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Garlic Sausage Pepperoni Sticks
Dinner Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Farmer Sausage, Smokies, Chirrizo and Italian Sausage. We also make 1/4 pound seasoned beef patties in stacks of a dozen.
We make a boneless and a bone in leg ham.
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A few weeks ago I heard about the Southam Book Festival, which was to be held on 30th September. It was not far away, so I made enquiries. It looked interesting and the cost of a table was very reasonable.
Now, I only have one book to sell – at the moment. Perhaps another writer might like to join me. I asked around, several people expressed an interest, perhaps two tables would be better.
Lift off came when I attended a meeting of the Cafe Writers. This is a group who meets at the Cafe in St Andrews Parish Church in Rugby, on alternate Fridays. All writers are welcome; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenplays. Experts, beginners or just anyone interested in books. We drink coffee, eat cake and talk about books.
Everyone who had published a book was interested, we had a total of eight authors altogether – I booked two tables.
I turned up in plenty of time with my bag of books and two tablecloths. The festival started at 2pm, but I wanted to get there before the other writers. I soon realised that two tables would not be enough. I had thought to bring a tape measure in case of boundary disputes. We would only have one foot of table each. I stood there, shaking my head and the organisers offered me another table. We now had 18 inches each! Luckily the table cloths were big enough to cover all three. I measured off my territory and arranged my books.
To my complete amazement, everyone had arrived and was set up in time for the opening. All around us, there were other book sellers. Example of writing from a flash fiction competition were pinned on the wall and an temping array of cakes was set up at the counter opposite us.
The festival only lasted three hours but I think all of us sold some books – I sold two. It was great fun, if a little crowded. With such a range of genres, there was something for everyone. If a customer wasn’t interested in my Anglo-Saxon historical fiction, I could send them down the line to the Victorian period. There were thrillers and romance, fantasy and family sagas.
Elsewhere in the building workshops and talks were going on, by authors (and dogs). There was a literary quiz sheet and a raffle. It also included a writing competition for children, which produced an international response.
The event was held at The Graham Adams Centre in Southam, a community centre run by a local charity. The proceeds of the event will go to the charity. This was the first time this event has been held and I hope it continues in future years. I’m sure the Rugby Cafe Writers will be back next year. | <urn:uuid:6d472ad0-94f1-4671-8b23-753c14886145> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://byrhtnoth.com/2018/10/01/eight-authors-one-table/ | 2021-02-28T06:04:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178360293.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210228054509-20210228084509-00451.warc.gz | en | 0.989751 | 560 |
[Wine] No sound, no information why, where to start?
triplesquarednine at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 11:32:25 CDT 2010
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, DanKegel <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I often use
> as a reality check to make sure the speakers are plugged
> in and the linux audio drivers are working. Does that
> make noise on the affected system, as it should?
Im not sure that i follow you. "speaker-test"???
do you mean "test-sound" in winecfg?????
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Each piece of art is carefully cut and prepared by hand in our studio in Winchester, Hampshire, UK, overlooking the South Downs Way. Due to the hand-crafted nature of modelling there may be small differences between between works and no piece is totally identical to each other..
Our 25x25cm* solid, smooth black or white box frames are 5cm deep, sleek and stylish. (*External dimensions)
All our box frames are glazed in either glass or acrylic.
Those ordered and collected or purchased at any of the events we attend, are glazed in glass, unless requested otherwise.
Any 25x25cm box frame that is posted, is glazed in genuine PLEXIGLAS® XT manufactured by Rohm. This material is the high quality, UV stable and offers a 30 year guarantee against yellowing and should not be confused with styrene or cheap acrylic sheet. 2mm ClearView Plexiglas is crystal clear and shatterproof, Plexiglas is the modern, clean & safe alternative to traditional glass glazing and conforms to all BSI safety standards
Most of our art works include either a quality black or white mount depending on the frame colour. This is the perfect way to draw the eye to the vinyl and can enhance its appearance. A classic frame with a matching mount ensures your vinyl art is the centre of attention.
Most of our modelled vinyl is mounted on quality, coloured card which is set behind the mount. For some works, a colour choice is available. If coloured card is not used vinyl is either mounted on printed card or an alternative material which is relevant to the particular art piece. Details of which would be in the individual products description.
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Each 50x50cm Kenny Deane limited edition artwork includes a genuine certificate of authenticity (COA). These certificates give facts about the artwork and to prove its authenticity. Each certificate contains information such as title, medium, edition number, date and my signature etc. Smaller art pieces (25x25cm) are stamped with our logo and contact details.
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Ray Simpson is a British based recording artist (not to be confused with the American artist of the same name ) who was inspired by the soulful sounds of Motown, Stax, Atlantic Records, Philadelphia International and others, which led him to follow his dreams and achieve a career as a musician.
Ray went on to develop a varied solo career as a vocalist, producer and songwriter, writing for himself and other popular artists such as Maxi Priest, Sugar Minott, Al Campbell and Barry Boom to name a few.
In 1984 Ray signed recording and publishing deals with Island Records and Blue Mountain Music, and started to actively explore soul and funk music. He collaborated with Jean Paul Maunick (Bluey), of Incognito, to record vocals on a project produced by Maunick and also toured with Incognito.
In 1989 Ray was signed by Circa Records and recorded his self-titled debut album ‘Ray Simpson’, produced by celebrated American producer Michael J Powell (whose production credits include work with Anita Baker, Randy Crawford among others).
Over the years Ray has worked with Will Downing, Jocelyn Brown, Loose Ends, Maysa Leak and Caron Wheeler and was a featured soloist with UK Funky Dread Band Soul II Soul on their album ‘Time For Change’ on which he penned the single, ‘Pleasuredome‘.
Ray’s connection with Cymande dates back to the origin of the band in the 70’s, when as a young schoolboy he would watch the band practice in their Brixton basement and thereafter follow their progress with great interest through the connection between his family and the family of Sam Kelly and Derrick Gibbs.
When Cymande formally reunited for the new album and tour venture in 2012, Ray was one of the band’s first prospective choices for the role of lead vocalist. At that time Ray’s commitments were such that he was not able to become part of the project. However, the unfortunate withdrawal of Trevor White from the Cymande project at the end of 2015 due to personal circumstances, coupled with Ray’s recent availability, created the opportunity for him to get on board for the US tour in June 2016.
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Photo by Romulo Yanes
Going beyond the customary side dishes for beef (mushrooms and a gratin), we've combined all the luxurious flavor of wild mushrooms sautéed in cream with good buttered toast for these single-serving puddings, giving every guest a perfect mix of crisp, golden surface and warm, melting interior.
- Makes 8 servings
- Active Time
- 35 min
- Total Time
- 1 1/2 hr
- 4 cups (1/2-inch) fresh bread cubes (preferably brioche or challah; about 5 ounces)
- 1 1/2 pounds mixed fresh wild mushrooms such as chanterelle, cremini, and oyster, trimmed
- 1/2 cup finely chopped shallot
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 cups half-and-half
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
- Equipment: 8 (6-ounce) ramekins
- Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
- Bake bread cubes in 1 layer in a large shallow baking pan until golden-brown, about 10 minutes.
- Tear or cut mushrooms lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick pieces.
- Cook shallot in butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook until liquid mushrooms give off has evaporated, about 15 minutes. Add parsley and garlic and cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Whisk together half-and-half, eggs, cheese, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl. Stir in mushrooms and bread cubes until coated well and let stand 10 minutes for bread to absorb some of egg mixture.
- Meanwhile, butter ramekins, then put a round of parchment in bottom of each and butter parchment.
- Spoon mixture into ramekins and bake on a baking sheet until firm to the touch, 30 to 35 minutes. Unmold puddings and discard parchment.
- Carbohydrates19 g(6%)
- Fat15 g(23%)
- Protein12 g(24%)
- Saturated Fat8 g(41%)
- Sodium268 mg(11%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber2 g(7%)
- Monounsaturated Fat4 g
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ULVER SCARY MUZAK PRESS STATEMENT OCTOBER 2021
Knock, knock. The most terrifying of all terrifying nights is here, and they are back, ready to make your skin crawl.
But first, rewind exactly one year. Enter the newly restored 1920s cinema at Frogner in Oslo. Frescoed stars, cobweb, myrrh, and pumpkins. On the big screen: John Carpenter's cult classic Halloween (1978). In the pit: Ulver, performing a reimagined version of the iconic score. A surprising and timely one-off right before the capital city shut down for real.
After the lights were turned off that evening, the All Hallows' Eve quartet – Ole Alexander Halstensgård (electronics), Kristoffer Rygg (percussion), Tore Ylwizaker (synthesizer) and Stian Westerhus (guitar) – went full isolation in their studio below the haunted hill, fantasizing about bygone nights of slasher, exploitation, and giallo. We all go a little mad sometimes. Three or four months went by, the band returned to the living, and sent their radiophonic workshop experiments off to the Dogs of Doom, Poitiers, France, where friend and fellow film freak, Franck Hueso (Carpenter Brut) did a razor-sharp mix before taking it to Thibault Chaumont (Deviant Lab) for the master.
And, surprise, surprise, here it is, right on time for the most terrible night of your year: Scary Muzak, on one hand a homage to Carpenter's themes – five out of twelve tracks are covers whereas the rest comes from the outer realms – and on the other zooming out on the aesthetics of the late '70s and early '80s popular culture. It is perhaps the Norwegians' most hauntological moment, whirling up themes and moods, horrors and mysteries hidden in the foggy back alleys of your youth. Imagine the gloomy siblings of Les Humphries, Gert Wilden, and their respective orchestras, armed to their teeth with synths, pads, FX. Sometimes classy and chilling, other times amusingly smooth and sleazy, and at times outright beautiful in its suspense-filled vigour, Scary Muzak is an inspired, goblinesque addition to the ever-expanding Ulver catalogue. Interior films, remember?
Or think of it as a piece of music found outside your window in the dark, alone. The evil woods are singing, lone killers are haunting the highways, and suddenly you remember that strange buzz in the elevator at the Cecil Hotel, downtown LA.
It's Halloween, and everyone's entitled to one good scare.
Loy Lester Smith, Greenlawn Cemetery, October 2021
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here are the UNOFFICIAL results, as posted this morning at https://electionresults.montcopa.org:
For Hatboro-Horsham School Board, Jennifer Wilson was elected!
For Horsham Town Council, Veronica Hill-Milbourne and Bill Gallagher are #2 and #3 and will be elected in a tight race if the vote tally is confirmed:
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Feast on the wholesome traditional dishes that follow our grandmothers' recipes and sample the most cutting-edge recipes by chefs who take the best of our childhood flavours and give them a creative twist. Typical dishes seasoned with elegance tickle even the most demanding tastebuds and leave them eager for more. Allow yourself to be conquered by Tenerife's rich culinary heritage, married with the area's exceptional wines. Don't resist temptation any longer. Take a seat and allow our recipes to fill you with wonder. | <urn:uuid:a2ad1ee5-00e5-41bf-8b1b-595f5c0321b7> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.webtenerife.co.uk/what-to-do/eat-drink/?tab=1 | 2019-02-22T03:26:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247512461.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222013546-20190222035546-00247.warc.gz | en | 0.94096 | 108 |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Humans are complex, and as treatment progresses, clients often have concerns that DBT may not directly address. When necessary, we map other evidence-based interventions onto a client's care. The primary modality used across conditions is CBT, which was originally developed for depression, and it targets an individual's emotions by considering accompanying thoughts and behaviors. For example, a person who thinks "I'm a loser" could feel sad and act a bit lethargic and mopey. CBT would target the sadness by working to change the thoughts and behavior that support the sadness. Most mood and anxiety concerns can be positively impacted by CBT, with slight modifications for each concern. For example, Prolonged Exposure is a CBT approach designed specifically for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. At The Ebright Foundation, we work to follow the latest research findings by taking a thorough account of your concerns and matching the treatment modality that best fits your profile. | <urn:uuid:1a7b9121-994f-4373-bd2c-bbe7e778f8b5> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.ebrightcollaborative.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy.html | 2018-11-14T12:54:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742020.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114125234-20181114151234-00142.warc.gz | en | 0.950859 | 197 |
College students notoriously run on coffee, energy drinks, and not enough sleep. Most students are addicted to caffeine to some degree… but who cares? It’s how they get by.
Noah Nie, a Barista at Common Grounds says that one of the most popular drinks on campus is the “Campus Chiller.” It’s an Oreo-flavored drink that really packs a punch! Having worked in the coffee house for about a year Noah said, “finals week is one of our busiest times – but weekdays at Common Grounds can get pretty crazy, too.”
With the pressures of homework, group meetings, and upcoming tests, it’s only natural that students try to get as much caffeine as they can to balance out some serious sleep deprivation. Some parents and science says that an excessive amount of caffeine (more than 400 mg, or just 4 cups of coffee) is bad, but an over indulgence of just about everything can be bad, too. However, when pressed for time before an exam or a big presentation, exhausted college students will likely load up on caffeine. How else are college students able to pull an all-nighter? Whether it is drinking many cups of coffee, or pounding an energy drink or two, caffeine generally gets the job done.
Erika Hesselink, a Senior in the Communication department tells how she gets by during her busy week: “Caffeine has helped me be more successful in school because when I’m up all night studying, it gives me the energy I need to better focus.”
Whether caffeine is there to help you during finals week, like for Erika, or if it’s just a pick me up after a long night of extracurriculars, students know how to cope with their sleep deprived state by drinking that elixir of life. Who knows? Maybe in a few years there will be a new alternative to caffeine and it’ll just be a pill to take for the whole week! Wouldn’t that be nice?
Comment below on your favorite pick me up drink, and we’ll do a drawing to see who gets a free drink from the Common Grounds!
Half a Dilly includes: Darya Eggers, Erika Hesselink, Rosie O’Shea, Maggie Pietrowski, and Haley Rettinger
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Our personal banking products will assist with your money management and savings needs.
The Hometown Advantage Checking Account offers the maximum features and benefits. For the basic checking services, the Regular Checking account will fit your needs. You may also earn interest with a Now Account or Cash Management Account. For students, the Student Checking account is made just for you.
For your savings needs, we offer Savings Accounts, Christmas Clubs, CDs and IRAs. Whether saving for a specific item or for long-term benefit, we have an account to meet your needs.
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» Laurier Homecoming 20134:00 AM
PS. We missed you B!
My first and last homecoming!
Had a lot of fun with my golden hawks and seeing so many familiar faces on campus again :)
The day consisted of none other than drinking, mini reunions, slushies, food, and laughter.
I'm going to miss this place :'(
The next time I'll see everyone in a group setting will be at convocation (AH in 20 days..)
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“The Meaning of Witchcraft” by Gerald Gardner (kindle ebook version)
"Thought to be the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner published The Meaning of Witchcraft in 1959, not long after laws punishing witches were repealed. It was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. The Meaning of Witchcraft is an invaluable source book for witches today. Chapters include: Witch's Memories and Beliefs, The Stone Age Origins of Witchcraft, Druidism and the Aryan Celts, Magic Thinking, Curious Beliefs about Witches, Signs and Symbols, The Black Mass, Some Allegations Examined. The Meaning of Witchcraft is a record of witches' roots—and a tribute to a founding pioneer with the courage to set that record straight."
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Let’s Check Out Some Far Cry 5 Custom Horror Maps
The Far Cry franchise isn’t known for being scary. Sure, they have had their fair share of spooky moments, such as the haunted house in Far Cry 5. But, besides these isolated instances, the games don’t tend to dive into the realm of horror. Luckily, the community picks up the slack.
The Arcade Mode in Far Cry 5 provides gamers with the opportunity to create their own custom game modes and maps. Since this is Rely On Horror, I decided to check out some of the spookiest and scariest Far Cry 5 custom horror maps. Expect loads of zombies, haunted forests, and Resident Evil fan maps. It is really impressive what the Far Cry community has done injecting horror into the franchise.
If you enjoyed the video, you should check out my channel where I play more horror games and try to act funny. Heavy emphasis on ‘try.’ | <urn:uuid:8c7a2130-de5b-4e81-94f7-8f1c230bdae6> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/far-cry-5-custom-horror-maps/ | 2020-05-29T00:38:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347401004.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528232803-20200529022803-00414.warc.gz | en | 0.933922 | 199 |
Pastoral burnout is a difficult issue to address – partially because it combines the hard data of how many pastors leave the vocation on a regular basis with the “soft data” (is that a thing?) with issues less easy to measure, like feelings and encouragement and relationship dynamics. I appreciated the recent Mortification of Spin podcast and would recommend it to your listening.
I’d like to add one thought to this discussion, something based on my own experience. (This was long enough ago that I think I can share it without offending anyone or causing any of my church family to fear for my current sanity.) Several years ago I went through a period characterized by loneliness and discouragement. I couldn’t fully explain to you all the reasons for this, especially since it would be difficult to put my finger on the exact reasons behind these feelings. In comparison to other pastors I know who’ve struggled, I would definitely place my struggle at the mild end of the spectrum.
Beyond getting some counsel and making it a regular matter of prayer, I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with what I felt was a lack of encouragement from the congregation. I honestly didn’t know whether people appreciated my ministry or not, so I often assumed the worst. I never struggled to the point of leaving the pastorate or moving away; it was simply an unseen weight I carried for a couple of years.
Eventually, I came under some conviction concerning the topic of encouragement. When I considered that I didn’t feel very encouraged by those I was serving, I was forced to realized that maybe they didn’t feel very encouraged by me or the church family either. Maybe the issue wasn’t me alone but a problem with the culture of the church. Maybe we weren’t yet a truly encouraging church family. And if there’s a cultural problem within a particular church family at least some (if not most) of the blame can be laid at the feet of the leaders, those who are called to shepherd that particular family’s culture and character.
So, rather than asking others to go out of their way to encourage me, I tried to go out of my way to encourage others. During our announcement time on Sunday morning, I began purposefully thanking people for their service to the Lord. I learned to write thank-you notes, make phone calls for the sheer purpose of gratitude and in general seek to make people feel appreciated and valuable. I began to use social media as an opportunity to highlight the amazing kingdom service of so many in our congregation. (Please be assured that none of this has been done perfectly or nearly as well as it could be. But I was at least trying.)
You can probably guess the moral of the story. Not only did people feel genuinely appreciated and loved, but I in turn began to reap what I was sowing. Today I can testify that the congregation I serve is incredibly encouraging to me and that they appreciate me as much as I appreciate them.
I know difficult situations between pastors and congregations are complex and posts like this can be harmful in their simplicity. But to anyone struggling with discouragement, at least take the simple step first: “As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.” (Lk. 6:31) | <urn:uuid:cffe4183-a32e-4570-acc0-bd83b8209d02> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://gentlereformation.com/2016/10/19/a-culture-of-encouragment/ | 2018-01-17T23:56:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887024.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180117232418-20180118012418-00485.warc.gz | en | 0.979147 | 683 |
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Rachel’s birthday is on March 31. If she had lived to be 62, she could now start collecting Social Security, if only she were human. But she was my first dog… a black runt English Cocker Spaniel that lived for around 17 years at 15 Park Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey.
She had a pen in our backyard with an old kitchen table on which she sat and often sunned. Inside, she knew to keep to the first floor, and slept under the cellar stairs in another pen. We walked her with a leash.
I was surprised when we arrived in St Petersburg in 2000 to see so many dogs, some apparently owned by apartment residents, others stray or feral.
None seemed to have tags or registration, and only a rare dog was ever on a leash.
I read the other day that Russians are the least facially expressive in public of any of the world’s people. You guessed it… the Americans are the most expressive! Naturally, this is played out with how people act with their dogs.
Back in New Jersey, walking your dog is a social event for many. If you see a stranger with a dog, it’s normal to speak right up and greet them both.
“My, what a good dog! I love Cocker Spaniels! What’s his or her name?”
Smiles all around. Lot’s of patting and caressing of the dog.
Here, everything is somber. If I venture a “ Хорошая собака!” [pronounced… horochaya cobaka] my comment is usually ignored as a faux pas. This chill in the air is particularly difficult for social Americans to understand, and often after this perceived rejection I have felt a slight wave of depression.
I had a game I loved to play in America...
Walking down the street with Larissa, I would spot a lady approaching with a nondescript pooch on a leash. As we approached I would say,
“Madam! That’s a wonderful dog!”
Invariably, the lady would get all happily flustered and say,
“Oh, thank you! He’s an Afghan Retriever . We love him!”
By simply admiring her ordinary dog I had made her day and left her smiling. A win-win that left us all a little happier.
I know that many Russians would say, “How insincere! You are being a phony! " Not true… I am generating a good mood for the lady, myself, and those around me.
If you are feeling down, you don’t have to be passive, but rather can through actions act happy, and your emotions will follow.
Our only footnote
Which Culture Most Controls Their Facial Emotions? PsyBlog,
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Today is the feast of St. Joan of Arc, the patroness of France. Joan was born to a peasant family near Lorraine, France in the 15th century.
From a young age she heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret speaking to her. Then, in 1428, when she was 13 years old, she received a vision telling her to go to the King of France and help him reconquer his kingdom from the invading forces of England and Burgundy.
Overcoming opposition and convincing members of the court and of the Church, she was given a small army. She charged into battle bearing a banner which bore the names “Jesus” and “Mary” as well as a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Due to her leadership and trust in God, she was able to raise the siege of Orleans in 1429. Joan and her army went on to win a series of battles. Because of her efforts, the king was able to enter Rheims. He was crowned with Joan at his side.
Eventually, Joan was captured by the forces of Burgundy in May of 1430. When her own king and army did nothing to save her, she was sold to the English. She was imprisoned for a time and then put on trial. Bishop Peter Cauchon of Beauvais presided over her trial. His hope was that in being harsh with Joan, the English would help him become archbishop.
Joan was condemned to death on counts of heresy, witchcraft, and adultery. On May 30, 1431, she was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. She was 19 years old.
