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THE POWER OF INTENTION AND YOUR BEAUTY ROUTINE
4 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVE THE DAILY PRACTICE OF SELF CARE.
With the stress of our times, our skincare routine should be a time to recharge and indulge in self-love. This personal time allows us to meditate on our daily intentions and the power of skincare as a self-care ritual; dedicating this alone time to focus on yourself and the beauty within. We have 4 simple steps to turn your skincare routine into a rewarding self-care ritual.
1. A QUIET + CLEAN SPACE
Ensuring you have a safe space to perform your skincare routine is essential. Whatever space you choose, we recommend you spend this 20-minute session alone and in a clean organized space. It is said that the visual cortex can be overwhelmed by task-irrelevant objects, making it harder to allocate attention and complete tasks efficiently. Science has proven that a clean, organized space is a powerful stress reliever and allows people to feel more comfortable.
Why do we love organization?
The human body is made up of tens of thousands of integrated biological and neurochemical systems, all of which are organized. Many of our cells operate on strict schedules or circadian rhythms. Even at the atomic level, we are well-regulated and well-organized. Without this organization, our bodies would collapse into chaos.
2. POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS
We translate thoughts into words and words into actions to manifest intentions. This means our words are very powerful and we should be careful with which we choose to speak, seeking out words which help us work towards our highest good. Affirmations help us keep our thoughts pure and restructure our brains so we begin to truly believe what we speak is truth. The word affirmation comes from the Latin affirmare, originally meaning “to make steady, strengthen.”
Thoughts = Speech = Actions, so starting the day with positive affirmations or setting your personal mantra is essential. Starting with 3 simple affirmations will begin to train your mind to focus on the good. As this becomes part of your daily self-care routine you can continue to add more positive affirmations to the list.
- Today, I am full of energy + overflowing with joy
- My body is healthy; my skin is glowing; my soul is peaceful.
- I have been given endless talents + today I begin to utilize them
3. CRYSTALS + CLEAN BEAUTY PRODUCTS
The VIBERANCE Team believes in the power of beauty and that all people have been gifted the opportunity to express it. Founded on the principle beauty comes from within and is inspired by nature. Crystals are closely connected with nature and were formed + raised in the earth. Used for ages, crystals help alleviate ailments and promote vibrant-, healthier- and more youthful-looking skin.
It is widely believed crystals vibrate at the same pitch as humans – such that the resonance between the stone and human can either combat the vibration of illness or amplify that of health. Think of using crystals as just another natural way to help yourself + others.
People question crystals healing powers, and while there are many anecdotes describing the curative effects of healing stones, it ultimately depends on personal beliefs + experiences.
To open your heart and mind to the benefits + healing power of crystals, it will take a conscious effort. Once you begin to harness their powerful energy for both mind + skin, these unique and mysterious crystals will expand your world.
The VIBERANCE Crystal-Infused Beauty + Wellness Collection was born as an act of love and self-expression, two of the most powerful gifts humans are given. Each formula and ethically sourced crystal are made with these intentions, in the hopes that people will use VIBEBRANCE products to manifest pure intentions, raise vibrations and express their true inner beauty.
4. CONSISTENCY IS KEY
While all these steps are key in changing your skincare routine into a self-care routine, it is equally important to not skip any steps within your beauty regimen. It’s best for your skin to cleanse, tone, treat, moisturize and hydrate your skin on a regular basis.
We recommend the following simple 4 steps to dewy skin, self-care morning ritual using VIBERANCE crystal-infused products.
1. TONE: NU GLOW – GREEN AVENTURINE GENTLE EXFOLIATING TONER
Uncover your inner glow with NU GLOW Gentle Exfoliating Toner. Infused with Green Aventurine, AHA, Witch Hazel and Cucumber this vegan exfoliating toner helps deep cleanse, polish away imperfections and improve skin’s tone + texture.
USE: To apply press down on pump with a cotton round 2 – 3 times or until saturated. Swipe onto clean, dry skin, over face + neck, avoiding eye area. SHAKE WELL BEFORE USE. Use morning and evening.
GREEN AVENTURINE CRYSTAL: may help to
>> Remove energy blockages
>> Calm energy + soothe irritation
>> Promote a feeling of well-being
2. TREAT: CHERISH – ROSE QUARTZ UPLIFTING EYE CRÈME
Embrace self-love with CHERISH Uplifting Eye Crème. Infused with Rose Quartz, plant-based Collagen, Acerola Cherry and Jojoba Oil this vegan anti-aging eye crème protects and perfects the appearance of fine lines + wrinkles for younger-looking skin.
USE: To apply CHERISH Eye Crème, take a small pearl-size amount and dot around eye area from the inner corner to the brow bone with fingertip. Using ring finger, gently pat the crème into skin working upwards + outwards. Use morning and evening
ROSE QUARTZ CRYSTAL: may help to
>> Promote love + self-love
>> Promote harmony + healing vibrations
>> Replaces toxic emotions + blockages
3. MOISTURIZE: RADIANCE – AMETHYST HYDRATION RICH CRÈME
Get the perfect hydrated glow with RADIANCE Amethyst Hydration Rich Crème. Infused with Amethyst, Ginseng, Rosehip Oil and Lavender this plumping vegan crème helps improve moisture + collagen levels for the perfect dewy glow.
USE: To apply RADIANCE Crème, take two pearl-size amounts and place on 4 points of the face (each cheek, forehead and chin). Massage with gentle pressure in circular motions onto face and neck using upward strokes. Use daily.
AMETHYST CRYSTAL: may help to
>> Dissolve toxic energy + negativity
>> Activate spiritual awareness
>> Relieve strain + balance mood
4. MIST: THRIVE – CITRINE REVITALIZING MIST
Manifest abundance with THRIVE CITRINE REVITALIZING MIST. Infused with Citrine Crystal, Pro-Vitamin B5, Rose Water and Witch Hazel this revitalizing face mist helps keep skin soft, smooth + healthy-looking. The toning face mist can be used anytime throughout the day to revive skin or after stressful events to help release negative energies + leave skin dewy and refreshed.
USE: To apply THRIVE Mist, close eyes and hold 6 – 8 inches from face while slowly pressing 2 – 3 pumps onto skin. SHAKE WELL BEFORE USE. Use daily to hydrate or over makeup for a dewy finish. THRIVE Mist can also be used throughout the day to help release negative energies or cool complexion after stressful events.
CITRINE CRYSTAL: may help to
>> Manifest abundance
>> Activate self-expression
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Zen King Size Cig Roller
Zen King Size Cig Roller is designed to be hand-held rather than used on the ground or table as in the past; they are already famous at the store here. We've seen some of the best, thinnest, most durable sticks made with this classic item. They attach and fit into any pocket and seem invasive enough to cause damage even when sitting. Many people who do handlooms are very proud of their artistic skills, which is a part of their enjoyment. These mats will create a new crowd of magicians who will dazzle and delight their friends with their talent with this simple little tool. Zen King Size Cig Roller is a style joint or a classic cone. We all try to roll out the full-size joint. Not only do pearl joints look good, but they are more evenly than their elbow counterparts.
There are several precautions to take this Zen King size Cig roller provides an excellent cylinder in which stuff can be easily attached. The splinter establishes the standard shape and size of the joint, providing a stable area to support the joint while aligning the joint. There are many great ways to use it. First, the ground groove should be evenly arranged in a trough of rolling paper. If the joint is not evenly distributed on the paper before rolling, the process of molding the common to the desired shape will be significantly more difficult. If you are trying to move the pineapple, the earthen pot shown at the top of the picture should be on paper. Alternatively, if you prefer cone pairs, keep rolling the paper between your fingers once you have completed the pairing until the nearest flap is oriented, as described above. Note that the angle at which the joint is rotated depends on the desired shape.
These final moves will seal the paper's cylindrical shape and determine how tightly the joint is wrapped. The more complex the roll, the slower and smoother the joint will burn. The tick should be started with a crutch, which focuses on removing all the slack in the rolling paper for a narrow roll. Once the flap is ticked, keep rolling. At this point, the joint should be wrapped chiefly, and now it's time to lick the glue strip and put it down. Some find it easier to lick glue on the first half of the paper and keep it down before licking and sticking to the other half. This is a kind Zen King size Cig roller, designed and patented by Futurology Amsterdam, to quickly and easily roll a perfectly cone-shaped cig. Sometimes, rolling a slow-burning Zen King size sealing roller is as easy as choosing the right product and preparing it correctly. But sometimes, you can introduce other products such as honey or pieces to slow down the burning rate of your joints. | <urn:uuid:70a238d0-24e2-49fa-8003-6bb969d0dd31> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://globalglasspipes.com/zen-king-size-cig-roller | 2022-10-01T02:25:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335514.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001003954-20221001033954-00310.warc.gz | en | 0.956238 | 560 |
The Illness of Antiochus by Jean Ingres.
The Illness of Antiochus or Stratonice and Antiochus is an 1840 painting by the French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father summons a doctor. Noticing that the sight of the young woman quickens Antiochus’s pulse and that passion causes his sickness, the doctor describes the youth’s predicament to his father. The subject, both a love story and an example of parental devotion, enjoyed considerable popularity well into the 1800s. | <urn:uuid:22395c97-1255-417f-b6c5-1a1f54c17705> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.medicalphilately.com/the-illness-of-antiochus-by-injes | 2022-05-21T19:05:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662540268.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220521174536-20220521204536-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.933399 | 124 |
While you can technically run anywhere and choose how much you want to challenge yourself, if you want to continue to develop your trail running abilities, it’s important to find ways to learn new techniques and improve your skills.
Joining a running club, becoming a member of a trail running organisation, or attending a running event can be a great way to improve your ability level.
Use this guide to find out how you can learn more about trail running.
A quick internet search will connect you with a local trail running club and provide details on where and how regularly they meet.
Joining a running club is a great way to try trail running as you’ll have the opportunity to network and meet with other people who are passionate about the sport.
You never know, you may also find a friend and running buddy at your local club so you don’t have to venture out into the wilderness alone.
Your local running club will also be able to tell you about the best trail routes and how difficult they are.
Surrounding yourself with people who are more experienced trail runners, means you’ll improve your running technique to become a more efficient runner.
In the UK, trail running enthusiasts can join organisations like the Trail Running Association (TRA).
The TRA aims to encourage more people to participate in trail running throughout the UK. The organisation works to organise trail races and help fund trail running events such as the British Trail Running Championship.
They also offer learning resources and publish a quarterly magazine called ‘Trailrunner’ for its members. Joining an organisation is a great way to stay up-to-date with the sport professionally and at an amateur level.
From your phone or laptop, you can find local trail running clubs, organisations, and communities near you.
You can also access a wide range of digital tools online including expert advice, blog posts, forums, videos, social media accounts and influencers. Online resources are a great way to learn more about trail running and how you can get the most out of it.
Whether you plan to participate or spectate at these events, you’ll get a feel for the competitive side of the sport and also have the opportunity to meet others who are passionate about trail running. Events are often a great place to network with like-minded people.
There are plenty of opportunities to learn about trail running so you don’t have to do it alone.
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Flowing River Church Healing Rooms
Web Site: www.clearwaterhealinghouse.org
Email Address: CHH@flowingriverchurch.com
Phone Number: 727-461-1100
Hours: Thursdays from 2 PM-8 PM; Fridays from 2 PM to 5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Description: Clearwater Healing House is a single family home restored and rennovated to house 3 healing rooms. CHH is also a member of IAHR in Spokane. Several times throughout the year, we offer a 4 to 6 week training course. The St.Petersburg Times has written an article concerning this ministry and can be read on our web site at www.clearwaterhealinghouse.org. We currently have up to 50 available volunteers. We officially opened the Clearwater Healing House January of 2005.
Since our opening many have been relieved and healed of their sicknesses. Testimonies are given on the web site. We are a Jesus centered ministry dedicated to relieving pain and suffering through prayer and offer a classes and further training for those who feel the call to do the same. | <urn:uuid:0518d6af-b688-449c-bf89-4700a3261616> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.elijahlist.com/healing_rooms/display_room.html?ID=212 | 2017-12-14T15:00:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948544677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214144324-20171214164324-00210.warc.gz | en | 0.938878 | 232 |
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Musical with a message
By HWEI KER, The Star, July 30, 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Love and compassion can change lives – that’s the message at the heart of Mystical Journey to Putuo Shan.
<< Au Yang: "I drew inspiration from the Lotus Sutra of Buddha’s teachings."
Au Yang Yao Chih has experienced Buddhist monastic life in Fuo Guang Shan monastary in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, visited two holy places in China and made a pilgrimage to India to visit four places that revolved round the life of Buddha.
All this was in preparation for a musical titled Mystical Journey to Putuo Shan, a story about Bodhisattva Guan Yin to be staged in Kuala Lumpur from this weekend. The musical will be in English, with Chinese subtitles.
Au Yang is the scriptwriter, lyricist, composer and producer for the musical. “I first had the idea in 2003 but started working on it one-and-a-half years ago.”
The two holy places in China she visited were Putuo Shan, in Zhejiang Province, and Jiu Hua Shan, in Anhui Province. In India she went to Lumbini, where Buddha was born; Buddhagaya, where he attained enlightenment; Saranath, where he gave his first sermon, and Kushinagar, where he passed away. In Kushinagar, Au Yang was invited to perform her compositions of Buddhist songs.
The musical is being staged by La Comerata di Opera (Friends of the Opera), of which Au Yang is the chairperson. She has performed as a pianoforte soloist as well as an accompanist in concerts, recitals, festivals and workshops in England, China, Hong Kong, North Korea and Singapore. She also plays the harpsichord, violin, flute, er hu and other instruments.
Mystical Journey to Putuo Shan is set in the 20th century, and Au Yang hopes to capture Guan Yin’s great compassion and show that it exists in everyone.
“Compassion can bring about world peace,” said Au Yang, who hopes to take the musical to the far ends of the earth.
She has put together a cast of local and international talents from Australia, Taiwan and Germany.
Mystical Journey to Putuo Shan tells the story of a poor butcher, named Chen, who is reformed through his great compassion for his ailing child, Su Li. His wife had died in a fire in the village, while his father had passed away from an illness. Chen blames all his misfortunes on his aged mother, a compassionate figure who has the heart of Guan Yin.
He sets out to find a cure for his daughter after being told by a monk to go to Putuo Shan to seek the help of Guan Yin. It’s a trying journey, at the end of which Chen is a changed man. In the meantime, his mother had nursed his child to health. The same monk tells him to go home immediately and thank Guan Yin. He finds her in the face of his mother.
”I drew inspiration from the Lotus Sutra of Buddha’s teachings. You can think of Guan Yin in any form. She comes in 33 guises. Most people think of her as female. In Tibet they regard Guan Yin as male; he is Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara,” said Au Yang.
The 33 guises of Guan Yin are depicted by 15 dancers who flit in and out to show her in different forms.
Professor Tseng Dau-Hsiong, conductor, baritone and musical educator, is production advisor and stage director. The founder of the Taiwan Opera Theatre, Tseng has given critically acclaimed recitals and operatic performances in Europe, the United States, Japan, Taiwan and South-East Asia.
He has worked extensively with local artistes here since 1981. Tseng has held workshops, seminars and classes on opera singing, and also staged excerpts from well-known operas here. He refers to the musical as a “pilgrim’s progress, a mystical journey ending in the transformation of a person who is a butcher. He is reformed through the cultivation of five precepts – no killing, no stealing, no lying, no getting intoxicated (though you can drink), and no sexual misconduct.”
Cha Seng Tiang, who plays the butcher, finds the musical very special and the Buddhist teachings it embodies very meaningful. A well-known performer and teacher, Cha teaches voice at Universiti Malaya’s Cultural Centre and UTM’s Music Department. He has lent his vocal prowess to operatic roles in Carmen, The Barber of Seville and The Merry Widow, among others, in recitals in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Xie Kun, who plays Guan Yin, is one of the Dragon Tenors who have performed in Australia, South-East Asia and China, to rave reviews. Xie, who hails from Beijing now resides in Melbourne.
Playing Guan Yin as a male, then as a female, is a challenge for Xie. For the female part, he has to sing in a counter-tenor voice.
Aw Yeow Hoay plays the monk. “It’s the first time for me in this role. I’m still feeling my way around,” said Aw, a professional pianist and singer.
Chan Nyim plays a kind and protective mother to a son who has hardened himself against her. But she doesn’t reject him.
“If you walk the way of Guan Yin, you would bring out the goodness in people,” she said. “In the musical, the mother collects herbs and does her best to heal people out of love. She doesn’t expect anything in return.”
Mystical Journey to Putuo Shan will be staged from Aug 3-5 at the Dewan Heng Gok Hai, Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. Tickets are by donations of RM100. For enquiries call Ms Hoh (012-2338017), Ms Chew (012-3319228) or Ms Wong (012-3710611). | <urn:uuid:f278a2df-dbc3-46ba-9b33-c8d2d82c0fb8> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=5,4592,0,0,1,0 | 2014-10-01T14:17:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663460.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00264-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966739 | 1,315 |
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Rod Davis (Rod Davis) was born on April 2, 1981. After going to high school at Gulfport (MS), Davis attended the University of Southern Mississippi. Davis made his professional debut in the NFL in 2004 with the Minnesota Vikings. He has played for the Minnesota Vikings for his entire 3 year career.
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Maggie McCan, Contributing Writer |
Shots rang out through the hallways of the Professor Raul Brazil school in Suzano, Brazil, this past Wednesday, March 13, as two former students broke into the school and opened fire, killing eight individuals—seven inside the school and an owner of a nearby used car business—before turning their guns on themselves.
Of the seven individuals inside the Professor Raul Brazil school, five were students and two were employees. Police say the students were all around the age of 15. Nine others were wounded in the attack.
Governor João Doria of São Paulo visited the school just after the tragic incident, saying, “It’s the saddest scene I’ve witnessed in my whole life.”
The police reported that the two attackers, identified as 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Henrique de Castro, entered the school effortlessly. While inside the school, the two donned masks, handguns, a crossbow, a hatchet, and fake explosives. It’s likely that the two didn’t arouse suspicion upon entering the school because they were both former students.
The Suzano community held a wake the day after the attacks, mourning the loss of children, family members, and friends. “I couldn’t sleep. I have two children in school, and they are about the age of the victims,” said Wanda Augusta to PBS World News during Thursday’s wake. So many community members of the Brazilian suburb are shocked and disturbed by Wednesday’s events.
Monteiro’s mother explained in a discussion with Band News that her son was bullied at the school: “Bullying, they call it [….] stopped going to school […] because of this,” she said. She continued saying she was surprised by her son’s involvement and heard about it on the news just as everyone else had.
Wednesday’s shooting was a rare occurrence, as the last school shooting in Latin America occurred back in April 2011 when a gunman opened fire at a school in Rio de Janeiro, killing 12 students.
Wednesday’s incidents also comes just months after Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree making it easier for citizens to own guns, disrupting a nearly 16-year-old disbarment law. Bolsonaro ran on a campaign that advocated for lighter gun laws, claiming it would help crack down on criminals if citizens could defend themselves.
After the attacks at the Professor Raul Brazil school, it is not surprising Bolsonaro’s policies have come under fire. Sen. Major Olimpio, a supporter of President Bolsonaro’s policies, tweeted just hours after Wednesday’s devastation:
“We can’t let those who take advantage of this tragedy speak about how disarmament is the solution.” Weak and shameful ‘disarmament farce,’ which gave guns to criminals and prevented self-defense.”
After the Brazilian president’s policy changes, gun sales have skyrocketed, and gun ranges have been opening all over Brazil. When speaking to the Washington Post at one of Rio De Janeiro’s gun ranges, 26-year-old Laudine Roque defended her gun use and training saying, “I don’t want to be next.”
Police are still determining where the two men attained the pistols used in Wednesday’s shooting. Sou Da Paz, which translates to “I come in Peace” is a Brazilian organization that aims to reduce violence in Brazil. “The people who purchased the gun may have been well-intentioned,” Sou Da Paz Executive Director Ivan Marques said. “But ultimately, it’s one more gun in circulation that can become available for these kinds of atrocities.”
As far as it has been seen it does not look like Wednesday’s disaster at the Professor Raul Brazil school has affected the Brazilian government’s stance on gun safety laws.
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I turned to the database and started querying all the data about the trips ending on that cluster.
To my amazement, I found that drivers would stop at the middle of nowhere for thirty to forty minutes, and the distribution of these stop durations had a small variance.
Just what on Earth were they doing there?Coin DropWell, you probably figured it out by now.
These drivers were attending to what I came to call “roadside entertainment” activities.
When the coin finally dropped on me, I was shocked.
Not because I was witnessing the data trails of one of the oldest professions in the world (some say spying is the oldest), but because with a little extra effort I could associate a driver name to each of those data points.
With a relatively simple data science exercise and with the right (or wrong) data, I could have had access to the private lives of others.
Having this type of unauthorized access is wrong in any way I can think of it.
I quickly dropped that ball and moved on to build the trip graph.
The trip graph became the data foundation for many exciting data science products, from trip anomaly detection to destination prediction.
However, I never forgot the sense of awe and fear that I experienced after realizing the power of a simple data analysis.
I felt awe at the power that a simple data analysis can unleash, and fear that such powers could be used on me, or against me.
I am now a firm believer that the data science community must actively promote privacy best practices, and must also keep vigilant to prevent unintentional uses of analytics in revealing what must be kept private: our personal lives.
No matter what.
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Mark Thoma, in a column in the Fiscal Times, wonders why we don't have a Super Committee for Job Creation:
The bipartisan Super Committee trying to forge a politically acceptable path for deficit reduction ended in a super fail, and one of the big reasons... is disagreement over the extension of the Bush tax cuts for high income households.
[Democrats]... argue that the present tax structure places too little burden on the wealthy and too much on the middle and lower classes, and therefore the expiration of the Bush tax cuts... would make taxes more progressive and more equitable without endangering the recovery. Allowing the cuts to expire would also provide $800 billion in revenue over the next ten years and this would help preserve important social programs.
The failure... to come to agreement on the Bush tax cuts does not end the battle... If Congress does nothing... the two percent payroll tax cut [will] expire in December, and extended jobless assistance [will] also [expire].
I don't expect Republicans to put the unemployed at the forefront of their policy agenda. It comes as no surprise that they would insist on tax cuts for the wealthy despite their purported concern for the deficit, and then sing a different tune for the working class...
But I do expect Democrats to be the champions of the poor, the underprivileged, and the unemployed. When... did the need for deficit reduction... come to be more important than the needs of households struggling with the recession? Why aren't Democrats talking about the need to help the unemployed at every possible opportunity? Where's the Super Committee for Job Creation?
President Obama and many Democratic members of Congress have endorsed the idea that budget deficits are biggest threat we face... and this has helped to convince the public that the national debt is our biggest concern, and that we simply do not have the resources to.. help with job creation.
The main cause of our present deficit is a combination of the recession, the Bush tax cuts, and wars, and those three items will continue to be the main source of deficits in the near future. But Democrats have allowed Republicans to portray the problem as out of control spending on social programs that require super special commissions to resolve immediately, and it will be difficult to change that perception now....
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Progress Toward Quality K-12 STEM Education: Resources for Policymakers, Researchers and Educators
February 1, 2016
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education quality has a major impact on economic prosperity. In the 20th century, more than half of the growth in income per capita in the United States was due to advances in science and technology. Yet today, 15-year-olds in the U.S. score below their counterparts in 21 countries on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) math literacy scale, and below 15 countries on the PISA science literacy scale. And while there has been some growth in recent years, American girls and minorities are still less likely to participate and achieve in STEM subjects and careers.
What can be done to move the needle on STEM education? While the United States has the ability to measure outputs of the educational system, such as student test scores and career choices, the U.S. does very little to measure key inputs of STEM education quality – the components in the “black box” of education that influence student achievement and career interests. We can’t improve what we don’t measure – and it’s time for the United States to start paying attention to aspects of STEM teaching and learning that can enhance all students’ STEM interest and competencies.
The National Research Council (NRC) highlights 14 indicators of progress in the nation’s STEM education, including student learning, educators’ capacity, and policy and funding initiatives. Their 2013 report, Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education, argues that collecting data on these indicators can inform monitoring and improve STEM education. This K-12 STEM Education indicator system can illuminate areas where improvement is needed and education practices should be modified—such as the amount of time devoted to elementary school science. Such a system of indicators is designed to drive improvement, not to serve as a formal accountability system.
