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The second meeting of the Get Together With Technology (GTT) Edmonton group was held June 8at 7pm at the Ascension Lutheran Church 8405 83 Street in Edmonton.
Approximately 20 people attended most of whom were blind or visually impaired.
Gerry Chevalier, the GTT Edmonton coordinator, explained some logistics for future meetings.
GTT meetings will be every second Monday of the month at 7pm so the next one is July 13.
We meet in the basement meeting hall.
Please enter the church from the back door only. There is parking at the back and drop off space for taxis, DATS.
Try to arrive between 6:45pm and 7:15pm at which time the door will be locked. If you arrive late there is a door bell to the right of the outside door.
If you have someone helping you your assistant is welcome to remain for the meeting.
Gerry Chevalier is blind. He is retired from HumanWare where he worked as the Product Manager for the Victor Reader line of talking book players.
with the challenges of finding employment.
Carrie Anton is visually impaired and is the accessibility specialist for Athabasca University.
Russell Solowoniuk is blind and is the accessibility specialist for Grant MacEwan University.
Lorne Weber is blind and is the accessibility specialist for Norquest College.
GTT is sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB).
CCB now has GTT chapters in Ottawa, Victoria, and Nanaimo.
There is a national GTT monthly teleconference as well.
Each meeting will have a feature technology discussed in the first hour and general question and answer about any other technology in the second hour.
Small groups or even one on one assistance is possible at the meetings.
Participants are encouraged to come to each meeting even if they are not interested in the feature topic because the second hour is for any and all questions.
The more participants the better able we will be equipped with the talent and experience to help each other.
Participants decide what the feature topic will be for the next meeting.
a possible HumanWare workshop at the September meeting. Watch this space!
Carrie’s phone and she then demonstrated how to type a reply text using both the standard split-tap typing and direct typing methods available on the iPhone.
do calculations, convert measurements, etc. all without the need to type anything.
sold under the Blindfold brand name available from Kid Friendly Software through the app store.
Continued blind user iPhone discussion including hands on try-out by first time users.
Continued iPhone discussion by low vision users.
The group would like to discuss the use of social networking programs Facebook and Twitter using PC, MAC, and iPhone which we will do in the first hour.
In the second hour breakout groups will discuss any topic you wish. Please bring your technology and your questions.
There was also interest expressed in learning about GPS. At the July meeting we may be able to take small groups outside to experience GPS orientation.
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Tina: I wrote my 1st song at age 11. I haven’t stopped since!
What musical artists have inspired your music?
Tina: The Police, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Aerosmith, The Clash and Queen are some favs.
Do you have a favorite song that you’ve written or like to perform?
Tina: I love performing my 1st single “Who’s Got Your Money?” live, because it is such a great sing-a-long, but also “Going Under” – it is fun and energetic!
I read that you like to travel. Where have you been so far, and what places are your favorites?
Tina: I’ve been to a lot of European cities… I love Paris and London. As far as the US, I went to Texas for the 1st time recently and I loved it!
You’ve also said you enjoy designing your own clothes; do you have any interest in a future fashion line?
Tina: Absolutely. The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!
How have you grown musically since you started this industry?
Tina: I’ve become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!
Tina: I refuse to answer that!!! I’m made for this.
Tina: I don’t watch much TV because I’m a very active person. I get up early. I love cooking, walking around NYC, hanging with friends. I looooove going out to restaurants of all sorts. I just dig exploring. | 2019-04-22T17:26:23 | https://www.fanbolt.com/23763/interview-tina-parol/ |
HMS were engaged by Social Landlord Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) to deliver £1.2m essential fire protection upgrades to over 600 of the association’s residential blocks across Liverpool. HMS’ comprehensive approach is designed to restrict the spread of a possible fire through a combination of new fire curtains, fire access doors, fire-rated ladders and additional fire stopping works in loft spaces.
LMH have refurbished all their communal spaces over the last ten years and are keen to ensure that all customers homes where possible exceed the latest fire protection guidance. Fire risk assessments have recently been undertaken by specialists across the city who have specified fire protection improvements to communal areas that will further combat the spread of fire or smoke.
HMS faced a number of challenges during the project. The properties, spread across Liverpool, included many different architectural styles and internal layouts. No two blocks of flats were the same, so the teams had to adapt fire protection solutions on a property by property basis.
Despite these challenges, the team has completed works to 376 blocks in less than 9 months. Following positive feedback from the client for the initial £700,000 project, a further £500,000 will potentially be invested over the coming financial year to upgrade another 250 homes. | 2019-04-24T02:38:31 | https://www.hmsworks.co.uk/case_study/fire-risk-assessments |
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An insightful post by John Sloat on Information Week's Web site uses the example of Australian airline Qantas (disclosure: a TPI client) to make the point that today's information leaders need to be able to juggle their own homegrown projects with managing multiple, even overlapping, sourcing relations with outside vendors.
Gone are the days when CIOs were judged solely on their ability to deliver and maintain new systems. Now the performance review measures whether the CIO can balance a technology strategy with a comprehensive "resourcing" plan to deliver the Three Cs: topflight Capabilities, desired Capacity and best Cost.
Few companies believe they can get all three without turning to outside providers, which is how CIOs took on the extra responsibility of managing a portfolio of external resources.
From my vantage, the progressive CIOs are dedicating significant time to their resourcing strategies, trying to get everything in line with the overall business plan.
Any astute CIO knows that outsourcing has to be considered as a service-delivery option. It certainly is the appropriate choice when an external firm can do a job better than you can. But the hard work only begins at this point. Managing the seams between outsourced service and internal function is more art than science.
Look for the stock of the most artful CIOs to keep climbing. | 2019-04-18T18:22:01 | https://isg-one.com/articles/new-breed-todays-cio-must-manage-sourcing-portfolio-too |
Hi friends, and welcome to the party!! I am so happy you joined us today. Thank you so much for sharing with us last week. There were so many great projects.
Inlinkz is doing maintenance from 6:00 to 10:00 PM today! The exact time the party usually starts. I am posting early, because I cannot find any information on how it will effect actually linking up. I am assuming since their website will be done, there will be no linking up during that time.
If you do stop by between those times and cant link up, please come back after 10:00 CST tonight. Hopefully everything will be completed by then. I don't want to miss your awesome posts.
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I have finally finished with my Christmas decorations! YAY!!
Beachwood Place created this beautiful pearl pillow. I love it!
Southern Seazons shared her beautiful Woodland Christmas mantel and decor.
I love this beautiful Blessing tree and winter whimsy tablescape by My Thrift Store Addiction.
2 Perfection Decor shared her gorgeous Dining Room makeover.
I have been wanting to stencil my deck, and this awesome painted paisley stenciled floor by Simply Vintageous is awesome! Now I really want to do this!!
Shoestring Elegance shared a great way to make this ruffled holiday apron. Too cute!!
These quick and easy Mini Chicken Pot Pies by Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom are my kind of meal.
Honey, Lamb and I shared these yummy Peppermint Hot Cocoa Crepes.
Platter Talk shared these awesome Holiday Wonton Kisses great for your holiday parties.
The Athletic Avocado shared these perfect for Christmas morning Pumpkin Cranberry French Toast.
Pinned some amazing Christmas projects and recipes. I just can't get enough even though I have no time to do it all. I need to do Christmas all year! Thanks for hosting.
Thanks for another great party, Kathy!
Kathy, thank you for the lovely party, I appreciate you!
Thanks for the feature of my woodland Christmas and thanks for hosting!!
All of your most viewed links are amazing. I still can't believe Suzan stenciled a whole floor but I think it would make a beautiful desk top! Thank you so much for hosting. I hope you are enjoying the season.
Another great party, Kathy and those features are fabulous!
Happy Party Day! Thanks so much for hosting!
Hi Kathy, Thank you so much for featuring my ruffled apron makeover! I appreciate it and you so much. You always have such a beautiful blog for me come share with & such wonderful inspiration! I hope you are having a beautiful week!
Hi Kathy! Great round-up! So many wonderful recipes and projects to try! It's always nice to meet a fellow Southern blogger! Do you live in ALabama? Thanks for sharing! Blessings from Bama! | 2019-04-19T22:36:15 | http://www.lifeonlakeshoredrive.com/2014/12/bouquet-of-talent-party-and-top-views.html?showComment=1417976842803 |
Firstly, We used error-prone PCR to induce mutations on Armillariella tabescens MAN47 β-mannanase gene, Secondly, we cloned the mutated fragments into secreted expression vector pYCα, Then the recombinant plasmids were transformed into Saccharomyces cerevisiae BJ5465 after amplified and extracted in DH5α cells. Through three cycles of error-prone PCR we built a mutant database, Then we screened one optimum (named M262) from about 104 mutants. The evoluted MAN47 β-mannanase displayed both higher thermal stability and activity than wide type. The evoluted enzyme M262 retained high activity after treatment at 80oC for 30 min, whereas, the wild type nearly lost activity under this condition. Meanwhile, the activity of M262 can reach to 25?U/mL, which is 4.3 times as wide type under optimum temperature. In addition, pH stability and pH range of evoluted enzyme M262 were both improved compared with wild-type enzyme. The optimum pH was estimated to be similar to that of wild-type enzyme. The sequence comparison illustrated that there were three nucleotide substitutions (T343A/C827T/T1139C) which carried corresponding amino acid changes (Ser115Thr/Thr276Met/Val380Ala). According to homologous modeling by SWISS-MODEL Repository, three mutated amino acids located at the sixth amino acid of the fourth β-sheet, the first amino acid of the sixth a-helix, the turn between the tenth and eleventh β-sheet, respectively. | 2019-04-23T10:49:56 | http://journals.im.ac.cn/cjbcn/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=gc09001900&flag=1 |
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In reply to: Beman Dawes: "Review: Boost.Threads"
Next in thread: Ed Brey: "Re: [boost] Review: Boost.Threads"
> Acknowledgements page in the docs.
> are particularly important to me.
> been beaten to death and it is time to move forward.
> marginally useful features and functions as happens all too often.
> entirely or move it to an implementation namespace.
> done with a blanket "any function may throw std::bad_alloc"
> seem to me to need to allow throwing thread_resource_error.
list of things to correct.
> * class thread_resource_error needs documentation.
> * class xtime needs documentation.
Both were supposed to be documented, and I failed on this one.
others can comment on the changes before the review is over.
> not as part of the library itself.
it as an example, because a queue isn't really a threading concept.
> and get them to contribute their implementations to Boost.
> looked at seems reasonable and meets our agreed upon guidelines.
> some other reviewer will go over the code with a fine-toothed comb.
Especially those with MT experience! | 2019-04-18T16:55:59 | https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2001/09/16864.php |
What do you do? Playwright, fight director, director, educator, and doctoral candidate at Tufts University.
How long have you been working in Boston? About eight years.
What’s your earliest theatre memory? Going to a play about Jim Thorpe during an assembly in elementary school.
What’s your first theatre memory in Boston? Fight directing In The Blood at Brandeis when I first got here.
Why do you stay? Because I can work on multiple areas of theatre at once. And it’s a great place to be a scholar.
What was your first job in the theatre? Parking lot attendent. Very glamorous.
What’s the best meal you’ve ever had before a show? An absolutely amazing steak.
What’s your favorite rehearsal snack? If I’m in a long choreography rehearsal I tend to use Gu energy gels. Either double chocolate or espresso flavor.
Do you eat before you go on stage or do you wait until after your performance to eat? I tend not to be onstage very much anymore. If I were to act again I’d probably still take gels.
The Boston Theatre Conference is focusing on the lively, lush and local aspects of our theatre community. What do you think? I am all in favor of alliteration.
This entry was posted on January 7, 2011, 10:00 am and is filed under Lively Lush & Local Artist Q&A. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-20T07:02:54 | https://bostontheatreconference.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/getting-lively-lush-local-with-meron-langsner/ |
This year marks the third anniversary of the British Ceramics Biennial, which showcases the best design, art and craft in the medium at various venues across Stoke-on-Trent.
Christie Brown, Sleepover detail (group of 23) figures installed in the Freud Museum, 2012.
More than 150 practitioners are taking part in this year’s event, with exhibitions, installations and events that aim to highlight British ceramics, as well as Stoke-on-Trent’s creative heritage.
According to organisers, the 2013 edition celebrates ‘the role of the individual artist, inviting them to explore, create and curate’.
This looks to make for a more interactive visitor experience, with a working ceramic studio and a programme of workshops for guests to take part in.
The Biennial’s hub is sited in the former Spode factory in Stoke town, where highlights include the China Hall Pavilions – a series of structures created by artists and designers in response to their own previous work.
Zachary Eastwood, Bloom, Digital Earth.
As in previous years, the Fresh exhibition will showcase UK ceramics graduates.
The Exploring Spode space, meanwhile, features responses to the factory space itself, including poet and writer Holly Corfield Carr’s texts embedded in the building.
Part of the Bergen Academy of art and design residency. ‘Topologies of the Obsolete, Vociferous Void’ 2013.
Elsewhere, a number of buildings formerly shut-off from the public have been opened up by a group of 30 researchers from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHIB) in Norway.
Other new offers for the 2013 event include Film Room, houses screenings of ceramic-relevant moving image works, and a gallery shop.
James and Tilla Waters, Naked Tea Set. | 2019-04-22T06:59:00 | https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/september-2013/stoked-on-trent/ |
Social media couldn’t be any more important than it is today. We live and breathe social media and our phones are never far from our grasp. Each part of our day is played out on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for the world to see. Until recently, social media was used purely to connect with friends, share photos of our holidays, meals and events we’ve been to. But now it’s evolved into a vital tool for businesses of all kinds and it’s possible to build a career on social media – bloggers and vloggers being the perfect example.
That’s where I come in. Although I’m trained as a copywriter, I have found social media management to be the most popular service I offer to clients. All businesses are now expected to have active social media accounts to go along with their websites. It allows existing and potential clients to keep in touch with what you’re up to and benefit from offers you advertise. | 2019-04-23T14:34:59 | https://lbcreativelondon.co.uk/services/social-media-management/ |
One aspect of reading fluency is automaticity. Students see a word and just say it-- they no longer have to sound it out. In the classroom, primary teachers work on this constantly, but what about reading in the real world. It's hard to read a word if the font used is not the same as the Times New Roman and Comic Sans students see every day in the classroom.
With all the computer fonts and graphic design programs out there, the same letter can look vastly different depending on the font choice. Children need to be familiar with many different visual forms of the same letter. For example, the letter "g" can look very different depending on the font.
And that's just the lowercase letter. Don't forget there are many version of the uppercase too. | 2019-04-21T16:05:11 | https://www.smekenseducation.com/Recognizing-Print-Styles-Increa.html |
These two charts depict the same index (DJIA) over the same time frame, but they reflect two stories and two economies.
Long-time correspondent Harun I. recently submitted two charts of the stock market that suggest two different stories--and these two stories suggest two different economies.
The first story is the one the Federal Reserve wants us to believe: the economy is expanding smartly without inflation or deflation--in effect, a Goldilocks economy that is enabling expanding profits and margins, which have pushed stocks ever higher.
In summary, this is the happy story.
The other story is the Fed's nightmare scenario: the stock market's expansion is exhausted and poised to decline. This story is one of an economy that never expanded in meaningful fashion, and a stock market rigged to rise by unprecedented intervention (i.e.manipulation) by the Fed.
This is the not-so-happy story.
These two charts depict the same index (Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over the same time frame, but they reflect two stories and two economies. These divergent stories are possible because the data supports two parallel universes: one in which the booming market is held up as evidence the overall economy is expanding to everyone's benefit, and the other a manipulated market that has expanded not as a reflection of growth but of a staggering loss of purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and a central bank transfer of wealth from the many to the few who own the majority of financial assets.
Below are two charts of the DJIA. The periodicity is yearly, i.e. each bar is one year. One is arithmetic and one is log. They present two dramatically different perspectives.
The log chart puts gains into a relative context and I use them extensively. However, the one drawback I find is that they are a poor indicator of psychology when using the bars to gauge sentiment.
The log chart indicates nothing unusual but the arithmetic chart indicates that we should be asking ourselves whether last year’s bar suggests a high probability of exhaustion. The log chart allows the Fed and others to claim, “see, no ‘flation”, i.e., no inflation or deflation of any sort.
Yet when we look at the relative strength charts and see that when measured against gold and equities, commodities are, in many instances, at all time lows.
The cheers go up--if you are of the small percentage of people who own these assets (gold and equities). But if you are one of the 99.90%, everything has gone up except your paycheck; 1 out of every 6 are on food stamps. In the case of the majority, inflation is everywhere. If you're in the one-third of the working age population that is unemployed, there is no hope in sight.
The arithmetic chart, on the other hand, shouts, "Warning, something is really wrong here!" It says that either the wealthiest people (those who own equities) are really excited about the economy's growth opportunities, or they are fearful and taking advantage of the transfer of wealth being orchestrated by the government via the Fed.
One can choose which narrative best fits. To paraphrase former president Clinton, it just depends what on your definition of is, is.
Thank you, Harun, for explaining the two narratives the charts tell. I suspect the divergent stories will be compressed into one narrative in the next few years: either the overall economy matches the optimistic forecast of the stock market, or the market declines to the recessionary stagnation of the Main Street economy.
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I've had this book on my iPod for the longest time. After trying to read Neuromancer, one of the first books to define the term "cyberpunk" as a science fiction sub-genre, I wasn't sure if I could get through this. But good reviews made me reconsider and I had a long bus ride and I wasn't up for going through my current affairs podcasts. I'm glad that I did listen to it - while the writing is choppy and the characters are nerds, it's a book of ideas, dealing with the issue of the internet, how the cyber-culture changes or creates relationships, and security.
