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- The Food and Drug Administration rejected Aradigm Corp.'s inhaled version of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, issuing a Complete Response Letter (CRL) to the California-based biotech that asks for an additional Phase 3 study of the drug, called Linhaliq.
- The regulator's thumbs down doesn't come as a surprise, as it follows an advisory panel vote in early January which opposed approval of Linhaliq for a type of chronic lung infection. Still, rejection of the drug — and the costly further study demanded by the FDA — puts Aradigm in a bind.
- Shares in the biotech fell 20% Monday morning, and are down more than 75% since the stock's recent peak in late December. Aradigm still plans to submit Linhaliq for approval in the European Union, yet FDA rejection raises questions about the company's ability to fund research moving forward.
Aradigm's research efforts have focused on two inhaled formulations of ciprofloxacin: a slow release version designed for the treatment of chronic lung infections involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa in individuals with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFBE) and another aimed at management of infections in cystic fibrosis patients.
Data from two Phase 3 studies of Linhaliq in NCFBE were mixed. One, called ORBIT-4, showed treatment with Linhaliq significantly lengthened the median time to first mild, moderate or severe pulmonary exacerbation. Results from the other, ORBIT-3, was not statistically significant — although the treatment arm saw a numerical advantage.
Independent experts on the FDA's Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee were not convinced by the totality of Aradigm's evidence, voting 12 to 3 against recommending approval of Linhaliq.
In its CRL, the FDA requested Aradigm complete a third Phase 3 study testing Linhaliq's efficacy over a minimum duration of two years. The agency also asked for further study of human factors related to packaging and for additional product quality information.
Meeting those requirements will require a substantial amount of resources. As of September 30 last year, Aradigm listed $12.6 million in cash and equivalents, which it estimated could fund operations at least through 2017. Yet, the financial situation was precarious enough for the company to caution that some doubt would exist around its ability to continue as a going concern if it was unable to raise further money.
Rejection of Linhaliq means Aradigm won't receive a $5 million milestone payment from Grifols Inc. under a prior license agreement.
Aradigm said it would request a meeting with the FDA to discuss the CRL and to develop plans for a resubmission of Linhaliq as soon as possible.
"Our focus is also on the submission in the near future for marketing approval in the European Union," said company CEO Igor Gonda in a Jan. 29 statement.
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Micky Mellon has spoken ahead of Saturday’s fixture against Walsall at Prenton Park.
Mellon spoke about departures and arrivals during the January Transfer Window, Saturday’s squad, development amongst the squad and more.
Despite the busy schedule over the festive period, games now tend to be once every seven days, which gives Mellon’s players the time to prepare for upcoming fixtures.
“It gives us more time to work on things, and gives the players more time to recover. We’d rather play games, but we’re making good use of the time that we’ve got between games.”
Since the opening of the January Transfer Window two weeks ago, we have seen the departures of Ross Doohan, Dynel Simeu, Elliott Nevitt and Neill Byrne.
“We feel it’s the right time to move those players on. Dynel [Simeu] is a different one, because it was out of our hands, but the others, we thought it was the best time for both parties to pursue their careers somewhere else. They go with our best wishes, and we’ve really enjoyed working with them. But, the situation we’re in, to try and bring players in and strengthen areas that we have to, but everyone’s happy with the outcome.
“We’ll see if we have any more departures – it’s always the same. If someone isn’t playing and they want to go and play first team football, and someone has the need for someone that we have here, then the two things connect and we look at it, but that’s the way we always do it. And that’s the same way we do it with incomings – we look at areas of the team that we need to strengthen in order to give ourselves a good chance of winning games of football.
“We speak about development here all of the time, and Matt [Hewelt] has developed behind Ross [Doohan], with the help of Joe [Murphy], and we keep to our word. It’s important that everyone understands that we develop players to the point where we think that they are ready to switch in to the team, and Matt has done that, and he will be given that opportunity. He must go in there are perform and keep this club moving.
“He will play on Saturday. We trust him. He’s a good goalkeeper, and I’m pleased that he now has the opportunity to go in and show everybody how good he is.
“We are working on trying to bring people in. I don’t really like people speaking about players at other clubs, and the speculation, but I’m trying to be respectful – I wouldn’t want other managers to speak about my players. We are looking to try and strengthen this group because that’s what the demands of Tranmere are, to keep moving things forward, try to make things better and strengthen areas only with players who we believe can do that.”
Rovers currently sit in 15th place in the League Two table, four points from the play-off positions.
“We’ve always been very careful to make sure that we keep everybody on track. We knew it was a bit bizarre, to have players who are young and inexperienced – but that’s what we have with the likes of players such as Josh Hawkes, Josh Dacres-Cogley, midfield players, and Elliott too when he was here – but now we’re at a stage when we’ll keep building on that, and bring players in to compliment that.”
“We want a good player. Good players win you games. We want players who come in and do their jobs, players who you can rely on, ambitious players, players who can enhance performance. It’s all positive things. In the past, we’ve brought in players like Perkins who have had a massive impact on the season. Perkins was 38, everybody had a massive meltdown and he pushed us over the line to get promoted from midfield so we would say that that was a good signing. We know what we want to do and to achieve.
“We want players who understand that to play for Tranmere, you are expected to win games. You’ll be expected to do well in the league and to be up there, fighting. You’ll be expected to play in teams which do that or grow towards that. That’s the type of players that we want to bring here, and the type of players who the current players know that we want to bring here.
“We need people who will win us games and will push the club forwards, but as well as this, we need to keep developing players. Develop players, make them better, and moving them on when we think is the right time, to get a fee and to keep building the club up and up. When we speak to a young player, we say that we want to try and grow you into a First Team player, make you better, and help us win games.”
“I know the position that we are in, and that everyone knows that we want to kick on up the league, and I’m keeping an eye of developing players, but we’re growing towards something – wanting to score more goals, keep more clean sheets and win more games. But everything that everyone wants us to do, I do as well, but we’re always working towards that. That is something which Walsall are doing, but we’ve had 3 results from the last 4 games, 2 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat, so we need to keep trying to win games and we’re all positive here.” | <urn:uuid:c43d37a8-705e-429e-b051-6ab0638b27a3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.birkenhead.news/micky-mellon-speaks-ahead-of-walsall-game/ | 2023-09-23T16:53:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.982742 | 1,240 |
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Mohammad Alvee Rana,
The Director Of Union Limited, One Of The Largest Conglomerate In Bangladesh. Mr. Rana’s Upbringing And Schooling In Different Countries Exposed Him To Different Cultures And Languages. He Joined The Singapore National Service Immediately After Graduating From High School And Served There For Two Years Which Instilled An Incomparable Work Ethic And Strong Leadership Skill In Him. His Tremendous Service And Achievements Have Portrayed His Perspective On Life. After Completion Of His Training, He Was Assigned To The Special Rescue Unit (SRU) In The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). He Worked And Volunteered For Great Causes With Many Non-Profit And Charitable Organizations To Raise Funds To Help Build Schools, Find Ways To Provide Light In Remote Villages And Many More.
The Young Scion, Who Had Academics High On His List, Chose To Pursue Business Management As A Major In The Royal Holloway University Of London. He Always Had The Passion For Doing Different Things And Courage To Think Beyond The Usual To Show The World Their Potential. Following His Fathers' Footsteps, He Plans To Innovate New Ideas And Take The Business To A New Height, Also To Expand Operations Internationally For The Company. | <urn:uuid:bfc001b0-7446-4edc-8b73-11c8243479d6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.biscuitpeople.com/people/5985-mohammad-alvee-rana/activity | 2023-09-23T19:04:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.829432 | 387 |
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The Blanco Style Statement
What is the Blanco Style Statement? What is the defining characterstic of our woman wearer? What makes us unique?
The wearer of Blanco women's fashion is confident. The Blanco Woman is purpose defined, art outlined and character refined. She is modern, she is feminine, she is timeless, Together, you are elegant and it is always personal.
Anything is possible, especially the fact that you will get the attention you deserve. Not only because of what you wear; but because of who you are!
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Life was very different for pro football in the early 1920s. College football was king of the sport; the NFL was in its very beginning stages, much like the National League of baseball in the 1870s or 1880s.
There was no NFL draft -- that didn't start until 1936. And thus it was that Harold "Red" Grange, who had starred for the University of Illinois, was signed by the Bears to a contract less than a week after his college eligibility expired.
Imagine the feeding frenzy among NFL teams if you could do that today.
Anyway, Grange didn't play in the first Bears game after his signing, a 21-0 loss to the Packers on November 22. But four days later, on Thanksgiving, Grange suited up at what was still known as Cubs Park, and 36,000 -- the largest crowd to see a pro football game up to that time -- jammed into the ballpark at Clark & Addison to see the new sensation.
You can read a summary of what happened -- the game against the Chicago Cardinals wound up in a 0-0 tie -- at either of those links above, both written in recent years. But I thought I'd give you a bit of the flavor of the time from the Tribune recap, written by Irving Vaughn:
Red Grange the Bear is much the same as Red, the roving Illini. He swung his star into the salaried firmament for the first time yesterday at the Cub park and it blinked, not sensationally but steadily, in a hard driving but thrilling game that terminated with the Bears and Cardinals in possession of a 0 to 0 score, and with a packed house of 36,000 convinced that dollars as well as college loyalty will make gridmen fight. On the first punt that fell to him the red head zigzagged back toward the hostile goal for about 30 yards. Two others came his way in the final quarter and he brought a roar from the crowd each time, once by diving through for a 16 yard return and next for 20 yards. From scrimmage the lad who hopes to climb into a fortune by the use of cleats made thirteen assaults at the Cardinal tackles or ends. In eleven of those he showed he was Grange. In two of them he showed that even supermen can be stopped. Grange's total yardage from scrimmage was 36, his best being seven yards when he went through his right tackle in the first play after the initial kickoff. He added 56 yards in the running back of punts. He also threw six passes, none of which was completed, caught the only Bear pass that was successful, and once intercepted a Cardinal pass to break up the only touchdown threat made by the south siders.
Offense, defense, quarterback, return man (sounds like the reaction was almost like the early days of Devin Hester) -- that was fairly common in the early days of football. Even though Grange couldn't lead the Bears to victory that day, what he did lead them on was a barnstorming tour -- remember, the league was in its infancy and didn't have set schedules -- that totalled 19 games in 67 days:
While some games drew fewer than five figures, others attracted amazing crowds, such as the more than 65,000 that attended in New York and Los Angeles. Grange played in 17 games (injury kept him out of the other two), and when the tour ended on Jan. 31, 1926, he went home to Wheaton weary but wealthy, driving a new $5,500 Lincoln and wearing a $500 raccoon coat.
Grange later tried to buy part of the Bears, but George Halas rejected his offer. The ESPN link above says Grange and a partner formed a rival league, but that failed in a year, and Grange was back in the NFL, returning eventually to the Bears in 1929 for six seasons, the last two of which resulted in championships. After retirement, Grange went into the insurance business, where he did quite well, and later broadcast football games. He died in 1991, and his impact on professional football in the USA and the NFL in particular cannot be underestimated. | <urn:uuid:f7051714-8bc1-4572-9692-bda9b80ae81e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2013/11/15/5100428/wrigley-field-history-november-26-1925 | 2023-09-23T18:01:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.988849 | 847 |
Teaser Tour: The Emerald Ring by Dorine White
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Author: Dorine White
Title: The Emerald Ring
Series: Cleopatra's Legacy
Genre: Middle Grade, Supernatural, Action Adventure
Publisher: Cedar Fort,Inc
Expected Publication Date: May 14,2013
Ordinary tween life turns upside down when Ancient Egypt intrudes on modern middle school life. Twelve year old Sara Guadalupe Bogus reads about adventures, but unexpectedly is drawn into one when a mystical emerald ring that once belonged to Cleopatra becomes stuck on her finger.
A series of burglaries spook Sara’s small Ohio hometown. Concluding that the root of all the crimes is the emerald ring, Sara realizes it’s up to her and her friends, Heidi and African exchange student Kainu, to save the town and protect Cleopatra’s legacy. Filled with magic, the ring thrusts Sara into a world filled with nightmares, allows her to shape shift into an Egyptian cat and battle assassins.
The Emerald Ring Excerpt"Egypt- 30 BC
The velvet pouch hurtled across the room. Its cords whipped behind it and tangled in the servant's outstretched hands.
Cleopatra's tense voice rent the atmosphere. "Hurry, there's not much time." The horrified servant looked down at the lumpy sack resting in his palms. The queen continued, "I'm placing all my trust in you. Don't let it fall into Roman hands."
The servant's legs trembled. He knew his own life was worth nothing compared to the precious objects imparted to him.
"I will not fail you." The words fell from his lips in reverence. "Your legacy will be safe."
The queen paced the floor in determined strides. Her short black hair bobbed against a tan face. Her eyes met his. "On your life, see that it is! I'll not allow Egypt conquered so easily."
He stuffed the precious bag into his linen tunic and left the royal bed chamber. Halfway down the hallway he abruptly stopped mid stride and quickly ducked down a narrow side passage. His timing was perfect as he avoided two Roman Centurions lurking in the torch lit corridor, but he collided with one of the queen's maid servants. The wicker basket she held awkwardly in her arms wobbled and an angry hiss emanated from within its dark confines. The maid cast him a nasty look before hurrying on to the queen. He knew the queen's plan was now in motion and rushed to leave the building before the chaos began.
Just as his bare feet touched the hot desert sand the sound of running soldiers filled his ears. The deadly asp had done its job. He paused to catch his breath, pressing his back against the palace walls. The last ruler of Egypt felled by a snake. His head shook in frustration, and then he hurried on to find the royal historian and give him the first piece of the royal treasure."
The adventure of The Emerald Ring begins...
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Elia’s Birth Story
There really aren’t enough words to express how much gratitude I feel for Mary, Nichelle, and the entire Blossom staff for supporting me in bringing my sweet girl into this world in exactly the way I dreamed of. The entire journey through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with my daughter has been by far the most intense, transformative, and meaningful experience of my entire life. It has honestly turned me into a complete birth junkie.
It’s very apparent by the model of care at Blossom that this is a passion project for Mary, who is a midwife and Nichelle, an obstetrician. They actually took the time at every appointment to get to know me, answer all my crazy first time mom questions, and focus on mine and baby’s overall wellness so that we could stay low-risk and have the safest birth possible. I loved having providers that are both experts in natural birth who TRUSTED my body and my baby, but I also felt comforted knowing that if anything were to go wrong, I already had an OB who could continue my care in the hospital setting if the situation were to arise. I appreciated the fact that everything I wanted for my birth was already built into the foundation of how Blossom does things and there was no fighting for what I wanted in labor.
By the time I reached full-term, I felt SO excited and prepared to give birth. My labor was long and difficult (for me), but I had everything that I needed to get through it. I was able to bring my own comfy pillows and blankets from home. My partner had been educated through our 12 weeks of Bradley birthing classes that we had taken with Frances and was an amazing support system. Jacqueline, our birth assistant, was such a calming presence and was there feeding me scrambled eggs, protein shakes, and berries to help keep my energy up, giving me sips of their amazing herbal labor tea for hydration in between contractions, massaging my legs with the essential oils I had brought, keeping my labor playlist going strong, and generally just helping me get through it emotionally. The giant whirlpool tub was a huge relief and I was so thankful for the freedom to move around and do whatever I felt my body needed. Nichelle, who was the one who ended up delivering Elia, really followed my queues as I started to feel ready to push and gave exactly the encouragement I needed to finally get through that last stretch. Once my daughter was born, she never left my chest. They did a relatively quick examination on us both to ensure that we were doing well, and then gave us those precious first hours uninterrupted to bond as a family and love on our girl until we were ready to go home a few hours later.
Should we be blessed with more babies in the future, we will definitely be back at Blossom. I cannot recommend then enough!! | <urn:uuid:62b84a6b-6ad9-4377-af77-cc1aa2ee039b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.blossombirthcenter.com/2018/11/elias-birth-story/ | 2023-09-23T18:28:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.987605 | 596 |
The Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute, a program of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, and Pine Street Inn held an event to present the findings of a study analyzing the impact of the Community Support Program for Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness (CSPECH) on the utilization and cost of health care services. CSPECH is an innovative program through which MassHealth reimburses community-based support services provided to chronically homeless individuals residing in permanent supportive housing. Findings show that coupling supportive services like the type provided by CSPECH with permanent housing can lead to substantial improvements in housing stability and significant reductions in the utilization of acute health care services. The event also featured a former CSPECH client who shared how the program resulted in significant improvements to his life.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Registration: 8:00 to 8:30 am
Program: 8:30 to 10:00 am
Location: The University of Massachusetts Club, One Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 | <urn:uuid:8a1d4fff-bf45-49d8-b4ca-8838050b5987> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/event/estimating-cost-reductions-masshealth-homeless-support-programs | 2023-09-23T18:06:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.934104 | 200 |
Who They Are
Founded in 2011, SkySlope emerged as a leading name in transaction management software. It's built for real estate brokers and agents to help them better organize documentation and ensure compliance.
The digital transaction management (DTM) system automates many tasks, simplifying every step of the buying and selling process.
It offers fast and easy auditing, up-to-the-second tracking of all activities, compliance with state regulations, e-signature capabilities, and real-time business analytics for smarter decision making. Additionally, it integrates with several other tools, like a CRM and accounting software.
Their vision is straightforward – to keep brokers and agents connected to customers forever. | <urn:uuid:77cd68f3-cda3-41a8-9571-b8f860079c1a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bluleadz.com/case-studies/skyslope-inbound-marketing | 2023-09-23T17:48:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.937457 | 143 |
This painting is going through changes. The water has disappeared for the time being. Seagulls have been added and deleted. Shadows have been removed and sunglasses are in place. Eventually I know one of two things will happen. It will come to a point of completion or it will get a coat of gesso. That's just how it is sometimes. Like this painting, I am also going through changes. Right now the changes resemble a canvas that has been covered with gesso waiting for paint to be added. I recently retired from my job with Curicyn. While I will miss the people I worked with, I look forward to the new adventure ahead even though I'm not sure what it looks like yet. Let the painting begin. | <urn:uuid:75f96be5-9464-4b1e-8c09-372812bc4986> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bmccullers.com/bloghome/changes | 2023-09-23T18:33:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.974688 | 190 |
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Federal and Ohio Laws on Surprise Billing
January 18, 2022
Beginning in January 2022, Ohio providers and healthcare facilities will need to comply with both the federal No Surprises Act (“NSA”) and the state surprise billing law (HB 388), which are both designed to protect patients from unexpected medical bills.
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Will Federal Legislation Open Cannabis Acquisition Floodgate?
February 18, 2021
Are potential buyers quietly lobbying at federal and state levels to kick open the door to launch a new round of strategic acquisitions? Will presently pending federal legislation, the SAFE and MORE Acts, providing safe harbor for banks and re- or de-scheduling marijuana, be sufficient to mobilize into action major non-cannabis companies that previously shunned the cannabis industry due to the unknown implications of owning businesses whose activities are illegal under federal law?
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When I hear the words HABA and dexterity game I usually follow it with, “sign me up”. I may or may not own 4 different versions of Rhino Hero (ok, I do) and my kids regularly play Animal Upon Animal with me. So when I saw a copy of Flotsam Float at Gen Con this year, I was immediately intrigued.
Flotsam Float is a stacking dexterity game for 2-5 players that accommodates players as young as 6 (officially).
In Flotsam Float, players are trying to earn the most points by collecting various sea objects, stacking them on a raft, and moving said raft to a new location. On a player’s turn, they stack one of the objects at the raft’s location onto the raft. They then check the card the piece was on to see where the raft needs to be delivered to. If the player successfully delivers the raft to the location with nothing falling off, they claim that card into their score pile. Each card has a variable number of shells on it. If the raft had at least three objects on it when moved, the player can earn some bonus points.
Then the next player takes their turn in the same manner. The game ends when only one location has a piece near it. Players will count up the shells on the cards in their score pile, and the player with the most points wins.
For testing this game, my kids are only 4.5 years old, so slightly below the suggested age range for the game. That being said, they had pretty much no issues learning the rules. I did leave out the rule for scoring extra points if the raft had enough objects on it, but otherwise, they were able to play the game as is.
One of my barometers for playing games with my kids is: A. Did it cause a meltdown at any point and B., Did they ask to play it again after playing it. So on that scale, Flotsam Float was a resounding success. At no point did the kids break out into tears, and they definitely wanted to play it again. In fact, mommy joined us for the second game and my daughter helpfully explained the rules to her (mostly). They actually got so excited playing the game that they started hopping around. Which, of course, caused pieces to fall off the raft as they shook the table. Sure, strategy might not be their strong point yet, but they at least were thoroughly entertained.
For those wondering, I don’t see Flotsam Float ending up as a crossover game like, say Rhino Hero. Its footprint is much larger, and the stacking element isn’t as exciting. Not that it’s a bad game, but I also don’t see this as a game I’d play with anyone other than my kids. However, there is almost no reading involved so my kids can even play on their own now. Which is a win in my book.
Finally, I liked how the game helped to reinforce their counting skills. At the end of the game, they needed to count up the shells on the cards in their score pile. As some of the totals would get up in the 20s, this was solid math skills for them to reinforce.
Flotsam Float was a solid game that both my kids and I enjoyed playing. Sometimes, when I get the umpteenth memory game to review, I sort of dread having to play it with them. And not only because my memory sucks in those games. But with a fun dexterity element and some cool bits to play with, Flotsam Float was a win all around. I don’t give out review scores for games in this age range, because a lot depends on where your kid is at. But I can say that my kids have been playing this one constantly, and absolutely love it. They don’t even need me anymore and will teach it to babysitters and little friends. I’m not sure there is higher praise for a game in this age range than that. | <urn:uuid:8fdf77eb-9b04-46a9-a28b-d041a054de39> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.boardgamequest.com/flotsam-float-review/ | 2023-09-23T18:09:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.982078 | 850 |
How has Covid affected your SS21 range’s development & production? (delays/range cancellations/carry over…)
We are almost non affected by the Covid-19 in terms of the new range’s development and production. We have our 100% self-owned production site and R&D team with over 600 employees. At all our sites, we have implemented all the precautions and highest levels of protection to ensure everyone’s safety, in addition to the strict application of national regulations. The situation here quickly recovered from the pandemic. We’ve even released our new range one month earlier than last year.
Do you have any feedback regarding the post lockdown sales at a retailer’s level?
We have received many testimonies from our partners all over the world about how much effort and commitment has been made. It was extremely hard for everyone in the first half of 2020. So ORPC (Aqua Marina’s mother company) has implemented the solidarity plan (a series of measures supporting our dealer and distributors) since April. We are mobilizing together to enable our business to survive through these difficult economic times.
With PaddleExpo and all the tradeshows canceled in 2020, how will you connect with distributors and retailers to market the SS21 products?
It was a pity that we couldn’t meet our friends at the tradeshow. But the online B2B new product launch is also a good way to talk with our existing distributors. With the cancellation of all the tradeshows, we have invested more budget in digital marketing and e-commerce as. Obviously, people have to spend more time at home with a PC or smartphone. We always encourage our distributors and dealers to develop their digital platforms and we are happy to share experiences and best practices.
Any change to report in the bestselling SUP categories? (allround vs touring/race/waves/river/downwind/foiling…)
All-around is still the bestselling category.
Inflatables: Which new technologies & models are you implementing in 2021?
Basically, we’ve refreshed the entire look of our all-around, all-around advanced, touring, and race board. Additionally, there are loads of improvements to accessories, features, and fittings. For example, we have upgraded the standard pump in our all-around adv line to a 2.6L double action pump which is able to make the inflation 20% faster. We are implementing a new ladies specific board called ‘Coral’. It is an extremely light all-around board (10’2’’/8.6kg), with a beautiful graphic, designed for all levels of female SUP paddlers.
Versatile all-in-one platforms (SUP/FOIL/WING/WIND/SURF) are quite popular. Do you market such a model(s)? Secondly, isn’t a one-board quiver deterring people from buying several boards?
