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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles textile business is suing Nordstrom, alleging copyright infringement.
Couture Textile Inc. filed a complaint Sept. 19,in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Nordstrom Inc., doing business as Nordstrom Rack, and Does 1-10, alleging they violated laws through unauthorized distribution of an intellectual property.
According to the complaint, Couture Textile has and will continue to sustain substantial, immediate and irreparable injury from the defendants’ for-profit, unauthorized reproduction, distribution, and exploitation of plaintiff’s copyrighted two-dimensional artwork for use on textiles titled "September 0113 Major Collection.”
The plaintiff alleges the defendants caused substantial damages to Couture's business and profit, and illegally obtained profit at the expense of plaintiff.
Couture Textile seeks trial by jury, enjoin defendants from further infringing the plaintiff’s copyrights, all profits, attorney fees, interest, costs of litigation and all relief the court deems just. It is represented by attorney C. Yong Jeong of Jeong & Likens LC in Los Angeles.
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North West based B&M Discount Group, who has stores in Stockport at Cheadle and at Portwood in Stockport town centre, has seen an increase in revenues of over half a billion according to the latest results for its financial year to March 30.
Group sales rose by 17.1% to £3.486bn, up from £2.976bn in 2018 with pre-tax profits rising by 8.7% to £249.4 – the largest share declared from their B&M brand.
The company trades from around 620 B&M Discount branded stores and 281 stores under the Heron Foods and B&M Express brands in Britain as well as the Jawoll chain in Germany and Babou brand in France.
Chief executive Simon Arora said:
“B&M has again delivered strong results against the challenging backdrop of continued structural change in our industry, rising costs and uncertain times for consumers, demonstrating that its value credentials remain as resonant as ever with customers, whether they need a bargain or just enjoy one.
“We have made important progress in establishing platforms for further long term expansion in both Germany and France, although there is much work to be done to implement the disruptive, value-led B&M model in these large new markets.
“We enter the new financial year with renewed trading momentum, particularly in the UK, a high quality new store expansion programme in place, and investing in our new infrastructure to support future growth.
“I’m confident B&M is well-positioned to deliver further strong progress in the current year and beyond.” | <urn:uuid:756d3bac-2ca6-432a-86d1-43caf43e34f6> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://marketingstockport.co.uk/news/bm-discount-retailer-revenue-hits-3-5bn/ | 2020-02-29T06:45:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875148671.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20200229053151-20200229083151-00185.warc.gz | en | 0.962335 | 333 |
Asian Mail Order Husbands are single men who registered their personals ads online to look for the foreign wife. They are Asian men who live in Asia countries and want to look for a wife overseas. The term ‘mail order groom’ is a popular word that describes single men from Asia who look for wife in the West. This term is considered as marriage agency. There are many Asian dating sites that have helped thousands of Asian men meet women overseas. These single guys post their profiles and say what kind of wife they are looking for. They either contact other ladies or wait for girls to contact them.
There are many types, including mail order husbands Ireland, Italy, Africa, Scotland. These men signed up their personal ads at online dating services to look for wife worldwide. They are willing to get married with older women. When the Internet was booming in the last few years, thousands of such mail order grooms joined these marriage agencies to look for the perfect woman overseas. They are on different age range from 18 to 60 years old. They are looking for a woman who can take care of themselves.
There are websites for mail order husbands, looking for a bride from a foreign country. Most of these single women seeking mail order grooms are strong and powerful. They are seeking mail order grooms from South Africa, Ireland, Italy, Russia, the Philippines, and other Asia or Europe countries. They don’t care to travel 1000s miles to marry a foreign husband and bring him to their home town. These single women seeking mail order husbands oversea have one goal in mind, they want to find a perfect man for marriage. Some ladies want to find rich and wealthy men while some don’t care about the materials but focus on the characteristics.
What kind of Asian mail order grooms do foreign women want to find?
Each woman has different concept about what kind of man she is looking for. Most ladies prefer masculine men who look strong and confident, which is the first priority thing. Also, they are seeking a groom who is friendly, smart and hard working. Rich materials are a bonus. If you have all, then your chance is high. You need to understand about this, if there are 1 millions of mail order brides seeking marriage oversea, then there are only about 25% of single women looking for mail order grooms. So, the chance is hard for you but it is possible.
To look for an Asian mail order husband, you must ask your friends to hook you up. You can also join the online dating sites particularly for Asians to find him. There are many single grooms who signed up online so you can select the best one. They have pictures on their profiles as well. I recommend that you read each profile before you contact him. A picture is worth 1000 words but reading over their personal background will help you to learn more about their interests, hobby, education, likes and so on.
Mail order grooms have been popular by the last couples of years when the Internet era was booming. There are thousands of single women in the West, like USA, Canada, Australia, UK looking for grooms or husbands in Asia, Scotland, Ireland, Africa so they also signed up at such Asian dating sites or general dating services. If you are one of single women looking for Asian mail order grooms overseas, then you should take action to register a profile at either Asian dating sites or general dating websites to find your dream groom.
There are single Asian women from the US find rich men in Asia and sponsor them to this country. That’s fine. If you are poor and want to change your life, then you can find rich rich husbands in Asia. As you know, there are many wealthy Asian guys want to come to America to study, work and do business, you can find a rich mail order groom in Asia. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:95303f90-5e36-4c06-a159-53f462c64082> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.asiandatenet.com/asian-dating/how-to-find-asian-mail-order-husbands-and-grooms/ | 2016-10-21T20:07:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718303.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00084-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969769 | 790 |
Personal Information Collection Statement (e-Booking Webpage & Online Enquiry)
1.1 Quality HealthCare Medical Services Limited ("we", "us" or "our") are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data.
2. Purpose of Collection
2.1 Your personal data will be used by us for the following purposes:-
(a) Making an appointment with our relevant health professional(s) at your preferred time and location; and / or
(b) Handling your enquiries / complaints.
3. Direct Marketing
3.1 We will not use your personal data provided through our website in order to make an appointment and / or an enquiry / complaint for direct marketing.
4. Security and Retention
5. Data Access and Correction
5.1 As a data subject, you have the right to request access to and correction of your personal data. We have the right to charge a reasonable fee for processing your personal data access request.
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For me, 2010 started with a great reminder. Namely, make sure you are listening to One voice. Failure to do so can lead to wandering around in circles!
On New Year’s Day my family and I had the chance to attend a Harlem Globetrotters game in Nashville. Over the years, not much has changed with the clown princes of the hardwood. A bunch of new players, but the same old gags. It was great to introduce my kids to hoops trickery at its finest.
At halftime they played a little game of hot and cold with a kid out of the audience and that is when I learned the lesson of listening to One voice. The kid was blindfolded on one baseline of the court, and then they placed a prize pack with a Globetrotter jersey on the opposite end of the court near a corner.
The crowd was then instructed to yell “hot” or “cold” at the kid depending on how close or how far away he was to the prize pack. What happened next was chaos. 4,500 gargled voices screaming at an 8-year-old. The kid struggled to distinguish hot from cold and therefore spent the next three to four minutes running around in circles. I sat there and thought to myself, “If everyone would just be quiet and let the kid’s Dad do the talking, he could pick up his prize and we could get on with the second half.”
For many people life is a lot like that game of hot and cold. They wander around through life listening to a myriad of voices and never get to their destination. They look for the latest and greatest idea or strategy and start copying it until the next voice comes along.
Too many voices will clutter your mind and heart. Great leaders listen to One voice!
As you begin a new decade of leadership I encourage you to pay attention to the voice of your Creator. He has given you a book called the Bible. It is full of instruction and addresses every area of your life. My guess is that if you will listen to this One voice you will be much more focused and more likely to achieve your goals.
This will not be easy, but it is doable. The voices of others will not simply go away. They will still bombard you as you attempt to lead. You just need to learn to recognize the voice of your Heavenly Dad and pay attention to it alone. He will not lead you astray.
May 2010 be a year of laser focus for your leadership, and may it begin with you making it a priority to listen to the One voice.
Randy is an author, speaker, executive coach, and the CEO of InteGREAT Leadership. He invests his time encouraging leaders around the world. | <urn:uuid:5208293d-5737-4bbc-a456-463c09f8916a> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://randygravitt.com/one-voice/ | 2017-08-23T23:17:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886124662.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823225412-20170824005412-00602.warc.gz | en | 0.976586 | 571 |
Saturday we utilized the last day the Ford's boat was here. A bunch of us went up to Deer Creek Reservoir and took out the boat. It was a great day with lots of sun. The water was a bit too cold for my taste, but I always enjoy a good boat ride. I got lots of great pictures of everyone surfing behind the boat. I'm sad that the summer is officially over, but really excited Fall is here because the canyons in Utah are gorgeous in the Fall.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Thanks to my amazing family, Jesse and I are finally getting settled into our new place in Provo. My brothers packed up a huge trailer of our furniture and my parents drove it up to Utah for us. While they were here we had to stick to tradition and go to Trolley Square and get my dad's favorite salt water taffy. While we were there we headed up the hill to the cemetery so I could show my dad his grandma and grandpa's graves. It was a cool experience and we even got to see the graves of many of the prophets. It's a beautiful cemetery on the top of Salt Lake. We even made a bird friend there that wouldn't stop following us. It let me mom pet it and almost landed on my dad in the process of trying to feed it a doughnut. We love having family in town and are excited for my family to come back up in a few weeks for conference. | <urn:uuid:20348f9d-97cb-4a3e-a113-a7d54f645ad3> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://brittneyandjesse.blogspot.com/2012/09/ | 2019-02-16T17:45:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480905.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216170210-20190216192210-00205.warc.gz | en | 0.990108 | 298 |
If you’ve been involved in an auto accident with a drunk driver, the trauma can be overwhelming. On top of that, the court process you have to go through in such a case can often cause further distress. Here at the Carter Law Offices, our Hartwell, GA personal injury lawyer helps clients navigate the road to justice with their DUI cases. Here’s why it’s so important for you to contact a DUI attorney near you for help in these legal situations:
- A drunk driving attorney can help with the stress that comes after the accident. The effects of a DUI accident are long lasting and go far beyond any physical injuries. But if you try to go it alone to fight for the compensation you deserve, it can only increase your stress. A personal injury lawyer will give you legal aid so you can take time to recover.
- Your lawyer will prove that you’ve experienced mental anguish. Recovery from a drunk driving accident will take time, especially from a mental health perspective. Don’t be afraid to discuss your feelings with a medical professional. Talking about the mental anguish that this event caused is an essential part of these cases. Your lawyer can help you by talking with you and your doctor about your situation, then present it to the jury.
- You’ll get an experienced advocate who’s working on your behalf. DUI attorneys have dealt with many different scenarios in court. They know which details are critical and understand how to most effectively present them to the judge and jury.
When you need a DUI attorney in Hartwell, GA, call Carter Law Offices. We’re here to help you and to give you the legal help you need during this difficult time. We’ll do our absolute best to help you get the maximum amount of compensation possible for your situation. | <urn:uuid:1489a567-a771-4f40-8e9a-bc8a3cece497> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.stephencarterlaw.com/blog/drunk-driver-good-attorney/ | 2021-10-23T19:37:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585768.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023193319-20211023223319-00181.warc.gz | en | 0.955656 | 374 |
Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2016 - What's the Outlook for Social?
Mary Meeker's annual 'Internet Trends' report is one of the most anticipated and influential documents in the tech industry - if you've ever seen a presentation by anyone on what's coming in future, no doubt the Internet Trends report was used as a reference point. Meeker, a venture capitalist and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has been heavily involved in the tech industry since the early 80's, giving her significant insight and oversight into the evolution of the web and its subsequent offshoots.
So what does the future have in store for the web, and social media specifically? The 2016 Internet Trends report has just been released.
Here are some of the key findings:
Global internet usage grew 9% this year to reach 42% penetration of the world population - though year-on-year usage growth was flat. The only exception to this was India, where internet usage is up 40%. Now reaching more than 277 million users, India has passed the U.S. to become the number 2 global user market, behind China.
Online advertising continues to rise, driven largely by increased mobile ad spend.
Facebook and Google are leading the way on this front, with the two web giants holding a 76% share of internet advertising growth - with Facebook rising much faster than their older rival.
As Meeker's noted in previous reports, there's still a significant over-indexing of ad spend on "legacy media" - and despite the aforementioned growth, mobile remains a huge opportunity.
Meeker notes that while Google has proven online advertising can be effective, there are still many internet users who are annoyed and/or put off by ads, particularly video pre-roll ads. Meeker notes that the keys to making effective online ads are by making them:
- Evoke emotion
- Viewer controlled
- Work with sound off
Meeker also highlights Snapchat's '3V' ads as an effective option (Snapchat also got specific mention in the 2015 report), highlighting two examples which have generated strong results.
There's also the continued growth of adblocking software, which is an ongoing concern for online advertisers (and even more reason for brands to ensure they're aligning with what their community wants).
Meeker also looks at how brands are starting to get a better understanding of the marketing potential of Snapchat and live-streaming, using the recent 'Chewbacca Mom' as an example of the latter.
And then there's live sports viewing - with Twitter recently winning the rights to broadcast live NFL matches, Meeker predicts this could lead to a significant shift in how we consume sports entertainment.
Meeker also highlights the ongoing growth of images on social, and the monetization potential of visual content - highlighting the use of Pinterest for shopping (which is particularly interesting given Pinterest's latest efforts to advance their image search functionality)
The report also looks at the growth in messaging, and in commerce via message, using one example from Thailand, where users discover products on Instagram then purchase via Line.
And this is just scratching the surface of the full depth of Meeker's report - in addition to this, the report also looks at the growth of voice assistants like Siri (65% of US Smartphone users now use voice assistants), advances in car computing and automated driving, the growth of the internet in China and advances in data use and data security.
The full deck is a whopping 213 slides, but it's well worth taking the time to go through in detail to get your head around the latest advances and trends to be aware of.
The full Mark Meeker Internet Trends 2016 report can be viewed here.
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Added Apr 5, 2010
Auckland, New Ze...
A high-waisted pencil skirt with front button closure and pocket flaps.
I cut the facings the same length as the yoke, and made boning channels to insert boning in all seams. I also lengthened the skirt 3cm, and inserted lining.
It fits really well with no alterations, and now I’m thinking about which colour use for my next one!
Further details are on my blog
Viscose bemberg lining
Lightweight knit fusible
Tagua Nut buttons
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I am thrilled to announce that my new book, THE WEIGHT OF HONOR (KINGS AND SORCERERS--BOOK 3) is now published! Here are the links!
Also, in case you haven't yet heard, the audio edition of RISE OF THE DRAGONS, it is now available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes, and RISE OF THE DRAGONS is also now available in 10 languages! Let me know if you'd prefer another language!
Also, the audio edition of A CHARGE OF VALOR just released! It is now available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes
As always, if you are experiencing extreme financial hardship or other severe hardship in your life, please let me know and I will send you a book and/or audiobook for free!
Thanks again for all your support! Having great fans like you makes it all worth it! Can't wait to hear what you think! | <urn:uuid:3b76504f-49f7-4359-bcfc-30d209f514ae> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://morganrice.blogspot.com/2015/07/ | 2018-01-18T05:49:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887067.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118051833-20180118071833-00499.warc.gz | en | 0.911003 | 191 |
Welcome to Darkgoverness Designs! A place created for those with alternative and darker tastes, I carry both original items designed by me as well as commercial jewellery and accessories. Be you into Classic Goth, Pastel Goth, Cyber Goth, Steampunk, Victorian, Lolita and more, whatever you may be, I will be carrying products that touch all of your tastes in some way, so feel free to come back and browse as I add new products over time!
And with that, feel free to explore my shop by clicking on a tombstone below! Choose wisely, and beware! ! !
Show it off! ☠ ♡ Send us a pic of you wearing your goodies and you could win a prize! Once the album reaches 100 photos, Darkgoverness Designs will draw a name and one of you beauties will win something lovely! Don't be shy, send one in now! ^,..,^ ♡
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With every purchase from Darkgoverness Designs (no matter how small!), you get a free gift with purchase! ^,..,^ ♡ Currently I am sending out a tattoo choker or rings for smaller orders, and skeleton hand hair clips for larger orders!
Darkgoverness Designs has Attitude!
So excited to be a part of the I Am Attitude team! Darkgoverness Designs' jewellery and accessories are now live on iamattitude.com! | <urn:uuid:ef930402-45b0-498d-8a1d-caae72006b51> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.darkgovernessdesigns.com/home | 2019-11-13T09:11:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113090217-20191113114217-00171.warc.gz | en | 0.930202 | 296 |
|Plug the Sinkholes|
|Level||71 (Requires 68)|
|Reputation||+250 Valiance Expedition|
|Rewards||or or or|
- Explosives set at southern sinkhole
- Explosives set at northern sinkhole
The Scourge are showing no sign of letting up, <name>. It's those blasted sinkholes; they connect to the tunnels all the way to Icecrown for all we know. Giant undead worms burrow under the ground to create them.
If there's something years of mining has taught me it's that without support beams, tunnels will cave in easily after an explosion.
Take these explosive and place them at the entrance to the sinkholes on the ridge beyond the beach to the west. Come back after you've collapsed them.
Did you succeed, <name>? We need to slow down the Scourge or Valiance Keep will be overrun.
Excellent work, <name>. Without you, Valiance Keep might not have held against the attackers. Thanks to your help we'll live to fight another day. | <urn:uuid:febeb0c7-b5b4-4aa8-8afb-22ff8c584696> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.wowwiki.com/Quest:Plug_the_Sinkholes?oldid=1837876 | 2014-03-07T11:06:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999642170/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060722-00072-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884048 | 220 |
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We love to accommodate your event – whether it be for work, family, charity or any other reason! Please call to discuss what you need and our pricing. We can deliver all items or have them available for pickup.
St. Louis Frozen Custard Factory’s delicious frozen custard is the perfect treat for any event!
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Regulators say Sony could have stopped it, Sony prepares appeal
The infamous PlayStation Network hack may be a fading memory in the minds of games, but authorities have not forgotten, and they've claimed their pound of flesh. Claiming the hack could have been prevented, United Kingdom officials have fined Sony £250,000.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ironically abbreviated to ICO), slapped the $396,000 fee on Sony after declaring there was "no disguising that Sony is a business that should have known better."
The PS3 platform holder has issued a statement to CVG on the matter, saying it "strongly disagrees" with ICO's ruling and is preparing to appeal. That kind of money is a drop in the ocean compared to the value of PSN, but Sony's not just going to take it lying down.
"PlayStation Europe notes that the ICO recognizes Sony was the victim of 'a focused and determined criminal attack' and that 'there is no evidence that encrypted payment card details were accessed', and that 'personal data is unlikely to have been used for fraudulent purposes.'"
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Date(s) - 06/25/2012 at 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
An exciting parent-participation program for toddlers and a trusted adult. During each program you and your child will meet real animals up-close, hear stories, sing songs, play games, and participate in activities that will make your little one wiggle and giggle. All classes are one hour in length.
“Rock-a-Bye Baby” is today’s theme!
Ages: 2-3 + Parent
Fees: $10 + tax for each class or $70 + tax for all seven classes which includes a camp T-shirt! | <urn:uuid:6207e629-005b-4fcb-a6db-70eb9df0b76e> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.brambleparkzoo.com/events/tot-zoo-school-11/ | 2021-09-22T23:49:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057403.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922223752-20210923013752-00367.warc.gz | en | 0.876824 | 139 |
In our last post I kayaked from Carkeek Park in North Seattle to Richmond Beach in Shoreline. I actually went back to Richmond Beach the next day - it's great - and captured a few more pics and some video. Enjoy!
P.S. I don't kiteboard...yet...
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Veteran legiters William Craver and Peter Lawrence, nonprofit org Career Transition for Dancers and North Carolina’s long-running historical drama “The Lost Colony” are set to receive the 2013 Tony Honors.
The annual Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater recognize legit industryites and organizations whose work isn’t eligible for the Broadway kudos’ annual round of competitive awards.
Longtime agent Craver scores the honor for a career that has stretched from his work as a producer and a general manager to his headline gig as a legit tenpercenter. He was partner and president of Writers and Artists Agency until it was acquired in 2004 by Paradigm, where Craver went on to lead the legit department. Three of his clients – David Auburn, Jonathan Larson and Robert Schenkkan – won Pulitzers while he was repping them. He recently retired from Paradigm, although he plans to stay on in an emeritus position.
Lawrence receives the honor for his 20 years as a Broadway production stage manager. He also has been exec producer for “Miss Saigon” and “Les Miserables” as well as associate director for tuners including “Spamalot” and “Shrek the Musical.” He’s currently the PSM of the Rialto revival of “Annie.”
Career Transition for Dancers, a national nonprofit, gets the Tony for its educational and entrepreneurial support to terps for whom performing is no longer a viable option, helping them build second-act careers. Founded in 1982, Career Transition has offices in Gotham, L.A. and Chicago, with a mobile National Outreach Program as well.
Honorees list is rounded out by “Lost Colony,” a 75-year-old production that plays every summer on Roanoke Island in Manteo, N.C. One of the last remaining Federal Theater Projects, the big-cast show is a symphonic drama inspired by the mysterious disappearance of English colonists from the area in the 16th century. Current production designer is Broadway costumer William Ivey Long, also the chair of the American Theater Wing, one of the orgs that co-presents the Tonys every year.
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Chad le Clos (Getty)
Cape Town - Bookmakers suggest Chad le Clos will suffer a second defeat in a butterfly final in Rio to swimming superstar Michael Phelps.
MUST READ: The 'Hoff' congratulates Michael Phelps on gold #20
Leading bookies Sportingbet have installed Phelps as a 8/15 firm favourite to defend his title in the 100m butterfly.
Le Clos is on offer at 11/5 with Hungary's Laszlo Cseh at 6/1.
Phelps stormed to victory in the 200m butterfly on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning SA time), denying Le Clos a repeat of his London victory.
Le Clos ended up outside the medals in a disappointing fourth place.