Measuring the K-12 STEM Education Indicators: A Road Map
SRI developed a roadmap for measuring and reporting on the NRC’s 14 STEM Education Indicators. The roadmap presents available data on each indicator, as well as an agenda to support the collection of enhanced data in the future. This roadmap may be of interest to researchers, as it describes necessary future research to improve measurement of STEM education quality.
Implications of the K-12 STEM Education Indicators: Concept Papers
In addition, three education policy experts contributed concept papers that explore the research and policy implications of the indicators system. Together, these papers can guide policymakers, researchers, and educators through the potential implications and implementation of the STEM education indicator system.
1. Using Indicator Data to Drive K-12 STEM Improvements in States & Districts: Implications for Leaders & Policymakers
Michael Lach of the University of Chicago details how district and state education leaders might use the indicator system to improve STEM education. The indicators may raise leaders’ awareness and prioritization of key issues in STEM education, including quality STEM instructional materials, leadership for principals, and time allocated to teach science. His paper can be found here.
2. Measuring the Quantity & Quality of the K-12 STEM Teacher Pipeline
Teacher preparation affects student achievement, as well as teachers’ evaluations and persistence in teaching. Suzanne Wilson of University of Connecticut discusses how traditional measures of teacher preparation are only weakly related to student outcomes. Wilson highlights the NRC’s enhanced indicators of teacher preparation: science and mathematics content knowledge for teaching, and participation in STEM-specific professional development activities. It reviews state efforts and other projects designed to collect data on these indicators. Her paper can be found here.
3. 21st Century Science Assessment: The Future is Now
Jim Pellegrino of the University of Illinois at Chicago presents a vision for a balanced and coordinated system of STEM assessments that work together, and with curriculum and instruction, to promote effective science teaching and learning. Such a system would consist of assessments designed to support classroom instruction, assessments designed to monitor science learning on a broader scale, and indicators designed to track opportunity to learn. His paper can be found here.
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Johnson Matthey Technol. Rev., 2017, 61, (3), 183
One Hundred Years of Gauze Innovation
Platinum gauzes for nitric acid manufacture celebrate a centenary
In the century since the first platinum gauze for nitric acid production was made by Johnson Matthey, the demand for nitric acid has increased considerably with its vast number of applications: from fertiliser production to mining explosives and gold extraction. Throughout the significant changes in the industry over the past 100 years, there has been continual development in Johnson Matthey’s gauze technology to meet the changing needs of customers: improving efficiency, increasing campaign length, reducing metal losses and reducing harmful nitrous oxide emissions. This article reviews the progress in gauze development over the past century and looks at recent developments.
Johnson Matthey Plc recently celebrated a centenary since making its first platinum gauze pack (Figure 1), sold to the UK Munitions Invention Department in October 1916 for £25 to make nitric acid for explosives during the First World War. The two 4″ × 6″ (approximately 101 × 152 mm) woven gauzes were made with 0.065 mm diameter wire, woven in a square mesh with 80 meshes per linear inch.
In the 1930s small amounts of rhodium began to be included in the gauzes to prevent losses of platinum while increasing the strength and conversion efficiency.
Palladium catchment gauzes were introduced in the 1960s for platinum recovery, offering economic benefits. These were initially palladium-gold, but as the price of gold increased it was replaced by nickel.
1996 saw the invention of knitted gauzes (Figures 2 to 4), which allowed a diverse range of structures and alloys to be used in the gauze packs, giving a better metal distribution and contact area. This considerably improved conversion efficiency and overall plant performance while also reducing manufacturing time compared to woven gauzes. This technology, pioneered by Johnson Matthey, became the industry standard.
A few years later gauze packs were developed with Johnson Matthey’s proprietary Advanced Coating Technology (ACTTM), reducing the time required to reach maximum production. Later in 2006 the company partnered with Yara International ASA, Norway, to supply its abatement catalyst to minimise harmful nitrous oxide emissions released during nitric acid production.
In the same year, the catalyst and catchment were combined for the first time through Eco-CatTM systems. This combines platinum group metal (pgm) with complex ternary alloys and knit structures. Compared to conventional gauze alloys, it uses palladium in a controlled manner to replace some of the platinum, exploiting its metal recovery properties to catch platinum that is lost from the gauze during ammonia oxidation. This system has shown an increased performance compared to standard catalyst packs, and (subject to plant operating parameters) offers nitric acid manufacturers benefits including: extended campaign lengths by 50–100%; maintained or improved average conversion efficiency; a reduction in installed pgm weight by 40–50%; a reduction in installed platinum weight by 30–40%; reduced metal losses by approximately 30–50%; and reduced nitrous oxide emissions.
The improved performance of Eco-CatTM technology compared to standard gauze packs is demonstrated in Table I, showing the increase in campaign length and nitric acid production when using an Eco-CatTM system in a medium pressure plant.
Case Study: Reducing the Cost of Nitric Acid Production
Recently, Johnson Matthey worked with one customer to create a tailored Eco-CatTM system to solve its three main requirements: increasing average conversion efficiency, reducing the installed pgm content of the gauze packs and reducing metal losses. A progressive approach was taken to customising the gauze pack for the customer’s specific plant conditions using in-depth analytical data.
Detailed examination of gauze samples from the first installed Eco-CatTM system uncovered an operational issue related to the plant design that was impacting the gas flow over the catalyst. Upon measuring the relative gas flow variations in the burner, it was found to be higher in certain areas. This was causing faster depletion of the gauze in these regions and therefore resulting in more platinum movement, while also adversely affecting the ammonia conversion efficiency.
The solution drew upon a vast range of gauze structures and their mechanical properties, addressing the regional flow issues in the burner while also considering one of the customer’s key requirements of reducing the installed pgm content. As a result, the customer noticed an improvement in the conversion efficiency.
Analysis from previous campaigns along with the producer’s data allowed the design of the catalyst to be improved through tailored wire diameters and knit structures. This optimised the reaction zone while also further reducing the installed pgm content.
Faster Light Off
A key goal for most nitric acid producers is to reduce the time required to reach peak conversion efficiency. In-house laboratory research into how peak efficiency is reached has found that platinum is volatilised during normal operation and forms cauliflower-like structures on the wire, which increases catalytic surface area. ACTTM allows a thin layer of platinum to be sprayed onto the surface of selected gauze layers to improve the gauze pack’s activation, resulting in faster light-off (Figure 8).
This technology has been shown to improve the early performance of the gauze packs in several plants when used in the top layers, but Johnson Matthey has recently been investigating how ACTTM coatings can further improve light-off and conversion efficiency.
Using the company’s in-house ammonia oxidation facilities, data on light-off, selectivity and long-term performance have been analysed to improve the design of the gauze pack. Initial trials of ACTTM coated gauzes in two different knit structures (Nitro-LokTM gauze and Hi-LokTM gauze) both showed a 45% reduction in light-off temperature compared to the uncoated gauze (Figure 9).
Fundamental to the design improvement is understanding how the gauze changes with time. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has shown the ACTTM coating forming a series of discrete islands on the gauze, each of which locally increases the surface area and becomes a focus point for light-off (Figure 10). Inspection of the samples from the trials has also shown the ACTTM coating restructuring (Figure 11) much earlier than expected; a change to the ACTTM coating placement or weight has the potential to make a significant improvement on the time taken to reach peak conversion efficiency.
This increased understanding of the mechanisms behind the coating and how this reduces the time to reach peak conversion efficiency has exciting implications for nitric acid plants, allowing the position and weight of the ACTTM coating to be tailored to minimise costs for producers.
Along with catalyst, catchment and abatement solutions that Johnson Matthey supplies to the nitric acid industry, complex models of the reaction system can be provided using its fundamental chemical and physical properties alongside proprietary data. Through this knowledge and modelling of the burner, more information can be found on the selectivity of ammonia conversion, in particular the extent and type of reaction.
The complex model of the burner has been built from extensive experience of gauze design along with known process conditions using spent gauze analysis, test rig data and historical plant data. This provides an in-depth understanding of how gauzes change over time and how this impacts the overall conversion efficiency. It can also help to identify where efficiency losses may be occurring; once this is found different sensitivities can be investigated to optimise the process, resulting in maximum plant conversion efficiency. Compared to a process model that is theoretically derived, this model provides more accurate and valid data through the dynamic kinetic model of the burner.
The detailed kinetic model allows predictions to be made for the optimal knit structures and alloy compositions for a campaign, for example looking at the gauze restructuring which is closely linked to the catalyst performance, where an increase in active surface area can improve the conversion efficiency. The model can also relate specific plant conditions to metal losses, which can reduce costs for the producer and again improve conversion efficiency of the burner. Any findings from the model can then be compared to experimental observations from gauze analysis.
This robust gauze model overcomes difficulties producers have historically faced in directly measuring conversion efficiency and selectivity, where high gas temperatures and testing conditions of the sampling point make it challenging to obtain a representative gas sample over the gauzes. This makes it an extremely useful tool in optimising the overall plant operation.
100 years after making the first gauze catalyst, Johnson Matthey now offers a full service package for nitric acid manufacturers: catalyst, catchment, N2O abatement and containment engineering, technical analysis, plant cleaning to recover metal through a partnership with R S Bruce Metals and Machinery Ltd, UK, and process simulation through a partnership with ProSim SA, France. The latest additions to these services are absorption tower scanning through Tracerco and water treatment for cooling and process water through MIOX®, both part of the Johnson Matthey group.
ACTTM, Eco-CatTM, Nitro-LokTM, Hi-LokTM and MIOX ® are trademarks of Johnson Matthey Plc, UK.
Hannah Frankland joined Johnson Matthey as Marketing Specialist for the Noble Metals business unit in 2015 after previously working for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, where she was primarily involved in membership communications. With a Chemistry degree from the University of Bath, UK, she enjoys combining her technical knowledge with her passion for marketing.
Christopher Brown originally joined Johnson Matthey in 2001 as a Materials Scientist in the Noble Metals technology group after graduating from the University of Nottingham, UK. After moving into sales and marketing in 2004, Chris has worked in technical sales roles, primarily in the Nitro Technologies sector which has combined his passion for business, people and travel.
Helen Goddin is the Research Group Leader for Nitro Technologies, leading developments in ammonia oxidation products. Prior to joining Johnson Matthey two years ago, she worked at TWI, leading research projects on materials development and joining processes. She has a PhD in High Temperature Electronic Materials, from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Oliver Kay joined Johnson Matthey in 2015, from the University of Leeds, UK, where he read Chemical Engineering. Oliver is part of the Graduate Programme, originally based in Noble Metals, where he was involved in developing a service offering for the nitric acid business. Now Oliver is based in Maastricht, The Netherlands, working for Advanced Glass Technologies, where he has a varied role, ranging from New Business Development to Operational Excellence projects.
Dr Torsten W. Bünnagel began his career with Johnson Matthey in 2011 in the Technical Sales Team of Noble Metals, Royston, UK, advising nitric acid, caprolactam and hydrogen cyanide businesses around the globe on new developments in the areas of catalytic ammonia oxidation and N2O abatement systems. In his current role as Sales Manager – Organometallics, Dr Bünnagel is commercialising novel materials utilised in various advanced chemical processes and technical applications. Prior to Johnson Matthey, he developed OLEDs for lighting applications and consumer electronics for Sumitomo Chemicals Company, Japan. He earned a Diploma Degree in Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and completed a PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry in the area of Organic Electronics in 2008. | <urn:uuid:5e886304-f81f-4bf2-a375-fe20e34c8fc5> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.technology.matthey.com/article/61/3/183-189/ | 2017-12-12T23:36:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948520042.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212231544-20171213011544-00103.warc.gz | en | 0.930767 | 2,359 |
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PUBLIC CULTURE, ICONS, AND ICONOCLASTS
THE BORDERS OF THE GENRE
Migrant Mother and the Times Square Kiss
PERFORMING CIVIC IDENTITY
Flag Raisings at Iwo Jima and Ground Zero
DISSENT AND EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT
TRAUMA AND PUBLIC MEMORY
LIBERAL REPRESENTATION AND GLOBAL ORDER
RITUALIZING MODERNITY’S GAMBLE
The Hindenburg and Challenger Explosions
The Northwestern Observer
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No Caption Needed: New Book Focuses on the Iconic Photo
EVANSTON, Ill. —
. . . In “No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy,” scholars Robert Hariman of Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites of Indiana University provide a detailed look at the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art that both reflects and shapes cultural values.
“The study of visual culture has been booming for more than a decade, with much of the focus on electronic media,” says Hariman, Northwestern professor of communication studies. “We believe that the impact of photojournalism — which may be seen as more familiar, more old fashioned and less exciting — has been taken for granted and overlooked as a powerful tool in forging public identity. . . . ”
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by Ryan Piurek
. . . Lucaites believes that photojournalism and documentary photography do more than help us remember powerful moments. These “visual rhetorics” also provide us with a way of seeing ourselves as a democracy and disseminating democracy’s core principles to others.
“Photojournalism, in general, underwrites liberal democratic public culture,” he says. . . . Iconic images—those famous images that we all remember—may well be the photojournalist’s “command performance,” Lucaites says, teaching us what it means to live in democratic society. Iconic photos can serve as allegories, helping us understand the tension between the individual and the collective (are we individuals living in a nation or a nation of individuals?), address how to deal with dissent, or explain the risks associated with industrial and technological progress. . . .
An EXCERPT is available at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/316062.html
Thanks to those who have plugged the book or the blog, including Jim Aune at the Blogora and Pete Lit in the first week, and then Eszter at Crooked Timber and Robin at Snarkmarket. We’re proud also to be featured by Steve Shapiro at Rainy Day Books: “Hariman and Lucaites explore a variety of issues in this intriguingly argued book about art and democracy; photography, they claim, is more than the art of the modern era: it is also the art form of democracy, . . . The book brings up many questions that may have rolled around in one’s mind but never really took any shape.”
I’m sure I’ve missed some folks, and hope to get to them when I get a minute to update again.
The 2007 Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, which is administered by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research at the University of Iowa. Professor Gronbeck’s career reflects key changes in rhetorical studies during the past four decades, as well as his irrepressible combination of analytical rigor and good humor.
The 2008 recipient of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, presented by the Media Ecology Association. Susanne Langer was an important resource in our undergraduate educations and graduate school, and the MEA award has placed us in very good company indeed.
The 2007 Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award for “the best research-based book about journalism or mass communication published each year.” Frank Mott’s achievements include the Pulitzer Prize, and Kappa Tau Alpha is the journalism and mass communication national honors society. We are very pleased to have our work recognized by scholars and professionals in journalism and mass communication, and to be joining the remarkable list of previous award winners.
The 2008 Diamond Anniversary Award and the 2008 Winans-Wichelns Award from the National Communication Association. We are, of course, honored and very pleased to receive the two book awards offered by our primary professional organization. | <urn:uuid:bb45aec8-4732-4343-9de7-6b53c13f6cd0> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/the-book/ | 2014-11-25T22:59:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931004246.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155644-00064-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903676 | 1,776 |
Estrogen Replacement to Reduce Risk of Neurologic Injury After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Drug: Estrogen Replacement Therapy
|Study Design:||Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:||Estradiol for Neurocognitive Dysfunction After CABG|
- Neurocognitive function (measured 4 to 6 weeks after surgery)
- Cognitive function
- Quality of life (measured 6 months after surgery)
|Study Start Date:||June 2001|
|Study Completion Date:||August 2005|
Women undergoing CABG surgery have a higher operative mortality rate, longer hospitalizations, and higher hospital costs compared with men. A large proportion of this excess morbidity and mortality of surgery for women is due to perioperative neurologic injury. Estrogen has been consistently shown to reduce the extent of neurologic injury in a variety of in vitro and animal experimental stroke models. These data together strongly suggest that the higher risk for perioperative neurologic complications for elderly women may relate to their estrogen deficient state.
This randomized, placebo controlled study will test the hypothesis that perioperative estrogen replacement in postmenopausal women reduces the risk for neurologic injury after CABG surgery. Three hundred thirty-four women undergoing CABG surgery will be prospectively randomized to receive either 17 beta-estradiol or placebo in a double-blind fashion beginning the day before surgery and continuing for 5 days after surgery. Patients will be assessed for neurocognitive dysfunction, which is the most common manifestation of neurologic injury from cardiac surgery. Neurocognitive testing will be performed 1 to 2 days before surgery, 4 to 6 weeks postoperatively, and 6 months after surgery. The primary endpoint will be neurocognitive function 4 to 6 weeks after surgery for women who received 17 beta- estradiol compared with placebo perioperatively. The trial will also evaluate the importance of postoperative cognitive decline on measures of cognitive function and quality of life 6 months after surgery, and whether perioperative 17 beta-estradiol treatment improves these outcomes.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00123539
|United States, Missouri|
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110|
|Principal Investigator:||Charles W. Hogue, Jr., MD||Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine| | <urn:uuid:20a7c119-7996-4344-95b5-00700dfd393e> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00123539?intr=estrogen+replacement+therapy&rank=3 | 2017-03-27T03:02:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189377.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00125-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.85199 | 507 |
The Met Gala 2018 kicks off in just a few hours, which means celebs have been prepping outfits for the past six months.
Back in November last year, it was revealed that this year’s theme is ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’.
The Costume Institute announced its exhibition of the same name, which opens on Thursday (10 May).
The gala’s hosts are Rihanna, Amal Clooney an Donatella Versace, and we’re intrigued to see how people will handle the religious theme.
We haven’t got long to wait, but for now, please enjoy 22 of our favourite Met Gala looks – in no particular order.
(If we had to put them in order, we’d have combusted out of indecisiveness.)
1. Rihanna, ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ (2015)
Sure, she looked like a newborn chick, or an extremely cheesy pizza, but she also looked edgy as f*ck and utterly fabulous.
Only Rihanna could get away with this. Only Rihanna.
2. Kate Moss, ‘The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion’ (2009)
The legendary Kate Moss as a metallic vision with designer, Marc Jacobs.
3. Florence Welch, ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ (2012)
Another dreamy vision – how much fun must this Alexander McQueen beaut have been to dance in?
4. Karolina Kurkova, ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ (2012)
We would love an occasion to look as extra as Kurkova in this Rachel Zoe vision.
5. Suki Waterhouse, ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ (2014)
This dreamy, dusky pink tulle number is the thing of dreams.
6. Alexa Chung, ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’ (2010)
Not many women rock up to a red carpet in a pant suit but our Alexa did, in the peak of her ‘please can I have her wardrobe?’ era.
This is a cute as hell Philip Lim number.
7. Zendaya, ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between’ (2017)
The hair, the bright orange lipstick, the bold print on the Dolce & Gabbana dress.
We’re here for it.
8. Kim Kardashian West, ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology’ (2016)
Kim’s worn some stunning looks over the years, even turning up as Mrs Doubtfire in 2013.
However, this metallic Balmain number has taken the crown for us.
9. Cate Blanchett, ‘Poiret: King of Fashion’ (2007)
We wish we looked this good dressed as your nan’s curtain tassel.
10. Jennifer Lopez, ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ (2015)
This sheer panelled, sequin Versace dress is peak Lopez.
11. Lupita Nyongo, ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology’ (2016)
The watery, sea foam mermaid-esque dress, the hair…we love.
Lupita was quick to school Vogue magazine when they compared her hair to Audrey Hepburn, saying it was inspired by: ‘sculptural hairdos from around the continent’.
12. Beyonce, ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ (2015)
This was the year our girl Bey rocked up late, leaving everyone thinking she’d sacked it off.
Then she rocked up in this Givenchy number and jaws hit the (very soft, red) floor.
13. Maggie Gyllenhaal, ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between’ (2017)
Is it a dress? Is it a pant suit?
It’s both, b*tches. And it’s embellished and fabulous.
14. Gigi Hadid, ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between’ (2017)
The half and half look is perfect for the indecisive – and for popping out a little Angelina Jolie leg.
15. Zoe Saldana, ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology’ (2016)
Now, that’s a train and a half. 10/10 would also use as a rug.
16. Zoe Kravitz, ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ (2014)
Zoe Kravitz is so effortless that she can chuck on a simple evening slip and make it look wild.
17. Diane Kruger, Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ (2012)
Celebs don’t often wear looks that you could get away with in real life, but we could see a (slightly toned down) version of this being worn at a wedding.
Love the jewel tone.
18. Scarlett Johansson, ‘Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century’ (2004)
This has such ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ vibes – interestingly this was the year after the movie which had saw Kate Hudson wearing that iconic gold dress, so maybe she was the inspo.
19. Priyanka Chopra, ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between’ (2017)
The Met Gala 2016 was a very wet affair, so Priyanka came prepared this year.
20. Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen, ‘Superheroes: Fashion And Fantasy’ (2008)
Ah, the Olsen twins. In the days before they started looking like they’d just been exhumed.
The effortlessly stylish sisters have complemented each other’s outfits a treat.
21. Sienna Miller, ‘AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion’ (2006)
Remember when we all wanted to look like the kooky boho queen, Sienna?
I definitely tried to recreate this look New Year’s Eve 2006.
22. Iman, ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ (2011)
All that glitters is not gold, but Iman is pure gold, in every single way.
Radiance is oozing from every pore (and hair follicle and fibre of her clothes…and being).
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There’s something endearing about Godfinger 2. It’s the sort of game you can’t help but fall a little bit in love with, especially if you like your city builders to have a cheeky little grin on their face.
It’s a resource management game through-and-through, don’t get me wrong, but it balances its wait-timers with a compulsive collection meta-game, and manages to keep you poking and swiping even when you’ve run out of things to do.
And lavished on top of that is a gorgeous layer of polish that makes any time you spend preening your own little world a joy. It might not be a massive departure for the genre, but everything it does it does well, and you can’t really ask for more than that.
The game casts you as a new god with a tiny planet to look after. To start with you’ve got one follower, who guides you through the mechanics of the game. To begin with these mainly involve shooting trees with lightning and making it rain on fields.
Your world is presented as a 2D orb in space. You can swipe to look around it, and pinch to zoom in and out. You’ll build a couple of buildings, plant some more fields, and then it pretty much leaves you to your own devices. Your aim is to grow your population and keep them all as happy as you can.
Each member of your burgeoning society contacts you via prayers – these are essentially requests for goods. Fulfil the requests and you get rewarded with worship, coins, and experience points. When you’ve got three little followers keeping them happy is pretty simple, but once you get into double figures it becomes a little more time consuming.
Soon demand is outstripping supply, and you’ll need to build new factories to produce everything your minions need, as well as planting plenty of crops, and building new strips of land hovering above the ground in order to house all the new followers you’re gaining.
The controls work brilliantly well. You drag and drop followers to set them to tasks, tap to collect the fruit of their labours, and long press on the screen to use your spells.
You can visit other worlds to gain extra goodies, and there are plenty of quests and challenges to complete to keep your coffers filled up.
And the whole thing bundles along at a lovely place. Within a couple of hours you’ll have turned your single-dwelling rock in space into a thriving little community, and you’ll be pushing to find new places to put people and buildings. The free to play system is generous as well, meaning you’re rarely scrabbling for your wallet if you don’t want to.
Yes, you’ll have poked and prodded things around in similar ways before, but there’s a rich, welcoming charm to Godfinger 2 that makes you want to push on. The cast of characters are a cheery bunch, and it always feels like you’re being rewarded for playing.
If you’re looking for a new resource management sim, then this is a damn good bet. It’s gorgeous, it’s deep, and you can dip in and out, or lose hours to it, depending on the way you like to play. It’s not going to convert anyone to its genre’s cause, but there’s a happy slosh to everything going on on your little world. If you like it, then you’re going to love it. | <urn:uuid:c3dd71b2-2f64-46c0-b816-d6439cee05df> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.gamezebo.com/2016/05/24/godfinger-2-review-worth-giving-poke/ | 2016-10-28T02:39:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00266-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955518 | 755 |
Childhood Illness - The Basics
Healthy young children have up to 12 infections each year. These are a normal part of childhood. As a parent or caregiver you deal with these but you may worry about missing a serious illness. There is no foolproof system to tell you whether or not your child is seriously ill. Knowing your child and seeing a change in your child's behaviour could be the most important clue.
Colds and fever are a normal part of childhood. Sometimes families worry about missing a more serious illness. Knowing your child and seeing a change in their behaviour could be the most important clue to how sick they are.
