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Here is a fantastic idea, put together for Earth Hour, skateboards made from waste out of a tip by the brilliant Mac Premo.
Do the Green Thing has teamed up with World Wildlife Fund-UK to curate the ‘Everyday Things’ collection: fifteen artists from around the world were asked to repurpose daily objects and show how creativity can lead the way in encouraging people to live a greener lifestyle. When artist Mac Premo was asked to contribute to the collection, he partnered with Sanford Shapes to create skateboard decks made entirely out of material lifted from a dumpster. Mac then made this film which shows the process and inspiration behind the Bucket Board.
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Two decades ago, University of California history professor Alice O’Connor was a Ford Foundation program officer. In addition to her extensive publishing track record of books on poverty, O’Connor’s Ford credentials make her comments on the new strategy announced by Ford Foundation president Darren Walker worth considering.
As NPQ Newswire readers remember, Walker has announced that the Ford Foundation’s top priority going forward will be reducing social and economic inequality, which he sees as “structurally embedded…in markets, political institutions, social attitudes, and cultural norms…not something…that can be addressed by traditional opportunity-opening grants,” as O’Connor puts it. She welcomes Walker’s appreciation of the structural dimensions of inequality, though she notes that “the analysis itself is hardly a revelation—echoing, as it does, what progressive activists and intellectuals have been saying and working-class people have been experiencing or decades.”
“More notable, to me,” O’Connor adds, “is the foundation’s at least implicit acknowledgement that current-day capitalism—and the political power lines and cultural narratives that prop it up—is a big part of the problem.”
O’Connor contends that Ford’s new strategy “cuts against recent trends in foundation philanthropy, which if anything has mirrored and reinforced the polarized patterns of capitalism by growing more concentrated in asset distribution, enamored of ideas such as ‘philanthrocapitalism,’ and overt in its efforts to capitalize on, rather than question the political economics that produced the fortunes of the global .01%–of which the Warren Buffett/Bill Gates billionaire ‘giving pledge’ and the hoopla over ‘social impact bonds’ are just two cases in point.”
That is one possibility, but there have been other statements from Ford in the past couple of years that don’t sound like the foundation is going to turn all that far against its capitalist roots and commitments, as the essays in a special issue of the Ford Forum implied. Just last year, the Ford Foundation was a key sponsor and supporter of the U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing along with the hardly anti-capitalist Case Foundation, among others, and with Walker as a member of the NAB membership along with representatives of Morgan Stanley, the Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg LP.
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Nonetheless, O’Connor sees the new Ford strategy as geared “even at its most innovative…to use its influence to ‘leverage’ markets for program purposes than to question the way the market system works,” though the NAB recommendations that Ford signed onto are market-leveraging visions (with appropriate regulatory relaxation from federal agencies). She suggests that with the “announced change of direction, and accompanying talk of structural and systemic-level intervention, Ford positions itself as a countervailing force to the direction capitalism has and continues to take in its late 20th/early 21st century period of neoliberal restructuring.”
Like the rest of the observers of Ford’s new direction, O’Connor notes that the proof of Ford’s strategy will be in the pudding:
“Just how the Ford Foundation is going to pursue its ambition to strike at the roots of inequality—and how willing to challenge the power of capital—at this point remains to be seen… Walker’s statements about ‘what’s ahead’ have thus far been deliberately non-committal when it comes to how this translates into practice, except to characterize Ford’s move as an ‘evolving’ strategy.”
O’Connor poses several questions about the potential extension of the Walker strategy beyond Ford’s grantmaking:
“Does the foundation intend to extend its grantmaking philosophy to its own investment, internal governing, and global employment practices? Will it be willing to fund organizing as a core, institution-building need rather than an afterthought? Will it be open to bringing class, in intersection with race, gender, and sexuality, more overtly and systematically into its analysis and programming—relinquishing what has long been an unspoken taboo in mainstream philanthropy? Will it break with tradition by engaging more directly with organized and organizing labor? Having acknowledged that it needs to change its own standard operating procedures, how far is the Ford Foundation willing to go?”
Other Ford-watchers like Erica Kohl-Arenas have raised similar questions about how Ford will make the transition from promising thoughts to on-the-ground implementation. Comparing Ford’s actual new grantmaking to the directions in the rather capitalism-leveraging reports and conclusions that Ford has supported, such as the NAB recommendations, or even issued, such as the very positive close-out report on the Ford Foundation Corporate Involvement Initiative titled “Part of the Solution: Leveraging Business and Markets for Low-Income People,” will be but one of the measures of whether the foundation is really “attacking inequality at its roots,” or simply tinkering at the margins.—Rick Cohen | <urn:uuid:bc6ec815-21a4-4f52-af1d-522fa87b365c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nonprofitquarterly.org/historian-oconnor-comments-on-new-ford-foundation-strategy/ | 2023-09-26T05:29:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.94588 | 1,125 |
What are the factors or elements for 11357 H&S Possession of Marijuana (Personal Use)?
In order for the prosecutor to convict you of HS 11357 California’s “personal possession of marijuana” law, he/she must prove the following:
- You possessed marijuana,
- You knewthat you possessed marijuana,
- You knew it was a drug, and
- You possessed enough marijuana that it could be used as a drug.
The penalties for Health & Safety Code 11357 vary, depending on the exact circumstances of your offense.
Possessing less than one ounce of marijuana
As of January 1, 2011, possessing no more than one ounce or 28.5 grams of marijuana…other than concentrated cannabis…is an infraction, punishable by a maximum fine of $100. This law is stated in Health & Safety Code 11357 (b).
However, if you are over 18 and possess less than one ounce of marijuana (other than concentrated cannabis) on school grounds while the school is open for classes or school-related activities, you face a misdemeanor punishable by up to ten days in a county jail and a maximum $500 fine.
And if you are under 18 and are convicted under these same circumstances, you face a maximum fine of $250 for a first offense. A second offense is punishable by up to $500 and a maximum ten-day commitment to a juvenile detention facility.
More than one ounce of marijuana
If you are convicted of possessing more than one ounce of marijuana…and again, more than one ounce of marijuana other than concentrated cannabis…you face a maximum of six months in the county jail and a maximum fine of $500.
Possession of concentrated cannabis
Possession of concentrated cannabis is a misdemeanor that subjects you to a maximum $500 fine and up to one year in a county jail.
However, you will face felony penalties (including sixteen (16) months, two (2) years or three (3) years in prison) for possession of concentrated cannabis if you have any of the following convictions on your record:
- A conviction for any of a small list of especially serious felonies, including murder, sexually violent offenses, sex crimes against a child under 14, and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, OR
- A conviction for a sex crime that subjects you toCalifornia’s sex offender registration requirement.
Prior to the passage of the voter initiative Proposition 47 in November 2014, possession of concentrated cannabis was a wobbler (meaning it could be charged as a misdemeanor OR a felony) for all defendants. If you were convicted of this offense before the passage of Prop 47 and received a felony sentence, you may petition the court to reduce your sentence to a misdemeanor.
If you are under 21 but over 13…and are convicted of any of the offenses outlined above…your driver’s license or privilege to obtain a driver’s license will be suspended for one year. This penalty will be imposed for each conviction under this law or any other drug-related law.
If, however, you are not convicted of any further drug or alcohol-related offenses within a 12-month period following your initial conviction, the court has the discretion to override the suspension.
Alternative sentencing – drug diversion
Health and Safety Code 11357 HS California’s law against personally possessing marijuana is an offense that qualifies for California drug diversion.
“Drug diversion” refers to alternative sentencing programs that allow eligible defendants who are charged with nonviolent personal possession drug offenses to participate in drug rehabilitation. Those who successfully complete rehab typically have their drug charge(s) dismissed.
California’s drug diversion programs are administered through
- Proposition 36,
- Penal Code 1000 PC,and
- California drug courts.
And because an individual who participates in drug diversion is usually permitted to do so in lieu of incarceration, a personal possession charge is often a charge worth fighting for.
How can we defend you against charges of California Penal Code 11357 H&S Possession of Marijuana (Personal Use)?
You possessed “medical marijuana”
If you are authorized to possess “medical marijuana”, that is probably your strongest defense.
Health and Safety Code 11362.5 California’s Compassionate Use Act authorizes the use of medical marijuana. If you possess marijuana…which may include concentrated cannabis…because
- You have personal medical needs or are theprimary caregiver of a medical marijuana patient with a medical need and possess the drugs exclusively for that patient, and
- A doctor recommended or approved marijuana to help treat the condition,
- You are not guilty of a crime. It is not necessary that you possess a medical marijuana ID card, but having one is a quick and easy way to demonstrate to the police that you are a medical marijuana patient. However, in order for a medical marijuana defense to apply, you must only possess an amount of marijuana that is reasonably related to the patient’s medical needs.
Additional legal defenses
If you don’t qualify for a medical marijuana defense, do not despair. There are still a variety of defenses that apply to Health & Safety Code 11357 HS. Examples of some of the most common include (but are not limited to):
You didn’t possess the marijuana
If you didn’t possess marijuana, you aren’t guilty of this crime. This might be the case if, for example, the police mistook someone else’s pot for your own. Clearly, this defense works best when you are not in physical control of the drug. But even then, you could still potentially claim
- The marijuana belonged to a friend whose clothes, bag, etc. you were borrowing, or
- Someone slipped the pot into your pocket, etc. to avoid his/her own criminal liability.
You didn’t know you possessed the marijuana
Similar to above, even if you did physically possess a joint…but were not aware you were doing so…you haven’t violated the law. Possession of marijuana is not enough by itself to sustain a conviction. If the prosecutor can’t additionally prove that you knew you possessed the drug, then you are entitled to an acquittal.
Referring back to an earlier example, if a friend leaves his pot in your car without your knowledge, you are not guilty of this offense.
The marijuana was discovered during an illegal search and seizure
Often times, marijuana-related offenses…and for that matter, most California drug crimes…trigger illegal search and seizure issues. For example, police routinely violate California’s search and seizure laws when they seize drugs by
- Executing a search without a validCalifornia search warrant,
- Searching a location that is beyond the scope of a valid warrant, and/or
- Initiating an illegal stop.
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The conference which is taking place in Shenzhen, China got underway yesterday and will continue through until tomorrow, featuring an impressive listing of speakers who will offer up their background and experiences in the world of shipping to draw attention to the growing exchange between Asia and our continent.
Listed among those attending this years conference, the Port and CN share duties in waving the Maple Leaf with a number of other Canadian companies, but by far the conference is one dedicated to gaining more access to the Asian markets.
And so far, both the Port and CN have been on the mark in getting the Prince Rupert Advantage story to the audience, whether through their work at the convention site in Shenzhen, or through social media with a number of info graphics recently posted to their respective twitter feeds to showcase some of the key aspects of shipping through Fairview Terminal.
|CN Rail is highlighting the Port of Prince Rupert during a|
Trade Convention in China this week
|The access that the Port of Prince Rupert provides to the heart of the|
United States is one of the key points being made at the trade show
|Representatives of the Prince Rupert Port Authority are also in China this week|
providing some fist hand accounts of what Prince Rupert has to offer shipping lines from Asia
You can find out more about the Trade Conference from this website hosted by the Journal of Commerce, for updates from both CN Rail and the Prince Rupert Port Authority see the links below to their twitter feeds.
Prince Rupert Port Authority
For more items related to the impact of CN Rail on the North Coast see our archive page here.
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If you need to get out of the city life, the outdoor recreational opportunities are endless in this part of the country. With Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park within driving distance, Idaho Falls is the perfect place to launch off to all the outdoor activities you could ever want. Wildlife viewing, skiing, fishing, hunting, hiking, camping and boating abound.
Idaho Falls is where 2 legendary fly fishing rivers converge, the Henry's Fork of the Snake comes in from the north and the South Fork of the Snake comes in from the east. The Henry's Fork primarily is a rainbow trout fishery and the South Fork is primarily a cutthroat fishery and is considered the best wild trout fishery in all the lower 48 states. Take your pick between fishing to the North or South, it's tough to go wrong around here.
Within driving distance of Idaho Falls there is also a plethora of great lakes for fishing. Palisades Reservoir is a picturesque body of water in eastern Idaho on U.S. Highway 26 near the Idaho and Wyoming border and about 25 miles west of Jackson Hole Wyoming. The reservoir is nestled between the Snake River Range and the Caribou Range and is a beautiful setting where wildlife thrives in abundance. The drive between Star Valley Wyoming and Swan Valley Idaho along Palisades Lake is a treat for the visitor and a treasure for the resident.
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Easy High-Protein Recipes
Whether you’re on a low-carb diet or trying to fuel up for a big or particularly busy day, feel more satisfied with one of these delicious and healthy high-protein recipes. Even if you’re not concerned about replenishing your body after a workout or sticking to a Paleo-like plan, it’s smart to be sure your family’s getting enough of this critical building block, which helps our body build and repair tissue.
Spanish Omelet Potatoes Chorizo
Sure, you could wake up to this savory breakfast dish made with spicy sausage, red potatoes, and Manchego cheese. Or, you could turn to the frittata-like meal as a protein-rich dinner. Looking for a vegetarian option? Omit the chorizo sausage and substitute another vegetable, like diced green and red bell peppers or sliced zucchini. Once you see how easy it is to cook up this Spanish omelet, we bet you’ll try a slew of variations for a high-protein meal that’s just as delicious warm or at room temperature.
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 2 ounces Spanish chorizo (cured sausage), sliced into thin half-moons
- 3/4 pound red potatoes, diced
- kosher salt and pepper
- 3/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- 10 large eggs, beaten
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Manchego or sharp Cheddar
- 1 small head green-leaf lettuce
- 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
How to Make It
Heat oven to 400° F. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add the yellow onion and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the chorizo, potatoes, and ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender, 10 minutes.
Stir in the parsley. Pour in the eggs and stir to distribute the ingredients. Sprinkle with the cheese and transfer to oven.
Bake the omelet until puffed and brown around the edges and a knife comes out clean, about 15 minutes.
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Information reaching Nsemwokrom.com suggests that the a studio at Media General Oua TV to be precise has been gutted by fire.
According to Instagram Blogger @Mari_Gyataa, the studio that caught on fire is where Media Personality, Nana Ama Mcbrown hosts her new show, “Showtime”.
Fortunately the Fire Service were called and they responded swiftly to put out the fire.
Even though some of the staff members were shaken by the event, no human casualties were recorded.
Meanwhile, Nana Ama Mcbrown is yet to comment on the incident.
An official statement from the Ghana National Service Reads;
Management of TV3 Ghana limited praised firefighters for the prompt response in attending to a fire involving a studio used for ONUA Showtime with Mcbrown.
A crew from the Headquarters Substation upon a call arrived on time to help prevent the spread of fire on the premises of TV3.
Even though portions of the reception area of the studio was burnt, the main studio area and the backstage were salvaged from the fire.
Management expressed their appreciation and joy to the GNFS for prompt response in averting a major disaster.
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The game is set in a bleak future in the 3Diddly world. The game begins when the player and his girlfriend (names customizable), have decided to migrate to a bigger and safer city to start a family. The city is deeply religious, and catches the young couple off guard. What ensues will bring them both spiraling down an endless abyss…
Title: Atonia: The Holy Church of Ascension [v1.0 Final]
Original Title: Atonia: The Holy Church of Ascension
Developer: 3Diddly Patreon
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Get Into The Night With Confidence By Using Solar Led Street Light To Light Up Your Streets
The world is slowly finding its way to a better and greener future. The solar street lights are the initial steps towards it. The solar led street lights have made the world realize the importance of energy-saving aspects. Many features make this the best way to save energy in an environmentally friendly way.
The unique features of Solar led street lights
China is the leading manufacturer of solar led street lights, and it has proved to the world that solar energy is the future of power solutions in the globe.
Here are a few features of the solar-powered street lights that make them stand apart from the traditional lights:
- Maintenance is easy because once they are installed, the major work is done. The lights and the pole and other fixtures are very durable and so it will last for a long time and will not need an urgent replacement.
- The solar street lights have LED lights for a reason; it is because the LED lights use less power and still can provide a good amount of light. This is also good for the battery as it will last longer.
- The traditional lights get fused faster, and so they need more replacements, but the led bulbs in the solar street lights have a longer life and need fewer replacements.
- The white light emitted by the LED bulbs give you clearer roads, and accidents happen less.
- The solar led street lights are made of high-quality, durable materials that can withstand any weather conditions.
- As they make energy from the sun, they are not connected to any power grid, so they do not need any wires.
As the maintenance is very less and does not connect itself to any electric power grid, the solar-led street light cost is very much affordable.
The solar-powered street light applications
The demand for solar power street lights is increasing a lot. The use of solar power street lights can be used in many places:
- Lighting at the airport
- It can be used to light up the highway and other roads.
- Parks and playgrounds can be lighted very brightly so that children can play more safely.
- Industrial areas can be used for various products’ storage purposes, and if it is not lighted efficiently, there can be theft and other illegal activities. So the solar-powered street light is the best option for industrial areas.
Choose the correct amount of lighting.
The solar street lights come in different types like 40W, 60W, 80W, 100W, and 120 W. you can choose your street lights according to your needs and circumstances. The solar street light supplier will provide you with all the essentials you need for installing the solar street light.