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Jazz Chaillet is your average college student: caffeinating his way through his tough chemistry program, working as many hours as he can at his bakery job to offset crushing student loans...and being hunted by a hellhound.
According to the hellhound, Pyxis, tampering with dark magic has Jazz’s soul in a state of swift decay. The only problem? Jazz’s studying regimen doesn’t include witchcraft. In order to sniff out the real witch, Pyxis and Jazz will have to intimately connect to one another—in soul and body.
Be Warned: m/m sex
For a second he thought she was exaggerating, because she was prone to it—a shared quality that had made them fast best friends—but when he looked, there was actually a dog sitting on his car.
On it. On top of it.
“What the fuck,” he breathed. He popped the top on the box of mixed bagels he was putting together, scrawled Nick/pickup and the date on the top, then shoved it in with the other boxes waiting for their weekly regulars. He pulled his gloves off with a sticky crackle, retied the strands of his kinky hair that were escaping from his tiny ponytail, and vaulted over the top of the counter, heading for the door.
“Wait!” Rosa hurried out from behind the espresso bar, narrowly avoiding tripping on their daily specials sign. Thank God it was the midmorning lag and there weren’t any customers to see them acting like a couple of goons. “Wait, don’t open the door! Are you nuts?” She grabbed the door handle before he could, keeping him from opening it. “He could bite your face off! Or worse, he could get in here and eat the stock.”
“I don’t think he’s interested in bagels,” Jazz said. He looked back outside.
It took a second for him to realize the dog, which had been watching the street with pricked ears like a normal animal, was staring right at him now, its eerie eyes locked on his through the glass door.
Fuck, maybe it wasn’t a dog. Jazz exhaled slowly as the… the thing blinked once, its fur ruffling in the wind. It was massive, way bigger than the K9s the local cops sometimes brought in with them, and its eyes were almost the same yellow as the bakery logo. Its coat was inky black, and its chest was wide and deep.
Hmm. Yeah, now that he was getting a good eyeful of it, it seemed more wolf than dog, but it couldn’t be wild… right? No wild animal would come this close to the city, and no wild animal would sit on a car.
Or, well. Jazz distinctly remembered a few Tumblr gifs of a grizzly bear sitting on top of a car.
“Shit,” he said under his breath. “What if it’s a wolf? That looks like a wolf, right?”
“Could be.” Rosa pressed closer to the glass, her dark eyes roving over the animal. “It’s looking at us.”
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Whether you’re installing a Titan pre-built blast room package or you’re having our team install a custom engineered blast room for you, the installation process itself requires a fair amount of preparation.
1. Carefully consider the location
Due to their size, blast rooms can be quite difficult to relocate once they’ve been installed, so you’ll want to consider the following:
- Ceiling height – Be sure the location will allow for proper installation of ductwork, dust collector height, and bucket elevator.
- Support beams/obstructions – Blast rooms need to be free and clear of these items, including any floor obstructions.
- Manufacturing processes/workspaces – Blast rooms are noisy and dusty, which means you don’t want to place yours near people working, such as on a manufacturing line, or near paint booths, machining equipment, and offices.
- Access – For larger drive-in booths, determine you’ll have enough room to fully open the doors and allow equipment to drive through. Don’t forget man doors as well.
2. Create floor layout with approved signatures
Once you’ve considered the location of your blast room, you’ll need to provide Titan with a basic floor plan of the area, including dimensions and any obstructions. Photos are a huge help.
Titan will take this information and design an engineered layout drawing showing the locations of electrical and air drops, as well as equipment and ductwork configuration for your signed approval.
Last minute changes can significantly impact the design and proper function of your blast room, resulting in additional labor and material costs.
Worst case scenario, installation can be delayed for weeks due to the blast room needing design or size adjustments.
A delayed blast room installation will end up costing a great deal of money, so be sure you’ve taken the time to properly spec out your blast room location!
3. Have all electrical and compressed air feeding from main building supply to the blast room, per approved layout drawing, completed before installation day.
Titan recommends purchasing a main electrical control panel for your blast room. If not purchased from Titan, you’ll be responsible for having the electrical components listed below installed prior to the installation team’s arrival.
- Motor starters
- Fused disconnects
- Start/Stop stations
- Power supply for lights, dust collector, pressure vessel, elevator, etc.
Electric feeding from the main building power to the blast room area main control panel or motor starters is your responsibility. Electric feeding must be pre-run within 10’ of the main control panel’s future location per approved layout drawing prior to the arrival of the Titan installation team.
If the electrical and/or compressed air isn’t ready to go on installation day, Titan can still install your blast room, but we can’t perform any testing or train your team on how to use the various components.
4. Plan for installation downtime
Depending on the size and complexity of your blast room, it can take 4 – 12 days to install.
You’ll want to ensure there’s enough room to work around the installation area and room for staging and unpacking.
5. Have equipment ready to proceed with your blast room installation
Titan installers will require the coordination/assistance of your electrician and your shop’s production manager, so be sure they’re both available during the installation time period.
The equipment needed during installation includes:
- Shop forklift – 5,000 lbs minimum
- Man lift
- Plasma cutter
If you have questions about Titan installing your blast room, please call us.
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Back when Hilary Duff was still a Disney Channel star and working on the beloved series Lizzie McGuire, she filmed one of those iconic promos in which she moved a wand to form the network’s logo.
Now, the 29-year-old Younger actress is recreating that moment for BuzzFeed!
“It’s so ridiculous. It’s so funny though. So we had to do the thing and then they put it in CGI, the mouse ears,” Hilary said about making the promo. “And then they made us do it like 900 times. And I think I like lost all personality at that point. Plus, I was, like, a pubescent teen — I was like, What are they making me do, this is invisible! But Raven-Symoné was nailing it!”
Hilary and her Younger co-star Sutton Foster also played a game of Giant Jenga in which they answered questions about the show and more. Watch below!
Hilary Duff & Sutton Foster Play Giant Jenga
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Since 1994 the world of Warcraft has captured the souls of gamers. 10 years later, gamers no longer command from afar, but enter the World of Warcraft themselves to carve out a virtual life in Azeroth of their own. Quests, exploration and riches await as gamers venture through the world on foot, on the back of a gryphon or with a group of friends. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft universe, in the wake of Warcraft III and it's expansion. Choosing your faction plays a major part in the game, as you will be at war with no less than half of the races that inhabit the game.
Blizzard’s legal department has shut down a World of Warcraft mod that was in the early stages of development. That mod – Warcraft Tales, in development by YouTuber Michael “BellularGaming”, aimed to overhaul the presentation of World of Warcraft’s story and quests in its early level 1 – 60 zones.
In the above announcement video, Michael goes into his reasons for creating the mod. However, just two days later, Michael posted another video update, explaining that Blizzard’s “legal department does not see the project as just an addon as governed by the addon policy, rather it's seen as a third-party expansion set."
PC Gamer received a follow-up quote directly from a Blizzard representative, who expanded upon the company’s reasons for shutting down Warcraft Tales:
"As we told Bellular directly, we really appreciate his passion for the game. But what it comes down to is that we need to protect the integrity and experience of the game for all of our players. WoW is very much a living world — anything that can change actual in-game content has the possibility of affecting the experience for all players on a technical side, even if they choose not to use the addon, besides materially changing the lore that binds the universe together. Fan fiction is awesome (and it takes place out of game), addons that modify the way quests are displayed are fine since they don't modify the in-game content, but addons that alter [or] replace the actual in-game content and story are not since this has far-reaching implications on the player experience."
Michael was planning on releasing Warcraft Tales episodically, with each episode covering a new zone. While the mod would have changed the presentation and story content of those quests, it would not have changed what players needed to do to complete those quests, nor what they received as reward for doing so.
"...Addons that alter [or] replace the actual in-game content and story are not [fine] since this has far-reaching implications on the player experience"
In response to Blizzard’s actions, Michael says he is pursuing negotiations with Blizzard to figure out what capacity such a quest overhaul could legally exist in. But for now, it’s unlikely that Warcraft Tales will see release in any form.
Here we are! This is are second day in business, and I'm happy that the mod now has a ModDB page...
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Workshop on Neuromorphic Vision Sensors and Event-based Information Processing for Robotics
Aim and Methods
Understanding the computational principles behind how brains turn perception into behavior is one of the challenging research questions for the upcoming decades. The NST group at “Technische Universität München” (TUM) investigates theory, models, and applied robotic implementations of distributed neuronal information processing, to (a) discover key principles by which large networks of neurons operate and (b) implement those in engineered systems to enhance their real-world performance. Within this research effort, we provide an experimentation environment for (I) hardware developers, who integrate their sensors into real world applications; (II) algorithm developers and modelers, who can validate their models; and (III) engineers such as roboticists, who explore and exploit alternative control techniques for technical systems. See here for more details.
This hands-on workgroup will explore alternative ways to integrate sensory information from both "classical" and “neuromorphic” devices in real time, to close the perception-cognition-action loop in challenging robot control tasks. The main goal of this workgroup is to give students hands-on insight into neural processing algorithms and in analyzing robotic behavior in real-world scenarios.
For this workshop, we will provide neuromorphic vision sensors (eDVS) on-board of small mobile robots, which are connected to student PCs through WLAN. A user-extendable software framework allows the control of individual robots; participants can easily add custom functionality based on real-time sensor data, e.g. event-based vision information for obstacle avoidance. The provided programming infrastructure is flexible and abstracts from low-level hardware details, thereby allowing application developers to plug-in (neuromorphic) control algorithms and to explore and exploit the event-based information processing paradigm.
Multiple robots (PushBot) equipped with neuromorphic vision sensor (eDVS):
- Tank-like actuated mobile robot, size 10x10cm (base), 14cm (height)
- max speed approximately human walking speed
- operating on 4 x AA battery, operation time >= 2h
- WiFi connectivity for motor control and all on-board sensor data
- eDVS (128x128 event-based neuromorphic vision sensors), field-of-view ~80 º hor/ver
- inertial (accelerometer, gyroscope) and magnetic
- Two motors for tank-like driving
- Laser-pointer facing forward (e.g. for distance estimates)
- 2 LED on top, together 360º radiation
- Buzzer (loudspeaker, frequency 30Hz – 10kHz)
- Software infrastructure (C++ code base) to be downloaded
- Tutorial on eDVS for event-based algorithms in applications, such as real-time optic flow or visual object tracking
- Tutorial on PushBot control
Preliminary Project Ideas
- Target tracking and following (hand-moved or robot chain)
- Multi-robot coordination (achieving a common goal)
- Trajectory Stabilization (e.g. optic flow or line following)
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Tips on Beating Down the Conservative Menace
Now that LaForet has burned his liberal bridges maybe this is his way of trying to ingratiate himself with dippers.
You can have him.
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Q: How many Ontario Liberals does it take to screw in a lightbulb?A: None, the lightbulb is burning brighter than ever! (Hey, who turned out the lights?)
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I’ve had friends in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and in some impenetrable spot in the Amazon jungle e-mail me about Christian Bale’s expletive-filled blow-up on the Terminator Salvation set last July. (That was around the time the actor was arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister in London.)
For those who have spent the day somewhere in Orion, let me briefly explain what happened:
Suddenly, last f#$%ing summer, Bale had a f#*ing scene ruined by director of photography Shane Hurlbut (nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award in 1998 for the TV movie The Rat Pack), who walked within Bale’s f$#*ing field of vision throwing him off character. Bale went f*@$ng ballistic, cursing the d.p. for a good three never-ending f#!*ing minutes – never mind who or what was f$%*ing watching. (Among those were co-star Bryce Dallas Howard, director McG, and assistant director Bruce Franklin, who has since defended the actor.)
The problem is that someone recorded what Bale did last summer. And that f$#*ing recording has been leaked online. And that has led some creative people to come up with various artistic/parodic versions of the unartistic/unfunny Bale Blow-up.
If the word “fuck” offends you, skip the videos, though the top two have some catchy music (Barbra Streisand is the Special F*#$ing Guest Star in the topmost video), while in the bottom video Bale loses it because the Craft service guy failed to bring him his favorite donut. (“No, I don’t want a bagel! … No, I don’t need any fucking walking! I want a donut right now!)
And let’s not forget The Bullying Institute guidelines. (According to Washington state’s Department of Labor, workplace bullying is behavior that “intimidates, degrades, offends, or humiliates a worker, often in front of others. Bullying behavior creates feelings of defenselessness in the target and undermines an individual’s right to dignity at work.”)
Isabelle Adjani ‘Skirt Day’: Clash of cultures
So the [Paul] Schrader film [Adam Resurrected] was a disappointment. To a lesser extent, so was the Chabrol film Bellamy, with Gérard Depardieu as a cop investigating an insurance scam: not bad, but languorous and a bit like a TV movie. Another French entry, Skirt Day [La journée de la jupe], was more interesting. A mix of black comedy and social comment, the film marks the screen return of Isabelle Adjani, who plays a frustrated teacher in an ethnically diverse school who finally gets the attention of her students by holding them at gunpoint.
Skirt Day is a mess, but it comes as a refreshing antidote to a glut of politically correct films overtaking Europe – the same film, over and over – about how wonderful immigrants are, and if one happens to turn nasty or violent, it’s your fault for being a greedy Western slime. By the way, the film’s title refers to the short skirt Adjani wears to work that fatal day. The sartorial choice sets off her students, who come from cultures that tell them a woman in a skirt is a prostitute or loose woman.
Isabelle Adjani movies
From 1970 on, Isabelle Adjani has been featured in more than 30 films, mostly French productions. She has taken home four César Awards and has been nominated another three times. She has also been shortlisted twice for the Best Actress Academy Award.
Adjani’s Best Actress César Awards were for the following:
- Possession (1981).
- One Deadly Summer / L’été meurtrier (1983).
- Camille Claudel (1988).
- Queen Margot / La reine Margot (1994).
Her nominations were for the following:
- The Story of Adele H / L’histoire d’Adèle H. (1975).
- Barocco (1976).
- Subway (1985).
Isabelle Adjani’s two Best Actress Oscar nominations were for François Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H and Bruno Nuytten’s Camille Claudel (1989). She lost to, respectively, Louise Fletcher for Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Jessica Tandy for Bruce Beresford’s Driving Miss Daisy.
Prior to Skirt Day, Adjani was last seen on the big screen in a cameo in François Dupeyron’s Monsieur Ibrahim / Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003), starring Omar Sharif.
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Most Cited The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming Articles
The most cited articles published since 2012, extracted from Scopus.
Twenty years of rewriting logicJosé Meseguer
Volume 81, Issues 7-8, October 2012, Pages 721-781
Rewriting logic is a simple computational logic that can naturally express both concurrent computation and logical deduction with great generality. This paper provides a gentle, intuitive introduction to its main ideas, as well as a survey of the work that many researchers have carried out over the last twenty years in advancing: (i) its foundations; (ii) its semantic framework and logical framework uses; (iii) its language implementations and its formal tools; and (iv) its many applications to automated deduction, software and hardware specification and verification, security, real-time and cyber-physical systems, probabilistic systems, bioinformatics and chemical systems. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Folding variant narrowing and optimal variant terminationSantiago Escobar | Ralf Sasse | José Meseguer
Volume 81, Issues 7-8, October 2012, Pages 898-928
Automated reasoning modulo an equational theory E is a fundamental technique in many applications. If E can be split as a disjoint union E∪Ax in such a way that E is confluent, terminating, sort-decreasing, and coherent modulo a set of equational axioms Ax, narrowing with E modulo Ax provides a complete E-unification algorithm. However, except for the hopelessly inefficient case of full narrowing, little seems to be known about effective narrowing strategies in the general modulo case beyond the quite depressing observation that basic narrowing is incomplete modulo AC. Narrowing with equations E modulo axioms Ax can be turned into a practical automated reasoning technique by systematically exploiting the notion of E,Ax-variants of a term. After reviewing such a notion, originally proposed by Comon-Lundh and Delaune, and giving various necessary and/or sufficient conditions for it, we explain how narrowing strategies can be used to obtain narrowing algorithms modulo axioms that are: (i) variant-complete (generate a complete set of variants for any input term), (ii) minimal (such a set does not have redundant variants), and (iii) are optimally variant-terminating (the strategy will terminate for an input term t iff t has a finite complete set of variants). We define a strategy called folding variant narrowing that satisfies above properties (i)-(iii); in particular, when E∪Ax has the finite variant property, that is, when any term t has a finite complete set of variants, this strategy terminates on any input term and provides a finitary E∪Ax-unification algorithm. We also explain how folding variant narrowing has a number of interesting applications in areas such as unification theory, cryptographic protocol verification, and proofs of termination, confluence and coherence of a set of rewrite rules R modulo an equational theory E. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A formal approach to the specification and transformation of constraints in MDEAdrian Rutle | Alessandro Rossini | Yngve Lamo | Uwe Wolter
Volume 81, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 422-457
This paper introduces a formal approach to constraint-aware model transformation which supports specifying constraints in the definition of transformation rules. These constraints are used to control which structure to create in the target model and which constraints to add to the created structure. The proposed approach is classified under heterogeneous, graph-based and out-place model transformations; and illustrated by applying it to a language translation. It is based on the Diagram Predicate Framework which provides a formalisation of (meta)modelling based on category theory and graph transformation. In particular, the proposed approach uses non-deleting transformation rules that are specified by a joined modelling language which is defined by relating the source and target languages. The relation between source and target languages is formalised by morphisms from their corresponding modelling formalisms into a joined modelling formalism. Furthermore, the application of transformation rules is formalised as a pushout construction and the final target model is obtained by a pullback construction. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Three-valued abstraction for probabilistic systemsJoost Pieter Katoen | Daniel Klink | Martin Leucker | Verena Wolf
Volume 81, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 356-389
This paper proposes a novel abstraction technique for fully probabilistic systems. The models of our study are classical discrete-time and continuous-time Markov chains (DTMCs and CTMCs, for short). A DTMC is a Kripke structure in which each transition is equipped with a discrete probability; in a CTMC, in addition, state residence times are governed by negative exponential distributions. Our abstraction technique fits within the realm of three-valued abstraction methods that have been used successfully for traditional model checking. The key ingredients of our technique are a partitioning of the state space combined with an abstraction of transition probabilities by intervals. It is shown that this provides a conservative abstraction for both negative and affirmative verification results for a three-valued semantics of PCTL (Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic). In the continuous-time setting, the key idea is to apply abstraction on uniform CTMCs which are readily obtained from general CTMCs. In a similar way as for the discrete case, this is shown to yield a conservative abstraction for a three-valued semantics of CSL (Continuous Stochastic Logic). Abstract CTMCs can be verified by computing time-bounded reachability probabilities in continuous-time MDPs. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Observable behavior of distributed systems: Component reasoning for concurrent objectsCrystal Chang Din | Johan Dovland | Einar Broch Johnsen | Olaf Owe
Volume 81, Issue 3, April 2012, Pages 227-256
Distributed and concurrent object-oriented systems are difficult to analyze due to the complexity of their concurrency, communication, and synchronization mechanisms. Rather than performing analysis at the level of code in, e.g., Java or C++, we consider the analysis of such systems at the level of an abstract, executable modeling language. This language, based on concurrent objects communicating by asynchronous method calls, avoids some difficulties of mainstream object-oriented programming languages related to compositionality and aliasing. To facilitate system analysis, compositional verification systems are needed, which allow components to be analyzed independently of their environment. In this paper, a proof system for partial correctness reasoning is established based on communication histories and class invariants. A particular feature of our approach is that the alphabets of different objects are completely disjoint. Compared to related work, this allows the formulation of a much simpler Hoare-style proof system and reduces reasoning complexity by significantly simplifying formulas in terms of the number of needed quantifiers. The soundness and relative completeness of this proof system are shown using a transformational approach from a sequential language with a non-deterministic assignment operator. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
On the Church-Rosser and coherence properties of conditional order-sorted rewrite theoriesFrancisco Durán | José Meseguer
Volume 81, Issues 7-8, October 2012, Pages 816-850
In the effort to bring rewriting-based methods into contact with practical applications both in programing and in formal verification, there is a tension between: (i) expressiveness and generality - so that a wide range of applications can be expressed easily and naturally - and (ii) support for formal verification, which is harder to get for general and expressive specifications. This paper answers the challenge of successfully negotiating the tension between goals (i) and (ii) for a wide class of Maude specifications, namely: (a) equational order-sorted conditional specifications (Σ,E∪A), corresponding to functional programs modulo axioms such as associativity and/or commutativity and/or identity axioms and (b) order-sorted conditional rewrite theories R=(Σ,E∪A,R,φ), corresponding to concurrent programs modulo axioms A. For Maude functional programs the key formal property checked is the Church-Rosser property. For concurrent declarative programs in rewriting logic, the key property checked is the coherence between rules and equations modulo the axioms A. Such properties are essential, both for executability purposes and as a basis for verifying many other properties, such as, for example, proving inductive theorems of a functional program, or correct model checking of temporal logic properties for a concurrent program. This paper develops the mathematical foundations on which the checking of these properties (or ground versions of them) is based, presents two tools, the Church-Rosser Checker (CRC) and the Coherence Checker (ChC) supporting the verification of these properties, and illustrates with examples a methodology to establish such properties using the proof obligations returned by the tools. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Automated debugging based on a constraint model of the program and a test caseFranz Wotawa | Mihai Nica | Iulia Moraru
Volume 81, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 390-407
Debugging, i.e., fault localization, in case of a detected failure is a time consuming and intricate task. The automation or at least partial automation of debugging is therefore highly desired. In this paper, we discuss some of the most recent approaches for debugging namely spectrum-based, slicing-based, and model-based debugging. We focus on the latter, and introduce the underlying theory as well as discuss empirical results obtained from our implementation. The model-based approach we present in this paper relies on a constraint representation of a program that is equivalent to the original program in terms of the input-output behavior under some reasonable assumptions. By using constraints for representing programs and subsequently test cases we are able to state the debugging problem as a constraint satisfaction problem that can be effectively solved using a todays constraint solver. The given empirical results indicate that the approach can be used for debugging smaller programs in less than 1 s. Moreover, we briefly compare the three approaches and suggest a combination of them in order to improve the results and the overall necessary running time. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A dynamic deontic logic for complex contractsCristian Prisacariu | Gerardo Schneider
