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Mormon church's Granite Mountain vault opened for virtual tour (desertnews.com)
They have got a vault carved into the solid granite of a mountain 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. There they store information about the births, marriages, and deaths of over 2 billion people, the largest single database on the details of the human race in the world.
Ancestry.com, a subscription-based service started by members of the LDS church, has 900,000 subscribers and is growing. In May 2007, they dumped the military records of all the soldiers who fought in all of the US wars, 90 million of them, online. | <urn:uuid:db358619-95b1-4845-8dce-124eb7d28c23> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2010/12/largest-database-on-human-race.html | 2019-06-19T10:49:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998959.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619103826-20190619125826-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.952251 | 134 |
Q. Obamacare advocates frequently talk about how most exchange enrollees qualify for government subsidies. But who is left out? Aren’t there some people who really want and need the tax credits who aren’t eligible?
A. You aren’t eligible for government subsidies to help cover health insurance premiums if:
- Your employer offers comprehensive, “affordable” coverage – which means that it pays for 60 percent of a standard population’s average healthcare costs, and your portion of the premiums is no more than 9.66 percent of your household income in 2016 (this is rising to 9.69 percent in 2017).
- You have access to coverage under a family member’s employer-sponsored health plan, and the cost for just the employee’s coverage isn’t more than 9.66 percent of your household income. This is true regardless of how much it costs to add a spouse or dependents to the plan. This dilemma is known as the family glitch.
- You are eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or another government program.
- You earn less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level. This was not supposed to be a problem, as the Affordable Care Act called for everyone with income below the poverty level to be covered by Medicaid. But the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid expansion would be optional for the states, and there are still 18 states where there’s a coverage gap as a result (there are 19 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, but Wisconsin does cover people up to the poverty level under Medicaid). If you’re an immigrant who has been in the US for less than five years and are thus not eligible for Medicaid, the ACA does allow you to receive subsidies in the exchange even with an income below the poverty level.
- You earn more than 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Line. For coverage in 2017, the upper income limit is: $47,520 for an individual, $80,640, for a family of three, $113,760 for a family of five.
- Your premium for the second-lowest cost plan in your area is already considered affordable (based on a percentage of your income) without a subsidy. This can happen even if your income is less than 400 percent of the poverty level, particularly for younger enrollees in areas where health insurance is less expensive.
- You’re not legally present in the US, or you’re incarcerated.
Understandably, people who earn a little more than 400 percent of the FPL are often very disappointed when they don’t qualify for a premium subsidy. And for some of them – particularly older applicants in areas where coverage is very expensive – coverage remains unaffordable. If your income is just a little over the subsidy-eligibility threshold, you can talk with a tax advisor about strategies for lowering your modified adjusted gross income to make it subsidy-eligible. | <urn:uuid:bb8b3d92-d68c-4ec1-83a8-104495f2a57f> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/who-wont-be-eligible-for-obamacares-premium-subsidies/ | 2019-05-25T11:07:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258003.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525104725-20190525130725-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.955231 | 599 |
Creative Tropical Pacific Island Images
Sprinkled across the largest ocean on our planet are thousands of tiny islands. These outposts of life are home to unique and endangered flora and fauna both above and below the sea. I have only just began to explore this part of our planet, but I hope to visit many more islands over the years. Each has it's own unique landscape, wildlife, and culture. | <urn:uuid:b590a345-70ec-450f-a6e9-ba0cd995889c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/gallery/pacificislands/ | 2019-07-17T03:38:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525009.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717021428-20190717043428-00502.warc.gz | en | 0.959262 | 83 |
The face of indie fashion is changing. Consumers today want to buy from local designers. They want to find unique pieces over mass-produced department store goods, express their values through their clothing, and support eco-friendly and sustainable businesses. So with this much more diverse and engaged pool of eager shoppers, fashion startups are popping up like wildflowers to meet these nuanced demands.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a piece of cake for an independent designer to successfully break into the market and get her fashion brand off the ground. Sure, the rise of social media helps get access to interested buyers, and it’s easier than ever to start up a good-looking Instagram account to present to the world and start gaining an audience for their unique style concepts. But in the words of StartUp FASHION founder Nicole Giordano, “there’s no one-size-fits-all in this business anymore.”
StartUp FASHION is a community for independent designers and emerging fashion brands that offers tools, resources, mentors, a peer network, and more to help these entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground and make progress. Giordano herself is a former textile designer with a passion for weaving, but she left her formal style profession because she recognized her need for a more flexible, creative, and travel-friendly lifestyle. She still wanted to work in design, and she found her passion in building out an online community to help other designers. Today, her business is helping equip the style leaders of tomorrow for success.
We talked with Giordano to learn more about StartUp FASHION, why she decided to make the entrepreneurial leap, and why this resource is so vital for today’s indie designers.
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Name: Nicole Giordano
Company Name: StartUp FASHION
Job title: Founder
Current home base: New York, NY
Originally from: Philadelphia, PA
Your superpower: Empathy
A woman in history you admire & why:
Elizabeth Tudor, a woman who new what she wanted and bucked convention.
Quote/piece of advice that you live by:
“At first they’ll ask you why you’re doing it, but then they’ll ask you how you did it.”
What inspired you to start your current venture?
I knew that there was a world of makers in the fashion space that didn’t feel understood, supported, or encouraged to go after their goals. I knew that these designers wanted to build fashion business in a way that complemented their lives. I also knew that all those stuffy, outdated, exclusive rules that applied to the traditional fashion industry were just not going to work for them. So, it was important for me to build a space that helped these driven people reach their goals in an industry that was ignoring them.
The other answer is that I knew what I wanted for my own life—constant travel, flexibility, and being in control of my own time. So it was important for me to take my talents, my expertise, and my business goals and apply them to my life goals. I thought about who I was trying to help, why it was so important, and how I could make StartUp FASHION both helpful to a global community as well as complementary to the life I wanted to live.
What are you/your company doing to make history today?
We’re encouraging and supporting the next generation of fashion entrepreneurs to think differently about how they approach business, challenge all the rules of the traditional industry, and build lasting businesses they’re excited about and proud of.
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What is a trend in your industry that you foresee becoming popular in the future?
Designers not being afraid to embrace a new fashion business model. These designers are thinking long and hard about the work they do, what matters to them, how they can do more than just put a product out there. Environmental sustainability, social impact, and value-backed businesses are on the rise.
What is one of the greatest challenges you have personally faced at this job?
Being a self-taught business owner, my biggest challenge has always been confidence in my ability to do this. It’s taken a long time to feel like I deserve the success I’ve achieved.
What were you doing before your current role?
I worked in many aspects of the fashion industry: product development, textile sources, eCommerce, content creation, and marketing.
What is one piece of advice you’d like to give to other female founders & change-makers?
Don’t wait to go after what you want. Do it now.
Are there any great resources you have discovered that you would like to share?
Fun fact about yourself:
I’ve visited 35 countries and am trying to get to 50 in the next 5 years.
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Discover the Reaching Across Illinois Library System’s e-content resources provided at low or no cost to schools via the school library. Learn about:
-BiblioBoard Library – a robust collection of simultaneous use e-content including OERs, available to everyone in Illinois
-inkie.org – a suite of tools and resources for self-publishing and OER creation, available to everyone in Illinois
-eRead Illinois Axis 360 – a popular materials e-book and audiobook collection
RAILS E-Content Specialist Anna Behm will provide a brief overview of each service and answer questions about how schools can use RAILS services to provide more e-content to students. While not required, attendees should bring a device if they would like to explore each resource.
By attending this session, attendees will be able to provide a wealth of e-content resources and materials to their students, teachers, and staff at low or no cost. | <urn:uuid:48881a4f-bf06-4eb9-b400-870cdbd4b63a> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://ltcillinois.org/blog/conference/e-content-resources-from-the-reaching-across-illinois-library-system/ | 2021-04-21T08:49:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039526421.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210421065303-20210421095303-00494.warc.gz | en | 0.887307 | 195 |
Governor Ernie Fletcher’s Communications Office
Governor Ernie Fletcher Directs Flags to Remain at Half-Staff in Honor of Kentucky Soldier
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Governor Ernie Fletcher has directed that flags at all state office buildings remain at half-staff in honor of Staff Sgt. Garth D. Sizemore.
According to the Department of Defense, Sizemore, 31, of Mount Sterling, died October 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries suffered when his patrol came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire during combat operations. Sizemore was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, at Schweinfurt, Germany.
Flags are currently at half-staff in memory of social service worker Boni Frederick, of Morganfield, who died October 16 in the line of duty. Frederick’s funeral will be held Friday in Dixon.
Flags will remain at half-staff throughout the state until sunset on the day of Sizemore’s funeral. Arrangements have not yet been determined. | <urn:uuid:09c90075-5695-4b9e-adbc-67576ec45364> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://migration.kentucky.gov/newsroom/agovernor/20061019flags.htm | 2018-01-18T21:56:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887621.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118210638-20180118230638-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962008 | 233 |
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Football fans remember where they were when it happened. The jaw-dropping play. The final heave. The incredible finish. The comeback that makes no sense. The “did you just see that?!” sequence. We’ve collected 20 of the most unbelievable finishes in NFL history, and attempted to subjectively rank them from No. 20 to No. 1. This list accomplishes two important things: it lets us relive all of these fabulous moments yet again, and it gives us plenty of fodder for debate as to what’s too high, what’s too low, and what’s missing. Let’s begin, shall we?
20. The Walk-Off Punt Return (Watch It)
Eagles returner DeSean Jackson ran a punt back 65 yards as time expired to shock the Giants 38-31 on December 19, 2010. Philadelphia trailed 31-10 with eight minutes to play before storming back with four straight touchdowns for the win. On the final punt, Matt Dodge wasn’t able to kick it away from Jackson (as instructed), and, after dropping the ball initially, Jackson recovered and took it to the house (once he ran sideways along the goal line for a while for good measure).
19. Down 21 With 4 to Play? No Problem (Watch It)
In 2003, Peyton Manning led the Indianapolis Colts to a 38-35 overtime win at Tampa Bay on Monday Night Football. What made the result so remarkable was that the defending champion Buccaneers led the game by three touchdowns with only four minutes remaining. Manning and the Colts caught fire late, though, completing one of the most unexpected comebacks in NFL history and giving ex-Bucs coach Tony Dungy a victory in his return to Tampa.
18. Steelers Get Tebowed in OT(Watch It)
For a quarterback who had gone three straight starts without throwing for 200 yards in a game, a playoff matchup with the vaunted defense of the defending AFC champion Steelers seemed like a nearly impossible task. While Broncos QB Tim Tebow had received an unprecedented amount of hype and attention — and to be fair, had led his team on a six-game regular season winning streak to put a playoff berth within reach — the odds of him beating Pittsburgh with his arm seemed slim to none. Of course, Tebow merely threw an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play of overtime to stun the Steelers 29-23, giving him a total of 316 passing yards in the game and the highest passer rating in Broncos postseason history. It was the fastest ending to an NFL overtime game ever, taking all of 11 seconds.
17. He Did What?(Watch It)
In November 2000, Packers wideout Antonio Freeman beat the Vikings 26-20 in overtime on a touchdown catch that basically confused everyone who watched it live. A deep pass from quarterback Brett Favre was deflected by Vikings CB Chris Dishman, and the football seemed to fall harmlessly to the ground. However, an alert Freeman (who was laying on the turf at the time) grabbed the pass, jumped to his feet, and jogged into the end zone to give Green Bay the victory. Legendary play-by-play man Al Michaels was left to ask: “He did what?” on national television as the Packers celebrated an unlikely game-winning play.
16. Leon Lett + Thanksgiving + Snow =(Watch It)
On a snowy Thanksgiving Day in 1993, Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Leon Lett had a holiday to forget. With the Cowboys up a point, the Miami Dolphins attempted a game-winning field goal in the final seconds. Although Dallas blocked the kick and should have won the game, Lett slid in and touched the loose ball, setting off a free-for-all near the end zone. Miami recovered, earning a second chance to ruin the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving, and this time, kicker Pete Stoyanovich came through. Final score, courtesy of Lett’s gaffe: Miami 16, Dallas 14.
15. 4th and 26(Watch It)
You can forgive the Packers for thinking they had a January 2004 playoff game in Philadelphia when the Eagles lined up for a 4th and 26 play at their own 26 with only 72 seconds remaining. Yes, that’s correct: it was 4th and 26. Donovan McNabb had some magic left, though, completing a 28-yard pass over the middle to Freddie Mitchell that moved the sticks. The odds-defying play kept Philly’s drive alive, leading to a David Akers field goal that tied the game in the final seconds. Philadelphia went on to win 20-17 in overtime.
14. Wide Right(Watch It)
The Buffalo Bills lost four straight Super Bowls in the 1990s. By far, the most painful had to be the first one. Bills kicker Scott Norwood had a 47-yard attempt on January 27, 1991 to make his team champions, and the kick went — say it with us — ‘Wide Right.’ Buffalo came up on the wrong end of a 20-19 score against the Giants. Although Norwood pointed out later to Sports Illustrated that less than 50 percent of NFL kicks from that distance are successful, the final play missed field goal that decided a Super Bowl will still go down as one of the more unbelievable finishes in football history.
13. The Fail Mary (Watch It)
With replacement officials in place due to an NFL referee lockout, Seattle beat Green Bay 14-12 in a controversial 2012 Monday Night Football game. Trailing 12-7, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate as the clock ran out, but Tate didn’t appear to have clear possession of the ball — at least not as much as Packers defensive back M.D. Jennings did. Was it a touchdown? Was it an interception? The two officials on the scene signaled two different things, and a lengthy delay ensued before the Seahawks were finally awarded the catch, the score, and the win. In a not-at-all related note, the lockout of the league’s officials would “coincidentally” end later that week.
12. River City Relay (Watch It)
In a 2003 game that had it all, the New Orleans Saints used not one, not two, but three laterals on the final play to complete a ridiculous 75-yard touchdown and keep their playoff hopes alive. The score pulled the Saints within 20-19 and left them only a John Carney extra point away from forcing overtime. The NFL considers the extra point ‘almost automatic,’ as the equivalent of a 20-yard field goal from the center of the field has a success rate of over 99 percent in the last 10 years. Don’t tell that to Carney, who shanked the kick, giving Jacksonville a one-point win despite the chaos of the final play and eliminating New Orleans from playoff contention.
11. The Catch(Watch It)
One of the most famous plays in football history came on January 10, 1982 in the NFC Championship Game. The San Francisco 49ers edged the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 on an iconic play that will live forever as ‘The Catch.’ With 51 seconds to play, Niners receiver Dwight Clark leaped in the back of the end zone to snag a high throw from quarterback Joe Montana who had eluded the Dallas rush, double-pumped, and then lofted the ball above a trio of oncoming defenders. Montana told 49ers.com years later, “Dwight and I practiced this thing in training camp and Dwight never caught the ball on this play until then.” The dramatic victory propelled San Francisco to the Super Bowl, where the 49ers would win their first of four titles in a nine-year span.
10. The 63-Yard Kick (Watch It)
Down through the years of NFL history, there have been many remarkable field goals to win a game. Still, none of them tops the then-record 63-yard kick at the horn by a man born without a full complement of 10 fingers and 10 toes. Saints kicker Tom Dempsey lifted his team to a 19-17 win over the Lions with the longest kick any NFL fan had ever seen — one of only two victories New Orleans managed the whole 1970 season. (Also deserving honorable mention among kicks from the wrong side of midfield: Buccaneers kicker Matt Bryant nearly equaled Dempsey’s heroics 36 years later with a 62-yard game-winning kick as time expired against the Eagles.)
9. The Helmet Catch (Watch It)
The New England Patriots could taste history in Super Bowl XLII. Their bid to finish as the NFL’s first undefeated champions since the 1972 Dolphins was looking good, as Bill Belichick’s team held a 14-10 lead with just over a minute to play — but then David Tyree happened. The Giants wide receiver made a highlight reel 32-yard third-down catch after quarterback Eli Manning somehow eluded a near-certain sack in a play that football fans will never forget. Tyree pinned the ball to his helmet in mid-air to give the Giants a big gain and a first down on a drive that finished with a go-ahead touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress. New York won the game 17-14, spoiling the Pats’ dreams of perfection.
8. Kramer to Rashad (Watch It)
One of the most notable game-winning Hail Mary passes in history came in a Minnesota-Cleveland game on December 14, 1980. The Vikings clinched a playoff trip on a 46-yard score as the clock hit zero. Tommy Kramer’s pass was first deflected, and then calmly — nonchalantly, even — grabbed by a single hand of Ahmad Rash?d to punch Minnesota’s ticket to the postseason. The one-handed catch gave the Vikings, who had trailed by two touchdowns with five minutes to go, a dramatic 28-23 win.
7. Holy Roller (Watch It)
“The most zany, unbelievable, absolutely impossible dream of a play.” That’s how the Oakland Raiders’ 21-20 victory over the San Diego Chargers was described by announcer Bill King in real time, as Oakland quarterback Ken Stabler purposefully fumbled the ball forward to avoid a game-ending sack with his team trailing by six points. The loose football was pushed toward the goal line by Raiders back Pete Banaszak, and Dave Casper ultimately fell on it in the end zone (after kicking it there himself). The bizarre finish led to a rule change in the offseason to ensure the intentional fumble wouldn’t become a normal scoring mechanism going forward.
6. Santonio Holmes Gets His Feet In (Watch It)
One of the most exciting Super Bowls ever, the Super Bowl XLIII matchup of the Steelers and Cardinals featured two lead changes in the final three minutes of the game. After Arizona’s Kurt Warner connected with Larry Fitzgerald on a 64-yard strike to put the underdog Cards ahead with 2:47 left, the Steelers responded. Ben Roethlisberger marched Pittsburgh down the field, getting into the red zone on a 40-yard pass to Santonio Holmes. Two plays later, Big Ben found Holmes again on a six-yard scoring pass in the back corner of the end zone. A fully-extended Holmes managed to get two feet (or at least tips of two toes) inbounds on one of the most unforgettable Super Bowl plays ever. Pittsburgh won the game 27-23.
5. The Greatest Game Ever Played (Watch It)
The 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants is widely regarded as ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played.’ The Colts were victorious in the first-ever NFL overtime game, although the players had no idea an extra period was in store when Baltimore hit the game-tying field goal late in the fourth-quarter, since overtime had never existed before that day. (It’s possible the referees had no idea either.) The classic game was finally decided by an Alan Ameche one-yard scoring run, which gave Baltimore a 23-17 victory. This 1958 thriller is credited with a dramatic increase in the popularity of the league that has continued to the present day.
4. Miracle at the Meadowlands(Watch It)
“I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!” Why do teams kneel in a victory formation to run the clock out instead of handing the ball off? It’s because something like this could happen. The Eagles escaped with a 19-17 win over the Giants in November 1978 when New York quarterback Joe Pisarcik fumbled while trying to get the ball to Larry Csonka. The beneficiary of the Giants’ gaffe was Philadelphia defensive back Herman Edwards, who snatched the ball up and raced 26 yards to pay dirt for a stunning two-point victory. New York offensive coordinator Bob Gibson was fired the very next day.
3. How ‘The Hail Mary Pass’ Got Its Name (Watch It)
Whether Cowboys wideout Drew Pearson pushed Nate Wright down or the Vikings cornerback fell of his own accord, the end result is still the same. Dallas eliminated Minnesota 17-14 in a December 1975 playoff game on a 50-yard touchdown pass from Roger Staubach. Pearson was able to hold the ball against his hip as he spun away from Wright for the deciding touchdown. The controversial no-call made Pearson unpopular enough in the Land of Lakes that he would use a fake name on future airplane trips to Minnesota, according to Pro Football Talk. Staubach said later that, “I just threw it and prayed.” He described the desperation throw as a ‘Hail Mary Pass,’ and the name stuck.
2. Music City Miracle (Watch It)
Trailing 16-15 with seconds remaining in an AFC playoff game on January 8, 2000, the Tennessee Titans needed a miracle — and they got one. Lorenzo Neal fielded a short kickoff, handed to Frank Wycheck, and the rest is history. The ensuing lateral from Wycheck all the way across the field to Kevin Dyson provided one of the most improbable NFL victories ever. Dyson raced 75 yards up the left sideline with a convoy of blockers in front of him to propel the Titans to a 22-16 win. The play was originally drawn up for Derrick Mason, but both Mason and his backup were out, so it’s Dyson whose name will be associated with the Music City Miracle forever.
1. Immaculate Reception(Watch It)
Perhaps no NFL finish is more well-known or more replayed than the end of the Steelers-Raiders playoff game in 1972. Pittsburgh went well over 59 minutes without a touchdown, but on a 4th-and-10 play in the final seconds, Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and rumbled sixty yards for the go-ahead score. Although there is still debate about whether Harris’s teammate John Fuqua touched the ball before it bounced Franco’s way (which would have nullified the touchdown according to the rules), the play stood and the Steelers prevailed by a score of 13-7. | <urn:uuid:dfaf898c-9ff5-4521-80d1-1faa6a982a07> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.sportscasting.com/20-of-the-most-unbelievable-finishes-in-nfl-history/ | 2021-04-13T01:23:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038071212.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20210413000853-20210413030853-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.961926 | 3,155 |
Last weekend was a busy weekend with kids around here! Friday night our youngest had a choir concert at Light up Middletown. The Community Center is in a beautiful old church and it is always beautiful! First they light the light the tree outside and then Santa leads a parade to the Community Center and they have several choirs and soloists. Maia’s choir did a wonderful job and were so cute. I think I may miss these concerts when she goes to middle school next year!
Every year we make a trip to Madison, IN, my hometown, to do some Christmas shopping and wander around. It’s a great little town if you haven’t visited before. This year we went on the Nights Before Christmas Candlelight Tour. In addition to homes like the Lanier home that are always open to the public, they have private historic homes open to visit. They are all decorated for Christmas and the whole town is so festive it just gets you in the spirit. We shopped at some of our favorite stores All about Soap, The Attic which has the world’s best coffee, The Cocoa Safari and milkshakes at Hinkle’s. There may have been burgers at Hinkle’s too. Because of the tour and limited time we had to skip some other favorites like The Little Golden Fox, but we will get there next time.
It was just a great little trip and the kids had fun too. As a matter of fact we had such a good time that I didn’t take pics! I know! Bad blogger! Anyway, I have posted some pics from Facebook and the Tour of Homes website as well as links to some of my favorite things about Madison and a video blog that shows some of the homes.
If you are ever interested Madison has a lot of nice little hotels, bed and breakfasts and restaurants. If you have any questions about places to stay or things to do let me know! | <urn:uuid:9362fa51-190b-4f78-8631-730f93ba058e> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://traveltara.com/2017/12/07/getting-in-the-christmas-spirit/ | 2018-10-16T23:33:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510893.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20181016221847-20181017003347-00167.warc.gz | en | 0.974218 | 404 |
Al-Nour emerges as key broker in post-Morsi Egypt
The Salafis have come a long way in Egypt.
From an underground and frequently persecuted movement, whose members gathered in mosques under the radar in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, to being key players in the formation of an interim government after Mohammed Morsi's removal from power.
The Muslim Brotherhood may have been in power for the past year, but the biggest political rise after the January 2011 revolution was that of the ultra-conservative Salafis - who adopt a very strict interpretation of Islam and call for Sharia law.
Not long after the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak, the Salafis formed their first political party, al-Nour (the Party of Light).
In the first parliamentary elections after the revolution (2011-2012), Salafis got the second biggest number of seats after the Muslim Brotherhood.
Since then, they have had a prominent presence in key moments in Egypt's politics.
They backed the Muslim Brotherhood-led drafting of the constitution and were quick to defend former President Morsi when he came out with the presidential decree last November that gave him both legislative and executive powers.
But this last year has been a testing one for al-Nour.
Its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood has grown very tense in the past few months, with many members accusing the Brotherhood of monopolising places in power and excluding other Islamist parties.
The party itself has suffered internal divisions and feuds which resulted in the defection of its leader Emad Abdel Ghafour, who in turn headed another Salafi party, al-Watan.
Al-Nour has since maintained that it is the official political representative of the Salafi movement.Internal crisis
Now the Salafi party finds itself in a unique position after the ousting of Mohammed Morsi.
On the one hand, it is at an advantage, as political factions working on an interim government are keen to keep them on board to look inclusive and to show that Mr Morsi's removal had backing among the Islamists.
That has given it some political leeway it did not have during Mr Morsi's time.
For example, it blocked an attempt to appoint as prime minister the prominent opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei, of the National Salvation Front.
But al-Nour also faces an internal crisis, with many members reported to have left the party to join the Muslim Brotherhood in support of the ousted president - especially after the killing of more than 50 Islamist protesters who were demonstrating near the Republican Guard complex.
In a move to save face, al-Nour threatened to break with the country's new military-backed leadership.
It announced the suspension of co-operation with the interim leadership over the road map for the post-Morsi Egypt.
It also condemned what they described as a massacre and demanded an immediate start to reconciliation efforts between Mr Morsi and his opponents.
Whether this will make any difference to the interim leader's stance on the way forward is very difficult to gauge in the extremely fluid political situation.
But it leaves Egypt's first and biggest Salafi political party trying to capitalise on its position, while attempting to convince its members that they have not completely abandoned other Islamist movements. | <urn:uuid:b7aebd57-14df-4059-b047-d978b02bfffd> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23285870 | 2014-03-14T07:53:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394678690318/warc/CC-MAIN-20140313024450-00028-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973743 | 665 |
Posted on September 19, 2012 by Susan Peel
Small Taste of the Big World…. Of Salon Ownership
By: Ang Espinosa, Guest Blogger
Many cosmetologists have the dream of owning their own salon, but how do you get your feet wet first in the large world small business ownership before making the big plunge? The answer: booth rental.
Booth renting is a great idea to try on the experience of owning a business. After being in the industry for many years, I was ready to take my experience to the next level. I had built my clientele and was ready for the long hours (I was also ready to be my own boss). I wanted to make money and I knew it was all up to me; working hard came naturally. When clients would call, I would always find a way to fit them into my schedule. I had to; not only did my clients depend on me, but my bank account did too!
My booth renting experience was rewarding. I was happy to know that all the years of hard work gave me loyal clients, the ability to be my own boss, and wear all the hats of a salon owner. I truly believe that everyone should have the experience of booth rental before making a big plunge. | <urn:uuid:987b86ec-f4a3-49f9-883a-109a1c7daa1d> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.xenonacademy.net/salon-ownership/ | 2018-03-17T04:37:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257644271.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317035630-20180317055630-00541.warc.gz | en | 0.984806 | 256 |
Simplex-Turbulo is a major stockist and supplier of fuel injection components from well-known manufacturers such as Bosch, Bryce, DUAP, L’Orange, Woodward and Zexel. The components supplied include delivery valves, injector valve bodies, injector nozzles, fuel pump elements (plungers and barrels), cam rollers, fuel pipes and sealing sets.
Where the standard equipment is not providing adequate performance/time between overhauls, we can provide advice regarding alternative approaches. For example, together with the assistance of DUAP we offered a redesigned plunger and barrel on a Pielstick PC 2.6 engine which had been failing due to poor lubrication. The result was that the life time of the plunger and barrel increased from a few hundred hours to approximately 12,000 hours. Likewise we have provided special coatings to extend operational life where there has been severe erosion from sewage gas and also where animal fats have been used as fuel.
We can supply fuel injection equipment suitable for the following engines as well as a reconditioning service. | <urn:uuid:0cd1af39-76d3-4b6f-8aca-a026174c5df2> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.simplexturbulo.com/diesel-engine-spares/components/fuel-injection/ | 2020-10-23T04:41:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880656.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20201023043931-20201023073931-00061.warc.gz | en | 0.958186 | 222 |
Tower Hill, City of London, London, EC3
Capacity : 250
Function Room : 4
Accommodation Availability : No
The London Walkway is an ideal venue for hire in London with its four spaces to arrange the most prestigious events in the city. This is one of the Unique London venues for hire for weddings, receptions or corporate events. Offering the panoramic views, high Walkways and the Victorian Engine Rooms offer a great backdrop for your lifetime events. The Walkway's Master’s Dining Room and the North Tower Lounge are available for small scale functions like private dinners or small meetings. The largest hall to hire can accommodate maximum of 250 people. The catering service offered is flawlessly from every aspect. It is ideally located in Tower Hill with no external catering permitted. | <urn:uuid:ed6943b9-80af-479b-8a47-5a182185116f> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.venuescollection.com/venues/tower-bridge.aspx | 2016-02-14T09:55:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701174607.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193934-00071-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916281 | 164 |
The Conscious Consumer
A fashion conscious consumer is someone that is aware of the negative effects of purchasing items that are not produced in a sustainable or ethical way. It is somebody that considers what they buy and how they will use it.
The high street shops have a responsibility to offer clothing that is of better quality and of a more classic design. So much fashion is produced with no other thought than of the bottom line. These are often items that are produced in large volumes by high street brands in inferior man-made fabrics. The fits are often disappointing and the sizing unrealistic.
Understanding the language that brands use to communicate their message can be confusing. They may use terms such as ethical, sustainable, fair trade or slow fashion. All of which mean different things. At Goose we have tried to simplify the terms we use to show you the way we work and to help you become more fashion conscious
Ethical fashion – concerns the human rights of the person producing the clothing.
Sustainable fashion – refers to the environmental and social aspects to sustaining overall the possibilities for future generations.
Slow fashion – refers to the clothing item itself, a term coined by Professor Kate Fletcher of the centre of sustainable fashion at The London College of Fashion Slow fashion has sustainable and ethical aspects. Read more about what slow fashion means to Goose.
Fair Trade – defined simply is when the person producing the goods get a fair price for their work. Choosing who to work with is a conscious decision and is based on many factors. We believe that when a garment is made fair, it produces a better end product, happier producers and happy customers.
So how can you make a change?
The Power Of One
First of all value and take care of items that you already own. Choose better and shop less, only buy pieces that you love 100%.
Go for clothing that is of high quality and durable. Choose natural fibres that wear better with age and can be repaired more easily.
Support ethical brands that produce in small batches with care and attention using materials that command greater respect. When respect is shown to the product this ethos echos through the whole process.
Buy vintage or second hand, regenerate and renew items that would end up in landfills. Start by organising your clothing, look at what you already have. Chances are you have the same piece in the back of your wardrobe that you bought yesterday.
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Life insurance benefits for your company from the nations leading insurers.
Group Life insurance can help you ensure that your employee’s loved ones are protected financially in the event that their income ends upon an untimely death. Group Life Insurance can help pay for funeral costs, debt, ensure continuity of a family business, finance the children’s education, protect partners, pay expenses, and give your employee’s family peace of mind after a tragic loss. Often, a combination of Term and Whole Life Insurance will provide the right solution for your employees.
Get to know your Term & Whole Life Insurance options.
Your employees’ own personal financial goals are individual and unique. There are two types of life insurance—temporary or Term Life Insurance and permanent or Whole Life insurance.
Term insurance only provides a death benefit, paid out upon the death of the insured named on the policy and there is a fixed period of time when the premium is level, and at a specifically stated time, the policy terminates. Term Life Insurance is purely a means of protection against risk.
Whole Life Insurance is often used as an investment strategy. Whole life policies have a living benefit, with a cash amount that grows tax-deferred. You will not pay taxes on your gains each year. Whole Life Insurance policies have options and offer riders such as accelerated benefits riders, which allow someone who has a terminal illness to receive as much as two-thirds of the benefits while still alive. Whole life has a level premium and payouts in the form of dividends. Dividends can be used to reduce the premium, or they can be used to build the cash value of the policy as well as the face amount. Your insurance carrier’s financial results, investment performance or experience, including mortality rates, gains and losses, and expenses can all affect your policy’s cash value, while the face value is simply the benefit amount that will be payable upon maturity, usually attained at age 100, or death of the insured. Your employees can borrow from the cash value of the policy with traditionally low rates and enjoy no restrictions or terms on a loan as you would borrowing from other financial institutions or banks. | <urn:uuid:0aaa5d06-de55-400b-b610-0592576d2113> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://marketplaceagency.com/group-life-insurance-benefits/ | 2018-09-20T21:18:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156613.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920195131-20180920215531-00378.warc.gz | en | 0.948078 | 444 |
Redding, CA is a small city in Northern California of 89,861 people as of the 2010 Census and it’s not the easiest city to travel to, especially if you’re from out of the country. I’ve compiled the easiest ways to get to Redding here.
There is a small regional airport here called the Redding Municipal Airport (RDD) and it has 2 direct flights from San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX) on United. These flights will be the most convenient if you’re looking to fly directly into Redding but can get a little expensive. Once you’re here you can catch an Uber or a Lyft from the airport fairly easily. Or you can borrow my car on Turo.
Fly and Drive
A possibly cheaper alternative is to fly into Sacramento (SMF) or San Francisco (SFO) and book a rental car or catch a ride with a friend to Redding. Sacramento is only 2.5 hours away and San Francisco is a little bit longer of a drive around 4.5 hours away. This will allow you to also have transportation while you’re here in Redding.
Road Trip It
The cheapest option could be to just road trip it all the way here! And it could make for an epic adventure. All it takes is a car, some gas, good music and great friends. But depending on where you live, it might take a good chunk of time so this might not be a viable option for most people unless you live within 10 hours of Redding.
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A young man whose severely burnt body was found at a golf course probably died from a blow to the head, detectives said.
An eight-hour post-mortem examination was conducted after the body was found by golfers as they walked between the 17th and 18th holes at the Dyke Golf Club on the outskirts of Brighton, East Sussex, just before noon on Saturday.
Detectives from Sussex Police's Major Crime Branch believe he had been murdered elsewhere before being taken to the golf club on the South Downs and set alight.
In an effort to identify him, police trawled missing person files and submitted a DNA sample for analysis to find out whether he was known to police.
Detective Chief Inspector Trevor Bowles, leading the murder inquiry, said they had not established what caused the head injury and further tests were being conducted.
He said: "Initial results from the post-mortem, which took eight hours, suggest that this young man died from a head injury. We have not established yet what may have caused the injury and further examination of the body and tests are being carried out.
"We now know that the man was probably in his late teens or 20s, was 5ft 4in and of very slim build.
"What is particularly significant is that he had an upper dental plate with five false teeth, very unusual in a person of that age."
On Sunday, Mr Bowles said initial suspicions that the victim had been mutilated proved false following detailed examination of the scene.
Officers now believe a foot was removed by an animal as it dragged the body a few feet from the point at which he was torched. | <urn:uuid:80a77c96-01a3-494d-aa60-03df63d397b0> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/head-injury-killed-golf-course-man-28557197.html | 2014-03-10T20:23:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011005264/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305091645-00070-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992054 | 336 |
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How in the world do you feed 5,000? Philip noticed that it was impractical. Andrew offered what he had, but said it wasn’t enough. A boy gave up his lunch. Jesus turned five loaves into food for five thousand.
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BIXI, Montreal's Public Bike System, receives International Design Award
MONTREAL, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Public Bike System Company has
received a Bronze International Design Excellence Award (IDEA),
transportation category, for the design of the BIXI bike.
The IDEA program has been honouring excellence in the design of
products in categories such as transportation, ecodesign,
entertainment, household goods, and research since 1980. For the Public
Bike System Company and Michel Dallaire, the internationally renowned
industrial designer who created the components of the BIXI bike, this
was the second such honour. In December 2008, the BIXI prototype
captured the Int rieurs Ferdie eco-design award in the product
design/sustainable development category.
Andr Lavall e, mayor of the Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie borough and
vice-chair of the City of Montr al's executive committee, is delighted
by this news: "Initiatives like BIXI, involving talented Quebec
designers, underscore Montr al's status as a UNESCO City of Design. In
developing this unique project, Montr al has again proven itself to be
on the frontline of change, committed to promoting active
transportation and excellence in architecture and design."
Roger Plamondon, chair of the board of the Public Bike System
Company, is also gratified that BIXI has once again received
international recognition. "From the very beginning, Design was an
extremely important consideration for this project, since we realized
the bike would become an integral part of Montr al's urban landscape.
The achievement of Michel Dallaire Industrial Design was impressive,
and we are proud to receive this new award from such a prestigious
competition," declared Plamondon.
BIXI is the City of Montreal's public bike system. With this
service, Montrealers can pick up a bike from one station, travel to
their destination, and return the bike to any other station in the
network. With the completion of the recently announced Phase II, the
system will include 5,000 bikes distributed among 400 stations.