The cost of the solar street light price is on the higher side during the initial installation. Because it needs the panels and other essentials, things get very affordable after all the first installation steps and will turn out to be a good investment in the future. So if you have decided to buy solar led street light, it is best to buy a good manufacturer’s product so that product has the best quality. | <urn:uuid:6d765448-9acb-450a-a63f-c4e7fc07153b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nubiz4u.com/get-into-the-night-with-confidence-by-using-solar-led-street-light-to-light-up-your-streets.html | 2023-09-26T06:13:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.941244 | 644 |
There is a popular phrase that we say to our parents whenever things do not work out for us – “That’s not fair!” And they always respond back, “Well, life isn’t fair.” This gets us angry because we know it is the truth, but do not want to accept it.
Utopias, which are perfect worlds, will only exist in the realms of literature, movies, and television shows. In the real world, there are some parts that feel like dystopias where there are evil rulers who place unethical laws that their citizens must follow. Even if you do not live in a dystopia, there are people struggling every day to make ends meet or get their dream job. These real-world frustrations make us angry when it takes us too long to reach our heart’s desires. We start to question if we ever will. Young-adult author Veronica Roth said, “If there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading.” Instead of being distressed about your struggles, treat them as stepping stones to the happy ending you are destined to have.
Veronica Roth’s quote was inspired by her best-selling young-adult book trilogy The Divergent Series. The main character in the series, Tris, lives in dystopian Chicago where people are separated by factions – five societal divisions citizens are placed in based on a person’s aptitudes and values. These factions exist in order to prevent individuality. Tris ends up being a threat to society when her test says that she is divergent, meaning that she belongs to all five factions.
Tris has to lie to everyone to avoid being discovered, figure out where she belongs, and worry about what will happen if the government finds out about her rare status. After Tris chooses one of the most ruthless factions to belong in, she has to prove to her leaders and to herself that she has what it takes to be part of that faction. She also has to deal with the challenges that come her way by those who want to take her down.
This story would be pretty boring if Tris took her aptitude test and simply belonged in a faction like everyone else. There would be no conflict and everything would work out perfectly. If everything happened the way Tris wanted, then what would be the point of turning the page? The same can be said if Bella from Twilight fell in love with a human or if Katniss from The Hunger Games did not take her sister’s place in a battle royale game show.
But, enough about young adult fiction! Let’s go back to the subject about how unfair life can be. We are constantly struggling with making sure everything goes our way. When it doesn’t, we feel like being mad at the world and accusing life of being out to get us. Despite all of the battles that we have to face on a daily basis, we need to remind ourselves that these things happen to teach us something.
We all have circumstances in our lives that we cannot control. We cannot control what family we are born into, where we were born and raised, losing a loved one, developing a physical or mental illness, and more. When we deal with so much, we succumb to these circumstances. There may be people who abuse drugs and alcohol to deal with the pain, hang out with bad people, or let our negative emotions go so out of control without treatment that we develop depression.
In another young adult novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, it is said, “If we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” You can better your life by surrounding yourself with a healthy environment, positively influential people, and continue to improve yourself. Character development is a quality that readers love to see in their characters. You have the chance to better develop yourself and lure readers in on your journey.
Being a strong person is also another character trait readers would love about you. Instead of hiding in the face of adversity, we should face these obstacles head-on! For example, when 13-year-old surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a shark, she did not stray away from her dream of being a pro-surfer and pity herself. What kind of story would that be to read or hear about? It would be really sad and disappointing to see someone we are rooting for to give up over a circumstance that was beyond her control. Hamilton did not let these circumstances define her. What defined her was getting back on her surfboard and teaching herself to surf again with one arm. That is a true story that gives us hope.
Another conflict we come to terms with in books and real-life is closing ties between people we used to trust. It poses as a great drama to read about but not the best to experience in the real world. For example, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Ron’s rat of 12 years, Scabbers, was really a human named Peter Pettigrew who betrayed Harry’s parents and gave them away to their murderer.
If you have been betrayed by friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, or anyone else in your life, you know the feeling hurts and makes you not want to trust anyone. You may also feel like you will not have any luck going forward in friendships. One thing that we can do after being betrayed is cutting these people out of our lives. The takeaway from this is being more thankful for the people who are still in your life who have treated you the way you want to be treated. Our friends and family also know how to comfort us when we get hurt and show us what love really is. After all, like it was said in the book, A Walk to Remember, “Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.”
One more valuable lesson we can learn from the unfairness of life is to be grateful for what we do have. We seem to think that because we do not have everything we want when we want it that we will never get it. Well, if we instantly got everything we wanted when asked, it would be a pretty short story. Where’s the journey? Where’s the perseverance? Where’s the part where we karate chop the barriers that prevent us from achieving our goals? Where’s the cast of odd yet inspiring characters that help us get there? Instead of focusing so much on achieving perfection and on our misfortunes, we need to think of the people and events that have shaped our lives. Be thankful for your friends, family, health, shelter, and your life.
When I look back on my own life, I tend to complain a lot about what I wish was different. I wish I lived in a city, that I was an actress and a writer, that I could afford to travel all the time and never have to worry about finances ever again. The obstacles I am facing is that my laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) brings tension to my voice when I talk and I live far away from where I can get work in what I am interested in. Instead of letting myself get depressed, though, I think about what I do have. I have my friends and family that make me feel loved every day, a freelance writing job and a part-time job at a department store that I enjoy. The things I want to accomplish are not easy, but I refuse to believe they are impossible.
If you are reading this essay right now, I doubt you would like this story to end with me saying I plan on giving up. You may be able to get through this essay faster that way, but it would still be a dull story to read. I have to believe that the reason my life’s goals have not occurred yet is because I still have a story to tell of struggles, heartache, mistakes, and understanding. Fun, right? But once I get through all of those hurdles, readers will get to know a woman who dared not to give up and got her happy ending no matter how long it took for the story to end.
We all have a story to tell where nerve-wracking conflicts shape us to be the people we are today. We need to believe that everything will be worth it in the end once we write our own stories and fill these pages with the drama-inducing, heart-wrenching, conflicting, and beautiful moments. In the end, we will become the heroes and not the victims of our own stories. | <urn:uuid:5045a433-cec2-44da-9b4e-e9b8b55ba35c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nuhafoundation.org/home/blog/bloggingentries/2019/adult/the-necessary-conflicts-of-an-unfair-life/ | 2023-09-26T06:05:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.971772 | 1,779 |
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Chronic low grade inflammation contributes toward obesity-related diseases. Existing literature suggests consumption of yogurt reduces inflammation in obese humans. However, little information exists concerning the tissue-specific mechanisms involved in this protection. Hasagewa and colleagues conducted a study to explore those mechanisms and report their results in the March 2023 issue of The Journal of Nutrition.
Mice (5 weeks old) were provided a 14% protein maintenance diet (control) or a high-fat diet (60% calories from fat) for 11 weeks. For 3 weeks after that the mice received a western diet (43% calories from carbohydrate and 42% from fat) or a western diet supplemented with 5.6% lyophilized yogurt powder. Metabolic endotoxemia and inflammatory markers were assessed in plasma and tissues, and cecal and fecal microbiota were analyzed by 16S rRNA sequencing.
HOMA-IR, plasma TNF-a, colonic IFN-g, plasma LPS binding protein and colonic Lbp expression were reduced with yogurt consumption. In addition, beta diversity among cecal bacteria was altered, as was the abundance of some microbes there. Yogurt supplementation had no effect on LBP, Lbp, and Cd14 levels in the liver or small intestine. These observations led the authors to conclude that yogurt consumption changes the gut microbiota, modulates colonic endotoxin detoxification, and improves glucose metabolism leading to a reduction in obesity-induced inflammation.
Hasegawa Y, Pei R, Raghuvanshi R, Liu Z, Bolling BW. Yogurt supplementation attenuates insulin resistance in obese mice by reducing metabolic endotoxemia and inflammation. Journal of Nutrition, Volume 153, Issue 3, March 2023, Pages 703-712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.01.021.
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I love the way “Meg 2: The Trench” starts out.
By Ninette Cheng Northwest Asian Weekly This week, I talked with Chinese-born American actress Bai Ling over the phone. We discussed her new movie, being an Asian actress in Hollywood, China, and — of course — the controversial Playboy photo shoot. Hello, Bai Ling. How are you doing? Good. I am in beautiful San Francisco. | <urn:uuid:aacc7638-0b26-4d5d-9b9f-acb585c6a317> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nwasianweekly.com/tag/jason-statham/ | 2023-09-26T06:41:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.94607 | 87 |
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(IANS) The European Union and the UK antitrust authorities have launched parallel probes to assess whether an agreement between Google and Meta for online display advertising services may have breached the Union’s competition rules.
The investigation concerns a September 2018 agreement, which Google code-named “Jedi Blue”, between Google and Meta for the participation of Meta’s Audience Network in Google’s Open Bidding programme.
The Commission is concerned that the agreement may form part of efforts to exclude ad tech services competing with Google’s Open Bidding programme, and therefore restrict or distort competition in markets for online display advertising, to the detriment of publishers, and ultimately consumers.
If proven, the practices under investigation may breach EU competition rules on anticompetitive agreements between companies (Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and/or the abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 TFEU).
“Many publishers rely on online display advertising to fund online content for consumers. Via the so-called ‘Jedi Blue’ agreement between Google and Meta, a competing technology to Google’s Open Bidding may have been targeted with the aim to weaken it and exclude it from the market for displaying ads on publisher websites and apps,” Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said in a statement.
“If confirmed by our investigation, this would restrict and distort competition in the already concentrated ad tech market, to the detriment of rival ad serving technologies, publishers and ultimately consumers,” Vestager added.
Google provides advertising technology services that intermediate between advertisers and publishers by real time auctioning of online display advertising space on web sites or mobile apps, including through its ‘Open Bidding programme’.
Meanwhile, Meta provides online display advertising services and, through its ‘Meta Audience Network’, participates in auctions for third party publishers’ advertising space using Google’s and rivals’ advertising technology services.
The Commission said it will now carry out its in-depth investigation as a matter of priority. The opening of a formal investigation does not prejudge its outcome.
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The Other Ark
Mallinson Rendel, $27.95,
Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths
Melanie Drewery, illustrations by Sabrina Malcolm
Kate De Goldi, illustrations by Jacqui Colley
Stand in awe of the picture-book writer – no other book has to work in so many different ways. The language, for a start, has to be fresh, fluent and mellifluous. It has to engage the very young, the parent, the grandparent, the teacher, and it has to withstand the toughest of tests:
“Again? Why don’t we read … ?”
Although their job generally takes many more hours, illustrators get off more lightly – to engage the reader initially is to engage the reader forever, though a good illustration exudes a permanent freshness. With two pre-school grandchildren I’m very aware which books owned by their mother at their age have worn well. Should I ever be a great-grandmother, it’ll be interesting to see how these four very different picture books, all shortlisted in this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards Children and Young Adults – two of which are illustrated by their writers – last the distance.
In The Other Ark Lynley Dodd rather depends on the secular tsunami-aware child of today not asking what actually happens to all the people – not to mention the sweet little kittens and Thelwellian ponies – who didn’t make it onto Noah’s ark. I had to give four-year-old Lucie a quick rundown on The Flood, the building of the ark and the pairs of saved animals, before reading her Lynley Dodd’s alternative account. I steered clear of evocative descriptions of the screaming, howling, pleading and gurgling of the un-saved.
The premise of the book is that once the first ark was full, there was still a queue of animals waiting to board. Slouched under a rather delectable purple and green (now extinct) Nikau palm is Noah’s friend Sam Jam Balu, chewing laconically on a straw while he awaits his fate. As a rather blasé Noah sails away to semi-solitary safety (or a Sartre-style Hell), he mentions that Sam Jam can use his second-best ark to save the rest of the animals. These animals are the quirky ones – the candy-striped camels with comical humps, the mad kangaroosters, the flying flapdoodles, marmalade mammoths and so forth. With much effort Sam Jam gets the whole colourful lot of them on board, only to find that when he hoists his anchor he’s “STUCK TO THE SPOT”:
“But wasn’t there a flood, Granny?”
“Well not for this ark.”
“So they didn’t drown?”
“So what happened to them?”
“Well, something must have – because we don’t have them anymore.”
And there, my dear, lies a rather large fault in the plot – its climax. More logical by far would be an iceberg waiting just off-page. Ah, but that’s being churlish.
I’m always pleased that Lynley Dodd ignores the advice of those critics who tell writers of children’s books not to use rhyme. That, of course, is advice to be listened to carefully by those who would love to write children’s books, and do, even though they shouldn’t. Her rhyme is bouncy and rarely forced, her lines scan and the pictures are cheerful and appealing. Nonetheless, as the goody four-hooves clambered on the first ark – “shipshape and steady/on skittering toes/they filed up the gangplank/in well-behaved rows” – leaving the more interesting, more colourful animals to wait for the “second-best ark”, this adult reader couldn’t help but think that perhaps Philip Pullman got it right, the killjoy did win.
You have to applaud the writers in New Zealand who bring Maori myths and stories to the page, because if it’s not done here it’s not going to be done anywhere. It’s hard, though, to do it well and not to patronise. It’s all too easy for the medium to be overwhelmed by the message. The books, assured of a reasonable market at least from schools, are, from what I saw during a stint on Creative New Zealand’s literature committee, all too often badly written with ugly, angry illustrations.
This is not the case with Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths in which Gavin Bishop has done a very good job of bringing some well-known Maori myths to life. Like Lynley Dodd, Bishop both writes and illustrates his stories. Stronger as an artist than as a writer, Bishop nevertheless tells an economical and lively tale. His short sentences and energetic verbs make this book not only a pleasure to read aloud but also very readable for a beginner reader. His pictures, quite simply, are gorgeous. In Maui and the Sun the smudgy dark greys and pale lemons evoke dawn. As the attack on the sun is launched, the pages burst into fiery scarlets and golds. Kahu and the Taniwha is perhaps the weakest of the four stories but the rich pinks and golds have the reader placed right in the North Island’s volcanic plateau – I could smell it from here. But best of all is the North Island being pulled from the sea by Maui, for all the world as if we’re seeing it from a water-spattered submarine window.
Melanie Drewery’s Koro’s Medicine tackles a harder task and it’s not so easy to see who the book’s actually for. Coming with a children-ask-your-parents-first-style warning, it is the story of an unnamed child (a mistake, that) who visits his koro in the country. The rather accident-prone mokopuna spends his holiday being sick or getting hurt. Each time, koro has a traditional Maori remedy. New shoes cause blisters, which are fixed with the juice from harakeke (flax), a cut after a fall from a bike is fixed with ti kouka (cabbage tree) leaves, crushed ngaio leaves ease mosquito bites. While dealing with his grandson’s aches and injuries, the kindly, wise koro educates him in the medicinal ways of his ancestors.
While I found this very interesting, many children wouldn’t. Although not really a story – the plot is a slender branch on which to hang the message – it’s a charming book, well told and attractively illustrated by Sabrina Malcolm. But it will find its way into more schools (right through to secondary) than homes. Unless a child is a burgeoning hypochondriac, it lacks the “again” factor.
I was interested that Lucie – whom I would have thought younger than the book’s intended demographic – found the “again” factor in abundance in the most realist of the four books, Kate de Goldi’s and Jacqui Colley’s stunning Clubs. Sadly at four she’s all too aware of in-groups and took huge delight in having five letters in her name, which gave her entry into the Grass Growing Spectators’ Club.
This is very much a book for those who are in the know. Interestingly, those in the know in this book are strangely aligned with authority, in the form of Ms Love, the class’s adorably subversive teacher. In Ms Love’s class, clubs become the fashion, but Ms Love is quick to show what side she’s on. When the Barbie Club takes off Ms Love pronounces herself a One Woman Beauty Contest Protest Movement. When the Kitten Club, unable to bring to school the kittens they got for Christmas, just makes badges, invents passwords and designs draconic Miaow Club rules, Ms Love, as a member of Amnesty International and therefore with a duty to fight discrimination and torture, bans Kitten Club punishments. Heck, if we weren’t so firmly on Ms Love’s side, we could well accuse her of having undue influence.
Then there’s the Lego Club and the Harry Potter Club and by the end of March there are only three people in Room 7 not in a club. One of these is our heroine Lolly Leopold. Joined by their outsider status, by having five letters in their names, and by their already knowing how to spell their names backwards, they form the Grass Growing Spectators’ Club.
So… by the very fact that they disdain in-groups, they form the most significant in-group in the class. These are the bright kids – the ones who love having a teacher who teaches them things like “homonym” and who so clearly supports those who are… like her? These are the kids born knowing that, in the long run, it’s more interesting not to run with the crowd. Can’t you just hear the parents’ discussions about Ms Love as a teacher? There are those of us – I would happily guess the large majority of readers of this periodical – who long for their children (and children’s children) to get a teacher like Ms Love. And then there would be the Dads who would have a word with Ms Love’s principal at Rotary, though those Dads can relax in the knowledge that it was not the subversive who were saved on Noah’s first ark.