Volume 81, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 458-490
We present a dynamic deontic logic for specifying and reasoning about complex contracts. The concepts that our contract logic CL captures are drawn from legal contracts, as we consider that these are more general and expressive than what is usually found in computer science (like in software contracts, web services specifications, or communication protocols). CL is intended to be used in specifying complex contracts found in computer science. This influences many of the design decisions behind CL. We adopt an ought-to-do approach to deontic logic and apply the deontic modalities exclusively over complex actions. On top, we add the modalities of dynamic logic so to be able to reason about what happens after an action is performed. CL can reason about regular synchronous actions capturing the notion of actions done at the same time. CL incorporates the notions of contrary-to-duty and contrary-to-prohibition by attaching to the deontic modalities explicitly a reparation which is to be enforced in case of violations. Results of decidability and tree model property are given as well as specific properties for the modalities. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Programming from Galois connectionsShin Cheng Mu | José Nuno Oliveira
Volume 81, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 680-704
Problem statements often resort to superlatives such as in e.g. "... the smallest such number", "... the best approximation", "... the longest such list" which lead to specifications made of two parts: one defining a broad class of solutions (the easy part) and the other requesting one particular such solution, optimal in some sense (the hard part). This article introduces a binary relational combinator which mirrors this linguistic structure and exploits its potential for calculating programs by optimization. This applies in particular to specifications written in the form of Galois connections, in which one of the adjoints delivers the optimal solution. The framework encompasses re-factoring of results previously developed by Bird and de Moor for greedy and dynamic programming, in a way which makes them less technically involved and therefore easier to understand and play with. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Volume 82, Issue 8, November 2013, Pages 243-262
Declarative debugging of rewriting logic specificationsAdrián Riesco | Alberto Verdejo | Narciso Martí-Oliet | Rafael Caballero
Volume 81, Issues 7-8, October 2012, Pages 851-897
Declarative debugging is a semi-automatic technique that starts from an incorrect computation and locates a program fragment responsible for the error by building a tree representing this computation and guiding the user through it to find the error. Membership equational logic (MEL) is an equational logic that in addition to equations allows one to state membership axioms characterizing the elements of a sort. Rewriting logic is a logic of change that extends MEL by adding rewrite rules, which correspond to transitions between states and can be nondeterministic. We propose here a calculus to infer reductions, sort inferences, normal forms, and least sorts with the equational subset of rewriting logic, and rewrites and sets of reachable terms through rules. We use an abbreviation of the proof trees computed with this calculus to build appropriate debugging trees for both wrong (an incorrect result obtained from an initial result) and missing answers (results that are erroneous because they are incomplete), whose adequacy for debugging is proved. Using these trees we have implemented Maude DDebugger, a declarative debugger for Maude, a high-performance system based on rewriting logic. We illustrate its use with an example. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Contracts for cross-organizational workflows as timed dynamic condition response graphsThomas Hildebrandt | Raghava Rao Mukkamala | Tijs Slaats | Francesco Zanitti
Volume 82, Issues 5-7, July 2013, Pages 164-185
We conservatively extend the declarative Dynamic Condition Response (DCR) Graph process model, introduced in the PhD thesis of the second author, to allow for discrete time deadlines. We prove that safety and liveness properties can be verified by mapping finite timed DCR Graphs to finite state transition systems. We exemplify how deadlines can introduce time-locks and deadlocks and violate liveness. We then prove that the general technique for safe distribution of DCR Graphs provided in previous work can be extended to timed DCR Graphs. We exemplify the use of timed DCR Graphs and the distribution technique in praxis on a timed extension of a cross-organizational case management process arising from a previous case study. The example shows how a timed DCR Graph can be used to describe the global contract for a timed workflow process involving several organizations, which can then be distributed as a network of communicating timed DCR Graphs describing the local contract for each organization. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Distributed system contract monitoringAdrian Francalanza | Andrew Gauci | Gordon J. Pace
Volume 82, Issues 5-7, July 2013, Pages 186-215
Runtime verification of distributed systems poses various challenges. A pivotal challenge is the choice of howto distribute the monitors themselves across the system. On one hand, centralised monitoringmay result in increased communication overhead and information exposure across locations, while, on the other hand, systems with dynamic topologies and properties are difficult to address using static monitor choreographies. In this paper we present mDPi, a location-aware ? -calculus extension for reasoning about the distributed monitoring scenario.We also define numerous monitoring strategies for a regular expression-based logic, including a novel approach in which monitors migrate to ensure local monitoring. Finally, we present a number of results which emerge from this formalism, justifying our approach. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Modal transition systems with weight intervalsLine Juhl | Kim G. Larsen | Jiří Srba
Volume 81, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 408-421
We propose weighted modal transition systems, an extension to the well-studied specification formalism of modal transition systems that allows to express both required and optional behaviours of their intended implementations. In our extension we decorate each transition with a weight interval that indicates the range of concrete weight values available to the potential implementations. In this way resource constraints can be modelled using the modal approach. We focus on two problems. First, we study the question of existence/finding the largest common refinement for a number of finite deterministic specifications and we show PSPACE-completeness of this problem. By constructing the most general common refinement, we allow for a stepwise and iterative construction of a common implementation. Second, we study a logical characterisation of the formalism and show that a formula in a natural weight extension of the logic CTL is satisfied by a given modal specification if and only if it is satisfied by all its refinements. The weight extension is general enough to express different sorts of properties that we want our weights to satisfy. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Deadlock checking by a behavioral effect system for lock handlingKa I. Pun | Martin Steffen | Volker Stolz
Volume 81, Issue 3, April 2012, Pages 331-354
Deadlocks are a common error in programs with lock-based concurrency and are hard to avoid or even to detect. One way for deadlock prevention is to statically analyze the program code to spot sources of potential deadlocks. Often static approaches try to confirm that the lock-taking adheres to a given order, or, better, to infer that such an order exists. Such an order precludes situations of cyclic waiting for each other's resources, which constitute a deadlock. In contrast, we do not enforce or infer an explicit order on locks. Instead we use a behavioral type and effect system that, in a first stage, checks the behavior of each thread or process against the declared behavior, which captures potential interaction of the thread with the locks. In a second step on a global level, the state space of the behavior is explored to detect potential deadlocks. We define a notion of deadlock-sensitive simulation to prove the soundness of the abstraction inherent in the behavioral description. Soundness of the effect system is proven by subject reduction, formulated such that it captures deadlock-sensitive simulation. To render the state-space finite, we show two further abstractions of the behavior sound, namely restricting the upper bound on re-entrant lock counters, and similarly by abstracting the (in general context-free) behavioral effect into a coarser, tail-recursive description. We prove our analysis sound using a simple, concurrent calculus with re-entrant locks. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Synthesis of secure adaptorsJ. A. Martín | F. Martinelli | E. Pimentel
Volume 81, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 99-126
Security is considered one of the main challenges for software oriented architectures (SOA). For this reason, several standards have been developed around WS-Security. However, these security standards usually hinder interoperability, one of the main pillars of Web service technologies. Software adaptation is a sound solution where an adaptor is deployed in the middle of the communication to overcome signature, behavioural and QoS incompatibilities between services. This is particularly important when dealing with stateful services (such as Windows Workflows or WS-BPEL processes) where any mismatch in the sequence of messages might lead the orchestration to a deadlock situation. We proposed security adaptation contracts as concise and versatile specifications of how such incompatibilities must be solved. Nonetheless, synthesising an adaptor compliant with a given contract is not an easy task where concurrency issues must be kept in mind and security attacks must be analysed and prevented. In this paper, we present an adaptor synthesis, verification and refinement process based on security adaptation contracts which succeeds in overcoming incompatibilities among services and prevents secrecy attacks. We extended the ITACA toolbox for synthesis and deadlock analysis and we integrated it with a variant of CCS, called Crypto-CCS, to verify and refine adaptors based on partial model checking and logical satisfiability techniques. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A framework for conflict analysis of normative texts written in controlled natural languageKrasimir Angelov | John J. Camilleri | Gerardo Schneider
Volume 82, Issues 5-7, July 2013, Pages 216-240
In this paper we are concerned with the analysis of normative conflicts, or the detection of conflicting obligations, permissions and prohibitions in normative texts written in a Controlled Natural Language (CNL). For this we present AnaCon, a proof-of-concept system where normative texts written in CNL are automatically translated into the formal language CL using the Grammatical Framework (GF). Such CL expressions are then analysed for normative conflicts by the CLAN tool, which gives counter-examples in cases where conflicts are found. The framework also uses GF to give a CNL version of the counter-example, helping the user to identify the conflicts in the original text. We detail the application of AnaCon to two case studies and discuss the effectiveness of our approach. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Linking operational semantics and algebraic semantics for a probabilistic timed shared-variable languageHuibiao Zhu | Fan Yang | Jifeng He | Jonathan P. Bowen | Jeff W. Sanders | Shengchao Qin
Volume 81, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 2-25
Complex software systems typically involve features like time, concurrency and probability, with probabilistic computations playing an increasing role. However, it is currently challenging to formalize languages incorporating all those features. Recently, the language PTSC has been proposed to integrate probability and time with shared-variable concurrency (Zhu et al. (2006, 2009) [51,53]), where the operational semantics has been explored and a set of algebraic laws has been investigated via bisimulation. This paper investigates the link between the operational and algebraic semantics of PTSC, highlighting both its theoretical and practical aspects. The link is obtained by deriving the operational semantics from the algebraic semantics, an approach that may be understood as establishing soundness of the operational semantics with respect to the algebraic semantics. Algebraic laws are provided that suffice to convert any PTSC program into a form consisting of a guarded choice or an internal choice between programs, which are initially deterministic. That form corresponds to a simple execution of the program, so it is used as a basis for an operational semantics. In that way, the operational semantics is derived from the algebraic semantics, with transition rules resulting from the derivation strategy. In fact the derived transition rules and the derivation strategy are shown to be equivalent, which may be understood as establishing completeness of the operational semantics with respect to the algebraic semantics. That theoretical approach to the link is complemented by a practical one, which animates the link using Prolog. The link between the two semantics proceeds via head normal form. Firstly, the generation of head normal form is explored, in particular animating the expansion laws for probabilistic interleaving. Then the derivation of the operational semantics is animated using a strategy that exploits head normal form. The operational semantics is also animated. These animations, which again supports to claim soundness and completeness of the operational semantics with respect to the algebraic, are interesting because they provide a practical demonstration of the theoretical results. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Using the words/leafs ratio in the DOM tree for content extractionDavid Insa | Josep Silva | Salvador Tamarit
Volume 82, Issue 8, March 2013, Pages 311-325
The main content in a webpage is usually centered and visible without the need to scroll. It is often rounded by the navigation menus of the website and it can include advertisements, panels, banners, and other not necessarily related information. The process to automatically extract the main content of a webpage is called content extraction. Content extraction is an area of research of widely interest due to its many applications. Concretely, it is useful not only for the final human user, but it is also frequently used as a preprocessing stage of different systems (i.e., robots, indexers, crawlers, etc.) that need to extract the main content of a web document to avoid the treatment and processing of other useless information. In this work we present a new technique for content extraction that is based on the information contained in the DOM tree. The technique analyzes the hierarchical relations of the elements in the webpage and the distribution of textual information in order to identify the main block of content. Thanks to the hierarchy imposed by the DOM tree the technique achieves a considerable recall and precision. Using the DOM structure for content extraction gives us the benefits of other approaches based on the syntax of the webpage (such as characters, words and tags), but it also gives us a very precise information regarding the related components in a block (not necessarily textual such as images or videos), thus, producing very cohesive blocks. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Rewriting logic bibliography by topic: 1990-2011Narciso Martí-Oliet | Miguel Palomino | Alberto Verdejo
Volume 81, Issues 7-8, October 2012, Pages 782-815
This bibliography compiles, to the best of our knowledge, all the papers on rewriting logic and its applications which have been written during the more than 20 years that have passed since the introduction of rewriting logic in 1990. The papers are classified according to five main areas: foundations, logical and semantic framework, languages, tools, and applications. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Syntax and semantics of the compositional interchange format for hybrid systemsD. E. Nadales Agut | D. A. Van Beek | J. E. Rooda
Volume 82, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 1-52
Different modeling formalisms for timed and hybrid systems exist, each of which addresses a specific set of problems, and has its own set of features. These formalisms and tools can be used in each stage of the embedded systems development, to verify and validate various requirements. The Compositional Interchange Format (CIF), is a formalism based on hybrid automata, which are composed using process algebraic operators. CIF aims to establish interoperability among a wide range of formalisms and tools by means of model transformations and co-simulation, which avoids the need for implementing many bilateral translators. This work presents the syntax and formal semantics of CIF. The semantics is shown to be compositional, and proven to preserve certain algebraic properties, which express our intuition about the behavior of the language operators. In addition we show how CIF operators can be combined to implement widely used constructs present in other timed and hybrid formalisms, and we illustrate the applicability of the formalism by developing several examples. Based on the formal specification of CIF, an Eclipse based simulation environment has been developed. We expect this work to serve as the basis for the formal definition of semantic preserving transformations between various languages for the specification of timed and hybrid systems. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Consistency and refinement for Interval Markov ChainsBenoît Delahaye | Kim G. Larsen | Axel Legay | Mikkel L. Pedersen | Andrzej Wa̧sowski
Volume 81, Issue 3, April 2012, Pages 209-226
Interval Markov Chains (IMC), or Markov Chains with probability intervals in the transition matrix, are the base of a classic specification theory for probabilistic systems . The standard semantics of IMCs assigns to a specification the set of all Markov Chains that satisfy its interval constraints. The theory then provides operators for deciding emptiness of conjunction and refinement (entailment) for such specifications. In this paper, we study complexity of several problems for IMCs, that stem from compositional modeling methodologies. In particular, we close the complexity gap for thorough refinement of two IMCs and for deciding the existence of a common implementation for an unbounded number of IMCs, showing that these problems are EXPTIME-complete. We discuss suitable notions of determinism for specifications, and show that for deterministic IMCs the syntactic refinement operators are complete with respect to model inclusion. Finally, we show that deciding consistency (emptiness) for an IMC is polynomial and that existence of common implementation can be established in polynomial time for any constant number of IMCs. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A trace-based model for multiparty contractsTom Hvitved | Felix Klaedtke | Eugen Zlinescu
Volume 81, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 72-98
In this article we present a model for multiparty contracts in which contract conformance is defined abstractly as a property on traces. A key feature of our model is blame assignment, which means that for a given contract, every breach is attributed to a set of parties. We show that blame assignment is compositional by defining contract conjunction and contract disjunction. Moreover, to specify real-world contracts, we introduce the contract specification language CSL with an operational semantics. We show that each CSL contract has a counterpart in our trace-based model and from the operational semantics we derive a run-time monitor. CSL overcomes limitations of previously proposed formalisms for specifying contracts by supporting: (history sensitive and conditional) commitments, parametrised contract templates, relative and absolute temporal constraints, potentially infinite contracts, and in-place arithmetic expressions. Finally, we illustrate the general applicability of CSL by formalising in CSL various contracts from different domains. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Computing strong and weak bisimulations for psi-calculiMagnus Johansson | Björn Victor | Joachim Parrow
Volume 81, Issue 3, April 2012, Pages 162-180
We present a symbolic transition system and strong and weak bisimulation equivalences for psi-calculi, and show that they are fully abstract with respect to bisimulation congruences in the non-symbolic semantics. A procedure which computes the most general constraint under which two agents are bisimilar is developed and proved correct. A psi-calculus is an extension of the pi-calculus with nominal data types for data structures and for logical assertions representing facts about data. These can be transmitted between processes and their names can be statically scoped using the standard pi-calculus mechanism to allow for scope migrations. Psi-calculi can be more general than other proposed extensions of the pi-calculus such as the applied pi-calculus, the spi-calculus, the fusion calculus, or the concurrent constraint pi-calculus. Symbolic semantics are necessary for an efficient implementation of the calculus in automated tools exploring state spaces, and the full abstraction property means the symbolic semantics makes exactly the same distinctions as the original. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Reachability analysis for timed automata using max-plus algebraQi Lu | Michael Madsen | Martin Milata | Søren Ravn | Uli Fahrenberg | Kim G. Larsen
Volume 81, Issue 3, April 2012, Pages 298-313
We show that max-plus polyhedra are usable as a data structure in reachability analysis of timed automata. Drawing inspiration from the extensive work that has been done on difference bound matrices, as well as previous work on max-plus polyhedra in other areas, we develop the algorithms needed to perform forward and backward reachability analysis using max-plus polyhedra. To show that the approach works in practice and theory alike, we have created a proof-of-concept implementation on top of the model checker opaal. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:2de1c5bf-d2ca-4e92-9e77-ea0f5c7a7033> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-logic-and-algebraic-programming/most-cited-articles | 2017-08-23T02:34:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886117519.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823020201-20170823040201-00341.warc.gz | en | 0.911014 | 6,768 |
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The Tenderloin National Forest and The Luggage Store Gallery Annex, an oasis of unprecedented urban beauty in the Tenderloin, San Francisco. We are cooking what we grow, sewing what is torn, reaping what we know and harvesting that knowledge with a celebratory dinner-salon of fresh food and wisdom from our local farms and gardens, featuring a stellar line up of artists and performers. Our food concept this time is to feast on the family recipes of our community with crock-pots of fabulicious meals with food harvested locally. The HARVEST MOON Features: Your Hosts- Seth Eisen is Jean Malin-The Holy Ghost of the 1920s Pansy Craze and m.a. brooks is Jean LaRue, 1940s famed female impersonator from Oakland ALSO FEATURING: Juba Kalamka (Performance) K.M. Soehnlein (Spoken word/storytelling) Jaime Cortez - (Spoken word/storytelling) Screamy-Marilyn Mc Neal and Carmen White –Live music with homemade Instruments. Emily Butterfly – (Performance with puppetry and music) Margit Galanter & Niki Ford –(Interdisciplinary/interactive installation) THEOFFCENTER | Tel. 415.504.2432 | Email: firstname.lastname@example.org And a few surprise guests…. ECO EXPERTS Markos Major (Queer Urban Farmer) Joe Cannon (Ecologist) Price Sheppy (Astronomer, Astrologist, Faerie Ritualist) FOODIES Lisaruth Elliott/ Lovin’ from the Oven will be baking and demonstrating a “no knead” fresh, home-baked, seed-studded, walnut bread available to take home. Exotic mini-meals and secret recipes by crock-pot queers! Fresh, piping-hot bread baked in the hood! VISUAL ARTISTS David Gremard Romero Honey McMoney Megan Wilson Eliza Barrios SEE: http://adddance.tumblr.com | <urn:uuid:f8e658e8-5ba8-4d03-962a-c0d9b186cb2c> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2011/09/harvest-moon/ | 2020-08-05T19:36:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735964.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20200805183003-20200805213003-00531.warc.gz | en | 0.832667 | 618 |
All Kellogg Community College campus locations and offices, including the library and the Bruin Bookstore, will be closed Monday, Jan. 18, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday observed each year on the third Monday in January to honor the late civil rights leader, whose birthday is Jan. 15.
KCC campus offices and activities will return to their regularly scheduled hours on Tuesday, Jan. 19, which will be the second official day of classes for the Spring 2016 semester.
Spring 2016 classes begin on Friday, Jan. 15. Prospective students can register for classes through the first several days of the semester on any KCC campus, register online via the KRIS system or register and pay for classes via the College’s Ellucian GO mobile app. Visit www.kellogg.edu/registration for more information.
KCC’s full academic calendar is available online at www.kellogg.edu/key-dates.
In the above photo, Martin Luther King, Jr., right, is pictured on March 20, 1960, during an appearance in Battle Creek. Photo courtesy of KCC alumnus Kurt Thornton.
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Local CIFS groups can be created on the system that runs the Solaris CIFS service. These CIFS groups apply only to users that are connected through CIFS.
The Solaris CIFS service supports the following built-in CIFS groups:
Administrators. Members of this group can fully administer files and directories on the system.
Backup Operators. Members of this group can bypass file security to back up and restore files.
Power Users. Members of this group can be assigned ownership of files and directories on the system, and can back up and restore files.
Local groups use privileges to provide a secure mechanism for assigning task responsibility on a system-wide basis. Each privilege has a well-defined role assigned by the system administrator to a user or a group.
Unlike access rights (which are assigned as permissions on a per-object basis through security descriptors), privileges are independent of objects. Privileges bypass object-based access control lists to allow the holder of the privilege to perform the role assigned. For example, members of the Backup Operators group must be able to bypass normal security checks to back up and restore files they would normally not be able to access.
The following definitions show the difference between an access right and a privilege:
An access right is explicitly granted or denied to a user or a group. Access rights are assigned as permissions in a discretionary access control list (DACL) on a per-object basis.
A privilege is a system-wide role that implicitly grants members of a group the ability to perform predefined operations. Privileges override or bypass object-level access rights.
You can assign any of the privileges to any of the local groups. Because you can make any domain user a member of the local groups, you can assign these privileges to any domain user.
The following privileges are supported for local groups:
Back up files and directories. Perform backups without requiring read access permission on the target files and folders.
Restore files and directories. Restore files without requiring write access permission on the target files and folders.
Take ownership of files and folders. Take ownership of an object without requiring take-ownership access permission. Ownership can only be set to those values that the holder of the privilege may legitimately assign to an object.
By default, members of the local Administrators group can take ownership of any file or folder, and members of the Backup Operators group can perform backup and restore operations. Members of the Power Users group do not have default privileges.