Anyway, the book is about Cayce, a woman who is a high-end marketing consult, who because of a phobia, knows what logos will take off. She also is one of a growing movement of people obsessed by "The Footage," a series of internet movies that appear randomly on the web. She is hired to find out who "The Maker" is - but she's conflicted by the idea. Although she wants to know, she doesn't know or trust the motives of those she's working with.
Meeting the Maker is the strongest part of the book. Those scenes are full of a 'sense of wonder,' what science fiction tries to create in its pages. There's a funny bit about creating internet personas, but also a chilling big when one of Cayce's offhand forum posts sets the stage for trouble.
Tying things up in the last quarter of the book are very weak, and a last 'talking heads' segment is a big infodump. | 2019-04-25T22:20:02 | http://chanphengjournal.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-4-pattern-recognition-by-william.html |
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Do you use appropriate words at the appropriate time?
One Great Philospher has said that – ‘Words are your slave until and unless you do not utter them, you become slaves of your words once you have spoken them’. I think this ‘thought’ appear very correct. If we utter some unpleasant or nastry words, our spoken words may land us in deep trouble. On the other hand when we use positive and pleasant words, it creates magical effect on the others. I feel appropriate use of words at appropriate time can make or mar our relations with someone. Do you feel that slip of toungue can sometimes be very costly so much and so that it can spoil our relations with someone very badly? Please share your thoughts with me! Thanks in advance.
Absolutely right and this fits much when words are used during acute anger.I always think before i speak specially when iam in an anger mood.I know that words hurt someone so much than lashes hence i use them very carefully.If something geos beyond extreme and my anger is in such a stage of outburst..i never loose words which can hurt one badly and keep calm inorder to maintain the smooth relationship i have with them to go in a long run. So as when iam in a happy mood i express my words with happiness so as it pleases someone.A right appreciation is necessary with good wordings to praise someone.
Mimpi! I agree with you that appropriate use of our toungue can make or break a relationship. I try to be careful while using words, but sometime I commit mistakes, which in the long run proves very costly for me. I wish I could be more dimploatic and could learn diplomacy. I agree that difference in language culture can sometimes create communication gap, causing unnecessary trouble. Thanks sooooooooooo much for appriciating the topic. You made my day and your constant encouragement always keeps me on the high. :):) Have a great day!
Deepak, As far as i have seen your posts here in mylot , i get that you are genuine and truthful with your words. you are the kind of person who would never hurt anyone with harsh words. You are one of the few users here who is most decent and I really appreciate it.
exactly.i feel our words express our personality.according to my near ones i am very diplomatic while answering whereas according to myself i speak my heart and mind but yes in refined manner so as to i don't hurt anybody's sentiments.
I wish that I could be diplomatic as you are. I am very straightforward, though I try to use appropirate words for an appropriate occasion, yet sometimes I falter and lend myself into trouble, by speaking truth. I need to learn diplomacy, will you please help? Deepak Have a nice day!
I believe you are wise enough to use appropriate words at an appropriate occasion.
Appropriate words always do magic. When my son loved a girl, who belonged to different caste, her mother did not give way. I just said, "give me your daughter, I will take care of her like my own, PLEASE", you know what, immediately she agreed for the marriage. Many a times I noticed this. Words create great effect in the minds of people. But they should really come from your heart and you should mean them.
Thanks! You did the most appropriate thing by using approprate words on that occasion. You deserve all the praise for your gesture.
One should have good vacabulary in order to speak well by using appropriate words. I love to use appropriate words to make my talk more interesting and yields results.
i can't agree with you any more. in china, we have an old saying, say human being's words to people and nonsense to goast (i don't know whether the translation is right or not). USing appropriate words at the appropriate time is a kind of arts.It's hard to learn it but it's useful. As for me,I am not a talktive girl and i also don't know how to praise people, but i am honesty. In fact, being honesty is not enough when entering into society and sometimes appropriate praise is necessary. So i think i have a lot to learn on talking.
Hello deepak! I do agree with you. Sometimes, words that came out on our mouth reflect our personality. If we are saying nasty words, people will think we are rude or something. I always, watch whatever words that came out to me especially when giving compliments because I don't want to offend someone.
Hello! Aisa! I am very sure that you think carefully before saying anything to anyone. You appear to me a very mature and wise person and if you can control your anger, you can win many battles and arguments. Hats off to you. I am very lucky to someone as you my frined, because I can learn from you. Thanks so much for taking time to reply to my discussions.
thanks deepak..I am glad I found such a good friend like you..
Aisa! Hello! You are most welcome and you are also so nice, it is mutual respect and regards.
Some tribes in Mindanao consider words as the breath of the soul. Hence, if you speak, your soul, your body, your face, your mind also speak. Your word is you: body and soul. That's why Indigenous People who have not been corrupted by "modernity" or by media "spin" are afraid to speak. More so the Tribal Chieftain who speaks for the Ancestral Domain. Ancestral Domain is a concept that encompasses not only territory but also all the things living and inanimate in the territory of the tribe as well as the present generation of the living, the spirit of the Ancestors (called those who traveled ahead of us) and the generations that will be born. You can imagine the awesome responsibility of the Tribal Chieftain who caters to this belief. S/He will speak with dread and trepidation for fear of making mistakes, for how do you divine the wishes of the Ancestors and those as yet unborn?
Bantilesroger! I am really pleasently astounded to read your responses. You sound so professional and you have tried to answer it in a superb manner. I did not know that words could also be considered breath of soul. I agree that use of appropriate words could make or mar a relationship. Full marks to you for your response.
doing the right thing at the right time.i have yet tolearn that diplomatic way of handling words.
Here the issue being discussed is regarding using appropriate words at the right time. Doing the right things at the right time is a larger issue, which is difficult to attain by everyone. Hopefully, you use appropriate words at the appropriate time.
I am a very impulsive (not a bad)person.I am used to reacting fast in love and war.So I have this habit of spilling the beans fast.
Yeh, i am difinitely agree with you. We should becareful in using a words. If we don't think before saying it. It can really affect our relationship with someone. We dealing different attitudes and personalities so we can't please everybody. Nasty , insulting, contradicting, debating words. Those words can make you bad. Think first before you say it.
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Recently there has been much concern with the ability of plants to uptake heavy metals from their surroundings. With the development of instrumental techniques with low detection limits such as inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), attention is shifting toward achieving faster and more elegant ways of oxidizing the organic material inherent in environmental samples. Closed-vessel microwave dissolution was compared with conventional methods for the determination of concentrations of cerium, samarium, europium, terbium, uranium and thorium in a series of samples from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and from fields in Idaho. The ICP-MS technique exhibited detection limits in parts-per-trillion and linear calibration plots over three orders of magnitude for the elements under study. The results obtained by using nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide in a microwave digestion system for the analysis of reference materials showed close agreement with the accepted values. These values were compared with results obtained from dry- and wet-ashing procedures. The findings from an experiment comparing radiometric techniques for the determination of actinide elements to ICP-MS are reported.
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1Center for Data Science, New York University, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA.
2Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, 6 King's College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada.
3Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Center for Data Science, New York University, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, 6 King's College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Not only do children learn effortlessly, they do so quickly and with a remarkable ability to use what they have learned as the raw material for creating new stuff. Lake et al. describe a computational model that learns in a similar fashion and does so better than current deep learning algorithms. The model classifies, parses, and recreates handwritten characters, and can generate new letters of the alphabet that look “right” as judged by Turing-like tests of the model's output in comparison to what real humans produce.
Despite remarkable advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, two aspects of human conceptual knowledge have eluded machine systems. First, for most interesting kinds of natural and man-made categories, people can learn a new concept from just one or a handful of examples, whereas standard algorithms in machine learning require tens or hundreds of examples to perform similarly. For instance, people may only need to see one example of a novel two-wheeled vehicle (Fig. 1A) in order to grasp the boundaries of the new concept, and even children can make meaningful generalizations via “one-shot learning” (1–3). In contrast, many of the leading approaches in machine learning are also the most data-hungry, especially “deep learning” models that have achieved new levels of performance on object and speech recognition benchmarks (4–9). Second, people learn richer representations than machines do, even for simple concepts (Fig. 1B), using them for a wider range of functions, including (Fig. 1, ii) creating new exemplars (10), (Fig. 1, iii) parsing objects into parts and relations (11), and (Fig. 1, iv) creating new abstract categories of objects based on existing categories (12, 13). In contrast, the best machine classifiers do not perform these additional functions, which are rarely studied and usually require specialized algorithms. A central challenge is to explain these two aspects of human-level concept learning: How do people learn new concepts from just one or a few examples? And how do people learn such abstract, rich, and flexible representations? An even greater challenge arises when putting them together: How can learning succeed from such sparse data yet also produce such rich representations? For any theory of learning (4, 14–16), fitting a more complicated model requires more data, not less, in order to achieve some measure of good generalization, usually the difference in performance between new and old examples. Nonetheless, people seem to navigate this trade-off with remarkable agility, learning rich concepts that generalize well from sparse data.
Fig. 1 People can learn rich concepts from limited data.
This paper introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, capable of learning a large class of visual concepts from just a single example and generalizing in ways that are mostly indistinguishable from people. Concepts are represented as simple probabilistic programs— that is, probabilistic generative models expressed as structured procedures in an abstract description language (17, 18). Our framework brings together three key ideas—compositionality, causality, and learning to learn—that have been separately influential in cognitive science and machine learning over the past several decades (19–22). As programs, rich concepts can be built “compositionally” from simpler primitives. Their probabilistic semantics handle noise and support creative generalizations in a procedural form that (unlike other probabilistic models) naturally captures the abstract “causal” structure of the real-world processes that produce examples of a category. Learning proceeds by constructing programs that best explain the observations under a Bayesian criterion, and the model “learns to learn” (23, 24) by developing hierarchical priors that allow previous experience with related concepts to ease learning of new concepts (25, 26). These priors represent a learned inductive bias (27) that abstracts the key regularities and dimensions of variation holding across both types of concepts and across instances (or tokens) of a concept in a given domain. In short, BPL can construct new programs by reusing the pieces of existing ones, capturing the causal and compositional properties of real-world generative processes operating on multiple scales.
In addition to developing the approach sketched above, we directly compared people, BPL, and other computational approaches on a set of five challenging concept learning tasks (Fig. 1B). The tasks use simple visual concepts from Omniglot, a data set we collected of multiple examples of 1623 handwritten characters from 50 writing systems (Fig. 2)(see acknowledgments). Both images and pen strokes were collected (see below) as detailed in section S1 of the online supplementary materials. Handwritten characters are well suited for comparing human and machine learning on a relatively even footing: They are both cognitively natural and often used as a benchmark for comparing learning algorithms. Whereas machine learning algorithms are typically evaluated after hundreds or thousands of training examples per class (5), we evaluated the tasks of classification, parsing (Fig. 1B, iii), and generation (Fig. 1B, ii) of new examples in their most challenging form: after just one example of a new concept. We also investigated more creative tasks that asked people and computational models to generate new concepts (Fig. 1B, iv). BPL was compared with three deep learning models, a classic pattern recognition algorithm, and various lesioned versions of the model—a breadth of comparisons that serve to isolate the role of each modeling ingredient (see section S4 for descriptions of alternative models). We compare with two varieties of deep convolutional networks (28), representative of the current leading approaches to object recognition (7), and a hierarchical deep (HD) model (29), a probabilistic model needed for our more generative tasks and specialized for one-shot learning.
Fig. 2 Simple visual concepts for comparing human and machine learning.
525 (out of 1623) character concepts, shown with one example each.
Fig. 3 A generative model of handwritten characters.
(A) New types are generated by choosing primitive actions (color coded) from a library (i), combining these subparts (ii) to make parts (iii), and combining parts with relations to define simple programs (iv). New tokens are generated by running these programs (v), which are then rendered as raw data (vi). (B) Pseudocode for generating new types ψ and new token images I (m) for m = 1, ..., M. The function f (·, ·) transforms a subpart sequence and start location into a trajectory.
The generative process for types P(ψ) and tokens P(θ(m)|ψ) are described by the pseudocode in Fig. 3B and detailed along with the image model P(I(m)|θ(m)) in section S2. Source code is available online (see acknowledgments). The model learns to learn by fitting each conditional distribution to a background set of characters from 30 alphabets, using both the image and the stroke data, and this image set was also used to pretrain the alternative deep learning models. Neither the production data nor any alphabets from this set are used in the subsequent evaluation tasks, which provide the models with only raw images of novel characters.
Handwritten character types ψ are an abstract schema of parts, subparts, and relations. Reflecting the causal structure of the handwriting process, character parts Si are strokes initiated by pressing the pen down and terminated by lifting it up (Fig. 3A, iii), and subparts si1, ..., sini are more primitive movements separated by brief pauses of the pen (Fig. 3A, ii). To construct a new character type, first the model samples the number of parts κ and the number of subparts ni, for each part i = 1, ..., κ, from their empirical distributions as measured from the background set. Second, a template for a part Si is constructed by sampling subparts from a set of discrete primitive actions learned from the background set (Fig. 3A, i), such that the probability of the next action depends on the previous. Third, parts are then grounded as parameterized curves (splines) by sampling the control points and scale parameters for each subpart. Last, parts are roughly positioned to begin either independently, at the beginning, at the end, or along previous parts, as defined by relation Ri (Fig. 3A, iv).
Character tokens θ(m) are produced by executing the parts and the relations and modeling how ink flows from the pen to the page. First, motor noise is added to the control points and the scale of the subparts to create token-level stroke trajectories S(m). Second, the trajectory’s precise start location L(m) is sampled from the schematic provided by its relation Ri to previous strokes. Third, global transformations are sampled, including an affine warp A(m) and adaptive noise parameters that ease probabilistic inference (30). Last, a binary image I(m) is created by a stochastic rendering function, lining the stroke trajectories with grayscale ink and interpreting the pixel values as independent Bernoulli probabilities.
Posterior inference requires searching the large combinatorial space of programs that could have generated a raw image I(m). Our strategy uses fast bottom-up methods (31) to propose a range of candidate parses. The most promising candidates are refined by using continuous optimization and local search, forming a discrete approximation to the posterior distribution P(ψ, θ(m)|I(m)) (section S3). Figure 4A shows the set of discovered programs for a training image I(1) and how they are refit to different test images I(2) to compute a classification score log P(I(2)|I(1)) (the log posterior predictive probability), where higher scores indicate that they are more likely to belong to the same class. A high score is achieved when at least one set of parts and relations can successfully explain both the training and the test images, without violating the soft constraints of the learned within-class variability model. Figure 4B compares the model’s best-scoring parses with the ground-truth human parses for several characters.
Fig. 4 Inferring motor programs from images.
Parts are distinguished by color, with a colored dot indicating the beginning of a stroke and an arrowhead indicating the end. (A) The top row shows the five best programs discovered for an image along with their log-probability scores (Eq. 1). Subpart breaks are shown as black dots. For classification, each program was refit to three new test images (left in image triplets), and the best-fitting parse (top right) is shown with its image reconstruction (bottom right) and classification score (log posterior predictive probability). The correctly matching test item receives a much higher classification score and is also more cleanly reconstructed by the best programs induced from the training item. (B) Nine human drawings of three characters (left) are shown with their ground truth parses (middle) and best model parses (right).
People, BPL, and alternative models were compared side by side on five concept learning tasks that examine different forms of generalization from just one or a few examples (example task Fig. 5). All behavioral experiments were run through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and the experimental procedures are detailed in section S5. The main results are summarized by Fig. 6, and additional lesion analyses and controls are reported in section S6.
Fig. 5 Generating new exemplars.
Humans and machines were given an image of a novel character (top) and asked to produce new exemplars. The nine-character grids in each pair that were generated by a machine are (by row) 1, 2; 2, 1; 1, 1.
Fig. 6 Human and machine performance was compared on (A) one-shot classification and (B) four generative tasks.
The creative outputs for humans and models were compared by the percent of human judges to correctly identify the machine. Ideal performance is 50%, where the machine is perfectly confusable with humans in these two-alternative forced choice tasks (pink dotted line). Bars show the mean ± SEM [N = 10 alphabets in (A)]. The no learning-to-learn lesion is applied at different levels (bars left to right): (A) token; (B) token, stroke order, type, and type.
One-shot classification was evaluated through a series of within-alphabet classification tasks for 10 different alphabets. As illustrated in Fig. 1B, i, a single image of a new character was presented, and participants selected another example of that same character from a set of 20 distinct characters produced by a typical drawer of that alphabet. Performance is shown in Fig. 6A, where chance is 95% errors. As a baseline, the modified Hausdorff distance (32) was computed between centered images, producing 38.8% errors. People were skilled one-shot learners, achieving an average error rate of 4.5% (N = 40). BPL showed a similar error rate of 3.3%, achieving better performance than a deep convolutional network (convnet; 13.5% errors) and the HD model (34.8%)—each adapted from deep learning methods that have performed well on a range of computer vision tasks. A deep Siamese convolutional network optimized for this one-shot learning task achieved 8.0% errors (33), still about twice as high as humans or our model. BPL’s advantage points to the benefits of modeling the underlying causal process in learning concepts, a strategy different from the particular deep learning approaches examined here. BPL’s other key ingredients also make positive contributions, as shown by higher error rates for BPL lesions without learning to learn (token-level only) or compositionality (11.0% errors and 14.0%, respectively). Learning to learn was studied separately at the type and token level by disrupting the learned hyperparameters of the generative model. Compositionality was evaluated by comparing BPL to a matched model that allowed just one spline-based stroke, resembling earlier analysis-by-synthesis models for handwritten characters that were similarly limited (34, 35).