International Design Excellence Awards
IDEA and IDSA (the Industrial Designers Society of America) foster
business and public understanding of the impact of industrial design
excellence on the quality of life and the economy. Participants in the
IDEA competition include companies, designers, and students from around
the world. Entries are judged by twenty world-renowned designers
according to eight basic criteria including design innovation,
aesthetics, ecological responsibility, and benefits to society and the
Source: The Public Bike System CompanyCONTACT: B reng re Th riault, Public Bike System Company, Communications
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My friends want scarves that match their motorcycles of black, grey and yellow, and burnt orange and grey (with aubergine just cause she likes that color), so I'm dyeing and spinning up yarn to match. I had some white cotswold, grey lincoln and yellow dyed romney.
I dyed the cotswold black and it came out very glossy, I really like it. I've overdyed some of the lincoln with silver grey to get a darker grey and did various overdye on the romney and lincoln with black, yellow, dk grey and silver grey. Some of the experiments came out okay, others didn't. It was my first foray with microwave dyeing and I'm liking the technique.
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Sand Mine Reclamation Grand Mere State Park
The purpose of this project was to complete an ecological restoration of the Peters sand mine at Grand Mere State Park in Berrien County, Mich.
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- Sand Mine Reclamation Grand Mere State Park - Final Report (PDF) (12 pp, 604 K) October 2000
- Sand Mine Restoration Plan Grand Mere State Park (PDF) (25 pp, 89 K) August 2000
- Letter of Agreement between TechniSand, Inc. and Michigan DNR (PDF) (2 pp, 20 K)
Appendix A: Planting Zones Map 22
Appendix B: Global and State Element Ranking Criteria 23
Appendix C: Public Act 451 of 1994 – Part 353 “Sand Dunes Protection & Management” 24
Appendix D: Public Act 451 of 1994 – Part 637 “Sand Dune Mining” 25
Appendix E: Critical Dune Areas at Grand Mere
The purpose of this project was to complete an ecological restoration of the Peters sand mine at Grand Mere State Park, Berrien County, Michigan. Grand Mere State Park is a 985 acre park characterized by one mile of Lake Michigan shoreline, large oak-forested dunes, several large blowouts, and three shallow inland lakes behind the dunes (largely succeeding towards shrub-dominated swamp). An active sand mine is adjacent to the 1,200-acre dedicated National Natural Landmark that includes Grand Mere State Park. The overall goal of the project is to reclaim the sand mine to native species (local genotype) that blend well with the surrounding natural communities, while demonstrating to regulators and the sand mining industry a more ecologically-sound way of reclaiming sand mines. Throughout the project, cooperation between private industry, state and federal agencies, and the local community was emphasized.
The project duration was originally set at two years, with a one-year extension anticipated from the beginning. It was recognized in the original project narrative that additional time may be needed for restoration, depending on how quickly the sand mining was completed. As of September 1, 2000, TechniSand is still completing mining and contouring of the site. Some slopes have received initial plantings, but the majority of the site will not be ready for plantings until fall 2000 or spring 2001.
Because mining has not yet been completed, this final report cannot present the outcome of a completed restoration. The report will document what was accomplished to date and how the federal funds were spent. It will be necessary to continue monitoring and implementation of the restoration plan to ensure all requirements of the plan are met. The State Park Stewardship Program is prepared to continue this project until all phases of the plan are carried out. An addendum to this final report will be completed detailing the progress of the reclamation after all plants purchased with EPA assistance are installed and monitoring has continued for at least three years. At that time, a more elaborate summary can be made of lessons learned through this project.
The specific objectives of the project are as follows (excerpted from a letter to Project Officer Kent Fuller dated January 14, 2000):
- To complete an ecological restoration of the Manley-Peters (a.k.a. Gullivere-Peters) Sand Mine at Grand Mere State Park to approximate, as near as possible, the natural conditions of surrounding dunes. To accomplish this, we will plant a suite of key native plant species that create the biological framework of the native plant communities likely to occur naturally at this site. Following the initial plantings, the State Park Stewardship Program intends to monitor the growth of these plants and those that naturally establish within the sand mine for many years. Through active management, we will promote succession towards the natural forested dune, prairie, wetpanne, and pond communities that occur nearby within the park.
- To demonstrate to regulators of the sand mining industry a more ecologically sound way of restoring sand mines that promotes the use of a diverse array of native species that would naturally occur on dunes at the site of the mining operation. We intend to demonstrate the feasibility of an ecological restoration effort that uses a diversity of native plants to revegetate the site, rather than the monocultures of beach grass and non-native trees and shrubs often planted to stabilize sand dunes.
- To demonstrate to the sand mining companies that they can do a better job of restoring sand mines to a more natural condition following mining. In addition to benefiting the environment by providing habitat for native plants and animals, such restorations would also boost the reputation of these companies as being more environmentally-conscious.
- To cooperate with private industry, state and federal agencies, and the local community. This cooperation will foster awareness of the importance of conserving the native biological diversity of dune systems for all parties involved. Volunteerism and natural resource education will be promoted throughout the restoration. In addition, the project will involve the development of techniques to restore wetpanne and aquatic habitats, including research on the propagation of native plant species. | <urn:uuid:a9286f84-e3d3-4ad3-9ab1-d27d446f98d2> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/ecopage/shore/smine/index.html | 2015-07-04T17:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096780.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00000-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93851 | 1,069 |
The emperor had despatched two prætorian cohorts with
instructions that the magistrates of Calabria
, and Campania
were to pay
the last honours to his son's memory. Accordingly tribunes and centurions
bore Germanicus's ashes on their shoulders. They were preceded by the
POPULAR GRIEF, OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE
and the fasces reversed. As they passed colony after colony, the populace in
black, the knights in their state robes, burnt vestments and perfumes with
other usual funeral adjuncts, in proportion to the wealth of the place. Even
those whose towns were out of the route, met the mourners, offered victims
and built altars to the dead, testifying their grief by tears and wailings.
Drusus went as far as Tarracina
brother of Germanicus, and the children who had been at Rome
. Marcus Valerius and Caius Aurelius, the consuls,
who had already entered on office, and a great number of the people thronged
the road in scattered groups, every one weeping as he felt inclined.
Flattery there was none, for all knew that Tiberius could scarcely dissemble
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Wrestling Current Affairs - 2019
Category Wise PDF Compilations available at This Link
The medal winners for India at the Dan Kovlov 2019 wrestling event is listed below:
- Bajrang Punia won gold in the Men’s freestyle wrestling 65kg category.
- Pooja Dhanda claimed gold in the Women’s 59kg category.
- Sakshi Malik claimed silver medal in the Women’s 65kg category.
- Sandeep Tomar claimed silver medal in the Men’s 61kg category.
- Vinesh Phogat claimed silver medal in the Women’s 53kg
The Wrestling event was being held at Ruse, Bulgaria.
The Wrestling event is named after wrestling legend Doncho Kolеv Danev better known by the ring name Dan Kolov. Dan Kolov was a Bulgarian wrestler and he was the first European freestyle wrestling champion from Bulgaria.
Dan Kovlov had between 1,500 and 2,000 fights and won almost all of them and he has registered only three losses in official matches.
The 2018 World Wrestling Championships were fifteenth edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and were held from October 20 to 28 in Budapest, Hungary. Here are important facts:
About UWW World Wrestling Championships
- It is amateur wrestling world championship event organised by the United World Wrestling.
- It was started in 1904 with the Men’s Greco-Roman wrestling tournament.
- From 1951, the Men’s freestyle wrestling tournament began.
- From 1987, women’s freestyle championship started.
The top medal winning countries
In the 2018 event, Japan won the most medals with 5 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze. Russia comes second with 8 medals.
India is at the 17th place with 2 medals – 1 silver and 1 bronze. Bajrang Punia bagged the silver medal. Pooja Dhanda won Bronze medal and became fourth Indian woman to win a medal at the World Wrestling Championship.
About Bajrang Punia
Bajrang Punia from Haryana is India’s freestyle wrestler who won a Bronze medal in 2013 world wrestling championships, bagged silver medal in 2015 commonwealth games, 2014 Asian games, and 2014 Asian wrestling championships. With the 2018 win, he has total four silvers in his kitty. He has also won a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championship 2017, 2018 commonwealth games, and 2018 Asian games.
Pooja Dhanda from Haryana won silver medals in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2018 Commonwealth Games. With 2018 Bronze win, she became the fourth Indian woman grappler to win a medal at the World Championship. Before her, Alka Tomar in 2006, Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat in 2012 had won a bronze medal each at the Worlds Championships. | <urn:uuid:5715c316-05fc-4702-bc19-8a504043942d> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/tags/wrestling | 2019-05-23T06:56:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257156.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523063645-20190523085645-00183.warc.gz | en | 0.947139 | 594 |
The goal of a Bible study is not information, but transformation, and this is what the application phase of the conversation is all about. Here are five characteristics of application questions that will help your group respond well to what Jesus is doing in their lives.
Just as God’s Word is compared to a double-edged sword (Heb. 4:12), great application questions or challenges are SHARP:
We’ve probably heard someone say at the conclusion of a study, “I’ve learned I need to surrender more of my life to God.” While that sounds great, the problem is that it’s too vague to be actionable. If it’s true you need to surrender more of your life to God, what is a specific area where that is difficult for you to do right now? Good application questions will pinpoint clear places in our lives where we need the Holy Spirit’s redemptive work.
Honors the text
If a passage of Scripture challenges some aspect of our thinking or behavior, the call to response should reflect that challenge. We must resist the temptation to shift the topic to avoid facing the implications of a passage. Writing application questions that are faithful to the core message of the passage honors the soul-penetrating power of God’s Word.
Just as the best Bible studies happen in community, the most effective application happens when we make ourselves accountable to others. As we share about specific areas of our lives uncovered by the text, we need trusted friends to ask us questions like, “What specific step of obedience is Jesus asking you to take? When will you do it? What obstacle(s) will you need to overcome? How can we help?”
A powerful truth about life is that there is no growth without risk. When we take risks out of obedience to what God has spoken to us, we place ourselves in a deeper posture of dependence on him, which in turn strengthens our faith. Our response to a Bible study should be risky enough that it pushes us to rely on God. As one Bible study veteran cautions, “We must avoid general responses that any person could do even if they weren’t a Christian.”
As the parable of the sower in Mark 4 reveals, spiritual transformation does not happen automatically, and it definitely does not occur apart from the work of the Spirit! Without God’s work to soften our collective hearts, any number of things can go wrong: Satan can snatch the Word away, our shallowness can prevent sustainable growth, or our worries and fears can choke the spiritual life out of us. Our application response needs to be covered in prayer, asking God for conviction and the help we need to act on his Word.
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Today, the film industry is not just movie making. It has become something beyond it. Earlier, when we take our past, when the technology was not the leader of the world, all the films carried mostly, the same moves, same stories, same set of actions. But now a movie is not just a movie, but a combination of the perfect blend of technology.
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When making a movie, shooting becomes hard when you want to capture unique moves. It is essential to have quality equipment available with your team. A selfie drone is a simple equipment use to capture the facial expressions when you are in action and will be commonly used due to its amazing portability.
Hiking, climbing, flying, diving, surfing, each of these moves are special and that specialty comes only through the perfect capture. Therefore, it is vital to take them in to the focus of camera while they are still in action. For such moments, a commonly used equipment in the industry would be GoPro hero 4 in Australia.
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To retain in the movie making industry and holds the name as the best movie making and producing company is not an easy task. When you become popular from the first hit, eventually you are creating your own brand in the industry. Then you will have a set of followers in the industry waiting and watching until you release your next production. Therefore, this industry is one of the highly profit making industries in the world.
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Homegrown smartphone maker Micromax is all set to enter the European market with its hybrid device called LapTab. Slated to be launched in India by February 2014, the LapTab is a dual boot Android plus Windows tablet. Powered by an Intel BayTrail chip, the device runs Windows 8 as well as Android 4.2.2. The LapTab was first showcased by Micromax at the ongoing CES 2014 Electronic Show at Las Vegas. In Europe, the device would be first launched in Russia. Micromax has not revealed the prospective price of the device. | <urn:uuid:bcda3955-d93e-4d3e-96a1-c7352bab9980> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://techknotsdmn.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/homegrown-smartphone-maker-micromax-is-all-set-to/ | 2018-01-23T03:54:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891706.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123032443-20180123052443-00732.warc.gz | en | 0.94781 | 116 |
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) are commonly emitted from plants after herbivore attack1,2. These HIPVs are mainly regulated by the defensive plant hormone jasmonic acid (JA) and its volatile derivative methyl jasmonate (MeJA)3,4,5. Over the past 3 decades researchers have documented that HIPVs can repel or attract herbivores, attract the natural enemies of herbivores, and in some cases they can induce or prime plant defenses prior to herbivore attack. In a recent paper6, I reported that feeding by gypsy moth caterpillars, exogenous MeJA application, and mechanical damage induce the emissions of volatiles from blueberry plants, albeit differently. In addition, blueberry branches respond to HIPVs emitted from neighboring branches of the same plant by increasing the levels of JA and resistance to herbivores (i.e., direct plant defenses), and by priming volatile emissions (i.e., indirect plant defenses). Similar findings have been reported recently for sagebrush7, poplar8, and lima beans9..
Here, I describe a push-pull method for collecting blueberry volatiles induced by herbivore (gypsy moth) feeding, exogenous MeJA application, and mechanical damage. The volatile collection unit consists of a 4 L volatile collection chamber, a 2-piece guillotine, an air delivery system that purifies incoming air, and a vacuum system connected to a trap filled with Super-Q adsorbent to collect volatiles5,6,10. Volatiles collected in Super-Q traps are eluted with dichloromethane and then separated and quantified using Gas Chromatography (GC). This volatile collection method was used n my study6 to investigate the volatile response of undamaged branches to exposure to volatiles from herbivore-damaged branches within blueberry plants. These methods are described here. Briefly, undamaged blueberry branches are exposed to HIPVs from neighboring branches within the same plant. Using the same techniques described above, volatiles emitted from branches after exposure to HIPVs are collected and analyzed.
23 Related JoVE Articles!
Visually Mediated Odor Tracking During Flight in Drosophila
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles.
Flying insects use visual cues to stabilize their heading in a wind stream. Many animals additionally track odors carried in the wind. As such, visual stabilization of upwind tracking directly aids in odor tracking. But do olfactory signals directly influence visual tracking behavior independently from wind cues? Additionally, recent advances in olfactory molecular genetics and neurophysiology have motivated novel quantitative behavioral analyses to assess the behavioral influence of (e.g.) genetically inactivating specific olfactory activation circuits. We modified a magnetic tether system originally devised for vision experiments by equipping the arena with narrow laminar flow odor plumes. Here we focus on experiments that can be performed after a fly is tethered and is able to navigate in the magnetic arena. We show how to acquire video images optimized for measuring body angle, how to judge stable odor tracking, and we illustrate two experiments to examine the influence of visual cues on odor tracking.
Neuroscience, Issue 23, Drosophila, magnet, olfaction, vision, behavior, flight, video
Designing Silk-silk Protein Alloy Materials for Biomedical Applications
Institutions: Rowan University, Rowan University, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Rowan University.
Fibrous proteins display different sequences and structures that have been used for various applications in biomedical fields such as biosensors, nanomedicine, tissue regeneration, and drug delivery. Designing materials based on the molecular-scale interactions between these proteins will help generate new multifunctional protein alloy biomaterials with tunable properties. Such alloy material systems also provide advantages in comparison to traditional synthetic polymers due to the materials biodegradability, biocompatibility, and tenability in the body. This article used the protein blends of wild tussah silk (Antheraea pernyi
) and domestic mulberry silk (Bombyx mori
) as an example to provide useful protocols regarding these topics, including how to predict protein-protein interactions by computational methods, how to produce protein alloy solutions, how to verify alloy systems by thermal analysis, and how to fabricate variable alloy materials including optical materials with diffraction gratings, electric materials with circuits coatings, and pharmaceutical materials for drug release and delivery. These methods can provide important information for designing the next generation multifunctional biomaterials based on different protein alloys.
Bioengineering, Issue 90, protein alloys, biomaterials, biomedical, silk blends, computational simulation, implantable electronic devices
High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities
Institutions: Colorado State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Colorado.
Microbes in soils and other environments produce extracellular enzymes to depolymerize and hydrolyze organic macromolecules so that they can be assimilated for energy and nutrients. Measuring soil microbial enzyme activity is crucial in understanding soil ecosystem functional dynamics. The general concept of the fluorescence enzyme assay is that synthetic C-, N-, or P-rich substrates bound with a fluorescent dye are added to soil samples. When intact, the labeled substrates do not fluoresce. Enzyme activity is measured as the increase in fluorescence as the fluorescent dyes are cleaved from their substrates, which allows them to fluoresce. Enzyme measurements can be expressed in units of molarity or activity. To perform this assay, soil slurries are prepared by combining soil with a pH buffer. The pH buffer (typically a 50 mM sodium acetate or 50 mM Tris buffer), is chosen for the buffer's particular acid dissociation constant (pKa) to best match the soil sample pH. The soil slurries are inoculated with a nonlimiting amount of fluorescently labeled (i.e.
C-, N-, or P-rich) substrate. Using soil slurries in the assay serves to minimize limitations on enzyme and substrate diffusion. Therefore, this assay controls for differences in substrate limitation, diffusion rates, and soil pH conditions; thus detecting potential enzyme activity rates as a function of the difference in enzyme concentrations (per sample).
Fluorescence enzyme assays are typically more sensitive than spectrophotometric (i.e.
colorimetric) assays, but can suffer from interference caused by impurities and the instability of many fluorescent compounds when exposed to light; so caution is required when handling fluorescent substrates. Likewise, this method only assesses potential enzyme activities under laboratory conditions when substrates are not limiting. Caution should be used when interpreting the data representing cross-site comparisons with differing temperatures or soil types, as in situ
soil type and temperature can influence enzyme kinetics.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 81, Ecological and Environmental Phenomena, Environment, Biochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Ecology, Eukaryota, Archaea, Bacteria, Soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs), fluorometric enzyme assays, substrate degradation, 4-methylumbelliferone (MUB), 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (MUC), enzyme temperature kinetics, soil
Electroantennographic Bioassay as a Screening Tool for Host Plant Volatiles
Institutions: Agricultural Research Service.
Plant volatiles play an important role in plant-insect interactions. Herbivorous insects use plant volatiles, known as kairomones, to locate their host plant.1,2
When a host plant is an important agronomic commodity feeding damage by insect pests can inflict serious economic losses to growers. Accordingly, kairomones can be used as attractants to lure or confuse these insects and, thus, offer an environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides for insect control.3
Unfortunately, plants can emit a vast number volatiles with varying compositions and ratios of emissions dependent upon the phenology of the commodity or the time of day. This makes identification of biologically active components or blends of volatile components an arduous process. To help identify the bioactive components of host plant volatile emissions we employ the laboratory-based screening bioassay electroantennography (EAG). EAG is an effective tool to evaluate and record electrophysiologically the olfactory responses of an insect via their antennal receptors. The EAG screening process can help reduce the number of volatiles tested to identify promising bioactive components. However, EAG bioassays only provide information about activation of receptors. It does not provide information about the type of insect behavior the compound elicits; which could be as an attractant, repellent or other type of behavioral response. Volatiles eliciting a significant response by EAG, relative to an appropriate positive control, are typically taken on to further testing of behavioral responses of the insect pest. The experimental design presented will detail the methodology employed to screen almond-based host plant volatiles4,5
by measurement of the electrophysiological antennal responses of an adult insect pest navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella
) to single components and simple blends of components via EAG bioassay. The method utilizes two excised antennae placed across a "fork" electrode holder. The protocol demonstrated here presents a rapid, high-throughput standardized method for screening volatiles. Each volatile is at a set, constant amount as to standardize the stimulus level and thus allow antennal responses to be indicative of the relative chemoreceptivity. The negative control helps eliminate the electrophysiological response to both residual solvent and mechanical force of the puff. The positive control (in this instance acetophenone) is a single compound that has elicited a consistent response from male and female navel orangeworm (NOW) moth. An additional semiochemical standard that provides consistent response and is used for bioassay studies with the male NOW moth is (Z,Z)-11,13-hexdecadienal, an aldehyde component from the female-produced sex pheromone.6-8
Plant Biology, Issue 63, bioassay, chemoreception, electroantennography, electrophysiological response, high-throughput, host-plant volatiles, navel orangeworm, screening tool
Design and Operation of a Continuous 13C and 15N Labeling Chamber for Uniform or Differential, Metabolic and Structural, Plant Isotope Labeling
Institutions: Colorado State University, USDA-ARS, Colorado State University.
Tracing rare stable isotopes from plant material through the ecosystem provides the most sensitive information about ecosystem processes; from CO2
fluxes and soil organic matter formation to small-scale stable-isotope biomarker probing. Coupling multiple stable isotopes such as 13
C with 15
O or 2
H has the potential to reveal even more information about complex stoichiometric relationships during biogeochemical transformations. Isotope labeled plant material has been used in various studies of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation1-4
. From these and other studies, however, it has become apparent that structural components of plant material behave differently than metabolic components (i.e
. leachable low molecular weight compounds) in terms of microbial utilization and long-term carbon storage5-7
. The ability to study structural and metabolic components separately provides a powerful new tool for advancing the forefront of ecosystem biogeochemical studies. Here we describe a method for producing 13
C and 15
N labeled plant material that is either uniformly labeled throughout the plant or differentially labeled in structural and metabolic plant components.
Here, we present the construction and operation of a continuous 13
C and 15
N labeling chamber that can be modified to meet various research needs. Uniformly labeled plant material is produced by continuous labeling from seedling to harvest, while differential labeling is achieved by removing the growing plants from the chamber weeks prior to harvest. Representative results from growing Andropogon gerardii
Kaw demonstrate the system's ability to efficiently label plant material at the targeted levels. Through this method we have produced plant material with a 4.4 atom%13
C and 6.7 atom%15
N uniform plant label, or material that is differentially labeled by up to 1.29 atom%13
C and 0.56 atom%15
N in its metabolic and structural components (hot water extractable and hot water residual components, respectively). Challenges lie in maintaining proper temperature, humidity, CO2
concentration, and light levels in an airtight 13
atmosphere for successful plant production. This chamber description represents a useful research tool to effectively produce uniformly or differentially multi-isotope labeled plant material for use in experiments on ecosystem biogeochemical cycling.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 83, 13C, 15N, plant, stable isotope labeling, Andropogon gerardii, metabolic compounds, structural compounds, hot water extraction
Physical, Chemical and Biological Characterization of Six Biochars Produced for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Institutions: Royal Military College of Canada, Queen's University.
The physical and chemical properties of biochar vary based on feedstock sources and production conditions, making it possible to engineer biochars with specific functions (e.g.
carbon sequestration, soil quality improvements, or contaminant sorption). In 2013, the International Biochar Initiative (IBI) made publically available their Standardized Product Definition and Product Testing Guidelines (Version 1.1) which set standards for physical and chemical characteristics for biochar. Six biochars made from three different feedstocks and at two temperatures were analyzed for characteristics related to their use as a soil amendment. The protocol describes analyses of the feedstocks and biochars and includes: cation exchange capacity (CEC), specific surface area (SSA), organic carbon (OC) and moisture percentage, pH, particle size distribution, and proximate and ultimate analysis. Also described in the protocol are the analyses of the feedstocks and biochars for contaminants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), metals and mercury as well as nutrients (phosphorous, nitrite and nitrate and ammonium as nitrogen). The protocol also includes the biological testing procedures, earthworm avoidance and germination assays. Based on the quality assurance / quality control (QA/QC) results of blanks, duplicates, standards and reference materials, all methods were determined adequate for use with biochar and feedstock materials. All biochars and feedstocks were well within the criterion set by the IBI and there were little differences among biochars, except in the case of the biochar produced from construction waste materials. This biochar (referred to as Old biochar) was determined to have elevated levels of arsenic, chromium, copper, and lead, and failed the earthworm avoidance and germination assays. Based on these results, Old biochar would not be appropriate for use as a soil amendment for carbon sequestration, substrate quality improvements or remediation.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 93, biochar, characterization, carbon sequestration, remediation, International Biochar Initiative (IBI), soil amendment
Experimental Protocol for Manipulating Plant-induced Soil Heterogeneity
Institutions: Case Western Reserve University.
Coexistence theory has often treated environmental heterogeneity as being independent of the community composition; however biotic feedbacks such as plant-soil feedbacks (PSF) have large effects on plant performance, and create environmental heterogeneity that depends on the community composition. Understanding the importance of PSF for plant community assembly necessitates understanding of the role of heterogeneity in PSF, in addition to mean PSF effects. Here, we describe a protocol for manipulating plant-induced soil heterogeneity. Two example experiments are presented: (1) a field experiment with a 6-patch grid of soils to measure plant population responses and (2) a greenhouse experiment with 2-patch soils to measure individual plant responses. Soils can be collected from the zone of root influence (soils from the rhizosphere and directly adjacent to the rhizosphere) of plants in the field from conspecific and heterospecific plant species. Replicate collections are used to avoid pseudoreplicating soil samples. These soils are then placed into separate patches for heterogeneous treatments or mixed for a homogenized treatment. Care should be taken to ensure that heterogeneous and homogenized treatments experience the same degree of soil disturbance. Plants can then be placed in these soil treatments to determine the effect of plant-induced soil heterogeneity on plant performance. We demonstrate that plant-induced heterogeneity results in different outcomes than predicted by traditional coexistence models, perhaps because of the dynamic nature of these feedbacks. Theory that incorporates environmental heterogeneity influenced by the assembling community and additional empirical work is needed to determine when heterogeneity intrinsic to the assembling community will result in different assembly outcomes compared with heterogeneity extrinsic to the community composition.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 85, Coexistence, community assembly, environmental drivers, plant-soil feedback, soil heterogeneity, soil microbial communities, soil patch
In Vitro Reconstitution of Light-harvesting Complexes of Plants and Green Algae
Institutions: VU University Amsterdam.
In plants and green algae, light is captured by the light-harvesting complexes (LHCs), a family of integral membrane proteins that coordinate chlorophylls and carotenoids. In vivo
, these proteins are folded with pigments to form complexes which are inserted in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast. The high similarity in the chemical and physical properties of the members of the family, together with the fact that they can easily lose pigments during isolation, makes their purification in a native state challenging. An alternative approach to obtain homogeneous preparations of LHCs was developed by Plumley and Schmidt in 19871
, who showed that it was possible to reconstitute these complexes in vitro
starting from purified pigments and unfolded apoproteins, resulting in complexes with properties very similar to that of native complexes. This opened the way to the use of bacterial expressed recombinant proteins for in vitro
reconstitution. The reconstitution method is powerful for various reasons: (1) pure preparations of individual complexes can be obtained, (2) pigment composition can be controlled to assess their contribution to structure and function, (3) recombinant proteins can be mutated to study the functional role of the individual residues (e.g.,
pigment binding sites) or protein domain (e.g.,
protein-protein interaction, folding). This method has been optimized in several laboratories and applied to most of the light-harvesting complexes. The protocol described here details the method of reconstituting light-harvesting complexes in vitro
currently used in our laboratory,
and examples describing applications of the method are provided.
Biochemistry, Issue 92, Reconstitution, Photosynthesis, Chlorophyll, Carotenoids, Light Harvesting Protein, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Arabidopsis thaliana
A New Approach for the Comparative Analysis of Multiprotein Complexes Based on 15N Metabolic Labeling and Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
Institutions: University of Münster, Carnegie Institution for Science.
The introduced protocol provides a tool for the analysis of multiprotein complexes in the thylakoid membrane, by revealing insights into complex composition under different conditions. In this protocol the approach is demonstrated by comparing the composition of the protein complex responsible for cyclic electron flow (CEF) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
, isolated from genetically different strains. The procedure comprises the isolation of thylakoid membranes, followed by their separation into multiprotein complexes by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, SDS-PAGE, immunodetection and comparative, quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) based on differential metabolic labeling (14
N) of the analyzed strains. Detergent solubilized thylakoid membranes are loaded on sucrose density gradients at equal chlorophyll concentration. After ultracentrifugation, the gradients are separated into fractions, which are analyzed by mass-spectrometry based on equal volume. This approach allows the investigation of the composition within the gradient fractions and moreover to analyze the migration behavior of different proteins, especially focusing on ANR1, CAS, and PGRL1. Furthermore, this method is demonstrated by confirming the results with immunoblotting and additionally by supporting the findings from previous studies (the identification and PSI-dependent migration of proteins that were previously described to be part of the CEF-supercomplex such as PGRL1, FNR, and cyt f
). Notably, this approach is applicable to address a broad range of questions for which this protocol can be adopted and e.g.
used for comparative analyses of multiprotein complex composition isolated from distinct environmental conditions.
Microbiology, Issue 85, Sucrose density gradients, Chlamydomonas, multiprotein complexes, 15N metabolic labeling, thylakoids
Efficient Agroinfiltration of Plants for High-level Transient Expression of Recombinant Proteins
Institutions: Arizona State University .
Mammalian cell culture is the major platform for commercial production of human vaccines and therapeutic proteins. However, it cannot meet the increasing worldwide demand for pharmaceuticals due to its limited scalability and high cost. Plants have shown to be one of the most promising alternative pharmaceutical production platforms that are robust, scalable, low-cost and safe. The recent development of virus-based vectors has allowed rapid and high-level transient expression of recombinant proteins in plants. To further optimize the utility of the transient expression system, we demonstrate a simple, efficient and scalable methodology to introduce target-gene containing Agrobacterium
into plant tissue in this study. Our results indicate that agroinfiltration with both syringe and vacuum methods have resulted in the efficient introduction of Agrobacterium
into leaves and robust production of two fluorescent proteins; GFP and DsRed. Furthermore, we demonstrate the unique advantages offered by both methods. Syringe infiltration is simple and does not need expensive equipment. It also allows the flexibility to either infiltrate the entire leave with one target gene, or to introduce genes of multiple targets on one leaf. Thus, it can be used for laboratory scale expression of recombinant proteins as well as for comparing different proteins or vectors for yield or expression kinetics. The simplicity of syringe infiltration also suggests its utility in high school and college education for the subject of biotechnology. In contrast, vacuum infiltration is more robust and can be scaled-up for commercial manufacture of pharmaceutical proteins. It also offers the advantage of being able to agroinfiltrate plant species that are not amenable for syringe infiltration such as lettuce and Arabidopsis
. Overall, the combination of syringe and vacuum agroinfiltration provides researchers and educators a simple, efficient, and robust methodology for transient protein expression. It will greatly facilitate the development of pharmaceutical proteins and promote science education.
Plant Biology, Issue 77, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Virology, Microbiology, Bioengineering, Plant Viruses, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Plant Proteins, Recombinant Proteins, Vaccines, Synthetic, Virus-Like Particle, Gene Transfer Techniques, Gene Expression, Agroinfiltration, plant infiltration, plant-made pharmaceuticals, syringe agroinfiltration, vacuum agroinfiltration, monoclonal antibody, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Nicotiana benthamiana, GFP, DsRed, geminiviral vectors, imaging, plant model
Vertical T-maze Choice Assay for Arthropod Response to Odorants
Institutions: University of Florida .
Given the economic importance of insects and arachnids as pests of agricultural crops, urban environments or as vectors of plant and human diseases, various technologies are being developed as control tools. A subset of these tools focuses on modifying the behavior of arthropods by attraction or repulsion. Therefore, arthropods are often the focus of behavioral investigations. Various tools have been developed to measure arthropod behavior, including wind tunnels, flight mills, servospheres, and various types of olfactometers. The purpose of these tools is to measure insect or arachnid response to visual or more often olfactory cues. The vertical T-maze oflactometer described here measures choices performed by insects in response to attractants or repellents. It is a high throughput assay device that takes advantage of the positive phototaxis (attraction to light) and negative geotaxis (tendency to walk or fly upward) exhibited by many arthropods. The olfactometer consists of a 30 cm glass tube that is divided in half with a Teflon strip forming a T-maze. Each half serves as an arm of the olfactometer enabling the test subjects to make a choice between two potential odor fields in assays involving attractants. In assays involving repellents, lack of normal response to known attractants can also be measured as a third variable.
Biochemistry, Issue 72, Molecular Biology, Basic Protocols, Entomology, Behavior, Eukaryota, Organic Chemicals, Chemical Actions and Uses, Life Sciences (General), Behavioral Sciences, Arthropod behavior, chemical ecology, olfactometer, chemotaxis, olfaction, attraction, repulsion, odorant, T-maze, psyllid, Diaphorina citri, insect, anthropod, insect model
A Lateralized Odor Learning Model in Neonatal Rats for Dissecting Neural Circuitry Underpinning Memory Formation
Institutions: Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, University of Victoria.
Rat pups during a critical postnatal period (≤ 10 days) readily form a preference for an odor that is associated with stimuli mimicking maternal care. Such a preference memory can last from hours, to days, even life-long, depending on training parameters. Early odor preference learning provides us with a model in which the critical changes for a natural form of learning occur in the olfactory circuitry. An additional feature that makes it a powerful tool for the analysis of memory processes is that early odor preference learning can be lateralized via
single naris occlusion within the critical period. This is due to the lack of mature anterior commissural connections of the olfactory hemispheres at this early age. This work outlines behavioral protocols for lateralized odor learning using nose plugs. Acute, reversible naris occlusion minimizes tissue and neuronal damages associated with long-term occlusion and more aggressive methods such as cauterization. The lateralized odor learning model permits within-animal comparison, therefore greatly reducing variance compared to between-animal designs. This method has been used successfully to probe the circuit changes in the olfactory system produced by training. Future directions include exploring molecular underpinnings of odor memory using this lateralized learning model; and correlating physiological change with memory strength and durations.
Neuroscience, Issue 90, lateralized odor learning, rats, memory, nose plug, olfactory bulb, piriform cortex, phosphorylated CREB
Application of Two-spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae for Plant-pest Interaction Studies
Institutions: The University of Western Ontario, Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y el Vino, Ghent University, University of Amsterdam.
The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae
, is a ubiquitous polyphagous arthropod herbivore that feeds on a remarkably broad array of species, with more than 150 of economic value. It is a major pest of greenhouse crops, especially in Solanaceae
, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini) and greenhouse ornamentals (e.g.
, roses, chrysanthemum, carnations), annual field crops (such as maize, cotton, soybean, and sugar beet), and in perennial cultures (alfalfa, strawberries, grapes, citruses, and plums)1,2
. In addition to the extreme polyphagy that makes it an important agricultural pest, T. urticae
has a tendency to develop resistance to a wide array of insecticides and acaricides that are used for its control3-7
is an excellent experimental organism, as it has a rapid life cycle (7 days at 27 °C) and can be easily maintained at high density in the laboratory. Methods to assay gene expression (including in situ
hybridization and antibody staining) and to inactivate expression of spider mite endogenous genes using RNA interference have been developed8-10
. Recently, the whole genome sequence of T. urticae
has been reported, creating an opportunity to develop this pest herbivore as a model organism with equivalent genomic resources that already exist in some of its host plants (Arabidopsis thaliana
and the tomato Solanum lycopersicum
. Together, these model organisms could provide insights into molecular bases of plant-pest interactions.
Here, an efficient method for quick and easy collection of a large number of adult female mites, their application on an experimental plant host, and the assessment of the plant damage due to spider mite feeding are described. The presented protocol enables fast and efficient collection of hundreds of individuals at any developmental stage (eggs, larvae, nymphs, adult males, and females) that can be used for subsequent experimental application.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 89, two-spotted spider mite, plant-herbivore interaction, Tetranychus urticae, Arabidopsis thaliana, plant damage analysis, herbivory, plant pests
Identification of Olfactory Volatiles using Gas Chromatography-Multi-unit Recordings (GCMR) in the Insect Antennal Lobe
Institutions: University of Washington.
All organisms inhabit a world full of sensory stimuli that determine their behavioral and physiological response to their environment. Olfaction is especially important in insects, which use their olfactory systems to respond to, and discriminate amongst, complex odor stimuli. These odors elicit behaviors that mediate processes such as reproduction and habitat selection1-3
. Additionally, chemical sensing by insects mediates behaviors that are highly significant for agriculture and human health, including pollination4-6
, herbivory of food crops7
, and transmission of disease8,9
. Identification of olfactory signals and their role in insect behavior is thus important for understanding both ecological processes and human food resources and well-being.
