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Why quit soda? Did you know that each can of Coca-Cola is 140 calories? And that it has 39g of sugar? It also has no protein, no vitamin D, no potassium, no calcium, and no iron.
Okay, you probably already know that soda is not the healthiest beverages on the market, but it can be quite challenging to quit. Follow the guide below to quit drinking soda and diet soda for good!
1. Give Yourself a “Why”
This is a great starting point for any habit you are working to develop. What is your “why” or your reasoning? Why do you want to quit drinking soda? Maybe you want to feel better throughout the day or you do not need the caffeine. Maybe you want to stop consuming so many calories in your beverages or you want to be healthier to reach your strength goals. Find your reason — it can be one or multiple — and use this to fuel your goal of quitting soda once and for all.
2. Stock Up On Alternatives
Reduce the temptation of grabbing a soda by having alternatives on hand. The next time you feel like having a soda, reach for the alternative instead. Flavored or sparkling water are great alternatives, especially because they can almost feel like drinking soda. Other options include a nut milk or cup of tea.
3. Cut Back
Cut back instead of cutting it out at first. Quitting soda cold turkey can be a big task, especially if it is a habit you have had for a long time. Instead of cutting it all out, aim to only have one soda per day or only enjoy it on weekends or when out with friends. This is a great way to get closer towards your goals and get used to the alternatives, without having to worry about not enjoying soda at all.
4. Get Accountability
You are likely not alone in your goal of quitting soda. Whether it is your partner, co-worker, or friend, find someone you can have accountability to. Each day, check in with each other and see how it is going. Having to tell someone every time you give in and drink a soda may help you think twice before cracking another can open.
5. Identify the “Trigger”
When do you drink the soda? Is it because you are feeling tired in the afternoon and need a pick-me-up? Or maybe you reach for one every time you are stressed. Figure out what your “trigger” is or what causes you to want a soda. By being aware of what triggers you to crave soda, you can then change the habit.
6. Replace the Habit
Once you have identified what triggers your soda-drinking habits, replace it. If stress is what is causing you to drink soda, for example, find something else that can relieve your stress. Maybe it is a short walk outside or taking a few deep breaths. Not only will this help you quit drinking soda, but it may also help you develop a new, positive habit!
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Funding for this research was provided by:
the Fogarty International Center and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (D43TW010128)
Received: 6 February 2020
Accepted: 25 April 2020
First Online: 7 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Research Ethics Committee of Mbarara University of Science and Technology and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (clearance number SS 4852). Informed consent was obtained from participants and consent for people with dementia was attempted and their caregivers assented both verbally and in writing.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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WHEELING, West Virginia — Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston told Catholics in the statewide diocese he was working to have his predecessor “make amends for harm he caused during his tenure” as mandated by Pope Francis.
The announcement regarding retired Bishop Michael J. Bransfield came in an Oct. 31 letter to West Virginia Catholics on letterhead from the bishop’s office.
The brief letter expressed how Brennan was “dismayed by the continued revelations concerning former Bishop Michael Bransfield’s misdeeds, as confirmed by the penalties which the Holy Father has imposed on him” and detailed in media reports.
When Francis accepted Bransfield’s resignation Sept. 13, 2018, he left under a cloud of allegations of sexual and financial misconduct. Subsequent media reports during the last 13 months have detailed some of the alleged activity in detail.
Francis announced in July disciplinary actions for Bransfield, prohibiting him from living in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and from presiding or participating anywhere in any public celebration of the liturgy.
As part of those disciplinary actions, a communique from the apostolic nunciature in Washington posted on the diocesan website in July also said Bransfield would be obligated “to make personal amends for some of the harm he caused; the nature and extent of the amends to be decided in consultation with the future bishop of Wheeling-Charleston.”
Brennan wrote, “It is my highest priority to restore trust in church leadership and bring about healing that so many in our diocese need and desire.”
The bishop said he hoped to soon “communicate to the Holy Father and to the faithful of the diocese a plan for Bishop Bransfield’s amends.”
“While it is not possible to undo all the hurt and disappointment his actions have caused, I believe it is necessary for Bishop Bransfield to accept his moral responsibility and make a fair restitution to the people of the diocese, for whom he was responsible as bishop,” the letter said.
Brennan was an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore prior to his July 23 appointment to West Virginia. He was installed in the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese Aug. 22, acknowledging during the ceremony that “the scandals we have learned about have caused painful disappointment, confusion, anger and distrust of church leaders.”
He pledged to “face that situation with open eyes and determined spirits to bring about true and lasting change.”
Crux is dedicated to smart, wired and independent reporting on the Vatican and worldwide Catholic Church. That kind of reporting doesn’t come cheap, and we need your support. You can help Crux by giving a small amount monthly, or with a onetime gift. Please remember, Crux is a for-profit organization, so contributions are not tax-deductible.
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Collective Conversations with Jill Mahoney, Executive Director of the Connecticut Partnership for Children of Naugatuck, shares how she helped a family in need and restored hope into their lives.
Collective Conversations with Mary Oster, Early Childhood Coordinator for the City of Norwalk, talks about the child development tool the Ages & Stages Questionnaire, designed for both parents and teachers.
Collective Conversations with Lori Borysewicz, EdAdvance Coordinator of Plymouth Family Resource Center talks about their parent-led Keys for Kindness Program.
Collective Conversations with Tricia Godfrey, retired Coordinator of Hamden’s Partnership for Young Children talks about the parenting workshop that promotes social-emotional learning, Circle of Security.
Collective Conversations with Brianna Beckstrand, Coordinator of Enfield KITE (Key Initiatives to Early Education) talks about their One Community Campaign that raised $30,000 for their local food pantries during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Collective Conversations with Christopher Badenhop, School Readiness Liaison for the City of New Britain tells the story of a struggling family in need of support, and how he was able to provide it.
Collective Conversations with Brittany Eckert, Program Coordinator for Old Saybrook Youth & Family Services talks about their One Book, One Town initiative.
Collective Conversations with Tressa Giordano
Collective Conversations with Elizabeth Quinonez
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Looks like Kanye West is still a genius. He noted the skyrocketing length of recent Hip-Hop albums and boldly announced that his GOOD Music label’s five forthcoming albums would each consist of seven songs. While unlikely to end the rise of stream trolling, this is an audacious new artistic direction.
2018 saw new heights of bloated Hip-Hop releases – just ask anyone who sat through the struggle bar triple album known as Rae Sremmurd’s SR3MM. Once the RIAA began contributing streaming numbers towards album sales, artists have unashamedly chased streams by stuffing the tracklists of albums. In contrast, GOOD Music’s past three projects were shorter than an episode of Seinfeld.
Label president Pusha-T described his initial reluctance to West’s seven-song vision:
‘Well, when it was brought to me, about seven, I was totally against it. I was like, “No, man, I got a whole full album right here. What are you talking about?”’
After noting the overwhelming praise for Push’s Daytona album, he said:
‘I was very wrong about the seven not being enough… I also like the fact that I feel like the trend in rap is like put a whole bunch of songs on your album, and get your streaming numbers up’.
Along with providing the seven song idea, West has acted as executive producer on each GOOD Music project and provided the majority of the beats. Despite questions raised during Kanye’s latest public meltdown, he’s launched another career resurgence.
In the past three weeks GOOD Music have released a strong trilogy of albums, with two more planned for the next fortnight. Pusha-T’s Daytona came first and provoked the gripping Drake beef; Kanye’s stream of consciousness Ye followed the next week to similarly positive reviews.
On Friday, the Kanye West and Kid Cudi supergroup we’ve demanded since 2008 set the blogsphere ablaze with the psychedelic Kids See Ghosts. Next up is the mouth-watering prospect of a Nas album entirely produced by Kanye, followed by the sophomore album from Teyana Taylor.
These GOOD Summer releases are a reaction to the rampant stream trolling. The practice follows a simple mantra: more streams means more money.
The RIAA’s system rewards 150 streams as equal to one paid song download. Ten paid song downloads counts as an album download; so 1,500 song streams counts towards an album sale. Simply, more songs means more sales. Therefore on a 24-track album like Migos Culture II, the group only need 1,500 people to play “Stir Fry” to register an album sale. An artist only needs one or two hits from an album to begin ‘racking up the album-equivalent units’.
Musicians are financially incentivised to increase their tracklists for streaming revenue, instead of trimming the filler. Fans are used to New Music Fridays and curiosity streams are virtually guaranteed for established artists. Consider Chris Brown’s 57 track monstrosity Heartbreak on a Full Moon – at 3 hours and 18 minutes long it is just two minutes shy of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Unsurprisingly it went Platinum: let it sink in that a Chris Brown album went Platinum in 2018. Stream trolling at its finest.
Every song off Chris Brown’s “Heartbreak on a Full Moon” album has been certified either gold or platinum pic.twitter.com/1looaVsd8E
— Hot Freestyle (@HotFreestyle) January 18, 2018
Heartbreak on a Full Moon didn’t produce a single which cracked the top 40, yet moved over one million album-equivalent units.
— 24/7 HipHop News (@BenjaminEnfield) February 13, 2018
Unbound by the technological constraints of vinyl or CD, this is the first time musicians have unlimited capacity for their work. Culture II was a 1 hour 45 odyssey through Atlanta’s strip clubs that few have been bold enough to experience in its entirety more than once. Ignoring the formula that made Culture such a taut, satisfying listen, Culture II was a glorified mixtape.
Culture II is now Platinum pic.twitter.com/ACJ9AXBKwL
— Hip Hop (@HipHop) May 20, 2018
Despite its critical limitations, stream trolling has brought two artists Platinum plaques so far. 1
Kanye West’s seven song vision won’t be able to supplant such a lucrative idea in the wider music industry. But the albums we’ve heard from the GOOD Summer so far gloriously showcase the idea’s artistic merit.
As always Kanye West has sparked debate – at least this time people are discussing the music and the importance of album length. West is a master of self-promotion; even if you’ve cancelled his music you’re supporting his label and beats.
Artists don’t always follow the vogue, therefore we are likely to see Rap albums grow rather than shrink. Rappers are keen to maximise their content output; 50 Cent and Lil Wayne proved in the 2000s that flooding the internet translates to mainstream success. Nelly’s career, on the other hand, never recovered from his four year hiatus in 2004. Rappers can’t afford to stand still. The trend of massive albums will probably continue unabated.
Stream trolling is the future of Rap albums and we should brace ourselves for more of these projects. With each Platinum plaque awarded to overlong albums, the more prevalent the practice will become as other established artists shamelessly punt for streaming money.
1. The albums in question are Heartbreak on a Full Moon, and Culture II. SR3MM hasn’t been out long enough, but I have no doubt it’ll go Platinum too.
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Ellen Rocco, who has led North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y., since 1985, will retire in June.
Rocco joined NCPR in 1980 to direct development before rising to station manager. She oversaw the broadcaster’s expansion from a single transmitter to more than 30, extending its broadcasts into northwestern Vermont and southeastern Ontario.
“I am so proud of the regional news service we’ve created, a service that rightfully garners significant regional and national recognition every year,” Rocco said in a statement. NCPR’s local content and projects have “established our reputation as a small station that punches well above its weight.”
Rocco was a member of the boards of NPR and the Association of Independents in Radio, served on several CPB advisory committees and presented at National Federation of Community Broadcasters conferences.
Since 1971, she’s also been the owner/operator of Red Truck Farm, raising sheep, draft horses and hay for sale.
Susie Hernandez is the new senior director of programming at WNET in New York City.
Hernandez oversees schedules for Thirteen, WLIW, NJTV, Create, World and Thirteen PBS Kids. She also works on program development and acquisition, on-air fundraising schedules and on-air promotions.
She succeeds Kent Steele, who retired last September.
Hernandez most recently was executive director of TV at KQED in San Francisco, where she oversaw programming for four TV stations and several digital video platforms and managed the KQED Presents team that represented independent work nationally. She also executive-produced several local programs.
Earlier in her career she directed TV programming at Arizona Public Media in Tucson and directed broadcast and distribution at the Independent Television Service in San Francisco.
In other NCPR news, the station has hired two reporters. Fernando Narro is covering news and issues in the St. Lawrence Valley. Previously he reported for WMFE Public Radio in Orlando, Fla. Emily Russell works out of NCPR’s Plattsburgh bureau. She formerly reported for Alaska Public Media.
Bob Collins plans to retire from Minnesota Public Radio in May. He’s been with the station since 1992 in roles including senior editor. He also oversaw the creation of the MPR News regional website. Collins writes the media commentary NewsCut blog.
NPR Training has hired Argin Hutchins as audio production specialist. It’s a return to NPR for Hutchins, who spent 10 years there as an associate producer from 2004–14. He was also managing producer at Kohala Mountain Radio in Hawi, Hawaii.
We are thrilled to announce that we've hired Argin Hutchins to be the newest member of the NPR Training team! He joins the team as our new Audio Production Specialist. ??️?️ (Photo by Lamonte G. Photography) pic.twitter.com/i3O6HMdxv2
— NPR Training (@nprtraining) January 15, 2019
Rick Howlett, a reporter and editor at Louisville Public Media since 2001, will host the hourlong weekly call-in radio show In Conversation, premiering Friday. “The show will give people a space to talk — both to each other, and with the larger community,” said Erica Peterson, WFPL’s director of news and programming.
Daniel Caruth is the new local Morning Edition host at KUAF Radio. He joined the Fayetteville, Ark., station in 2017 as a social media intern.
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We'd like to introduce you to KUAF's new voice for Morning Edition, Daniel Caruth, who first joined us as our social media intern in 2017. Here's why he is passionate about public radio. "I love how public radio connects us to something bigger, even if that's just being part of someone's morning commute. I think radio also allows us, as reporters, to add depth and texture to stories that can resonate with listeners in a more personal, intimate way." He has a journalism B.A. from the University of Arkansas ('15) & a master's in public policy from the Clinton School of Public Service ('18).
WPBS President Lynn Brown will retire June 30 from the station in Watertown, N.Y. She joined the broadcaster in 1999 and rose to president in 2013. The station said Brown is leaving to “assist her husband in his increasingly busy role as an entrepreneur and businessman.”
Valley Public Radio in Clovis, Calif., has named its studio complex after Mariam Stepanian, the station’s longtime president and GM who died in January 2018. “Mariam’s dream was to build a new, state-of-the-art home for Valley Public Radio,” said President Joe Moore at a dedication Saturday. “Without her determination and vision, we would not be here today in this marvelous new building. It’s a most fitting honor to have Mariam’s name attached to this facility, as a reminder of her legacy and dedication to public radio.” Stepanian led Valley Public Radio from 1983 until her death. She spearheaded the 10-year effort to raise $4 million for the facility, the station’s first permanent home since signing on in 1978.
Dean Mutter has joined Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis as VP and chief development officer. Mutter is responsible for managing funding development and revenue models, as well as client development for V9 Digital, the network’s production studios, video digitization and film restoration center. Previously Mutter was regional VP for Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales division of Charter Communications, where he managed 20-plus TV markets and oversaw 250 employees.
Medical cannabis company Acreage Holdings has hired Peter Brinkman, former chief technology officer at WNET in New York City, as VP of technology and facilities. He joins former pubcasters Robert Daino, Acreage COO, and Brian Sickora, an Acreage GM.
James Turk, PBS director of technology since 2015, is departing this month. Previously he directed Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation and founded Open States, an online tool to track state legislatures.
In a bit of personal news, I'm leaving my role at PBS this month.
It's been a great place for the past 3 years. I got to learn a lot about public media, video, and overhaul a huge portion of the backend and most importantly work with some great people.
More soon on what's next.
— James Turk (@jamesturk) January 9, 2019
Meghan Kelly, formerly digital producer at WBUR, has a new role at the Boston public broadcaster.
HI I am pleased to announce today that I have a new position at @WBUR as a multi-platform editor. I will be helping to tell all our stories visually through photos, social media and more. I am extremely excited!!
— meghan kelly (@meghanbkelly) January 8, 2019
WEKU in Richmond, Ky., has hired Jeanne Marie Hibberd as underwriting coordinator. Hibberd has more than two decades of experience working in community development and nonprofit management, mostly in Eastern Kentucky. She previously directed development and communications at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Ky.
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Las Vegas, NV – On Tuesday, August 30th the members of Las Vegas UP Employees Federal Credit Union of Las Vegas, Nevada voted to merge with WestStar Credit Union also of Las Vegas, Nevada. The just over 500 members of LV UP FCU are joining WestStar Credit Union’s 21,000 members, and will receive access to expanded products, services, and technology.
Since being established in 1952, Las Vegas UP Employees Federal Credit Union has served the Union Pacific railroad workers of the Las Vegas area and has assets totaling $4 million. “I am looking forward to the benefits, products and services this merger with WestStar Credit Union will bring to the LVUP membership,” says Nektaria Felecos, Credit Union Manager of LV UP. The three employees of Las Vegas UP Employees FCU will become employees of WestStar Credit Union upon the effective date of the merger.
The merger will be effective November 30, 2022.
WestStar Credit Union has been serving the Las Vegas and Reno communities since 1975 and is federally insured with the NCUA. The credit union provides financial services to over 21,000 members and has assets of $260 million. Membership in WestStar Credit Union is open to anyone employed in the Gaming Industry of Nevada and many other employer groups, including employees and members of AAA Nevada and members of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness. Family members and those living in the same household of anyone who is eligible are also eligible. A full list of eligible employer groups can be found on their website, www.weststar.org.
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The latest version of Caffeine, a system-sleep inhibitor for GNOME, is buzzing with improvements.
Older versions of the utility give you with a simple toolbar icon that you click on to enable Caffeine (to prevent your system from sleeping, or a screensaver from kicking in), and click on again to disable.
But the latest version integrates with the Quick Settings menu introduced in GNOME 43. It adds a “Caffeine” pod option that, like other Quick Settings pods, you can click on to enable/disable instantly.
There’s also a new sub-menu with one-click timers for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 30 mins, plus ‘infinite’ (which is default option):
When Caffeine is active you see a (full) coffee mug icon in the status area. You can mouse over the coffee cup icon and scroll on it to instantly turn Caffeine off.
Plus, there’s an option to always show an icon (even when not running) that makes it easy to se Caffeine without opening the Quick Settings menu at all.
The new version also swaps obtrusive GTK notification toasts for subtler OSD bubbles. These appear in the lower-half of the screen where GNOME shows similar OSDs for volume change, screen brightness, etc:
There’s also a redesigned settings panel that offers an array of advanced configuration options, including:
- Automatically enable Caffeine when using full-screen apps
- How/when to show/hide status icon
- Remember state
- Enable/disable Night Light with Caffeine
- Enable/disable Caffeine using a custom keyboard shortcut
- Display the timer (when set) in the top bar
- Adjust position of Caffeine icon sits in the status tray
- Add apps that automatically trigger Caffeine
In all, a mug-nificent update to an evergreen tool.
You can get Caffeine on GNOME Extensions, though to benefit from most of the changes mentioned in this post you will need to install the latest version (v44) which requires GNOME 43.
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How to Become a Contractor
General contractors sort out the work that goes into the development or remodel of different kinds of structures and frameworks. They are frequently the mediator between the engineer or manufacturer and the subcontractors who play out the different occupations required, including plumbing, electrical, carpentry and ground surface work. All states require general contractual workers to have a secondary school recognition or proportional and finish a permitting test. Down to earth involvement in the business is additionally significant.
Requirements for a Contractor’s License
General contractors are contracted by designers or property proprietors to sort out development take a shot at different kinds of structures and undertakings, including private homes, streets, places of business, retail locations, government structures, treatment plants and scaffolds. They contract and supervise subcontractors, purchase materials, audit engineering plans and guarantee due dates are met.
Each state has a similar fundamental necessities for people who need to win a temporary worker’s permit. These prerequisites include:
- Being in any event 18 years of age
- Having a secondary school certificate or proportional
- Having the option to work legitimately in the U.S.
- Having a perfect work record in development or a satisfactory clarification of any activity related occurrences
States may have extra prerequisites for contractors, yet all expect people to finish a test. A few states may likewise necessitate that contractual workers give confirmation of risk protection, a government Tax Identification Number and verification of a place of work by demonstrating a service bill or a rent. For example “in Texas you’ll see that the requirements are more strict than in other states” mentioned Rafael, owner of a roofing company
Commonsense involvement in development is significant in turning into an authorized contractual worker. This could be acquired by working in the different specialties as a circuit repairman, craftsman, or handyman. Supervisory involvement in development likewise makes a difference. Contractors must have great oral and composed relational abilities since they enlist and assess subcontractors, and talk about ventures with property proprietors and engineers.
Education Requirements for Contractors
People looking for headway openings might need to think about a four year certification in development the executives. As indicated by the BLS, a four year college education in majors, for example, development the executives, structural designing, building or development science is progressively favored by managers. A partner’s degree and long periods of work experience might be substituted for a four year certification, the BLS noted.
There are in excess of 100 schools that offer four year college education programs in development the executives. Graduate degree projects are additionally accessible. These projects offer courses, for example,
Undertaking control and advancement
- Site arranging
- Development strategies
- Development materials
- Cost evaluating
- Contract organization
- Business and monetary administration
- State explicit construction regulations and measures
- Assessment strategies
- Designing and engineering sciences
Average Salary of a Contractor
As per the BLS, work development for a wide range of development directors, a gathering that incorporates general contractual workers, is required to increment 5% somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2024, which is as quick as different occupations (roofingcrs.com). The interest for more vitality proficient structures and the general increment in populace are explanations behind the activity development. Development supervisors earned a middle yearly pay of $87,400 in May 2015, additionally as indicated by the BLS. As indicated by PayScale.com, general contractors earned a middle yearly compensation of $61,068 in January 2016.
To turn into a general temporary worker, you need in any event a secondary school confirmation, yet there is an expansion in a requirement for a four year certification or possibly a partner degree, in addition to long stretches of development industry experience. Notwithstanding training however, involvement in the business is the most significant prerequisite.
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Kshama Sawant is a teacher, Occupy Wall Street participant, union activist, and a new openly Socialist member of the Seattle, Washington city council.
When Sawant was sworn in Monday afternoon, she became the first Socialist to sit on the city council in almost a century.
“This is a turning point in the history of the United States,” she said in an interview with Democracy Now.
“And I do not mean just because of an election of a Socialist to the City Council, but the Occupy Movement, legalizing marijuana use, marriage equality, this is all an illustration that the people in this country are extremely outraged and frustrated at the status quo,” she explained.
Sawant says, that people are open minded to the idea that “there are alternatives to the Capitalist system. … People, especially young people, are much more open to Socialism then you would find out from the corporate media.”
Sawant ran as a Socialist Alternative candidate once before when she campaigned for a spot in the Washington State House of Representatives. She was defeated in a landslide by Democratic House Speaker Frank Chopp, who won with 70 percent of the vote.
She credits observing the inequities of the caste system in India while she grew up in Mumbai for her socialism. However, she officially became a party member after she heard a speech from a Socialist Alternative activist in Seattle.
One of her priorities is working with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray to establish a $15 minimum wage throughout the city.
Shortly after she was elected in December 2013, she told reporters at a news conference that “2014 is going to be the year of 15 dollars an hour in Seattle.”
And she pledged that if she was not able to accomplish this task in her position as a city council member, she would find another way to do so.
“If our bottom line is not able to be met simply through discussions in city government, then we have to take it to the people for a referendum,” she promised.
In 2013, the airport town of SeaTac, WA voted to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour and last Friday Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his support for a $15 an hour salary for city workers.
Sawant also aims to provide more government subsidized housing and to tax the wealthy to provide funding for transit and education.
She explained to Democracy Now that she hopes while serving as a council member she will help answer the question, “How are [Socialists} going to have a mass movement that will challenge the status quo of capitalism?”
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Lord God, we come before You now in praise and rejoicing. We know that this life is much better off with You in our lives. There is comfort in the storms of life. There is peace when hard times come our way. There is mercy when we repent and choose to change our ways. We have direction in this life, that we may stay the course and not be led astray. Even when temptation comes, we are overcomers, that we may not fall. You keep us going strong. Our faith is revitalized each day in prayer. Our understanding of what is right and what is wrong is made known through the words of the Bible. Yes, Your Words are a lamp unto our feet. There is nothing like Your knowledge and understanding. When Your presence is near, my eyes are opened that I might learn. Even this life make sense when You have a hand in it. We understand where we are now and where You want to take us. So call us now, for we are all in. Lead us by the hand and show the way. Teach us Your commands. Help us become a faithful follower of You, till the end of our lives. Even till the end, when we have ran our course, may Your Name be on our lips. That we may one day see You in Your matchless glory. It will be wonderful to, one day, come unto You and embrace You, God. You are my King and I will forever praise Your Holy Name. I love You. Amen.
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The traditional 9-to-5 job has long been the standard path for many individuals seeking financial stability and career success. However, the world is changing, and more people are now yearning for a different kind of lifestyle—one that offers freedom, flexibility, and the opportunity to pursue their passions. If you’re tired of the corporate grind and want to break free from the conventional work structure, this blog post is for you. We will explore how to design your dream lifestyle and make money on your own terms.
Redefining Success and Lifestyle Design
Before embarking on the journey to design your dream lifestyle, it’s important to redefine what success means to you. Success is not solely defined by a high-paying job or climbing the corporate ladder. It’s about finding fulfillment, happiness, and a sense of purpose in your life. Take the time to reflect on your values, passions, and personal goals to create a vision for your ideal lifestyle.
Identify Your Passions and Talents
To design a lifestyle that aligns with your dreams, start by identifying your passions and talents. What activities bring you joy and fulfillment? What are you naturally good at? By recognizing your unique strengths and interests, you can uncover opportunities to turn them into viable income streams.
Embrace Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy
One of the most powerful ways to break free from the 9-to-5 grind is by embracing entrepreneurship and the gig economy. With the rise of digital technology and the internet, there are countless opportunities to start your own business or work as a freelancer. Consider your skills and expertise and explore avenues such as consulting, coaching, graphic design, web development, content creation, or online tutoring. The gig economy offers flexibility, independence, and the potential to earn a living doing what you love.
Create Multiple Streams of Income
Designing your dream lifestyle often involves creating multiple streams of income. Relying solely on one source of income can be risky and limit your financial freedom. Explore diverse income-generating opportunities that align with your skills and interests. This could include starting a side business, investing in real estate or stocks, generating passive income through online courses or digital products, or participating in the sharing economy by renting out your assets or providing services on platforms like Airbnb or Uber.
Embrace Remote Work and Location Independence
One of the key benefits of designing your dream lifestyle is the freedom to work from anywhere, including with a part-time job. Remote work has become increasingly popular, allowing individuals to escape the confines of a traditional office and work from the comfort of their own homes or while traveling the world. Embrace remote work opportunities, negotiate with your employer for flexible work arrangements, or explore part-time careers that are inherently location-independent. With a laptop and an internet connection, you can create a lifestyle that allows you to work on your own terms and make money with a part-time job.
Prioritize Work-Life Balance and Self-Care
Designing your dream lifestyle goes beyond financial freedom—it’s about prioritizing work-life balance and self-care. Take the time to define boundaries between work and personal life. Set aside dedicated time for relaxation, hobbies, spending time with loved ones, and pursuing activities that bring you joy. Nurture your physical and mental well-being to ensure long-term sustainability and happiness.
Seek Mentorship and Continued Learning
Breaking free from the 9-to-5 and designing your dream lifestyle can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. Seek mentorship from individuals who have successfully crafted their own paths. Learn from their experiences, gather insights, and gain valuable guidance. Additionally, invest in continued learning and personal development to enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, and stay ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of the gig economy.
Breaking free from the 9-to-5 grind and designing your dream lifestyle requires courage, determination, and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. By redefining success, identifying your passions, embracing entrepreneurship, creating multiple income streams, and prioritizing work-life balance, you can pave the way to a life of freedom and fulfillment. Remember, the journey may not be easy, but the rewards are worth it. Start taking small steps today to design your dream lifestyle and make money on your own terms.
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It was Pope John Paul II who wrote, “The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus’ message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as ‘good news’ to the people of every age and culture.”
As we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, state legislatures across the nation continue to step up to protect preborn life.
We start today’s headlines with great news from The Sooner State.
- Effective Immediately: Oklahoma Law Protects Preborn Babies from Conception to Birth
From The Daily Citizen:
Yesterday, Oklahoma became the first state in the nation, effective immediately, to enact pro-life legislation protecting preborn human life from the moment of conception. The law went into effect upon the signature of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.
As the entire country awaits a decision from the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, pro-life states all over the nation have been moving with speed to pass legislation that will protect babies in the womb should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
HB 4327 protects preborn human life from fertilization through birth, including exceptions for preserving the life of the mother, incest, and rape.
The bill is modeled after the Texas Heartbeat law. It includes provisions that give private citizens the ability to enforce the measure by filing a lawsuit against abortionists who illegally perform abortions.
Related From The Daily Signal: What I Saw at Fourth Protest Outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home
- ‘We’re Literally Experimenting on Children’: Bill Maher Challenges Transgender Craze
From The Daily Signal:
Comedian Bill Maher says it’s OK to question the transgender movement sweeping across America because “we’re literally experimenting on children.”
