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You have to wonder what is going on inside the minds of some people when it comes to vandalizing cultural resources. The good folks at the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park have had their unfair share of trouble with this in recent months. The story of those troubles is recorded here:
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I must confess that I have never studied the anthropology of graffiti and admit to being totally ignorant about the subject. The National Park Service no doubt views all modern graffiti affixed to or engraved in federal property at any location as being a form of vandalism. I am not prepared to totally argue against that point, but I do feel that the modern application of graffiti has a human side that may be worth considering. Perhaps a person draws a heart, their initials, and the initials of their sweetheart on a historical cannon in hopes that they too, feeling faceless and nameless in a crowd of 314,000,000 people, might somehow fuse a small part of themselves with a historical object in hopes that it will not be painted over—that this engraving will remain there for hundreds of years—and that the two of them and the bond they cherish will somehow become a part of the remembered history that the cannon represents. Part of me wants to designate that as some really odd and perverse measure of respect for American history, the objects it has produced, and the value of both to future generations.
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Take a musical journey from the 20th century roots of Jazz to the diverse sounds of the present with the Fort Worth Library’s annual Third Thursday Jazz Series. Featuring an outstanding list of nationally and locally known talent, the monthly lineup offers everything from swing jazz to the blues. All concerts are FREE and open to the public.
The Third Thursday Jazz Series continues with the Adonis Rose Quintet ~ Thursday, August 16, 6:30PM
Adonis Rose got his first drum set when he was 2 years old and was touring by age 17. Since that time, he has won a Grammy Award, and performed and recorded with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Dr. John, to name but a few. The fourth installment in the Thursday jazz series, the Adonis Rose Quintet, will also feature trumpeter Pete Clagett, saxophonist Chris Milyo, bassist Young Heo and pianist Stefan Karlsson.
What: For more information, visit the Third Thursday Jazz Series website.
When: Thursday, August 16 ~ 6:30pm. See the monthly lineup below for additional concert dates.
Where: In the Gallery of the Fort Worth Central Library. You can park on the street or in the 3rd St. & Taylor Parking Garage. The parking garage is FREE after 6:00pm or if you go earlier, have your parking ticket validated at the Central Library for up to 2.5 hours free on weekdays.
Cost: FREE, no ticket required.
Third Thursday Jazz Series Monthly Lineup
- August 16: Adonis Rose Quintet. This Grammy Award winning drummer brings his New Orleans sound to the series.
- September 20: Robin Eubanks Quintet. Eubanks has been voted best trombonist in DownBeat magazine’s international critics poll five times.
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Catastrophe is too big a word to be used, specially in technical terms. But that’s the word which came to my mind after seeing the latest happenings surrounding the iPhone 4S launch in India. If the pricing of iPhone 4S was a shocker, the newly released ‘attractive’ data plans from one of the two operators releasing iPhone 4S should be termed disaster. More on that later.
iPhone continues to be jinxed in India. The original iPhone and iPhone 3G never made it to the Indian markets officially (Update: I’m told that iPhone 3G did make it to the Indian shores in August 2008), while the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 were dumped here months after their release elsewhere in the world. This time around, Apple fans in India were hoping to see an early release of iPhone 4S and their wishes were duly fulfilled by two operators – Airtel and Aircel, who announced that the latest iPhone will be released on November 25th. But that happiness was short lived.
The Shocker – iPhone 4S Prices in India
Both Aircel and Airtel have priced the 16GB variant at INR 44,500 (approx $860), while the 32GB variant is priced at INR 50,900 (approx $980) and the 64GB variant is priced at INR 57,500 (approx $1100) which is almost the same price as that of a 11″ Macbook Air here in India!
These prices are possibly the costliest we have seen in the world for an unlocked iPhone 4S. Though it was always expected that unlike iPhone 4, which was priced at INR 35,000 (approx $700), considering the depreciating rupee, the iPhone 4S would be priced above INR 40,000. But people were still shocked to see the final premium price set.
Ironically, we still don’t know for sure as to who sets the price for iPhone in India! By default, everyone would point fingers at Apple, which is logical as well. But, unlike in US, UK, Japan and other places, iPhones are not sold by Apple directly; but are stocked and sold by the operators. But mind you, Apple still decides which operators get to sell the iPhones on its behalf. But neither Apple, nor the operators have come on record to say who decides the final pricing, which does raises some eyebrows.
According to an article from Economic Times, operators had no say in the pricing of iPhone 4S and it is Apple alone who is responsible for this exorbitant pricing in India. But Atul Chitnis, one of India’s best known technologists, believes that the greed of the operators has to be blamed for the current mess. He tweets-
The iPhone is not sold by Apple in India, but by operators who do stock & sell, and hike the prices to feed reverse subsidies
According to Chitnis, Apple only controls lower price level of iPhone and the upper level is decided by operators. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t care to clarify if that is the case. As tech writer, Nimish Dubey says, Apple is mum on this because they cannot afford to hamper their relationship with the Indian operators. No matter who is responsible for this, but ultimately, it’s the Indian consumer who is left unhappy.
The Disaster – iPhone 4S Data plans
But it is not just the pricing of iPhone 4S which is making the Indian Apple fans unhappy, it’s also the
attractive ridiculous reverse subsidy plan announced by Aircel which has left the consumers fuming.
Unlike the 100% money back plans which they had introduced during iPhone 4 launch earlier this year, the best you can manage now is a 50% money back plan. As you can see, the cheapest iPhone 4S tariff plan sets you back by INR 950 (approx $20) per month and gives you just 650MB of 3G data and 350 SMSes, which is like 22MB of 3G data per day. The only saving grace is 3000 minutes of free local+STD calls.
So after paying close to INR 45,000 and then locking up with the carrier for a lousy 2 year contract, you will just be (theoretically) saving INR 22,000 at the end of 24 months! Though the other operator, Airtel is yet to announce its data plan, we won’t be surprised if their offer is somewhat similar to that of Aircel.
Considering these shockers, I wonder how many people will buy the iPhone 4S in India. Of course there will be some crazy ones who buy no matter what the price of iPhone is, but Apple has a lot of things at stake here. If they bother to address these or not remains to be seen.
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Grant Count Social Services Director Stacy Hennen and Chief Deputy Troy Langlie met with the Board of Commissioners last Tuesday to outline a plan that would combine their departments into one County Services building, instead of two. This past summer the county began making plans for a new facility that would include offices for Social Services, Public Health, and the Veterans Service Office. The estimated price for this building was around $4 million. As part of the process, the county was required to develop a five year capital improvement plan that included a new 9,000 square foot Law Enforcement Center that would stand alone and cost an estimated $2 million. Other aspects of the capital improvement plan included an addition to the Highway Department building, and asbestos removal and demolition of the old county hospital building, bringing the total cost of bonding to $7 million.
Meanwhile, the city of Elbow Lake demolished half a block of old buildings on main street in anticipation of this site being purchased for the Social Services building, and JLG Architects were hired to develop a floor plan that would serve their needs.
At a public hearing on the plan and bonding for the buildings, there was opposition and a petition was submitted asking for a public vote before the plan was implemented.
On Tuesday, Hennen said, “We should step back a bit and rethink things.”
She asked for permission to discuss with JLG making modifications within the current buildings’ footprint that would allow us to add law enforcement, and a discussion of what changes would be necessary as well as how that would impact cost.
“The goal would be to look comprehensively at all the county needs and attempt to address all the needs in one space with the most cost effective, yet functional, option possible,” she added.
Hennen and Langlie outlined what they felt would be cost savings of turning two building projects into one, including: minimizing the number of physical plants that require maintenance and upkeep, and sharing, or consolidating areas such as reception rooms, meeting rooms, interview rooms, etc.
Langlie said they figured by consolidating the law enforcement center they could get by on around 7,500 square feet. He added that some needs, such as a dispatch room, would need to be “hardened” to be made secure, and they could not compromise on that.
“When the courthouse was being remodeled the winter of 2011-12, we moved operations down to Social Services and combined somewhat,” said Langlie. “We found it worked very well and we even discovered some efficiencies.”
Hennen said the new building may have to be bigger than originally planned, which means expanding either to the north or the east. However, the city of Elbow Lake has a major electrical junction just to the east and moving that would cost.
Commissioner Peter Hoff asked if it wasn’t unusual to combine these two services?
Hennen said Government Centers such as this are actually becoming more common.
Commissioner Hoff said he was worried that, although the plan should bring down costs, it may actually drive up the costs.
Langlie said the goal would be to make sure that did not happen.
County Attorney Justin Anderson explained that if the new plan, or bonding request, was a substantial modification from the original, state law says the process could start all over again. The county would hold a public hearing on the plan and citizens would file another petition requesting a vote if they wanted to. He suggested a modification substantial enough to meet this requirement would have to be several million dollars less, or more, than the original request of $7 million.
Eventually the commissioners passed a motion authorizing renderings from JLG reflecting the addition of a law enforcement center in the Social Services building. They were told the renderings might be completed in as little as two weeks.
Grant County Coordinator James Standish submitted the final 2016 solid waste budget of $550,181 for approval. The budget includes $392,671 charged to cities and rural solid waste customers. Some cities will be paying more for solid waste collections, based on the amount of solid waste picked up last year. Ashby’s percentage of the counties total went up from 12.19 percent to 14.33 percent, for an increase of $6,445. Barrett’s percentage went up from 9.31 percent to 10.02 percent, for an increase of $1,293. Herman’s percentage went up only a fraction. Elbow Lake saw a big decrease in percentage from 36.91 percent to 35.39 percent for a decrease of $11,898; and Hoffman saw a decrease in percentage from 15.13 percent to 14.27 percent for a decrease of $5,538.
Rural customers saw a decrease in percentage from 13.83 percent of the counties solid waste to 12.75 percent.
Standish said these numbers will be passed along to the various city councils who will use them to set their cities 2016 garbage rates.
Standish told the commissioners that he is having trouble finding someone to take the job managing the metal and appliance recycling site in Elbow Lake following the injury to Ron Ehlers. He said the other manager has been filling in, but will be taking a vacation from February 17 to February 24 so the site will have to be closed down during that time.
“The ideal person for this job would be someone who is retired and can work with the public. It could be a big problem if we can’t find someone,” said Standish, adding that he has had an ad in the newspapers for several weeks with no applicants.
Standish said the job is for 12 hours per week at over $12 per hour.
The commissioners talked for awhile about alternatives but Standish said this has been a good system and he would hate to go back to an unmanaged site because it is abused.
Standish received approval to apply for a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council for the decorative elements project in the courthouse that would help with the costs.
The Grant County Highway Department’s Tom Hagen requested permission to advertise for a new Heavy Equipment Operator to replace a terminated employee. The new employee will work out of the county garage in Herman with the current employee in Herman transferring to Wendell.
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But we never ever talked about what it meant and felt like to be Black and white, and the effects that had on our being friends. Of course, everybody with any sense deplored racial discrimination, theoretically and without discussion. We could conquer it by ignoring it.
How meager the sustenance was I gained from the four years I spent in high school; yet, how important that sustenance was to my survival. Remembering that time is like watching old pictures of myself in a prison camp picking edible scraps out of the garbage heap, and knowing that without that garbage I might have starved to death. The overwhelming racism of so many of the faculty, including the ones upon whom I had my worst schoolgirl crushes. How little I settled for int he way of human contact, compared to what I was conscious of wanting.
It was in high school that I came to believe that I was different from my white classmates, not because I was Black, but because I was me.
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A two-month ordeal after a cave-in appears near ending for 33 trapped miners in Chile, as they are brought back to surface one by one. With ingenuity and cutting-edge technology, the men have survived 68 days some 625 metres underground fending off hunger, anxiety and illness in a record-setting feat of survival. But what happens after they reach the surface and how will their experience affect their future health? Gulf News attempts to answer some of those questions:
How are the miners being brought up to surface?
Paramedics and a mining expert have descended into the mine to oversee the rescue and evaluate the health of the miners. All miners coming up in the Phoenix 2 capsule to surface will need to wear sweaters for the change in temperature: from about 90 degrees underground to possibly near freezing at the surface. They must also wear sunglasses to adjust to sudden bursts of bright light.
What did the miners eat while they were underground?
From the August 5 cave-in until they established contact with the surface 17 days later, the miners rationed themselves to two spoonfuls of tuna, half a cookie and a half-full glass of milk every 48 hours. Once rescuers on the surface discovered the men with a narrow perforation drill, they began sending them hydration gel, soup and medication in narrow plastic tubes called "doves." Later, doctors transitioned the men to a solid diet followed by NASA, including meat and rice, with a strict 2,200 calorie diet to keep them slim enough to fit in the evacuation shaft just two feet (66 cm) in diameter. In the tunnel near the shelter where the men initially took refuge, they set up a chemical toilet and latrines, along with a duct providing potable water.
How did the miners communicate?
The first sign of life from the miners came on August 22, when knocking was heard on a drill head as it reached the depths of the mine. Rescuers withdrew the drill to find a note attached reading, "The 33 of us in the shelter are well." Once the first bore hole established a lifeline to the men, letters began to pass between loved ones via the "doves." Later came a fiber optic line enabling phone calls and videoconferencing. Doctors were also able to pass down a biometric belt which allowed the miners to monitor and transmit their vital signs to the surface using wireless technology.
What was their daily routine like before the rescue?
Once they were discovered, the men quickly established a regular meal schedule including breakfast, lunch, dinner and an afternoon tea. Supported by a 500 watt power line, they installed lights to simulate day and night to diminish the impact of their eventual return to the surface. Physiologists set up obligatory exercise schedules to keep the men fit for their trying passage up the escape shaft, when they may have to hold the same posture for as much as an hour. In recent weeks, the miners began to help with the drilling process, taking shifts to clear away debris that fell into the tunnel of the mine.
What happens after the miners reach the surface?
Once a miner reaches the surface, he is being taken away and ushered through inflatable tunnels to ambulances that will take them to a triage station. He is then examined by a doctor and then taken to another area to meet between one and three family members he has personally chosen. The men will then be flown by Chilean air force helicopters to a hospital in nearby Copiapo. If fog prevents air transport, ambulances will be ready to drive the miners. Every miner will be kept under observation until a full 48 hours after the last miner has surfaced.
Has the 69-day ordeal affected the miners’ health?
The health of the workers who have so far been rescued from the San Jose copper mine is “quite good,” according to Chile Health Minister Jaime Manalich. They have generally suffered an increase in their heart frequency and their blood pressure, but doctors are not worried. “In all cases they recovered satisfactorily after a while of rest in bed, without need for medication,” Manalich said. The first two miners to be rescued, Florencio Avalos and Mario Sepulveda, have already been evaluated by a dermatologist and an ophtalmologist at the Regional Hospital in Copiapo, and they have had X-rays taken. “Everything is going extraordinarily well,” he said. But the more complicated cases - including the oldest of them, Mario Gomez, - will only be known after they have under medical observation for some time.
What precautions were taken to minimize the potential health risks before the rescue operations?
Several steps have been taken to minimize the miners’ health risks before they were rescued. The first group of miners to come up are younger men, who could best relay information back to the surface and in case of emergency would have been able to activate levers to liberate the rescue capsule. Miners with health conditions were being brought up later.
What could be the possible health impact in future on the miners?
The rescue and rehabilitation are only the first steps in a longer recovery process, according to workers with NASA. Health concerns linger regarding their lack of sunlight, nutrition, effects of their confinement, lack of sleep and sanitation, according to CNN. Mental health is also a concern. The 33 miners must be reintroduced to their families and society and deal with their sudden celebrity status. Psychological adjustments will also be a hurdle: the men spent 20 days totally cut off in the dark until the first bore hole was made, and thus were in a constant life and death situation, say psychologists. Doctors will watch out for things such as nightmares, panic attacks, anxiety and claustrophobia, among other potential issues.
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* Maple Leaf silver coins hard to get -retailers
* Royal Canadian Mint on allocation from September
* Supply times increase, premiums likely to jump
By A. Ananthalakshmi and Frank Tang
SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A tumble in silver prices to four-year lows has triggered a global scramble by consumers to purchase silver coins and bars, as the spread between the price of the metal and gold reaches its widest in five years.
Retailers and distributors in Asia and the United States said they were struggling to get supplies of items such as Canadian Maple Leaf silver coins.
While demand for silver has been strong over the last few months, retailers say buying interest soared in recent days as the metal fell towards its lowest since 2010, along with gold.
Demand for silver coins and bars accounted for more than a fifth of total demand in 2013, according to a report by the Silver Institute. A sustained jump in demand should support silver prices, currently at just over $15 an ounce.
The price of silver is currently around 74 times cheaper than gold - the biggest spread since early 2009. Due to its greater afford ability, silver sales tend to outstrip gold in volume terms and attract a lot more retail buyers.
“Supply of silver from some mints has been delayed,” said Brian Lan, managing director of Singapore-based retailer GoldSilver Central.
“Demand had not been great early this year, so they had reduced production capacity and manpower. When there was a spike, they were caught off guard,” Lan said.
Most mints across the globe typically launch a new product lineup at the beginning of each year. They wouldn’t be sitting on big inventories towards the end of the year, and a ramp up in production could take a while.
The Royal Canadian mint had started allocating, an industry term meaning rationing, its popular Maple Leaf silver coins in September in response to high demand, according to a spokesman.
With the allocation of silver coins in place, the mint continues to produce and take orders for 2014 coins with no anticipated stoppage in shipments, he said.
But retailers are already finding it hard to get hold of the mint’s products as they sell out their existing stock.
“The premiums of silver Maple Leaf bullion are going to rise soon because dealers cannot get their hands on the coins,” said Scott Spitzer, chief operating officer at Manfra Tordella & Brookes, one of the largest U.S. coin wholesalers in New York.
Some Asian dealers said they have had to pull Maple Leaf coins from their lineup until they get the mint’s 2015 products.
In mid-April 2013, silver lost nearly a fifth of its value in two days, tracking a rout in gold, prompting a rush to snap up both the metals at a bargain price.
But with the drop to four-year lows last week, the demand for the metals this time around has not been the same.
Gold is seeing a pick up in demand in Europe and the United States, but Asia, the top gold consuming region, has not seen the sort of buying frenzy that happened last year.
“(Silver) supply is not as bad as April 2013 but there is definitely more tightness in the chain,” said Gregor Gregersen, director at Silver Bullion, a retailer in Singapore, adding that supply times were increasing.
While the Royal Canadian Mint is rationing silver coins, it has no such system for gold.
The U.S. Mint is not allocating silver or gold at the moment. In June, the mint lifted its ration on silver American Eagle coins that had been in place since January last year as strong demand had depleted silver coin blanks.
The U.S. Mint sold 1.4 million ounces of silver American Eagle coins on Friday alone, the highest daily sales since Jan. 13 when the new 2014-dated coins first became available.
The Perth Mint, which runs the only gold refinery in No. 2 gold producer Australia, said it was not facing any supply issues as it usually launches a new line of products from September, unlike the other mints.
“We built up a lot of stock for those releases. So we have quite a few months worth of stock,” said Neil Vance, wholesale manager at the Perth Mint.
“If this had been a different time of the year, it would have been a different story.”
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(HURON) - Tom and Jeff Kimmel, brothers who own Indian Creek Stone Products near Huron, are celebrating 30 years of business.
The brothers thank their employees and their parents for the company's success.
The company includes a sandstone quarry, two mill operations, a sister trucking company and a line of landscape materials.
Materials available for purchase include building veneer, thin stone veneer, slabs and special cut stone work.
For more information, visit www.indiancreekstone.com or stop by the location at 12998 U.S. 50 West, near Huron.
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Whiting twins help Delta girls qualify for state XC meet
DELTA — For the entire cross country season, Delta High School sophomore Cleo Whiting has been trying to keep up with her twin sister, Clarissa.
She finally caught her Wednesday, when the sisters finished second and third in the Class 4A Region 5 meet at Confluence Park, helping the Panthers secure their first state bid in seven years.
“It’s the first time I stayed with her all year,” Cleo Whiting said.
Clarissa finished second with a time of 19 minutes, 4 seconds, behind winner Mandy Ortiz of Battle Mountain, who finished in 18:46. Cleo finished third, five seconds behind her sister, to help the Panthers place fourth with 130 points. Teammate Carissa Sidor placed 12th in 20:01 and qualified for state.
“I knew if they ran the way they have all year, they could finished toward the top,” Delta coach J.B. Lopez said.
Palisade’s Katy Mueller grabbed the final qualifying spot, placing 15th in 20:09. Montrose’s Dana Shellhorn placed sixth in 19:39 to qualify for state.
The Delta girls finished nine points ahead of Glenwood Springs, which saw its string of seven straight trips to state end.
Battle Mountain finished in the top spot with 43 points. Durango scored 53, Moffat County 107 and Delta 130. Montrose placed eighth and Palisade ninth.
“It looked like our boys ran well, which was our only bright spot for today,” Glenwood coach Mike Schneiter said.
Moffat County won the boys team title with 68 points. Durango took second, Glenwood Springs was third and Eagle Valley placed fourth and qualified for state. Montrose was fifth, Delta was eighth and Palisade was 10th.
Alfredo Lebron of Moffat County took first place in 15:47. Andrew Mansfield of Glenwood Springs was second in 16:08.
Delta had two individual qualify for state. Jacob Ames of Delta placed third in 16:19 and Daniel De La Rosa was 11th in 17:07.
The Hotchkiss girls, who finished second at state last year, came in right at the qualifying line with 65 points in the Region 1 meet at Confluence Park.
“Last year we barely got out of regional and went to state and did well. We hope to do the same thing this year,” Hotchkiss coach Kelly Cowan said.
The Bulldogs were led by sophomore Natalie Anderson, who finished fourth in 19:39.
“She ran pretty close to her best time all year,” Cowan said. “I just have to remind her to relax a little bit more.”
The Aspen girls won the meet with 42 points, ahead of Bayfield (62), Hotchkiss (65) and Gunnison (67).
Cody Barlett led the Hotchkiss boys team to second place with a time of 17:06. He finished fourth. Teammates Kurt Katzdorn was 15th, Trevor Walters was 16th and Jason Sturgis placed 17th.
Pagosa Springs finished first in the boys regional with 42 points. Hotchkiss was second with 49, Gunnison had 55 and Buena Vista was fourth with 72.
Rifle’s Jake Statler qualified for state with a ninth-place finish in 17:31. Grand Valley’s Isaiah Martinez qualified for state with a 14th-place finish in 17:56.
The Telluride boys and girls won the Region 4 team titles at Confluence Park and qualified for state.
The Miners’ Ty Williams won the boys race in 16:05 and Rachel Hampton won the girls race in 18:28.