To date, the identification of volatiles that drive insect behavior has been difficult and often tedious. Current techniques include gas chromatography-coupled electroantennogram recording (GC-EAG), and gas chromatography-coupled single sensillum recordings (GC-SSR)10-12
. These techniques proved to be vital in the identification of bioactive compounds. We have developed a method that uses gas chromatography coupled to multi-channel electrophysiological recordings (termed 'GCMR') from neurons in the antennal lobe (AL; the insect's primary olfactory center)13,14
. This state-of-the-art technique allows us to probe how odor information is represented in the insect brain. Moreover, because neural responses to odors at this level of olfactory processing are highly sensitive owing to the degree of convergence of the antenna's receptor neurons into AL neurons, AL recordings will allow the detection of active constituents of natural odors efficiently and with high sensitivity. Here we describe GCMR and give an example of its use.
Several general steps are involved in the detection of bioactive volatiles and insect response. Volatiles first need to be collected from sources of interest (in this example we use flowers from the genus Mimulus
(Phyrmaceae)) and characterized as needed using standard GC-MS techniques14-16
. Insects are prepared for study using minimal dissection, after which a recording electrode is inserted into the antennal lobe and multi-channel neural recording begins. Post-processing of the neural data then reveals which particular odorants cause significant neural responses by the insect nervous system.
Although the example we present here is specific to pollination studies, GCMR can be expanded to a wide range of study organisms and volatile sources. For instance, this method can be used in the identification of odorants attracting or repelling vector insects and crop pests. Moreover, GCMR can also be used to identify attractants for beneficial insects, such as pollinators. The technique may be expanded to non-insect subjects as well.
Neuroscience, Issue 72, Neurobiology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Entomlogy, Behavior, electrophysiology, olfaction, olfactory system, insect, multi-channel recording, gas chromatography, pollination, bees, Bombus impatiens, antennae, brain, animal model
Transmitting Plant Viruses Using Whiteflies
Institutions: University of Florida .
Whiteflies, Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Bemisia tabaci
, a complex of morphologically indistinquishable species5
, are vectors of many plant viruses. Several genera of these whitefly-transmitted plant viruses (Begomovirus, Carlavirus, Crinivirus, Ipomovirus, Torradovirus
) include several hundred species of emerging and economically significant pathogens of important food and fiber crops (reviewed by9,10,16
). These viruses do not replicate in their vector but nevertheless are moved readily from plant to plant by the adult whitefly by various means (reviewed by2,6,7,9,10,11,17
). For most of these viruses whitefly feeding is required for acquisition and inoculation, while for others only probing is required. Many of these viruses are unable or cannot be easily transmitted by other means. Therefore maintenance of virus cultures, biological and molecular characterization (identification of host range and symptoms)3,13
, require that the viruses be transmitted to experimental hosts using the whitefly vector. In addition the development of new approaches to management, such as evaluation of new chemicals14
, new cultural approaches1,4,19
, or the selection and development of resistant cultivars7,8,18
, requires the use of whiteflies for virus transmission. The use of whitefly transmission of plant viruses for the selection and development of resistant cultivars in breeding programs is particularly challenging7
. Effective selection and screening for resistance employs large numbers of plants and there is a need for 100% of the plants to be inoculated in order to find the few genotypes which possess resistance genes. These studies use very large numbers of viruliferous whiteflies, often several times per year.
Whitefly maintenance described here can generate hundreds or thousands of adult whiteflies on plants each week, year round, without the contamination of other plant viruses. Plants free of both whiteflies and virus must be produced to introduce into the whitefly colony each week. Whitefly cultures must be kept free of whitefly pathogens, parasites, and parasitoids that can reduce whitefly populations and/or reduce the transmission efficiency of the virus. Colonies produced in the manner described can be quickly scaled to increase or decrease population numbers as needed, and can be adjusted to accommodate the feeding preferences of the whitefly based on the plant host of the virus.
There are two basic types of whitefly colonies that can be maintained: a nonviruliferous and a viruliferous whitefly colony. The nonviruliferous colony is composed of whiteflies reared on virus-free plants and allows the weekly availability of whiteflies which can be used to transmit viruses from different cultures. The viruliferous whitefly colony, composed of whiteflies reared on virus-infected plants, allows weekly availability of whiteflies which have acquired the virus thus omitting one step in the virus transmission process.
Plant Biology, Issue 81, Virology, Molecular Biology, Botany, Pathology, Infection, Plant viruses, Bemisia tabaci, Whiteflies, whitefly, insect transmission, Begomovirus, Carlavirus, Crinivirus, Ipomovirus, host pathogen interaction, virus, insect, plant
Appetitive Associative Olfactory Learning in Drosophila Larvae
Institutions: University of Konstanz, University of Fribourg.
In the following we describe the methodological details of appetitive associative olfactory learning in Drosophila
larvae. The setup, in combination with genetic interference, provides a handle to analyze the neuronal and molecular fundamentals of specifically associative
learning in a simple larval brain.
Organisms can use past experience to adjust present behavior. Such acquisition of behavioral potential can be defined as learning, and the physical bases of these potentials as memory traces1-4
. Neuroscientists try to understand how these processes are organized in terms of molecular and neuronal changes in the brain by using a variety of methods in model organisms ranging from insects to vertebrates5,6
. For such endeavors it is helpful to use model systems that are simple and experimentally accessible. The Drosophila
larva has turned out to satisfy these demands based on the availability of robust behavioral assays, the existence of a variety of transgenic techniques and the elementary organization of the nervous system comprising only about 10,000 neurons (albeit with some concessions: cognitive limitations, few behavioral options, and richness of experience questionable)7-10
larvae can form associations between odors and appetitive gustatory reinforcement like sugar11-14
. In a standard assay, established in the lab of B. Gerber, animals receive a two-odor reciprocal training: A first group of larvae is exposed to an odor A together with a gustatory reinforcer (sugar reward) and is subsequently exposed to an odor B without reinforcement 9
. Meanwhile a second group of larvae receives reciprocal training while experiencing odor A without reinforcement and subsequently being exposed to odor B with reinforcement (sugar reward). In the following both groups are tested for their preference between the two odors. Relatively higher preferences for the rewarded odor reflect associative learning - presented as a performance index (PI). The conclusion regarding the associative nature of the performance index is compelling, because apart from the contingency between odors and tastants, other parameters, such as odor and reward exposure, passage of time and handling do not differ between the two groups9
Neuroscience, Issue 72, Developmental Biology, Neurobiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Behavior, Drosophila, fruit fly, larvae, instar, olfaction, olfactory system, odor, 1-octanol, OCT, learning, reward, sugar, feeding, animal model
A Proboscis Extension Response Protocol for Investigating Behavioral Plasticity in Insects: Application to Basic, Biomedical, and Agricultural Research
Institutions: Arizona State University.
Insects modify their responses to stimuli through experience of associating those stimuli with events important for survival (e.g.
, food, mates, threats). There are several behavioral mechanisms through which an insect learns salient associations and relates them to these events. It is important to understand this behavioral plasticity for programs aimed toward assisting insects that are beneficial for agriculture. This understanding can also be used for discovering solutions to biomedical and agricultural problems created by insects that act as disease vectors and pests. The Proboscis Extension Response (PER) conditioning protocol was developed for honey bees (Apis mellifera
) over 50 years ago to study how they perceive and learn about floral odors, which signal the nectar and pollen resources a colony needs for survival. The PER procedure provides a robust and easy-to-employ framework for studying several different ecologically relevant mechanisms of behavioral plasticity. It is easily adaptable for use with several other insect species and other behavioral reflexes. These protocols can be readily employed in conjunction with various means for monitoring neural activity in the CNS via electrophysiology or bioimaging, or for manipulating targeted neuromodulatory pathways. It is a robust assay for rapidly detecting sub-lethal effects on behavior caused by environmental stressors, toxins or pesticides.
We show how the PER protocol is straightforward to implement using two procedures. One is suitable as a laboratory exercise for students or for quick assays of the effect of an experimental treatment. The other provides more thorough control of variables, which is important for studies of behavioral conditioning. We show how several measures for the behavioral response ranging from binary yes/no to more continuous variable like latency and duration of proboscis extension can be used to test hypotheses. And, we discuss some pitfalls that researchers commonly encounter when they use the procedure for the first time.
Neuroscience, Issue 91, PER, conditioning, honey bee, olfaction, olfactory processing, learning, memory, toxin assay
Optimization and Utilization of Agrobacterium-mediated Transient Protein Production in Nicotiana
Institutions: Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology.
-mediated transient protein production in plants is a promising approach to produce vaccine antigens and therapeutic proteins within a short period of time. However, this technology is only just beginning to be applied to large-scale production as many technological obstacles to scale up are now being overcome. Here, we demonstrate a simple and reproducible method for industrial-scale transient protein production based on vacuum infiltration of Nicotiana
plants with Agrobacteria
carrying launch vectors. Optimization of Agrobacterium
cultivation in AB medium allows direct dilution of the bacterial culture in Milli-Q water, simplifying the infiltration process. Among three tested species of Nicotiana
, N. excelsiana
× N. excelsior
) was selected as the most promising host due to the ease of infiltration, high level of reporter protein production, and about two-fold higher biomass production under controlled environmental conditions. Induction of Agrobacterium
harboring pBID4-GFP (Tobacco mosaic virus
-based) using chemicals such as acetosyringone and monosaccharide had no effect on the protein production level. Infiltrating plant under 50 to 100 mbar for 30 or 60 sec resulted in about 95% infiltration of plant leaf tissues. Infiltration with Agrobacterium
laboratory strain GV3101 showed the highest protein production compared to Agrobacteria
laboratory strains LBA4404 and C58C1 and wild-type Agrobacteria
strains at6, at10, at77 and A4. Co-expression of a viral RNA silencing suppressor, p23 or p19, in N. benthamiana
resulted in earlier accumulation and increased production (15-25%) of target protein (influenza virus hemagglutinin).
Plant Biology, Issue 86, Agroinfiltration, Nicotiana benthamiana, transient protein production, plant-based expression, viral vector, Agrobacteria
Choice and No-Choice Assays for Testing the Resistance of A. thaliana to Chewing Insects
Institutions: Cornell University.
Larvae of the small white cabbage butterfly are a pest in agricultural settings. This caterpillar species feeds from plants in the cabbage family, which include many crops such as cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts etc. Rearing of the insects takes place on cabbage plants in the greenhouse. At least two cages are needed for the rearing of Pieris rapae. One for the larvae and the other to contain the adults, the butterflies. In order to investigate the role of plant hormones and toxic plant chemicals in resistance to this insect pest, we demonstrate two experiments. First, determination of the role of jasmonic acid (JA - a plant hormone often indicated in resistance to insects) in resistance to the chewing insect Pieris rapae. Caterpillar growth can be compared on wild-type and mutant plants impaired in production of JA. This experiment is considered "No Choice", because larvae are forced to subsist on a single plant which synthesizes or is deficient in JA. Second, we demonstrate an experiment that investigates the role of glucosinolates, which are used as oviposition (egg-laying) signals. Here, we use WT and mutant Arabidopsis impaired in glucosinolate production in a "Choice" experiment in which female butterflies are allowed to choose to lay their eggs on plants of either genotype. This video demonstrates the experimental setup for both assays as well as representative results.
Plant Biology, Issue 15, Annual Review, Plant Resistance, Herbivory, Arabidopsis thaliana, Pieris rapae, Caterpillars, Butterflies, Jasmonic Acid, Glucosinolates
Testing Nicotine Tolerance in Aphids Using an Artificial Diet Experiment
Institutions: Cornell University.
Plants may upregulate the production of many different seconday metabolites in response to insect feeding. One of these metabolites, nicotine, is well know to have insecticidal properties. One response of tobacco plants to herbivory, or being gnawed upon by insects, is to increase the production of this neurotoxic alkaloid. Here, we will demonstrate how to set up an experiment to address this question of whether a tobacco-adapted strain of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, can tolerate higher levels of nicotine than the a strain of this insect that does not infest tobacco in the field.
Plant Biology, Issue 15, Annual Review, Nicotine, Aphids, Plant Feeding Resistance, Tobacco
Investigating the Microbial Community in the Termite Hindgut - Interview
Institutions: California Institute of Technology - Caltech.
Jared Leadbetter explains why the termite-gut microbial community is an excellent system for studying the complex interactions between microbes. The symbiotic relationship existing between the host insect and lignocellulose-degrading gut microbes is explained, as well as the industrial uses of these microbes for degrading plant biomass and generating biofuels.
Microbiology, issue 4, microbial community, diversity
Characterizing Herbivore Resistance Mechanisms: Spittlebugs on Brachiaria spp. as an Example
Plants can resist herbivore damage through three broad mechanisms: antixenosis, antibiosis and tolerance1
. Antixenosis is the degree to which the plant is avoided when the herbivore is able to select other plants2
. Antibiosis is the degree to which the plant affects the fitness of the herbivore feeding on it1
.Tolerance is the degree to which the plant can withstand or repair damage caused by the herbivore, without compromising the herbivore's growth and reproduction1
. The durability of herbivore resistance in an agricultural setting depends to a great extent on the resistance mechanism favored during crop breeding efforts3
We demonstrate a no-choice experiment designed to estimate the relative contributions of antibiosis and tolerance to spittlebug resistance in Brachiaria
spp. Several species of African grasses of the genus Brachiaria
are valuable forage and pasture plants in the Neotropics, but they can be severely challenged by several native species of spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae)4
.To assess their resistance to spittlebugs, plants are vegetatively-propagated by stem cuttings and allowed to grow for approximately one month, allowing the growth of superficial roots on which spittlebugs can feed. At that point, each test plant is individually challenged with six spittlebug eggs near hatching. Infestations are allowed to progress for one month before evaluating plant damage and insect survival. Scoring plant damage provides an estimate of tolerance while scoring insect survival provides an estimate of antibiosis. This protocol has facilitated our plant breeding objective to enhance spittlebug resistance in commercial brachiariagrases5
Plant Biology, Issue 52, host plant resistance, antibiosis, antixenosis, tolerance, Brachiaria, spittlebugs
Testing the Physiological Barriers to Viral Transmission in Aphids Using Microinjection
Institutions: Cornell University, Cornell University.
Potato loafroll virus (PLRV), from the family Luteoviridae infects solanaceous plants. It is transmitted by aphids, primarily, the green peach aphid. When an uninfected aphid feeds on an infected plant it contracts the virus through the plant phloem. Once ingested, the virus must pass from the insect gut to the hemolymph (the insect blood ) and then must pass through the salivary gland, in order to be transmitted back to a new plant. An aphid may take up different viruses when munching on a plant, however only a small fraction will pass through the gut and salivary gland, the two main barriers for transmission to infect more plants. In the lab, we use physalis plants to study PLRV transmission. In this host, symptoms are characterized by stunting and interveinal chlorosis (yellowing of the leaves between the veins with the veins remaining green). The video that we present demonstrates a method for performing aphid microinjection on insects that do not vector PLVR viruses and tests whether the gut is preventing viral transmission.
The video that we present demonstrates a method for performing Aphid microinjection on insects that do not vector PLVR viruses and tests whether the gut or salivary gland is preventing viral transmission.
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Bringing a new dog into the home can be an exciting and sometimes trying experience. If you've decided to adopt a mature dog from the shelter, you should expect an adjustment period of several weeks while your new dog acclimates to his surroundings and you get to know his behaviors.
You can expect that your new pet will be slightly off balance or anxious as he starts to explore his new home. Not only is he exploring his new environment, he is also trying to figure out where he belongs in the hierarchy of the pack. It may take awhile for him to want to take direction from you and to see you as his new leader.
Your first step should be to control the space in your home. You will need to teach him the rules of your household, and he will need to know your expectations as well. If you don't know very much about his past, you'll want to observe his habits closely. Selectively allowing him freedom in the house can calm him down and give you time to get to know him.
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One-skillet spiced lamb, sweet peas and mint
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve basically been a single parent with no help. My husband has been traveling long and far for work and my nanny is off on a much-deserved vacation to see her family and friends back home.
As a result, I’ve been holding up the household, trying to cook, write, blog and keep my “spirited” two year old entertained and in check.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had a great time. While not having childcare during the day has forced me to work at night, early morning and during naps, it has also given me an excuse to go to the beach on a Tuesday. While I’m physically and mentally exhausted, I can’t tell you how liberating that is. I’m so incredibly thankful to be able to have command over my own schedule and call the shots on projects, despite working all those odd hours.
Meals this week have been more of challenge, since I don’t really have another hand to help out while I’m cooking dinner. (To all the actual single mamas: I salute you). So, I’ve been turning to those easy, 30-minute or less weeknight dinners that I know will turn out well and are healthy and filling, to boot.
This one is adapted from a recipe I learned from my mother in law called kheema. It’s basically spiced minced meat. It’s simple, fast and, no matter the iteration, always tastes fresh and delicious.
She usually makes with chicken. I’ve made it with almost every meat imaginable, and lamb is one of my favorites. If you’re not a lamb fan, you can also make it with chicken (a combination of minced white and dark meat works best). Because I want this one to be as fast and easy as possible, I use ground spices. However, if you want to intensify the flavors, use whole spices that you toast and grind before adding to the pan.
Inspired by a spiced minced meat recipe that my mother-in-law taught me known as kheema, this 30-minute meal pairs ground lamb with a flavor bomb of spices, fresh herbs and lime.
You can really use any kind of minced meat for this dish. The flavor is all in the spices and the fresh herbs. You could even make it vegetarians by trying it with something like minced tofu or cauliflower rice (let me know if you do). It can also be modified to use any vegetable. You could try red bell peppers or potatoes. Just keep the main protein and spice ratios in check.
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 large yellow onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1-inch piece ginger, minced
1 ½ tablespoons ground coriander
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground fenugreek
1 tablespoons ground chili powder
2 pounds minced lamb (chicken or beef are delicious here too)
1 cup diced tomatoes
¼ red cabbage, thinly sliced
1 cup sweet peas
½ teaspoon garam masala
Small bunch cilantro, chopped
Small bunch mint, chopped
1 lime, cut into quarters
- In a large skillet over medium heat, warm the coconut oil. Add the onion and cook until slightly soft and translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Stir in the garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin, fenugreek and chili powder and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the minced lamb and a pinch of salt and stir with a wooden spoon to break apart meat and incorporate spices. Cook until the lamb is golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, red cabbage and a pinch of salt to skillet and cook until most of the liquid from tomatoes has evaporated and tomatoes are cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Add the peas and garam masala and cook for another minutes. Then stir in the cilantro, mint and juice of half the lime. Season to taste with salt, to taste.
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If you’ve ever been scuba diving, or seen someone doing it you’ll know that it’s not the most graceful of activities.
Weighed down with one or sometimes two large tanks, a weight belt, inflatable jacket, wetsuit, fins. If you’re just looking to visit a shallow coral reef this can be a lot of hassle, and in some cases complete overkill.
AirBuddy is a gadget that’s hoping to solve this problem allowing you to dive without any gear, just a single mouthpiece and a floating air compressor on the surface.
To be clear, this hasn’t been designed to replace scuba diving, instead it’s offering a product that sits in between snorkeling and scuba diving.
It can’t offer the depth, control and precision that scuba diving provides yet at very shallow depths it could offer a solution that’s more convenient and flexible.
So how does it work? Well there’s a powerful floating air compressor that stays at the surface. The battery is rechargeable and can provide you with up to 45mins air at depths of 12 metres.
The compressor has been designed in such a way that its weight is low and perfectly centred, making it “close to impossible” to capsize.
Leading from the compressor down to the diver is an extendable supply hose which then connects to your conventional regulator (mouthpiece).
With over $255,673 pledged on Kickstarter AirBuddy has already well exceeded its $169,000 goal.
Designed to be “grab and go” convenience in mind it’s clear that AirBuddy serves a definite market. While the company markets it for just about anybody, it’s probably a safe bet that if you were considering it you should at least get some light scuba training under your belt. At the very least it’ll stand you in good stead should anything go wrong.
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So when can you get hold of one and just as important, how expensive is it? Well we’ll give you the good news first: It does ship to the UK and they’re expecting to deliver by Summer next year.
The bad news: It costs £2,043. If the odd snorkel is all you’re after, we’d probably stick to the mask and fins for now.
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- 6 Bedrooms
- 5 Bathrooms
Recently renovated, the Mas des Forgerons is an absolutely stunning holiday property in the South of France. This 14th century former farmhouse is located in the heart of the Alpilles, just 2 miles away from the idyllic village of Saint Rémy de Provence with its narrow streets, ancient plane trees and weekly market. Set in a beautifully landscaped garden with a private pool and tennis court, the property has accommodation for up to 12 guests with 5 double bedrooms in the main house and an additional double bedroom located in a separate guest cottage.
Spacious and open-plan, the farmhouse’s main living area has been decorated in chic contemporary style. A large living/dining room opens directly into the vast modern kitchen while a cosy lounge has patio doors leading to the property’s large terrace with multiple outdoor lounge and dining areas overlooking the garden. Shaded by impressive platane trees and surrounded by greenery, the house and gardens are peaceful and private with no vis-à-vis, the perfect spot for a relaxing break with family and friends. Fully-equipped with air conditioning, WIFI and satellite TV, the Mas des Forgerons is a fabulous choice for a luxury holiday in Provence.
- Gorgeous 14th Century farmhouse located in the heart of the Alpilles
- Recently renovated and beautifully decorated in chic contemporary style
- Set in a fully landscaped garden with a wonderful selection of greenery
- Large terrace with multiple outdoor living and dining areas plus a BBQ
- Superb rectangular swimming pool and private tennis court in the grounds
- Spacious ground floor open-plan living/dining area with a fully-equipped kitchen
- Cosy lounge space with fireplace and full-length doors leading to the sunny terrace
- 5 double bedrooms in the main house plus additional bedroom in the guesthouse
- House fully-equipped with air conditioning, WIFI access and satellite television
- Private parking for guests and visitors located in the grounds of the property
- Close to the idyllic village of Saint Rémy de Provence with its weekly market
- Easily accessible from the Marseille International Airport or Avignon train station
Through the keyhole
With its chic contemporary décor, enchanting garden and superb location, we guarantee it’ll be love at first sight when you stay at the Mas des Forgerons. Ideally situated in the countryside close to Saint Rémy de Provence, the 14th century farmhouse has been fully renovated and beautifully designed as a spacious and comfortable family home. Decorated with a neutral colour palette and featuring sophisticated stone and wood elements, the house is filled with modern art and accessories from the owner’s personal collection, including a fabulous vintage pinball machine. Thanks to a flexible interior layout, the lower floor of the farmhouse is bright and open with a large living/dining area, a fully-equipped kitchen and a cosy lounge which opens directly into the garden. There are 5 double bedrooms on the upper and lower floors of the main house, plus an additional and totally private double bedroom in a separate guest cottage. Featuring a wonderful mix of traditional features and modern comforts and conveniences, the Mas des Forgerons is a truly luxurious holiday experience.
On the ground floor of the main house, you’ll find a large open-plan living space with a formal seating area grouped around a coffee table plus 2 stunning contemporary light features.
Also on the ground floor is a cosy lounge room with a large seating area for the whole family, a television equipped with satellite channels and an impressive stone fireplace. Light and open with exposed beams and full-length doors leading into the garden, this is the perfect spot to relax and enjoy a quiet evening in while you’re in residence.
Leading off the main living room is a large formal dining area with space for up to 12 guests to enjoy delicious meals together.
Recently renovated, the farmhouse has a wonderful open-plan kitchen with a dishwasher, professional range and American-style refrigerator. Featuring exposed beams, open shelving and a farmhouse-style sink, the fully-equipped kitchen is the perfect blend of traditional style and modern convenience.
The farmhouse also comes with a private wine cellar for storing those very special bottles.
There are 6 generously-sized double bedrooms in the Mas des Forgerons, including a sumptuous master suite located on the first floor with a king-size bed, fireplace and full ensuite bathroom. Decorated in soothing neutral tones with beautiful furnishings and linens, each of the bedrooms has been designed as an elegant personal sanctuary for guests during their stay. 5 of the bedrooms can be found in the main house overlooking the garden while an additional bedroom can be found in the property’s separate guest cottage.
The farmhouse has 5 stylish bathrooms, each of which has been recently renovated using luxurious fixtures and fittings to create a spa-like ambiance. The bedrooms on the upper floor of the house each have a private bathroom, while the 2 bedrooms on the lower floor share a practical shower room.
The lower floor of the house opens directly onto a delightful terrace shaded by several impressive platane trees. Bordered by lush greenery and overlooking the gardens, the terrace features an outdoor lounge area and a covered dining space for 12 people in addition to a second dining area with a BBQ and a view of the pool.
Private and tranquil, the farmhouse is set in beautifully-manicured grounds and surrounded by a wonderful selection of Provençal trees and greenery. A comfortable lawn hammock provides the perfect spot for an afternoon siesta while a shady pergola is ideal for taking afternoon tea while water flows peacefully from the farmhouse’s ancient stone fountain.
The Mas des Forgerons has a superb rectangular swimming pool surrounded by a lawn deck with a parasol and several loungers for soaking up the sun. Equipped with a salt-water system and an alarm for security, the whole family will love spending time poolside during the hot summer months.
In addition to the outdoor swimming pool, the Mas des Forgerons also has a private tennis court with a hard court surface, perfect for a challenging work-out or a fun match with friends before lunch.
Private parking for guests and visitors is available in the grounds of the farmhouse.
Book This Property
For an unforgettable holiday at the Mas des Forgerons this season, all you need to do is get in touch with our office in Cannes. Simply send us your details and any special requirements you or your party may have and we will be delighted to arrange your Provençal vacation for you.
- 6 Bedrooms
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Robust Contactless Display Stand
The Payter Armour is a smooth, highly polished sheet-metal display stand that is also resilient and adaptable.
This contactless display stand is ideal for high footfall areas that require a prominent display that can handle large crowds. Widely used in church fundraising projects, gallery funding initiatives and funding small museums.
All sides of the Payter Armour can be custom branded with high quality graphic displays for bigger impact. The header can also be adapted to fit a display tablet screen for interactive videos.
Highly versatile, this display unit accepts both cash and contactless donations and comes fitted with a lock for extra security.
343mm wide x 343mm deep x 1000mm hight (1400mm including header)
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Features & Benefits
- Designed to house the Payter Integrated Contactless Device
- Robust secure Steel Plate floor standing box with 2 locks and keys
- 343mm wide x 343mm deep x 1000mm height (1400mm including header)
- This hybrid unit is designed to hold the Payter Integrated device for contactless donations, and also has a money slot for cash and Gift aid envelopes
- Supplied fully branded with printed graphics including a back-header board
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Here is an update on correspondence to the CCRC regarding the battle to protect Cowley Beach from vehicles driving on the sensitive beach environment most recently threatening the survival of the young turtle hatchlings.
On the 10th May 2012 Richard Piper emailed the CCRC
as follows; Dear Kim and others copied in,
I would like to discuss what is still going on with vehicles at Cowley beach with you.
There has been more damage to the bollards at Cowley Beach and we again have large 4WDs as well as quads driving over the spit and along the beach. It looks like another bollard has been removed and large vehicles are accessing through this gap. Last weekend I walked the beach and noticed where cars and quads are driving through gaps and over the dune vegetation.
Also in relation to what happened at Easter time, is Council proceeding with any action against the driver of the 4WD who purposefully destroyed the bollards? Photos are available of this incident if you do not have them and a police officer took details etc. Mayor Shannon who I phoned over this on 22 April, indicated to me that it was "probably not a good idea to prosecute someone before the election". Now the election is over will the matter be moved forward and acted on? This action would I assume be up to Council rather than the Councillors, regardless of an election.
Council has previously asked ratepayers for information on vandals and this time there is surely enough information for a successful prosecution? This is becoming a costly exercise repairing the damage and I suggest it will continue to occur unless a firm stance is taken.
I was very disappointed to hear that the Mandubarras turtle monitoring sign was recently removed by Council officers yet you the two signs installed illegally on the cattleyard were left in place. I understand that you may have removed the turtle sign because you were told that people found it offensive. I hope this is not true as I actually find the two signs attached to the cattleyard offensive. These two signs should have been taken away and the legitimate monitoring sign left where it was.
It may have been that you doubted the Mandubarra's advice that there was a turtle nest actually there adjacent to the parking area at the southern end of the track. Of course this was not the case and the wonderful emergence of the turtles occurred despite one vehicle driving along during the hatchlings scurry down to the water. I will supply a stat dec detailing the person's identification, photos, video etc if you doubt any of this information. My family and many others present saw what took place. We had to stop her from driving over the hatchlings which she would have no doubt done had we not been present. The juvenile turtles are covered in sand and difficult to see even by someone on foot when they stop moving. On the quad bike she would have driven over them as she would not have seen them. See photo taken on the day of sand-covered hatchlings.
I understand that permissions are still required regarding access to the track. In the meantime can we perhaps have the gate locked again until the track is legitimate? The current situation with vehicles driving along the beach is a disgrace and defies all logic. The work to install the track, remove the vegetation etc should never have been done I believe until all permissions were in place.
North of the boat ramp there are vehicles still accessing the beach unlawfully through the reserves yet no signage is in place. This should also have been addressed long ago.
The Cassowary Coast Regional Council needs to protect our beach not facilitate its destruction.
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Bring Them Home And Put Everybody To Work
There is a way to cut spending and ensure a job for every American who wants to work. Can’t be done, you say. Here’s how to do it. Bring all of our servicemen and -women home and use the money saved to fund a new Works Progress Administration (WPA), an agency built on the successful model used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to ameliorate the horrors of the Great Depression. Look at the numbers. In 2001, the United States spent just over $300 billion (that’s with a B) on its defense budget. This year, with a massive deficit and the true unemployment rate north of ten percent, this nation spent $680 billion on fighting two unneeded wars – one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan. The conservatives will tell you that we can’t cut back on fighting those wars, that the “Muslim terrorists will just follow us home.” That is self-serving claptrap. They have already followed us home, and allowing the inhabitants of those two nations to clean up their own mess seems to be the only rational answer to our problems at home. The Moslem factions still fighting against each other in Iraq have been at it since the thirteenth century, and nothing we do will end that. Is there any real evidence that American intervention has brought real democracy? Not enough to justify our cost in lives and dollars. Afghanistan has proved once again that it wants our help and our money, but is in bed with the Taliban and other terrorists. If you don’t believe the nation’s army and police were protecting Osama bin Laden, then you have a reality problem. Let’s get out and let them fight their own battles. Take the billions saved and use them to fund jobs for Americans who have been unemployed since the bankers put us all in the red, took the money and ran. That’s the way to bring back jobs and reinvigorate the economy. | <urn:uuid:4c62f8f4-1fcc-4641-ad56-ccc42435f5fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.rockawave.com/news/2011-07-15/Editorial%7COpinion/Bring_Them_Home_And_Put_Everybody_To_Work.html | 2016-08-28T00:52:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982932747.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200852-00126-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957274 | 415 |
New York Guardianship proceedings are controlled by Article 81 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law (“MHL”). The New York Probate Lawyer Blog has provided numerous posts regarding issues concerning this type of court proceeding.
The essence of a Guardianship proceeding is to determine whether the appointment is needed to assist a person with personal needs or property management. MHL Section 81.02(a)(2) provides that a Guardian can be appointed when the alleged incapacitated person (“AIP”) either “agrees to the appointment” or if the AIP is found to be “incapacitated”. In most proceedings, the determination of incapacity is the central focus of the Court hearing. The statute requires “clear and convincing” evidence to find incapacity. A court hearing involves many different participants which may include the petitioner (the person who commences the Court case), the AIP, a Court Evaluator, a Court-appointed attorney who represents the AIP, New York State Mental Hygiene Legal Service and the local Medicaid office such as the New York City Human Resources Administration. Also, family members and friends of the AIP may become participants if they intervene in the proceeding.
If the AIP opposes the appointment of a Guardian, the Court may hear the testimony of many witnesses and may review numerous documents with regard to its consideration of the necessity of an appointment. All of the aforementioned participants play an important role in the Court case and in providing the Court with all the information needed to make a final determination. In Contested Guardianship Proceedings, the Court wants to fully understand the situation and circumstances concerning the AIP so that it can assess whether the statutory mandate of “incapacity” has been shown.
It should be recognized that even in a case where “incapacity” is beyond dispute, the Court requires a hearing and the presentation of evidence regarding the need for the appointment. New York Guardianship Attorneys know that in such matters the Court will want to hear testimony from the petitioner and receive evidence of the AIP’s condition from a social worker or doctor or in some other acceptable form to document the basis for the Guardian’s appointment.
As noted earlier, MHL 81.02(a)(2) allows the appointment of a Guardian where a person consents to the appointment. Consentual guardianships appear to be the exception rather than the rule since there is always the issue as to whether the AIP has the capacity to make a knowing consent. However, there are occasions when the Court will find that consent is appropriate. Such was the situation in a recent case decided by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alexander W. Hunter entitled “Matter of the Guardian for L.J.L.” decided on May 6, 2013 and reported in the New York Law Journal on May 17, 2013. In L.J.L. the Court held a hearing and recognized that Article 81 of the MHL does not provide any statutory guidance to assist the Court in deciding whether a person has the capacity to consent to a Guardian. However, after considering all of the evidence presented, the Court in L.J.L. found that the AIP had capacity to consent and appointed a Special Guardian of the person and property of the AIP for the limited period of one year.
New York Guardianship Attorney Jules Martin Haas, Esq. has been representing clients in Queens Guardianship Proceedings and Manhattan and Brooklyn Guardianship Proceedings and other Counties throughout the past 30 years. If you or someone you know is involved with or has questions about a New York Guardianship, please contact me at (212) 355-2575 or email: firstname.lastname@example.org, for an initial consultation.
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Hello Blender Peeps! I hope you are all safe, healthy and all is as well as it could be. I could use some help with something. I have been working out with FitnessBlender for almost four years now since I graduated high school. Kelli and Daniel as well as other trainers have given advice on how to breathe when doing different exercises. Especially considering different exercises have different ways you have to breathe. For exercises like curls, lunges, etc for example you inhale and then exhale on the hardest part. That's easy enough to do when your form is right and you aren't lifting more than you should. The problem for breathing for me personally comes in when doing exercises like swimmers, hundreds (for those of who knkw what those are), and exercises like that. Kelli and Daniel have always said when doing these "Inhale for five reps/counts and exhale for five reps/counts". Basically "inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale, exhale, exhale, exhale, exhale, exhale". Whenever I try doing those breathing patterns it never works for me. I find myself running out of air doing either the inhales or exhales and on top of that I get lightheaded and really dizzy. I get forced to breathe normally which works a lot better for me anyway.
My questions are does anyone have any advice on how I can probably fix this? Any ways of improving the way I breathe when doing these exercises? Should I just keep doing what I'm doing and breathe normally? I know my form is in check I always make sure my form is right. | <urn:uuid:98be75ba-8bd4-4ddf-aba5-f63f26580fd6> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.fitnessblender.com/community/discussion/18668/breathing-pattern-advice | 2023-12-07T22:48:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00364.warc.gz | en | 0.97675 | 341 |
In the past four years, April Liles, food service director for Waltham School Nutrition, has reworked the breakfast and lunch programs in the district, adding options for students while keeping the greater community in mind.
Today, some 1,500 students across the district are served breakfast each week and roughly 4,000 eat lunch. In the high school alone, 1,400 meals are served a day.
“We consider ourselves the biggest restaurant in Waltham,” she said. “As a dietician, I prioritize our menu choices and the types of products that we use. A lot of times it’s the only meal a child will get.”
Around 50 percent of students participate in the free and reduced lunch program. Breakfast costs $2 and lunch costs $1.
Liles sat down with the News Tribune recently to discuss some of the new initiatives that she and community partners like Healthy Waltham have been developing. Liles is a dietician and has spent her career thinking up ways to incorporate healthy eating habits into school meals.
“In Massachusetts alone there's 400 school districts [and] 400 food service directors so you have one set of regulations and so interpretations can be different,” Liles said. “I don’t think its one size fit all but the reality is that a five-year-old kid in Waltham and a five-year-old kid in California and a five-year-old kid in Texas, all need the same types of foods to grow, be strong and learn.”
