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Very few anniversaries of the America’s Declaration of Independence hold as much significance as that celebrated in 1863. A civil war had been raging in the United States since 1861 over differing interpretations of the Constitution. Though the tides of that war shifted one way and then the other, there had been very little recognizable progress toward resolution during the two years of bloodshed. That is, up until July 4, 1863.
Meeting under an old oak tree, Confederate John C. Pemberton surrendered his forces to General Ulysses Grant, ending a month-and-a-half siege of Vicksburg, Miss. In addition to the 29,495 Confederate soldiers who laid down their arms on that day, another 3,202 had been killed or wounded during the fighting surrounding the city. Just in terms of manpower, it was a serious blow to the Confederacy. Though celebrations of the victory amplified the 87th anniversary of the Union, neither general knew at the time, however, how significant that day was in the war’s history.
VICTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA
On July 4, many miles and states to the northeast of Vicksburg, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under the command of General Robert E. Lee, limped across the Potomac River towards the relative safety of Virginia. For the three days prior, 71,699 men under Lee’s command fought almost 94,000 Union soldiers for control of the land surrounding Gettysburg, Pa.
Three days earlier, when forward elements of the two armies collided on the ridges northwest of Gettysburg, Lee urgently concentrated his forces as Union cavalry gave way. Lee’s Confederates assaulted two hastily form hastily deployed corps of Union infantry, sending the Yankees retreating through the town and regrouping on hills just to the south. Lee had plenty of reason to be optimistic. Though his supplies were stretched to the point of breaking, he had hopes of living off the Pennsylvania countryside.
During the night of July 1, troops continue to converge on the outskirts of Gettysburg. General George Gordon Meade ordered his Union army to take up defensive positions. Following the contour of the hills south of town, the Union line resembled a fishhook. By late afternoon of July 2, when General Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, the defenses were not adequate. Fierce fighting raged for control of Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil’s Den and the Peach Orchard. About two miles away on the Union’s right flank, Confederate demonstrations devolved into full-scale assaults on Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill. Though the Confederates had several opportunities to break the lines, the Union defenders held their lines despite significant losses. The day ended in a draw.
Fighting resumed on Culp’s Hill on July 3 as cavalry battles raged to the east and south. These actions, paled, however, by the dramatic infantry assault of 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge—it would later, and forever, be known as Pickett’s Charge, named for the Virginia general who conceived and led the attack. Entrenched Union infantry and artillery repulsed the attack and delivered a crippling blow to the Confederate army. During the evening of July 3, General Lee decided to withdraw from the bloody ground at Gettysburg and return to Virginia with the tattered remains of his army.
The Union Army’s jubilation on the morning of July 4 was tempered by the torrential rains that soaked the battlefield—and the realization that nearly 7,500 men lay dead around them. More than 27,000 wounded—both Confederate and Union—added to the three days’ carnage. Though relieved that a fourth day of fighting did not seem imminent, there was little cause for celebration.
FOURTH CELEBRATED ON MISSISSIPPI
A little more than a thousand miles to the southwest, the night sky above Vicksburg, Miss., was erupting with fireworks on July 4, 1863. Union troops were celebrating the capture of the important Confederate river community.
Vicksburg lay on the east side of the Mississippi River. It was built high above the water on a rocky cliff. As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico. It provided a natural fortification for protecting navigation on the river below. The Confederates had placed cannon all along the sharp turn in the river. Union ships were easy targets.
General Ulysses Grant began the campaign for Vicksburg in late 1862. His army was located west of the Mississippi River. To effectively attack Vicksburg, he would have to first move his army to the eastern side of the river.
His first attempt to cross the river left his supply lines vulnerable. Confederate forces recognized this and launched an attack that forced Grant to withdraw back across the river. He planned a second attempt to cross the river and take Vicksburg.
During the spring of 1863, Grant took his army south of Vicksburg where he planned to cross the river and launch an attack. The cannons on the bluffs, however, would have to be neutralized for any large-scale movement to pass by safely.
When Grant’s army of 40,000 men marched to a point about 10 kilometers from Vicksburg, the General ordered them to stack arms—which he replaced with digging tools. The general asked his soldiers to build a canal—a canal that could be used to carry them all safely past the heavily fortified turn in the river and outside the range of the Confederate cannon.
Digging through mud and wet clay, the Union soldiers worked for weeks. Working in the humid swampland, many succumbed to disease. After more than a month of digging, Grant’s engineers decided that the canal would not work. This did not deter the general. He ordered his men to dig another canal. This, too, failed. Grant was not moved from his opinion of how to approach the city. He ordered his men to begin a third canal.
It wasn’t until April when General Grant finally abandoned the idea of circling around Vicksburg without a fight. Reluctantly, he admitted that the city would have to be attacked head-on. He marched the bulk of his army down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing 30 kilometers below Vicksburg. He planned to sail his Navy gunboats past the city under the cover of darkness.
It took three weeks for the Union soldiers to reach the steamboat landing. Rough roads, swamps and mud took its toll, forcing the Army to wait while engineer troops cut trees to lay corduroy roads and build bridges.
Under the cover of darkness on the night of April 16, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter commanded the eight gunboats and three empty troop boats that floated down the dark river with their engines silent. The Confederates, however, had built fires along the river. When they recognized the Union ships attempting to pass, they opened fire, easily hitting most of the ships but only sinking one. The damaged flotilla safely reunited with Grant’s land army below the city at Hard Times, La.
In the largest amphibious operation ever conducted by an American force prior to World War II, Grant and Porter transferred 24,000 men and 60 guns from the west bank to the east. They landed unopposed at Bruinsburg, Miss., and began marching toward Port Gibson and Grand Gulf, towns north along the river. Four divisions encountered a Confederate brigade along Bayou Pierre near Port Gibson on May 1, resulting of casualties to each side of between 700 and 900 men, but the two river towns were captured without further significant fighting. The rest of Grant’s army, under General William T. Sherman, then crossed the river at Grand Gulf, bringing his force to over 45,000.
With his full army on the east side of the Mississippi, Grant decided to drive north toward Jackson before attacking Vicksburg. He easily captured Jackson where he left a small force to destroy enemy supplies. With the rest of his force, he turned back toward Vicksburg.
Grant attacked Vicksburg several times. Each time, his troops were thrown back. The city’s defenses were too strong. Grant then decided to surround the city and wait until its food was gone. He encircled the city with men and artillery. Nothing could get out and nothing could get into the surrounded Confederate stronghold.
Weeks passed as the Union army kept up a steady shelling of the city. The Confederate Army responded, but only briefly, and without much effect. Ammunition, food and morale all plummeted.
Finally, the Confederate commander, General John Pemberton, decided it was better to discuss terms of surrender than to watch his army and the residents of Vicksburg starve. He sent word to Grant. Meeting under a flag of truce, Grant demanded unconditional surrender. Pemberton rejected the demand.
Pemberton wanted Grant to immediately parole the surrendering Confederates, telling Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if he permitted them to return to their homes. If not, Pemberton told the Union commander, his men would continue to fight.
Grant agreed to let the Confederate soldiers go home. He and Pemberton signed the surrender agreement on July 4, 1863, ending the 47-day siege.
Never had a Union army won such a victory. President Abraham Lincoln had once observed, “Vicksburg is the key, the war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.” With Vicksburg in Union hands, the North controlled the whole length of the Mississippi River. Grant had removed about 30,000 soldiers from the Confederate war effort. In addition, he captured about 60,000 firearms and 170 cannon. This was a blow to the Confederacy from which it would never recover.
A THIRD REASON FOR CELEBRATION
Major General Benjamin Prentiss, command of the District of Easter Arkansas, had headquartered Helena, Ark., with about 20,000 troops. To assist in the attack on Vicksburg, General Grant ordered Prentiss to send all but 4,000 of his men. Though Prentiss had built an impressive array of defenses of Helena, his greatly reduced force was hardly sufficient to man them.
Lt. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes, commander of the Confederate District of Arkansas, planned a coordinated attack from three sides on the weakened Federal fortifications surrounding Helena. He believed the attack would relieve pressure on Vicksburg and also prevent Helena being used as a Union base from which to strike deeper into Arkansas.
In the early dawn hours of July 4, Holmes launched a three-prong attack on the scantily defended Union breastworks. A combination of poor communication and faulty coordination led to a serious Confederate defeat by day’s end. The Battle of Helena left 206 Union and 1,636 Confederate casualties. More importantly, any Confederate threat on Helena disappeared, allowing the city to become a base of operation for the successful campaign to take Little Rock, Ark., later that year.
NEVER FULLY RECOGNIZED
Compared to today, news traveled slowly in 1863. Even as the bluffs around Vicksburg reverberated with celebration on the evening of July 4, 1863 (though it would be more than 100 years before the residents of the city would willingly celebrate the birthday of the United States), back east, news of the victory at Gettysburg had just reached Washington, D.C.
As people engulfed the White House in celebration, President Lincoln was reluctant to believe any stories of victories until it was confirmed by his sources. More than two years filled with disappointments from a string of commanding generals had hampered the president’s willingness to celebrate any good news.
Furthermore, he was awaiting the outcome of the battle of Vicksburg. As far as he knew, that battle was still hanging in the balance. So rather than satisfying the crowds with a speech, he simply issued an Executive Order:
“The President announces to the country that news from the Army of the Potomac up to 10 o’clock p.m. of the 3d is such as to cover that army with the highest honor, to promise a great success to the cause of the Union, and to claim the condolence of all for the many gallant fallen; and that for this he especially desires that on this day He whose will, not ours, should ever be done be everywhere remembered and ever reverenced with profoundest gratitude.”
He had not yet realized that the victory at Gettysburg, combined with the fall of Vicksburg, constituted the turning point in the War. It wasn’t until July 7 when President Lincoln delivered his “Fourth of July” speech. The July 8, 1863, issue of the Washington Star recorded it for readers:
Fellow-citizens: I am very glad to see you to-night. But yet I will not say I thank you for this call. But I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called. [Cheers.] How long ago is it? Eighty odd years since, upon the Fourth day of July, for the first time in the world, a union body of representatives was assembled to declare as a self-evident truth that all men were created equal. [Cheers.]
That was the birthday of the United States of America. Since then the fourth day of July has had several very peculiar recognitions. The two most distinguished men who framed and supported that paper, including the particular declaration I have mentioned, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the one having framed it, and the other sustained it most ably in debate, the only two of the fifty-five or fifty-six who signed it, I believe, who were ever President of the United States, precisely fifty years after they put their hands to that paper it pleased the Almighty God to take away from this stage of action on the Fourth of July. This extraordinary coincidence we can understand to be a dispensation of the Almighty Ruler of Events.
Another of our Presidents, five years afterwards, was called from this stage of existence on the same day of the month, and now on this Fourth of July just past, when a gigantic rebellion has risen in the land, precisely at the bottom of which is an effort to overthrow that principle “that all men are created equal,” we have a surrender of one of their most powerful positions and powerful armies forced upon them on that very day. [Cheers.] And I see in the succession of battles in Pennsylvania, which continued three days, so rapidly following each other as to be justly called one great battle, fought on the first, second and third of July; on the fourth the enemies of the declaration that all men are created equal had to turn tail and run. [Laughter and applause.]
Gentlemen, this is a glorious theme and a glorious occasion for a speech, but I am not prepared to make one worthy of the theme and worthy of the occasion. [Cries of “go on,” and applause.] I would like to speak in all praise that is due to the the [sic] many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of this country from the beginning of this war, not on occasions of success, but upon the more trying occasions of the want of success. I say I would like to speak in praise of these men, particularizing their deeds, but I am unprepared. I should dislike to mention the name of a single officer, lest in doing so I wrong some other one whose name may not occur to me. [Cheers.]
Recent events bring up certain names, gallantly prominent, but I do not want to particularly name them at the expense of others, who are as justly entitled to our gratitude as they. I therefore do not upon this occasion name a single man. And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I’ll take the music. [Tremendous cheering, and calls for the President to reappear.]
Perhaps it was caution—or humility—that prevented the president from boasting of the major blows recently dealt to the Confederacy. In a private letter to General Grant penned five days later, this humility comes through clearly:
Washington, July 13, 1863.
Major General Grant
My dear General,
I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do, what you finally did –march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. Yours very truly.
The nation never really celebrated that climactic Fourth of July. Ultimate Union victory had not been assured. That would come only after Lincoln’s reelection in 1864, and the erosion of Southern armies until they finally surrendered in April 1865. Even with the nation reunited, the scars would never fully heal.
Today, we are still a divided nation in many ways, split by the intense partisan politics and conflicting social and ideological values. In the past decade, the fight over different interpretations of the Constitution have grown louder—sometimes rivaling the discourse leading up to the secession of Southern States and armed conflict
Hopefully, the angry rhetoric of our times, which often approaches that of the years leading up to America’s Civil War, won’t result in another schism. Perhaps on this Fourth of July, Americans of all geographic locations, regional backgrounds and ethnic heritage can proudly salute the Stars and Stripes in unison. Perhaps rekindling the memory of the battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Helena 149 years ago will temper any national rhetoric or dissension—if only for the honor of the day.
Happy Fourth of July,
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Should my partner consider PEP? Urgent answer please
Aug 29, 2011
I've been on treatment with atripla in about 5 months. My test one and half month ago showed viral load of 200, a big drop from 4000 before. I have taken my meds regularly til now and assume my load would be even lower. The problem is that on yesterday (saturday at 11.00, 27 aug.) I had sex with my partner without condoms ( we want even to go for having baby in a couple of months). After that we noticed that she was bleeding inside her vaginae. Since then we are completely out of ourselves. I called the hospital nearby and talk to a doctor, who meant there is no need to be worry, since my viral load is low and her bleeding actually runs the virus out of her body. Therefor she meant no need for PEP. How can we trust her assignment, she even did not see her? What do you mean Doctor, where I live there is a boundary of 24 hours for PEP. But I hear that other places is the first 72 hours. PEP is taking ARV medication in one month, isn't it? I have my atripla, couldn't she just take it in one month so we prevent a huge unwanted accident? I will appreciate your answer very much.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Unprotected sex places your partner at risk for acquiring the virus, even if your HIV plasma viral load is low or undetectable. I would recommend a course of PEP for this exposure. It should be started as soon as possible and no later than 72 hours after exposure. Assuming your partner is not pregnant now, yes, she could begin PEP by taking one Atripla per day. (Efavirenz, a component of Atripla, should not be used in women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.) Your partner should then quickly establish care with an HIV specialist to follow her through her 28-day course of treatment and post-PEP testing out to six months. Perhaps your HIV specialist would be willing to do this for you and her. The HIV specialist may switch her to a different PEP regimen when he evaluates her, but the important thing now is to get started on treatment immediately. I disagree with the phone advice you were given by the Emergency Room.
Regarding your desire to start a family, see link below. You and your partner should also read through the information in the chapter in the archives of this forum dedicated to magnetic couples. You may wish to consider some of the harm-reduction strategies discussed there.
Good luck to you both.
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Best Amusement and Water Parks 2014 Advisors
Meet our panel of advisors for our Best Amusement Parks list.
Meet our panel of advisors — including Travel Channel's resident daredevil and host of Trip Flip Bert Kreischer, roller coaster reviewer Robb Alvey and family travel expert Erin Gifford -- who handpicked our list of top parks you’ll want to add to your family’s travel to-do list.
1. Bert Kreischer
When Kreischer is not passionately discovering local adventures, traditions and thrills for Travel Channel, viewers can find him touring comedy clubs and colleges throughout the US. Prior to becoming Travel Channel's adventure-seeker on his first series for the network, Bert the Conqueror, Kreischer began his career at the Boston Comedy Club. His hilarious storytelling grabbed the attention of Hollywood A-lister Will Smith, who signed him to a television development deal. He has co-hosted FX's The X Show and made his acting debut starring in the CBS/20th Century Fox pilot, Life with David J, with Elliot Gould.
Most recently, Kreischer penned the book, Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child (St. Martin's Press; on-sale May 27, 2014). In this guidebook on how not to grow up, Kreischer shares some of his most outrageous stories and more.
2. Robb Alvey
Robb can be seen on Travel Channel shows such as Insane Coaster Wars and Future Scream Machines. He has also appeared in interviews on CNN, HLN, CNBC and many other news outlets on subjects like ride safety and the overall state of the theme park industry.
His website, ThemeParkReview.com features information on over 700 theme parks across the globe. You can follow Robb Alvey on Twitter @ThemeParkReview.
3. Erin Gifford
Since its launch in 2011, Kidventurous.com has been named the Best Family Travel Blog by Parents magazine and the travel website, Luxury Travel Mavens, and was named a finalist in the Top Family Travel Sites category by the Red Tricycle Totally Awesome Awards. Erin's travel writing can be found on TravelChannel.com, Fodors.com, MiniTime, SmarterTravel.com and more.
4. Steve VanDis
For the past 3 years Steve has spearheaded Travel Channel's series on the world's greatest roller coasters, Insane Coaster Wars. Steve's crews have traveled from Dubai's Formula Rossa, the fastest coaster in the world, to the world's steepest coaster, Takabisha at Fuji-q Highland in Japan, and experienced Kingda Ka and Intimidator 305 in the United States. Steve and his crews strive to film these roller coasters in a way that's never been done before, giving the viewers at home the ultimate ride experience.
Steve and his crew at Indigo Films have filmed over 90 roller coasters worldwide. His upcoming season of Insane Coaster Wars: World Domination will air this summer and feature some of the world's newest and hottest roller coasters.
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Hillary Wright is a registered and licensed dietician, the Director of Nutrition Counseling for the Domar Center for Mind Body Health, and the author of The PCOS Diet Plan.
Hillary explains that PCOS is the most common hormonal disorder affecting women of reproductive age. The disorder is an endocrine problem that affects 5 to 18% of all women, and can cause an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, endometrial cancer, and infertility. It also affects one’s psychological health.
However, PCOS responds positively to healthy living. Adopting a healthy lifestyle can allow those with PCOS to better manage their condition by creating a body environment that feels better, promotes fertility, and reduces heart disease risk.
One way to live healthy with PCOS is through adopting a carbohydrate distributed diet. Hillary recommends identifying naturally occurring carbohydrates and spreading them out over the day. Emphasis should be placed on consuming quality carbs and being mindful of the quantity consumed at each sitting.
Hillary also shares her nine strategies for helping people deal with health and lifestyle change. These include:
1. Learn how your body works.
2. Try to avoid the “I’m a failure” syndrome.
3. Keep a food journal.
4. Don’t eat too much at night.
5. Accept that there’s some discomfort involved.
6. Focus on the positive.
7. Make losing weight a priority.
8. Manage your mindset and your expectations.
9. Don’t go it alone.
She also speaks about the importance of exercise for those with PCOS. She recommends the guidelines prescribed by the American College of Sports Medicine, which includes 150 minutes per week of moderate cardio activity, two or three strengthening activities per week, and incorporation of stretching and balance components.
To connect with Hillary Wright or to learn more about The PCOS Diet Plan, visit http://www.hillarywright.com or http://www.pcosdiet.com.
Jeff Horowitz is a certified running coach and a seasoned marathon runner. He is also the author of the new book, Ageless Strength, which focuses on having the right approach to strength as we age.
Jeff explains that how we age has more to do with how we treat ourselves. As we age, our bodies stop producing as much growth hormone and lose some capability. However, if we focus on building strength, balance, and being functional with improved mobility, we will be better equipped to manage the effects of aging.
Jeff also speaks about thinking of exercise differently, more in terms of the mental component rather than just the physical motions. The goal with exercise is to enhance the number of things we can do, while continually challenging the brain in different ways to solve different problems. This improves our capability of movement and makes exercising more interesting and enjoyable.
One group that will want to focus on building more functional strength is runners, as most of their injuries come from strength imbalance. When a runner’s form is compromised, it causes stress all over the body, which can lead to injury. Runners should focus on maintaining strength laterally, which will enable their bodies to hold their form when they land each step.
The book includes different exercises that focus on meeting the challenges of each area, including strength, balance, and functionality. Create your own custom workout by choosing different exercises among the three sections. Maintain variety in your workouts to keep it challenging and fun, while allowing you to become stronger in a functional way.
Michel Pascal is a writer, singer, and spirituality and meditation enthusiast who once lived in the largest monastery in Nepal. His new book, Meditation for Daily Stress: 10 Practices for Immediate Well-being, offers real examples of how to incorporate meditation in our daily lives, causing powerful results.
Michel speaks about the common false ideas of what meditation is. He explains that Americans are educated with the wrong perception about meditation, thinking often of monks in monasteries without a clear idea of how it can apply in our real, daily lives.
The world is so active, and we often feel the pressure to be productive at a high level, which causes great stress. The key is to train the mind to meditate within our daily stress and lives, rather than viewing the process as something that must take place remotely in a quiet or stress-free environment, as this is not realistic for many people.
The goal is to recycle the stressful energy around you into calm energy, as meditation is truly a transmission of energy. This is accomplished through first diagnosing yourself as fed up with your current state and then putting the meditation into practice.
We have the ability to change our perception of our lives in just a few minutes with the help of the practices described in the book. By following these steps, we can retrain our minds and introduce more calmness into our lives.
To connect with Michel or to learn more about Meditation for Daily Stress: 10 Practices for Immediate Well-being, visit http://www.michelpascal.tv.
Amy Berger is a certified nutrition specialist and the author of a new book entitled, The Alzheimer’s Antidote. Although this book was written for caregivers of people with dementia, it is a great source of information for anyone who wants to learn these complex topics in a way that’s easy to understand.
Amy talks about certain factors that can impact susceptibility to developing Alzheimer’s Disease. One such factor is the APO E4 genotype, which is the largest genetic risk factor that increases susceptibility for Alzheimer’s Disease. Though the gene does not directly cause Alzheimer’s disease, it is a complete mismatch for how we eat and live today, as it is the least suited for the modern carb diet.
Another factor that can contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease is amyloid plaque proteins that are secreted out of cells and chopped into fragments. Some of these fragments are not cleared properly and stay in the brain where they can block spaces between cells that communicate with each other. This can result in memory impairment and behavioral problems, though it may not necessarily cause Alzheimer’s.
Amy also speaks about the importance of maintaining cholesterol within our bodies to support proper cognitive function. The increase of statin use in recent years has shown to be another hurdle to overcome. She notes that sugar and carbohydrates may be driving the majority of problems with Alzheimer’s, as they can cause the brain to lose the ability to harness energy from glucose.
One potential solution is ketogenic intervention. Ketones are proving promising in burning fat, aiding the effects of Type 2 diabetes, and fueling the brain. A brain damaged by Alzheimer’s or dementia can use ketones instead of glucose as a fuel source, and have seen improved cognition in the short-term.
To connect with Amy or to learn more about her book, The Alzheimer’s Antidote, visit http://www.tuitnutrition.com.
Bill Pierce and Scott Murr are not only friends who have been running together for 35 years, but they are also founders of the Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training and authors of the new book entitled, Runner’s World: Train Smart, Run Forever.