Phelps will begin the defence of his 100m title in Lane 4 in the sixth and final heat on Thursday at 19:31 (SA time).
Le Clos will swim out of the same lane in the previous heat (19:28 SA time).
The final of the 100m butterfly is scheduled for Saturday at 03:12 (SA time).
The men's 100m butterfly also represents the last realistic chance Team SA have at a medal in the pool in Rio.
The men's 4x100 medley relay is the last event SA will enter a participant or team, but they will face stiff opposition from the likes of favourites, the USA, Australia and Great Britain in particular. | <urn:uuid:8f5525de-f320-4686-968f-9b8f9a4dd2de> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Olympics2016/bookies-say-silver-for-le-clos-in-100m-fly-20160810 | 2017-10-17T06:03:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820927.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017052945-20171017072945-00143.warc.gz | en | 0.929039 | 295 |
Traditional Italian Furniture of the Finest Quality
Naurelle was founded in in 1981 by Mr. Kayvan Nahai with the sole purpose of offering remarkable and elegant European furniture to people from throughout Southern California and around the world. Mr. Nahai studied design and craftsmanship in Italy, and still has a deep love for traditional Italian furniture. His passion for the classic aesthetic of Europe’s palaces and cities is evident in Naurelle’s showroom. Living in a space is not only about having a place to rest, but existing in a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere that pleases the eye.
Mr. Nahai has proudly worked to make Naurelle the premier showroom for classic Italian furniture, as well as Spanish designs, and modern accents. All of our furniture is hand-picked by Mr. Nahai and our knowledgeable staff, so our showroom features only the best from top European craftsmen and designers. Naurelle offers stately furnishings, lighting, and accent pieces for every room in your home. Whether you seek the sleek, simple lines of a modern dining table, or the crystalline twinkle of a Baroque-inspired chandelier, Naurelle offers the most refined styles, ranging from the 18th century to the early 21st.
For clients with the most discerning tastes, Naurelle offers personalized interior design consultations. Mr. Nahai is versed in Spanish and Italian style furniture and interior decoration principles, and he will gladly work with clients to redecorate their homes. Natural light sources, room shapes, ceiling heights, and general layout flow will be studied carefully, then furniture and lighting pieces will be chosen to perfectly enhance each aspect of your beautiful home. You will find your home transformed from a typical American space to a sumptuous European-inspired work of art. | <urn:uuid:484c83b1-f847-4d31-98cf-8ca315ebf864> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.naurelle.com/traditional-italian-furniture-of-the-finest-quality | 2019-08-20T09:47:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315321.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820092326-20190820114326-00060.warc.gz | en | 0.949137 | 381 |
[arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 removed)
David C. Rankin
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Sat Jan 8 16:53:44 EST 2011
On 01/08/2011 02:16 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
> Hello David, I updated yesterday to latest and greatest 4.5.5-1 and
> everything is working fine here =)
> Best wishes for this new year!
It is looking like an Arch packaging issue or a config issue for my i686 boxes
(I don't have a clue what though). I installed 4.5.5-1 last night on 6 Arch
boxes and I get the same behavior on one i686 box, another i686 box freezes at
the end of ksplash (both Dell boxes), but all x86_64 boxes load fine no extra
Anybody know where I would look for the hook or default config that may be
loading the kdemod3 kicker and background? As with other boxes, I deleted
~/.kde4 before launching 4.5.5-1.
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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There's a new law that everyone's talking about that the Texas Restaurant Association helped pass earlier this year (SB 1450). Texas restaurants with mixed beverage permits now have the opportunity to deliver alcohol with food.
Leveling the alcohol delivery playing field is big news for restaurants. However, the law covers a lot of ground and there are many questions over what can, and cannot be done, as well as the permitting process. Here, in our latest TRA Advocacy News Now are the top things you need to know about the new law and how it might affect you. | <urn:uuid:a73fa1a1-c2f5-4a61-901d-8c927dc3c52f> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.txrestaurant.org/news/tra-news-now-alcohol-delivery-0 | 2020-08-08T06:39:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737289.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808051116-20200808081116-00386.warc.gz | en | 0.972907 | 114 |
ERA continues to expand! We’re continuing to look for volunteers pretty much anywhere in North America to join one of our existing teams or perhaps even found a new team. Responsibilities including travelling the province or state to play rooms as a team, writing honest and ethical reviews, and lending a hand in the day-to-day operations of ERA. You may also be asked to provide valuable feedback to owners through our consultation services. If that describes you, please send us a message at email@example.com! | <urn:uuid:f4778aa1-5041-445f-a74c-f49c03c019ac> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | http://escroomaddict.com/join-era/ | 2020-04-03T09:46:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370510846.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200403092656-20200403122656-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.952819 | 107 |
|Chief minister Nabam Tuki greets minister of state for environment and forests Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi on Monday. Picture by UB Photos
Itanagar, June 30: Chinese tactics of showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of its territory in its recently released official maps appears to have had little impact on the ground as the Union ministry of environment and forests has decided to exempt environmental clearance for road projects within 100km of the state’s international border.
Meeting the minister of state for environment and forests Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi today, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Nabam Tuki said the state will “benefit from this new norm in view of its long international border”.
Arunachal Pradesh shares a 1,680km international boundary with Bhutan, China and Myanmar.
Earlier, the NDA government had announced plans to spend Rs 5,000 crore to encourage villagers to come and settle in areas along the border with China.
The state has a capacity to generate over 50,000MW of power.
The state government has signed over 150 memoranda of agreements with various power developers. Most of these projects are currently in limbo because of opposition in parts of the state and because forest clearances have been denied to many of the projects. Developers have refused to work on projects citing lack of infrastructure.
Tuki had said in the final session of the last Assembly that the ambitious 1,811km Trans-Arunachal Highway, which will connect Tawang in the west to Kanubari in the east, has to be completed soon if the hydropower projects are to take off. When Tuki met Javadekar today, he stressed the “broader objective of harnessing the hydropower sector in the state” and called for “easing of existing norms and procedures of the ministry”.
In return, Javadekar said the ministry was “in the process of overhauling clearance mechanism to speed up implementation of hydropower projects” in the state.
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Do you care about making the Danforth safer, more fun and useful for people of all ages (whether you are age 8 or 80 or anywhere in between)? We do too! That’s why DECA is so excited to be partnering with 8 80 Cities, Better Block, and the Danforth Mosaic BIA to create an exciting Danforth Pop-Up Street Makeover!
We’d love to have your input and ideas! Please join us for a presentation and community discussion on Thursday (tomorrow). You’ll meet some neighbours, the folks from 8 80 Cities and Better Blocks who are coming to make this amazing thing happen – and you won’t have to make dinner because Hirut is cooking for everyone. Drinks will be available for purchase.
Where: Hirut Restaurant, 2050 Danforth Ave.
What: Danforth Pop-up Street Makeover Discussion and Free Dinner!
When: Thursday, September 6 from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
If you can, please RSVP here, or just drop by!
Keen to lend a hand or know someone who might be?
We’ll also be needing some pop-up street makeover volunteers who can roll up their sleeves and lend a hand to re-design the street. We’ll be using temporary paint and materials, building and installing wikiblock furniture, and overseeing program activities for neighbours of all ages. The event and prep will take place October 4th – 6th. If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to be involved, please email email@example.com for more information.
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March 5, 1943 – May 31, 2019
It is with great sadness that Bob passed away at Bastion Place on May 31, 2019 at the age of 76. He was born in Calgary, Alberta on March 5, 1943.
Bob was predeceased by his daughter Cory (Scott) Thomson following her seven-year battle with cancer.
He is survived by his wife Belle, of 53 years, his two beautiful granddaughters Kaylee and Toni, his brother David, sister Terrill and many good friends and relatives.
Bob was a long-time employee of Canada Safeway. He loved to garden and quad in the summer and spend his winters in Arizona.
He will be deeply missed by all. At his request there will be no service.
Share memories and condolences online through Bob’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com
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Case Study: Online Election for the Church Council
The 800,000 voters of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) were invited in 2013 to elect 820 new church board members from a total of 8,747 candidates.
The voters could decide for themselves whether they cast their vote on election day at the polling station, in advance by absentee ballot or online with POLYAS. Many voters took advantage of online voting which increased the turnout.
High Turnout Through Online Voting
Approximately 10 percent of all eligible voters took advantage of online voting for the church council election. Already after 24 hours, 3,000 votes had been cast online.
The share of young people using online voting was particularly high
This shows that online elections have great potential to motivate in particular young and first-time voters to participate. In the EKKW, young people are eligible to vote when they are 14 years old. But even the older voters did not want to miss out on the convenience of online voting. Therefore, there was also a very high turnout among voters aged 70 or older.
"The entire church is very pleased," says Frank Liese, project manager of the online election of the Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. "I have received a lot of positive feedback," says Liese, "not just of young people. I know, for example, that the entire senior computer club in a community has elected online."
Positive Feedback From the Online Voters
The online election was accompanied by a scientific survey of the voters, conducted by the University of Münster. The aim of the survey was to find out how the voters would adopt the online voting system. The survey found that the majority of respondents rated almost all aspects of the electoral system as "good" or "very good."
The transparency of the website, as well as its functionality and operability were evaluated with over 90 points out of 100 as "very good."
But also the security, the accessing process and the organisation of the POLYAS online voting system were classified by the majority as "good" or "very good" by the respondents.
Overall, the online voters were very pleased with the online voting system and would use this opportunity in future elections.
POLYAS Tip: Find out how you too can increase voter turnout and motivate your voters to participate. Contact us and request the white paper on voter turnout
The Church Votes in a Future-Oriented Way
With the introduction of online voting, the protestant church displays a forward-looking attitude and in that way reaches mainly young voters. Online voting with POLYAS is a sign of future-orientedness in an expanding digital world.
The project leader of the church council election, Eckhard Käßmann, draws a positive conclusion: "A remarkable number of voters used online voting, particularly young people. The voter turnout was increased and data security was guaranteed at all times." | <urn:uuid:130700be-4bd7-4ab3-a402-30ad5b3fad75> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.polyas.co.uk/churches/church-council-elections/case-study | 2021-06-23T10:44:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488538041.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623103524-20210623133524-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.972898 | 603 |
When something makes you so angry you feel like you are about to pop a blood vessel and have a stroke. Sort of an aneurysm that's caused by uncontrollable rage at someone or something.
When my boss told me at 5 p.m. on Friday that I had to work all weekend, I thought I was going to have an angerysm.
by Copychick7 January 14, 2008
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Firstly, this is NOT a suggestion for a fork/change to Bitcoin itself. It's some thoughts that I've been pondering about an application of Bitcoin that could add legitimacy back to Bitcoin itself and hopefully allow for greater adoption in real world business.
Bitcoin's anonymity - or more accurately pseudonymity - seems to be a central focus of discussion. The pseudonymous transactions are understandably criticised in the press and by politicians. This criticism should be taken seriously by those (such as myself) who would like to see Bitcoin flourish and to become a 'grown-up' currency. It's hard to see large corporations such as Apple, Google or Sony PS3s(!?) accepting payment with a currency that has such strong associations with criminal activity*. In short, Bitcoin needs to grow up, cut its hair and get a job.
One of the ways Bitcoin could grow up is to make it possible to add legitimacy to a Bitcoin account for those who wish to do so. But before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not suggesting that *every* Bitcoin account itself is legitimised, merely that an owner of an account *may* have a mechanism for attaching their account to an online identity. This post is about the feasibility of such a mechanism, what it may look like and how Bitcoin could give birth to its own saviour.
I've been eagerly anticipating the arrival of two technologies for a number of years: The first - a decentralised electronic currency and hey presto here it is! Although I've been suprised myself how long it took me to discover it (eventually a Reason TV video lead me here). The second - a robust decentralised compounded networked identity that allows us to gain trust based upon the type of peer to peer validation you would get in the real world. I believe that Bitcoin makes the second feasible and that the second could improve the legitimacy of the first.Why the need for networked identity?
I'm based in the UK where the previous Labour government were intending to introduce national identity cards before there was a general backlash against them on the basis of civil liberties, costs and effectiveness. The whole scheme was slowly dismantled before the change in government finally put the stake through it's horribly murky black heart. Had the scheme actually been put into place then I'm sure that fraudulent identity cards would soon surface. I was reminded of this fact by a policeman who said that making some arrests became problematic when a single person could potentially own 5+ driving licences with different names on them but with the same picture. So big agency/government ID schemes are prone to abuse and once you have your hands on a big key - such as a passport - then you can start to open some big locks without you ever needing to revalidate.
Secondly, you don't want to take your passport, driving licence and copy of your birth certificate when you're at the library (Yep. I know. Who uses a library these days.). Don't take a gun to a snowball fight, right? You wan't your identity credentials to scale to the environment.
Thirdly, current methods of portable identification such as OpenID don't include your ranking or some indication of built up trust from multiple sources.
Fourthly, <strong>and this is my key point and where I think Bitcoin comes in</strong> - current methods of building up identity, both online and offline, often miss out on the references we get every day and from long term relationships. The very things that really indicate who we are such as:
- friends and family who are willing to vouch for our identity
- sending an email to a friend, client or colleague
- a bank that you've been using for 20 years
- a neighbour
- work colleagues
- a personnel record at work
- doctor, dentist, optician, shop purchase
- an online transaction
Your identity should ideally be built up by the compounding of all these minor transactions and relationships.What benefit to business?
- It's cheaper? You're only requesting the level of identity required to balance with your perceived risk in the event of a an incorrect identification.
- Greater credibility of the identification.
- The opportunity to have very high level identification. The equivalent of passport level (and probably greater) clearance.
- The opportunity to have very low level identification. For example, anti-spam measures for email.
- Attributes such as your bitcoin address, name, telephone and home address may be amalgamated together and presented to a tax office as a method of legitimising bitcoin addresses for business transactions.
- Businesses that wish to keep within the law may only wish to transact with a business that have a bitcoin address registered with a tax office.Advantages to a Bitcoin account holder
- The ability to demostrate that a Bitcoin address is associated to your ident and thus the ability to quickly gain trust with a stranger.
- THe ability to legitimately trade and use bitcoin for business use.How bitcoin may solve the problem
As I see it, one of the barriers holding networked identity back was that the references given from one peer to another had no value. An analogy would be the low cost of sending emails and the spam email problem that bitcoin supposedly has it's roots in. But bitcoin would appear to solve that problem as it may solve the spam email problem in the future. With Bitcoin we have a mechanism for electronically saying "I really mean this". That's an incredibly powerful tool.
What I've discussed here is a long way from a solution and I've really just laid down my thoughts in the hope that someone else might be add to the discussion and potentially tell me that it's crock or that somebody is already doing it. I feel like I'm looking at a load of tools and material in front of me and thinking "there must be some way to fit all this stuff together to solve two desirable goals of a decentralised currency and networked identity and that maybe the relationship might be symbiotic".
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
BELOW - Just some initial thoughts on what might work/be desirable.
I want to be able to give other people confidence that I am who I say I am.
I only want to disclose the amount of information that I feel the person requesting it needs.
I want access to the information to be flexibly priced so that the person requesting the information has a financial incentive to only request what is needed.
My identity should be easy to piece together from peers who are willing to say "Yes I know that guy/girl" as they would do in real life.
Institutions should be able to vouch for me such as a bank that I've always used since childhood.
Vouching for another should cost the person doing the vouching so that references are not given freely and retain value.
You shouldn't be able to just buy yourself trust.
It must be trivial to vouch for someone else for a very small fee. (e.g. Yes. I'm willing to vouch for this person's email address for 0.01 pence.)
If I vouch for an identity then I should be penalised if that identity is abused. (Note - this is different from the identity being used for nefarious purposes.) Ideally this should discourage a person from giving major positive references to someone who's identity they do not trust.
The system should be amoral.
The strength of my own identity should increase the value of the references I provide.
I should be able to abandon an identity and start a new one.
It should be possible to vouch for an identity attribute or group of attributes. I.e. (I'm his neighbour - yes he does live at X address OR I meet him down the pub and he does have red hair but I have no idea where he lives OR I've had business transactions with him and he does use email@example.com
email address but I know very little else about him.
If an identity is stolen or compromised then it should lose credibility to the extent that it has been compromised. It should be possible to 'mend' - or if a major infiltration 'abandon' - a stolen identity.
A compromised identity should be recoverable with the assistance of peers or referees who are willing to revalidate.
Stolen identities must lose credibility quickly.
There must be an incentive for an entity requesting identification to pick up on stolen identities.
Ideally, identity theft would have sufficient disincentives that it would not exist.
I may wish to attribute a Bitcoin address to my identity to give confidence in business transactions and to allow for taxation, accountability etc.
I may wish to be 99% legit in my business dealing but make the equivalent cash withdrawals for illicit purposes.
Just my thoughts...
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Five or six years ago my friend Jennifer made a quiet book for her daughter. At the time we hung out all of the time and she was my craft inspiration. We learned to knit together and now she’s a knitting fiend. I dropped knitting because my body couldn’t keep up. I made a quiet book for my niece back then and pretty much copied Jennifer’s layout.
Two Christmases ago I determined to make one for Caleb. I got almost all the way done, and then had Alice December 1st. So I didn’t finish it and it sat for a year. I just gave it to Caleb this past Christmas. He and Alice both love it. He can’t quite do the buttons on his own. But he enjoys it. Alice just loves sticking out her chubby little finger to feel all of the buttons and ooh and ahh over them. She’s so cute.
Here’s pictures of Caleb’s quiet book. You can see we are already missing a boot in the winter scene. But it’ll be easy to just cut out another one. I’d put up pictures of Casey’s (my niece) book but the files are no longer connected to our hard drive. Plus Caleb’s is very similar to hers. Though I got a bit more creative with his, not much though.
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Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:
- The F# compiler team created an up-for-grabs label and it’s already added.
- SpiegelSoft presented Vulpes (an implementation of deep belief and deep learning, written in F# and using Alea.cuBase to connect to your PC’s GPU device).
- VesaKarvonen presented Hopac (a library for F# with the aim of making it easier to write efficient parallel, asynchronous and concurrent programs).
- This Silicon Valley startup just raised $6Million, and they use F#.
- Visual F# PowerTools were enriched with Solution wide renaming refactoring.
- Http.fs 0.9.0.0 is out with character encoding support.
- Eirik Tsarpalis posted “Poor man’s distributed actors“.
- Does anyone want to try plotly from F#?
- LinqOptimizer 0.6.2 is on nuget with new Parallel LINQ optimizations!
- Steffen Forkmann published a new FAKE tutorial “Compiling TypeScript applications“.
- Miguel de Icaza looking for a contractor to port c# t-shirt app to F#.
- MonoGame 3.2 was announced (with 1,600 new commits for fixes, features, & improvements).
- FsMachines 0.1.0 was released.
- New canopy site was published (powered by FSharp.ProjectScaffold).
- The Flying Fox: Deep Machine Learning with F# by Rob Lyndon.
- “Create maps with F#, Deedle and R” by Mathias Brandewinder.
- Scott Wlaschin blogged “Analysis of Roslyn vs. the F# compiler“.
- InfoQ published “The Book of F# – Review and Interview with Dave Fancher“.
- Daniel Mohl announced that “TypeScript in First-Class F# Web Projects“.
- Igor Kulman posted “Crawling mobile app stores with F#“.
- Phil Brooks blogged “Smith Wilson and the F# Community“.
- Jamie Dixon wrote about “Consuming Twitter With F#“.
- Anton Tayanovskyy announced that “WebSharper available for testing on Xamarin & MonoDevelop“.
- Jérémie Chassaing blogged “Monoidal Event Sourcing“.
- Michael Newton posted “Going Functionally SOLID“.
- Bjørn Einar Bjartnes shared “Street-fighting mathematics“.
- Juan María Hernández posted “Testeando sitios web con F# y Canopy“.
- Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 0 – Introduction“.
- Luke Sandell posted “F# Symbolic Math, Part 2“.
That’s all for now. Have a great week.
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Ordinance No. 15-12
Introduced: April 27, 2015
Public Hearing: May 11, 2015
An ordinance amending Chapter 447 of the code of the Township of Vernon entitled “Property Maintenance”
BE IT ORDAINED by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon, County of Sussex and State of New Jersey that Chapter 447 of the Code of the Township of Vernon entitled “Property Maintenance” is hereby amended as follows:
SECTION I. Chapter 447 entitled “Property Maintenance,” is supplemented to add the following:
§447-7 Registration of Creditors in Foreclosure; Penalties.
- Pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.12s, the creditor filing the summons and complaint in an action to foreclose shall be responsible for the care, maintenance, security, and upkeep of the exterior of the vacant and abandoned residential property. This obligation applies whether the determination that the property is vacant and abandoned is made pursuant to this Code, N.J.S.A. 2A:50-73, or as otherwise provided by law.
- If the creditor is located out-of-State, the creditor shall be responsible for appointing an in-State representative or agent to act for the foreclosing creditor.
- An out-of-State creditor shall include the full name and contact information of the in-State representative or agent in the notice required to be provided to the municipal clerk pursuant to N.J.S.A. 46:10B-51(a)(1).
- An out-of-State creditor found by the municipal court, or by any other court of competent jurisdiction, to be in violation of §447-7C shall be subject to a fine of $2,500.00 for each day of the violation, commencing on the day after the ten (10) day period set forth in N.J.S.A. 46:10B-51(a)(1) for providing notice to the municipal clerk that a summons and complaint in an action to foreclose has been served.
- The Construction Official, Zoning Official, public officer appointed pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.3 et seq., or any other designated enforcement official of the Township shall be authorized to issue a notice to the creditor filing the summons and complaint in an action to foreclose, if the public officer or enforcement official determines that the creditor has violated this chapter by failing to provide for the care, maintenance, security, and upkeep of the exterior of the property. The notice shall require the person or entity to correct the violation within thirty (30) days of receipt of the notice, or within ten (10) days of receipt of the notice if the violation presents an imminent threat to public health and safety. The issuance of this notice shall constitute proof that a property is “vacant and abandoned” for purposes of N.J.S.A. 2A:50-73.
