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IMS' Doug Boles ‘hopeful’ Indy Grand Prix will have sponsor by next year
INDIANAPOLIS – This Saturday, for the first time since its 2014 inception, Verizon IndyCar Series drivers will hit the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a race that is not called the Angie’s List Grand Prix.
In November, due to mounting financial concerns, Angie’s List Inc. opted not to renew its contract as the title sponsor of the race, which is now known simply as the IndyCar Grand Prix.
Since then, IMS president Doug Boles said he and IndyCar have been on the lookout for the race’s next title sponsor.
Boles made clear in an interview with IndyStar that Angie’s List’s departure was in no way a reflection of the health or viability of the Indianapolis 500 lead-in race.
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“We got caught up in something that I think we had a relationship that worked for them going forward, but (Angie’s List) had other financial problems, and by the time it came to us, it was too late for us to really bring somebody else on,” Boles said. “Now we could have tried to fire sale it, but we thought we were better off trying to bring someone on who would be the right partner.”
Boles hinted that they might have found that “right partner,” saying he and IndyCar have had some “great conversations" recently, but he did not reveal the name of a potential sutior.
He did add, however, that he is optimistic that this will be the one and only season the Grand Prix is without a title sponsor.
“That’s the intent,” Boles said. “The folks we’re talking to right now … I’m hopeful."
The 85-lap IndyCar Grand Prix begins at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and will be broadcast on ABC. Practice and qualifying for the race are on Friday. Reigning series champion Simon Pagenaud returns as the defending race champion.
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Growing up my grandmother had a saying that we lived by, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”. I’ve heard this statement a billion times from others and seen it in a variety of blogs.
In our house, these were words to live by and grandmother never ever got rid of anything without first repurposing it. There were many times that she repurposed it multiple times. Grandmother didn’t buy anything if she could find a way to avoid it.
The money that she saved went into a bank account and I honestly don’t recall every wanting for anything growing up. It taught me to be frugal with what I have and to make sure I really need things before I go out and spend hard earned money on them.
In today’s modern world, people are trading in their huge mansions for tiny houses and minimalism. They’re discovering that less is more and that they don’t have to have a lot of things to be happy.
It’s easy to become a slave to our stuff. When we consider that at any given minute there are approximately 38 commercials on the television programming we’re watching, and factor in how many people may be watching at any given minute, it’s no wonder we’re convinced that we need this gadget or that, this item or that and then we spend all of our extra cash on said gadget or item.
According to Credit Donkey, these stats only touch the tip of the iceberg. The numbers are staggering but if you consider 38 commercials every minute, that can amount to 1,600 commercials that we’re exposed to in one day alone.
Most commercials are at least 30 seconds in length. Those 30 seconds are designed to hold our attention. They are louder and often far more clear than the actual sound of the program that we may be watching.
The color scheme, actors and actresses, and even the settings are all designed to hold our attention and cleverly incite us to buy buy buy. Every phase of a commercial is carefully planned out by advertisers.
From the program that is being watched, to the snacks that they want you to purchase, the commercials are matched up accordingly.
Advertisers are so good, that we don’t even realize that we’ve been receiving subliminal messages telling us that we simply can’t live without their specific product. It’s no wonder we become slaves to our stuff!
It’s so easy to believe that the items will make our lives easier. We think we can’t live without things because, after all, they just showed us how much easier it’s going to make our lives.
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Are You Being Manipulated?
Advertisers have become so stealthful that we as consumers often don’t realize that we’ve been manipulated into buying something that we really don’t need. The goal of advertising is to sell more products and to part us, the consumers, from our hard earned money.
Take a moment and listen to the next commercial that comes on while you’re watching television. How do they set the stage? How do they show you that said item will improve your life? What do you like and dislike about the commercial?
Advertisers find vulnerabilities and capitalize on them to entice consumers into buying their product. They try to show consumers how said product is going to improve their life. They go out of their way to show only the best features of the products.
How Can We Change Our Mindset?
We can start by recognizing the impact that advertising has on society as a whole. How businesses rely on advertising to increase sales and improve their returns on investment. We can see how advertising is a lucrative business that is cleverly designed to part us with our hard earned money.
We can learn to be happy with what we have and recognize that advertising is what is really making us think or feel that we’re unhappy. We feel that if we don’t have said product we simply won’t be happy. All because the commercial that we saw made us feel that way.
It played on our emotions and our desires. Desires that we may not have even had. In short, the commercial has manipulated us into believing that we have to have something that we really don’t need.
We soon find ourselves trapped by the very manipulations that they are doing to us and we feel that unless we have a specific product we’ll never be happy, and that is exactly what they want us to think.
It’s these very things and this very mindset that leave us as “Slaves to our stuff”. Do you own your own stuff, or does it own you? Are you making payments on things that you rarely, if ever use?
Do you dream of less clutter? How about less debt? Are you happy? Have you ever looked around your homestead and thought, “It’s so cluttered”? We have. So we embarked on a journey to rid ourselves of the excess that we haven’t used in recent months. Here is how we did it:
We started by listing out what we felt we absolutely couldn’t live without on our homestead. We sat down with pen and paper in hand and listed each item in the barn, chicken shed, garden shed, homestead, and so on.
As we listed the items in the particular areas of the homestead we made sure to note how many different purposes the item had. In some cases, we found that we had many uses for some items, and not a single use for others as we multipurposed some of the items.
After we finished listing out each item we arranged it by priority with the top priority being items that we used the most frequently. These went on the top of the list and we worked our way down.
Become More Aware
There are many ways to change how advertising affects us. The first of these is to become more aware of how it affects us and remember that it’s just an advertisement that is cleverly designed to entice us to buy buy buy. Once we recognize that, we can move to a more intelligent mind set that allows us to evaluate whether or not we truly need a particular item.
We need to learn to ask ourselves important questions before we buy anything. Do we really need this? How often will it be used? Is there any way we could borrow it from a friend or family member? Could the item be rented? Is there anything else that we have on hand that could do the same task?
Once we recognize how advertising affects us and how to use up what we have, we will be in a better position to ignore the advertising and focus on what really matters to us.
We also can do a more thorough research and determine which of the particular products will best suit our needs. Do we need the more expensive version? Could we find it used? The more informed we are, the better equipped we are to spend our money on what truly matters.
The Purging Process
Now that we had a list of what we used and essentially what we really just had sitting around collecting dust, we knew that we needed to purge. There are several ways to purge. So we divided our purging into several piles.
We started by sorting our duplicate items into the give away pile. We asked ourselves how this item or that were beneficial to our new relaxed life on our homestead.
Don’t get us wrong, we understand that having a homestead is work, but it’s work that we love and when you love your work, you never work a day in your life.
We labeled our piles as follows:
- Give away to someone that can use it or needs it.
- Sell at a yard sale.
- Donate to charity.
We don’t have anything in a storage unit, but, we do have a corner in our shed that is full of stuff that we either “Might need someday” or that we had sorted out for yard sales. We went through that as well and divided it into our 3 piles.
About this time, my mother came to visit our homestead. She was always bringing me things that she “thought” I needed. Many of these items had made it to the yard sale pile and I was in trouble.
So instead of allowing her to be upset. I told her that if she wanted them back she could have them. She told me that she had given them to me to get them out of her house. We had a good laugh and split the proceeds of those items and went to lunch.
Less Is More
After going through the purge process, the house and the rest of the homestead looked so neat and tidy that I didn’t want to clutter it up. Less is truly more. I realized that we’d been slaves to stuff that we hadn’t used in years. In a few cases, we hadn’t used it in decades.
This has helped immensely to curb those spur of the moment purchases that would only have one use or simply sit in a corner collecting dust and taking up space.
Having some open spaces is actually very freeing and reduces anxiety and stress because we are no longer slaves to our stuff. It’s then that I embraced the “one in, one out” mentality.
That is to say, if something new comes in, something old must go out. This works especially well with clothing items. Somehow, I always have way more clothes than I will ever wear.
Benefits Of Not Being Slaves To Our Stuff
This pdf shows us how consummerism affects us.
We’ve discovered several great benefits to not being slaves to our stuff. It’s so freeing to not have to worry about so much and not have payments on things that we’re not even using. A clutter free homestead is far more relaxing and inviting than a homestead that is cluttered with stuff.
Being a slave to our stuff is actually constraining and requires far more work than we need to be doing. We have to maintain it and keep it in working order, we have to have space to store it, and we have to repair it if it breaks down. In a few cases, we even had to insure it even if it wasn’t being used. What a waste of money.
We’ll have more money to do the things that we love. With less stuff, and more money we’ll be able to take that trip we’ve always dreamed of. We’ll be able to enjoy the freedom of more time because we won’t have to spend as much time maintaining our stuff. Freedom. A lifestyle that we get to enjoy instead of a lifestyle that we strive to afford.
The Domino Effect
As a consumer, it’s important to recognize how easy it is to get caught up in advertising and owning more and more stuff. Turn on the television and you’ll soon see a compelling commercial on something that is an absolute must-have item. If you get one of these, you’ll be happy. Ha! If you get one of these, you’ll be broke!
Look at the neighbors house and see them taking something new into their home or perhaps driving up in a new car. Pretty soon, we begin to think we need something that we have done just fine without for many years.
Worse, we don’t realize that the neighbors are actually making payments on the items that we’re coveting and we wind up having the same issue, we have become slave to debt. Maybe we should ask to borrow the item from the neighbor and save ourselves the monthly payment.
Maybe we have a windfall of money and suddenly think we need something. Instead of investing or saving that money, we spend it on something that we’ll only use for a short period of time or not at all. Then, we put the item away and don’t use it again.
Over time, these things begin to accumulate and pretty soon we have a corner in the shop or shed that is full of things we thought we needed, but rarely use.
As we accumulate more stuff, storage containers and shops that sell such organizational items have cropped up to help us corral our new treasures. We wind up spending even more money in an effort to store things that we’re not using.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with owning things, if you’re using them. It’s important to take stock of what we do have before we embark on spending money on even more stuff, much of which we really don’t need.
You buy something new for a particular room in the house, and pretty soon, you feel that you need to re decorate the entire room to match the something new. Maybe it was a pillow for the couch and suddenly, you “need” an entirely new couch. It’s easy to get caught up in the domino effect and spend more money than we intended on the homestead.
Ways To Avoid Becoming Slaves To Our Stuff
- Journal daily. If you’re really wanting something, write it down in a journal. Do the research and find out what it will cost outright. Look for the item used in lieu of buying it brand new. Save payments by not putting it on credit but rather buying it used. Ask if they will take a cash discount instead of paying full price. Write all of these options down in the journal and do the homework to find a way to obtain the item without paying full price.
- Determine if another item can be re-purposed or see if it can be borrowed from a neighbor or friend. It’s amazing how seldom some items are used and it always pays off to repurpose or borrow whenever possible.
- Try it before you buy it. There are many times that we run right out and buy the latest and greatest product only to find out, it either isn’t what it was advertised to be, we rarely use it, or it simply isn’t what we needed. Whenever possible, try it before you buy it. Borrow it. If a neighbor or a friend has one that you can borrow, then by all means, try it out that way and unless it’s an item you’re going to need daily, just borrow it when needed.
- Remember that you’re not wealthy because of money, you’re wealthy because you are content with what you have. All too often we feel that we need something to be someone. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
- Money really doesn’t buy happiness, it can, however, buy more debt. Stay out of debt and learn to be happy with what you have.
- Do you really wear all of those clothes in your closet? Probably not. Most of us only wear a few select items. If you remove just a few items every week that you never wear you’ll soon have your closet decluttered and feel freer.
- Can you still park the car in the garage? Or is your garage full of so much clutter that the car will no longer fit into the garage? If that is the case, it’s time for a garage sale.
- Be more mindful about what you do and don’t need. If you truly don’t need it, it’s only going to collect dust in a corner.
- Limit the time that you watch television to avoid over exposure to advertising that may entice you to buy items that you don’t really need.
- Shop with cash only. Make sure when you’re out shopping that you’re only taking as much cash as you need. When the cash is gone, you’re done spending.
- Consider shopping all year long for birthdays and holidays. Sit down at least once a year and make a list of everyone that you shop for and then note their birthday’s. When you do this, make sure that you include their favorite color and maybe something that they collect or would love. When you find such items on sale or at a yard sale, buy it now. Save it for later. It’s amazing how easy holiday and birthday shopping can be when we apply this rule.
Live Within Your Means
Learn to live within your means. Don’t borrow trouble by buying things that you’ll rarely use or need. Use the barter system and remember that less truly is more. Remain aware of your money and where it’s going. Jot everything down as you pay bills and use a budget.
In short order, you’ll find that you’re no longer slaves to your stuff. You’ll begin to see exactly where your money is going and make your stuff work for you. Have an attitude of gratitude and learn to just be thankful for what you do have.
Understand the difference between a want and a need. Learn to save a few dollars toward something that you want that may cost more. Do this for several months and pay cash for it so that you can have a cash discount, and no payments.
Focus on what truly matters in life. Don’t allow your stuff to own you. You have plenty to do during the day without becoming a slave to stuff.
Embrace the freedom of your homestead and remember that less is more and you can enjoy life even if you don’t have some fancy piece of machinery or equipment that you’ll only use once a year.
Embrace your new stress free life. Less truly is more and you’ll find that the less you have the less stressed you are. The more money you can save, the more relaxed you’re going to be when the bills come due because you’ll know that you have plenty of money to cover your bills.
Hi, I’m Linda. I’m a mom, grandmother, homesteader. I love simple living and enjoy my life on a homestead where I garden, raise a variety of animals and strive for a life more like my grandparents lived.
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today that John D. Tishler has joined the firm's Corporate Practice Group in San Diego. Tishler's move to Sheppard Mullin comes in the same week that distinguished corporate lawyer John J. Hentrich joined the firm's Del Mar Heights office.
Tishler has more than 12 years of legal experience representing public and private companies in complex business matters, both domestic and international. His practice encompasses business transactions, technology, corporate finance, securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and compensation.
Robert Sbardellati, administrative partner of the San Diego office, commented, "We are extremely pleased with John joining us. His securities expertise coupled with his knowledge of the technology industry complements the emerging growth business being done in the San Diego and Del Mar offices." Added Larry Braun, chair of the Corporate Practice Group, "John's credentials and experience enhance a solid practice group that continues to expand to meet client needs."
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The combination of strength and endurance results in muscular endurance – the ability to perform many repetitions against a given resistance for a prolonged period of time (1).
It is a crucial element of fitness for athletes such as distance runners, swimmers, cyclists and rowers. It’s also important for success in many team sports like soccer, field hockey and Australian rules football.
Traditionally, muscular endurance programs have used moderate loads lifted for 12-25 repetitions. However, this is completely inadequate for many sports such as boxing, canoeing, distance running, cycling, swimming, rowing, x-country skiing, triathlon and many others.
Any form of training must mirror the specific demands of the sport. In resistance training, this means that the load used should match the resistance that must be overcome while competing. The number of repetitions or the duration of exercise bouts in a session should approach that during the event.
Recall that muscular endurance training makes up only one part of the annual strength program – even for endurance athletes. It should follow a phase of maximal strength training. This makes sense because the greater an athlete’s maximal strength, the greater their potential for strength endurance – i.e. the more force they will be able to apply over a prolonged period. Heavy strength training has also been shown to improve exercise economy in endurance athletes (3,4,5). For more information on the the annual strength program see the the sport specific approach to strength training programs.
The Different Types of Muscular Endurance
Different sports require different levels of muscular endurance. While each program will vary according to the athlete’s needs, muscular endurance can be split into 3 groups:
Athletes like baseball pitchers, sprinters, 50-m freestyle swimmers, martial artists, wrestlers, fencers, tennis players and so on must produce powerful movements and repeat them several times with little or no rest. In order to maintain the same amount of power with each effort, a certain level of power endurance is required.
Power endurance is typically characterized by intense, repeated efforts for a relatively short period of time (less than 30 seconds) (1). A tennis player for example, has to produce several powerful shots in quick succession during a rally that may only last 10 seconds. A 100-m sprinter may take 48-54 powerful strides over a 10-12 second race and their success depends, in part, on maintaining a high power output in the last 20 meters.