Cleaning your hands gets rid of germs you pick up from other people. Keeping your hands clean is one of the best ways to keep from getting sick and spreading illnesses.
Keeping your family healthy over winter means keeping your home warm and dry. Check out all the tips in the videos about how to keep your home warm and dry. Find out what support is available.
Fevers are common in children. Fever by itself does not tell you whether your child is seriously sick. Even an ordinary cold can cause a high fever.
The most common reason for a child to have a raised temperature is because they are fighting off an infection.
Watch the videos and know the signs and the different noises babies and children can make when they are having trouble breathing. That way you can act fast and get help.
Children and infants who are not responding and not breathing normally will need CPR.
Febrile seizures are a common childhood problem. Seizures with a fever are more common in children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. | <urn:uuid:7894be60-11ad-44cf-95e9-98cc50458bf6> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://kidshealth.org.nz/tags/childhood-illness-basics | 2023-05-28T22:59:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644571.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528214404-20230529004404-00505.warc.gz | en | 0.957175 | 341 |
Ceva Animal Health makes fraudulent drug claims to mislead the customers- Phytosphingosine is not drug and was responsible for the death pet owner. Company fraudulently claims this and a preservative called Climbazole as drugs, these products are no use.
The manufacturer of Phytosphingosine states that it is not a drug and should not be treated as a drug, but Ceva lists and advertises this as a drug.
The Feliway line of products do not work and as good as water. Vectra is very dangerous to dogs, cats and the pet owner because of its toxicity and leaves and contaminates the house and surroundings, stay away
Review about: Ceva Animal Health Vectra 3d Flea Control.
Reason of review: Not as described.
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SEATTLE — A traveling jewelry courier who was going to make a delivery at Northgate Mall was robbed by masked, ice-pick wielding thieves who got away with $500,000 worth of gems and diamonds.
At 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, the jewelry courier told police he arrived at the mall to and as he was packing up his case that held the gems, he was confronted by two to three Hispanic men who jumped out of a van armed with ice picks.
The victim said one man grabbed his case and tossed it in to a waiting van while another man waved the ice pick at him to keep the courier at bay. One of the suspects then used the ice pick to deflate a tire on the courier’s vehicle. The suspects then fled in a newer model silver/blue van.
Police responded to the scene of the incident, but the suspects and their vehicle were not located. The victim was not injured.
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Cal-Mag 1:1 with vitamin D3 (90 Ct)
Consuming adequate levels of calcium, magnesium and vitamin D in the daily diet is difficult for many. However, it is especially important these days as our population ages and the need for these nutrients becomes more critical. The majority of the calcium in our body resides in our bones. Bones are constantly undergoing remodeling and calcium is needed so it can be deposited in bones. As we age, bone breakdown exceeds the amount that is replaced. Calcium cannot be properly absorbed into the system without sufficient amounts of magnesium and vitamin D to help it along. Women and men of all ages who don't eat a balanced diet each day require supplemental calcium, magnesium and vitamin D. Approximately half of total magnesium in the human body is found in bone. The other half is found inside cells of various tissues and organs. Magnesium is needed for over 300 biochemical reactions in the body. It helps maintain normal bone, muscle and nerve function, and maintains a normal heart rhythm. Magnesium also promotes a normal blood pressure. While calcium and vitamin D are well-known to be essential for proper bone formation, there is evidence to suggest that magnesium deficiency may be a risk factor for bone health later in life, since a deficiency of magnesium alters calcium metabolism and the hormones that regulate calcium. Several human studies have suggested that magnesium supplementation may improve bone mineral density. Our Cal-Mag 1:1 with Vitamin D3 supports bone and nervous system health by providing these essential nutrients.
- Provides highly absorbable forms of two essential minerals and vitamin D3
- A food base of watercress, parsley and alfalfa
- Provides 200 IU of vitamin D3 (from lanolin) per serving to assist in calcium delivery
- Suggested use: Take three capsules daily
- CONTAINS NO artificial colors, flavors or preservatives; no wheat, gluten, milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, crustacean shellfish or fish. | <urn:uuid:7a9b91cc-6866-4701-9c8d-33efe7403b3b> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.barrysherbals.com/store/p48/Cal-Mag_1%3A1_with_vitamin_D3_%2890_Ct%29.html | 2018-02-22T14:24:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814124.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222140814-20180222160814-00203.warc.gz | en | 0.900511 | 403 |
Senior Member (female)
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Albertville, MN
16 Disc Herniations???
Here are results for my 3 most recent MRI's: Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar:
| EXAM: MRI OF THE CERVICAL SPINE (performed Feb 2011). |
CLINICAL INFORMATION: Neck pain with degenerative disc disease and prior cervical fusion. Comparison is made to 12/03/2007.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: T1, T2 MPGR T2 FSE and STIR sagittal thin sections through the cervical spine with T2 gradient refocused and T2 FSE axial sections at selected levels.
INTERPRETATION: Craniovertebral junction structures are unremarkable and no fractures or active inflammatory lesions are identified on STIR images.
The cord is intrinsically normal without high signal alteration or mass lesion. Flow signals are noted in the vertebral arteries with no paraspinous mass lesions.
The C2-3 disc margin is normal and foramina appear patent. Facet joints appear within normal limits.
At C3-4, there is a 3 mm AP diameter central disc herniation indenting the ventral cord. Mild to moderate central stenosis. Foramina appear patent and facet joints are unremarkable.
At C4-5, the interbody fusion appears solid by MR criteria with no recurrent disc herniation or spinal stenosis.
At C5-6, disc degeneration is present with degenerative annular bulging and asymmetric right posterolateral 1.5 mm disc protrusion with overall mild central stenosis and mild ventral cord flattening. Foramina appear patent and facet joints are unremarkable.
C6-7 and C7-T1 levels are negative for disc herniation or stenosis.
At T1-2, the dorsal disc herniation indents the thecal sac centrally and to the right of midline.
CONCLUSION of Cervical exam:
1. A 3 mm AP diameter central C3-4 disc herniation indents and deforms the cord with mild to moderate central stenosis. Foramina appear patent.
2. Mild C5-6 spondylosis with dorsal annular bulging and concurrent 1.5 mm right disc protrusion with cord contact and mild central stenosis.
3. No recurrent C4-5 disc herniation or stenosis.
4. Intrinsically normal cervical spinal cord and craniovertebral junction.
5. Disc protrusion centrally into the right at T1-2.
Note: The C3-4 disc herniation has enlarged since 12/03/2007. Findings at C5-6 are unchanged.
EXAM: OPEN UPRIGHT MRI OF THE THORACIC SPINE (Performed June 2011)
CLINICAL INFORMATION: Neck, diffuse back and left leg pain. Incontinence x 1 episode
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Exam was performed on an 0.63T Open Upright MRI system. T1 and T2 FSE sagittal thin sections through the thoracic spine with T2 GRE and FSE axial sections at selected levels and the patient in the sitting 50° tilted position.
INTERPRETATION: Normal signal intensity is seen within the thoracic cord and conus medullaris. No intrinsic cord lesion and no cord edema or myelomalacia. No intradural mass.
Disc degeneration is seen at multiple levels throughout the thoracic spine with mild to moderate mid thoracic Scheuermann's-like changes, and 60° of kyphosis. Disc space narrowing is moderate or marked at each level from T11-12 through T2-3 with mild or moderate endplate irregularities at multiple levels.
At each level from L1-2 through T9-10, the dorsal disc margin and facet joints are normal. No stenosis or impingement.
At T8-9, a 2-3 mm broad-based right paracentral disc herniation is seen with ventral cord flattening. Normal facet joints and patent neural foramina.
At T7-8, a 2-3 mm cephalad extruded midline disc herniation is seen with mild ventral cord flattening. Normal facet joints and patent neural foramina.
At T6-7, a 4 mm extruded left paracentral disc herniation is seen with marked flattening of the ventral cord to the left of midline. Normal facet joints and patent neural foramina.
At T5-6, a 2 mm broad-based left posterolateral disc protrusion is seen without cord impingement. Normal facet joints and patent neural foramina.
At T4-5, moderate left posterolateral bulging and osteophyte is seen with normal facet joints and no stenosis or impingement.
At T3-4 and T2-3, lateral annular bulging is seen with moderate bilateral facet arthropathy at each level and patent neural foramina.
Anatomic detail is poor at T1-T2, C7-T1 and C6-7.
Normal signal intensity within the vertebral marrow spaces. No posterior mediastinal lymphadenopathy and no paraspinous mass.
CONCLUSION: Moderate to advanced diffuse thoracic disc degeneration with 61° of kyphosis with the patient sitting, and specific findings as follows:
1. 4 mm extruded left paracentral disc herniation at T6-7 with marked cord flattening on the left.
2. 2-3 mm midline disc herniation at T7-8 and 2-3 mm right paracentral disc herniation at T8-9 with mild ventral cord flattening at each level.
3. 2 mm broad-based left posterolateral disc protrusion at T5-6, and left posterolateral bulging/osteophyte at T4-5 without cord or nerve root impingement.
4. No intrinsic cord lesion and no intradural mass.
5. No neoplasm, fracture or infection.
EXAM: OPEN UPRIGHT MRI OF THE LUMBAR SPINE WITH FLEXION AND EXTENSION (performed June 2011)
CLINICAL INFORMATION: Neck, back, and left leg pain with weakness. Bladder incontinence x1. Evaluate for cord impingement.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: On a 0.63T Open Upright MRI system, T1 and T2 FSE sagittal thin sections were obtained with T1 and T2 axial sections at selected levels and the patient in the sitting neutral position. T2-weighted sagittal and axial images were repeated with the patient extended and T2-weighted sagittal sections with the patient flexed.
INTERPRETATION: Five lumbar-type vertebrae are seen with a generalized lumbar hyperlordosis, 33° from T12 to S1 on flexion/extension, and no abnormal intersegmental motion. No spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis. Limited sections through the sacrum are unremarkable.
L5-S1: Moderate disc degeneration with a 3 mm midline disc protrusion, normal facet joints, and no stenosis or impingement.
L4-5: Moderate disc degeneration with a 2 mm left posterolateral disc protrusion, dorsal annular bulging, mild to moderate narrowing of the subarticular recesses, and encroachment on the traversing L5 nerve roots. There is mild narrowing of the central canal, and moderate narrowing of the right neural foramen on extension.
L3-4 through T12-L1: Normal intervertebral disc and facet joints with no stenosis or impingement.
T11-12 through T8-9: Moderate disc degeneration and mild dorsal bulging at each level without significant narrowing of the central canal. Normal facet joints and patent neural foramina.
Normal signal intensity is seen within the distal thoracic cord and conus medullaris. No intradural mass and no arachnoidal adhesions.
Normal signal intensity is seen within the vertebral marrow spaces. No retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy and no paraspinous mass.
CONCLUSION: Generalized lumbar hyperlordosis with 33° of flexion/extension, no segmental instability, and specific findings as follows:
1. Moderate L5-S1 disc degeneration with a 3 mm midline disc protrusion.
2. Moderate L4-5 disc degeneration with a 2 mm left posterolateral disc protrusion, mild to moderate narrowing of the subarticular recesses left greater than right, and dynamic narrowing of the central canal and neural foramen on extension.
3. Moderate multilevel lower thoracic disc degeneration with no stenosis or impingement.
4. No intradural lesion and no neoplasm, fracture or infection.
5. Comparison with previous MRI dated 12/03/2007 shows progressive disc degeneration at L4-5. A disc herniation previously seen on the left at L4-5 has decreased in size in the interval and the disc herniation noted on the current examination may represent residual disease.
I've had back and neck pain for years. Every MRI I have gotten over the years I have had to beg a doctor to order for me. I've had lumbar and cervical studies in the past that have shown degenerative changes, osteophytes, and severe cervical stenosis that resulted in a C4-5 ACDF in Nov 2006. I have a new pain doctor and he agreed with me that updated MRI's that would include my previously unexamined thoracic region would be a good idea, so he proceeded to order the needed studies. Now that I finally have recent mri's done of all of the major regions and it shows extensive disc involvement, I 'm even more mixed up than I started. I only got to talk to the doctor for a few minutes after getting the results. He felt that I have some serious disease at many levels, and he was particularly concerned about level T6-7. He felt there was significant stenosis present there, and he felt that level was inoperable. He seemed to think I was at high risk of mobility issues someday due to the disease present at that level.
I'm curious, does anyone have this extensive # of affected discs? If so, what sort of treatment was pursued to help you live with your symptoms and disease? what worked, and what didn't work? Please advise
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type 3
Severe DDD with multiple herniations and areas of stenosis, 16 affected disks!
C4-5 ACDF 2006
C3-6 ACDF 2013
Chronic Myofaschial Pain Syndrome
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Show It Off At SEMA Contest
Royal Purple gives winner opportunity to display their ride
Eric Kaminsky - July 08, 2014 01:55 PM
Royal Purple, maker of a range of premium lubricants and additives, is giving one lucky individual the opportunity to showcase their ride as the grand prize winner in the “Show It Off at SEMA” contest. The SEMA show, the largest trade-only automotive aftermarket event, will be held November 4-7 in Las Vegas.
Now in its fourth year, the winning vehicle is displayed outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the show is held.
The photo contest launches on Royal Purple’s Facebook fan page on July 14.
Here is the contest timeline:
- Photo Submission Period: July 14-24
- Online Voting: July 25-31
- Finalists Announced: August 1
- Judging: August 5-9
- Winner Announced: August 11
In addition to paid registration as a feature vehicle, the winner will receive hotel accommodations (restrictions apply), Royal Purple products, Royal Purple apparel and an invitation to attend a winner’s dinner hosted by Royal Purple.
Judges for this year’s contest include last year’s winner, Mark Fields (who showed off his 1969 Camaro) as well as Townsend Bell, IndyCar and TUDOR Sportscar Championship driver and TV personality; Tim “Skrape” Katz, vice president and co-founder, Authentic Brands Group LLC and TAPOUT LLC; Jeff Thisted, from Discovery Channel’s “Rods ’N Wheels”; and Carrie Strange, 2013 Royal Purple Ladies Feature Vehicle Contest winner.
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Statistically, the Porters may just be an ordinary family. But theres nothing average about this razor-sharp comedy, an endearingly demented portrait of modern family life by Andrew Marshall, writer of the Emmy-winning Alexei Sayles Stuff. Head of the household is Ben, a dedicated central-heating engineer and easy-going husband and father. His idea of helping in the house is to change TV channels, provided the remote control is within easy reach. Mainstay of the household is Bill, a full-time working wife and mother. In the few odd moments she gets time to think, she wonders whether life would be better if she were more like her long-time friend Rona, who has had more men than Imelda Marcos has had shoes. Daughter Jenny is a typical teenager, into boyfriends, pop music and vegetarianism. Last, but not least, theres David, the youngest member of the family and a chip off the old block. As Bill and Ben struggle with the demands of modern life, their offspring rush headlong through adolescence, increasingly embarrassed by their parents chaotic lifestyle.
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I danced on Sunday at a place that’s become a favorite gathering at least once a month for me, and for a fellow yoga teacher who first invited me there.
She looked at the clock which read 12:45 and said: I didn’t realize the time had gone so quickly! Me, thinking that people had forgotten to turn the clock back thought: 11:45! I thought I had been dancing for longer than 10 minutes! In fact, the time was ~12:05…
I hadn’t looked at my phone and wasn’t wearing a watch. Eventually someone got up to change the clock to the “correct” time.
But the point had already been made for me – when you are lost in a moment of flow, or the pure enjoyment of a moment, you lose all sense of time.
Also, the idea of “correct” time had me thinking of the fact that time is designated purely for arbitrary and convenience reasons. Daylight savings time changes are archaic back and forth switches that mess with our natural circadian rhythms.
It has been difficult for me to explain to people that when I am completely in “writing world” or perhaps doing something I enjoy, like dance, yoga, or sometimes even working at my new job, time can feel suspended. I have no sense of the “feeling” of time passing.
In contrast, when I am doing something I do not enjoy, or immersed in chores that aren’t my favorite, I am keenly aware of the time passing.
When I first started to meditate, I could sit for maybe 3 minutes before I would want to bolt. All of that silence got my mind stories to play far too loudly and it was hard for me to relax. I’ve since learned that anchoring with the breath, with sensations in the body or the sounds around me has helped reduce the “noise” of my mind.
People who study quantum physics, as well as many mystics, often say that time is an illusion. When the leap was made from linear, 3-dimensional thinking to quantum, infinitely dimensional thinking, suddenly the space opened up for new relationships with time.
What is your relationship with time? Do you think there is never enough? Do you feel an abundance of time when you can be fully present?
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Well add IPK to the list of fallen pitchers. He and Hughes could be out a for quite some time, but with the way Rasner has been pitching it wont hurt that much. It also makes the Yank's decision on Joba that much easier. Now they don't have to worry about dropping anyone from the rotation, though, Kennedy was making that an easy choice even if he didn't get hurt.
After two bad outings that cost the Yanks last night's game and a shot at a comeback on Monday, Latroy Hawkins isn't doing much to keep himself in pinstripes. It's only a one year deal so the Yankees don't really have to grin and bare Hawkins in the pen. It would also allow them to continue the youth movement since they have a couple of arms tearing things up at both AA and AAA in J.B. Cox, Mark Melancon and Daniel McCutchen.
It would probably give the Yankees a better chance to win right now anyway considering that all of those arms have more talent than a lot of the arms out in the bullpen right now. But it wont really matter much if they don't start beating teams like the Orioles. Especially after they have two four run leads and a lead in extra innings.
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Microsoft Corp. is close to entering a major interactive product alliance with DreamWorks, bringing to fruition a long-simmering deal that will combine the talents of Microsoft's chairman with three of Hollywood's most powerful players.
Each side gets what it needs: Microsoft will gain access to some of the most bankable creative minds in Hollywood. DreamWorks will get access to Microsoft's distribution channels, marketing clout, digital technology and money.
DreamWorks needs "the broadest distribution they can get," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Research International, a San Jose, Calif., market researcher that follows the interactive field. "They want to go with a master of digital distribution, and there's no one better than Gates and Microsoft. This shows every potential of being a blockbuster relationship."
The venture has been in the works since last fall, when the Dream Team of acclaimed producer/director Steven Spielberg, former Disney Studios Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and music and film mogul David Geffen set up DreamWorks, a Hollywood studio.
A Microsoft spokeswoman acknowledged talks between the parties, saying: "We believe [DreamWorks is] a great creative team but have nothing to announce at this time." DreamWorks wouldn't comment. But sources indicate the parties are preparing to make their dream deal official.
Also last week, it was reported Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is investing about $500 million into DreamWorks, and Microsoft and IBM Corp. are investing $20 million to $30 million each. Chemical Bank has extended a $1 billion line of credit.
DreamWorks' interactive deal with Microsoft appears similar in intent to the studio's TV production and distribution alliance with Capital Cities/ABC.
The Microsoft deal will give DreamWorks access to creative talent and immediate credibility in the interactive software market, where Microsoft has a leading presence.
As part of his plan to turn Microsoft into a household franchise, Mr. Gates has repeatedly expressed his intent to form ventures in Hollywood to produce consumer software. Mr. Gates has shown particular interest in animation, a field where Mr. Katzenberg excels.
Microsoft conceivably could market and distribute DreamWorks' interactive products through CD-ROM, computer online offerings and interactive TV.
The DreamWorks alliance could also be a springboard for Microsoft to develop other relationships in the entertainment industry.
Microsoft will enter the computer online field in August with Microsoft Network. In interactive TV, Microsoft will supply set-top box software and video server software for tests that Tele-Communications Inc. and SBC Communications will start later this year. DreamWorks conceivably could provide programming.
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ESBEN AND THE WITCH are now streaming the next track taken from their forthcoming album ‘Older Terrors’. The dark atmospheric rockers will release their new full-length on November 4th.
The amazing song “The Wolf’s Sun” can be listened to here.
ESBEN AND THE WITCH comment on “The Wolf’s Sun”: “An ode to Luna, a blazing white rock. We find ourselves drawn to and driven by a night lust as old as the firmament itself. The first chapter marks the laden swagger of the satellite, a pendulous, ominous beacon. Switching to the second movement, the maniacal march of its wide-eyed disciples, entranced by its heady glow. Rampaging with hearts as swollen as the moon itself – ‘Light it is blooming, A madness consuming, Inside your head, Inside your hands. In love! I’m raptured! – …”
Furthermore, the band already stated on the album: “Our forthcoming album ‘Older Terrors’ was written and recorded over the course of a year in Berlin, our adopted home. We’ve spent eight years getting here, sweating on stages, holed up in studios and exploring all that which inspires awe and terror. The album features four tracks. In this digital age of music we wanted to create a collection that worked together but could also be separated, each track standing alone, carving its own path and telling its own tale. This record is dedicated to the sublime. To Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, John Martin’s apocalyptic visions, Caspar David Friedrich’s forays into the forest and to the sparks of light that glimmer in times of utter darkness.”
Something ancient and primordial stalks the four tracks on the fourth full-length of ESBEN AND THE WITCH. The haunting voice of Rachel Davies weaves arcane spells through hypnotic patterns. Interlaced in these invocations is the emotive string sorcery provided by guitarist Thomas Fisher, while Daniel Copeman evokes a state of trance with his shamanic drumming and wide sonic landscapes painted by electronic synthesizer magic.
ESBEN AND THE WITCH were formed in Brighton, a windswept English seaside resort, when Daniel Copeman hooked up with Thomas Fisher in 2008. After a number of failed auditions for a vocalist, Fisher had a chance meeting with longtime friend Rachel Davies, who proved to be the perfect fit as singer for the newly created three-piece. A band name was found in the foreboding Danish fairytale “Esben and the Witch”.
The self-released ’33 EP’ (2009) and a 7″ single entitled ‘Lucia, at the Precipice’ (2010) caused a vibrant buzz that led to a first record deal. With the single ‘Marching Song’ (2010), ESBEN AND THE WITCH heralded their debut full-length ‘Violet Cries’, a Gothic post-rock nightmare that hit the stores in January 2011. The album was immediately picked up by critics and fans alike, managing to climb to #13 in the UK Indie Chart. Two singles, ‘Warpath’ and ‘Chorea’ and the ‘Hexagons’ digital EP followed in the same year.
2012 saw the trio commence work on their sophomore album ‘Wash the Sins Not Only the Face’ which was released in early 2013 and again scored critical praise. ESBEN AND THE WITCH decided to take matters into their own hands and published the third full-length ‘A New Nature’ (2014) on their own imprint, ‘Nostromo Records’. The band travelled to Chicago to record with Steve Albini and the result was an intense, sprawling creation inspired by the trio’s increasingly heavy live show.
Having established themselves as a highly individual act and an excellent reputation as an outstanding live force, ESBEN AND THE WITCH have honed their songwriting skills to the sharp crystalline edge that now manifests itself clearly on ‘Older Terrors’. Beauty, emotion, and musical depth celebrate a glorious wedding on these tracks. You are herewith invited to join this aural feast. | <urn:uuid:8b5da46e-905a-46d6-9eae-bdd3ccb9cb73> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.progradar.org/index.php/tag/the-wolfs-sun/ | 2021-01-21T08:39:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703524270.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121070324-20210121100324-00455.warc.gz | en | 0.945723 | 910 |
Great news, guys. It has now got just that little bit easier to own a Whitney Port designed piece of clothing without breaking the bank, as The City star is launching […]
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Bring your group to experience Boston Ballet! Boston Ballet's season runs October - May, including a month long run of the holiday classic The Nutcracker. Groups of 10 or more people are eligible for exclusive pre-sale opportunities, discounted tickets, flexible payment plans, free ticket opportunities and special add-on programs. Groups of 50 or more can be accommodated based upon availability. Performances take place at the historic Boston Opera House, located in the heart of downtown Boston. Group tickets are on sale now for the 2016 - 2017 season. Boston Ballet presents the North American premiere of Le Corsaire a swashbuckling adventure with stunning new costumes and sets. Also the classic coming-of-age fairy tale Sleeping Beauty returns this spring. The winter/spring season showcases three exhilarating programs featuring the choreography of Forsythe, Robbins, Kylian and Balanchine. Group tickets start at $35 for season performances and $39 for The Nutcracker Visit www.bostonballet.org/groups for more information. | <urn:uuid:077fce3b-7a9f-4219-8d8f-8eeb313756fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.bostonusa.com/listings/boston-ballet/13313/ | 2017-10-24T04:07:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187828134.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20171024033919-20171024053919-00704.warc.gz | en | 0.882068 | 211 |
Q&A with Peter Stockland, Editor-in-Chief, Reader's Digest Canada
I'm the editor-in-chief of four magazines produced by Reader's Digest Magazines Canada, Ltd. Technically, that means I'm responsible for every word and picture that appears in any of those magazines. In reality, it means I'm in charge of a staff of editors and artistic designers who do the hard work of making sure everything is as it is supposed to be.
