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In the past half century, state lawmakers have explored a wide variety of approaches to scaling back property taxes. One such approach is the split roll property tax, also known as a classified property tax. Unlike a regular property tax system which taxes all types of real property at the same rate, a split roll property tax applies different tax rates to different types of property. This policy brief looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the split roll approach.
How it Works
The idea behind a split roll property tax is simple: certain types of property (usually residential) are taxed at lower effective tax rates than other types of property (usually business). One approach to split roll taxation is to apply different tax rates to different types of property. For example, the District of Columbia taxes residential homeowners at a lower rate than business properties. This shift s some of the property tax from homeowners to businesses. The chart on this page shows the current tax rates in the District of Columbia. All homeowners pay the same tax rate (8.5 mills, or 0.85 percent of the home’s taxable value), and all commercial properties pay a tax rate that is roughly twice as high—between 16.5 and 18.5 mils, depending on their precise value. Vacant and abandoned properties pay at an even higher rate of 50 mills.
A second approach to split roll taxation is to assess residential properties at a lower percentage of their true market value than other types of property. For example, Utah assesses all residential properties at 55 percent of their actual value, and assesses all other types of property at 100 percent of their value. A single tax rate is then applied to properties of all types within each taxing district. This approach has exactly the same impact on tax fairness as the District of Columbia’s approach of using different tax rates. Split roll systems are currently used by over a dozen states.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Split Roll Property Tax
Split roll taxation is usually implemented as a means of reducing property taxes on home owners. As implemented by the District of Columbia and other jurisdictions, the split roll clearly achieves this purpose: every homeowner in the District pays less property tax as a result of the split roll’s preferential tax rate. This approach to property tax relief also clearly achieves the goal of increasing property taxes on businesses. Policymakers in many states have sought to implement a split roll tax as a response to a legitimate concern: that business does not pay its “fair share” of property taxes.
However, split roll taxation has important shortcomings. First, it is a poorly targeted approach to tax relief. Because every homeowner in the District of Columbia pays a lower tax rate due to the split roll—from the poorest to the wealthiest—the split roll does nothing to distinguish between different taxpayers’ ability to pay these taxes. And because the only qualification for this tax break is owning a home in the District, the benefits go not only to District residents but to residents of other states who own a second home in the District. A better-targeted approach to property tax relief would provide tax cuts only for the low- and middle-income homeowners for whom these taxes are most burdensome.
A second disadvantage of the split roll is that a shift of property taxes away from one type of property means a tax shift onto other types of property. Unless the residential taxpayers receiving a tax break include renters, the split roll can make property taxes less fair by shifting the property tax from homeowners to low-income renters. For example, the District of Columbia split roll tax originally taxed residential rental apartments at a higher rate than the homeowner rate—unintentionally imposing a higher tax rate on low-income renters.
The split roll approach also makes property tax administration more complicated. Assessors must determine not only the value of each property, but its classification. This gives owners of properties taxed at higher rates an incentive to mislead assessors, or to change the use of their property to take advantage of the lower rates. And taxing mixed use property can present additional administrative challenges for tax administrators.
Finally, because the split roll is completely disconnected from ability to pay considerations, two property owners at a given income level, with similarly valued properties, could pay at very different property tax rates simply because the properties are used for different purposes—undermining the perceived fairness of the tax system.
Alternatives to the Split Roll: Homestead Exemptions and Circuit Breakers
There are other property tax relief mechanisms that are at least somewhat better targeted than the split roll. Homestead exemptions, which usually reduce the taxable value of homeowner properties by a fixed amount, are generally available to all taxpayers but provide proportionally greater tax relief to low-income homeowners. And “circuit breaker” tax credits can be designed to apply only to low-income taxpayers, with no benefits extended to wealthier homeowners. Each of these alternatives can achieve targeted property tax cuts to those who need them most, and at a lower cost than the split roll.
In states that currently use the split roll, these alternatives could be introduced in a revenue-neutral way to re-allocate existing property tax relief dollars between income groups. The chart on this page shows the distributional impact of replacing Iowa’s preferential residential property tax assessment with an expanded homestead exemption. The total amount of property tax relief granted by the state would remain unchanged, but this change would provide property tax cuts for the poorest 80 percent of Iowans, on average.
The Bottom Line
Split roll property taxes are a very broad and poorly targeted means of shifting property taxes away from residential properties and onto business properties. If lawmakers are interested in ensuring that business “pays its fair share” of property taxes, the split roll can be a sensible alternative. But if lawmakers are primarily interested in targeting property tax relief to low- and middle-income taxpayers, a homestead exemption or “circuit breaker” credit is a fairer, more cost-effective approach. | <urn:uuid:69455225-c743-408a-9f72-14b4406302f8> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://itep.org/split-roll-property-taxes/ | 2019-07-20T10:26:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526506.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720091347-20190720113347-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.947324 | 1,217 |
#430 - 2010-03-19 - changing names
Someone once asked if I couldn't give my characters actual names instead of just single letters (like p, t, l and so forth).
Thinking about it, The Muse already has her name. Knifey has one too and of course, myself. Of the other regulars, it's just P that's missing one now. Maybe in another year or so he'll get one? ;)
(did anyone notice that today's strip was late? I kinda got caought up in Red Alert 3:Uprising.. woops..)
rené: Hey, Tea, what's up?
T: Tea? Yes please.
rené: Haha. Very funny.
T: Well, those are my initials you know
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When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonies. Whether you direct a band or choir, play piano or guitar, or write film scores, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new arrangements by studying the hundreds of copyrighted examples throughout this book. Reharmonization techniques covered include: simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, and others. Includes examples and exercises on such tunes as: Black Orpheus · Blue in Green · The Girl from Ipanema · Isn't It Romantic? · Misty · Over the Rainbow · Stella by Starlight · and more. | <urn:uuid:d3002897-b35e-4871-a6a1-91b417e0d4b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.activemusician.com/item--HL.50449496 | 2013-05-22T06:18:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701409268/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105009-00093-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852075 | 236 |
He was accepted and still wanted by Hezbollah time will tell ..But thats what im saying, Frangieh was not accepted by Hezbollah
Why else would have Berri not held a session?
FPM + HA deputees were not enough to block quorum
They will make him a bloc - and if fpm and lf are at their highest split frangieh is the next president
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Black Seed Oil Review
What You Should Know
Black Seed Oil is an all natural item. It is used in homeopathic medicine to treat a variety of conditions, and some even believe it may be able to help you reach your weight loss goals. Read this review to learn more about what it is, how it works, and whether or not it will help before you rush to your nearest health food store to give it a try.
List of Ingredients
Black Seed Oil is an all natural product, made from Nigella Sativa seeds which are cold pressed to get the oil out of them. The exact ingredients in the product will vary based on the brand you choose to buy. Some brands may add ingredients to make a blend, while others will just give you pure Black Seed oil.
Black Seed Oil is a rich source of essentially fatty acids, which have a variety of health benefits, and may assist the body in transporting fat out of the body. Too many fatty acids though, can lead to weight gain, whether they are good or bad fats or not. Traditionally, black seed oil is used to treat: headaches, toothaches, congestion, hair and skin issues, diabetes, allergies, and digestive/gastrointestinal issues. Having said this, there is not much, if any of a weight loss benefit to this option, other than that it may be able to improve your digestion, which will make your body more efficient at using nutrients and removing waste. It can help stop nausea and upset stomach, as well as diarrhea.
- Black Seed Oil has many health benefits.
- This product is completely natural.
- Black Seed Oil does not really have a direct link to weight loss.
- Since there are so many different manufacturers of this product, you never know if two are really the same or not.
- There are no free trials of this product.
- Though there are customer testimonials, none of them support the use of this product as a weight loss aid.
- This is a costly investment, at nearly $20 for only 8 ounces of the oil.
Black Seed Oil is probably something worth having in your medicine cabinet, whether you are trying to lose weight or not. Even though it is not likely to help you shed more fat or suppress your appetite to support your diet and exercise efforts, it could help you with a number of other health issues you or anyone else in your family may experience at any given moment. In terms of weight loss however, we recommend you keep looking for a clinically proven safe and effective appetite suppressant or fat burner and use it with a balanced diet and regular exercise program. | <urn:uuid:ddcd7d8c-0862-4948-b764-fac436acd52c> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.dietspotlight.com/black-seed-oil-review/ | 2015-07-05T02:40:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097199.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00216-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954075 | 535 |
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Virginia legislators will consider whether to bar illegal immigrants from enrolling in state’s public colleges and universities.
Del. Christopher Peace’s bill would amend state law to explicitly prohibit people who are in the United States illegally from being admitted to Virginia’s public two-year or four-year institutions.
Several previous attempts to pass similar legislation in Virginia haven’t succeeded.
Federal law prohibits such people from paying in-state tuition at colleges and universities, but they can still pursue a public college education. Virginia’s public universities currently have the discretion to decide whether to admit illegal aliens as long as they charge out-of-state tuition.
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers Cheats
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Tom, thanks for your response. Believe it or not, I found a copy of the Chaddick book in our local genealogy library today. I was really hoping for information on the two daughters of Martin and Elizabeth as they both married into my Powell family. The book states that Elizabeth's maiden name was Davis. You listed it as Young. I would like to know where you got your information from as I also thought that she was a Young. | <urn:uuid:b5436c96-6197-4eb4-8976-51e9cb3f3882> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/chaddick/24/ | 2017-05-26T11:24:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608659.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526105726-20170526125726-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.993205 | 91 |
In my previous three articles, I addressed topics that need to be considered “holistically” or in a “systems approach” to obtain good results. In the first article, I argued that there is a better way to do everything we do and expressed my dislike for the term “best practices.” I suggested that only a few farmers and ranchers have really started to make improvements to their soil and land. No one intentionally harms their land; but by ignoring or not taking time to learn “better practices,” many are allowing their land to degrade by the use of grazing and farming practices that were developed when we knew no better.
I also suggested that we are not very good at selecting replacement heifers and that we should let nature and the bulls do the selection.
In addition, good managers should be able to sell heifer calves, open or bred yearling heifers, or cows for a profit. Therefore, you don’t need to keep a cow for five or six years for her to cover her costs. We too often forget that we keep cows to have calves, and the calves’ job is to cover the cows’ cost for a year plus make a profit. The sale of cows should cover their development costs.
Scattered throughout the articles were the following 13 points that need to be considered together to achieve best possible results:
- We need to learn from nature and develop systems that are highly dependent on sunlight, rainfall, soil and our ingenuity with low dependence on fossil fuel, iron and chemicals. Much progress is being made and there is still much to learn about natural systems. As we learn how the soil and all nature reacts to our actions, especially as we farm and graze, we will be able to become more reliant on sunlight, soil, rainfall and our ingenuity for increased production and soil health.
- Improving grazing practices can be the catalyst for many good things—lower inputs and fed feed, increased carrying capacity, simpler operating systems, etc. Include strategic supplementation of protein and minerals in your grazing planning. Since retiring in 2010, I have visited a lot of places as a consultant and speaker. In nearly all of those, I have tried to visit some progressive, out-of-the box thinkers. I thought my co-workers and I had made great progress before my retirement, but I have since seen results that are almost unbelievable—farming without fertilizers and pesticides and very little herbicide where the yields are not at the very top, but they are respectfully better than local averages with much less cost. Soil and water infiltration are greatly improving. With the implementation of planned, time-controlled, adaptive grazing, I have seen stocking rates at more than double local averages with so much feed remaining that you know stocking rates will still increase even more.
- Calving in sync with nature so that cows are calving, nursing, preparing to rebreed and rebreeding when they require no fed feed except for appropriate protein and mineral supplementation.
- Cut fed feed inputs, buy or raise bulls to fit your environment and then cull the right cows. You may choose to cut feed inputs and move your calving date over a three or four year period to avoid the possibility of having to cull too many cows in one year. You might also want to see if you need to move some protein supplementation from winter or spring to fall to maintain body condition when cows are breeding on fall grass.
- Recognize that, if you cull all open and dry cows and a few more with other problems, about half or more will be gone by the time they reach six years of age.
- To let nature select replacement heifers, you must use a minimal development program achieving about 55% of expected mature cow body weight by the beginning of breeding season and have a short exposure to bulls. I like less than 30 days with 21-24 days being my ideal. Anything more than this is not letting nature select the heifers. Your management is selecting them and allowing animals of lower innate fertility to become pregnant. Supplementing protein to the bred yearling prior to calving as a two year old and again just prior to breeding as a two year old could produce good results for lifetime production.
- Nothing that EPDs or genetics can add to late-bred heifers will compensate for the lifetime productivity of heifers that calve early the first time. Heifers that conceive in the first cycle are so much better in lifetime productivity. They will wean bigger calves, because of age, not growth rate, and will average one more calf in a lifetime. This does not imply that we should not be concerned with growth rate and carcass traits when selecting bulls. However, we may want to use the available EPDs to limit mature size, milking ability and even growth rate to fit our environment.
- It is much more economical to sell an open yearling heifer than an open two-year-old heifer or an older open cow.
- You will need to keep and expose significantly more heifers than you want to become pregnant. If you have a good record of previous calvings, you will know what percentage came in the first 21, 24, or 30 days. You can then divide the target number for pregnant heifers by that percentage to determine the number to expose. If I don’t have a history available, I like to assume no more than 60-65% pregnancy rate when changing to a short breeding season for heifers, meaning if I want 50 pregnant, I will have to expose 77-83.
- With cows, I like a short-calving season and a long-breeding season. You might ask how that is done. You sell late-bred cows or late calving pairs with no excuses. In other words, if they are bred or calve “late,” you sell them. “Late” is determined by how many you need to sell to use your carrying capacity for the year and make room for the bred replacements. That gives you wonderful flexibility for drought management and other situation that require you to reduce numbers. You can calve for 30, 45, 60 days or any number and then group the later calving ones as a sale group. For a number of years, we sold everything that did not calve in the first 30 days regardless of age. As a result of that and a short heifer-breeding season, about 87% calved in the first 30 days and very few of the sale cows sold as open cows.
- None of this works without low-cost, low-input heifer development. But then, I’m not sure ranching works without low-cost, low-input heifer development. Cowherd profitability starts with a low-cost bred yearling heifer and ends with a good sale of that cow later in her life. If you take care of that, what happens in between will usually take care of itself. If you have the observation skills for range and cattle to successfully use minimal development on your heifers, you will surely be doing a good job with your cows and keeping cost down. Selling your market cows effectively will take some work, but the economic leverage of selling bred cows for a premium over open cows can be big. Most of the difference drops straight to the bottom line. The only added cost is your selling effort. A high percentage of your market cows will be younger cows. Once some of the people nearby who are, or should be, terminal crossing find out what you have for sale, they should be anxious to talk to you.
- Occasionally I hear of people who don’t calve heifers until they are three years old. That wastes a year of costs. The typical reasons are difficulty in getting good conception rates in yearling and/or two-year-old heifers when first breeding as yearlings. Some also are fearful of calving difficulties in the two year olds. If this is happening to you, I would suggest that the cattle aren’t well adapted to your environment or that a little well-timed and strategic protein and mineral supplementation might solve your problem. Again, many cows are genetically too big, want to give too much milk and don’t have enough heterosis (hybrid vigor) to adapt to low-cost environments.
- Don’t change the environment to fit the cow. Change the cow. Perhaps a little, strategically timed supplementation to take off the very rough edges of the environment can be a very wise investment of time and money.
I hope this helps you see the close interconnectedness of grazing management and soil health, replacement heifer development and selection, calving date, fitting cows to the environment, calving in a short window, selling bred versus selling open cows and calving every year for you or a customer. When these things are put together properly for your ranch in your location, you will find improved profitability.
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I think it is safe to say that former Spartan pass rusher Will Gholston is having the best season of his career, and he has continued to give back during this unprecedented year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On Monday, it was announced that Gholston is donating nearly a quarter-million dollars to the Moffitt Cancer Center.
Gholston had 44 tackles and 3 sacks for the Bucs this year as they qualified for their first playoff run since he was drafted by the team in 2013. They are now heading into a Super Bowl match-up with the Kansas City Chiefs, and Gholston has been a big part of that success.
Over Thanksgiving, Gholston first showed his big heart when he donated nearly 1,000 turkeys to families in the Detroit area. Now, in honor of Black History Month, Gholston is donating $225,000 to support research into cancer health disparities.
The donation will help fund discoveries in breast, colon, and prostate cancers, all of which disproportionately affect Black men and women. Gholston’s contribution will go to the Moffitt Cancer Center’s George Edgecomb Society, which seeks to end cancer health disparities in communities of color.
“When I was presented with the opportunity to donate and be a part of the betterment of cancer research for Black communities, I could not think of a better way to honor my family,” Gholston said. “My father and uncle both died battling cancer, and my mother has won her battle with cancer multiple times. This battle is hard. The fight is hard, and any amount of research or help is huge in my eyes. I hope this donation helps others who are fighting or may have to fight down the line. You can never get the time back, but with this effort we may be able to add more time for others.”
Gholston’s father passed away due to lung cancer and his father passed away due to prostate cancer. His mother is also a breast cancer survivor who volunteers at Moffitt.
“We thank William and his family for their continued support of Moffitt. This donation carries great thoughtfulness and intent, and will help fund critical research,” said Dr. Patrick Hwu, CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center.
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Today features the most offensive recording I've ever posted! Why? Well...
With the eyes of the world fixed on China right now because of the Olympics, I thought I'd post some early recordings, from the first half of the 20th century, that reveal various Western attitudes towards the Chinese.
The earliest recording I know of regarding China or Chinese people (I'm no expert) is a comedy routine circa 1900-1 that is one of the most awful, mean-spirited examples of ethnic humor you're likely to hear. And it was one of the big hit records of the day! But it does provide insight into the place of the Chinese immigrant in century-old America - as lower class servants of mainstream society, toiling away in laundrys. Taken from the crucial collection The 1890s, Volume 1: Wipe Him Off the Land.
Cal Stewart "Uncle Josh in a Chinese Laundry"
The Chinese may have been initially treated as an exploited working class, but, man, those "Chinatowns" they were establishing in major cities like New York and San Francisco were pretty cool - a heady dose of "mysterious" Eastern culture rarely experienced on American soil. The song "Chinatown My Chinatown," written in 1910, was recorded about a bazillion times in the first half of the 20th century, from the days of vaudeville right up through the '50s exotica era. Al Jolson, one of the biggest stars of the day, was famous for his blackface routine, but here he plays it straight, swinging hard with groovy backup singer gals.
Al Jolson "Chinatown, My Chinatown"
Another popular feature of Chinese communities? Opium dens, where the jazz hepcats would hang out passing around an opium pipe - "kicking the gong around" - for days on end. Cab Calloway used that phrase in "Minnie The Moocher" with most people having no idea what he was singing about.
Louis Armstrong "Kicking the Gong Around"
If a cowboy came a-ridin' up to Chinatown on his horse, he might have been heard playing this version of "Chinatown, My Chinatown" on his gee-tar, from the collection Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz and Blues (1935 - 1947).
Milton Brown & his Brownies - Chinatown, My Chinatown
And then there's this song, from the album "Novelty songs (1914 - 1946) Crazy & Obscure," about, er, a yodeling Chinaman. I don't know why.
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Come mid-January, when I’m acclimatized to winter, I enjoy an occasional stroll on the icy surface of Lake Champlain. I favor bays sheltered from the brunt of winter winds where the ice has had ample time to thicken. I pull microspikes on over my boots and off I go.
There’s room to roam between Burlington and the breakwater that parallels the shoreline. The lake ice locks spectacular natural art in place. Bubbles trapped under December ice are entombed as January’s ice forms below. Crystalline patterns resembling minute stars form during the various freezing and thawing cycles that occur as lake ice interacts with fallen snow.
While the winter air dries our skin, aquatic life goes on under the protection of the solid barrier – life that is possible because of a strange quirk in the physical chemistry of water. Most liquids shrink as they cool and eventually they become solid; the solid form continues to shrink as it continues to cool. The old mercury thermometers that have fallen from favor took advantage of this principle.
And if you use water to make a thermometer, it will work quite well, until that is, the water cools to 39.16 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). Below that, water starts to misbehave, or at least behave differently than most other liquids. At 39.16 degrees, water shrinks to its most compact and dense form; any cooler and it starts to expand again and continues to expand as ice crystals form.
It is because of this strange expansion that ice cubes in your drink float. Because ice floats, our lakes freeze from the top and are frozen only near the surface. Sunlight and rising temperatures can thaw them from the top in spring. If Lake Champlain froze from the bottom to the full extent of its 400 foot depth, it would be impossible for sunlight and warm air to have much impact and much of the lake’s water would never thaw.
Lakes and seas that froze from the bottom would also mean that life on the bottom would have evolved very differently, if at all. Fish would have evolved ways to survive freezing, or would be extinct. The insects that spend winter months fattening up for a spring or summer hatch would not have that feeding opportunity. It is not an exaggeration to say that some strange chemistry of water has permitted life as we know it.
It is worth considering, therefore, what it is about water that makes this possible. Water, or H 2 O, is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom by strong covalent bonds. These three atoms form a shape like a stubby boomerang, with the oxygen at the bend and the hydrogen atoms forming two arms. The boomerangs fly around in liquid water connecting and breaking weak hydrogen bonds as though the molecules were in a three dimensional game of tag. As the water cools, the boomerangs fly closer together and the water literally shrinks.
At just under 40 degrees, when the water is as dense as it can get, it stops shrinking and starts to expand again as it approaches freezing. At water’s freezing point, the hydrogen bonds become less transient and lock the boomerangs into hexagonal rings; attached together the rings look like a sheet of chicken wire. The rings have space in the middle, and so instead of being packed close together like in liquid water, each water molecule is close to just four adjacent molecules. The spacing of the molecules is so great that water expands about nine percent as it freezes, making ice buoyant on water. Umpteen identical sheets of these hexagons are bound together, face to face, building thickness until a near infinite number of hydrogen bonds can support ice shanties, trucks, and people out for a ramble.
Some things to consider as you bait your hook and drop a line through the ice: life started out in water more than three and a half billion years ago and only came ashore half a billion years back. How different might things be were it not for the strange behavior of the humble water molecule?
Declan McCabe teaches biology at Saint Michael’s College, and would like to thank Dr. Christina Chant, a biophysical chemist at Saint Michael’s College, for fact checking and valuable suggestions. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. | <urn:uuid:7fe70f47-75cf-45cd-8680-22747e083399> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2019/01/some-science-behind-lake-champlains-ice.html | 2021-09-17T10:43:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055632.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917090202-20210917120202-00324.warc.gz | en | 0.956871 | 923 |
It has felt a strange year in many ways. But then it always has and it always will won't it? I have been avoiding the West End (well, apart from Blacks obviously) because they turned the Christmas lights on in October - which I found vaguely depressing. I like the rituals of winter, like brussel sprouts and tangerines, to be kept well within December, don't you? The frenzied combination of commerce, over-sentimentality and genuine nostalgia can drive you quite Christmas crackers.