Once maximal strength has been developed (earlier on in the annual strength program) it can be converted into explosive power through various methods of power training. Now power endurance training can be used to train the fast twitch fibres to resist fatgiue allowing explosive power to be maintained for longer.
Power endurance training uses moderate loads of 50-70% 1RM lifted for 15 to 30 repetitions. Because this can lead to a significant build up of lactic acid, rest periods between sets are long (5-7 minutes) and a minimum number of sport-specific exercises are used (about 3-4). Exercises are also completed in a circuit training format i.e. one set of one exercise is completed, then one set of the next exercise and so on. Alternating exercises allows maximum recovery and sufficient time for lactic acid to disperse.
This is a critical rule to follow. If rest intervals are too short and sets are completed while the athlete is fatigued the result will be hypertrophy (increase muscle mass) rather than power endurance. Sets should not be completed to failure but should end when repetitions are no longer powerful and rhythmic.
Here is a sample power endurance program for a tennis player:
Muscular Endurance – Short Term
When sports and events consist predominantly of bouts of exercise lasting between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, “short-term” muscular endurance training is advantageous. These could be continuous events such as the 800-m or multi-sprint sports such as soccer.
Muscular endurance training helps athletes to cope with fatigue and tolerate high levels of lactic acid. It uses relatively light loads of 40-60% 1RM and they can be lifted for a set period of time or a target number of repetitions. Again, a circuit training set up is suitable for this type of resistance training.
Below is a sample muscular endurance program for a field hockey player:
Muscular Endurance – Long Term
“Long term” muscular endurance is suitable for continuous, steady-state events such as the marathon, triathlon and rowing that last beyond 2 minutes. Light loads are used so that exercises can be sustained for a prolonged period. Rest periods are kept to a minimum and ideally the athlete should progress so that the only rest between exercises is the time it takes to move between equipment.
The program below is designed for a rower and gradually progresses until the athlete performs all the exercises non-stop. By the final week the athlete would be completing 6-8 minutes of continuous work per circuit – a similar duration to a competitive race!
References for muscular endurance
1) Bompa TO. 1999 Periodization Training for Sports. Champaign,IL: Human Kinetics
2) Baechle TR and Earle RW. (2000) Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning: 2nd Edition. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
3) Fleck SJ and Kraemer WJ. (2004) Designing Resistance Training Programs: 3rd Edition. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
4) Hoff J, Gran A, Helgerud J. Maximal strength training improves aerobic endurance performance. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2002 Oct;12(5):288-95
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A Legal Study of the Decision Rendered in Al Ain Appeal No. 53-2011 on 30.03.2011
The decision in question deals with an insurer’s pursuit of its rights of subrogation against the party responsible for damage caused to a vehicle.
The decision in question deals with an insurer’s pursuit of its rights of subrogation against the party responsible for damage caused to a vehicle
Briefly, the facts are that an individual had, through ADIB (the financier) purchased a Nissan car which ADIB had in turn purchased from Al Masoud Car Agency under a murabaha contract. The individual insured the vehicle with Al Wathba National Insurance Company.
Nine months following the individual’s purchase, the vehicle caught fire due to an electrical short circuit and was completely destroyed. The insured was paid the value of the vehicle by the insurer who then sued both Al Masaoud Agency and ADIB to recover the value of the vehicle, being AED 168,000 plus Court fees and costs. The action was based on the right of subrogation as prescribed by Article 1030 of the UAE Civil Transactions Code.
The Court of First Instance refused to entertain the action due to the purported lack of capacity to sue on behalf of Al Wathba, the Plaintiff. Similarly, the action was dismissed on appeal on the following grounds:
1- The insurer has a right to pursue a subrogated claim against the party responsible for the damage against payments previously made to its insured pursuant to Article 1030 of the Civil Transactions Code, and to recover such indemnity payments from the party at fault who caused the damage.
2- By dismissing the action, the Court of First Instance exhausts its jurisdiction over the merits and a reversal of its decision places the merits before the Court of Appeal.
3- There is no basis for entertaining the plea that the claim is time barred under Article 555 of the Civil Transactions Code since the claim seeks recovery of the amount paid to the insured.
4- An existing defect within the meaning of Article 547 of the Civil Transactions Code is a defect which is present when the goods are delivered to the buyer or a defect that can be traced to an old problem that occurs or appears after the sale.
5- Plaintiff (insurer) has not produced any proof of the defect which caused the electrical short circuit that ignited the vehicle fire – whether it was a pre-existing defect in the vehicle that was introduced during manufacture or a defect that existed prior to purchase.
6- A defect existing in the sold item prior to sale cannot be assumed and must be proved. Plaintiff (insurer) has not proven that the defect is a manufacturing defect or had existed in the vehicle prior to the sale. The seller cannot therefore be held liable for its value.
Subrogation commonly arises in relation to motor vehicle purchase contracts and policies of insurance.
Spontaneous accidents involving vehicles, machinery etc. are common types of claims.
Therefore, the Al Ain Court, which is part of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, has laid down important principles which burden the plaintiff with the onus of proving a pre-existing defect as follows:
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Both teams to score
- Man United kept just four clean sheets in their last 13 attempts at home.
- United scored in 100% of their games at Old Trafford so far this term.
- Wolves scored in 90% of their last 10 away fixtures.
- Both teams scored in 15 of Wolves’ last 20 games in all competitions.
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Over 3.5 total cards
- 4 cards were dished out to both teams combined in the first FA Cup Third Round clash between United and Wolves earlier this month.
- 4 cards were also shown to the players involved in Wolves and United’s Premier League meeting in the early throes of the season.
- Only three clubs’ players have been fouled more often on average per Premier League game than Man Utd’s players so far this season (12 per 90 minutes).
Over 9.5 total corners
- 13 and 10 corners were awarded to both teams combined in United and Wolves’ league and cup meetings respectively earlier this season.
- An average of 10.28 corners were awarded to both teams combined in Wolves’ Premier League fixtures so far this term.
- United’s equivalent figure for the campaign stands at 9.64 corners per game on average.
- An average of 12 corners were awarded across Wolves’ last three away fixtures.
Man Utd to score first
- Man Utd scored first in 11 of their last 15 fixtures at Old Trafford in all competitions.
- Man Utd scored first in two of their last three meetings with Wolves.
- Wolves conceded the first goal in six of their last seven fixtures.
- 64% of the total Premier League goals conceded by Wolves this season were shipped in the first half of their games.
Draw after 90 minutes
- Manchester United and Wolves drew each of their two previous meetings this season (1-1, 0-0).
- No club has drawn more games than Wanderers in the Premier League this season (10).
- Wolves shared the spoils in four of their last nine away games.
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The summer lists are always long (and the Maine summers short). Three of our top priorities are checked off for this year -
1 - Take a vacation - had a great trip with friends to Montreal. We discovered that once we leave our drive there is only one big-town between us and Montreal (Sherbrooke, Quebec) - guess I never looked at the map, ha. Next time it is Quebec City - nothing between us and them and that is the way we love to travel.
2 - Clean up the old animal watering hole near the road end of the driveway. It ended up being a lot deeper than we thought as the bottom was full of dropped limbs, trees and weeds. All cleaned up and evened out. And the good news - the frogs have moved back in already.
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4 - Enjoy the sunsets
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GM today introduced the combustion process formally known as homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI, for the first time in two drivable concept cars. GM has fitted the 2007 Saturn Aura and the Opel Vectra with HCCI which provides up to 15 percent fuel savings while meeting future emissions standards.
Virtually the engines burn gasoline in the same way that a diesel engine burns diesel fuel. To do this the process is combined with advanced technologies, direct injection, electric cam phasing, variable valve lift and cylinder pressure sensing.
Other auto makers have been working on this type of engine technology for a while but GM is the first to offer it in a drivable vehicle. The process promises the fuel economy of a diesel engine, which is typically much more efficient than a gasoline engine, while offering the cleaner exhaust of a gasoline engine.
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PONTIAC, Mich. ““ Engine experts have dreamt about it, talked about it, and lectured about it, and today ““ for the first time ““ General Motors Corp. is letting outside parties drive the “most awaited advanced combustion technology” of the last 30 years.
GM demonstrated the combustion process, known formally as homogeneous charge compression ignition or HCCI, for the first time in two driveable concept vehicles, a 2007 Saturn Aura and Opel Vectra. When combined with the enabling advanced technologies, direct injection, electric cam phasing, variable valve lift and cylinder pressure sensing, HCCI provides up to 15 percent fuel savings, while meeting future emissions standards.
“I remember debating this combustion capability when I was in college,” said Tom Stephens, group vice president, GM Powertrain and Quality. “It was just a dream then. Today, using math-based predictive analysis and other tools, we are beginning to see how we can make this technology real. By combining HCCI with other advanced gasoline engine and control technologies we can deliver a good fuel savings value for consumers.
In an integrated engine concept, HCCI along with other enabling advanced technologies approaches the engine efficiency benefit of a diesel, but without the need for expensive lean NOx after-treatment systems. Its efficiency comes from burning fuel at lower temperatures and reducing the heat energy lost during the combustion process. Consequently, less carbon dioxide is released because the vehicle”s operation in HCCI mode is more efficient.
The HCCI-powered concept vehicles ““ a production-based Saturn Aura and the Opel Vectra, both with a modified 2.2L Ecotec four-cylinder engine ““ drive like conventionally powered vehicles, but offer up to 15 percent improved fuel efficiency relative to a comparable port fuel injected engine. (This fuel efficiency improvement will vary depending on the vehicle application and the customer driving cycle.) The drivable concept vehicles represented one of the first tangible demonstrations of HCCI technology outside of the laboratory.
“I am pleased with our engineering team”s progress,” said Stephens. “It is another initiative in GM”s advanced propulsion technology strategy to lessen our dependence on oil. HCCI, direct-injection, variable valve timing and lift, and Active Fuel Management all help improve the fuel economy and performance of our internal combustion engines. I am confident that HCCI will one day have a place within our portfolio of future fuel saving technologies.”
Highlights of HCCI technology include:
* Diesel-like engine efficiency with substantially reduced after-treatment cost
* Builds off proven gasoline direct injection and variable valve actuation technologies
* Adaptable to conventional gasoline engine architectures
* Requires only conventional automotive exhaust after-treatment
* Compatible with all commercially available gasoline and E85 ethanol fuels.
How HCCI works
An HCCI engine ignites a mixture of fuel and air by compressing it in the cylinder. Unlike a spark ignition gas engine or diesel engine, HCCI produces a low-temperature, flameless release of energy throughout the entire combustion chamber. All of the fuel in the chamber is burned simultaneously. This produces power similar to today”s conventional gas engines, but uses less fuel to do it.
Heat is a necessary enabler for the HCCI process so a traditional spark ignition is used when the engine is started cold to generate heat within the cylinders and quickly heat up the exhaust catalyst and enable HCCI operation. During HCCI mode, the mixture”s dilution is comparatively lean, meaning there is a larger percentage of air in the mixture. The lean operation of HCCI helps the engine approach the efficiency of a diesel but it requires only a conventional automotive exhaust after-treatment. Diesel engines require more elaborate and more expensive after-treatment to reduce emissions.
HCCI builds on the integration of other advanced engine technologies ““ some of which are already in production and can be adapted to existing gas engines. The cylinder compression ratio is similar to a conventional direct injected gas engine and is compatible with all commercially available gasoline and E85 fuels.
The prototype vehicles
GM demonstrated the adaptation of the HCCI technology in driveable concept vehicles based on conventional, production-based products like the Saturn Aura and Opel Vectra. The Aura features an automatic transmission, whereas, the Vectra, which is aimed at the European market, has a manual transmission.
Both vehicles are powered by a 2.2-liter Ecotec engine (180 hp and 170 lb.-ft of torque or 230 Nm) that features a central direct injection system, with variable valve lift on both the intake and exhaust sides, dual electric camshaft phasers and individual cylinder pressure transducers to control the combustion as well as deliver a smooth transition between combustion modes.
A sophisticated controller, using cylinder pressure sensors and GM-developed control algorithms, manages the HCCI combustion process, as well as the transition between HCCI combustion and conventional spark-ignition combustion. The transition between the combustion processes is notable in the demonstration prototypes, but production versions are intended to deliver an imperceptible transition while driving, similar to the deactivation performance of GM”s Active Fuel Management system.
Currently, the GM demonstration prototypes can operate on HCCI up to approximately 55 mph, transitioning to spark ignition at higher vehicle speeds and during heavy engine load. An extended range for HCCI operation is intended as further refinements to the control system and engine hardware are made.
“Perhaps the biggest challenge of HCCI is controlling the combustion process,” said Prof. Dr. Uwe Grebe, executive director for GM Powertrain Advanced Engineering.. “With spark ignition, you can adjust the timing and intensity of the spark, but with HCCI”s flameless combustion, you need to change the mixture composition and temperature in a complex and timely manner to achieve comparable performance.”
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It is estimated that over 40 million workers in the United States needed to obtain emergency medical treatment for workplace-associated injuries in the yr 2003. The Veterans Well being Administration is America’s largest integrated well being care system, providing care at 1,250 health care amenities , including 172 medical facilities and 1,069 outpatient websites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans every year.
Henson feels March into Well being, in its seventh yr, is gaining momentum within the public. There may be a time period when your body is wondering where the sugary foods went, but when you’re over the hump, you will really feel better than ever. Some healthcare merchandise or remedies may say they are ‘scientifically tested’ but this does not mean they are ‘scientifically proven’.
Short for ketogenic,” the keto food plan is an extremely low-carbohydrate consuming plan that sends the physique into ketosis—a state of burning fats for vitality, reasonably than sugars.
The remedy for cancer remains to be some way off but it is something that science expects to happen probably throughout the next few many years; medical analysis continues to advance in it’s battle with this disease that plagues humanity. Healthy food will taste higher. Wang, G. M., ‘Shaughnessy, P. J., Chubb, C., Robaire, B. & Hardy, M. P. Effects of insulin-like progress factor i on steroidogenic enzyme expression ranges in mouse leydig cells. In an effort to assist folks battling cancer and survivors feel good on the outside as they heal, Walgreens is increasing a program that pairs its magnificence departments with its pharmacies to more than 3,000 stores on Monday.
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For the entire physique to be wholesome, the sum of its components – the cells – should be healthy. Biomedical: all features of health, bodily and psychological, developed throughout the human physique as influenced by genetic make-up. Some web sites describe following a strict keto weight loss plan for six days every week adopted by one cheat day” or excessive-carb day.” Others encourage switching it up extra often.
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Nowadays, persons are changing into more and more health conscious. The Anti-Kickback statute creates a protecting umbrella, a zone during which sufferers are protected in order that the best well being care is provided. Important nutritional vitamins, like vitamin A and a variety of B-advanced vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and so forth) help battle off many infections to take care of and develop a wholesome body.
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(PRWEB) December 8, 2004
BMD-Certificates (http://www.BMD-Certificates.co.uk), a website which offers a specialized service to search for and supply copy certified and official U.K. birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates, has found that their international customers are often encountering difficulties when ordering Scottish birth certificates.
The difficulty arises from the changes to the regions that have occurred over the past two centuries. As customers have come from over 100 countries, these changes are often something that they are not aware of, and so can lead to incorrect applications.
John Walsh of BMD-Certificates said: ÂWhat we find is often an ancestor has only the town that their descendant came from, and they search using the regionÂs current name, rather than the historical name.Â
ÂWe felt that we should address this issue, and to help clarify this for other overseas researchers.Â
Prior to the creation of the administrative counties in 1889, Scotland consisted of thirty four traditional counties, which are listed below in alphabetical order, with alternative names given in brackets:
Aberdeenshire, Angus (Forfarshire), Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), Fife, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Mid Lothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elginshire), Nairnshire, Orkney Islands, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Sheland Islands, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), Wigtownshire.
Administrative counties were used for local government in Scotland, based on, but not identical to, the traditional counties. The main difference is the creation of Ross and Cromarty by merging Ross-shire and Cromartyshire.
There were also Âcounties of citiesÂ: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
On May 16, 1975 the administrative division into regions took place. This system was in place until April 1, 1996.
