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The Villa Times - 11/11/2009
Unoial Villa News...
Vital Villa asked: What should MON do in midfield about the return of Petrov? Seems 62% aren't totally sold on Steve Sidwell yet as they voted 'drop Sidwell and replace with Petrov'. Full results: Should MON Bring Petrov Straight Back Into Team?
Vital Acorns update, go on, just a £1 would make a massive difference, you know you want to! Details: Vital Villa Acorns 450 Challenge Update
If anyone has any games or consoles that they no longer use/want, there is a collection being done for the Birmingham Childrens hospital: click here
Right, back to football...!
This old debate again! MON has joined Moyes and Appy Arry calling for Celtic and Rangers to be included in the Premier League... Err, no thanks! Full article and poll: MON Wants SPL Giants In The PL?
A host of activities will be available at the club's upcoming Family Fun Day. The Villa v Hull clash on Saturday December 5 will feature loads of pre-match activities - so why not take advantage of some of our great family ticket deals? Full details: www.avfc.co.uk
Good lord almighty, I'm hungry!
James Milner has spoken to AVTV about being part of the England set up: 'I think the more and more you get involved and the longer you're there, the more training sessions and the more you are about the place in the England set up, you obviously feel more part of it. It is pleasing to get to through that new stage. I'm still the newbie, I suppose, but it is more how you feel yourself and if you're more confident and happy around the place then that helps.'
Milner also says there are a number of Villa players who could make the World Cup: 'There are a number of players in contention for the World Cup at Aston Villa. It would be great for Aston Villa if a few players could go because it'd mean we've had a good season.' Full quotes and FREE video: www.avfc.co.uk
Vital England: Playing against Brazil is most people's 'boyhood dream', and James Milner - as he told BBC WM - hopes to do exactly that this weekend when England meet Brazilian's in Qatar: 'when you're growing up and you're pretending to play for your country, Brazil's probably the team you play against. 'It's an important game, it's a warm-up game, and hopefully if we play them again it'll be in the World Cup final.' Full article: www.england.vitalfootball.co.uk
MON told the Sunday Mercury that Emile Heskey shouldn't be out long with his back injury. www.sundaymercury.net
Villa right-back Luke Young has hung up his international boots according to the players agent. The 30-year-old who has seven caps made up his mind last season according to a BBC Sport article. His agent Andy Evans said Young could have made the latest squad are a replacement for Liverpool right-back Glen Johnson for this weekends friendly Brazil. Apparently Young has decided he wants to concentrate on his club football. England's loss our gain?
Hmmmm, fish and chips for tea...
Stephen Warnock feels that he move from Blackburn to Villa has been 'justified' by his recall to the England squad for the friendly with Brazil this weekend, a recall that he has earned. Full article: A Chance Earned By The Move
The 14 shirts used by the Villa team in last weekend's 5-1 thumping of Bolton are all up for sale in an effort to raise additional funds for Acorns and Help for Heroes. Commemorative Bolton Shirts Up For Auction
Vital Villa fantasy league update: Vital Villa Fantasy League Update
Look at this for a star studded night out celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Villa Oldstars: 50th Anniversary Dinner Aston Villa Old Stars
There's no action at Villa Park on Saturday, but it's still worth popping along to celebrate a special milestone in the club's history - and the launch of a fantastic new book. Details: Click Here
Chances are I'll have some peas with my fish and chips... heaven.
Interesting couple of articles in the Express & Star on John Carew today. The first has quotes from centre-back Carlos Cuellar who told the E&S that JC is 'every defender’s worst nightmare'. Very true according to Chief Sports Writer Martin Swain but only when the player can be bothered. John Carew - Nightmare In More Ways Than One?!?
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Sponsored by our friends at Chick’s Oyster Bar, the second annual Seafood Festival is an event you will not want to miss!
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Reading the bible is a great habit however, it is way better for you to study the passages and verses in it. If you want to have deeper relation and stronger bond with God, then this article will surely set an inspiration on how to do so. So without further ado, below let us look what actually bible reading and bible studying is.
When you read the bible, this means that you’re just reading the words on pages superficially and find no meaning in it. They don’t let the words have an impact on their lives. As for someone who just reads the bible, it’s lacking of life. There aren’t any notes taken or even recorded impressions so if they receive a blessing, it’s forgotten soon enough.
Reading is not actually bad but this is able to replace secular books and articles that crowd out our spiritual things. It can be very beneficial to read particularly if it’s seen as a way of saturating the mind with God’s Words in addition to studying.
And speaking of, what does bible studying truthfully means? Believe it or not, studying is a process wherein someone thoughtfully and carefully spends time in their bible. This is a kind of method that includes interpretation, application and observation with paper and pen in hand. The words will start to take shape and make an impressions upon its reader the true importance of integrating it into their day to day lives. The notes taken are intended for comparison and review of future studies.
Let’s now proceed on how bible reading and bible studying is different from each other now that you know why they matter.
There are 3 major differences between studying and reading as a matter of fact and these are method, experience and attitude. Learn more about bible at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bible.
Attitude of reverence is divided into 2 terms like for instance, when a student of bible reveres scriptures, they are drawn to search pages carefully. Soon after, they’ll develop a desire of searching it on other media or books and want to know the bible, quote bible, talk bible, share bible and study bible.
There are a number of easy to follow Viral Believer methods which can be viewed as differences between reading and studying. Since good methods can be passed on, they’re more than enough to follow. Remember, the bible was not just meant for clergy or scholars as anyone can devote their time reading and studying it.
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Today the Massachusetts Election Modernization Coalition hosted lawmakers and legislative staff for a briefing on proposed voting reforms and existing barriers to voting. The briefing pointed to solutions offered in the Voting ACCESS Act, a comprehensive election administration bill introduced by state Sen. Cindy Creem and similar bills filed in the House that would improve access to the ballot box. The briefing also featured remarks from Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows who spoke favorably about the administration and cost of Same Day Registration in Maine.
“The ACCESS Act is an opportunity for Massachusetts to build on the success of 2022’s VOTES Act,” said Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts. “After conversations with lawmakers today, we are heartened and hopeful that the legislature will eliminate remaining barriers, protect the right to vote, and further modernize our elections by passing this bill.”
“After every single election we have to ask how we can improve ballot access next time,” said Gavi Wolfe, legislative director at the ACLU of Massachusetts. “Maybe we need to focus on removing barriers to voter registration, improving polling place access, or providing resources for election workers to keep things running smoothly. But in a Commonwealth that cares about full democratic participation, the answer is never ‘yeah, we’re all set.’”
“Lawyers for Civil Rights demands the expansion of equitable access to the ballot box. The ACCESS Act, true to its name, advances that goal,” said Sophia Hall, deputy litigation director at Lawyers for Civil Rights. “Through common sense policies like same-day voter registration, it eliminates many of the primary obstacles to voting for traditionally disenfranchised groups. We support this critical legislation and urge lawmakers to enact it.”
“Reforms like same day voter registration are essential to increasing voter turnout, especially in traditionally-underserved communities like Black and brown, low income, and immigrant populations,” said Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, executive director of MassVOTE. “Massachusetts must waste no time in passing same day registration — and all of the ACCESS Act — to make our elections truly accessible, inclusive, and efficient.”
“Every year, we talk to Massachusetts voters who are excited to exercise their right to vote, but are turned away from the polls because they moved since the last election. We know that our BIPOC and low income communities are often more transient than others,” said Shanique Spalding, executive director of the MA Voter Table. “By passing Same Day Registration in the ACCESS Act, our legislature will lead the way to expand voting rights for all MA voters, especially those most disenfranchised in the political process.”
“Voting should be an inclusive process. Everything should be done to ensure the people’s will is truly heard at the polls and this can be accomplished by reducing barriers that prevent this. I have witnessed first hand how same day registration could have helped us achieve this collective goal on Election Day here in Massachusetts,” said Tri Tran, director of public policy at Rosie’s Place. “If 22 other states and the District of Columbia can accomplish this, there’s no reason why we can’t accomplish this too.”
“The League of Women Voters looks forward to continuing the progress made in the last legislative session by further expanding access to voting with same-day voter registration. We also salute the provisions to make the job of our election officials easier by decoupling the voting rolls from the municipal census and by simplifying the required forms,” said Pattye Comfort, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
“Massachusetts should lead the country when it comes to access to voting,” said Janet Domenitz, Director of MASSPIRG. “We have the tools and technology to modernize our voting and we’re not using all of them. Let’s build our democracy back better and catch up with other states where barriers to voting have been removed.”
“The Jewish community and other religious minorities are reliant on a pluralistic and healthy democracy,” said FayeRuth Fisher, senior director of public affairs at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. “We applaud the progress made last legislative session to expand democracy through election reform and remain committed to working with community allies and elected leaders to make voting more accessible and to increase funding for local election administrators who carry out the important work of overseeing elections across the Commonwealth.”
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One of unfortunate things about doing a lot of my runs before the sun comes up is the lack of the track in my life.
I’ve been missing it a lot.
We got back from the beach on Sunday, but I had taken Monday off from work. I am really glad I did because I got a lot of some much needed work done!
We ended up sleeping in later than expected, which meant that we were going to be facing some brutal heat on our track workout. I’ve been lacking sleep lately so I wasn’t upset that I chose one morning to sleep in.
After we got up and took a bit to wake up, we packed up the backpack and grabbed about 4 things of water and headed out to the local high school track.
It’s no secret that my training schedule is a little mixed right now. Some weeks I stick to the typical Hansons Marathon Method schedule and the some weeks I mix things up a bit. This week I decided to mix it up some.
Wes had a pretty tough workout on the schedule, so he suggested we alter it a bit and see how it goes.
2 mile warm up (with 2 x 1 minute pickups)
3 x (2:00 minutes at 7:00 min pace, 2:00 minutes at 8:00 min pace)
3 miles at goal marathon pace
The toughest part of this workout, excluding the insane heat and humidity, was going directly from the 2:00 x 2:00 into the 3 miles at goal marathon pace. In fact, the original plan was to do 4 miles but I quickly realized that wasn’t going to happen.
I beat myself up a little bit at the end of it, but then compared it against what was on my husband’s schedule and it made me feel better. He had the same as above except 5 x (2:00/2:00) and then 5 miles at goal marathon pace.
He hit his workout pretty perfectly, and to be honest I was jealous because my GMP was slower than 7:35 due to heat. It was 91 degrees outside and 70 degree dew point. Add in the extra heat that comes from the track and it was probably close to 96-98 degrees. He’s really killing his training this time around and I can’t wait to see what he does in Chicago!
In total I ended up with just over 10 miles for the day.
It reminded me just how much I miss being able to do workouts on the track. It also reminded me how much I love being out there together.
The pain, the misery, the joy all of it rolled into one is such a great feeling. It’s almost like my focus kicks in even more when I’m out there. Even though it’s hard and it hurts, it adds a new level of fun as well!
I treasure these days when I am able to get in a workout out there. It may be a love/hate relationship, but deep down I have a lot of love for the track!
Do you enjoy doing workouts on the track?
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March has arrived and with it a new challenge at Bizzy Becs. The theme this month is Children/Babies and is by our DT girl Kelly who recently became a new mum to a beautiful little boy. If you enter the challenge you could win a New Release Die from Wild Rose Studio which is being donated from Bizzy Becs Online Store.
For my card I used a Darkroom Door background stamp "Buttons" and stamped it with memento ink- summer sky. There is a great variety of Darkroom Door Stamps at Bizzy Becs Store available for pre-order here as well as Memento Inks. The image is a Tiddly Inks Digi Stamp called Fly Me to the Moon. I coloured the image with my copics as well as paper piecing part of the pram.
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Country singer Jessie James Decker and her NFL star husband Eric recently returned to our screens with their eponymous E! reality show. But the celebrity power couple announced their most exciting news of 2017 in an adorable post on Instagram. Here’s a look at the story that has made their millions of fans across the world go “aww.”
Born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1988, Jessie James Decker experienced a nomadic childhood thanks to her father’s U.S. Air Force duties. The self-described “country girl at heart” began writing songs in Nashville aged 15 and two years later signed to Mercury Records. Her 2009 self-titled debut album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the US Top 40 single “Wanted.”
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Sirven los corticoides en la meningitis? Para que sirven?
Encontre esta revision en la base de datos de Cochrane actualizada donde nos responden a esta pregunta los Doctores: Brouwer MC, McIntyre P, de Gans J, y colaboradores.
BACKGROUND: In experimental studies, the outcome of bacterial meningitis has been related to the severity of inflammation in the subarachnoid space. Corticosteroids reduce this inflammatory response.
OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of adjuvant corticosteroid therapy versus placebo on mortality, hearing loss and neurological sequelae in people of all ages with acute bacterial meningitis.
SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library 2010, issue 1), MEDLINE (1966 to February 2010), EMBASE (1974 to February 2010) and Current Contents (2001 to February 2010).
SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: We scored RCTs for methodological quality. We collected outcomes and adverse effects. We performed subgroup analyses for children and adults, causative organisms, low-income versus high-income countries, time of steroid administration and study quality. MAIN RESULTS: Twenty-four studies involving 4041 participants were included. Similar numbers of participants died in the corticosteroid and placebo groups (18.0% versus 20.0%; risk ratio (RR) 0.92, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.82 to 1.04, P = 0.18). There was a trend towards lower mortality in adults receiving corticosteroids (RR 0.74, 95% CI 0.53 to 1.05, P = 0.09). Corticosteroids were associated with lower rates of severe hearing loss (RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.51 to 0.88), any hearing loss (RR 0.76, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.89) and neurological sequelae (RR 0.83, 95% CI 0.69 to 1.00).Subgroup analyses for causative organisms showed that corticosteroids reduced severe hearing loss in Haemophilus influenzae meningitis (RR 0.34, 95% CI 0.20 to 0.59) and reduced mortality in Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis (RR 0.84, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.98).In high-income countries, corticosteroids reduced severe hearing loss (RR 0.51, 95% CI 0.35 to 0.73), any hearing loss (RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.45 to 0.73) and short-term neurological sequelae (RR 0.64, 95% CI 0.48 to 0.85). There was no beneficial effect of corticosteroid therapy in low-income countries.Subgroup analysis for study quality showed no effect of corticosteroids on severe hearing loss in high quality studies.Corticosteroid treatment was associated with an increase in recurrent fever (RR 1.27, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.47), but not with other adverse events.
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Corticosteroids significantly reduced hearing loss and neurological sequelae, but did not reduce overall mortality. Data support the use of corticosteroids in patients with bacterial meningitis in high-income countries. We found no beneficial effect in low-income countries. | <urn:uuid:26248c00-9160-4abe-8bb7-d206f08b05bb> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://medicinacriticaycuidadointensivo.blogspot.com/2010/11/utilidad-de-los-corticoides-en.html | 2018-05-22T04:25:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864624.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522034402-20180522054402-00373.warc.gz | en | 0.853456 | 766 |
Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble's wide-eyed cousin, NASA said.
While just as sensitive as Hubble's cameras, WFIRST's 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will image a sky area 100 times larger.
This means a single WFIRST image will hold the equivalent detail of 100 pictures from Hubble, according to the US space agency.
"A picture from Hubble is a nice poster on the wall, while a WFIRST image will cover the entire wall of your house," said David Spergel, co-chair of the WFIRST science working group and professor at Princeton University in the US.
The mission's wide field of view will allow it to generate never-before-seen big pictures of the universe, which will help astronomers explore some of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos, including why the expansion of the universe seems to be accelerating, NASA said.
One possible explanation for this speed-up is dark energy, an unexplained pressure that currently makes up 68 per cent of the total content of the cosmos and may have been changing over the history of the universe, it said.
Another possibility is that this apparent cosmic acceleration points to the breakdown of Einstein's general theory of relativity across large swaths of the universe.
WFIRST will have the power to test both of these ideas.
To learn more about dark energy, WFIRST will use its powerful 2.4-metre mirror and Wide Field Instrument to do two things: map how matter is structured and distributed throughout the cosmos and measure how the universe has expanded over time.
In the process, the mission will study galaxies across cosmic time, from the present back to when the universe was only half a billion years old, or about four per cent of its current age.
"To understand how the universe evolved from a hot, uniform gas into stars, planets, and people, we need to study the beginnings of that process by looking at the early days of the universe," said WFIRST Project Scientist Jeffrey Kruk at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the US.
The Wide Field Instrument will also allow WFIRST to measure the matter in hundreds of millions of distant galaxies through a phenomenon dictated by Einstein's relativity theory, NASA said.
Massive objects like galaxies curve space-time in a way that bends light passing near them, creating a distorted, magnified view of far-off galaxies behind them.
Using this magnifying glass effect, called weak gravitational lensing, WFIRST will paint a broad picture of how matter is structured throughout the universe, allowing scientists to put the governing physics of its assembly to the ultimate test.
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Firstly, it should be said that people of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome to attend all public InnerTuba presentations.
For the purposes of InnerTuba, “Additional Needs” – and the people who have them – are defined as follows:
An “Additional Needs” InnerTuba presentation/workshop will take place at a venue which exists to provide a service for people with specific, identified needs. Typically those needs will be met by specialist paid staff and volunteers who are engaged to support them.
InnerTuba has shows ready for, and is particularly keen to engage with:
- Children and young people in Children’s Hospices.
- Children in Special Education, and special after school facilities.
- Adults with learning disabilities.
- Older people in day care, residential and rehabilitation units, attached to hospitals.
- People receiving support because they find themselves experiencing mental health problems, and are perhaps homeless – at hostels, day care and “drop in” facilities.
“We very much valued having Innertuba come to visit us on Thursday the 4th of June 2015. We are lucky enough to welcome various entertainers and speakers to Anderson’s Care Home but we haven’t ever had a Travelling Tubadour arriving in style on a recumbent bicycle! It was a wonderful opportunity for our residents and relatives to meet you and learn about your travels and adventures. There were looks of both admiration and astonishment on the faces of our audience members and the hands on music making from unusual objects went down particularly well. Who knew that such amazing sounds could come out of a garden hose?
Many of our residents have dementia, limited eyesight and are hard of hearing and only a handful are able bodied but I believe the majority were engaged with your performance and most certainly impressed with your Tuba playing. The music sounded fantastic especially in the unique acoustics of the room. Anderson’s is a busy place that is on the go in one form or another twenty-four hours a day and won’t have been the sort of environment or audience you are used to playing to. I know there were various interruptions, be it from the telephone, people walking through the performance space, or heckling and little demonstration of enjoyment but you certainly did bring joy on that Thursday morning and stimulation for the residents. Your act provided a really different sort of experience for our residents, It was great to see the participation from some of our resident’s relatives too as we try to encourage friends and relatives to join us for any special event.
Thank you so much for diverting your journey through the schools of Moray to come and visit us here at Anderson’s. We really appreciate it! Emily Hoskins. Activities Co – ordinator, Andersons Care Home, Elgin, Scotland 2015
“The boys that were inside your tuba…… count the legs… yes there is a head totally missing…. were obviously intrigued by the sound and the vibrations. Working with our smaller group I am sure was much more beneficial for the children. They all got time to experience the different sounds and vibrations.. a unique experience for them. Thank you so much…..
….The children really enjoyed your visit and it was lovely to see their reactions. If you are in the area again please let us know as a repeat visit would be lovely”. Margaret Sharp, The Green Area (Special needs Unit), Greenwood Primary School, Elgin, Scotland. June 2015
“Excellent speaker, entertaining and informative. Perfect for the two groups that attended. There were service users and a group from Age Isle of Man. We would be happy to have him back at any time in the future”. Via Isle of Man Arts Council 2014. (Day centre for adults with Learning disabilities combined with a group of older people). | <urn:uuid:208ca003-f639-4c74-91ba-10242d21ec83> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.innertuba.org.uk/additional-needs/ | 2018-03-20T15:45:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647498.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320150533-20180320170533-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.97357 | 791 |
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|Organization:||Patrician of Ankh-Morpork|
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|Keywords:||disassemble, question, comment|
I am working on a project that consists of thousands of lines of highly
optimised x86 assembler. I would like to translate it to C (no matter how
poor the generated C is from an idiomatic POV).
Now, I have written such a translator in Perl, but it is very much a hack,
and requires a fair bit of human intervention in the resulting code. Is
there something better out there that I can use? Something that will
require less (or even no) fixups on my part?
As a note, my plan is to translate the code, for ease in moving it to
other platforms, with the option to do some (future) assembly language
tuning on the target platform. The idea is to get a working version of the
project on the client's hardware as quickly as possible, to convince them
to fund an optimised version.
Any assistance would be appreciated. Many thanks, in advance.
[I've seen hacks, nothing very good. -John]
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Kangana Ranaut posed nude for cover page of a film magazine
Kangana Ranaut have posed nude for cover page of a film magazine. The picture is accompanied by a headline that really screams – ‘Naked truth exposed!’ It has caught a lot of attention. Though she cool enough. She says, “What’s the big deal about the picture? Are any of my vital organs seen? I haven’t posed nude at all. These days one doesn’t need to. Body suits are available readily in the market.” She can’t understand why so many eyebrows are being raised! “Why would I be upset? It was for an annual issue and we just tried doing something different. In my profession, one has to do different kinds of photo shoots. I fail to understand why such a big deal is being made about a normal picture,” adds Kangana. | <urn:uuid:d4a58d39-9d71-4530-b198-18947d8872e4> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.gobollywood.com/2007/11/kangana-ranaut-nude-magazine.html | 2014-10-23T05:20:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507450252.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005730-00044-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968846 | 194 |
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Keywords: LTE, android, big, black, cellular, full, hd, htc, max, mini, mobile, new, note, one, phone, screen, silver, small, smart, smartphone, tab, tablet, touch, white. | <urn:uuid:f7dddcfb-dc92-4066-9496-894def42d037> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.dondrup.com/3d-model/72878-3docean-htc-one-max-6070722.html | 2017-03-26T05:45:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189127.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00484-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.737683 | 369 |
MCC is devoting unprecedented resources to help partner countries in Africa positively transform the lives of the poor and catalyze long-lasting economic progress. The continent of Africa is the largest recipient of MCC development assistance.
- Of MCC’s 26 signed compacts, 15 are with African countries, spanning the continent and totaling over $5.8 billion—about 70 percent of MCC's total compact portfolio.
- Of MCC’s 23 smaller-scale Threshold Program grants, 10 are with African countries, totaling over $160 million. These programs focus largely on fighting corruption and improving governance.
Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative.
Countries in Africa with MCC Programs
Blog Entries, Success Stories & Events
MCC celebrates International Youth Day
Ensuring continued success in fight to save coconuts
Investing in democracy and food security
Burkina Faso partnership highlights importance of land governance
Events & Transcripts
- Free Webinar: Explore Opportunities in the Zambian and South African Water Sectors
- MCC Quarterly Town Hall Meeting
- Investment Opportunities in Southern Africa: Previewing AGOA and Zambia’s Proposed MCC Compact
- Public Forum with Resident Country Directors from Africa, Eurasia, and Central America
- Senegal Compact Signing Ceremony | <urn:uuid:85e0d0c5-1a0d-4870-bd60-485121ed0172> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.mcc.gov/pages/countries/region/africa | 2013-12-13T14:00:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164944725/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134904-00089-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.799168 | 275 |
Nimbus – Meet Nimbus, a bright yet broody cloud inspired colour path that is dotted with sky blues and periwinkle framed in flowing pools of grey and white with lighter splatter dyed blues to create a non-pooling sea of bluey, cloudy goodness like Monday rain clouds slightly threatening an otherwise glorious morning.
Sport-a-Rino is closer to a DK weight than sport. It’s a gorgeous and strong yarn with plenty of shine and strength. The brilliant sheen of the merino highlights rich and vibrant colours and creates a strong and durable knit fabric. Perfect for next to the skin wear and garments that will see a lot of wear and tear, this yarn works up fast. | <urn:uuid:acd0acaa-616d-4850-a42e-c312f9d5809c> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://jomayarn.com/product/sport-a-rino-nimbus/ | 2018-06-19T06:34:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861980.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619060647-20180619080647-00288.warc.gz | en | 0.870928 | 145 |
CBS4’s 4 Your Health segment reported on American Senior Communities’ non-medication methods for reducing anxiety among those with dementia such as the use of weighted blankets.
| February 20, 2018
Disclaimer: The statements on this blog are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The author does not in any way guarantee or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any message and will not be held responsible for the content of any message. Always consult your personal physician for specific medical advice. | <urn:uuid:dda20bad-157b-4364-9c7a-7ed85be57344> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.asccare.com/news/cbs4s-4-health-segment-reported-american-senior-communities-non-medication-methods-reducing-anxiety-among-dementia-use-weighted-blankets/ | 2021-01-25T23:23:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704792131.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125220722-20210126010722-00239.warc.gz | en | 0.905606 | 108 |
Jo Cauldrick is an artist, author, and coach for creatives at The Moon Journal. Here’s how she found her cosmic calling…
In this episode, I’m chatting with Jo Cauldrick, an ♒️ Aquarius based in the UK, whose moon cards were originally designed to bring her a sense of rhythm and focus during a very stressful time, but soon became one of her best selling products and have helped thousands of others to re-discover their love of the moon and planning activities with the lunar cycle. We discuss creativity and the power of showing up for it in your life as well as the power of working with the moon cycles.
- Jo’s story of how she started her creative business and became an “overnight success” after nearly being homeless
- The benefits of growing your creative entrepreneurial empire in a way that is slow, yet steady and strong
- How Jo has cultivated the tenacity to keep going with her creative projects even when she feels blocked, she experiences imposter syndrome, or things don’t come out the way she intended
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763 F.2d 1560
Gloria LLAGUNO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
Edward MINGEY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals,
Argued Feb. 23, 1984.
Reargued En Banc Oct. 4, 1984.
Decided June 5, 1985.
Rick Schoenfield, Ettinger & Schoenfield, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Philip L. Bronstein, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.
Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, BAUER, WOOD, CUDAHY, ESCHBACH, POSNER, COFFEY, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 charges members of the Chicago Police Department with having entered and searched the plaintiffs' home, and seized the plaintiffs, in violation of the Fourth Amendment (held applicable to state action by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment), which, in its first clause, guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons [and] houses, ... against unreasonable searches and seizures." The jury brought in a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiffs appealed. A panel of this court (with Judge Pell in partial dissent) held that the district judge should have directed a verdict for the plaintiffs. 739 F.2d 1186 (7th Cir.1984). The full court ordered rehearing en banc to consider the division of functions between judge and jury in a damage suit charging violations of the Fourth Amendment. Differently constituted majorities of the court have now concluded that although the trial judge was right not to grant the plaintiffs' motion for directed verdict (except with respect to the 42-hour detention of David Llaguno), he committed errors that entitle the plaintiffs to a new trial.
On a night in Chicago in 1980, two young Hispanic men committed two robberies, killed four people and wounded three others (including a policeman), and abducted a young girl. When the getaway car crashed, the police were able to shoot and capture one of the killers (Garcia, who has since been sentenced to death) and recover the girl unharmed, but the other killer escaped on foot. A check of the license-plate number showed that the car was registered to Vilma Llaguno at an address two miles from the crash site and that it had not been reported stolen. The crash occurred at North and Oakley; Vilma Llaguno's address was on Wabansia, near North Avenue but farther west than Oakley. One of the robberies had taken place between the crash site and the Llaguno residence.
Several policemen, led by Sergeant Mingey, drove to their headquarters, picked up a shotgun and a sledgehammer there, and then drove to the Llaguno home, believing that the killer who had fled from the car when it crashed may have been living at Vilma Llaguno's address, and that fleeing felons often go home. (Mingey and several other policemen in the entry party are one group of defendants; the other consists of policemen involved in the protracted detention of David Llaguno, of which more shortly.) Upon arrival Mingey banged on the front door and ordered the woman who came to the door, Gloria Llaguno, to open it. She did so, and the police rushed in with drawn guns, searched the house, rounded up the occupants (the plaintiffs in this action), and herded them into the living room. Those seized included Gloria and her husband, several of their children (including David Llaguno), and several grandchildren--a total of 10 people. (Vilma Llaguno, who is Gloria Llaguno's daughter-in-law, was not at home.) In response to questions from the police, David revealed that it was his car that had crashed, and said he had loaned it to a friend. When the police asked him who the friend was, he gave Garcia's name, according to David's testimony; according to the police, he refused to answer. They arrested him. Some of the plaintiffs testified at trial that the police threatened to shoot them, which the police denied; that the police had later come back to the house to speak to David; and that on these occasions they had entered the house without anyone's consent, which they also denied--while acknowledging having held David in custody for 42 hours after his arrest, during which time they neither charged him with a crime nor brought him before a magistrate.