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On 5/11/2020 just after 5:00 pm, Dothan Police Officers responded to the 600 block of East Newton Street for a firearms assault. The victim was located, treated by Dothan Fire Medics, and transported to a local hospital with life-threatening gunshot wounds. Investigators from Dothan Police Criminal Investigations Division began their investigation by interviewing neighbors and relatives of the victim. A general description of the suspect, according to witnesses, was a black male wearing camouflage shorts and black shirt last scene walking towards Range Street.
Information led officers at about 10:00 pm to a local housing project in Dothan. Criminal Investigators, Patrol Officers, and Task Force Officers from the U.S. Marshal’s Service surrounded the apartment and took the suspect, Alfonza Walker, into custody without incident. During the search, the firearm believed to be the weapon used in the assault was located, which was stolen.
Dothan Police Department would like to thank the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force for their assistance in apprehending the suspect.
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A study in Toxicology & Environmental Chemistry submitted by Syaheeda et al demonstrated that high antioxidant content in Tualang honey benefited smokers with severe oxidative stress.
Based on findings from a previous study with Chlorella and herbs, both high in antioxidants, proved that natural products have effect on oxidative stress in male smokers, Tualang honey was used to study rats affected by smoke. Positive results from the rat test led to the experiment on men with a chronic smoking habit.
Tualang honey is collected by bees from the nectar of flowers in the Malaysian Rainforest. Aware of healing potential of honey throughout history, this honey too is filled with healing components, such as antioxidant activity, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, organic acids and proteins.
The researchers tested the effect of the honey for 12 weeks on smokers in a group of 32 chronic smokers against two equal-sized control groups; one group was not supplemented, the other was a group of non-smokers. Blood was tested before and after the study from all groups. Blood tests pre-intervention showed antioxidant status in smokers to be significantly less than in the non-smoking group. After 12 weeks of supplementation with Tualang honey, antioxidant status in smokers increased considerably with higher values of total antioxidants status, catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activities. These systemic enzymes are important free radical destroyers.
The conclusion of the intervention is that Tualang honey can be used as a supplement for chronic smokers exposed to free radicals in cigarette smoke and those who are exposed to second-hand smoke to protect or reduce the risks of diseases from smoking especially cardiovascular disease.
Dangers of Smoking
One does not see people smoke in public places because it is prohibited by law. This does not mean there are no smokers.
Smoking increases free radical activities in the body with resulting oxidative stress. This causes serious diseases of the heart, arteries and lungs.
Free radicals are very harmful, despite their being the product of natural oxidation processes from the body’s metabolic functions.
A healthy body can neutralize free radicals with antioxidants such as vitamins A, E and C or from other antioxidants found in plant foods and in a healthy diet. http://bodyiqonline.com/real-food/
Age increases free radical production, but reduces the amount of antioxidants in the body. In smokers, this imbalance carries risk of serious illnesses especially if they are older.
According to the CDC, more than 16 million Americans are living with diseases caused by smoking. Based on trends, it will have reached 8 million by 2030 because many young people, younger than 18, take up the habit. Commercials with warnings to stop smoking or not to start appear again on television. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
These are harsh statistics caused by smoking and billions of dollars spent for it in medical costs.
Smoking is an addiction as difficult to stop as heroin. There are patches, gimmicks of various kinds, classes and group support, and prescription drugs to help the afflicted.
Will studies like these, promising natural products with high antioxidant status such as Tualang honey achieve better health, prevent stroke, myocardial infarction or cancer while the chronic smoker lights up another cigarette? Probably not, only the smoker himself can stop smoking and an impending disease. | <urn:uuid:abc4eb6b-0e3f-47ad-9642-f3734a097479> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://bodyiqonline.com/category/general-articles/ | 2019-11-20T09:12:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670535.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120083921-20191120111921-00058.warc.gz | en | 0.931969 | 698 |
OH SHIT IT’S A TWILIGHT ENTRY, GET IN THE CAR. The reviews are not good (43%!) for the preteen squee event of the year, but since when has that ever made a difference at the box office? At the very least, we can hold out hope that the movie is better than the book. Just remember, ladies: stalking is not romantic, even if the guy is hot (well, ‘hot’) and comes with a lifetime supply of built-in body glitter.
- Going to Mars, BRB. The Watchman legal battle continues. Or skip the serious stuff and get your lulz on with the condensed version.
- Embarrassment squicks. Harrison Ford still talking about Indy 5; Gossip Girl’s Josh Schwartz penning teen X-Men flick.
- Fun fact of the day: J. Michael Straczynski wrote Changeling?
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT-A glove made by a 9-year-old Nigeria boy stole the show at the annual Little League World Series pairings luncheon.
Philip Adeeri Fagbenro reportedly was watching Thursday's live Facebook streaming when Little League President and CEO Stephen D. Keener displayed the glove the youngster made of cardboard, wire and thread.
He explained Philip did not have a glove but knew what one looked like so he made one.
Lance Van Auken, vice president and executive director of the World of Little League museum, saw the glove in a picture posted on Facebook because he is a friend with one of the Nigerian coaches.
"I messaged him an asked him if the boy would be willing to give up his glove," Van Auken said. "He agreed. We got it Monday."
Noting how youngsters over the years have gloves named for major leaguers, Keener said this is the Von Hayes model.
The reason is Fagbenro found a picture of Hayes, whose major league career included nine seasons as an outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, cut it out and pasted it in his glove.
"He actually used this to play in the Little League program in Nigeria," Keener said.
Because Philip has been kind enough to give up his glove that will go on display in the museum, Keener said Little League is sending him an Easton glove along with equipment for his team including catching gear.
Also being sent in his name are supplies for his school because Little League learned they were in short supply, he said.
As for the world series, it begins Aug. 16 when the Caribbean champ will face the winner of Asia-Pacific region at 1 p.m.
Other games that day will be Mid-Atlantic vs. Midwest at 3 p.m. in Howard J. Lamade Stadium, Mexico against Australia at 5 p.m. in Volunteer and Northeast playing Southwest at 7 p.m. in Lamade.
Other first round games Aug. 17 will pit Europe-Africa against Japan, Great Lakes against Northwest, Latin America taking on Canada and Southwest going up against the West.
The modified double elimination tournament continues with the international and U.S. title games on Aug. 25 and world championship contest at 3 p.m. the following day.
A team from Queensland will represent Australia with the other seven international entries and the eight from the United States to be determined in coming weeks.
The second MLB-Little League Classic with the Phillies hosting the New Mets will be played at historic Bowman Field in Williamsport on Aug. 19.
Only limited seats will be available for the public again this year because most of the 2,500 seats will be reserved for series players, coaches and families.
Major League Baseball again this year is conducting an on-line lottery for Lycoming County residents for as yet to be determined number of tickets.
The deadline for submissions at MLB.com/LLClassic is June 24, MLB spokesman Steven Arocho said. Last year 500 tickets were made available to the public.
Three Little League World Series alumni would be playing if the game was today, Keener pointed out.
They are Todd Frazier and Michael Conforto of the Mets and Scott Kingery of the Phillies.
This will be the 20th anniversary of Toms River, N.J., led by Frazier, winning the world title by outlasting Kashima, Japan, 12-9.
Frazier had four hits with including a lead-off home run and closed the game on the mound with a strikeout.
The entire Toms River team has been invited back to mark the anniversary of that title, Keener said.
There should be no confusion as there has been in the past with opposing teams appearing to wear the same color uniforms.
Russell Athletic has announced each team's jersey this year will feature a different design.
Unrelated to the world series, Keener revealed in the past year Little League from its disaster relief fund has provided nearly $600,000 to leagues in the United States and Puerto Rico whose facilities were destroyed or damaged by weather events or wild fires. | <urn:uuid:3577de6d-34aa-4dfb-883f-272a1dd176c3> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2018/06/nigerian_boys_homemade_glove_s.html | 2019-11-23T02:39:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496672313.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20191123005913-20191123034913-00422.warc.gz | en | 0.970501 | 859 |
I’ll make this quick cause I do realize it’s July 4, and our American readers are hopefully out enjoying a parade, or a barbecue and hopefully some fancy-schmancy fireworks. (By the way, happy late Canada Day to our Canadian readers!!).
Even though we’re between challenges, I just wanted to stop by and encourage you to check in – I don’t know about you, but it helps me to stay accountable. So holler at us in the comments below. How was this week for you? Are you staying on track with exercise? Was this week a doozy? Let us know.
Now, I have to ask, what’s your strategy for avoiding a holiday cookout binge? Do you fill up on veggies? Do you arrive at cookouts armed with healthy dishes to share? Do you try little bits of everything – in moderation?
I have to say, I’m a moderation kind of gal. I also like to employ this strategy: only eat things you can’t get other times during the year. Such as fresh corn on the cob. Strawberry shortcake. A perfectly grilled burger. Pass on the brownies, cheese platter, chips and dip. You’re going to find those at any old party. What I’m saying is, be choosy. If you’re going to indulge, make sure it’s on something special!
Alrighty, I said I was going to make this quick and I’m rambling. So, a few things before I send you off to enjoy your day:
- Are you looking for something to bring to a barbecue? Or are you hosting one yourself? Head on over to Shrinking Kitchen today, where we’ve rounded up our picnic faves!
- It’s July and I’m willing to bet many of you are donning sleeveless shirts cause it’s SO FREAKING HOT! (It’s not here, by the way. Don’t all come running to Washington now!). How are you feeling about those biceps of yours? If you’re feeling a little ‘gun’ shy (HA), check out our July workout ARMED AND DANGEROUS. You’ll be rocking Madonna arms in no time. Or in my case, I’ll be able to wave without my arm flab continuing the wave for a few seconds afterwards.
- Do you menu plan? WE DO! Actually, if you head on over to Shrinking Kitchen every Sunday, we menu plan AND provide you with a printable grocery list. How awesome is that? Pretty freaking awesome if you ask me. Sign up to receive our Shrinking Kitchen feed and you won’t miss a thing!
- Finally, keep your eyes peeled for our next challenge! Seriously! If you’ve been watching from the sidelines, the time to join in and get healthy is now. DO IT!
Everyone, have an absolutely amazing and SAFE Independence Day!
Photo courtesy of National Civic Summit via Flickr.
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Dozens of curlew eggs have been saved from RAF airfields as part of a project to boost numbers of the bird in parts of lowland Britain.
The operation is the first ever united effort between wildlife charity WWT, the Ministry of Defence and Natural England to help the species.
Normally the eggs from nests near military runways have to be destroyed under an individual licence to protect flight safety.
But eggs were transported to WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire to be hand-reared and released into the Severn Vale.
It’s hoped the new curlews will help to recover the fragile population in the area.
Curlew numbers in the UK have declined by 60 per cent over the past 30 years.
While numbers are slightly healthier in the uplands of northern England and Scotland, in southern England, Wales and Ireland, only hundreds of pairs remain.
Nigel Jarrett, Head of Conservation Breeding at WWT, said: “It’s an exciting opportunity for everyone involved.
''On one hand, curlews at East Anglian air bases pose a potential risk to aviation but on the other hand they have the potential to help their struggling cousins in the South West.
“Unfortunately time is not on our side but by babysitting these chicks until they can fly, we can help encourage a new generation of British curlews in the lowlands.”
If a success, the new curlew trial could provide a major boost to the conservation of curlews in southern England and East Anglia while still minimising the risks of serious air safety incidents.
A spokesperson from MoD said: “Fast-jet airfields are carefully managed to deter large and flocking birds and reduce the risk of bird-strike, but curlews seem very keen to nest on them in East Anglia, probably due to perceived safety from predators and lack of other suitable habitats in the landscape.
''The MOD and its contractors are very happy to support this ‘pilot project’ and to contribute to the conservation of this iconic species.”
WWT conservationists will ‘headstart’ the curlews, by hatching the eggs in incubators, then protecting the chicks in outdoor aviaries until they are old enough to fly.
They will then be released at specially selected sites. WWT has already used the technique to boost black-tailed godwit numbers in the UK and spoon-billed sandpiper numbers in Russia, and is also working on curlew with Curlew Country this year who first headstarted curlew in 2017 in Shropshire.
''The Curlew decline in the lowlands seems to be caused by long-term changes in the way the countryside is managed.
''Because they often nest in silage fields, their eggs and chicks are prone to being destroyed by farm machinery. Even more importantly, the eggs and chicks suffer extremely high rates of predation, particularly from foxes and crows, which are more abundant in Britain than elsewhere in Europe.
Natural England’s Chair, Tony Juniper CBE said: “In many parts of England the Curlew is now very scarce and if their decline continues there is a real danger that in the future people will not be able to enjoy these wonderful birds.
''Releasing captive-reared Curlews to areas where they have disappeared, while at the same time helping to ensure airfield safety, is an example of the kind of positive partnership that we know is needed if we are to reverse the declining fortunes of many of our wildlife species.”
In the long term, conservationists aim to restore wetland and species-rich grassland habitats and reduce the impact of climate change to enable curlews to recover to sustainable levels in the UK. They are also researching ways to reduce the impact of predators on ground-nesting birds.
The curlew is the UK’s largest wading bird and their evocative ‘curlee’ call is synonymous with the British countryside and its wild places.
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No one remembers exactly how Harmony Ridge got its name. Perhaps it came from the sense of fellowship and cooperation evident from the Native tribes who called this land home. Perhaps the pioneers who traveled well-worn trails experienced a momentary sense of unity and peacefulnesss here. Perhaps those lured by the promise of the rich veins of gold lightened their monotonous work with harmonious song.
Whatever the story, Harmony Ridge is a magical place where the wild west of the Tahoe National forest encourages you to connect to a natural serenity, and the rustic luxury of the mountain lodge soothes a frantic spirit.
Joyful collaboration and celebration is the frequent experience of our guests. Gatherings for business, education, retreats, family, weddings, or simple get-away — whatever the purpose — find themselves experiencing renewal and rejuvenation.
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Chris, you got to be more careful. You don’t want anymore legal trouble.
Chris Brown In Car Crash
According to TMZ
Chris Brown has yet another legal problem to deal with, after crashing his car in Los Angeles near Toluca Lake.
The accident happened an hour or so ago … The photog tells us Chris was driving his Range Rover with his GF du jour Karrueche Tran, when he rear-ended a Mercedes.
Chris parked in front of the Mercedes and then exchanged info with the Mercedes chick. The photog says damage to her car was “medium” … as opposed to rare.
Unlike the whole Rihanna thing, cops didn’t come for this smashup.
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Status Quo reduxPosted: November 13, 2010
It looks like the House Democrats have decided to stick with their leaders and then just add another. In an interesting move, there’s now going to be a minority WHIP and something else. No one knows what the something else is but we know the something else person is Congressman Clyburn. Each of these three represent some Democratic base. WAPO has some of the details, but not that much. Hoyer is still going to be whipping the blue dog contingent.
Trying to resolve a dispute among her top lieutenants, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday night indirectly backed her longtime adversary, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), to continue serving as her chief deputy.
Pelosi’s move came in an unusual statement late Friday night that endorsed Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) for the No. 3 post in the House Democratic leadership. Rather than endorse Clyburn for the current No. 3 position of caucus chairman, she plans to create a new, undefined leadership position for him, a leadership source explained Saturday.
Hoyer, the current majority leader, and Clyburn, the majority whip, are vying to be elected minority whip in the next Congress when House Democrats vote Wednesday. That position will rank second behind Pelosi, who is expected to be minority leader.
Pelosi’s statement amounted to an endorsement of keeping her leadership team intact, rather than trying to purify ranks for the party’s liberals, as some lawmakers and activists have urged.
To me, this is just another Democratic Party attempt to be all things to all parties and further splinter every one into segments. Since Clyburn’s responsibilities haven’t really been announced, what duties will they give him? His title–according to Politico–is Assistant Leader. How does Hoyer feel about what might seem a demotion yet he’s essential got the same title? Or, will his entire job stay the same but he just gets called Number 3 instead of Number 2. Rep. John Larson (Conn.) stays as Democratic Caucus chairman which is now the number four leadership position. Weird. Seems like they’re splitting one baby four ways, but maybe that’s just me. It is certainly seems apt for the completely splintered Democratic Party. I’ll give them that. | <urn:uuid:d80b6355-d00e-4f80-a937-a89edb55e406> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://skydancingblog.com/2010/11/13/status-quo-redux/ | 2019-08-25T02:18:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027322170.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825021120-20190825043120-00259.warc.gz | en | 0.964189 | 503 |
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Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is located at la mitad del mundo or the middle of the world.
This city of close to two and a half million people has all the characteristics of a major metropolitan area. It also carries all the reminders of the cultural, historical and political forces that have formed today’s Quito.
Graffiti as an urban form of expression seems to be just around every corner. The tone and tenor of these visual messages don’t carry an emphasis on self.
Instead, they are fiercely clear in their concern for the greater, far greater good. Just outside the downtown area of Quito is an entire city block where the walls urge passersby to denounce trafficking in human organs.
The walls and streets surrounding the Universidad Central del Ecuador carry creative missives that take politicians to task about their unfulfilled promises for democracy and peace.
Some simply stated messages call into question the happiness of silence, the unwillingness of some to speak out for reform…
…and other more elaborate messages demand the University expand in ways that serve more people.
Some artists key in on local media, especially newspapers, taking them to task for withholding information and thus compromising the truth.
Politicians seeking to capture the youth vote produce elaborate faux graffiti depicting themselves as trendy subject matter created by non-existent graffiti artists.
This is one of several commissioned murals honoring Eugenio Espejo, recognized as Quito’s first journalist. Espejo, born in 1747, wrote about sanitary conditions (he was a doctor and hygienist). His satirical writings and posters were aimed at provoking authorities into action and inspiring many to work for social change. He also wrote about racial and economic problems. Some note that much of his satirical writings were part of the Age of Enlightenment.
The work of local artisans is a mainstay in the central markets of Ecuador…
…and prominently displayed in Quito’s central square.
Local artisans continue to sell traditional woven goods.
The southern part of Quito is different from the more metropolitan center. Life is tougher here and resources are more scarce. This community center is open all day and for all children. It serves “the children of the street.”
Amazing volunteers teach fundamentals to any and all children who show up at their door. Some children come here after regular school and some come instead of it. For some, it’s the only place they will get a meal for the day. The center serves 60 students and, at best, resources are stretched.
The volunteers insist the emphasis be on the kids and so it is. The students are preparing for New Year’s Eve. Classes are over for the holiday break and students are building displays to celebrate the death of the old year.
Before each display is judged, students dance as part of the end-of-the-year celebration.
Some prefer to watch the celebrations
…while others enjoy participating.
This young girl, dressed in widow’s black, is mourning the death of the old year.
Boys dress as widows as well. Later they go out and stop traffic in order to collect “tolls” as part of the payment for the burial of the old year.
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We made this with a photo I took of my son snorkeling in Hawaii with one of my favorite ee cummings quotes. I framed it and hung it in my office.
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Sad to say it, but the last of the year’s Mixed Reviews By People Who Don’t Live Here are pretty dang depressing, with a tiny silver lining mixed in. Kind of reminds us of 2008. Here’s to a new year!
- Tennessee ranks 15th in the nation for Year-Over-Year Population Growth.
- US News And World Report ranked Nashville 7th Best Place to Retire.
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- Tennessee foreclosures went down in November, which is fine and dandy, except we’re still ranked 19th in the nation for foreclosures. Better than 9th?
- We’re first place… In per-capita federal bankruptcy filings. Uh oh.
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Ortiz slam helps Red Sox rally to tie ALCS
(Reuters) - David Ortiz blasted a game-tying grand slam in the eighth inning to ease Boston's struggles at the plate as the Red Sox rallied for a 6-5 victory over Detroit on Sunday that squared the American League Championship Series at one game each.
The Red Sox were dominated by Detroit pitching in the series opener on Saturday and fared little better against starter Max Scherzer a day later.
Scherzer, who won 21 games during the regular season, struck out 13 Red Sox batters in a dominant outing, as he gave up one run on two hits before leaving the mound with a 5-1 lead after seven innings.
The Tigers needed just six more outs and looked set to take a 2-0 series lead back home to Detroit but after the Red Sox put up a run in the bottom of the sixth, Ortiz smashed a grand slam home run in the eighth to tie the game at 5-5.
"I knew I put a good swing on it," Ortiz told reporters. "I got (Detroit outfielder Torii Hunter) chasing everything out there, he almost caught the ball. But I thank God it went in the bullpen."
Jonny Gomes then led off the ninth with an infield single, reached scoring position on an error, and scored on Jarrod Saltalamacchia's walk-off RBI single.
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Sean is an Assistant Professor at Lehman College, City University of New York, co-host of the Entrepreneurial CPA Show, member of the 2017 AICPA Leadership Academy, and was named a 40 under 40 by CPA Practice Advisor in 2017. Before transitioning to higher education, Sean worked at the intersection of accounting and technology, specifically focusing on leveraging technology to improve the speed and quality of accounting information. Sean has led CPE and other sessions at the state, regional, and national level, attracting thousands of attendees. His research and work on blockchain, technology, and accounting has been featured in dozens of articles and media appearances. | <urn:uuid:55614889-200b-4561-95f3-2483ecf43fa5> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.sage.com/en-us/blog/author/seansteinsmith/ | 2020-08-07T12:11:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737178.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20200807113613-20200807143613-00289.warc.gz | en | 0.960634 | 142 |
rockahorse added a new file:
THIS IS STILL A WIP!!
- New quest zones -complete
- New items - complete
- New quests - complete
- Update locales
- English- done
- Russian- in progress
- German- done
Languages: English, German (translation by IHateChoosing,) Russian (translation by Djanbolt.)
Requires Virtual's Custom Quest Loader. It is not included with Goblin King.