Liles has purchased large metal racks a year ago to house seedlings for each elementary school.
By growing basil or other herbs, teachers can incorporate the plants into their curriculum. At an inaugural plant sale this spring, community members will be able to purchase the plants.
All the money raised from the sale would return to Waltham School Nutrition; the date of the sale is yet to be determined.
Today there are seven indoor gardens across Waltham’s elementary schools.
“It's a small investment for a lot of return,” Liles said.
WHS pop-up takeovers
At the high school, Liles has paired her programs with the culinary program to allow students to get project-based-learning experiences.
The students plan menus, cook food and ensure that the 250 meal tickets are properly executed. The pop-ups happen once per month.
“They really run with it,” Liles said. “Not a lot of districts do this type of collaborative [initiative].”
So far, the pop-ups have had Guatemalan and Asian cuisine, and a Haitian-inspired meal is on deck.
At the K-5 levels, lunch is paired with entertainment.
Launching a ‘Fearless Foodie’ program, Liles brings in speakers like super hero Ms. Toots and Professor Up-Beet to do short presentations on food topics for children.
Last year, while they ate their lunch, 3,500 students watched educational skits about protein, fats, and hydration and the role of color in food.
The program has also allowed for staff members in the cafeteria to get to know the students better.
“It’s a great way for my staff to connect with the kids,” Liles said. “It’s also a great way for my staff to not just be lunch ladies in the kitchen—they’re getting the opportunity to come out help the kids sample [food], they talk to the kids—they’re not just behind the scenes.”
The younger students also have now been able to have some autonomy over their lunches with Liles’ incorporation of ‘Harvest Bars’ or a small section at the end of the line that allows elementary kids to self-serve a helping of fruit or vegetables.
Giving students the ability to choose a healthy option and to put it on their plate themselves, has been working well, she says.
“Do we spend a little bit more on produce? Yes,” Liles said. “Is that where we want to be spending our money? Yes.”
Watch City Market
The Greater Boston Food Bank partners with Waltham School Nutrition each month to help Waltham residents in need of food.
Over 1,000 families registered for the market—which is held at McDevitt Middle School—last month.
Healthy Waltham is a partner of the market as well, helping to distribute the food collected.
Catering to Waltham
Waltham School Nutrition also has a small catering arm, one that mostly serves local places such as the Waltham Public Library or the Waltham Fire Department. The catering program receives four to five orders a week.
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Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are giving love a second chance (at least for a night), RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
The pair broke off their three-year relationship in June, but you would have never known it with the way they were together at the hip Dime bar in Los Angeles. Hot ‘n heavy only begins to describe it!
A spywitness at the tiny hotspot on Fairfax Avenue told RadarOnline.com: “They were making-out in one of the booths and seemed totally into one another. They were having a great time and definitely appear to be back ‘ on.’ They didn’t care who saw them.”
Another source told RadarOnline.com that Nick and Vanessa came in with friends around 11:30 p.m. and stayed approximately two hours. They were drinking and about 20 minutes after arriving started making out. At one point she sat on his lap as they kissed.
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April 6, 2011
UW blog profile: ‘Burke Blog a lively look inside natural history museum
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in blogs about their interests or professional matters. UW Today occasionally features brief profiles of these blogs and their authors.
Here we visit the Burke Blog, a light-hearted blog written by staff and students that draws attention to exhibits and programs at the UWs Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Julia Swan, Burke PR coordinator, who has been writing the blog for the past three years, answers our questions. (You can subscribe to the blog by email or by RSS, by the way.)
Q: How long have you been writing this blog, and how did it get its start?
The Burke Blog was started in 2006 by a former Burke staff member with the goal of sharing the museums behind-the-scenes stories with the public. At that point, the Burke was one of a few museums to adopt a blog and weve been able to keep it going since then.
However, in the last year I noticed the blog starting to feel a little stale and our readership starting to plateau. So at the start of 2011, we gave the Burke Blog a complete makeover, changing everything from the design of the blog site to the type of content posted to the number of contributors writing for the blog. I think the Burke now has a much better blog that offers interesting, readable, and amusing posts about the daily life of UWs own natural history museum.
Q: Who is your intended audience?
The UW community, Burke members and supporters, and anyone with an interest in the natural sciences, Pacific Northwest cultures, and/or museums.
Theres one woman who was a blog reader and had emailed us with comments about the blog before and now shes a student in the UWs museum studies certificate program and is going to start writing for the Burke Blog next quarter as a practicum project.
Q: What are your best — or worst — experiences in having a blog?
Best: Its a great outlet for sharing a more personable, lively side to the museum; for example, many visitors to the museum will comment about the size of our enormous freight elevator and ask questions about what kinds of objects or specimens ride in that elevator, so one of our bloggers wrote a mock interview with the elevator — it was clever and fun, but it still provided a level of insight about the museums mission and the services we provide to the community that is important to us to communicate.
Worst: Its a challenge to regularly produce high-quality content that is relevant and intriguing, but it has helped tremendously to recruit more writers and allow for a more light-hearted, humorous tone.
Q: Do you have any plans for where you’ll take the blog in the future?
I would love to see more people contribute content to the Burke blog, whether its Burke staff or volunteers, UW students, or community members with an interest in the natural sciences.
Do you know of a blog written by a member of the UW community that would be of interest to faculty and staff readers? Drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Here are links to some other recent blog profiles:
- · November 2010, Point of the Game, by J. Patrick Dobel, Evans School.
- · October 2010, Blog Down to Washington, by Derek Belt, UW Alumni Association.
- · The informal series began in 2009 with a profile of Elizabeth Lowrys well-written Seattle Backyard Farm blog, which is still active. | <urn:uuid:089f4d9c-6c51-4887-a56d-9a73d2382e2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.washington.edu/news/2011/04/06/uw-blog-profile-burke-blog-a-lively-look-inside-natural-history-museum/ | 2016-12-09T21:22:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542828.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00294-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961352 | 737 |
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A Christmas Regency Short on Amazon's Hot New Releases List!
Lady Crenshaw's Christmas is a regency novella that takes place amidst all the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations at Dunsmere, the home of Ginny Delacourt and her new husband, Anthony Crenshaw. Grandaunt is still the Dowager Duchess of Marcross, however, and she insists that the Christmas Ball be everything it was in her salad days. How is Ginny, the daughter of an impoverished vicar, to arrange things to everyone's satisfaction? And how is she to keep from stealing the thunder of the new duchess, wife to Anthony's uncle, the Duke of Marcross, who is also expecting a babe? And is she truly obliged to invite Lucinda, Lady Avery and her pompous husband? The answers to all these questions and more in Lady Crenshaw's Christmas, currently on Amazon's Hot New Releases list and only 99 cents! Read about Ginny's and Anthony's romance in Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind and Miss Delacourt Has Her Day, both available on Amazon as paperbacks and ebooks. And if Christmas regency shorts are your heart's desire, read my novella, It Happened One Night in A Timeless Christmas Romance: Winter Edition on Amazon today. (Click on the title of the book to be taken directly to Amazon.) | <urn:uuid:b7c98248-7bc0-45ba-9651-bea450f5bd04> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://avalonauthors.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-christmas-regency-short-on-amazons.html | 2017-02-23T11:34:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171166.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00590-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938779 | 291 |
SEO For Assisted Living – 5 Tips for Assisted Living Marketing
At the Senior Care Digital Marketing Conference, the experts at Senior Care Social spoke to assisted living communities on how to rank higher in Google maps. The digital marketing strategy that you use to do this is called search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a broad umbrella term that encompasses lots of tactics. In this senior care marketing article we will focus on one specific goal of SEO, which is helping your senior care community rank higher in Google maps.
Check out the recorded presentation below, which goes into a bit more depth than this article. Watch the video if you need more information.
What is Google My Business?
When someone does a search on Google for an assisted living phrase, like ‘assisted living near me’ or ‘best senior care community or possibly, ‘best nursing home’, part of the search result will be the Google map.
The top three listings in the Google map are called the Google 3-pack. The information for these listings comes from the Google My Business (GMB) database. Google My Business is Google’s business directory.
Google My Business offers all businesses a free listing. You’ve probably found your listing on Google Maps before. If you haven’t, search your community’s name in Google Maps and find it. Seeing your listing will be helpful as you read this article.
What most senior living communities are not familiar with is that you can optimize your community’s GMB account so that your senior care community listing will show up higher on the Google map.
Why is Google My Business important?
The Google Map is used by more than half of the people searching for a local business. Of all the people that use Google, 92% of them do not look past the first page of Google. If you want to increase new resident phone calls and build your census, your senior living marketing efforts should focus on ranking as high as you can on the Google Map.
What should I do to optimize and rank higher in Google maps?
In this assisted living marketing article we will explain 5 of the first things you need to do to optimize your GMB account so that you can start ranking higher in the Google map and increase your census.
Let’s get started on the top 5 ideas for assisted living SEO and ranking higher in Google maps.
#1 Claim Your Google My Business Listing
Claiming your GMB listing lets Google know that it’s the correct listing for your senior care community. Once you have verified the listing you can update, edit and begin optimizing. This is a very important step because without claiming and verifying it is nearly impossible to rank in the Google Map.
The first thing that you need to do is find your GMB listing and log in to the administrative portal. A simple way to do this is to go to https://www.google.com/business/ and click on the ‘Manage now’ button in the top right corner.
The example images that I’m using are from a partner marketing company called My Social Practice. Your senior living community’s GMB account will look similar.
You will be prompted to login into your personal Google account. If the account that you login into is a manager or owner on the GMB listing, you’ll see your senior living community listing information displayed.
On the other hand, if once you log in you don’t see your community’s information, then you’re not logged using the Google account that is an owner or manager of the listing. This means you’ll need to figure out which email address is an owner or manager on your account.
Once you’re logged into your senior care GMB account, if you have not already verified your listing then you’ll see a prompt to verify on the home page.
To verify your assisted living Google listing you’ll need to receive a pin code from Google. This can be sent with an automated phone call or a postcard in the mail. Either way, once you receive your pin code you’ll be able to verify the listing and begin the optimization process.
#2 Update Your Dental Practice Primary Categories
Once you’ve verified your listing, click on the info tab. It’s on the upper left-hand side of the page. Once you’re on the Info Tab, you’ll notice a section titled ‘primary categories’. Next to that section is an edit button that allows you to update your primary categories.
Your primary category is the main way that you’re found in the Google map. Click the edit button and select or edit your primary categories. Our experience has been that less is more when it comes to primary categories. If you list too many categories, we have found that you’re less likely to rank for any given category and you’ll miss your target audience. So choose the one that best suits your community. A general rule is not to list more than three categories in total.
These are the categories that relate to assisted living that Google allows you to choose from.
Assisted Living Facility
Home Health Care Service
Senior Citizen Center
Apartment Rental Agency
#3 Update Your Services
Once you’ve updated your primary categories, scroll down to the services section and you’ll notice that the primary categories you selected will be listed there as well. Google allows you to enter services under your primary categories. In the example we have in this article, you’ll see that one of the primary categories for My Social Practice is a marketing agency, but below that you’ll see services related to the primary category like, website hosting and maintenance, website design, social media marketing, SEO company, consulting services and graphic design.
Click on the edit button and then begin adding services by selecting the ‘Add another service’ button at the bottom of the category section.
Unlike the primary categories, services are not predetermined by Google and there is no limit to the amount you can list. A good recommendation is to list as many as you can think of.
When we teach marketing directors how to increase occupancy in assisted living homes we’ll often list more than 100 different services to help their local SEO rankings. This will take some time but the benefit is that Google will recognize your GMB account’s services, which will increase the chance of you being found by local patients.
If you were to hire us as your senior care consulting agency, we would also recommend that you put in services that people may search for but may not have the best connotation.
This is a high-quality keyword research SEO tactic. For example, nursing home care, the best nursing home near me, senior living facility, and senior care facility. Terms like ‘nursing home’ and ‘facility’ are frowned upon by the assisted living industry but not necessarily by residents and their families when searching online. Although you presumably don’t call your assisted living community a ‘nursing home’ or a ‘facility’, potential residents and their family members may search using those phrases in Google.
#4 Post Regularly To Your GMB Account
One of the best marketing ideas for assisted living communities is to post to your GMB account frequently. Not many assisted living consulting firms are even aware that you can do this, or how beneficial it is. You should post information to your Google My Business account just like you would post to a blog. When it comes to assisted living digital marketing, posting regularly is a great tactic.
Not only do posts add imagery and content to your GMB account, but you can link your posts to your website which is called link building and is a great elder care SEO tactic. When you do this, it helps Google see the relevance between your GMB account and your website. This builds trust with Google and other search engines.
You should always link your posts to increase your link building, it is one of best assisted living marketing strategies.
A great senior living marketing idea would be to share about marketing events for assisted living homes. It’s excellent assisted living advertising when you post an event in your GMB account and then link it to your website. Prospective residents may find the post in Google search and then click through to your website to find out more.
#5 Update Your Google My Business Photos
Google wants the map results to provide as much information about your community as possible. When you do SEO for assisted living communities, your goal is to encourage Google to rank your community higher than your competition.
When Google sees that you are uploading new photos on a regular basis, they’ll see your GMB account as more relevant than your competition. Google sees that you care about how your senior living community is perceived in Google maps. This will boost your Google rankings.
If you have not hired a professional photographer to take pictures of your team in a while, don’t stress. In today’s marketing world, you do not need to hire a professional photographer. Most smartphones have great resolution, but you do want to take the right photos.
A Final Thought About Assisted Living SEO
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June's top stories: Google buys traffic app, Balfour Beatty's Hong Kong contract
Google acquires Israel-based crowd-sourced traffic navigation app Waze for $1.03bn and Balfour Beatty's Hong Kong subsidiary wins a £722m road design and construction contract. Road-traffic-technology.com wraps the major headlines from June 2013.
Google has finalised the acquisition of Israel-based crowd-sourced traffic navigation app Waze in a deal that is reportedly worth $1.03bn.
The deal included several months of acquisition talks with other major companies, which are thought to have been Apple, Facebook and Yahoo.
Google is set to improve Google Maps by adding several traffic update features offered by Waze. It also plans to enhance Waze services with its own search capabilities.
Gammon Construction, the Hong Kong subsidiary of Balfour Beatty, has been awarded a major road design and construction contract worth HK$8.66bn (£722m).
The HKSAR Highways contract, which marks the largest solo civil engineering contract ever awarded to Gammon, involves the construction of the Southern Connection Viaduct Section of the Tuen Mun - Chek Lap Kok Link (TM-CLKL) in Hong Kong.
Balfour Beatty chief executive Andrew McNaughton said the company has the capability to design, construct, manage and finance major infrastructure projects across the globe.
The UK Department for Transport has announced a new £165m road project fund to ease traffic congestion in England.
The proposed investment is the second tranche of funding from the £190m Local Pinch Point Fund, which was announced in December 2012, adding 62 new schemes and bringing the total number of schemes financed under the fund to 72.
Together with local contributions, the total investment is around £300m.
The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has broken ground on the $1.3bn Downtown Crossing - the second half of the Ohio River Bridges project.
Scheduled to be completed in late 2016, the project involves the construction of a new bridge that widens I-65 from seven to 12 lanes over the Ohio River in downtown Louisville and the reconstruction of Kennedy Interchange where I-64, I-65, and I-71 converge.
The new bridge and its counterpart in Louisville's East End will be the region's first new bridges in more than 50 years.
Kapsch TrafficCom North America has secured a five-year contract from Canadian Tolling Company International (Cantoll) to supply next-generation technology for its TDMA V6 Interior Transponder for 407 ETR, located in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) of Ontario, Canada.
The total value of the contract over the five-year period is estimated to be $30m.
Kapsch, through its subsidiary Kapsch TrafficCom Canada, is expected to commence delivery of the new transponders in Q3 2014.
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) in Qatar has awarded engineering consultancy firm Hyder a $112m contract for the design and construction supervision of a new section of the Doha Expressway.
The contract for 'pre and post-contract professional consultancy services' is divided into four separate projects for concept design review, preliminary and detailed design, construction contract preparation, tender services and construction supervision services.
Hyder will provide services for the P22 Al Khor Bypass in north-east Qatar, which includes 35km of expressway with four major junctions, three running lanes and one hard shoulder on either side of the central median.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has shortlisted Orlando-based I-4 Mobility Partners, a consortium of global infrastructure investors, developers, constructors and operators, among the other teams to submit a detailed bid for the $2bn I-4 Ultimate Project.
The winning consortium for the public-private partnership project will design, build, finance and operate the new highway section over an expected concession period of 40 years.
This project also includes vital interchange improvements for this section of interstate that serves as a key tourist route with an annual average daily traffic volume of 175,000 vehicles.
The billion-dollar Hume Highway duplication project has been completed with the construction of a new bypass in Holbrook, New South Wales (NSW).
The newly-built bypass, the final stage in the upgrade of the inter-city highway, is scheduled to open to traffic in July.
It is estimated that nearly 130,000 Australians have at some point worked on the highway project, which was built over a period of almost 50 years.
Crowd-sourcing via smartphone apps and GPS devices is revolutionising the way in which traffic information is collated and analysed.
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Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism, and difference that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies. | <urn:uuid:096e89fe-6aff-47cb-9d12-03e6588ee663> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/sinophone-cinemas-audrey-yue/?K=9781137311191 | 2015-07-05T02:43:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097199.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00029-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872118 | 228 |
NEWINGTON – Police are continuing to investigate the murder of Patricia Torbicki as her husband Michael, the suspect in the case, remains in serious condition in an area hospital.
Patricia Torbicki, 46, was found shot dead in her front door at the family’s home on Gilbert Road at around 9 a.m. Sept. 21. The discovery prompted a massive police presence in the quiet neighborhood off Willard Avenue as officers tried to determine if Michael Torbicki, 45, was still in the house and if he was armed.
Michael Torbicki was found seriously injured from a gunshot wound about three hours later. Nearly immediately, police called Patricia Torbicki’s death a homicide and named her husband as a suspect. She died from a shotgun blast to her head and lower right extremity, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled last week.
Due to Michael Torbicki’s medical status there is no timeline for an arrest, Police Chief Stephen Clark said Thursday. In meantime, detectives are continuing to investigate the case and interview witnesses, he said. “Like any murder investigation, this is a very labor intensive investigation,” Clark said.
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“Debra Anastasia’s writing is imaginary, dark, comedic, and the perfect sexy.”
— Tijan, New York Times Bestselling Author
Swimming in Sparkles, an all-new not-to-be-missed, New Adult romance that brings you a modern day Robin Hood tale filled with emotion from Debra Anastasia is available now!
My name is Ruffian. To remember my mom, I want to change the world.
I’m going to do things wrong to make things right.
That’s okay, because I’m going to jail.
I know it.
I’ve planned for it. I was always going to end up there.
For now, I need a cover story.
A cover family.
A way to hide from the suspicion that always finds me.
Teddi Burathon is the perfect shield.
Popular, friendly, sassy. Good.
She’s everything I’m not.
And I’ll use her as a pretty distraction so no one sees me coming.
My heart is dead and I’m a bomb waiting to detonate.
Most people want to build a future.
I’m going to rob a bank.
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I flopped around until I really, really wanted a glass of water. Or a bottle. Just anything to get me hydrated. I stood and went to my door, squeaking it open slowly.
No one told me I had to stay in my room, but that was a sense I was getting. I should be settled for the evening. Rocket the dog was nowhere to be found, so I assumed she was with one of the family members. The young cat that Gaze and Pixie had claimed was theirs was on the couch and covered his eyes with his paws when I walked past him.
In the kitchen I had to open three different cabinets until I found some glasses. They were all special liquor glasses. Wine, rocks, beer glasses—they would suffice, but their normal cups weren’t in an obvious spot.
I went to the fridge and skipped the ice so I wouldn’ make a racket. When my glass was halfway full, a person lurking in the doorway caught my eye. I started and my hand jumped, the glass shooting up out of my hand. Teddi lurched forward and put out her hand. I did the same. I managed to get a grip on the glass as Teddi’s arm swung wildly and she poked me in the eye with her pinkie.
“Oh shit.” I slapped my left hand over my throbbing eye while catching the glass with my other hand.
“Oh my God. I am so sorry. Are you okay? It felt like I stuck my finger in Jell-O right then.” She shivered and closed her eyes.
I opened my other eye while squeezing the injured one tightly. “It’s okay. I have two. And I like a challenge.”
“Seriously? Like, I can drive you to Urgent Care or wherever. You might have a scratched cornea and that blows. I hated when it happened to me.”
“Someone poked you in the eye in the middle of the night?”
“No. I had an accident in cheer. Our bottom was a little off her game and I wound up knowing what four inches of her finger felt like in my brain.”
“Man, that’s not the sentence I want to hear wrapped around the words of four inches of finger in.” I staggered over to the counter and set down my glass.
“What did you want to hear?” She was smokin’. Forcing me to tell her about my dirty mind.
“Nothing. No worries. Why are you up in the middle of the night?” I slumped against the counter.
“It’s time for my two a.m. fudge bar.” She moved to the freezer part of the fridge and yanked it open. She had the ice cream she sought set up like a dispenser. She plucked out a cold one and had the paper off of it in a practiced motion.
Here I was feeling spoiled for having water from the dispenser. Girlfriend had her own private ice cream truck in her kitchen.
“You set an alarm for that or something?” I lifted my chin in her direction.
“It’s a built-in notification” She tapped her temple with her phone. “How’s your room downstairs?”
Stupid luxurious. Spacious. Private. Alone. Sad.
“Great. Bed’s a little soft.” I attempted to open my poked eye. Couldn’t do it.
I watched as concern zipped her smile into a straight line. “You really might have some damage there.” She took a step toward me.
If she only knew. The damage I had and the damage I intended to do.
“Let me see.” She popped the whole ice cream into her mouth and clamped her lips around it. Then she was in my space on her tiptoes. She put her hands on my face like we’d known each other our whole lives. I flinched a little and she settled a hand behind my neck. She pried my closed eye open with her fingers. In the meantime, she made sucking noises around the ice cream. It seemed like she might actually be in distress, so I grabbed the Fudgsicle out of her mouth. She licked around her lips and squinted some more.
“I can’t tell crap. It’s too dark.” She stepped back and took her ice cream from my hands.
She did some very thorough licking of the melting parts as she made her way to the light switch. She turned it on and returned to me. “I need to set this down.”
She opened the cabinet next to my head and took out a bowl, setting the fudge bar in it.
Then she resumed her position and clamped onto my neck and eye again. “Sorry, I am so used to being in people’s personal space between makeup and cheer.”
She seemed to be apologizing for putting her chest against me and blowing her sweet breath onto my face.
It was all making things happen in my pants. Too much. As she looked intently at my eye, interrogation-style, I had to stare at her. She had to be the prettiest human I’d ever seen in person. Her eyes were set up like blue starbursts and her skin was beautifully smooth. I wanted to lick it like she was my ice cream treat. She let go of my eyelid and it snapped shut.
“It’s red and bloodshot.” She pointed to the kitchen chair.
I lumbered over and sat down, grateful for a place to hunch over my growing problem.
Teddi went back to the freezer and came back with a cold pack. “Tilt your head back a little.”
I did as she asked again, and she straddled my leg, again holding my neck. Sure, my eye felt like it still had her finger in it, but all this closeness was really having me and my pants hoping she was going to kiss everything and make it better.
She gently pressed the ice on my closed eye. “Keep it closed. The eye really does heal itself a lot. You just need to give it time.”
I grunted in acknowledgment. As I peered at her through my working eye, she rooted around in the kitchen. Her tiny sleep shorts and tank top were my own personal cable channel. She used the water from my glass—whatever was left—and then refilled a water bottle with a straw in it.
“Here, now you can drink easier while your eye does what it has to do.” She held the bottle near my face. I took it out of her hand.
“Thanks. You send mixed messages to weirdos in your kitchen. Attack, first aid, apply water.” I took a deep suck and realized I was super thirsty.
She went back to her ice cream and opened a drawer until she came up with a spoon. Her snack had become a cold soup and she ate it as such.
I hit the bottom of the bottle with a loud slurp.
Teddi grimaced. “Damn, son. You were parched.”
She grabbed my bottle and filled it again. The little kindnesses she was showing me were getting embedded into my skin. Where I was from, how I was raised, kindness was hard to find. I could go whole days without getting treated like a person by anyone besides my mom.
“You’re welcome. And I’m sorry I turned you into a pirate. The good news is, I have an eye patch from last Halloween for you.” She pointed at my eye with her spoon.
“Then I’m all set.” I was able to get half the second water bottle down before I was truly done with feeling thirsty.
Debra creates pretend people in her head and paints them on the giant, beautiful canvas of your imagination. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and writes new adult angst and romantic comedies. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two amazing children.
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Training is one of the most effective ways to protect your most valuable assets—your employees. Effective training can increase productivity and reduce the frequency and severity of accidents. A safer workplace boosts morale and improves employee retention. That in turn reduces costs, and fiscal responsibility is more important now than ever.
AMLJIA provides member support through a variety of training delivery systems, including on-site training, online courses, and a monthly safety teleconference. Contact us today for information about any of our training programs.
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Coaching Boys into Men Training - Registration Deadline Extended - Training for coaches will be held in Anchorage on June 3-4, 2015. Travel scholarships are available. The registration deadline has been extended.
Summer Food Service Program Needs Local Sites - The Department of Education & Early Development’s Child Nutrition Programs unit is looking for school districts, parks and recreation departments, non-profit organizations, tribal organizations, rural developments, camps and churches to operate Summer Food Service Program feeding sites for children and youth in low-income areas in Alaska.
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Please note that all the services below are based upon parcels up to a weight of 2 kg, if your order weighs more than this or exceeds the parcel size limit, then we shall contact you to advise the additional costs which will be required to be paid before order will be dispatched.
We currently use Hermes Courier service for our standard deliveries, this is a tracked service and takes between 1-2 days for delivery.
We also offer the Royal Mail 1st Class signed for service. this is not a tracked service but Royal Mail aim to delivery this within 1 day.
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The WooCommerce Shipcloud extension enables store owners to use its cloud-based service to manage all shipping options from one install, without need for different agreements and accounts. Also offers automated printing of shipping labels.
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- Download the .zip file from your WooCommerce.com account.
- Go to: WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New to upload the file you downloaded with Choose File.
- Activate the extension.
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To use this WooCommerce shipcloud integration, you need to register and have a shipcloud subscription.
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- Go to: shipcloud.io
Click Register Now and select a Plan.
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- Select API Key in the upper right corner, located under the email address registered.
Copy the API Key for the next step, or leave the browser window open.
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1/ Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Shipcloud.
2/ Tick the checkbox to enable shipcloud.
3/ Enter API Key. Found in your shipcloud.io account (previous section). Entered correctly, Carriers will appear for step #4.
4/ Select a minimum of one carrier in Shipment Methods. Choose as many as you wish.
5/ Select Shop Owner (you) or Customer (buyer) in Shipment Selection, designating who selects the carrier for shipping.
6/ Select the Standard Shipment Method (default), if you have several carriers from step #4.
7/ Enter the Webhook URL at the shipcloud webhook system, if you want to receive shipment status notification for each order.
8/ Tick the checkbox to enable Debug. The log assists with troubleshooting.
9/ Choose to Calculate Products either Per Product or Per Order.
9/ Choose to Calculate Shipment Classes either Per Class or Per Order.
10/ Enter a Standard Price, should no dimensions or weight be entered.
11/ Enter your shipping details under Standard Sender Data to ensure accurate shipping calculations.
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A prominent New Hampshire social conservative activist who flew to Texas a few months ago to urge Rick Perry to seek the presidency has now formally endorsed her choice for president.
It’s not Perry.
Maureen Mooney, a former New Hampshire state representative and state Republican Party treasurer, has given her endorsement to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Our sister Hearst outlet WMUR TV has an exclusive interview with Mooney in which she said of Romney, “He has been a friend of New Hampshire for years now and is very supportive of the New Hampshire Republican Party, candidates locally, the county and state.”
Perry’s political stock has fallen precipitously following a series of Republican presidential debates over the past two months. Mooney alluded to the debate comparison in her interview with WMURPoliticalScoop.com, saying Romney “demonstrates a sharpness in every debate we have seen him in that will match up well against Barack Obama. That is precisely what we need.”
Mooney, who represented a conservative district in Merrimack, N.H., will not be taking a paid position in the Romney campaign. And she is planning to attend the Cornerstone Action fundraising dinner tonight where Perry is the keynote speaker, WMUR reports.
Mooney’s previous endorsements include 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, whom she aided with social conservative outreach. | <urn:uuid:a77cf8b7-d759-409f-8ba4-6520495d010a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/10/new-hampshire-conservative-activist-who-urged-rick-perry-to-run-for-president-endorses-mitt-romney/ | 2014-12-21T20:15:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772281.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00000-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956436 | 285 |
The Commodore's Cup is awarded to the PHRF Cruising and Racing Class yacht that has the best scores for this five race series that include the KPYC - Ron Gibbons Memorial Regatta, The Whaleback Regatta, The Lobster Double Handed Regatta, The Singlehanded Regatta, and the PYC - Mowers Cup Pursuit Race. Each Regatta test the skill of the skipper and his crew with unique challanges resented for each race. In the past these event have drawn no less than 15 yachts for great competition on the water and wonderful post race awards socials. So who is the best in 2014, The Commodore's Cup will answer that question. Race in one or all of these regattas, they are scored separately and awards given after each race. Your one time registration is all that is necessary to compete in each of these events.
Registration is now open and available online via Regatta Network. Click the link below to begin your registration:
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- This book touched my heart deeply. I learned so many things about Galina I did not know and found it a moving experience to read it.
I will read it many times.
- Memories, Musings and Mystics helped me remain grounded through a difficult time in my life.
I keep it at my bedside to re-read daily.
- The section on music and the mystics resonated deeply with my own experience and I loved the way Galina explained and
expressed complex topics.
- I couldn’t put this book down and read it right through. Now i am reading each story and thinking and reflecting on it.
A timeless book. I love it.
- This captivating and authentic book allows us to participate and learn from one person’s spiritual journey. Through sharing her journey, and the events, mystics, philosophers, religions and gurus that have shaped it, we too are offered the opportunity to reflect upon our own path and joyously seek new directions. The fundamental human truths in this book shine out for all of us to embrace!
Susan Geary, Ph.D.
- Galina has written Memories, Musings, and Mystics with head and heart, honouring her life’s inside-out process. Her exploration of life’s core issues is well-researched and deeply considered. Her delivery is inclusive and empathetic. I’ve known Galina personally and professionally for 25 years and this is who she is at her own core. If you know someone who would benefit from being invited along to see how acknowledging the sacred can inform and augment the ordinary, then Galina’s book is a gift to consider.
Lorraine Clemes Ed.D.
Lorraine is the author of Mid-life Magic: Designing the Next Chapter of Your Life and has been a consultant and professional coach for over 20 years. She can be reached at her website www.LifeDesignConsultants.com. | <urn:uuid:6e1172ab-82e5-4f93-9f13-1f354f8b3f3e> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://galinacoffeylewis.com/testimonials.html | 2018-08-15T04:54:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209884.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815043905-20180815063905-00662.warc.gz | en | 0.952961 | 416 |
After Justin Bieber's behaviour recently, it has made me question the whole celebrity culture. How dare he refuse to meet his fans who have paid a lot of money for the privilege of a meet and greet.
I can understand if we wants to cancel doing it again but please honour your commitments. These fans had paid £1,000 package to meet their idol. After all they are the ones who have put you where you are, you prat.
If you don’t know what I am talking about let me tell you. They watch the concert then paid to meet him after. To their shock and horror they were expected have their photos taken with a cardboard cutout.
To all the fans, after meeting him for free there is more personality in the cardboard cut out than in the flesh. There will be people saying if they are foolish enough to waste money like that, so be it. That is wrong, what they spend their hard-earned money on is their business but they shouldn’t be ripped off. Over the years several stars have cancelled odd nights of their tour as they have a tickly throat. What happened to the show must go on?
Fans have planned their life around these days in some cases spending their life savings, even walking out of their jobs to see their idols.
I want to give you an idea about these meet and greets which is now big business. Allegedly the most expensive person to meet is Madonna. It will cost you £100,000 to spend time in her company.
Beyonce used to charge £1,000 but she has now stopped doing it. The meet and greet industry is very lucrative. They say it is driven by fans and not stars. The revenue could add £800,000 to a tour.
Some artists use their sound check as a selling point. It’s called the Platinum experience and will cost you a lot of money.
There are all sorts of rules meeting them. No touching, hugging and certainly no kissing. Talk when you are talked to. You get one official photograph, no selfies, autographs or product signed - depending on the artist. It is also like a cattle market. You are herded in and out and can wait hours.
The older generation of pop stars are very wary of meet and greets and getting personal with the public. They are fearful of violence. The sorts of money you can earn are in some cases ridiculous.
The world’s biggest paid artist right now is Taylor Swift for her last tour she took a reported $61.7 million in revenue. One nice thing some of the acts do, they have a fan club and their members get privileged tickets. The Script have a very good reputation with their fans.
Here is something that is very irritating. When fans retire for good you pay a great deal of money for their last concert. Guaranteed, in two years time they will come back out of retirement - that’s a rip-off.
Talking of rip-offs, touts are the lowest form of life. They should get a proper job.
They are parasites who life of people who work hard to get the money to get tickets to see their idols.
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And as the telephone is essentially the instrument of co-working and interdependent
people, it found itself suddenly welcomed as the most popular and indispensable of all the agencies that put men in touch with each other.
I add this condition because, if that to which they are related is stated as haphazard and not accurately, the two are not found to be interdependent.
When the terminology is thus correct, it is evident that all correlatives are interdependent.
Tiger writing; art, culture, and the interdependent
He just needed to explain what every global business leader learned long before governments did - that, since the end of the Cold War, the world has become not just more interconnected but more interdependent
and this new structural reality requires a new kind of American leadership.
But when colleges highlighted such interdependent
norms as being part of a community and connecting to others, the performance gap between first-generation students and other students closed, researchers found.
But with the advent of divorce; single parenthood; people living together instead of getting married; second marriages; "starter" marriages; adult interdependent
partnerships and all the other changes in society in the last fifty years at least, this long-known truism is no longer true.
The study found that when making decisions based on multiple, interdependent
factors, people choose based on how these factors correlate with each other, and not based on an ad hoc rule of thumb or through trial and error as was previously thought.
However, the roles of interdependent
SC and masculinity/femininity were different for Japanese and American participants.
In athletic settings, an individual sports is considered as an independent task which does not require interaction with others, and a team sports is considered as an interdependent
task which requires high interactions with others in the team.
Accordingly, these two views of the individual in society determine the degree to which people feel independent, on one hand, or interdependent
, on the other.
Markus and Kitayama (1991) suggest two types of self-construals, interdependent
and independent, and argue for the systematic influence of these differing self-concepts on cognition, emotion, and motivation. | <urn:uuid:41050e47-4739-435e-8f4a-fbeca1b41016> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interdependent | 2016-05-24T09:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049270527.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002110-00239-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956332 | 458 |
What is a tornado watch?
A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A TORNADO TO OCCUR. At this stage weather conditions will be closely monitored, but it is not necessary to go to shelter locations at this point.
What is a tornado warning?
A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A FUNNEL HAS BEEN SIGHTED IN OUR COUNTY (we are located in Greene County). If a TORNADO WARNING has been placed in effect, you need to seek shelter immediately. The following alert system will be utilized:
There will be a warning sounded by the village fire siren. This alert will consist of a gradual increase in pitch for thirty seconds, a maintenance of a high pitch for thirty seconds, and a gradual decrease in pitch for thirty seconds. In addition:
- Campus Safety will initiate the use of the Emergency Mass Notification System (Blackboard Connect ED).
- University Campus Safety personnel will announce the warning over a PA system from patrol vehicle(s) moving through campus, if it is safe to do so (funnel has not been seen in our immediate location in Cedarville) and time permits.
- RD's/RA's will make sure that their residents in the university dorms are aware of the danger and are moving to a shelter location.
- Campus Safety Officers will go to primary areas of occupancy, such as the Chapel when it is in session and the Cafeteria and Field House to make sure everyone has received the notification and are moving to a shelter location.
Every reasonable attempt will be made to notify all persons and to instruct them to go to designated shelters as outlined on this website.