This new book details how one can become a lifelong runner. Starting a running program or maintaining a runner’s lifestyle can become more difficult over the age of 40. This is partly because we simply cannot train the way we did in our younger years. In addition, connective tissue becomes more rigid with age, which can restrict range of motion and lead to injury. Yet most runners over 40 have the same goal—to be a lifetime runner because it is a central part of their life.
To reach this goal, Bill and Scott discuss several steps that runners can take to make this goal a reality. These include:
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Solar System: Eclipses
These sites have information about solar and lunar eclipses. Includes descriptions, Webcasts, images, and charts. There are also sky charts and descriptions of the earth, moon, and sun relationships.
Learn about past, present, and future eclipses.
Learn about different aspects of the sun and their magnitude in relation to things you might know. Includes "How Big is the Sun?" and "How Hot is the Sun?"
Learn more about eclipses. See animations and webcasts of eclipses that have already happened.
Select a date and a location. The site will return sunrise, sunset, moon phase information, and more.
Teachers can register their school to participate in this online project. There are many activities for students to observe the relationship between the sun and earth.
Click on "Map of the Earth" to see current day and night regions. You can also view the earth and moon from various locations.
Students can look at many different photographs of eclipses. This site also has explanations of lunar and solar eclipses for beginners. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Use the astronomy dictionary to learn the difference between rotation and revolution. Go to "The Planets" to find the period of rotation for each planet.
Watch the movie and take the quiz to learn about solar and lunar eclipses.
Read about the precautions to take when viewing a solar eclipse. Under "Eclipse Archive" students can find audio and video clips of past eclipses. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to message boards.
This site has information on the sun/earth environment.
This site has diagrams and photographs to explain how a solar eclipse works. There is a link to "How does a pinhole camera work?" NOTE: The site includes ads.
These sites demonstrate rotation, revolution, and the orbit of planets and moons in our solar system. Includes information about day/night cycles, rotational periods, constellations, moon phases, and telling time.
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Why wait? Here's a little something to start stressing about right away!
Look at the photo below. The horizontal red line near the bottom shows The Yukon Quest trail running east (left to right) along Baseline Road. Throughout the season, SPK teams finish their training runs along the very same piece of road, then go "Haw!" (left) at the little turn-off in the circle, and follow the dotted line for a very short distance before going "Haw!" again into SP Kennel for their hot meals and comfy beds.
Very soon, the teams will be trotting down Baseline and -- as creatures of habit -- will expect to go "Haw!" as usual. This time, however, they've got to keep going!
To help overcome the hard-wired urge to "head for home" you can be sure that Allen and Aliy have been working with the dogs recently to pass the usual turn-off after training runs.
You can also be sure that they -- along with the entire SPK family -- will be yelling "Stay Gee!" (right) at the top of their lungs as the dogs approach the turn-off.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Ray has parked his pick-up in the chute and covered it with camouflage, just to help make the point clear.
The last thing Allen and Aliy want is for the dogs to think they're done for the day and make a bee-line for their houses! This is just one of the "mental challenges" for the dogs on the YQ and I'll try to point out a few others along the way... Stay tuned! |
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Cider n' Cinnamon: a Rockford art & craft tradition for over 40 years!
Join us for this free event held annually at Edgebrook. At Cider n' Cinnamon Arts & Crafts Fair, more than 70 vendors will be displaying a variety of art, jewelry, crafts, clothing, vintage décor, and so much more! Enjoy delicious food and live music both days.
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I liked Aeoniums the first time a saw them and still do. They seem to have universal appeal as even people who don't like succulent plants tend to have a soft spot for the Aeonium. I suppose they don't have the classic succulent look about them. What they do have are magnificent leaves and peculiar shaped inflorescences of flowers. There are about 35 different species of Aeoniums and most are from the Canary Islands. From the experience I've had with the Aeoniums at my place I would definitely describe them as a low maintenance plant. I only water them once in a blue moon and they seem to tolerate a mild amount of frost.
The magnificent rosette of leaves of an Aeonium plant.
Another angle of the same type of Aeonium.
The wonderful inflorescence of flowers they produce. You will need to wait a couple of years before they are mature enough to flower.
Aeoniums are a really easy plant to propagate from cuttings as is the case with many succulent plants. As such they are suited to beginners. They require little skill, no greenhouse and as yet I've never had one that didn't strike roots (100% success rate).
- A pair of secateurs
- A mature and healthy Aeonium plant to take cuttings from
- A cactus / succulent mix to plant the cuttings in
The most important thing to know when trying to propagate Aeoniums from cuttings is the timing. Aeoniums will only produce roots during their active growth period which is the cooler months of the year if you live in a place with really hot Summers. In somewhere like Melbourne Australia I would avoid trying to propagate them in the peak of Summer.
Assuming you have the timing down you need to then cut off a rosette of leaves from the mother plant leaving enough stem to plant the cutting (say 5cm at the least). You then dry the cutting a little by leaving it on newspaper overnight or maybe 2 nights if you want. You then plant the cutting into a pre watered pot of cactus / succulent potting mix and that's all! I never use rooting hormone or any of that jazz as I you don't need it with Aeoniums. I keep the potting mix damp for about a month or until the plants grow a little. After that they don't need much attention.
Have fun propagating :)
Below are a couple of cuttings I have taken from the mother plant.
Some more cuttings in place in their pots
This is one I did about 1 year ago. Its a tought little plant I've let it go dry for weeks and it looks really healthy. |
When I started building the Utility, I admit, I wasn't fully confident in myself that I would or could finish it.
Well, I did.
Along with that has come a great deal of positive growth and change. With the Zip, I want to make a much nicer boat. I'm not necessarily shooting for a "showpiece," but I do want to make it as fine a boat as I can.
With all that said, let's take a look at the work on the transom so far:
What I learned from William Jackson and the Sande Ace
I will be building this transom differently than what is described in the Glen-L plans.
First of all, the transom is constructed of 1" mahogany framing that is attached to 3/4" plywood backing. In the plans, Mr. Witt calls for only the mahogany frame parts to be notched for battens, keel, etc... NOT the plywood. The main reason for that, I assume, is more aesthetic than structural.
|1-inch mahogany framing and motor board for the Zip transom|
|In this detail shot from the Utility transom's construction, you can see how only the frame is notched for the keel, NOT the 3/4" plywood transom. Many Glen-L plans specify this method for building a transom, but it's not the only way.|
That is all fine and good. However, during my Utility build, I found that fitting the battens, keel, etc into these notches was a bit "tricky," particularly with my limited woodworking skills.
I learned a different way to build a transom, by studying William Jackson's "Ace" runabout design. Basically, you cut the notches through both the mahogany framing AND the plywood. Then later, you cover the ends of the battens, etc with another piece of wood or plywood across the width of the transom. On the ACE, the "cap" is only used across the bottom area of the transom.
|This photo, from an ACE restoration project, shows how batten notches are cut through both the framing and the plywood section of the transom. Battens are run all the way through the back, then trimmed to fit.|
|This photo of an ACE transom shows the full-width "cap" that is placed over the ends of the battens. NOTE: I did not take either of these two photos. They were sent to me by a very helpful gentleman who has restored several ACE boats made by the Sande Boatworks company in Washington state in the 1950s-60s. I HIGHLY recommend learning about the Sande ACE, and this fine piece of post-war Americana. Please explore the SandeAce.com website, and see for yourself this rich snapshot of American history. Thank You, to the SandeAce.com community for preserving and sharing these boats and this slice of history on your website.|
My plan is to combine this method along with my own experience from building the Utility transom. I will start with a 1/2" plywood transom, framed in 1" mahogany. I'll cut the notches all the way through both parts. Then, after installing the keel, battens, etc, I will cap the entire transom with two additional sheets of 1/4" plywood.
I believe this method will allow for easier fitting of the battens, and consequently result in a stronger overall joint.
What I've learned from thickened epoxyI will need to use thickened epoxy on the transom, because over time, I will build up its full 1" thickness by laminating multiple layers of 1/4" marine plywood.
During the course of the Utility build, I used quite a bit of thickened epoxy. Some was thickened with #2 silica. Some was thickened with mahogany sawdust.
I also had to sand, file, and chip away at some cured globs of the stuff. What I found was that epoxy thickened with the silica tended to be more brittle, whereas epoxy thickened with the sawdust tended to be more resilient.
However, I also learned that using sawdust brought its own problems. Basically, sawing the wood leaves larger grains and chips of the wood than sanding. When mixed with epoxy, these larger grains and chips created a "clumpier" mixture that was both more difficult to use, and also tended to leave gaps and air pockets.
Still, I believe that epoxy thickened with wood dust IS more resilient than epoxy thickened with silica. So, moving forward, I decided to collect as much wood dust as possible from sanding the mahogany. Sanding leaves a much, much finer wood dust. That leads to better, more consistent mixtures of thickened epoxy.
The frame parts, including the motor board, are all made from rough-cut 4/4 mahogany. I have been doing a LOT of hand-sanding of these parts, to shape them and smooth out the rough sides. While sanding, I have also been meticulously collecting the mahogany sanding dust.
|I'm trying to keep all the parts as symmetrical as possible. So, when working on sister parts like these, I clamp them together while sanding them to shape.|
Aligning the transom parts
|Transom frame parts laid out on the first 1/4" plywood cutout.|
|My motor board is 1/4" wider than specified on the plans, so it extends into the area where the upper frame parts go.|
|I plan to trim 1/8" off of these narrow points of the top frame parts to fit them to the wider motor board. I prefer to maintain the width of the motor board as-is, just for that extra little bit of strength on the transom.|
The First Lamination
Finally, the time came to laminate my initial 1/4" transom cutout onto a second layer of 1/4" Meranti. I cut out a large enough rectangular piece, and laid it out on my work bench. In order to keep from gluing the transom to the work bench, I covered the bench with sheets of wax paper.
Then, I mixed 120ml of System Three Silvertip epoxy, and thickened it with some of the mahogany wood dust. I planned to coat both mating surfaces with this mixture. However, I ran out of epoxy while coating the first piece. So, I quickly mixed another batch. After thickening it with the wood dust, I coated the second surface.
Then I carefully mated them together.
Some people will use cinderblocks, or weights, to press plywood sheets together. I decided that I needed to get my money's worth out of that expensive Raptor stapler I bought 2 years ago.
And, just as before, once the plastic staples were trimmed and sanded, they virtually disappeared.
|Two 1/4" plywood sections, glued and stapled together.|
|Here, you can see the wax paper that kept me from gluing the transom to the bench.|
|Close-up of the laminated plywood sheets and the Raptor staples.|
|The trimmed 1/2" plywood transom. It only took minutes to snip and sand the Raptor staples, and they virtually vanish.|
|Close-up of the trimmed, laminated plywood edge.|
Currently, I'm drawing and measuring the plan lines onto the back of the newly-laminated plywood. I want to make sure that everything is shaped as symmetrically and precise as I am able. |
To the right is Tim at the Landis Valley Museum herb and plant fair, it was really rainy but look at that great outfit, wellies and short what else do you need. We will be at the Kennett Square Farmers Market next Friday and at B and H organics in Morgantown Pa on Sat for their open house and at Headhouse Market in Philly (2nd and south) every Sunday from 10 -2. We sold tons of plants and lots of people are ready to join the Slow Farming Revolution.
Happy Cat Organics, LLC
We are a small company/farm/nursery/retail store that sells sustainably produced seeds, plants, produce and products. We are a triple bottom line business, dedicated to not only ending up in the black, but in creating a business that profits in people and a healthy environments. To stabilize the rapacious erosion of not just our soils, but our culture and way of life. With a focus on organically producing products that stimulates local economies and ecosystems and add balance to our water and food sheds.
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A business that creates energy and resources instead of using them.
Our products are not produced they are performed……. |
Jan 31, 2014
It's important for charitable foundations and other philanthropic groups to realize their websites are essentially a window into their organizations. While it might seem like anyone can run an effective website nowadays, the truth is many nonprofits aren't taking the time to develop an online experience that will welcome donors and others who are interested in learning more.
Optimize online giving forms
An organization's website also shouldn't simply be an engine for fundraising outreach. While online donation forms and capabilities are a crucial aspect to integrate into the overall layout, the entire site shouldn't be dedicated solely to garnering contributions. According to npENGAGE, it's a smart idea to embed an online donation system into the homepage and nonprofits have a number of service providers to work with if they're looking to create a customized form.
Put fingers to the keyboard
Blogging is far from a new concept, but it's not going anywhere either. People go online specifically to read content, and providing donors and prospects with an engaging blog can help foster a stronger connection with people than through a newsletter or email alone. One resource that nonprofits can turn to in developing their blog is bringing in guest experts to provide insights. This will lend credibility to the organization and likely earn it greater notoriety.
Simplify the layout
According to Fox Business, one of the leading trends heading into 2014 is for greater simplicity in how websites deliver content. This doesn't mean developing a boring website with little content for donors and users to interact with. Instead, the site should be intuitive with clear menu links. However, a nonprofit's idea of simple and that of users might be different. Accordingly, Fox Business recommended organizations use split testing to analyze how users respond to different site designs. |
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Michael J. Reagan United States District Judge
Plaintiff, an inmate in the Centralia Correctional Center, brings this action for deprivations of his constitutional rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff previously was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and he has tendered his initial partial filing fee as ordered.
This case is now before the Court for a preliminary review of the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, which provides:
(a) Screening.-- The court shall review, before docketing, if feasible or, in any event, as soon as practicable after docketing, a complaint in a civil action in which a prisoner seeks redress from a governmental entity or officer or employee of a governmental entity.
(b) Grounds for Dismissal.-- On review, the court shall identify cognizable claims or dismiss the complaint, or any portion of the complaint, if the complaint--
(1) is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted; or
(2) seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief.
28 U.S.C. § 1915A. An action or claim is frivolous if "it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact." Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989). Upon careful review of the complaint and any supporting exhibits, the Court finds it appropriate to exercise its authority under § 1915A; this action is legally frivolous and thus subject to summary dismissal.
Plaintiff states that on August 6, 2003, he was seen in the Centralia Correctional Center's Health Care Unit "HCU" for stomach "problems" and he was given Mylanta. On August 12, 2003, he was seen in the HCU for "knife-like cramping and diarrhea." He returned to the HCU on August 20, 2003, for the same problem and was given Zantac. He saw a physician on September 8, 2003. A test for H. pylori was run and a stool sample was taken and Plaintiff was prescribed tylenol and protonix. A November 8, 2003, abdominal x-ray indicated nothing abnormal. On November 9, 2003, Plaintiff was given an upper G.I. exam that revealed a small hiatal hernia. The physician prescribed Prilosec.
On May 31, 2004, Plaintiff returned to the HCU, complaining of abdominal pain. He saw a physician on June, 2, 2004, who referred Plaintiff to a gastroenterologist. On August 5, 2004, the specialist performed an upper endocscopy that revealed a large hiatal hernia. Plaintiff returned to the HCU on August 13, 2004, complaining of abdominal pain. He was prescribed protonix. Plaintiff was seen in the HCU again on August 24, 2004, for abdominal pain. Plaintiff saw the physician on October 15, 2004. He told Plaintiff that his x-ray was normal except for a small kidney stone that did not require treatment and that he would receive no additional treatment for abdominal pain. On November 16, 2004, Plaintiff saw a nurse at the HCU for abdominal pain who told him that "there's nothing else we can do for you," but she did make him an appointment to see the physician. The physician told Plaintiff to watch his diet and exercise. Plaintiff returned to the HCU for pain in the lower left quadrant on November 23, 2004, but "nothing was done about it." Plaintiff states that the nurse would not listen to his complaints. Plaintiff saw a physician on December 30 or 31, 2004, and suggested to the doctor that he might have diverticulitis. The physician told Plaintiff that he might have diverticulosis but could not have diverticulitis, because if he did he would have a high fever and would be unable to have a bowel movement. The physician again told Plaintiff to watch his diet and exercise. Plaintiff states that the physician became irate after Plaintiff asked him which foods to avoid. Plaintiff states that he has not seen a physician since, but that he continues to have severe pain in the lower left quadrant.
The Supreme Court has recognized that "deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners" may constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104 (1976); Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994). This encompasses a broader range of conduct than intentional denial of necessary medical treatment, but it stops short of "negligen[ce] in diagnosing or treating a medical condition." Estelle, 429 U.S. at 106. See also Jones v. Simek, 193 F.3d 485, 489 (7th Cir. 1999); Steele v. Choi, 82 F.3d 175, 178 (7th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 897 (1996).
A prisoner raising an Eighth Amendment claim against a prison official therefore must satisfy two requirements. The first one is an objective standard: "[T]he deprivation alleged must be, objectively, 'sufficiently serious.'" Farmer, 511 U.S. at ----, 114 S.Ct. at 1977. As the Court explained in Farmer, "a prison official's act or omission must result in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities." Id. The second requirement is a subjective one: "[A] prison official must have a 'sufficiently culpable state of mind,'" one that the Court has defined as "deliberate indifference." Id; see Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 5, 112 S.Ct. 995, 998, 117 L.Ed.2d 156 (1992) ("[T]he appropriate inquiry when an inmate alleges that prison officials failed to attend to serious medical needs is whether the officials exhibited 'deliberate ... |
For social media managers, this makes your workload a little bit smaller.
By MediaStreet staff writers.
The world of social video is about to get even wider, thanks to MyQuikVid.
The video uploading and sharing app lets users push interesting, funny, newsworthy or inspiring content directly to all their social media accounts at once. Developed by startup Wynntech Apps, MyQuikVid is available here.
“MyQuikVid is a simple way for anyone to capture, edit, produce and share beautiful videos with their family, friends or the entire world — no matter what social media platform they each use,” says Darrin Wynn, founder of Wynntech Apps. “The app connects to the most popular social media and video platforms, including Facebook and YouTube, eliminating the hassle of opening each one independently and navigating through their uploading and sharing screens. MyQuikVid also provides all the editing and production tools one would expect from a video sharing app. Our plan is to continue making the app better and better as we receive feedback from early adopters of MyQuikVid.”
Social video has been on an exponential growth curve in recent years, thanks to faster broadband and more sophisticated devices that capture HD video with ease. According to Brandwatch, Facebook’s 500 million users collectively accounted for 8 billion daily video views in 2016. Upstart Snapchat, meanwhile, boasted 6 billion video views each day across its entire user community. The average U.S. adult spent over an hour each day watching videos on their devices last year. Finally, 78% of people watched online videos every week, and more than half watched every day. All signs point to those numbers going even higher in 2017.
MyQuikVid lets users record a new video directly from the app or choose an existing video from the phone’s gallery. Next, users have the option to trim the video, add a watermark or add text. After giving their edited video a title and brief description, users can share their finished production to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram with just a single tap. MyQuikVid’s YouTube channel features a brief demonstration of these core features.
Special editing effects like slow motion are currently in the works. In addition, an iOS version of MyQuikVid will launch soon. |
March was NUTS!!! I made a list of all the crap I had to do, it was huge. Couple that with feeling Blah and you have a very busy, hard month. I am very glad it's over. Since we ran out of town on the 1st I forgot to blog a couple of things from the end of the month.
Andrew got his Wolf.
We procrastinated until the very end but he finally got it. He was also suppose to get a gold arrow point, four silvers and five belt loops. They screwed up and only had a gold and silver arrow point and not loops. He was pretty sad about that but at least he earned them before his birthday.
Emma's ballroom came to an end on March 31st. I was asked to host the year end party for all three classes. I got to put on a pizza party for over 70 kids! I worked for days collecting money, driving here and there and calling people begging for help. It could have gone better. I should have had more moms help out at the party but the kids got fed and there's no going back now. You live and learn.
The ballroom kids gave a final concert for the parents. It was great. I had gotten a new 4 gb memory card for my camera. It isn't a professional speed card like my 2 gb is and well, my pictures all sucked. I shouldn't have tried it out at such an important event. We didn't even take the video camera. As I said before, live and learn...
Here is Emma with Shane doing a new Cha Cha.
This is the cute group that was in our carpool. I loved these kids. They were so respectful and just good kids.
I am a proud mom and I love my kids. |
Method - Hole (Matte Black)
The MR307 Hole Matte Black is a new take on the classic hole-wheel design that dominated early off road racing. Just like the Double Standard and NV, the Hole features a simulated beadlock ring by way of a strategically placed under-cut on the outer lip of the wheel. Around the 'Street-Loc' ring are replaceable stainless steel bolts. The Hole includes a matte black push through hub cover.
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Celebrity Dating History: Justin Bieber
Though he says he’s no longer a bad boy, we all know how much Justin Bieber likes to play the field.
Ever since his tumultuous relationship with Selena Gomez, the “Boyfriend” singer has been seen getting cozy with a few gal pals, including Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin, and models Yovanna Ventura and Chantel Jeffries.
So, who really has been linked to the Biebs? Click the gallery above to view JB’s dating history. |
Netflix will continue to see a rise in rates due to customers increasing frustrations with commercial ridden cable TV as well as the popularity of certain Netflix original shows such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black which has quickly become a guilty pleasure of millions of American women.
There is no reason to think that amount of Netflix subscribers will not continue to rise. People are starting to realize how much more convinent online streaming services, such as Netflix, is when compared to traditional TV. As more people start watching Netflix, more shows will want to be put onto it, meaning even more will subscribe. The numbers will only continue to rise.
Netflix cannot be stopped. This company has done everything right. They have made movie rental stores, television providers, and dvr obsolete. You can still watch your favorite shows and movies and it's a fraction of the cost. Also, with the release of their own television shows, exclusively on Netflix, they can only go up.
Budgets are getting tighter and cable and satellite rates are getting higher, all while our appetite for entertainments gets bigger. People are subscribing to Netflix more and more because it's cheap, there is lots of variety to choose from, and perhaps most of all, there are no commercials! Cable is on the out, Netflix is on the rise.
While other businesses are going the way of the dinosaur Amazon and Hulu and various other alternatives are starting to catch on and pressing harder. It is not that NetFlix won't last for a while but it's growth, even if it did double it's profits this year to 71m, will meet competition that will rival it within the next few years for sure.
Very rarely are businesses able to monopolize something for very long and pretty soon Netflix will be using it's brand equity as it's tool rather than it's services. |
Vizela vs Vitoria Guimaraes 2016 Portugal League Cup: Match Preview and Prediction
Fixture: Vizela vs Guimaraes
Competition: Portugal League Cup 2016-17
Date: Friday, 30th December, 19:15 GMT
Stadium: Estadio Do Vizela (Caldas de Vizela).
Vizela vs Guimaraes: Preview
Vizela vs Guimaraes match is going to be held on 30th December at Estadio Do Vizela. It’s an important football clash between two Portuguese football clubs where they will try to give their best efforts to win this match of Portugal League Cup 2016-17. Vizela suffered a 1-0 away defeat against Freamunde and Guimaraes registered a 0-1 away win against Arouca in their previous matches.
At the moment, Vizela is performing average and they have secured 5 wins, 11 draws and 4 defeats along with 11th position in Segunda Liga 2016/17 season. In other side Guimaraes is performing good with 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats along with 5th position in Primeira Liga table. Guimaraes will start the match as favorite against Vizela in their crucial fixture of Portugal League Cup at Estadio Do Vizela.