What makes this book the success it undoubtedly is, is that Kate de Goldi is a frenetic reader who knows what works in a book. Oh, that all writers were also readers. The marvellous detail-rich illustrations speak to readers of all ages, none more than that on page four, which is a collection of portraits much like one would find of the 7th form in a school magazine. These have led to spontaneous games of Guess Who in our family. Everyone has pored over these portraits, right down to Max, 18 months, who points optimistically at Billy, class stud, then points at himself. There’s a well-substantiated rumour that Clubs is only the first Lolly Leopold story; a writer who reads knows we love a series. Again, Kate and Jacqui. Again.
Linda Burgess is a Wellington writer and television reviewer.
This year’s fifth short-listed picture book, The Night Kite: Poems for Children by Peter Bland, illustrated by Carl Bland, was reviewed in our August 2004 issue. Clubs won the picture-book category in this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and is Book of the Year. | <urn:uuid:9b3eda9b-a653-4be7-9be1-0dc2b3ebfec1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nzbooks.org.nz/2005/literature/pinning-down-the-again-factor-linda-burgess/ | 2023-09-26T06:41:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.960966 | 2,433 |
Scientists from nine marine organisations have successfully completed a three-week mission to study bluntnose sixgill sharks and oceanic whitetips in the Caribbean. The expedition was the result of a partnership between OceanX, the Moore Bahamas Foundation, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Vibrant Oceans Initiative, and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
The bluntnose sixgill shark has never been studied entirely in it’s natural habitat – only in varying states of temporary capture. Scientists managed to successfully attach a satellite tag to the shark at depth by using the OceanX deep-sea submersible to dive to a depth of 520m. This is the first instance of an animal being tagged from a submersible.
The hope is that this device will allow scientists to study the shark’s movements and behaviours, and to assess the impact of accidental capture. This information will inform future management plans for the protection of deep-sea species.
Scientists on this mission also managed to tag 11 Oceanic whitetips, which are listed as critically endangered due to overfishing, and two silky sharks, a CITES Appendix II species that has experienced dramatic global declines. The mission team also collected more than 150 tissue and blood samples for hormonal, electrolyte and stable isotope analyses to assess health levels.
“Our mission successfully tagged the bluntnose sixgill and oceanic whitetip sharks, and the critical data from these tags will enable us to better understand these sharks and inform the protections necessary to ensure their survival and repopulation,” said Vincent Pieribone, Vice Chairman at OceanX. “We’re thrilled to have partnered with the local scientists and conservation groups in the Caribbean working to protect endangered shark species and support their efforts with our exploration and research capabilities.”
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With CITES just around the corner, this unique mission is a much-needed example of the need for scientific study and protection of sharks. Understanding the group dynamics, individual behaviours and movement patterns of Oceanic whitetips that travel from protected Bahamian waters to unprotected Haitian waters is of great concern.
“Sharks are legally protected in the waters of the Bahamas, but that alone won’t safeguard the survival of severely depleted, and highly migratory species such as oceanic whitetip sharks as they leave these safe waters to feed, grow and reproduce,” said Luke Warwick, Associate Director of the Sharks and Rays Program at the WCS. “With research from this mission, we will work with local groups and fishers on the ground in Haiti, and use that science to reduce the number of juvenile sharks being killed in fisheries – an approach WCS uses to protect sharks and rays globally.”
The Bahamas banned commercial longline fishing of sharks in 1993 and in 2011, it built on this conservation effort by banning all shark fishing and trade in shark products throughout all 630,000km2 of Bahamian waters. Going ahead, the hope is that years of shark research can be built upon thanks to fresh data from the trackers, which could encourage these two nations can work collaboratively to protect Oceanic whitetips.
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A look at TV & movie locations above Times Square.
TAXI DRIVER FILMING LOCATIONS
Taxi Driver stars Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle and also features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepard, and Jodie Foster. The 1976 film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Robert DeNiro) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Jodie Foster).
The story revolves around Travis Bickle, a mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran who works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York. The city’s reputation for violence, corruption, decadence, and sleaze feeds Bickle’s urge to lash out. He frequents the local sex shops and theaters in search of diversion and winds up trying to save a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) in the process. Feeling ultimately powerless, he sets out to assassinate the senator, hoping for the infamy of a “crazed lone gunman.”
The Maine Memorial at Columbus Circle is the setting for the political rally where Senator Charles Palatine is giving his speech when Travis Bickle sets out to shoot him. This location is seen on both the NYC TV & Movie Tour and the TCM Classic Film Tour. The Maine Memorial is a frequent filming location, as it has also been used in Enchanted, August Rush, Keeping the Faith, Kate and Leopold, and Down to You.
The location where Travis Bickle picks up his final fare in his taxi is the St. Regis Hotel, located on E. 55th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. This famous New York hotel has also been featured in several movies, including The Devil Wears Prada, Miss Congeniality, The First Wives Club, Radio Days, and Hannah and Her Sisters. This location is also seen on both the NYC TV & Movie Tour and TCM Classic Film Tour.
In preparation for his role in Taxi Driver, Robert DeNiro got an actual taxi driver’s license and drove it nights around New York City.
Jodie Foster was Scorsese’s first choice to play teenage prostitute Iris. Scorsese offered the role to Melanie Griffith, Linda Blair, Bo Derek, Carrie Fisher, Geena Davis, and Mariel Hemmingway, before finally “settling” on Jodie Foster.
In addition to being nominated for four Oscars, Taxi Driver was nominated for, and in many cases won, several other awards. These include several BAFTA Film Awards, the Blue Ribbon Award, the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm Award, the Golden Globe, the Directors’ Guild of America award, the Grammy, the Writers’ Guild of America award, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award, among many others.
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On the 24th, the European Parliament finally approved the implementation of a bill to unify the charging method of major mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets through USB-C by 2024.
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Bodies in motion : the films of transmigrant queer Chinese women filmmakers in Canada Lin, Hui-Ling
This dissertation examines the representations of racialized, gendered, queer sexuality in selected films produced by four transmigrant queer “Chinese” women filmmakers in Vancouver, with a main focus on body images. Personal interviews with these filmmakers about their lives and films were collected and analyzed in-depth using feminist qualitative method informed by standpoint epistemology. The analyses are framed by discussions of what it means to be “Chinese” outside of China, in relation to what it means to be female and “queer.” Selected films were analyzed drawing on feminist film theory, postcolonial and poststructuralist theories, and transnational feminist theory. Judith Butler’s ideas on gender performance and performativity and José E. Muñoz’s concept of “disidentification,” and their application to theories of the body serve as a framework to examine the following research questions: How do these filmmakers re-present “Chineseness,” “queerness,” and “femininity” by deploying their own bodies or those of others? How do they evoke or challenge mainstream stereotypes, and what kinds of narratives and film techniques do they exploit in order to re-conceptualize the non-conforming and transmigrant queer female body? Chapter 2 provides a detailed, contextualized introduction to the filmmakers, based on the interviews, and information on the Canadian context. Chapter 3 explores how racialized, queered, and gendered bodies are presented, appropriated, or subverted in a selection of films. Chapter 4 examines three major strategies of disidentification in the films: the appropriation of dominant stereotypical images; the use of hybrid genres and technical effects; and the reinvention of language(s). The analysis of the films and interviews shows that these filmmakers produce alternative forms of embodied knowledge based on their lived experiences, showing that there is no essential queer “Chinese” women body. Their sense of “Chineseness” is highly contextualized and intersectional, which opens up the possibility that transnational “Chineseness,” like gender and sexuality, could be cited and re-cited in ways that disclose its vulnerability and instability. These filmmakers and their films contribute to new articulation of mobile queerness in the context of transmigrant “Chineseness,” and create a temporary and transnational “utopian performative,” a safe and hopeful space for queer women viewers.
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Red Zone as Green Corridor: Opportunities for Suburban Intensification: A Christchurch Case Study
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It is well established that urban green areas provide a wide range of social, aesthetic, environmental and economic benefits. The importance of urban green spaces has been known for decades; however the relationship between urban livability and green areas, as incorporated in overall urban green structure, has become the focus of international studies during the last 10 to 15 years. The spatial structure of green space systems has important consequences for urban form; configuring urban resources, controlling urban size, improving ecological quality of urban areas and preventing or mitigating natural disasters. However, in the field of architecture or urban design, very little work has been done to investigate the potential for built form to define and differentiate the edge to a green corridor ... This thesis therefore poses the hypothesis that architecture and urban design critically mediate between city and green corridor, through intensification and definition of the built edge, as a means of contributing to an ecological city form. | <urn:uuid:aed64bee-430e-4aba-8427-8f992d978e54> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Red_Zone_as_Green_Corridor_Opportunities_for_Suburban_Intensification_A_Christchurch_Case_Study/19294577/1 | 2023-09-26T06:00:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.950512 | 223 |
A collective of buffalo organizations are looking to collaborate with community members to address clean mobility issues throughout the East Side of Buffalo.
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drought impacts, farm sector, multiplier effects, model validation
During the 2002 drought, farm sector economic factors were monitored to assess the likely statewide economic impacts. Timely moisture during the spring of 2003 resulted in a sizeable wheat harvest relative to recent years. Prices in the fall of 2003 have also been significantly higher for cattle and soybeans compared to prices in recent years. As a result, there have been inquiries as to the extent of economic recovery in the farm sector of South Dakota. The purpose of this paper is to outline the estimation procedure used to assess the drought in 2002, validate the extent of the impact, and discuss potential mitigating effects observed during 2003. The results suggest the direct costs to the farm sector in 2002 can best be described using a range of $650-800 million. The improved market conditions in 2003 would offset a portion of those losses at the state level. While the offset estimate is $477 million, a range of $375-550 million would better encompass the scope of the impact. Finally, while the aggregate farm sector will benefit in 2003, winter wheat and cow-calf producers most adversely affected by the drought will likely need additional time to recover.
Department of Economics, South Dakota State University
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According to a new study published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports, the origin of living things on Earth may be clay. According to the research, clay, which is a mixture of important minerals in the soil, has the ability to absorb small molecules and chemicals. These absorbed substances can reproduce rapidly in the clay. DNA and living cells emerge as a result of the reactions of these substances over billions of years.
In the study, which was signed by the biology engineers from the nanoscience department of Cornell University in New York, USA, it was claimed that clay was the “birthplace of life on Earth”.
Experts say that when clay enters seawater, it forms a "hydrogel". This substance has the ability to absorb other substances around it.
Professor Dan Luo of Cornell University said: "In early geological times, clay hydrogels trapped biomolecules and biochemical reactions. "The chemicals that have been imprisoned here over the intervening billions of years have reacted to form proteins, DNA and ultimately the mechanisms that enable a living cell to function," he said.
During the research, experts placed synthetic hydrogels in environments rich in DNA, amino acids and enzymes, laying the groundwork for the emergence of proteins. When the reactions are examined, it is stated that life may first have emerged from clay.
In the article, it was also reminded that clay accelerates protein formation, and it was pointed out that this could be considered as an inexpensive way for drug production.
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Experts point out that their findings are also compatible with the texts of the holy books.
In many verses of the Qur'an, the first human being Hz. It is said that Adam was created from earth. For example, in the 12th verse of the chapter of Mu'minun, it is said, "We have certainly created man from a (filtered) substance from mud".
There are similar statements in the Bible.
In addition to the Abrahamic religions, it is stated in the historical texts of Greek mythology, Egyptian and Chinese culture that God transformed clay into a human shape and then breathed life into it.
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The chemical element with atomic number 8 and symbol O is called oxygen. It belongs to the chalcogen group of the periodic table, is a very reactive nonmetal and an oxidizing agent that readily produces oxides with most elements as well as other compounds. After hydrogen and helium, oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe and the most abundant element on Earth. Two atoms of the element combine to form O at normal temperature and pressure.2 It forms dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas with the formula Earth's atmosphere currently consists of 20,95% diatomic oxygen gas, although this ratio has fluctuated significantly over a very long period of time. Oxygen in its oxide form makes up more than half of the Earth's crust.
The major component inorganic compounds of animal shells, teeth, and bone, as well as a few basic types of organic molecules found in living organisms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids, all contain oxygen atoms. Since water is the primary component of all life forms, oxygen makes up the majority of the mass of all living things. Photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to create oxygen from water and carbon dioxide, constantly replenishes the amount of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. Oxygen, which is not constantly renewed by the photosynthetic activities of living organisms, is too chemically reactive to be a free element in the air. Ozone (O) is an additional form (allotrope) of oxygen.3), is a strong absorber of ultraviolet (UVB) light, and the high-altitude ozone layer contributes to the protection of the biosphere from UV radiation.
But ozone on the surface is a pollutant as it is a result of smoky air.
Although Michael Sendivogius isolated oxygen before 1604, it is generally accepted that Joseph Priestley of Wiltshire and Carl Wilhelm Scheele of Uppsala independently identified the element in 1774. Priestley is often preferred because it was his work that was first published. Priestley, on the other hand, did not classify oxygen as a chemical element and instead referred to it as "dephlogisticated air". Antoine Lavoisier first identified oxygen as a chemical element and correctly described the function it plays in combustion; he also named it oxygen in 1777.
Common uses for oxygen are the manufacture of steel, plastics and textiles, brazing, welding and cutting of steel and other metals, the use of oxygen as a rocket propellant, oxygen therapy, and life support systems for airplanes, submarines, space travel and diving.
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|For Immediate Release
Case # 11WF1634
October 23, 2012
|Susan Kang Schroeder
Chief of Staff
MASSAGE THERAPIST sentenced for SEXUALLY ASSAULTING THREE FEMALE CLIENTS
WESTMINSTER – A male massage therapist was convicted and sentenced Friday for sexually assaulting three of his clients while working in Seal Beach. Jason Michael Elliott, 29, Sunset Beach, pleaded guilty Oct. 19, 2012, to one felony and two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. He was sentenced to one year in jail, three years of formal probation, and lifetime sex offender registration.
From Aug. 4, 2009, to April 29, 2010, Elliott worked for nine months as a masseuse at a Seal Beach Massage Envy located at 12340 Seal Beach Boulevard. On three separate occasions, Elliott provided three women massage services and sexually assaulted the victims during each of their appointments. Jane Doe #3 reported the sexual assault to the Seal Beach Police Department, who investigated and learned of the other two victims. The victims in this case did not know each other.
As of July 2011, Elliott was no longer registered as a certified massage therapist through the California Massage Therapy Council.
Elliott’s lifetime sex offender registration bars him from entering County recreational areas and City parks which have passed the Sex Offender Ordinance. Visit www.orangecountyda.com to read the prior press releases on the County’s Sex Offender Ordinance as well as the 14 other cities that have enacted the Child Safety Zone Ordinance including Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Lake Forest, La Habra, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Westminster, and Yorba Linda. The Child Safety Zone Ordinance in Irvine and Fountain Valley does not apply to Elliott because this case involves an adult victim.
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For Heather Stone Hopkins, DMD, MS, maximizing the efficiencies of custom digital appliances means maximizing the practice’s entire digital workflow.
By Greg Thompson | Photography by Sean Rayford
Heather Stone Hopkins, DMD, MS, has dedicated the majority of her dozen years in orthodontics to improving treatment outcomes while introducing new efficiencies. As an owner doctor of Palmetto Smiles, a multi-specialty practice in Lexington, SC, Hopkins avidly applies her analytical mind to the advancement of orthodontic care and improved patient experience.J
Juggling a thriving practice and a growing young family, the focus on efficiency while maintaining outcomes is no mere academic exercise. For those who have only heard the buzz around “digital workflow,” but have yet to experience any true benefits, look no further. Hopkins is living proof that time spent on the front-end of technology can lead to a highly organized practice and a satisfying life.
Rotating shifts of 12-6, 8-2, and 8-5 throughout the week, Hopkins works 19 clinical hours per week. While waiting in the school car line to pick up her youngest child from kindergarten, Hopkins shared, “I designed my schedule to allow for days when I can do school drop off or pick up, and be involved in after school activities such as coaching their soccer teams. This also allows me to have admin blocks of time when needed.” Hopkins, who earned two undergrad degrees (summa cum laude) in biochemistry and molecular biology, was a starter on the soccer team, and worked a part time job while attending Centre College in Danville, Ky. She is a veteran when it comes to time management.
Hopkins’ 15,000-sq-ft, 38-employee practice offers general dental care, pediatric dentistry, and orthodontics. However, the true stand-out feature is that her office is 100% digital in both administrative and clinical aspects. Online scheduling, paperless forms, and two-way texting have introduced new levels of efficiency for her administrative team.
According to Hopkins, the key to her clinical efficiency is customization. By offering Invisalign clear aligners and Stride Custom Braces from KLOwen, a custom digital bracket system, every patient not only receives a custom treatment plan, but a custom appliance.
With straight wire appliances, each tooth is assigned a bracket with predetermined values. “Imagine if our mechanics were not tied to a generic set of numbers for every patient,” she says. “Clear aligners opened my eyes to how limiting the values built into our brackets can be. Based on the average instead of the individual, traditional bracket prescriptions are fundamentally inefficient.”
Not simply a user of KLOwen’s Stride Custom Braces, Hopkins had considerable input into the technology’s creation thanks to a 2012 chance meeting with KLOwen founder Brandon Owen, DDS, MS, at a lingual orthodontics meeting in France. “In the world of lingual, customization is a must,” Hopkins explains. “Brandon and I talked endlessly about customization and its advantages. At that time, most of the product offerings were overly engineered, combining custom manufacturing for every bracket with the fabrication of custom wires. The existing systems were prohibitively expensive with long manufacturing times.”