Inspired by the interviews in the Paris Review and Bomb magazine, "The Questions" in Sports Illustrated, and the regular interviews on the blogs of Tom Peters and Guy Kawasaki, Comment has asked a diverse group of mentors for their stories.
Comment: How would you explain what you do to an interested nine-year-old child?
Peter Stockland: I'm the editor-in-chief of four magazines produced by Reader's Digest Magazines Canada, Ltd. Technically, that means I'm responsible for every word and picture that appears in any of those magazines. In reality, it means I'm in charge of a staff of editors and artistic designers who assign, check, correct and place within each magazine all of its non-advertising content. While I do review finished pages, the editors on my teams are the ones who do the hard work of making sure everything is as it is supposed to be. I offer advice, make suggestions and stop things I think will displease the readers of the magazine or make the magazine look less than its best. I also make sure that we plan far enough in advance so we have enough content when it comes time to start filling up the magazines with words and pictures—and that we have enough money in our budget to pay the people who produce the content. A way to imagine it would be to think of me sitting in the driver's seat of a huge paint machine that has images—words and pictures—poured into a great big tank, with a team of skilled technicians operating hoses that spray the word-picture "paint" with just the right thickness and in the exact spot where it's needed.
Comment: What first drew you to this work?
PS: I have been a writer or editor working for magazines and newspapers for 30 years, but my "call" to work in this field goes back to when I was eight years old. I had a little paper route and I used to sit down to read the paper before I delivered my papers—I was always late on my route. I knew then that I wanted to be someone who wrote in newspapers. In fact, at that time, I was in the audience of a local children's TV show in the town where I lived, and the host asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I answered "a writer and a reader." He laughed, and so did the other kids. Last laughs are the most sweet, it turns out, since I have spent all my working adult life writing and reading. I have always loved the puzzle of putting words together with other words in a way that offers other people the possibility of meaning.
Comment: As a novice, what were your most valuable learning experiences?
PS: The first real story I covered for a daily newspaper involved a school bus being hit by a flatbed truck, killing five kids. When the photographer and I arrived at the scene, he put his hand on my arm and said, "Go slow, kid. Everybody knows everybody around here." He was warning me to remember these were human beings involved in a tragedy, not just unfeeling quote machines for my story. He was cautioning me that if I failed to respect their fundamental dignity at that horrible scene, word would get around and I would be finished as a reporter in that town. In other words, he was telling me that the human always comes first no matter what the story. I never forgot that, and I have always tried to conduct myself on that basis.
Comment: What is the best advice you've ever been given?
PS: As a young reporter, I was whining once to a flint-skinned city editor who kept pushing me to write shorter sentences and fewer paragraphs. I protested that I couldn't possibly tell one particular story in the meager number of words he'd assigned. He looked at me and said: "There's only so many effing pages in the paper, mate, and they're the same effing length every day. Start fast, get to the point and stop." There was a lifetime of advice in those two sentences about remembering what was important (the newspaper, not me) and about the importance of proper stewardship of resources (don't produce waste words that the effing pages couldn't accommodate just for the sake of ego).
Comment: From what sources do you draw inspiration for your work?
PS: Jesus wept.
Comment: What rituals and habits structure your workday?
PS: My morning trio is calendar check, voice-mail retrieval and answering e-mail. We have a LOT of meetings—I mean a LOT of meetings, so it's critical to know from the instant I walk in the door where I am expected to be at what 15-minute increment during the day. I also insist on returning messages as promptly as I can so I do that first thing as well. And I easily get 75 to 80 e-mails a day so I don't ever want to fall behind. After that, my attention (when I'm not in a meeting; did I mention we have a LOT of meetings?) turns toward whomever is first in the line that forms outside my office door right after I take my coat off.
Comment: What are your favorite tools?
PS: Questions. I've gotta million of them.
Comment: Tell us about a project that delighted you.
PS: I was editor-in-chief of The Gazette in Montreal and it involved the 2002 Soccer World Cup, which is a bit odd because I'm not a soccer fan at all. We were debating whether to send a reporter overseas at a cost of $10,000 to $15,000, and I decided we would spend the money instead having a network of Montrealers from the various ethnic communities involved in the Cup cover the games that were relevant to their teams. We had them go into bars and restaurants and community centres and individual homes to report on how each community was cheering on its favourites. Then we ran their reports in their mother tongues and in English translation. It was not easy, but to me it epitomized the inclusiveness that is possible in a multicultural country such as Canada, and that should be the goal of every media organization in the country. It is, after all, about putting the human first, no matter what the story.
Comment: How do you plan your work?
PS: Well, I finally taught myself to stop using napkins from the café downstairs as planning documents because the mayonnaise from sandwiches and the rings from the coffee cup give them an artistic dimension that cloaks their total unreliability when it comes to decoding what I've written down. We have a very detailed scheduling system that allows us to map out issues a year in advance, but the truth is that I mostly wander around and ask the team, "What are we doing now?" If they don't know, we're all in trouble, but someone always does. All of this is to say that in this business, knowing how to change plans is a lot more important than knowing how to make them. In magazines, content falls through, pictures don't arrive, pages get bumped by advertising and then the advertising gets pulled and the page has to go back in. Change is a day to day reality, which is a little easier than newspapers where it can be hour to hour.
Comment: How does your work connect to other aspects of your life?
PS: It has been a long, long time since I was eight years old, but I am still determined to be a reader and a writer when I grow up. There is a reason our Lord made such powerful use of parables: human life is all about stories and the images that illuminate them for us. | <urn:uuid:da97e4b8-9836-4226-a5f0-82651c1fa135> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/769/qa-with-peter-stockland-editor-in-chief-readers-digest-canada/ | 2016-05-28T09:54:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277592.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00019-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982246 | 1,672 |
The biggest misconception today is that the vehicles are electric, said Jack Nerad, executive director-auto analysis at the Kelley Blue Book website, kbb.com, and author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles." Although all the models for sale to the public have electric motors, none need to be plugged in.
The Ford Escape uses Toyota technology.
More Info:Ad Age's Hybrids for Dummies
Instead, they come with an electric motor, a gas engine and a battery pack that collects energy converted during braking to help recharge the battery, Mr. Nerad said. The systems capture energy that would be wasted by a conventional gas engine.
While systems vary by manufacturer, they all work basically the same, he said. Virtually all hybrids are most fuel-efficient in stop-and-go driving. Where they differ is in power, delivery and smoothness of ride -- yet the marketing largely focuses on what they have in common rather than what sets them apart.
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At the conclusion of each team's competitive season, the head coach must identify to the Compliance Office any student-athlete who they believe qualifies for a medical hardship waiver. In order to qualify for a medical hardship waiver, a student-athlete must meet the following NCAA criteria:
The compliance staff shall compile the necessary documentation and submit a medical hardship waiver request to the Big 12 Conference office for consideration. The conference office can either staff approve/deny the waiver request or forward it to the Faculty Athletics Representative Committee (FARC) for review. In any instance, once a decision is rendered and communicated back to the compliance staff, the head coach and the student-athlete shall be immediately informed of the decision. Please note that failure to request a medical hardship waiver in the academic year of the actual injury could result in a forfeiture of the waiver. | <urn:uuid:d07a6776-4f41-4012-9027-e387699f04d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.baylorbears.com/compliance/manual-sect11.html | 2016-08-30T03:15:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982968912.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200928-00293-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891274 | 203 |
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The South Florida Cultural Consortium operates under an inter-local government agreement to coordinate projects and share resources for the growth of South Florida cultural activities, organizations and artists. It provides regional cultural planning, new project development, statewide cultural marketing, information sharing, regional arts education training and support for ethnic and rural audience development.
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WATT Global Media announces the addition of two staff members, including Elizabeth Doughman and Courtney Allen. The company continues to build resources for client-focused solutions, including digital media and events, for the agrifood and pet food industries.
Elizabeth Doughman joined WATT Global Media as Managing Editor. Doughman is responsible for producing content for the Poultry Future newsletter and WATTAgnet.com. She also assists with planning for the Chicken Marketing Summit and Poultry Tech Summit events.
Previously, Doughman was the Editor in Chief of Laboratory Equipment Magazine for Advantage Business Marketing (formerly Vicon Publishing). Doughman holds a B.S. in Animal Science from the University of Kentucky. She also holds an M.A. in Journalism from Northeastern University. Doughman resides in New Hampshire and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
In addition, Courtney Allen joined WATT Global Media in the position of Event Operations Manager. Allen is responsible for operational delivery of the company’s schedule of annual exhibitions, smaller events and conferences in the U.S. and international. This includes pet food and agrifood events.
With over 20 years of event experience, Allen previously worked for Global CIF and Urban Expositions in trade show and event operation management positions. Allen resides in Georgia and can be reached at email@example.com.
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September 27 2009 05:17PM
And so the preseason that saw the return of Mike Comrie, the continued fall of Rob Schremp and the dehydration of Nikolai Khabibulin draws to a close with tonight’s tilt against the Canucks. And about time if you ask us – although an uninspired preseason could lead to a brick of a start to the regular season too.
We have had the honour of observing a great many of these preseason games and like many in the Nation we are starting to shake our head at the preseason version of these Edmonton Oilers of ours. To say that the Oilers have been, well unemotional at best, is an understatement.
Anyone catch the game against the Flames? Good gravy was that a stink bomb. And the most recent outing against the Bolts? It probably left many in the City of Winnipeg thankful they haven’t had to pay that kind of money to watch that bad of an end to a game since the Jets left.
Yes, it’s a nerve racking time to be a fan of the 2009-2010 Edmonton Oilers. We traditionally use this preseason hockey to irrationally seize upon heroes, goats or anything in between to carry us through the long winter. And with the exception of Comrie's four point night and the continued emergence of young Eberle, there hasn't been much for us to get wound up about.
Hopefully the Mighty Oil can start to show some life in this final preseason game tonight. We would be even more concerned if it weren’t for the presence of Coaching Newbies Pat Quinn and Tom Renney though. They seem to be watching things from the bench, arms crossed in thinkery and building some sort of plan. One must imagine that they have come to the following conclusions:
Fact: Sheldon Souray can wire the puck. This probably took about eleven seconds for the Coaching Staff to figure out, if they didn't already know it to begin with. Mr Sexy hasn't lost a step nor a MPH over the offseason and should be counted on to have another excellent campaign.
Fact: Jordan Eberle will eventually be a dandy. Even if the kid is eventually sent back down to Junior, Jordan Eberle has stamped his mark on the hearts of many an Oiler fan in the past couple of weeks. It may not be today, but at some point in the near future he is going to take to the ice for his rookie campaign as an Oiler and will give us many a thrill in the process.
Fact: Khabibulin is old and old things tend to try out quickly. So what exactly happened the other night against the Flames to our new 'tender? (whispers in ear) He got dehydrated? Doesn't that only happen to long distance Kenyan runners on mile 367 of a marathon? It happened in preseason hockey? How many years have we signed him for?
(insert awkward pause here)
Fact: The Oilers in their current state absolutely blow at faceoffs. This is really starting to get out of control. We watched the game against the Lightning with a buddy who doesn't really follow hockey all too much. We consider him a work in progress and often sit him in front of a TV and ply him with alcahol and explain all of the tiny details about the Oilers that he could never figure out on his own. At some point during the third period he leaned over and said "boy, the Oilers sure aren't good at winning those puck drops are they?"
When a European-Canadian of dubious lineage, who doesn't even follow the game can spot this glaring hole - things are getting dire indeed.
Fact: The only thing lower than the faceoff % of these here Oilers is their emot-o-meter as seen is the graph below charting the performance of the Oilers in the preseason:
Job Numero Uno Tonight: EMOTION
Alrighty Oilers. Listen up and listen good. It seems that the entire corps of Centremen have somehow made it into the NHL without passing Faceoffs 101 in Minor Hockey. We will leave this glaring and horrifying hole aside for the moment in the hope that you are merely saving all your faceoff wins for the regular season.
There are few other valid excuses for your absolutely abysmal performance in the circle of late. But there are even fewer reasons we can think of that would justify the cyborgian lack of emotion you have been displaying thus far. We have seen long term coma patients that have more jump to them than you.
Despite our better judgement we will be in RX1 again this evening, crushing $8 hockey beers and trying to pretend that things are going to be OK. Maybe do your increasingly nervous fans a favour and show a little jump on the eve of the regular season will you? Geez.
Here are your lineups for tonight’s game, courtesy of the Oilers website. Try and guess which team is which!
Khabibulin gets the start, Pisani, Moreau and Pouliot remain injured.
5 Ladislav Smid D 10 Shawn Horcoff C 13 Andrew Cogliano LW 19 Patrick O'Sullivan RW 22 J-F Jacques LW 24 Steve Staios D 27 Dustin Penner LW 33 Steve MacIntyre RW 35 Nikolai Khabibulin G 38 Jeff Deslauriers G 43 Jason Strudwick D 44 Sheldon Souray D 46 Zack Stortini RW 67 Gilbert Brule C 71 Lubomir Visnovsky D 77 Tom Gilbert D 83 Ales Hemsky RW 85 Liam Reddox LW 89 Sam Gagner C 91 Mike Comrie C
And here is your other lineup, starting with Cory Schneider in net. A suckier bunch of sucks hath not existed if you ask us:
3 Kevin Bieksa D 5 Christian Ehrhoff D 6 Sami Salo D 8 Willie Mitchell D 14 Alex Burrows RW 18 Steve Bernier RW 21 Mason Raymond LW 22 Daniel Sedin LW 24 Darcy Hordichuk LW 29 Aaron Rome D 30 Andrew Raycroft G 33 Henrik Sedin C 35 Cory Schneider G 37 Rick Rypien C 39 Cody Hodgson C 42 Kyle Wellwood C 55 Shane O'Brien D 56 Matt Pope RW 65 Sergei Shirokov 73 Tanner Glass RW
Did anyone notice the Canucks have a player named Tanner Glass? Is that a terrible name or what?
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Recently we lost our mother and friend Lucille C. (Maguy) Pepin to leukemia. I would like to publicly say "thank you" to all her caregivers we have met in the course of this journey and make people aware of the fine care that is available to us on a local level.
First to Dr. Snioch, her primary-care physician and her assistant, Rebecca Foster, who were the most dedicated and kind people. The compassionate care they gave to my mom and to us all show they have truly dedicated themselves to their profession.
Next to Dr Rouney (specialist) and assistant Ilsa Grunder, who gave my mom years of comfortable pain-free care for the last few years. The decisions they made worked so well to give Lucille the best quality of life she could have had during her illness.
Last to Dr.Ujay Kasturi at UMass Worcester. This man is the ultimate in compassion and caring. He had the task of telling us that Lucille was terminally ill and did it in the most caring and compassionate way possible. He cried with us and consoled us along the way. To the staff of The Highlands, the biggest "thank you" ever for being who you are. We wish to thank and commend everyone including Bethaney in admissions, the fourth-floor nurses we met along the way including Lynn, Mary and Donna, as well as the aides and everyone we came in contact with.
These people all show us what can happen when people only care for each other because we are people. We were strangers in a new environment and dealing with a stressful situation.
To everyone we met at HealthAlliance Hospital Emergency room, UMass Worcester and at The Highlands in Fitchburg we say "thank you." It was a privelige to know all of you. The family of Lucille C (Maguy) Pepin.
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Who Wants to Replace Taveras as Mayor?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras hasn’t announced he will run for Governor, but a number of candidates are already lining up to replace him should he declare.
Speculation has been swirling for months over who would seat the mayoral seat if Taveras seeks higher office, with a long roster of suspected candidates. But over the course of several interviews with city sources several figures have consistently emerged as those who are seriously considering a mayoral run. Some are new to politics and some are veterans of the local scene while others would be first-time candidates. They include the following:
The sitting City Council President was the first candidate to declare, earlier this year, that he would run for mayor if Taveras didn’t. Solomon, the owner of Wes’ Rib House and Cozy Catering, already has an early lead on fundraising with $183,000 in his campaign accounts by the end of 2012. Solomon, who has been a reliable ally for Taveras, would likely have the backing of much of the Democratic establishment should he run.
Victor Capellan: Capellan has been a school administrator in New York City, Providence, and Fall River, most recently serving as the deputy superintendent in Central Falls. He has run for political office at least once before, mounting an unsuccessful race for state rep in the mid-1990s. He has maintained his ties to the political world since, serving as an adviser to the Taveras campaign and last month was nominated by the Mayor to a post on the city plan commission. That appointment is slated to go before the City Council for approval.
City Councilwoman Sabina Matos has already proven her ability to beat the establish in her upset win against veteran council member Josephine DiRuzzo two years ago. Matos confirmed she is “seriously considering” a run. “I care a lot about the city, so I want to make sure whoever’s mayor next year cares about the city,” she said. Matos, a Dominican immigrant who is the associate director for the New Roots Providence initiative of the Providence Plan, is undaunted by what would likely be an uphill fundraising battle. Currently, Matos has about $1,200 in her campaign accounts.
A local attorney and former longtime City Council member, Lombardi came in second to Taveras in the 2010 Democratic primary. He subsequently retired from the City Council and successfully ran for state rep. But Lombardi reportedly hasn’t lost interest in the office that he was held for a four-months stint as interim mayor. In financial terms, however, Lombardi also faces a steep climb: his campaign accounts currently have a $2,600 balance.
A Providence housing court judge, Roger Williams University law professor, and co-chair of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams, Elorza is said to be seriously eyeing a run for mayor. Asked to comment, Elorza said: “I don’t know what the future holds. Right now, I’m focused on my work as an academic, my work as a judge, and my work in the community.” Elorza is on the board for the Rhode Island Foundation and Miriam Hospital. A lifelong resident of Providence, he said he chose to attend law school at Harvard University after a brief stint working at the New York City offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers. “I know corporate life. It wasn’t what I wanted to do,” Elorza said. He was first appointed to the housing court to replace Taveras by former Mayor David Cicilline.
Fox, who has been House Speaker since 2010, was re-elected in a hard-fought general election race last time around and could be eyeing a move to another office. His name has widely been circulated as a potential mayoral contender, but Fox’s interest in the run is serious, one source said. Like Solomon, Fox would enter the race with a significant political and financial advantage. According to his latest finance report, Fox had a healthy campaign account balance of nearly $164,000.
Should Fox pass on the race, the East Side mantle may fall to state Rep Christopher Blazejewski, still a relative newcomer to elected office, winning his seat in House District 2 in 2010. A Harvard-educated attorney, Blazejewski is well-respected in progressive Democratic circles. He is one of the founders of the Drinking Liberally series and is a co-founder of Young Lawyers for Obama. He currently works at the Boston-based firm, Sherin and Lodgen, LLP.
A potential Cianci comeback is more than simply a talk show ratings gimmick, according to several sources. One source said that Cianci has arranged his contract with WPRO and other commitments so that he is available to run in 2014. Another source suggested that Cianci may be interested to in a third mayoral run to rewrite the story of his tenure as mayor, which ended in 2002 with a federal investigation. Local pollster and political scientist Victor Profughi wondered why Cianci would leave a secure and successful talk-show gig, but one City Hall source noted that with all the recent shake-ups at WPRO—Cianci’s longtime producer was recently let go—Cianci may see an opportunity in a mayoral run. In a brief interview yesterday, Cianci declined to shed any light on his intentions. Asked to comment on what sources had told GoLocalProv, Cianci responded: “It’s very interesting. That’s all I’ll say.” He then added that it was “too early to speculate.”
So far, no potential GOP contenders have stepped forward. The last GOP candidate, Dan Harrop, said he is focused on his race to become state GOP chair, which will be decided at the end of March. Should he lose, he said he would then reconsider his political options. And Jon Scott, a Republican who ran for mayor on the independent ticket, has moved out of state and is not involved in local politics. Although there's no obvious contender waiting in the wings, Harrop said he was nonetheless confident that the party would be putting forward a candidate in the race.
Race remains completely open
Two local political scientists yesterday said there are too many unknown factors to make an assessment about how the race may take shape.
“It’s far too early for observers to make any reliable projections or even suggestions what the final landscape will be. As the media and political pundits have been saying for months, Angel Taveras may very well be a candidate for Governor,” said Tony Affigne, a political scientist at Providence College and a visiting professor in ethnic studies at Brown University. “But until he makes that choice and announces that decision all other [candidates] are purely speculative.”
Variables that hang over the race include the question as to when Taveras makes a decision, how effective potential successors can be in fundraising, how much money can be raised before Taveras makes his decision, and what the political landscape will look like months from now when those questions are resolved, according to Affigne.
Affigne pointed to the outcome of the new city budget as one example of how circumstances could turn on a dime. If the problems arise with the budget, the City Council could lose credibility, hurting the chances of Solomon and Matos. If, on the other hand, the council is perceived as effective in crafting the budget and navigating any other issues that emerge, it could boost their prospects, according to Affigne.
Three Latino candidates evidence of changing dynamics
The fact that three Latino candidates have already emerged as likely contenders—Sabina Matos, Victor Capellan, and Jorge Elorza—is a sign of the rising prominence of the Latino community in city in which Taveras is serving as the first Hispanic mayor. “Having several qualified candidates represents progress for the Latino community because all three of these Latino candidates are credible, visible, experienced community leaders,” Affigne said.
But he said there’s also a downside from a tactical perspective. “It does sometimes split the vote so none of them is able to win election,” Affigne said.
One City Hall source said he believes that all three candidates have an equal shot of winning over the Latino vote. “At this point, all of them have good personal stories to tell and would be able to galvanize a fair component of the Latino electorate,” the source said, adding that as the campaign moves along, other factors, such as their fundraising prowess and organizational strengths, would play a stronger role.
No obvious electoral map to victory for any candidate
Non-Latino candidates, however, could also be at a disadvantage now that the Latino community had a political breakthrough with the city’s first Hispanic mayor, according to Profughi. The question remains whether the Latino community can unite behind one candidate. “If they do, I think it’s going to be hard to go in a different direction,” Profughi said.
But the bigger question, according to Affigne, is not so much whether one of the three can get the Latino community to rally around them, but whether they can build a broad coalition that includes non-Latinos.
It’s been done before, by Angel Taveras, but he had already demonstrated a broader appeal to voters a previous Congressional run, according to Affigne. There is no such track record for any of the three Latino candidates. Elorza has never run for office. Matos’ experience is limited to one out of 15 wards and the House district in which Capellan ran is smaller than a ward, Affigne said.
Taveras won the Democratic primary by building an East Side-South Side Coalition. “There doesn’t seem to be an heir apparent for that,” one City Hall source said.
There’s also the thorny issue as to whom, if anyone, would Taveras endorse. He may face outside pressure to endorse a Latino candidate, but Solomon has also proved a close ally who may be counting on his support in a mayoral campaign, the source added.
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I really like artillery. It`s just facinating to have this big boom.
Thats why I directly bought 2 Helfire Rocket Batteries and painted them at once. This was before I really understood pointcosts and the principles of alliances and allegiances. Atm its 180 points for one of these bad boys. So two of them only barely fit into a free peoples army
I had a lot of fun painting those. in the picture you may see that i magnetized them. One big magnet (5mm) at the end of the gun and a small one in each Wheel. I think they just look better without a base and so they fit to every underground. Man, it`s just fun to paint big rocket guns. I put quit some effort into them. This was the first time i made some color testing:
If i recall it correctly its form left to right: Balthasar Gold, Balthasar Gold and a Layer of Gehennas Gold, Balthasar Gold and a Layer of Auric Amour Gold.
I don`t know anymore(was in april ;)). But I think i went with the Auric Amour Gold variant. Could also be the Gehennas. It`s definitly with heavy Agrax shading. Future projects will be documented here directly so i can always look it up if i forget color combinations i used.