During a recent episode of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the comic questioned the rationale behind allowing kids to take puberty blockers or have “gender reassignment” surgeries, as well as the role culture plays in the conversation.
“If this spike in trans children is all natural, why is it regional?” Maher asked rhetorically during a nine-minute monologue. “Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.”
- ‘Heroic’ Profiles in Courage Emerge After Horrific Shooting at Robb Elementary School
From The Daily Citizen:
According to several sources, a few Border Patrol agents are being called “heroes” after rapidly responding to the school. Apparently, they were tasked with creating a plan to breach the classroom where the 18-year-old gunman had barricaded himself in.
The agents belonged to a special Border Patrol Tactical Unit (Bortac) which are “among the most highly trained in federal law enforcement.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Bortac agents weren’t able to get into the barricaded classroom “because of a steel door and cinder block construction … Meanwhile, the 18-year-old gunman shot at them and other officers through the door and walls.”
“The Bortac agents got a master key from the school principal that allowed them to enter the room, according to the officials. One Bortac agent took rounds to their shield upon entering and a second was wounded by shrapnel. A third killed the suspect.”
Now, one Homeland Security official has said that the Bortac agents believed they were on a “suicide” mission in breaching the classroom.
“If you have a barricaded subject and he has the advantage because he’s barricaded — if you rush through the door, not only do you have dead kids but dead cops. It’s suicide to try to rush a barricaded subject,” the official said. “I don’t think a lot of people would make that decision. To me, it just speaks to those individuals who decided to make entry.”
Upon breaching the classroom, one of the agents came within inches of being killed. A bullet grazed the black-and-white cap that he was wearing.
Related From Good Morning America: Comfort dogs sent to Texas to offer support following elementary school shooting
Several dogs were among the responders sent to Texas Wednesday, one day after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde, killing at least 19 children and two teachers.
The trained animals are all part of Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) K-9 Ministries, a K-9 unit that travels across the U.S. to provide comfort and support to people impacted by disasters such as mass shootings.
Eight of the group’s canines, all golden retrievers, are dedicated to the Uvalde community. They range in age from 3 to 9, according to Lutheran Church Charities’ K-9 crisis response coordinator Bonnie Fear.
“We listen if they talk,” she added. “We’re silent. We let the dogs connect with people and they can express their feelings at that time and we’re not counselors, so we are just present, standing with them in their sorrow.”
Lutheran Church Charities’ president and CEO Tim Hetzner recalled to “GMA” one comfort dog visit that made a particularly lasting impression on him.
“I remember one situation in Sandy Hook, four days after the shooting,” Hetzner said, referring to the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead. “We were at a community center and this couple was there with their young boy. … I had a dog named Howe at that time.”
“Howe looked up at the boy, got up, walked over to the boy, rolled into his legs and the boy came down on top of him. They just laid there. After about 10 minutes, the boy lifted up Howe’s ear and told him everything that happened in that classroom. Parents started crying because it was the first time the boy had talked in four days. First time and it was a dog.”
- How Good is Big Business at Respecting Free Speech, Freedom of Religion? ‘Abysmal’, Says New Report
From The Daily Citizen:
A new report is out, designed to measure corporate respect for religious and ideological diversity in the market, workplace, and public square. The Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index (Business Index) is the product of a joint effort by Alliance Defending Freedom and Inspire Insight, a Christian financial technology firm. They found that the businesses most capable of influencing and protecting free speech and the freedom of religion are doing an “abysmal” job.
The Business Index focused on 50 companies in the Fortune 1000 that are in industries having the greatest potential to impact free speech and religious freedom, such as those that provide essential banking, payment processing, and cloud services, or that serve as platforms for third-party expression in the digital space.
You are probably familiar with many of these companies, such as Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), Twitter, and Bank of America. And you’ve undoubtedly heard of examples of the corporate censorship of conservative viewpoints by those companies.
Even The Daily Citizen has not been immune to having its stories blocked on social media for reporting factual events that don’t follow the tenets of today’s woke culture.
Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, the average score for the 50 businesses examined was a depressing 12% out of 100.
- Exclusive Poll: By Two-To-One Margin, Investors Reject Woke Companies Pushing Political Causes
From The Daily Wire:
American investors – by an overwhelming margin – want companies they invest in to stop preaching and pursue profits, and they want no part of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement, and exclusive DailyWire/Echelon Insights poll reveals.
Companies have been increasingly pushing woke causes onto their consumers, but the poll reveals they do so at their own peril. The poll of over 1,000 investors, conducted last week by Echelon on behalf of The Daily Wire, showed that Americans want companies they invest in to seek profits instead of promoting political agendas outside of companies’ missions. While 29% of respondents agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% – twice as many – said it is a “bad thing.”
- Trump judges use one-two legal punch to block Biden agenda
From The Washington Times:
President Biden is pushing an expansive agenda — but Trump-appointed judges are pushing back, using a powerful combination of legal tools to stymy the administration.
The most recent instance came earlier this month when Judge Robert Summerhays ruled the president’s team had cut too many procedural corners in arriving at its decision to end the Title 42 pandemic border shutdown, putting the president in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Judge Summerhays, in issuing a preliminary injunction against ending Title 42, ruled that his injunction would apply nationwide, effectively halting the Biden team in its tracks.
That same one-two legal punch has also been used by judges to ding the president’s deportation pause, his attempt to erase the “Remain in Mexico” border policy, and his effort to expand consideration of greenhouse gas emissions in federal policymaking.
All were victims of the APA and nationwide injunctions, wielded by Trump-appointed judges.
Related From The Hill: Biden approval rating at lowest point in Reuters-Ipsos polling
7. Beverly Hills Parents Erupt Over Gender Identity In Fifth Grade Sex-Ed
From The Daily Wire:
Parents in Beverly Hills showed up to their local school board meeting this month to express their shock and disappointment with what they said was the fifth-grade sex education curriculum.
Four parents spoke out about the district’s sex-ed classes for 10-year-olds during the May 10 school board meeting for Beverly Hills Unified School District.
“I feel betrayed, angry, and disgusted,” one dad of a fifth-grader told the board. “Our kids have the right to innocence and not to be exposed to topics that can only confuse them even more than they are as they enter puberty.”
The dad said several topics, including gender identity, were not “openly disclosed” in the email sent to parents about the classes.
“The students for this are ten years old,” the dad continued. “How can the district think this content is even remotely appropriate for this age group and not even make a specific disclosure to parents? It’s unbelievable.”
8. USDA Says, ‘No School Lunch for You!’ – Unless You Embrace LGBT Ideology
From The Daily Citizen:
It’s like Jerry Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi,” shouting, “No soup for you,” at those who violated the restaurateur’s rules for ordering.
But in this instance, it’s the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shouting at public and private schools, camps, food pantries, and children’s residential homes – any organization that receives federal money for food programs.
“No school lunch program for you!” – unless you abide by our new policies privileging “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
The USDA and Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced that it was redefining sex-based discrimination, in all its federal programs, to include these two broad, unscientific, ill-defined, subjective terms.
Where “sex discrimination” used to mean discrimination against someone because they were male or female, the USDA now includes discrimination on the basis of changeable characteristics like sexual identity, thoughts, feelings or actions.
“As a result [of this redefinition],” the announcement said, “state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from FNS must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.”
9. ‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch Phil Robertson’s movie ‘The Blind’ to hit theaters in 2023
From The Christian Post:
The story of the Robertson family has been seen on reality TV and in an online series — and now it will debut on the big screen in a movie titled “The Blind.”
According to Movieguide, the film will follow “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson and will take place in the 1960s South. The story will follow his battle with alcoholism and eventual transformation. It will also document his pursuit of being a good husband and father.
The movie is being produced by the same company that previously worked with the Robertsons on their family podcasts, “Tread Lively Entertainment.”
Filming is currently underway in Shreveport, Louisiana, the family’s hometown.
The Robertson clan shot to fame after their reality show “Duck Dynasty” launched on A&E in 2012. The show, which ended in 2017, showcased the family’s “Duck Commander” business and their lives.
10. The world’s tallest dog is 7 feet tall on his hind legs: ‘He thinks he’s a lap dog’
Walking around the Dallas Farmers Market with the world’s tallest living male dog — a Great Dane named Zeus, according to Guinness World Records — garners a lot of stares, smiles, photo requests and one comment in particular.
“We counted 68 times once that we heard people say, ‘Whoa, that’s a horse,’” said his owner, Brittany Davis, a 36-year-old teacher and resident of Fort Worth, Texas. “It’s kind of a game now.”
While it’s not an original comment, it’s understandable. Zeus stands tall at 3 feet, 5.18 inches — and stretches over 7 feet tall standing on his hind legs.
The dog’s fans sometimes ask, “Can I ride him?” or “Does he have a saddle?” — to which Davis firmly answers “No.”
“He’s not a horse. He’s a dog. And he would not appreciate being ridden at all,” she said. “Most people obviously say it jokingly, but it’s definitely something we hear multiple times every time we bring him out.”
The world’s tallest dog eats 12 cups of food formulated for giant-breed dogs each day and glucosamine supplements to protect his joints. Davis asks her veterinarian for tips about caring for the big guy and makes sure to keep him healthy and lean to avoid hurting his hips.
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Outspoken crypto critic Peter Schiff admits that he made a wrong call on Bitcoin.
A massive proponent of gold, Schiff originally stated in July that the precious metal was about to continue its bull run while Bitcoin was about to collapse. After BTC’s recent rally to $12,000, Schiff, one of the most vocal Bitcoin critics in the financial space, says he was wrong about believing that the largest cryptocurrency would crater through support of $9,000.
“I was right on gold, but wrong on Bitcoin. The latter did manage to get through resistance and rally up to $12,000, thanks in large part to a ride on gold’s coattails and a massive TV advertising buy by Grayscale.”
Schiff also emphasizes that Bitcoin is now in a bear market after the swift pullback that sent the crypto king to $10,000. While crypto exchange Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss highlights that Bitcoin is creating a new base at $10,000 that would set up the next leg of the bull market, the SchiffGold chairman remains adamant that the king crypto is on its way down.
“Bitcoin can just as easily be consolidating before the next breakdown. Consolidations after sharp moves typically continue the move that precedes them. The more the 10K support level is tested the weaker it gets. Markets rarely give investors that many chances to buy the bottom.”
Earlier this year, Schiff boldly claimed that Bitcoin’s rise was largely because of high-rollers like Tyler Winklevoss who are controlling the price action behind the scenes.
“Probably due to whales like you manipulating the price higher to downplay the significance of the bad news. The supply of greater fools is running low, and is unlikely to include enough institutional investors to keep the pyramid scheme going.”
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Gamified decentralized finance platform DeFi Land has completed its first round of investing valued at $4.1 million. Several dozen investors allocated capital to this project in recent weeks. The concept of gamifying investment action can make DeFi much more appealing and accessible.
DeFi Land is a multi-chain agriculture simulation web game designed to introduce the mainstream to decentralized finance. More importantly, it gamifies all aspects of traditional DeFi protocols, creating intuitive and educational solutions for those exploring alternative finance solutions. Making decentralized finance more accessible to a global audience is a crucial priority for the DeFi Land team.
Following the successful first round of investments, the team can look toward the future. The $4.1 million investment round brings forth financial support from over 40 investors, all of whom are well-known and respected names in the crypto and blockchain industry. Participants include but are not limited to Animoca Brands, Alameda, Jump Capital, NGC Ventures, Solana Foundation, Gate.io, MXC, Solar Eco Fund, Youbi Capital and others.
Brian Lee, VC at Alameda, said,
“DeFi Land is an incredible blend of the two most interesting things happening in crypto right nowgaming and DeFi. We believe that DeFi Land can be a real game-changer in getting casual gamers and the crypto retails into DeFi.”
Such outspoken support from investors confirms the viability of what DeFi Land wants to achieve. Building a solution that aggregates across different protocols is crucial to bring DeFi to a mainstream audience. Moreover, the platform will support non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and introduce a play-to-earn model involving achievements, tasks, battles and other solutions to earn income.
When the team adds NFTs, they will provide benefits to the token holders. Every NFT in this ecosystem represents a unique game object, including trees, buildings, tractors and other farm-related items. These gamified items introduce new opportunities to borrow or lend money, provide liquidity, reward farming and more.
The creation of native NFTs is only one aspect of DeFi Land. Existing non-fungible tokens will gain a new ‘life’ through additional utility. Taking the Solana Monkey Business NFT as an example, it will generate monkeys running around in your DeFi Land game environment. Players can interact with these monkeys, adding an extra layer of interactivity and interoperability.
One intriguing aspect about DeFi Land is how the overall weather in this game reflects the current market conditions. Players can look forward to sunny days, although there will be bad weather days too.
Per the roadmap, the team is finalizing DeFi Land integration with Serum and Raydium. A beta version of the platform will go live in Q4 of 2021, as well as the NFT marketplace. In addition, more Solana protocols and other blockchainsincluding Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain will occur in the coming months.
Furthermore, DeFi Land will focus on education through a dedicated ‘educational mode.’ It is a practice mode for retail users, allowing them to gain better insights as to what they can expect in this gamified environment. Later this year, the overall interface will be enhanced to make onboarding of non-crypto users to DeFi more straightforward and appealing.
About DeFi Land
DeFi Land is a multi-chain agriculture-simulation web game created to gamify decentralized finance. Our game will have all the features that traditional platforms have but it will be gathered all in one place. DeFi Land gamifies decentralized finance by turning investment activities into games.
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Amid a recent surge of coronavirus cases across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom today once again mandated the closure of restaurants, wineries, movie theaters and other indoor operations in counties on the state “watch list,” including Santa Barbara County.
Restaurants with outdoor serving areas can still operate, and in a press conference today, Newsom encouraged businesses to move “outdoors, which is a way of mitigating the spread of this virus.”
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has yet to issue an official order about the changes.
Over 70% of the state’s population — or 19 California counties — are affected by Newsom’s latest order. The counties affected by the order spent at least three consecutive days on the “watch list” following a spike in coronavirus cases over the past two weeks.
Dine-in services at restaurants in Santa Barbara County first opened back up on May 21 as part of the county’s second phase of reopening, but a recent surge of cases brought increased hospitalization in the North County, according to the state watch list. There are approximately 2,900 total confirmed cases in the county as of July 1.
Newsom’s July 1 order also included that bars in the 19 counties must cease all operations. Before that, on Monday, Santa Barbara County Health Officer Henning Ansorg heeded a recommendation handed down from the California Department of Public Health that Santa Barbara County, as well as seven additional counties, close down their bars.
Newsom also rolled out protections for the July 4 weekend. All parking facilities at state beaches in Southern California and the Bay Area will be closed, and Newsom recommended that counties with mandatory closures cancel fireworks shows and other gatherings. The City of Santa Barbara announced on Monday that this year’s waterfront fireworks show is canceled “in the interest of public health and safety for all residents, first responders, and city staff.”
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A sportsbook is a place where people can bet on different events. It is a popular form of gambling, but it is also illegal in some areas. There are ways to avoid this, but it’s important to do your research before making a bet. You should check out the legal options in your area and find a sportsbook that is licensed to operate in your state.
It is important to look for a sportsbook that offers a variety of payment options. Some sites offer PayPal and Venmo, while others accept Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. This makes it easier for people to deposit and withdraw funds. Regardless of which method you choose, it’s important to make sure the sportsbook is secure and has good customer service.
When choosing a sportsbook, be sure to read reviews. Many of these will tell you about the bonuses and other features that a particular site offers. Some will even give you a free trial or demo account to try out their services before you commit. This will help you decide if the sportsbook is right for you.
You should also be careful about the odds that you see at a sportsbook. Many of them are based on the location of a game, and some teams play better in their home stadiums than at away games. This is taken into account by oddsmakers when creating point spreads and moneyline odds for a team. It is important to know which type of bet you want to place before looking at the odds.
The sportsbook you choose should have a good reputation and offer reasonable odds. It should be licensed to operate in your state, and you should know if it has been audited by an independent agency. It should also have a good record of settling bets and paying winners promptly. You should also consider whether the sportsbook has a good bonus program and a high payout percentage.
Before you bet at a sportsbook, it is important to understand the terms of service and bonuses that they offer. Some sportsbooks may offer bonuses that aren’t available elsewhere, such as a free bet or a signup bonus. These bonuses can help you win a lot of money. You should always compare the sportsbooks that offer these bonuses and select the one that is best for you.
The sportsbook business is booming since the Supreme Court ruling that opened it up to more states. There are now 20 states that allow sports betting, and the number is growing. Some sportsbooks are even offering a mobile app, which can be very convenient for customers on the go. But beware of the traps, because some sportsbooks are not reputable. Here are some tips to help you avoid them:
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SAN DIEGO, CA – FEBRUARY 22, 2022 – Dalrada Corporation (OTCQB: DFCO, “Dalrada”) is pleased to announce the further expansion of its Clean Energy Advisory Board. Its newest appointment is energy industry executive, Ted. M. Reguly, whose vast experience of growing San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) clean energy future enhances Dalrada’s knowledge base in support of the Company’s clean energy vision and implementation strategy. Dalrada’s Clean Energy Advisory Board is composed of prominent community leaders in the fields of climate, business, and environmental sustainability, among others. The Board’s combined experience provides evidence-based dialogue to shape effective balance with responsible net-zero initiatives and the future of clean energy.
Brian Bonar, Chairman and CEO of Dalrada, states, “Mr. Reguly’s proven track record with technology-driven energy eco-systems is profound, and Dalrada is honored that he joined the Company’s advisory board. Assembling diverse perspectives on the evolution of energy aids the transition from fossil fuel dependence to trackable, sustainable, and responsible clean energy practices.”
Transparency and accountability are core components of all net-zero initiatives that must prove effectiveness by 2050. Advanced technology facilitates the intended results of net-zero plans.
Mr. Reguly’s experience as a Director at Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric includes enabling state and federal policy compliance. Compliance will play a large role in the modernization and optimization of energy infrastructure for efficient on-demand use by end customers ― which represents an annual investment of $1.5 B for its formation, approval, and delivery.
Successfully implementing complex, widescale applications with electric transmission, substation, and distribution infrastructure projects, Mr. Reguly’s insight includes fire hardening, energy storage, microgrids, clean hydrogen, AI, drones, and advanced analytics that distribute clean energy to millions. Providing clean energy safely, reliably, and at the lowest possible cost through Mr. Reguly’s direction includes:
- Scaling technology to serve millions
- Capital and aging infrastructure approval, investment, and construction (energy transmission, substations)
- Growth in non-traditional utility areas
While at Sempra Renewables, Reguly oversaw the development, commissioning, operations, and maintenance of complex infrastructure spanning deployments of solar (1000 MW) and wind (1300 MW) renewable fleets throughout the United States.
“Mr. Reguly’s approach to leveraging AI and other advanced technologies to provide clean, safe, and reliable energy delivery to millions significantly enhances Dalrada’s energy strategy for net-zero 2050 and beyond.” Bonar continued.
Dalrada’s Clean Energy Advisory Board is assembled from former U.S. cabinet members, business leaders, technology innovators, environmental sustainability experts, and community activists. All members share unique insights from implementing wide-scale operations while navigating regulatory policy.
Dalrada’s industrial, commercial, and consumer applications designed by its wholly-owned subsidiary Likido®, produce and conserve energy as it decarbonizes heat, saves cost, and cares for the environment.
Bonar concludes, “Innovation catalyzes possibility to probability. Yet, evolving from probability to proof requires data, transparency, and accountability. Dalrada is committed to producing advanced technology innovations that fuel the future of clean energy and enable environmental stewardship.”
Likido® proprietary, disruptive low-carbon heating and cooling technology and independent power generation bridge the gap to achieving renewable energy efficiencies.
- Likido®ONE heat pumps recycle waste energy, instantly reducing GHG emissions with dramatic savings over traditional fossil fuel costs. Whether located on rooftops, outside in mobile energy centers, or inside boiler houses and plant rooms, Likido®ONE hot water, low-pressure steam, hot air with chilled water, or cooling utilities are easily installed. Excess energy generated with Likido® technology can establish new revenue streams for industries, municipalities, and businesses.
- Likido®VOLT continuous independent power generators allow the flexibility to choose traditional or renewable energy sources for on-grid or off-grid applications, including backup power, emergency preparedness, and natural disaster restoration efforts.
- Likido®CRYO is a versatile low-temperature refrigeration system for energy efficiency with a fixed location or mobile uses. Uses include the transport of biomaterials, vaccines, and industrial applications span nuclear energy cooling to winterization of oils for food and beverage production.
- Likido®HOME water heaters for residential energy consumers are currently in development.
Dalrada continuously builds on its core practices of engineering, life sciences, and technology while operating under the tenet of bringing innovative products and services to a complex new world. The Company’s subsidiaries respond with alternative solutions that are affordable, available, accessible, and impactful.
For more information on Dalrada and its subsidiaries, visit www.dalrada.com.
About Dalrada (DFCO)
With perseverance, valor, dedication, and vision, Dalrada Corporation is dedicated to tackling worldwide challenges of today and tomorrow.
Dalrada is a global company that operates under the tenet of creating impactful innovations that matter for the world. The Company works continually to produce disruptive solutions that bridge the gap of accessibility and accelerate positive change for current and future generations.
Established in 1982, the Company has since grown its footprint to include the business divisions: Dalrada Health, Dalrada Precision, and Dalrada Technologies. Each of Dalrada’s subsidiaries actively produces affordable and accessible world-class solutions to global problems. For more information, please visit www.dalrada.com.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts, the statements are forward-looking, including statements regarding future revenues and sales projections, plans for future financing, the ability to meet operational milestones, marketing arrangements and plans, and shipments to and regulatory approvals in international markets. Such statements reflect management’s current views, are based on certain assumptions, and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results, events, or performance may differ materially from the above forward-looking statements due to a number of important factors and will be dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, our ability to obtain additional financing that will allow us to continue our current and future operations and whether demand for our products and services in domestic and international markets will continue to expand. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations with regard to these forward-looking statements or the occurrence of unanticipated events. Factors that may impact the Company’s success are more fully disclosed in the Company’s most recent public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its annual report on Form 10-K.
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Young dancers will be introduced to ballet, tap and tumbling skills.
- Combo age ranges: 2-6 (please see class schedule for specific ages)
- For children just starting dance or continuing at a young age
- Learn FUN beginning level dance movement
- Basic terminology of ballet, tap and tumbling
- Listening skills, following directions and working with others
- Balance, patterns and motor skills
Black tap shoes & pink leather ballet shoes (no slippers). Any fun dance attire is accepted (tutu's, leotards, costumes, etc.). Hair should be pinned back as not to be a distraction.
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Andesite (volcanic), iron/red clay and chalk
Notes & Pairings
AKA Nagyréde Kékfrankos. This is a zero oaked Kékfrankos and similar to Roger, pushes the boundaries on ripeness without losing that good old fashioned “I can drink a bottle of this-ness.” This vineyard area was once the heart of COOP mass production. This wine is an about-face to that era.
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LFM Audio Hires Santa Again This Year!
A couple of years ago, LFM Audio – which puts together incredibly entertaining audio pieces for radio stations – asked me to play Santa for an idea they had. It went over so well in 2016 that they came back again last year for more – and just a couple of days ago Santa was hired yet again. It’s now part of the holiday traditions here at Marlar House Productions to play Santa each year for numerous radio stations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world! Here are a few samples from 2016 – the year this tradition began!
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MOLA reference DTM and aligned HRSC DTM mosaic at the Martian South Pole
Datasets from Xiao et al. (2022, in revision with Planetary and Space Science) titled "Prospects for Mapping Temporal Height Variations of the Seasonal CO2 Snow/Ice Caps at the Martian Poles by Co-registration of MOLA Profiles". An initial version of the manuscript can be accessed at https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04899. ## abbreviations Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Digital Terrain Model (DTM) University College London (UCL) High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) MOLA_reference_DTM_from_self_registration.tif is the reference DTM generated from self-registration of the reprocessed MOLA profiles. The heights are references to a Martian sphere of 3396 km. It covers the region poleward of 78°S with a resolution of 500 m/pixel. Projection is polar stereographic centered at the South Pole. Number_footprints_per_pixel_MOLA_reference_DTM.tif is the map that demonstrates the number of available MOLA footprints (after reprocessing and self-registration) within each of the grid element for the generation of MOLA_reference_DTM_from_self_registration.tif. The original UCL HRSC DTMs at the Martian South Pole, with a gridding resolution of 50 m/pixel, can be accessed at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/UCL-MSSL_iMars_HRSC_v1.0. Please also refer to Putri, A. R. D., Sidiropoulos, P., Muller, J. P., Walter, S. H., & Michael, G. G. (2019). A New South Polar Digital Terrain Model of Mars from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA Mars Express. Planetary and Space Science, 174, 43-55. UCL_HRSC_DTMs_mosaic_after_alignment_to_MOLA_reference.tif is the mosaic of these UCL HRSC DTMs after being aligned to the self-registered MOLA profiles, which are used to generate MOLA_reference_DTM_from_self_registration.tif. Grid size is 50 m/pixel with a stereographic projection centered at South Pole. Height_difference_before_alignment.tif and Height_difference_after_alignment.tif show the relative height differences between these HRSC DTMs and the self-registered MOLA profiles before and after the alignment, respectively. Grid size is 170 m/pixel with a stereographic projection centered at South Pole. Relative tilts of magnitudes up to ~10 m are ubiquitous before the alignment. Meanwhile, after the alignment, height differences are homogeneous with magnitudes typically less than 2 m.
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Creating a Knowledge Graph in 12 minutes at Ontotext’s Knowledge Graph Forum
We assumed that our audience were people who were either interested or actively working on knowledge graphs and feeling their way through the problem space.
Our main aim therefore with this presentation was to show the amazing capabilities of our own knowledge graph product Data Graphs, and how quickly it helps you create a knowledge graph for a domain.
Common Knowledge Graph Challenges
Before we started with the process of building the knowledge graph, we wanted to highlight three main challenges that previous clients had raised time and time again when faced with this task:
1. Semantics in your Knowledge Graph
If you start using an enterprise graph database and RDF, the semantics can get complicated quickly and it can be easy to get bogged down in a lot more complexity than you actually need. The core question then is: ‘How much semantics is enough?’. One of our main objectives for this talk was to show that we believe Data Graphs has just the right amount of semantics to demonstrate how we can lower the barrier of entry for knowledge graphs.
There's a whole suite of technologies which are generally new to most organisations, they don't have this expertise internally around RDF and semantics.
3. Insufficient Information Management
Many of the knowledge graph initiatives that we see are technology-driven. Many companies buy the knowledge graph technology, overlooking the essential information management side of things. Your knowledge graph is only as good as your domain model and this must be made up of well curated data. Often companies that have a knowledge graph will have neglected their information management and the data quality is poor. We'll return to this later.
The Main Act
We took attendees through a step by step process of creating a knowledge graph in just 12 minutes with Data Graphs, using the open source data that Netflix has made available on Kaggle. We started by showing the domain model that we wanted to replicate and then began the process of building the knowledge graph.
The first step was to create datasets and concept classes, which is effectively our project canvas. Then using Data Graphs’ schema builder we can replicate our domain model. We built out the classes and their relationships and then finally we have a visual view of our domain model, replicated within Data Graphs. The next step was to load in the data. Taking individual CSV files prepared from the Kaggle Netflix data we populated our domain model one concept class at a time, and let Data Graphs stitch them together with identifiers that we had predefined. Once all the data was loaded we had a ‘big reveal’, through the Data Graphs explorer which allows you to navigate and visualise your knowledge graph.
The audience was able to see all Netflix’ data on movies, shows, actors, directors, countries etc. presented in an interconnected, structured, and manageable way.
The rewards can be reaped immediately. Directly within the UI for Data Graphs you can start giving people access to it to explore, search, query and facet the data conforming to your domain model. You can also use immediately use the Data Graphs APIs to build your own applications on top of the data.
Key Message? Preparation Before Creation
The key message we were trying to impress on our audience was that for knowledge graphs, good preparation is essential. The speed and relative simplicity of the setup that we had demonstrated was only possible with solid information preparation - data that was already clearly structured and well organised. Pre-defining your domain model is an essential step in establishing the shape of your data before embarking on a knowledge graph project. Many people jump into ontologies well too quickly without spending enough time thinking about the specifics of their data, the core entities in your domain, the key relationships between them that will enable to you to answer the right questions of your data.
For example, in our case, before this talk we had gone through several questions that we knew we would need to know the answers to when creating the knowledge graph:
- What will the shape of the data be?
- What ubiquitous language should we use to describe our model?
- What identifiers will each of the data points have?
- What sort of questions will be want our knowledge graph to answer?
- What will the pros and cons of different approaches be?
And so on...
Making those decisions upfront and doing the work outside of the technology was essential in allowing that knowledge graph creation to run smoothly. This preparation is agnostic to the technology solution so once that is aligned, if you have the right tool, which in this case was Data Graphs, it becomes simple to put it all together. When that thinking doesn’t happen before the process of creating a knowledge graph starts, you end up having to work out many imperative and foundational design decisions within your already-chosen technology and thus implementation becomes more complex.
