valuable dissenting opinion.
For the direct link to the post on the blog « Strasbourg Observers », see https://strasbourgobservers.com/2018/03/09/disability-and-university-pragmatic-activism-the-pros-and-cons-of-enver-sahin-v-turkey/. | <urn:uuid:53ed8fc0-9735-4d11-b007-49eb2aecd662> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://cde.ulb.be/disability-and-university-pragmatic-activism-new-publication-of-joseph-damamme/ | 2018-05-22T04:06:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864624.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522034402-20180522054402-00025.warc.gz | en | 0.918287 | 259 |
The rise of sustainability as a challenge for the airline industry has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, to the point where business success is inexorably linked to carriers significantly reducing their environmental footprints, in the view of Air France chief executive Anne Rigail.
“We need to be competitive to be sustainable, and if we are not sustainable, we will not have any customers any more in our aircraft,” Rigail states during a CAPA Live event today. “So both are totally linked.”
Since 2019, sustainability has rocketed up the airline agenda, Rigail explains, amid rising expectations among the travelling public. And the imperative to address the issue is becoming “all the more acute” as living through a devastating global health crisis causes people to question the future impact of “ecological emergencies”.
To meet this challenge, “we have to be very transparent on our environmental impact”, Rigail says. “Our duty is to reassure our customers that we are doing our utmost, with all the stakeholders… so that we can [offer] the most sustainable travel.”
With that goal in mind, airlines will need to be competitive enough to pay for the fleet renewals that deliver greater efficiencies, alongside investments in sustainable aviation fuels, which Rigail notes are extremely expensive today.
At Air France, fleet investments – and the “20-25%” efficiency savings they bring – have been protected, despite the need to cut capital expenditure during the Covid-19 crisis, Rigail says.
The SkyTeam carrier is continuing to receive 38 Airbus A350-900s – with six taken so far, according to Cirium data – while the first of 60 Airbus A220s is due to arrive in September this year.
Among the toughest challenges ahead, Rigail observes, long-haul flying is unlikely to be achievable with the electric and/or hydrogen-powered aircraft that could service short-haul routes by the mid-2030s.
“That’s why sustainable fuel is not only a transition action plan,” Rigail states. “We know that the current aircraft can be used with 100% sustainable fuel, so we have to put all our investment and focus also on sustainable fuel.”
And airlines cannot face “the big issues” alone, Rigail says. “We have to do this in partnership with the aircraft manufacturers and the engine manufacturers.
“It’s the whole value chain that has to face this new challenge.”
She also cites French government and European Union commitments to invest in “green” aircraft as crucial. At the same time, Air France supports the aims of the recently released Destination 2050 roadmap for European aviation to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Rigail also predicts that consumer interest in sustainability “will probably lead our customers to change the way they travel”, with a focus on “more fair use of air transport” in corporate and leisure markets.
Air France expects customers to take a longer trip at the expense of “several weekends during the year”, with combined professional and leisure trips becoming more common due to shifts in working practices brought about by video conferencing. | <urn:uuid:0c556d0f-e13a-4c2e-b113-8f48b03d98a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/sustainability-and-airline-success-now-inexorably-linked-air-france-chief/142819.article | 2022-12-07T22:20:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711221.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207221727-20221208011727-00192.warc.gz | en | 0.954984 | 677 |
The Data Transform operator in the SAP Data Hub Modeler provides wide variety of options to meet your data transformation needs.
- data sets
- relational operators such as filter (projection), join, and union
- Start the SAP Data Hub Modeler.
- In the navigation pane, select the Graphs tab.
In the navigation pane toolbar, choose + (Create
The tool opens an empty graph editor in the same window, where you can define your graph.
Select the operator.
A graph can contain a single operator or a network of operators based on the business requirement.
- In the navigation pane, choose the Operators tab.
- In the search bar, search for the Data Transform operator.
- In the search results, double-click the Data Transform operator (or drag and drop it to the graph editor) to add it as a process in the graph execution.
Configure the operator.
Operators are defined with default configuration parameters values. For example, security context or subengine. You can provide new values.
- Select the operator and choose (Open Configuration).
- Define the required configurations.
Configure the nodes.
The Data Transform operator provides different nodes that you can use to define your data transformation requirements. To add and configure the node,
- In the graph editor, double-click the Data Transform operator.
In the Nodes tab, drag and drop the required
node to the operator editor.
Data Source nodes provide connections to the input data.
Data Target nodes provide connections to the output data.
The Projection node represents a relational selection (filter) combined with a projection operation. It also allows calculated columns to be added to the output.
The Aggregation node represents a relational group-by and aggregation operation.
The Join node represents a relational multiway join operation. It supports multiple input ports.
The Union node represents a relational union operation. It supports multiple input ports.
The Case node specifies multiple paths so that the rows are separated and processed in different ways. It supports multiple output ports.
Double-click the node and define the required node configurations.
For more information on configuring the various Data Transform nodes, see the Related Information section.
If you have configured the Data Transform operator with more than one node, you can connect the nodes just like how you connect the operators.
- In the menu bar, use the breadcrumb navigation to navigate back to the operator configuration editor.
- Add new nodes.
If you want to connect the nodes, select the output port of a node and
drag the cursor to an input port of another node.
- If you want to create a new input or new output ports (for join, union, or case), right-click the node and choose Add Input or Add Output.
Save and execute the graph.
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With a sweet light dough, cinnamon filling swirl, and a rich, keto cream cheese frosting, these keto cinnamon rolls have all the makings of a classic, fluffy, gluten and sugar-packed cinnamon roll- without all the carbs and sugar, of course! And, unlike most keto cinnamon roll recipes out there, this one is entirely dairy optional- no fathead dough here, friends! This is truly a reason to celebrate! 😉
This recipe for low-carb cinnamon rolls has been months- perhaps even years?- in the making. And here's why. I LOVE cinnamon rolls. For breakfast, dessert, you name it. Fresh-baked, homemade cinnamon rolls are synonymous with Christmas morning, for me. And, cinnamon roll thoughts remind me of warm, sticky Cinnabons at the mall (take me back!). But since going low-carb, I have found that cinnamon rolls are by far, the number one TRICKIEST thing to make "keto."