Here the final pics:
At the end I`m really happy with how they turned out. Except for the eyes. I learned to paint better eyes later. Just don`t try to put the black dot in the middle of the white. It looks much much better if the black dot touches the upper of the eye. You`ll see in the next pictures. For example the Empire Great Cannon which is just a gorgeous model and the mother of all artillery pieces 🤩 | <urn:uuid:2fac9f83-b77d-496c-bb4c-c1ee5cf9c13f> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.tga.community/blogs/entry/1735-rockets/ | 2019-01-17T17:57:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583659056.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117163938-20190117185938-00589.warc.gz | en | 0.949863 | 383 |
What Does Family Law Cover?*
There are a vast amount of family law companies offering their services to anyone who may be in need. However, a lot of individuals are not aware of what constitutes as family law and what does not. This blog post will clarify the basics of this legal area in order to give you a better understanding.
In general, family law relates to any law concerning family matters. Therefore, as you may imagine, there are a lot of areas covered. The three main areas of family legalities which will be discussed in this article are; divorce, adoption and parental responsibility.
Divorce is when a marriage has broken apart and cannot be resolved, therefore, it is legally terminated. There are various types of divorce, which all have different legal repercussions, for example, there is mediated divorce, no-fault divorce, and collaborative divorce. Divorce can lead to other family law related issues such as parental rights, maintenance payments, and the division of assets and wealth.
It is no secret that the rate of divorce has increased over the past few years in England. If you are going through marriage issues or are actively seeking a divorce then it is vital to be aware of the country’s divorce law. Family law solicitors are in their plentiful and seeking their advice is something highly advisable.
Before you actively seek out professional aid, though, it is a good idea to be aware of the basics of England’s divorce law, and experts will then do the rest.
In England, divorce will be granted based on whether the breakdown of a couple’s marriage is irreparable. To determine whether this is the case or not, there are five basis grounds for which divorce can be filed and attained upon. These are; adultery, two year’s separation with consent, five year’s separation without consent, unreasonable behaviour, and desertion.
The first ground for divorce mentioned is adultery. This is when one person in the relationship has contributed in a sexual relationship with someone who is not his or her wife or husband. The person who has committed adultery cannot file for divorce on these grounds, only the individual who has been cheated on.
Two years separation with consent is when both individuals have lived apart for two years and they have both agreed to do so. On the other hand, five year’s separation without consent is when the couple has been apart for five years, however, they may be granted a divorce even if one of them does not want one.
Furthermore, unreasonable behaviour is when one of the people involved in the relationship has done something that has made the other person find it impossible to be with them and live with them. This is not as straightforward as other divorce grounds because quantifying what constitutes as unreasonable behaviour can often be difficult.
Finally, the last valid reason for a divorce is desertion. This is when one of the individuals walks out and deserts the other.
Adoption is when someone who is not the biological father or mother of a child assumes for the parenting of the child and legally acquires the right to be their parent. There are a whole host of different types of adoption. One of the common types in family law is when a partner has remarried and their new partner wants to adopt their child, this is known as step parent adoption.
Aside from adopting your stepchild, there are other forms of adoption. Some people adopt because they cannot have children themselves, which is known as independent adoption. Others adopt because they want to help a child that has been abandoned or had a bad upbringing. You can also adopt grandchildren and relatives. Plus, in many parts of the world, it is legal to adopt an adult. The reasons for this include permanent care-giving, close bond with foster family, and heritance.
Parental responsibility alludes to the rights a parent has as a well as their child’s rights. In family law, England based parents have the duty of picking their child’s name, religion and healthcare, as well as ensuring they provide a home for the child, amongst other responsibilities. This includes representing the child in legal proceedings, consenting to taking the child on holidays or abroad, accessing the child’s medical records, and determining where the child goes to school.
The mother of the child automatically has parental responsibility, however, if the mother and father of the child are not married then the rules become varied and often complex in relation to the father. Moreover, if a couple gets divorced, the Mother will not lose parental responsibility because of this. In addition to this, step-fathers and step-mothers do not automatically have any Parental Responsibility. A solicitor will be able to explain the complexities of Parental Responsibility to you in further detail.
As mentioned at the beginning of this text; there are arrays of different legal areas which fall into the category of family law. The three mentioned in this article are provided to give you a general idea of the main issues involved. It is important to remember that if the concern you are facing effects family in any way then the chances are you need a family law firm. Luckily for you, there are a whole host of family law companies waiting to help you out. | <urn:uuid:576f6abf-f42d-447b-a6d9-fe616cf7998b> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://pipmilburn.com/lifestyle/family-law-cover/ | 2018-11-18T08:23:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039744320.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118073231-20181118094628-00030.warc.gz | en | 0.972736 | 1,064 |
[nycphp-talk] MySQL 4 & php any luck?
zaunere at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 6 09:09:24 EST 2003
--- Mike West <mxw65 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I hope I didn't miss it if someone's posted previously, but I can't get
> MySQL 4 and php to play nicely yet. Is there a known issue somewhere? MySQL
> 4's libmysqlclient is at 12 where php wants 10. Anyone else trying to get
> this going?
I just did a compile of 4.3.0 on RH 7.3 against MySQL-Max 4.0.5a without any
issues. If you're compiling from source, be sure to use
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql (or wherever you installed MySQL) as you may
run into problems using PHP's supplied libmysqlcient, most noteably with new
versions of MySQL.
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Legitimate snow dealers
Check out Surfside Sports snow carnival from last weekend, what a success, and great fund raiser as well.
Transworld covered it, check it out here Surfside’s 20th Annual Snow Carnival | TransWorld Business
Check it on YouTube
Travis Rice made an appearance as well, and signed some autographs for the groms!
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By now, some of you might have heard or watched his songs and videos across the internet, therefore, I do apologise to those who have already read about him, but I just couldn't bare to miss out his cute- ness on my site.
His voice? Angelic. His face? Also angelic. All the rest? Well, I'm guess- ing it's a little more complicated than that. And that's doubtless the ap- peal for the growing fan base of singer/songwriter/actor Jay Brannan.
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Marc Garrett interviews Katrina Sluis, the new curator of the Digital Programme at The Photographers' Gallery, London. We discuss about the gallery's recent show Born in 1987: The Animated GIF and what kind of digital exhibitions and projects we can expect from the gallery in the Future.
An edited selection shown on the London Photographers’ Gallery’s new digital wall, during the final weeks of the show. http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-wall-2
The exhibition microsite. An open conversation where anyone can join in and contribute their own GIFs. http://joyofgif.tumblr.com/
Marc garrett: You have joined The Photographers' Gallery and as part of the new digital programme launched the exhibition "Born in 1987: The Animated GIF". Could you tell us about this project?
Katrina Sluis: The digital programme presents projects both online and offline, which respond to recent dramatic shifts in the digital image as it becomes increasingly screen-based and networked. As part of this new programme we have launched ‘The Wall’ – a permanent exhibition space on the ground floor of the Gallery, visible both to visitors and passersby on Ramillies street. The Wall itself is a 2.7 x 3m Sharp video wall which we installed after considering a number of different technologies. We were conscious not to use digital projection as it would locate the project within traditions of cinema and video art, and we wanted the screens to respond to the reception and distribution of images within wider visual culture.
The London Photographers’ Gallery’s new digital wall.
For the opening show, we decided to focus on the animated gif for a number of reasons. Firstly, the gif is a uniquely screen-based image format, in which the specific characteristics and limitations of the image file are inherent to the form, in contrast to the other kinds of images the gallery might show which might adopt digital techniques but result in traditional print-based photographic work destined for the gallery space.
I also wanted to disrupt certain expectations about the screens – the fetishisation of resolution and image quality, and what kinds of photographs The Wall’s programme might seek to address. The animated gif in this sense is very interesting – it is one of the first image file formats native to the web, and although it is 25 years old this year it has been undergoing a resurgence on platforms such as Tumblr. In a commissioned essay for the show, Daniel Rubinstein speculates that current resurgence of the gif “is not only part of the nostalgic turn towards the blurred, the unsharp and the faded but it is also a marker of a moment when the history of the network becomes the material from which the digital image draws its living energy.” Frequently authorless and contextless, the gif image works on a different economy in which its value is based not on its uniqueness and scarcity (as in certain forms of art) but its circulation and proliferation. Although there have been significant practitioners of the gif form, it is a format which ultimately resists canonization. And, in the context of a photography gallery, it opens up other debates concerning medium specificity and the ‘post-photographic’.
In approaching the exhibition, I was keen to ask a diverse range of photographers, writers, organizations and other practitioners to contribute a gif for the show. In keeping with the unmonumental nature of the form, I asked contributors to respond within a short timeframe of 7 days. For many contributors, this was the first time they had made a gif; but other contributors already had large followings on Tumblr and some were established net artists. This opening show and associated Tumblr site (http://joyofgif.tumblr.com) became a starting proposition for the project in order to then open up The Wall to gif contributions from the wider public. We will continue to update The Wall with public responses on a daily basis until the final day of the show on 10th July.
GIF Image by Jaime Martinez.
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF.
The Photographers' Gallery 2012
MG: At first, some may assume that the first part of the exhibition title 'Born in 1987', refers to the fact that today so many young people using computers these days were born in 1987. Yet, the GIF format, short for 'Graphics Interchange Format', was introduced to the world of computers by CompuServe in 1987. Was the title of the show deliberately playing with both notions?
KS: I like this idea! The title does self consciously play with the way in which the digital is valorised for its endless ‘newness’ and novelty but yet has this long and frequently overlooked history of creative experimentation. You can also see this reflected in the recent hype around the work of Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck who have (problematically and entrepreneurially) re-branded the gif as the ‘cinemagraph’.
MG: Do you consider this project to be net art, if so, how does it relate to other forms of net art?
KS: The project (and The Wall’s programming) does pose certain problems as it seeks to relocate certain forms of online practice(s) into the space of the art museum. At the same time, the project exists in an online context with its own very different life on Tumbr, where the work circulates in a very different context with a very different audience. I think there are many interesting opportunities which emerge from this intersection of the institutional frame of the museum (with its associated issues of cultural and curatorial authority and the legacy of aesthetic modernism) and the values and politics which inform certain kinds of networked arts practices.
But I also think the project also needs to be understood in the specific context of The Photographers’ Gallery, its history and audience. Whilst the project shares the concerns of net art by raising questions concerning authenticity, authorship and ‘the social’, it is also motivated by the need to rethink familiar notions of photography and temporality, indexicality and the economy of the image – concerns which presently haunt the field of photography theory.
Kennard Phillipps. GIF image by Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps.
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF.
The Photographers' Gallery 2012
Rad Racer glitch 3. GIF image by tracekaiser.
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF.
The Photographers' Gallery. 2012
MG: In what way do you see this form of creativity relating to others who may not be so well versed with net art culture, or digital networked practices?
KS: The Wall presents an opportunity for the Gallery to collaborate with diverse communities who can bring their distinct expertise and experiences to the programme, and the net art community has much to offer in this respect. For this reason, we aim to develop The Wall’s future programme through the framework of ‘collaborative research’, in which our audience, along with the organizations we partner with, are potential co-researchers. The co-researcher model developed as an approach to research democracy in the Social Sciences, particularly in the approach of Action Research in the NHS but in a more relevant cultural example was used extensively in the Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Culture research project. Co-research recognises both the collaborative and collective nature of meaning construction, through a process which attempts to trace and reveal the complex manufacture of meaning.
At the same time, there is still another related project to be done in highlighting and responding to digital projects whose life is online - this is of course something I admire Furtherfield for doing so brilliantly. On a smaller scale and with a more narrow focus, we hope to launch a blog which will draw attention to online work which relate to photography as it becomes polluted, valorized, hybridized and networked.
GIF image by Paul Flannery. Born in 1987: The Animated GIF.
The Photographers' Gallery. 2012
MG: Some, may view this this exhibition as relating to Internet Folk Art. There is an interesting article by Kenneth Goldsmith where he discusses the digital theorist Rick Prelinger's claim "that archiving is the new folk art, something that is widely practiced and has unconsciously become integrated into a great many people’s lives, potentially transforming a necessity into a work of art."
Now, this is not directly relating to the show itself, but it resonates something regarding the inclusiveness of the show. So, in respect of it 'possibly' possessing aspects of Folk Art, what connections do you see as relevant or not, and what does it mean to you?
Yellow Shirt. GIF image by Oncetoforever.
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF.
The Photographers' Gallery. 2012
KS: By focusing on the gif the show does problematise the distinction between artist and audience, in which participation, openness and the ‘crafting’ of the image becomes key. However I have reservations about the use of the term Internet folk art, which could be construed as imposing a certain modernist logic on the discussion, burdening it with an analogue modeling of high and low culture. The research approach has been adopted precisely to avoid the trap of binary nominalism, and to problematise the tendency to shoe horn internet practices into the language of cultural studies and aesthetics.
MG: The Photographers’ Gallery was the first independent gallery in Britain devoted to photography and has been going since the 70s. It is the UK's primary venue for photography and has been dedicated in establishing photography as an essential medium, representing its practice in culture and society. It seems that The Photographers' Gallery is going through another transition. You have already mentioned how hybridized and networked the nature of future projects will be. So what kind of exhibitions and projects can we expect in the future?
KS: Because digital technology is not in itself a new photographic medium, but essentially a hybrid and converged set of technological practices, it raises many interesting problems, both theoretical and practical for a Gallery focused on photography. To the computer, the photograph is indistinguishable from the other binary blobs of data we used to call books, films and songs. The crisis of digitization and medium specificity now extends to the domain of the camera - Digital SLRs are coveted for their ability to shoot high quality digital video, and we turn to our mobile phones when we want to take snapshots. This is a very rich context for the programme to explore, and ideally the future projects will respond to the technical, creative and cultural languages of photography as produced by computer engineers, web developers, photographers, artists, networked communities, social scientists and other practitioners.
Our next show on The Wall (opening 13th July) features the practice based research of Susan Sloan into portraiture using motion capture and 3D animation techniques widely used in entertainment, medicine and the military. Her motion studies refer to the traditions and conventions of portraiture and the changing role of the camera as a recording device. At the same time, her work raises questions concerning the convergence of painting, animation, film and photography in the digital realm.
The future digital programme which will occupy different spaces and address various photographic practices including augmented reality, social media, electronic publishing, interactive media, mobile computing and synthetic imaging.
Gif Today by Daniel Rubinstein.
Kennard Phillipps is the collaboration between artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps established in 2002 in opposition to the ensuing invasion and occupation of Iraq. Intended both as objects of dissent and as tools for political change kennardphillipps’ work spans multiple practices made for various art audiences, public and commercial galleries and museums, street protests, newspapers and magazines and the internet’s blogosphere. http://www.kennardphillipps.com
Rollin Leonard earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota USA in 2007. He has shown large-scale video installations, paintings, photographic prints, and web-based work since 2004. His medium varies but his conceptual approach is consistent — projecting the logic, meaning, or pattern from one domain into another. http://www.rollinleonard.com
Paul Flannery lives and works in London. Working across a variety of media, online and off, he makes drawings, collages and animations. His work is often sourced from the sub-cultures and detritus of the internet, mixing found images, footage and decoration into carefully crafted compositions and associations. www.paulflannery.co.uk
Archiving Is The New Folk Art. By Kenneth Goldsmith
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As the news of Chicago's deadly Fourth of July weekend makes national headlines anti-violence groups are also in the spotlight.
Activists say community-based groups are more important now than ever before - to give young people better choices.
"We have to make sure that they are not in the criminal system, we have to make sure that they get a good education and we have to make sure that they get jobs so life does not feel hopeless for them," said Rev. Marrice Coverson of the Positive Living Institute.
Rev. Coverson is a minister at a North Side church, but she spends much of her time on the South Side.
Her church helps to support the Positive Living Institute, on the 3600 Block of S. Rhodes Ave.
For 16 years running, this remarkable after-school and summer program has been a safe haven for countless Chicago children.
Rev. Coverson lost her only child to gun violence in 2002. Ronald Coverson was an innocent victim, killed during a brutal carjacking.
The problems of gangs and guns are so difficult to solve, with no quick or easy solutions.
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The awarding ceremony of the Platonov Award, which will be held on June 11 at 15:00 at the Spartak cinema, will be followed by a meeting with the winner of the award, a Russian film-maker Alexander Sokurov, and a screening of his new film "Francofonia". Traditionally, the governor of Voronezh region Aleksey Gordeev will take part in the ceremony.
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Reps. Reichert and DelBene Issue Joint Statement of Congratulations to City of Redmond
Mr. Speaker, as the two members who have the honor of representing this city today and in the future, I rise with my colleague Representative Suzan DelBene to honor the centennial anniversary of the City of Redmond, celebrated today, December 31, 2012.
First incorporated in 1912, eligible thanks to the birth of its 300th citizen, Redmond began as a small logging community. A century later, it has turned into a vibrant urban center of 55,000 that still maintains its strong sense of community and is proud of its small-town feel.
Over the last century, Redmond has evolved from logging town, to a small bedroom community east of the big city, to a bustling city in itself. Today, it’s home to some of the most prominent high tech companies in the world. Redmond’s tremendous growth has been fueled by the pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit of the town’s first settlers and, in the century since, has attracted and inspired generations of Washingtonians to turn Redmond into a premier economic engine for the 21st century.
With all this growth and change, Redmond continues to maintain a deep sense of friendship and community. For example, Mr. Speaker, the Redmond Derby Days, a city celebration that grew out of a bicycle race among local paperboys after the depression, is going strong after 70 years. The Derby Days are bigger and better than ever and today, the signature event has the honor of being the nation’s longest running bicycle race.
Over the last few years, we have both enjoyed participating in so many activities and events in beautiful Redmond and are honored to represent the great people of this city.
With the further expansion of mass transit, Redmond has an amazing opportunity to continue its growth and impact neighboring cities. Together with Seattle and environs, its influence contributes to form a region that is vibrant, attractive for business and a great place to live, work and raise a family. As Mayor Marchione, along with all of Redmond’s dedicated City Council members, continue to build on Redmond’s rich history, we look forward to watching and aiding with the city’s success in years to come.
Mr. Speaker, Representative DelBene and I again offer congratulations to the City of Redmond for a wonderful, rich first century and together wish them the best as they move into their second century of prosperity.
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It turns out the rest of his Packers teammates were enraged, too.
Lang, who filled Twitter with an expletive-laden rant after the Packers lost to the Seahawks on a controversial last-second call, said the Packers spent their flight home Monday night discussing ways to show the NFL how upset they were about the result.
Players discussed going on strike or taking a knee on every play in upcoming games if the replacement referees are not removed, Lang said on 97.1 the Ticket in Detroit, according to CBSLocal.com.
"Whatever it takes," Lang said. "It's just a total embarrassment to everybody watching the game, the players in the game. It's not fun to be part of something like that. … If it keeps going on, it's going to get ugly."
The players were already upset on the field during the general confusion after the final play, when the refs had mixed judgments about the call then spent time reviewing it. But once the players got back to the locker room and saw the replays, the anger really started to boil over, Lang said.
About 20 players were throwing things at the TV, Lang confirmed.
"I've never been part of anything like that," he said. "It's hard to blame officials for that loss. You never want to use that excuse … but after we saw the replay and all the reaction from the newscasters on ESPN…. We got robbed."
Lang said he doesn't regret his initial reaction, and he hopes more people will speak out. | <urn:uuid:300b53a4-f55d-4e27-b4ec-2250da61f930> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://nesn.com/2012/09/tj-lang-says-packers-considered-strike-intentional-kneel-downs-during-anger-filled-reaction-to-blown/ | 2017-04-25T03:01:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120092.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00065-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985041 | 315 |
Every Apple Watch deserves a good charging stand. The W5 from Elago takes you back in time with a one-of-a-kind design that resembles an iconic handheld gaming console.
Made from high-quality silicone, it’s simple, sturdy and surprisingly affordable. It’s also compatible with every Apple Watch ever made. Here’s why we think the Elago W5 charging stand is a great way to spend $19.
Awesome Apple Watch accessories don’t have to be expensive. Elago has proven that with its unique collection of stands and cases that cost next to nothing. The W5 is a perfect example of this (which helps explain why it is such a big seller in the Cult of Mac Store).
Elago W5 review
The W5 is unlike any Apple Watch stand I ever used before, so I snapped one up as soon as Elago started selling its products through the Cult of Mac Store. Its charming design, inspired by Nintendo’s hugely successful Game Boy, immediately evokes memories of retro gaming. Plus, the attention to detail is outstanding.
The W5 has Game Boy-style buttons and features in all the right places, including a faux speaker grille on its front and a battery door on its back. First, insert your Apple Watch magnetic charging cable into the Elago stand. Then, your Apple Watch becomes the Game Boy’s screen when you slide it inside the stand for charging. It’s just a shame it can’t run Super Mario Bros. and other classic Nintendo titles.
The W5 is made from premium silicone, so it’s virtually unbreakable. And it protects your Apple Watch while it’s charging. It doesn’t matter how many times you happen to knock it over in the middle of the night; both stand and Watch will be just fine. This also means you can take the W5 with you when you travel and you don’t need to worry about it getting bent out of shape in the bottom of your bag or suitcase.
A steal at just $19
At less than $20, the W5 offers terrific value for your money. It offers everything you need from an Apple Watch stand in a cute, compact package that is ideal for any gamer. You can order yours today in a number of color options (black, red, blue and light gray).
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Content Ain't King, Neither is Elvis
Most of us remember the admonishment from the heady days of the 1990’s Internet craze that “content is King.” Like most trite bits of purported wisdom from those days it has since been disproved, and in its debunking lies a lesson for savvy CIOs.
It is difficult to think of an industry more tied to content than the big media players. Their entire existence revolves around content, and they spend their time recruiting new artists, producing and marketing new content, and getting it into the hands of consumers. For decades, these companies fought to stay on the cutting edge of consumer tastes, and match their content accordingly. However, they completely missed one dramatic shift: that consumers cared not just about the content, but how it is delivered, as well.
With cheap storage and fast network connections, the world of media distribution was turned on its head almost overnight. One of the biggest groups of content consumers, college- and high school-age people, suddenly were given the ability to share music and video rapidly. Why go to a music store and battle your peers to grab the latest hot CD when you could be listening to the song on your laptop in a minute—and have your own mixed CD in a few minutes more?
Not only was this a dramatically more convenient distribution channel, but since it was not supported by the content companies, it was also free, albeit illegal. Now, nearly a decade after the rise and fall of Napster, in many cases, it is still easier to find content through “unorthodox” distribution channels than those sanctioned by the media companies. Restrictions and limited selections make content acquisition a hassle; even for those with money in hand and a willingness to pay for convenience and unrestricted use. In many areas, the media companies remain ignorant that the distribution method is part of the media experience. Making distribution both effective and simple is a product many consumers are willing to pay for.
So how does this apply to corporate IT? Like the media industry, for too long we have been focused on content rather than a holistic experience. While the latest James Bond film is probably a bit more of a compelling “experience” than a CRM deployment, the failings of the media industry are quite illustrative of some of the challenges facing CIOs.
Apple Strikes Back
Just as iPods came to be the bane of many media executives lives, each tiny white box representing thousands of dollars of pirated music, the iPhone has become loathed by many a CIO. No longer content to use corporate-mandated devices and follow the rules, everyone from C-suite peers to mailroom clerks are showing up with iPhones. And the more tech-savvy are doing their best to circumvent IT policy and use the devices on the corporate network.
Just as there is no perfect approach to combating media piracy, there is no perfect approach to the influx of devices and software that workers are increasingly bringing into their corporations. All the IT policy restrictions in the world will be about as effective as media company’s efforts to stem piracy through cheeky anti-piracy commercials. Your user community has made the shift and is focused on the experience of their interactions with corporate IT, policy be dammed. Have you made that shift, too?
IT is an Experience
While you do not generally get a nice big bin of popcorn when you arrive at work (and thankfully the floors are a bit less sticky—or should be!) IT too shares a key dimension with the media industry in that the products and services IT delivers are part of a larger experience. Like media, we tend to forget that IT is more than content. If you don’t believe this assertion, page through your nearest IT rag, or look through the annuals of your failed projects and you are sure to find an IT project that was technically complete, but ended up unsuccessful. It doesn't matter that the code was top notch and the hardware first-rate, something as simple as a change in the business environment or the whims of end users rendered the project irrelevant.