For those who are using SPT-Realism by Fontaine check versions for an optional patch (included in 0.9.9)
Originally from El Paso, Texas. Oscar Vasquez ended up in Tarkov during a supply drop off during the Contract Wars when his chopper was shot down by anti air missiles. Unable to get home Oscar decided to take advantage of the crisis in the region setting up a network of medical supplies, stimulants and storage. Don't be fooled by his cheery candor. Oscar isn't particular with how he gains product and will use any means necessary. Many question his true motive and goal in Norvinsk and his prices aren't exactly fair. This reputation has earned him the name "Goblin" and he was happy to embrace it.
Features So Far:
-20 Unique Quests
Trader who sells storage, basic medical supplies, stims, and your weapon presets (LL2).
Place the Aki_Data, BepinEx and user folders into your SPTarkov main folder (Where your Aki.Server.exe and Aki.Launcher.exe are located.)
Compatible Mod list coming soon.
- Repeatable Quests
- More Custom Quest rewards and items
Special thanks to Kiki, alexkarpen, GamerXL, Chomp, Virtual, JoshJ5Hawk, Jiblet, IHateChoosing, Djanbolt and Boop
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Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Pie
Squash dishes you’ll eat for pleasure, not duty
By Ari LeVaux
Winter squash—along with turkey, eggnog and perhaps your crazy aunt Bertha—reserves a place at most holiday tables. But unlike the others, there’s a seasonal reason for squash being there. And by seasonal, I don't mean the holiday season.
Food-Lover’s Gift Guide
By Mina Yamashita
I’ve already started the spiced nuts [ “Go Nuts,” Nov. 10-16]. Next come dozens of jars of green-chile-cranberry chutney [ “In a Pickle,” Oct. 13-19]. But if you’ve got a little extra cash to spend, I can think of a few gifts that’ll make someone’s holiday happier.
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There’s a new Asian supermarket on the Holloway Road, just down towards Highbury Corner. Apparently it used to be a shop called Fettered Pleasures but I wouldn’t know about that. Now it’s brightly lit and, based on yesterday’s brief and impartial visit, pretty well stocked. We bought some fresh udon noodles and bok choi and various other bits and pieces that didn’t find their way into the following recipe but will no doubt find their way into my belly at some point. This took about 15 minutes and was mighty fine.
1 sachet of instant dashi powder
2 packets of fresh udon noodles
2 bok choi, leaves stripped
A big handful of coriander
Half a shallot, finely sliced
Pinch of salt
- Put the dashi in a pan with, I dunno, a litre of water and a pinch of salt and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5-10 minutes, then add the noodles. Simmer for 3 minutes or whatever the pack says, and remove to bowls. Add the bok choi to the dashi and simmer for 30 seconds, then add to the noodles. Finish with a handful of coriander, a few shallots, and a couple of spoonfuls of the dashi. Slurp. | <urn:uuid:05e1289c-908a-490c-a3db-8e27fb3e7d3c> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.jamesramsden.com/2013/02/25/recipe-udon-noodles-with-bok-choi-and-dashi/ | 2014-04-17T06:40:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609526311.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005206-00589-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934043 | 279 |
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When It Comes to Policy, Biden and Trump Aren’t That Different
Several of my friends have expressed relief now that Joe Biden is president and Donald Trump is gone. They no longer have to watch the news constantly, declaring that they know “the country is now in good hands.”
There’s no way to defend Trump’s poor behavior and insulting style. Yet, there is more to a president than his decorum. And on at least three signature Trump policies for which he’ll be remembered the most, often with dread, the similarities between Biden and Trump are unsettling.
Take immigration. President Biden campaigned against separating migrant kids from their families at the border. But, sadly, such separations are still happening. In fact, February 2021 recorded a 61 percent increase over January. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized, “The Washington Post reports that more than 8,500 migrant children are at facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services, while another 3,500—’the highest figure ever’—are stuck at [Customs and Border Patrol] stations waiting for a spot to open at the shelters.”
While the Biden administration promised an end to Trump’s immigration policies, the sheer number of kids effectively still locked up in deplorable conditions exposes the Biden administration’s delayed action—or possibly unwillingness—to reform the underlying policies that drive migrant children to show up unaccompanied at the border.
For starters, families who show up to ask for asylum are sent back, while unaccompanied children who cross the borde
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CentOS 5 - locking out users afer 3 failed attempts
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Tom Brown wrote:
> I thought i could achieve this with
> auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 unlock_time=600
> in /etc/pam.d/system-auth but it seems to not be the case - I cant
> find a working config for this anywhere and i wonder if anyone has one
> they can share?
Does '/var/log/faillog' exist and is it properly writable?
Is SELinux in play, etc? The man page does not speak in terms
of edits to: /etc/pam.d/system-auth but rather to:
/etc/pam.d/login [note -- I suspect there may be a man page
bug here ... in testing; changes to /etc/pam.d/login and some
intentionally failed logins, do not seem to cause content to
be added to /var/log/faillog . Making the edit to:
/etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac DOES cause content to be registered,
and to show up with the 'faillog -a' command [*1] ].
/etc/pam.d/system-auth is a symlink to:
/etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac on my C 5 box, and editting here
seems to work just fine:
[root@centos-5 pam.d]# diff -u system-auth-ac~ system-auth-ac
--- system-auth-ac~ 2010-04-20 15:46:34.000000000 -0400
+++ system-auth-ac 2010-04-20 15:46:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth required pam_env.so
+auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 unlock_time=600 per_user
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth required pam_deny.so
Nota bene: Note that the GUI tools will happily 'tromp' on
changes you make, and do not retain backups.
Did you edit /etc/pam.d/login / /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac
at the bottom of that man page, and
man 8 faillog
Not enough here to diagnose properly presently.
-- Russ herrold
[root@centos-5 log]# faillog -a
Login Failures Maximum Latest On
thomas 9 0 04/20/10 15:47:02 -0400 localhost.l
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GraduateUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, University of Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
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Nathan Eberle, D.D.S., M.D., is a maxillofacial, general and plastic surgery credentialed surgeon with ten plus years of training and experience specifically devoted to aesthetic plastic surgery and surgery of the head and neck. Dr. Eberle is one of only 75 surgeons in the United States with these credentials. His education, coupled with his hands-on experience and eye for aesthetics, provides discerning patients with a unique opportunity to make their personal aesthetic rejuvenation desires a reality.
Dr. Eberle is a firm believer in "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." He is committed to understanding his patient's personal desire for beauty, analyzing the patient's unique anatomical structure and designing a personalized treatment that is going to make that person forever happy. Before undertaking any treatment, Dr. Eberle believes it is essential that any prospective patient asks and answers the following questions:
- 1. What do you want? What don't you want?
- 2. Can you clearly articulate what you want, what you don't want and what that looks like?
- 3. When you get what you want, will that make you forever happy and why?
Dr. Eberle focuses all of his expertise and years of training on his patients, who seek only the best in aesthetic plastic surgery. From his years of maxillofacial surgery training, he understands the complexity of the facial skeleton and soft tissue needs of patients to formulate the best and most individualized aesthetic rejuvenation treatment for each patient. Dr. Eberle completed his comprehensive plastic surgery training at Cleveland Clinic, which ignited a strong interest in breast and body rejuvenation—further supporting his extensive background and passion for aesthetic facial rejuvenation. Not only does Dr. Eberle focus his expertise on the rejuvenation of the female body, but he also dedicates a portion of his practice to male aesthetic plastic surgery patients. | <urn:uuid:a2191ec8-00bb-471b-9aba-9ecb4f2f8cd0> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.mednax.com/practice/atlantic-center-for-aesthetic-reconstructive-surgery/clinicians/nathan-eberle/ | 2021-06-23T08:46:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488536512.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623073050-20210623103050-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.950939 | 459 |
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Perhaps you still have this t-shirt in your drawers from years ago! If you haven’t hung on to it after the closing of the beloved bar, take this opportunity to snatch an OP souvenir now, all these years later!
Three yarns form the perfect blending of softness and an easygoing look.
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Retresco is a leading provider of AI-powered content automation. The company has a team of specialized software developers, linguists and editors that work to develop innovative semantic solutions in the areas of NLG and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). NLU solutions include content curation and recommendation systems, content classification, and chatbots.
It also specializes in developing semantic applications and communication solutions ranging from automating job references, to real estate listings, to traffic news. Retresco currently generates more than 5 million texts per month for customers. | <urn:uuid:adc63abb-b9be-48a6-8683-11f2a13ed3d4> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.fintech-hub.eu/fintechs/retresco?language=en | 2019-04-20T06:34:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528702.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420060931-20190420082931-00132.warc.gz | en | 0.91391 | 113 |
Beautifully wrapped in traditional parcel paper, with twine and ink stamps, this hamper has all the necessary items to make two fantastic Pina Coloda cocktails, made with a 50ml glass bottle of Trinidad and Barbados Rum.
The hamper includes:
A personalised card with the recipient's name and your personal message.
1 x 50ml glass bottle of spiced Trinidad and Barbados Dead Man's Fingers rum, aged for three years, with notes of orange, nutmeg, vanilla and raisin.
1 x 250ml pouch of Award winning Rocktails Mockito mixer, a mix of fresh pineapple, coconut water and guanabana. Mix with the rum, open the snacks, enjoy!
25g pouch of pineapple pieces, with no added sugar or preservatives.
25g pouch of smoked Almonds.
x1 Smith and Sinclair spiced, dark rum cocktail pastille, coated with a clove infused sugar. 7% ABV (the equivalent of half a shot of alcohol) per edible.
Our Letter Box Hampers are designed to fit through UK Letter Boxes. Guaranteed, surprise, hassle free Letter Box Delivery for the special day.
Dimensions: length 23cm x width 18cm x height 3cm.By adding this to your cart you confirm that you are over 18. It is an offence to buy alcohol if you are under 18. Please note that orders that contain alcohol cannot be left in a safe place and may be left with a neighbour unless otherwise stated.
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Errr..... How can a Hamper fit through a Letter Box?
Our Letter Box Hampers are 3.2cm in height, meaning that they fit through all standard size UK letter boxes. Contents are carefully selected and packaged to ensure that all the items you might expect in a traditional hamper are available, but without the additional expense, delivery charges and waste often associated with big hampers.
How long will it take to deliver my Hamper? All orders received are packed and sent by 1st Class Royal Mail delivery the same day, if ordered before 2pm. Over 90% of 1st class deliveries are delivered the next day, so from ordering to delivery, your hamper is likely to take 1-2 days.
Can I specify a delivery date? f you would like us to send your hamper to arrive for a special occasion, please allow enough time and simply include the date that you would like it to arrive using the personal message box when ordering. We will then schedule a posting date to ensure it arrives on, or shortly before, your chosen date.
What if I don't like my Letter Box Hamper or if I have a problem with it? We’re confident you’ll love your hamper and to date we have never had any problems, but if you do simply return it to us at the address below and we offer a full, no quibble money back guarantee, at any time. The Letter Box Hamper Company 2 Exe View Haven Road, Haven Banks Exeter EX2 8DY.Lost/Non arrivals: All orders are expected to arrive at the shipping address provided no later than 5 business days after the 'shipped' notification email, this will be extended in seasonal peak times to 10 business days. Orders that fail to arrive at their destination after 15 calendar days will be treated as lost. Customers must contact us within 21 calendar days of the 'shipped' notification to be eligible for a refund, after this time store credit may be offered at our discretion. | <urn:uuid:d725b3d6-830e-43a6-8214-a147b2942bf0> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.funkyfoodgifts.com/collections/gift-boxes-hampers/products/pina-colada-letter-box-hamper | 2019-01-18T20:40:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583660529.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118193139-20190118215139-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.92327 | 744 |
You know Dura-Pro is leading manufacturer of tools and things that required for a golf game. This company involved in golf for more years and introduced a lot of products. One of the Dura-Pro’s products for golf ball tray is 4′ x 5′ Dura-Pro Plus PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray.
Are ready to buy this golf ball tray? If like so, then, before paying for this tray, it is better to know the features of golf ball tray.
Features of PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray:
Below are the features of this PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray.
The material used to design this golf ball tray is 100% nylon and which is made in the USA with high-quality materials. In addition to that, it doesn’t include any ploy mats.
#2: Absorbs shock
This is made to absorb club shock, so you will feel outstanding.
The PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray is packed with 8 years warranty and as well as 8 years UV protection guarantee.
#4: Rubber tees
Based on the skill levels, it is better to use rubber teas to avoid injury.
#5: Package includes
A package of 4′ x 5′ Dura-Pro Plus PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray includes the following items.
- 2 Rubber Tees
- 1 Adjustable Friction Tee Holder
- 2 Tee Holes
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Here is the quick Overview of 4′ x 5′ Dura-Pro Plus PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray:
If you want to buy a No. 1 mat for golf, then I suggest you buy 4′ x 5′ Dura-Pro Plus PREMIUM Commercial Golf Mat FREE Golf Ball Tray. | <urn:uuid:3c103d32-64c3-43c3-8b7c-bf1aa3381fa8> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.insportsday.com/dura-pro-golf-mats-review/ | 2019-08-20T14:01:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315544.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820133527-20190820155527-00118.warc.gz | en | 0.833801 | 541 |
Breezay - Sex And The City [Baltimore Unsigned Artist]
"Sex And The City" from Baltimore recording artist Breezay on Dec released project "The FlagShip". This go round Breezay gives us a certified grown and sexy track for the ladies. Enjoy the view and the style from Breezay.
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Popcorns are vulnerable to contamination by contact with air due to dirt or germs. The use of custom printed popcorn boxes can be the best solution to protect them from contamination. These boxes come with airtight lids. Their custom-shaped lids can prevent the entry of germs inside the boxes of popcorns. They come in innovative shapes such as cup-shaped boxes, cone-shaped boxes, or bag-like boxes. They also come with the relevant printing elements for attracting the target customers.
Their customized graphical content can increase their attractiveness. There are different types of manufacturing materials for these boxes. They can also come with handles to carry them easily. These boxes are eco-friendly because they are recyclable and repurposable. There are different types of coatings for increasing their visual appeal. They may get a metallic appearance due to silver or gold foiling. In addition, they can have waterproof lamination to prevent damages due to exposure to water.
Businesses always look for money-saving tricks. In the case of packaging solutions, most businesses try to save money by reducing the cost of these boxes. Therefore, custom printed popcorn boxes manufactured by cost-saving tricks can benefit the company. Following are some essential money-saving tips for these manufacturing these boxes.
Choose sustainable and renewable materials
The first thing that can increase the cost of your product boxes is the choice of materials. You can see that different materials are available for manufacturing popcorn boxes. When you have to manufacture them by spending less, you should consider sustainable materials. You may be thinking about how these materials can reduce the cost of packaging. There is the fact that readily available materials are always cheaper. This is the reason that natural products aren’t costly. The main reason behind this fact is their renewability. Therefore, you must look for easily obtainable and renewable materials for manufacturing these boxes. However, they may be kraft, bux board, or others. They are obtained from natural sources and are renewable. They are inexpensive as compared to synthetic materials. Hence, choosing these materials can save costs.
Trained staff and sophisticated machines
All the packaging manufacturing firms have staff for working on machines. There are different types of devices for manufacturing packaging solutions. These may be cutting, assembling, or printing machines. For all of these machines, you need highly trained staff. First, you should procure the best quality and sophisticated machines. They should possess the best and most modern features. They should consume less energy and also require a lesser workforce. In this way, it can help to reduce the cost of manufacturing. Another important thing is to have trained staff. Untrained staff may lead to wastage of raw materials, and poor techniques to run machines may be hazardous. On the other hand, trained staff can run your machines properly and take their advantage to minimize the cost of packaging.
Digital printing is inexpensive
Everyone knows that custom printed popcorn boxes have to contain images or graphics. These images are essential because they have to represent the packaged popcorn. They are necessary for attracting target customers. These boxes also have to come with textual details. For their printing, you need printing machines. It would help if you understood that many printing technologies are available. You have to learn about their pros and cons. When you have to spend less, you may consider digital printing because it is inexpensive. Offset and screen printing are costly techniques. Hence, digital printing can help to reduce their cost.
Opt for minimal printing
This is a fact that well-printed boxes are more appreciable. We understand that boxes with relevant graphics and attractive drawings can look more appealing. They can look amazing when present in the stores. But, their printing isn’t affordable for everyone. It would help if you understood that multi-color printing needs many colored inks, which are expensive. Moreover, for printing more graphics or images, you need more inks. Due to the increased consumption of inks, the cost of printing can exceed your budget. It would help if you opted for minimal printing in the case of personalized popcorn boxes. A small-sized and small number of graphics or images can help in reducing printing costs.
Mono-color or bi-color printing
There are many colors, and we understand that multicolored printing can be more appealing. However, the colorful printing elements attract most customers. You should have an idea that colorful printing requires colored inks, and colored inks are expensive. Therefore, when your goal is to reduce the cost of custom popcorn packaging, you should consider mono-color or bi-color printing. For this, you will not need colored inks, and it will ultimately reduce the cost of your packaging.
Buy boxes in bulk
This is a very well-known fact that their cost is reduced when things are manufactured or bought in bulk. When you buy the best quality popcorn boxes by spending less, you should consider buying in bulk. If you have a large-run business, you can consume these large number of boxes. Many packaging suppliers can offer exclusive benefits on purchasing packages in bulk. Hence, this is one of the best cost-saving tips that can help in making your business successful and more profitable.
You have to be smart to reduce the cost of your packaging. We know that cost-saving is significant for businesses because it can enhance profitability. Many money-saving tips for manufacturing custom printed popcorn boxes have been described here. You can implement these tips for obtaining benefits and making your business successful. | <urn:uuid:2cf81ff1-20b8-4077-b4bf-1c86c6d4b40b> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.printingcircle.com/blog/custom-printed-popcorn-boxes-on-a-less-budget/ | 2023-01-28T04:26:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499470.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230128023233-20230128053233-00664.warc.gz | en | 0.953685 | 1,118 |
Weight loss is on most Americans' minds. But weight loss is tough. In fact, recent studies have shown that your body seems to feel comfortable at its current weight and will actually resist slimming down. So, what can you do to fight this resistance to fat tissue loss?
The answer lies in your metabolism. Metabolism, or the process by which your body breaks down and digests the food you eat, turning it into nutrients, is essential to weight gain and loss. Sadly, some factors can affect your metabolism, slowing it down and speeding up weight gain. These include age and a diet low in essential nutrients. Of course, this means that the solution to weight loss lies in speeding up your metabolism with essential nutrients you may be missing. These are some of the most impactful vitamins and minerals, ones that act as natural metabolism boosters and speed up your weight loss efforts.
B vitamins do so many amazing things for your body, including improving your energy levels and even helping with fertility issues. Best of all, though, B vitamins can help speed up weight loss. B vitamins including riboflavin, folate, and niacin are naturally occurring in some produce, such as green vegetables, and can help your metabolism break down food faster. Essentially, B vitamins help your body derive more energy from food, so you can power your workouts and get more benefits from the food that you eat.
If you're looking for a metabolism booster with natural ingredients, try energy booster supplements made from real produce. They'll be extra high in B vitamins.
There is a sad link between vitamin D deficiency and obesity. While research is still investigating this link, doctors often recommend that people take vitamin D supplements to enjoy their many health benefits, including faster and more efficient metabolism. Unfortunately, vitamin D is found in foods that people often have trouble with, such as dairy products and very high-sodium fish products, such as anchovies and sardines. And while you can also get vitamin D from sunlight because your body stimulates its production when you're out in the heat, sunlight is rife with side effects on the body.
Taking a daily metabolism booster supplement can help give you the vitamin D you need for a better mood and faster metabolism. Just make sure you're getting vitamin D from natural sources.
Iron is a mineral that is essential for good health. It's especially important for helping your body carry nutrients from the food you eat to your various body systems, where the nutrients support vital processes and create energy. This means that the more iron you eat, the more efficient your metabolism will be. It even supports healthy muscles, so you can burn more fat.
Also, iron is essential for exercise, an important contributor to weight loss. If you're low in iron, you just won't be able to reach your weight loss goals. Iron, like other minerals including magnesium, is important for fueling your day and feeling a natural energy boost. A lazy, sedentary lifestyle can contribute to weight gain. If you want to get more healthy minerals in your diet, try supplements made from iron-rich produce, rather than eating more meat, sources of iron that can lead to high cholesterol as a side effect.
The best metabolism booster is within reach; you just have to shop in the right place. BioPharma Scientific carries a variety of vitamin and mineral-packed supplements that can increase your metabolism and help you finally reach your weight loss goals. Find out more by visiting their convenient online store at https://www.biopharmasci.com/Shop-Now-s/1977.htm. | <urn:uuid:0b8a2f1e-5251-4cd7-972b-6095beae55c4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://biopharmasci.com/blogs/lifelong-wellness-made-easy/various-vitamins-and-minerals-that-will-boost-your-metabolism | 2023-09-24T03:00:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506559.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924023050-20230924053050-00202.warc.gz | en | 0.955011 | 740 |
Debuting in Colorado for the first time, the Athleta Esprit de She Run will not only provide runners a beautiful view of the mountains, but also a post-race glass of champagne.
The Athleta Esprit de She Run is an athletic event series across the nation designed exclusively for women and will be Thursday, June 6, at Life Time Fitness in Westminster.
Athleta is a fitness and lifestyle apparel brand for women and is the sponsor of the event.
Runners can choose a 5K or 10K run that begins and ends at Life Time Fitness. After the exercise is over that’s when the real fun begins with a complete champagne bubbly bar, a variety of tasty tapas and an Athleta fashion show.
There will also be live music and a community night market showcasing fresh produce, local artisans and local creative projects on the pool deck area of the fitness center.
Lauren Kurhajetz, brand director for the Athleta Esprit de She Run, said the series is all about making fitness relevant to women’s lives.
She said too often women get too busy to take time for themselves, so the event is a way for women to get a workout in while spending time with their girlfriends.