To be completely honest, it's why I told my husband that I never wanted to share a cinnamon roll recipe here on my site. I've made countless batches over the years, some with mozzarella cheese (a classic fathead dough recipe), some without, but none came close enough to what I need a cinnamon roll to be. Until these...
keto cinnamon rolls (without mozzarella cheese!)
Why do I keep coming back to the mozzarella cheese, you ask? Most keto recipes that require a type of dough (think pizza or- you guessed it- cinnamon rolls), are made with "fathead dough." It's a combination of low-carb flours and a ton of melted mozzarella cheese. It's heavy, dense, and full of dairy, so obviously not a good choice if you have a dairy sensitivity or you prefer to limit dairy.
This keto cinnamon rolls recipe contains ZERO cheese in the dough. It's grain-free, gluten-free and dairy optional (you can easily use a vegan cream cheese alternative for the keto cream cheese frosting 😉 )
how to make keto cinnamon rolls
Just like a classic cinnamon rolls recipe, these keto cinnamon rolls are a little bit of a baking project. They're not too time-consuming, but make these at a time when you can enjoy the process and you're not rushed. It's totally worth it.
- coconut cream or unsweetened macadamia milk, luke-warm
- maple syrup to activate the yeast (don't worry- the yeast will eat up all the sugar!)
- active dry yeast
- eggs at room temperature (you can place them in a bowl of warm water to quickly take the chill off)
- grass-fed butter or coconut oil
- vanilla extract
- apple cider vinegar
- superfine blanched almond flour
- coconut flour
- arrowroot starch
- ground flax seed meal
- xanthan gum
- granulated monk fruit sweetener, preferably a "brown sugar" substitute like Lakanto "Golden"
- baking powder
- baking soda
- For the keto cream cheese frosting:
- cream cheese (or dairy-free cream cheese alternative like Kite Hill), softened
- powdered monk fruit sweetener
- vanilla or maple extract
- grass-fed butter (or vegan butter)
Note: I recommend using parchment paper, as it will help you roll out the dough without it sticking. Parchment paper will make your life easier, ALWAYS. 😉
These keto cinnamon rolls are not difficult to make, but they do require more steps in the process than most of my other recipes. For all the details, check out the full recipe at the bottom of the page.
- Activate the yeast. In a small bowl, whisk together the warm coconut cream (or macadamia milk), the maple syrup, and the yeast. Set it aside for at least five minutes. The mixture will get foamy (if it doesn't, your yeast has gone bad).
- Mix ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted butter or coconut oil, eggs, apple cider vinegar and vanilla. Set it aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients, then slowly pour in the wet mixture. Add in the yeast mixture, and stir everything until it is well combined and a dough forms. Use your hands to shape it into a ball.
- Roll out the dough. Place a large sheet of parchment paper on your work surface. Sprinkle about a tablespoon of almond flour out across the paper. Place the dough ball in the center, and sprinkle some more almond flour across the top. Flatten it with your hands, adding more almond flour as needed to prevent it from sticking (the dough is on the sticky side, which is what you want). Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, using short, light rolls to prevent the pin from sticking (you can also place another piece of parchment paper on top). Form a rectangular shape, about 12-14 inches wide.
- Shape the cinnamon rolls. In a small bowl, mix the butter or coconut oil with the cinnamon and granulated monk fruit sweetener. Spread it across the dough in an even layer, about ½-inch from the edges. Starting from the bottom of the rectangle, lift the edge of the parchment paper and use it to guide the dough as you roll it, jelly-roll-style. The paper should easily peel away from the dough as you roll. Use a sharp knife to cut the roll into eight cinnamon rolls, about 1 to 1-½ inches wide. Place them in a prepared baking dish (I use a round 9" cake pan or a pie pan).
- Rise and bake. Place the cinnamon rolls in your oven at the lowest setting possible and let them rise for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven, preheat it to 350°F and then bake the keto cinnamon rolls for 20-25 minutes, or until they are golden brown.
make the keto cream cheese frosting
To make the keto cream cheese frosting, use an electric mixer to beat together the cream cheese, butter, vanilla or maple extract, and powdered sweetener. Spread it across the warm keto cinnamon rolls, minutes after they come out of the oven.
about the ingredients
So, let's break down what's inside these low-carb cinnamon rolls and why they work. Don't be intimidated by the ingredient list: the items are easy-to-source and most are keto baking essentials you may already have on-hand.
The flours: I use a combination of almond flour, coconut flour, and arrowroot starch (sometimes labeled arrowroot powder). Through lots of trial and error, I have found that this is the best combination to form a dough that is soft enough, pliable, and still holds together well. While arrowroot starch is not as low-carb as the other two flours, it lightens up the dough and the carb count is very minimal. A note about subs: Please don't swap any of the flours for another- they are not interchangeable!
The sweetener: I use a granulated monk fruit sweetener blend (I prefer Lakanto "Golden" which resembles brown sugar) to sweeten the dough and make the cinnamon filling. If you prefer, you can use something like liquid monk fruit or stevia for the dough (sweeten to your liking), but a granulated sweetener is definitely a must for the filling mixture. Allulose or plain erythritol will work, if that's what you have (keep in mind, allulose is not a 1:1 swap for sugar or erythritol).
Xanthan gum: This is essentially the gluten substitute that binds the dough and holds it all together. It's sort of a must, here. And a little bit of xanthan gum goes a long way.
Flax seed meal: I love using flax seed meal in so much of my keto baking because it not only adds a nutritious element, but it also lightens up the dough and adds a nice flavor. Make sure you're using finely-ground flax seed meal.
Leavening agents: This keto cinnamon rolls recipe calls for yeast, which results in a lovely "doughy" flavor. And I promise, you will see these beauties rise! Baking soda and baking powder also help give this dough a lift (remember, keto doughs are extra heavy!). You will need a touch of maple syrup to activate the yeast, but don't worry, the yeast will eat up all the sugar!
pro tips for low-carb cinnamon rolls
Since these are primarily almond flour cinnamon rolls, there are a few tips to keep in mind while working with the dough:
- Do not over-mix the dough. Only mix until all of the ingredients are combined. The dough will be sort of sticky, but using parchment paper and almond flour on your work surface should help you roll it out with no issues.
- Use ingredients that are at the right temperature. The butter and coconut oil in the dough should be melted, but not too hot (or you risk scrambling the eggs). Cool it slightly after melting. Use eggs at room temperature, otherwise they may leave the dough too cold and it won't rise properly. As for the frosting, you'll want to use butter and cream cheese that are at room temperature to make sure they whip up nicely.