CIOs can learn from the media industry’s mistakes by looking not only at the content they are delivering (and that content could be anything from a shiny new VoIP phone system to a massive ERP package), but at how it is being distributed and how their end-users expect to interact with the content. For example, if you are implementing a new business intelligence package, don’t focus on all the wonderful data you will have locked up in the package, focus on the streamlined ways users can interact with the data. You are in fact giving “power to the people” by letting them pull data and slice and dice it on their terms.
For a large systems implementation like a CRM package, look at how the sales force’s daily lives will change based on the required interactions with the system, and develop a plan to compensate reps for their adoption of the new way of doing business. In short, look at corporate IT as providing a complete experience, not dumping technology on unsuspecting victims.
Looking at IT in this manner unifies formerly disparate areas like change management and process improvement. When content is no longer king and the end-user experience paramount, things like process tweaks become key to IT success rather than an afterthought at the 11th hour. In essence, your IT activities are aiming squarely for a successful end-user experience, rather than technically successful endeavors that become overall failures due to an extreme focus on content.
Patrick Gray is the founder and president of Prevoyance Group, and author of Breakthrough IT: Supercharging Organizational Value through Technology. Prevoyance Group provides strategic IT consulting services to Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Patrick can be reached at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:8025d69a-51d7-4e6d-8d27-e8d244753951> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.cioupdate.com/print/insights/article.php/3799671/Content-Ain146t-King-Neither-is-Elvis.htm | 2017-05-27T08:10:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608877.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527075209-20170527095209-00461.warc.gz | en | 0.959579 | 1,199 |
I’m afraid we’ve had bad news about the publication of John French’s book. It’s now no longer going to be published this June.
Proper Records have not taken the decision lightly. But as this was their first foray into the world of book publishing they have now realised that a book cannot be turned around as quickly as a CD and marketed effectively in that short time. Ultimately they want to do what’s best for John and his book … but it’s still a bummer none the less!
The book’s now likely to be published next year. We’ll bring you news, of course, as soon as we hear any.
We’ve been told that a new website will be appearing with photos and extracts from the book to whet our appetites (as if they weren’t already whetted, I’ve been drooling like a rabid dog for months!) … details will appear on this blog when we get them. | <urn:uuid:91bebe9d-cf90-4ea8-b94c-04a94870bd6e> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.beefheart.com/through-the-eyes-closed/ | 2014-09-21T10:03:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657135396.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011215-00174-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97807 | 211 |
Rehabilitation Therapy Supplies, E-Cigarette, Other, Other
Packaging & Delivery
Each piece packed in individual box.
Packing cab be Customized as per Buyer Requirement
We, Sana Traders, are founded in 2004. We started our business with a warehouse and packaging unit. Now we are operating two factories in Karachi Manufacturing rock salt products, and have ample arrangements for supply for wide range of minerals. Customer satisfaction is our company's primary goal and to achieve this we strive to deliver the quality of goods according to the requirements. Sana Traders is a registered member of TDAP (Trade Development Authority of Pakistan), FPCCI (Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and KCCI (Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
1. Rock Salt
2. Marble Onyx Handicrafts
3. Minerals, etc.
Custom Natural Himalayan Rock Salt Pipe Inhaler:
Himalayan salt inhalers are carefully designed inhalers filled with natural Himalayan Rock Salt Granules
Available in three sizes:
Medium 2.5" x 5" Large 2.75" x 5"
These Inhalers can be customised as per customer's requirement.
Company's OEM logo can also be printed on the inhaler with GIFT Box. | <urn:uuid:73430e9b-a01a-4c17-b7c5-51bc2f72308c> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://sanatraders.trustpass.alibaba.com/product/151256323-230404129/Inhaler_Pipe_Salt_Inhaler_Himalayan_Salt_Inhaler_Salt_Pipe.html | 2018-10-23T15:49:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516480.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023153446-20181023174946-00365.warc.gz | en | 0.868906 | 271 |
Adult-themed Blogger sites might soon be in for some trouble with the platform's owner, Google.
Blogger Violet Blue on Thursday tweeted a notice Google sent out to bloggers warning them that as of June 30, the search giant will be updating the Blogger Content Policy to "strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger."
According to Google, there are some Blogger pages that are adult-themed in nature and have ads promoting adult Web sites. After the policy change takes effect, the company will take down any blogs that are still promoting those sites.
"If your adult blog currently has advertisements which are adult in nature," Google wrote to adult-themed Blogger writers, "you should remove them as soon as possible to avoid any potential Terms of Service violation and/or content removals."
Google's current terms of service on Blogger allow for the posting of adult content, but asks that users not make any money off that. It appears now that Google is modifying that item to make clear it will no longer allow monetization on adult content on the platform.
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1 - It's on as Kelly Smith slices into the box - even two years ago, that would have been a shot on goal, but she hesitates and her eventual shot gets blocked.
3 - France recover from their bobbling start, look more comfortable in midfield.
4 - Abily from distance goes over, but not by much.
5 - Fara Williams earns an early yellow for a late tackle.
7 - Delie with a decent, but predictable cross that gets blocked and cleared by Jill Scott.
8 - Corner for France, with another attack down the same side. It's handled easily by England, who despite not having much of the ball so far, seem determined to get the job done. Their ball play may not be pretty, but I'm not betting against them yet. They look primed to squash the more technical French by following Germany's game plan.
11 - Sure enough, England now have a corner of their own and it looks dangerous - until the referee whistle saves the day for France after the goalkeeper failed to collect.
13 - France have a huge share of the possession, but they don't seem confident. Maybe it's because the backup goalkeeper is in goal.
15 - France send a ball into the England box and really both teams just watch it until is goes out over the endline.
17 - Yankey bends in a sweet cross and Deville leaps for it, comes down safely. That could give her teammates more belief in her.
18 - Or not. France on the break, ruin the chance with an overexcited, overhit pass.
19 - K. Smith is offside. She also looks tired, which is surprising, as the game isn't yet 20 minutes old.
20 - Now it is.
22 - Corner for England gets cleared.
23 - France counter gets ruined by Thiney offside.
25 - France finally more effective on the counter. With room, Delie crosses to Thiney, who cranks a shot that has Bardsley diving to save.
27 - Necib goes down, but the ref isn't impressed - waits for the next knock to whistle.
29 - England attack wilts on offside call.
30 - France corner earned by Delie - leads to a Necib shot that zings too high.
31 - One again, France ruin their excellent build-up with nerves - Thiney's pass for Delie is too hard.
33 - And again.
35 - England with a chance on the long pass, but DeVille is able to get it.
37 - France have a freekick, and Necib puts it on goal, forcing Bardsley to punch it over.
38 - The corner is cleared by England, but France puts the ball back in - wide.
39 - Wide shot from distance by Abily. They're just raining pain on England, but no kill shot yet.
40 - Ouch. Bardsley, coming out to catch a corner, pins Lepailleur against the post as she falls. That hurt.
43 - France's possession is getting ridiculous - which means England is probably about to score. That's soccer.
44 - England work like crazy to deny France another look at goal - which is not the same as trying to mount an attack.
45 - England defenders passing the ball in the final moments of the half - to each other. Kelly Smith is on the ball - oh, it's taken from her. England do manage to eventually earn a corner. It's cleared.
45 + The whistle blows and it's even only where it matters, on the scoreline, otherwise, England have been taken to the woodshed.
47 - Yankey in the box, but DeVille catches her cross. Powell must have yelled at her players.
48 - Delie in for France - but she isn't right on the ball - and no one else from France is there to help.
49 - Delie! Just wide.
51 - Well, it's back to what was - England deep defending, France pressing, nothing quite coming off.
53 - Seriously, Markgraf, a smile isn't going to instantly make Kelly Smith play better. I'll say what others seem too polite to mention - she isn't the player she was. She's tired.
55 - Scott just over the top! England may steal this yet, even with a fading Smith. France has wasted too many chances.
59 - GOAL! It's Scott! France's backline sags, and the long pass works perfectly (with some help from Smith's handball) and Scott gets a shot that she bends well around the out-of-position DeVille. 1-0 England.
61 - Numerous Les Bluettes in the box, but it's no good, no one gets a shot in on goal.
63 - It's sad, but England's direct approach is making France's slick little passes look like a waste of time.
64 - Smith is pissed at Bompastor's embellishment of a foul. Um, hey, handball princess, worry about your own game.
65 - Bardsley hangs on to the Necib freekick.
67 - Delie misses from close, but it was a tough angle.
68 - Elodie Thomis is in for Soubeyrand.
69 - Thomis in the box and her excellent cross is cut out by Smith just before it reaches a teammate.
71 - Sometimes the better team doesn't win. That's soccer.
72 - Maybe even the ref thinks that's an injustice. England's practical defending - pushing Thomis away from the box even before she's into the box, gets whistled for a freekick here. Bompastor gets a corner off the deflection from the wall, but Bardsley eventually collects.
74 - England corner cleared by France, who now look despairing of getting the equalizer. Seriously, this lack of confidence for them is depressing.
77 - Thomis in the box, Bardsley saves, and the follow by Delie is blocked out. As France collect to attack again, Georges is upended by a late E.White tackle. Yellow.
78 - The handball princesses, plural, now - in that scramble in the England box, A. Scott blocked the ball with her hand as well. Ref missed it.
80 - Bretigny in for Necib.
81 - France is getting crabby. It must be depressing to have 80 % possession, nearly 20 more shots on goal, and not a single tally.
82 - Getting pissy is not helping their passing game, however.
84 - Yankey, the quiet workhorse, is coming out of the match.
85 - Thomis breaks free to catch a pass - she's one on one with Bardsley - through the legs, Thomis! - put she puts the shot straight into the body.
86 - Double corner for France and England repels both, the player on the post heading away one attempt.
88 - GOAL! Off the crossbar from Bussaglia - the luckiest, most speculative shot of all - from the top of the box as the ball popped out from the pass going into Delie. 1-1 France equalizes! Delie celebrates with Bussaglia by buffing the shoe that saved the French team.
90 - Thiney almost with the winner as France gun to win in regulation. France then get a corner that Bardsley misses, but France can't capitalize.
90+ J. Scott gets a yellow for holding.
Powell, who a minute ago was being praised for subbing players to kill time as the game wound down with England holding the lead, is now being criticized for burning the subs when K. Smith is apparently hurt. Hindsight and all that.
92 - France look lively, eager to win in extra-time, not wanting to take their chances with penalty kicks.
93 - I don't know the France keeper well on penalties, but Bardsley is pretty good. Bretigney with a shot. Bardsley collects. F.White is down for a bit.
96 - Thomis doesn't seem to realize her teammates don't have her speed. The pass in front of goal is too far ahead for Delie.
98 - Abily wastes a shot from distance. This is where France miss Necib setting up the play.
101 - The field is essentially cut in half, now, as England isn't even trying to go forward and France is pushing up.
103 - France is tired, too - England actually get into the box, but the turn and shoot by Carney is poor.
104 - E. White in on goal - but her shot is just wide. So close for England.
105 - Bompastor with a poor freekick. France gets the ball to Thomis, but she can't beat Raferty to send in a cross.
107 - France make final sub, Le Sommer in for Bretigny. What the ? A sub for a sub? Aren't there players France's squad that are dead on their feet? Why not have more fresh legs in? I don't get it.
110 - France corner. Bussaglia misses on the follow-up shot.
112 - Bardsley down for a bit, but she's fine now as a France corner is cleared.
114 - Bardsley catches a good Thomis cross.
116 - France with good buildup, but the final header by LeSommer is too high. So close.
119 - England stumbling around, but their subs are working hard to defend and doing just enough to hold off France.
122 - Bardsley out, can't reach the ball, but the shot isn't taken, and Scott is down with cramps. France have a corner.
123 - France have another corner, but Bompastor wastes it into the side netting. Time for penalties.
I'm still picking England, though I think France deserve it more.
France kicks first.
Abily versus Bardsley.
Bardsley catches it! Told you she was good.
Smith versus DeVille.
Smith nails it. 1-0 England.
Bussaglia hammers it home. 1-1
Carney kicks it low and in. 2-1 England.
Thiney dinks it past a guessing Bardsley. 2-2
Stoney roofs it! 3-2
Bompastor, my fave French player, gets it done. 3-3
Rafferty breaks - she pulls it wide. 3-3
LeSommer does it! 4-3 France
Faye White - OFF THE BAR!
France advance, and England heartbreak in penalties resumes.
So close for England, but honestly, it's a fair result for the better French team. | <urn:uuid:acdf985a-23b6-44b5-91ca-f9242293cca9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sidelineviews.blogspot.com/2011/07/wwc-england-v-france-quarterfinals.html | 2017-01-19T16:57:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280723.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00416-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963641 | 2,284 |
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide a COVID-19 booster programme for the general population in light of new Omicron variants.
11 July 2022
On 21 February 2022, the Government accepted advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to offer an additional booster dose in spring 2022 to those most vulnerable as a precautionary measure. An additional dose has been offered to all residents in care homes for older adults, individuals aged 12 years old and over who are immunosuppressed and all adults aged 75 years old and over.
On 19 May 2022, the JCVI provided interim advice on an autumn COVID-19 booster programme, which stated that an additional dose should be provided to residents in a care home for older adults and staff; frontline health and social care workers; all those aged 65 years old and over; and adults aged 16 to 64 years old in a clinical risk group. The JCVI continues to review the vaccination of other patient groups and details on the definitions of clinical risk groups. The JCVI will issue further advice if necessary. | <urn:uuid:13db545f-1cad-48fc-a7db-2eb2a0e25a36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-06-28/HL1325/ | 2022-08-17T16:47:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00437.warc.gz | en | 0.936287 | 228 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dora and her real life hero make their home in North Carolina. When she takes a break from cranking out stories, she enjoys reading, family gatherings, and mountain cabin getaways. She despises traffic, bad coffee, technological meltdowns, and a sad ending to a book. Her books always end with a happily-ever-after!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Abandoned as a teenager, guidance counselor Tate Malone has become surrogate and over-protective father to his sister. Life is great until Shelby Coltman wheedles his impressionable sister into sharing an apartment. Raised in wealth, the beautiful Shelby could never understand poverty or rejection, and Tate doesn't appreciate her uprooting his sister. When Shelby hands over her savings to a homeless student, will God obliterate Tate's fears and deliver all of Shelby’s dreams...when hope rises?
If you would like to read the first chapter of When Hope Rises, go HERE. | <urn:uuid:94c92889-4c63-42d4-918b-68ea7ef2ce03> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | http://abis-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-hope-rises-by-dora-heirs.html | 2021-08-02T12:39:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154320.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802110046-20210802140046-00167.warc.gz | en | 0.952571 | 202 |
You need a vaseline, a bowl, a kinder surprise and some "peppermint taste"
Open you kinder surprise and take the little "toy holder" out. Open it and put some foil/plastic in it.
Add 3-4 soup spoons Vaseline in to a bowl
Melt it in 5-6 min. Or into it is completely melted
Now add some "peppermint taste" into the melted Vaseline, about 1-2 tee spoons
Fill the holder half up, to make the rounded top
Put it in the fridge in about 15-20 min. Or you can just put in the freezer in 7-10 min.
Take it out and you have a nice rounded top. Put it into the fridge/freezer again (without the holder!)
Now fill the holder up with Vaseline If the Vaseline is clumpy then melt it again It's important that it's completely melted!
Put it into the fridge/freezer in 25-30 min
Now you have a top and a holder
Use some of the rest Vaseline on the top of your holder like a glue
Put the top on, and put it in your freezer/fridge Enjoy!❤ | <urn:uuid:7e7c9647-112b-4398-8c51-367e1ca45f90> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://snapguide.com/guides/diy-make-your-own-eos-inspried-lip-balm/ | 2019-07-21T23:45:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527396.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721225759-20190722011759-00093.warc.gz | en | 0.895625 | 256 |
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The Eduardo Munez Letter Project was featured on London Live News yesterday! I was interviewed about the film and took a folder of Eduardo's letters with me! You can watch the interview on our blog here: http://whoiseduardom.blogspot.co.uk/p/press.html
Thank you everyone on IUOMA who has sent in letters for Eduardo - it's very much appreciated. :-)
We are trying to raise a little more money for our film about letters 'Eduardo Munez'. We are having difficulty finding an actual hallway in a London house that is big enough for our shoot requirements so we are instead considering building the hallway as a set in a studio but this is expensive! We would need to raise a little more money to be able to do this... Would you like to help an Independent film about Letters? If you'd like to contribute please visit our Indiegogo page below - we have… Continue
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The money will be used to keep the IUOMA-platform alive. Current donations keep platform online till 1-oct-2020. If you want to donate to get IUOMA-publications into archives and museums please mention this with your donation. It will then be used to send some hardcopy books into museums and archives. You can order books yourself too at the IUOMA-Bookshop. That will sponsor the IUOMA as well. | <urn:uuid:b263c6ba-2784-4782-b03b-5e0a61cf63b8> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/profile/show?id=RuthTapp | 2019-11-18T18:37:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669813.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20191118182116-20191118210116-00429.warc.gz | en | 0.945297 | 303 |
November 3, 2009, WASHINGTON, DC — Global Integrity, a leader in the movement to bring greater transparency to government activities worldwide, announced today it has received a financial commitment of up to US$2.4 million from philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network. Global Integrity has also appointed Stacy Donohue, who leads Omidyar Network’s U.S. government transparency investments, to Global Integrity’s Board of Directors.
Best-known for its anti-corruption and governance diagnostics, Global Integrity arms advocates, journalists and citizens with information to drive governance reforms. Omidyar Network’s grant will enable Global Integrity to accelerate its work on two critical fronts: develop the next generation of its online global fieldwork platform and launch a new research service for the investment community. Both initiatives will advance policy reforms globally.
"Global Integrity’s anti-corruption efforts ignite positive social change for millions of citizens worldwide,” said Stacy Donohue, Director, Omidyar Network. “Omidyar Network shares Global Integrity’s passion for driving government accountability through information transparency. We hope our grant will signal the importance of their work.”
Recognized for using technology to support public interest research and policy reforms, Global Integrity has used Web-based systems for its global fieldwork since 2002, in countries ranging from Iraq to Sudan to China. Omidyar Network’s grant will further enhance and expand the capabilities of this critical platform. Specifically, the online tool will allow local citizens, researchers, and journalists in more than 100 countries to gather data, analysis, and on-the-ground reporting of national and local government accountability and transparency issues.
“Few organizations stress the central importance of technology and market-based solutions to governance reform efforts; we’ve clearly found a likeminded partner in Omidyar Network,” said Nathaniel Heller, co-founder and Managing Director of Global Integrity. “Beyond generous financial support, a long-term relationship with Omidyar Network offers us invaluable technical and strategic counsel as we scale our offerings.”
Omidyar Network’s new funding will also support the formal launch of Foglamp (www.foglamp.org), a research service for investment clients in emerging and frontier markets. Foglamp offers clients a competitive advantage by delivering on-the-ground insights about investment-specific regulatory and market dynamics at the country, sector, and company levels. By so doing, Global Integrity aims to influence private capital flows as a way to stimulate policy reforms in these countries. Foglamp, already available to select clients, will be fully rolled out in early 2010.
About Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $300 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including microfinance, property rights, government transparency, and social media. To learn more about Omidyar Network, please visit www.omidyar.com.
About Global Integrity
Global Integrity is a leading international non-profit organization that tracks governance and corruption trends around the world. Working with a network of several hundred in-country journalists and researchers in more than 100 countries, we aim to shape and inform the debate around governance and anti-corruption reforms through in-depth diagnostic tools at the national, sub-national, and sector levels. Our information is regularly used by aid donors, civil society advocates, businesses, and governments alike to press for governance reforms in both the developed and developing world. For more information about the organization, visit www.globalintegrity.org. | <urn:uuid:c4132f1a-9e8d-4f55-8c99-6e65e16095ce> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://omidyar-network.jjzizzr3-liquidwebsites.com/news/global-integrity-scales-with-2-4-million-grant-from-omidyar-network/ | 2021-01-21T00:58:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703522150.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121004224-20210121034224-00082.warc.gz | en | 0.927443 | 826 |
Thirteen years after his death, legendary NT Rama Rao continues to cast his shadow on the electoral politics of Andhra Pradesh. Call it a miracle or something else, the man who ruled the films and the politics like a demigod is all set to walk alive once again on the stage.
No, the thespian is not returning from heavens, but this time it is his grand son with striking similarities in the looks, name and the style - the popular young film star Junior NTR, who will bring back his grandfather back to life on the political stage.
Clad in Khaki dress and riding a brand new 'Chaitanya Ratham', NTR Junior will be every bit reminiscent of his grandfather to legions of his fans when he starts his state-wide election road show from Itchapuram in Srikakulam on Thursday.
The choice of both the Khaki dress and Chaitanya Ratham was deliberate as these were the two hall marks of NTR when he launched his campaign in 1982 in his own unique style and struck an unprecedented rapport with the masses.
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, NTR Junior has also got a fully decked up shining Chaitanya Ratham with huge photographs of himself and his grandfather plastered all around. In his own words, he is setting on a mission to bring the Telugu Desam back to power and to restore "Rama Rajyam" of his grand father.
Before setting on the 40 day long marathon tour which will take him to interiors of coastal Andhra and Telangana region in two phases, NTR Junior visited his "mama" (uncle) and TDP President Chandrababu Naidu not only to show his election rath but also to take a briefing on what to speak in the road shows.
Like keeping the story of a suspenseful blockbuster under the wraps till the film is released, NTR Junior refused to open his mouth before the media about his political thinking and what exactly he is going to tell the masses. "I will make my political debut only in Itchapuram," he said.
But informed sources in the family and the TDP say that NTR Junior is determined to surprise everybody. "He not only looks like NTR in his physical features and on the film screen but he also want to sound like NTR when he delivers his speech", said a member of his team. "He has been practicing very hard for the last one month to polish his oratorical skills and improve his speech delivery".
The TDP hopes that brining NTR back to life through NTR Junior, it will be not only be able to put a new life in the party's rank and file but also regain the affection of the rural masses.
However, the biggest challenge before Chandrababu Naidu today is to undo the possible harm caused by the emergence of film star Chiranjeevi as a new political threat. It was with this target in mind, that Naidu had persuaded all the film stars in NTR family, including N Balakrishna, Harikrishna, Taraka Ratna and Kalyan Ram to join forces to bring TDP back to power and ensure the supremacy of NTR family in family and politics. | <urn:uuid:1758f752-de6f-4e09-badb-5e03bac2ffc2> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/11/junior-ntr-tries-to-revive-father-legend.htm | 2014-12-22T05:42:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802774464.128/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075254-00073-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983005 | 677 |
The Department of Health and Exercise Science offers access to a variety of advising resources for students. While these resources provide critical information, students are always encouraged to consult with their academic advisor regarding advising issues.
Academic Advising will challenge and support students who have not yet declared a major, in the identification and achievement of their educational goals, as well as in their development as independent thinkers and learners.
Whether you are a potential student or a major in a health science discipline, the BCHS Academic Advising and Support Center provides a wealth of advising tools and information for successfully navigating the pathway to graduation and beyond.
DegreeWorks is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, web-based academic advising and degree audit tool that helps students and their advisors successfully navigate curriculum requirements.
Your liberal education at Appalachian begins with the General Education Program. About one-third of the courses you will take during your college years will be General Education courses from across the university.
MAP-Works - Making Achievement Possible - is an online resource that helps students stay on track and provides a way for all faculty and staff who work with a student to connect and collaborate.
Programs of Study, previously known as Checksheets, provide detailed information regarding specific program requirements.
Four year guides provide recommended semester-by semester plans of study for each major at ASU.
This site provides information for all of your course registration needs including registration guides, calendars and tips, and course search-by-semester functions.
Provides prospective and currently enrolled students with the most accurate information regarding the transferability of credit.
Jump Start Appalachian works with students admitted to the main Appalachian campus from Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, Catawba Valley Community College, Central Piedmont Community College and Wilkes Community Colleges. | <urn:uuid:c133f572-3e8d-45e9-ba3f-f2f036ecbb22> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://hes.appstate.edu/students | 2019-11-12T03:40:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664567.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112024224-20191112052224-00375.warc.gz | en | 0.948616 | 365 |
View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms
This view is probably from Hastings out to the Channel.
The paper has been folded and creased and shows moisture damage.