- A creditor found by the municipal court, or by any other court of competent jurisdiction, to be in violation of the requirement to correct a care, maintenance, security, or upkeep violation cited in a notice issued pursuant to §447-7(E) shall be subject to a fine of $1,500 for each day of the violation, commencing thirty one (31) days following receipt of the notice, except if the violation presents an imminent risk to public health and safety, in which case any fines shall commence eleven (11) days following receipt of the notice.
SECTION II. If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance and they shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION III. In the event of any inconsistencies between the provisions of this Ordinance and any prior ordinance of the Township, the provisions hereof shall be determined to govern. All other ordinances of the Township are hereby ratified and confirmed, except where inconsistent with the terms hereof.
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Swiss retail outlets will be permitted to serve up and sell crickets, mealworms and locusts from 2016. Producers are already waiting in the wings. But there are still some issues to be resolved.
Hoping to take advantage of this change – the commercial sale of insects as foodstuff is currently banned – is Christian Bärtsch. We are in his office in a complex for social entrepreneurs and innovators, located under the arches of a rail viaduct in the trendy Zurich district Kreis 5.
There is nothing here to suggest that this could be from where the future of Swiss cuisine might emerge. But listening to this young man, you soon feel his passion for insects.
Bärtsch is one of the founders of Essentoexternal link, a start-up company that wants to produce food made of insects. The young entrepreneurs are convinced that their “delicious products will be on the shelves in three to four years’ time”.
“We have developed a burger made of mealworm larvae which doesn’t taste like a vegetarian or vegan burger, and a spread, a mealworm pâté. Plus chips, ravioli, pasta, bread. There are a huge number of ways of using these valuable ingredients,” he says. Unfortunately, he hasn’t got any samples to taste.
The social and ecological aspects and sustainability are important to his venture, stresses Bärtsch. For his company’s pilot breeding project in eastern Switzerland - which can’t be visited - the insects are fed with leftover grains from flour and muesli production. Liquid nutrition is produced from the waste of organic carrots, which cannot be otherwise used.
They are maintaining secrecy, but not because of animal rights concerns: animal rights advocates are very welcome, says Bärtsch, but because it is important “to ring-fence ourselves from competition”.
Breeding is not the start-up’s real interest but what comes afterwards, he adds.
The young entrepreneurs are putting the emphasis on the development, production and marketing of insect food products. The plan is to start with suppliers from other European countries because no one is advanced enough in Switzerland on the production side. They don’t want to adopt the kind of practices used in chicken farming, but will insist on high standards to ensure respectful treatment.
Urs Fanger has been breeding insects on an industrial scale for a long time. His company, Entomosexternal link, has produced insect petfood for six years, but has 27 years of experience in breeding large quantities for use in plant protection.
We could be ready very soon to produce insects as human nutrition, he says. “We are set to go.”
A liberal Green party lawmaker from Canton Vaud, Isabelle Chevalleyexternal link, has been campaigning in parliament for insects to be allowed on Swiss plates. She has launched several parliamentary initiatives on the issue.
“Why is it forbidden in Switzerland to sell insects that are eaten in other countries?” she asked in her most recent parliamentary questionexternal link.
She ate insects for the first time in Burkina Faso when she visited a centre for street children in Ouagadougou, she writes from the Comoros islands, where she is currently travelling on business.
“The children invited me to share their lunch. They were eating grilled caterpillars from a shea tree, so I had some. It tasted very good.”
Similar pleasures should soon be allowed on a broader scale in Switzerland, after parliament agreed to amend the food law. This means mealworms, crickets and locusts will be permitted foodstuffs.
A consultation periodexternal link on commercialising the consumption of insects is running until October.
Why have insects been added? “Until now, there have been all health concerns,” wrote the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office in response to questions from swissinfo.ch. There is now evidence of “positive experiences” with these three species of insects, so they are judged “suitable for consumption.”
Whether and exactly when insects will be permitted for consumption depends on the consultation. The food safety office expects that the regulations could take effect in the first half of 2016.
At the moment, a comprehensive risk analysis is underway. “There could still be changes or adjustments,” the food safety office added. It is examining all available data about the risks and side-effects involved in eating insects.
According to Evelyn Kirchsteiger-Meier, head of the department of quality management and food law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, the food safety office is looking, among other things, at a risk analysis by the Belgian authorities.
This report outlined four potential sources of danger, Kirchsteiger-Meier said: pathogenic microbes, chemical dangers, potential allergies and physical risks. Microbes and spores could affect insects during breeding, which means “a level of heat must be applied to ensure the microbiological safety of the insects,” the food safety expert says.
Insects can also use toxins as a defence mechanism. People who are allergic to shellfish may also have a reaction to insects. And when it comes to eating insects whole, extremities or wings could injure consumers.
The food safety office notes in its explanation on the new regulation that insects must be frozen and heated before delivery because they are potential carriers of parasites and disease-causing microbes.
In addition, they must be recognisable as insects, so not processed. “This is to protect consumers from fraud, because the consumer expectations in our culture are that insects are viewed as pests.”
The insect lobby do not agree with this last point, after a study showed that acceptance of processed insect products in Switzerland would actually be considerably higher.
That is one reason why Essento is planning to enter the market with primarily processed products.
Bärtsch chooses his words carefully when criticising the draft law: “The field is still open,” he stresses. “We are working hard with various players on proposals to change it.”
It is also the producers’ interest to ensure that customers know if a processed product has insects in it, he says. “So we are in close contact with the Swiss Consumer Protection Foundationexternal link. They are in principle open,” he says. Currently under discussion is a declaration or description of origin.
Chevalley is satisfied with the regulation, as far as it goes. But she finds the list of edible insects too short. Together with her lobbying group she wants to build an umbrella organisation for all organisations and businesses “with an interest in this production to define criteria for breeding, slaughter and hygiene”.
When it comes to home consumption, everyone is free to dish up insects on their tables on private occasions. These are not subject to the food laws, the food safety office writesexternal link. Bon appetit.
Insects? No thanks
According to a study by Bern researchersexternal link, interest among Swiss consumers for eating insects remains low.
The School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences of the Bern University of Applied Sciences asked 548 people by telephone, picked by random from German and French-speaking Switzerland about whether they would eat insects.
In terms of reasons to eat insects, they were convinced by the sustainability and health arguments. But they were not so prepared to actually eat them. Some 44% were disgusted at the idea. 16% said however they had already eaten insects, mostly out of curiosity. For a quarter of them, once was enough.
Those in the French-speaking part were more prepared to eat processed mealworms. Unprocessed insects were not popular in both language regions. Researchers therefore recommended those interested in selling insect products to, in a first step, offer products without insects that are recognizable in them.end of infobox
Insects and animal protection
As invertebrates, insects are not covered by the animal protection law. “That doesn’t mean that we shouldn't have a respectful attitude towards them,” Sara Wehrli from Swiss Animal Protection told swissinfo.ch.
Temperature, humidity, substrates, the existence or non-existence of parasites or pathogens can play an important role, she said.
According to Wehrli, it is “certainly possible” that the animal protection law could one day be extended to cover insects. But this is likely to need experience with the mass production of edible insects first.end of infobox
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We have this great name, which lends itself well to slogans like, "Cutting Edge", or "Sharp", or other great descriptions, but we don't have great logo which really displays all that in a concise and memorable image.
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The name of the company is RazorIT. Capitalized exactly as that in all marketing materials when written as plain text. The logo however does not need to adhere to that.
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Jewish World Review Oct 19, 2011 / 21 Tishrei, 5772
The Anatomy of a Protest
By Paul Greenberg
Gravity has its laws courtesy of Sir
A longshoreman and philosopher in pretty much that order,
The specific focus of protests, if any, may change with the times. But the general spirit remains remarkably the same. It's a kind of free-floating dissatisfaction with the world. Or maybe the dissatisfaction is just with the protesters' place in it.
The over-all impression remains the same: Lots of gripes, many only half-formed, and no real program except the haziest of generalities. And even those may be self-contradictory. Or as
Clarity and coherence just aren't high on these protesters' order of priorities. Indeed, such qualities may be viewed as tools of the System, a kind of suppression of their freedom, their spontaneity, their creativity, and above all their general sense of indignation at being insufficiently appreciated.
Asking the protesters to justify their ideas, or even to fully articulate them, may be seen as just another way to keep them down.
Like any other theatrical production with costumes from the East, modern protests tend to go on the road sooner or later, starting off on
The protesters don't seem interested in justifying their gripes, just expressing them. As if what they're really after is the comforting feeling of group solidarity.
To quote a protester in
What is it, exactly, that they're protesting? The answer is the same as that of
He's just "mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Which is a line from "Network" (1976). When it comes to protests, the theme remains remarkably unchanged over time -- a general sense of betrayal. To sum it up: We played by the rules, we did the right thing, and we still haven't got what we want, which usually comes down to money and status -- even if those are the things the protesters are supposed to be protesting.
Listen to this dissatisfied demonstrator, a 49-year-old
It's all the System's fault. Certainly not
What do you suppose her two degrees were in, a sense of self-entitlement?
This is not to say that all protests are born equal. Lest we forget, this republic was born in protest, usually in the vicinity of
How differentiate between protests that lead to liberty under law, and to more respect for human dignity and self-reliance rather than less?
Just ask the reason for the protest. Ask for specifics. By their specifics you shall know them, and whether the protest is serious or just for show.
Those colonial protesters had definite grievances -- various taxes and navigation acts that restricted their trade. They weren't protesting against some vague generality (The System,
See the Declaration of Independence for the full bill of particulars. These protesters in the colonies knew just what they were rebelling against, and, when asked, didn't have to mumble, "Whatcha got?"
Maybe today's protesters will reach that point. Let's hope so. It would be a decided improvement. In the meantime, they might stay off the grass. It's the least they can do for the environment.
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Engineering Safe and Secure Software Systems (Artech House Information Security and Privacy)
This first-of-its-kind resource offers a broad and detailed understanding of software systems engineering from both security and safety perspectives. Addressing the overarching issues related to safeguarding public data and intellectual property, the book defines such terms as systems engineering, software engineering, security, and safety as precisely as possible, making clear the many distinctions, commonalities, and interdependencies among various disciplines. You explore the various approaches to risk and the generation and analysis of appropriate metrics.
This unique book explains how processes relevant to the creation and operation of software systems should be determined and improved, how projects should be managed, and how products can be assured. You learn the importance of integrating safety and security into the development life cycle. Additionally, this practical volume helps identify what motivators and deterrents can be put in place in order to implement the methods that have been recommended.
Contents: Definitions. Security Metrics. Software Assurance. Differentiating between Security-Criticality and Safety-Criticality. Identity Access Management Issues. Factors Affecting Safety and Security. Risk Models. The Importance of the Requirements Phase. Nonfunctional Requirements. The Transition from Requirements to Specifications. System Design and Development. Validation and Verification. The Impact of Changing Context. Operational Issues. Decommissioning. Cyber Security Economics. The Future of system Safety and Security.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Engineering Systems
Chapter 3 Engineering Software Systems
Chapter 4 Engineering Secure and Safe Systems, Part I
Chapter 5 Engineering Secure and Safe Systems, Part 2
Chapter 6 Software Systems Security and Safety Risk
Chapter 7 Software System Security and Safety Metrics
Chapter 8 Software System Development Processes
Chapter 9 Secure SSDLC Projects in Greater Detail
Chapter 10 Safe SSDLC Projects in Greater Detail
Chapter 11 The Economics of Software Systems’ Safety and Security
Appendix A Software Vulnerabilities, Errors, and Attacks
Appendix B Comparison of ISO/IEC 12207 and CMMI-DEV Process Areas
Appendix C Security-Related Tasks in the Secure SSDLC
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Pharmacy Mall delivers parcels to the customers’ local PO right to your door. If you are not at home at this moment you will be left a special notice
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There may appear some delays at customs. If something wrong happens our support group will inform you.
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Administration of our store has no right to disclose or transfer customer data to third parties given to them during the ordering procedure. It may be used exclusively for delivery purposes.
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Ordering drugs presented on our site, a client must specify personal data. Our online generic pharmacy can request confirmation of customers’ personal information in any way convenient for him – offline or online.
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Online pharmacy uses the customer’s personal data solely for the convenience of its services and improves the quality of provided services to store. Certain data is transferred to the bank or payment system if the buyer’s personal data is required to make money transfer. Personal information is strictly protected by our secure system and these data may be revealed only in cases stipulated by law or when the administration will have to make similar actions in connection with the necessity of court execution, legal situation or process that provides a client with efficient operation of the online pharmacy. Under no other circumstances, personal data transmitted by the customer may not be transferred or disclosed to unauthorized persons.
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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Two blockbuster action movies in "Aquaman" and "Bumblebee" are out in theaters this holiday season. One I like and the other I don't, so let's begin with the bad news first.
There were gasps at the screening I attended when Jason Momoa's torso first appeared, and he is the best reason to go and see "Aquaman."
He does his best, and so do Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman, but much of what happens is waterlogged.
"Aquaman" is what's called "critic proof," which is just another way of saying most moviegoers don't care what folks like me say about it and therefore will not care that it is at least a half an hour too long.
The film has already made a quarter of a billion dollars overseas.
"Bumblebee," meanwhile, is an attempt to revive the popular "Transformers" franchise by taking it back to the future (back to the 1980s) where one of the Transformers flees the bad bots and escapes to earth.
It ends up at the home of a young 18-year-old mechanic played by Hailee Steinfeld, who was so good in "True Grit" and held her own opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.
"Bumblebee" is so full of heart, thanks also to a mechanical co-star who has never seemed more lifelike.
If you're a parent of a tween or young teen, make this a must-see movie to see together. And having been bashed numb by all the "Transformer" sequels, nobody is more surprised than me that I'm able to recommend this charming prequel.
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As we are moving towards the end of 2017, the time has come to reflect on the past and the future of Toronto's real estate market. Some say the current downtrend will continue into 2018, some are saying that the slowdown is temporary and the market will soon pick up. This week, we've gathered the most interesting reads about Toronto's housing market in this short roundup to help you stay on top of the real estate game towards the beginning of 2018.
Torontoism.com: Toronto November 2017 Market Report: The sky has not fallen even though the prices have
The real estate stats for November were released and last week Torontoism team reflected on the past and the future of Toronto's real estate market. The market was generally slower year-over-year but the new mortgage rules taking effect in January 2018 are pushing the wannabe homeowners to act fast. Therefore, the sales dropped only 13.3 percent year-over-year in November, compared to the drop of over 20 percent in the previous months.
There was a surge of new listings in November too, and the properties spent 24 days on the market on average, giving the buyers some time to choose the home they really like and negotiate the deal. Richard Silver commented on the recent stats saying that although the prices are lower, the sky has not fallen in the past few month. The sellers still have the upper hand in prime property, but the buyers have some room for negotiation now.
The real estate prices will remain flat in 2018, Re/Max experts predict. They expect the beginning of the year (that is usually slow anyway) to be even slower in the upcoming year with a gradual rebound coming in May. The Re/Max forecast is different from their competitor's Royal LePage, which predicts a moderate 6.8 per cent price rise in Toronto area.
The factors that will effect demand in the first months of 2018 will be the Ontario Fair Housing Plan and the newly introduced tougher mortgage stress test rules, says the Re/Max's forecast. Both policies will make the buyers cautious to get into the housing market, as they will prefer to wait till spring. Despite the slower market, Re/Max still predicts higher demand and price increases in the condo market, because of the relative affordability of this segment.
The former chief planner for the City of Toronto Jennifer Keesmaat says it's time to rethink Canada's housing system. The economy is a dynamic matter and the cities that don't change and fail to adjust to the changing economy, dry out. The governments should keep that in mind when they plan the future of Canadian cities, says Keesmaat.
Housing is the fundamental human right and a key to the sustainable national economy. Therefore, affordable housing should be a priority for the overheated Canadian real estate markets. The newest National Housing Strategy doesn't solve the problem, according to Keesmaat, as it merely "subsidizes the broken system".
The former city planner argues that the only good solution proposed so far is the new Vancouver's supply-driven strategy that emphasizes, first of all, the right kind of supply. She also hopes that more cities will follow Vancouver's positive example.
The Globe and Mail: More Toronto condo developers cater to families, but price still a barrier
Builders incorporate family-friendly ideas, but price is still the major issue. The new 3,000 units Emerald City high-rise community planned in Toronto's North York is mostly marketed to families. The bachelor apartments were eliminated in the plans in favour of larger two- and three-bedroom condos. The reason, according to the developers, is that more and more families are choosing living in condos, either because of their cost or the work-life balance that they offer.
The "Growing Up" design guidelines introduced recently by Toronto's city planners, are meant to push builders to construct projects better suited to families with children. This means, first of all, larger units, and kid-friendly environment: playgrounds, schools and kindergartens. However, even though more condos are being designed for family-living, the price constitutes a barrier that keeps families from buying condo units.
BuzzBuzzHome: This is what to expect for Toronto home prices in 2018
The 2017 was a year of great turbulence in the real estate market in the GTA and the main question is if this trend will continue into 2018. According to Derek Holt, head of capital markets economics at Scotiabank, the prices will pick up again in 2018, following Vancouver scenario after the introduction of the foreign buyers tax. The same forecast was also suggested by TREB president Tim Syrianos.
According to another expert, CIBC Senior Economist Benjamin Tal, the housing will become even more unaffordable for most Canadians because of the lack of supply. He argues that the recently introduced policies can only provide a temporary relief in an overheated market, but the fundamentals like increasing demand and limited supply stay unchanged. Therefore, he predicts, the long-term trend in the GTA's real estate market will move towards even less affordable housing. | <urn:uuid:aea408f1-5fd5-48f5-9872-cb992b1649a7> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://torontoism.com/toronto-news/2017/12/gta-real-estate-news-highlights-21 | 2019-03-23T13:08:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202804.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323121241-20190323143241-00295.warc.gz | en | 0.961266 | 1,027 |
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Ayla Networks Showcases IoT for HVAC/R Industry at AHR Expo
Customer Showcases, Consultations & Theater
Presentation for HVAC/R Manufacturers
January 19, 2018
At the annual AHR Expo in Chicago Jan. 22-24, Ayla Networks, a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS), will showcase the ways its IoT technology can help heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) manufacturers reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.
The following is an overview of activity for HVAC manufacturers at the Ayla Booth #3560 in the North Hall of McCormick Place:
Connecting to the IoT provides HVAC/R manufacturers with the ability to lower warranty costs, increase service revenue, improve product quality and increase customer satisfaction. "Reducing Costs and Improving Customer Satisfaction with IoT" will be the topic of a 20-minute presentation in McCormick Place Theater B by Ayla Product Director Josh Pederson on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 4:45 p.m. In this session, Pederson will dive deeply into business solutions leveraging IoT data that enable these outcomes.
Ayla Customers at AHR
"Ayla's customers are finding real-world success with their Ayla-powered smart products, as evidenced by customer reviews, professional write-ups and inclusion in various buyers' guides," said Jonathan Cobb, chief operating officer at Ayla Networks. "To cite just one example, Hisense Hi-Smart Air products developed using Ayla's technology have been reviewed in publications including PC Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Digital Trends and Gadget Review."
Ayla recently has announced new or expanded relationships with a number of manufacturers exhibiting at AHR Expo. Ayla customers exhibiting at AHR 2018 include:
Air Conditioner Manufacturers
Chigo (Booth #6975)
Hisense (Booth #7572)
Hitachi (Booths #5549 and #5348)
Johnson Controls (Booths #5349, #5364, #5559, #5562)
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Smart Thermostat Manufacturers
King I Electronics (Booth #6917)
Stelpro (Booth #8147)
Ayla experts will hold free consultations with individuals and groups seeking advice about IoT best practices and application optimization for HVAC/R products. Attendees may request a consultation by contacting firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Ayla Networks, a global IoT platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, enables the world’s largest companies to connect and ingest data from nearly any sensor, system and cloud. By leveraging Ayla's Agile IoT Platform™, customers are able to quickly productize future-proofed, connected products, while normalizing data for ongoing insights and analytics. Ayla is a member of the elite Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network, so all products and data using the Ayla IoT cloud gain the security and availability benefits of the AWS cloud infrastructure. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com.
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Earlier this month, Benefit announced their latest launch and it's one that has been three years in the making. Three whole years.
Back on day one of this project, Loreen was doing her ninja crab dancing to Euphoria, Chris Hadfield was sending us love songs from space, Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace were making headlines and we were all dancing around to Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams' 'Get Lucky' (but we were yet to be introduced to Linda Martin's version; these were simpler times).
And so special was this launch that some beauty fiends were lucky enough to find ourselves in Vegas to at the official launch and to get our mitts on the entire collection.
The secrecy surrounding this launch was akin to the Third Secret of Fatima meets Beyoncé's covert album drop. Hints were dropped about #BenefitBrows, there were teasings of a multiple product launch but no one knew for sure until the grand unveiling.
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And we weren't disappointed as we were introduced to all thirteen (yes, thirteen) new products in their brow collection, with their focus on creating shades, easy-to-use applicators and high performing formulas.
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A full selection of liturgies, presentations, musical performances, information booths, and small-group breakout sessions was among the highlights at two national Catholic conferences held virtually last month. Although the implementation of both events was anything but traditional, these types of virtual experiences have quickly become the norm for the Holy Name Province and other US-6 OFM vocation offices – all of which collaboratively participated at the conferences sponsored by Focus SEEK21 (from Feb. 4 to 7) and the Religious Education Congress (Feb. 18 to 21). These virtual platforms have provided an effective space for HNP and other province vocation directors to overcome the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions while promoting the Franciscan charism to men discerning religious life.
“In a world riddled by a pandemic, I was moved and inspired by the online gathering of so many people – particularly young people – all seeking community, hope, and faith,” said Jorge Martins, administrator of HNP’s vocation office. “By all accounts, they were a success for vocations and the universal Church.”