Meeker’s Jake Boesch, Lathrop Hughes and Krissie Harman qualified for state with top-15 finishes.
Fruita Monument’s Kyler Brown hasn’t run for more than a week because of shin splints, but placed 10th in the Region 3 meet at Aurora Sports Park to qualify for state.
Brown finished the 5K race in 16:46. Teammate Chuck Bisbee finished two spots behind him to qualify, clocking a 16:51.
“Kyler was injured for a week and a half and he still pulled it off,” Fruita coach Herb Huskey said. “Chuck was right behind Kyler and took 14 or 15 seconds off the last time he ran this course.”
They were the only state qualifiers for the Fruita Monument boys or girls. The boys took sixth place, missing the fifth and final qualifying team spot by nine points.
The Fruita Monument girls placed eighth, led by Micheala Hoffman. She placed 42nd in 21:10.
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Healing and Curing: What is Medicine?
The Purpose of Medicine
The purpose of Medicine is to alleviate suffering and to honor life and death.
All human societies have created, adopted, and adapted systems of medicine to this end, in order that we might be healed and our diseases might be cured. In our striving to heal and to cure, we have ingeniously come up with a rich kaleidoscope of different kinds of medicine. Each of these medicines involves healing and curing to various degrees.
What is the Difference Between Healing and Curing?
While there may be overlap, healing and curing are not exactly the same. Diseases are cured but people are healed. A disease is something we define as being outside of our personal identity; we may have a disease, but that does not mean that we are a disease. A disease is forever external, even while living inside us. Disease is often the unwelcome guest whom we insist on inviting to our party. And we do so knowing that he is someone who can cause all kinds of mischief.
A disease is defined differently than the person who has the disease, so we treat them differently. We can cure a disease or a condition, but we cannot cure a person; a person can only be healed. When we heal a person, we heal their spirit, their heart, their relationships, or their body.
So, while curing and healing are different, both can impact mind and body. Curing is deductive, linear and physiological. Curing is best defined by science, as science best defines disease. Healing is inductive, non-linear and psycho-spiritual. Healing is best defined by spirit, as spirit best defines health. But they are not mutually exclusive; we can still heal without curing or cure without healing. Ideally, we are engaged in both.
Divination as Medicine
Because curing is different than healing, and healing is crucial, medicine need not limit itself to only addressing issues of physical health. We heal in many different ways. Medicine can and must address a much deeper and more profound calling than just the alleviation of physical symptoms and labeled syndromes. Our humanity carries an emotional and existential malaise that can bring tremendous suffering, and medicine must address this. Throughout history many unusual medicines have been created to alleviate this suffering, with varying degrees of success. These ingenious forms of medicine have been created to help us integrate our fractured selves.
While not normally thought of as medicines, I list the following as unconventional modalities we might embrace if we are going to expand our ideas of what constitutes medicine and healing. Many of these are systems of divination that categorize and organize human personalities and experiences in order to create insight into the nature of suffering. They function much like the Rorschach inkblot tests used by psychiatrists.
Divination practices are, for all practical purposes, maps of the psyche. They are gems that reflect the facets and nuances of our human experience and consciousness. Their unique perspectives reflect us back to ourselves, allowing us to ponder our lives and dilemmas and brainstorm solutions from a variety of different vantage points. These are things like astrology, tarot, enneagram, psychoanalysis, mythology, I Ching, neurolinguistic programming, etcetera.
These modalities create food for our unconscious mind and spark our imagination. They help us navigate and integrate “shadow”: the parts of ourselves that we deny, avoid, or repress.
Much of our thinking comes from these shadow parts of our mind. This same thinking profoundly impacts our physical health directly by generating hormones and neurotransmitters that can alter our immune system. Our thinking also affects our behavior, whether we eat good food and exercise, for example
A Rich Diversity of Medicines
As well as systems of divination, we are also fortunate to have a myriad of more “conventional” medicines to choose from … a rich and varied tool chest.
* Scientific medicine measures and battles disease.
* Natural medicine measures health and strengthens the body’s natural processes.
* Chinese medicine aligns the patient with their Destiny (Ming).
* Hawaiian medicine connects a person with their ancestors, hence returning them to the place of Creation (Pö).
* Tibetan medicine resolves Karma.
Each medicine treats what it perceives as the root of the problem. But, as different as they may be, all of these medicines have one thing in common; when they are practiced well both the patient and the practitioner will benefit from their experience of that medicine. With varying degrees of success, each of these medicines will move the patient and practitioner toward their own integration. This integration may involve healing, curing, or both.
Medicine as Dogma
While each medicine has specific strengths and weaknesses, none has a monopoly on truth. The faithful in each medicine will say, “Those other medicines treat mere symptoms, but only our medicine treats the root of the problem.”
That is like saying that only a hammer is a significant tool for building a house and that a drill is not important. Each medicine has its own form of genius, but the universe and our humanity are bigger than any method of healing can embrace. Every perspective has a blind spot. And because every medicine uses tools that arise from its particular perspective, it also has a blind spot.
Looking Into the Mirror
Just as every medicine has a blind spot, so does every patient … and every practitioner.
As practitioners we should hold up a mirror so that our patients can see their blind spots. We must also face the mirrors that our patients unwittingly hold up for us. As practitioners we are not only seeking the integration of our patients, but also our own integration. We cannot treat our patients effectively without doing our own inner work and facing our shadow. This is one of the great gifts and challenges of practicing medicine.
When we place ourselves between our patients and their potential, we become the conduits through which healing (and integration) is facilitated. This process is not necessarily personal, nor does it always reflect our level of skill. In positioning ourselves as practitioners we align with powerful ancient archetypes and become the conduits of healing, not the generators of it.
All Medicine Answers to Nature
Integration is the strengthening and harmonizing of systems. When we integrate we are harmonizing natural systems within our body and also harmonizing those systems with the outside world. When we are internally integrated and externally synchronous our lives and our health take on new meaning. When the internal and external interact seamlessly, the possibilities of both healing and curing are potentiated.
Our process of integration is, at its source, derived from the natural world… there is no other place from which it can emerge. So the root of our medicines, whether pharmaceutical, scientific, biochemical, herbal, structural, psychological, spiritual, or shamanic, reside in Nature.
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19th century mining operations, most famously the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, put Colorado Springs and surrounding cities on the map and provided the impetus for an array of early lodging facilities to serve the needs of westward-bound adventurers. The succeeding decades brought an influx of “health tourism,” with the sickly seeking to recuperate in the Springs’ mild, rejuvenating climate and at the world-famous Broadmoor hotel. Some of the nation’s central military operations were established in the area following World War II, and today a phalanx of businesses, government operations, tourism attractions, and natural wonders bolster the city’s diverse economy.
The following article looks at how these entities and upcoming events are affecting the Colorado Springs lodging market.
The Colorado Springs market offers some 80 hotels and more than 8,600 rooms, which are divided among four major submarkets, as illustrated here:
Limited-service hotels dominate the North and Airport submarkets, while most of the city’s full-service properties are located within the Downtown and South submarkets.
Over the course of 2007, 2008, and 2009, seven hotels totaling 553 rooms opened in Colorado Springs; most of these were limited- or select-service properties in the South submarket. The lack of any new supply in 2010 and the lack of new competitive full-service supply over the past few years helped lead to a better-than-expected recovery for existing properties in 2010. The following table shows the number of rooms entering the Colorado Springs market each year since 2000.
In 2009, three downtown buildings were purchased for conversion into The Mining Exchange, a Wyndham Grand Hotel. This full-service, luxury hotel, located in the heart of the Downtown submarket, will bring 117 new luxury guestrooms to Colorado Springs’ inventory when it opens in late summer of 2011.
In December of 2010, Nor’wood Development Group 1 reported that at least two parties have expressed interest in purchasing and completing the 300-room Renaissance Hotel, located in the North submarket near the Air Force Academy. Plans for the eleven-story hotel, which is about 70% complete, include 50,000 square feet of meeting space. Marriott’s website lists a tentative opening date sometime in January of 2015.
Historical Hotel Performance
Area hotels were burdened by reduced demand during the recession, a situation exacerbated by the introduction of new supply in 2008 and 2009. Occupancy regained momentum in 2010 as a result of strong demand growth from the commercial, leisure, and government sectors; the most recent available data from 2011 suggest that this recovery is continuing.
The following graph illustrates trends concerning average daily rate and occupancy for Colorado Springs hotels from 2006 through 2010.
Average rates rose in 2007 with the entrance of new high-quality hotels and renovations to existing hotels. Rates have fallen sharply since late 2008, a result of the price-consciousness induced by the recent recession. Given the importance of government and military demand for the Colorado Springs hotel market, shifts in government per-diem levels have had a pronounced effect on average rate; the federal per-diem rate declined by $4 for fiscal year 2010/11, which produced a negative impact on overall average rate. As the national economy continues to recover and hotel operators rely less on rate discounts to entice travelers, average rate for area hotels should see a slow ascent, with pricing power regaining hold during the summer tourism season.
Hotel Market Demand Segmentation
Government and military demand constitute a keystone of the Colorado Springs lodging market. Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Fort Carson Military Reservation, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and Schriever Air Force Base supply the majority of government demand in the market. Operations at the Air Force Space Command, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, and the Missile Defense Integrated Operations Center fortify this demand base, and all of the aforementioned entities generate significant demand through training activities, reintegration meetings for troops returning from deployment, and military reunions.
The government segment has seen significant growth over the past few years. The Department of Defense moved its space operations program to Peterson Air Force Base in July of 2009, and the Department of Homeland Security has relocated a number of operations to Colorado Springs. The following map illustrates how the major military centers are spread around the city.
Military contractors and companies within the telecommunications, aerospace, and high-tech industries form the backbone of Colorado Springs’ commercial demand, which saw an increase in 2010. Booz Allen Hamilton, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, Atmel, El Paso Corporation, IBM, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin have operations in and around the city. Hotels in the area also benefit from demand from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).
The City has approved a proposal to create the $1-billion Vineyards Commerce Park, which will house five to ten data centers and a small waste-burning power plant. The project is now awaiting approval to be part of the Urban Renewal Plan for Colorado Springs, which would benefit the project through certain incentives and tax breaks. The new business park, in addition to retail development at University Village near the UCCS, should stimulate commercial demand growth in the coming years.
Cultural and historic attractions abound in Colorado Springs, complemented by remarkable natural monuments such as Pikes Peak, the Garden of the Gods, Seven Falls, and the Cave of the Winds. The U.S. Olympic Training Center hosts world-class athletes and their coaches, trainers, and other visitors throughout the year. The Broadmoor hotel and resort, known for nearly a century as the “Grand Dame of the Rockies,” continues to draw large numbers of tourists and vacationers to the area. Leisure demand in the market grew significantly in 2010. Strong growth is anticipated in the near term as a result of major upcoming events such as the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in July and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge bike race in August of this year.
The headquarters of businesses and religious organizations supply a healthy amount of meeting and group demand to the market. The U.S. Olympic Training Center also attracts a wide variety of sports tournaments, and teams competing in USAA Hockey tournaments at the Colorado Springs World Arena also generate significant demand in this segment. In the absence of a large-scale, independent convention facility, the lion’s share of the market’s meeting and group demand goes to full-service hotels, some of which offer more than 40,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space to accommodate group functions. Meeting and group demand in the market has seen slow growth since the recession, though the aforementioned golf tournament and bike race should boost demand in this segment in 2011, with many teams and their support squads having already booked contracted rates at local hotels.
As the Colorado Springs lodging sector continues to pull free of the recent recession, programs such as “Tank Full of Summer Savings,” which offers discounts to travelers to offset rising gas prices, and exclusive summer events look to keep the demand flowing in. Officials estimate that the U.S. Women’s Open will generate nearly 25,000 hotel nights and will have a $25-million economic impact on Colorado Springs this summer.2 The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will invigorate the local economy and lodging sector even further. Moreover, these and other major events hosted in Colorado Springs help embolden the city’s prestige as a rugged yet refined locale for groups, families, business travelers, and vacationers from around the world. Set among the rough-and-ready Rocky Mountains yet offering some of the finest resort accommodations in the West, Colorado Springs’ hoteliers are working full-steam-ahead to keep the local lodging market strong.
1 Nor’wood Development group is the developer of the 138-acre InterQuest Marketplace, a retail and entertainment center in which the Renaissance hotel site is located.
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- Passed at home unexpectedly July 15, 2017. He was born March 23, 1964 in Bangor. He was a dedicated and loving man who devoted his life to his family. He is survived by his mother, Earlene Sullivan; siblings, Patrick and wife Debbie Sullian, Terry and wife Jolyn Sullivan, Stephen and wife Jen Sullivan, and Michelle and husband Terry Briggs; fiancé, Barbara White, her children Eric Smith and Amanda White; his daughter, Ashley Sullivan, her significant other, Cody Jackson; and his grandchildren, Kaitlyn Smith and Bradley Jackson. He is also survived by several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Tim loved being outside in the sun, tending to his garden and spending time with family. We will remember him by his willingness to always help others, his kind heart, and creativity.
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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS -- Many believe that the event that began on February 7 and 8 at the Barton Coliseum was just the beginning of an intense revelation to the body of Christ about revival. Prayer was the main focus as an army of believers drove down Roosevelt Avenue to enter the Arkansas State Fair Grounds. It wasnt a preachers meeting, and it wasnt a healing meeting, but it was a time to seek revival for Little Rock and the United States of America. Thousands came to Little Rock to go down the same streets that the Federal Troops traveled down in 1954 to insure that integration would be implemented at Central High School. That incident was a historic event because it initiated the beginning of the modern day Civil Rights Movement. It would establish equal Civil Rights for the black race in the United States, according to law of the land.
It was the same neighborhood but the troops that came down Roosevelt Avenue this day had no bullets, grenades or jeeps -- no they were only equipped with a single sword (The Bible). The weapons they carried were not carnal but were mighty for the pulling down of strong holds. This was another historic event but this army would go to their knees in another non-violent struggle. They bombarded Heaven with their prayers and petitioned the Father to manifest His face on the city of Little Rock. These people were at war with Hell and they had one objective, revival in the land.
One lady said this about the meeting on Monday morning after Lila Terhune spoke, "There was such a presence of God no one wanted to leave. The power of God hovered over the place during the entire two days. From that moment on an abiding presence could be felt by all who entered the building."
Monday night the power of God flowed through the praise and worship service. A tall red-haired pastor approached the platform. He was a Southern Baptist Preacher seeking the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. As Brother Kilpatrick introduced him to the assembled crowd he stepped down in front of the stage and was prayed over by several spirit-filled ministers who had come that night.
Tommy Tenney came forth and spoke about the disciples. They asked Jesus how to pray, they knew that was the answer to everything that was going on around them. Very often my daughter says, "Daddy, look at me." Thats the very thing we are doing when we approach the Father. We are doing the same thing -- we are asking the Father to turn his face and look at us. When we are in worship and praise of Him the angels look on and say how pitiful, but when the Father notices His children praising Him -- He tells the angels thats my children and Im going down there.
THE LONG BLUE CARPET OF INTERCESSION
The power of God began to sweep the stage as the long blue carpet in the front of the stage began to fill up with believers. Tenney began to sing, "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face." Tenney once again spoke about his family. My grandmother used to have to repair my grandfathers pants in the knee area. You see when the rest of the family was asleep at night, grandfather used to stay up late and seek the face of the Father. Revival has always started from a prayer meeting - not a preaching meeting. Seldom ever has a meeting like this ever been held. Pastor Kilpatrick wants Gods presence. God is shopping for the place of the next outbreak. We know what happens when He visits a church but weve never seen what happens when He visits an entire city. He will pour his Spirit out if we will just seek His face. Tenney began to petition God to pour his Spirit out over Little Rock.
Joseph Garlington began to sing, "Great Big God." Like Brother Kilpatrick has said we do warfare with our fingers and our hands. We are waving flags across the front of this stage. Waving flags is a signal of the eminent defeat of the enemy. When we stomp our feet we are collapsing the very structures of Hell.
Galington led the people singing in the unknown tongue. We use tongues in spiritual warfare. Speaking in tongues and using body language brings about the pulling down of strongholds. The evening grew intense as the blue carpet in front of the sage had people prostrate calling upon the name of God. The rug was about 1/4 size of a football field and you could hardly find a place that wasnt occupied -- God was in the house.
Before Brother Kilpatrick spoke on Tuesday, he took time to recognize the tireless effort put forth by Evangelist Vernon Willis. "He has worked endless hours to insure the success of this meeting. In the other three times we have visited Little Rock - Pastor Happy Caldwell and Vernon Willis have prepared the way for what we are doing right now.
AWESOME INTERCESSION TUESDAY
Tuesday morning Pastor John Kilpatrick took the stage and had a short teaching on the things that hinder revival. "The greatest hinderance of revival is pride. If pride could make a devil out of an arc angel what can it do to you. When some one gets out of shape he will have an influence over others. You can cast out the devil but you cant cast out the flesh, we all make mistakes. Every day when revival comes we begin to feel the attack of the flesh, but give me a red hot revival, I will take the attacks of the devil. Revival does one thing, it will show you your heart. Since revival started in 1995 I have had to repent several times. God wants to deal with us and our treacherous nature. We were all conceived in iniquity --iniquity is a different word than sin. Iniquity means to be bent or crooked. Sin means you have missed the mark through the Greek interpretation of the word (sin). Iniquity was found in Satin. He was jealous and a ambitious climber. He wanted to put others down. God will come and judge one day. Satin said I will ascend to the thrown of the most high, but God saw the iniquity inside of him and cast him down. Youve got to be willing to let God change your life. Its going to be painful but do it, take care of the problem. As Pastor Kilpatrick finished his teaching Joseph Garlington once again came forward to teach and to worship God.
Garlington used Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. No one ever saw the Arc of God during the time of Saul. The Philistines moved it from city to city, and returned it to the Jews because it was causing so much trouble with them. It was David that wanted to return the Arc of God to its rightful place. Obed-Edom found out how powerful the presence of God was as the Arc was in his house for three months after Uzzah was struck dead on the Nachons threshingfloor. He had touched the Arc with his hand and that was forbidden by God. David asked Obed-Edom to keep the deadly box in his house until he could find out how to move it. For three months he was blessed in every way. Later Obed-Edom became a door keeper in the house of Lord. He wanted to be near the Arc of God because of its blessing.
Garlington said that you must get your heart above your head. He began to bow his head down. When your away from the presence of God you begin to desire to come back to Him. You must be broken, baca is the place where the heart goes to be broken, only the heart knows its way there (the valley of dried bones). As Garlington began to sing the praises of God, people once again began to groan and intercede for the city. The entire time was taken up with intercession as Tommy Tenney moved into the process as the third speaker. Tenney never spoke a word as a teacher, he knew the presence of God was in the building. Believers could be heard crying in intercession. The building had to be cleaned between services and it was very difficult to stop the process of what God had started. The building was not just being cleaned up this Tuesday afternoon, but it was being prepared for what God would do in the final evening meeting. What John Kilpatrick had desired was beginning to take place naturally as the flow of what God was doing began to come through the people. The scripture was becoming a reality, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14. The seeking of Gods face has got to be captured by the people and this was happening. The final meeting would turn into a full celebration of the presence of God. The Baton Auditorium had seen revival in the 1950s -- Evangelist Jack Coe led a revival from that building. It touched the entire city with the power of God. Coe died shortly after his meeting in Little Rock.
At the beginning of the night small oil bottles were passed out among the ministers. John Kilpatrick said, "We are thrilled to be here, and we dont interpret our presence to be bringing revival to your state. Many have already come in the last few years to start that process. We are here to build a bond with each other. I want every one to be open to the move of the Holy Spirit tonight. Our purpose is to pray and seek the face of God for Little Rock, Arkansas."
Kilpatrick went on to say he tried to schedule the first meeting for Denver, Colorado but God wouldn't free him from the burden of Little Rock. "God has been in control of the entire event. We wanted our meeting during the first week of February. Had we came that week with a six degree temperatures and all the snow we wouldnt of had this kind of turnout. God's divine hand has been upon us -- He has directed everything so far."
The Masters Commission of Brownsville Assembly of God presented three individual plays during the procession of the banners. The new banners were created by artist Luis Lopez. Unlike the original banners that were created at the Brownsville Church before revival, these banners were wide across the top and had more contrast and design. As each one came forward you knew God had moved through the hands Lopez to create these beautiful images.
NEW BANNERS ARE DISPLAYED
Pastor Kilpatrick directed the procession of banners and as each banner appeared the huge crowd of 7,000 began to intercede in prayer over that subject. Pastor Kilpatrick said that the banners were only symbols and serve as a reminders of burdens in these particular areas, they are not items of worship. The first banner to appear was the Schools Banner, followed by the Leaders Of Our Country Banner. The Forgiveness Banner was next, followed by The Souls and Deliverance Banner. As Kilpatrick announced The Healing Banner people came forward for prayer. Ministers took the oil bottles they were given earlier and began to pray over those who had come forward. While The Healing Banner was displayed a tremendous surge of the presence of God swept the building. John Kilpatrick allowed God to have his way during this time. Another new banner followed next, The Offering Banner appeared as ushers were stationed around the building to receive the offerings. People walked to the usher nearest them to give their offering. It was announced after the meeting that every need had been met of the $100,000 budget. The last banners came forward. They were the Jerusalem Banner, The Unity Banner and a banner that presented the breaking of dividing walls. The Dividing Walls Banner showed the walls of denominationalism and racism represented. The final banner displayed was Jesus on a white horse with fire in His eyes, The Revival Banner. Its hard to say what a meeting like this accomplished but I say one thing -- God was watching. His divine presence could be felt the entire two days. The first of its kind prayer meeting ended as Pastor Kilpatrick announced the next meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota for April.
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Silicon Labs has introduced a range of products at the 2018 Applied Power Electronics Conference including two new Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) families and the latest tiny Gecko series microcontrollers.
The PoE devices are used in internet of things (IoT) applications such as IP cameras, smart lighting luminaires, video IP phones, 802.11 wireless access points and smart home appliances. The ICs support IEEE 802.3 at PoE+ power capabilities, flexible power conversion options exceeding 90 percent efficiency, robust sleep/wake/LED support modes and EMI immunity.
Demand for PoE+ applications is growing in the IoT space that requires higher wattage, driving increased demand for PD devices that support the PoE+ standard, Silicon Labs says. The new ICs integrate all power management and control functions required for a PoE+ PD application, converting the high voltage supplied over a 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet connection to a regulated, low-voltage output supply.