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Complaint Review: Worldmark by Wyndham - Scottsdale, Orlando Arizona, Florida
Worldmark by Wyndham WORLDMARK THE CLUB WORLDMARK WYNDHAM Bullied us into a contract, did not follow through on promises made and then would not cancel our contract. Scottsdale, Orlando Arizona, Florida
In my most recent visit to WorldMark in Scottsdale Arizona on March 9th, 2020 I was sold more points with promises made. I was told that the representative would call me to go over things with my daughter to make sure that we could fit it into our lifestyles with us being an elderly couple with a limited income. This was right before COVID-19 became a global pandemic which happened on March 11th, 2020. Once returning home on March 11th, 2020 and talking with my daughter we decided with everything going on and the instability that it would not be a right fit.
I waited for the call that was promised. The call never came. I then gave the representative a call and at that time is when she informed me that she no longer works there and that I was now five days out of the cancelation time frame. She then had someone who still worked there give me a call. During that call I was advised to still send in my letter of cancelation. That was done promptly. Sometime after, I received an e-mail back from them declining my request. I then called the number in the email to see why and was just told that there was nothing more that could be done it was outside of the time frame. None of promises that were made by the people that day were kept.
After further review of the contract I found another lie amongst the many that I was told that day. I had been promised 60 days same as cash for the money that I owed when looking into my contract there was one page with large font that was never shown to me that clearly said that I did not qualify for the 60 days same as cash. After arriving home, I received a bill from a credit company that I knew nothing about with a 12-thousand-dollar balance on it. While they were preparing the contract contract, they told us that there would be a down payment which we stated if so we would not be able to do it unless it was put on the back of the loan.
When going through all the paperwork no where do we see where we signed a credit application. Once looking into it further, I made another call to them. I was once again told that there was nothing that they could do for me. When asked if they hold their representatives accountable for the promises that they make my question was just ignored and I was told once again that nothing would be able to be done for me.
I have been beyond disappointed with this experience from this company. I have been with them since the early 90’s and have never been treated so poorly. My only ask of them was to honor the promises that were made and to make things right and allow for me to have my account placed back the way it was before all the lies and missed promises.
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I was playing Banjo Kazooie for the first time in a while, and reached the level "Rusty Bucket Bay." Rusty Bucket Bay is a shipyard which features a large ship in the dock with various platforms that include two cranes holding either a TNT box or a box lined with steel bars resembling a jail cell, two large smokestacks, several boxes, and several portholes and tunnels which serve as different ways into the ship. The water in which the ship sits in has a slick oily sheen on the top, and will drain your air meter when swimming, regardless if you are over water. Some of the jigsaw pieces you need to obtain in the game take place under this oily mess, one of them directly under the ship behind the propeller blades. I had fallen into this water in a somewhat confined part of the level, and you can only get out by swimming through a large door and to a ladder. Getting to that ladder never fails to give me the worst anxiety imaginable.
For some inexplicable reason, any moment of a video game that takes place in or under water is the absolute most terrifying thing for me to experience. I don't know exactly what started it, but the first time I had noticed this being an issue for me was when I was playing the prototype of Super Mario 64 that was on display at my local Blockbuster when the Nintendo 64 had first launched, and every store had display units featuring the prototype as a demo. I was running around the castle's courtyard, and had managed to get into the water underneath the waterfall to left of the castle. I swam down to the little bit that you get spit out of when leaving the hidden world where you obtain the invisibility cap. Normally, nothing happens in this area, but with this prototype, I had gotten sucked under the actual boundary for the small pit and the only thing I could see was the surrounding skybox outside of the castle grounds. I couldn't get back and all I could do was make Mario attempt to keep swimming. It may have had something to do with the glitch I had encountered, but it was just unsettling for me. That fear of the unexpected, what exactly was going to happen? To this day I still approach the water levels in the game with some sort of resistance. I have to lean back and almost look away, or hurry through the level to find the exact star I'm trying to get.
When I do look back on it, the only time I remember being scared of an underwater level in a video game was the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES. When I was very young, between three or four years old, the dam level in the game would scare the absolute crap out of me. The dam level had you swimming through a maze like area defusing several bombs. It had several obstacles like electric seaweed and leaves, and spike balls that would rotate in a circular motion. The need to be so accurate when moving through that level, I would always hit the deadly seaweed and get stuck. The indication noise that I have been hit would repeat and eventually I would die. It got to a point that if I wanted to play that game, I would have someone play through the dam level for me. I've gotten over it since, but later games still give me that same fear.
This is the true manifestation of fear.
On my first play-through of Half-Life 2, I had gotten to the part in the beginning of the game where Gordon Freeman steps into the teleporter to make his way to Eli Vance's lab. Throughout the technical difficulty that surrounds that moment, you are thrown into a body of water which for me ended up being menacing enough. As soon as you are fully submerged, a giant, HORRIFYING fish swims at you and snaps at you, and you are right back to the teleporter. That didn't help my in game water phobia one bit.
The Half-Life 2 scare is the only thing that has ever ACTUALLY scared me though. There has been nothing in any game with a water level that has been scary or unnerving. Just being in that water and being surrounded by it puts me into a near cold sweat. I'm not afraid at all of real water even! I love swimming, over and under water, and being right out in the open water. There is only one thing that I can think of that would have started this uneasiness toward water levels, which would be a nightmare I had when I was about ten or eleven years old about me playing through Aquas in Starfox 64. I don't remember exactly what happened in the dream, but it frightened me and woke me up. Come to think of it, that is really when I started to notice the anxiety towards water levels.
Am I the only one that has a stupid fear like this when it comes to video games? Any time I talk about it with friends, they find it funny or strange. If you're reading this and have something similar to share, please do! Let me know I'm not the only one that is this crazy. read | <urn:uuid:4d7b1be8-e5cf-4eef-8a6e-a74362830735> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/sadisticfreak432 | 2015-05-30T10:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207930995.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113210-00264-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986364 | 1,045 |
Source One's series for keeping up with the most recent highlights in procurement, strategic sourcing, and supply chain news week-to-week. Check in with us every Monday to stay up to date with the latest supply management news.
Alex Behrens, Spend Matters, 2/25/2019
As the digital transformation of business and society takes over, customer expectations are becoming increasingly more demanding of providers. The only solution is to really spruce up your digital supply chains. Customers are no longer satisfied with discovering new trends in-store, they want to see everything online and they want it at their door in the next day or two. Digital Supply Networks (DSNs) are faced with challenges because of this now very equipped type of shopper that can switch through multiple shopping interfaces on their smart devices, view a product in-store, and have it shipped to their home within a couple days. DSNs must acquire a single-source of truth to keep up with all the data that is running in and out. Behrens gives more tips and details in his article, so check it out!
Single Sourcing: Pros & Cons
Herb Shields, Thomas Net, 2/25/2019
In the cases where a buyer is faced with a decision to use a single-source supplier, Shields gives a couple factors to consider before making the decision. While it could be a lot less work dealing with only one supplier and you have negotiation power as you are giving the supplier the benfit of such an exclusive partnership, you still have to consider periods of tight supply, whether your company is keeping a competitive advantage with this source, sustainability, etc. This is all common knowledge, but Shields equips professional purchasers with a steps to develop a detailed plan for each commodity to ensure an informed decision is made every time. Sometimes there are things we already know, but everyone needs reminders! Check it out.
It’s 2019. This is What QuickStart Procurement Should Look Like!
Michael Lamoureux, Sourcing Innovation, 2/19/2019
A sort of continuance from Lamoureux's previous post about procurement leaders being a decade behind, apparently technology providers are as well. Here he provides a detailed list of components you should expect to be included in a standard Quick Setup, and what to look for when selecting a technology that could potentially modernize procurement and open it up to your entire organization. Urging professionals to think big, visit the post for the details. | <urn:uuid:f8451fdd-dd2b-4757-bd0a-fbeb2be47c13> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.strategicsourceror.com/2019/02/icymim-february-25-2019.html | 2020-07-06T10:16:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655890157.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200706073443-20200706103443-00224.warc.gz | en | 0.953367 | 508 |
The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced that they’ve signed 2014 NHL Entry Draft fourth round pick (113th overall) Sam Lafferty to a three year, entry level contract.
The 23 year old Hollisburgh, PA native (just south of Altoona) will report to the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins later this week on a professional tryout (PTO) contract and his new deal with the Penguins will take effect next season.
Lafferty recently completed his senior year at Brown University earlier this week, leading the team in assist and points. In 31 games in the NCAA’s tight ECAC division, Lafferty had a stellar 8 goals and 22 points. The 6 foot, 1 inch, 185 pound right winger is set to make an immediate impact with a strong WBS Penguins team that has struggled to maintain consistency as of late.
Just last week Lafferty was named Second Team All Ivy for the second consecutive season and finished his NCAA career with an outstanding 79 points in 124 career games.
Welcome to the big leagues, kid!
For the full press release from the Penguins, read below:
The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Sam Lafferty to a two-year, entry-level contract, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford.
Lafferty's deal will begin with the 2018-19 campaign. He will report to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins this week on an amateur tryout contract.
Lafferty, 23, wrapped up a four-year college career at Brown University this week. The senior was Brown's team leader this year in assists (14) and points (22), and his eight goals were second on the club.
A native of Hollidaysburg, Pa, which is located near Altoona, Lafferty ended his season on a roll offensively. He had three assists in his final two collegiate appearances, and in his final 11 college games, he produced 13 points (4G-9A). Lafferty was the ECAC Player of the Week two weeks ago after notching a hat trick in a win against Harvard.
Late last week, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound Lafferty was named Second-Team All-Ivy for the second-consecutive season. An alternate captain as a junior and senior, Lafferty had 79 points (29G-50A) in 124 career college games.
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Cracker (U.S. TV series)
Cracker - The Complete US Series
|Created by||Jimmy McGovern|
R. Lee Ermey
|Theme music composer||Roy Hay|
|Country of origin||USA|
|No. of seasons||1|
|No. of episodes||16|
|Executive producer(s)||James Steven Sadwith
Scott M. Siegler
|Running time||60 minutes|
|Production company(s)||Granada Entertainment
The Kushner-Locke Company
|Original release||September 18, 1997
May 22, 1999
Cracker is an American crime drama series produced by Granada Entertainment for ABC and based upon the British television crime drama of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern. An innovative but disturbing take on the standard police-detective genre, the Americanized Cracker consists of sixteen one-hour episodes set in Los Angeles. It stars Robert Pastorelli as criminal psychologist Gerry 'Fitz' Fitzgerald and a young Josh Hartnett. Robbie Coltrane, the star of the original series, appears as a villain in one episode. The remade show was broadcast as Fitz in some countries, including the UK.
Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald is an unconventional but brilliant psychologist, an insulting, nosy, loathsome individual. To be able to pay the bills, he gives lectures at colleges, has a small practice in a mini-mall, and has his own radio show. He also helps the Los Angeles police department solve difficult cases thanks mostly to his own quirks and perversity which give him an uncanny ability to get inside the criminal mind. But that is only true when he does not have to deal with his own inner demons, which include drinking, gambling, extramarital affairs, and a tense relationship with his wife Judith and his 17-year-old son Michael.
Cast and characters
- Robert Pastorelli as Gerry 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
- Carolyn McCormick as Judith Fitzgerald
- Josh Hartnett as Michael Fitzgerald
- Angela Featherstone as Detective Hannah Tyler
- Robert Wisdom as Detective Danny Watlington
- Scott Sowers as Detective Parker
- Paul Perri as Waldron
- Sally Livingstone as Hope Fitzgerald
- Josh Lucas as Lieutenant Macy
Special guest appearances
All 16 episodes are 60 minutes long.
- True Romance
Episodes 1 & 2
Original Air Dates—18 September 1997 & 25 September 1997
Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald is an alcoholic, self-hating psychologist and compulsive gambler who lectures at local community colleges and hosts a radio-call in show, while assisting the Los Angeles police department in various crimes. Fitz is asked to help track down a female serial killer of men who writes him love notes, claiming to be in love with Fitz. With the clock ticking and minimal evidence to move the investigation along, Fitz must find a way to locate the killer before she strikes again. On a personal front, Fitz is also having problems at home: Judith, his wife and a feminist author, is on the verge of throwing in the towel on their marriage despite their newborn baby. Michael, Fitz's 17-year-old son, finds it extremely difficult to relate to his equally troubled father. Michael becomes the next target for attack by the serial killer, Janice, who claims to be in love with Fitz and he must race against the clock to find the killer before Michael becomes Janice's latest victim.
Original Air Date—2 October 1997
When an amnesia victim, covered in blood, is found near the scene of a brutal murder aboard a moving train, the police are convinced they have their killer and bring Fitz in to get a confession. Fitz, however, is less convinced of the suspect's guilt, and takes it upon himself to help the man, the 'John Doe' recover his memory while he searches for the real killer. Meanwhile, at Judith's insistence, Fitz attends a Gambler's Anonymous meeting, which culminates in Fitz leading the members in a betting frenzy.
- Lemmings Will Fly
Original Air Date—9 October 1997
When a teacher is suspected of killing a young male student, Fitz' mesmerizing interrogation leads to a startling conclusion that the teacher, Mr. Quint, is gay and was trying to seduce the student. Meanwhile, Fitz considers a getaway proposition from Detective Hannah Tyler after discovering that Judith is dating their marriage counselor Garson Shepherd.
- Hell Hath No Fury
Original Air Date—16 October 1997
When a newborn baby goes missing from a local hospital, Fitz becomes convinced that the kidnapper is a woman, regardless of the eyewitnesses and videotape evidence. But the truth ends up being more surprising than any wild suspicions following the apprehension of a female suspect, a maternity nurse, because the real abductor is her transvestite brother. Meanwhile, Fitz and Michael are in bitter disagreement over Michael's ex-girlfriend and her re-appearance into their lives. Also, Fitz attempts to communicate with his wife Judith, which ends up being a mistake.
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Original Air Date—23 October 1997
Fitz joins forces with the Los Angeles police department as they track a severely disturbed young couple, a junkie named Tina, and a stuttering mentally disturbed man named Sean, who have fallen in love with each other while on a murderous rampage. Meanwhile, Judith rejects Fitz' latest plea to move back home after discovering that he continues to suffer from his gambling addiction and refuses to seek professional help.
- Sons and Lovers
Original Air Date—6 November 1997
When a teenage boy is accused of murdering his promiscuous mother, Fitz retraces the victim's final hours, determined to find another explanation for the vicious crime despite opposition from his grumpy boss, Lt. Fry, who thinks that the teenager is guilty. Meanwhile, Fitz's family bonding efforts at Sunday dinner blow up in his face due to his jealousy over Judith, his lacklustre efforts to bond with his son Michael and daughter Hope, and Judith's overprotective mother.
- Talk to Me
Original Air Date—13 November 1997
When Colleen McBeal, a controversial radio personality, is being stalked by one of her listeners, Fitz's investigation yields shocking and deadly results when it's revealed that Colleen and her manager Jeffrey have faked the stalking for publicity ratings, and then Jeffrey is murdered by a real stalker/listener. Meanwhile, Fitz discovers that Judith has plans to spend a romantic evening with their marriage counselor, Garson Shepherd, so he retaliates by taking Tyler out to the same restaurant just to make Judith angry and jealous.
Episodes 9 & 10
Original Air Dates—17 January 1998 & 24 January 1998
Fitz assists the police in tracking down a serial sniper whose killings of four African-American woman have all the ear markings of being revenge killings. Following a clue in the number of bullet hits on the bodies, Fitz determines the sniper to be motivated by the L.A. riots in 1992. However, the sniper is actually a distraught man who is motivated by the condition of his wife, who is severely injured and comatose. During this, Tyler begins dating a handsome K-9 cop, named Dale, while Watlington deals with Lt. Fry's handling of the case as well as his ex-wife Tisha's decision to re-marry a younger man who is an ex-con. Meanwhile, Judith asks Fitz to watch over their newborn son while she has a job interview, and she admits to being unfaithful to Fitz with their marriage councilor. Fitz and the police are startled to discover that the next target for the sniper is someone they all have a relationship with: Watlington's ex-wife Tisha whose boyfriend, Ronnie Brooks, was involved in the incident that put John Ramon's wife in a coma during the 1992 race riots. The situation develops with Ramos taking Tisha hostage at the hospital, leading to a standoff between him and Fitz in Ramos' wife's room. Meanwhile, Judith's admission of her betrayal somehow brings both herself and Fitz together again over their newborn son.
- An American Dream
Original Air Date—11 December 1997
When a famous porn star/stripper, named Dee Dee Wilder, is found murdered in her house, Fitz and the police investigate. At first, the evidence seems to indicate that her possessive manager is involved, until circumstances soon point to the young lady's estranged father. Meanwhile, Fitz has a heart attack, which brings Judith back for a temporary reconciliation, while his daughter Hope tries to persuade him to change his lifestyle.
- The Club
Original Air Date—26 February 1999
When a wealthy teenage girl is found murdered at a local rave, Fitz investigates and discovers that her friends are a clique of wealthy and spoiled teens who have formed a sex club, and the list of suspects is soon narrowed down to the murdered girl's boyfriend, Spencer, whose older brother died from AIDS years earlier. Meanwhile, Fitz and Judith deal with Hope, who has gotten into trouble at school over her own activities involving carousing for boys.
- Best Boys
Original Air Date—5 March 1999
Fitz and the police investigate the brutal murder of a nosy landlady and a social worker in which evidence points to a troubled juvenile delinquent and his factory worker boss who have formed an "unnatural" association and are killing people they see as keeping them apart from each other. This leads to a standoff between the youth and his former stepmother which Fitz tries to diffuse. Meanwhile, Tyler announces her engagement to Dale while Lt. Fry announces his promotion to chief detective, while Fitz's home life gets worse when Judith becomes jealous about all the time he's spending around Tyler and the other detectives.
- Faustian Fitz
Original Air Date—12 March 1999
Fitz is hired by David Roberge, a famous child actor-turned-Hollywood studio mogul, to help clear his name when a teenage model is found murdered on the grounds of Roberge's Hollywood mansion, leading to conflicts with Fitz's former employer Lt. Macy and the other detectives on the police force, all of whom are still reeling from the shock of Hannah Tyler's murder. On the home front, Fitz doesn't welcome a visit from his estranged father Emory, while Judith, Michael and Hope have mixed feelings about Mr. Fitzgerald's presence in their household.
- First Love
Episode 15 & 16
Original Air Date—22 May 1999
Fitz assists the police and the new commanding officer, the younger and better educated - but less experienced - Lt. Monroe Macey, Lt. Fry's replacement, in tracking a serial killer of three women when a police officer becomes a victim. Suspicion falls on the officer's partner, Pete Renaldi, who holds a clue to the killer's identity which prompts Tyler to go undercover to romance Renaldi in order to look for clues. Meanwhile, on Fitz's home front, Judith becomes nervous when she thinks that she might be pregnant again while Michael wants a car as he's turned 18. When Detective Hannah Tyler is abducted by the killer, who is Officer Palmer's deranged wife Linda who's jealous over Pete Renauldi's attraction to Tyler, Fitz, Lt. Macy, Parker, and Watlington interrogate Officer Renauldi's over a connection to the murders. When red tape prevents them from making headway, Fitz takes it upon himself to interrogate Renauldi himself to find out the identity of the killer he's protecting. He delves into the dirty officer's past and his connection with Linda Palmer, unaware that she has by this time shot and killed Tyler after she made a half-baked attempt to escape. Linda then decides to settle the score with Renauldi herself.
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Exploring the humorous side of the world's most collectable card game
Welcome to the Magic Joke Collection, the net's largest collection of M:tG humor! Here, you will find over 1500 jokes, nicknames, and humorous cards, all pertaining to the collectable card game Magic: the Gathering. Hopefully, you will all find these pages enjoyable - whether you're looking for some good, fun Magic humor, or whether you're looking to laugh at how so many people are making such a big deal about a silly little card game... :)
For you parent types out there, don't worry, all submissions must pass through a gauntlet of judges that make sure that they are appropriate for children, or adults that act like children...
NOTICE: To all of you that have been trying to send me your jokes, The system is still not working. Please, if you wish for me to show your jokes, try sending them directly to me by way of your email. When the system works, I will post it.
Comments?? Questions?? Suggestions?? E-mail me them at d***[email protected]***l.com.
You may want to read the disclaimer, too.. (warning! May actually be funny!)
Top New Submissions -- 10 March 1998 - 1 January 2001
Only the best or funniest submissions will get added to the collection... take a look at the newest list!!
Check out how many "cousins" Tim has, in this huge collection of 600+ nicknames!
Last updated : 27 December 2000
Jokes about Magic in General
"What do you get when you put a Benalish Hero in an Ice Cauldron?" and other various Magic related jokes
Last updated : 9 March 1998
You know you've been . . .
Huge list of 100+ "You know you've been playing too much Magic when..." jokes
Last updated : 31 December 2000
Cool/Funny Card Creations
I cast Department of Funny Walks on my Knights who say 'Ni", and then summon the Energizer Bunny...
Last updated : 1 January 2001
This page is maintained by Umiak Boyd. Feel free to mail me any questions/comments....
Copyright © 1996-2000 Beyond Dominia.
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As a result of the pandemic, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has urged drivers to take advantage of the office's online services, including renewing driver’s licenses and ID cards online.
However, the option isn't available to everyone.
Specifically those who are required to take a written or road test do not qualify for online renewal, according to the Secretary of State's office.
Those who are eligible for online renewal will receive a letter containing their PIN approximately 90 days before their driver’s license expiration date.
In late March, White extended expiration dates for driver's licenses and ID cards an additional two months, to Aug. 1. The extension doesn't apply to commercial driver's licenses and CDL learner's permits.
Along with online driver's license renewal, Illinois residents can also purchase license plate stickers online.
To obtain license plate stickers, residents will need a registration ID and PIN, which are located on their renewal notice and registration card, officials said. Drivers can then head to cyberdriveillinois.com and click on "License Plate Renewal" under "online services."
Illinoisans can also visit the website to check whether they need to renew their driver's license or ID card. Residents should click on "Read more on how to renew your driver’s license or ID card online." Then, click on “Check your eligibility now."
Drivers will be asked for their driver’s license or ID card number and the last four digits of their social security number. | <urn:uuid:9e6be6fe-c200-4e62-8770-f821fe8c054a> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-drivers-license-renewal-how-to-know-if-you-can-renew-online/2484189/ | 2021-05-14T10:47:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990449.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514091252-20210514121252-00424.warc.gz | en | 0.947178 | 311 |
Due to a family emergency we are not accepting new students or conducting introductory tandem flights that this time. Please reference the USPPA's instructor list to locate a qualified instructor to help you get into the sky!
ExperiencePPG is a USPPA certified school. Experience Powered Paragliding takes pride in its training course. We offer both beginner and advanced foot launch & trike launch courses. We follow the USPPA training syllabus and provide each student with the knowledge, practice, and skillset to safely and confidently take to the skies.
How long does it take?
Many pilots will be able to confidently solo with radio assistance after just 2-3 sessions of theory, kiting, tandem, and simulator training. Our definition of quality does not mean that you are free go on your own with just 1 or 2 flights and your PPG1 rating; there is much more to learn to be a safe and skilled pilot. Full training working towards a foot launch or trike launch PPG2 rating will take on average 7-10 sessions with each pilot receiving on average 20-25 training flights at the conclusion of training.
Why do I need a week of training to work towards a PPG2 rating?
ExperiencePPG provides full training for new pilots, on average 20-25 training flights. There is a confidence level and skillset that many pilots do not reach until after 10 flights. Your first several flights are the most important for learning proper takeoff and landing techniques. Bad habits are quickly developed when not under an instructors eye, this can cause the greatest harm to you, your equipment or bystanders. A PPG2 rating shows that the pilot is knowledgable with rules and regulations, safety procedures and has demonstrated proper glider control and proper take-off and landing procedures in multiple weather and wind conditions. A PPG2 rating also shows that a pilot knows proper emergency procedures and precision landing skills, as well as a more than adequate skill set to fly solo with confidence.
Should I buy my equipment first?
Like many other schools and instructors across the country, we recommend that you discuss equipment ideas with your instructor first, before making a purchase. There is no "best" and there is not a "one size fits all." The most powerful motor is not always best given your build and the flying you would like to do. PPG is a sport that requires significant attention to detail when it comes to choosing equipment. Equipment is recommended to you based on size, weight, flying conditions for your area and the type of flying you are looking to do.
Looking to fly Trike?