- Make your own powdered sweetener. If you don't have powdered sweetener on hand for the keto cream cheese frosting, you can easily blitz some granulated sweetener in a blender until it becomes ultra fine.
Enjoy these keto cinnamon rolls, friends! This low-carb cinnamon roll recipe has been a long-time coming, and I hope you love them! They're tender, packed with cinnamon, and the perfect low-carb fix for when you need a sweet, sticky treat.
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- This keto zucchini bread is a wonderful, low-carb sweet bread that's simple to make!
cinnamon roll dough
- ¼ cup coconut milk or macadamia milk, at luke-warm temperature
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons (1 packet) active dry yeast
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons grass-fed butter or coconut oil, melted then slightly cooled
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups blanched almond flour
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 2 tablespoons arrowroot starch
- ¼ cup ground flax seed meal
- 2 teaspoons xanthan gum
- ¼ cup granulated monk fruit sweetener, preferably a brown sugar substitute like Lakanto Golden
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 4 tablespoons grass-fed butter or coconut oil, softened
- 6 tablespoons granulated monk fruit sweetener, preferably brown sugar substitute like Lakanto Golden
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
keto cream cheese frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature (or dairy-free alternative like Kite Hill)
- 2 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature (or dairy-free alternative)
- ¼ cup powdered monk fruit sweetener
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon maple extract (optional)
- In a small bowl, combine the luke-warm coconut cream (or macadamia milk) with the maple syrup and yeast. Whisk together and set the bowl aside for at least 5 minutes. (Don't worry- the yeast will eat up all the sugar!). If the mixture does not get foamy, it's a sign the yeast has gone bad.
- In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together the melted butter or coconut oil, eggs, apple cider vinegar and vanilla. Set it aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, coconut flour, arrowroot starch, flax seed meal, xanthan gum, granulated monk fruit sweetener, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Slowly pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients, then add in the yeast mixture. Stir it all together until it is well combined and a dough forms. Use your hands to shape it into a ball.
- Prepare a baking dish (I use a round 9" cake pan or a pie pan but a square pan works well too) by lining it with a sheet of parchment paper or greasing it with butter/coconut oil.
- Place a large sheet of parchment paper across your work surface. Sprinkle about a tablespoon of almond flour on the paper. Place the dough ball in the center, and sprinkle some more almond flour across the top. Flatten it out with your hands, adding more almond flour as needed to prevent it from sticking (the dough is on the sticky side, which is what you want). Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, using short, light rolls to prevent the pin from sticking (you can also place another piece of parchment paper on top). Form a rectangular shape, about 12-14 inches wide and about ½-inch thick.
- In a small bowl, make the cinnamon filling. Mix the softened butter or coconut oil with the cinnamon and granulated monk fruit sweetener. Spread it across the dough in an even layer.
- Starting from the bottom of the rectangle, lift the edge of the parchment paper and use it to guide the dough as you roll it, jelly-roll-style. The paper should easily peel away from the dough as you roll. Use a sharp knife to cut the roll into eight cinnamon rolls, about 1 to 1-½ inches wide. Place each roll in the prepared baking dish.
- Turn your oven on to the lowest setting possible (170°F for me). Place the cinnamon rolls in the oven and let them rise for 30 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven and preheat it to 350°F. Bake the keto cinnamon rolls for 20-25 minutes, or until they are golden brown on top.
- While the cinnamon rolls are baking, make the keto cream cheese frosting. With an electric mixer, beat together the softened cream cheese, butter, powdered monk fruit sweetener, vanilla extract and maple extract (optional).
- Spread the cream cheese frosting on top of the warm cinnamon rolls and serve with more frosting on the side.
The cinnamon roll dough is sticky, so please be sure to use parchment paper- it's the easiest way to roll up the dough.
Make sure your butter and coconut oil are not too hot or you'll risk scrambling the eggs.
If you don't have powdered sweetener on hand for the keto cream cheese frosting, you can blitz some granulated sweetener in a blender until it becomes ultra fine.
Nutrition Information:Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 483Total Fat: 42gSaturated Fat: 17gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 22gCholesterol: 117mgSodium: 516mgCarbohydrates: 14gNet Carbohydrates: 6gFiber: 8gSugar: 3gProtein: 12g
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Lately I am hearing more and more about essential oils, and naturally, I was curious to try them. We have tried a variety in our house and I have been impressed by the range of essential oils available, as well as the many uses they have.
I love that you can diffuse them and use them aromatically. I’m a big fan of scented things, particularly like candles, but like that essential oils are a natural alternative. They last for a long time too as you only need a few drops each time.
I have used them for medicinal purposes, for fighting off colds particularly, and for cleaning around the house. I don’t have a way to test just how efficient they are at killing germs (that would need to be in a science lab or something) but from what I’ve read, they are great at getting straight through and killing germs. It makes the house smell great anyway.
It got me thinking though, what beauty benefits do they have? I should surely be using them for the that too, right? Quite seasonally, I know that frankincense is good for skin as is melaluca (tea tree). I have recently been using the Body Shop’s Spa of the World Range for massaging into skin. In particular I have been using French Lavender and Thai Lemongrass and I love them. It must sound like I’m obsessed with smells, but they smell so good! The lemongrass one is my favourite, really reminds me of being in Thailand, funnily enough 😉
Thai Lemongrass Oil:
- scent is known to boost vitality and awaken senses
- this oils is great to use when you want your body and mind to feel instantly re-energised
- is great to use as a natural skin toner
- soothes aching muscles
- can be combined with melaluca and rubbed on nails to clean and strengthen
French Lavender Oil:
- known for being relaxing and has been used to help people sleep for years
- I’ve been using this oil when I just need to calm down quickly and to relax
- It helps regenerate skin cells so is great for older skin, sun spots, and scarring
- a great oil for all skin types
- massaging into scalp can help with hair loss and headaches
These oils are already in a carrier oil, but if you have essential oils ‘neat’, it is usually best to put a few drops in a carrier oil (such as de-fractionated coconut oil or other cold pressed oils), before rubbing onto skin. This instantly makes any ‘neat’ oils into a massage oil.
Have you ever used essential oils? If so, which is your favourite?