There is a version of Poker Face by Lady Gaga for whom I have a certain regard after she sent her bodyguard to assist me when I slipped on a half-eaten avocado on 42nd Street in 2007. It's for my friend David Piper who is Gentleman Gaga.
I received an extremely nice early Christmas present myself today from my friend especially talented spillyjane . A knitted version of myself - or rather two knitted versions of myself in wool. It felt like one more fortunate event in a fortunate year. I'm very appreciative of it all. | <urn:uuid:4b0721ad-2562-4619-a4ab-814a43dd7606> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://theclerkenwellkid.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html | 2014-09-16T00:49:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657110730.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011150-00046-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968848 | 223 |
Vesta L. Gethers
FAIRHOPE, AL - Vesta L. Gethers, a resident of Fairhope, AL went to be with her Lord and Savior Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Mrs. Gethers passed in her home, surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Gethers attended and was a member of Fairhope United Methodist Church and a graduate of Fairhope High School, class of 1956 (Vesta Whitcomb). She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter.
She was a colorful person, with quick wit and an infectious smile, never meeting a stranger and never shying away from striking up a conversation. She loved children, flowers, painting, cooking, reading and spending quiet hours with her husband of 57 years, Richard.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John O. and Vivian Whitcomb of Mobile, AL and her younger sister, Yvonne Walker of Theodore, AL.
She is survived by her husband, Richard Gethers of Fairhope, AL daughter, Julie Gethers of Fairhope, AL son, David Gethers (Margaret) of Auburn, AL brother, John A. Whitcomb (Nita) of Theodore, AL brother-in-law, Bill Walker of Theodore,AL sister, Brenda Haskew (Daryl) of Fairhope, AL sister, Lois Flowers (Greg) of Mobile, AL granddaughter, Ashley Gethers of Auburn, step-grandson, Jason Clark (Laura) of Montgomery , AL step-grandson, Jeremy Clark of Atlanta, GA numerous supportive family members and a multitude of devoted and caring friends.
A Celebration of Vesta's Life will be held Saturday, September 6, 2014 at the Chapel of Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Home in Fairhope, AL at 2:00 pm.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.
Vesta requested that memorial donations be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Wounded Warrior Project. The family would like to express their gratitude to the following: The Mitchell Cancer Center and Spring Hill Hospice for their kind, diligent support and loving care.
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Subject: Arm support for TI SDP2430, ARM 1136, ARMv6 and ARM VIPT cache
To: None <email@example.com>
From: Martin Fouts <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 09/25/2007 12:46:40
I've just attempted to send-pr a patch that adds support to release-4
for the TI SDP2430 evaluation board, the ARM 1136 processor core, ARM V6
cache support and VIPT support for ARM.
The work represents the effort of Matt Thomas and Cliff Neighbors of 3AM
Software Foundry for Danger, Inc. as well the efforts of many people at
Danger, including Marty Fouts, Todd Poynor, Ken Sumrall and others. It
builds on the previous OMAP port to NetBSD submitted by "Picovex"
containing the port to OMAP by Scott Anderson and others at Danger.
Matt Thomas is currently committing the changes to the matt-armv6
The port is reasonably stable: It has self-hosted on an NFS mounted file
system on the SDP2430 board.
Now that Danger is actively and openly working on NetBSD, we will be
making some of our other drivers and ports available to the community as
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SPI International and the African digital TV operator StarTimes have expanded their distribution agreement to include Timeless Drama Channel (TDC) and Gametoon.
The interactive eSports channel Gametoon has been launched in Poland on Inea.
The interactive eSports channel Gametoon has been launched in Bulgaria on Bulsatcom.
SPI International / Filmbox is launching three live TV channels with Youfone, an MVNO in the Netherlands.
SPI International/Filmbox has renewed its distribution agreement with FilmOn TV, part of the FOTV/Hologram USA group of companies.
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Published seven years after Michel Foucault’s death, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality provided access to a little known and major new area of his later research, accompanied and illustrated by a rich collection of complementary studies by his co-researchers. The volume has served over the past 20 years as an influential and widely cited source, stimulating new work in many fields. In the past decade its effects has been accompanied by the acclaimed, ongoing publication of Foucault’s lectures, including the full original sources of The Foucault Effect. Foucault’s work on governmentality is now recognised as one of the important developments in later twentieth-century reflection on the political, whose implications may not yet have been fully registered.
This event brings together the editors and several contributors to The Foucault Effect, along with leading international scholars who have taken up and explored its themes in several interconnected areas, engaging with the history and issues of a changing present. Among them are editors of two important new publications: Lectures on The Will to Know (Foucault’s first College de France lecture series, edited by Daniel Defert) and Mal Faire, Dire Vrai (his 1981 Louvain lectures on confession, criminology and social defence, edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, to be published in French by Louvain University Press and in English by Chicago University Press). Both of these new publications are likely to modify our understanding of Foucault’s enterprise and of its relevance to our time.
The programme and contributions will be structured around five topic areas:
- Global and postcolonial dimensions
- Law, rights, justice, punishment
- Problematising the political and the left
- The history of governmentality
- Social defence in the 21st century
Daniel Defert: The emergence of power in Michel Foucault’s 1970-71 lectures.
Colin Gordon: Governmentality and the genealogy of politics*
Graham Burchell: Reflections on governmentalities and political culture (with Italy in mind)
Paul Patton: tbc
Peter Fitzpatrick and Carolina Olarte: Foucault and the Laws of Death
Ben Golder: The Limits and Possibilities of a Foucauldian Politics of Rights*
Fabienne Brion: Governmentality, citizenship and dangerousness*
Bernard Harcourt: tbc
Giovanna Procacci: From social insecurity to human security*
Peter Miller: The calculating self
Jonathan Simon: tbc
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This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low End Focus, and improved Tonal Balance Control by clicking here.
Before we begin, a word of caution: the name of this article is not "How to Master a Hit Record," "The Perfect Mastering Chain for Every Tune," or any other such title. Mastering, in my experience, is not a cookie-cutter enterprise. Some songs need only a coat of polish. Some might need light sculpting, a “tummy tuck” if you will. Other tunes, however, require laparoscopic surgery—the sonic equivalent of excising a malignancy, with constant vigilance paid to leaving surrounding tissue unharmed.
Think of the following tips as experimental treatments: it's a miracle they worked at all. Most of the methods I’m about to share are not advised for everyday affairs. But sometimes, when faced with unconventional problems, unconventional solutions turn out to be the best choices; certainly that was the case in what you’re about to read.
Indeed, if there’s a second theme to this article, it is to encourage creativity in the face of challenges, adventure in the face of daunting tasks—but never degradation in the face of fidelity. That is where we draw the line.
It can be argued that there is danger in some of these (in-the-box) mastering techniques. If pushed too far, they might tip the balance past compromise into the land of degradation (hence the “shouldn’t have worked but did” part of the title). But you’ll find danger in the conventional tools as well. I’m thinking of over-compression and the like. If a tune requires a conventional technique, we don’t shy away from it because of the potential to abuse the process. The same logic applies here: drastic situations call for drastic measures, but the key is employing them tastefully, and doing whatever you can to keep your perspective.
Okay, enough preamble. Let’s get to it!
I was recently handed a mix where the guitar and vocal were masking each other, even though the guitar sat hard-right, while the vocal sat in the middle (i.e., was distributed equally in both channels). I ended up automating an EQ cut in the side channel for the offending section, and the client was happy, but the tune kept gnawing at me, for I hadn’t come up with a perfect solution.
That problematic guitar? It only sat hard right. Yet here I was, hamstrung! I couldn’t use a stereo EQ in conventional left/right mode, for then I would directly impact the vocal. But the fix I chose—cutting a decibel of 670 Hz with an equalizer in mid/side—left me unsatisfied, as it affected that poor, hapless guitar in the left channel.
An answer popped into my noggin as I was trying to sleep (yes, these things do keep me up at night). But contemplating all the possible negative effects, I felt too timid to try it. The fix seemed needlessly ornate, so much so that it couldn’t actually be worth it. But I gave it a shot the next day, for I had nothing better to do, and I was genuinely curious.
I tweaked the right portion of a stereo EQ on the side (or “difference”) channel of a signal already split into M/S. To my surprise, it worked!
You can set this routing up with any stereo EQ switchable between left/right and mid/side, but to demonstrate the setup for this article, I'll be using the EQ in Ozone.
First, you duplicate your source track. Label one track “MIDDLE,” and the other “SIDES.” Make sure you buss them to the same auxiliary track and implement any further downstream processing, ITB and OTB alike, using this aux.
Both tracks will get the equalizer, but on the track labeled "MIDDLE," use the EQ to solo the middle (or mute the sides). You can see how that's done here:
Next, do the opposite on the “SIDES” duplicate—solo the sides:
At this point, these tracks should pass the null test with an unprocessed, polarity-inverted copy. If you don't hear total silence when implementing the null test, then you have a problem. A delay is being introduced, either by the plug-in or the DAW, and the chain is compromised; you’ll have troubleshooting ahead of you.
But assuming you pass the null test, you're now set for your final move: instantiate a third EQ on the track marked “SIDES” channel, but this time, run it in left/right mode.
Once I had set up a routing scheme like this (mine was slightly different; I'll explain later), I could introduce a cut on the right side of the side channel at 670 Hz.
Almost instantly, I was taken aback by how simply this solved my very specific problem. The ease with which I was able to grab hold of the offending instrument and simply move it out of the way of the vocal was downright eerie. I waited a day, listened again, showed the results to some people I trust, and remained enthused. Indeed, I was so happy that I remastered the tune (with this slight tweak feeding almost the same chain) and sent the file to the client. Good thing they hadn't released the tune yet, because they liked this version of the master better than the previous one.
Again, this is not a solution I would implement on a day-to-day basis. The problems I contemplated were real: with bad implementation, I could have done serious harm to the stereo image, introduced unwanted smearing, or, if the EQ was linear-phase, caused audible pre-ringing. But with judicious use (I only cut a decibel, and I automated that cut out when the section of the song ended), it worked in this specific instance. It might for you too.
Before I knew what mastering was, I would employ parallel processing on the stereo tracks of my friends and colleagues (mostly while polishing up their demos). However, this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill parallel compression; this was frequency emphasis, gating, and sometimes even upwards expansion employed in a most esoteric manner, though I didn’t know it at the time.
Now that I get paid to master every once in awhile, I still engage in parallel processing—though I like to think I've sharpened my ears enough to know when I might cause harm. Because make no mistake, this additive process, if deployed incorrectly, can quickly mess up your master.
If I'm working on a track with an element that needs emphasis (kick, snare, what have you), I may not always go for an EQ; it might impact the mix too much. Instead, I might opt to duplicate the entire track, and then do whatever it takes to exaggerate the element I need enhanced. Finally, I’ll edge the duplicate track against the original ever so slightly.
For example, take the old kick and bass war. If you’ve got a kick and bass fighting each other, conventional wisdom has it that you work right up to—but never past—the point where the gains aren't worth the downsides. This means that you're often left with either a strong bass or a strong kick drum, but a compromise when it comes to interplay between the two. Say, for the sake of this example, the bass is more prevalent, and the kick sounds wimpy.
Well, I could be satisfied. I could let it alone. But I'm not. And I don’t.
Instead, I duplicate the original track, apply judicious EQ, gating, and possibly upward expansion until all I hear are the necessary kick drum frequencies.
This may even involve making another duplicate, manipulating it, and sending the result to a buss (with no output) for sidechain purposes. Then I can use that soundless duplicate as a key to gate, duck, or compress the first duplicate.
Yes, it’s complicated. It’s messy. But I’ll do anything it takes to get a second, exaggerated kick going, provided that once it’s folded back in, it’ll naturally emphasize the element lacking in the original mix. It must improve upon the mix, or else it’s garbage.
Here we get back to the title of the article, and all the reasons this technique shouldn’t work—or at the very least, the reasons it shouldn’t be implemented on a daily basis. If done sloppily, this process can absolutely destroy a master. Even within a DAW that handles delay compensation in a smooth and timely (pun intended) manner, you are still subject to smearing; that’s the nature of physics when recombining two subtly different signals. And, as in the last tip, a linear-phase EQ used here can definitely introduce pre-ringing artifacts. These can be quite jarring, especially in the low range (they can sound like a reversed, ugly, and resonant “thwump” anticipating your transient).
As always, you must use your ears to judge if the compromise is worth it. If it is, that’s all that matters.
Yes, the website you’re reading happens to be iZotope.com, but even if it wasn’t, I’d be recommending this tip: RX 6's spectral editor is not just a powerful post-production tool, but a scalpel that, in the hands of a skilled mastering engineer, can scrape tumors right out of the body of the mix.
Here's an example that recently came my way: A kick in a mix was flubby, with too much activity in the 300 to 400 Hz area. It didn't mask the guitar's meaningful information, or the vocal’s presence, but it somehow rubbed nastily against the bass and the keys. Unfortunately, a static EQ drained all the life out of the track. A dynamic EQ, no matter how I pushed it, gave me pumping that I didn't want, due to the timing of the rhythmic elements and the placement of the frequencies.
From my experiences in post-production, I have more than a passing familiarity with RX 6, so I fired it up, loaded in the track, and took a look. Sure enough, each kick's problematic frequency bump was laid out in explicit orange. It became clear exactly when the offending transient sounded, when it ended, and most importantly, what level it should be in relation to the surrounding color scheme.
It was a painstaking process, but I went in and manually gained the specific regions down until they no longer offended. The result was clean, natural, and low on compromise.
Why this shouldn’t work is more of a workflow issue than a quality hindrance. While the risk of doing damage to the overall sound is not especially amplified—especially if you’re skilled in the ways of RX—you are taking yourself out of the musical aspect of mastering. Using an intensely granular process, you’re zooming in on troublesome areas by sight, and with that comes perspective problems that could wreck your headspace. You can miss the forest for the trees, as they say. And the time-drain as well could sap your energy for the rest of the day’s work. Once you get a groove going in mastering an album, it often doesn’t pay to disrupt that flow. But in cases where there’s no other viable solution, it’s good to have a handy tool like this up your sleeve.
Here’s a tip you hear a lot: “let your ears be the guide,” or “mix by ear—not by meter.” I would never advise against these maxims. However, a situation arose where using the meter to supplement my ear—as a reality check for my ear—greatly improved the quality of my masters.
See, I have a problem with specific frequencies. It’s not surprising, as we all have our predilections. My particular ear is enervated to no end by the area between 2 to 4 kHz. This can sometimes cause problems in my mixes, as this frequency band is essential for translation: the bulk of communicable information lies between the areas of 200 Hz to 5 kHz.
Thus, my personal preferences can trick me into leaving holes in the master that shouldn't be there. I’m willing to bet the same is true for you. In this case, your frequency analyzer can act as a protective measure.
One day, as I was equalizing during a master, I thought about the general consensus of what the frequency response should look like on a textbook pop track. It’s something like this:
Immediately I opened my frequency-analyzer and noted a consistent hole in my master, predictably in the aforementioned 2 to 4 kHz region. I decided to fix the issue with a boost, ignoring the readout on my EQ itself and just watching the frequency analyzer until I was pleased with what I saw—not heard.
Then, I closed my eyes and listened as I a) switched between monitor sources, b) folded the mix to mono and shut off one speaker, and c) walked around the room (obviously I opened my eyes at this point). I was entranced by what I heard—not because it sounded better, but because it sounded more similar from each vantage point.
So I gave my ears a break, bounced an A/B comparison, and took the files to my laptop speakers and a car stereo. My findings were interesting: Even though I didn't like those frequencies in my normal environment, the overall master improved in terms of translatability.
Perhaps this is confirmation bias at work, but it has resulted in happier clients (i.e. fewer notes). Now I always flip on a spectrum analyzer at some point in the master and make sure there aren't holes. If there are, I can correct for them.
Of course, this isn’t the final process. I still tweak by ear. That’s why this technique, which arguably shouldn’t work, ends with me securing better results: it’s not a replacement for using my ears. It’s a system of checks and balances.
The ultimate point of this article, other than to show you some tips and tricks, is to encourage you to be enterprising and creative in the face of compromise. When you’re mastering a track, you can choose to accept the compromise (and often you must), or you can choose to push through, work as hard as you can, and achieve a result which is...well, one to five percent better than nothing. Still, this could be the one-to-five percent that really matters! It could be the difference between “great” and “excellent.”
If nothing else, remember that you can let go of the fear that what you’re trying looks stupid. You have my permission. And what’s more, you have my solidarity. Let me explain:
Remember that mid/side technique I told you about? Remember how I said that my routing was “slightly different”? I’m not embarrassed to tell you how it was different, even though I probably should be: what I had envisioned originally with was not an M/S technique, but a whole cockamamie scheme I thought of as an "L/C/R matrix." It was very confusing, very elaborate, and it looked like this:
It was only in subsequent conversations with a very respected engineer (cited as an authority in Bob Katz's seminal book on mastering, no less), that I was asked to reexamine the premise of this matrix. In doing so, I realized that what I had reverse-engineered with five tracks and three busses could've been handled with two tracks, some conventional plugins, and one buss. To put it another way: my so-called “L/C/R matrix” with its frequency attenuation, nulled with the tip I presented earlier. It was my inelegant thought process that led me to this needlessly complicated solution—but here's the thing: my inelegance, at the time, worked. Later on, being called out on it by my betters helped me to learn its underlying principles. That’s why I’m not embarrassed, either to try it or to share my trials with you.
So don't be ashamed to try out a new technique. Just make sure show the results to your peers, and let people you trust judge to the resulting master. It all comes back to that old chestnut: “if it sounds good, it is good.” While mastering, however, you need to make doubly, trebly, even quadruply sure it sounds good. Don’t tip the balance—especially with unconventional techniques.
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AS I SEE IT - 4/06/2002
After a pause of a few months, the mainstream media trashing of professional
wrestling resumed last week, with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly's Thursday night
special "The Corruption of the American Child".
There is some history with those of us active in Wrestling Fans Against Censorship and Bill O'Reilly, who unfortunately proved himself to be something other the champion against hypocrisy that he claims to be.
A number of Wrestling Fans Against Censorship members had sent e-mails over the last three months asking that Bill O'Reilly take on L. Brent Bozell, since O'Reilly claims on his Fox News Channel "O'Reilly Factor" show to want to expose those of public life who represent themselves as something they aren't.
Those sending the e-mails wanted Mr. O'Reilly to investigate L. Brent Bozell's two year campaign against professional wrestling through libel, slander, defamation and deliberate distortion of facts regarding the programming of WWF Entertainment, Inc. and regarding the companies advertising on their programming (to an extent that civil action has been filed against the Parents Television Council, several of its officers and other individuals); and to to investigate Bozell's connections to Unification Church related political organizations.
Did that happen?
Instead... on Thursday night, Bill O'Reilly aired a special on the FOX network called "The Corruption of the American Child".
It was easy to get an idea of what was to happen when... during a promo for the special on Good Morning America earlier that day, he said "there's only one side to this story".
So much for all those FOX News Channel claims of being "fair and balanced".
The show's tone sounded as if it had been written by the PTC or the American Family Association; blaming everyone from Insane Clown Posse, Roc-A-Fella Records, and Def Jam Records from the rap world... Marilyn Manson from what O'Reilly refers to as "shock rock"...so-called "shock jocks" Opie and Anthony...the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti....and Linda McMahon, representing WWFE, Inc. and professional wrestling.
The show's essential thrust was that these forms of entertainment are all to blame for the so-called "corruption of the American child". It also indicated that these "corrupting influences" have to somehow be dealt with, to make up for those parents who "aren't strong enough" to do it themselves; a mentality taken right out of a Parents Television Council press release.
O'Reilly went for the easy bashing of pop culture that media seems to love to do, figuring sensationalism sells... rather than actually investigating the facts surrounding potentially controversial situations, especially the PTC-WWFE situation.
Not that "cultural wars" are new, mind you.
Anyone remember when the Beatles were going to lead us to perdition, as opposed to consisting of two of the best songwriters of the 20th century who created some of the most creative music ever? Remember some people insisting that Peter, Paul and Mary's "Puff The Magic Dragon" was a song encouraging youth to smoke pot, instead of a song about childhood and innocence? Remember how playing metal songs backwards gives you secret messages (which some people still believe)?
Time after time, it's proven that those who are afraid of popular culture and entertainment...and yes, that even includes professional wrestling...are willing to distort, lie, and deny the truth in order to defend what they see as a cultural status-quo that must be defended at any cost.
Even about professional wrestling.
O'Reilly is apparently one of those who are willing to lie, distort and deny. For example, O'Reilly now uses the same questionable statistical techniques that L. Brent Bozell does. A member of a1wrestling.com's regular discussion forum sent me the following tidbit on O'Reilly's "fuzzy math" along this line.
It seems that on a recent show O'Reilly did about the internet and the corruption of society, O'Reilly quoted a "study" that claimed that the average age of children looking at porn on the internet was 5 years old.
Now think about this... Imagine a five year old being able to use the internet at all.
Even more beyond reason...imagine that if five is the average, then that means that this study is saying two, three, and four year olds are on the Internet seeking pornography as well to make up this "average".
I can't think that any rational person on earth actually believes that.
Along with being willing to do anything to further ideological ends, it's also notable that some of these self-appointed cultural critics within mainstream media are willing to cash the checks of those they criticize at the very same time they criticize them.
Tony Lewis, co-founder of Wrestling Fans Against Censorship, pointed out to me last week that O'Reilly "...continues to cash the checks of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (not unlike Mr. Phil Mushnick, of the New York Post, also a News Corporation property), whose FOX Network was built on such "edgy" programming. Don't forget about the movie production arm of News Corp, 20th Century Fox. Fox has, no doubt, produced some of the movies that Mr. O'Reilly believes has contributed to the 'Corruption Of The American Child'".
For those who would like to state their feelings to Mr. O'Reilly about his special, you can let him know what you think by e-mailing him at email@example.com.
By the way, let me interject a point...about the odd position of defending those who are attacking you on other fronts.
Even with the recent WWFE attacks on wrestling newsletters and websites (which presumably includes PWBTS.com and/or the other websites you may be reading the column on), I haven't changed my feelings one bit about what the PTC and those who would seem to be doing their work for them and a far wider scale.
The fact of the matter is that the Parents Television Council is using any tactics they can including outright lying to put forth its cause and to raise money for its operations.
Vince McMahon's mistaken attitude toward online wrestling media and wrestling newsletters doesn't change that fact one bit, nor my desire to keep working against the efforts of the PTC and their allies.
