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The map copies much of its detail from Gerard Mercator's great map of 1569 and provides a clear picture of current geographical knowledge. Features include a vast "Terra Australis", the potato-shaped outline for South America, a relatively accurate North America and an almost circular Japan.
Credit Library and Archives Canada.
Biography / Administrative history
Cartographer, cosmographer and publisher, born and died in Antwerp. Set up as map colourist in 1547; travelled through Italy and France with Gerald Mercator. He was appointed Royal Geographer to King Philip II of Spain in 1575. Ortelius is best known for his monumental work Theatrum orbis Terrarum, the first uniformly sized and systematically collected set of maps by different mapmakers which is acknowledged as the first atlas.
From: Abraham Ortelius's Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1570, plate 1
Bottom of the map carries the following quote by Cicero " Qvid ei potest videri magnum in rebus humanis, cvi aeternitas omis, totiusque mundi nota sit magnitudo".
Copper plate engraving.
On verso text titled "Orbis terrarum (I)
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Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 3, Entry Ort1, Map 1
Phillips, Philip Lee, Volume 1, Entry 374, Map 1
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Canada on Maps 1564-1616: Stratford Festival Exhibition 1966.
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1. World - Maps - Early works to 1600 .
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Redmond Carolipio: This game represents the one place where Lara can go and truly be reinvented without trying to out-Drake Nathan Drake, who knocked Lara off her adventure throne and turned it into a leather couch with built-in cup holders. The new Tomb Raider has the potential — emphasis on potential — to do for the Lara Croft character what "Batman Begins" did for the Dark Knight. Instead of cliff-climbing, bombastic stuntwork and trying to turn her into a spelunking Trinity, the designers are now drowning Lara in darkness, survival and even terror. In doing so, this can allow a generation of newer gamers to connect with her on a level that extends past her looks and set the tone for a fresh, visceral take on this brand of adventuring.
Brian Dumlao: We've seen the franchise get a rebirth of sorts when Crystal Dynamics got the series after Core Design's abysmal The Angel of Darkness failed to spark interest in the once-famous Lara Croft. What we haven't seen is the heroine's origin story and transformation from a college graduate to the hardened adventurer who was introduced back in the PlayStation/Saturn era. Seeing the demo at E3 reminded you of a gritty Uncharted, a fitting comparison since Nathan Drake's series was often called a male version of Tomb Raider. Based on both the stunning E3 demo and the work Square Enix has put into some of the franchises it got after the purchase of Eidos, it's safe to assume that this game will be big.
Brad Hilderbrand: With all of these movie franchises getting gritty reboots, why shouldn't games do the same? The Tomb Raider franchise has been moving in a consistently darker direction for years now, and it seems that this younger, more vulnerable Lara Croft will be the most grown-up of them all. Will the character who was once held up as the epitome of female exploitation in gaming finally turn the tide and become the embodiment of girls who kick ass? All signs point to yes.
Sanford May: iPad is probably the Mac Steve Jobs would have made had the technology and design models existed at the time he oversaw development of the original Macintosh. Likewise, the new Tomb Raider may well be the Tomb Raider that Core would have developed for the Sega Saturn if the Saturn had similar capabilities to current-generation HD consoles. (Yes, Tomb Raider debuted in a Saturn version, not the PlayStation title — not even Tomb Raider was enough to save Sega's weakest console.) Granted, Crystal Dynamics, not Core, is providing this interpretation of "how it should have been," and there's a lot of gamer grumbling over remaking Tomb Raider with new gameplay mechanics. If any brand is worth a total makeover, it's Tomb Raider, one of the first AAA Western games highlighting a female protagonist — though Lara was inarguably drawn for male audience appeal — who made puzzle/adventure gaming accessible to almost everyone. Lara's anatomy has been redesigned, too, though that's already drawing fire because she's still indisputably hot. But do you really want ugly heroines in your video games? I didn't think so.
Tony "OUberLord" Mitera: If that was any franchise that needed a reboot, it was this one. Disproportionately large breasts and a pair of pistols only can get you so far, and it's genuinely interesting to see the new Lara as a normal, vulnerable human being. The character is still a powerful lead, and it'll be real interesting to see the developer's new take on her. Going up against the Uncharted series is a task I certainly don't envy, but there's got to be enough room in that underpopulated genre for the resurrection of the franchise that defined what the genre is today.
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The Contacts system has been given a big makeover by Sony Ericsson, with Facebook functionality built in to the core of the whole thing.
As well as importing all your chums when or if you sign in with a Facebook account, the phone also adds an entirely separate Facebook page to the Contact data. From here you're able to browse other people's Facebook info and interest pages, plus their photos also pop up.
Of course, if you're not into all that social business you don't have to use it. And if you'd rather not see your internet acquaintances staring out at you, there's the option to filter the Contacts section and stop Facebook people showing at all.
In terms of fiddly fun stuff, you're able to allocate separate ringtones for each contact from the Edit Contact page and send people you hate straight to voicemail, plus there are fields for instant messaging details, web sites and an "internet call" option for utilising the emerging SIP Wi-Fi calling features.
The Xperia Mini's regular old dialler is a simple option, with shortcuts for your Call Log, Contacts and Favourites along the bottom.
There's also a useful "Save" button that automatically pops up the Contacts list if you'd like to associate the number you've just dialled with an existing friend, or you can select Create New Contact to add a new person to your listing.
Call quality is good. The speaker is exceptionally loud and really sharp. We got through calls with its volume set to less than half of its maximum, so there's absolutely no chance of this one being thought of as too quiet.
In hands-free mode the Xperia Mini is also one of the loudest phones around. Calls and media blast out impressively noisily. It's going to be banned from public spaces. | <urn:uuid:f92d8dc1-eb2a-40cc-8130-466ee691f985> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-993256/review/3 | 2018-04-25T05:13:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947693.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425041916-20180425061916-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.946157 | 378 |
Panel Examines Power of CommunityContact: Janet Sassi
What do a spiritual shelter, a utopian town, an artists’ colony and the 21st century two-career family have in common?
According to an interdisciplinary panel of Fordham faculty members who presented their research on Nov. 30, they all serve to help individuals recover, create or empower themselves through community.
|Panelists Wakeman, Kubicki, McGee and Swinth.
Photo by Janet Sassi
The panel was part of “Creating Community,” the second in this year’s Growing Research at Fordham series designed to highlight quality scholarship being done by the University faculty.
The creative genius of one artist helped to broaden the spiritual and religious colony of Taizé into a worldwide community, said Judith Kubicki, Ph.D., professor of theology.
Brother Roger Schutz founded the colony in France during World War II as a safe haven for Jews and refugees. Its liturgical music, written by Jacques Berthier, helped to break down the barriers of language, culture, politics, ethnicity and education, creating a sense of unity and identity among its worshipers and attracting people from many nations.
Today, more than 100,000 people make a pilgrimage annually to Taize, which thrives as a worldwide ecumenical community dedicated to peace and social justice.
“Roger Schutz desired to heal the wounds of alienation and brokenness that were so evident in splintered Christianity and Europe as a result of World War II,” Kubicki said. “Berthier’s music and the process of creating and revising it contributed to the building of community.”
Micki McGee, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, studied Yaddo—a community stocked with artistic geniuses—and its members' social relationships. She created a digital mapping tool to measure the impact of friendships between such artists as Carson McCullers, Lewis Mumford and Truman Capote. Then she discovered other academics that were studying similar artistic communities, such as Greenwich Village artists from the 1920s and 20th century philosophers—all with different mapping platforms.
“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if all of our data could play well together?’” she said.
McGee has received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to create the Compatible Data Initiative, a project working toward universal digital mapping protocols.
|Rosemary Wakeman, Ph.D., lectured on the 'new town' movement post WW II.
Photo by Gina Vergel
Twentieth century utopian communities were the focus of research by Rosemary Wakeman, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the urban studies program. The devastation of World War II, coupled with a terrible housing crisis, led to the creation of “new towns”—utopian communities that promised a closed community of peace, harmony and social justice.
These were “inward-looking” communities with centrally located schools and other institutions, where mothers could look out their windows and see their children at play, and where fathers could walk to work. The new towns were built on every continent, she said, with 125 of them created in the United States.
Although time has proven that utopian communities are more dream than reality, said Wakeman, the notion that the physical design of towns could somehow alter human behavior was part of the post-World War II healing process.
“This vision of community was absorbed as the core of social reconstruction and was a major influence on the way nations themselves were imagined,” she said.
The recent phenomenon of the two-career family is a new division of labor that is redefining the family community, said Kirsten Swinth, Ph.D., associate professor of history and author of the forthcoming Bringing Home the Bacon and Frying It Up Too: A Cultural History of the Working Mother in America, 1950-2000.
In fact, the new working family, said Swinth, has created a new field of study among scholars. The phrase itself wasn’t used until 1986, at which time it was defined as a “problem,” Swinth said. New cultural types, such as the “caring man” depicted on the television show Who’s the Boss
, have been introduced as men have lost ground as breadwinners.
Swinth cited the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 as a watershed in cultural change, but said that the shift in family roles is still too new to be fully understood.
“The more I think about the working family, the more I hope that it offers . . . terrain for all of us to demand changes from the state and from business [toward] more egalitarian, less-pressured results.”
Fordham’s Office of Research sponsored the event.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (September 23, 2012) - The Rollins women's golf team shot a one-round score of 294 to capture the Daytona State Lady Falcon Invitational title Sunday at the LPGA International golf course.
Rollins held on strong to their lead over host Daytona State as they shot three strokes better than yesterday with a 294 and totaled a two-day score of 591. Daytona State dropped back one spot and tied for third with 619 strokes with Florida Tech.
Florida Southern shot three strokes better and jumped to second to trail the Tars by 22 strokes with a 613. Bethune-Cookman shot a 637 to round out the top-five.
Annie Dulman was the tournament individual medalist as she shot a 71 to bring her at a two-day score of 141 to tie with FSC's Megan Kiley. Dulman earned the title in a playoff.
Joining Dulman in the top-10 was Kayla Sciupider as she finished third with a 147 (76-71) and Elin Marcsdottir in seventh with a 153 (75-78). Momo Sakuragi and Kristen Garabedian were each one stroke out of the top-10 as they shot a 157.
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Rich countries are still wasting billions on subsidies for fossil fuels
So naturally, today, the G20 countries are spending $88 billion a year subsidizing exploration for new fossil fuels. Sigh.
That’s the I-wish-it-were-more-shocking conclusion of a new report from the Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International.
Keep in mind, that isn’t all the fossil fuel subsidies — not even close. “Globally, subsidies for the production and use of fossil fuels were estimated at $775 billion in 2012,” says the report. (“By contrast, subsidies for renewable energy amounted to just $101 billion in 2013.”) The new report is specifically about subsidies devoted to finding new fossil fuels, beyond the stuff we already have, which is enough to fry the planet thrice over.
Those subsidies come in three basic forms: investment by state-owned enterprises, direct national subsidies and tax breaks, and public finance.
See that circle at the bottom left? That’s the amount spent on fossil fuel exploration by the top 20 privately owned fossil fuel producers. So national governments spend more than twice what big private companies spend looking for carbon fuels. (And also, the report’s authors helpfully point out, almost twice what the U.N. says would be required to provide universal global energy access.)
The U.S. piece of that subsidy pie was $5.1 billion in 2013 — almost twice as much as in 2009.
Besides exacerbating climate change and all of the other problems that come with fossil fuel development, this public subsidy money is propping up fossil fuel exploration even in areas where the market wouldn’t support it. And it pulls proportionately less money off the sidelines: “for every U.S. dollar in renewable subsidies there is U.S. $2.5 invested in renewable energy, while a U.S. dollar in fossil fuel subsidies only draws U.S.$1.3 of investment.”
It’s a little crazy. As the Carbon Tracker Initiative has shown in some detail, if the world is to have a chance of limiting temperature rise to 2C, 60 to 80 percent of current fossil fuel reserves have to stay in the ground. That means companies and countries with fossil fuel assets face an enormous potential devaluation, a “carbon bubble.” Exploration for new fossil fuels at this point is just stockpiling stranded assets, at great cost, with money that could far more profitably be spent accelerating the energy transition.
Or maybe, as this kind of insane-but-routine set of facts demonstrates, the world won’t get serious about climate change. Then stranded assets could be the least of our problems.
Anyway, here’s what the report recommends:
• immediately phase out exploration subsidies as a first step towards wider fossil-fuel subsidy phase out and reform
• eliminate bilateral and multilateral finance for fossil-fuel exploration
• introduce greater transparency in budget reporting so that citizens and legislative bodies are aware of real spending on fossil-fuel subsidies
• work through the OECD, UNFCCC and other bodies to identify and remove government incentives for fossil-fuel production
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I do love our military; though not in that way...
Chemicals that effect human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely effected. One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.
Because there's no one they'd rather "fight" than horny faggots.
I took a month off from my job a while back and hired a replacement, who wasn't quite flaming, but was really into rugby (he was from South Carolina), told me he'd rather be a nurse, and etc. (Give me a break, he was gay, ok?) His former occupation: a sniper with the Marines.
Check out the other bunny-stocked classics here. Every one a treasure, if you're keen on this kind of thing.
This would certainly change things.
The New York Times Co. is considering subscription fees to the online version of its flagship newspaper, which now is available for free....
It could be that free web news, like free music in Napster days, will have been a short-lived anomaly. That sucks, but I'm sympathetic to the news providers, because, honestly, do you even see the ads anymore? My eyes look right past them; I can't name a single ad I've seen online this week. I don't see an easy answer to this one.
After I was captured, my hands were tied behind my back and I was struck repeatedly in the face with an open hand. After enduring the beating I was thrown on the water board, where under questioning the enemy would drown you till the verge of losing consciousness, only to revive you and start all over again. Then a black bag was secured around my head and throat which made it difficult to breathe. I was confined to a three by four foot tiger cage with a coffee can for a toilet. Loud music blared from speakers in the compound and I was repeatedly dragged from my cage for more beatings and interrogation. At night when it was freezing the guards would pour cold water on me. I was deprived of any food for five straight days.
Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it? Well that is only part of what EVERY U.S. Navy and Air Force pilot and flight crew goes through in survival school. The Army does it for their special forces guys as well. We do this to our own people for training but we can't do it to terrorists?
The letter writer is clearly sincere, and therefore an idiot. Goldberg: either stupid or mendacious.
Does Lucy Mangan get no comments because you all think it's a dumb post or because there's not much to say except, "Hey, she's funny"?
January 6th, and I haven't heard back from the Grad Student. I knew she was going to be in Sweden for a while, and assumed that they don't have email there. But it turns out that Swedes just don't use email at all. Live and learn.
I am in love.
You're a fatuous insult to the species. You should be stripped and burned at the stake of commonsense. I will stoke the fires with Jonathan Cainer horoscopes ripped untimely from the Daily Mail, and as the flames lick ever higher, I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs.
I was in Hamleys on Saturday, picking my way through the revolting excrescences that cling to the wilting branch of humanity and comprise the nation's prepubescent youth. One was hyperventilating in the aisle, unable to complete his whining cries of "I want ... I want ... !" Pausing only briefly to kick him in the head ("I'm sorry - is that not what you wanted?"), I wondered if it would not have been kinder to bring him up expecting the kind of Christmas my father enjoyed. He and his 89 brothers and sisters were happy to find a cobble each and a bag of nutty slack under the tree. Their heavily darned stockings were stuffed with the week's groceries and the kids were allowed a quick sniff of a potato before the veg was put back in the larder. All except for a pair of carrots which his formidable mother would whittle into the shapes of Tom Finney and Alma Cogan and barter for gin and cigarettes on Boxing Day. In the afternoon they would put her in the recovery position on the kitchen floor and go and kick a pig's bladder up and down Paedophile Ginnel until it was time to come in and cough up blood. Simple pleasures, simply achieved was a recipe for happiness, as my dad still uses his remaining lung to gasp at us over the turkey every year.
thank you, ben hammersley
When did the SUV revolution come to shopping carts? I was just at the grocery store, pushing a cart, and if there were two other people in the aisle, I couldn't pass, because our carts were so damn big. And is there some kind of organized crime racket in stealing shopping carts? Because otherwise, I can't understand why it makes sense for the store to have outfitted these massive carts with an electronic device that locks the wheels if the cart is taken off the property. This is insane, right?
What needs to be said about Gonzales and torture (do read it), in the NY Times no less, but I have one dissent:
After Mr. Gonzales is confirmed, the road back - to justice, order and propriety - will be very long. Torture will belong to us all.
Too late; it already belongs to us all, and has since the election.
UPDATE: This is a joke. They're asking Gonzales whether he approves of torture. Of course he can say "no," because his own infamous memo defines torture so narrowly. It's precisely his narrow definition of torture that's at issue. What they should be asking him is whether he thinks putting lit cigarettes in people's ears, jamming things up their asses, and keeping them chained to the floor for days is torture.
Maybe I'm revealing self-centered neanderthalic tendencies here, but one of the great things about being in a relationship is that you can let yourself go a bit: little out of shape, old clothes, funny hair...it's ok!
When I was with my fiancee, I bought a bright red and yellow running shirt, and had fun wearing it. It's not a very manly shirt, but when there's a beautiful woman waiting for you at home, or better still, running with you...it's ok! One of the times I wore it post-breakup, some teenager driving by yelled "Bitch!" That's a little harder to shake when there isn't a beautiful woman at home.
And one of the great joys of having a girlfriend was cutting my own hair. I have a skinny, pointy head, and a big nose, so I look totally goofy with really short hair, but it's just so comfortable, and it's so easy to set the clippers for 3/4" and go to town. I gave that up when I became single again, making a sop to vanity and going back to the barber. But honestly, the last time I was at the barber I told him it was "getting a bit long on top," which, when he finished, it was clear that he heard as "long on top." I can screw up my own hair for free, thanks, so last night, it was back to the clippers. I look like a fool, but I'm loving it.
I've been nursing a grudge against Time magazine ever since they picked Einstein over Mandela for "person of the century." If the 20th century was the century of man's inhumanity to man, no one fought against it with more dignity or success than Mandela. And his story is also a chance to look at race, post-colonialism, neglected Africa, etc. Anyway, that's all by way of saying, Mandela is on the right side of history again,
Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa announced today that his eldest son had died of AIDS, making a highly unusual disclosure in a country whose populace is both hard hit by the disease but reluctant to acknowledge it.
"For some time I have been saying, let us give publicity to AIDS and not hide it," Mr. Mandela said. "It is the only way to make it appear like a normal illness. To come out and say someone has died of HIV, then people will stop regarding it as an illness reserved to people who go to hell and not heaven."
I know his very name is almost cliched, but he really is an extraordinary figure.
Here's a thought.
If you're injured in New Zealand, regardless of cause or blame, the ACC scheme entitles you to:
>> Free medical care.
>> Payment of a proportion of your salary, while you recover.
>> Payment of compensation, if appropriate.
The ACC scheme replaces the right to sue for damages. In New Zealand you cannot sue someone for causing you injury.
Amazing before and after pictures of tsunami-destroyed areas.
I know there's a torture kerfuffle going on in blogdom at the moment, but, honestly, Glenn is right: this will become a "Democrats are soft and looking to score points" issue. (His post is still laughable insofar as he writes as if anyone could avoid charges of partisanship while still subjecting the administration to proper scrutiny.) But, in any case, I've given up. Complain, protest, organize and fund all you want; one more attack here and your neighbors will be lining up to torture somebody, anybody.
Ted gives Andrew Sullivan an award for using "out-of-context quotes to dismiss viewpoints with which he disagrees." I know Sullivan's tactic is effective, and maybe that's all it takes for Ted to also find something admirable, but I think there's an important distinction between the two, and I would have hoped that a philosophy professor could see it.
I don't know if you noticed last month, but Unfogged ran over its bandwidth allotment and the site was down for a couple of hours. Today, I see that we'll probably go over again this month, but not because traffic to the site is up, but because of our mail traffic. That's very strange, because unless Fontana or Bob or Unf is trading nudie pics with his Unfogged account, our mail traffic should barely vary from month to month. Here's what tech support had to say when I asked them about it.
The POP traffic would go up if there is heavy incoming mail traffic to your domain.
Ya think? And that's the response I got after I told them that I'd been going through the site logs, and pointed them to the specific day that mail traffic spiked. Oy.
Opening a review of the new season of "Alias," the NYT's Virginia Heffernan uses her Super Bitchy Powers to attack Fortress Holbo:
Let's be honest. Many of us don't like comic books and have feigned interest in their jumpy bif-bam fighting scenes and the way they redeem loser guys, only to impress and minister to those loser guys. And now we can admit that while the redemption dynamic - little X-Men boys finding in their eccentricity and loneliness a superpower - is touching, there's nothing duller than listening to someone explain, in all seriousness, the Syndicate and the Shadow Force and the Hard Drive and the Plutonium Lance. And the characters: lame. One is good and the other is evil, and then one is evil pretending to be good, and then one is good pretending to be evil.
Her underemployed fanboy ex is grimacing in agony...
It's expensive, but if you don't have access through school or work, Lexis-Nexis AlaCarte might be quite handy. Search all you want, $3 to read an article.
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I'm going by a very small sample of friends and acquaintances on this, but doesn't it seem like lots of people would love to take trains, if only trains were even a bit more convenient? Which is to say that the politician who understands the point Jack is making could score big points and gain national prominence.
Following this SNL skit, some friends of mine took to saying that people embarking on extraordinarily unwise courses of action were "tryin' on the bad-idea jeans." This and this from Prof Goose (via mcm in comments) seem to be an instance of taking off the jeans: a recently tenured faculty member has sex with a 19-yr old student, she gets pregnant, her parents sue, prof gets in trouble.
(All of this emphasizes how different is the small and tony liberal-arts college from, say, the R-1 where I went to graduate school: I suspect that, as a TA, I could have sawed of the heads of some students with a carving knife and escaped unnoticed, but here ...not so.)
After I went to Alaska, I was telling people that it was hard to believe the place was on the same planet, let alone still in the United States. This is first set of pictures I've seen that gets the idea across.
I have a serious question: what the heck is wrong with mothers? This is from tonight's 60 Minutes story on Google. Co-founder Sergei Brin, you know, the guy running one of the coolest companies in the world, the one who's personally worth about $6 billion, says,
...there is one ambition he admits to: finishing his Ph.D. "My mom asks me every week," he says. "I actually do keep meaning to finish it. But I haven't found quite the slot of time."
Every week? Is that not completely neurotic? And last night I was watching some "Making of Clerks" documentary and when someone called Kevin Smith's house about running it in a film festival (or some such), his mother, who answered the phone, said (something like) "You mean someone actually liked that piece of garbage?"
What the hell?
Since I've been stuck at home all weekend with a cold, I've watched an ungodly number of Law & Order episodes. And I'm thinking that maybe it's not the peek into people's lives that I like so much about the show. It's the sleuthing of the detectives; specifically, how little bits of vague information lead to something definite. "What was the name of the guy she was hanging out with? Dunno. Apparently, he said he was a producer. Oh, yeah, she mentioned someone like that. Did she say anything else? No, but she said a limo driver introduced them. Who was the driver? Dunno. But she always used AAA limo service..." And off we go to the limo service. I get a charge out of seeing those connections made, and L&O is so good at not giving the game away too quickly. And what makes the show particularly good is that it's those connections and leaps of logic that are scrutinized in the second half. The tension between what we (along with the detectives) "know," and what makes a sufficient legal case is the drama, built on the first half's puzzles. I love it.
Hmm: But sleuthing is voyeurism of another sort: finding what's hidden; seeing what someone hopes you won't see. I guess the ex is still right, then. | <urn:uuid:676a32c2-ee08-4850-b098-3a0c9b1abbb2> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2005_01_02.html | 2016-04-29T04:01:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110372.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00203-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978891 | 3,238 |
Read these 10 Cookie Recipes Tips tips to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. Each tip is approved by our Editors and created by expert writers so great we call them Gurus. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Cookies tips and hundreds of other topics.
For chocolate and coconut lovers, the chocolate-coconut macaroon cups are the most delicious choice on the holiday platter. Once you have read through the entire cookie recipe, gather the ingredients and necessary cookie baking tools into one area. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
The ingredients for the Chocolate-Coconut Macaroon cups includes:
Non-stick cooking spray
2 large egg whites
¼ cup sugar
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt
7 ounces sweetened shredded coconut
all-purpose flour for the spoon
½ cup almonds
Initially you had to determine which size non-stick muffin tin you would be using to bake your cookies. When you have decided, spray with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, mix the egg whites, sugar, and cocoa powder and salt until it is frothy and well blended. Using a fork, stir in the coconut until well coated.
Fill each muffin tin equally, carefully spooning in the mixture and pressing down gently with spoon dipped into flour. Sprinkle with almonds and press down gently to adhere to the cookie dough.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until almonds are golden; allow the cookies to cool for 10 minutes in the muffin tin. Run a spatula or knife around the muffins before attempting to remove from the muffin tin. Turn cookies onto a wire cookie rack, allowing them to cool completely. These cookies can be stored in an airtight container, at room temperature for up to three days.
Brown sugar spice cookies are a delightful alternative to the standard sugar cookies recipe. The brown dough lends itself perfectly to autumn shaped cookie cutters like maple leaves or pumpkins. The recipe is very easy to make, yielding approximately 6 dozen cookies from one batch.
Prior to beginning any baking project, make sure to gather your entire cookie baking supplies and the ingredients into one area. This step helps to eliminate any unnecessary trips to the market halfway through the preparation of the cookie dough.
Since this is a cookie recipe that requires a lengthy amount of time in the refrigerator to chill, approximately 2 hours, do not turn on the oven to preheat it until closer to the time that you will be rolling out the cookies and cutting them into shapes.
The recipe includes the following ingredients:
1 ½ cups softened butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1-teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon ground cloves
1/4-teaspoon baking soda
To prepare this cookie recipe you will need two bowls, one large and one medium. You will also need an electric mixer, spatula, cookie baking sheet, parchment paper, scrapers, spatula and a wire cookie cooling rack. Quality mixing cups and spoons are best for measuring the ingredients as they will hold their shape longer and withstand the intense use over the years.
Begin with the small bowl and cream the butter and brown sugar together, adding the egg slowly. Beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
In a larger bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves and baking soda. Mix until well blended and then combine with creamed mixture. Mix well.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Chill until firm, approximately 2 hours.
As you remove the brown sugar spice cookie dough from the refrigerator, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Roll out onto a floured surface to 1/8” thick. Use cookie cutters to cut the cookie dough into a variety of shapes and sizes. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned, carefully transfer to a wire cooking rack.
Nothing brings children to the table like the smell of homemade cookies.
If you love to make cookies for your family, a simple cookie recipe that will enhance the autumn spirit is the “Maple Leaf Cookie”. This petite cookie is a very popular treat at autumn parties, cookie exchange parties and as an after school snack.
This simple cookie recipe takes only a few ingredients, most of which will already be available in the pantry. The list of ingredients includes:
1-cup butter or margarine
½ cup pure maple syrup or maple flavored syrup
3 ½ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon ground ginger
Use a medium saucepan to combine the butter or margarine, sugar and syrup. Bring these items to boil, making sure that you stir frequently to prevent burning.
Once the ingredients have boiled, remove from heat and allow mixture to cool to room temperature. Add milk to the syrup mixture and stir until well blended.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and ginger. Slowly add the cooled syrup mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix well.
Divide the dough in half and wrap each section tightly in plastic wrap. Store in the refrigerator for approximately 2 hours.
After two hours, take the dough out of the refrigerator. Roll out dough onto a lightly floured surface until it is about ¼” thick. Cut into shapes, a maple leaf cookie cutter is a great idea. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet lined with parchment paper for 8-10 minutes. Place cookies on a wire cooling rack immediately and brush with Maple Glaze (recipe below). This recipe will make approximately 3 1/2 dozen cookies.