While the police were at the Llaguno residence, the killer who had fled from the crash at North and Oakley was shot and killed by other policemen. He turned out to be Roger Llaguno, a son of Gloria and brother of David but not a resident of the house that the police had entered. No charges were ever lodged against any of the occupants, including David.
The plaintiffs argue that even if the police had probable cause to search the house and detain its occupants (an issue we shall come back to), they still violated the Fourth Amendment as a matter of law by failing to get a search warrant. Except in an emergency ("exigent circumstances"), police may not, with neither a warrant nor the homeowner's permission, search a home even though they have probable cause to believe a search would be fruitful. See, e.g., Welsh v. Wisconsin, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 2091, 2097, 80 L.Ed.2d 732 (1984). But if the police in this case had probable cause to believe that the killer was in the Llaguno house, they were excused from getting a warrant, which could have imposed a delay of several hours. The situation was an emergency in about as vivid a sense as can be imagined. A man had (with his partner) just shot seven people. There was no reason to think he had finished shooting; there was every reason to think he would put up a violent resistance. If the police delayed for a warrant, the killer might barricade the house, take hostages, or flee and kill again before they could catch up with him.
True, other cases where an emergency has been held to justify a search without a warrant have involved a clearer showing of probable cause for the search than this case. See, e.g., Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294, 297-99, 87 S.Ct. 1642, 1645-1646, 18 L.Ed.2d 782 (1967); Dorman v. United States, 435 F.2d 385, 393 (D.C.Cir.1970) (en banc). Yet even Dorman, which lists six factors to be considered in deciding whether a warrant can be dispensed with, one being a "clear showing" of probable cause, id. at 392-93, does not suggest that all six factors must be present in each case; and a later District of Columbia Circuit decision, written by the author of Dorman, makes clear that all need not be. See United States v. Robinson, 533 F.2d 578, 583-84 (D.C.Cir.1976) (en banc). Moreover, in United States v. Acevedo, 627 F.2d 68, 70 (7th Cir.1980), we cautioned against the "checklist-type analysis" of Dorman (see also People v. Abney, 81 Ill.2d 159, 173, 41 Ill.Dec. 45, 51, 407 N.E.2d 543, 549 (1980); 1 LaFave & Israel, Criminal Procedure Sec. 3.6, at pp. 262-63 (1984); LaFave, "Seizures" Typology: Classifying Detentions of the Person to Resolve Warrant, Grounds, and Search Issues, 17 J.L. Reform 417, 454-58 (1984)), and said the question was simply "whether the exceedingly strong privacy interest in one's residence is outweighed by the risk that delay will engender injury, destruction of evidence, or escape." The Fourth Amendment contains no checklist of factors constituting an emergency--contains, indeed, no reference to emergencies. The operative word in the Fourth Amendment is "unreasonable"; so the question ought to be, were the police unreasonable in not getting a warrant in the circumstances that confronted them?
The greater the danger to public safety if the police delay entering premises in search of a criminal suspect, the more reason they have for not waiting; and the danger here was greater than in Hayden, Dorman, or any other case we know of in which a "clear showing" of probable cause, as distinct from a mere showing, was made. The analogy to determining reasonableness in a negligence case by comparing the danger of an accident to the burden of avoiding it, see, e.g., United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169, 173 (2d Cir.1947) (L. Hand, J.), suggests that in determining whether police are reasonable in entering a house without a warrant the trier of fact ought to consider not only how great the risk of delay was--that is, the probability of injury, escape, or destruction of evidence, see, e.g., United States v. Acevedo, supra, 627 F.2d at 71--but also how great the harm would have been had the risk materialized. The greater that harm would be, the less need be the probability that it would actually have occurred to justify the police in invading the interest (great though it is) in the privacy of the home. The potential harm from waiting for a search warrant in this case was very great even though it was far from certain that an immediate search would be productive. See United States v. Bottoson, 644 F.2d 1174, 1176 (5th Cir.1981) (per curiam); United States v. Jones, 635 F.2d 1357, 1360 (8th Cir.1980); United States v. Williams, 612 F.2d 735, 739 (3d Cir.1979); United States v. Bustamante-Gamez, 488 F.2d 4, 9 (9th Cir.1973).
Even so, the police could lawfully enter the Llaguno house without a warrant or the homeowner's consent only if there was probable cause to believe that the killer was in the house. Although the words "probable cause" appear only in the second clause of the Fourth Amendment, which deals with warrants, and we have said that the police did not have to get a warrant in this case, the words are also used to describe an essential ingredient of reasonableness, see, e.g., Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42, 51, 90 S.Ct. 1975, 1981, 26 L.Ed.2d 419 (1970); and all searches and seizures must be reasonable to comply with the Fourth Amendment.
It is true that the issue of probable cause ordinarily is for the judge rather than the jury. That is because the issue usually arises in the context of a motion to suppress evidence, which the judge decides. But where the issue arises in a damage suit, it is, as the panel opinion acknowledged, a proper issue for the jury if there is room for a difference of opinion. See 739 F.2d at 1190; Hindman v. City of Paris, 746 F.2d 1063, 1067 (5th Cir.1984); Garris v. Rowland, 678 F.2d 1264, 1270 (5th Cir.1982); Giordano v. Lee, 434 F.2d 1227, 1230 (8th Cir.1970); cf. Banish v. Locks, 414 F.2d 638, 641 (7th Cir.1969). The underlying issue in deciding whether the police had probable cause to do what they did is reasonableness, which is also the underlying issue in deciding negligence--a classic jury issue.
Probable cause means, in fact, a reasonable basis--"more than bare suspicion, but less than virtual certainty," United States v. Garza-Hernandez, 623 F.2d 496, 499 (7th Cir.1980); see also Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91, 85 S.Ct. 223, 225, 226, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964); Grano, Probable Cause and Common Sense: A Reply to the Critics of Illinois v. Gates, 17 J.L. Reform 465, 478-512 (1984)--for believing that a search or seizure will be fruitful--will turn up evidence, or leads to evidence, or contraband, or the perpetrator of the crime. Emergency is not enough. An emergency, at least the kind of emergency, great but not apocalyptic in its menace, involved in this case, would not allow the police to search every house in Chicago or even every house on the Llagunos' block. There must be something more than suspicion--there must be reasonable grounds for believing that the search of this house would prove fruitful in the criminal investigation. There is considerable doubt whether this requirement was met here. An example will dramatize our concern. A man drives to work, and parks his car on the street. A thief steals it, runs down a pedestrian, and crashes the car. The police check the license, note that the car has not been reported stolen, and, inferring from this that the car was being driven by its owner when it crashed, proceed forthwith to the owner's home, sledgehammer in hand. They knock on the door and when no one answers they break it down, search the house, and arrest the owner when he returns from work. It is this kind of police excess that the plaintiffs ask us to condemn by directing a verdict for them.
A reasonable jury would have to find a violation of the Fourth Amendment in our hypothetical case--to which the present case bears more than a family resemblance. Even the fact that a multiple murderer is on the loose does not give the police a license to search and seize without a reasonable basis, see, e.g., Lankford v. Gelston, 364 F.2d 197, 198 (4th Cir.1966) (en banc); 2 LaFave, Search and Seizure Sec. 6.1, at p. 374 (1978), though it may affect the judgment of what is reasonable. But although the present case is close to the line that separates arguably reasonable from unarguably unreasonable police behavior, it does not cross it. Probable cause--the area between bare suspicion and virtual certainty--describes not a point but a zone, within which the graver the crime the more latitude the police must be allowed. The shooting of seven persons (four fatally) by a team of criminals in the space of two hours is about as grave a crisis as a local police department will encounter. The police must be allowed more leeway in resolving it than when they are investigating the theft of a bicycle. Especially when a multiple murderer is at large in circumstances suggesting that he may be about to kill again, the interest in public safety is paramount.
It is true that the gravity of the crime and the threat of its imminent repetition usually are discussed in relation to the existence of an emergency justifying a search or arrest without a warrant, as we have already seen, rather than in relation to probable cause for the search or arrest. But there is some judicial recognition of the latter relation. See United States v. Preston, 468 F.2d 1007, 1010 (6th Cir.1972); Nueslein v. District of Columbia, 115 F.2d 690, 696 (D.C.Cir.1940); Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 183, 69 S.Ct. 1302, 1314, 93 L.Ed. 1879 (1949) (Jackson, J., dissenting); cf. Grano, supra, 17 J.L. Reform at 503-04. The amount of information that prudent police will collect before deciding to make a search or an arrest, and hence the amount of probable cause they will have, is a function of the gravity of the crime, and especially the danger of its imminent repetition. If a multiple murderer is at large, the police must compress their investigation and make the decision to search or arrest on less information than if they could investigate at their leisure.
The police in this case had strong reason to believe that the killer who had fled on foot was Hispanic; and since the car had not been reported stolen and the registered owner had a Hispanic name, they had some reason to think the killer was either the owner or had been driving with the owner's permission. Although the car was registered to "Vilma" Llaguno, a woman's name--we now know--the police may not have known that Vilma is always a woman's first name (a matter on which the record is unclear); readers of Chekhov know that "Vanya" is a man's first name. Anyway, Vilma might have been the wife or sister or mother of the killer, in which event her address might have been his. And he might have sought refuge at her address (if she was a close relative) even if it was not also his, because the crash occurred on the major thoroughfare leading to the house (North Avenue), though not within easy walking distance (two miles). Of course the killer who fled on foot might not have been Vilma's relative; the record does not reveal whether the police who entered the Llaguno home knew by then the name of the killer, Garcia, who had been seized at the crash. And if the fleeing killer was not a relative it was much less likely that he would flee to the home of the car's owner. And yet we think a reasonable jury could have found that the police had a reasonable probability, based on real if inconclusive information rather than inspired hunch or a dragnet mentality, of finding the killer in (or en route to or from) the Llaguno home. As it turned out, he was not there; but that just shows that the probability he would be there was not 100 percent. The police were not completely off base. The killer was, after all, a son of the people who lived there, and he might well have fled there after the shooting spree, though in fact he did not.
Even so, it would not have been reasonable for the police to act on such limited information if they could have gotten better information first without incurring, or subjecting others to, great danger. There are several things they could have done. They could have tried to interview the occupants of the Llaguno home with the occupants' consent. They could have sealed off the house and questioned the occupants as they emerged. They could have questioned neighbors. They could have waited till Garcia had recovered enough from his wound to be questioned. But each of these alternatives was dangerous. If the killer had actually been in the house, the policemen's efforts to obtain the occupants' consent to a search could have alerted him to the presence of the police and allowed him to shoot before they could disarm him. Sealing off the house may have been difficult, because it was nighttime and the house was a detached house which would have had to be surrounded. If the killer had been there, as the police had some reason to think he was, sealing off the house might have led him to barricade it or take some of its occupants as hostages (people sometimes take their relatives hostage). Questioning Garcia, or the neighbors, could have caused a long delay in discovering whether the suspect was inside the house.
Given the gravity of the crimes they were investigating, the possibility that there would be more shootings unless the killer was seized immediately, and the information (limited as it was) that made it seem that he might well have fled to the Llaguno home, we cannot say, as a matter of law, that the police did not have probable cause to enter and search the house as they did. And if this is right, we do not think it makes a critical difference that they had no definite suspect in mind. If the police see a killer (or for that matter some lesser felon), whose name they do not know and whose features they cannot describe, enter a home, they can go in after him without violating the Fourth Amendment. See United States v. Santana, 427 U.S. 38, 42-43, 96 S.Ct. 2406, 2409-10, 49 L.Ed.2d 300 (1976). And their conduct is not unreasonable just because they are not 100 percent sure that this person is the killer they were after--that it was indeed he, and not some look-alike, who had fled into the house. See United States v. Stubblefield, 621 F.2d 980 (9th Cir.1980); United States v. Oaxaca, 569 F.2d 518, 520-22 (9th Cir.1978); United States v. Scott, 520 F.2d 697 (9th Cir.1975); United States v. Holland, 511 F.2d 38, 44-45 (6th Cir.1975); United States v. Shye, 492 F.2d 886 (6th Cir.1974) (per curiam). This case is more difficult than those we have cited because the police had less reason to be confident that they really were in hot pursuit of the killer when they entered the Llagunos' house. But if we are right in our analysis of the situation that faced the police, there was a sufficient chain linking the house to the killer whom the police were pursuing to allow a reasonable jury to conclude that the police had probable cause to enter the house.
The search and seizure at the Llaguno home was over with when the police left a few hours after arriving. The 42-hour police detention of David Llaguno which ensued raises separate issues to which we now turn. If, as we believe the jury could reasonably have found in an error-free trial, the police were lawfully in the Llaguno house when they asked David to whom he had lent his car, then whether he refused to answer their question, as the police say, or answered with the name of his brother's accomplice, as he says, the police (whether or not they knew that Garcia, the name David says he gave them, was the name of the accomplice--a matter on which the record is unclear) had grounds for arresting him on suspicion that he was an accomplice in the crimes they were investigating. He had already acknowledged that the car used in the crimes was his. The discrepancy between the registration in Vilma Llaguno's name and David Llaguno's claim of ownership was not explored at trial; but the police were not required to ignore David's claim of ownership just because the license-plate check had shown that the car was registered to someone else, though with the same last name. Cf. United States ex rel. Kirby v. Sturges, 510 F.2d 397, 401 (7th Cir.1975); 1 LaFave & Israel, supra, Sec. 3.3, at pp. 211-12.
"[A] policeman's on-the-scene assessment of probable cause provides legal justification for arresting a person suspected of crime, and for a brief period of detention to take the administrative steps incident to arrest. Once the suspect is in custody, however, the reasons that justify dispensing with the magistrate's neutral judgment evaporate." Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 113-14, 95 S.Ct. 854, 862-63, 43 L.Ed.2d 54 (1975). Although these words could be read to require that the arrested person be brought before a magistrate immediately upon arrival at the station house, instead they have been interpreted, consistently with language in the opinion contrasting "brief detention" after arrest, which is permitted, with "prolonged" or "extended" detention, which is not, see 420 U.S. at 114, 95 S.Ct. at 863, to allow some interval for booking the arrested person and completing other paperwork before presenting him to the magistrate. See, e.g., Bernard v. City of Palo Alto, 699 F.2d 1023, 1024-25 (9th Cir.1983) (per curiam).
It did not require 42 hours to book David Llaguno and complete other paperwork necessary for bringing him before the magistrate to determine whether there was probable cause to hold him. Magistrates were available throughout the period, and assistant state's attorneys twice told the police that there was insufficient evidence to place charges against David. The only reason for delay in bringing him before a magistrate was that the police hoped to build a case against David while he was in jail, and this is not a permissible reason for jailing someone indefinitely. It would inject an element alien to our system--imprisonment on suspicion, while the police look for evidence to confirm their suspicion. Of course the delay here was not indefinite, but it was almost two days; and with no better reason offered than that the police were still investigating David's possible involvement in the crimes of his brother, it was too long.
David Llaguno was thus entitled to a directed verdict that the defendants were liable for his being held in jail--at least beyond the brief period that would have been necessary to book him and bring him before a magistrate. The qualification is necessary to take care of the possibility that the police were lawfully in the house when they questioned David, so that his arrest, at least, was lawful. As we are about to see, the issue of the lawfulness of the entry will have to be retried. If the entry is found to have been unlawful, the issue may arise whether the police can use information obtained as a result of the entry--the fruit of unlawful conduct--to justify the arrest of David in this suit. The question would not be whether such information had to be excluded from evidence, as it would be in a criminal trial of David, see Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963). The applicability of the exclusionary rule in civil proceedings is a controversial issue, see, e.g., Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 3479, 3485-90, 82 L.Ed.2d 778 (1984); Tirado v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 689 F.2d 307, 309-15 (2d Cir.1982), unnecessary to resolve here. The exclusionary rule does not come into play until a search is found to have been illegal; the rule provides a sanction for an illegal search. The question here would be whether the arrest of David was legal because of what he told the police, even though they were able to question him only because they illegally entered the house where he lived. If he was coerced to respond to their questions, as he may very well have been, the information he gave could not be used to validate the arrest; but if he answered those questions voluntarily, it would be a jury question whether his decision to do so was an intervening cause which cut off the effect of the illegal entry.
The other plaintiffs, while not entitled to a directed verdict, are entitled to a new trial, because of cumulatively serious trial errors:
1. The entire instruction on probable cause was as follows: "[The jury must decide] whether the defendants reasonably believed that they had probable cause to enter the Llaguno house to arrest someone within it. What is a reasonable belief depends on the facts and circumstances within a defendant's knowledge. Probable cause to arrest exists if a reasonable person would have believed that a crime had been committed and that a person within the house had committed the offense." By defining "reasonable belief" solely in terms of the "facts and circumstances within a defendant's knowledge," the instruction deflects the reader (or hearer) from a central question: the reasonableness of the police in acting so hastily on the basis of their very limited knowledge, without investigating further. And the last sentence in the instruction implies that if the police had reason to think there might be one criminal in the house, they were automatically entitled to round up all of the occupants of the house, including young children who could not possibly be criminals.
We add that, on retrial, the instructions should emphasize the importance that the Fourth Amendment has been interpreted to place on having a magistrate make the judgment of probable cause. The burden of proof should be placed on the police to establish the existence of an emergency that prevented them from obtaining a warrant.
2. The judge gave an instruction on immunity: "The law allows a defendant to defend a charge of unconstitutional entry by claiming a good faith belief that, under the circumstances, it was reasonable to enter the Llaguno house without a warrant. The defendant also must prove that such good faith belief was reasonable." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818-19, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 2738-39, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982), decided before the trial of this case, held that the good-faith or qualified immunity of a civil rights defendant is not an issue for the jury, other than in exceptional circumstances not presented here. The issue of immunity as redefined in Harlow is whether when the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights the law appeared to authorize the defendant's misconduct. This is an issue of law, for the judge to decide. What the defendant believed, an issue of fact, is neither here nor there. The good sense of Harlow in withdrawing the issue of immunity from the jury is particularly evident in a case such as this, where the police are charged with having acted without probable cause. The question whether they had probable cause depends on what they reasonably believed with reference to the facts that confronted them, as the judge instructed in the passage we quoted earlier. To go on and instruct the jury further that even if the police acted without probable cause they should be exonerated if they reasonably (though erroneously) believed that they were acting reasonably is to confuse the jury and give the defendants two bites at the apple.
3 & 4. The judge told the jury that in evaluating the defendants' behavior it should "not use 20/20 hindsight," and "should consider the responsibility of the police to prevent crime, apprehend criminals, and to safeguard persons and property from criminal actions." These instructions were not wrong in the sense of stating untruths, but they were gratuitous and prejudicial. The term "20/20 hindsight" is a derisory expression for an ex post facto judgment. The plaintiffs were entitled to ask the jury to make such a judgment, evaluating the conduct of the police long after the fact. And to remind the jury, quite unnecessarily one would have thought, that the police are responsible for protecting the public safety is to place the judge's thumb on the balance in favor of a class of defendants already regarded sympathetically by most jurors. Cf. Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325, 342, 103 S.Ct. 1108, 1119, 75 L.Ed.2d 96 (1983); Darbin v. Nourse, 664 F.2d 1109, 1115 (9th Cir.1981).
5. Over the plaintiffs' objections the judge allowed the defense to dwell in obsessive detail on the crimes that the police were investigating when they entered the Llagunos' home--to bring out such facts as that the number of wounds of some of the victims and the caliber of the gun used on them could not be determined because the wounds were so "massive," that a person had come running out of the tavern where the second robbery had taken place screaming "Oh God, they killed--they killed her, they killed her," and that a victim's "hand was cold and she was already starting to change color." These details were not irrelevant, because they helped to show the danger that the police were up against. But dwelt on in such detail they may have turned the jurors against the plaintiffs--who are, after all, the killer's close relatives, including his parents and brother. The judge should have found that the danger of unfair prejudice clearly outweighed the probative value of this evidence. Fed.R.Evid. 403.
We need not decide whether any one of these errors would warrant reversal in and of itself, or even whether all together would warrant reversal in a different kind of case. But bearing in mind that civil rights actions often pit unsympathetic plaintiffs--criminals, or members of the criminal class (even--in this case--a multiple murderer's parents and brother)--against the guardians of the community's safety, yet serve an essential deterrent function especially at a time like this when the exclusionary rule is being narrowed (see United States v. Leon, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984)), we take a serious view of trial errors that consistently favor the defendants in such a case. The fact that the jury brought in a judgment for the defendants even with respect to David Llaguno's complaint of unlawful detention suggests that the jury was indeed swayed by the errors.
The appellants make other complaints about the conduct of the trial that are not well taken. But for the reasons we have explained, the district court's judgment must be reversed and the case remanded with instructions to enter judgment for David Llaguno on Count VII and to grant the plaintiffs a new trial on all the other counts (plus a trial on Count VII limited to damages). Costs in this court to appellants.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Having closely reviewed the facts of this case, I am compelled to agree with Judge Wood that plaintiffs' motion for a directed verdict on the issue of probable cause should have been granted and therefore join his vigorous dissent. I also believe that serious trial errors, particularly involving the jury instructions, occurred below, and that such errors alone do not permit a verdict for the police officers to stand in a Section 1983 case. Although in my view the probable cause issue never should have reached the jury, I cannot disagree with the position expressed in Judge Posner's opinion that, assuming a valid jury question was presented on that issue, plaintiffs are entitled to a new trial, and therefore join in his discussion of trial errors and concur in his decision to remand for a new trial. I also concur in his disposition of Count VII.
COFFEY, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part.1
I concur with the majority's analysis that the forty-two hour detention of James David Llaguno, without a determination of probable cause, violates the constitutional standards of the Fourth Amendment as set forth in Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 114, 95 S.Ct. 854, 863, 43 L.Ed.2d 54 (1975). I also concur with the majority's result, though not its reasoning, that the presence of exigent circumstances and probable cause to enter the Llaguno home without a warrant were factual matters to be resolved by the jury. I strongly dissent, however, from the majority's erroneous conclusion that the district court committed trial errors sufficient to remand this case for a new trial.
According to the evidence introduced at trial, on January 7, 1980, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Detective James Troken and Officer Joseph Fallon, of the Chicago Police Department ("CPD"), received a police radio call that gun shots had been fired near the intersection of Wabansia Avenue and Whipple Avenue, in the City of Chicago, Illinois. The officers immediately proceeded to that location and, upon arrival, Detective Troken was directed to a corner grocery store where he observed three people lying on the ground, all of whom had been shot in the face and brutally murdered. According to Detective Troken, "[d]ue to the massive head wounds to the face area, it was impossible to tell how many [wounds] or what type of wound it was." Officer Fallon remained outside the store and began questioning bystanders concerning the shootings. Three male Hispanics stated that they had seen "a light-colored, four-door Ford, [with] primer on the door, and ... on the trunk." The car "pull[ed] up to the corner of Wabansia and Whipple. Two [Latino] men got out [and] went into the grocery store. One man stayed in the car." According to the three eyewitnesses, "they heard shots fired, and the two male Latinos who were going to the grocery store ... got in the car and left the scene." Following receipt of this information, Officers Troken and Fallon immediately began to search the surrounding area for the suspected murderers' automobile.
At approximately 8:00 p.m., while still conducting their search for the suspected murderers' vehicle, the officers heard a police radio broadcast that another armed robbery was in progress at 1858 West Wabansia Avenue. The officers, who were already "in the area," sped to the tavern located at that address and, upon arrival, questioned a female bartender. She explained that "two Puerto Ricans, male Puerto Ricans entered her tavern, ordered two bottles of Old Style, ... announced a stick-up and started firing with their weapons." The officers discovered that the bartender had been wounded in the hip and that another woman had been shot in the face and violently murdered. In addition, Officer Fallon interviewed an eyewitness who stated that he had "seen a light-colored Ford with two male Latinos go up to the corner of Wolcott and Wabansia, and they exited the car and went into the tavern." According to the eyewitness, the two male Latinos left "the bar after [he] had heard shots, ... with a young ten- or twelve-year-old female, girl, white girl...." The eyewitness added that the suspects' automobile was a "light-colored Ford, four-door with primer on the door and the trunk." Officers Fallon and Troken received a partial license plate identification number of the vehicle from another eyewitness and then returned to police headquarters where they informed a Sergeant Mingey of the information they had obtained. Following this meeting with their sergeant, Officers Fallon and Troken began a search of the CPD's license plate and vehicle registration files in an attempt to determine the owner of the automobile in question.
At approximately 9:15 p.m., Sergeant Mingey radioed Officers Troken and Fallon to join him at the intersection of North Avenue and Oakley Avenue. Upon their arrival, the officers observed "a school bus parked on Oakley just north of North Avenue, with one of the windows apparently shot out, a squad car with one of the windows shot out, and ... a light-colored, four-door Ford with primer on the trunk and primer on the door." Mingey informed Officer Troken that:
"another police vehicle had spotted the car because it was simulcast that we were looking for a Ford, four-door with primer marks, possibly with a female white youth in the back seat. There was allegedly a chase and there were shots fired. A police officer was wounded. One of the passengers--or one of the occupants of the vehicle wanted was wounded and other people had escaped."
The officers agreed that the vehicle "involved in this particular incident was the one used in ... the other two homicide-robberies." A check of the license plate number revealed that the light-colored Ford automobile was not reported stolen and was, in fact, registered to "[a] person by the name of Llaguno, 3852 West Wabansia," an address within the "proximity" of the four murders, the two armed robberies, the child kidnapping, the high-speed auto chase, and the police shoot-out.
The foregoing facts reveal that within a two-and-one-half-hour period, two young male Hispanics, one operating and one a passenger in a light-colored Ford registered to a Llaguno at 3852 West Wabansia, shot and violently murdered four people, shot and wounded at least two others (including a police officer), committed two armed robberies, kidnapped a female child, attempted to flee police officers in a high-speed chase through the streets of west Chicago, engaged in a shoot-out with police officers within the "proximity" of the Llaguno residence, and fled from the scene of the shoot-out on foot. According to the facts then and there available to the police officers, the light-colored Ford auto, with primer on the trunk and door and a partial license identification, fit the description of the suspected murderers' vehicle; the vehicle was not reported stolen; the fleeing suspects were young Hispanics; and the vehicle was registered to a Llaguno (an Hispanic surname) at 3852 West Wabansia Avenue. Furthermore, the four murders, the two armed robberies, the child kidnapping, the high-speed auto chase, and the police shoot-out occurred within the "proximity" of the Llaguno residence; the suspects fled from the scene of the shoot-out on foot; and the CPD officers were well aware of the fact that fleeing felons often retreat to the sanctuary of their own home. Sergeant Mingey made a well-reasoned judgment that because of the gravity of the underlying offenses and the fact that the crazed murderers were still at large, he could not afford to wait the "[a]pproximately three hours" it takes to obtain a search warrant or the "[a]pproximately two hours, give or take another hour" it takes to obtain an arrest warrant. Mingey stated that "[t]here were too many people that were already killed and wounded and I had to put an end to it. We had to stop it." Thus, Sergeant Mingey proceeded to the Llaguno residence without first securing a search or arrest warrant, not only endangering his own life but also the lives of his fellow officers, in order to protect the public from the murderers at large. Sergeant Mingey immediately entered his squad car and traveled with Officers William Connors and Joseph Sparks to police headquarters, obtained a sledge-hammer and shotgun, and returned to the Llaguno residence at 3852 West Wabansia where he met Officers Fallon and Troken. Mingey, Connors, and Sparks approached the front door of the Llaguno household while Fallon and Troken positioned themselves at the rear of the residence. Sergeant Mingey banged on the door stating, "Police. Open or we will break it down." Gloria Llaguno opened the front door and the CPD officers, armed with guns, entered the home, searching the main floor, upstairs, and basement levels for "a male Latin [sic] in his twenties by the the name of Llaguno."