April 1, 1996 brought forth the council areas of Scotland which are unitary authorities:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire,
Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles), North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross,
Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian.
There is also the Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, used for ceremonial purposes. These are different both from the subdivisions and the traditional counties of Scotland. These are:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Banffshire,
Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries, Dunbartonshire, Dundee, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Glasgow, Inverness, Kincardineshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian,
Moray, Nairn, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Shetland, Stirling and Falkirk, Sutherland, The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Tweeddale, West Lothian, Western Isles, Wigtown.
The above information was compiled with the help of Wikipedia, and the CIA World Factbook. No direct quotations nor copyright infringements have been intentionally made.
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We had a great time at the Mercer Arboretum last weekend. Here are some of the pictures but you can see them all at our flickr account.
Jack’s eyes in this one crack me up!
It’s such a beautiful area that people go there to take just about every kind of picture (choir, wedding, etc.). We stumbled upon a crowd of people with matching shirts, cowboy hats and boots. They looked so neat! Then we saw what they were there for: the most beautiful 15 year old hispanic girl. I guess it’s a tradition. All I know is she was luminous. They had two Hummer limos and it was very ceremonial looking. I snapped a couple of shots because I had just never seen anything like it before! | <urn:uuid:de2dd1d3-84c4-4e84-94db-45a7a68e5d7c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.sparkbark.com/family-life/mercer-arboretum-in-spring-texas/ | 2020-09-25T07:40:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.982079 | 164 |
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"I wish I'd said that."
—Oscar Wilde, to a witty remark by James McNeill Whistler
"You will, Oscar, you will!"
—James McNeill Whistler, in riposte
There Is No Such Thing as Notability, but There Is Such A Thing As Quotability.
You've probably encountered these authors. They are the ones whose sayings adorn the inside pages of books, who appear on t-shirts, whose appearance is almost guaranteed on any Quote Overdosed page or series that makes use of Epigraphs. They will have the largest section on Beam Me Up, Scotty, in fact Beam Me Up, Scotty will form their best known quotes for a lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes (Mark Twain). Somehow these authors have managed to be inherently quotable. Their words tug on the imagination, perhaps more than they do on fact but hey, imagination is more important than knowledge (Albert Einstein). They also tend to be people to look up to for their intellect; people want to seem witty not just for saying something witty but also for saying something said by someone witty even though a witty saying proves nothing (Voltaire). There is also the fact that people depend on Small Reference Pools so once someone gets into the popular consciouness, they will circle around it for infinity.
Studies have been done on the ultimate master list of quotable authors but there are still more out there but there are still those who can gain infamy for a delightful epigram. They face a problem of saturation though for it seems that every poetic piece of wit gets attributed back to the same stock Authors of Quote when people are unsure of who really to acknowledge.
- The Bible, especially Jesus.
- Ask yourself what would an intellectual do? What would Plato do?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, granddaddy of oration, "Let the punishment match the crime" and expressed admiration for the literature of...
- Gaius Julius Caesar: "The die is cast", "I came, I saw, I conquered".
- William Shakespeare. In fact it now considered polite to not say "As the Bard said..." because it seems like you're trying to sound impressive for knowing some Shakespeare which is in fact very unimpressive.
- There is in fact a famous comedy sketch entitled “For You Are Quoting Shakespeare”. It focuses not on the iconic lines of his works, such as “to be or not to be”, but the lines which are so absolutely popular that they have entered every-day vocabulary. There’s a surprisingly large number.
- There seems to be a law that any famous quote by an obscure person has a 50% chance of being assigned to Napoleon.
- Voltaire whose writings inspired countless writers and were used in two revolutions. Look him up, he is a source of endless fun quotables.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Forest Primeval", "Shot Heard Round the World", etc.
- Oscar Wilde: Most people in the world have probably read more of his quotations than of his books.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche. His quotes have even become a Kanye West song.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland is the third-most quoted work in the world, apparently.
- Karl Marx
- Mark Twain
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Groucho Marx.
- GK Chesterton: "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
- Albert Einstein
- George Orwell
- Sigmund Freud (but only when he was right).
- There also seems to be a law that any famous quote by an obscure person has a 50% chance of being assigned to Winston Churchill.
- Yogi Berra (who never said half the things he said).
- Terry Pratchett
- Noam Chomsky
- Douglas Adams
- Robert Heinlein: This is mostly due to the fact that The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, a collection of quotes from the character (who appeared in several books) was published independently of the novels, but he ranks up there with Pratchett and Adams in terms of quotable sci-fi authors. | <urn:uuid:eba670d6-609e-4c82-afb9-f3b862761b98> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Authors_of_Quote | 2020-09-25T06:51:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.957109 | 956 |
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New shades of green: forestry laws to be amended from 1 July 2019
Legal update No 662
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Russia) LLP, formerly Goltsblat BLP in Russia, advises that a new Federal Law (No. 538-FZ dated 27 December 2018) titled ”Amending the Forestry Code and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation to Improve Legal Regulation of Relations Providing for Conservation of Forests on Forestry Lands and Other Lands” has been published.
Most importantly, the Law makes certain changes to the Forestry Code structure. It replaces Chapters 15 Protective Forests and Special Protective Forest Sites and 16 Usable Forests and Reserved Forests with Chapter 17 Protective Forests, Usable Forests, Reserved Forests and Special Protective Forest Sites and adds a new Chapter 18, Forests on Lands Other than Forestry Lands.
There are some other notable developments:
Forest parks, a territorial unit for managing use, protection and regeneration of forests, are now scrapped. Only forestry precincts (“lesnichestvo”) remain. Forest parks created before 1 July 2019 are to be converted into forestry precincts by 1 July 2020.
When setting or altering forestry precinct boundaries, the competent federal executive authority will produce a textual and graphical description of their location, also listing the boundary feature point coordinates in the geographical coordinate system or in the system established for the Realty Register by the Federal Law “State Registration of Real Estate” (No. 2018-FZ dated 13 July 2015).
The Law accentuates that boundaries of forestry land are set by reference to forestry precinct boundaries.
The Russian Government is expected to approve the use, protection and regeneration specifics for forests located on urban and agricultural land.
The Law will take effect on 1 July 2019.
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In Tennessee, students from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s department of chemical and biomolecular engineering department have engineered E. coli to produce natural scents from chemical wastes.
The team, which received a gold medal at a synthetic biology competition organized by the International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation, engineered the bacteria to convert benzene, toluene, and xylene isomers into aromatic aldehydes used in flavors, fragrances, and other products.
“iGem helps students not only with the opportunity to conduct research but also to learn about engagement and outreach to the public,” says Cong Trinh, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and faculty principal investigator on the project. “The students involved with the project were exposed to a multitude of research disciplines and possibilities, and this recognition for their project is excellent exposure for our university.”
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Lawrence (Larry) Paul Sharon
Larry passed away peacefully on Friday May 1, 2020 at the age of 69. Larry was born in Butte Montana on November 26, 1950, second child to Paul and Jean Sharon.
Larry was a lifelong resident of Butte, although he would have called Alder Mt. his second home. He spent summer and fall in Alder with his fishing and hunting buddies. Larry’s adolescent years were spent working on the Gornick Ranch in Waterloo Mt. He truly loved his summers milking cows, riding horses and changing the sprinkler pipes in the potato fields. The Gornicks became Larry’s second family and lifelong friends. Larry graduated from Butte High School in 1969. He enlisted in the Navy Reserve when he was a senior. He served in the Navy after his graduation for two years, until being honorably discharged.
Larry was a gifted musician, learning to play the piano and accordion early in his life, he also played drums and guitar in several local bands. He particularly loved playing at the Polka Fest later in life. Larry owned and operated Master Cleaners in Butte for over 40 years, he enjoyed serving his customers and being able to work with his family.
Larry was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Jean Sharon. Larry is survived by the love of his life, Kim Williamson, sister, Diane Sharon West, brother, Dan (Kathy) Sharon. Nieces and Nephews, Shad (Casey) West, Steven (Amy) West, Shauna West Reed, Jenny (Mike) Hawthorne, Zach (Taisha) Sharon, Jake (Amanda) Sharon. Great nieces and nephews; Matthew, Ryan, Wyatt, Sierra, Gage, Lane, Sophia, Sterling, Harper and Bodhi. And his very special friends Jon and Diane Sabo, Lindy Doyle and Joe Rohan.
Cremation has taken place and his remains will be interred with his parents and grandparents at Holy Cross Cemetery. A celebration of Larry’s life will be held when we can all get together and share our memories of him. Larry’s family would like to thank Dr. Paul Siddoway and the staff of Senior Solutions Hospice, especially Deacon Dan, Julie and Chris. Donations in Larry’s name can be made to the charity of your choice.
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The proportion of Canadians earning minimum wage has doubled over the past two decades, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
The number of low-income earners jumped from 5.2 per cent in 1998 to 10.4 per cent in 2018, with the biggest increases occurring over two key periods.
The first major increase happened right before the start of the global financial crisis in 2008. As people lost well-paying positions, many were forced into lower-paying jobs.
The second big bump happened in 2018, in tandem with minimum wage increases in three provinces.
“The proportion of employees earning minimum wage rose to unprecedented levels, as increases in the minimum wage levels in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia resulted in a number of existing employees joining the ranks of minimum wage workers,” said the report.
The biggest surge in minimum wage workers occurred in Canada’s largest province. Of the 617,500 low-income earners in 2018, 77.8 per cent were in Ontario.
The type of people working in minimum wage jobs has evolved too. They were “relatively more likely to live in urban areas, work in retail trade, be employed in a large firm, work full-time and be older than 24,” said the report.
More minimum wage workers have post-secondary education today (one in three), compared to 1998 (one in four).
Most minimum wage workers are employed in the retail trade sector (32.7 per cent), surpassing accommodation and food services since the early 2000s.
Small- and medium-sized businesses aren’t driving the growth in minimum wage jobs, rather the increase is taking place within large companies.
Nominal minimum wage growth has been higher (3.5 per cent) compared to average hourly wage growth (2.7 per cent).
Despite increases to the minimum wage, it’s still not enough to be able to keep up with the cost of living in expensive cities like Toronto and Vancouver. Not to mention, many low-income earners don’t receive things like health benefits, pension plans, or paid sick leave.
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We recently ran workshops with Y4 and 5 pupils at Sellincourt to think about and develop ideas for a large digital banner for the new school lobby.
The lobby is part of the refurbishment programme and will be remodelled to include (budgets permitting) a new glazed partition separating the main hall from the visitor holding area and a re-jigged Reception counter. The banner is based on a tree motif derived from existing Victorian ironwork in the school. Pupils drew lots of different trees and also the sorts of things that you might find in the branches. Measuring over 2 metres wide and 4 metres high it should make quite an impression on visitors! | <urn:uuid:b1589c85-802d-4166-b857-b5b03aec4257> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://cantoodesign.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/sellincourt-refurbishment-programme-updates/ | 2020-09-25T06:24:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.961832 | 138 |
The internet is abuzz over Filipino singing sensation Charice Pempengco admitting to receiving Botox to slim down her round face before making her debut on the television hit show ‘Glee’. Many have expressed dismay and outrage that she had undergone Botox at such a young age. Others condemn her behaviour as being vain and decadent. Unfortunately, most people have misconceptions the moment they see the word ‘Botox’. In truth, Botox for facial contouring is not new and it is a procedure for the young, not the old.
Botox: Not just for wrinkles
The round face: A common Asian problem
Many Asian men and women look fatter than we really are, especially in photos and on screen. Due to our high fibre diet, we generally chew more, resulting in hypertrophy, i.e. enlargement of the muscles responsible for chewing at the sides of our face called masseters.
Korean doctors discovered that when Botox is injected into these muscles, they shrink in size, making the face appear slimmer.
The procedure differs from Botox for wrinkles – because the aim of the treatment is to shrink muscles and not weaken small muscle movement, there is no alteration in the dynamic movements of the face. Facial expressions are not affected at all. The procedure is also most commonly performed on younger people. Results are long lasting, as the muscles are permanently smaller. Many celebrities undergo this contouring treatment.
A Great Solution for Teeth Grinding
Botox for the masseters have another important medical indication: nocturnal teeth grinding, or Bruxism. Sufferers of the common sleep disorder can have headaches, jaw pain, eventual wearing out of the teeth surface and fracturing of the teeth. Sufferers’ partners can also be affected by chronic lack of sleep. The loud noises made by noturnal teeth grinding have been likened to snoring, insects, and the angry punching on a telephone!
After Botox, the masseters become too weak mount the tremendous forces required for bruxing. The downside is that the treatment needs to be repeated every 6 months or so.
My Personal Experience
Botox for the masseters is a widely practised procedure worldwide, especially in Asia: hundreds of thousands of men and women have undergone it. The procedure is effective and very safe.
I suffer from Bruxism, and my dentists warned me that my molars were on their way to being ground down to a powdery paste. After trying mouth guards, I concluded that they work solely because they are so uncomfortable that you cannot even fall asleep with them on!
Years of grinding also meant that like Charice, I had a round face due to my huge masseters. Botox elegantly solved both my problems.
Lets face it. Nobody wants to look ‘fat’ onscreen. Charice did something admirable: she admitted to having a cosmetic procedure done to make herself look better. This is light years better than the other celebrities who obviously have work done, but lie through their teeth that they didn’t.
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By Stephen G. Donshik
Several weeks ago I watched the most amazing interview with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on the CBS news magazine program, 60 Minutes. Many of you may have seen it as well. While watching it I immediately thought of Jewish philanthropists who contribute and support nonprofit organizations in their local communities and in Israel. In the TV interview, Buffett and Gates delivered two major messages to philanthropists and donors.
The first message is that knowing how to earn money and how to use money to make more money does not necessarily mean you know how to use your philanthropic wealth in the most effective and efficient way. If someone is a high-tech innovator or a wiz at investing money to increase assets, it does not mean that person knows how to engineer or manage funds to be used in the nonprofit sector and to fund nonprofit organizations in the fields of health, education, and welfare. The skill set that enables one to be successful in the former activities is not necessarily transferable to the latter.
Buffett and Gates knew they wanted to use their philanthropic wealth to make meaningful changes in the quality of the lives of people who were confronting challenges that prevented them from achieving more for their families and themselves. They also knew the limits of their expertise in philanthropy and were willing to turn to people who could both advise them and then help them implement their pursuits in improving the lives of others.
They understand that in the same way they are experts in their fields there are people who are experts in philanthropy who could assist them in philanthropic ventures. In the Jewish community those experts can be found in a local community foundations that develop a variety of instruments for aiding donors who want to set up family foundations or philanthropic funds such as donor advised funds or living wills and trusts. Jewish donors in these communities should avail themselves of these kinds of services. By doing so they will be able to explore a variety of options that may meet their philanthropic needs and that they may not have known existed.
If you are in a community that does not have a community foundation then there are often accountants, lawyers, or philanthropic advisors who can provide the same knowledge and expertise. Of course, devising an instrument that responds to the philanthropist’s concerns and interests is only one part of the story. Once a fund or foundation has been established then the focus is on soliciting proposals from nonprofit organizations that are providing services in the areas congruent with the philanthropist’s interests. There are a variety of approaches, whether having an open request for proposals or soliciting proposals from specific organizations. Once the proposals are received then a philanthropic advisor, either one with a community foundation or private consultant, can assist the philanthropist in reviewing the documents and evaluating which program(s) is appropriate to fund.
Before funding the projects or programs there should be a reporting system in place that includes a self-evaluation process. It is also not unusual to include a planning process prior to implementation, and all of this should be clear from the grantee’s proposal and work plan. Funding can be provided on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, and the transfer of funds should be based on the progress reports detailing the activities related to the project. As these reports, which include both programmatic descriptions and budgetary information, are submitted, then the funder is in a position to ask for further clarification or to authorize the next payment to the agency. Utilizing the services of the community foundation, which can guide you through this process, can be a learning experience for philanthropists and simultaneously enable them to be more effective in their use of their funds.
The second message of the interview with Gates and Buffett was the importance of a mega-donor fund for the Jewish people. These two men are challenging very wealthy people to follow their example and to donate 50% of their wealth to philanthropic causes. They have formed an informal group of fellow philanthropists who have made this pledge, and they meet to share their experiences and challenges and to consult with each other. The Jewish community can take a page from their book.