As a wrestling fan, I still feel inclined to point out what I've been pointing out for over two years...that the PTC and their supporters are using any and every tactic to put forth their cause and to raise money to support their organization.
One of the most obvious examples of the arrogance of the groups is the PTC's continuing tactic of, even with the pending lawsuit against them, continuing to list on their website fourteen companies as so-called "Good Guys" who have supposedly removed advertising from WWF programming...that are, in fact airing advertising on WWFE programming.
These companies are:
Campbell Soup (Swanson Hungry-Man Dinners)
Canada Dry (Dr. Pepper and Seven Up)
Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC and Taco Bell)
M&M/Mars (M&M, Snickers, Starburst, Twix, and Uncle Ben's Rice)
U.S. Armed Forces (U.S. Army and Air National Guard)
ConAgra (Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim)
Ford Motor Company
Wrigley's (Spearmint, Doublemint, Juicy Fruit, Orbit, Big Red, and WinterFresh)
MCI Worldcom (1-800-COLLECT)
Abbott Laboratories (Selsen Blue)
ConAgra and M&M/Mars have even sponsored WWF PPVs, most recently M&M/Mars's Sour Skittles brand at this year's Wrestlemania.
Campbell Soup has also featured Booker T in the very ad used on WWFE programming for Swanson Hungry-Man Dinners. This makes the third case of advertising campaigns where "Good Guys" have partnered with WWFE. Yet the PTC persists in deliberately listing these companies as "no longer advertising on WWFE programming".
While very few companies have taken action against the PTC, it appears may well be one company that did.
The PTC issued the press release below last week, which can be found at its original location on the PTC website.
The release stated that:
"...On February 20, 2002 the Parents Television Council released a study called TVs Top Ten Best and Worst Advertisers. In that study, Procter & Gamble was named the third worst advertiser.
The PTC has since learned that the study mistakenly counted two brands as Procter & Gamble products. Clearasil products, which were formerly owned by Procter & Gamble, were sold to Boots Healthcare before the study period. Procter & Gamble acquired the Clairol product line from Bristol-Myers Squibb after the study period.
Removing these two brands from the P&G list of products and revising the numbers accordingly, the PTC has determined that Procter & Gamble should not be on the list of worst advertisers.
Perhaps it's a total coincidence, but Proctor and Gamble has a reputation for vigorously defending their company's name in court. It seems odd that the PTC has just happened to make this change...with Proctor and Gamble.
Many have told me that they think the public already knows that most of the PTC's claims are outright lies, and that what we do against the PTC is no longer necessary.
That may be true, but the fact is that much of the mainstream media doesn't understand this, as they continue to cite the PTC as a credible source for information.
Nor do many companies that the PTC attempts to solicit as endorsing their efforts...often taking the PTC's statements at face value (one of the points of the WWFE-PTC lawsuit). This is the case with the attacks on professional wrestling by the PTC and their allies...and recently, the case with the campaign against the FOX show Boston Public.
Proctor and Gamble seems to have been one of the few companies that have actually been willing to take on the PTC to preserve their corporate name...and who aren't buying into the PTC smear campaign against popular culture, including professional wrestling.
It's worth readers taking the time to contact the companies listed above, and ask them why they are continuing to allow the PTC to falsely cite them as supporters of their efforts.
Until next time...
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By Ben Travers | Indiewire March 19, 2014 at 9:12PM
Fear not, Pawneans. Leslie Knope will be around for at least one more year. NBC officially gave "Parks and Recreation" the go ahead for a seventh season Thursday, along with "Grimm," "Chicago Fire," and "Chicago P.D." NBC's Bob Greenblatt went "out on a limb" two months ago saying the sitcom from Michael Schur would be back, and now his prediction has come true.
Schur and his cast gathered Tuesday night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood for Paleyfest where they discussed their show in depth. Poehler expressed no desire for the show to close, heaping love on her character and cast members. "I would like to have a happy ending for her. I don't want to think about the ending [...] but it's coming. Her progression has been effectively and appropriately slow. I love that her dreams are big and her power is small. I think that she’s met the love of her life, and that’s sometimes enough."
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Thanks to the high popularity of the medical, slice-of-life K-Drama, Hospital Playlist, the show has been renewed for a second season.
On January 8, 2021, tvN reported to news outlets that the show would be returning in May. The team is currently in preparation for the production of the second season and plans to start filming soon. Filming is set to begin in middle to late January. Originally, the show had been scheduled to start filming December 2020, but was pushed back due to the pandemic.
Although a premiere date has yet to be secured, representatives confirmed it will likely be in May 2021.
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Sturgis, SD – Motorsports fans will get more than their fair share of extreme engines, insane speed and colossal crashes at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s newly constructed PowerSports Complex this August. The Sturgis Rally entertainment destination has planned a jam-packed week of high-powered competition for guests including TORC: The Off Road Championship, the Nitro National Pro Hill Climb, AMA Extreme Dirt Track ATV Races and Outlaw Truck & Tractor Pulls. Guests can look forward to seeing the nation’s top motorsport athletes competing for the title on some unusual and impressive machines including 900-horsepower race trucks, nitro-injected Harleys with steel-bolted paddle tires, and 7,000-horsepower tractors equipped with jet engines.
“Locals and Sturgis Rally attendees at the Buffalo Chip PowerSports Complex will be treated to a spectacle so extreme it will floor even the most diehard speed freaks and adrenaline junkies,” says Sturgis Buffalo Chip President, Rod Woodruff. “It’s jaw-dropping entertainment at its finest, and the Chip couldn’t be more proud to make this premium lineup of events available to our guests.”
Professional TORC track builder, Jeff Nordstrom, constructed the Buffalo Chip’s PowerSports Complex anchor track on a hillside near the edge of the venue in order to provide spectators incredible viewing and challenge racers with a unique track filled with staggering elevation changes and obstacles. The exceptional features afforded by the natural terrain and the rare land-rush, drop-in start make for a TORC track unlike any other in the series.
PowerSports Complex Events Schedule:
Sunday, Aug. 3 – Outlaw Truck & Tractor Pulls
Monday, Aug. 4 – Outlaw Truck & Tractor Pulls
Tuesday, Aug. 5 – TORC: The Off Road Championship
Wednesday, Aug. 6 – TORC: The Off Road Championship
Thursday, Aug. 7 – Nitro National Pro Hill Climb
Friday, Aug. 8 – Nitro National Pro Hill Climb/Extreme Dirt Track ATV Races
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Food artisans are finding creative ways of financing their businesses. The deal: Invest in us, and we’ll pay you back in cheese, beer and veggies.
Sarah Elton, Globe and Mail, April 20, 2010
When the lease ran out at cheese maker Ruth Klahsen’s Monforte dairy, she was faced with the prospect of never making her artisanal cheese again.
With no money to invest in her business, she found herself eligible for neither government funds nor bank loans. It looked as though she might have to call it quits – which would have left such fans as Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy without the cheeses she makes by hand from sheep’s and goat’s milk raised primarily by Amish and Mennonite shepherds. | <urn:uuid:3235ed39-9a53-4b58-8aa9-ff8b922fbf4e> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://www.harvesthastings.ca/sustainability/blog/2010/04/cash-strapped-artisans-turn-foodies-financing | 2019-12-08T17:09:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540511946.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20191208150734-20191208174734-00309.warc.gz | en | 0.978761 | 161 |
Eastbourne College pupils enjoy top GCSE results
22 Aug 2019
One hundred and eighteen Year 11 pupils at Eastbourne College received their GCSE results today with nearly 60 per cent of grades awarded 9, 8 or 7 (equivalent to the former A* or A) and 35 per cent of grades 9 or 8.
Seventy pupils achieved five or more 9 to 7 grades, the equivalent of at least half of their grades being awarded A* or A under the old system.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) subjects shone once again. In the sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics), over 80 per cent of grades were awarded 9 to 7. In Maths, almost 60 per cent of the grades were awarded 9 to 7.
Twenty four Year 10 pupils took their maths GCSE a year early, with 21 achieving grades 9 or 8.
Art, Greek, History, Latin, Modern Foreign Languages (French, German, Spanish), Music and Physical Education all performed strongly, the most common grade in these subjects being a 9, 8 or 7.
Seventeen pupils achieved eight or more 9, 8 or A* grades, with leading performers: Tianlu Wang gaining eleven 9, one 8 and an A* in Chinese, Tom Meek gaining nine 9 and two 8, Rebekah Agunede awarded eight 9 and two 8, and Oliver van Noort achieving seven 9 and four 8.
Other outstanding performances came from Louis Loubser, Arnold Shum and Natasha Symes who all achieved seven or more GCSEs at grade 9, and Ben Scanlan who was awarded ten 9 to 8 grades and two 7.
The College also saw a rise in elite performers this year with 35 pupils (roughly 30 per cent of the year group) achieving eight or more 9 to 7 grades.
Headmaster Tom Lawson was delighted with the upturn in results after a solid set of results in previous years,
‘I am delighted by the performance of our pupils at GCSE this year, with our best ever results in the reformed exams. The large number of outstanding grades, as well as strong value added for pupils across the ability range, is a testament to the hard work of teachers and pupils.’ | <urn:uuid:0322d3a6-7537-47e0-8d26-82b518f4f75a> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.ukindependentschoolsdirectory.co.uk/eastbourne-college-pupils-enjoy-top-gcse-results/ | 2022-05-19T07:59:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662526009.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519074217-20220519104217-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958744 | 460 |
Over recent years it has become clearer that the cancer industry is a multi billion dollar business industry.
One that claims there is no cure for the life threatening disease that is cancer, despite the conflict of interest that they profit from not finding a cure, people tend to blindly believe them because it is difficult for the average person to conceive of anyone being so greedy and sick minded that they would profit off of innocent people’s suffering. In fact, every single year millions of people go on walks, hikes and facilitate fund raisers under the banner of “looking for a cure”.
In spite, of this dominating dogma, Dr. Raymond Rife, the man pictured above, developed a cure for cancer more than 8 decades ago.
Dr. Royal Raymond Rife was born in 1888 and contributed a great deal of his brilliance toward the field of science, when he invented the first, and currently still the most powerful universal microscope which had a magnification of 60,000 times the normal size and a resolution of 31,000 times that of the normal rate.
Dr. Rife was the first person to see living viruses because powerful electron microscopes, even to this day, kill the organism being observed but his brilliant invention did not. He developed a unique method of identifying different organisms and, more specifically, their Mortal Oscillatory Rates. What this meant, is that each organism has a certain signature frequency at which they vibrate, and what Rife did was develop a technology that was able to reproduce these MOR’s and kill the organisms (cancer).
Then, in 1934, the University of California sponsored an experiment that saw 16 terminally ill patients from a hospital in San Diego placed in apartments on the Scripps estate at La Jolla, California where they would be treated by Dr. Rife’s new method for 90 days. 14 of the patients were declared to be completely free from cancer in this short period of time, and the other two required just 1 more month of treatment and they were also cured.
That same year Dr. Milbank Johnson was to publicly bear witness to the results of Rife’s cancer therapy but was lethally poisoned and his documents mysteriously vanished. Shortly after, Rife’s laboratories were set on fire and destroyed. Similarly, Dr.Nemes who scientifically corroborated some of Rife’s work was killed in an “unexpected” fire along with his papers. Rife himself was killed by the fatal combination of Valium and alcohol in 1971 whilst at the Grossmont Hospital. The AMA also embarked on a campaign of character assassination and for many years, nothing was ever heard of Rife again.
Despite him clearly being silenced by the mafia of big pharma, author Barry Lynes of “The cancer cure that worked” documented Dr Rife’s story which has revived interest in the legendary doctors work and research.
Below you can learn more about this great man and his dedication to helping mankind free themselves from the ignorance that big pharma has trapped us with… | <urn:uuid:d70e50dd-a56a-4716-b883-562dc1151010> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://inshapetoday.com/cancer-was-cured-by-this-brilliant-man-in-1934-then-he-was-killed/ | 2017-03-28T06:14:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189680.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00007-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979565 | 625 |
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Lenore Asbury was born on April 7, 1866 in Cincinnati Ohio. Like many Rookwood artists, she attended the Cincinnati Art Academy. She worked at Rookwood Pottery for many years, from 1894 until 1931, although she returned occasionally to decorate pieces. She worked in a wide range of glazes including Iris and Vellum. Lenore Asbury passed away on September 1, 1933, just two years after leaving Rookwood, and she is buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery. Collector interest in her pieces is considered to be above average.
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This is a meetup group for desi film/movie lovers from any culture or background. Although the primary focus will be on Hindi ("Bollywood") movies, we can change things up once in a while up with movies in other languages (Malyalam, Urdu, Tamil, etc.).
We'd like to start with simple Movie outings and maybe some Dinner + Movie nights. These could be at theaters or at someone's place (it would have to be for movies that aren't newly released). However, we'd like to expand into more creative ones such as game nights that focus on movies (Antakshari, Dumb Charades, etc.) or anything else that you, our awesome members, come up with! | <urn:uuid:febebbed-fe26-4823-bbe1-aa533f487ac0> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.meetup.com/JhakaasFilmClub/photos/855655/22237629/ | 2016-08-25T06:40:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982292944.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195812-00277-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96193 | 147 |
AccuAffinity, Inc. is a privately held biotechnology company focused on the research and development of diagnostic solutions with unparallel accuracy, speed, and efficiency. We are located in San Francisco Bay Area, the birthplace of biotechnology and high-tech industries.
AccuAffinity is committed to the application of cutting-edge technology on developing customer-oriented diagnostic products by minimizing user cost, improving efficiency, and shortening assay time. The ultimate goal is to design and develop next-generation user-friendly diagnostic products. We strive to develop of next-generation diagnostic approaches both internally and in collaboration with leading reagent and equipment manufacturers.
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bblüv - Items tagged as "Sleep"
At bblüv we believe in quality products that are safe, durable, attractive and make life easier. We put a great deal of effort in the design of our products so you can be assured that what enters your home will make you and your baby’s life simpler. From of its Canadian origins and European inspirations, bblüv is already well established in North America and rapidly expanding worldwide. Being a company with a dynamic team of young parents, we are passionate about trends and technologies. Awareness of the ups and downs that occur with the new generation of parents is also a profound focus that helps us deliver practical and functional items. Supported by our parent testers, we rely on a solid experience to select only key elements of parenthood that make a difference and use this knowledge to create thoughtful and well-designed products. As parents, we develop products that are convenient for our own children, adding a clean design that pleases the adult eye while staying appealing for kids. We are committed to provide peace of mind to parents by making products that prevent, protect, monitor the environment and increase baby’s comfort and well being. Our goal is to help you worry less about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ and focus on what really matters, your little ones. We hope that you will share our passion and lüv every moment! | <urn:uuid:d0628704-537b-495a-b61b-eaca890bd07e> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.carrymemommy.ca/collections/bbluv/sleep | 2019-02-24T04:02:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249578748.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20190224023850-20190224045850-00013.warc.gz | en | 0.949664 | 309 |
The zodiac sign of a person born on August 21 is Leo ♌.
The following famous people celebrate their birthday on August 21st. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.
The epic list contains 237 persons. Showing 1 - 20.
- 1081Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer. Life path number 3
- 1165Philip II of France (d. 1223). Life path number 6
- 1535Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese general (d. 1619). Life path number 7
- 1567Francis de Sales, Swiss bishop and saint (d. 1622). Life path number 3
- 1597Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (d. 1672). Life path number 6
- 1643Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683). Life path number 7
- 1660Hubert Gautier, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737). Life path number 6
- 1665Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729). Life path number 2
- 1670James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1734). Life path number 7
- 1725Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter and educator (d. 1805). Life path number 8
- 1754William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting (d. 1839). Life path number 1
- 1754Banastre Tarleton, English general and politician (d. 1833). Life path number 1
- 1765William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837). Life path number 3
- 1789Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (d. 1857). Life path number 9
- 1798Jules Michelet, French historian and philosopher (d. 1874). Life path number 9
- 1800Hiram Walden, American general and politician (d. 1880). Life path number 2
- 1801Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876). Life path number 3
- 1813Jean Stas, Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891). Life path number 6
- 1816Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist and academic (d. 1856). Life path number 9
- 1823Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer (d. 1899). Life path number 7
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An Attitude of Thankfulness
This devotional was written by Jim Burns
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. —1 Thessalonians 5:18
There is always reason to be thankful. Notice that today’s Scripture doesn’t say to be thankful for all things but to be thankful in all things. Even in the most difficult of circumstances, you can find a reason for a thankful heart. I like the phrase that says, “I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” No matter what your circumstances, I believe there is a reason to be thankful in your circumstances. Your situation may never change, but your attitude can change, and that will make all the difference in the world.
Terry Fox was a Canadian distance runner who started a run from one side of Canada to the other. He ran at least a marathon distance of 26 miles each day to raise money for cancer research. He was a cancer victim himself. He ran every mile on one leg, since his right leg had been amputated above the knee. Almost every day a television announcer or radio newscaster would put a microphone in front of Terry and ask him how his run for cancer was going. Often exhausted and losing valuable strength, Terry would say, “I don’t know about tomorrow, but God gave me another day to live, and I’m thankful for each day I’m alive.”
Terry didn’t finish his run across Canada because he died of the dreaded disease. Yet even to the end, he remained thankful for each day and considered each one God’s gift to him. With an attitude of thankfulness he made the most of a difficult situation.
1. What is the difference between being thankful for all circumstances and being thankful in all circumstances as prescribed in 1 Thessalonians 5:18?
2. What are your circumstances right now? Is it time for you to begin developing a greater attitude of thankfulness in your life? | <urn:uuid:699a9cbf-9f84-4398-80f1-8fdc7267ae6b> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/homeword/homeword-november-21-2011.html | 2015-04-19T03:25:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246637364.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045717-00074-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977362 | 430 |
In this technological era, information as well as the way we retrieve it have changed greatly. Much of what used to be “common knowledge” is fading away as we attempt to grasp the facts and realities that arise. This is a challenge to genealogists who are dealing with historical documents that contain obsolete terms and details.
What is “green sickness?” How long did it take our ancestors to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? These answers aren’t easily attained today because they are part of the information of the past. As genealogists, we still need those “old” facts. Where do we find them?
Enter The Time Traveller’s Handbook: A Guide to the Past, by Althea Douglas (affiliate link). The author is a noted genealogist who has written extensively on Canadian local history and heritage. This latest endeavor is billed as a “guide for family historians working in Canada,” though the subject matter often pertains to readers in other countries as well.
The book is divided into sixteen chapters as well as an appendix, notes section, bibliography and index. The subjects covered in the chapters include historical documents, family traditions, education, money, travel, trades, home, health and heritage. The chapters flow easily and include many photos, tables and timelines to help readers process the information.
Douglas utilizes a conversational writing style that allows readers to learn more about her personal life and that of her ancestors during various eras in time. These anecdotes peppered throughout the chapter are entertaining, though sometimes draw attention away from the facts at hand and purpose of the book.
The biggest assets of The Time Traveller’s Handbook are its extensive reading lists. Douglas clearly is a well-read historian. This book includes numerous titles utilized in the manuscript, as well as a sizable bibliography. Readers will be pleased with the helpful published suggestions on both lists. Those looking for online resources will find only a couple recommended websites however, as the author focuses almost exclusively on printed resources.
Though the book is written by a Canadian for Canadians, it really is useful for genealogists in other countries as well. Much of the historical information contained in the book is relevant to British and U.S. research interests. Even the final chapters, which deal with Canadian heritage, are interesting and helpful from my American perspective.
According to the book’s introduction, this guide is “an attempt to bring together a lot of facts our ancestors once knew, took for granted and used regularly.” Douglas succeeds in packing a ton of information on numerous subjects into one soft-cover guide. The Time Traveller’s Handbook is a handy tool for assisting genealogists in understanding their ancestors’ every day lives.
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As science advanced and laboratory users became more at risk, fume cupboards were gradually introduced featuring a movable or fixed window on the front to protect lab users from the active work area – the precursors to the modern fume cupboard sash.
Thankfully, technology has advanced in leaps and bounds.
At TEL we’ve developed a market-leading auto sash controller that uses a passive infra-red sensor (PIR) to continually monitor the work area in front of a fume cupboard; it automatically closes the sash when the fume cupboard operator is no longer present and reopens when they return. It also recognises when an obstacle is in the way and prevents the sash from closing on it.
But did you know….
- Our auto sash controller not only increases user safety, it also guarantees energy savings and reduces costs.
- When the operator is present the sash can also be operated manually, via a foot switch or by using the Tiptronic touch sensitive feature which will drive the sash up or down.
- Although primarily designed for use on VAV fume cupboards, it can also be used on CAV fume cupboards.
- It can be fitted to new or existing fume cupboards with a choice of three motor drive systems to suit any type of fume cupboard.
- A dual auto sash controller is also available to operate on fume cupboards with two sashes including walk in type, back to back type and side by side type sashes.
And last but not least!
The TEL auto sash controller can now be fully integrated with the AFA4000, a pioneering airflow controlling and monitoring system. Developed in response to a growing number of customer requests, it automatically adjusts airflow according to need, decreasing the volume of air extracted when laboratory fume cupboards are not in use and minimising energy consumption.
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as you problably noticed, it has been quiet around the development of Battle Tanks. The sad truth is, our time available for this project and our motivation to work on it are not what they used to be. So we were faced with a decision to make. Battle Tanks exists for almost as long as the Frozen Throne expansion of Warcraft 3 (which makes it almost 12 years old). So seeing it simply die is not worthy of the game.
So we decided the following:
We will make Battle Tanks Open Source
Ideally this would mean that everyone would contribute towards a new version by submitting his / her work to a central repository. The proprietary nature of the Warcraft map files makes this harder than I’d like. So for now, we will only make the map available for everyone, so you guys can see what the map looks like in its current form.
If anyone has questions or suggestions regarding this map feel free (and encouraged!) to voice them (Forum).
The aim – at this time – is to take the input of the community and maybe continue the development in a way that is feasible.
Of course, if someone wants to make a mod or use parts of the code for his own project, he / she is free to do so – it’s open source after all. But we would still like to get credit, if substantial parts of the map have been used (as you can see in the code itself).
Anyway, we hope the map helps some of you and maybe some of you help (the development of) the map.
Battle Tanks 8.80 (2.4 MiB, 5119 downloads)
The BT-Team wishes everyone a merry christmas and happy holidays!
TL;DR; install instructions for GProxy++.
Did you ever noticed joining a player with
Player [name] is using GProxy++
and wondered what is this all about? Or did you ever saw someone causing a time out/lag screen while asking to wait for him because GProxy++ is trying to reconnect?
GProxy++ is an reconnection tool for WC3 and Ghost++ bot. It restores lost connection.
A connection is dynamically established via multiple server/routers in between you client and your target server; the route might even change from time to time. Those connections are not necessarily stable and various reason might cause an connection loss. That’s not uncommon and mostly unnoticed since new connection are immediately established by most applications.