The Maple Glaze is a delicious addition to the Maple Leaf Cookies. To make the Maple Glaze you will need to combine ½ cup of sifted confectioner's sugar with 3 tablespoons of pure or maple flavored syrup.
It is possible to fill the house with the wonderful aroma of wholesome homemade cookies, while still keeping all the other life activities in order. Online retail outlets, such as David's cookies, make it possible to make “home baked” cookies for the kids and still have time for every other responsibility that must be done to keep the household on track. David's Cookies provides gourmet frozen cookie dough that is ready to bake when you are. Made with the same quality ingredients you would use in your own home, these delicious cookies provide a welcome alternative to having to purchase store bought cookies or staying up until dawn to make homemade.
David's Cookies can be ordered in three popular varieties; chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookie dough. There is also a fun alternative to the traditional cookie dough, the “Cookie Play Dough” set that includes six pounds of sugar cookie dough in a variety of four different colors; each colored dough can be used individually to make colorful cookies or can be mixed to create personalized color combinations. This is a great art activity to keep in the freezer for those rainy days when the kids are looking for something exciting to chase away their blues.
Love the taste of Nutter Butters, but hate all the processed chemicals in them? Homemade Nutter Butters are incredibly simple to make at home.
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 egg yolks
- 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 ounce cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mix together the butter, sugar, peanut butter and vanilla from the cookie ingredient list. Using a mixer on medium speed, slowly add the egg yolks one at a time. In a separate bowl, mix together the baking soda, flour, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture with the mixer still on medium speed. Blend until completely incorporated.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Carefully roll out the cookie dough flat using a rolling pin. (If it is too soft, place it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to stiffen it up before rolling out.) Use a small cookie cutter to cut out the circles. Bake the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet for 10 - 12 minutes. Cool completely.
Combine all filling ingredients. Place in a piping bag. Add filling on one side of one peanut butter cookie. Add a second cookie to create the "sandwich" and repeat with all remaining cookies.
Love the taste of Oreos, but hate all the processed chemicals found in them? Make your own at home! This simple recipe is great for bake sales, picnics, family gatherings, and more.
- 1 package Devil's Food cake mix
- 1 1/2 cups shortening
- 4 eggs
- 1 8 ounce package cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 4 cups powdered sugar
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Blend the cake mix, eggs, and shortening together. Create marble sized balls of the dough mixture and bake them on a cookie sheet for seven to ten minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Soften the cream cheese to room temperature. Mix together all of the frosting ingredients, making sure each is incorporated well. Spread the frosting on one cookie and add a second cookie, making the "Oreo" style sandwich we all know and love.
One of the most beloved cookie recipes of all-time is that of the classic Snickerdoodle. This easy recipe is perfect for those who love the warm and cozy taste of cinnamon and vanilla.
However, Snickerdoodles are not as complicated as they seem. Here's a tip how to quickly create the easiest classic Snickerdoodles.
First, create your favorite sugar cookie dough. (Or buy the kind in the tube, if that's what you like. It doesn't really matter.)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix one part cinnamon to one part granulated sugar. Roll the dough into bite sized balls and coat in the cinnamon sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Insert the cookie sheet into the oven. Turn down the temperature to 325 degrees. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow the Snickerdoodles to continue to "bake" on the cookie sheet for another five to seven minutes. Remove the cookies from the pan and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack. Enjoy!
For those who are baking cookies that are gluten-free, as well as dairy-free and grain-free, this version of the classic peanut butter cookie offers a protein rich solution. You can also make the dough ahead of time, freeze it into a tube shape and cut 1/4 inch slices when you are ready to bake.
1 cup all-natural peanut butter, creamy or crunchy
1 cup raw sugar*, such as turbinado or demerara
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
Optional: 1/2 cup each of chocolate, nuts, and/or dried fruit**
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Beat the egg in a medium size bowl. Mix in the sugar and baking powder until fully coated in the egg. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and mix well. Fold in any additional ingredients, such as chocolate, nuts, and/or fruit, if desired (see below).
Line a baking sheet with waxed paper or a silicone mat. Use a tablespoon measuring tool to scoop out 1 tablespoon of cookie dough for each cookie. Space the cookies 2 inches apart on the lined baking sheet. Using a fork, press each cookie to flatten to 1/4 inch thickness; press the cookies two times each in a crosshatch pattern.
Bake for 7 to 10 minutes, or until the edges begin to turn golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes or until they become firm. Transfer the cookies using a spatula to a metal baking rack so they can cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
*You can substitute white sugar, but raw sugar has a higher molasses content for a richer flavored cookie.
**You can add any combination of these gluten-free ingredients to dress up this peanut butter cookie:
1/2 cup dark, white or semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup chopped peanuts, diced walnuts or slivered almonds
1/2 cup diced, dried fruits including apples, cherries or bananas
If there is one scent that says “Christmas,” it is gingerbread cookies baking in the oven. As the holidays draw closer, be sure to make the traditional holiday cookie recipe. This cookie dough recipe, while easy to prepare requires lengthy refrigeration time. Make sure that you allow enough time for chilling prior to the actually cutting and preparing of the dough.
The traditional gingerbread cookie recipe includes:
½ cup dark corn syrup
2 eggs well beaten
5 cups flour
1-teaspoon baking soda
In a small saucepan, begin by creaming the butter with the sugar. Add the corn syrup and spices and blend well; heat all of the ingredients on the stovetop, stirring constantly until boiling. Once the mixture has boiled, remove from heat and let cool.
While the heated mixture is cooling, sift the flour and baking soda into a large bowl. Sifting large amounts of flour can take considerable time; so allowing the mixture to cool while you sift the flour is a great way to multi-task during your baking process.
When the mixture has reached room temperature, add the well-beaten eggs and vinegar to the mixture. Once these ingredients are well blended, begin to add the flour/baking soda combination to the liquid mixture, forming a smooth dough.
This dough must be chilled for several hours or overnight.
When you are ready to begin cutting the cookies, roll onto a lightly floured surface and cut into shapes. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Make sure that the cookies are completely cooled before you begin to decorate.
If you value the appearance and presentation of your holiday cookie platters, baking simple homemade truffles can provide the variety and visual dimension that you are seeking.
Truffles are often thought of as difficult to make, but with this simple recipe, they are easier than ever. This simple recipe creates delicious homemade truffles that look and taste like the fancy store-bought; surprise all your friend with your baking savvy when you present your homemade cookie platter this holiday season.
The simple recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles includes the following ingredients:
1 package, 8 squares, of semi-sweet baking chocolate
½ cup peanut butter
1 8oz tub of cool whip whipped topping, thawed
½ cup powdered sugar *
Using a large microwave safe bowl, microwave the semi-sweet chocolate on high heat for 2 minutes. Check the chocolate at one minute, stirring, to see if it is almost melted. Allow the chocolate to cook for another minute, removing from the microwave and stirring until completely melted.
Add the ½ cup peanut butter to the melted chocolate until well blended. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Once cooled, stir in the whipped topping and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Using a melon baler or a teaspoon, scoop the chocolate peanut butter mixture out of the bowl and shape into 1-inch balls. Roll in the powdered sugar.
* While the recipe discusses rolling the peanut butter-chocolate balls in powdered sugar, it is possible to add variety to your truffles by rolling the balls in finely chopped roasted pecans, flake coconut (colored coconut is always a nice idea for holiday color variation), grated semi-sweet or white baking chocolate squares or colored sprinkles. The choices and variations can be endless with a bit of creative thinking. | <urn:uuid:7842ffa5-55b5-4193-b9ca-9a816dcd6331> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://cookies.lifetips.com/cat/65701/cookie-recipes/index.html | 2017-12-18T13:36:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948616132.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218122309-20171218144309-00755.warc.gz | en | 0.901044 | 3,322 |
Saturday, October 1, 1:30 pm — 3:00 pm (Rm 409B)
Leslie Gaston-Bird, University of Colorado Denver - Denver, CO, USA
P21-1 Automatic Design of Feedback Delay Network Reverb Parameters for Impulse Response Matching—Jay Coggin, University of Miami - Coral Gables, FL, USA; Will Pirkle, University of Miami - Coral Gables, FL, USA
Traditional reverberation algorithms generally fall into two approaches: physical methods, which involve either convolving with room impulse responses (IRs) or modeling a physical space, and perceptual methods, which allow the use of practically any reverberation modules in various combinations to achieve a perceptually realistic reverberation sound. Perceptual reverberator algorithms are typically “hand tuned” where many of their parameters are found empirically. In this paper we present an automatic method of matching Feedback Delay Network parameters to real room impulse responses so that we may produce computationally efficient reverberation algorithms that perceptually match linear convolution with the target room IRs. Features are extracted from the target room IR and used to guide a Genetic Algorithm search to find the reverberator parameters.
Convention Paper 9666 (Purchase now)
P21-2 Perceptually Alias-Free Waveform Generation Using the Bandlimited Step Method and Genetic Algorithm—Francisco Valencia, codigoriginal - Medellin, Colombia; Samarth Behura, University of Miami - Coral Gables, FL, USA; Will Pirkle, University of Miami - Coral Gables, FL, USA
Quasi-Bandlimited waveforms may be synthesized by smoothing the discontinuities of trivial waveforms using the Bandlimited Step Method (BLEP) that produces excellent results with low computational overhead . The correction scheme first starts with a sinc function—the impulse response of a low-pass filter—and uses it to generate offset values that are applied to the points around the discontinuity. Windowing the sinc function prior to use is found to reduce aliasing at the expense of the harmonic envelope, whose shape is no longer ideal. In this paper we explore two methods for generating the initial sinc function in an effort to achieve a perceptually alias-free waveform. Both approaches involve using the Genetic Algorithm as a search method.
Convention Paper 9667 (Purchase now)
P21-3 Preserving Reverberation in a Sinusoidally Modeled Pitch Shifter—Sarah R. Smith, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY, USA; Mark F. Bocko, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY, USA
Many pitch shifting algorithms suffer when the signal contains reverberation. In general, it is possible to preserve the spectral envelope of the original sound, however, an appropriate phase response can only be estimated for minimum phase systems such as vocal formants. This paper presents a pitch shifting algorithm that preserves the reverberant qualities of the original signal by modifying the instantaneous amplitude and frequency trajectories of a sinusoidal model. For each overtone, the sinusoidal trajectories are decomposed into correlated and uncorrelated components and a deviation spectrum is calculated. To synthesize the modified sound, the uncorrelated components are adjusted to preserve the deviation spectrum. The resulting trajectories and sounds are then compared with those of a standard pitch shifter.
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Brian Gibson and Jason Kendall of Megasus at Acheron (more)
After releasing their punishing self-titled LP with 20 Buck Spin (and playing an equally punitive live show at Acheron), Megasus is back to release a new 5" mini-EP with Brutal Panda Records. The Menace of The Universe 5" features a pair of new tracks from the Providence beatdown artists including "Damned Hammer" and the title track, which is streaming below. Guitarist Ryan Lesser is responsible for the (impressive) artwork duties on the release, which will include die-cut six-panel packaging. You can see the art and pre-order the EP at Brutal Panda's site.
Megasus, the only band that has the distinction of having a record on Brutal Panda and 20 Buck Spin all while having a song in Rock Band 2, currently have no dates on their calendar. Neither does Lightning Bolt who share drummer/bassist Brian Gibson.
In between working on his fretwork and art for the upcoming release, Ryan Lesser also found time to tell us what his favorite things were in 2010. Check out that list while you listen to the song stream for "Menace Of The Universe" below.
photos by Lori Baily
sad but triumphant nightUSAISAMONSTER's final show happened Saturday, May 9th at the newly-decorated Market Hotel in Brooklyn. The bill included Awesome Color, Juiceboxxx, Eloe Omoe, Tunnel of Love, Bow Ribbons, Jason Crumer, Animental, Hot Box and Buck Gooter. At one point the show was stopped and the cops showed up because someone passed out. They left the club in an ambulance (I hope he is OK!), but the show went on. More pictures (including the ambulance) below...
Posted by Anonymous | May 10, 2009 4:47 AM
Was it as epic as the Bjork/Dirty Projectors show? I mean will it live on in infamy like that show? I mean will you be telling your kids 20 years from now how you were at this show?
Posted by Anonymous | May 10, 2009 5:18 AM
fuck your kids. :) USAISAMONSTER was great.
Posted by Anonymous | May 11, 2009 2:29 PM
by Andrew Frisicano
USAISAMONSTER @ the 1896 (more by Lori Baily)
-founded in early 2000 by Tom Hohmann and Colin Langenus out of the ruins of Boston legends Bull RoarerThat's how the USAISAMONSTER story starts on its website - nine years, several line-ups (see 2-person and 4-person incarnations below), and lots and lots of shows later, the band's Myspace reports that USAISAMONSTER's last show ever will happen May 9th at the Market Hotel (full line-up below).
-spring 2000, 1st incarnation includes 7 people, releases self titled diy cdr, does 1 week south eastern usa tour, breaks up
-summer 2000, becomes 4 piece with Jeremy Harris and Adam Tabor, diy releases trippy yet wholesome cdr, weedblood cdr, and soul jerker 7"er, does 1 week north eastern USA tour, breaks up -[USAISAMONSTER's web bio]
Before that final gig, the band also has a monthlong European tour in April, and two other planned NYC shows: on March 25th, USAISAMONSTER will join Arabrot (Norway), Uke of Spaces (Maine), Caethua (Maine) and Weirding Module at Brooklyn's Death By Audio. Then, on Thursday, April 2nd , USAISAMONSTER plays with Library is on Fire, Pterodactyl and Dj Scotty Karate at Glasslands Gallery.
All tour dates, a video from the band's "Brooklyn vs. Baltimore" show appearance on January 30th, and a full three-song set from Brilliant Corners in Keene, NH (recorded on April 21st, 2007), below...
photos by Lori Baily
Vivian Girls were the last-minute/secret early-opener. More pictures from Friday night's show below...
Stairwell Gallery (from their Flickr)
Saturday May 31st @ HARKET MOTELThe Usaisamonster are also playing JAMAICA BAY EXPERIMENTAL MARSHLAND RESTORATION PROJECT earlier the same day.
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"Stairwell is a small independent gallery in Providence founded in January of 2006 and run by Haley O'Connor and Natalie Purkey. The gallery is deeply rooted in Providence's art community, and prioritizes curatorial creativity and support of all the artists that it works with. Building relationships between artists, curators, and the larger community of Providence is privileged over commercial gain. If you have ever shown your work at Stairwell, played a show there, come to an opening and eaten the homemade food that the curators have prepared, or stopped in to visit, you know that this is a rare and magical venture. As such, it is inevitably risky. After a car accident in Los Angeles a few months ago (in which, thank goodness, nobody was hurt, but a hybrid rental car was nearly totaled) Haley is now deeply in debt to her insurance company. Although Stairwell has been growing in every way, this financial setback creates a significant obstacle, which we think that the community has the power to remove, or at least mitigate. It is time for all of us who have enjoyed the expansive generosity of Stairwell to return the favor and give back a little to support this singular and inspiring gallery." [Todd P]
USAISAMONSTER @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn - May 3, 2008 (thepiratehat)
tonight in NYC
* Coliseum & Tombs @ Europa
* Chris Thile @ The Living Room
* The Acorn @ Sound Fix Records
* Abe Vigoda @ Underground Lounge
* The Teenagers @ American Apparel
* Abe Vigoda @ Underground Lounge
* Pelican & Priestbird @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Bentley unveils the highly anticipated new generation Continental GT. The curves evolves significantly compared to its predecessor. Aesthetically already, it largely takes again the design of the concept EXP 10 Speed 6 of 2015 for a less massive pace. We notice a longer hood and plunging, overlooking 135mm advanced wheels.
Under the hood of the new Bentley Continental GT, we find a new evolution of the W12 TSI 6L biturbo, which develops here 635hp as on the penultimate version Speed. The maximum torque is 900Nm. This block is paired with a new eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox, and an intelligent all-wheel drive replacing the old 40/60 split between the front and rear by continuously distributing torque to all four wheels depending on conditions, favoring the rear axle by default.
The steering assistance is now electric. The car has lost more than 80kg thanks in particular to aluminum body panels shaped by thermoplastic molding. But it still displays 2.244kg on the scale. Note also the LED front lights with an interior design inspired by cut crystals. As standard, the Continental GT is equipped with 21-inch wheels. Optional, lightweight forged wheels of 22 inches.
AAA Luxury and Sport Car Rental team is glad to inform you that the new Bentley Continental GT rental will be soon available in our agencies ( Cannes, Paris, Monaco, Hamburg, Geneva, London, Nice, and Saint Tropez) with possibility to be delivered in many places accross Europe.
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KRCL Jobs/Recruitment 2015 for Managing Director : Managing Director Post 2015 KRCL Recruitment application form.
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Pakistan, the land of abundant child-marriage, is far too “secular” for tiny, radical minority of Muslims. And by “tiny, radical minority”, I mean TEN THOUSAND. At least. That’s just counting the lads who could fit showing up to a protest into their schedule. They’re busy guys — what with loads of women to rape and oppress. It’s time-consuming, back-breaking work.
The rally by Pakistan’s Sunni Tehreek group brought more than 10,000 protesters into the streets of Islamabad on Sunday, where they clashed with police.
The protesters are demanding strict Sharia law after the hanging of police officer Mumtaz Qadri, who killed Gov. Salman Taseer in 2011 over his opposition to the country’s far-ranging blasphemy laws.
The protesters are also demanding the hanging of a Christian woman Taseer had defended against blasphemy allegations.
First, for context, the Westboro Baptist Church has less than 40 members. We’ll skip past the part where they urge for the killing of a Christian… because that’s nothing new. (see 2015 Data: Christians The Most Violently Persecuted Religion on Earth)
Let’s take a moment to soak in the absolute chaos of Pakistan’s government. Remember this when the left touts “moderate” Islam to peddle peaceful coexistence. #NotAllMuslims. Except Pakistan’s own police officers are turning on government officials for not being Muslim enough. For not being extreme enough. For sure this puts a crater-sized wrinkle in the “moderate” Islam meme. But don’t worry, these extremists just make up a “small” percentage of the demographic… Call me crazy but 10,000 angry Pakistani men might as well be an army. “Small” percentage or not.
The government vowed to crack down on extremism after a suicide bomber targeted Christians celebrating Easter in Lahore, killing more than 70 people.
Sanaullah, who has faced allegations of being soft on pro-Taliban militants, said police in recent months detained 5,221 suspects but freed 5,005 because a lack of evidence. [M]ilitants have still managed to carry out large attacks, including a Taliban massacre at an army-run school… that killed 150 people, mainly children.
Also, these are just a portion of Muslims willing to violently protest. The number of Muslims globally who also support implementing Sharia law numbers over an estimated 800MILLION. Yes, 800 MILLION Muslims. Hm, let’s see. Targeting Christians? Check. Killing children? Check. Yep, sounds like
compassionate Muslims “militants” to me. Any word from the left on this? Didn’t think so… As per their favorite approach, anything that makes Islam looks bad doesn’t exist. Like saying terrorist and Muslim in the same sentence (watch CENSORED: White House Edits Video of French President Saying ‘Islamist Terrorism’). Because tolerance.
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Understanding your Point of Sale System Reports
How do you, as a retailer, take the information from your POS reports about where you are and use it to chart a path to where you want to go?
Imagine that you’re walking through a mall, and you need to find a particular store. You wander over to a large mall directory map, just like the one near the entrance every other mall. As you look at the map, you become confused…
The entire map is white.
There is a single dot in the middle that says, “You are here”.
Sometimes, this is what reports from your Point of Sale system can feel like. It is easy enough to run a report that tells you that your sales are down, or that your inventory is too high. But then what?
How much inventory do you need? How can you improve sales? What steps are required to grow? There are all of these questions and more.
If you don’t understand how to use the retail point of sale reports that are available to you, and need to know more about what they are telling you then contact Canadian Retail Solutions to schedule some training. We can provide training that can range from basic inventory management to full retail consulting.
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Interstate 275 is the beltway that runs around Cincinnati, Ohio. A portion of this beltway crosses the Ohio River 20 miles west of downtown as it runs between Indiana and Kentucky. In 1968 construction began on a four lane continuous steel arch-shaped truss bridge. It was completed in 1977.
The bridge is 1,759 feet long, with its largest span being 758 feet. The official name is the Carroll Lee Cropper Memorial Bridge. Carroll Lee Cropper was a judge in Boone County, Kentucky, where the bridge lands on the Kentucky side of the river. Cropper was judge for 20 years starting in 1942.
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I came across some great Text Message Marketing Tips that I though everyone could benefit from.
Building Your Database
When you have a client in your store/business making a purchase, before the transaction is completed ask them how they would like 5% or 10% off this purchase (or a set dollar amount) – Right Now! Have them text “your keyword” to 90210 right in front of you or your employees – give them the discount and you now have a new addition to your database to continue to market to and up-sell to for future business. The key to remember is “What’s In It For Me” if you make it worth your clients time and effort they will gladly join your Mobile VIP Club.
Be sure to ALWAYS include your phone number (with area code) in your call to action text messages – most smartphones generate a quick link to auto dial your number, if you don’t make it easy you are losing out on sales – if you are not looking for calls be sure to include your web address or Facebook page url.
Hope these help in generating a great ROI (Return on Investment) in regards to your Text Message Marketing Strategy.
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I needed to invoice a client yesterday and wanted to include her TSheets charges for last month. Since I had set her account up through the Apps beta program, I was able to easily find the invoice, identify her charges and quickly download a pdf version of the invoice to attach to her bill. That was easy! Thank you!!!
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If ever there was a royal moment which summed up just how bananas the world is right now, then it is this: Watching Prince Charles telling the world, via an iPhone video, that his Aston Martin runs on cheese.
Yes, cheese, specifically “whey from the cheese process” along with “surplus English white wine”. (Raising an even more important, existential question: Is there really such a thing as “surplus” vino?)
We know all of this because the 72-year-old heir to the throne has just done a wide-ranging interview with the BBC about climate change in which he revealed he understands the “frustration” of Extinction Rebellion activists and that he has put solar panels on the roof of Clarence House. Greta Thunberg would approve.
But hit play on the three-minute clip (which was shot on a smartphone and put out via the BBC) and something strange happens … you will find yourself genuinely liking Charles.
He comes across as endearingly committed to his eco work and his passion and zeal are abundantly clear. To borrow from the parlance of his daughter-in-law Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, the royal comes across as compassionate and authentic.
Watching it, something crystallised for me: The royal family is in the midst of a stealthy rebirth, from plaque-unveiling professionals adept at making small talk with pensioners to engaged, dynamic leaders on issues including climate change, sexual assault and mental health.
Somehow, without any fanfare, press releases or even a ceremonial 41-gun salute, the house of Windsor seems to have decided to mothball their century-old modus operandi, jettison their centuries of combined of ribbon-cutting expertise, and to emerge, chrysalis-like, as impassioned and vocal activists.
It’s a thrilling new version of what the monarchy can stand for and do – and it is one that Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex oh-so prematurely cut themselves off from.
Exhibit A) Next Sunday, UK time, will see William launch his inaugural Earthshot Prize, the biggest environmental awards in history, which will see $1.9 million distributed to each of the five winners.
The gongs will be handed out at a glittering, celebrity-stuffed event at Alexandra Palace and will see Coldplay perform a fossil fuel-free set and which will be powered by the energy created by 60 cyclists.
The night will also see Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, present an award, the first time she has taken part in an event which will be beamed live across the world to millions of people. (Well, aside from her wedding.)
This comes along with the broadcast of the associated five-part TV series, The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, which was hosted by William and highlights the enterprising and creative solutions communities and individuals around the world are finding to address climate change.
Hosting awards nights? Fronting TV series? Making Chris Martin sing Yellow?
This isn’t your grandma’s monarchy.
In William’s approach to the issue of climate, we are not simply seeing a well-meaning member of the royal family highlight an issue du jour, get the media to pay attention momentarily and then said HRH smugly exiting the stage for a well-earned G&T.
Instead, with his Earthshot Prize, we are seeing William take the stock standard HRH role and transform it into a much more proactive one, one defined by using his platform to support those finding solutions to address this urgent issue.
Goodbye speeches given on podiums; hello coalface.
In fact, over the last 18-months, we have seen the Duke of Cambridge give a TED talk (a first that one would have thought would have gone to Harry or Meghan) and fronted a 2020 documentary about his climate work.
(“Someone has to put their head above the parapet and say, I care about this,” he said at the time of his decision to make the 90-minute special. “To have the belief that if we all work together, we can make a difference.”)
Likewise, over the same period, Kate has taken part in her first Q+A, launched the biggest survey ever undertaken in the UK on early childhood which involved more than 500,000 Brits and then in June unveiled the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in a boffin-filled outing at the London School of Economics.
There was not a posey-toting child or plaque in sight.
Quite literally, the world has never seen, or heard, quite so much from senior members of the royal house, let alone on issues that in some quarters are still viewed as distastefully political and divisive.
This trend is one that is only going to become more pronounced in the weeks to come.
In early November, when 120 world leaders including US President Joe Biden gather in Glasgow for the UN’s COP26 climate conference, the Queen, Charles, his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall and William and Kate will be there rubbing shoulders too.
The world has not seen so many members of the royal house out in collective force, not counting Ascot or at Christmas, perhaps ever before.
What this paradigm shift really comes down to is the royal family’s work no longer being defined by saying, but rather by doing.
No longer content to give speeches, we are witnessing the emergence of the royal family 2.0., a version of The Firm that is marked by a willingness to throw oneself into the fray. (Mind the pearls though.)
Elsewhere, and getting nowhere near the attention they deserve, we’ve seen Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, become predominantly focused on addressing sexual and gender-based violence in war zones and who last year visited Sierra Leone.
Then there is Camilla who has become increasingly vocal and outspoken about her work centring on domestic violence and sexual assault and who in September became involved with Nigeria’s first sexual assault referral centre.
Imagine – just imagine – how much more potent this current conception of the monarchy would have been if Harry and Meghan were in the thick of it too.
Like so many stories about the Sussexes, this comes down to ‘if only.’
If only in late 2019, the malcontent duo had not let the idea of quitting foment. If only they had understood the power of the royal imprimatur (and that they would lose it the second they started sprouting lines about ‘progressive new roles’).
If only they had taken courtiers up on the mooted plans for them to live in South Africa. If only they had opted for some sort of circuit-breaking move rather than an irreversible, scorched earth withdrawal from palace life.
What is so interesting about the current royal renaissance we are witnessing is that it is such a stunning about-face from how things looked post-Megxit.
After their 2018 wedding, with their crowd-hugging, Instagram quote-posting way the Sussexes nearly immediately became shorthand for the future of the monarchy. Then, on January 8 last year they announced to the world they were done with being full-time working members of the royal family, and it immediately looked like they were taking the palace’s best chance of survival with them.
Instead, we’ve seen a stunning reversal of fortune.
Nearly 10 months after the launch of their Archewell Foundation, the Sussexes’ philanthropic efforts can, most generously, be described as scattered, with the couple having shown a frustrating propensity to skitter from issue to issue.
(During the couple’s recent three-day ‘tour’ of New York alone they took part in meetings that covered Covid, mental health, racial justice, women’s economic empowerment, and youth engagement, read to schoolchildren in Harlem and then appeared at the Global Citizen event which aims to tackle poverty, climate change and vaccination access. Even an ambitious deity hopped up on Red Bull could not simultaneously tackle so many grinding world problems.)
Harry and Meghan have proven, time and again, how skilled they are at delivering impassioned, moving speeches with an artful array of Diptyque candles in the background. Yes, they care – and deeply – but the world isn’t going to be saved via Zoom and from their Montecito sofa.
The chasm between that approach and the one we are seeing from William, Kate and Charles of late, could not be more pronounced.
The tragedy here is, this new palace modus operandi would have been the perfect fit for the driven Sussexes – if only they had not decided to become history’s most famous royal conscientious objectors.