I haven’t got a chance to test all-in-one platforms, it sounds like a multi-function jacket with detachable sleeves/liner/hood plus a built-in charging system for smartphones. It’s a good try, but it isn’t deterring people from buying the basic designs, not to mention some all-around boards are doing the same job.
Please name and describe your 3 highlight pieces and items that retailers should definitely order
FUSION 10’10”: The new FUSION features a more generous volume and payload that cater to those looking for an easier ride and carrying more luggage. The comfortable diamond grooving footpad provides extra grip while the strengthened stainless steel leash D-ring ensures a safe ride in small waves.
BEAST 10’6″: Designed for use across a wide range of conditions, by all kinds of riders. The shorter models are better suited to catch some waves, while the longer wider models are aimed at heavier paddlers or families who will be paddling together on one board.
CORAL 10’2″: Meet our most fabulous board of 2021 – CORAL. A ladies-specific all-around board designed for all levels of female riders. You will love it at first glance for its unique color design that makes you easily stand out on any beach. | <urn:uuid:66faceab-ef2f-4d4b-8a1e-cd6f6800c95e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.boardsportsource.com/aqua-marina-ss21-sup-preview/ | 2023-09-23T17:15:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.927427 | 895 |
Embark on the ultimate adventure in the British Virgin Islands, where turquoise waters, secluded beaches, and warm tropical breezes await you. Sailing in the BVI is an experience like no other, where you can explore over 60 idyllic islands, each with their own unique charm and character. Whether you’re a seasoned sailor or a first-time cruiser, the BVI offers something for everyone. You can navigate the calm waters and gentle trade winds, anchor in secluded coves, and swim in crystal clear waters. You can snorkel or dive the coral reefs teeming with colorful marine life, or simply relax on a pristine beach with a cocktail in hand. With the BVI’s world-class yacht charter services, you can easily set sail and explore the islands at your own pace. Whether you want to island-hop, enjoy watersports, or simply unwind in a peaceful setting, the BVI is the perfect destination. Experience the ultimate island getaway and create memories that will last a lifetime. TOYS: 2 Stand Up Paddle Boards, 2 Underwater Scooters, 1 Wing Surf Foiling Board, 2 Floating Mats with Bimini Tent, Snorkeling Gear, Onshore Games
Cruising Area of Nomad
Nomad Crew Profile
Chef / First Mate
Karlo is an experienced and versatile skipper with 12 years of sailing experience. He has loved the sea all his life. Parents took him sailing when he was a kid and he fell in love with it. Although life had other plans for him before he could dedicate all his time only to sailing and all other outdoor activities he enjoys. Throughout his studies in Croatia and Norway and a career in sales, marketing and digital marketing Karlo used every free moment of his time to spend at sea working as a skipper, racing in regattas, race dinghies or volunteering in a race committee. Finally, in 2015 Karlo left the corporate waters and set full sails in the direction he always wanted. Since then, he has done his RYA Yachtmaster Offshore, he has skippered charter boats up to 72ft in the Adriatic, Ionian sea and the Caribbean, delivered boats up to 90ft through the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Karlo crossed the Atlantic twice, northern and the southern route and collected more than 15000 NM of sailing experience. Since his passion for sailing is only growing, this is just the beginning of his story.
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore (Commercially Endorsed)
HR Yachtmaster B-500 GT GMDSS (GOC)
ISAF - World Sailing Offshore Safety Course
ENG1 Medical Certificate
She used to work or still working during the winter time in hospitality and tourism industry as a waitress, bartender, barista and hostess. She has international experience in Mexico and Ireland, too. Therefore, coffee and cocktail making, serving and customer service skills are as natural as they can be to her. Except that, her biggest passion is cooking, dessert making and food presentation. She loves being in kitchen where she can express her creativity fully. On top of that, she holds intermediate certificate in wine and spirits knowledge and service (WSET 2, internationally recognized and standard in this industry) and at the moment is enrolled in the advanced one (WSET 3), too after which completion she hopes excel in wine knowledge and food and wine pairing
She holds two degrees in Education. She used to work or still working during the winter time as a Preschool and Primary School Teacher, English Teacher, Babysitter and Nanny. She has international experience in Russia and Ireland, too
She holds BA and MA in History of Art and has extensive knowledge of Croatian art, history, heritage and cultural sites; museums, events and tourist attractions. During her studies she used to work as exhibition curator, art project assistant manager and conservation and restauration intern in different countries (Croatia, Portugal, Russia and Ireland). She is highly responsible, adaptable and punctual. She has exceptional organizational, time management, analytical and observational skills and strong attention to detail.
WSET 2 (WSET 3 ENROLLED)
BOAT LEADER B, 30 GT
Nomad CalendarAvailableBookedHold (can be challenged)Unavailable
Nomad Reservations & Port Locations
|Start Date||End Date||Details (Holds can be challenged)|
|May 01, 2023||Nov 15, 2023||Unavailable: Mediterranean Coastline* to Mediterranean Coastline*|
|Nov 16, 2023||Dec 17, 2023||Transit: Mediterranean Coastline* to British Virgin Islands*|
|May 01, 2024||May 31, 2024||Transit: British Virgin Islands* to Mediterranean Coastline*|
Nomad Rates / weekThe prices shown are for the entire yacht for a week-long (7 nights) charter. Inquire for lowest rate.
Low price: $34,700
High price: $41,000
|Season||2 Pax||3 Pax||4 Pax||5 Pax||6 Pax||7 Pax||8 Pax|
Yacht terms: All Inclusive
An all-inclusive charter covers all provisioning and running expenses. This includes a captain and crew that is fully trained and committed to your safety and enjoyment of your trip. A chef will provide the kind of exceptional, personalized meal preparation that you would expect of a five-star restaurant. The listed rate may not include all local taxes, cruising permits, premium beverages and scuba activities. Inquire for more information.
ADDITIONAL RATE DETAILS
This vessel is in the process of becoming legal to conduct charters in the BVI. The crew are in the process of obtaining annual BVI work permits for the 2023/2024 season. BVI customs and cruising permit fees will be included in the rate. Preferred pick up is St. Thomas. BVI pick ups will be possible but limited to 7 per season.
MINIMUM NIGHTS: 5, Inquire for less
For 6 night charters, divide weekly rate by 7 nights X 6 nights. For 5 nights or less, divide weekly rate by 6 nights X number of nights.
SLEEP ABOARD: 1/2 the daily rate. Dinner ashore at client expense. Includes boarding after 4pm, welcome cocktail and breakfast the next morning and early start. Special offers do not apply to this rate, calculate prior to any discount please.
Discount of $150 per person
Includes: 7 breakfasts, 4 lunches & 3 dinners. Requires 3 lunches and 4 dinners ashore at client expense. Also see Local Fare option below.
2@$34,700 | 3@$35,550 | 4@$36,400 | 5@$37,250 | 6@$38,100 | 7@$ 38,950 | 8@$39,800
LOCAL FARE MEAL PLAN
Discount of $75 per person
Includes: 7 breakfasts, 5 lunches & 6 dinners. Requires 2 lunches and 1 dinner ashore at client expense.
2@$34,850 | 3@$35,775 | 4@$36,700 | 5@$37,625 | 6@$ 38,550 | 7@$ 39,475 | 8@$40,400
CHRISTMAS: 1-8 pax @ $48,000 - must end no later than 12/26
NEW YEARS: 1-8 pax @ $50,000 - may not start prior to 12/27
Nomad Guest Reviews
Amazing trip, we saw all of Croatia in such an amazing way. Karlo and Maria are both amazing. Karlo ensured we had fun in every port and took us to some of the most remote places we would have never seen. Maria is very had working and really looks after you every need. She is also the most amazing chef. We truly had the best holiday. Thank you!
We had an amazing week! Karlo and Maria were top botch. The boat is beautiful and all the bays we went to were secluded and beautiful! Thank you for making our trip so memorable. Tom! Wow! Thanks so much for all of the incredible meals, smoothies, wellness shots, etc. We felt like we were dining at a 5 star restaurant every day. We can´t wait to come back and sail with you the BVI´s! - Whit, Adam, Shelby, and Brian
On boat Nomad we set sail with Karlo and Maria, an amazing tale. Gourmet feasts made our taste buds sing, thanks to Maria we gained some bling. Thank you for everything!
Maria and Karlo, thank you very much for this amazing week and for all the attention you had with us. We love all the places that took us and all the experiences we gained during the week! | <urn:uuid:f2b60489-16ec-4251-ba45-61c3947eec74> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.boatsatsea.com/charter-yacht-nomad-55 | 2023-09-23T18:22:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.883101 | 2,999 |
When Republicans and even some centrist Democrats come out in opposition to raising taxes on corporations, one of the first things they'll say is that we have to remain competitive. If we raise taxes on corporations, foreign corporations will gain the upper hand they say.
I'm a firm believer that quality products and service deliver success far more than any fiscal policy does, but even if you believe low tax rates are the key to success, you should know that American companies would still pay less in taxes than their foreign competitors even if we raise tax rates as much as President Biden has called for.
If the corporate tax rate was raised to 28 percent, American companies would still pay a lower effective rate.
Industry representatives have aggressively lobbied against the proposal, which would increase the corporate tax rate to 28%, from the current 21%. The president also wants a minimum tax of 21% on overseas income, up from 10.5%. [...]
Reuters examined the effective tax rates – reflecting the actual tax payments companies reported – of 52 of the largest U.S.-based multinational firms, and then compared them to the rates paid by these companies’ main overseas competitors. The U.S. companies paid an average effective tax rate of 16% in 2020 compared to an average rate of 24% paid by 200 foreign companies that the U.S. firms named as their competitors in filings.
If Biden’s proposed tax rates were applied to the U.S. firms’ 2020 earnings, the companies would have paid effective rates averaging about five percentage points higher, or 21%, the Reuters analysis found.
Some of those who oppose higher corporate taxes may genuinely believe it will diminish American competitiveness, but for many more it's simply advocacy for rich shareholders.
You probably recall that Trump's tax cuts did not translate into more jobs or higher wages and did not even lead to higher investment in business operations. Trump's tax cuts were funneled directly to shareholders in the form of mega-mergers, buybacks and dividend payments. But raising taxes on corporations would have the opposite effect. Companies would have fewer (just slightly fewer) opportunities to enrich shareholders at the expense of everyone else including most of their own employees.
Most of our hyper-capitalistic fiscal policy including our lopsided tax system is driven by desires to protect shareholder wealth or increase it. | <urn:uuid:fa13c230-6238-4529-8b9d-8c962208d2cf> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bobcesca.com/american-companies-would-still-pay-less-under-biden-tax-plan/ | 2023-09-23T18:02:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.97978 | 471 |
“To The Great Unknown” is the group’s first album after their already released EP and numerous successful singles such as "5AM" and "Thrills" with Gameboy Tetris. The latter two tracks also reached the #1 spot on the Estonian National Radio 2 Top 20 chart.
Gram-Of-Fun has incorporated many featuring artists and friends onto this new record - the noted rapper Nublu, 2015 Estonian Idol winner Jüri Pootsmann, rapper Gameboy Tetris, Ewert Sundja from Ewert and The Two Dragons, and the local alternative lyrical hip-hop artist Sammalhabe.
See what the band has to say about the album:
Bassist Kostja Tsõbulevski: “Times of change and the future unknown were largely the core of our main idea for the album. The album title was born during a demo session, but as it happened, the track itself didn’t make it to the album. What was also ironic during our process was the war, it really powered our initial idea even more”.
Guitarist Fredi: “I’d say the main themes of the album for me are growing into yourself, melancholy, groove, and dancing. The process wasn’t easy, but it makes the end result even more enjoyable. We went through growing pains as a band, but I feel as a result we are better than ever!”
Producer Martin Kuut: “It’s like a six person quest through music to find out what exactly is Gram-OF-Fun. The mood of the album is like.. deep thought and party side by side”.
The new single from the album is “Breeze”:
“Since it’s the opening track it sets the tone for the whole album. The song itself is super smooth and has a fresh step to it - like a real breeze must and should feel like,” commented the lead singer Kristel Aaslaid.
Gram-Of-Fun will also perform three album presentation shows in Estonia:
17.11 - GenKlubi, Tartu
18.11- D3, Tallinn
19.11 - Wunderbaar, Pärnu
Gram-Of-Fun is a six-member group of friends sharing similar values in art as in life. The ensemble found its name in 2017 but its success took wing a year later in 2018. Listening to their creations, it is clear their sound is unique and the band dares to experiment with different tones and approaches. They are not afraid to shake things up, the band has touched different music styles such as funk, soul, indie, alt-pop, and electronica. The group is characterized by various co-projects and collaborations with other musicians or artists. From the very beginning, for example, their graphical designs have been created by the talented Tauri Birken (London, The Times). The band members are united by the desire to change the world of music and with their creations, make the world a happier place.
Gram-Of-Fun is: Kristel Aaslaid, Martin Kuut, Kostja Tsõbulevski, Frederik Küüts, Jaan Jaago, Mattis Kirsipuu and Dr. PhilGood. | <urn:uuid:fbcd0962-917e-43db-af3c-c7bcfffab380> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bobe.me/news/gram-of-fun-debut-album-out-now | 2023-09-23T17:00:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957502 | 714 |
The way people make purchasing decisions is not linear. In particular, the middle phase of the customer journey where they undergo research and attempt to understand the options available is chaotic and imperfect.
Our online marketing service is designed to maximise your business’s opportunity at reaching the right customers with the correct information during the research phase. Some call this Digital Marketing, SEO Services, Search Engine Marketing or Social Media Marketing. We think of it as optimising the Messy Middle, and our solution covers all of the major online platforms.
Using data and customer insight, we bring a synergistic approach to online marketing that means you are not forced to choose what type of “digital marketing” you need.
Our service is the perfect starting point for small businesses looking to begin advertising, particularly if they have traditionally relied on referrals but now find this method unreliable and limiting their growth.
Despite the speed with which online platforms continue to evolve, the underlying requirements and reasons people use them have not changed that much.
For customers, the need to quickly find a solution to their problem. For businesses, the requirement is to be seen and generate a consistent number of new customers.
Yet, with the shift online, what was relatively straightforward has been made exceptionally complex. There are now so many online marketing platforms that it is impossible to be across all of them successfully. How do you choose?
Customers are now exposed to so many options that decision-making will often feel like a random lottery. Businesses face the significant challenge of being found when customers are searching.
We quickly realised that the last thing a small business wanted was to be forced to choose between what type of online marketing support they could afford.
Our service can cover Website SEO and content development, Google Ads Management, Facebook and Instagram Ads, YouTube and Google My Business.
Every business will need a different mix depending on how customers purchase from the category and the business owners technical proficiency. The focus will change over time as the business grows.
Our role starts by bringing clarity to help you understand how everything works together. We achieve this by meeting and demonstrating using examples and live data.
For a monthly fee of $250 – $500, we will craft a strategy that fits your requirements and manage it perfectly each month with no long term contracts. Our service works perfectly for businesses with a total online marketing budget of $1000 and more.
Even with small budgets, we will work hard to create a balance between short-term product activations to capture sales now and building long-term brand equity.
We promise complete transparency on what we are doing and why. There are no hidden markups, and you will own all of the accounts yourself.
Our clients enjoy meeting with us each 3 – 6 months and reviewing the past period, discussing how it has performed for the business and then having input into the plan for the next period. | <urn:uuid:bc847c42-e27f-4b30-a3a1-8dd854804f20> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.brainierbrands.com/online-marketing/ | 2023-09-23T18:39:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.943168 | 585 |
Management of the Poisoned Patient
Over 1 million cases of acute poisoning occur in the USA each year, although only a small number are fatal. Most deaths are due to intentional suicidal overdose by an adolescent or adult. Childhood deaths due to accidental ingestion of a drug or toxic household product have been markedly reduced in the last 40 years as a result of safety packaging and effective poisoning prevention education.
Even with a serious exposure, poisoning is rarely fatal if the victim receives prompt medical attention and good supportive care. Careful management of respiratory failure, hypotension, seizures, and thermoregulatory disturbances has resulted in improved survival of patients who reach the hospital alive.
A 62-year-old woman with a history of depression is found in her apartment in a lethargic state. An empty bottle of bupro-pion is on the bedside table. In the emergency department, she is unresponsive to verbal and painful stimuli. She has a brief generalized seizure, followed by a respiratory arrest. The emergency physician performs endotracheal intubation and administers a drug intravenously, followed by another substance via a nasogastric tube. The patient is admitted to the intensive care unit for continued supportive care and recovers the next morning. What drug might be used intravenously to prevent further seizures? What substance is commonly used to adsorb drugs still present in the gastrointestinal tract?
Overdose of bupropion can cause seizures that are often recurrent or prolonged. Drug-induced seizures are treated with an intravenous benzodiazepine such as lorazepam or diazepam. If this is not effective, phenobarbital or anothermore efficacious central nervous system depressant may be used. To prevent ingested drugs and poisons from being absorbed systemically, a slurry of activated charcoal is often given orally or by nasogastric tube. | <urn:uuid:2d150930-b16a-453e-b805-2b965a792964> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.brainkart.com/article/Management-of-the-Poisoned-Patient_25185/ | 2023-09-23T17:08:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.93687 | 378 |
19 Apr November 8th: Supply Chain Strategy & Financial Metrics Keynote – Vlerick Business School, Ghent
During the Supply Chain Network 2018, organized by Vlerick Business School, Prof. dr. Bram Desmet will give a keynote on Supply Chain Strategy & Financial Metrics: The Supply Chain Triangle of Service, Cost & Cash at the Vlerick Business School in Ghent, on November 8th.
SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY AND FINANCIAL METRICS DISCUSSION TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Which financial metrics to use and how to define targets
- How to account for ‘strategy’ and ‘complexity’ when setting targets for the supply chain
- Supply chain’s role in corporate vision and strategy development
About Vlerick Business School
Vlerick Business School is an international business school located at the heart of Europe and is ranked number 1 in the Benelux for Executive Educational Programs and 19 in Europe.
More than 7.250 executives from all regions and countries join the customized educational programs on Digital Transformation, Healthcare, Energy & Financial Services or Entrepeneurship & Innovation. For more information, visit https://www.vlerick.com/en. | <urn:uuid:5beb2f62-d7bb-474f-a489-defce044b6df> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bramdesmet.com/2018/04/19/nov-8-supply-chain-strategy-financial-metrics-keynote-vlerick-business-school-ghent/ | 2023-09-23T16:45:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.892975 | 262 |
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Spam-free in 2010.
I've managed to keep up with the spammers. I continue to insist that I will not turn on "comment-moderation." I refuse to make it more difficult for anyone to participate at The Brew Lounge. That said, the pathetic spammers continue to try. Here's the thing they may or may not know. As soon as a comment comes through, I get an e-mail. Better yet, I have one of them there smart phone thingies that buzzes with every incoming e-mail. So, usually in anywhere from 12 seconds to 12 minutes I'm able to see a spam posting on The Brew Lounge, go into my little admin tool and zap it. If they come in overnight, it's one of the first things I do in the morning...zap, delete, obliterate all spam. Annoying, sure. But relatively painless for me. I realize that often times there's no real person sitting on the other end sending out these spam comments, and therefore no one reading what you are reading right here right now. But, in case there is: You might as well give up, because I'm not going to. As in 2009, there will be no spam on The Brew Lounge in 2010. | <urn:uuid:369ae33f-ba91-4a93-8926-01da62de9fc7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.brewlounge.com/2010/01/spam-free-in-2010.html | 2023-09-23T18:39:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.970075 | 268 |
I ran across this video today and it really resonated with me. I’ve watched Ash Beckham’s videos before, and she’s always funny, always clever, and always makes excellent points in her speeches. This particular one is about being closeted. Not in the strictly gay sense, but in the sense that all human beings are closeted in one way or another when we hide our true selves from the world.
At some point or another, all of us have had a moment where we’ve stepped out of the closet. We’ve taken that deep breath—heart in our throats—and spoken the truth, not knowing how it was going to be received.
Several weeks ago, I came out to my parents on two different levels. One was as a writer of gay romance. The other was as a bisexual woman.
When I was sixteen, I kissed one of my best friends while playing truth or dare. I didn’t think twice about it, because ten minutes later, I kissed another friend. One was female, the other was male, and in our group of friends, it never really mattered either way. Over the next few years, I kissed quite a few of my friends, and it never once occurred to me to wonder if it meant anything that I liked kissing girls every bit as much as I liked kissing guys.
Maybe it was because we were in theater, maybe it was because we were a tactile group, but it felt completely natural. We gave each other backrubs, we cuddled backstage, we feel asleep at parties all mushed together, we went skinny-dipping. Much as our parents feared otherwise, it wasn’t about sex, it was friendship and closeness, affection … connecting with another person. Kissing was just another part of that. Gay, straight, lesbian, bi, those words didn’t apply to what we were doing. We were friends.
So when I went off to college , started dating, and realized that not everyone felt that way, I was a little bewildered. Sure, I thought the girl in my math class was really hot, but so what? Did it really matter? Well, it turns out the rest of the world likes putting people into neat little categories like gay and straight. My boyfriend at the time really struggled with the idea of my attraction to women. He’d ask me, “are you bisexual?” and I’d shrug and say, “I don’t know, does it matter?” Well, it turns out did matter to him. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great guy, but he really needed me to define that about myself. And since I couldn’t do that when we were together, after some very excruciating soul-searching, I broke it off with him. Not just because of that—there were other reasons—but at the heart of it all was the fact that all of a sudden I was questioning something that had never been an issue for me at all. Was I bisexual? I was attracted to women, maybe not as much as to men, but definitely attracted to them. What did that mean?
Eventually, I came to a point where I decided that yes, I was bisexual. There was no grand coming out to my friends. All of them either already knew or didn’t care one way or another, so I didn’t worry about it. I considered telling my family—they were good people, I was sure they’d support me no matter what—but what was the point? I wasn’t dating any girls seriously enough to care, so why bother? If it came up at some point, great, otherwise, I didn’t see any compelling reason to create a fuss when it wasn’t absolutely necessary.
Toward the end of college, I met a girl. She was mind-bogglingly smart and driven, funny and interesting. She made me dizzy just thinking about her and we spent a whole summer flirting. We watched movies, went out for sushi, and lounged in her hot tub. We went to coffee shops and spent hours talking. I drank chai while she smoked clove cigarettes and we made busboys drop dishes when we kissed. We talked about how ridiculous labels like bisexual were and what did it matter if you called yourself gay or straight? It was all so perfect, but it was confusing, too, because we never talked about if we were dating or not, so when the guy she’d been in love with for years finally got the courage to ask her out, all of a sudden we were over. And I didn’t know if we’d ever really been in a relationship, or if she’d ever returned the way I felt. I had been picturing a future with her and then all of a sudden it was gone. I was heartbroken and lost and struggling to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. It all came together in a dizzying mess while I battled anxiety and the crippling fear of failing in a field I wasn’t even sure I wanted to go into anymore.
A few months after that, I met a boy. He was funny and quirky, and he made me feel safe. I wasn’t in love with him, but I loved his tattoos, and the way he never made me feel like he was going to break my heart. He wrote a strange, brilliant book, and I edited it for him, and didn’t realize that what I really wanted to be doing was writing my own. I doubted myself, and second-guessed myself and although I loved reading and writing, I never thought I could make a career of it. My heart didn’t break when he moved all the way across the country, but it still left me reeling. I’ll never eat a Clementine again without thinking of him, and his words, and the ink on his skin. And although it’s been a few years since I’ve talked to him, I know he’d be proud that I’m writing now.
When I met a guy online a few months later and we hit it off, I never expected anything to come of it. Sure, he looked cute in the pictures he sent me and he made me laugh when we talked on the phone, but I wasn’t looking for a relationship. When we finally met in person for coffee, I never expected that he’d wind up being the love of my life. After talking for a few hours, it felt like I’d known him forever and somewhere in my soul I knew he was going to become an important part of my life. I wasn’t ready for him and my head was still a mess, but I was smart enough to grab on tight and hold on to him. He was patient, he let me sort out the mess in my head and put all of the pieces back together. He didn’t do it for me, but he waited until I could do it myself. And even though the idea of a relationship scared me, I did it anyway. I let him into my heart, I moved in with him, and I then I married him.