She and Owen believed a simpler custom bracket system could revolutionize clinical orthodontics. “The whole idea behind the preadjusted appliance is to not bend wire for every single tooth and every single patient,” Hopkins explains. “At the time, Andrews [inventor of straightwire/preadjusted orthodontic brackets] designed the first iterations, limitations in manufacturing, technology, and materials science didn’t allow for additional customization.”
Given the advancements in these arenas over the past 40 years, Hopkins believed what Owen believed: that a better option was now possible. “What if we could blend 3D printing, CAD/CAM software, and a range of off-the-shelf brackets together to create a truly custom system?” she asked. “In 2012, the technology wasn’t quite there yet. It was several years before all the pieces fell into place to bring the concept to life.” By 2017, Hopkins was the first office in the country bonding KLOwen brackets.
The KLOwen Stride bracket library contains 27 stock brackets. These 27 brackets are sequenced by incremental changes in tip, profile, and slot angulation. The values range from -500 to + 500 for tip, 0-5mm for neck thickness, and -600 to +600 for torque. Brackets are not allotted to particular teeth.
“KLOwen and clear aligners alike cast aside concrete rules for prescription standards and bracket designation,” Hopkins explains. “In particular the KLOwen system consists of a continuum of brackets with a range of first, second, and third order values. Brackets are not pre-assigned to the same tooth for every patient.
“CAD/CAM software is utilized to create an ideal set-up of the dentition,” she continues. The software selects a best fit for each tooth from an array of 27 prefabricated options. The preferred brackets are delivered indirectly via a 3D printed tray. Merging the concepts and capabilities of a preadjusted appliance, CAD/CAM software, and 3D printing, a prefabricated custom appliance is actualized.”
Customizing orthodontic treatment chairside creates the biggest bottleneck throughout the day. Clinical assistants wait for orthodontists to come to the chair to bend wire, place brackets, or add auxiliaries. “If we can customize treatment on the front end, that’s going to clean up a lot of that bottleneck,” Hopkins says. “I am not willing to sacrifice the quality of my outcomes to scale the size of my practice. Custom appliances have allowed me to increase the number of patients we see without adding chairs, employees, or clinical hours, or sacrificing clinical outcomes.”
At first, the additional administrative work and screen time that come with custom appliances were overwhelming. Drawing upon her time management skills and systems-oriented mindset, Hopkins has made an art out of eliminating unnecessary touch points, automating scheduling, communicating with patients, and delegating case submission and tracking.
“With the way that these products work, we have a lot of information moving in the cloud,” Hopkins says. “There are a lot of steps that need to happen in between the initial exam and appliance delivery. Early on we struggled with extra appointments for our digital patients, because we had a more conventional workflow. I quickly realized how cumbersome the process was, and it didn’t make any sense when applied to custom digital appliances.”
In reimagining the initial process, Hopkins adopted intraoral scans in place of intraoral photos for new patient evaluations. “Having the 3D scan on a 52″ monitor when discussing treatment with patients has been instrumental in my practice,” she says. “The level of patient comprehension is so much higher when I can actually show them a palatal impingement or buccal crossbite as I manipulate a 3D model of their teeth on the screen. The benefits of using the 3D intraoral scan for patient education over 2D images are exponential.”
This technique has become so popular that Hopkins was approached by several companies in the industry to show how to streamline this process for doctors. Eventually, she worked with Align Technology to automate this process for any doctor with an iTero 5D intraoral scanner. “Now a composite will be auto generated by the scanner and will populate on the Invisalign Doctor Site,” she says. “My goal is to have it populate within PMS systems.”
Hopkins’ office uses software that resembles an open API (application programming interface), allowing her to integrate multiple software platforms. “I have one place I go, and it has all the information that I need,” Hopkins enthuses. “Notes from my initial evaluation, imaging, laboratory prescription information, financial information, and links to different labs are all centralized. The design includes automations and effectively delegates the entire administrative process. It allows me to focus on what I am hopefully good at and passionate about, and that is treating patients. I see patients for the eval, and then I’m notified when it’s time to work on their digital setup—but I’m no longer having to stress about any of the steps in between.”
While there is a bit of a learning curve, Hopkins is still perplexed as to why more clinicians have not transitioned fully to a digital practice. It’s been a mission of sorts to spread word of the advantages and Hopkins has been “trying to talk to practice management softwares and work on integrations with them to where it will become even more seamless.” Eventually she believes that plug-and-play solutions will be widely available which will lead to “greater adoption of custom digital treatment and a transition to digital practice models.”
As a busy mom and practice owner, Hopkins is intimately familiar with the struggle of scheduling and then shuttling kids to multiple appointments. She points out: “The systems in my office were all designed with these challenges in mind. Convenience matters, texting is easier than calling, scheduling online can be done at any hour, and virtual monitoring of custom appliances saves countless hours of missed school and work.”
When it comes to adopting new products, Hopkins thoroughly vets the technology before implementing anything practice wide. Prior to any widespread adoption, any new offering must: 1) improve outcomes for patients; 2) introduce some type of new efficiency; and/or 3) improve the patient experience.
“I’m not going to implement something because it is the shiny new toy with lots of buzz,” Hopkins says. “The wow factor is not a priority for me. I’m looking for what is going to make me a better orthodontist and improve the overall experience for everyone.”
Heather Hopkins went to college knowing that she wanted to be an orthodontist. She fell “deeply in love” with science and even considered going into a more research-based field before realizing that her personality was more suited to interacting with people than micro-pipetting samples all day. She is passionate about understanding how things work and understanding the why behind them. This passion for knowledge and love of sharing has led to her becoming an in-demand educator within the field of orthodontics.
Unlike many colleagues, Hopkins never considered general dentistry and even admits with a chuckle that “I actually was very upset when I found out I had to go to dental school (University of Kentucky College of Dentistry) to be an orthodontist.” Such information wasn’t so easy to find during the pre-internet age, “and I couldn’t believe that I had to learn to do dentures and root canals.”
Despite her initial reticence, Hopkins graduated top of her class, leading to induction into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Academic Honor Society. After dental school, she attended the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, where she earned her certificate in orthodontics and a Master’s degree in oral biology.
After seeing many parts of the South, and prior to moving to South Carolina, Hopkins had the opportunity to work in a cosmetic office in Beverly Hills when her husband, an orthopedic surgeon, moved out west for part of his training. She was recruited to work for a prominent cosmetic dentist and ended up treating major celebrities and appearing on several TV shows including: The Doctors; Extra; and MTV’s Fantasy Factory.
“It was a surreal experience,” Hopkins says. “I was suddenly on national television and treating celebrities like Jack Black, Eva Longoria, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber. As cool as it was to close Jack’s diastema, it did not take me long to realize that they are all just people. They were all incredibly nice and cool people who happen to be in the spotlight.”
If an expanding family and a large practice were not enough, Hopkins also has an educational platform called Tipping Point Ortho where she offers online educational courses on workflow, clear aligners, and customization. It all adds up to a diverse bio that provides a healthy dose of perspective and a full appreciation for those around her who keep it all humming. “I have amazing team members, and they work really hard,” Hopkins says. “I dreamed up this whole workflow and they always buy into my visions wholeheartedly and make them come to life.”
When asked if she has any advice for the next generation of orthodontists, Hopkins replied, “Make sure you have a good support system. No one can do all of this alone. It can be a spouse, friends, family, or employees, but make sure you have good people around you. Ask for help when needed, and don’t feel guilty that you need it.” OP
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Perhaps not even Stephen King, the horror and science fiction novelist, could have dreamed up something as horrible, deadly, persistent, and disruptive as COVID-19. Yes, the designation “-19” means that we are now in the third year of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Once again hospitals across the country, including ours, are (over)filled with patients diagnosed with COVID. The stresses on physicians, nurses, and staff have been compounded by national staffing shortages due to the “Covid retirement boom” as well as many hospital employees being quarantined due to COVID itself. So once again there is a governor-mandated pause on elective surgeries which has had a great impact on resident education, faculty morale, and patient well-being. To end the introduction of this newsletter on a positive note, while some orthopaedic faculty, residents, and staff have contracted COVID, nobody has required hospitalization. In addition, the current COVID surge appears to be waning, and due to both vaccination rates and the incredible infectivity of the omicron variant, many if not all epidemiologists believe that we are entering the tail-end of the last major disruptive COVID surge.
New Faculty Joins Oncology Service
In wonderfully positive news, it is my pleasure to introduce Elyse Brinkmann, M.D. to our orthopaedic family. Dr. Brinkmann joins the department after surgical training at Loyola, Mayo and the Brigham. Elyse is dual-fellowship trained in arthroplasty and orthopaedic oncology. She will be caring for patients at the Puget Sound VA, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Brinkmann was born in Washington, raised in San Diego, and I’m sure that her family is as excited to have her back home as we are to have her in the department. In her “free time,” Dr. Brinkmann enjoys the outdoors and prior to starting her job at UW she had been biking, hiking, snow shoeing and camping.
Dr. Russell Fernandes Named a Fellow of the Orthopaedic Research Society
Dr. Russell Fernandes, a Research Associate Professor in the department, was recently selected as a Fellow of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS). ORS Fellows have demonstrated exemplary service and leadership, substantial achievement, expert knowledge, and significant contributions to the ORS, its governance, and the field of musculoskeletal research. Fellows are thought leaders and experts in their respective disciplines. Dr. Fernandes works in our Collagen Biology and Genetics Disorder Laboratory whose research concentrates on how types II, IX and XI collagens are assembled into the cross-linked fibrils that are an important component of cartilage. Cartilage is the tissue that creates the perfectly smooth surfaces in a healthy joint. Dr. Fernandes studies the role of collagen during growth, development and in conditions such as osteoarthritis. Basic research such as that performed by Dr. Fernandes is the key to developing biological or targeted treatments for conditions such as osteoarthritis.
The last two years have taken an emotional and physical toll on residents, faculty and staff. Nevertheless, as you can see in this newsletter we have pushed forward despite the recurring pandemic surges. This truly has been a team effort and it could not have happened without the courage, perseverance, and skill of the entire department.
- Howard A. Chansky, MD, Chair
- 2019 Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Bulletin
The New Year started with purple! Many of us traveled to Pasadena to support the UW Husky football team in their first Rose Bowl appearance in 17 years. Unfortunately, the team lost in a close game to Ohio State. However, outstanding care was delivered by our team physicians who support all Husky athletes year-round. We are anticipating great things in the 2019 football season and from our orthopaedic team.
I am humbled by the hard work and talent of our faculty, fellows, residents and staff that both contribute to our research efforts and provide excellent and compassionate patient care. I want to share some of the amazing work that continues to be done here at UW Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Please explore the web links included in this document and contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org if you have any questions or suggestion about the Department.
- Howard A. Chansky, MD, Chair
Our faculty continues to advance the science of orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal disease in many areas, and many have presented their work locally, nationally and internationally this past year. A few highlights include:
- Drs. Jason Hsu, Davin Gong and Frederick Matsen received an award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) for their study on infection in shoulder replacement surgery.
- Recently graduated resident Dr. Romie Gibly, along with Drs. Thomas Shomaker, Viviana Bompadre and Suzanne Steinman, published a study that guides the efficient and effective treatment of pediatric finger and hand injuries, two common reasons for children to visit an emergency room.
- Drs. Carlo Bellabarba and Amy Cizik participated in a multicenter collaboration to develop a tool to guide patients and physicians as to which patient population will most likely benefit from lumbar spine surgery.
- Two of our sports surgeons, Drs. Christopher Kweon and Albert Gee, and our head Husky athletic trainer, Robert Scheidegger, published a position piece supporting the need for orthopaedic surgeons to continue to be on the sidelines caring for football players.
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Expands and Celebrates
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kenneth Chin, our new foot and ankle surgeon, who will be joining us in March. In addition, we have had the recent good fortune to be joined by Drs. Viral Patel (spine surgery), Will Lack (trauma and general orthopaedic surgery), Jared Harwood (orthopaedic tumor surgery) and Florence Unno (trauma and general orthopaedic surgery).
We will be celebrating the careers and retirements of two of our notable faculty, Dr. Ted Wagner and Dr. David Eyre. Dr. Wagner is a force locally, nationally and internationally in spine deformity surgery. Dr. Eyre is a world-renowned cartilage and collagen biologist with over 40 years of continual NIH funding. More information will follow on the retirement event planned to honor Drs. Wagner and Eyre.
New Endowment in Honor of Dr. Douglas P. Hanel
In June of 2019, Dr. Hanel will be stepping down as the residency program director after 24 years of deft guidance. In honor of Dr. Hanel’s service to the Department and to scores of residents, we have established an endowment in his name. Please visit the Douglas P. Hanel, MD, Endowment for Orthopaedic Training and Research for Resident Education to learn more about this important initiative.
New Stadium Clinic Surgical Director
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. Mia Hagen has been appointed the Surgical Director of the Stadium Clinic. This is a new position that recognizes the importance of the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in caring for athletes of all ages, and most importantly, Dr. Hagen’s impressive early success as an educator, researcher, and clinical leader. In this leadership position, Dr. Hagen is directly responsible for clinical matters related to surgical patients, faculty and the surgical staff to ensure efficient, safe and high-quality care and services.
Diversity and Inclusion
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Sean E. Nork, M.D.
Trauma Section Chief
Dr. Sean Nork is a graduate of the University of California-San Diego medical school. Following his training in Orthopedic Surgery at UC-San Francisco he a completed a fellowship in traumatology at Harborview Medical Center. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington since 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Washington in 2004.
Presently he is the Director of Resident Education at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Nork traveled to Bern Switzerland for two months as an AO Allgöwer Fellow in 2004 and was an AOA Fellow to Japan in 2004 as well. With a predominant interest in periarticular fractures, polytrauma, and nonunions, Dr. Nork has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles and has presented at numerous medical meetings.
Dr. Nork's clinical interests include orthopaedic traumatology, non-union fractures, periarticular fractures and pilon fractures.
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More than 35,000 barber and salon professionals converge in Atlanta for bi-annual beauty show
Seven decades ago, Dr. Nathaniel H. Bronner, Sr. and his brother Arthur E. Bronner, Sr. hosted the first Bronner Bros. Hair show in the basement of the Butler Street YMCA in Atlanta. Today the pioneering event has grown to include all facets of cosmetology—and is billed as the largest multicultural beauty show in the world. Once again, the Bronner Bros. International Beauty Show attracted more than 35,000 salon and barber professionals to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. According to reported estimates, the show’s economic impact on the city is nearly $60 million per year.
The youngest of six sons, James Bronner lead the beauty show. Before joining the family business, Bronner earned a degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech. As SVP of Trade Show Operations, he is leveraging his tech expertise to create the ultimate show experience.
“The Bronner Bros. Beauty Show is all about inspiring excellence in the business of beauty,” Bronner elaborates. “We honor the hard work and determination of licensed professionals who take pride in what they do every day. This business is not for the faint of heart, but those who do it well deserve to be celebrated. We will continue to give a voice to the hairstylists, barbers and artists who create and innovate cutting-edge trends.” | <urn:uuid:e3d80f01-fe14-4a20-bcd8-3a740b9f82b2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://otcbeautymagazine.com/bronner-bros-international-celebrates-70th-anniversary-in-high-style/ | 2023-09-26T06:47:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.929298 | 303 |
Ottawa, ON – As Ottawa has entered its third year of dealing with the ongoing pandemic, The Ottawa Mission announced the addition of a second food truck and 13 new stops to its Mobile Mission Meals program, which started in September 2020, to meet the shocking increase in hunger across the city. This will provide an additional 7,000 meals per week.
“This program continues to experience unprecedented growth in response to the worsening level of hunger in Ottawa due to the continuing pandemic, the lack of affordable housing, and other factors,” stated Ottawa Mission CEO Peter Tilley.
Beginning with one truck which provided 100 meals at each of its five stops back in September 2020, the shelter has now added an additional truck and a further 26 stops across Ottawa serving 14 times the original number of meals. The second truck and the additional 12 stops were added the week prior to Easter and served a full special holiday meal with all the trimmings.
“In 2019, the last Easter meal before the pandemic, The Ottawa Mission served 2,659 Easter meals. Last week, through our shelter and our food truck program, we served 10,084 meals. This is a new record for one of our special meals and four times the number of meals we served for Easter 2019,” noted The Mission’s Director of Food Services Chef Ric Allen-Watson.
“Every single day our truck goes out and people line up to receive the meals they need to survive. People with walkers, in wheelchairs, and with their kids. People who never worried about feeding themselves and their families until Covid-19 come to our truck to survive. Clients have told us that they go hungry, sometimes for days, until our truck comes. Think of that: not eating for an entire day – or two, or three, or more. Other clients have told us that our food truck helps them with family dinners since the cost of groceries has risen so much. Think of that: worrying about feeding yourself – and your children,” Allen-Watson added.
Prior to the onset of the pandemic, The Mission had served just over 520,000 meals annually. Now, into our third year of the pandemic, The Mission will serve almost 1 million meals to people who would otherwise go hungry – the equivalent of almost one meal for every person who lives in Ottawa.