The issue before this court is whether we will approve the jury's finding that the CPD officers had probable cause and were presented with sufficient exigent circumstances to enter the Llaguno home without a warrant. The parties agree that the applicable law in this case is the Supreme Court's holding in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 100 S.Ct. 1371, 63 L.Ed.2d 639 (1980) ("Payton"), that the warrantless, nonconsensual entry into a home to effect an arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In effect, the Court in Payton decided that "warrantless felony arrests in the home are prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, absent probable cause and exigent circumstances." Welsh v. Wisconsin, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 2091, 2097 (1984). According to this court's reasoning in United States v. Acevedo, 627 F.2d 68 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1021, 101 S.Ct. 587, 66 L.Ed.2d 482 (1980), exigent circumstances are present when "the exceedingly strong privacy interest in one's residence is outweighed by the risk that delay will engender injury, destruction of evidence, or escape." 627 F.2d at 70. I further note that "an important factor to be considered when determining whether any exigency exists is the gravity of the underlying offense for which the arrest is being made." Welsh v. Wisconsin, 104 S.Ct. at 2099 (emphasis added).
In the present case, the suspected felons, within a two-and-one-half-hour time span, violently murdered four people, wounded at least two others, committed two armed robberies, kidnapped a female child, attempted to flee police officers in a high-speed auto chase through the streets of west Chicago, engaged in a shoot-out with those same police officers, and then fled from the scene of the shoot-out on foot in near "proximity" to the Llaguno residence. Sergeant Mingey testified that it would have taken three hours to obtain a search warrant and anywhere between one and three hours to obtain an arrest warrant. Common sense, logic, and the past experiences of well-trained law enforcement officers dictate that a delay of this magnitude, given the fact that the murderers were armed and still at large, would have exposed members of the public, as well as police officers in the area, to a greater threat of severe injury, danger, and possible death. Moreover, if the officers had surrounded the Llaguno residence in a stake-out and waited to obtain a warrant before entering the home, this inactivity would have allowed the suspected murderers to rearm and reestablish themselves in preparation for a possible second shoot-out with police. The element of surprise is of the utmost importance when dealing with a highly volatile arrest situation of this nature. Sergeant Mingey had no time to engage in the mental gymnastics suggested by the majority, speculating as to the risk of delay and the severity of the harm that would occur if such a risk materialized. Indeed, an academic analysis of this nature would be desirable, if possible, but in the everyday world of law enforcement, officers are all too frequently assaulted, maimed, and killed in the line of duty. For example, in 1983, eighty law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty and another 62,324 were assaulted. U.S. Department of Justice, Uniform Crime Reports: Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 3, 39 (1983). The legal analysis suggested by the majority is impossible in the split-second determinations that a law enforcement officer is called upon to make in a life-threatening situation. It takes days, weeks, and sometimes even months for judges to reach a proper conclusion on the issue of exigent circumstances, thus we cannot require a "cop in the heat of battle" to completely withdraw himself from a life-threatening situation in order to ponder and weigh all of the variables involved. In light of the egregious facts presented in this case, it was certainly proper for the jury to find that exigent circumstances existed to justify the warrantless entry into the Llaguno home.
The next issue is whether the CPD officers had probable cause, combined with the exigent circumstances then and there existing, to enter the Llaguno home without a warrant. The officers' clear intent in entering the household at 3852 West Wabansia was to arrest a young male Hispanic in his twenties by the name of Llaguno, the prime suspect in four violent murders, two armed robberies, a child kidnapping, a high-speed auto chase, and a police shoot-out that had occurred within the "proximity" of the Llaguno home. According to the Supreme Court in Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 85 S.Ct. 223, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964), probable cause to make a warrantless arrest exists if "the facts and circumstances within [the policemen's] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [suspect] had committed or was committing an offense." 379 U.S. at 91, 85 S.Ct. at 225-26 (citing Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98, 102, 80 S.Ct. 168, 171, 4 L.Ed.2d 134 (1959); Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175-76, 69 S.Ct. 1302, 1310-11, 93 L.Ed. 1879 (1949)). See also Dunaway v. New York, 442 U.S. 200, 208 n. 9, 99 S.Ct. 2248, 2254 n. 9, 60 L.Ed.2d 824 (1979); Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 162, 45 S.Ct. 280, 288, 69 L.Ed.2d 543 (1925). Probable cause "is a fluid concept--turning on the assessment of probabilities in particular factual contexts--not readily, or even usefully, reduced to a neat set of legal rules." Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2328-29, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983). Thus, "[i]n dealing with probable cause, ... as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act." Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. at 175, 69 S.Ct. at 1310. See also Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. at 231, 103 S.Ct. at 2328; Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. at 121, 95 S.Ct. at 866-867; United States v. Covelli, 738 F.2d 847, 853 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 211, 83 L.Ed.2d 141 (1984); United States v. Watson, 587 F.2d 365, 368 (7th Cir.1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1132, 99 S.Ct. 1055, 59 L.Ed.2d 95 (1979). In making a determination of probable cause, "the relevant inquiry is not whether particular conduct is 'innocent' or 'guilty,' but the degree of suspicion that attaches to particular types of noncriminal acts." Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. at 244 n. 13, 103 S.Ct. at 2335 n. 13.
In the present case, it was reasonable for the well-trained and experienced CPD officers to believe, based upon the available facts, circumstances, and information, that the armed and dangerous fleeing felon was a young Hispanic in his twenties by the name of Llaguno, residing at 3852 West Wabansia. The officers knew that the light-colored Ford automobile, with two distinct primer spots and a partial license identification, was registered to a Llaguno at this very address. The officers further knew, after checking their registration files, that the vehicle had not been reported stolen. Thus, it was reasonable to believe that Llaguno was operating the automobile. The officers were aware of the fact that Llaguno is an Hispanic surname, thereby corroborating the eyewitness descriptions of the fleeing felons as Hispanics. The officers also had knowledge of the fact that the four violent murders, the two armed robberies, the child kidnapping, the automobile chase, and the police shoot-out occurred within the "proximity" of the Llaguno residence and that the armed suspects had fled on foot. The well-trained and experienced officers agreed that fleeing felons often retreat to the familiar confines of their own home, especially when fleeing on foot and the home is within the nearby vicinity. Based upon these facts and circumstances, the police officers certainly had "reason to believe the suspect [was] within" the premises of the Llaguno home at 3852 West Wabansia Avenue. Payton, 445 U.S. at 603, 100 S.Ct. at 1388-1389. Moreover, the CPD officers had sufficient facts "to warrant a prudent man in believing" that a male Hispanic in his twenties by the name of Llaguno, residing at 3852 West Wabansia Avenue, had committed a crime. Thus, unlike four members of this court, I am convinced that the CPD officers had sufficient facts to obtain an arrest warrant from a neutral magistrate, if time had permitted. See, e.g., Powe v. City of Chicago, 664 F.2d 639, 647 (7th Cir.1981) (suspect's nickname and address sufficient to obtain arrest warrant). Accordingly, the jury was entitled to find, as it did, that the CPD officers had probable cause to enter the Llaguno home without a warrant.
Rather than end the analysis at this point, and allow the jury verdict to stand, the majority erroneously asserts that the plaintiffs (except James David Llaguno) "are entitled to a new trial, because of cumulatively serious trial errors." I strongly disagree with the majority's needless venture into the valley of speculation. The majority initially claims that language from the probable cause jury instruction--"reasonable belief depends on the facts and circumstances within a defendant's knowledge"--is improper because it "deflects the reader (or hearer) from a central question: the reasonableness of the police in acting so hastily on the basis of their very limited knowledge, without investigating further." The majority errs for two reasons. First, this instruction states verbatim the well-settled standard of probable cause needed for a warrantless arrest, as set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. at 91, 85 S.Ct. at 225-226. Secondly, the majority confuses the issue of exigent circumstances with the issue of probable cause. The necessity for immediate police action in this case stems solely from the fact that officers were presented with an extremely dangerous, highly volatile, and life-threatening situation. Within a two-and-one-half-hour period, two armed suspects had violently murdered four people, wounded two others, committed two armed robberies, kidnapped a female child, and engaged in a shoot-out with police. The officers could not afford the risk of another shoot-out and the loss of additional innocent lives while waiting to obtain a warrant. In view of this crisis, the CPD officers properly decided to make an immediate entry into the Llaguno home without securing a warrant or waiting to obtain additional information. The officers' decision to act immediately is an issue completely separate and apart from the question of probable cause--whether the CPD officers, at the time they entered the Llaguno home, had reason to believe, based upon the facts and circumstances within their knowledge, that a male Hispanic in his twenties by the name of Llaguno, residing at 3852 West Wabansia, had committed a crime. In considering this issue of probable cause, the jury was not to speculate as to how the police officers may have acted differently in a routine arrest situation, rather the jury was required to determine whether the officers, under the factual circumstances then and there existing, had probable cause to enter the Llaguno home. Thus, the district court properly instructed the jury that they need only consider the facts and circumstances available to the police officers, at the time they decided to enter the Llaguno household, in order to resolve the issue of probable cause.
The majority further asserts that the district court erred in instructing the jury that:
"The law allows a defendant to defend a charge of unconstitutional entry by claiming a good faith belief that, under the circumstances, it was reasonable to enter the Llaguno house without a warrant."
According to this good faith immunity instruction, even if the jury found that the defendants entered the Llaguno home without probable cause and exigent circumstances, the jury could still find for the defendants if the officers reasonably believed, in good faith, that the entry was lawful. This instruction complies with the Supreme Court's ruling in Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547, 87 S.Ct. 1213, 18 L.Ed.2d 288 (1967) ( "Pierson " ), that if the jury in a section 1983 lawsuit finds "the officers reasonably believed in good faith that the arrest was constitutional, then a verdict for the officers would follow even though the arrest was in fact unconstitutional." 386 U.S. at 557, 87 S.Ct. at 1219. See also Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 245, 94 S.Ct. 1683, 1691, 40 L.Ed.2d 90 (1974). Since the Supreme Court's decision in Pierson, it is settled law that police officers are entitled to a "qualified immunity from liability [under section 1983] for acts done on the basis of an objectively reasonable belief that those acts were lawful." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 639, 100 S.Ct. 1920, 1923, 64 L.Ed.2d 572 (1980). See also Procunier v. Navarette, 434 U.S. 555, 561, 98 S.Ct. 855, 859, 55 L.Ed.2d 24 (1978).
In Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982) ( "Harlow " ), the Supreme Court clarified the "objective reasonableness" test, stating that:
"qualified immunity would be defeated if an official 'knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the [plaintiff], or if he took the action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury....' "
457 U.S. at 815, 102 S.Ct. at 2737 (emphasis original) (quoting Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308, 322, 95 S.Ct. 992, 1001, 43 L.Ed.2d 214 (1975)). The Court added that:
"On summary judgment, the judge appropriately may determine, not only the currently applicable law, but whether that law was clearly established at the time an action occurred. If the law at that time was not clearly established, an official could not reasonably be expected to anticipate subsequent legal developments, nor could he fairly be said to 'know' that the law forbade conduct not previously identified as unlawful.... If the law was clearly established, the immunity defense ordinarily should fail, since a reasonably competent public official should know the law governing his conduct. Nevertheless, if the official pleading the defense claims extraordinary circumstances and can prove that he neither knew nor should have known of the relevant legal standard, the defense should be sustained. But again, the defense would turn primarily on objective factors."
457 U.S. at 818-19, 102 S.Ct. at 2738-39 (footnote omitted). Based upon the foregoing language in Harlow, the majority erroneously asserts that the affirmative defense of qualified immunity "is not an issue for the jury, other than in exceptional circumstances not presented here."
In the present case, the parties agree as to the applicable law--a warrantless felony arrest in a home is violative of the Fourth Amendment, absent probable cause and exigent circumstances. In view of the Supreme Court's decision in Payton, this rule of warrantless arrests is "clearly established law," however, the related concept of probable cause is, at best, amorphous. Indeed, this case vividly demonstrates the differing legal views of probable cause. The original panel, as well as four judges on the en banc panel, believe that the CPD officers lacked probable cause to enter the Llaguno home, as a matter of law, see Llaguno v. Mingey, 739 F.2d 1186, 1190-94 (7th Cir.1984), but the majority now holds that there are sufficient facts "to allow a reasonable jury to conclude that the police had probable cause to enter the house." Despite this clear difference of opinion, the majority asserts that under Harlow, the affirmative defense of good faith immunity is a question of law for the district court to decide, not a question of fact to be resolved by the jury. I find the majority's position to be unsound. The distinguished members of this court cannot even agree on the existence of probable cause in this case, yet the majority instructs the district court to decide, for purposes of this section 1983 lawsuit, whether the law of probable cause was clearly established at the time the police officers entered the Llaguno home and, if so, whether the officers knew or reasonably should have known of that law. From my vantage point, this is an improper burden to place upon the district court.
The majority acknowledges that the issue of probable cause in this section 1983 lawsuit is a question of fact for the jury because "there is room for a difference of opinion." So too, there is room for a difference of opinion on the issue of whether the actions of the CPD officers conformed to the standard of "objective reasonableness" as set forth by the Supreme Court in Harlow. Thus, the issue of good faith immunity in this case is a question of fact for the jury to decide. See, e.g., Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc., 754 F.2d 1336, 1347-48 (7th Cir.1985) (opinion of Coffey, J.); Bledsoe v. Garcia, 742 F.2d 1237, 1239-40 (10th Cir.1984); Bilbrey by Bilbrey v. Brown, 738 F.2d 1462, 1466-67 (9th Cir.1984); B.C.R. Transport Co. v. Fontaine, 727 F.2d 7, 10-11 (1st Cir.1984). But see Trejo v. Perez, 693 F.2d 482, 486-88 (5th Cir.1982). The majority asserts that a jury instruction on the issue of good faith immunity will "give the defendants two bites at the apple." I believe that this is the intent of the immunity instruction--to protect law enforcement officers who act in a reasonably objective manner while, at the same time, safeguarding the constitutional rights of our citizens to be free from unwarranted intrusions into their homes. After all, police officers are often called upon to make split-second judgments, when reacting to dangerous criminals' all too frequent fatal assaults. The job of a police officer in protecting members of the public is an extremely difficult task which will be made far more burdensome by the threatened imposition of liability for mistakes in instantaneous judgments that we as judges often take days, weeks, and even months to ponder. See Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bur. of Narc., 456 F.2d 1339, 1349 (2d Cir.1972), on remand, see 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971) (Lumbard, J., concurring). Accordingly, I am convinced that it was proper to instruct the jury on the CPD officers' good faith immunity defense.
The majority next claims that it was error to instruct the jury:
"Now ladies and gentlemen, in a sense, we are here in the neutrality and in the detachment of the courtroom. However, what you must do in the jury room is not use 20/20 hindsight, but put yourselves in the position of these plaintiffs and these defendants at the time that the incidents occurred, and that takes the combined efforts of all of you."
The record reveals that this directive was an informal summary instruction given to the jury before a formal recitation of the written instructions. The instruction accurately informs the jury that it is to consider the actions of the plaintiffs and the defendants at the time the incident occurred. Indeed, the standard is what a well-trained law enforcement officer of ordinary intelligence, prudence, and judgment would have done in the position of the defendant officers under the facts and circumstances then and their existing at the time of the entry into the house without a warrant. See, e.g., Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. at 91, 85 S.Ct. at 225-26; Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. at 175-76, 69 S.Ct. at 1310-11; Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. at 162, 45 S.Ct. at 288. I disagree with the majority that the district court judge's prefatory remarks were in any way "gratuitous and prejudicial."
The majority further claims that the district court erred in instructing the jury that:
"Probable cause to arrest James David Llaguno existed if, based on the objective facts and circumstances of this case, a person would have reasonably believed that the plaintiff was committing or had committed a criminal act. An assessment of the reasonableness of a defendant's conduct in making the arrest should consider the responsibility of the police to prevent crime, apprehend criminals, and to safeguard persons and property from criminal actions."
The facts of this case reveal that James David Llaguno was a young male Hispanic in his twenties who was present at the Llaguno home when the police entered. Based upon the fact that James admitted to the police that he owned the light-colored, four-door Ford registered to a Llaguno at 3852 West Wabansia Avenue and the fact that he fit the description of a young male Hispanic in his twenties by the name of Llaguno, residing at 3852 West Wabansia Avenue, the police arrested James. The record further reveals that no charges were ever brought against James for the events that transpired in the "proximity" of the Llaguno home on the evening of January 7, 1980. Thus, the section 1983 lawsuit included a claim that the CPD officers unlawfully arrested James.
The district court judge properly instructed the jury members that when considering James' claim of unlawful arrest, they should review the facts available to the CPD officers at the time of the arrest, not the facts that occurred subsequent to that arrest (i.e. James' release without charge). According to the facts presented to the CPD officers, within a two-and-one-half-hour period, two young male Hispanics about twenty years of age, in a light-colored Ford registered to a Llaguno at 3852 West Wabansia, violently murdered four people, wounded two others, committed two armed robberies, kidnapped a female child, attempted to flee police in a high-speed auto chase, engaged in a shoot-out with police within the "proximity" of the Llaguno home, and fled from the shootout scene on foot. The police officers were faced with a volatile and dangerous situation that called for immediate action in order to prevent more needless deaths and serious injury to innocent members of the public and the police force. The jury was required to consider the very real threat to members of the public as well as the CPD officers' duty to respond immediately to the grave situation at hand. I fail to understand how the district court judge's accurate instruction is analogous to placing a "thumb on the balance in favor of [the] ... defendants," and I believe the majority's comment to that effect is completely uncalled for in light of the evidence in this record.
The majority finally asserts that the district court erred in allowing the defendants to "dwell in obsessive detail on the crimes that the police were investigating when they entered the Llagunos' home." On this point, the majority fails to adequately review the record. The plaintiffs filed a motion in limine to "bar evidence regarding the details of the crimes that the defendants were investigating." The judge ruled that the defendants could "go into objective facts, but not ... editorialize or characterize the facts." The judge added that "I will let you prove [the officers'] state of mind based on objective facts." During trial, the judge informed the jury that "an issue in a case such as this is the state of mind of the investigating officers. For that purpose, I permit a description of the objective facts." A thorough review of the record reveals that the district court judge meticulously held the defendants to this standard and when they crossed the line, the judge admonished the jury. For example, the judge stated on one occasion:
"The last comment by the officer that this was the most heinous crime he had ever seen should be disregarded by you. That is not an objective fact. You are required to listen to the objective facts, not to any characterization of those facts."
It is well-settled that "the balancing of probative value and prejudice is committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge and we are obligated to give great deference to the evidentiary ruling of the trial court." United States v. Baskes, 649 F.2d 471, 481 (7th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1000, 101 S.Ct. 1706, 68 L.Ed.2d 201 (1981). See also United States v. Taylor, 728 F.2d 864, 871 (7th Cir.1984). The district court judge was in the best position to determine the prejudicial impact of the officers' crime scene descriptions and the judge's admission of objective facts, when viewed in the context of the trial as a whole, does not rise to the level of an abuse of discretion.
In accord with the foregoing analysis, I would affirm the jury's verdict in favor of the defendant police officers and hold that under the facts and circumstances known to the officers, they had probable cause and were presented with sufficient exigent circumstances to enter the Llaguno household without a warrant.
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge, with whom CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, join, dissenting in part and concurring in part.
The essence of Judge Posner's opinion, as I read it, is simply that when you are short on probable cause you can make up that shortage by adding exigent circumstances. I cannot accept that dangerous, unnecessary, and indefinable blending of two separate and useful traditional concepts in order to justify a warrantless search of a private home at night. The bad factual circumstances in this case are leading us to bad law for future cases.
To build the issue into even a "close line" jury question between reasonable and unreasonable police behavior the opinion indulges in one obvious speculation after another with even a little help from Chekhov. If this court is to indulge in that kind of speculation as a basis for an opinion we are setting a bad precedent for the police whose exigent circumstance imaginations to avoid magistrates will now be given free rein; and juries will be invited to do the same when it is their turn.
If, as the opinion holds, exigencies can substitute for probable cause, we are in effect sanctioning warrantless nighttime home entries for which no warrant would have been issued if one had been sought from a judicial officer. This is clearly an anomalous and untoward result. It seems to me that you have to concede that probable cause in the traditional sense is lacking in this case, and that a magistrate would not have authorized the search warrant. This is why the majority needs to invent this new blended warrantless search concept.
There is no dispute about the actual hard facts. On that factual basis I believe as the original majority did that the issue is ripe for a legal finding of no probable cause. If a jury were to find otherwise, the verdict should be set aside. Perhaps if we were just sending this case back to a jury to make the probable cause decision properly instructed in traditional search terms I would not object so strongly. However, the jury will now have to be instructed with this new "mix-it-all-up-together" rule invented in this case. We will be headed into trackless legal underbrush. A person should be more secure in his home than that.
I had not thought it necessary until now to defend the revered privacy of a person's home from warrantless nighttime police searches. To cross another person's threshold at night without a warrant should still require sufficient showing of both probable cause and exigent circumstances. This view finds support in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 587-88, 100 S.Ct. 1371, 1380-1381, 63 L.Ed.2d 639 (1980) and its progeny Welsh v. Wisconsin, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 2091, 2097, 80 L.Ed.2d 732 (1984). Payton established that probable cause to believe a felony suspect was in a private residence is not sufficient to justify a warrantless, in-home entry. Exigent circumstances are also necessary. There is no intimation in Payton, in its progeny Welsh, or in any other case I have found involving in-home, warrantless entries that exigencies can substitute for, or allow the relaxation of, the probable cause requirement. As the Court said in Whiteley v. Warden, 401 U.S. 560, 566, 91 S.Ct. 1031, 1035-36, 28 L.Ed.2d 306 (1971), "[l]ess stringent standards for reviewing the officer's discretion in effecting a warrantless arrest and search would discourage resort to the procedures for obtaining a warrant. Thus the standards applicable to the factual basis supporting the officer's probable-cause assessment at the time of the challenged arrest and search are at least as stringent as the standards applied with respect to the magistrate's assessment."
However, all that aside, even if I were to embrace this new probable cause-exigent circumstances mix, which I do not, I would find the circumstances in this case, as bad as this murderous rampage was, to be somewhat less urgent than the opinion pictures them. After all a magistrate was in fact available. That is not unusual in metropolitan areas where police crises are common at night. The policemen who drove back to their headquarters to pick up the shotgun and the sledgehammer to force their way into the home would have been better advised to have gone to see the magistrate and let some other policemen, of which there was no shortage, pick up that equipment in case it might be needed. When the police rushed through the front door of the home with drawn guns and herded together all ten occupants, including children, there were at least six officers already at the scene, and others could have been summoned. It can be argued that a little calmer approach might have been advisable. The home could have been watched and a safe strategy devised while a magistrate was consulted. If the felon was actually in the home there was no reason to believe he would take his own family hostage and sacrifice them. Experience has demonstrated negotiations are possible and often successful even in extreme situations. Sometimes the macho urge to charge is more dangerous and ill-advised than a more thoughtful consideration of the situation. The police were still in the home when the missing felon was apprehended elsewhere. The whole bad home scene could have been avoided. The judgment of a judicial officer was needed and there was time and reason to do it right. The fight against crime will be aided, not deterred, by holding fast to traditional democratic and common law principles. To do otherwise is to sanction vigilantes in blue.
Therefore, I respectfully dissent from Judge Posner's disposition of the unlawful entry charge, but I concur in the disposition of David Llaguno's unlawful detention charge.
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, dissenting:
Although Judge Posner has graphically described the very real dilemma facing the police and the hard choices which they confront under these dangerous and extraordinary circumstances, the considerations cited by Judge Wood must ultimately be controlling for me. There are extremely compelling reasons for leaving a case like this one to a jury verdict but the even more fundamental reasons advanced by Judge Wood for not doing so must in the end prevail. I therefore concur fully in Judge Wood's opinion.
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Collection consists of approximately 400 maps from USC's Population Research Laboratory, donated by Professor Maurice D. Van Arsdol in 1998. The maps include much of the work done by Emory Bogardus and his students, as well as that of Van Arsdol and his students, and range from 1935 to 1980.
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“Well I can’t quite believe it has been a whole year since I was sat down typing my review of 2015, but after what has been a bit of a topsy turvy year with the odd injury thrown in between plenty of ups and downs I’m very pleased with what has been achieved across a range of disciplines on a variety of horses, some rather big for little me!
I’m going to do my review a little bit differently this year and instead of going through our results and other shenanigans that have gone on I’m going to do a review of each horses year…..hope you enjoy reading it 🙂
Before I look back over what super things my three girls have achieved I just want to mention the other fantastic horses that I’ve been lucky enough to ride this year. Back in March I began riding a horse for a client/friend as she just didn’t have the time to keep him competition fit. Icarus was a rather big horse for me to ride but we quickly built up a great relationship and had great fun out at some local competitions, picking up wins at both SJ And indoor XC as well as some Riding Club events.
Another horse I was asked to ride was a lovely homebred mare owned by Mrs. Marietta Fox-Pitt called Snow Leopardess. This super mare is only 4 years old but has already got a fantastic race record behind her. To add a bit more experience to her belt Marietta asked if I would mind riding her in the Sport Horse Breeding Young Sports Horse class at the Kent County show at the beginning of July. It was all very exciting and after some acrobatic displays she calmed down slightly and the judge soon liked us and we finished 4th out of 7 competitors which we were all very pleased with!
WKD San Remo
After finishing the 2015 event season in flying form and having a short break I couldn’t wait to get cracking with Diaz to see what 2016 had in store for us! We started the year off with jumping plenty of double clears at British Show Jumping competitions…..if only we’d registered here and we could have won some of our entries fee back! As we approached the start of the event season I thought we’d better get to a dressage show and see how our flat work training we’d done over the winter had worked. Answer was very well; we scored 70.54% to finish in 2nd place in Novice 27. One more SJ competition before our first event and Diaz flew around the 95cm and 105cm classes finishing 3rd and 1st respectively jumping two super double clears!
We started the 2016 eventing season off at BE90 level and Diaz was on cracking form jumping double clears inside the time at our first two events of the season and with dressage scores in the low 30’s we finished 6th at Munstead and then 5th at Goring Heath.
On to Chilham Park at the beginning of May and after such a great start we upped our game and entered the BE100 class which is quite a tough XC track at Chilham, not that it was a problem for Diaz as she jumped another super double just adding some XC time faults to our great dressage score of 32.3 to put us just out of the placings!
We also did the Riding Club Intermediate Qualifier Horse Trials in May and jumped another super confident XC round at the bigger height to finish in 7th place in our arena.
Next was Tweseldown BE100 and Diaz’s confident XC rounds continued with another super clear inside the time! Unfortunately a ‘cheeky Diaz’ moment in the SJ meant we finished out of the places but I was very pleased with her XC round!
Next was Stratford Hills and despite the trek there it is always a lovely event with a tough XC which I felt Diaz was ready for. We picked up a PB in the dressage, a very unlucky 4 faults SJ followed by our first 20 penalties of the season. She didn’t deserve it at all though; she tripped on landing when dropping of the step at fence 4 and just couldn’t get her balance back to jump the skinny at fence B!
Unfortunately this was to be our last event of the 2016 season. We are not sure if it was from a silly 5 minutes in the fields but she just wasn’t her usual cheeky happy self for a while and after a visit from the vet we were sent on to Liphook Veterinary Hospital were Diaz spent a few days. Various tests, x-rays and scans were done and despite a bleak initial prognosis the vets soon changed opinions and she was home a few days later looking much more her usual happy self which was nice to see.