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Speed Vs Redundancy
If you operate a web server then you are likely always looking for ways to improve its performance and reduce the risk of data loss in the case of hardware failure. Usually that means upgrading things like CPUs and/or RAM – However, you might look at upgrading/changing your current hard drive situation.A great solution which can provide speed and redundancy is a “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “RAID”. Essentially, a RAID setup can provide you with faster, more reliable access to your data which will cut down on bottle necks for CPU-intensive requests such as database queries and basic file/data crunching. There are several types of RAIDs that you can setup. The one you choose depends upon what you want it to provide.
If speed is all you’re after, then RAID 0 is a good choice. In RAID 0 there are 2 drives. All data is “split” into 2 chunks and each chunk is written to a separate drive. When the data is read back, the CPU only has to process half as much data as it would with a single drive, hence read/write times are much quicker than before. On the other hand, if you are simply looking for some protection against hardware failure you might consider RAID 1 – simple drive mirroring. In this scenario, both hard drives in the array are written to simultaneously so if one dies, the other is instantly available. The data here is not split into 2 chunks as in RAID 0 so there is no speed advantage to RAID 1. In fact, it will likely decrease your speed slightly.
Finally, if you want a system that offers both speed and redundancy, you should look at RAID 5. The inner workings of RAID 5 are quite complex, however it provides essentially the “best of both worlds”. In RAID 5 you have a minimum of 3 drives in your array. Data is not only split into chunks for writing, but a separate piece of data is created and stored which allows any missing data to be re-created! What this means is should one of your hard drives fail you can simply replace it with a new one and the RAID configuration will reconstruct the data that was on that drive before it failed! So, not only do you get speed increases due to smaller data sizes on read/write operations you also get the utmost in redundancy in the case of hardware failure. | <urn:uuid:5d478dec-494c-4592-9951-95470017b9d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://metamend.com/archive/articles/article-speed-redundancy/ | 2017-02-19T18:45:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170249.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00261-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964751 | 493 |
Forty participants turned out for a fun run/walk sponsored by the Lovell Area Chamber of Commerce that took place during the Earth Day celebration last Saturday. The group included infants in strollers, joggers getting a quick 5K run in, and a friendly little beagle.
“I had hoped to create a fun, healthy event to go along with the Earth Day activities and I think I succeeded,” said Jackie Heinert, Chamber office manager. “Everyone was smiling and happy to get fresh air, and the weather was perfect. I already have ideas for next year’s fun run, and I appreciate the Lovell Area Chamber members supporting my wild ideas.”
Heinert said she received a lot of positive feedback from participants after the event.
“Parents said they appreciated the opportunity to get out and push their kids in the strollers,” she said. “Local businesses donated goodies and there were some fantastic cookies and treats made available to participants after the event. It also worked well to have it start before the Earth Day Festival, since many families lingered around after the run to check out the informational booths.”
This was the first year the Chamber hosted the fun run. Heinert said the Chamber is trying to sponsor or support more family-friendly activities like the run in the future.
“We want to do more of this because many people have mentioned how much they enjoy inexpensive, local events and because more people coming out for events also helps the local businesses,” said Heinert.
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Test Ideas with Prototyping
After opening up the world of possibilities through creative ideation and brainstorming, you should have distilled 3-5 key ideas that are the most workable for creating active learning spaces and services at your library. Selecting one of the ideas, use the design thinking techniques of prototyping and iteration, which continue the user-centered emphasis by making a physical (but crude) representation of your idea that your users and staff can interact with.
Practically speaking, your library probably doesn’t have capacity to implement all, or even two, of the top ideas generated by the ideation process. It’s important to pursue what’s feasible without sacrificing freshness or innovation. To decide which idea you want to prototype, use this rating method to allow team members to rate the top 3-5 ideas from your ideation brainstorming. After compiling all scores, the one with the highest score will be the most promising to pursue.
Creating a prototype is the next step in the design thinking process. It brings an idea out of your head (or off of your post-it notes) and into physical reality. It’s an intermediate step between conceiving your community-focused idea and formulating a full-blown action plan. It’s an opportunity to test, revise and test again before committing dollars and resources to the project. Be prepared to “fail” now so that you’re less likely to miss the mark later.
Paper Prototypes (2:36 minute video)
This short video shows how simple the materials and process are for crafting prototypes. “It doesn’t matter if it looks crude because users are encouraged to talk honestly about the concept itself.”
How to make a cardboard prototype (2:02 minute video)
A designer who has access to 3D printers and CNC machines still chooses to prototype with cardboard. Get some practical tips on how to design with cardboard.
Seattle Children’s Hospital Prototype (4:28 minute video)
Get a rare look at an extreme version of full-scale prototyping. It’s astounding to see the warehouse-sized implementation in such detail but it’s testament to how important prototyping is, from the huge enterprise scale to small project scale.
Get inspired by the participants in the first cohort of the Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project, who provide a wealth of examples of the many forms a prototype can take and the advantages of taking this step.
Participants in the second cohort of the Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project created a variety of prototypes, proving there is no right or wrong way to create and that some of the best inspiration can come from the least expected places.
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A short video with Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. "Don't think of it as failure, think of it as designing experiments through which you’re going to learn." | <urn:uuid:58638c51-77a9-4479-88de-b076e22e8833> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/test-ideas-with-prototyping.html | 2021-05-13T07:13:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991537.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20210513045934-20210513075934-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.917573 | 608 |
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The main theme of the Emeritus group Milinski is the continuation of the topic evolution of cooperation between egoists, which has become empirically explorable by predicting new models of evolutionary theory. It tests assumptions and predictions of such models with students in experimental games and with parasites who jointly exploit a host.
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By Dominic Smith
New manager fever strikes any club, but it’s hardly surprising in our case. The increasingly imminent prospect of a whole year of dour hoofball under Warnock coming to an end is alone exciting enough for the fans. But the rumoured replacement, Nigel Adkins, feels like it fits.
With an enviable track record at Southampton of back to back promotions, predicated on direct, attacking football and the blooding of a series of exciting young players, Adkins would mark a serious change of direction from GFH.
He’s obviously flawed. Southampton’s defensive record this season, 40 conceded in 22 games before his departure, wasn’t great. Games were thrown away from winning positions, most memorably when Man Utd came to St Mary’s, when he made inexplicable substitutions. They ran City close on the opening day, but could have run them closer had he picked Rickie Lambert rather than goal-shy Guly do Prado to lead the line. But his record is still impressive.