Although friars across the country acknowledge that nothing replaces the value of meeting in person with discerners, they agree that virtual conferences provide effective ways for vocation offices to collaborate and communicate.
“It’s always more fruitful to meet with men in discernment in person,” said Basil Valente, OFM, who has served as HNP director of vocations since 2014. “But interacting virtually was a genuine blessing, especially as we look for new ways to gather in community in the name of Jesus Christ and St. Francis to bring the good news of the Franciscan way of life to the many.
“It provided an inspired opportunity not only to minister with my brother vocation directors from other provinces, but also to move forward in collaboration, goodness, outreach, and ministry to people who are in discernment. The keynote talks, music, dancing, liturgy, heartfelt sharing, and specialized workshops – all presented in three languages (English, Spanish and Vietnamese) – were impressive and exalting.”
Both conferences implemented innovative interactive platforms that enabled religious communities and organizations to promote their mission through virtual information booths. Martins designed the virtual booth for SEEK21 and RE Congress for the US-6.
“Our booth received encouraging messages and visits at both conferences. Discerners were grateful for our Franciscan presence and expressed interest in religious vocation with the US-6 friars. As a young adult myself, I am always pleasantly surprised by the enormous presence of young people at these conferences. Even in the midst of a pandemic, the Church continues to grow and bear fruit. The significant attendance of young people at these conferences affirms this truth,” said Martins, a 2017 graduate of Montclair State University.
Virtual Information Booths
The SEEK21 Conference, whose theme was “proclaiming the beautiful promises of God,” was sponsored by FOCUS – the acronym for Fellowship of Catholic University Students. It was the first time that the HNP vocation office participated in a SEEK conference, which this year was a virtual system of online booths that the Franciscan provinces and other religious communities utilized as a vehicle to advance their mission, vocations, ministerial life, service, and social justice work.
The information booth presented by the US-6 provinces – the group of OFM Franciscan communities in the midst of an initiative that aims to establish an amalgamated province in 2023 – was operated by Basil, Martins, student friar Steven Kuehn, OFM, and HNP regional vocation directors Paul Santoro, OFM, and James Sabak, OFM. The booth had an instant-message chat component to directly engage with visitors, with friars using the opportunity to describe Franciscan life, answer questions, share faith experiences, and provide encouragement.
Martins uploaded PDFs of vocation booklets, images showcasing friars from the US-6 provinces, several videos – two of which HNP’s vocation office produced specifically for these events – and other related materials. One of the videos (above) about the US-6 provinces provided an overview of Franciscan life and ministry.
Sebastian Sandoval, OFM, vocation director for the West Coast-based St. Barbara Province, observed: “Although the conferences had to be held virtually, they still provided a real opportunity to make connections, deepen our faith, and enliven our spirit. They also provided US-6 vocation directors with a wonderful opportunity to collaborate on a project.
“I look forward to next year when we can do this in person,” added Sebastian, who lives in Los Angeles, where the Religious Education Congress typically hosts its annual event.
The Religious Education Congress created a 3-D component to showcase the 96 booths at the conference, titled “Proclaim the Promise.” The Franciscan booth contained a video produced by the US-6 vocation office, links to resources and webpages of U.S. Franciscan vocations, other promotional content, and an instant-message chat system to engage directly with visitors. Each of the US-6 vocation directors assisted in operating the booth at the virtual conference of the RE Congress.
A silver lining in not being able to gather in person has been the comfortable and cost-efficient alternative provided by the virtual conferences because it eliminates the cost of travel and allows participants – friars and discerners, alike – to attend from the comfort of their homes and offices.
Sharing Franciscan Joy
Jim Sabak, who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, said the virtual conferences were appropriate forums in light of the current state of affairs. “They not only embraced the common medium for engaging people during the pandemic, but they also utilized a social format familiar and useful to an age group that is one of the audiences for our vocation work. If reading the signs of the times is integral to the renewal of the Second Vatican Council, then the work of evangelization which serves as the foundation for vocations must be open to unconventional forms for engagement and dialogue with others,” said Jim. “Virtual conferences are especially consistent with our Franciscan vocation work, as they exemplify the use of the marketplace and public square, which were fundamental to the progress of the early Franciscan movement.”
Although initially hesitant about the value of virtual conferences, Erasmo Romero, OFM, vocation director of the Southwest-based Our Lady of Guadalupe Province, said they turned out well.
“I was a bit apprehensive about the virtual conferences because of their limitations. But it was a great experience and opportunity to chat with young people and connect with those interested in a vocation. But I still look forward to the time we can once again be physically present to inquirers, shake hands, and interact outside of a computer screen,” said Erasmos, who made his first profession in 2006 and now lives in New Mexico.
Steve, who professed his first vows as a Franciscan friar in 2017 and is stationed this year in Western New York completing an internship at St. Bonaventure University, shared his impressions. “I had the opportunity to speak with a young man about his interest in the friars. It was a joy to be able to share with him a bit about our Franciscan way of life. Although I wish the event could have been in person, I am amazed that with the help of modern technology, we could join together and rejoice in our faith and discuss Franciscan discernment opportunities with potential candidates.”
Speakers at the SEEK21 conference included Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles, Fr. Mike Schmitz, director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, and Immaculée Ilibagiza, the best-selling author and motivational speaker who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide as a college student by huddling with seven other women in the bathroom of a local pastor’s house for 91 days. Speakers at the Religious Education Congress conference included Bishop Fernand Cheri, OFM, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and a member of Sacred Heart Province, and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California.
The participation by the US-6 provinces in last month’s virtual conferences is a continuation of the online work they have been conducting since spring 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic suspended or restricted most in-person work and ministry. Holy Name Province vocation directors, as well as vocation personnel from the other Franciscan provinces, have been meeting by phone and video conference with men considering a Franciscan vocation.
Last summer, the US-6 vocation offices produced and distributed vibrant posters to communicate the joyful life of Franciscans and attract potential discerners. Information about joining the Franciscans can be found on the BeAFranciscan website and Facebook page.
— Jocelyn Thomas is the director of communications for Holy Name Province.
- “L.A.’s virtual congress offers participants ‘hope, vision’ for the future” – Feb. 24, 2021, Catholic News Service
- “Virtual Advent Vocation Retreats Attract 30 Discerners” – Dec. 16, 2020, HNP Today
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If one of your objectives is to host a signature outdoor event with your next program, remember: everything is “bigger and better” in Texas. Particularly for corporate events hosted in fall, winter, or spring – temperatures in the 60s, 70s, and 80s make being outside in the evening incredibly pleasant. It’s the kind of climate that makes your planning timeframe easy.
We’re also partial because we have some extraordinary new and unique outdoor event spaces and destinations to offer up. Our growing footprint in the Lone Star State includes four properties (three new) that offer innovative outdoor spaces, each offering something very different: a rooftop pool deck with a panoramic view in College Station, just across the street from Texas A&M’s famed Kyle Field (the property just opened in September); an elegant patio and upstairs terrace along the most scenic stretch of San Antonio’s historic River Walk; two stunning outdoor meetings spaces above the endless green fairways of two golf courses in Texas Hill Country 20 minutes outside of San Antonio; and a huge green and pool complex, complete with massive outdoor video screen at our exciting new property in Allen, near Dallas that just debuted in 2019.
Plus, if you book a new meeting at one of our Benchmark of Texas hotels by March 31, 2019, for a date between now and December 31, 2019, you’ll receive a complimentary Chef Stephan Pyles–inspired Texas barbecue and deliver a truly authentic and memorable Lone Star culinary experience to your attendees. Below, we help you see whether one of these meeting venues is right for you with a breakdown of the unique outdoor space, the culinary offerings, and other highlights.
Little Venice in San Antonio
The Property Hotel Contessa (San Antonio, Texas)
The Outdoor Space Imagine hosting your event on a San Antonio River–level patio overlooking the most beautiful section of San Antonio’s famous River Walk. With barges slowly passing by and greenery everywhere, it can feel like a little Venice in the heart of Texas. A beloved cypress tree that was planted over a century ago formed a small island just off the hotel’s patio, on the water, and is now known as Marriage Island – a favorite spot of guests for weddings and photo ops. For a little more privacy (and space), upstairs on the second floor, the river view terrace is perfect for dinners and receptions. There’s plenty of room, plus comfortable seating, and a spectacular view of the River Walk at this outdoor event space.
The Essentials 265 rooms (all suites); capacity downstairs on the patio: 60, though it’ll be tighter for a sit-down meal; capacity upstairs on the terrace: 75. 10,000 square feet of meeting space in total.
On the Menu: New Texas Inspiration Hotel Contessa’s new banquet menus focus on the unique cultural influences of San Antonio and have traditional Texas staples like prime cuts of locally sourced beef, seafood direct from the Gulf Coast, and opportunities to feature wild game. Plus, with strong Hispanic influences in the region, there are also touches of Latin American culture present, too. It’s that blend of inspiration that makes South Texas cuisine so special.
Dinner on the River To really put a flourish on your outdoor event, enjoy a river cruise dinner aboard a barge as you glide down the San Antonio River. It gives you the chance to break up one larger group into several smaller ones, making for a more intimate experience, as you enjoy conversation over dinner and the River Walk slowly passing by.
Making a BIG Splash at The Pond
The Property Delta Hotels By Marriott Dallas Allen & Watters Creek Convention Center (Allen, Texas)
The Outdoor Space The Pond, as Delta Hotels Dallas Allen’s pool is known, is surrounded by the patio and big, open green space (about 8,000 square feet of usable space), with cabana-style seating, fire pits, and a large, 11-by-18-foot video screen display – perfect for kicking back and watching drive-in movies, football in the fall, and showcasing company brand anthem videos. The lush and expansive space is like its own tropical island, set among the six- and seven-story buildings surrounding it, which turns an afternoon and evening event into a surreal outdoor escape amid the urban downtown of Allen.
The Essentials Opened in January, 2019. 300 rooms and suites; The Pond capacity: 450; a total of 90,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space, making it the largest venue in the region.
On the Menu: Elevating Tex-Mex with Stephan Pyles Celebrity Chef and “Father of Southwestern Cuisine” Stephan Pyles is moving his famed Stampede 66 restaurant from downtown Dallas to the hotel, bringing his spin on elevated Tex-Mex with him. Think: his famous honey-injected fried chicken, shrimp and grits, and brisket tacos. The result is meals for corporate groups infused with a sense of the destination that will also garner rave reviews from your VIP attendees. The property also balances Stampede 66 with two additional, more casual restaurant options.
Road Warriors Welcome The hotel’s communal spaces and rooms were designed with the business traveler in mind. Free, fast internet, complimentary bottled water, and incredible in-room workspaces (with outlets and USB chargers in the desk itself and even in the lamp faces). You can work in the chair, at the desk, or on the bed – there are outlets everywhere in the room. Think of it as “the bare maximum” – all the things that make sense for your attendees to manage their email and other tasks quickly and efficiently, so they can be fully engaged for all your big events.
Your Corporate Event, 96 Yards from Kyle Field
The Property Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center (College Station, Texas)
The Outdoor Space Every fall, Kyle Field erupts with the yells of 102,000-plus Aggies cheering on the Texas A&M football team with an almost religious fervor. On Texas A&M Hotel’s expansive second-story patio and rooftop pool deck, your group can be less than a football field away from the stadium. While the college football season only runs for a slice of the year, the second-story outdoor space at Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center offers a customizable canvas year-round. The L-shaped space is anchored by the sparkling rooftop pool (which, appropriately, has the A&M logo at the bottom). Poolside cabanas back up to an Astroturf area (lawn games, anyone?), and the multilevel Block T Bar feeds directly onto the deck for indoor/outdoor opportunities.
The Essentials Newly opened in September. 250 rooms and suites. A total of 35,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor meeting space. Astroturf and pool deck capacity: 200; indoor/outdoor capacity using the multilevel T Bar as well: 350.
On the Menu: Texas Farm-to-Table Pyles is this hotel’s chief culinary advisor, so as you might imagine, the culinary options at the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center (via hotel restaurant Brazos – Proper Texas Kitchen) have a strong Texas influence, with farm-to-table innovations using ingredients from Texas suppliers and inspired by the full spectrum of Texas cuisine.
Experience College Station Like an Aggie College Station is not just a town with a college in it; Aggie affability, pride, tradition, and experiences make this one of the most in-demand “howdy” destinations in Texas. And when your group is at the hotel, if you are looking for an insider Aggie recommendation, all you have to do is ask the staff – 53 percent of hotel staff comprises current and former Aggies! They’ll help direct you to some of the spots full of Aggie lore and traditions, such as Bottle Cap Alley and the campus statue of “Sully” stacked with students’ good-luck pennies. In short: When you’re a guest here, you’re a guest of the campus, and they roll out a welcoming howdy and the metaphorical “maroon carpet” for you.
Texas Hill Country on Display
The Property La Cantera Resort & Spa (San Antonio, Texas)
The Outdoor Space There’s plenty of options when you have 115,000 square feet spread across a dozen flexible indoor/outdoor meeting spaces. When it comes to taking in the beauty of both Texas Hill Country and the twinkling skyline of San Antonio at La Cantera, the two best spots are the breathtaking 6,500-square-foot foyer and terrace that’s connected to the property’s grand ballroom and the 3,100-square-foot Palo Duro, next to the Resort Clubhouse. With the resort’s two championship golf courses unfurled in front of you, encircled by the ambling Hill Country beyond, they’re the kind of spaces you might never want to leave.
The Essentials 495 rooms and suites. 115,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting space, including two outdoor meeting spaces (3,100 and 6,500 square feet each).
On the Menu: Refined Southern Cooking With views like those on display in every direction, Texas-style favorites are clearly front and center. Favorites like Texas-style gumbo, smoked cheddar whipped potatoes, and a Hill Country barbecue let everyone roll up their sleeves. But your options don’t all have to come with an extra pile of napkins – La Cantera also offers plenty of delicately refined dishes such as seared sea bass with a white bean ragout.
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House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) once pushed his conference to help pass an ambitious five-year transportation spending plan, but those talks quickly collapsed. Before last week’s recess, Boehner signaled that the House might be open to quickly passing the Senate’s two-year, $109 billion spending plan, which easily passed that chamber last week.←
In a brief exchange with reporters Tuesday, Boehner and his leadership colleagues mentioned Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal, rising gas prices, repeal of the IPAB and the Democratic focus on the so-called Republican War on Women.
But how about that highway bill?
“We’re talking with our members about the highway bill, and when we have a decision we’ll let you know,” Boehner said before quickly fielding other questions.
On Monday, President Obama called on the House to quickly pass the Senate's bill, saying, “An economy built to last depends on a world-class infrastructure system that allows us to transport our people and goods as quickly and effectively as possible.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) chimed in Tuesday as well, urging the House to move quickly to pass the legislation and safeguard millions of jobs. Instead it seems, Reid said, that “the House has come to the conclusion that they can’t do anything, unless they get a permission slip from the tea party.”
If the House fails to move forward on a highway bill this week, both chambers would have to pass a short-term spending measure. Stay tuned.
This story has been updated.
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Citing the stark new federal education test results that show the racial achievement gap remains large, Reverend Al Sharpton called on Americans of all "races, backgrounds, ages and philosophies" to join him on the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in Washington, DC "to end what those bold Americans began 55 years ago, namely the "back of the bus" education received by blacks and Latinos in American education that affects the entire education system and the future of this country."
Rev. Sharpton said, "55 years ago, the King era civil rights movement began when Americans of all colors demanded that every child have equality of opportunity in education. On May 16th, we will renew the urgency felt 55 years ago to save the future of our children and of our nation. We all must recognize that we have a crisis in education, and crises demand extraordinary action. Starting with May 16, we will create new alliances with old foes, shock the nation out of its slumber on education where it dreams that everything is all right, and use new as well as time tested civil rights actions to awaken the nation to action, and press for accountability and high quality teachers in every classroom. In this new movement there are no sacred cows, and if you stand in the way of this new call to action you could get run over."
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Beautiful house with great sea views set at the top of the Quint Mar Hill and overlooking the lovely town of Sitges and the surrounding area. The Quint Mar area is a very exclusive area on a hill overlooking Sitges.
The street level has parking for 2 cars in a secure location and 2 more on the street. A spiral staircase and an elevator lead up to the pool level and a few more steps to the front door.
Once inside the villa, in the bottom floor and on the left is the large living room with a surround terrace and access to the pool and garden. A few steps lead up to the big fully equipped kitchen with sliding doors to the garden and also access to the utility room, 5th bedroom and guest bathroom.
The next level is the mezzanine with the master bedroom air conditioned and en suite bathroom with jacuzzi bath. Then you have the second living room and 3 more double bedrooms and then up to the private and secluded roof terrace with the best views in Sitges.
There is plenty of outside space around the pool and the garden and the house is very secure with high fencing, alarm system and security bolts on all the lower level windows.
• Bedroom 1 – Air conditioned Master bedroom with king size bed , en-suite, built in wardrobes and private terrace.
• Bedroom 2 with double bed, en-suite and built in wardrobes.
• Bedrooms 3 and 4 with double beds and built in wardrobes.
• Bedroom 5 with a single bed that can become a double bed, en-suite and built in wardrobes
Bedroom 6 twin bedroom with two single beds
•En-suite to master bedroom with jacuzzi bath, shower, wc and bidet.
•En-suite to bedroom 2 with bath/shower, wc and bidet.
•Bathroom for bedrooms 3 and 4 with shower and wc.
•En-suite for bedroom 5 with shower and wc. Separate guest wc
•Cooker, hob, fridge / freezer, microwave, double sink, dishwasher, table and chairs. All high standard and fully equipped with accessories.
•Large living room with 2 different chill out areas with sofas, dining table and 8 chairs. Satellite TV, DVD player and internet and a wrap around terrace with access to the pool. Terrace and views are fantastic.
•There is a separate living room on the first floor for relaxing and with sofa, satellite TV and DVD.
•Also wi-fi available
•Outdoor dinning area with BBQ outside the kitchen with access to the pool and the back garden.
•Pool area surrounded by decking and with space to sunbathe and relax.
•Top roof terrace surrounded by decking.
The Master bedroom is air conditioned, there are ceiling fans in the other bedrooms
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A booking deposit of 30% of the total villa rental is required to reserve the villa.
The remaining 70% can be paid 6 weeks in advance of arrival date by bank transfer or in cash on arrival - to be agreed at time of booking.
A damages deposit of €700 and a cleaning fee of €250 will be required either by bank transfer 6 weeks in advance or in cash upon arrival.
Please Note: the damages deposit will be returned within 7 days after departure by bank transfer if everything in order even in circumstances where it is paid in cash.
During Winter months an additional €100 is charged for heating
CHECK INS – Check in is normally after 16:00. Where possible, we will endeavour to accommodate early arrival times but in high season this is unlikely. Check in is at our office on Calle Jardi 16, Sitges 08870. All guests are required to register with a passport or National ID card and the register may be inspected by the local police from time to time.
LATE CHECK INS - from 8pm – 12pm or on Sundays anytime will incur a charge of €40 per villa. A check in after midnight any day will incur a charge of €75 per villa. Our office hours are Monday to Friday: 9:30 am – 6:30 pm Saturdays: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm (High Season) Sundays/ Public Holidays : CLOSED
CHECK OUT is before 11am on the day of departure unless otherwise agreed in advance.
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Holder: US 'still doesn't know' which group behind Paris attack
Eric Holder, the moron President Hussein Obama sent to Paris as the US representative in Sunday's mass march, told CNN on Sunday that the United States 'still doesn't know
' what group is behind the Paris attack.
General Eric Holder said Sunday that "we don't have any credible
information" yet on whether a terrorism organization sponsored the
attack in Paris -- and if so, which one.
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Holder said "remains the most
dangerous of the al Qaeda cells," has claimed responsibility for the
attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
"We don't have any credible information, at least of yet, to indicate
who was responsible -- who sponsored this act. That is clearly one of
the things that we have to make a determination of," he said.
Because Muslims never commit terror attacks? What could go wrong?
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Family vacations are great chances to create memories that will last a lifetime, however painful travel ordeals can generate unpleasant memories that in no way fade. Neverending car rides and overlooked flights can ruin otherwise fun excursions. In my own vacations, I have always eliminated layovers in Denver co because I still recall playing on the shifting sidewalks until I used to be bored and moody during two extended layovers in Denver colorado International Airport. I’m sure dad wished we were everywhere but a large, busy terminal for those seemingly endless delays. Today, even a routine airline flight can involve prolonged delays at the international airport thanks to increased basic safety and reduced staff at check-in. So how do you maintain kids happy immediately?
While you can never guarantee a journey free of delays and also mishaps, you can even so plan the best way to handle those situations after they arise. To help make sure good travel thoughts and smooth getaways, we’ve put together a list of the best kid-friendly airports for long layovers. These air terminals provide more than just relocating sidewalks to keep the youngsters busy. Kid-friendly amenities contain everything from aviation-themed play regions and educational exhibits to private family rooms as well as rocking chairs with regard to mothers with toddlers.
We judged these international airports based on their kid-friendly conveniences, convenience as a stopping point, and nearness to great family trip spots. Next time all your family members takes to the heavens, plan for the unanticipated by connecting with these family-conscious hubs.
One of the earth’s busiest airports is also one of the best kid-friendly terminals in the country. Good thing, too: Regardless of being voted the very best airport in the world by Business Traveler Magazine from 2004-2007, O’Hare also has earned notoriety since the second-worst airport in the country regarding delays.
If you do go mad this Midwestern travel citadel, do not worry: Numerous parenting web sites have ranked O’Hare because number one family-friendly airport, and also Travel Mamas explains exactly why: “There are diverse solutions to keep kids interested at O’Hare when the delay becomes much longer when compared with expected.” The airport boasts multiple participate in areas, including Kids about the Fly in Terminal Two. The 2,000 ft . playground installed through the Chicago Children’s Memorial features airport-themed climbing houses that the museum affirms allow kids to be able to, “play, pretend, and practice skills.” The airport also offers many kid-friendly, post-security dining selections, including Garett’s Popcorn (Airport terminal 1) and Pasta Grill (Terminal 3).