The architecture minimizes printed circuit board footprint and external BOM cost by enabling the use of economical external components while maintaining high performance.
Meanwhile, the EFM32 Tiny Gecko MCU family has been expanded for developers to design the next generation of secure, battery-powered connected devices for IoT. The new EFM32TG11 is used for devices that require a long battery life and no compromises in features or security.
This includes applications such as smart meters, personal medical devices and home automation products with multiple sensors, local displays and touch controls. The MCU can be used as a standalone microcontroller or with network coprocessors.
When paired with a transceiver, system-on-chip or module, the Gecko 11 MCU can manage both the application code and wireless connectivity. When used with sophisticated protocols such as 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, the wireless system can be simplified by portioning the Tiny Gecko 11 to manage the MCU application.
The Gecko 11 is based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor running at 48 megahertz while combining low active current consumption, fast wake-up times, a range of sleep modes and other architectural enhancements for secure, battery-powered IoT products.
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Amazingly, SoFi Stadium is built on a single, converged network that connects every point of sale, TV, collaboration, Wi-Fi, and other endpoints.
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The government agency urged administrators to review Cisco's advisory and apply the necessary updates.
Networking giant finds an AU$88.2 million impairment lying under the bed it missed last year.
5G in the enterprise could bring the benefits of service guarantees, low latency, and freedom from interference that Wi-Fi never could deliver.
Equinix will give Dish access to critical interconnection infrastructure, while Cisco is delivering a range of technologies and helping Dish offer 5G enterprise services.
Sales in Q1 were up across Cisco's newly-organized product categories, except in the "hybrid work" category.
The Cisco Secure Cloud Insights with JupiterOne hopes to offer enterprises greater visibility into all of their cyber assets, paths toward identifying security and compliance gaps and ways to fast-track investigations as well as responses to issues.
That's the question IT teams are wondering as they consider the new model of consuming networking technologies, according to a new Cisco report.
Used with AR headsets, such as Magic Leap and Microsoft HoloLens, Webex Hologram promises to deliver photorealistic, real-time holograms of actual people.
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TONIGHT at 10pm: live interview with Steven Blier on Nueva Cancion y Demas
STEVEN BLIER is the Artistic Director of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), which he co-founded in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festival’s inception, he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated more than 140 vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of American song, art song from Schubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney. NYFOS has also made in-depth explorations of music from Spain, Latin America, Scandinavia and Russia. He will join us for a live interview in which, among many other things, he will talk about his upcoming concert "Cubans in Paris, Cubans at Home" featuring songs by Cuban composers. | <urn:uuid:034a0bbe-293a-4a7c-94da-bf9c0b73ce1a> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/tonight-10pm-live-interview-steven-blier-nueva-cancion-y-demas | 2014-04-17T16:46:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609530136.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005210-00051-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940932 | 182 |
If you’re a loyal Booth reader—and I certainly hope you are—you may experience a touch of déjà vu upon hitting play on Frank Leone‘s latest feature. LiFE, the Chi-Town rapper/producer’s self-directed video debut is primarily based on JuneLIFE, a reader-acclaimed cut featured in early July. But, as you may have guessed from the modified title, as well as the fact that it’s being featured separately on our pages, there’s a little more to it than that. On the back, the clip shifts abruptly into horror-movie mode and we get a taste of DOOM Life, an eerie, artist-produced selection off Leone’s forthcoming full-length. The aforementioned LP, Enter Wild, has yet to receive a drop date, but a new single titled MONSTERS (featuring Monster Mike) is slated to hit the net in the near future.
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Patient TN was, by his own account, completely blind. Two consecutive strokes had destroyed the visual cortex of his brain, and consequently, his ability to see.
It is not uncommon for stroke patients to suffer brain damage, but the case of TN — referenced by his initials, the general practice in such studies — was peculiar. His first stroke had injured only one hemisphere of his visual cortex. About five weeks later, a second stroke damaged the other hemisphere. An assessment of his brain function revealed that after two strokes, TN, in his 50s, was clinically blind.
Known as selective bilateral occipital damage, TN’s unusual injury made him the subject of much interest while recovering at a hospital in Geneva. Researchers began examining him and discovered that despite his blindness, he had maintained the ability to detect emotion on a person’s face. He responded appropriately — with emotions such as joy, fear, and anger — to a variety of facial expressions. Observed activity in his amygdala — the part of the brain responsible for processing emotions — confirmed the curious results.
To further test the extent of TN’s abilities, researchers from Tilburg University in the Netherlands devised a simple yet decisive experiment: an obstacle course. They arranged boxes, chairs, and various other objects down a long hallway. The team then asked TN to navigate the course without any sort of assistance. TN was skeptical, as he required the aid of a cane and a guide to get around. But eventually, he decided to participate. Researchers recorded the result in their recent paper: “Astonishingly,” the report reads, “he negotiated [the course] perfectly and never once collided with any obstacle, as witnessed by several colleagues who applauded spontaneously when he completed the course.”
TN’s rare condition is known as blindsight. Because his stroke damaged only his visual cortex, his eyes remain functional and as a result can still gather information from his environment. He simply lacks the visual cortex to process and interpret it. Sight has changed for TN from a conscious to a largely subconscious experience. He no longer has a definitive picture of his surroundings, but he has retained an innate awareness of his position in the world. He is, to some degree, able to see without being aware that he is seeing.
The researchers explained that TN’s success indicates that “humans can sustain sophisticated visuo-spacial skills in the absence of perceptual awareness.” Similar abilities have been observed in monkeys, but TN’s is the first study of these abilities in humans. According to Beatrice de Gelder, a neuroscientist from Harvard and Tilburg, who helped conduct the study, “we see what humans can do, even with no awareness of seeing or any intentional avoidance of obstacles. It shows us the importance of these evolutionarily ancient visual paths.”
Intact navigation skills after bilateral loss of striate cortex
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That's what Doc Rivers is saying about what he'll do when guys like Gabe Pruitt and Bill Walker struggle while Ray Allen or Paul Pierce are on the bench.
“With Tony (Allen) out and Kevin (Garnett) out and Scal (Brian Scalabrine) playing 4 (power forward), that really puts us in a bind,” Rivers said. “Even if I play a Billy (Walker) and a Gabe (Pruitt) and we’re struggling with them in, I’ve got to sit and take it because I can’t burn Paul and Ray out. That’s going to be a tough one.
“They’re so smart; they know when they have rest coming up. Like the other night in Utah, I wanted to take Paul out, and he begged. He said, ‘Listen, we’re not going to practice tomorrow. I can stay.’ But I don’t look at it for that game. I look at it for the playoffs and legs, so it’s a tough one.
“We have to figure a way of getting through this and keeping their legs at the same time.”
This is the big challenge for the C's down the stretch. Keeping the Big 3 fresh. I'm telling you… it's going to mean a few more losses than we're used to. It might mean Doc Rivers doing like he said… and keeping some guys in longer than he wants. I'm just preparing you all for it now so when it happens, we're not overrun by "Doc's an idiot… why did Pierce sit for so long" comments.
And a lot of people will look at last year's team and say "well… they had problems on the road in the playoffs, so they'll NEED the top seed." Well, the top seed will be nice, but those people seem to forget that the Celtics ended the playoffs by closing out Detroit at home and taking the one game they needed in Los Angeles. They got better on the road as the playoffs progressed. Those people aren't taking into account the adjustments those guys were still making to one another. This year is a different team. We're not going to see the same thing.
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BRISTOW, Okla. — Animal abuse charges have been filed against a woman who claims to run an animal rescue in Bristow. Other animal rescue owners are calling the allegations a disturbing case of animal abuse.
On Facebook, Tanya Dee Stice claims to run Redoing Rescue, or another organization called Rescued Heirlooms. The pages say it is a business, but it’s not registered with the state as a business or a non-profit.
Amber Hunsucker runs A Lab for Life Rescue in Oklahoma City. She was looking for a home for Hadley, a brown lab. Hunsucker said the dog needed to be kept indoors and fed small meals. Stice offered to foster Hadley.
Hunsucker says the learned that Hadley died under Stice’s care. When Hunsucker drove to Bristow to get Hadley’s body, she says she made a dreadful discovery.
She recorded video of dismembered dogs tossed in a pile of trash on Stice’s property.
The District Attorney filed charges against Stice, including cruelty to animals, neglect, and failing to dispose a dog.
FOX23 tried to ask Stice about the charges, but she didn’t want to talk about it.
Stice pleaded not guilty. She’s due in court Nov. 19.
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Survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) largely depends on the prompt actions of bystanders to intervene with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and shocks from an automated external defibrillator (AED).[1,2] In fact, individuals who witness an OHCA event can more than double a victim’s chances of survival if they begin CPR immediately. Given the efficacy of bystander CPR, initiatives that counteract bystander hesitation and promote action are essential for improving historically low rates of OHCA survival.
Fear of infectious exposure is known to facilitate bystander resistance to performing CPR. This public concern, in part, motivated the American Heart Association (AHA) to begin recommending hands-only CPR without rescue breaths as a suitable alternative to traditional CPR in 2008. Now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, fear of infection is a ubiquitous public reality that underscores daily life. Avoiding physical proximity, wearing masks to reduce viral transmission, and other practices are becoming embedded in the public consciousness as we collectively work to curb this pandemic. The implications of this new reality have logically prompted concerns surrounding bystander inaction in response to OHCA. Both OHCA data and surveys of public opinion have reinforced the legitimacy of these concerns.[6,7] Comparison of OHCA events in Paris, France between the same weeks (March 16th to April 26th) in 2012-2019 versus 2020 demonstrate a significant decrease in the proportion of patients receiving bystander CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic (63.9% in 2012-2019 versus 47.8% in 2020). Additionally, a survey of the public capturing 1,360 participants from 26 countries reports that respondents were less willing to check for breathing or a pulse, perform chest compressions, provide rescue breaths, and use an AED during the pandemic.
These observations of bystander inaction and hesitation are particularly concerning given that OHCA appears to be on the rise. Data from New York show that the incidence of non-traumatic OHCA was 3 times higher in 2020 than during the same period in 2019 (47.5/100,000 in 2020 versus 15.9/100,000 in 2019). This concerning trend has been, in part, attributed to the secondary myocardial injury and ventricular arrhythmias resulting from COVID-19 and its treatments.
Simply put, this simultaneous increase in OHCA and decrease in bystander CPR presents a troubling situation for cardiac arrest survival. We sought to bring the perspectives of CPR instructors into this conversation. These educators are not only passionate advocates for resuscitation but also have a deep and practical understanding of bystander psychology. We surveyed these individuals to evaluate course adaptation, changes in training volume, and instructor concerns to ultimately better understand the current state of CPR/AED education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We collected 393 responses to a 16-question survey between 9/10/2020 and 10/9/2020. Of the 393 responses, we excluded 56 for either having no answers (n=52) or no previous CPR instruction experience (n=4) leaving 337 study participants. The survey was shared via email outreach and social media networks. Multiple-choice questions were leveraged to assess current CPR instructor teaching practices and opinions.
Of the 337 CPR instructors surveyed, we engaged a relatively even distribution of instructors from the northeastern (n=75, 22%), western (n=99, 29%), midwestern (n=86, 22%), and southern (n=75, 26%) United States. Two additional respondents (1%) primarily provide CPR/AED instruction in Canada. The majority of participants teach American Heart Association curricula (n=237, 70%) followed by the American Red Cross (n=57, 17%), HSI (n=20, 6%), ASHI (n=6, 2%), and other (n=17, 5%). The sample was largely comprised of experienced instructors with 59% of respondents having taught CPR/AED courses for over 10 years.
Figure 1: Level of Agreement with Statement “I am concerned about bystander inaction in response to cardiac arrest during the pandemic.” (n=317)
Figure 3: Decrease in Volume of CPR Students as a Percentage of Pre-Pandemic Volume (n=253)
74% of surveyed CPR instructors expressed significant levels of moderate or strong concern regarding bystander inaction in response to OHCA during the pandemic (Figure 1). To further explore the reasons for this concern, we gained qualitative insights from 200 instructors and distilled those comments to generate a graphic based on the approximate prevalence of key terms and themes (Figure 2). The most commonly cited concerns were permutations of the following: fear of infection, resistance towards touching strangers, and elevated levels of preexisting bystander reluctance. The COVID-19 pandemic has also contributed to striking decreases in instructor training volume with 73% of respondents reporting that they are training fewer students. Of this cohort, 52% of instructors report having lost over half of their pre-pandemic student volume (Figure 3).
Figure 2: Summary of Qualitative Insight Regarding Concerns about Bystander Inaction (n=200)
Of the CPR instructors surveyed, 82% are currently teaching courses while 18% are not. Of those not teaching, 53% have stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Only 2% of active instructors provide exclusively online instruction, and in-person training remains the most prevalent course offering provided by 83% of active instructors (Table 1).
For active instructors, 97% indicate that they have adapted their courses with new safety protocols and instruction styles while 3% have made no such changes. Social distancing (n=256, 92%) followed by additional cleaning protocols (n=236, 85%) are the most frequent course adaptations. Although 30% of instructors indicate that they have begun offering new virtual training, the majority of respondents indicate that they have not seen an increased interest in online CPR education (Figure 4). There is also concern among instructors about the ability to offer in-person training safely and online training effectively (Figure 5, 6). These findings indicate the value of blended learning courses, currently offered by 63% of active instructors, that integrate online instruction with abbreviated, in-person skills practice at a later date (Table 1).
Table 1: Responder Teaching Status and Course Offerings
Figure 4: Change of Level of Interest in Virtual CPR Instruction during COVID-19 Pandemic (n=282)
Figure 5: Level of Concern Regarding Ability to Conduct In-Person CPR Instruction Safely (n=327)
Figure 6: Level of Concern Regarding Ability to Conduct Effective CPR Instruction Online (n=325)
We surveyed 337 CPR instructors to understand the influences of COVID-19 on their current courses and opinions regarding bystander action. Overall, we found the majority of educators experience either moderate (34%) or strong (40%) concern regarding bystander inaction in response to OHCA. Especially in the context of increasing OHCA prevalence, bystanders remain as important as ever for survival. CPR educators are skilled at empowering bystanders to act, and therefore, insights from this cohort are valuable as we, in the words of University of Colorado resuscitation scientist Dr. Sarah Perman, “must be prepared to educate and empower rescuers in our new normal.”
Considering how to educate and empower in this new normal, CPR educators stress two key points: the continued importance of training and bystander action with appropriate precautions. These ideas are reflected in the qualitative insights obtained from 337 instructors when asked “What do you want prospective students to know about CPR and training during the COVID-19 pandemic?” As seen in a graphic created to represent the approximate frequency of key terms and themes, instructors want to impress upon their students that taking action, by both preparing for and responding to cardiac arrest, remains essential (Figure 7).
Figure 7: Summary of Qualitative Inisghts Regarding What Instructors Want CPR Students to Know (n=337)
With respect to CPR training, decreases in training volume during the pandemic merit discussion and further investigation. The observed 57% of instructors who presently train less than 50% of the pre-pandemic student volume naturally prompts concern regarding the maintenance and growth of our CPR-trained bystander citizenry. While this decrease in volume may partially result from interim certification extensions, further characterization of such dramatically reduced training volume by numbers and types of students would be valuable. Additionally, attitudes on willingness to pursue CPR instruction during the pandemic is warranted as certifying organizations and instructors work to adapt their courses.
As we empower bystanders to act, it is essential to acknowledge that CPR/AED training has a motivating effect on students’ willingness to attempt CPR during an emergency, even in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers in Russia found that when 5062 participants completed a massive open online BLS course during the month of April, there was a significant increase (p<0.001) in the average level of readiness to attempt resuscitation and the proportion of trainees who expressed high levels of willingness to perform CPR. These findings were consistent with data from the month of April in 2019, before the pandemic, suggesting the continued benefit of training on bystander motivation to perform CPR. Therefore, as CPR training presently decreases in volume, the need for safe, effective, and adaptable courses remains urgent to educate and empower bystanders to act.
Alongside the continued importance of training, CPR instructors call for bystanders to take action in response to cardiac arrest with appropriate precautions. A 1360 participant survey from researchers at the University of British Columbia found that, although individuals expressed decreased willingness to perform the essential steps of CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic, these concerns were ameliorated if simple personal protective equipment (PPE) was available.7 AHA interim CPR guidelines for bystanders and our surveyed instructors alike note the importance of PPE in rescuer safety. Surveyed instructors also indicate that hands-only CPR must be central to bystander empowerment messaging This sentiment aligns with an observed 19.5% and 5.5% decrease in willingness to provide rescue breaths for a stranger or family member respectively during the pandemic.
Additional research is also warranted to better understand bystander risk and, when appropriate, reduce bystander fear. Researchers at the University of Washington tested for the prevalence of COVID-19 in OHCA cases and approximately 10% of victims were COVID-19 positive. Assuming a 10% transmission rate and a 1% mortality rate, 1 in 10,000 rescuers may die from COVID-19 while bystander CPR saves over 300 lives per 10,000 OHCA patients. Further research on prevalence and transmission is warranted to better understand how CPR informs rescuer risk compared to victim benefits.
The current findings support continued, adapted training as well as clear messaging for bystanders rooted in safety and empowerment. Limitations of this research include a lack of information regarding the student population or size of surveyed instructors as well as sampling bias and acquiescence bias.
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The Black Sticks women's side have emphatically completed the first part of their must-win semifinal scenario at the Hockey World Cup, but it could be all for nothing.
Two goals from Anita Punt and other strikes from Sophie Cocks and Katie Glynn gave New Zealand a 4-1 victory over Japan in their penultimate Group A match in The Hague.
The win improved the Black Sticks' record to 2-0-2, sitting on six points behind Australia and the Netherlands on nine points and South Korea on seven points. Australia and the Netherlands meet in the final match today, with New Zealand needing the Netherlands to win and then beat South Korea in two days time, while beating Australia in their final match themselves.
An Australian victory or a draw today would see New Zealand's semifinal hopes dashed.
Cocks opened the scoring in the fifth minute off a penalty corner deflection but New Zealand had to wait until after halftime to put the game away. Punt scored her first in the 38th minute before Glynn sealed the victory a minute later.
Japan got a goal back in the 51st minute before Punt sealed the result with her second in the shadow of full-time off a long break-out and reverse stick shot.
The Black Sticks converted on only two of their 10 penalty corners but forced Japan's goalkeeper into 14 saves, with 18 of their 25 total shots on target.
New Zealand face Australia in their final group match at 8.30pm Monday night (NZ time).
The Black Sticks men are in action again at 8.30pm tonight (NZ time) against Germany in what shapes as an import Group B match.
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If you are planning on buying a Dell Mini 10 (or Mini 12) to run Linux, read this...
I used to have the Dell Mini 9 that came with Linux (Ubuntu 8.04). As soon as I got it, I paved it and installed Ubuntu Intrepid instead. It worked like a charm. Then I decided to sell my Mini 9 and upgrade to the Mini 10. The Mini 10 is a better machine in terms of hardware, and is MUCH better in terms of screen resolution and keyboard size (best keyboard on any netbook).
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New research has identified a link between ADHD in children and the risk of obesity decades later. The study was released on May 20th, 2013. It is described in a Reuters article by Genevra Pittman published on May 20, 2013 which is entitled "Childhood ADHD tied to obesity decades later." The study was led by Sherry Pagoto from the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The researchers conducting the study compared groups of men with ADHD to groups of men without ADHD, and found that the subjects who had ADHD were much more likely to suffer from obesity. In particular, one reason behind this that the study found was that men with ADHD consume more fast food and may be less able to sustain attempts at losing weight.
An article in Pacific Standard by Genevra Pittman entitled "Childhood ADHD Tied to Obesity Decades Later" that was published on June 25, 2013 quotes Pagano as saying that the reasons for this may be because those who suffer from obesity may make poorer decisions about what they eat. This study is in line with other research that outlines the harmful effects of obesity on those who suffer from it, and may shed light into the reasons why so many people have trouble losing weight and keeping it off.
This research and the comments by Dr. Pagoto come as the American Medical Association voted last week to consider obesity as a disease, and to recommend that those who are suffering for it obtain medical treatment. The decision by the AMA was described in an article by Melissa Healy and Anna Gorman published in the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 2013 that is entitled "AMA declares obesity a disease." According to this article, the AMA made the decision to recognize obesity as a disease because it believed that it would encourage physicians to recommend that their patients make lifestyle changes to cut down on obesity rates.
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Forex Trade Signals and Setups Dec. 1st
NZDUSD – Getting Close to a Key Breakout
While the EURUSD and GBPUSD have shown the upside be limited by the daily 20ema, the Kiwi has been showing strong price action holding up near the highs of the key resistance level at .7813. Notice the horizontal line and how this was a key swing low back in early November so this could provide a price action trading setup with a breakout-retest trade so traders should watch this key level.
Other than the one 4hr strong rejection off this level, price action has been holding over the last 12+hrs building a series of higher lows suggesting price is looking to breakout. Traders need to be aware of the key NFP report tomorrow which will sap liquidity prior to the event, but if this structure continues, price action looks set to breakout and make an attack on .7915 shortly after.
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Well having a pet by your side is blessing wherever, and whenever you are, they are an inseparable family member of ours. From being best companion to children, to guarding our household to showing their utmost loyalty by saving our lives, they’ve been doing such for ages till today.
Well just having a pet can be such a bless but it can also be full of responsibility and hard work, and especially if you have one that is quite active, that can be a tricky job for you handling an active and energetic pet.
That goes to cleaning aspects too, and on top if its indoors. If your pet is not yet properly potty-trained, or if they have stomach issues or it trips something down, like food or any liquids. If it on a clear floor than your job is easy but if it’s a carpet or rug, its quite a tough job to clean up that kind of a mess.
Cleaning such things can be either by professionals or by yourself at home, for professional cleaning they can take it to their center to clean or they come at your place with their equipment to do the job. Whilst if you want to do it, you can either use a machine or clean using a solution or shampoos.
Today I’m bringing you top 10 carpet cleaners of 2020, according to their efficiency, performance, and market demand.
1. Rug Doctor FlexClean all-in-one pet solution
If you are looking for something that can solve all your problems in one pack than you might as well consider this product.
The reason for me to select this 32 oz cleaner to rank first in my list is because of its features such as its pro-enzyme formula for both hard sealed and or any other kind of floors and carpets. Easily removes any stain or mess and smells made by our pets with its Dual-action technology.
- This product does not constrict itself in just cleaning carpets only, it cleans hardcore stain in any kind of floorings even the sealed ones.