The press conference was held in Regina Towers, a building owned by Ottawa Community Housing (OCH), which provides social and affordable housing in Ottawa. OCH Board Chair Councillor Mathieu Fleury noted the importance of The Mission’s food truck program to vulnerable community members across Ottawa. “The pandemic has highlighted the real struggles with access to food among residents. The Ottawa Mission, with its long history in Ottawa, responded positively to emerging needs by investing in its approach, which provides warm meals with Chef Ric’s social enterprise kitchen and food truck. The food truck has demonstrated enormous success by offering 4,000 meals per week. We are happy to see the arrival of the second truck, which will serve 12 new locations – and will serve an additional 3,000 meals per week.”
Ottawa Community Housing CEO Stéphane Giguère confirmed the importance of the shelter’s food truck program to OCH residents in particular, whose residences host several food truck stops per week. “Since September 2020, the Mission Food Truck has provided an invaluable service to tenants living in OCHC communities. We know food insecurity is a real issue – and we are grateful for partners such as the Ottawa Mission who help us meet the diverse needs of 32,000 residents.”
Councillor Theresa Kavanagh, whose ward includes Regina Towers, noted the factors that leave many of her constituents having to choose between paying their rent and feeding themselves and their families. “Ottawa has the highest shortfall for residents receiving Ontario Disability Support Payments and Ontario Works and the poverty line. And for those making minimum wage in Ottawa, 59% have less than $100 left after paying housing and utilities costs each month. Who could live on less than $100 after paying these costs? I couldn’t. And no one else should have to either. I’m grateful to The Mission for establishing this new food truck stop and others in my ward so people here don’t go hungry.”
Terry Nichols, President of Urbandale, a main food truck program sponsor, noted the company’s expanded support for the program. “We believe in building strong communities and value our partnerships. We’re particularly pleased to support The Ottawa Mission, our community’s oldest and largest homeless shelter. As The Mission says, it is more than a shelter. Not only does it provide both emergency support such as food, clothing and shelter, but it also offers programs for people to rebuild their lives. That’s why we decided to support this food truck initiative in 2020 and why we’re especially proud to continue to support it in its expanded format. This initiative has gone and will continue to go a long way go to address hunger in our community and ensure that people who need healthy meals get them.”
Donna Gibson, Commercial Account Manager at RBC, affirmed her organization’s support as well. “The RBC Foundation is proud to support The Ottawa Mission’s food truck program. As a corporate leader, people look to us to step up on issues that demand leadership. By supporting this program, we’re reducing hunger in our community. COVID-19 has brought serious systemic issues to light, including food insecurity. That’s why it’s important to support community partners like The Ottawa Mission, who are taking actions to address these issues.”
Peter Tilley concluded the event by noting the importance of partnerships across sectors while also addressing the roots causes of hunger. “No one should have to go hungry. The Mission is grateful to partner with Ottawa Community Housing, Councillor Kavanagh, and our supporters Urbandale and RBC, to meet the needs of our community for warm and nutritious meals. We also need to address the fact that while we have valued partners such as OCH, over 40% of tenants in Ottawa live in unaffordable housing, and almost 10% live in housing in need of major repairs or unsuitable to their needs. We also need to address the failure of income supports to keep pace with the cost of living, which is rising faster than it has for the past 30 years. We need to expand affordable and appropriate housing options in our community and improve income supports for our most vulnerable community members, as well as look at new programs such as basic income options.”
About The Ottawa Mission
Since 1906, The Ottawa Mission has been serving those who are homeless, hungry and lost by providing food, clothing, shelter and skills. In 2020-2021, The Ottawa Mission provided emergency shelter to an average of 185 men every night and served an average of 1,994 meals every day. The Ottawa Mission also provides to men and women health services, mental health and addiction treatment programs, hospice care, dental services, housing services, educational support, job training, spiritual care, and clothing to thousands in need in our community. In September 2020, The Ottawa Mission marked the one millionth hour that the shelter has been in existence since its founding in 1906. In 2019, the Mission became a housing-focused shelter reflective of its commitment to a home for everyone as a human right with the launch of its housing department. Visit ottawamission.com to learn more.
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Our Turn to Talk is the National Children’s Bureau’s (NCB) youth-led podcast programme! All episodes are developed and directed by young people and focus on topics that are important to them.
In our seventh episode young people working with NCB in a variety of roles explore their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this has continued to impact them today. Bethan, a young trustee, Eden, a member of the Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum, Lotte, a Young Research Advisor, and Jacob, a member of FLARE, participate in a group discussion and reflect on their personal experiences.
Navigating life during and post pandemic explores: • The impact of school closures on young people’s experiences of education • Young people’s mental health and positive self-care strategies they have developed • The effect on local communities, access to services, and what improvements could be made • Key takeaways from their experiences.
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Cool Aid, the duo made up of Pink Siifu and producer Ahwlee, have released a new double single. It features the songs ‘COO’ and ‘usedtoo’, which are accompanied by a video from director Jacob Nadir Gray. Check it out below.
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A Spanish recipe with Russian Influence
I spent a few enjoyable weeks in Spain in the late 1990s. Much of the food was memorable, but none of the dishes influenced me more than this one, served in a small, but excellent restaurant in Madrid. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that upon return to home I immediately tried to emulate it, with some success. It is very simple, but delicious and attractive. We have probably made it 100 times over the last 20 years. Only recently did I learn that it is, in fact, at standard recipe in Spain, however I have no idea how that came to be. In any case it is called Spaghetti Rasputin, named after Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the mystical adviser and healer friend of Czar Nicholas II. The connection with this “mad monk” would appear to be the dollop of caviar that adorns the dish, and possibly the sharpness of fresh chilies. Be that as it may, it is wonderful and quickly prepared, needing only a fresh, green salad to make a delici0us and memorable meal.
A note about smoked salmon and caviar: There are enormous differences in quality and a high price may not guarantee the best. Ideally, one would chose wild-caught salmon, but just because it says it is that on the package it may not be true and it may not say anything about taste. It is best to trust your eyes and nose. If buying prepackaged fish in a supermarket, which is not the first choice, but may be necessary, it will be best to buy a package and then open it after paying. If it smells fishy or “off” you can return it without having to drive back to the store. You know then to look elsewhere. Smoked salmon should smell of the sea with a slight smokiness. It should also be deep pink and not light pink or grayish. At most there should be only very few white fatty streaks, which are a sign of poorly farmed fish. If you have a good fish monger he or she will let you smell it before buying. If you find a good source make note of it and you will know what you are getting the next time you buy.
Now about caviar: We have never made this recipe with true caviar such as Beluga or Sevruga (from sturgeon). We generally have trout or salmon roe in the refrigerator and use that. True caviar is such a delicacy that it would be a shame to serve it together with other flavorful ingredients such as those in this dish. When I had it in Spain they served it with the black roe of lumpfish, which is fine, too. The dish can be served without any “caviar,” too.
This is one of those amazingly simple recipes that just work.
For 4 servings
2 small shallots peeled and finely chopped
6 oz (200 g) smoked salmon sliced
2 small tub of caviar (trout, salmon or lumpfish roe are all fine)2 small chilies (or according to taste)
6 oz (200 ml) of sweet cream
2 tsp cornstarch
2 Tbl butter
freshly ground pepper
Cook the spaghetti ‘al dente’.
In a medium pan sautee the shallots in the butter until soft. Mix the cream and cornstarch and add to the pan and cook to thicken.
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On 1st April, 2019 the news of T Harish Rao,the senior leader to leave the TRS in order to join Bharatiya Janata Party has blown waves among the public including the party members.
The news was published in an English newspaper as a prank for the readers on the April fool day. Finally at the end authentic news was released about the TRS leader as he is loyal to the party and not joining BJP. Readers were high in discussions and immense thoughts about the sudden shifting of party has discovered at the end of the article that it was a prank on the April fool day.
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Williamsburg, KY – Scholastic 3-D Archery has named Ryan Hudson as the S3DA™ Colorado State Coordinator. Ryan will oversee all aspects of the S3DA™ program in Colorado. Ryan’s goals as the State Coordinator include building a coaching staff of S3DA™ certified instructors across the western region and working with contacts to build a larger foundation of clubs and teams throughout Colorado. Ryan has already started working on these goals by hiring two Regional Coordinators to develop and operate S3DA™ within their assigned regions of Colorado. As a large western state with an ample archery background, Ryan’s main goal is to get more S3DA™ student memberships.
Ryan was born and raised in Fruita, Colorado and has pretty much stayed in the Colorado area. He currently lives on a farm with his family and they raise market hogs and sheep as well as show swine, goats and beef across the western states. Ryan graduated with a degree in Ichthyology and Wildlife Management. He is currently a Rifle High School FFA Advisor and Instructor, Colorado Hunter Education Instructor, USA Archery Level II Instructor, NASP Instructor and Colorado 4-H Archery State Team Instructor. Ryan has been shooting since he was a little kid and it all started when his grandpa gave him a Colt Recurve and a few cedar shaft arrows. Ryan’s family is very involved with archery and they are all hunters. Some animals that they have hunted to date include deer, elk and goose.
When Ryan got older, he began to teach and found showing others the joy and challenge of archery feels as successful as doing it himself. Ryan stated, “Working with all the programs there is a way to get every student successfully shooting if they want. It makes me smile, as I enjoy working with young adults in shooting sports and outdoor adventures.”
Ryan learned about S3DA™ as he was looking for more opportunities for kids to learn to shoot archery. He saw the S3DA™ program at “The Vegas Shoot” in 2017 and became curious about the program. Ryan said S3DA™ was a great program for all ages and he was really excited that the program offered a true potential for shooter success with a bow as well as with education and life-long skills.
Ryan Hudson states, “As a State Coordinator, we are going to see how it goes as we bring more coaches into the mix with the growth. We will work with Chris McDonald, National Outreach Coordinator and others to evaluate what areas we need to work on for the future.”
About Scholastic 3-D Archery
Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA™) is a unique, family-oriented youth archery program which has grown exponentially across the United States as a next-step initiative to follow introductory archery programs. The mission of the Scholastic 3-D Archery program is to foster, educate and guide youth in the areas of 3-D, indoor target and outdoor target archery as well as safe, ethical bowhunting practices. The goal of the S3DA™ program is to provide archery and bowhunting opportunities to youth in after-school settings, as well as with archery-affiliated clubs and businesses in the community. S3DA™ students participate in 3-D and target archery using compound and traditional archery equipment. Students can participate at local, regional, state and national archery events and earn college scholarships from colleges and universities across the United States. S3DA™ addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experience and more advanced activities such as 3-D shooting and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches serving thousands of young archers, grades 3–12.
Contact the Scholastic 3-D Archery National Office at:
www.s3da.org or 225 North 3rd Street, Williamsburg, KY 40769, Ph: 606.524.3685
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Intel’s Xeon W9-3495X consumes almost 1900 Watts during heavy overclocking session
How much power does it take to fuel 56 Golden Cove cores at 5.5GHz? Nearly 2,000 watts
Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids HEDT (High-End Desktop) platform has only recently become available, and overclockers are excitedly pushing these new processors to their limits to achieve incredible results. With Intel’s Xeon W9-3495X processor featuring 56 Golden Cove CPU cores and support for eight DDR5 memory channels, the performance potential of Intel’s Sapphire Rapids platform is incredible, especially when pushed to its limit.
With their new Xeon W X-series processors, Intel offers support for overclocking, allowing the overclocker Elmor to push his Xeon W9-3495X processor to 5.5 GHz on all 56 cores when used with an ASUS W790E-SAGE SE motherboard, LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen) cooling and G.SKILL Zeta R5 DDR5 memory.
Under load, Elmore’s Xeon W9-3495X processor consumed 1,881 watts of power. Elmor’s system was powered by two 1,600W Superflower Leadex power supplies, and his processor was cooled to around -95 degrees celcius under load.
In the video below, Elmor managed to achieve an incredible score of 132,220 points in Cinebench R23, a score that remains a few hundred points behind his world record score of 132,484 points, a score that was also achieved with an Xeon W9-3495X processor.
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Sabrent’s Rocket 2230 M.2 SSD is in stock in the UK
Sabrent’s ultra-compact Rocket 2230 SSDs are now available in the UK
The M.2 2230 form factor offers system integrators access to a large amount of storage within a tiny form factor, making it perfect for portable gaming devices like Valve’s Steam Deck and compact PCs like Microsoft’s Surface series. While the M.2 2230 form factor is incredibly from the perspective of compact PC makers, problems arise when it comes time to upgrade your system’s SSD. M.2 2230 SSDs are awesome, but they aren’t widely available. Sabrent’s now changing that.
With their new Rocket 2230 SSD, Sabrent plans to offer consumers 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB M.2 2230 SSD models that offer PCIe 4.0 performance and sequential read speeds that max out at 4750 MB/s with the drive’s 1TB model.
The Rocket 2230’s form factor and capacity options make the drive ideal as an upgrade option for Valve’s Steam Deck portable gaming system, or Microsoft’s M.2 2230 compatible Surface series devices. With its combination of Micron 176-layer TLC NAND and a Phison E21T SSD controller, this SSD offers the performance and storage capacity to take many portable PCs to the next level.
UK Availability and pricing
Right now, Sabrent’s Rocket 2230 SSDs are now available on Amazon UK, though stock of these SSDs are expected to sell out fast. These drives are more costly than most NVMe SSDs on a per GB basis, which means that you should probably look for a different drive if your system can contain a full-sized M.2 2280 SSD. If you need a M.2 2230 drive, Sabrent’s new Rocket drives are faster and cheaper than many of the alternatives that you can see online.
If you want a 1TB SSD that fits within the compact M.2 2230 form factor, Sabrent’s new Rocket 2230 SSD is a great option. There are few companies that are attempting to compete within this niche area of the PC market, and that fact alone makes Sabrent’s entry into the M.2 2230 SSD market a great thing. If you are a Steam deck owner that wants more ultra-fast SSD storage, this drive will be a must buy for you, especially if you are using a 64GB Steam Deck.
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Your business card is one of the most important aspects of your branding as it is often the first impression of your company.
Its hard to make up for a bad first impression.
This business card for Leadership Initiatives is a crucial part of this branding campaign that has included the company name, slogan, logo, website (www.leadership-initiatives.com), business card and workbooks.
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Xylazine, a powerful sedative primarily used in veterinary medicine, has recently gained attention for its potential misuse in certain settings. Whether you are a concerned parent or a healthcare professional understanding if Xylazine can be detected in drug tests is essential.
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I love designing and creating a card then making additional cards with slight variations, like changing the colors. You will see in this video, and in the pictures below, how I took one card and made up two additional variations just by changing the colors.
The card I demonstrated tonight on my weekly Facebook Live was a card from my card class that I cased from a Stampin’ Up! Artisian, Ashley Van Camp. It was so cute. I used the Daisy Lane and Dandelion Wishes Stamp Sets. I brought in the Medium Daisy Punch, Leaf Punch, 1/2 inch Circle Punch for the centers of the flowers and then also used the Stitched Nested Dies and Brick and Mortar 3D Embossing folder to complete the card.
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One Card Design, Three Different Colors
This card uses Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green for the colors.
During the Facebook Live, I created this card using the same supplies but changed the colors. I used Soft Seafoam, Petal Pink and Vellum on the card. Crumb Cake was the Ink color for the sentiment.
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Tim Casey discusses why Quiznos is stronger than ever
Something special is happening at Quiznos.
For the past few years, a talented team of veteran franchise experts with Rego Restaurant Group has sought to take great brands like Quiznos with unreal brand recognition, and breathe new life into the business model.
Tim Casey, Quiznos’ CEO, said in all his years of experience in the restaurant and franchise industry, no better brand was ready for this rebirth than Quiznos.
“I believe Quiznos is the best candidate as a brand to reinvigorate,” Casey said. “Quiznos has tremendous customer affinity and an amazing legacy. Now we’re ready to make it relevant for the future.”
In this wide-ranging interview, Casey talks about what makes Quiznos so special, the brand’s legacy of disrupting the market, plans for the future, and what franchisees can expect when investing in the company.
What makes Quiznos so special as a brand?
When you think about when Quiznos first started, it was a disruptor in the sub/sandwich space, doing things no one else was doing. And we’re committed to getting back to that. We’re bringing in new, innovative equipment, which will take the menu in a unique and special direction to further differentiate the brand, and create a strong economic model for the franchisee.
What are some of the benefits of franchising with Quiznos?
For one, you get tremendous brand awareness with the consumer. It doesn’t matter what state, the consumer is aware of Quiznos, and that’s tremendous for a franchisee. You don’t have to build brand awareness – it exists, and they’re capitalizing on it. Also, the business model is highly relevant to the consumer and therefore lucrative to the franchisee. And the support system is best in class, and our No. 1 priority is to support the franchisee. We deliver on that.
What’s Quiznos doing that competitors are not?
When we first started, no one else was toasting, and we brought toasting into the sandwich platform. Now, today, we’re doing unique LTO like bison, and unique proteins, not only differentiating our brand, but the messaging shows we’re back as a unique brand. We’re going to take what was great about the brand in the past, and we’re going to capitalize on it well into the future.
What is Quiznos looking for in a franchisee?
The franchisee we want is a great operator, meaning they are connected in their community, and they operate great restaurants and take care of the guests. The franchisee of the future is the one who wants 5-plus restaurants in their communities, because when they can control an amount of real estate, they can capitalize to the benefit of their guests in that community and their success as a business.