You can pass through Chicago on flights back and forth almost any major airport terminal in the U.S. O’Hare is a particularly good move point for travel arrangements connecting coastal modems like Boston in addition to Los Angeles with localised, mid-western destinations.
While O’Hare is a active international airport with well-known flights to and from Manchester, Toronto, and Frankfurt, we advise avoiding it if you travel abroad along with kids because the overseas terminal does not feature all the family-friendly amenities in the domestic terminals.
While San fran is a common endpoint to a quest, it can also serve as a good connection to Asia-Pacific destinations similar to Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo. Just before stepping onto a long trans-Pacific flight, there are few air terminals better suited to enjoyable kids than SFO.
The airport terminal includes nurseries with Terminals 1, Two, and 3;?Kids’ Spot?play places in three destinations, and three distinct aquariums in Terminal 1 before safety. Dedicated family counters also help people get through security in their own pace. Your convenient security counters can be helpful on extended layovers, as SFO’s area makes it relatively easy to emerge from the airport and check out San Francisco for an hour or so between flights.
A-List Mum Travel ranked SFO this?second best airport terminal for children?(after O’Hare). They talk about that the airport has great options for teenagers and parents in addition to the perform areas, including the Commission Aviation Library plus the 11,500 square foot Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum. The museum, “conjures upward a feeling of a bygone era when traveling was a sophisticated pastime for just the rarefied few.”
SFO is very dedicated to keeping your loved ones happy and involved between flights they’ve put together?self-guided tours?on the airport terminals. Your tours will cause you and your kids for the various exhibits, engage in areas, and international airport features that make SFO special. They also include queries and challenges to be able to occupy the little types. There’s no better way to spend a long layover than taking the family on a treasure hunt.
If you are taking the kids out of the country, then Boston’s Logan International Airport is an excellent place to catch the flight. The home and international terminals are connected through walkways, so moves are quick and easy. The favourite international flights through Boston connect with Western european hubs London, Frankfurt, along with Paris, though you can also fly direct in order to Tokyo and China.
Families facing a layover inside Boston will find manchester international well-equipped to keep your kids amused. Two Kid Port play places, created with the Birkenstock boston Children’s Museum, are located in Terminals A and C. Like O’Hare, Logan’s indoors playgrounds feature airplane and tower molded climbing structures. These kinds of play spaces likewise incorporate seating for parents, with an area for watching TV. Atlanta-based blog site, My Busy Little ones, advises, “I would definitely propose waiting for the airline there with young children instead of the gate spot.”
Keeping the youngest airliner setters in mind, Logan also functions rocking chairs, household restrooms, and bedrooms for nursing parents who want some living space and privacy.
In accent major domestic along with international flights, Logan is a hub for travelling to regional vacation destinations like Cape Cod, Vermont, and Maine.
Read a little more about Phoenix airport below.
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport is the most frantic airport in the world, and also one of the coolest airports for kids to visit (it came in first intended for amenities and finally for families using a recent Travel Leaders Group poll cited on Gadling). Why? Dinosaurs. Along with its two participate in areas, the Atl airport features a thoroughly assembled skeleton connected with Yangchuanosaurus–a dinosaur that lived in China during the Jurassic period. This particular old now lives in this Hartsfield-Jackson Atrium, to the amazement of babies and parents passing through.
Hartsfield-Jackson also features a great Airport Art software that includes artworks in addition to rotating exhibits that will delight passengers of nearly every age. The Youth Free galleries on concourses D, At the, and T exhibit art projects simply by Georgia students.
Atlanta is a major hub for Delta, and the most popular home-based flights connect with many cities in California, New York City, and Dallas, along with international ‘hang-outs’ like Cancun, Barbados, and Nassau.
Keep in mind of which Hartfield-Jackson is an enormous air-port, and more than a few vacation goers have gotten lost in its concourses. While it can be one of the better airports for keeping the kids busy, it’s also wise to make sure your children never stray far, and remember to leave plenty of time for getting from play areas and exhibits in your gate before the flight leaves.
The simple fact is that you don’t have to perform much planning to find yourself traveling through DFW. Texas’s primary airport is home to United states Airlines and internet connections to airports around the country. It’s a well-known stopping point for flights to La, Chicago, Atlanta, Littleton, and New York, plus it services many localised airports in the Southwest. It is also a entrance to Mexico.
Fortunately, it isn’t a bad place to get stuck with the kids. Dallas-Fort Really worth features five engage in areas called Junior Leaflet Clubs. These playgrounds characteristic interactive structures regarding climbing and make-believe, toys, and games for the kids. There’s also a seating area for parents to rest while the little ones tire themselves out there.
If you’re stuck inside DFW for an unusually period of time, then you can change it way up and take the little ones to the McDonald’s play area near checkpoint D33.
The music capital of the South puts their reputation on display with Nashville International Airport. Strike the airport at the perfect time and you’ll be lucky enough to capture live musical shows on one of the airport’s several stages. 80 in order to 100 bands conduct at the airport annually, and Thursday as well as Friday afternoons work best times to catch a show.
The airport also has an extensive public art program, including long lasting installations and twisting exhibits.
For kids with the level of energy that can’t be shed enjoying art in addition to music, the airport likewise features three engage in areas – one in every terminal. Airport manual, TravelNerd ranked Nashville the actual sixth most kid-friendly international airport thanks to its 3 play areas, leisure, and Redbox DVD junk food machines.
Nashville is a localised hub serving 1949 markets. It’s a fantastic connection point regarding travelers headed to be able to Memphis, Indianapolis, and Raleigh/Durham. Typically the most popular flights to and from the music activity City connect to Metro atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and also Chicago.
Minneapolis St. Paul
Stuck with Minneapolis St. Henry between flights? This hub, which links major US locations with Canadian air terminals and other international spots, is subject to weather-related waiting times that may be impossible in order to avoid – especially if you’re operating winter. The good news is that it is great place to spend a couple of hours between flights considering that the airport is conveniently located near Nearby mall of America and other local attractions.
Light Rail Transportation connects MSP to town center Minneapolis and Nearby mall of America. The drive takes about A dozen minutes each means and children under all 5 ride free as soon as accompanied by a ticketed adult. Your train also provides convenient access to Mall of the usa, which could be ought to have a vacation itself. This contemporary American icon can be home not only to searching, but also to concert halls, an Aquarium, and experiential retailers from American Woman and Lego. Not to mention Nickelodeon Whole world: this kid-centric indoor theme park comes complete with character types and rides for everyone.
For layovers too short to exit the airport, there are two enjoy areas located in the terminals that have flight themes. There are also spaces for nursing mums and a family center where parents and children can relax together and benefit from amenities such as a household bathroom, rocking chair, and cribs.
In basic, Las Vegas is not a popular destination for families together with young (read: underage) young children. There certainly are some things for families to do in Nevada’s Mecca of extravagance, but the expected adults-only content may be an excessive amount of for some families. Manchester international, on the other hand, is a fashionable place that’s at ease for multiple many years. Adults can even have a taste of the tamer area of Vegas steps while waiting for the flight – the airport can be fully loaded with above 1200 slot machines.
McCarran airport terminal is a stop on the way between Southwestern destinations and major urban centers like Los Angeles, Metro atlanta, and Seattle. For travelers with children, it’s not a bad destination for a pass an hour or two involving flights.
For the kids, McCarran includes a huge unsupervised childrens’ play area throughout Terminal D. The spot has play components and an interactive control tower. The airport can be home to some great vintage planes, which will garner the attention of babies interested in aviation. The particular Las Vegas airport has also appeared in many The show biz industry movies, so you can entertain the family by locating spots where famous scenes from Up in the Air, Ocean’s 13, and Rush Hour ended up filmed.
Seattle-Tacoma offers a number of family-friendly amenities by car seat and stroller rentals to a non-public room for nursing mothers, complete with flexible lighting and lulling chairs. The Mother’s area is situated in the Little ones Play Area, thus parents can easily care for multiple kids. (Additionally it is located across through the Seattle Tap Bedroom, so parents may take care of themselves too.)
Cascadia Kids, a family journey website in the North american, highlights the airport’ersus rocking chairs as a major attraction for fogeys and children alike. Lora Shinn publishes articles, “Near the gorgeous, floor-to-ceiling central fatal window, Sea-Tac offers wood rocking chairs, so you’re able to rock a toddler and watch the aircraft… Or even let the kids stone while you eat lunch break (it’s essentially the dining-room for the food courtroom).”
For more information on these airports’ family-friendly facilities, check out these means:
- Atlanta – Hartsfield-Jackson
- Boston – Logan International Airport
- Chicago – O’Hare
- Dallas/Fort Worth
- Las Vegas – McCarran Worldwide Airport
- Minneapolis St. Paul
- Nashville International Airport
- Phoenix Heavens Harbor
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Thanks to Jhumpa Lahiri for penning this sentence: The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. The winner of the 29th PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Lahirir, born in London UK in 1957, now living in the U.S., has touched on one of the least understood dilemmas faced by humans.
Erich Fromm once told his readers that the essential dilemma of being a human being is that at one and the same moment we are both subject and object of any sentence. We can conceive/conceptualize of ourselves as the central figure doing the action of a situation, or the person upon whom the action of the moment is being imposed. Pulled, as we are, in at least two directions simultaneously, humans live in the midst of tension, or as Hans Selye puts it, between good “stress” and bad “stress”. Jung posits that we live the first four-plus decades focused on the extrinsics or the externals of our lives (education, career, income, property, status) and in our mid-forties, we transfer our attention to our inner, or our intrinsic life (our spirituality, our meaning or purpose, our belief system, our intimate relationships and our relationship with a deity). It seems, however, that all of these tensions are in play, to a greater or lesser degree throughout.
Developmentally, our conscious awareness begins with our becoming aware of our hands, the sounds in the room, the faces around our face, scents of our dogs, the music of our family and continues in every widening circles into the play-pen, the play-room, the back yard, etc. And as we move through various events, frustrations, falls, “new steps” (of all different varieties) we accumulate a memory bank of experiences, both “friendly” and “unfriendly” depending on our environment. Some events, like deaths, divorce, serious injury, set-backs in our own health or the health of those close to us tend to take on a prominence that exceeds the ordinary mundane level of a spilled bowl of soup, or a skinned knee. The universe, in its own way, unfolds before us, as well as within us, in that our perspective, or our perception, is shaped by these early events in ways in which we are both conscious and unconscious of, through some dynamic of our own participation and our passive reception.
Into this “stew-pot” of our person/life, add our private reflections, our personal reading list, our associations and our capacity to integrate both success and failure. And, in a general way, we discover both our warm feelings of being valued, accepted, admired, supported and even loved (if we are so fortunate), and those feelings of discomfort that accompany our scoldings, our punishments, our agency in the disappointments of our families, and our fears…some of them “borrowed” or adopted from our parents and siblings, some of them seeming to bubble out of our own consciousness. “Others” then take on an ambivalence which both replicates the tensions within our consciousness, and which emerges from the stimuli of how others “come” to us. We like some “other” more than another. We dislike some more than another. We are indifferent about some more than another. The innocence of our crib and our play-pen is gradually confronted with its own demise as we integrate both our positive experiences with those we consider more negative, or at least less positive.
We watch cartoons, in which good “guys” are often at the mercy of “bad” guys, both in fun and in situations that are less playful and more threatening. We get a somewhat divided picture of both the world and our place in it. And as these patterns grow, (or the ‘tapes’ are recorded on our memory) the evidence, and our interpretations of it continue to interact with each other to develop, not only a language that tells us and others ‘who’ we are but ‘what’ we expect, like, dislike, accept or reject. We meet teachers, coaches, sometimes clergy, and friends who tend to “fit” or “not” into our picture of a healthy universe, one that includes or excludes us.
We join a group, a choir, a band, a team, a scout/guide troupe, and we learn some new skills, while we also find ourselves in new situations that challenge us to discover our limits physically, emotionally, intellectually and psychologically. And just as, or perhaps even more, important, ethically.
Throughout these early encounters, reflections, readings, and challenges, we are learning about what “others” consider to be “right” and “wrong” and how we ‘feel’ about those respective guideposts. Schoolyard bullying, directed specifically at us, or not, rears its ugly head, sometimes unpredictably, sometimes after much warning. If we are the “butt” of that attack, we are frightened, isolated, alienated, and confused, especially as we may not grasp any potential motive for the attack. If we watch such events played out against others, we “feel” compassion, and a new feeling of empathy for them and for their plight. Similarly, when we read in novels, or watch in movies or television dramas, the perpetration of injustice, we recoil and withdraw from such danger, perhaps develop some strategies that we might use if we were in such situations, and dig more deeply into our curiosity and reflection, to discern the real nature of the world.
As we grow into adolescence, we are exposed to the natural world, through science classes, or hobbies like hunting and fishing. We watch predator animals like the fox gravitate to a spot in the field, where suddenly they leap into an opening and retrieve a field mouse for lunch. (And we are suddenly conscious that there is no fixing or cleaning, no hot over in which to “cook” the mouse, for the fox. This is “raw” nature!) Or we watch a falcon swoop down on an unsuspecting small bird to feed himself or his/her family.
And as we continue to experience new situations, we develop a repertoire of pictures of people, words, activities and even weather forecasts that we come to trust, and another file of those agents in which we have less trust. Our coach will promise to “play everyone” in every game, and then leave us sitting on the bench for the whole game without explanation. Our parent will promise to “have time” for us on the weekend, and when the weekend is over, and there was no “time” for us, we learn that those words were not “real” for that parent on that weekend. And while we “know” that the house we live in is not specifically one we might choose, there are others outside that home we do make choices to befriend or not.
And all the while these people and events are showing up on our personal horizon, there are things happen within our minds and our bodies that foreshadow a kind of risk-taking behaviour. We have watched others take risks, and we have a vague sense of the ‘rush’ that accompanies some risky behaviour. This new pattern will also have limits that have some direct and/or indirect connection to the kind ofrisk-taking behaviour that comes out of stories of our families. A “crazy uncle” that no one seems ready to discuss may hold some of the clues to this legacy. A grandparent who risked his/her life in some military conflict, or a serious earthquake or some other natural disaster will command considerable interest, as will many characters we meet in novels, movies or television dramas. In fact, from literature, we are offered many otherwise unreachable experiences, stretching our imaginations and our aspirations.
And have we all noticed that a ocean-liner full of endorsements and kudos can seem to be erased with a single nasty and penetrating insult or act of exclusion? “Positive psychology” clearly has its place in incubating a reservoir of affirmations that contribute to our self-esteem, and in modelling messages from others that we can include in our own self-talk. And this reservoir can and does cushion some of the shock of a personal conflict, or a rejection or an unfair and slanderous piece of gossip. Yet, it can rarely neutralize its toxic impact on our sensibilities.
And this vacillation, tending to wanting to belong, and then to being wary of any close connection, and the uncertainty of ascertaining who is a friend who can be trusted and who is clearly a “friend” in name and convenience only, begins a life-long repetitive process. This latter kind of transactional friend, who considers all relationships to be analogous to that of consumer/retailer, or doctor/patient, or lawyer/client, dependent merely on the mutual assessment of each side meeting the business needs of the other, and able to be dispensed with and disposed upon a whim or a minor glitch.
So, into this already growing complexity of expectations, add another significant, and potentially uncontrollable variable.
Sometime between fourteen and nineteen, it happens, for both boys and girls!
Someone so special and so captivating and so endearing and so attractive and so memorable jumps across the threshold of our consciousness and into our “poetic heart” as the “one”! And, being a mere adolescent, (no matter how mature) we are totally unaware that much of that “image” of the other is a projection of our “ideal” partner, a figure of our own imagination, (as we are for them) and yet we are pen and vulnerable and seemingly helpless to stop thinking about that person. We are, in a word, consumed by our obsession; we hang on their every word, and wait by the smart phone for their next text; we imagine being anywhere and everywhere with them, and with them alone. And we lose sleep, sometimes even lose weight, in our complete entry into the womb of this new “relationship”. This all happens with or without the open and willing participation of the other person.
If s/he is willing, the experience is both more “real” and also (although we are totally unaware and unaccepting of this potential) much more dangerous to our emotional security, at the time. And potentially for a longer time too!
Our first real venture into a significant experience that has risk at the beginning and as the relationship grows and even more risk should it founder on some shoals like a move away to college, or a new “interest” to either party, or a family trauma, or a business or career failure…..and depending on the circumstances, we could be emotionally devastated. And that goes for boys as well as girls. (Let’s be candid: boys have especially deep feelings, some of which can be dubbed pride in our important ventures and this is clearly a very important commitment.
In other social situations, we may find ourselves in both leadership roles or in more “followership” roles, all of both kinds provide insight into the gifts and the costs of each. We can easily reconnoitre as to our “relative popularity” and what the requirements and benefits of belonging are. As David Brooks has written, we are social animals, gravitating to others as both a support and in search of some form of refuge and yet….
With every entering into a new social situation, at any age, and among any group of peers, professional acquaintances, neighbours, service clubs, churches, we are exposed to the full range of motives, our own and those of each other person in the circle. And not all of those motives are exemplary, empathic, compassionate, or even minimally supportive. Some motives, based primarily on insecurities of one kind or another, are competitive, vindictive, bullying, destructive and dangerous. Depending on the degree of maturity and sophistication of the group, and its capacity to envision paths to manage conflict, estrangement, alienation, and isolation (all of these hopefully diminishing as we get older, but that too could be another pipe-dream), our experiences of belonging can be enhanced and stimulate our appetite for additional belonging adventures.
If we were to join a tightly knit group such as a military corps, we will surrender much of our individual autonomy to the leader of that group in exchange for the support and “protection” of the other members of the group. Yet, somehow “belonging” to such a battalion is very different from “belonging” to a personal friend, date, lover or life partner. And the differences are large.
For example, discerning what to say to whom and when, depending on the anticipated level of trust one “conceives” to be present, will vary greatly in the workplace, on the sports team, in the operating room, and in the board room. Depending on the openness/closedness of both the ‘room’ and the individuals within, one draws one’s own boundaries. On the other hand, while at home, at least theoretically, there can be no withholding, and secrets shared with intimate partners add to the stability and the longevity and the promise of such a relationship. However, just as in the public arena, if and when something occurs, or fails to occur within the intimate relationship that are considered “deal-breakers”, then, just as in the previous adolescent slights, we tend to withdraw possible temporarily at first, and if those experiences are repeated, then additional separation takes place.
The culture, no matter the size of the town, city or village will want to offer aphorisms to help: “
· Gather more flies with honey than with vinegar
· Watch out for sheep in wolves’ clothes
· Play you cards close to your vest
· Don’t put all your marbles in one basket
· Your kindness is wonderful, but be sure to set boundaries
· Your icy mask does not become you
· Half measures will not cut it, if you want in, you have to be all in
· Friendship, like wine, is best enjoyed in small sips
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And there are likely many more, all of them cautions against the risk of full engagement. Many of these also surface in a culture that is readily and justifiably described as “politically correct”.
And on the other side of the coin, we also know that we are hard wired to be socially engaged, for many of our significant needs and opportunities. Generosity, compassion, altruism, teaching, mentoring, coaching, doctoring, lawyering….many of the human experiences simply require others to be feasible and effective. And we also need both the tension and the growth that tension generates if we are to fully flower as creative, and integrated individuals in a variety of situations. No single situation is ever excluded from our engagement in all others. And no social “spanking” is ever forgotten as we attempt to wend our way through the many mazes, whirlpools, shoals, frights and nightmares we are to meet.
The bottom line question seems to be, “How can/do/will we manage our profound fears of alienation, abandonment, isolation and aloneness?”
Some (like Bowlby, the British psychiatric researcher) have spent their lives exploring the premise that each of us suffers from some degree of abandonment, and we spend the rest of our lives attempting to return to a “home” where we are demonstrably and unquestioningly safe.
And for this scribe, the only way to continue the pilgrimage to return “home” is to vow to myself never to give up on the journey. Given all the reasons not to continue, the reasons to continue area far more likely to offer experiences, insights, feelings and the courage that comes with each to continue to grow emotionally, intellectually, socially, culturally, and especially spiritually.
With my last breath, I will give thanks for those, like my life partner, who have supported, empowered, encouraged and even challenged me to get back into the “melee” in spite of those old ‘tapes’ telling me that I am risking again the chance of being hurt, especially as my apprehension and adoption of the many social graces that others expect is so limited.
That side of me, too, can and will only develop with continued engagement.
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Date: 03/23/98 at 10:50:59 From: Rhandy Lado Subject: Check if line intersects polygons I have an interesting problem that I do not know how to solve and I was wondering if maybe you could point me in the right direction. I have two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) and between these points lie polygons (some may overlap). If I draw a straight line between the two points, how do I check which polygons are crossed by the line? The real life scenario for this question is that on a map we have two points with certain highlighted areas (polygons) that may represent types of vegetation or something, and I need to know which of these areas are crossed by a line connecting the two points. Thanks you for any help you can provide. Sincerely, Rhandy Lado
Date: 03/23/98 at 14:48:07 From: Doctor Rob Subject: Re: Check if line intersects polygons The equation of the line is (y-y1)/(x-x1) = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) (y2-y1)*x - (x2-x1)*y = x1*y2 - x2*y1 A*x + B*y = C All the points (x,y) satisfying A*x + B*y < C lie on one side of the line, and all the points satisfying A*x + B*y > C lie on the other side of the line. To see if the line intersects a polygon, make the test for each vertex of the polygon. If all are on one side of the line, there is no intersection. If you can find two vertices on opposite sides of the line, there is an intersection. -Doctor Rob, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Date: 03/30/98 at 00:33:23 From: Rhandy Lado Subject: Re: Check if line intersects polygons Dr. Rob, this works great but there is one situation where it doesn't work: If the line connecting the two points is outside the polygon (i.e. no intersection) but still in a position so that there are polygon vertices on either side, the formula indicates that the line crosses the polygon when really it doesn't. Hope you can provide me some help on this one. Thanks in advance, Rhandy Lado
Date: 03/30/98 From: Doctor Rob Subject: Re: Check if line intersects polygons You talked about a line (i.e., extending to infinity in both directions) when you, in fact, meant a line segment (the part of a line between two points on it). You also did say (check it out above) that the polygons lie *between* the two points. In either situation as described by you, your exceptional case cannot occur. To tell whether two line *segments* intersect, you need to make two tests. You need the endpoints of *each* line segment to be on opposite sides of the other line. So compute the equations of the line L connecting (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) and of all the polygon edges. Then for each edge, test (as above) that the vertices lie on opposite sides of L, and that (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) lie on opposite sides of the polygon edge extended. If both tests are satisfied, then the line segments intersect, but if either fails, then they do not. -Doctor Rob, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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These are wonderful delicate and flakey little cookies that look really cute if you use cookie stamps.