- Its an all-in-one solution for all kind of trouble that your pet can make, which is used with FlexClean machine only
- It’s water-based formula is perfectly ideal and safe to use, even if you have kids or your pets around.
- Though it dual-action technology acts tough on stubborn and smelly stains whilst not harming the floor or carpet materials.
- It effortlessly removes and deep cleans any kind of stains, vomit, blood, feces, drool, or urine.
- Its odor neutralization technology eliminates any kind of odor forms is origin leaving a refreshing air behind.
- It also can be used in any kind of furniture, wooden or metallic, or any fabric even your pet’s bedding is safe to be washed by this product.
Tested and approved by Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI)this product is considered the best solution, by earning the title of bestseller and getting five-star ratings in various sites.
The reviewers said the product was as described and most of them were completely satisfied with the results they’ve got.
2. Rocco & Roxie Professional Strength Stain & Odor Eliminator
This another best overall option you have if you don’t like to waste your time and money buying several products.
This product uses enzymes to eliminate all kinds of stains and odors, to removing your cat’s or dog’s urine without leaving any smells, they use a bio-enzyme formula to ensure that.
- Enzyme- activation process is used to breakdown hard and dried stains, yellowish urine stains with its non-bearing smells, vomit, blood, their organic residue, and feces are cleaned from their sources.
- Certified by Carpet & Rug Institute ( CRI) that it is suitable for all kinds of carpets and rugs, color-safe, it is environment friendly, no hazardous chemicals used, extremely safe to use around pets and kids, Chlorine.
- Can be used in almost anything and everything, from all kinds of furniture to every type of carpet and rug, every object used by your pet from bedding to its toys, clothes, kennels, cages, etc.
Listed bestseller in amazon and gained rating to 4.8 stars.
This product got a lot of positive reviews, one of the reviewers stated that her daughters’ carpet was horrific a total disaster with her dog’s mess, on top not just her daughters dog even her friends bring their pets to he place. When she used Roxie for the first time she couldn’t believe her eyes she immediately bought another 3 bottles. Reviewers also stated that it just don’t treat pet’s messes only, some said it helped them to remove large size of ink satins too.
3. Hoover PetPlus Pet Stain & Odor Remover Solution Formula
Another all-in-one solution for you, very good choice for all kind of carpet cleaners.
- Due to its advanced formula, this product can be used in any type of carpet, rug, or clothing ēmaterials and car interiors.
- Its 2X concentrated solution, infiltrate deep inside the most difficult stains to break them down from their sources, from urine, feces, vomit to blood.
- Its cotton breeze scent eliminates lingering odors to their core, leaving a refreshing natural fragrance.
- 100% biodegradable and non-toxic, safe to use around children and pets.
- Can be used with all kind of cleaning devices.
The overall rating for this product is 4.6, making it one of the top-selling products gaining a lot of positive reviews.
One of the reviewers said that he/she had an old favorite rug full pets mess, and had tried a lot of product from hand scrubbers to detergents and shampoos, eventually was going to throw it away, but upon recommendation of a friend tried this product, and the result was beyond their expectations.
4. Simple Solution Extreme Pet Stain and Odor Remover
Another overall product 3x times stronger, which breakdown satins, dirt, odor than neutralizes and than permanently removes them from their sources.
- The most amazing feature about this product is that it is designed to discourage your pet from doing something at the same area where the product was used previously, thus saving you the amount of product, money and time that might have been lost
- Strong on extreme types of satins like urine, feces, vomit, blood, organic disposals, and their aftermath residue can be removed completely.
- Gentle and can be used on the water safe or any surface from floors to all kinds of carpets and rugs, clothes toys, pet’s usage objects, kennels, anywhere in your house.
- Expert in removal of extremely unpleasant odor from the root.
- Nontoxic and biodegradable, safe to use around children and pets, safe for the skin.
Thus receiving 4.5 overall ratings, listing on most selling and reliable products.
Customers said that it worked very well, one of them said that prior buying this product they thought they would need to repaint their walls, but after using this it was not needed even their cat didn’t make a mess at the area where it was used so they didn’t have to go through the cleaning process again and again.
Another one was at the beginning after buying a new house was fully disappointed with the pet’s messes from previous owners and thought that they might need to go through renovation which was out of their budget, but after buying simple solution they avoided a huge headache that was on the way.
5. Nature’s Miracle Deep Cleaning Pet Stain and Odor Carpet Shampoo
This product ranks on this, and many other lists for its feature of removing unpleasant odors naturally.
- Its low-foam and phosphate free formula help to breakdown hardcore, dry, old, or new stains effortlessly leaving no residue behind.
- Uses bio-enzymatic odor locking technology to remove the smelly, stinky odor permanently by locking the odor.
- Gentle on any materials, treats fabric of carpets and rugs gently, color-safe.
- It helps in removing pet allergens.
- It can be used with or without steam/carpet cleaners.
- Nontoxic, and natural.
Rated 4.4 stars and listed for bestsellers in removing the unpleasant odor.
Reviewers said their pets used to make mess not just the places usually seen or upfront even at corners and even under the table of their study room and etc, so after a long research they found natures miracle and gave it a go. As animals tend to mark their territory with their urine so the old dried stinky smell of urine was more than unbearable at first they thought it might just reduce it a little, but to their surprise it worked very for them and that marks the odor all were removed as if new.
6. Puracy Professional Carpet Cleaner Machine Detergent
If you are looking for something that is fully environment friendly and natural you might as well look for this product.
- Clinically approved for removing any type of stain, urine, organic disposals, feces, vomit, blood easily.
- Its 4x times concentrated solution, low-foaming, and fast action formula reduce the usage of water, energy, and plastic by 75%.
- Its fresh citrus fragrance removes unpleasant odor permanently leaving a refreshing air.
- No bleach, dyes, animal by-products, chlorine, phosphates, sulfates, petrochemicals, optical brighteners, SLS, SLES, or caustic is used.
- Pet and children safe, not harmful to the skin.
- Not tested on animals, animal cruelty safe.
Rated 4.5 stars on various sites. Leaving positive reviews.
Reviewer’s stated that it was an amazing product, some had trouble with their kittens but this was a perfect solution for them and both in budget and results were satisfactory, so it’s a win, win solution for them.
7. Nature’s Miracle Cat Urine Destroyer, 32-oz bottle
Having trouble with pets’ urination as it did learn it well? You might as well look at this one.
- With its bacteria-based formula on yellowish stinky urine stains and removes and disinfect them permanently.
- Eliminates lingering odors with a light fresh scent.
- Ssafe to use around pets and kids, safe for skin.
- It can be used on any furniture, carpets, rugs, toys, and pets bedding materials.
Gaining 4.4 stars on reviews by users.
Some users said even after a long time or, and especially when pets have flea issues they get quite irritated and make mess often. So after trying a lot of products, this landed on their hands, though at first, they thought just like other products they might get disappointed just like its name it worked like a miracle even with long been there stinky urine smell was vanished by it
8. Hoover Paws & Claws Deep Cleaning Carpet Shampoo
Another product of Hoovers’ entering the list. Which perfect for stain removals.
- With stain guard formula, it provides absolute removal of all kinds of stains from its origin and preventing future messes that can be caused by your pet.
- Deodorize with light fresh scent removing unwanted stinky smells.
- Safe for children, pets, and skin.
Rated 4.6 on various selling and review sites, leaving a positive review
Reviews said some used this pet carpet cleaner and it worked very effectively. And people with multiple pets were satisfied with the product as they said it saved them a lot of money and time whilst cleaning.
9. OdoBan Professional Cleaning 3-in-1 Carpet Cleaner
Looking for something both budget-friendly and in bulk? This mint be the right choice for you
- It has 3 in one feature of pre-spray, spot cleaner, and extraction cleaner all in clean and deodorize it with present fragrance.
- Uses detergent free technology.
- Can be used in all kind of surfaces.
- Environment friendly, safe to use.
Rated 4.4 stars on average in numerous sites
People say they love this product for many reasons, especially those who own more than one or two pets it is very efficient for them, they stayed that they use for not just carpets even for laundry, floors, and many other things and are happy with its results.
10. Biokleen Bac-Out Stain+Odor Remover
Another eco-friendly plant-based product.
- Removes all kinds of hardcore, stubborn stains using its plant-based formula for a natural and gentle result on your surfaces.
- No heavy, artificial scent is used. Removes odors with natural fragrance from the root cause.
- Nontoxic, eco-friendly, plants based products are used, safe for everyone including those with skin allergies and chemical sensitiveness.
Rated 4.4 stars and gaining the 10th position on my list today. Let’s end this with a review.
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Original Source (Print): Tennismagazin 3/2015, Page 102ff
Miss Witthöft, you reached the third round in Melbourne, beating the No.17 seed Carla Suarez Navarro on your way. How would you have reacted if someone had predicted that before the tournament?
I wouldn’t have believed it if someone had told me beforehand. The third round was insane. I’m incredibly satisfied and happy, but I would’ve never expected it.
Do you feel you are playing in a different league now?
It depends. If I’m consistently playing my game, like I managed to do in Melbourne, then yes. Then I belong there. But if that doesn’t work the tide can turn in an instant. That’s the five percent that decide whether you are successful on the WTA or not.
Are you vain?
What? Why would you ask that?
We’re asking what you’re thinking when you see scenes of yourself after a match with your muscles tense and your face distorted?
Aha. No, I don’t really like that too much. Nobody likes that, I think. I’ve talked about that [with other player] and everybody gets mad when such pictures get printed in a newspaper or a magazine (laughs). But there are also nice tennis photos. And I like photo shoots like today.
Today you were styled by a make up artist. How much time does it take for you to put make up on before a match?
Not much to be honest. I just do my hair and put on very little make up, just mascara.
But would you agree that looks are more focused on today than in the past?
Yes, definitely. Sure, some players still don’t care much, but for others it’s extremely important. You can see that on them – often it just is too much. But in general I like it when players pay attention to their looks. It makes the sport more attractive.
Maria Sharapova unites both like few others: Looking good and playing well.
Sharapova is a big role model for me, no doubt. She has everything, the whole package is right. There’s a lot you can copy from her. Her demeanor on and off the court, her charisma.
Have you met her in person?
We’ve met, but she is rather aloof. She is with her team most of the time, has five or six people around her. But when she enters a room all eyes are on her, she almost takes over the room. She’s very tall, too.
What distinguishes the tennis player Maria Sharapova?
We’re all ambitious, but she is extremely focused, before and after every point. That’s impressive. Especially these kind of qualities one can copy from her.
Focusing also consists of rituals like aligning strings or not stepping on lines. Do you copy these kind of things?
I step on lines, they’re there. A ritual has to fit yourself. If it isn’t authentic it doesn’t make any sense. It looks silly if you copy something like that. I have my own rituals.
What kind of tics do you have?
Someone once suggested to me to count my steps after a point. I tried that and it worked well. If you’re agitated after a long point it calms you down. You just count: One, two, three…you just have to plan your steps so that you’re back at the baseline after eleven or twelve steps.
What does professionalism mean to you as a tennis player?
I radically changed my nutrition. No wheat, few carbs. I barely eat any sweets. I used to devour chocolate. If you’ve made it for a few weeks without sweets the desire for them is gone. Last year I didn’t open a single door of my advent calendar. [A German tradition that counts down the days to Christmas with a little chocolate hidden for every day.]
How important is sleep to you?
Very important. I have to sleep at least nine or ten hours, otherwise I’m very tired. But if you are on court the whole day and practice then you automatically fall asleep early.
And if a friend calls you and says “Let’s go out partying tonight?”
On the weekends the latest is one or two o’clock, otherwise I might as well forget about Monday. But I don’t like partying as much as I used to anymore. I’d rather relax and watch a movie. I’m only 20, but I’m not a college student who can get away with it, like my sister [laughs].
Is alcohol a taboo?
If we go out for cocktails, I’m ordering one for me, too. I don’t think that’s so bad. But I’m not getting drunk when we’re out clubbing.
Many young people at your age primarily think “Party, party, party!” Have you ever been really drunk?
[laughs] Cool question. No, I don’t think so. I’m saving that for my first big win.
At the German championships in December, where you lost the final 4-6 6-2 5-7 to Antonia Lottner, you were without someone from your family or a coach. Was that a conscious decision to cut the cord?
It wasn’t my first time alone on tour. Nevertheless I don’t like being alone. I prefer to have someone on my side to talk to. If it’s not going well I need someone who catches me. Going to your hotel room alone after a match is dull, I think. During practice it’s important that someone is telling me what went wrong. Alone you don’t notice these kind of things. And then you immediately suffer the consequences during the match.
When your mother Gaby is travelling with you, how much is she your parent and how much your coach?
Difficult to say. During tournaments she is probably more coach than mother. We primarily talk about the match, the tactics, the opponents and not so much about private stuff.
Your boyfriend Phillip Lang, who is playing for [the tennis club] TTK Sachsenwald in the Nordliga is your hitting partner. Who wins?
He would probably say that he wins. But the truth is: I win! [laughs]. Two years ago it was close. Back then sometimes he won and sometimes me. But by now that has changed. His serve is good, but not enough to beat me.
To complete the humiliation: Does he have to do the dishes and iron at home?
Nonsense. I’m not a witch. During the matches he is annoyed sometimes, but all is fine afterwards.
Can you relax at home or is tennis a permanent fixture even in your private life?
No, it works well. Phillip has good instincts when I’m totally annoyed by something. Then he just skips the topic.
Do you dream about matches or ponder [about tennis] before falling asleep?
That depends on who I am playing. If it’s a match I’m sure I will win, then I can relax very well. I don’t think about and sleep wonderfully. If I’m afraid, then it’s difficult for me to rest. But it’s never so extreme that I think “Shut up up there!”, thank god.
You parents have two tennis sites close to Hamburg. Was it always the goal that you or your sister become pros?
The opposite. It wasn’t planned. I played Kindergarten tennis early on and then practiced at the club from time to time. But I always got better anyway. Then I myself was so ambitious that I told my mother: “Mama, I want to practice more.” Suddenly I’m playing the Hamburg city championships – and win. Then came the first national tournaments, and I played well there, too. When the age group rankings got published and I was No.1 I thought: “Man, I’d really like it to continue like this”. But it was never like my parents thought, “Carina has been born, we want her to become a tennis pro.”
Besides competitive sports you also finished your Abitur [highest level of secondary education in Germany]. Was it difficult to balance tennis and school?
At times I was contemplating to quit school, but my parents just said: “No way.” I skipped Ninth Grade and then switched to specialized sports school. That way I was able to balance tennis and school well. When I was playing tournaments I was given leave – just for the Abitur exams I had to be there. Otherwise I could have been playing the Qualies at the Australian Open two years ago. I was ranked 220th back then.
You first entered the Top 100 late last season. Novak Djokovic said as a child: “I want to be Number One!” Do you also make goals like that? Do you tell yourself: I want to be the best in the world?
Yes, I’ve told myself that. I believe that every player secretly wants to be No.1. But I wouldn’t name it as a goal publicly. These are things that I negotiate with myself alone. If, at the end of the day, it’s just Nr.50 you just unnecessarily made yourself attackable.
Barbara Rittner, the captain of the Fed Cup Team and the Porsche Junior Team coached you in Melbourne. Was she able to help you?
Yes, of course. I benefit from her advice. Before that we’ve already always had good talks and she tells me her opinion honestly. She’s not part of my very inner circle, but she for sure is a very important person to me. I can always ask her for advice.
Has Rittner already given you some hope to be nominated for the German Fed Cup team?
Not concretely. I read a newspaper article that she wants me bring me close to it. If that will be the case I would be totally happy.
You have the image of being not very easy to coach?
I think all good competitive athletes are difficult because they have their own head. They scrutinize things. My family and I have certain idea of what constitutes a perfect practice. If someone can’t fulfill these we keep on looking [for another coach]. A good example is conditioning. We once had asked a coach to work on [my] speed on the court. He showed up with dumbbells and worked on my arms. Then we just say: Alright, Bye!
And now you are happy with your mother as coach?
Sometimes we fight, but for the moment it is the best solution.
Some perspective on Witthöft during the AO
Original source: Süddeutsche Zeitung, http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/carina-witthoeft-bei-den-australian-open-wie-eine-planierraupe-1.2314389
Like a Bulldozer
She’s adding a fresh, confident note to the German tennis camp: The 19-year-old Carina Witthöft surprises in Melbourne. According to Fed Cup captain Barbara Rittner, “She has no upper limit”
It’s still vacation time in Australia. You notice it in Melbourne by the long queues you see at every corner. “From the sidewalk to the catwalk,” for example is the name of an exhibition in the National Gallery of Victoria close to the famous Flinders Street in central Melbourne. Fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is showing pieces of his “fashion world” there. Tourists don’t mind queuing for tickets.
Despite being a fashion-conscious woman you won’t see Carina Witthöft waiting there, though – that much is certain. “I need the tournament feeling the whole time,” the 19-year old from Wentorf close to Hamburg says, and that’s why she isn’t enjoying the attractions of the city, but rather dedicating herself – and that’s a positive German message in this first week of the Australian Open – exclusively to her profession.
Witthöft, who a year ago was ranked around 200 in the world and now will break into the Top 100, has reached the third round, after a bulldozing win against the overwhelmed American Christina McHale. “Of course I want to go far,” Witthöft says. It’s not unimaginable for her to go one round further.
How early it still is during her apparently promising career is illustrated by her hotel booking troubles: “Last year I had to leave my hotel because I had only booked for the qualifying week but then made the main draw,” she tells me. This time the 24th of January is the planned check-out date.
“The lightheartedness of the unknown is useful for her,” says Barbara Rittner. The Fed Cup captain is this time coaching the talent herself. [Witthöft’s] path was presaged. Tennis is the life of the Witthöft family. Carina’s parents operate two tennis facilities around Hamburg, her father Kai used to manage Carina before they hired an agency, and her mother Gaby is coaching her. And her boyfriend, who traveled to Melbourne with her, chips in as athletic coach. Only Jennifer, her sister, is attending university, but she’s still supportive of her sister, who was crowned city champion of Hamburg at the age of 14.
On Wednesday all Witthöft’s friends and family got up in the middle of the night to watch her second round match, “Even grandma and grandpa,” Witthöft tells us, while repeatedly playing with her left earring. You can sense the bafflement about her own performance. In the first round she had dominated the Top 20 player Carla Suarez Navarro with scores of winning shots from almost every position. She knows, particularly because Rittner keeps preaching it to her: “If you scale back by just ten percent your opponent will get back into it.” So she doesn’t scale back by even one percent and that can, as against McHale, look spectacular. She took the break point to win the first game of the second set with a laser-like shot down the line while running at full speed. The spectators were gasping as if they just had seen an elephant in a pink dress disappear on Court 6.
Possibly there indeed is no “upper limit” for Witthöft, who is remarkably athletic, as Rittner bravely predicted earlier. And that there are difficult years like 2013 is probably part of the development process of a young athlete, who after all is still a teenager. In any case, the respect for her is growing these days. Her wins “don’t surprise me,” said Julia Görges, who also reached the third round, “but that the scorelines are so clean,” did surprise her.
Witthöft has trained with Görges several times, and they live close to each other. But deducing from this that there is a lot of contact with the Fed Cup players is wrong. They talk, but “it’s not like we’re friends,” says the high-school graduate, who clearly is the first face of a new German tennis generation. Supported by the Porsche Talent Team of the German tennis association, she gets financial support that will, despite the 50,188 Euros Witthöft secured herself in Melbourne, continue for the time being.
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This is not a lifestyle blog but I’d like to let you in on my JORD watch Giveaway!
Nobody panic. I’m not turning this book and graveyard centric blog into a lifestyle blog. I’m not nearly organized enough for that, neither am I passionate about it. So this post is going to seem out of character, but just trust me. I’m doing this for you, because I love my JORD watch so much. I know you’ll love yours too.
Over on my Bookstagram, I’ve been talking about this giveaway for a few weeks but I wanted to give you a chance to enter as well! The watch pictured above is my own JORD Frankie, and I honestly love it. I have tiny hands so it looks huge and expensive on me, but I’m here to tell you it’s elegant, durable, and just plain classy. I wore mine to dinner last night and felt like a fancy lady. 🙂
The deadline for entering is tomorrow, the 22nd, so you should hop on that now. You have nothing to lose, honestly, and if you’re not a watch person yourself, these make fantastic gifts and you can get them engraved. Know anyone with an important birthday, anniversary, or life event? This would be a great way to show them you love them.
Check out my bookstagram! I’m sure there will be other giveaways like this one soon.
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The Nasdaq has decreased 0.2%, the S&P 500 has moved little and the Dow has been relatively flat after the morning's trading.
The Real Estate Operations sector (IYR) has changed little on a quiet day for the overall market. These are the biggest movers in the sector currently:
|Company||Market Cap||Percentage Change|
|Zillow (Nasdaq:Z)||$1.14 billion||+2.2%|
|Marriott Vacations (NYSE:VAC)||$1.09 billion||+2%|
|Select Income (NYSE:SIR)||$760.7 million||+1.9%|
|Pennsylvania (NYSE:PEI)||$892.2 million||-1.5%|
|Urstadt Biddle Properties (NYSE:UBP)||$560.5 million||+1.5%|
|Brookfield Office Properties (NYSE:BPO)||$8.65 billion||-1.2%|
|American Capital (Nasdaq:AGNC)||$11.75 billion||+0.9%|
Broker Summary: TD Ameritrade Thinkorswim
Zillow (Nasdaq:Z) is at $39.84 per share after an increase of 2.2%. The company's volume for the day so far is 195,292 shares. Volume indicates the level of interest that investors have in a company at its current price. Valuation ratios allow the investor to make a quick determination as to a company's investment value. The price/book value ratio is calculated by dividing the current stock price by the company's book value per share. Z has a P/B ratio of 10.35 which shows that its share price is higher than its book value. This may be a sign that the company is overvalued. To put things in perspective, should be made among companies in the same industry rather than across industries. SEE: How Buybacks Warps The Price-To-Book Ratio
After rising 2%, Marriott Vacations (NYSE:VAC) is currently trading at a share price of $32.40. The company's volume is currently 42,162 shares for the day, 0.2 times the current three-month average. When a stock price moves up or down, watching the volume is a good way of identifying how significant that shift is. When estimating the value of a particular investment, valuation ratios provide a good basis for assessing the value of an individual stock. The debt ratio gives users a quick measure of the amount of debt that the company has on its balance sheets compared to its assets. VAC's debt ratio is 56.4%. As with all financial ratios, a company's debt ratio should be compared with the industry average or similar companies.