Experience PPG prides itself on it ability to showcase Trike flying as well as Foot launch. Rod is active in both Trike Flying and Foot Launch. Trikes have came along way; they are streamlined, sleek and a whole lot of fun!
Trike to Foot or Foot to Trike
Both disciplines have certain skills that are unique to their style, what's preferred by one person, may not be by another - they both allow you to FLY which is AWESOME! Many pilots contemplate starting on trike and transitioning to foot launch after they have proficiency with launching, landing and flying. It's a great idea! It gives you the best of both worlds and saves your legs and your energy on those hot, high humidity, no wind mornings when you have the ability to just pull out a trike and roll. Others may have flown Foot launch for years and are ready to try something new, we welcome that too! It really is great to be able to master both styles!
Cost for Beginner Foot Launch or Trike Training is discounted to $2,500 when the full equipment package is purchased through Experience Powered Paragliding.
Training through Experience PPG will include 8-10 training sessions within a 30 day window. During training, we will work towards a PPG2 rating. For safety reasons, ExperiencePPG conducts training sessions during safe, flyable weather, and reserves the right to reschedule sessions based on inclement weather.
Advanced Training & Skill Improvement
Experience PPG offers training for those looking to sharpen their launching, landing or flying skills. These training sessions are conducted with Rod on a case by case basis. Contact Rod to see how he can assist you with reaching your next level of flying proficiency!
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HTWFC’s “100k’s in 30 days”.
It’s as it says on the tin. Players and coaches will run, walk, cycle or swim 100 kilometres in 30 days to help raise money for the club.
Why are we doing this?
Huddersfield Town Women is a self funding club and relies on support from club events, families and friends during the season.
We understand that things are difficult for everyone and any help or donation, however small, is greatly appreciated.
Everyone will record their progress and all the money raised will be used to help the club as part of the 2020/2021 season.
You may be contacted by players, but if not and you are interested in donating then please contact:
Chairman: David Mallin
Mob : 07801 901346
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Microsoft Project User Guide: adding a budget
Load Microsoft Project: Start - All programs - Core applications - Microsoft Project 2010.
At this stage your project plan is complete in that the tasks and predecessors are all entered into the plan and each task has been allocated resources.
In the resource sheet (click on Gantt chart drop down and then "Resource Sheet") you will have costed these resources. This is now to be used by the plan to generate a budget.
You will have given each of the resources (people) a rate of pay from £0 for the client to something greater for the people who are making the product.
Shrink the calendar window by moving the bar to the right and you will see an additional column called "Add New Column".
Click on the drop down arrow and scroll down until you find "Cost"...
... this will now show you the cost of every task, as well as the total cost of the project. The cost of this project so far is £34,960. (Your project will have a different value.) This is only for the cost of the people working on the project.
What about the cost of the facilities? These are fixed costs that can be added to the project. In the same way as "Costs" add a new column to the project, this time you are going to add "Fixed costs".
These costs are all set to £0.00 at the moment. You will have to change them. I have decided that for my project the facilities costs will be £100 per day. Simply go down the column and add in the cost of each task.
Here are the fixed costs that I have added to my project. Again yours will almost certainly be different. Have you noticed that as you change the fixed costs the variable costs are chaning to include the fixed costs that you have added?
My costs are now£44,360 so I can set a reasonable budget of £50,000.
LO2 Assessment activities
Below are four suggested assessment activities directly linked to the pass and merit criteria for LO1 to help with assignment preparation.
- P3: Complete the documentation for the initiation phase for an identified project
- P4: Develop a project plan for the identified project
- M2: Carry out and document a phase review of the project plan
- D2: Create a Business Case to support an identified project
Imagine that you are to provide trainee designers a handout. This is to be given to trainee application designers to provide them with a comparison of the differences and similarities of the various application development models and the choice of a particular model for a particular product design. The handout should consider the similarities and differences between different application development models. You should explain how the different application development models are appropriate for different types of project. You should select which development model you would use for this application design based on the overall client brief that you have been given. The handout must be in your own words and provide a comprehensive summary of your findings. It is important that you correctly reference all sources used, following appropriate conventions. ]
LO1 Understand how applications are designed
P1: Learners must describe the key activities of different stages in application development. They should describe these for a named application development model. This can be in the form of a report, presentation with detailed speaker notes, user guide or tutor resource.
M1 Learners should consider similarities and differences between different application development models. They should also explain how the different application development models are appropriate for different types of project. This can be an extension of P1 or presented as a hand out for learners, presentation or report. | <urn:uuid:b0659891-ebc2-4a8b-8c7f-3d844e1d1867> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://snb.guru/ct_2016/Unit_08_LO2_budget.php | 2019-11-19T00:53:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669868.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20191118232526-20191119020526-00223.warc.gz | en | 0.943636 | 751 |
Colonial Flag Foundation
Colonial Flag Foundation was organized in 2003 shortly after the first Healing Field® display was orchestrated by Paul Swenson, president of Colonial Flag in Sandy, Utah. Read Paul’s story. That first event was organized as a way to visualize the sheer enormity of human loss that occurred in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But, as hundreds of volunteers gathered to help, it soon became evident that something much more was emerging. It became a personal gesture of support, a tangible expression of mourning, and a very real healing experience.
The display received national exposure and as a result generated queries from around the country; individuals and organizations called to ask how they could organize their own Healing Field® memorial. Since then, Colonial Flag Foundation has helped organize hundreds of displays throughout the country. Techniques, processes and standards have been developed. Manuals and other support materials have been produced, themes created and supplementary programs developed to add value to the project. Today, those who host a Colonial Flag Foundation event, receive a complete, turnkey program plus support and guidance from a fulltime consultant to help plan and execute a successful event.
Colonial Flag Foundation programs are adopted by a wide variety of civic and nonprofit organizations to generate awareness and raise funds in support their respective causes. Moreover, hosting organizations have learned that through Colonial Flag Foundation programs communities come together, visitors are educated and uplifted; and most importantly, individual hearts are healed.
Colonial Flag Foundation develops and implements programs to promote patriotism, a sense of civic duty and honor for those who serve our country.
Our programs encourage volunteerism and unity, generate awareness and raise funds for a wide array of issues in support of civic, service and other nonprofit organizations, and create an environment that helps to heal, honor, celebrate and educate. | <urn:uuid:0204a3b0-4662-48c4-bf30-19292342b2d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.healingfield.org/about-2/ | 2013-12-10T12:36:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164018912/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133338-00002-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962729 | 367 |
Dyer, S. and Quine, L. (1998) Predictors of job satisfaction and burnout among the direct care staff of a community learning disability service. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11 (4). pp. 320-332. ISSN 1360-2322.
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This study examined occupational stress amongst direct care staff in an NHS community service for people with learning disabilities. A questionnaire was designed to investigate which characteristics of work had an effect on job satisfaction and burnout. Payne's (1979) model of occupational stress was tested. Payne posits that stress is a function of the interaction between demands, supports and constraints. Empirical support for Payne's model was found and five important demand factors were highlighted: role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload, resident characteristics and non-participation in decision-making. The results suggest that occupational stress amongst staff caring for people with learning disabilities is best reduced by increasing support, since the job is likely to remain demanding. Suggestions are made concerning how support may be increased.
|Subjects:||B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology|
|Divisions:||Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Psychology|
|Depositing User:||R.F. Xu|
|Date Deposited:||26 Jun 2009 10:34|
|Last Modified:||26 Jun 2009 10:34|
|Resource URI:||http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/17701 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)|
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This is the collection of wild parrot wallpapers. God has created many species of animals and parrot is one of them. Parrot is one of the most beautiful creatures of God. God has blessed it with cuteness, beauty and with pleasing colors. They are found in mountains, jungles, living areas and almost everywhere. People around all over the world love this bird. A parrot is one of the most lovable pets. People spend lots of their money to buy this beautiful creature and to breed it. Some of the types of parrots are there who need special sort of care and lots of money is to be spent on their feed and care.
Parrots are known as the most intelligent animal as they can use their brain in many ways. Parrots are trained to get special tasks from them. It has been in the practice that many trainers have trained parrots to speak with them. They can speak some of the sentences, which are practiced to them. Parrots can mimic human speech and they can also make sentences of some specific words which are taught to them. Parrots are wild but they are trained to behave well. They develop a strong and good relation with their owner. Parrots use their brain in every act. While feeding themselves they first make it sure that whatever the seed or fruit is given them to eat must be free from every poison. First they smell it, if they get a hunch that there must be anything, they take the cover out of that seed or fruit and then eat it so that they could be saved from any harm.
Parrots eat seeds, nuts, buds and other plant materials. Some of the parrots are there which eat small reptiles like snails and larvae but most of them do not eat this kind of stuff. Parrots have many types according to their nature, habitat, color, behavior and many other factors. They lay white eggs and an unhelpful baby bird comes out of it. Parent parrots feed them with their hooked beak. Parrots have long wings so they have strong and straight flight. They have strong legs to hold themselves on the trees. Mostly all types of parrots can be seen in zoos. They are traded all around the world. Parrots trading is a major source of income generation in some countries. | <urn:uuid:9cc3bd7f-fb71-462d-9c4d-d88045d62b4b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.photofurl.com/colorful-wild-parrot-wallpapers-high-resolution | 2016-04-28T23:50:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860109993.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161509-00205-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982422 | 466 |
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Safeguarding of Students
At EGA, we take our commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of the students very seriously.
In order to ensure that your child is safe, we do the following:
- Keep entrances and exits locked. Entry to the school by visitors is through the controlled reception
- Ensure that all visitors are wearing identification tags;
- Have a clear Health and Safety Policy which includes, evacuation procedures in case of fire or other emergency, administering of medicines and first aid safety when taking part in activities away from the school site;
- Have an anti-bullying policy and promote a culture where bullying is unacceptable;
- Issue specific guidance on Internet Safety;
- Make sure that all staff working at the school has been thoroughly vetted before they are allowed to work with the students.
If you ever have any concerns about our safeguarding procedures, please do not hesitate to contact us. | <urn:uuid:1f7d9357-8c5c-4905-9587-8a0237958493> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://www.egaschool.co.uk/261/safeguarding-of-students | 2018-08-21T05:41:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221217970.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821053629-20180821073629-00311.warc.gz | en | 0.956887 | 198 |
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Mason County briefs
* achievement award winners
The following groups and individuals were chosen by the Hood Canal Coordinating Council to receive awards for their efforts to protect and enhance the environment in the Hood Canal waterhsed. Guy Parsons, Skokomish Valley resident nominated by Terry King and Bob Simmons, was honored for helping other valley residents identify current problems, protect water quality and other resources, and carry out watershed restoration projects. Specific accomplishments include organizing and taking part in river cleanup activities, establishing the Skokomish Watershed Coalition, and coordinating school monitoring projects.
The Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA), nominated by Donald Larsen for its educational/interpretive signage project, produced 95 signs last year to identify designated underwater natural areas (preserves) and underwater recreational parks throughout Puget Sound. Five of the signs will be installed at Scenic Beach State Park, Potlatch State Park, Sunde Rock, Octopus Hole, and Kitsap Memorial State Park.
Tom and Irene Davis, of Belfair, were nominated by the Hood Canal Environmental Council for their years of involvement in environmental activities. Their work culminated last year in the transfer of a conservation easement on 140 acres of land, including 50 acres of farm land, 80 acres of forest land, and a "u-fish" trout farm, and the family farm, to the Hood Canal Land Trust.
The Quilcene-Snow Restoration Team, nominated by Katherine Baril, organized last year to restore salmon hatibat and associated upland habitat in the Quilcene River and Snow Creek watersheds. They installed livestock enclosure fencing, replanted streamside habitat, cleaned spawning gravel, removed undesirable vegetation, and constructed and replaced culverts.
Awards will be presented April 26 at Alderbrook Resort in Union. A luncheon at 11:30 a.m. will begin the ceremony. The public is welcome to attend.
For more information or for reservations to the awards ceremony, call Donna Simmons at 877-5747.
* KWICK Kids
KWICK Kids is a learning experience that includes in-class education using materials supplied by the Mason Conservation District. Each third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students in Mason County schools (which includes public and private schools) will participate in the tour of an actual farm. The kids will test their knowledge in the tour of the Gordon and Louis Jacobson's farm on the Shelton Valley Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 2-4.
Included will be forestry, streams, pastures, composting/recycling, wetlands/wildlife, water, careers, and soil.
This is an opportunity to teach kids in an outdoor setting how all aspects of the environment affect the quality of water in wells, streams, lakes, and the Puget Sound. Students will also be taught the importance of protecting and enhancing the natural resources surrounding them in Mason County.
For more information, call Mason County Conservation District at 427-9670, ext. 532. | <urn:uuid:bbec6ceb-9c23-4189-9dd2-f9c3a8e9b36a> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1995/04-25/334598_mason_county_briefs.html | 2019-11-21T05:10:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670731.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121050543-20191121074543-00448.warc.gz | en | 0.9337 | 621 |
Atlas Copco Construction Equipment welcomes ROMCO Equipment Co. to its growing dealer network. The Texas-based company will rent, sell and service Atlas Copco compressors, generators and light towers to meet customer demands for portable energy equipment across the state.
“ROMCO Equipment’s customer-first values, backed with their knowledge in the heavy equipment industry, makes for a great partnership with Atlas Copco,” said Alan Kurus, vice president, sales, Atlas Copco Construction Equiment. “With the addition of our portable energy equipment to its lineup, ROMCO expands its ability to meet the needs of existing customers while reaching a new customer base that it wasn’t able to connect with previously.”
ROMCO serves the heavy construction and mining industries in Texas. Expanding its line of equipment to include Atlas Copco compressors, generators and light towers, allows ROMCO to serve additional industries, including oil and gas refineries and shipyards.
“We are a second-generation, family-owned company focused on providing our customers with superior products and services with an honest, straightforward approach,” said Gable Sprague, ROMCO Power Systems’ division manager. “We chose to add Atlas Copco portable energy equipment to our lineup because we believe their company values align with our core values.”
ROMCO Equipment Co. sells replacement parts and attachments as well as provides maintenance and full refurbishment for worn equipment.
“We decided to join the Atlas Copco dealer network after a long-term customer expressed the need for Atlas Copco products on one of their jobs,” said Sprague. “We were impressed with how robust and well-made the equipment was, and we wanted to share its capabilities with our other customers.”
Atlas Copco manaufctures its equipment to be durable and cost-effective to operate. Its light towers and compressors, for instance, feature Atlas Copco’s exclusive HardHat® polyethylene canopy, that withstands corrosion, dents and fading to provide ongoing protection of the engine and overall unit while keeping the resale value high.
ROMCO’s Texas branch locations include Austin, Buffalo, Carmine, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Longview, Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio. | <urn:uuid:806f81ee-77c3-44fa-b981-284fe3d060f2> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://rockroadrecycle.com/romco-equipment-co-joins-atlas-copco-construction-equipment-dealer-network/ | 2018-06-22T14:52:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864546.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622143142-20180622163142-00399.warc.gz | en | 0.936861 | 479 |
Twitter has added a new feature to its social network for a small number of users. Twitter announced on its blog Monday that users will now be able to squelch or “mute” people they deem annoying. The mute button will only be on the smartphone applications for iPhone and Android. Muting a person will mean that every tweet or RT will no longer show up on your news feed. This also means interaction notifications from them will no longer persist.
This new feature does not block other users, so they may still favorite, reply, or interact with any of your tweets. This interaction will just not be seen on your feed. The passive aggressive addition is much like the “ignore” feature on Tumblr and the ability to block new feed posts on Facebook from annoying friends. So say goodbye to baby pictures and that creepy, overly attentive Twitter follower you met at a party once, all without that awkwardly direct blocking or unfollowing.
The feature is currently only available for a small group of users, but Twitter says the complete roll out will be in a few weeks. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, or if you’ve received the mute button. | <urn:uuid:82f38dce-fd08-4f78-8845-404624a5475d> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://www.techvoid.com/2014/05/12/twitter-adds-mute-button/ | 2018-09-26T09:30:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267164469.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926081614-20180926102014-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.942852 | 241 |
Table of contents, 2009 issues
Building a Better Future, Step by Step — Editorial
A wise teacher said, "I rejoice if you understand that obstacles are possibilities" (Agni Yoga 494). Skill in action is acquired, step by step, through the successful resolution of our problems, as a kind of duplication of the way in which the antahkarana, the bridge in consciousness, is built: out of the substance of one's own life and understanding, much as a spider spins its thread.
The Urge To Share - Editorial
The key to unlocking the capacity to share may be found in the words "touch my heart", not for emotional reasons but because the heart is the seat of the life principle. The urge to share is bound up in the recognition that every aspect of manifested life in every kingdom in nature is bound to every other aspect through the planetary etheric body. All forms of every degree share in the same vast circulation of life-energy that substands all that is.
"Let Recognition be the Aim" —Editorial
What is the opportunity for group service in such a moment? An interlude, as we know, need not be simply an empty space or a lull spent waiting—for “something”. The spiritual power of an interlude can serve as a preparatory period in which stabilisation, assimilation, and recognition are attainable. If silence and poised, attentive listening can be maintained during such an interlude, a kind of stock-taking becomes possible.
Cultivating Pliability in an Age in Flux — Editorial
The objective for the world’s disciples and aspirants is not merely to "remain standing", so to speak, during the inflow of new-age energies, but to be of service to the Great Ones who seek to work through their agents in the world: the new group of world servers. | <urn:uuid:3114b191-fe6d-4588-8bd1-4bf6e1510492> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://www.lucistrust.org/es/books/the_beacon_magazine/table_of_contents/2009_issues | 2017-04-26T17:44:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121528.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00357-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937764 | 388 |
I. Project Background
Helong City is a demonstration city for ecological construction formulated by the state. High quality black fungus industry is an emerging industry with high efficiency to adjust agricultural industry structure and increase farmers' income. It is the base to develop high efficient agriculture in mountain area and a good project to increase agriculture profits. Black fungus was praised as í░treasure from the mountainí▒. In recent years, black fungus attracts more and more people's attention. At present, black fungus is recognized as "green food" and "healthy food" by various countries in the world. Therefore, black fungus is deeply loved by the people and is always served as ingredient in cooking and various style dishes as well as the four seasons snacks.
II. Construction Scale and Production Plan
Invest 110 million Yuan and produce 80 million kilograms selenium-rich black fungus, construct a modern production facility for fungus cultivating bags, provide high quality fungus cultivating bags to farmers, and make black fungus processing.
III. Market Analysis and Economic Benefit Forecast
This project compiles with the state industry policies with ecological, social and economic benefits. This project will help farmers and laid-off workers to throw off poverty and set out on a road to prosperity.
IV. Total Project Investment and Financing Arrangement
The total project investment is 193.98 million Yuan. And 39.4 million Yuan investment has been completed. The project still needs 150 million Yuan foreign investment.
V. Cooperation Ways
Joint venture and cooperation
VI. Foreign Investment and Constitution
The project needs 150 million Yuan foreign investment.
VII. Project Construction Venue
Eight townships of Helong City
VIII. Project Progress
Currently doing pre-project
IX. Outline of Project Organizer
Helong City Specialty Management Station was formally established in 2007, and its predecessor is Specialties Bureau of Helong City. Since establishment, Helong City Specialty Management Station has always working on increasing farmers' income and enterprisesí» profits, relying on the resources advantages and base construction, adjusting industry structure by developing unique, green high quality products and modern traditional Chinese medicine, fastening the steps of industrialization and modernization of specialty industry in Helong city.
X. Contact Methods
Contact Person: Jin Mingxue
Mailing Address: Agriculture Bureau of Helong City Postal Code: 133500
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Estimated Monthly Payment will depend on vehicle make and model and will be determined upon actual vehicle inspection. All payments are estimates. Tax, title and any other fees are extra.
Comments & Reviews
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After being derailed by the massive e-mail hack that may have contributed to Sony partnering with Marvel for its new Spider-Man film, the planned 23 Jump Street/Men In Black crossover film is reportedly back on track with director James Bobin taking over for Phil Miller and Christopher Lord.
Variety reports that the film is moving forward with Jump Street stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill attached, though Men In Black stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will reportedly not be involved.
While Variety speculates new characters will be sought to replace Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones to pair with Hill and Tatum, Newsarama can't help buy wonder if Hill and Jonah's police officer characters being recruited into the Men in Black program to replace Smith and Jones themselves would be the most logical premise.
Mimicking the “fish out of water” premise that followed Will Smith’s character in the original Men In Black would follow the Jump Street formula, making the potential film a hybrid more than a crossover.
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Having purchased a Leica M (Typ 240), I asked myself how this camera fares in comparison with the Ricoh GR size-wise and weight-wise. Therefore, I prepared some quick photos that helped me answer this question more easily. I also supply some size and weight data.
|Camera||Size*: W x H x D||GXR Camera Unit Only||Remarks|
|Leica M (Typ 240)||138.6 mm x 80 mm x 42 mm||EVF not included|
|Ricoh GR||117 mm x 61 mm x 34.7 mm||OVF not included|
*) Camera unit mounted on GXR body for Ricoh GXR units
All data according to the manufacturers' specifications.
|GR on the left on all photos|
|Camera||Weight (according to the manufacturer)|
|Leica M (Typ 240)||Ca. 680 g (with battery)|
|Ricoh GR||215/245 g (without everything/with battery and strap)|
A fully equipped Leica M (Typ 240) including battery, SD card, EVF, Peak Design shoulder strap, halfcase, and Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f/1.5 weighs 1060 g (1067 with lens cap). | <urn:uuid:1f3bf9ee-7cd3-4ffd-9988-20d5200fcdd1> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://waloszek.de/m240_size_comps_gr_e.php | 2019-03-25T14:06:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203991.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325133117-20190325155117-00193.warc.gz | en | 0.848374 | 263 |
ST LAWRENCE COLLEGE – SPRING/SUMMER TERM 2012
SURFACE DESIGN AND STITCH
Over two long weekends – Summer Term 2012 in Room 12050 – Upper Level in the Link Hallway, St. Lawrence College. Park behind the
facing Tech Building Country Club Drive and come in through door E12. Class days run 9 am – 4 pm… (8:30 am for set up). The college Residence may be able to accommodate out of town students. Please inquire.
Sat, Sun, Mon, July 28, 29 & 30 and Aug 18, 19 & 20
36 hour, Full Credit Textile Design Program Course fee payable to St. Lawrence College: $223.92
Register for : ARTS 110 860
CREATING ORIGINAL CLOTH, July 28-30thThis course is a focused learning course developed to take each student, whether a beginner or advanced student, to a new and confident place in their exploration of surface design technique.
During the first weekend, students will explore multiple techniques for painting and dyeing one of a kind original fabric, development of screen printing technique using thickened dyes, stamp making and printing. Exploration of two full days with ARISHI SHIBORI dye work is a new focus for this July 28-30th, 2012 course weekend….
COLLAGE, LAYERING AND STITCH, August 18-20thThe focus for our second weekend is the completion of several original textile art pieces, destined for display in the home or in public exhibitions. The fabrics created in our first weekend will be collaged, layered and stitched using both hand and machine stitch techniques. Students will enjoy the opportunity to explore the art of the stitch as an important part of their new work. Use of the sewing machine for thread painting the surface and use of the Embellishing Machine as an important design tool will be shared. Framing and finishing are an important part of this weekend in the classroom.
Questions should be directed to Instructor, Bethany Garner at textiledesignSLC@gmail.com
Registration at: http://SL.on.ca (Part Time Studies, ARTS, Textile Design, Surface Design and Stitch, ARTS 110 860) or call 613-544-5400, ext. 60 (Student Services). $35 Materials Fee for paints and dyes provided in the course is payable to the Instructor first day of class.
Bethany Garner is a Textile Artist demonstrating a strong commitment to the promotion of Fibre as an Art form for women in the 21st century. Bethany has been active in local and national quilting organizations, serving as a Board member of CQA/ACC, as a local Textile Educator in
and serves as a Regional Representative with the Studio Art Quilt Associates, internationally. Beth is a Course
Developer/Instructor in the Textile Design Program, St. Lawrence College, ,
and has been with the College since 1996. Kingston, Ontario | <urn:uuid:ee7c9815-91aa-4c3a-b20d-8562119219d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://saqacentralcanada.blogspot.com/2012/05/st-lawrence-college-kingston-campus.html | 2017-12-13T18:55:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948530668.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20171213182224-20171213202224-00312.warc.gz | en | 0.909636 | 622 |
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