And there’s enough in the squad for Adkins to work with. The squad Warnock has assembled over the last 12 months is probably more solid defensively than the one inherited from Simon Grayson. Little immediate work needs to be done here. Most criticism has been labelled at the ‘honest’ midfield, full of perennial Championship also-rans, the lumbering physicality of Rodolph Austin and meandering thuggery of Michael Brown. But – to be reasonably fair to them – they’re dealt a fairly impossible hand. David Norris, full of energy, always busy and looking for the ball when I saw him at Ipswich, now seems to have inherited the Jonny Howson mantle of always being 5 yards from the ball, where it just was, scrapping for possession, rather than actually receiving it directly in open play. This is probably because the ball mostly lands in midfield as a result of a clearance from one of the endless supply of long straight balls delivered straight down the throats of Championship defenders.
Warnock implemented this system quickly, and Adkins could close it down just as fast. All footballers playing in the Championship SHOULD be able to try to pass the ball in the first instance. Even sideward would be a start. Adkins has also shown willingness to blood young players. Despite signing Steven Davis from Rangers in the summer for Southampton, he gave 17-year-old James Ward-Prowse a league debut against City. Fellow 17-year-old Luke Shaw ousted established left back Danny Fox from the side. The likes of Chris Dawson and Dominic Poleon must be praying for an Adkins appointment.
But more than all of this, it would mark a cultural shift. Too many recent appointments have just not fit. Wise had his eye on something bigger, McAllister was borne of dewy-eyed romanticism and Warnock thinks he’s bigger than the club. Only Grayson FELT right, and he was undone by idiocy at board level. Leeds fans can be patient. We don’t need immediate success. What we need is evidence of a plan, of commitment, not just to promotion but to rebuilding the fabric of the club and laying the groundwork for the next era. Every win this season has felt like a fluke. We need someone with a different philosophy, to instil a sense of what it means to be Leeds and the winning mentality that comes with it. Adkins may not be perfect, but he ticks enough boxes that he deserves a chance to make it happen.
(And yes, I know Alex McLeish was seen at the Etihad. Just choosing to ignore that one.)
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SBS Learn & Tara launches new Small Business Secrets educational resources
28 November 2017
SBS Learn and Small Business Secrets today launched a series of new online educational resources, which bring to life the experiences of Australian entrepreneurs to help students understand the realities of owning and running a business. The interactive resources were designed for teachers, by teachers, with SBS Learn teaming up with business educators from Tara Anglican School for Girls in Sydney.
Whitney Fitzsimmons, Executive Producer, Small Business Secrets, said: “The new SBS Learn business-focused resources will help provide teachers with the tools to put business learning into a real-life context. There’s really no one-size-fits-all approach to running a business and each of the individual case studies highlight the unique challenges and opportunities for budding entrepreneurs.”
Teachers Jane Wong, Melissa Losco and Mark Swainson from Tara Anglican School for Girls collaborated with SBS Learn and Small Business Secrets to adapt the real-life business stories into classroom resources for secondary students. Australian curriculum and learning outcomes from Economics and Business Studies were also used, to ensure that the resources would assist educators to develop practical lessons for students.
Jane Wong, Social Sciences Teacher, Tara Anglican School for Girls, said: “SBS Learn features a range of relevant resources that add another dimension to textbook learning. As a teacher, it’s great to have had the opportunity to develop these resources first-hand with SBS, which will be invaluable in helping to demonstrate to students just how diverse running a business can be.”
Each of the ten case studies have been designed to inspire and educate students about entrepreneurship, the essentials of building a business plan and overcoming business challenges, while providing practical insight into operating a business to aid their learning.
The case study of supermarket staple Carman’s Fine Foods shows students how businesses can grow to scale significantly, while Broadband Solutions shares insight into the very different experience of setting up an enterprise for business customers. The case studies of Booktopia and Koala reveal the opportunities that can be found using the internet to transform traditional buying experiences.
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A veteran-centric integrative care company based in Virginia has released their own nationwide veteran sleep survey results. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the Center of Behavior and Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and VetAdvisor LLC. The purpose of the survey is to help researchers understand the causes of veteran sleep disorders, enhance overall understanding of these disorders, and determine the potential benefits of behavioral sleep coaching and consumer sleep monitoring devices in their treatment. A sleep coach is a wellness advisor who is an expert in sleep issues and their impact on veterans and military personnel.
Two thousand, eight hundred and sixty six volunteers completed the VSS (11.5% female, 80% white, 11% Black, 1.3% Asian, 3% other, 6% Hispanic/Latino). The mean age was 54 years (SD=13.3, ranging from 18 to 96). The five branches of the military were represented [Army, 56%; Navy, 16%, Marines, 10%, Air Force 16%, Coast Guard, 1%). Seventy two percent of respondents reported having been deployed to a combat zone and 53% reported participating in combat operations. Fourteen percent were officers.
The average amount of veteran participant sleep was 5.6 hours. 76% of veterans report that they do not typically get enough sleep. Even more alarming, 91% of the veterans surveyed reported often feeling tired, fatigued or sleepy during the day. “Having trouble falling or staying asleep” was by far the most frequent reason cited by veterans as a cause of not getting enough sleep (70%). Other common reasons included: “sleep is poor quality” (53%), “being too busy with work or family responsibilities” (13%), “being a night owl” (12%), and “liking to watch television late at night” (8%).
Importantly, 74.3% of respondents reported meeting general clinical criteria for insomnia (i.e., trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, 3 or more nights per week for at least a month with at least some significant sleep-related daytime symptoms). In the general population, the prevalence of chronic insomnia is 10-15%. Veterans who had actively engaged in combat were also more likely to report insomnia than those who had not actively engaged in combat (78.7% vs. 69.2%)
The two most common reasons for sleep disruption were: 1) experiencing mental alertness/thoughts won’t slow down and 2) pain. While factors associated with normal daily living such as financial stress and worrying about daily concerns appeared to contribute to sleep disruption in both groups equally, the factors associated with trauma such as nightmares or feeling the need to be “on guard” were much higher in the active combat engagement group. Not surprisingly, when veterans were asked to rate the factor with the single greatest impact on their sleep, the groups differed as well. For those actively engaged in combat, the top 3 reasons in order were: 1) mental alertness/thoughts won’t slow down (15.7%), 2) pain (12.2%), and 3) nightmares/dreams (10.7%). For those not engaging in combat the top three reasons were: 1) pain (18.7%), 2) mental alertness/thoughts won’t slow down (15.3%), and 3) worrying about daily concerns (6.9%).