After a few months in the field chilling Diaz is now starting to come back into work but with a full time job and two other horses it is such a struggle to fit it all in! I’ve been on her already and as the office I work in is closed between Christmas and New Year I’m looking forward to getting back behind her cheeky little ears soon, even if they are very fluffy at the moment! She looks a bit like a fat fluffy pony 🙂
Due to picking up an injury towards the end of 2015, Milli spent the first few months of 2016 stuck in the stable on box rest, not that Milli minded spending the chilly days tucked up nice and warm in the stable with unlimited access to food though! As the days started to get longer and the weather picked up Milli started to come back into work. It was so nice to be back on her and she was feeling great so I couldn’t wait to get her back out competing.
As we got into June she was fit and ready to get back out competing and after 4 faults in the first class due to pure excitement Milli went on to win the Discovery class at Cobham Manor BS.
Keen to get some more double clears under our belts we went out the next weekend in June, this time to Pachesham Equestrian Centre. Discovery was first and Milli was absolutely flying, no wait I was……she actually managed to jump me off! After putting in a short stride after I’d thought we were going on the long stride Milli sent me flying out of the saddle, as we landed I landed on her neck and Milli being Milli put her head down to the floor which was where I ended up! Putting this behind us we went in and jumped a lovely double clear around the 1.05m National Amateur Qualifier to finish in 5th place!
On to July now and we were back at Cobham Manor again, picking up another Discovery double clear and winning the class being the only double clear combination was a nice added bonus due to the course being a bit twisty which some found a bit difficult!
Since she started jumping again, we have had regular lessons with David Pearson-Smith and he has helped us with our jumping an enormous amount and he really feels Milli has a big future ahead of her in the jumping world.
As we were getting towards the end of the summer we spent the August Bank Holiday weekend at Weston Lawns for their bank holiday bonanza competition. Milli started in great form by winning the first class with a nice speedy double clear. Unfortunately, after this we had a bit of 4-fault-itus, it was her first stay away show and she struggled to settle being away from home. Despite the 4 faults here and there I was very pleased with how well she jumped, especially around the bigger tracks in the main ring……was good to have her jumping well again!
After a busy few weeks with work, Roxie out at Championship competitions (more on that in a bit) and Diaz at the vets, it was soon October, and the indoor winter shows have started. First we were at Blue Barn where Milli won the 1.05m class with a speedy double clear and then we jumped our first Newcomers and picked up our first double clear and finishing 5th was a nice bonus!
Getting towards the end of October, the clocks have changed and we are on the downhill to Christmas. Aiming to pick up our last few Discovery double clears a go we headed off to Duckhurst where we finished 5th in the Discovery and then a speedy double clear in the 1.05m landed us a second place!
The following weekend we were back at Duckhurst again, this time we were 7th in the 1.05m Open and then picked up an unlucky 4 faults in the Newcomers, but jumping a very confident round.
With Milli feeling confident around the bigger tracks again we headed back to Blue Barn and finished 2nd in the Discovery, picking up our final double clear. We then went on to pick up an unlucky 4 faults in the Newcomers, at the smallest fence on the course. As she was jumping well I also entered the 1.15m class and Milli jumped a super, rider satnav error meant we picked up 4 faults but I couldn’t have been any happier with how she jumped for me!
After a slow start to the year due to injury, it is great to have Milli back on top form and back out competing, doing what she loves best!” | <urn:uuid:fcc12f56-3722-48fe-82f8-ff5e338ae5f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.globalherbs.co.uk/2016/12/sarah-gadds-review-2016-part-1/ | 2022-05-29T03:05:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663035797.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220529011010-20220529041010-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.983142 | 1,953 |
I have a very vivid imagination. Always have had. The trouble with a vivid imagination is that it imagines things you don't really want to consider, and then you can't get them out of your head.
Why do we always imagine disasters? Crime has been really bad in Oakland lately - but I'm a seasoned urban paranoid: I don't walk at night, or with an iPod plugged in, or while talking on a cell phone (all behaviors that increase your likelihood of being mugged). Why then does my imagination create detailed mental scenarios in which I'm being mugged by 10 armed street thugs? (Because, of course, somebody in my neighborhood was mugged by 10 armed street thugs a couple of weeks ago, while walking home from BART at 10 o'clock at night...) I carefully avoid situations that might get me into trouble - why do I build such detailed mental images of stuff happening to me?
And then there's "medical student syndrome" - you know what I mean. You read about some disease in the newspaper and the next thing you know, you're convinced you have the symptoms. My imagination is convinced that I'm developing some incurable disease that my HMO won't catch. In fact, all my blood tests come back normal and my cholesterol is great (result of going to the gym multiple times a week); the worst thing wrong with me is probably my asthma.
In order to reduce my car insurance premium, I'm taking a "mature driver's safety course" (I think I'm the youngest student in the class). After the first session I'm now convinced that my peripheral vision is shot, my reaction time is practically nil, I can't drive at night, and I'm going to lose my driver's license and have to depend on the Bay Area's crummy public transit. Considered rationally, I'm actually a good, careful, defensive driver; but my imagination is at it again.
It was worse when I was younger; my sister was convinced that clairvoyance ran in the family and that she, and our late aunt, both had it. So of course I wondered if I had it. My parents used to take long driving vacations across the country. While they were gone, I would imagine all sorts of horrific things going wrong with them (car accidents; floods; armed robberies), and then I'd have to take emergency time off work and race to their rescue. These mental images are very real - they trigger adrenaline rushes. Your pulse pounds, you start to sweat, you go into flight-or-fight mode.
After a while, I realized that none of the things I imagined ever happened; I'm a good, careful, defensive driver because that's how my father drove, and that's why he never had any trouble. People who believe in clairvoyance simply haven't kept the records properly - for every disaster they saw coming, they also foresaw fourteen or twenty-seven disasters which never happened. But nobody remembers the clairvoyant predictions that never panned out.
Also, nobody ever seems to be clairvoyant about good things. If clairvoyance is real, why would you not foresee good luck as well as bad? But you never hear about anyone who had a successful premonition that he'd get the good promotion, or win the vacation cruise to Cabo.
When you name something you control it; I finally came up with a name for this syndrome. I called it "manufacturing monsters"; and then I could say to myself, "You're manufacturing monsters again, stop it." And most of the time, that would stop it. In fact for many years, I had only minor problems with it.
Then I hit menopause, and damn if it didn't all come back. But don't ask me - I just live in this brain, I don't understand it. | <urn:uuid:b0f15be1-e9d7-4076-9415-4353e1e256ec> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://hederascorner.blogspot.com/2008/02/imaginary-monsters.html | 2015-04-01T05:46:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131303502.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172143-00276-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981108 | 795 |
Spruce trees are typically tall trees that cast dense shade around the landscape and take up needed resources in the soil like water. Just because they create shade doesn't mean you can't create a striking garden. Find hardy, low maintenance, "unthirsty" plants that tolerate living under a tree without sacrificing their beauty. To tie the tree garden with the rest of the landscape, think about including similar colors or species of plants that are grown in nearby flower beds.
Spruce trees have low growing branches that hog sunlight, so planting a shade-loving ground cover works for this type of environment. Ground covers are low maintenance plants that, once established, spread around the landscape to create a natural design. Hardy ground covers like thyme grow in shade and tolerate less fertile, clay soils. Their leaves are evergreen, meaning they remain with color all year long, even in the gray winter months. In the spring, creeping thyme is covered in lilac flowers that contrast with the spruce tree for a striking garden design. Creeping thyme is also drought tolerant with a moderate growth rate.
Another hardy ground cover to plant under the spruce tree is spreading wintergreen, also called teaberry. Teaberry is also an evergreen ground cover that has a creeping mat form. It prefers light to moderate shade--ideal nestled under a spruce tree. Teaberry also tolerates a wide range of soil types, including sandy and acid soils, making it adaptable. The dark green leaves on the teaberry turn purple in the fall for a bright burst of color. Their white, urn-shaped flowers emerge in spring to light up the shaded environment around the spruce tree.
Around the spruce tree, create a rock garden to house trailing and shade-loving plants. For a classic rock garden design, create a circular or square shape around the tree. Extend the rocks as far out as desired for a visually appealing design. Inside the rock garden grow low maintenance plants. Stonecrop, a deciduous plant, tolerates both sun and shade and prefers a wide range of soils types, including sandy, gravelly and acidic, making this plant very versatile. Their low growing, thick stems are bright green with golden yellow flowers that emerge in the spring. Stonecrop is a striking plant, creeping over and around the rocks.
Another hardy rock garden plant is the Cooper's hardy ice plant. The ice plant has a rapid growth rate and low mat form. It tolerates shade and sun as well as a range of soil types. The dark green leaves glisten against the mass of pink flowers that emerge in summer to last through the fall. Ice plants are also drought tolerant.
Around the spruce tree, plants perennials for a long-lasting design. Extend the perennial flower bed out and around the spruce tree to create a commanding presence to the landscape. Hardy perennial flowers like coneflowers and black-eyed Susans are heat and drought-tolerant and require little water to thrive. They are tough blooms that are ideal skirting the perennial border with their showy flowers. Around the inside of the border, and directly under the spruce tree, plant shade-loving hellebore plants. Hellebores are perennial flowers that naturally spread around the landscape with their low-growing form. Their bloom colors include white, pink and lavender to contrast with their shiny, dark green leaves. | <urn:uuid:e77f9a38-693d-431f-a43c-c5f959dcdfef> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://www.gardenguides.com/99205-gardening-ideas-under-spruce-tree.html | 2017-07-22T09:01:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423927.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722082709-20170722102709-00324.warc.gz | en | 0.931415 | 704 |
By Tomas Mysik-Oracle on Oct 23, 2012
"Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you."
So, what support do we have in NetBeans? The first step, as usually, is to open the Composer IDE Options panel:
Once it is configured properly, it is time to create composer.json file where we can define dependencies (libraries) of our PHP project:
The generated file is opened so we can review it and add any libraries:
Now, you are ready to install, update or validate library dependencies of your PHP project:
We hope that you enjoy this initial support and that we will be able to improve it in the next version of NetBeans. | <urn:uuid:bc2ac7af-31c2-4864-9182-3a2be63cad6a> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | https://blogs.oracle.com/netbeansphp/entry/composer_support | 2015-10-13T14:30:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443738006925.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001222006-00109-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914866 | 170 |
Data released earlier this week for January showed the stunning disparity in regional housing markets in Canada (see chart below). Vancouver remains the red-hot leader with year-over-year (y/y) price gains of 20.6% and home resales growth of an eye-popping 32.1%. In comparison, Toronto’s housing market seems almost tepid, with an annual price gain of 10.7% and resales growth of a mere 7.3%.
In direct contrast, regions of the country that have been hard hit by oil price declines continue to experience a marked slowdown in housing activity. For example, house prices in Calgary fell 3.1% y/y in January and existing home sales fell 13.8%. In recent months, the decline has been even bigger. Sales in Calgary are down more than 40% from their 2014 high. In this context, the price declines have been relatively modest. Additional price cuts are likely through 2016. Those who purchased homes before mid-2013, however, still have significant but dwindling equity gains.
The BC budget, released this week, shone the spotlight on the lack of affordable housing in the Vancouver region. Vancouver has an almost unheard of 91% sales-to-new listings ratio implying that almost every new listing is sold within the month. Concern about housing affordability prompted the BC government to introduce measures to address escalating housing market imbalances.
British Columbia has the strongest economy in the country, with growth expected to be roughly 2.4% this year. BC also has the strongest fiscal position, with a triple-A debt rating and surpluses expected to continue. The BC economy, though hit by falling commodity prices, is sufficiently diversified to have weathered the storm quite well–boosted by strength in manufacturing, retailing, technology, trade and film.
Population growth and a tourism boom is also contributing to the prosperity. More than 48,200 newcomers are expected to move to BC this year, including 13,000 from other provinces and 35,200 from other countries. Alberta’s woes have caused thousands of workers to move westward. In the third quarter of 2015, BC posted the highest quarterly level of net interprovincial migration since 1995. The weak Canadian dollar has boosted tourism and the film industry in Hollywood North.
Housing Measures in the BC Budget
In the first overhaul of the Property Transfer Tax since its inception in 1988, Finance Minister Mike de Jong raised the exemption threshold solely on new homes to $750,000 if they are owner occupied as a principal residence for at least one year. This new tax break is available only to Canadian citizens or permanent residents and could mean a savings of up to $13,000. This could bump up the price of new homes unless it triggers an increase in supply, as the government hopes.
To offset the anticipated $75 million cost of this initiative, the government is increasing the Property Transfer Tax rate on the portion of the home value that is in excess of $2 million to 3% (the current 1% on the first $200,000 and 2% on the value between $200,000 and $2 million will be maintained).
Budget 2016 confirmed an earlier announcement that the province is committing $355 million over a five-year period to construct or renovate affordable housing units throughout the province.
The government also proposes new measures to improve data collection around real estate transactions, specifically to monitor foreign investment. Homebuyers will have to identify as Canadian citizens or permanent residents when they register their property and individuals who are neither will be required to disclose their country of citizenship; corporations will be required to disclose their directors’ citizenship; homebuyers will have to disclose whether they are buying the property as a trustee.
Greater transparency into the currently opaque foreign investment component of housing activity is overdue and should help to provide a factual basis for future discussion. Hopefully, the province will continue to welcome foreign investors as the Minister suggests.
The effect of these measures will be modest at first. It will take time to assess their impact, but the majority of purchasers are buying existing homes, not new homes, so the relief will not be widespread. | <urn:uuid:8d2851e1-997f-4fcd-8b51-ac0b910473b8> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://sherrycooper.com/articles/diverging-housing-markets-and-bc-budget/ | 2023-01-30T23:48:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499831.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130232547-20230131022547-00327.warc.gz | en | 0.958497 | 850 |
Important Budget Dates
- Aug 25: Preliminary assessed values available from county assessors
- December 10th: Final assessed values released
- December 15th: Certification of mill levy to county commissioners (DLG70 Form)
- December 31st: Deadline to adopt budget
- January 31st: Budgets due to DOLA via eFiling (Electronic Submissions instructions below)
Statute requires a few items be included with a budget filing. Use this checklist to ensure your budget meets the standards.
This budget calendar provides general dates to consider in the preparation and adoption of the budget. Each local government should use these to guide the creation of their own budget process calendar.
Budget amendments are occasionally necessary, and should be filed with the division when adopted by a local government.
E-file your budget
Electronic submission must be in .pdf format (no .doc, .xls or other file types) is the preferred method of filing budget and other documents. This video walks you through uploading a budget document.
Log in using your e-filing user ID (i.e. EF00000ABC)
Continue past the contact update form, click on “Budget” tab
Select Add Document
Choose Annual Budget document type from the dropdown menu
Choose your budget document from a location on your system
Type in the date the document was adopted, fill-in the year the budget covers and add any comments desired
Confirm the information on the review page then click Submit Document
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Android 8.0 Oreo is finally here with awesome new features & changes in it. Here is the list of exciting new Android Oreo features.
If you are not a Nexus and Pixel user, you’ll likely need to hold up for a couple of months before Android Oreo hits your particular device. Here are some of the key Android Oreo features that you should look forward to, when it rolls out to your smartphone.
- 1 Android Oreo Features – 10 Awesome New Features & Changes
- 1.1 1. Battery Life Improvements
- 1.2 2. Turn on Wi-Fi Automatically
- 1.3 3. Picture-in-Picture Mode
- 1.4 4. Good bye ‘Unknown Sources’ Settings
- 1.5 5. Adaptive Icons
- 1.6 6. Smart Text Selection
- 1.7 7. Better BT Audio and Camera Quality
- 1.8 8. Package installer Progress Bar
- 1.9 9. Auto fill Improvements
- 1.10 10. Google Play Protect
- 1.11 And so many other features…
Android Oreo Features – 10 Awesome New Features & Changes
1. Battery Life Improvements
Battery life is always a big concern for our smartphones, which is why Google often makes improvements with new iterations of Android.
Google’s Doze mode was introduced in Marshmallow and has improved a lot during the Nougat phase. Android Oreo puts Doze out to work intensively to prevent apps from draining your battery life.
Background Execution Limits have been imposed in Android Oreo to ensure that apps don’t run wild in the background or keep listener services open at all times.
2. Turn on Wi-Fi Automatically
This is a great feature that you will definitely love. When you turn off your Wi-fi radio in your Android Oreo (by disabling Wi-Fi in setting or toggling the quick settings title), everything will be as it should. So, this will save your battery by not scanning for Wi-Fi networks all day. But, when you will reach to your home back, Google Oreo can use your phone’s location to see that you are back around your home Wi-Fi networks, and will automatically turn on your Wi-fi radio on.
You can simply navigate under Network & Internet -> Wi-Fi -> Wi-Fi preferences. With the “Turn on Wi-Fi automatically” switch enabled, your phone will automatically kick your Wi-fi to connect to the particular network when you’re at a location where you’ve connected to a Wi-Fi network in the past.
3. Picture-in-Picture Mode
Picture-in-picture Mode is one of the major Android Oreo features for the multi-taskers. It allows the users to the split-screen window for watching videos while performing other tasks, though apps will need to be updated to support the new API. So far, the feature works with VLC and YouTube.
Yes, we have already seen this type of feature in many Android devices but now it’s dead and newly introduced to the Oreo supported device with some more tweaks.
4. Good bye ‘Unknown Sources’ Settings
On previous versions of Android, we had seen enable ‘Unknown source’ option while installing a third party app from somewhere. But now, In 8.0 Oreo this setting is entirely gone. Before installing individual apps, now we will need to trust them.
In means, when you download an APK through the Chrome browser, you’ll be prompted to check your “External Sources” settings. From there, pick Chrome from the list and then make sure the “Trust apps from this source” option is enabled. So, next time you will not need to face the ‘Unknown Sources’ Settings, and same procedure should be followed while allowing unknown source setting.
5. Adaptive Icons
Basically, Android device developers use their own skins for Android icon view. But, With this new feature in Android 8.0 Oero, developers can create a single, unified app icon, and the system will do the rest. Android Oreo will automatically crop and align it according to the adaptive icon settings.
Developers will be able to create so-called “adaptive icons” that offer multiple shape options that automatically shift based on your home screen theme. More likely, Circle, rounded square, or something in between.
6. Smart Text Selection
This is one another great Android Oreo feature that allows users to perform intelligent actions while selecting any text. Like, if you have selected an URL then, Oreo will suggest opening it in Chrome. Select a phone number, and the Dialer app will appear as a suggestion. An address, and Google Maps will pop-in, and so on.
This quick action helps users to easily perform the job. This means you don’t need to separately copy and paste it to somewhere which oreo is now suggesting to you.
7. Better BT Audio and Camera Quality
Google has set Android Oreo to use Sony’s LDAC codec, this should improve upon the Bluetooth A2DP protocol currently used today.
Google is also spending some time reworking the camera app, offering a new double-tap feature that lets you quickly get to 50% zoom. There is now dedicated option for switching between photo and video option.
8. Package installer Progress Bar
In previous Android versions, we had seen the indefinite app install bar that Android has used for far too long. But now, Package Installer has received a makeover in Android Oreo.
The new progress bar seems more realistic and actuate, replacing the indefinite app install bar that was previously seen on older Android devices.
9. Auto fill Improvements
Chrome auto-fill saved information such as addresses and credit card numbers when it detects a compatible field. Well, a similar feature is coming to Android Oreo.
Oreo’s Autofill API allows these app developers to properly detect and input form data within apps and on the web, all while keeping your info secure.
The Autofill API will definitely save you some time while inputting your credentials. You can check Autofill settings by navigating to Settings > System > Languages & input > Advanced > Input assistance > Autofill service and choose the app you want to use to fill in forms and login fields.
10. Google Play Protect
Android Oreo features Google Play Protect that helps you keep your device and apps secure. It constantly scans and reviews app for malware and warns you pre-hand of any conspicuous app trying to risk your device’s security. Read more about Google Play Protect.
And so many other features…
It is looking like, Android Oreo 8.0 has added many new features and changes or fixed many issues. That’s why it is rolling out very fast.
Some other Android Oreo features include Better keyboard navigation, redesigned settings menu, ability to snooze individual notifications, New battery menu, Arrow key, and Tab navigation, wider color gamut in apps, and several other minor changes and additions that you should try right now.
Have you installed Oreo yet? What do you think about these above features and Changes? Do share your experience with others by Commenting below. | <urn:uuid:d2288fc2-2114-482e-988d-bbbe6a7534bf> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://www.thecustomdroid.com/android-oreo-features-10-features-changes/ | 2018-10-23T15:11:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516194.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023132213-20181023153713-00167.warc.gz | en | 0.887121 | 1,530 |
Todd had his party while Reagan was at PALS so she didn't get to go. Layton and I attended another fun Christmas party together. I was so delighted with the decorations in Todd's classroom. There were decorations literally from the floor to ceiling. There was beautiful Christmas playing in the background. I loved it! Todd had a great time creating a snowman ninja and a snowflake with a picture of himself inside.
|He is being serious here because of his cool ninja.|
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What started with 45 freerolls in the Titan Winter Freeroll Series is down to the final nine—three with $1,000 prize pools and six with $100 up for grabs. Don’t miss your chance at $3,600 worth of prize money!
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Three Favorite Shots of Espresso in Metro Phoenix
A shot of Friendo Blendo espresso at Giant Coffee in Midtown Phoenix.
In a metropolis that isn't particularly known for its coffee scene, we're lucky enough to have three (and really only three) shining examples of how good coffee can taste.
A shop that pays attention to its espresso, whether served in a demitasse or swimming in milk, says a lot about the hospitality they're aiming for. It's the last step in a long chain that started with the buying of high-quality green coffee, lighter roasting that doesn't cover up natural flavors, and ends with execution and the preservation of quality behind the bar - trying not mess it all up, that's the key.
The end result is a shot that's truly delicious - creamy, bright, complex, sweet all on its own. Espresso when it's cared for is diverse, too, since blends not only change by the seasons of harvest in producing countries, but even with day-to-day ebbs and flows as the coffee settles following the roast.
The best news of all? You can find a good espresso that results in a sunny disposition can be found in three distinct points of the Valley.
Giant Coffee - Midtown Phoenix When searching for the right roaster for his coffee bar, Matt Pool (of Matt's Big Breakfast) landed on Four Barrel out of San Francisco. Four Barrel is only a few years old, but they've built a record of buying the highest quality coffees, making the effort to keep the beans that comprise of their espresso blend fresh and in-season.
The baristas at Giant pull shots of their Friendo Blendo espresso faithfully. Consistently bright, the shot currently gets its acidic flavor from South American coffee farms (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador).
Take a sip. There's some creamy orange here, some candied lemon there. A syrupy, raspberry and caramel finish rounds out the shot. At Giant the shots are always good, and often very great. The food scene in Phoenix seldom draws similarities to the scene in San Francisco, but there are a few culinary experiences that feel like walk by the bay, and this is one of them.Next Page
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The central feature of a written expression disorder is that skill falls substantially below that expected for the child's chronoligical age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education. Skill is measured by individually administered standardized tests. The disorder significantly interferes with academic functioning and daily living. There is generally a combination of difficulties in the child's ability to compose texts demonstrated by grammatical or punctuation errors writing sentences, poor paragraph organization, multiple spelling errors, and excessively poor handwriting. The diagnosis is generally not given with only spelling errors or poor handwriting. Letter and number reversals are not uncommon through age nine.
Less is known about this disorder and remediation in comparison with a Reading or Mathematics Disorder, especially in the absence of a Reading Disorder. Standardized tests are less well developed, except for spelling. The evaluation of written expression may require a comparison between extensive samples of a child's schoolwork. This is expecially the case for young children in the early elementary grades. Tasks in which the child is asked to copy, follow dictation, and compose spontaneously may all be necessary to establish the presence and extent of this disorder. There is some evidence that language and perceptual-motor deficits may accompany this disorder.
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Higher education is not a service that can be commoditized or reduced to a script to be outsourced or mass produced. APSCUF faculty take pride in their ability to provide a high quality education that invokes thought provoking variables for discussion and increased learning opportunities.
The creators of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs show more concern in opening access and creating a model where hundreds (if not thousands) can sign in to “attend” an online lecture or video than producing high quality education.
Recently APSCUF’S Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Policy issued a policy on distance education. APSCUF contends that while distance education provides access to underserved student populations, the traditional method of classroom instruction proves to be a better method.
Unlike a face-to-face classroom, distance education lacks the direct and immediate social interaction between instructors and students that is essential to the educational environment. Other challenges facing distance education include student retention issues, strained student time-management skills, and the difficulty instructors face in replicating traditional classroom experiences.
The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education recently produced a video that also addresses concerns with the MOOC industry. Challenges to the proponents of this mass-produced, impersonal, scripted “free” education include such thought-provoking questions as:
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New Rock Band 4 Songs and Gameplay Video Revealed by Harmonix
Bringing the total list of announced tracks so far to 22, Harmonix revealed 11 new Rock Band 4 songs today, which you can see below in bold:
- Hail to the King – Avenged Sevenfold
- Violent Shiver – Benjamin Booker
- Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
- You Make Loving Fun – Fleetwood Mac
- Lazaretto – Jack White
- Somebody Told Me – The Killers
- Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
- My God Is The Sun – Queens of the Stone Age
- The Warrior – Scandal
- Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong – Spin Doctors
- The Seeker – The Who
- Toys in the Attic – Aerosmith
- Friday I’m In Love – The Cure
- Metropolis – Part 1 “The Miracle And The Sleeper” – Dream Theater
- The Feast and the Famine – Foo Fighters
- Halls Of Valhalla – Judas Priest
- All Over You – Live
- Your Love – The Outfield
- Miracle Man – Ozzy Osbourne
- Still Into You – Paramore
- Birth In Reverse – St. Vincent
- Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
In the above gameplay video, you’ll get to see The Feast and the Famine, Halls of Valhalla, and Friday I’m in Love played by all four instruments.
Harmonix talked about the Rock Band 4 track list, which will support more than 1,500 DLC tracks and many tracks exported from previous Rock Band games:
From “Toys in the Attic,” off legendary rockers Aerosmith’s platinum-selling third album to the Foo Fighters’ “The Feast and the Famine” from the band’s latest album, Rock Band 4 features a diverse range of music, spanning multiple decades, artists, and musical styles. Along with just-announced tracks from The Cure, Dream Theater, St. Vincent, and more, Rock Band 4 will showcase one of the best soundtracks in the franchise to date, carefully curated by an experienced team of game developers and music lovers for an incredible full-band gameplay experience.
These newly announced songs join an already impressive soundtrack line-up, including music by Avenged Sevenfold, Elvis Presley, Jack White, The Killers, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars, Queens of the Stone Age, The Who, and more! A full list of songs announced for Rock Band 4 can be found here. Additionally, Rock Band 4 will be instantly compatible with more than 1500 tracks available for download on the Rock Band Music Store, as well as many tracks exported from previous Rock Band titles.
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State Insurance Commissioner Rules 2nd Largest Med Mal Insurer's Increase Request Excessive, In Violation of Proposition 103 Regulations
Santa Monica, CA --The California Insurance Commissioner has ordered the state's second largest medical malpractice insurer, SCPIE Indemnity, to slash its proposed rate increase for doctors by 36% after an eight-month regulatory investigation of the firm's rate request. Consumer advocates called the ruling another tribute to the effectiveness of California's insurance reform initiative known as Proposition 103, which has held down medical malpractice and other insurers' rates since the initiative was approved in 1988 by creating a "prior approval" regulatory system that requires insurers to justify rates to the insurance commissioner and allows consumers to challenge excessive rates. Last week's ruling was in response to the first-ever consumer group challenge to a medical malpractice insurance rate hike request, brought by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), a California nonprofit organization.
Instead of the company's proposal for a 15.6% increase that would have gone into effect on January 1, 2003, the Commissioner will only allow SCPIE and its affiliate, American Healthcare Indemnity, to increase premiums by 9.9% beginning on October 1, 2003. The net impact is a $16 million savings for the insurer's 9,000 physicians in 2003 and an additional $7.2 million of savings in next year's premiums. Although the company had insisted that it needed the entire rate increase, the firm recently announced a second quarter profit despite not having been allowed to implement any 2003 hike while its request was reviewed.