The key questions that very wealthy donors in Jewish communities around the world must ask themselves are, “How much money do I really need and how much money does my family need? At what point do I say I have enough money and I want to give the rest to benefit the Jewish people in my community, around the world, and in Israel?”
How is it possible to encourage those fortunate few who have hundreds or millions or billions of dollars to follow the example of Buffett and Gates and decide to donate everything over a certain amount of their wealth to use for the benefit of the future of the Jewish people?
On this website I have written about the need for a Foundation for the Jewish People. Let me suggest that those of our people who have been very fortunate to have been able to amass mega-wealth be approached to ensure the future of the Jewish people through such a fund. Each donor would be able to decide whether he or she wanted to support projects initiated by the Foundation or to fund other initiatives. The Foundation would be in a position to assist them in using their funds effectively and efficiently in whichever way they decided to use their resources.
On Sixty Minutes, Buffett said, in a tongue-and-cheek manner, that he is going to write a book on How to Get Along on $500 Million. We should follow his example and develop a similar approach with mega-wealthy Jews. We are living in a time when the collective wealth of the Jewish people is greater than it has ever been, and we have an opportunity not only benefit to ourselves but also to secure the future for another 5,000 years of Jewish peoplehood.
Why not think about doing for our people what Buffett and Gates are doing in the general philanthropic world? It would be shame to miss such an historic opportunity. Let us hope some Jewish philanthropist will take up the challenge and implement it with his or her colleagues.
Stephen G. Donshik, D.S.W., is a lecturer at Hebrew University’s International Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program. Stephen was Director of the Israel office of the Council of Jewish Federations (CJF), 1986-94, and Director of the Israel office of UJA Federation of New York, 1994-2008. | <urn:uuid:19ae6158-d6c4-4150-a5bd-9c57c54c0c78> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/if-its-good-for-buffett-and-gates-its-good-for-the-jewish-community/ | 2020-09-25T07:18:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.967783 | 1,298 |
Two Ukrainian servicemen were wounded amid 28 attacks by pro-Russian militants on 30 May, the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) HQ said in the morning update on Facebook.
On nine occasions, the militants used 122-mm artillery, 120-mm and 82-mm mortars banned by the Minsk agreements.
The tensest situation in the Luhansk sector was observed near Krymske and Novotoshkivske. JFO units put up active defence near Zaytseve and Novotroyitske in the Donetsk sector and near Chermalyk and Hnutove near Mariupol.
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(DF) Police Make Arrests amid Continuing Anti-Government Protests
August 18 (BTA) - Sofia police arrested three participants in what the Interior Ministry described as "the unregulated protest action" against the government and the prosecutor general after the three behaved aggressively against a family. Around 10 pm on Monday a 112 caller reported that a family with two little children were assaulted by persons involved in a blockade in front of the Romanian Embassy in Sofia. The family's car was reportedly made to stop and was surrounded by aggressive protestors. Reacting to the alert, police helped the family leave the place in their car, the Interior Ministry reported in a press release on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the prosecution service said that a 19-year-old man was charged with throwing a glass bottle at protestors in a tent camp, shouting insults at them and brandishing a gas pistol. The man was released on a 500 leva bail. In yet another incident, protestors and representatives of the BOEC civil movement occupied the building of the Central Election Commission in Sofia on Tuesday, Bulgarian National Radio reported. They wanted to attend a Commission meeting, and said that unless they were allowed inside they would not let anyone else in. Eventually, the protestors were barred from attending the meeting. The anti-government protests in Sofia and other cities went into a 41st day on Tuesday. The Sofia Directorate of Interior issued an advisory recommending to people to be more cautious while moving around the city. "Due to the firm refusal of the organizers of the protests to abide by the law, the Sofia Directorate of Interior is not providing security for these unregulated activities," the Directorate said. RI/VE // 19 August 2020, 08:00
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Venus in Leo is not only currently conjunct Jupiter, she is also beginning to slow down in preparation for her station retrograde on July 25. Those particularly sensitive to the deep Venusian pull of this upcoming Venus retrograde cycle will already be feeling her effects in your life on an inner and outer level. In other words, this is a great time for an astrological consultation!
At the same time, for personal reasons I am hoping to increase my finances through my astrological practice in the coming weeks, and so I thought I would create a win-win situation by offering a 40% discount on all of my astrological consultations for the next three weeks, through July 26, 2015. Essentially this means that you would be paying $78 for an astrological consultation with me. If interested please email me at email@example.com and I can arrange a time with you for us to meet. I can do a consultation with you over Skype and can then send you a MP3 recording of our conversation afterwards.
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FrontPage Extensions in Cloud Hosting
Unlike a number of website hosting suppliers on the market, we don't plan to stop the support of FrontPage Extensions on our servers and this particular attribute is provided with each and every cloud plan that we offer. We are aware of the possibility that when you're changing companies and you're moving your existing site, you've probably worked tirelessly on it through the years, so we give you the opportunity to choose whether you will work with a different app to rebuild the website or use the content which you already have in order to avoid losing long years of work. Activating FrontPage Extensions on our end takes just a click inside the Hosted Domains area of your Hepsia Control Panel and you are able to use them separately for every domain or subdomain which you have in your account. After that you are able to upload your website since our system will add the needed FrontPage files in your domain folder, and you will not have to do anything else yourself.
FrontPage Extensions in Semi-dedicated Servers
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What to do when you are confused about your feelings
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4 Ways To Find Direction When You Are Feeling Confused
You have much more clarity than you think. Re-read that last line again. You have a lot more clarity than you think. You see, clarity is what you are. Confusing thought is there in spades. Being lost in your own personal thought is what produces the feeling of confusion.
Not doing something when you feel lost and confused is a healthy action. This becomes your mantra when the lost and confused sort of anxiety is nipping at your heels. I want to help you look straight-on at the things that are difficult to be with, and part of that means getting real about what it is that you want to change. How will cultivate courage, boldness, bravery? How will you stay on-course? This is where creating a regular habit of courage, a courageous response to that old feeling of lost and confused instead of a fear-based response, comes in. I created the Courageous Living Program, based on the principle that you can learn courageous behaviors and make them an everyday part of your life.
We all get confused at times, but prolonged periods of confusion can cause us to feel that we are stuck in a never-ending, foggy web of uncertainty. Confusion can make us feel powerless, anxious, stressed and a whole host of other draining emotions.
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The Mind Can Only Be Confused - Sadhguru
Feeling confused in a relationship is easily one of the most disconcerting feelings. Relationships are an integral part of our lives and an important part of an individual's overall growth process. Romantic relationships especially have a deep bearing on one's mind and emotions. Safe to say, being confused in a romantic relationship - about the relationship itself or about one's partner - is not a nice feeling. Whether it's your unhappiness about the way the relationship is going that is causing the confusion, or it's things about your partner that have you feeling that way, you need to find a solution. Sitting on your emotions and letting the confusion fester will be good for no one.
Show less Having mixed feelings often causes confusion and can leave you feeling uncomfortable, exhausted, and stuck. This occurs because you have encountered a new person, a new situation, new behaviors, or new information to process. Having conflicting feelings does not only apply to a romantic relationship or a brand new relationship. These feelings can happen with a friend, family member, or coworker as well, someone you already know very well. An example might be when you love and admire your best friend because she is caring and kind. Yet you simultaneously feel jealous, because she is popular and holds the attention of those around her. | <urn:uuid:d410c039-4f50-42bd-8e5e-5cd71aba3507> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://hamiltonellis.com/about/396-what-to-do-when-you-are-confused-about-your-feelings-943-558.php | 2020-09-25T07:20:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.949476 | 592 |
ProForm 525 CSE+
iFit® Bluetooth® Smart Enabled
Pick Anywhere in the World and Go
Making time for world travel is a challenge—but it doesn’t have to be impossible. Visit Paris, hike the Swiss Alps, or jog the Chilean coast with your iFit® Coach Ready™* Elliptical powered by Google Maps™. You can also customize your workouts with unlimited programs designed by certified personal trainers. And our ever-growing workout library offers programs that progress with you from first-time user to daily enthusiast.
*Access iFit® account from computer, tablet, or smartphone. Requires membership, sold separately. Trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners. Google Maps™ is a trademark of Google, Inc. Tablet requires the iFit® Smart Cardio Equipment Application. Android 5.0+ with Bluetooth 4.0+. iPad 3 and above with iOS 8+.Tablet not included.
- Global Google Maps™ Routes
- Unlimited Fitness Library
- Strengthening Personalized Nutrition
- Extensive Connected Tracking
A Console That Combines All The Options
6" Backlit Screen
The backlit display of the 525 CSE + elliptical cross trainer gives you all the information you need about your workout: speed, time, resistance, distance, calories and heart rate.
The console features integrated speakers so you are able to plug your device into the console sound system to stay motivated with your workout playlist.
A Wide and Fluid Movement
Over sized Pedals
The 525 CSE + elliptical is equipped with extra-large pedals that have cushioning for comfort.
The larger the wheel of the elliptical bike, the more movement will be ample and fluid, and will be closer to a natural stride thanks to the 41 cm step length.
20 Levels of Resistance
The 525 CSE+ allows you to adjust your resistance to vary workout intensity. With SMR™ Silent Magnetic Resistance, every adjustment is quiet, smooth and natural.
- iPod®-Compatible Audio*
- 6'' High-Contrast Display
- 18 Preset Workout Programmes to Choose From
- 16” Stride Length
- 20 Resistance Levels
- 10 kg Effective Inertia for a Smooth Motion
- Integrated Tablet Holder - *Tablet not included with the 525 CSE+.
- 9v Power Supply - Adaptor Included
- Package weight - 73 kg
- Product weight - 60kg
- iFit Bluetooth Compatibility
- 125 kg Weight Capacity
- Product dimensions - 133 x 64 x 159 cm (LxWxH)
- Package dimensions - 152 x 63 x 160 cm
- Water Bottle Holder Attached
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The Information reports on increased investment by venture capitalists into consumer-facing and enterprisewide privacy-technology solutions. In 2017, venture capitalists invested more than $497 million in privacy-related startups, which, according to the report, more than triples the amount invested five years ago. Through the first three quarters of 2018, venture capital firms have invested more than $506 million. Bain Capital Ventures Managing Director Enrique Salem said, with privacy laws proliferating and increased privacy awareness, "I think those things coming together, plus the amount of data that everyone is using every day, makes it an area ripe for investment." BigID Chief Executive Officer Dimitri Sirota said investors are "paying attention," adding, "I would even say it is feverish." (Registration may be required to access this story.) Editor's Note: The IAPP Privacy Tech Vendor Report lists more than 150 vendors in the space.
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Absolute Precision: Next-Generation Mokka Shows New Face of Opel
- Central design feature: Vizor organises fascia elements and stretches across front
- Bold and pure: new face consistent with future Design philosophy
- New family look: all future Opel models will feature Opel Vizor
Rüsselsheim. The next Opel Mokka will be the first model to show the new face of the German brand. The team around Opel Design Vice President, Mark Adams has created a new, unmistakable front – the Opel Vizor. Like a full-face helmet, a protective vizor that organically integrates the grille, the headlights and the brand logo in one single module covers the new Opel face.
The legendary first generation Opel Manta inspired the initial concept of this elegant feature: for the new Mokka, the designers literally reinvented the Manta’s grille with twin headlight-modules on a black surface, framed by a thin chrome bar.
The vizor of the new Mokka extends in one single sweep across the front of the vehicle underneath the bonnet, visually stretching its width and organising the fascia with a reduced amount of elements. No superfluous decoration disturbs the focus on a pure, flush surface that perfectly integrates the headlights. The legendary Opel lightning-flash emblem proudly dominates the centre. It looks pure, precise and technical, a perfect match to the new Mokka that will only have high-quality LED lamps as well as the latest generation of IntelliLux LED® matrix headlights – a true highlight in this market segment. The Opel Vizor will become a hallmark of all Opel models in the course of the 2020s with the idea of further clustering top technologies
“It was very important for us to create a fresh new face for the brand that was true to our future design philosophy of being both bold and pure. Our new Vizor that makes its debut in the next generation Mokka is very clear and distinctive, while being true to its German roots of form follows function. There is no need for a classic grille in electric cars like the Mokka, so the Vizor creates a seamless integration of future lighting and other technologies, all within a high-tech protective surface” explained Mark Adams .
The new brand face follows the compass philosophy of Opel. The next-generation Mokka will show for the first time the new template for the front and rear view of future Opel models. In the design compass, two axes intersect with the Opel lightning flash in the middle, so that the brand emblem is increasingly becoming the central feature. The now sharper and clearer crease in the hood, which is typical of the latest Opel vehicles, continues below the flash and determines the vertical axis. The characteristic wing-shaped graphic of the LED daytime running lights, which all future Opel models will also retain, symbolizes the horizontal axis. | <urn:uuid:c69adc74-a69d-40ce-b859-82aab0a30705> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://int-media.opel.com/en/06-09-mokka-vizor?idtok=51790bbb8103 | 2020-09-25T07:13:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.888596 | 611 |
InTrans / Aug 07, 2014
Green light, yellow light, red light . . . STOP!
posted on August 7, 2014
Did you know that in the United States, someone runs a red light about once every twenty minutes? Each year, more than 800 people are killed, 165,000 people are injured, and $320 billion is wasted by something completely avoidable—red-light running.
Whenever a driver enters an intersection after the light has turned red and before it turns green is considered red-light running. On the other hand, entering the intersection when the light is yellow, even if it turns red while the motorist is in the intersection, is not illegal in most places.
One proposed method of reducing and preventing this problem is red-light cameras, which were first introduced in the U.S. in the early 1980s. The exact details vary based on the manufacturer, however they all operate on the same principle: When a car enters an intersection after the light has turned red, the camera takes a photo or video of the incident. These cameras are usually angled to capture the car, the license plate, and the intersection light. Date and time stamps are also included.
“Because it is connected to the traffic controller, red-light cameras know when the light is about to turn red. If it senses that the vehicle is not going to stop for the red light, it triggers the video to start recording,” said Shauna Hallmark, director of Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans).
The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that up to $50,000 per year is saved (in property damage, hospital bills, etc.) at each intersection with a red-light camera. Currently, as of 2010, 441 cities in the U.S. have installed them. In a 2005 study by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, their research found that red-light cameras reduce dangerous right-angle crashes. In the same study, they also found there can be an increase in the number of rear-end collisions, leading to the total number of collisions remaining unchanged.
“The worst intersection crash is either head-on or ‘T-bone,’ because you are absorbing all the impact of that vehicle into your own. When people don’t run red lights, you don’t get T-bones,” said Hallmark.
Let’s explore some other common beliefs about red-light cameras.
Myth 1: Red-light cameras don’t work!
The cameras are quite effective. Although research from various universities and organizations, such as Iowa State University, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and the Journal of Safety Research don’t agree on their exact effectiveness, most show that intersections with cameras see a 10-50 percent decrease in crashes. Recently, research on red-light running has been done by InTrans through their project entitled, “Red-Light Running Phase II,” which showed a 40-90 percent decrease in the number of crashes and even a notable decrease in rear-end crashes in various cities within Iowa.
Myth 2: The cameras are there to make money!
Red-light cameras are there for public safety. With any sort of decrease in the number of crashes at an intersection means there are fewer red-light runners and fewer deaths and injuries. And if fewer people are running red lights, that also means fewer tickets and less revenue.
Myth 3: Yellow lights are shortened to increase the number of red-light-runners!
The point of red-light cameras is to deter red-light running (and thereby fatalities and injuries)—not cause it. All states have minimum time limits on yellow lights, meaning cities are not legally able to shorten the time of yellow lights.
Myth 4: Cameras automatically send you a ticket!
Anything the camera picks up is reviewed by a local police officer before a decision is made on whether it was a violation or not. This helps people who are trying to turn left and get caught in the intersection or manage to squeeze through before the light changes (though in some places this is illegal).
Myth 5: I can’t argue with the ticket!