Special Safety Information
If you are unable to reach a shelter area, individuals should go to inner corridors or restrooms on the ground floor of the nearest building. Stay away from windows or rooms located near exterior walls.
Other areas such as the following should be avoided:
- Upper floors of buildings
- Elevators (power may fail)
- Food service areas
- Any structure with wide span roofs that are susceptible to collapse
Once in a shelter location, everyone should stay close to the floor covering your upper body and head with jackets, blankets, pillows, etc. when they are available. You may also consider shielding yourself further from falling debris by staying under heavy furniture.
If you are caught outside and cannot make it to a building shelter location, then go to the nearest ditch and lay flat, face down, covering the back of your head with your hands. Vehicles are dangerous places to be in a tornado.
Please do not leave shelter locations until the tornado warning is lifted. The "All Clear" is signaled when the village tornado siren is once again activated. In addition, the universities Emergency Mass Notification System will be reactivated letting everyone know that the warning has passed. Campus Safety vehicles will also tour the campus, making "All Clear" announcements from the vehicle PA systems.
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Last year SFU Contemporary Arts alum Heather Lamoureux created the Vines Arts Festival, an event designed to make contemporary performance more accessible by siting it in a public park (and making it free), and also to promote environmental awareness by showcasing work engaged with themes of climate activism and sustainability and/or responding to its natural setting--in this case, the south end of Trout Lake. That one-day event, put on with a budget raised solely through door-to-door fundraising by Heather, was a huge success. This year, the festival not only attracted major corporate and government sponsors, but it also expanded to four days and multiple sites, with events taking place over the past few days at Hadden Park in Kits Beach, Pandora Park on the East Side, and Maclean Park in Strathcona. However, the main event continues to be located at Trout Lake, and yesterday I cycled over just past noon to take in as much of the action as possible.
Combining installations with roaming pieces, workshops and individually timed performances on five separate "stages," the festival featured an abundance of work to stimulate one's senses, both physiologically and politically. I arrived in time to catch the last half of Ariel Martz-Oberlander's Grief + Dignity; a devised theatre piece loosely constructed around five women's attempts to blockade the Site C Dam project, the work is essentially a conversation about the relationship between intersectional feminism and attempts to raise awareness about the negative social and climatological effects of resource extraction. Next, there was Alex Mah and Arash Khakpour's Hold My Beer, a deconstructed "bromance" in the form of an alternately affectionate and aggressive danced duet that provided something of a gendered corollary to the Martz-Oberlander piece, suggesting that a reciprocal ethic of care between men might actually start with care for the environment.
Meegin Pye's Integral Elimination is a solo work of physical theatre that uses a quintessential rite of fitting oneself into a box--the job interview--to both materially and metaphorically take on how contemporary urbanites have increasingly boxed their horizons in by literally walling themselves up. While I found the text a bit jejune in parts, and the hopping from side to side to indicate different sides of a conversation somewhat of a too-easy dramaturgical choice, Pye was thoroughly engaging as a performer, and much of her piece reads as a caustic commentary on Vancouver's current crisis of accelerated development.
With the PuSh Festival's Joyce Rosario and Bonnie Sun by this point having joined me (graciously sharing their blanket), we then roamed to a succession of dance and movement-based performances. Sophie Brassard and Carly Penner's Pseudo-Flora-Commorancy, a piece for nine women dancers, captivated with its clever use of a net of tied-together plastic bags. Initially the women get caught in this net like so much discarded flotsam, but though a combination of working together (cue some ingenious unison) and discovering, successively, their individual relationships with the space around them, the women are able to free themselves from the artificial tentacles of this ur-symbol of consumerism. Sarah Gallos' Follow is a duet with Hailey McCloskey that uses a succession of slow falls and rises from the ground as a motif for co-animacy of and in space, both in terms of the dancers' awareness of each other and their responsiveness to their surroundings (which included some initial choreographing of the audience). In Archaea, dancer Molly McDermott develops an improvised score of micro-moves as a way of physicalizing the micro-biology of park ecosystems that remain invisible to us, her every neck twitch and foot flex accompanied by Stefan Smulovitz on the violin. Even standing stalk still McDermott is interesting to watch, but with her body wrapped upside down around a tree you can only gape in awe. Finally, in Toothpaste Carolina Bergonzoni enacts the story of her year-long quest to make an all-natural cleaning agent for the teeth and gums from household products through the slow accretion of a simple yet effective gestural vocabulary that mimics the trial and error methodology of her dentifrical experiments. All while wearing a skirt made of used toothpaste tubes and boxes!
Borgonzoni also collaborated with my fellow Wreck Beach Butoh colleague Bronwyn Preece (who, in addition to Molly and her mom Irene, Dana Marquis, and Henry Wong made up quite a strong WBB contingent at this year's Vines) on a unique sartorial painting project that greeted me upon arrival. Together with the music of Son Bohemio, a unique and meditative installation by Elissa Hanson and Claris Figuera called At House, At Home, and an inspiring talk by the Coast Salish ethno-botanist Cease Wyss these were just some of the many Vines offerings I was able to take in. It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon and I hope this new addition to our local festival landscape continues to grow. | <urn:uuid:15b4d33d-89c6-4fd3-bf47-74f75f7c4bac> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://performanceplacepolitics.blogspot.com/2016/08/vines-art-festival-at-trout-lake.html | 2017-06-25T18:54:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320570.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625184914-20170625204914-00044.warc.gz | en | 0.957082 | 1,058 |
When I decided to become vegetarian, I thought I would never get sick of loaded salads and sandwiches stuffed with cucumbers, tomatoes, sprouts and fancy cheeses on a variety of tasty breads. I never thought I’d get sick of subbing veggie patties for burgers and chik’n strips for, well, chicken strips.
And it’s not so much that I’m sick of those things, but after a year and a half, it’s important to keep things interesting. That is exactly what I was in the mood for when I stumbled across the recipe for these Honey-lime Sweet Potato, Corn & Black Bean Tacos! I know they sound like a mouthful, but they were absolutely wonderful. They were just the right amount of spice and variety that I needed to redeem my faith in veggie.
Aside from the challenge of cutting raw sweet potatoes, these were surprisingly easy to throw together. I topped mine with avocado and sour cream, but adding some pico, feta and/or some sliced lettuce would have been pretty great, too. I hope these inspire you to get a little adventurous with your go-to dinner options, and help remind you that there always ways to jazz things up!
Honey-lime Sweet Potato, Corn & Black Bean Tacos
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper
1 onion, diced (1 cup)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 (14.5 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup frozen yellow corn, thawed and drained
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lay out your sweet potato cubes on a baking sheet covered in foil. Drizzle with 3 tablespoons of the olive oil, and toss to evenly coat. Sprinkle evenly with cumin, paprika, coriander, cayenne pepper and season lightly with salt and pepper. Then toss to coat.
Bake in preheated oven 15 – 20 minutes until tender, removing from oven and tossing once halfway through.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and saute until caramelized (golden brown on edges and tender), about 5 – 6 minutes, adding in garlic during last 30 seconds of sauteing. Reduce heat to medium-low, add in drained black beans, corn, honey and lime juice. Heat until warmed through. Toss in roasted sweet potatoes and cilantro.
Serve over warm tortillas with desired toppings. | <urn:uuid:5a28f6ed-0bb1-4bf0-a537-4c9656c49cb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://emjoyable.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/honey-lime-sweet-potato-corn-black-bean-tacos/ | 2017-11-23T14:47:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806842.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123142513-20171123162513-00596.warc.gz | en | 0.920941 | 576 |
Over the years there have been a number of AskMe posts about parenting kids with mental health issues, and some of them were written by other people! Which leads me to believe that there are other parents on Metafilter wrestling with the practical, social, and other challenges of raising kids with mental health challenges or diagnoses. I'm certainly not finding the community I want around this elsewhere, so I'm looking to Metafilter. I wonder whether there's an interest for a group of parents who have these struggles, to put heads together, problem-solve and hold space for one another. [more inside]
I've always felt that there is a category missing on AskMeFi. There are so many AskMe posts related to children, parenting, babies, etc - that I really think there should be some kind of all encompassing category for it. I've thought about this for a long time, but today is the day I finally speak up. What do you think? [more inside]
Seems like there are always pregnant MeFis who are looking for some answers / like-minded people to talk to. Anyone want to join an FB group? [more inside]
The wonderful brownpau and his sweet and talented wife (who, to the best of my knowledge doesn't frequent these parts) welcomed their first child last Thursday. Mother, child (code named Project Wallaby whilst en utero), and daddy are all apparently doing well. I'll let brownpau himself decide if he wants to share more. All I will say is they are awesome people, and I know will make great parents. Congrats!
A while back, there was a great post on the blue about people who don't take an adversarial/territorial approach to their kids' sexuality -- basically the opposite approach of people who tell parents of young girls that they're "gonna need to buy a gun, lol." Within that thread, I think one MeFite had a particularly touching comment about how he was welcomed by his girlfriend's family, rather than threatened, and so when they did have a pregnancy scare, they felt ok going to her parents for help. I have searched and searched, but I'm not finding anything. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
We had a very enjoyable dinnertime conversation tonight with our 8-year-old about the Ask MeFi question about the college student whose friend spilled water on her laptop and killed it. It was really great to say, "OK, here's an interesting ethical question, what do you think she should do? What does Mommy think? What does Daddy think?" And then we talked about the various answers people gave, and how we felt about them, and the whole thing was great. It made me want to make this a regular dinnertime feature! MeFi parents, do you use MetaFilter as a teaching or parenting tool, and if so how?
I promise that I Googled and searched with the on-site engine, but I just can't find things I know for sure are there - namely, AskMe questions about getting young adult children to gain independence. [more inside]
Problems with Ask parenting-thread deletions. [more inside]
If you really want the help of parents, maybe don't start by insulting them? Lots of deletions, lots of parenting/breastfeeding flame-war brushfires being put out in this thread. [more inside]
We've all had our share of miserable exes. And nobody likes family law. Still, the advice given here is terrible, bad, no-good advice. [more inside]
Update on medical marijuana for autistic 9 year old with chronic abdominal pain. Existing (closed) thread from last fall. [more inside]
This FPP, a Washington Post article about accidental hyperthermic deaths of children, has elicited some amazing responses, in particular this post by scrump. | <urn:uuid:30888e05-d9e6-4b0c-a15e-9a8157d1347b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://metatalk.metafilter.com/tags/parenting | 2020-09-27T01:58:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400249545.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926231818-20200927021818-00596.warc.gz | en | 0.97754 | 811 |
LG ICC Awards 2012 will be on 15 September and LG ICC Awards 2012 will be held at Waters Edge, Colombo and detailed shorrt List is available here at this page according to below given Details. According to recent news Lara and Bakewell. This Even will be held in evening. The Venue of ICC LG Awards 2012 is Taj Samudra Hotel, Galle Face, Colombo and this ceremony will be consists of two hours. The two most important guests of this evening are ICC president Alan Issac and ICC Chief Executive David Richardson and both are going to participate in that evening. South Africa due Hashim Amla and Vernon philander,Austraia captain Michael Clarke and Sri Lanka Batsman Kumar Sangakkara have all been short-listed for the top honour at the LG ICC awards 2012.
The Votes have now been casted by the independent 32-person academy and these fur men are te going to fight for the winner title and let see who will get success in snatching the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy which is specific for ICC Crickieter of the year. As well as these four Cricketer are also shortlisted for Cricketer of the year in this same LG ICC Awards 2012.
LG ICC Awards 2012 Short-lists Nominees
The ICC has announced the winners of several awards for tonight’s LG Awards 2012 ceremony in Colombo:
ICC Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy): Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
ICC Test Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli (India)
ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Richard Levi (New Zealand)
ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Sunil Narine (Sri Lanka)
ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: George Dockrell (Ireland)
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award: Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year: Sarah Taylor (England)
ICC Umpire of the Year – David Shepherd Trophy: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka)
The LG People’s Choice Award short-list of five players was selected by the Selection Panel. The winner is chosen by cricket fans from across the globe after a month long online voting process that closes on 31 August 2012. | <urn:uuid:1dc25bb8-375d-495f-8c9c-9ecf0c2a7915> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://aasportsnews.com/lg-icc-awards-2012-short-lists-nominees-are-announced/ | 2018-12-15T02:30:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826686.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215014028-20181215040028-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.935813 | 536 |
Dust off your resumes because the GHNYC Green Careers group is hosting another Speed Up-Dating Your Resume Workshop!
The workshop is formatted similar to speed dating in that, as an attendee, you will be paired with a critic who will review and critique your resume. After a set amount of time, you’ll rotate and have the opportunity to discuss your resume with a different critic.
As an attendee you’ll need to:
1) be prompt! We’ll begin at 6:30pm.
2) have a minimum of six (6) hard copies of your resume for review.
3) be prepared to discuss your resume and potentially contribute to the evaluation of others’.
For event details and to register to attend, RSVP HERE!
The goal is for you to walk away with constructive feedback from professionals in the industry on how to improve your resumes.
Contact Katie Schwamb [email protected] with questions. | <urn:uuid:c25398d9-8903-438e-8a73-af3779d2e719> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://dev.greenhomenyc.org/blog/green-careers-january-2015-meeting-resume-workshop/ | 2021-07-31T02:50:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154042.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731011529-20210731041529-00301.warc.gz | en | 0.894549 | 201 |
Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Misari Regatta Course, Hanam
Date Started: September 19, 1988
Date Finished: September 24, 1988
East Germany had won the men’s coxed fours at the last two World Championships and was well-positioned to take gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The only other likely challenge might have come from Great Britain, the defending Olympic champions (albeit having performed this feat in the absence of most of the strongest rowing powers, due to the Soviet-led boycott in 1984) and reigning Commonwealth champions. East Germany asserted its dominance immediately, winning its opening round heat in Olympic record time. The other heats were won by Romania, with a crew that included Dimitrie Popescu and Vasile Tomoiagă, who had been runners-up in the 1984 Olympic coxed pairs event, and the United States. In the semi-finals, East Germany once again posted the fastest time, with Great Britain capturing the other heat, and the former maintained its strength through the final and captured the gold medal with ease. Romania came in second nearly three seconds later and New Zealand took bronze after a gap of more than two seconds. Great Britain faltered in the final and placed fourth, far enough away that it was not in contention for a podium spot by the end. Romania’s coxswain Ladislau Lovrenschi won his second Olympic medal at the impressive age of 56, having taken bronze in the coxed pairs in 1972.
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Scholarship goes beyond your undergraduate or even graduate experience. Brothers of Pi Lambda Phi commit themselves to a lifetime of personal growth and discovery. A true Pilam knows he always has something to learn and never truly reaches the end of his educational journey.
A Pilam is a man of character, a man of class and grace, and a man who will “Always be a Gentleman.” A man of character is someone who gives back through community service and philanthropy and is never afraid to stand up for his convictions.
Finance refers to how a Pilam chooses to invest his various resources; time, money and the relationships he builds throughout his life. A Pilam invests in his and others’ futures by wisely investing his resources and maximizing the return on investment in all facets of life, well beyond his collegiate experience.
A Brother of Pi Lambda Phi will always uphold his commitments to himself, his fellow brothers, and all others to serve a greater good. Commitment comes in many forms, but none more important than committing to hold yourself and others accountable in times where it is easy to simply turn a blind eye. The lessons learned through Pilam enable our members to be successful contributing members of our Fraternity, their local community and society as a whole.
A leader is someone who is willing to take on challenges and guide others through them. A leader is also someone, at any level of an organization, who seeks opportunities for personal and group growth. Through Pilam, members learn how to lead but also learn about the idea of servant leadership and what it means to be part of something larger than oneself.
Our fraternity believes that not only do we have to believe in equality, we have to fight for its existence. Therefore, you will hear Pilams talk about the importance of the Elimination of Prejudice—a call to action. The pursuit of the Elimination of Prejudice is at the core of what it means to be a Pilam. Since 1895, Pi Lambda Phi has helped create a better understanding between people. Pi Lambda Phi and its members are committed to upholding the mission established by our Founders and at the center of it all is the pursuit of the Elimination of Prejudice.
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A concert at Levitt Pavilion Dayton in Dave Hall Plaza
Happy Park and Recreation Month!
This July organizations across the country are celebrating Park and Recreation Month by using the hashtag #OurParkAndRecStory and sharing how green spaces have made their communities stronger, more vibrant and more resilient.
At the Levitt Foundation, ensuring access to green space is an essential part of our mission to foster equitable, thriving and sustainable communities. Through partnerships with nonprofits across the country, we support the activation of underused parks, vacant downtown lots, former brownfields and more to create green spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds can come together to enjoy both the beauty of nature and the power of free, live music through Levitt concerts.
Tune into tonight’s Levitt AMP virtual concert to experience the critically-acclaimed soulstress Julie Black, co-presented by the Marion Cultural Alliance (MCA) and the City of Ocala—the dynamic team behind the Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series. Recorded in collaboration with the Reilly Arts Center, as part of the new Reilly Digital Series, tonight’s concert celebrates the collective creativity, innovation and resilience of Ocala’s cultural sector.
Stitching Together ‘One Ocala’
Sign welcoming visitors to Ocala
Nestled in the heart of north central Florida’s ‘horse country,’ classic Florida charm thrives in the 60,429-person city of Ocala. Home to more horses than anywhere else in the country and the U.S. Equestrian Team’s official training site, many consider the Ocala/Marion County area to be the “Horse Capital of the World.” Located about 80 miles northwest of Orlando, Ocala is surrounded by freshwater streams and rolling hills, and just minutes away from ‘Florida’s Original Attraction,’ the scenic Silver Springs State Park—which boasts crystal clear 72-degree springs year-round.
Today, community leaders are working together to create ‘One Ocala’ after decades of disinvestment in the city’s historically Black neighborhoods created a tale of two very different Ocalas. The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 changed the face of West Ocala, transforming this once vibrant hub of local African American commerce and community life on West Broadway into a busy throughway—destroying homes, businesses, a hospital and other landmarks in the process. For decades, US Highway 301 stood as both a physical and social division between West Ocala and the city’s downtown, deepening cultural and economic divisions, as well. Continue reading
This week the Spotlight Series continues with the genre-busting violin/vocalist duo, Sons of Mystro—who launch the 2019 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series tonight with their lively mix of classical, reggae, hip-hop and more! To gear up for tonight’s show, we’re bringing you 10 fun facts about this eclectic power duo! Continue reading
Tonight, ‘Bayou Americana’ jammers Honey Island Swamp Band will light up the Levitt AMP Ocala stage with their fun and funky fusion of roots-infused blues and country. Their blazing horns, searing harmonica, twangy guitar riffs and soulful vocals are bound to have audiences dancing and clapping along to their driving beats! The group’s joyous, upbeat tunes are an ode to their resiliency, showcasing their ability to relocate and rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina hit their hometown of New Orleans in 2005. Continue reading
This summer, 150+ free Levitt concerts will bring joy and world-class musical talent to communities in small to mid-sized towns and cities across the country, all as part of the 2018 Levitt AMP Music Series!
With free Levitt AMP concerts already underway in Santa Fe, N.M., Galva, Ill., Stevens Point Wis., and Whitesburg, Ky., and Ocala, Fla.,’s series right around the corner, we’re thrilled to share the wide-range of award-winning artists and rising stars who’ll bring vibrant outdoor performances to Levitteers across the nation this summer. Scroll down to check out the incredible talent coming to these five Levitt AMP locations, and stay tuned for more exciting 2018 Levitt AMP lineups! Continue reading
Along with July being National Picnic Month, this month is also National Park and Recreation Month, which makes sense considering that picnics and parks go hand in hand! We love this infographic created by National Recreation and Park Association that shares some fun facts about community spaces boosting positive attitudes toward cultural diversity, how playing outside enhances vision and that half of exercise in America takes place at parks.
Powerhouse vocalist Dana Fuchs brings her raspy blues-rock vocals to Levitt AMP Ocala tomorrow night. The edgy singer/songwriter is known and beloved for her electric stage presence and heartfelt, compelling albums, many of which are dedicated to late loved ones. Born in New Jersey and raised in Wildwood, Fla.—where she performed as a child in a Baptist Choir—Fuchs always knew she wanted to broaden her horizons and make the leap to The Big Apple. She made her dream a reality when she packed her bags and moved to New York City at 19 to pursue a singing career. It was there that she formed and fronted the soulful, rocking Dana Fuchs Band, which gained a reputation as one of the best blues acts in the city’s music scene.
Today, audiences might recognize this multitalented artist’s strong and distinctive voice from her leading roles in the off-Broadway tribute musical, Love, Janis, and the Golden Globe-nominated film, Across the Universe (2007). Continue reading | <urn:uuid:ee1979f5-38db-44d0-b1c4-678ad8111b07> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.blog.levitt.org/tag/levitt-amp-ocala/ | 2022-09-27T17:04:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335054.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927162620-20220927192620-00186.warc.gz | en | 0.923607 | 1,227 |
NIST Seeks Proposals for $20 Million Recovery Act Program -- Grants Will Fund Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowships
For Immediate Release: June 15, 2009
Contact: Ben Stein
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial assistance program to help selected institutions develop and implement a NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program. The new fellowship program is funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.
"Measurement science and engineering research is critical to fostering innovation," NIST Deputy Director Patrick Gallagher said. "This fellowship program will create jobs and promote long-term investments in the nation's science infrastructure, which is important for future economic prosperity."
NIST expects to award up to $20 million to support up to five grants to U.S. higher education institutions, nonprofit and commercial organizations, or state, local or Indian tribal governments to partner with NIST in managing the fellowships. The awards will last for up to three years.
The program is designed to provide financial assistance to increase the number of research and collaboration opportunities at NIST in the measurement science and engineering fields, which contribute to the agency’s mission to advance innovation.
Grant awardees will offer paid fellowships on a competitive basis to:
Increased training opportunities at NIST provided by these fellowships will foster the infrastructure and expertise in measurement science needed to develop and commercialize new technologies. The air conditioning and refrigeration industry, for example, has saved millions of dollars over the past 20 years due to NIST’s work on the measurement of the thermophysical properties of alternative refrigerants (i.e., alternatives to ozone-depleting compounds).
In the future, new measurement techniques in the energy field, for example, may advance understanding of solar cell materials to convert sunlight into electricity more efficiently.
The deadline for applications is 3 p.m., Eastern time, July 27, 2009. Applications may be submitted on paper to:
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Applications may also be submitted via the Internet at Grants.gov (www.grants.gov). Search for Funding Opportunity Number 2009-NIST-ARRA-MSE-FELLOWSHIP-01 or CFDA Number 11.609.
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How to select a bike saddle
Perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions is how to choose a new bike seat.
Well there is actually a really important step that comes before you consider which is a good or bad seat.
When it comes to selecting a saddle riders should be looking at learning how to sit on a bike in a good well aligned position where the spine is anchored and decompressed so it functions well. Achieving this changes the dynamics of your pelvic orientation, the pressure distribution and how you are able to both support your spine intrnisically (alignment and muscular control) and extrinsically (through equipment selection and adjustment).
When most riders sit on a bike on an indoor trainer the first thing they do is move their hands forwards towards the bars - I refer this to the desktop riding where they put one hand on the mouse and the other on the coffee cup while sitting at the desk. Its a position where the pelvis is rolled backwards and there is an anterior compression of the spine.
We know that's not a good postural position and if you were to take that type of spinal and pelvic alignment and apply it to any movement or sport you would quickly see it offers poor stability and function.
How should you sit on a bike?
To help imrpove the outcome when selecting a new saddle or even performing a bike fitting we started to implement a process of improving the startiing position of the rider.
1. Stack and align your spine
Spinal alignment and stacking is important as it allows your core (torso) to distribute pressure and also to move with effective support and range reducing muscular fatigue and pain in the joints. A poorly aligned spine places more stress and strain on the muscles, ligaments, discs, bones and nerves.
2. Hinge at the hip
The movement should come from the hips first when you set out to make contact with the handle bars. Hinging from the hip will maintain alignment of the spine and also potentially give you a longer and lower reach range.
3. Reach through the shoulders
The final reach to the bars is achieved by moving your arms up through the shoulders. By moving the arms up through the shoulders you can maintain the better alignment of the shoulders and hips to distribute force and pressure, reduce nerve tension and improve function of the arms, trunk and neck.
We go through the Stack - Hinge- Reach process off the bike to tech riders how to improve their fit and position simply by better posture.
Following this we then teach them how to Stack - Hing - Reach on their bike in an indoor trainer and look to set ranges for seat height and bar position.
FInally we try a new saddle and get feedback on whether the saddle shape and dimensions have an effective match with the pevlic shape and orientation of the rider in a S-H-R alignment.
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ICICI Direct (part of ICICI Securities) is the largest retail broker in India, with over 170 branches in the country, not to mention offices in London and New York. If you’ve been thinking about opening a commodity account but don’t know how to do that, you’ve landed in the right place. This article will throw some light on what commodity trading is and how you can benefit from it on ICICI Direct.
What is сommodity trading online?
Before getting deep into trading, let’s be clear about what applies to commodities in this context. ICICI Direct offers four categories, i.e., energy (gas, oil), metals (iron, copper, steel, brass), precious metals (silver, palladium, platinum), and agricultural stuff (soybean oil, sugar, soybean, cotton, maize).
Note! Other platforms may offer alternative categories. For instance, on Maitra Commodities, you can trade in commodities such as meat and livestock (complete list at www.maitracommodities.com/commodity).
Commodity trading online is about exchanging different assets, which are contracts based on the price of a physical commodity. These contracts include futures, options, and similar financial derivatives.
A futures contract in commodity is a binding agreement between two parties to trade a specified quantity of a commodity at a specified price on a specified date in the future, referred to as the “settlement day”. An Options contract makes it possible to trade a certain amount of commodities without any obligations to the buyer of this contract.
If during the contract life, the price moves in your favor (rises in case you have a buy position or falls in case you have a sell position), you get additional income.
Commodity trading has many advantages:
- Commodity derivatives such as gold are a proven means of portfolio diversification and inflation hedge.
- The commodity market is internationally linked, which expands your investment opportunities.
- Trading hours are longer (from 9.00 AM to 11:30 PM or 11.55 PM).
- Margin requirements are minimum (margin is the amount that must be in the account for you to trade on the market).
- Commodities are simple to understand.
However, even though the process is quite simple, you should come prepared for it. Before you involve your funds in trading, choose a reliable broker that is registered with The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and is a member of recognized commodity exchange in India (like ICICI Securities).
Is it possible to trade commodities in ICICI Direct?
With ICICI Direct, you can trade in Commodity Derivatives at Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). It is India’s largest exchange that was founded in 2003 by the government and owned by the Ministry of Finance. According to data from the Futures Industry Association (FIA), MCX is one of the world’s leading commodity exchanges in terms of the number of futures contracts traded.
ICICI Direct is suitable for experienced investors and those who have never been involved in trading. The commodity broker provides free market news to help you understand the features of each category of commodities. There are also research advisory services; you will find many videos, podcasts, and regular reports on the platform. Articles such as “Five commodities to trade in 2022” can help develop a well-thought-out financial plan.
How to open a commodity account in ICICI Direct
You can start trading commodities by creating a trading account and linking it to an ICICI bank account that is more than six months old. The second way to start trading in commodity derivatives is to open a new 2-in-1 or 3-in-1 account. The process is quite simple:
- Go to www.icicidirect.com and click on “Open Account” in the top-right corner.
- Enter the current mobile number and confirm it with the OTP received in SMS.
- Complete the KYC process by verifying your identity. You need to provide several documents such as ID, proof of address, income, and bank account.
- Carefully read and understand the Risk Disclosure Document (RDD).
- Check the allotment of Unique Client Code (UCC) by the Commodity Exchange.
- Make a deposit in the amount of the required Margin in the product segment.
- Place order in Commodity Options or Futures.
Note! Opening a Demat account may be free, however, there are annual maintenance charges (AMC) that range between ₹300 and ₹900 and have to be paid in advance.
There is a number of benefits you’ll get while commodity trading with ICICI Direct. The modern online platform provides a fast account opening and transfer of funds, as well as access to various commodities of four types.
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- Rani's World Foods (Houston,TX)
Rani's World Foods (Houston,TX)
Welcome to Rani's World Foods Houston, TX
My name is Suneel Chander, I am one of the co-founders of Rani's World Foods, an international grocery store with two locations (Houston, TX & Las Vegas, NV). We love food from all corners of the world, specializing in South Asian. we put all of our passion and experience in our stores.
Rani's Pure Veg kitchen now open in all locations!
We believe that variety is the spice of life. We have a huge variety, and there are lots of spices, 100s of them. Ran's is a new kind of store, beautifully designed, clean and stock full. Over 13,000 sq ft with 10,000 items from all around the world, specializing in Indian Groceries. Low prices, great service... come by and check us out.
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|Volume 2, Number 7||7 April 2000|
Welcome to the 15th edition of the Imaging Resource Newsletter featuring reviews of Fuji's SuperCCD digicam and Pixid's Whiteboard Photo -- and paper recommendations from our board of experts (uh, you).
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By DAVE ETCHELLS(Excerpted from the full review posted at http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/F4700/F47A.HTM on the Web site.)
Fuji has been producing digicams for several years now for both themselves and other companies (Toshiba and Leica).
Recently, Fuji announced their "SuperCCD" technology, which promised higher light sensitivity and greater interpolated image resolutions than were feasible with conventional CCDs. The FinePix 4700 is the first of their SuperCCD cameras, using a 2.4 megapixel sensor to create image files 2400x1800 pixels in size.
Fuji drew some harsh criticism when the camera was first announced because they labeled it a "4.3 megapixel" camera, referring to the final image size, rather than to the underlying sensor pixel count. Fuji's contention was that the SuperCCD technology facilitated a higher level of interpolation than did conventional CCDs, justifying the higher pixel count. In the production release of their camera (at least here in the U.S.), Fuji has dropped the "4.3 megapixel" labeling, referring only to the pixel dimensions of the final file.
This is the first public review of a production-level 4700, so we've tried to be particularly careful in our testing to ensure accuracy in setup of the shots and handling of the files. (We had our hands on a prototype unit a few weeks ago, but wanted to wait for a production model before presenting any test shots, given the scrutiny they'll doubtless receive.)
Was the 4.3 megapixel resolution claim justified?
Well not entirely, in our humble opinion, but we tend to agree that there's some justification for a claim beyond the 2.4 megapixels of the sensor itself. We feel that there is some benefit to the unique design of the SuperCCD sensor, albeit not as great as Fuji initially claimed.
This highlights an important issue in the consumer digicam market: We badly need a universally agreed-upon standard way to specify and refer to image resolution. The ISO-12233 resolution target that we use in our own tests was designed to address that, but in its simplest usage, the numbers derived from it are still subject to interpretation, while in its most rigorous application, the results it produces are too complex and confusing to be of any use to the average consumer.
Following the compact design aesthetic of their previous "pocket camera" models, Fuji's new 4700z fits easily in a typical shirt pocket. Its ultra-modern, silver body design is attractive and functional. One design element that keeps the camera's facade smooth is the retractable lens. Protected by a mechanical cover that slides out of place when the lens extends outward (which it does when the camera is turned on), the fully retracting lens keeps the camera face free of any protrusions when it's stowed. Also adding to the camera's sleek appearance is the pop-up flash design, which neatly hides the flash when it's not needed. We liked the design of the four way arrow buttons on the back panel, which encircle a small, black and white LCD display that reports the current functions of the surrounding buttons, and the status of the settings they control. What's great about this display is that many of the camera's settings can be controlled here, meaning you don't have to rely too much on the LCD based menu (which is only available in Manual exposure and Playback modes), saving a significant amount of battery power in normal use.
Another interesting feature of the 4700z is that it allows you to program a startup image that appears on the LCD monitor every time the camera is turned on. This is a nice touch for businesses who want to put their logo in the startup or anyone who just has a favorite image they want to program in.
The 4700z features both a real-image optical viewfinder, with autofocus target and cropping marks, and a two-inch, low-temperature, polysilicon TFT color LCD monitor for image composition. An information readout can be displayed or removed from the LCD monitor and reports a variety of information about the camera's settings, depending on the exposure mode you're in. When shooting in Manual mode, the settings menu remains at the bottom of the screen, while the battery status and image count is displayed at the top. When the shutter button is half-way pressed, the aperture and shutter speed settings are revealed at the bottom of the screen. An interesting feature of the LCD in Playback mode is that it allows you to create a 25-image index display from captured movies (not stills) so that you can grasp the content of the movie without playing it back. You can also zoom into captured images up to 15x (!) and scroll around to check details. You can do this during the preview display as well, which gives you a chance to examine images captured in Manual exposure mode before recording them to the SmartMedia card.
The Fujinon 3x, 8.3-24.9mm lens (equivalent to a 36-108mm lens on a 35mm camera) offers aperture settings of f2.8 or f7.0 in normal, wide-angle mode ranging to f4.5 of f10.8 in telephoto. With a normal focal distance from 31.5 inches (80cm) to infinity and 7.9 inches (20cm) to 31.5 inches (80cm) in macro, the 4700z offers both automatic and manual focus options in Night Scene, Manual and Continuous Shooting exposure modes. A 1.88x/3.75x digital telephoto extends the camera's telephoto range to effective focal lengths of 203 or 405mm, but only for the smaller image sizes.
Exposure control on the 4700z is very simple, as the camera controls most of the settings. A variety of exposure modes set the camera up for different shooting scenarios: Night Scene, Landscape, Portrait, Auto, Manual, Continuous Shooting and Movie. The majority of exposure modes puts the camera in charge of all the exposure choices (including white balance and exposure compensation). This is convenient for some people, who don't want to worry too much about the details. Manual exposure mode gives you control over everything except for the aperture and shutter speed. You have several white balance options (including three different types of fluorescent lighting), sharpness controls, metering modes, optional manual focus control, exposure compensation, flash intensity, flash mode (Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Forced, Suppressed and Slow-Synchro), ISO (200, 400 or 800) and more. We found the user interface a little tricky to decipher at first, as the Shift key provides shortcuts to several Setup menu options such as changing file size and quality. However, a quick read of the manual answered all of our questions. Once we were accustomed to it, we really liked the combination of LCD readout and jog control, making a number of camera settings very accessible without resorting to the LCD menu system.
The Continuous Shooting mode allows you to take up to three consecutive shots at approximately 0.2 second intervals (!), depending on the amount of SmartMedia space and image information to process. Because the flash is unavailable in this mode, the only feature you can control is manual focus. Movie mode allows you to capture up to 90 seconds of moving images with sound at approximately 10 frames per second. All movies are recorded at the 320 x 240 image size. As we mentioned earlier, you can create a 25-image index of each movie for quick review and there's even an option to play movies backwards, if you so desire.
One of the more controversial aspects of the FinePix 4700 is the way it creates 4.3 megapixel files from it's 2.4 megapixel SuperCCD sensor. We're reluctant to step into the ring to argue the pros or cons of image interpolation, but can say the 4700's resolution as measured by our studio tests is clearly better than typical 2 megapixel cameras, but equally clearly doesn't rise to the level of the best 3.3 megapixel units currently on the market.
Images are stored on a SmartMedia card (a 16MB card comes with the camera) with three quality settings and three image sizes available. A USB cable is included with the camera for quick image transfer to a PC or Mac and a software CD provides basic image viewing and editing capabilities with Exif Viewer and QuickTime 4. The camera ships with a complement of software for both Mac and Windows platforms, letting you download, view, and manipulate images on both platforms. An included NTSC video cable (US and Japanese models, PAL in Europe) means you can connect the camera to a television set for image playback or composition, using the television screen as a large LCD monitor.
The 4700z uses two AA NiMH or NiCd batteries for power, or an optional AC adapter. Most likely because it uses only two batteries, we found battery life to be rather short, even though you can opt to shoot without the LCD monitor: We strongly recommend keeping a couple sets of freshly charged batteries handy. We also recommend purchasing the AC adapter for tasks like downloading or reviewing images. Kudos to Fuji though, for including a set of high-capacity (1600 mAh) NiMH rechargeable batteries with the camera, and a compact charger for recharging them.
Overall, this is a great camera for a consumer looking for hassle-free shooting, portability, and large file sizes for high-quality prints. Because the camera always has control over aperture and shutter speed, the most you have to worry about is an exposure-compensation adjustment, and whether or not you need flash. The camera's extremely compact design makes it a good candidate for consumers on the go who don't want to fuss with a camera bag. The high resolution means you'll be able to make true photo-quality 8x10 prints from your images. The 4700z is a fun camera that definitely won't be left behind.