What Charles and his sauvignon blanc-powered sports car epitomise is the palace’s seeming willingness to new ways of doing things and a certain impressive canniness. The monarchy’s endurance in this century will come down to the institution coming to stand for something meaningful in contemporary society.
Right now, what Charles, William and Kate are doing is carving out that new, updated role for the crown with gusto, determination and “surplus wine”. If only Harry and Meghan were a part of it too. And if only someone could explain to me what “surplus wine” meant.
• Daniela Elser is a royal expert and a writer with more than 15 years’ experience working with a number of Australia’s leading media titles.
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“The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”
“You and I get so weary in our experience of the wilderness, but Christ’s heart is never wearied, it is as freshly set on the bride as when God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.”
I simply believe that a spiritually romantic love really rules history and its events– all the twists and turns. Everything is simply being poured into this cosmic, eternal romance. Nothing else matters– except Jesus and His bride. Believe me when I say, I could do this in a myriad of ways. (But I won’t, so don’t hold your breath, lol.)
Maybe this is one of those things you have to take with a bit of faith.
Now– I’m not suggesting the “divine romance” is one of those absolute, mandatory doctrines that you must believe in order to go to heaven. Rather I think it is one that makes the most sense to me.
First. It explains much, ordering certain things to be worked together like a loomer weaves a rug.
Second. If romance is at the heart of the “real” universe– we start to see that the future is brighter that the past. And, perhaps we need that more than ever.
Think of your “romantic seasons” of your life. Those incredible intervals of bliss and love. Happy, content, and generous– it was so very easy to live, and love! We found ourselves elated by presence of our beloved person, joyfully doing everything necessary to be with them. Walking from the subway in dark and the rain, right past the muggers and drug dealers! Recall Jacob’s labors for Rachel? His love took seven years to transmogrify into just a few short moments of time. He was soooo in love!
I AM PRAYING FOR YOU right now. I so desperately want this teaching to be poured on you, I want you to see the Church as she really, truly is. She is the Bride of Jesus Christ! Song of Solomon (this book at the center of the Bible) contains the keys that will open up each door, and every treasure chest, in the Bible. It’s all about the love.
“We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things [the entire Cosmos] work together [and cooperating] and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God [the Church] and are called according to [His] design and purpose [the Bride]”
Romans 8:28, AMP
Suggested Reading list–
Each at http://www.amazon.com
- Destined for the Throne, by Paul Billheimer
- Song of Songs, by Watchman Nee
- Thy Hidden Ones, by Jesse Penn-Lewis
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STUDENT LIBRARY CIRCULATION RECORDS
Student library circulation records are designed to be used internally to assist in the orderly administration of the school District libraries. As a general rule, student library circulation records are considered confidential records and will not be released without parental consent. Individuals who may access such records include a student's parents, the student, authorized licensed employees, authorized government officials from the U.S. Comptroller General, the Secretary of Education, the Commissioner and Director of the National Institute of Education, and the Assistant Secretary for Education and State Education Department.
Appropriate authorities in a health or safety emergency may access the student's library circulation records without the approval or the notification of the student's parents. Parents may not access records, without the student's permission, of a student who has reached the age of majority or who is attending a post-secondary educational institution unless the student is considered a dependent for tax purposes.
It is the teacher-librarian's responsibility, as the person maintaining the student library circulation records, to approve requests for access to student library circulation records. Students' library circulation records may be accessed during the regular business hours of the school District. If copies of documents are requested, a fee for such copying is charged.
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Cross-posted at Skeptic North
I've been to a decent number of conferences over the past few years. Some academic, some popular, and most recently, my first skeptic conference. I noticed a few peculiarities at Skepchicon and I think some lessons I learned need to be shared. These peculiarities are not unique to Skepchicon, or to skeptic conferences, but they do seem to be endemic to most conventions where there are panel discussions, Q&A's, and in the case of CONvergence: costumes. Now with TAM8 over (yet again, without me), and Dragon*Con around the corner, I humbly offer my
I grew up in a small shack in Puckerbrush, Kansas, in a very religious household. I was always discouraged from critical thinking because of my older sisters' interest in sports, even though I was also a decent baseball player. It wasn't until I went to college until I met a professor who was remotely interested in science and baseball. Anyway, what do you think about global warming denial?
1) Don't share stories: Time is at a premium at these sorts of things, and sharing your life story (this is not an exaggeration: I heard several actual life stories from audience members at Skepchicon) is especially effecient at gobbling up this time. It's rude to the panel, and boring to those in the audience.
You mentioned 15 minutes ago that skepticism need more women. But I find that odd because appealing to tokenism only hurts our movement and distracts our energies.
2) Don't go overboard in offering your opinions. It's fine to have a brief discussion with the panelists, and it can make for an engaging topic, but make your point, then politely drop it. You'll probably get a chance to approach the panelist afterwards, because panels are designed and timed that way: For 30 minutes at the end, the panelists will hang around for further informal discussion. It's also an exercise in humility, because remember: the audience came to hear the panelists' opinions, not the opinions of the audience, however insightful they may be.
With regards to your point about blogging and expertise: You said that people should stick to their expertise and not argue the science if they're not qualified. But don't you think that the very spirit of peer review requires an idea to be subject to the scrutiny of everyone?
3) Don't try to disguise your opinion as a question - This kind of phraseology is endemic at academic conferences, and are the reason that I usually step out during the Q&A period. "Don't you think that..." is a bad way to introduce a point. It's patronizing, and you're not fooling anyone. When you do this, you're clearly not trying to engage the panelists or the audience in a discussion: you're just preaching and you may be trying to impress people. Kindly re-phrase it, or sit down. The clock is ticking.
I just want to respond to the gentleman who asked a question earlier: Do you really believe that skeptical activism is best served by catering to every religious sensitivity? Where do you draw the line?4) Don't have conversation with people in the audience - you can find them later, and again: time is at a premium. This is even more rude than monopolizing the time of one of the panelists. It's flat out telling the entire audience and panelists to shut up and listen to two people who nobody came to hear from. Definitely one of the most rude things you can do at a panel is to pretend the panel doesn't exist. This crosses the line from thoughtlessness into first-class jerk behavior.
I have a followup to my followup, because I'm not sure you answered or addressed my question exactly the way I wanted you to.
5) Don't go overboard with too many questions. Ask questions if you have them, but don't think that the panel exists at your leisure. Other people want to ask questions. Polite behavior at panel discussions allows for one question from a given audience member, and maybe a followup, depending on the context and time remaining.
When you said what you said about being polite to believers, you're risking giving too much of an overinflated voice to peddlers of woo, and that's hurting us all!6) Don't argue with a panelist. You can always argue with them later if you must, but people are there to hear what the panel has to say, not your trumped-up opinions. Disagreement is fine, and you can, only once during the time slot, insist a panelist be brought to explain something better, but you need to take into consideration
- the time of the slot (time may be running out)
- size of the audience (other people want to ask questions too)
- the size of the panel (maybe let, I don't know, a panelist address a concern?)
- the context (if you disagree with a panelists' prior statements on global warming, a panel about atheism is not the time to bring that up)
2) Get a Moderator! Moderate! Even if your panel doesn't have an assigned moderator, someone could step up (even if they weren't even on the original list of panelists) and act as a mod. Panelists can go on and on if you let them, and an effective moderator can help keep them (and the audience) on task. Rebecca Watson jumped on as an impromptu mod on one panel about skeptical blogging, and did a great job at making sure panelists and audience members stayed on topic and in time.
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That's about it. I hope that this guide was somewhat helpful, and I hope to make sure I remember these lessons myself for future conferences. It makes the whole conference more fun and interesting for everyone if individuals take a moment to check themselves just a little bit.
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(30) For the end, a Psalm * Gr. of a song. and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
1 I will exalt thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to thee, and thou didst heal me.
3 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.
4 Sing to the Lord, ye his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
5 For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favour: weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.
6 And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
7 O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled.
8 To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?
10 The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.
11 Thou hast turned my mourning into joy for me: thou hast rent off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
12 that my glory may sing praise to thee, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.
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Bill Chadwick: Galapagos bathymetry
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SOURCES OF DATA:
Shown above is a bathymetric grid of the Galapagos area (-94 to -84 in longitude; -3 to +3 in latitude; ~1-km grid cell size; 1001 x 601 pixels), which I created by merging all bathymetric datasets that were available as of 1994. From lowest to highest resolution this includes:
- DBDB5 global dataset, spaced at 5-minute intervals
- NOAA/Marine Geophysical Data Center ship-track bathymetric data
- Digitized hydrographic maps (topographic contours above sealevel and individual near-shore soundings below sealevel), courtesy of Dave Christie and Bob Duncan, Oregon State University
- SeaMARC II data from the 87 30'W overlapping spreading center (courtesy of Laura (Perram) Penvenne and Ken Macdonald, UCSB) and the Ecuador Rift (courtesy of Suzanne Carbotte and Ken Macdonald, LDEO and UCSB)
- SeaBeam multibeam sonar bathymetry
- data from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography database
- data collected by Dave Christie and Bob Duncan, Oregon State University, in 1990
- data collected by Bob Embley, NOAA/NURP/VENTS, in 1985
- U.S. Navy SAS data collected during the 1970's
HOW WAS THE GRID MADE?
The grid was made in 2 steps: first, all the data were assembled, editted, gridded, and then filtered with a 9-km wide window. Secondly, the high-resolution data (digitized hydrographic and topographic data, the SeaMARC II data, and the SeaBeam data) were gridded separately and then overlain on the first grid. This has the effect of preserving the detail of the best data where it exists, while smoothing out the noise in the lower-quality data.
GETTING A COPY OF THE GRID OR THE RAW DATA:
You are welcome to use this data in any publication or proposal, if it is accompanied by an acknowledgement such as "Bathymetric data compiled by William Chadwick, Oregon State University". If you would like to download a grid of this bathymetry (via ftp), click on one of the following links. The grid is available in GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) version 3 grid format ("galap.grd") or ArcInfo Interchange format ("galp1000.e00").
... Note, you probably need to click and hold down with your *right* mouse button and then choose "Save link as..." from the pop-up menu (this tells your browser that this is a binary file that you want to save to disk, not display on the screen, because it probably doesn't know what kind of file ends in *.grd or *.e00).
If you would like the raw data (ASCII xyz, longitude/latitude/depth records) from which my grid was made (for example, if you want to try gridding it yourself with your own software), you can download (ftp) the data in two files. One file is all the data, the other file is only the high-resolution data (see the notes above on "How the grid was made"). For both links below, click with your right mouse button to save the data to a file (otherwise it will just start scrolling on your screen). The file with all the data is "galapall.xyz.Z", (this file is 4.6 Mb compressed, and 15.7 Mb uncompressed). The file with only the high-resolution data is "galaptop.xyz.Z", (this file is 3.0 Mb compressed, and 10.9 Mb uncompressed). Your browser may uncompress the files automatically in transit, but if not see the notes below the map above for information on how to uncompress these files.
PROBLEMS WITH THE GRID
The grid is not perfect. The distrubution of data is very uneven, the data are very sparse in much of the area, and there are places where different datasets do not match. For example, south of the island platform there are hardly any data, and it is obvious that the few ship tracks do not match the underlying DBDB5 data very well (they are a little bit shallower). I have editted out obvious bad data points, but have not tried to rectify conflicting data sets by shifting navigation, or depth, or sound velocity, etc. For example, Doug Wilson (UCSB) sent me a list of potential problems with specific ship-track files, but I have not done anything about them. There are many more multibeam surveys that have been collected around the islands and along the Galapagos Rift since 1994 (see the Marine Geoscience Data System). There is definitely more work that could be done to improve the dataset...
Chris Fox and Bob Dziak used this map to plot T-phase (earthquake) epicenters from their Autonomous Hydrophone Array (AHA).
You can also check out the GPS and Gravity monitoring project on Fernandina and Sierra Negra volcanoes that I am involved in.
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On Monday, Monica talked to Reality TV World about if she thinks the chaos she caused before being cut was too little too late; why she thinks some former Foa Foa members aren't making the best strategic moves; what she's basing her jury vote on; and which castaway is playing with pure emotions.
Reality TV World: You did a good job of causing some chaos before you were eliminated, but don't you agree with Russell Hantz's comment that it was basically too little too late?
Monica: It might have been a little late in the game, but I definitely kind of underestimated the power of the Immunity Challenge and whether or not [Brett Clouser] would win. So I had to get my gameplay together a little more quickly than I thought.
I think that I played aggressively throughout the game and I think it definitely shows in how far I made it in the game. Whether or not I did it to make good TV like certain people or whether or not they showed it, I definitely had a lot of game play and a lot of strategy going into it that got me as far as I did. There was a little bit more there in my last moments, but in the end there was a lot of people who weren't ready to make bold moves and were wanting to kind of ride coattails a little bit.
Reality TV World: I know you told Russell that being more aggressive earlier in the game might have gotten you booted sooner, but based on what you just told me you think you did play aggressively earlier?
Monica: I do. There were times when my head was definitely on the chopping block. People saw me as a threat socially in the social game. That comes to play in the fact that they were trying to get [Laura Morett] and I out from the very beginning. I did a lot to stay in the game at that point and it shows in how far I did make it in the game.
Reality TV World: You took a lot of credit for causing some conflict within Foa Foa before your elimination but it seemed like that was likely to begin happening any ways given there's only six people left and they can't go much longer as a five-person alliance. Do you really think they wouldn't have been talking about turning on each other if you hadn't tried to stir things up?
Monica: You know what, they were playing a very [politically-correct] game at that point -- the person playing most aggressively was Russell. I don't know that they would have gotten there themselves had I not started a lot of that conflict.
Reality TV World: When did you learn that Russell was a multi-millionaire -- was it actually when you were lying on the beach talking with Brett and Jaison Robinson like the editing of last night's episode showed?
Monica: That's exactly when I found out. I was shocked, you can tell by the look on my face. I was just like, "Oh my god!" Yes, I knew he was lying about being a firefighter -- I had a very strong gut feeling that he was lying about being a firefighter and all these lies about being in Hurricane Katrina.
But I didn't really know exactly what it was that he did. I think everybody has a lot of cliches when they think of who works where and who has a lot of money or whatever. I was definitely shocked to see that Russell was one of those people.
Reality TV World: Do you think it was the right decision on your part to confront Russell about it, or do you think you should have tried to use that information to try and get some of the other Foa Foa members to blindside him instead?
Monica: Looking back, hindsight is 20/20. I think that the people who were definitely wavering most were [Mick Trimming] and Jaison. Looking back now, maybe I should have pushed those two a little bit further. I think I still would have threatened Russell or gone there and tried to strategize and tried to really push Russell to go in the direction that I wanted him to.
But I think I would have played even more angles up and really worked it harder than I did. I don't know that I made any clear mistakes at that point.
Reality TV World: When Russell asked you who told you he was rich, you initially said it was Natalie White before changing to Jaison. Why was that -- was that just an honest mistake or was there more to it?
Monica: I can't really remember to be honest with you. (laughing) It all seems so far away at this point. But once I realized I put those names out there I definitely worked both aspects to create more conflict there. I did feel bad for Natalie when Russell was yelling at her, but I made it very clear who told me.
At one point -- once he already yelled at Natalie and Jaison -- I went back and said, "Hey Russ, just so you know it was Jaison." So I think that'll be a big game-changing point as well -- or I hope that it will be in the fact that it might help Natalie and hurt Jaison.
Reality TV World: What was your goal in telling Russell you could "make or break" him on the jury? It seemed like you'd been around him long enough at that point to know that threatening him was likely to make him more adamant about voting you off, so were you really thinking that might cause him to keep you or were you just trying to get some digs in before you left?
Monica: When you say "been around long enough" you mean watched the show and have seen that he doesn't take kindly to threats. Actually, I wasn't aware of his little, "You threaten me, you're out of the game" threats. I think had I known that maybe I would have danced around that issue a little bit more eloquently.
Looking back and after watching [Marisa Calihan] threaten him and get voted off and watching me threaten him and get voted off and watching [Betsy Bolan] lose trust in him and her as a result get voted off. Yeah, watching it I realized he doesn't take kindly to threats. But out there in the game I didn't know that.
Reality TV World: You didn't seem to have a lot of influence over your alliance's decisions during the game, so did you really feel you would have that much sway over their jury votes or were you just bluffing?
Monica: No... At least two of the people are strong members of my alliance. So, I knew that I definitely had an impact when it came to the jury.
Reality TV World: Who are the two strong members you're talking about?
Monica: The people that were there at this point, it would have been Laura and [Kelly Sharbaugh].
Reality TV World: Thursday night's episode didn't show it, so did you ever mention knowing about Russell being a multi-millionaire during the Tribal Council?
Monica: I'm pretty sure I did. Again, the Tribal Councils are a lot longer than what they show obviously. I'm pretty sure I did.
Reality TV World: Do you remember what reaction it got?
Monica: I know I definitely got a big grin from Laura and a nod of the head. Overall, it was a shift of the heads of most of the jury, but that was the strongest reaction I got. That's all.
Reality TV World: You've already mentioned Mick and Jaison maybe being a little leery of Russell, and you and Brett had that conversation with Mick in the shelter. Was there any point where you really thought you could successfully convince Foa Foa to turn on Russell or did you consider it a longshot all along?
Monica: You're sitting there and you're starving and you're hungry -- you've been out there for 33 days -- you really think, "I can play this up. I can work these people. I can do this." I think definitely you have hope in what you can do. But there's only so much you can do when you have people who are sticking around just to make it to the next move and really aren't playing aggressively to win the $1 million.
They're just happy that they were able to sway the numbers in their favor and at that point they're like, "Well, I made it a lot farther than I would of. Let's just keep going with our same initial plan." I don't know if that plan will get you to the $1 million. I doubt that a plan like that will get you to the $1 million.
Reality TV World: Why did you and Brett cast your votes to eliminate David Ball? How did you know that the plan to instead eliminate Shannon "Shambo" Waters wasn't going to happen?
Monica: It seemed pretty obvious. They had come back and said they wanted to vote Dave out, so that was kind of like an olive branch to try and get Mick and Jaison in our court. It's like, "Okay fine. We're going to show you that we're your friend by voting one of our own out." But in the end we wanted to try and really push to get our way, but...
Reality TV World: Seeing as how you were much smaller than the other remaining castaways, do you think the Immunity Challenge that preceded your elimination was fair? It seemed like you had a lot of trouble mustering enough strength to launch your bags into your basket.
Monica: For me, no, I don't think it was fair. At that point, a challenge based on strength just really sucks for me at that point -- especially something like that catapult which definitely needed a lot of oomph to get those bags in. (laughing)
Had it been more of a swim challenge I think that I would have done a lot better. At first when I saw that it was a swimming challenge I was like, "Okay, cool. This is one of my major strong points." I don't know if you saw some of the earlier swimming challenges with Laura, but we definitely dominated that challenge and did a great job.
So I was really happy it was a swim challenge, but then when I heard about the catapult I was like, "Oh my god. This is terrible." I think had it been a little more swimming-based, I don't think I would have lost. Yeah. That sucked. (laughing)
Reality TV World: When you were trying to save Dave you told Russell that you felt Shambo was a big threat to win jury votes. Did you really believe that, because based on the relationship she had with the rest of Galu during the game, it's kind of hard to believe that she would get a lot of votes, especially compared to Dave, Brett or yourself.
Monica: No, I didn't believe that. (laughing)
Reality TV World: I figured you didn't. So it was just strategy? You were trying to scramble a little bit?
Monica: Absolutely. I didn't believe for a second that Shambo would get a lot of jury votes. She had all those Galu members on the jury, but she also pissed off a lot of those Galu members I think more than the Foa Foas.
Reality TV World: During your conversation with Russell, you also told him you were going to base your jury vote on "who needs the money." Were you telling him the truth and if not, what criteria did you think was important deciding who deserved the $1 million?
Monica: I was telling a version of the truth. When you're sitting there and you're about to vote to give someone $1 million, I think financial need is a consideration. Personally, for me it is. For some people it wouldn't be, they'd be basing it completely on game play. But for me, I would consider financial need.
Do I think it would be my sole consideration? Absolutely not. I think there's a lot of varieties that go into who you vote for when you're on the jury. It goes into financial need, it goes into game play, it goes into how you treated other people, what kind of game you played -- a lot of aspects go into deciding who wins that $1 million.
Reality TV World: Russell also made a comment in which he seemed to suggest he believed he could win a jury vote against Dave but was less confident he could win against Shambo. Was that just the editing or do you think he really felt that way, because that seemed kind of odd given that unlike Shambo, Dave seemed to get along with all the Galu folks.
Monica: I think it was somewhat of a pipe dream on Russell's part. However I think that Russell definitely played a more strategic game than Dave did. I don't think that people would basically disrespect the strategy and not really care how far it got him in the end. But he would have to make a very strong argument to the jury in order to beat Dave. Dave had a lot of friends on the jury at that point.
Reality TV World: When we talked to John Fincher, he claimed that he would have been able to turn Shambo against the Foa Foa and save all the remaining Galu folks if you guys had let him know that Russell had decided to vote him off instead of voting Dave off like Shambo wanted. Do you believe that?
Monica: I think John -- as he usually does -- is giving himself a little bit more... Well no, A LOT more credit than he actually deserves.
Reality TV World: That's how I assumed you would answer.
Monica: No, no, no. John is not going to sway Shambo. If John is going to sway Shambo, then why didn't he have Shambo not vote against Laura? Why didn't he sway Shambo at that point? I think John thought he had a lot more control at that point than he actually did. John didn't really know the game to begin with. (laughing)
Reality TV World: Last week's episode seemed to show Jaison thinking along the same lines as John and expressing his concern that voting John off instead of Dave would have given Dave, Brett and yourself a chance to re-align with Shambo and force a 4-4 tie Tribal Council vote but Thursday night's show didn't show you guys trying that. Did you guys ever approach her about possibly turning on Foa Foa?
Monica: We didn't want to go up to them in threes and just really overwhelm them. We tried to really go in and plant seeds one or two people at a time. That was the way we went about it. What else are we doing with the 24 hours of our day when we're sitting around camp? We're fighting to stay in that game every second we're out there.
Reality TV World: What about Shambo? Did you guys ever approach her about possibly turning on Foa Foa?
Monica: I know I tried. You saw me trying when they showed the deleted scenes in the episode on Thanksgiving -- I tried to talk to Shambo at that point. Shambo was just in this world of anti-purple (Galu) and pro-yellow (Foa Foa). I think she had this little fantasy world of Foa Foa making all of her dreams come true.
It was especially hard at that point, not to mention the fact that she was basing her vote on emotion. You have to seek moves with people in this game -- even if you don't like them -- and I think the fact that she went and voted Dave off based on the fact that she just didn't like him, and what she did with Laura as well, I think they were poor moves.
Reality TV World: Thursday night viewers finally saw some of Brett -- who has basically been non-existent this season. What's your take on Brett as a player?
Monica: Brett isn't there to make huge and enlightening TV moments -- he's there to get himself further in the game and win $1 million. I think that's awesome. It's gotten him very far at this point.
Unfortunately, you have people who make for "better TV" or make stronger moves -- people like Shambo, people like Russell, or even my little performance on Thursday (laughing). At that point, the producers want to make good TV. Can you blame them? It's a TV show.
So I think it's harder to show Brett, who sits back a little bit and waits to make his moves. I think he definitely analyzes his enemies and where his place is in the game, which I think is really strong strategic game play.
Reality TV World: How were you cast for Survivor: Samoa? Was it your first time applying to the show?
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Geneva / Damascus – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the civilian population in the city of Aleppo is undergoing enormous suffering because of deliberate cuts to water and electricity supplies. Around two million people live in the city but many, on both sides of the front lines, are having severe difficulty in accessing water.
"Vital services for the people, such as the water supply, must be kept away from the politics of the Syrian conflict," said the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser. She recently returned from Aleppo, where she met Syrian authorities and crossed the city's frontline to discuss the issue of water availability with the parties involved in the fighting.
The water supply in Aleppo depends on the operation of pumping and electricity stations but each is controlled by different warring parties. The operation of the stations is often used in a way to put pressure on the other side. "Too often in Syria, water becomes a tool in the hands of fighting parties. It becomes a weapon of war. And it is civilians who suffer the most. Access to water should be unconditional," said Ms Gasser.
A similar situation exists in Damascus where cutting the water supply has been used as a tactic to exert pressure on the other side. Five years of conflict have severely affected the country's water infrastructure. As much as half of the total production capacity has been lost or damaged.
Aleppo. ICRC and SARC engineers inspect one of the city's pumping stations./CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/P. Krzysiek
Throughout Syria, the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have been doing their best to support the maintenance of water supplies in close collaboration with water boards on both sides of the front lines. In Aleppo the ICRC and SARC have created a contingency network of boreholes on both sides of the front lines which help with the supply. Between January and June 2015, 16 million people across Syria benefited from water projects organized by the ICRC and SARC.
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After squandering lead, UMass men's hoop wins in OT
UMass guard Chaz Williams drives to the basket against Elon Saturday at the Civic Center in Springfield. Purchase photo reprints »
University of Massachusetts forward Sampson Carter, left, drives to the basket against Elon on Saturday at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. UMass won 78-73 in overtime. Purchase photo reprints »
University of Massachusetts forward Maxie Esho puts up a contested shot against Elon on Saturday at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. UMass won 78-73 in overtime. Purchase photo reprints »
University of Massachusetts guard Trey Davis, right, moves the ball against the Elon defense on Saturday at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. UMass won 78-73 in overtime. Purchase photo reprints »
UMass guard Jesse Morgan pulls up for a jump shot against Elon Saturday at the Civic Center in Springfield. Purchase photo reprints »
UMass forward Raphiael Putney floats a shot over Elon defenders Saturday at the Civic Center in Springfield. Purchase photo reprints »
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SPRINGFIELD — After squandering a handful of opportunities to close out a win late in regulation, the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball still managed to escape with a victory over Elon in the Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase Saturday afternoon at the MassMutual Center.
Like the rest of the Minutemen’s wins this season, UMass survived anxious moments en route to a 78-73 win in overtime before 3,085 fans.
The Minutemen led by as many as nine in the second half and were ahead 64-58 with 1 minute, 58 seconds left in regulation.
But Sebastian Koch made two free throws and Austin Hamilton made one to bring the Phoenix within 64-61 with 1:08 remaining. UMass coach Derek Kellogg has been frustrated all season by his team’s inability to box out on free throws and it cost the Minutemen again. UMass could not corral the missed free throw by Hamilton and it was tipped by Lucas Troutman.
The ball eventually caromed to Hamilton, who was fouled by Chaz Williams. Hamilton made both free throws this time to cut the Minutemen’s lead to 64-63 with 1:03 left.
After Williams made a layup at the other end to stretch the edge to 66-63 with 39 seconds left, Raphiael Putney blocked Koch’s shot in the paint, but the ball bounced to Tanner Sampson, who buried a game-tying 3-pointer with eight seconds left.
Williams then attacked the basket from the right side and was fouled by Jack Isenbarger with 2.2 seconds left.
UMass (5-3), which has won three games already this season with baskets in the last five seconds, appeared to be in good shape to add a fourth. Williams entered the game as a career .775 free throw shooter (.677 in 2012-13). But he missed both and Elon grabbed the rebound and called time out. But Isenbarger’s desperation heave was well off the mark.
“I thought the game was over honestly,” Kellogg said. Williams is “about as clutch a player as I’ve been around. I was a little shocked he didn’t make both of them. … I think he’ll make them the next time around.”
Williams said he did not dwell on the misses.
“I knew my teammates were going to be there for me no matter what,” Williams said. “I just worried about the next play. I didn’t worry about the free throws much once I missed them.”
The Minutemen scored the first four points of overtime, but Elon answered with the next four to tie the score at 70-70 with 1:39 left.
Jesse Morgan did not have a point in the game when he drove to the basket from the left side after missing his first eight shots. But he leaned in and laid the ball off the glass to put UMass ahead 72-70.