Those were the smartest decisions I ever made in my life.
When I ambushed him one day after he got home from work and said, “holy shit, I finally know what I want to do with my life. I want to be a writer,” he said, “okay.” And we sat down and talked it through like we had everything else in our lives up to that point.
Over the last few years, the books I’ve read have shifted more and more to the m/m genre until now that’s almost exclusively what I read. With the rise of eBook popularity, it’s easier to buy anything you want without having to wonder what other people will think of your choice of reading material. So when someone would ask what I was reading, I’d give them a title but be vague about the content. Or at least be vague about the fact that the protagonists were both male. And when I started to write stories in that genre, I kept that quiet, too. I was elusive about what I was writing rather than proudly stating, “I write gay romance.”
It wasn’t that I was ashamed or thought there was something wrong with it, but I wasn’t quite ready to be open to the kind of scrutiny that being brutally honest would create. So I dodged and evaded until I hit the point where I was ready to send in my first short story to a publisher. My husband had known all along, so it was no surprise to him, but I took the first step out of that closet I’d created for myself, and sent the story to my best friend. And then told another friend about it. I realized that it felt a little easier every time.
So when I got the news that my story had been accepted, I wanted to shout it from the rooftops. I was so incredibly excited and proud that I wanted to blurt it out to everyone. I told everyone I knew online, most of my real life friends, but when it came time to decide if I was going to tell my family, I hesitated. My parents are wonderful, supportive people and it wasn’t that I couldn’t trust them, but there was still that tiny bit of fear there.
My friend Jordan, who I’ve mentioned before, has influenced me more than he’ll probably ever know. He came out to his family as bisexual recently, and his honesty and willingness to open himself up in order to be true to himself is something I greatly admire. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was the kind of life I wanted to lead, too.
A few weeks ago, we had my parents over for dinner to celebrate my mom’s birthday and show off the newly remodeled kitchen my husband and I spent months slaving over. After dinner, I summoned up my courage, took a deep breath, and blurted out my news. They were a little surprised, and maybe slightly confused by why I was writing stories about two men, but they rolled with it—like I knew they would—and they were proud of me.
I hadn’t planned to come out to them about being a bisexual woman, too. I am happily married to a man I plan to spend the rest of my life with, why did they need to know that I was also attracted to women? Recently though, I realized that it was beginning to feel wrong to hide that part of myself. The more I thought about it, the more it bothered me that it was a secret.
After I told my parents about my story getting published, my mom made a joke that she felt like I was coming out of the closet, and then continued on to say, “but I think I would have known if you were gay.” My heart caught in my throat and I thought, “Oh, God, this is it. This is my chance to lay it all out there. “ And so I did. I said, “Well, actually … I’m bisexual.”
So after years and years of agonizing over it, wondering if I should tell them the truth or not, I did. It was anticlimactic. I had built it up for years in my head, wondering what kind of questions they’d ask, afraid they’d be hurt that I hadn’t told them already. They were certainly surprised, mostly because I hadn’t told them until now, but of course they were supportive, and I realized how silly it had been for me to hide who I was.
Now, almost sixteen years after I kissed a girl for the first time, I know who I am. I’m a bisexual woman. I’m a writer of gay romance. And damn does it feel good to say that.
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If you are just starting your professional life, creating an estate plan might seem somewhat silly. After all, you might not yet have very many assets to protect. You also may be healthy, making an advance directive or health care power of attorney appear to be unnecessary. It is never too early to do some estate planning, though.
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'Laurie Anderson has always been a little out there. Maybe that's why she was tapped as NASA's first artist in residence.' (Braiker 2004)
'I [Anderson] try to pick things that would make people say, "I was just thinking that a couple of days ago; I didn't say it exactly like that but I had that idea."' (Howell 1992: 75)
Laurie Anderson has been known for over the past 20 years for her pioneering performance works and installations in which she has seamlessly deployed media technology. Anderson's involvement with NASA as its first artist-in-residence in 2003-04 seems, indeed, a natural progression. (1) It is, however, worth taking Braiker's quip in Newsweek seriously: what is it about Anderson's work that might seem, metaphorically speaking, 'out there', or put us 'out there'? Henry Sayre, for example, discusses of Anderson's work in terms of a notion of 'outside': 'a sense that they [spectators] are in some measure outside - or wanderers within - the very place they live' (1989: 147, original emphasis). Sayre points out that the force of Anderson's work arisen from this dislocation; the work functions through its 'chance collisions with whatever occurs at its margins' (1989: 147). Similarly, Silvija Jestrovic discusses place in Anderson's work with regard to Michel Foucault's notion of 'heterotopia' which is understood as real spaces that are fundamentally outside, '"counter-sites" to the normative conventional spaces' (2004: 26). Jestrovic argues that Anderson's performances fuse and intersect otherwise incompatible spaces, generating a 'network of "counter-sites" that include street, theatrical sites, virtual places, prisons, and cyber spaces' (2004: 26). I will explore, in this essay, the margins to which Sayre and Jestrovic refer in relation to the limits of our neuro-biological perception. It is the particular manner in which Anderson manipulates sense perception through technological mediation, engendering spheres of heterogeneity through sensory gaps, I argue, that creates what the audience experiences as a sense of 'otherness' within.
This essay analyses the way in which Anderson's work mobilises perceptual matrices to induce this sense of otherness in the audience, which cannot be elucidated merely by a psychological account. Matthew Causey, for example, discusses new media performance works through a psychoanalytic reading by referring to Freud and Lacan (2003 : 381-394). He argues that the moment when a performer faces his or her mediated other through the technology of reproduction is uncanny and can be read as 'making material of split subjectivity' (Causey 2003 : 383). The self as other in the space of technology presents an uncanny Double, characteristic of the psychological reading. While Anderson's recent performance works have been deliberately low-tech, presenting more as story-telling than as a large-scale multi-media gig, the way in which Anderson constructs stories for her solo performance is similar in essence to her other media-based, technological performance and installation works. (2) The audience feels a sense of 'unfamiliar and yet familiar' or of 'distant and yet close' when experiencing Anderson's work. This uncanny spectatorial effect is attributable to Anderson's ability to access a feeling of otherness, a resonant discomfort.
The work of Anderson therefore provides an opportunity, in the age of electronic technologies, for an alternative discussion of otherness in performance, where 'the other' usually refers to the feminine other or the cultural other, as for some feminist and NESB (Non English Speaking Background) artists in the 1990s. Otherness in those politically motivated performance works relies on a hierarchical structure that arises from binary oppositions, such as between male and female or between West and non-West, and their representational outcomes. In those schematic binaries, the Other becomes the visible, recognisable and identifiable other. The Other is only seen through a perspective of 'the same' - the male or the West. (3) Although Anderson does not overtly take up the issue of 'the other' as such, otherness in Anderson's work, on the other hand, remains unidentifiable, more elusive, and not easily associated with the binaristic 'Other.' This unrecognisable Other is therefore irreducible to the selfhood of her audience.
HETEROGENEITY AND 'INSIDE OTHERNESS'
Before analysing Anderson's work, I will briefly discuss the notions of heterogeneity and 'inside otherness' with regard to sensory gaps. The heterogeneous exists in the implosion and rupture of 'reading.' This rupture arises not because of double meanings, but due to an invisible clash of two incompatible readings. Craig Owens, for example, who analyses Anderson's work in terms of irreconcilable readings of signs, cites Yeats's well-known line, 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' (1980: 63). We cannot simply say that this sentence has double meanings, which exist side by side; nor, can we say one reading is more important than the other. There can be no dance without a dancer. This is similar to the famous image of the 'Rubin vase' that consists simultaneously of two faces and one vase. One cannot see the two faces and the vase at the same time, but neither image can exist without the other. I will examine how Anderson's performance opens up such spaces - the heterogeneous sensory space, and the heterogeneous identities of 'I' and 'you' and of 'male' and 'female.'
It is widely accepted that, neuro-biologically, our perceptions are limited. Our organs for the five senses receive external stimuli and send nerve impulses to our brain, but it is our brain that interprets these signals. (4) Sensory information about an environment in which we live does not equate with the environment itself. Our brain selectively registers incoming sensory stimuli if it can recognise them: that is, if it 'makes' the signals recognisable. All other signals are deemed unnecessary and are silenced, ignored or forgotten. The brain cannot and does not process all information from all sensory receptors.
For the self to be total, however, it needs to hide the sphere of the unintelligible in the perceptional system. Any incoherence in perception that induces a feeling of uncertainty is treated as abnormal. Our perception is controlled and biased in order for us to construct a subjective totality from scattered sensory information. If, then, this totality is formulated through sensory understandings, it is a type of perceptual creation. Because of the gaps in our perception, this totality of being also has some holes in it. A neuro-biological self contains ambiguities. Our cognitive system, in mainstream neuro-biological terms, has space for uncertainties. In this way, cracks start to appear in the monolithic being. In the cracks, that which is unknown to the self continues to persist, while being unintelligible. A sense of 'inside otherness' exists at the sensible and intelligible limit of our sensorium.
Recent studies of perception reveal a more complicated situation than that explained by traditional neuro-biological readings of it. Susan Buck-Morss uses the term 'synaesthesia' to identify 'the mimetic synchrony between outer stimulus (perception) and inner stimulus (bodily sensation, including sense-memories)' as the most important factor of 'aesthetic cognition' (1997 : 389 n53). Synaesthesia is a complex term, but is often used to describe a sensation in one part of the body produced by a stimulus applied to another part. It can also connote the use of metaphors in which terms relating to one kind of sense-impression are used to describe sense-impressions of other kinds. Buck-Morss, on the other hand, in deploying the term, directs our attention to the manner in which technological intervention in perception can connect with internal images of memory and anticipation, not only other contemporaneous sensory experiences, as in a strictly neuro-biological understanding of the synaesthetic system.
Our cognitive system through perception has been complicated by technological intervention. Our senses have been extended by a technologically virtual world as in McLuhan's notion of media. Today, digital communication technology has greatly expanded the power of the technological 'eye' and 'ear': a new space of vision and audition has emerged. Cameras as a technological eye, for instance, have given us images of things that were not perceivable otherwise. It can capture the moment of the body being torn to pieces by an explosion. The artificial eye of a photograph can function outside of human sensitivity. That is, photography can perform outside a synaesthetic relationship between our bodily and cognitive experiences.
Our living environment consists of technologically manipulated sensory signals. Our five senses, in the media age, do not always receive signals that come from the same place and time of dispatch. Watching world news on television, for example, is a spatio-temporal collage. One's vision is extended to the other side of the world through telecommunication while one's body remains at home. These spatial and temporal gaps operate outside the ordinary system of our perception. Yet, we maintain a sense of coherence when we face them. The need for coherence is why we unconsciously switch between seeing a television set as an object and as a window on the world. It is very difficult, almost impossible, to see a television set or a telephone as a device when one is immersed in the television images or in a conversation with someone on a telephone. We oscillate between different modes of perception when we relate to media devices.
It is clear that Anderson is very aware of this mediated technological mosaic. (5) Jacqueline Burckhardt describes Anderson's work in terms of multiplicity:
Treating everyday life as a playing field of experience and inspiration, she uses her finely honed ability to restructure perception and channel it into multiple events, involving words, sounds, and images. There is no single-minded vantage point that forms her investigations and leads to linear creation; nor has her work settled into conveniently defined phases and periods. (1997: 153)
According to Burckhardt, Anderson's performances and installations create a 'dreamlike suspension' in the field of multiple events (1997: 156). I would like to discuss how, in the moment of suspension, the sphere of the heterogeneous unfolds, evoking the experience of an 'inside otherness' in the audience. Anderson claims that '"communication" is nothing to do with actual communication and much more to do with alienation [...]' (Smith and Smith 1995: 37). A non-psychological understanding of Anderson's remark allows us to see how this 'alienation' can be constructed as a result of the fragmentation of perceptional modes. I will discuss these points in detail below.
SYNAESTHESIA AND HETEROGENEOUS SENSORY SPACE
The heterogeneous sensory field of multiple events is created both through Anderson's sensuous use of technological mediation and through her manipulation of signs, which confuse the ordinary system of perception and synaesthesia with a technological intervention. Anderson treats technological mediation as an essential and integrated part of her performance work and, therefore, it is not merely a source of performative enhancement or a decorative device. In Anderson's case, mediated forms and modes are used to rearrange our sensory systems.
Anderson's use of technology separates our senses and reunites them in a different order. By taking advantage of the complex relationship between perception and communication, Anderson exploits the disjunction between representation and presence. In her 1986 performance film, Home of the Brave, Anderson plays a tape bow violin. (6) A strip of recording tape on which the voice of William Burroughs is recorded is mounted on a violin bow, and when Anderson runs it across the violin bridge with a magnetic playback head, it plays Burroughs's voice. Anderson incorporates the recorded voice of Burroughs in a way that confuses the anticipated relationship between what we see and what we hear. We see a performer playing a violin on a stage, but the sound we hear is different from expectations on the basis of what we see. The physical presence of Anderson playing a violin is confounded by the repetitive electronic voice of Burroughs. Throughout the production, Burroughs's existence is suspended between disembodied voice and silent body, the recorded and the live. He is deprived of full presence. In one scene, he can be heard but not seen as described as above. In another, he can be seen on the stage but his voice cannot be heard. Anderson technologically interpolates these fragments of Burroughs into her performance. Yet the performance functions as a seamless and integrated, though perhaps unnatural, whole between vision and audition through technological manipulation, and also between Burroughs and Anderson.
As discussed, we 'make up' meaning, or elicit necessary information out of scattered signals. A biological being needs to detect meaningful signals from its visual and sound environment, or for some, from their odoriferous or tactile environment. We do our best to find some meaning, any meaning, in the world around us. In order to perceive anything it is necessary to interpret these signals. We can guess the entire picture of a jigsaw puzzle before it is finished. If we have a conversation in a noisy place, we do not have to hear every word to make sense of it. We fill in the gaps. Phone sex, for example, exploits these gaps. Allucquère Rosanne Stone asserts that in commercial phone sex 'client and provider mobilize erotic tension by taking advantage of lack' (1995: 95). The customer fills in the missing sensory information of vision, smell and taste, through verbal tokens offered by the provider. A kind of fantastic, synaesthetic whole is momentarily evoked for specific, established purposes.
Cross-sensory effects in Anderson's work are complex. In Home of the Brave, discussed above, Burroughs's recorded voice was juxtaposed with the performer playing a violin. If there were merely a recorded voice, the audience could compensate for the lack of Burroughs's body by imagining his presence. But, because Anderson was ' playing' Burroughs's voice, the audience could not use known procedures for filling sensory and cognitive gaps. Instead, the performance generated a kind of dislocation, or an implosion between vision and audition while rendering a mediated reality sensuous - that is to say, literally 'of the senses.'
What Anderson does in performance work is to slip technology into a gap between the digital and analogue nature of our communication, making us experience a mixture of the two modes of communication via media devices. (7) Digital elements, such as words or images in her work, are often transformed through a sensuous use of media technology so that the non-analogue elements induce a particular sensitivity to the texture of performance. Paradoxically, the disembodied informs the 'liveness' of the embodied: the technological mediation itself begins to take on life. The performance itself became a kind of a live organism. Anderson describes her work with the term 'the electric body' (1994: 174-181). Philip Auslander discusses the performative moment as itself a 'cyborg', a fusion of human and machine (1992: 30-42). The 'cyborg-ness' of Anderson's performance is more subtle and cunning than the popular-culture concept of the cyborg, as in the film The Terminator. She doesn't simply juxtapose the body and technology, or use technology as a substitution of the body, but plays with our capacity to 'make up' meaning in sensory gaps by mimicking a kind of experiential embodiment. Amelia Jones aptly describes Anderson's work as creating a 'technophenomenological body' (1998: 17).
Another way in which Anderson creates a synaesthetic and heterogeneous sensory field of multiple events is on the basis of her understanding of the problematic of 'signs.' On one level Anderson's work is, as Jen Budney describes, 'the art of the unseen (thoughts, dreams, memories, and hallucinations) and the doubly-seen (ambiguous signs, misread cues, and multiple interpretations)' (1997: 160). Owens pointed out that her performances deal with the 'illegibility' or 'unreadability' of signs. For example, in Americans on the Move, Anderson made a remark about the emblazoned images on Apollo 10 spacecraft - 'a nude man and woman, the former's right arm raised at the elbow, palm proffered' (Owens 1980: 60). Her comment was, '[i]n our country [United States], good-bye looks just like hello' (Owens 1980: 60). Owens argues that the artist is not concerned with ambiguity, with multiple meanings engendered by a single sign; rather, two clearly defined but mutually incompatible readings are engaged in blind confrontation in such a way that it is impossible to chose between them. (1980: 61, original emphasis) (8)
Anderson, as a media artist, addresses 'illegibility' on various levels of vision, audition, texts and the performance body although they are very much mixed in the actual work. To understand this, one could think of calligraphy. Calligraphy can make us reconsider the gap between 'reading' and 'seeing' because one's attention in a work of calligraphy moves between both modes. The heterogeneity inherent in calligraphy illustrates sensory and cognitive gaps that would otherwise be ignored. Anderson works in this area of heterogeneity between reading, seeing, and listening, evoking complex responses but at the same time creating an additional reading of 'complexity.' She does this by confusing the intertwined relationships between sign, meaning, agent of action, and referent by taking out one of the four elements, or by changing the order between the four in the ordinary sign system, or by mixing them with a different element from another sign. For example, in Handphone Table in 1977, she presented an installation with a table, and described the set-up as follows:
[the table] had some speakers inside and powerful drivers that sent the sound up some steel rods into the surface of the table, so that when you put your elbows on it and your hands over your ears it was like putting on a pretty good set of headphones, using the principles of bone conduction. (Anderson 1997: 132)
In this piece, Anderson manipulates a deliberate clash of sign and meaning between hands and speakers with the sound as an agent of action. This work also plays on a relationship between texts and meaning with the speaking voice. She uses a line from a seventeenth-century English love poem by George Herbert which reads, 'Now I in you without a body move' (Anderson 1997: 132). The sound is stereo with some extreme panning. The words move back and forth slowly between the ears. The text's metaphysical meaning became a literal one. It was, in a sense, a Surrealist work in three dimensions in real time.
In the violin piece in Home of the Brave, Burroughs's voice changes its tone according to how fast Anderson moves the recording tape violin bow. His voice is sometimes recognisable and sometimes not. It moves between enunciation and enunciated, listening and hearing. The writer's voice is a signifier disconnected from the real referent, Burroughs, and pasted to a different referent, Anderson. It is experienced as an undecidable identity between the two. Anderson's performance problematises the unity of identity in relation to a sensory 'gestalt.'
HETEROGENEOUS IDENTITY AND ANDERSON'S MEMORY EFFECTS
Anderson's work on the theme of identity is distinctive in the sense that she keeps her cool - she avoids expressing the anxiety of the 'narcissistic' self, the usual approach taken by many artists working on themes of subjectivity, identity and 'otherness.' Jestrovic examines Anderson's work through the Bakhtinian notions of dialogicity, which understands a text as an 'amalgam constituted through the voices of others', and heteroglossia, which refers to a condition in which 'the totality of a work is expressed as a combination of author's voice, the speeches of the narrators and characters, and the included genres' (2000: 2 and 7 n 17). Anderson's way of dealing with the notion of identity maintains its coolness and distance because of these structural complexities and her incorporations of questions about the illegibility of signs in the technological-sensory matrix. Anderson herself is quite comfortable with ambiguous, contradictory meaning. As Anderson says, 'I'm probably just a regular schizophrenic. But I still do feel that I can see the social self I've created and watch it go through its required motions' (Howell 1992: 80).
Anderson's tendency toward dissociation from herself is instrumental in development of her work. For example, in a piece in the 1970s, she deliberately confuses her life with art history. Anderson confesses that, 'I would drift off and have dreams that mixed my personal life with art history. I'd get them very deeply confused […]' (Howell 1992: 41). In other cases, she uses this tendency to create 'alter-egos/surrogate speakers' to say something that she would not otherwise say. Referring to a sound installation work, for example, she says that '[w]riting the parrot's speeches [in the installation] was like finding a whole new voice - a voice that really didn't sound like me and it didn't have much to do with the way I think' (Anderson 1997: 129).
Anderson, however, understands that the self does not consist solely of appearance. There are many unknown elements in the self. She explains that, 'I feel a desperate need to get out of myself' (Howell 1992: 22). Anderson's performance personae are presented as her actual self, leading some commentators to regard Anderson's work as autobiographical. But she denies this equation: 'I have never really been an artist who is interested in self-expression or autobiography' (Anderson in Solomon 2005). Anderson is, however, open to considering how fictional autobiographical material might lend itself to a confusion of selves, hence the necessity of reminding the audience, as she does in this interview, that 'autobiography' is a position, a point of view, a tool:
[I]t's easy, understandably, to mix up autobiographical work with fiction because I use the words 'I' and 'you' though not meaning myself at all. Of course, like any fiction writer, you try and put yourself into that point of view while you're writing a certain story or song, but it doesn't necessarily mean that, once you stop writing, you actually had anything to do with that. It's an act of faith and imagination to be that particular 'I' jumping into somebody else's skin. It's just a device. (Smith and Smith 1995: 35)
Anderson hides herself behind the performance persona. Instead of autobiography, her work could better be described in terms of the strategic use of 'alter-egos.' This becomes apparent when she uses voice-altering technology that enables her to create a vocal persona with a deep alto, a coercive and commanding voice. While this persona is presented as an alter ego, it is equally clear it is not - neither is it a mere male personification, nor simple androgyny. The difficulty of defining the function of such 'alter-egos' reveals something about the instability of identity.
There are conceptual gaps in the formation of one's identity. Some scholars have looked at the ambiguity of the notion of identity by analysing certain linguistic terminologies. For instance, Naoki Sakai illustrates an obscurity within the us/them dichotomy in English. 'Our' thought may be definitely different from 'their' thought, but there is no guarantee that 'our thinking is either adequate to our world or immediate to us' because language does not equate with the world (1991: 13, original emphasis). Indeed, the word 'we' often pretends to integrate some people but, in return, silences them, i.e., there is no unity in this word. In this sense, 'we' are not necessarily a 'universalised' me, and 'I' am not a 'particularised' us either (Sakai 1991: 19). There are always disjunctions within language. A collectivity that is considered to be consistent and homogenous does not exist. A general notion of identity in both the collective and individual sense is, in fact, ambiguous. What happens is that, for the formation of the internal self, a certain discrepancy between the 'inside' and the 'outside' is created. It conceals conflicts and disorder within the experiential matrix. Thus, one forgets the fact that one constantly experiences disruptions of the 'self inside.'
Paul Ricoeur analyses the problematics of the formation of identity in a different manner. In traditional notions of identity, according to him, sameness of the self prevails. He clarifies this through separate terms of 'numerical' and 'qualitative' identities, and also the idea of the 'uninterrupted continuity'of the same individual (Ricoeur 1992: 116-117). The first notion of identity corresponds with the notion of identification, 'understood in the sense of the reidentification of the same'; 'the same' repeats itself n times (Ricoeur 1992: 116). The second is of 'extreme resemblance.' It is a notion of substitution without semantic loss. Ricoeur's third notion of identity is about no change of the individual in time. '[W]e say of an oak tree that it is the same from the acorn to the fully developed tree' (Ricoeur 1992: 117). In this approach to identity, the structure suppresses the event; universalism wins out over particularism. In other words, identity ignores the uniqueness of the self as a singularity, specific to time and place.
The spectatorial experience of 'inside otherness', which Anderson's performance induces, may result from her manipulation of identity in terms of the function of memory trace and synaesthetic response. John Howell points out that '[m]uch of [Anderson's] work and casual conversation begins with "I remember''', indicating, according to him, a recurrent theme of memory in Anderson's work (1992: 17). The artist also claims that she is 'trying to understand how memory worked' (Howell 1992: 44). Howell has concluded further that 'Anderson constantly recycles her own past to create a fluid, dynamic sense of past and present' (1992: 17). Anderson, however, not only cuts and pastes her own memories and experiences into a story, but also the memories of others - 'she has been known to adapt the stories of others and present them as the experience of the 'I' who speaks in her performances' (Howell 1992: 17).