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Commitment in relationships is at the heart of intimate bonds. As someone who’s walked the path of both a relationship coach and a seeker of lasting connections, I’m thrilled to guide you through the transformative power of commitment. So, grab a cozy spot and dive into the gentle keys that unlock enduring, soulful connections.
Commitment: The heartbeat of love
Imagine commitment as the gentle heartbeat that keeps our relationships alive. It’s not just about promises; it’s a steady rhythm that says, “I’m here, I’m present, and I’m all in.” In a world where connections can be fleeting, commitment stands strong, guiding us through calm and turbulent waters.
Benefits of embracing commitment in relationships
Commitment isn’t just an act of sacrifice but an investment yielding abundant rewards. It invites us into deeper emotional connections where both partners feel treasured and valued. Within the sanctuary of commitment, we find space for personal growth, hand in hand with shared experiences.
Trust: The glue that binds relationships
Trust – the cornerstone of every relationship – blossoms under the nurturing shade of commitment. It’s that beautiful belief that your partner is by your side no matter what. This is where vulnerability finds its safe haven, where open conversations and authentic connections thrive. It’s knowing that you’re both committed to weathering storms together.
Guiding lights: Overcoming challenges
Life throws curveballs, and relationships face challenges – that’s a universal truth. But commitment is the North Star that guides us. It encourages us to communicate openly, seek compromise, and find solutions rooted in our shared commitment. Challenges become stepping stones to growth when viewed through the lens of commitment.
Honest and Open Communication
Foster an environment where both partners feel safe to express their thoughts, fears, and desires without judgment. Effective communication forms the cornerstone of commitment in marriage.
Dedicate uninterrupted moments to connect with your partner. Whether it’s a cozy dinner, a walk in the park, or even a movie night, these shared experiences strengthen your commitment.
Align your aspirations and dreams. Creating a roadmap of shared goals fosters a sense of unity and commitment towards building a future together.
Small Acts of Love
Show appreciation through everyday gestures – a heartfelt note, a surprise hug, or a kind word. Speaking your partner’s love language this way nurtures commitment and affection.
Support each other’s personal growth journeys. When partners are committed to evolving individually, their commitment as a couple deepens.
Handle marital conflicts with empathy and respect. Working through challenges together reaffirms your commitment to each other’s happiness.
Rekindling your commitment: A guide
Feeling a dip in commitment doesn’t mean the end of the road. It’s an opportunity to rekindle the flame. Communicate openly with your partner about your emotional needs, fears, and aspirations. Share your dreams and align your goals. Celebrate the small moments and make quality time a priority. With effort, commitment can be reignited, bringing new life to your relationship.
As we journey through the intricacies of relationships, remember that commitment is the shining star above. Just as I chose my family years ago, we all have the power to embrace commitment as the bedrock of our bonds. It’s a daily choice to nurture love, growth, and shared dreams.
Ready to infuse your relationship with the power of commitment? Start by nurturing open conversations, shared aspirations, and cherished moments. Contact me if you seek personalized guidance and support in this journey. Let’s navigate this path together and paint your love story with the hues of unwavering commitment.
How committed are you to your intimate relationship or marriage?
Which of the above tips are you willing to implement?
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for your time.
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Animal. The California grizzly bear (Ursus californicus) was designated official State Animal in 1953.
How many animals are found in Maharashtra?
Of the 94,000 identifiable fauna species in the country, Maharashtra accounts for 5,460 species, which is six per cent of the country’s fauna.
What are 5 animals that live in India?
India is home to several well-known large animals, including the Indian elephant, Indian rhinoceros, Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion, Indian leopard, snow leopard, and clouded leopard.
Which is state animal of Maharashtra * 2 points?
Indian giant squirrel
Maharashtra’s state animal is the Indian giant squirrel, the state flower is Jarul, and the state bird is the yellow-footed green pigeon.
What is the flora and fauna of Maharashtra?
Godavari and Krishna are the two major rivers in the state. Forests cover 16.47 per cent of the state’s geographical area.
Mammal Indian giant squirrel
Bird Yellow-footed green pigeon
Insect Blue mormon
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Which animal is famous in Maharashtra?
The most common animal species present in the state are monkeys, wild pigs, tiger, leopard, gaur, sloth bear, sambar, four-horned antelope, chital, barking deer, mouse deer, small Indian civet, golden jackal, jungle cat, and hare.
Which state has highest animals in India?
The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India. The Northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura together with West Bengal account for 30% of the elephants and 5% of the tiger population.
What are 3 famous animals?
Mickey Mouse, Kermit the Frog, and Garfield have brought joy to generations, while real animals such as Ham the chimp and Balto the Siberian husky are regarded as heroes. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories.
Who is the king of jungle?
Lion is known as the king of the jungle.
What are 5 cool animals?
Five Amazing Animals You Must See in the Wild
Maharashtra is one of India’s largest commercial and industrial centres, which has led to its being called the gateway of India. Maharashtra is also famous for its culture and beauty. The ancient cave paintings found at Ajanta and Ellora are UNESCO World Heritage sites and popular tourist destinations.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have agreed to give up their titles and state funded income so that they can “step back” from their roles as “working” members of the royal family.
Buckingham Palace announced that as royals Harry and Meghan may call themselves Prince and Duchess of Sussex, but they can no longer use the titles of His and Her Royal Highness. From now on the two of them cannot expect to receive public funds for official appearances or duties. The couple will also repay the Sovereign Grant funds they recently spent to renovate their official residence, Frogmore Cottage. That amounts to about $3 million.
Originally the couple offered to split their time between with the United Kingdom and North America. Now it appears they will reside in Canada, perhaps work in the U.S.A. and make their occasional visits back to England. The icing on the bon-voyage cake is that the Queen no longer has her objections to the union. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family. the queen said in the latest statement put out by Buckingham Palace. “Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family,”
This last year has not been an easy time for this pair. Not only were Harry and Meghan newly-weds and pregnant with their first child, but they had to deal with the demands of the Royal Family reorganization and contend with the hounding of a particular element of the British population. Already there are discussions that the departure of Prince Harry and Meghan from the British social scene could mean a loss of billions of pounds to the country’s economy.
#39 WED TAU
#78 SAT VIR
#29 TUE LEO
The dynamics of this royal relationship were analysed in two previous features, When Harry met Meghan and Baby Makes Three. The general conclusion was that their personal attraction comes from the strong differences in their signatures. Meghan’s INNER Mars ruler warms Harry’s serious emotional nature. Harry’s Saturn INNER ruler adds ballast to Meghan’s active life. It isn’t the easiest set of planetary dynamics, but it will work as long as they work it.
Queen Elizabeth was born on a Wednesday in the sign of Taurus. Her INNER ruler is Mercury giving her a liking for stability and accountability. She has demanded that the couple slow down and consider the implications of their actions. It is a typical behavior for an individual born Wednesday to be exceptionally careful about procedures and small details.
Actually Prince Harry and his grandmother share a strong and beneficial Earth connection. Their Sun Signs, Virgo and Taurus would certainly be able to discuss the practicalities of any situation. Harry possesses great common sense regarding the reforms needed by the country and the Queen oversees matters. Virgo works for perfection and Taurus tends to be very basic.
It is quite a different story for Meghan Markle. The Queen’s Taurus and Meghan’s Leo OUTER Selves are different elements and both quite fixed. This may cause them to see things quite differently probably due to their different backgrounds. However if they could ever align their personal motivations they can act firmly for the same purpose. Let’s hope that is the case.
UPDATE – Harry and Megan spent some time in Canada, but they ended up in California. For a time they resided in one of the homes of comedian and actor Tyler Perry, with whom it is reported that the couple never met. According to QUORA Perry is just as much of a philanthropist in USA, as Harry was in Great Britain. Oddly Harry and Tyler share the #78 SAT VIR Dayology signature, yet it makes a certain sense.
UPDATE – As you probably know Harry and Megan eventually bought a home in Santa Barbara, California and have had added a second child to their family. Their daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor was born on On June 4, 2021, The couple have recently announced their decision to limit their family to four.
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Dayton, Ohio – Public Health – Dayton and Montgomery County is facing a significant financial challenge as a preliminary budget reveals a projected deficit of $4.6 million in 2024. This deficit could potentially impact certain staff positions within the department.
The public health department relies on various sources of revenue, including the county’s human services levy, service fees, and grants from federal and state entities. The projected revenue for 2023 is approximately $36 million, while expenses are expected to amount to around $40 million.
Over the past few years, the agency has been operating with a deficit due to increasing costs coupled with stagnant revenues. According to Public Health Commissioner Jennifer Wentzel, the department’s reserves are not sufficient to cover the deficit this time. As a result, the agency has taken immediate action to address the $4.6 million shortfall.
“We are aiming to reduce the deficit to $2.6 million this year,” stated Wentzel. “We have already identified some cost savings by reviewing contracts, operational expenses, and considering a reduction in our footprint. Additionally, we are currently holding some positions open.”
Wentzel mentioned the possibility of a reduction in staff, although the outcome remains uncertain due to ongoing grant applications and the evolving nature of the 2024 budget. The agency is actively exploring program and funding opportunities to alleviate the financial strain.
At present, the budget cuts are not expected to impact community services. The agency plans to submit a finalized 2024 budget to its governing board later this year, taking into account any funding opportunities and grants that may become available.
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Views expressed in opinion columns are the author’s own.
Recently, University of Maryland DOTS announced significant cuts to widely used Shuttle-UM bus routes. A revenue sharing arrangement between Department of Transportation Services and the athletic department is partially to blame. As students and university senators, we strongly urge the university administration to approve a proposal that would rightfully restore half of DOTS’ budget deficit. Not only should the proposal be approved, but it should go into full effect for the upcoming fiscal year.
Currently, all parking revenue generated from game-day events is split evenly between DOTS and athletics, after expenses. Last year, athletics received $380,000 from parking, which should have been put toward covering more than half of DOTS’ $700,000 budget shortfall. In 2015-16, athletics brought in more than $94 million in revenue. The university is also investing $155 million in the renovation and expansion of Cole Field House, directly resulting in the loss of 250 parking spaces and their associated revenue. The athletic department does not need to take any more money from DOTS to survive.
Although similar agreements exist at other Big Ten universities, they do not exist between DOTS and other departments responsible for revenue-generating events. Events hosted by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Stamp Student Union and other campus entities that generate parking revenue do not get to keep a portion of the profits. Athletics is in no way inherently different from or more deserving than other departments. This agreement is just another example of athletics flexing its inflated ego at the expense of students.
To remedy “parking fees corruptly subsidizing the Athletics Department,” physics professor and university Senator Thomas Cohen submitted a proposal to the University Senate in November to eliminate the revenue sharing agreement and allocate all revenue to Transportation Services. The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee — a group composed of representatives from the Student Government Association, Residence Hall Association, Graduate Student Government, faculty and staff — deliberated the proposal in March.
When questioned at the CTAC meeting about what would be cut if the department did not receive the $380,000, a representative from the athletic department declined to offer specifics. Instead, he speculated that nutritional programs for student athletes and the department’s game-day recycling program would be the first to go. His lack of specificity gave the impression that athletics does not take the threat of losing $380,000 seriously and they can more than afford to take this minor hit.
The programs the athletics representative mentioned are beneficial to campus life, but the money would better serve students through Shuttle-UM. By ending the agreement, DOTS would have enough money to restore weekend #104 College Park Metro Station service three times over. Additionally, the #133 Mall at Prince George’s route only costs $15,828 and is one of the few ways students without cars can freely access grocery stores like Whole Foods and Safeway. There is no question that $380,000 in the hands of DOTS does a great deal more for students than in the hands of athletics.
CTAC unanimously voted in favor to end the agreement, but the proposal must now be approved by administration. On Thursday, SGA President Jonathan Allen made a statement urging the approval of CTAC’s recommendation. We support his call to the administration, but will add that the proposal should go into effect immediately for the upcoming fiscal year. Students who rely on Shuttle-UM cannot wait for more money to be phased in over the next few years.
Without a comprehensive bus system, this university will no longer be the sustainable and accessible campus it strives to be. By no means is athletics entirely to blame for Shuttle-UM service cuts, but their current revenue sharing agreement only stifles DOTS further.
Olivia Delaplaine is a junior government and politics and language education major and a current undergraduate University Senator. She can be reached at email@example.com.
Jane Lyons is a senior economics major and the former undergraduate University Senate representative to the Campus Transportation Advisory Committee. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Ben Reichard is a junior government and politics major and the current undergraduate University Senate representative to the Campus Transportation Advisory Committee. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Students sometimes ask me the difference between the hermeneutics employed by Covenant, New Covenant, Progressive Dispensational, and Traditional Dispensational theologian/exegetes. Perhaps the easiest way to answer is to offer an example of one of the most heavily disputed topics of Scripture, viz., the Abrahamic Covenant. After detailing four basic approaches to these covenant promises, I will offer three key informing OT texts, each selected and highlighted, but otherwise not annotated, to emphasize the reasons why I hold to the last hermeneutical approach:
A supersessionist hermeneutic says that the land promise to Abraham’s natural seed is a recapitulation of the Covenant of Grace that will be fulfilled when a group of people who are not Abraham’s natural seed receive something other than the land promised.
A typological hermeneutic says that the land promise to Abraham’s natural seed is a genuine but temporary historical reality that falls away in disinterest after God discloses a new, culminating, and much greater inheritance (a new heaven and new earth) for the greater, spiritual seed of Abraham.
A complementary hermeneutic says that the land promise to Abraham’s natural seed will be fulfilled exactly as promised to ethnic Israelites in the Millennium/Eternal State, but that a share of this reward will also accrue to Abraham’s spiritual seed, who become new and equal partners of an expanded Abrahamic promise.
A literal hermeneutic says that the land promise to Abraham’s natural seed will be fulfilled exactly as promised to ethnic Israelites in the Millennium/Eternal State, and that all the peoples of the earth are afforded substantial subsidiary blessings through the obedience of faith.
Genesis 12:1–3: The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 13:15–17: The LORD said to Abram, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
Genesis 15:2–6: Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Obviously much more can be said, but it’s a blog post, not a book. I trust that this can serve as a faithful summary and preliminary defense.
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CIFA is has the widest range of products for concrete of the market including batching and recycling plants which have always been part of its DNA.
The FiveTech and Recycling ranges are the perfect synthesis of innovative technology and smart solutions which reinvet the the way of thinking to the production of Readymix concrete both wet or dry. A high value program both for the technological content, for the performances but, above all, for the value for the end user.
FiveTech series do include a complete offer of configurations, all with great modularity and high construction quality and with particular focus on the transportability and the easy installation with minimum foundations.
The horizontal twin-shaft mixers and the control systems, precise and automatic; assure a process both reliable and repeatable, guarantee of a high quality mix that now is also fully traced with the remote control system CIFA VISTA.
The CIFA Recycling range is the perfect completion of the batching plant Series which is sophisticated but simple to use. With the CIFA WASH and AQUATECH systems it is possible to keep all the machines, such as Truck Mixers or Truck Pumps, clean and efficient; plus retrieve the aggregate and the slurry water thanks to a filter-press that purifies it and put it back in the production cicle. This is for sure the best way to increase sustainability and optimize the use of primary resources.
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If you’ve been following DealUniverse, you may have noticed that I have come to love Kobelli Jewelry (especially their rings since I have a thing for rings). And I know that YOU love saving with Kobelli competitive prices on Amazon! What I want to show you today is a great page of “Kobelli One of a Kind” designs – some favorites, and I think you will see why. The page highlights a lot of their sapphire and diamonds which, for some reason, they seem to design very well.
One particular wedding set caught my eye – and if you scroll down their page, you’ll see what I mean. It’s their Blue Sapphire Low Setting Vintage Bridal Set here (and as of this writing, August 26, 2021 it’s enjoying a 4.8 star rating on Amazon – and marked down considerably from the original price,).
Another favorite of mine is this stunning Kobelli Diamond and Ruby Five Stone V-Prong Engagement Ring
There is so much on this page that I really like, so I just wanted to call your attention to it!
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Happy New Year Snow Crystals
Happy New Year!
My Snow Crystals quilt is still one of my favorites. I have been asked about the variation called Idaho which includes sashings. Remember this?
The first one I made has disappeared, but I remember when I made it about 16 years ago. I used purple and gold batiks.
|Idaho in lots of colors!|
Snow Crystals is also a vintage pattern and I've shared it here many times. I was asked to add the pattern to my Etsy shop and I have. It also includes a 3 page pattern for the Idaho block. It's simple: just paper piece 8 sections and then join them with strips. Here are 4 units of the 8.
I standardized the center sashings to a uniform 1" finished size, but the block will not finish to a "normal" size due to working with 8-pointed stars. But, if you're making a quilt only with this block, it doesn't matter!
Here's the Snow Crystals quilt. The entire center is one block. That's how the vintage pattern shows it.
This is paper pieced, so some of you would sweat bullets! But it's not hard, honest. Take a look at the pattern page from the Kansas City Star in 1930. Would you like to use those templates? And sew y-seams? NO, not me!
|Page from the Kansas City Star|
My diamonds are rotary cut. Paper piecing streamlines everything and makes thing accurate. Check out the listing for the 11 page pdf!
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Yes, PTSD and bipolar disorder are related. Studies show that individuals with PTSD may be at a higher risk of developing bipolar disorder than the general population due to shared biological and environmental causes of both disorders. Trauma exposure can increase the risk for the development of both PTSD and bipolar disorder. People who have experienced traumatic events may be more prone to mood swings associated with bipolar disorder. Studies have also shown that individuals with bipolar disorder are also more likely to experience flashbacks and other symptoms typically associated with PTSD. As such, there is an undeniable connection between these two mental health conditions.
It is well-known that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Bipolar disorder share many commonalities. PTSD is a psychological condition characterized by symptoms such as flashbacks, hyperarousal, anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts related to a traumatic experience or event. On the other hand, Bipolar disorder is marked by extreme mood swings including depressive episodes and manic episodes that interfere with everyday life. Both conditions can profoundly affect an individual’s wellbeing in different ways and thus have been widely studied for years now.
Several research studies support the theory that PTSD and bipolar are closely related mental illnesses due to their overlapping symptomatology which includes heightened emotions, impaired memory/concentration, inability to socialize properly, difficulty with relationships/communication etc. Moreover, both diagnoses require specific treatments ranging from counseling and psychotherapy to medications which are often used in conjunction with one another for optimal results.
Aside from similar treatments prescribed for these mental health issues there are also indications of genetic links between PTSD and Bipolar disorders; this suggests a common biological etiology underlying the two conditions in individuals suffering from both simultaneously or consecutively over time period. Further research on co-morbidity may bring more clarity on how trauma-based experiences can trigger either diagnosis as well as pave way towards comprehensive interventions tackling complex psychopathologies at once rather than focusing solely on symptoms relief management therapies.
PTSD: Definition and Symptoms
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health condition that can occur after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. It is characterized by persistent symptoms of distress, ranging from intrusive memories to nightmares and flashbacks. Commonly seen in veterans of war, police officers, firefighters, first responders and victims of sexual assault, this condition can also affect survivors of natural disasters or accidents.
One key indicator of PTSD is the frequent experience of fear or feelings of hopelessness which leads to reactions such as avoidance and emotional numbing. People with PTSD may experience difficulty concentrating, disrupted sleeping patterns (insomnia or nightmares), irritability, hypervigilance and an exaggerated startle response when startled. In extreme cases these symptoms can cause individuals to become detached from their daily lives leading to depression and other serious mental health problems.
The potential for developing PTSD varies between individuals due to physiological factors like exposure duration and intensity; psychological factors including pre-existing conditions like substance abuse; social variables such as support systems available during the event; as well as cultural beliefs about healing from trauma. Treatment often involves psychotherapy accompanied by medication which can help those affected manage their emotions more effectively over time.
Bipolar Disorder: Definition and Symptoms
Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder classified by alternating episodes of mania and depression. People who experience bipolar disorder have extreme changes in mood, energy, and activity levels that can affect their daily lives. During manic episodes, individuals may feel an exaggerated sense of euphoria or irritability, be able to stay up for long periods without sleeping and engage in overly risky behavior. On the other hand, depressive episodes involve feelings of sadness, hopelessness and lethargy as well as difficulties with concentration, sleep disturbances and even thoughts of suicide.
Although bipolar disorder is distinct from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) it shares some common features such as difficulty managing emotions and/or intense negative emotions. Research suggests that both conditions are associated with stressful life events but many different factors play a role in both disorders including genetics, brain function and environment. Both PTSD and bipolar often require medication management in addition to psychotherapy to help manage symptoms effectively over time.
Importantly though there are key differences between the two illnesses: unlike PTSD which generally occurs after a traumatic event such as a car accident or rape; bipolar disorder does not always have an identifiable cause; it’s believed that genetic predisposition plays a large part in developing this condition. In addition people with Bipolar also go through less intense or shortened “hypomanic” periods – usually described as feeling energetic and productive – compared to those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress who tend to only have very severe or prolonged “hyperarousal” where they are constantly on alert for potential danger due to past trauma related experiences.
Potential Overlapping Characteristics of PTSD and Bipolar Disorder
Although PTSD and Bipolar Disorder are two distinct mental health conditions, they may share certain commonalities in terms of symptoms. Individuals struggling with both forms of illness typically have difficulty regulating their emotions and mood swings. People with either condition experience a range of feelings from severe depression to manic outbursts. Many individuals with PTSD or Bipolar Disorder can feel overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts that interfere with the ability to concentrate on everyday tasks. It is also common for those dealing with either condition to become easily triggered by various situations, leading to increased stress levels.
Not only can people living with PTSD and Bipolar Disorder struggle with similar types of emotional disturbances, but they also tend to have troubled sleep patterns that disrupt their quality of life. Insomnia is a common symptom shared between both mental illnesses, which contributes to feeling exhausted during the day and impacts an individual’s ability to be productive or socialize normally. Because changes in sleeping patterns often lead to frequent bouts of irritability, those affected may find themselves engaging in negative behaviors like self-harm as a means of coping or getting attention.
The combination of intense emotions, altered states, insomnia and poor impulse control associated with PTSD or Bipolar disorder can be detrimental if not managed properly under professional guidance. It is therefore essential for those experiencing any form these conditions seek prompt medical help so that they are provided proper care tailored specifically for them.
Differentiating between the Two Disorders
Mental health disorders such as PTSD and bipolar are both very serious issues that can have a large effect on the lives of individuals. However, despite the fact that they share some similar features and symptoms, they are two different mental health conditions with distinct traits.
One major difference between PTSD and bipolar is in their causes. While PTSD is usually linked to intense trauma or stressful events such as war, rape or other forms of physical harm, bipolar disorder has been linked to an imbalance in brain chemistry rather than any particular traumatic event. Further, research suggests that those who suffer from one may be more likely to develop another due to genetic predispositions but the two disorders should not be seen as related.
Despite a lack of direct connection between PTSD and bipolar disorder, it is important for people suffering from either condition to talk about their struggles and find help managing them through therapy or medication if necessary. In severe cases, both illnesses can lead to suicidal tendencies so seeking professional help can greatly reduce this risk. It is also helpful for people struggling with any kind of mental illness to reach out and build connections with family or friends who may be able to provide guidance or understanding throughout their recovery process.
Treatment for Co-Occurring PTSD and Bipolar Disorder
Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Bipolar Disorder at the same time can present a unique challenge for health care providers. This is because the two mental disorders share many of the same symptoms and require similar medications, yet their underlying causes differ greatly. When diagnosing individuals with both conditions, healthcare professionals must take into account all aspects of their respective illnesses to effectively treat them together.
The most effective way to approach dual diagnosis treatment is by using an integrated therapy that combines psychotherapy and medication management while considering both psychological and physiological components. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been particularly useful in treating co-occurring PTSD and Bipolar Disorder as it helps patients recognize connections between emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so they can develop coping strategies to better manage their stress levels. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) has shown promising results when used to reduce impulsive behavior associated with bipolar disorder as well as improve emotion regulation for those suffering from PTSD.
Psychopharmacological interventions are also helpful in managing both conditions simultaneously. Research suggests that certain antipsychotics may prove beneficial for reducing symptoms of mania associated with Bipolar Disorder whereas selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac or Zoloft may be beneficial for improving mood swings caused by PTSD. When prescribing medications in tandem it’s important for doctors to assess the risk versus reward ratio carefully due to possible interactions between drugs that could be potentially dangerous or ineffective when combined improperly.
Many experts believe that there is a connection between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Bipolar Disorder. However, further research needs to be conducted in order to determine the nature of this relationship.
The common symptoms shared by both disorders can make it difficult to distinguish between them. For instance, symptoms such as severe mood swings, disorganized behavior, and difficulty regulating emotions are present in both conditions. People with PTSD may experience heightened levels of stress which can cause manic episodes and depression in those with bipolar disorder. This can further complicate the diagnosis and lead to misdiagnoses or delayed treatment for each condition.
Given the complexity of these two mental health issues, it is important for researchers and clinicians to continue examining the potential connection between PTSD and Bipolar Disorder. By conducting additional studies into this relationship, experts will be better able to provide more comprehensive treatments for individuals suffering from either one or both conditions simultaneously.
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The land we now call Legacy Park provided shelter to families in need for nearly 150 years as the United Methodist Children’s Home before its sale to the City of Decatur in 2017. Today we honor that legacy with a new community vision for the property — one that prioritizes affordable housing right along with natural conservation, recreation, community spaces, the preservation and reuse of historic buildings, and the celebration of arts and culture.
Progress towards this vision took an important step forward on April 18 when Decatur’s City Commission approved designs submitted by the Decatur Housing Authority for the park’s planned South Village.
Located in the southwest corner of the park, the proposal replaces 8 existing substandard duplex apartments and 2 aging single family homes with 132 new multi-family units arranged across a clustered assembly of 2 and 3 story buildings, forming what DHA Executive Director Doug Faust calls “a community of families.”
Preservation of the pine forest along S. Columbia Drive is integrated with the plan and the maximum height of 3 stories ensures comparable massing with surrounding development.
Director Faust is often heard to say, “It doesn’t cost any less to build affordable housing than it does to build market-rate housing.” If affordable rents are insufficient to cover design and architecture, site development and construction costs, financing, building management, ongoing and long-term maintenance, and more, those costs don’t just go away. The money needs to come from somewhere else.
Thankfully, through a partnership of the City of Decatur and the Decatur Housing Authority, the Decatur community will meet this challenging goal, and do so without cost to local taxpayers. Instead, the bulk of the required funding is expected to come via low-income housing tax credits issued through the state Department of Community Affairs, with additional costs covered by the city’s Federally-allocated American Rescue Plan (ARPA) pandemic funds. No borrowing of money or use of local tax revenue is planned.
The 7 acre site will continue to be owned by the city who will make it available to the DHA through a long-term ground lease, thus ensuring affordability not just today but in the decades ahead.
The virtuous outcome of this partnership is evident: new, dignified housing where each for-rent unit will be priced affordably for working individuals and families currently excluded by the offerings of Decatur’s booming housing market.
As stewards of Legacy Park, Legacy Decatur is charged with ongoing management of the property and the implementation of its master plan. But grand ambitions transcend this daily role, requiring substantive partnerships and resources. We’re grateful for the City of Decatur and the Decatur Housing Authority for their leadership and look forward to an anticipated 2023 groundbreaking.
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Best Ways to Improve Efficacy in Teams
In this article we talk about best way to improve Efficacy in Teams at the Workplace. Are you passionate about working in teams? Teamwork is possible when each of the teammates dedicates themselves to overcoming obstacles and supporting each other to gain rewards. We have discussed several ways to work in teams and achieve desired goals below.
It is indeed rewarding and stimulating to work as a team? There is a squad of people with standard skill sets who work as a team to complete assignments and tasks on time. Working as a team at your office helps in self-development as you explore and learn new things from your colleagues. A dedicated team helps in collective decision-making, and you can learn the art of getting support from those around you.
Perhaps, teamwork also demands conviction and passionate work from your end, and it is crucial to find ways for achieving this. But, before that, let’s have a glance at the significance of teamwork. It can provoke you to make right decisions and understand the power of working together. Ready to delve on important facts about improving yourself at the workplace?
Significance of Teamwork
Humans are social creatures, and they tend to coordinate and collaborate to work towards specific goals. Being successful as a team is possible only when you learn the secret mechanisms of working together and achieving desired actions in life.
The team members can support one another and strive towards attaining the company objectives together. Other benefits of working in teams at the workplace are:
- It accelerates overall productivity and performance levels.
- Working together enables people to brainstorm unique ideas and surge up their creativity levels.
- As per a report from 2015, McKinsey found out that people working in teams tend to get 35% more creative than their counterparts and can get better results.
- Teamwork also helps in releasing stress. As the burden of decision-making and relevant consequences gets divided, people are more confident about themselves.
- Supportive teammates and hours of constructive discussions make a difference in the overall value added to the organization.
- Skill development is another reason why teamwork helps. Working as a team helps you develop skills and gain good learning from one another.
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Possible Obstacles of a Team Work
Effective teamwork results from combined hard work from all the fellow mates. Working collaboratively on any project might also result in some barriers stated below.