Like anything else in our legal system, drivers have a chance to argue their case in court. Drivers can acquire photos (sometimes videos) of the alleged violation, usually from the local police department.
Myth 6: It’s a violation of privacy!
Being on a public road, you have the same privacy rights as you would in a government building. That means you can, with a justifiable reason, be recorded and/or photographed while driving.
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Planning carefully before launching a new business is not limited to preparing a business plan. While preparing a business plan is generally a valuable exercise, there are other ways to plan carefully. Some of the recommended planning methods include:
While writing a business plan is certainly helpful, the real value is not in having the finished product in hand, but rather in the process of researching and thinking about your business in a systematic way. The act of planning helps you to think things through thoroughly, study and research if you are not sure of the facts and look at your ideas critically.
If you don't commit to in-depth preparation, launching a new business can be a very expensive lesson in the value of planning. One would ask, "Would you enter a high-stakes poker tournament without knowing the game, assuming that you'll figure it out as you go?"
Sixty percent of new businesses fail within the first three years. To often people rush into business without carefully checking out their idea to see if it will work. Research is essential.
While the internet makes it possible to conduct research without leaving your desk, Googling is not enough. Talk to real people who are in the business you want to go into. Talk to people who might be your customers and get their views and opinions. Test your ideas if possible.
For the founders of Tender Greens, spending two years in the planning process allowed for a unique opportunity to try their ideas out on the public that would eventually become their clientele. During that time they were able to test recipes and refining their business.
Because we were already working in the restaurant industry, they were able to actually test some of their recipes on customers at the resort, for two or three times the price they planned to charge at their own restaurant.
Ask questions, conduct research or gain experience to help you learn your market inside and out, including the key suppliers, distributors, competitors and customers. You also have to really understand the critical metrics of your market, whether it's as simple as sales per square foot and inventory turnover, or an esoteric measurement in a highly specialized niche market.
Tender Greens' and their partners spent many years working in the California restaurant industry before launching their business. That experience allowed them to not only perfect their craft, but also to develop longtime relationships with food purveyors, farmers and other suppliers that they relied on to help Tender Greens succeed. In fact, Scarborough Farms, the restaurant's lettuces and greens supplier, is a partner and investor in the company, thanks to its long relationship with the founders.
In most business plans, a description of potential customers and how they make purchasing decisions receives much less attention than operational details such as financing, sourcing and technology. But in the end, it will be the customers who determine your success or failure.
You need to know who they are going to be, what drives their purchase decisions, what you can do that will differentiate your offering from that of competitors and how you can convince them of the value of your offer. And the answers to those questions shouldn't be off-the-cuff guesses. They need to be well-grounded in reality and market testing.
Before launching Tender Greens, the owners spent years creating and serving the kinds of dishes they wanted to one day serve at more affordable prices. That experience is what helped them develop an understanding of the types of farmers-market-inspired dishes that would please local customers.
Understanding your future customers can be the difference between changing a failed aircraft engine on the ground vs. doing so midflight. The former is much simpler and much more likely to be successful. Once you start up the business, it's likely that you will be consumed with operating details, often with little time to think and even less to make adjustments. Implementing the right plan from the start is far more likely to yield success than figuring out a plan on the fly.
"Cash is king", so you must take steps to adequately capitalize the business and secure ready sources of capital for growth. A good cash-forecasting tool is critical so that you can plan for the sources and uses of cash on a rolling basis.
While some startups rely on owners' capital, others look to investors. Tender Greens' owners raised funds from friends, family members and colleagues.
To determine how much cash you'll need, we can help develop a cash-flow statement that estimates your expenses and income. Be sure to include appropriate expense levels by researching actual business costs rather than estimating based on your personal experience as a retail consumer. For instance, you can host your personal website with unlimited bandwidth for $9.95 a month, but operating a commercial website may cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a month. Plan appropriately.
Limit your need for cash by avoiding long-term commitments, like long-term leases, until necessary. There will be a considerable amount of uncertainty during the first few years, so be conservative in making commitments for resources that might not be yet needed.
From the beginning, it's critical to select the appropriate corporate structure for your business, which will have legal and tax implications. The structure you choose can also ensure the success of future decisions, such as raising capital or exiting the business.
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September 17, 2016 at 10:53 pm #149
If you wanted to travel to New York City by land in colonial times, you had to pass through the Kingsbridge area. That’s because the only bridges to Manhattan were built right here–The King’s Bridge was built in 1693 and the Free Bridge in 1758. Unless I’m mistaken, the next bridge built to connect NYC to the mainland was the High Bridge in 1848. That means that for 150 years all land travel to the city passed through Kingsbridge. The post roads from Albany and Boston converged in Kingsbridge as did important local roads from the town of Westchester, Mile Square, and West Farms. For traveler accommodations, Kingsbridge offered two taverns: Hyatt’s Tavern, which was located in today’s Marble Hill neighborhood; and John Cock’s Tavern, which was situated on the Northwest corner of Broadway and 230th Street. This second tavern, owned by Frederick Philipse, had several different proprietors and therefore different names but John Cock was the owner in the years leading up to the revolution. Although practically no detailed records of the tavern exist, we know the names of many travelers that stopped by for food or lodging thanks to the scattered diaries that they kept of their travels. Several of these diary entries are so detailed that, taken in aggregate, they start to paint a picture of what life was like at the tavern and around the bridge. I will be posting the travel diaries that I have come across in the “Colonial Kingsbrige, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil” Forum as separate topics. This is the first.
The earliest travel diary I have seen is that of Sarah Kemble Knight, a 38-year-old Bostonian, who traveled from Boston to New York and back in 1704. She did not write much about passing through Kingsbridge except to note the following on her way out of New York City:
Having here transacted the affair I went upon and some other that fell in the way, after about a fortnight’s stay there I left New-York with no Little regrett, and Thursday, Dec. 21, set out for New Haven wth my Kinsman Trowbridge, and the man that waited on me about one afternoon, and about three come to half-way house about ten miles out of town, where we Baited and went forward, and about 5 come to Spiting Devil, Else Kings bridge, where they pay three pence for passing over with a horse, which the man that keeps the Gate set up at the end of the Bridge receives.
She clearly does not go into much detail but it is interesting to know that there was a gatekeeper at the end of the bridge collecting a toll. She was hoping to lodge at New Rochelle and Having already stopped at a “way house about ten miles out of town,” it seems natural that she would not stop at the tavern at the bridge. More about that tavern in the next post. Click here to see the “beta version” of a map of colonial Kingsbridge (best viewed on a large screen).
April 3, 2018 at 3:50 pm #394
I have a few 1874 prints of the Kings Bridge which shows a small coach going north across Spuyten Duyvil Creek and over the Kings Bridge. You can see McCombs Tavern and lodge in the background. Not much had changed in this area since 1776.
April 3, 2018 at 9:43 pm #396
Is this the one you’re talking about?
There are so many details in this one that I love.
- The simplicity of the bridge
- The oyster shack
- SC Berrian Lumber – The Berrians were some of the earliest settlers in the area
The one question I have is exactly what is the perspective here? I am thinking looking northwest from the Manhattan side, which would make the hill in the background Spuyten Duyvil. But if that’s true, the house in the background with the mansard room could not be the McCombs/Godwin mansion–so I’m not sure.
April 5, 2018 at 2:29 pm #407Peter OstranderModerator
I believe the house or Inn that Sarah kemble Knight mentions stopping at 10 miles out from NYC and 5 miles from the Kings Bridge was likely the Blue Bell tavern located down in Washington Heights about 181 St and Broadway. A famous tavern and location depicted in many paintings and drawings. A good one can be found in the old Valentines Manuals.
April 9, 2018 at 10:32 pm #429
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Yes…The Blue Bell was along the old Kingsbridge Road or ” Broadway ” in Manhattan
January 27, 2020 at 5:18 am #1256
Not to be picky, but the Macombs dam bridge crossed over to Manhattan in 1814 in 1861 it was replaced by a wooden swing bridge called the Central Bridge
January 27, 2020 at 5:42 am #1257
Macomb’s Dam Bridge – Currier and Ives 1852 and the Swing Bridge 1861 at the same location
January 27, 2020 at 1:37 pm #1258
That is good to know and I love that Currier and Ives. The construction looks very similar to photos of the King’s Bridge that I have seen–very simple.
I imagine that bridge would have diverted much of the traffic coming over the King’s Bridge, especially from the east.
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Dear Friends of Second Church,
Last week, I was blessed to preside at a wedding in San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico.
What an adventure!
My last visit to Mexico was a four hour trip to Tijuana with my dad when I was eight, so I had a lot to see and learn. It was delightful.
I learned that Mexican children have the same loyalty to their mom’s mole recipe that Italian-American kids feel about their mom’s Bolognese.
I learned that weddings involve not only the ceremony, itself, and of course the reception, but also a parade through town led by enormous puppets and a mariachi band.
Most of all, I learned that the anonymous street scape of heavy doors and shuttered windows still offered momentary sightings of interior courtyards with bright tiles, gurgling fountains and hanging curtains of flame vine — places where anyone could happily hole up for the duration.
You don’t need to convince me that houses can have souls — or spirits, anyway.
I’ll save talking about the churches and what it’s like to pray in them for another post.
Eventually, though, it was time to go. As it always does, getting home involved waiting for a while in any number of lines — check in, security, boarding “zone,” immigration, customs, etc.
But I found myself thinking about the streets of San Miguel as I waited. About how the impatient guy in the Barca soccer jersey and the older couple in matching Travelsmith khaki vests were, in their own way, like those enormous doors and closed windows I had seen.
Any of us presents a face to the outside world that gives little clue to what might be found inside. Maybe we are carefully tended, manicured to the hilt. Or surprisingly unkempt, disordered in one part and wildly beautiful in another. The fountains flow with abandon in some; in others, the pools are melancholy and stagnant.
This is what God sees.
These are the courtyards He would tend with such patience and love, if we were willing…or where God sees His own handiwork already in blossom, creating a peaceful place where the soul dwells.
It makes me wonder what I need to do to welcome in the gardener — what needs tending to — and what it might be like to open the doors so that others might see.
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Just when we thought we were done with the list of designers rumored to be designing for Meghan Markle’s wedding day–Ralph & Russo, Erdem, Christopher Bailey for Burberry, Roland Mouret and Alexander McQueen have all been reported as contenders–Page Six is reporting that we may have missed the mark. Notable British designer Stella McCartney has been called out as the possible creator of Meghan’s wedding gown, according to some British designers’ speculations.
While the alignment of McCartney’s signature style and Markle’s affinity for minimal, clean and sleek cuts feels spot-on, McCartney would be an atypical choice for a silhouette of the size and scale of this particular event. Stella’s commitment to eco-friendly fabrics, vegan leathers and conservation in the production of her collections would fit in perfectly with Meghan and Harry’s initiatives for global sustainability, as well as the Queen’s latest conservation efforts in partnership with Angelina Jolie, dubbed the Queen’s Conservation Canopy (or the QCC). However, McCartney isn’t known for dramatic eveningwear.
The designer has made bridal gowns in the past for friends of the house and family members–she designed a wedding suit for her stepmother, Nancy Shevell in 2011–but she’s never been known for bridal. McCartney has also offered a bridal capsule on her website in the past, for clients of the house looking to incorporate pieces of her signature style for the aisle. With that said, she’s never fully delved in to the wedding industry, unlike most of the names on Markle’s potential designer list.
The idea of McCartney designing Meghan’s ceremony gown feels like a reach, given the strong reports that the bride-to-be is collaborating with Ralph & Russo, England’s only Haute Couture house, for her ceremony gown. However, we would not be surprised if McCartney was charged with Markle’s look for her Frogmore House reception.
Meghan’s signature style would suggest that at some point, she’ll opt for something figure-hugging, structured and sleek–and McCartney would be a fantastic fit. Markle has worn McCartney’s designs before, and rumors swirled that she has met for private shopping appointments with eveningwear specialists from the brand–although those meetings could very well have been for personal shopping rather than bridal. Other names that have received the most buzz surrounding Meghan’s second dress include Roland Mouret, who designed the dress Markle wore to arrive at Cliveden House, and Erdem.
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A suggestion had been made to me a while back about making my own bagels. I had thought about it before and it always seemed like there was a lot of work involved in doing it so I never really gave it much thought until recently. I did some looking around for bagel recipes, trying to find one that would not be difficult to make and could be done in my small kitchen without a lot of fuss. After doing some searching, I came upon this recipe from The Sophisticated Gourmet and it seemed basic enough and easy enough that it would be worth my first shot, even if it is 95 degrees outside. Who doesn’t love a nice bagel for breakfast or as a substitute for your bread on a sandwich?
New York-Style Bagels
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups warm water (you may need 1/4 cup more, I used a little more than this)
3 1/2 cups bread flour, plus extra for kneading
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
In 1/2 cup of warm water, pour in the yeast and the sugar. Do not stir. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes, and then stir the yeast and sugar mixture until it all dissolves in the water.
Mix the flour and the salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and pour in the yeast and sugar mixture.
Pour half of the remaining warm water into the well. Mix and stir in the rest of the warm water as needed. Depending on where you live, you may need to add anywhere from a couple of tablespoons to 1/4 cup of water. You want your final results to be a moist and firm dough after you have mixed it.
On a floured countertop, knead the dough for 10 minutes until it is smooth and elastic. Try working in as much flour as possible to form a firm and stiff dough. Lightly brush a large bowl with oil and turn the dough to coat. Cover the bowl with a damp dish towel. Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for 1 hour, until the dough has doubled in size. Punch the dough down and let it rest for another 10 minutes.
Carefully divide the dough into 8 pieces (you can use a scale for this if you have one and want to be exact; I just eyeballed it to try to get equal portions). Shape each piece into a round. Take a dough ball and press it gently against the countertop or other flat surface you are working on, moving your hand and the ball of dough in a circular motion, pulling the dough into itself while reducing the pressure on top of the dough slightly until you form a perfect dough ball. Repeat the process with the other 7 dough rounds.
Coat a finger in flour, and gently press your finger into the center of each dough ball to form a ring. Stretch the ring to about 1/3 the diameter of the bagel and place the bagel on a lightly oiled cookie sheet. Repeat the process with the remaining dough.
After shaping the dough rounds and placing them on the cookie sheet, cover them with a damp kitchen towel and allow them to rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Reduce the heat. Use a slotted spoon or spider skimmer to lower the bagels into the water. Boil as many as you are comfortable with at first without overcrowding. Once the bagels are in, they will begin to float to the top within seconds. Let the bagels sit in the water undisturbed for 1 minute, then flip them over to boil for another minute. Extend the boiling time to 2 minutes per side if you would prefer a chewier, more New York-style bagel.
Once all the bagels have boiled, transfer them to a lightly oiled baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
I only made plain bagels this time out since it was the first time I was trying them, but you could certainly add a wide variety of toppings to the bagels. Things like sesame seeds, poppy seeds, caraway seeds, minced onion, minced garlic or anything else can be used. You want to add your toppings after you remove the bagels from the boiling water and apply an egg wash to the bagels before you put the toppings on and then put them in the oven. The work time wasn’t bad even though it involved kneading dough in the summer heat for me, which wasn’t a lot of fun, but it was certainly worth it. I was very happy with the final results and the bagels tasted delicious. All said, I think it was pretty easy to do for a great result and a lot cheaper than buying a bagel from the bagel store or deli.
We used the bagels with dinner last night to make chicken salad sandwiches and they were delicious. I also tried Alton Brown’s coleslaw recipe to go along with dinner last night. There are a few nice ingredients in this one that give some great extra flavor.
Alton Brown’s Coleslaw
1/2 head green cabbage, thinly sliced
1/2 head red cabbage, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 ounces plain yogurt
2 ounces mayonnaise
1 tablespoon pickle juice
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon chives, chopped
Kosher salt, as needed
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Generously salt the cabbage and drain in a colander for 3 hours. Rinse thoroughly and dry. In a separate bowl, combine all of the ingredients except the cabbage and carrot. Whisk to combine evenly. Toss the cabbage and carrot with the dressing.
Salting the cabbage first helps to pull out a lot of the moisture from the cabbage. You could just as easily use a bag of coleslaw mix if you have one hand and get the same results. I love the added flavor that the yogurt, buttermilk, pickle juice and mustard give to the slaw. It has a nice, tangy flavor and a little bite to it that is very enjoyable.