"Proposition 103 and insurance regulation saved California doctors more than $23 million in unjustified premium hikes by SCPIE," said FTCR's staff attorney Pamela Pressley. "When you actually look at the books of an insurance company, the argument for massive rate increases falls apart. The success of this consumer challenge under Proposition 103 is more proof that the solution to high medical malpractice premiums is to increase the accountability of insurance companies, not restrict the legal rights of injured patients."
Insurance Regulation, Not Malpractice Caps, Shields Physicians From Unfair Rates
In recent months insurers and medical associations have pressed lawmakers to restrict the rights of injured patients to recover damages in medical malpractice cases, arguing that such restrictions are crucial to reducing medical malpractice premiums. Consumer advocates disagree, pointing to the SCPIE ruling, and information that became public as a result of this rate challenge, as proof that insurance reform and not malpractice caps will restrain physicians' malpractice insurance rates throughout the nation.
"Several states have passed malpractice caps, none of which have been able to turn back the rate increases, but due to Prop 103 in California you can point to 9,000 doctors who have saved millions," said Daniel Zohar of the Zohar Law Firm, FTCR's lead attorney at the SCPIE hearings.
Insurer Acknowledges MICRA Failed to Reduce Risk in California
The hearing on SCPIE's rate increase also uncovered information about the impact of California's medical malpractice damage caps law, known as the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975, or MICRA. Insurers and medical associations lobbying for caps on malpractice awards have pointed to MICRA as a model for the nation. Despite the allegation that caps will lower rates, the reality is that even under MICRA insurers have sought major increases in recent years. SCPIE has increased rates by 23% since 1999 and the state's largest medical malpractice insurer, Norcal Mutual, has increased rates by 26% since 2001. Indeed, during the rate challenge SCPIE stated that California's strict malpractice caps law did not hold down insurance rates. In written testimony, SCPIE's actuary and Assistant Vice President James Robertson stated:
- "While MICRA was the legislature's attempt at remedying the medical malpractice crisis in California in 1975, it did not substantially reduce the relative risk of medical malpractice insurance in California."
According to FTCR, the combination of the company's acknowledgement that malpractice caps do not reduce risk and the finding that SCPIE's proposed rate increase was excessive must change the way lawmakers respond to the reported medical malpractice insurance crises around the country.
"Insurance companies tell doctors and lawmakers that caps will reduce rates, but under the spotlight of regulation, SCPIE admitted that California's caps do not keep physicians' rates down," said FTCR's senior consumer advocate Douglas Heller. "California's malpractice cap has been prescribed as the cure-all for the medical malpractice premium crisis, but that is a misdiagnosis with dangerous side-effects. The problem has never been litigious victims; it has been greedy insurance companies."
In California, insurance companies are subject to Proposition 103, a voter approved 1988 ballot initiative that governs the insurance industry. Under that law, insurers were required to immediately roll back rates and justify future rate increases prior to increasing premiums. As a result, medical malpractice providers refunded more than $75 million directly to physicians. Proposition 103 created a "prior approval" system in which companies must justify any rate changes to the insurance commissioner before the rate can take effect. The law forces insurers to comply with a series of regulatory formulae that limit company profits and administrative costs as well as requiring full disclosure of the data that go into rate proposals. The law also ended the insurance industry's exemption from state anti-trust laws and allowed consumers and groups to challenge rate hike proposals, as is the case with FTCR's successful intervention to reduce SCPIE's rate increase proposal.
According to the decision issued by California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, SCPIE tried to justify its rate hike by claiming that it should not be subject to a strict application of rate regulations and did not have the burden of proving its rates were reasonable, despite California's stringent regulatory structure. The Commissioner rejected that argument and, to ensure regulatory compliance by SCPIE and other insurers, officially designated portions of his ruling as legal precedent.
While under Proposition 103 the insurance commissioner has always been able to deny excessive rate hikes or require a company to lower its rates, the law provides another layer of consumer protection, giving consumers and groups like FTCR an independent right to challenge rate hike proposals. Although doctors and their organizations have never availed themselves of the independent consumer action aspect of Proposition 103, FTCR challenged the SCPIE proposal to protect doctors who would have been overcharged if the rate hike had been approved. Aside from the SCPIE rates, FTCR has reviewed a number of other recent rate proposals by medical malpractice insurers, which the group believes to be excessive, and recently sent a letter to the California Medical Association urging that group to get involved with regulatory efforts to protect their physician members. Medical associations throughout the country have typically sided with insurance companies, arguing that laws should restrict victim's legal rights rather than subject insurance companies to strong regulation.
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18 November 1946
First Closed Meeting (held in Dublin).
25 November 1946
First Public Meeting (held in Dublin)
Departure of Conor F. for the U.S.A.
Second Irish Group Formed (In Bundoran)
Group Started in Belfast
Group started in Limerick
First Issue of “The Road Back”
Group started in Cork
Group started in Galway
Bill W. and his wife Lois visit Ireland
First All-Ireland Convention (held in Dublin) (This convention rotates yearly between Connaught, Munster, Ulster and Leinster).
24 November 1968
First Meeting of General Service Conference (Held in Dublin)
General Service Office opened in Dublin
Return visit of Lois to Ireland
23 August 1978
General Service Board was Incorporated
18 November 1978 **
First Meeting of the General Service Board (Held in Dublin)
Service Handbook for Ireland Published (GreenHandbook)
Sackville died 22nd August 1979
Census estimated 6000 members
The Archival material was donated to the General Service Board
Ireland became a member of the new European Service Conference
Richard P. died 19th December 1982
A.A. celebrated 40 years in Ireland
General Service Office moved to new premises 109 South Circular Road, Dublin 8
Archives - Mobile Display started
Second Edition of Service Handbook for Ireland published
Conor F. died in Philadelphia July 8th
General Board acquired and developed facilities at 109 South Circular Road, Dublin 8
13 January 1996
Opening of Golden Jubilee Year Events, Burlington Hotel, Dublin
25th-28th April 1996
Golden Jubilee All Ireland Convention, Killarney, Co. Kerry
18th November 1996
Golden Jubilee Closed Meetings throughout Ireland
6th/7th December 1996
Closing Function of Jubilee Year, Newcastle, Co. Down
Eva Jennings died
General Service Office moved to new premises:
Unit 2, Block C, Santry Business Park, Swords Road, Dublin 9.
*The meeting which marked the start of the Group was the subject of Jack Alexander’s Article No. 2 which appeared in the “Saturday Evening Post” in April 1950.
**At this meeting of the Board, an Executive Committee to the Board was appointed whose function will be to attend to the day to day general services of A.A.. The Committee will consist of four Board Members and four Non-Board members representative of the four provinces. The members will rotate. The Committee will meet once a month and will be responsible to the Board which will meet twice yearly.
A Secretary to the Board was appointed who will also act as Secretary to the Executive Committee.
The Board decided that a suitably qualified person be appointed as Executive Secretary to manage the affairs of General Service Office. This will be a salaried appointment.
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Low CD4+ and high viral load
Aug 12, 1999
Dear Doctor, I found out last week to hiv pos. My CD4+ is 27 and the viral load is 190.000 and I am already on therapy. I was probably infected 4 months ago. How bad is the situation?
Response from Dr. Holodniy
It would be unlikely you were infected 4 months ago with an absolute CD4 count of 27. Are you sure you are not looking at the percentage of CD4 cells? If the absolute number is truly 27, the infection took place some years ago, and you by definition have AIDS. A viral load of 190,000/ml is not in and of itself that bad. Treatment today will bring that level down to < 50/ml and boost your t cells up.
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Get Ready to Pitch!
So I want to know if something did that feel like when you came in your expectation that feel easier did it feel harder how do you feel about your pitching opportunities now yeah some iss so great I'm so glad to hear it because now you're ready you've got everything you need to send out your products emissions you've got this amazing template for a pitch email that you could put together and really sell your headline worthy products um you're putting together a media kit that gives blogger editor everything she needs to do your products you're making it so easy for them but I promised would get to the sample questions so I want to address that really quickly before we go on so I mentioned way way back at the beginning of this course that you don't have to send in samples and you don't you shouldn't send in unsolicited samples but you might decide that you want to set aside a few samples that you can send in especially to a magazine editor you know if they're doing their own product pho...
tography that you consent to them and so this is really up to you it is totally a personal individual preference and if you have a one of a kind thing like a painting you know that's probably not expected you know I wouldn't necessarily recommend that um but what I will say is if your product is not a consumable so if it's a consumable you can't get it back but if it's you consented if it's consumable like totally like that's fine you're just not getting it back because this trick is if it's a non consumable you can actually send a return address return envelope that they can send it back to you so you can ask them to return it to you so that's a way that if you have a product that is expensive maybe it's a noxious expensive at retail but it's expensive for you to make you know if you make we work to somebody who does handbags and her material costs is really high and so she just can't be sending all of her product people that's a way you can do it you can send it to them and ask them to return it now we all know that there's some bloggers who will on ly cover your product if they have sample if you actually give them free stuff right? We're not really talking about that so much because that is advertising advertising is paying people you know to get public relations is earned it they call it earned media it's how do you get in the media that they're choosing to cover you? You don't buy the coverage the second you buy it you're kind of outside the realm of what I would consider pure pr but let's talk about that a little bit too because you know there are some bloggers especially in like the fashion space or maybe the mom space who will say well, send me some product you know let me have it and I'll take a picture of it and always say there again that's up to you if you feel like it's worth the money because they're really talking to your client then you could do it if you have an event space or you know if you have a location you want people to come and you wanna have a blogger event and you want them to come to and check it out that is really been affected for people that we've worked with so it's up to you just know that's an investment and just know that you have a goal of what you're going to get out of it so you're not just sending product into the abyss or you're not just spending that money on the hopes that you're getting coverage because there are so many other fish out there in the sea as you do your media research you're gonna be like, oh my god there's too much so this is a great way to narrow and what your opportunities are which brings me next point, which is you know, when you're implementing your program, I really recommend that you focus your outreach on um you know, seasonal waves and product launches that are really speaking to your customers and so what I mean about this is one of the best ways I see people falling through in their product on their product pr is picking like okay so I'm gonna have a new line coming up and so I'm going to focus my outreach on supporting that new line and I'm going to do a push about reach around that or there's a season that really ties in and god we've been talking about gift guides and I think there's like an amazing gift guy tie in for my product or oh my god those pants home color so the colors I paint with you know like if you see something like that you can put together a whole campaign around it and put together and decide how much time a week you want to spend getting that ready and batch your work and do it and then you can like let it go for a few months so that's one thing that I do recommend that makes it a little bit easier because it helps when you're in the groove of your pr you know it helps if you if you spend a little bit of time researching and putting your pitches together um and get in that groove and in that mindset instead of trying to pick it up and drop it and pick it up drop it so can help to bat your work that's something I recommend no if you want to dio you know every monday is your p r day and it's a really important focus than do that totally I'm for it but I know that not everybody is a full time publicist and that that doesn't work for everybody a schedule so the one thing I do recommend is to batch it around those launches and we talked about lead times and so that's the way you can plan ahead for those you can also go back to the same editor bloggers twice a year usually so if you plan around season our lines it's a really easy way to do that again planning ahead for best results you know six months for print media one to two months for online really important that you're planning and scheduling out ahead if you can't make that six months can you still be sending out messaging centre? Is that going to be helpful? Do you really then have to wait for the next season if you want to be in the print and then really there's a firm cut off but so many publications now have online exclusive content or additional online content that I do recommend that if you missed that print cut off so we talked about editors and if you're going to send online there's often an online editor that you consent it tio somebody specifically who that's their name um bloggers if you're behind that one to two months it doesn't hurt right? It doesn't hurt they could be scrambling to fill something last minute so there I think you have more leeway it's that you know the reason the print is because they're actually done they're done putting the magazine together they literally that it's gone off to the printer s so there isn't you know, once it's out it's out but for the online you have a lot more leeway and a lot more flexibility thank you yeah, thank you and then the other thing I wanted to let you know is you know, you could be networking with the bloggers with editors with tv producers on social media so you can tweet their stories they love that they want their contents shared right there in the content business so they want you to share their contents, you can tweet it out, you can send them messages you can connect with them on pinterest it's a great way to get that relationship going so that when their scent when you're sending pitches, they see your name um and then you know, of course, but being consistent by being consistent with your outreach, you're absolutely able to get the coverage of your dreams so you can do this you can absolutely do this, you don't have to hire the workout people choose to because maybe they don't want teo they have other priorities, but you don't have tio and it's actually my personal mission to give you the tools that you need to do it, which is what we've been doing in this pr for your product purse so what you could do with your pr is get those endorsements from the media that your customers trust that they like that they turned tio when they're searching for that perfect thing you can try foot traffic to your story or online shop with your peer program you can get amazing results you can convert that intention into sales of your product which is why we're all doing mess right making sure that you're supporting your sales goals for your product so my last question for you here is you know how are you going to be structuring this outreach I want to hear a commitment on you know how are you going to structure your outreach are you going to seasonal pushes or you going to do a little bit a week and who are you most excited right now like what are you most excited right now to go out and dio um I would love to have photos of completed projects and like online dwell perfect awesome that is a great goal just excited to put my immediate kit together all right I love it put my media kit together and get ready to submit for joon for the holidays under for a variety of parent and love to hear the planning ahead we're actually a grand opening next month so I need to do all this this week way um teo you know online mediums they're probably to be the focus for this one I love it you can practice the material is you're implementing it that's fantastic I'm really excited to target local press and for my art and I'm also excited about having a plan for uh looking at you know an annual calendar for okay it's it's made start getting ready to pitch in june for the holidays you know it's november start getting ready to pitch for mother's day that's a great tip you know put those things in your calendar and put a reminder for yourself so you get it done yeah focus on getting my media kit together and then I think probably this afternoon we'll talk more about other stuff yeah media kit and then a calendar just I don't have any I do everything kind of willy nilly so yeah structure cool great product photography I need to do a lot more product photography and yeah getting the media kit together and just having like a place where all of these things live because right now it's very scattered and then you also setting up to be ready for holiday awesome great for me it's really putting together a media list like knowing exactly who the public publications are that I need to target so that I could actually start doing it yeah yeah that's such a great place to start is just that you know who are you going to reaching out tio and then just making that commitment like okay once or twice a year I'm gonna be going to the same people ten and one year is a great place to start, and then you can build those relationships. And then maybe next year you evaluate the results you have and you can add some people and take them off. And that's a really great way to grill the pre are pro oh, graham, some I'm so excited. I hope that he will tweet me at bridget lions. My website is b think forward and we have ah, pinterest, sport, actually where I have assist. So like people who, you know, we've trained to get their product out there. I love to see it, even if you don't want to be on our pinterest sport, um, or if you don't meet a tweet it out, but I just love to see the results that you get and I'm so excited for you to see, you know what comes out of your product pr efforts. So thank you so much.
Getting your product featured in the press is a great way to generate interest in your work and increase sales. In Simple PR: Pitch Your Product, veteran PR expert Brigitte Lyons will detail the process you can use to get press mentions for your work, again and again.
Brigitte is a PR professional with more than 10 years in the field. In this class, she’ll help you develop a plan for getting your product covered in blogs, podcasts, magazines, on TV, and elsewhere. You’ll uncover the range of PR opportunities for promotion without relying on a professional PR service to help you do it.
You’ll learn how to:
- Connect with the bloggers and editors who most want to hear from you
- Write headline-worthy product descriptions
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If the term elder hostel brings to mind a bunch of gray-haired hippies wandering around Europe, sleeping in questionable accommodations and lugging a backpack, you are behind the times. Today’s elder hostels are well-planned, well-organized educational and cultural opportunities especially developed to appeal to the 55+ crowd enjoying active adult living.
There are thousands of choices for active adults available in hundreds of places. You might choose to visit Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, South America, or places you have always wanted to explore right here in the USA.
There are all kinds of educational tours that feature local and renowned experts where you can experience learning opportunities that often include in-depth lectures, field trips, and discussions with learned and experienced peers. Cultural tours can focus on music, theatre, or the arts. Study cruises are available so that you can enjoy the best of both worlds – being on a cruise and learning or experiencing something new at the same time. For the athletically inclined, there are walking, biking, hiking, and camping excursions.
Accommodations are very reasonable and are often in local hotels or college campuses. In many instances, most meals are included as well. You won’t have to worry about a thing: activities, lodging, meals and much more are all covered as a part of the packages. Active adult living has never been so easy.
If you are ready to learn new things, expand your horizons, meet new people and see new places, an elder hostel experience might be just what you’re looking for. Recent programs in the Chicago area sponsored by elderhostel.org include the following:
* The Life and Legacy of Abraham Lincoln
* 150 Years of Science Exploration and Education: Pioneers in Natural History
* The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The Times, the Issues, the Impacts
* Treasures of the Art Institute of Chicago
* Cahokia Mounds: A Prehistoric City and Indian Culture
* A Sampling of Chicago’s Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
* Origins of the Mississippi, Beat Your Feet in Mississippi Mud, and Mark Twain
and Huckleberry Finn
* Baseball Across Generations – Chicago
* The Southern Illinois Wine Trail and Tracing the Trail of Tears
* Holiday Sights and Sounds in the Windy City
* Pedal, Paddle and Partake
* Lake Michigan and Beyond: A Nautical Adventure
* Upper Mississippi: Historic towns, trails and tales
* The Ravinia Festival Experience featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maybe a trip to the American Southwest would be more to your liking. While you’re there, perhaps you’d like to get those cerebral juices flowing and learn about crime scene investigations and forensic science.
Would you like to have an international experience here at home in the United States? Check out the program in New York that provides hostelers with the rare educational opportunity of meeting with ambassadors and discussing foreign policy issues.
If these adventures are not quite what you are looking for, perhaps a trip to explore Mayan ruins, Ancient Egypt, Tibet, or Kenya is right up your alley. No matter what kind of experience you are looking for, elderhostel.org is the best place to start. You can find a trip that goes wherever you want to go, does whatever you want to do, and you will always be with good company. Just be aware that with all the choices available, you may find yourself going back for more active adult living again and again. | <urn:uuid:eff3d505-db18-4386-bfec-8a7e9323fecf> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.55places.com/blog/elderhostels_a_new_adventure_elderhostels_a_new_adventure_awaits | 2015-08-01T07:42:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042988598.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002308-00103-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931661 | 730 |
Tottenham have picked up seven points from their last three games after a 1-1 draw at Norwich, a 1-0 victory at West Brom and a 2-1 home win over Newcastle.
An encouraging run as they look to secure Champions League football next season, yet the way in which Spurs have acquired these points has me both excited and anxious.
Gareth Bale has scored all four of the goals over the past three games that have seen his side move within one point of Chelsea in third. All four strikes have displayed Bale’s spectacular talent and individual ability that has become so vital to the team.
New signing Lewis Holtby provided some much needed urgency in the game against Norwich on January 30, but it was Bale who rescued a point, scored a fantastic solo goal. Options were few when Bale picked it up in his own half, before breezing through the Norwich side and smashing it past Mark Bunn.
Tottenham then faced West Brom in what was an even game until the dismissal of Goran Popov. From then on, Spurs played most of their football around the West Brom area but were unable to find the breakthrough.
Some called the eventual win a patient victory, but I suspect that patience is exactly what Bale had run out of when he unleashed a stunning 20-yard strike to secure the three points.
Bale’s latest display of excellence saw him grab a brace against Newcastle at White Hart Lane on Saturday. First, a dipping 25-yard free kick that bamboozled Tim Krul, then with the game heading towards a draw, his speed and determination saw the Welshman beat Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor to fire home the winner.
His latest goals took Bale’s tally this season to 13 in the Premier League, making him the club’s top scorer, surpassing Jermain Defoe who has 10.
So do his recent performances mean Spurs should be labeled a one-man team? This notion is not only exaggerated by the quality of Bale’s goals, but also by the absence of any goal scoring threat in the team, However, for me it would be wrong to give Tottenham this title.
Spurs were unable to secure the services of any strikers in the transfer window as Emmanuel Adebayor was away with Toga on AFCON duty. Coupled with Defoe’s injury this left the club very short of options upfront.
Clint Dempsey has not been able to rediscover the same goal scoring form he did at Fulham, and continues to serve as a utility man. Thankfully for Spurs, Bale has stepped up.
The recent hype surrounding Gareth Bale has left other squad members in the shadows despite some excellent performances. Captain Michael Dawson, an instrumental defender in the same three matches, and Hugo Lloris who has kept seven clean sheets in 16 games, have both been a huge part of the recent success, not forgetting Aaron Lennon who continues to provide a constant threat on the wing.
Yes Bale’s goals have been the difference, but to say he is carrying the team would be unfair on his teammates.
Nevertheless, Tottenham fans will hope Bale can continue his current form and help fire the North-London side back into Europe’s elite competition, although they would like to see others help out in the goal department, with the likes of Real Madrid starting to provide a keen interest in the Welsh star.
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Steampunk bursts through its subculture roots to challenge our musical, fashion, design, and even political sensibilities
Von Slatt (a pseudonym) recently blogged about his PC on the Web version of his Workshop (steampunkworkshop.com), detailing the process of its construction and the unique modifications he’d included. Given all of this, it’s hardly surprising that he has been lauded as a kind of tinkerer visionary, a man with the mechanical prowess (he’s an IT professional by day) and artistic skills to solder technology with craftsmanship and form a new artisanal DIY movement.
THE VISIONARY TINKERER: With help from OfficeMax and his local town dump, Jake von Slatt turned his 21st-century PC into a Steampunk marvel.
STEAMPARK: Seattle five-piece Abney Park claim to be the crew of an airship, The Ophelia.
FOR RICH NAGY, a/k/a Datamancer, whose laptop is pictured below, Steampunk is a way to make technology “fun again.”
scaled-down 16th-century galleon
If you've heard about the retro steampunk technology movement, this is a great article to read to find out more. Many of the major players are interviewed. | <urn:uuid:cf0f0ae7-c868-479e-88b2-f7b344819352> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://devans-cosmos.blogspot.com/2008/05/steampunk-introduction.html | 2017-11-22T22:33:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806676.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122213945-20171122233945-00196.warc.gz | en | 0.959267 | 274 |
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead.”
“I never died”, said he.
“I never died”, said he.
From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill.
Where working men defend their rights,
it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill.
It’s there you’ll find Joe Hill.
When both my parents were gone to church meetings at night, my older siblings would get out their contraband Woodstock album and listen. I first heard the song “Joe Hill” from that album, sung by Joan Baez. (You can listen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4vKd6tNO8 ) Her clear, sweet voice, accompanied only by her acoustic guitar, stood in strong contrast to the amplified electronics of Hendrix, The Who, and Country Joe and The Fish, and I developed a jr. high school version of a celebrity crush on her. It was only years later that I became curious about the subject of her song and learned about his connection to my home state.
Joe Hill was born in Sweden, and his given name was Joel Emmanuel Hägglund. When he came to the United States, he went by the name of Joseph Hillstrom, or simply Joe Hill. He was a laborer, a longshoreman, and a miner, and eventually became a member of the International Workers of the World, or Wobblies, as they were colloquially known. While he was working at the silver mines in Park City, he received a gunshot wound, for which he sought medical treatment in Salt Lake City, but which he never explained. Unfortunately for him, that same night a grocer and his son were shot to death in a robbery as they were closing their store. Hill was charged with their murders, convicted in a controversial trial, and put to death by firing squad on November 19, 1915. William Adler’s excellent and meticulous biography, The Man Who Never Died, published by Bloomsbury in 2011, sheds new light on the case. Adler found an old letter which tends to strongly confirm Hill’s innocence. In a storyline which will surely make every female reader’s heart go pitter-pat, we learn that he was shot in an argument over a woman, and that he chose to go to his death rather than reveal the truth and expose the woman he loved to shame or ridicule.
But regardless of his guilt or innocence, he became a martyr to the cause of organized labor. During a year that saw the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and the Ludlow coal mine massacre, where mine owners asserted their property rights by burning men, women and children to death, and where a few years later, they machine-gunned striking miners, Hill’s death struck a chord. He didn’t want to be buried in Utah, but had his body shipped to IWW headquarters in Chicago for a funeral and cremation. Per his wishes, his ashes were scattered in every state but Utah. It is unfortunate that the case had a Mormon/anti-Mormon element. The murdered grocer was a former LDS bishop, and the labor unions in Utah were composed of mostly non-LDS people. However, there were a few notable exceptions. Virginia Snow Stephen, daughter of former church president Lorenzo Snow, was convinced of Hill’s innocence and visited him in jail on several occasions. And J. Golden Kimball was also known as a friend of organized labor, just in case you needed another reason to love him.
Hill’s influence continues to be felt in the broader culture. His most popular song, The preacher and the Slave, is a protest against the tendency to be lazy or complacent in the face of unfairness and Hill gently mocks the way that religious institutions can sometimes contribute to that injustice. “You’ll get pie in the sky in the sweet bye and bye, you’ll get pie in the sky when you die.” He made an unmistakeable mark on Woody Guthrie, and from there we can draw a straight line to Dylan, The Beatles, and Rage Against the Machine, among many others. In an hilarious case of tone-deafness, the newspaper headlines just two weeks ago told of the argument between RAtM’s Tom Morello, who has called Joe Hill his favorite musician, and Paul Ryan, who tried to (mis?)appropriate the work of cool people to his own ends.
My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kin don’t need to fuss and moan,
“Moss does not cling to a rolling stone.”
My body? Oh, if I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow,
My dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my Last and final Will.
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Situated on the second floor along a dilapidated corridor of the Andrew Freedman Home, This Side of Paradise was comprised of over a dozen rooms each showcasing the vision of a particular artist or duo. The show, organized by art non-profit No Longer Empty, wasn’t your usual New York art event. It wasn’t about showing big names to get government grants, attracting celebutante collectors to gain media traction, or hawking elaborate artistic visions to the highest SoHo-bred bidder. It was about reclaiming a space that has sat near-empty for decade, a space that existed as not much more than myth even to its neighbors along Grand Concourse.
Built in 1924 with money from the estate of National League baseball owner and New York Subway System financier Andrew Freedman, the now-dilapidated mansion looks like a place that is rife with ghosts. The limestone exterior crumbles in the detailed cornices and archways. Once well-manicured lawns are now overgrown with jungle weeds that have won the battle over paving stones. But despite its obvious neglect, it looms with a self-satisfied smirk over the other remnants of Grand Concourse’s early twentieth century heyday. Given that it was built exclusively to house down-and-out rich people in the posh lifestyle to which they were accustomed prior to massive losses during the Great Depression, the haughtiness that it exudes is befitting.
Some artists, like Gian Maria Tosatti, took advantage of materials sourced within the home to create haunting installations. Others, including legendary graffiti artists Daze and Crash, focused more on the home’s location in the Bronx than its history. The duo created an elaborate wall-to-wall replication of a recording studio complete with sharp triangular foam protrusions, red lighting, and cracked Fun House-esque mirrors to pay tribute to the borough’s hip hop past. The remainder of the rooms was a mash of chilling homages to the lives lived within its walls, whimsical takes on interior design and decay, crowd-sourced positivity, and street-styled graffiti typical of the Bronx in the 1980s and 90s.
Given the unique socioeconomic history of the property, No Longer Empty couldn’t have chosen a more relevant time to re-open its second floor to the public. “Thank you for enabling us to live in denial just a little while longer,” read a fictional letter created by one of the artists. Yes, This Side of Paradise was about the art but it was also a very visual reminder that even the One Percent can’t avoid disintegrating into rubble nor can they self-segregate forever. Haunting and politically charged, this show broke down invisible walls created decades ago by simply unlocking the wrought iron gates and swinging open the heavy wooden doors.
Words- Tiffany Rainey
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Obamanomics Strikes Out with Small Business Owners
| December 19, 2012
| Bob Beauprez
Posted on 12/19/2012 4:56:30 AM PST by Kaslin
"Uncertainty in the private sector over taxes and government policy clearly is having an impact on business' ability to invest in the United States. Business investment is lagging bad news for growth next year."