It seems like a lot is happening at Quiznos. What is the culture these days?
People create culture, and we’ve brought together a team that believes in the franchise and what we’re doing. We wake up every day wanting to support our franchisees and the business model. That drives a level of collaboration within the organization that benefits the franchisee. I’ve never seen such passion in a group of people.
How does the team benefit the franchisee?
As a franchisee, what you’re really buying into is a level of talent that supports the complexity in the market. Franchisees have to be confident a supply chain team is making sure there’s continuous flow of product, at an affordable cost, which sounds easy but is very difficult. Or, you need a digital team that can capitalize on trends, like online ordering and digital apps. Franchisees have to make money, and they join organizations because they want the team and support, infrastructure and systems. And in our case, the brand, and that’s what we offer a franchisee.
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The following excerpt is taken from an episode of The CPG Guys Podcast and their interview with Shock Torem, GM & SVP of Retail Media Solutions at Vestcom, where they discussed the rising power of in-store media. Listen to the full episode here.
Summary: While the retail media boom has been largely concentrated with onsite and offsite digital applications, the reality is, physical stores represent a massive media opportunity for brands to connect all through the funnel messaging to critical moments of decision making in store. The CPG Guys partnered with Vestcom to explore how brands are utilizing innovative tactics to connect with shoppers in physical retail to drive incremental volume.
The CPG Guys: Can you start with a quick overview of Vestcom?
Vestcom: Vestcom is the largest developer and distributor of productivity solutions for retailers to manage pricing, assortment, and merchandising communication at shelf. Over time we’ve introduced enhanced solutions that enable CPG brands to complement in-store price communication while also integrating their marketing messaging at shelf, to create a more holistic media solution and a more complete shopper experience.
The CPG Guys: Why should brands consider re-allocating dollars to in-store media?
Vestcom: E-marketer recently published that for the first time retail media spend has surpassed connected TV and is on pace to surpass broadcast TV by next year, with nearly $60 billion in projected spend. The reason for this massive budget shift is that CPGs continue to realize that engaging the shopper in a contextually relevant environment yields much higher returns for their media spend. What's interesting is that while 90% of that Retail Media Network (RMN) spend is focused on digital, 90% of the transactions still occur in brick & mortar. If you think about the eyeballs that are in-store as a media audience, they actually represent over twice the reach of a retailer's average digital audience – which is really powerful.
If brands apply a digital media mindset to the shelf-edge as an equally viable media channel, they can leverage the massive reach in-store with actionable shopper engagement at the final point of decision to drive measurable volume impact. There's nothing more contextually relevant than that, and there's no better time or place to reach that audience then at the exact moment they're ready to buy.
The CPG Guys: At NRF, you were talking about the disconnect between brand marketing messages from click to brick, and the need for brands to achieve “phygital” success. Can you elaborate on what that means?
Vestcom: The truth is shoppers still prefer to shop in a physical environment – the whole notion of, "I want to touch and feel my produce" applies to the rest of their shopping trip as well. So while COVID accelerated e-commerce, we're normalizing now back to standard behavior. The other dynamic that's evolved is a more gradual evolution to omnichannel media consumption and shopper behavior. Most consumers are now hybrid shoppers, and there's a need for a more integrated approach to engaging them.
So the question becomes, how do you create a dynamic that leverages the best of the physical and the digital? Hence the emergence of the term “phygital”, which aims to address this consumer need. And if 90% of transactions still occur in brick & mortar, there’s fertile ground to continue that conversation with the consumer and connect your brand messaging in-store to the narrative that you've already begun higher up in the funnel. Making that connection and triggering that recall will change shopper behavior and drive more brand volume.
The CPG Guys: How are you partnering with Retail Media Networks to help activate the shelf-edge as a media channel?
Vestcom: RMNs are essential to optimizing in-store media strategy, both for Retailers and CPGs. The primary shift that's occurred in the last several years is that retailers recognize the shelf-edge is as much a media channel as their owned and operated digital properties, and they're looking for solution providers like Vestcom to help them monetize the 220 million eyeballs that walk up and down their aisles every week. To put that in perspective, this is double the size of a Super Bowl that's occurring every week in grocery, drug and mass in the U.S.
We partner with virtually every RMN out there, such as 84.51°, Albertsons Media Collective, Peapod Digital Labs, DG Media Network, and others to customize our approach with their overall strategy and make it simple for brands to deploy at scale regardless of the retailer through our shelfAdz solution. shelfAdz enable CPGs to leverage a portion of the price tag to communicate their brand messaging. It’s the only price data-integrated media solution in market, which creates a powerful combination of price promotion in concert with brand messaging to create that tiebreaker at shelf that compels a shopper to choose their brand over a competitor.
The CPG Guys: Can you elaborate on the measurement brands can expect from shelfAdz?
Vestcom: One of the fundamental principles of shelfAdz is measurability. Vestcom has access to first-party point of sale data from many of our retailer partners, including a recent expanded partnership with Kroger's 84.51°, affording access to their Collaborative Cloud data. This type of data enables us to conduct industry standard test versus control methodology to determine the true incrementality of a shelfAdz campaign. Depending on the tactic and the category deployed, most brands experience a 10% to 20% increase in incremental volume lift and an average iROAS of 2-3X. We only measure iROAS as we want to ensure we don’t take credit for volume that would have occurred organically.
The CPG Guys: Is in-store media really a trade function supported at the individual retailer account level, or should brand marketers be coordinating efforts across retail customers to drive brand value?
Vestcom: There's several buckets that can fund shelf-edge media depending on the initiative, the campaign objective, and the infrastructure at each individual CPG. It certainly makes sense to use shelfAdz to amplify trade promotion or to support retailer driven events. And historically, that's a very common use case. That said, what we see happening more is that national brand media budgets are being utilized to communicate key brand benefits, tentpole events, new item launches, and initiatives that are universal to the brand and not necessarily retailer specific. This is where brands can use Vestcom to deploy across 50+ retailers at once without having to rely on individual sales or shopper teams to execute. It's no different than making a national media buy with another medium — shelf-edge media. And especially with the increased leverage of RMNs, we’re seeing shopper marketing, promotional spend, and brand dollars converging as branded media opportunities are realized at shelf.
The CPG Guys: How do you see in-store media capabilities evolving as physical stores digitize?
Vestcom: Whether it's QR codes, NFC technology or now digital displays or smart screens, you're going to see emerging technology that retailers will be piloting to optimize that shopper experience, with a balance to not create too much disruption for shoppers. I think a lot will get flushed out in the next three to five years with respect to the intersection of technology at scale, with what retailers and consumers are willing to accept as value added versus disruptive. At the end of the day, the consumer voice and the data will determine that direction.
With respect to Vestcom, our core value in serving our retailer partners with their everyday pricing, assortment, and merchandising needs enables us to complement that with powerful media solutions in both analog and digital form in-store. You're going to see a lot more innovation and new solutions coming forth from us to create those phygital shopping experiences.
The CPG Guys: What final thought would you leave for brands on better leveraging in-store media?
Vestcom: In-store media will continue to evolve in ways that provide marketers exciting choices on how to better engage shoppers, while doing so in a contextually relevant environment that motivates immediate action. As the shelf-edge continues to become an extended media channel, Vestcom will be there to help retailers and CPGs along that journey. It's a true win-win-win for consumers who gain inspiration and clarity to make better buying decisions, for retailers who can monetize their in-store traffic, and for CPGs who can connect their key messages at the final point of decision to drive measurable volume impact. Going back to the Super Bowl analogy, as a brand you've spent a ton of money higher up in the funnel driving the shopper down the field. You finally got them in the red zone by virtue of them being in the store. Now, when they're at the goal line standing in front of your section, let's not drop the ball. Let's make sure we can drive that conversion and get it across the goal line by putting your item in their basket. And the best way to do that is with shelf-edge media that enables you to communicate price value with your product benefits.
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Ontario’s Algonquin Park lost its last traditional guide last year, but the legacy of Frank Kuiack remains. For 76 years, Kuiack shared his passion for the nearly 8,000 square kilometers of Algonquin Park wilderness and extensive knowledge of its more than 1,500 lakes with thousands of visitors.
The legend of Frank Kuiack: Algonquin’s last traditional fishing guide
At one time, the Park had more than 140 guides. These experienced outdoorspeople were hired by some of the one million annual visitors to help navigate the Park’s abundant lakes, and angle for brook and lake trout, smallmouth bass, northern pike, and 50 other species of fish. Over the years, the number of guides declined until only Kuiack remained.
Filmmaker Cristian Gomes documented Kuiack’s last years on the water and his challenge to find an apprentice, so his passing—which happened on May 4, 2021, at the age of 84—wouldn’t mark the end of the tradition. The Last Guide was released in March.
“I believe Frank’s story connects with so many people because of our innate desire to find a purpose, community and environment we deeply connect with,” says Gomes. “Some, like Frank, have found it in nature and cultivated an awe-inspiring life around it. Others are still in the process of searching. Wherever we are on our journey, Frank’s story provides valuable lessons that, if observed and questioned, bring us closer to our true selves.”
How Kuiack became an Algonquin Park icon
Guiding was second nature for Kuiack, who grew up just a few kilometers from the Park’s eastern gate. He fell into the profession in 1945, at the age of eight, when some American tourists saw him fishing and offered him cash to take them on the lake.
His business and reputation grew from there. “I was making more money than my dad was,” Kuiack says with a laugh in the documentary. “He was getting $3.61 a day, and I was getting $5.”
Kuiack became an unofficial ambassador to Algonquin Park. Visitors from around the world came to experience his version of the Park—from ordinary folks and wildlife photographers to celebrities and dignitaries.
Beyond his innate knowledge, he became known for rowing his canoes with oars, his bologna and pickle sandwiches, and the incredible shore lunches that were almost always part of an excursion.
Running rapids and blazing trails
Kuiack’s niece, Sharleen LaValley, who appears in the documentary, shared a special bond with Kuiack. “I listened to amazing stories and participated in making new ones,” she says, recalling the times Kuiack ran rapids with her, the canoe bumping over the rocks below, so he could avoid portaging. “There was never a concern because we always had duct tape in our packs,” she says with a laugh.
The last guide is gone, but Park Superintendent John Swick says, “Many people were, and continue to be introduced to and fall in love with Algonquin Provincial Park because of Frank.”
His spirit will live on through the paths he forged in the Park—many have become official trails—and the experiences he created for thousands of park visitors.
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I love looking back on photos of trips we’ve taken — I like it even better when I love the way I look in those photos!
One big part of that is how my hair looks. It’s not always easy to have a good hair day when you’re away from home and all your hair tools and hair products!
Many hotel rooms are stocked with a hair dryer, but hotel hair dryers usually only have one setting. If you are planning to travel for more than a couple of days, it will pay off to invest in the best travel hair dryer that works with your hair.
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Things to Consider When Choosing a Travel Blow Dryer
Before you use up precious suitcase space for a travel dryer, make sure you get the one that’s right for you. Here are a few things to consider to find the best travel hair dryers for your needs.
Will you use it?
First, will you use it? If you don’t typically blow dry your hair and you’re bringing other styling tools, don’t load yourself down with an extra device. Or if you normally just let your hair air dry, you probably won’t change your style suddenly just because you’re on vacation.
What’s your hair type?
You also need to choose a dryer that is right for your hair type. If you have thin hair, you may want one that has lower heat settings and features that prevent hair damage.
If you have thick hair, you might need higher heat or anti-frizz qualities. Don’t bother bringing a travel hair dryer if it’s no better for your hair than the standard hotel option!
How big is it?
Also consider the weight and bulk of whatever compact travel hair dryer you’re going to buy. Whether you’re checking or carrying on a bag (or just packing up a weekender), you want one that saves space compared to your at-home hair dryer.
Best Travel Hair Dryers
Everyone’s hair is different, so I came up with a list of 10 travel hair dryers that are best for your next trip. Whether you are looking for the fastest drying time, quietest motor, frizz-fighting technology, or the most compact hair dryer, I’ve got you covered with the best of the best.
1. Lightest Hair Dryer: IQ Perfetto Hair Dryer
If you’re concerned about weight this is a great option for your hair dryer! Weighing only 10.3 ounces, the lightweight design of this hair dryer really packs a punch. With 12 possible heat and speed configurations, you’re completely in control of the process.
Additionally, the IQ Perfetto includes a diffuser and 2 nozzle attachments to help you get the best blow dry possible.
1700 Watt Brushless motor with a speed clocking in at 110,000 RPM’s, this dryer is 7 times faster. The air outlet has been designed to multiply the air flow dispensed by the motor. The extra air flow is produced via vacuum effect without using extra power. Comes with 3 speeds and temperatures.
- Super lightweight
- Fast drying
- Multiple speeds and temperatures
2. Best Hair Dryer with Diffuser: PeeWee 1200 Compact Travel Hair Dryer
This lightweight hair dryer has a comfortable hold, quiet airflow, and a stand that allows for hands-free styling. It comes with a diffuser that is great for curly hair, but it can get hot so it is best for quick dries.
- Super compact
- Comfortable grip
- May get hot
3. Best for All Hair Types: T3 Afar Lightweight Travel Size Hair Dryer
The T3’s Afar Lightweight Travel Size Hair Dryer is a great travel blow dryer for all hair types: long, short, curly, straight, dry, or oily. I love T3 products since they’re designed to prevent heat damage and keep your hair healthy.
This 1500-watt hair dryer has three heat, two-speed settings, and negative ions (IonAir technology) to reduce frizzy hair. The compact size of this hair dryer makes it one of the best hair dryers to travel with!
It’s a foldable hair dryer and comes with a concentrator attachment and a vegan leather travel bag. If you need a hairy dryer that’s a small size so it doesn’t take up much luggage space, this is a great one for you!
Size: 5.25 x 3 x 8.25 inches and 1.27 pounds
- Customizable heat and airflow settings
- Frizz-reducing technology
- Not as compact as other travel hair dryer options
4. Fastest Drying Time: Drybar Baby Buttercup Travel Hair Dryer
This hair dryer is lightweight, compact, and can dry hair in as little as 10 minutes. The 1200-watt hair dryer features ionic technology to reduce frizz. It has two heat settings, a cool shot button, a collapsible handle, and a drawstring travel bag.
This tiny but powerful dryer may be fast, but it does get hot when the hottest setting is used for too long.
Size: 7.09 x 4.37 x 10 inches and 13 ounces
- Frizz-reducing technology
- Foldable handle
- May get hot
5. Best for International Travel: BaByliss Nano Titanium Travel Hair Dryer
This hair dryer is dual voltage so it can be used anywhere in the world. It features nano titanium technology for a quick dry, two heat settings, and a folding handle.
This 1000-watt hair dryer is lightweight and has a compact designso you can toss it in your suitcase or carry-on without compromising souvenir space — just what you want with a travel hair dryer.
The compact 1000 Watt BaBylissPRO Nano Titanium Travel Dryer is a powerful, lightweight travel dryer. Nano titanium & ionic technology mean hair dries faster with less frizz. Removable filter & stand included.
Size: 5.5 x 2.5 x 6.25 inches and 9.6 ounces
- Lightweight and compact
- Dual voltage
- 2 heat and speed settings
- The back pops off for easy cleaning
- Folding handle
- Occasionally overheats
- Occasionally shuts off during use
6. Quietest Travel Hair Dryer: Jinri 1000W Travel Hair Dryer
If you are looking for a small, efficient travel hair dryer that will not wake your travel companions, the Jinri 1000W may be for you. This tool has a low-noise DC motor that has a long life and has about the same amount of power without being loud.
There are two heat settings and a cold shot button. The dryer uses an ionic generator to reduce frizz and comes with a detachable concentrator nozzle for more styling options. This hair dryer can only be used in 120V outlets.
Size: 8 x 2 x 5 inches and 11 ounces
- Lightweight and compact
- Detachable concentrator nozzle
- Cannot be used outside the U.S. or Canada
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7. Best Budget: Conair miniPRO Tourmaline Ceramic Dryer
This 1200-watt mini hair dryer is basic and affordable. It is a lightweight but powerful travel hair dryer. It is a dual voltage hair dryer and has two heat and speed settings, an airflow concentrator, and a folding handle with a velvet grip.
Plus, you can’t beat the price. For just over $20, this hair dryer can be yours.
- Mini Hair Dryer: This hair dryer offers 1200 watts of power in a compact size with a folding handle, featuring 2 heat and 2 speeds settings for all hair types, plus dual voltage for worldwide travel
Size: 3.75 x 6 x 9.88 inches and 15.52 ounces
- Folding handle
- May overheat
8. Slimmest Hair Dryer: L’ange Le Styliste Luxe Digital Salon Dryer
L’ange Le Styliste Luxe is not technically a travel hair dryer, but it is thin and lightweight so it counts! This 1875-watt tool weighs just over a pound and produces a powerful flow of air that dries hair quickly.
It comes with two concentrators and one diffuser attachment. It has three heat and speed settings with a cool shot to help lock in your hairstyle. This machine is quiet, self-cleaning, and has overheat protection.
Size: 14.41 x 11.1 x 4.29 inches
- Multiple attachments
- Doesn’t fold
9. Best Hair Dryer Brush: Drybar The Baby Brush Crush Mini Heated Straightening Brush
This dryer brush by Drybar is perfect if traveling with your regular hair dryer, hair brush, and round brush feels too high maintenance. It comes in a full-sized version too, but this one has all of the features of the larger one wrapped up in a smaller package.