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Consider purchasing a copy of A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society
Education is, without a doubt, an essential component of life. In fact, by the mere act of living consciously, one cannot help but observe the nature and behavior of the world and its inhabitants. Every day is filled with experiences which may either affirm one’s currently held beliefs or reveal something new and previously unobserved, causing his beliefs to be altered accordingly. Life involves the process of refining one’s understanding of himself, others, and the environment surrounding his existence until he is no longer. Hence, education is held in high regard and rightly so. However, the value of education by society in general has, as many other noble concepts, been manipulated into justifying a strict regulation of the minds of the youth.
Language, arithmetic, and basic literacy are indispensable building blocks for future learning. Many have cited the importance of such skills when advocating public schooling, compulsory attendance, and the regulation of curriculum taught in both the public and private spheres. Tragically, such mandates and regulations impede the flowering and proliferation of these essential skills as well as innumerable other avenues of knowledge relative to the education and growth of children in free societies. Competition and economic calculation inherent in free markets incentivizes and enables entrepreneurs to provide many methods of teaching tailored to an individual’s mental acuity and personal interests. As with knowledge itself, such teaching methods will never be perfected, but they will be most efficiently and perpetually refined under a paradigm of freedom from State coercion.
It is indeed because proper education is so integral that we cannot afford to allow it to be regulated, restricted, and usurped by State functionaries. The use of aggression to ensure the provision of any product or service precipitates and manifests the very fears for which its use was originally demanded. The only tool wielded by the State to which market participants are not privy is that of aggression. Markets are defined by their absence of systemic aggression, because it may only be used to destroy, diminish, and pervert. Aggression does not satisfy the inherent demands of existence, i.e., the demand for acquiring food, shelter, water, education, love, etc. On the contrary, it exacerbates such needs and creates a zero-sum game between the members of society, where one may only gain at the direct expense of others. Aggression thus promotes chaos, not cooperation. Only when individuals choose to deal with each other voluntarily and respect private property rights may their dealings result in mutual benefit and a net increase in their wealth. Ludwig von Mises describes the economic purpose of cooperation:
The fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart human cooperation. Experience teaches man that cooperative action is more efficient and productive than isolated action of self-sufficient individuals.
Only this paradigm of voluntary cooperation and peace may truly mitigate the risks we encounter as organic beings which require certain resources to survive, multiply, and thrive. Finally, through the promotion of diversity and specialization of tasks inherent in the division of labor, we may be able to optimally enhance our wealth in the material, mental, and psychological realms. Peaceful markets are the key to promoting such ends. Rothbard explains the role of variety in creating a flourishing society:
But human individuals, despite similarities in ends and values, despite mutual influences, tend to express the unique imprint of the individual’s own personality. The development of individual variety tends to be both the cause and the effect of the progress of civilization. As civilization progresses, there is more opportunity for the development of a person’s reasoning and tastes in a growing variety of fields. And from such opportunities come the advancement of knowledge and progress which in turn add to the society’s civilization. Furthermore, it is the variety of individual interests and talents that permits the growth of specialization and division of labor, on which civilized economies depend.
Positive Rights vs. Negative Rights
Many people believe everyone has a right to education; others contend that we have rights against such impositions. For the purpose of disentangling this philosophical mess, a review of positive and negative rights is in order. Positive rights essentially entail that one is entitled to a certain product, service, or environmental arrangement, i.e., that some other person must perform some activity in order to fulfill such rights. Conversely, negative rights refer to rights which an individual holds that entitle him to be free from certain actions. Put differently, negative rights entail that individuals may not justifiably engage in certain activities against others. In other words, positive rights require others to commit certain acts whereas negative rights require them to refrain from particular behavior. Examples of positive rights may include a right to healthcare, education, or food; a prime example of a negative right is the right to free speech.
Philosophical libertarians believe that positive rights are morally illegitimate as they require others to commit or perform certain actions regardless of their consent. Having a right entails that its violation implies the use of violence would be justified in attaining a remedy or restitution. Thus, positive rights entail that one may use violence against another if he does not receive a particular product or service to which he is supposedly entitled. The only rights people have, according to anarcho-capitalists (libertarians), are property rights. The Non-Aggression Principle itself is simply a derivative of one’s ownership of his own body and property. Owning something, after all, entails the exclusive right to employ said something so long as such employment does not entail aggressive interference with the persons or property of others.
Anarcho-capitalists thus believe that to enforce any positive right is to necessarily violate the negative rights of others. Those who espouse positive rights, such as a right to education, believe if one is not receiving the education to which he is entitled, then he may coerce another into either providing it or into surrendering a portion of his property for its funding. Property rights, non-aggression, and self-ownership are all logically incompatible with any inherent positive right. An additional complication of positive rights is the ambiguity of the level of service to which one is entitled. Is he entitled to merely being taught the alphabet and simple arithmetic? Or is he entitled to being educated in advanced literature, calculus, and quantum physics? Perhaps something in between? Any such determination is highly arbitrary. If a theory of rights includes such arbitrary and unclear boundaries, it becomes counter-productive to its purpose of mitigating interpersonal conflict.
State Management vs. Free Market
One of the most pernicious aspects of the public schooling system is its compulsory attendance laws. Such laws have the effect of sending children to school against their will. The effects on a child’s creativity and psyche from being compelled by threat of force to go to such sterile institutions are incalculable. Such institutions are not tailored to his individual preferences or capacities to any substantial degree. Some children may withdraw into depression and other anti-social behavior; other children may act out and rebel, which is not only an indication that such a situation is unhealthy for them, but also renders the educational environment for their peers less suitable for growth. An environment of child-selected education would eliminate the majority of anti-social behavior. Institutions that were voluntarily chosen by parent and child alike would yield greater and more direct incentives to please parents and children. Such institutions would provide the methods and content of education that is most highly desired and/or under-serviced relative to the market demand. In contrast, compulsory attendance laws coupled with taxation create an environment filled with moral hazard for these schools. If school funding is guaranteed by the State, then the focus will be geared much more towards satisfying government bureaucrats than catering to the desires of parents and, least of all, to the desires of children. Public schools are only marginally concerned with parental satisfaction as they cannot, under threat of force, withdraw their financial support from them. Aaron Smith offers a few remarks on compulsory attendance laws:
Current laws vary by state in details, but they are quite homogeneous in spirit. All require a minimum amount of instructional time (ranging from 160 to 186 days annually) at approved institutions. The majority of Americans between the ages of 5 and 18 are compelled to meet this requirement, with several states enforcing slightly more lenient laws. Although parents are free to pursue private education for their children, such options are almost always regulated by state governments.
In essence, compulsory attendance laws and the regulation of curriculum effectively subject children to imprisonment and mass indoctrination. When a single institution may dictate the length of formal schooling as well as regulate to a large degree the content which must be taught, such power will ultimately be used to benefit itself irrespective of its purported goals or intended beneficiaries. A population which at its youth is taught to obey authority for its own sake and that is, to a large degree, reared by State functionaries (public teachers) will be far easier to control and manage once it transitions into adulthood. Though this end may not be consciously acknowledged or pursued overtly by public school teachers, it is nonetheless a prominent result. Even if various politicians truly believe that it is in the best interest of all children to be in school for a set period of days or to receive a certain type of education, these intentions do not alter the fact that different children have different interests, aptitudes, and preferences that must be sacrificed to the central plan. Fully in agreement with Hayek, Mises remarks that:
The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is: whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself or should the paternal government alone plan for all?
The degree to which education is uniform and involuntarily imposed upon children is the degree to which they will suffer now in the form of boredom, intimidation, and despair and in the future in the form of untapped potential, a dulled mind, and a greater susceptibility to the whims of arbitrary authority. The many hours spent at school enduring tedious and vacuous instruction could have instead been used for more engaging and stimulating learning activities tailored more closely to the capacities and desires of the individual child. Though a voluntary or free market education system will not always be perfectly tailored, its incentive structure would be much more appropriately aligned with achieving the ends of edification, growth, and maturity than its Statist counterpart equipped with the exclusive powers to aggressively demand payment for its services and to unilaterally dictate the scope thereof. Even parents who send their children to private schools or decide to homeschool are still subject to compulsory attendance laws and curriculum requirements. In essence, they and their children remain subject to the same aggressive and monopolistic oversight perpetrated by the State. Aaron Smith comments on the State’s destructive role in squashing private educational alternatives:
Private schools and homeschools are rarely truly free-market alternatives to government-regulated education. By mandating attendance, states have a virtual stranglehold on the nature of private education. After all, in order to become a state-approved program of study at which “official” attendance is recognized, private actors are forced to satisfy some combination of curricular, reporting, and testing requirements… The state’s monopoly on what defines “education” inevitably suppresses alternative views, thereby eliminating the complexity and diversity that should be prevalent in the market. Instead, a homogeneous system is used to serve heterogeneous students — yet another cost of compulsory education… The natures of schools should be as diverse as the population itself. Curriculum, delivery method, and instructional time are but a few of the myriad variables that must be customized if the individual needs of a child are to be met. Rothbard noted the advantage of unfettered development of private schools in that “there will tend to be developed on the free market a different type of school for each type of demand.”
This analysis of the State managed education system may be perceived as hyperbolic to some. However, this has much to do with the doublethink inculcated in the youth during public instruction. Simply replace the term “State” with “Corporation” and try to imagine how people would react in horror to the idea of this institution exerting monopolistic control over the education industry, dictating what must be taught and how many days out of the year children will have to endure instruction. In addition to this, imagine that this corporation is granted the power to force everyone to pay for this service at the threat of violence, to include even those who have no children at all! Consider the outrage and slew of criticisms which would shower down upon such an idea: “monopolies result in ever increasing prices,” “such a monopoly would suppress innovation and diversity!” Virtually nothing separates the State from this hypothetical corporation. The same criticisms which apply to this monstrous monopolist apply equally to the State! The State is akin to a mega corporation that owes its size and largesse to its exclusive legal rights to violently impose its will upon others and to force its subjects to pay for the costs of the enforcement of its edicts through taxes. The State is comprised of human beings, just as a corporation, just as a club, just as any other organization is comprised and as such is subject to the same temptations, corruptions, and perversions associated with arbitrary power. Isabel Paterson describes the mental constriction such an organization employs:
Political control is… by its nature, bound to legislate against statements of both facts and opinion, in prescribing a school curriculum, in the long run. The most exact and demonstrable scientific knowledge will certainly be objectionable to political authority at some point, because it will expose the folly of such authority, and its vicious effects. Nobody would be permitted to show the nonsensical absurdity of “dialectical materialism” in Russia, by logical examination… and if the political authority is deemed competent to control education, that must be the outcome in any country.
Educational texts are necessarily selective, in subject matter, language, and point of view. Where teaching is conducted by private schools, there will be a considerable variation in different schools; the parents must judge what they want their children taught, by the curriculum offered. Then each must strive for objective truth… Nowhere will there be any inducement to teach the “supremacy of the state” as a compulsory philosophy. But every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later, whether as the divine right of kings, or the “will of the people” in “democracy.” Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property, and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey…
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
The Economics of State vs. Free Market Education Systems
For a minute, assume away all of the corruption that comes with arbitrary power. Suppose, instead, that every State agent is benevolent and has the best intentions for its citizens. The question now is: how do they know the most efficient allocation of resources so as to minimize costs? How do those employed by the State know what size a given school should be? How many teachers ought it to employ? What type of food it should serve? What method and content of education should it deliver? What assortment of supplies, software programs, and disciplinary techniques should it utilize? They may hold democratic votes on these questions, but scarcely anyone voting would have any idea of the opportunity costs involved in their decisions. The parents would, of course, want the “best” computers, teachers, supplies, food, etc. for their children yet they will not desire the high taxes that may be associated with the provision of such goods. Perhaps the capabilities of super computers exceed the demands of the students; perhaps a teacher with a Ph. D would be more optimally employed in a college setting as opposed to a kindergarten class. The most obvious hurdle is that every scarce resource used for one end is a resource that cannot be used for another mutually exclusive end simultaneously.
These calculation issues do not stop merely at the use to which these educational resources are put, but expand into the general economy. More resources used for the educational system result in fewer resources being available for other ends, which may include healthcare, food production, provision of security, etc. Because the service of education is largely subsidized and regulated by the State apparatus, any sort of pricing mechanism which may have otherwise served as an invaluable guide for such resource considerations is now rendered defective. Prices are only effective at guiding economic decisions and determining opportunity costs to the extent they are voluntarily and organically developed. In the case of public schooling, consumers do not voluntarily pay for this service. Their property is taxed at a rate totally unrelated to what they may have otherwise been willing to pay. Because their payment is coerced, the quantitative indicator (price) representing the relative supply of educational resources and corresponding demand for these resources is rendered hopelessly muddled.
In contrast, when such services are patronized on an exclusively voluntary basis, the price system provides an accurate and objective reflection of the market value of all resources. These market generated prices would then serve as an invaluable guide for making economic decisions as they reflect with greater precision the opportunity costs associated with hiring one teacher over another or purchasing one computer over another…etc. Furthermore, such prices allow entrepreneurs to compare the profitability or efficacy of their business models with others. Of course, due to one’s subjective preferences, maximizing monetary profits may not be the ultimate goal, however, the level of one’s profits or losses would still provide the entrepreneur with valuable feedback regarding which services are satisfying customers and to what degree they enjoy them. This will be a crucial factor in most business decisions as ignoring consumer preferences – as public schools are in the habit of doing – would in the long run lead to bankruptcy or business failure.
Without grants of State protection or legal favoritism, those decisions which make the most economic uses of resources will also be the ones that yield the greatest amount of profits for entrepreneurs, aligning their self-interests with the interests of the consumer. Unlike the public schooling system, there will not be widespread misallocation of various supplies and services. There will be objective indicators, noted in terms of profits and losses, which reveal whether or not the employment of a particular teaching method or the content taught is desired and if the supplies used are lacking, necessary, or excessive in the process. The unsuppressed competition will continue to drive entrepreneurs to seek more innovative, economic, and tailored ways to satisfy a growing share of the market for childhood growth and edification. This is a realistic system for achieving these goals as it takes into account scarcity, opportunity costs, subjective preference, consumer heterogeneity, and the self-interests of educational entrepreneurs. The organic market system of freely consenting individuals harmonizes all of these factors absent central direction. The resulting satisfaction from such a spontaneous order is something that cannot be paralleled by aggressive control or political management, no matter how competent those in power may be. Certain popular standards will undoubtedly emerge from this kaleidoscopic mixing, however, such standards and the successful enterprises that utilize them will only remain so long as they continue to provide a desired service in an economically efficient manner.
The State’s Effect on Post-Secondary Education
University tuition is prohibitively expensive, yet attendance rates remain as strong as ever. What accounts for this? Once again, government meddling has produced an artificially high demand for post-secondary education, which is creating price hikes at an increasing rate. This artificial demand is fueled by subsidized student loans, grants, and the moral hazards generated by the State guaranteeing privately provided student loans. B.T. Donleavy comments on the extent to which university students lean on the State for assistance:
The Department of Education reports having a $63.7 billion budget in appropriations for 2010. It has also received $96.8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The department’s website states that “department programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to more than 14 million post-secondary students.” That is roughly 4 million short of every college student in the country. Does this mean that only 22% of students in the United States have adequate means to pay for college? Based on America’s economic model, this statistic should theoretically be impossible. This means that over 3/4 of Americans attending higher-education institutions are “in need.”
Former president of the Mises Institute, Douglas French, has this to say about the effects of State credit subsidization on post-secondary education:
Like all booms, higher education has been fueled by credit. In June of last year, total student-loan debt exceeded total credit-card debt outstanding for the first time, totaling more than $900 billion… All of this credit has pushed the average cost of tuition up 440 percent in the last 25 years, more than four times the rate of inflation. But while the factors of production on campus have been bid up, just as they are in any other asset boom, the return on investment is a bust. In 1992, there were 5.1 million mal-employed college graduates. By 2008, the number was 17 million.