The human capacity for one-shot learning is more than just classification. It can include a suite of abilities, such as generating new examples of a concept. We compared the creative outputs produced by humans and machines through “visual Turing tests,” where naive human judges tried to identify the machine, given paired examples of human and machine behavior. In our most basic task, judges compared the drawings from nine humans asked to produce a new instance of a concept given one example with nine new examples drawn by BPL (Fig. 5). We evaluated each model based on the accuracy of the judges, which we call their identification (ID) level: Ideal model performance is 50% ID level, indicating that they cannot distinguish the model’s behavior from humans; worst-case performance is 100%. Each judge (N = 147) completed 49 trials with blocked feedback, and judges were analyzed individually and in aggregate. The results are shown in Fig. 6B (new exemplars). Judges had only a 52% ID level on average for discriminating human versus BPL behavior. As a group, this performance was barely better than chance [t(47) = 2.03, P = 0.048], and only 3 of 48 judges had an ID level reliably above chance. Three lesioned models were evaluated by different groups of judges in separate conditions of the visual Turing test, examining the necessity of key model ingredients in BPL. Two lesions, learning to learn (token-level only) and compositionality, resulted in significantly easier Turing test tasks (80% ID level with 17 of 19 judges above chance and 65% with 14 of 26, respectively), indicating that this task is a nontrivial one to pass and that these two principles each contribute to BPL’s human-like generative proficiency. To evaluate parsing more directly (Fig. 4B), we ran a dynamic version of this task with a different set of judges (N = 143), where each trial showed paired movies of a person and BPL drawing the same character. BPL performance on this visual Turing test was not perfect (59% average ID level; new exemplars (dynamic) in Fig. 6B), although randomizing the learned prior on stroke order and direction significantly raises the ID level (71%), showing the importance of capturing the right causal dynamics for BPL.
Although learning to learn new characters from 30 background alphabets proved effective, many human learners will have much less experience: perhaps familiarity with only one or a few alphabets, along with related drawing tasks. To see how the models perform with more limited experience, we retrained several of them by using two different subsets of only five background alphabets. BPL achieved similar performance for one-shot classification as with 30 alphabets (4.3% and 4.0% errors, for the two sets, respectively); in contrast, the deep convolutional net performed notably worse than before (24.0% and 22.3% errors). BPL performance on a visual Turing test of exemplar generation (N = 59) was also similar on the first set [52% average ID level that was not significantly different from chance t (26) = 1.04, P > 0.05], with only 3 of 27 judges reliably above chance, although performance on the second set was slightly worse [57% ID level; t (31) = 4.35, P < 0.001; 7 of 32 judges reliably above chance]. These results suggest that although learning to learn is important for BPL’s success, the model’s structure allows it to take nearly full advantage of comparatively limited background training.
The human productive capacity goes beyond generating new examples of a given concept: People can also generate whole new concepts. We tested this by showing a few example characters from 1 of 10 foreign alphabets and asking participants to quickly create a new character that appears to belong to the same alphabet (Fig. 7A). The BPL model can capture this behavior by placing a nonparametric prior on the type level, which favors reusing strokes inferred from the example characters to produce stylistically consistent new characters (section S7). Human judges compared people versus BPL in a visual Turing test (N = 117), viewing a series of displays in the format of Fig. 7A, i and iii. The judges had only a 49% ID level on average [Fig. 6B, new concepts (from type)], which is not significantly different from chance [t(34) = 0.45, P > 0.05]. Individually, only 8 of 35 judges had an ID level significantly above chance. In contrast, a model with a lesion to (type-level) learning to learn was successfully detected by judges on 69% of trials in a separate condition of the visual Turing test, and was significantly easier to detect than BPL (18 of 25 judges above chance). Further comparisons in section S6 suggested that the model’s ability to produce plausible novel characters, rather than stylistic consistency per se, was the crucial factor for passing this test. We also found greater variation in individual judges’ comparisons of people and the BPL model on this task, as reflected in their ID levels: 10 of 35 judges had individual ID levels significantly below chance; in contrast, only two participants had below-chance ID levels for BPL across all the other experiments shown in Fig. 6B.
Fig. 7 Generating new concepts.
(A) Humans and machines were given a novel alphabet (i) and asked to produce new characters for that alphabet. New machine-generated characters are shown in (ii). Human and machine productions can be compared in (iii). The four-character grids in each pair that were generated by the machine are (by row) 1, 1, 2; 1, 2. (B) Humans and machines produced new characters without a reference alphabet. The grids that were generated by a machine are 2; 1; 1; 2.
Last, judges (N = 124) compared people and models on an entirely free-form task of generating novel character concepts, unconstrained by a particular alphabet (Fig. 7B). Sampling from the prior distribution on character types P(ψ) in BPL led to an average ID level of 57% correct in a visual Turing test (11 of 32 judges above chance); with the nonparametric prior that reuses inferred parts from background characters, BPL achieved a 51% ID level [Fig. 7B and new concepts (unconstrained) in Fig. 6B; ID level not significantly different from chance t(24) = 0.497, P > 0.05; 2 of 25 judges above chance]. A lesion analysis revealed that both compositionality (68% and 15 of 22) and learning to learn (64% and 22 of 45) were crucial in passing this test.
Despite a changing artificial intelligence landscape, people remain far better than machines at learning new concepts: They require fewer examples and use their concepts in richer ways. Our work suggests that the principles of compositionality, causality, and learning to learn will be critical in building machines that narrow this gap. Machine learning and computer vision researchers are beginning to explore methods based on simple program induction (36–41), and our results show that this approach can perform one-shot learning in classification tasks at human-level accuracy and fool most judges in visual Turing tests of its more creative abilities. For each visual Turing test, fewer than 25% of judges performed significantly better than chance.
Although successful on these tasks, BPL still sees less structure in visual concepts than people do. It lacks explicit knowledge of parallel lines, symmetry, optional elements such as cross bars in “7”s, and connections between the ends of strokes and other strokes. Moreover, people use their concepts for other abilities that were not studied here, including planning (42), explanation (43), communication (44), and conceptual combination (45). Probabilistic programs could capture these richer aspects of concept learning and use, but only with more abstract and complex structure than the programs studied here. More-sophisticated programs could also be suitable for learning compositional, causal representations of many concepts beyond simple perceptual categories. Examples include concepts for physical artifacts, such as tools, vehicles, or furniture, that are well described by parts, relations, and the functions these structures support; fractal structures, such as rivers and trees, where complexity arises from highly iterated but simple generative processes; and even abstract knowledge, such as natural number, natural language semantics, and intuitive physical theories (17, 46–48).
Capturing how people learn all these concepts at the level we reached with handwritten characters is a long-term goal. In the near term, applying our approach to other types of symbolic concepts may be particularly promising. Human cultures produce many such symbol systems, including gestures, dance moves, and the words of spoken and signed languages. As with characters, these concepts can be learned to some extent from one or a few examples, even before the symbolic meaning is clear: Consider seeing a “thumbs up,” “fist bump,” or “high five” or hearing the names “Boutros Boutros-Ghali,” “Kofi Annan,” or “Ban Ki-moon” for the first time. From this limited experience, people can typically recognize new examples and even produce a recognizable semblance of the concept themselves. The BPL principles of compositionality, causality, and learning to learn may help to explain how.
To illustrate how BPL applies in the domain of speech, programs for spoken words could be constructed by composing phonemes (subparts) systematically to form syllables (parts), which compose further to form morphemes and entire words. Given an abstract syllable-phoneme parse of a word, realistic speech tokens can be generated from a causal model that captures aspects of speech motor articulation. These part and subpart components are shared across the words in a language, enabling children to acquire them through a long-term learning-to-learn process. We have already found that a prototype model exploiting compositionality and learning to learn, but not causality, is able to capture some aspects of the human ability to learn and generalize new spoken words (e.g., English speakers learning words in Japanese) (49). Further progress may come from adopting a richer causal model of speech generation, in the spirit of classic “analysis-by-synthesis” proposals for speech perception and language comprehension (20, 50).
Although our work focused on adult learners, it raises natural developmental questions. If children learning to write acquire an inductive bias similar to what BPL constructs, the model could help explain why children find some characters difficult and which teaching procedures are most effective (51). Comparing children’s parsing and generalization behavior at different stages of learning and BPL models given varying background experience could better evaluate the model’s learning-to-learn mechanisms and suggest improvements. By testing our classification tasks on infants who categorize visually before they begin drawing or scribbling (52), we can ask whether children learn to perceive characters more causally and compositionally based on their own proto-writing experience. Causal representations are prewired in our current BPL models, but they could conceivably be constructed through learning to learn at an even deeper level of model hierarchy (53).
Last, we hope that our work may shed light on the neural representations of concepts and the development of more neurally grounded learning models. Supplementing feedforward visual processing (54), previous behavioral studies and our results suggest that people learn new handwritten characters in part by inferring abstract motor programs (55), a representation grounded in production yet active in purely perceptual tasks, independent of specific motor articulators and potentially driven by activity in premotor cortex (56–58). Could we decode representations structurally similar to those in BPL from brain imaging of premotor cortex (or other action-oriented regions) in humans perceiving and classifying new characters for the first time? Recent large-scale brain models (59) and deep recurrent neural networks (60–62) have also focused on character recognition and production tasks—but typically learning from large training samples with many examples of each concept. We see the one-shot learning capacities studied here as a challenge for these neural models: one we expect they might rise to by incorporating the principles of compositionality, causality, and learning to learn that BPL instantiates.
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Acknowledgments: This work was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to B.M.L.; the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines funded by NSF Science and Technology Center award CCF-1231216; Army Research Office and Office of Naval Research contracts W911NF-08-1-0242, W911NF-13-1-2012, and N000141310333; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; and the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU. We thank J. McClelland, T. Poggio and L. Schulz for many valuable contributions and N. Kanwisher for helping us elucidate the three key principles. We are grateful to J. Gross and the Omniglot.com encyclopedia of writing systems for helping to make this data set possible. Online archives are available for visual Turing tests (http://github.com/brendenlake/visual-turing-tests), Omniglot data set (http://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot), and BPL source code (http://github.com/brendenlake/BPL).
Combining the capacity to handle noise with probabilistic learning yields humanlike performance in a computational model. | 2019-04-22T23:28:06 | https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332 |
9:00 am to 5:00 pm US – A National Park in Calais? YES! St. Croix International Historical Site, Calais. Visit Maine’s second national park—in Calais. It’s FREE! Discover island history on a guided walk or porch talk. View island from short interpretive trail. Exhibits, book store and more! Kids, come earn a Jr. Ranger badge! Route 1, 8 miles south of Calais. Learn more at www.nps.gov/sacr or call 454-3871.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm US – Children’s Peanut Fair, behind Calais Elementary School. Plastic peanuts are used for games with prizes for all children. Sponsored by Calais Regional Hospital and the Calais Parent Teacher Group. Contact DeeDee Travis, 454-9227.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm US – The Doll Hospital, behind Calais Elementary School. A “doctor, nurse, and surgeon” will provide free emergency care for all sick or injured dolls and stuffed animals during the Peanut Fair. A free event sponsored by Calais Regional Hospital. Contact DeeDee Travis, 454-9227.
5:30 pm US – 2017 Blue Devil Alumni Basketball Classic, Calais High School Gym. Lady Devils followed by Blue Devils. Re-live the "glory days" as former Blue Devil standouts take the court once again! Raffles and give-aways for the entire family and ALL proceeds benefit local charities. Find out more on Facebook: Blue Devil Fund. Contact Chris Taylor, 214-9057.
6:00 pm US - Tom Brennan’s art exhibit Opening Night Reception, Camden National Bank, Main Street, Calais. The show will feature recent large colorful CARICATURES of community members and be open throughout August. Highlighting the Opening Night Reception will be a special guest appearance by New England's preeminent humorist TIM SAMPLE! The evening is bound to tickle your chucklebone! Contact Tom Brennan, 454-8822.
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Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey is calling on the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to investigate whether employees at Trump National Golf Club broke the law by helping undocumented employees obtain fake work papers amid news reports that the Trump company has fired at least 18 undocumented workers from five golf courses in New York and New Jersey in the past two months. On Monday, Menendez called on the federal government to allow former undocumented employees of the Trump properties to remain in the country while the investigation proceeds.
We speak with an undocumented housekeeper from Guatemala named Victorina Morales, who helped expose what was happening on the Trump properties by speaking on the record to The New York Times. Morales spent years making Donald Trump’s bed and performing other duties at his New Jersey club, even though she was undocumented.
She attended the State of the Union as a guest of Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey. We speak with Morales, Watson Coleman and Morales’s lawyer, Anibal Romero. | 2019-04-26T02:33:40 | https://www.thecommonercall.org/2019/02/11/meet-victorina-morales-an-undocumented-immigrant-who-spent-five-years-working-as-trumps-housekeeper/ |
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Quiz Bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. The teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports and popular culture.
The matches, according to a report from the organization, feature a mix of individual competition and team collaboration.
Abruzzo said the State High teams generally meet once a week to prepare for the tournament, and travel to multiple tournaments throughout the year.
Both teams must place first and second at the same tournament to qualify for nationals.
Practices consist of going through “buzzer questions,” while also studying individually to master subject areas, Abruzzo said.
State High also has a long — and successful — history with the tournament.
Teams from the high school participated in the national championship every year since 2000, and won the tournament in 2000 and 2011.
“As long as there has been academic quiz competition in some form, State High kept up the tradition of outstanding results from highly intelligent, capable and dedicated players of the sport,” Abruzzo said in an email.
Prior to NAQT, State High was regularly selected to represent Pennsylvania at the Panasonic Academic Challenge in Disney World, and also competed in Knowledge Masters Championships and Scholastic Quiz. | 2019-04-23T03:04:04 | https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/article153194044.html |
Many people think of errors and omissions insurance (E&O) as a product purchased primarily by doctors, lawyers, therapists and other professionals with advanced degrees. Although malpractice insurance is a common form of E&O coverage, all individuals required to maintain licensure or certification should have a professional liability insurance policy.
According to Colorado law, all real estate brokers and companies must carry an E&O policy. State law indicates that minimum coverage must protect all acts that require an active license, and the law provides for licensee coverage under a company’s policy.
Although industry regulations concerning E&O coverage may seem like a nuisance, these state laws exist to protect you and your real estate business as well as the clients you serve. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why doctors carry malpractice coverage, and that’s why you need a professional liability policy to protect you.
What if you make a mistake at closing that results in harm to your client? Chances are that mistake will result in a lawsuit, and legal fees add up quickly. An E&O policy can help defray heavy losses. In fact, a real estate professional liability policy can even help in the event that a customer brings a frivolous lawsuit against you.
Southern Colorado Insurance Center understands that your real estate career requires careful attention to detail. We know you take pride in a job done right, and we also understand that sometimes mistakes happen. Whether you’re dealing with a difficult homebuyer or make an honest mistake during a routine home sale, you need an insurance agent and an E&O policy that has your back. Call 719-329-4441 today to learn more about affordable options to keep your brokerage operating legally and protect your livelihood as well. | 2019-04-22T20:28:23 | https://www.scicteam.com/blog/2017/04/keeping-it-legal-with-errors-and-omissions-coverage-for-real-estate |
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Applicants are to note that Unijos Consultancy Limited will only acknowledge the applications of shortlisted candidates, and will not exchange correspondence with candidates not shortlisted. | 2019-04-22T15:55:15 | http://unijosconsultancy.com/vacancy.html |
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Dry herb vaporizers are special vaporizers designed to bring cannabis to a high enough temperature where the cannabinoids and terpenes inside the herb will begin to evaporate and can be inhaled.
Battery – The battery can often be the difference between a good vaporizer and a great one. The most popular kind of batter is a lithium-ion battery due to their ability to be recharged hundreds of times with limited degradation to the battery.
Oven – Ovens are where your herbs are heated before you enjoy them. The best materials are ceramic, glass and stainless steel. It is advisable to avoid any vaporizer with a plastic oven due to the release of toxins.
Airpath – This is the tube that carries the vapour from the oven to the mouthpiece. The best air paths cool the vapour down before it reaches your mouth.
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In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves an epic tapestry out of her intimate connection to a group of Algerian writers and intellectuals whose lives were cut short since since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M’Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist—the beloved friends to whom she dedicates the book—as well as Albert Camus. She records the horrors of her country’s civil wars and untangles the complex political and social issues that led to the long trail of the blood. This unique book grows from conversations remembered and imagined, meditations on her fallen literary peers and predecessors. Yet for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. This cultural and political history of Algeria’s cross-cultural reality and its fight against colonization is infused with the oral tradition of Djebar’s Berber roots. | 2019-04-20T16:58:27 | https://next.sevenstories.com/books/2872-algerian-white |
No matter how hard we would try, we could never succeed in recreating what nature has so generously given us. Everywhere in the world there are natural forms that never stop delighting our eyes and souls. We should be really grateful to those who had the brilliant idea of protecting and preserving uniquely beautiful areas. Therefore, whenever you have the time, pay a visit to any of the many national parks in the world. If Romania is one of your choices, you should know that there are 11 national parks, 9 natural parks and 3 natural reservations here. Let’s talk about some of the most important national parks.
This is a really important area for Romanians as it is the first national park set up in this country, in 1935. Why is Retezatsuch a special place, worthy of protection? Well, because its 80 lakes within it are popularly knows as its ‘80 blue eyes’ or because it ‘hosts’ the largest glacial lake on the territory of Romania, Bucura Lake; or maybe because the deepest glacial lake in Romania, Zanoaga Lake, is also found there. Another reason would be its more than 20 peaks, each over 2000 meters high or the fact that it has 90 endemic species of plants that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. Add to these the fact that its high peaks and foggy valleys are imbued with popular legends and tales about brave knights, gentle damsels and scary dragons and you will definitely be mesmerized by this uniquely wonderful place.