Select Income (NYSE:SIR) is up 1.9% to reach a current price of $24.85 per share. So far today, 12,687 shares of the company's stock have changed hands. At this rate, trading activity will likely be down from yesterday when 85,582 shares changed hands. As a stock moves up or down, it is important to pay attention to the trading volume. This indicates the level of interest: the higher the volume, the more the interest. Investment valuation ratios can be very useful in estimating whether a stock price is too high, reasonable or a bargain investment opportunity. The dividend yield is measured by taking the annual dividends per share and dividing that number by the stock price. SIR's dividend yield is 6.6%. For income-oriented investors such as retirees, a stock with a high dividend yield may be more attractive than a stock with a low dividend yield. SEE: Due Diligence On Dividends
Pennsylvania (NYSE:PEI) is trading at $15.69 per share, down 1.5%. The company's volume is currently 84,051 shares for the day, 0.2 times the average daily volume. Volume is used to evaluate how meaningful the price movement of a stock is. Looking at a company's valuation ratios is a good way of getting a basic idea as to its value as an investment. The price/book value ratio provides a way of evaluating whether a stock is relatively cheap or expensive. The P/B ratio for PEI is 1.41, indicating that the stock is trading for more than its book value. This implies that investors expect management to create more value from a given set of assets and/or that the market value of the firm's assets is significantly higher than their accounting value. Users need to be careful when applying this ratio though, as it is more useful for industrial companies that have a lot of tangible assets than it is for technology or consumer product companies that may not have much in the way of hard assets. SEE: Using The Price-To-Book Ratio To Evaluate Companies
Urstadt Biddle Properties (NYSE:UBP) has risen 1.5% and is currently trading at $19.09 per share. This morning, the company is trading a volume of 3,291 shares. High volume indicates a lot of investor interest while low volume indicates the opposite. Valuation ratios include the price to earnings (P/E) ratio, the price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio, the price to sales (P/S) ratio, the price to book (P/B) ratio, and the dividend yield. Dividend yield measures the income that a stock will generate for an investor. UBP has a dividend yield of 4.8%. It is important to remember that dividends are only one component of a stock's return and capital appreciation (or decline) must also be considered when evaluating a security. SEE: Dividend Yield For The Downturn
Brookfield Office Properties (NYSE:BPO) is down 1.2% to reach $16.96 per share. The company's volume for the day so far is 301,945 shares, 0.2 times the average volume over the last three months. A stock's volume conveys how excited investors are about it. In making a decision about a potential or existing investment, valuation ratios are useful as a basis for seeing whether the stock price is too high, reasonable, or a bargain. Using price/earnings ratios (P/E ratios) does not give an indication of whether or not an individual company's ratio is reasonable, a shortcoming that can be corrected by using the price/earnings to growth ratio (PEG ratio). BPO has a PEG ratio of 2.11, which is consistent with the industry average. Because of the adjustment for earnings growth rate, the PEG ratio is somewhat more useful than many formulas for comparing companies in different industries.
American Capital (Nasdaq:AGNC) has increased to a share price of $34.70, a 0.9% rise. So far today, the company's volume is two million shares. This is about the same trading activity as there was yesterday. If a stock price moves on high volume, this means that the change is a significant one. Valuation ratios like the price to earnings (P/E) ratio, the price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio, the price to sales (P/S) ratio, the price to book (P/B) ratio, and the dividend yield are useful in determining how attractive a potential or existing investment is. The price/book value ratio is one of the more common methods of determining whether a stock is fairly valued. AGNC's stock is trading for more than its book value with a P/B ratio of 1.32. This high share price relative to asset value is likely to indicate that the company has been earning a very high return on its assets. A weakness of the P/B value ratio is that while the price component is easily determined by looking at the stock quote, the book value component is more difficult to estimate and more open to individual interpretation and analysis. SEE: How Buybacks Warps The Price-To-Book Ratio
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright is offering three-year waivers from annual state accreditation to eight high-performing schools in three divisions.
The schools qualified for the flexibility by achieving pass rates of 95 percent or higher in all four tested Standards of Learning (SOL) content areas during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 (results for state tests administered during 2012-2013 won’t be available until later this summer).
“The achievement of the students and teachers in these schools is especially worthy of recognition given the challenging new SOL mathematics tests that were introduced during 2011-2012,” Wright said. “It is the expectation of the Board of Education that students and teachers in these schools will be freed from locally mandated benchmark testing and allowed to explore the content of each subject area in innovative and engaging ways.”
The schools qualifying for accreditation waivers are as follows:
- Charlottesville – Greenbrier Elementary
- Fairfax County – Carson Middle, Haycock Elementary, Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology, Westbriar Elementary and Wolftrap Elementary
- Virginia Beach – Kemps Landing Magnet and Old Donation Center
Each school awarded a waiver this year will remain fully accredited through 2015-2016. Division superintendents have until July 1, 2013, to apply for the flexibility.
The five Fairfax County schools and two Virginia Beach schools were among 92 schools granted three-year accreditation waivers last year.
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Here’s a story from one of the newest Simple Truths books, One Choice. Often, a change in your life can be traced back to a single event. At that time, you made a choice that changed your life.
That’s what One Choice is all about…those watershed moments that make all the difference. Enjoy this excerpt:
Whether you’re born rich or not, the power to be rich is within your control. You have to make the choice… and then follow through. That’s the advice of financial counselor David Bach. In his book, Start Late, Finish Rich: A no-fail plan for achieving financial freedom at any age, he relates the story of one of his clients who appeared on the Oprah show, sharing how she made the choice and successfully accumulated $1.6 million in a brokerage account…starting in her early fifties.
Her name is Lynn Haley, and Oprah explained that she came to my first “Smart Women Finish Rich” seminar when she was in her early fifties, put a plan in place, and took action. Now here she is a decade or so later, having retired a multi-millionaire.
Lynn is beaming with pride—as well she should. Although she got a late start, she didn’t let that stop her from taking action to catch up. She wasn’t poor when I met her, but she didn’t have a plan in place to really finish rich.
I told her as much during our first appointment. “Lynn,” I said, “with what you have now, you won’t starve during your retirement. You’ll be able to enjoy the ‘early bird special.’ But you won’t be traveling to Europe or taking any cruises. If you want to finish rich, you are going to need a new plan of action.”
I made it clear to her that this new plan wouldn’t involve anything particularly fancy or complicated. It would all be based on common sense. The thing was, she would have to apply what I taught her. Not just pay it lip service, but actually do it.
“The choice is ultimately yours,” I told her. “If you want to retire rich, we can work together to make it happen. I’ll guide you, but you’ll need to follow through. Otherwise, it won’t work.”
Lynn was up to the challenge. “Tell me what I need to do, David, and I’ll do it,” she said.
Fewer than 10 years later, Lynn took early retirement—rich enough to do what she wanted to do when she wanted to do it. And getting there wasn’t all that difficult. In fact, the hardest thing Lynn had to do was what she did that first day we met: deciding—and then really believing—that it wasn’t too late for her to be able to change her destiny.
Which life will you choose?
When you contrast the bad news (the paycheck-to-paycheck struggle that kills freedom) with the good news (the phenomenal wealth and opportunity that is all around us), you begin to realize that life is not fair.
The fact is, you don’t get in life what you wish for.
You get in life what you go for.
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“We know we are on the cutting edge by offering our customers mobile website administration tools, which is why we plan to add to our current offering in 2017 and beyond."- Sascha Ohler, Vice President of Product Strategy, CivicPlus
MANHATTAN, KS (PRWEB) December 07, 2016
CivicPlus, the nation’s leader in government website design and technology, has launched a mobile app that will allow government website administrators to add, modify, and approve website categories and items from any Apple® or AndroidTM mobile device. The goal of the new CivicEngage MobileAdmin App is to meet the needs of CivicPlus’ customers to more conveniently, and efficiently, communicate with citizens.
“What we hear from our customers time and again is that they are being pressured to do more with less,” said Sascha Ohler, vice president of product strategy at CivicPlus. “With the proliferation of mobile device technology and an understanding that our customers are looking for tools that will enable them to manage their citizen communications when they are away from their desktop computers, we wanted to offer our customers a solution that will help them work as efficiently as possible.”
The MobileAdmin app allows CivicEngage customers to manage citizen communications via the Alert Center, a critical module of its content management system (CMS). Customers may also choose to enable access to the News Flash and Calendar CMS modules, and starting in 2017, the Citizen Request Tracker (CRT) module.
“We know we are on the cutting edge by offering our customers mobile website administration tools,” said Ohler, “Which is why we plan to add to our current offering in 2017 and beyond. We are constantly seeking customer feedback and using it to shape future product enhancements. The MobileAdmin app will be one more solution that evolves over time to continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers.”
The CivicEngage MobileAdmin app will be available to CivicPlus customers from the Apple iTunes® Store and the GooglePlayTM Marketplace in December, 2016.
CivicPlus is the integrated technology platform for local government, working with over 2,400 local governments including states, municipalities, townships, and counties. CivicPlus has been selected by Inc. Magazine as “One of the Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies in the U.S.” since 2011. For more information about our integrated software solutons, visit CivicPlus.com.
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Comedy Sutra with Anuvab Pal
Darpan Singapore and Magic Carpet join hands to bring you comedy like never before through regular stand-up comedy shows COMEDY SUTRA . Standup shows with renowned names from India!
As a first of the series in Comedy Sutra we bring Anuvab Pal, voted as the most intelligent comedian by the New York Times!
Anuvab, after having performed to full houses in USA , UK and India now comes to Singapore for the first time in SE Asia, for a night of laughter like no other! Content & language will be in English.
A DO NOT miss on your weekend calendar! Join us for a good laugh, good food & a good time.
Tickets is at $60 and it includes;
- Sumptuous Buffet Spread
- Free flow soft drinks
- A good laugh & a good time
- VIP Entry to Magic Carpet Club for the after party
About Anuvab Pal :
Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He was listed by Times Of India as one of India's top 5 comedians.
He co-wrote the 2007 cult hit Indian comedy, Loins Of Punjab Presents,with Manish Acharya which The New York Times called A witty musical comedy.
His play, The President Is Coming, was made into a Bollywood film The President Is Coming by Bollywood producer Rohan Sippy, directed by actor Kunaal Roy Kapur.
Noted critic, journalist and author Anupama Chopra reviewing it on her TV show on the Indian news channel NDTV, said the film was uncontrollably funny in most parts.It was also features on a BBC news story titled Bollywood's farewell Bush handshake.
As a stand up comedian, Anuvab Pal started out with The British Comedy Store when they opened in Mumbai in 2010 and has since toured across the nation with his acclaimed one man show, The Nation Wants To Know to sold out houses mostly in Mumbai but also New Delhi, Kolkata, Shillong, Bangalore, Pune.
In 2011, He was featured in The New York Times video, A Night At The Comedy Club and CNNGO, a travel website of CNN, mentioned him on a list of 20 Mumbai People To Watch. | <urn:uuid:4e78aebd-6d8c-4f05-863e-3a67aa74786b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://comedysutra1.peatix.com/ | 2017-06-25T10:23:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00513.warc.gz | en | 0.956853 | 479 |
When I first joined Vision Personal Training in 2011 I had previously tried everything Tony Ferguson, lemon diets, tea diets, gyms etc but nothing worked for me.
When my first child was 2 1/2 I decided to give Vision a crack and haven't looked back. I managed to lose over 20kgs with my first child and after just having my second child I have lost another 18kgs.
I love that they focus on my food and hold me accountable every week. Being a mother and working full time I now realise it's important to take time out for myself.
Weight loss isn't a short term fix, it must be a lifestyle change and maintainable. That's the key and that's what Vision can do for you. | <urn:uuid:7c6a1c81-ad65-4135-b100-5a3e2d054460> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.visionpt.com.au/studios/bundall/amanda-golden-camm/ | 2018-08-16T08:07:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210559.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816074040-20180816094040-00216.warc.gz | en | 0.979781 | 152 |
KUCHING, May 2 — The state government will ensure steps it takes to reclaim the state’s rights are within the confines of the Federal Constitution and Malaysian laws, said Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali.
The Sarawak assistant minister of law, state-federal relationship and project monitoring said the state government has many options in the event of a deadlock, but all are within the perimeter of the laws and in the context of Malaysia.
“This is our stand,” she told the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly.
Hasidah said the people should not talk about avenues outside the Federal Constitution and the context of Malaysia.
She said the state government will continue with consultations and discussions with the federal government to reclaim the state’s rights enshrined in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
“I hope there is no deadlock in the discussion for the return of the rights, if there is, we will cross the bridge when we come to it,” she said when replying to Dr Hazland Abang Hipni (GPS- Demak Laut) and Datuk Dr Juanda Jaya (GPS-Jemoreng) during Question and Answer session.
Hasidah said the negotiations were being made through state Cabinet’s steering committee on the review of MA63, technical committee and at various levels with the federal government.
She said the steering committee has been given six months to prepare a full report on all the discussions held so far.
The state government will continue to raise issues concerning the Petroleum Development Act 1974 (PDA) and Territorial Sea Act 2012 (TSA) in the special steering committee chaired by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the technical committee, she added.
She said the motion for the proposed comprehensive amendment to the Federal Constitution, which was unanimously endorsed at yesterday’s sitting, covered the legality of these two federal Acts to Sarawak. | <urn:uuid:8850d725-0644-4760-afb5-64c5f1e6b2b3> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/05/02/official-says-sarawak-will-use-only-legal-means-for-bid-to-reclaim-states-r/1749041 | 2019-09-20T02:25:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573801.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920005656-20190920031656-00005.warc.gz | en | 0.934057 | 410 |
My dominant wife, Teri, is the head of our household. My wife thoroughly enjoys her superior status over me and had has a large collections of whips, paddles, and restraints to keep me subdued. Teri gave me permission to write about my submission to her and her newly rejuvenated sex life. When Teri learned of my secret desire to be totally dominated, she was more than happy to accommodate me. Her efforts in training me have been well-rewarded for I am now completely submissive to her. Over the years Teri has become increasingly dominant and has developed a penchant for humiliating me. I must satisfy her completely or face the consequence which usually means a severe paddling of my ass. | <urn:uuid:6cc0ee1a-bbf3-4560-b8e9-c17a615258a6> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://um78.info/defloration-hd/fuck-my-wife-for-68281.php | 2021-08-04T02:47:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154500.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20210804013942-20210804043942-00643.warc.gz | en | 0.988051 | 145 |
Do you ever get quilter’s block?
|Two pieces of musical notes fabric fused together with two heats cut out…|
Much as I love joining bees and swaps and challenges, it is an extraordinarily rare thing for me ever to make something for someone else or to link up with a challenge without being beset, sometimes immobilised, by doubt at some stage during the making process.
Just to clarify, this isn’t particularly about technical ability or the difficulty of physically constructing a piece – that would probably make more sense! I mean the whole ‘will they like it, won’t they like?’, ‘maybe this isn’t the exact colour someone asked for..’, ‘supposing everyone thinks it’s rubbish?’…
|…and the hearts made into a butterfly.|
So when I chanced upon the 5″ x 7″ Challenge hosted by Christina Fairley Erickson at Fibre Artist Journey I decided to join as a way of pushing myself to work more on fibre art pieces, which was my
main reason for starting quilting. I mentioned to Christina that the main obstacle I have is the idea that what I create won’t be good enough so, when I decided to join the challenge, I immediately thought one piece a week sounds like a big commitment. But actually literally making one piece a week isn’t really a problem – it’s making one piece a week that’s ‘good enough’! I always spend too much time thinking about what to make even though I know my best work evolves after I’ve plunged in and got started. So I’m committing to one piece a week however bad.
In response, Christina directed me to this post where she speaks about her design teacher who told the story of some students who were told to either:
1) make one piece of art for the semester, but have the quality be their focus
2) don’t worry about quality, the grade the second group was going to be based on quantity… make as much art as they can and show the result at the end of the semester.
Guess which group produced the best art and visit Christina’s post to check the answer!
Rationally, I know this makes sense and that, in any case, there is not a lot riding on this. If I make something that is truly horrible, my family will still eat tonight – and tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. If I make something everyone hates or thinks is rubbish it really doesn’t matter.
But, despite all that rationality, it matters to me!
If you ever find yourself in the same boat, I’d really recommend this Ted Talk on genius by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of ‘Eat. Pray. Love.’ She discusses the pressure on modern writers/artists around feeling solely responsible for what they create and contrasts that with pre-renaissance conceptions where the daemon or genius was recognised as part of the creative process. My very favourite part of the talk is where she describes how she felt like abandoning the project and said aloud:
“Listen you, thing, you and I both know that if this book isn’t brilliant that is not entirely my fault, right? Because you can see that I am putting everything I have into this, I don’t have any more than this. So if you want it to be better, then you’ve got to show up and do your part of the deal. O.K. But if you don’t do that, you know what, the hell with it. I’m going to keep writing anyway because that’s my job. And I would please like the record to reflect today that I showed up for my part of the job.”
For the 5″ x 7″ Challenge this week, I made a wall hanging using fused fabric.
|fused fabric valentines wall hanging|
I didn’t have a lot of time and it’s by no means amazing but I agreed to make a piece a week. I turned up for my part of the deal and this is the result.
For the rest of the year I’ll be turning up once a week and we’ll have to see what happens. Hopefully, it will sometimes be good. No doubt it sometimes won’t be. | <urn:uuid:b9ae8f14-50d1-4beb-9b53-9a1f77f6d513> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://rainbowhare.com/2013/02/10/do-you-ever-get-quilters-block/ | 2021-06-13T18:18:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487610196.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613161945-20210613191945-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.964185 | 928 |
Last name: Gotthard
This interesting surname, found recorded variously in England, France, Germany and Switzerland, is of Germanic origins. Composed of the pre 7th century elements "god", meaning good, and "hard", hardy or brave, the name has always had a popular following. It was introduced into Britain by the Normans after the Invasion of 1066, and was highly popular in Europe as a result of the fame of St. Goddard, an 11th Century bishop of Hildesheim, who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. The name is recorded as a surname in variant forms throughout Europe; such as Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard, Godehard and Goddert in Germany; and Goedhard and Goedhart in Holland. The personal name was first recorded in Lincolnshire in circa 1160 - 1166, with one Godardus de Clakesbi, and early recordings of the surname include; Wlfrich Godard of Norfolk in 1221; and Andres Gotthard of Scweidenitz, Germany, in 1274. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Goddard, which was dated 1208, in the "Curia Rolls of Hampshire". This was during the reign of King John of England, 1199 - 1216. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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How I Use It
I used this website in several ways. When I introduce a letter, I use this on my Smart board. We go to the ABCs section of the website. I pull up the letter we are learning on the Smart board. Each letter contains an activity for the students to do. We do them as a whole group. I call up a student individually and they do the letter. The lesson goes over the letter, the sounds, and several pictures that begin with each letter. At the end of each lesson, there is a game that relates to the letter. The students are able to do these games with little to no help. The students will often help their classmates complete the lesson. My favorites are sorting upper and lower case letters, and finding the letter that does not match. When the students go to computers for small groups, the site is used as a review lesson. They are able to go through and click on any letters they like. Students often find the letters we have covered so far and review their sounds and words that begin with that letter.
I feel that this is a great website for early education. It allows me to pull my students into a lesson and let them be a part of it. They do not have to worry about getting the answer wrong. I also really like that it reviews the sound with each section. It does not just tell them the letter and the picture. I feel that it has really helped my students. If we have extra time or indoor recess, I will often pull this site up and do it on the Smart board just to review. They always get excited. They love feeling like they are doing the lesson. | <urn:uuid:62ba6399-7eb4-4b85-bb39-023a2a64da99> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/starfallcom-teacher-review/4011736 | 2022-07-01T01:54:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103917192.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220701004112-20220701034112-00547.warc.gz | en | 0.973884 | 341 |
By Michael McCarthy
By 1916 the Wilson administration was ambivalent about the war in Europe. Its members and the president knew they might be sucked into hostilities but were determined to hold on to neutrality. Contingency planning was discouraged. However, the prospect of being drawn into the war stimulated "bottoms up" discussions between American Army and Naval officers and British officials and officers. These became intense during the spring of 1916. They generally did not have much impact and there was little follow-through. However, it is clear by this time the British had made a high-level decision to woo America and convince her to join the war. It was Horatio Kitchener who seems to have made the opening approach.
On 24 March 1916 a German U-boat torpedoed the French steamer Sussex, injuring several Americans. Greatly angered, Wilson sent a note to the German government demanding that they renounce their submarine policy. Germany finally acquiesced on 4 May but not before this event had further tarnished that nation in Wilson's eyes. Meanwhile, the British secretary of state for war, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, was meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Charles O. Squire, the American military attaché in London. Kitchener suggested that a break in diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States would inevitably lead to war, either through a German declaration or through some overt act that would force Wilson's hand. The two discussed the possibility of committing an American expeditionary force to European soil. Kitchener claimed that American involvement would hasten the war's conclusion and, when pressed, even claimed that it would do so "at least by the end of the year." Either Kitchener's assessment of the American military was grossly unrealistic, or, more likely, he was hoping to entice the Wilson administration into joining the fight through the promise of a hasty finish. Kitchener also suggested that American troops be trained in France instead of in the United States so that they could enter combat "in the shortest possible time."
Newton D. Baker, easing into his new position as secretary of war, received this memorandum with little interest. Again, no evidence exists that Baker briefed Wilson on this meeting between Kitchener and Squire, probably for the same reason that Acting Army Chief of Staff Scott had kept his earlier mobilization questions to the War College Division hushed. In addition, Wilson was apparently kept ignorant of discussions to mobilize U.S. shipping to carry an American army to Europe in the event of war. This proposal, prepared on 4 April by American naval and military attachés in London and Paris and by two American officers assigned with the British Expeditionary Forces, warned that "any system adopted at the moment and operated without previous study and experience is more than apt to bring discredit on the Navy, and useless danger to the army and the Nation."
|In 1916 the Challenge of Building a Huge Army and Transporting It |
to Europe Was Only a Year Away
[However] even the military planners ignored this recommendation until November 1916. [Kitchener, of course, was no longer available to lend a voice of encouragement. He was drowned at sea on 5 June 1916.] Again, coordinated military planning was forsaken and once more American military leaders neglected realistic contingencies, leaving the consideration of such ideas to the very eve of the American declaration.
Excerpted from: "Lafayette, We Are Here": The War College Division and American Military Planning for the AEF in World War I by Michael McCarthy | <urn:uuid:b2392ee0-374d-4e16-8673-108fbd45c0a1> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2018/02/ | 2018-12-16T23:57:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828018.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216234902-20181217020902-00607.warc.gz | en | 0.97856 | 705 |
There are total 5 letters in Unnun, Starting with U and ending with N.