Isenbarger missed a 3-pointer at the other end and Williams stole the rebound from Troutman.
Williams made three of four free throws on the Minutemen’s next two possessions to extend their lead to 75-70 with 32 seconds left. UMass made just three of six free throws after that, but the Phoenix did not make another field until a meaningless dunk by Koch at the buzzer.
“We’re tired of winning like this,” Williams said. “But at the same time, a win is a win.”
Williams finished with 20 points and nine assists (four turnovers), and 14 of his points came after intermission as the Minutemen stayed with Elon despite the lack of production from their starting backcourt. Williams and Morgan were 2-for-7 from the field in the first half for just six points.
The frontcourt carried UMass throughout. Terrell Vinson had a career-high 22 points. On a day when his teammates struggled badly from the line (18-for-33), Vinson made 13-of-14 free throws.
“I’ve just been practicing my free throws,” Vinson said. “I’ve been in a nice little rhythm in the past couple of games.”
Sampson Carter continued to thrive with extended minutes with 13 points and 11 rebounds (four in overtime), while Maxie Esho had eight points, nine rebounds and three steals off the bench.
Isenbarger had 22 points, including 16 in the first half, for the Phoenix (6-4), but the Minutemen held him to 2-for-11 shooting after intermission.
Elon shot just 29.9 percent (23-for-77) in the game.
“We’re going to take the win and move on from this,” said Kellogg, whose team hosts Ohio in the second half of a doubleheader Wednesday night at the Mullins Center. “Now we have a nice run of games where we’re actually playing. It’s not like we’re going to win a game and then take 10 days off. We’ll see what these guys have and go from there.”
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In a new ‘blast from the past’ series, we take a look at the memorable midfield partnership formed by Jean de Villiers and Jaque Fourie at national level.
When looking at the Springboks’ leading combinations, it’s notable that De Villiers and Fourie remain far and away the most settled centre pairing that has been fielded in the international arena.
The duo, who also both previously played for the Stormers, started in 29 Tests together, with the next centre combination of De Wet Barry and Marius Joubert playing 18 matches as a combination.
Interestingly, the modern-day duo of Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel have played as a starting combination in 15 Tests, and could well overtake Barry and Joubert in years to come.
However, it’s De Villiers and Fourie who formed a standout partnership that won’t be easily replicated. Take a look at some of the highlights from their careers and then let us know in the comments section what some of your best memories of these two Bok greats are. | <urn:uuid:271dde62-ee96-4c77-a92a-c75647bbb355> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.sarugbymag.co.za/blast-past-top-combinations/ | 2020-07-07T00:32:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655890566.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20200706222442-20200707012442-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.957178 | 222 |
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Outdoor activities are one way to enjoy the warm weather of spring and summer, but Soldiers and Family members should be mindful that high temperatures pose a significant risk for heat injury.
According to the U.S. Army Public Health Command, first prevention, then early recognition and treatment of heat injuries, are critical to curbing weather-related deaths. Soldiers have been trained to prevent and identify heat injuries on duty, and they can apply that same knowledge to protect themselves and their Family members 24/7. One helpful source is Technical Bulletin Medical 507/Air Force Pamphlet 48-152 (I), which describes the symptoms of and treatment protocols for the three most common heat injuries.
• Heat cramps. Symptoms: spasms in the arms, legs or stomach. Treatment: sip water, massage cramping areas and replace lost salt through food. Never take salt tablets unless directed by a physician.
• Heat exhaustion. Symptoms: headaches, paleness, clammy skin, excessive sweating, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite, nausea and exhaustion. Treatment: sip water, lie in a shaded area and rest, and loosen or remove clothing.
• Heat stroke. Symptoms: headache, dizziness, delirium, nausea, vomiting and body temperature of 106 F or higher. Treatment: Heat stroke is a medical emergency and can be fatal. Immediately call 911 and follow the dispatcher’s instructions for treatment you can perform before help arrives. Reducing body temperature is paramount in rescue efforts, and the most effective cooling strategy entails removing the victim’s clothing and immersing him or her in cool or iced water while massaging the skin (ice sheets or ice packs are acceptable if immersion isn’t possible). Anyone suspected to be suffering from heat stroke should be transported to a hospital immediately, preferably by trained medical professionals such as paramedics.
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It may be over 60 years since WWII, but the spirit of 'Make Do & Mend' is very much alive and well. Colette Patterns have embraced the resurgence of crafting and created a range of sewing patterns for vintage-inspired clothing.
They have a range of pieces on offer, from a selection of summer frocks to menswear, suitable for any level of sewing expertise. Each is easily adapted in a range of versatile fabrics and are available in modern sizes 0 to 18. Their website is also a haven for crafting whizzes and have-a-go novices alike, featuring tutorials and tips for trickier stitches and fancy finishing touches.
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Decide on Materials
Once you figure out some details about the layout of your kitchen remodel, it’s time to start looking at materials. For this, you’ll want to consider what sort of atmosphere you want to create in your kitchen and your house overall. You should make sure the materials you pick will flow well with the rest of your home.
First, take a look at cabinets and floors and decide whether you want to use wood or a different material. Stone can make for beautiful, polished kitchen surfaces, whereas wood will create a warmer, more elegant feel. You need to decide whether you want your kitchen to feel light and airy or sophisticated with darker colors.
After you’ve decided on the cabinet and floor materials, it’s time to take a look at countertops. Of course, you’ll want to make sure these coordinate with the materials you picked out already. But you should also take practicality into account here. For instance, if you cook with vinegar a lot, a marble countertop may not be your best choice.
Plan for Enough Counter Space
One of the biggest questions in kitchen remodeling is how much counter space you want/need. This will depend in large part on your cooking habits – how often you like to cook, and for how many people. In general, if you have space, it’s better to err on the side of more counter space than you need.
If you cook every night for a family of four or more, you probably want to arrange for a lot of extra counter space. You should work with a contractor to determine how much counter space is enough, and you want to have enough to prep meals for everyone. However, if your family is smaller, or you eat out most nights, sacrificing some counter space for more storage may be a good idea.
The other factor you’ll want to take into account when deciding on counter space is how many appliances you have. If you have a stand mixer, a toaster oven, a coffee pot, a countertop microwave, or other appliances, you’ll want enough counter space to store them all.
You should also make sure your cabinets are high enough to accommodate all your appliances.
These are all things that your Expert Kitchen Designer can help you with!
Decide on Lighting
Lighting can make or break a kitchen, and it’s one of the most important things to consider when you’re planning a kitchen remodel.
No one wants to feel like they’re cooking in a cave, and a properly lighted kitchen can be a joy to use. You’re going to want to focus on high-traffic areas when deciding where to put your lights.
If you know you like to chop vegetables and prepare meat on the counter to the left of the stove, you should have some extra lighting there. Putting some spotlights over your stove can be helpful for keeping an eye on dishes while they cook. You may also want to consider putting some lighting under your cabinets to add some visual and functional lighting to your kitchen.
Take some time to think about what style of lighting you want as well.
If you’re going for the light and airy look, pendant lights can be a beautiful choice. But if you’re planning to have dark cabinets and floors, recessed lighting can provide good light sources without detracting attention from the other kitchen fixtures.
Plan Storage Space
After counter space, the next biggest real estate accommodation should be for storage space. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to cram dishes or groceries into overcrowded cabinets or drawers.
What kind of storage space you want, as with most things during a kitchen remodel, will depend on how you plan to use your kitchen.
If you’re a shorter person, you may prefer to forgo upper cabinets in lieu of a pantry. Or depending on what set of dishes and utensils you have, you may prefer to have more drawers than cabinets. When you’re thinking about how you currently use your kitchen, take some time to consider what storage options will work best for you.
This is one of the stages of a kitchen renovation where having a Professional Kitchen Designer will be crucial. They can help you decide on the right combination of cabinets, drawers, and pantry space for your kitchen needs. There are also some very creative storage options for kitchens these days that they can help you incorporate.
Ventilation is an important and often-overlooked part of any kitchen renovation. Depending on how your kitchen is structured, you may need to plan for a vent hood. But even if you don’t have a full vent hood, you do need some sort of ventilation in place in the kitchen.
If your stove is against a wall in your kitchen, you’ll need to plan to have a vent hood installed. Your options for vent hood designs are almost endless, from minimalistic, sleek models to more dramatic copper and wood versions. You’re limited only by your design needs and your budget.
In some circumstances, you may have a stove/oven in an island. In this situation, you’ll still need put in a vent hood, but you’ll need to get a different model than the standard ones that install against a wall. This isn’t a big deal, but it may require modifying your ventilation system a little more than usual.
Group Functions Together – The Kitchen Work Triangle
When you’re planning your new kitchen layout, you want to make your kitchen as easy to use as possible.
You won’t enjoy cooking if you have to hike halfway across your house every time you want to put a dish in the sink. The key is to group different functions together so all your tasks are in one place.
It’s a good idea to put your stove and oven near each other if they aren’t part of the same unit. If your stove is on an island and your oven is on the wall, try to place them across from each other. Likewise, it’s a good idea to put your dishwasher near your sink and the place where you store your dishes.
Compact kitchen layouts offer a good way to keep everything within reach. You can create layouts that offer plenty of space and still keep things near at hand. Your Expert Kitchen Designer will be able to help you lay out plans that will make the best use of your space.
Consider a Side Sink
Everyone knows the main sink is a crucial part of a kitchen, and this is a detail you’ll need to figure out during your remodel. But it may be a good idea to also have a side sink in your new kitchen. If you have a tendency to procrastinate on doing dishes or if you want to have a wet bar or a coffee bar, a side sink can be a lifesaver.
Sometimes, dishes just pile up, and when you’re in the middle of getting dinner on the table, the last thing you want is to have to do a load of dishes just to get a glass of water. If you put in a side sink with a small basin and a tap, you can grab water out of that when the sink is full. Talk to your designer about the options, but you may be able to get away with running a cold water line over to that smaller sink.
Choose Your Dishwasher
As anyone who loves to cook knows, having a good dishwasher is as important as having a good stove or oven. You want a machine that’s powerful enough to get your dishes clean without you having to scrub everything first. And some of the newer dishwashers have some very cool features.
Of course, the first question with dishwashers is going to be your budget. You can spend almost as much as you want on a dishwasher, depending on what features you want for your model.
Decide on what you’re willing to spend and the features that you consider absolutely necessary ahead of time to make the decision easier when it comes time to choose.
Smart devices are the name of the game in terms of appliance replacement, and dishwashers are no exception. New smart dishwashers can tell you how much water you’re using, reduce water wasting, and help you save on your water & electricity bills. For those looking for an eco-friendly option, these dishwashers can be a great addition to a renovation.
Add Some Height
If you’re short or have tall upper cabinets, having some extra height around can be handy. But if you don’t have a tall spouse, you may not always want to have to drag the step stool out of the closet every time you need some flour off the top shelf.
Luckily, kitchen layouts these days have all sorts of clever options for helping you reach the things you need to.
Some of the cabinet manufacturers are now beginning to introduce hidden storage and accessibility options into their cabinets. Talk to your designer about how to incorporate step stool options into your kitchen and pantry.
Dishwasher for kitchen remodel
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when redesigning a kitchen is to follow the current trends just because it’s a “hot new fad”. It may be tempting to paint your new cabinets the color that’s all the rage this year. But just a couple years down the line, you may look back on that decision with regret.
Instead, pick styles that will stay around for a while. There’s nothing wrong with following new design innovations, but in general, it’s better to stay away from bold trends when it comes to kitchen remodels. Wild colors and strange architecture can also make it harder to sell your house down the road. Buy houses in Rowlett Tx
Stick to neutral colors and classic materials when you’re planning your new kitchen. You can use unusual materials like concrete and resin, but make sure they’re done in sophisticated, timeless styles.
This is another area where help from an expert kitchen designer can make a huge difference, and save you from buyer’s remorse a few years later.
Get Kitchen Planning Ideas
Remodeling a kitchen can be a wonderful thing. It’s exciting to have a new space to cook in, and creating something to fit your family’s needs is wonderful. Be careful in considering the details, and you’ll wind up with a kitchen you love to be in.
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I saw this thing on TV, right. It was a science programme and it was ’bout light and all the colours we see and the colours we don’t see. Light’s a spectrum is what the presenter said and our eyes only able to see a part of the spectrum.
This woman held a prism up to a beam of white light and it broke into a rainbow of colours, if a rainbow can be pressed straight as a trouser crease. But then she said there was a whole other light we didn’t see, bands at either side of the rainbow colours. Invisible light or dark light she called it.
It’s like there’s a whole other fucking world that just ain’t visible to us. And there was shit said about invisible light passing through us and passing through everything and spaces between atoms so that it was like we wasn’t made of nothing much at all. Jesus, that freaked me out and I don’t mind telling you.
And then it got me to thinking.
Take our front room when there’s no one in it. An empty room, right? ‘Cept if there’s colours we don’t see, then there just might be a whole lot else that’s invisible, too. There, in our front room.
My mam, she gave birth to me in that room, see. They’d set up a bed there so she didn’t have to climb the breathless stairs each night. The midwife came when it was mam’s time and my time, and the midwife’s name was Barbara. She kept sending my da off to boil water for no other reason than he was a goodness-to-sake bloody nuisance with his fretting and his asking if we was there yet. And if I close my eyes I can see it all, the yellow-lit room, so bright it was like the sun had crept in there, and Barbara with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows and gently reminding my mam to breathe, a watch pinned upside down on her breast bib, and it was seven minutes after midnight.
Mam told the story often enough I can see it right down to the smallest detail, and I can hear my da knock-knocking soft and hard as a heartbeat at the room door, like it wasn’t his house no more. And Mam pushing, I can see that, too, and the midwife holding her hands and counting down, and Mam sweating like a pig and sucking in air, till the next time to push, and then straining again with every sinew of her being even though it hurt like buggery – that’s how Mam said it. And at last Mam pushing me out of the slippy dark and into this bright visible world. And Mam said I was briefly blue as a bruise and the midwife holding me limp like a landed fish and looking serious for just a moment.
And there was a girl once, in the same room, and her name was Jenny and she had the bluest eyes – so blue I miss ‘em even now – and we was sitting together on the settee in the firelit dark and all Jenny’s words was breath and whisper and she said I wasn’t to tell no one, cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye.
She had one hand down the front of my jeans and she was holding my hard cock in her hand and not holding it still. And she seemed to know what she was doing. And we was kissing and licking, and she kept looking into my eyes and I was looking into hers; and they say, don’t they, that the eyes is the windows to the soul and I swear I could see heaven in Jenny’s eyes.
It was my first time and she kept telling me to breathe, like it was something I’d forgotten how to do. And don’t stop, I kept saying through my teeth, don’t stop; and she laughed when I came, there in our front room, in the firelit dark and the crackling quiet, and it was like we was invisible to the whole world.
And my da – big as a door once and he filled the room and then some when he was in it, that’s how it seemed. And it was like he didn’t fit, not nowhere, his arms and his legs too big, and you could crawl under his legs when he was sitting down and he’d never know. And he passed away, my da, slumped in the chair by the fire – his chair and forever his. If I look, my eyes narrowed a little, I think it still holds the shape of him pressed into the cushions, like he only just got up to go to his work or his bed.
I remember the night, the last he had on this visible earth. He was sitting in his chair and he just looked like he was sleeping, same as he always was by that time, which was somewhere between supper and the late Big-Ben-chiming news. ‘Cept this time he wasn’t breathing and I didn’t notice at first.
I brought him through a cup of tea, the way he liked it – milk and two sugars, and you have to pour the milk in first, top of the milk’s best, and the teaspoons of sugar heaped. And a plate of digestive biscuits, I brought too. And I said ‘There you go, Da,’ and I said it soft at first and then loud enough to call him out of sleep, and I shook him a little, but it wasn’t sleep.
And it’s just an empty room, right? Only maybe empty is all we see, like the rainbow colours but they ain’t the only colours there is. And all of life might be in that room, held there or swirling ‘bout, all the little pieces and spaces between them, the memories and the gaps in memory, smaller than dust, and light passing through everything – dark light, and we just don’t see it.
And it ain’t easy thinking ’bout it, thinking ‘bout what is and isn’t there; and maybe it hurts too much to really think ‘bout it – hurts like buggery, or heaven when it’s lost – and maybe the wonder of it stops heartbeats and takes your breath away.
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Douglas Bruton won The Neil Gunn Memorial prize 2015, the William Soutar Prize in 2014 and HISSAC in 2008. Recently he has been published by Aesthetica and Fiction Attic Press and Brittle Star Magazine, as well as in The Eildon Tree, Transmission, The Delinquent, Grasslimb Journal, The Blood Orange Review, The Vestal Review, Storyglossia, Ranfurly Review, The Smoking Poet, Interpreter’s House, Flash Magazine, The Irish Literary Review and Northwords Now. | <urn:uuid:1636dc37-0226-4341-95ef-54a8cb5fdb7b> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://storiesforhomes.wordpress.com/whats-in-a-home/ | 2020-07-15T07:42:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657163613.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715070409-20200715100409-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.976954 | 1,502 |
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Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily Grimké Facts
Sarah Moore (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily (1805-1879) Grimké were antislavery leaders and early agitators for woman's rights.
Sarah Grimké was born on Nov. 29, 1792, and Angelina Grimké was born on Feb. 20, 1805; their father was a distinguished South Carolina jurist. Partly through the influence of their older brother Thomas, who was prominent in temperance and pacifist reforms, and partly from their own religious beliefs, the sisters early opposed slavery, although the family owned several slaves.
On a trip to Philadelphia in 1819 Sarah was converted to Quakerism and later so was Angelina Grimké. They settled in Philadelphia in the 1820s. The Quakers' passivity failed to satisfy energetic Angelina. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator, she wrote to him and then wrote a pamphlet, which the abolitionist press eagerly published. Her An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) urged her Southern sisters to "overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong." That this was written by a Southern woman made it unusually valuable to the antislavery cause and aroused such disapproval in South Carolina that authorities threatened to prosecute Angelina if she returned.
Sarah Grimké, shyer than her sister, wrote An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1836), urging churches to oppose slavery on religious grounds. The sisters freed the slaves they had inherited and offered their services to the Northern abolitionists. "As I left my native state, " wrote Angelina, "to escape the sound of the driver's lash and the shrieks of tortured victims, I would gladly bury in oblivion the recollections of those scenes. But it may not, it cannot be."
The Grimké sisters were highly effective in speaking to and organizing women. The American Antislavery Society appointed them lecturers (after much discussion of the propriety of sponsoring women to speak in public), and in 1836-1837 "Carolina's high-souled daughters, " as John Greenleaf Whittier named them, toured New York and New England. The prevailing prejudice against women appearing publicly before "promiscuous assemblies, " however, led to many objections and brought up the question of women's rights. Sarah's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (1838) and Angelina's Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (1837) firmly linked the rights of slaves to the rights of women and helped introduce the divisive "woman question" into the abolitionist movement. Garrison urged them to continue speaking. But Theodore Weld counseled Angelina not to "push your women's rights until human rights have gone ahead."
After Weld and Angelina Grimké were married on May 14, 1838 (they had one son, Charles Stuart), the sisters spent most of their time assisting Weld with his writing and his political work in Washington. When Weld, in poor health, retired from the abolitionist movement in 1843, Sarah accompanied the couple to New York and later helped conduct Weld's interracial school in New Jersey. Sarah died on Dec. 23, 1873, and Angelina on Oct. 26, 1879.
Further Reading on Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily Grimké
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Obverse: Head of Alexander III as Herakles facing right.
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MIP International Manpower Services Inc. is a licensed recruitment agency in the Philippines that provides manpower solutions to local and international clients.
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PHILADELPHIA — The calls come in, as do the texts. Brett Brown is numb to neither the messages on his cell phone, nor his team’s results on the court.
It’s a friendly rite of passage for those close to Brown, the 76ers’ rookie coach, to reach out with well wishes amid his team’s ever-expanding losing streak. And they have – at times, en masse.
“I have friends that (text me), ‘Hey, I’m thinking of ya. Hang in there.’ I love them. I appreciate them reaching out,” said Brown, “but we’re fine. We sleep. Life moves on. We’re getting it done the way we hope to build something.”
Win or lose – and, these days, they’ve been primarily losses – Brown is not relenting. He insists that he and his staff are finding ways to gauge their players’ development, even if the final score does not indicate worthwhile performances.
Speaking of those piling-up defeats, the Sixers (15-49) will look to snap their 18-game losing streak in a pair of home games this weekend, beginning Friday against Indiana (47-17).
In the time since the Sixers last won a game, Jan. 29 at Boston, the numbers haven’t been pretty. The Sixers, who did not practice Thursday, have lost by an average of 18.5 points per game. They’ve kept an opponent under 100 points only once. And they’ve lost 17 of those 18 games by at least double digits.
If there ever was a time for Brown to bend, this is it. But he’s not.
“I don’t want anybody pitying us. We don’t want sympathy. We don’t want ‘woe is me,’” Brown said the other night, before the Sixers lost to Sacramento. “Life is good. We have to bide some time and maintain a level of patience. We always talk about the difference of tolerance vs. patience, and we have to be patient. Some things we can’t tolerate and have to fix.
“I have great people in the marketplace, and I appreciate them reaching out, but my first reaction is, ‘Hey, head down, tail up. We’re moving.’”
• • •
Friday, the Eastern Conference-leading Indiana Pacers visit Wells Fargo Center. Andrew Bynum, however, won’t be among those taking the floor.
Bynum will not play against the Sixers, Indiana coach Frank Vogel told reporters Thursday at the Pacers’ practice in Indianapolis. The 7-footer will be available for the Pacers Saturday at Detroit, Vogel said.
The center, who missed all of last season for the Sixers, was expected to play in Philly given that he’s had two days of recovery. He made his debut for Indiana Tuesday with eight points and 10 rebounds in 16 minutes of the Pacers’ win over Boston. It was his first game action since Dec. 26, when Bynum was with Cleveland.
Evan Turner and Lavoy Allen, who were traded from the Sixers to Indiana in a deadline deal, will be available for the game.
Turner is averaging 9.1 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists in nearly 23 minutes per game. Allen has played in only three of nine games since the trade, and is averaging 4.3 minutes per appearance.
• • •
The Sixers are close to adding Darius Johnson-Odom to their roster and plan to sign the D-League guard to a 10-day contract. To make room for him, the Sixers will have to waive a player in a corresponding move.
Johnson-Odom was one of four players brought in by the Sixers for a workout Tuesday at PCOM, in front of Brown and Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie. Wednesday, Brown hinted that a roster move could be imminent, meaning he and Hinkie liked what they saw out of Johnson-Odom.
The 24-year-old Johnson-Odom is averaging 22.0 points and 6.1 assists per game, while shooting 45.3 percent overall in 27 appearances for Springfield. The 6-2, 201-pound guard, who played at Marquette, was the 55th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft.
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Just thought I ought to let everyone know why things have been quiet of late. Unfortunately, I’ve been having problems with my shoulder, and have been told to seriously cut down the amount of time I spend at my PC. Outside of work, I’ve tried to ration myself to an hour a night, which is just about enough to check my email and read a few blogs. The creative juices are still running, but for a little while I’ll only be able to post perhaps once a week. Sorry if you’re waiting for the next installments of Song of Songs or cessationism. I’ve been having physio for several weeks now, so God-willing that should start to have some effect soon.
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Hundreds of people gathered at Argyle Lake Sunday for much-anticipated unveiling of the new Bayman Statue.
The statue stands 7 feet high and is cast in quarter-inch thick bronze.
“The Bayman” – wearing waders, tongs, and a 1970’s mustache – is designed to remind the public of an era when the Great South Bay was overflowing with clam beds.
“Two-thirds of the world’s hard-shelled clams came out of the Great South Bay,” said Babylon resident Wayne Horsley, also a member of the Bayman Statue Steering Committee. “But the livelihood of the bay has dwindled over the last 40 years from 10,000 licensed clammers to only 21 licensed locals today.
“The Bayman reminds us that the earth is resilient and that this bay will clean itself up and bring itself back to the way it used to be.”
Artist and Sculptor Jose I. Fernandez was welcomed by a roaring applause and explained the steps involved in welding the Bayman statue.
“All in all, it was about six months of work stretched over the course of three years from concept to finish. And I’m very proud of it. I took it very seriously because I know it’s going to be here for a long time and I really respect that. I wanted the finished product to feel timeless,” he said.
Fernandez was asked to be a part of the project in 2016.
Several educational boards are also mounted behind the statue. Those highlight the peak of local clamming in the 1960s and 70s, as told by the Babylon Historical Society.
Babylon native Richard Donald Hoffman struggled through tears to tell of his father’s story during those glorious years for clammers.
Hoffman was 4 years old when his father was killed by a drunken boater.
“There’s still times where I’ll drive down to where his boat was docked,” Hoffman said. “He died doing what he loved.”
The statue was built to honor men like these, as well as provide walkability to members of the community.
“This is the first time we are commemorating 1960’s and 70’s history, and those years matter,” Horsley said.
It especially matters to first generation bayman Don Smith, whose been clamming for 50 years.
“I started in high school in 1968,” he said.
Smith had plans of becoming an English teacher but put that aside after learning he’d double the amount of money English teachers were making during that time.
“Of course by the late 70’s, English teachers were making more than I was,” he said.
But that didn’t stop Smith from working in the water full-time. Smith said he was hooked the first time he experienced his “first pull of clams.”
He is glad the village is paying homage to clammers like himself.
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Le Cordon Bleu course a challenge
Food & Wine
About three minutes into the first practical session, I had smoked out the student kitchen with unattended potatoes, peeled my finger bloody and come dangerously close to setting myself on fire.
Everyone else seemed a lot more collected - even the 13-year-old.
We had three hours to make a traditional seafood soup called cotriade and a black pudding, apple and onion tart.
The hardest thing about a cooking class is working with unfamiliar recipes in an unfamiliar kitchen. Not to mention the time limit.
Chef de cuisine Francis Motta was very patient - even when he saw the state of my mussels - something else I forgot to keep an eye on.
Day one of boot camp is cuisine, or savoury dishes. The morning is spent in the auditorium with the chef demonstrating the day's recipes. On, then, to the kitchen, where you make your best attempt at reproducing the morning's demonstration.
I should have taken more notes.
Seafood is not usually on my list of must- eats. I dabble with fish and enjoy the odd prawn, but am by no means experienced with marine-life prep. At boot camp, I notched up my first mussel-beard removal, first encounter with scampi eggs and first taste of black pudding (not a fan). Fortunately for the other seven participants, the seafood dish was a huge hit, and much better executed. Engineer Mike, the only male on the course, proved the dark horse of the kitchen and produced an enviably smooth broth with well-cooked seafood.
Self-described cooking-class junkie Susan had the unfortunate experience of working beside me. Her nous with seafood was considerably greater - she beheaded her scampi with nary a flinch. A family cook, Susan learned to debone quail alongside chef/restaurateur Martin Bosley and has spent time in Asia mastering dim sum.
Her cotriade was subject to a lot less muffled tutting from chef Motta.
Motta recently emigrated from Provence after being offered a job at the new Wellington cooking school when he was on holiday in New Zealand with his Kiwi wife.
With traditional French training and more than 20 years of experience, Motta is both a relaxed personality and an exacting professional. Despite no formal teaching training, his natural tutoring style probably stems from a lifetime spent perfecting his skills.
In France, Motta began working towards a career in food at the age of 14.
"At school I wasn't very good. More than that, really: I was terrible. I had no discipline, so I chose to work instead."
Motta's choice of profession stemmed from a family interest in food. As a child he visited the Sunday markets with his father and came home to cook the family meal.
"For me, being a chef was the best possibility."
Earlier this year he spoke to an auditorium of students for the first time, worried more about his English than the cooking ahead.
In front of the boot-camp class, his every movement is projected on to flat screens so details can be scrutinised by his students.