The Ceahlau Mountains are one of the most impressive massifs within Eastern Carpathians, which is why, in 2003 they became home to Ceahlau National Park. This is the youngest natural reservation in Romania, but equally important as the other ones. Though the species to be found here represent almost 30% of Romania’s flora, this park is renowned even better for the legends concerning the origin of the Ceahlau Mountain. The most fascinating one is about a young lady named Panaghia. She was extremely beautiful as she was made out of God’s heart and soul. So that she would be protected against people’s envy, the fairies took her to live in Hermit Ghedeon’s cave. One day, the Sun got a glimpse of her and he fell madly in love with her. His love was so great that he stopped his usual course so that his rays could caress Panaghia a little longer. When God heard about this, he got really mad and sent clouds to cover the Sun. Panaghia started crying and when God saw this he turned her into stone. However, the legend says that her heart and soul are still alive and still searching for the Sun’s caress.
Romanian national parks seem to have it all: beautiful nature, unique landscapes and intriguing legends. Come and see for yourself! | 2019-04-20T03:04:23 | http://www.romaniawanderer.com/most-beautiful-national-parks-in-romania/ |
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This is a great tip for lightweight hanging pots for indoor plants! Pots can get really heavy when using pebbles or stones for drainage, which can be very taxing on the hooks hanging from your ceiling. Next time, try this instead: Use old bath-scrubbies in place of rocks! New ones are inexpensive, or you can recycle old ones you already have. (Just be sure to thoroughly rinse in hot water for a few minutes to remove any soap residue).
It only takes a second to poke around in the scrubber and find the thread that ties it all together- snip this and you'll end up with yards and yards of excellent, lightweight drainage material for the bottom of your pots.
Depending on the size of your pots, you can choose to use the scrubber whole or cut up lengths of the material from just one. (Mine yielded about 9 yds).
I also use a piece of weed-blocking cloth on top of the scrubbie material to help keep soil loss to minimum. I hope you found this tip to be helpful. Happy potting!
I wasn't sure I was going to like this tip, and then I read on, and saw where you put landscape fabric over the scrubby things. Now, I think it's an excellent idea!
I always put a coffee filter in bottom over hole to stop soil from getting out. Works great!
Anxious to try this suggestion. Thanks for sharing.
Great ideals come from great minds... thanks,I never thought of using my old back scrubber for pot drainer. | 2019-04-20T20:31:43 | https://www.thriftyfun.com/Lightweight-Hanging-Pots-for-House-Plants.html |
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Does anybody have Marsilea Hirsuta ??
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:25 am Post subject: Does anybody have Marsilea Hirsuta ??
Can anyone help me with Marsilea Hirsuta ?? For sale or give away. I need 100 numbers!! I live in Bangalore. Cheers !!
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:55 am Post subject: Re: Does anybody have Marsilea Hirsuta ??
Saw this plant in Kolathur chennai. | 2019-04-19T06:33:38 | http://indianaquariumhobbyist.com/community/modules.php?file=viewtopic&name=Forums&t=26830 |
Once you have adopted a pet you need to take full care of it. Such care is very essential for pet's well being and your own peace of mind.
* Pet's diet is very important. It should contain all the necessary ingredients required by the pet. Some pets such as cats are carnivorous and hence they require some animal-source ingredients, such as meat, poultry, or fish, in their diets.
* Keep aside some time every day for your pet. Your pet requires your attention and affection and this is very essential for between you and the pet.
* until training is complete.
* A pet is an animal. It has to be trained for the desired behavior. Training requires constant and persistent effort on your part.
* Promote good sanitation behavior in pets. Keep the area where they litter clean.
* Get your pet vaccinated against the deadly diseases. Also regularly get it examined by a veterinarian to ensure his good health.
* Never punish a pet if it indulges in bad behavior. This may lead to fear biting or aggression. Instead, correct bad behavior by providing positive alternatives such as scratching post for sofa in case of cat.
* It is advisable to have the pet spayed or neutered. It helps in control of unwanted off springs and minimizes the risk of behavioral and health problems associated with sexually intact animals.
* If in an emergency situation you have to give first aid to the pet take care to protect yourself. A sick or injured animal is often in a frightened state and may attack you. Cats can be handled with gloves or wrapped in a blanket; a dog can be muzzled.
* Pets can get poisoned. Poisoning maybe due to snake bite, a poisonous plant, pesticides, fertilizers, acids, paints etc. In case of poisoning - Keep the pet warm and quiet; Determine what the poison was, when it was ingested and the amount swallowed; Take the pet immediately to a veterinarian.
* Keep dangerous objects like pins, needles, blades, fish-hooks etc out of the reach of the pets.
* Be well aware of your pet's normal behavior, so that you can recognize what's not normal.
Trimming of Nails:-Pet's nails should be regularly trimmed and especially of cats as they have a scratching habit. When trimming the nails, be careful not to cut them too short and cause bleeding. Cut the nails until you see a dark circle appearing in the center of the nail.
Brushing:-Before bathing ,the pets need to be brushed out to make sure there are no knots in the furnishings. Knots are big problem in cats and dogs. Brush the beard, legs and underskirt to make sure there are no knots using the Pin Brush.
Bathing:-Cats need to be bathed not more than once a month. While bathing make sure that the temperature of the water is not too hot. Be careful not to get water and shampoo in the ears, eyes and mouth when bathing the pet.
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This posts are very intersting and mind blowing,.. I am looking forward to see some more this kind of stuffs... thanks for posting ..
I love my pitbull mix! I mix a little of wet food with dry.
i was loving my pets but not much now.
Pets are just adorable and inseparable part of my life. With 2 cats and 2 dogs, I live a happy and lovable life. And taking care of these pets is not easy. Especially when there are no specific products designed to prevent mosquitoes from biting pets.My pets run in open and sleep mostly out in the porch in cool days and in summers in the living room. But both the times they faced mosquito bites as a problem. Only after a few research, I found natural ingredient mosquito repellent which is safe for dogs and cats online - http://www.goodknight.in/ So if you are facing the same issue than you too must try this! | 2019-04-26T00:01:12 | https://forums.bizhat.com/showthread.php?t=41676&s=25a8f6f8866392ce0cd45ad129c49e75&p=308019 |
I'm towards the end of my first trimester and I'm starting to get a bit "fat' for my current work wardrobe. Where did you buy your maternity wear for the office?
I thought this said "Pregnancy office war" and it would be about you and your also pregnant office nemesis competing for corporate attention and having an epic belly battle and I'm so disappointed.
Motherhood has a very nice professional line. Old Navy and Gap also.
Target has some good ranges of maternity clothing.
Kmart, big W, and eBay is where I got my clothing from. | 2019-04-24T12:00:43 | https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/ask-sahm/question/F9SOGQ/pregnancy-office-wear/ |
At Elevate97, we create exceptional brand experiences. We wrap our arms around our client-partners established and often legendary brands, and we help them project their true essence further—through larger-than-life images, intriguing materials and the dimension of texture. We bring customers, guests and passers-by into their story across any number of spaces. Experiential design is a game changer for brands in connecting with people.
As I reflect on the concept of community and this one planet we live on (see my August 15 blog post), I realize that a shared experience is not only one of the most effective ways to build a brand, but also the best way to build community.
FOUR STICKS AND A BALL? GAME ON!
As I shared earlier in this blog, my family and I recently traveled to South America. We focused our visit mostly on communities in Peru and along the Amazon River. I anticipated language would be somewhat of a barrier when interacting with the residents. The language in the areas we visited is based on Spanish, though it isn’t a dialect or version we might have learned in school. No words? That turned out to be no problem.
My son, who is eight, plays soccer, and he saw a ball. Pretty soon, he and local schoolchildren were playing soccer. Our guide, a naturalist who grew up on the Amazon and studied at a Peru university, shared his childhood experience and knowledge, explaining what a critical part of community soccer is for the local villages. Each village is small, perhaps 25 families, and fairly remote from the others. So the villages had the wisdom to arrange for a soccer game every week, to pull together the families together from across the villages. The guides on the boats also take part, playing against the local players. The game is foundational to their social life. It creates community. Make no mistake, it’s competitive.
And here’s the deal: all it takes are four sticks and a ball. No careful striping. No immense nets. No common language. Simply game on!
I’m a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’m proud of my alma mater, and I stay connected to my college community. One way is through Global Brigades. Global Brigades travels to world communities that are lacking in basic needs: medical care, financial stability, clean water, self-sustainability. Students, such as those at Marquette University, raise money to offset their costs to travel to these communities and help with communities with their basic needs. About 18 months ago, I traveled with Global Brigades to El Zurzular, Honduras, to help the coffee farmers there find ways to be more productive and profitable. On this most recent trip with my family, I returned to visit the farmers.
There I was with my daughter and my son, as they experienced the pride of the coffee farmers. What better lesson could I ever teach my children about having an impact and being part of this one planet we share?
We connected, despite geography and regardless of language, over coffee. Together, we created community that is foundational. It offers promise for the future.
How will you create community today? I would love to hear from you—to hear your story of community that builds foundation and promise. | 2019-04-18T18:21:43 | https://elevate97.com/blog/shared-experience-building-community/ |
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LOS GATOS, Calif., May 2, 2018 -- Impetus Technologies, a big data software products and services company, and Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, today announced they will host a joint webinar titled "Single Source of Truth in the Enterprise: From Mirage to Reality" on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1 p.m. Eastern time. Drawing on real-world use cases from Fortune 100 customers, the webinar will explore how it is possible to consolidate data from today's increasingly fragmented systems into the enterprise-wide, single source of the truth needed to fully optimize business processes.
"Enterprises that effectively use their big data enjoy a significant competitive advantage that radically improves everything from customer service, to fraud prevention efforts and manufacturing operations," said Praveen Kankariya, founder and CEO of Impetus Technologies. "Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to achieve acceptable levels of data integrity and question whether the notion of a 'single source of the truth' is attainable. This webinar will explore that question by looking at the roadmap of some of the most successful companies and the technologies and techniques they used to achieve success."
While every company continues to gather more data, the distributed nature of today's global organizations and the complexity of the IT infrastructure they require, make it challenging for many to define a single source of the truth. CIOs, IT teams, business intelligence (BI) experts, data scientists and business users who want to unlock the value of their organizations' information all agree it's important to break down siloes and achieve a comprehensive view of data, but question how to do it and where to begin. The process of stitching together disparate systems is perceived to be a time-consuming, resource-intensive and costly exercise.
Create an enterprise BI consumption layer: Anand will share how organizations have successfully overcome the complexity that historically prevented enterprise wide users from interacting with their organizations' big data by forming a low latency, self-service consumption layer between their BI tools and their big data platform.
To register for "Single Source of Truth in the Enterprise: From Mirage to Reality" visit: https://www.kyvosinsights.com/webinar-single-source-of-truth-in-the-enterprise-from-mirage-to-reality. | 2019-04-19T06:33:32 | https://www.impetus.com/content/impetus-technologies-and-kyvos-insights-host-webinar-transforming-data-single-source-truth |
This report on the women’s health market analyzes the current and future scenario of the global market. Rise in number of women facing menopausal condition, rising incidence of women’s diseases, growing awareness among people about the availability of treatment for women’s health related diseases, technological advancements and high R&D investments are major factors driving market growth.
The women’s health market report comprises an elaborate executive summary, which includes a market snapshot that provides information about various segments of the market. It also provides information and data analysis of the global market with respect to the segments based on treatment type, disease indication, and geography. A detailed qualitative analysis of drivers and restraints of the market and opportunities has been provided in the market overview section. In addition, the section comprises competitive matrix and company profiles with business overview to understand the competitive landscape in the market. This section of the report also provides market attractiveness analysis, by geography and market share analysis by key players, thus presenting a thorough analysis of the overall competitive scenario in the women’s health market.
Based on treatment type, the market has been segmented into hormonal treatment and non-hormonal treatment. Hormonal treatment segment is subdivided into estrogen therapy, progestin therapy, combination therapy, thyroid replacement therapy, parathyroid hormone therapy, and others. While non-hormonal treatment segment considers cancer targeted therapy drugs, antibiotics, bisphosphonates, and others (vitamin D treatment, calcitonin, RANK-Ligand, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs etc.). The treatment type market segments have been analyzed based on available approved drugs, cost-effectiveness, and prevalence rate by geography. The market size in terms of value (US$) and forecast for each of these segments have been provided for the period from 2015 to 2025, along with their respective CAGRs for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year.
Based on disease indication, the women’s health market has been segmented into following categories: cancer, hypothyroidism, post-menopausal syndrome, osteoporosis, contraceptive, uterine fibroid, urinary tract infection, and other disease indications. The market segments have been extensively analyzed based on new product launches, incidence and prevalence rate, and prescription pattern. The market size and forecast in terms of US$ Mn for each segment have been provided for the period from 2015 to 2025. The report also provides the compound annual growth rate (CAGR %) for each market segment for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year.
Geographically, the global women’s health market has been categorized into five major regions and the key countries in the respective region: North America (the U.S., Canada), Europe (the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Rest of Europe), Asia Pacific (India, China, Japan, Australia & New Zealand and Rest of Asia Pacific), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of Latin America) and Middle East & Africa (South Africa, GCC countries and Rest of Middle East & Africa). The market size and forecast for each of these regions and the mentioned countries have been provided for the period from 2015 to 2025, along with their respective CAGRs for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year. The research study also covers the competitive scenario in these regions.
The report also profiles major players in the global women’s health market based on various attributes such as company overview, financial overview, product portfolio, business strategies, and recent developments. The major players in the women’s health market are – Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis AG, Pfizer, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Novo Nordisk A/S, Amgen Inc., Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., AstraZeneca, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Sanofi, Allergan Plc, Bayer AG, GlaxoSmithKline plc, and Johnson & Johnson and others. | 2019-04-21T14:30:32 | https://www.mrrse.com/women-health-therapeutics-market |
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CORE I7 is your next stop!
A NVIDIA GTX 1050 and you’re all done!
Who even wants to see tons of layers, tabs and panels merged all over the computer screen? Fusion 360 being a computer aided design software definitely needs a perfect interface to work upon. To prevent your eyes being under stress which is directly going to affect your models and design; I would hereby recommend you to say NO to the screen sizes smaller than 15 inches. Anything bigger than that would definitely be great.
DO NOT settle for anything below full HD Display. In many of the cases people prefer to go for 4K Resolution which is obviously the latest and the most used pixels display currently but fusion 360 and 4k resolutions do not form a decent combination. Full HD Display would be the perfect choice for you over here.
To master everything; starting from the basic designs and moving to the most complexed ones you need to have a processor that serves you great under all terms and conditions. To prevent things from getting sloppy, plan for a long term solution and opt for a fast working processor that allows the CAD Application to run smoothly on it.
If running the software smoothly is your main concern, the reviews over here are going to impress you greatly because all the laptops included here run with NVIDIA GTX 1050 Graphics cards which is almost 50-60% faster as compared to the older versions. Running fusion 360 with Nvidia GTX 1050 would be truly amazing and yes, exciting too!
So choose for yourself a laptop with a perfect blend of all these notable specifications and form factors for an incredible experience with Fusion 360!
Below I have stated all the legit facts regarding how Fusion 360 is better than other designing software. Check out Fusion 360 VS Solidworks and Fusion 360 VS Inventor right here!
Fusion 360 provides the option to create multibody parts with more flexibility | Solidworks can’t compete that well in this case.
Fusion 360 stands out with smaller assemblies having many cross-referenced parts | Solidworks needs to reference multiple files when building an assembly.
Fusion 360 encounters issues in larger assemblies | Solidworks excels in this part.
Fusion 360 is best for beginners with easy to use interface | Solidworks needs proper tutorials guys!
Fusion 360 lacks the most latest advanced features | Solidworks wins this part.
Fusion 360 a moderately working tool when it comes to very advanced simulations and analysis | Solidworks is a great tool for the same purpose.
Fusion 360 excels in creating organic geometry and the mesh modeling | Solidworks doesn’t serve that great in this area.
Go for Fusion 360 if you’re more of a MAC User | otherwise opt for Inventor.
Fusion 360 soaks up lesser RAM | Inventor takes a heavy hand on the RAM;20 GB Recommended.
Fusion 360 works fine offline after syncing models to your cloud account | For inventor you don’t really need to rely on an internet connection.
Fusion 360 comes up with minimum crucial aspects making it gentler and comfortable for the beginners too | Inventor does has its curves and summits to safely cross over!
Fusion 360 takes you into mares while working with large models | Inventor can serve you really well here.
Fusion doesn’t provide a detailed environment | Inventor is better at getting things done faster.
SO FELLOWS; We get to the conclusion that Fusion, Inventor and Solidworks are all basically siblings having the same genes! Technically, any model created in fusion can also be remarkably designed in the latter two modeling software. | 2019-04-23T05:53:16 | https://laptopsgeek.com/things-to-remember-while-buying-laptop-for-fusion-360-autocad/ |
The Jessie McPherson Private Hospital Gastrosciences team provide you with a full range of general and complex upper gastro intestinal surgery (for digestive related conditions) as well as hepatobiliary surgery (for conditions affecting the liver and/or biliary tract). The team is also skilled in luminal and solid organ surgery as well as laparoscopic surgery.
Our consultants are recognised leaders in diagnostic and interventional endoscopy which means that many patients do not require invasive surgery.
Our specialist team has access to a range of facilities for complete gastroscience diagnosis and treatment on-site.
The gastrosciences ward also has a High Dependency Unit for patients who may require additional specialist care and monitoring.
Our on-site Intensive Care Unit allows for the best in post-operative observation and care should you require that higher level of care following your surgery.