Definition of the word Unnun, Meaning of Unnun word :
v. t. - To remove from condition of being a nun.
An Anagram is collection of word or phrase made out by rearranging the letters of the word. All Anagram words must be valid and actual words.
Browse more words to see how anagram are made out of given word.
In Unnun U is 21st, N is 14th letters in Alphabet Series.
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So I know it’s October and I should be gracing you with fall inspiration posts and Halloween crafts, but I have to keep it real….
- Ya’ll know I am not much of a “crafter”.
- It is still hot as Hades here in the dirty south, and I am just not feeling the fall spirit.
Not to be completely useless though, I do have an easy little DIY for you today.
It seems anytime I go shopping for a specific item of decor, I can never find it. This is when I like to take matters into my own hands.
Because I am a serial re-decorator, I was beginning to crave change in my dining room. It just wasn’t feeling fresh to me.
Inspired by much of the artwork used by one of my favorite interior design firms, Blackband Design, I decided I had to incorporate some sort of indigo abstract art into the room. I craved a colorful, sexy statement piece. Something a little unpredictable.
Unable to find anything within my meager budget, I decided to make use of some blank canvas I had purchased from Hobby Lobby on sale.
- 2 18×24 canvas
- cobalt blue acrylic paint
- a lighter blue paint (if you want more dimension)
- white acrylic paint
- paint brush
First, I used my cobalt blue paint to plot a general composition. I mainly used vertical strokes.
Then for a little more dimension, I applied my lighter blue in a very thick layer.
Still not satisfied with the composition, I decided to apply white acrylic paint over areas of the blue . And by “apply”, I mean I caked that sh*t on. Seriously though.
Once I felt the painting was complete, I had my sweet husband frame the canvas in using lattice. I got the idea from my brilliant blogging buddy Laura over at the Turquoise Home. To read her full tutorial , click here.
While I am sure I will eventually find something to replace my little masterpiece, it works fine for now.
Even better, the entire project cost me less than $30.
And please do forgive me. … I know I suck at life right now and am completely failing you by not blowing your mind with autumnal crafts and tablescapes. I warned you….I am no Martha Stewart. Just a mother and marketing professional desperately trying to keep her head above water.
Much love to you all! Now get out there and design some good vibes.
Please be sure to Pin!
And if you haven’t check out my fall tour, be sure to do so here | <urn:uuid:6874ef55-8b52-4d6e-bd23-ceb3780bd82d> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://designingvibes.com/indigo-abstract-art-diy/ | 2017-04-30T18:42:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125841.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00472-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948664 | 555 |
Illinois has six new confirmed cases of coronavirus, health officials announced Wednesday, bringing the state's total to 25.
The update came during the state's daily coronavirus press briefing.
"With these new cases, we are seeing more spread in our community, and again I echo the governor's comments that we need to be mindful if anyone is experiencing symptoms, has been in contact with any of these cases that they should notify their provider," said Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike.
The majority of the new cases were reported in Chicago and Cook County, though a Lake County man in his 50s was also diagnosed, Ezike said. The Cook County cases include:
- A man in his 80s
- 2 men in their 70s
- A woman in her 50s
- A man in his 40s
"We're committed to taking every precaution while ensuring the least amount of disruption," Gov. J.B. Pritzker said.
Health officials said they are investigating the new cases' travel histories, exposures and close contacts.
All new cases are in isolation, either at home or in an area hospital.
"With these new cases, we are seeing more spread in our community, and again I echo the governor's comments that we need to be mindful if anyone is experiencing symptoms, has been in contact with any of these cases that they should notify their provider," Ezike said.
Hours earlier, Chicago and state officials announced Chicago's St. Patrick's Day parades and the city's iconic river dyeing have been postponed amid coronavirus concerns.
The downtown Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade, which was set for Saturday, as well as Sunday's South Side Irish Parade and the Northwest Side parades will not step off as a coronavirus outbreak continues to bring more cases in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. The annual dyeing of the Chicago River will also be rescheduled "to a later date," city officials said.
“The health and safety of Chicago’s residents will always be our highest priority and like many other cities across the nation and globe, we are postponing this year’s parades as a precautionary measure to prevent any additional spread of COVID-19,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement. “I want everyone to rest assured that your City and State continue to work around the clock to stay ahead of this issue and ensure everyone remains protected, informed, and safe.”
Lightfoot said during a press conference Wednesday morning that rescheduling the events "was not an easy decision" but having the festivities would "pose unnecessary risk."
The postponement of the festivities come as several other major events around the city are canceled amid growing concerns over the outbreak in Chicago.
State officials have been urging people, particularly elderly residents, to avoid mass gatherings in the area.
Pritzker noted that decisions to cancel events across the state, as of now, will be made on a local level.
Chicago officials said they are also activating the city's Emergency Operations Center to monitor crowds and other St. Patrick's Day events happening around the city.
Eight additional coronavirus cases were confirmed in Illinois Tuesday. Two of those eight cases were in Chicago.
"The State of Illinois continues to take action to reduce spread of COVID-19 in Illinois and we again want to encourage people to start thinking and preparing now in the event they are not able to go to work, if schools are closed, if public transportation is not available, and how else their lives will be disrupted by this outbreak," Ezike said.
Pritzker, who on Monday declared a disaster proclamation in the state, said he has demanded the state receiving more testing kits as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:fab2408d-079c-4c32-b692-0e5a9d2693d4> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/6-new-cases-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-illinois-lifting-state-to-25/2235131/ | 2021-01-20T22:48:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703522133.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210120213234-20210121003234-00292.warc.gz | en | 0.974216 | 778 |
Reviews for F40PH California Zephyr Add-On
The glory days of Amtrak re-lived.TimothyD | May 31, 2013 | See all TimothyD's reviews »
Amtrak is still around, but is definitely no longer in it's glory days. This pack relives it. The engine is well designed and accurate, along with being able to use quick drive on it gives it extra value. The coaches are well done and there is a wealth of them for the price, considering what is included in some other packs for the series. Also, the five new scenarios for Donner Pass are a value for their quality. Everything about this pack is bang for the buck, in all truth. This pack is good for any true Amtrak enthusiast that wants to go back to the earlier years. | <urn:uuid:305a8779-acff-4b8d-bc57-33fe1851f501> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.greenmangaming.com/customer-reviews/?for=2933 | 2015-03-31T22:04:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131302318.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172142-00061-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974963 | 164 |
By Amy Moorby
I concluded the prior installment with our post-ceremony photo session. While we were happily posing for pictures, our guests made their way over to the Atlantic Dance Hall, either on foot or by bus, for our cocktail hour. Since the Atlantic Dance Hall is a two-level building, we opted to have our cocktail hour on the upstairs level and then the guests would head downstairs for the reception. During the cocktail hour, the harpist who played during our ceremony played for the guests. We had chosen several appetizers: brie and raspberry puffs; chicken brochettes; crab Rangoon; spring rolls; assorted cheese plate; and a fruit plate. (If you want to see pictures of the appetizers, you can go back and check out part 3 of this saga where I shared pictures of the proposed appetizers from our menu tasting.)
We had also opted for an open bar consisting of beer and wine, plus a signature drink that we chose. Incidentally, you can choose to have a cash bar or a fully open bar with mixed drinks – we decided to only have a signature drink. The signature drink turned out to be quite a decision for us. I had gotten it in my head that I wanted a blue drink so that we could call it “Something Blue” and thought that I had picked out a perfect one. Then the night before out final pre-wedding meeting with our planner, I tested the drink at the Tambu Lounge at the Polynesian and I hated it! So, I asked the bartender if he could recommend something and he suggested a drink that had been created from the Year of a Million Dreams and was new at the time, although now it has been around for a while – it was the Blue Glowtini. It was a tremendous hit at the wedding and it was fun to see everyone walking around with glowing drinks:
After we had finished taking all of the pictures at the Yacht Club, we jumped into the Rolls Royce and were driven over to the Atlantic Dance Hall. When we arrived there, we were greeted by this message on the marquee:
After a few more pictures, we went inside the Atlantic Dance Hall and met back up with our wedding planner and took a look around the beautifully decorated room:
It may be difficult to tell from this picture, but we had several tables placed on the outskirts of the dance floor for our wedding party and immediate family, and the remainder of the guests were seated at tables that were a couple steps up from the dance floor. In order to create our centerpieces, the florists took the flower balls that adorned the Wedding Gazebo during the ceremony and placed them on top of tall glass vases. Rounding out the place setting was a menu that we had a calligrapher create and our wedding favors of customized M&Ms that said “Amy & Mike” on one side and “WDW 1/12/07” on the other.
We were able to sit down and relax for a few minutes on a sofa and Karen (our wedding planner) brought us a plate of appetizers from the cocktail hour. After about 10 minutes, it was time to get the reception started, so Karen and her assistants asked everyone (except our parents and wedding party) to make their way downstairs. Mike and I snuck up the back staircase so that we could be announced. Once everyone found their tables, the DJ started playing “Give a Little Bit” by the Goo Goo Dolls and announced our parents, wedding party, and us. I have to tell you, I was terrified to walk down the staircase because I was sure that I was going to trip on my heels or my dress, but I made it down safely!
Mike and I immediately started our first dance to “Still the One” by Shania Twain. At this point I would like to mention one little detail that I really loved about the Atlantic Dance Hall. Since it is a dance club on most nights, they have a great lighting package, so we had a “disco ball” going, as well as other lighting features – it just added a little extra magic to the evening, especially as day turned into night.
After our first dance, we returned to our table and our Best Man and Matron of Honor gave their toasts. Then dinner was served! At Atlantic Dance Hall, the only option for dinner is a buffet. Now I have to admit that I not the biggest fan of buffets; however, Disney pulled this one off beautifully and the food was fabulous. Here’s our menu (as best I can remember): cheddar cheese soup and pretzel bread (imported from Le Cellier); tossed salad with a variety of dressings and assorted rolls; chicken with a Merlot mushroom sauce; roasted potatoes; roasted asparagus; garlic green beans; gnocchi with sundried tomatoes; prime rib carving station; and pasta with choice of marinara or alfredo sauce.
Once we thought everyone was close to finishing up dinner, the DJ started the dancing for the evening. We began with my dance with my dad to “I Loved Her First” by Heartland and the Mike’s dance with his mom to “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack.
Then to get the party started, he invited our wedding party to join Mike and me on the dance floor on started playing “Get Down Tonight” by KC and the Sunshine Band. After a minute or so he asked everyone else to hit the dance floor and we danced the night away…
At some point in the evening, Mike and I cut the cake to the tune of “For Once in My Life” by Michael Buble and then the cake, coffee, and tea were served to everyone. People had a choice of white cake filled with vanilla custard and fresh raspberries or almond cake filled with almond mousse.
With about an hour left in the reception, the waiters began passing out the glow necklaces (we had brought those with us and given them to the wedding planner during our pre-wedding meeting) in preparation for our Illuminations Dessert Party. People really had fun with the glow necklaces and they looked great in the darkening room. Around 8pm, our Epcot escorts arrived and starting gathering up the guests and leading them to the buses that were bringing us over to Epcot for the Illuminations Dessert Party. It seems kind of silly, since we were at the Boardwalk, but we had to board buses and drive “backstage” and enter as a group through a door near the UK Pavilion and be led to the terrace in between the UK and France Pavilions for our Dessert Party. Even though we were at the Boardwalk, the drive from there to backstage Epcot seemed really long, but it was worth it! I will never forget as we were all walking from the “backstage door” to the terrace, people who just happened to be hanging out near the Rose & Crown Pub at the UK Pavilion began clapping for us and shouting congratulations as we walked by – it was just a magical moment!
We had chosen to have chocolate fondue served during our dessert party (we had originally wanted a chocolate fountain, but we were told that Disney doesn’t allow chocolate fountains at outside events because the wind can cause the chocolate to spray all over everything – makes sense!). Here’s what we saw when we arrived at our terrace:
Everyone hung around, drank, and ate fondue until Illuminations began. This leads me to the one and only regret from our wedding day. We had asked the photographer to take pictures of us during Illuminations so instead of enjoying the fireworks with everyone else, for much of the show we were standing posed and trying not to move. The pictures didn’t come out great and we look exhausted in them. I really wish that we had told the photographer to just take candid photos of everyone during the party.
My regret aside, the dessert party was such an amazing way to end the day! However, we learned that if the guests chose, their evening didn’t have to be over. Since the night of our wedding was an Extra Magic Hour Evening at Epcot, the Epcot escorts passed out wristbands to any of our guests (about 95% of them) who wanted to hang out in Epcot for the evening. For those of us (there was no way I wanted to traipse around Epcot in my wedding dress) who chose to call it a night, we were taken back to the buses and brought back to our resorts. Mike and I ended the evening with a few of our guests on the beach at the Polynesian Resort drinking champagne. Although Mike and I chose not to take advantage of the Extra Magic Hours, the guests who did had a great time; in fact, many of them received some special “pixie dust” from the cast members because they were dressed in their wedding attire. For example, my mom and the people with her were seated in the front center row of Soarin’ and were allowed to stay on for an extra ride.
And then, the Cast Member at Test Track saw them about to get in line and he gave them some Fast Passes so that they didn’t have to wait. As you can see, they really did stand out from your average park guest!
And then all too quickly, our wedding day was over…
However, the fun didn’t end there. We had told everyone that we were spending the next day at the Magic Kingdom in the morning and afternoon and then heading over to Epcot for the evening and asked people to meet us for Drinks Around the World. Almost everyone wore the T-shirts that we had given them at the Welcome Dinner and it was so much fun to meet up with people throughout the day. Drinks Around the World was a blast, even though we didn’t quite make it all the way around.
Since we weren’t quite ready to call it a night just then, after Illuminations, we left Epcot and went over to Jellyrolls at the Boardwalk for some more fun. It was so great to continue to celebrate with our friends and family even the day after our wedding.
So, that’s about it! We had a couple more days of fun at Walt Disney World and then it was time to go home. One last tidbit for future Disney brides and grooms: We chose not to spend our honeymoon at Walt Disney World. Rather, we planned a honeymoon in Hawaii three months after our wedding. It was perfection. We had a chance to get back home after our big event, and the upcoming honeymoon gave us something to look forward to.
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Jasmine’s Annual Conference – Business Growth in
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Digital.Me – Business growth in the Digital World – 23rd January 2019 A must to every business woman!
Digital.Me Conference- Business Growth in the Digital World, of Jasmine Organization, in collaboration with the Internet Association of Israel, supported by Bank Hapoalim, Bezeq Communications and Kiryat Ono College, is exactly what your business needs to make a huge leap forward, increase profits, save personnel expenses- all with minimal marketing expenses. If you don’t move forward, you’ll stay behind, because a business without Digital becomes an old one, with no growth potential and no future.
Jasmine Organization for promoting businesses owned by women sees great importance in digital development of businesses. Jasmine works every year, together with Bezeq Communications and Bank Hapoalim to train more and more women to open and manage digital business channels. Kiram Baloum, Jasmine’s CEO, sees how businesses can collapse if they don’t advance with technology: “it’s not a question of necessity, but of survival. Developing businesses in digital channels is a must, and whoever doesn’t know this will find herself with an irrelevant business, without the ability to develop advanced services for her clients, will not provide a good purchasing experience, and worst of all- with nothing to leave for generations to come”.
Baloum is aware of business women’s hesitations regarding the digital world but invites every one of them personally: “all you have to do is join us to overcome your fears and concerns, because it’s much simpler than you think. In fact, after the conference you’ll be able to do whatever is necessary for your business by yourself and become a legitimate player in the digital marketing and advertising”.
Opening a Door to the Digital World
The conference will give you practical tools and present options for digital business development. The best lecturers and experts in the field will show you how to use digital tools, such as a visual website, online shops, social media, direct mailing and more – all of those will help you increase profits in minimum cost and time.
What are the 10 steps in digital marketing which will make your business a leading brand?
What is customer experience and why is it essential for your business growth?
How can you do personal and business branding in digital channels and social media?
Is it worth it to establish a virtual shop?
Theses are only a few of the questions to which you’ll have answers to during the conference Digital.Me – a conference which aims to give you a leap into the digital world as a huge part of running a successful independent business.
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The CBRN SIG strives to be the organizational vehicle welcoming and representing practitioners from all countries with an intent and desire to strengthen and improve the practice and knowledge of CBRN casualty management.
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Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) devices and agents are becoming increasingly used throughout the world in warfare, terrorism, assassinations, and to exert global strategic and regional political influence. The gradual development and dissemination of a range of proliferant and dual-use technologies has resulted in worsening risks to the organizations and nations historically concerned with potential CBRN events but has increased the risk of CBRN events occurring either accidentally or deliberately across far wider areas of the world.
Coupled with ever increasing development and urbanization globally, and widespread dissemination of enabling technologies and knowledge, CBRN events are likely to occur more frequently in the future and impact more vulnerable populations and groups than would previously have occurred. CBRN exposure cannot now be seen as confined to the battlefield – CBRN exposures can now occur in the context of war, in humanitarian or relief contexts, and in unexpected locations and times during peace. CBRN agents possess special characteristics, contamination potential, and physiological and toxicological effects that significantly complicates medical planning, preparation, response, and recovery.
Additionally, CBRN agents are capable of causing severe short and long-term mass casualty events, with far-ranging implications both within the acute medical domain but also causing significant impacts in wider population health, chronic disease, demographic, economic, health systems and political domains. Given its complexities, CBRN casualty management is fundamental to but generally considered outside the scope of routine emergency and acute medical practice. It represents an ongoing and ever-evolving medical, health systems and public health challenge for clinicians to confront in an era where CBRN medicine is increasingly relevant, needed and assuming prominence.
Mission: The proposed mission of the CBRN Special Interest Group is to foster collaboration among practitioners involved in research, education, management, and practice in prehospital, emergency, hospital and public health aspects of CBRN agents, including an emphasis on building evidence and best practice for general and casualty decontamination, mass casualty response, and the overall medical planning, preparedness and response to CBRN and related problems.
Purpose: The purposes of the CBRN SIG are to:
Goals: The goals of the CBRN SIG are to:
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By MAX SCHECHTER
Contrary to what some might assume, the most important political fights often emerge within the parties themselves, not across the aisle. It is very rare that a member of one party will adopt the position held by a member of the other. More commonly, ideological fights within parties shift the overall party view and thus change political discourse. This is why these disagreements are interesting and important to watch. Here are a few fights worth watching right now if you want to guess where the parties are heading:
What the Cheney Family Tells Us About the Gay Marriage Fight
The Cheney family is probably preparing for a pretty awkward Thanksgiving. In case you haven’t been follow Wyoming politics or the ongoing adventures of our former Vice President, allow me to recap. Liz Cheney, daughter of trigger-happy former Vice President, Dick Cheney, is running for Senate in Wyoming. Liz is positioning herself as a younger and more conservative option to the current senior Senator from Wyoming, Mike Enzi. This past week, Liz Cheney got into some hot water when she said that she opposes same-sex marriage. The Cheney family has an interesting history on same-sex marriage. Vice President Cheney differed from President George W. Bush by supporting the states’ right to determine marriage. Dick Cheney’s other daughter, Mary, is a married lesbian who does not appreciate her sister’s stance against gay marriage. For the last week the Cheneys — Dick, Liz, and Mary — have been publicly feuding over this issue.
This fight represents a larger issue surrounding Republicans and gay marriage. Two more states legalized gay marriage this month and the writing appears to be on the wall: Gay marriage is coming and most people in America are happy or indifferent toward that news. Still, in Republican primaries, being anti-gay marriage seems like a necessity, especially if you are a challenger from the right, which Liz Cheney is trying to be. For gay marriage advocates, these are the fights to watch to see if the Republican Party will change its stance on gay marriage. Mary Cheney accused Liz Cheney of being on the “wrong side of history,” an idea that is also the motivating factor for many Republicans who fear that their position on same-sex marriage will put them out of step with the American electorate. When this kind of accusation comes from within your own party, it carries much more weight.
Democrats Turn on Obama(care)
If you’ve been following the rollout of Obamacare, you know there have been some difficulties (that’s putting it nicely). Although everyone expected problems at the beginning of the healthcare exchanges, the technical difficulties have dwarfed what was expected. Even Bill Clinton is calling on President Barak Obama to try and secure his pledge that “if you like your healthcare you can keep it.” Vulnerable Democrats in the House and Senate are getting nervous and worrying that, like in the 2010 elections when the Republicans routed Democrats electorally, Republicans could win big based on Obamacare’s shortcomings. More than 20 Democratic House members voted for a bill that was Republican-proposed to “fix” Obamacare. The party may be turning on the president.
This intra-party feud is less important for substance than it is for style. For months the Democratic Party has been rallying behind President Obama as the Republicans shot themselves in the foot with the government shutdown. Now that Obamacare is scaring people, the Democrats appear willing to turn on their own in order to protect their reelection chances.
The Ultimate Tea Party/Establishment Fight
One cannot write about intra-party fighting without discussing the Tea Party. 2014 looks poised to give us one of the most quintessential and illustrative tea party versus establishment fights we have seen to date. In 2014, the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell is running for reelection in Kentucky. McConnell has fought the Obama administration at every turn, but his support for bailouts and general Washington insider-ness left him open to a tea party challenge from businessman Matt Bevin.
I know many of you think we’ve seen this fight play out before and there is not much more to learn, but I posit that this one is interesting because of who Mitch McConnell is. McConnell is not just another Senator, he’s the Republican leader. This means that he has much more sway over what Republicans do or do not do in the Senate (although I’m sure he doesn’t feel in control with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul’s constant theatrics). McConnell can, to an extent, avoid bringing issues to the forefront much more easily than a rank and file member of Congress. McConnell’s choices will demonstrate what an endangered incumbent does when he has some power over the political conversation.
Intra-party fights are what change parties. More so than public posturing and speeches, these are the disagreements that politicians and their advisors argue over behind closed doors. Republicans wrestling with gay marriage, Democrats deciding how loyal to Obamacare to be and establishment candidates attempting to avoid the tea party traps — the results of these internal fights will guide the broader, more public fights down the road. | <urn:uuid:afa2addd-7573-40dc-af02-bd8e28e7648b> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://cornellsun.com/2013/11/19/throwdown-thursday-not-all-political-fights-cross-party-lines/ | 2018-03-20T17:47:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647519.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320170119-20180320190119-00084.warc.gz | en | 0.965479 | 1,045 |
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Now that you have your goals and motivation all mapped out it’s time to start tackling the keystone needed to lose weight, get abs or perform on a high level. No, not cocaine, it’s your diet.