An entree of black pudding, apple and onion tart is a simple dish in theory but, as with everything French, there is a good deal of technique and care behind the scenes. The result is a clean, professional product.
The French are often thought of as having a natural knack with food, but what is obvious when watching these chefs at work is the technique on which all their efforts are based. There are no cut corners.
Chef de patisserie Sebastian Lambert is a fantastic example of how an exacting nature can be transferred into success.
When I bake at home, I roughly follow the recipe. If something doesn't go quite right, or I run out of something, I'll just replace it with the next best thing or give it a whirl anyway.
Such an approach borders on sacrilege with Lambert.
The sable breton (butter biscuit) dough calls for twice-sifted flour (maybe even three times if you're not sure two is enough), butter melted to a paste (not a liquid), and the dough combined just so - not over, not under. That's just for a biscuit.
Crepes are a whole new world of technique. Getting the thickness of the batter just right is a bit of a process, and the cooking is something of an art form.
My mistakes included a cold pan, too much butter and overly thick crepe batter. After making seven with holes in them and burnt edges, I finally got the hang of it and produced a few decent-looking ones.
The crepes were used in a mousse and custard dessert. Green apple mousse and a calvados anglaise were poured into crepe- lined moulds and set in the fridge.
Adding cream to the anglaise proved my undoing. I was not patient enough to bring my mixture down to 28 degrees Celsius. Fortunately, it did set and was an excellent dessert later in the evening - much oohing and aahing was done.
For the home cook, as all boot-camp participants are, a course such as this really instils the value of method.
Le Cordon Bleu insists on everything being done by hand first time around. The insistence on technique gives a new perspective to that perfect dish in a restaurant - the hours of work and layers of recipes that contribute to a finished plate.
Using a thermometer for mousse and custard is probably not even considered by many home cooks. The lesson is a valuable one and a peek into why French cooking is so prized and takes so long to master.
Despite our incompatible cooking styles, Lambert's attention to detail has no doubt produced some amazing patisserie graduates. The school's demand for perfection is not be scoffed at.
The first batch of students left the school last month having completed arduous nine- month courses - and New Zealand dining will surely benefit from their education at the hands of such consummate professionals.
CORDON BLEU TIPS
When making stock, use butter to deglaze your pot three times. This picks up all the pot flavour and caramelises it into the stock.
Eel is a cheap and flavoursome replacement for expensive seafood in a sauce base.
When making crepes, use a pastry brush to butter the pan so you don't overdo it.
Always learn to make things by hand first, then use the fancy machines later when you know what to look for.
Creme anglaise is ready when you swipe a finger through it on a spatula and the clean line holds.
Sift your flour twice.
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The legislative supercommittee created to get to the bottom of Bridgegate has issued 20 subpoenas to individuals and organizations believed to have more information about the George Washington Bridge lane closures that caused traffic chaos last summer.
The State Assembly's Democratic leadership Monday moved to create a new Bridgegate "super investigative committee," armed subpoena power and a special counsel and chaired by Deputy Speaker John Wisniewski.
The New Jersey lawmaker leading the charge to do away with the Red Light Camera Pilot Program wants the head of the Assembly Transportation Committee to post a bill he's sponsoring to increase yellow light times and to do away with right-on-red tickets.
New Jersey's senior U.S. Senator will travel today to his hometown of Paterson to announce his pending retirement. Frank Lautenberg will not seek re-election in 2014 and that changes the entire dynamic of that particular race.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority was supposed to come up with a system a couple of years ago to clean hazardous snow and ice from the tops of trucks traveling the toll toads, but so far, nothing has happened.
Last month, Governor Chris Christie's Administration announced the suspension of the Red Light Running Automated Enforcement Program (RLR) until most of the towns in the pilot program can certify that the timing on the yellow light signal conforms to the prescribed statute.
The Assembly Transportation Committee is set to consider a four-bill package tomorrow that would greatly increase oversight and transparency at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Members of the bi-state agency also have been invited to testify before the panel on the authority’s operations.
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Lai, the composer behind memorable songs and film scores for dozens of French artists, has died aged 86, the mayor of his Mediterranean hometown of Nice said Thursday.
Besides writing music for stars like Edith Piaf and Juliette Greco, Lai was perhaps best known for creating the title track to the 1970 box-office hit ‘Love Story’.
‘With just a few notes, Francis Lai had the gift of rendering grand films even more beautiful, even more moving,’ Culture Minister Franck Riester said on Twitter.
‘Now that he leaves us, his immortal scores resonate in our hearts,’ he said.
Born into a family of gardeners in Nice in 1932, Lai taught himself music and began his career as an accordionist for the poet and singer Bernard Dimey, with whom he started writing songs.
French stars Johnny Hallyday and Dalida, as well as American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald performed his works, and Lai also wrote Piaf’s first song, ‘Le Droit d’Aimer’ (The Right to Love).
He also came up with Yves Montand’s hit ‘A Bicyclette’ (By Bike).
But it was his work for Claude Lelouche which would change the arc of his career, becoming the musical mind behind some of the French director’s most enduring works.
The two met through their mutual friend Pierre Barouh, who wrote the lyrics for one of Lai’s wildly successful ‘Dabadabada’, the melody which marks Lelouche’s 1966 classic ‘A Man and a Woman’.
Originally sung by Nicole Croisille, more than 200 versions have since been recorded in France and beyond.
‘Ba-da-ba-da-ba-da, it’s just a jazz reference. We were all wild about jazz and this ba-da-ba-da-ba, this bit of onomatopoeia, was a way of drawing out the verse,’ Lai told AFP after Barouh’s death in 2017.
For ‘Love Story’ he would win an Oscar with the theme ‘Where Do I Begin’, sung by Andy Williams and Shirley Bassey.
Overall he would write more than 100 film scores and 600 songs, most recently working on the music for a sequel to ‘A Man and a Woman’.
‘He was an angel disguised as an accordionist,’ Lelouche told RTL radio on Thursday, saying they had worked together on 35 films over the past 50 years. ‘He made the heart beat in all my films.’
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Safe return of Arunachal teen is priority, says Kiren Rijiju
On Tuesday, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the safe return of an Arunachal Pradesh teenager, who was reportedly kidnapped by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) a week ago from Indian territory, is the priority and appealed to people to carefully make statements about the missing boy.
Arunachal Pradesh teenager Miram Taron is missing since January 18 from the area close to LAC. The Chinese Army reportedly abducted Taron from the Indian territory where China had constructed a 3-4 km road in 2018.
His friend, who managed to escape, reported the matter to the authorities and brought it to the notice of Tapir Gao, a BJP MP from the Arunachal East parliamentary constituency.
The Minister in a statement said, “We are constantly following the case from day one. I appeal to everyone to be cautious in making statements which are not based on facts because the safety and safe return of our Young Arunachal Pradesh youth is the priority.”
“Miram Taron (19) of Jido Village in Upper Siang district, was found missing on January 18 at Shiyung La in Bishing Area. Some people reported that Chinese PLA had taken him into their custody,” a statement released on his Twitter handle said.
— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) January 25, 2022
He said that since the individual was missing from an area close to the Line of Actual Control, the Indian Army immediately approached the Chinese side on January 19, asking for assistance in tracing and return of the individual, in case he had strayed into the Chinese territory or PLA has taken him in their custody.
“Chinese side assured that they would search for the individual and return him as per established protocol. Later on January 20, the Chinese side intimated that they had found a boy on their side and requested for further details to establish the identity.”
“To assist the Chinese side in corroborating the identity, personal details and photo of the individual have been shared with the Chinese side by the Indian Army. The response from the Chinese side is awaited,” the statement reads.
The Arunachal Pradesh government had also sought the Defence Ministry’s intervention to ensure the safe return of the youth. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu earlier said that the Defence Ministry through diplomatic channels took up the matter with the Chinese authority.
“I am hopeful that the youth would be released and return to his village soon,” the Chief Minister had told the media in Itanagar.
In September 2020, the Chinese PLA had reportedly kidnapped five boys from Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district before releasing them after about a week.
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By: Steve Carbary – SEM PCA DE Chairman
The mission and purpose of the Porsche Club of America’s Driver’s Education Program is to provide a safe, structured and controlled teaching and learning environment. The PCA DE Program is designed so that participants can improve their driving abilities and acquire a better understanding of vehicle dynamics and driving safety. Participants will experience first-hand the capabilities of high performance automobiles in a controlled, closed-course environment and acquire skills that will enhance safer vehicle operation in all driving situations.
Ok, that’s the ‘Official’ definition stated. But what does it mean ?
It’s probably a good assumption that if you are reading this, you have an interest in sports cars and spirited driving. You’re the type that will seek out those local twisty roads that bring a smile and some exhilaration to your commute. You’ve heard of Track days or Driver’ Education and your curiosity has lead you here.
Well, have you ever seen those videos where some famous driver is behind the wheel of an iconic sports car, dancing it around some road racing track? Or any of those Fun commercials that always seem to have a caption about it being ‘… on a closed course…’ and thought to yourself – ‘Wow, would I like the opportunity to get MY car out there and do that. Free from speed restrictions, traffic, and in a secure, open environment’. You’ve also hopefully thought ‘… those drivers are good’!!
Or maybe you’ve had your car for a little while now and are just looking for a good place where you can really ‘stretch its legs’ and ‘open it up a bit’. You have a sports car after all, suited for twisty roads. You want to have some fun with it and maybe pick up a pointer or two while you’re at it. You’ve heard of driver coaches and want to see what it’s all about.
These are what Drivers Education is about. YOU getting YOUR chance to drive road courses with a coach in your car to help you learn the skills of high performance driving and have some fun at speed.
Let’s face it. Driving is a learned skill. We’ve all had our basic drivers training when we got our state license. But think about how much has your driving improved since then. Years of practice in a range of situations and conditions has been your teacher since those early years. The same applies to driving cars as you approach the higher limits of their capabilities. Practice and coaching is how anyone improves at any skill.
The Porsche Club of America’s High Performance Drivers Education events (HPDE or D.E. events) are designed to be a safe, controlled place to learn and practice the proper techniques of car control at higher levels. Let me explain how this works.
Our D.E. events are held at race tracks all around the United States. These venues afford us locations that are both secure and challenging. I’m talking about road racing courses. The kind you’d see in all those videos and on TV in GT races. With varieties of challenging curves, and elevation changes galore. The roads drivers dream of and the stuff sports cars were designed for. We pair participants (students) with highly experienced coaches (instructors). These instructors ride along in the students cars and give immediate feedback and direction to help improve the students abilities. The instructors start out teaching basic skills to establish a comfortable understanding, and then build from there accordingly.
The day is broken up between times when students take their cars on the track with their instructors and times when we have classroom sessions. These classrooms allow us the chance to discuss the concepts of car dynamics and driving techniques. We break down terms like understeer and rotation, weight transfer and threshold braking in further detail. The class sessions reinforce what students are putting to practical use during the driving sessions. We feel this dual approach is extremely beneficial and separates us from just ‘open track’ days. Again, driving is a learned skill and what better way to learn something than with friends in your club.
Our DE days are as much a social events as they are driving events too. You will be surrounded by like minded people who share the same driving passion and car enthusiasm as yourself. During lunch and in between sessions on the track, people often gather and talk about their cars, the track, other tracks they maybe have driven, or what it felt like the last session out. We occasionally even have friends and family members come out and watch or take pictures from the many stands as well.
So if YOU are truly a fan of spirited driving and would enjoy a day of taking YOUR car out on race track for some fun, I can think of no better way.
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Netflix's Version of Winx Isn't the One You Grew Up With
Have you checked out the live-action series?
(SPOT.ph) The Netflix live-action remake of Winx dropped on January 22 and already the show has climbed to the number-one spot on the Top 10 list! The nostalgia is clearly strong for Fate: The Winx Saga and whether or not you were obsessed with the OG cartoon, the new show has everyone intrigued. It definitely follows in the vein of the darker, way more grown-up versions of childhood staples that the platform has been dishing out (Read: Riverdale) so if you want to keep up, we dig into the nostalgia and lay down all the ways the remake differs from the OG cartoons below. Beware of spoilers!
Some Major Winx Characters Are Missing
So the OG band of fairies had Bloom, Stella, Flora, Tecna, Aisha, and Musa—two of whom are not part of the first season of Fate: The Winx Saga. Flora is mentioned in the show to be Terra's (Eliot Salt) cousin so we're hoping to see the flower fairy introduced perhaps in the following seasons! Technology fairy Tecna, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found. Plus, Italian cartoonist Francesco Artibani, who worked on the original series, dropped a hint on Twitter about the two possibly popping up somewhere down the line.
The cartoon series' villains, the best-dressed (fight us on this) Trix witches Icy, Darcy and Stormy, have also been replaced by a mysterious fairy-slash-fellow-student Beatrix (Sadie Soverall). No hints of witches existing in this version of Winx so far, but we're hoping to spot Trix's icy eyeshadow pallette sometime soon.
There was also the issue of whitewashing the main cast, with many people online questioning the casting choices for Musa and Terra when the first pictures came out. Musa was depicted as an Asian character in the cartoon series, while Latina fairy flora was replaced by the newly-introduced white character, Terra.
The Universe of the Live-Action Remake Works Differently
So first off, Musa (Elisha Applebaum) originally harnessed her powers from music, whereas in the live-action series, she is an empath whose power lies in the mind. The new series does have her rely heavily on music to control her powers, though. And we can't not mention the fact that not only is Riven (Freddie Thorp), her love interest in the cartoons, turned into a severely misguided outcast in the live-action, Musa is going out with another new character, Sam (Jacob Dudman), Terra's brother.
There's also the massive lack of sparkly fairy wings; not going to lie, a huge part of the cartoon's draw when we were younger. It is explained in the first episode of the live-action that fairies lost the magic needed for wings, a plot point which becomes an important part of the finale. We'll keep quiet on that bit first!
And with a new live-action series comes a new set of super scary evil beings: The Burned Ones. These blood-hungry creatures, who may or may not have been human at some point, turn out to be just a symptom of the evil within Solaria. Which, yup, means Bloom and her friends are set for something bigger.
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Formed in 1969 as Thorn Creek Preservation Association, Friends of Thorn Creek Woods is the citizens’ activist group responsible for preserving the 985 acre Thorn Creek Woods. They helped secure its dedication as an Illinois Nature Preserve, and form the unique inter-governmental Management Commission to oversee the preserve as one, single preserve.
Against all odds, Friends efforts ensured permanent protection for this land – a unique open space that enhances Park Forest and the entire region. Click here to read how FRIENDS fought against all odds to create Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve.
The preservation of TCW is a history of people. Through the years, over 1500 people organized and fought to preserve the woods. They staff the nature center, develop exhibits, lead programs, build trails, monitor species and raise funds for programs and improvements.
Thousands of visitors experience wildness in this woods – the centerpiece in an expanding network of open space in the south suburbs. Young and old, groups and individuals, schools and families – they walk the trails, enjoy nature programs and explore the Nature Center. The Preserve profoundly influences the way volunteers, children and adults think about nature. The Friends of Thorn Creek Woods make all this possible.
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That is adorable!!! Mister Higgins looks quite happy!!! Taco Frisbee has to be fun!!
How did you get that????woofs and wags,sitka
Oh wow..it really is a taco frisbee..BOLDon't forget the hot sauceBenny & Lily
My, Mr. Higgins, what big eyes you have!Bunny
Great caption!!! thank you!
Just add a little cheese and sauce and you will be good to go.Woos, Phantom and Thunder
That is a riot! I have never seen a taco frisbee!
That's so funny! Yummy Yummy too!!!
It is a taco frisbee..you are looking very handsome and long legged Mr. Higgens:)
Looking good w/ your Taco Frisbee, Mr. Higgins.We bet it sounds better than it tastes!Licks and sniffs,Zack, Sassy and Buddy
That's one heck of a trick! Now what was in it??
Where can I order a Taco Frisbee too??
I must have one!!! I told Oscar about it and he informed me that our family does not "do" frisbees because he is a dachshund and his legs are too short! Well, mine are not and I will ask Gramma to get one of those for me!
We do the same thing!! Or we eat the middle's out of the cloth ones. Mom gets SO mad!
HA HA HA!!! That's CUTE!! We have one too! ;)
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Known as the “Versailles of Latvia,” the Rundāle Palace is a gorgeous gem worth spending a day visiting while in Latvia.
This 18th Century Baroque palace is located just a little over an hour out of Riga. From its ornate interiors, baroque architecture to detailed, flourishing gardens, everything is a must here.
Rundāle Palace houses a museum which displays applied arts, fine arts and historical expositions.
The French style park is really well kept. you can walk around the rose garden, the Green Theatre, ornamental parterres and the fountain.
The entrance fee for what they call the Long Route is €8, this includes the palace and the French gardens.
How to get to Rundale Palace from Riga
There are no direct trains or buses to reach Rundāle, but it’s still quite easy to get here from Riga.
Take a bus to Bauska then transfer to another bus for Pilsrundāle, where the palace is located. It takes around 90-minute in total (not including transfer time).
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President Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act into law Thursday, which aims to reinvigorate the tourism industry but will require many international visitors to pay a fee to enter the U.S. . . .http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2010-03-04-obama-travel-promotion-act_N.htm
The new law calls for the formation of a non-profit company — the Corporation for Travel Promotion — that will promote the U.S. abroad to tourists, business travelers and students as an attractive place to visit. Many countries have a high-level government agency that promotes tourism and culture, while private companies and local visitor bureaus handle tourism campaigns in the U.S.
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Samuel Herman House
Captain Samuel Herman House
Links and documents
1897/01/01 to 1906/01/01
Listed on the Canadian Register:
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The Samuel Herman House is located at the corner of Broad and MacDonald Streets, in the New Town neighbourhood of Lunenburg, NS. The turn-of-the twentieth century house is set back from the road and the lot is well landscaped, with large trees and shrubbery. Municipal Designation applies to both the building and surrounding land.
The Samuel Herman House is valued for its Victorian architecture, as a contributing building to the New Town streetscape, and for its association with Captain Samuel Herman, a well known merchant sailor and manager of the Capitol Theatre in Lunenburg. The house occupies a corner lot overlooking the New Town area of Lunenburg and has a view of Lunenburg Harbour and much of the Old Town area. As one of the first homes built in New Town, this home showcases the architectural grandeur that characterized the development of New Town in the late nineteenth century. The New Town streetscape differs from the Old Town in that the houses are larger than older Lunenburg homes, reflecting styles that were common across the continent at the time and the burgeoning prosperity of the shipbuilding and fishing industries in Nova Scotia.
The Samuel Herman House has several interesting details that add to its sense of opulence. Fully returned eaves on the gable ends create attractive pediments, and the formal front entrance with a porch and second storey balcony have intricate turned posts and rails. The house is setback from the street on both sides, which allows for landscaping around the property, adding to the elegance of the property.
Source: Notice of Recommendation to Register as a Town Heritage Property, Heritage Designation File 66400-40-58, Town of Lunenburg.
Character-defining elements of the Captain Samuel Herman House relate to its location and Victorian architecture, including:
- impressive façades on both Broad and MacDonald Street in Lunenburg's New Town, with a large landscaped yard, and paths leading to entrances on both sides, and large gable pediments providing views in each direction;
- all characteristics that give the building a sense of height, including the two-storey bays on both the SW and NW sides, the large front offset dormer, and the formal entrance enclosed by a wide porch and second storey balcony;
- all Victorian decorative elements, including turned posts on the dormer soffits, turned rails on the porch and balcony, and the transom window on the front entrance, and the large scale of the entranceway, providing formality to the façade.
Local Governments (NS)
Heritage Property Act
Municipally Registered Property
Theme - Category and Type
- Peopling the Land
Function - Category and Type
- Single Dwelling
Architect / Designer
Location of Supporting Documentation
- Town of Lunenburg, 119 Cumberland Street, P.O. Box 129, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, B0J 2C0, FILE 66400-40-58
- W. Plaskett, "Lunenburg: An Inventory of Historic Buildings" (Lunenburg: Lighthouse Press, 1984)
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This makes me want to go fishing!
Small river Barbel fishing is one of the best angling experiences you can get. Stuck here in lockdown, this film captures the essence of it. Some great fish and nicely presented with genuine excitement and enthusiasm. Great stuff!
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1 kg. zucchini
300 gr. ground meat
2 table spoons of rice
1 table spoon of oil
1 table spoon of tomato sauce
chopped parsley or dill
Plane the onion and add it to the ground meat. Add the washed rice, oil, tomato sauce and salt-pepper into it. After you have added the chopped parsley of dill mix all of these well. Add some water too.
Peel the zucchinies and divide them into two or three pieces. Carve the zucchinies and fill inside with the mixture with meat. Put a slice of tomato on the top of every zucchini.
Place the zucchinies in a pan as the tomatoes stay on the top. Add some water in the pan. Cook it until the zucchinies become soft.
Serve the zucchini food with yoghurt and dill.
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After four decades, UNHCR foresees an end to the plight of refugees in Zambia
News Stories, 5 April 2006
LUSAKA, Zambia, April 5 (UNHCR) – With peace taking hold in neighbouring countries that once generated refugees, the UN refugee agency in Zambia is seizing the opportunity to find a solution for Angolans and Congolese who have been here facing an uncertain future for up to four decades.
There are now only 26,000 Angolans left in three UNHCR refugee camps in Zambia following a programme of voluntary repatriation that began after a 2002 peace agreement ended 27 years of war in their country. By the end of last year, UNHCR had helped more than 63,000 Angolans to return from Zambia and the total will rise again in 2006 with a final year of repatriation.
About 60,000 Congolese refugees, mainly in two refugee camps in northern Zambia, are waiting for the outcome of a national election in their homeland, expected in June. That could clear the way for UNHCR to begin voluntary repatriation back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as early as this year.
Overall, Zambia hosts an estimated 154,000 refugees, just under half of them living in the five UNHCR refugee camps and the rest scattered among the local population. Apart from the 60,000 from DRC, the rest are mostly from Angola.
Zambia has always been a generous host to refugees. Mayukwayukwa Camp, in the west of Zambia toward the border of Angola, has been hosting Angolan refugees since 1966, making it the oldest refugee camp in Africa.
If some of the remaining Angolans leave under the 2006 repatriation programme and the Congolese feel ready to go home by the end of next year, the focus can shift onto discussing a solution for the relatively few refugees who want to remain in Zambia. In practice, many of those who will not want to return are already integrated in all but a legal sense.
So, in addition to repatriation and returns, UNHCR and the government of Zambia have started a programme, known as the Zambia Initiative, to spur economic development in areas where refugees are living which will help both refugees and the local Zambian population. Ultimately this initiative will make it easier to integrate those – in some cases, the children or grandchildren of the original refugees – who are unlikely to ever repatriate.
The Zambia Initiative has reinforced this process. In the camps of Mayaweshiyaweshi and Nangweshi in the west and Maheba in the north-west, the schools that formerly served only refugees are now teaching both Angolan refugees and the local children. The patients lining up at the camp clinics are as likely to be local citizens as they are refugees.
The activities under the Zambia Initiative have been modest so far, designed more as a catalyst to attract other organisations into the process. UNHCR which does not do the development work delegated to other UN bodies, wants to ensure that refugee areas are incorporated into the national development plans, so that they help the process of finding a solution for remaining refugees.
"It is a holistic approach, helping both the host communities and the refugees," said Tamba Momoh Amara, the UNHCR officer pursuing durable solutions in Zambia. "The ultimate goal is to make both the refugees and the host communities self-sufficient, so those refugees who don't return can remain in the area and be self-sufficient."
The search is on for extra support to revitalize the Zambia Initiative, which began in 2004 but now faces a serious shortage of funds. The focus remains at present on the areas with Angolan refugees, where most who will return have already left. But UNHCR would also like to see the concept applied to the areas with Congolese refugees, easing the integration of any who might be left following the voluntary repatriation to DRC that is expected to take place over the next two years.
The third possibility is the "durable solutions" process – resettlement in a third country – used for those relatively few refugees who can neither repatriate nor safely stay in their country of asylum.
In March, the British Home Office minister for integration, Andy Burnham, visited one the Congolese refugee camps to personally see the departure of 56 refugees who were being resettled in the United Kingdom. Last year nearly 700 refugees were resettled to countries around the world, with the total expected to rise this year to 1,100.
"We see a real possibility to end the refugee situation that has existed in Zambia for years," said Ahmed Farah, the head of UNHCR's office in Zambia. "It will still take more time, but using all three of the durable solutions, there should be a solution for almost all the current refugees."
The history of wars in Africa means that many things could still go wrong. Old conflicts could resume or new ones start. Renewed political instability or just the difficult post-war living conditions could cause refugees to postpone any return. But conditions are more hopeful than in many years previously, with UNHCR expecting that it will need a smaller presence in Zambia in the coming years.
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Dear Ms. Gulley:
You request that we reconsider Attorney General Opinion No. 2003-16, in which we concluded that a city cannot use its constitutional home rule power to exempt itself from a county solid waste management plan.
At the time we considered the opinion request, we were told only that Norton County was considering a "flow control" mechanism in its county solid waste management plan that would require all solid waste generated in the county to be disposed of at the county landfill. Concerned that some cities would, for economic reasons, want to transport their waste to facilities outside of the county, Norton County and the City of Norton inquired whether cities must comply with a solid waste management plan. After having been provided additional information, we now reconsider our conclusion.
Our understanding is that Norton County is desirous of drafting a new solid waste management plan that would, among other things, require that all solid waste generated within the incorporated cities and the unincorporated parts of the county be transported to and disposed of at the county landfill. The reason for this requirement is to ensure the financial viability of the county landfill through "tipping fees" based upon the amount of solid waste deposited (i.e. more trash, more fees).
The problem is that the fees must be sufficient to financially sustain the landfill. Therefore, the County would like to include in its solid waste management plan the aforementioned "flow control" provision. Norton County anticipates objection from some cities that either haul their city-generated solid waste to landfills outside the county or that contract with private trash collectors to haul to facilities other than the county landfill.
Counties are responsible for drafting and implementing a plan for the management of solid waste in the county.(1) A solid waste management committee composed of a variety of individuals, including representatives from the cities,(2) develops the plan which is then adopted by the county commission(3) and submitted to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) for its approval.(4) While K.S.A. 65-3405(i) requires a county to implement the plan, there is no provision in K.S.A. 65-3405 or any of the solid waste management statutes that requires cities to comply with a plan that mandates that all solid waste generated within incorporated cities be deposited at the county landfill. There are civil and criminal penalties for collecting or transporting solid waste in violation of KDHE regulations, but no statutory penalties for non-compliance with a solid waste management plan.(5)
The reference in Attorney General Opinion No. 2003-16 to a city's home rule authority to exempt itself from a county solid waste management plan is not the issue. While the solid waste management statutes, including K.S.A. 65-3405, apply uniformly to all cities,(6) this simply means that a city cannot use its home rule power to charter out of the solid waste management statutes.(7) The question you present now is whether an objecting city could simply enact an ordinary home rule ordinance or an ordinance promulgated under the authority of K.S.A. 65-3410 to address solid waste collection and disposal at a facility designated by the city.
K.S.A. 65-3410 authorizes cities to "provide for the . . . collection, transportation . . . and disposal of solid waste generated within its boundaries." To accomplish those ends, a city "may adopt ordinances, . . . regulations and standards for the storage, collection, transportation . . . and disposal of solid wastes" provided such regulations conform with KDHE regulations.(8) In short, cities are specifically authorized by K.S.A. 65-3410 to dispose of city-generated solid waste - the only limit being that the ordinance must conform to KDHE regulations, which currently are silent regarding flow control.(9)
If a city chose to enact an ordinary home rule ordinance that provides for collection of city-generated solid waste and subsequent disposal in a facility not blessed by the county solid waste management plan, such ordinance would not run afoul of Article 12, Section 5 of the Kansas Constitution because there is no conflict with the solid waste management statutes nor has the State preempted cities from legislating in this area.(10)
While our prior opinion indicates that KDHE interprets K.S.A. 64-3405 to mean that only one plan can be approved for each county or group of counties, this assumes that the objecting cities are planning to submit their own plan for approval by KDHE.(11) We are now informed that this is not the case. Therefore, while KDHE's interpretation of K.S.A. 65-3405 may be correct, it is not relevant to the issue at hand.