1 c powdered sugar
1 c white sugar
1 c butter
1 c vegetable oil
In a mixing bowl cream these ingredients.
2 eggs - beat into sugar mixture
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cream of tarter
1 tsp vanilla
Add to bowl and mix well.
Roll dough into small balls, and place on cookie sheet. Flatten with a sugared glass bottom of cookie stamp.
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Here are a few of the cute little thing Justin has said in his past! And keep your eyes peeled at the bottom of the page for a cute little Justin fact!
"Well, that was my 15 year old sex scene, there was originally a girl on th bed with me, but they cut it out because thy thought it was you know, too provocative, they can do that now with all that computer animation stuff!"
"i'm the cookie man, and JC is my sidekick, Sprinkles!!"(awwww)
"We're single, and ready to mingle!!"
"Let's play some basketball, baby!"
"Whatcha'll wanna do? I'll tell you I wanna get down."
"Your looking at the audience sing the words, you know. You could just stop singing and put the mic in their face and they would sing the words back to you"
"I'm a real party animal... When the others let me go to parties"
"I talk in my sleep a lot. My mom used to laugh at me because if she wanted to find out something about me, she'd come while I was sleeping and start talking to me."
" I designed this roller coaster and it's ten thousand feet of track on these little.....on these simulaters, And um, I'm gonna try and get Chris on this ride with me, I dunno, I hope he doesn't puke on me, that would be really bad."
"Smoother than butta, baby!"
"Something with crazy in it cause that's how our scheduale is"
"Let it go Carson, Let it go"
Ok now here's the cute little fact about Justin:
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This is what we have been waiting for! Rick Riordan has declared on his blog that he is writing 60-page short story, that will be available in the paperback edition of the MOA. The short story of course, is called the Staff of Serapis, and is a crossover involving the female leads of the Percy Jackson and Kane chronicles world. AKA, Sadie Carter, and Annabeth Chase!
If You've already bought a copy of the Mark of Athena, don't worry. Like the Son of Sobek, The SOS will be released in its mother-book (April 8'th 2014), then as an e-single and audio book.
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Lifeline recently bid sad adieu to the phenomenal intern class of Summer 2014:
Left to right: Julianna Donaher (directing major at DePaul), Browyn Sherman (recent graduate from Loyola), Claudia Roy (acting major, Columbia), Martin Hanna (acting major ISU), Emily Wills (acting major, Northwestern), and Bo Johnson (Comedy Writing & Performance major, Columbia College)
This group excelled in can-do attitude and enthusiasm. Three cheers for Martin, who is on his way to spend a year at Arts University College at Bournemouth, and Browyn, who has now graduated from Loyola and assistant directed Jane Eyre. Look for Bo, Emily and Browyn — you will see them at Lifeline this fall working front of house and driving the shuttle! We hope the rest of intern class summer 2014 will also be back at Lifeline soon! And we cheer them on as they finish their college degrees!
Lifeline welcomes Logan Toftness, who is interning here through February and comes to Lifeline by recommendation of ensemble member Kevin Gawley. Logan is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Theatre Department, where Kevin heads the Scenic & Light Design Department. Logan’s areas of interest are writing, directing and all things theater.
Logan hails from River Falls, WI (which is very near the Twin Cities). Her interest in theater began in elementary school and her writing career began in high school through her 4H Club. The Club did not offer a writing focus, so Logan and a friend created one and for three years they wrote and directed plays within that program. Logan finished college as a theater major and had several projects produced as a playwright. One of her favorites was a farce titled Thieves and Bad Bad Lies, which featured a deserted cabin in the woods and many mistaken identities.
Post-Lifeline, Logan has a job leading geology tours at Crystal Cave in Spring Valley, Wisconsin and will also be directing Beauty and the Beast for the Chippewa Falls Middle School. Her proximity to the Twin Cities will allow her to pursue theater activities there as well.
At Lifeline, Logan assisted at the Pistols for Two concert reading, has begun working with Alex in the Development area, works in the box office with Erica, is learning financial management with Allison and will be attending community meetings, supporting Fillet of Solo and working with Lifeline Storytelling Project with Dorothy. She has been an immense help already and we are thrilled she will be spending her winter here at Lifeline. Thanks to Kevin for sending her to us!
Rebecca is a recent graduate of Northwestern University and was drawn to Lifeline because of her keen interest in adaptation. Though she entered NU as an actor, Rebecca soon discovered that her real passion lay behind the scenes — and noted that a director gets to be involved with every part and person in the process. Rebecca adapted and directed a “heavily” staged reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray at NU and, shortly after graduation, came to Lifeline to assistant direct Elise Kauzlaric‘s fall production of The Woman in White.
Rebecca was first bitten by the theatre bug when she saw a production of Hansel and Gretel as a child. She couldn’t stop thinking about it for days and still remembers it vividly. She began performing in high school, and was inspired by her drama teacher, Mr. Graham, who encouraged students to do adaptation projects and direct their own scenes for class. He also highly recommended the Chicago theater scene.
Rebecca grew up on the east coast and was in love with New York her whole life. Her father went to Cornell for grad school when she was a baby, and brought her back a teddy bear wearing a Cornell sweatshirt, and thus grew up with the intention of attending Cornell. She visited the campus, it was lovely, she got in. But….
Rebecca had visited Northwestern University a couple years before and had been so drawn to it. And of course there was that recommendation from her high school drama teacher to consider as well. So Rebecca had a feeling and went with it — and she’s sure glad she did. She loved the NU program and in her time there her focus evolved from acting to directing and adapting. She also fell in love with the Chicago theater scene, particularly the ensemble-based work, the challenges of small theater (both in space and budget) and the knowledge that there is already a large female director population here. Rebecca has graduated from NU and just completed her internship at Lifeline. We are glad that she will be remaining in Chicago and will look forward to keeping up with her further adventures here as a theater artist.
Lifeline is excited to welcome back Clare Roche
for another season as Lifeline’s master electrician. Clare hails from Cincinnati, Ohio and became interested in theater in high school while watching it from the orchestra pit. As a violin player, Clare always played for the high school musicals. When her school produced Man of La Mancha
, it turned out there was no violin part. When Clare heard the production needed a light board operator, she volunteered for the job and the rest — as they say — is history. Clare graduated from Loyola University with a Theatre degree and first came to Lifeline as the stage manager for the Fall 2010 production of The 13 Clocks.
She assumed the role of master electrician later that season with Hunger
and How to Survive a Fairy Tale
. In addition to working at Lifeline, Clare is part-time faculty at Loyola University’s Theatre Department, where she serves as the Lighting and Sound Supervisor. She also works as production manager for 500 Clown
and as production manager for sound designer Mikhail Fiksel.
Clare recently alerted us to a super-affordable lighting upgrade opportunity through her connection to Loyola University. Loyola is in the process of opening two new theaters and with that overhaul, Clare secured 35 lights and 36 circuits for Lifeline that Loyola has replaced with new equipment. The equipment is a welcome replacement for our 1960’s era lighting instruments.
Some of the Lifeline lights that have been replaced are still in good working order but just not right for Lifeline. These working lights will not go to waste, thanks also to Clare, who has identified homes for them. Two of Lifeline’s storytellers
and former interns, Jessica Wright Buha
and Tiffany Keane
, are producing new work in small spaces and these lights will serve them well.
Our thanks to Clare and Loyola for making possible an improvement we never would have been able to afford. And our double thanks that she saw a way to pay it forward and send our best old lights on to younger companies.
Clare is a woman of many talents, a tenacious problem-solver, a thoughtful collaborator and a perpetual sunny spirit. We are lucky to have her on the Lifeline team.
Show mice Fanny and Hester took a curtain call with the cast on closing night of The Woman in White. Named after two character’s from Wilkie Collins‘ book that did not make it into the play, Fanny and Hester took turns starring opposite Chris Walsh as pets of his villainous but mouse-friendly Count Fosco. Hester remained a little stage-nervous throughout the run but Fanny became quite the ham — sitting up in Count Fosco’s hand and enjoying her audience reaction.
With the closing of The Woman in White
, the ladies will continue to reside at Lifeline in the upstairs office on their shelf between Rob
‘s desks. The routine of coming out of their cage every day to rehearse with Rob (who has acted as their trainer) is a ritual that will be maintained as it is also a nice stress reducer for all who share the office. It is also supposed that our show-biz mice would rather stay amongst the theater folk than to go home and share quarters with Rob and Elise’s several cats.
Hester strikes a thoughtful pose, Fanny enjoys a snack…and then falls asleep.
Autumn McConnico grew up in Pensacola Florida and first became interested in theater in high school when she took a drama class to fill an elective. She expected to hate it and ended up loving it. When applying for colleges, Autumn’s drama teacher mentioned that Chicago was a great city for theater — so even though she planned to major in Chemistry, she figured this would also give her the option to be involved with theater on the side. Autumn loves the University of Chicago for its flexibility and support and because its theatre organizations are student-run. The school has a great infrastructure for allowing students to do what they want to do: if a project is proposed appropriately and there is student interest, the University finds a way to make it happen. But as much as she loves the University of Chicago, it turns out she hates chemistry labs. She loves the theory — how six carbon rings bend to multiple shapes, how two molecules interact depending on relationship — but putting clear liquids together and heating them turns out to be really tedious. So after a year of Organic Chemistry, Autumn spent her second year dancing around the theatre major — and by the end of that year, she had settled on it, with primary interest in arts in education and playwriting. Autumn is working on her BA in arts in education as she enters her fourth year and she has also had several plays produced in the U of C’s annual New Work Week festival. Last year, Autumn took the “Chicago Theatre: Budgets and Buildings” class at U of C and as part of that class, took a tour of Lifeline. She was engaged by our mission, particularly the KidSeries and dedication to adaptation. Lifeline seemed to be a great place for writers and she wanted to get a glimpse at how we approach adaptation.
Autumn loves to make books and even taught a bookbinding class for fellow students at U of C. You can often find her poking thru free book bins — both in search of reading material, and also in search of interesting covers that she can use to make her own books, thru one of several stitching methods she described to me!
Autumn recently received a grant for a performance installation at U of C. This is in development now and will be executed in the Fall. It will be based on the short story “The Mnemone” by Robert Sheckley. She will be making books and artifacts to create a sense of the world of that story, assisted by regular on-site performances which offer glimpses of the living characters. The project fills her with both joy and trepidation.
Autumn plans to stay in Chicago after graduation and will look for work in theater. As a long term goal, she hopes to form a theater company centered on arts in education, likely for high school students — and maybe she’ll even find a way to work in a little Chemistry.
Mary McDermott hails from the Village of Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. She describes herself as a bookworm and has been involved in drama since she was 8 years old. Mary is a student at the Conservatory of Music and Drama at the Dublin Institute of Technology. The Conservatory has a relationship with Columbia College here in Chicago and Mary has been at Columbia as an exchange student for the past semester. Mary extended her stay to intern at Lifeline until August, after which she will return to Dublin for her last year of school. Mary has loved her experience at Columbia and starred there as Julia in 1984. This production was adapted and directed by Tiffany Keane as her final Columbia directing project. (Tiffany is a former intern and currently a Lifeline house manager and storyteller). Mary is is enjoying working at Lifeline and participating as a writer/performer in the Lifeline Storytelling Project. Mary looks forward to pursuing an acting career post-graduation in either Dublin or Chicago. She is greatly enjoying her stay here, but is baffled by the Chicago compulsion to put either cheese or cinnamon in everything. We are excited to have her with us this summer!
After serving over six years as Lifeline Theatre’s Production Manager, Cortney Hurley is leaving to pursue new adventures. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks for the time she spent with us: wrangling budgets, climbing ladders, troubleshooting antique light systems, scheduling meetings, solving problems and finding new and exciting designers and technicians amongst her vast network of contacts — and then luring them in to Lifeline. Cortney is hoping this next chapter in her life will allow her to see more actual theater as an audience member and have fewer sleepless nights. She is currently working a new job just two doors away from us, so we still get to see her for the occasional lunch and after-work beer. This past week she ran over to watch our midday Summer Junior Camp show (a 4-6 year old-written play version of Harry the Dirty Dog). We owe Cortney great thanks for her time with us. We will miss her and we hope we continue to see her often.
On March 30th, Lifeline staff, interns and ensemble were given a private tour of the S&C Electric facility just a few blocks from Lifeline. The trip was arranged between Alex (our shiny new development manager) and Sue Keyes of S&C, who is our main contact and advocate there. The S&C Electric Company was founded in 1911 “with an idea and $,1000.” It has been a family-run company for most of its 101 years and became employee owned within the last decade. The company employs 1,700 at its Rogers Park facility and another 800 at its other facilities (national and international). The Rogers Park plant spans 45 acres and three Chicago zip codes (though it is primarily in our own 60626). The company is known for its community focus, employing Rogers Park residents and also for not laying their people off during hard times. S&C has supported Lifeline since 1988!!! (They added support for Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest in 2008.) We are proud to be supported by this great Rogers Park company and to have the opportunity to get to know them better!
Left to right: Joe Schermoly, Dorothy Milne, Cortney Hurley, Alex Kyger, Allison Cain, Sue Keyes, Georgia Knapp, Julie Wiltjer, Alan Donahue. (Should have seen us in our safety goggles and headsets as we toured the plant!)
Our production manager, Cortney Hurley (pictured in tour shot above), leaves us at the end of this season (June 30th). We thank her for 6+ years of dedicated service and wish her well on her next adventure. We hope she visits us often.
Lifeline welcomes two new interns…
Georgia Knapp, who will be with us through June.
Georgia was born in England, grew up in Guantanamo Cuba, then lived in Germany for a couple years (where she learned the language) before her family settled in St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. She notes that she was named Georgia long before her family moved to the state that shares her name. St. Simon’s Island has a land mass of 17 square miles and she reports that it is easily walkable in a day. Georgia was an English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing Major at Kalamazoo College (spending time in their Study Abroad program in Aberdeen, Scotland). She has also worked as a park ranger for the National Park Service at Ford Frederica National Monument (the first colony settled in Georgia) and then in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before arriving in Chicago, she also spent some time working on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Most recently, Georgia finished an internship at Northlight Theatre in Evanston and at Lifeline she is assisting in administration, front-of-house, marketing, development and production areas as well as participating in the Lifeline Storytelling Project as a writer and performer. Georgia also recently had a creative non-fiction piece (The Marshes of Glynn) published in the Fall 2011 e-zine, The Smoking Poet. Post-Lifeline, Georgia hopes to find a paying job in theater (though she also retains high interest in the park service as well as the fields of publishing and free-lance editing). Georgia has a life-long ambition to meet a real moose and the photo below is as close as she’s gotten thus far: taken on one of her many travel adventures, this one near Pancake Bay in Ontario.
And Julie Wiltjer, who comes to Lifeline thru the Chicago Semester program and will be with us full-time into May.
Julie grew up in Worth, Illinois, about a half-hour outside Chicago and credits her older sister for sparking her interest in theater. Julie became active in theater in middle school, while also being on the soccer, basketball and track teams. She briefly abandoned theater in high school to focus on her athletic pursuits, but in her junior year she decided she missed and preferred theater and dropped sports to return to the stage. Julie is now a senior theater major and music minor at Trinity Christian College and will graduate in May upon completion of her internship at Lifeline. When at home, Julie drives a 1999 Ford Contour named Bella but she is enjoying this trial run of living car-less in Chicago and finding her way around on the CTA system. Though Julie doesn’t have GPS on her phone, she has a foolproof and personal GPS system in her dad, who is a garbage truck driver in Chicago. She can call him from any location and be assured of his immediate ability to identify her coordinates and best path to her destination. Julie recently played Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at school, where she also enjoys singing in honors choir. Theater now counts as Julie’s main sport, though she also likes hanging out with friends and playing board games, confessing a serious addiction to the game of Clue. Julie looks forward to moving permanently to Chicago post-college and seeking jobs in and around the theater scene. While at Lifeline she is assisting in the front-of-house, marketing, development and production areas, as well as participating in the Lifeline Storytelling Project. | <urn:uuid:a8bfc983-c736-4530-b461-d454cb44d475> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://blog.lifelinetheatre.com/?cat=23 | 2017-02-22T15:30:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170993.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00591-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977466 | 3,800 |
I just started my own server (with some help from the imms at a server, not sure if they'd like me to mention them or not
) and for the most part i've got it pretty well figure out. I have a few problems though:
1. areas arent saving. After switching to SmaugFUSS 1.9, the pfiles are finally saving, but when i create a new area (vassign then savearea in case i did it wrong) it says its saving but the file doesnt appear, and the area is gone at next restart of server.
If it helps, I did a checkvnums and got this:
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2. The description editor is kinda buggy (ex. hedit, redit desc, etc.) It will do the first line fine, but when i goto the next line it continues from where it should have, just one line lower.
>You enter the city.
>A wizard is stalking you.
Shows up as:
You enter the city.
A wizard is stalking you.
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If you are exercising, running or simply monitoring your activity and everyday steps like I do , a reliable and dependable fitness tracker brand Amazfit is all you need to get you into your fitness goal.
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A Christian ministry that creates pocket-sized digital audio devices for troops that contain the entire New Testament is reporting that requests for its product are higher than ever as July 4 approaches, Mission Network News reports. Faith Comes By Hearing said more than 80 requests for its Military BibleSticks had come in from military chaplains during the first two weeks of June, asking for more than 20,000 BibleSticks. Since FCBH began its military outreach program in 2007, more than 218,000 BibleSticks have been given free-of-charge to more than 1,000 chaplains, who distribute them during pre-deployment briefings, counseling sessions, chapel services, Bible studies and upon direct request of service members. While a surge in demand can quickly deplete the ministry's inventory, FCBH views it as a blessing. "We really have to work diligently year-round to meet the ongoing requests from chaplains, but the reward for us and our great donors is knowing that more and more of our troops have access to God's Word with their very own BibleStick," said Troy Carl, FCBH's vice president. "As we celebrate our country's birthday, we need to remember and honor those who are defending the freedom and independence we cherish. We will continue to do that by providing God's Word in audio for their spiritual protection as they continue to protect us." | <urn:uuid:b0294780-3461-4485-8f99-e6ab406ccaf2> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/requests-biblestick-audio-new-testament-troops.html | 2016-05-30T16:25:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051036499.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005036-00021-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975121 | 283 |
Broom Bracket Base Plate
Quick OverviewClevis Style Lug Bolts to Broom Broom Bracket Cut out section of adapter fits over broom bracket Adjustable angle, accepts broom threaded handle
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By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Universal Pictures
Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in Jarhead.
I was just in the theatre today and was reminded
by how cool the trailer looks. With a formula that looks somewhat Three
Kings, Jarhead could be one of those ultra-cool present day
war films. Either that or the film is going to piss a lot of people off.
Jarhead Movie Stills
The good people over at BlackFilm
have gotten a hold of the second dose of movie stills to be released for
Jarhead. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jarhead is based off of the
novel written by Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a third-generation
enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a
sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East
deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always
potentially just over the next horizon.
As you may be able to tell from the trailer, "Swoff" was not entirely
pleased with his stay in Desert Storm; he thought it was "sucky".
Don't you think the hat may be sending the wrong message?
Check out the new movie stills for Jarhead
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Planning Tools Home>Land Use and Transportation
Land Use and Transportation
Click here to view the PBS documentary Stretched to the Limit, a piece on the Grosso family of Queen Creek, AZ, who are struggling with the high cost of car-centered development.
How to Reduce Your Transportation Costs
Visit www.gorideshare.org to find someone else who's going your direction. Combining trips and carpooling saves!
Click here to view public transit information for Southwest Michigan.
Click here to view route schedules and maps for the Twin Cities Area Transit Authority's scheduled bus routes.
Walk or Roll!
The Twin Cities Area Transportation Study is working on a long range plan for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
Choose to live in an Accessible location!
If it's an option for you, living near where you work and shop is one of the most direct ways to cut down on your transportation costs. In addition to taking account of infrastructure that encourages non-motorized transportation (i.e. walking and bicycling), check out a location's walkscore to see what types of amenities you can access without straying far from your front door.
The Costs of Housing and Transportation
Click here for the CNT Toolbox from the Center for Neighborhood Technology, including resources on the topics of:
- Airhead - How much air pollution do you create?
- TravelMatters - What are your carbon emissions from transportation?
- Energy - Building performance monitoring, energy pricing
- Natural Resources
- Green infrastructure map creator
- Stormwater calculator
- Transportation & Community Development
- Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
- Transopoly board game
Click here to view the Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, to see how much money residents of your neighborhood spend out of their household budget for housing and transportation.
Abogo, transportation costs made transparent
Click here to view the average cost of transportation for a household in your neighborhood.
What is INVEST?
INVEST is a free web-based sustainability self-assessment tool that helps transportation agencies assess and improve the level of sustainability of their transportation projects, plans, and programs. It translates the broad sustainability principles of improving economic, social, and environmental outcomes into specific actions that transportation agencies can implement.
An INVEST user toolkit is newly available as a resource to transportation agencies. The toolkit can be downloaded from www.sustainablehighways.org under the “Learn” tab.