- Lack of proper communication
- Ambiguity of goals
- Poor leadership
- Very low accountability
- Blaming one another
Ways to Support your Team at the Workplace
Now that you know the importance of working in a team and its hindrances, there are ways to improve your position when working together. Whether you are in a clerical position or the managerial one, the importance of teamwork cannot be ignored. Teamwork is a big responsibility, and you must know how to work at your workplace efficiently.
Let’s delve into the top ways through which you can work on self-improvement and extend help to your other teammates as well. Here are the ways that could help you play a supportive role and be efficient at the organization.
#1. Good communication- Proper communication is the key to developing a successful team. It is essential to hone your communication skills, whether you are interacting with your teammate on a call, at the conference room, or any other place.
Understanding the co-workers’ situations point of view and keeping others in the loop is an exact way to tackle most problems. Most leaders and managers can communicate with each other regarding various things and share feedback after the discussions to improve professional relationships.
#2. Be on the same page- If you focus on completing your tasks, teamwork won’t prove fruitful to you. Micromanagement is also a skill wherein you have to discuss the delegated tasks amongst each other and catch up on other co-workers’ problems.
Arranging the project meetings in content to the ongoing assignments helps develop valuable suggestions that suit everyone. Working in teams is a two-way process and playing an active part helps in assessing the problems of others. Being on the same page helps teams cope with stringent deadlines on the professional front.
#3. Stay Inclusive- Do you often try to be supportive at the workplace? There are different types of people, and all of them pertain to distinct mannerisms, personalities, approaches and characters. It can be intimidating to cope with so many differences, and the best way out is to appreciate everything that’s different.
Tune in together for similar ideas and avoid disagreements even if they are prominent. Acknowledging each other’s flaws and compromising could help you handle the most trivial situations also pretty well.
#4. Master the art of prioritizing- Poor planning is the critical reason for failure in most teams. If you fall weak in managing tasks in the work environment, that could result in weaker functioning at the workplace. By prioritizing the crucial tasks, you can effectively manage work in a group and help others properly execute the plans.
It demands a lot of specialization and knowledge to become successful as a team, and the ability to prioritize the tasks can help in doing the same. This proves helpful in making correct decisions and coming up with productive avenues. Managing workloads could get easier when you know how to handle task diversions smartly.
#5. Believe in empowering others- Remember that teamwork is no race where you have to beat others out and win. Neither does it define your efficiency at the workplace. A good team is the one that offers you an opportunity to think and take the right action that favours everyone.
When you spread goodness by supporting others and believing in their calibre, the same is bound to revert. You can do several things to achieve this, like delegating tasks and showing faith in their potential.
Setting achievable expectations would inspire the co-workers to be alongside you and contribute to the work environment. The whole concept of working in a team is empowering one another to learn about the leadership roles and achieve their targets in the long run.
There are also a couple of other ways in which you can improve your efficiency at the workplace, such as:
- Pursuing sensitivity towards others’ emotions
- Setting reasonable targets
- Going on small breaks together
- Focusing on overall well-being
- Promoting growth as a team
- Efficiently delegating tasks
- Resolving internal conflicts tactfully
- Maintaining a rivalry free environment at the workplace
These are a few ways to ensure better growth and company success along with individual development effectively.
Now you have a good grasp of how is it possible to display efficiency at your workplace and emerge as an influential person. People from various backgrounds often get together professionally under the same team, and they face differences amongst each other. It is pretty possible to deal with this once you learn to materialize the possibilities and make optimum use of the human resources in a team.
Teamwork can be a lot of fun and yield better productivity once you notch the art of getting along well with the people around and get clarity of thoughts. Moreover, being authentic and practising gratitude towards the team can help them seek a better position and share a great rapport at the workplace!
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Spain’s Women’s National Team Is Winning Again
10:06 AM EDT on August 28, 2023
When last we left you regarding Spanish soccer's civil war, the national federation (RFEF) was down bad. Instead of meekly resigning from his position as RFEF president, and in doing so bringing the international scandal he'd initiated to what would've been a tidier close than he or his federation deserved, Luis Rubiales decided to bare his country's ass even further, giving the world a good, clear look at the festering hemorrhoids therein. Against all odds, that raging speech wasn't even rock bottom for Rubiales and the federation. Nevertheless, the heroes of the matter—the members of Spain's women's national team—are moving ever closer to what promises to be yet another towering W.
We left off last time at the immediate aftermath of Rubiales's deranged speech, wherein he announced that not only was he not going to resign over the fallout of his gross and creepy kiss on Jenni Hermoso, he was instead going to fight—against Hermoso, against the "slanderous" statements of all those who called him a disgusting little weirdo for behaving like a disgusting little weirdo, against "fake feminism," against the world's lying eyes. Nearly everyone who heard his bizarre diatribe—everyone except, that is, the sycophants in attendance, who gave him a standing ovation—correctly assessed that the man was losing it. Condemnations poured in from across the world of women's soccer. The relevant Spanish authorities made clear their intention to charge him for violating the RFEF's code of conduct. Everyone awaited the response from the Spanish players.
And respond they did. First, Hermoso herself released the following statement:
In response to the version of events Rubiales laid out during his speech before the federation—that Hermoso had herself started things (?) by lifting him into the air (??), and that before kissing her he'd asked if he could give her a little peck and she said "OK"—Hermoso had this to say:
While it is true that I do not want to interfere with the multiple ongoing legal processes, I feel obliged to report that Mr. Luis Rubiales' words explaining the unfortunate incident are categorically false and part of the manipulative culture that he himself has generated.
I want to make it clear that at no time did the conversation to which Mr. Luis Rubiales refers to in his address take place, and, above all, was his kiss ever consensual. I want to reiterate as I did before that I did not like this incident.
Hermoso went on to say that at first she was so shocked by the incident, and so overwhelmed by the joy of the moment—lest anyone forgot, she had just won the fucking World Cup minutes earlier—that she didn't give it too much serious thought. But upon reflection, she realized that it was wrong, and that she wanted to make sure that kind of "non-consensual behavior" would not go unacknowledged, so she chose to report Rubiales for it. "Simply put," Hermoso wrote, "I was not respected."
From there, Hermoso went on to corroborate the reports that said people in the federation (reportedly Rubiales and manager Jorge Vilda) had pressured her and people close to her to make a public statement absolving Rubiales to take the heat off. Hermoso refused. This also corroborates the report that the statement RFEF released that quoted Hermoso calling Rubiales's kiss "a mutual expression of immense joy" was completely made up by the federation.
Right after Hermoso released her statement, FUTPRO, the women's soccer players union in Spain, released a statement on behalf of the players of the national team.
The statement denounced Rubiales's actions during the World Cup trophy ceremony and since, and also the content of Rubiales's "bewildering speech." The team said it "expect[s] a strong response from the public authorities so these actions do not go unpunished," and called for "real structural changes that will help the National Team continue to grow, in order to pass on this great success to future generations." In closing, the team said that the statement's signatories—which included all 23 players who'd won the World Cup, the remaining 12 of the 15 original boycotters who were not included in the World Cup squad, plus nearly 50 other current and former Spanish players—would refuse to play for the national team until the "current leaders" of the federation were gone. How fucking cool is that.
It might've seemed impossible, but the players' impressive show of unity, power, and resolve has only driven the RFEF further into delirium. Late on Friday, the federation released a new statement responding to the players' FUTPRO one. The rambling letter sought to defend Rubiales's honor by honing in on one particular perceived inconsistency. The FUTPRO statement quotes Hermoso clarifying that, contra Rubiales's version of events, "I never consented to the kiss he gave me, and of course, I never intended to lift the president in the air." The federation statement clings to that last part—Hermoso disputing Rubiales's claim that she tried to pick him up—by proceeding to reel off some 250 words intensely scrutinizing four enclosed photos, which depict Hermoso holding Rubiales aloft. I'm going to include all of that analysis here, because it is hilarious (translated from Spanish using Google Translate):
Ms. Jennifer Hermoso, with her arms, grabs the RFEF President from behind, while Mr. President has his arms loose on the upper part of the player's back. Therefore, no force could exert.
You can see how Mr. President has the heels of his feet raised slightly.
Ms. Jennifer Hermoso keeps her arms around Mr. President's back. Mr. President keeps his arms on top of the player's body.
It is verified how Mr. President already has much higher heels.
Ms. Jennifer Hermoso continues to keep her arms in the same position as the president's body while the president must bring his arms closer to the player's back as a result of having lifted him off the ground and to maintain balance.
The inclination of the back of Mrs. Jennifer Hermoso that occurs when she is performing an action of force is indisputable.
Mr. President's feet are clearly and manifestly lifted off the ground as a result of the action of force carried out by the player.
Mrs. Jennifer Hermoso continues to keep her arms in the same position as the president's body while the president must continue to hold on to the players so as not to fall and it is evident that the arching of the player's body corresponds to the lifting force of Mr. President you are performing.
The feet of Mr. President are ostensibly raised off the ground as a result of the player's action.
The evidence is conclusive. Mr. President has not lied.
There are a couple big problems with this line of inquiry. For one, even if everything the federation lays out here is exactly the way they describe it—that Hermoso did in fact try to and succeed in picking up Rubiales, and she has since lied about it—it would not make one iota of difference as to the only thing that really matters here: that Hermoso did not consent to Rubiales kissing her, and that him doing so was deeply inappropriate. (For that matter, it doesn't even matter if he did ask her permission first; a superior asking a subordinate for a kiss in this context is inherently coercive. As Hermoso herself put it in her Instagram Live video from the locker room that night, "What was I supposed to do?") Remember, Rubiales's argument here is essentially that by trying to lift him off his feet while hugging him, Hermoso had automatically consented to a chain of actions that would end in Rubiales gripping the sides of her head and laying a kiss on her lips. It completely beggars belief that Rubiales and his grunts in the federation would think this little pick-up thing was some smoking gun that exonerates him.
Not only that, but all of that lifting analysis appears to be wrong on its own merits. During the TV broadcast, the camera had cut away from Rubiales at the moment when they first embrace, when this lifting incident occurred. However, an intrepid sleuth found footage of the moment in question:
In light of the evidence, the most likely scenario appears to be that Rubiales jumped onto Hermoso while she was hugging him rather than her picking him up of her own volition. This reading of the incident would match Hermoso's exactly; in the FUTPRO statement, Hermoso didn't deny ever lifting Rubiales, but rather that she ever "intended" to lift him. When choosing between the word of the woman whose story has remained coherent and consistent throughout this ordeal, and the man whose story changes depending on what he feels is in his best interest at the moment—first he said it was no big deal and those offended were "idiots" and "assholes," then he said he realized his actions were wrong and he apologized to anyone who might've been offended, and now he's totally innocent and even asked for explicit consent every step of the way—I think it's clear whose version of the story is more credible.
That was where things ended on Friday. Saturday morning, FIFA came in and issued Rubiales a provisional suspension. That means he is no longer the acting RFEF president, and will not be at least for the next 90 days while FIFA's disciplinary committee performs its own investigation. Following the suspension, 11 of the federation's women's soccer coaches, which included the bulk of Jorge Vilda's coaching staff, released their own statement condemning Rubiales's behavior. The statement said that the federation had strategically sat some of the coaches, a number of whom are women, near the front of room during Rubiales's speech, no doubt hoping that their televised presence would give the impression that the president had the backing of at least some women. The statement ended with the undersigned coaches tacitly tendering their resignations.
After that, the RFEF put out yet another statement going after Hermoso. This one was even more unhinged than the first. It repeatedly called Hermoso a liar, accused her and the players union of "falsifying reality and committing very serious crimes," claimed that she has been "abducted by the FutPro Union," and threatened lawsuits against anyone saying things the federation doesn't like. Their smoking gun this time was the original interview Hermoso gave the night of the World Cup final, where she tried to downplay the Rubiales kiss amidst the joy of the moment. Naturally, those first comments of hers are perfectly in line with her latest statements, where she said she at first didn't think too much about the kiss because she was so happy having won the World Cup. But logic clearly isn't the strong suit of the people coming up with this stuff.
You might have trouble finding that second RFEF statement (though it's reproduced here), because the federation deleted it not long after it went up. Acting RFEF president Pedro Rocha—whom Rubiales ensured would assume the role upon Rubiales's inevitable suspension when he stripped eight of his nine vice presidents of their rank the night before his Wolf of Wall Street act, leaving only Rocha remaining—said he instructed the federation to delete the missive because it was "inappropriate." (If you're wondering whether Rocha then fired the members of the communications department for writing and releasing the demented letter, I'm sure you already know the answer.) Smarter money puts the decision to delete it down to FIFA's original suspension of Rubiales, which prohibited him and the federation from addressing Hermoso directly.
And the team behind the deleted second statement aren't the only Rubiales loyalists lashing out behind the scenes to save their man. Onda Cero reported on Monday that RFEF general secretary Andreu Camps has filed a complaint to UEFA asking the body to sanction ... the RFEF itself. Camps's thinking, if you can call it that, is that the Spanish government has violated the RFEF's independence by meddling in the federation's affairs. This "meddling" consists of little more than some high-ranking politicians, like vice president Yolanda Díaz, who've criticized Rubiales's behavior and called for his resignation. Because of the government's so-called interference, Camps is asking UEFA for a total and complete shut down the RFEF until they can figure out what's going on.
The knock-on effects of this shutdown, were it to happen, would be the restriction of all Spanish club and national teams from UEFA competitions like the Champions League and the Euros. The move is meant as a bluff. The hope is that UEFA will threaten the federation with this so that the federation could then use that threat to get the government to back off. Nevertheless, it's stunning how the Rubiales revanchists are so maniacal about their cause that they're willing to risk burning all of Spanish soccer to the ground.
From FIFA's suspension, the fervor of the local and international outrage, the pending legal charges, Rubiales's mother locking herself inside a church and declaring a hunger strike (it's true; she's promised to starve herself until the "inhuman, bloodthirsty witch hunt which my son is being subjected to" is over), and the irate politicians gunning for him, it's evident that Rubiales's days are numbered. If all of those things by themselves didn't convince you of that fact, then the ass-covering statements released by Vilda and men's national team manager Luis de la Fuente over the weekend, in which they both feign outrage while trying to distance themselves from the man they were seen clapping and standing for on Friday, should do the trick.
Thankfully, it is surely too little, too late. It might take a while (Rubiales is protected by a couple cut-throat lawyers who have been very effective at saving his ass before), but eventually Rubiales will almost certainly be kicked out of soccer for good. His permanent replacement will almost certainly boot Vilda, too, especially since there's surely no way any of the 81 players who signed the union letter will play for the man who was so happy to be joined at the hip with Rubiales right up until the point when it was clear Rubiales's career was dead. De la Fuente very well could get got too when it's all said and done. The point is, the fire is coming, and it will consume more than Rubiales alone.
Fans of Spanish women's soccer around the world found themselves in a bit of a pickle coming into the World Cup. It was hard to root for Spain's inarguably cool and great players, because of the risk that the nefarious elements in the federation would try to co-opt that success as their own. But as we all know now, there was no reason to fear. Sure, the team's coach is a dunce and the federation's president a buffoon, but the players are so great that they were able to triumph over their opponents on the field and also their foes in their own federation. In doing so, they have united around each other and healed the divide between the World Cup players and the ones who, out of principle, refused to compete for many of the very reasons Rubiales's actions have instantiated. The job's not done yet, but barring a totally unforeseeable comeback, the members of Spain's women's national team are on the verge of another historic victory—one that, far from overshadowing it, will only add to the shine of the one they earned Down Under.
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Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are blockchain-based trading platforms that enable peer-to-peer transactions of digital assets without the need for a centralized entity. Unlike centralized exchanges, where users entrust their funds to a third party, DEXs allow for greater control over assets and privacy. In this article, we'll explore the concept of open-source blockchain-based DEXs and how they are changing the cryptocurrency landscape.
Open-source technology has become increasingly popular in recent years and is considered a crucial aspect of many software projects, including decentralized exchanges. Open-source refers to the practice of making the source code of software freely available for anyone to inspect, use, modify, or distribute.
Open-source technology has been at the forefront of blockchain innovation and has been the driving force behind the development of DEXs. An open-source DEX is one where the codebase is available for anyone to inspect, contribute to, or build upon. This results in a transparent, secure, and accessible platform that can benefit users and developers alike.
One of the biggest benefits of open-source DEXs is their security. As the code is available for anyone to examine, it is easier to identify potential vulnerabilities, allowing for quick remediation. Additionally, with a large community of developers constantly working on the platform, it is more likely that bugs and security issues will be discovered and fixed in a timely manner.
Another advantage of open-source DEXs is their decentralization. Unlike centralized exchanges that are subject to censorship, open-source DEXs are less susceptible to interference from any single entity. This gives users greater control over their assets and eliminates the need to trust a central authority. Furthermore, DEXs do not have the same risk of funds being lost or stolen as centralized exchanges, as they are built on a decentralized platform and do not hold users' assets.
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Open-source blockchain-based DEXs are changing the cryptocurrency landscape by providing a secure, decentralized, and inclusive platform for the trading of digital assets. With their transparent codebase, increased security, and community-driven development, DEXs have the potential to become the preferred method for exchanging digital assets in the future.
The open-sourceness of a software project is considered important for several reasons. Firstly, it allows for greater transparency and security, as anyone can inspect the code and identify potential vulnerabilities. This results in a more secure system, as these issues can be quickly addressed by the community.
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In conclusion, the open-sourceness of a project is an important factor to consider, as it provides a transparent, secure, and inclusive platform for the development and use of software. In the case of decentralized exchanges, open-source technology has enabled the creation of secure, decentralized, and community-driven platforms for the trading of digital assets.
Self custody is the practice of holding and managing one's own cryptocurrency assets, without relying on a third-party custodian. Self custody is an important concept in the cryptocurrency world, as it offers several key benefits to holders of digital assets.
Self custody provides a higher level of security for cryptocurrency holdings. When a user self-custodies their assets, they have full control over their private keys, which are needed to access and transfer the assets. By storing private keys securely, such as in a hardware wallet, users can greatly reduce the risk of hacks, theft, and loss due to third-party security breaches. In contrast, when a user relies on a third-party custodian such as an exchange, they are entrusting their assets to that custodian's security measures, which may be subject to breaches and vulnerabilities.
Self-custody also provides greater privacy and control over personal information. When using a third-party custodian, users typically need to provide personal information and comply with KYC/AML regulations. With self-custody, users can maintain a higher level of privacy and control over their personal information.
In addition, self-custody is a key aspect of decentralization, which is one of the fundamental principles of cryptocurrency. By holding and managing their own assets, users contribute to the overall decentralization of the network and reduce reliance on centralized intermediaries.
Self-custody also provides greater freedom for cryptocurrency holders. With self-custody, users have the freedom to transact and manage their assets as they see fit, without being subject to restrictions or fees imposed by third-party custodians.
Overall, self-custody is an important practice for cryptocurrency holders who value security, privacy, decentralization, and freedom. However, it is important to note that self-custody also comes with added responsibilities, such as safeguarding private keys and being vigilant against phishing and other forms of fraud. By taking the necessary precautions and educating themselves about best practices, users can safely and securely self custody their cryptocurrency assets.
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have the potential to play a significant role in the near future of cryptocurrency trading and the broader financial industry. Here are a few ways DEXs could impact the future:
DEXs are poised to play a significant role in the future of cryptocurrency trading and the broader financial industry. With their decentralization, interoperability, and potential for innovation, DEXs have the potential to shape the future of finance in meaningful ways. However, there are also several threats associated with open source DEXs, including:
While open source DEXs offer many benefits, it is important for users to be aware of the potential threats and take appropriate precautions to mitigate risks. This may include using best practices for securing crypto assets, such as using strong passwords and two-factor authentication, as well as carefully evaluating DEXs before using them for trading.
There have been instances where some blockchain projects have used open-source technology to carry out scams. In some cases, these projects may claim to be open-source to give the impression of transparency and legitimacy, when in reality, they are designed to deceive investors and steal their funds.
For example, some projects may release an open-source codebase, but the actual development and operation of the project is controlled by a centralized entity. This can result in a lack of transparency and accountability, as well as a heightened risk of fraud and manipulation.
Additionally, some projects may use open-source technology as a means of attracting a large and diverse community of developers, only to later abandon the project or redirect it for their own benefit. This can leave the community with a codebase that is no longer maintained or supported, and can result in the loss of funds for investors.
Therefore, it's important to thoroughly research and assess any blockchain project before investing, regardless of whether it claims to be open-source or not. This includes evaluating the transparency and accountability of the project, as well as its potential for fraud and manipulation. Additionally, it's essential to understand the underlying technology and the motivations of the project's developers and stakeholders.
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For the first time in 63 years, Hollywood has a double strike on its hands. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the union representing 160,000 actors, recording artists, stunt performers & media professionals, has joined the Writer’s Guild in striking for pay increases, protection from AI exploitation, a sharing of the enormous profits earned during the worst of the pandemic, and more. They’re taking on the American Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Hollywood’s studios and production companies. We can help by signing letters to the representatives of corporate Hollywood and to Warner Brothers, Disney, Netflix and Amazon directly in support of the unions, contributing to the WGA’s Entertainment Community Fund or mutual aid funds, or even helping provide drinks and snacks to picketers whether we live in the area or not.
- NO MORE CAPTIVE AUDIENCE MEETINGS
Captive audience meetings in the workplace, in which employers require workers to attend anti-union presentations or other meetings to hear about their political or religious views, are a significant union-busting tactic and were barred for a full decade during FDR’s presidency. As unions regain strength, we’re seeing a concerted effort to crack down on them. This time last year, they were only illegal in Connecticut and Oregon – now Maine, Minnesota and New York have banned them too, and Massachusetts and Vermont are considering doing so as well. Let’s contact our state legislators and tell them we want our state to follow their lead, and let’s remind our members of Congress we are still eager to see progress on the PRO Act, which includes a similar ban at the federal level.
- TELL NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR TO REJECT HOSTING RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN/QANON’s RE-AWAKEN AMERICA TOUR
Over 50 far-right speakers including Alex Jones are scheduled to participate in this year’s annual “Re-awaken America” event, an annual showcase of conservative Christians and conspiracy theorists, which is scheduled to take place in August in North Las Vegas. While it’s important to recognize people’s right to freedom of speech, activists and residents have raised concerns that the site of the event is in Craig Ranch Park, a public and taxpayer-funded venue. Let’s join with people of Faithful America and others opposing this gathering and sign this petition, calling on the mayor and other related officials in North Las Vegas to refuse to grant permission to use this site. We can also contact the North Las Vegas mayor’s office ourselves here.
- HELP ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS
This Wednesday, July 19 at 8pm EST, Swing Left is holding a 30 minute orientation to connect people to a variety of efforts you can get involved in to help elect more Democrats in 2024. If that particular day doesn’t work for you, the link will also list another dozen or so dates when you can attend the orientation. The orientation is virtual, so you can do it easily from home. Sign up HERE! (h/t)
- MA – ADVOCATE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE GUN SAFETY BILLResponding to a Supreme Court decision that effectively overturned concealed carry laws in Massachusetts and elsewhere, state Democrats introduced a sweeping bill that will, among many other things, require new gun tracking and monitoring systems, ban carrying firearms in public spaces like schools, colleges, and polling places, rein in untraceable ghost guns, and stem the flow of illegal firearms into the state. If we’re in Massachusetts, let’s tell our state senator and state representative to reach out to House and Senate leadership and urge them to schedule a hearing on HD.4420, An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws.
AND FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS
- LAST WEEK’S WINS
The battle for progress is long and wearing, making it all the more important to acknowledge and celebrate the wins when they happen. Here’s a summary of some of the best news from the last week from our stalwart ally Jessica Craven at Chop Wood, Carry Water, including American electric vehicle sales topping 4 million in June, the Biden Administration announcing student loan forgiveness for another 800,000 borrowers, and the FDA approving an over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. for the first time.
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Part V, by Ven, Mahasi Sayadaw
Tumhehi – You, who are my disciples, atappam sammappadham – relating to the practice of sila, samadhi and panna, which need to be exercised with diligence and right exertion, kiccam – shall and must be carried out by yourselves. Tathagata – We, the Buddhas, akkhataro – can only preach the right method of practice to be exercised Jhayino – By contemplating both Samatha and Vipassana, patipanna – he who practises according to my teachings, marabandhana – from the bonds of kilesa, mokkhati – will be liberated.
This means that those who work out their own salvation with right exertion and diligence as taught by the Buddha, will be free from the fetters of kilesas, cravings, which are but the miseries of Samsara. If no practice is exercised according to His Teachings (desana), there will be no escape. The Right Method can only be known and heard only when Buddhas appear in this Universe. Outside the realm of Buddha’s Sasana, there can be no emancipation from miseries since no right method is known and understood to be practised. In the absence of the right method of exercise, and inasmuch as there is no one on whom reliance can be made, beings are whirling round and round in Samsara, i.e. floating and drifting in the whirlpool of endless existences, and are therefore, suffering in misery. This state of pitiable condition being seen and observed by the Lord Buddha, the flame of compassion for all beings had awakened in him. Just as Buddha had his compassion, we shall dwell our mind on all beings who have no one to rely upon as a protector, and then develop karuna. Please follow the recitation:
“May all beings who are suffering misery in the Samsaric existences without having anyone to protect
them from becoming old, sick and meeting death, be liberated from misery.” (Repeat three times)
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Criminal Law Attorney
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The Biden administration’s new policy to permit migrants that would otherwise be expelled allows for Haitians and Cubans to receive an array of public benefits, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Haitian and Cuban migrants paroled into the U.S. can receive Medicaid, food stamps and cash benefits, according to HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The new program uses parole authority to allow 30,000 Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians to enter the U.S. on a monthly basis if they have a sponsor.
Migrants of the aforementioned nationalities would otherwise be expelled under Title 42, the Trump-era order used to quickly expel certain migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration continues to push for Title 42’s end, but Republican states have sued and the courts have been left to make a decision on the order’s fate.
According to NBC Miami, Haitian and Cuban parolees are eligible to receive about $400 a month in financial assistance.
A press release posted on the HHS website announces: [emphasis added]
Are you a Cuban or Haitian individual who has been granted entry into the United States?
You may be eligible for cash assistance, medical assistance, employment preparation, job placement, English language training, and other services offered through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). You may also be eligible for federal “mainstream” (non-ORR funded) benefits, such as cash assistance through Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), health insurance through Medicaid, and food assistance through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This document focuses on the benefits and services that ORR funds. To find out what resettlement benefits and services are available, contact your State Refugee Coordinator: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/grant-funding/key-state-contacts.
HHS also encourages migrants to hurry and sign up for all the U.S. tax-payer-funded benefits:
When should I sign up for ORR benefits/services?
Now. Do not wait. Your benefits and services are only available for a limited time. ORR-funded cash and medical assistance are limited to a maximum of eight months from your date of eligibility. For most employment services and other services aimed at economic self-sufficiency, the eligibility period is five years from the date you became eligible as a Cuban/ Haitian Entrant.
One Florida resident is furious. WATCH:
Yes they get SSI👉🏾 “Eligible for federal “mainstream” (non-ORR funded) benefits, such as CASH ASSISTANCE through Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or (TANF), health insurance through Medicaid, and (SNAP). https://t.co/y4IrIDQeso
— Chayil Yahudah (@chayilyahudah) January 24, 2023
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) January 31, 2023
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Gray Design Building Update | March 2023
We’re pleased to share a sneak peek of the Gray Design Building project – and some exciting updates! Construction crews are hard at work transforming the former Reynolds Tobacco Warehouse into the future home of the College of Design and UK’s departments of Landscape Architecture and Biomedical Engineering. To get the latest news, we spoke to Director of Technology and Facilities Joe Brewer, who is working closely with construction, design, engineering and IT teams to create an innovative, transdisciplinary learning space. This project was made possible by the generosity of our exceptional alumni, industry partners and friends. Thank you for doing your part for the future of design education in Kentucky.
- All demolition and sanding has been completed
- Floor openings have been created to accommodate the central stairs and the forum space
- The layout and wall framing for faculty and staff offices has begun
- Brick tuckpointing
- Wood purlins replaced
- Masonry repair
- Interior drywall started
- Plumbing roughed-in
College of Design: If we were to walk into the Gray Design Building today, what would we see?
Joe Brewer: This project advances very quickly, so what you’ll see will be different each day. The space includes two floors and a basement – we are working on the first and second floors currently, with future expansion possibilities. One amazing thing about the building is it used to be very packed, very maze-like, with lots of walls and small rooms. Now it’s completely open, so you’ll see a historic tobacco warehouse with beautiful columns – exactly as it was originally built. The building will stay largely open, with faculty and staff offices, fabrication labs and classrooms. As we speak, the walls on the second floor are nearly complete.
What phase of the construction process are we in?
Modern construction projects don’t really have phases – they’re more organic. There are multiple phases happening simultaneously, so for example, while plumbing is happening on one floor, drywall is happening on the other.
From the outset of this project, the goal was to creatively adapt an existing structure to create a space in which design, landscape architecture and biomedical engineering students will learn together. What are the features or design elements you are particularly excited about?