Vizela vs Guimaraes: Head-to-Head Stats
- Both teams have played 2 matches against each other in all the competitions.
- Vizela registered a 2-0 home win against Guimaraes in their last meetings in the match of Portugal Segunda Liga on 28th Jan, 2007.
Vizela vs Guimaraes: Prediction
Vizela will try their best to secure at least a home draw from this match and Guimaraes is ready to secure an away win from the fixture. Guimaraes is better side to compare with Vizela when they will play against each other at Estadio Do Vizela.
Predicted result will be an away win for Guimaraes.
Vizela vs Guimaraes: Betting Tips
Full time Result : Guimaraes win at 1.83 |
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Skyler is a member of the Lego Club and receives a new, small Lego set every two months. For Christmas, I got him a Darth Vader Tie Fighter ship. We both love it and like all of our Legos. It is a lot of fun to create new things, but I am always careful to make sure the instructions and pieces are organized, so we can follow directions to make each set. |
HOUMA --- The Terrebonne Tigers used raw emotion and intense defense to close a huge gap with Hahnville Friday night, giving themselves a chance to win the District 6-5A contest in the final minutes.
But that same emotion may have cost Terrebonne in the end.
With 3:46 to play and Terrebonne (11-12 overall, 1-3 in district) trailing 46-43 and carrying the momentum, Jarvis Robinson of THS was hit with a technical foul after saying something to a referee following a call that sent the ball back to Hahnville.
After that, Hahnville (17-4, 4-0) outscored Terrebonne 14-6 the rest of the way en route to a 60-49 victory.
Terrebonne battled back after trailing the district leader 20-6 after the first quarter.
"I think the slow start hurt us," Terrebonne coach David Neal said. "If we would have scored more in the first quarter and not have had to burn so much effort to get back in the game . I felt like after the first quarter we outplayed them. We just need to put a complete game together. The score was not an indication of how close the game was. Towards the end we had to start fouling and they did a good job of hitting their free throws."
Terrebonne went to halftime down 30-18 on the strength of a layup by Robinson, who led all scorers with 15 points, including 10 in the second quarter.
With 6:26 left in the third quarter and Terrebonne trailing 32-19, THS's Elijah Washington was given a technical foul for saying something to a referee after a foul was called on him.
But after a free throw, Terrebonne responded with eight straight points and would go on to trail 39-29 at the end of the third quarter.
After Brett Naquin (10 points) of Hahnville chimed in with his second dunk of the night to start the quarter. Terrebonne scored six straight to get within 41-35 with 6:12 left.
Down 46-39, Terrebonne's Jarlin Pink (13 points) hit a tough baseline jumper and then hung and scored to make it 46-43, before Robinson was called for the technical less than a minute later.
Terrebonne got back to within five on a 3-pointer by Pink with 2:31 left, but couldn't close the gap.
"I definitely think we could have beat them," Neal said. "We gave ourselves the opportunity, but we could never get over that hump."
LaRon Landry scored 11 points for Hahnville, while Davon Mitchell, Al Mott and Joe Carmardelle each added 10.
Brooks Randall also had 10 for Terrebonne.
Hahnville was coming off a 60-40 win over rival Destrehan, in a battle of arguably the top two teams in the district.
"I was a little concerned about coming in here after playing Destrehan," Hahnville coach Brian Lumar said. "We didn't play well, but that's going to happen. I'm extremely proud of the guys because they were able to handle the pressure, step up as a team and come out with a good win in a hostile environment. We came out with a win after not playing very well and to me, that's the mark of a good team."
In other 6-5A action, Destrehan defeated H.L. Bourgeois. |
Today the FCC announced that due to an “overwhelming surge in traffic” to its website the initial comment deadline on the Open Internet proceeding is being pushed to this Friday, July 18, at midnight. The Commission notes that if you run into trouble using the web-based comment submission system you may email your comments to email@example.com.
Earlier in the day the FCC’s Chief Information Officer, Dr. David A. Bray, published a blog post charting the number of comments posted by the hour on Monday. At a few points during the day the number of submitted comments exceeded 1500 per hour.
He also shared the number of email comments submitted every week since the openinternet email address was created on April 24. Last week the number of comments climbed over 60,000, and the number approached 100,000 the week of May 21.
Bray wrote, “When the ECFS system was created in 1996, the Commission presumably didn’t imagine it would receive more than 100,000 electronic comments on a single telecommunications issue.”
Seems like people might actually care about their internet service, eh? |
This delightful book reveals the amazing encounters that children have with their guardian angels and loved ones on the Other Side, as well as fascinating insights into the lives of psychic children . . . and the parents who have to cope with this phenomenon. As you read, youOCOll discover: A Grandparents who regularly visit their grandkidsOCofrom the Other Side A Kids with extraordinary abilities, including mind-reading and the power to move objects with their thoughts alone A Young children who remember a life before they were born A The mother who lost a son who was later reborn as her grandson A The thousands of brilliant children whom the authorities have labeled as OC learning disabled.OCO Thousands of children the world over are being born with enhanced sixth-sense abilities. Psychic kids are the new OC normalOCO "
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Video marketing is an extremely influential way for your business to create powerful messages about your brand in the modern world. Alongside the rise of popular platforms, such as YouTube, Vine (a newbie on the scene at just over a year old) is extremely powerful for your business. Here’s how.
If you’ve never heard of this platform before, or you want to know more about what it can do for your business, keep reading.
Released in January 2013 and owned by Twitter, Vine is a mobile app which enables users to create and add short video clips which repeat on a loop.The app allows for 6-seconds of filming before videos can be shared on Vine and other social channels, such as Twitter and Facebook.
As the fastest growing app in 2013, Vine’s total audience has expanded to around 67 million users (as of January 2014).
Once you have downloaded the app on a compatible smartphone or tablet device, you can then register a new account and begin using Vine’s features. To sign into the app, simply use your own personal or company Twitter login details.
After your account is ready, you can start recording by clicking on the camera icon and holding the screen. Taking your finger off will stop filming, and you can restart recording by touching and holding the screen again. The green bar at the top of your device will indicate the amount of recording time you have left – but remember you only have six seconds, so make it count!
With your finished recording, you can either upload it to the Vine community, or share it on your Twitter and Facebook profiles. Alternatively, clicking “next” will add, store and save the video to your camera roll, ready for you to use at a later date.
If you think that you can’t deliver a great message in six seconds or under then take a look at some of these amazing examples below.
American DIY store Lowe’s was one of the first examples I remember seeing where a company had really taken Vine by the horns.
This clever series of videos, aptly titled “Lowe’s Fix in Six” showcased some nifty everyday home DIY tips to help solve simple yet common problems around the home.
From removing rust off kitchen knives, organising cleaning bottles, and even keeping squirrels away from your plants, the aim of these videos was to help solve customer problems.
Take a look at some of their six second creations in action.
Keeping squirrels at bay
UK fashion retailer ASOS also jumped on Vine, making a simple unboxing video of their products to encourage customers to do the same when their items arrived in the post.
Incorporating the ASOSUnbox hashtag, a clever move to directly tie in with social, the company also offered the chance for customers to win a complimentary goodie box for their efforts.
Always one for getting in on the marketing action, Oreo Cookie is another classic example of a company who have utilised Vine extremely well.
From magic tricks, foodie creations and product promotion, they’ve covered a number of bases with video marketing and stop motion advertising to encourage, tempt and persuade – feeling hungry yet?
Although these examples are only a handful of the amazing video creations on the web, it definitely shows the potential of this powerful medium – and all in six little seconds!
If you’ve spotted a gap in the market or the potential to exploit this form of video marketing for your own business, then it’s time to jump on board the Vine train.
However, before you download the app and hit record, there are a few considerations to bear in mind first.
Using this platform will certainly bring its advantages, but think about how you want your brand messages to be delivered. It’s much more sustainable to create a video marketing plan or strategy before jumping in at the deep end with no real focus.
Within your strategy and plan of attack, think about:
Taking these points into consideration will ensure that your efforts are more productive in reaching out to a wider audience and attracting customer engagement.
As mentioned earlier, there are a number of advantages to using Vine and incorporating video marketing into your online digital strategy.
We live in a visual world, where people digest information at a phenomenal rate and this is where Vine can really work in your favour and empower your business.
Use short videos to advertise new product lines, promote discounts and sales, and showcase how your products work.
These visuals can help persuade customers to buy into your brand and make them feel more assured when making a purchase.
As Vine will allow you to post to their own community, as well as Twitter and Facebook, the videos you create will ultimately give you more ammunition for social sharing.
Don’t forget to include hashtags where appropriate to make your content more relevant to your audience and to increase your social reach.
Customers, fans and followers alike will value seeing a dynamic range of status updates which incorporate written, video and image based content.
The great thing about Vine is that you are using a modern form of marketing communications, which a large percentage of your target audience will acknowledge.
This alone puts you ahead of your competitors and shows that you’ve got your finger on the pulse. In addition to this, the app itself isn’t difficult to use.
In the five minutes that it takes for you to get to grips with how to use Vine properly, you will then be ready to execute your ideas and gain more recognition online.
Vines has come a long way since its inception in 2013 and as more people and businesses come to realise the potential of this app, the figure is only expected to rise.
Out of the existing 67 million users, this gives your business the potential for greater reach, engagement and interaction online.
As the platform is simple to use, you won’t be investing money or a great deal of time into Vine either, so go and chase your awaiting target audience!
As you can see, Vine really does have the potential to take your business to the next level.
Although you only have six seconds at your fingertips, the app offers you the chance to be as creative as possible to engage your audience and really get the most out of visual based content.
The examples above showcase just how powerful this can be for your business, so start using Vine today and see how far this clever marketing tool can take you.
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Stephen Smith MP
Minister for Defence
Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd, Minister for Defence Stephen Smith, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met in Melbourne on 8 November 2010 for the annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN).
The talks marked the 25th anniversary of AUSMIN and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The 2010 AUSMIN confirmed the enduring value of the Australia-US Alliance and its adaptability in meeting contemporary and evolving strategic challenges.
Australia and the United States reaffirmed their shared commitment to the international effort in Afghanistan.
Australia and the United States reaffirmed that strengthened architecture in the Asia-Pacific region is fundamental to security and economic prosperity. Both countries welcomed the expansion of the East Asia Summit (EAS), to include the participation of the United States from 2011. The United States welcomed Australia’s leading role as an advocate for strengthened regional institutions, and for a more significant role for the EAS.
Recognising that strong cooperative mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific region are fundamental to global stability and prosperity, Australia and the United States pledged to collaborate further on regional security matters, including through bilateral consultations on the US Global Force Posture Review and by enhancing their bilateral dialogue on East Asia.
Australia and the United States are committed to working together to help shape international norms to advance vital shared interests in the domains of sea, airspace and outer space as well as to advance important matters related to cybersecurity.
Australia and the United States reaffirmed their shared commitment to the international effort in Afghanistan to prevent Afghanistan from ever again becoming a safe haven for terrorists and violent extremists.
They honoured the sacrifices of Australian and US military forces in Afghanistan.
Australia and the United States endorsed the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) strategy and underlined the importance of endorsing a credible, conditions-based transition plan at the NATO / ISAF Leaders’ Summit in Lisbon in November that would enable the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to progressively assume responsibility for security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Australia and the United States welcomed each other’s additional civilian and military contributions for Afghanistan since the last AUSMIN. Both countries appreciated their close cooperation through Combined Team Uruzgan to build a stronger security environment in Uruzgan Province.
Both countries affirmed the importance of close cooperation to decrease the threat to our military forces from Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs).
Both countries reaffirmed their support for concrete action by the Afghan government to combat corruption and strengthen government institutions that provide services and create opportunities for Afghan citizens.
Australia and the United States acknowledged the strategic importance of Pakistan to South Asia’s regional stability and reinforced their long-term commitment to support Pakistan as a partner in its efforts to achieve a democratic, stable and prosperous future. They reaffirmed the importance of continued, close cooperation with Pakistan to confront terrorism and militant extremism.
Australia and the United States welcomed the 15 October 2010 Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) meeting’s agreement on steps to support Pakistan’s longer-term economic renewal.
Australia and the United States will continue to cooperate globally to combat terrorism, bilaterally and in partnership with other countries and institutions. Both countries welcomed the efforts of countries in Southeast Asia to confront terrorism, and committed to continue to cooperate closely with them.
Both countries hope to begin discussions in the near future regarding an Arms Trade Treaty to strengthen barriers to illicit arms trade.
Australia and the United States reaffirmed their goal of a world free of nuclear weapons. Both countries pledged to advance the actions agreed at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, to press for negotiations on a verifiable Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, and to progress work on nuclear security. The United States welcomed Australia’s initiative, with Japan, to establish a cross-regional group of nations dedicated to advancing nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Australia welcomed confirmation by the United States of its intent to pursue ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Both countries welcomed the outcome of the Terrorist Financing Conference they co-hosted under the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in Kazakhstan in September 2010.
Australia and the United States committed to strengthening the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), and welcomed increased engagement with the PSI in the Asia-Pacific region.
Australia and the United States reiterated their deep concern over Iran’s continuing failure to comply with UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors’ resolutions on its nuclear activities.
They reaffirmed their commitment to the full implementation of UNSCR 1929.
A central priority for both countries is Iran’s compliance with its international obligations on its nuclear and missile programs. They urged Iran to grasp the opportunity to engage constructively with the P5+1 at talks later this month, to remove doubt about Iran’s nuclear intentions. They noted with concern the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and called on Iran to meet its international human rights obligations.
Australia expressed strong support for US-led efforts to achieve a just and enduring peace in the Middle East based on a two-state solution. Australia and the United States urged the Israelis and Palestinians to seize the opportunity for peace by continuing, as a matter of urgency, direct talks, with the goal of reaching agreement on final status issues within one year, and to refrain from any actions, including settlement activity, which undermined trust and the climate for negotiations.
Both countries reaffirmed their commitment to Palestinian institution building in preparation for statehood and called on all parties, particularly regional countries, to support these efforts through financial and other tangible assistance.
Australia and the United States underlined their support for the 2005 Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), including the referenda on self-determination for Southern Sudan and Abyei scheduled for 9 January 2011. Both countries recognised the importance of fair and credible referenda and affirmed their shared determination to ensure a peaceful resolution of issues surrounding the CPA process.
21st Century Security Challenges
Building upon a long history of defence space cooperation, Australia and the United States signed a Space Situational Awareness Partnership Statement of Principles, which should enable further close cooperation on space surveillance to the benefit of both countries.
Australia and the United States shared a deep concern about the increasingly interdependent, congested, and contested nature of outer space and acknowledged that preventing behaviours that could result in mishaps, misperceptions or mistrust was a high priority. Australia welcomed the US decision, reflected in the June 2010 US National Space Policy, to consider space arms control measures that are equitable, verifiable and in its and its allies’ national interests. Australia intends to work with the United States to progress their shared goal of enhanced space security, with a particular focus on transparency and confidence-building measures. The two Governments endorsed a Joint Statement on Space Security highlighting their shared views and resolve to cooperate with like-minded countries to ensure free and safe access to space.
Recognising the increasing sophistication of threats against both countries in cyberspace, Australia and the United States intend to promote a secure, resilient and trusted cyberspace that assures safe and secure access for all nations. Both countries recognised the benefits to be derived from enhanced collaboration when operating and defending mutual national interests in cyberspace, including shared defence and economic interests. Both countries committed to work together to advance the development of shared international norms for cyberspace. |
TIS is a system integrator that has more than 40 years of history. It boasts rich knowhow concerning credit card and payment system and has advanced technical capabilities, and it took the decision to expand the CardSpring cloud service of the American company CardSpring as a new service that leverages these strengths.
CardSpring is a CLO (Card Linked Offer) service that is provided via Paas (Platform as a Service). It enables digital coupons and credit card usage information to be linked and incentives (points, discount, etc.) to be provided to card users. CLO is gaining an increasing amount of attention as it offers the convenience of not requiring user to print coupons out as they normally would, and TIS is promoting collaboration and linking between payment processors and media vendors in order to provide a service that can be used at any store and with any card. Furthermore, the service allows member stores to track the attributes of coupon users (new/regular user/number of visits, etc.), and enables the users eligible to receive coupons to be narrowed down, as well as an accurate understanding of the effect of coupons to be gained.
CardSpring is an extremely effective platform from which member stores can refine and optimize measures to attract new customers, but there is much card information that is handled by the infrastructure so watertight security is demanded. In addition, the CardSpring service is implemented in connection with CardSpring in the USA, and when the service was rolled out in Japan the CardSpring Japan infrastructure had to meet the requirements of CardSpring USA. This meant compliance with PCI DSS(*1). As Daisuke Yoshikawa of TIS’s Advanced Solutions Department, which is in charge of the CardSpring business, recalls “That meant as long as we didn’t have PCI DSS certification we couldn’t launch CardSpring in Japan.” The only way of completing this important task was by using Trend Micro Deep Security™.
When making CardSpring’s Japan infrastructure compliant with PCI DSS, Mr. Yoshikawa asked for the full cooperation of TIS’s IT Infrastructure Service Department. This department is involved in the design, construction, and operation of IT infrastructure, and provides PCI DSS certification consulting services both internally and externally. One of the security solutions selected by this department, in accordance with the demands placed upon it to achieve PCI DSS compliance with minimal cost and effort, was Deep Security. All of the critical servers in CardSpring’s infrastructure in Japan now have a Deep Security agent built in, and security measures have been comprehensively implemented to meet PCI DSS requirements. These measures include anti-virus software, change monitoring (prevention of tampering with important files), and virtual patch application (measures against vulnerabilities through IPS/IDS functions).
Teppei Eguchi of the IT Infrastructure Service Department explains the benefits of Deep Security as a PCI DSS solution as follows.
“Normally, when you try to implement measures like anti-tampering and anti-virus measures for reasons such as PCI DSS compliance, you need a different tool for each measure, so not only does the burden of implementation and operation increase but you also have setup a control server for each tool. In contrast, by using Deep Security, you can cover multiple PCI DSS requirements and can control and run multiple countermeasures from a single control server. As such, the burden of implementation and operation is small, and you don’t need to use multiple IT solutions in order to ensure security.”
The CardSpring infrastructure in Japan is deployed in a data center managed and operated by TIS, and the whole network is protected by elements including firewall appliances and IPS appliances. In this configuration, TIS utilizes the IPS functions of Deep Security, the reasons for which are explained below by Masaru Miyazaki of the IT Infrastructure Service Department.
"Deep Security combines a wide variety of functions into a single product, and many security requirements can be met using only one control server. As such, implementation and operational load can be kept to a minimum, and server resources can be used effectively. This is an advantage worthy of special note."
“For example, if you use the Deep Security’s host IPS functions, you are able to detect attacks that are usually difficult to detect with IPS appliances on a network, such as communication encrypted with SSL, and deal with them. In other words, we use Deep Security to compensate for the gaps present when using appliances alone, and raise the overall level of security.”
With the implementation and utilization of Deep Security, TIS made the CardSpring infrastructure PCI DSS compliant (acquired PCI DSS certification) in around six months. TIS put the infrastructure into operation on December 1st 20 1 4. In light of this result, Mr. Yoshikawa explains the advantages of the implementation as follows.
“For us, the acquisition of PCI DSS certification was an extremely large task. The thing that allowed us to achieve this without any holdups was because we managed to cover many PCI DSS requirements with Deep Security.”
Mr. Yoshikawa also highly rates the ease of Deep Security operation.
“CardSpring has a lot of information that has to be managed, and much time is taken up by overall operation, and so in light of this, the fact that you can manage file tampering measures, anti-virus measures, and other measures from a single screen is very significant. In terms of security patch application to deal with vulnerabilities as well, in our operating style we automatically detect vulnerabilities on a server with the “Recommended Scan” provided by Deep Security and apply virtual patches. This kind of efficiency is very helpful.”
According to Mr.Yoshikawa, plans are afoot at TIS to expand and enhance the payment service, and there is a high potential that the use of Deep Security will increase even further. Furthermore, Mr. Miyazaki and Mr.Eguchi want to make Deep Security one of their configuration options for PCI DSS for customers, and Mr. Miyazaki is considering the use of Deep Security to deal with operating system obsolescence, such as when support for Windows Server 2003 ends.
"In order to perform the considerable task of acquiring PCI DSS certification, Deep Security, with its support for multiple PCI DSS requirements, was extremely useful. This product really helped us to achieve our goal!"
Deep Security enabled the CardSpring infrastructure to achieve PCI DSS compliance in a short period of time at a lost cost, and the scope of utilization of this software is steadily increasing at TIS. |
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It's almost time! This Sunday I will be running an official half marathon at Disney World! I am so excited! What an accomplishment! Who would of thought that 5 years ago, 8 different chemo drugs later, and multiple surgeries, I would be gearing up to run 13.1 miles!
I am so proud of myself for all that I have accomplished. I've worked so hard to get here. I could not of made it this far without the support of my amazing husband & kids. They have been there every step of the way. They are, without a doubt, my biggest supporters! I am so blessed to have a husband that says I can do whatever I set my mind to. I am so blessed to have 2 children that are proud of me no matter the distance I run. I am so glad they will be there with me this weekend to cheer me on!
So, if you could, say a little prayer for me this weekend! Thank you friends!
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Thank you for allowing us to introduce ourselves. Established in 1991 and under the current ownership since 1994, The Cruise and Vacations Group CVG has earned its reputation as an excellent company to do business with. Over this time we have sent literally thousands of guests on fantastic vacations. We work for you.
Cruise and Vacations Group CVG is a registered travel agency and is a member of CLIA (Cruise Line International), BCCPA (The Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority of British Columbia) and TRAVELSAVERSCANADA.COM
Meet our friendly staff…
After working in management positions for Sears Canada and owing several retail stores, Dal purchased the newly started Cruise and Vacations Group. With a small customer base he proceeded to build the business using the internet, mail and word of mouth into a successful travel agency in BC.
Pearl worked in retail stores and Sears Canada’s credit department where she honed her organizational and accounting skills. Thanks to Pearl each customer file is double checked for accuracy and the many government regulations are audited for compliance. She makes sure each customer’s funds are kept in trust and passed on the suppliers in a timely manner.
As a busy hockey mom, Tammy knows how to multi-task. Her first travel experience was a poorly planned honeymoon on the wrong cruise. Realizing that she could do better than her travel agent made her seek a job in the travel business. Besides arranging trips to hockey tournaments and car racing events, Tammy has become a Disney specialist with many trips to the Disney theme parks. Tammys personal travel experience allows her to provide great advice on both Disney trips and cruising.
We often joke that we got Mitch with the business! Mitch had recently retired from a management position with Kraft Foods when he decided that he would like to travel for pleasure instead of work. He started with the original owners of the Cruise and Vacations Group working on arranging trips for himself and his family. Soon friends and neighbours started asking him about places he had been and for advice on their travel plans. The rest is, as they say, history.