Sadly, WC3 has no such a features and an connection loss causes a player drop. This is where Gproxy++ helps.
If you lose your connection to the bot
GProxy++ recovers your connection and let you to continue to play the game
The original GProxy++ software rerouted Battle.Net connection the LAN interface of WC3, it is a little bit inconvenient to use but has some other features.
A more convenient GUI version was created. It direclty injects itself into WC3 and provides the normal Battle.Net features.
We fixed a small bug with this GUI so you won’t disconnect from Battle.Net by entering an invalid game name.
In order to work the GProxy++ requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86). Probably the x86 version satisfies the requirements. But just in case there is also Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) for 64bit Windows. If you are unsure install them both (the 64bit version will fail to install if you do not have an 64bit Windows).
To install the GProxy++ GUI Version you need to download this zip file:
GProxy++ Gui Version (fixed by Velocity2k) (93.8 KiB, 1984 downloads)
Simple extract those three file from the zip file to your WC3 installation (probably C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\
That’s it. Now you have to start the gproxy.exe which will start WC3 and should change your Battle.Net gateway (magnifying glass symbol, next to the Battle.Net button) to its own.
Ensure no firewall will block GProxy++ and GProxy will relay every Battle.Net connection and restoring your connection to ghost bots (if possible).
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POSTED: 06:09 p.m. HST, Jan 06, 2014
LAST UPDATED: 01:03 a.m. HST, Jan 07, 2014
Firefighters Monday afternoon extinguished a garage fire at the Diamond Head home of Hawaii Five-0 actor Alex O'Loughlin.
Honolulu Fire Capt. Terry Seelig said damage to the garage and its contents was $110,000.
"Flames were rolling out of the garage when firefighters arrived," Seelig said.
No one was hurt in the fire that started at 3:47 p.m. Forty firefighters from five engine and two ladder companies responded to the fire, which was controlled at 4:11 p.m.
An apartment above the garage was not damaged, he said. | <urn:uuid:52004800-1c55-438b-abf1-b25289337cfd> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20140106_Fire_damages_Hawaii_50_stars_Diamond_Head_home.html?id=238994071 | 2014-08-22T06:13:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500823169.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021343-00166-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970268 | 163 |
You may have heard of theBorscht Film Festival
, but have you heard of the
If you take a peek at the festival's website, you'll notice a wild world of Chris Bosh imaginations. The site was conceived and created by Bleeding Palm's Ronnie Rivera the Executive Necromage (whatever that means) and curator of the festival. We wanted to know more about the song, the festival, and their official take on Bosh's injury, so we connected with Chris Quinn, Minister of Jurassic Arts (a position created by Steven Spielberg?) to discuss.
"Chris Bosh can only be appreciated when contextualized outside of the
basketball court," claims Quinn when asked if #1 was the Minister's #1
"Bosh is celestial, his time is near. Udonis Haslem is my spirit
animal." Guess that's a no. Haslem is celestial where we come from -- that would be either
Miramar or Miami, depending on what you choose to believe from this wiki entry.
Is the Bosh Film Festival real? Yes, apparently it's set to happen sometime this fall. If you take a peek at their website, you may notice a few funny facts. As far as how accurate the site is, Quinn says, "All
of the facts on the site are absolutely true -- somewhere in the
In the multiverse: The Bosh Film Festival was founded last year when
Chris Bosh donated 1% of his salary ($160,225) to the Borscht Film
Festival. Since we have a really stupid name to begin with (Borscht), we didn't
mind changing our festival (name) to the Bosh Film Festival. This was just the
latest high-profile donation from a South Florida athlete to an arts
In our universe: Our tweets (to Chris Bosh) went unanswered, and
the Miami Herald got very upset when they almost ran the story (of the Bosh Film Festival). Now, we
are attempting to bring the festival into this universe. It will run in
competition with the Borscht Film Festival later this year, and will be
curated by Bleeding Palm. All life is real life.
Of the recent abdominal strain that may keep Bosh from hitting the court
for the remainder of the season, Quinn remarks, "Free your mind, Liz Tracy. Bosh's injury is an
absolute fiction. As the keeper of the Great Sword of Gorg-Dak-Tox Bosh
occasionally has duties to the Star Prince PXXA. He was called away on
duty and will return to the court once he has vanquished his foes.
Bosh's sinews know nothing of mammalian weakness." Wait. What?
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sleepwalking is a sound project by ANR's MJ Hancock and Jared McKay of Coral Morphologic. Bosh Film Festival called upon this duo to do something of great importance. "They are making a soundtrack for the
mythical lives of the Miami Heat roster -- except for Shane Battier." Quinn then rambled on about Battier being a warlock.
and improves 3-point shooting percentage when listened to on headphones." Get this baby on Mike Miller's ears ASAP, please.
The real question we want answered though by this Quinn, who clearly has such a strong Bosh connection: Can the Heat win without Bosh? "It
depends on the game. If we are talking about the primitive arithmetic
of 'basketball' then yes. If we are talking about the real game being
played before our very eyes that we can never understand, then no." Hopefully, Quinn is wrong. | <urn:uuid:a26b1a04-bd11-4521-a94d-0a05088f84f8> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/bosh-film-festival-on-chris-boshs-injury-a-heat-win-and-new-discosoma-records-song-for-james-jones-6421206 | 2018-11-17T04:58:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743282.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117040838-20181117062838-00415.warc.gz | en | 0.949088 | 785 |
Colorado couples could be required to take premarital education classes before tying the knot, if a proposed ballot initiative goes through.
The Colorado Marriage Education Act would mandate 10 hours of pre-wedding instruction for first-time brides and grooms. Class time doubles to 20 hours for anyone getting married a second time — and triples to 30 hours for individuals wanting to head down the aisle a third time.
Widows and widowers would be held to the same 10-hour standard as a first-timer under the law, which would not apply to civil unions.
The effort is spearheaded by the California-based Kids Against Divorce, which says the premarital classes would help prepare couples for success in their marriages and, potentially, in parenthood.
“Kids Against Divorce has taken a stand on behalf of all children. By making the necessary changes on the front end of marriage, we can prevent the lifelong effects of divorce on the back end," organization founder David Schel told TODAY.com by email. “If we can prevent even one child from experiencing the tragic event of his/her family being split apart, then this was well worth it.”
The group needs 86,105 valid signatures by the Aug. 4 deadline to put the initiative on the state's November ballot.
Should the initiative pass, the Colorado State Board of Marriage and Family Therapist Examiners would develop the curriculum for the premarital classes and oversee its administration, Schel said. He added that the organization would like to see money management, health issues, conflict resolution and domestic resolution be among the topics addressed in the class.
TODAY’s Willie Geist noted that similar classes are required for anyone who wants to get married in the Catholic church. He said he took such a “Pre-Cana” class before he and his Catholic wife got married, but doesn’t credit the course for the strength of his marriage.
Tamron Hall, however, thought that an education class would be useful, especially for people like herself, who fear the idea of marriage.
"I don’t want to fail at this thing. I want to get it right whenever I do it," she said. "That’s something that really I hold sacred and I think everyone does when you take those vows. But if you take a class, I think that helps. It maybe will give you some confidence.”
But Al Roker noted that classes don’t always help with self-improvement efforts.
“It's worked so well with motor vehicles,” he told Hall sarcastically.
“That’s true,” she acknowledged. “I am a terrible driver.”
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Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence and TECOM Investments will work collaboratively to identify emission reduction opportunities in its free zone business parks. HE Waleed Salman, Chairman of Dubai Carbon and Dr. Amina Al Rustamani, Group CEO of TECOM Investments formalised the collaboration through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 6th 2014.
One of TECOM Investments’ largest portfolio companies is TECOM Free Zone Business Parks; this comprises nine business parks arranged under four industry clusters across the ICT, Media, Education and Science sectors. Dubai Design District, better known as d3, is the newest of TECOM Investments’ free zone business parks with 10 buildings currently under construction. Once complete, d3 will be purpose built environment catering to the full value chain of the design, fashion and luxury industry – and all with the vision of creating a world class creative community that engages, nurtures and promotes local, regional and global design talent.
In the first phase, Dubai Carbon will analyse each park’s operations and identify potential emission reduction initiatives starting with d3.
Dr Amina Al Rustamani commented that “in this reinvigorated business climate, we should exceed expectations and leverage the public private partnership route to increase our ambition and provide the end-users with more options to fulfil theirs.”
The parks are today home to over 4,500 businesses, including major multinationals and many of the Fortune 500 companies. These will be the ultimate beneficiaries of resource inventory and efficiency strategies that will lead to increased quality of living and working standard, in line with international best practices. Dubai Carbon has been appointed to analyse and advise on the operations of all members of Dubai Holding, in an effort to generate efficiencies and cost savings though comprehensive strategy development. The agreement with TECOM Investments is first in line, with all entities of Dubai Holding following.
Commenting on the MoU, Mr. Waleed Salman, Chairman of Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence said, “The collaboration with TECOM Investments has the potential to become Dubai’s flagship for resource efficient commercial developments. TECOMs’ core objective is to act as a catalyst that drives the growth of businesses and people. The collaboration with Dubai Carbon will introduce environmental considerations that will ultimately lead to the support of green business practices within TECOM Free Zone Business Parks.”
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Restoration Society, Inc. (RSI) is a peer operated agency that offers recovery-based person centered services serving Western New York. The agency was founded in 1973 and incorporated in 1975. RSI customers are adults (18 years and above) and for more information please see each program. Agency services are founded upon the recovery vision that all individuals can lead active lives filled with hope and satisfaction and make valuable contributions to our community.
RSI offers holistic, person-centered services premised upon customer self-determination and self-direction. Programs embracing life coaching strategies facilitate the customer’s personal life direction, development and fulfillment.
Programs embrace life coaching strategies that facilitate the customer’s personal life direction, development and fulfillment. Using life coaching RSI assists individuals to achieve and maintain personal satisfaction in overall quality of life, integration into self-selected communities and attainment of basic life needs. Life coaching strategies assist the customer to increase independence, achieve desired social roles, and community integration and connectedness while reducing reliance on professional supports. RSI values individual’s natural supports to be present because it is key to gaining and maintaining their recovery.
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The digital world is rapidly evolving with the addition of new and efficient features, as well as emerging trends that people can’t seem to pass up on. Even menial activities like making a search online continue to change each year. Now, it looks like the next frontier for our online searches will be hands-free. And based on the following voice search statistics, it seems like this trend is here to stay, which is why it’s essential to implement effective digital marketing strategies for voice search.
Voice search or voice-activated search is simply any kind of online query or search that’s done with the use of our voice instead of a traditional keyboard. As mics have become more accessible thanks to mobile devices, people consider making searches this way the top way to search online. Here are some statistics to back up this claim.
General Voice Search Statistics
- The voice industry is expected to be worth $40 billion by 2020.
- By the end of 2019, 39% of millennials will use voice-supported virtual assistants at least once a month.
- 43% of voice-enabled device owners use it to shop, and 51% use it to research products.
- 51% of consumers use voice search to look for restaurants.
- 28% of consumers immediately call the business they used voice search to find.
- 25% of people aged 16 to 24 use voice search on mobile devices.
- 41% of smart speaker owners feel companionship with their device.
- 5% of smart speaker owners make transactions with their devices monthly.
- 20% of mobile search queries are voice.
- For their holiday shopping, 1 in 4 shoppers used a voice assistant, statistics show.
Voice Search Usage
The driving factor behind recent voice search trends is the number of times it’s used on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis. Thanks to the increasing number of voice searches being made, app and tech developers are taking more notice and making products suitable for the feature. Find some of the most compelling stats and figures below.
1. 50% of online searches will be made via voice by 2020.
Voice search’s growth is unprecedented at this point. In fact, analysts believe that by 2020, 50% of online searches will be conducted this way. This number will continue to grow, possibly even overtaking text searching in the near future.
2. 20% of queries on mobile devices are voice search.
(Search Engine Land)
What percentage of searches are voice? That’s 20%—at least, on mobile it is. This is likely because voice is more accessible on mobile thanks to the built-in mics.
3. By 2020, 30% of web browsing will be screenless.
For years, we’ve relied heavily on the screens of our smartphones, tablets, and desktops. But it seems that we’re headed for a new trend of screenless browsing. This will be thanks to the emerging use of smart speakers and other voice-activated devices.
4. 65% of smart speaker owners can’t imagine what it’d be like without their device.
Our heavy reliance on smart speakers only confirms the power of this search trend. According to a survey, 65% of users have become so used to making a voice-activated Google search or a purchase through Amazon Echo, they can’t imagine going back to the days when they had to type in all their queries.
5. 72% of smart speaker owners use their devices daily.
(Think with Google)
Smart speakers can be used for various purposes. It can be used as a guide in the kitchen and even as a programming guide. Because of its versatility in features, smart speaker owners use their devices regularly. As tech and app developers create more innovative features, this number should improve even further.
6. 41% of smart speaker owners feel companionship with their device.
(Think with Google)
Among those who use Google, Cortana, or Siri, statistics show that almost half of them consider their device more than just another piece of tech. For 41% of the users, it can feel almost as if they were talking to a helpful friend.
7. Voice assistants helped 1 in 4 shoppers in their holiday shopping.
When we’re shopping at big stores and we’ve already got our hands full, the last thing we want to do is take our phone out to make a search. Luckily, this issue can be easily solved if you use a voice assistant.
Voice Search Demographics
Of course, not everyone is quite yet ready to embrace voice search, but as 2019 wanes, the numbers are growing higher. As such, there are some demographics that are more akin to using the device than others. And the groups that prefer voice search are expanding. Here, you’ll find the numbers regarding the matter.
8. By the end of 2019, 39% of millennials will be using voice-supported virtual assistants monthly.
As expected, millennials prefer using voice search most. One of the reasons pointing to this upward trend is the accessibility of mobile devices and advancements in the virtual assistants, which make them more alluring to use. According to these same voice search stats, around 17% of Gen Xers and 10% of baby boomers will use voice-enabled digital assistants at least once a month. As we can see, millennials have a huge lead over older generations when it comes to the use of voice assistants. It will be worth seeing how the younger generations will compare.
9. Millennials will show the greatest increase in voice-supported virtual assistant use.
Millennials continue to rely on voice-supported virtual assistants in 2019. In fact, the voice search data from 2018 indicates just under 36% were expected to use voice assistants. This 3% climb to 39% in 2019 beats out Gen Xers and baby boomers, neither of which are expected to increase their use by more than 0.5% by the end of the year.
10. 25% of people aged 16–24 use voice search on mobile.
(Global Web Index)
Some age groups are just more focused on their handheld devices than others. That explains why 25% of people from the age of 16 to 24 use the voice search function on their mobile devices. Marketers could use voice search stats such as these to their advantage, knowing which demographics to target first.
11. 61% of those aged 25–64 who already use a voice device intend to use it more in the future.
According to recent studies, 61% of adults aged 25–64 years say that they will use their voice devices more in the future. On the other hand, 57% of people aged 18–24 years say that they will do the same. Furthermore, the latest internet statistics show that ignoring voice searches is no longer an option. This trend has become particularly popular with people aged 50 and up as 57% of them using voice-enabled devices on a daily basis.
12. According to well-established voice search statistics, 2 in 5 adults use voice search once daily.
Adults will use search engines for a variety of purposes. It could be for a recipe they need or a job they hope to find. Because of their persistent and changing needs, they tend to look for more efficient ways to search online. Hence, around 40% of adults now use voice search at least once daily.
13. Almost 40 million Americans own a smart speaker.
Smart speakers are becoming a common household item. In fact, the statistics on voice search from 2018 indicate that 39 million Americans own one. These include familiar items such as Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and Google Home.
14. In 2017, 35.6 million Americans used a voice-activated assistant device at least once a month.
From 2015 onwards, we’ve seen an influx of new voice-activated devices come from major makers like Samsung, Apple, and even Amazon. As the devices grew more popular, people used them more. In 2017, an estimated 35.6 million Americans used devices like this at least once a month. It amounted to a 129% increase from 2016.
15. Upon purchasing their smart speakers, 52% kept the device in their living rooms.
(Think with Google)
According to Google voice search data, the number of people who decided to make their device accessible in the living room is over half. On the other hand, 25% of people kept it in their bedrooms, and 22% of people keep it in their kitchens.
Voice Search E-commerce Statistics
One common misconception about the voice search industry is that it’s solely focused on personal use. However, there are some people who are now using apps like Siri voice search to shop and make other transactions online. This new trend in e-commerce is emerging, and true enough, it will become bigger in the future based solely on these figures.
16. The industry is expected to balloon into $40 billion by 2022.
As a new channel, the voice industry is becoming more and more lucrative. Analysts expect it to be worth at least $40 billion by 2022. This will include revenue and opportunities from various areas such as voice shopping accounts, voice-activated devices, and more.
17. 25% of smart speaker owners use their device to purchase everyday household items.
(Search Engine Journal)
Smart speaker owners are becoming smarter by making efficient choices. Voice search statistics from 2019 indicate that 25% of owners use smart speakers to purchase everyday household items. This is followed by items within the entertainment and video gaming category.
18. 11.5% of smart speaker owners use it to make their monthly transactions.
Smart speakers are becoming a major e-commerce outlet as well. 55% of US consumers have already used voice shopping to purchase goods online, while 11.5% of US adults use smart speakers to make purchases online at least once a month. Once again, it’s the convenience and ease of use that makes smart speakers the popular choice.
19. 52% of smart speaker owners want to learn about deals and sales through their devices.
(Think with Google)
Marketers could make use of helpful voice-activated search stats like this one. According to recent data, 52% of smart speaker owners are willing to learn about promotions from brands through their devices. This means that marketers should get more aggressive with their marketing campaigns on voice.
20. 51% of those who shop using their device also use it for research.
Today’s consumers are also more informed and more discerning than ever. In fact, 51% of those who shop using voice-enabled devices also use voice search to find products and decide if they’re worth purchasing at all. Moreover, 22% of them make purchases using voice, and 17% use it to reorder items.
21. 43% of voice-enabled device owners shop with their devices.
Voice devices offer hands-free searching from the convenience and comfort of our homes. As such, it’s no surprise that 43% of voice-enabled device owners shop using their devices. This is a 41% increase compared to numbers from 2018.
Search Engine and Google Voice Searches
A number of consumers now rely on voice search to find anything they want to know about through platforms like Google and Bing. This was one of the early uses of voice search, as people initially focused on using the feature for this very purpose.
22. Google’s AI studied 2,865 romance novels to communicate less formally.
Ever wondered how smart speakers converse so well? For Google, the company made its AI read through 2,865 romance novels. This is how it became more articulate and conversational.
23. Almost 20% of voice search queries start from a set of 25 keywords.
It seems like people have common search habits when using voice. According to the search by voice statistics, almost 20% of voice search queries start with one of 25 set keywords. The top words are “how” at 8.64%, “what” at 5.01%, and “best” at 2.63%.
24. 51% of consumers use voice search to find restaurants.
Restaurants are getting more attention from voice search users as well. According to research, 51% of consumers prefer voice searching for restaurants they’re interested in. This is the most commonly voice-searched business, beating out the likes of hotels and doctors.
25. 25% of searches made on the Windows 10 taskbar are voice search.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 is also getting a huge chunk of the voice search action. Recent studies show that 25% of searches on the OS’s taskbar are made via voice. Analysts are expecting this to grow even more.
26. Smart speaker owners commonly make local voice searches.
Voice search wasn’t just one of the trends of 2018, it’s here to stay. In total, 75% of smart speaker owners search for local businesses at least once every week. The searches are as follows: 54% for food and drink reservations, 46% for inquiries on price tags at local businesses, 40% for inquiries on local product inquiries, 35% to book a beauty appointment.
Voice Search for Business Statistics
Voice search has also brought consumers and companies closer together. The stats below will show how much voice has improved the consumer-business ecosystem in recent years.
27. The percentage of voice searches that result in the searcher calling a business is 28%.
Upon making a voice search about a business on Google or another platform, a consumer’s most common follow-up action is to contact it. This demonstrates how much direct interaction happens between consumers and businesses now thanks to voice search.
28. Mobile voice searches are 3 times more likely to be local.
(Search Engine Watch)
The voice search stats show this trend continuing to expand. According to local search data, voice searches on mobile devices are three times more likely to relate to something local when compared to text-related searches.
29. The retention rate from phone calls is 28% greater than the web lead retention rate.
Marketers should primarily focus on encouraging phone calls from customers. The caller retention rate is 28% higher than the web lead retention rate, according to some studies. It looks like driving calls via voice search marketing is the better option for long-term profit.
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This International Health and Safety training is a level 6 safety qualification that provides an excellent foundation in Health and safety for managers and people starting out on a career in health and safety. The NEBOSH International General Certificate course is relevant to all types of organizations as it helps the professional manage risks effectively. NEBOSH IGC is about the highest recognised qualification in the field of safety. It also ranks amongst the most reputable qualification for those working in the oil & gas sector. On successful completion of the course a professional will automatically be recognised as a Technician Membership (Tech IOSH) of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and Associate membership (AIIRSM) of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM).
Novelle Center is a accredited Center of NEBOSH. Accreditation number is 945.
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Managers, Supervisors, Technicians, Health Professionals, Environmental Professionals, Young Graduates in all disciplines, Consultants, Engineers, Oil and Gas workers, Workers in the production and manufacturing sectors
DATE 18th - 29th of May 2015
DURATION: (8:30am – 5pm)
Port Harcourt: Novelle Center, Suite 21, Opus Plaza, 21 Afam Street D/line Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Contact - Mr Tony 08063450509)
Lagos: Novelle Center, 7 Olufumilola Okikiolu Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja Lagos (Contact Mr Faith - 08064842655)
COURSE FEES (Candidates can pay in 3 installments):
• N250,000/Participants to cover tuition, examination, British Council registration, course materials and resources, refreshment:
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Give a boost to your career with the NEBOSH INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE TRAINING & EXAMINATION with an Accredited center (945)
This Health & Safety training is a level 6 safety qualification that provides an excellent foundation in Health and safety for managers and people starting out on a career in health and safety. The NEBOSH IGC course is relevant to all types of organizations as it helps the professional manage risks effectively. NEBOSH IGC is about the highest recognised qualification in the field of safety. It also ranks amongst the most reputable qualification for those working in the oil & gas sector. On successful completion of the course a professional will automatically be recognised as a Technician Membership (Tech IOSH) of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and Associate membership (AIIRSM) of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM).
Novelle center is a NEBOSH accredited center in Nigeria. Accreditation number is 945. We offer you the best chances at success. We have a history of the highest distinction recorded by our students during our exams.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?Managers, Supervisors, Technicians, Health Professionals, Environmental Professionals, Young Graduates in all disciplines, Consultants, Engineers, Oil and Gas workers, Workers in the production and manufacturing sectors
DATE: 20th - 31st of July 2015 for both Lagos and Port Harcourt centers.