Not only are the returns poor, but the quality of the product is poor (as in the case of new-construction quality in the housing boom). According to the authors of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, 45 percent of students make no gains in their critical reasoning and thinking skills, as well as writing ability, after two years in college. More than one out of three college seniors were no better at writing and thinking than they were when they first arrived at their campuses.
Many projects contemplated and started during the real-estate boom are never completed, as prices are bid up, and owners run out of capital. Such is the case for many attending college, as over 45 percent of those who enroll as freshmen ultimately give up, realizing they lack the disciplinary and mental capital, and do not graduate.
Once again, unintended consequences pervade the actions of the State, despite the good intentions of its subsidized and managed services. It is important to remember that prices serve a critical function for the economic rationing and allocation of scarce resources relative to their demand. Price manipulation by involuntary redistributions of wealth undermines the ability for prices to spread information of economic realities. In this case, student loans are subsidized with tax dollars involuntarily confiscated from taxpayers and redistributed either to the schools directly or to the students via grants and guaranteed loans. It is no surprise, then, to witness how such interventions have inflated the prices and degraded the quality of the higher education services being offered today.
In distinct contrast, a privatized education system without enormous takings from Peter given to Paul would not be subject to such folly. Entrepreneurs who provided poor services or charged excessive prices would lose business to their more apt competitors who more astutely recognized what students wanted and were able to provide it to them. Prospective students would be confronted with the true costs of schooling when deciding which schools to attend or whether they should even attend formal post-secondary schooling at all. Perhaps they would be happier learning a vocation or participating in an apprenticeship outside of the academic rigmarole of university life. In a free market system, it is the consumer that ultimately determines the configuration of their services, and the providers of those services only benefit insofar as their voluntary subscribers benefit.
What About The Poor?
Perhaps the most common objection to a non-State education system is the possibility of the poor having access only to lesser education, if any at all. However, what can be readily discerned is that the costs of education in such a system would be significantly lower than what private education costs today, as such schools would not have to abide by mandated regulations, occupational licensing requirements, curriculum mandates, et al. Schools would therefore have much more flexibility in the provision of their services. In addition, rabid competition in this industry would tend to drive entrepreneurs providing education to continually decrease costs and increase the quality of their services.
Moreover, educational institutions in free markets would not have to unfairly compete with the State which is able to demand payment from all persons under its jurisdiction, whether or not they take advantage of its services. Private entrepreneurs, on the other hand, cannot resort to such jackboot tactics; they would have to persuade potential clients to pay through the art of sales and influence. In addition, the option of online classes may become prevalent as they are highly effective and relatively inexpensive, if not completely free. Bountiful, free, online educational resources already exist such as Wikipedia, Code Academy, and the Mises Institute. With the advent of the Internet and digital learning, even the most esoteric topics may be accessible to virtually everyone in the world. In 2014, one may enroll in a Bachelor degree’s worth of courses entirely for free from MIT, Stanford, and numerous other prestigious institutions which host their lectures online absolutely free. Arcane topics such as cryptography, technology entrepreneurialism, environmental protection, statistical mechanics, and many others are offered on monthly or quarterly bases – no payment is asked, and students may enroll or cancel at any time they choose without obligation. This paradigm of free and open courseware is utterly revolutionizing; the gates of knowledge and information are being torn down and free entry is offered to any student, child or adult, enterprising enough to take part in the course material. This has the capacity to educate whole swathes of underclass, marginalized, and disenfranchised populations who were prevented, directly or indirectly, from participating in the great adventure of higher education.
Currently, under the State-managed education system, anyone who wishes to send their children to a private school is also required to fund public schools through taxes. In a free market, however, those who purchase education services for themselves or their children would not be paying twice – once for a lean, efficient operation and twice for a bloated, indoctrination facility. With boundless freedom, a student may take courses which pertain to his interests as opposed to being compelled by curriculum standards to take courses for which he cares nothing, saving valuable time and money.
Naturally, in such a free environment, there would be disparities in the quality of services just as sunglasses from Wal-Mart are of considerably lower quality than those offered by Versace. The difference, however, is that those services and products which are currently only accessible to the rich would, over time, tend to become accessible to the middle class and eventually the poor. When the middle class and the poor witness the luxuries enjoyed by the rich, they begin to yearn for them. With this new demand comes an impetus for entrepreneurs to discover ways to provide these luxuries to the lesser socio-economic classes at prices they can afford. In other words, the envy of the middle class and the poor represents a business opportunity for entrepreneurs that drives the market to find cheaper and more efficient ways to make these goods more accessible. This has been the case with automobiles, computers, colored televisions, cell phones, and every other type of consumer electronic. Though there may be a disparity in services present in the market, the tendency will be for all levels of services to increase in quality and decrease in price. This is the beauty of unhampered markets; they transform goods only the wealthy can afford today into goods owned by virtually everyone tomorrow.
Finally, various educational institutions may be more than happy to recruit bright students that are financially lacking. Schools operating in a marketplace have the incentive to acquire as many bright students as possible so as to appear more attractive to a slew of financially-able parents and guardians. The poor, yet bright, student would benefit by gaining access to high-quality facilities and teaching faculty and the school would profit by being able to more effectively solicit its services as a training ground for inquisitive minds. Naturally, schools of every variety face this incentive. Art schools want talented art students, vocational schools want technically gifted individuals, etc. Smith highlights how the restriction of private education hurts precisely those for whom public education was intended to benefit:
The poor and middle class are most injured by the lack of innovation that results from government monopoly on education, as they are without the means to pursue the artificially limited supply of private education available. Instead, their children are forced to attend under-performing public schools that often have little regard for the unique faculties of individual students. It is likely that the generalized education imposed on them will do nothing but retard their development, suppress their talent, and instill in them a permanent disdain for learning.
Standards in any industry are important, as standards allow for the comparison of performance and the evaluation of service. It is precisely because some form of standards would be desired that the market will produce them. For example, entrepreneurs may want to advertise the average test scores of their school and how they compare to the competition as a selling point. Any educational institution which did not offer a reference point by which to compare its services with others would lose market share to those firms which displayed prominently their fitness on standardized grounds. In addition, third party organizations which specialize in evaluating and comparing different schooling institutions, companies, textbook providers, lesson plans, and projects would flourish. Without the State enforcing its own arbitrary metrics, watch-dog organizations would arise to take over the role instantly. In higher education, the process of accreditation has been a largely private function for hundreds of years (though this too is being swallowed by the vanity of State oversight). Judith Eaton outlines the history and nature of accreditation:
Accreditation is a creation of colleges and universities that dates back more than a century. Its fundamental purposes are quality assurance and quality improvement in higher education. A process of self-regulation through peer and professional review, it is the oldest such system in the world. Today more than seven thousand colleges and universities and more than twenty thousand programs serving some twenty-four million students willingly undergo periodic accreditation review by nineteen institutional accreditors and sixty-one programmatic accreditors. Accreditation is nongovernmental by design and relies on funding from colleges, universities, and programs (some $92 million in 2007, according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, of which I am president). Accreditation depends heavily on volunteers from higher education who participate in self-studies, serve as peer and professional reviewers, and serve on accrediting organizations’ decision-making bodies.
As in anything else, there will be competition in the field of providing standards and other metrics for these institutions. Particular third party evaluation companies will gain reputation over time based on how effective they can measure aptitude and quality. If employers tend to, on the whole, favor metrics from company A to company B, then more educational institutions will be compelled to subject themselves to the standards set by company A. Of course, different metrics may be offered for different types of schooling, however, the process of market selection will remain the same. Those standards which never garner popularity will fade away and the practices of the more successful metrics will be copied and improved upon by others. The resulting metrics will have been driven by individuals in the market, and not by the arbitrary caprice of politicians and bureaucrats. Such standards, being products of the market, would be perpetually and accurately modified in accordance with the vicissitudes of consumer preference.
Though the tool of education is largely under State control, it is also the key to our salvation. Instilling in our children and in our peers the virtues of peace, critical thought, logic, and empathy will enable them to break free from the mental shackles of the State. State power is, in the end, rooted in the sanction of its subjects. Free minds who question their training will ultimately reject the conditioning of their State handlers. As in other industries, free markets in education are defined by the capacity to privately own or employ all scarce goods – including capital, land, buildings, materials – and to organize them on consensual grounds. This paradigm substantially and sustainably promotes innovation, peace, cooperation, wealth, and an overall greater standard of living. It accomplishes this by enabling participants to measure and compare their business ventures through market prices, and by aligning their personal interests in accruing wealth and influence with the interests of greater society. The State is simply the inverse; through its commands and dictates, it destroys the capacity for critical thinking and free expression. It seeks to create identical subjects, like goods on a mass production line, obedient to established authority, deferential to “the rules,” controlled by bells and punch clocks, and ultimately unable to discover the barbaric nature of their master.
Mises, “Action Within the Framework of Society,” in Human Action, 157.
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Individual’s Education” in Education, Free & Compulsory (Auburn: Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1999), 5.
Aaron Smith, “The Costs of Compulsory Education.” (editorial published at Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, June 22, 2011.)
Ludwig Von Mises, “Planning for Freedom” (speech presented at the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945).
Smith, “The Costs of Compulsory Education.”
Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1943), 271-72.
B. T. Donleavy, “The Education Bubble” (editorial published at Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, May 12, 2010).
Douglas French, “The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped” (editorial published at Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, August 10, 2011).
“The classical factory of the early days of the Industrial Revolution was the cotton mill. Now, the cotton goods it turned out were not something the rich were asking for. These wealthy people clung to silk, linen, and cambric. Whenever the factory with its methods of mass production by means of power-driven machines invaded a new branch of production, it started with the production of cheap goods for the broad masses.” Mises, “Work and Wages,” in Human Action, 616. See also, Deirdre N. McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006).
Smith, ibid.
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As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations, this year we are running a DESIGN A POSTER! competition to promote The Royal Wootton Bassett Arts Festival.
There are two categories : Ages 5 – 8 years & 9 – 11 years
You can submit any design to your taste and flair on A4 sheet of paper. To be submitted by 31st October to: Ms. Rhian Vaughan, 62 Perry’s Lane, Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 9AP
Please firmly attach the following details to your entry:
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All posters will be displayed at the Festival in November, and there will be a winner of each group with 2nd & 3rd placings. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals will be awarded, together with a prize. Winners will also have their work printed on the RWBAF website, and in the Programme.
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It’s hard to look cute when you’re pregnant. That’s just a fact. Okay, honestly I have a hard enough time looking put-together when I’m not pregnant!
In years past, pregnant women did not have many options for clothing. It was leggings, tented tops, and…no that’s about it!
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I get freaked out when an audience stares blankly at me.
Audiences can look creepy – it’s not all in your head
Don’t take the glacier gazes personally, though, since members of the audience are… just being an “audience”.
They are operating under the principles of audience psychology, obeying certain unspoken rules about how to act and how not to act.
Knowing these rules should help you remain composed.
1. Audiences are cool, not comforting.
In other words, don’t expect pats on the back and scads of smiles when you walk in the door. Curiously, though most people are scared of speaking themselves, they express little sympathy for the poor presenter up there all alone.
So if they seem cold at first, remember that they’d be looking at any other speaker in the same cool way. For the most part you will have to give warmth before you get it.
When an audience is staring blankly at you, the last thing you want to do is stare blankly back.
2. Audiences are responders, not initiators.
They wait for the speaker to set the tone for how they’re supposed to act.
They won’t relax until you act relaxed. They won’t ask questions until you provide the opportunity to ask questions.
Audiences will even sit in a formal, rigid posture until you signal (perhaps by moving away from the podium or leaning forward) that it’s okay to stretch out.
The good news, then, is that you’re in the position to set the standard for the audience behaviour you want.
3. Audiences don’t want to be noticed.
Audiences consist of individuals who don’t want to be singled out. While the speaker worries about poor performance, they have their own concerns.
They may fear introducing themselves (especially standing up and introducing themselves), asking you a stupid question, being called on, or being volunteered for something they don’t know how to do.
Take a look at the first row of seats at your next conference – it often stays empty. Heaven forbid they get too near the speaker!
The audience’s need not to be noticed takes precedence over your need for a little nurturing.
How to counteract blank looks
If you receive more than an occasional blank look when you’re conversing one on one, you’re probably doing something that prevents your message from getting through.
Let’s explore the possibilities.
Your vocabulary or sentence structure may need adjustment if it’s too technical, abstract, or pompous.
For example, many lawyers speak “legalese,” a version of English filled with henceforths, parties of the seventh parth; and clauses tacked on to each other ad infinitum.
Since many listeners won’t let you know when you’re speaking above their heads, it’s up to you to translate for them.
Check in with the listeners occasionally, to make sure you’re communicating.
Questions such as “Hands up if you think I’m being clear” and “Let me know if there is anything you’d like me to explain” take responsibility for remedying communication breakdowns.
Another reason for glazed gazes might be that you have little facial animation yourself, and listeners are simply mirroring you.
Research indicates that a speaker who uses various facial expressions is perceived as more engaging and influential.
Mentally observe yourself during conversations to see if you’re giving what you receive.
It’s also possible that your listeners are masking with a frozen face their embarrassment about a mannerism you use while speaking.
Over the years my clients who stutter have told me that when people don’t know how to react, they just stare. Other communication behaviours that produce listener discomfort include too many pauses, peculiar facial expressions or sounds (one client clicked his tongue whenever he was thinking), and frequent mispronunciations.
Gather the courage to ask someone who knows you well if there is anything disconcerting about the way you speak.
Article originally published on SpeakerHub, reposted with permission from the author, Laurie Schloff.
Laurie Schloff is a lifelong corporate communication coach to professionals who uses speaking as a tool for success. Her specialty is designing customized, practical, results oriented and entertaining programs for individuals and groups. She is the author of Smart Speaking, He and She Talk, and Twenty Twinkling Stars, a fundraiser for National Students Against Violence Everywhere. | <urn:uuid:df6396a8-da41-4f43-ac38-174cd4999299> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://speakersisterhood.com/2017/11/06/getting-blank-looks-when-speaking-here-is-what-you-should-do/ | 2020-09-25T07:52:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.942879 | 975 |
Access provides several quick-create form tools on the Create tab, each of which lets you create a form with a single click. However, if you want to be more selective about what fields appear on the form, you can use the Form Wizard instead. The wizard also lets you define how the data is grouped and sorted, and you can use fields from more than one table or query (provided that you specified the relationships between the tables and queries beforehand).
Start the Form Wizard
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Follow the directions on the pages of the Form Wizard.
Note: If you want to include fields from multiple tables and queries on the form, do not click Next or Finish after you select the fields from the first table or query on the first page of the Form Wizard. Instead, repeat the steps to select a table or query, and then click any additional fields that you want to include on the form. Then click Next or Finish to continue.
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The Form Wizard can create a variety of results depending on the options that you select. As a result, we recommend that you run the wizard several times, experimenting with different options each time, until you get the results that you want.
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Centuries from Jason Roy and Joe Root powered England to their record one-day run chase, chasing down the West Indies to win by six wickets in Barbados.
The tourists were up against it in the first ODI after Chris Gayle ended his six-month exile from Windies colours in towering fashion, hitting 12 maximums in a knock of 135 and guiding his team to 360 for eight.
England’s previous best pursuit was the 350 they scored against New Zealand in 2015 but Roy was fearless at the top of the order, hitting 123 in 85 balls, while Joe Root all but finished the job with a measured 102.
He fell with the scores level, but Jos Buttler clipped his first ball for four, sealing a historic win with eight deliveries remaining.
The barnstormer in Bridgetown would have followed a different path had Roy managed to hold a tough catch while 39-year-old Gayle had just nine to his name, while England’s centurions were spared on seven occasions as the hosts came unstuck in the field.
Roy offered four chances of varying difficulty between 75 and 119 and Ashley Nurse somehow managed to miss a trio of catches from Root on 46, 62 and 68.
Gayle, beginning a lap-of-honour that will end with retirement after this summer’s World Cup, had just nine from 33 balls when he fended Liam Plunkett just over the grasping Roy at point.
Four balls later he struck his first six and began working through the gears, increasingly alert to anything in his hitting arc and absolutely unforgiving when it was.