SHUTTER LAG / CYCLE TIMES
The 4700's shutter lag was just slightly longer than average, at 0.9 seconds for full autofocus (average is probably about 0.8 seconds), dropping to a slightly better-than-average 0.19 seconds for shots in which the lens is prefocused by half-pressing the shutter button prior to the exposure itself. In manual focus mode, the shutter delay is about 0.42 seconds.
Cycle times at maximum resolution and quality are quite fast, about 1.5 seconds between the first and second shots, increasing to about 2.5 seconds for subsequent ones. Cycle times at minimum resolution and quality hover around 2 seconds, regardless of how many shots have been taken. (The internal buffer memory apparently comes into play for the first one or two high-resolution images.) Overall, this is a very fast shot-to-shot performance for a camera of this resolution. In Continuous mode, successive shots are captured every 0.24 to 0.25 seconds (Fuji's official spec is "about 0.2 seconds"). We measured the frame rate in movie mode at exactly 10 frames per second.
The Fuji FinePix 4700 is clearly one of the more controversial digicams in recent memory, which is why we elected to wait until a final production model was available before publishing our review.
In contrast to at least one recent review, we feel that it does just fine as a 2.4 megapixel camera, as long as you're not fooled into thinking that softness on-screen means low resolution. There's clearly a full ~2.5 megapixel's worth of resolution in its images, just spread out over 4.3 megapixels worth of file "real estate." (We base this conclusion on extensive comparisons between files from the 4700 and a large number of other cameras in the 2.1-3.3 megapixel range.)
In the plus column for the camera, we'd count good color and resolution (again, subject to the 2.5 megapixel note above), the excellent compact Fuji camera design, nice user interface (we really liked the "soft key" jog control buttons), higher than usual ISO speed, and nicely-implemented movie functionality.
On the downside, we'd just as soon have seen fewer pixels in the final images, and battery life is a bit short, at about 80 minutes of continuous playback. The included high-capacity NiMH cells are a definite plus, and we recommend buying another four or so high-capacity AAs to pack along with you on outings. We see this as a good camera producing high resolution, good color, and good light sensitivity for the "road warrior" (or soccer mom) who wants a compact camera that won't get left in the drawer, more so than for the technophile enthusiast interested in extensive exposure control.
Would we buy one? Well, we never answer that question, but will admit to owning a Fuji MX-1700 that's our "bring along" digicam, and the 4700 does have more resolution and better low-light performance than that model....
By STEPHANIE BOOZER with DAVE ETCHELLS
(Excerpted from the illustrated review posted at http://www.imaging-resource.com/SOFT/WBS/WBSA.HTM on the Web site.)
I served long years of career purgatory (well OK, maybe it wasn't that bad) in the aerospace industry, and a few years more in large-corporation software development. During that time, I developed a real love/hate relationship with the ubiquitous "whiteboards" -- those slick white surfaces filled with colorful marker scribblings. The love part was that they were a great way to sketch out ideas, brainstorm, diagram, etc. The hate part was because there wasn't any way to do anything with the information after the meeting! Someone would have to be delegated to try to copy the scribbles onto a piece of paper, copy and distribute them to everybody. That was hassle enough, but how about those times when you sit down in the conference room, only to discover that the previous group has left every inch of whiteboard surface covered with irrelevant scribbles, & dire "Do NOT Erase!!!" messages all over them!
The product that's the subject of this review is one of those neat little "Aha!" products that does its job so cleanly and effortlessly, it's worth its weight in gold! (Actually, probably quite a bit more.) Check it out, this is one of the slickest little applications for a digital camera I've seen in quite a while.
NB: This isn't just for Corporate America! How about students and teachers? Imagine instead of frantically scribbling notes while the prof writes on the board, just snapping the shutter every few minutes? Whooee! I would have killed for a trick like that in college and grad school! Great for teachers too, wanting to make easy handouts of class material. Hey, how about the ubiquitous college note-taking services? The more I thought about the application, the more universal it seemed to be! Check out Stephanie's review below: It really is as easy to use as it sounds!
A NEW IDEA
Ever missed an important business meeting or conference? Or, suppose you made the meeting but were unable to quickly copy down the notes from the flip chart or whiteboard.
Whatever the scenario, we've all been there at some point. And the folks at Pixid must have too, because they've come up with a new software package that will be praised in conference rooms around the globe.
Whiteboard Photo is the answer to many a conference dilemma because it converts digital images of whiteboards, flip charts and chalkboards (even amazingly bad ones) into polished printed reports. All you need is the software, a digital camera and a printer. In a nutshell, you simply snap a digital picture of the whiteboard, import it into the Whiteboard Photo software for a little highly-automated cleanup and then output it to your printer or email. Simple as that! You don't even have to be a good photographer.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4.0 or higher
- CD-ROM drive for installation
- 486 based PC (Pentium recommended)
- SVGA video card with 256 colors (or better)
- 20 MB hard disk space
- 32 MB RAM or higher
- Digital camera or alternate source of digital images (640 x 480 or greater)
Whiteboard Photo is simple to install. Just insert the CD and double click the setup icon (if the Wizard doesn't go ahead and take control).
We enjoyed the extensive help system, which serves as a complete guide to the software and also offers helpful tips on getting the most out of your digital camera in the conference room, complete with diagrams and setup guidelines. Clearly, it's one of the most comprehensive help systems we've seen, particularly thoughtful in addressing what to do before the image gets to your computer!
Launching the application brings up the main screen, which features a page preview window and several option buttons as well as five basic menus. The top menu bar features the File, Edit, View, Tools and Help menus and a tool bar beneath features quick access buttons for a variety of features such as save, open file, etc.
You can quickly open a photo by clicking on the folder button or the digital camera button to pull an image directly from any TWAIN device. You can also go through the File menu.
After opening a photo, the program automatically selects the whiteboard area with a dashed line. (It "knows" what a whiteboard on a wall looks like, and is surprisingly adept at finding it and picking out the boundaries.) Because the selection isn't always perfect, the selection lines are adjustable by clicking and dragging the white boxes into the appropriate shape.
Whiteboard Photo even lets you compensate for lens distortion (barrel or pincushion distortion), just by dragging the control "handles" in the middle of each side of the selection area to match the curvature of the board's image. You can adjust for almost any distortion your camera or an awkward shooting situation is likely to produce!
Once you've adjusted the selection, all you do is click on the Clean Photo icon on the toolbar (you can also go through the Tools menu).
Voila! You have a cleaned up, legible version of the board. You can also use the selection process to select only certain areas of the board.
Whiteboard Photo did an amazing job but the colors ended up a little washed out.
A REAL WORLD EXAMPLE
We tested a white board Dave drew up, which was probably fairly typical of a real-world whiteboard digicam shot. The lighting was all wrong for the camera's meager white balance to handle, so there was a significant overall color cast. There was also some glare in the frame, from other objects in the room.
But Whiteboard Photo handled our more "typical" shot with ease! Imagine how easily you could take notes in the next meeting. Or how easy it'd be to keep up with that manic Prof teaching 2nd-semester Thermo!
Dave's Note: No lie, there was a professor at the college I attended who could write on the blackboards with both hands simultaneously! Students would pair up to tag-team the note-taking, alternating blackboards full of material between them. Whiteboard Photo would have made mincemeat of that course!
Speaking of blackboards, Whiteboard Photo isn't just for whiteboards! There are separate settings for blackboards or greenboards too! Just open the Options menu to select the appropriate background color. Note that the Options menu also lets you set how you want Whiteboard Photo to size the files it creates, and what quality you want it to use when saving as a JPEG.
BTW, the Edit menu that gives you tools to rotate the image to the right or left, also sharpen, darken, lighten or convert the image into line art.
Still not enough? How about using Whiteboard photo to clean-up hand-drawn illustrations made on pieces of paper. In that respect, it lets your digital camera work like a scanner, only even better, automatically adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation for a perfect result every time!
Printing cleaned-up photos is just as simple as the clean-up process. Just press the Print button on the toolbar. To make a few alterations before printing, accessing the Page Setup screen (through the File menu, shown below) allows you to assign a title, select the paper size, select the orientation (portrait or landscape) and change the margins of the image. Additionally, if you're incorporating the image into a presentation, you can invert the background through the Edit menu.
What if you want to incorporate your Whiteboard images into a presentation, where they'll be projected in a dark room? White-on-black illustrations work much better in that context, the light-colored lines showing up much better in a darkened presentation room.
Well, guess what? Whiteboard Photo also lets you invert the color of the background, leaving the colors of the lines intact.
Dave's Note: Pretty tricky piece of image-processing that!
Here's how it works. Just go to the Edit menu, and select the Invert Background option.
Finally, because you might have several images from the same meeting, Whiteboard Photo offers a batch conversion option that lets you load, clean, save and print many photos at once, saving huge amounts of time. The Batch Conversion Wizard lets you specify where to get the images and where to save them, and does all the work from there on.
Interesting that most first reactions to hearing of Whiteboard Photo were a bit of a yawn. "That's great for a few corporate types, but how many people would really use it?"
But after playing with it a bit, we think the answer is a LOT! We can see this being used not only in the corporate presentation room, but by almost anyone.
Any kind of educational setting is a natural for it, whichever side of the podium you're standing or sitting on. Teachers in any grade can use this to make accurate handouts easily. As noted, students should love it as a great shortcut for note-taking.
(Tip to parents: For graduation, think about buying your about-to-be college student a nice digicam with a good zoom lens and reasonable low-light capability, and a copy of Whiteboard Photo. We'd bet the improved note-taking accuracy will translate into a full letter-grade boost!)
HOT TO GET IT
Whiteboard Photo is available directly from the Pixid Web site at http://www.pixid.com -- and Pixid is offering Imaging Resource readers a deal of $20 off the usual $99.95 list price, for a net of only $79.95. (Small enough to fit on even the stingiest of petty-cash vouchers, and easy to cost-justify in just one meeting!) They also offer a full 30 day money back guarantee (but from what we hear, haven't had to pay out on many of those!)
The software supports any TWAIN interface and many file formats including JPEG, bitmap, TIFF, Targa, Windows Metafile and Photoshop, among others. We were impressed with the software's ability to convert really wretched photos into legible and printable files that can be incorporated into a presentation program or emailed (although we obviously got the best results from well-shot images). Additionally, the quick installation process and the very short learning time make Whiteboard Photo a really viable option for many businesses. You don't need great photography skills and you don't have to spend a lot of time learning a new application. Bravo, Pixid, for an excellent solution to a common business problem!
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You may have seen (in one cartoon or another) that beret-crowned smock-robed painter, his palette perched behind him to balance his out-thrust arm, thumb up, one eye clamped shut, as he measures his subject.
Ever wonder what, exactly, he was doing?
The thumbs up part is not a tip to his critics. Just a convenient way to measure the relative size of near and far objects. And the wardrobe screams Fashion Emergency.
But you can take a lesson from that one-eyed way of looking at things.
Whether you are sketching a scene on canvas or composing an image in your viewfinder, you are reducing a three-dimensional world to just two dimensions. Which accounts for another source of beginner disappointment. Those great shots you happen upon that somehow never look so good through the camera.
How come you can see them but your camera can't?
The problem, often, is that you're seeing the world with two eyes while your camera sees it with just one. Two eyes gives you an unfair advantage: depth perception. And when you compose an image with a foreground and background subject (say a distant building framed by a nearby tree), depth perception gives it a dramatic perspective your camera just can't see.
Sometimes moving a little to the right or left will help you find in two dimensions some approximation of what struck you about three. But there's no real cure.
Instead, get in the habit of looking, now and then, camera or not, with just one eye. See a nice panorama? Ask yourself how it would look to your camera by closing an eye. Train yourself, in short, to compose images without depth perception.
Just don't overdue it. People might think you're winking at them. ;)
In the digital darkroom, you open an image file that's a certain number of pixels wide and a certain number high on a monitor that displays a certain number of pixels an inch (depending on its resolution) to print on a printer that prints a certain number of pixels an inch in screens composed of dots that are a certain number of lines an inch.
So how do you figure out what size your pictures are?
The size of your image depends, ultimately, on the resolution of the output device you choose to display it.
Let's take a simple example: your monitor.
The unaltered image file displays at different sizes on your monitor depending on the monitor's resolution. A 17-inch multisynch monitor set to display 640x480 pixels will display your 640x480 image full screen. Roughly 9x12.
But set it to 1024x768, say, and those 640 pixels in the image width, for example, only crawl a little more than halfway across the 1024 pixels on the screen.
Different resolution, different size.
By varying the resolution (not the pixels, but pixels per inch) of any image, you vary its size. Let's make this a little more fun and print a hypothetical 640x480 image to demonstrate.
That 640x480 image printed on a 200 dot-per-inch dye sub printer is about 3x2 inches. Printed on a 600 dpi laser printer using an 80 line per inch screen at a resolution of 120 pixels per inch (let's just say, unless you want to enroll in our halftone seminar, too) it becomes a 5x4, roughly. And if you print it on your 600 dpi inkjet at 72 pixels per inch, it's almost 9x7. Posters meant to be seen from a distance of a few feet can be printed at even lower image resolutions.
Notice, again, that even though the size of the print changes, we have not changed the actual number of pixels in the image.
What changed was the resolution -- the number of pixels per inch. From 200 to 120 to 72. And the change was dictated, in each case, by the printer we were using. The dye sub wanted 200, the laser was using an 80 lpi screen, and the inkjet was happy with just 72 (probably because it was using a proprietary screening algorithm, not to mention four inks).
In real life, you probably are quite attached to one printer and would like to make prints of different sizes. Why not just resample to the size you want?
Resampling is never simple. Downsampling deletes information. And upsampling, while technically possible, invents it. If you use your image editor's unsharp masking filter, you can restore a downsampled image's apparent sharpness, but upsampling is usually much less successful.
For those times when your image file just doesn't have quite enough pixels, try reducing the resolution before resampling.
There are Photoshop plug-ins that claim to let you upsample your image with little loss of quality. MrSID and Genuine Fractals, for example. A review of the latter has been posted on the Web site. But they seem to do best with files that are already high resolution to start with.
Great minds think alike, or as the Germans say, "Zwei Idioten, ein Gedanke," (two idiots, one thought). As we've been wondering about it, you've been writing in to ask, "How you can travel with a digital camera?" Sans laptop, as the French might insist.
The problem is that, unlike a conventional film camera, once you fill up your storage media (floppy, SmartMedia, CompactFlash or other), it isn't easy to replace it. Can't just pop into the farmacia and whisper, "Quiero Kodak film," as you might in Baja.
It isn't just a question of capacity. On the road stuff happens, bro, as they say in Hawaii. You want redundancy, too. Copies.
Sure, you could invest in a 5-pack of your favorite storage media, but then how would you pay for your tickets?
And without that laptop to store your images (so you can erase your floppy, SmartMedia or CompactFlash and get back to work), how are you going to take more than one day's worth of pictures?
If you've solved the problem, let us know.
Meanwhile, we'll keep pestering Visor to develop an attachment to read camera media with software to transmit the contents to our photo album on the Web site our of choice. Like Ofoto.com, for example.
Until then, unfortunately, there's no place like home, as they say in Kansas.
Trial downloads of the (excellent) PhotoGenetics imaging program are still available. If you decide to purchase PhotoGenetics, be sure to come back through this URL (http://www.q-res.com/php3/downloads.php3?refid=imgresource) to receive the special $5-off deal for Imaging Resource readers!
Scansoft, creators of TextBridge Pro OCR, recently acquired the Kai line and decided to combine PhotoSoap2, SuperGoo, and PowerShow into a new product called PhotoFactory. They're offering the three-in-one package for $29.95 -- a savings of almost $50 -- at http://www.digitalriver.com/aladdin/scansoft/22617/ for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
Whiteboard Photo, available directly from the Pixid Web site at http://www.pixid.com, is available for Imaging Resource readers at $20 off the usual $99.95 list price, for a net of only $79.95.
Besides Dave's mention last time of AGA Chemicals' Pictorico paper and Celcast, readers came up with a number of paper recommendations. You, too, can reach us with our thoughts at firstname.lastname@example.org.
I have been very pleased with an economical coated inkjet paper you might want to look into. It is Riverside Array, a bright 24 lb. paper, coated on both sides, smooth matte surface. It does a nice job on photos with my Epson Stylus Color 600. I have bought some at Costco and Office Max. At the former, when they had it in stock, it was 300 sheets for $6. Office Max was $1 more.
The latest newsletter was truly worth the wait! I now know more about JPEG compression than before. Thanks for a great article.
As far as inkjet papers go, I've only used three papers to date. Hammermill, Epson and Kodak. The Hammermill paper seems to be the whitest. I use it for printing greeting cards.
I have gotten great results for my digitized photos with Kodak inkjet paper. Since I'm using an Epson Photo 700 printer, I use a lot of their paper also. So far no problems.
-- Charlie Young
On the matter of inkjet paper, I have been using Great White, a 37 pound paper coated on BOTH SIDES. I don't have to guess which side is UP and I can put images on both sides, when I put together a catalog.
I am a sculptor and the finished image is not the product in itself, is not an art product per se, but only a means to a communication end, so my requirements are lower than that of a photographer, but some of your readers might, like me, find the 10 cents per sheet (at a local discount) useful for many purposes. And, while coated, it is still matte, which I prefer for my purposes .
-- D. Shapiro
I love Great White's "Imaging and Photo Paper." Matte finish, coated on both sides, 92 brightness, 37-pound weight ($10 for 100 sheets at Wal-Mart or Office Max). Perfect for my Epson 1200. Want glossy? I laminate using Ibico 3-mil laminating pouches ($20 for 50 at Office Max) in a Royal Sovereign RPA-5954 heat laminator ($80 at Sam's). This stuff makes me look as if I know what I am doing!!
Thanks for the great work!
-- Gene Widenhofer
I have been using Pictorico glossy film with my Epson photo 700 for about 6 months now and have been absolutely thrilled with the results. If you test it make sure you use the glossy film setting on your printer (I believe that applies to all Pictorico papers not just the glossy film), and use the highest quality settings on the printer (1440 and microweave on the Epson).
I would also like to suggest that you do an article on the new digital minilabs that are springing up all over the place. We recently got in our Fuji Frontier 370, and are able to print directly from the media card onto regular RA4 photographic paper. I would be interested in your opinion of the results.
-- Butch Black
(Sounds like more work ... for Dave. I'm all for it! -- Editor)
RE: Paper -- The Final Word
I follow your newsletter, and in the sections where you feature items like "looking good on paper" you might want to throw in this reference to Ric Ford's MacInTouch site (http://search.macintouch.com/printpermanence.html) which details the difficulties people have with the permanence of the prints from their printers.
There is an issue here, which is no one should expect to think these prints will substitute for a photographic print. They will fade (and quite quickly too). So do your readers a service by mentioning this fact. It could keep folks from making errors in their choices when the time comes to output.
-- Jody Joy
(A good suggestion. Particularly if you intend to market your prints, as opposed to your images. But this also highlights another advantage of digital photography over film: it's much easier to print out another digital image than to get a decent reprint made from a negative. Archive your image files prudently and you'll have the last word on permanence. -- Editor)
RE: Flip Album
I have a new program called Flip Album CD creator. It allows you to put photos on a CD and then display them in an album.
You can get it from www.ebooksystems.com. Go to http://download.cnet.com/ You will come to flipalbum 3.0. Click on download then click on developers site. It should bring you to the page with info on the new CD maker.
Hope you can find it OK. A great program.
-- Mary in N.C.
(Gene Widenhofer also mentioned Flip Album CD Maker by Ebook Systems at http://www.flipalbum.com/, noting it's a $40 shareware application for Windows 95 and up. It actually animates pages flipping in an album. Hence the name. -- Editor)
The National Gallery of Art at http://www.nga.gov/feature/stieglitz/asmain.htm has a special exhibit of the work of Alfred Steiglitz. You'll also see Georgia O'Keeffe there.
The $100 Nikon 950 rebate we mentioned last issue is now available. To qualify, buyers mail in the application with proof of purchase. The rebate program started April 1 and extends through June 30.
Toshiba has introduced a CMOS image sensor with an analog-to-digital converter that achieves the industry's lowest power consumption in this class of device. Available in either color or black and white, the sensor's small size and high performance is expected to show up in cellular phones and other portable devices with built-in cameras.
Nikon and Altamira Group Inc. have reached an agreement to bundle Altamira Genuine Fractals limited-edition software with Nikon's Coolpix 990 digital camera. The Altamira software can save images as "resolution-free files that can be enlarged well beyond their original size with unmatched fidelity to the original," the company said.
A U.S. Federal District Court has ruled that Lexar Media, Inc. of Fremont, Calif., has infringed a fundamental solid state flash memory card patent held by SanDisk. The ruling was announced by U.S. Federal District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The patent, Flash EEPROM System (U.S. patent no. 5,602,987), was issued Feb. 11, 1997. The judge also denied motions by Lexar claiming SanDisk's '987 patent is invalid and requesting a partial summary judgment of non-infringement.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Berkshire Bruins Bantams earned a 4-3 overtime win in the title game of the Gib Kittredge Tournament on Sunday night at the Boys & Girls Club.
Stop us because you won’t be able to stop the killer B’s.
Joshua Hunter put back the rebound of his own shot in the first minute of the second OT to give the hosts their second divisional crown of the night at the 47th annual event with a comeback win over Bethlehem, N.Y.
A year ago, it was Hunter’s teammate Caleb Kollmer scoring to give the Bruins a 4-3 win over Avon, Conn.
On Sunday, Kollmer was on the ice for the 3-on-3 second OT period, stealing the puck in the neutral zone to start the winning play. Hunter ended up with the puck on the left wing and skated in on goalie Ari Haddad (22 saves).
“I just took it … I was thinking about passing it, and no one was there, so took it in and shot it,” Hunter said. “The rebound was there, and I saw a little opening, put it in there, and that was it.”
“It” was a wild celebration to cap a very successful night for the host Bruins.
Earlier in the evening, the Berkshire Squirt Majors earned a 4-2 win over Pawling, N.Y., behind goals from Eric Harrington and Cody Soper and 20 saves from Hunter Shepardson.
In the Bantams final, it looked like the B’s would have no trouble avenging a Saturday 4-2 loss to Bethlehem in pool play when Luke Peplowski scored in the game’s first minute with assists from Seamus Hayes and Ryder King.
It stayed 1-0 through the end of the first period thanks to 14 first-period saves by Nate Haley, who went on to stop 43 shots in his second straight Gib Kittredge championship between the pipes.
“Nate’s a spectacular goalie,” Berkshire Bantams coach Rob Abel said. “He keeps things simple. He’s pretty calm in net. Goalies need to have short memories and, almost, the more boring in net the better. He kept us in it when we had that little struggle in the middle of the game. But it was a team effort all the way on.
“All four lines played great, defensemen played great and, obviously, Nate’s always solid for us.”
Berkshire took a 2-0 lead early in the second period when Peplowski scored his second of the game off a rush down the left wing.
But Bethlehem closed the second period with three goals in a 2 minute, 45 second stretch. The first two goals scores on rebounds off of Haley. The third was a Peter Murphy tip of a Nathaniel Plummer blast from high on the right wing to give the New Yorkers a 3-2 lead after two periods.
“Coach helped us out a lot, telling us to stay focused,” Haley said. “But we just paid attention to the game and went with the flow. Everybody gave their best effort, and our energy won it.”
The Bruins tied it with a Hayes goal in transition with 8:52 left in the third period. Kollmer earned the assist to knot the game at three apiece, and Haley stood on his head down the stretch to keep it a tie game and force overtime.
The OT format called for the teams to play four minutes of 4-on-4 hockey followed by three minutes of 3-on-3.
Abel said the open ice was a blessing for his Bruins.
“It’s going to play into our game,” Abel said. “We have a couple of guys who can really skate. The second year players who have been with me for a while, their strength is their skating. I’d play any team, 3-on-3, 2-on-2, whatever it takes.”
The Bruins Squirt Majors fought through six man-down situations and never trailed in their tournament finale.
Soper scored on a breakaway with 4:45 left in the first period to give Berkshire a lead, and Harrington followed moments later to give the Bruins some breathing room.
Harrington’s goal came short-handed; nine seconds later, Pawling converted its first of six power play chances to make it a 2-1 game.
“It’s Squirt hockey, it happens,” Berkshire coach Dan Kearns said of the penalties. “That was a great youth hockey game. It was great to be a part of it. The crowd was electric. The Kittredge Tournament brought a great buzz to the weekend, and my kids responded like they have the last two years.
“[On special teams] the ice surface gets bigger, and I have a couple of studs out there who who can take advantage of the big ice surface. We like to be aggressive. We don’t like seeing a lot of penalties, but we know how to handle them. … With the team I have in front and our goalie, we can pretty much kill off any penalty.”
Shepardson was steady all night and stopped a penalty shot with Berkshire ahead, 1-0, in the first.
“He’s a rock,” Kearns said. “He’s the glue that holds our team together, and the team really responds to him. He’s very even-keeled, which is what you want to see in a goaltender. He’s got a bright future ahead of him.”
In the second, Harrington scored his second of the game on a rush up the right wing to make it 3-1.
Pawling got its second power play goal early in the third to draw within a goal, but Soper lit the lamp a second time to put the game out of reach with 3:43 on the clock.
“That felt really good,” Soper said. “Since we did that, I felt we were going to win all the way.”
Kearns said that win will pay dividends down the road for the young icers.
“As someone who grew up in the program, I know it always means something to win the Kittredge Tournament,” he said. “They got to do it in their second try, which is awesome. The pressure is off from now on.”
The Bruins Majors have won three tournaments in three outings this season and have a few more shots to hang some banners, starting with a trip to Lake Placid at the end of February.
“We’re looking forward to the finish, but this one’s going to be hard to beat,” Kearns said.
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Dayne Zorko's flu shot came with an added boost on Wednesday, the Brisbane captain admitting his return to club headquarters meant the start of the AFL was "just around the corner".
All Gold Coast and Brisbane AFL players have been ordered to receive the flu shot after the Queensland government's firm 'no jab, no play' stance for professional athletes.
The AFL has recommended players have the flu shot amid the COVID-19 pandemic but the vaccination is not compulsory, the league instead leaving the process to club doctors.
But any choice Suns and Lions players had was effectively taken out of their hands due to a decision from the state's government.
Queensland's chief health officer said players who choose not to get the shot will be banned from training or playing in the state.
Gold Coast chief executive Mark Evans said the club's players had shown no opposition to the vaccination while all Lions players filed through on Wednesday.
"We've been getting flu shots ever since I've been in the football club and there's never been an eyebrow raised," Zorko said.
"I was really pleased all the boys are switched on (by arriving for their shots in the correct timeslots) and that just goes to show the mindset they're in and that they want to get out there and going as quickly as possible.
"I get quite excited when I walk down the stairs, seeing Fages (coach Chris Fagan) ... you get the sense that it's just around the corner.
"You can probably tell by the smile on my face that I'm pretty excited for it to start again."
Two players, Bryce Cartwright and Brian Kelly, have been stood down by the Gold Coast's NRL team, the Titans, due to their refusal to be vaccinated.
Suns captain David Swallow last week said players should be allowed a choice in deciding whether or not to have the shot but Evans allayed fears of a similar stand-off on Wednesday.
"We've been working very hard with the AFL to make sure that we comply with all of the directions of each jurisdiction," Evans told reporters via video conference.
"Here in Queensland we've been following the chief health minister's advice and all of our players so far have had their flu shot.
"I think there might be a couple still to go - some players that were in Victoria that have returned here missed that initial time frame but that should be done by the end of (Wednesday)."
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The "On or before Mar. 19, 2003" column lists key statements made before military operations began in Iraq. The "On or after Mar. 20, 2003" column lists statements made after the military operations in Iraq had been initiated on Mar. 19, 2003 at 9:34 pm Eastern Standard Time. The statements are provided solely as a background resource to the question, "Should the US have attacked Iraq?"
On or before Mar. 19, 2003 [listed in reverse chronological order: most recent]
Mar. 16, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's interview on CBS' Face the Nation :
"We've -- the president's done everything he could, gone the extra mile, to try to get this matter resolved through the United Nations. And -- but he's made it abundantly clear that if the UN is not willing to enforce its own resolution, that we may then be left with no choice but for the United States and others who agree with us to proceed to -- to disarm Saddam Hussein. And we are prepared to do that. And, obviously, given where we are, both diplomatically, as well as in the -- in the region, we're getting close to the point where the president's going to have to make an important decision."
"It's hard to see anything other than his [Saddam Hussein] departure that would give the international community any confidence that he would, in fact, live up to those requirements and obligations that -- the difficulty -- we've seen it in the past, inspectors go in -- after the Gulf War, for example.
We stripped him [Saddam Hussein] of a lot of that capability, defectors told us where it was. We were able to get a lot of his chemical and biological, nuclear program, pulled down. But as soon as they were gone, he was back in business again.
And if he stays in power, has that flow of significant sums coming off oil production, some three million barrels a day, he will devote those resources to rebuilding his biological, chemical and nuclear program as soon as nobody's watching any longer. That's been his pattern for over 20 years and there's no reason to believe it will be any different in the future."
" We've got a lot of big issues, if you will, ahead of us in the years coming up, especially in the area of nuclear proliferation. If the Security Council can't deal effectively with the Iraqi problem, which involves a rogue nation developing weapons of mass destruction, then it's difficult to see how they're going to deal with other problems of a similar nature."
" We know al Qaeda's out there, for example, doing everything they can to try to organize strikes against us. Saddam tried in '91 to organize terrorist attacks and failed dismally. These, I'm sure, will try again."
"Well, I think we are rapidly approaching the point where, having done everything we can diplomatically and the president clearly has, I think, managed to convey to the American people that he's taken every possible step that was conceivable before he resorts to the ultimate use of force, that having done that, having worked as aggressively as we know how with the international community that time is not on our side. That if we allow additional time to lapse here, Saddam Hussein is likely to continue to try to develop nuclear weapons, for example, may in fact try to mount terrorist attacks of various kinds against us and we need to get on with the business of solving this problem and eliminating this threat."
"Containment or deterrence doesn't work against terrorists. They don't have anything they choose to defend. They're prepared to die in simply the pursuit of the death of as many Americans as they can. And we now face -- are faced with the prospect of a terrorist using perhaps a nuclear weapon against us. And we know as a result of 9/11 that we are vulnerable. They -- it is possible for them to get through our defenses and launch a devastating attack against of the U.S." Mar. 16, 2003 Richard Cheney
Mar. 16, 2003
Excerpt of Richard Cheney's remarks from an interview with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press :
[QUESTION:What could Saddam Hussein do to stop war?]
"Well, the difficulty here is it's- he's [Saddam Hussein] clearly rejected, up till now, all efforts, time after time. And we have had 12 years and some 17 resolutions now. Each step along the way he had the opportunity to do what he was called upon to do by the U.N. Security Council. Each time he has rejected it. I'm not sure now, no matter what he said, that anyone would believe him. We have, Tim, been down this effort now for six months at the U.N. with the enactment of 1441. We asked for a declaration of all of his WMD come clean (sic). He refused to do that. He's, again, continued to do everything he could to thwart the inspectors.
I'm hard-put to specify what it is he could do with credibility at this stage that would alter the outcome.
He's always had the option of coming clean, of complying wit the resolution, of giving up all of his weapons of mass destruction, of making his scientists available without fear of retribution, turning over the anthrax, and the VX nerve agent, and the sarin, and the other capabilities he had developed, and he has consistently refused. And if he were to sit here today and say, 'OK, now I'll do it,' I'm not sure anybody would think that had credibility."
"And, of course, the problem we have is what we have seen in the past is that even on those occasions after the '91 Gulf War when we did strip him of certain capabilities, when the inspectors were able to go in through the work of defectors, for example, and destroy significant capabilities that he had acquired, and that as soon as they were gone, he was right back in business again.
And I think that would be the fear here, that even if he were tomorrow to give everything up, if he stays in power, we have to assume that as soon as the world is looking the other way and preoccupied with other issues, he will be back again rebuilding his BW and CW capabilities, and once again reconstituting his nuclear program. He has pursued nuclear weapons for over 20 years. Done absolutely everything he could to try to acquire that capability and if he were to cough up whatever he has in that regard now, even if it was complete and total, we have to assume tomorrow he would be right back in business again."
" But we also have to address the question of where might these terrorists acquire weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons? And Saddam Hussein becomes a prime suspect in that regard because of his past track record and because we know he has, in fact, developed these kinds of capabilities, chemical and biological weapons. We know he's used chemical weapons. We know he's reconstituted these programs since the Gulf War. We know he's trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda organization.
Now, if we simply sit back and operate by 20th century standards with respect to national security strategy, in terms of how we're going to deal with this, we say wait until we are hit by an identifiable attack from Iraq, the consequences could be devastating for the United States. We have to be prepared to ent that from happening. I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. I think the American people would have supported it. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years."
"And that's what 1441 was all about, the U.N. Security Council resolution that was passed last fall. We negotiated that with the French and with the other members of the U.N. Security Council. We got a 15-to-nothing vote on it. It said that unless he [Saddam Hussein] came into compliance, serious consequences would follow. He clearly is not in compliance. He continues to be in material breach. We've now gone through the process that was envisioned in 1441 of extensive consultation with the other members of the U.N. Security Council, and we're approaching the point where further delays helps no one but Saddam Hussein.
The more time passes, the more time he's got to work on developing new capabilities-excuse me-the more time he's got to position his forces to attack or to try to mount and support terrorist operations against our forces in the region or elsewhere. We've run out this string for 12 years and 17 resolutions in the U.N. Security Council."
[QUESTION:What do you think is the most important rationale for going to war with Iraq?]
"Well, I think I've just given it, Tim, in terms of the combination of his development and use of chemical weapons, his development of biological weapons, his pursuit of nuclear weapons."
[QUESTION:And even though the International Atomic Energy Agency said he does not have a nuclear program, we disagree?]
"I disagree, yes. And you'll find the CIA, for example, and other key parts of our intelligence community disagree. Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We've got, again, a long record here. It's not as though this is a fresh issue. In the late '70s, Saddam Hussein acquired nuclear reactors from the French. 1981, the Israelis took out the Osirak reactor and stopped his nuclear weapons development at the time. Throughout the '80s he mounted a new effort. I was told when I was defense secretary before the Gulf War that he was eight to 10 years away from a nuclear weapon. And we found out after the Gulf War that he was within one or two years of having a nuclear weapon because he had a massive effort under way that involved four or five different technologies for enriching uranium to produce fissile material."
" We know that based on intelligence that he has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei frankly is wrong. And I think if you look at the track record of the International Atomic Energy Agency and this kind of issue, especially where Iraq's concerned, they have consistently underestimated or missed what it was Saddam Hussein was doing. I don't have any reason to believe they're any more valid this time than they've been in the past."
" We are now faced with a situation, especially in the aftermath of 9/11, where the threat to the United States is increasing, and over time, given Saddam's posture there, given the fact that he has a significant flow of cash as a result of the oil production of Iraq, it's only a matter of time until he acquires nuclear weapons. In light of that , we have to be prepared I think to take the action that is being contemplated, to insist that he disarm. And if the U.N. won't do it, then the United States and other partners of the coalition will have to do that.
Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact be greeted as liberators. And the president's made it very clear that our purpose there is, if we are forced to do this, will in fact be to stand up a government that's representative of the Iraqi people, hopefully democratic due respect for human rights, and it, obviously, involves a major commitment by the United States, but we think it's a commitment worth making. And we don't have the option anymore of simply laying back and hoping that events in Iraq will not constitute a threat to the U.S. Clearly, 12 years after the Gulf War, we're back in a situation where he does constitute a threat."
[QUESTION:If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?]
"Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I've talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White house. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who's a professor at Brandeis, but and Iraqi, he's written great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question that they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that. ...
... Now, I can't say with certainty that there will be no battle for Baghdad. We have to be prepared for that possibility. But, again, I don't want to convey to the American people the idea that this is a cost-free operation. Nobody can say that. I do think there's no doubt about the outcome. There's no question about who is going to ail if there is military action. And there's no question but what (sic) it is going to be cheaper and less costly to do it now than it will be to wait a year or two years or three years until he's developed even more deadly weapons, perhaps nuclear weapons. And the consequences then of having to deal with him would be far more costly that will be the circumstances today. Delay does not help."