Shortly after taking over the Cruise and Vacations Group we realized that a key to our success would be quality employees. Diana was recommended to us by a mutual friend, and she has been with us ever since and now acts as our sales manager. Diana is a Disney expert and has certification from the Disney Cruise Line, Disney Adventures and all of the Disney Parks. She is also an annual pass holder and takes two or three trips per year to keep up with all the upcoming “Magic”. Diana can also assist you in finding your dream golf vacation.
After a lifetime of business experience, Robin became a world traveler. Before joining the Cruise and Vacations Group he did many cruises including the QE2 world cruise while working with Cunard Cruise Line. Robin has also experienced many of the different cruise lines first hand. He has also stayed in land based vacation destinations and has sailed extensively in various yachts he has owned over the years. Robin holds the “Accredited Cruise Counsellor” certification.
We met Don on a trip to Greece and Turkey. After retiring from school teaching Don had studied cruise sales through one of the cruise only travel companies. Realizing that he was not finding satisfaction in his present position, we offered him the opportunity to join us. Don has been a valuable member of our team since. Don has extensive travel experience and can advise on trips to Mexico, Australia, the Caribbean and Europe.
Heather worked for an agency in Vancouver for many years until the owners decided to retire and close the business. She came to the Cruise and Vacations Group with lots of experience advising clients on luxury travel.
Heather worked as a frontline agent in our agency before leaving to work for a major softwear company based in Vancouver BC. After the company reorganized their workforce and moved their staff to Boston, Heather rejoined the Cruise and Vacations Group as a website developer. |
Much of the time , buyers want sellers to keep it short and to the point.
Research from the Buyers views of supplier salespeople confirms that they don't think we listen enough and when we talk - we talk too much.
Learning to be brief and clear is an craft Salespeople need to acquire and continually work at. Brevity is an ongoing work in progress.
The limit of the 140 character of twitter-in-business also places such a discipline on us
|The Gherkin Building in the City|
- hardly Wentworth but a teeing off point
in the message
They have little time and space to catch our attention and sell their message.
It is worthwhile examining their skill in brevity and see what we can learn.
How do we balance accuracy and detail versus the demand of brevity placed on us ?
Your first tee is ' your gathering point':
When people reply to the question "Where do you come from?" often the respondent mentions the nearest town/city rather than exact location. So it is in brief business communication.
Word Association can help brevity.
|Iconic Red Pillar post box|
For American consumption the red bus, the red post box or the red telephone kiosk immediately communicated London or England. (Much as a yellow cab says New York to Brits.)
|Red Phone box K2 design|
by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott from a tomb design
of Sloane in St Pancras cemetery
|BT's new look phone box is |
a poster site ( reverse side) with a phone bolted on
The Barrel roof has been kept
With the growth of personal ownership use of mobiles , the proliferation of messaging systems like twitter, texting have made such 'visual images' rather dated. A red telephone box is now 'frozen' in time rather 'of our time'.
Today it is our buildings such as the Shard, Gherkin, Canada Water and the London Eye that promote London rather than red bus/phone/ post boxes.
|London Wentworth !|
For overseas readers of this blog Wentworth refers to Wentworth Club which is a privately owned golf club and health resort in Virginia Water, Surrey on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle.
The club was founded in 1928 . It does not even have a London post code but a Guildford post code ( Zip code) GU25 4LS
The images of Golf stars on the Office buildings and Tourist sights of the City are the short hand for the BMW sponsored PGA event. Entitled London’s premier Golf tournament.
From a cartographic perspective Wentworth is some distance from the heart of London. (Coincidentally as far away as Luton, Gatwick and Stansted ) But to communicate quickly the name London does the job.
|The BMW Poster gives a Gulliver's Travel|
lilliputian mini golf look
|The Shard is the new building icon of London|
south of the City in Southwark
|St Paul's Cathedral in the crazy golf poster photos|
|Canada Water , Canary Wharf the site|
of the former London Docklands
What tired old analogies, stories, images, phrases need updating is your sales story telling. What are your equivalents to old red phone boxes, red post boxes ? What are your new equivalents to the Gherkin, Shard and London Eye ?
What brief messages will work for you tomorrow? |
Above: Morton's center cut filet mignon
The thing about when I cook stuff is that it usually costs almost or even more than if I pay for the same thing outside. Naturally of course mine tastes better but a large part of it is honestly because I use better ingredients.
So even though I messed up the doneness a little with my steaks, they're still nice and juicy and way better than even the steaks of their price. I'd say my lousier of the two is about the same standard as the one I had at some restaurant going at 30 plus bucks.<
Of course when you think about it, how hard is it anyway? The toughest part of it is just controlling the heat, and everything else is easy, so do that one thing well and you get the whole thing right.
Each time I cook my own steak and taste the ones outside, it makes me want to try Morton's more. I know that mine and the other ones out there are still missing that perfect taste, and if im going to find that anywhere in Singapore, its going to be there.
Its expensive though =(.
Still hunting for the ultimate soup rawr. Steak and soup are life =p.
Im rambling rawr. Spices are expensive, gotta find a good place to buy cheaper spices. |
The current study extended earlier findings about the RealVictory program by using a larger sample and by examining Victory Seeker phone use in more detail. Using a sample of 144 juveniles, it was found that as the number of calls answered increased, the likelihood of a rearrest and the number of rearrests decreased slightly but the differences were not statistically significant. However, as the number of calls increased, the likelihood of a felony rearrest decreased significantly and the total number of felony arrests decreased significantly. These findings suggest that Victory Seeker may be a useful tool to reinforce and provide follow-up after treatment.
College and Department
Family, Home, and Social Sciences; Sociology
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Rutkowski, Michael, "An Examination of Victory Seeker Use and Recidivism" (2015). All Theses and Dissertations. 5580.
recidivism, cognitive-behavioral therapy, crime desistance, mobile phones |
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is likely to sleep between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m.
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Pakistan market bombing kills 15 people in Kurram
At least 15 people have been killed by a bomb blast in a crowded market in a town in northwest Pakistan's Kurram tribal agency, near the Afghan border.
More than 40 people were hurt in the blast at the Eid Gah clothes market in the town of Parachinar.
TV images showed people fleeing over ground covered in clothes and debris.
No group has said it carried out the attack but a sectarian motive is suspected, as most people in Parachinar are from Pakistan's Shia minority.
Kurram has a history of sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims, and agreements to calm tensions between the communities have not been implemented.
Several Taliban-affiliated groups are known to be active in the region.
Violence in the country overall has fallen since the Pakistani army embarked on an offensive against the Taliban and other militants in the North Waziristan agency, bordering Kurram. |
Bad Apple Brewhouse Releases First in Planned Series of Barrel-Aged Beers
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SOMERSET, NS – The Atlantic Canada Beer Blog reports that Bad Apple Brewhouse has released a new limited edition barrel-aged beer, the first in what is planned to be a series of beers that spend some time on wood before being released.
Barrel-Aged Black & Tackle Russian Imperial Stout is a version of the brewery’s original Black & Tackle RIS that has spent several months in whiskey barrels sourced from Nova Scotia’s Glenora Distillery. The resulting 11.6% abv beer is described as having strong notes of vanilla and oak from the barrel, combining with the espresso and cocoa characteristics from the original liquid.
Barrel-Aged Black & Tackle is available now in 500 ml bottles at the four private liquor stores in Halifax and area – Bishop’s Cellar, Cristall Wine Merchants, Harvest Wines & Spirits, and Premier Wines & Spirits – marking the first time a Bad Apple beer has been available via these shops. |
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Things are winding down and winding up at the same time. I am really excited about this bubble gum machine (with stand) I am putting together. It has been super fun to make, and it is so close to finished-built, with one firing to go. I feel like my pieces relating to memory are getting stronger aesthetically, but conceptually I am starting to diverge into new places. That’s probably a good thing. The palm tree is moving along although the public/community aspect as begun taking more mental energy than I was hoping.
This week I gathered together all the materials I would need for a real simple home dark room and created a pinhole camera. I think this could work well for my interest in time and capturing a new layer in a time based project. I’m excited (eh? anxious..?) to reconnect with a process I haven’t tried out since high school. WOO HOO!!
This week was a busy one. Got a lot of firing done and some results I’m happy with, some I feel need more work but I think I like where they are headed..maybe?
Really happy with how the palm tree parts came out. I been testing concrete so I can GETON with this helluva piece.
Got some pots I’ve been working on out of the kiln. They’re not quite at the “done” stage but pretty close, and I’m not sure what I think. Something I like, something missing. The new-ness is keeping me from having much of an opinion about it yet, but I would like to work on these ideas a bit more at some point.
Since I got my pieces for class finished I decided to push through one more little project I have in mind. We’ll see how all this plays out. Things are quickly coming to a close and there’s a lot of finishing up to do!
Post-vacation week was a busy one! I’m excited for next year, when I’ll be in graduate school and I don’t have to worry so much about a balancing act of life in and out. This week I focused on glazing, messing up with glazing, remaking glazes, etc. The saga continues. I also made some little pots and thought a lot about why I have been really enjoying making them lately.
I have a goal of finishing up this palm tree pieces by the end of the month, so I got to work on glazing for that too. It has taken FOREVER! One more step to add then I can fire away!
There’s this point I’m currently at with my work where I have so many ideas I can’t seem to finish anything quickly enough. The work I saw at NCECA this year was so inspiring to me and gave me big project ideas as well as more abstract thoughts about form/subject, surface details, and installation project ideas. I have worked on many projects this semester but have not actually completed much of anything just yet. My goal for the upcoming week (with a crit overshadowing Thursday) is to have something from the semester DONE!
NCECA NCECA NCECA!!!!! What a great week. Finished up a few things before heading to Portland, Oregon on Tuesday. Have a bubble gum machine in the works and finally got my palm tree colorants “good enough” to get some color down. PERFECT!
NCECA was super amazing, so so inspiring and saw such great work! A few things that just inspired me and a few things that gave me ideas of my own. Loved Jerry Salt’s keynote address where he was like “YO PEOPLE OF THE CLAY CHILL OUT ON CLAY AND BE ARTISTS PLEASE!” But really I think he made some good points about labeling yourself/limiting yourself and some ideas I hope to continue to explore this summer/in grad school.
More tests tests tests…and pots?! What is HAPPENING!?!?
I really don’t know yet. But it’s been fun. I’m trying to make some pots for this textured glaze I been working on. It’s nice to see that they are getting better, and frustrating how difficult it is to try to focus on form and feel like it’s not working out. Still, I think this is good practice for more sculptural works as well.
I’ve been thinking about some of my work and the idea of “subtle” and how that is not my thing. Which, I think, can be totally okay, but it’s been fun trying to make some pots I can think of more as canvases to more “subtle” things.
Tests just keep going and going. I’m not really a perfectionist of hues, but I’m trying to get some terra sigs and glaze to be in the same color palette. It’s just a little tweaking here and there, and leaving unkind notes to myself when I realize I forgot to take notes or took inaccurate ones at a different point (like realizing I didn’t put down my firing cycle for my last tests that turned out so nice-WHYWHYWHY!!)
Needless to say, I’m really ready to move on from these palm tree pieces, and already beginning on a few new things. Oh, including a cutting board I’m really excited to flock up.
New stuff and lots of test stuff this week. I looked up a lot of info about crater glazes so am doing different firing cycles on the same test tiles. Hoping to get a wide variety of results. Started making some pots to put these new glazes on. I think I like them and then I’m not so sure. I want to reach the right amount of complete looking but also a bit wobbly and unrefined. It’s a difficult match up. Planning out my class project too and will begin testing next week. Feels like I’ve been dabbling in a few things with little results thus far but I’m really excited to see where everything is going!
So glad things finally seem back in focus. After getting over being sick this week I feel like I am once again able to focus on art making. Feels awesome. I finished up the all the components for the palm trees that will be part of an outdoor installation this week and had a crit on it. went alllllllright. Then I was playing around with some other pieces I’ve been having fun making and I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT to get some results out of the kiln tomorrow…along with terra sig tests. ANNNNND I finally got my trip planned out and settled and I am OFFICIALLY going to Portland. Annnnd a quick vacay to San Francisco. The semester is about 1/3 complete and I have a very clear idea what work I would like to finish before summer. Feels good. |
More information that everyone should know, but a lot of people don’t! By this point, you’ll have moved in and met your housemates–anywhere from two to ten people you will be living in close quarters with for the next nine months. (My first year in halls we had a flat of ten.) Even with a lock on your door to keep the world at bay, it’s worth getting along with your housemates, because home can either be a refuge or it can be a nightmare. Whether you’re the tidy one, the slob, the shy one, or the party animal, here are a few tips to make life easier for everybody.
1. Do something together.
At the beginning of the term, when everyone’s getting settled in, suggest to your housemates (if nobody has done it yet) that you all go out somewhere, for a meal or a drink or even just to play poker in the kitchen, together. You may or may not end up being best friends with these people, but you want to be comfortable with them. These are the people who will get your packages from the postman when you’re out, bring you soup when you’re sick, help you nurse a hangover and fend off uncomfortable visits from people you don’t want to see. You should know a bit about them–where they come from, what their family is like, what they’re studying. When you see them, make conversation. Ask how their day was. You’re not strangers.
If a bit stuck for ideas, you can always hang out together and watch Pot Luck.
2. Set boundaries. Keep them. (But also know when to relax them.)
Everyone’s tolerance is a bit different–for people, for company, for sharing their things. Be up front about this. If you’re really not okay with housemates using your pots and pans or stealing a bit of milk, say so. Likewise, if somebody else in the house doesn’t want you touching their things, don’t.
Have your own essentials–milk, tea, bread, shower gel, shampoo–and do not take other people’s.
If you do use someone else’s things–with permission or not–WASH, DRY, AND PUT AWAY. Nothing will make a housemate regret sharing with you faster than finding out their casserole dish you borrowed three days ago has congealed chicken bits permanently burnt onto it. You are an adult. Clean up after yourself. If you are in a pinch and absolutely need to use something of their foodstuffs, replace it without being asked.
Determine ahead of time what food you’ll share, if any–tea, coffee, milk, sugar, staples–and how to go about replacing it. (It can be a pain to have 10 different cartons of milk in the fridge, but even more of a pain to be well into the tea-making process and realise there’s no milk at all.) If you’re going to cook together it’s often worth sharing; if everyone’s doing their own thing, you might as well have separate things.
3. Respect each other’s eardrums, study time, etc.
Don’t play your music so loud other housemates can hear it. Even if it’s not actually rattling things off their shelves (this has happened!), a low faintly-thumping hum is just as annoying, because it’s so insidious that it seeps through people’s headphones, speakers, and walls. If you really like loud music, fair enough–this is why humans have created so many types of headphones.
Likewise, do not practice the guitar, drums, tuba, violin, or frankly any other loud musical instrument in the house when other people are home unless you have discussed it with them first. It’s easy to just set up a time–‘between 8-8.30 on Tuesday I need to practice and can’t get a practice room.’ This way, housemates are aware that it will be ending soon and can adjust their thinking accordingly.
The same goes for loud parties, poker nights, and hanging out in the corridor outside somebody’s room having loud gossip sessions about your date the night before. Don’t make it a habit. Everybody wants to do something special sometimes, and that’s fine–just before you have a lot of people over, inform your housemates, make sure nobody has a huge exam or something the next day, and preferably, invite them.
There are things you will all continually need throughout the year: washing up liquid, toilet roll, bin bags. Everyone should contribute to the cost of these things. And be real–if everyone else who buys toilet roll gets a jumbo 9-pack so it lasts a while, when your turn comes around, do not bring home a 2-pack of single-ply. Get bin bags that fit the bin and don’t fall apart. This is unlikely to cost you more than £30 for the whole year; you can pitch in your fair share. Keep track of your turn and buy it before you are asked.
One way to do this is for everyone in the house to go together to Poundland or Lidl or whatever your cheap shop of choice is and to each buy one of these things. This is unlikely to cost more than £4 each. Then take it all home and work through it throughout the year, which depending on the number of people in your house, can last quite a long time.
5. Clean up after yourself, you’re a grownup. (Don’t clean up after everyone else; they’re grownups.)
Your room, which is your own personal sanctuary and has a locking door, can be left in any state you like (unless you have room inspections, in which case, you at least don’t want stuff growing in it.) The common areas of the house should be sanitary and more-or-less tidy. Since everyone has different comfort levels of cleanliness as well, there’s often somebody who ends up cleaning up after everyone else–and everyone else, realising that this is the case, will slip into letting them, however well-intentioned they may have begun. Don’t do these things.
Even if you hate doing dishes, do your own dishes. (It takes like 30 seconds to wash a plate.) If you don’t mind doing dishes, still only do your own dishes, unless you have traded this chore to someone else in exchange for not having to do something else.
Wipe down things like worktops, stovetops, and the fridge. Don’t let stuff grow in the fridge until it starts forming its own polital party. The bathroom should be cleaned once a week. It’s not the end of the world, just get a toilet brush and a sponge. It takes fifteen minutes. Take out the bins on the allotted day. Clear out the recycling. Find out where the nearest bottle bank is and take it out regularly.
Basically, don’t expect anybody else to clean up your mess. Do expect everyone else to clean up their own messes. CLEAN UP YOUR MESS. Some houses find rotas to be useful so that everyone has a job to do every week/month/whatever. They only work if everybody sticks to the rota, of course, and they get really screwed up come Christmas when people stop being around, but if they help you, use them.
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Are you all familiar with passiveaggressivenotes.com? (If not, just finish reading this post before you click on that link, because it’ll be hours before you come back.) Here’s the thing–there are always going to be people you don’t see because of schedules, or situations that mean you need to leave someone you live with a note. And if the note is something like ‘Off for the weekend, eat my food before it goes off’ or ‘here are some cupcakes, have a nice day’, then it’s nice to have. But communicating actual important things, or worse yet grievances, via post-it is childish.
If you have a problem with something a housemate has done, will do, or might do, you should talk to them. You don’t have to be accusing or confrontational–remember that most of the time people are not being asshats on purpose, but are just ignorant to the fact they’ve done something to annoy you. (If they have done it on purpose, that’s a different issue–then it becomes harassment or bullying, and you should take it to whoever’s in charge in such situations.) Generally, a ‘hey, you probably didn’t realise because all I have is one tin of chickpeas, but that was my cupboard you moved all your stuff into’ will suffice. That said, try not to have unreasonable demands–the other housemates live there too. Communal living requires compromise.
And if you’ve done something to annoy someone else, and they tell you about it, just apologise. Don’t protest that it wasn’t that bad, or they’re being too sensitive, or they should have put their name on the cupboard door or whatever. Just ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t know. What do you want me to do?’ If you’ve realised it and they haven’t actually told you, it’s still worth saying ‘hey, I just realised X might have bothered you. Sorry about that.’ Do it even if you do think they were oversenstive or overreacting. Whatever you’ve been told, unless there’s an insurance claim involved, it’s not wrong to apologise anyway. This is absolutely guaranteed to make your living situation smoother.
Basically, you want your home to be a place for relaxing, that’s nice to come back to–for you and everyone else who lives there. Good luck! |
His Grace Mar Afram Athneil, Bishop of Syria and Chairman of the Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation (ACERO) has expressed his appreciation to faithful of the Assyrian Church of the East internationally who have extended their financial support in aid of the organisation’s provision of humanitarian assistance during the current conflict in Syria.
In a letter dated 31 January 2013, His Grace has noted that ‘the security and living situation are very crucial and difficult and worsening day by day. There is difficulty finding most of the essential materials such as bread, gas, and medicine and the prices have gone up almost five times’.
At the same time, His Grace has described in detail the deteriorating security situation noting that, ‘People are afraid to leave their homes, especially after sunset. Most of the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals [have] closed and a large number of doctors have fled the country from fear of abduction’.
ACERO is providing direct assistance to those affected by the crisis. This includes food assistance, financial support for families, financial and medical support for cancer patients, funding medical operations in conjunction with the United Nations as well as funeral assistance.
This financial and material aid has also extended to those who have fled Syria and are currently in Lebanon and Iraq where food aid and housing aid respectively have been provided. In the preceding weeks for example 350 aid packages (including blankets and food) have been distributed to Assyrians from Syria who have fled to Lebanon.
Referring to the situation as ‘truly a humanitarian disaster’, the Bishop of Syria has issued an urgent call to faithful of the Assyrian Church of the East and all compassionate individuals worldwide to support ACERO’s campaign to provide urgently needed aid to Assyrians affected by the crisis in Syria.
Donations can be made simply and securely through ACERO’s website using PayPal at the following link:
Receipts will be issued by ACERO via e-mail.
Alternatively donations can be made through all Assyrian Church of the East parishes worldwide with a note that the funds should go to the ACERO Syrian relief campaign. |
Water scarcity. The cause of many wars in the past, and it is said that this will be the cause of new wars in the future.
In Bengaluru for instance, 1400 million litres of water per day (MLD) is required for industrial as well as domestic by approximately one crore Bangaloreans. Studies say, after considering leakages, this works out to 75 litres per capita per day (LPCD) for Bangaloreans; while the Government of India norm for metro cities is 150 LPCD. Clearly there is a huge mismatch between demand and supply of water from the Cauvery.
- Drinking Water Scarcity - How It Affects Even NRIs | Freepik
So how does the Cauvery Water Crisis affect even NRIs.
NRI welfare is on the agenda for many political houses. Why?
For one, NRIs remit huge sums of money every year, that acts as a major economic boost. And then there are NRIs who are taking the route back to their motherland to invest in new businesses and projects. For both, here are two significant reasons why the Cauvery Water Crisis affects them.
1. Investments In Rainwater Harvesting For All Projects
The city gets an average annual rainfall of 900 mm. But the consumption is almost 3.5 times; from over 3 lakh borewells and whatever remains of the 200 out of the once 1000 lakes. And rainwater harvesting is done by only 44,000 houses of the 18 lakh residential properties in the city.
Going ahead, NRIs looking at investing in Karnataka or anywhere in South India, have to keep water conservation at top of their minds.
2. Investments In Tollywood And Bollywood
Film makers have suffered huge losses whenever Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have gone to war over the Cauvery Waters. For NRIs, who have invested in this industry, this is a cause of concern.
One report mentioned that the South Indian movies accounted for 70% of film revenues in India. And for the film-dom based in Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi and Mangalore... this is a cause for concern.
- Foreign Investments In Indian Film Industry
Already, Kannada releases Mungaru Male 2 and Golisoda have beared the brunt. Their releases have been postponed and ongoing film shootings in Karnataka have been suspended for some time.
- Cauvery Water Crisis Affects Film Industry
This is the author’s personal view. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this topic; and so suggest rectifications or corrections, if found. |
The Carbon Trust have supported the development of a pilot environmental declaration scheme for the construction and building materials sector in Malaysia.
Since 2013 the Carbon Trust has been supporting the development of a pilot environmental declaration scheme for the construction and building materials sector in Malaysia. This has been led by SIRIM Berhad, the Malaysian government-owned global research and standards development organisation, working alongside the Carbon Trust and three local partners. Funding has been provided from the European Union’s SWITCH-Asia programme.