Summarizing, it is our opinion that while K.S.A. 65-3405 requires a county to adopt and implement a solid waste management plan, cities are not statutorily required to comply with a plan provision requiring that all solid waste generated within incorporated cities be disposed of at the county landfill if a city ordinance provides otherwise. Upon consideration of additional factual information provided to us, those portion of Attorney General Opinion No. 2003-16 regarding a city's ability to exempt itself from a solid waste management plan are hereby withdrawn.
1. K.S.A. 65-3405(a).
2. K.S.A. 65-3405(b).
3. K.S.A. 65-3405(d).
4. K.S.A. 65-3405(l).
5. K.S.A. 65-3409; 65-3419. KDHE regulations can be found at K.A.R. 28-29-21 et seq. None speak to flow control.
6. Attorney General Opinion No. 84-97.
7. "Any city may by charter ordinance elect . . . that the whole or any part of any enactment of the legislature applying to such city . . . shall not apply to such city." Kan.Const., Art. 12, § 5(c)(1) (emphasis added).
8. K.S.A. 65-3410(b); K.A.R. 28-29-21 et seq.
9. Note 5.
10. "City ordinance should be permitted to stand unless actual conflict exists between the ordinance and a statute, or unless legislature has clearly preempted the field so as to preclude municipal action. [Legislative] intent to reserve to the state exclusive jurisdiction to regulate an area must be clearly manifested by statute before it can be held that the state has withdrawn from the cities the power to regulate in the field. McCarthy v. City of Leawood, 257 Kan. 566, 569 (1995) (emphasis added).
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The “Virginia” is the first steamboat to reach Fort Snelling. Needed supplies are missing from the cargo, though the boat does carry the umbrella-wielding Italian count Giacomo Beltrami.*
Today’s meditation is on the relevance of the arrival of steamboats in the state of Minnesota. For the author, the practical is spiritual, and often the super-normal is the basis of the super-natural. Therefore, if I want to hear what my Good Father is saying to me today, I may have to slow my thoughts to the speed of a paddle-wheeler headed upstream. That said, below is a succinct general history to amplify this event:
“As early as the 17th Century a handful of explorers, hardy French voyageurs, and missionaries had ventured into the environs of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Through a variety of relationships that included cooperation, intermingling, and competition with the native inhabitants of the region, several temporary encampments and forts had been established to support the lucrative fur trade. But most historians agree that nothing changed the frontier as quickly as steam transportation.
In April, 1823 the small steam packet Virginia backed out into the channel of the Mississippi from the St. Louis levee to become the first boat to ascend the Father of Waters into what would later become the Minnesota Territory. This remarkable journey was chronicled by Giacomo Constantine Beltrami, the Italian explorer who went on to play an important role in Minnesota history. A Kentucky family en route to the lead mines of southern Wisconsin on board the 118-foot vessel represented the first trickle of what would soon become a deluge of immigration. Also on board the Virginia for this historic trip was Captain William Clark of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1805.
Imagine the contrast of traveling in the relative ease and comfort of this sturdy little boat given his experience of just a few years earlier.” **
There is much here to ponder: the new technology of the steamboat, how this technology changed history, and what timeless truths can we grasp from it? Lord of Mighty Rivers hear my simple thoughts and prayers.
Strong Creator, thank You for the scientific properties of water. It’s truly amazing! It’s like Your character, it can appear as ice, liquid, or steam, yet it is always the same substance. You put it into Your creative children to harness this transitional power for the betterment of humankind. Which of their ancestors would imagine that one day their boiling tea kettle would power massive loads upstream against the might of the Mississippi?
Here is my first confession and petition. Lord forgive our lack of imagination, both for ourselves, and for the dreams of others. May we practice to spur this generation to dream, and to the enjoyable discipline necessary to their fulfillment. May we be a voice of encouragement that pushes others to defy the current! Thank You for the symbolic value of the lonely Virginia moving slowly to its destination!
Next, new technology often makes the impossible possible, and the impractical practical. Again, who in the 18th century would think that their steaming iron maple syrup pot could actually become a boiler? And that that boiler would have the power to move unthinkable payloads up and downstream? And that those payloads would enable trade and previously unimaginable lifestyle for the average American?
We, in the 21st century, have the luxury to throw away old socks and t-shirts. Cotton products have become so accessible they are practically disposable. We do not know or remember that our ancestors may have experienced the incredible comfort of cotton articles from the South for the first time because of this steamboat’s success. Conversely, those in the South were likely amazed at the beautiful white flour Minnesota could send them so affordably.
Lord, we don’t often pause to remember what it’s like to do without. We do not see the masterful design of a plain white cotton t-shirt, or ponder that in past generations, it was a garment fit for a king. Or that the greatest chefs of Paris were astounded at the silky wheat flour from some unknown place called Minnesota. It was “Incroyable”!
Incredible Dreamer, thanks that You are not offended by our inventions! Thanks that this steamboat enabled Beltrami to better share his discoveries with a much wider audience. Ultimately, thanks that You take pleasure in our discoveries! May this river valley yield new discoveries and discoverers who make the impossible possible! (Just like You!)
*Note – PrayThroughHistory uses the timeline located for several years at the Minnesota Historical Society Web site, at this URL: mnhs.org/about/dipity_timeline.htm . The current URL is www.dipity.com/Minnesota/History/Minnesota-History/ and only works if typed, not pasted, in browser. It is worth the effort! | <urn:uuid:ffd14b27-09b4-47df-9cef-8f48bbeaaab6> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://praythroughhistory.com/2014/09/29/first-steamboat-at-ft-snelling-1823/ | 2022-07-06T01:46:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104655865.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705235755-20220706025755-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.958327 | 1,013 |
Just James C.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
East Coast meets West Coast
So today I woke up this morning and felt like getting dressed..lol
After a great shower I went to the closet and stood to simply be inspired. After about 15 minutes i came up with a pretty fly outfit (
in my opinion
May 27, 2010 at 3:43 PM
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS OUTFIT!!!!!
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The house in Arlee where Janet McGahan lives feels like a painter's paradise. A winding dirt road finds it nestled in the middle of nowhere, down by the river. It feels like an old trapper cabin except for its details: a multitude of plants and paintings, photographs and artifacts line the inside. Sunlight filters in past a cage of birds. Outside are mossy rock walls, archways draped in creeping plants, vegetable gardens and iron benches shaded by willows. McGahan's studio, which feels like a cool wooden clubhouse, is nestled in the backyard. She shares the hidden sanctuary with her husband, artist and writer Jerry McGahan, and their dog Annie. They still have bees from the days of running their beekeeping business, Old World Honey.
Her rich oils of street life in India and her bright watercolors of dogs, bears, birds and other animalsa handful of which you can see at Missoula's Dana Galleryshow her love for color. But it wasn't always that way. McGahan came late to drawing. She started sketching portraits of her newborn son when she was in her late twenties. "I've always had the urge to draw and paint but I didn't have much background," she says. "Sleeping babies. That was my time to practice."
For two decades, she drew mostly in pen-and-ink and pencil, rarely dabbling in color for fear of using it wrong. Then, in her late 40s, she saw an exhibit by portraitist and master Chinese calligrapher Tu Baixiong at UM. The artist had adopted Missoula as his hometown and made a name for himself with his light-washed portrayals of Montana landscapes, for which he received the Northwest Watercolor Council's first prize. At the suggestion of Jerry, Janet tracked down Baixiong to get lessons. It took a few weeks, but he interviewed her and screened her work, then agreed to mentor her.
"He was no-nonsense," she recalls. "Once, I said, 'I'm paralyzed, I don't know what to do.' He said, 'Just pick up the chalk and start in.' He'd show me these bold strokes that were so beautiful and it just sort of broke [the paralysis]."
McGahan studied with him for four months, once a week for an hour and a half. It was intensive. "He'd sit down and read and kind of whistle and get up about 10 minutes later and stand behind you," she says. "He'd say things like, 'Ja-net! Stand up! Stand back! Look!' And then he'd start laughing and say, 'See? You see where you're off?' And he was right. If you're right up close, you can't see it. You have to step back."
Baixiong taught her the beauty of alleys. Before Missoula, he used to paint Mao Tse Tung's portrait on giant murals in China. That was his job. "He had no artistic freedom whatsoever, so when he came here he just reveled in being able to walk down the street and pick what he wanted to paint," McGahan says. "You can see it in his alley work and backyard picnics and clotheslines."
Baixiong died in 1996, three years after McGahan met and studied with him, but he seems to still be with her. On her studio walls are a few portraits he did. There's also one of a beautiful dark-skinned girl that McGahan madea copy of a Baixiong original he had her mimic in order to learn from him.
Over the years since, she's created other portraits. One is of her friend Roy Big Crane, sitting at a table in a Homeland Security T-shirt, next to a bursting bouquet of flowers. Others are from her trips to India. In 2005, McGahan's sister needed vertebrae surgery, but she didn't have health insurance, so they found a hospital in Delhi. McGahan has gone to India a couple of times since, painting street scenes of children, a woman elegantly peering out of a window, an elephant being bathed by two men at a refuge. While there, she also teaches homeless childrensome of whom have been taken off the streets and housed in a shelter where they sleep and eat and learn. She gives them colorful markers and pencils to draw their lives. "Boy, it's the easiest thing," she says. "You don't have to do any bureaucratic stuff. Part of the fun is that Indian kids under those circumstances are so receptive and open and cooperative." Like she was with Baixiong. She says that even years later, she's still learning how to do art.
Baixiong used to show McGahan his paintings and test her, saying, "Do you think it's finished?" At the time she thought, "How would I know?"
"I know what he means now," she says. "Are there enough layers and depth and background? The more you paint, the more you see into the shadows and understand color temperature and what you've got to have. I feel like I could be a lot better critic to him now."
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Kambe Padgett suffered from heart disease even before she knew she had it. “I was in the fight without realizing it,” she said. Growing up in a small town near Seward, Kambe was always sick. Her mom and dad took her to doctor after doctor, and they were told everything from “it’s the flu” to “she’s got whatever is going around and she’ll be fine.” Luckily for Kambe, her mom and dad knew better. After all, what child gets the flu in summer, spring, fall, and winter? The “flu” was a year-round ailment for Kambe.
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On a family vacation to Hawaii, red-headed Kambe experienced zero effects from being out in the hot Hawaiian sun. No sunscreen. No sunburn. Not even a touch of pink. “That’s when my parents really became my health care advocates and my voice,” Kambe remembered. Kambe’s parents quit accepting the flu diagnosis and insisted there was something wrong with their daughter.
Their perseverance paid off. After several years of tests and lab work, Kambe’s doctor discovered that she had a hole in her heart. Kambe was diagnosed with Atrial Septal Defect (ASD). Unfortunately, her diagnosis took so long that she was well on her way to having a stroke. The only recourse to addressing her diagnosis was open heart surgery at the age of 17.
It all made sense to Kambe, who, as a teenager, just wanted to be like the rest of her friends. She wanted to be in cross-country and play basketball. Short of breath most of the time, Kambe was told by coaches and teachers that she was faking it and just wanted to get out of practice. “Being called a faker was hard to deal with,” Kambe recalled. “I would try to hide how I was feeling as much as possible.”
Hiding her symptoms worked until her cross-country coach called her mom and said she needed to come to watch Kambe at practice. “We have to hold a paper bag for her at the end of every race because she can’t breathe. She turns gray and purple,” he said. Kambe said that is when they started getting her into specialists. At 17-years-old and in 1989, the closest treatment option was in Seattle, so that’s where Kambe went for her open-heart procedures.
LISTEN TO YOUR BODY
Fast forward to 2014, Kambe knew something wasn’t quite right. She was getting short of breath and light-headed. Kambe could feel palpitations often and started noticing that she just couldn’t go upstairs without having to stop to catch her breath. That reminded her of when she was a teenager and had similar issues, so she wanted to make sure she stayed on top of her heart health. So she made an appointment at Alaska Heart & Vascular Institute (AHVI). In the months before her appointment at AHVI, Kambe had undergone a double tragedy with the death of her brother and father within ten months. After her initial consultation, her doctor was certain that stress had something to do with her symptoms but decided to put Kambe on a heart monitor due to her history of heart disease. Within days of being monitored, Kambe was informed she needed an immediate heart ablation.
At this point, Kambe was referred to Steven Compton, MD, FACC, FACP, FHRS. Kambe has been working with Dr. Compton for nearly eight years now. She underwent five heart ablations and received a pacemaker during that time.
Kambe learned from her parents early on the importance of being her own health care advocate. “Who knows my body better than I do?” she said. “You really have to voice what you’re experiencing and have a good doctor that will listen and understand where you’re at and make the diagnosis.”
Because of her own advocacy and working with a physician who listens, Kambe recently found herself back in Dr. Compton’s office. “I’m having issues,” she said. “I still have an irregular heartbeat, and we’re going to tackle it.” It was after this visit that Kambe received a pacemaker.
DON’T IGNORE SYMPTOMS
Kambe understands the notion of ignoring symptoms. She did so herself a few years ago. “I know the signs and symptoms of heart disease, yet I ignored them,” she noted. Kambe went to work and complained to her boss that the drinking water tasted metallic. She learned that when things start to have that kind of taste, it is a sign that something is happening (a warning) and one should act upon it before other warnings or symptoms arise and it becomes too late. She ignored it. After work, she had dinner and experienced some terrible heartburn. She ignored it. After dinner, she went to the gym with her girlfriend. She told her girlfriend that her left side hurt, and she just wanted to go home and take a bath. Of course, her friend told her she just wanted to get out of a workout. They both laughed it off. Kambe ignored it.
Kambe made it home but collapsed on the floor by her bedroom door. Fortunately, Kambe’s 12-year-old daughter heard her mom cry out for help and took action. “When our daughter found me on the floor, she immediately responded by getting an adult (my husband) and remained calm,” Kambe remembered. “My husband called 911 and I ended up in the ER.”
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
From years of living with heart disease, it’s essential to Kambe that people understand that you can survive this. “Heart disease doesn’t have to be the number one killer,” she said. “I’ve had seven procedures. If you stay ahead of it, listen to your body, and know the signs, you can fight heart disease and stay alive.”
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As the Career Technical Education (CTE) and the Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) initiatives are taking center stage around the country, EdGate Correlation Services has committed to adding these standards to the EdGate Repository of more than 2.5 million standards. The addition will help EdGate support educational publishers in their efforts to educate young people with the technical and employability skills needed in today’s economy.
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《Trillionia》is a brand new multiplayer card and table combined strategy game.
Select your favorite character, and begin your journey to be a Trillionaire in the world of Trillionia! - designed around the colosseums of the godly world, a versatile range of cards awaits you to collect and put in to deck, and battle for fame! Raise the rarity of your cards in 6 different stages, with each stage, discover the new abilities, artworks and stories behind each of their stories.
- A simple yet exciting strategy with 3-cards playstyle!
- Play with a versatile selection of original characters of different races and origins, each designed to a unique visual and skill set for your preference.
- Collect cards that are tailor made for each characters you own - an exciting card collection experience!
Your game, your strategies
- Discover and choose through unlimited combinations of cards to play, and design your own battle strategies to win!
Designed to be fun
- Play yourself, or compete with all of the players around the world! Become a Trillionaire!
English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
※ Trillionia official Facebook page
※ Trillionia official Instagram
※ Skytree official website
※ A part of items and assets in the game are due to in-app purchase.
※ Internet connection is required upon gameplay.
● Tutorial fixes
● Reward screen UI improvements
● Player owned Solra keys are now displayed
● Owned diamonds now will instantly reflect upon usage on ranked mode
● Data download error fixes
● News area UI improvements
Ratings and Reviews
The game’s pretty fun—until you realize that it’s entirely RNG based. There’s little to no strategy involved with the short time limit, randomized cards, and gacha system. It’s like Monopoly, if someone decided to get rid of any form of strategy involved.
More than even that, what really did me in was the lack of any sort of way of quitting a game. My opponent had a card that did 3 damage to every single one of the opponent’s(my) houses; I’d had every house on the board and my opponent stole all but one. I was fully aware that there was literally no chance of victory at that point, since I didn’t have a similar card, so I looked for a way to quit out. To my horrified surprise, there was literally no way to do so. You’re locked into every demoralizing, spirit breaking ordeal the game has decided to put you through. I even tried closing and opening the game. I expected that it would say that I’d disconnected and consequently lost, which would have been great. No, it sent me right back into the previous game without asking if I even WANTED to continue—which I absolutely did not.
You can’t just make an entirely luck based board game and then force people to sit through crushing defeats that are entirely out of their control. It’s not just stupid; it’s cruel and purposeless, and it was all the incentive I needed to realize that I would get no satisfaction from a game like this.
This game is becoming more unfair. With the newest update, the game mechanics has been demoted. The rewards system had 3 tiers; 3 chances to get rewards, and now we only have one chance. The gems reward have been reduced, but not gatcha. Before you got 3 rewards of 150 gems for 20 place (I forgot the actual ranking), totaling 450. Enough to get 1 multi pull gatcha- it’s 450. Now if you get first place, you will get 300 gems one time. You have to save if you want multi. The map hasn’t been updated. No new characters. Ranking is flawed now. I lost all of my money because of that. Some cards are op than others. If you don’t have a characters unique card at 5* or 6*, you’re screwed. They screwed over Connie so much with nerfing her 6* fox shadow, and limiting her thief self-skill. With each update, skytree takes away something. I have deleted the game. Skytree is starting to follow joycitys footsteps.
Good until you get ranked
I was enjoying the game and finding matches quickly until I went from unranked to beginner rank, then the game stopped finding matches quickly. I have searched for over 10 minutes multiple times before it finds a match, I have even waited upwards of 30 minutes once. This is unacceptable in ANY game. There needs to be backup enemy in the matchmaking system as either an AI or a higher ranked player so you are not stuck waiting forever for a match that will never come. If it is only matching the player with the other players within the viewable leaderboard then it needs to be expanded to all players of the same rank so there is a larger player base to pull from.
- Skytree Digital Limited
- 439.5 MB
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- Rated 12+ for the following:
- Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- © 2018 Skytree Digital Limited
- In-App Purchases
- Basic starter pack $0.99
- Premium starter pack $4.99
- Event package $9.99
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TILL FINANCIAL’S TERMS OF SERVICE
Last updated 25 March 2020
Welcome to Till!
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) between Till Financial, Inc. its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, service providers, and assigns (“Till,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) and you (“you,” or “your”), the end user of our website (https://www.tillfinancial.io/) (“Website”) and mobile application (“Application”), govern your use of our services, products, features, functions, technologies, and content we may offer through our Website and Application, which we refer to collectively as our “Services”. These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and Till.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change these Terms at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date these Terms were last revised. Any changes will become effective when posted. Your continued use of our Services after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY, AS THEY CONTAIN AN AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES, AND OBLIGATIONS. THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE REQUIRES (WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION) THAT YOU SUBMIT CLAIMS YOU HAVE AGAINST US TO BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION, AND FURTHER (1) YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO PURSUE CLAIMS AGAINST TILL ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR PROCEEDING, (2) YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO SEEK RELIEF (INCLUDING MONETARY, INJUNCTIVE, AND DECLARATORY RELIEF) ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND (3) YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE ANY CLAIMS YOU HAVE AGAINST US RESOLVED BY A JURY OR IN A COURT OF LAW.
For purposes of these Terms, our business days are Monday through Friday. Holidays are not included.
1. Consent to Doing Business Electronically
Because our platform operates on the Internet and mobile devices, you consent to transact business with us electronically. You agree that we may provide notices to you by electronic means, for example, by posting it on our Website, sending you an in-Application message, emailing it to any email address that you have provided us, or sending it as a text message to any mobile phone number that you have provided us. We may also send notices to you by mail to any postal address that you have provided us. All notices by any of these methods will be deemed received by you no later than the earlier of when received or posted, or 24 hours after sent, except for notice by postal mail, which will be deemed received by you no later than the earlier of when received or 3 business days after it is mailed.
You consent to be contacted by us, our agents, representatives, affiliates, or anyone calling on our behalf for any purpose, at any telephone number, or physical or electronic address you provide or at which you may be reached. You agree we may contact you in any way, including short message service messages (including text messages), multimedia messaging service, calls using prerecorded messages or artificial voice, and calls and messages delivered using automatic telephone dialing systems or automatic texting systems. Automated messages may be played when the telephone is answered, whether by you or someone else. In the event that an agent or representative calls, he or she may also leave a message on your answering machine, voice mail, or send one by text.
You consent to receive calls and messages (including prerecorded, artificial voice and autodialed) from us, our agents, representatives, affiliates, or anyone calling on our behalf at the specific numbers you have provided to us, or numbers we can reasonably associate with your Till Account (through skip trace, caller ID capture, or other means), with information or questions relating to you, your Till Account, or our Services. You acknowledge and agree that standard call, message, and data rates apply.
To unsubscribe from text messages at any time, reply STOP to any text message you receive from us. If you unsubscribe, you may be unable to access your Till Account. You consent that following such a request to unsubscribe, you may receive one final text message from us confirming your request and/or providing an alternative to access your Till Account.
2. Services Description
Through your use of our Website and Application, you may create a Till dashboard account (“Till Account”) that allows you to manage our Services and other products and services third parties may provide to you, including payments functionality. We reserve the right at any time to add to, change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services, change the fees charged in connection with our Services, or close your Till Account, with or without notice to you. We are not responsible for products or services that are provided by any third party.
3. Use of Services; Authorized Users
You can use and subscribe to our Services only if you are 18 years or older and can lawfully enter into and form legally binding contracts. You may be permitted to add one or more person to use our Services through your Till Account (each, an “Authorized User”). You agree to provide us any information we request about an Authorized User. Authorized Users may include your minor child(ren). Any minor who uses our Services must do so only as authorized by their parent or legal guardian, who must themselves be of majority age. You acknowledge that these Terms will apply to you and each Authorized User, and you accept these Terms on behalf of yourself and each Authorized User. You further agree to and accept full responsibility for any Authorized User’s use our Services, including (a) any transactions made by an Authorized User; (b) any transaction made by an Authorized User even if the post date shown on your statement for that transaction occurs after the date you ask us to remove the Authorized User from your Till Account; (c) any transaction made by others if an Authorized User allows them to use your Till Account; (d) fees and charges resulting from any transaction made by an Authorized User or others if an Authorized User allows them to use your Till Account; and (e) any other financial charges and legal liability that an Authorized User may incur in connection with the Authorized User’s use of your Till Account. You allow us to discuss your Till Account with any Authorized User, which includes giving him or her access to your transaction history and Till Account information. You also agree that an Authorized User may use and receive information about your Till Account the same way you do. By adding an Authorized User, you represent that you have permission from the Authorized User to allow us to share information about him or her. This includes information we may get from you, any Authorized User, and information about the Authorized User’s transactions and use of our Services. We may suspend or terminate any Authorized User at any time and for any reason.
4. Credit Report
We may use certain consumer report data in providing you our Services. In order to do this, you have provided “written instructions” in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in order for us to obtain your consumer report and scores from consumer reporting agencies, including TransUnion, Equifax and Experian, (“Credit Report”) which we may use to provide our Services. By providing “written instructions,” you understand that we may obtain your Credit Report at any time for as long as you have your Till Account. When you delete your Till Account, it will automatically cancel the “written instructions” you provided to us to access your Credit Report.
5. Third-Party Providers
6. Dwolla White Label Account
7. Account Balances
You and your Authorized Users cannot use our Services to withdraw or transfer money you do not have. When you initiate a transaction, you must have enough funds in your White Label Account to support that transaction, or the transaction will not be permitted to go through. You are prohibited from having a negative balance on your White Label Account and may not incur overdrafts.
8. ACHs through Dwolla White Label Account
In your Till Account you can initiate the following Automated Clearing House transactions (“ACHs”) which are executed through your White Label Account:
Load funds to your White Label Account from an external bank account linked to your White Label Account;
Withdraw funds from your White Label Account to your linked bank account; and
Transfer funds from your White Label Account to another person’s White Label Account.
Once you initiate an ACH through your Till Account, we pass along your payment instructions to Dwolla in order to complete the transaction. Dwolla sets transaction limits on these transfers, which you should review carefully in the Dwolla Terms of Service. We reserve the right to impose additional limits, which will not exceed and may be less than, the limits set by Dwolla. Limits imposed by use are based on transfer activity and your length of time as a customer. These limits are set for security purposes and are not disclosed for that reason.
We reserve the right to limit the number of external accounts that can be linked for the purpose of transferring funds and may limit functionality by imposing holds, decreasing transfer limits, suspending transfer services, or other measures if unlawful or suspicious activity is found or suspected.
9. Consumer Liability
a. Authorized Transfers. You are liable for all ACHs that you authorize.
b. Unauthorized Transfers. Tell us AT ONCE if you believe the user name, password, or other security credential to your Till Account has been lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised, or if you believe that an ACH has been made without your permission. Emailing us immediately at firstname.lastname@example.org is the best way of keeping your possible losses down. If you do not tell us, you could lose all the money in your external bank account. If you tell us within 2 business days after you learn of the loss, theft, or compromise of your user name, password or other security credential, you can lose no more than $50 if someone made ACHs without your permission.
If you do NOT tell us within 2 business days after you learn of the loss or theft from your external bank account, and we can prove we could have stopped someone from making the unauthorized transfers if you had told us, you could lose as much as $500.
Also, if your statement shows transfers that you did not make, including those initiated through your Till Account, tell us AT ONCE. If you do not tell us within 90 days after the statement was mailed or made available to you, you may not get back any money you lost after the 90 days if we can prove that we could have stopped someone from taking the money if you had told us in time. If a good reason (such as a long trip or a hospital stay) kept you from telling us, we will extend the time periods.
c. Error Resolution. In case of errors or questions about your ACHs, message us in-Application or email us at email@example.com soon as you can. We need to hear from you no later than 90 days after we sent or provided you with the FIRST statement on which the problem or error appeared. When you notify us of any suspected error, please provide:
Your name, account number (if any), and best method of contact;
A description of the suspected error or the transfer you are unsure about, and explain as clearly as you can why you believe it is an error or why you need more information; and
- The dollar amount of the suspected error.
If you tell us orally, we may require that you send us your complaint or question in writing within 10 business days.
We will determine whether an error occurred within 10 business days after we hear from you and will correct any error promptly. If we need more time, however, we make take up to 45 days to investigate your complaint or question. If we decide to do this, we will credit your account within 10 business days for the amount you think is in error, so that you will have the use of the money during the time it takes us to complete our investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or question in writing and we do not receive it within 10 business days, we may not credit your account.
For errors involving new accounts, point-of-sale, or foreign-initiated transactions, we may take up to 90 days to investigate your complaint or question. For new accounts, we may take up to 20 business days to credit your account for the amount you think is in error.
We will tell you the results within 3 business days after completing our investigation. If we decide that there was no error, we will send you a written explanation. You may ask for copies of the documents that we used in our investigation.
d. Other Questions
We will not send you a periodic statement listing transactions that you make using your external bank account. The transactions will appear only on the statement issued by your bank or other financial institution. SAVE THE RECEIPTS YOU ARE GIVEN WHEN YOU USE OUR SERVICES, AND CHECK THEM AGAINST THE ACCOUNT STATEMENT YOU RECEIVE FROM YOUR BANK OR OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. If you have any questions about one of these transactions, email us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR USER NAME, PASSWORD OR OTHER SECURITY CREDENTIAL HAS BEEN LOST OR STOLEN, OR AN ACH HAS BEEN MADE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION, NOTIFY US AT ONCE by emailing us at email@example.com.