The user toolkit contains:
- A fact sheet – provides basic information about INVEST
- User guide – includes a “quick start guide”, background info, overview of the modules, info on functions such as “collaborate”, tips on setting up a scoring workshop, and examples
- Slide presentation – offers an overview of INVEST. You can customize it in order to make a presentation to your own organization or stakeholders.
We did have a short training at the MTPA conference in Holland, but FHWA is also pleased to offer a full day, in-person training on INVEST as well as shorter, 1.5 hour webinar version. Please let me know if you are interested in training opportunities, we’d be happy to organize this for you.
Case Studies – FHWA Seeking Additional Participants
FHWA has an ongoing research project to develop case studies based on the use of INVEST. FHWA continues to seek additional participants, particularly state DOTs using the operations and maintenance module, as we do not currently have any projects of that type. The solicitation for the project and associated funding is available under the announcement selection of www.sustainablehighways.org. A 50% non-Federal match is required. | <urn:uuid:0cec86d6-8eaf-43b9-bcac-57e9492a6ecf> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.swmpc.org/landuse.asp | 2019-08-20T13:02:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315329.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820113425-20190820135425-00344.warc.gz | en | 0.907986 | 770 |
Thank you everyone for your help. I have cleaned to connector pins in the cart and the cartridge port with a little 91% isopropyl alcohol without any success. Also, my copy appears to be an NTSC version and not PAL as far as I can tell. I think my last resort would have to be to fully open the cart up and see if all of the leads are connecting to the pins or see if there are any broken solder joints on the board of the cartridge. But I don't plan on doing that until I find a fully functional copy to replace this one. whenever I do open it up, I'll be sure to post pictures and keep you guys updated.
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From The Blue Windows
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FROM THE BLUE WINDOWS: RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN QUEENSTOWN, SINGAPORE, IN THE 1960S AND 1970S
by Tan Kok Yang
published by NUS Press
Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S$50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, and television broadcasts ended at 10pm every night.
From the Blue Windows is a collection of Tan Kok Yang's memories of growing up in Queenstown back when the tallest residential building there was fourteen storeys, the Alexandra Canal flooded regularly, and wayang shows were a regular feature on Mei Ling Street. He stayed in Princess Estate, an area that was colloquially known as"the Blue Windows"because of its unique blue glass louvred windows.
With nostalgia and a sense of loss, this memoir is a personal tribute to and celebration of Queenstown and a simple but fulfilling way of life that has all but vanished from modern Singapore.
- paperback: 158 pages
- product dimensions: 136 x 212 mm
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Recently I came across the concept of CTF (Capture The Flag) which are security competitions and I really enjoy these kinds of the competitions. One of my favorites is OverTheWire. They provide different kinds of games and one of these is Natas, in which you need to attack a webserver. The concept is simple: the creator of the game designs a normal functioning webserver and intentionally puts in a bug. We need to find a password in order to get to the next level which can be found by exploiting the bug. That’s why it is called Capture The Flag. So lets get started!
There are many cryptocurrencies which you can buy. Where should you even start? In this article, I will share the lessons I have learned over the past years with you. I think it is important to share these insights with you, since there are a lot of people out in cryptoland waiting for your money and they will tamper with your thoughts. If you have any important lesson, please share it and it will be added to this article.
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In this article, I will share my findings on creating a character-based Sequence-to-Sequence model (Seq2Seq) and I will share some of the results I have found. All of this is just a tiny part of my Master Thesis and it took quite a while for me to learn how to convert the theoretical concepts into practical models. I will also share the lessons that I have learned. | <urn:uuid:094f282e-c556-41e2-93e9-923e160cc341> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.data-blogger.com/page/3/ | 2020-10-30T18:55:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107911229.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20201030182757-20201030212757-00006.warc.gz | en | 0.968043 | 315 |
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Red flowers infuse with hues of turquoise and blue. This medium sized tote is perfect for denim or white flowy summer dresses.
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Located at Geylang Lorong 27A, Yong He Eating House is famous for its dou jiang (soya bean milk) and you tiao (chinese fried breadstick). Today I decided to try its Taiwan beef noodle instead.
A bowl of Taiwan beef noodle which costs $4, comes with handmade noodle (la mian) served with generous chunks of beef. When I saw the reddish colour of the soup, I was immediately reminded of the super spicy la mian from Crystal Jade but I was wrong. The chilli-flavoured soup of Yong He Taiwan beef noodle is fortunately less spicy and more pleasing to my taste buds. I was impressed by the remarkable tenderness of the tasty beef chunks.
If you have the craving for delicious beef la mian at coffeeshop prices, do come down to Yong He and try its Taiwan beef noodle today.
Yong He Eating House
517 Geylang Road
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A group of influential black ministers – some of whom are connected with the fifth largest denomination in the U.S. – gathered Thursday in one of the nation's most famous civil rights cities to ask President Obama to reverse his stance on same-sex marriage.
More than a dozen pastors from the Coalition of African American Pastors joined in Memphis, Tenn., to speak out against Obama's support for gay marriage and to oppose the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community's "hijacking" of the civil rights movement.
"Same-sex marriage I think, it's an abomination before God. It's a sin before God," said the Rev. Robert Morris, acting minister of New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, according to Fox 13 News. "I don't see how anyone can compare that with civil rights."
Memphis is home to the Church of God in Christ, a predominantly black denomination, which has a long history of advocating for civil rights for minorities, especially the black citizens of the South who endured centuries of second-class treatment. It is also the city where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
"The group of black clergy and civil rights leaders say it is time to turn the tide against the 'hijacking' of the civil rights movement," said the Rev. Bill Owens, the coalition's elder statesman and organizer and a veteran of the civil rights movement who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. "A 50-year-old can only read about the struggles and protests of the civil rights era, but some of us who are older have the battle scars to prove it. And the rights we fought so hard to acquire did not include same-sex marriage."
The coalition argues that there is "no legitimate comparison between skin color and sexual behavior."
The black ministers who came together represent a wide spectrum of religious and political beliefs and many of the pastors have been ardent supporters of President Obama and Democratic causes. But same-sex marriage is where they draw the line.
Owens told The Christian Post that they are "very disappointed" in Obama's newly pronounced support for gay marriage.
"We ask President Obama to stand with the black church, on the Word of God and evolve again back to the common sense biblical view that marriage is the union of husband and wife," he said.
Nonetheless, Owens said the group's goal is to stay away from the issue of whether or not the president will win a second term. "We want to stay away from the political part and stay in the realm of our area which is ministry."
Not all black pastors disagree with President Obama's approval of same-sex marriage.
Dr. Brad Braxton is the founding pastor of The Open Church in Baltimore, Md., and feels homosexual unions are "an endorsement of God's eternal devotion to abundant life and holy love."
In an op-ed published in Wednesday's edition of The Washington Post, Braxton described his support of the president and the issue.
"The door leading to godly truth often swings on the hinges of social diversity," wrote Braxton. "Even the Bible was the result of complex debates spanning thousands of years and involving many languages, diverse cultures, and a host of political decisions about which books to admit and omit. The plurality of voices in scripture reveals a clear biblical message - sacred truth demands diverse perspectives."
The Coalition of African American Pastors has, meanwhile, launched a petition and is looking to collect more than 100,000 signatures in affirmation of traditional marriage. Signers of the petition affirm that marriage is an institution established by God and also "declare our opposition to any deviation from traditional marriages of male and female, notwithstanding the rulings of the court systems of the land or acts of legislative bodies in support of same-sex 'marriage' and/or civil unions. In support of this declaration we pledge our prayers, our passion, our resources and our votes."
Other notable leaders in the coalition include Dr. Dwight Montgomery, who has worked tirelessly on behalf of Democrats such as former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr. and former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton – both of whom were strong leaders for the city's black residents; Superintendent Pastor Jerry Taylor, senior pastor of Holy City COGIC; Bishop Felton Smith, senior pastor of New Covenant Fellowship COGIC; and Bishop Robert Jefferson, senior pastor of Cullen Missionary Baptist Church, among others. | <urn:uuid:a7df298a-df56-4a8c-b3c0-6121e53dcf47> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.christianpost.com/news/african-american-pastors-call-on-obama-to-reconsider-gay-marriage-stance-75183/ | 2016-07-28T14:45:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257828283.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071028-00326-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964112 | 902 |
Renata of Testado, Provado & Aprovado! was our Daring Cooks’ April 2011 hostess. Renata challenged us to think “outside the plate” and create our own edible containers! Prizes are being awarded to the most creative edible container and filling, so vote on your favorite from April 17th to May 16th at http://thedaringkitchen.com!
Mandatory Items: To make a SAVORY edible container and fill it with something appropriate.
[Eat4Fun: I tried to do something different than using vegetables. Renata provided a couple ideas, such as, the ramen basket and the toast cups. I tried to think of something that was simple and didn't require deep frying. Eggroll wrappers turned out nicely. Those are thin enough to bake or microwave. I tried using bacon. It worked, but was too much effort and created a mess, so in the end I didn't think it was worth it.]
NOODLE BASKET FOR SALADS
1 package ramen noodles (120gm) (4¼ oz)
boiling water (enough to completely cover the noodles)
1. Place the dry noodles in a baking dish.
2. Pour boiling water over noodles until completely immersed.
3. When noodles are soft and start separating (about 5 minutes), drain and rinse with cold water.
4. Drain again, and set it aside until it starts getting sticky.
5. Use olive oil to grease the outside of baking cups and arrange them upside down on parchment paper.
6. Arrange noodles as shown in the photos. The sticky noodles will help the strings stay together making it easier to form the basket. 3 or 4 strings across, 3 or 4 strings down, and some strings around the bowl. Push all the excess strings close to the cup to form a lip. Don't overlap too many noodles, or they won't get crispy.
7. Bake at 230°C (450°F) (gas mark 8) preheated oven for approximately 15 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Remove from oven and let sit for 5 minutes before trying to remove the noodle baskets from the cups.
9. Let cool completely.
10. Handle with care, the baskets are fragile!
11. You can make the baskets the day before using, they will keep fresh in an airtight container. On the third day it stars losing its crispiness.
12. Fill baskets with your favorite salad. If you're using a dressing, serve it aside or mix it to your veggies just before serving.
EGGS IN TOAST CUPS
Here are a few ideas for breakfast using slices of bread and eggs.
Slices of bread
What am I going to do with the leftover bread after making these cute flower bowls, you ask....
Place the slice of bread in a buttered pan over low heat. Crack an egg into the “flower” slot and cook covered until the egg is done to your taste.
You may want to add cheese, ham, bacon...
Ramen baskets on the right.
Baked Eggroll Wrapper (left-forward)
Microwaved Eggroll Wrapper (Left-back)
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With selectmen preparing to throw their support behind the ballot question asking voters if they support the estimated $14 million cost of removing Wind 1 and Wind 2, a concern was raised at their meeting last week that the Falmouth Energy Committee could be actively working against them.
Selectman Brent V.W. Putnam posed the question at the end of their session as Chairman Kevin E. Murphy talked about the board writing and submitting an op-ed piece endorsing this ballot question as well as a $9 million request to move Falmouth’s water and wastewater efforts forward. “We know that [energy committee chairman] Megan Amsler wrote a letter to the state and the energy committee ex post facto endorsed the letter,” Mr. Putnam said. “Do we have the energy committee working against board policy here?” He said there may be cause for the board to take action if indeed the energy committee voted to support Ms. Amsler’s letter, which she sent in March to Richard K. Sullivan Jr., the state’s executive secretary of energy and the environment, asking that the state not provide financial aid for removing the turbines.
Selectman Mary (Pat) Flynn argued that selectmen never formed an actual policy regarding the turbines to which Mr. Putnam disagreed. “If we make a vote we are essentially making policy,” he said. And Mr. Murphy said it was unclear whether the energy committee had taken any formal action on the letter.
On Thursday Ms. Amsler said the energy committee has never placed her letter on the agenda nor has it been voted on. “It was written by me as an individual and it happened to include my title as chair of the Falmouth Energy Committee as one of five credentials I listed under my name,” she said. “If the energy committee had written a letter, it would have been clear on the heading of the letter and it would have been signed by all of us, but it wasn’t.”
This is now the second time selectmen have discussed Ms. Amsler’s letter, with the first occurring at the end of March prior to Town Meeting. At that time selectmen were highly critical of the letter, saying it disregarded their decision in February to remove the turbines and seek financial assistance from the state. The next day at the Falmouth Energy Committee’s meeting Ms. Amsler’s colleague Robert W. Boettger said he supported her letter and so did the other members, though there was no actual vote on the matter.
While selectmen were outspoken about Ms. Amsler’s letter during that first discussion last week, only Mr. Putnam still had concerns it violated the board’s policy. In a phone interview following the selectmen’s meeting Mr. Putnam said he would not have been so upset if Ms. Amsler did not list her title as energy chair immediately below her signature. “Right off the bat you have the chair contradicting the board,” Mr. Putnam said. “I understand Pat suggested the board didn’t really make a policy, but you could split hairs one way or the other. The board ultimately did make a vote to take down the turbines and here you have the chair of the energy committee saying, ‘don’t do it.’” He said Ms. Amsler’s letter sent a mixed message to the public as well as the state, noting that the decision to take down the turbines was supported by selectmen and the finance committee and “it fell a few votes short at Town Meeting, but a clear majority still supports this.” And Town Meeting’s support of the new wind turbine bylaw, he said, is an endorsement that the two town-owned turbines at the Wastewater Treatment Facility were far too large for that site. “There’s been a consistent message here sent by all the major boards in the town and here you have the energy committee chairman contradicting it,” he said.
Ms. Amsler maintained she did nothing wrong and that as an individual she had the right to send the letter to Mr. Sullivan. And she was surprised that the board would continue to focus on it as an issue even after she sent selectmen a copy of the letter and that she had written it on her own volition and not on behalf of the energy committee.
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MOSCOW, June 7 (Itar-Tass World Service)
The amendments in the Code on Administrative Offences, which toughens responsibility for violations at rallies, was approved in the State Duma late in the evening on Tuesday, and the Federation Council approved it on Wednesday. Now the president should sign it into law. The opposition, which opposes strongly this document, urged the president to veto it down. He has already supported this initiative in public.
At night on June 6 the State Duma completed the approval of the amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences and the law on rallies, which a group of opposition deputies was seeking to block. They have drafted over 400 amendments and each amendment was put up for a separate discussion, the Kommersant daily reported. United Russia was fighting with this initiative as much as they could. The time for a speech on each amendment was cut from usual three minutes to 15 seconds, the law was approved by 241 votes just before midnight. The Federation Council approved the amendments much quicker, less than for an hour, though senator Lyudmila Narusova warned that “a hasty approval of the law without any debates undermines the image of the Federation Council and turns it in the legislative body for rubber stamping the laws.” Other senators supported the law.
After the law was approved in the State Duma and the Federation Council, the only opportunity to bar it from coming into effect is the presidential veto, the newspaper noted. “Vladimir Putin will oppose principally the enactment of the law only if it contradicts universally recognized and applied practices in other countries to exercise the rights of people and members of the society that the law grants,” presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday in comments on an address already made to Putin to veto down the law on a tougher responsibility for violations at rallies.
However, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily recalled that the president told a press conference after the Russia-EU summit in St. Petersburg, “The only thing that we should do is to introduce in our legislation those provisions of European law that are applied in many European countries to regulate similar events and that are certainly democratic, but at the same time create a clear-cut procedure for massive events.” Before Putin said at a meeting with the United Russia leadership on May 23 even more clearly, “We certainly should protect people from extreme radical manifestations. The society and the state can protect themselves.”
“Frankly speaking, there are few arguments for a veto. The law was amended, some most odious provisions were dropped from it. To veto it down means to give an absolutely undeserved slap to United Russia,” director of the International Institute of Political Expertise Yevgeny Minchenko told the Kommersant daily. He does not see any sense in such gesture of the president, “To gain sympathy of liberal circles? Putin already showed that he does not care much about the opinion of this audience.” Meanwhile, such step can inspire the opposition to further actions, the expert noted.
The Communists are preparing a petition in the Constitutional Court on a bill on rallies, head of the legal service of the Communist Party Vadim Solovyev told the Vedomosti daily. A petition can be filed only after the document enters into force.
No less than one fifth deputies of the State Duma or senators can file a petition in the way of the so-called abstract legislative control. So, the Communists need at least 90 signatures. The Communist faction has 92 deputies, but the Communists hope that the lawmakers from A Just Russia will join them to make their petition more substantial.
The approved bill contradicts Article 31 of the Constitution, Solovyev believes. This article guarantees the freedom of assembly except for the cases, when there is a threat to the constitutional system, he recalled. Meanwhile, in the approval of the law norms of the regulations were violated. The authors of the amendments were groundlessly stripped of their right to spell out the amendments, because the time for their speeches was cut from one minute to 15 seconds. The Communist Party also noted that during the voting on each amendment a large number of United Russia deputies were absent, though they were in the session hall on Wednesday morning, that means that they could not leave proxy cards for voting. This already can give some grounds to find the voting on several amendments invalid.
The prospects for a petition in the Constitutional Court are quite vague, lawyer Vadim Prokhorov noted. In the last few years the court almost did not take any decisions, which contradict the Kremlin position, and Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin took a state protecting position that his articles show emphatically. | <urn:uuid:6758e182-0f46-457d-b73b-8fccf74cdcaa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tass.com/russianpress/676849 | 2017-01-21T23:34:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281263.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00201-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963691 | 1,189 |
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Has this pandemic got you down? Has all the forced togetherness wrecked your sex life? For some couples, being quarantined with your partner for weeks on end might result in a lot more sex since you’re spending more time together. But for many couples, the added stresses of being cooped up together have dampened or wiped out their libidos. Diminished sexual activity can be a big loss, and it can be particularly painful during Pride month, when you would normally want to be out and about celebrating with others.
If your relationship is suffering from a sexual drought, I’m here to offer some support. As a board-certified sex therapist for more than thirty years, I have helped thousands of couples rekindle their passion and intimacy. In my view, this pandemic offers a rare opportunity to slow down and focus on what’s important. It’s a chance to intentionally reconnect with your partner and establish some sensual and sexual habits that will sustain you during this crisis … and beyond.
My first tip: Use Touch to Relieve Stress. Touch is a primal language of love that we all need. But too much touch—especially during close-quarters living together 24/7—can become irritating. If either you or your partner is chafing at unwanted touch, I encourage you to have a talk and set some guidelines and boundaries. Be clear about when touching is a sexual invitation, and when it is not. Ask your partner to give feedback about what touching feels good. Don’t forget to express verbal affection while you are caressing or massaging your partner.
It’s also critical that you schedule time to enjoy some longer touch sessions where you and your partner focus on the sheer sensuality of body caressing. In my new book, Love in the Time of Corona: Advice from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine, I suggest you approach this in stages. First have a session where you take turns gently and lovingly caressing just the face, head, hands, and feet. Take it slow and easy and feel into the pure pleasure of intimate touch. In the next session take turns lightly touching your partner’s entire naked body, but no orgasm or penetration yet, and then later practice doing this at the same time to each other. These gradually intensifying sessions are designed to help you slow down and can eventually lead to oral and penetrative sex as desired.
My second tip: Be Mindful About Sex. You might be familiar with the mental habit of mindfulness. Millions use it for stress relief, and it has a lot of other benefits. Mindfulness is simply the practice of paying attention to what is happening in the moment, without any thoughts about the past or the future. How can you apply mindfulness to sex? With all the current chaos around the pandemic and protests against racism, it can be easy for your mind to wander while you’re having sex, and this can disrupt your enjoyment.
If this happens, you can bring your focus back to the present moment by simply describing—out loud to your partner—what is happening. For example, you might say to yourself, “The first time I touch my partner’s genitals, I will pause and be mindful about the moment. I will pay close attention to how it feels and how my partner is responding.” Notice if your thoughts wander, then merely let them go and return to your center.
My final tip: Plan Your Date Night at Home. This is the most reliable strategy for making sure sex happens and does not get shoved to the bottom of list due to the myriad demands of daily life. Some clients have complained that scheduling sex seems too rigid. It should be spontaneous, right? One of you might feel that scheduling a date night means that the other person’s desire is somehow forced or artificial: “If my partner really wants me, then we should fall into each other’s arms in a flurry of passion when the moment strikes.”
That’s a recipe for frustration built on a Hollywood myth. If you wait around for that sudden moment of passion to erupt, you can wait a long time. Plus, the stresses of being in quarantine further diminish the likelihood of such moments. Put it on the calendar and follow through, and you’ll be happy you did!
This moment in history is a trying time for all of us, but it doesn’t have to be hard on your relationship. Indeed, you can choose to take advantage of your time together to nurture a deeper and more pleasurable connection with your partner. How will you find love in the time of corona?
- Dr. Diana is a licensed marriage & family therapist and a board-certified sex therapist in Seattle WA and writes the online sex advice column at DearDrDiana.com. She is the author of Love in the Time of Corona: Advice from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine, available on Amazon in paperback and e-book editions. In the book, Dr. Diana details ten of her most effective strategies for a couple to maintain and enhance their intimate relationship, including client stories and do-at-home exercises that are gender-neutral. | <urn:uuid:4d4f50c0-e869-4965-be16-5c13f6635181> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://baltimoreoutloud.com/wp/advice-from-a-sex-therapist-for-couples-in-quarantine/ | 2023-02-03T08:09:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500044.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203055519-20230203085519-00542.warc.gz | en | 0.942464 | 1,082 |
Saif wanted me to play only the snake Kaa in Mowgli, says Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor says husband Saif Ali Khan wanted her to play only Kaa, a python, in Netflix’s Mowgli. The actor is part of the film’s Hindi voice cast.
Kareena Kapoor Khan’s voice-over as the shrewd python Kaa has got attention in the recently-released Hindi trailer of Netflix’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. Apart from her, other Bollywood actors who have lent their voices for the film - which is based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book stories - include Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Abhishek Bachchan, and Jackie Shroff.
Kareena spoke about her character and why she decided to say yes to the project. “Everybody has grown up watching The Jungle Book. Our whole youth has been about Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo and other characters. These characters have actually lived with us. I think it’s amazing that now we are getting to see them on a global platform like Netflix,” she said at the red carpet of the film’s world premiere on Sunday.