The development of the scheme has included the development of a web-based carbon tool, the SIRIM Karbon Kalkulator, as well as an eco-label to demonstrate environmental credentials, which is delivered by SIRIM QAS. The Karbon Kalkulator was awarded a gold medal in the Environmental and Renewable Energy category at the ITEX 15, the 26th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition in Malaysia.
A pilot phase of the scheme, which has now been successfully completed, engaged with 33 local companies that agreed to participate. Some of those participating companies are now supporting national dissemination of the scheme throughout the construction and building materials sector. These include Hume Cemboard Industries, White Horse Ceramic Industries, CSL Technologies and Kilo Industries.
When implemented effectively, a well-designed carbon footprinting and eco-labelling scheme can incentivise better environmental and economic performance across whole industries. In Malaysia it is helping the country to meet its national target to reduce the intensity of its national carbon emissions by 40% by 2020, when compared with 2005 levels. |
Thanks for the previous help. I put the skillet upside-down in my oven and ran the self-cleaning cycle. It did indeed burn away all the blackened seasoning of the old pan, returning it to it's former gray color. However, the inside of the pan now has a definite rusty color to it. I scoured it with Brillo and nothing changed. Has the rust gotten into the pan so deeply that I won't be able to remove it? |
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Hilltop Holdings Inc. (HTH) Stock Rating Lowered by BidaskClub
BidaskClub cut shares of Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HTH) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report released on Thursday morning.
Several other brokerages have also weighed in on HTH. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Hilltop Holdings from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $29.00 price objective on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, July 4th. Stephens set a $31.00 price objective on shares of Hilltop Holdings and gave the company a buy rating in a research report on Monday, June 26th. ValuEngine raised shares of Hilltop Holdings from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research report on Friday, June 2nd. Piper Jaffray Companies lowered shares of Hilltop Holdings from an overweight rating to a neutral rating and set a $30.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Wednesday, May 10th. Finally, TheStreet raised shares of Hilltop Holdings from a c+ rating to a b rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 3rd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $29.08.
Hilltop Holdings (NYSE HTH) traded down 5.35% during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $24.58. 212,516 shares of the stock traded hands. The firm has a market cap of $2.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.75 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $26.13 and a 200-day moving average price of $26.97. Hilltop Holdings has a 1-year low of $21.04 and a 1-year high of $30.60.
Hilltop Holdings (NYSE:HTH) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 27th. The financial services provider reported $0.63 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.20. The business had revenue of $460.67 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $431.80 million. Hilltop Holdings had a net margin of 10.02% and a return on equity of 9.39%. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.32 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Hilltop Holdings will post $1.64 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, August 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, August 15th will be given a dividend of $0.06 per share. This represents a $0.24 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.92%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 11th. Hilltop Holdings’s payout ratio is presently 13.41%.
In other news, CEO Alan B. White sold 79,025 shares of Hilltop Holdings stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $26.03, for a total value of $2,057,020.75. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 216,124 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,625,707.72. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, insider Jerry Schaffner sold 7,500 shares of Hilltop Holdings stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $25.14, for a total transaction of $188,550.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 22.50% of the company’s stock.
Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank raised its position in Hilltop Holdings by 93.2% in the first quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 3,648 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $100,000 after buying an additional 1,760 shares in the last quarter. First Interstate Bank raised its position in Hilltop Holdings by 50.1% in the first quarter. First Interstate Bank now owns 3,895 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $107,000 after buying an additional 1,300 shares in the last quarter. Founders Capital Management purchased a new position in Hilltop Holdings during the first quarter worth approximately $118,000. Private Advisor Group LLC purchased a new position in Hilltop Holdings during the first quarter worth approximately $287,000. Finally, Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its position in Hilltop Holdings by 32.9% in the first quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 5,644 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $155,000 after buying an additional 1,398 shares in the last quarter. 55.80% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Hilltop Holdings Company Profile
Hilltop Holdings Inc is a financial holding Company. The Company provides business and consumer banking services from offices located throughout Texas through PlainsCapital Bank (the Bank). It has three operating business units, which include PlainsCapital Corporation (PCC) (banking and mortgage origination), Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC (Securities Holdings) (broker-dealer) and PlainsCapital Company (NLC) (insurance).
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What's so great about the 2015 Tundra?
The 2015 Toyota Tundra has finally arrived. If you're in the market for a rugged yet highly drivable new pickup truck, this could just be the vehicle for you. Even if you haven't considered the Tundra in some time, a suite of new features make this year's version worth a closer look. Here are five of the best things about the new Tundra.
1. Two Powerful Engines
For the 2015 model year, the Toyota Tundra includes two engine options: a 4.6 L V8 and a 5.7 L V8. With respective horsepower ratings of 310 and 381, these are two of the most powerful engines ever put in a Toyota passenger vehicle.
2. Better Offroad Capabilities
The 2015 model has an enhanced offroad package that makes it easier than ever to reach remote work sites, family campsites, or simply check out what's beyond the next hilltop. The Tundra's new offroad capabilities owe their existence to the new TRD Pro package, a suite of features that adds shock-absorption power and boosts clearance on tough roads.
3. Even Better Storage
The Tundra has always been known for ample storage space, but new under-seat storage areas and a widened bed take the 2015 model's capabilities to another level.
4. 360-Degree Field of Vision
A backup camera comes standard in most 2015 Tundras, instilling confidence in drivers who might still be getting their "Tundra legs." This easy-to-use camera is always calibrated and operational, so you never have to worry about adjusting it.
5. Rugged Transmission
The Tundra's six-speed automatic transition boasts several useful modes, including sequential shift mode and uphill/downhill mode. The 5.7 L versions also boast uphill/downhill shift modes, providing better control on hilly, icy roads.
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Beat To A Pulp: Hardboiled 2 opens with “The Takedown Heart: A Charlie Byrne Grind” by Kieran Shea in a claustrophobic gym office.…Continue
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Cueball Boland, owner of NiteWise Security Company as well as a couple of other things in Galveston, Texas has a very unpleasant task when he knocks on Micah Lanscomb’s trailer. Cueball needs Micah’s help because a fellow guard, Jack Pense, is dead. Jack was on the job in the Demour warehouse when somebody hit him on the head, tied him up, and then beat him to death. Cueball wants Micah to go have a look at the crime scene before they have to call the cops.
Jack Pense died…Continue
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Virgil Flowers is on a case about fake antique lumber when his boss Lucas Davenport calls him with another assignment. An Israeli investigator is on the way and needs to talk to a professor who lives in the area. In addition to being a professor the man, Elijah Jones, is also a Lutheran minister. The investigator wants to talk to the professor who apparently stole an important artifact from a dig in Israel and smuggled it back home.
The investigator, Yael Aronov, isn’t…Continue
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One of the most interesting aspects of studying criminal behavior and criminology is finding out why and how criminals commit a specific crime. It’s really the complicated and daunting task of finding out what makes an individual tick and hopefully learning more about their criminal pattern of behavior in the process. …Continue
Will send a free review copy to interested reviewers. BLACK KARMA is the 2nd Mike Gage Thriller and is available in both print and Kindle editions. Check it out at this link:…Continue
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You have until Monday to enter the giveaway for my latest novel, "Never Meant to Be." It tells the story of Cynthia Kenyon, a young woman from 21st Century America, who has an accident with H.G. Wells' time machine and winds up in London, 1882. It is not long before she becomes enmeshed in the lives of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, and where she has to face a number of choices, not the least of which is whether what she does changes history, and how her actions affect those she…Continue
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There is no question that William Charles Croydon did, with malice aforethought, abduct Karen Dandridge, repeatedly sexual assault her as well as cause her death by manual strangulation. A brutal crime made worse by the defendant’s claim to not remember the actual murder and his insistence that Karen had enthusiastically participated in the sexual acts and had supplied the drugs that led to her untimely death.
The fact that the evidence clearly showed otherwise brought…Continue
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Private Detective, Jack Laramie, is back in another gritty fast moving tale that is also very good. First seen in The Drifter Detective Jack makes his money by drifting from city to city across Texas doing work as a private detective while living out of the horse trailer he tows with his Desoto. Having wrapped up the current case after discovering the real truth of the matter the grandson of legendary US Marshal Cash Laramie is headed to Galveston to deal with a client as…Continue
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Somewhere in the Dallas, Texas area is the setting in this tale that opens with Keller at a party. Not that Keller is the party type by any stretch of the imagination. Keller is on a reconnaissance mission because, though he had seen a picture when he got the assignment in the old man’s study back in White Plains, he needs to see the target where he lives. The mission has to be done correctly or folks start losing confidence in him and that would be a bad thing.
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In this brief "video trailer"for our new, author-centric radio show... uh... I did include my name, as well as the show name, a ...uh... couple of times in the video for "The Book, With Earl Merkel."
Most egregiously, in the closing credits.
In my defense, it is for "branding."
Which I no doubt richly deserve, with a very hot iron.
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Hmm...I may just have hit the nuclear self destruct button. I have asked amazon to publish my second historical novel, title above. Sadly, it is not a "whodunnit" but an action thriller "whodidit". I do hope that the solitary reader of my last effort is not disappointed by this murderous romp through New Kingdom Egypt...…Continue
From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS and MURDER AT THE PENCIL FACTORY, comes a riveting new true crime short, DEAD AT THE SADDLEWORTH MOOR: The Crimes of Serial Killers Ian Brady and…Continue
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From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS 1 and 2, comes a gripping new true crime short, MURDER OF A STAR QUARTERBACK: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi.
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Today Geoffrey Girard takes "Author R&R" on In Reference to Murder, talking about researching serial killers for his new techno-thriller, Cain's Blood.
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Commuters and visitors travelling on the New York Subway are being entertained by the exploits of the rugged and flawed British detective DI Andy Horton as four of my crime novels circle the New York Subway.
Tide of Death, the first in the DI Horton series, …Continue
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Some know him as Sam. Others know him as J.J. Walk or other names. Still others know him as Donald Harry Bliss. In a sense the man once known as Donald Harry Bliss is dead though he still lives. His wife is dead and he is drifting--literally and figuratively. The powerful Wall-Street mogul Francis Cherry still wants to get him. Unfortunately, good help is so hard to find and former MI6 operative Ian Goldworthy hasn’t proven to be good help, let alone any real help at all, despite his alleged…Continue
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Let me start at the beginning which is as good of a place to start as any. Last year, around October or November I was in the midst of promotion for my third book, Alpha, as well as continuing promotion on the first two books. Part of my strategy was to contact different companies and businesses related to fitness and martial arts. So I came to look online for various martial arts related magazines.…Continue
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The European Social Fund (ESF) has a major contribution to the Strategy of the Union for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and represents a significant part of the European Union budget. Within the context of stricter budgets and increased public attention towards public expenditure, the need to demonstrate the results, the impact and the added value of initiatives supported by the European Structural and Investment Funds has been constantly on the rise. One of the highlights of the cohesion policy during 2014 – 2020 programming period is to make evaluation a major part of the lifecycle of operational programmes. By measuring the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of programmes, it has to aid the adoption of adequate decisions for the use of various instruments in support of the designed policies.
Pursuant to the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council for the programming period 2014 – 2020 the Member States have to ensure the implementation of evaluations including evaluation of efficiency, effectiveness and impact, as well as to ensure that the recommendations and conclusions from the evaluations are reflected in the future management of the programmes. At operational level, the evaluation shall study the contribution of the support of the European Structural and Investment Funds for achieving the objectives of each priority of the operational programmes, and at strategic level – it has to evaluate the contribution of the programmes towards achieving the objectives of the Strategy of the Union for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (Europe 2020). |
1. When he released his third mixtape, Coloring Book.
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Chance The Rapper
While Coloring Book was an exclusive Apple Music stream for its first two weeks, Chance still hasn’t made any of his music available for retail meaning it’s all still FREE FREE FREE. It also broke records being the first ever streaming-exclusive album to chart on Billboard.
2. When he threw his own music festival.
The lineup included Alicia Keys, John Legend, and a surprise appearance by Kanye West.
3. When he bought back tickets from scalpers to sell to fans at face value.
I took back almost 2k #MCD tix from fuckboy scalpers and made them into physicals. And these are just floor seats
4. When he told Kanye West to put “Waves” back on The Life Of Pablo.
It’s Chance’s fault the album not out yet… he really wanted Waves on that Bitch… we in the lab now…
6. When he attended the VMAs and we got this gem.
Chance really pretending to be those floaties that be infront of car washes lmfaooo
8. And of course this one.
9. When he developed a bromance with President Obama.
Obama called Chance of his favorite rappers, invited him to his last state dinner, and they also sang “Jingle Bells” together at the White House tree lighting ceremony. “He’s a good man. Even if he wasn’t president, if his ass worked at, like, Red Lobster, he’d be just a good man working at Red Lobster,” Chance told GQ.
10. When he made this Kit Kat commercial.
13. When he endorsed this petition to allow free music to be eligible for the Grammys.
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences : Allow free music to be eligible for Grammy nominati… https://t.co/qgcVIgzFLw via @Change
14. And then put out this ad in Billboard.
Like everything he does, @chancetherapper’s Grammy consideration ad in the new @billboard is not like the others
15. And then made history by being the first streaming-only album to ever be nominated.
Glory be to God. I’m nominated for 7 #grammys. Thank you to everyone who worked on Coloring Book, I love you.
16. When he was the last musical guest on Saturday Night Live for 2016.
He performed earlier in the year on the show when he joined Kanye for “Ultralight Beam” but he ended it on his own terms performing “Finish Line/Drown” with fellow Chicago rapper Noname and “Same Drugs.” He also bid farewell to Obama with a Run DMC inspired sketch.
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95-01: New Mandated Benefit and Required Offer of Coverage
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From: Jay Angoff, Director
Re: New Mandated Benefit and Required Offer of Coverage
Date: September 18, 1995
Senate Bill 27 was passed in Missouri's last legislative session and signed into law by Governor Mel Carnahan. This law expands the mandated mammography benefits required by statute section 376.782 RSMo and requires the offer of coverage for certain breast cancer treatments as set forth in statute section 376.1200 RSMo. The new language added to section 376.782 RSMo and the text of 376.1200 RSMo appear below.
Your company must receive approval of forms to accommodate these laws. Offer and acceptance forms, insert pages and amendments will be given expedited review by this department to assist you with compliance. Please follow standard filing procedures. The filing fee for filings made solely to comply with this law is $50.00.
Section 376.782.2(4) RSMo was added to section 376.782 RSMo. Subdivision (4) mandates additional coverage as follows:
(4) A mammogram for any woman, upon the recommendation of a physician, where such woman, her mother or her sister has a prior history of breast cancer.
Section 376.1200 reads as follows:
- Each entity offering individual and group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense-incurred basis, individual and group service or indemnity type contracts issued by a health services corporation, individual and group service contracts issued by a health maintenance organization, all self-insured group arrangements to the extent not preempted by federal law and all managed health care delivery entities of any type or description, that are delivered, issued for delivery, continued or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 1996, shall offer coverage for the treatment of breast cancer by dose-intensive chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplants or stem cell transplants when performed pursuant to nationally accepted peer review protocols utilized by breast cancer treatment centers experienced in dose-intensive chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplants or stem cell transplants. The offer of benefits under this section shall be in writing and must be accepted in writing by the individual or group policyholder or contract holder.
- Such health care service shall not be subject to any greater deductible or copayment than any other health care service provided by the policy, contract or plan, except that the policy, contract or plan may contain a provision imposing a lifetime benefit maximum of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, for dose-intensive chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplants or stem cell transplants for breast cancer treatment.
- Benefits may be administered for such health care service through a managed care program
of exclusive and/or preferred contractual arrangements with one or more providers
rendering such health care service. These contractual arrangements may provide that the
provider shall hold the patient harmless for the cost of rendering such health care
service if it is subsequently found by the entity authorized to resolve disputes that:
- Such care did not qualify under the protocols established for the providing of care for such health care service;
- Such care was not medically appropriate; or
- The provider otherwise failed to comply with the utilization management or other managed care provision agreed to in any contract between the entity and the provider.
- The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident-only, limited or specified disease policies, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than seven months duration.
- Nothing in this section shall prohibit an entity from including all or part of such care services as standard coverage in its policies, contracts or plans.
By use of the term "continued" in section 376.1200.1 RSMo, the statute requires that insurers offer all policyholders this coverage effective January 1, 1996. The statute requires that an offer be made, and therefore precludes exclusion of policyholders based on medical underwriting or any other method. |
So let's begin examining the Big Lie about the Tea Party movement.
As I was not ready to jump on the Tea Party bandwagon from the outset, I got to question and look at their motives. What I gathered was that it was conservative at its core, because there were lots of people who saw a castrated GOP fail to do a damned thing, fail to deliver on what they campaigned on, grow the government, and allow the Democrats to get free reign in Washington to grow the government even faster while coming up with every new way to tax us they could imagine (next year includes rolling back the bush tax cuts, the health care taxes, and maybe the VAT if they can cram it in early enough, not to mention the various pushes to "fix" the tax code to "properly" redistribute the wealth. The early groups included a fair amount of the crazies, but crazies are usually some of the first to jump on the "our government sucks" bandwagon.
However, as we moved from the aftermath of big government "conservatism" of Bush to full-on Obama "change" (which was merely massive escalation of government growth), the Tea Party, alongside the people who increasingly see the problems with our bastard tax code, began to grow. And merge. And diversify. And now we (yes, that includes me) are a collection of people of various political, financial, racial, social, and religious stripes (including the requisite few loony fringe kooks) who can agree that government is getting way too large, the tax system is fundamentally flawed and freedom-sucking, and both of the political parties are contributing to the problem.
But since the first two points are the basic principles of fiscal conservatism, and diametrically opposed to the agenda of big government liberals, pseudo-conservative Republicans, and the Democrat party leadership (Obama, Pelosi, Reid, specifically), it's time to unleash the Big Lie:
You start with some basics. Call them teabaggers, since, to liberals, their ideas suck balls, so they must, in fact, suck balls. Good for a giggle if you like to imagine Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin engaged in the aforementioned activity. Their leaders are morons. There's
And it's all a BIG CORPORATE interest astroturf campaign run by same guys who propped up the retard Bush (even though most of the people really haven't gotten out to protest for more relief for BIG WHATEVER before) that lacks any genuine emotion or thought.
But those are just the memes that don't require articulate talking heads to vomit forth opinions.
Former president Bill Clinton weighed in, saying that the Tea Party rhetoric mimicked the crap that came from terrorist Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which was 15 years ago today. Never mind the fact that no respectable leader of the Tea Party has EVER encouraged the violent overthrow of the government. We're about LESS government. NO government is an anarchist thing. And the only reason you take up armed revolt is when the ballot box stops working, even in theory. In practice, it barely works, although in theory we could replace 466 people this year if we all ganged up and voted the incumbents out.
From the White House comes cracks that the Tea Party should be thanking Obama for lowering taxes (through gimmicks and behavior-manipulating credits) (even though that's before the tax for health care comes in, other tax cuts are repealed, etc.). After all, they're too stupid to know that their taxes went down. And the media accomplices riff off the astroturf meme as they gleefully report this condescension.
I could fill pages with more examples. I've seen videos craftily (and well) edited that shows only the worst the Tea Party has to offer. I've seen post after post of pissed off rantings at average Americans who's crime against Obama is attendance of one of these events, including many fouling up otherwise intelligent liberal blogs (including many of the ones on the left). And it's been getting more shrill and ridiculous since the movement began to pick up steam.
The final straw for me was Time columnist Joe Klein, with this gem:
"I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious."
"I think there are two things going on here. One is certainly that, not just that he is African-American, but that his name is Barack Hussein Obama. The other thing is that... we've had a very scary economic crisis, and when people get scared, they get defensive, and they get a little crazy."
"The teabaggers (inbred hicks who like sucking sweaty balls) are hateful crazy pissed idiots who want to hang the 'ragheaded Kenyan terrorist nigger' in the White House and erect a oppressive theocracy based on feeding selfish Big Corporate interests and angry white guys."
With all the varnish taken off, the Big Lie is pretty damned harsh. It's also bullshit. And being that this is a group that I would consider myself a part of, I think a response in kind:
Fuck you, you ignorant sluts. You know you can't win the intellectual argument, so you've fallen back on the classic tactic of dismissing your opposition as fucking morons who aren't deserving of life. Anybody who sees what you cowardly shits are trying to pull should know better than to descend to the puerile lather you've descended to. Not that this will stop you, but I'd advise not saying the above to my face.
For those of you who have tried engaging the Tea Party intellectually, thank you. You're wrong as a family circle jerk, but at least you're standup individuals, and do America proud while trying to destroy it. And for those of you who stand with me as a no-longer-silent majority, don't let the idiots get you down. And when an idiot gets in your face with the crap outlined above, feel free to respond in kind.
Sometimes, you just have to punch someone in the mouth when they keep saying stupid shit. |
Monday, February 15, 2010
View From The Ditch bank
GETTING NOWHERE FAST--I saw a news report this morning about a big accident in Kansas City. Something like a 60 car pile up. The snow was blamed as the cause of the accident. I am sure it was certainly a factor. Maybe, even the main factor. But not the only factor. I am going to mention a here to fore unmentioned factor in many of the accidents that occur on a daily basis. After I mention it, then it will no longer be an unmentioned one. And that is the law that says you stay 1 car length behind the vehicle in front of you for every 10 MPH you are traveling. So, going down the freeway at 70 MPH ( OK, so the speed limit in most states, at least in the west, excepting California is 75, most people do 80 ) you should be 7 car lengths behind the vehicle in front of you. If you do that, then at least 6 cars will pass and get in front of you, so you back off another 7 lengths for the car immediately in front, and here comes another 6 or 7 cars, so you back off again. You keep on doing this, and soon you are back where you started, having not arrived at where you were going, and never having to use reverse. Wonder if your gas tank fills back up that way? Have a safe driving day and That's The View From The Ditch Bank. |
This was a 22minute recording originally,the Camera used (Turkey1 @1:50)was a Canon DM-GR1-A with 100* zoom 3CCD,20* optic 100*with a Tele-converter
58mm Adaptor this doubles the zooms from 100* to 200* etc...
To save battery power and tape space Yalcin Yalman states Yes he would tape for 3-4minutes stop until he had sight of the object again.
Haktan Akdogan says the video was scrutinise for 10days by their scientific board and have no doubt these recordings are 100% real.
After releasing this news Mr Haktan Akdogan states it was breaking news in Brazil,Russia,Switzerland,Taiwan and China.
Turkey2 @2:22 Mr Haktan Akdogan announces he will be presenting a 90minute Presentation at the upcoming International UFO congress.
Well thats it folks.
EDIT to fix Malformed links,still can't fix so I left pure links.
From what I've seen it is pretty unconvincing. Looks like a model suspended. It even shimmers as if it hanging from something.
I do not understand the "explanation". They found two white circles in a "square". I presume they mean a pixel? Somehow (???) this verifies that
it is a real image. Again, so what. Exactly the image you would get if you suspended a model. And why do all these camera carrying people have the
And the silhouetted "aliens", well I couldn't see a thing unless the most important part of the footage was not posted on the net.