10. Transaction History
You will be able to see your transaction history on your Till Account through our Website or Application. We will not send you a periodic statement. If you have any questions about these transactions, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
11. Our Liability for ACHs
If an ACH initiated through your Till Account is not completed on time or in the correct amount, we may be liable for your losses or damages. However, we will not be liable:
If, through no fault of ours, you do not have enough money to make the ACH.
If our system was not working properly and you knew about the breakdown when you started the ACH.
- If circumstances beyond our control (such as fire or flood) prevent the ACH, despite reasonable precautions that we have taken.
There may be other exceptions to our liability as stated in these Terms.
12. Disclosure of Your Information
We will disclose information to third parties about your ACHs you initiate:
Where it is necessary for completing ACHs;
In order to verify the existence and condition of your Till Account or White Label Account for a third party, such as a credit bureau or merchant;
In order to comply with government agency or court orders; or
- If you give us your permission.
Fees are charged in accordance with our Schedule of Fees. We may make changes to our Schedule of Fees at any time and such changes are effective when made.
To the extent you access our Services through a mobile or tablet device, your wireless service carrier’s charges, data rates, and other fees may apply.
For your safety, and for the safety of all of our customers, we require you to agree to the following:
You will not violate any law;
You will not infringe on our intellectual property rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
You will cooperate in any investigation we deem necessary and you will provide confirmation of your identity or any information you give to us;
You will not act in any way that is defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or harassing;
You will not use an anonymizing proxy;
You will not attempt to use our Services by fraudulent, unlawful or inappropriate means of any kind, including the use of a bank account to which you do not have legitimate access;
You will not use any automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy our Website;
You will not control or access an account at a financial institution that directly or indirectly has engaged in any of these restricted activities;
You will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
You will not facilitate any viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information;
You will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with our Services; and
You will not take any action that may cause us to lose any of our servers from our Internet service providers, payment processors, or other suppliers.
We also urge you to think carefully before sending funds to an unknown person.
15. Right to Stop Transactions
We or Dwolla or its financial institution partners may stop any of your transactions if there is any reason to believe there may be suspicious activity involved or for any other reason, including security or data system concerns, so long as we are not prohibited by law.
If you want to cancel a transfer from your linked external bank account or White Label Account that you initiated, and the transaction has not yet been processed or is pending, you can request to cancel the transaction by contacting us by email at email@example.com.
16. Account Security and Responsibility
Any activity on your Till Account is your responsibility. We recommend choosing a strong password that you do not use elsewhere. For security reasons, we require you to agree to the following:
You will not create a Till Account using fake information;
You will not create another Till Account after we have suspended or otherwise limited access to an existing Till Account of yours, unless we give you written permission to do so;
You will not buy, sell, rent, or lease access to your Till Account;
You will not share your user name, password or other security credential; and
You will keep your contact information complete and accurate at all times.
You can request to delete your Till Account at any time, but you must withdraw all funds before doing so.
We may terminate, suspend or limit these Terms with you at any time, for any reason, and without advance notice. This means we can stop providing you with any Services, or impose new or additional limits without notifying you. However, we will always notify you when the law requires us to update you regarding any changes. The following sections of these Terms will survive any termination, suspension or expiration of these Terms: Sections 11, 17, 18 (second paragraph), and 20-31.
18. Privacy and Data Security
We and our third party service providers may use your data, including your financial information, to improve our Services. We and our third party service providers may use anonymous, aggregate financial information to perform analytical research, engage in performance tracking or benchmarking, or to publish, distribute, or license the aggregated, anonymous research data for any purpose.
We protect your sensitive data according to an internal information security policy and program, and as required by law. Despite our best efforts, you understand that transmissions on the Internet and electronic storage cannot always be secure.
You are responsible for safeguarding your username, password, and other security credentials used to access our Services. If you do not safeguard your login information, you will be responsible, within nay limits imposed by law, for any loss associated with unauthorized use of your Till Account.
19. Identity Verification
You authorize us, directly or through third parties, to validate the information you provide to us. This may include asking you for additional information, requiring you to take steps to confirm your email address or other information, or verifying your information against third party databases or other sources. If you refuse to provide identifying information, we may limit your use of our Services.
20. Dispute Resolution
20.1. Governing Law
These Terms will be governed according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and all activities performed in connection with our Services will be deemed to have been performed in Massachusetts. Any controversy, dispute, or claim arising out of or relating to our Services or these Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, except the provisions concerning conflicts of law.
If a dispute arises between you and us, our goal is to learn about and address your concerns, so please send us a message at firstname.lastname@example.org. If we are unable to address your concerns to your satisfaction, we will seek to provide you with a neutral and cost-effective means of resolving the dispute quickly.
THIS SECTION AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE AGREEING TO THESE TERMS.
To resolve disputes in the most expedient and cost effective manner, you and Till agree that any dispute arising in connection with our Services will be resolved by binding arbitration. Arbitration is more informal than a lawsuit in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, may allow for more limited discovery than in court, and can be subject to very limited review by courts. Arbitrators can award the same damages and relief on an individual basis that a court can award.
Our agreement to arbitrate disputes includes all claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of our Services, whether based in equity, contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether the claims arise during or after the termination of our Services. All issues are for the arbitrator to decide, including issues relating to the scope, enforceability, and arbitrability of these Terms.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND TILL ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION IN COURT OR IN ARBITRATION.
We both agree that nothing in these Terms will be deemed to waive, preclude, or otherwise limit either of our right to (a) bring an individual action in small claims court, or (b) pursue enforcement actions through applicable federal, state, or local agencies where such actions are available.
Any arbitration between you and Till will be governed by the American Arbitration Association’s (“AAA”) rules and procedures, including the AAA’s Consumer Arbitration Rules (collectively, the “AAA Rules”), as modified by these Terms. For information on the AAA, please visit its website, http://www.adr.org. Your arbitration filing fees will be governed by the AAA Rules. If it is determined by the arbitrator that you cannot afford such fees, Till will pay all arbitration fees and expenses. If there is any inconsistency between any term of the AAA Rules and these Terms, these Terms will control.
Any arbitration hearings will take place at a location to be agreed upon in Boston, Massachusetts or the state you reside, provided that if the claim is for $10,000 or less, you or Till may choose whether the arbitration will be conducted (i) solely on the basis of documents submitted to the arbitrator; (ii) through a nonappearance based telephonic hearing; or (iii) by an in-person hearing as established by the AAA Rules. All aspects of the arbitration proceeding, and any ruling, decision, or award by the arbitrator, will be strictly confidential for the benefit of both you and us.
YOU AND TILL AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR OUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
You agree that the enforceability of these arbitration provisions will be determined by the arbitrator as provided in the AAA Rules. You agree that the arbitration provisions of these Terms in effect at the time of demand or action, and not the time of your or our alleged injury, will be the provisions that will be applied by the arbitrator or a court.
20.4. Forum for Disputes
Except as otherwise agreed by the parties in Section 20.3, you agree that any claim that you have against Till must be resolved by a court located in Suffolk County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Suffolk County, for the purpose of litigating any claim.
21. Disclaimer of Warranties
OUR SERVICES AND RELATED SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE AND OUR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND AS TO OUR SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OR ACCESSIBLE FROM OUR SERVICES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We make reasonable efforts to make our Services available, but we make no representations or warranties regarding our Services, including the time needed to complete transaction processing because our Services are dependent on many factors outside our control. We do not have control over merchants’ delivery of goods or services paid for using our Services and cannot ensure merchants will deliver goods or services or the quality of goods or services. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so this disclaimer may not apply to you.
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS TILL, ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, ACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, SETTLEMENTS, PENALTIES, FINES, EXPENSES AND COSTS (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES) CAUSED BY, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES.
If you owe us any amount, you give us a security interest in your Till Account, White Label Account and your funds held in any pooled account. You also give us the right, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, to set off against your funds to pay the amount owed to us. You agree that the security interest you have given us is consensual and is in addition to our right of set off. If we exercise our right of set off, we will notify you to the extent required by applicable law.
24. Limitation of Liability
YOU AGREE THAT ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY HARMS RELATED TO OUR SERVICES, WHICH LAWYERS AND COURTS OFTEN CALL DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH HARMS. OUR MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS, ACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, SETTLEMENTS, PENALTIES, FINES, EXPENSES AND COSTS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, WILL BE THE TOTAL AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO US TO ACCESS AND USE OUR SERVICES OR $100, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.
Some jurisdictions do not allow for the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in which case, this limitation may not apply to you.
25. Intellectual Property
We own all right, title, and interest in our Services and associated software and technology. This means that everything on our Website and Application (for example, text, graphics, links, logos, images) is our intellectual property. You agree not to use our intellectual property for any purpose.
The technology and software underlying our Services or distributed in connection with our Services are the property of Till and its affiliates (the “Software”). Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Till grants you a non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, and revocable right and license to use the object code of any Software on your device(s) solely to use our Services as intended, provided that you agree not to copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. Any rights not expressly given in this Section are reserved by Till.
You are responsible for reporting any required Till Account or White Label Account information to tax authorities and paying any taxes related to your Till Account and White Label Account.
27. No Waiver
If we do not enforce any provision in these Terms, it will not be considered a waiver.
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, then that provision will be severed from these Terms and not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
29. Invalidated Provisions
If an arbitrator or court finds any provision to be invalid, you and we agree that the arbitrator or court should give valid effect to the intention of that provision, and that the remainder of the Terms remain in full force and effect.
30. Entire Agreement
31. Reservation of Rights.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
32. Contact Information
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Many kidney patients across the United States are not made aware that there are options for them when it comes to dialysis treatments. Most of them think that “in-center” dialysis is their only option. This is not true. In today’s world of technology, it is now possible for kidney patients to do their dialysis at home. Most patients with kidney failure undergo a demanding dialysis regimen of in-center dialysis, three days per week for three to four hour therapy sessions. That type of schedule may leave the patient feeling washed out and very tired, not to mention the hassles and expenses of traveling back and forth to the dialysis center.
There is almost no other medical condition that requires such an enormous life style change as dialysis. However, home hemodialysis allows patients to dialyze in the comfort of their own home on a daily basis. Home hemodialysis is an option for patients to help maintain their lifestyle and a greater sense of normalcy as well as a better quality of life.
Meet Paul Duker, 70, and his wife, Suzi of Quincy, IL. Paul has no kidneys. Paul and Suzi are members of the Kidney Patients Support Group of Quincy, IL & Hannibal, MO. He lost his first kidney in 1989 due to arterial stenosis, and in 2011, he lost his other kidney to cancer. Paul says he is a victim of Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam and has multiple health issues. Paul has been on dialysis for 15 months and home hemodialysis for 13 months. His wife, Suzi, is his care partner. They do dialysis five days a week, and never take two days off in a row. Treatment takes 3 ½ hours from start to finish. This includes set up time. Together they were trained to set up the dialysis machine and perform the therapy. They chose this particular modality of doing dialysis because of its convenience and effectiveness. Of the choices they had to keep Paul alive, home hemodialysis seemed to be the best choice for them.
The Dukers say, “Doing dialysis at home gives us the flexibility to arrange the treatments around our own schedule, and independence from an in-center schedule. We have a portable dialysis machine and it fits nicely on an end-table.” It is not always necessary to have a care partner to do home hemodialysis, but it does seem to help the Dukers to share the responsibility, not only physically, but emotionally also. Additionally, it makes time seem to go by faster!
Home hemodialysis offers:
• Ease, comfort and convenience
• Improved patient outcomes
• More time to do what you like
• Reduction of travel expenses
• Improved understanding of End Stage Renal Disease
• Can do treatment during the night while you sleep
• Improved quality of life
Home hemodialysis has been successfully used by thousands of patients nation-wide. It is a safe, effective and efficient modality that allows patients the ability to do their therapy on a schedule that works for them and their lifestyle. It allows for fluctuation of therapy frequency, i.e. increasing the frequency of dialysis, which quite often provides a potential survival benefit.
Lana Schmidt is Co-Leader of the Kidney Patients Support Group of Quincy, IL & Hannibal, MO. She has been a kidney dialysis patient for 10 years. Patty Purcell is a home hemodialysis personal assistant.
For a listing of support groups in your community or to start your own support group, visit www.aakp.org/community/supportgroups.html. There you’ll find a listing of renal support groups, the capability to list your support group, and you can download the AAKP Support Group Guide which provides step by step instructions on how to start your own support group. | <urn:uuid:b085a5fb-6392-43f6-a6d5-5f4d5b359da5> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://aakp.org/theres-no-place-like-home/ | 2019-09-18T12:56:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573284.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918110932-20190918132932-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.966336 | 805 |
You know what I feel like doing today? I feel like having you completely naked, up against the wall and with my hand smacking your face all over the shop. Slaves such as yourself should always know that when push comes to shove, their bodies are their mistress’s property and whatever they want, they get. So, without further ado, let’s get you out of those cheap clothes and submit you to some punishment.
I like how you look when you’re covered in red marks and my spit. There is a certain aesthetic appeal to the fact that your stupid face has been treated to some severe punishment delivered by me. You go so red after I have put your body through multiple levels of pain: just the way I like to see my submissive boys that don’t know how to live their lives without a powerful mistress in charge.
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Many people know cinnamon as an ancient spice that was highly regarded as a gift to the gods. These days, in the social media world, the spice has become a sort of double- dare-you as the “Cinnamon Challenge.” Young people attempt to swallow a heaping helping of cinnamon without water. The dare has gone viral on YouTube with over 79 million views.
Calls to poison centers concerning kids ingesting cinnamon as part of the cinnamon challenge have dramatically increased this year according to the Association of Poison Control Center’s National Poison Data System (AAPCC).
As a result of the increase, poison control experts are now warning parents and teens about the health risks associated with the intentional misuse or abuse of cinnamon, according to Alvin C. Bronstein, MD, managing and medical director for the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center.
“Although cinnamon is a common flavoring, swallowing a spoonful may result in unpleasant effects that can pose a health risk,” Bronstein said.
“We urge parents and caregivers to talk to their teens about the cinnamon challenge, explaining that what may seem like a silly game can have serious health consequences. AAPCC does not recommend using cinnamon this way.”
Why is ingesting cinnamon dangerous? Because it’s a fine powder that can cause a violent reaction.
Doctors say the challenge is impossible because the cinnamon cannot be digested without water and warn that by inhaling the cinnamon dust teens run the risk of inflaming or scarring their lungs.
“If you have some fine particles, like cinnamon in your lungs, it may be hard to clear out,” said Dr. Robert Zaid of Providence Hospital in Mobile, Ala. ”Your lungs can kind of collapse on you. There have been several cases reported where kids needed ventilator support because they weren’t able to maintain their airway.”
Dr. Russell Migita, Clinical Director of Emergency Services at Seattle Children’s Hospital, says, “The extreme coughing most people experience can be a harmful side effect."
“People who cough that hard can have problems that can range from collapsing a lung to having lungs that get really inflamed, or pulmonary edema,” Migita says.
Amy Hanoian-Fontana, education specialist at the Connecticut Poison Control Center, says that the biggest concerns of ingesting cinnamon come from side effects such as vomiting or an allergic reaction. People with asthma or respiratory-compromised conditions are more at risk.
“People usually vomit,” Hanoian-Fontana says. "The dry fine powder coats all the mucous membrane; someone could end up with respiratory distress or trouble breathing. The risk is more from a mouth, throat or lung injury than any poisoning reaction from the cinnamon.”
School districts are trying to keep an eye out for kids who may be trying the “cinnamon challenge.” Like many other social media movements, schools face their own challenge trying to catch a trend before it does any harm. Some schools have started sending notes home to parents warning them of the dangers of swallowing dry cinnamon, hoping to update them on the latest and –potentially dangerous- fad.
So, if you should find your child looking through the pantry or spice rack, ask them what they are looking for, and let them know that the cinnamon is off limits. | <urn:uuid:b08e0130-9341-4304-bef0-26f6a3d5d723> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.kidsdr.com/your-teen/cinnamon-challenge-danger | 2013-12-21T20:45:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387345776444/warc/CC-MAIN-20131218054936-00057-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937165 | 703 |
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Greenpeace: The Puddles
In China drinking unsafe water is common, especially in poorer and remote villages. There are about 300 million people with no access to clean drinking water and hence their lives are severely threatened. City folks could hardly relate to the situation. So Greenpeace urgently needs to raise awareness of this pressing issue among both local Chinese in big cities and foreign visitors. Target the city stickers with the message: Imagine if you had to drink contaminated water like your fellow citizens in the remote and poorer areas. Floor stickers – designed to resemble puddles of water – are placed in Beijing’s commercial and tourist districts. When pedestrians passes by and look down, they see the reflection of a poor child scooping from the poodle of dirty water and drinking it. The copy reads: “Every 17 minutes, a child in China dies from drinking polluted water”. During the campaign period, these floor stickers caught the attention of scores of pedestrians. They stopped to read the message and took note of the website address. There was a 20% increase in the number of hits on the Greenpeace website during the same period. Many curious passer-bys also took pictures of the “puddles” stickers.
Advertising Agency: Grey, Beijing, China
Executive Creative Director: Chee Guan Yue
Art Directors: Zhi Guo Zhou, Bin Bin Zhang, Gang Zhao, Ke Shen
Copywriter: Albion Li
Retouching: Alva Oh, Bin Bin Zhang
Photographers: Alex Kai Keong, Li Jian Zhang https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png | <urn:uuid:190c9fa5-a073-444c-9d9e-a57d872fd249> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://kissmyblackads.blogspot.com/2009/12/greenpeace-puddles.html | 2017-02-23T06:58:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171162.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00154-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94727 | 334 |
Today was my morning appointment, and it was less hip than last week. No super clubbing hotties in the waiting room. Just a few scared looking dudes (seriously, I felt so bad for them. The were looking around most of the time with a freaked out look in their faces).
Going into this appointment, I decided I was NOT going to care/think about follie count. However, US tech was extra chipper in interpreting my results. She said, "Looks like you've got 7 good follies!" and I thought, "Shut the hell up!" ha!
Whatever they are, I do not care. My RE dropped my Follistim/Bravelle/Gonal to 150 tonight and 75 tomorrow night. I continue with my Menopur 225 tonight and tomorrow, and add Ganirelex both nights. I go in again Monday for what should be my final US and BW. I think I am triggering Monday night for a Wednesday retrieval.
I can't believe it's almost over. I still feel very little in my ovary region. My left side (the one kicking out the most follies) tugs a bit here and there, but mostly I feel like I am about to get AF or that I have to have a bowel movement. Neither one, of course, is going to happen. I am super regular with this TCM business, so these feelings must be the ovaries. I felt a shit ton worse with clomid/menopur with my IUIs.
I am happy to make enough good and healthy follies for good and healthy eggs, whatever that number is. I'll find out Wednesday, and that's all I can do. | <urn:uuid:aa06fde3-5143-415e-b77c-a528b55576fe> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://lookingforaplussign.blogspot.com/2010/12/saturday-morning-at-hip-clinic.html | 2018-07-17T17:12:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589757.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717164437-20180717184437-00111.warc.gz | en | 0.980551 | 351 |
When it comes to foundation, my biggest priority is caring for my skin while hiding any imperfections. Anything that is going to sit on my skin all day needs to have SPF, and that’s what brought me to Dior Capture Totale Dreamskin Perfect Skin Cushion.
I walked up to the Nordstrom beauty counter one day and told the sales associate that I was looking for a light foundation with SPF and she got all fresh eyed and beaming when she told me about this product. Not only does this foundation blend to my exact skin tone, but it also protects and treats my skin. That means, when I put this foundation on, I’m reducing redness, tightening up my pores and reducing the visibility of dark spots. Not only that, but this cushion is SPF 50.
Come again? Yes, SPF 50.
Now what does this mean: cushion? When you open this blush pink compact, there’s a round flat sponge. You open a separator and there is the cushion. It opens like a powder foundation, but instead it’s a liquid. Dab the sponge on the cushion and gently pat the product into your skin.
I always notice an immediate reduction in the appearance of oil on my skin, which is HUGE for me. I love love love it. When using Dior Capture Totale Dreamskin Perfect Skin Cushion I always dab a tiny bit of concealer on any trouble spot and on any dark circles, since the coverage is so light and sheer. The texture of it is lovely, though. There’s no heavy cakiness, just sheer, moisturizing coverage.
A couple other details you ought to know: Dior is picking up their game when it comes to reducing waste. So when you buy this product, you’re also buying the compact. However, when you buy the refills (which come with a new sponge, fyi) it’s about half the price of the first time you purchased it. And pro tip: when you’ve finished with one side of the cushion and think you’re out, flip it over! There’s more product on the other side! | <urn:uuid:838158d0-6788-472e-a43e-7c2bac49e6cf> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://bybreannamarie.com/2017/01/10/product-love-dior-capture-totale-dreamskin-perfect-skin-cushion/ | 2021-08-01T20:50:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154219.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801190212-20210801220212-00145.warc.gz | en | 0.941454 | 456 |
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CodeFutures, formally known as a leading supplier of database performance tools that reduce the time and effort required to develop database applications and dramatically increase deployed database scalability and performance, has now announced a shift to provide professional services in software, technology, strategy, and operations.
CodeFutures will now leverage years of industry experience to provide world-class service and solutions to partners. CodeFutures’ database products were used in hundreds of companies such as FedEx, HSBC, T-Mobile, Lehman Brothers, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, Walt Disney, Wells Fargo Bank, Kraft Foods, Bank of America, Lockheed Martin, ABN AMRO Bank, Verizon, Compass Bank, Siemens, and United Airlines.
“As the world is moving to the cloud at a rapid pace, we’d like to play our part by enabling organizations to be more efficient and scalable,” said Danny Delgado, CodeFutures’ Chief Executive Officer. “Right now there is also an incredible amount of innovation going on, and we are privileged to be getting our hands dirty and developing that for our partners.”
CodeFutures is capable of offering a wide variety of services, as of now they are focusing on four key areas: cloud optimization/migration, DevOps, product engineering (application development), and technology leadership. CodeFutures is able to work alongside your existing team or provide a full suite of support including executive direction. With a fully remote team, their developers and strategic advisors are always within a moment’s reach.
Overhauling existing infrastructure and data services is a monumental task for any organization alone, CodeFutures is looking to provide the support necessary to bring about meaningful change and everlasting value to organizations across the board. New and veteran CTOs are scrambling to provide technology advances for their organization and CodeFutures is here to help.
CodeFutures is a software consulting firm providing professional services in software, technology, strategy, and operations. Formally known as a leading supplier of database products used in hundreds of leading companies such as FedEx, HSBC, and T-Mobile. CodeFutures brings years of industry experience to provide value to partners in all industries (e.g. healthcare/electronics manufacturing/gaming/etc). Founded in 2008, CodeFutures is headquartered in Broomfield, CO. CodeFutures is privately funded. Connect with CodeFutures on LinkedIn. | <urn:uuid:ab233998-d073-42ae-82fe-2e8c7d06f079> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://softwaredevelopersnewshubb.com/codefutures-pivots-to-offer-professional-services-in-software-technology-strategy-and/ | 2022-10-03T08:26:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337404.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003070342-20221003100342-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.917986 | 545 |
Mālama Maui Nui Receives $5,795 from ‘Ohana Fuels’ “Fuel up. Do good.” Program
ʻOhana Fuels selected Mālama Maui Nui as its third-quarter beneficiary for its “Fuel Up. Do Good.” program, receiving $5,795.67 in aid in its efforts keep Maui Nui beautiful.
From July 1 to Sept. 30, 2020, a portion of the proceeds from every gallon of gasoline purchased at ʻOhana Fuels locations on Maui was donated to Mālama Maui Nui.
In addition, Mālama Maui Nui partnered with West Maui Kumuwai, a movement for ocean health – hosting two ocean-friendly car wash fundraisers on Saturday, July 11 and Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Minit Stop/ʻOhana Fuels location at 85 S Wakea Avenue in Kahului. The car washes featured techniques that used fewer pollutants and prevented toxins from running into storm drains. Dozens of community members got that “fuel good feeling” by fueling up, doing good, and driving away with squeaky-clean vehicles, knowing that they supported Mālama Maui Nui and its many programs directly benefiting the local community.
“Mahalo to ʻOhana Fuels for supporting Mālama Maui Nui,” said executive director, Gabrielle Schuerger. “We appreciate this generous donation and invite everyone to visit our website at MalamaMauiNui.org for more information about our programs and volunteer opportunities.
Said Kimo Haynes, President of Hawaiʻi Petroleum, “We appreciate the opportunity to offer our support to local non-profits through the ‘Fuel up. Do good.’ Program.” He continued, “and we enthusiastically support Mālama Maui Nui’s mission of bringing people together to keep our island safe, clean, and healthy.” | <urn:uuid:4f2b1262-97d8-4dbe-aedc-3797613324fd> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://mauinow.com/2020/11/04/malama-maui-nui-receives-5795-from-ohana-fuels-fuel-up-do-good-program/ | 2024-02-26T15:53:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00446.warc.gz | en | 0.954072 | 432 |
I love being alive right now. There are wonderful gadgets and gizmos a plenty. I can literally pull out a small rectangle from my pocket and look up any question and have the almighty Google tell me the answer. So much now makes life easier and I love it. I love being lazy so anything that can allow me to be lazy for longer is amazing in my book. This is why fast food is the bane of my existence.
I have started a bad habit. Since I work in an office all day I find taking a lunch break is a nice pause that allows me to refocus so I can be more productive during the second half of my day. However, recently I have started getting fast food for lunch almost every day. This is not a good thing. It hurts my goal of losing weight and my goal of saving money, and I need to stop it.
Don’t get me wrong fast food can be amazing, but I need to tone it down and start eating less fast food. Last time I mentioned how I had gained back the weight I had lost, luckily I lost that weight again but it has been weeks since then. If I hadn’t eaten so much fast food I probably would have lost a lot more weight.
I love that I am still losing weight and proving that exercise does in fact work, but I want more. I will not lose any more to the temptation that is fast food. My new goal is that for lunches I am only allowed to buy lunch twice a week. Hopefully that will start me down a better path. Maybe one not quite as easy, but one definitely worth the work. | <urn:uuid:98d9470d-5a8b-47db-a388-041728df57a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://thisgirlwrites.com/?p=75 | 2017-07-23T08:34:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424296.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170723082652-20170723102652-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.981808 | 338 |
This partnership is expected to drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions
Visa has announced a collaboration with Dutch infrastructure payments firm TerraPay. Both companies will develop and deliver payment solutions for both domestic and global remittances.
TerraPay and Visa plan to provide solutions that drive repeat consumption of mobile wallets and digital currency for digital transactions.
Besides, TerraPay partners with other businesses and helps them to enhance their customer proposition for remittances, payments, and cross-border spendings.
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We’re still here: Christopher Miller ’20
Christopher Miller ’20 of Ripon, Wisconsin, will be attending U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School in the fall. He is majoring in politics and government and business management with a minor in philosophy.
“The most important lesson I learned while at Ripon is the realization that the more I put into things — such as school assignments, work, relationships with others, physical and mental health, etc. — the more I got out of them,” he says. “I have learned that in life many times we have to do things that we don’t necessarily want to do. But if we consistently give these things and the things we enjoy our best effort, we will reap the benefits; if not immediately, in the near future.”
He adds, “This off-campus end of my senior year is unfortunate and not ideal, but in these trying times the slight inconveniences I am experiencing does not even begin to compare to the suffering of many others. I am just grateful for the health of myself and my family up to this point.”