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Can anyone explain what all the numbers mean?? What's this ET all about??? What wheels fit the A3?? Most i've seen are ET43 and ET45?? Which genuine OEM wheels scrub? Some guy on edition 38 forum is selling genuine RS6 wheels (18") because they are scrubbing on his mk5?? Surely the arches on the mk5 golf are the same as the A3 8P?? Why would they scrub?? Don't worry maars still on for those spokes!! | <urn:uuid:21e01868-2538-4d63-a75b-95021a6ad549> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/wheels-i-dont-get-it.44967/ | 2017-07-24T16:01:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424884.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724142232-20170724162232-00111.warc.gz | en | 0.956786 | 100 |
Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs N. Matile recounts a childhood OBE
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For those who say this is a huge gap between recounting and experiencing, a genuine experience is not only never forgotten, it remains vivid in your mind until the day you die
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Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections
Case No. 241- Mrs N. Matile, now 67, wrote (in litt.,May 26, 1961) and told of an experience that occurred when she was 8 years old. Her account is as follows:
One night, when I had been in bed for a short time, I found myself floating above my bed (about three feet above).I then quickly passed out of the window to the middle of the Mews where we were living. It was a starry night and it was a lovely feeling, floating in the air. It seemed to last a few minutes and then I seemed to drop and felt myself trying to keep up. I then (against my wish) passed back through the room and hovered over my bed and was very surprised to see myself lying down, looking quite dead……
While I was looking down at myself on the bed, I felt a click and then I was looking up from the bed. As a child, I felt thrilled at that experience and tried to float myself the next night. At last I succeeded, but I was out through the window and back quickly. I felt no shock whatever. It was the only time anything like that happened to me. It was only when I reached the age of 30 that I realized the meaning of my childhood experience. | <urn:uuid:c8af47f3-f636-4fe8-aadf-8dde3b005e75> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://allaboutheaven.org/observations/dr-robert-crookall-more-astral-projections-mrs-n-matile-recounts-a-childhood-obe-023602/221 | 2023-11-28T23:58:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100016.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128214805-20231129004805-00763.warc.gz | en | 0.983805 | 341 |
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The film opens at the First Avenue nightclub where the band The Revolution is playing their song "Let's Go Crazy". The lead singer, The Kid (Prince) has an energetic style that the people seem to dig. Arriving at the nightclub is aspiring performer Apollonia (Apollonia Kotero), who wants to see the manager. He's not there, so one of the ladies that works there takes down Apollonia's information. After The Revolution is done playing, Morris Day and The Time begin to play, the former having a rivalry with The Kid.
The Kid lives at home with his mother (Olga Karlatos) and his father (Clarence Willliams III). The father physically abuses the mother, and strikes back at The Kid whenever he tries to defend her.
Morris and the club's owner Billy (Billy Sparks) discuss getting a new group to replace The Revolution since people are getting tired of The Kid's schtick. Morris wants to organize an all-girl group, and Billy appears to be on board.
The Kid pursues Apollonia. He takes her for a ride on his motorcycle and rides to a lake, where he tells her he will help her break out if she gets into the water of Lake Minnetonka. Apollonia strips down to her underwear and jumps into the water. The Kid then says that it's not Lake Minnetonka. He gets on his motorcycle and begins to ride away, leaving Apollonia naked and pissed. However, he stays and lets her climb back on.
Two members of The Revolution, Wendy (Wendy Melvoin) and Lisa (Lisa Coleman), frequently write music for the band and ask The Kid to give it a listen, but he never does and he continues to refuse to use their music, which causes tension between the band. The Kid mocks their sentiments using a puppet.
Morris approaches Apollonia to join the girl group. He buys some fancy champagne and tries to convince her that The Kid can't help her kickstart her career since he can hardly get his own career off the ground. As The Kid performs, he watches the two of them sitting together. With The Revolution, he sings "The Beautiful Ones," which brings Apollonia to tears.
After the show, The Kid brings Apollonia to his home. He plays a track in his room that sounds like a woman moaning erotically, but he tells Apollonia that the woman is crying, and he is just playing the track backwards. The Kid then passionately kisses Apollonia and they make love for the first time.
Morris eventually persuades Apollonia into joining the group. She goes to The Kid's home and gives him the news. He reacts by angrily slapping her the way his father does to his mother.
The Kid learns from Billy that he plans to cut one of the acts for the club. This leads The Kid to go on a motorcycle ride to have time with his thoughts (while "When Doves Cry" plays). This is cut between moments he shares with Apollonia. When he returns home, he finds his mother on the front steps crying. He enters his home to confront his father. The Kid finds him in the basement smoking a cigarette and playing the piano. He learns that his father has composed several musical pieces of his own, but he claims to have not written them down. When he asks his son if he has a girlfriend, The Kid says yes, and his father tells him not to get married.
The Revolution performs "Computer Blue", with The Kid acting out like he's getting a blowjob on stage. The audience doesn't appear to be digging his music. Apollonia and Morris show up. The band starts playing the very provocative "Darling Nikki", which makes Apollonia uncomfortable and humiliated. After she leaves, The Kid goes into his dressing room and starts taking out his anger. Billy enters and criticizes him, comparing him to his father and his own failed musical career.
Soon, the girl group, Apollonia 6, make their debut at the club. Their song, "Sex Shooter", is a hit, and Billy continues to hint at The Kid that they'll be taking his spot. After the show, Apollonia and Morris (who is drunk) are walking together. The Kid comes to get her on his motorcycle once Morris starts to get fresh. They ride by a bridge, where The Kid starts getting aggressive with Apollonia. She leaves him.
When The Kid returns home, he sees that the place is a mess, and his mother is gone. He goes down to the basement, and his father shoots himself in the head with a handgun. The medics take him away. The Kid starts raging out in the basement, whereupon he discovers his father's compositions. The following morning, he picks up a tape of a song that Wendy and Lisa wrote, "Slow Groove". It inspires him to start composing.
That night, The Time plays their set to a satisfied crowd. After the performance, Morris goes by The Revolution's dressing room and tauntingly asks The Kid, "How's the family?" His buddies laugh, but Morris quickly regrets what he said.