I think, more than any one feature, this building will be an unprecedented space for collaboration. It will be a laboratory for ideas. The fabrication lab, the classrooms, and even the main entrance of the space, are specifically designed to bring a group of diverse people together to work on a problem.
How do you see this new environment improving the experience for all involved?
First, let me say that climate change is real, and extremely important. And for that reason, adapting existing buildings is something we must do as a society. I think that, as a university, instead of tearing down an old building, we empower it for the next 100 years. The most environmentally responsible building is the one that already exists. And that is something I hope our students – who are also responsible for the design and creation of spaces – will take with them. They’ll be working in an adaptive reuse building, and hopefully that will inspire them to find similar projects after they graduate.
How will the layout of the studios and instructional spaces impact teaching and learning?
All studios will be open, so first-year students can literally look over and see graduate-level work. And as people gather around, they’ll interact and engage in ways that they don’t in the siloed spaces that we currently have.
What will fabrication look like?
The fabrication lab is given a space of prominence in the new building. On one level, that’s very practical. It will be easy to move materials in and out, and because of the glass walls, you will see the work being done as soon as you enter the building. On another level, it’s metaphorical. If collaboration is the central theme of the building, then “making” is how we get there. It’s one of the most irreplaceable experiences one can get in higher education. We can do a lot of things digitally, but making stuff isn’t one of them.
The boiler maker yard gives a sense of visual openness but also has practical purposes. Can you elaborate?
We envision the boiler maker yard to be a kind of “operating theater” where people can learn by watching, and then eventually learn by doing. This will be the first time we’ll be able to apply that philosophy to design education. It will give us an opportunity to build things outside, at full scale.
Regarding furniture and fixtures, what are some key pieces you are excited about?
That is still in the discussion stage, but I can say that it will be a recognition and celebration of the college’s history and the history of design. So many of the important pieces, including our chair collection, will be on display in our new space.
Let’s talk about energy use. What initiatives are being taken to be sustainable?
We are working with the engineering firm CMTA to make sure that the building is as efficient as possible. While adaptive reuse is the most environmentally sustainable model because of the embedded carbon, old buildings don’t often have the best insulation. So the first thing we’ll do is install insulation in all exterior walls to keep warm or cool air from escaping. The second –and the part that I’m most excited about – is that this will be the first building on UK’s campus with a geothermal system.
For those not familiar, what are geothermal systems and how do they work?
A geothermal system uses the heat of the earth to generate power. It involves drilling wells deep into the Earth (in the case of the Gray Design Building, 87 wells 550 feet deep will be dug under the parking lot.) We are going to mark those wells to show our environmental strategy to students and visitors. And all of this will come together in a state-of-the-art digital controller. That’s a critical piece, because if the building wasn’t “smart,” we wouldn’t be able to use any of our resources efficiently.
The building is situated at one of the most prominent entries into the city of Lexington. Talk about what that could look like for internal and external audiences.
Just like we want this building to be a mixing pot for us as a college, we also want it to be a transdisciplinary space for others on campus. Since the building is on the edge of campus, it will be an opportunity to connect with folks in the community and beyond. It’s going to be easier to get in and out, and it’s going to be easier to park. But it really goes back to collaboration and shrinking the gap between the university and the community.
You mentioned easier access to the building. Are there any plans to expand or enhance the Scott Street entrance from South Broadway?
I hope that this building provokes a new conversation about a plan that’s been in place for a long time – which is to extend Scott Street. So instead of a dead-end, it can become a major entryway into campus. The city and the state are interested, so we’ll have to see what happens.
When is the next opportunity for visitors to see the building?
Because we’re a design school, we’ve been given unprecedented access to the construction process. So as the project moves forward, we’ll continue to provide opportunities to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community to see how things are going. We will also share construction photos and updates on our website and social media platforms.
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The Omnia haptic controller lets you feel the gaming experience
Omnia is an adaptive control element for the home entertainment system, which focuses on the gaming area at home.
The Omnia System consists of two devices: the Puck as a remote control and the Home Station, which serves as a charging station and storage place for the Puck.
A recess in the Home Station allows the puck to slide easily into the station when placed and centres the puck for optimal charging results.
Omnia works as a volume control, device for answering calls, a track pad and a gaming controller.
Inside the circular device, its components include a mainboard with NFC-Chips, a piezo sensor, which measures changes in pressure and acceleration, and a taptic engine, which provides users with haptic feedback.
This is contained within a coil stator and magnet rotor.
When deciding on the final design, Kathan trialled several prototypes with his target market, which showed that even users with large hands preferred smaller models.
“Furthermore, an upwardly tapered truncated cone was found to be better than simple cylinder shapes because the shape provides more contact area for the fingers,” he says.
“Many testers picked up the remote directly and placed it on their palm for operation.
[Meanwhile] models that did not offer a noticeable difference in elevation between the display surface and the edge often caused the finger to slip off the display surface when performing swipe gestures.”
“This made it difficult to execute several commands via gestures one after the other, since the finger had to be placed on the device again and again, which required visual contact.”
To ensure a smooth user experience Kathan integrated artificial input restrictions including a solenoid coil that stops the volume knob from turning when the maximum volume is reached.
“Similar in design to a brushless electric motor, this coil-magnet combination can simulate both click steps of different strengths and stops,” he explains.
“By selectively controlling the individual coils, the rotary wheel can be held in any position or even turn on its own.
This allows the system to reduce the interaction of the turning movement to the possible settings.
The user cannot perform any interactions at this point that do not lead to a goal.”
Haptic controls streamline the complexities of everyday life
“In our ever more complex daily lives, Omnia brings digital minimalism to the world of remote controls,” says Kathan.
“For applications in the respective field, the possibility to configure specific use cases.”
“All functions are designed so that the game does not have to be interrupted, and all audio interactions can be comfortably carried out via Omnia in parallel to the game.
Just like while driving a car, all functions should be controllable from the seat position.
This design transforms the desk at home into a kind of home cockpit.”
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Michael Hewson has been giving us some links from his morning so here’s a couple of choice sores.
White House: Ukraine won’t have to repay a disputed $3.2bn loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
EU: Lithuania won’t risk alienating Russia for missile defence (EU)
New York: Italy has broken with recent tradition and gave euro a hint of stress (Bloomberg)
All of this can be put into context. CNN’s Pierre Thomas has just tweeted out an interesting chart:
Actually we can actually do this here. Credit: William Magnier (@RefFinancial) September 26, 2018
As a quick reminder how the @S&P125 Wr. Ccf PPVL TR series has performed
Through this morning: down 1.40% (since the close)
Through Tuesday: down 1.28%
Through Wednesday: down 1.26%
Through Thursday: down 1.27%
So a late selling rally to trade down another 1.26% as of 5.29pm BST. That’s roughly the level it was at in the first half of the week before Monday’s 1.5% decline.
Now I don’t think we have a full-blown correction going on here. And by far the worst we’ve seen so far is equities in Dubai or Turkey. Stock markets in the US and UK have been best affected by what’s happening globally.
And that explains another element to this sell-off – all of those commodities that we’ve been talking about of late have done pretty well recently and they’re tumbling. For example oil’s falling 0.67% on Wednesday. Corn (which we don’t talk much about) is down 0.74%.
From afar it’s all very ugly. But you have to look at it from the point of view of something being said in the macro environment – like President Trump’s description of US trade with China as a “carve up”. That looks more and more like the markets read that as a comment about actual trade war action, which has clear implications for other trade in which China takes part – like Europe, Japan and the US.
That’s why the US dollar is really struggling here, despite the fact that the dollar index has been supported by the recent decline in equities. Maybe that’s a sign of very quiet conditions.
As for whether Wednesday’s rally actually has legs, which has been part of this is an odd trading week in normal times, I’m not so sure. Normally we would say it’s over the top. And in our business this is all done with a millisecond of observation. But, hey, we’re looking at the annual meeting on Friday and the remarkable performance of mutual funds in recent years and that is a real possibility over the past 10 or 15 years that all of us can remember.
That’s a short look at today’s markets but here’s a long look at the volatility index, the VIX. Apparently this is more closely watched than gold and silver because it’s a proxy for investors seeking protection. So as an indicator of risk appetite, this is a very mixed chart. On the upside – no one’s buying gold or silver – and the wider market has actually moved up slightly on the day.
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On this special episode of Destination Linux, we are making a BIG announcement for the future of Destination Linux. Be sure to watch all the way to the end, or skip ahead I guess that works too. 😀
This episode we discuss the release of Manjaro 18.0, the BIG news about IBM acquiring Red Hat, some performance tests of the Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and 2970wx, XBill, and Albion Online. All that and much more including our Tips, Tricks and Software Spotlight picks!
Noah Chelliah of the Ask Noah Show
Josh Strobl of the Solus project.
Want to follow the show and hosts on social media?
You can find all of our social accounts at destinationlinux.org/contact
Topics covered in this episode:
Tips & Tricks:
Auryo is a SoundCloud client for your desktop.
FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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HOW IT WORKS:
- CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSET: We accept all items, but suggest you send on-trend, good quality items made within the last 3 years or vintage items. Check out our selling guide here
- FILL OUT OUR SELLING FORM:
IMPORTANT! Make sure to fill out our Google form with all the items you want to sell.
- SEND TO US:
If you live in LA we will provide a personal pick-up service to get the clothes from you. Just fill up any bag or box and schedule a time for us to pick it up via email or text.
(phone: 209-404-7850, email@example.com)
If you don't live in LA or don't want personal pick-up: we will email you a free shipping label from us to send in your items, put it on any box you have!
- POST ABOUT IT: Once your items are listed on our website we will send you a link to your personal selling page. Let your followers know your closet is for sale through a post or story. It helps to put photos of the items and a "swipe up" or "link in bio" link.
We’ll do all the work for you (photographing items, listing on site, shipping to customers).
- MAKE MORE MONEY: unlike other platforms, we don't charge for you to list your items.
We will only take 10% when you make a sale and then deposit the rest of the money to you via Paypal. This is the same price as Depop and less than Poshmark, but we do all the work for you!
- BE SUSTAINABLE: Through selling your pre-owned clothes, you are creating a more sustainable and circular world. Plus we donate 1% of our profits to organizations supporting women's rights issues worldwide!
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Is Great Lakes Coffee expanding to a vacant firehouse property in Southwest Detroit? That's what Daily Detroit suggests in a recent article, stating that the company "is talking with city officials about purchasing and redeveloping" Detroit Fire Department Ladder No. 4/Engine No. 10 on Vinewood Street north of Michigan Avenue.
According to Curbed, the 6,724-square-foot firehouse was put up for auction in 2013 with a minimum bid of $128,000 and in February 2015 the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation began soliciting business proposals with the intent of finding "an experienced and qualified Developer who will submit a financially feasible and creative proposal for the adaptive reuse of the retired vacant firehouse and site."
Daily Detroit goes on to describe plans for:
... a mixed-use space that would combine offices and residences on the second floor with coffee roasting, a commercial kitchen, bar, and tasting room on the lower level.
Reached by phone, a representative for Great Lakes tells Eater that the property is not, in fact, a Great Lakes project, but one being developed separately by the company's roastmaster and operator of its Midtown cafe James Cadariu. Eater reached out to Cadariu for more information and is awaiting a response. Stay tuned for updates.
Ladder House No. 4 isn't the only firehouse building that slated for redevelopment. Phil Cooley (Slows Bar-B-Q), Kate Bordine (Our/Detroit Vodka), and developer Michael Chetcuti (Bigalora) began renovating Ladder House No. 12 in Corktown last year for a possible restaurant and event space.
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Microsoft just launched an open-source project called Dynamics AX 2012 Windows 8 App Developer Starter Kit. As its name suggests, the project is about developing Windows 8 applications that communicate with Dynamics AX 2012.
It currently contains one sample application and a guide describing its development. The sample application displays AX alerts for a given user – it looks like this:
The application uses just AIF and Windows Store project in Visual Studio – the Starter Kit is (at least in this moment) about demonstrating how to develop Windows 8 apps, not about implementing any special libraries for AX-Win8 projects.
According to information on Codeplex, Microsoft plans to add additional sample applications and tutorials in future.
I successfully followed the guide and built the sample application using AX2012 R2, TCP adapter (the guide uses HTTP) and Visual Studio 2012 Express. The only trouble was that the guide expects that the type of WorklistService.EventAlertForUserServiceFindResponse.EventAlertForUser property is AxdEventAlertForUser, while it was generated for me as AxdEntity_EventInbox, so I had to adjust some code accordingly.
Update: Because there is a problem with downloading the files from Codeplex, you can temporarily download them directly from here:
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The Hack Factory will launch in August 2022 as a start-up studio, growth lab, and brainstorming community in the Washington DC area.
We build companies based on new ideas and engage in rapid technology prototyping to enable disruptive solutions for a variety of complex problems and opportunities.
Growth Labs & Curated Co-working
Established companies or new ideas looking for that extra boost can participate in our growth labs for meaningful mentoring, growth and strategy advisory, and networking support. We provide capital, office space, and access to experts depending on your specific needs. Just want a cool place to work with great amenities and gigabit internet for your start-up, development work, or day-trading? We will offer a limited number of co-working offices and open desks.
Like Andy Warhol’s famous Factory, we bring together the hackers, thinkers, strategists, disruptors, leaders, technologists, and creators for unique events on a variety of issues.
To learn more visit:
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Minimalism: it’s not just an art movement. Doing more with less is one of 2022’s biggest tech trends, and now Dell is getting in on the action. Flat is where it’s at for the XPS 13 Plus, a head-turning ultraportable that builds on everything we love about the firm’s compact laptops.
In Dell speak, ‘Plus’ means a beefier CPU than what you’d find in a vanilla XPS 13, an invisible touchpad, flush keyboard and a row of light-up function keys. Just don’t call it a Touch Bar.
The combination is undeniably distinctive. But does Plus also translate to ‘Better’? The uprated processor brings its own set of challenges that might give XPS fans pause for thought.
Dell XPS 13 Plus design & build: slim pickings
From the outside, there’s little here to separate the Plus from the regular XPS 13. Both are made from aluminium and seriously svelte. Our review unit tipped the scales at a featherweight 1.25kg, which makes it a perfect travel companion, if not the absolute lightest ultraportable out there. It felt reassuringly robust, with a firm screen hinge and lack of flex.
Lift the lid, though, and you’ll instantly spot the difference. Dell has flattened the keyboard tray, ditched the old Chiclet-style shape and squished all the keys together. The wrist rest is a single piece of Gorilla Glass, with an invisible touchpad lurking underneath, and the function keys have been deleted.
In their place is a row of light-up capacitive buttons which look gloriously sci-fi. They aren’t customisable or context-sensitive like Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar, but do swap back to regular function keys when you hold the keyboard Fn button. The shortcuts control speaker volume, screen brightness, muting the microphone and playing/pausing media, but the lack of haptic feedback means you aren’t always sure you’ve pressed the button you were aiming for. Having the escape and delete keys up here means jumping between physical and haptic keys while typing, which takes some serious adjustment.
The XPS 13 Plus embraces minimalism on the connectivity front, too. It’s limited to a single USB-C port on either side, which double as rapid Thunderbolt 4 connections. Dell does at least throw in a USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter in the box, but that’s still a very restricted selection.
Keyboard and touchpad: invisible touch
With no visual clues, you’ve got to rely on muscle memory to hunt down the touchpad. That works just fine for one finger clicks, but can be a little trickier when dragging and dropping. The whole thing gives haptic feedback with each click, albeit not particularly strong ones.
That said, the pad sits dead centre of the wrist rest, so you don’t have to worry about your palms knocking the cursor while typing, and the glass is perfect for gliding your digits over. It looks the part and is no harder to use for it, even if it remains a step behind Apple and its superb touchpads.
It takes longer to get used to the keyboard, on account of the edge-to-edge design with no gap between keys. Island-style designs have been the standard for most laptops for years now, so this is quite the departure. Each key has a tiny dip for your fingertips to rest on, though, so once you’re used to the spacing it’s delightfully comfortable to use.
The mix of white keys and white backlighting can make it tricky to read if you’re not a touch typist, so is best left off unless you’re working in an especially dim room. Still, each key is impressively springy, with a decent amount of travel and just enough tactile feedback.
The power button in the top right corner doubles as a Windows Hello fingerprint sensor, but isn’t labelled as such: it’s easily missed if you skip quickly through the setup screens.
Screen & sound: Bezel-buster
You’d have to go a long way back to find an XPS with a duff display, and Dell doesn’t break that trend here. The XPS 13 Plus can be had with a Full HD panel, in touch and non-touch varieties, or you can step up to a 3840×2400 touchscreen LCD like our review unit. If you have deep pockets, there’s even a 3.5K resolution OLED (the connoisseur’s choice).
It really packs in the pixels, giving images glorious amounts of detail. The bezels are super-skinny on all four sides, which really draws your attention towards the panel itself, and the glossy coating helps colours pop off the screen. An anti-reflective coating does a great job of keeping light glare at bay.
The slim bezels don’t leave much room for a webcam, so Dell has opted to stick with a 720p camera. It’s a step behind alternatives with 5MP cams, but puts in a respectable showing on video calls in all lighting conditions.
Contrast isn’t quite as impressive here as it would be with an OLED panel, but is still up there with the best LCDs. It’s impressively accurate out of the box, with realistic tones and ample brightness. The 60Hz refresh rate isn’t a dealbreaker, either, even if ultraportable rivals are starting to step up to 90Hz and even 120Hz panels.
The four-speaker sound setup delivers loud and clean audio, even when you crank the volume. Things are a little shrill near the top-end, but the rest of the frequencies are handled deftly for such a skinny machine. Just don’t expect especially deep bass.
Performance & battery life: Watts to like
Looks aside, the biggest departure for the Plus from the regular XPS 13 is its processor. Rather than slap in one of Intel’s U-series 12th-gen CPUs, Dell has opted for a beefier P-series.
The Core i7-1260P in our review unit is a twelve-core chip that promises greater performance, but also pumps out more heat and sucks down more battery – and it’s only the middle child of the line-up. You can step up to an even more potent i7-1280P if power matters most. It’s paired with a generous 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
This translates to excellent day-to-day performance, with a typical combo of web browser, email client, word processor and Spotify running in the background feeling ultra-snappy. It’ll happily churn through image edits and even a bit of video work before the internal fan kicks in.
Enabling “ultra performance” in Dell’s settings app helps push the CPU as far as it’ll go, but forces the fan up to maximum to keep it cool – and even then repeated workloads are going to force it to throttle a bit. It gets plenty hot under load, too. If you’re regularly pushing your machine that hard, a larger model with better cooling makes more sense – and if not, the vanilla XPS 13 is just as snappy in daily use.
With no dedicated GPU, you’re reliant on Intel’s Iris Xe graphics for all the heavy lifting. It’s enough for hardware-accelerated photo and video editing, and can even manage a bit of light gaming at lower resolutions and details, but proper creatives are still going to want a chunkier alternative with either Nvidia or AMD graphics.
Battery life takes a hit from the thirsty CPU, despite it having a mix of power and efficiency cores. The XPS 13 Plus’ cell isn’t the largest, and is good for about five hours of use away from the mains. That’s with performance modes set to balanced and screen brightness at the half-way mark. It’s a long way short of an M2-powered MacBook Air.
Dell XPS 13 Plus verdict
The regular XPS 13 was already one of the best Windows laptops around, but Dell has managed to step things up again for the Plus version. It’s wonderfully easy on the eye, delivers on display clarity and has serious multi-core muscle for such a portable machine – even if toasty thermals means it can’t always use that power.
It does compromise on connectivity, and the more powerful CPU also asks a lot from the relatively small battery. Similarly-sized rivals last longer, have superior webcams and (usually) more ports to choose from.
Unless you genuinely need a processor that can demolish video edits while on the move, there’s nothing here to make it a must-buy over the excellent vanilla model.
A swanky step-up for the XPS line-up, but one that’s perhaps a little more niche. It’s powerful, looks the part and has a choice of superb screens, but most will be served just as well by the vanilla XPS 13 – which is considerably cheaper.
Gorgeous, almost sci-fi looks
Plenty of CPU muscle for an ultraportable
High-end CPU pumps out heat and is a big battery drain
Lack of connectivity
Touchpad takes some getting used to
Dell XPS 13 Plus technical specifications
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|CPU||Intel Core i7-1260p 12-core|
|Storage||1TB NVMe SSD|
|Graphics||Intel Iris Xe|
|Connectivity||2x Thunderbolt/USB-3, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth|
|Operating system||Windows 11|
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background-blend-mode property is a CSS property. It gives us the ability to define how an element's background image blends with the background color.
There are several different blend modes available as property values for use with the
normal- Default blend mode (nothing is changed)
multiply- Color is multiplied by the destination color and replaces the destination
screen- Multiplies the complements of the backdrop and source color values, then complements the result
overlay- Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the backdrop color value
darken- Selects the darker of the backdrop and source colors
lighten- Selects the lighter of the backdrop and source colors
difference- Subtracts the darker of the two constituent colors from the lighter color
color-dodge- Brightens the backdrop color to reflect the source color
saturation- Creates a color with the saturation of the source color and the hue and luminosity of the backdrop color
color- Creates a color with the hue and saturation of the source color and the luminosity of the backdrop color
luminosity-Creates a color with the luminosity of the source color and the hue and saturation of the backdrop color
Read more about these and other blend modes here.
To experiment with this property we’ll be using this image of the Joker (figured it’d be relevant with Halloween around the corner 🎃). We’re going to test it out with some of the most popular values that are provided by
Let’s go over these values and show what they can do with examples. To start we’ll show a side-by-side comparison of our Joker without
background-blend-mode and another one with it.
Here you can see we have the original image on the left and the blend mode version using the
darken value on the right. Let’s check out what the code looks like below.
Now let’s try out some of the other blend mode values that are commonly used with this property.
screen blend brightens the image by removing the darker parts of the color.
multiply blend is the opposite of
screen. It multiplies the blending color with the base color resulting in a darker appearing image.
color-dodge blend makes the image brighter while also adding colors to it.
overlay blend combines both the
screen blends resulting in a lighter or darker appearance depending on the backdrop color.
saturation blend maintains the saturation of the background image while combining the hue and luminosity of the background color.
difference blend subtracts the base layer from the top layer. If blending with lighter colors or white this blend can invert the image’s color but with black, there will be no change.
This was an overview of the basics of the
background-blend-mode property. There are other ways to use this property that we did not get into in this article such as its use with linear gradients, mixing multiple blend mode values, and the
background-blend-mode property can be a great addition if you’re looking to spice up your website’s design. Hopefully, this article proved it to be a useful CSS property that can result in some great-looking background images!
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Vigilantiism can be categorized as:
- trivial sysop vigilantiism, e.g. to block IP of trolls they do not like, temporarily preventing them from improving the GFDL corpus or etc.
- more serious developer vigilantiism, e.g. release of vandalbots that are used in denial of service attacks to harass political and legal opponents off the web entirely, censoring them, or to keep IP range blocks in place that sysops can't undo
- deadly serious results of direct conflicts between different claimed sources of authority and legitimacy for actions in the real world
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Supported Operating Systems
Terraform Enterprise currently supports running under the following operating systems:
- Debian 10 / 11
- Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 - 7.9 / 8.4 - 8.7 (RedHat Linux Requirements)
- CentOS 7.4 - 7.9 / 8.4 (CentOS Requirements)
- Amazon Linux 2.0
- Oracle Linux 7.4 - 7.9 / 8.4
Terraform Enterprise supports SELinux running in enforcing mode when certain requirements are met. These requirements vary depending on the type of Terraform Enterprise installation.
For External Services installations, you must install the latest version of the
For Mounted Disk installations, you must:
Install the latest version of the
container_file_ttype to the SELinux context for the mounted disk path and its subdirectories. The commands below update the mounted disk path
/opt/tfeand its subdirectories to use the correct SELinux context.
semanage fcontext -a -t container_file_t "/opt/tfe(/.*)?" restorecon -R /opt/tfe
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An API Token mismatch can be caused by several situations.
Note: Your production Store ID and API token will not work with the test servers. The test servers have separate shared credentials. The test account credentials are listed in the integration guides.
Incorrect server address
There are 4 servers, make sure you use the correct one:
- USA Test Server
- USA Production Server
- Canada Test Server
- Canada Production Server
Incorrect Store ID
Make sure you use your store ID and not your merchant number
Your store id starts with letters
Your merchant number starts with numbers
Incorrect API Token
The API token is case sensitive, make sure you copy and paste if from the Moneris Gateway website and that no letters or numbers are missing. Also make sure that no spaces were copied by accident.
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Update my information
Once your account has been validated and activated, your contact, business, and sales information cannot be updated using the PayU module. If you need to update this information, contact:
Follow these steps to change your current password.
- At the top right corner, click the ▾ symbol next to your e-mail address to display the available user settings.
Click My profile.
- In the My profile screen, click Change password.
- The Change password panel appears. You must enter here the current password and enter the new password twice.
- Once finish, click Save changes at the footer of the section. Otherwise, click Discard changes to close the Change password panel and discard the change of your password.
Update your user preferences
In this section, you can change the display settings of the information displayed in your module, such as the date format, time zone of your country, the currency format and the display language.
To do this, click the ▾ symbol next to your e-mail address to display the available user settings. Then, click My profile.
In the My profile screen, locate the Preferences panel.
At the top of the panel, you see an example of the current date and time of the time zone selected and displayed in the format your choose.
Change the format in which you want to display the dates in your PayU Module.
You can use any of the following formats:
August 24, 2021
Change the time zone of the country in which you want to display the transaction’s information.
Change the display format of the currency values shown in your PayU module.
Change the language of your PayU module.
NoteAfter changing any of the user settings, do not forget to click Save changes button at the footer of the section to apply the changes.
Change your logo
Using the PayU module, you can upload the logo of your merchant so it can be displayed in our Web checkout.
To upload or update your logo, follow these steps.
- In the account options, expand the current account using the ▾ symbol. Then, select Your sale information.
- In the Your sales information window, find the Merchant logo field.
If you have not uploaded a logo yet, click the Select your logo link. Otherwise, use the Change logo link.
The upload panel appears, locate the image of your logo in your local machine.
The maximum size allowed for your logo is 350x90 pixels, if the selected image is bigger than this size, you can crop it using the upload panel. Furthermore, this panel provides options to zoom in or rotate the image.
When finish, click Save.
Request the change of your bank account
Once your account has been verified by our Risk team, you can request the update of your bank information. Due to security reasons, the update of bank information must be verified again as when you create the account.
To request the update of your Bank account, expand Transfers option at the left menu. Then, select Edit bank details.
The Bank information option opens, click the Edit link to enable the fields of the bank account.
Provide the information related to your Bank Account such as: country, bank, account number, etc.
- The information available depends on the country of your account.
- If the Bank account is foreign, you must provide the information of the Intermediary bank such as its name, the ABA code, and the Swift code.
Along with the information you provide, you need to attach a certification* issued by your bank to proof the veracity and authenticity of the information.
* Depending on your country, you may need to attach more documents.
When finish, click Save changes. When the information is submitted, you are prompted about the result of the operation.
Furthermore, you receive an e-mail informing the request and providing a ticket number.
The procedure to validate your account take up two working days. In the meantime, the information you provide is loaded in the Bank account under analysis panel.
As soon as your bank account information has been validated by our Risk team, you can transfer to it the funds collected in your PayU account. While the new account is under validation, the transfers you make are sent to the former bank account.
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Types Of People On Discord. This is not meant to offend. Because i got a lot a feedback about discord, i have created the server!
They dislike getting into fights with people they care about,. 6 • frog dream world : Why are people on discord servers so mean?
The Newest Addition To The Channel Types Offered By Discord Is The Forum Channel.
Discord voice chat instant messaging client social media mobile app software information & communications technology technology 27 comments best pjthetuxedocat • 5 yr. Discord is a website and mobile app that provides text, voice, and video communication through community created “chat groups” called 'servers'. Types of people in an anime discord server starterpack oc 17 comments 96% upvoted this thread is archived new comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast sort by:
7 • Weeb Empire :
It’s the internet that makes people more likely to behave in ways they usually wouldn’t when it’s face to face. Why are people on discord servers so mean? Types of people on discord starter pack oc 34 comments 98% upvoted this thread is archived new comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast sort by:
Touch Device Users, Explore By Touch Or With Swipe Gestures.
Today in this video i show you guys 15 types of users on discord. Why do people use discord? This does not have to be a girl.
And Yes, Its Called The Wrong Type Of People.
Every discord user is different. 4 • anime soul discord : Because i got a lot a feedback about discord, i have created the server!
11 • Friends Cord :
A few types of people on big discord servers the one with 5 thousand roles the one who's in bed at 2am saying he/she needs sleep the mod who thinks 2 messages after each other is. But i never understood the exact differences. Dg is the one who somehow always happens to get white girl wasted (even if they are not white) at the bar.
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DEW is a Round 3 contender for the IDEaS Pop-Up-City competition.
IDEaS Pop-up city Competition Integrating Energy, Water and Waste Management Systems for Deployed Camps.