Ripon College President Zach Messitte announced today that he will leave his position at the end of the fall 2021 semester and return to his […]
Seventeen students collaborated with Professor of Chemistry Joe Scanlon and Associate Professor of Chemistry Patrick Willoughby on ground-breaking research that resulted in a published article […]
The Ripon College community is growing. As of Aug. 27, we welcome a class of 250 first-year students and nine transfer students. This compares to […]
When Chase Polyak ’25 of Lombard, Illinois, starts at Ripon College as a freshman this fall, she brings with her some touching family connections. She […] | <urn:uuid:54d5c047-ff9b-4f85-8702-07d87f52d3f4> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://ripon.edu/2020/05/04/were-still-here-christopher-miller-20/ | 2021-09-25T11:58:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057622.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925112158-20210925142158-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.955035 | 372 |
5 Important Benefits of SWOT Analysis
A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is an important tool in business that can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an existing or new business. It is also used to analyze the external threats and opportunities that exist for the business in question. All of these combined help business leaders and entrepreneurs better understand what factors will affect the future performance of the business. Keep reading to find out how you and your business can benefit from completing a SWOT analysis.
It is Cost-effective
A SWOT analysis is a cost-effective way to understand the business plus the different factors that will impact it and its future. You do not need any formal or technical skills to conduct the analysis, but you need an understanding of your business and the different factors that will impact it.
Additionally, instead of hiring an external consultant if you need help, you can sit down with your team to work through each of the four quadrants included in this analysis.
It Can Help Start Important Dialogues
If you are conducting a business without the results of a SWOT analysis, you could be missing out on a lot of information you might need. By potting the four quadrants on a board, you can start important discussions and conversations that lead to the discovery of new information.
Additionally, the analysis can help you get your employees on the same page as the management team. A SWOT analysis can show you what you need to be working towards or against. Once everyone understands this, it will become much easier to align business goals, objectives, and processes to achieve what the business needs.
It Leads To Better Decisions Making
A SWOT analysis requires the collection of both qualitative and quantitative data. Having this data available can help with communication and improving planning and can also lead to better decision-making.
This is because the business leader, entrepreneur, or management will not be relying on their gut or own intuition, but instead on gathered data that gives them a 360-degree view of their business and everything they know surrounding its future performance.
Data Integration and Synthesis
Doing a SWOT analysis can be an important time to integrate diverse data from different sources and points in the business. Whether this data is qualitative or quantitative, bringing it together makes it easier to organize, synthesize, and understand. It is not until this happens that business leaders can glean insights from it and use these insights as part of their decision-making processes.
It Helps Businesses Take The Right Actions
Depending on when the analysis is done and the results it yields, it can uncover new areas of profitability or opportunities the business needs to take advantage of. Additionally, it can help businesses uncover threats from new businesses and competitors who have entered the market.
With this information, business leaders can take the right actions, whether it is creating a plan to leverage the unearthed profitability potential or opportunities or to manage threats and weaknesses realized after the analysis.
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Console tables are not very common in a dining room decoration, however, specially in small dining rooms, they can be of great help. Dining Room Ideas gathered fabulous console tables for your dining room decor ideas.
AGRA is the modest setting of one of the most famous and most celebrated monuments in world, the Taj Mahal, also known as the marble mausoleum. AGRA modern console table, just like Taj Mahal, is an impressive display of craftsmanship and elegance ideal for a modern home decor. The delicate work of the robust estremoz marble in the modern console table softens the imposing structure, while touches of brass reflect golden warm tones to the polished surface. Place it in a modern home decor, wheter in a living or dining room, or in a entrance hall to get a strong yet sophisticated look.
Vintage console which can also be used as dining room buffet.
White dining room console and yellow and grey rug design.
For more elegand and bold dining room ideas, try glass consoles and mix them with silver elements.
In the foyer of a 1920s Spanish-style bungalow in Los Angeles, designed by Christos Prevezanos, statement-making Kelly Wearstler wallpaper creates a bold first impression. The console is by Angelo Mangiarotti, and the lacquered mirror was designed by Prevezanos.
Minimalist dining room furniture with grey console table, matching the glass top dining room table. Wood and metal dining room chairs finish the set. The orange stools look perfect with the orange suspension lamp. Great dining room ideas. | <urn:uuid:d1e826c0-6640-4ded-a26f-7ab8de38a47b> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.diningroomideas.eu/dining-room-decor-ideas-with-fabulous-console-tables/ | 2019-11-11T21:35:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664437.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111191704-20191111215704-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.89274 | 344 |
Learning how to can had been on my list of things to do since I graduated college five years ago. Last summer, I woke up one morning and decided that was going to be the day that happened. The pressure cooker really wasn't that scary!
Making jam was the next thing I decided to tackle this summer. Fortunately, mom had some time to show me how it's done while I was home last month. I agree with her, it's not hard, but it's much easier if someone shows you how to do it rather than explaining it on the phone. Yesterday was my first solo attempt at it. So far so good...but we will see how they turn out when I open one of the jars in a few days.
Mom said to turn the jars over for a few minutes after securing the bands (don't forget to make sure the bands are on tight or the jam will spill out!) so it will help them seal faster. They started popping fast after I turned them right side up, so there must be something to that.
I like making presents rather than buying them since I think they mean more that way, so I'll probably be giving some of these away at Christmas and whatnot. It's also pretty fun doing this and I always love homemade jam on my ice cream. It tastes SO much better than what you buy in the store. | <urn:uuid:6dda7fc7-f8de-40cf-9c4b-371ff3c8725e> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.kimmisdairyland.com/2015/07/homemade-jam.html | 2017-03-24T02:06:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187519.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00037-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988278 | 277 |
This lovely 2 bedroom semi-detached townhouse, Casa Poppa, with private heatable plunge pool is brand new to the rental market, and has been newly renovated. The villa is ideally located, just minutes from the main Dunas clubhouse/reception with its large communal pool, children's pool, tennis courts, restaurant and mini-market/coffee shop. It is also in walking distance of the beach.
Entrance into a bright living/dining area with cable TV, wood burning stove, and a BOSE soundlink portable speaker and wireless internet. Sliding doors lead to the outside patio around the pool.
Adjacent well equipped modern kitchen with oven/hob, fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher and washing machine
Also on the ground floor is one bedroom with super king-size bed or twin beds together, good storage and wardrobe space with private safe, and doors to the outside terrace. There is a luxury walk in shower room adjacent.
Upstairs is the master bedroom with super kingsize bed and en-suite brand new shower room. Doors lead out from the bedroom landing onto the new roof terrace.
This new large contemporary roof terrace affords sun all day with space for both sunbathing and a separate private seating area to enjoy drinks/cocktails and sunsets.
The outside space has been completely refurbished using modern tiles and planting to give a contemporary yet still a Portuguese feel. It also has honeysuckle and jasmine planting, and lemon/lime trees; guests can partake of the fruit when available.
Outside around the new heatable pool, there is a comfortable and private seating area with sofas and sun umbrellas, and also a separate dining area with a large table and built-in BBQ for al fresco dining. The pool has steps into the shallow end.
The roof terrace can be accessed from both the upstairs landing and also has a separate staircase down to the pool terrace. All outside spaces have plenty of modern lighting including the pool so that evenings can be enjoyed al-fresco.
Air-conditioning is included
Wi-fi is included
Pool heating is available when required at £150 per week.
Pool towels and a hair-dryer are also available.
Free use of Dunas communal pool, and children's pool and small local charge for use of the Dunas Douradas tennis courts.
"Thank you Nichola we had a fab 10 days. The villa was perfect and in just the right position for pool and beach. The area was very quiet but offered us just what we needed for a relaxing holiday." Mrs D, Sept '18
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A community is remembering a woman whose life was cut short just one week ago after her body was found inside of a burned mobile home.
Friends of Terri Gwyn dressed in purple as they gathered at the Neshoba County Library on Saturday night to not only remember their friend, but to also take a stand against domestic violence. Friends tell Newscenter 11 that Gwyn was involved in an abusive relationship at the time of her death and that it's important for them to encourage other women to get out of abusive relationships.
"No matter what they tell you, no matter what they say to you, if they hit you, if they mentally abuse you, please leave," Tiffany Moore says. "Not another chance, nothing that they say to you should make you want to stay in that relationship."
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Gridiron foes for more than 40 years, the Marauders & Falcons will square off for Holy Bowl 2016 on Saturday, September, 10.
Please join us on Thursday, September 8 for the 2nd Annual Holy Bowl Kick Off, hosted by KELLY BROTHERS (JHS ‘82) and LON BURFORD (CB ‘82) where Marauder & Falcon alumni & fans will come together to celebrate two great schools… and one legendary rivalry!
This year we will celebrate the teams from 1969 – 1973 who fought to a 2-2-1 series record & paved the way for a legendary rivalry that draws crowds of over 15,000 today!
When: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 | 5pm – 7pm
Where: CROATIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER | 3730 Auburn Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95821
Tickets: $40 per person | Please note this is a 21 & over event!
Optional summer conditioning for freshman football players begins on June 27 and runs through August 4 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm. Practice days are only Monday through Thursday for the duration of the sessions. Students should report to the locker room in the Student Athletic Center.
In their final home game of the 2015 season, the Freshman Jesuit Marauders did what they do so well; they won. Since their heartbreaking loss to Yuba City on September 5, the Marauders have continued to improve each week and have won 6 straight (with one tie to Folsom). This time, the Marauders caged the Franklin Wildcats 29-14 in a fairly one-sided game.
Playing under the lights on a brisk fall evening, the Frosh Marauders continued their winning ways, shutting out the Sheldon Huskies 35-0. It was a game where once again, the Marauder defense came up with big stops while the offense capitalized on big plays to dominate the Huskies. The Marauders scored in each quarter for the first time all season.
As the sun lit the October sky on fire Thursday night, 2-way starter Connor McIntee played big in the Frosh Marauder’s defeat of the Thundering Herd at Elk Grove High School. McIntee’s contributions at Tight End (21 yard reception to the goal line, blocking to open lanes for his offensive backfield) and at Defensive End (7 tackles, including a sack, tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery) shined like the red sky as the Frosh Marauders corraled the Thundering Herd, 21-15.
Anticipate, Devastate, Dominate. That precisely described the Frosh Marauders’s defense as they played the Vacaville Bulldogs last Thursday, October 1. In a game plagued by penalties and turnovers, this game was decided by the Marauder defense. After giving up big plays on the outside edge to a fast Vacaville Bulldog team most of the game, it was the Marauder defense that showed up in the 4th quarter in the come from behind crowd pleaser.
It was a “pleasant” Thursday afternoon as the Frosh Marauders faced their first Delta League opponent this season – the Pleasant Grove Eagles, on September 24. Unfortunately for the Eagles, the outcome was far from pleasant after “Jesuit Law” – Bryce Law that is – prevailed. Law’s performance at Kicker (3 out of 5 kickoffs with no returns, 4 for 4 on PATs, a Field Goal), Punter (50 and 69 yards) and Receiver (TD reception with 4.3 seconds left in the 1st half) played a key role in Jesuit’s victory.
From the 1st possession, it seemed Jesuit was unstoppable. Behind a dominant O-Line, QB Hank Harvego (himself with 21 rushing and 139 passing yards) directed the running attack, featuring Isaiah Ward (with over 180 all purpose yards for the game) who ultimately scored on an 8 yard run for the first score of the game. Subsequent series displayed running back Jackson Canaan (over 85 all purpose yards) who later scored 2 more touchdowns putting the Marauders up 21-7 at the half.
Temperatures were predicted to soar to above 100 degrees for the 2:00 pm Freshmen kickoff of Holy Bowl 2015. The temperatures remained manageable – it was the Marauders who were too hot for the Christian Brothers’ Falcons to handle. Overcoming mistakes with a balanced attack of offense and defense, the Marauders (1-2) secured their 1st victory with 28-20 victory.
In the final seconds of their home opener Saturday September 4, the Freshmen Marauders lost a close game 31-33 to the Yuba City Honkers. Despite the outcome, running back Jackson Canaan showed his ability to shred the field, racking up over 220 all purpose yards and 4 TDs for the Marauders, including an explosive opening kickoff return for 80 yards to give the Marauders a 7-0 lead 10 seconds into the game. Quarterback Hank Harvego directed the offensive attack throughout the game, including connecting with wide receiver Cade Cunningham for a 47 yard TD pass and punching one in o
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A Westchester County town is warning residents to be on alert for coyotes after a group of the carnivores charged a family's dogs as the pups trotted out into the backyard last week, killing one of them.
Kristin Porteus told Lohud.com she had just let her three Chihuahua Terrier mixes -- two 1-year-old pups and their mother -- out the back door of their Mount Kisco home Friday morning when two coyotes darted out of the brush.
She told Lohud that as she tried to scare off the coyotes, her husband yelled out that a third coyote was behind her. Porteus turned and saw Roxy, the mother of the two younger dogs, in the coyote's mouth. The coyote dropped Roxy on the ground and ran off, but it had broken her neck.
The two younger pups managed to race back into the house during the commotion and were not hurt.
Porteus told Lohud her backyard is partially surrounded by a fence, and she believes the coyotes had been hiding behind a shed on the part of her property that wasn't fenced in. She says she'd never seen the animals in the neighborhood before.
Porteus said she now fears for the safety of her three young children, who often play on the trampoline outside. And the two pups who escaped the coyotes, she says, have been "shattered" by the loss of their mother.
"The house is so quiet now," she told Lohud. "They just shake. They're very different puppies now."
Mount Kisco police issued an alert in the wake of the attack urging residents to be vigilant and to supervise young children and pets, especially when outdoors in wooded areas. Police said making loud noises and throwing rocks or stones tend to scare coyotes away.
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3D Doodler Start Super Mega Pen Set
Delivery in 1 – 3 working days.
Make adorable 3D shapes and structures using this essential 3D pen set from 3Doodler Start. Perfect for kids, this set contains a 3D printing pen, eco-plastic strands, and a project booklet to make wonderful 3D creations. It also includes a micro-USB cable to charge the pen.
The 3Doodler Start extrudes an Eco-friendly Plastic that cools and hardens rapidly, allowing kids to literally draw in the air! With the new 3Doodler Start your creative kids can finally bring all of their wonderful and imaginative ideas to life in 3D.
– 3Doodler Start Printing Pen
– 8 Packs of 3Doodler Start Eco-Plastic (192 strands)
– 15 Activities
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Congress gathered, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding. The Constitution of the United States says that on Jan. 6, after a presidential election, Congress shall meet to count the electoral votes cast for the president and vice president of the United States. It is a solemn ritual of democracy — conducted in the grand halls of our Capitol, with the ballots in hand-tooled leather boxes. But it is only that — a ritual.
This ceremonial custom is not how our president and vice president are chosen. They are chosen by the people — voting state by state on the first Tuesday in November. And that custom, and the people who conduct it, good people though they may be, are not our democratic republic, and they are not our country.
So when a mob of a few thousand rioters — encouraged by President Donald Trump, U.S. senators like Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), representatives like Mo Brooks (Ala.), and a slew of state-elected officials, including some who participated in the act itself — attacked our Capitol, attacked our Constitution, killed a police officer, and vandalized and looted the citadel of democracy — many things in our country were in danger. The lives of our elected officials and their staff were in danger, the lives of the U.S. Capitol Police who tried to do their job and protect our country were in danger, our beautiful Capitol building itself was in danger, and America’s reputation in the world was in danger.
But while that mob and its organizers and enablers were intent on destroying our democracy — they were trying to put democracy in play — the truth is that the democratic republic that is the United States of America is safe so long as working people are ready to defend it — so long as it lives in the hearts of our people — and so long as the labor movement defends it.
Because had that mob accomplished its task — murdered or kidnapped our nation’s democratically elected leaders, used the outdated and undemocratic Electoral College process to stop the counting of the ballots in those leather boxes, even burnt the Capitol itself to the ground — we know what would have happened next. Working people would have stood up, as we always have, to defend the democracy we make possible. The mob had no chance of succeeding in what it was trying to do.
BECAUSE OUR DEMOCRACY WAS NOT IN DANGER. Our democracy, like our labor movement, is not a building, nor is it the politicians we elect, nor is it even a piece of paper, even a grand and noble piece of paper like our Constitution.
Our democratic republic — our precious freedom — lives not in a building, or a piece of paper, or in a ritual or in the individuals we elect to lead us. It lives in us. In the hearts and minds of working people, in the loyalty and courage of our armed forces who have sworn to defend it, in the conviction of our election officials in every state and county of this country that the votes must be counted fairly and honestly. And as we said in the days before and after the November election, our democracy’s survival depends ultimately on the determination of working people to defend it.
Democracy and the labor movement are one and the same. Without the labor movement, there would be no democracy — in every country on this Earth, working people only have the vote because we organized as working people and fought for it. And democracy defines what the labor movement is — a union is run, like our country, by voting, and all members get to vote, and each vote counts the same.
And so when a mob attacked our Capitol, the seat of our democracy — that mob was attacking us, the labor movement. When the mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” they were really chanting “Kill the labor movement.” Whether they knew it or not, and clearly many did not, Donald Trump was using them to try to create an America where only the rich and powerful have any say in what happens. Because without democracy, that is what happens. And working people go from being citizens to being subjects.
Let’s be clear. Every aspect of the attack on our Capitol on Wednesday was shot through with racism. The mob brought Confederate flags and Nazi symbols and wore sweatshirts celebrating Nazi death camps. The mob had been organized by a right-wing faction, which extended all the way to the White House, whose real problem with the election was that American citizens of color, in cities like Detroit and Philadelphia, had been allowed to vote and their votes had been counted.
The mob was treated with kid gloves. We don’t yet know why that happened. But we do know that had the protesters been Black Lives Matter activists or workers on strike, the Capitol would have been ringed with officers in tactical gear. And had people of color tried to break into the Capitol as Trump’s mob did, the response would have been a massacre.
The issue here is — are we a democratic republic or are we a racial dictatorship? Are we a country where we count every vote, until Black and Brown people start voting? Where the rule of law governs, unless White people decide to break it?
The labor movement’s answer to those questions, and they have been on the table since the founding of our country, is simple. White supremacy and democracy cannot coexist. White supremacy and the solidarity of workers cannot coexist. And we choose democracy and solidarity. The better angels of our movement always have.
But this week’s events show that white supremacy as an idea and a way of running our country is an immediate, deadly threat to the United States, and it must be rooted out of our society everywhere we find it.
Now our work as a labor movement has never been more important. We must be vigilant in the coming days. If necessary, we must be ready to defend our democracy through our solidarity and our ability to act nonviolently to defuse and prevent violence and intimidation, as we did in Detroit during the vote count in November. And we must make sure that the people who tried to illegally overturn the 2020 election results, both in the mob and in the halls of Congress — are held fully accountable.
Accountability must start with President Donald Trump, who should be removed from office immediately, but it cannot end there. There must be consequences for Sen. Josh Hawley, who egged on the mob, and for his seven fellow senators who voted to disenfranchise millions of American voters. And for the more than 100 House members who did the same, and the elected leaders who led them down that path. We cannot have a handful of visible and now powerless rioters punished, while those who manipulated them into it for their own personal gain walk away clean.
But most importantly, we must build an America that serves and empowers working people, through a fair and just economic and political system, so we increase union density and unleash the transformational solidarity of a strong and mobilized working class.
On Jan. 20, eight days from now, Joe Biden will be the president of the United States and Kamala Harris will be the vice president. Their team is already working on an ambitious agenda — the unfinished work of the HEROES Act and the PRO Act — real labor law reform — what we have been fighting for for so many years — and a real jobs and investment program — trillions of dollars to make America’s economy and our workforce the most productive in the world.
But at the same time, we have to build our solidarity as a movement, and our commitment to democracy, and our understanding that the politics of racism are a lie — a cruel trick that leads to violence, hate and poverty for working people. In the days and months to come, this is a conversation we need to have with each other — all of us — no matter who we voted for or which political party we support.
The labor movement has never been more important than we are today. And we have never been more ready for what we must do. In the years to come, when we look back on these days, we will be able to say we were there when our democracy was attacked, we were there when fascism raised its ugly head at the heart of our republic, and we helped bring America out of the darkness and into the light of a new and better day. | <urn:uuid:845cf35e-d7ad-4e1e-96de-e1382ef7c432> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.opeiu.org/Home/NewsandMedia/TabId/2838/ArtMID/4815/ArticleID/2210/A-SPECIAL-MESSAGE-FROM-AFL-CIO-PRESIDENT-RICHARD-TRUMKA-ABOUT-DEMOCRACY-AND-THE-LABOR-MOVEMENT.aspx | 2021-10-19T20:56:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585281.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019202148-20211019232148-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.975964 | 1,727 |
Premier League champions Manchester City will have a new look to their backroom staff this summer.
Junama Lillo’s recent departure to take over as first-team coach at Qatari club Al Sadd has left City manager Pep Guardiola looking for a number two for the fourth time since he arrived in the Premier League.
Domenec Torrent, Mikel Arteta, and Lillo have all filled the role of Guardiola’s right-hand man and the City boss will next turn to Enzo Maresca.
It will mark a swift return for the 42-year-old Italian, who guided City’s under-23 side to a first Premier League 2 crown in 2020/21, a feat they repeated last season.
Maresca, whose most recent coaching assignment was first-team coach of Parma in his native Italy, has first-hand knowledge working with many of City’s young players, including CJ Egan-Riley, Josh Wilson-Esbrand, Fin Burns, Romeo Lavia, Luke Mbete, James McAtee, Cole Palmer and Liam Delap. Most will either be loaned out or utilised to bulk up Guardiola’s first-team squad.
The departing Lillo moved to Manchester in June 2020 helping the first team win two Premier League titles and a League Cup.
“My time at Manchester City has been one of the most enjoyable periods of my career,” he told City’s website.
“To work alongside Pep, his backroom staff and this group of players has been a pleasure and I hope to have contributed in a small way to the fantastic success we have enjoyed on the pitch.
“I wish the club the very best and hope they can achieve all of their ambitions moving forwards.”
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Guardiola was resigned to making further changes to his backroom staff when another coach to graduate from the successful City Academy, Carlos Vicens, was offered, and accepted a job as head coach at Dutch side Heracles Almelo.
However, Vicens and the Heracles performed a U-turn after they were relegated from the Eredivisie. Vicens will remain at City where he has made a name for himself specializing in designing set-plays which were extremely successful last season.
Guardiola will also still have the services of Rodolfo Borrell, who managed the side in his absence in an FA Cup tie at Swindon last season.
The new coach and players will have their first big get together when the champions return for pre-season training on July 11 before they jet out to the United States five days later where they will play Club America and Bayern Munich.
City will then face FA Cup winners Liverpool in the Community Shield on July 30. The game has been moved from Wembley to Leicester’s King Power Stadium in order to accommodate the women’s European Championship.
City have already been active in the transfer market, securing the services of forwards Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez from Dortmund and River Plate respectively.
They are also seeking a holding midfielder and a left-back. Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko are expected to be sold and there may be other high-profile departures as Guardiola revamps his squad.
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Lebanon, NH-based Mascoma has made strides with its process for producing ethanol from non-food plants such as wood chips and grass. Yet the firm is likely to delay the start of production at its first planned commercial facility, in northern Michigan, company CEO Bill Brady says.
Mascoma had been aiming to open a plant in Kinross, MI, by 2012. Now, Brady says, the facility is more likely to open in 2013—and the company has not secured the debt and equity funding it seeks to pay for the project. Though he would not say how much it would cost to build the proposed Kinross plant, Brady says that such facilities typically cost more than $100 million.
To hear Brady tell it, the financial meltdown bears much of the blame for slowing down plans for the Michigan plant. “There’s no doubt that the financial crisis in 2009 was a setback to all of the cleantech world, and so the financing that’s ever so important to this first plant has definitely been delayed,” the CEO says. “So that’s really been the big issue in terms of timing.”
In October 2008, Mascoma said that it had garnered grants of $26 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and $23.5 million in grants from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to help build and support the facility in Kinross. Brady, who joined the company as CEO in January, says that part of the state grant was to fund research and development of the firm’s technology, and that some of those funds have been spent. Yet the CEO declined to say how much of the state grant remained for building the production plant. The DOE grants also included funding for both research and plant construction.
Mascoma is working on multiple fronts to advance the project in Michigan. One big effort is to prove the commercial viability of Mascoma’s technology—which has the potential to make ethanol at a lower cost than conventional processes that rely on corn or soybeans as feedstock—at its testing facility in Rome, NY. The company also wants to secure debt financing, perhaps in the form of loans guaranteed by the DOE. In addition, the firm seeks a corporate partner, such as a fuel company, that could both buy its ethanol and infuse it with capital though an equity investment.
Mascoma has already found a partner—the Marquette, MI-based forestry company J.M. Longyear—to provide wood chips to feed its ethanol-making process in Kinross. The two companies have formed a joint venture, called Frontier Renewable Resources, to build the facility. Frontier, based in Kinross, is expected to eventually employ 50 full-time workers, and its estimated economic impact would create hundreds of additional jobs in construction, timber, and other industries.
In addition to government grants, Mascoma has attracted more than $100 million from a bevy of investors, which include Atlas Venture, Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, General Motors, Marathon Oil Co., Pinnacle Financial Partners, and Vantage Point Venture Partners. The big draw has been the company’s potential to streamline cellulosic ethanol production. Conventional methods require enzymes to digest plant materials into sugars, and then a separate step for yeast or bacteria to ferment the sugars into ethanol. In a lab test, one of Mascoma’s engineered microbes enabled digestion and fermentation to make ethanol in one process.
Still, companies can burn through hundreds of millions of dollars before they know whether their new methods of making cellulosic ethanol can work on a commercial scale. Investors’ interest in such technologies can fluctuate with the cost of crude oil, which makes ethanol an enticing alternative fuel when crude prices rise and not so attractive when they fall.
Also, U.S. ethanol production capacity is nearly outstripping domestic demand for the fuel—something the industry calls the “Blend Wall.” The name refers to the fact that the U.S. government caps the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline for automobiles at 10 percent of the overall mixture, limiting demand for domestic supplies of ethanol at 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion gallons, according to the Renewable Fuels Association, an industry group in Washington, DC. The nation’s production capacity has already reached 13.5 billon gallons, meaning that country has enough capacity for gasoline mixed with 10 percent ethanol. The ethanol industry is lobbying on Capital Hill to raise the cap on the amount of ethanol that can be mixed into gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent, and it is seeking expansion in foreign markets for the fuel.
“Just on corn-based ethanol alone, we’re approaching the limits of what the U.S. vehicle population can consume,” says Mark Bünger, a research director in the bioscience group at Lux Research, a market analysis firm based in Boston. “We don’t need lots and lots and lots of more ethanol for a long time.”
Bünger says that companies like Mascoma should look beyond ethanol and use their technology to make other products. South San Francisco-based Solazyme, he notes, is an example of a biofuel developer that has applied its technology in food and cosmetics markets. At Solazyme, algae are used to convert biomass into algal oils that can be used to make fuels and serve as ingredients in animal feed, nutritional supplements, and skin creams.
Brady says that he expects Mascoma to make progress in finding financing for the Kinross plant by late 2010, enabling the firm to break ground on the facility sometime next year. Mascoma researches uses of its technology to transform plant materials into chemicals for products other than ethanol, but its main emphasis is developing transportation fuels from renewable sources.
“We’ll get the financing for Kinross,” Brady says. “It’s just a matter of time.”
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A copper lustre jug with strawberry, pear and cherry sprigs and low relief moulded grapevine decoration dating from around 1830. This is a great item for any collector of lustreware or unusually shaped jugs. This copper lustre earthenware jug has a plain white glazed interior and has pink green yellow and blue enamelled fruit on either side of the jug. The baluster shaped body has low relief moulded grapevine border. The handle is of a long curved elongated "C" shape with scrolls and a thumb rest.
The jug stands approximately 5 1/2 inches high, the diameter at the widest point is 4 1/4 inches, 6 inches overall length and it weighs 326 grammes unpacked. The jug or pitcher is in excellent antique condition with one small chip to a leaf on one of the sprigs. There is some rubbing to the enamel decoration on the edge high points, commensurate with the age and use. This is a lovely item to add to any collection of lustreware or early 19th century jugs.
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