At Jessie McPherson Private Hospital our team of gastroscience and endoscopy specialists are able to offer the following specialist treatments.
Our surgical team works with onsite clinical nutritionists and dieticians to offer a complete care plan for our patients. While surgery aims to bring a patient’s weight down to a safe range, the team work together to ensure this is accompanied by a nutrition assessment/plan to ensure the patient will receive the full benefits of the treatment.
Our surgeons can also perform some cosmetic surgical operations to remove excess tissue from the abdomen (abdominoplasty) or upper arm (brachioplasty).
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CGIMachine is regarded as a convenient as well as simple to use tool which offers a variety of high-quality commercial CGI applications for Windows 95/98 and NT-Servers.
CF Forum 2000 is regarded as a convenient as well as simple to use tool which offers a variety of high-quality commercial CGI applications for Windows 95/98 and NT-Servers.
NFC Chat is regarded as a convenient as well as simple to use distributed chat server and client implemented in Java.
Community Portal (CommPortal) is launched to be a helpful and smart "Community Portal" generator based on Perl and MySQL that can be tailored for any location. | 2019-04-24T02:34:50 | http://script.wareseeker.com/index7.html |
Among Sunni Arabic-speakers, in contrast, responses ranged from politely supportive to displeased to alarmed. Perhaps most enthusiastic was the Egyptian governmental newspaper Al-Ahram, which called the deal "historic." Most states stayed mum. Saudis expressed the most worry. Yes, the government cabinetofficially stated that "If there is goodwill, then this agreement could be an initial step toward reaching a comprehensive solution to Iran's nuclear program," but note the skepticism conveyed in the first four words.
What does this unwonted rhetoric amount to? Iranian bellicosity and the Obama administration's pro-Iran policies have combined to end many decades of Saudi strategic reliance on Washington and to begin thinking how to protect themselves. This matters, because as Alwaleed rightly boasts, his country is leader of the Arabs, enjoying the most international, regional, cultural, and religious clout. The results of this new-found assertiveness – fighting against fellow Islamists, allying tacitly with Israel, perhaps acquiring Pakistani-madenuclear weapons, and even reaching out to Tehran – marks yet another consequence of Barack Obama's imploding foreign policy.
Technorati Tag: Iran and Syria and Saudia Arabia and Rouhani. | 2019-04-19T22:16:52 | http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2013/12/daniel-pipes-saudis-bristle-at-obamas.html |
Following the trend around Black Friday and extending one-day deals by counting down to that day, Amazon has launched deals leading up to its annual Amazon Prime Day , which is July 12.
The deals offered during the countdown and on Amazon Prime Day require membership. Click here for information on joining Prime. | 2019-04-19T13:27:29 | https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/amazon-prime-day-deals-launch-with-countdown-todays-are-themed-around-summer-entertainment |
Graffiti including the tags 'PKK' (the Kurdistan Workers' Party); 'Polska' and 'Kurdistan' was found daubed on a school, a nursery, and a Protestant parish office. It is believed to have been sprayed there at between 7.30pm and 8pm on Monday night.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday unleashed a thunderous condemnation of arguments made by Ford County Clerk Deborah Cox in her request to dismiss a federal lawsuit over voter access in Dodge City.
Cox's decision to move the town's only polling location to a spot just outside of city limits placed her and the community's 13,000 registered voters under a microscope on Election Day, which recorded improved turnout amid a flurry of efforts to mobilize the electorate.
The controversy was spiked with racial themes as the ACLU pointed to an unrepresented, mostly Hispanic population and lack of public transportation to the new location.
Bradley Schlozman, the Wichita-based attorney representing Cox, said the ACLU's "condescension underlying this point is staggering." He accused the ACLU of generalizing statistics to stoke criticism.
"Plaintiffs seem to be projecting a concept that every low-income citizen is simply too helpless to cast a ballot in this election," he wrote in court documents filed on Friday. "It is as implausible as it is insulting to the residents of Dodge City."
He asked the court to dismiss the ACLU's lawsuit, arguing that the 45-minute wait to vote on Election Day was insignificant and complaints moot because Cox has declared her intention to open a second polling location by 2020.
The clerk invited criticism in the weeks before the election by laughing at ACLU objections to her late-September change of venue, which coincided with mailers directing voters to the wrong location, and explaining the move was necessary to avoid a construction project that didn't materialize.
ACLU Kansas legal director Lauren Bonds said she intends to file a response in early December.
"We find it incredibly tone deaf for a white elected official to tell her Hispanic constituents that their pleas for justice are patronizing," Bonds said.
Cox may want to pretend there is "no brown or white part of Dodge City," Bonds said, "or that economic status doesn’t make voting prohibitive when coupled with an illogically placed polling site," but "such realities do exist."
Schlozman described the inconvenience of finding the new polling location as minor, noting that the town is so small it only takes 12 minutes to drive from end to end. He also rejected the notion that passing trains presented a barrier because they could be easily circumvented by driving just five minutes away to reach an overpass.
Although Kansas law gives Cox sole discretion in carrying out the election, Schlozman said, the ACLU apparently wants to micromanage the process.
The ACLU "grossly distorted reality by painting Dodge City as a bleak community of uneducated and helpless residents," Schlozman said. "Nothing could be further from the truth." | 2019-04-20T01:16:32 | https://www.gctelegram.com/news/20181120/aclu-ford-county-clerk-deborah-cox-tone-deaf-to-pleas-of-hispanic-voters/1 |
University of Manitoba (UMSU) is looking for a Students Living with Disabilities Representative!
1. The Representative serves as the liaison between the Accessibility Centre community and UMSU Council, serving to bring an important perspective to matters that are before UMSU Council.
2. Interested applicants for the position will be given an opportunity to introduce themselves to UMSU Council on October 12th, after which Council will vote to fill the position. In the case of only a single applicant it shall be a Yes/No vote.
h. Report to the Assembly all relevant UMSU Council business and updates.
2. Must self identify as a student living with a disability.
All interested candidates are asked to email the UMSU Council Chair at chair@umsu.ca by 4pm on Thursday, October 12, 2017. | 2019-04-25T13:42:48 | https://www.neads.ca/en/about/media/index.php?id=494 |
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I was just watching this BBC interview with Sacha Baron Cohen. Nice suit... but I don't like his humour any than Ricky Gervais', because it is at the expense of other - often well meaning - people. I think it's cruel. Sometimes moderately funny, but often quite childish. Strange, as he seems quite an intelligent man. If people would like to comment on this aspect then please do.
In order to marry Baron Cohen, Fisher converted to Judaism after three years of study and completed her conversion in early 2007, saying "I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything – move into any religion – to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together, and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned." She took the Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for Doe, and has described herself as keeping Shabbat. Fisher and Baron Cohen have two daughters. Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels "very Australian."
It always strikes me as absurd when people suddenly profess to believe things they did not previously believe, for practical reasons. It also strikes me as unpleasant that they should have to do so. "Religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned", his wife said. I cannot make any sense of this - don't bother converting, then.
Since we are talking about supernatural beliefs here, I do not see how somebody can decide to believe something because of some practical advantage, they can only pretend to do so. Belief is like a feeling: it comes on its own after exposure to evidence. Or, I suppose, for many people evidence has nothing to do with it, but only emotional satisfaction. I wonder if Isla (and Lauren Booth for that matter) actually believe in the tenets of their adopted religions, simply because it makes them feel better. I suppose they do. Let's hope this doesn't become the standard in a court of law.
We hear of this kind of sudden conversion happening a fair bit in the media - usually with regard to Islam. Come to think of it, we never seem to hear of it happening the other way around, whereby a person gives up their faith for a non-believer. Perhaps what happens is these people adopt the culture but never actually believe that Mohammed flew to heaven on a winged horse etc. I would be uncomfortable though, first of all switching to a culture that wasn't mine, and secondly pretending, even tacitly, to believe things I didn't believe. Well, love can do strange things to people.
p.s. It is interesting to note that Baron-Cohen was quick to mock the American Christian right, who showed him courtesy and kindness, in Borat, but apparently his wife must convert to his faith.
These pragmatic conversions strike me too, every time I encounter one.
In Romania, which is about 85% Orthodox Christian, pragmatic conversion mean in most cases entering some neo-protestant church or Jehovah’s Witnesses community (or adhering to the relatively new to the scene Mormon Church).
For what I saw, apart from the “genuine” conversions (I guess there are some sincere ones, too), people are switching faith either to escape poverty (many such communities are simply buying their poor followers), or to succeed economically (entrepreneurial people who need business connections and support).
When I was a teacher I had a very intelligent, good humored and well mannered student about whom I was shocked to learn he was a Mormon. I felt too embarrassed to ask him how is it possible for an intelligent person to believe such preposterous and ridiculous claims as those made by his church. His father was a successful businessman, and the only explanation I came with it was that it did it for the connections.
There are also conversions to Islam for women marring Muslim men. In their cases I find very annoying the new found pride with which they cover their heads.
In general, I find the vast majority of people to be very pragmatic, regardless of their faith. To put it simply, they are in it in order to get something from God. Apart from the ones that feel the end is near (and make plans for the afterlife), the others want solutions for their problems: more money, health, happy marriages and so on. There is not much “spirituality” involved, and most don’t have any problems with that.
To make things worse, the current Orthodox Church hierarchy seems to fully embrace this pragmatism. Two or three years ago I heard the new Patriarch saying to the congregation at the Easter liturgy something like this: “Those who leave early will receive one egg; those who will stay until the end will get two eggs and a cake.” (live on national television).
Speaking of Baron-Cohen, I find it despicable to mock other’s religion the way he does, while asking his wife to convert to Judaism.
P.S. I must say that I encountered real good people in the Orthodox Church. I do not want to say all priests are like that.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. The only example I can think of regarding this in Australia was a friend I hadn't seen for many years. I ran into literally a week before I left Australia. She was Malaysian Chinese in origin, but she had married a Turkish guy. I didn't ask her about Islam (I wasn't that interested at the time and we had other things to catch up on), so I wonder what the deal was. She wasn't wearing a headscarf. However, they had a son. I find it very hard to believe that even the most liberal/cosmopolitan Turk wouldn't have had his parents leaning on him about his son, if not his wife. Maybe all was well though.
However, the point about neo-Protestantism really rings true in Taiwan. Firstly, a lot of the aboriginal people here (a significant minority where I live) were actually converted to Christianity by a Canadian missionary in the nineteenth century, so there are some oldish Christian churches here. However, the place is crawling with missionaries. Jon Huntsman, who was a Republican presidential candidate this year, was a Mormon missionary to Taiwan. I see them relatively frequently, and when I lived in another part of the country, there was a Mormon church near my house (and every Wednesday afternoon, they used to stand on a busy intersection with a sign advertising "free English lessons", which I thought was highly disingenuous). I used to work with several people here who had basically come to do missionary work, but were employed as teachers for visa purposes (actually, now that I think of it, the majority of people I've worked with have been American, and the majority of those have been pretty eager to talk about their Christianity with people, if not been outright missionaries). I also encounter plenty of Taiwanese trying to convert people and it's actually surprising just how many (Taiwanese) Christians I encounter here. It's big in Korea too, apparently, and I don't think this is a coincidence as these kinds of religious organisations aren't stupid. They go where the money is. I bet they send more missionaries here than say, Cambodia, assuming they have equal permission by the respective governments. Interestingly, Taiwanese actually have a different word for Christians and Catholics, which I think is the direct result of these missionaries (I had a few absurd conversations with former colleagues who were adament that Catholics are not Christians).
Yet it all seems really weird to me that people would buy into Christian mythology. To some extent, I can understand that if you're brought up in a particular religion you will believe in certain things because you were exposed to them at a pre-rational time in your life, but I just don't know how people can accept a new mythology.
I am sure a lot of guys do it for networking (and interestingly, organisations such as Rotary are big here amongst professionals and the aspirational), but I still haven't quite figured out the extent to which they really believe it. I think a lot actually do, based upon the encounters I've had with Taiwanese Christians here.
Reading between the lines of that Baron Cohen article, I am certain his wife converted by the Reform or Conservative branch of Judaism.
Reform and Conservative conversions to Judaism are not recognised by many Jews as a "real" conversion.
The Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism only started up about 170 years ago. They basically broke off from mainstream Orthodox Judaism to be less religious and to "modernise". The earliest Reform Synagogues were even made up to look like churches. Reform and Conservative Jewish conversions are sometimes not recognised as "proper" conversions even by Traditional or very loosely affiliated Jews. The "3 year course" she took to convert could be just half an hour a week learning about another religion. Therefore it doesn't mean anything.
My favourite quickie Jewish Reform "conversion" was Marilyn Monroe during her marriage to Arthur Miller. :) I rather like Marilyn Monroe whatever religion she was.
Liviu, I am very surprised to learn that there are Jehovah's witnesses in Romania and that Mormons have also arrived there.
I agree with what you and everyone here says about Baron Cohen.
I don't find him funny either.
Rachel: very interesting informations, I didn't knew anything about it.
I don’t know how many Jehovah’s witnesses are in Romania (several tens of thousands, probably), but they are widespread. There are relatively few Mormons, but their neatly dressed missionaries could also be found almost everywhere (in the cities, at least).
I will rant a little about this village because I found its fate characteristic for our time. It was founded by Saxon colonists some 800 years ago. In the last 200 years, ethnic Romanians were allowed to settle there (from medieval times Romanians were discriminated against in Transylvania, not allowed to mix with Saxons or Hungarians, I will not discuss the details here). In 1900 the population was probably 50% Saxon, 50% Romanian.
After the fall of communism, in the early 1990s the Saxons migrated en masse in Germany, their place to be taken by Gypsies. Many Romanians also left the village. The population is now 25% Romanians and 75% Gypsies (Romanians sometimes joke and call the Gypsies “Saxons”, because the Saxons were the other community of the village). 90% or more of all children are Gypsies.
There are only 4 or 5 Saxons left. The Lutheran church (built in the 1200s) has fallen into disrepair.
The Gypsy population is relatively peaceful (unlike other areas), but generally uncivilized: garbage is thrown everywhere, theft is common, children are not going to school etc.
This state of affaires defines all former Saxon areas in Transylvania, and many (former) Romanian villages in the entire country.
That description of Translyvania and it's history was very interesting for me. I knew nothing about it.
Recently here in Israel my Dad was chatting to an old Israeli who was of Romanian Jewish origin. I know very little of Romania and have never visited, but this Romanian man had visited the country a lot to see his childhood home. He mentioned a town in Romanian Moldavia and said that the population had changed completely since the early 1990's and now had a large Gypsy population. He then thought a bit and said: "...it is like that in many places there now."
I did not know what he was talking about at the time. Now I understand after reading your post.
I don't know much about Gypsys. I don't think I have ever met someone from their community because I grew up in a bit of Britain where there were not many minorities in the 1980's - before Tony Blair's EU immigration policies came in. Then I moved to Israel and in Israel the Gypsy population is miniscule, very very tiny.
I read somewhere that central European Gypsys have a tradition of marrying as young teenagers and have a large birthrate. I assume that ordinary Romanians have the same (low) birthrate as all European countries. Maybe that is why the demographics in some places in Romania are changing.
I suppose I should get back on topic. Thanks for your fascinating "rant". I enjoyed reading it.
Gavin wrote: It always strikes me as absurd when people suddenly profess to believe things they did not previously believe, for practical reasons.
There are different varieties of religious experience. On one end of the spectrum is an intense, personal faith. It is in this context that a practical conversion makes no sense. However, there is another end of the spectrum, in which the religious experience consists primarily of being part of a community, and the degree of personal faith is a private matter. In this context, converting is sort of like joining a tribe with a few strange rituals, which you perform dutifully.
Gavin wrote: but apparently his wife must convert to his faith.
There is an explanation for this which may not be immediately obvious. Sacha Baron Cohen is Jewish, and this has some meaning to him, to the extent that he has visited his family in Israel (on a kibbutz) and has learned to speak Hebrew (all of his 'Kazakh' dialog in Borat was actually Hebrew, to the delight of Israeli viewers). He hopes for children from his marriage, and he hopes that his children will also be part of the Jewish people. At the very least, he wants to open that door for them, and hopes they'll walk through it.
Now it so happens that Jewish law defines a Jew as one whose Mother is a Jew, or who was converted properly. Note: 'Mother', not 'Parents', not 'Father'. So if he marries a Christian girl, he puts his children in a position where the will have to be converted properly to be considered Jewish. This requires far more than just being baptised - it involves much study, an examination, and some proof that Jewish law is being followed at home.
Since he wishes to spare them the need for this, he asks his wife to do it instead. As Rachel said, they probably compromised on a Reform conversion, which is not as demanding as an Orthodox one. This is probably a headache for him as well as for her - he doesn't strike me as the type who keeps the Sabbath zealously, for example. In any case, it's not Sacha's ego or hypocrisy which is driving this - you can be fairly sure that if he had been the woman and she the man, the subject would not have come up.
I hope that clarified more than it confused.
We hear of this kind of sudden conversion happening a fair bit in the media - usually with regard to Islam.
I suspect that male conversions to Islam tend to be an act of personal faith, whereas female conversions are an act of community - to be with a man. For example, the wife of one of the Boston Bombers vs. the Woolwich murderers. Two examples do not make a proof, of course - but perhaps someone else has found some research on the subject. | 2019-04-26T13:58:42 | http://www.westerndefence.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=2405 |
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Kittelson, Fat Pencil, and PTV have collaborated on several large scale multi-modal VISSIM simulations using detailed SketchUp base models to provide context and visual appeal. This lunch+learn presentation will highlight what’s possible and review a series of tips for getting SketchUp models to look good inside of VISSIM. Doors open at 11:30AM for networking and lunch. A webcast will be available for those not able to attend in person. | 2019-04-25T20:34:23 | https://www.oregonite.org/oregon-simulation-roundtable.html |
Blogging is new for me. I find it difficult to quieten the inner voices that clamor for attention. At first I wondered if that were only me until I was reading in Anne Lamott‘s book, Bird by Bird, how challenging she found it to write. She has a humorous chapter on getting out those first drafts.