Small business accounts for half of all the private sector jobs in America, but over the last two decades has created 2 of every 3 new jobs according to the SBA. Small businesses are a font of invention producing 16.5 times more patents per employee than large corporations. Being nimble in the market place, small businesses make up 97.5 percent of all identified U.S. exporters and produce nearly one-third of all export value for our economy.
In America, small business is a big deal.
President Obama was right when he said that "small businesses are the backbone of our economy," but his words are hollow. Entrepreneurs feel more like Obama's economic policies are breaking their back.
This week three important updated economic reports specific to small business were released. Obamanomics went 0-for-3, striking out.
Strike One: Gallup and Wells-Fargo released the results of their Small Business Index Survey and found "net capital spending intentions for the next 12 months plunged to -14 in November, the lowest level in more than two years." Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist at Gallup, says this "suggests the nation's small-business owners are likely to pull back on their business investments even more, given their negative expectations for the next 12 months."
Jacobe said the survey found small business owners "the most pessimistic they have been since the third quarter of 2010." Why wouldn't they be? The full impact of ObamaCare is about to kick in, and if the President gets his big tax rate increase 24% of the high-income earners - or 923,000 of them will be small business owners according to U.S. Treasury Department economists.
The following graph documenting more than nine years clearly displays the increasing pessimism of which Jacobe speaks including a pronounced downward trend over the last year.
Strike Two: The Institute for Supply Management has been tracking the manufacturing economy for 50 years issuing continually updated information. Since many manufacturers are small business owners, it is not surprising that ISM's newly released report was not encouraging. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) "registered 49.5 percent, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points from October's reading of 51.7 percent, indicating contraction in manufacturing for the fourth time in the last six months...the lowest level since July 2009 when the PMI registered 49.2 percent." As the following chart indicates, the PMI has been trending sharply downward for two years.
Also foreboding was ISM's Employment Index that trended sharply downward after several months of modest encouragement. "ISM's Employment Index registered 48.4 in November, which is 3.7 percentage points lower than the 52.1 percent reported in October, and the lowest reading since September 2009," according to the newly released data.
Strike Three: The National Federation of Independent Business, NFIB, has been tracking small business owner optimism for 26 years. With the exception of during the bottom of the last recession, the November index is the "lowest optimism reading in survey history," according to the December 11, 2012 report.
As the chart below indicates, small business optimism plunged 5.6 points in the month of November. "The two major events in November were the national elections and Hurricane Sandy, which devastated parts of the East Coast. To disentangle these, the results for the states impacted by Sandy were excluded from the computation for comparison," according to a NFIB press release. However, after separating the hurricane-impacted states from the remainder, NFIB found that the data indicated that the election was the primary cause of the decline in small business owner optimism.
"Something bad happened in November and based on the NFIB survey data, it wasn't merely Hurricane Sandy. The storm had a significant impact on the economy, no doubt, but it is very clear that a stunning number of owners who expect worse business conditions in six months had far more to do with the decline in small-business confidence," said NFIB chief economist, Bill Dunkleberg.
"Nearly half of owners are now certain that things will be worse next year than they are now. Washington does not have the needs of small business in mind," asserted Dunkleberg. "Between the looming 'fiscal cliff,' the promise of higher healthcare costs and the endless onslaught of new regulations, owners have found themselves in a state of pessimism. We are forced to ask: is this the new normal?"
For more than three years Barack Obama has claimed that the economy "is headed in the right direction." Unfortunately, his claim is based more on wishful thinking than on fact. The problems used to be all George W. Bush's fault. More recently, though, he's targeted John Boehner and the Republicans on Capitol Hill. Obama would have us believe that if only the GOP lawmakers would agree to his $1.6 trillion tax increase plan and yet another spending stimulus, surely happy days would be here again.
Last week I wrote about the continuing trend of dismal Labor Department jobs reports. Three and a half years into a supposed recovery, job growth is barely sufficient to keep pace with population increases. The percentage of the workforce even looking for a job is at historic low levels. In November twice as many people walked away from the work force as the number of new jobs created. That's hardly an indication of a real economic recovery.
Perhaps feeling a little ignored in recent weeks as all eyes are on Capitol Hill and the fiscal cliff negotiations, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that next year the Fed will more than double the printing of new money to "buy $45 billion in Treasurys (debt) each month, in addition to the $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities it purchases each month."
Bernanke's announced plan means the Fed will flood the market with $1.02 trillion in 2013. That will be on top of the more than $2 trillion in assets already purchased by the Fed since the recession began.
So, one year hence, the Fed's balance sheet will have swollen 440% in just five years. "The Fed has to hope the economy gets health soon, and that Washington, fiscally speaking, gets religion. Then it can push interest rates and its balance sheet back to a normal range without a crisis," opined the editors at Investor's Business Daily. "But if these good things don't happen, the U.S. could be headed over a monetary cliff hyperinflation or a brutal hike in interest rates that makes the present 'fiscal cliff' look tame in comparison."
The number of realists who are betting that both the "economy gets healthy soon" and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.
None of these ominous threats are lost on the people trying to figure out how to survive and assess future risks in the real world. After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
posted on 12/19/2012 4:56:47 AM PST
Regardless of one the talking heads are saying - I am still seeing this being a very slow Christmas shopping season. (It's gotten a little busy this week, but the few times I've been out grabbing something - I've been able to walk right up to check out with no wait). Combine that with the coming Obama tsunami - and I'm thinking there's going to be a lot of small businesses closing shop come Jan/Feb.
posted on 12/19/2012 5:18:55 AM PST
(BAD-ANON: One Game At A Time)
Something bad happened in November.
The marxist got reelected.
here we go.
President Obama was right when he said that "small businesses are the backbone of our economy," but his words are hollow.
When you want to destroy something, aim for the backbone. Obama just had something completely different in mind when he made that statement.
To him and his minions, we are kulaks - and it's time to liquidate us as a class.
posted on 12/19/2012 5:25:11 AM PST
by Mr. Jeeves
I am still seeing this being a very slow Christmas shopping season.
You're not wrong. Lots of people driving to the mall and parking and walking around and...just looking.
posted on 12/19/2012 5:27:38 AM PST
by Mr. Jeeves
To: Texas resident
Yep. Kill the small businesses and they can’t hire anyone; can’t extract FICA / Medicare, Social Security, or income taxes to pay to the Beast. They lose big time on income tax, sales tax, and franchise taxes. Way to go 0dumbo. Might want to take an economics class unless this is all intentional to cause the collapse or weaken the stability of the U.S. So the Muslim Brotherhood or Russia can take over without firing one shot. I hope that every dumba$$ that voted for him gets laid off and they run out of entitlement funds so they get to starve and be homeless for a little while while their savior lives high and mighty like a king in the Pink House.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Let’s each start a shoe shining buisness. I shine your shoes and you shine mine.
If we can convince a third person to start a shoe shining buisness, we will have doubled our customer base. And then a fourth shoe shining business opens...
I don’t see how this business model can fail.
posted on 12/19/2012 5:46:07 AM PST
(We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
> Regardless of one the talking heads are saying - I am still seeing this being a very slow Christmas shopping season.
Our funds have dipped so low we’re having to really pinch our pennies and make banana nut bread and candies to give out as gifts. Not that that’s bad but something we haven’t had to do before. I have a feeling a lot of kids are not going to get what they asked for this year but I’m pretty sure the MSM celebs and 0 will be having a blockbuster Christmas. I wis Jesus would show up as a Christmas gift to the whole world and unseat this imposter...I know wishful thinking...lol
The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex considers small business to be a competitive annoyance that must be eliminated.
Eventually, all property will be owned by the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex, and we will be their sharecroppers.
posted on 12/19/2012 5:59:44 AM PST
by E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
Obama loves big businesses because they can be more easily regulated and “threatened”. Big business as a whole loves big government because they can “buy” politicians through campaign donations and insider stock tips. Both don’t like small businesses for various reasons. For politicians it comes down to control for big business it comes down to competition for the all-mighty buck.
What neither realizes is that although big business employs large amounts of people, usually over 1000 but some go as high as a couple of million. Small businesses as an aggregate employ many, many times those amount and spend many more times than big business does.
If they succeed and put small businesses out of business they will soon find themselves out of business too. With no Tax monies coming in, politicians biggest carrot will finish rotting away. For big business their customer base will disappear, for who will have the extra money to buy their stuff or their services when the workers who remain either don’t need/want their offerings. Or the People on “assistance” can’t afford their stuff.
posted on 12/19/2012 7:08:59 AM PST
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
The Crash is coming while Buffett, Soros getting out of the market
posted on 12/19/2012 7:20:35 AM PST
Obamanomics his seventh grad math skills are showing up all over the place.And his sheep keep taking the bait.
posted on 12/19/2012 9:57:39 AM PST
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With a “No Deal” Brexit seeming more likely than ever after the UK Parliament voted down a proposed deal in January 2019, concerns are rapidly multiplying about the effects of such a withdrawal from the EU for organizations doing business in the UK, and how those organizations will address numerous practical issues, privacy and data protection among them.
In recently released updates to its post-No-Deal Brexit guidance, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) clarifies several privacy-related implications and addresses some common concerns while urging organizations to start preparing now, before the looming March 29, 2019, effective date of a No Deal Brexit.
Will the GDPR Still Apply to Personal Data of UK Data Subjects After a No-Deal Brexit?
According to the ICO, the UK government intends to bring the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) directly into UK law upon Brexit (referred to herein as the UK GDPR), to sit alongside the Data Protection Act 2018 as part of the UK’s data protection scheme. Therefore, organizations that have implemented GDPR compliance programs should continue to apply those protections to personal data of UK individuals. Despite this continuity, however, the ICO guidance makes clear that data controllers and processors will still need to make significant changes to their data privacy and protection practices before a No Deal Brexit. In particular, organizations will have to address the issues discussed below.
Data transfers are likely to be the most challenging and burdensome issue that will arise from a No Deal Brexit. Because the European Commission has the power to determine whether a country outside the EU offers an adequate level of data protection, transfers of personal data to countries not deemed “adequate” can be made only subject to certain protections, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) or Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs). (Transfers from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the U.S. can also be made subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield; transfers from the U.S. to either the UK or the EEA do not require safeguards.) Although the UK intends to seek an adequacy determination from the European Commission, there is no assurance that such a determination will be forthcoming; even if the UK is eventually deemed to be an adequate jurisdiction, the process may be lengthy. To prepare to implement appropriate safeguards, organizations will first have to understand their data flows and whether they carry out any of the following personal data transfers: (1) from the EEA to the UK, (2) from the UK to the EEA and (3) from the UK to countries outside the EEA. They will then need to adopt appropriate transfer mechanisms.
Transfers from the EEA to the UK. If your organization transfers EEA personal data to the UK, you will need to make sure that there are adequate safeguards in place or that one of the exceptions in GDPR Article 49 applies. For many organizations, the only available data transfer mechanism will be SCCs. You should begin identifying all such data transfers now, and begin the process of entering into SCCs with entities to which your organization transfers data, such as vendors, customers and even internal corporate affiliates, so these agreements are in place before Brexit.
For large multinational organizations that use BCRs as their data transfer mechanism, the ICO guidance indicates that BCRs already in place are likely to permit the transfer from the EEA to the UK, provided that they have been properly updated to show the UK as a third country, although this guidance has not been confirmed by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).
Transfers from the UK to the EEA. If your organization transfers personal data from the UK to the EEA, the UK government has stated that post-Brexit transfers from the UK to the EEA will not be restricted; however, such transfers will remain under review. No additional action is required at this time with respect to such transfers.
Transfers from the UK to the countries outside the EEA. The ICO’s guidance regarding transfers from the UK to countries outside the EEA indicates that the rules will likely not change much. In particular, the ICO expects the UK government to confirm that the UK will accept existing adequacy decisions and European Commission-approved SCCs and BCRs.
Article 27 Representatives
The GDPR requires, subject to certain exceptions, that any controller or processor not established in the EU must appoint a legal representative within the EU. The ICO has issued clear guidance that after a No Deal Brexit, the UK GDPR will require that a controller or processor not established in the UK also appoint a UK representative. As a result, organizations may have to appoint two representatives – one in the UK if they are subject to the UK GDPR but not established in the UK, and another in the EEA if they are subject to the GDPR but not established in the EEA.
Lead Supervisory Authority
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Data Protection Officers
The ICO’s guidance states that Data Protection Officers (DPOs) appointed by a company may continue in that role, and combine their future UK responsibilities with any ongoing EU responsibilities, so long as “they have expert knowledge of both UK data protection law and the EU regime, and are ‘easily accessible’ from both locations.” Because the UK GDPR mirrors the GDPR, your DPO who already possesses knowledge of the GDPR will also necessarily possess knowledge of the UK GDPR. Your DPO should also possess knowledge of the Data Protection Act 2018, which took effect at the same time as the GDPR.
ICO guidance suggests that the information required in your privacy notice is unlikely to change. To the extent that your privacy notice refers to “Union law” or other GDPR-specific terminology, updates will need to be made, and reference to your organization’s UK representative, if applicable (as discussed above), will need to be added. If your U.S.-based organization participates in the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks for data transfers from the EU or Switzerland, respectively, to the U.S., you will need to update your privacy notice by March 29, 2019, to affirm that your commitment to the Privacy Shield extends to UK personal data, as we discussed in a recent blog post.
Article 30 Records of Processing
Changes to the information you are required to document are not likely. You may need to review certain of your processing activities involving data transfers to the UK and update your records accordingly. For example, you may now have to classify certain personal data as being subject to international transfer rules and document under which adequate safeguards it was transferred.
Data Protection Impact Assessments
Existing assessments may need to be reviewed to determine whether they cover international data flows that become restricted after Brexit.
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Why Is Portable Generators Including In A Kit?
Solar generators are a good way to supplement your home’s energy supply. You have to consider many factors before you make your purchase. There are a lot of considerations to take into account. For one, where will you use the solar generator? How much power will you need? What size and how long term are you looking to invest in?
Many people go for the cheapest solar generator they can find. The problem is that it may not work when it comes time to switch it on. Do you really want to leave such an expensive option sitting in your garage or backyard? Of course not. Portable solar generators are a better option if you plan to store or transport it.
Solar panels usually cost around $200. Of course you should only buy what you need and nothing more. However, most do not think this far ahead. They assume they will need to buy more panels soon. This is usually not the case, although it should be considered when you start adding up how much you need to run your household.
One option that you have is buying a pre-built solar generator. Most major department stores carry them. They are also sold online. They are easy to install and come with detailed instructions. Of course you will need to do some checking to be sure they fit your vehicle, but at least you have the option of setting up the system yourself if you wish.
Building your own solar panel will take time and research. If you do not know much about solar energy systems, this would be a bad idea. Make sure you know what you are doing if you choose this route. If you have a friend or family member willing to help you, then go for it.
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Globe Trekker Best Beaches takes traveller Justine Shapiro on a month-by-month tour of the world’s number one hot spots and chill-out destinations. Whether you’re an intrepid traveller,seasoned back-packer or just pleasure seeking holiday maker, whatever your style your dream beach awaits.
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Unalaska overlooks Iliuliuk Bay and Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Chain. It lies 800 air miles from Anchorage, a two- to three-hour flight, and 1,700 miles northwest of Seattle. The name Dutch Harbor is often applied to the portion of the City on Amaknak Island, which is connected to Unalaska Island by bridge. Dutch Harbor is actually within the boundaries of the City of Unalaska. It lies at approximately 53d 52m N Latitude, 166d 32m W Longitude. (Sec. 11, T073S, R118W, Seward Meridian). Unalaska is located in the Aleutian Islands Recording District. The area encompasses 111 sq. miles of land and 101.3 sq. miles of water.
More than 3,000 Unangan (known since the Russian era as “Aleuts”) lived in 24 settlements on Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in 1759. Unalaska became a Russian trading port for the fur seal industry in 1768. In 1787, many hunters and their families were enslaved and relocated by the Russian American Company to the Pribilof Islands to work in the fur seal harvest. In 1825, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Ascension of Christ was constructed. The founding priest, Ivan Veniaminov, composed the first Aleut writing system with local assistance, and translated scripture into Aleut. Since Aleuts were not forced to give up their language or culture by the Russian Orthodox priests, the Church remained strong in the community. By this time, however, between 1830 and 1840, only 200 to 400 Aleuts lived in Unalaska. In 1880, the Methodist Church opened a school, clinic and the Jesse Lee Home for orphans. The City of Unalaska was incorporated in March 1942. On June 3, 1942, Unalaska was attacked by the Japanese. Almost all of the Aleuts on the Island were interned to Southeast Alaska for the duration of World War II. The Russian Orthodox Church was nearly destroyed by evacuating U.S. Army troops. The Church is the oldest Russian Orthodox cruciform-style church in North America, and is currently undergoing restoration.
Unalaska is a rapidly-growing and culturally-diverse community, primarily focused on fishing and fish processing activities. Subsistence activities remain important to the Unangan community and many long-term non-Native residents as well.
Unalaska’s economy is based on commercial fishing, fish processing, and fleet services such as fuel, repairs and maintenance, trade and transportation. The community enjoys a strategic position as the center of a rich fishing area, and for transshipment of cargo between Pacific Rim trading partners. The Great Circle shipping route from major west coast ports to the Pacific Rim passes within 50 miles of Unalaska, and Dutch Harbor provides a natural protection for fishing vessels. The harbor has ranked as the number one port in the nation for seafood volume and value for the past 11 years. In 1998, 597 million pounds of fish were landed in Unalaska, worth $110 million. 50 residents hold commercial fishing permits. Onshore and offshore processors provide some local employment. However, non-resident workers are usually brought in during the peak season. Westward Seafoods, Unisea and Alyeska Seafoods process seafood in Unalaska. Rapid growth occurred between 1988 and 1992 as the pollock fishery developed; the economy has now stabilized. Unalaska has a budding tourist industry and a new Convention and Visitors Bureau. During 1998, Unalaska received visitors from five cruise ships.
A new water reservoir was recently completed at Icy Creek. Water is also supplied by a dam at Pyramid Creek and Unalaska Creek, and is chlorinated and stored in a tank. The City has asked for funds to construct a 2-million-gallon back-up storage tank above Ballyhoo Road. All homes and on-shore fish processors are served by the City’s piped water system. Piped sewage receives primary treatment before discharge into Unalaska Bay. Nearly all households have plumbing; a few homes use septic tanks or privies. The City has a new lined 6-acre landfill and refuse baler; recycling and hazardous waste disposal is provided. All on-shore processors generate their own electrical power.
Daily scheduled flights serve the community at the State-owned 3,900 foot paved runway. A seaplane base is also available. The State Ferry operates bi-monthly from Kodiak between April and October. There are ten major docks in Unalaska; three are operated by the City. A refurbished World War II sub dock offers ship repair services. The International Port of Dutch Harbor serves fishing vessels and shipping, with 5,200 feet of moorage and 1,232 feet of floating dock. The small boat harbor provides 238 moorage slips. The Corps of Engineers plan to make harbor improvements and to develop a second small boat harbor in South Channel, Iliuliuk Bay, called the “Little South America.” A $9 million project to add a 500-ft. extension to the Marine Center dock will go out to bid in 2002.
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Useful Informationfor the 4*S Hotel in Gastein
Everything for your holiday with us
Check in on your day of arrival is 3pm – we ask you to check out by 11am. Late arrivals and early departures will incur a € 22 surcharge.
Wi-Fi is available for free in the hotel lobby. You can pay by EC-Card (cash card) or in cash; credit card payments will incur a fee of 3%.
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Due to the current situation around Covid19, we have changed our cancellation policy until 30th September 2021 adapted for you.
You can, of course, cancel your stay at the Impuls Hotel Tirol without any complications and free of charge up to 7 days before arrival.
From September 30, 2021 our normal cancellation conditions will apply again:
In the event that you withdraw from a firmly agreed room booking, you will be charged the following cancellation costs:
- up to 1 month before the agreed arrival: 0%
- up to the 15th day before the agreed arrival: 50% of the price agreed for the booked stay
-from the 14th day to the agreed arrival date: 80% of the price agreed for the booked stay
If you withdraw later, do not arrive, arrive late or leave early, we have to charge the full price agreed for the stay you have booked.
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Was I really walking around this Spokane Washington Park just this afternoon? Air travel is truly amazing.
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17th December 2006, 11:07 PM
Since becoming an owner I have been more critically aware of the 97X, it's sisters, and the fact that it was a stop gap measure to place a product for SAAB on the market. It's been reported that the replacement will be the 94X and based on the new Subbie SUV Tribeca. The engine's output is 245 bhp flat 6 / 5 Speed but can only tow 3500 lbs. What's your thoughts?
17th December 2006, 11:32 PM
The GM/Subaru deal to share the Tribeca platform died even before GM killed the 9-2x, so the discussion of which you speak is more than a year past being DOA.
The 9-7x replacement will be more of a crossover vehicle (http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2006/09/94x_latest_info.html) not an SUV
17th December 2006, 11:57 PM
Thank you Mike for the update! Well Mexico also builds that Ford Escape series....need I say more?
18th December 2006, 01:04 PM
Plant location is a red herring. I'd rather have a well-designed car built in Mexico than a poorly designed one built in Sweden...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
People Think I Dress: Weird, Ugly and Awful
People are getting more and more afraid to dress in their own individual style, the things that make them happy or feel fun, all because they're afraid of what others will think.
Instead of bashing others outfits and style, be the awesome person that can appreciate the creativity in others.
I was talking to a girl inside a shoe store in Soho a few days ago. She was telling me how she liked my outfit and missed how Soho used to be, when you would see so many people with different and creative styles walking down the streets in Soho. She said, "it's so much more boring now because everyone dresses the same. Now that everyone just wants to look like every else they see on instagram, everyone just dresses the same and no one is interesting!" She went on to say how she used to dress more funky and fun, and people would stop her to take pictures of her outfit, but now she just dresses in the same things as everyone else, because she didn't want to feel weird. It told, she needed to be the change, to make Soho the place filled with unique street style again!
Weird is not a bad thing, weird is an awesome thing. It means you dare to be an individual. You dare to stand out and not blend in with everyone else who is trying to look like everyone else. Stand out, be different. Wear what you love, what makes you happy, not just what everyone else is wearing. Style is about YOU! What do YOU love to wear? What gives an outfit your unique fingerprint?
I don't dress to look good for anyone. I don't dress to look sexy for guys, I don't dress to impress girls. I wear what makes me happy, what I like. Style is just a chance for your creativity to have fun putting things together on your body.
Instead of being a small minded person, and only liking people that look like you...which is like being a "fashion-racist"...ha ha ha. BE someone that can appreciate something in everyone. There are really no rules for fashion or art, there are just people who think there are rules! If there's any place you want freedom, it's in your fashion!
Learn to appreciate and admire each others creativity. I may not think all styles look good on me or my body, but I can to ally appreciate them on others.
For example, me and my sister dress nothing alike, but I LOVE her style. She always looks classy and timeless, and sometimes I wish I looked like her, but when I've dress to dress like her, I felt like it wasn't me. SO I love her style, but I just dress like my style: a little funky, edgy, colorful, crazy sometimes, tomboyish, vintage-y
Whatever you style is....rock it, own it, wear it, love it, have fun getting dressed. And learn to give a compliment even to people who don't dress anything like you...
Stop being a "style-racist" and only loving what looks like you and learn to truly love fashion and all the different styles, colors, personalities and individuals who are displaying their creativity and style!
And a huge PS. Money does not make you stylish. Just because you can afford designer clothes does not mean you are stylish. I have seen more awesome outfits that were put together on a budget, which takes more creativity than just walking in a store and buying a high priced sought after "fashion must have".
So to everyone who thinks, thought (all mean girls who teases me in high school) and who might think in the future....
I like my weirdness, I like how I dress, if you think it's strange because I don't dress like everyone else....here's a little wisdom from my great-granda Vi:
"Is somebody doesn't like what you are wearing, just tell them, well, just be glad you don't have to wear this then!"
Leave the place for hate, in the small-minded persons heart.
Huge hugs from me and my great-grandma, your "weird" friend, Kandee
"And you say weird, like it's a bad thing" -ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Richard tells Gail he can't live without her, and refuses to consider giving himself up to the police. He ties her up with gaffer tape and leaves a written confession in an envelope on the side in the living room absolving her of any responsibility for his crimes. Gail is able to pick up a pair of nail scissors without Richard noticing. He explains to Gail that he always wants to be by her side and that he loves her and the kids. Gail realises that Richard is intent on a suicide pact and fears for the worst. She is led to the garage where she finds Sarah and David tied up with tape and gagged in the back seat of the car while Bethany is asleep having been given sedatives. Gail asks to give a goodbye kiss to the children and uses the opportunity to pass the scissors to Sarah. Gail is then gagged and put in the front seat and Richard switches on the engine. He switches on the radio playing songs from their holiday in Florida as Sarah tries to free David. Audrey calls round to see Gail, there's no reply and the door is bolted from the inside. Audrey is concerned. Martin comes over and they hear the music and running engine in the garage and realise that Richard is trying to kill the whole family. Tommy and Kevin force the garage door open. Richard in desperation drives at them. Tommy, Kevin and Martin give chase in another car. Katy phones the police. Norris who's seen the whole thing tells everyone in the Rovers what's going on. Sarah and David manage to free themselves and David fights with Richard for control of the wheel while Sarah frees Gail, but it's too late; Richard drives to the canal-side and straight off the end. The car plunges into the canal. In the murky depths of the water the kidnapped occupants desperately struggle to escape.
- Richard Hillman - Brian Capron
- Gail Hillman - Helen Worth
- Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
- Tommy Nelson - Thomas Craig
- Katy Nelson - Lucy-Jo Hudson
- Mick Hopwood - Ian Gain
- Janice Battersby - Vicky Entwistle
- David Platt - Jack P. Shepherd
- Sarah Platt - Tina O'Brien
- Harry Flagg - Iain Rogerson
- Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
- Archie Shuttleworth - Roy Hudd
- Martin Platt - Sean Wilson
- Norris Cole - Malcolm Hebden
- Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
- Angela Nelson - Kathryn Hunt
- Bethany Platt - Amy & Emily Walton (Uncredited)
- Coronation Street
- Rovers Return Inn - Public
- 6 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms
- 8 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms and garage
- Unknown streets in Weatherfield
- Weatherfield Canal
- Richard Hammatt was credited as the Stunt Co-ordinator on this episode.
- The scene of the car driving into the Weatherfield Canal was recorded at the Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne. The car speeds down Portland Street South before turning into the basin. The same location was used in Episode 6676 (31st October 2007) when David Platt recreated the plunge.
- The music playing in the car is the "You and Me Song" by the Swedish group The Wannadies, and was also reused in Episode 6676.
- TV Times synopsis: Richard takes his family on a murderous mystery tour.
- Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 17,840,000 viewers (1st place).
- This episode was included in the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The Best of 2000-2009, released on 31st October 2011.
Richard Hillman: "It's them out there that want to hurt us. They'll never leave us alone. They'll never let us get on with our lives. And if we can't live together as a family then the only choice is we'll die together as a family."
Richard Hillman: (Just prior to the car hitting the water) "This is it... I love you."
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A group of advocates working on behalf of Portland's homeless set up a blue tent on City Hall's front lawn Friday, a symbolic visual aid for their call to repeal two city laws targeting the homeless.
But before they could finish talking, a City Hall security guard told them to take down the tent or risk a trip to jail. After a brief argument, the tent came down.
The confrontation illustrated the tensions around homeless issues in Portland, which remain weeks after police ended a large-scale protest that saw dozens of people sleeping on the sidewalks surrounding City Hall.
A group calling itself The City Hall Protesters pushed once again at the morning news conference for city leaders to repeal what they see as unconstitutional ordinances that prohibit camping and blocking sidewalks. Organized during the City Hall camp-out, the group's members have kept up the pressure by attending weekly City Council meetings, signing up to speak and calling for a humane solution to what they see as police harassment.
The group wants the city to create a "green zone" somewhere in Portland where homeless people can sleep without the worry of being rousted or arrested by police. While the city funds hundreds of shelter beds, as do private organizations, hundreds of homeless people can be turned away on a given night.