As a travel hair dryer, it’s perfect to toss in a gym bag or a carry-on bag. It is a straightening iron and paddle brush in one design. It has two temperature settings, an automatic shut-off, and ionic technology for less frizz.
The quickest way to smooth and reduce frizz! Compact and travel-friendly, The Baby Brush Crush helps create a smooth, frizz-free look in one easy step.
Size: 2.6 x 2.6 x 10.2 inches and 13.12 ounces
- 2-year warranty
- 2 temperature settings
- Automatic shutoff
- Heating components can be finicky
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10. Best Luxury Hair Dryer: Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer is a luxury item with a luxury price tag. Reviews say this hair dryer’s price is worth it though. It has impressive quick-drying abilities, a digital motor in the handle and uses intelligent heat control to leave hair super shiny.
The unique design makes it easy to pack in a bag or suitcase. It is also said to be one of the quietest hair dryers on the market, which is essential for a travel hair dryer when you’re getting ready in close quarters with other travelers.
This 1600-watt dryer quickly and quietly dries your hair so you can be out of the door in a snap.
The Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is ultra-fast drying and has intelligent heat control to protect against extreme heat damage. Now with five attachments to style your hair your way, including the new Flyaway attachment.
Size: 9.6 x 3.9 x 3.1 inches and 1.8 pounds
- Super quiet
IQ Perfetto Hair Dryer by Gama Professional claims to be the lightest hair dryer out there, weighing just over half a pound. This makes it a good travel hairdryer or even an at-home dryer if you’d like a lighter one to be easier on your wrists.
The best voltage for a hair dryer is the correct voltage for whatever country you’re using the hair dryer in. For the U.S., that’s 120V. You can buy a dual voltage travel hair dryer so you can use it around the world.
Yes, but keep in mind that you will probably need a power adapter or voltage converter. Appliances in the U.S. and Canada are designed for 110/120V while many other countries use 220/240V.
Dual voltage hair dryers make the best travel hair dryers because they are designed to work with both voltage levels. Adapters don’t always work very well or for very long, so you could be harming your travel hair dryer or could blow the adapter or outlet.
Yes, Dyson hair dryers are good to use while traveling. But they are not dual voltage hair dryers, so they are best to use if you’re traveling within your home country. Dyson recommends only using the hair dryer in the country in which you purchased it because using an adapter can shorten the life of these hair dryers.
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Statement by Hon. Peter O’Neill, Leader of the People’s National Congress Party and Member for Ialibu-Pangia
10th March 2020
James Marape continues to grandstand over issues before the Commission of Inquiry into the UBS loan for the purchase of Oil Search shares for the country, of which he was a senior member of NEC as Finance Minister approved that transaction.
He has been making constant claims on social media that he has information of wrongdoing, but then when he went to the Inquiry he had nothing to say. This raises the question, has he been covering up incriminating information all these years, and if so this in itself would amount to him neglecting his responsibilities as a leader in protecting our people’s interests.
Another important point is that the State did not lose K3 billion over the purchase, as Marape claims, the shares were sold back to the market over time and the sale proceeds repaid the UBS loan and the balance returned to the State.
James Marape needs to be responsible and accountable for the statements he posts on social media. The onus is on him to prove his claims, there is absolutely no evidence to back his social media claims, just simply political grandstanding.
The facts are clear, the National Executive Council, that included James Marape, approved the purchase and financing of Oil Search shares so that we could buy back state assets that had been given away to the Arabs, and to enable Papua New Guinea to be a meaningful participant in our oil and gas sector. Sadly, today we are a bystander because of irresponsible social media and self-promoting leaders.
These same Leaders did not utter one word when the Somare Government borrowed over K3 Billion from the Arabs by mortgaging Oil Search Shares and State Assets. Marape knows well that the UBS loan was essential to save the country from the questionable
S$1.1 Billion IPIC loan taken out by the Somare government from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the Middle East.
This deal sold out our country’s original 10% of shares in Oil Search and made us simple passengers in our own oil and gas sector. It also mortgaged all of our SOEs giving the Arabs control over these SOEs that should rightfully been under the control of Papua New Guinea.
With Cabinet deciding to endorse the UBS loan arrangement with Kumul Petroleum, Papua New Guinea was able to take back control of our SOEs and again have a commercial investment in our oil and gas sector.
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A prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn people back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4 A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
10 Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION ®. NIV®. COPYRIGHT © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by
Biblica, Inc.®. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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PATRIOT ALL-AMERICA INVITATIONAL AND WEB.COM TOUR’S
AIR CAPITAL CLASSIC EXTEND SPONSOR EXEMPTION AGREEMENT THROUGH 2020
PHOENIX, Ariz. (September 19, 2017) – Champions of the next three Patriot All-America Invitational collegiate golf tournaments will receive a sponsor exemption into the Web.com Tour’s Air Capital Classic (ACC) thanks to the two tournaments extending their exemption agreement through the 2020 ACC.
“We’re thrilled to extend our sponsor exemption agreement with the Air Capital Classic through the 2020 tournament,” said Karen Conway, executive director, Patriot All-America Invitational. “As we see Patriot All-America alumni win major championships and compete on golf’s highest levels, we’re grateful to the Air Capital Classic for affording Patriot All-America champions the opportunity to play in their outstanding event. The experience gained by competing in this tournament is invaluable and will help launch professional careers.”
In the first year of the sponsor exemption agreement, 2016 Patriot All-America Invitational champion Cameron Champ of Texas A&M University earned the exemption into the 2017 Air Capital Classic. Champ, however, qualified for the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills which meant 2016 Patriot All-America Invitational runner-up Zach Olsen of Oklahoma State played in the Air Capital Classic. Olsen finished tied for 27th at the Air Capital Classic after firing a final round 7-under 63 – the lowest final round by anyone in the field.
The Patriot All-America Invitational, played at The Wigwam Golf Club in Litchfield Park, Ariz., December 27-31, is regarded as a top amateur event internationally, attracting PING All-America golfers from all three NCAA Divisions, NAIA and NJCAA rankings as well as from universities outside the United States. The tournament is a collaboration between the Arizona Golf Association (AGA), JDM Partners and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) in partnership with the Folds of Honor Foundation. The 2017 Patriot All-America will be the 7th annual tournament.
The Air Capital Classic will be played June 21 – 24 at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, Kan., and is part of the Web.com Tour’s schedule of events. Two Patriot All-America alums have won the Air Capital Classic, including 2016 Air Capital Classic champion Ollie Schniederjans (2011 and 2012 Patriot participant) and 2014 Air Capital Classic champion Sebastian Cappelen (2011, 2012 and 2013 Patriot participant and 2012 Patriot champion).
The 2017 Patriot All-America Invitational 54-hole, stroke play competition will be played December 29, 30 and 31 with a champion crowned at approximately 4 PM on New Year’s Eve.
Current PGA TOUR stars who have played in The Patriot All-America Invitational during their college careers, include: 2017 US Open champion Brooks Koepka (2011), 2017 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas (2011), Patrick Rodgers (2011), Daniel Berger (2012) and Bryson DeChambeau (2013).
Past Patriot All-America champions include:
2016: Cameron Champ, Texas A&M
2015 Braden Thornberry, University of Mississippi
2014 Kyle Kochevar, University of Virginia
2013 Kyle Westmoreland, Air Force Academy
2012 Sebastian Cappelen, University of Arkansas
2011 Cory Whitsett, University of Alabama
Invitations to The Patriot All-America are primarily based on individuals earning PING All-America honors the previous season in NCAA Divisions I, II and III as well as the NAIA and NJCAA Divisions I and II. Additionally, a member from each of the United States Military Academies will be invited as well as GCAA national award recipients, members of the most recent Arnold Palmer Cup Teams and AJGA All-Americans and Toyota Junior Golf World Cup participants currently enrolled in their freshman year of college.
In its seventh year, The Patriot All-America continues to receive tremendous community support by a variety of local businesses and organizations including the West Valley Mavericks and The Thunderbirds, host organization of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
In cooperation with the Folds of Honor Foundation, the golfers in The Patriot All-America will continue the tradition to represent a fallen soldier. Every participant will receive a golf bag at the event’s opening ceremony with the name and branch of service of a fallen or injured military member whom they shall represent. At the conclusion of the tournament, the golf bags will be shipped to players’ schools and auctioned with all proceeds benefitting the Folds of Honor Foundation, which provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled while in active service.
About The Air Capital Classic
In 2017, the Air Capital Classic celebrated its 28th anniversary. The mission of the Air Capital Classic is to significantly impact the economy, quality of life and charitable organizations in the City of Wichita, Sedgwick County and the State of Kansas by hosting a Professional Golf Association (PGA TOUR) tournament and related events. From the 2017 tournament $190,000 was donated to local charities – the highest in tournament history. Each year, the event has a $6.5 million economic impact to the Kansas economy.
About Wigwam Golf Club
The Wigwam’s three 18-hole championship golf courses offer a diversity that cannot be matched by any other Arizona resort. Here, the golf enthusiast has their pick of not just one or two courses, but three 18-hole courses – 54 holes of championship golf including two courses designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones, Sr. The Gold, Blue and Red Courses each offer unique challenges that adds spice and variety to one’s stay at this timeless and relaxing retreat. In December 2009, The Wigwam (including the golf courses and resort property) was purchased by JDM Partners, led by sports icon Jerry Colangelo.
The Gold Course hosts many signature tournaments, including U.S. Open Qualifiers, U.S. Amateur Qualifiers, several NCAA Regional Championships and the annual Patriot All-America Invitational, one of the top amateur competitions in the world. The 7,430 yard, par 72 course has also received various industry awards and accolades since opening in 1965, including being named one of the “Top 100 Golf Courses in America.” For more information, please visit www.wigwamgolf.com.
About Arizona Golf Association
The Arizona Golf Association has been serving amateur golfers in Arizona since 1923 when it held the first State Amateur Championship. Today, it is licensed by the United States Golf Association to provide handicapping and course rating services to member clubs, to provide tournament and rules expertise and to oversee the application of amateur status.
About Golf Coaches Association of America
Established in 1958, the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) is the professional organization of golf coaches. The GCAA’s mission is to support its member coaches by creating educational opportunities, providing resources, and promoting its members with the purpose of enhancing their overall performance as coaches, mentors, and teachers. The GCAA also recognizes the excellence and achievements of its members and their student-athletes in academic, athletic and civic endeavors. | <urn:uuid:c7268966-c7a7-4afa-9c26-95ea3fe14391> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://patriotallamerica.com/air-capital-classic-extends-sponsor-exemption-agreement-through-2020/ | 2023-09-26T06:28:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.940515 | 1,519 |
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PDFlib GmbH announces the release of PDFlib PLOP and PLOP DS version 5.1.
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The Desert Fathers did not think of silence as not speaking, but as listening to God.
It is here, in the silence that God speaks loudest. The central idea is that speaking gets us involved in the affairs of the world, and it is very hard to be involved without becoming entangled in and polluted by the world.
Closing off our souls from “sounds”, whether noise, music, or words, so that we may better still the inner chatter and clatter of our noisy hearts and be increasingly attentive to God.
(see Ps. 62:1,5, Isa. 30:15, Lam. 3:26, James 1:19)
The Desert Fathers did not think of solitude as being alone, but as being alone with God. Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Jesus Himself entered the furnace where he was tempted with the three compulsions of the world: to be relevant (“turn stones into loaves”), to be spectacular (“throw yourself down”), and to be powerful (“I will give you all these kingdoms”). There He affirmed God as the only source of his identity (“You must worship the LORD your God and serve him alone”).
Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter – the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self. It provides a means to free us from the tangle of social media, livestreams and Zoom meetings.
The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interactions with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God. (see Psalms 62:5, Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:35, Luke 5:16, 6:12, 9:18)
In silence and solitude we create space for God to speak to our soul.
“When we sit prayerfully in silence and solitude, we are entering the desert, our desert. In this sacred space, the goal is not to hide from others, devoid of pain, or to hold ourselves apart from and above the community in which we live. It is to receive the grace to learn to face ourselves directly so we can learn to live ordinariness, to live ethically and generously with others.” (Robert J. Wicks)
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A celebration and service of love and remembrance to honor Dave Pierson’s contributions to Star Island and especially to the Pelican community is also planned for Sunday, September 2 at 2:00 PM on Star Island in the Chapel, during the Pelican Reunion conference.
A ceremony to place memorial stones in the Memorial Courtyard on the island in memory of Dave and also of Andy Gordon — who served as a mentor to Pelicans for so many years — will immediately follow the service. A brief social time will follow these ceremonies. All are invited to attend.
The Uncle Oscar is planning runs that day that will bring you to the island in time for the service. Please reserve spaces with Sue Reynolds at uncleoscar.com.
Also, you may be interested in this story from Seacoastonline.com from a few years ago:
LIfe on a star – Eliot couple, now 80, recall their caretaking days at Isles of Shoals
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This book, as its title suggests, shares 9 most common mistakes which people do and you should avoid so that a door handle can elevate your interior along with their solutions.The book describes mistakes one by one, such as selecting the door handles without keeping in mind the interior style, opting for door handles that do not go with one’s door styles, getting lowest-priced handles, selecting sharp-edges handles, etc. and how to overcome these wrongdoings.Simply put, the book proves how a perfectly selected door handle can do wonders to enlighten and elevate your interiors, provided it is gelling with your interior space.
Akshat Bansal is an Architectural Hardware Expert with almost two decades of experience. Soon after his engineering, he joined his family-owned hardware business, and today he is blessed with the opportunity to work with some of the most prominent Architect and Interior Designers of India. That he is neck-deep involved in his hardware business can easily be understood from the statement of his wife. “He eats handles, sleep handles and dream handles”, she says about the author . Even her daughter suggests him to take some time off, out of his hectic schedule and think except hardware.
Book:Make Your Interiors Talk of the Town: 9 Mistakes that People Make While Selecting Door Handles
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Only the Companies with Deep Roots of Clarity will Grow in Future THE CLARITY FIRST is written with the sole objective of making its readers dispel all the darkness of doubts and paves the way for the clarity of their purposes. No doubt we all have something or the other that is in abundance—Money, Knowledge and Immense Information, Potential, Power, Skill, Experience, creativity, Motivation and Energy. But, almost all of us lack the ability to put our potential to optimum use.
This book is written as part of a mission to make more and more people get benefited by making them clear about “what they should ask about”, “why should they ask about”, “What they will do once the desired thing becomes a reality” and “What they can do with this money, resource, expertise, etc. “to make this world a better place to live in.
India’s #1 Business Clarity Coach, Amit Chawla, is on mission to transform lives of the decision-makers.
He is an internationality proven software industry senior with over 28 years of extensive experience. During his stint as Country Head and Director in a FinTech MNC he helped it grow 10 times in 6 years! Later he transitioned from an IT professional career of almost 3 decades, to start his own business venture of business and executive coaching.
Today, he uses his unique solution-focused & clear approach to help business owners strike balance between increasing profits, unlocking potential and creating visionary leadership. He coaches CXO’s Sr. Executives, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners to attain absolute clarity to “what they really want.”
Book:The Clarity First: An “Unputdownable” Book to Gain True Clarity Build More Confidence and Accelerate Business Growth
Publisher:Pendown Press Powered by Gullybaba Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
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Challenge your students to bring in codes from participating Kelloggs products to earn FREE Books for the classroom. Check out over 50 books available, select a few for the class and let the challenge begin. Codes are found INSIDE cereal boxes, Eggos, Pop-Tarts, Nutri-Grain bars, Cheez-IT and Pringles. See the full list on the site.
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No matter what industry you work in, cloud computing can provide your employees with the flexibility to collaborate and access important company information from anywhere at any time. At Next Hop Solutions, they understand how the benefits of cloud computing can be applied to businesses in all kinds of industries. That is why they offer a range of comprehensive cloud computing services.
Learn more about what cloud-based services are.
Some of the benefits of cloud computing for businesses include:
1. Reduced IT Costs
Utilizing cloud-based systems can help significantly reduce the cost of managing your business’ IT network because you will no longer have to worry about purchasing and maintaining expensive equipment and hardware. Since your cloud computing service provider will be able to manage your IT systems for you, you can also reduce costs that would otherwise be spent on having an in-house IT team.
2. Data Security
While business owners are often concerned that cloud-based services will not be as secure as storing important company information onsite, cloud computing solutions offer advanced security features that are designed to keep data safe and secure. Most cloud storage providers also implement specific security measures—two-step authentication, encryption, and access control—for their platforms.
Cloud-based systems provide the ideal solution for businesses that are growing or tend to fluctuate in size. This is because cloud computing solutions can easily be increased or decreased to meet your business’ current needs.
4. Disaster Recovery
Cloud computing solutions are designed to ensure that your important business information will always be available, even if equipment fails or is damaged. Rather than storing data locally, saving data to the cloud will ensure that you have a backup of your data that can easily be restored in the event of a natural disaster or a malicious attack on your IT network.
5. Automatic Updates
Choosing to work with a reputable cloud computing service provider means knowing that your IT system will be regularly updated with the latest technology, including up-to-date software and servers.