What would be required is some background for scale and movement (to a different location by the cameraman) to verify range and altitude.
Once again we get a badly focussed object filling the frame at night with just enough light to see it but not enough to see any detail. I think you
would have to actually have to deliberately avoid catching at least a tree, fence or something building to give scale.
So while spectacular I am leaning toward deliberate hoax on this one.
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Environmental responsibility is a core part of Seattle City Light’s operations, starting with the statement of its mission:
Seattle City Light is a publicly owned utility dedicated to exceeding our customers’ expectations in producing and delivering environmentally responsible, safe, low cost and reliable power.
In 2005, City Light became the first electric utility in the country to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions. It has maintained that carbon neutral status every year since, making City Light the greenest electric utility in the United States.
“We take our mission of environmental responsibility and stewardship seriously,” General Manager and CEO Jorge Carrasco said. “To fight climate change, we work to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as much as we can through energy conservation and renewable energy and then support projects that offset carbon emissions to make up for those we can’t avoid.”
City Light uses greenhouse gas offsets registered with the Climate Action Reserve and other third party organizations to offset its greenhouse gas emissions.
Seattle City Light uses hydroelectric resources for 90 percent of the power it provides to about 1 million people in the greater Seattle area. But that important resource is also one of the primary reasons City Light takes the additional climate action step of offsetting all its greenhouse gas emissions, including those created by the generation of electricity the utility buys, employees’ travel and the trucks and other equipment used in its operations.
Seattle City Light’s hydroelectric dams depend upon mountain snowpack to store water for generating electricity throughout the summer. Climate change that brings more precipitation as rain or starts the melt-off earlier in the spring would threaten the utility’s ability to generate the electricity it needs to serve its customers in late summer. In addition, the City of Seattle’s water supply comes from nearby watersheds, and changes to precipitation patterns could also impact those important resources.
“We want to do something about that,” said City Light Strategic Advisor Corinne Grande, who leads the utility’s offset program. “Starting at home was a powerful motivator.”
Each year, City Light offsets 100,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon emissions, depending on how much electricity the utility has been able to generate from its hydroelectric resources and how much power it has to acquire elsewhere.
Among the projects Seattle City Light has purchased carbon offsets from are:
- Biodiesel fuel for Seattle area busses, ferries and garbage trucks
- Shore power for cruise ships at the Port of Seattle
- Aerobic composting of local food and yard waste
- And methane recapture and destruction at dairy farms and landfills.
“Our small amount of money is not going to change the world, but hopefully it will encourage new and innovative projects and act as a catalyst for others,” Grande said.
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What to do after a tooth extraction
If you’ve had a tooth extracted at the dentist then the advice is to take it easy for the remainder of the day. Rest is the best thing you can to do to aid recovery. It’s also best to keep you head up right so as to avoid any bleeding that may occur.
Can I eat?
While the anaesthetic is still having an effect, avoid hot food and drink as you won’t be able to feel pain. Burns and scalds to the mouth while under a local anaesthetic are more common than you think so be aware. Biting your cheek accidentally while chewing can also be a problem when there is little or no feeling.
When resting, use an extra pillow to keep your head higher, especially for the first night following treatment. Sometimes, you may have an after bleed, when the wound from your tooth extraction weeps. For this reason, use an old pillow case or place a towel on your pillow, just in case their is blood leakage during the night.
Can I use mouth rinse?
It’s is important to let the socket of your extracted tooth heal naturally. To help this natural healing, don’t eat anything use the affected side of your mouth for the first 24 hours after treatment. Alcohol should also be avoided for the first 24 hours too.
Soups make an ideal post-surgery food as there’s no chewing needed.
Can I still brush my teeth?
Yes you can, but just avoid the area around the socket from where your tooth was extracted from. It’s important to keep the mouht clean as possible in the hours following an extraction.
If it bleeds, what should I do?
It’s normal to have some bleeding after surgery so don’t be alarmed if there is any blood. If you’re in any way concerned about bleeding, then contact your dentist for advice.
Can I smoke after a tooth extraction?
Smoking should be avoided during the first 24 hours after treatment. This is because smoking causes blood pressure to rise which can lead to more bleeding.
If I experience any pain, what should I do?
In the hours and days following surgery, the gum around the socket will be tender and any pain you have can be dealt with in most cases with simple pain relief medicine. Don’t take aspirin and this can make your wound bleed.
If you are still experiencing pain following pain relief, then it could be that your socket has become infected. In this case, you should contact your dentist who will place a dressing on the affected area and put you on a course of anti-biotics to deal with the infection.
Do I need to have a follow-up appointment with my dentist?
No follow-up appointments are usually needed after a straight forward tooth extraction. Howver, if yours was a complex procedure or if there any complications then your dentist may want to see you a few days after treatment to make sure your socket is healing as it should be and everything is OK.
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A couple of Tuesday’s ago, Nat and I caught up for some travel planning. Yes, Infinite Health & Wellness will be wreaking havoc in Europe! 😀
As both Nat and I love food – good, quality food – naturally, I cooked up a storm. Oysters with a shallot ponzu balsamic dressing; a warm wild rice, mushroom, asparagus salad and a warm curried potato lentil salad.
The winner was probably this beautifully light indulgent dessert – Strawberry Coconut Chia Pudding with Goji Berries. The secret – SOAK THE GOJI BERRIES!!! (Thanks Hannah 😉 )
|Prep time||20 mins|
|Cook time||More like soaking time, overnight and then some.|
|Total time||45 mins plus soaking time|
|Dietary||Gluten Free, Vegetarian, Vegan, Dairy Free|
|Meal type||Breakfast, Snack, Dessert|
|Misc||Pre-preparable, Serve Cold|
- 1/2 cup of chia seeds (I used white because it was all I had)
- 400ml coconut milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Enough fresh strawberries to make 1 cup of strawberry puree. Probably less than a punnet.
- 4 tablespoons goji berries
- Mixed Berry Coyo (coconut yougurt)
- Desiccated Coconut
- 2 teaspoons coconut sugar
- Sweetleaf Berry flavoured Stevia
The Next Day
Assembly of the Chia Pudding
|You can do this in a variety of ways.#1 – Scoop even amounts of chia pudding into bowls. Add some coyo on top. Add goji berries around the coyo. Sprinkle desiccated coconut all over.
#2 – Scoop even amounts of chia pudding into nice glasses. Add layer of goji berries. Spoon coyo on top, add remaining goji berries and then sprinkle with desiccated coconut. |
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Overview of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders in general are pervasive, enduring patterns of perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause significant distress or functional impairment. Personality disorders vary significantly in their manifestations, but all are believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Many gradually become less severe with age, but certain traits may persist to some degree after the acute symptoms that prompted the diagnosis of a disorder abate. Diagnosis is clinical. Treatment is with psychosocial therapies and sometimes drug therapy.
Personality traits represent patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that are relatively stable over time.
Personality disorders exist when these traits become so pronounced, rigid, and maladaptive that they impair work and/or interpersonal functioning. These social maladaptations can cause significant distress in people with personality disorders and in those around them. For people with personality disorders (unlike many others who seek counseling), the distress caused by the consequences of their socially maladaptive behaviors is usually the reason they seek treatment, rather than any discomfort with their own thoughts and feelings. Thus, clinicians must initially help patients see that their personality traits are the root of the problem.
Personality disorders usually start to become evident during late adolescence or early adulthood, and their traits and symptoms vary considerably in how long they persist; many resolve with time.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) lists 10 distinct types of personality disorders. Some types (eg, antisocial, borderline) tend to lessen or resolve as people age; others (eg, obsessive-compulsive, schizotypal) are less likely to do so.
About 10% of the general population and up to half of psychiatric patients in hospital units and clinics have a personality disorder. Overall, there are no clear distinctions in terms of sex, socioeconomic class, and race. However, in antisocial personality disorder, men outnumber women 6:1. In borderline personality disorder, women outnumber men 3:1 (but only in clinical settings, not in the general population).
For most personality disorders, levels of heritability are about 50%, which is similar to or higher than that of many other major psychiatric disorders. This degree of heritability argues against the common assumption that personality disorders are character flaws primarily shaped by an adverse environment.
The direct heath care costs and indirect costs of lost productivity associated with personality disorders, particularly borderline and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, are significantly greater than similar costs associated with major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder.
DSM-5 groups the 10 types of personality disorders into 3 clusters (A, B, and C), based on similar characteristics. However, the clinical usefulness of these clusters has not been established.
Cluster A is characterized by appearing odd or eccentric. It includes the following personality disorders with their distinguishing features:
Cluster B is characterized by appearing dramatic, emotional, or erratic. It includes the following personality disorders with their distinguishing features:
Cluster C is characterized by appearing anxious or fearful. It includes the following personality disorders with their distinguishing features:
According to DSM-5, personality disorders are primarily problems with
Self-identity problems may manifest as an unstable self-image (eg, people fluctuate between seeing themselves as kind or cruel) or as inconsistencies in values, goals, and appearance (eg, people are deeply religious while in church but profane and disrespectful elsewhere).
Interpersonal issues typically manifest as failing to develop or sustain close relationships and/or being insensitive to others (eg, unable to empathize).
People with personality disorders often seem inconsistent, confusing, and frustrating to people around them (including clinicians). These people may have difficulty knowing the boundaries between themselves and others. Their self-esteem may be inappropriately high or low. They may have inconsistent, detached, overemotional, abusive, or irresponsible styles of parenting, which can lead to physical and mental problems in their spouse or children.
People with personality disorders may not recognize that they have problems.
Once clinicians suspect a personality disorder, they evaluate cognitive, affective, interpersonal, and behavioral tendencies using specific diagnostic criteria. More sophisticated and empirically rigorous diagnostic tools are available for more specialized and academic clinicians.
Diagnosis of a personality disorder requires the following:
A persistent, inflexible, pervasive pattern of maladaptive traits involving ≥ 2 of the following: cognition (ways or perceiving and interpreting self, others, and events), affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control
Significant distress or impaired functioning resulting from the maladaptive pattern
Stability and early onset (during adolescence or early adulthood) of the pattern
Also, other possible causes of the symptoms (eg, other mental health disorders, substance use, head trauma) must be excluded.
For a personality disorder to be diagnosed in patients < 18 yr, the pattern must have been present for ≥ 1 yr, except for antisocial personality disorders, which cannot be diagnosed in patients < 18 yr.
Because many patients with a personality disorder lack insight into their condition, clinicians may need to obtain history from clinicians who have treated these patients previously, other practitioners, family members, friends, or others who have contact with them.
The gold standard of treatment for personality disorders is psychotherapy. Both individual and group psychotherapy are effective for many of these disorders if the patient is seeking treatment and is motivated to change.
Typically, personality disorders are not very responsive to drugs, although some drugs can effectively target specific symptoms (eg, depression, anxiety).
Disorders that often coexist with personality disorders (eg, mood, anxiety, substance abuse, somatic symptom, and eating disorders) can make treatment challenging, lengthening time to remission, increasing risk of relapse, and decreasing response to otherwise effective treatment. For treatment recommendations for each disorder, see Table: Treatment of Personality Disorders.
Treatment of Personality Disorders
In general, treatment of personality disorders aims to
Reducing subjective distress (eg, anxiety, depression) is the first goal. These symptoms often respond to increased psychosocial support, which often includes moving the patient out of highly stressful situations or relationships. Drug therapy may also help relieve stress. Reduced stress makes treating the underlying personality disorder easier.
An effort to enable patients to see that their problems are internal should be made early. Patients need to understand that their problems with work or relationships are caused by their problematic ways of relating to the world (eg, to tasks, to authority, or in intimate relationships). Achieving such understanding requires a substantial amount of time, patience, and commitment on the part of a clinician. Clinicians also need a basic understanding of the patient’s areas of emotional sensitivity and usual ways of coping. Family members and friends can help identify problems of which patients and clinicians would otherwise be unaware.
Maladaptive and undesirable behaviors (eg, recklessness, social isolation, lack of assertiveness, temper outbursts) should be dealt with quickly to minimize ongoing damage to jobs and relationships. Behavioral change is most important for patients with the following personality disorders:
Behavior can typically be improved within months by group therapy and behavior modification; limits on behavior must often be established and enforced. Sometimes patients are treated in a day hospital or residential setting. Self-help groups or family therapy can also help change socially undesirable behaviors. Because family members and friends can act in ways that either reinforce or diminish the patient’s problematic behavior or thoughts, their involvement is helpful; with coaching, they can be allies in treatment.
Modifying problematic personality traits (eg, dependency, distrust, arrogance, manipulativeness) takes a long time—typically > 1 yr. The cornerstone for effecting such change is
During therapy, clinicians try to identify interpersonal problems as they occur in the patient's life. Clinicians then help patients understand how these problems are related to their personality traits and provide skills training to develop new, better ways of interacting. Typically, clinicians must repeatedly point out the undesirable behaviors and their consequences before patients become aware of them to help patients change their maladaptive behaviors and mistaken beliefs. Although clinicians should act with sensitivity, they should be aware that kindness and sensible advice by themselves do not change personality disorders.
Personality disorders involve rigid, maladaptive personality traits that are marked enough to cause significant distress or to impair work and/or interpersonal functioning.
Treatments become effective only after patients see that their problems are within themselves, not just externally caused.
Psychosocial therapies are the main treatment.
Drugs help control specific symptoms only in selected cases—eg, to control significant anxiety, angry outbursts, and depression.
Personality disorders are often resistant to change, but many gradually become less severe over time.
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It was a mixed bag of results in three LAUSD board seats that came before voters during Tuesday's primary election, according to preliminary results.
The one open seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District board is headed to the May 21 runoff, while incumbents Monica Garcia and Steve Zimmer earned enough votes to keep their seats in the other two contests.
The two re-elected school board members often fall on opposite sides of controversial issues – with pro-charter Garcia seen as a reform advocate, and with Zimmer more closely identified with union interests.
That leaves the results of the May 21 general election in the remaining race to give some indication of the balance on the board that oversees the nation's second-largest school district.
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The top vote-getter in the undecided contest for Board District 6 was Antonio Sanchez, who was backed by a big-spending pro-reform coalition that also supported Garcia and Zimmer's unsuccessful opponent, Kate Anderson. The Coalition for School Reform was begun by outgoing LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and favors Superintendent John Deasy.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had contributed $1 million to the coalition's effort, which totalled some $3.8 million.
"I didn't even know which mayor I was running against," Zimmer said. "It was a bizarre, surreal experience."
Villaraigosa was disappointed his candidate lost, but said he believed Zimmer had promised to support Deasy.
"I was obviously a big supporter of Kate Anderson. I thought she was best able to support the progress we've made," Villaraigosa said.
In Board District 6, incumbent Nury Martinez had chosen not to run for a second term and instead is seeking to represent City Council District 6 in a May special election to replace Tony Cardenas, who is now in Congress.
Four hopefuls ran to replace Martinez represending the northeastern San Fernando Valley. Sanchez, a young former Villaraigosa staffer and labor organizer, earned 43.2 percent of the vote. He'll face off May 21 with attorney-turned-teacher Monica Ratliff, who earned support from 34.1 percent of voters.
Maria Cano got 13.6 percent of the Board District 6 vote, while Iris Zuñiga earned 9.2 percent.
Sanchez had the backing of powerful United Teachers Los Angeles in addition to the Coalition for School Reform.
"My door's not going to be closed to anyone -- the coalition or the UTLA. I think they both deserve to be at the table," Sanchez said.
School board President Garcia, an ally of Villaraigosa and a reform advocate who was up for a third term, retained her seat despite a field of four competitors and opposition from UTLA. In downtown LA-centered Board District 2, she earned 56 percent of the vote.
The remainder of the vote was fairly well divided among the challengers: Robert Skeels, 15.1 percent; Annamarie Montañez, 11.8 percent; Isabel Vazquez, 10.1 percent; and Abelardo Diaz, 7 percent.
Skeels, an activist, had unsuccessfully mounted a recall campaign against Garcia last year.
Steve Zimmer withstood a challenge from parent, attorney and activist Kate Anderson to maintain a hold on his westside and western San Fernando Valley seat representing Board District 4. Zimmer earned 52.1 percent of the vote, while Anderson received 47. 9 percent.
Zimmer had teachers union backing and was opposed by a well-funded reform coalition that supported his opponent as well as board president Garcia.
The Coalition for School Reform, a political action committee formed by Villaraigosa, had brought in some $3.8 million in support of Anderson, Garcia and Sanchez.
In the nine-campus Los Angeles Community College District, which often gets short shrift during election season, termed-out Assemblyman Mike Eng was elected to the board as was former East Los College president Ernest Moreno. Both received more than 60 percent of the vote in their respective two-way contests.
In the third LACCD seat that was before voters, David Vela was headed for a runoff with incumbent Nancy Pearlman. After a four-way contest, Vela earned 35.4 percent of the vote, while Pearlman's bid for a fourth term earned her nearly 29 percent. |
Head Over Heels In Love With Melbourne
I've traveled to ten countries in the past eight years – either for work or education – and each time returned with bags full of experience and adventure. In fact, South Korea became my second home from 2005 to 2012, a period of time when I was employed with Samsung Electronics.
Surprisingly, I've never been down under.
A Soil Untouched, A Continent Unvisited
The only visa stamp missing on my passport is that of Australia.
Australia, its interesting shape and location on the world map, and the clear waters that wash its shores have always beckoned me. Even when my favorite celebrity Oprah Winfrey rounded off her 25th season with a surprise visit to Oz, I watched her each step of the way … penning down my own itinerary and the must-see places.
And there it stood out, the city of Melbourne. A chic and vibrant mélange of style, sport, diverse cultures, fine exquisite dinning and high fashion boutiques. To me, Melbourne is like a mysterious maze of laneways, a city blessed with breathtaking natural beauty and landscapes … and unarguably home to some of the most astonishing architectural wonders in the world.
|Laneways of Melbourne |
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Melbourne – My Next Holiday Destination
Melbourne is the beautiful capital of the state of Victoria and is the second most populated city of Australia. Often lauded as the most livable city in the world, Melbourne is also one of the country's leading financial centers. No surprise then, it was tagged by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) as the fourth most expensive city in the world in the year 2013.
Stop 1: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
The holiday would ideally kickstart with a visit to the Mecca of all cricket lovers, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). For a cricket aficionado like me, it'll be a dream come true to have a firsthand, real life experience of the ground that has witnessed enumerable historic cricketing encounters.
As Australia prepares to host the ICC World Cup 2015 in collaboration with New Zealand, the best time to visit the MCG is surely early next year. A golden opportunity to experience the hard work, preparation, and enthusiasm of the locals.
|The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)|
(Image courtesy: http://www.epicure.com.au/)
Stop 2: Federation Square
Talking of enthusiasm, another landmark and an absolute unmissable place in Melbourne is its ever-so-vibrant Federation Square. Touched by around 10 million visitors annually, Federation Square plays host to nearly 2000 events per year. The events are as diverse as the cultural festivities, exhibitions, event launches, performances, films, concerts, fashion shows, and so on. In short, a one stop shop for cultural attractions, world-class events, touristic expositions, specialty stores, and simply, the best of everything.
If you're a foodie like me, allow the culinary diversity of the place to take over. Don't forget to enjoy a multicourse meal at any one of its sixteen most exquisite restaurants, bars, or cafes.
|Federation Square |
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For the art connoisseurs, visit the Ian Potter Center or the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) where you can enjoy and explore around 20,000 Australian artworks comprising of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and textiles.
Fortune of Sir Ian Potter, one of the country's most acclaimed businessman and philanthropist, the gallery houses an ensemble of the oldest artworks.
|The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) |
(Image courtesy: http://www.sydney-australia.biz/)
Another distinct offering of the Federation Square is the ACMI or the Australian Center for Moving Image. The place promises to be a journey into the evolution and growth of the moving image. This one-of-a-kind facility not only preserves but also exhibits and promotes Victorian, Australian, as well as International screen content.
|ACMI or Australian Center for Moving Image |
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Stop 3: Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges
Melbourne, the city of joy, is located on the south-eastern part of the Australian island and enjoys a pleasant oceanic climate for most part of the year. The nearby Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges provide and preserve Australia's diverse flora and fauna.
|Yarra Valley |
(Image courtesy: http://www.visitmelbourneblog.com/)
Blessed with natural bounties, Melbourne offers its nature-loving visitors innumerable destinations for exploring and admiring God's canvas. The world-renowned Royal Botanical Gardens, situated in the heart of the city, is a picturesque landscaped garden spread across 38 hectares and houses nearly 10,000 native and exotic vegetation. Abundant greenery, wildlife, and a “hidden in the woods” cafe makes for a day well spent.
|Royal Botanical Gardens |
(Image courtesy: http://www.gardensonline.com.au/)
Stop 4: Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens
If traveling with kids, make sure to visit the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens (also known as the Melbourne Zoo) and have a tête-à-tête with nearly 320 animals from Australia and around the world.
|Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens |
(Image courtesy: http://melbourne.diarystar.com.au/)
Additionally, please your little ones with a visit to the sea life Melbourne Aquarium, the house of Southern Ocean and Antarctic creatures. Let them watch the penguins play at the Penguin Playground or enjoy the breathtaking Mermaid Garden Oceanarium and have a look at the Grey Nurse Shark and the Sandbar Shark as they swim alongside 2000 other marine creatures.
|Melbourne Aquarium |
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Stop 5: St. Kilda Beach and Luna Park
To experience the sun and sand, try a host of beaches in the city. Though similar looking, each promises to be a distinct experience for the traveler of all ages. Like the St. Kilda Beach that welcomes you to fantastic cafes, bars, hotels, and restaurants.
|St Kilda Beach |
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It extends to the Luna Park, Australia's oldest theme-based amusement park. You can enjoy alongside fellow Melbournians something they have loved for over 100 years. Then there is the William's Town Beach or the Altona Beach that offers several water based activities.
|Luna Park |
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Stop 6: The Shrine of Remembrance
For the admirers of architectural wonders, the city has enough food for soul. The Shrine of Remembrance, located on the St. Kilda Road, is a memorial built to honor the brave Australian men and women who served the country during war. The shrine has a classical style and its design is based on Mausoleum of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
|The Shrine of Remembrance |
(Image courtesy: http://www.lodgebros.com.au/)
Stop 7: St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral is another major Melbourne landmark. It is the seat of the Anglican Primate of Australia. The cathedral is located on the very side where the first public Christian services were held in Melbourne. Build in the neo-gothic transitional style, the structure breeds history into the city's center.
|St. Paul's Cathedral |
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Stop 8: Eureka Skydeck 88
Fear heights? Then you must visit the Eureka Skydeck 88 to overcome it. The observation deck of the 297.3 meters high Eureka Tower offers a spellbinding view of the city. Spread across the entire 88th floor of the tower, the Eureka Skydeck 88 is the highest public vantage point and has around 30 view finders to aid visitors, have a closer look at the landmarks around the city.
|Eureka Skydeck 88 |
(Image courtesy: http://national.atdw.com.au/)
The glass cube or "The Edge" extends from the building and adds on to the terrific viewing experience.