"We intend to continue the fight until we get these laws repealed," said Larry Reynolds, one of the organizers who said he is a homeless veteran.
The city laws in question, supported by Portland's business community, have been designed to prohibit camping in city parks and give police a tool to address aggressive panhandling and large congregations of people on the street, which some believe can be intimidating and a detriment to business and tourism.
And while the city has begun to address the need for more affordable housing, rental assistance and other programs, solutions are expensive and take time. The city is four years into a 10-year plan to end homelessness.
Read more about the story in Saturday's edition of The Oregonian.
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Getting the best SEO for your website depends a lot on the content of your website. As for the success of the content you need to ensure that it is of the proper length. In fact, the success of any online marketing content will be dependent on the length. This includes posts on social networks, blogs and even the title tags of your page.
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- URL Domains: 8 characters are perfect. Smaller domain names are easily remembered. The best ones avoid using hyphens and complicated spellings. A .com extension is more agreeable to users as well.
- Hashtags: The best hashtags contain 6 characters. Avoid using special characters. It is also better if colloquial language is avoided.
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- Title Tags: The perfect length of the title tags is 55 characters. If it exceeds 60 characters, an ellipsis will be used to shorten it.
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- Blog Posts: You should be aiming for an average of 1600 words to ensure maximum readability. Most posts that are read are less than 3 minutes long. Posts that are less than 6 minutes will get read the most.
- YouTube Videos: 3 minutes is the ideal length. The most popular videos are usually the shortest. The average length of these videos was around 3 minutes as well.
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Hot Girls Wanted (2015) Full Movie Free Several 18 to 25-year old young women are interviewed about their experiences as pornography performers. freemoviesonlinemovies.net
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Java Draw Created Feb 17, 2013 640 x 460px Unless noted Copyright 2013 USB-kun.
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Ambridge is becoming even more diverse. The “dual heritage” daughter of the white vicar who was married to a black Jamaican (now dead) and is now married to a Hindu is being given much more prominence. She has acquired a boyfriend Carl, who has just made his Archers debut. Carl is black. Not that you would know this from any reference to his race because direct mention of the race of a character is never permitted in Ambridge. But although no mention of race is permitted , the producers of the Archers want listeners to know when any member of an ethnic minority appears . In the case of Asians this can easily be done with the names. Blacks are more problematic because many of them have British names. To identify them they use someone with an unmistakably black voice, whether that be black South African as in the case of Kate Aldridge’s husband or black British . As he is black Carl is of course represented as immensely handsome, intelligent, witty and polite, as all ethnic minority figures are in Ambridge. Well, that is what the crazed feminists who control the Archers tell you. The actor’s performance is rather different, Carl being as mobile and characterful as a block of teak.
We have also just been prepared for the introduction of another Asian, nickname Ifky, who will be coming to coach the younger members of Ambridge cricket club
Young Jamie Perks approached the vet Alastair, who is captain of the Ambridge cricket team, and lamented that he is not sure he will be able to come every week to cricket practice run by Ifky because of his girlfriend. Alastair sympathised saying, well, it is a regular commitment which would mean Jamie could not be with the girlfriend one day a week, assuming that the girlfriend objects on those grounds. In the real world that would be the case, but in the politically correct fantasy of the Archers the girlfriend was annoyed about the practice because -wait for it – she wanted to play as well and could not understand why it was only for boys.
A later conversation about Ifky produced the following gem:
Linda Snell “Where’s he from?”
Linda Snell: “No I meant ….er…er.. no it doesn’t matter”.
Ifky has yet to have a speaking part but has appeared in virtual form. Being from an ethnic minority he is of course also immensely handsome, so much so that not only have all the women and girls in Ambridge flooded to cricket practice to gaze upon his God-like countenance, but the only two gays in the village, Adam and Ian, have come along to openly ogle him.
There is also the possibility that the Albanian care home worker Elona will bring her relatives over in the not too far distant future. She has a partner in an Englishman Darren who, guess what, has just come out of prison after he “got in with the wrong sort”.
I can’t help wondering how long it will be before the native English inhabitants in the village will qualify for ethnic minority status.
There is one strange omission from the ever more politically correct village. There are no lesbians. Time for some girl-on-girl action shurely ? (ed). | <urn:uuid:2a0c6b72-1e79-466b-b3b0-c3573dfa8736> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | https://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/the-archers-an-everyday-story-of-simple-politically-correct-folk-part-2/ | 2015-08-29T23:28:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644064590.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025424-00069-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979451 | 686 |
Let that dry and next applied flake white on the lightest areas of the painting. Next I will build up the form with blue-greens and reds and then finally, apply glazes over that. Don't have any idea what I'm doing but read about this "Verdaccio" technique in an article by Adrian Gottlieb in the most recent Artist's Magazine. Thought it would be fun to try.I've continued to work on Lady of the Lake. Am liking face a little better. On to the hands. | <urn:uuid:1bd62324-4b11-49f3-ac38-3422344c682c> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://thetwirlingdragon.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-experimenting-with-oil.html | 2016-12-09T03:46:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542680.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00001-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970907 | 110 |
Today you would be two and a half years old, Zachary. Your half birthday. Thirty months since that amazing day.
It's the kind of day the four of us would celebrate together more subtly, quietly amazed at how much you'd grown in half a year. If you were here.
A special day for you, halfway to age five. Not even a blip on anyone else's radar. Our little secret. If you were here.
I miss you, love, your milestones, more than I can articulate.
C.T. and I painted these stones for you today, to add to your garden. You are our sunshine and our heart. | <urn:uuid:245436f3-d7de-4af0-9355-c3c3a5b15de0> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://lostboysandbearings.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-and-12.html | 2017-10-17T11:28:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187821088.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017110249-20171017130249-00803.warc.gz | en | 0.974614 | 136 |
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Peach Prosecco Punch - An incredibly refreshing, bubbly party punch made with Prosecco, peach nectar and fresh berries!
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Peach Prosecco Punch: an incredibly refreshing, bubbly party punch made with Prosecco, peach nectar and fresh berries.
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Peach Prosecco Punch - Damn Delicious
21 Viva la Vodka Cocktails that make entertaining easy! A variety of delicious adult-beverages that are amazing!
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Orange Dirty Shirley Cocktail, this is one tasty adult beverage!
Orange Dirty Shirley 1 1/2 ounces of Orange Vodka 1 1/2 ounces of grenadine (or cherry juice) Sprite Orange Slice and Cherry for Garnish Fill your glass with ice Add in your vodka and grenadine Top off with Sprite, Garnish with the Orange and Cherry and enjoy!
Orange Dirty Shirley: orange vodka, grenadine (or cherry juice), sprite.. oh man, I used to love Shirley temples when I was young. Def trying this one!
Make this Orange Dirty Shirley cocktail today - light and refreshing with all the flavors of a Shirley Temple you loved as a kid!
21 Viva La Vodka Cocktails
Make your winter a little brighter with these Clementine Margaritas from NoblePig.com.
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We make these on Christmas morning as we're opening gifts: Cranberry Mimosas #recipe
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Christmas Mimosas - Christmas Brunch -12 Servings 4 cups cranberry juice, chilled 4 cups orange juice 2 (750 ml.) bottles Champagne, chilled 12 slices fresh orange, for garnish (optional) Fill twelve 12-ounce glasses with ice..
Cranberry Mimosas Recipe | Recipe Girl Yield: 12 servings Prep Time: 15 min Ingredients: 4 cups cranberry juice, chilled 4 cups orange juice 2 (750 ml.) bottles Champagne, chilled 12 slices fresh orange, for garnish (optional) Directions: Fill twelve 12-ounce glasses with ice; pour 1/3 cup cranberry juice into each glass. Top each serving with 1/3 cup orange juice and about 1/2 cup Champagne. Garnish with orange slices, if desired.
We make these on Christmas morning as we're opening gifts: Cranberry Mimosas #recipe calls for 4 cups of cranberry juice and 4 cups of orange juice, plus 12 slices of orange.
Holiday Mimosas -cranberry juice, orange juice, champagne...now that's a good Christmas morning
Cranberry Mimosas Recipe
Christmas Drinks sierra mist, cranberry juice, cranberry vodka, lime juice
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Christmas Cocktail: Sierra Mist, Cranberry Juice, Cranberry Vodka, Lime Juice
Simple Christmas Drink: Sierra Mist, Cranberry Juice, Cranberry Vodka, & Lime Juice
Chris-Mist (Cranberry juice + cranberry vodka + lime juice + Sierra Mist) | Holiday Drinks
Mimosa punch 1 (12oz. can) thawed orange juice concentrate 1 liter club soda 1 to 2 bottles sparkling wine Put 1 can cold but thawed orange juice concentrate into a punch bowl or in a large pitcher. Stir to soften. Stir in 4 cups cold club soda. Then add the sparkling wine and stir gently. Pour into champagne flutes or coupes and serve.
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Paula Deen Mimosa Punch
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Red Wine & Red Berries Sangria | Beach House in the City
Sangria (minus alcohol)
Sangria recipe: 1 bottle of red wine (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, rioja, zinfandel, shiraz) 1 lemon cut into wedges 1 orange cut into wedges 1 lime cut into wedges 2 tbsp sugar splash of orange juice or lemonade 2 shots of gin or triple sec (optional) 1 cup of raspberries or strawberries (may use thawed or frozen) 1 small can of diced pineapples (with juice) 4 cups gingerale pour wine into large pitcher and squeeze the juices from the wedges and toss them into the wine. add pineapple, sugar, oj, and gin. chill overnight. add gingerale, berries and ice just before serving. you could skip the gingerale, if you wanted it to be richer and less fizzy.
Many different Sangria recipes!!! V's bday party
Nutella Hot Chocolate recipe!! - #nutella
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Nutella Hot Chocolate -1 cup of milk -2 spoonfuls of Nutella -whipped cream -mini marshmallows Directions: Pour about 1/4 of the milk into a saucepan on medium-low heat. Add the Nutella and whisk until blended. Slowly stir in the remaining milk. Add a pinch of cinnamon and whisk until hot and frothy. Carefully pour the mixture into a mug, add whipped cream, and mini marshmallows...I can't wait for fall when I will try this recipe out!
UMM YES PLEASE. Nutella Hot Chocolate: 1 cup milk. 2 spoons nutella. Saucepan. Heat medium. Blend. Whisk frothy. OMG. #food #hotchocolate #nutella #recipe #yummy
Nutella Hot Chocolate cup milk. 2 spoons nutella. Saucepan. Heat medium. Blend. Whisk frothy...
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Frozen peach mojito from cooking light
Peach nectar iced tea
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Peach Mojito Recipe by Cooking Light
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Moscato sangria...could be good and easier than my real sangria recipe.
Moscato sangria food
Moscato sangria, yummy.
A great drink made with coconut rum and pineapple juice, and garnished with a cherry.
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Tanning Bed Drink | "A great drink made with coconut rum and pineapple juice, and garnished with a cherry."
Summer Drink Recipe
Tanning Bed Rum Drink
Tanning Bed Drink Ingredients 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger coconut flavored rum 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger pineapple juice 1 maraschino cherry Directions 1. In a rocks glass, pour coconut rum over ice. Pour pineapple juice to top. Garnish with maraschino cherry.
Pear & Cranberry Bellini
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Pear and Cranberry Bellini Affordable Prosecco is used in place of Champagne in these pink Bellinis made with pear nectar and cranberry juice. These elegant drinks are equally suited to a cocktail party or a New Year's Day brunch. Serves 8 Ingredients: 1 cup pear nectar 1 cup cranberry juice cocktail 1 bottle Prosecco or other dry sparkling white wine @Martha Stewart Living
Red wine, diced strawberries, peaches, pears, sprite and ice.
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Red wine, diced strawberries, club soda (unsweetened) and ice. Lovely summer drink. #drinks
Red wine, diced strawberries, Sprite and ice...perfect summertime drink by the pool.
Adult beverage - red wine, diced strawberries, peaches, pears, sprite and ice
Red wine Diced strawberries Sprite Ice ...my kind of happy hour :)
Yummy drink recipe :) Red wine, diced strawberries, sprite and ice. Lovely summer drink. You can also chop some peaches or pears in it. ;) Enjoy!
red wine, diced strawberries, Sprite and ice - refreshing on a hot summer day!!
Malibu Mimosa Punch Cocktail Recipe Great site for drink recipes
Mimosa Punch 1 (12-ounce) can thawed orange juice concentrate 1 liter club soda 1 to 2 bottles champagne (or sparkling wine) Put 1 can cold but thawed orange juice concentrate into a punch bowl or in a large pitcher. Stir to soften. Stir in 4 cups cold club soda. Then add the sparkling wine and stir gently. Float orange slices in punch bowl.
Mimosa Punch Recipe 5 from Food Network, found @Edamam!
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Bubble Tea at Home
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make bubble tea at home!
Peach Grapefruit Sangria
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Peach sangria - good for pool party
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Virtual Wine Bar: Peach Grapefruit Sangria
The Perfect Hot Chocolate
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"Here it is: the perfect hot chocolate recipe." #vegan #vegetarian #food #health Dessert #healthy Dessert #Dessert| http://yourperfectdessert996.blogspot.com
The perfect hot chocolate recipe; made with coconut milk.
PERFECT HOT CHOCOLATE: Combine ⅔ C milk, ⅓ C canned coconut milk, 2 Tb cocoa powder, Pinch salt, ½ tsp pure vanilla extract, 1 Tb agave or sugar or 1 stevia pkt; stir. Cook on stovetop, or: microwave 30 secs, stir; repeat twice more, or until hot & completely mixed. Top with vegan whipped cream & Barleans Essential Woman chocolate-raspberry swirl!
Healthy Hot Chocolate ~ recipe ~The Perfect Hot Chocolate (Serves 1), 2/3 cup milk of choice, 1/3 cup full-fat canned coconut milk, 2 T cocoa powder, 1/16 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract, sweetener, such as 1 stevia packet or 1 tablespoon sugar or agave
High Tea for Two.
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Pink rose tea party.
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Beautiful silver and rose tea service. for a girls engagement tea party
Tea for Two on a silver tray embellished with pink roses. Lovely.
Beautiful table setting with pink roses and silver tea set
What a stunning afternoon tea for two tablescape! I love the elegant rose bowls and silver tea set.
Yummy Health Smoothie
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HEALTHY! Banana Oatmeal Smoothie: ■2 whole Chiquita Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel) ■2 cups Ice ■1/3 cup Yogurt - preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey ■1/2 cup Cooked oatmeal ■1/3 cup Almonds
Banana Oatmeal Smoothie Recipe Almonds, cooked oatmeal, bananas and yogurt meet up in your blender for a power breakfast. Drink this Banana Oatmeal Smoothie before your morning exercise routine and you’ll have the energy you need to get through your workout. Ingredients:2 whole Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel) ■2 cups Ice ■1/3 cup Yogurt - preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey ■1/2 cup Cooked oatmeal ■1/3 cup Almonds Pour all ingredients in blender pouring ice in last. Blend on high for 30 seconds or until smoothie thickens. Nutrition Information Per Serving: Calories 380; Total Fat 15 g (Sat 2 g, Trans 0 g, Poly 4 g, Mono 8 g); Cholesterol 5 mg; Sodium 35 mg; Potassium 690 mg; Total Carbohydrates 53 g; Dietary Fiber 9 g; Total Sugars 19 g; Protein 12 g. Percent Daily Value: Vitamin A 2%; Vitamin B6 25%; Vitamin C 20%; Vitamin D 0%; Calcium 15%, Iron 15%.
Like Irazu? Banana Oatmeal Smoothie: whole Chiquita Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel) 2cups Ice cup Yogurt - preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey cup Cooked oatmeal cup Almonds
need to try this one - but almond milk, not yogurt. quick Chiquita Banana Oatmeal Smoothie Recipe 2 whole Chiquita Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel) 2 cups Ice 1/3 cup Yogurt - preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey 1/2 cup Cooked oatmeal 1/3 cup Almonds
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Pineapple Mimosa What a great idea!!!
Pineapple Orange Mimosas Directions Divide a bottle of champagne among 4 glasses. Stir together 1/4 cup pineapple juice and 1/4 cup orange juice; pour over the champagne. Top each mimosa with 1/2 tablespoon orange liqueur. Garnish with orange and pineapple wedges.
Pineapple Orange Mimosas making these Christmas morning
Pineapple Orange Mimosas Recipe : Patrick and Gina Neely : Recipes : Food Network
Sweet Southern Prep: Thirsty Thursday: Pineapple Orange Mimosa + Summer Studs
1 oz sloe gin 1 oz gin 3/4 ozfresh lemon juice 1 oz simple syrup 3 - 4 oz soda water Shake the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball glass. Top with soda, garnish with a slice of orange and a cherry, and serve.
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Perfect Iced Coffee Recipe from the pioneer woman. Made this using a smaller recipe (just brewed one cup and let it chill in the fridge for a bit then poured over ice and added half & half). Her tip for using sweetened condensed milk to sweeten is amazing. Just be sure to put the remaining milk in the fridge so you can use it again!
Perfect Iced Coffee Recipe
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The Pioneer Woman's recipe for the Perfect Iced Coffee. I make this recipe all the time & it really is perfection!
Perfect Iced Coffee Recipe| The Pioneer Woman Cooks | Ree Drummond
perfect iced coffee via the Pioneer Woman love love love this, love cold concentrate brew. pioneer women is awesome...
Perfect Iced Coffe Recipe
Frozen Strawberry Mojito: (in a blender) 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can (the one that held the limeade) rum, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and a muddled mixture of a few leaves of fresh mint and the pulp of two limes. This combination yielded two very large servings, which could easily have worked for four normal sized portions. I want everyday.
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Perfect summer drink! Blend 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can sprite, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and the pulp of two limes. yummy drink instead of soda.
FROZEN STRAWBERRY MOJITO. Perfect Christmas drink! Blend 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can sprite, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and the pulp of two limes. unbelievably delicious.
Perfect summer drink! Blend 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can sprite, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and the pulp of two limes. frozen strawberry limeade :)
Frozen strawberry Mojito, non-alcoholic. Perfect summer drink! Blend 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can sprite, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and the pulp of two limes. | <urn:uuid:f701f53b-d1b6-42d5-ae33-6a8793a8de99> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | https://www.pinterest.com/svmom/coffee-tea-or-me/ | 2015-07-06T21:37:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098808.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00003-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.766286 | 3,994 |
Getting the oil out of oil'n'powdered spices requires a large coffee filter, and plenty of time. Annala, Helsinki, Finland. Indoors. 2004-11-29.
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Henriette's herbal is one of the oldest and largest herbal medicine sites on the net. It's been online since 1995, and is run by Henriette Kress, a herbalist in Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.henriettes-herb.com - Copyright 1995–2020 Henriette Kress. | <urn:uuid:27a47afd-1112-4558-964c-6ebc85dda4ee> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/other/filtering.html | 2021-01-25T15:16:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703581888.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125123120-20210125153120-00201.warc.gz | en | 0.79977 | 128 |
Kentico CMS to Support Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
Kentico Software announced that version 3.1 of their Web Content Management System will support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
Scheduled for release in mid-March 2008, version 3.1 of their Web Content Management System Kentico CMS for ASP.NET will work with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that launched February 27.
CMS will keep the support for Windows Server 2000/2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005, as well.
Price: US$499 to $1,499 per Web site
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What sort of car do you have? I am with RACV, they are the only ones that would insure me. I'm 22 years old, automatic rating 2 cos of my mum, paying $1200 a year for my car, and it's insured full comp. at $30,500. I'd lost my licence on my p's too, but now I just have the extra excess. My 1st policy renewal is coming up in August, they better not screw me around.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier -- just so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W. Bush (December 18, 2000) | <urn:uuid:87963e7c-6602-4cac-912b-0686b75b55ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.fordforums.com/f126/insurance-19513/ | 2016-02-11T19:37:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701162648.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193922-00005-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982427 | 137 |
Access your Superannuation to pay for Fertility Treatment
We are happy to introduce SuperCare. SuperCare is an external service provider based on an Australian Government initiative to assist individuals and their families access their superannuation to cover medical costs.
The SuperCare IVF Services Advice Team can facilitate the funding required for various treatments, including:
- Donor sperm
- Donor eggs
- Egg freezing
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Women’s health and counselling
Accessing your superannuation for IVF-related treatment is an individual choice.
SuperCare’s primary goal is to help support families by relieving the financial stress and tension that may occur when undergoing fertility treatment. SuperCare is the only company in Australia specifically established to assist individuals access their superannuation to fund IVF treatments and other medical expenses associated with treatment, in an efficient and timely manner. By doing so, SuperCare ensures that its clients receive the priority treatment they deserve.
SuperCare’s consultants are with their clients every step of the way, facilitating and taking the hassle out of the entire application process. As an integral part of your health support team, SuperCare’s consultants pride themselves on their personal approach and work as a team with their clients to ensure an easy, efficient and stress-free result.
SuperCare knows the process inside out and can inform you of your options. For example, did you know you can also access your partner’s superannuation for IVF treatment? And did you know that, should you choose to access your superannuation to fund your IVF treatment, you’ll still be entitled to the full IVF rebate from Medicare? SuperCare knows how to ensure you get the best result.
Patients just need to contact SuperCare directly to enquire. This can be done by visiting the SuperCare website: mysupercare.com.au | <urn:uuid:8cc85259-158e-4627-b6f3-51d96aeca88d> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://fertilityfirst.com.au/supercare/ | 2021-10-17T03:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585120.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017021554-20211017051554-00345.warc.gz | en | 0.947938 | 396 |
Thirty years ago the Psion picture across North America was very clear. A very small percentage of the population reportedly possessed psionic abilities. Federal, state, and local authorities, in conjunction with organizations such as Knight Incorporated and The Paladin Brigade, possessed more than ample technology and numbers to deal with any potential threat to the safety of the citizens of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.~Jonah Fox, CityNewsNet
Five years later everything would change with the introduction of one Corivs Corax.
One year later everything would change yet again with the capture, incarceration, and escape of the reputed terrorist and murder Corvus Corax.
Through the study of Corvus Syndrome and its effects on the human genome at the Corax Institute Dr. Abeling has succeeded in determining how Corvus Corax escaped Dingo River all those years ago.
“They never had him in the first place. Not really.”
While publicly the good doctor had resisted any further involvement in the hunt for Corvus Corax himself his private quarters deep behind the institute’s security defenses tell a different story. An entire laboratory had been sealed off and cleared out of anything not Corax related. At its center, an old wooden desk, which Dr. Abeling was unable to sit behind as the desk chair had been pulled out and was also covered in reports an findings.
“Corvus Corax isn’t a human being at all, he never was. Oh he was born on this Earth like you and I all right but he’s different in nearly every other way: cardiovascularly; digestively; lymphatically, all of his major systems have been either replaced or heavily augmented by Psi.”
Dr Abeling and I continue to discuss the past and the good doctor is able to present me with quite a complete and thorough presentation of his findings. The details of which have recently become classified. While the timing of such a finding did not go unnoticed by this network we’ve removed the report visuals from our broadcast in order to adhere to our federal compliance standard.
“Corvus is made of pure Psi energy, he always was. I believe that it wasn’t until he finally realized he’d become cornered at the Corax Compound and his connection to his followers – the Citizens of Corax – had begun to diminish that Corvus truly understood what he was capable of.”
Dr Abeling and his team feel that simultaneously to the Brigade’s Paladins drop landing into the Corax Compound Corvus himself was already well underway in establishing a process in which he’d be able to escape his cell, his iron shackles, and even his very body all at once.
Through the demonstration of psionic transmissions verifiably made from the compound during the apprehension of Corvus Corax Dr. Abeling and his team have been able to trace Corvus’s actual path of escape from Dingo River by tracking the very psionic bits and bytes he transformed himself into in order to make the transmission.
“When backed into a corner Corvus Corax didn’t bow down and surrender to the Paladin Brigade. He reached out to his followers using his psionic abilities and took hold of their minds. Those still within reach who he still shared some kind of established link with. His true believers. Once connected to as many of the Citizens of Corax as he could find in the time he had remaining before the Brigade had him in custody Corvus divided himself amongst the minds of his followers and simply waited there divided into pieces.”
It was a good plan. Directly after the apprehension of Corvus the public celebrated for less than a week. After that the Hale Protocol, or at rather the public version of the protocol, had been released to the media and a new wave of backlash sprouted at the loss of freedom, personal expression, and unimpeded natural development. Were they regular humans? Could they have become something different without the influence of Corvus Corax? What could they have become with his influence? There are simply no answers to those questions.
“Then the riots came.”
Dr. Abeling hangs his head in shame as if he were personally responsible for everything that happened following Corvus’s brief incarceration. It’s a feeling that has haunted Dr. Abeling every day since regardless of who has come to his institution to forgive him.
The good doctor is correct. There were riots. Incredibly destructive psionic riots like few residents of the continent had ever seen before or since. They raged on for over six weeks and were peppering the middle to north west regions of the United States leaving law enforcement personnel, military personnel, and even the Paladin Brigade taxed beyond their wildest forecasts. More rioting was reported in the southern portion of Canada and sporadically all across developed Mexico for an additional three weeks.
The fact of the matter is, it would have been very easy for a Psion with Corvus’s abilities to simply get lost in all of that madness and await for the coast to become clear before either exiting the brains he’d been inhabiting or recombining into one psionic super being. When combined with this new, and newly classified, evidence that Corvus was a being of pure psionic energy this story has the makings of a first class scientific conspiratorial discovery that looks to be rapidly transforming into many of the community’s working theories of today and beyond.
“How else can you explain the over six million cases of Corvus Syndrome we are actively treating? With more cases discovered every single day!”
That’s not all. The level of trackable psionic energy on the planet has nearly quadrupled since Corvus’s apprehension. The number of average citizens who are reporting spikes in psionic energy to the institute has nearly doubled in that same time and both Interpol and the Brigades command structure have both expressed their thoughts on this issue in countless interviews across multiple media outlets.
In short? There are many who feel that the reported numbers are woefully inaccurate and the number of citizens who now find themselves with the ability to develop psionic powers and control them are likely more than double the reported number. Possibly up to an additional forty five percent.
“During his eighteen days of incarceration Corvus’s body was slowly being converted into pure psionic energy. After the first week he refused to eat and it was simply documented as a peculiarity to those of us who were monitoring and investigating him.”
Dr Abeling and his team continued to work diligently to discover everything that they could from Corvus Corax. A thorough examination of the institute’s records show that regardless of how difficult that became the employees of the institute almost unanimously decided Corvus was simply being stuborn. Corvus himself never lets on to what he’s doing. Not once.
“After the second week he refused to speak. At the sixteenth day it appeared as though he’d become catatonic. Corvus was given a full physical and the decision was to leave him in his cell.”
Dr Abeling has always and continues to remains steadfast regarding his consideration of the safety and wellbeing of the staff and crew of Dingo River and the surrounding communities. Unfortunately, as it turned out, it made little difference in the long run.
“He simply vanished into thin air right before our eyes, this is undisputed. The vast amounts of data collected that day do not lie.”
Dr Abeling raises his arms out to his sides and spins surveying the room full of equipment used in the care and imprisonment of psions. This same equipment, twenty five years ago, were working in conjunction around the clock recording the entire event. It simply took a couple of decades to truly decipher what all of the data collected meant.
I asked Dr Abeling about all of the personal accounts of Corvus during his escape. What about the fabled fifty one seconds? What of the traumatized, injured, and even deceased staff of Dingo River?
“Corvus no longer needed a physical body. He was no longer confined to being in only one location at any given minute, second, or even nano second. While the video cameras only recorded fifty one seconds of footage Corvus had a lifetime of eternities to find his way out of Dingo River and that’s exactly what he did. Frankly I’m surprised it took him eighteen days to escape.”
During those eighteen days a new natural resource, comprised entirely of psionic energy, was created and continues to float above North America in currents that ebb and flow much like the ocean. While the federal governments of the of the continent have never officially acknowledged it’s existence the psionic energy has come to be known as the psi field and it’s changed everything.