The Revolution goes up to play. Before the song, The Kid announces that they're playing a song written by Wendy and Lisa, which he dedicates to his father. The song is "Purple Rain". It thrills the crowd so much that even Billy sheds a tear. Once the song ends, The Kid goes backstage and plans to hop on his motorcycle, but he hears the enthusiastic cheering and goes back, where the other musicians congratulate him and cheer him on. He sees Apollonia as well, who appears to have forgiven him. He returns to the stage and plays "I Would Die 4 U". This is cut between scenes of him visiting his father at the hospital with his mother, as well as Apollonia visiting The Kid in the basement.
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On 19th to 20th October 2019, Orewa Baptist Church held its ‘Dedication and Celebration Weekend’ at their renovated facilities located at 2-8 Loop Rd, Orewa.
The weekend kicked off with a dawn ceremony led by Matua Hakiaha, along with Baptist representatives David Moko and Winston Hema and family. Orewa Baptist members walked through the new building, singing, praying and giving thanks to God for his many blessings, including the newly constructed facility. Later in the afternoon, the church saw a significant number of people arrive on-site for building tours.
The following day, people packed into the church’s new 400-seat auditorium for Orewa Baptist’s celebration service. Past and present members, former pastoral staff and many others lifted a unified voice praising God for the rich history of the church.
A portion of the service included an interview panel of founding members and an intergenerational mix of current members. Those attending the service heard about the church’s origins and the exciting things that took place 40 years prior. It was also great to hear testimonies from those significantly impacted by the church more recently, and to hear conversation about what excites the panel members most about how God will use Orewa Baptist in the future. The segment demonstrated God bringing about his own purposes and using different individuals throughout various periods to participate in what he was doing.
Orewa Baptist is truly grateful for those who were obedient to the Spirit’s leading and for everyone who served so brilliantly in the past. It is a great privilege to continue the work that started decades ago. The new facilities are indeed a blessing and are cause for great celebration.
However, the church knows that the building is simply an instrument for God to use to make himself known and accomplish his purposes in the surrounding community.
Contributor: Mark Poole
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Anna Preinitz was an author and a writer who was active from the late 1800s–early 1900s. She also engaged in philanthropic efforts in support of female factory workers.
Anna Preinitz was born in Stockholm on 20 December 1870. She was brought up in a religious home and began attending Sunday School at an early age. Her father, O.K. Hellström, was a builder who was active within the church and ran a Sunday School in their home for a group of street boys on Kungsholmen. Anna Preinitz attended these gatherings as a child and when she was 14 years old she led a Sunday School class herself. She took inspiration from her religiously active parents and her adult life came to be characterised by her Christian spirit and philanthropic interests.
Anna Preinitz took great interest in music and played the organ, which formed a central element within her work at the Sunday School at Nytorget on Söder in Stockholm. She was also interested in literature and wrote poems and stories for the Sunday School, some of which were published in the Sunday School journal Barnavännen, as well as in Christmas calendars and other children’s journals. She didn’t just write for children but also produced work intended for an adult audience. Her output was always permeated with spirituality and her Christian faith. She published two poetry collections, Böljeslag in 1896 and Mot höjden in 1907. She also released three story collections: Solvik in 1906, and Den eviges vägar and Mors lilla solstråle, both published in 1908.
Anna Preinitz was a member of the southern section of the Christian women’s association KFUK, for which she served as a board member for a decade. Her engagement on behalf of the KFUK involved supporting female factory workers. She continued this focus within her activities on behalf of the Vita Bandet (white ribbon) temperance society. She was a member of the northern Vita Bandet association in Stockholm and from 1904 served on its national executive committee. She continued writing whilst undertaking work on behalf of Vita Bandet and, from 1909–1912, also served as editor of the Vita Bandet journal. She was also involved in developing and publishing the organisation’s songbook, for which she also wrote her own song lyrics or provided translations. The journal also published many of her poems, as well as opinion-forming articles about the living conditions of female factory workers.
Anna Preinitz was driven by her Christian and social empathy for women who worked in the industrial sphere. She set up ‘Avdelningen för arbetet med fabriksarbeterskorna’ (the department for working with factory women) within Vita Bandet and in the southern section of the Stockholm Vita Bandet association she set up a sister branch for female factory workers, which met within the KFUK’s premises. On behalf of Vita Bandet she organised meetings and talks and discussion nights with singing and music and courses on things like essay-writing and book-keeping aimed at the female factory workers. She travelled across Sweden to visit factories where she would speak to the female staff about a life of sobriety. On these tours she would hire or borrow premises for her meetings to which local female workers were invited and at which they were provided with a simple meal. She was careful to treat them as equals. It was through these meetings and the conversations she had had with the women that she learned of their harsh living conditions and noted their need for rest and recreation. She wrote about this in the Vita Bandet journal and emphasised the importance of offering these women skills through courses and holiday recuperation through sending them to rest-homes.
Anna Preinitz supported local associations throughout Sweden by supplying them with information and suggestions for holding courses. She set up the Vita Bandets Vilohemsfond (rest-home fund) in order to raise money to build a rest home for female factory workers. Although she was able to use the collected funds to purchase a plot of land near Skuru in the Stockholm archipelago she fell ill and died before the construction of the rest-home began. “The department for supporting female factory workers” was taken over by Gerda Meyerson and Vilohemsfonden was then used to supply financial support to the rest- and holiday homes which were established by about 20 Vita Bandet societies.
Anna Preinitz was driven by her empathy for all hard-working women who did not have all the benefits that she enjoyed. Her Vita Bandet colleagues lauded her contributions on those women’s behalf and described Anna Preinitz as joyful, energetic, and determined. She was considered to be a successful poet and her lyrical work formed a focal cultural element of the Vita Bandet journal. Following a period of illness Anna Preinitz died, aged only 41, at Sophiahemmet in Stockholm in 1912. She is buried at the Norra cemetery in Solna. | <urn:uuid:97f2b309-5f54-4210-a861-aef4241badf3> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://skbl.se/en/article/AnnaPreinitz | 2020-10-29T10:28:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107904039.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029095029-20201029125029-00485.warc.gz | en | 0.984396 | 1,041 |
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Gulpha Gorge Campground at Hot Springs National Park
The National Park campground is located on the east side of Hot Springs Mountain. It is convenient to downtown Hot Springs, yet in a wooded setting, isolated from the urban area. Gulpha creek runs through the camp ground with several camp sites adjacent to the creek. Very clean and well-maintained park. Roads fully paved, paved parking pads. 44 sites, with full-hookups. All sites have level or close to level paved parking pads. Each site has a concrete picnic table and elevated BBQ grill. Adequate space between sites. Tall trees provide good shade for most sites. Modern washrooms, cleaned daily, but no showers. Animal proof waste disposal bins. Campground host. RV dump station. Day use picnic area. Amphitheater with sturdy bench seating. Direct access to the extensive network of hiking trails on Hot Springs Mountain.