Yesterday I read Timothy Keller‘s The Prodigal God. I find myself overwhelmed once again by the extravagance of God’s grace. Admittedly, the word, “prodigal,” has always conjured up images of waywardness. So I was surprised to learn that prodigal means something quite different.
Keller’s point that the parable of the 2 sons in Luke 15 is really about 2 sons … not just the one who squandered his father’s inheritance … is well-taken. I don’t want to be elder brother-ish, living my life out of dutiful compliance, instead of celebrating the love and grace I’m given in Christ.
Neither do I want to be caught up in the “illusion of control” thinking that if I pray words in just the right way or give of my resources to a certain degree that God is beholden to me … required by some unspoken agreement to grant my wishes.
Today I choose repentance, rest, quietness and trust.
This entry was posted in Reflection and tagged Anne Lamott, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, Timothy J. Keller. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-25T08:45:17 | https://instillnessthedancing.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/14/ |
Creator, resurrected Christ, the sole Head of the church, and the Holy Spirit, who guides and brings about the creative and redemptive work of God in the world.
It is the will of God that every person belong to a family of faith where they have a strong sense of being valued and loved.
and that each of us is at a different stage of that journey.
engendering love, strengthening faith, dissolving guilt, and giving life purpose and direction.
No matter who – no matter what – no matter where we are on life's journey – notwithstanding race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, class or creed – we all belong to God and to one worldwide community of faith. All persons baptized – past, present and future – are connected to each other and to God through the sacrament of baptism. We baptize during worship when the community is present because baptism includes the community's promise of 'love, support and care' for the baptized – and we promise that we won't take it back – no matter where your journey leads you.
Just as many grains of wheat are gathered to make one loaf of bread and many grapes are gathered to make one cup of wine, we, the many people of God, are made one in the body of Christ, the church. The breaking of bread and the pouring of wine reminds us of the costliness of Christ's sacrifice and the discipleship to which we are all called. In the breaking of bread, we remember and celebrate Christ's presence among us along with a 'cloud of witnesses' – our ancestors, family and friends who have gone before us. It is a great mystery; we claim it by faith.
WE BELIEVE THE UCC IS CALLED TO BE A UNITED AND UNITING CHURCH.
"That they may all be one." (John 17:21) "In essentials–unity, in nonessentials–diversity, in all things–charity," These UCC mottos survive because they touch core values deep within us. The UCC has no rigid formulation of doctrine or attachment to creeds or structures. Its overarching creed is love. UCC pastors and teachers are known for their commitment to excellence in theological preparation, interpretation of the scripture and justice advocacy. Even so, love and unity in the midst of our diversity are our greatest assets.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE UCC IS CALLED TO BE A PROPHETIC CHURCH.
As in the tradition of the prophets and apostles, God calls the church to speak truth to power, liberate the oppressed, care for the poor and comfort the afflicted.
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I really love this: Publisher’s Weekly has announced the sale of BIAJ to Fingerprint Press in India. As if that wasn’t cool enough, my sale followed the sale of Elvis Costello’s memoir to Holland.
I never noticed, until today, that he mentions India. Where Brain in a Jar and me are going.
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11 Meanwhile, rinse the parsley, shake dry, pluck leaves and chop finely. Rinse lemon in hot water, wipe dry, grate the peel finely and mix with the parsley.
12 After 5 minutes, add the tomatoes to the pan and continue cooking. After 3 minutes, add the tofu and continue to cook for 4 more minutes.
13 Stir cornstarch in a little cold water until smooth. Stir into stew and bring to a boil, then season with salt and pepper. Serve sprinkled with parsley and lemon mixture. | 2019-04-25T13:30:43 | https://eatsmarter.com/recipes/tofu-goulash |
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Some of you likely have your own questions about local crawl space quotes, crawl space encapsulation products, crawl space encapsulation cost and other questions covering crawl space topics. We receive a wide range of crawl space questions throughout the month and felt you may get some value if we shared them with you. Today, we're discussing concerns over quotes to crawl space encapsulation installs by a local franchise.
Thank you for your reply. I didn’t receive the info on the dehumidifier’s you attached to your last e-mail.
that flow? If so, no sump is needed.
Our crawlspace is dirt and ledge. It’s clean and has had a layer of poly (very light) thats open on the edges for the past 10 yrs. We had a small issue with carpenter ants when we bought the home in 1991. Orkin Pest Control services our home and we have had no issues with the insects, however they were the ones that recommended the “moisture control” issue 10 yrs ago. They cut out 7 vents in our space. The floor is insulated with fiber insulation and 3 inches of Styrofoam over that.
I have someone coming out to inspect the underside of that this week. The condensation seemed contained on the outside of the Styrofoam and not everywhere in the space. Damn, I am going on here… What can I say, I’m learning and want to do the right thing for this home. We “thought” we were 10 yrs ago with venting it! So…. Thank you for any advise you could provide. I watched the installation video. We definitely want to hire this out! LOL Thank you again!
Another thought. Is it an option to fill the space with concrete at this point?
We have been hearing a lot about proposed drainage mats being installed in a crawl space. I have to tell you I am not sold on that being a necessary step in moisture and water control for a crawl space. As this field becomes more competitive each dealer or installer tries to find new ways to set themselves apart and I believe this may be the case.
The idea of a drainage mat is to separate a covering from a wet or damp area and allow the crawl space to drain. On paper this sounds good and it certainly can’t hurt, but in your case I would ask if it is needed. I say this based on the information you have given me. Water control is a big part of the solution and it has to be addressed in a manner that is the most productive for the problem. If water is coming in the vents then the source needs to be addressed not covered with “#7 vent covers”. The drainage mat as I understand it is to replace a drain tile system inside the crawl space. This idea is coming exclusively from the Basement Systems franchise network.
The simple truth is the clean space does not need protection from water or moisture. I know this because the products we sell are made by the same manufacture as the clean space brand and our products do not need such protection. The idea of using Clean Space or SilverBack™ is to use it as the protective layer between the home and the moisture or water. In order for the drainage mat to work in this application (as you stated) the crawl will need to be graded to a pump. I am sure this is not cheaper than a drain system (tile around the perimeter) which does not require grading in most cases. I am not sure if the salesman properly assessed your crawl space because you did not note any water management plan to handle the water source, this is critical because it is never good to allow water to move through, over or around a foundation.
The Smart Pump has a Zoeller brand pump (model M-53 usually) set in a mini basin with a drain in the lid. The Smart Pump works well when there is not a lot of water to control. I am not familiar with Ice Guard, but I would question the installation process of the encapsulation if there is a product needed that is called Ice Guard. If the crawl space is closed or “conditioned” using the guidelines set by the building code there will be no threat of conditions that require protection from ice. Please send me any information you have on this product and I will do some more research and let you know better my recommendation. I would like to know more about it just for my own knowledge as well and to be able to share that with other customers.
Vents – Covering them may work but I would recommend taking out the vents completely and replacing them with a concrete block. The new block will fit in the vent opening nicely. This is how we handle the vents with our install process here in Michigan, it simply out performs just covering them. Seal the edges of the block with a concrete sealer on the inside and the outside to help prevent water from entering. The sealant is similar to a caulk but a bit thicker and will last much longer, don’t price shop on this product get a good one and make sure it is a polyurethane base. Take a look at where the water may be coming from and make corrections. Maybe a down spout extension in that area or maybe you need gutters. Look at the grade around the home to see of it slopes back towards the home, if it does bring in some dirt and raise it so the water runs away from the home. By sealing the vent openings with a concrete block you will be able to raise the grade without worry if a plastic cover will last under the dirt. These things will need to be done even if you purchase the Clean Space system as proposed to protect your foundation. If water is coming in at the vents the chances are very good that water is filling the hollow cavities of the block which will deteriorate the foundation prematurely.
Drainage mat- I do not believe you need water or moisture control in this manner. If water is a problem or has a potential to be a problem then I would suggest a sump to protect your investment and make sure your crawl stays dry. A drain system may be needed but it sounds like you can stop most if not all of the water by closing the vents properly using concrete block. Pump yes, drain mat no.
A fair price, well I can only help with averages because I have not seen your crawl space. For 975 sq ft assuming the crawl is over 2’ high we would charge $3850 for encapsulating, installing a sump, installing concrete block in the vent opening, and insulating the rim joist. This price would include some cleaning and haul away (about a half hour). Just a note, per code in most areas the insulation in the floor joist cavities would have to come out in order to close the crawl space. To do this there would be an additional charge of $360 which would include removing it from the property.
Concrete is always an option, but it does not address the moisture that comes in from the walls, and it adds a lot of moisture to the crawl while the concrete is drying.
Well I hope I answered your questions but if I did not please feel free to email me back. I look forward to any information you can supply about the Ice Guard.
Wow, I’m so impressed with your e-mail! Thank you for taking the time in thinking this through with me. You’ve given me much more to think about. Matt, is the “encapsulation” really the best way to treat this issue? I’ve talked to some people that try and get around the expense of all of this with just setting a dehumidifier in the crawl space, closing off the vents and not much else. I agree with the science of the air flow and vapors that come from the ground and want to do this right. I’m influenced by many options here as this is so not an area I’m educated on. What did you mean about the insulation in the floor joist cavities would have to come out? And I must say I was not clear about the area that you service. Do you service Maine or recommend someone other than the “Clean Space” approach? Thank you again for all the advise.
I want to tell you a little about me (just a little), I have been in the construction field for over 20 years. I have done everything from pouring footings to roofing a house and everything in between. I am no stranger to how a home is built and more importantly how it works. Our mission at CrawlSpace Concepts is to help educated homeowner with the truth. Just to be clear we don’t require you to buy anything from us to get the help you need. We offer the products we do because they are the best solution for a dirt crawl space.
There is no doubt you can improve the crawl space situation by applying other methods besides encapsulating it, but I do believe it is the best solution. By closing the vents and running a dehumidifier you can get the moisture under control. The dehumidifier will run most of the time due to no protection from and endless supply of moisture from the dirt (impacting your electric bill in the neighborhood of $60 – $80 a month) and you will need a pump of some sort to eject the water. All manufactures recommend and some require a vapor barrier to guarantee performance. The dehumidifier will not eliminate all of the odor in the rainy season. But it will be cheaper initially. Look at it this way, a $900 dehumidifier plus $60 electric a month for say 12 months = $720. Under these conditions (with no vapor barrier) the dehumidifier will last about 5 or 6 years, so $720 x 6 yrs= $4320. Then you buy a new dehumidifier (this is hypothetic it may last longer or not as long) at $900, so $4320 + $900 = $5520 and you start over. OR you encapsulate your crawlspace yourself or hire a local contractor (which should still be less expensive than the quote you got and we can help you or him on how to install it properly) $748.95 for materials + $900 dehumidifier = $1648.95. The dehumidifier runs a few times a week for a half hour or so and impacts your electric bill about $5 a month – $5 x 6months = $30 x 6 yrs = $180. 1648.95 + $180 = $1825.95 and you have about 5 more years or so left on the life of your dehumidifier. These are obviously not hard numbers but a pretty close estimate from my experience. I used $900 for the dehumidifier as a medium price. What I am trying to get at is going cheaper now may cost you more in the long run.
Most of the big franchise companies sell a “package” and everyone gets the package. The biggest reason for this is they use professional salesmen to sell their products. The salesmen are trained how to sell the products and may or may not have any building experience to actually give you the best advice. So they sell everyone the “package”. Most do not do any homework on the actual affects of there recommendations or have the knowledge to back them up. With that said I want to make sure you caught the part where I said most of the big franchise companies. I am curious what your quote was, would you mind sharing that figure with me?
The insulation in the floor joist cavity needs to come out when you close your crawl space because it holds moisture and could cause mold to grow. The moisture does not have to come from the crawl space it can come from the living area above it. Even with a dehumidifier running in the crawl moisture can get trapped between the insulation’s vapor barrier and the wood floor. It is best practice to insulate the walls of the crawl space for all block that is above grade and install insulation in the rim joist.
Your other question was about our service area. We service all of Michigan, northern Ohio and northern Indiana with respect to installing our products. We sell our products to the rest of the country and Canada. We have been asked to travel to other states to install our products and we are willing to do this. There is however a cost associated with the travel. We do not recommend any company that has not been trained by us and currently we do not have anyone in Maine. We are working on a certification course that will be taught online by a training facility in California but we are about 6 -8 week away from that program going live. The hope is to be able to reach more contractors while keeping the cost down.
If you have any more questions please feel free to email me.
I can’t thank you enough for your time and experience with this matter. I’m happy to pass on the quote from “TC Hafford.” Just to give you more specifics with our issue, (hoping you don’t mind the actual consult on line)… LOL Like you haven’t already done that!
Damn, this is worse than having bloodwork done! I tend to get a wee bit too anxious about repairs to our home. Hence all the e-mails. So, with that in mind, I’m thinking I’ll take your advice by, covering the vents with cinder blocks and sealant, hire the encapsulation out and purchase the dehumidifier you recommended.
Also from the “Reports” Eric has sent me, and if I did it right, LOL it looks like 14 pints of water would be the calculation for the dehumidifier. I think the one TC Hafford recommended was the Sani Dry CSB. (90 pints a day) No mention as to a smaller size and it does have the air filters that may hinder its performance, I think you mentioned.
Regrade for drainage 450.00 raking?
How are you? I took some time off for the holiday, so that is why you have not heard from me.
Ice guard, yes I know what it is now. They called it Flo-Gaurd a few years ago and it did not pass code so they must have redesigned it to work properly.
It is easier to install a pump before you encapsulate and before you discover you need one. It is your call, if there has never been water in the crawl space and you feel confident that is the case then of course you will not need one at this time. No, LOL “float factor” is not the right term…you would be referring to the ability of the SilverBack™ to handle water pressure. The vapor barrier part of the products will have no problem with water pressure, it’s the tape that will complain. Even though it is a waterproof tape that does not mean it is pressure proof. If water pressure builds up under the SilverBack™ you will see leaks where the water will push the tape off in order to equalize the pressure. Water must be addressed (if it is present) before you seal the SilverBack™. When it comes to moisture damage it is always better to fix it sooner than later, later always brings new challenges that must be addressed.
The drainage mat they use is not called a drainage mat in the industry. It goes by different brand names like Super Seal or Newton Membranes and you can usually find it by searching drainage membrane. It is used mostly as an aid to help drain the exterior of foundation walls to the drain system. It would do nothing more (in my opinion) than make the job more profitable.
The price for encapsulating your crawl space is fair, all the extras are not. The vent covers that they want to charge you ($25 each) for are nothing more than Tupperware lids and $24 more than doing it right. I think we are on the same page with the drainage mat and the re-grade. Both will only improve their margin. The smart pump ……(I’m shaking my head) $900? It’s a $160 pump with a $25 mini basin.
Well that is my opinion. I hope to be able to assist you with an order. Also be prepared for the shipping cost of the OscarAir. It will cost approx. $150 to have it shipped to your home, maybe a bit more. If you can swing it have it delivered to a commercial address where a semi truck can pull in. It will save you about $50 or $60.
OH! One more thing, we extended the free shipping offer for the month of May. That will save you a $100 or so. (No pressure just thought you would like to know).
Your site is nicely laid out and is a welcome sight after all of the research I have done regarding crawlspace encapsulation. I was just getting ready to order some material ….. for my crawlspace (and for my neighbors). We have roughly 5000 SF total to cover! We are located in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.
I actually had “Clean-Crawls” out to give me an estimate…..YIKES! They wanted over $15,000.00 to do a 2500 foot crawlspace. Not happening any time soon! …….. | 2019-04-23T02:42:07 | https://crawlspacerepair.com/questions-about-local-crawl-space-quotes |
As I mentioned in a recent post, I have found a beauty box actually worth the subscription, Cohorted*. I was lucky enough to receive my second box this month, which you can buy here. I received four full sized products and a travel sized product. The travel sized product could have been one of three, so it was a lucky dip.
I’m very intrigued about the Vita Liberta Minerals product as it is meant to give you the same coverage as mineral foundation, as well as acting as a self-tanner in one. I’ve used Vita Liberta tanning products for a long time and highly recommend the self tan lotions, so I’m very much looking forward to trying this. I particularly like the brush that comes with it, as normally you don’t receive a brush and I worry that I won’t achieve the correct application. I shall be trying my regular body tan and use this on my face to report back.
I never wear red lipstick. I’ve tried red gloss and I just can’t deal with the maintenance it requires. This is actually the first red lipstick I’ve ever owned, shocking, I know! The lipstick is described as a matte that will not dry out your lips, however, it is recommended that you use the Lin & Lo lip balm before application, which on first impressions, does make me question how non-drying it will actually be. As I now have access to a red lipstick, I shall certainly be giving it a try. I know I’ll be able to give its moisturising properties a good run for their money as I have terribly dry lips.
I definitely prefer the colour choice of this lip pencil to that of the lipstick in the box, and think that the neutral shade will definitely suit more skin tones. The fact that it is travel sized means it will be handy to pop into my handbag on an evening, but given that the other two products in the ‘or’ category were full sized, it did leave me a little disappointed, only in the sense of “this is what you could have had…” if that makes sense? The other products were Nars Monoi Body Oil RRP £44 or Clarins Lip Liner Pencil RRP £17.