Is Corvus Corax living somehow inside the psi field? Are the psi field and Corvus Corax the same thing?
“That’s the one question that were still absolutely no closer to answering even all these years later I’m afraid.”
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Now wasn’t that easy? If it wasn’t, you can always order one and use Jimmy Johns promo codes instead. The meatballs can be eaten alone or from a bowl of spaghetti noodles! If you’re not into the red sauce then it’s perfectly fine to enjoy these as-is. This meal is great because it doubles as an appetizer too! Try serving this dish next time you have guests over and they’ll love you forever.
Start by making your white sauce in a pot over medium-low heat using butter tablespoons (or any type of oil), flour tablespoon(s), milk cup(s) cups half and half, salt teaspoon s, pepper teaspoons, dried oregano leaves/powder tablespoon(s). Let it cook for about fifteen minutes until thickened then remove from heat. In another bowl add beaten eggs yolks after whipping them up into frothy perfection then set aside. For this recipe, you can use either fresh or no-boil lasagna noodles. Layer everything together starting with the white sauce at the base then noodles, ricotta cheese (mixed with beaten egg yolks), mozzarella cheese, and lasagna spices. Repeat until you run out of ingredients! Top it all off by sprinkling some parmesan on the top layer of your casserole dish before putting it in the oven for an hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or until golden brown.
Lasagna is one of those dishes that’s perfect to serve family style because everyone can choose their own plate size. This meal is hearty enough for dinner but would also make a great lunch option if leftovers are something you’re into.
Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin
This dish is everyone’s favorite because it’s so versatile. You can add or subtract ingredients to your preference and they’ll still taste absolutely delicious! First, start by boiling water in a pot with salt added to it then add potatoes until soft (cooking time depends on how big you cut them). Next, mix together heavy cream cups (or milk), garlic cloves minced tablespoon(s), pepper teaspoons, onion powder tablespoons, dried parsley flakes teaspoons, grated cheese cup(s), salt teaspoons, ground black pepper teaspoons. Pour the mixture over top of the potatoes and bake for an hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or until crispy brown bits from around the edges. This recipe will leave everyone asking for more plus it’s a great way to use up leftover potatoes.
Broccoli Chicken Pasta Alfredo
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If you’re a picky eater then this recipe is perfect for you because it’s easy to adapt and still turns out amazing! This meal can be enjoyed by anyone from toddlers to grown adults so try making it the next time your family gets together.
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(Baltimore): QB Joe Flacco - He was the AFC Offensive Player of the Week against the Bengals completing 21 of 29 passes for 299 yards and tossing 2 td passes. He looked very sharp in the Ravens new no huddle offense and spread the ball around effectively. The Eagles have two components defensively that may present some concerns for Flacco and that's a better pass rush and pass coverage than the Bengals had. If he gets solid protection from his offensive line he should have time to find his receivers down field.
(Philadelphia): RB LeSean McCoy - He was the Eagles most consistent performer last week against the Cleveland Browns when he got the opportunities. Philadelphia would be wise to get him touches in the running game early and often. The Eagles are 9-1 when McCoy rushes for over 100 yards. He has the ability to make big plays not only in the running game but in the passing game also. He is a lethal weapon on screen plays. The Ravens defense gave up 129 yards rushing to Cincinnati last week which is out of character for them. McCoy will present a more difficult challenge with his skill set.
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Ravens Haloti Ngata & Terrance Cody (versus) Eagles interior offensive lineman: The Ravens are usually very stingy against the run defensively, but last week they played out of character. They allowed Cincinnati to rush for 129 yards. Knowing the Ravens, they will make adjustments and it will start up front with the big guys Ngata and Cody. Haloti Ngata is a beast and demands a double team just about every play. He is big, strong, has quick feet, and very agile for a man of his size. He can dominate a game without even recording a sack. Definitely my favorite defensive big man in the NFL. Philadelphia's guards and center will have to be on their game to open holes for McCoy in the run game and also to allow Michael Vick time to step up in the pocket on deep pass plays. If they can't control the push inside by these two the Eagles offense will have a long day.
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Another in the series of classic motorcycles, thanks to the NZ Classic Motorcycle Collection. Text courtesy of Mike Murphy and NZCM (and the photographs are of course mine).
“In 1893 Charles H. Metz co-founded the Waltham Manufacturing Company in Massachusetts to produce the ‘Orient’ bicycle. As part of his sales promotion, Metz trained a bicycle racing team and constructed a motorised tandem pacer bicycle with the rear passenger operating a De Dion-Bouton single-cylinder engine fitted in the rear of the frame. The machine helped to train his bicycle team to achieve considerable success and he began experimenting with motorised pacer bicycle designs with a view to marketing them.
After trying tricycle and quadracycle configurations, in 1989 he mounted an Aster/De Dion-Bouton engine in a heavy-duty version of his production bicycle. Several prototypes later he launched a catalogue in 1899 advertising his ‘Orient Motor-cycle’ pace machines, possibly providing the first published use of the term ‘motorcycle’. The public launch of Metz’s 138cc (8.42ci), 2.0hp, single-cylinder product occurred on 31 July, 1900, affording the company the claim to being the first production motorcycle manufacturer in the United States. The event was the first officially recorded motorcycle speed contest in the U.S. and the Orient won.
The Orient went on to establish the U.S. record for the mile at one minute and ten seconds (51.43mph/83.75kph). News of the Orients’ competition successes let to strong sales and Metz became so confident in his new motorcycle that he established a new business to manufacture it.
A few years later Metz developed a two-cylinder version that doubled the power to 4.0hp and negotiated a merger with the Marsh Motorcycle Company of Brockton, Massachusetts, to establish the American Motor Company and produce the Marsh-Metz motorcycle that was first launched in 1908. The Marsh brothers had built their first 1.0hp, single-cylinder Marsh Motor Bicycle in 1899 and by 1902 they had built a 6.0hp belt-driven racer that could reach 60mph (97kph).
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Snow-shoeing 2:30 min, medium toe – difficult, short break of tea, estimated height 2000m. At 11:15 am, 10mins break, time for photos and some good chances to see some wildlife like Chamois, fox etc.
13:30 min. At the last point 2,200m, the resources of the Lumbardhi River, which flow through the mountains: Prizren, Albania to the Adriatic Sea. In the case of deep snow the springs are covered with snow.
Lunch break (sandwich), Enjoying the view and the food.
14:00: Snow-shoeing turns through untouched snow parts, estimated time of 2 hours.
– A rewarding game for the participants, depending on the time and mood of the participants.
16:00: Arrival at the starting point for walking, resting and returning to Pristina.
About 19:00: Arrival in Prishtina, end of tour.
Suggestion: Thick clothes, snacks, water.
Prices: 29.90 Euro per person with transport Prishtina-Prevalle-Prishti
Groups max: 15 people.
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As I sit here watching last week’s exceedingly uninteresting new episode of One Tree Hill on Hulu, I can’t help but feel an extreme sense of loss. This program used to be so freaking good. Circa seasons 2-4, One Tree Hill had some of the most powerful and creative story arcs on television. Now what has this program come to? They’re bringing back the cougar and young guy story line, a psycho comes into the picture and pretends to be someone they’re not, and ugly ass Mouth is somehow the only one getting tail in Tree Hill. Remember basketball? The voice-overs with quotes from famous authors? The original 5 characters that we have come to love?
There comes a time in the life of every television program where the writers and executive board hit a road block. Some shows find a way to rise above and continue to produce good television. Others fall by the wayside and they become syndicated history. In my opinion, there are a few main reasons why good shows fail, they are as follows:
1. The characters go off to college: Chances are pretty slim that you and your 5 closest friends all chose the same college to attend. So this puts the writers in a dilemma: how do we keep the chemistry between our actors when they are all at different schools? Eureka! We’ll create a new school that is in their hometown (or close by) and have them all attend there. There is no actual Penbrook University, the college Cory, Shawn, Topanga, and Angela on Boy Meets World all magically chose to attend. And in sheer coincidence, that’s where Jack and Eric also go to school AND where Mr. Feeny happens to end up. Joey Potter gets accepted at the uber prestigious and uber fake Worthington College on Dawson’s Creek. Jen and Jack go to school at the equally as fake and half as prestigious Boston Bay College. Where do both of these fake institutions happen to be located? Boston (I guess I kind of gave that away), which is conveniently 15 minutes away from their fake hometown of Capeside. Dawson then loses his way (of course), drops out of USC (idiot) and moves to where? Boston. Shocker.
Most shows that document high school fail when the characters transition to college. All of the family dynamics are lost, presumably because the parents don’t follow them to college. A bunch of new characters are introduced which takes screen time away from the characters we’ve formed a connection with. Most of the time the circumstances that bring all main characters to the same place are stupid and usually involve some sort of loss of faith, death of a family member, or being kicked out of school for ridiculous circumstances.
2. A main character is killed off / leaves: Getting rid of an essential cast member is one boat that should not be rocked. Yes, Marissa was annoying on The O.C. But she was the source of a lot of drama and half of the beloved pair of Ryan and Marissa. Were the writers missing broody and angry Ryan so much they needed to kill off his girlfriend to get him moody again? It’s common knowledge that I loathe the character of Peyton on One Tree Hill, but her and Lucas’ departure from the show have killed it. Ever since Dr. Burke left on Grey’s Anatomy, I can’t imagine Cristina being happy with anyone else. Any story line pairing her with another guy makes me cringe. Grey’s hasn’t been the same for me since Burke left, and then they have the nerve to kill my beloved George?! FML. I am so not looking forward to tomorrow’s Lost, where I have been told that losties just start dropping like flies.
3. Story lines get recycled: How long can a couple play-out the “will they / won’t they” before the audience explodes? Apparently Friends can do it for 10 years. How many times can someone attempt to kill Dan Scott? How many times does Clark Kent have to save Lana Lang before she realizes he’s got magical powers? Seeing the same thing over and over and over again gets tiresome. The program eventually becomes so predictable that it’s not even worth watching anymore.
Alas, I have a sinking feeling this will be the last season of One Tree Hill. It didn’t even get to redeem itself. I am praying that the CW will give OTH one last chance to make things right aka bring back Leyton, ditch the newbies, and start showing the geniusness I know the writers still have. | <urn:uuid:d2f9d569-bbcd-40be-8aa3-853407235063> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://snarky-yet-satisfying.com/why-television-shows-fail/ | 2022-09-25T20:50:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334596.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925193816-20220925223816-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.955742 | 968 |
Each little boy deserves a room he loves. He wants a spot of privateness, a spot of discovery, and a spot that lets him be who he needs to be.
Let’s run by way of a number of design concepts your little boy will certainly love.
1. Astronaut Room
After I was small, I wished to be an astronaut. I dreamed of racing handed stars and combating aliens. After all, that did not occur. However nonetheless, I dreamed and dreamed of it as a toddler. Fairly truthfully, if my spouse would let me, I would in all probability do my darnedest to show our bed room into outer-space in the present day.
Glow at the hours of darkness stars – Nearly each child retailer has them.
Astronaut helmet – You’ll be able to decide one in every of these up throughout Halloween if you cannot discover it within the toy part of your native division retailer.
Spaceship mannequin – This you’ll be able to simply discover in any toy part.
Bedding – After all, make them house associated.
1. Throw the stickers on the wall behind the mattress and your entire ceiling. It must be sufficient to cowl each as if you happen to have been trying on the night time sky.
2. The helmet must be positioned on a wall shelf. Make certain it’s sufficiently big!
3. The mannequin is one thing that could possibly be used as desk ornament or as one other object to put on the shelf. If you’re artful, you can even make the mannequin right into a lamp.
4. what to do with the bedding. Place them on the mattress!
2. Music Room
Boys love music! Really, I feel nearly all of people do. Heck, even my pet parrot appears to like some good music. Nevertheless, to younger boys, music is an outlet. It is a approach to categorical themselves. Giving them a room they’ll join with builds belief and helps the kid notice what it is like being their age.
Outdated music albums – CDs or data work finest. Get them at a storage sale if it’s a must to.
Music devices – new, outdated, and even those they play are OK. Why conceal them when you’ll be able to show them?
Development Paper, scissors, double-sided tape, pencil – Any division retailer or artwork provide retailer can have these.
1. Place the CD circumstances on the wall utilizing double-sided tape. An excellent tempo for that is above the mattress on the wall. Go away the covers inside and create a geometrical form with 5 or extra circumstances. In case you elected for data, hold the quilt alone or the file itself on the wall for a pleasant retro look. You might even want to show the quilt and file side-by-side.
2. Place the musical instrument in a nook utilizing a stand.
3. Draw and lower out notes, clefts, and many others. and use double-sided tape to place them on the wall. It’s best to make them sufficiently big to see from a distance. If you’re keen, you may very well paint the notes on the wall as an alternative. Be inventive! You should use a number of totally different colours or you’ll be able to even keep on with solely black.
3. Animal Room
Everybody loves animals. They’re cute, lovable, and they’re an vital a part of our on a regular basis lives.
Paint and pencil – Acrylic paint will work nice and might be simple to cowl in case your little one needs to vary it later.
Stuffed animals – Having varied sizes works finest.
Animal collectible figurines – Animal toys will work simply as properly.
1. Design an animal and draw it on the wall utilizing a pencil. Paint it.
Tip: Do an animal he enjoys, like a tiger or monkey.
2. Place the stuffed animals on chairs or desks.
3. Place the collectible figurines across the room on cabinets.
4. Add extra accents by way of bedding or curtains.
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This week in Science we will be looking at how to draw an accurate scientific diagram. Some steps are shown here:
The communication of ideas is an important part of our everyday lives. One of the ways that scientists communicate is to use drawings. It is important to make a scientific drawing clear, neat, and accurate.
What To Do
- Use unlined paper and a sharp pencil. You will also need a ruler and make sure you use a good quality eraser to make your corrections.
- Give yourself plenty of space. Your diagram should be at least 1/2 page in size. Even if you earthworm is small, you still want to have the space to add labels and captions to your drawing.
- Labels identify the parts of the object you are drawing. Place labels on the right your drawing unless putting them all on the one side would make your drawing cluttered. Use your ruler to draw lines to the different structures. Make sure none of your label lines cross.
- Draw only what you see and keep your drawing simple.
- Shading or colouring is not usually found on scientific drawings. If you want to indicate a darker area, you can use stippling (a series of dots).
- If you do use colours, try to be as accurate as you can. Choose ones that are as close as possible to the colour of the earthworm. The only bright blue worms you see are the candy ones found in stores.
- Label the different structures carefully. Go back to the Key Terms in the investigation if you are not sure how to spell the names of the different structures.
- Give your drawing a title. You can also include the scale of your drawing. Is the drawing of your earthworm twice as big as the real worm? Or is it the actual size of the earthworm -- the person looking at your diagram needs to know.
A good example of a scientific drawing produced by a student (from NSWAGTC):
A good online example of how to draw a scientific diagram:
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If the problem lies with brakes, there’s a myriad of brake and tire repair shops which specialize in these two components. If you’re searching for inexpensive brakes close to me, you can choose any auto repair shop with an established reputation. Find the opinions of others about the repair center.
Do you know of a shop which is open on only on Sundays? Even though it’s not an common practice, there are many shops that do offer the hours of operation on Sundays. When you’ve located someone to take your vehicle to, you must identify the issue. You can then assess the expense of repair. This could help you be aware of whether you’re receiving a good deal or are losing money. Before they begin the work, you need be able to accept a certain price for repairs. The plan and estimate could change with time however, you have to agree with the adjustments. 27h1u543lg. | <urn:uuid:087de2e0-aa3c-45fa-a788-18491f2f3015> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://blogempresarial.com/2021/08/tips-for-selecting-the-right-auto-repair-shop-car-talk-credits/ | 2024-02-20T21:54:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00341.warc.gz | en | 0.964319 | 195 |
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But after reliever Brian Wilson joined Opening Day starter Clayton Kershaw on the disabled list Wednesday, Honeycutt said he would have liked more preparation time and games for his pitchers.
"Spring Training is about getting the body physically ready for 162 games," said Honeycutt, who usually has his starters make a minimum of five spring starts, but Kershaw made only four, matching Hyun-Jin Ryu and Dan Haren for the team high.
Of course, plenty of teams that didn't go to Australia have been dealing with injuries. And Dodgers officials point out that the actual length of this year's Spring Training was comparable with most recent seasons, the main exception being the lengthy delay (18 days) between the day the Dodgers reported and the date games started (9-13 days in the previous six springs).
Still, Honeycutt said he hopes MLB seeks his input on scheduling before planning another international opener that would require another stilted training camp.
Among the suggestions Honeycutt would make would be to reduce the number of off-days, both after arriving abroad, and also after returning to the United States.
The Dodgers and D-backs left Arizona on a Sunday night, arriving Tuesday morning. They worked out Tuesday and Wednesday, played an exhibition game Thursday night against Team Australia, were off again Friday, then played games that counted Saturday night and Sunday.
The Dodgers returned after the Sunday game, landing in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. They were off Monday, worked out Tuesday and Wednesday, then played exhibition games against the Angels Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Honeycutt also noted that the Dodgers had their schedule further disrupted when the domestic opener was moved up from Monday afternoon to Sunday night to accommodate ESPN.
Honeycutt said Kershaw told him he felt his discomfort during the Opening Night game, but not on a particular pitch.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
When you think of the City of Angels, bicycle connectivity isn't typically one of the first things to pop to mind. However, according to this article, LA is making a big bicycle play:
For the past few years L.A. has been trying to shed its car-centric image and move its population towards public transportation and more eco-friendly means of travel.
Now, the Los Angeles City Council approved a new plan that will give the city a network of 1,680 miles of interconnected bikeways. This would include more than 200 miles of new bicycle routes every five years.
This is a huge move considering the city currently has fewer than 400 miles of bikeways that aren’t really connected to each other.
About $1.75 million each year for bike infrastructure could come from Measure R, a transportation sales tax approved by county voters in 2008. Additional funding will come from state and city transit agency sources, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl said. | <urn:uuid:43fff7a5-1ebb-4ed6-9231-bfea388e5643> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/04/los-angeles-becoming-a-bicycle-haven.html | 2016-08-24T11:58:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982292181.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195812-00179-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961534 | 205 |
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Seizure - tonic-clonic; Seizure - grand mal; Grand mal seizure; Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
A generalized tonic-clonic seizure is a seizure involving the entire body, usually characterized by muscle rigidity, violent rhythmic muscle contractions, and loss of consciousness. The condition is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the nerve cells of the brain.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (also called grand mal seizures) are the type of seizure that most people associate with the term “seizure,” convulsion, or epilepsy. They may occur in people of any age, as a single episode or as a repeated, chronic condition (epilepsy). The majority of seizures that do occur as just a single episode are generalized tonic-clonic seizures rather than other types.
Generalized seizures are caused by abnormal electrical activity at multiple locations in the brain and/or over a large area of the brain. This results in loss of consciousness and body stiffening, which is followed by shaking of the arms and legs.
Abnormal electrical activity may start in one part of the brain and cause isolated symptoms (see partial seizures). Sometimes this abnormal electrical activity spreads through the brain, resulting in a generalized seizure. Seizures can be caused by a specific area of the brain that is injured or inflamed, or they can be due to stress on the brain from a more widespread systemic process, such as severely low blood sugar.
Some of the more common causes of seizures include:
- idiopathic (this means the seizure has no identifiable cause) o usually beginning between ages 5 - 20 o can occur at any age o no other neurologic abnormalities present o often a family history of epilepsy or seizures
- congenital defects (present from before birth) and perinatal injuries (occur near the time of birth) o seizures usually beginning in infancy or early childhood
- febrile seizure (children) o usually due to rapidly rising fevers in children
- Systemic illness o acute severe infections of any part of the body o chronic infections (such as neurosyphilis) o complications of AIDS or other immune disorders
- metabolic abnormalities o can affect people of any age o diabetes mellitus complications o electrolyte imbalances o kidney failure, uremia (toxic accumulation of wastes) o nutritional deficiencies o phenylketonuria (PKU)- rarely causing seizures in infants
- brain injury o seizures are most likely if the brain membranes are damaged o seizures usually beginning within 2 years after the injury o early seizures (within 2 weeks of injury) do not necessarily indicate that chronic seizures (epilepsy) will develop
- tumors and brain lesions (such as hematomas) o affecting any age, more common after age 30 o partial (focal) seizures are most common initially o progressing to generalized tonic-clonic seizures
- use of alcohol or other recreational drugs, or withdrawal from alcohol or drugs
- low blood sodium or glucose
- disorders affecting the blood vessels (stroke, TIA), a common cause of seizures after age 60
- degenerative disorders (senile dementia Alzheimer type, or similar organic brain syndromes)
- nervous system infections (meningitis, encephalitis) or brain abscess
Risk factors include:
- any injury to the brain
- a family history of seizures
- severe medical problems that affect electrolytes
- exposure to illicit drugs and certain medications
- heavy alcohol use
Many patients have an aura (sensory warning sign) preceding the seizure. This can include a visual, taste, smell, sensory, or other hallucination or dizziness.
The seizure itself involves:
- loss of consciousness or fainting, usually lasting between 30 seconds and five minutes
- general muscle contraction and rigidity (tonic posture), usually lasting 15 to 20 seconds
- violent rhythmic muscle contraction and relaxation (clonic movement), usually lasting for one to two minutes
- biting the cheek or tongue, clenched teeth or jaw
- incontinence (loss of urine or stool control)
- breathing difficulty
- stopped breathing or difficulty breathing during seizure
- blue skin color
Almost all people experience loss of consciousness, and most people experience both tonic and clonic muscle activity.
After the seizure:
- the person usually begins breathing normally when the seizure is over
- arousable but sleepy for one hour or longer
- loss of memory (amnesia) regarding events surrounding the seizure episode
- confusion, temporary and mild
- may be weak for 24-48 hours following seizure (Todd’s paralysis)
Signs and tests
Diagnosis of a grand mal seizure is based on the symptoms and excluding other medical problems that can look like a seizure (such as heart arrythmia). A neuromuscular examination may or may not reveal neurologic deficits (decreases in brain functions) when the person is not actively having seizures.
An EEG may show characteristic changes and in some cases may show the focus (location of the cause of the seizure). An EEG can be normal in between seizures and a normal EEG does not rule out a seizure disorder.
Tests for the cause may include various blood tests (depending on the suspected cause), including:
- complete blood count
- blood chemistry, blood glucose
- liver function tests
- kidney function tests (BUN, creatinine, etc.)
- tests for infectious diseases (depending on the suspected cause)
Tests for the cause may include procedures such as:
- head CT or MRI scan
- lumbar puncture (spinal tap)
Disorders that may cause symptoms resembling seizures include transient ischemic attacks, rage, or panic attacks.
If a generalized seizure occurs, give appropriate emergency first aid.
EMERGENCY FIRST-AID TREATMENT
- Protect the person from injury. Clear the area of furniture or other objects that may cause injury from falls during the seizure.
- Do not attempt to force a hard object (such as a spoon, or a tongue depressor, etc.) between the teeth. You can cause more damage than you can prevent by doing this!
- Do not attempt to restrain or hold the person down during the seizure.
- Protect the person from inhaling vomit or mucus. Turn the person to the side if vomiting occurs. Keep the person on his or her side while sleeping after the seizure is over.
- If the person having a seizure turns blue or stops breathing, try to position the head to prevent the tongue from obstructing the airway. Breathing usually starts on its own once the seizure is over.
- CPR or mouth-to-mouth breathing is rarely needed after seizures and cannot be performed during the seizure.
- Repeated or prolonged seizures without regaining consciousness or returning to normal behavior between them (status epilepticus) may cause severe lack of oxygen in the body. This an emergency situation requiring immediate professional assistance!
EMERGENCY TREATMENT BY MEDICAL PERSONNEL (status epilepticus)
- Measures to protect the airway may be needed, including use of tubes to keep the airway open. Breathing should be supported as needed.
- Thiamine and/or intravenous glucose may be given.
- Medications such as diazepam (Valium) or lorazepam, or anticonvulsant medications such as phenytoin or phenobarbital, may control prolonged, repeated generalized seizures. They are usually injected into a vein. Other medical treatment may be needed, including general anesthesia with muscle-paralyzing medications.
- After status epilepticus is controlled, anticonvulsants may be begun and tests are performed to determine the cause of the condition, if not known already.
AFTER THE SEIZURE
- Treat any injuries from bumps or falls.
- Record details of the seizure to report to the health care provider. Important details include the date and time of the seizure, how long it lasted, which body parts were affected, the type of movements or other symptoms, possible causes, behavior after the seizure, and other factors noted.
Treating the cause, if one has been identified, may stop seizures. This may include medication, surgical repair of tumors or brain lesions, or other treatments. An isolated seizure with an obvious trigger (such as fever and toxic reaction) is treated by eliminating or avoiding the precipitating factor.
An isolated seizure without an obvious trigger (the examination and EEG are normal and there are no abnormalities on other testing) may not require treatment.
Oral anticonvulsants (anti-seizure medications) may prevent or reduce the number of future seizures. The response is individual, and the medication and dosage may have to be adjusted repeatedly. There are numerous medications which may be effective alone or when used in combination. Side effects of these medications and plasma drug-levels will need to be monitored to various degrees, depending on which medications are used.
Women who might get pregnant may need to take additional medications or vitamins to reduce the risk of birth defects associated with some of these medications. Such women may need to be followed in a high-risk pregnancy clinic.
Patients who continue to have seizures despite several medications may benefit from a vagal nerve stimulator (implantable device that stimulates a nerve in the neck) or from brain surgery to remove tissue responsible for causing the seizures.
The use of informational jewelry or cards (such as Medic-Alert or similar products) that indicate a seizure disorder may be advised to help the patient receive prompt medical treatment if a seizure occurs.
Seizures can occur as a single isolated occurrence, as closely repeated seizures, or at various intervals. Seizures that recur create a condition known as epilepsy.
Seizures that occur singly or in a closely associated groups are commonly caused by an condition such as brain injury. They may occur as an isolated incident or may develop into a chronic seizure disorder. Seizures within the first two weeks of a brain injury do not necessarily mean that a chronic seizure disorder will develop.
A seizure-free period may indicate that reduction or elimination of medications may be possible. Medications should be changed only under the supervision of the health care provider.
Death or permanent brain damage from seizures is rare. A serious injury can occur if a seizure occurs while driving or operating dangerous equipment; these activities are often restricted for people with poorly controlled seizure disorders.
Infrequent seizures may not severely restrict the patient’s lifestyle. Work, school, and recreation do not necessarily need to be restricted.
- recurrent seizures (seizure disorder)
- prolonged or closely occurring seizures without returning to normal behavior(status epilepticus)
- injury from falls, bumps, and biting oneself
- injury to oneself or others if seizure occurs during driving or operating machinery
- inhaling fluid into the lungs, pneumonia
- permanent brain damage (stroke or other damage)
- side effects of medications (with or without observable symptoms)
- women planning to get pregnant need to alert their physician in advance in order to adjust their medications (many anti-epileptic medications cause birth defects)
- learning disorders (either from seizures or medications)
Calling your health care provider
Call your local emergency number (911) if this the first time a person has had a seizure or a seizure is occuring in someone without a medical ID bracelet (instructions explaining what to do). In the case of someone who has had seizures before, call the ambulance for any of these emergency situations:
- This is a longer seizure than the person normally has, or an unusual number of seizures for the person
- Repeated seizures over a few minutes
- Repeated seizures where consciousness or normal behavior is not regained between them (status epilepticus)
Call your health care provider if any new symptoms occur, including possible side effects of medications (drowsiness, restlessness, confusion, sedation, or others), nausea/vomiting, rash, loss of hair, tremors or abnormal movements, or problems with coordination.
Generally, there is no known prevention for seizures. However, you can decrease the likelihood of triggering a seizure by taking medicines as directed, getting enough sleep, eating a proper diet, and abstaining from alcohol and drugs.
Reduce the chance of head injuries by wearing head protection and avoiding risky behavior.
by Harutyun Medina, M.D.
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