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) must be ready to deploy on short notice, in any climate and for prolonged periods. The CAF presently relies on Relocatable Temporary Camps (RTCs) for its deployments that sustain personnel through demanding operational and environmental conditions.
The Department of National Defence's (DND) Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program is calling innovators on to propose and develop solutions that provide integrated energy, water and waste management systems for the CAF's RTCs deployed in national and international operations.
The "Pop up City" Contest is a multi-phased contest for innovators to propose and develop reliable, energy efficient, integrated and scalable energy, water and waste management systems for RTCs. Contests are a competitive means of finding innovative solutions and awarding prizes to the best solutions derived from the innovation community. Specifically, this Contest is seeking solutions designed to manage the energy, water and waste needs of a 150 to 1,500-person RTC, operating in a temperate climate zone.
To standardize the required performance capacity for system designs, contestants will be supplied with per capita data for energy and water consumption, and waste production, along with representative annual climate data, including wind and solar patterns. Contestants will be asked to provide scalable solutions that can supply the requirements of RTCs over a 12-month period in this climate zone. System designs which would also allow for the occasional deployment to extreme hot and/or frigid climatic zones are strongly encouraged.
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dialogEDU LMS offers a robust, automated CEU and CME Management solution which delivers credit transcripts seamlessly and automatically to ACCME JA-PARS, ANCC NARS, and ACPE CPE Monitor. The dialogEDU LMS technology provides comprehensive templates and certificates for CEUs, CMEs, Courses, programs and more.
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Second Annual Announcement of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Memphis, Tennessee, for the session of 1907-1908. The College of Physicians and Surgeons was founded in 1906 and was also known as the University of Memphis Medical Department. In 1911 it was absorbed by the University of Tennessee Medical Department.
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"City" piece on herbicide spraying on Portland's city sidewalks. The trade name of the liquid being used is Roundup, and its purpose is to kill the weeds that grow between the cracks in brick, asphalt and cement. About a dozen residents have formed a group called Portland Pesticide Watch (PPW) to alert the public to what they consider the health risks resulting from exposure to Roundup. PPW member Paul Drinan said the group is looking for a lawyer to assist them with an injunction to stop the spraying. PPW and the Toxics Action Center, a New England-wide group concerned about hazardous waste, have scheduled a rally in Portland's Monument Square on Aug. 22 to inform people of the spraying that's scheduled to begin again on Aug. 27.
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I’ve been getting tagged in some FB comments on how to do a Hybrid with CEREC and I think its a good time to clarify some stuff. There are really 3 things you need to nail when doing a hybrid, be it digital or not. First, and most important, you need to get a passive fit of the prosthesis. I know everyone things that IOS scanners are super accurate, and for quads, they are. But for implants the stitching of hundred of images can lead to inaccuracy cross arch, or if you want to get “fancy” cross arch trueness. Can you do a hybrid without the dominos (Photogrammetry)? The short answer is yes, but you are still throwing the dice (pun intended). The second thing you need to get is the bite. With a converted denture, this is easy. With a denture, not so much. In this case we copied the patient’s denture by taking a CBCT, converted the DICOMs to STL, then, in Meshmixer, cut a window. The last thing, and this doesn’t sound hard, but it is, is to get the midline.
Here is the uncut and cut dentures in Meshmixer. The window will allow you to scan the healing abutments in CEREC while getting the buccal bite.
I won’t bore you with the details, you can see my other Photogrammetry cases on digitalenamel.com. But you need 3 scans in CEREC and one in Imetric: Upper healing abutments/scan bodies, the bite with the denture that has the window, and the opposing. In Imetric you scan the dominos and merge the healing abutment scans and export to ExoCAD.
Here you can see the healing abutment/scan bodies and the bite. Note, you do not call this case an implant case, just call it a crown, you will export to STL or PLY anyway before you get to the margin step.
So I get asked, can we do this in two appointments. Once appointment scan, one deliver final, be it Zirconia or Pekkton or whatever. The short answer is yes, but experience (read F-ups) that you really need a try in, wither in 3D Printed resin or in PMMA. You want to check the fit, the bite, the midline and tooth/gingiva display. In this case, the PMMA looked OK. There was too much of an abrupt shelf on the buccal. The fit and bite were great. If we had gone straight to Zirconia, we would either have to grind off the shelf (read just kill me now) or send it back. But I am always impressed by the bite. This is without adjustment.
You can see that shelf as well as the midline is slightly off. So these are things you can simply email your lab, in this case Prosmiles, and they can correct in the final.
But I think you can see that the bite is right on.
If you want to try this out live, we will be lining up multiple arches to scan using any IOS scanner and the Imetric system! Doc will learn the analog as well as the digital workflow from everything from singles, over dentures and hybrids! Come to Implant Pathway Nov 5-7!1. Register at https://www.implantpathway.com/restorative-solutions/
Also I have put my 3D Printing Party online! 12 CE credits and hours of hands on from surgical guides, to aligners, to digital dentures and hybrids and more!
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Four Waves of Economic Development and Industrial Revolution
Published: 13 October, 2021
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Everything You Need to Know About the Four Waves of Economic Development
Industrial Revolution describes the process of change from a handicraft and agricultural economy to an industrial and machine manufacturing economy. The process first began in Great Britain in the early 18th century and soon spread to other parts of the world. To successfully design and launch an innovation, we first have to understand the era we are operating in.
How to create a culture of innovation? Innovation training is key to successful cultural change. The UNITE Culture Canvas summarizes the most important factors that contribute to an organization’s culture. It helps you understand all aspects of culture and how they interact.
We are in the midst of a paradigmatic transition—a fundamental change in the approach towards and underlying assumptions of how we do business—from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0. This latest industrial revolution may better be termed an “information revolution”: in the past ten years, the global economy has swapped oil for data. No matter what sector you operate in, you can’t afford to ignore the presence and power of information.
At the same time that the service and data sectors grow, the traditional industrial sector has eroded to less than a quarter of global GDP. This information revolution and its rapidly changing economic and cultural context, require us to adapt as organizations and individuals in significant ways. Indeed, the seeds of this information revolution are not new. As can be seen in the following visualization, they go back to the mid-20th century.
Characteristics of the Industrial Revolutions
The main characteristics of the industrial revolutions were cultural, socio-economical, and technological in nature. The technological changes included the following:
1. Use of basic materials like steel and iron.
2. Use of new energy sources, including motive power and fuels, such as internal combustion engines, petroleum, electricity, and steam engine.
3. The invention of new machines.
4. Introduction of a new organization of work known as the factory system, which increased specialization of function and division of labor.
5. The radical transformation in the transport and communication sector.
In addition, there were other developments recorded in non-industrial spheres, including:
1. The agricultural transformation that made possible the provision of food for a larger non-agricultural population.
2. Economic transformation that resulted in a wider distribution of wealth.
3. The political transformation that resulted in a shift in economic power and new state policies, reflecting the needs of an industrialized society.
The First Industrial Revolution
Between 1760 to 1830, the industrial revolution was basically confined to Great Britain. Aware of this enviable height, the British government forbade the export of manufacturing techniques, skilled workers, and machinery. However, the British monopoly did not last long, especially as many British business leaders saw profitable industrial opportunities abroad. Moreover, many European business moguls sought to lure British top business CEOs to their countries.
Two English business leaders, William and John Cockerill, were the first to bring the industrial revolution to Belgium. Therefore, Belgium became the first country in continental Europe to experience economic transformation. The Belgian industrial revolution centered on textiles, coal, and iron. The economic and technological aspects of the industrial revolution brought about significant sociocultural changes.
At first, it seemed to deepen workers’ misery and poverty. Their subsistence and employment became largely dependent on costly means of production that only the wealthy could afford. Job security was threatened: workers lost their jobs regularly and were replaced by technological improvements.
The Second Industrial Revolution
Electrification and mass production assembly lines characterized the second industrial revolution. Everything transformed as new technological advancements and the development of the combustion engine system initiated new sources of energy: oil and gas. This industrial revolution centered around an industrial and economic model based on new large factories. Industries were fueled by organizational models of production envisioned by business leaders such as Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor.
The steel industry experienced a radical transformation. Methods of communication were revolutionized with the invention of the telephone and the telegraph. In addition, transportation methods changed with the invention of automobiles in the late 1800s and the invention of the Aeroplane in the early 1900s. The major achievements within this era include the invention of the telephone, the discovery of electricity and oil, the expansion of cross-national railroads in the US, and mass production assembly lines.
The Third Industrial Revolution
The third industrial revolution, also known as the digital revolution, began in the late 1900s and is characterized by the discovery of nuclear energy and the invention of the internet. It also featured the spread of automation and digitization through the use of computers and electronics. This period witnessed the rise of computers and electronics, from computers to new technologies that enabled industrial and automation processes. Digital innovation in telecommunications facilitated widespread globalization, which in turn enabled industries to offshore production to non-industrialized nations and radicalize business models worldwide.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The current revolution is characterized by digital transformation, digitalization, industrial IoT, automation, AI technologies, data analytics, personal connected devices, and the digital economy. This is the era when lines between digital, physical, and biological spheres are challenged, and industries all across the world are uprooted.
Factories now use the gig economy and technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Cloud, and IoT to enable advanced and efficient communication between key players in the production line. In addition, the era facilitates the transition from non-renewable energy sources to solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources.
The major achievements of the fourth industrial revolution include the emergence of machine learning, IoT networks, Artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, Cloud Computing Technologies, Big Data, and large-scale digitalization.
Pros and Cons of Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution played a major role in transforming our society into what it is today. With the technologies produced within this era, we have everything from automobiles to computers and skyscrapers. On the other hand, if the industrial revolution had not happened, we may not be facing the global warming crisis we are facing today.
What are the pros of the industrial revolution?
It increased job opportunities
The fact remains that the industrial revolution created more jobs for people across the globe. Before this era, jobs were mainly based on educational background, family connection, or a unique talent. However, when factories were built, they created more opportunities for all, regardless of educational background, family connection, or talents. It gave the average person an opportunity to earn a living legitimately. Numerous stories from Richard Arkwright to George Stephenson showed how one man could change the course of the world with technology.
It facilitated innovation
Within the Industrial Revolution, great wealth and resources were available. One notable example is the wealth created by Andrew Carnegie in the Steel industry, making him one of the richest business leaders in history. He was worth over $300 billion in today’s value.
It increased production levels
Before the industrial revolution, production was mainly man-made using traditional methods. This required more time and energy; therefore, mass production was virtually impossible. The industrial revolution changed this completely. The establishment of factories made room for mass production more than the traditional method of production.
It reduced the influences of borders
Before the industrial revolution, trade and commerce were restricted to the national levels. International trade was the order of the day. However, it was difficult to trade because of the immense cost of transporting products. The industrial revolution made transportation easier and cheaper. This allowed businesses to create an international presence for their brands.
What are the cons of the industrial revolution?
Local jobs got poached
During the industrial revolution, profits were the primary concern; it created a race to the bottom in terms of worker wages. At that time, businesses could hire workers that could work for the lowest wages. This literally means that local jobs could get poached by foreign workers willing to work for much lower rates. In addition, this poaching process limited the need for individual skill and craftsmanship. Therefore, people began to conform to the needs of businesses rather than focusing on their individuality.
It wasn’t a global phenomenon
Not every nation experienced the industrial revolution at the same time. Most of the poorest nations in the world today rely on goods and services provided by industries outside their borders. This means that the few resources they have to go-to
It increased environmental pollution and global warming
According to NRDC, the industrial revolution is not only the source of global warming but is a major contributor. The coal industry generates 1.7 billion tons of carbon emissions every year.
How Businesses Can Thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The first industrial revolution pioneered production using steam, and the second saw the use of electricity for mass production. The third industrial revolution was based on bytes and bits that ushered us into the information technology era. Now, we are in the fourth industrial revolution.
The fourth industrial revolution is unique in terms of its scope, scale, and complexity. In addition, it is the convergence of emerging technologies such as quantum computing, autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars and drones), 3D printing, robotics, AI, machine learning, and many more. These converging technologies are the blurring lines between the physical and digital world.
It is practically affecting the way we live, think, work and interact with one another. Therefore, businesses must learn how to thrive in the fourth revolution.
More Opportunities for Businesses
More business opportunities characterize the fourth industrial revolution. It is also known as the gig economy because it raised our GDP per capita and income levels.
The automation of jobs improved productivity in all organizations and businesses. From sales to procurement, telecommunications to supply chain, the fourth industrial revolution helped to reduce cost.
Employees can unleash their creativity and innovation using new techniques and tools available online. This transformation has opened doors to new markets and business development and introduced the gig economy.
Social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have broken down traditional communication barriers across borders of countries and made instant connections possible. These platforms make business operations faster and easier. Therefore, if you want your business to thrive in this fourth revolution, you must leverage the use of these social media platforms.
The world experienced a radical wave of economic development from the first industrial revolution to the current fourth industrial revolution. The fourth industrial revolution is different from the previous waves in its scale of impact. Businesses have better opportunities in this gig economy. We hope the information we provided in this article will give you a clearer understanding of the four waves of economic development and how to position your business for maximum benefits.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential aspect of any successful digital marketing strategy. It helps businesses optimize their online presence and increase their visibility on search engine results pages (SERPs). However, not all SEO tactics are ethical or sustainable. In this article, we will present to you the ultimate guide to white hat SEO techniques, which will enable you to boost your website’s credibility ethically.
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Impact Of Prenatal Opioids On Cardiac And Autonomic Development: Systematic Review And Meta-analysis
Journal of Perinatology
Prenatal opioid exposure has recently risen four-fold with limited data on the developmental effects on neonatal physiology. The objective of this systematic review is to develop an association between prenatal opioid exposure and fetal and neonatal cardiac and autonomic development and function. The review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA Guidelines, and searches were conducted using PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and Web of Science between May 25 and October 27, 2020. Twenty studies fit inclusion criteria, in four categories: (1) fetal cardiac outcomes, (2) neonatal cardiac outcomes, (3) noninvasive autonomic outcomes, and (4) clinical and behavioral measures. For the meta-analysis, three studies (total of 210 subjects) were included. Effect sizes were measured as the mean difference in fetal heart rate between opioid-exposed and non-exposed groups. Mothers with prenatal opioid use had a significantly lower fetal heart rate as compared to mothers without prenatal opioid use, requiring further studies to determine clinical significance.
Howell, Meghan P.; Wiseman, Carlie A.; Rosen, Maya Z.; Yeates, Winifred M.; Wright, Laura A.; O’Connell, Samantha S.; Bhunu, Benjamin; Intapad, Suttira; Kimball, Thomas R.; Cheang, Stefanie; and Gajewski, Kelly K., "Impact Of Prenatal Opioids On Cardiac And Autonomic Development: Systematic Review And Meta-analysis" (2023). School of Medicine Faculty Publications. 984.
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Paraguay’s most quintessential export, tereré is a bitter herbal tea, an intensely caffeinated infusion, and a kind of yerba mate brewed with cold water
The unique gastronomy of a region is a harbour to tourist attraction, and plenty of South American countries are celebrated for their vibrant cuisine, though Paraguay seems to fall by the wayside. Here are the six most delicious traditional cuisines and drinks that the traveller needs to try in Paraguay.
Yerba Mate and Tereré: Paraguay’s most quintessential export, tereré is a bitter herbal tea, an intensely caffeinated infusion, and a kind of yerba mate brewed with cold water. One can spot locals carting around thermoses filled with chilled water as well as a guampa (a spherical mug) and a bombilla (a silver straw).
Some other drinks to look out for are pulp naranja (orange drink), mosto helado (extracted from cane sugar) and cerveza (beer). The local beer is Brahma or Pilsen.
Chipá: There are many different variations of chipá a kind of bread roll made from manioc (also known as cassava), eggs and cheese. Different types include chipá manduvi, made with corn flour and peanuts, and chipá guazú, which is more like a flat cake made with milk, fresh corn and cheese and served with asado (barbecued meats).
Borí borí: Paraguay’s answer to warm chicken soup, borí borí is a thick broth made with the fowl, as well as bacon fat, rich tomato, vegetables like carrots and celery, flecks of salty queso paraguayo and plenty of parsley. This soup is thought to ward off colds and is often served alongside grilled meat.
Kivevé: This semi-sweet dish sits somewhere between the main course and a dessert. Made from a juicy type of pumpkin (known as andai in Paraguay) bound together with corn flour, Paraguayan cheese, milk and sugar, it has a creamy texture and is served lukewarm.
Mbejú: A staple of Paraguayan cuisine, mbejú (literally meaning ‘cake’ in Guaraní) is a starchy cake-like patty made with mandioca flour, crumbled cheese, pork fat, eggs and milk and then fried in hot oil. It is served alongside mate cocido (a bitter herbal tea) or coffee.
Pira caldo: This hearty fish soup, first devised after the War, is thought to enhance sexual prowess. It’s made with local river fish, like mandi’y and tare’y, which have a meaty texture and salty bite. The flavour is enhanced by vegetables fried in beef or pork fat, as well as onion, tomato, bell pepper and spices.
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Fweshly Dipped is proud to announce that we will be setting up shop at the World of Dance World Finals in Pasadena, CA this upcoming Saturday, July 22nd.
If you like dancin' or can appreciate this amazing art form you should come out and show some love. Feel free to use our booth as a home base and kick it with some of the Fweshly Dipped crew.
We'll have all of our gear including our latest 1099 MISC releases and the new DIPPED Maroon Tees available for purchase.
Why not come out for a dope day of dance, music & fwesh gear? 🍦
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- Sports fan gift store featuring autographed sports memorabilia, fan gear, and various other sports gifts and collectibles. Featuring items from all MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and NCAA teams.
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- Cards, supplies, memorabillia.
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- Send us your want lists for vintage stars and commons.
- Dedicated to the collection and identification of game used baseball bats.
Cardboard Heroes Sports Stuff
- Offers sports stuff for football, baseball, basketball, golf, sports equipment and sports apparel.
Collecting Baseball Memorabilia
- Article from the archive of Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting magazine.
- Authentic autographed sports memorabilia specializing in Upper Deck authenticated products.
Dave's Vintage Baseball Cards and Sports memorabilia
- Wide range of cards and memorabilia.
Eagle Sports Autographs & Memorabilia
- Authentic sports, celebrity, and presidential autographs also private and public signing sessions.
Fielder's Choice Inc
- Offers sports trading cards and collectibles.
Hintze's Sales & Distribution
- Authorized source for Bobbin' Bobbers, the all-new baseball collectibles.
O'Bryan and Sons
- McGwire, Sosa, Griffey, Chipper, Jeter, Garciaparra, Martinez, Piazza, Maddux and more. Rookie cards and Pokemon too.
Rogers Hot Corner
- Specializing in Kirby Puckett, star baseball players, vintage cards and autographs.
Sports Card Depot
- An interactive forum allowing visitors to post sports related collectible ads and search its database.
The Baseball Museum Collection
- Features the memorabilia collection from Seth Swirsky, author of Every Pitcher Tells A Story and Baseball Letters.
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Which are the Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission ?
Now the scenario is that, each and everybody wants to study in best PGDM institutions. If you think the same, then this is a very good sign to achieve your goal in top MMS institutes. Many students are looking dream onwards it. But the thing is, everyone can’t be succeed. If you fix your mind to study in top Mumbai colleges then you have to go through Management Quota Seats. Here we provide admission guidance in top Mumbai colleges direct mba admission through Management Quota Seats. Grab your seats immediately.
Mumbai has perhaps the largest number of top-ranked MMS/PGDM colleges in India. Some of these are S P Jain Institute of Management (SPJIMR), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management (NMIMS), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management (JBIMS), Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Shailesh J Mehta SoM-IIT Bombay (SJMSoM) and Sydenham Institute of Management (SIMSREE). Other noteworthy MBA colleges include National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), IIM Indore (Mumbai Campus), K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management (SIMSR) and L N Welingkar Institute of Management (Welingkar).
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Majority of the MBA colleges in Mumbai accept CAT followed by XAT, MAT and CMAT. The following colleges accept CAT/XAT/NMAT/TISSNET: SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (CAT, XAT, GMAT), Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay (CAT), National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Powai (CAT, GATE), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMAT by GMAC), and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISSNET).
- Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) accepts CAT, MAT, XAT, CMAT, ATMA, MHT-CET.
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S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is one of the top b-schools in India. It is best known for its two year Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme. The institute is a part of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and established in 1981. The school focuses on value-based growth with the inclusiveness of underserved sections of India. For SPJIMR Admittance, the institute accepts CAT/ XAT/ GMAT scores. Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission by Management Quota
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) is a private university established in 1981 in Mumbai. The university is named after the entrepreneur Late Shri. Narsee Monjee. NMIMS made a humble beginning by offering the Masters Programme degree with 4 full time faculty and an intake of 40 students in a suburb of Mumbai. NPAT Exam accepted. NMIMS is one of India’s premier business schools. It has multiple campuses across the country, including, Bengaluru, Shirpur, Hyderabad, Indore, Navi Mumbai, and Dhule. Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission by Management Quota
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management (JBIMS), Mumbai
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Research (JBIMS), Mumbai offers Masters of Management Studies (MMS). The Number of S MMS Seats are 120. The Tests are accepted in MMS, MH-CET 2019 For All India/Outside Maharashtra candidates are MMS-CET /CAT (conducted by IIMs)/ GMAT (conducted by GMAC, USA)/ CMAT (Conducted by AICTE)/MAT (conducted by AIMA)/ XAT (conducted by XLRI)/ ATMA (conducted by AIMS). The Program Fee is MMS: Rs. 6 Lakhs (General Category). The MMS 2017-18 placement Statistics are Average Salary is Rs. 18.19 Lakhs and Highest Salary is Rs. 30 Lakhs. Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission by Management Quota
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship (SIMSREE) Mumbai
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship (SIMSREE) Mumbai was founded in the year 1983. In these thirty-three years, SIMSREE has created many global managers by imparting excellent education in field of management. This institute enjoys location advantage as it is situated in commercial capital of India, Mumbai. Accepts MHT-CET, CAT and CMAT. Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission by Management Quota
K J Somaiya Institute of Management (SIMSR) Mumbai
K J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research was established in 1981 with a vision to serve the education needs of the society at an affordable cost with the objective of providing state-of-the-art education in management and allied areas. KJ Somaiya is nestled in the central suburbs of Mumbai. It offers various doctoral, full time and part time masters and postgraduate programs. Appear for CAT/XAT/CMAT and GMAT. Top Mumbai Colleges Direct MBA Admission by Management Quota
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Butte County Office of Education’s Response and Recovery Project received $500,000 to support expanded mental health outreach, assistance and services for school-aged children and their families across Butte County.
Camp Fire Long Term Recovery Group was awarded $114,656 to support their Camp Fire Resource Center which will become the “storefront” for community recovery resources, services and assistance for the entire county.
Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) received $250,000 to support the reconstruction of affordable multi-family housing in Paradise destroyed by the Camp Fire.
Disaster Leadership Team was awarded $30,000 to continue providing direct mentorship support to the Camp Fire Long Term Recovery Group and Los Angeles Region Long Term Recovery Group.
The Workforce Housing Project (a project of the North Valley Community Foundation) received $250,000. This partnership of funders and stakeholders is working to provide solutions for more stable temporary housing among Camp Fire displaced residents.
United Policyholders received $143,140 to scale-up their Roadmap to Recovery program in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in addition to increasing available resources for wildfire recovery in the housing sector in southern California.
Ventura County Community Foundation was awarded $250,000 to support local nonprofits providing housing and/or mental health support or services in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
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This beautiful property is located only 4 minutes from Verfeil sur Seye. It consists of a main house with 4 bedrooms, an outbuilding, a garden of about 5000 m², a garden shed and a pool.
The main house :
The house has two entrances. Either via the ground floor or via an external stone staircase leading to the first floor.
Entering via the ground floor, one arrives in the kitchen/dining room of 23m². The stairs to the first floor are located here. From the kitchen you enter a hallway of 6.50m² which leads to a bedroom of 9m². The bedroom has French doors leading to a terrace at the front of the house. Back in the hallway there is a bathroom of 7m² with bath, double washbasin and washing machine. There is also a separate toilet.
Back in the kitchen, up the stairs to the first level you arrive on a landing. To the right of the landing is a bedroom of 16m² with a nice view over the garden.
To the left of the landing is a living room of 26m². Here there is a fireplace, an old stone sink, a French door to the side of the house and the front door leading to the stone staircase outside.
A corridor and staircase leads to the second level. There is a landing of 9m² with a shower, washbasin and toilet. Then there is a bedroom to the right of the landing of 14m² and a bedroom to the left of the landing of 18m².
On the way out of the house there is a covered terrace of 32m² with a beautiful outdoor fireplace and the entrance to the guest house.
Entering the guest house, one arrives in the large dining room of 42m² where there is a staircase to the first floor and French doors to a terrace at the rear of the outbuilding. In the dining room there is access to a 3m² shower room with shower and washbasin, a separate toilet and a 2m² cupboard.
On the first floor there is a large room of 50m² used as a living room.
The garden is largely fenced. The pool is 11m long and 5.5m wide. Around the pool there is a terrace and a garden shed.
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Are you looking for a small, rural home site in a location that’s surrounded by beauty, but still within easy access of large cities? Look no further than this 0.28-acre lot in Eloy, AZ! This plot is open with few trees and offers views of the surrounding area. Take a look now!
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Directions to the Property: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=32.775909, -111.642387
The corners of the lot are at GPS Coordinates:
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|Zoning||R-3 : Multiple Family Residential (10-24 du/acre)|
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Watkins, (1757-1897), Family
This page summarises records created by this Person
The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.
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1757-1897: account books and diaries
See Accessions to Repositories 1991
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The Innova Champion Dart is a stable putt and approach disc that is super straight. The Dart is a small diameter disc well suited for all players. The Dart is especially good for long range putts and go-for shots. It has a flight similar to Innova's Aviar Putt & Approach but has less low speed fade and a little more range. The nice thing about this disc golf putter, besides the improved grip, is that it holds the line for a long time.
It is a great choice for stable putts, power approaches, and straight flights.
Speed 3, Glide 4, Turn 0, Fade 0
Diameter: 21.2 cm
Rim Width: 1.2 cm
Date of Approval: 02/18/09
About Champion plastic in general - it is more stable than all other plastics. It provides outstanding performance and durability. Champion golf discs retain original flight characteristics much longer and are distinguished by their clear or pearlescent colors.
What others have said:
"One of the straightest discs I have ever thrown. Perfect for approach shots and drives under 300ft. It takes the angle you give it and it just keeps flying. Don't let the word "putter" fool you, this disc can keep up with a Roc." - Nathan Sexton
I have been LOVING the Dart! I can't believe what this disc does. The main reason I am so impressed is its range and resistance to turning over. I can haul on this thing like crazy (it goes past 400 with utter ease, and I am not really a 'big arm') and not worry about it flipping over. It is great for long downhill shots and is unbelievably straight." - Christian Dietrich
If you are looking for a disc that has
more Speed, try the Rat, VRoc, Stingray, Mako, Roc+, Wolf, Cobra, Coyote, King Cobra, Shark, Roc
more Fade, try the AviarX3, Aviar3, Stud, Colt, XD, Hydra, Pig
more Turn, try the Mirage, Colt, XD
more Glide, try the Aero
Other Speed 3 Models: AviarX3, Aviar3, Mirage, Stud, Colt, XD, Aero, Hydra, Pig
- Stock: In Stock
- Model: Innova Champion Dart
- Weight: 0.51lb
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Hillcrest is a beautiful and welcoming neighborhood bordered by Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Southern Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, and 30th Street SE. It features gorgeous tree-lined streets and a suburban feel and is conveniently located just 3 miles from the Capitol.
The southeast DC neighborhood of Hillcrest was built by Colonel Arthur E. Randle, a prominent real estate developer of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century who also is responsible for the development of several other neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Moving his family into a large, Greek Revival house – later nicknamed ‘The Southeast White House’ (2909 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.) – in what is now known as the Randle Highlands neighborhood, Col. Randle encouraged other Washingtonians to follow his lead and build grand homes, along Pennsylvania Avenue. (Credit: Wikipedia).
Why Move to Hillcrest
Suburban Living in the City – Hillcrest is a thriving Ward 7 neighborhood of single-family homes where you will find larger than average lots relative to many other DC neighborhoods. The architectural styles include Tudor Revival, Federal Revival, Mid-Atlantic Colonial Revival, and American Craftsman bungalow. You will also find a few apartments in the neighborhood.
Affordability – Hillcrest was ranked #1 by Redfin for 2018’s “hottest neighborhoods within reach” in the nation. While no longer considered a secret, it is still one of the most affordable neighborhoods in the District.
Metro Stations In and Near Hillcrest
Benning Road station
Branch Avenue station
Schools in the Hillcrest neighborhood include Beers Elementary, Randle Highlands Elementary, John Philip Sousa Middle and Anacostia High.
Parks and Rec in Hillcrest
Hillcrest Recreation Center
Hillcrest Neigborhood Associations
Hillcrest Community Civic Association
Other Hillcrest Resources
Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library
East Washington Heights Baptist Church
Ryland Epworth United Methodist Church
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If you are a buying a home soon and would like to explore the Hillcrest Neighborhood, please feel free to get in touch by giving us a call or text at 202-996-2525.