Since cloud-based systems can be accessed at any time from anywhere with an Internet connection, cloud computing allows employees easily collaborate on projects and to access important information while on the go.
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With rising concerns regarding toxic VOC emissions from automobiles, companies have been going nine yards for production and commercialization of novel electric vehicles, in turn complementing the thriving EV industry.
In one such instance, Blacksmith Electric, an India-based electric motorbike startup firm, had recently announced adding a new electric scooter model, called B4, to its current product line of electric scooters and motorcycles.
The EV firm is largely known for its previous models- B3 and B2, a stunning electric cruiser motorcycle- which was anticipated to be released in 2020 but got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a matter of fact, the pandemic derailed the short as well as mid-term strategic planning for the company, pushing back its product releases. However, the company is set to roll out its vehicle in 2021 and are ready to take pre-orders on the new B4 model and its delivery version, the B4+.
As per official sources, the new B4 model integrates a neo-retro design and is fueled by a 5-kW electric motor. Moreover, the electric scooter boasts of the ability to attain a top speed of 120 km/h or 75 mph, although can be limited to as low as 37 mph.
This apart, the new model is designed in such a manner that it would be able to carry up to two riders and have a maximum load capacity of 440lb or 200 kg. In line with this, the company is bringing in the good news for people who have been looking to substitute a second rider with cargo, by initiating the launch of its new B4+ electric scooter variant, which lets the rider add a large cargo box to the rear of the vehicle.
Although the price of B4 has not been released yet, its B2 electric motorcycles are projected to foray into the market with a price range between USD 4,000 to USD 5,000, which anticipates that the price valuation of the B4 model would fall below the mentioned range. | <urn:uuid:d683a149-5d8e-4e0e-87e0-732b685adc7f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://people.partilepep.com/news/224/blacksmith-announces-launch-of-a-new-75mph-electric-scooter-b4/ | 2023-09-26T05:34:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.972869 | 414 |
Multiple Myeloma an incurable disease, but I have spent the last 25 years in remission using a blend of conventional oncology and evidence-based nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle therapies from peer-reviewed studies that your oncologist probably hasn't told you about.
Click the orange button to the right to learn more about what you can start doing today.
When I say exercise during multiple myeloma (MM) treatment, I allow for treatment in the hospital or treatment at home.
In my former life I was a salesperson- one of the primary goals of client management was to “adjust expectations.” You are not my client but I will try to adjust your expectations anyhow.
During therapy, whatever kind of MM therapy you undergo, surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, you are not going to want to exercise. At all. Get used to this idea.
Since numerous studies show how and why exercise during therapy will improve your healing and improve your overall survival, you should try to be active somehow during therapy- walking, swimming, sitting in a sauna.
Think of your goal being to increase your heart rate daily.
The six tips below may help you exercise during therapy. The “tips” are in bold face. My comments and experience during my own MM therapy is in itallics.
To learn more about nutritional supplementation that can increase the efficacy of radiation, reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy and may also speed your recovery, scroll down the page, post a question or comment and I will reply ASAP.
“If you feel like you’ve been run over by a steam roller, if you’ve got mouth sores that make it painful just to breathe, if you have muscle and bone pain, if you’re recovering from surgery, if you have zero lung capacity because you have lung cancer, you’re not exactly pumped up to exercise….”
1) Make your goals realistic.
My definition of “realistic” after my ASCT was to walk as far as I could, (1/2 a block…) turn around, and walk home. Seriously. One half a block.
2) Adjust your activity depending on where you are in treatment.
I could ride a stationary bike for awhile in my hospital room during my ASCT. I felt okay. But post ASCT? Walking was all I could do.
3) Don’t get frustrated.
You’re going to feel awful. You’re not going to want to exercise. Expect it and simply set you sites on going for a walk around the hospital. You might even be hooked up with an I.V. of some sort. Try to relax…
4) Don’t go crazy. Make sure to talk to your doctor about what you can safely do.
I don’t care how good you feel. Steroids like dexamethasone and prednisone will make you feel up. Seriously. Don’t overdo it. Don’t go crazy.
5) Think simple.
Walking and swimming simple exercises that work.
6) Remember that exercise can’t erase a bad diet.
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On Nov. 3, 1979 in Greensboro, NC, a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members drove into Morningside Homes, a public housing project in Greensboro’s Black community, and opened fire on demonstrators preparing for an educational conference organized by the Communist Workers Party, to be preceded by a march to the conference site.
The shots killed labor and community organizers Sandi Smith, Dr. Jim Waller, Bill Sampson, César Cauce, and Dr. Michael Nathan. Five years later, after the attackers had been acquitted twice by local all-white juries, a federal civil trial finally established that the murderers had been organized and encouraged by a paid police informant and a federal agent.
Immediately after the murders, the police and political leadership of Greensboro mounted a full-court press to blame the victims. Compounding the tragic loss of five beloved young friends, the survivors were jailed, vilified, fired from their jobs, and some of them were charged with “felony riot” which would have resulted in long prison sentences for causing the deaths of their own friends. In the midst of all of this, Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jung produced a film, “Red November, Black November,” documenting the tragedy. The film premiered in March of 1981, less than 2 years after the murders, and stands as a raw record of the truth of the massacre and its immediate aftermath, as seen by the survivors, their community, and the leadership of the CWP. This is a rare public showing of that record.
The showing of the film will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker, Sally Alvarez, and composer/playwright César Alvarez. César is Sally’s second-born child, who grew up in Greensboro in the shadow of the Greensboro Massacre and is named for two of the victims, César Cauce and James Waller. César is currently writing a musical about the murders entitled The Potluck.
Sally Alvarez was born in Greensboro, NC, and grew up in Georgia. She has lived in the South for most of her life. After producing a number of documentary films on civil rights, labor rights, and social justice topics, she worked for 20 years as a labor educator for Cornell’s School of Industrial Relations in New York, where she also taught Southern labor history. She retired in 2019. She lives in Yonkers with her husband of 46 years, Joe.
César Alvarez is a New York-based, North Carolina born, composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They have written five full-length musicals, FUTURITY (2016 Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical); The Elementary Spacetime Show; The Universe is a Small Hat (Upcoming: Princeton University); NOISE (a commission of The Public Theater); and The Potluck. César is a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow and a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award.
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Chime card comes with a lot of ease and financial features that one shouldn’t miss at all. If you taken out your Chime funds are out of balance and looking for, where can I load my Chime card, then you have surely landed at the right place. We will walk you through all the deposit requirements and limitations you need to keep in mind before beginning.
Where Can I Load My Chime Card – Chime Deposit Partners
Chime is a financial technology companies and there are only a few other top-notch financial services like Chime.It allows you to get paid earlier than your regular payday by setting up the direct deposit.
Unlike traditional banks that may cost you a fortune for accessing their financial services, Chime doesn’t cost you a penny for overdrafts. In addition, you don’t have to worry about paying any monthly fees and you need no minimum balance to be able to open an account at the Chime. There are also loan services that work with Chime for your ease!
Get access to around 60,000+ fee-free ATMs at a number of retail stores. If you are someone who has bad credit and struggling to get the best banking services, Chime should be your go-to place. Through its Chime Credit Builder Secured Visa Credit Card, you can get all you need to build up your credit in an efficient manner.
No need to pay an annual fee, interest, no credit check to apply, and zero minimum security deposit to build credit on everyday purchases. You can use your Credit Builder card anywhere Visa credit cards are accepted and make on-time payments to progressively build your credit score.
Another one we’ll be talking about is the Chime debit card, a perfect alternative to a traditional debit card. The Chime debit card also does not require you to pay any monthly maintenance fee and no minimum balance is required to apply for the card.
To make any purchases, it is important that you have a sufficient balance on your Chime card. There are several ways of doing so few of which are mentioned below.
- Request your friend who is also a Chime user to transfer a certain amount of the required balance to your Chime account.
- In addition, you can also transfer money from your linked bank account to the Chime card.
- Visit any departmental or retail stores that are Chime deposit partners and accept cash deposits.
There are more than 90,000 retail locations to know where you can load your Chime card from. The process is straightforward as all you need to do is go to the cashier at the store and request them to deposit the amount into your spending account.
- Duane Reade
- Circle K Stores
- Cumberland Farms Corp
- Sheetz Incorp
- Family Dollar
- Rite Aid
- Holiday Station Stores
- Pilot Travel Centers
- GPM Investments
- Kwik Trip Inc
- Krause Gentle (Kum & Go)
- Royal Farms
- TA Operating LLC (TravelCenters of America)
- Dollar General
Please note that every Chime user can make no more than three deposits in a period of 24 hours. Moreover, the deposit limit is only up to $1000 for every 24 hours and the monthly deposit limit is $10,000 maximum.
Load Chime Card at CVS
Now when you are aware of a few of the best and most accessible CVS stores that allow you to load your Chime card, here is a detailed procedure on how to do so.
- Look for the nearest CVS store within your premises.
- If you don’t know about one, using the CVS store locator or Google Map should be your top option without a question.
- Once you find the store, head over to it and go to the cashier’s desk.
- Request them that you want to add money to your Chime card.
- To confirm whether or not you are a registered user, they might ask you for your contact details.
- Next, they will guide you about the deposit fees for loading money onto your card.
- Hand them over your Chime card along with the cash that you want them to add to your card.
- Pay them the fees and voila! You are done loading your Chime card.
It would be best to ask the cashier about the deposit fees before asking them to load the card. Every retailer has different fees which might vary from one state to the other, therefore, look into it before visiting any store location.
Checking Third-Party Retailer Transaction Fees
Third-party money transfer services can cost you a certain amount of fee to add funds to your Chime card. In addition, they might as well charge you with transaction fees and set a certain limit on the amount you can add to your account.
These specific limits can either be on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis so make yourself aware of all the associated costs you might have to pay to these third-party retailers. You can check the transaction fees of various retailers following the steps mentioned below.
- Go to the Chime app on your smartphone.
- Sign in to your account using your credentials.
- Click on the option of Move Money.
- Once done, please click on the option of Deposit Cash.
- You will come across the option of See Locations Near Me in the next window.
- Click on it and it will present before you all the available retailers in your near premises.
- Next, click on the Info option to see their transaction fees.
If you are thinking about whether you can load your Chime card at an ATM or not, then we are sorry to say that Chime has not yet supported such a feature and you cannot add funds to your Chime card using the ATM.
Fees to Load Chime Card
As discussed earlier, every location has set a different deposit fee depending on their policies and regulations. Typically, loading the Chime card doesn’t charge you much as the charges limit ranges from $1 to $4. Still, it would be best to know the cost beforehand to avoid any unexpected fees at the cashier’s counter.
If you are not willing to pay a penny to get your Chime card loaded with funds, then the best cashless way would be requesting from someone who is also a Chime user to send money to your Chime account.
How Much Time Does it Take for The Money to Show in My Account?
Depositing money onto your Chime card is straightforward and easy. As for the time, you won’t have to worry much since the funds are available within two hours of deposit to your account. No matter what option you opt for making a transfer, the deposit time doesn’t change for all.
As soon as you make a deposit from one of the Chime deposit partners, you will get a notification on the contact number that you provided at the time of setting up your account. In addition, you can also check the balance by logging in to your Chime app two hours after loading the card.
Banks Where I Can Load My Chime Card
Apart from the retail stores, there are various banking platforms that help you in loading the funds to your Chime Card. Some of these include.
- PNC Bank
- Bank of America
- Capital One
- Wells Fargo
- Navy Federal
- Citi Bank
- Charles Schwab
- U.S. Bank
- Sun Trust
- TD Bank
To load the Chime card from any of the above-mentioned banking institutions, please follow the steps mentioned below.
- Go to the Chime app on your smartphone.
- Log in to your Chime account providing all the relevant credentials.
- Next, click on the option of Move Money.
- Once done, choose the Transfer option.
- Fill in the username and password of your bank account.
- And that is it. You can now transfer money to your Chime card using any of the above banks.
The transfer time for the banks is much longer than the cash deposits as it can take up to five business days for funds to be available in your account. Talking about the limit, you can send $10,000 per day and $25,000 per month through this type of transfer.
Before You Go!
The Chime debit card is indeed one of the convenient ways to make payments and build credit on everyday purchases. It cuts down all the unnecessary maintenance and monthly costs and you can load it at various CVS and retail stores. Look for your nearest Chime deposit partner and you are good to proceed ahead.
The deposit fees at various retail stores vary a lot as it mostly depends upon the amount you want to load on your Chime card. As for the Chime itself, it doesn’t charge you a penny for loading the funds onto your card. Just make sure that your funds are only FDIC insured as they reach your Chime account.
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The PrestOvoucher 2018 Inps, is the new contract of job occasional 2018 provided for by article 54 bis “Discipline of occasional services.
The PrestO acronym of Occasional Performance, is therefore the new good job Inps that replaces the old vouchers abolished by the government Gentiloni, from 17 March last, in order to avoid the referendum on vouchers proposed by the CGIL and also validated by the Constitutional Court. The new voucher PrestO 2018, compared to the old occasional work voucher, can also be used in the agricultural sector and by all companies up to 5 employees.
Each voucher has a value of 12.41 euros gross of which:
– EUR 9 per net hour paid to the lender;
– EUR 2.97 of contributions separately managed by INPS,
– EUR 0.32 in INAIL contributions and
– EUR 0.12 in operating costs;
for a net amount of EUR 9.
For employers and casual workers, there will obviously be new rules regarding both the limits, the fulfillment and how to request and use the new vouchers.
According to the new instructions, in fact, soon, can be used only by certain companies with specific requirements, will have a higher cost for companies, cannot be purchased from banks and tobacconists and employers must communicate to the INPS the data of the provider, the place and the working time.
With regard to the latter, it is important to highlight that the new 2018 casual employment contract, soon, provides for very precise time limits in addition to the recognition for the worker of the right to daily and weekly rest.
The farms will only be able to use it if, until the previous year, they were already entered on the lists of agricultural workers.
New limits for annual remuneration
– EUR 5000 per year for the employer;
– EUR 5000 per year for the worker;
– EUR 2500 per year is the maximum wage per employee per client.
The voucher is paid directly by the INPS electronically, by bank or postal transfer, by the 15th of the month following work.
In fact, in order to use PrestO, they will be obliged to transmit certain data electronically to the INPS or through contact centers.
The sending of the communication INPS occasional employment contract, must be made at least one hour before the beginning of the service.
The mandatory data to be communicated will be:
– Personal data and identification of the worker;
– Place where the service will be performed;
– Purpose of the service;
– Date and time of commencement and end of the occasional service;
– Compensation agreed between lender and principal.
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Born in Massachusetts to a family of merchants and seamen, Clapp traveled to Paris to translate the socialist writing
Figaro discusses recent claims by a young fellow often seen at the theaters and later at Pfaff's or De Soto's that he does not attend all the plays he reviews. Figaro admits that he does not go to all the shows he writes about, but he gives his excuses for why he has not attended and reports on what he has heard about the recent plays. Figaro also reprints a letter from Thomas de Walden to the Dramatic Editor of the Saturday Press that announces the beginning of his legal proceedings against George Wood on the matter of Ballon Wedding.
Figaro gives an excuse for not seeing Booth in Ruy Blas, but claims that as it appears that almost everyone else went, he heard the show was well done (57).
Figaro reprints De Walden's letter to the Saturday Press about his legal proceedings against George Wood in regards to Balloon Wedding. De Walden claims he refuses to comment further on the performance until the case has been settled (57).
Figaro mentions the upcoming production of Child Stealer at Wood's Theatre, starring Lucille Western (57).
Figaro attributes his inability to attend several plays to the preparation of the current edition of the Saturday Press; "which I may say here, lest your modesty should refrain you from doing so, is to be just the handsomest, brightest, wittiest, widest-awake sheet ever issued this side of Paris" (57).
Figaro announces the upcoming lecutures for "Josh Billings" (57).
Smith is listed among the cast of The Rivals at Wallack's in the role of Sir Anthony Absolute (57).
Figaro explains that he was unable to see The Rivals at Wallack's becuase the tickets didn't reach him "in season"(57).
Figaro quotes "Willie Winter's" review of Pizarro, which he also did not see (57).
The Vault at Pfaff's
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The world is becoming tech-savvs because of influence of advanced gadgets and heavy use. Though these complicated electronics have made job easier but most cases their negative characteristics come to notice. Majority of us may have gone through embarrassing state of getting troubled due to mobile phone ring when we were attending interviews, seminars or talking with customers. A single ring of cell phone will ruin the spirit and make us feel annoyed. In case of the cellular jammer and communication technology, jammers do not affect functioning of other electronic gadgets except cell phones.
When the signal shielding is required, cellular jammers are applicable. Cell phone signal blocker will not affect other electronic gadgets when defending signals from base station. It creates a status of no access and no network. The cellular jammer is a multi channel kind for the communication signal of different channels. For different frequency range of cell phone communication contains different channels each one of that can be utilized as BCH. Moreover, MSC will decide which channels or channel will be utilized as BCH according to channel distribution in the network area. Based upon the cellular jammer and communication technology, there must be proper frequency difference to avoid interference. | <urn:uuid:3797dbe5-a973-4baf-8fce-a0df62855f0a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://phantom-technologies.com/the-cellular-jammer-and-communication-technology/ | 2023-09-26T06:57:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510149.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926043538-20230926073538-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.924166 | 232 |
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