Stop 9: Her Majesty's Theatre
|Her Majesty's Theatre |
(Image courtesy: www.hmt.com.au)
Stop 10: Rippon Lea House and Gardens
Rippon Lea House and Gardens is a fine grand suburban estate and the first to achieve the national heritage listing. This estate boasts of a huge mansion situated within a vast garden spread across 14 acres and houses a windmill, a lookout tower, a heritage orchard, a lake, a waterfall, a fernery, and lots more. Built in 1868, the estate has a rich heritage and acres of greenlands waiting to be explored.
|Rippon Lea House and Gardens |
(Image courtesy: www.nationaltrust.org.au)
Q. Which of these places would you want to visit in Melbourne and why? |
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As Shivaye promised, he got her a seat at the college. She has been studying really hard for the past few months and as usual, even though both of them left at the same time, she did not acknowledge him at all. One day, Gauri was waiting outside for her friends. It has been 10 minutes and they were still not there. Om knew her school started at 9:00 and at this rate, she was going to miss her first class. He goes up to Gauri.
O: Let me drop you. You are getting late and you do not want to be late for your class.
G: I do not need your help. I have told all my friends that I work as a servant at the Oberoi mansion so I go to college in my boss’s car, you might get good credit for respecting your servant. But, you do not deserve that credit. A man who cannot respect his wife, A man who makes fun of the need and other hardship, do not deserve that.
Om pushes her toward the car door and holds her hand extremely hard.
O: You should not be judging my character. You are scared that if these people find out about this marriage, and your affairs, they will kick you out of the college.
G (Her eyes turning red): I have good friends. They will first ask my side of the story before making any decisions.
Annika walks out and sees them fighting. Her child, Anshi, was sleeping and needed a break from all that crying. A car pulls over and starts honking at Gauri.
O: Annika Bhabhi, can you ask Shivaye on the status of the divorce? We need to kick her out so she can realize what the world is out there.
G(Realizing her friends are outside waiting for her and she did not want to make a scene in front of time and embarrass Omkara): I have experienced hell here with you as my Satan so I am prepared to face any challenge. I acted as your well-wisher and I did not expect you to become my husband. But, you do not have the guts to even say Thank you or respect me as a girl.
She walks away to her friend’s car. |
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When it comes to keeping employees motivated, incentives are key. Of course, there are a variety of different types of rewards to offer staff members, from raises to non-monetary benefits. However, some may be more advantageous in terms of ensuring staff members’ satisfaction with the company. In fact, a new study published in the Journal of Economic Psychology found that while workers are more likely to choose cash over non-cash rewards when given a choice, they often change their minds if offered the right non-cash incentives.
Ultimately, the goal of a reward is not only to show a staff member that the employer appreciates them, but also to prevent them from leaving and heading to a competing business. Here are some unique ways to demonstrate that staff members are valued and fuel retention without shelling out a lot of funds.
Unsurprisingly, one of the best ways to reward employees is with a trip somewhere. According to a study by Site International Foundation and the Incentive Travel Council, a whopping 96 percent of workers say that travel incentives motivate them. Not only that, but a notable 72 percent of staff members who have reaped this kind of reward reported increased loyalty to their companies. When businesses want to recognize employees for going the extra mile or facilitating a major success for the company, a vacation is an ideal option because it allows them to relax, reboot and come back to work feeling refreshed. There are a multitude of ways to do this as well. Some firms may choose to take an entire department on a short trip to demonstrate appreciation for a job well done, while others could reward one star employee with a personalized vacation.
There are many reasons why employers might consider planning a social event to reward employees. For one, this can actually be a relatively affordable way to show appreciation. Additionally, though, it’s a great way to also facilitate staff bonding. Whether it’s a casual cookout, formal dinner or social outing to a sports event or music festival, these celebrations may significantly boost morale. Not to mention, employees are bound to make some fond memories on these occasions, which will make them feel more closely connected both to each other and to the company.
While professional development may not sound like a fun reward, it’s actually a highly effective incentive because it shows employees that management is thinking about their future. Entrepreneur magazine noted that training programs can be an especially powerful tool for small businesses with limited opportunities to offer staff members. For example, the source noted that the co-owners at one public relations firm in San Antonio, Texas, pay for standout staff members to go to two industry events each year within the state. Whether you create online courses about a subject that employees might be interested in or shell out for them to attend a conference, you’re encouraging the concept of continuing education, which benefits both the workers in question as well as the business they work for. |
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Location Location! Great traffic area on Islington Avenue near Steeles / Finch. Perfect space suitable to lawyer, accounting, real estate agent, insurance, mortgage agent. Reception area available with 4 private offices. Can be leased with or without furniture. Unit can be combined with another space for a larger office. Rental applicaiton and all deposits are required to be by certified cheque or bank draft. Landlord to approve final lease and Tenant. Call for Eve for more details at 416.558.8800 |
Eedu is an easy-to-use drone kit. Designed with simplicity in mind, it’s a hardware and software platform that enables inventors who want to create new drone applications. Drones can be more than just flying cameras. Give it a nose for sniffing out hazardous material, temperature sensors for feeling heat, or any other sensor to make exciting applications. Eedu puts you in the designer’s seat. As easy as “assemble, code, fly” – Eedu lowers the barrier of entry to robotics development, so anyone can build their homebrew drone application. |
La Mar By Gaston Acurio is located at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami and offers diners a piece of Peruvian paradise in the heart of Miami. You can explore the authentic and diverse flavors of Peruvian cuisine in a gorgeously decorated restaurant overlooking Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. There is even outdoor seating to allow you to fully experience everything La Mar and Miami have to offer.
La Mar features menu items that range from novo-Andean fare to Asian-Peruvian fusion and traditional seafood cebiche. If you have never had Peruvian food, make La Mar your first experience - you won't regret it.
This Peruvian-influenced restaurant can be found at the top of the Sonesta hotel, and the panorama... Read more |
Barefoot Charters is a boutique luxury cruising catamaran for 2-30 people. Available for events, pleasure cruises, parties or a fun time on Sydney Harbour.
Kick off your shoes and relax. Our, sleek and stylish Fusion 40 catamaran is the perfect venue for parties, corporate events and sightseeing on stunning Sydney Harbour. for groups of 2 up to 30 people, you can BYO food and drink or have one of our guest chefs cater for you.
Barefoot is an exceptionally innovative, streamlined and safe boat with excellent performance. The Fusion 40 is considered a ‘’Fast Cruising Catamaran’’. With plenty of open and covered flat deck space for you and your guests. Great easy access in and out of the water, perfect for a cool swim.
“Barefoot” was designed and built specifically, to entertain guests.
She is a luxury, sailing catamaran that is survey registered to carry up to 30 passengers + 3 crew
She has extensive deck areas with outside seating and relaxing trampolines,
She has an undercover cockpit area
She has a large saloon with comfortable lounges, panoramic windows, Flat Screen TV with DVD
An easily accessible restroom
Weather is not a problem due to a large interior and cockpit roof extension. Clears also enclose the rear of the cockpit
This Catamaran was chosen because the Flat decks making it easy for passengers to move around the boat, particularly from Cockpit to Foredeck and right down to the water.
Rates: $550/hr for a minimum of 3 hrs.
$1000 bond and 50% of the charter fee to secure and the balance payable 7 days prior to departure.
Rose Bay, Woolloomooloo, Lavender Bay and Manly recommended and others on request.
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Great winery, much more personable than some of the bigger ones. Visit included tour, questions, tasting and ended up buying. Really informative. Owned by the Burreta family to add interest.
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2013-07-31 06:55 PM
AFAIK, I don't think we have this feature in PA. What exactly are you looking for.
If you are looking for the space used in a flashpool aggr, available free space etc... then you can do that in Operations Manager.
2013-08-01 01:56 AM
The cDot Performance Advisor doesn't allow you to add or collect any new counter data than it offer by default, unlike the 7mode.
Pls take a look at this getting started video that explains all this in detail as to what is possible and what is not.
2013-08-01 09:56 AM
Thanks Adai. I was trying to create custom views and it doesn't have that option, wanted to confirm the same over here.
is there any workaround available or can we expect anything in the future releases?
2013-08-06 07:35 AM
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I think I've got this Screampix YouTube channel figured out. Most of their movies seem to be made by a company called Brain Damage Films, a company that seems to be in competition with The Asylum movie company for cranking out mass quantities of really REALLY bad horror. This is a good example and I'm going to make it short even though it took a long time to get through this movie with no CC, the movie stalling several times, backing up without warning 15 minutes to half an hour (nothing like hearing the same bad dialogue TWICE) and just plain sucking. And here we go.
The basic premise of this whole movie is that any subject can be made no matter how retarded. Oops, wait. The premise of the movie is that witches and demons just aren't near as scary unless you include clowns. I have a couple of friends who would agree with that. But this movie mish mashes things so badly that if I hadn't read the movie description I'd have absolutely no idea what I was supposed to be seeing. Since it's totally incomprehensible this is what they said:After the brutal murder of his best friend Jim, Bobbie is haunted by a presence. His girlfriend Val is distant and appears to have secrets of her own. Then the nightmares begin. Through the nightmares Bobbie uncovers clues regarding the murderer's identity. With the killer still on the loose, bodies piling up, and time running out, Bobbie hires a psychic to contact his deceased friend Jim. But some secrets were never meant to be revealed. The dreams will guide him, the secrets will blind him, the murders will haunt him. Only together will they unlock the "Secrets of the Clown".
Does that sound like the worst movie you've ever heard? A TV movie of the week? A complete waste of time? You'd be correct to pick one, or all three for that matter. These are a couple of the lines of dialogue you'd experience if you squirmed through this horrid thing:
Bobbie (that's a girl's name by the way dudes, it's supposed to be Bobby) gets attacked by his girlfriend who's turned all demon-y. He grabs a stainless steel toaster and starts bashing her in the head. As she falls he says... wait for it... WAIT FOR IT... extra credit for the one who says it first...
Ooh, hold on a second, I just threw up in my mouth a little. And that wasn't the worst one...
Bobbie sees that another (yes another) of his friends has become possessed and stabs him to death. Yet another friend is standing there and HE says "You killed Ken."
Bobbie: "I'm a bastard."
(If you didn't get that, it's okay - we can't all be cartoon fans)
The demon clown is charging what remains of Bobbie's friends and he screams "Come and get me you Insane Clown Posse $%#@%%!!!"
And of course the ole' standard, "Women. You can't live without them, you can't kill them." Nice.
And on that note, I'm not going any further with this thing. I think the clown demon was defeated by a clown doll possessed by Bobbie's best friend. I think. Oh, and his girlfriend's a witch. Sometimes. The end. |
Seminar | April 14 | 2-3 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Prof. Bozhi Tian, Univ. of Chicago, Chemistry
Soft materials are complex, with unique characteristics and functionalities spanning multiple length scales. Silicon-based materials are typically rigid and their direct interfaces with soft materials still represent an area with many open questions and unknown opportunities.
To enable new studies at these interfaces, it is important to target the right organizational length scale. For example, in the case of sub-cellular organization, this length scale is on the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers.
In this talk, I will present several soft material-enabled exploratory approaches for the syntheses and applications of nanostructured silicon. Some of these silicon materials are deformable and have been tested with extra- and intracellular components (i.e., extracellular matrix, cytoskeleton and phospholipid bilayer) with an initial emphasis on biomechanics and bioelectrics. In addition to providing new knowledge of nanoscale silicon-based chemistry, these studies will deepen our understanding of the fundamental limits of physical and biological signal transduction between subcellular components and synthetic systems.
At the end of my talk, I will discuss future opportunities in materials chemistry toward seamless silicon-based biointegration.
Bozhi Tian did his Ph.D. at Harvard with Charles Lieber on new nanowire materials synthesis, the fundamental study of high performance nanowire photovoltaics and the application of novel nanowire devices in cells and tissue. He worked with Robert Langer and Daniel Kohane as a postdoc in tissue engineering. He is now an assistant professor at the Univ of Chicago, working on semiconductor-based cellular biophysics. Dr. Tians accolades from his independent career include the PECASE, 2016 NIH new innovator award, 2016 ONR young investigator award, 2016 Sloan fellowship, 2015 AFOSR young investigator award, 2013 NSF CAREER award, 2013 Searle Scholar award, and 2012 TR35 honoree. |
Anti-Americanism or anti-US sentiment has been defined as dislike of or opposition to the United States governmental policies, particularly foreign policy, or American people in general. But, as they say, there is no smoke without fire. So how did the US come to plant hatred toward its policies around the world?
To begin with, we shall distinguish between anti-US sentiment that is directed at Washington’s policies and the dislike of the American people at large. While the first may affect the latter, it is not necessarily an inevitable side-effect. So, not every anti-American policy is a loather of the American people.
Pew Research Center published an article in the early 2000s titled “Anti-Americanism: Causes and Characteristics.” In it, the spread of anti-Americanism is blamed mainly on US foreign policies.
“Undoubtedly, Bush has become the lightning rod for anti-American feelings, but the problem is bigger than Bush. American policies and power fuel resentment for the U.S. throughout the world. The administration brought those resentments to the surface and intensified unhappiness with the U.S.,” the research states.
For example, the war on Iraq spurred such feelings around the world, particularly in the West Asia. Similarly, the invasion of Afghanistan had had a resounding effect. With these wars launched at the turn of the century, the vision of an imperialistic warmongering power was further solidified in the minds of the peoples Washington was imposing its policies and interests on, as well as those who relate to them.
Not only does Pew acknowledge that former president George W. Bush is also largely responsible for this view, but it also dates anti-US sentiment to before the war on Iraq.
In addition, US support for the occupying Israeli regime has sown anger in the Arab and Muslim worlds. For Muslims in general, Washington’s policies toward the Israeli occupation of Palestine are biased, siding with Tel Aviv on all issues and leaving Palestinians to grope for justice in the dark.
According to polls, 99% of Jordanians, 96% of Palestinians, and 94% of Moroccans believe that US stances on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle are unfair.
Even Europeans strongly think poorly of partial US support for the Israeli regime.
There are also other points of contention that render Americans unscrupulous in nature in the point of view of many Western Europeans.
“Conflicting attitudes toward security and military issues – especially in the wake of the war in Iraq – are also a major source of tension between the United States and Western Europe,” Pew Research Center argues.
In 2012, another piece was published by Pew addressing anti-Americanism in the Muslim world.
It referred to Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech as a bid to change America’s dismal image in the Muslim world. Obama began that speech by saying that he came in peace.
“I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum,” the US president commenced.
However, addressing Muslims with the Arabic greeting is not sufficient to tell them that he speaks their language, that he understands their distrust of his nation.
“We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate,” Obama declared.
However, a 2012 poll showed that the image of the US remained unfavourable across the Muslim world. In Egypt, only 19 percent had expressed a positive view while among Pakistanis and Jordanians it was a meager 12 percent.
Anti- Americanism in West Asia
The essence of anti-Americanism in West Asia (Middle East) correlates with the implementation of certain policies by the US government, at the root of which is Washington’s support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Iraq war, and its interference in Iran’s domestic affairs.
The Great Satan
“Death to America” is a widely used slogan in Iran, a country that has many grievances against the United States.
It has also been referred to as the Great Satan since the late Leader of the Iranian Revolution Imam Ruhollah Khomeini—who blamed the United States for imperialism and sponsoring corruption worldwide— ascribed the term to Washington in 1979.
There are many reasons why Iranians strongly feel this way about Americans. Observers contend that the 1953 US-sponsored coup that overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh— Iran’s first democratically-elected prime minister— is one of those reasons. Mossadegh ventured to nationalize Iran’s oil industry. This did not suit the West, particularly Britain. So MI6 urged the CIA to take action which ended in Operation Ajax. This ruined the Iranians’ first democratic experience and fuelled public resentment.
The CIA made a public statement 60 years later confessing that “the military coup that overthrew Mossadegh … was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government.”
Even worse, the US helped sustain the dead Iranian dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Shah (king), in power as an absolute monarch who with his secret police, SAVAK—formed with the assistance of the CIA and Mossad—proved to be a dictator by torturing and killing dissents.
During the Iraq-Iran war, around 300,000 Iranians were killed. The Americans showed that they were on Saddam Hussein’s side even in his invasion of Iran in 1980.Eight years later, the Iraqi army used chemical weapons in an operation to retake the al-Faw peninsula. Attacks using banned sarin gas killed thousands and affected many more. The Americans helped this happen.
In 2013, Foreign Policy magazine stated: “US intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent… The Iraqis used mustard gas and sarin prior to four major offensives in early 1988 that relied on US satellite imagery, maps, and other intelligence.”
The effects of these attacks can be still seen today on Iranian victims.
The Iranian nation witnessed another tragedy that year. Iran Air 655 was shot down by a US navy ship named the Vincennes. 290 people were killed aboard the plane, including 66 children. The US claimed the Iranian civilian airliner was misidentified. Washington did not apologize for the disaster. George H.W. Bush, then Vice President of the United States, said during a presidential campaign on August 2, 1988 that “I will never apologize for the United States – I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy”.
Two years after the tragic incident, US Navy Capt. Will C. Rogers III, the captain of the USS Vincennes who massacred hundereds of Iranian passengers was awarded the Legion of Merit, a high award, given “on the basis of unambiguous evidence and sterling performance, without a blotch of tarnish”.
The Islamic Republic has been slammed with sanctions since 1979. Despite the nuclear deal that was struck with the p5+1 group of nations, the economy has suffered setbacks and the human cost of these sanctions has been high. And it will take a long time to recuperate even if all sanctions are lifted. The humanitarian impact has affected thousands of patients due to lack of proper pharmaceuticals and medical equipment that are difficult to obtain as a result of sanctions. |
US rapper Safaree wants to expose Jamaica's beauty in his videos
American rapper Safaree recently visited the island film music videos for some of his upcoming projects. According to the rapper, whose parents are Jamaicans, he wants his video footage to not only highlight the island's inner-city communities, but also to expose Jamaica's beauty to the rest of the world.
Safaree, who dated pop star Nicki Minaj for 12 years, took the opportunity to visit the Bob Marley Museum, Blue Hole, Nannyville, and Frenchman's Cove, among others. He told The Gleaner, that his appreciation for Jamaica is unique.
"Anytime I see people do stuff in Jamaica, it's just usually done in a place that make you think that all the houses are made of tin and wood. That creates a bad perception for people who have never been here before, or other places in the Caribbean, or even Africa. Many people don't realise that some of these places are the most beautiful in the world. I have some business that I need to take care of in the US, but I am very interested in moving out here and raising kids here. I want two kids and a goat here," he said.
The rapper has developed a reputation for his style of rapping, which usually sees him smoothly interchanging the English language and Jamaican patios. He explained that his decision to 'code switch', as the style is referred to, is because of his respect for the reggae genre.
Foundation of all music
"I don't feel like I sound like anybody else. Nobody else doing rap and switching it up with reggae, using this type of style. Reggae is like the foundation of all music and this is not only because I am Jamaican. When you really look at it, and think about it, reggae influences everything, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Reggae is a world sound, and not every genre can say that. You can go to any club in the world and still hear a Bob Marley song," Safaree said.
In 2011, Barbadian singer Rihanna came under fire, locally, after viewers felt that her video, Man Down, which was filmed in Jamaica, painted a negative image of the island. Drake's Find Your Love, filmed in 2010 also came under fire from persons concerned about the image of Jamaica being sold to the international audience.
Safaree, is promoting songs like Most Fun, featuring a sample from Sizzla Kalonji, Love The Most and Volume, featuring Ward 21, among others.
"I have received a lot of love here, and Jamaican people have a lot of pride. They will see you, know who you are, but they don't bother you, they will like go to somebody and ask them to get a picture with you, but I am usually very approachable. It was good finally connecting with Bounty Killer, who I have a lot of respect for, and Lady Saw, who cooked for me at her house," he told The Gleaner. |
Finally, The Bottom Line... HAS COME BACK to TWB. Thanks to Norko Kipte for this week's installment!
1. Better heel turn: R-Truth or Bully Ray
2. Should Punk actually be leaving who would be better served to be put over by him?
3. Buy or Sell: Kharma coming back the same as she was
4. What is the last wrestling DVD/Blu-Ray that you bought?
5. Best push that was short-term and short-lived?
Remember you can contact TH and ask him questions about wrestling, life or anything else. Please refer to this post for contact information. He always takes questions! |
So we got some new releases from various stores this time. The outfit is a new release from Cute or Die available in multiple colors for multiple mesh bodies at Mesh Body Addicts. The hair is from Ayashi at Shiny Shabby. While you can find the collar at the upcoming Cosmopolitan from AsteroidBox, it comes in multiple metal and color band options too. Hope you like the look!
Dress - [Cute or Die!] - "Lucy" Corset Dress (Mesh Body Addicts)
Hair - [^.^Ayashi^.^] - Azusa hair (Shiny Shabby)
Collar - AsteroidBox. - Bell Collar (Cosmopolitan)
Eyes - ~*ChoCoCo*~ - Starry Pastel Eyes
Necklace - [: Kawaii Couture :] - Purity Necklace Long Blue (Hunt/Free)
Boots - BareRose - White Liita
Braclets - ALTAIR* - bell bracelet .silver. |
Just another GR refugee. Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.
The Rolling Stones raise $500,000 for Nicaraguan earthquake relief ($350,000 in proceeds from a charity concert; $150,000 gift from Mick Jagger). Kiss, Heart, and AC/DC form. Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon. It will stay on the U.S. album charts for the next 471 weeks, going off in 1988. Led Zeppelin tours the U.S., breaking attendance records previously held by the Beatles. David Bowie decides he's not Ziggy Stardust anymore. The Roxy opens in Los Angeles, and CBGB in New York. The Who release Quadrophenia. Keith Moon passes out at their concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, and a lucky fan is picked out of the crowd to take his place on the drums for the rest of the night. The Byrds, Doors, and Velvet Underground break up.
Big hits in 1973: Angie (The Rolling Stones), Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree (Tony Orlando and Dawn), Ballroom Blitz (Sweet), Crocodile Rock (Elton John), Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack), You're So Vain (Carly Simon), Superstition (Stevie Wonder), Love Train (The O'Jays), You Are the Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder), My Love (Paul McCartney & Wings), Give Me Love (George Harrison), Bad Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce), Touch Me in the Morning (Diana Ross), Let's Get It On (Marvin Gaye), We're An American Band (Grand Funk Railroad), Half Breed (Cher), Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight and the Pips), Top of the World (The Carpenters), Ain't No Woman Like the One I've Got (The Four Tops), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John), Let Me Be There (Olivia Newton-John), Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings), Money (Pink Floyd), Rocky Mountain High (John Denver), Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple), We May Never Pass This Way Again (Seals & Crofts), Yesterday Once More (The Carpenters), and Your Mama Don't Dance (Loggins & Messina). |
This 17 year old cool girl from Pittburgh, named Daya is the next big thing! Her single Hide Away is topping the charts and achieved platinum status, making her an artist to watch!