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It was Dec. 6, 1969, and Julius Whittier was inside Jester Hall, when he experienced along with hundreds of his classmates an exhilarating feeling of celebration, and yet a unique feeling of cultural consciousness. Texas had just beaten Arkansas, 15-14, in what had been billed as the Game of the Century. But the game did more than mark a landmark win of conference rivalry; the game would stand for historical relevance. Under Coach Darrell Royal, the 1969 National Champions Texas Longhorns would be the last all-white team.
In 1970 Julius Whittier’s historic role as the first African American football player to play on The University of Texas at Austin (UT) 40 acres was followed by a talent lured from Brenham, Texas. In the previous seasons UT had watched schools in Texas and across the Southwest recruit skillful African-American athletes to their program; competition like the University of Southern California and Southern Methodist University had players of color tearing up opponent’s fields with a speed and strength that had awoken the Southwest Conference to a shift in their approach to the sport and social politics. The consequence of Southern schools fighting to remain competitive was integration. Athletes like Roosevelt Leaks became of historic significant on the field and off.
Roosevelt Leaks grew up in the Texas country and attended high school in Brenham, Texas. A versatile athlete, he played several sports throughout junior high and high school. He was particularly successful at football and baseball. But at the time football offered the best opportunity for him and many of his contemporaries to matriculate to college. In his junior year he was named an All-American, the same season his team went 12-1-1. This type of dominance, while uncontested under the lights of a large football institution, would be a predictor of Leak’s career at UT.
When Leaks entered high school, it was the first year of public sanctioned integration in most of Texas. “My class was the first class to go through integration,” Leaks recalled. “They began sending us to the white schools and turned the black school into a junior high school.” This was a trend seen across the south. As high schools began integrating the question to desegregate athletic programs was inevitable, giving African Americans an opportunity to be scouted and recruited to major Texas colleges. “I got offered opportunities to play almost everywhere, but I couldn’t go to Texas A&M because my father told me I couldn’t. So the University of Houston was the first school to show interest in me and that I visited.” But after visits to the University of Houston and Stanford University, Roosevelt Leaks settled on UT. With a great academic reputation and close proximity to his home in Brenham, UT’s contentious history with race on and off the field played a secondary role to Leak’s decision. “It was Prairie View or Texas Southern for most kids that looked like me, but I realized that my grades were pretty decent and I had a talent that could take me to a different type of school, for a different kind of experience. Texas was the best option to have that experience and be close to home. It was important to me to be close enough that my parents to see me play.”
Leaks recalls his introduction to the 40 acres as surprisingly transparent. “When I went on my recruiting trip to UT I was hosted by Loney Bennett who was a freshman at the time and Julius Whittier and Leon O’Neill (who eventually transferred to Southwest Texas, now Texas State) who were both sophomores. The conversations we had weren’t particularly inspiring, as they disclosed that they were each navigating some tough waters as the only black kids on the team and much of campus.” But when Roosevelt entered his freshman year he didn’t experience the same culture shock as some of his predecessors or contemporary peers of color. “My high school was probably 70/30 or 75/25. It wasn’t a culture shock for me to come to UT. Some of the teams I played against in high school, their teams were predominately white. I played with and against them. There were also several white baseball players from my high school that followed me to UT.” Accompanying Leaks in his freshman recruiting class was one other black football player, Fred Perry. Adding some additional support were a couple black student-athletes on the track and basketball teams. “There were not a whole lot of black athletes at the time, so we all hung out together.”
Leaks learned early on that his experience as an athlete was not like other students on campus. “There were definitely perks and doors that were open to me because of my name and my athletic ability, that wouldn’t have been open to other students of color. I was very much aware of that.” Roosevelt’s unique experience as a black athlete and a super-star athlete in some ways isolated him from the challenging social climate and racial tension on campus. Caught between the visceral racism of some of his peers across the southern region and the more subtle, institutional discrimination of the 40 acres, Leaks found himself shifting his focus to what he could control – performing on the gridiron. “I knew several of the black players on other teams in our conference, one of the players at SMU told me this story of playing for the first time in Dallas. He said students from SMU let lose a whole bunch of black cats on the field in his honor, right before the game started. Some of the things they went through on their campus…it was tough. Most of the schools in the south had a similar mentality.” While Coach Darrell Royal had finally come around to recruiting athletes of color with the backing of the athletic administration, opening the door didn’t instantaneously break tensions in the community or on campus. Reflecting on these earlier decades of integrated athletics, former UT Athletic Director Deloss Dodds (1981 – 2013) said, “the fact there were black athletes at Texas opened people’s eyes. I think athletics in some sense lead the way in acceptance and encouraging black parents to send their kids to Texas. We looked good for the world and it set a standard, a comfort level for the rest of campus.”
That line of thinking was reflected in the experience of many of the first black football players. Julius Whittier’s perspective being one of the most revealing. “I didn’t go there with that as a goal, the goal of integrating” he says. “I went there because I wanted to play big-time football, take a shot and see how I stacked up against guys like me. If I was an icebreaker, I didn’t feel the breaking ice.” Elaborating, Whittier says he never felt as if Darrell Royal had to be dragged screaming into the era of integrated college football. “There may have been those coaches who made it their goal to make sure college football stayed white,” Whittier says. “I didn’t see that in Coach Royal, didn’t see it as a burning issue with any of the white football players, and even in looking back I don’t see it. I think the guys I played with felt comfortable they had the skills to compete with anyone, whether that guy was white or black. Coach Royal basically came to a school that got its personality from the state it served. Not that he was some big social revolutionary or anything, but I think he recognized that to stay who we were, we were going to have to use black athletes.”
The players who joined Whittier and Royal in the vanguard of integrated football, assumed the role of ambassador. “We were given the black recruits to tour and it was our job to help them feel welcome, comfortable and make it seem that Texas was the place for them,” said Leaks. “But during my sophomore and junior year Texas did not recruit any black players.” Coaches around the region who were competing for the same recruits would often tell potential players of color that they’d ride the bench at Texas and that they were better off socially at another school. In Leak’s junior year UT welcomed four African American players, Lionel Johnson, Ivy Suber, Patty Kennedy and Ray Clayborn, raising expectations for future recruiting efforts. In his final year in a Longhorn jersey, UT recruited its largest class of African American players ever, including, the future (and first black) Heisman Trophy recipient, Earl Campbell. This vanguard of black athletes would change UT football and the UT landscape forever.
But attending The University of Texas was never just about football for Roosevelt Leaks, it meant something to challenge himself in the classroom as well. He knew how fortunate he was to attend college, particularly a school like UT, and was dedicated to taking advantage of his opportunity. His aspirations however, were temporarily dampened when he struggled in first year and was placed on academic probation. “I really had to learn how to learn. The classes moved at a fast pace and I had to learn to ask for help and focus. I had some great help though, UT truly offered me great resources.” Those resources included a tutor that helped to teach Leaks the techniques and skills to excel in his classes. “My tutor’s name was Bill Lyons and he happened to be one of the only black tutors on campus. I remember that Bill was everywhere, he was one busy guy, because not only was he smart, but he was well respected and trusted by the other black student and particularly student-athletes.”
Bill Lyons was just one of the many unexpected friendships that Leaks developed while at UT. Like many of Leaks predecessors and peers across the country who were helping to break the “color barriers” in the athletic arena, the ability to navigate relational tensions was both an art form and a requirement for being a “first.” “I was definitely expected to uphold a certain image and be a peace maker. It took a certain mentality to come to UT and get along with my teammates.” Leaks recalls early on some of his teammates messing with him about the role he was often forced to play, but reflects that that role of bridge builder continues to inform his approach to life. “I learned a lot having to navigate this strange and at times hostile world, but a true testament to it all is that I’m still friends with my white teammates till this day. There is still great commradery with both white and black teammates from my playing days. What we started at UT on the football field is a life-long understanding and friendship.”
As history shows, Leaks wasn’t the first black athlete at UT nor was he the first to walk onto the gridiron, but his presence on campus and his accomplishments on the field demonstrated the tide turning. His talent managed to garner attention from white Texas, while signaling to black athletes they could make it at UT. In 2005, Leaks was inducted into the College Hall of Fame. At the ceremony in New York, now former Longhorn Football coach, Mack Brown (1998 – 2013) shared a sentiment that represented Roosevelt’s Longhorn career. “Roosevelt, this University will never be able to thank you enough for having the courage to do what you did. There is no greater disease in this country than racism. We’ve come a long way since you played, but there is still much to do.”
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We have actually been below in Oklahoma for nearly a year and I’m still digging via tucked away piles that I’ve pretended really did not exist for way as well long. Uggggh.
This might be among my favorite DIY tasks to this day … since ahhhhhhhhh, it resembles a great deal of mess was just removed from my life when we created this Clothes hamper Coordinator! As well as we developed it right in, like it has existed the whole time! SO say goodbye to complaining concerning our washing space … due to the fact that currently there’s so much even more space and it functions like a desire!
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We maintained points easy as well as instead of making complete racks, just made little walks for the edge of the baskets to relax on …
… as well as very easy as that, they move in and out.
The most frequently soiled items get on all-time low of the coordinator …
… as well as the rest are up top.
I used white vinyl to classify each of those little black wood tags however you might conveniently make use of a white paint pen and write it on there. Each of the labels are looped via the openings in the baskets and also linked with knots at the front. Easy.
Now, it may look like this tower of baskets is super tall and daunting yet Steve and also I could both reach to the very tippy top. Yet you recognize, also if I couldn’t arrive and also had to get a little feces that I tucked away on the side of the cleaning equipment or something, I would do it if it suggested all of the baskets and washing was up off the flooring. Ahhhhhhhh …
Our highest Elli (as well as Connor) can reach the 4th basket, which is for towels … so they’ll be making use of that a person too.
And because the most commonly soiled baskets are on the bottom, our smallest laundry helper Chloe can even reach all 3 of the bottom baskets. Because yes, all of our children are little Cinderella’s (and Cinderboys?) in the making. 🙂
You could definitely make this arranging system as well as just place it up versus the wall surface like a furniture in a bedroom, down a hallway, or anywhere… We truly liked the concept of making it permanent. So, we safeguarded it to the wall then included some trim along the top\/bottom\/sides, to actually make it gorgeous!
As well as anytime a basket fills with unclean laundry, it’s right below following to the washing machine\/dryer, all set to be thrown in. Ideal!
Now my tiny little utility room appears a lot larger and also open, without anything on the ground anymore. Hallelujah! Okay … excuse me, I have to go switch over the laundry …;-RRB-. SUPPLIES:.
MDF, 3\/4 inch vast (or a few other type of product, such as plywood … we selected MDF due to the fact that it has a smooth surface and paints really well. We required just over one 4 \u00d7 8 foot piece, so had to buy 2 … yet I’ll quickly discover an usage for the scraps.).
thin backboard (we got a 4 \u00d7 8 foot sheet).
- 2 \u00d7 4’s (we acquired 2 8 foot pieces).
- 2 \u00d7 6’s (we just got one 8 foot board).
- Completing Trim pieces (depends upon just what you like … read below for more details).
- timber glue.
- nails, nail gun, etc
- . Sterilite Washing Baskets, 1.5 bushel (.
- I got mine on.
- Amazon.com.… since they ran out supply at Walmart. Normally I believe they’re a pretty typically stocked thing at Walmart. Nevertheless, they had to do with the very same price on Amazon … as well as be available in a bundle of 6.).To start with, your organizer could be a various dimension, relying on the area you have, the amount of baskets you need, the dimension of your baskets, etc.. Yet I will certainly reveal you exactly how I made mine, to accommodate an 8 foot ceiling as well as Sterilite baskets … so make any changes as needed..( My finished system is 96 inches tall, 20\u00a03\/4 inches vast, as well as 21 inches deep.).
As well as one more thing … we have to have been delighted to obtain cutting as well as assembling since I neglected to take pictures are first. But, here’s an image of the set up pieces, which is very basic as well as straight onward, but I’ll use this to discuss the dimensions you need.You’ll require 2 primary items to produce the left as well as appropriate sides of the structure. Both of those are 96 inches long as well as 21 inches wide. Then 3 items that are 21 x 19\u00a01\/4 inches. (Yet neglect that it’s already all created aware below.).
Simply to make clear, the measurements for the 3 smaller sized items are 21 inches deep and 19\u00a01\/4 inches vast.
And once more, these pictures have actually been constructed past what I’m in fact speaking about… Overlook the truth that it’s already all placed with each other. Take an appearance at the completed building of the timber pieces, just to be clear just how you’ll line up the wood items as well as connect them together. Because what you’ll be doing is producing a tall rectangle form structure with both huge items on the outer most side of the structure and the smaller straight items fit in between. Yet do not attach them with each other fairly yet … Because I need to show you that we developed a lift at the extremely lower of the framework by including a 2 \u00d7 4 along the front and also the back, connected at the sides. As well as this is because we were aiming to get rid of the walls in the utility room. But because we didn’t need the full width of the 2 \u00d7 4 (as well as we were aiming to conserve inches for the main room for the baskets), we cut a 2 \u00d7 4 down to 3 inches large then two 19\u00a01\/4 inch long pieces. We positioned one of them on its side and also stood the 2 walls up and screwed them with each other.
We cut out areas of the MDF in the back (about 3\/4 inch deep as well as 3 inches high), to make area for the baseboard along the laundry room floor. So as you could see, the 2 \u00d7 4 (that was reduced to 3 inches large), is held up a bit, however is attached the very same way as the one along the front. Once both of those 2 \u00d7 4’s (cut down to 3 inches wide) are affixed, it produced a great platform to attach the bottom straight item … so went on as well as fingernailed the lower platform in place.
Now, prior to adding the next 2 platforms, we found it really handy to have 2 small strips of timber clamped onto the side walls, right below where the platform should be connected, to offer as a short-term shelf and also to aid maintain things from shifting in any way while you accomplish in..
Be sure and also include the leading system first to produce a complete rectangle … and also then measure the elevation of the opening and also area the 3rd system specifically in the middle of the open room. (.
We additionally used wood adhesive along the internal edges, just for extra assistance on the middle and top platform items.
).We put the rack together out in the garage and also then duh, recognized that this structure we were developing got to the ceiling so when we tried to lug it in on its side and also to then try and stand it up…PLEASE LEARN FROM US as well as try as well as put your shelf system with each other inside the area you’ll be installing it !!Okay, now currently’s time to add include little strips of wood, that will certainly as the ledges walks hold each basket. Each of those strips of wood are 1\u00a01\/4 inch wide and also 1\u00a01\/2 inches tall..
( Reducing them 1\u00a01\/4 inch wide makes them the ideal width to still allow the baskets to suit between yet also give enough of a lip for the side of the baskets to rest on.).The easiest way we located to attach them, was to pre-drill some pilot holes, after that drill in the screws prior to it jabbed out the opposite.
Affix a little bit of wood glue to the inner edge, position the timber along the internal wall of the framework, make use of some clamps to hold the strip of wood in location … and after that screw in the rest of the method..( Simply make sure you have actually pre-determined where you will place each of these strips to fit each of your baskets.).
Reduced an item of slim backing that totally covers the back of your shelving structure and affix to the back. Add 2 pieces of a 2 \u00d7 6 near the leading and also then about midway down … screwing them into some of the strips that are along the in of the device. (.
And that’s due to the fact that screwing into those little shelf items of timber is tougher compared to screwing right into the side of a piece of MDF.) The factor for attaching these items is due to the fact that now, when you place your shelf right into location, you can pre-determine where you wall surface studs are and screw these assistance pieces right into the beam of lights in the wall surface.
Go on and also put your shelving device right where you want it, screw it right into the wall … and afterwards establish how you intend to complete it off. I wound up positioning a L-shaped trim piece along the front left side (.since the ideal side protested the wall surface as well as it wouldn’t fit.) and afterwards similar width flat pieces along the side touching the wall then along the top to kind cover all inconsistencies and also gaps. (.
Which is entirely regular … due to the fact that more than likely, your wall surface is crooked. And maybe your ceiling as well!;-RRB-.).After that I discovered some 1\u00a01\/2 inch tall faux-crown pieces that we lowered to regarding 1\u00a01\/4 (.Plus the area in between the rack and also ceiling.) because that’s just how much room we had to cover the top item of MDF as well as we connected them along the top, since we really did not have space for taller crown. (.
Around all-time low, we just made use of wall that matched the existing walls in the utility room, to make sure that it looked much more integrated in. Describe some of the pictures at the top of the post if needed.).Now, load every one of your nail and also screw holes with wood filler, allow completely dry, and then sand down until smooth.Oh … and also along the center shelf item, we included an oak trim item to cover the raw edge of the MDF, so that it wouldn’t ever before get or swell nicked in the future.Cutting a Window.
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When the caulk is completely dry, it’s time to paint. Apply 2 coats (or even more if required) then allow totally dry (I would certainly say for at the very least a day or 2) to make sure that the paint is totally dry before gliding in your baskets.Need more help with caulking??? Check out my Enjoy your newly arranged laundry system !!!– Ashley.Share.
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In a busy homeschool schedule, the first “subjects” to fall by the wayside are usually art, music, and other “extras.” But a focus on the practical at the expense of the beautiful will rarely have the payoff we desire. To make it easier, below we provide 8 ways to easily cover art appreciation. But first, let’s talk about why it makes sense to invest our precious time in art in the first place.
We cannot measure the influence that one or another artist has upon the child’s sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sights of life; he is enriched more than we know in having really looked at even a single picture.Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Volume 1
Why Teach Art Appreciation
There are many reasons to teach art appreciation. But most of these reasons go back to an educator’s definition of education. What is it that we are attempting to accomplish? For some, education is “not the filling of a bucket.” For some education is the development of the mind and heart of an individual — teaching an individual how to learn.
In this context, teaching art appreciation is a given. But if you are still not convinced art appreciation is worth your time, here are a few other reasons to include art appreciation in an otherwise packed day:
- To learn more about those who lived before us.
- To develop observational and critical thinking skills.
- To create a balance between the useful and the beautiful.
- To teach students to value being well-rounded, having an interest in many things.
- To appreciate the finer things, raising the bar when it comes to making decisions every day.
- To improve academic performance:
Studies show that there is a correlation between art and other achievement. A report by Americans for the Arts states that young people who participate regularly in the arts (three hours a day on three days each week through one full year) are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, to participate in a math and science fair or to win an award for writing an essay or poem than children who do not participate.
8 Ways to Teach Art Appreciation
Convinced? Here are 8 ways we can incorporate art appreciation into our day without breaking the school-time budget:
1. Tie Art to History
This is a very easy connection to make. Each period of time has its own art and music. Learn art right along with history. As you move through the timeline view selected works of art from the period.
If you are keeping a history notebook, include period pieces, along with the artist.
As you move through the timeline of history, works of art fit right in in their chronological setting.
2. Be Selective
There is no need to try to cover everything as you would if you were taking an art appreciation class. Instead, be picky. Time is limited.
Rather than going broad, go deep. Choose a few artists to focus on each year.
Or pick a theme to pursue.
Exposure to works of art is the goal.
3. Keep the Artist Bio Short
In a full-blown art appreciation class, you would want to delve into the life of the artist to get a better feel for his work. But, particularly for younger students, the point is the art not the artist.
Tying art to history, as previously mentioned, is an easy way to do this.
4. Study One Artist Each Month
As mentioned above, choose a few artists to explore each year. You can learn a new one each month for younger children.
Older children can benefit from going a bit slower, or some learning three artists each year.
Look at one piece of art by the same artist each Friday (or any other day of the week when your load is lighter).
5. Keep it Simple
Try not to make the experience “schooly.” Spend no more than 1/2 hour studying a work of art.
The point is enjoying great works of art. Worksheets and quizzes are not necessary.
6. Use Narration
Instead of quizzes ask your child to tell you what he sees. Other prompts can be:
- What stands out to you?
- What do you like?
- What do you dislike? Why?
- What might you have done differently?
He will be developing an appreciation for the artist studied, while exercising and developing his powers of observation.
7. Keep an Art Notebook
If you are not keeping a history notebook, or if you choose to cover art separately, the narrations can be included in an art notebook.
Include several works of art by the same artist.
Documenting the process will help it stick.
8. Repeat the Interaction
Repeated encounters make it easy to glean more from a work of art. Ways to accomplish this include:
- Keep a copy of the work of art in a frequently visited location.
- Use the print as a desktop background or background on a device.
- Keep a “wall of frame” where the framed pieces by the same artist are collected.
- Have a morning time when the entire family is gathered in one place to view the print.
7 Ideas for Picture Study
Simple ways to just study the picture.
Artist Notebooking Set
Simple pages for creating your art notebook.
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From a clear coat for wood to painting a porch or painting your bathroom, there are many considerations that you must make when painting just about any part of your home. Some of these considerations might be relatively obvious, while others actually come as a surprise. At the end of the day, however, making the right decision for your home and your family is, of course, what will matter the very most.
For instance, you’ll need to consider a color. If you haven’t painted your walls in quite some time, it’s likely that you’ll be interested in a more updated and trendy color than what you currently have. In many cases, beige and other such neutral tones will be used, as these are among the most popular choices among those choosing to paint part of their home, if not all of it. If you’re planning on selling your home, such neutral tones can be ideal as well, allowing you to sell your home faster.
The same can also be said for blue bathrooms. Though this might be a bit surprising, the presence of a blue bathroom or even multiple blue bathrooms can raise the selling price of any given home quite considerably. In some cases, it even bumps up this price by as much as $5,400 in total, which is certainly a considerably amount of money, more than it would have ever taken to paint the bathroom blue in the first place.
But the safety of your paint is also something that will need to be taken into consideration – and not something that everyone is aware of. But in actuality, the presence of volatile organic compounds (which are also known as VOCs) in various types of paints can have a variety of ill effects, especially on the health of those that are particularly susceptible to chemical pollutants, such as the very young, the very old, and those who have weakened immune systems for whatever reason. And these volatile organic compounds can be found in just about every type of paint, from the typical clear coat for wood to paint used for priming walls to even the paint that we choose for our children’s rooms.
Avoiding such paint with volatile organic compounds, be it clear coat for wood or paint for staining concrete, can help us to avoid a wide variety of health concerns. After all, the data that has been gathered on the subject shows clearly that the children in the top one fourth of VOC exposure have more than a 100% chance of contracting asthma or having their currently existing asthma worsen. In addition to this, the chances of developing eczema rise by more than 100% as well – and the chances of developing rhinitis at some point in time, if not on a chronic basis, actually rise by as much as 300%, a truly astronomical amount by just about any standards.
But even though children are likely to be susceptible to the volatile organic compounds used in everything from clear coat for wood to wall primer to typical wall paint, adults can suffer the ill effects of such volatile organic compounds as well. This can be seen particularly clearly in a study that was done by the Syracuse Center of Excellence. In this study, participants from a typical office environment (where paint with VOC elements was used) spent about a week in an office environment that had been environmentally controlled. The results were quite staggering, to say the least.
These results showed that the overall cognitive ability of all of the employees that were tested actually rose by as much as 100% – even more than that, as a matter of fact. This clearly shows that working in an environment where volatile organic compounds are present, be they in the clear coat for wood or the regular wall paint, can be hugely detrimental. This is so much the case that they can even cause a decrease in overall cognitive function, something that can have quite profound effects on the lives of many when all is said and done here in the United States.
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Today, gold-selling critically acclaimed New Orleans rapper Young Greatness unveiled his new mixtape Bloody Summer to all digital retailers. Produced by Drumma Boy (Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Future) and a host of other extraordinary producers, the hypnotic trap beats gives way to a signature melodic chant from Greatness. A seamless fusion of soaring vocals and irresistible production, “Bloody Summer” represents a natural progression from the gold-certified 2016 breakout smash “Moolah” that turned the artist into a household name.
“The first time I heard him, I knew he was going to be big,” adds Cash Money Records co-founder and Chief Executive Bryan “Birdman” Williams aka Baby. “He’s got a grasp on melody that few artists have. It’s the sound of the future.”
Young Greatness had already earned an RIAA gold plaque for the smash single “Moolah” as well as the recognition of Forbes, Noisey, The Fader, Complex, and more between releasing standout mixtapes such as 2015’s I Tried To Tell Em and 2016’s I Tried To Tell Em 2. However, his road twisted and turned down an unbelievable path—from NFL prospect to Katrina survivor to convict to underground star—before he reached this point. Now, he’s realized his full potential and is ready to share “Greatness” with the world…
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I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming release of The Habor Pointe Series! It’s a collaboration of eight authors from the Story Empire team. It all starts with “The Price of Atonement” that releases on September 26, 2023, and ends with “Room at the End” on January 9, 2024.
The stories are set in a fictional Northern California town. They begin when the inn was new in the late 1800s and flow through the decades into the future. Each one has the author’s unique flair, which makes this series so very compelling. I focused on the late 1960s and had fun with that era.
Curious? Check out this video:
The Harbor Pointe Inn has loomed on California’s cliffs for generations of Hawthornes. For some, it’s been a blessing. For others, a curse. Travel through two centuries of stories to discover the old inn’s secrets.
“Redemption” is a fast-paced thriller that hooked me from the first page. Lisa came home to visit her parents. She had a bad feeling when the doorbell rang, but she couldn’t stop what happened next. With her father dead, her mother fighting for her life, and her brother, Trace, in another country, she struggles to figure out what happened. Lisa quickly realizes she needs to be careful whom she trusts because her world is turned upside down as the truth slowly unravels. Luckily, her brother and his friend, Ryan, come to her aid. I love how they are there for each other, while Lisa’s strength, love of family, and intelligence are inspiring. She bravely stands by her mother while trying to understand her father. I found this book hard to put down with all the twists weaved into a family’s story. The research put into this mystery made it even more chilling because of the possibility that it could happen. The themes of redemption and forgiveness tugged at my heart, and I highly recommend this suspenseful family drama.
“The Celtic Deception” is a fun YA read that blends history and fantasy. I haven’t read the first book, but I found this story easy to follow. Seventeen-year-old time jumper, Dan, comes home to an unwelcomed visitor who was responsible for his father being in a coma. I was immediately drawn into the story. Although the visitor had taken something that seemed so important, Dan was carefully trained by his father and was prepared for that. Soon, Dan and his jumping partner, Samantha, need to make a jump to fix history. I loved the time they went into 60 CE when Romans dominated, and Celts were on the run or fighting back. The relationships they developed in the Celt tribe had me rooting for them, even against all odds and history. A read meant for teens, but adults can appreciate it too. I thoroughly enjoyed this mix of the reality of a historical moment and time-traveling teens trying to survive while not changing the past that would affect the future.
“Bright Lights and Candle Glow” is a beautiful holiday collection of eight short stories. The tales transport the reader into many places, including the Civil War or a ranch in Montana. Each story was a satisfying read for the holidays or any time of the year, and I won’t be picking any favorites. There were not only some fantastic twists I didn’t expect but vivid settings that pulled me right in. I can easily recommend this group of well-told holiday stories for Christmas and Yule reading.
I only post my 4 & 5-star reviews here! If I don’t like the book, I won’t finish it. It wouldn’t be fair to leave a review for an unfinished story, and life is too short not to enjoy my reading journey!
I will be quiet on social media and blog visits this week. I’m going to take a bit of me-time before I get busy with my upcoming release and blog tour. Have a great week xo
Embrace your inner child by reading a good book! D. L. Finn
Welcome spring! I am ready to enjoy the return of the birds, flowers, and the landscape bursting with life. It’s my favorite time of year, along with fall. We had quite a winter here. Some epic and sometimes overwhelming storms finally ended our three-year drought—at least in our area.
Time to enjoy nice spring hikes along the river, take Harley rides, and read some great books! Stories and poetry can touch us in many different ways and change us. You have already seen these books reviewed here on my blog. Since I have read some fantastic books lately, more of those will be making their way here in other seasons. Today these are the book revisiting with their blurbs as some of my top reads.
Family secrets can be deadly. When Lisa visits her parents one fateful Saturday morning, she hugs her father and takes her suitcase to her childhood bedroom. The doorbell rings, and one minute later her father lies dead on the floor—three bullets to the chest. The death of Eric Holmes sends shockwaves throughout the quiet neighborhood. But for the Holmes family, it is devastating.
In this fast-paced psychological thriller, Lisa and her brother embark on a quest to solve the mystery of their father’s murder. The journey takes them into a secret world where nothing is as it seems. Once the puzzle pieces begin to coalesce, they realize that their father had multiple lives. As the facts unravel, the siblings discover the true meaning of Redemption.
Life can change in an instant, but that’s not always a bad thing.
A hotel explodes leaving staff and guests in peril; a woman retrieves an old clock from the attic with disturbing consequences; one man leaves heart break behind him, and another arrives to bring adventure.
In this haunting collection, Annalisa Crawford creates characters who will charm, captivate, and intrigue you.
Annalisa’s stories have featured in Fairlight Shorts, Fictive Dream, and Reflex Fiction; and have been short- and longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bath Short Story Award, Globe Soup, and more.