But where to start? How can you properly fit something into your macros (IFYM) if you don’t know what the hell a macro is?
And what do you mean diet properly? That would mean that there is an incorrect way to diet.
There is a correct way to diet and it does require a little bit of brain power. Don’t worry it’s only a little, you won’t break a sweat doing it.
I know what your saying; eating should be easy and shouldn’t require thinking. I 100% agree with that. Unfortunately, what you know about what to eat and how to lose weight through diet is more than likely coming from 1) outdated resources and 2) marketing.
How are companies going to make money if they don’t entice you with “organic” food labels? Or get you to buy low fat peanut butter but fill it with sugar instead (yea, go ahead take a look at the label. I’ll wait).
Since you already eat, I figure it’s easier to tweak that habit rather than diving in the deep end by changing the way you eat and creating an exercise habit. Let’s up your level of success and get you a one-way ticket to sexy town-and I just lost half my readers.
Here is what you have to look forward to through the rest of this post:
- How many calories you need
- Mind your macros
- How many times should I eat per day?
- Eating only the carbs you earn
- Why you need fat
- The key to losing weight
- Cheat meals or cheat days
- Tools for success
- What to eat before the gym
- What to eat after the gym
- Tracking Progress
- Diets I recommend to get you started
Because this is my website and I can:
- My thoughts on Vegetarians and Vegans
- My thoughts on Detoxes and Cleanses
HOW MANY CALORIES YOU NEED
There are countless calculators out there that will determine the calories you need per day. They all boil down to 4 different factors: age, weight, gender and activity level.
Based on all the calculators, charts and research I’ve dug up; here are the basic guidelines:
Women: Sorry, most of my readers are men so this chart is tailored to them. All you have to do to find out how much you need is to perform the same calculation but then subtract 400 from that number.
So basically if you go to the gym, using mostly machines and have a desk job and weigh 180lbs. and you want to lose a little fat- multiply 12×180 = 2160 calories per day. If you have a calculator, it’s easy peasy. If you have to use an abacus, I wish you the best.
You’ll notice that the no exercise with a desk job has the same multiplier for maintenance and fat loss. The reason for that is once you lower calories below a certain point your metabolism will slow down in order to conserve itself. This also happens when you drop more than 500 calories per day for a period of time. Stupidly, I did this when I got ready for my competition- I dropped from 2500 calories to 2000 and my fat loss almost stopped completely.
Now a couple things to keep in mind:
- These are general guidelines. Tweak as necessary (we will get into that later)
- Every time you lose or gain 10lbs revisit this calculation to adjust calories
If your daily calories are too far from this number (more than 200-300) then slowly, over the course of a couple weeks, increase or decrease until you hit the amount from the calculation above. Don’t make my mistake and drop too much too fast (slower metabolism) or increase too fast (fat gain).
To illustrate that point, say you currently eat 3000 calories a day and you should be eating 2200. So this is what I would do:
Week 1: 2800 calories
Week 3: 2600 calories
Week 5: 2400 calories
Week 7: 2200 calories
I know taking the slow ride down isn’t sexy or cool but it works. You will get better results by stepping down rather than jumping from 3000 to 2200. Your metabolism will work for you, rather than against you and most importantly you will lose fat during this time and see a constant stream of results.
TAKE ACTION: Multiply your weight by the appropriate factor above. If you are more than 200-300 calories now from your desired daily calories, then adjust over a couple of weeks. Step up or down rather than jumping the entire staircase.
ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE: With a calculator: 10 seconds, abacus: who knows?
MIND YOUR MACROS
When we talk about macros, we are talking about fat, carbs and protein. Now you know what us health nuts are talking about.
According to the U.S. government you should aim for a 45-60% carb, 10-35% protein and 20-35% fat breakdown.
There is a major issue with these numbers. Protein and carbs should be switched at very least. Say what?!
You ask: “But I heard too much protein will cause kidney problems?”
I respond: “Do you have kidney problems now? No? Then you’re fine.”
Protein is used throughout the body from growing muscles to growing your hair.
Your body can do without carbs despite what you think. Carbs supply glucose which is used to help your brain keep going and give your muscles a source of energy. However, you can get away with not consuming carbs and your body will be just fine – The Ketogenic Diet. Fats and proteins are essential as there is no way to work around what these macros provide.
A good macro ration to follow is 40-50% Protein, 10-30% Carbs and 30-40% Fats.
In order to find out what those percentages are in the form of useable numbers multiply the percentage by your daily calories and then divide that number by the calories per gram.
Clear as mud?
Before I illustrate this calculation, we must know protein and carbs supply 4 calories per gram and fat provides 9 calories per gram. If you look on a nutrition label it says this, I also wrote about it in HOW TO READ FOOD LABELS.
So, to illustrate this calculation lets assume the following ratio of 45% protein, 25% carbs and 30% fat for a 200lbs person who is a beast at the gym looking to lose fat:
200lbs X 12(from table above) = 2400 daily calories
.45 x 2400 = 1080 / 4 = 270g
.25 x 2400 = 600 / 4 = 150g
.30 X 2400 = 800 / 9 = 80g
So this person would need 270g of protein, 150g of carbs and 80g of fats a day. Seem like a lot? Break it down over a 5-6 meals a day and it becomes a little more digestible (see what I did there?).
TAKE ACTION: Take your daily calorie requirements from above and figure out how many grams of each macro nutrient you need.
ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE: 2 minutes
HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD I EAT A DAY?
This is highly individualized. Some people can do 1 large meal and other have 5-6 small meals a day. The main thing is to hit your macro and caloric requirements. If you can hit that in 2 meals then stick to 2 meals. If you don’t have a stomach like Joey Chestnut then break it up into little meals.
TAKE ACTION: Keep with the eating schedule you have but if you can’t hit your calories or macros, add another meal as needed.
EATING ONLY THE CARBS YOU EARN
When I reference carbs, I’m referring to fruits, grains, rice, oatmeal, potatoes (sweet and white) and sugar. All these contribute to your carb daily allotment.
Now when you calculated your carb intake you went for the higher end didn’t you? You love you some carbs.
Well, in order to lose weight, you need to earn your carbs. They are too easy to over indulge which will only lead to bad things.
You earn your carbs by putting in work at the gym. If you can look me in the eye and tell me, you go balls out (or ovaries) then go for the higher end of of the carb range. Otherwise stick to the mid to lower end.
How do you know if you earned them?
Go by feel.
If you have no energy at the gym, then have a serving of fruit before you go.
If you leave the gym and feel absolutely drained, then have some potatoes, rice or some fruit to replenish your glycogen stores.
Tired during the day? Then move your ass around.
Veggies should make up 80-90% of your daily carb intake. These are not something you should skimp on because of the nutritional value.
Also, notice I didn’t mention any snacks or junk food. There is a reason for that. There is one place for them and that is in your cheat meal, not everyday consumption. But you knew that.
TAKE ACTION: Earn your carbs or be stuck with veggies as your only source.
WHY YOU NEED FAT
Fat is a precursor to hormones. Low fat equals lower hormone levels which in turn has an effect on growth, development, metabolism, reproduction and mood. Some vitamins are fat soluble, meaning they only dissolve and absorb through fat. These are vitamin A,D,E and K.
TAKE ACTION: Keep fats, all sources minus trans, in your diet to ensure optimal hormone levels.
You need water more than food and only slightly less than oxygen. Pick a function of the body and water influences it in some way. Yea it’s pretty important. Aim for at least 0.5-1 oz for every pound you weigh. So if you weight 150lbs then consume at least 75oz of water a day.
TAKE ACTION: Drink more water to help your body function optimally.
THE KEY TO LOSING WEIGHT
Type 2 Diabetes is on the rise and everyone can see it. People are becoming more and more insulin resistant because of the food they eat. After a while their pancreas can’t keep up and boom, diabetes.
The key in the beginning of a diet is to reset your insulin sensitivity.
You do this by limiting, if not eliminating, all forms or sugars and fast digesting carbs. Things like rice cakes which are advertised as “health food” you need to watch out for. They jack up your insulin faster than you could enjoy eating it.
Consult the glycemic index if you question a certain food. Basically, look for foods that rank less than 70.
By resetting your insulin sensitivity your body will become more able to use the food you consume rather than just storing it and increasing your waist line.
TAKE ACTION: Lower or eliminate all sugar and refined carbs from your diet. This will be one of the best things you can do to help aide in fat loss.
CHEAT MEALS OR CHEAT DAYS
Everyone needs a release but how much of a release is what could make or break you. For me personally, I don’t do moderation well – at all. If I have a cheat day I end up feeling it for the rest of the week. Some people can, but what it boils down to is feel. If you have a cheat day and you start noticing you aren’t losing weight like you should or the reflection in the mirror doesn’t look any better then I think it’s time to tone the cheating down.
Start with one meal a week where you eat whatever you want. Occasionally have a whole day for special occasions (holidays, cookouts etc.).
Cheat meals give you something to look forward to. Like the carrot on the end of the string.
TAKE ACTION: One meal a week, enjoy yourself and indulge.
TOOLS FOR SUCCESS
Here are a few things I recommend:
- Have a meal prep day. Pick one day a week and prep at least some of the meals for the week. For me, I cook up my eggs and chicken on Sunday. The rest of the week is just scooping out whey protein and portioning out veggies. Sunday takes me 1-1.5 hours to complete and the rest of the week takes me 5 minutes.
This will help prevent the excuse of not having time to prep lunch.
- Plan dinners ahead and stick to it. Without planning you leave a lot of room for bad choices.
- Downloading an app to track calories and macros, at least at first. I have used FitDay but find MyFitnessPal a lot more robust and easier to use. These are both free apps so you don’t have to break the bank. We can save that money for the next Taylor Swift album to come out. Priorities on lock.
You need to track how many calories you are eating and this is the easiest way to track them. Plus, seeing how much you eat really makes you aware of what your putting into your mouth. Instead of putting in what you eat as you eat it, put it in the night before. This way you have a “plan” for the next day and stick to it.
- Invest in a bathroom scale and a kitchen scale. Nothing fancy, a decent bathroom scale will run you about $15 and a kitchen scale about $15. This way we can track your weight loss and how much chicken you are adding to your plate. The eye is not an accurate measuring device.
TAKE ACTION: Set aside a few hours one day to prep at least the basics for your lunches for the week. While it’s cooking, plan out dinners for the week, download a calorie counting app and purchase a bathroom and food scale
ESTIMATED TIME: 1-1.5 hours a week.
WHAT TO EAT BEFORE THE GYM
60-90 minutes before for workout drink a protein and carb mix (30g of carbs and protein). A scoop of protein and a banana would work.
From experience, I would highly advise to not have dairy before a workout. I made the mistake of having greek yogurt before running once. Take my advice AVOID PREWORKOUT DAIRY if you like the shorts you are wearing.
TAKE ACTION: 60-90 minutes before you step in the gym down some protein and carbs.
WHAT TO EAT AFTER THE GYM
Make this the most calories you consume at one time. Shoot for 50g of protein and carbs each within 2 hours of finishing your workout. If you don’t need the carbs after, stick to the 50g of protein.
TAKE ACTION: Within 2 hours of the end of your workout consume 50g of protein at very least. If you need it and earned it add the same amount of carbs.
How do you know where you are if you don’t know where you started? Here is a list of things to keep track of
- Weight (Same time everyday. Don’t rely on the reading until Thursday morning, first thing*)
- How you feel
- How you look (the infamous bathroom selfie)
- Workouts (Gym Hero, best workout app I’ve found)
*The reason I recommend Thursday is because usually Saturday is when people go out for dinner. Eating out usually means taking on more water weight from extra carbs and excess sodium. After a few days of healthy eating the excess water you’re lugging around will be gone and your true weight is what you see.
TAKE ACTION: For crying out loud download some free apps and use them. Plus, take your bathroom selfie.
By dieting correctly, you should lose about 1% of your bodyweight a week.
If you find yourself on the short end of the 1%, then drop your calories by 200 by taking away from fats and carbs. Never take away from protein.
You will inevitably hit a plateau where you can’t lower calories anymore and that’s when you incorporate exercise or switch up your workout routine. Plateaus are not bad; they just tell us you are ready for the next step in your progression.
There are many factors that go into your weight. Things like muscle, fat, organs, water and food all fluctuate which leads to weight fluctuations. Weigh yourself the same time every morning before you eat or drink anything and after you pee. This will be the most accurate reading you will get. Sometimes the scale doesn’t cooperate and it will stick at the same number for some time. In that case revisit your mirror and take an assessment. Do you notice good changes? Then stick to what you are doing. Let the mirror determine how you feel about your weight.
The first week of a low carb diet (pick your flavor – Atkins, Anabolic, Slow Carb, total starvation) the initial weight loss is water weight. There might be a tiny couple of ounces of fat loss but that 5 lbs drop you saw was water. Carbs stored in the body hold water. By depleting the carbs in your body and not replenishing them, you also lose the water that was bound to them. So when week 2 rolls around and you only lost 1-2 lbs don’t get discouraged, that the good part, that is fat loss. So like I said before, be less concerned about the number on the scale and more concerned about what is in your mirror.
TAKE ACTION: By tracking what you do and what you eat you can throw in little things here and there that will keep you on the right path.
DIETS I RECOMMEND TO GET YOU STARTED
There are 3 diets I’ve used and gotten good results with:
- For weight loss and general living: The Slow Carb Diet
- For getting extra lean: Carb Cycling
- For gaining muscle: The Anabolic Diet
I wrote about all of these in the Accelerated Fat Loss Post.
MY THOUGHTS ON VEGETARIANS AND VEGANS
A lot of foods from both animal and plant origin contain protein, but not all protein is created equally. Protein from high quality animal food contains a better amino acid profile for building muscle as well as influencing nitrogen retention (maintaining muscle mass) on account of the higher biological value of the protein. This is an area where meat consumption is superior as most forms of vegetable proteins are either accompanied with large quantities of carbohydrate or come in powder form Getting quality protein at each meal is important to not only stay anabolic, but to supply your body the amino acids needed to make enzymes, hormones, and structural components.
MY THOUGHTS ON DETOXES AND CLEANSES
If you want to spend money on detoxes and cleanse then be my guest. I could get you the same results with Ex-Lax and a gallon of water. That is more or less what they all are. They help you drop everything off and that is there “AMAZING WEIGHT LOSS”!
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Yes, I am definitely still riding:) Not as much as I have in the past (I haven't ridden to work since we moved to Temecula...but I am working on a way I can start half way:-) Just an FYI...cycling is great cross training for running...it doesn't work the other way though;-) 584 days ago
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Galloway seems like a great way to train...if I did another marathon, I think that would be the way to go. You might not have recent training, but after 2-3 weeks you will find your fitness returning quickly...the body remembers:-) 627 days ago
I agree...it is sad to see so many people's accounts dormant...I want to know how people are doing, you know?
You could absolutely do crossfit right now. You haev an awesome fitness base...and the WHOLE point of crossfit it that anyone can do it...seriously. Everything we do can be scaled...and almost everyone has to scale something (some of us more than others;-) Anyway it would be fun to work out together again if you feel up to it:-)
Well, you know I'll be watching! Muahahahaha! I hope it'll help you stay accountable, especially if that's something you need. Just me and my big-eyed emoticon...
I can save you some archiving trouble: moved back home (you knew that), got a job I hated, quit that job, going back to school- still, sorta- to get into master's program hopefully at SDSU. Battled severe depression just over a year ago, my grandmother passed away, and my mom got into a medium (not minor, not major) car accident. I started attending a church that I like enough with people I absolutely love and have started a nutrition ministry there so I can start helping people now while I work on that whole degree thing! :-) That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
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For everyone involved in the textile manufacturing supply chain, the new year tends to start quite busy as several large textile trade fairs are scheduled during the month of January. Members of the Schneider Group team also made sure to attend the trade fairs and we summarised a small report for you with the key trends and impressions.
Heimtextil – Frankfurt, Germany – 07-10 January 2020
Heimtextil is the largest international fair for home textiles ranging from bedding, curtains, towels to wallpaper. This year marked the 50th edition of the fair. The attendance of exhibitors, as well as visitors, was lower compared to previous years. The organiser Messe Frankfurt explained the lower participation with the earlier date, consolidation of retail outlets and growth of e-commerce as well as a general economic slowdown.
As the years before, the major topic throughout the fair remained sustainability. However, retailers visiting the fair this year seemed to have had a more educated and deeper understanding of sustainability and well understood the difference between greenwashing and certified sustainable supply chains. To mark the commitment to sustainability for the entire home textile industry, Heimtextil partnered with the United Nations to jointly focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Another key focus lay on the topic of sleep. More and more natural materials find their way back into the bedroom as sleep or the lack thereof has been identified as a major health crisis. This focus on sleep is beneficial for wool as more and more research conducted by AWI and The Woolmark Company together with IWTO is providing evidence of how wool ensures a better night’s sleep.
Domotex – Hannover, Germany – 10-13 January 2020
Domotex, the largest floor covering exhibition, also had a decline in participants. Reasons for the lower participation being consolidation in the market as well as economic pressures. The theme of the fair was ‘Naturalness and Sustainability’ as retailers are looking for flooring products that contribute to a sense of wellbeing and staying healthy indoors. This trend is a result of the world becoming more chaotic and complex which makes consumers search peace and calm within their own four walls. While wool carpets obviously meet this mark, also synthetic and hard floor coverings presented their latest product designs and innovations that meet or create a feeling of naturalness and sustainability.
ISPO – Munich, Germany – 26-29 January 2020
The last show of the month was the largest international fair for sport and outdoor gear. Similar to Heimtextil, the ISPO fair celebrated its 50th anniversary focusing only on discussions about the future of the sport and outdoor industry and not on the past. The fair’s three themes were 1. Be Responsible, 2. Be Active and 3. Be Creative. This of course also meant that sustainability was one of the key topics throughout the fair; the logic being that if nature is destroyed there is no playground for sports and outdoor activities anymore and therefore no market for sports and outdoor industry.
Many exhibitors showcased their sustainable product innovations. Many brands presented wood-based (not wool) fibres as their biodegradable and sustainable solution or focused on recycled synthetic fibres. Of course, wool was also well represented as a sustainable fibre choice for many brands. More and more brands even presented not only wool base layers but also wool mid- and outer layer garments. This means a wider range of wool micron fibres finds their way into sports and outdoor apparel.
Wool was a key component of the 2020 product of the year. The Alpina Sports Prolan Vest included back protection made of new wool instead of plastic polymers. The vest is for freeskiers or mountain bikers to protect against serious injuries. The vest and the back protector are both made from wool and therefore ensure more comfort through better body climate and odour neutrality and sustainability.
On Monday afternoon, the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) had organised two hours of presentations and discussions, called ‘Meet the Wool Chain’. A woolgrower, shearer and broker showcased their work and answered audience questions. The session was well attended by fair visitors.
As our report shows, sustainability has been a key topic throughout all of January fairs, not only in 2020 but also during the previous years. However, the discussions about the topic have deepened and became more differentiated. At ISPO for example, we saw many brands emphasize that they have been acting sustainable for many years. This form of differentiation becomes necessary as all brands level up their game on creating more sustainable supply chains and products. A better and more differentiated understanding among brands and retailers of the individual sustainability topics will be beneficial for wool while at the same time will hold us accountable to deliver more detailed information about how and why we do the things we do. | <urn:uuid:994c74c4-bdf4-417a-8289-3e6ee0e783da> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.gschneider.com/2020/03/27/fair-report-january-2020/ | 2020-11-28T17:31:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195687.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128155305-20201128185305-00404.warc.gz | en | 0.971108 | 983 |
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In the evening when I was on the walk, drizzling attracted attention of everybody. If some were making speed, then some were trying to enjoy the Romantic Environment. I also was not in mood to lose this Precious Moment. But within few minutes heavy rain drops compelled everybody to run for shelter. I leaned against a wall. Peace was getting disturbance due to fall of rain drops & wind blow. Some cars and bikes were also taking rain bath. Suddenly a group of Nude Children of 6-10 yrs started to run in the mid of the road. Nude Children were dancing with their passion and lying on the water filled road. Their songs were of Hindi & Bhojpuri movies. But they were enjoying Ecstasy no doubt. In front, a teen was looking down from the window and enjoying music with earphone. A young lady on the bike also crossed the road in this rain, perhaps didn’t want to miss. Eye went to green plants & trees, rain had washed their dust. O My God! Rain changed the direction. I was under heavy rain fall. Nothing remain only smile. | <urn:uuid:1d840616-86aa-4208-8fd4-4c196192f7da> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://bhardwajsk.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/enjoying-the-romantic-environment/ | 2018-01-16T19:31:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886639.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116184540-20180116204540-00640.warc.gz | en | 0.992129 | 227 |
Fans of the console versions of Dark Souls might have been a little jealous (and rightfully so) when a ton of extra content was announced for the PC-exclusive Prepare to Die Edition of the game. Fortunately, Namco has decided to make that envy short-lived. Today they announced that Artorias of the Abyss, the additional chapter of the story available to PC players, will make a later appearance on consoles as well. The DLC will be available for $14.99 or 1200 MS Points from PSN and XBLA respectively. More details, along with some nice screenshots, can be found after the jump.
Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss for consoles and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for PCs will include sprawling new maps and environments, new boss characters, enemies, non-player characters (NPCs), an arsenal of new weapons and armor and additional challenging content for stalwart heroes to face as they return to the deadly world of Lordran. Players will also experience an untold chapter in Dark Souls. Darkness born in the forests of Oolacile is expanding and engulfing the kingdom and all of its people. Only the strongest players will be able to stop the spread of darkness.
Both titles will include an online match-making feature that creates one vs.one, two vs. two and four-player battle royale scenarios; allowing gamers to showcase their skills against other Dark Souls players around the world.
Don’t get too excited, though. Console players will still have to cope with a few months of platform envy. While the extra content will be available to PC players from the August 24 release date of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die, PS3 and 360 gamers won’t be able to purchase the DLC until this winter. Maybe the goodies below will make the wait a little less painful. | <urn:uuid:0b86c073-6c55-4893-ad69-fff12a2aac6e> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://gamingtrend.com/2012/06/01/console-players-get-dark-souls-artorias-of-the-abyss-dlc/ | 2014-07-23T08:10:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997877670.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025757-00149-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945176 | 374 |
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Greater Manchester Community Payback projects cover a huge range of activities, but all address a need in the community, usually from groups or individuals who require help most.