DURATION: 8:30am – 5pm daily
VENUE: Port Harcourt: Novelle Center, Suite 21, Opus Plaza, 21 Afam Street D/line Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Contact - Mr Tony 08063450509)
Lagos: Novelle center, 7 Olufumilola Okikiolu Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja Lagos (Contact Mr Faith - 08064842655)
Course and Exam fee is N250,000. Candidates can pay in 3 installments. This fee covers the training, examination, British Council registration, course materials and refreshment:
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P.O.Box 113 Leavenworth WA 98826-0113
2014 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION - April 15th Deadline
The Leavenworth Lions Club is proud to be able to offer an opportunity to receive a scholarship towards those in the Leavenworth, Washington area pursuing post high school education. Please review the cover letter for instructions on how to complete the application.
Free Health Screenings
The Lions Health Screening Unit is brought to you free of charge by your local Leavenworth Lions Club, in partnership with the Northwest Lions Foundation. This professionally-equipped, state-licensed mobile unit is a program of the Northwest Lions Foundation and is staffed by health professionals, Lions Club members, and volunteers. It travels throughout the Northwest, providing free health screenings to the public. For more information, contact the sponsoring Lions Club: Helen Hanson (509) 669-2954.
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August 30, 2014 marks the first annual Craft Fair hosted by Leavenworth Lions Club. 10 am - 6 pm at Lions Club Park on Highway 2 in Leavenworth. Come and see beautiful craft works by local crafters! Light breakfast and lunch sold by Leavenworth Lions to crafters and public. Put the date on your calendar - we'll see you there!! CRAFTERS: Below are your registration forms. Questions? Phone (509)860-0355 or (509)669-4115.
The Leavenworth Lions Club has met the needs of our local community and the world since 1951. It is a local chapter of Lions Club International. Working to service the community, our motto is “We Serve”.
WE SERVE, by providing Highway Cleanup, Wheel Chair Ramps, Free Health Screening, Adopt-A-Family/Families for Holidays, Community Easter Egg Hunt, Sponsorship of Scout Troop and Pack #28, Sponsorship of youth baseball program and U. S. Flag Program for elementary students.
WE SERVE, by funding Eye exams/glasses/hearing aids, Leader Dog Training, Diabetes Youth Camp/Research, Cascade Medical Center Foundation, Scholarships for High School Seniors, Special Olympics and Local food banks.
WE SERVE, where there is need.
We host an annual Open House/Bar-B-Que for those interested in joining LIONS (at the clubhouse at Leavenworth's Lions Club Park, next to the city hall). The “Den” also serves as a concession area during the events sponsored by the Lions Club throughout the year. Other events include the Chestnut Sales (roasting on an open fire) during the Christmas Lighting Festival weekends and the Community Breakfasts.
L I O N S: Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation's Safety
Lions Club Mission
To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions Clubs.
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Helen Keller's Challenge
In 1925, Helen Keller challenged the Lions to become "Knights of the Blind". Since that day, Lions clubs throughout the world have been involved in helping the visually and hearing impaired. Glasses, white canes, helper dogs, eye surgeries, hearing aids and ear surgeries are constantly being donated to those in need.
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan circa 1924
Lions have a dynamic history. Founded in 1917, we are best known for fighting blindness, but we also volunteer for many different kinds of community projects – including caring for the environment, feeding the hungry and aiding seniors and the disabled.
Lions give sight. By conducting vision screenings, equipping hospitals and clinics, distributing medicine and raising awareness of eye disease, Lions work toward their mission of providing vision for all. We have extended our commitment to sight conservation through countless local efforts and through our international SightFirst Program, which works to eradicate blindness.
Lions serve youth. Our community projects often support local children and schools through scholarships, recreation and mentoring. Internationally, we offer many programs, including the Peace Poster Contest, Youth Camps and Exchange and Lions Quest.
Our Leo Program provides the youth of the world with an opportunity for personal development through volunteering.
Lions award grants. Since 1968, the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) has awarded more than US$700 million in grants to support Lions humanitarian projects around the world.
Lions help during disasters. Together, our Foundation and Lions are helping communities following natural disasters by providing for immediate needs such as food, water, clothing and medical supplies – and aiding in long-term reconstruction.
Lions are active. Our motto is "We Serve." Lions are part of a global service network, doing whatever is necessary to help our local communities.
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If you think you might be bored on Friday or Saturday night at the Austin AIN Conference, Nerd Comedy comes to Austin, TX on Nov. 7 & 8 courtesy of two Georgia Tech faculty who teach engineering and math by day, and do comedy by night. Pete Ludovice of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering faculty, is the Director of the Center for Academic Enrichment, and Lew Lefton, of the Math faculty is the Director of Information Technology for the College of Sciences. While not teaching and…See More
"My colleague Lew Lefton and I do use improvisation to catalyze innovation. However, we specialize on technical innovation because we are both geeky academics from Georgia Tech (Math and Engineering). We are running a workshop on this application on…"
The deep dark secret that we don't always want to admit is that some of us improvisors do stand-up comedy when nobody else is around. I performed here, and it is one of my favorite places in Austin for comedy: the Velveeta Room. It's a great place, even if it is a little cheesy.See More
Stand-up comedian, Improvisation Artist, Academic Researcher and College Educator
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Education, Networking, Improv Resources
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Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving
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improvisation applied to improving technical innovation
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My colleague Lew Lefton and I apply humorous improvisation to catalyze technical innovation. While improvisation has been used to help general creativity we specialize in an area that has not seen much success: Technical Innovation. Lew and I are both faculty members at the Georgia Institute of Technology and carry out research in this application of improvisation.
I need help with...
Finding people who are interested in applying our protocol to increase technical innovation.
For those who missed Dr. Steve Leybourne's Webinar on Organisational Improvisation. You can catch up online. Just follow the link below. Watch Dr Steve Leybourne's Webinar
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Steven Cantor '90
(Stick Figure Productions, HBO Documentary Films)
Cantor's documentary What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann focuses on Mann, the sometimes controversial photographer. Described as someone who "captures moments" through still images, Mann's photographs never appear static. Rather, they brim with warmth and vitality. From her first series nearly 20 years ago, which showed the complexities of 12-year-old girls on the cusp of womanhood, to her present series of decaying cadavers strewn about a medical farm, Mann has sought to push society's buttons, to make viewers question their own values and morals.
Ray Flanders '52 (PublishAmerica)
Including the stories "Murder on the Sea Wolf," "The Star of Our Show," and "The Bushwhacker and the Plastic Man," this 53-page work of fiction touches on subjects such as crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat in the 1950s, a burlesque theater headliner, and bushwhackers. "The Bushwhacker and the Plastic Man" won an award for fiction at a writers' conference contest at Christopher Newport University. Flanders has published more than 35 articles in professional journals.
Edited by Francis P. McManamon '73, David Harmon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley
(The University of Arizona Press)
Enacted in 1906, the Antiquities Act is one of the most important pieces of conservation legislation in American history and has had a far-reaching influence on the preservation of the nation's cultural and natural heritage. A century after its passage, this book presents a definitive assessment of the Antiquities Act and its legacy, addressing the importance and breadth of the act — as well as the controversy it has engendered. Authored by professionals intimately involved with safeguarding the nation's archaeological, historic, and natural heritage, it describes the applications of the act and assesses its place in the country's future. With a scope as far reaching as the resources the act embraces, this book offers an opportunity for today's stewards to reflect on the act's historic accomplishments, to remind fellow professionals and the general public of its importance, and to look ahead to its continuing implementation in the 21st century. The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation invites all who love America's natural and cultural treasures not only to learn about the act's rich legacy but also to envision its next hundred years.
Mark Robbins '77
(The Monacelli Press)
The enduring allure of other people's lives and homes fuels the pages of glossy shelter magazines. Fascinated by the seductive draw of the carefully styled and cropped views in their pages, artist and architect Mark Robbins toured the homes of friends, family members, colleagues, and acquaintances in search of more personally styled and less self-consciously arranged homes. Photographed over a three-year period, Households is the compelling result: an unexpected series of residents in their houses and gardens presenting film-strip narratives about people, architecture, and lifestyle. The range of homes and people in Households includes a man, woman, and baby at a writers' colony, two men in a Long Island beach estate, an elderly husband and wife at the edge of a family compound, a dean in the historic house provided by her university, and an extended family living in a modernist housing block in Holland. All suggest Robbins's obsession with reading the intricate details that describe our lives. The dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Robbins was previously director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Edited by John William Sutton '99
(Medieval Institute Publications)
The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers, a Middle English work from the second half of the 15th century, is a compendium of heterogeneous philosophical lore. Derived from an earlier Arabic text, it contains a vast array of proverbs attributed (usually spuriously) to Plato, Aristotle, and a cavalcade of other historical and legendary sages. Lengthy biographical narratives accompany the proverbs of many of the philosophers. This book is an edition of the Middle English Dicts and Sayings, and includes an introductory essay, textual and explanatory notes, a glossary, and a thematic index.
Edited by Barbara Waxman '84 and Bob Mendelson
(Hundreds of Heads Books)
Baby boomers are turning 60 every eight seconds and are changing the face of retirement. How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees provides more than 500 pieces of advice from retirees who have developed a vast array of strategies for making the most out of their retirement. To get current advice for boomers contemplating retirement, Hundreds of Heads interviewed retirees from across the country and all walks of life to discover how today's men and women cope with the ups and downs of retirement — and find happiness and bigger rewards. The interviews revealed that today's retirees define retirement in a variety of new ways, from traveling to the discovery of new hobbies, and from starting new businesses to going back to school. Chapter topics include: How to know when it's time to retire, dealing with relationships during retirement, discovering your passions and hobbies, and working during retirement including starting your dream business. How to Love Your Retirement offers resources, tips, and exercises designed to help readers map their own journey.
(Boydell & Brewer Ltd.)
The story of a medieval bridge can often be surprisingly turbulent. Perhaps this explains why, despite the fact that in the Middle Ages bridges were more numerous than churches, so few of them still remain. From the time of Alfred the Great until beyond the end of the Middle Ages, bridges were vital to England, but they were expensive and difficult to maintain. Who, then, was responsible for their upkeep? The answer to this question changes over the centuries, and the way in which it changes reveals much about law and power in medieval England. Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England discusses the development of law concerning the maintenance of bridges and the fate of famous bridges such as London Bridge, which shows the way that the spiritual, historical, and entrepreneurial imagination was pressed into service to find solutions; the fate of humbler bridges shows the urgency with which this problem was debated across the country. By concentrating on and tracing this aspect of practical governance, much is shown about the limitations of royal power and the creativity of the medieval legal mind.
Cooper is assistant professor of history.
(Gerald Duckworth & Co.)
What sorts of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? In Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens, Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and colorful self-promoters ever to have lived, including Alcibiades, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Jesus, Nero, and Theodosia, and investigates the secrets of their success. He also looks at ways in which other highly talented individuals turned themselves into celebrities, including sports personalities, entertainers, philosophers, founders of new religions, and internationally renowned prostitutes. The reader may be forgiven for supposing that celebrity is a phenomenon that has no equivalent in antiquity. This book proves that it did.
Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the classics.
Edited by Michael R. Haines, Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright
(Cambridge University Press)
The last edition of Historical Statistics of the United States was published by the Census Bureau in 1975. When the Census Bureau decided in the early 1990s that it would not publish a new edition of Historical Statistics, a team of renowned social scientists came together with Cambridge University Press to create a new edition. More than 200 of the nation's leading economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars contributed. This edition adds 30 years of data and contains coverage of topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. A monumental work of collaborative scholarship, it provides a comprehensive compendium of statistics from more than 1,000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States.
Haines is the Banfi Vintners Professor of economics.
Also of note: W is for War, by George Held '57, was published by Cervena Barva Press. In this 15 poem chapbook, Held, who is a political activist, expresses his protest against the war in Iraq. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Held writes poems, stories, essays, translations, and book reviews.
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First car and sound build.
Yo whats up everyone! I really need help here, my first car and first sound build im extremely excited, so help a brother out!
Nice to meet everyone (:
So, I got a quote today. Which is
Cadence 75RMS splits 5inch
300RMS Pioneer 12inch sub
2600Watt starsound Amplifier
Cool, so I have a 2 seater car and it only can fit 5 inch apparently 6x9 is better, oh well.
Anyway so I got home, and did endless research now I just have more questions.
The first being.
Is that a decent sound system ? Never mind fancy terms, just simply if it was corrected right, with nice amp etc. Would it be loud and clear.
My second questions, is the amp says 2600watts, but im guessing that this is only peak. So I checked the specs I got this,
Starsound Digital SSA-CA4-2600 Amplifier
2600W 4 CHANNEL AMPLIFIER
RMS AT 4 OHM 75W X4
RMS AT 2 OHM 100W X4
RMS AT 4 OHM M 170WX2
According to what I know, it doesn't seem like it will support my Sub properly cause nothing there is 300RMS ? Thanks.
Anymore input would be fantastic.
Sorry for the questions, but I a noob, and do not trust a sales person
Re: First car and sound build.
need to know if the sub is single or dual voice coil and what impedance it is.
ideally, it would be a single 4 ohm sub. then the amp would be bridged to the sub on channels 3 & 4.
the speakers would be powered on channels 1 & 2.
what is the cost for the equipment you quoted? you can certainly get better quality buying used gear - even the classifieds on here is a good place to shop.
what head unit are you using/planning?
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- In an effort to keep tuition somewhat affordable for prospective students, Cornerstone named Chip Huber as it's new director of athletics.
"It was a big shock for our campus in a lot of ways," said Huber. "Our previous athletics staff has laid an incredible foundation for Cornerstone athletics. Personally I'm really energized. I`m really excited about the opportunity to, I think, really develop and build a model of what we would call kind of an integrated holistic model for student athletics at Cornerstone where our athletes are incredibly invested in the life of our whole community and our community is invested more deeply connected to out student athletes."
Huber was most frequently asked whether Cornerstone was still committed to athletics at the same level?
"The answer to that is, unequivocally, yes, we still are, we still believe in it," said Huber. "Athletics for us is an incredibly significant part of our campus community and our campus life. It's a centerpiece in a lot of ways for a lot of what we do around here, and we are going to continue to resource it and have it as a priority."
Around the same time as news broke about the changes at Cornerstone, Davenport University announced that it had accepted an invitation to the GLIAC, a NCAA division II conference. While Huber says the conference will miss Davenport, it doesn't have a whole lot of effect on his athletic department. "We`re still really excited about being part of the WHAC, and we're still really excited about being part of the NAIA community."
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The coast guard keeps an eye on the sea
Why is it that starfish occasionally wash up ashore in large numbers?
Mass starfish strandings typically occur in winter and as a result of stormy weather. Strong currents pluck the starfish off the seabed. Because of the low water temperature, they are too feeble to reattach themselves, so they keep floating around. Strong currents can carry them to the shore and so they end up on the beach.
The phenomenom of mass strandings shows that the common starfish is widely present in the North Sea and their population seems to be growing. Adult starfish have few enemies, except for the herring gull. Nonetheless, they should be cautious around precisely their own: young starfish are often attacked by bigger ones and certain starfish species actively hunt their colleagues. | <urn:uuid:1e9bea3b-d8f7-45ac-8887-5b204c50ef73> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://kwgc.be/en/faq/why-it-starfish-occasionally-wash-ashore-large-numbers | 2020-07-10T00:20:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655902377.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709224746-20200710014746-00014.warc.gz | en | 0.961239 | 168 |
I was close to the capitol podium at President's Kennedy 1961 inauguration. It was very cold and he took the oath without an overcoat. And gave us a hopeful and inspiring speech. What a memory; our nation was blessed for too brief a time with a great Democrat who made the nation proud. We are blessed now to inaugurate for a second term a President who with our help we believe will bring hope and inspiration to our nation and the world. | <urn:uuid:9e3a8967-a1eb-4599-864e-4a26f97b9f82> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.democraticunderground.com/104883 | 2013-12-19T07:10:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387345762220/warc/CC-MAIN-20131218054922-00090-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979134 | 92 |
timm at fnal.gov
Fri Oct 5 07:36:12 PDT 2001
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:28:56AM -0500, Steven Timm wrote:
> > The rsync script is a good idea and something we are thinking
> > of implementing--only problem is...how do you handle the
> > situation when a node happens to be down during a push?
> FSL uses the same generic mechanism that I use to keep all files in
> sync. This means that when a node boots, it syncs before it returns to
> service. There are many files that you want to maintain in synch (like
> /etc/hosts.allow) which don't go in NIS. I would assume that systems
> like "cfengine" (which the sysadmin community uses to keep
> workstations configured) also do that.
Is there some way to inhibit the sync if for some reason all
workstations end up rebooting at once? Also, any way to force it
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SWBR Helping Syracuse Businesses Create Additional Outdoor Seating
Posted on September 1, 2020
The new PARKlets are creating additional outdoor seating to help downtown Syracuse businesses amid COVID-19.
Parklets for the People of Syracuse was started by local entrepreneur Michel John Heagertywith a goal to raise money to build “PARKlets” for Syracuse businesses.
PARKlets are public seating platforms that convert curbside parking spaces into vibrant downtown community spaces amid COVID-19. The mobile outdoor seating option is a way for local businesses and restaurants to expand their dining space during the pandemic. The first PARKlets have been installed at Kitty Hoynes pub and Pastabilities in the Armory Square neighborhood. Matt Lupiani, Yang Song, and Marlene Rizzo have been working with Michael and the City of Syracuse to help bring the parklets to city businesses.
The new parklets will also coincide with National PARKing Day, which occurs on September 18. The annual event has citizens, artists and activists temporarily transform metered parking spaces into temporary miniature parks, or parklets. This will be the third year in a row that SWBR and Pastabilities have participated in the event.
Check out Parklets for the People of Syracuse GoFundMe page to see how you can help. https://www.gofundme.com/f/parklets-for-the-people-of-syracuse
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Sensory Friendly Time at The MOST- Part of Micron STEAM Explorers Inclusion Programs
Sensory Friendly Time at the MOST is an opportunity for guests who prefer a quieter, less stimulating environment to enjoy the museum. It's also a great way to socialize with other parents and children. | <urn:uuid:384cd513-0161-4a4c-8b47-1d3d712df3e2> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://centerstateceo.com/our-members/member-news/swbr-helping-syracuse-businesses-create-additional-outdoor-seating | 2024-02-22T04:40:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00366.warc.gz | en | 0.93455 | 366 |
Stability of Equilibria with Externalities
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1988, vol. 103, issue 2, 261-277
It is shown that, in a class of models with multiple externalities (one positive and one negative), all stationary equilibria may be locally stable to perturbations, in the sense that there exist perfect foresight trajectories leading back to the equilibrium. Thus, scale diseconomies (arising, for example, out of a common resource pool) generally overturn the Liviatan-Samuelson result, that equilibria are either saddlepoints or sources.
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Totally awesome home in a great beach town. Zoning allows for STR/Air BnB. Located on an extra large lot and situated high on a hill, safe from flooding, this home has great beach access and excellent river access nearby. Copalis Beach is a nice town that has a post office, bar, and restaurant. Close by is Seabrook to the north and Ocean Shores to the south with all the additional dining and activity options. The surfing, clamming, crabbing, hiking, and fishing are absolutely incredible. This is one of the most pristine beach towns in the country. It's a great place to get fresh air and unwind from the hectic city lifestyle. The house is 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a spacious backyard.
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[The following screenshots of Stephen Lee are from Robocop 2. Yes, this is a BearFic. And, yes, it is very pathetic. But the photos look so lonely by themselves that I just gotta do a bit of an ad-libbed fiction…]
Insert Dirty Title Here
-Stephen Lee BearFic-
Okay, so I’m a dirty cop. Sue me. Find me a clean one, and I’ll know yer lyin’. Ain’t no clean cops around here no more. Even the laundromats use coke as detergents in this forsaken city.
And so what if I shoot concentrated Seduction7? Got nothing to be happy for in this goddamn hellhole. Plus, everyone’s doing it. And it don’t matter that I’m wearing a pig uniform. I always get the best seat in the strip joints. Not to mention unlimited lap dances. Just one of them perks but it’s nothing compared to the shit that goes on in this town.
You know how bad this city’s become? Listen, we gots robots doing our jobs for us. You believe that? Robots. I don’t know who’s crazier — me or the loony dumbasses who thought this one up. These robots… I don’t like ’em. They really fucking do their jobs……
I was just at the arcades playing “Ikari Warriors” ™ when one of them freaking robot grabbed my neck. He saw me buy some S7 from some punk kid of this district’s local gang. Shoulda been more careful. They got them supersonic vision shit. Shit!
Sonovabitch. Damn freak almost cracked my ribcage. Whoever the hell programmed this bastard is one sick fuck. I feel like some lardass elephant sat on my chest.
What did he think? I’m gonna tell him? I know my rights, I — oof!…..
“Okay okay okay….. Lester Freeman. I got the drugs from Lester Freeman. Freaking drugs behind that “Ikari Warriors” ™. Thought you got some superhuman vision assho — OW!”
Damn metalhead’s gonna kill me. And, aw. shit, Lester’s goons gonna get me too…..
It’s funny how the pigs get a handful of free passes from these robots. Either the slammer’s filled or they’re running out of recruits. For God’s sakes, that’s the least of my worries. I’m a dead man.
Well, it’s gotta end sooner or later. So here I am in some cliched deserted building. I remember being gagged while I was on my way to the hospital. I knew it was Lester’s goons…..
Ironic that on my final moments, I’m wrapped around with clean sheets. Jezus, clean freakin’ sheets. Guess I deserve this.
I just hope that this goofy doc’s scalpel does its job freaking quick…..
* * * * *
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Jesus, so Lester’s human after all. Good night, sweet prick.
Well, not a big loss anyway. There are more rival gangs here than I could care to count. Ah, speaking of which, time to enjoy some of this sweet, sweet S7, thanks to that Brazilian bonehead, Reinaldo. | <urn:uuid:a6da497f-6c4d-480d-acd9-5a3d1a1322bb> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://bearmythology.blog/2009/07/16/bearfic-insert-dirty-title-here-stephen-lee/?replytocom=3231 | 2018-09-25T17:25:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267161902.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180925163044-20180925183444-00063.warc.gz | en | 0.920189 | 927 |
Interviewing tips and skillsPresentation Transcript
Job Seeker Workshop Interviewing Tips & Skills
Congratulations! You were asked to come in for an interview!
The key to a successful interview: PREPARATION!
What do I prepare for? Prepare to discuss yourself-your skills, abilities, experience, and accomplishments Prepare to discuss the potential employer-the history & mission of the business, what the job entails, how the “chain of command” works, knowledge of the products & services they offer.