A memory can affect one's present experience. What happens when we are forced to accept someone else's memory as our own? Ricoeur discusses the idea of the mnemonic trace that forms the quasi memories of our own past experiences: '[m]emory can then be held to be equivalent to a cerebral trace' (1992: 133). If we substitute for one's own memory the notion of mnemonic trace, one is able to create a replica of a memory in the brain of someone else. This can induce us to feel the uncanny presence of something other in the self - something that persists of the 'other's' identity. What is important here is to understand that the mnemonic trace authorises the specific connection between past experience and present experience.
Anderson's performance functions by complicating the 'known' self in terms of mnemonic blank-spots and perceptual gaps, in which the perception of the external stimulus does not evoke the internal images of memory and anticipation. She uses the dislocation between vision and audition, which creates for the audience a moment of perceptual vertigo, while presenting it in the form of a 'strange-yet-seamless' integration with the aid of technological mediation. Her work is a completion of the incomplete, a presentation of a totality where there is none - a mutant or a cyborg. This quasi-totality is important, preventing an immediate rejection by the audience. The spectator feels safe and comforted and at the same time experiences a shock of dislocation because Anderson has effectively driven a wedge between identity and the totality we form from sensory input. The self is revealed to be constructed by unreliable and changeable components, including memory. Anderson gives her audience an experience of being lost in the world they live in, felt as a hollow in the self, that is, an 'inside otherness.' This sense of inside otherness works through overlaps, splices, and mis-readings at the edge of our perceptual and cognitive abilities. Questions around this kind of productivity at the sensory periphery, where it contacts, merges with, and is defined by its environment, could help to explore a new model for analysis of technologically mediated performance and its engagement with 'the Other.'
I would like to thank Meredith Morse for her critical insights and constructive comments that have greatly assisted the development of this essay.
(1) The residency was part of the NASA Art Program with a stipend of $20,000. Anderson was the first and the last as the program was 'scratched out' (Anderson in Solomon 2005).
(2) Her latest show, The End of the Moon, an outcome of the NASA residency, to be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February and March 2005, is a solo performance that consists of the spoken word, songs and music in an intimate and low-tech setting.
(3) For Emmanuel Levinas, this is an injustice to what is irreducibly other, ignoring that there is an inseparable and interwoven relationship between 'the same' and 'the other', which cannot be discussed dichotomously. Levinas uses the idea of 'face' to talk about the irreducibility or alterity of the Other (1979). What Levinas suggests is that in a 'face to face' situation one faces a direct appeal before perception and outside of its reduction to representation. The singularity of the face of the other exceeds the power of assimilation by 'the same.'
(4) Paul M. Churchland, for example, shows how 'recurrent pathways in the recognizing network', through which recognition emerges, mask perceptual ambiguity (1995: 105).
(5) Causey in his earlier writing argues that technologically-mediated performances, including the work of Anderson, present a 'para-performative tele-theatrical phenomenon' in which 'the immediacy of performance and the digital alterability of time and space through technology are subsumed within each other' (1994: 61). My intention is to examine how Anderson's work with this kind of performance structure induces an uncanny effect outside a psychological reading.
(6) This work evolved three times. According to RoseLee Goldberg, 'it began as Mister Heartbreak in concert (and as a recording), became the movie (and soundtrack) Home of the Brave, and later a tour, Natural History' (2000: 111).
(7) Regarding the distinction between the two modes of communication, I use the following explanation by Arthur D. Shulman and Robyn Penman: 'Digital coding always consists of discrete units (such as words) whereas the analogue form is continuous (like laughter). The difference is the same as that between a conventional (analogue) watch and a digital one: the former represents time on a continuous dimension (the circular watch face); the latter represents it as discrete numbers.' (1981: 59)
(8) Owens's observation appears to be valid, given the artist's own comment when she says: 'I love that bathroom piece where an artist just changed the men's and women's room to 'us' and 'them', and nobody knew which one to go into. Who are 'they'? 'They' are the enemy, usually.' (Howell 1992: 36)
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AQE 2022 Preview video
The organisers of AQE 2022 are delighted to announce that this year’s event will take place live at the Telford International Centre on 12th and 13th October. In common with previous AQE events, visitors will be provided with a comprehensive package of training and development presentations on the latest regulations, standards, test methods and monitoring technologies involved with the measurement of air quality and emissions to air.
Both AQE and the co-located WWEM (Water, Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring) programmes are supported by a comprehensive range of seminars, and two major international exhibitions featuring most of the world’s leading suppliers of environmental monitoring equipment, analytical testing instrumentation and support services.
Registration for both AQE and WWEM is free and available from www.ilmexhibitions.com. By registering prior to the event, visitors will be entitled to free parking, free refreshments and complementary access to both events.
The two main components of AQE are air quality (indoor and outdoor), and industrial emissions. The air quality programme has been configured by Jim Mills, a well-known figure in the sector and now and independent consultant with Scotswolds Ltd. Presentation titles, abstracts and author details are published on the AQE website, but the main themes are described below.
Speakers from government/regulators will summarise the implications of the Environment Act 2021 with regard to ambient air quality, explaining the targets and timelines that have been specified. For example, the Act establishes a legally binding duty to bring forward at least two new air quality targets in secondary legislation by 31 October 2022. The proposed targets relate to PM2.5 with a 2040 objective, which is a concern for many stakeholders. These issues will be addressed by subsequent speakers from philanthropic organisations which are engaged in air quality matters by funding research, undertaking monitoring and other initiatives, whilst also lobbying policy makers, seeking to improve environmental legislation and hold the government to account.
There will also be presentations by the UK’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG), which provides advice to the UK government, and from NPL, the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, who will outline the latest work on the standards and methods that underpin air quality science.
A speaker from the QUANT programme will describe the findings of a real-world open and traceable assessment of low-cost sensors and sensor networks, and their calibration, and others will focus on the measurement of Black Carbon, and also how CO2 measurements can contribute to source attribution and to the calculation of emissions indices. A potentially game-changing project will also be described, in which air quality monitoring networks are being hosted by existing cellular communications network infrastructure.
In the past, there have been concerns that monitoring and modelling have been regarded as almost separate methods for the assessment of air pollution, but speakers will outline the case for greater integration. Monitoring should be used to calibrate and verify modelling predictions, and recent advances in low-cost sensors mean that greater spatial density of monitors can be deployed to enhance the reliability and granularity of modelling predictions.
In the general media and in the minds of the public, air quality and climate change are frequently represented as the same environmental problem. However, not all air pollutants have a greenhouse gas effect, and greenhouse gases are not usually toxic. Nevertheless, local air quality strategy is often separate to local climate change strategy. This might be because they may have separate budgets in both central government and local authorities, but this session will explain why both strategies should be combined. For local authorities, the greatest impacts on both air quality and climate change come from planning and development, so it is vital that these issues are addressed in the planning process.
While it is important to reduce outdoor pollution, it is even more important to protect the quality of indoor air. When people meet indoors, carbon dioxide levels increase, and it is well known that this can cause drowsiness and harm the performance of office workers and schoolchildren for example. However, the Covid pandemic further highlighted the importance of ventilation because the concentration of airborne infectious aerosols also increases in populated rooms with inadequate ventilation. Speakers will therefore describe a government pilot study in which CO2 and particulate sensors are being used to monitor ventilation in schools.
The regulations, standards and methods relating to the measurement of industrial emissions have been a key feature of all AQE events and the MCERTS events before that. AQE 2022 will continue to address this core issue with an additional focus on the role of monitoring in the fight against climate change.
The Environment Agency will set the scene with a presentation on relevant regulations, after which the Environmental Services Association (ESA) will outline a strategy for the recycling and waste sector to meet Net Zero. Both of these presentations will be given with particular reference to the monitoring requirements. One of the speakers will also address the challenges of monitoring biogenic and fossil carbon emissions, because global initiatives are under way to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an increase in the use of fuels of biogenic origin as a replacement.
Carbon capture represents an important opportunity to lower carbon emissions; however, amine solvents are used in some carbon capture processes, which can react to form new compounds within the plant’s emissions. Rod Robinson from NPL will therefore summarise current research projects and the requirements for monitoring amine emissions. There will also be presentations on continuous sampling, with help and guidance from an operator’s perspective.
The second day of the AQE emissions monitoring programme will focus on data acquisition, handling and reporting. The final session will be a panel discussion, addressing all or any of the subjects covered by the emissions monitoring programme.
Summarising the plans for these two events, Marcus Pattison says: “It is tremendously exciting to be able to run a physical event again. This year the volume of available content is incredible – I would urge everyone to plan their trip very carefully so that they can jump in and out of their sessions of most relevance, to maximise the benefit of their visit.
“Can I also ask everyone to REGISTER NOW at www.ilmexhibitions.com – it’s free and only takes a few seconds. Registered visitors will be entitled to free parking, free entry, free lunch and refreshments, but most importantly, they will be provided with free access to all of the presentations (both AQE and WWEM), both exhibitions and all of the seminars and workshops that will take place!
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If you’re looking for a cheap hotel in Southampton, you should consider visiting during the low season. You'll find cheaper accommodations in Southampton in January and February.
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Book at least 77 days before your stay begins to get the best price for your Southampton accommodation.
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If you're planning your first trip to Southampton, you should consider staying downtown. There are several downtown hotels in Southampton, such as the 4-star Mercure Southampton Centre Dolphin Hotel, the oldest in the city, which still retains many original features. Key attractions such as SeaCity Museum, Tudor House & Garden and Southampton City Art Gallery are all within walking distance.
If you prefer a boutique hotel, The Pig - in the wall is a great central option. It features 12 shabby-chic bedrooms and an on-site deli as well as only being a 15-minute walk from Southampton Central train station.
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What are the best budget hotels in Southampton?
For travellers looking for a low-cost place to stay, there are several hotels in Southampton to choose from. Ibis Budget Southampton Central has light and modern rooms with free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs. It’s a 4-minute walk from the train station as well as being close to shops and the medieval city walls. Days Inn Southampton Rownhams has free Wi-Fi and free parking as well as on-site restaurants. It’s close to Southampton Docks and just off the M27 motorway, giving quick access to the city centre and airport.
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If you’re looking for hotels in Southampton with business facilities, Jurys Inn Southampton is a good option. The hotel has 9 meeting rooms of various sizes, as well as a room that can accommodate up to 120 people. If need be, the meetings team can assist with the organisation of events. The hotel is in the heart of the city and only a 15-minute walk from the railway station.
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What in the world do seeds have to do with a wedding chapel? Well, this Sunday is seed swap day!
One of our brilliant and very capable brides, Raeshel, came up with the idea to do a seed/plant swap at the chapel, and it's happening! This Sunday from 1-4p, we'll have a smattering assortment of seeds to trade/buy/bargain with and we hope some other folks will bring their seeds to share as well. With the world changing as it is, the concept of growing our own fruits and veggies just makes sense. Also, another bride, cattle-girl Donnica, is planning to be here to participate as well. We hope we have some folks show up, but if we don't, we'll just swap amongst ourselves. We'll have some light refreshments and hopefully learn from each other in the process. I was going to brin my heirloom cucumber seeds, but then found out yesterday that they're supposed to be planted THIS WEEK for our fall garden, so they're off the table. See how fast the merchandise is already going!?! Hope to see you at the chapel for this fun, experimental event.
Otherwise, life is good in chapel land. Fortunately, Jeff Kelley's team was able to come out yesterday and fix the hose bib which landed us a $382 water bill from leaks. Mrs. Boss kept saying we needed to get it fixed.... Now I believe her. Wise. Always wise.
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Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind: Part 2
On Jan. 11th, I completed my second advance manuals speech for Toastmasters at CSUSB. My speech was entitled, “Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind: Part 2.”
I was meeting with the advisor of Toastmasters a few weeks before Christmas break at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). During those weeks, we went over my previous speeches, and she suggested that I re-do my previous speeches, but make them better.
The first speech I presented was the original “Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind,” which was Nov. 4th 2015. During this speech, I gave a brief overview of my experience with cancer. It was the first time I spoke about my experience to an audience.
Fast-forward to Jan. 11th 2017, it was time for me to really step up because this is how I want to make a living. I could honestly say “Nothing is More Powerful than a Made up Mind: Part 2” is the best speech I’ve presented since I joined Toastmasters at CSUSB in 2015.
Check out my Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind: Part 2 speech video here: http://www.calmandstrong.net/videos
I made a video slideshow to go along with my speech. It consisted of many pictures from the time frame from 1999 to 2013. During this time frame, I was diagnosed with cancer two-times, attended three educational institutions, made the newspaper two-times, played sports and was inspired by entertainment media (music and a videogame).
For instance, I was sick with knee cancer (right knee) at 14 years old and I made the Silverado High School Junior Varsity basketball team. I made the Victorville Daily Press newspaper two-times and when I got sick again with knee cancer at 17 years old, I became a hip amputee.
Within the slideshow video, I also had pictures from entertainment media that inspired me to believe “Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind.” They are music artist’s Nas and The Pharcyde and the inFAMOUS videogame franchise and superhero Cole MacGrath.
My plan was to play the video while I was speaking about my experiences and realities with cancer.
Check out my PowerPoint Presentation: Part 2 Slideshow Video here: http://www.calmandstrong.net/photos
When it was my turn to speak, the video wasn’t working and I had to do my speech without it. Once I realized I couldn’t use the video, it lit a fire within me that gave me confidence. I believed that I didn’t need the video to help tell my story because I know the material.
I started my speech with a quote from Nas:
“When everything around me got cloudy, the chair became a king’s throne, my destiny found me. It was clear why the struggle was so painful. Metamorphosis, this is what I changed to and God, I’m so thankful.”
- Nas, You’re Da Man, Stillmatic
When I said that quote, I felt I had the audience’s attention, and I spoke about the ups and downs I was forced to overcome. For instance, I first got sick with Stage I cancer at 14 years old and only attended the first week of my freshmen year at Silverado High School (Victorville, CA).
I had to get a knee replacement while doing chemotherapy treatment, and returned to back to high school my sophomore year. I made the junior varsity basketball team my junior year, and during my senior year the cancer came back in my right knee at Stage IV.
While doing my chemotherapy treatment a second time, the cancer had traveled to my right lung. A needle biopsy was used to take the cancer off my lung, which was a success.
Since there was nothing further doctors could do, I had to get my right leg amputated (Hip amputee) and now could only walk with a prosthetic leg . I got my leg amputated in 2003, but it wasn’t until May 26th 2009, when the original inFAMOUS videogame was released and changed my life forever.
I spoke about my connection with the main character: superhero Cole MacGrath. For example, Cole was an ordinary bike messenger delivering a package, and the package exploded leveling six square blocks of Empire City. Cole was at the center of the explosion, alive, but changed and forced to control electricity.
I connected with that part of his story the most because I was an ordinary teenager, then I found out I was forced to have knee cancer at 14 years old.
During my speech, I said, “I felt I knew what Cole was going through when electrical superpowers were forced upon him, because I was forced to have knee cancer twice during my teen years.”
“The game helped my make a decision: to think positive and do something to help myself; or stay in a dark and depressing place because I didn’t have control of my situation.”
I was in Loma Linda Hospital (Loma Linda, CA) hooked up to an IV pole with my Grandmother and Uncle by my bedside; like Cole (inFAMOUS video game franchise) who was also in the hospital hooked up to an IV pole with his girlfriend Trish and best friend Zeke by his bedside.
In 1999, this photo was taken of me when I was 14 years old, and this image I lifted from the original inFAMOUS, which came out in 2009.
Towards the end of my speech I said, “How inFAMOUS Saved my Life: The inFAMOUS franchise showed my whatever happened to me in the past cannot be changed, but I have the choice to do something about my future.”
“The game gave me everything I’ve been looking for ever since my right leg got amputated at 17 years old. I FINALLY found something I could relate to with Cole’s inspirational story.”
I also spoke about my accomplishments: I graduated from Victor Valley College (Victorville, CA) with an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts, with an emphasis in journalism in 2008.
I finished my undergraduate studies at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Minor in Africana Studies in 2012.
I concluded my speech by saying, “From my experience, I’ve learned it’s important to have a plan and not run away from problems, because being prepared is fighting half the battle. When you feel passionate about something, follow your instincts because “Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind.”
At the end of each Toastmasters meeting, we have an evaluator who critiques the speakers speeches. My evaluator said he liked that my story was chronological, and the lesson I wanted to get across was to not run away from problems.
He also liked that my story had many climax situations. For example, I had the cancer diagnosis, then I recovered with a knee replacement. I made the high school basketball team, but then the cancer returned and I had to get my right leg amputated.
I recovered again and I had an emotional connection with inFAMOUS and Cole MacGrath, which helped me accept the person I am today.
The Grammarian liked how I was descriptive talking about the type of bone cancer I had, which was Osteosarcoma. This cancer accounts for 3% of cancers that happen to children. It is one of the few cancers that begin in the bones and could spread elsewhere, like the lungs of other bones.
After the meeting, two guests approached me and said my speech affected them emotionally because they also had family members who went through the struggle of dealing with cancer.
My goal as an inspirational speaker was to affect people emotionally when I speak, and I noticed I did that with just my words and without any images. I realized that I’m comfortable and able to speak to an audience about my dramatic story without any notes or PowerPoints.
I believe if I showed the images of my cancer experience while speaking. My speech would have been even more powerful.
PowerPoint Presentation Part 1: I’ve been working on perfecting this PowerPoint for years, and it expresses who I am 110%.
I combine my experiences and realities to the inFAMOUS videogame franchise and superhero Cole MacGrath. I also have music embedded from Nas and The Pharcyde to help tell my story.
Check it out my CalmandStrong: PowerPoint Presentation: Part 1 here: http://www.calmandstrong.net/videos
I do not own any content from the images displayed from inFAMOUS and inFAMOUS 2.
No Copyright Intended. All image content is copyright to their respective owners. All content is property of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), developed by Sucker Punch Productions,
I do not own any content from the album covers from the artist's displayed from Nas' Stillmatic and The Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia.
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The Kabanes, glamping with sea view
Enjoy your stay on the Pink Granite Coast to rent one of our Kabanes
Our Kabanes are built of wood and enjoy a beautiful view of the bay of Penvern and the legendary island of Aval.
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Kabane “Corbeau”: with an area of 16.5m2
Kabane “Renard”: with an area of 14.9m2
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On the campsite
- Pirate-style camping park by the sea
- New pirate poolscape 2019
- Restaurant, sports, animation and WiFi
- Luxury air-conditioned mobile homes on park-like pitches
- Excursions to the Canal du Midi, Béziers and Narbonne
Beach, pools, slides – Family holidays in the Languedoc
The Californie Plage campsite, just under six hectares in size, has been designed like a beach and lakeside park. The sunny or semi-shaded pitches are lined with well-kept hedges, poplars and palm trees. You reach the beach after a few steps – it is sandy to fine gravel. At the water's edge, a row of stones is partly piled up, interrupted by easily accessible, wide bathing bays. At the seaside, you can strengthen yourself under the bast roofs of the bar or stroll through the medieval-style village square of Californie Plage. Maybe you'll do a bit of shopping, have a drink at the pirate bar or stop off at the terrace restaurant. In the seaside resort of Vias-sur-Mer you will find many other gastronomic and shopping offers.
Pool and pirates ahoy – a „castle tower“ rises up at the Californie Plage adventure pool
It is the landmark of the elegant and family-friendly pool complex! But beware of the „giant shark“ and the sea monsters! Inside and outside you can splash, slide or chill with your little ones to your heart's content! Ideal for warm water pirates, especially for holidays in low season: on colder days, part of the pool complex is covered. And the water is heated! When the little pool pirates are not yet tired in the evening – spectacular family shows take place in front of the pirate ship! During the day, too, the animation team comes up with fun, age-appropriate games and sports activities. A children's garden will delight the young guests of Camping Californie Plage. Here, the little ones can work the garden under expert guidance. They see flowers or lettuce growing, help with watering, weeding or harvesting. The bigger kids and adults compete on the multi-sports field. Or would you like to try archery? | <urn:uuid:ef0a83bc-c6b4-413b-ad54-f44027976a76> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.campingdreams.com/eng/campsite/1304/France/Languedoc-Roussillon/Californie-Plage.html | 2023-09-23T17:45:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.916618 | 478 |
Honley FC vs Campion AFC Dev
Date: 29th August 2015
Venue: Honley High School Playing Fields
Referee: Stuart Ramsden
Man of the Match: Louis Etienne
Carl Trenerry (c)
Chris Hellewell (on 61 for Ludford)
Luke Sharpe (on 68 for Green)
Ben Cheetham (on 73 for Hields)
Honed Tactics Humble Honey
It seemed strange as the Campion AFC First Team were playing their fifth game of the new season that the Development Squad were only playing their second competitive game. After an encouraging but perhaps disappointing draw with Wibsey FC their next test was an away tie at newly promoted Honley FC.
Honley had started with three wins from their opening three games, an unbeaten run which included a 4-2 defeat of last seasons runners up Ventus/Yeadon.
Campion set up with a defensive 4-5-1 formation looking to dominate the midfield and be difficult to break down on their travels. And while there was a nervy start, the packed midfield and consistent defensive talents of Carl Trenerry and Jaden Powell ensured it didn’t cost.
In fact it was only a very dubious offside call which saw Honley open the scoring as a cross drifted to the back post where a seemingly offside forward headed the ball home. It’s always difficult going a goal down, but even more dis-spiriting when it was seemingly unjust.
Louis Etienne in the centre of midfield saw the situation and rightly suggested the team press a little higher now a goal down, and it not only seemed to unnerve the Honley side but also gave more space and opportunity for Campion to play their game. Cam Green, employed on the right hand side of midfield was penetrating and earned the side a corner.
The subsequent corner, played in by late addition to the team sheet Jordan Haygard swung over to the back post were Josh Ludford was more than a little relieved to break his duck and equalise for an elated Campion side.
It seemed to breed confidence into the Campion side who continued to work hard all over the pitch. The defence stood strong and Aaron Metcalfe, Louis Etienne and Damien Hields worked hard to ensure Honley were allowed little time on the ball in the opposition half. The efforts limited chances, and although there was the odd shot on goal, it was actually a Jaden Powell clearance that went closest, firing off a Honley attacker but luckily straight at an unaware Karl Renardson who deflected it away from goal.
At half time there was a real confidence about the side. The plan was working and the team sensed the match was there to be won. Nothing was to change as Campion continued to stamp their authority on the game. It was slowly working as Honley had less possession and fewer opportunities. The midfield three began to play the ball around leaving the Honley players chasing shadows and Jordan Haygard looked threatening every time he got the ball.
After 60 minutes Josh Ludford, who had ably worked for the cause, was replaced by Chris Hellewell, despite only landing from a trip to Mexico at 11am that morning. Not long after, Cam Green made way for youngster Luke Sharpe to offer fresh legs on the right hand side and then Ben Cheetham, making an overdue Campion return replaced Damien Hields.
Within five minutes of making the change it seemed as if Palfreeman had pulled off a masterstroke as Sharpe harassed his way into the penalty area and smartly chipped the ball across the goal as the goalkeeper dived at his feet to give Cheetham the opportunity to bundle the ball in with his chest.
As if woken up by the realisation of the possibility of defeat, the Honley side pressed hard for an equaliser. And it nearly came as bodies were thrust forward putting pressure on the Campion defence. A goalbound shot was wonderfully saved by Karl Renardson whose strong hand tipped the ball onto the bar only for an attacking header from the rebound to head comfortably over the bar.
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Work in Canada from the UK: Tips and Pathways for Foreigners
Check out all there is to know about working in Canada from the UK with this video!
Many people from the UK want to work in Canada, but they don’t know how to go about it. If you’re one of them, this guide is for you! We’ll go over the process of getting a work permit, finding a job, and making the experience of moving to Canada as smooth as possible. We’ll also touch on some common questions and concerns that UK workers have about working in Canada. So if you’re ready to make the move, read on!