It was during a songwriting session in L.A. to which she got invited to by a producer in Pittsburgh, where Hide Away was written along 6 other songs. Produced under an indie label the song was released Spring last year, but it was the DJ’s at Sirius XM’s Hits 1 radio station who picked it up, and from there on her track started to spread in the US and now Europe. We heard Daya’s song on the radio and it’s instant energy! Great for a long drive home and definitely a great addition to a running playlist! |
The iGrow is an in-home hair growth system that has been FDA 510 cleared and is indicated to promote hair growth in both men and women, In 2 separate published peer reviewed clinical studies iGrow increased hair counts by 35% in males and 37% in females in just 16 weeks of treatment, Apira Science is the only Amazon seller to offer this proven device with a 6 month money back satisfaction guarantee. Also included is a Manufacturers 1-Year Warranty, Low Level Light Therapy(LLLT) is a highly effective hair growth treatment process, LLLT increases cellular activity and promotes the proliferation of thick, full and healthy hair. Equipped with head phones and an iPod/MP3 interface, the iGrow is a convenient and highly effective Low-Level Light Therapy(LLLT) significant hair growth., Features 4 adjustable fit columns with rotating weight distribution for optimum comfort during treatment. Headphones extend and retract to custom fit any head size.hands-free, convenient and private in-home hair growth system provides full scalp coverage, is fully portable, easy to use and requires no manual movement.
iGrows proprietary Low-Level Light Therapy (LLLT) technology utilizes a highly effective combination of red laser and LED light diodes to stimulate and energize cellular activity causing an uptake in the natural function of the hair follicle. This 4 to 6 month process treats hair thinning and loss, by effectively growing new healthy hair that is thicker, fuller and more vibrant. Clinically proven, safe and effective, the iGrow is a revolutionary in-home hair growth system that provides full scalp coverage. It is fully portable, simple to use, and requires no manual movement. iGrow incorporates Apira Sciences proprietary dual light Laser and LED design. Equipped with headphones and an iPod/MP3 interface, the iGrow is a convenient and highly effective Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) system that delivers significant hair growth for men suffering from Androgenetic Alopecia (genetic-based hair thinning/loss). LLLT is a highly effective hair growth treatment process. LLLT energizes cellular activity within the hair follicle, and promotes the proliferation of thick, full and healthier-looking hair. Features Grows Hair Safe and Effective Optimum Scalp Coverage Hands-Free 51 Laser + LED light Sources In-Home Convenience iPod/MP3 Interface Automated, Touch-Screen Control Fully Adjustable Product Includes iGrow Remote Control Universal AC Adapters Auxiliary Cable (For use w/MP3 player or other media) User Manual Remote Control Cable |
This workout is an exact retest of the 2015 Lurong Living Resolution Challenge benchmark WOD. This 7-minute AMRAP is a devastating couplet that allows an athlete to go fast, keep the pedal down, and hang on. Athletes who participated in that Resolution Challenge will be able to compare their performance progress, which is a valuable tool for fostering confidence going into Open season. This workout keeps all loading and requirements the same for all age divisions.
WOD: Complete at Many Reps as Possible in 7 Minutes:
5 Front Squats @ 155/115 lbs.
7 Bar Facing Burpees
Post WOD mobility: Smash quads on roller, 6 minutes, then couch stretch, 2 minutes each
11:00 am Strength Class:
Lift: Conventional deadlift + 20% band, heavy single
6:45 pm Mobility Class: General stretching, low back focus |
A MIDDLEWICH residents' association chairman has claimed a high-ranking police officer told him the town doesn't need a beat bobby.
And a former town mayor has called on the Government to put more officers on the street.
Bill Blunn, chairman of Newton Residents' Association, said: 'I was told by a high-ranking police officer that Middlewich doesn't need a beat bobby because it has the lowest crime rate in Cheshire.
'I told him that is because nobody bothers to report crime because they get little response.
'At the weekend I needed to call police out to about 30 youths in the park near the high school. I telephoned the Northwich number we have been given and couldn't get an answer.
'Then I called a Chester number given to me by our Community Action Team officer.
'I waited 20 minutes while the lady on the line tried to get hold of a local officer, without success.'
Cllr Dave Sutton, who serves on Middlewich Town, Congleton Borough and Cheshire County councils, has written a letter containing a petition with thousands of signatures, to Home Secretary David Blunkett demanding more police officers for the area.
Cllr Sutton is hoping Mr Blunkett will deliver on his promise to get tough on crime by getting more bobbies on the beat in Middlewich.
He said: 'I'm asking the Home Secretary to put more police on the streets.
'Middlewich is a much bigger place than it was five years ago, but we have fewer police officers.
'But if everyone is paying £70 out of their Council Tax for a police service and there are more people, where is that money going?'
He added: 'The problem is when you do manage to get hold of the police they say they are going to come out, but then something more important happens and they can't get out because there are simply not enough of them.
'Middlewich police station is unmanned, so we have to go through to Northwich or Winsford.
'It is a vicious circle. If you have yobs outside your house and threaten them with the police, they can get away with goodness knows what because they know the police won't come.
'It is not the police's fault they want to help but there is simply not enough of them.'
A spokeswoman for Cheshire police said she could not find anything to suggest a senior police officer had said Middlewich did not need a 'beat bobby'.
She said the Congleton and Vale Division would be allocated extra officers under the Government's Crime Fighting Fund.
She said: 'We have two probationary officers waiting to join in December, a further two in March and eight currently in training who have been allocated to the division.
'Our Community Action Teams are responsible for crime in the community.
'The CAT team covering Middlewich will eventually have six officers and it may well be that some of those waiting to complete their training are allocated to the Middlewich area.
'The town will be given officers, it is just a question of when.' |
This the first time I showered with my man. Before showering I gave him a bj & he peed afterwards, while we were showering he wanted to rub his dick against my vagina but i didn't want that and he respected but his tip probably touched my outer lips idk what they are called probably 3 times. i know i was wet but i don't think he was cause i touched him and he didn't feel wet. i just want to know if i'm at risk for a pregnancy just from this scenario. like if the water could have made anything flow anywhere like to my vagina hole lol. i'm just overanalyzing everything but please respond and thank you! |
FASEB URGES LAWMAKERS TO OPPOSE GREAT APE PROTECTION AND COST SAVINGS ACT Created by on 05/17/2011
On Thursday, May 12, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) sent letters to all members of Congress urging them to oppose the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (GAPCSA). This billwould ban invasive research involving bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, orangutans, and chimpanzees based in part on the questionable premise that doing so would save money. The term invasive is defined in such a way as to preclude the use of these animals in nearly any biomedical research application. Despite the small number of great apes used in biomedical research, their role is extremely valuable. Chimpanzees remain the only valid research model for studying chronic hepatitis C and for the development and safety testing of life-saving monoclonal antibodies. Not only is research on great apes important for human health, it has impacts on the health of endangered, wild apes, which are affected by diseases such as Ebola and influenza. In the FASEB letter, President Dr. William Talman pointed out that, “If adopted, this bill will not only prohibit needed research for human diseases, but it will prevent research on behalf of these animals—inevitably harming the ones the legislation seeks to protect.”
FASEB members appreciate the need to reduce the numbers of animals used in biomedical research. The use of chimpanzees is highly regulated to ensure that they are absolutely necessary for the work proposed, as few animals as possible are used, and they are treated humanely. This legislation, however, goes too far by completely eliminating the use of great apes. Since the Institute of Medicine is in the process of assessing the current and future need of chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research (see related article in this newsletter), enacting this legislation would be premature and would inhibit medical advances and the quest to improve human and animal health through new treatments and vaccines. The FASEB letter concludes by urging members of Congress not to support GAPCSA. |
To be used in substitution of holy shit, such as followed by the -take after. The take is important for the phrase to be successful. Term invented by elementary school students as substitutions for cussing, such as the asstronaut
Jimmy goes to the gas station, buys a lotto ticket. When he reaches home, and checks the lotto number, he screams in delight, "HOLY SHIT!" his wife stares at him. Looking awkwardly, Jimmy refines his sentence to avoid embarrasment. "-take mushrooms!" In the end, his wife thinks he's on crack. And thats how the holy shitake mushrooms! came to be.
by holyshi_take April 10, 2009 |
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Three injured in Moore County wreck
Posted March 24, 2010
Cameron, N.C. — Two people sustained life-threatening in juries in a one vehicle wreck at Baker and Keith Roads in Cameron Wednesday night, according to the Highway Patrol.
The people were transported to WakeMed and Durham Hospital. A third person was taken to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Their conditions were not available.
It is unknown what caused the wreck just after 8 p.m. |
This little space here is almost always about my boys. About life with my boys. Rarely do I just talk about me. And because I don’t do that often here, when life is … well, life… and it seems to be focusing more on me than them? I have to work to justify writing about it here.
Because regardless of what some alternate opinions are, and even some circumstantial evidence to the contrary, I really….REALLY….work hard at not making it all about me.
Sometimes, despite the overall situation being about me, I’m fortunate enough to be able to see something in there that shows my amazing offspring to advantage. And there you have it. My justification for writing what I’m going to write.
I’ve talked about the fact that Bug struggles with Bipolar Disorder. I’m one of those parents who believes in using every possible tool available at my disposal to help him along his journey, as he learns how to control this disorder and integrate it into how he lives his life. That includes medication for him, and I’m totally on board with that. We’ve been fortunate enough to have doctors who don’t over prescribe, and who actually listen to me when I talk to them about how it affects him. And really, Bug has been fairly successful in learning to recognize when he’s headed towards a downward spiral, and works on getting through that with minimal collateral damage.
So, why is it he’s so successful? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s because his mama is Bipolar, too.
The biggest difference between his struggles and mine is the medication. Oh, sure….I’ve had a lot more years to learn how to work with mine; but I’ve been slugging through mine without the benefit of medication. Not because I don’t believe in it, because I obviously do or I wouldn’t have my son on medication. But because at one point, the choice was literally “His medication or mine?” And naturally, his won. Now that we’re headed back to a point where I might be able to medicate us both, it’s absolutely something I’ll be talking to my doctor about. Especially after “that night” last week.
That night found me walking away from a pot of boiling water on my stove and sitting in my room in the dark, in tears, for no good reason that I could think of. That night heard me asking my sons to please not argue about one single thing, because mama was at the breaking point and I wasn’t able to recognize exactly what would be the shattering point. That night saw me explaining to Bug that I was feeling exactly how he does when his body feels itchy all over and like it’s going to break into a thousand different pieces if just one thing touches it. That night prompted my beautiful boy to come hug me anyway, and offer to make dinner so I wouldn’t have to. That night witnessed both of my boys to just come hug me anyway, trusting that I wouldn’t shatter into pieces so small that we’d never find them again. That night witnessed thoughts in my head going ‘round and ‘round, wondering what God possibly could have been thinking of, giving a mom like me to two amazing, wonderful boys like them?
I still don’t know what He was thinking, because I honestly don’t deserve them. But I’m more grateful than those boys will ever know. |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have ceased fighting and are on the run as Iraqi security forces are finishing clearing operations in eastern Mosul, Pentagon Press Operations Director Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said.
Davis said that ISIL fighters are moving to Mosul’s north bank of the Tigris River to cross the waterway by boat to reach western Mosul.
“I can tell you it’s a great day not to be a member of the ISIL navy.
“We destroyed another 10 boats on the Tigris River today for 143 boats total.
“Our message to ISIL is: ‘We will not allow you to get away to the other side of the river and set up shop there’,” the spokesman said.
He said another significant Iraqi security force operation is underway in the region, Operation Desert Leopard, where the Iraqis are working very methodically by starting in Ramadi and going up the Euphrates River Valley to Haditha, while clearing the area.
“It’s been a good operation that’s driving ISIL back,” he said.
In Yemen, the U.S. conducted airstrikes from Jan. 20 to 22 in al-Bayda against al-Qa-da in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives, killing five al-Qaida members in three days, Davis said.
“AQAP remains a significant threat to the region and the United States,” he said.
“Al-Qaida’s presence has a destabilizing effect on Yemen in addition to its using the unrest there to provide a haven from which to plan future attacks against the United States and other interests,” the spokesman said.
“We will continue to degrade, disrupt and destroy al-Qaida and its remnants, and we remain committed to defeating AQAP and denying it safe havens regardless of its locations,” Davis said.
The strikes conducted by the U.S. continue to diminish AQAP’s presence in the region, the spokesman said. |
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Having retired, I now have time to travel and gadabout, and so I have established this blog to share my travels with family and friends. Most of my posts will cover travels away from home, but occasionally I may post local activities. I hope you enjoy my posts, and I welcome feedback from you. Photos by me unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Meatloaf Pan "As Seen on TV"
Meatloaf pan with insert "as seen on TV".
This is the first time I've bought an "As Seen on TV" product. But I'm very pleased with this pan. It has an insert that allows the grease to collect in the bottom of the pan, and the meatloaf doesn't sit in the greasy drippings. The insert lifts right out and the meatloaf slides right off as the commercial indicated.
Greasy drippings left behind.
Insert lifts out leaving greasy drippings behind.
For this meatloaf I used a recipe from one of the favorite blogs that I follow Judy's Kitchen. The meatloaf was deliciously moist, sliced nicely, and the leftovers were great for sandwiches. Check out Judy's recipe. |
The latest issue of the U-M Alumni Association’s email student newsletter has an interesting list of free things offered by local businesses if it’s your birthday:
“Everyone deserves special treatment on their birthday. Although you might not be able to sweet talk your way out of that annoying exam, here’s some free stuff you can score at popular Ann Arbor businesses. Check out the list below and take advantage of the bonuses (offers are subject to change).
* Zingerman’s-half-dozen free bagels
* Grizzly Peak Brewing Company-free dessert, free logo pint glass, and a $10 gift certificate for your next visit
* Main Street Ventures Restaurants (includes Gratzi, Palio, Real Seafood Co.)-receive 50 percent off your bill if two people are dining, 33 percent off if three people are dining, 25 percent off for four people, and so on (discount applies to only the food portion of the bill)
* Cottage Inn restaurant-free meal
* Good Time Charley’s-free meal
* Stucchi’s-free ice cream
* Hollywood Video-free movie rental
* Baskin Robbins-free ice cream.
* Applebee’s-free chocolate sundae
* TGI Friday’s-free birthday dessert
* The Olive Garden-free cake and serenade by wait staff
* Red Lobster-free cake and serenade by wait staff
* Arbor Brewing Company-free sampler platter of all house beers currently on tap”
I’m not sure if that last one applies to any birthday, or just your 21st – which comes along with it’s own list of freebies. What’s missing from this list? |
“Increasingly, federal judges are going easy on tax cheats, or at least easier than the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s guidelines say they should.”
That’s the opening sentence in an article on federal criminal tax prosecutions recently published in Forbes Magazine. The article, and others like it, note that Federal Judges are imposing more below-guidelines sentences in criminal tax cases than in other types of criminal cases. While this may be true, these articles miss the mark in attempting to explain why.
Most of these articles surmise that lower sentences in federal tax prosecutions can be attributed to one of two causes. First, they suggest that Judges tend to view tax evasion as a “victimless” crime that is less deserving of active imprisonment than other white-collar frauds. Second, they argue that wealthy tax evaders receive bigger breaks at sentencing because they can afford to repay the IRS what they previously evaded, and they paint themselves as having been punished already by the public humiliation of a criminal prosecution and guilty plea.
While these points may have some validity, they fall well short of the real reason for larger departures in criminal tax cases: the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines themselves.
The problem with the criminal tax Guidelines begins with the fact that the single biggest driver in determining a criminal tax defendant’s Guideline is the dollar amount of tax evaded. While this approach seems logical at first blush, its shortcomings become quickly apparent when applied to other crimes. Imagine two armed bank robbers entering separate banks simultaneously. The bank bag handed to the first robber by the teller contains $100, which is all she has in her drawer. The bank bag handed to the second robber contains $100,000. If the amount of the loss was the single biggest determiner of the Guideline sentence, the first robber would receive a much lower sentence than the second robber for the exact same conduct. This and other problems with the role of loss calculation in federal sentencing are nicely exposed in a recent article published in the Duke Law Journal¹.
The second problem with the criminal tax Guidelines is that the Sentencing Commission purposefully made the Guidelines in criminal tax cases higher than the conduct itself deserves with the intent to put fear in the hearts of other would-be tax offenders.
To this end, the Sentencing Commission explained:
The criminal tax laws are designed to protect the public interest in preserving the integrity of the nation’s tax system. Criminal tax prosecutions serve to punish the violator and promote respect for the tax laws. Because of the limited number of criminal tax prosecutions relative to the estimated incidence of such violations relative to the estimated incidence of such violations, deterring others from violating the tax laws is a primary consideration underlying these guidelines. Recognition that the sentence for a criminal tax case will be commensurate with the gravity of the offense should act as a deterrent to would-be violators.
U.S.S.G. Ch. 2, Pt. T, introductory cmt. (1998).
The problem with this approach is that it puts undue weight on attempting to scare other would-be offenders, and therefore too little weight on other factors that are more germane to the development of a fair sentence for the individual defendant.
The result is often a Guideline sentence that is too harsh given the specific characteristics and history of the defendant and the circumstances of his offense. When this happens, fair-minded Judges see little alternative to departing downward from the Guidelines.
¹ Derick R. Vollrath, Losing the Loss Calculation: Toward a More Just Sentencing Regime in White Collar Criminal Cases, 59 Duke Law Journal 1011-1036 (2010). |
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Magic, The Memories, And You!
Disney is hosting a media event this evening at Walt Disney World. I'm sure the web will be filled with news tonight and tomorrow about upcoming events and happenings throughout Walt Disney World.
The video above demonstrates the projection test for guest photos to be projected onto Cinderella's Castle each evening as part of the "Let The Memories Begin" campaign. As I understand it, Photopass Photos will be displayed during "The Magic, The Memories, And You! show each night just prior to Wishes.
The media event tonight is part 1 of a 2 part, 2 day media bonanza. The second part will come tomorrow during the Christening of the Disney Dream. A live broadcast is scheduled for 10:30 am Eastern Time and can be viewed on the Disney Parks Blog site or the Disney Cruise Line web-site.
Will we get news about itineraries for the remainder of 2012? We can only hope! |
So I have been here for a week now and have very much settled in! The trip to Charleville on the bus was nice and relaxing… and then very bumpy. A local started talking to me on the bus and thoroughly explained to me about the atmosphere of the town, which was really insightful and helpful!
I arrived in Charleville late on Sunday night, with a public holiday on Monday and my first day of prac on Tuesday!
I visited the kindy on Monday and fell in love with it! The atmosphere reminds me of the kindy that I went to when I was a child and that allowed me to feel very comfortable in the environment. I also felt more comfortable because of the staff who were all very lovely, friendly and nice.
This atmosphere is very different to my last practicum so I can’t wait to see the differences between them in the next couple of weeks.
And then the first day of prac arrived! There are two groups of 20 children each that alternate at the kindy each week. Therefore there are 40 children names that I have to know…as well as there parents/guardians!
My first day was lots of fun as I learned so much about the children, kindy and the local community. I had 'Group B' on my first day and two other days this week. The children in this group are very vibrant which keeps all of the staff busy! There is never a dull moment in 'Group B' as every child is learning through play which can involve you or not involve you. With this group I found myself playing tennis, digging in sandpits to find dinosaur bones, building shelters, painting the cubby houses, building rivers and islands and much more hands on activities.
I also had 'Group A' for one day this week. The staff were right when they told me that there was a difference between the two groups as 'Group A' learns through play much quieter than the other group. In doing this they are still having fun and doing many similar activities to 'Group B'. As I spent more time with 'Group B' this week, I know all of the children’s names and some of the parents names.
In saying this, I know most of the children’s names in Group A and some of the parents names!
With both groups, I have found that children are very imaginative, therefore they are capable and knowledgeable as they can imagine everything. The children are inspirational as to them anything is possible! Being around the children has encouraged me to look for the different learning experiences and intentional teaching that I can do so that children can keep learning. I already have so many ideas of how to initiate the learning in a play based environment from what the children have already shown and talked to me about.
There are a couple of children between the two groups who have behaviour difficulties or other disabilities. It has been a challenge for me to come into the environment and being presented with the challenges, not knowing entirely how to handle each situation. But from subjects that I have studied, and from intuition, I know that the children and I have to follow their interests and solve matters professionally to facilitate their learning.
Apart from the children, I have also learned many things from the staff. For example about the community that I am a part of, the management of the kindy, different teaching and behaviour management styles and much more.
The staff have been wonderful in including me into the kindy and offering to pick/drop me off wherever in the town. This just shows the niceness of country people as they are opening their lives and hearts to a complete stranger. They have also allowed me to be a part of many community events that are coming up that I will volunteer in, including the primary school fete and races!
I am also learning a lot from the town. Simple things like saying hello or smiling to someone as you pass in the street is not only a nice gesture but it makes you and the other person feel appreciated. It is a different lifestyle compared to the city as it is very hot and dry, it is quiet/peaceful and the majority of the cars are utes and 4WDs! I have also learned that people in small towns have a lot of trust in each other, even if they do not know them. For example I can go into the grocery store and leave my bicycle outside, only to come back outside half an hour with it still in the same spot! I feel very safe in this town even though I am living by myself, I do not know the people and I do not know much about the community. Yet the atmosphere of the town has made me feel very welcome and comfortable!
Therefore it is fair to say that I am having a fantastic time in Charleville. I am learning a lot about local community and the children at kindy!
Talk again soon,
Read my first blog before I left for Charleville.
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A board, responsible and accountable for the strategy, culture and performance of a company, would be improved by more worker representation, experts on a panel at the Institute of Directors annual conference have said.
There is plenty of evidence that “shows clearly when workers are represented in their boardroom you get higher investment in research and development, greater efforts taken around the environment and better industrial relations", general secretary of the Trade Union Congress Frances O’Grady said.
Read more: The business case for boardroom diversity
O’Grady was joined by Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of John Lewis Partnership, who said that while John Lewis Partnership has an unusual boardroom makeup, “I absolutely agree that having directors from the work force makes a material difference to conversations”. Mayfield Added:
You get a greater balance than would exist otherwise and perspectives that wouldn’t be otherwise brought.
However, Mayfield departed from O’Grady by commenting: “It’s not a panacea, but it does make a difference. It is not impossible but needs to be thought through carefully. If you forced all PLCs to do it, it could be very difficult.”
Also on the panel was Sir Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, who praised the idea of worker representation on boards.
I’ve chaired companies in Germany that have a different structure where there is a mix of management and people from unions and it’s a cultural norm that works effectively.
You get different perceptions but common objectives. It’s taken a long time in post-war Germany to create that structure. Culturally the UK is not there yet, but what is happening is that the shareholder community is more concerned about the makeup of the board.
Carr wrapped the conversation up, stating that worker representation provides a blend of skills and experience. "But 20 years ago when I joined a board, this wasn’t on anyone’s mind. The further we go towards creating that mix, the better for business." |
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