Prepare Yourself. Read through the job announcement. Highlight the skills, knowledge, and abilities that are desired for the position. Highlight the skills and abilities on your resume that are transferable to this position. Think of examples where you used these skills and abilities. Write these out, use them to practice for your interview.
Come up with examples of how you used these skills Think of situations in your previous experience where you were able to use these skills. Be prepared to discuss these. Practice with friends and family, or in front of a mirror. Review the attached sheets (Turning duties into transferable skills, and Job Description/Skills Comparison)
Position: Attendant-Gourmet Coffee -- Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference CenterLocation: Coralville, IA, 52241Job DescriptionCoralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, located at 300 E. 9th St. seeks a Attendant-Gourmet Coffee to join their staff. Complete opening and closing duties including setting up necessary supplies and tools, cleaning all equipment and areas, locking doors, etc. Set up, stock, and maintain work areas. Input orders into cash register system and collect payment from customer. Take orders, record in MICROS system and prepare food and coffee beverages. Ensure that appliances (e.g., coffee makers) are turned on/off at the appropriate times. Bus coffee cart areas and tables. Clean dishes, utensils, work areas, tables and equipment throughout the day. Obtain change required for expected business level. Count bank at end of shift, complete designated cashier reports, resolve any discrepancies, drop off receipts, and secure bank. Welcome and acknowledge all guests according to company standards, anticipate and address guests' service needs, assist individuals with disabilities, and thank guests with genuine appreciation. Speak with others using clear and professional language. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others, and support team to reach common goals.
Learn more about your prospective employer. Research online Ask current employees Ask people who work in the same field Brochures, advertisements Newspapers Make yourself knowledgeable about current issues facing that business sector
Role Play Have a friend ask some typical interview questions. Be prepared to answer them honestly and clearly Ask for feedback—what can you improve on? Are you speaking too quickly? Are you talking to loudly or softly? Are you displaying nervous habits? (biting nails, tapping, twisting your hair, etc).
Questions you may be asked Review the attached sheet.
Next: Interview the Interviewer! You will be asked if you have any questions regarding the position. This is your time to shine! Always have questions prepared in advance. It’s okay to have a small notecard or paper with questions, but these should be asked naturally and while making eye contact. You don’t want to seem as though you are just reading off of a sheet of paper that you are unfamiliar with. PRACTICE your interview questions with a friend.
Make a list of questions to ask during the interview Why does the company need to fill this position? What exactly is expected of you? What are the company’s (or department’s) biggest challenges right now? To whom will you report? What does a typical workday look like?
More questions What do you like best about working for this company? How is performance measured? Has there been much turnover in this position? What are the next steps? How soon are you planning to fill the position? Other questions based on your research
Tips for the Interview Speak clearly and in a relaxed manner. This will come naturally if you have practiced your interview questions and answers with a friend. Avoid nervous habits like twisting your hair, biting nails, or tapping your leg. Arrive well-rested and well groomed RELAX!
More tips Don’t try and control the interview-slow down! Don’t be too serious/appear nervous Be careful with humor Don’t look at your watch
Relaxation Techniques Take in a slow, deep, nourishing breath through your nose, using your entire lung capacity. Sit up straight with your shoulders relaxed. Exhale slowly, through your nose. Do this a few times. Concentrating on your breath will relax you.
What to Wear
What to wear – Do’s Make sure your clothes is clean, unwrinkled, and stain-free Make sure your shoes are free of debris and mud, and are presentable Avoid wearing anything that is going to distract the interviewer from focusing on your knowledge, professionalism, talents, and abilities Wear comfortable but presentable clothing Err on the side of conservative, if there is a question
More what to wear Make sure your hair is clean, neat and groomed. Avoid overly distracting hairstyles Avoid wearing too much perfume or cologne Make sure that your nails are neat and clean Do reconnaissance-find out what other employees in the office are wearing. Don’t over or under dress
What to wear-Don’ts Wear dirty, wrinkled or torn clothing Wear overly revealing clothing (very tight or low cut tops, extremely tight pants or very short skirts) Wear t-shirts with wording or phrases Wear sweat pants, yoga pants, workout clothes or overly casual clothes Wear flip-flops or sneakers
What to bring to the interview Two copies of the resume you used when applying for the job Your questions A portfolio of your work A pen and notepad A list of references YOUR SMILE!
During the interview Greet the interviewer with a smile and handshake; thank them for the interview Listen carefully. Take a few seconds to think (and breathe) before answering questions Don’t be afraid to ask the interviewer to rephrase the question if you don’t understand Remember your keywords and the practice that you’ve done Be brief when answering, speak slowly and clearly and elaborate when asked Even if you don’t get the job, look at every interview as an opportunity to practice and learn Don’t be intimidated by your competition. Be yourself. Be honest. Don’t give false information Never, ever, ever provide negative information about your current or previous employer, supervisor, or coworkers. BE CONFIDENT. Interview the Interviewer-Why should you work for them?
After the interview Thank the interviewer for their time Ask about the process-how soon can you expect to hear back from them with a decision? Are there other interviews that will take place? Show enthusiasm-Let them know that you want the job and know you can do it. Send a thank you note. | <urn:uuid:3d7e5da0-09ab-45f8-ac53-71468991bbda> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.slideshare.net/rachelweber/interviewing-tips-and-skills | 2014-10-23T08:58:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507454577.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005734-00004-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928886 | 1,449 |
I work with both online and offline teams and 99% of the time, I manage both teams wirelessly from the comfort of my sofa at home. Today, the primary method of communication is email, along with some other tools, but one of the biggest problems I was experiencing in managing my teams was sending emails and not getting any reply. The problem is that with so many emails you send, it can be difficult to track emails and tasks and keep track of who has responded and what is taking place with each one. This continued to be a big problem for me until I discovered a tool called Asana. This is a task management tool for teams. Of course, there are similar task management software available, but after conducting some research and viewing some videos, I concluded that Asana was the best option available so far.
One of the great things about Asana is that you can use it on your computer or as an app on your smartphone. Basically, Asana allows you to create a project and an unlimited number of tasks. Additionally, it is free up to 15 users. After you exceed 15 users, then it is priced on a monthly basis.
With Asana, you are able to create multiple projects and can even name the projects. Inside each project, you can share with certain members who are able to see the tasks you have created inside that project. In addition, you can create a description for each task and even assign deadlines. You also have the ability to assign that task to someone who will be responsible for completing and delivering that task.
Asana also allows you to assign followers who are able to see and contribute to each task. For instance, you can assign a task manager, but other people can contribute to the task, as well. Whenever someone comments on the task, you will be notified by email. When you add a follower to the project, you do so based on their email address and they receive an invitation to use Asana. In this regard, everyone can complete, comment, or mark tasks as incomplete. This makes it incredibly easy for teams to achieve project while also boosting productivity, regardless of the team size.
You have the option of assigning tasks to an assistant, but even if you do not have an assistant, with this tool, it is really worth it to use just for yourself. You can also create the app using your smartphone and it is very easy and fast to use with no loading time. Simply create a task and share with the people you want and then you can track what is going on with that task. You can even come back a few days or a week later to evaluate progress, establish deadlines, comments, reminders, etc. Nothing is ever deleted, everything is documented, and you can ensure that no one ignores your emails. Asana can also be integrated quite easily with other tools, such as Chrome Extension, DropBox, Google Drive, WordPress, Evernote, Mailchimp, wufoo, Calender Sync, Weekdone etc. to make things easier.
As mentioned, if you have more than 15 users, you will need to pay to use it, but if you have a large company, they offer annual pricing that is quite cost effective.
So, with this tool, you can accomplish more, be more productive, and ensure that you never have to worry about your team ignoring your emails again. | <urn:uuid:48f75950-b511-4a68-a56a-e05b943c5883> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://ahmedalkiremli.com/how-to-stop-your-team-from-ignoring-your-emails-and-assigned-tasks/ | 2020-06-02T13:54:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347425148.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20200602130925-20200602160925-00572.warc.gz | en | 0.970156 | 684 |
In Uganda, tensions continue to simmer, four months after the country’s disputed presidential poll. A wave of arrests, including those of current and former military officers, followed by an armed attack on a police station in the north, have sparked concern this week as the runner-up in the vote goes on trial for treason.
Ugandan police have sought to downplay the attack late Sunday on the police station in the northern town of Gulu.
According to official reports, 10 to 12 suspects opened fire, attempting to rescue Dan Oola Odia, an official of the Uganda People's Congress, an opposition party.
Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura told the media not to sensationalize the incident.
"We wish to assure the country that Uganda is peaceful and stable and condemn those who quickly rush to post messages on social media after the attack exaggerating the situation, the magnitude of the incident and even giving their own version," Kayihura said.
Police say the attackers in Gulu used guns stolen from a local defense unit last month. The firefight, which left one soldier dead, lasted 30 minutes. The suspects escaped, but police have since reported several arrests.
A new group calling themselves the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) took responsibility for the attack on social media. Little is known about them.
FILE - Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye, center, is arrested by police and thrown into the back of a blacked-out police van which whisked him away and was later seen at a rural police station, outside his home in Kasangati, Uganda, Feb. 22, 2016.
More violence feared
Dickens Okello, a local journalist currently in Gulu, told VOA residents are concerned about the possibility of more violence.
“You remember this is the area that had two decades of rebellion. Like yesterday in the evening, that was Monday evening, there were two incidents where some bullets were released and the whole town went into panic mode again…. It was at 5 pm when children were returning back from school and people were retiring from work... and you could see cars and motorcycles rushing just like on Sunday night when the incident happened,” Okello said.
The gunfire was later attributed to police, who upon arresting several suspects, were attempting to control the crowd.
Sunday’s attack came on the heels of reports that around 30 people, including military veterans and officers, have been arrested for suspected anti-government activity. Local media are talking about an alleged coup plot, although Defense spokesperson Paddy Ankunda called this a mischaracterization.
“We are conducting a joint operation with police on tip-offs and very reliable information that some of these characters were planning subversive activities in the country that may jeopardize peace and security for other people. And therefore we have arrested some of them and they are helping us with investigations and we will continue to update the country on what is happening,” Ankunda said.
And tensions could continue to rise.
Opposition leader Kizza Besiyge is expected to appear in court Wednesday on treason charges. Many of those arrested this week have ties to one of Besiyge’s allies, leading to speculation that their arrests could be related to the case against him.
Besiyge has been detained since the February 18 presidential poll. He was charged with treason after he declared himself the rightful president of Uganda in April as President Yoweri Museveni was inaugurated for his fifth term in office. The opposition had contested the election results. | <urn:uuid:e2e51f81-c091-47e2-8c40-d50794f2379d> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.voanews.com/a/uganda-tensions-besigye-treason/3375239.html | 2017-03-26T17:08:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189244.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00059-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980892 | 734 |
Toddler killed in yet another deadly crash in Horry County
Fri, 11 May 2012 00:01:59 GMT —
Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash in Horry County. It's the third deadly crash in the county on Thursday, and in this crash, a toddler was killed.
About 6:30 pm, Highway Patrol says a minivan was on Liberty Church Road, and the driver tried to cross Highway 9, but collided with an SUV that was travelling on Highway 9.
Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick says a 1-year-old boy from Loris who was in the minivan died at the scene.
Highway Patrol says the child was not properly restrained and was thrown from the vehicle when the minivan rolled over in the crash.
The drivers of the minivan and the SUV were taken to the hospital. Their conditions have not been released.
The name of the toddler killed will not be released until Friday morning. | <urn:uuid:ddc58c28-a797-443e-9baa-9d877d79e6a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://wpde.com/news/local/toddler-killed-in-yet-another-deadly-crash-in-horry-county?id=752337 | 2017-10-18T09:24:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822851.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018085500-20171018105500-00830.warc.gz | en | 0.984612 | 198 |
Wayne Rooney's disgraceful swearing into the camera after scoring a hat-trick against West Ham was deplorable. Not because he corrupted the minds of young English children though. I can safely say that most English teenagers know their way around swearing.
Rooney's celebration was disgraceful because in the list of footballers who swear, he would not even get into the Top 20. There was no substance, no finesse, and no anger about the swearing. He just shouted randomly at a camera. I have heard alcohol-fuelled rants that were more coherent than that. For a proper demonstration of swearing, you have to go to the experts.
These are the footballing idols who strayed into X-rated territory. And no, they did not make a sex tape. Well, excluding Dwight Yorke and Mark Bosnich.
These guys perfected the art of swearing, with proper balance of rage and elocution. By doing so, they scarred children for life, gave poor stand-up comedians 15 seconds of Youtube fame, and went down in history as legends.
Here are the best five swearing incidents (in no particular order whatsoever), courtesy of the English Premier League. | <urn:uuid:ff5bb0c4-b6a1-4ca2-8a2d-59d653540aa7> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://bleacherreport.com/articles/653142-the-5-best-swearing-incidents-in-the-english-premier-league | 2016-07-23T15:22:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257823072.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071023-00072-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972391 | 245 |
Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
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Continuing her parade of elegant premiere dresses, the actress attends the N.Y.C. premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in a dramatic Bottega Veneta gown, Lorraine Schwartz gold and diamond jewelry and sexy smoky eyes.
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Since playing Little Nightmares back in October, I have been anxiously awaiting the third and final Secrets of the Maw DLC so that we could finally learn all there is to know (more or less) about the Maw and its bizarre inhabitants. If you’re curious to read a review about the game, I have already written one that I believe is still relevant, which can be found here. This post will not be focusing on reviewing the game, but rather, the DLC and what, if anything, was answered with the release of the Residence on February 23.
First of all, Little Nightmares is the one and only game I have ever bought DLC for, and I believe it was worth it. The three-part Secrets of the Maw introduces a few new characters (the Runaway Kid, the Granny, and some disturbing little creatures found in the Residence), along with new puzzles and locations. The Depths focused on water levels, which were very scary indeed with the Granny relentlessly pursuing us from beneath the murky, well, depths. The Hideaway had us working with Nomes and encountering an all too familiar foe (do you think he appreciates the nickname “noodle-arms”?).
That leaves us with the Residence, which was by far the most interesting of the DLC. While the DLC was good, the first two chapters of it were not as good as the main game. The Residence, however, is. One of the highlights of the Residence was the puzzles, which were some of my favorite in the game because they really made me think. The Residence was also quite scary thanks to those creepy new enemies I mentioned earlier. And we got to learn a bit more about the Lady, the most interesting character in the game. The only thing I didn’t like was the ending, which relates to the fate of the Runaway Kid.
Little Nightmares is a fascinating game, set in a surreal world with some truly frightening inhabitants. The game also has a delightful mystery surrounding it, though my one major disappointment is how vague the story remained even after I had completed the DLC. Sure, I love a good mystery, and I think some mysteries should never be solved. Nevertheless, I wish I had a bit more of a cohesive idea in my mind about what the heck the Maw is and who its inhabitants are. We were told that “all remaining questions will be answered”, but this is not the case.
This is where a spoiler-warning is in order because I will be briefly discussing a few things I still don’t understand. One, what IS the Maw? I hear that it appears once a year, always in a different place. When this happens, guests arrive at the Maw and gorge themselves. And it all seems to be run by the Lady. But why? What purpose does this serve? Does she feed on the guests (this guess is based on what Six does at the end of the main game)? If so, what the heck is the Lady?
I also don’t totally understand what they are keeping all those children locked up for. Some people have said the children are being used to feed the guests, but there is no way those massive steaks are coming from such tiny children. Furthermore, how do these children end up on the Maw in the first place? Does no one notice these kids are missing?
And what is Six? She is clearly no ordinary kid, with her ravenous hunger and possibly soul-sucking powers that we see at the end of the game. People have speculated that she is the Lady’s daughter, which would explain her unnatural abilities. Except Tarsier has implied that this is not the case.
As for the residents of the Maw, why is everyone so grotesque? Why do the chefs wear masks? Why is the Granny confined to the flooded basement level? Who is the hanged man?
Very few questions were answered with the Residence. We do finally see the Lady’s face. We learn that she can turn children into Nomes. And we learn who the Nome is that Six eats, though that was never a question I had to begin with.
I’m still happy with the game. I still think it’s one of the most unique things I’ve played in a long while. I just want to know more. While this certainly doesn’t feel like a game that would benefit from being fully explained, I’m unsure if Little Nightmares gave us enough details in order to solve these mysteries ourselves. (And I certainly hope that I’m not required to read the comics in order to understand the full story.)
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Barri Waltcher and Pamela Weinberg, co-founders of Mind Your Own Business Moms (MYOBMoms), counsel women in all facets of career development. For nearly a decade, we have specialized in supporting women with career planning strategies for the parenting years, including navigating maternity leave, designing a workable career plan or transition, and helping women re-enter the workforce after a parenting pause. Working privately and in groups, we give women the full range of career development tools, from assessing their career options to developing a résumé and LinkedIn profile, and everything in between. Our goal is to help empower women with the confidence and preparedness they need to accomplish their goals.
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If you think it's lack of willpower that's keeping you from dropping those extra pounds, you've overlooked one of the most important diet saboteurs: our environment. From supermarkets to restaurants, gas stations to department stores, fatty, sweet and salty foods are all around us-a prospect Mother Nature didn't have in mind when we came into the picture.
"In nearly all of human history, we've lived in a world where getting enough calories was a challenge, and physical activity wasn't called exercise, it was called survival," says David Katz, MD, director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and coauthor of The Way to Eat. Our bodies are programmed to crave the sustaining calories of fat and the quick energy of sugar, even though today we don't need to exert all that much effort to find them.
But all is not lost. It's not just willpower you need to eat healthy-it's "skillpower." That means knowing where the calorie and fat dangers lurk and avoiding or outsmarting them.
No more food-free zones
You used to actually have to leave the clothing section of the department store if you wanted a snack. Today, if that bathing suit doesn't fit, you can drown your frustration with a gourmet chocolate bar at the checkout counter. And while you could always find snacks at a gas station, that once meant candy bars or stale sandwiches, not fresh doughnuts and ice cream. At malls, food used to be confined to one food court; now additional stands are spread all over. "You used to have to go out of your way to find food, but now it practically falls into your lap," laments Anne M. Fletcher, RD, author of Thin for Life.
Outsmart it: Think ahead to avoid these food zones. Pay for gas at the pump so you don't have to go inside. Seek out the department store cash register without the candy display. Don't park near the mall entrance with the cinnamon bun stand. And don't go shopping when you're hungry-you'll be better able to resist these impulse purchases. "It also helps to have your own healthy snacks on hand. I always keep a bag of nuts and pretzels in my car," Fletcher says.
Buying in bulk
Research shows that the more food we have in front of us, the more we'll eat. In fact, Cornell University scientists found that when people buy huge packages of food, they eat twice as much in the first eight days. "Only when the quantity gets to a normal size do people slow down their consumption," says study author Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.
Outsmart it: "As soon as you get home, split the food into smaller packages and move most of it out of sight," Dr. Wansink advises. Put chips into single-portion-size plastic bags; pour some of the cereal into a smaller plastic container; take one box of cookies out of the four-box pack and put the rest in an out-of-reach place (a high shelf in the kitchen or pantry, for example). And because we underestimate portions from a larger package, measure carefully when cooking rice or pasta from a bulk-size box.
Salt in your sweet
Food manufacturers routinely add salt to sweet products and add sugar and other sweeteners to salty ones, says Dr. Katz. One likely reason? Our brain has separate centers for different tastes like sour, sweet and salty, and each appetite center you turn on encourages you to eat until it registers full. "By including both sweet and salty tastes in cookies, breakfast cereals and pasta sauces, food manufacturers create products that are hard to stop eating," Dr. Katz says. (Now you know why you can't down as many ounces of raisins as Ring Dings.)
Outsmart it: Read nutrition labels and pick treats whose sodium content per serving is lower than the number of calories. Or better yet, bake your own cookies. That way you'll be more likely to be able to eat just one (OK, two). For snacks, stick with fewer flavors: Raw almonds are better than honey-roasted ones, plain popcorn beats kettle corn, and a piece of fruit is perfect.
Restaurants with atmosphere
Candlelight and soft music don't just make a restaurant more romantic, they can also make you eat more. "Research has shown that people who linger in a relaxed, dimly lit restaurant often order dessert or extra drinks they wouldn't order in a brighter setting," Dr. Wansink says. Another one of his studies found that when your waiter recites a dessert menu with elaborate-sounding items like "Belgian double chocolate fudge cake," you're more likely to bite than if he calls it plain old chocolate cake.
Outsmart it: Follow Dr. Wansink's rule of two. Choose an entrée and only two items from the following four: appetizer, alcoholic drink, bread or dessert. "If you've decided not to order dessert, when the waiter comes over to discuss the choices, cut him off before he mentions any and simply order a cup of coffee," he says.
It may seem like a good deal, but it's no bargain for your thighs. (And neither is an on-the-house dessert with your meal.)
Outsmart it: If you want a free refill, order unsweetened iced tea instead of soda and add one packet of regular sugar or sugar substitute if you need to, advises Althea Zanecosky, RD, LDN, a nutritionist in Philadelphia. Even better, ask for a glass of (truly free) water. If the restaurant offers free dessert, ask if there are healthy, lower-calorie choices like fruit instead of ice cream or cake.
Too much variety
We're programmed to want some of everything (nature's way of ensuring we eat a well-rounded diet), which is fine if the choice is between apples and oranges, but not if it's between different-colored candy-coated chocolates or assorted desserts. In one of Dr. Wansink's studies, people ate 43 percent more candy when they had more color choices.
Outsmart it: Keep choices to a minimum. Instead of buying a box of assorted cookies, choose just chocolate chip. If you go to a buffet, put a lot of salad on your plate, then only two or three other items, advises Susan B. Roberts, PhD, professor of both nutrition and psychiatry at Tufts University. "If you take a bit of everything, you will almost always eat it all, even if you're full," she says.
Weekend calorie overload
Whether it's a dinner party at a friend's house, a restaurant celebration or popcorn at the movies, on weekends we're more likely to find ourselves in situations that involve lots of food. But eating consistently every day of the week can help you stay slim. When researchers at The National Weight Control Registry tracked more than a thousand people who had lost a significant amount of weight, they found that those who ate more on weekends and holidays were more likely to regain lost pounds after one year. "Eating with abandon on the weekend can undo all the healthy eating from the rest of the week," Fletcher says.
Outsmart it: Try to eat the same amount and types of foods on most days. "Going from all rich foods on the weekends to lower-fat foods during the week interferes with your taste buds' ability to eventually prefer healthier offerings," Dr. Katz says. If you typically eat oatmeal for breakfast Monday through Friday, take a bowl from that restaurant brunch buffet on Sunday, too (add a few small treats you don't normally have, like blueberries or a dab of brown sugar). Also know that portion sizes in restaurants are huge—way more than you should be eating. "A pasta or steak dish can be three to four times what one serving should be," says Zanecosky. To avoid overeating in a restaurant, ask for a to-go container and put in half the food at the start of your meal, Roberts suggests. At fast-food places, order the junior or regular-sized hamburger and small fries.