Work in Canada Pathways/Programs from the UK
If you’re a foreign worker looking to start a new life in Canada, you’re in luck. The Canadian government offers a number of programs and pathways specifically for UK citizens who want to move to Canada for work, and here are the three best options:
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The International Experience Canada (IEC) Program
This is one of the most popular options for young adults looking to live and work in Canada. The IEC program allows eligible UK citizens aged 18-35 to apply for a work permit that is valid for up to two years. To be eligible, you must have a valid passport, proof of financial support, and medical insurance. Once you have your work permit, you can work anywhere in Canada.
The Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP)
If you’re aged 30 or over, this may be a better option for you. The FSWP is designed for skilled workers who have experience in an occupation that is in demand in Canada. To be eligible, you must have at least one year of full-time, paid work experience in an eligible occupation, as well as meet the minimum language requirements. If you’re interested in applying for the FSWP, you can do so through the Express Entry system.
Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)
For UK citizens looking to work in a specific Canadian province, this program allows provinces and territories to nominate skilled individuals who wish to immigrate to Canada and who meet the specific criteria set by each province or territory.
The Process of Getting a Work Permit from The UK
If you want to work in Canada as a foreign worker, you will need to obtain a work permit. To do so, you will need to submit an application to the Canadian government.
The first step is to determine whether you need a work permit. You may be able to work in Canada without a work permit if:
- You are a refugee or have been granted asylum
- You are a permanent resident of Canada
- You have a valid study permit and are working on campus or as part of your off-campus work program otherwise authorized by your study permit
- You are participating in the International Experience Canada program
If you cannot work without a permit, you will need to apply for one. The type of work permit you need will depend on several factors, such as your intended occupation, how long you want to stay in Canada, and whether your employer has been approved by the Canadian government. For most people, the process of applying for a work permit involves the following steps:
- Obtain a job offer from a Canadian employer.
- Obtain an LMIA – A Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is required unless you are exempt.
- Apply for a work permit
- Wait for approval – You will receive either an email or paper letter approving or refusing your application.
- Enter Canada – If approved, you must present your approval letter to the border guard upon arrival to Canada.
The Different Types of Work Permits
There are different types of work permits in Canada. The most common type is the open work permit, which allows you to work for any employer in Canada. Other types of work permits include those that are specific to an occupation, employer, or duration of stay. You can also get a work permit through the International Experience Canada program, which allows young people from certain countries to come to Canada and work for up to two years.
If you want to come to Canada to work, you will need a valid passport and a job offer from a Canadian employer. You may also need a temporary resident visa, depending on your country of citizenship. Once you have these documents, you can apply for a work permit at the nearest Canadian embassy or consulate.
Applying for a Work Permit
If you want to work in Canada as a foreign worker, you will need to apply for a work permit. This can be done through the help of CanadaCIS!
The first step would be to fill out an application form. Be sure to include all of the required information and documents.
Once you have submitted your application, you will need to pay the applicable fees. After your application has been processed, you will be issued a work permit.
We can surely help you through every step of the way, and we’ll discuss more on how you can do so in the following sections below!
Hiring a Canadian Immigration Agency for Working in Canada
If you’re looking to work in Canada from the UK, one of the first things you’ll need to do is hire a Canadian immigration agency, such as CanadaCIS. However, there are many different agencies out there, so it’s important to do your research and find one that’s reputable and has a good track record. Take the time to read online reviews and see what other people have said about their experiences.
Choosing an immigration agency is an important decision, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. With a little research, you can find an agency that will help make your transition to working in Canada smooth and hassle-free.
So, if you’re interested in working in Canada and would like to start your process today, the best decision would be to sign up with CanadaCIS today!
Things to keep in mind while working in Canada as a foreign worker
There are a few things to keep in mind while working in Canada for foreigners. First, it is important to make sure that you have all the necessary paperwork in order before coming to Canada. This includes your passport, visa, work permit, and any other required documents. Second, it is important to be aware of the different laws and regulations that apply to foreign workers in Canada. These can vary depending on the type of work you will be doing and your specific situation.
This is where we come to the rescue! It is important to consult with an immigration lawyer or other legal advisor before coming to Canada so that you are aware of your rights and obligations, and you may very well do so with CanadaCIS!
Finally, it is also important to be aware of the culture shock that can come with working in a new country. This can include everything from differences in language and customs, to differences in work ethic and expectations. It is important to be prepared for this so that you can adjust smoothly and successfully integrate into the Canadian workplace.
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Things to Include in Your Shopping List in April
Spring is in the air, and so are the sales offers from retailers and manufacturers! April is when retailers lure the customers by waving their discount wands over various categories, including apparel, cleaning products, furniture, jewelry, and many more. Savvy shoppers should also pay attention to Mother’s Day gift items, as the day is May 8.
We’ve rounded up a list of April shopping items for Canadian shoppers. Let’s check it out:
Spring & Winter Clothing
Many stores have been pushing spring apparel since winter, and April is the month when they will push out their spring collection, leaving the consumers the chance of getting moderate discounts.
April is your last golden opportunity to shop for clearance-level discounts on winter items. Shop winter apparel such as winter jackets, boots, hats, and gloves at highly slashed prices as shops will do everything to get rid of the old winter collections and clear out the inventory. So, this is a great time to pick up your winter clothing for next year.
Cruise Tickets and Europe Trips
Good travel deals will be available this year and work for both backpackers and vacationers. Moderate weather, rain, and somewhat colder temperature dominate many popular destinations. Moreover, many people have already spent their holidays during March Break. So, this is the time for you to grab discounted bookings and deals on spring and summer cruises and Europe trips.
Several companies announced new versions of their flagship smartphones late in February. As the new phones have started coming to the market, previous models will now be sold at clearance pricing. For example, as Samsung Galaxy S11 is due for release soon, the S9 and S9 Edge+ prices have been dropped already. So, if you are not obsessed with using the latest smartphone model, buy a previous model at a much lower price.
Spring cleaning is in full swing in most households. Retailers know that and are helping you out by offering incentives and putting cleaning products and supplies on sale. You can expect to get household cleaning supplies and vacuum cleaners on sale in April. Expect New Cleaning Coupons to help save you money, such as Resolve and Tide.
Mother’s Day Gift Items
Buying Mother’s Day gifts during spring sales is the perfect occasion to give your mother a beautiful gift at a lower price. Expect to get various gift items, such as sunglasses and jewelry items at great discount prices.
Outdoor Tools and Furniture
The weather has become warmer this year, encouraging many outdoor activities. You will find great deals on grills, patio sets, and other outdoor furniture in April. Unlike the summer season, the section will be limited this time, but you will undoubtedly have good deals. Plus, gardening tools such as shovels, spades, shears, kneelers, gloves, etc., will be on sale.
Seasonal Produce and Flowers
Get great discounts on various products such as mushrooms, rutabaga, parsnips, sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbage, pineapple, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, tomatoes, onions, and many more in April. Additionally, tulips and daffodils will be available and cheaper this month.
- What to Buy in May
- What to Buy in February ( Canada)
- What to Buy in October
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How and Where to Buy Gonal-F Online?
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Are there Alternative Names for the Brand Gonal-F?
The brand Gonal-F comes from Canada and is manufactured by EMD Inc. Unfortunately, the generic equivalent is not available at the moment.
What Dosages and Forms is Gonal-F Available in?
Gonal-F is available in the strength of 75 IU/1 Vial powder for solution.
What is Gonal-F Used for?
Gonal-F (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) is a prescription medicine used to improve fertility in men and women. The active ingredient in Gonal-F is a follicle-stimulating hormone. It belongs to a category of drugs known as gonadotropin. Gonadotropins improve fertility and reproduction. Gonal-F works by helping to release an egg from the ovary in women who cannot ovulate. It also allows men to produce sperm if they are infertile due to low levels of hormones.
What are the Possible Side Effects of Gonal-F?
If you experience any of the following common side effects, contact your doctor or pharmacist immediately:
• Abdominal pain;
• Ovarian cysts;
• Reactions such as pain, bruising, or swelling at the injection site;
• Swelling of veins above and behind testicles (in men);
• Weight gain
Stop using Gonal-F and contact your doctor right away if you have any of the severe side effects such as:
• Breathing difficulties;
• Lower abdominal pain combined with nausea or vomiting;
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Are there any Precautions and Drug Interactions for Gonal-F?
Before taking this medication, you should tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to Gonal-F or follicle-stimulating hormone. Do not start using the medicine if your doctor has not evaluated you and your partner's fertility. Gonal-F is usually injected under the skin. Your doctor may teach you how to inject this medicine properly. It is crucial to continue taking this medication exactly as your doctor prescribes. Misusing this medicine may lead to multiple pregnancies, which can cause medical complications. Call your doctor for instructions if you miss a dose. It is not expected that Gonal-F will affect your ability to drive or use machines.
You should not use Gonal-F and inform your doctor about your medical history, especially if you have or have had:
• Breast, womb, or ovarian cancer;
• Early menopause;
• Fragile or easily blistered skin;
• Ovarian cysts of unknown origin;
• Stomach pain
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Gonal-F Storage and Safety Information
Store Gonal-F at room temperature, 68°F to 77°F (20°C to 25°C). Keep the medicine in the original package. Do not use Gonal-F if there is any visible sign of deterioration. Keep Gonal-F and all medications out of reach of children.
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Common Questions about Clinical Trials
What is a clinical trial?
A clinical trial is a research study to determine whether a new approach to cancer prevention or treatment works better than the best known available treatment. Clinical trials compare the new drug or approach with the existing “standard of care” to make sure the drug is safe and effective.
Who should think of participating in a clinical trial?
Everyone facing a cancer diagnosis of any kind should be aware of clinical trials as a treatment option—but not everyone can or should be on a trial. A clinical trial can be a good option for people who are:
- interested in getting access to the newest cancer treatments
- diagnosed at an advanced stage
- no longer responding to other treatments
- at high risk for recurring or spreading after primary treatment
- interested in helping other cancer patients today and tomorrow by advancing cancer treatment
- diagnosed with a rare, aggressive or difficult to treat cancer
The best way to know if you should consider being in a clinical trial is to talk to your doctor and treatment team. If your doctor is not involved in doing clinical research or does not explain your options for a clinical trial, you should think about getting a second opinion.
How do I find a trial that is right for me?
Finding a trial that is right for you and your cancer can be a challenge. The best way is to discuss your situation with your doctor or to get an opinion from a medical center that is actively involved in clinical trials for your cancer.
If you do try to find trials online, it can be difficult and frustrating. Be sure you know your exact cancer type, any previous cancer treatments you have and any medical problems that could cause you to be ineligible for a trial. Print out anything you find and take it to your doctor to discuss.
How do they measure the results of a clinical trial?
Every trial measures whether the new approach is safe and effective.
Safety is assessed by recording the side effects each patient experiences and the severity of these problems. This information will come from the treatment team and more and more often today from the patient’s themselves.
Clinical trials also measure what happens to the tumor as a result of the treatment. The researchers look at what happens in individual patients and in the whole group of patients being treated. Many trials now focus on reducing the risk of recurrence in people whose cancers have factors that make them likely to come back or spread.
Will I get a placebo if I participate in a trial?
It is very rare for people with cancer in clinical trials to get a placebo or sugar pill. In a cancer clinical trial patients will usually get at least the standard of care. This means getting the best known available treatment or practice.
What kind of care will I receive on a trial?
If you participate in a clinical trial, you will be part of a research study. But you are not a guinea pig. People who participate on clinical trials get very high levels of care. Their cancers and their overall condition are monitored and cared for very closely.
Will I have extra costs for my care on a trial?
The costs of being on a clinical trial, including any drugs or care, are covered by your insurance company or the trial's sponsor. You should discuss the possibility of any additional, indirect costs—childcare, transportation, lost job time—that might result from additional doctor’s appointments, clinic visits or procedures.
Will I have to leave my current doctor?
That depends on what kind of cancer you have, where you are being treated and for what kind of trial you enroll. If there is no trial available in your treatment facility, your doctor should be willing to refer you to another cancer center.
Are clinical trials for people who don’t have any other options?
NO. There are trials for every type and stage of cancer. For many cancers, a trial can be even be the first option. It is important, however, to have a very open, honest discussion with your doctor about the goals and expected treatment outcomes for your trial.
Why should I be on a clinical trial?
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- You will receive a high level of care on the trial.
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Pest Control in Osterville, MA
Pest Control in Osterville, MA
Nothing beats the spectacular views of Osterville, MA. From the scenic Oyster Harbors to the small lakes and beaches, this village is a special treat for residents and travelers. With this in mind, nothing could ruin this beautiful place to live other than tricky pests making their way into your home.
Unfortunately, Massachusetts is home to a variety of beetles, ants, bees, mosquitos and termites, but they don’t stand a chance against Pest Pros. Understanding your environment and the pests that roam your location is the key to preventing infestation.
Spotting Pests Around Your Home
Pests are small and sometimes tricky to find. However, insects, mice and rats often leave a trail behind for you to discover their tracks. By taking the following precautions, you can see for yourself if you have a pest problem:
- Monitor home insulation: Your home is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Checking for insects or mice in attics and basements may reveal nests and other harmful bacteria.
- Inspect home foundation: Insects often try to stay as close to soil as possible. Look along the bottom supports of your home to see if any termite damage exists.
- Check pipes and walls: Rodents and insects love to enter homes through unsealed pipes and thin walls. Monitor your attic and basement for any easy entry points that might be allowing pests in and out of your home.
Taking these safety measures is the first step in deciding if Pest Pros should visit your house. We are trained professionals with experience in hunting down pests to discover the root of the problem.
Choose the Quarterly Service Program
When it comes to dealing with pests in the Osterville area, Pest Pros has you covered. No matter how large or small an infestation, we encourage our customers to check out our Quarterly Service Program for future pest prevention.
With this program, our customers are granted a visit from Pest Pros every 90 days if a problem continues after our first visit. If you see a pest before the next scheduled visit, give us a call, and we take care of it for no further cost.
That’s right — you have Pest Pros on-call when you need us the most. The Quarterly Service Program caters to your specific pest problem and is environmentally-conscious.
Living in Osterville, MA
Osterville is the perfect place to work and live. As you know, residents of this area love to be outside, as there are beaches, animals and more to admire. With this realization, Pest Pros uses environmentally friendly solutions for even the biggest pest problems.
We want to keep Osterville in great shape, and you will find that our natural insecticide compounds adapt to any landscape. Together, we can find the best green solution to eliminate pests that bother you the most.
Contact Pest Pros for a Free Inspection
Pest Pros understands infestations are scary. There is nothing worse than poking around your home and finding unwanted visitors. By contacting Pest Pros, we honor a free home pest inspection to all interested customers.
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Janet Fitch Continues The Story Of Marina M In 'Chimes Of A Lost Cathedral' Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | Sacramento, CA Listen / download audio Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Author Janet Fitch (left) and Insight Host Beth Ruyak (left) at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.Beth Ruyak / Capital Public Radio Janet Fitch is a smart, award-winning author whose books include "White Oleander" and "Paint it Black." Both were best-sellers and have been made into movies. Fitch’s new book, "Chimes of a Lost Cathedral", picks up the story of her historical fiction from 2017, "The Revolution of Marina M." She talks about the process of writing, the ways in which the Russian Revolution led her to see comparisons to the current political moment in the U.S. and how the two pieces of the story she has told are two parts of a whole. Fitch will be in Sacramento this Friday, July 26, for an event with Stories on Stage Sacramento and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. This conversation took place earlier this month in Squaw Valley. | <urn:uuid:5dc16080-edc2-4832-abf1-3e4a34bd6660> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.capradio.org/136588 | 2023-09-23T16:57:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957452 | 246 |
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering Management
Earn a doctorate degree in engineering management and meet the long-standing needs of the field by engaging in cutting-edge engineering research, leadership, and publishing.
Many industries are reporting significant workforce shortages of trained technical management personnel with a doctoral degree and experience in leading engineering organizations. Moreover, the shortage is growing each year with increasing demand in new engineering-related corporations and the annual departure of large cohorts of existing professionals who are reaching retirement age. This program is in response to that need. The PhD in Engineering Management degree is for new master's degree graduates and non-traditional students (i.e., experienced personnel) who desire to advance in their careers by gaining leadership skills in the industries related directly and indirectly to engineering and technology.
The PhD in Engineering Management is for current professionals or those with experience in the field of engineering design, manufacturing and service. Students will pursue a deep proficiency in this area using an interdisciplinary methodology, cutting-edge courses, and dynamic faculty. Graduates will contribute significantly to the Engineering Management field through the creation of new knowledge and ideas.
As your PhD progresses, you will move through a series of progression points and review stages by your academic supervisor. This ensures that you are engaged in a process of research that will lead to the production of a high-quality Thesis and/or publications and that you are on track to complete this in the time available. Following submission of your PhD Thesis or accepted three academic journal articles, you will have an oral presentation assessed by an external expert in your field.
Learn around your busy schedule
Program is 100% online, with no on-campus classes or residencies required, allowing you the flexibility needed to balance your studies and career.
Proven academic excellence
Study at a university that specializes in industry-focused education in technology fields, with a faculty that includes many industrial and academic experts.
Expert guidance in doctoral research
Capitol’s doctoral programs are supervised by faculty with extensive experience in chairing doctoral dissertations and mentoring students as they launch their academic careers. You’ll receive the guidance you need to successfully complete your doctoral research project and build credentials in the field.
Market demand for engineering management expertise
Get the necessary credentials to take on a leadership role; become a researcher, speaker, author, or trusted expert; or enter higher education as a teaching professional.
A degree that is relevant to any and every organization
Graduates will contribute significantly to the engineering management field through the creation of new knowledge and ideas.
The PhD program offers 2-degree completion requirement options:
- Dissertation Option: the student will produce, present, and defend a doctoral dissertation after receiving the required approvals from the student’s Committee and the PhD Review Boards.
- Publication Option: the student will publish three works of original research in a scholarly peer-reviewed journal(s) of high stature. Two of the three published works may be in a peer reviewed conference proceeding if the conference is international and approved by the Dean. The student will produce an exegesis culminating the work for their defense. Students must receive the required approvals from the student’s Committee and the PhD Review Board prior to publication.
Prior Achieved Credits May Be Accepted
Tuition & Fees
Tuition rates are subject to change.
The following rates are in effect for the 2023-2024 academic year, beginning in Fall 2023 and continuing through Summer 2024:
- The application fee is $100
- The per-credit charge for doctorate courses is $950. This is the same for in-state and out-of-state students.
- Retired military receive a $50 per credit hour tuition discount
- Active duty military receive a $100 per credit hour tuition discount for doctorate level coursework.
- Information technology fee $39 per credit hour.
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The 1.6 CDTI with 100 kW/136 hp and 320 Nm maximum torque, that we introduced you in a previous post, is now available in the high-volume Astra hatchback, Astra notchback and Astra Sports Tourer models. It consumes 3.9 liters diesel per 100 km in the NEDC test procedure (New European Driving Cycle). The 81 kW/110 hp version of the turbo diesel debuting at the Geneva Motor Show from March 6 – 16 is cleaner and more economical. In the NEDC this engine needs 3.7 liters diesel for 100 km and with CO2 emissions of 97 g/km, undercutting the 100 gram mark.
All-new 1.6 CDTI with 3.9 l/100 km and 320 Nm
Named the most reliable German compact car by the trade magazine auto motor und sport (Issue 12/2013), the Opel Astra now offers the completely new 1.6 CDTI with 100 kW/136 hp. The various performance levels of the newest generation all-aluminum turbo unit will successively replace the engines with 1.7-liter displacement, ushering in a new era in Opel’s diesel portfolio.
Opel’s diesel is the first unit in the Astra portfolio to already comply with the Euro 6 emissions standard, making it the cleanest diesel Opel has ever built. The engine is said “best-in-class” in noise and vibration generation thanks to its optimized component design, an especially efficient combustion process with multiple injection and additional acoustic measures. Further contributors to its performance are the high-pressure common rail system and lean NOx trap exhaust after-treatment (LNT). Together with the VTG turbocharger (variable turbine geometry) that enables better response, they are the engine’s core technical elements.
The engine boasts 320 Nm maximum torque – seven percent more than the 130 hp 1.7-liter predecessor. At the same time, fuel efficiency is improved and CO2 emissions are reduced. This output variant makes do with 3.9 liters diesel per 100 km in the NEDC test procedure and emits 104 g/km CO2 – up to eight percent less than the 1.7-liter engine. This comes with the following performances: the turbo unit accelerates the Astra from zero to 100 km/h in 10.3 seconds (notchback: 10.1 seconds); from 80 to 120 km/h in fifth gear it needs 9.2 seconds (notchback: 9.1 seconds, Sports Tourer: 9.9 seconds). Top speed is 200 km/h and the notchback reaches 205 km/h.
The 100 kW/136 hp Astra hatchback 1.6 CDTI is available with Start/Stop and six-speed manual transmission.
97 g/km CO2: Premiere for Astra 1.6 CDTI with 81 kW/110 hp in Geneva
In Geneva, the 81 kW/110 hp version of the newest generation turbo diesel makes its first appearance. Also featuring improved low-end torque, the engine has 300 Nm maximum torque (seven percent more than the 1.7-liter predecessor with the same hp), achieving fuel consumption in the NEDC combined cycle to 3.7 liters diesel per 100 km – and CO2 emissions to below 100 grams: the compact class emits 97 g/km.
With the new generation turbo diesel, the Astra hatchback, notchback and Sports Tourer accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 12.0 seconds, and top speed is 186 km/h.
Reducing the fuel consumption while switching to Euro6 norm is a big deal. It seems that this engine succeeded doing this using an LNT and some common engine technologies. Do you think that Euro6 norms are really met in any condition using this NOx Trap? Do you think that on a real life driving cycle, the fuel consumption is also reduced compared to the Euro5 equivalent engine? | <urn:uuid:f353bd46-2c82-4702-a10d-39f38cf7d60e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.car-engineer.com/opel-1-6l-cdti-performences-presented-geneva-motor-show/ | 2023-09-23T16:50:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.885478 | 838 |
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at a Committee hearing on ‘Assessing U.S. Policy Towards Burma: Geopolitical, Economic and Humanitarian Considerations.’ Senator Cardin is working with a bipartisan group of colleagues to draft legislation to clarify US policy towards Burma; place limits on our military engagement given the situation in Rakhine; explore whether economic or other sanctions are needed; provide support for the democratic transition; advance accountability for atrocities; and assure humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State and in Bangladesh.
“Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for holding this hearing. Now it’s Burma, another country that is committing ethnic cleansing, another country under the watch of the international community that’s allowed to perpetrate an atrocity. Make no mistake about it, atrocities are taking place in Burma. We have a humanitarian crisis, we have perpetrators who expect impunity, and there’s no reason to doubt that that may in fact occur.
“This is ethnic cleansing. I know that the administration is evaluating that as we are holding this hearing. Ethnic cleansing is defined by the United Nations Commission of Experts as ‘rendering an area ethnically homogenous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from an area’. Half of the population of the Rohingyas in Burma have left. Six hundred thousand out of 1.2 million. There’s been a systematic burning of their villages. This didn’t just start. It’s been a campaign that’s gone on for a long period of time, since a 1982 law that denies them citizenship even though they have been residents for generations.
“They are denied freedom of movement, they are denied freedom of education, they are denied health care. This has been a systematic effort to destroy an ethnic community. And once again we see this happening. And once again, the expectation is, ‘well its far away, we’ll just let it go along’. We need to be outraged about what’s happening. We need to see the international community come together and say no we will not let this continue. That we will hold those accountable that are responsible. That we will provide the humanitarian need immediately. That we will stop this type of conduct in a civilized society. This cannot occur.
“Yes, I think it’s genocide. I know there will be some discussion about whether it’s genocide or not. ‘Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’. That’s what happening. They’re trying to destroy the population. People are arguing intent. What else are they doing this for? Other than the purity of their country and their lack of tolerance for a minority population. For decades the Burmese government has systematically repressed the Rohingya people. That is the fact. And they have deliberately failed to integrate the population into the general population.
“As U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid correctly stated the ‘decades of persistent and systematic human rights violations… have almost certainly contribute[d] to the nurturing of violent extremism, with everyone ultimately losing.’ They complain about extremism; they’re creating it.