"But the -- again, I come back to this proposition -- Is it cost-free? Absolutely not. But the cost is far less than it will be if we get hit, for example, with a weapon that Saddam Hussein might provide to al-Qaeda, the cost to the United States of what happened on 9/11 with billions and billions of dollars and 3,000 lives. And the cost will be much greater in a future attack if the terrorists have access to the kinds of capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed."
"I don't think we damaged the United Nations. I think the United Nations up until now has proven incapable of dealing with the threat that Saddam Hussein represents, incapable of enforcing its own resolutions, incapable of meeting the challenge we face in the 21st century of rogue states armed with deadly weapons, possibly sharing them with terrorists." Mar. 16, 2003 Richard Cheney
Oct. 2, 2002
Excerpt of Richard Cheney's remarks at the NRCC Gala Salute to Dick Armey and J.C. Watts :
"Saddam agreed to cease at once the repression of his people, yet the systematic violation of human rights continues in Iraq to this day. He agreed to return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands, yet more than 600 are still unaccounted for, including one American pilot. Saddam Hussein agreed to renounce all involvement with terrorism and to permit no terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq, yet Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations. Dissidents abroad are targeted for murder. The Iraqi regime has attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former President of the United States.
Saddam Hussein promised the United Nations that he would destroy and cease further development of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles, and that he would submit to unrestricted inspections. He has flatly broken these pledges, producing chemical and biological weapons and aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapons program while also working to develop long-range missiles.
Empty words from the Iraqi regime will not cause us to ignore history or reality. Saddam Hussein has spent more than a decade in complete defiance of all the demands of the United Nations. The question for the international community is whether Security Counsel resolutions will be enforced or disregarded without consequence -- whether the United Nations will be effective or irrelevant.
As for the United States, the President has made our position very clear: we will work with the United Nations to meet our common challenge; the Security Council resolutions are to be enforced or action will be unavoidable. We must and we will defend our freedom and our security." Oct. 2, 2002 Richard Cheney
Sep. 8, 2002
Excerpt of Richard Cheney's interview with NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert :
"What we have seen recently that has raised our level of concern to the state of unrest, if you will, if I can put it in those terms, is that he now is trying through his illicit procurement network to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium."
"And one of the reasons it's of concern to him is we know about a particular shipment -- we have intercepted that -- we don't know what else, what other avenues he may be taking out there, what he may have already acquired... So we have to deal with these bits and pieces and try to put them together into a mosaic to understand what's going on. But we do know with absolute certainty that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapons." Sep. 8, 2002 Richard Cheney
Aug. 26, 2002
Excerpt of Richard Cheney's remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention :
"The case of Saddam Hussein, a sworn enemy of our country, requires a candid appraisal of the facts. After his defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, Saddam agreed under the U.N. Security Council Resolution 687 to cease all development of weapons of mass destruction. He agreed to end his nuclear weapons program. He agreed to destroy his chemical and his biological weapons. He further agreed to admit U.N. inspection teams into his country to ensure that he was in fact complying with these terms.
In the past decade, Saddam has systematically broken each of these agreements. The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents. And they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so many years ago. These are not weapons for the purpose of defending Iraq; these are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale, developed so that Saddam can hold the threat over the head of anyone he chooses, in his own region or beyond.
On the nuclear question, many of you will recall that Saddam's nuclear ambitions suffered a severe setback in 1981 when the Israelis bombed the Osirak reactor. They suffered another major blow in Desert Storm and its aftermath.
But we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've gotten this from the hand testimony of defectors -- including Saddam's own son-in-law, who was subsequently murdered at Saddam's direction. Many of us are convinced that Saddam will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon.
Just how soon, we cannot really gauge. Intelligence is an uncertain business, even in the best of circumstances. This is especially the case when you are dealing with a totalitarian regime that has made a science out of deceiving the international community. Let me give you just one example of what I mean. Prior to the Gulf War, America's top intelligence analysts would come to my office in the Defense Department and tell me that Saddam Hussein was at least five or perhaps even 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. After the war we learned that he had been much closer than that, perhaps within a year of acquiring such a weapon.
Saddam also devised an elaborate program to conceal his active efforts to build chemical and biological weapons. And one must keep in mind the history, the inspectors missed a great deal. Before being barred from the country, the inspectors found and destroyed thousands of chemical weapons, and hundreds of tons of mustard gas and other nerve agents."
"To the dismay of the inspectors, they in time discovered that Saddam had kept them largely in the dark about the extent of his program to mass produce VX, one of the deadliest chemicals known to man. And far from having shut down Iraq's prohibited missile programs, the inspectors found that Saddam had continued to test such missiles, almost literally under the noses of the U.N. inspectors.
Against the background, a person would be right to question any suggestion that we should just get inspectors back into Iraq, and then our worries will be over. Saddam has perfected the game of cheat and retreat, and is very skilled in the art of denial and deception. A return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever of his compliance with U.N. resolutions. On the contrary, there is a great danger that it would provide false comfort that Saddam was somehow 'back in his box.'
Meanwhile, he would continue to plot. Nothing in the last dozen years has stopped him -- not his agreements; not the discoveries of the inspectors; not the revelations by defectors; not criticism or ostracism by the international community; and not four days of bombings by the U.S. in 1998. What he wants is time and more time to husband his resources, to invest in his ongoing chemical and biological weapons programs, and to gain possession of nuclear arms.
Should all his ambitions be realized, the implications would be enormous for the Middle East, for the United States, and for the peace of the world. The whole range of weapons of mass destruction then would rest in the hands of a dictator who has already shown his willingness to use such weapons, and has done so, both in his war with Iran and against his own people. Armed with an arsenal of these weapons of terror, and seated atop ten percent of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies, directly threaten America's friends throughout the region, and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us. And there is no doubt that his aggressive regional ambitions will lead him to future confrontations with his neighbors -- confrontations that will involve both the weapons he has today, and the ones he will continue to develop with his oil wealth.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no basis in Saddam Hussein's conduct or history to discount any of the concerns that I am raising this morning. We are, after all, dealing with the same dictator who shoots at American and British pilots in the no-fly zone, on a regular basis, the same dictator who dispatched a team of assassins to murder former President Bush as he traveled abroad, the same dictator who invaded Iran and Kuwait, and has fired ballistic missiles at Iran, Saudi Arabian and Israel, the same dictator who has been on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism for the better part of two decades.
In the face of such a threat, we must proceed with care, deliberation, and consultation with our allies. I know our president very well. I've worked beside him as he directed our response to the events of 9/11. I know that he will proceed cautiously and deliberately to consider all possible options to deal with the threat that an Iraq ruled by Saddam Hussein represents. And I am confident that he will, as he has said he would, consult widely with the Congress and with our friends and allies before deciding upon a course of action. He welcomes the debate that has now been joined here at home, and he has made it clear to his national security team that he wants us to participate fully in the hearings that will be held in Congress month on this vitally important issue."
"Now and in the future, the United States will work closely with the global coalition to deny terrorists and their state sponsors the materials, technology, and expertise to make and deliver weapons of of mass destruction. We will develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack. And the entire world must know that we will take whatever action is necessary to defend our freedom and our security.
As former Secretary of State Kissinger recently stated: 'The imminence of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the huge dangers it involves, the rejection of a viable inspection system, and the demonstrated hostility of Saddam Hussein combine to produce an imperative for preemptive action.' If the United States could have preempted 9/11, we would have, no question. Should we be able to ent another, much more devastating attack, we will, no question. This nation will not live at the mercy of terrorists or terror regimes.
I am familiar with the arguments against taking action in the case of Saddam Hussein. Some concede that Saddam is evil, power-hungry, and a menace -- but that, until he crosses the threshold of actually possessing nuclear weapons, we should rule out any preemptive action. That logic seems to me to be deeply flawed. The argument comes down to this: yes, Saddam is as dangerous as we say he is, we just need to let him get stronger before we do anything about it.
Yet if we did wait until that moment, Saddam would simply be emboldened, and it would become even harder for us to gather friends and allies to oppose him. As one of those who worked to assemble the Gulf War coalition, I can tell you that our job then would have been infinitely more difficult in the face of a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein. And many of those who now argue that we should act only if he gets a nuclear weapon, would then turn around and say that we cannot act because he has a nuclear weapon. At bottom, that argument counsels a course of inaction that itself could have devastating consequences for many countries, including our own.
Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true. Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region. When the gravest of threats are eliminated, the freedom-loving peoples of the region will have a chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace. As for the reaction of the Arab 'street,' the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are 'sure to erupt in joy in the same way throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.' Extremists in the region would have to re-think their strategy of Jihad. Moderates throughout the region would take heart. And our ability to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would be enhanced, just as it was following the liberation of Kuwait in 1991." Aug. 26, 2002 Richard Cheney
May 8, 2001
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's interview with John King of CNN :
"Now we do need to develop resources [oil] here at home. We're never going to be totally independent of those foreign sources, probably shouldn't try, but to the extent that we are dependent on those foreign sources, it's easy for a regime, such as Saddam Hussein and Iraq to hold us hostage, because they produce an important part of the world's oil reserves."
"Well, the concern here is that one of our biggest threats as a nation is no longer, sort of, the conventional military attack against the United States but, rather, that it might come from other quarters. It could be domestic terrorism, but it may also be a terrorist organization overseas or even another state using weapons of mass destruction against the U.S., a hand-carried nuclear weapon or biological or chemical agents.
The threat to the continental United States and our infrastructure is changing and evolving. And we need to look at this whole area, oftentimes referred to as homeland defense." May 8, 2001 Richard Cheney
On or after Mar. 20, 2003 [this column in chronological order: oldest]
Apr. 9, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks to the American Society of Newspaper Editors :
"Yet until this war is fully won, we cannot be overconfident in our position, and we must not underestimate the desperation of whatever forces remain loyal to the dictator. We know full well the nature of the enemy we are dealing with. Servants of the regime have used hospitals, schools and mosques for military operations. They have tortured and executed prisoners of war. They have forced women and children to serve as human shields. They have transported death squads in ambulances, fought in civilian clothes, feigned surrender and opened fire on our forces, and shot civilians who welcomed coalition troops."
"In dealing with such an enemy, we must expect vicious tactics until the regime's final breath. The hardest combat could still be ahead of us. Only the outcome can be predicted with certainty: Iraq will be disarmed of its weapons of mass destruction; the regime will end; and the Iraqi people will be free."
" In removing the terror regime from Iraq, we send a very clear message to all groups that operate by means of terror and violence against the innocent. The United States and our coalition partners are showing that we have the capacity and the will to wage war on terror -- and to win decisively."
"The attack on our country forced us to come to grips with the possibility that the time terrorist strike, they may well be armed with mire than just plane tickets and box cutters. The time they might direct chemical agents or diseases at our population, or attempt to detonate a nuclear a weapon in one of our cities. These are not abstract matters to ponder -- they are real dangers that we must guard against and confront before it's too late. From the training manuals and documents that we've seized on the war on terror, and from the interrogations we've conducted, we know the terrorists are determined to acquire weapons of mass destruction and to use them against us. With September 11th as a fresh memory, no rational person can doubt that terrorists would use such weapons of mass murder the moment they are able to do so."
"If we are to protect the American people and defend civilization against determined enemies, we cannot always rely on the old Cold War remedies of containment and deterrence. Containment does not work against a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and chooses to secretly deliver them to its terrorist allies. Deterrence does not work when we are dealing with terrorists who have no country to defend, who revel in violence, and who are willing to sacrifice their own lives in order to kill millions of others. To meet the unprecedented dangers posed by rogue states with weapons of mass destruction, and terrorist networks with global reach, our administration has taken urgent and, at times, unprecedented action."
"Our war on terror continues on every front, from law enforcement, to intelligence, to military action. The President had made clear from the beginning that this will be a long and focused effort -- not only because the terrorist operate in the shadows, but also because they enjoy the backing of outlaw states. It is this alliance between terrorist networks seeking weapons of mass destruction and rogue states developing or already possessing these weapons that constitutes the gravest current threat to America's national security."
" Therefore, a vital element of our strategy against terror must be to break the alliance between terrorist organizations and terrorist-sponsoring states. The chemical and biological weapons that Saddam Hussein is known to have produced are the very instruments that terrorists are seeking in order to inflict devastating harm on the people of this country, in Europe, and in the Middle East. That's why from the day the Gulf War ended in 1991, the United States has supported the efforts of the U.N. Security Council to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, And that is why the United States today is enforcing that demand." Apr. 9, 2003 Richard Cheney
May 1, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks to the Heritage Foundation :
"The President has made clear from the very beginning that this will be a long and focused effort, not only because the terrorists operate in the shadows, but because they also enjoy the backing and support of outlaw states. It is this alliance between terrorist networks seeking weapons of mass destruction and rogue states developing or already possessing these weapons that constitutes the gravest threat to America's national security.
Therefore, a vital element of our strategy against terror is to break the alliances between terrorist organizations and terrorist states. In the case of Iraq, President Bush made it absolutely clear that the United States would not tolerate a growing danger from this dictator and his brutal regime. Today, Saddam Hussein's regime is history." May 1, 2003 Richard Cheney
Sep. 12, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at Luncheon for former Congressman Robin Hayes :
" After 9/11, President Bush decided that the distinction between the terrorists and their sponsors could no longer be permitted to stand. The Bush doctrine makes clear that those states that support terrorists, or provide sanctuary for terrorists, are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves of the acts they commit. So in addition to going after the terrorists, we are also taking on states that sponsor terror."
"In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime harbored al Qaeda and brutalized an entire population. That regime is no more. In Iraq, where a brutal dictator threatened peace and gave support to terrorists, the United States launched on of the most extraordinary military campaigns in history. And that regime is no more." Sep. 12, 2003 Richard Cheney
Sep. 14, 2003
Excerpt of Richard Cheney's statements from an interview with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press :
[QUESTION:Was Saddam involved in the September 11th attacks?]
" We don't know. You [Tim Russert] and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we didn't have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we've learned a couple of things. We learned more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.
We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in '93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of '93. And we've learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.
Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in '93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, or course, we've had the story that's been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohammad Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we've never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don't know."
[QUESTION:What is our plan in Iraq? How long will the 140,000 American soldiers be there? How many international troops will join them? And how much is this going to cost?]
"Well, some of those questions are unknowable at present, Tim. It'll depend on developments. It'll depend on how fast it takes us to achieve our objectives. Remember when we went there, that we went there specifically to take down the Saddam Hussein regime, to wrap up all WMD capability he had possessed or developed, to deal with the threat that his regime represented to the region, and the United States. Very significant challenge. But we have, in fact, I think, been very successful at achieving that. ...
... With respect to financing, the $87 billion we've asked for is -- about 3/4 of that is to support our military and security operations. About 1/4 of it will go specifically to helping make the investments Bremer believes we need to make in order to get the Iraqis back and functioning on their own capability.
So how long will it take? I don't know. I can't say. I don't think anybody can say with absolute certainty at this point. We've achieved already, when you consider that we've only been there about four months, a great deal, and we are well on our way, I think, to achieving our objective. But the key here for us is to stay committed to get the job done, to get the guys on the ground the resources they need, both from a military as well as a civilian standpoint, and that's exactly what the president is doing."
[QUESTION:Did you misjudge the number of troops necessary to secure Iraq after major combat operations?]
"Well, you're going to get into a debate here about - talking about several years, several hundred thousand troops for several years. I think that's a non-starter. I don't think we have any plan to do that, Tim. I don't think it's necessary to do that. There's no question but what (sic) we've encountered resistance. But I don't think anybody expected the time we were there to be absolutely trouble-free. We knew there were holdover elements from the regime that would fight us and struggle. And we also knew al-Qaeda was here and Ansar al-Islam, up in the northeastern Iraq, which we'll come back to, talk about in a minute.
So I don't think there was a serious misjudgment here. We couldn't know precisely what would happen. You know, for example, one of the things we spent time worried about was that Saddam would destroy his own oil industry, that he'd do in Iraq what he did in Kuwait 12 years ago. The consequence of that, if he'd gone in and blown up those wells, as they contemplated doing, in fact wired some of them for destruction, would have been that the oil industry would have been shut down to zero production, probably for several years, while we tried to restore it. We were able to defeat that. That didn't occur. We had plans for it that we didn't have to execute or implement. So it's like any other process. A plan is only as good until you start to execute, then you have got to make adjustments and so forth. But I don't think there has been a major shift in terms of U.S. troop levels. And I still remain convinced that the judgment that we'll need 'several hundred thousand for several years' is not valid."
"Tim, we can do what we have to do to ail in this conflict. Failure's not an option. And go back again and think about what's involved here. This is not just about Iraq or just about the difficulties we might encounter in any one part of the country in terms of restoring security and stability. This is about a continuing operation on the war on terror. And it's very, very important we get it right. If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or the United States, so it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11. They understand what's at stake here. That's one of the reasons they're putting up as much of a struggle as they have, is because they know if we succeed here, that that's going to strike a major blow at their capabilities."
[QUESTION:Where are they [weapons of mass destruction]?]
"Well, I think that the jury is still out in terms of trying to get everything pulled together with respect to what we know. But we've got a very good man now in charge of the operation, David Kay. He used to run UNSCOM, a highly qualified, technically qualified and able individual. He's in charge of the operation now. And I also think, Tim, that if you go back and look at what we found to date, that we -- there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had these capabilities. This wasn't an idea cooked up overnight by a handful of people, either in the administration or out of the CIA. The reporting that led to the National Intelligence Estimate, upon which I based my statements to you, that was produced a year ago now, the essence of which has since been declassified, that was the product of hundreds of people working over probably 20 years, back at least to the Osirak reactor in 1981. The conclusions in that NIE, I think, are very valid. And I think we will find that in fact they are valid. What we're dealing with here is a regime that had to learn after we hit them in '91 that anything above ground was likely to be destroyed in an air campaign. They'd gone through many years of inspections. They knew they had to hide and bury their capabilities in this region inside their civilian structure. And I think that's what they did. And if you look -- we'll talk about the nuclear program. The judgment in the NIE was that if Saddam could acquire fissile material, weapons-grade material, that he would have a nuclear weapon within a few months to a year. That was the judgment of the intelligence community of the United States and they had a high degree of confidence in it.
What do we know ahead? Well, we know he had worked on the program for 20 years. We know he had technicians who knew how to do this stuff because they had been working on it over that period of time. We believed the community believed, that he had a workable design for a bomb. And we know he had 500 tons of uranium. It is there today at Tuwaitha, under the seal of the International Atomic Energy Agency. All those are facts that are basically not in dispute. And since we got there, we found -- we had gentleman come forward, for example with full designs for a process centrifuge system to enrich uranium and the key parts that you'd need to build such a system. And we know Saddam had worked on that kind of system before. That's physical evidence that we've got in hand today.
So to suggest that there is no evidence that [Hussein] had aspirations to acquire nuclear weapons, I don't think is valid. And I think David Kay will find more evidence as he goes forward, interviews people, as we get to folks willing to come forward now as they become more and more convinced that it's safe to do so, that, in fact, [Hussein] had a robust plan, had iously worked on it and would work on it again.
Same on biological weapons -- we believe he'd developed the capacity to go mobile with his BW production capability because, again, in reaction to what we had done to him in '91. We had intelligence reporting before the war that there were at least seven of these mobile labs that he had gone out and acquired. We've, since the war, found two of them. They're in our possession today, mobile biological facilities that can be used to produce anthrax or smallpox or whatever else you wanted to use during the course of developing the capacity for an attack.
So on CW and chemical weapons, my guess is it's buried inside his civilian infrastructure. That's not an unusual place to put it. And, again, David Kay's task is to look for evidence to back it up, to find physical evidence when he can find that. And again, the whole notion that somehow there's nothing to the notion that Saddam Hussein had WMD or had developed WMD, it just strikes me as fallacious. It's not valid now. Nobody drove into Baghdad and had somebody say, 'Hey, there's the building over there where all of our WMDs stored.' But that's not the way the system worked."
[QUESTION:[existence of] Reconstituted nuclear weapons. You misspoke (in a Mar. 16, 2003 interview on Face the Nation.)]
"Yeah. I did misspeak. I said repeatedly during the show, 'weapons capability.' We never had any evidence that he had acquired a nuclear weapon."
"I guess the intriguing thing, Tim, on the whole thing, this question of whether or not the Iraqis were trying to acquire uranium in Africa. In the British report, this week, the Committee of the British Parliament, which just spent 90 days investigating all of this, revalidated their British claim that Saddam was, in fact, trying to acquire uranium in Africa. What was in the State of the Union speech and what was in the original British White paper. So there may be difference of opinion there. I don't know what the truth is on the ground with respect to that, but I guess - like I say, I don't know Mr. Wilson."
[QUESTION:Shouldn't we have a wholesale investigation into the intelligence failure that they [CIA] predicted that Saddam had biological, chemical and is developing a nuclear program?]
"My guess in the end, they'll be proven right, Tim. On the intelligence business, of all, it's intelligence. These are judgments involved in all of this. But we've got, I think, some very able people in the intelligence business that review the material here. This was a crucial subject. It was extensively covered for years. We're very good at it. As I say, the British just revalidated their claim. So I'm not sure what the argument is about here. I think in the final analysis, we will find that the Iraqis did have a robust [weapons] program." Sep. 14, 2003 Richard Cheney
Sep. 17, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at a 2003 Air Force Convention :
"Prior to 9/11, too many nations tended to draw a distinction between terrorist groups and the states that provided these groups with support, sanctuary and safe harbor. They were unwilling to hold these terror-sponsoring states accountable for their actions.
After 9/11, President Bush decided that the distinction between the terrorists and their sponsors could no longer be permitted to stand. The Bush Doctrine makes clear that those states that support terrorists, or provide sanctuary for terrorists, are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves of the acts they commit. So in addition to going after the terrorists, we are also taking on states that sponsor terror.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime harbored al Qaeda and brutalized an entire population. That regime is no more. In Iraq, where a vicious dictator built, possessed and used weapons of mass destruction, supported terrorists, and defied the clear demands of the U.N. Security Council for 12 years, the United States launched one of the most extraordinary military campaigns in history. And that regime is no more."
"We are working with the people of Iraq to create a free, functioning and prosperous society - and we're making progress. Most of Iraq today is relatively stable and quiet. There are still on-going incidents, attacks on coalition forces and on others, either from remnants of the old regime or from terrorists, many of whom were in Iraq before the war, and some of whom have arrived since the conclusion of major combat operations. There are two main sources of terror that coalition forces must deal with, and we are. We have already captured or killed 42 of the 55 most wanted former Iraqi leaders, and with the growing number of tips we're receiving from the Iraqi people themselves, it's only a matter of time until we get the rest of them. According to General Abizaid, the actual number of daily incidents this month is significantly below what it was last month, and we're determined to make sure those numbers keep going in the right direction." Sep. 17, 2003 Richard Cheney
Oct. 3, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at a luncheon for Congressman Jim Gerlach at the Desmond Hotel and Convention Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania :
"Iraq, obviously there, we had to go to use force as well, too. [referring to Afghanistan] And the reason we had to do Iraq, if you hark back and think about that link between the terrorists and weapons of mass destruction, Iraq was the place where we were most fearful that that was most likely to occur, because in Iraq we've had a government -- not only was it on of the worst dictatorships in modern times, but had oftentimes hosted terrorists in the past -- the Abu Nidal organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, suicide -- payments to the families of suicide bombers in Israel and Palestine, but also an established relationship with the al Qaeda organization, and, without question, had iously had and used weapons of mass destruction -- chemical weapons against the Iranians and against the Kurds.
For all of those reasons it was vitally important that we deal with the threat in Iraq, as well, too. One of the interesting things -- and this is a bit of sidelight maybe, but I think it's important that people understand this, we've had this whole debate over, well, maybe Saddam didn't really have WMD. Maybe he was just bluffing, that somebody cooked the books and came up with this notion that the Iraqi government had invested in chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Well, of all, of course, the intelligence community in the United States going back many years, including into the prior administration, concluded that he did, indeed, have programs for chemical, biological and nuclear programs -- nuclear weapons."
" So there's no question in my mind but what Saddam was guilty of what we said he was guilty of, and that the action that the President ordered in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If we had that information and ignored it, if we'd been told, as we were, by the intelligence community that he was capable of producing a nuclear weapon within a year if he could acquire fissile material and ignored it, if we had not paid any attention to the fact that al Qaeda was being hosted in Northeastern Iraq, part of poisons network producing ricin and cyanide that was intended to be used in attacks both in Europe, as well as in North Africa and ignored it, we would have been derelict in our duties and responsibilities. There was no way this President could have done that. So we launched the effort -- I think -- and have had great success." Oct. 3, 2003 Richard Cheney
Oct. 4, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at a Bush-Cheney '04 Reception at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa :
"One of the most devastating, frightening thoughts you can have is the prospect of a member of al Qaeda, a terrorist organization, loose in our city with a biological or a nuclear weapon. It obviously would result in a far more devastating attack than this country has ever experienced."
"We know, for example, that he [Ramzi Yousef] is the nephew of the mastermind of the attack on 9/11, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, who is now in custody. They're related. Khalid Shaykh Muhammad is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef, who ran the attack eight years earlier. We know that one of the attackers -- and we know this from documents that we have uncovered in Baghdad -- one of the attackers, a man named Abdul Rahman Yasin, or Yasin, after the attack, took refuge in Iraq. And we know from documents we found there that he was granted a monthly stipend and safe haven in Iraq, after the attack on the World Trade Center ."
"But good defense isn't good enough. You've also got to have an offensive component to your security strategy. And that's what we've done. You also have to have the objective of aggressively going after the terrorists and destroying the terrorists and their networks before they can launch further attacks against the United States. That's the only certain way to defend the United States."
" In Iraq, we went in there very aggressively, as we needed to do. And we think we've made significant progress. We went after Iraq, because if you hark back again to that biggest threat we face, that is a terrorist equipped with a deadly biological or nuclear weapon, a weapon of mass destruction, Iraq is one of those places in the world where you had a dictatorship, one of the worst in modern times, a regime that had not only produced, but had used chemical weapons in the past, for example, on the Kurds and on the Iranians, a regime that had hosted terrorists. Abu Nidal lived there for years, the Abu Nidal organization that did the Lauro -- USS Lauro hijacking. We had [sic] Palestinian Islamic Jihad lived there. Al Qaeda had a base of operation there up in Northeastern Iraq where they ran a large poisons factory for attacks against Europeans and U.S. forces.
The general proposition had to be that we had to deal with the threats that Iraq represented, and that's exactly what we've done. One of the debates you've seen in recent days is this question of, well, maybe Saddam didn't really have any WMD. And there are people out there peddling that notion -- those who are trying to undermine our attack, the decision the President made.
But I have never believed that for a minute. I think the record is overwhelming that he [Saddam Hussein] had, in fact, had major investments in weapons of mass destruction."
" Now, there's no question this guy had invested billions in developing illegal programs of weapons of mass destruction. And don't let anybody tell you that this was not a significant threat. He's used it iously. We knew from past history that it was only a matter of time until he would be in a position to do so once again." Oct. 4, 2003 Richard Cheney
Oct. 9, 2003
Excerpt taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at a luncheon for Congressman Chris Chocola at the Joyce Athletic Center in Notre Dame, Indiana :
" In Iraq, a dictator armed to threaten the peace and gave [sic] support to terrorists, and his regime is no more. Baghdad fell six months ago today, and important work still goes on in Iraq. Yet despite difficulties that we knew would occur, the Iraqi people prefer liberty and hope to tyranny and fear. Your congressman had been to Iraq, and he's seen hand the progress we've made in helping Iraqis build a secure and self-governing nation. There are terrorists in the country, but there's no dictator to protect them any more. And we're dealing with them one-by-one. We are fighting this evil in Iraq so that we do not have to fight it on the streets of our own cities." Oct. 9, 2003 Richard Cheney
Oct. 10, 2003
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks to the Heritage Foundation :
" Iraq has become the central front in the war on terror. It was crucial that we enforce the U.N. Security Council resolutions. Now, having liberated that country, it is crucial that we keep our word to the Iraqi people, helping them to build a secure country and a democratic government. And we will do so.
Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that United States accepted now more than two years ago. September 11th, 2001 changed everything for this country. We came to recognize our vulnerability to the threats of the new era. We saw the harm that 19 evil men could do, armed with little more than airline tickets and box cutters and driven by a philosophy of hatred."
"Remember what we saw in the morning of 9/11. And knowing the nature of these enemies, we have as clear a responsibility as to ever fall to government. We must do everything in our power to keep terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass destruction."
"In Iraq, we took another essential step in the war on terror. The United States and our allies rid the Iraqi people of a murderous dictator and rid the world of a menace to our future peace and security.
Saddam has a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror, hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, making payments to the families of suicide bombers in Israel. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida, providing training to Al Qaida members in the areas of poisons, gases, making conventional bombs.
Saddam built, possessed and used weapons of mass destruction.
He refused or evaded all international demands to account for those weapons.
Twelve years of diplomacy, more than a dozen Security Council resolutions, hundreds of U.N. weapons inspectors, thousands of flights to enforce the no-fly zones and even strikes against military targets in Iraq, all of these measures were tried to compel Saddam Hussein's compliance with the terms of the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire. All of these measures failed."
"Last October, the United States Congress voted overwhelming to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
Last November, the U.N. Security Council passed a unanimous resolution finding Iraq in material breach of its obligations and vowing serious consequences in the event Saddam Hussein did not fully and immediately comply. When Saddam Hussein failed even then to comply, our coalition acted to deliver those serious consequences."
" In the post-9/11 era, certain risks are unacceptable. The United States made our position clear: We could not accept the grave danger of Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies turning weapons of mass destruction against us or our friends and allies.
And gradually, we are learning the details of his hidden weapons program. This work is being carried out under the direction of Dr. David Kay, a respected scientist and former U.N. inspector, who is leading the weapons search in Iraq."
"Even as more evidence is found of Saddam's weapons programs, critics of our actions in Iraq continue to voice other objections. And the arguments they make are helping to frame the most important debate of the post-9/11 era. Some claim we should not have acted because the threat from Saddam Hussein was not imminent. Yet, as the president has said, 'Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intention, politely putting us on notice before they strike?'.
I would remind the critics of the fundamental case the president has made since September 11th. Terrorist enemies of our country hope to strike us with the most lethal weapons known to man and it would be reckless in the extreme to rule out action and save our worries until the day they strike."
" Critics of our national security policy have also argued that to confront a gathering threat is simply to stir up hostility. In the case of Saddam Hussein, his hostility to our country long predates 9/11 and America's war on terror."
" Had the United States been constrained by the objections of some, the regime of Saddam Hussein would still rule Iraq, his statues would still stand, his sons would still be running the secret police, dissidents would still be in prison, the apparatus of torture and rape would still be in place, and the mass graves would be undiscovered.
We must never forget the kind of man who ran that country and the depravity of his regime.
Last month, Bernard Kerik, former police commissioner of New York returned from Iraq after spending four months helping to activate and stand up a new national police force. Bernie Kerik tells of many things he saw, including the videos of interrogations in which the victim is blown apart by a hand grenade. Another video, as he describes it, shows and I quote, 'Saddam sitting in an office allowing two Doberman Pinchers to eat alive a general because he did not trust his loyalty,' end quote.
Those who declined to support the liberation of Iraq would not deny the evil of Saddam Hussein's regime. They must concede, however, that had their own advice been followed, that regime would rule Iraq today.
President Bush declined the course of inaction and the results are there for all to see. The torture chambers are empty, the prisons for children are closed, the murders of innocents have been exposed and their mass graves have been uncovered. The regime is gone, never to return. And despite difficulties we knew would occur, the Iraqi people prefer liberty and hope to tyranny and fear."
"The contrast of visions is evident, as well, throughout the region. Had we followed the counsel of inaction, the Iraqi regime would still be a menace to its neighbors and a destabilizing force in the Middle east. Today, because we acted, Iraq stands to be a force for good in the Middle East."
" If Saddam Hussein were in power today, there would still be active terror camps in Iraq, the regime would still be allowing terrorist leaders in to the country and this ally of terrorists would still have a hidden biological weapons program capable of producing deadly agents on short notice.
There would be today, as there was six months ago, the prospect of the Iraqi dictator providing weapons of mass destruction or the means to make them to terrorists for the purpose of attacking America.
Today, we do not face this prospect. There are terrorists in Iraq, yet there is no dictator to protect them and we are dealing with them, one by one. Terrorists have gathered in that country and there they will be defeated. We are fighting this evil in Iraq so we do not have to fight it on the streets of our own cities." Oct. 10, 2003 Richard Cheney
Jan. 13, 2004
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at Bush-Cheney '04 reception :
"In the weeks and months following 9/11, people in every part of the country, regardless of party, took comfort and pride in the character and the conduct of our President. From that day to this, he's led a steady, focused and relentless campaign against the enemies who struck America that morning and killed some 3,000 of our fellow citizens.
Not long after those attacks, one high-ranking al Qaeda official said, "This is the beginning of the end for America." It's pretty clear that terrorist had no understanding of the American people. (Applause.) He clearly didn't know George Bush. (Laughter.) We see the terrorists for what they are -- men who will not be stopped by negotiations, by appeals to reason, or by the least hint of conscience. We have only one option in this fight, and that's to take the fight to the enemy.
This is a war that we fight on many fronts. As we stand here today, many of al Qaeda's known leaders have been captured or killed. Those still at large are living in fear -- and their fears are well founded, because we're on their trail. (Applause.) In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime brutalized an entire population and harbored al Qaeda -- and that regime is no more. In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. And he gave support to terrorists and defied the demands of the civilized world -- and that regime is no more.
At the start of 2003, Saddam Hussein controlled the lives and the future of some 25 million people. At the start of 2004, he's in custody -- never again to brutalize his people, never again to support dangerous terrorists, never again to threaten the United States of America.
Freedom still has enemies in Iraq -- terrorists who are targeting the very success and freedom that we're providing to that country. But terror attacks on innocent civilians will not intimidate Americans, and they will not intimidate the Iraqi people. With good allies at our side, we are helping the Iraqis build a free country, which will make them and us more secure. We're standing with the Iraqi people as they assume more responsibility for their own security and move toward self government. These are not easy tasks -- yet they are absolutely essential. As the President has said many times -- and no one should doubt -- we will finish what we've begun, and we will win this essential victory in the war on terror." Jan. 13, 2004 Richard Cheney
Jan. 13, 2004
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at reception for the republican party of Washington :
"As we stand here today, many of al Qaeda's known leaders have been captured or killed. Those still at large are living in fear -- and their fears are well founded, because we're on their trail. In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime brutalized an entire population -- and that regime is no more. In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them, gave support to terrorists, defied the demands of the civilized world -- and that regime is no more."
At the start of 2003, Saddam Hussein controlled the lives and the future of some 25 million people. At the start of 2004, he's in custody in Iraq -- never again to brutalize his people, never again to support dangerous terrorists, and never again to threaten the United States of America." Jan. 13, 2004 Richard Cheney
Jan. 14, 2004
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council :
" In Iraq, the United States and our allies rid the Iraqi people of a murderous dictator, and rid the world of a menace to our future peace and security. Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. His regime cultivated ties to terror, including the al Qaeda network, and had built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction. Year after year, the U.N. Security Council demanded that he account for those weapons and that he comply with all the terms of the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire. Year after year, he refused." Jan. 14, 2004 Richard Cheney
Jan. 15, 2004
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at An Event for Congressman Jon Porter at the Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas :
"In the weeks and months following September 11th, people in every part of the country, regardless of party, took comfort and pride in the character and the conduct of our President. From that day to this, he has led a steady, focused, and relentless campaign against the enemies who struck America that morning and killed some 3,000 of our fellow citizens.
As we stand here today, many of al Qaeda's known leaders have been captured or killed. Those still at large are living in fear -- and their fears are well founded, because we are on their trail. In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime brutalized an entire population and harbored al Qaeda -- and that regime is no more. In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, and defied the demands of the civilized world -- and that regime is no more.