“The race is for beginners or advanced athletes who can come unite and celebrate fitness,” she said. “And then after the race, women can enjoy some me-time with our free services like mini manicures and massages. “
The Athleta Esprit de She Run is also an opportunity for women to donate to Girls on the Run, a nonprofit organization that supports leadership and development for girls in fifth through eighth grades using interactive lessons and running games. Women can either make a one-time donation or become part of the SoleMate program, which provides women an opportunity to raise money for Girls on the Run while training for the athletic event of their choice.
Day-of registration and packet pick-up is from 4-6 p.m. followed by the start of the race at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, at Life Time Fitness Westminster, 397 West 148th Ave. Cost to participate is $40/5K and $50/10K. Life Time members get a $5 discount. To register visit www.EspritdeShe.com. | <urn:uuid:c63c3d38-c59d-45c2-81e1-c7c9fcaf3c78> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://westminsterwindow.com/stories/5K-10K-races-support-womens-fitness,105275 | 2015-05-23T08:53:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207927427.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113207-00242-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941112 | 488 |
Terms of Service / Service Agreement
TermThis Agreement shall be effective beginning on the date of initial service, and lasting until regularly scheduled service is canceled by either party. If this Agreement is for a single, one time service, then no particular term is applicable, and this Agreement shall govern that single service only. Cancellation shall be by advance written notice from one party to the other. The Customer agrees to pay a $25.00 cancellation charge if the Customer cancels service after a Technician has arrived at the job site for a scheduled service. Cancellation does not relieve the Customer of responsibility to pay for all service performed prior to cancellation.
WarrantyIf the Customer is not satisfied with the results of any service, SPMI will, during the Warranty Period, return to treat the area again at no extra charge. The Warranty Period is that period of time, as and if checked in the Section "Warranty" on the face hereof, immediately following a billable service. Should the problem persist, SPMI will continue to work to solve the problem to the Customer's reasonable satisfaction or, in the event that reasonable satisfaction cannot be met by either party, SPMI may reverse the Customer's last periodic service fee. If the box "Service to Service" is checked in the Section "Warranty" on the face hereof, then the Warranty Period shall be from one regularly scheduled service to the next, and cancellation or termination of the regularly scheduled service shall cancel any and all Warranties. Warranty, if any, is granted subject to timely payment in full for the services provided, and SPMI's liability under any warranty under this Agreement is limited to re-treatment and/or a refund of the last periodic pest control payment only.
Customer ResponsibilitiesCustomer cooperation in the mitigation or elimination of conditions conducive to pest infestation is essential to an effective pest control program. The Customer agrees to follow to the best of their ability all recommendations specified in the annual outside inspection report and/or periodic work orders, and generally accepts responsibility for making timely repairs necessary to eliminate conditions conducive to pests.
Treatment LimitationsThe effectiveness of pest control treatments are limited by site, structural, and environmental conditions which are beyond the control of SPMI. Such conditions include, but are not limited to, inaccessible structural cavities, leaking roofs, faulty grade levels, inadequate clearance, earth to wood contact, structure- vegetation contact, cellulose debris, insufficient ventilation, faulty gutters or down-spouts, and other conditions conducive to re-infestation or recurring infestation. Unless SPMI has specifically included the repair or correction of such condition(s) on the face of this Agreement, the Customer accepts sole responsibility for such repair, correction, or mitigation, and holds SPMI harmless from any liability for same, including any responsibility for re-treatment. SPMI is not responsible for insect or rodent damage to products or contents at the premises. This Agreement does not provide for control of pests not specified. If, in SPMI's opinion, a service requested is unsafe for the Technician and/or the Customer, or is impractical or unnecessary, SPMI reserves the right to refuse requested service without incurring any liability.
The Customer agrees to hold SPMI harmless from any and all liability for damage not caused by SPMI's negligence, and from any and all liability for structural damage regardless of cause. SPMI disclaims any liability for special, incidental or consequential damages. The warranties stated in this Agreement are given in lieu of any other warranty, expressed or implied, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. SPMI will incur no liability should it be prevented from fulfilling its responsibilities per this Agreement by reasons of an act of God, fire, flood, storms, explosions, acts of war, whether declared or undeclared, seizure, riots, civil commotion, strikes, or other labor disputes, shortages of fuel and/or materials, quarantine restrictions, or any other circumstances or causes beyond the control of SPMI. Should structural changes or additions be made to the job-site which would add to or delete from the area treated at each service, the periodic service charge will be reviewed and adjusted accordingly by SPMI.
PaymentPayment is due upon completion of included services unless prior arrangements have been made with SPMI. All payments are due within 10 (ten) working days of service or billing; balances more than 30 days old will bear interest at the greater of $2.00 or the rate of 1.5% per month from the date of service. In the event of non-payment or default by Customer, SPMI may suspend or terminate the services as described in this Agreement, and costs of collection, including administrative and attorney's fees and costs, shall be paid by Customer, whether suit is filed or not.
DisputesThe Customer and SPMI agree that any controversy or claim between them arising out of or relating to the interpretation, performance or breach of any provision of this Agreement, except for any action taken by SPMI to collect for services provided to the Customer, shall be settled exclusively by arbitration. Such arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules then in force of the American Arbitration Association before three arbitrators appointed by the American Arbitration Association. The decision of the arbitrator shall be a final and binding resolution of the disagreement which may be entered as a judgment by any court of competent jurisdiction. In no event shall either party be liable to the other for indirect, special, or consequential damages, loss of anticipated profits or punitive or exemplary damages. This arbitration agreement and remedy provided shall be the exclusive remedy of the parties who acknowledge that neither of them shall have the right to file any suit, including any action at law or in equity except to enforce any arbitration award granted hereunder. | <urn:uuid:7968cacc-1496-463a-8235-47e9cb1e7144> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://sunrisepest.com/pest-control-service-agreement | 2017-10-18T20:02:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823114.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018195607-20171018215607-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.93096 | 1,200 |
I’ve been listening to a lot of Allan Watts lately. He is largely accredited for bringing eastern philosophy into to western society in a highly digestible way. What I want to focus on is knowing without knowing.
As a trader we spend hours scanning charts, searching for the setups we know best, that we know have a high probability of reward. Though if it was that simple we would just automate what we do and sit at the beach all day. There is something more I believe.
There is a feeling that occurs, a knowing. You look at the chart and you know what it will do. As if you have some sort of pre-cognition. What is this? As if the stars have aligned and you somehow intuitively know. When your brain kicks in you may second guess yourself, change your mind, look for evidence to verify this feeling but you know what you know.
The mind, however wants to make up a story about why you feel this way. It is pointless. Just as fire does not burn itself, nor does a knife cut itself. You will not know what you know by logic, thought, or evidence. You just know…
How often do you feel this as a trader? What do you do when you have this feeling? Do you journal it? Do you always take the trade? Keeping track of these moments is critical in my success because there is a high order knowing I believe that I do not have access too directly. Perhaps over time with enough sample, I can begin to understand what I do know or at least plug it into a deep learning model 🙂
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(CNN) - Leading conservative group Americans for Prosperity says it's coming out with a series of ads applauding the members of Congress who stood against Obamacare while blasting those who supported the health care law.
AFP announced the ads in a release Wednesday promising three weeks of web, TV and radio coverage across parts of Florida, Arizona, California, and Colorado, as well as phone banks and door-to-door canvassing across the target districts.
"Legislators who have consistently stood against ObamaCare deserve to be thanked for doing the right thing, and those responsible for bringing about this debacle need to be held accountable," AFP President Tim Phillips said in the release.
"The result of ObamaCare so far has been diminished choice and higher premiums, accompanied by an astonishingly inept rollout that perfectly exemplifies the inefficiency of Big Government."
Republican Representatives Steve Southerland of Florida and Mike Coffman of Colorado are both getting laudatory ads each customized to the individual Congressman.
"Steve Southerland is fighting back, working to stop Obamacare," says the announcer in one.
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Conversely, Democratic Congressmen Scott Peters of California and Ron Barber of Arizona are being targeted with attack ads nearly identical to one another.
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ANOTHER FLOOD DINO FOUND IN CANADA reported in Reuters (Canada) and Fort McMurray Today 25 Mar 2011. Mine workers at an oil sand mine near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada have found the fossil of an Ankylosaur, a rare land dwelling armour plated dinosaur. The fossil was discovered when a machine operator noticed an odd texture and diamond patterns in the rock he was digging. Palaeontologists from the Royal Tyrell Museum, a dinosaur museum in Alberta, have confirmed that it is a fossil dinosaur, and have dated it at 110 million years old. The fossil is still being removed from the mine site, but it seems to be very well preserved in three dimensions, without being flattened. The scientists estimate the dinosaur to be about 5.5 metres (16ft) long and about 2 metres (6ft) wide. The dinosaur experts were surprised to find the fossil of a land dwelling creature in this location as the area is believed to be an ancient sea bed and they expected to find a marine reptile. Donald Henderson, a curator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum commented: "We've never found a dinosaur in this location. Because the area was once a sea, most finds are invertebrates such as clams and ammonites."
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ED. COM. We can confirm this region is full of marine fossils, as one of our editors has been to this area to do field work and has both seen and collected fossils in this region. Furthermore, there are many other parts of the world where other land dwelling dinosaur fossils are found amongst sea creatures, and this has been known since the earliest finds e.g. the 1874 Stegosaur found in the UK (specimen number 46013) was found in marine sediments, as was Australia’s first and most famous land dwelling dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus which was found in a bed of sea shells. The editor knows that since he did a research project on marine Ammonite shells in the area.
That leads us to the question: what is a land dwelling dinosaur doing being buried with shellfish and other sea creatures? As the animal is well preserved in three dimensions it had to be rapidly and deeply buried. If it had just died and fallen into the sea it would have decayed and fallen apart and/or been scavenged. Perhaps a better explanation is that it was caught up in a tsunami-like flood that was deeper than the the dinosaur was tall, then swept over land and out to sea where it was deposited along with any other swept up land or sea creatures and sediment. It reminds us of how much caution we must exercise when museum guides tell the children that dinosaurs lived in an area, when all that is really known about them is that they are dead in that area! What we have said so often in the past is true again in this case – this fossil evidence is not the history of life on earth but it is the record of catastrophic flood based death on earth (Ref. reptiles, palaeontology, catastrophism)
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Last week, Personal – a DC-based startup which provides a secured digital data vault for consumers’ information, passwords, and files – launched the world’s largest form library at Fill It, giving people a tool to securely and automatically fill almost any form in the world.
Literally millions of forms are filled every day by people from all over the world – that’s millions of people, every day, having to go through the drudgery of mindlessly filling in all these blank spaces. At some point, though, we’ll all cross the threshold of sanity, and our souls will begin to imprint themselves on all the empty space that will never be filled (because, you know, by then we’ll be brain-dead).
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In our fashionable society, we now have develop into very dependent upon our digital devices and home equipment. Most households (within the U.S) have Private Computer systems with an Web Connection. If we solely regarded on the Private Pc, we do plenty of factor with this product.We talk with our mates, members of the family and enterprise associates.
We conduct monetary transactions (e.g., purchase or promote merchandise on line)
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We (more and more) retailer footage which have sentimental worth (and may very well be powerful to switch if misplaced).For many individuals, anytime their “computer dies“, it turns into a serious inconvenience of their lives. If you happen to have been to have a look at another digital programs that we sometimes have in our houses, such asDVD Gamers
Gaming Techniques (e.g., Ps, X-Field, Nintendo, Wii, and so forth.)
Audio Leisure Tools
Video Recording Tools (for you folks that wish to publish movies on YouTube.
Home equipment (reminiscent of Central Air Conditioning Techniques, Warmth Pumps, Microwave Ovens, and so forth.)
HDTVs (e.g., LCD or Plasma)All of these things entertain us, enlighten us and supply us with consolation. These merchandise every require a substantial sum of money to buy. Additional, repairing and/or changing these merchandise can also be fairly costly. Therefore, I’m fairly amazed that individuals don’t do extra to guard their funding (in these digital programs) and do no matter they’ll to increase the working life time of those merchandise.Typically, there are three (three) totally different damaging mechanisms that may both destroy or vastly cut back the operational life-time of your electronics. These three damaging mechanisms areHeat
Electrical Surge/Spike Occasions, and
Electrical NoiseIn this text, we’re going to discuss HEAT. As we talk about Warmth, we’ll cowl the next subjects.How is Warmth damaging to your electronics?
What can we do about warmth – The way to Shield Your Electronics from Warmth and Lengthen the Working Lifetime of our Electronics?2.zero HOW IS HEAT DESTRUCTIVE TO YOUR ELECTRONICS
Warmth is an artifact of electronics. All digital programs generate warmth. Digital programs settle for electrical energy (present and voltage) from the facility line (through outlet). The digital system makes use of a portion of this electrical energy to carry out work (e.g., the operate that you really want it to carry out, e.g., play a DVD, prepare dinner a bag of popcorn, and so forth). The remaining portion of this electrical energy is transformed into warmth.Nonetheless, warmth can also be an enemy of digital programs. Few issues are simpler in lowering the working life-time of an digital system, than elevating the working temperature of the digital circuitry inside your digital system. If you happen to have been to talk with an Electronics Machine Reliability skilled, he/she would inform you that for each 10 levels (Celsius) that you simply elevate the working temperature of system; you cut back the working lifetime of that system by 50%. The impression of warmth (in shortening the working life) of your electronics is “huge”.
three.zero WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT HEAT?
As I discussed earlier, all electronics generates warmth. There isn’t a approach to forestall electronics from producing the very factor that may destroy it. Nonetheless, there are a few issues that you are able to do to stop this warmth from doing a lot harm.1. You’ll be able to work to take away this warmth from the electronics (as shortly because it generates it), or
2. You are able to do issues to attempt to assist the electronics to not generate a lot warmth within the first place.I’ll tackle every of those approaches beneath.three.1. REMOVING HEAT FROM THE ELECTRONICS
Many client digital programs have been designed with “Heat Removal” in thoughts. A few of these digital programs (like desktop computer systems) include “internal fans”. These followers have been designed into these programs in order that they might blow air via the realm wherein the system electronics resides. The intent behind having these followers to is blow the warmth away from these electronics and to assist maintain them cool.Different digital programs include “vents” (of their outer case) to supply an “escape path” for warmth. Many of those vents are situated on the prime or within the “back-end” of system. On this foundation, I’ve the next suggestions to allow the removing of warmth out of your electronics.Make sure that and maintain papers, books, mud and different objects from “blocking” the vents of those programs.
Leaving these things on prime of your (DVD Participant for instance) will block the vents, and won’t permit for warmth to flee out of your DVD Participant. It will trigger the temperature (surrounding the electronics) inside your DVD participant to rise; which can (in-turn) cut back the working lifetime of your DVD participant.Be sure that the “back-end” of the digital system will not be “butt-up” towards the wall or an leisure cupboard.
You will need to make it possible for there may be ample air/air flow area between the vents (within the again finish) and the wall/cupboard to permit for Warmth Removing.Make sure that and have your home equipment (like your Central Air Conditioning system or Warmth Pump) serviced.
At any time when these home equipment are serviced, the service skilled will do varied issues (like clear out mud and particles from air flow path), subsequently sustaining an unobstructed path for warmth to flee from these programs.Be sure that the fan (inside a few of your programs) is working.
If this fan stops working, then you’ll want to get it repaired shortly. Failure to do that will end in your digital system having an early assembly with the “grim reaper” or an digital waste disposal web site.three.2 REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF HEAT THAT THE ELECTRONICS GENERATE IN THE FIRST PLACE
One other strategy to defending your electronics from warmth is to take steps to attempt to forestall your electronics from producing extreme warmth within the first place. The quantity of warmth that’s generated inside an digital system is sometimes called being associated to the next expression for resistive loss: I^2XR, the place:I represents the quantity of present flowing via an digital system and
R represents the load impedance (or resistance) inside this digital system; and
I^2 denotes ” I being raised to the 2nd Power, or “I-squared”From this mathematical expression, you can see that if we were able to reduce the amount of current flowing through an electrical system, this would certainly help to reduce the amount of heat generated within this electrical system.QUESTION: How can you reduce the current that an electrical system uses? Doesn’t it require a certain amount of current to do its job? The answer to this question is “Sure”, an electrical system does require a certain amount of current and voltage (electrical power) to do its job. However, it doesn’t need to use anymore current than that. Hence, we recommend that you use TVSS (Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors) components in order to reduce the current level (flowing into your electrical system).Now, I know that some of you may be “scratching your heads” and wondering, “How on the earth will this cut back the quantity of present flowing into my digital system” and (in turn reduce the amount of heat that it generates)? The answer is this: Anytime there is a large amount of electrical noise or spikes, or other forms of distortion in the electrical voltage and current in the power line, this also results in the flow of additional current into your electrical system. By using the TVSS components, you are eliminating this excessive current (due to noise, glitches, etc.) from the “energy line” current, flowing into your electronic system.In this case, you have now accomplished the following:1. You have decreased the amount of current flowing into your electronic system, (which is the “I” in the expression “I^2 X R”) – which helps rather a lot to scale back the quantity of warmth that the system generates.
2. By lowering the warmth that system generates, you at the moment are reducing the ambient (or surrounding) temperature wherein your electronics operates.
three. Decreasing the ambient temperature will typically instances additionally cut back the load impedance/resistance in your digital system (e.g., the “R” on this expression) as effectively.
QUESTION: How will you cut back the load impedance/resistance in an digital system? Is not design characteristic of the digital system? The reply to this query is “Yes it is”. You can’t change the load impedance/resistance by very a lot. However, the rationale why reducing the ambient temperature will even cut back the load impedance/resistance is that many resistors have (what is known as) a optimistic temperature coefficient. Which means because the ambient temperature goes up, does the resistor worth of this specific resistor.Nonetheless, the converse can also be true. If you happen to have been to decrease the ambient (or surrounding) temperature, you then would additionally decrease the resistor worth as effectively.SO LET’S RECAP THE BENEFITS OF USING TVSS COMPONENTS:Utilizing TVSS elements decrease the quantity of present flowing via your digital system.
Decreasing this present reduces the quantity of warmth that the digital system generates.
This lowers the ambient temperature for the system electronics.
Decreasing the ambient temperature additionally lowers the load impedance/resistance (R) throughout the digital system.Each the discount of present (and the ensuing discount of the load impedance) would serve to considerably cut back the quantity of warmth that the electronics system will generates.four.zero OTHER ARTICLES IN THIS SERIES
Different articles on this sequence are listed beneath.The way to Shield Your Electronics from Electrical Surge/Spike Occasions
The way to Shield Your Electronics from Electrical Noise5.zero CONCLUSIONS
On this article, we spoke about “heat” and the way efficient it’s in lowering the working life-time of your electronics. Warmth is likely one of the three (three) damaging mechanisms that may both destroy or shorten the operational life-time of your electronics. The remaining two mechanisms areElectrical Surge/Spike Occasions, and
Electrical NoiseWe have additionally described some tips on defend your electronics from warmth, and to increase the working life-time of your electronics. Particularly, we talked about the next approaches:1. Use (and don’t thwart) the “Heat Removal” options of your digital programs
Be sure that Inner Followers are working and
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Posted on 17 Jul 2009
State Farm Florida Insurance Co. lawyers on Wednesday urged an administrative law judge to speed up a tentative hearing schedule in its quest to exit the state's property insurance market within the next two years.
Calling an Oct. 12 start date too late, the company urged Administrative Law Judge Suzanne Hood to bring parties to the table earlier for up to a week of testimony over the timetable and details of the company’s withdrawal plan submitted to state officials earlier this year.
“For the reasons stated in (State Farm’s) petition, including the ongoing erosion of State Farm Florida Insurance Company’s assets and the company’s projected insolvency by the end of 2011 if it is forced to continue to operate under current rate and risk conditions, petitioners believe that it is extremely urgent to resolve this dispute as quickly as possible,” company lawyers stated in their response to the judge’s order.
State Farm, the largest private property insurer in the state, is wrangling with state insurance regulators over a two-year withdrawal plan brought on by the company’s decision to leave the Florida market following its inability earlier this year to obtain what it perceived to be necessary rate hikes. The company asked for but was refused a 47 percent average increase.
The exit plan calls for State Farm to non-renew nearly 470,000 homeowners policies during the first of a two-year withdrawal plan under a proposed strategy submitted to a state hearing officer on Wednesday. The company must give customers at least 180 days notice of their pending cancellation.
Attorneys for State Farm and the State Office of Insurance Regulation met a Wednesday deadline to set hearing dates on the proposed plan, though the parties disagree over when to schedule the four or five day hearing, with company officials asking to have them earlier.
State Insurance lawyers, counter that the Oct. 12 date would be too soon, saying they won’t have enough time to adequately prepare for the court-like proceedings.
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Janet's more than 20 years of experience as a business executive are a proven asset to her practice, allowing her to provide practical, real-world advice and counsel to her clients. She draws upon extensive management experience in addressing the concerns of multiple-location retail, restaurant, movie theatre and other businesses.
Janet represents employers in a wide range of disputes before state and federal courts, including wage/hour, misclassification, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims. Janet also defends employers in administrative proceedings before the Employment Development Department, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Janet provides advice and counsel aimed at preventing litigation, including advice on sexual harassment prevention, investigations, terminations of employment, reductions in force, employee disciplinary actions, creating personnel policies, and drafting employee handbooks.
Class Action Defense
Janet represents companies in wage and hour and ADA accommodation class actions. She works closely with companies to develop defense strategies designed to curtail or eliminate liability. She also works with companies to minimize risk of future actions.
Janet represents businesses in class action and individual Americans with Disabilities Act public accommodation disputes, as well as actions before the Department of Justice. She also provides preventative advice and counsel, works with clients to develop effective ADA policies and practices, and coordinates with experts on remediation.
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Stoddart v. Express Services Inc.