Amanda explores the exciting streets of Paris, the fabulous Palace of Versailles and the gardens of the painter Claude Monet, while being drawn into the mystery surrounding the destructive fire of Notre Dame cathedral.
Amanda is in love! With Paris – the city of love. She’s in awe of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and Notre Dame Cathedral. While there, she gets to work as a volunteer and stay in a famous book store, along with her bestie, Leah, and Leah’s eccentric Aunt Jenny. A dream come true for a book lover like Amanda.
Except, while she’s at the Paris Opera House there is a bomb threat. Then the lights go out during their visit to the Louvre. Worst of all, a devastating fire blazes in Notre Dame. Why does a mysterious man, who claims to be a busker, writer and artist, show up every time something bad happens?
Join Amanda as she explores the exciting streets of Paris, the fabulous Palace of Versailles and the gardens of the painter Claude Monet, all the time looking for clues as to who would want to destroy such a beautiful, historic cathedral.
Embrace your inner child by reading a great book—D. L. Finn
My research is usually limited for fiction, especially when I create my own villain. The Button had some necessary fact-checking being set in 1983. Although, I lived through this time period I can’t remember a timeline of when things came out or happened. So, luckily the internet helped me out.
First thing I checked was the music. I wanted to make sure that songs I talked about was timely and had been released by September of 83—even earlier if club bands were playing the music.
Fashion was another area I dove into. Stacy wanted to make a fashion statement by imitating Madonna. Was the timing right for that? I found Madonna’s popularity started that year, so I limited her influence to lace gloves.
In 1983 I didn’t use a cell phone to contact someone, instead there was the public pay phone. What I couldn’t remember was did it still cost a dime to make a call–it did. Was 9-1-1 around? Yes. TV’s were different and much heavier than they are now, but you could connect it to a format that was making its way into households: a VHS player. Watch a movie any time you wanted or record a show to watch later? Amazing in 83. There were no satellite radio options in a car so you didn’t have to listen to all the commercials, but there were cassette players (or as in my case) an 8-track player where you could control that and what you listened to.
Yes, there were some obvious differences thirty-five years ago in: music, fashion and technology, but why 1983? Although it was the year I got married, I had planned on using 1981. But, I wanted to use the quote, “Can I see your papers please” from a Clint Eastwood movie; so I pushed the story-line up to 1983 to accommodate that. This particular quote was something my husband used to say quite often so you can understand why I wanted to use it. He is almost as big of fan of quoting movies as Kent is in “The Button”.
The opening bar scene was based off a few of my youthful observations at a trendy dance club, a biker bar, a rocker bar, and a bar that did showcase male strippers. These were the places that would take my “fake” ID before I was “of age” to drink. I clumped them all together into this fictional bar.
Fact checking was also different in the 80s. If we were sitting around and wondered about something, we’d have to look it up in an encyclopedia. There was a hotline, I remember, that offered information– or Ask your librarian. It came in handy when we played some of our board games or had a person who insisted they were right.
There was no research when it came to things that happened to me. The eight-hour coma was real and came from my memories, but then it was twisted into the story. I didn’t have a conversation with angels like Lynn did. I did grow up in an alcoholic house where there were parenting issues and a blended family. Yet, Lynn Hill’s family bears no resemblance to my real family, including the step brother Warren. I added a couple of things scattered throughout the book a person or two will recognize. That was for the love and friendships that endured over the years.
So, know I always try to get my facts straight now and in the past.
Generations of Jillian Cley’s family have been tasked with a strange duty—tending the burial plot of Gabriel Vane, whose body was the first to be interred in the Hode’s Hill cemetery. Jillian faithfully continues the long-standing tradition—until one October night, Vane’s body is stolen from its resting place. Is it a Halloween prank? Or something more sinister?
As the descendants of those buried in the church yard begin to experience bizarre “accidents,” Jillian tries to uncover the cause. Deeply empathic, she does not make friends easily, or lightly. But to fend off the terror taking over her town, she must join forces with artist Dante DeLuca, whose sensitivity to the spirit world has been both a blessing and a curse. The two soon realize Jillian’s murky family history is entwined in a tragic legacy tracing back to the founding of Hode’s Hill. In order to set matters right, an ancient wrong must be avenged…or Jillian, Dante, and everyone in town will forever be at the mercy of a vengeful spirit.
End of Day can be read as a stand alone novel or as a follow-up to book one of the Hode’s Hill series, Cusp of Night.
End of Day is available for pre-order through this link
and available to add to your Goodreads to-be-read list here.
Connect with Mae Clair at BOOKBUB and the following haunts:
I wanted to carry over a theme from This Second Chance with the red eyes, but I couldn’t come up with an idea for this cover as easily as I had in the past. At first, I took pictures of pay phones to use, but that didn’t seem to capture the essence of the story. Then, I came up with the idea to use bullets, and a button or the things Lynn finds in her bed (yes, the button does say what Lynn’s does in the book). But, it still needed something else, so the final touch was Zelina’s wings that I wore last Halloween. The next thing I needed was something to put it all on. In the closet where costumes are stored, next to the wings there was the velvet cape that became the background. Once I took several pictures I picked the top three and sent them over to my cover designer Monica Gibson. She added the graphics and eyes that pulled it all together. I had many options for title colors, but I think the red stood out the best.
I’m heading into my final edit before sending it in for its professional edit in mid-July. I have to thank the Beta Readers who are taking time out of their busy schedules to give feedback. It is much appreciated and been very insightful so far! Thank you, thank you! If all goes well there should be an end of summer release!
Here is a poem that I feel relates to this story from my upcoming poetry book: Just Her Poetry:
I feel it when I’m uncomfortable.
It is always there hiding…waiting.
That shallow breath…
That tight grip…that feeling.
It draws my attention
Back to where it came from.
A time when I wasn’t so strong.
I was helpless,
I was young,
I’m none of those things now…
Yet, it stays.
It’s an unwanted guest
That lurks in my body
That has over-stayed…
It seems unaware
That it isn’t wanted anymore
So, I carefully guide it to the door…
Fumbling with the lock.
It clings to the doorway
Hanging on to my past
Smiling, I gently push it out…
We are both free as I release it.
There will be no blog on July 1st. I’ll be off the final road-trip of the year, but will be back on July 8th. Happy 4th of July– may your day sparkle like the night skies!
Embrace your inner child by reading a book! D.L. Finn
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С ночной съемкой
If you want to protect yourself as much as possible, then you just need to buy a camera that has the ability to record in night mode. In this section of our online store are Camera with Night Vision . Security measures are very important, and to start with the best of video surveillance systems. Presented Camera with Night Vision in this section have excellent properties, easy to use and affordable in price. In addition, the benefits of these cameras with night illumination should include compact size, and low cost. Using the camcorder you will be much easier to understand the situation occurred, or prevent it (depending on the situation). You can easily pick up for a camera based on all the criteria, as well as the price policy.
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Welcome to the Darwinia network ecosystem! Here at Darwinia, our top priority is creating an environment where developers can thrive and unleash their creativity to build cross-chain innovative solutions. Our dedication to developer support has led to the successful launch and operation of numerous decentralized applications (dApps) on our network. You can explore the current collection of Darwinia ecosystem dApps and tools on this site. We encourage you to submit your own dApps and be a part of our vibrant community.
We wholeheartedly believe in the power of collaboration and warmly invite additional decentralized applications (dApps) to join our rapidly expanding Darwinia ecosystem. Developers from all backgrounds are encouraged to embark on this exciting journey of shaping the future of decentralized applications within the Darwinia network. To facilitate this, we have launched the Community Developer Incentive Program. This program consists of two parts: the Grant Program and the Bounty Program:
- The Grant Program provides opportunities for developers to receive funding for their projects.
- The Bounty Program offers rewards for completing specific tasks or solving challenges.
By participating in these programs, community developers can play a vital role in shaping the evolution and growth of the Darwinia ecosystem. We look forward to collaborating with talented developers like you to drive innovation and build a thriving community of decentralized applications.
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MDM Group Associates, Inc. v. L.A. Real Estate et al
ORDER GRANTING Plf's 29 MOTION to Dismiss & DISMISSING Plf's claims against Dfts John Harper & Debbie Harper w/o prejudice as set out. The Clerk is directed to close this case. Signed by Judge Callie V. S. Granade on 1/20/2011. (tot)
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.
Why Is My Information Online?
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Creates a permanent static FDB entry.
|mac_addr||Specifies a device MAC address, using colon-separated bytes.|
|vlan_name||Specifies a VLAN name associated with a MAC address.|
|port_list||Specifies one or more ports or slots and ports associated with the MAC address.|
|tagged tag||Specifies the port-specific VLAN tag. When there are multiple ports specified in port_list, the same tag is used for all of them.|
|blackhole||Enables the blackhole option. Any packets with either a source MAC address or a destination MAC address matching the FDB entry are dropped.|
|broadcast||Forwarding destination(s) for broadcast traffic.|
|unknown-unicast||Forwarding destination(s) for unknown unicast traffic.|
|unknown-unicast||Forwarding destination(s) for unknown multicast traffic.|
|vxlan||The MAC address is reachable through a VXLAN Tunnel.|
|vr||VR/VRF instance the IPv4 address is configured on.|
|vr_name||An existing VR/VRF name.|
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Permanent static entries are designated by spm in the flags field of the show fdb output. You can use the show fdb command to display permanent FDB entries.
If the static entry is for a PVLAN VLAN that requires more than one underlying entry, the system automatically adds the required entries. For example, if the static entry is for a PVLAN network VLAN, the system automatically adds all required extra entries for the subscriber VLANs.
You can create FDB entries to multicast MAC addresses and list one or more ports. If more than one port number is associated with a permanent MAC entry, packets are multicast to the multiple destinations.
IGMP snooping rules take precedence over static multicast MAC addresses in the IP multicast range (01:00:5e:xx:xx:xx) unless IGMP snooping is disabled.
NoteWhen a multiport list is assigned to a unicast MAC address, load sharing is not supported on the ports in the multiport list.
In ExtremeXOS 21.1, this command was extended to add a remote VTEP as a destination to a MAC address. Three new tokens “broadcast”, “unknown-multicast” and “unknown-unicast” have been added to this command. When you want to specify a destination to forward all broadcast or unknown unicast traffic on that VLAN, these token are used. For “broadcast”, “unknown-multicast” and “unknown-unicast” only remote VTEPs (and not port_list or blackhole) can be specified in this release of ExtremeXOS. These entries can only be created when the virtual-network is in explicit-remote flooding mode.
The following command adds a permanent, static entry to the FDB for MAC address 00 E0 2B 12 34 56, in VLAN marketing on port 4 on a switch:
create fdb 00:E0:2B:12:34:56 vlan marketing port 4
The following example adds a permanent, static entry to the FDB for MAC address 00:01:02:03:04:05, in VLAN marketing, on a VLAN port that has tag 100 on port 3 on a switch:
create fdb 00:01:02:03:04:05 vlan msk ports 3 tag 100
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 10.1.
The ability to create a multicast FDB with multiple entry ports was added in ExtremeXOS 11.3.
The blackhole option was first available for all platforms in ExtremeXOS 12.1.
In ExtremeXOS 12.3, the fdb keyword was introduced as an alias to the fdbentry keyword to avoid interference with the syntax of the MAC-Tracking feature commands. Both keywords execute; however, the syntax helper (tab completion) does not recognize the fdbentry keyword.
The tag keyword and example was added in ExtremeXOS 15.4.
Three new tokens “broadcast”, “unknown-multicast” and “unknown-unicast” were added to this command in ExtremeXOS 21.1.
This command is available on ExtremeSwitching 5320, 5420, 5520, and 5720 series switches.
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An image carousel is a slideshow of images that your users can cycle through by either clicking backward or forward.
With the help of Unbounce Apps, add a bit of interactivity and boost your engagement by adding an Image Carousel App.
Adding an Image Carousel App
- Navigate to the Apps tab on the left-hand side of Smart Builder.
- Search and locate the Image Carousel App.
- Click the plus button next to Image Carousel to install the app.
- Once installed, the section template window will appear. Select Carousel:
- The Carousel section, which includes a blank placeholder image, will appear on the page:
Now you can begin customizing your carousel.
Adding Images to the Carousel
- Single-click the Image Carousel section (where the grey-placeholder image is) to launch additional properties.
- Next, click the Image Properties icon that appears at the bottom of the image.
- The Image Properties settings will appear.
- Under the Image #1 heading, click the white plus (+) button, and the Image Library will appear.
- Click any image of your choice from the library.
- The image will appear on the landing page.
Take a look at this demo:
Continue steps 1 through 5 to add your second, third, etc., image(s). You can also add Alt text to each image if needed.
Learn more here: Customizing Image Properties - Adding Alt Text.
Customizing to the Image Carousel
To edit the Image Carousel's speed or size, see the following.
- Single-click the placeholder image.
- Click the gear icon ; the Settings window will appear. Here, you have a few options to edit your carousel:
Update the Height properties to max image height based on the section height, measured in pixels.
Delay Before Changing Slides, i.e., Carousel Speed
Adjust the allocated time before the carousel will flip to the following image. The unit of time here is milliseconds. You can test this when your Preview the carousel.
E.g., 2000 milliseconds is 2 seconds.
If you want visitors to click through the images themselves, toggle the Auto Play switch off.
If you want the carousel to cycle through images automatically, toggle the Auto Play switch on.
Testing your Image Carousel
To test your carousel, click the Preview button at the top of Smart Builder.
Here is an auto-play Image Carousel in action:
Be sure to Save and Publish your page when you’re happy with these changes.
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You might get an authentication error while attempting to open your DoD safe. If this happens, you need to know what to do. Some problems with your Access Card CAC may be causing this problem. We will discuss some common issues with your CAC in this article.
You can authenticate your DoD SAFE by using your password, but you must remember to use a strong password. The password should be at least 15 characters long and contain uppercase and lowercase letters, a number, and a special character. If you forget your password, you may receive a warning that the website is not secure.
How do I authenticate DoD Safe?
One solution to this problem is to use FTP Today. This service is free, has no user limits, and has a powerful web application interface. If you need to share files with the U.S. military, you can use FTP Today. However, you must be a DoD contractor or U.S. military member to upload files with DoD SAFE. As a result, your file transfer will be more time-consuming.
Authenticating DoD Safe is important for anyone using it. DoD uses AMRDEC to secure its file-sharing services. However, the system has security vulnerabilities and was temporarily shut down in 2019. Instead, the service was replaced by DoD SAFE. It allows you to transfer larger files and larger amounts of data and eliminates the security weaknesses of the older system.
Common Access Card CAC problems
Common Access Cards (CACs) are secure smart cards that are used for access control. The hardware card reader is used to read the card. CACs come in a variety of types. Some are made from a different type of card stock than others. To identify which type of card you have, look at the back. Some CACs are supported by the Smartcard Services package, while others aren’t. In order to support these cards, you may have to purchase third-party middleware. Two examples are Thursby Software’s PKard and Centrify’s Express for Smart Card.
In the event that your CAC reader has expired, you might be able to solve your problem by uninstalling it from the device manager. However, if your CAC is still in the same location, you must reinsert it. In addition, you may need to get a new one because sometimes CACs are expired or revoked.
Replacing a CAC is a time-consuming process requiring you to visit a RAPIDS-enabled office. This can be very difficult if you’re located in a remote location. Depending on the complexity of your situation, it may take up to 45 minutes to get the replacement card you need.
The Common Access Card is an identification card about the size of a credit card. It is the standard ID for active duty United States military personnel, the Selected Reserve, the National Guard, eligible DoD contractors, and civilian employees. It is also the principal card for physical access to buildings and defense computer networks. Furthermore, it serves as an identification card under the Geneva Conventions.
Why can’t I log into DoD Safe?
The Common Access Card (CAC) is required to log into DoD SAFE. Obtaining a CAC is a complicated process and can burden organizations. With AMRDEC being phased out, this may become a big issue for users.
There are several possible reasons you cannot log in to DoD Safe. First, check your system’s connectivity. Your Internet connection may be down. Or it may not have enough disk space to install the application. If the problem is not related to connectivity, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app.
If you need to transfer sensitive data, try using a commercial solution. DoD SAFE is approved for CUI/PII/PHI file exchange, but a few important considerations need to be considered before using it. Most importantly, make sure your files are encrypted. This will help keep your files safe while in transit.
Why Can’t I access the DoD safe without a CAC?
You cannot access a DoD safe without a CAC for several different reasons. For one, it can create a bottleneck for organizations. Because CACs are so challenging to obtain, only a finite number of employees can receive them. Additionally, employees who hold a CAC can leave the organization at any time.
In order to resolve the problem, you should visit a RAPIDS ID card office to update your CAC certificates. After you have updated your CAC, you should be able to log on to your computer. In order to log onto your DoD computer, you will need to log into the government computers that support CACs.
DoD has a variety of secure file-share services that have a variety of features and capabilities. One of these services is the DoD SAFE. This was introduced to replace AMRDEC, which was temporarily shut down due to security vulnerabilities. This new service provides the same level of security but allows you to transfer larger files and larger amounts of data.
Another alternative is FTP Today, which has no CAC requirement. DoD SAFE’s limitations on file uploads (up to 25 files at a time) will increase the time it takes to transfer a file.
Dod safe keeps logging me in as a guest.
The DoD SAFE is a free service that allows government agencies to share files. The files must be encrypted and can’t contain malicious software. Once you’ve sent files using DoD SAFE, you’ll need to pick them up within seven days, or they will be deleted. The time it takes to upload and download files depends on the size of the files, your network connection, and the number of files you’re sending or receiving. It’s not recommended for time-sensitive file transfers.
How to load a file as a Guest within DoD SAFE?
The DoD SAFE platform is much better than the AMRDEC file exchange platform, but it does have limitations. These limitations can be frustrating for third-party contractors working on government projects. These limitations make it difficult to use the system effectively and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are alternative solutions.
DoD SAFE was created to offer an alternative to AMRDEC, which was temporarily shut down due to security issues. DoD SAFE addresses these issues and offers a safer way to share files. This secure file-sharing service allows DoD and third-party contractors to share sensitive information securely.
Another problem with DoD SAFE is that it limits you to only 25 files at a time. While sharing files with more than one user is possible, the time spent on file transfer will be much greater. Fortunately, you can also use FTP Today, which doesn’t require a CAC.
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Core Wellness grain free dog food with chicken & turkey is one of the seven flavors produced by WellPet manufacturer of dog and cat nutrition products (belongs to Berwind Corporation). The company is headquartered in Massachusetts and also owns Old Mother Hubbard, Holistic Select, Eagle Pack and Prism dog alimentation brands.
Initially the brand started within Old Mother Hubbard name, founded in 1926 and despite merges and purchases, has been known as premium quality pet alimentation since that time, which is certified in many reviews of Wellness dog food products.
Wellness Dog Food Rating, Quality Control and Recalls
Wellness is one of the few brands in pet alimentation that hasn’t been involved in any significant quality scandals. They did have to announce two Wellness natural dog food recalls in May and October of 2012 (Complete product line) due to Diamond Pet Foods salmonella alert since some of their ingredients and products are produced it the same facility.
Most of the Wellness dry dog food reviews are centered around their Core products which is a grain-free line, but the brand also has a Simple line for dogs with allergies and a Complete Health Super 5 Mix.
Wellness Core natural grain free dry dog food original turkey & chicken is a very decent alimentation mix, whose recipe is centered around real meat ingredients (turkey and chicken deboned meat plus meal). I found it true in many other Wellness Core dry dog food chicken and turkey reviews that dogs do tend to gain weight on such diet, which is perfect for skinny dogs or pets recovering from illnesses. But don’t confuse “gain weight” with “get fat” – based on the review of Wellness Natural dog food ingredients, it doesn’t contain any problems with excessive fats.
Review of Wellness Core Original Formula Dry Dog With Turkey And Chicken
Are you looking for a good food that contains the most meat for your beloved friend with four paws? Then out of everything I tried, this Wellness Core natural dry dog food original turkey and chicken review proves that the product contains a considerable amount of animal-sourced proteins.
With 34% proteins, 16% crude fat and 4% fiber, Wellness Core dog food ingredients satisfy the AFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles recommendations. The kibbles are medium-sized, with natural brownish color and smell.
While reading through Wellness Core dog food ingredients I was expecting to see all natural components and most of the fibers coming from animal sources, and we see that most of them do come from meat, apart from peas:
- Boneless turkey and turkey meal;
- Boneless chicken and chicken meal;
- Potatoes and dried ground potatoes (source of carbs, iron and potassium);
- Vitamin E as natural preservative;
- Ground flaxseed.
All the meats are hormone-free, the other components are gluten-free. Some of the other rare ingredients include taurine (supports dog’s cardiac system) and yucca schidigera extract (supposed to reduce stool odor, which I never notice my dog to have problems with).
Key Features of Wellness Core Original Formula Dry Dog 26-Pound Bag
What I like about Wellness Core Original Formula dry dog food original turkey & chicken is that it contains animal fats in it together with plant fat. Dogs need a reasonable amount of animal fat to dissolve fat-soluble vitamins, to get more energy from their carbs and for growing a beautiful coat by reasonable price.
On the other hand I don’t understand why so many Wellness Core grain free dog food reviews praise flaxseed. Yes, because it’s a ground flaxseed, it’s not only a source of Omega-3 acids, but is also rich in soluble fiber. However, flaxseed can be responsible for problems with female dogs pregnancies, and many breeders try to stay away from it. Which shouldn’t be a concern for you if you are a male dog owner.
Core Wellness Dog Food Analysis of Prices & Discounts
Due to high quality Wellness dog food ingredients, Natural Grain Free Original dry dog food turkey & chicken mix price corresponds to the nutrition facts the food provides your pet with. Once you figure out that your dog likes the taste, the bigger the bag you get (26-pound bag, 12-pound bag, 4-pound bag), the better the discounts you can get, especially online.
- Contains highest meat fiber counts;
- Medium-sized kibbles are loved by adult dogs;
- No artificial preservatives;
- Contains animal fats;
- Affordable price for this kind of blend;
- No major quality issues found in Wellness dog food reviews.
- Flaxseed can be a problem for dog breeders;
- No sweeteners added is good for health, but may cause your dog not like the taste if your previous dog food contained a lot of sweetened ingredients.
I was anxious to write this review of Wellness Core Natural grain free original formula, since my dogs love it. They started eating it with a 4 lb bag and I now buy only 12 lb or 26 lb bags. The mix is rich in fibers derived from meats; I love the fact that chicken meat is added, while all harmful ingredients are excluded. If choosing between the grain-free dog food options available on US market, I’d highly recommend this particular blend for everyday diet of a healthy and active dog.
- Wellness CORE Natural Grain Free Dry Dog Food Original Turkey & Chicken 26-Pound Bag => View on Amazon
- Wellness CORE Natural Grain Free Dry Dog Food Original Turkey & Chicken 12-Pound Bag => View on Amazon
- Wellness CORE Natural Grain Free Dry Dog Food Original Turkey & Chicken 4-Pound Bag => View on Amazon
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When is it easy to cause toothache?
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- When the self-immunity declines, there will be pathogenic bacteria in the blind bag, and the gums near the impacted wisdom tooth will also become inflamed. In addition, if you bite hard food for a long time, the tooth enamel will crack, and the deeper may reach the dentin, causing tooth soreness. In severe cases, the nerves of the teeth will be injured. Of course, there are also psychological factors. The more you care about the pain, the worse.
What emergency measures can relieve toothache?
- Gargle with light salt water
Contained in the mouth for a period of time, while cooling down, the salt can also sterilize, but you need to rinse several times to remove some residue and dental plaque, which is inefficient, but the short-term effect is not bad.
Applying honey on the inflammation site is suitable for swollen gums. It can have anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effects. The pain will not be obvious, and it can be relieved for about half an hour.
It is best to have an ice pack at home. Get a few ice cubes and apply them directly to the painful area to reduce the blood flow rate. It will be effective soon. Pay attention to lying down.
You bite a few peppers, the numbness will cover up your pain, the toothache is as comfortable as after anesthetics, but some patients may not be used to it and need to adapt slowly, which is still very effective for relief.
After the pain is relieved, seek medical treatment in time. If you have pulpitis, you need root canal treatment, and if you have apexitis, you need to open the pulp and drain the pus under the gums.
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Thought I’d take a break. I’m just so thrilled that I figured out a techie programming thing, because as we all know, that is not my forte! Sooo, in celebration of, I made some fresh iced tea and decided to say hey.
The other nite I went to my first Meet-Up – the Milwaukee Web Designer’s group. I’ve been a member for a couple of yrs and never went. Thought it was time. Plus, they met on a different nite than usual, so that was also one of the reasons I went. Pretty cool to actually talk to someone in person about web stuff. There’s really no one else that I can do that with, ya know?
Ever hear of BarCamp? That’s another thing I was contemplating attending… we shall see, although I doubt hubby would let me “sleep over.” ha.
What else was I going to tell you? umm… I’m not unmotivated and uninspired these days. yay. I’ve just been working really hard to finish 5 sites that have been sitting in various stages of completion for awhile now, with 2 more on deck. Workin’ like a dawg, but it feels good to knock’em off, slowly but surely.
I also need to interview 2 new arteests for ArtBeatStreet – they already said yes, now I just have to think of what I want to ask them… besides “Hey, paint me a big’ol pretty picture, k?”
Ok, break’s over. Nice to see youse guys.
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re:mancipation at the Chazen Museum of Art
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Emancipation Group has been in the Chazen Museum of Art collection since 1976. The sculpture depicts Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling freedman. A large bronze version is in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC, and one was recently removed from public space in Boston. Biggers is known for engaging a wide range of artists, disciplines, and techniques in his extraordinary body of work. He believes that the Chazen, a university art museum with a diverse set of audiences on a large Big Ten campus, is the ideal partner for this interrogative project. Over the last several years the Chazen has developed a reputation for activating innovative new approaches to its collection, exhibition programming and outreach. One of the key elements of this approach is to partner with contemporary artists to better illuminate and understand, in new context, historical works in the Chazen collection. This project is the most significant realization of this approach to date.
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Avengers #2 (8th Series)
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How do you pronounce the Italian name Guido?
G pronounced as in the word “go.” This is the Spanish pronunciation and is currently much more common than the Italian.
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Guido also says OK in Cars. In Cars: The Video Game, Guido says boss in English. He also says “pit stop” in English, but pronounces it as “peet stop”. In the Italian version of the first film, he is voiced by Alex Zanardi.
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A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game.
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Although some Italians self-identify as “guidos”, the term is often considered derogatory or an ethnic slur. MTV caused controversy in 2009 when they used the term in promotions for the reality television show Jersey Shore.
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ayurveda dinner is a traditional Indian dish made of basmati rice, peas, and lentils with essential spices. A typical ayurvedic dinner includes vegetables like cauliflower, green beans, or carrots, along with meat dishes like chicken curry and lamb curry. In this recipe, you can use any combination of vegetables and legumes (chickpeas or kidney beans).
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1/4 cup grated carrot (optional)
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1 medium onion, chopped finely
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Ayurveda is a system of medicine that focuses on the whole person, not just their physical health. It’s been around for thousands of years and has a long history of use in traditional medicine, but it’s also been integrated into modern medical practice. Ayurvedic doctors believe that everything you eat can affect your body–including how you digest your food and how much energy you have throughout the day.
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I missed my Bible study group while in California. We were not here for Thanksgiving or Christmas. This week my ‘sisters’ gave me Christmas gifts and I felt so loved. Every Wednesday we study God’s Word and share our joys and sorrows with each other. We laugh and sometimes cry together. God fills our hearts
This month our Overcomer’s Support Group reconvened after a two-month absence during our time in California. Those students were glad to see their campus parents and peers! New faces joined us and we introduced them to clients Jaython and Casey. We are planning a get-together at our home to serve the group a nice warm
After traveling 2,100 miles from California with no vehicle problems and perfect weather, Satan was determined to raise his head up against us. While shopping for supplies at Home Depot, Cliff heard “Drug Alternative Program” on the loud speaker, to come to the parking lot. An intoxicated driver had hit his truck and sped off.
We celebrated Cliff’s 79th birthday at our Clubhouse today. The food catered by our Family, David and Karen Smith, was so scrumptious. It was also Karen’s Birthday. Our family and loved ones filled the room and showed Cliff and Karen lots of love One highlight of the celebration was Cliff promoting client, Jaython Betterton, to
Abby, wife of Robert Hassler, made homemade soup for the men. After Robert’s inspiring Vespers message, everyone appreciated the delicious soup. These men are learning the importance of family . Abby’s presence softens the environment and the men always enjoy her company and favors she does for them.
We left Odessa,Texas at 5 o’clock this morning. God designed this beautiful sunrise to wake us up. Our next stop is in Shreveport, Louisiana. Thank you for all your prayers and we are looking forward to returning home tomorrow.
Happy Sabbath! Drug Alternative Program is still on the road to Alabama. We’re in New Mexico and 100 miles from El Paso, TX. No problems and the weather is beautiful. Pastor C.E.Bradford from our Oakwood University Sabbath School Class just prayed for us . God is awesome❣️ We love you and we need your prayers
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