My favourite product of this months box is definitely the Betty Hula moisturiser. It is super thick and luxurious, with a delicious scent. There were two scent options, the other being Rum and Blackcurrant. I’ve tried a little amount of this product on my shins, and a little goes a long way. It was fast absorbing and the scent seems to be long-lasting. I think these moisturisers would make a wonderful gift for someone.
A second body moisturiser was in this months box, this time from Loewe. It is described as being a gently fragrance, but I personally find it quite strong. I feel that this would be overpowering if applied to the entire body, so I will use it either just on my legs or as a hand cream. I didn’t realise that Loewe produced beauty products, so it was definitely a good discovery within the box.
The overall value of this box is £91.99, which I think is exceptional for a beauty box. The products are all high end and it definitely feels like a luxurious treat to receive. I did ask how the ‘or’ products are decided, as it was a question that sprung to mind when I saw it, and was advised that it simply depends upon the stock available, not upon your length of subscription. At £35 I really do believe this box is great value for money.
Have you tried Cohorted or any of the products in this months box?
I was sent this box in exchange for review, as always, all opinions are honest and my own.
Seems like there are some amazing brands included in the Cohorted boxes, I need to check them out!
Thanks Claire, there definitely are!
For some reason I thought you always got 5 items. Thanks for your honest review, getting my first box this month.
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It is an exciting and sometimes stressful time getting a website for your business, especially your first one. There are so many things to think about and then loads more you’re probably not aware of.
Unfortunately the process of “getting a website because we need a website” often yields a finished product that does not provide a business the full return on investment possible. Tight timescales or a small budget are sometimes the root of the cause, as is finding a web designer that is not the right fit for your business and niche.
Always been a fan of gifs? Partial to an animation or two in your website design? Perhaps you’ve been working on this website idea for the past decade and haven’t updated your vision in line with current trends.
Aside from some best practises, quite a large part of why you appreciate certain designs comes down to personal taste. Whilst we would definitely encourage individuality and creativity in design, this needs to be applied in line with a businesses target audience and their brand and not explicitly down to what you as an individual prefer.
It pays to work with an experienced web designer here who has an outside perspective and a good understanding of what works and what doesn’t.
Yes, we all want to scream as loud as possible about how we’re better than our competitors. The trouble is when we describe ourselves and our services we often make the mistake of outlining the what rather than the why.
When we’re on the internet, we’re all a bit selfish. We want to find what we’re looking for as quickly as possible. During the small window when we get the chance to engage with a website visitor it’s important to communicate the value of our services instead of describing them.
Are you one of the many many businesses out there that got a website for no other reason than you thought everybody had one? Whilst you’d be correct, getting a website made for the sake of it does not bring any value.
In this age, businesses that do not use their website as their central marketing tool are in the minority. When planning a web design project it is valuable to include how you will generate traffic to your website once it is launched. This can be as simple as telling friends and family or investing in SEO.
Once visitors hit your website, have you thought about how you will convert them to customers? Is your “call to action” obvious and easy to follow? From including legitimate testimonials for social validation to how you structure your pages and written copy, there are loads of things that can be done to improve your conversions.
Don’t fall into the trap that many businesses get stuck in by creating a website without any thought to how it will benefit your bottom line.
It’s funny how many people don’t pay attention to the fact that you get what you pay for (we do it too). We understand that on occasion you can get lucky and find a talented, thorough web designer at the beginning of their career to provide a website at a cheaper rate. However we would wager that most projects involving a cheap quote or overseas freelancer found on websites like Fiverr don’t end well.
Definitely shop around and get a number of quotes for your next website project, though bare in mind that completing a website thoroughly takes time. Arguably the most important aspects of creating a website happen behind the scenes (e.g. optimising for load speed, SEO and security). We guarantee that the cheaper quotes are that price because the web developers will avoid doing any of these things – lowering the chances of your success without you even knowing it.
We’re often involved in projects whereby we’re asked to fill some pages with filler text or leave out certain sections because time is tight and other things get in the way.
Unfortunately leaving things until later regularly means that they never gone done at all. Your website is your online shop window and you need to ensure that your displays are top notch.
It’s easier for you (and better for your business) if you invest the time to finish a new website once so that you know it is passively drawing as many new customers as possible.
There are a few great royalty free image websites out there that have thousands of pictures that you can use instead of taking your own.
The only problem is that stock images look… like stock images. If there’s one thing that turns away visitors it is tacky stock images, generic testimonial pictures and americanised staged desk photos.
Creating a website is a great opportunity to bring everything up to speed so businesses should invest the time to take images themselves. Whether you take pictures on your phone or hire a photographer, images of you, your business and team work so much better for building trust with your online visitors. People sell people after all!
It’s true that websites need to look good. They need to develop an organisation’s brand, be easy to use and engaging. It’s also true that this isn’t where the work ends. Creating a site that is search engine friendly, mobile responsive, loads fast and is secure takes a little more time.
Businesses often engage website designers that are very good at design, but sometimes neglect the back end details that are required to get a full return on investment. For this reason it’s important to discuss these aspects with a potential agency or freelancer before you purchase their services.
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In Riyadh, there's a new king in town, and he is a very different man than his brother before him. After shaking up the government and replacing the chief executives of Saudi Arabia's two biggest corporate behemoths (SABIC & Saudi Aramco), his new majesty seems to have the right people in place to carry out what appears to be an entirely new set of policies.
Case in point was this past Thursday's meeting in St. Petersburg where President Putin received the Deputy Crown Prince and Saudi Defense Minister Muhammad bin Salman (a son of the current King Salman), along with Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and the all-powerful Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi. The two sides signed a total of six new cooperation agreements that included the nuclear and military spheres.
From the Saudi delegation, the real power in the room was of course the vaunted Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, who sounded quite confident about a rise in the price of oil in the near future. Naimi was quoted as saying, "I am optimistic about the future of the market in the coming months in terms of the continuing improvement and increasing global demand for oil as well as the low level of commercial inventories." This, the minister said, "is expected to improve the level of prices."
Naimi went on to praise the enhanced bilateral cooperation between Riyadh and Moscow, stating that, "This, in turn, will lead to creating a petroleum alliance between the two countries for the benefit of the international oil market as well as producing countries and stabilizing and improving the market."
A 'petroleum alliance' between Saudi Arabia and Russia to stabilize the global oil market? It sounds unlikely, particularly with all the talk about the U.S. and Saudi Arabia secretly agreeing to collapse Russia's economy by crashing the price of oil in 2014, not to mention how the two countries diametrically oppose one another on issues such as Syria, Iran, and Yemen.
But again, Saudi Arabia is under new leadership and is not the same country it was a year ago. The delegation sent to Russia this past week was of the absolute highest level, and the fact that the statement was given directly by Mr. Naimi, as opposed to some all-too-common 'senior official' or 'unnamed source', speaks volumes.
Naimi --- the redoubtable 80-year-old boss of Arabian black gold --- is a living legend in the Kingdom (he started his career with Saudi Aramco at the age of 11), and wields more power there than anyone who isn't the king. Statements from him on Saudi energy policy are not thoughts or opinions. Rather, they are facts and policies; and they would never be stated without the explicit approval and authority of the king.
Put simply, Mr. Naimi just declared a new direction in Saudi Arabian foreign policy.
Mr. Putin accepted the king's invitation to visit the Gulf state and in turn announced that he had invited the king to Moscow, which the deputy crown prince confirmed had been accepted. These meetings --- if and when they take place --- will be events to be followed very closely. | 2019-04-18T20:24:30 | https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/about-face-saudi-arabia-and-russia-ink-six-new-deals-embark-new-petroleum-alliance-progress |
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A Frenchman became the first limbless person to swim the Channel.
Philippe Croizon set off from Folkestone, in Kent, at around 6am yesterday, expecting to reach France within 24 hours, but managed to complete the feat in only 13 and a half.
The 42-year-old's arms and legs had to be amputated after he suffered an electric shock while removing a television aerial from a roof 16 years ago.
He taught himself to swim in the last two years, and does so using prosthetic legs and a snorkel and mask.
Earlier, Croizon's spokeswoman said he was swimming faster than expected after completing his first 12 miles in just eight hours.
After completing the 21-mile challenge last night, Croizon told the BBC he had never felt that he was not going to make it, despite aches and pains all over his body.
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The former Dereham man helped himself to a hat-trick in the leaders’ 3-0 win over Acle United on Saturday – making it 24 goals on 22 league appearances.
It leaves Spixworth eight points clear of Harleston, who have a game in hand.
Harleston were 1-0 winners over Norwich Ceyms with a goal from Ben Furlong.
Mulbarton Wanderers beat Cromer Town 5-0, with two goals each from Elliot Altay and Miles Palmer, plus one from Damion Cooper.
Bradley Hough, Sam Shepherd and Sam Clay scored for Waveney for a 3-2 win over Caister, whose scorers were Anton Ward and Gaz Ward.
Blofield United shared a 0-0 draw with Wroxham Reserves. Sam Page (2), James Daniels and Ross Bilham scored for Long Stratton to beat Stalham Town 4-2. Stalham’s scorers were Tom McCarthy and Jordan Tipple. Goals from Robert Warminger (2) and Ashley Dearing gave Reepham Town a 3-1 win over St Andrews, for whom Ryan Pye scored.
It is very close in Division One – Scott Sutherland-Grey and Lewis Fisher scored to give Bradenham Wanderers a two-goal half-time lead but Connor Charlesworth (2) and Joe Keely later scored for Hellesdon as they won 3-2.
Goals from Tom Galer (2), Luke Bailey and Liam Harvey-Cooper earned Beccles Town a 4-2 win over North Walsham Town, whose goals were scored by Tom Willey and Matthew Downing.
Bungay Town drew 1-1 with Loddon United, John Ritches scoring for Bungay, Matt Ayre for the visitors. Mundford beat Holt United 7-1 with goals from Sam Last (3), Jonathan Maslin, Harry French, Alex Gathercole and an own goal, with Marcus Holt for the visitors. Jordan Rocastle scored twice for Sheringham but they lost 4-2 to Attleborough Town, whose scorers were Steve Wright, Andy Carr, Brad Rivett and Jack Flynn.
In Division Two, leaders Hoveton Wherrymen are four points clear – they beat Acle United Reserves 2-0, while second-placed UEA slipped up, going down 1-0 at Yelverton. | 2019-04-26T09:02:19 | https://www.pinkun.com/local-football/ang-com/tuttle-strikes-again-as-spixworth-show-no-signs-of-letting-up-1-4948493 |
Following the highly successful Climate Summit held last autumn, Constructing Excellence South West (CESW) launched the West Country’s first ‘Leadership in the Built Environment Symposium’ held at Sandy Park.
A prestigious line-up of speakers helped to attract more than 120 delegates to the free full-day event, supported by platinum sponsors Kier Construction and further key sponsors T Clarke Contracting Ltd and Midas Group.
Open to members and non-members of CESW, the leadership symposium was aimed at anyone working with, or within the construction or property sectors across the region; people who may be considering joining the sector; and those seeking to lead the future of the industry as we move into a post-Brexit era.
The symposium included refreshments and lunch, networking opportunities with fellow professionals, as well as exhibition stands. Delegates booked on to break-out seminars and workshops and to meet potential employers and leading local construction recruiters, Cathedral Appointments and RGB Recruitment.
The full-packed agenda included eminent speakers who focused on how to encourage greater diversity, and specifically how to attract and retain the leaders of tomorrow within the construction industry.
Leading the way was Emma Osmundsen, Managing Director of Exeter City Living Ltd., Exeter City Council), and Chair of CESW. Emma selected the theme of ‘leadership’ in line with the CESW’s vision to make construction an industry of opportunity for everyone and to champion diversity.
Appointed to the Board as a non-executive director of Kier in September 2014, Kirsty Bashforth gave a dynamic talk on ‘Recruiting for tomorrow’s Leaders’. Founder and CEO of Quayfive, which advises on organisational culture, she has over 24 years’ experience in a variety of senior commercial roles with BP plc ('BP').
Paul Crawford CEO – LiveWest was introduced as ‘Mr Housing South West’. He spoke about building a collaborative workforce across the region following the highly successful merger of Devon & Cornwall Housing and Knightstone.
As well as many interesting and inspiring presentations from some of South West’s leading practitioners and academics in leadership, the symposium was interactive, thought-provoking and career defining. | 2019-04-19T00:52:31 | http://www.glenkingmarketing.co.uk/news/2019/cesw-leads-the-way |
In the Picos de Europa, both sedentary and migratory raptors are already here. Some of them like Golden Eagles and Griffon Vultures are incubating. The ones that are just arriving from África like Egyptian Vultures, Short-Toed Eagles and Black Kites are beginning with their sexual displays and the arrangements of their nests.
All of them can bring us unforgettable birding moments, but nowadays, Lammergeiers probably are the most special. This fantastic bird (3 m wingspam) was extinct in the early last century. Now, due to the work of the Lammergeier Foundation, is returning to these mountains and it is not difficult to find them is you know where to look at.
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Premier Volunteers of Ghana (PREVOG) now known as Inside Africa Volunteer (IAFRIVO) is one of the leading non-profit organizations without any political or religious affiliations. We place special focus on community development projects, including wide range of humanitarian and community outreach programs. IAFRIVO has partnered with reputable organizations in Ghana looking for international volunteers and interns. The programs are carefully designed for all persons, students, recent graduates and individuals from all academic backgrounds and all levels of experience. The programs include tailor made short term and long term experimental study abroad programs for school credit or for career development.
Programs offered by PREVOG are aimed at projecting Ghana, Africa to the outside world through educational activities, community development and student exchange program. Our programs are carefully designed for all persons, students, recent graduates and individuals from all academic backgrounds and all levels of experience. The programs include tailor made short term and long term experimental study abroad programs for academic credit and for career development.
To continue to have strong partnership with individuals, groups, organizations as well as be the leading organization to bringing relieve to communities deprived economically, socially, emotionally through humanitarian service, volunteer work, outreach activities and inspire less privileged ones to reach their fullest potentials in education, health care, environmental protection, cultural elevation and youth creativity for a better well being.
In other to let you get a deeper understanding and appreciation of the country, the people, the way of life and to get your bearings on everything is to guide you through an in-depth perspective of the cultural activities of the African way of life. Our always-available Directors will coordinate a city orientation and tour at the beginning of each program to familiarize you with your new surroundings and host family. During the orientation process, The Directors will take you through reviews about health and safety information, cultural customs and everything you need to know. After been welcome at the Accra International Airport and taken to your friendly host family.
You will be given the necessary traditional welcome including drinks and food where appropriate.
The next day we will take you through an ‘orientation’ of the Ghanaian social structure, lectures on political and economic history, survival language lessons, cultural do’s and don’ts health matters, socially accepted behaviors, work ethics in Ghana, expectations of the institution and the host project.
In 2005 IAFRIVO started as a neighborhood group initiative to assist in communal labor, awareness creation and other community self help activities; such as clean up exercises and common issues concerning the community by the current programs director, Evans Kwashie Fiawoyipe and other well meaning members. We strongly believe in the saying “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. Stated by the Former President of the United States of America - John F. Kennedy. By extension, he's asking every one what he/she can do to be a contributor to the world.
The organizations started without an office, but through hard work from members and volunteers we had acquired an appreciable office with all the necessary ICT facilities.
Open to interested volunteers and interns between 18 and 70. We proudly welcome diverse spectrum of volunteers from all walks of life worldwide.
We proclaim the value of collaboration, of working together to achieve common goals. We commit to promoting unity, equality, voice, participation, cooperation, resource sharing, interdependence, growth and integration among all people and groups. We recognize as our primary partner those with whom we seek to serve.
We strive to be peacemakers, actively exercising the ministry of reconciliation. We will work for genuine reconciliation between genders, races, and people groups and with the whole creation in the situations of strife, pain, brokenness and violence where ever we find ourselves. We act with integrity and accountability. | 2019-04-21T13:02:18 | https://iafrivo.org/about-iafrivo.html |
Five universities recently announced that they will award scholarships to a group of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) graduates from the Class of 2014 who soon will enroll as their own college students. The six students are winners of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's (NMSC) College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships. The higher education institutions - Brigham Young University, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of South Carolina, and Vanderbilt University - all plan to award a scholarship to a Gwinnett graduate with Vanderbilt University recognizing two students.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA – The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia (CFNEG) was excited to present recently a check for $10,000 to the Gwinnett Tech Foundation to complete their commitment to grant a total of $50,000 over five years in support of Gwinnett Tech’s Legacy of Lives Campaign.
Duluth, GA (May 28, 2014) – Enjoying a variety of beers from exotic imports to your classic favorites are just some of the things residents can expect to indulge in at this year’s Beer Fest.
SNELLVILLE – The city has the cure for the Summertime Blues.
Snellville Tourism & Trade has released its summer schedule which kids off Saturday with the third annual Beach Blast, May 31st from 2 to 7 p.m. and a concert from 7 to 9 p.m.
Snellville, GA - Ladies Workout Snellville, Scenic Office Suites & A Defined Image Med Spa and have joined together in support of Partnership Against Domestic Violence.
A Gwinnett County teacher, who has dedicated her whole career to Brookwood High students, was recently honored with the state’s highest recognition for educators in her field of expertise.
(Lawrenceville, Ga., May 22, 2014) – Gwinnett County will host the 11th annual Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 26 at 1 p.m. at the Gwinnett Fallen Heroes Memorial in Lawrenceville.