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Villasenor v. Green Farms Inc., d/b/a Worldwide Produce
Lead defense counsel currently finalizing successful settlement on behalf of large fruit and vegetable distributor based in southern California in wage-and-hour class action alleging non-exempt workers were denied meal and rest breaks. (2013)
Noe v. Sarnoff and Levy Premium Foods
Defense counsel defending Levy concerning claims of joint employer status relating to claims of missed meal and rest periods and misclassification as independent contractors. (Ongoing)
Wage hour class action for Southern California restaurant chain
Lead counsel brought into class action case previously handled by insurance counsel to mediate and successfully settle claims of missed meal and rest periods, failure to reimburse business expenses, and failure to pay overtime compensation. Followed through final approval process. (2013)
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Defend high-profile class action case brought by disabled plaintiffs alleging violations of the Unruh Act and California Disabled Persons Act and seeking to compel CNN.com to provide closed captioning on website videos. (Ongoing)
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I'd like to hear responses to the following simple argument that voting for Nader in 2000 was at least as rationally defensible as was voting for Gore.
Either (a) a choice of vote should be based only on the expected value of its impact on the outcome of the election, or (b) it should be based on other considerations, such as, to name a couple of possibilities, the value of expressing one’s political opinions, the value of avoiding pangs of guilt, a civic duty to vote, etc. If (a), then the choice of whether one should vote should also be based only on the expected value of the impact on the outcome of the election and, therefore, leftists (nor anyone else for that matter) should not have voted, and everyone who did vote was equally irrational in doing so, given the vanishingly small probability of casting a vote that would have changed the outcome of the election and the small but genuine costs of voting. If (b), then it was rational for leftists to vote for Nader if they had the appropriate expressive preferences or if a civic duty required sincere voting of them, etc. These conditions were met for most Nader voters if they were met for most Gore voters. Hence, (most) Nader voters' vote for Nader was just as rationally defensible as the choices of (most) Gore voters. | <urn:uuid:82c9b4cb-013d-4607-bc00-fa6c00b39f54> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://theoreticallypolitical.blogspot.com/2006/10/voting-sean.html | 2015-07-04T04:59:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096504.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00096-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980469 | 280 |
This is a very cool car and I wouldn’t expect to come from the luxury brand Mercedes-Benz but we see that it happened. I would expect from this car to be a hybrid because this type of cars (big cars – trucks) are one of the biggest problems in the climate change.
As you can see, this is not a hybrid car and at the same time, it is not a luxury car but it is still a cool car because it has a diesel engine and not a gasoline engine which helps this big car to use less fuel and it is also very good at what it was built to do.
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy
by Deepa Kumar
The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy "out there" against which the U.S. supposedly had to go to war to protect itself, from Afghanistan to Iraq.
As George Bush famously put it, "We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here." Or as he stated in his West Point speech in 2002, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats." In short, an endless "war on terror" on the enemy beyond U.S. borders was now justified, according to Bush.
This initiative led to the arrest and harassment of countless innocent Arabs and Muslims across the U.S. as entire communities were put under suspicion, if not criminalized, in the wake of 9/11.
But the backlash against Muslims was even greater in various European nations. European conservatives argued that Muslims were not properly "integrated" into society and therefore susceptible to jihadist propaganda. Liberals and social democrats often echoed these arguments.
This dimension of Islamophobia has now come to the U.S. Over the last eight months, a string of high-profile cases has led to a media furor around "homegrown terrorism." By this, the media are referring not to the Michigan Militia or the Tea Party lunatics, but to a series of cases involving Muslim U.S. citizens or legal residents charged with planning or being involved in terrorist activity.
Whether the media spotlight was planned or accidental, the net result has been a new turn in Islamophobia and the politics of fear that has striking parallels with the Red Scare of the Cold War. Like the Red Scare, this new "Green Scare" (green referring here to Islam, as opposed to environmental activists) also attempts to promote fear and suspicion of our friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
The most virulent expression of this "Green Scare" was articulated by NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan. In a Forbes.com article titled "Going Muslim" published in November 2009, Varadarajan argued that what precipitated the tragedy at Food Hood -- when Major Nidal Hasan turned a gun against his co-workers and killed 13 -- was not the racist harassment that Hasan faced in the Army or the emotionally debilitating nature of being an overworked Army psychiatrist, but rather a condition that he sees as inherent to all Muslims: the tendency towards violence.
He argued that Hasan didn't "go postal" -- that is, break down and become violent, as postal workers have sometimes. Rather, Varadarajan argued, Hasan was simply enacting in a cold and calculated manner the teachings of Islam.
Varadarajan put it this way: "[T]his phrase ['going Muslim'] would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American -- a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood -- discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans."
In short, Varadarajan argues that all Muslim Americans are "imminently violent," and while they appear to be integrated into American society, they are in fact ticking time bombs who will inevitable explode into a violent, murderous rage. Vardarajan builds his case on the actions of Hasan and Najibullah Zazi (the "friendly donut vendor"), who are made to stand in for all American Muslims.
The case of Zazi, an Afghan citizen and U.S. legal resident, who was arrested in September 2009 on charges of conspiracy to use "weapons of mass destruction," received significant media attention.
This was followed by the arrest of David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen arrested a month later for planning an attack on the Danish newspaper that had published racist cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Headley is also believed to have been involved with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani group that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In December 2009, five young men living in Virginia, all U.S. citizens and many born in the U.S., were arrested in Pakistan for having traveled there to work with the Taliban.
The quick succession of these cases and the attention in the news media inaugurated a new lexicon around "homegrown terrorism." The Washington Post was typical: "[T]he arrests came at a time of growing concern about homegrown terrorism after the recent shootings at the Fort Hood, Tex., military base [Hasan] and charges filed this week against a Chicago man [Headley] accused of playing a role in last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai." The groundwork was being laid for the new "Green Scare."
For the Obama administration, these high-profile cases presented the perfect context in which to unveil the escalation of war in Afghanistan. Obama himself led the charge in December 2009, in a speech at West Point:
I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicenter of violent extremism practiced by al-Qaeda. It is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak. This is no idle danger; no hypothetical threat. In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.
Obama's speech doesn't directly refer to "homegrown terrorism." However, it plays on the fear of 9/11 and the threat of terror "coming home" akin to Bush's speeches cited above.
It also relies on the context set by media coverage of the Zazi, Headley, and the Virginia cases, all of which are related to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama's reference to "extremists within our borders" thus adds to the hype about the grave danger that terrorism and "violent extremism" allegedly pose to U.S. citizens. Conveniently, this threat also served to justify sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
The reality, however, flies in the face of this rhetoric. The "threat" to Americans from "global terrorism" is minute, and even this negligible threat has diminished as the number of "terror plots" have declined over the last half a decade. As many experts have noted, there has been a steady and dramatic decline since 2004, with only a slight increase in this overall trend in 2009. Public opinion as well has turned against such activities in Muslim majority countries.
Even Gregory Treverton of the Rand Corporation, a right-wing institution, admitted that the danger posed to Americans by "terrorism" is limited. In a piece that was published in the LA Times he noted that in "the five years after 2001, the number of Americans killed per year in terrorist attacks worldwide was never more than 100, and the toll some years was barely in double figures. Compare that with an average of 63 by tornadoes, 692 in bicycle accidents and 41,616 in motor-vehicle-related accidents." Indeed.
What's more, the State Department's terrorism report released April 2009 states, "Al-Qaeda (AQ) and associated networks continued to lose ground, both structurally and in the court of world public opinion." Nevertheless the report asserts that these organizations "remained the greatest terrorist threat to the United States and its partners in 2008."
What all this reveals is not only the disjuncture between rhetoric and reality, but also the mechanics involved in mobilizing a politics of fear. The end result is a "Green Scare" that serves at least two goals: to justify the existence of draconian measures like those unleashed by the Patriot Act, and to win public support for wars abroad -- not only in Iraq and Afghanistan, but potentially Yemen and beyond.
In short, the new Islamophobia or "Green Scare" functions very similarly to the "Red Scare" of the Cold War, when fear of communism was sufficient to justify the McCarthy witch hunts and the policing of domestic dissent, while winning consent for wars in Korea and Vietnam.
The most sensational media treatment of "homegrown terrorism" was the recent case of "Jihad Jane." If the North Virginia case prompted speculation in the press about why five "normal" young men might be moved to fight with the Taliban, the case of Colleen LaRose -- a white, petite, blond, green-eyed woman -- set off a media frenzy. LaRose, a convert to Islam, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in Europe.
Capturing the flavor of various news media reports, a CNN correspondent concluded that "the indictment of Jihad Jane shatters any thought that we can spot a terrorist just by appearance." Like the reds lurking in our neighborhoods, schools and workplaces, the "greens" like LaRose -- who, we are informed, used to live on Main Street and "blended into" American life -- are the new threat. In covering this story, the mainstream media came close to the kind of arguments advanced by Vardarajan and other right-wing ideologues.
This string of cases also prompted reports like the one from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, released in March 2010. Focusing on Zazi, Headley, and Hasan, as well as the North Virginia cases and others in Minnesota, the report suggests that the U.S. needs to clamp down on "internet radicalization" and continue to "puncture" the "clash of civilizations" narrative which is used by al-Qaeda in its recruitment efforts.
The report approvingly notes that "White House officials already have discarded phrases like 'war on radical Islam.'" Yet, the authors add that such rhetorical gestures are insufficient given the reality of war. The key challenge, the report states, is "how to balance the need to combat global terrorism [read: expand the empire] with the drawbacks of large-scale, direct military intervention [read: large scale casualties and the problems of occupation]."
Indeed, this is the challenge that the Obama administration inherited. While Obama may have dropped the use of phrases like the "war on terror" and mitigated some of the worst Islamophobic rhetoric of the Bush administration, he has continued the project of imperial domination.
Islamophobia is the ideological handmaiden of this project and Obama will wield it when necessary. Lest we forget, when "accused" of being a Muslim during the election campaign he "defended" himself rather than take a principled stance in support of Islam and religious freedom. This moment only strengthened the right's cultural racism and seems to have contributed to the new Islamophobia.
The Red Scare destroyed the lives of many people and created a climate of intimidation and fear. Today, the emerging "Green Scare" has a similar potential. It can, however, be successfully resisted by a left that is able to see beyond the dazzle of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, and expose the project of U.S. imperialism for what it is.
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The North Haven Public School District consists of 6 schools, 4 elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. The 4 elementary schools are: Clintonville Elementary School (located at 456 Clintonville Road), Green Acres Elementary School (located at 146 Upper State Street), Montowese Elementary School (located at 145 Fitch Street) and Ridge Road Elementary School (located at 1341 Ridge Road). The North Haven Middle School is located at 55 Bailey Road, and is adjacent to The North Haven High School, located at 221 Elm Street.
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Today, few sizable tracts of residentially zoned real property exist, as the Town has invested in open space land acquisitions during the past decade. These purchases have kept the home inventory at a virtually constant level, while the demand for residences is very high due to the Town's location, tax rate, services and programs, economy and school system. North Haven is proud to have been included in Money Magazine's top 100 places to live in the USA in 2007. | <urn:uuid:df3ba68a-cde2-438d-b62c-0d4c04e9cd56> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://town.north-haven.ct.us/community/index.php | 2019-05-26T01:46:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258620.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526004917-20190526030917-00231.warc.gz | en | 0.967099 | 292 |
Crabtree Apartments, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands is the longest running vacation rental on Grand Turk. The Janes Family has owned Crabtree Apartments for over 30 years and have run it as a vacation rental property for over 13 years. Check out our “Guest Reviews” page to find out why so many of our guests return again and again.
We are located on the west shore of Grand Turk in a quiet residential area on what many islanders say is one of the best beaches, second only to Governor’s Public Beach. The units are equipped with a comfortable living room/ dining area and fully equipped kitchen, a bath with large tile shower positioned between the 2 bedrooms and a large covered and comfortably furnished veranda. The kitchen is equipped with a refrigerator and freezer, a full range with oven, toaster, blender and coffee maker as well as a few seasonings and basic items. The units are situated side-by-side in a single story building nestled on the beach with amazing views of the sea and breathtaking sunsets. We are located about a 10 minute walk to restaurants and town.
Each unit has parking for 1 vehicle, a charcoal grill, 2 beach chairs to use on the beach, 2 lounge chairs to sun yourself and 2 bicycles.
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The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is growing longer and longer.
In a new ruling issued this month, the High Court ordered the major ISPs, including Sky, BT, TalkTalk, and Virgin, to block access to over a dozen ‘pirate’ streaming sites.
UK Blocklist Expands
The new blocking request was issued following a complaint from the Motion Picture Association Europe (MPA), which acts on behalf of Netflix and several major Hollywood movie studios.
Among the new sites are the popular streaming portals Myflixer.to, Soap2day.to, Lookmovie.io and Moviesjoy.to.
With more than 60 million website visits per month, Soap2day.to is by far the largest target on the list. However, most of the site’s visitors come from the United States, not the UK.
A public copy of the injunction isn’t available yet but an MPA Europe spokesperson confirmed that it’s the requesting party. The High Court issued the injunction on July 1st and ISPs were required to block the sites two weeks later.
19 Streaming Sites
The full list of blocked sites includes 19 domain names, but since it’s a dynamic blocking order, copies and proxies of these sites can also be blocked at the request of the MPA.
Commenting on the injunction, the MPA informs TorrentFreak that it continues to use “no-fault injunctive relief’ to make it harder for the UK public to access pirate sites. Thus far, it’s happy with the results.
“No-fault injunctive relief is an effective way of curbing the spread of online piracy and supporting jobs and growth in the audiovisual sector,” an MPA spokesperson tells us.
Malware and other Threats
Netflix and the major Hollywood studios obviously have a financial interest. However, the MPA stresses that the blocking measures also help to keep the public safe, mentioning potential malware and identity theft threats.
“Piracy harms everyone involved in the creative process – from writers, directors, and producers to cast and crew. It also harms consumers by exposing families to malware, identity theft and fraud.
“We plan to continue working with authorities across the region to implement these and other appropriate legal remedies in support of a safer and healthier online environment,” the MPA tells us.
The MPA is happy with the new blocking injunction and the organization hopes that a similar measure will be available in the US in the future. At the moment, US law already allows courts to issue blocking orders, but “no fault” injunctions, where ISPs are not held liable, are not available.
In the UK, obtaining new blocking orders appears to be little more than a formality at this point. Over the years, hundreds of sites have been blocked, and the number of blocked domains names, which also includes proxies, likely runs in the thousands.
The full list of domain names covered by the latest blocking order are as follows: 1movies.best, azm.to, bflix.to, couchtuners.co, couchtuner.fashion, couchtuner.guru, couchtuner.stream, fmovie.sc, lookmovie.io, moviesjoy.to, myflixer.to, series9.ac, soap2day.to, vidcloud9.com, vumoo.to, watchmovie.movie, watchsomuch.tv, yesmovies.net, and yify-movies.net.
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In most mountain environments, it is an unspoken rule that second homes should blend seamlessly into the landscape, using local stone, rough-hewn timbers and native plants to avoid sticking out like a sore thumb. But at Lahontan, Lake Tahoe's newest and most upscale resort community, the concept is more than a suggestion. It's a strictly enforced requirement that is backed by a 160-page "design book" and a board of reviewers that can be tougher than any government planning agency.
At first, this sounds like an Orwellian nightmare for owners and architects-a bureaucratic straitjacket that stifles freedom of expression and creativity. And more than a few newcomers to this 860-acre development near Northstar-at-Tahoe find themselves at the boiling point after being forced to scrap the third version of their blueprints. Among the long list of no-no's at Lahontan: front-facing garages, flat rooflines, conspicuous skylights, vinyl windows, non-native plants and bold exterior colors. It is almost a capital offense to remove any existing tree that is larger than 4 inches in diameter without getting approval from the design police. And contractors are shaking their heads about a fiat that requires them to re-cover any graded or disturbed soil with pine needles and cones.
And yet, Lahontan has not only managed to thrive-virtually all 509 homesites have been sold at prices ranging from $150,000 to more than $1 million-but it has become an incubator for a new style of alpine architecture that is attracting national and international attention. Leading the charge are two Truckee architects, Greg Faulkner and Scott Ryan, who wrote the fat book of guidelines for the project and designed several of its homes and common buildings. Both men strive to have their work embody a sense of honesty, with no artificial timbers covering metal beams, and to reflect the spirit of the early 20th century Arts-and-Crafts movement led by innovators Bernard Maybeck and Frank Lloyd Wright. These new/old homes impart a rustic look, but in a contemporary way, and they make liberal use of unconventional building materials.
"Our vision was to make the environment, not the buildings, the primary focus of the community," says Keith Franke, Lahontan's design review administrator. "We've used historical precedents to provide a continuous reference, but we certainly encourage fresh perspectives and cutting-edge designs," he says. "We're not looking for cutesy, cottage-style mountain homes of the Twenties and Thirties, nor are we looking for the kind of river-rock-and-log accents that have been so overdone lately."
Faulkner and Ryan, who were partners when Lahontan opened in 1997 but now maintain separate practices, say they strive for that most elusive quality-timelessness. "The worst thing that could happen would be for someone 10 or 15 years from now to see these homes and say, 'Oh, that's such a Nineties look,'" Ryan says. He grimaces at granite countertops, cherrywood cabinets, stone wainscotting, wall-to-wall carpeting, polished marble, Mica lamps and fixtures, and just about anything else that you might see at Home Depot, Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware. In short, cliches be damned.
So what replaces them? The new wave of thinking includes these concepts:
Instead of large, ponderous mansions with overwhelming facades, strive for the small-scale look by creating a meandering, rather than a tightly condensed, floor plan. The house can be U-shaped to surround boulders and trees, or it can have pods of living space connected with walkways and separated by courtyards.
Use moss- and lichen-covered, indigenous rock for exterior accents, rather than freshly cut stone that is imported from elsewhere. The new buzz in design circles is "to be vernacular"-or native.
Windows, so critical to the appearance of a home, should appear as if they are carefully designed into the façade rather than punched into it. Wood or metal trim and components worrk best.
Instead of slate, tile or granite floors and walkways, use board-formed concrete that can be stained to give it an aged appearance. With new, in-floor radiant heating systems, concrete need not be a "cold" material.
Rather than clean-milled wood, use reclaimed or deconstructed lumber, such as barnwood, or even logs with the bark left on them for vertical accents such as porch columns. That way, they blend more closely with surrounding trees.
Forget traditional wood shingles for the roof. Look at using corrugated metal that rusts or develops a "patina." Other materials might include oversized, cut-tile pavers like those used for patios, sidewalks and balconies.
Metal, metal everywhere. Interiors can have raw, blue-steel kitchen countertops, aged metal floors, weathered copper door paneling and even steel-coated fireplace shrouds. The operative word is "raw," which replaces the old Eighties look of polished brass or aluminum.
Can't give up on wood interiors? At least give up on oak and old-growth redwood (which isn't politically correct, anyway) and substitute imperfect woods-those with knots and other irregularities-such as mesquite and hickory, which have character. If you still insist on clean woods, consider a vertical-grain fir, which can impart subdued Scandinavian or Asian influences.
For floors, mix and match a variety of materials, including cork, slate, wood, concrete and metal. Extremely dark woods and, of course, those once trendy bleached woods, are out of style.
Sheet rock, perhaps the most ubiquitous element of suburban tract homes, should be used sparingly, if at all, for walls. Formed concrete, stressed or deconstructed timber, or metal siding create more interest and texture.
Don't be obsessed with maxing out the square footage. Live with less space-most homes at Lahontan range from 3,500 feet to 4,000 feet-and utilize it better. (Building costs typically range from $300 to $600 a foot, and homes are limited to 6,000 square feet.) For several years, Faulkner and Ryan have been embracing these concepts in projects around Truckee and North Lake Tahoe. But Lahontan, with its idyllic location in Martis Valley, its 18-hole Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course and its close proximity to Northstar, has become something of a showcase for their best work. As such, it has drawn a parade of planners, developers and builders for site inspections. One of Faulkner's designs, a 4,100-square-foot home that is wrapped around a volcanic basalt outcropping and large Jeffery pine trees, recently won a residential design award from the American Institute of Architects.At Lahontan, selling clients on what may seem to be radical concepts is often more challenging than selling the review board. "It's an educational process to have them accept a low-profile and understated design," says Kurt Reinkens, another Truckee architect who has designed some 40 homes at Lahontan. Property owners, who range from captains of industry to sports figures, are not exactly known for understated personalities or modest net worth. "It's a stretch for some of them to put aside the 'Look at Me' philosophy, but ultimately most of them understand the aesthetic value of having their homes disappear into the fabric of the forest," he says. "We like to say that you don't build a house here; you surgically implant it."INFORMATION
Faulkner Architects, 12242 Business Park Drive, #18, Truckee, CA 96161; phone 530-582-7400. Website: www.faulknerarchitects.net.
Ryan Group Architects, 10185 Truckee Airport Road, #200, Truckee, CA 96161; phone 530-587-3800. Website: www.ryangroup.net.
Kurt Reinkens, MWA Architects, 10118 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA 96161; phone 530-587-6257.
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The Date and Time: Monday January 29, 2018 6:15 - 10PM
The Event: annual dinner of the Wine Writers' Circle of Canada
The Venue: Mad Crush Wine Bar, College Street
The Target Audience: members of the WWCC and their guests, all set to try out the new Mad Crush (Jamieson Kerr's new spin on his former Crush Wine Bar). We are grateful for their setup, service, and no charge for corkage!
The Wines: 14 different wines were on show
Reception wines: 13th Street bubbly VQA
Creekside 2016 Sauvignon Blanc bubbly VQA
Colio Lily Rose VQA Ontario bubbly
Dinner wines from members:
–- Alkoomi 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Frankland River, Western Australia
-- Domaine de Bachellery 2007 Pays D'Oc Grenache fut de chene
-- Fabre Montmayou 2013 Gran Riserva Malbec
–- Chateau Marquis D'Alesme Grand Cru Classe, AC Margaux 2005.