One such project is being managed by Greater Manchester Community Payback and Novus at St George’s Care Home in Gorton, Manchester. The Victorian building is set in large gardens which are inaccessible and badly in need of care. The overgrown and unsightly grounds require a full programme of works, from grass cutting and debris removal to the creation of borders and the installation of furniture for residents to relax and enjoy the garden.
Ken Martin, Trainer with Novus, and his team are transforming the gardens surrounding the imposing building from an unloved, inaccessible place to a tranquil and inviting space for the home’s residents.
The ongoing project needs further funding to complete the landscaping, rid the area of Japanese knotweed and provide a seating area, but the will to complete the work is strong. Those working on the project want the elderly residents to enjoy their twilight years in a peaceful environment and are willing to work in all weathers to achieve this.
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Ken says: “This is a huge area and needs a major amount of work, but the team are up for it and have made a great start. This is hard labour in all weathers, but the lads want to do it to give the residents somewhere they can enjoy the outdoors.”
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The inside of his cobalt jacket was lined with silver,
And he carried a box of wrinkled, red Marlboros through the rain.
It danced loosely within the cage of his fingers.
Between puffs he lifts himself up onto the fence.
We sit and watch drops kiss the mouths of the matzevas.
They took these tombs and made from them the roads.
Busloads turned to billowing smoke.
He taps his cigarette.
We watch the ashes disappear.
He touches my wet cheek,
Says that my sad eyes are not those of martyrs.
There are no souls except the ones under our shoes.
His fingers disappear in his dark curls.
He tells me I should have stopped my great grandfathers.
You cannot wash blood from your hands,
It poisons the skin.
My kisses tear open his wounds.
The star of his ancestors branded into his flesh.
I reach for him,
But only feel the smoke.
We are victims of histories,
Committed before our times.
My hands are red to you.
I sit, cross-legged, between two weeping willow trees
And wait to evaporate.
Our bodies, all hunched over our haunches
With dark curtains hiding our twisted faces.
I branded my poetry into their dead mother.
I branded my dead poetry into their dead mother.
I sleep most peacefully on humming subways,
Cuddled up next to strangers whose names I will never know.
A tired worker scuffs his heavy, black boots.
He smells like my father used to.
He picks his wrinkled forehead with a nail caked in dust.
He picks out the dust he is made of.
I taught my daughter how to tickle flutes and how to paint poetry.
I taught her how to care for abandoned luggage and how to pick lilies,
How to pray to God and how to loiter on writer’s blocks.
I showed her how to weave crowns from weeds.
I did not teach her how to write goodbye letters.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Spring is here. The winter known for cold and snow is being tucked into the record books. But was the winter of 2013-14 really that cold and snowy?
Here are 10 facts and figures about the winter that was:
1. When's it over?
The calendar officially turned to spring at 12:57 p.m. on Thursday, March 20. It started back on Dec. 21 at 12:11 p.m.
2. Welcome back sub-zero
Sub-zero days are not that unusual in Cleveland. We average about 3.5 a year. But when the temperature dipped to a season-low of 11 below-zero on Jan. 6, it ended a streak of 1,060 straight days of temperatures that stayed on the plus side. There hadn't been a sub-zero day since Feb. 11, 2011.
3. Sub-zero, again and again
We ended up with 10 days in which it was below zero, more than any other winter in Cleveland in 30 years. There were 12 sub-zero days in 1983-84. The record of 24 was set in 1976-77.
4. Warm start
Hard to believe now, after weeks of mostly cold weather, but it was 63 degrees on Dec. 22, the first full day of winter. And it returned to 63 degrees on March 11.
There ended up being only 10 days when the temperature reached at least 50 degrees. On the flip side, the lows were in the single digits or below 26 times. That's nearly 30 percent of the days.
The average high of 33.6 degrees ranks just 42nd highest over the last half-century. And the average low of 16.9 degrees was the fourth lowest, but still well above the 50-year record low average of 12.4 degrees in 1977-78.
Some 60.4 inches of snow fell at the weather service's official recording station at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, and no doubt more at other places throughout the area.
While that's a high amount for Cleveland, there have been six other winters in the last half-century with more snow, including 79.5 inches in 2004-05, 77.8 inches in 2002-03 and 63.2 inches in 2003-04. But this tally is just from the first day of winter until the start of spring.
7. More snow to come?
The record snow, including fall and spring snows, was set in 2004-05 with 117.9 inches. Including some snow that fell in November and December last year before the official start of winter, we stand at 77 inches this time. There's no telling where this year will end up. Spring snows are not that uncommon on the North Coast.
8. Snow days
There was at least a trace of snow two-out-of-three days this winter (62 in all), ranking this year third out of the last 50 in that regard. Back in 2002-03, there were 67 snow days.
9. Big change
While the 2013-14 didn't give us all-time records for snow and cold, it was a big change from the last couple of years.
Especially warm and with little snow was 2011-12. The average high that year was 45.1 (12 degrees higher than this winter) and the snow totaled just 31.5 inches (about half what fell this winter).
10. On the bright side
The National Naval Observatory says we'll have 12 hours and 9 minutes of daylight Thursday as winter switched to spring. The daylight hours will continue to grow to more than 15 hours in June. Back when winter started on Dec. 21, we had just 9 hours and 10 minutes of daylight.
Note: The Northeast Ohio Media Group calculated the averages and records based on daily weather data for Dec. 21 through March 19, to match the winter of 2013-14 through the last full day of winter.
50 years of winter
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Bouquet of 6 flowers of fabric with pistils center about 4 cm in diameter each flower. The flowers come individually wired so you can use them grouped or one at a time. You can cut the stem.
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Commenting on this important award, Yossi Barzely from Pragmatic Play said his company was honoured to had been named Most Responsible iGaming Content Provider in Europe. Barzaly explained the developer had opted to use a rigorous approach when it comes to the safety of their players. He added it was a privilege to be among some of the most prominent names in the business.
At this moment, Pragmatic Play launches up to five new releases every month. In addition to slots, the gaming company produces live dealer, bingo and virtual sports games. The developer’s entire portfolio of products is available through a single API.
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Washington D.C.-based developer Akridge and investment partner Rockwood Capital have held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony for Bethesda’s first new Class A office building since 2001, BethesdaNow.com reports.
Akridge and Rockwood purchased the vacant building from the General Services Administration for $12.5 million in 2010 and subsequently replaced everything but the concrete.
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If you have never attended a Yoga class before, there are some things that are useful to know before you do so. Here is a list of information that we hope is useful for you. If you have any questions about Yoga in general, public or private classes, do's and don'ts in a Yoga shala, or anything else, feel free to ask us! We believe that Yoga is for everyone and all of us were beginners at some point, so we're happy to help you find your way into the world of Yoga!
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Here’s a joint notice from the Town of Mamaroneck and the Mamaroneck School District:
The Weaver Street Bridge over I-95 (Weaver Street and Harmon Drive by the Girs Scout House) is scheduled to close for repairs on or about June 3, 2013.
The New York State Department of Transportation’s (NYSDOT) original start date was in March, but the Town objected and theState has reconsidered.Realizing that closure of this main crossway while school is in session will cause significant disruption, the Mamaroneck School District and the Town worked together closely to urge the NYSDOT to allow pedestrians access across the bridge. Earlier today the Town received word that the NYSDOT has agreed to establish a pedestrian walkway over the bridge through June 23, 2013.
While we are pleased that the NYSDOT has accomodated our request to maintain pedestrian access through the remainder of the school year, we plan to study all issues related to the impact of this project, including increased traffic on alternative routes, acknowledgement of the extra time required for students to get to school, re-design of bus transportation routes (e.g. pick up and drop off times) and all other related safety issues.
The Town and the School District will continue to work together to finalize the plans. In the meantime, we wanted to reach out to you with the current information.
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Al-Ain Mobile Eye Clinic inaugurated by Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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On 23 April 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Al-Ain Mobile Eye Clinic at the Baitus Sabuh Mosque in Frankfurt.
Following an inspection of the mobile eye clinic, His Holiness unveiled a plaque to mark the occasion before leading a silent prayer.
The Al-Ain Mobile Eye Clinic, will serve as part of the Gift of Sight scheme run by the charity Humanity First. The clinic includes facilities for eyesight tests, basic treatment and surgery.
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Getting Employees to Work Smarter. Tips from the Productivityist
You’re looking at an employee computer monitoring solution because you’re just not getting a good level of productivity out of your people. Instead of doing their work on your computers, they’re leveling up as panda shamans in MMO games or updating their social network. Computer monitoring is part of the solution – but if you want your workers to be their best, you need to run your office in the right way. We chatted with renowned productivity coach Mike Vardy of The Productivityist about how to achieve that:
How bad is the problem of workplace productivity? How much of an impact does Facebook, Twitter, online gaming, or online shopping really have?
When it comes to online productivity, we have so much access to so many platforms, we’re easily pulled away with just the slightest notification. The problem is that we work reactively rather than productivity. Instead, let’s do what we can in the time we have available. Rather than being so focused on results that we end up with spikes and valleys, we can be OK with taking a little bit longer and making measured progress.
Distractions pull us away because we have an urgency addiction. The notification we get in our inbox feels urgent, but often, it’s not. That new notification on whatever device is not a command.
What are some ways to keep employees from burning out or losing productivity at the office?
One of the biggest things is just giving them time to do some self-management. Give them the capability to plan their day the day before. That way, they’ve got a clear head at the end of the day and can have a more enjoyable life – which will pay off when they come back to the office.
We should also encourage them to work by mode rather than by project. For example, let’s say I’m about to go into email: what ones do I need to deal with right away? Go in with missions, rather than questions. It increases productivity, but doesn’t increase the feeling of being overwhelmed. Mode-based work is the way of the future.
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The best way is by taking some kind of regular review process. I’m not a big believer in having meetings for meetings’ sake. That said, if you’re working by mode, you can see they’ve moved different projects forward by working in the same mode. Do a mode status update. You can knock this out fast.
Another thing organizations are starting to take on is working on themes. For example, Monday, our focus is on marketing. Tuesday, administration. Wednesday, content creation. That’s easier to wrap your head around. There are only a certain number of themes you can work on and stay focused.
Is there an acceptable level of productivity? It’s probably not realistic to expect employees to be doing productive work every single minute they’re on the computer. And does that productivity shift throughout the day?
Willpower definitely plays a role in how much you can focus on your work — and it drains as the day goes on. Some people are morning people who knock out a bunch of tasks in the morning – and then fall off for the rest of the day. Night owls will do their low energy tasks in the morning and take on bigger tasks at night. It’s about having awareness of your own strengths and when you’re working at your best. Organizations need to be cognizant of that, so that night owls can at least make some progress in the morning.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
by Chris Innes
author of Healing Corrections: The Future of Imprisonment
President Obama’s recent visit to a federal prison has highlighted an emerging bipartisan consensus in support of prison reform. The movement toward reform has been encouraged by the recognition that crime rates have fallen to levels not seen in 50 years while the number of people in American prisons continues to grow, albeit at a much slower pace than in recent decades. Of the interest in reform, the Wall Street Journal said, “Part of the reason is simple numbers: The U.S. is jailing people faster than the public can pay for them.” But even the most ambitious proposals for reform will still leave hundreds of thousands of people incarcerated.
The reason is that the current crop of reform proposals focus on a relatively small group that represent the so-called “low-hanging fruit” among the American prison population. Addressing the far larger share of people in prison will be a much harder nut to crack. The President, understandably, is focused on the Federal prison population, about half of whom are drug offenders. He and other advocates for reform have tended to talk most about people serving time for a drug offense and most especially about those people who are non-violent. But there are only about 200,000 Federal prisoners, out of the 1.5 million people serving sentences on American prisons. The fact is that the great majority of the people in prison are serving time for a violent offense, have a history of violence, and/or are repeat offenders with lengthy criminal records.
This raises the question of, after we are successful in accomplishing all the currently proposed reforms, “What’s next?” Mass incarceration is by no means our only problem when it comes to prisons. And the end of mass incarceration, when it comes, will create a future for imprisonment that will be vastly different from the one we now know. It may be that a downsized system will be worse than the one we have because we will be dealing with only the toughest cases. In other words, when we’ve stopped putting in prison all the people we think shouldn’t be there, what are we going to do with all those we think should be locked up? The subtitle of my book, Healing Corrections, is “The Future of Imprisonment.” The book provides a framework for creating healing environments within prisons and jails. It gives the answer to what secure institutions could be in the post-mass incarceration future.
When people first hear about the idea of creating a healing environment in prisons and jails, they often misunderstand its meaning. What is being healed, and thereby becomes healing, are the cultures within them. These cultures have become fragmented under the pressures of conflicting demands, limited resources, and the inevitable stresses and strains that go along with living or working in correctional settings. The focus of the transformation of these cultures is on the people who work there because they are the only ones who can do the work. Healing Corrections shows how people working in prisons and jails can be helped to communicate with each other and with inmates in constructive and compassionate ways to build a better place to work for themselves and healthier place to live for inmates.
Those who see the possibility of fundamental reform on our justice system are right. We are experiencing what could be a historic moment in our collective understanding of how the contradictions of and between our social, legal, and economic systems can be used to catalyze fundamental changes in order to re-create our justice system and redefine its role in society. One source of this change must be a transformation of the culture of corrections, which will, I believe, help initiate a shift in our society’s relationship to both the people who work for and those who literally live within our justice system. But along the way, we have some tough nuts to crack.
To learn more about Chris Innes' book, Healing Corrections, and to read his regular blog on this topic, visit www.healingcorrections.org.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
By Michael Benson
As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, Why the Grateful Dead Matter, to be published this winter by ForeEdge, reflecting upon cosmic events a half-century old, the last thing I was expecting was breaking news about the Grateful Dead. But on January 16, 2015, at 10:00 A.M., I received an email from the Dead announcing that Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bruce Hornsby, with guests Trey Anastasio (uh oh, of Phish) and Jeff Chimenti (of RatDog, Further, and The Other Ones), would be playing three shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5, 2015. The event was to be called “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead.” The announcement came with a couple of quotes.
Drummer Mickey Hart said, “ I have a feeling this will come out just right. Can’t wait to find out…Here we go!” Drummer Bill Kreutzmann added, “The Grateful Dead lived an incredible musical story and now we get to write a whole new chapter. By celebrating our 50th, we get to cheer our past, but this isn’t just about history. The Grateful Dead always played improvisational music that was born in the moment and we plan on doing the same this round.”
Well, the announcement was only minutes old when social media began to explode with outrage. How dare they? Trey? The Treyful Dead? It was capitalism at its worst. Just wait. Ticket prices were going to explode. Only millionaires would be able to go.
|Every Dead show is different, but the vibe is always exactly the same. (Photo by Dennis Duffy)|
By the time summer rolled around, the big stadium Dead tour had expanded, adding two shows in the San Francisco 49ers football stadium in Santa Clara, where there would be accommodations for the tie-dyed Deadheads who couldn’t get close to a ticket in Chicago.
The most ecstatic and controversial moment in Santa Clara came during the first show, in the middle of “Viola Lee Blues” when a rainbow formed over the stadium. The event was largely believed to be a manifestation of the vibes in the stadium and/or Jerry smiling down on the event from heaven, a freaky good feeling that threatened to be dampened, but only somewhat, the next day by a Billboard magazine report that the rainbow was not real, and that the promoters had spent $50,000 for some fantastic projector capable of creating artificial rainbows. As it turned out, the report was based on a tweet hoax. The rainbow was natural—and therefore, in the mind of Grateful Nation, possibly Jerry’s work.
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We present to you a werewolf-folk Kain, coming soon to Midgard!
"As long as I'm here, no one can hurt you."
Because most of the snowfields are a lawless area, bodyguards are available for hire. Kain was praised as the best bodyguard and was nicknamed the "Steely Bodyguard." Kain's bodyguarding was near perfect and no assailant could pierce through his defenses.
But one year ago, Kain resigned as a bodyguard and reappeared in Midgard as a hunter. Nobody knows what happened to his last bodyguarding assignment. Kain is normally aloof, but he especially does not talk about this incident.
Kain puts up his strong defenses as a lightning-elemental defensive teammate. His base defenses are high and he has skills that can further increase his defenses. His defenses can be maximized with his skill that weakens enemies' attacks.
His base attacks afflict low damage, but with his high critical attack rate, he can overpower you without warning.
Kain can be found through Elite Requests and will also be included in the "Supreme Hunter! Package" for one week.
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Round up your crew and kick start your weekend with Dance, You’re on Fire! This time, you get to dance up a storm with them and internationally-acclaimed indie rock band, Shortstraw, and other party heads. Go on, start your weekend off with a bang.
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Tickets are R70 per person at the door.
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This is mainly for health costs if you get ill or injured while abroad. Hospital costs can quickly get into the tens of thousands of dollars, even for a minor injury. Insurance is worth it, as medical care can cost a fortune, and in a foreign country you are more likely to be in unusual situations where you could get hurt or injured.
And if your luggage is delayed and you have to buy items to replace what was in your suitcase, insurance can pay out for some of those items.
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In 1896, three whalers are stranded in Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually, they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft, and their special variation of sex. In the beginning, the Eskimos accept it, but slowly the cultural tension starts growing.
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Meet David Freels.Open or Close
Technical copywriting is my specialty.Open or CloseMy technical copywriting skills were honed out of a necessity to simultaneously disseminate complex scientific, medical, historic, and legal information that required immediate, clear, and actionable understanding for a wide and highly diverse audience.
That audience included parents of special needs children as well as physicians, therapists, attorneys, judges, and any number of government and non-government administrators making critical decisions throughout multiple bureaucracies.
Many of these documents were actually White Papers, and every one has been a real game-changer. And life-changer.
I bring that same level of passion to every assignment. Let me help you unleash the full potential of your brand. Call, text, or email me, 404-725-4520 or DF@davidfreels.com.
Welcome To The AdBlog.Open or CloseI started this blog to showcase marketing ideas that reflect either strong thinking or not so strong thinking.
Either way, I'll share why it's good or bad so folks evaluating my portfolio can also see how I think.
Let's get started.
Now Google Really Does Rank DavidFreels.com As The #1 Atlanta Copywriter In A Google Search For "Atlanta Copywriter."
May 26, 2014 05:31 AM | Atlanta copywriter, Atlanta freelance copywriter, Atlanta freelance writer, Atlanta seo, copywriter, freelance
About a week after my last blog post (Are You Forcing Customers Into Dishonesty?), the ranking for DavidFreels.com after a Google search for "Atlanta copywriter" went from #5 to #1. DavidFreels.com stayed at #1 for a couple of weeks or so, and I meant to write another blog about it, but I couldn't find the time.
I've been too busy.
But how did this occur? I think 4 out of 5 of my last blog posts have been observations of how SEO copywriting works in the Atlanta market for Atlanta copywriters.
As I've figured out, the key to building rankings is links. While my last blog post was about honesty, I found ways to still link certain phrases back to specific pages within the domain DavidFreels.com. That blog post had around 50 links.
The next thing I knew I was ranked #1. I couldn't believe it. I texted some friends and family in different markets around the country, asking them to google "Atlanta copywriter." DavidFreels.com was indeed ranked #1.
Then the phone rang. And rang. And rang.
And emails came in. Over and over.
By the time I'd come up for air my rank dropped down to #2 and then #3.
Then something else happened. I re-discovered LinkedIn. I've been a registered LinkedIn user for awhile, but I've never really used it. What an amazing tool. You never know who you know--who in turn knows someone else you know--or want to know.
And then there's the name: LinkedIn.
Again, it's more links--that key factor in SEO. I was curious how that would work if I LinkedIn with more people. I'm now in the 500+ connections category.
Something worked. All of a sudden DavidFreels.com is back to the Number 1 ranking for "Atlanta copywriter."
Despite the success of achieving a #1 ranking, and gathering more freelance work, I'm also more convinced than ever that SEO copywriting isn't really Copywriting. SEO is all technique and no concept.
When you hire a copywriter to produce an advertising/marketing campaign, you're hiring them to spend time thinking about your product, to think about your brand beyond the way you think about it. You're paying them for the time it takes to find a different perspective, to find the emotional connection between your brand and the consumer of your brand.
That's why the first thing a good copywriter does is identify the marketing problem.
What problem does the consumer have? What needs to be fixed? How does your product or service "answer" the consumer's problem?
Who's your audience, your real audience? Who's really interested in buying your solution to their problem, and how can you best reach them?
What's your Unique Selling Proposition (USP), your angle that can best communicate your answer?
SEO copywriting doesn't really do any of that. Instead, SEO folks start from the end and work back to the beginning. Their end, their "product" is delivering visits to your site via a web search. How? By statistical analysis, by first researching and finding key search words and terms (keywords) that will best link to your page--then creating links--just like I've created links in my blog posts back to pages in DavidFreels.com.
Often those keywords are found by finding out the keywords your competitors are using to drive traffic to their sites. This means SEO work is not really any original messaging but literally copying what the other guys are doing.
When I was in school this was called cheating, and it's why I don't even like to describe myself as a copy writer because I don't copy anything.
Here's how keywords work.
Right on this blog there are keywords that create metadata terms that search engines look for, find, and then index the page according to the keyword metadata. Look at all the keywords right under the title, "Now Google Really Does Rank DavidFreels.com As The #1 Atlanta Copywriter In A Google Search For "Atlanta Copywriter."
Here you'll find the metadata keywords, all underlined because they're also--links: "Atlanta freelance writer." "Copywriter." "Freelance." "Atlanta copywriter." "Atlanta seo." "Atlanta freelance copywriter." This is all pretty expected stuff. There's no idea here, no concept, and if I can do it, anybody can do it. It's not like I've written a book on SEO. I'm not claiming to be an expert on SEO.
(Well, maybe I am. Yeah, I guess I am. I am #1, and that's got to be worth something, and I've written a Case Study about how I got DavidFreels.com in the top of Google's rankings.)
But the point is, real copywriting, real writing for marketing and advertising, that type of writing is designed to reach into your prospect's heart and mind, touch them, move them, persuade them. The best has an emotional tug--which can't be produced through cold, calculated analysis of five or six keywords--that are most likely copied from your competitor.
Instead, the most persuasive marketing communications always begins with an emotional link to the heart of your prospect. That's the way I work. That's the way I write. That's the reason I got into this business. I like helping people. I like looking for a creative way to solve problems. No matter how difficult.
In fact, the more difficult, the better I like the assignment. It gives me something to think about.
Let me help you. And your brand. With a real difference. Call me. 404-725-4520. Or email me. DF@DavidFreels.com.
Just don't worry if I don't answer right away. I'll get back to you quickly. If I can't answer right away, it's because I'm already helping somebody else.
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