Office junk food
It's as much an office staple as paper clips. One of Dr. Wansink's studies revealed that if you keep chocolates in a clear dish on your desk, you'll eat up to nine chocolates a day—that's 230 calories! Worse, most people underestimate how much they're taking. And that doesn't even count the doughnuts left over from morning meetings, candy bars in the vending machine, or those constant office birthday celebrations that include cake.
Outsmart it: Move that candy dish at least a few feet from your desk. (Put it on a bookshelf or in another part of the office that you have to get up to reach.) In Dr. Wansink's study, this small shift helped people eat five fewer chocolates daily. Better yet, get rid of it altogether.
Other office food tends to be located near the coffeepot; if you know treats lurk there, bring your own coffee thermos from home or walk to a nearby shop for your midday cup to avoid the danger zone, Zanecosky advises. And if the birthday celebrations happen too often, collaborate with your diet-minded coworkers to see if you can have just one cake for a month's worth of birthdays. If not, splurge on occasion, but then forgo a dessert you planned to have another day. As long as you're mindful of how much you're eating, you'll keep the weight off—which surely is something to celebrate! | <urn:uuid:da58738a-d0a6-4f39-896a-95a27aeaec51> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/a26/8-biggest-fat-traps/?click=ht | 2015-10-07T17:46:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737875203.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221755-00145-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961591 | 2,025 |
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Lady Bunny has teamed up with New York City house music DJs & Producers Sean Grasty and DJ Rikky Rivera, who are known internationally as Groove Addix, to bring us the fierce new dance track ‘Lately.’
[quote]Lately, your love has changed. Lately, you’ve rearranged.”[/quote]
This fierce club-edited song has all the right beats, and Lady Bunny’s amazing vocals complement this track perfectly. It reminds us of a song that you might have seen playing at Babylon during an old episode of the hit series ‘Queer As Folk’ because it has all the right elements to be a successful club song.
Check out the track below and then hop on over to iTunes to purchase the track – it’s available on both US iTunes and UK iTunes. Plus, you can purchase the full remix album, which includes five additional remixes.
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More then ever I'm finding things that, while they take physical strength, mental strength is a primary factor. This weekend I decided at the last minute to sign-up for a local 5k race. Since Jennifer was still recovering from an infection, this would be the first time I would be running a race by myself. We jog/walked an 8k in March and ran a 5k in April, making this my third race. So, physically I knew I could do it. After all, it's only 3.1 miles, right?
With Jennifer's reminder not to "take off" at the start and risk burn-out, I tried to find someone who was running at a pace that was comfortable, but not too comfortable. The first time I looked at my watch was less then five minutes into the race. Not good. How could I keep it up if I was already "feeling the run" before I even passed the 1 mile mark?! By the time I did pass the little white sign on the side of the road, I still hadn't found anyone to pace. A quick look at my wristwatch showed just over 9 minutes (~ 6.6mph). Compared to the slightly higher than 11 minute per mile pace (~ 5.5mph) of our April race, this was really good, but could I keep it up already feeling stressed the way I did? Was I going too fast? Was I going to "give up" and walk? The mental gymnastics had begun.
I knew this is where the “mental rubber” was going to hit the road. For the next mile I kept talking myself out of questioning my success. "Just reduce your pace when you feel like walking" I told myself. Despite walking being a good tactic to recover during longer runs, because I've jogged a full 3 miles before I knew, if I walked, I'd be admitting defeat to myself. At the water station between miles one and two volunteers struggled to provide water to runners in the brutally humid morning. I could only manage two sips while running. I poured the reminder of the cup on me in hopes of giving some cool relief. In dryer climates it would have been great, but in the high humidity I was now running with a heavy, soggy shirt.
At mile marker two I glanced at my watch. As predicted my pace was slower. Slower but still going, that’s what I reminded myself. Despite my head requesting that my body walk some, my legs didn’t get the message and I just kept going. My new mantra now became, “Where the heck was the 3km marker? I must have missed it.” This was wrong on two points. I needed to just continue my pace until I could see the end and put everything I had left in the tank into the final yards and… the markers were ticking off the miles and not kilometers. This last bit would come back to mentally bite me badly. By this point I had long given up trying to find anyone to pace. For the past while there was a runner just behind me who sounded like every step was a major effort. The sound of groaning and coughing had me wondering what I was doing.
Rounding the corner I looked down the street to see Jennifer. She stood up and began clapping. A wash of emotions came over me and I just wanted to stop and in fact I slowed to take five steps. Looking over her right shoulder Jennifer shouted and pointed at the right-hand turn in the road, “This is the last corner, you’re almost there.” I gasped back in despair, “It’s all up hill!” In my mind, I still needed to run up the grade we’d all come down at the beginning of the race. Despite Jennifer’s contradiction that it was all down hill, I rounded the corner thinking she’d lied… no, seriously, that’s where my head was… and then I saw the little white marker with the number 3. The two runners just ahead of me looked back and smiled as I let loose a rather colorful expletive, you know the one I mean. Remember, I thought the markers were for kilometers and not miles, so in my mind I hadn’t missed the 3 km marker and now I knew I had a LONG way to go (hence the expletive).
Time for mental toughness and to show my mettle. Instead of rising to the call I began to walk, feeling defeated. But after just three steps I started to think more clearly. Why would Jennifer lie to me? Do I really WANT to give up? No, I could do this. Now a new question came to me, what were all those people doing lining the race route? Grey matter reengaged I deduced my error and realized I really had less then a tenth of a mile to go. Did I have ANYTHING left in the tank? Could I push when I didn’t think I had anything left? YES! Arms pumping, legs kicking I gave everything. The volunteer braced when I warned her that I would need to hold onto her bucket to lean over to take off the race-timing chip from my right ankle. I had done it and had no idea what my time was because, for once, I forgot to look at my watch. Instead I was looking for a place to collapse. But I didn’t even give into my weariness. I had learned a lesson today.
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Lachlan Macquarie granted 100 acres (40 hectares) – the first portion of Studley Park – to William Parrott in 1810. This was the first grant in the Narellan area; the second grant, also of 100 acres, was to John Condron in 1812, the two grants making up the present day area of Studley Park. Parrott and Condron were employees of John Macarthur at Camden Park – Parrott was a shoemaker and Condron was one of Macarthur's herdsmen.
The Parrott property became known as Parrott's Farm and it was willed to John McManus, who then sold it to John Lacy in 1825. Lacy sold the property to his son Timothy on the same day, for the sum of 200 Spanish dollars. Timothy Lacy mortgaged the property to Daniel Cooper and James Holt in 1833. On Cooper's death in 1853, Holt sold the property to Thomas Brennan. The Parrott's Farm property was again sold, this time to James Marlow. Upon his death, the farm was transferred to his wife Martha. Martha sold the property on 20 November 1881 to Abraham Friedman, a moneylender from Sydney, who sold it in 1884 to William Thompson, a real estate developer.
A portion of Parrott's land was given to the Church of England in the later 1830s for a church school and cemetery. St Thomas's church was built in 1884. The original church school building still stands and is used today.
Condron's farm was initially sold in 1824 to Henry Ellison, a publican from Parramatta. The Ellison family kept the property until 1878, when the farm was sold to the developer William Thompson. In October 1888, Thompson sold the property, along with Parrott's Farm which he had acquired in 1884, to William Charles Payne, a grazier from Narellan.
Studley Park House is built
In 1889, Payne started construction on the property of a gentleman's residence in the Italianate style of the late Victorian era. Also constructed at that time were the machinery shed, a carriage house and stables. It was Payne who gave the property the name of Studley Park, believed to be named after Studley Park, located on the property of Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey, near Ripon in Yorkshire, England.
As a result of financial problems Payne sold the house in 1891 to Francis Buckle, who used the house as his country property. Buckle sold the property in 1902 to Dr Henry Oliver, the headmaster of the Camden Grammar School, which operated in the house.
In 1919 Oliver sold to Reverend Charles Herbert Palmer, who continued to run the school at Studley Park until 1933, when the house was sold to Archibald Adolphus Gregory, the sales manager of 20th Century Fox. Gregory, a keen golfer, went about constructing a private golf course on the property. In 1934 the Camden Golf Club were invited to play on the course.
With the outbreak of World War II, the property was acquired by the Department of the Army, to be used as a training school for officer graduates from the Eastern Command. In 1950, a group of local golfers obtained a lease on the property from the Department of Defence and went about reconstructing the golf course. Studley Park House was still owned and maintained by the Army and used as a training school.
In 1972, two subdivisions were created on the Parrott's Farm portion of the estate, to provide new residential area for the village of Narellan.
In 1984 the army sold Studley Park House to Charles Northan, who vacated it in 1994. It remained vacant until purchased by the Camden Golf Club Ltd in 1996. The house was sold by the club in 2008 to the Moran family.
The stables are now the home of the Camden Golf Club, with the bar and toilet area in the original stables and carriage shed, and the office area in what were the male servants' quarters. The machinery shed, located to the front right of the house, was burnt down in a disastrous blaze in February 1982: only its foundations remain today. Local residents make up the membership of the club.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) scans are both standard imaging tools that physicians use to pinpoint disease states in the body. A PET scan demonstrates how organs and tissues are functioning at a very early stage in a disease, often before structural changes take place. The CT scan provides information about the body’s anatomy, such as size, shape and location. By combining these two scanning technologies, a PET/CT scan enables physicians to more accurately diagnose and identify cancer, heart disease and brain disorders.
A single PET/CT exam can provide information that once would have required several medical studies and possibly surgery. PET scans are most often used to help the physician detect cancer and monitor response to treatment. PET scans are also used to evaluate heart disease and neurological conditions.
PET/CT scans provide the physician with valuable information. For cancer patients it may help specialists understand the extent of disease, guide the most effective therapy, and then help evaluate if the treatment is effective. PET/CT scans also aid in the diagnosis of heart disease and neurological diseases. This type of imaging may show changes much earlier than other imaging tests like CT or MRI.
The risks associated with a PET/CT scan are very slight. The amount of radiation is low and the injected radiopharmaceutical decays quickly so there is no detectable radioactivity after a few hours. In addition to the radioactive decay, the remaining radiopharmaceutical is eliminated from the body through urine. Family members are not at risk for exposure since most of the radioactivity has left the body or decayed before the patient has left the center. The physician ordering your PET/CT scan will explain any associated risks and benefits from a PET/CT exam. Our Chief Technologist will also be able to address any questions you might have about the safety of PET/CT imaging.
Radiopharmaceuticals are used in a wide variety of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT exams to image and measure how the body functions. In PET/CT imaging the most commonly used radiopharmaceutical is a radioactive form of glucose that allows doctors to image and measure how cells in the body use glucose for fuel. Different diseases increase or decrease the amount of glucose used.
Upon arrival at the imaging center, our Patient Care Coordinator will review and complete your patient registration information. Afterward, our Technologist will escort you to a comfortable uptake room where you will receive a radiopharmaceutical injection. You will then be asked to relax and remain physically inactive for approximately 60 minutes to allow the radiopharmaceutical to distribute throughout your body.
After this resting period, you will be asked to empty your bladder and then lie down on the scanner bed. The scan takes approximately 15-35 minutes, depending upon the type of scan you are having and the type of scanner being used. It is important that you lie still during this process. If you need pain medication please bring it with you. You should plan on being at the imaging facility for approximately 2 to 3 hours.
Correct preparation for your PET/CT study is very important!
Before arriving for your exam appointment, you will be asked to carefully follow specific exam preparation instructions, especially regarding food and drink. You may download a copy of these instructions by clicking here.
In addition, please try to refrain from strenuous physical activity (working out, jogging, heavy lifting, etc.) for 24 hours prior to your exam.
If you need to reschedule your appointment, please contact us as soon as possible so that we may reschedule your exam for a more convenient time. In these cases, we ask that you give us as much notice as possible, because the radiopharmaceuticals we use must be ordered in advance and cannot be reused once we receive them.
Please be sure to bring a valid government ID and your insurance card to your exam appointment. It will also be helpful to bring a list of any medications you are currently taking and copies of your most recent X-ray, CT, or MRI exams.
Please be aware that our exam rooms can sometimes be cool, so we suggest that you wear warm comfortable clothing. We also ask that you avoid wearing jewelry or clothes with metal fasteners or zippers.
If you are on anxiety medication or are claustrophobic, please bring medication with you in order to take it while in the uptake room.
We have chairs available in our waiting room for family members to relax while you are having your procedure. However, due to the nature of the medication and the scanner used, family members (especially pregnant women & children) are not allowed in the uptake rooms or scan room.
The PET/CT scan is interpreted by a Radiologist and the results are usually sent to the referring physician within one to two business days. Our staff are not qualified nor allowed to discuss exam results with patients. Your physician will discuss your PET/CT exam results during your next scheduled visit.
If you would like any other physician or healthcare provider to receive copies of your PET/CT results and medical records, we will require your specific and written authorization. We encourage you to utilize a form for such purposes that may be downloaded here.
After your referring physician has discussed with you the results of your PET/CT exam, you may request and receive personally a copy of your PET/CT exam results and medical records. In these cases, please call us at (337) 433-3001 to make this request and schedule a pickup time that give us sufficient time to duplicate your records. You will also be required to complete and sign a medical release at the time you receive your records. A copy of this release may be downloaded here.
Receiving feedback from our patients regarding their experience with our services and staff is a powerful avenue for us to assess whether we are meeting their needs and allows us to address any shortcomings that might arise.
To facilitate this process, every patient should receive this Patient Satisfaction Survey to complete and return with their thoughts about the entire experience at our imaging center and with our organization.
Billing & Payments
We accept Medicare and most insurance and managed care plans. As, plans or contracts may change, please contact us if you would like to know whether we currently accept a specific plan.
In you are insured, outstanding deductibles, co-payments and co-insurance will be collected at the time of your exam. If for any reason you will be responsible for all or most of the charges, please contact us to discuss our reduced self-pay fee schedule and explore the payment arrangements available to you.
If you are not currently insured, if your insurance policy does not cover this type of exam, or if for any other reason you will be responsible for all or most of the charges, please contact us to discuss our reduced self-pay fee schedule and explore the payment arrangements available to you.
If you have questions or concerns about the bill you receive for your exam, we encourage you to contact our helpful billing staff at (318) 424-6486. We will be happy to discuss your bill and address any questions or concerns you may have.
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Rajesh Krishnan attended a magistrate court on Nrupatunga Road today after a court had issued warrant on him. People were surprised to see him in court. The warrant was issued after he failed to attend the court despite summons. Sources said that the case against Rajesh Krishnan is about a cheque bounce issue. A cheque of Rs 1 crore issued by him had bounced after which the case was filed against him. The popular singer has also tried to be an actor and in recent years is also a regular on TV singing shows and competitions. | <urn:uuid:30b481d7-f9fe-4a23-998f-bc4303821a78> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.chitraloka.com/sensational-news/12637-warrant-on-rajesh-krishnan-exclusive.html | 2019-02-22T04:44:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247513222.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222033812-20190222055812-00261.warc.gz | en | 0.997769 | 113 |
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Two weekends ago, my friend Mike took me fly-fishing on Lewis Creek in Starksboro.
(Starksboro, looking North)
“I’ve got an amazing 3 weight Orvis rod that I want to try out,” he said, “and I’ve been tying some new flies.” Then he rattled off a list that sounded more like indie band names than flies: Wooly Bugger, Wingless Prince, Pheasant Tail Flash Back.
“You been fishing before?” he asked.
“Oh yeah,” I said confidently. This is technically true, as I’ve been spincasting since I was wee. But I know as much about casting a fly rod as I know about operating a helicopter. We agreed to meet at a dark hour on Saturday morning.
If you’ve read “A River Runs Through It,” by Norman MacLean, you know what fly-fishing is supposed to be like -- a rite of masculinity, a dance with the water, an improvisatory poem. A half-clad man in a wide-brimmed hat casting graceful loops above a shimmering stream. You get the idea.
That is not what I experienced.
Lewis Creek was definitely shimmering, and last Saturday was one of the standout days of the fall. The grass was frosted when we drove up, and some of the quartzite in the riverbed had a frozen sheen. The maples and birches next to the river were starting to change, and the water was so clean it bubbled green. The scene was set for a truly religious fly-fishing experience.
We pulled up to the river near two trucks. Mike scrambled down to the river, and I chatted with a few guys getting ready to go bird hunting over the road.
“I’ve caught some big brookies up in here,” one of them said. I nodded sagely and headed down the trail.
I tied a Wooly Bugger on, dropped it in the water, and watched it float downstream. Then I tried casting, and tangled the line. How can just two casts create a knot with more complexity than the human eye? I sat down to unsnarl it, and by the time I was done my butt was asleep.
I repeated the cast and untangle drill a few times, then walked upstream a bit, scrambling over slick stone shelves to get to a higher pool. After untangling my line again, I hid behind a big rock and dropped my Wooly Bugger into a deep eddy on the other side.
“There’s no way the fish can see me here,” I thought, “and I don’t even have to cast.”
This was no more effective at catching fish than the cast/tangle/untangle procedure, but far less frustrating. Within a few minutes, though, the hook snagged on a piece of wood jammed under the big boulder.
I tried pulling on it from a variety of angles and briefly considered cutting the line, but Mike had chosen this Wooly Bugger especially for me. I couldn’t lose it.
So, I rolled up my sleeves and shimmied out onto the boulder, hooking my toes over a bump and lowering my body toward the water. Even without a fly rod in one hand, this would be a precarious move. I followed the line under the boulder with my fingers and the sleeves of my shirt got soaked. I switched to the other hand and freed the hook, shimmied back over the boulder and looked up the bank. Two of the hunters were watching me. I gave an embarrassed wave and scurried into the woods.
After three hours of scaring fish and untangling monofilament, it was much warmer out, and my shirt had started to dry. I still hadn’t caught a fish, but had mastered the art of appearing to fly-fish while in fact just passively enjoying the morning.
And, surprisingly, it was great. I watched a Sisyphean chipmunk roll an unshucked black walnut up the hill. A school of black-nosed dace (Mike told me what these were) darted around a small pothole, cut off from the main flow. I found a small cave between two imbrocated slabs of quartzite and climbed through it to the very edge of a waterfall. When Mike told me it was time to go, I was peeling back a sheet of moss to watch a long beetle burrow through a fissure in the rock.
And Mike didn’t catch anything either, so I didn’t even feel too incompetent.
So, from an absolute novice, here are my three tips:
1. Don't pretend you know more than you do. Even if you're a state champion in Montana, tell your guide that you could use a few pointers. They know their local streams, flies, and fish better than anyone. Or at least think they do.
2. If you're the local taking someone fishing, be as mysterious as possible. Say things like, "I've fished all over the world but there ain't no trout like these," or without provocation exclaim, "Now you've done it!" and storm off. Occasionally taste the water and make thoughtful faces as you inspect your flies.
3. If you're the fish, go ahead and bite the gosh-durn fly for once.
And, if you still want to go fly-fishing in Addison County, there are LOTS of opportunities. We fished near Great Falls of Lewis Creek off of States Prison Hollow Road, but I’ve seen people fishing on almost every sizeable stream in this area. The Middlebury Mountaineer and Vermont Field Sports both carry fly-fishing equipment and can help direct you to good stretches of river. There are regional non-profits like the New Haven River Anglers Inc. who help monitor water quality and fish populations in area streams.
Fishing for trout is best in the cold, highly oxygenated rivers like Vermont’s mountain streams. Not only is the fishing good up there, but the scenery is incredible. So, get out of the valley, have someone (not me) teach you how to cast, and go catch some trout. Or, barring that, watch some animals and fall foliage with a rod in your hand. | <urn:uuid:c3e57043-9064-4745-9b30-8a73e3228cce> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://addisonindependent.com/node/9672 | 2015-08-05T08:35:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438043062723.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002422-00269-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965995 | 1,353 |
Narayan Shrestha, left, gets advice about a camera and accessories from Kate Heavener, center, a digital imaging specialist at Best Buy. Sarina Shrestha is on right. The Shrestha family are from Towson. They were Black Friday shopping at the Best Buy store on York Road this morning.
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Greek Migration Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis called on his EU counterparts to share the burden of 4,000 unaccompanied minor refugees being held on Greek islands, but only one responded. Speaking this week at the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs he said that the conditions in which the children were living “do not honour the EU”.
Mr Chrisochoidis said that it isn’t a matter of rules, but “a matter of civilisation” to do something for the children, and called on EU member states to share their responsibility in the crisis as Greece “with dignity and without any assistance” is trying to deal with “a humanitarian flood”. He said that there has been a 120 per cent increase in flows from Turkey since July, creating an alarming situation.
MEPs from all parties criticised plans outlined by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resettle Syrian refugees in a “safe zone” in northern Syria. EU Commission official Maciej Popowski said that the EU will not pay a single euro more than the 15billion euros it has already given to Turkey during the crisis for refugee relocation that results in a demographic change that Turkey is orchestrating.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says she expects the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate several times a year through 2019, as it moves closer toward to its economic goals of maximum employment and stable inflation.
But in a speech in San Francisco Wednesday, she said she can’t say when the next interest rate will occur or how high rates will rise. She says that will depend on how the economy performs in the coming months.
She says Fed officials, who boosted rates for a second time last month, expect to raise rates “a few times a year” until they have pushed the Fed’s benchmark rate close to 3 percent by the end of 2019. The rate now stands in a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent.
The 3 percent level for the Fed’s target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, is the point that the Fed currently believes is the so-called neutral rate — the level where the Fed’s interest rate policies are not spurring growth or holding it back.
“Right now our foot is still pressing on the gas pedal, though, as I noted, we have eased back a bit,” Yellen said. “Our foot remains on the pedal in part because we want to make sure the economic expansion remains strong enough to withstand an expected shock, given that we don’t have much room to cut interest rates.”
Currently, Yellen said inflation is still running below the Fed’s 2 percent objective, by its preferred measure of prices, and that some measures show that even though unemployment is below 5 percent, there could still be room to make further progress on jobs.
“For instance, wage growth has only recently begun to pick up and remains fairly low,” Yellen said.
She said as the economy gets closer to the Fed’s goals on employment and inflation, it will make sense to “gradually reduce” the level of support the Fed is providing by raising interest rates.
“Waiting too long to begin moving toward the neutral rate could risk a nasty surprise down the road — either too much inflation, financial instability, or both,” Yellen said in her speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.
During her appearance, Yellen made no mention of the incoming Trump administration. President-election Donald Trump was critical of Yellen during the campaign, accusing the Fed of being political and keeping interest rates low to help Democrats.
Yellen has denied this charge. She has said she intends to remain as Fed chair until her term ends in February 2018.