At the beginning of 2003, just a year ago, Saddam Hussein controlled the lives of 25 million people. Today, a year later, he's in jail in Baghdad, and he will never again threaten the people of Iraq, or the people of the United States." Jan. 15, 2004 Richard Cheney
Jan. 22, 2004
Excerpts taken from Richard Cheney's remarks at the 31st Annual Conservative Political Action Conference :
"In Iraq, the United States and our allies rid the Iraqi people of a murderous dictator, and rid the world of a menace to our future peace and security. (Applause.) A year ago, Saddam Hussein controlled the lives and the future of almost 25 million people. Today, he's in jail. (Applause.) He will never again brutalize his people, never again support dangerous terrorists, and never again threaten the United States of America."
"From the beginning, America has sought international support for our operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we have gained a great deal of support. But as the President said on Tuesday night: There is a difference between leading a coalition of many nations, and submitting to the objections of a few. America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Jan. 22, 2004 Richard Cheney
Jan. 24, 2004
Richard Cheney stated in remarks to the World Economic Forum, Congress Center, Davos, Switzerland :
"In Iraq, too, after decades of Baathist rule, democracy is beginning to take hold. Less than a year ago, the people of that country lived under the absolute power of one man and his apparatus of intimidation and torture. Today the former dictator sits in captivity, while the people of Iraq prepare for full self government. Saddam Hussein can no longer harbor and support terrorists, and his long efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction are finally at an end."
"In all of our actions, the world's democracies must send an unmistakable message: that the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction only invites isolation and carries great costs. And leaders who abandon the pursuit of those weapons will find an open path to far better relations with governments around the world."
"There is a temptation, however, to assume that the good faith that underlies these institutions will always be returned. Yet as we saw in the case of Iraq, after 12 years and more than a dozen Security Council resolutions -- the last one vowing serious consequences -- there comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. As President Bush has said, "Our people have given us the duty to defend them. And that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men.
Inaction can bring its own serious consequences. Had we not acted, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, and there is little question he would still be defying the United Nations and making a mockery of its mission."
"Well, from time to time, there's been discussion about the need to sort of modernize and update the U.N. The arrangements were settled on in San Francisco in 1945, and that was nearly 60 years ago. We've got certain anomalies, I think, in that the structure of the United Nations, as it's currently constituted, doesn't necessarily fit the way the world works these days -- major powers that are not represented as much -- they don't have as much influence at the U.N. as they might have if this were 1945 and we were establishing -- I don't want to get into any more detail than that. I don't want to recommend specific changes on a national basis. I think those are the kinds of issues that need to be dealt with internationally. At some point I would expect there would be proposals made by various members of the United Nations, to reform and upgrade and modernize the institution. I don't think I should recommend any here this morning." Jan. 24, 2004 Richard Cheney
July 12, 2004
Richard Cheney stated remarks at a Breakfast for Congressional Candidate Charlie Dent :
"In Iraq, America and our allies rid the Iraqi people of a murderous dictator, and rid the world of a gathering threat to our peace and security. Saddam Hussein once controlled the lives and the future of almost 25 million people. Today he is in jail. Because we acted, Afghanistan and Iraq have gone from terrorist states to free, sovereign nations, and emerging democracies."
"The defeat of tyranny and violence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the rise of democracy in a troubled region, will be a crucial setback for international terror. Because we are strong and resolute, these nations will never go back to the camp of tyranny and terror. And America will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9/11. Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength. They are invited by the perception of weakness."
"On the Senate floor, Senator Kerry said Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and that those weapons were an unacceptable threat. Many times prior to the war in Iraq, Senator Kerry described Saddam Hussein as a threat to the United States, and said that this was, 'always his position on Iraq.' And Senator Edwards, in an interview on TV, called Iraq, 'the most serious and imminent threat to our country.'"
"Every American needs to know that there was widespread agreement on the nature of the threat from Iraq's former dictator. Our administration, the Congress, members of the U.N. Security Council, members of the ious administration -- all reviewed the intelligence and all concluded Saddam Hussein was a threat."
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Everything is a bit more challenging when you're pregnant, and going to work every day certainly is no exception. Particularly when you're in the first and third trimesters: Despite being ecstatic about your baby-to-be, it's slightly difficult to get jazzed about, well, anything. You're tired. You're bloated. And you can think of about 334 things you'd rather do than go into the office (of those 334 things, 333 involve lying down.).
That said, most of us aren't able to up and quit our jobs simply because we're sporting a baby bump. And, of course, there are good things about working when you're pregnant, too -- a paycheck, fun colleagues, maternity leave. But, overall, it's rough.
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Here are eight pain-in-the-butt things about going to work when pregnant.
1. OMG you're so tired. Nobody likes waking up to the piercing blare of an alarm clock, but when you're pregnant, every time your alarm buzzes in the morning — and your snooze sounds off a few times thereafter — it's like a thousand little daggers in your heart. And those daggers are telling you — and your baby — to get the heck out of bed...without coffee.
2. Two words: pregnancy brain. The struggle is real. Ever look back at an email you sent your boss when pregnant and notice approximately five typos? And that you signed it "love" instead of "thanks"? Sure, it's the hormones turning you borderline-illiterate, but still. It's not a good look.
3. You have 900 doctor appointments that cut into work time. Rushing from a doctor appointment to work is super fun! Said no one ever! Or even better? Cutting out early to make it to your afternoon appointment, knowing you've got a big ol' pile of emails to get through later on that night. Good times.
4. The commute. Whether you take public transportation where you're forced to sandwich in between two ginormous brief cases, or drive to work where you're forced to squeeze yourself behind a steering wheel and deal with reckless drivers, one thing is for certain: Commuting is a drag when you're pregnant.
5. The smell of people's lunches is just... no. Does Hal from accounting really need to bring a tuna sandwich and Cheetos every single day? And does your office really need to have a "no open window" policy?
6. You're a killjoy at holiday parties and after-work functions. Not only can you not loosen up with a glass of wine at the holiday party, you want to cut out 45 minutes after the shindig starts (See #1.).
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7. You're late to almost every meeting/appointment/whatever, because you have to pee 732 times a day. And let's be honest, nobody — pregnant or not — likes going to the bathroom at work. P.S. Didn't someone bring up putting in a toilet seat liner dispenser at the last staff meeting? Come on, H.R.
8. You're tired. Tired, tired, tired.
What did you find annoying about going to work while pregnant?
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Why I Created HYDRATE Electrolyte Drink...
After years as an Olympic athlete drinking sport drinks that are full of way too much sugar, my immune system crashed. Many of these “so-called” best hydration drinks’ claim to be the best way to hydrate when, in fact, the ingredients can cause harm to your body.
After I retired I struggled to drink enough water and remained chronically dehydrated. One of the questions many women often ask is “how much water should a woman drink a day”? I was there. I just couldn’t get enough water to get my body to recover from dehydration.
Growing up on sports drinks that had 40g/sugar in a 20oz bottle, I was addicted to sugar, but didn’t know it! Even the “sugar-free” sports drinks aren’t really free of sugar, they just have a different kind of sugar.
I searched for a better hydration drink for myself because hydration is crucial for immunity, but couldn't find it. I was shocked at what the so-called “natural hydration drink” brands were offering compared to the major sports drinks. They still had too much sugar, they weren’t organic and they used flavorings, which to me are fake tasting. Most hydration drinks are not healthy. They are not the best way to hydrate your body!
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We have been duped into looking at the nutrition facts panel vs. the actual ingredients. Remember when we were obsessed with fat grams? It is important to look at sugar grams, that is still true! Sugar grams and ingredients, that is what I focus on.
Look at the nutrition panel of other brands, they have “more” electrolytes and minerals than we do. Or do they?
Let’s start with the main electrolyte in most brands, Sodium Chloride. This is table salt. Duh, you know this. The way Sodium Chloride is made is scary. It has been shown to raise blood pressure and cause heart and kidney disease. They remove this one from whole food salt. It’s ultra-processed, mixed with anti-caking agents (usually from GMO corn) and bleached so it looks pretty on the table. This is one mineral that has been stripped from a natural whole food salt. This is something that nature never intended. And it’s why our bodies reject it. If you are dehydrated, will it hydrate you? Yes. But will it also cause harm? I believe so.
Brands do this with the other major electrolytes and minerals they use as well. They are stripped-down versions of real food. They do this so they can make the nutritional panel numbers look how they want them to look. At GOODONYA I prefer our numbers to reflect the ratio that nature intended.
These brands believe their product has the exact ratio for optimal hydration. They claim they are the faster, quicker, stronger, and best hydration drink. They fight, they sue each other, and that is what happens when you are owned by the largest soda companies in existence.
They told me as a young athlete that I could not perform without these hydration drinks. And if I let myself even get thirsty it was too late, my performance would decrease by 50%! When you tell that to a 17 year old Olympic hopeful, and give them a bright red bottle with 40g of sugar in it, you think they are going to drink water?
The marketing behind these brands is slick, I fell for it for years. They have a lot of money considering they sell $8B worth of these hydration drinks yearly! So it’s pretty easy to be fooled. Especially when you are young. Luckily, I am older, wiser, and healthier now……. and I got your back!
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Book: Hearts in Darkness (Hearts in Darkness #1)
Author: Laura Kaye
Publication Date: 5/19/2013
Reviewed by: Tammy Payne- Book Nook Nuts
My Rating: 5 Stars
I fell in love with this couple. First off what better way to meet someone then by being stuck with them literally? McKenna is a little overwhelmed and once she finally gets in the elevator, she wants to thank the man that helped her. But all that is put on hold because it's lights out. Caden is dealing with demons from his past and it now comes full force while being stuck and in the dark. But the beautiful red headed creature is with him. Can these two get out? Caden decides he would like to be stuck with McKenna forever.
Cute, but short sexy read and I am anxiously awaiting the next in this series.
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Hotfrog Ireland provides information regarding Bord Gáis Energy in Celbridge Kildare. Bord Gáis Energy is located at Unit D12 M4 Interchange Park Maynooth Road, Celbridge Kildare and provides heating services. Contact them on 087 2550642 or by visiting them on their website http://www.bordgaisenergysupply.com.
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The first thing you notice about Sister Theresa is her sense of serenity. She's been living in Gorom Gorom, Burkina Faso, for 9 years now, where the Sisters of the Annunciation of Bobo run a guest
As soon as a smile breaks across her face or she lets out her robust laugh, the room comes alive. Sister Theresa works at the health center and, over dinner, talked to Catholic Relief Services about the patients she treats there. The next morning, after introducing them, she went to a shady spot and talked about her hopes and fears for her corner of Burkina Faso.
This year, as the rains weren't good, people haven't been able to harvest enough millet. And then the locusts ravaged the crops. Those who did manage to grow some millet plants that bore fruit…, the locusts ate them in the fields. So that made the situation worse.
At the moment, we're seeing families who just don't have enough to meet their needs. They're forced to buy millet at the market, which is very expensive. A lot of families can't afford it. And with our Malian brothers who've arrived in our country, the situation's becoming rather difficult.
People who can buy some millet, do. Those who don't have much money, they buy just a bit to have enough for one meal a day. And you know, one meal a day is not enough. For a woman who is pregnant or breastfeeding, she'll become malnourished. It goes without saying, if a mother is malnourished, her baby will be too. Already, at birth, the baby will not be a healthy weight. Malnutrition starts in the mother's womb, and, after birth, it continues.
Fighting Malnutrition With Peanut Paste
Here at the health center, we welcome everyone no matter their race or ethnicity, age or gender. We also have a maternity section where we do prenatal checkups. We talk with the mothers about nutrition, we check whether all's well from the start of the pregnancy through to the birth and up until the child is 5 years old.
This year, with the food crisis, the number of children coming to the center with malnutrition has risen. Those who are severely malnourished and are also ill are sent to us. We treat them and try to feed them with enriched flour and [peanut paste]. We teach mothers how to make porridge with the special flour, and we try to give advice so that severe malnutrition can be avoided in the family in future.
When a child is malnourished, it's a worry for all the family. This little boy sitting right here, Amidou, his father brought him to us. The whole family, with five children, traveled over 45 miles to get here. The boy is 5 years old and was suffering from severe malnutrition when he arrived. The father burst out crying, he was sobbing, which is very rare in Burkina Faso. Usually it's women who are emotional.
I was very touched to see the man crying. He thought his boy was going to die. He had no more hope, and that really upset me. I tried to comfort him and tell him we'd help.
Praying for Good Rains, Good Harvests
Catholic Relief Services has given us enriched flour and vitamins for women of childbearing age. Thank you for this act of generosity. May the Lord watch over you in your work. More help is always welcome. If we had some foodstuffs, like cereals, we could give that to families who are here with their sick children. If the parents have enough to eat too, that'll help the child to recoup.
We'll pray to God that we have good rains this year so that people can have something to eat in the villages, and have water and enough grass can grow so the animals will have enough to eat. That will be a relief. But if the rains aren't enough, it will be very serious. It'll make this current situation in the region even worse. The number of people in need will only rise, and right now, I don't know what will become of us.
At the end of the day, we are a people of hope. We are all God's children. We hope that the situation will get better. Those who come, like CRS, to help the poorest of the poor, together we'll be able to do something. I hope the situation will improve. I have faith that it will. | <urn:uuid:b298a182-b4c3-47be-bb0a-cb6ccd7864f8> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.crs.org/stories/sahel-food-crisis-sisters-compassion | 2015-10-09T13:58:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737931434.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221851-00216-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981332 | 940 |
The Dry-Erase Board Reinvented. An easy replacement for any dry-erase board or flip chart
A remarkable transformation from the dull, outdated dry-erase board or flip chart, SMART kapp combines true ease of use with the ability to share and save work in real time, on any device, anywhere in the world.
- Can you use it like a regular dry-erase board?
- Can I use color dry-erase markers?
Yes, but when sharing with mobile devices, it will only display in Black and White.
- How do I capture what’s on the board to my mobile device?
By using Bluetooth wireless or a USB drive.
- Can I share what is on the SMART kapp board?
Yes. It provides Real-time sharing in which remote participants can be invited to view content in real-time using any browser.
- Is it Secure?
Yes. Provides full data security - Shared content is immediately deleted when you disconnect your device.
- Do I need an Internet connection to use the capture board?
No, however the mobile device that connects to the capture board requires Wi-Fi® or a mobile data plan to share a capture board session and to share snapshots to the Evernote® service or other cloud services.
- Do I have to install any software on my mobile device?
Yes. When you first connect your mobile device, you’re directed to the Apple App Store or Google Play™ to download the SMART kapp app. After you download and install the app, you can use it to connect to your capture board and share content with others.
- What items are included?
SMART kapp 42" capture board, Dry-erase marker (×3), Eraser, Bracket and hardware for mounting the capture board to a wall.
- What Mobile devices does it support?
- iOS 7.1 or later operating system software
- 50 MB storage
- iPhone 4S or later
- Third generation iPad or later
- First generation iPad mini or later
- Fifth generation iPod touch or later
- Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or later operating system
- 50 MB of storage (internal or SD card)
- Devices meeting the following specifications:
- 1024 MB of RAM
- 720p or better screen resolution
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Awards & Reviews
2014 New Product Innovation Award
- Frost & Sullivan
Best Overall New Product and Best Presentation Product at InfoComm 2014
- Rave Publications
2014’s AV Products of the Year
- Systems Contractor News
“SMART kapp is the only dry-erase board you need.”
“I bet your dry-erase board is not as smart as SMART kapp.”
“SMART kapp brings the dry-erase board to the 21st century.”
- Shelly Palmer
“For remote collaboration minded folks, the killer feature is the share capability.”
- Let's Do Video
“Not your meeting room’s old white board.”
“Boards usually have no way to capture the results, except to take a snapshot with a smart phone.
- IT World Canada
The Mobile App
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Here are the basic steps in the selection process for a position at the EPO:
Fill out the online application form included as a link in each vacancy notice. You will receive confirmation by e-mail that your application has been received.
After the closing date, a selection board goes through the applications and decides which candidates to invite for interview (N.B. patent examiner recruitment is ongoing and has no closing dates).
Shortlisted candidates are interviewed at the EPO site to which they applied. The interview evaluates
As part of the selection procedure, candidates might also be asked to sit tests.
The selection board usually recommends one or more candidates as suitable for the post in question. The final decision is taken by or on behalf of the President of the EPO.
The selected candidate receives a job offer by post. The offer is conditional on passing a medical examination conducted by a local doctor at the EPO site where the candidate was interviewed.
Final confirmation of recruitment is also dependent on passing a pre-employment screening check. This process is compulsory for all new recruits, who cannot start work at the EPO until it has been completed.
Screening begins as soon as the selected candidate has passed the medical examination, accepted our conditional job offer and provided us with a Letter of Authorisation to start the process. | <urn:uuid:c2b14c92-2dea-4739-b599-fa0dc0819e72> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.epo.org/about-us/jobs/about/selection.html | 2016-02-07T06:07:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701148558.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193908-00022-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972338 | 267 |
By John Walker on September 19th, 2011 at 3:51 pm.
Right, so here’s the first step in answering the mystery of Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s boss battles – they were outsourced. Meaning, a lack of continuity during the development process, one has to assume. That’s not a condemnation of the work done by G.R.I.P., the company responsible for the bosses, who will have their own story to tell. As I said in my review of the game, the real story of how they happened will likely come out in a few years time, once enough people have moved on to be willing to explain. So why such a feature was outsourced, why there wasn’t a coherence between them and the rest of the game, and why they weren’t just ditched when it became clear they didn’t fit in, are questions that will perhaps one day be answered. But not yet. But as a magazine noticed, there’s a behind-the-scenes video with GRIP’s president discussing the battles that quietly appeared last month. So yes, this information was always out there. You can see it below.
It’s perhaps of note that the president of the company explains that he wasn’t familiar with Deus Ex. Because he’s “a shooter guy”. Which seems an odd explanation for apparently never having heard of the series’ reputation – something that seems impossible from within development.
If anything becomes clear as you watch, it’s just how disjointed the process was, and boy did it show.
Let’s not lose perspective, though. DX:HR was an extraordinary game. Just one with an odd puzzle that we’re beginning to solve. | <urn:uuid:5fc47397-360c-4a47-9942-5542b729deb1> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/19/deus-ex-hrs-boss-fights-were-outsourced/ | 2015-01-29T10:15:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121833101.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175033-00025-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978015 | 376 |
Dozens of letters penned by a fretting wife to her husband on the frontlines of the Yom Kippur War have finally been delivered, 48 years after they were mailed to him.
The 56 letters were found in a cupboard on a kibbutz from where they eventually reached Baruch “Buki” Snir, who had endured three months of war without hearing a word from his wife, Eti, who had been pregnant with their first-born son, the Kan public broadcaster reported on Thursday.
The discovery did not offer a definitive explanation as to why the letters were not originally delivered.
“It is unbelievable, simply unbelievable. Where were they all those years?” Eti Snir told the outlet during an interview in the Snirs’ home.
Buki was called up as a reservist on the first day of the war, October 6, 1973, and was sent to fight against the Egyptian army.
“I left my wife with a lot of problems,” he recalled. “It was a really difficult time.”
He told Kan of the horrors of war that he witnessed from battles with the Egyptians.
Eti, who was 23 at the time and left alone in their Tel Aviv home, moved in with her parents. Every day, she sent a letter — sometimes two — to her husband to inform him of developments back home and to keep his spirits up.
Yet Buki did not even receive a single one of them. Likewise, Eti received no information about her husband, while news from the front lines poured in about the setbacks, the fierce fighting and the high death toll.
Eti said that every day, she would go to the army office that deals with civilian relations to ask about her husband, noting that at the time, “I was hearing from friends that a lot of the guys were killed, and time was passing.”
“I knew that I was being missed, but I thought there was a problem with the post and I didn’t know why I wasn’t getting letters,” Buki said.
“Theoretically, you can live without letters, but only theoretically,” he said. “You are pretty miserable when for three months you don’t get anything and everyone around you does.”
During the interview, Eti tearfully read out some of the letters, in which she had described to her husband how she was trying to keep her spirits high despite the gloomy rumors from the front, and how she waited each day to see if Buki was coming home on leave, but in vain.
Waiting in line for a check-up while still pregnant, she wrote that she heard a woman say to a companion: “I really don’t know what is the point of bringing children into the world these days.”
“I stood there amazed. I wanted to answer them, but the subject of the conversation appalled me, I could barely hold back the tears,” Eti wrote at the time.
“I was sad last night because I thought you would come at last. Soon it will be three weeks that you haven’t been at home,” she wrote in another letter, not knowing it would be months before Buki eventually came back. “I waited all week to hear from you, from anyone who was on leave, but they didn’t call.”
On January 24, 1974 — nearly three months after the war, but as exchanges of fire continued — as Buki stood in a guard post listening to a radio, he said he learned from a broadcast that his son, Ido, had been born. But from his wife, nothing.
Buki then finally returned home, but there was no trace of the dozens of letters that Eti had written.
Almost five decades later, last week, Buki received a phone call from a man he had never met before, who asked him about his identity and his military past.
It was Eitan Tuvia, from Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the south of the country, whose uncle had recently died. As the family cleared his home, they found a bag containing the letters.
“It was military mail, I looked at the stamp and it was October ’73,” Tuvia told Kan.
Tuvia said that as soon as he found the letters, it was clear to him that he must do everything possible to find out who they belonged to. “It was a part of their lives that was missing,” Tuvia said. He was able to track down Buki, but the letters were addressed to “Baruch Naeh.”
When Tuvia asked Buki if that was his name, he confirmed the detail, adding that he had since changed his surname to Snir.
Tuvia pressed on and asked him for his IDF file number, the unique identifier every soldier gets. Buki’s response confirmed that the letters had indeed been addressed to him.
The letters were soon delivered to their intended recipient, 48 years after they were originally sent.
Tuvia said his uncle had been an armorer for Snir’s battalion serving in Ismailia, on the western bank of the Suez Canal in northeastern Egypt.
He said he did not know why the letters were not delivered in real-time.
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The summer fun time, silly season is here and it’s time to get your event kit ready, so your exhibition display is on point – so that it makes your business stand out from the competition. Display banners have a hard life getting dragged around to and fro, from exhibition to exhibition. The knocks of transit can take a toll on your banners and leave them looking tired and worn. When this happens it’s time to say goodbye and upgrade to a new set. After all, your business deserves the best of the best and a shiny new display is the best way to show off your business to the public.
In this post, I will go through the array of banners available, so when it comes time to upgrade your kit with a fresh new set you will have all the information you need.
Media walls will usually be the centre of your display and will feature your brand and message loud and proud. Media walls are big banners that will hang at the back of your display with your brand and logo clearly marked so there is no mistaking whose exhibition the patrons have just walked into. Media walls are a necessity in your display kit and the bigger the better, bearing in mind your space restrictions of course.
Custom flags are a great way of attracting attention to your stall, especially at outdoor events. The motion of flags moving in the breeze will add an extra element of attraction to your stall. Custom flags look great with clear branding flying full mast at your exhibition display. They are versatile and can be used in a variety of different applications and someone with a creative mind can have fun with them and use them how they see fit.
Portable Pull Up Banners
Portable pull up banners are standalone banners ideal for all locations, indoor and outdoor. I usually have about four to six of these in my kit of varying sizes. They are great for framing your display and adding depth. I usually put them on the outer perimeter at varying depths to add dimension and depth to a display.
There’s nothing worse than having a two-dimensional display that doesn’t engage the customer and is really easy to walk past. Portable pull up banners are so versatile and can be used in multiple ways such as directing traffic, drawing attention to the media wall, displaying vital information and any other way you can use them to enhance your display.
I often get my portable pull up banners printed displaying the separate colours of the logo and some information. So if my logo has three colours, I will get them printed in each colour with some branding. This will give you an extra element to play with when setting up your display. Try to think of your exhibition display holistically and from a design perspective. This will help you organise your display so it’s engaging and attractive to passers-by.
Promotional Flags and Bunting
Bunting is very handy to have in your exhibition display kit. Bunting can direct traffic to where you want it to go. The flickering bunting will also catch the eye of passers-by and attract them to your stall. They can also be set around the edge of your marque to frame the display.
We live in a visual culture and people like their senses to be engaged. Multimedia displays do exactly that. You may want to incorporate some video screens displaying your brand and information in the background near the media wall as well as have some audio running whether its music or information. Audio will attract people to your display and add another element.
If you are indoors, hanging displays are great to have in your arsenal. They have a big visual impact and make everything seem on a grand scale, while clearly displaying your logo. They are especially ideal for large convention centres and will have your display standing out from the crowds. The beauty of hanging displays is that they are omni directional, so no matter where someone is standing in the convention centre, your brand will be hanging high and will be visible from everywhere.
Hanging banners usually come in round or square shapes and are set up on a truss that is then winched up to the desired height. They are a must have for big shows where you really want to make an impact.
There you have it, some ideas for your next exhibition and some of the best gear to have in your display kit. Just remember to do some planning. You may even want to draw up exactly how you want your display to look before purchasing your supplies. Remember to purchase a few spares and some extra pull up banners so you can adjust your display according to the conditions. | <urn:uuid:2bcc6c2e-caf1-4d56-8210-5bb8d30f95b7> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | http://www.speakloud.com.au/freshen-up-your-display-banners-this-summer/ | 2020-07-04T21:32:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886706.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704201650-20200704231650-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.944503 | 924 |
One day in Ramadan this year, we experienced to see and hear the most relieving heartbeat ever when an empty sac in my belly turned into a sac with tiny creature inside. SubhanAllah wal hamdulillah! I went through uneasy time before that day. Physically, I had the nausea, back pain, stiff legs, and migraine alternately during the day. Mentally, I had less appetite to do anything and often questioned: am I suffering all these aches for ‘something’? with the baby wasn’t showing up yet, it was hard time to bear the pregnancy symptoms patiently. I spent the days to read many articles about empty sac and got prepared to receive any bad fate such as blighted ovum (涸死卵) or miscarried (流産)! Here I’d like to tell you that…
Facing all the possibilities in pregnancy may be not always easy to accept, but keep believe in The Creator who never makes anything reason-less. Be thankful to be trusted to get pregnant instead.
It was not the first super-anxious-two-weeks for me. Back to the past I had:
- Two weeks waiting for the next check up at OBGYN while expecting the bleeding to stop in my first pregnancy –> ended up in miscarriage at 6-7 weeks T_T
- Two weeks waiting from week 24 to week 26 for additional ultrasound to make sure whether the fetus in my womb normal or having problem since the ultrasound showed the bright color in the bowel area which could be chance for down syndrome (can you imagine how I felt?), cystic fibrosis, or nothing –> ended up healthy baby Musa 🙂
And still, we never know what’s going to happen later… so, for my self reminder and to the fellow expecting mothers out there, please be positive thinking. Our body is ourselves.
Based on resources I read and a little explanation from the doctor, invisible fetus in my case was probably caused by late ovulation (I have 40-days-cycle period) or the embryo was too small to be visible. Sometimes they do the ultrasound check too early , right?
Prophet Muhammad PBUH said
يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَنَا عِنْدَ ظَنِّ عَبْدِي بِي وَأَنَا مَعَهُ إِذَا ذَكَرَنِي
Allah the Exalted says: I am as my servant expects me and I am with him as he remembers me. (Source: Sahih al-Bukhari 6970)
In Japan, we require an ultrasound in every check-up from the first prenatal visit (even though you’re just four weeks pregnant!!!) to officially claim the pregnancy until the last visit before delivery. It’s much different compared to US standard which only requires at least ONE compulsory ultrasound to check gender (around 15-20 weeks). I’m going to write the next passages in Bahasa, so please check these references if you need some guides about being pregnant in Japan:
- Savvy Tokyo – 10 Must-Read Articles If You Are Pregnant in Japan (this covers many aspects you need to know from first prenatal visit, administration procedures, cost, to birth
- Pregnant In Japan: 15 Things They Do Differently (successfully made me giggled a lot! :D)
- Pregnant in Japan: Resources (tells you where to ask helps and buy baby/mom essentials)
- Last but not least, don’t forget to check your city’s homepage first before going to the clinic or hospital. There should be a lot of important information to read by newbie.
And if possible, choose the medical institution whose English-speaking staff to support your visit. A number of hospitals in Tokyo even have provided reading materials in English. | <urn:uuid:ae1c8664-94aa-436f-ae3e-9ea880ad7bac> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://ea5512.web.id/category/posts-born-here/parents-life/ | 2018-12-10T02:08:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823236.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210013115-20181210034615-00290.warc.gz | en | 0.939038 | 857 |
Used car data provider CAP has been put up for sale by Emap for an estimated £150 million.
Emap, which is now owned by Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners, bought CAP for £20 million in 1994. It is believed Emap has been approached by an interested party in purchasing the price guide company.
The Guardian said the sale of CAP will help Emap to pay off its debts.
Guardian Media Group, which also publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk, and Apax bought Emap in December 2007 for about £1bn, with both companies subsequently forced to write down the value of the investment.
Mike Hind, CAP communications manager told AM: "We’re a month away from bringing Black Book Live to market and the biggest investment in CAP for many years is already under way so, in truth, everyone is too busy to be distracted by stories of a possible sale.
"Yesterday’s announcement of the strategic restructure of the old Emap to form ‘Top Right Group’ and the rebranding of our division from Emap Insight to ‘4C’ means our customers will certainly start to see some branding changes but day to day operations will not be affected.
"The fact is that, under private equity ownership, a business is technically ‘up for sale’ if the right price is offered at almost any point. We’re used to stories like this and they never divert us from the job in hand." | <urn:uuid:6c33ab7e-9114-44f5-9d22-66eacd0c7ef9> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.am-online.com/news/2012/3/29/cap-up-for-sale-but-it-s-business-as-usual/30744/ | 2014-04-20T10:47:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609538423.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005218-00357-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965412 | 307 |
Point of sale (POS) systems are one of the most critical business tools for restaurant operators like you. They are powerful operating systems — but the functionality, associated fees and contracts can be complex. To help educate you and others in the restaurant industry, the National Restaurant Association offers our “8 Essential Elements” series for understanding POS systems and ownership. Use this information to educate yourself about POS practices and how you can protect your business — and your bottom line — from common POS pitfalls.
- 8 Essential Elements of Card Processing Costs
- 8 Essential Elements of POS System Ownership
- Tools to help you purchase your POS System
An inspiring TED talk on the reach and impact of restaurant culture: | <urn:uuid:9a55d009-9141-4699-8549-3a2734cbbaea> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://ponsys.com/index/?page_id=255 | 2021-03-03T23:22:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178367949.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303230849-20210304020849-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.921762 | 141 |
Patch Route is a utility to create diagrams. It was originally created for studio musicians to detail the connections between pieces of equipment. It has since had networking equipment added for when you need to create a quick network diagram.
Pieces of equipment on the screen can be connected and the links will following movement of items. Text can be added to diagrams and dragged around as well.
The equipment database can be customized to create items with whatever name you wish to give them.
Export of diagrams via email (PNG image) is supported as well.
If you'd like more icons, email email@example.com and I'll see what I can do.
Black icon design by Sun Kissed Designs, http://sunkisseddesigns.com
Some icons used under Creative Commons License from Open Security Architecture.
Give those guys a visit, they're doing good things. | <urn:uuid:27589635-068f-4afc-9122-04397fd2a1a7> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://www.apppicker.com/apps/523468675/patch-route | 2018-10-24T03:51:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583518753.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20181024021948-20181024043448-00401.warc.gz | en | 0.948969 | 182 |
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When Jamie Summerlin felt the calling to do something more meaningful with his life, the Marine Corps veteran came up with an extreme idea. His desire to bring attention and assistance to wounded veterans led to a 100-day, 3,452-mile run across America. His journey was intended to inspire those who sacrificed for America’s freedom, but along the way Summerlin realized he was the one being inspired. Freedom Run not only tells the story of Summerlin’s amazing run across America and his attempt to raise awareness and money for charitable organizations that serve wounded U.S. veterans, but it reveals the heartfelt stories of the many veterans he met along the way. Beginning in Coos, Oregon, and ending in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Summerlin’s trek across the nation and the stories of the veterans he encountered serve as an inspiring and eye-opening tale of courage, determination, and honor in America.
The book features 52 high-quality color images of Jamie's run across America.
"Feedom Run is a captivating book that is not only a story of one man’s amazing run across the US, but also a story about the true American spirit. My family and I have hearts of prayer for those who have fought for our country, so I was humbled to read about how Jamie Summerlin has used a sport that has meant so much to me to give back to our veterans.”
— Jim Ryun, former U.S. Rep., 3-time Olympian, and world-recordholder
Freedom Run is Jamie Summerlin’s inspiring story of how he set out to run across America to help wounded warriors, found himself along the way and proved that one person can make a difference by bringing us together to champion the common good that is in all of us.”
Marshall Ulrich, extreme endurance athlete, trans-American crosser and author of Running on Empty
A portion of the proceeds will benefit veteran-focused charitable organizations.
Learn more about the author, his cause, and how you can help!
News and Reviews
- Follow and bookmark this link for news about Jamie Summerlin's Freedom Run
- Fox News - Annapolis, MD - interview with Summerlin in the final stretch of his 3,452-mile "freedom run." Watch here
- Follow this link to view the archived site from Summerlin's coast-to-coast run across America
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Random but!! I was going through the App Store for the my Apple Watch and is blow away by the cost of most of them. Not sure if the rest of the app that don’t work with the Apple Watch are up there in cost but apps used to be anywhere from free to $0.99-1.99 or about $4 or more for specialty. But wow.
When you have had a roller coaster of emotions and feelings (anxiety was on high) all week. On top of putting down a cat. And you put all the in to trying to keep your anxiety down and your pms is really bad that you think it messing with how your medication ( mostly for my ADHD Focus/attention span) you just work your butt off and go to thing to thing to thing. But things got done and will still and all was be a thing to continue to do. I made it this week and didn’t give into or feel sorry for my self.
There’s a lot of thing a lot of you don’t know about me. Bc I don’t talk about it. Bc I need you all to see me for me and not what I have to deal with in my mind each day. Some days are good other’s days I just can’t deal with people. It’s not anyone bad. But having to be at war with your mind each day is like war. And you don’t what to see the unspeakable of what war does to the body of the injured or killed. I’m not trying to be fake when I’m out. I’m just trying/ working hard to not do something dum or just lose it when I have a not so good day. I’m just being strong as fu€k | <urn:uuid:6f8685a2-d4a6-443b-88df-edb925b8707b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://keshiamfowler.wordpress.com/ | 2016-05-28T20:01:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278091.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00143-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974452 | 381 |
Nick had his first game of soccer this year. The season had already started a good few weeks ago,although he hasn't played because he rolled off my swiss ball and broke a bone in his shoulder!!!
Yes I know it sounds really good, with me having a swiss ball and everything, and does conjure up images of a fit busy mother, but here is the thing. I haven't actually used the swiss ball yet. But I have to say it makes quite a good foot rest whilst I sit in front of the tele! I have good intentions, but my husband keeps telling me the road to hell is paved with good intentions. So I suppose the only way to go is up then!
Anyway I digress...
Nicks game. Blackpool (9th grade) won 2 nil, and I can't remember what the other team is called, because apart from the odd, "great shot", or "go Blackpool go!" yelled from the sideline, I spent most of the game chatting with one of the other mothers. But the point Im trying to make here is that winter is on its way. We have had a cold blast from the South and you can feel it. The scarfs are out, and Iv'e lost my gumboots, so its a trip to the Warehouse to buy another pair, because I know from experience that by the months end, we will be standing ankle deep in mud! I have made a mental note to buy some warm 'sideline clothes', because there is nothing worse than freezing at your childs soccer game and trying to muster the enthusiasm to cheer on the team and pat the Player of the Day on the back at the end of it all.
However apart from what seems like a cold miserable prospect on the horizon, I do love the prospect of getting home on a Saturday morning, with a frozen face and muddy kids, to a big stock pot full of homemade vegetable soup, and a roaring fire. We have had a brilliant summer, but the thought of a tucking down for the winter, and eating winter fare, whilst Mike brings in the firewood, brings me great joy!!
Footnote: Around July or August my opinion may have changed somewhat, and I will be looking forward to summer once more. However for now I am happy to look with aniticipation to a New Zealand winter!!! | <urn:uuid:9a9ce143-24bb-416d-b770-67af22e16cf5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lizzj.blogspot.com/2008/05/soccer-soup-and-roaring-fire.html | 2017-06-27T15:33:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.978843 | 482 |
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