Talking about the character that she likes the most, the Veere Di Wedding star said that Kaa has been her favourite always. “When the project was just offered to me, Saif (Ali Khan) said he hoped that I was offered Kaa only. Because it’s a very powerful and unique character. So I am very honoured to be playing and lending my voice to this character,” she added.
Kareena further said that the experience was “very different”. “My fans have seen me doing girl-next-door roles. But, I have always tried to do something different and with this, everyone will be pleasantly surprised when they hear me playing Kaa.”
The actor - who has also recently turned into a radio jockey - said that now, it is all about content, which is available on different platforms. “As long as there is good content - and Netflix has been about good content - I cannot say no. The same happened when I was offered this role.”
So, is she open to doing web series as well?
“Of course!”, replied the ‘Takht’ star and added that it is great to see how well ‘Sacred Games’ - the crime thriller for which husband Saif has been gaining accolades - has been received.
“Wherever I go, people keep asking me when the second season is coming out,” she signed off.
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|Information and Software Technology 55 (5): 897-917 (2013)|
Bo Jiang 2 , Ke Zhai 3 , W.K. Chan 4 , T.H. Tse 3 , and Zhenyu Zhang 5
[paper from ScienceDirect | technical report TR-2012-14]
Testing and debugging consume a significant portion of software development effort. Both processes are usually conducted independently despite their close relationship with each other. Test adequacy is vital for developers to assure that sufficient testing effort has been made, while finding all the faults in a program as soon as possible is equally important. A tight integration between testing and debugging activities is essential.
Objective: The paper aims at finding whether three factors, namely, the adequacy criterion to gauge a test suite, the size of a prioritized test suite, and the percentage of such a test suite used in fault localization, have significant impacts on integrating test case prioritization techniques with statistical fault localization techniques.
Method: We conduct a controlled experiment to investigate the effectiveness of applying adequate test suites to locate faults in a benchmark suite of seven Siemens programs and four real-life UNIX utility programs using three adequacy criteria, 16 test case prioritization techniques, and four statistical fault localization techniques. We measure the proportion of code needed to be examined in order to locate a fault as the effectiveness of statistical fault localization techniques. We also investigate the integration of test case prioritization and statistical fault localiza¬tion with postmortem analysis.
Result: The main result shows that on average, it is more effective for a statistical fault localization technique to utilize the execution results of a MC/DC-adequate test suite than those of a branch-adequate test suite, and is in turn more effective to utilize the execution results of a branch-adequate test suite than those of a statement-adequate test suite. On the other hand, we find that none of the fault localization techniques studied can be sufficiently effective in suggesting fault-relevant statements that can fit easily into one debug window of a typical IDE.
Conclusion: We find that the adequacy criterion and the percentage of a prioritized test suite utilized are major factors affecting the effectiveness of statistical fault localization techniques. In our experiment, the adoption of a stronger adequacy criterion can lead to more effective integration of testing and debugging.
Keywords: Debugging, testing, adequacy criterion, MC/DC, branch coverage, fault localization, test case prioritization
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Whether you’re a seasoned poker player or a novice, there are a few rules that you should be aware of when playing. There are several different types of poker games, including Texas hold’em, lowball, and high-low. Each type has its own rules and strategies that you should know before you play.
Whether you play Texas hold’em poker at home or at a casino, there are certain rules you must follow to win. You should be able to commit to your hand, but also be willing to mix up your strategy. The key to winning is patience and having the courage to make strong bets.
After the first three community cards are dealt, betting begins. The small blind is placed to the left of the dealer’s button. The small blind is fixed at $1, while the big blind is a set amount. The big blind can be called or raised, but a call must match the amount of the raise.
During the 19th century, poker saw a number of innovations. One of the most notable was the invention of Stud poker. The draw poker craze of the late 1800s and early 1900s began to die out in the wake of the First World War. The proliferation of ‘jackpots’, which mandated bets on jacks, limited the risk of reckless bluffing. The best part is that the ‘jackpots’ actually benefited the economy.
The simplest form of Draw poker involves players holding all of their cards in their hands, with the exception of three face up cards, which they are then forced to exchange with their opponents.
Flopping is a technique that involves the use of two cards, usually the first two cards in a hand, to increase the strength of the hand of two or more players. It is also used as a bluffing strategy, which aims to steal a pot. In cash games, it can be used to raise the amount of money in a pot, and it can be used in tournaments as well.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co said on Friday it was pulling its Boeing Co 737 MAX jets from flight schedules through May, extending its earlier timeline from April 20, according to a company memorandum seen by Reuters.
“This will impact the lines in May, but, now that the decision has been made, we can construct our schedule without those flights well in advance in hopes to minimize the daily disruptions,” the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and the company said in the joint memorandum.
Boeing’s top-selling 737 MAX jetliner has been grounded in the wake of two deadly crashes involving that model in five months, one in Indonesia last October and another on March 10 in Ethiopia.
Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; editing by Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barely a week after the U.S. Federal Reserve called a halt to interest rate hikes, policymakers are now battling a view growing in financial markets, and embraced by the Trump administration, that the Fed will need to cut rates before long.
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor, said Friday on CBNC that while there is “no emergency,” the Fed should cut rates to protect the U.S. economy from slowing down.
But no fewer than five Fed officials in the past 24 hours have touted the underlying strength of the American economy and argued the recent spate of weak data on business activity is more likely to prove fleeting than lasting.
Even the Fed’s two most dovish policymakers – the presidents of the St. Louis and Minneapolis regional banks – say they are not ready to agitate for the central bank to start reversing three years of rate increases.
On Friday one of the bank’s centrists, Randal Quarles, the Fed Board of Governor’s Vice Chair for Supervision, offered an optimistic view of the U.S. economy and said more rate increases may be needed if recent positive trends in productivity and investment continue.
Quarles is the latest in a series of policymakers insisting the Fed has an option to raise rates even as markets increasingly regard such a move as unlikely. The latest monthly jobs report showed a sharp slowdown in hiring, and recent data shows factory activity, business and consumer confidence and inflation have all weakened.
Indeed, prices on futures contracts tied to the Fed’s policy rate on Friday reflected bets the central bank will need to reduce interest rates by September.
Speaking in New York, Quarles said he is inclined to dismiss the recent data as “a bit odd” and “inconsistent” with underlying strength, wage gains that should be boosting households, and a rise in productivity he feels could be “persistent” and lead to stronger growth down the road.
DOVES AND HAWKS TOGETHER
But it wasn’t just Quarles, who has long tended to be on the more hawkish end of the Fed’s policy spectrum.
Even Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari, one of the biggest opponents of rate hikes at the central bank, told Reuters on Friday that it is “premature” to think about a cutting rates in response to economic data and market indicators.
Also on Friday, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said bond markets are pointing to skepticism about future economic growth. But some economic data in the first quarter was distorted by a partial U.S. government shutdown and consumers are in good shape, he said.
Perhaps most telling are remarks by the influential chief of the New York Fed, John Williams, who on Thursday said the U.S. economy is in “a very good place” and described the likelihood of a recession in 2019 or 2020 as “not elevated.”
“I’m not as worried about a recession as some of my colleagues in the private sector,” Williams said. “I still see the probability of a recession this year or next year as being not elevated relative to any year.”
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard late Thursday also said it was premature to discuss any rate cut and felt the economy would likely rebound.
The Fed last week kept its target range for short-term rates at 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, and projections showed most policymakers do not see any rate hikes this year, a downgrade from December when the median forecast was for rates to rise to 2.9 percent.
That downgrade was followed days later by a market phenomenon known as a yield curve inversion, where short-term rates exceed long-term rates, a pattern in the bond market that historically precedes a recession.
Policymakers have been keen to avoid the perception becoming reality, which may explain some of their pushback in recent days.
With the unemployment rate at 3.8 percent and the economy still growing faster than potential even as it slows, they also are reluctant to abandon the idea that inflation and wages will eventually perk up.
“It’s just taking a longer time than it typically does,” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said earlier this week.
Reporting by Ann Saphir and Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Dan Burns and Andrea Ricci
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on Wednesday as U.S. bond yields fell again and a prolonged inversion in the yield curve fanned growth worries.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields slid on Wednesday, but came off 15-month lows reached overnight as investors remained focused on central bank dovishness globally.
The yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007 on Friday and if the inversion continues to persist it could indicate that a recession is likely in one to two years.
Interest-rate sensitive financial stocks were down, with the S&P 500 financial index falling 0.3 percent.
“The inverted yield curve, that’s what worries investors and it’s why you’re getting selling here. It’s definitely a slowing economy indicator, and whether it goes into a recession or not, nobody really knows. But it will put a pause in the market,” said Alan Lancz, president, Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc, an investment advisory firm, based in Toledo, Ohio.
Investors have been fretting about slowing economic growth since last week after the Federal Reserve did a stunning about-turn on rate hikes and dour factory data from the United States, Europe and Japan.
The European Central Bank became the latest central bank to delay a planned increase in rates amid rising threats to growth.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.82 points, or 0.01 percent, to 25,659.55, the S&P 500 lost 8.36 points, or 0.30 percent, to 2,810.1 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 37.73 points, or 0.49 percent, to 7,653.80.
Not all data was bleak. A Commerce Department report showed that U.S. trade deficit dropped more than expected in January, likely as Chinese purchases of soybeans spurred a rebound in exports after three straight monthly declines.
Lennar Corp rose 3.1 percent as the No.2 U.S. homebuilder said it expected the housing market to improve, while shares of KB Home, which reported upbeat results late Tuesday, were up 1.7 percent.
Also helping was a survey that showed mortgage applications in the week ended March 22 rose nearly 9 percent amid lower interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Centene Corp’s shares fell 6.2 percent after the health insurer said it would buy smaller rival WellCare Health Plans Inc for $15.27 billion. Shares of WellCare jumped 11 percent.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.23-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.45-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 29 new 52-week highs and 6 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 26 new highs and 60 new lows.
Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Phil Berlowitz
FILE PHOTO: Journalists follow a news conference during the opening of the new Alphabet’s Google Berlin office in Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
The council, which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, includes technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president for global affairs, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference.
The group is meant to provide recommendations for Google and other companies and researchers working in areas such as facial recognition software, a form of automation that has prompted concerns about racial bias and other limitations.
“We want to have the most informed and thoughtful conversations we can,” Walker said on stage at the MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco. “We want to sit down with the council and see what agenda they want to set.”
Google already has its own internal AI principles, which, among other provisions, bars the California-based tech firm from using AI to develop weapons.
The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council includes Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computing at the University of Bath; William J. Burns, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and Dyan Gibbens, chief executive of Houston-based drone startup Trumbull, according to a Google blog post.
The council will meet four times, beginning in April, the blog post said.
Reporting by Paresh Dave; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Rosalba O’Brien
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus signed a deal worth tens of billions of dollars on Monday to sell 300 aircraft to China as part of a trade package coinciding with a visit to Europe by Chinese President Xi Jinping and matching a China record held by rival Boeing.
FILE PHOTO: The Airbus logo is pictured at Airbus headquarters in Blagnac near Toulouse, France, March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
The deal between Airbus and China’s state buying agency, China Aviation Supplies Holding Company, which regularly coordinates headline-grabbing deals during diplomatic visits, will include 290 A320-family jets and 10 A350 wide-body jets.
French officials said the deal was worth some 30 billion euros at catalog prices. Planemakers usually grant significant discounts.
The larger-than-expected order, which matches an order for 300 Boeing planes when U.S. Donald Trump visited Beijing in 2017, follows a year-long vacuum of purchases in which China failed to place significant orders amid global trade tensions.
It also comes as the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX has left uncertainty over Boeing’s immediate hopes for a major jet order as the result of any warming of U.S.-China trade ties.
There was no evidence of any direct connection between the Airbus deal and Sino-U.S. tensions or Boeing fleet problems, but China watchers say Beijing has a history of sending diplomatic signals or playing off suppliers through state aircraft deals.
“The conclusion of a big (aviation) contract … is an important step forward and an excellent signal in the current context,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a joint address with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
The United States and China are edging toward a possible deal to ease a months-long tariff row and a deal involving as many as 200-300 Boeing jets had until recently been expected as part of the possible rapprochement.
China was also the first to ground the newest version of Boeing’s workhorse 737 model earlier this month following a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash, touching off a series of regulatory actions worldwide.
Asked if negotiations had accelerated as a result of the Boeing grounding or other issues, Airbus planemaking chief and designated chief executive Guillaume Faury told reporters, “This is a long-term relationship with our Chinese partners that evolves over time; it is a strong sign of confidence.”
China has become a key hunting ground for Airbus and its leading rival Boeing, thanks to surging travel demand.
But whether Airbus or Boeing is involved, analysts say diplomatic deals frequently contain a mixture of new demand, repeats of older orders and credits against future deals, meaning the immediate impact is not always clear.
The outlook has also been complicated by Beijing’s desire to grow its own industrial champions and, more recently for Boeing, the U.S.-China trade war.
French President Macron unexpectedly failed to clinch an Airbus order for 184 planes during a trip to China in early 2018 and the two sides have been working to salvage it.
Industry sources have said the year’s delay in Airbus negotiations, as well as a buying freeze during the U.S. tariff row, created latent demand for jets to feed China’s growth.
Additional reporting by John Irish, Michel Rose, Jean-Baptiste Vey, Tim Hepher; Writing by Richard Lough, Tim Hepher; Editing by Jane Merriman
A cell phone with the Uber transport technology app, with the destination and its cost to the international airport, is seen inside a car with an Uber driver, in Santiago, Chile, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc is set to offer over $3 billion to buy Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ, two sources familiar with the deal told Reuters.
Uber’s offer could be unveiled during the early part of this week, a third source added.
Uber will pay $1.4 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in convertible notes, which will be convertible into Uber shares at a price equal to $55 per share, Bloomberg had earlier reported, citing a term-sheet.
Careem declined comment while Uber did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters to comment.
Uber has been preparing for an initial public offering, and its bankers have indicated that it could be valued at as much as $120 billion.
The U.S.-based global logistics and transportation company has been seeking new avenues of growth even as it faces severe competition in its core business of ride hailing from rivals like Lyft Inc.
The IPOs of Lyft and Uber represent a watershed for Silicon Valley’s technology unicorns, which for years have snubbed the stock market in favor of raising capital privately, with investors happy to back their frothy valuations.
Reporting by Saeed Azhar and Hadeel Al Sayegh in Dubai and Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru; additional reporting by Alexander Cornwell in Dubai; Editing by Leslie Adler and Lisa Shumaker
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Teams from the three U.S. airlines that own 737 MAX jets were heading to Boeing Co’s factory in Renton, Washington, to review a software upgrade on Saturday, even as Southwest Airlines Co began parking its 34 MAXs near the California desert.
FILE PHOTO: A wing of the Boeing 737 MAX is pictured during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington December 7, 2015. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight/File Photo
The factory visits indicate Boeing may be nearing completion of a planned software patch for its newest 737 following a fatal Lion Air crash in Indonesia last October, but the timing for a resumption of passenger flights on the jets remains uncertain.
Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, which must approve the software fix and new training, are under U.S. and global scrutiny since the MAX suffered a second deadly crash involving Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa on March 10, which led to a worldwide grounding of the fleet.
The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American Airlines pilots, said it has been in talks with Boeing, the FAA and airlines to get the airplanes flying again as soon as possible, albeit with an acceptable level of safety.
“Right now we’re in wait and see mode to see what Boeing comes up with,” Captain Jason Goldberg, a spokesman for APA, said on Saturday. “We’re hopeful, but at the same time the process can’t be rushed.”
APA is among a delegation of airline safety experts and pilots set to test Boeing’s software upgrade, meant to change how much authority is given to a new anti-stall system developed for the 737 MAX, in Renton.
The system, known as the Maneuver Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, is suspected of playing a role in both disasters, which together killed 346 people.
Both crashes are still under investigation.
Southwest, the largest operator of the MAX in the world, and United Airlines said they would also review documentation and training associated with Boeing’s updates on Saturday. United has 14 MAXs while American has 24.
Meanwhile, Southwest said it was starting to move on Saturday its entire MAX fleet to a facility in Victorville, California, at the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert, while the global grounding remains in effect.
“The planes being in one place will be more efficient for performing the repetitive maintenance necessary for stationary aircraft, as well as any future software enhancements that need to take place,” spokeswoman Brandy King said.
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) – Manufacturers in Europe, Japan and the United States suffered in March as surveys showed trade tensions had left their mark on factory output, a setback for hopes the global economy might be turning the corner on its slowdown.
FILE PHOTO: A worker is seen at a factory at the Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, Japan, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Factory activity in the 19-country euro zone contracted at the fastest pace in nearly six years.
In Japan, manufacturing output shrank the most in almost three years, hurt by China’s economic slowdown.
And a measure of U.S. manufacturing was its weakest since June 2017 while forecasters at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia slashed their estimate for economic growth in early 2019.
German 10-year bond yields, which plunged on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled no more rate hikes this year, dived again to fall below zero.
In New York, the U.S. 10-year Treasury note yield plunged to a 14-month low as growth worries further weighed on inflation expectations.
That benchmark yield dropped below the yields on all maturities of T-bills for the first time in 12 years, a so-called yield-curve inversion that is often a harbinger of economic recession. [nL1N2190J6]
“While such an inversion has traditionally been an indicator of a recession, this time around it may be less about the prospects for the U.S. economy and more about spillovers from what is happening in Europe and the bond market there, together with the effects of the Fed’s surprising decision to be very dovish again with its unconventional policy tools,” said Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz in Newport Beach, California.
U.S. stocks, European shares and the euro also fell on Friday. The benchmark S&P 500 was off by 1.6 percent and on pace for its biggest drop in nearly three months.
Global trade tensions continue to be among the main culprits behind the gloom.
“No other factor shapes the euro zone business cycle more than the ups and downs of global trade,” economists at Berenberg, a bank, said.
The United States and China are due to resume face-to-face talks next week, but it is unclear if the two sides can narrow their differences and end the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
European officials are also worried about the risk of U.S. tariffs on car imports from Europe.
RISKS – US CHINA TENSIONS, BREXIT, ITALY
The drop in the euro zone’s manufacturing purchasing managers index to a 71-month low of 47.7 from 49.4 in February raised the risk trade flows could turn even more negative in the short term, the Berenberg economists said.
The manufacturing downturn was partly offset by stable — but relatively weak — growth in the euro zone’s dominant services industry.
But the surveys suggested the bloc’s economy had a poor start to 2019.
IHS Markit, which published the surveys, said the PMIs pointed to first-quarter economic growth of 0.2 percent in the euro zone, below the 0.3 percent predicted in a Reuters poll last week.
The euro zone grew 0.2 percent in the final three months of 2018, its slowest pace in four years. [ECILT/EU]
Earlier this month, the European Central Bank changed tack by pushing out the timing of its next rate increase until 2020 at the earliest and said it would offer banks a new round of cheap loans to help revive the economy.
“We highlight downside risks mainly stemming from the external side – e.g. trade tensions, a Chinese-led global slowdown,” Barclays economists Radu-Gabriel Cristea and Francois Cabau said about the euro zone.
“The protracted weakness in manufacturing remains a lingering risk, and overall growth concerns are likely to intensify should the industrial backdrop further deteriorate. At the same time, Italy and Brexit woes remain non-negligible, the uncertainty a further drag on sentiment.”
In the U.S. series, Markit’s measure of manufacturing activity slipped to 52.5 in March from 53 in February, falling short of economists’ forecasts for a modest rebound. Markit’s manufacturing output index was the weakest since June 2016.
“The survey is consistent with the official measure of manufacturing production falling at an increased rate in March and hence acting as a drag on the economy in the first quarter,” Markit’s chief business economist, Chris Williamson, said.
U.S. GDP is forecast to expand at an annualized rate of 1.6 percent this quarter, down from the 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a Reuters poll of more than 100 economists released last week. In last month’s poll, first-quarter growth had been pegged at 1.9 percent.
The headline Flash Markit/Nikkei Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was a seasonally adjusted 48.9, the same as February’s final reading.
The index was below the 50 threshold that separates contraction from expansion for the second consecutive month.
“Concern of weaker growth in China and prolonged global trade frictions kept business confidence well below its historical average in March,” Joe Hayes, an economist at IHS Markit, said.
The flash index for total new orders – domestic and foreign – fell to its lowest since June 2016, the survey showed.
Japan is exposed to the dispute between Washington and Beijing as it ships to China big volumes of electronics items and heavy machinery used to make finished goods destined for the United States.
Writing by William Schomberg and Dan Burns; editing by Jon Boyle and Susan Thomas
FILE PHOTO: A Wells Fargo logo is seen in New York City, U.S. January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
(Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co’s board is in talks with Harvey Schwartz, the former president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to take over as the bank’s chief executive, the New York Post reported on Thursday, citing people briefed on the discussion.
A Wells Fargo spokesperson told Reuters that there was “no validity” to rumors the bank was in talks with potential candidates for the CEO position.
Since Tim Sloan took over as the scandal-plagued bank’s CEO in 2016, politicians and analysts have repeatedly questioned whether he was the right person to turn Wells Fargo around.
The bank’s board has consistently defended Sloan, saying his deep knowledge of Wells Fargo was an asset. In September the bank’s chair, Betsy Duke, shot down a similar NY Post report that the board was seeking to replace Sloan with former Goldman Sachs executive and Trump adviser Gary Cohn.
Wells Fargo on Thursday reiterated Duke’s statement from last year.
“Rumors that Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors reached out to potential CEO candidates are completely false,” Duke said. “CEO Tim Sloan has the unanimous support of the board, and this support has never wavered.”
Shares of Wells Fargo pared some losses to trade down 1.5 percent at $49.62. The stock was earlier down 2.4 percent.
Schwartz is up against another serious candidate for Sloan’s job, but that person’s identity could not immediately be learned, the newspaper reported, citing one source close to the situation.
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