-- 2016 Henry of Pelham Estate Chardonnay
-- 2012 Legends Estates Petit Verdot.
-– Quinta da Jardinete Merlot/Aragonez 2010 Azores (Portugal; not available in Canada)
-- Fresh Sparkling Rose Gamay/Riesling VQA Ontario (April) -- -- Novas Cabernet Sauvignon/Carmenere Chile LCBO #434662
-- Magnotta Blanc de Blancs Sparkling VQA ( Winery and Magnotta Stores)
-- 1987 Inniskillin Heuriger Nouveau (made by Karl Kaiser).
The Food: we began with a series of hors d'oeuvre which went perfectly well with the sparklers. And then we continued with a choice of apps, mains and dessert. I had the sweetbreads and the lamb and the cheese, and samples of all the wines.
Truffled Pecorino Potatoes
Roast Cauliflower Cakes & Pomegranate
Fried Salt Cod & Green Peppercorns
Winter Parsley Root Puree
Maple-Aleppo Glaze Crispy Sweetbreads [not too sweet]
Harrissa Spiced Raw Kale Salad
Bourguignon Canadian Beef Port Steak
With Confit Garlic Pomme Purée
Pappardelle & Wild Mushrooms
With Grey Owl & Roast Walnuts
Slow Charcoal Roast Leg of Canadian Lamb
With Aubergine & Chevre Melktert
Apple Tarte Tatin & Ice Cream
Cheese & Biscuits
The Downside: the night of a big snow storm that eventually petered out.
The Upside: a chance to break bread with wine-writing colleagues and with nobody from the trade around.
The Contact Person: firstname.lastname@example.org
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How coronavirus exposes the Chinese state
Published by The i paper (10th February, 2020)
Among those attending the global elite’s annual get together in Davos last month was a Singaporean professor and former president of the United Nations Security Council called Kishore Mahbubani. He was pushing his new book called Has China Won?, an analysis of Beijing’s threat to the United States. It claims that China will win their superpower tussle since it is, supposedly, some kind of noble meritocracy rather than a nasty plutocracy, patiently advancing while placing an emphasis not on freedom, like America, but on freedom from chaos.
China’s rise has been rapid and impressive. But it has not yet won the fight for planetary supremacy and has been stumbling recently in its great march forward. Its economy has slowed, its population is ageing fast – intensified by vile restrictions on the basic human right to have children – and it has become embroiled in a trade war with Washington. Beijing’s barbaric repression of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang sparked increasingly fierce international outcry just as it faced serious challenges to its authority in both Hong Kong and Taiwan and there was growing concern over its abuse of technological advances.
Now comes a struggle to contain the outbreak of coronavirus, which has convulsed the country with factories closed, flights grounded and people told to stay at home. This potential pandemic exposes the flaws in China’s dictatorial system and its corrosive lack of freedom – and no-one displays this better than a local doctor who became a dissident for doing his duty.
Li Wenliang was an obscure ophthalmologist in Wuhan who warned his students about hygiene precautions after learning of seven cases of a virus from a local fruit and seafood market. When these messages were shared and went viral, he was summoned to a police station and forced to sign a statement denouncing his ‘misdemeanour’ in spreading false rumours.
As fears grew over the virus and word spread about how the authorities behaved towards him, Li became a hero in his homeland. It took the government three more weeks to acknowledge the risks, ordering the lockdown in Wuhan. “If the officials had disclosed information about the epidemic earlier it would have been a lot better,” said Li. “There should be more openness and transparency.”
Any public health expert would agree with his words. Yet such ideas are deemed incendiary by the country’s Communist Party chiefs, even if the consequences are fatal to some fellow citizens. There is nothing new about Chinese whistleblowers being hounded for exposing malfeasance. One of the most infamous cases involved two more doctors, a pair of brave women who defied the authorities more than two decades ago to expose an Aids epidemic in a poor rural province, only to be forced into exile.
Since Xi Jinping became president in 2013 the party has ratcheted up control of China’s 1.4 billion citizens. There have been new laws to stop the spreading of ‘rumours’ – whether true or not – and increased use of technology to stifle free speech. Last week, Li joined the lengthening list of coronavirus fatalities. He was 34 years old and about to become a father for the second time.
The government, panicked by mounting public backlash, mishandled news of his death. It has tried to control the narrative, sending 300 officials to Wuhan to push propaganda while frantically deleting online criticism and detaining activists. Their efforts were overwhelmed as millions of posts flooded social media paying tribute to the doctor, accusing the state of concealing information, posting videos of corpses in the streets and demanding freedom of speech. Even some state officials joined the online insurgency. Once again we see that even the thickest walls cannot stem the flow of information in a digital age.
The death of this ‘regular guy’ made to apologise for doing the right thing has shaken the mighty Chinese state. He has been compared by analysts to that heroic lone figure who stood before a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests. China’s highest court said he and other whistleblowing medics should not have been punished in a rare public rebuke for the authorities.
The government, caught off guard, responded to the public outpouring of anger by sending a team to investigate ‘issues related to Dr Li that were reported by the public.’ Even Global Times, a slavish pro-government tabloid, paid a tribute to Li.
Xi, the most dominant leader of China since Mao Zedong, has vowed the “devil virus” will be beaten – but the state media, which routinely hails his guidance of the nation as it builds his cult of personality, has stopped saying the president was personally directing the battle. This demonstrates the threat the virus poses to his authority as a public health panic turns into profound political crisis. For these tumultuous events show again – like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – the risks of a centralised and overbearing state that permits no dissent.
Since Xi took power there has been a crackdown on efforts to probe public officials. As he himself has said, the outbreak is “a major test of China’s system and capacity for governance”. The flip side of such control is a new hospital, built in ten days to treat coronavirus. Yet as this virus spreads around the world, it reminds us how globalisation is an irresistible force for all the hollow talk of nationalists. The impact is felt by British luxury brands, European tourism and Japanese car makers, showing the intertwined nature of our modern world.
Above all, coronavirus exposes an inherent weakness of the Chinese model of autocracy, with its offer of prosperity and freedom from chaos in return for rigid control of speech and political space. No doubt some officials will be blamed for failure, promises will be made of reform and Xi will make every effort to strengthen his grip. But as Li told a Chinese magazine shortly before his death: “A healthy society should not only have one kind of voice.” | <urn:uuid:ea039149-59f6-49ee-80f1-31b52d005630> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://www.ianbirrell.com/how-coronavirus-exposes-the-chinese-state/ | 2020-11-27T06:30:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141189141.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20201127044624-20201127074624-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.970724 | 1,251 |
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I can create a text box and set the font size like so:
heading_tb = tex box("Some text");
heading_tb << set font size(30);
Next I send the text box to the journal and save the journal, and save it again as html:
heading_tb << journal();
Current Journal() << Save Journal(savePath || "fileName.jrn");
Current Journal() << Save HTML(savePath || "fileName.html");
When you look at the Journal file, the font size change is there, but in the HTML file, the font size reverts to a default size.
Does anyone understand why this is happening, or how to have control of display settings in the HTML output?
I have the same problem. I solved it by importing my own CSS into html file by editing it at Dreamweaver.
It is time consuming so I left doing it.
One thing I would like to ask if R&D Team is reading this discussion:
Could I edit the html engine of JMP? So each html output (interactive) will have the settings I prefer (CSS).
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My Views on the Role of Journalism
I have been a photojournalist for nearly three decades. To me, true photojournalism is the documentation of an event, or situation, with a camera and accompanying text. The excitement of the story and the ability to bring new light to little-known accounts of our everyday life fuels this desire in me. However, the adrenaline rush of covering breaking news is the ultimate buzz, especially if there is danger or risk involved, such as in a riot situation, or war zone coverage. The road of freelance journalism and the ability to keep the rent paid and food on the table has been a long and rocky relationship for me personally, as I tend not to run with the herd, or the in-crowd.
The face of journalism is rapidly changing. As the media giants merge, and become more powerful, the independent voice is being reduced. Many media organizations are now used (and perhaps always have been) as podiums for special interest groups, politicians and lobbyists. Should we lose the independent voice in media, we will lose the medium that we once respected and relied upon.
Our job, as journalists, is to inform the uninformed and become a bridge to the truth; a real accounting. It is part of the advancement of our civilization, and the fewer independent voices it has, the further we regress towards ignorance. The journalist is not the news – he/she is just the messenger, and this should never be forgotten. A good journalist has a great thirst for life, and an even greater thirst to inform by the use of the truth and exposure.
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What is the buyer knows, the seller knows but the user doesn’t know? Which is correct: 18 plus 19 is 36. Three women on swimwear, two of them are sad but they are smiling, one of them is happy but she is crying. (You know, those combined words, like sunflower [sun and flower] or moonlight [moon and light] or railroad [rail and road]). Organize a romantic date night with your bae and make it even more romantic by asking him some of these riddles. 1816 has 3 closed areas (top and bottom of 8 and bottom of 6, and it has 2 other digits (3 * 2 = 6)). Each rung is one foot apart. A man is found hanging dead from the ceiling of a room. No one is lying – Robert has 3 sisters who all happen to be doctors. One of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. 9999 has 4 closed areas (the top of the ‘9’).8888 has 8 closed areas (the top and bottom parts of 8 and there are no other digits). An chist? There is a single-story blue house and everything is blue, the doors are blue, the windows are blue and the TV is blue.
A shortened version would be this man’s father is myself, so he is the father of the man in the picture. Was läuft morgens auf 4 Beinen, Mittags auf 2 Beinen und Abends auf 3 Beinen? The room with the lions because the lions are already dead. This is the place for the best riddles and answers in the world. Why is nothing being done about this chemical? Gwam gwam gwam, gwam ihe si na ala kuru mmiri jee na elu? Whether you’re a riddle wizard or a newb we have the best riddles with answers all in one place. To éxo-éxo petiétai kai to ypóloipo mageirévetai.Metá to éxo-éxo trógetai kai to ypóloipo petiétai. Yes, we do. It appears we couldn't match any samoan ruddl riddles or puzzles in out database.
What is it? The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. I have dense forests, but no trees and animals. Each of his daughters has a brother. NOTE: All non-English riddles have English translation.
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Our funny riddles will provide mind engaging fun for all ages. Solving Samoan Ruddl Ri Riddles Here we've provide a compiled a list of the best samoan ruddl ri puzzles and riddles to solve we could find. Therefore the other father is both a son and a father to the grandson. Test your IQ with our online brain game, puzzles, math games and quizzes, brain games, and more! A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. However, once a person's body becomes dependent on this chemical, prolonged separation from this chemical can cause death. A man is looking at a picture of a man on the wall and states, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is the man in the picture in relation to the man looking at the picture? A murderer is condemned to death. However, even though many people know of this chemical, and it is found in nearly every drinking source, nothing is being done to try to get rid of it. Iosefa, Alaiseā Fa'alafi. The word is starting! Goodenow, Joy L. National Dissemination and Assessment Center, Los Angeles Published Wonder wonder, what would it be? Answer: not equally valued. 1212 has 0 closed areas, (0 * 4 = 0). Go first and say the following: “I can bring a kitten through the Green Glass Door, but I cannot bring a cat.”. 50+ Best Hard Riddles (With Answers) That’ll Stump You By January Nelson Updated August 25, 2020. What is long and hard ... has no end and no beginning? | <urn:uuid:35f2c38d-6c2b-45ee-a175-e0223b5de341> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://jadeite.co.in/journal/fbu0jlf.php?page=67a458-samoan-riddles-with-answers | 2022-05-16T08:57:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662510097.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516073101-20220516103101-00028.warc.gz | en | 0.93578 | 3,068 |
ETMD: consequential amendments within TCGA 1992: - section 179 shares
Shares are a class of asset consequently a degrouping charge under TCGA 1992 section 179 can arise in the same terms as described at CG45738 above.
In relation to the ETMD shares can be transferred in two different ways, either as part of a transfer of business to which section 140A or C applies, or as part of a merger to which section 140E can apply.
An example of where section 140A or C could apply is where the G group consists of companies G, H, K, L, M and N and ten other subsidiaries. In year 1 G transfers the shares in company K to company H. In year 2 company G transfers part of its business, namely the shares in company H, to company W, a French resident company. The conditions within section 140A are met. Company H has left the G group taking with it assets that it acquired from another company when it was a member of a group, the shares in company K, consequently a degrouping charge could arise under section 179.
However, section 179(1AA)(a) will prevent this from happening. Under that section if shares are included in a transfer to which either section 140A or C will apply, and as a consequence that would have given rise to a degrouping charge under section 179 then the company which left the group taking with it the shares is treated as not having left the group.
Section 179(1AA)(b) provides for a stand in shoe provision if the transferee is a member of a group, group 2 and the company whose shares have been transferred becomes a member of that group. Then the group that the company left, group 1, and the group that it joined, group 2, will be treated as the same group. Therefore under section 179(1AA)(b) there is still the potential for section 179 to arise on a future event involving the shares in question.
To put this in terms of the example when company H leaves the G group, group 1, taking with it the shares in company K section 179(1AA)(a) prevents a degrouping charge arising at that time of the transfer within section 140A. Companies H and W form group 2. If say one year after the transfer, and so within six years of the original transfer from G to H, company H were to leave group 2 then there would be a chargeable occasion, namely a degrouping charge, within section 179. If company H did not remain resident within the UK at the time of the transfer then the charge could still arise on that company when it leaves the W group within section 10B, see CG42100+.
It could be that shares are transferred by of a merger to which section 140E would apply. Using the same example as above in year one company G transfers to company L the shares in company N. In year 2 company L is merged with company Q, a French resident company. At the time of the merger L ceases to exist so it is no longer a member of the G group. The shares in company N are included in the assets transferred to company Q and those two facts mean that a degrouping charge would arise under section 179. Section 179(1B)(b) prevents this from happening.
Under section 179(1B)(a) where assets are transferred to a transferee within section 140E then a company which has ceased to exist will not be treated as having left a group. In terms of the example group 1 would be the G group.
Section 179(1C) ensures that where section 179(1B) is in point then the potential for a degrouping charge can still arise dependent on future events. Section 179(1C)(a) provides that the company which ceases to exist and the transferee company are to be treated as the same entity. The transferee company being the company to which the assets are transferred and included in those assets there are assets which would have given rise to the degrouping charge at the time of the merger.
Section 179(1C)(b) provides that if the transferee is a member of a group, group 2, then a company that was a member of group 1 and as a consequence of the merger becomes a member of group 2 is to be treated as the same. That rule applies irrespective of the fact that the transferee is the principal company of the group 2.
In terms of the example what this means is that company L and company Q are treated as the same entity. If company Q is a member of a group then that will be group 2. If say two years after the merger company Q left group 2 then a degrouping charge would arise on company Q on the shares in company N that were originally transferred to company L from company G. Although company Q is not a UK resident company the assets transferred to it must remain within the charge to UK tax under section 10B, see CG42100+, otherwise section 140E could never have applied to the merger. Consequently the degrouping charge can be collected by way of section 10B.
Section 179(1D) provides that references to transferor and transferee within section 179(1B) and (1C) have the same meaning as those within section 140E(9).
Note: The exemption for substantial shareholdings with Schedule 7AC can have no impact where section 140A or E is in point. Schedule 7AC paragraph 6 provides that the exemptions conferred by the schedule do not apply where the no gain no loss rule applies and that is what happens when section 140A or E applies. Paragraph 39 of schedule 7AC provides for particular treatment in relation to the schedule where section 179(3) is in point and the asset involved is shares. However where section 140A or E is in point and either sections 179(1AA) or (1B) are also in point there is no degrouping event then section 179(3) has no application consequently paragraph 39 of Schedule 7AC does not apply. | <urn:uuid:c25b0e5a-6c05-44e5-9aab-c8562e7eed9b> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/capital-gains-manual/cg45739 | 2018-03-21T20:59:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647692.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321195830-20180321215830-00090.warc.gz | en | 0.966299 | 1,244 |
Dogs are naturally sociable animals, and in the wild will usually form packs.
There are all sorts of negative connotations of 'packs of dogs' as dangerous and noisy, but they are in fact relatively calm and social structures.
It's healthy for your dog to interact with his own kind and it's important for every dog to have the opportunity to "speak dog" regularly.
Most doggy clients integrate nicely into our carefully organised packs, and play happily all day. You'll find that after a day with us your dog will have had so much fun that he'll be so tired out he won't even need to be walked.
Call us on 01903 741713 to find out more.
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During the day your dog will be introduced carefully and patiently to a range of other dogs with the intention of ending up in the main arena where he will be sure to make lots of friends and get plenty of exercise. We take time to build up your dog’s confidence, making sure he feels comfortable at all times.
Not all dogs possess good social skills but all dogs do have the ability to learn how to socialise and interact appropriately. If your dog does not get along with other dogs, please speak to the behaviour team as with the proper training most dogs can overcome this problem. We feel it’s important for your dog to be able to socialise and communicate well with other dogs as a human can never provide the same companionship as another dog.
If there is a reason why you do not want your dog to socialise, we can still look after your dog and provide superior care. We will carefully select an appropriate dog for him or her to play with away from the main pack, or one of the team can keep your dog company during his visit.
Your dog will be able to play and socialise for the duration of his stay. We don’t confine ANY dog and ensure they all receive an appropriate amount of exercise.
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Training & Behaviour
Our fully qualified team are able to offer expert training and behavioural help.
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Bundles do not expire
Bundles can be used for full and half days
Bundles must be paid for in advance (or on the first visit)
Behaviour residential days include a written report and a hand back session.
Home visits include travel expenses (within 15 miles of our centres).
Our original centre and the very first dog day care centre in the UK; This out of town centre boasts an enrichment garden and a highly qualified team.
We are delighted to be Finalists for The National Dog Day Care of the Year 2018.
Unit 19, Robell Way
Water Lane Trading Estate
West Sussex RH20 3DW
T: 01903 741713
Opened in 2018 in Crawley Town Centre, we have a fully qualified team and webcams in every room.
with Pets Corner
Crawley RH10 1TG
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I am just in the thinking stage. I have tons of ideas swirling around my head. I have not even written out a mission statement or a to-do list. But here are my thoughts...in the raw.
My family has been blessed. Blessed in many ways; good health, financial peace and with the adoption of Max 6 years ago. This brings us to my next thoughts. With many blessings come a greater responsibility to give back. So, in addition to tithing, I want to establish a non-profit organization that gives grants (money) to families who are going through the expense of adoption.
I know what I WANT to do: Give money away to families incurring adoption expenses. Now I have to figure out HOW to do it.
Please pray for this idea. I need to incorporate, file for tax-exempt, appoint board members, establish guidelines...OK, this is where I get overwhelmed.
If anyone reading this has any tips or suggestions for moving my thoughts into a reality of giving, please email me or leave me a comment.
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I’ve written many times before about the bias against outbound marketing by those who sell inbound marketing products and services. But a recent survey of 1000 IT executives should serve as a wake-up call to companies who choose to ignore traditional outbound marketing techniques like cold calling, emails, and print ads for generating sales leads.
- 60% of IT executives said outbound calls or emails have led to an IT vendor’s offering being evaluated
- 75% said they’d decided to attend an event or take an appointment after receiving a cold call or email
Long before HubSpot CEO and founder Brian Halligan coined the phrase inbound marketing, Yellow Pages companies contrasted the difference between inbound and outbound marketing as creative vs. directional advertising:
Creative Advertising: “The Seller Seeking a Buyer”
Anything we consider to be outbound marketing is creative advertising: cold calling, direct mail, email, and traditional media like television, radio and outdoor advertising.
Directional Advertising: “The Buyer Seeking a Seller”
Back in the day, Yellow Pages was the only form of inbound marketing. Companies who sold Yellow Page advertising emphasized the difference in order to make a point: that small businesses needed to do both. A number of studies demonstrated how advertising in the Yellow Pages increased the effectiveness of a company’s outbound efforts. I don’t imagine that’s changed.
Here’s a short list of outbound marketing strategies to consider implementing right away.
A cold call is nothing more than an attempt to initiate a business relationship. Anyone who’s annoyed or “not interested” isn’t the right person. Remember, the right person will be receptive to your call, because he or she has a need you can fill.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to cold call. Here’s a link to point you in the right direction:
Cold canvassing is simply door-to-door cold calling. Why would anyone resort to such an outdated, ineffective method of generating leads? Because it works. My cousin built his company from the ground up using no other marketing than cold canvassing. Over 90 percent of my company’s prospecting is cold canvassing. It even sustained us through “the Great Recession.”
LinkedIn is the only social media platform where overt prospecting is considered somewhat acceptable. The key is having a clear understanding of who your client is—or targeting specific verticals. Here are two articles to get you started.
Email marketing is one of those marketing strategies I’m skeptical about because of my own behavior, but I’ve heard studies showing conversion rates of 12 percent or more. If you choose to market with email, I suggest you go the opt-in route, rather than sending unsolicited emails. (The disclaimer at the bottom of the SPAM email I received, explaining how it’s really not SPAM, doesn’t convince me not to hit ‘delete.’)
Email isn’t your only option. When everyone was jumping on email marketing, I wanted to stand out amongst the clutter. So I mailed a full-color, single-sided newsletter, printed off my inkjet. It landed me more than one client.
I don’t considered trade shows to be outbound marketing, since prospects voluntarily attend the event. But since it tends to be included in a list of “ineffective marketing strategies,” I’m including it here.
Small businesses-themed and industry-specific trade shows can be an effective way to meet business owners and decision-makers, even if you just walk the floor as an attendee.
Base Your Marketing on Real Data, not Anecdotal Evidence
According to Google, television is the biggest driver of online search. Yet, how can that be if even 10-year-olds aren’t watching TV commercials? Do you know how many articles I’ve read from SEO “experts” whose only evidence against Yellow Page advertising is to ask “when was the last time you used it?”
It’s dangerous to base your marketing strategy on anecdotal evidence or your own behavior, because there’s always someone with a different story or experience.
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