“In my opinion, we are witnessing a military-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign on the Rohingya. And it will take significant engagement from the international community, at the highest levels, in partnership with the Burmese civilian government, to address and to hold the perpetrators accountable for these horrific acts.
“Unfortunately, the Rohingya crisis is not the only vexing challenge Burma faces. The Burmese military continues to hold significant influence in politics and in the economy. The peace process, which sought to end the long-standing civil war in the country, has stalled. There are significant reports of human rights issues such as human trafficking, free speech infringement, and political repression.
“The Chairman’s right. The state counselor was here. She’s an impressive person. But she’s not taking on the challenge. She’s not responding to the crisis in her own country. The military control Burma today. That’s unacceptable, that’s why we imposed sanctions, because of military control. Sanction relief was given for what? So people can be ethnically cleansed?
“I agree with the Chairman. We need to not only reevaluate, we need to have a policy in regards to Burma that we understand, that addresses these human rights violations, that reevaluates our position as far as having normal relations with Burma and the release of our sanctions. The president will be attending the ASEAN summit very shortly. Will he be mentioning Burma and human rights as a top priority during this trip? I certainly hope so. And Mr. Chairman I do want to compliment the Bangladesh government for keeping the borders open. That’s been the one bright spot. But there’s the humanitarian crisis of the refugees in Bangladesh that we all have to respond to.
“So I am looking forward to hearing from our witnesses. I thank each of them. They all have very distinguished records and I have great confidence in their expertise on the subject. But I do notice that on a subject as important as this, it would be nice to have at least one witness that was confirmed by the Senate that brings that degree of importance from the administration on this subject.
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Journeyman Operator India Level 2 - TX Job Category: Intelligence Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Continental US Join the CACI team as it continues to support our defense
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Instructional design for effective virtual training
Your learning and training made effective and engaging with the power of virtual reality
Learning in VR
Virtual reality finally has become an affordable way of learning and training. More and more companies use this disruptive technology to enhance the way to learn or train their employees. Virtual reality training undoubtedly has a lot of benefits:
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Training in virtual reality is not the same as traditional or e-learning training. A specific instructional design is needed: the virtual environments asks for specific learning methods.
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That would be a shame. Alright, so we can all safely say that Volkswagen has seen much brighter days than this. Actually, we can calculate that as being the case up until late September 2015 when it was discovered that it made a concerted effort to falsify emissions testing results on its cars fitted with diesel engines.
A Reuters report discloses that the automaker juggernaut has secured a credit line amounting to more than US$ 21 billion in order to pay the stacks upon stacks of legal and material compensation to rectify the scandal and its mushroom cloud of repercussions.
Reportedly, the Volkswagen Group has agreed upon a one-year loan. And to convince its creditors, have had to place brands under its corporate umbrella such as Bentley, Lamborghini and Ducati on the betting table should it not able to repay the sum within that period.
"Volkswagen may also consider divesting luxury car brands Bentley and Lamborghini or motor bike brand Ducati, although these units don't really move the needle," one of the sources said to Reuters.
That fortune being borrowed comes from 13 separate financial institutions throughout Europe and Volkswagen is planning to refinance the loan through the issue of bonds handed out within the next few months.
Of course, those three brands are but a portion of the many under the Volkswagen Group. Others include Audi, Porsche, Seat, Bugatti and Skoda, but they have seemingly been spared fatalistic limbo because the three previously mentioned were considered more niche products that generate relatively small annual contributions to the Group’s financial bottom line.
Having said that, should Volkswagen have to spin off Lamborghini and Bentley, they will be relinquishing their stakes in two very established and powerful brands. Both of which give the Volkswagen Group a solid foothold in very key sectors in the automotive industry, sectors that have arguably the highest mindshare and aspirational value.
Right now, nearly 500 lawsuits reportedly have been levelled against Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche in the United States since the scandal broke, making up a large bulk of where the restitution amount will end up going. The rest will be used to cover other fines and vehicle refits across the globe. An early estimate to the total sum this scandal’s cost to Volkswagen is reportedly north of US$80 billion. | <urn:uuid:cc754738-cb6a-464b-9e2b-875a88192e91> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.carlist.my/news/volkswagen-may-have-to-part-with-bentley-lamborghini-ducati-to-get-past-dieselgate-60564/60564/ | 2023-09-23T17:20:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.966312 | 466 |
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Carnival has been very much inspired with the famous maxim i.e. “I listen I forget; I see I remember; I do I understand’. So along with unique teaching methodology, the emphasis at Carnival is laid more on making the student understand the concept well. | <urn:uuid:6a89215e-7d30-4db9-84e4-5c4b035bdc68> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.carnivalacademy.org/hello-world/ | 2023-09-23T17:21:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.946532 | 97 |
Ando Blackstix 3.0
With the speed generating characteristics of the Blackstix line and the V2 foil Craig Anderson’s new signature fin allows you keep speed while surfing with reduced effort even when the waves are lacking power. The perfect tool to try and channel a bit of Ando style.
EA Blackstix 3.0
The EA Blackstix has a springy flex pattern and the V2 foil is designed to build speed and drive in smaller waves. This template is well balanced with a medium tip, making the EA Blackstix one of our most popular fins for medium sized surfers in softer conditions.
HS 4.20 Generation Series Quad Rears
Sitting one notch below the Blackstix in regards to speed generation, but slightly above in stability and drive. Add quad rears to your thruster set, opening up versatility in your 5-fin boards.
Ando Single Fin
Designed with Craig Anderson, the Ando 7.8” Single Fin was made to match his timeless style and smooth demeanor. This is a great template for your single-fin shortboards, mid-lengths and eggs, bonzers, and 2+1s.
The K1 Keel fin is Future’s classic Keel Fin design. The Honeycomb material with the iconic wood inlay give the K1 a medium flex pattern and the big, old-school template generates rail-to-rail speed down the line and provides hold through direction changes. The K1 Keel is the iconic match up with your retro-fish.
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Last Updated on June 21, 2023 by Gundrum Funeral Home
Ronald C. Vinyard, 86, of Logansport, passed away Sunday, March 5, 2023 at Chase Center in Logansport.
Born on June 24, 1936, in Logansport, Ron is the son of the late Charles “Big” H. Vinyard and Norma M. (Reumler) Vinyard. In September of 1954 in Logansport, Ron married Denise A. Reed who preceded in death on October 13, 2021.
Ron retired from Matthew Warren. He was a United State Air Force Veteran and a member, and past Exulted Ruler of the Elks Lodge #66.
Surviving Ron is a son, Mark Vinyard of Manassas, VA; daughter, Lura (Arnold) Hoskins of Phoenix, AZ; sister, Sheryl Nagy of Michigan; brother, Philip (Judy) Vinyard of Florida; 3 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Ron was preceded in death by a sister, Karla Campbell.
A gathering of family and friends will be held from 11:00 am until time of services on Saturday July 8, 2023.
A celebration of life will be held at 1:00 pm Saturday July 8, 2023 in the Gundrum Funeral Home with Pastor Bruce Vernon officiating.
Full military rites will be provided by the Cass County Honor Guard, prior to funeral services.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Cass County Humane Society.
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Odyssey of the Mind Teams Advance to State Competition
All six Cato-Meridian Odyssey of the Mind teams have qualified for the state competition, which is slated for Saturday, April 15th at the New York State Fairgrounds. The teams qualified for the state competition based on their results at regionals, held at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES.
At regionals, Mrs. McGetrick's team earned the Ranatra Fusca Award, the highest medal awarded by Odyssey of the Mind. The award is given to a team that exhibits incredible teamwork and creativity on the spontaneous problem.
Team rosters are listed below:
Problem 1: Pirates and the Treasure Division 3 Coach: Mrs. Dello Stritto Team: Gavin Dello Stritto Megan Kyle Rhys Napolitano Rylee Napolitano Kennedy Taylor
Division 1 Coaches: Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Mavretish Team: Isabella Davis Brigham Dello Stritto Camden Dello Stritto Violetta Eckel Luke Kyle Stella Nasholts Tighe Taylor
Problem 3: Classics…The Walls of Troy Division 3 Coaches: Mr. and Mrs. Lees Team: Laina Howard Mallory Howard Vanessa Lees
Division 2 Coach: Mrs. McGetrick Team: Aurelia Eckel Triton Schmitt Brody Smith Evan Stonecypher Ian Stonecypher Ashley Watchorn Aubrey Watchorn
Problem 5: The Most Dramatic Problem Ever!!! Division 3 Coach: Mr. Robinson Team: Avery Hempel Ruby Hertlein Xavier Hilliard Mya Kimball Sierra Madden Madalyn Proper Alexis Rugg
Division 2 Coach: Mrs. Smith Team: Lucy Brown Adaline Dudley Evangeline Eckel Sawyer Impson Lilyana Smith Ronan Taylor
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Oregon Armed Protesters: 'We're in it for the long haul'
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon (CNN)Now, they have a name. And now, we know how long they're vowing to stay.
The armed protesters who took over a federal building in Oregon are calling themselves the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom.
And they say they're not budging anytime soon.
"We came very well prepared. We're in it for the long haul," protester John Reitzheimer said.
But it's not exactly a standoff. There have been no police at the snowy, desolate Malheur National Wildlife Refuge since the occupiers took over the main building Saturday.
And that's a smart decision by authorities, analysts say.Law enforcement should just wait the protesters out, experts say.
"There is no real reason, at this point, to go in. And the FBI knows that," said Steve Moore, a retired supervisory special agent for the FBI.
He said federal authorities have learned that lesson the hard way. Take, for example, the deadly confrontation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993.
"A hundred people died in that," Moore said. "It was a suicide; however, it was provoked by the FBI intervention."So how long should authorities wait, and what would force that tactic to change?
"I think they will wait a long, long time," Moore said. "The only thing that would force them to change that would be if these people posed a life-and-death threat to someone."
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, hasn't specified what it will do.
"The FBI is working with the Harney County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and other local and state law enforcement agencies to bring a peaceful resolution to the situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge," the agency's Portland office said in a statement.
"Due to safety considerations for both those inside the refuge as well as the law enforcement officers involved, we will not be releasing any specifics with regards to the law enforcement response."The protesters are complaining about the amount of land controlled by the federal government as well as the sentencing of two local ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond.
For two days, the group made only vague statements about what would make them leave. But on Monday night, protest spokesman Ammon Bundy laid out specific demands.
The occupation would end when "the Hammonds are freed and the federal government gives up control of the Malheur National Forest," Bundy tweeted.
The tweet was later deleted.The elder Bundy also made headlines for openly speculating whether African-Americans were better off as slaves.
The Bundys' history of fighting the federal government
Reitzheimer, another protester, previously drew attention for organizing anti-Islam rallies in Arizona.
Ammon Bundy has refused to say how many armed protesters are inside the refuge, saying that information might jeopardize "operational security."
But he said he doesn't want the situation to turn violent.
"As I said on @CNN this morning, I love my wife & family," Bundy tweeted. "I have no plans nor desire to die."The armed protesters have said they are trying to help the Hammonds, who were convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in prison.The Hammonds have said they started a fire in 2001 to reduce the growth of invasive plants and to protect their property from wildfires, CNN affiliate KTVZ reported.
But prosecutors said the Hammonds torched about 130 acres of public land in an attempt to cover up the poaching of deer on federal property.
Throughout the siege, Bundy has claimed the two ranchers were targeted for not selling land to the government.
But the father-and-son ranchers have distanced themselves from the group.
"Neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond family," the Hammonds' attorney, W. Alan Schroeder, wrote to Harney County Sheriff David Ward.
On Monday, the Hammonds turned themselves in to prison to serve their five-year sentences.
Now, it's time for the protesters to end the siege, the sheriff said.
"You said you were here to help the citizens of Harney County. That help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed occupation," Ward said.
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COVID-19 started in China but spread to a lot of countries worldwide. There were some countries where the virus was spreading in a more intense way while there were other countries where the intensity of the virus was lesser. The number of deaths rapidly increased especially in those countries where the virus couldn’t be controlled. The data from the world-o-meter gives us an idea about which country has the highest number of Covid deaths. If you are interested to know more about it you can read the informative article here.
Coronavirus World Map: USA remains to be the only country with the highest COVID deaths
COVID-19 is surely very deadly but it has been the USA that has seen the highest level of a death rate. The total number of coronavirus cases in the USA is 7,376,177 while the total coronavirus deaths are very high at 210,140. Brazil is the second country that has seen the highest level of death rates at 141,776. India is next one catching up as not only the number of cases but the number of death has also been on the rise. The total coronavirus cases have already reached 6,193,966 and the death rate is 96,854 as of now. There are at least 20 countries where the numbers of cases, as well as death rates, are very high.
COVID 19 has spread all over the world and it seems the life of every person is at a halt. Fortunately, there are some countries like South Korea, Newzealand, Thailand, and Singapore where the cases have become very slow and the death rate is quite low too. World Health Organization has been trying hard to give ideas and strategies to every country so they can come out of this tough situation. It seems that the good strategies have helped few countries come out of this disaster and the countries that are lagging behind must see to it. There seems to be no way out for the USA as the case of coronavirus doesn’t seem to slow down anytime soon.
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The death rate of countries around the world
It is quite obvious that larger countries will have a high number of cases. The differences in testing strategies have made few countries win against this threat. There are many other factors that come into play. Some countries have a high number of elderly people so the death rates are relatively higher while some may have completely different because of the demographic profiles of the countries. There is no denying that COVID-19 intensity was very cruel in countries like the USA, Brazil, India, Mexico, and the UK. In Russia, the death rate is very high as the statistics show that it is 20,545 but as compared to the death rate their survival rate is much higher.
Although the number of cases in Spain was as high as 748,266 the death rate in their country was restricted to 31,411. Mexico has seen round about the same number of cases as Russia as their statistics stand at 733,717 but their death rate has been relatively higher at 76,603. The number of deaths in South Africa is lower as they stand at 16,586. Many countries in Europe were hit hard by the virus but the death per capita remained low. The death rate in France is only 31,808 and in countries like Chile, the total cases of death were only 12,725. | <urn:uuid:c0a750ea-90fb-41d2-9070-f9cb583bb2b0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ccdiscovery.com/what-country-has-the-most-covid-deaths/ | 2023-09-23T17:19:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.982658 | 701 |
Commercial Dispute Resolution > India's legal sector: a limited opening
India's legal sector: a limited openingExcitement greeted March’s announcement that India’s legal sector would open to foreign firms...
Excitement greeted March’s announcement that India’s legal sector would open to foreign firms but, unless further reforms are forthcoming, the impact will be more symbolic than meaningful.
Until earlier this year, one of the world’s largest economies and one of its rising geopolitical forces had remained closed to the global legal market. That changed when on 13 March the Bar Council of India (BCI) publicised its 10 March decision to allow foreign law firms to practice in the country.
According to the announcement: “Opening up of law practice in India to foreign lawyers in the field of practice of foreign law; diverse international legal issues in non-litigious matters and in international arbitration cases would go a long way in helping legal profession/domain grow in India to the benefit of lawyers in India too.”
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Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions and jealous observation. Men may be without restraints upon their liberty; they may pass to and fro at pleasure; but if their steps are tracked by spies and and informers, their words noted down for crimination, their associates associates watched as conspirators – who shall say that they are free? Nothing is more revolting to Englishmen than the espionage that forms part of the administrative system of continent despotisms. It haunts men like an evil genius, chills their gaiety, restrains their wit, casts a shadow over their friendships, and blights their domestic hearth.
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Feb. 2, 2023
Release Number 20230202-01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TAMPA, Fla. – During the month of January 2023 U.S. Central Command-led coalition forces and partner forces conducted 43 operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. These operations degraded ISIS and removed multiple senior ISIS militants from the battlefield, including the Emir of Raqqa and a Syrian provincial media and security operative. These successful operations are part of the mission to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS.
Coalition member nations remain focused on degrading ISIS capabilities and restoring stability to the region. It is an effort that can only be accomplished by, with, and through our coalition partners.
“While our efforts have degraded ISIS, the group’s vile ideology remains uncontained and unconstrained,” said Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM. “ISIS continues to represent a threat to not only Iraq and Syria, but to the stability and security of the region. Therefore, we must continue the fight against ISIS alongside our partners.”
The following is a summary of the D-ISIS operations for January 2023:
For the month of January 2023, the CENTCOM-led coalition conducted a total of 43 D-ISIS operations, resulting in 11 ISIS operatives killed and 227 detained.
33 partnered operations
No U.S.-only operations
29 ISIS operatives detained
9 ISIS operatives killed
10 partnered operations
No U.S.-only operations
198 ISIS operatives detained
2 ISIS operatives killed
These operations were conducted under the authority of the CENTCOM commander who retains authority for operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and under the command of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. No U.S. forces were injured or killed in these operations. Our local partners – the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi Security Forces – play a critical role in this fight.
“We rely heavily on the Syrian Democratic Forces for the fight against ISIS,” Kurilla said. “Meanwhile, our Iraqi Security Forces have been aggressively taking the fight to ISIS in Iraq.”
“We commend the competence, professionalism, and dedication of our Iraqi, Syrian, and coalition partner forces,” said Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, CJTF-OIR commander. “Their unwavering efforts maintain steady pressure on the ISIS network. The U.S. remains committed to ensuring the lasting defeat of ISIS to preserve regional security and stability.”
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A leader in the investment profession, CFA Montréal is made up of more than 3,200 professionals and 2,000 candidates who have chosen the unique expertise offered by the CFA® program and contribute to the growth of Montreal's financial sector and economy.
CFA Montréal Honours Julie Ducharme, Applauding Her Dedication to Montreal’s Financial and Investment Community
During the 10th annual Montreal Alternative Investment Forum (FIAMtl) Méchoui BBQ event on August 24, 2023, Julie Ducharme, CFA, received an award from CFA Montréal for her outstanding contributions to Montreal’s financial and investment community. Through her volunteer efforts, Julie has played a key role in shining the spotlight on financial professions and the benefits of being a CFA charterholder, thus helping to improve outreach to prospective candidates.
CFA Montréal wins the Most Outstanding Society Award 2023
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VOI: New York University Collaborates With Catalyst Global Consulting And Kuncie Launches Innovative Leadership Program
11 Agustus 2023, 16:44
JAKARTA - New York University, a leading university in the world, partnering with Catalyst Global Consulting (Catalyst) and Kunie, launched the NYU-Catalyst Global Executive Program: Innovative Leadership.
This breakthrough aims to open wider access for professionals in Indonesia and Southeast Asia to get international standard learning from NYU. In addition, this program is expected to provide provision for professionals to have an essential ability to compete on a global scale.
Increasing skills is the most vital thing to prepare professionals in Indonesia and Southeast Asia to be able to compete with professionals from various international-scale companies. Of course, leadership skills are one of the most important abilities to achieve success in today's business landscape.
However, there are still many professionals who experience problems accessing quality education programs for executives, especially those related to a busy work schedule and are bound by professional commitments. Not a few of the best professionals in companies are eager to study at global-scale universities to improve their abilities and enrich their perspective, but are hampered by distance and financial problems.
Reno Rafly, CEO of Catalyst Global Consulting and Director of the NYU-Catallyst Global Executive Program said, with the expertise and resources owned by NYU and Catalyst, combined with the innovative learning management platform from Kunie, this collaboration will empower Indonesian and Southeast Asian professionals to obtain internationally recognized education without the need to travel abroad.
"We are excited to bring world-class learning here and we believe this program can help form leaders in Indonesia and Southeast Asia in accelerating progress and leadership with innovation," said Reno Rafly.
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When the shop and tearoom faced closure, the community united to save what was an important social hub. It is now run for the benefit of the wider community and a Charity Bank loan help the social enterprise buy the premises.
Community shops play a vital role in the social and economic life of communities. They provide a way for the community to keep an eye out for vulnerable residents and can reduce social isolation.
Holne Community Shop & Tea Room is owned by the community, for the community and provides not only services but a valuable place for social interaction.
When the former landlord of the local shop was moving away from the area, he wanted to sell the premises. This risked losing a vital community asset, so the residents rallied. The charity managed to raise the bulk of the money from selling community shares but required some extra funding, so the social enterprise turned to Charity Bank. A loan of £75,000 from Charity Bank assisted with the purchase of its premises.
The shop is entirely run by volunteers; the eldest is 95 and loves coming in for a few hours a week to chat to people. The tearoom has a mixture of volunteers and paid employees. This includes offering employment and volunteer opportunities to young people.
- 12,000 volunteer hours go into running the shop and tearoom each year
- 32 local young people have so far been given paid employment in the tearoom
“We would never have been able to make this a reality without the support of Charity Bank and its savers. In a rural area like ours, it’s so important to have a place like this for people to come and socialise. The shop and tearoom are at the heart of our community now.”Gilly Simpson, Secretary at Holne Community Shop & Tea Room
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Tabor Opens in Myers Park
Owners of Capitol and Poole Shop expand into menswear with a standalone store for gents
Laura Vinroot Poole, the nationally recognized Charlotte boutique owner, is finally putting her signature touch on a space just for guys.
Poole is behind a new men’s store—called Tabor—now open on Providence Road in Myers Park. The shop carries designer items that Poole says are either classically American “or American in spirit.” It will feature brands such as RRL Ralph Lauren, Thom Browne, and Steven Alan.
The space is bright and open, with clean lines and light wood floors.
Poole is well respected in the fashion world for her ability to curate unique but practical pieces. The New York Times tagged along with her on a buying trip to Paris earlier this year, and Southern Living named her one of the 50 people changing the South in 2015.
Tabor is located at 421 Providence Rd., a space that opened up thanks to preppy outfitter J. McLaughlin’s impending move to Phillips Place. It will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. | <urn:uuid:d082b49c-1dc2-4a3b-b2d5-8c6eec695a83> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.charlottemagazine.com/tabor-opens-in-myers-park/ | 2023-09-23T17:48:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.945034 | 249 |
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You will be close to the Duchy of Uzès and the Pont du Gard (20 min), the City of the Popes of Avignon (30 min) and the ancient city of Nîmes (40 min). The seaside resorts of Grau du Roi, Grande Motte and Port Camargue are 1 hour away. Depending on the period, the price varies between 90 € and 170 € with a minimum of 4 nights.
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The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women wants health service providers across Canada to develop programs that could help young people recognize the signs of being targeted for exploitation.
The inquiry’s final report, released publicly this morning with more than 200 recommendations to the federal government, calls violence against First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and girls a form of “genocide” and a crisis that has been “centuries in the making.”
“As the evidence demonstrates, human rights and Indigenous rights abuses and violations committed and condoned by the Canadian state represent genocide against Indigenous women, girls, and (LGBTQ and two-spirit) people,” it concludes.
“These abuses and violations have resulted in the denial of safety, security, and human dignity.”
The report is to be formally handed over in a two-hour ceremony in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in attendance.
The report, the culmination of a three-year effort that was often beset by controversy, delays and personnel problems, documents what chief commissioner Marion Buller calls “important truths” _ including that Canadian laws and institutions are themselves to blame for violating the human rights of Indigenous Peoples.
“I hope that knowing these truths will contribute to a better understanding of the real lives of Indigenous people and the violations of their human and Indigenous rights when they were targeted for violence,” Buller writes.
The steps necessary to “end and redress this genocide” must be no less monumental than the combination of systems and actions that have been used to “maintain colonial violence for generations,” the commissioners say.
The recommendations _ framed in the report as “calls for justice” _ include developing an effective response to human trafficking cases and sexual exploitation and violence, including in the sex industry. They are not optional, but constitute legal imperatives, it says.
Missing and murdered Indigenous women are believed to number in the thousands in Canada, but the report says that despite its best efforts to quantify the extent of the tragedy, “no one knows an exact number.”
In 2005, the Native Women’s Association of Canada created a database tracking cases and produced a 2010 report documenting 582 missing and murdered Indigenous women. In 2014, the RCMP released a national overview and pegged the number of cases from between 1980 and 2012 at nearly 1,200. Other unverified estimates are far higher.