All sites now have full hookups: 30 and 50 amp electric, water and sewer connections. Sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Occupancy is limited to 14 days. See Campground Web page link at the end of this post.
Situated in a valley in the Zig-Zag mountain range Hot Springs is surrounded by hills. The National Park begins in the center of the city and encompasses the mountains to the east and west. So only minutes from downtown Hot Springs you can be in the woods several hundred feet above all the hustle and bustle of the city. Hot Springs became a center for physical therapy not only because of its abundant hot springs, but also because an extensive network of hiking trails were built in the hills surrounding the city to provide an exercise program to supplement the hot spring treatment. The trails vary from easy walking trails to more rugged to allow people to progress gradually to more strenuous exercise. Some of these trails actually link Gulpha Gorge campground with downtown Hot Springs and Bath House Row.
From the trail head at the Gulpha Gorge Campground, you can access the network of trails on Hot Springs Mountain. One of our favorite day hikes is taking the Gulpha Gorge trail that runs to top of eastern side of Hot Springs Mountain. Part way up is the intersection with the Goat Rock Trail which leads to Goat Rock, an outcropping with a panoramic view east. If you continue on the trail past the Rock, it eventually ends at the top of the Mountain where you can intersect with the Gulpha Gorge trail for your return leg of your hike. A great 90 minute exercise with a number of scenic views.
Hot Springs National Park Links:
- HSNP Campground Website
- Hot Springs National Park Hiking Trails – maps and trail information
- Hot Springs National Park – things to see and do
- Bath House Row Hot Springs National Park
- Reviews Best Hot Springs Restaurants
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Moldova’s signature on an association agreement June 27 with the European Union keeps it on a path that has, over the last five years, brought the small, former Soviet republic increasingly into the EU's orbit, despite strong objections from Moscow.
For this landlocked country of just 3.6 million, sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania on the eastern edges of Europe, there is hope that the agreement will lead to greater prosperity, and perhaps, eventually, to full EU membership.
Yet over the short term, the country has to push forward with implementing tough reforms demanded by the EU, aimed at bringing the country more in line with EU standards. It also must brace for fallout in its relationship with Russia over signing the agreement. On a visit to Chișinãu, the Moldovan capital, last September, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin warned that Moldova was making a “grave mistake” in pursuing closer ties with the EU, and hinted that Russia might cut Moldova’s gas supply, on which the country is 100-percent reliant.
On June 16, Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexei Likhachev told Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti that Moldova cannot follow the regulations of both the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the EU simultaneously. "It will have to make some choice. And if it is in favor of the European system, then the CIS system will cease to be comfortable,” Likhachev said.
That could spell trouble. Moldova’s economy is currently worth just over $7.25 billion, and according to the World Bank, up to a quarter of that total comes from foreign remittances, primarily from Moldovans working in Russia. There is a real fear that Russia could restrict visa numbers in the future.
In a move seen by many as politically motivated, Russia in 2013 banned the import of Moldovan wine, along with other agricultural products, ostensibly on health and safety grounds. A similar 2006 ban on Moldovan wine decimated the industry. “They are trying to hurt us on purpose,” commented one winemaker in Chișinãu.
In recent years, Moldova has made efforts to diversify away from its previous reliance on Russian markets. The country’s exports to the EU increased from 41 percent in 2005 to 46 percent in 2013, according to official data. During the same period, exports to CIS countries shrank from 50 to 40 percent.
“Actually, the EU is the most important export market for the country,” noted Nicu Popescu, an analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, and a former adviser to ex-Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat. “Russia is important, but it is no longer vital. Sure, Russia can inflict damage on Moldova’s economy, but because of the previous embargoes it’s actually decreased its leverage.”
Over the last year, surveys in Moldova have shown public opinion shifting back toward stronger ties with Russia, but analysts believe that wish is not the most pressing desire, even among the country’s minority Russian-speaking population. “The single most important thing in Moldova is social [-economic] growth, and most Moldovans see the EU as a way towards that,” said Popescu. “Sure, a lot of Moldovans still see Russia as a better option to achieve this growth, but if they see visible improvements after this agreement, this feeling will go away.”
He added that problems seem more intractable with the separatist region of Transnistria, a pro-Russian, breakaway territory bordering on Ukraine that contains 1,500 Russian soldiers.
For many in Moldova securing a firm commitment to EU-style reforms, especially regarding political transparency and economic and judicial reforms, outweigh concerns about Transnistria. “The most important aspect of signing the agreement is that we as a country have to comply with EU laws and obligations,” said Alexandru Stratan, director of the National Institute for Economic Research, a public institute under the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. “We are forced to implement real structural reforms that are good for the country, but might be painful in the short-term.”
Most Moldovans see corruption as one of the major challenges to overcome. Moldova ranked 102nd out of 177 countries in anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International’s annual 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index. “Honestly, people here don’t expect much to change quickly after Friday. They don’t expect corruption to go away soon,” said Viorel Ignat, editor-in-chief of The Chișinãu Post, an online news portal. “But there is an understanding that we, as a country, do need to sign this and make these changes.”
Government officials, including the prime minister, believe they have already shown a clear commitment to implementing reforms, and that the country is on the path to full EU candidacy status -- potentially as early as 2019.
Deputy Foreign Minister Iulian Groza conceded that unresolved issues remain, but underlined that “We have been working towards this for the last four and a half years and have made good progress so far.”
“The agreement will help our country become more stable and transparent,” he added.
But others are more cautious about whether the agreement will lead to EU membership. “The mood in Moldova is that in the foreseeable future it could become a candidate, but no one knows,” said analyst Popescu. “It is difficult to make predictions on the EU.”
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