Yellen was asked how the Fed safeguards its political independence while at the same time strengthening policy coordination with the executive branch.
One long tradition dating back decades, she said, is the Fed chair’s regular meetings with the administration’s Treasury secretary.
“During my time, I have had virtually a weekly breakfast or lunch with Jack Lew,” Yellen said, referring to the current Treasury secretary.
She said the meetings are used for exchanging views on the economy, but she said she has never felt pressure from the administration to follow a particular course on interest rates.
“We share a common interest in the success of the U.S. economy, and the administrations, at least the ones I have experience with, respect the independence of the Fed,” Yellen said.
The U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency said on Wednesday it raised the maximum limit on mortgages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can acquire in 2017, the first increase since 2006, as home prices have risen above their third-quarter 2007 levels.
In most U.S. areas, the 2017 maximum “conforming” loan limit for one-unit properties will increase to $424,100 from $417,000, the regulator of the two mortgage finance agencies said in a statement.
Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, FHFA could not increase the baseline loan limit until the average home price returned to its third-quarter 2007 levels.
Home values in the third quarter were about 1.7 percent higher than their levels nine years ago, according to the FHFA.
In high-cost areas where median home prices exceed the baseline loan limit, the maximum loan limit will be higher. The new ceiling loan limit in these areas will be $636,150, or 150 percent of $424,100, for one-unit properties in the contiguous 48 U.S. states, FHFA said.
Earlier on Wednesday, the FHFA said U.S. home values appreciated by 1.5 percent in third quarter, while its seasonally adjusted monthly index on home prices rose 0.6 percent in September.
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You, like many people, might be thinking about high-tailing it to Canada after last night’s election results.
In fact, so many people panicked and considered a move to the Great White North that the Canadian immigration website crashed, displaying a “500 – Internal server error” message for hours. As more and more states turned red, the “let’s all just move to Canada” jokes became increasingly common on social media.
But in the event you did actually want to buy property and move to Canada, what would it take?
First, it involves recognizing that buying property in Canada is not a path to citizenship, said Leigh Freeman, a Canadian-American citizen and a real estate agent at Windemere’s Bellingham branch and Macdonald Realty in Vancouver. Canada welcomes buyers from all countries, and while there are no limits or restrictions for foreign buyers, property owners still have to go through the bureaucratic process of applying for a Canadian visa, he said.
Those hoping for citizenship must first become permanent residents and live in Canada for at least two years within a five-year period, according to Canada’s immigration and citizenship website (which works now). The process to obtaining permanent residency status can be long and complicated, making work and student visas seem like more attractive options. But these options are usually temporary solutions and may not put you on a path to citizenship. Even marrying a Canadian citizen does not instantly grant you citizenship privilege.
When it comes to buying property, though, the home-buying process is largely the same as it is in the U.S. As with other large metropolitan cities, the issue soon becomes finding something that fits within your price range.
“There’s kind of a sticker shock when buyers look at the Vancouver market,” Freeman said. “What Americans will find in Vancouver is that the prices are substantially higher.”
In May, the benchmark price for homes in the greater Vancouver area climbed to $1.09 million USD, according to figures from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. The benchmark price is a measurement that represents a typical property in Vancouver and takes into account factors — such as lot size, home age, and number of rooms — that are often excluded by averages and medians. The resulting figure supposedly forms a more accurate picture of the market.
American home buyers will also encounter a number of Canadian property taxes. Vancouver has received so much attention from foreign buyers that in August, the city enacted a 15 percent foreign buyer transfer tax. The tax is an effort by city officials to cool the red hot market, which saw foreign nationals spend more than $1 billion on Vancouver-area property between June 10 and July 14, CBC News reported. The tax applies to the Vancouver metro area and also includes the nearby cities of Surrey, White Rock and Richmond, among others.
Buyers can also expect a property transfer tax, which applies to any residential or commercial property purchase, Freeman said. One percent is taxed on the first $200,000 of the final sale price with an additional 2 percent tax on the value between $200,000 and $2 million. Three percent is taxed on any remainder more than $2 million. This tax applies to sales within all of British Columbia.
The additional taxes can add up quickly. Freeman recommends buyers look at areas surrounding Vancouver, such as Surrey, Ladner, Tsawwassen and White Rock, which can offer more affordable options. Keep in mind that some of those areas, including Surrey and White Rock, will include the foreign buyer transfer tax.
Even then, moving across the border in a fit of panic won’t make financial sense for many people, said Dean Jones, principal and owner of Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty. He recommends renting a home for at least a year to see if potential buyers can make the jump. And then American home buyers will face stiff competition from other foreign nationals who have been streaming into the Canadian market for years.
“A similar phenomenon has been coming from Asia for the last 20 years,” he said, referring to the influx of largely Chinese buyers snapping up Vancouver real estate. “Americans would only be the latest to seek financial safe harbor in Canada.”
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REPOST from Windermere’s own,
Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
The American people have spoken and they have elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Change was clearly demanded, and change is what we will have.
The election was a shock for many, especially on the West Coast where we have not been overly affected by the long-term loss in US manufacturing or stagnant wage growth of the past decade. But the votes are in and a new era is ahead of us. So, what does this mean for the housing market?
First and foremost I would say that we should all take a deep breath. In a similar fashion to the UK’s “Brexit”, there will be a “whiplash” effect, as was seen in overnight trading across the globe. However, at least in the US, equity markets have calmed as they start to take a closer look at what a Trump presidency will mean.
On a macro level, I would start by stating that political rhetoric and hyperbole do not necessarily translate into policy. That is the most important message that I want to get across. I consider it highly unlikely that many of the statements regarding trade protectionism will actually go into effect. It will be very important for President Trump to tone down his platform on renegotiating trade agreements and imposing tariffs on China. I also deem it highly unlikely that a 1,000-mile wall will actually get built.
It is crucial that some of the more inflammatory statements that President-Elect Trump has made be toned down or markets will react negatively. However, what is of greater concern to me is that neither candidate really approached questions regarding housing with any granularity. There was little-to-no-discussion regarding housing finance reform, so I will be watching this topic very closely over the coming months.
As far as the housing market is concerned, it is really too early to make any definitive comment. That said, Trump ran on a platform of deregulation and this could actually bode well for real estate. It might allow banks the freedom to lend more, which in turn, could further energize the market as more buyers may qualify for home loans.
Concerns over rising interest rates may also be overstated. As history tells us, during times of uncertainty we tend to put more money into bonds. If this holds true, then we may see a longer-than-expected period of below-average rates. Today’s uptick in bond yields is likely just temporary.
Proposed infrastructure spending could boost employment and wages, which again, would be a positive for housing markets. Furthermore, easing land use regulations has the potential to begin addressing the problem of housing affordability across many of our nation’s housing markets – specifically on the West Coast.
Economies do not like uncertainty. In the near-term we may see a temporary lull in the US economy, as well as the housing market, as we analyze what a Trump presidency really means. But at the present time, I do not see any substantive cause for panic in the housing sector.
We are a resilient nation, and as long as we continue to have checks-and balances, I have confidence that we will endure any period of uncertainty and come out stronger.
To say that Windermere has a lot of Seahawks fans would be an understatement. That’s why we are so excited to announce today that we are now the “Official Real Estate Company of the Seattle Seahawks”!
At the center of this partnership with the Seahawks is a new #tacklehomelessness campaign in which the Windermere Foundation will donate $100 for every Seahawks tackle at home during the 2016 season. On the receiving end of these donations is YouthCare, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that has been providing services and support to homeless youth from across Puget Sound for more than 40 years. Since 1989, the Windermere Foundation has donated over $30 million to non-profits that support low-income and homeless families, so partnering with YouthCare and the Seahawks on the#tacklehomelessness campaign is a perfect fit for us.
“We are proud to partner with Windermere, an iconic and locally-based company with a deep commitment to this community,” said Seahawks Vice President of Corporate Partnerships Amy Sprangers. “Windermere’s brand and values align perfectly with our commitment to this region. It is wonderful that this partnership will make a positive impact on homeless youth throughout the Seattle area.”
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Danny was great in helping me find my first home. Whenever I had any questions or concerns I was responded to quickly and honestly. If I called him, he was always available and always answered. If I wrote an email, it never seemed long at all before I got a response. He was an immense asset in helping me understand a business that I was very unfamiliar with.
Meetings and property viewings were incredibly easy to arrange as Danny is very flexible and prompt in setting up visits.
Upon helping me find the right downtown condo, Danny was able to get me the price I set out to get at the beginning of our negotiations. He delivered on everything I needed, and even the things I didn’t know I needed. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a hardworking, honest, knowledgeable real estate agent. | <urn:uuid:67cda2b7-772d-4655-ac47-546a5c780860> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.century21.ca/bravorealty/Blog/Testimonial | 2017-08-23T23:35:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886124662.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823225412-20170824005412-00482.warc.gz | en | 0.989294 | 169 |
Someone has a sense of humor as this bracelet is named “Chlorophyll.” Ha ha. Inhale. Exhale as this wearable bling of soothing greens is like a breath of fresh air.
All bracelets are hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind and come with a dangling paw charm to commemorate our mission of helping animals. Each bracelet costs $20 (no tax). Shipping cost is based on destination.
For the month of August, bracelet sales benefit the Humane Society of Southern Arizona’s Second Chance Fund.
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Permits provide citizens with a regulated process for works and activities that take place in the public right of way. This ensures minimal disruption of the movement of people and goods, and protection of the physical asset.
Permissions is a public service provided by several divisions of the Public Works Department to various clients. Permits are provided to undertake specific works or actions in the City of Winnipeg under the authority of the Public Works Department.
Anyone wishing to install, repair or alter a private approach (driveway access) is required to obtain an "Approach Construction Permit".
Crossing a city right-of-way onto private property at a location other than at an existing driveway approach such as mounting a curb and/or crossing a sidewalk requires a Crossing Permit. For more information and applicable fees contact:
At any time an excavation in or under a street, sidewalk or boulevard is done a "Cut Permit" is required. For more detailed information and fees, please call 204-986-3184.
Applicant shall, for each individual hydrant, make application for the use of water there from, and obtain a permit for the use of such hydrant. For more information regarding permits and fees, please call 204-986-3184
Vehicles that exceed the legal limits of the Highway Traffic Act (HTA) or The City of Winnipeg Traffic By-law require permits. Effective April 2012, Manitoba Motor Carrier Permits and Development administers the issuing of Move Permits. For more information, please phone 204-945-3961 or toll free 1-877-812-0009.
When Spring Weight Restrictions are in affect, Move Permits on weight-restricted roads are administered by the City of Winnipeg. The two step process requires contacting:
- 204-451-0125 for an inspection;
- PWD-UOS-Permits@winnipeg.ca or phoning 204-986-6006 to obtain the final permit.
No connection, repair, alteration or reconnection shall be made to the underground portion of a sewer connection or drain either on the City street or on private property without first obtaining a permit from the City. The applicant shall pay the cost of installation of the water service connection from the street watermain to the property line. The service may be installed only by the employees of the Water and Waste Department or by a person licensed by the City (Licensed Sewer and Water Contractor) to perform that type of work. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent. If work occurs on a regional roadway, applicant will also require a Use of Street permit. For more information, please call 204-986-6006.
All activities that impede or temporarily occupy the Street (commonly referred to as the right-of-way) require a Use of Street permit. There are different types of Use of Street permits depending on the activity, described below. Various conditions are applicable specific to each permit.
Fees may apply including permit, administrative, street rental, temporary traffic control placement and parking meter revenue loss. A General Liability insurance policy in the amount of $2,000,000.00 is required, adding The City of Winnipeg as an additional named insured. Permits must be on site and available for examination by Inspectors, Constables or Agents of Enforcement.
The Traffic Management Branch must be contacted for permission to work on a Regional Street in accordance with Section 2.00 of the Manual of Temporary Traffic Control in addition to obtaining a Use of Street permit. Regional street lane closures can be requested using the Regional Street Lane Closure Request Form.
To enquire about obtaining a Use of Street permit please email PWD-UOS-Permits@winnipeg.ca or phone 204-986-6006.
There are several different types of Use of Street Permits:
Annual Curb Lane Usage
This permit allows the permit holder to deposit or store equipment, materials, garbage, waste materials or any other thing on a limited section of a street where parking is permitted up to a maximum of three days or to operate a crane extending over a street. This permit does not apply to parking of licensed vehicles, including trailers not actively in use by a tradesperson in the immediate vicinity.
This permit allows the permit holder to close and occupy a specific area of the street with equipment and materials for a defined period of time. Depending on the scale of the project, construction drawings may be required.
This permit allows the permit holder to occupy a specific portion of the street for a defined period of time period with trucks while loading and/or unloading.
A permit is required to occupy a regional street with equipment when installing, altering or repairing a sewer/water/sprinkler line connection to private property.
Street Festival, Marathon and Film Production
All Street Festivals, Marathons and Film Productions that occupy portions of the street require Use of Street permits. Applications should be made through the City of Winnipeg Film and Special Events Office.
Street Festival and Marathon closures that are community oriented or non-profit may be eligible for the special events cost sharing grant from the Public Works Department. The grant is capped so distribution is first come, first serve. For more information on the grant, please contact 311.
The Street Furniture permit authorizes the temporary placement of street furniture in the right-of-way. Street furniture includes but is not limited to bicycle racks, public art installations, benches, vending machines and seasonal decorations. A dimensioned sketch of the placement is required. Permanent installations are considered encroachments and are administered by the Property, Planning and Development Department.
Block Parties are closures of residential streets by the local residents and do not include closures by a business or for business purposes like sales, promotions, company events, festivals or extending business premises to the right-of-ways. Sidewalks must always be kept open and pedestrians allowed passage. All Block Parties require Use of Street Permits.
Conducting Business on a Boulevard
The permit authorizes the use of a boulevard to conduct business with a readily movable cart including a mobile food unit. A boulevard does not include a sidewalk, median or traffic island.
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COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force
To: Faculty and Staff
Thank you to those who tuned in to the April 14 Town Hall for Faculty and Staff and for those that contributed questions during our Q&A session. We hope the discussion was helpful to you. As planning for the future of work at UCLA continues to evolve, it is critical that we keep our campus community informed of the steps UCLA is taking to prepare for a safer and phased return to campus this fall.
If you missed all or part of the discussion, the recording of this town hall and the presentation slides are available to view online. We will also be providing answers to some of the submitted questions in the coming days that we were not able to answer live. We hope these resources are helpful in answering some of your questions.
A departmental toolkit and other resources to assist with fall planning will be available in May. Departmental resumption plans should be submitted to EH&S for review (PDF) as soon as possible, but at least six weeks prior to the anticipated on-site ramp up.
A new Return to Campus website has been created to provide UCLA faculty, students and staff with ongoing and comprehensive information related to plans for 2021, including returning to work at UCLA and FlexWork options.
In addition, we will continue to keep you informed of upcoming town hall meetings and the steps the UCLA COVID-19 Recovery and Response Task Force is taking to protect the campus community and plan for the future of working at UCLA.
A reminder that all UCLA faculty and staff are required to complete two online trainings in the immediate future. One is a Cal/OSHA-mandated COVID-19 Prevention Training that must be completed either before returning to on-campus work or June 30, whichever comes first. The second is a COVID-19 vaccine education training that is required by the University of California (PDF) and can be completed before or after receiving a vaccine.
We also remind all UCLA staff and faculty to schedule an appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, as soon as they are able to do so. Everyone 16 years of age and older in California is now eligible. UCLA Health is reaching out to specific prioritized groups as new vaccine doses become available. If you are able to book an earlier appointment through an alternate process, such as California’s My Turn or Carbon Health, we encourage you to do so.
You can find general information about the vaccines on UCLA Health’s COVID-19 vaccine information hub and visit UCLA’s COVID-19 resources website and Bruins Safe Online for updates about our campus response to the pandemic.
If you have additional questions, concerns or thoughts about UCLA’s COVID-19 response, please write to email@example.com.
UCLA Administrative Vice Chancellor
Co-chair, Response and Recovery Task Force
Immediate Past Chair, UCLA Academic Senate
Professor of History
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These Teens Sung A Gospel Cover Of 'Hotline Bling' Whilst Supermarket Shopping
16 December 2015, 10:46 | Updated: 16 December 2015, 11:48
And absolutely killed it.
A video that shows a group of friends busting out a gospel performance of 'Hotline Bling' whilst walking through a supermarket in the US is going viral.
The amazing clip sees 19-year-old Dewayne Crocker and his friends walking through the aisles of Walmart as passersby watch on in amazement.
Hotline bling in Walmart!!! Coming to a Walmart near you once that hotline blings lol #HotLineBlingChallenge book us 850.760.7872Posted by Dewayne Crocker Jr. on Saturday, December 12, 2015
Since sharing the video on Facebook on Saturday, it has had over 550,000 views.
Crocker and his friends aren't the only ones that have covered 'Hotline Bling.' A YouTuber has dubbed clips of Barack Obama together to create a special cover from the President of the United States himself. | <urn:uuid:eea26749-b19a-440e-b6b5-22edc4fa6598> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.capitalxtra.com/artists/drake/news/gospel-cover-of-hotline-bling-supermarket/ | 2020-10-31T22:46:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107922463.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20201031211812-20201101001812-00639.warc.gz | en | 0.946844 | 227 |
Weeds. According to Merriam Webster, “weed” is defined as, “a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth.” I’ve also heard it being referred to as a “plant out of place.” We have weeds in our perennial flower beds which also contain a few yummy edibles like oregano, chives, thyme, several types of mint, and sage. Therefore when we weed, we pull the weeds by hand so we don’t have to use any toxic chemicals.
Now weeding isn’t my favorite outdoor chore, but it’s something that needs to be done. It’s actually kind of relaxing to do, and there’s the sense of accomplishment you get when it’s done. I’ve often asked myself when weeding, “Why are they so successful?” Some flowers and plants may struggle, but it seems like no matter the weather, no matter how much/how little rain we get, and even if there’s a hail storm with golfball-sized hail (this actually did happy in late June 2020), the weeds always survive.
I’m most definitely a “beginner” gardener and have a lot to learn. In my weed pulling adventures I’ve started to notice their root systems. The goal of course in weeding is to successfully get the entire root systems so you don’t have to pull the doggone thing again. Some roots are long and thick and seem to grow straight down. My guess is they do this so they can find water. Other weeds’ root systems grow more horizontally and they spread well…like weeds. I again surmise they do this to reach water to be able to survive. From my novice gardening point of view, the weeds seem to be adapting to their environment so they can grow and survive.
Whether it’s large, long roots diving deep into the earth, or strong long root systems spreading across the earth horizontally, this seems to be one of the ways weeds adapt to their environment so they can continue to live and grow. And it appears to be successful. Pulling weeds is tough and not always successful on my part, like when you only get the leaves on top and absolutely none of the root. They really do hang on! They’ve adapted to hold on for their continued survival and benefit. One particular weed I’m thinking about is terribly stubborn. It’s one of the “creeper” weeds. Every once in a while I’ll get a “good” pull. The root is crazy long and at the end there’s curly cue! This curl at the end is like the weed is “grasping” on to dear life – like it’s trying to keep itself firmly in place in the earth. Again, to me this seems to be another of the weed’s adaptations in order to stay alive.
Adapting: Voiceover Talent/Business Owner
So…what’s with all of the weed talk? The past several months (spring and summer of 2020 and likely beyond) we’ve all had to do a lot of pivoting and adapting to help stop the spread of covid 19. To stay in business, to stay engaged, to continue to communicate, we have pivoted to Zoom, GoTo Meeting, and a myriad of other meeting/conference platforms to stay in touch, promote products and services, and to learn. We’ve had to learn to adapt to be able to move forward. This is no different for the voice acting industry.
Now, though, there are new avenues to explore and to adapt to. It’s like growing your business roots a little deeper and branching out (kind of like the weeds roots that spread horizontally) to research new genres, new companies to work with, new classes (now mostly virtual) to attend, and being open to innovative ideas to try and different people and businesses to partner with.
Adaptation, I feel, is essential to grow and to survive. Sure it can be scary…at first. Delving into a new genre, asking questions, connecting with someone new, expanding your skill sets, and continual learning are essential to any business.
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Project Manager is to lead and manage a project within the specified time, budget, and quality framework to the satisfaction of the customers and ensuring economic success for the company by enhancing profitability.
• Manage staff and resources to meet project budgets with acceptable level of quality, schedule and client satisfaction
• Throughout project life cycle, identifies and assesses all risk factors utilizing available risk measurement tools and devise suitable strategies for risk mitigation
• Involves qualified subcontractors / partners in a timely manner and rigorously monitor the performance of the subcontractors / partners and conducts timely escalation where there are any discrepancies
• Involve procurement at an early stage and ensure that all procurement activities comply with the valid processes and regulations
• Mange the project within the defined time and quality framework keeping in view financial targets
• Ensures efficient communication with all relevant stakeholders and work streams
• Estimating resources and analyzing costs to achieve maximum savings while maintain quality
* Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar qualification from reputable University or college.
* At least 10 years’ experience in Projects Execution including 03 years as Project Manager in projects
* PM@ Siemens certification would be a plus
* Excellent internal and external negotiation skills
* Excellent Influencing and communication skills
* A real team Player mindset, driven by quality.
* Very good level of English
Organization: Siemens Energy
Company: Siemens Pakistan Engineering Co. Ltd.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
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Normally when G has to work on a weekend he takes the following Tuesday as his day off.
Last week he changed it to the Monday so we would both be off together.
There are lots of changes afoot at his place of work (again!), all to do with working patterns and this just might mean that a Monday off together will occur every few weeks.
Watch this space.
Anyway back to last week.
It was G's suggestion we go to Poole.
Neither of us have been for years, decades in fact.
It doesn't take that long to get to either and was easily manageable by train during the school day.
It was a perishingly cold day and all the more so when we got down to the quay.
The cold and the pubs and windows we saw will be my over riding memories of the day.
This is definitely one place which I'm sure is much more attractive to visit during the summer when it is full of the colour and hustle and bustle of holidaymakers.
Here then are the things which caught my eye.
The aforementioned variety of windows.
The first above a closed up shop, the second is also above a shop but which must have been a cinema at one stage I'm sure, the third above a pub.
The large one at the bottom was on a very inviting looking cafe.
The cockleshell history trail can be followed around Poole, this would definitely be something I'd like to do in warmer weather. An grand clock outside a solicitors and advertising on the side of a boat for trips to Brownsea Island, home to red squirrels.
Beautiful tiles on a boarded up pub.
All of these can be found on The Antelope Inn.
Paradise Street is right down by the waterfront which makes me think it probably wasn't very much like Paradise in earlier times, maybe the cockleshell trail will enlighten me. The Poole Arms is the oldest pub on the quay and resplendent in it's vibrant green tiles.
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