Responding to the report’s urgent conclusions is the responsibility not only of federal and provincial governments and law enforcement agencies, but all Canadians in both the immediate and long-term, it says.
“Individuals, institutions, and governments can all play a part…. We encourage you, as you read these recommendations, to understand and, most importantly, to act on yours.” | <urn:uuid:a7ef308c-201a-47d0-8952-d6b7f392876f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cheknews.ca/all-canadians-have-a-role-to-play-in-ending-mmiw-genocide-report-says-565085/ | 2023-09-23T19:11:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.949003 | 596 |
Nanaimo RCMP have arrested a second man in connection with a Christmas Day break-in where gifts and stockings were stolen while the family slept in their home.
Police said 21-year-old Axel Wolfgang Lambert, from Nanaimo, was arrested Tuesday morning and held in custody overnight. The Nanaimo RCMP Street Crimes Unit also carried out a search warrant at Lambert’s resident.
Lambert has been formally charged with one count of break-and-enter and will appear in Nanaimo Provincial Court Wednesday to determine if he will remain in custody or not.
Twenty-year-old Justin Feusse, who was also wanted in connection with the theft, turned himself into police on Jan. 3, 2019. He is facing two counts of break-and-enter and theft. The first count is from a separate break-and-enter, which occurred in January of 2017. Feusse is still in police custody until his next court appearance on Jan. 10.
The Lanz family home was broken into around 3 a.m. on Christmas Day. The . The family of four, including boys aged 10 and 14, were asleep upstairs when the father Joseph Lanz said noises woke him up.
Lanz said he went downstairs to find that gifts that had been wrapped and placed under their Christmas tree and stockings hanging in the living room were gone.
He also found his fridge door open, cupboards ransacked and the front door open.
“How do I explain this to my boys?” Lanz said at the time.
“Sickening is how I would best describe it.”
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3 Step Process to Buying a Home
Although it might seem complicated, buying your home should be an enjoyable process. That's why I've created this simple three step guide, and, why you should give me a call.
Having over eleven years in the local Alberta market, I can say confidently that I have experienced enough to make every client's situation into an enjoyable moment in purchasing a home. Take a look at the following, and then call me so I can make your experience just as great as all my clients to date.
GET PRE-APPROVED After we chat, you'll provide me your information, and I will work my magic to get you the lowest rates in the market.
FIND YOUR HOME You'll connect with your real estate agent (I can give you some great recommendations if you need), and go find your dream home.
CLOSE ON YOUR FINANCING Once you've been pre-approved and found your dream home, we will finish with the finances so you can get to the very exciting part... your new home!
I know, it seems too easy. While it takes time and some supportive expertise, you can make your home dreams come true.
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The Perfect Landlord Does Stuff Like This
It’s important to look for the perfect tenants, but don’t forget to be the best landlord either! Rental relationships are a two-way street, so start yours off with the best foot forward by giving a helpful gift basket. Here’s a couple tips to get yours started!
Don’t just get any old basket for this gift, but get something they can use in their home for storage. It is a kind gesture, and they will be reminded of your thoughtfulness whenever they use your practical gift.
WHO'S WHO IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Type and print a list of area information in case your renter isn’t used to it. This list could include fitness gyms, great take-out spots, schools, parks, dry cleaners, grocery stores and nearby hospitals.
Lists Upon Lists! If you have instruction manuals or guides for appliances in the home, place them all in a binder to include in the basket. If you aren’t confident giving the originals in a binder, than use a photocopy.
Why don’t you include a couple light bulbs, water filters for your sink, furniture felt pads, or your preferred natural cleaning supplies?
ONE LAST (BEAUTIFUL) THING
Lastly, include something special like a Tim Horton’s or Starbucks gift card and wish them luck and energy for their move in.
It doesn’t have to cost a lot, but it can make a big difference in how your tenants view you. It can also help you avoid phone calls or emails that are already included in the Welcome Basket.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono enter a hall for their talks in Moscow, Russia, Jan 14, 2019. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AP)
MOSCOW — Russia's top diplomat threw cold water Monday on Tokyo's hopes for a quick return of four Pacific islands at the center of territorial dispute, warning Japan it must recognize the islands as part of Russia as a starting point for talks.
"Russia's sovereignty over the islands isn't subject to discussion. They are part of the territory of the Russian Federation"
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister
The stern statement from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, which followed the talks with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono, appeared to reflect Moscow's efforts to temper Japanese expectations of an imminent deal on the Kuril Islands dispute.
It sets a tough stage for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month. Abe has recently voiced hope that this year will mark a breakthrough in solving the dispute and spoke about an imminent change in the islands' status — remarks that angered Moscow.
Speaking after the talks, Lavrov said Moscow saw recent statements from Abe as unacceptable.
"Russia's sovereignty over the islands isn't subject to discussion. They are part of the territory of the Russian Federation," Lavrov told reporters, noting the UN Charter supports Moscow's ownership of them.
The Soviet Union took the four southernmost Kuril Islands during the final days of World War II. Japan asserts territorial rights to the islands, which it calls the Northern Territories. The dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty.
Speaking at the start of the talks, Japan's Kono said Russia and Japan needed to solve the territorial problem to set the stage for expanded economic and other ties.
Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Takeshi Osuga said during a separate briefing in Moscow the two ministers had a "serious and frank exchange." He wouldn't comment on specifics and said Russian and Japanese diplomats would continue discussions on the issue.
Putin and Abe agreed in November to accelerate negotiations based on a 1956 Soviet proposal to return two of the islands to Japan, but Lavrov's somber tone indicated that Japanese expectations of a quick breakthrough were premature.
Abe's optimism raised concerns in Russian nationalist circles and fueled criticism of the Kremlin. In an apparent attempt to contain the damage, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Japanese ambassador to warn Tokyo not to "artificially incite the atmosphere regarding the peace treaty problem and try to enforce its own scenario of settling the issue." Lavrov struck a similar chord as he sat down Monday with Kono.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, speaks to Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, black to a camera, during their talks in Moscow, Russia, Jan 14, 2019. (AlEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AP)
"Once again, I would like to ask our Japanese colleagues to strictly follow agreements by our leaders," he said.
After their talks, the Russian diplomat said he also drew Kono's attention to a statement by Abe's political aide suggesting that solving the territorial dispute with Russia would help efforts by Japan and the US to deter China.
Lavrov called the statement "outrageous," adding that it raised new questions about the independence of Japanese foreign policy.
"We wondered whether Japan could be independent given such reliance on the US and we were told that Japan would act proceeding from its national interests," Lavrov said. "We would like to hope it will indeed be so." He said the Soviet Union proposed returning the two islands to Japan before Tokyo struck a military alliance with the US in 1960.
Lavrov noted that Russia remains concerned about the US military buildup in the Pacific, including the deployment of US missile defense components that he said create security risks for Russia and China.
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Here are seven enchanting attractions for autumn tours of Shanghai, guaranteed to please whether you prefer being active or just peacefully enjoying the attractive natural scenery on a charming autumn day.
1. Culture Street -- Fuzhou Road (福州路)
Fuzhou Road, the nationally renowned culture street, is an east-to-west road that is parallel to East Nanjing Road . It is one of the oldest roads in the Shanghai concessions. Fuzhou Road has enjoyed the reputation of "the top culture street in the Far East" for more than 100 years, because from then up to now, there have been many bookstores, publishing houses, newspaper publishers and stationary stores along the road.
Location: Fuzhou Road, Huangpu district, next to People's Square
Transportation: Take subway line 1, 2 or 8 to People's Square
2. Sunqiao Happy Harvest Festival (孙桥快乐丰收节)
The annual Sunqiao Happy Harvest Festival is held on September 21st of each year in the Sunqiao Modern Agricultural Development Zone in Shanghai's Pudong district. With the theme of "Low-Carbon Interaction of Urban and Rural Life," the festival attracts white-collar workers from nearby urban areas who wish to take in the beautiful and relaxing nature of rural life.
It is also a good choice for parents to take their children to spend a family holiday. The Sunqiao Agricultural Development Zone is the first integrated modern agricultural development zone in China, and it has many special attractions for tourists to experience. For example, there is an exotic fruits area, a desert area, a lingzhi (a type of mushroom) area, a soilless cultivation area and a traditional cultivation area, among others. All of these areas permit tourists to participate in many interesting activities such as picking oranges, pulling carrots, weeding grass and arranging flowers, etc.
Location: No. 185 Mianbei Road, Sunqiao, Pudong district, situated in the southeast corner of the Outer Ring Road
Transportation: The zone is 12 km from Pudong International Airport. It is accessible from other parts of the city by the urban trunk roads of Shenjiang Road (申江路 , Mianbei Road (沔北路), South Jinke Road (金科南路)and Huaxia Road, (华夏路) and by expressways Huangnan No. 1 and Huangdong No. 2
3. The 3D Magic Art Exhibition Hall (3D魔幻趣味馆)
All the 3D visual art works in the 3D Art Exhibition Hall are created and designed by Korean artists using advanced lifelike painting techniques to create vivid, visual magic effects for tourists, a new worldwide entertainment trend. Located near the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, the 3D Magic Art Exhibition Hall is the first such art exhibition hall in China. The exhibition hall is really worth visiting. There are all sorts of 3D paintings demonstrating different themes, such as 3D Magic Effects, Ocean Adventure, Great Fortune, Exaggeration and Humor. Other magic scenes such as a magic cabin, magic furniture and glass mazes attract tourists as well!
Location: No. 2789 Riverside Promenade, Pudong district, Building B2 in the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
Transportation: Take subway line 2 to Lujiazui or Bus No. 870 to Zhengda Square
4. The Pulled Noodles Experience Center (拉面星球体验馆)
The Pulled Noodles Experience Center entertains tourists with an unprecedented experience. It shows the distinct culinary art of cooked noodles for the first time in China and displays all kinds of different noodles from all over the world. Here tourists can go through the whole process of making pulled noodles and learning about the diverse noodle cultures from all around the world. Tourists can watch or even make noodles by themselves in some open workshops where people make noodles, process vegetables and perform other culinary tasks. And here tourists can find the answers to some of their pressing questions, such as how to turn a simple combination of flour and water into various noodles of different thicknesses, lengths and shapes? And how do chefs produce bowls of such steaming, deliciously aromatic food?
Location: No. 269 Fangbin Road, Huangpu district, 3rd floor of Yuyuan Tourist Mart
Transportation: Take Bus No. 1, 64, 126, 930 or 945
5. Duolun Road Cultural Celebrities Street (多伦路文化名人街)
Location: Duolun Road, Hongkou district, near North Sichuan Road
Transportation: Take Bus No. 18, 52, 70, 97 or 939 to the final stop
Check out our best selling tour: Three-Day Essence Tour Of Shanghai
6. Jinshanzui Fishing Village (金山嘴渔村)
Jinshanzui Fishing Village is a beautiful sea "wonderland" whose views looking out to sea are sure to refresh and relax you. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jinshanzui was already a main coastal fisheries production area and an important distribution center for fishery products, which led to hundreds of thousands of businessmen and merchants gathering in this little town and bringing in prosperous times with the fishing trade. Now, in order to make full use of the coastal area's advantages, the government of Jinshanzui district is planning to restore old streets in the village. Besides planning to unify the layout of the infrastructure, such as the water and power supply, the government is also planning to restore the entire little fishing village, even to such details as the roofs, walls, doors and windows of the residents' houses, the store signs, and the pavement.
Location: No. 6394, Huhang Highway, Jinshan district
Transportation: Take subway line 1 to Jinjiang Amusement Park, then take the Shimeixian Bus (石梅线) to Shihus Bus Station, then exchange to Shanyang No. 2 or Xiweixian (西卫线) or Fengweixian (奉卫线)
7. The Sailing Carnival (帆船嘉年华)
With the theme of "sailing culture, from the water," the Sailing Carnival is held by Shanghai Boat & Yacht Club (SBYC) with great support from the Shanghai International Conference Management Organization (SICMO). The sailing games are going to begin on October 2nd, 2012 and will last for three days. The sailing teams are supposed to enter the game on behalf of their respective enterprises, and finally only about six to twelve teams will get permission to compete. The Sailing Carnival is a part of the Shanghai Tourism Festival, and it encourages local people as well as tourists to visit and enjoy the games, aiming to promote the cohesive force and team spirit in enterprises while encouraging white-collar workers to engage in healthy activities.
Also read Rafting around Shanghai - the 7 Best Places.
Location: No. 6888 Highway, Huqingping, Qingpu district, on the west shore of Dianshan Lake, near Grand View Garden
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“Then the next morning, he texted me and was like, ‘hey, do you happen to remember where I put my wallet?'” she said– confused, as she had no idea why he’d ask her. “I’ll be…damned if some guy thinks I stole his wallet on the first date.”
Little did she know that the reverse was actually what happened that night.
“He finds his wallet, which is great, but then he texts me, and he’s like, ‘hey, actually, like, your debit card is in my wallet,”,” she explains. “Which doesn’t make any..sense because I didn’t pay for anything that entire night, so why would my debit card be out?”
She didn’t think much of it past that confusion because they were going to meet up again for a date, so she could easily just get it back from him then.
Although this was her initial plan, it turned out that over the weekend, he didn’t reach out much, and they never made any definite plans to meet up, and she began to get a little suspicious.
“We’re again texting, nothing’s really happening from it, so I initiate plans,” Lindsey said. When he says no, she again thinks, “that’s kind of weird; why is he not trying to initiate plans with me? He has my debit card!”
As she was talking, she captioned the screen, saying that “he never offered to bring it to me or asked me if I needed it or anything.”
She began to get really suspicious of his behavior, to say the least. But it gets even worse from here because he reaches out to her the next day to see how she is. When she reciprocates, he never answers–ever.
“Now I’m super annoyed, super confused, and super just like, what the f***?!” she said. “So I check my bank account just for fun…there’s a charge.”
So not only did this man ghost her, but he also actually stole her debit card instead of returning it to her.
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AHHHHHHH life!!!! What gets you out of bed in the morning? Has chaotic bliss, beat down your door and entered your house?? I think I was too
busy, “knowing everything” when I was informed that being a grown up just might have a few obstacles…….I obviously wasn’t paying close attention!!
Even in the pursuit or victory of our dreams, there still exists… responsibility! Responsibility leads to discipline which in turn hands you off to
structure and that is how you wind up at…”chaos”….controlled of course…..but non the less chaos! I know, it caught me off guard too!! But here we
are….in the middle of our dreams….things going well and BOOM….the flip side to those wonderful answered prayers can be…. hectic, stressful and
demanding. That consistent pace has been upgraded to a rapid blur….how and when did this happen! You are all of the sudden the Rumplestilskin of your
warp speed life, coming to, just a few seconds before impact. We end up on our knees saying, ” uhhh God…….I don’t remember praying for this?”
If you find yourself in this precarious position…….stop for a second and reevaluate things! First off, ask yourself, what is my main focus and is the
source what drives me, “Christ”? Am I following, or did I take the control somewhere along the way? At times we get so caught up in serving and
chasing God that we run ahead of our Leader. Like a child in a toy store that dashes off to show you one toy and a few minutes later realizes that he lost
sight of you about six toys back…….panic sets in as he desperately searches to find you. Many of you know what I am talking about, those who have
passionately sought after goals, rely on that tenacity to keep things going. Now you consider it a deficit when you have lost sight of your Leader! You
become instantly aware…that when you are following Christ, this quality is most definitely an asset! But perspective is key here….and “tenacity”looks
more ! like, pigheadedness, stubbornness and pride..when staring at it in the rear view mirror!!
Second, has your goal… since it’s conception, picked up any extra bulk that is non productive? Like rolling extra home improvements projects into a
refinance…..it is easier to take, wrapped up with bigger stuff. As if you were putting stinky shoes next to the diaper pale…….whose going to notice them
now??! Eventually you will need to deal with the stinky shoes! Now, dealing with this excess fat that your dream has acquired……will consist of a Holy
diet. Trim the fat, anything that is weighing you down and not helping your cause……cut it out of your schedule, take it off of your list…..make the
phone call and say, “No” to that thing you have absolutely no time for…..and the project that could just push you over the edge!! If someone is using
guilt to get you to do something, cutting them out! It should be like tossing a stale, moldy donut out…an easy way to cut calories! Now, it is ! just the
fresh baked ones that give you the problems! You need to do a priority check, are you locked into God’s will and not on the major blessings and doors God
threw open for you; people, projects, opportunities, etc….?? It is so easy to get off track but difficult to get back on! Refocus and put Christ first, He
never intended for us to be in a state of chaos, because we loose our effectiveness!! Life is like a river, you need to allow God to direct the flow because it
can overflow its boundaries and become misdirected. By pushing or neglecting God’s limits, you can easily go over the edges if you don’t watch God.
Dedicate yourself to be lead and directed by Him……not focusing on the upcoming twist, turns and raging rapids!!
If I have described any part of your life, pray…pray and then pray some more! God wants to bless us and give us the very best we can have…..but if we
are too busy to enjoy it, our blessings and favor get covered up and ignored…maybe even missed altogether!
Remember, even the Son of God……the very Creator and Redeemer drew away to a quite place to pray on many occasions! He did not pull away to escape
His life or add more chaos to it….but to communicate and keep in touch with His Father!! Intimately understanding and hearing what God has for you can
be so rewarding, not to mention a rush of a lifetime!! If you have neglected in putting Him first……..start today and communicate with Him! Before you
know it you will be anticipating your next meeting!
I have heard this saying and have no idea whose said it, but is very true…………If Satan cannot make you bad then he’ll keep you busy…….distracted
from what really matters!!!
As the summer is upon us dedicate it to Christ and watch what happens!! May God richly bless you and may your passion and joy for Him be new and
more intense with each new day!! God wants to bless us, lets just make it easier by cleaning up the old and making room for the future!! May God burden
the hearts of all those reading this that need to start courting their Lord again……and may you find strength in Him, to stay consistent and grow in your
passion for Him!! And may God richly Bless you as you do!!Back to Devotionals Page
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I wonder what people think about putting the volume knob on the top side of the box rather than through the lid. Seems like the knob can get in the way when strumming, especially with a smaller box. Most people seem to put the knobs on the lid, in the corner near the bridge.
related question: if the side or the lid is too thick for the potentiometer shaft length, is it better to remove some material to thin the wood, or just buy a pot with a longer shaft?
I have seen knobs on the upper left corner(RH guitar) by the neck. As far as thickness goes either option works. There are builders who have 4 band equalizer on the side, no reason not having knobs there also. Number one rule for CBG's "There are no rules"!
Thanks. Yes, I thought about using a plate.
I always want to do it different, but you take the prize!
That's definitely new to me.
You have a cable running the length of the neck on the top of it?
yeah, it runs down the truss rod channel . since the jack is in the head too. ;-) it's glued in and sunk flush . it just looks protruding in the pic .
If at some point you can be bothered, I'd appreciate a picture of the instrument in full :)
Here's a vid .. there's some other weird stuff in there . lol . it's electric razor powered . ;-)
One of a kind! I especially love the slide holster.
What are those two pegs protruding from the pickup area?
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Spend time with the family over breakfast, treat the kids with a free Magic Planet card.
Families who start off their weekend with a leisurely mid-morning breakfast at City Centre Qurum can round off the morning with some complimentary play time at Magic Planet. It’s a new campaign called “Everyone Loves Weekend Mornings’ and invites parents, children and anyone who enjoys the quieter hours of the mall to indulge in a choice of more than 55 restaurants and cafes. What’s more, with a filling meal to energise the day, any spend of AED 60 or more on breakfast can be redeemed for free credit for kids to play at Magic Planet. It’s a weekend morning both parents and kids will fall in love with, only at City Centre Qurum .
‘Everyone Loves Weekend Mornings’ is an ongoing campaign, making City Centre Qurum the ideal family destination on a Friday or Saturday morning, which will become the trend as the weather warms up. With many of the mall’s cafes and restaurants offering special breakfast deals, City Centre Qurum offers a meal suited for all tastes, budgets and food preferences. Families that dine anywhere between 10am – 1pm on the weekend at participating restaurants and spend at least AED 60 on breakfast, will get a complimentary Magic Planet card valid for 30 credits that kids can use on any games or rides. What’s more, the free cards can be used any day and time at Magic Planet. Parents can also double the fun when they spend AED 120 on a meal – and get two Magic Planet cards.
“Our ‘weekend mornings’ campaign rewards those families who enjoy quality time in each other’s company,” said Fuad Al Najjar, Senior Asset Director, Asset Management, Shopping Malls. “City Centre Qurum offers variety, affordability and convenience of choice across our many family-friendly cafes and restaurants who offer breakfast for kids and adults. As an added treat, we’re giving families the opportunity to spend more quality time together by offering kids some free play time at Magic Planet. As an ongoing campaign, parents and kids will fall in love with City Centre Qurum this – and every weekend.” | <urn:uuid:cd17eefb-3e63-489d-8373-00690cc6c741> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.citycentrequrum.com/media-centre/parents-and-kids-will-fall-in-love-with | 2023-09-23T16:50:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.920653 | 466 |
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Allison has over 19 years of successful banking experience in the Upper Valley. With her extensive mortgage origination background, she’ll be able to guide you through the process to find the best solution. Allison is currently a member of the Upper Valley Affiliate Realtor Group, the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce Membership and Service Committee as well as the Upper Valley Green Real-Estate Network at Vital Communities and a Board Member of the Town of Hartford Parks and Recreation Department. Her previous volunteer and committee work includes being a Rotarian in Hartford, VT and being on the Board of the Sunapee Board of Realtors.
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Denise has been with Claremont Savings for over 30 years and she is an active participant in many community events. Her broad knowledge and experience with Retail Banking and Consumer Lending is truly an asset. These skills allow her to comprehensively understand your financial picture and lending needs, and make the best product recommendations for you.
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Brianna began her career at Claremont Savings Bank in 2015 and progressed through various customer service roles that lead to her current position of Mortgage Loan Originator. Ever-changing market conditions, products, and regulations keep Brianna on her toes as a lender. She stays educated to provide the most informative advice to her customers.
Brianna is an Advisory Council Member for the Center of Financial Training recommending and improving educational materials used by financial professionals. CFTEA has provided her the opportunities to earn a Universal Banking Certificate, Universal Banking Diploma, Supervisor/Team Leader Certificate, Branch Manager Certificate, and Residential Mortgage Lending Certificate.
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She serves on the Good Neighbor Award Committee, Neighbors Helping Neighbors Committee, and the Business Partners Committee of the Sunapee Region Board of Realtors to stay connected.
Brianna loves to get outside and hike, spend summer days on Lake Sunapee, and make home buying dreams come true.
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Public Hearing on Washington Privacy Act (SSB 5376) in Senate Ways & Means – More Work to Be Done?
The Washington State Senate Ways & Means Committee held a public hearing on the Washington Privacy Act (SSB 5376) yesterday and is scheduled to discuss the bill during the committee’s executive session today. The Substitute Senate Bill was approved by the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology on a 11-0 vote earlier this month and referred to Ways & Means. In the House, the Washington Privacy Act is HB 1854.
The changes to the bill made by the Environment, Energy & Technology Committee according to the Senate Bill Report:
– Provides and clarifies definitions.
– Adds exemptions for municipal corporations and for information regulated by state and federal laws.
– Clarifies that controllers shall facilitate requests to exercise consumer rights after the request is verified and that the personal data subject to a verified request is maintained in an identifiable form by the controller.
– Provides conditions under which the right to deletion does not apply.
– Clarifies the conditions under which a controller must restrict processing of a consumer’s personal data.
– Removes section regarding a consumer’s right to not be subject to a decision based solely on profiling.
– Provides that a controller must communicate any correction, deletion, or restriction of processing to each known third-party within one year preceding the verified request.
– Requires controllers to conduct risk assessments of their processing activities involving personal data and anytime there is a change in processing that materially increases the risk to consumers.
– Removes the requirement for risk assessments to be completed annually.
– Requires controllers to obtain consent from consumers prior to deploying facial recognition services in physical premises open to the public.
– Removes the requirement for notice of the use of facial recognition services to be available online.
– Requires the state privacy office, in consultation with the Attorney General, to establish by rule any exceptions to this chapter necessary to comply with state or federal laws, clarify definitions, and create eligibility requirements for small businesses and research institutions.