The Gwinnett County teacher behind Parkview High’s theatrical productions for many years took the spotlight as she participated in her final curtain call. | 2019-04-24T05:02:59 | https://gwinnettcitizen.com/local-news/gwinnett-pulse?start=1107 |
Both primary medical and mental health services are available at the CBOCs. Those Veterans in need of services not available at a particular CBOC are either referred to the Sheridan VAMC, another VA facility within VISN19, or are scheduled locally for purchased care within the local community. For emergency care, all CBOCs activate the local 911 system and Veterans are taken to the local medical facility. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, with extended hours on Tuesdays to 6p.m., excluding holidays.
nursing and social work staff. Mental health services include individual and group therapy, medication adjustment, and smoking cessation. Prescriptions: Routine prescriptions are processed through the mail or My HealtheVet. | 2019-04-26T04:12:46 | https://www.sheridan.va.gov/locations/Casper.asp |
Tarik "tarik" Celik joined MiBR Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster on Saturday.
It was first reported by DeKay that tarik was making his way towards the Brazilian squad to join his former teammate Jake "Stewie2K" Yip. Cloud9 announced his departure but never confirmed his new location.
Tarik will replace Ricardo “boltz” Prass in the active roster of MIBR.
He will make his debut with MiBR at ELEAGUE Premier in Atlanta, starting on July 21. MIBR is set to face Team Liquid in the opening round of the $1,000,000 tournament.
Cloud9 has yet to find a replacement, however, DeKay has reported that they are considering Maikil "Golden" Selim. | 2019-04-25T05:01:36 | https://csgo.com/news/22070-tarik-joins-mibr-csgo-roster/ |
Superheroes, Super-Profits, and a Super-Swindle — Rock Ethics Institute | Meet the Challenge. Stand Up. Make a Difference.
Easily the most striking thing about movies these days is how many comic book adaptation and superhero movies there are. Say whatever you will about comic book movies, they are immensely profitable. Both this year and last year the highest grossing movie was a comic book adaptation (Iron Man 3 in 2013 and The Avengers in 2012). Both of these movies are in the top 5 all time highest grossing films; altogether 3 of the top 10 and 4 of the top 20 highest grossing movies of all time are comic book adaptations; in an era in which the movie business is financially rocky and movies are being eclipsed by TV shows like Breaking Bad in terms of cultural relevance, blockbuster adaptations of comic books are still huge box office draws. Behind the scenes of the boom in comic book movies lies the complicated process of licensing copyrighted material, a process that very often requires legal maneuverings that would give even Saul Goodman a headache. It also often re-plays a drama that is, unfortunately, all too common in the world of intellectual property: the one’s who create the content aren’t always the one’s who benefit.
At the end of my last post I mentioned an important objection to intellectual property that has to do with the tension between the interests of media companies and artists, musicians, and other creative types. Many theorists (such as Robert Merges, a law professor at Berkeley, and yours truly, the humble author of these blog posts) believe that a powerful reason in favor of intellectual property is that it gives creative laborers a bargaining chip in dealing with powerful companies. But a problem with this line of argument is that, very often, the reality of the situation is exactly opposite; intellectual property laws give companies a way to exploit creators of content, without compensation for the work.
One example of this is licensing deals between comic book publishers and movie studios. These deals don’t always benefit the comic book artists and writers who created the stories and characters; in fact, sometimes they do not get anything out of them at all. The most vivid example of this is the somewhat tragic story of Jack Kirby, one of the greatest comic book artists of all time and creator of some of the most memorable comic book characters in history. Kirby worked for Marvel Comics during the “silver age” of comics in the 60’s and 70’s. Among his creations are the Avengers, a dream team of superheroes who are billed as “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”, which he co-created along with Marvel founder Stan Lee.
In 2008 Marvel comics cut a deal with Paramount studios to turn the Avengers into a movie; the resulting film was the biggest of 2012 and the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time. Jack Kirby, however, had previously lost control of the rights to many of his silver age creations (including the Avengers) and his estate saw little benefit from the licensing deal for the movie. Numerous lawsuits by Kirby’s estate attempting to gain control have failed; Kirby, in fact, was almost not acknowledged for his role in creating the Avengers in the credits to the 2012 movie.
If IP is justifiable in part because it gives people like comic book artists leverage in dealing with media companies, then stories like Jack Kirby’s – and the complex reality of these sorts of licensing deals in general – are a serious objection. At the very least, they show that (in this domain) copyright is not functioning as it should, and copyright institutions (including the laws regarding licensing) need to be reformed. So the next time you trek off to the Imax to settle in with a 64 oz Coke and a pound of fake buttered popcorn for 3 hours of stunning special effects, horrible acting, and a script that could have been written by a 7th grader, think about how much of the money you spent on the movie went to those who actually created the characters and story. The answer may make you even more angry about the 15$ you blew on the ticket.
(NB: thanks to Christine Breton, for suggesting the topic for this post). | 2019-04-24T12:41:10 | https://rockethics.psu.edu/everyday-ethics/superheroes-super-profits-and-a-super-swindle |
Infertility can be a different experience for both man and woman. Each one experiments all the different roller coaster of emotions and expresses or displays them in unique ways. Both of them go through anxiety and frustration, and even depression when their attempts to conceive go yet another month unsuccessful.
Many couples that have been trying IVF for months or a year, go through heartache and frustration as well as their medical specialist. Some patients undergo three or more rounds of IVF before calling it quits on their dream of becoming a parent.
Repeated implantation Failure (RIP) can be devastating, patients can go through this procedure with embryo transfers, everything can go seemingly well but simply the embryo will not stick successfully, ending in great frustration.
What could be preventing Implantation?
We must remember that implantation is one of the most crucial stages in establishing the pregnancy. Successful embryo implantation depends on interactions between the embryo and the uterus.
Many factor can possibly be related to causing implantation to be unsuccessful. Most of them can be found under the following categories.
Genetic abnormalities: Problems related with the embryos, and or with sperm. Embryos are checked for chromosomal abnormalities before being implanted. This can improve the implantation rate. Other highly effective options with this type of problem is using donor eggs.
Uterus reception problems: Is the failure to implantation is not related to any genetic reason. Testing will be focused on issues regarding receptivity of the uterus.
Endometrial lining is a special tissue in the uterus where embryos implant. This tissue is highly dynamic and has the capacity to undergo physiological changes.
Traditionally this issues were assessed by ultrasound, until recently. Now a day, fertility specialists have more resources that can help diagnose with great precision where the problem of conception lies. New test and technology are constantly being developed helping fertility specialists provide more patients with resources that helps them achieve their dream of getting pregnant.
One of these test is ERA (Endometrial Receptivity Array), it`s a genetic test that evaluates the expression of genes to evaluate whether the endometrial lining is properly developed to accept an embryo. This helps prevent and avoid implantation failure by establishing the best time for embryo transfer.
The goal of this test is to find if there is any alteration on this period of receptivity known as “window of implantation” (WOI). The intention is to adjust the timing of medications that will aid in the goal of a successful pregnancy.
ERA test or endometrial receptivity is one of these new development, which is providing new hope to patients coping with implantation failure.
This test is used to diagnose the state of endometrial receptivity in the window of implantation in women. ERA test indicates the window of implantation increasing your chances of a successful embryo transfer. Every woman has a “window of implantation” in her cycle. This cycle generally occurs in 84% of women in an estimated date. But around 16% of women have a different window that can occur earlier or later than expected. Making embryo transfer and implantation a devastating process for all of the involved.
At FERTILITE ®you can find ERA test and other specialized services dedicated to providing fertility Solutions.
FERTILITE ® is a unique institution that bases their practices on four cardinal principals of medical service: Excellence, Expertise, Integrity and Care. We develop our fertility and advanced reproductive technologies with a simple goal. Provide the best care at an affordable cost within a friendly and compassionate environment. | 2019-04-24T13:54:05 | https://fertilitecenter.com/era-testing/ |
This is a pair of mini sneaker keychains Nike Dunk Pro SB - Paris Dunk Low released in 2003.
The design was made by the famous French painter Bernard Buffet and only 202 pairs were released which make them very very difficult to find for sneaker heads!
Get your mini Nike Dunk Paris Dunk Low today! | 2019-04-23T08:46:14 | https://minisneakershop.com/products/mini-sneaker-keychains-nike-dunk-high-pro-sb-lucky-2004 |
It is your right to be supported to access an advocate of your choice or, where appropriate,to have Centacare advocate on your behalf.
If you need assistance to access support from other services, programs or organisations, speak to your worker for details.
Listed below are links to external advocacy agencies.
Please note that the appearance of a site on this list does not represent any kind of endorsement of that site, nor does its omission represent any form of disapproval. | 2019-04-19T10:17:57 | http://www.centacare.org.au/about/client-information/advocacy/ |
Personal Asset Search Investigator - International Investigators, All In Investigations, Inc.
Sadly, Ryan and Zach agreed that their venture was well on its way to that proverbial ditch, where far too many small businesses land, deep in the mud of financial ruin. No matter how he tried, Ryan couldn't pinpoint where they went wrong. He had been managing the expenses and cutting costs. He had an idea of the money coming in, too.
In the last year, Ryan had brought big clients which became huge money makers for the business. He expected to see relief. But Zach, who was in charge of all the bookkeeping, only shrugged and explained that Ryan's efforts were too late. Nothing could be done. According to Zach, he and his buddy were losing money every day the doors were open. | 2019-04-22T05:03:55 | https://www.iiiweb.net/blog/tag/personal-asset-search-investigator/ |
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In the spirit of the Sydney Opera House, Paris’ Eiffel Tower, the St. Louis Gateway Arch and even the Washington Monument, the iconic guitar hotel tower under construction at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood is soon to become one of the world’s most recognised landmarks.
Designed to resemble back-to-back guitars, with guitar faces, necks and brightly lit guitar strings that reach 450 feet into the sky on both sides, the iconic Hard Rock guitar tower is under construction as part of a $1.5 billion expansion of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood.
The giant guitar tower will be the centrepiece of one of the world’s most elaborate casino complexes, including a Hard Rock Casino nearly double its current size with 3,267 slot machines and 178 table games such as blackjack and baccarat, plus a new 18,000-square foot poker room. The expansion will also include 60,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space and a $100 million redesigned and completely rebuilt Hard Rock Live venue with 7,000 seats in a theatre-style configuration.
The expansion of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will open in mid-2019, in advance of Super Bowl LIV at nearby Hard Rock Stadium in February 2020. Leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Seminole Gaming, who own and operate the casino complex, gathered today on the expansion site to celebrate its construction progress with a traditional Hard Rock “Guitar Smash” ceremony and community event.
The expansion will include 806 additional guestrooms and suites, with 638 in the iconic guitar hotel tower, where all guestrooms will be 525 square feet or larger. An additional 168 guestrooms and suites will be located in a seven-storey Pool Tower that will flank the pool complex. It will bring the total number of guestrooms and suites at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood to more than 1,300. Other amenities will include restaurants, lounges, a business centre and a 41,000-square foot spa.
The popular 5,500-seat Hard Rock Live arena will be razed in March 2018, and replaced with a state-of-the-art 7,000-seat Hard Rock Live in a theatre-style configuration. Designed by Montreal-based Sceno Plus, one of the world’s leading designers of theatrical venues, the new Hard Rock Live will house its own television studio and broadcast centre to produce and televise awards shows and other events. It will also open in mid-2019.
Once the new Hard Rock Live venue opens, the temporary performance hall will become a 37,000-square foot ballroom. It will more than triple the amount of meeting space at the Seminole Hard Rock complex, offering a grand total of 141,000 square feet of meeting space in a new Seminole Hard Rock Conference Centre. | 2019-04-19T11:25:00 | http://ttnonline.com/Article/270886/Iconic-guitar-hotel-coming-up-at-Hollywood |
Quiet and subtle, this hat uses a simple lace pattern to create the illusion of pines, rising up from the ribbed band. Loose Leaf is a great unisex hat, and lets the wearer decide where those trees belong. Worn with the trees in front, you are ready to hike among the trees. Or turn the trees to the back, showing the world that you have been through the forest and come out the other side! | 2019-04-20T14:50:37 | https://www.thepluckyknitter.com/portfolio-item/loose-leaf/ |
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Few spectator sports in the world today pack the excitement and thrills of auto racing! The close action of cars going door to door, bumper to bumper at top speeds brings excitement to thousands every week.
What draws a spectator to a racing event? Is it the speed, thrills, glory, excitement, association with a driver, team or sponsor, the noise, colors or smell? Who knows? The point being that racing draws spectators by the thousand’s, and it is a great opportunity to get them interested in your company. At a given race event, you can see from 3000 to 5000 spectators. In one year, across the country, approximately 58 million people will attend a racing event. Sports Illustrated recently confirmed that Auto Racing is now the number one attended sporting event in the United States. The popularity of Short Track racing is steadily increasing as well as the amount of its exposure. (As in local cable TV coverage) Dirt track racing is now on the Speed Cannel!
Willamette Speedway is a 1/3rd mile clay dirt track located in Lebanon, Oregon. The tracks racing season starts in April and runs throughout September. Each Saturday Night over1000 spectators per race come from all parts of the state to watch over 100 cars compete for championship points in the Sportsman, Super Sport Late Model and Outlaw Dirt Late Models divisions. Willamette has the largest number of Dirt Late Models in the western states (Denver to the coast and Arizona to the Canadian border). Most Holiday weekends have Saturday and Sunday night racing. Willamette Speedway is also the home track for the touring Bud I-5 Dirt Late Model series, and features four NST Sprint Car Series Events in 2006 plus Tuff Trucks, Trash Cars & Kart Racing.
The most exciting, most complete form of advertising is available to YOUR BUSINESS through J. Lightnin’ Racing. Another important factor with Auto Racing is the loyalty shown by racing fans and participants of racing, to their sponsors and their products.
From John’s appearance at your companies site and the public address system at the race track, as well as all the attention that a race car draws on the way to the race track every week, your company will constantly be in the publics eye. | 2019-04-19T01:04:45 | https://hotrodhair.com/bry-2/fun-stuff/the-race-car/ |
Deb is a writer, avid photographer, and 70s music junkie. She writes for several websites, and you can find her photos are on Shutterstock and her blog Introspective Pics. Deb describes herself as a "procrastinating perfectionist who is also introspective—living a 'Darby and Joan' life." Her formula for an article and a photograph is the same: Creative, Quality, and Interesting.
Find out how a "procrastinating perfectionist, who is also introspective," found a fulfilling hobby with the advantage of a passive income.
Make delicious gingerbread man cookies anytime with this easy recipe.
Julius the Monkey is quite the character, and although his name may not be well-known his face is certainly recognizable. He's the playful little monkey with the mischievous grin. | 2019-04-21T20:35:55 | https://wizzley.com/authors/DebW07/ |
It is so hard to stay indoors when the bluebells are in bloom. For a brief spell, before the leaf canopy gets too dense, sunlight dances on the woodland floor and the bluebells take center stage.
The weather was bright but cold and before too long the rain started in earnest, there was only one thing for it, we headed for the pub where a roaring fire awaited us. You can see more of this old inn in Barthomley which dates back to 1614 here. It is the sort of pub where dogs are welcome but we decided to take Ted home first as he had got rather wet in the rain, he did not seem to mind too much as he snuggled into his new blanket.
The water colour illustration above is taken from “A Book of Days” which sadly is now out of print.
In and out of the garden. | 2019-04-23T18:41:30 | https://acornmoon.blogspot.com/2010/05/bluebells-and-barthomley.html |
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Originally published in 1984 by the Center for Urban Policy Research.
What if writing scientific papers was faster, easier, and a bit less painful? This book provides a step-by-step, top-down approach that makes it easier to turn your hard-won results into research papers that your fellow scientists want to read and cite. "I just wrote a (rough) first draft of a paper during a 3-hour flight, and if it wasn't for these teachings, this would have taken me days (if not weeks)!" -Talayeh Aledavood, James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki The book's systematic approach builds on what I've learned through coauthoring close to 100 research papers with students. You'll learn how to outline your paper from top to down, how to develop your story, and how to think about what to write before you write it. You'll also learn how to deal with many issues that writers of science commonly face, from the fear of the blank page to dealing with critical reviews. Here's what you get: A complete step-by-step plan for writing a scientific paper, from choosing which results to include to wrapping up the paper in the Discussion section Concrete, actionable, and practical advice, from a paragraph-level template for the Introduction to guidance on preparing plots and figures Lots of writing tips, from placing signposts in your text to shortening and straightening your sentences This book has been written for the PhD student who is aiming to write a journal article on her research results, but it should also be useful to any scientist who has ever found writing difficult. Whatever the stage of your career, if you'd like to learn how to write research papers systematically and efficiently, this is the book for you! The book includes PART I: STORY 1. How To Choose The Key Point Of Your Paper 2. How To Choose The Supporting Results 3. How To Write The Abstract 4. How To Choose The Title PART II: OUTLINE 5. The Power Of Outlining 6. How To Write The Introduction, Part I: Structure 7. How To Write The Introduction, Part II: A Four-Paragraph Template 8. How To Write The Introduction, Part III: The Lede 9. How To Write The Materials And Methods 10. How To Write The Results, Part I: Figures 11. How To Write The Results, Part II: Text 12. How To Write The Discussion PART III: WORDS 13. How Does Your Reader Read? 14. How To Write Your First Draft 15. How To Edit Your First Draft 16. Tips For Revising Content And Structure 17. Tips For Editing Sentences PART IV: IT'S NOT OVER YET 18. How To Write The Cover Letter 19. How To Deal With Reviews About the author I am a professor of computational science and an experienced academic with around 100 published papers. My research is interdisciplinary, to say the least: I have studied the social fabric of smartphone users, the genetic structure of ant supercolonies, the connectome of the human brain, networks of public transport, and the molecular biology of the human immune system, to name a few. So one could say that I have a broad range of scientific interests (or that I simply cannot choose). But that's exactly the way I like it! | 2019-04-19T01:05:13 | http://eglenin.net/online/research-paper-writing-a-student-s-guide-think-like-a-professor/ |
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