– Changes the effective date to July 31, 2021.
– Make technical changes throughout.
(More information about the public hearing below the image)
Summary of the Public Hearing on the Washington Privacy Act:
There were not a lot of questions or comments from the Ways & Means Committee of the witnesses. There was a significant executive session before the public hearing started and a number of bills on the agenda today, so speakers were encouraged to limit their remarks. It was interesting that both the Washington Retail Association and the ACLU spoke against the bill, though for very different reasons. Also, it appears that there are significant non-public discussions going on about the privacy bill, as several witnesses applauded these efforts to address concerns.
Senator Carlyle, the prime sponsor, was given an opportunity to introduce the bill.
Chief Privacy Officer of Washington State spoke in support of the bill.
Microsoft representative spoke in support of the bill as something that is not only good for privacy but good for business. According to him, it incorporates the best aspects of GDPR and CCPA.
Washington Retail representative spoke against it and in favor of a federal solution. He also handed out specific changes to the bill that he said would improve it.
ACLU Washington rep. also opposed it on both data privacy and facial recognition. Feels that there is more work to be done on it.
President of the student body at the University of Washington School of Law testified in opposition with respect to facial recognition. He asked for these sections to be removed and HB1655 to be supported.
Consumer Data Industry Association rep asked for technical corrections to the Fair Credit Reporting Act section.
RELX rep asked for an amendment to the fraud section to come in line with how certain government and business practices in this area work.
Toy Association rep asked for an exemption for businesses that are complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) due to its preemption clause.
Axon Enterprises rep provided a handout with clarifying amendments around section 14 and 15 including addition of protective language for trade secrets, intellectual property, etc. as well as the
Washington Association Sheriffs & Police Chiefs rep testified against the bill limited to section 15 on law enforcement use.
Motorola Solutions rep testified against with respect to law enforcement use and an extension of the exemption to allow use in schools (public and private) as well.
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State CCPA Privacy Bills in Rhode Island, Hawaii and New Jersey
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Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, spoke at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Young Lawyers’ Section (YLS) Tuesday (Nov. 6, 2018) on the “Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Trial.”
King, a highly experienced trial attorney particularly in the area of plaintiffs’ medical malpractice, spoke on “Taking Depositions of Treating Physicians.” The other speakers included the Hon. Clare McWilliams and Hon. Marguerite Quinn, Cook County Circuit Court Judges of the Law Division.
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by Doug Evans The French equivalent of the BMC, COSIROC, has published the definitive (or as close as possible) guide to the east part of Fontainebleau. Escalade à Bleau Tome 2 : Foret domaniale de Fontainebleau is 120 FF (er, dunno what that is in Euros). Approximately it covers the forest east of the A6, so has Francard, Cuvier, Rocher Canon and many more. Includes all circuits at all areas plus other unmarked problems unlike the two selective guides. (vol 1 was published a couple of years ago and covers les Trois Pignons). The note at http://escalade-online.com says there are more than 250 problems at 7c or above, in a total of about 3,000 problem. And it?s in colour. Secondly, Cosiroc is organising a litter collecting and general tidy-up at Trois Pinons on 23 September. This is the third of a series of such days (Ailefroide and possibly the Calanques were the others), sponsored by Beal. Any British climbers in the area at the time might want to participate. | <urn:uuid:0338311a-f1c5-44aa-b664-68c642250889> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.climbing.de/news/new-font-guidebook-in-french-trois-pinons-tidying-42192.html | 2023-09-23T17:54:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.925841 | 241 |
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With its combination of tropical climes and French sophistication, Guadeloupe holidays are perfect for families who want luxury and adventure. Your base will be La Caravelle next to one of the island's most beautiful beaches and set in the heart of an amazing tropical garden.
Luxuriate in a Caribbean paradise with European charms and an abundance of exciting days out
§ Great for adventurous family-friendly holidays and romantic escapes
§ Buy crafts, spices, fresh fruit and homemade rum at the waterfront market
§ Hike to the Chutes du Carbet with three waterfalls at different heights
§ Visit the sheltered bays and calm waters of Grande-Terre for sailing and swimming
§ Dive off Pigeon Island and discover a coral reef bursting with sea life
§ Ride a speedboat and explore the mangrove of the Rivière Salée
What to expect in Guadeloupe:
There is so much to explore on your all-inclusive holiday in Guadeloupe. Stroll across La Désirade, a former leper colony with an enchanting deserted beach. Trek through the lush jungle, stand under amazing waterfalls and meet the abundant wildlife. Soak up the views at Pointe des Châteaux where crashing waves meet dramatic rocks.
Holidays in Guadeloupe offer the chance to climb a live volcano – La Soufrière – in the heart of the Guadeloupe National Park, before relaxing in a thermal pool. Visit banana, pineapple and sugar cane plantations on a guided 4x4 tour. Skywalk the rainforest canopy at Guadeloupe Zoo with rope bridges running through the trees. Or see fascinating Fort Napoléon, home to a military museum and an enchanting story of lost love.
Our all-inclusive Resort La Caravelle in Guadeloupe
La Caravelle, on the Grande-Terre "wing" of Guadeloupe, welcomes you for a superb all-inclusive holiday on this French West Indian island. Between Club Med sports - windsurfing, sailing, flying trapeze and more - and chilling on the beach, you'll find the perfect balance to ensure you of a total "getaway" holiday. Guadeloupe's most beautiful beach is all yours! New products to discover in your Resort, with an enriched offer for families, and new experiences that everyone can enjoy.
What to see and do in Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe enjoys warm temperatures all year long thanks to its gorgeous tropical climate. There’s a dry “Lent” season from January to June and a wet “Winter” season from July to December. The year-round heat is tempered by the famous Trade Winds, often providing pleasant sea breezes while you soak up the sun.
The best time to visit Guadeloupe is between December and April, when the weather is hot and dry with average highs between 29°C and 30°C.
To discover in Guadeloupe:
"The butterfly island" seduces with its wild beaches and unspoiled forests. Start your all-inclusive stay in Guadeloupe with the Petite-Terre and Désirade nature reserves. This protected marine and terrestrial space, with typical Antilles flora and fauna, is a digest of Guadeloupe. Cross Grande-Terre and its cane fields to reach Basse-Terre and its diversity of landscapes. The mangroves and coconut palms, the tropical forest and the Soufrière reliefs give your stay an air of adventure. On the slopes of the Soufrière crater, enjoy a 360° view as far as Marie-Galante and Grande-Terre.
This prodigious nature is at the service of your relaxation. During your all-inclusive stay in Guadeloupe, discover the plantations, translucent waters and beaches of Marie-Galante, before setting off for a scuba diving encounter with dolphins and turtles. Back to your Club Med La Caravelle resort in Grande-Terre, walk along the south coast and bask in the sun on the famous beaches of Le Gosier or La Caravelle. Between two tanning sessions, you can practice your swing during your stay in Guadeloupe: the Saint-François golf course is only 30 minutes from Club Med La Caravelle resort.
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category: Campus News Four announce retirement from Carson-Newman this fall category: Campus News | December 14, 2021 University Registrar Sheryl Gray will retire from Carson-Newman at the end of December with 35 years of service. Throughout her career, Gray has been credited of going above and beyond for students at C-N. Four members of Carson-Newman’s faculty and staff announced retirements in 2021. The group marks 103 years of total service to the University. Sheryl Gray, C-N’s registrar, will retire in early January after 35 years of service to the University. She said the transition is bitter sweet. “I will miss my community in so many ways. I’ll miss working with faculty, with students, and fellow staff members,” Gray said. “I always felt like we were a big team. When I would talk to other people that left here and went to work at other schools, it’s definitely different. One of our strongest suits is that we are not out for each individual office, but we’re here for the good of the student and the institution.” In reflecting on her time at C-N, Gray said she loved seeing students grow academically as well as spiritually. “My biggest joy is to see a student cross the stage and be awarded a degree. That’s what we’re all about.” Gray joins colleagues Connie Kenyon, Valerie Stephens and Susie Trentham, each retiring during the fall semester. University President Charles A. Fowler commended each for their work. “There are many attributes that make this university special. Among the top of those reasons are our faculty and staff,” said Fowler. “They are the ones who work tirelessly to welcome our students each year to campus and to walk alongside them throughout their college years. These four individuals represent some of the very best of our Carson-Newman family. It is their hard work and devotion that has helped Carson-Newman become the University it is today. For that, we are all indebted.” Those retiring this semester: Sheryl Gray, university registrar- 35 years Connie Kenyon, enterprise systems programmer/analyst- 23 years Valerie Stephens, director for Online and Distance Learning- 23 years Susie Trentham, director for Advancement- 22 years University Registrar Sheryl Gray will retire from Carson-Newman at the end of December with 35 years of service. Throughout her career, Gray has been credited of going above and beyond for students at C-N. | <urn:uuid:3b04f7ed-893b-487e-bc4b-a96f974aa8e5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cn.edu/four-announce-retirement-from-carson-newman-this-fall/ | 2023-09-23T18:43:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.968226 | 532 |
A boutique hotel in the heart of the Peak District, The Peacock at Rowsley is a quintessentially English country getaway.
Part of the Haddon Estate, The Peacock is a grade two listed former steward’s house. Rich in history, it dates back to 1652 and has the air of those classic English estates from yesteryear – the Pride and Prejudice cast stayed there while filming the 2005 film, only adding to that sense of old-world luxury.
Today the house has been revamped with four-poster beds, antique furnishings, contemporary fabrics and Farrow & Ball on the walls, ensuring this hotel is less old servants’ quarters, more chic boutique country bolthole. With the right amount of traditional and modern, this is a hotel that has the right balance of old-school luxury and a laid-back country lifestyle.
With just 15 bedrooms, the hotel is intimate and the service impeccable, with small, thoughtful touches that make it a special one to stay in – plus, no two rooms are alike and they’ve managed to retain that unique character and individuality of the building.
One of the best things about The Peacock is the restaurant, which has been awarded with three AA rosettes. Here it’s all about fine dining; headed up by Chef Dan Smith, who was trained by Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens, the menu is full of inventive dishes using locally sourced ingredients. Think roast partridge, rabbit with tarragon gnocchi and fresh Dover sole with shellfish and Jersey royals, with more informal options in the bar – complete with roaring open fire.
The location is unbeatable too. Situated in a small village just outside Bakewell and next to the river Derwent, Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall can both be reached by foot, while dry fly fishing fans will be in their element on the rivers Derwent and Wye.
For more information about The Peacock at Rowsley, visit the hotel’s website.
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Dear Neil: I’m a 37 year-old virgin heterosexual woman who has never had interest in sex or other genital activity. What few relationships I’ve had consisted of hugging, snuggling and kissing—all from the waist up. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. In fact, intercourse repulses me.
My doctor says I’m anatomically normal. I’ve never witnessed or suffered from sexual abuse. My parents didn’t talk hatefully about sex. I am not religious.
My mother says when I meet the right man, my sex drive will magically appear. I already have the drive to snuggle and kiss. Obviously, I can’t get married because no man wants a wife who refuses sex. What do you make of my “asexuality”?
Born This Way
Dear Born This Way: The drive to snuggle and kiss is about wanting to belong, as well as wanting to be nurtured, taken care of, touched, pampered and accepted. If you watch a litter of puppies or kittens, you will notice that virtually all warm-blooded life wants to cuddle and kiss.
The drive to have sex—at least for most people—is related to wanting to bond with someone and be more intimate. It is also associated with wanting to nurture and give to someone else, as well as the desire to be nurtured, given to and wanted.
So the first question that occurs to me is how easy is it for you to bond with other people? If you have a hard time bonding and letting another person in, you’re less likely to feel sexual, interested or aroused.
I wonder if you’ve ever permitted yourself to explore sexual sensations and feelings. What do you feel when you kiss and hug? Have you ever touched yourself, or permitted yourself the experience of being sexually aroused?
If you simply don’t want sex, but you still want to be married, you could probably find an asexual man who also wants to marry. They exist also.
Dear Neil: My husband and I have not had a physical relationship for three years. We have managed to stay together in a non-physical relationship that has been amicable and tolerable. I know that in his heart he loves me, but he has totally shut down to me. He has told me he has no sexual drive, but I know he masturbates frequently, which leaves me feeling very undesirable, lonely and frustrated.
How should I tell him what this is doing to me? Why is this effecting my self-concept? I do not want to be celibate the rest of my life.
Dear Going Without: Your first step is to let your husband know exactly how much it hurts you, knowing that he’s masturbating while at the same time avoiding sex with you.
Secondly—and more importantly—why is your marriage in this position to begin with? Have the two of you fallen out of love? Are you battling each other over some unresolved, or even some unaddressed issue? What is the power struggle between you about? And why are you permitting your marriage to deteriorate without
doing everything you can to rescue it?
Ask your husband what he is so withdrawn about, and what he would need or want in order to come back. And do it now. Relationships are living and breathing entities which die when not given enough time, attention, affection and warmth. | <urn:uuid:4bf363e2-c2b1-4b03-bf81-862be41fba2b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coloradomarriageretreats.com/asexual/ | 2023-09-23T18:31:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.972843 | 725 |
Have you ever seen a magical book? Look very closely because things are not always what they seem. More than 40 visual
games and optical illusions to entertain the young and the not so young with the effects they'll find on every page. And not
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Berlin Hauptbahnhof serviced offices and flexible fully furnished office space to let on Europaplatz, Berlin, 10557. These Berlin Hauptbahnhof serviced offices in Berlin’s Central Station is on the 8th floor of the light-flooded and filigree building that overarches the central station of Berlin. Enjoy the very aesthetic furnishing and the view over the skyline of Berlin.This Berlin Central Station Business Center will offer you: • Office spaces: from one to 20 workstations. Sign today, move in tomorrow. Offices of every size. Single offices. Team offices. Office suites
• Virtual Office: Just hire the business address and the secretariat that answers the phone in your company name.
• Telephone service: Individual telephone answering in your company name.
• Conference rooms: Use our offices-for-a-day or conference rooms for your meetings.
The representative and modern Business Center that meet the highest expectations for identity and individuality. Please pay attention to our second Business Center in Berlin which is located within direct distance at the ‘Friedrichstraße’ that is also in the middle of Berlin. | <urn:uuid:5788e20e-d27f-4498-bc0b-e504737d9210> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.completeofficesearch.com/office-space/excellent-business-centers-gmbh-3/ | 2023-09-23T18:46:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.913804 | 241 |
Serviced Offices Quays Reach 16 Carolina Way Salford Manchester M50 2ZY
All offices are a combination of open-plan and Cellular offices including breakout areas with soft furnishings and meeting booths.
Internal meeting rooms are fitted with tablets and scheduling software to allow you to book meetings and check availability With flexible all-inclusive pricing and no setup costs, it’s as simple as plug and play.
Hope Park Workspaces, Quays Reach is located just off South Langworthy Road in Salford Quays, 1 1⁄2 miles to the west of Manchester City.
The building benefits from being close to Langworthy Metrolink Station and a short stroll away from all the amenities in MediaCity.
The M602 motorway in less than 5 minutes drive away, linking the building to the M60 and the rest of the regional motorway network.
Langworthy Tram stop (0.2m)
Broadway Tram stop (0.3m)
Co-op Store (0.5m)
BBC/ ITV Media City (0.6m)
Marco’s New York Italian (0.6m)
The Botanist & The Alchemist (0.6m)
The Lowry (0.8m)
Manchester United Stadium (1.9m)
Business is more than just number crunching. It’s about doing something significant, something that matters and something that leaves a mark on the world.
That’s why Hope Park operates as a social enterprise in partnership with the National Charity, TLG Transforming lives for Good.
ALL PROFIT goes back into investing in the futures of struggling children across the UK.
We’re not looking to cram our own pockets but sow deep into young lives. By sharing our space, you can too. | <urn:uuid:7838ff45-845a-4c01-82b3-2106e5278131> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.completeofficesearch.com/office-space/serviced-offices-quays-reach-16-carolina-way-salford-manchester-m50-2zy/ | 2023-09-23T17:40:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.917309 | 391 |
Yes, putting citrus fruit into your compost has many benefits, as long as you balance the acidity in your compost pile to counter the acidity boost that citrus will bring to the pH balance of your pile. Also, if you are vermicomposting, you may want to avoid adding citrus fruits altogether, as certain worms prefer not to eat citrus, which can slow down the decomposition process in worm compost bins, but in regular composting systems, adding citrus fruit and peels is perfectly safe and has several benefits.
The strong scent which is produced by citrus fruit can deter pests, rodents, and other unwanted animals, and keep them from digging around in your compost. The reason composters have avoided composting citrus fruit in the past is because the chemical oils present in citrus fruit were believed to harm the beneficial insects that live in your compost and help speed up the decomposition process in your pile.
However, studies have shown that the chemical oils which are present in citrus fruit break down very quickly, so there is no danger of the oils being a threat to beneficial insects in your compost system. When citrus fruit and peels break down, they add nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus to the humus, all three of which are important nutrients that your soil needs to help plants thrive.
When composting citrus fruit and peels, use the following tips to help speed up the decomposition process and keep a good pH balance in your compost. Cut or tear the peels into small pieces to help speed up the composting process, as large peels take a long time to break down and can slow down the decomposition process.
If the acidity level of your pile increases from adding in citrus products, balance out the pH by adding in more grass clippings. To keep mold from growing on your citrus peels in your compost and to keep your pile breaking down at a steady speed, keep your pile’s temperature as hot as possible by turning the pile every few weeks. | <urn:uuid:4c3051ec-9a78-4d5c-aa9b-cba4d69f67a4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.compostguide.com/can-you-put-citrus-in-compost/ | 2023-09-23T18:18:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.96057 | 404 |
Comprehensive Counseling, Coaching & Consulting, PLLC
Effective Tools and Guidance
Comprehensive Counseling, Coaching & Consulting, PLLC of Charlotte, NC uses specialized tools to help balance the mind, body and spirit so you can live the life you want and deserve.
Our Effective Tools May Include
Comprehensive Clinical Assessment
This consultation can properly touch on specialty areas that need to be addressed. Please contact us for more details on this and other services.
We can meet remotely through a teleconferencing site, making the process very easy and extremely private. | <urn:uuid:38b11ef3-4283-4df1-afe3-8a8a0f158c9c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.comprehensiveccc.com/treatment-modalities | 2023-09-23T18:17:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.883295 | 125 |
4K HDMI 2.0, Single SC Fiber Cable Tx/Rx Set - 656'
The FO-HDM4K-200-EMIX-SET Transmitter/Receiver Extender Set over Single SC OM3 Fiber Cable has been designed to extend 4K video and multi-channel audio formats to any compatible 4K display up to 656' away. Video signals include 4K60 (4096x2160) and 4K60 (UHD 3840x2160), 3D and Full HD 1080p/60. This kit includes both a Transmitter (FO-HDM4K-200-EMIX-S) and Receiver (FO-HDM4K-200-EMIX-R) with one FTP output port that allows users to extend video and audio up to 656'. Input and Output ports support HBR2 cable assembly and can handle up to 5.4Gbps/lane data rate (18Gbps). EDID and Hot Plug channels are transmitted by copper line. Avenview has also re-designed the enclosure of these devices allow them to be easily installed into any environment, behind a monitor, or rack mounted on a rack shelf. With this new compact rugged design, installers now benefit from a complete solution that keeps pace with the new trends of rackmounted 4K streaming, network connected devices that are in demand with the latest Smart TV, ultra HD monitors and content.
- Data Rate: 18Gbps (5.4/ graphics channel)
- Signal transmission through one SC terminated Multimode fiber optic (OM3)
- HDMI 2.0 and HDCP Compliant
- CEC Compliant
- Supports SCDC (Scrambling) function
- Real EDID Transmission
- Audio Supported: Surround Sound Up to 7.1 Channel or Stereo Digital Audio
- HDMI Connector: Type A (19-pin Female)
- Fiber Type: 50/125 Multi-mode glass fiber OM3 rated fiber
- Power Supply (2 x Included): 5 V/2 A DC (US/EU standards, CE/FCC/UL certified)
- Included Cables: 2 x HDIMI (Copper Cable - 3')
- Weight: 1.5lbs
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 114L x 25W x 20H(mm) for each unit
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In November, we celebrated Native American Heritage Month. The National Congress of American Indians guides us to recognize November as:
"a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories [while] acknowledging the important contributions of Native people...educate the general public about tribes, raise general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced... and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges."
Unfortunately, much of North America is just beginning to recognize the contributions of Indigenous peoples. As Jews, our own experiences with discrimination create sensitivity and solidarity with the plight of the Indigenous population. This is especially true for those of us with intersectional identities, including BIPOC Jews. Still, all of us must bear the responsibility to shed light on racial injustice. From Yalkut Shimoni ("Gathering of Simon) 1:13, one midrashic commentary on the books of the Tanach that was compiled between the 11th and 14th century, we understand our communal responsibility to ensure equity is every person's reality:
"God formed Adam out of dust from all over the world: yellow clay, white sand, black loam and red soil. Therefore, no one can declare to any race or color of people that they do not belong here since this soil is not their home."
Yet, our society continues to fail Indigenous communities in many ways, illustrated especially by the thousands of Indigenous people who have gone missing or been murdered throughout the United States and Canada. Indigenous people are working to raise awareness about how their communities are being harmed - but why is it that the rest of the world isn't listening?
Our Jewish values instruct us to listen to the words of God, the teachings of our ancestors, and the commandments that help us live a moral, and Jewish way of life. There remains a continued need to prove our trauma to the rest of the world, a continued need for the world to hear stories, just as there is a need for the Indigenous population to be heard by everyone. Holocaust denial continues to fuel a rise in antisemitism, and so too will Indigenous communities continue to be threatened if we do not listen to their cries. Of the 5,712 Indigenous women reported missing in the U.S. in 2016, only 116 were logged by the federal missing person's database, according to the New York Times . We must do better in speaking out when another group of people is being intentionally targeted and harmed.
Lack of awareness is what makes the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Sprit (MMIWG2S) Movement a necessity. This movement gained traction in Canada in 2015 as Native women and their families spread awareness about the threats to their communities. Indigenous women and girls are at a disproportionate risk of violent and non-violent victimization. In Canada, Indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to be murdered or abducted than any other group, according to CanadianWomen.org. In America, four out of five American Indian and Alaskan Native women experience violence in their lifetimes according to NCJRS, more than any other racial group. Protests and an increased use of social media advocacy have been useful in building awareness about these issues and the movement's momentum, but Indigenous citizens have been speaking out and sharing their stories for years.
In 2009, The REDress Project was founded by artist Jamie Black, first seen on the campus of the University of Winnipeg and Manitoba, Canada. Over 100 red dresses were displayed to "acknowledge the spirits of those who have crossed over and honor their lives by collectively creating a growing movement towards social change." Since the exhibit was first presented, it has been shown in public spaces internationally, and has sparked an arts-based movement in support of the MMIWG2S Movement. However, without support and action from the Jewish community, Americans, Canadians, and non-Indigenous communities, Native people will continue to be overlooked, their contributions erased, and experience unnecessary disparities which have allowed Indigenous peoples to go missing and be murdered.
It is our duty to listen and to act. As the ancient Israelites promised: "We will do and we will hear" (Exodus 24:7). But we must do better. We must hear better. The Exodus story teaches us what it is like to be oppressed and enslaved - another experience we share with the Native population - but it also shows us that our work is ongoing. The journey of our people continued after we were freed from Egypt, as so too does our journey for justice persist. We have a divine responsibility to care for our neighbors, and we must continue to fulfill our role in upholding the world God created by making it more equitable for all.
That is why, this Native American Heritage Month we ask that you take action to help your Indigenous neighbors:
Learn more about the missing and murdered Indigenous People crisis by
Reading resources provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Justice Services on Indian Affairs
Watching webinars which share the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reading the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's summary of actions taken in the U.S. in support of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirits Movement
Reading more accounts of impacted families
Seek out opportunities to raise awareness by
Checking out some recommendations from the Urban Indian Centre of Salt Lake
Reviewing some tips from We R Native
Connecting with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) USA
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