Having almost fallen at Plunkett’s hand, Gayle ensured it would not happen again, clattering four sixes from the seamer’s 14 balls at him. Moeen Ali was equally vulnerable, with Gayle launching his off-spin into the crowd on five occasions, and ended up nursing figures of nought for 85.
Where Gayle’s first 50 had occupied 76 balls, his second 50 required only 24. He celebrated the moment by dropping to his knees and hailing the pavilion before getting to his feet and, ever the showman, balancing his maroon helmet on top of his bat. He held both implements high above his head before resuming battle.
He finally fell in the 47th over, turning a Ben Stokes slower ball into his stumps. The England all-rounder finished with hugely impressive figures of three for 37, including the scalp of his old nemesis Carlos Brathwaite.
Adil Rashid also took three wickets, despite being curiously held back until the 34th over, and Nurse added three late sixes to break the innings record of 22 previously held by New Zealand.
Far from being overwhelmed by the chase, Roy positively embraced the high stakes. Faced with an odd couple opening pair – spindly leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo and hulking paceman Oshane Thomas – he went after both.
Roy’s fourth ball of the day, from Bishoo, disappeared down the ground for six while both he and Jonny Bairstow used Thomas’ express speed against him amid a flurry of early boundaries.
England reached 50 inside six overs and 100 in exactly 12, with Roy’s focus undimmed by Bairstow’s departure for 34. With Root calmly accumulating, the Windies needed to halt Roy’s charge but a top edge drifted away from Thomas in the breeze and Holder failed to grab a reaction caught-and-bowled on 82.
Progress from there to his ton was serene, a top-of-the-bounce pull and a one-bounce off drive taking him within one blow.
When that shot came it was definitive, a sweet six straight back over Ashley Nurse’s head.
Roy had further luck, a lusty slog and a reverse sweep going down, before finally slicing Bishoo to short third man.
His leaving gift to Root and Eoin Morgan was a friendlier required-rate behind than the one he encountered, down from 7.22 to 6.78.
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I planted ten apple trees about a dozen years ago. The trees get beautiful flowers but I either don’t get any fruit or they fall off when they are little. They are all Red Rome apples. I planted them in the middle of a big field and there are no trees to cut off their sun. Is it because I don’t prune them? I have a peach and it has fruit.
The fact that you have no fruit can be laid off to one thing. You have only one kind of apple tree. To have the fruit grow, there has to be cross-pollination with another kind of apple or crabapple tree. So you would need Gala or McIntosh or Northern Spy apple for the pollen swap to work.
There are probably three hundred different kinds of apples other than Red Rome that will work. The trees need to be blooming at the same time for the happy little bees and other insects to make the transfer.
Fruit trees are considered either self-fruitful or self-unfruitful. If it is self-fruitful, it does not need another tree. That would be your peach. Also included are: tart cherry, apricot, nectarine and European plum. But for the self-unfruitful trees to have fruit, they need a similar tree but a different variety.
Besides apples, pears, sweet cherries, Japanese plums are self-unfruitful. There are a couple of cultivars that are exceptions that do not need another pollinator: Golden Delicious apple and Bartlett pear.
It is important to know the name or cultivar of the fruit you have.
For apples, if there is a crabapple planted no more than 100 feet away, it can act as a pollinator, but it doesn’t always work. The cross pollination is to allow the trees to make fruit. The only thing that is affected is the seeds. They are now a combo of your tree and the pollinator. But since you will not be growing fruit trees from seeds, it doesn’t matter.
All your purchased trees are grafted so they will be identical to the Red Rome or Yellow Transparent that was the parent tree.
My lawn looks really lumpy this spring. I have some mole trails that have lifted grass up and I have a couple of big dips that are several inches deep. I was told to just get dirt and throw it on the top of the bad areas and drop some grass seed and it would fix itself. It sounds easy but will it work?
The simple answer is no. If it sounds too good to be true and there’s no such thing as a free lunch…that stuff is still accurate.
For raised mole trails, the best solution is to buy a lawn roller that you can put water in to change its weight. Add just enough water so that the raised tunnel is compressed. You do not want to leave a ditch. On clay soils, you could compact the soil so much that the grass dies. The right weight is needed.
Get a roller that you can hitch to a riding mower or ATV. Many of the mole poisons do not seem to work well for homeowners.
For the dips in the lawn, if you follow your plan, the grass will germinate and grow a bit and then die.
You have two choices.
You can dig three sides of a square and pull the grass back like a rug. Mix your topsoil and the existing soil under the grass flap together and replace your giant divot. Water well and the roots will grow as long as it stays damp.
Or you can dig up the area, mix the topsoil and the existing soil and put down seeds and straw and keep it damp for the next month.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Laura Levine says she never smoked a cigarette or touched a drink until age 35. Then the mother of five tried heroin, and she was hooked.
After some brushes with the law — petty larceny to support her habit — she was booked into the Nassau County jail, and withdrawal started kicking in. As the nausea, shaking and sweating grew worse, she said her pleas for help were met with just laughter and indifference from guards.
“I would rather give birth to all five of my children again without medication than go through withdrawal again,” said Levine, who is in recovery and now works to help others struggling with opioids.
More help for people like Levine could be on the way, as lawmakers in New York are considering a measure to make drug treatments such as methadone or Suboxone available to all prison and jail inmates struggling with opioid addiction.
States across the country are considering similar approaches amid research that shows that the drugs, along with behavior therapy, can help people with addiction reduce the withdrawal symptoms and cravings that drive many to relapse.
Federal statistics suggest more than half of all inmates in state prisons nationwide have a substance-use problem. New York officials say that percentage could be as high as 80 percent in state and local lockups, which at any given time have about 77,000 inmates.
Drug policy experts point to the success of a similar program in Rhode Island, which has seen a sharp drop in the number of former inmates who died of overdoses, from 26 in 2016 to nine last year.
Other successes have been reported in jails in Louisville, Kentucky; Sacramento, California and in Massachusetts.
“It makes no sense that people who have a public health issue don’t have access to medicine,” said Jasmine Budnella, drug policy coordinator at VOCAL-NY, a group that advocates on behalf of low-income New Yorkers on such issues as criminal justice, drug policy and homelessness. “In the U.S., we talk about human rights but we are literally torturing these people.”
Two years ago, 24-year-old Matt Herring died of a drug overdose after years of struggling with addiction and bouncing in and out of correctional facilities. His mother, Patricia Herring, said Matt once tried to smuggle Suboxone into jail in order to avoid the horrors of withdrawal. Guards found the medication and took it away.
Patricia Herring has now become a self-described “mom on a mission” to push for greater resources for addiction treatment in correctional facilities.
“If he had been given medication-assisted treatment when he entered, I don’t know, maybe things would have been different,” she said.
With no organized opposition, the debate over supporting medication-assisted treatment in correctional settings comes down to dollars and cents. Some counties have paid for programs in their jails; others have not. A total of six state and local lockups in the New York City area, for example, have limited drug-assistance programs for people addicted to opioids.
Albany County became the first county in the state outside of New York City to offer medication-assisted treatment. Sheriff Craig Apple said he’s become a believer.
“It took me a while to get on board with this, but we’re already seeing early success,” he said.
A state budget proposal from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo would spend $3.75 million to expand access in county jails and use more than $1 million to expand its use in state prisons. Democratic leaders of the state Legislature have called for more, and advocates say they want to see at least $7 million in the annual budget.
A spokesman for Cuomo’s budget office defended the governor’s proposed funding amount, saying it’s part of a broader, “holistic” approach to fighting opioid addiction.
“The medication-assisted treatment program is just one prong of New York State’s $200 million, nation-leading fight against opioid addiction that is implementing effective solutions to save lives,” said spokesman Freeman Klopott.
A decision is expected before April 1, when the new budget is due.
“Addiction is a disease,” said New York Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat who is sponsoring the drug-treatment legislation. “We should treat it like a disease.”
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1. as you get older, do you find you enjoy the holidays less, more or the same?
2. have you started to become bitter about the holidays? you know, 'cause you're poor, alone, stressed.
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Are you/Have you been secretly unconsciously obsessed with the idea of "meant to be" like you always wished you'd marry someone you went to school with or someone that you've known for a long time or went to college with?
Is this not working out for you as well?
Are you/did you watch Real Housewives of Orange County tonight? Which one is your favorite version/episode/character?
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It’s a tiny space that took over for the former Tully’s Coffee on this spot, located at the entrance of the East Lobby of 225 Bush office building. They have window counterspace seating among six stools, and that’s it. The rest is the service area, a rear wall of Counter Culture Coffee beans, and a wall of merchandising off to the left. And yes, finally coffee roasted on the East Coast is making its way further out West.
While they mostly focus on coffee (hence the name), they’re also known for locally-sourced pastries and Strauss soft-serve frozen yogurt — the latter likely being an evolution from when Coffee Bar once entertained the idea of hosting a Swiss-made Pacojet machine to produce on-demand ice creams and sorbets.
Using a three-group La Marzocco GB/5 — with The Promise Ring cranking on the soundsystem — they pull espresso shots from a couple of bean options. When we visited, it was Counter Culture Coffee’s standard Toscano blend and their (very bright) Ethiopian Idido.
The barista staffers here are far better than most places at walking you through your options. (Imagine that: great customer orientation and Counter Culture Coffee combined together!). The resulting Toscano shot is pulled on the short side with a medium, textured brown crema. It’s a proper extraction of two sips with a sharp acidity and a limited balance beyond the mid-palate, giving more flavor emphasis in the resinous/black currant realm. Definitely a refreshing option with something different to offer.
Read the review of Coffee Cultures.
In the space that was formerly Nervous Dog Coffee, Andrea de Francisco brings her culture from São Jorge island in the Azores to San Francisco. She’s the former manager of the Lower Haight‘s Grind Cafe, so she also brings an emphasis on coffee and not just food.
But first, a minor detour on financing. Last month we wrote about some of the funding options coffee businesses take on to expand their operations: venture capital, franchising, business loans, good old-fashioned profit re-investment, etc. However, cafés and device-makers alike have recently turned heavily to crowd-sourcing options, such as Kickstarter. Cafe St. Jorge opened by raising some $30,000 through a Kickstarter campaign.
If this trend hasn’t raised eyebrows by now, it should. Kickstarter has rapidly become a funder of last resort, charity disguised as investment. Kickstarter funders enter agreements with no expectation of getting their money back, which has great appeal for the project. But the strings that come attached with business loans and more traditional funding models have their advantages too; e.g., someone is vetting your business plan for financial sustainability, incentivized investors may have access and can open doors for its growth.
Of course, local SF restaurant openings have long embraced the habit of taking on private investors who generally assume they’ll never see their money again in exchange for some regular discounts and privileges. This isn’t that different from what Kickstarter offers. But we get the sense that the risks and rewards are much less clear in a new model like Kickstarter, and any business scheme of seemingly “free money” smacks of all the things in our human financial history that have ended quite badly. Even if you just might get a RoboCop statue out of it.
Adopting its Azores theme, the place is well-branded with a classic Portuguese blue tile (azulezos) motif. There are benches and narrow café tables, white walls, and dark wood floors to match the tables. Old family photos adorn one wall, along with a shelf of logo cups, Portuguese olive oil, honey, and Stumptown Coffee for retail sale. They sell toast, salad, sandwiches, and some Portuguese pastries (especies, pasteis de nata, bolo de arroz, etc.).
As for the espresso (or bica, being the Lisboeta word), it’s deliberate and well thought-out: meticulous shot pulls from a light blue, three-group La Marzocco FB/80. It’s a short shot with an even medium brown crema and a potent Stumptown finish of bright, acidic herbal notes.
They rotate the blend here (Holler Mountain, etc.) so the result can vary a little. Served in Espresso Parts cups. They even acknowledge the less-than-ideal-but-sometimes-necessary special to-go espresso on their menu.
A little pricey for the neighborhood, but worth the end product. Milk-frothing tends to show decent microfoam in reserved proportions (and served in Tuxton cups).
Read the review of Cafe St. Jorge.
Because many of you are rightfully tired of us harping on the same topics (as are we!), today we introduce a refreshing guest post from Samantha Joyce (by way of Seattle Coffee Gear’s Brenna Ciummo) on espresso: crema, in specific. — TheShot
Crema means cream in Italian, the mother tongue of espresso. It is the light colored foam at the top of your espresso shot like the head of foam on a beer. It is also something of a misnomer, and that adds to the heated arguments surrounding it. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to have in your demitasse? Some say crema is sweet and some say it is bitter. People tend to fall into three heavily fortified battle camps: mixers, scoopers and hoarders. This radical polarizing effect leads to different espresso preparations and feeds the flames of controversy.
Crema forms as water from the boiler of the espresso machine is forced through the ground coffee in the portafilter under pressure. This combines a natural post-roast out-gassing of CO2 with the magical compounds inherent in the coffee. The coffee varietal used and the way it was processed contributes to the crema yield. Crema is visible in a shot glass as a “Guinness effect” of bubbles that rise and form a head on the espresso shot. Some of the arguments presented are purely semantic over the scientific processes involved in this combination of heat, water and coffee. I’ve heard it called colloidal foam, an emulsion and micro-bubbles. Whatever words you care to use to describe the tango dance of gas, carbohydrates, proteins and oils in your espresso shot glass is fine with me. If you happen to be more scientifically inclined then by all means put on your safety goggles and start your Bunsen burner. It is the taste, not the molecular evaluation, which concerns me.
Some think that mixing the crema into the body of the espresso makes a more enjoyable and more homogenized taste sensation. Those who subscribe to this camp generally do not take note of the quality or quantity of the crema produced with the espresso shot. They speed up a naturally occurring phenomenon by manually re-incorporating it. To me, this is akin to putting sushi in a blender. I would like the mouth feel and complexity of the layered elements, but you may not. It is okay. We are all unique snowflakes.
In some cafes they unceremoniously scoop the crema off the top and serve the espresso naked. Great! I would love to try that. I drink Americano coffee and according to 2007 World Barista Champion James Hoffman “scoopin” takes the bitterness out of that beverage. He was a big proponent of crema previously and has now joined the crema abstainers camp. Here I think that it depends on the coffee varietal, the way it was processed and the intended beverage to determine if skimming the crema off the top before it dissipates is worthwhile.
For those who chase after the Holy Grail of sweet crema here is a tip: It is going to be found in the fourth dimension. No TARDIS is required to go there. It helps if you pull your own espresso shots or stand elbow to elbow with your barista. Noted coffee expert David Schomer explains,
“It is important to consider this in enjoying caffe espresso as a culinary art, for the full flavor and silky texture: you must enjoy it immediately. Two quick sips from the hand of the barista, at the bar. The first sip is bracing, all the sass with lighter body, in the final sip are the sugars, which invariably sink to the bottom of the cup.”
The fleeting nature of crema changes from one nanosecond to the next as it devolves into its component parts. Our sense of taste is unique to each of us. Exactly when we tasted the crema will also change our perception of how it tastes.
There are many caveats when it comes to the enjoyment of crema. Let me call out the shortcuts that some use to achieve (gasp!) faux crema. Pressurized portafilters and superautomatic espresso machines may aerate the coffee during extraction. Charlatans! This gives the look of crema without any taste since it is quite literally full of hot air. It’s okay to do this but don’t marvel aloud at the quality and freshness of your nondescript grocery store coffee. It is just lipstick on the pig. Real crema is impacted by the following variables: Quality coffee beans, processing method, roast date, roast color and espresso brew method. It does make for a lovely photo opportunity though, as fake crema seems to last a little longer.
Guaranteed in your own gustatory experience you will find espresso shots with very little crema that taste amazing and you will find thick crema that can be sweet or tangy or both. This is the wonder of espresso. There are so many variables and personal preferences involved that it is a shame to live with absolutes. I feel I can’t take sides on this debate. I need further first-person crema research. I need to visit all of the purveyors with staunchly held crema beliefs in order to taste the “proof” of their theses. Will you join me for an espresso?
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“Tell me what life is like being at home for Tracy and his family.” If most people were asked that question, referring to our current quarantined existence due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, they would give a boring answer about watching Netflix or doing jigsaw puzzles. But because the “Tracy” in question is Tracy Morgan, and there’s nothing boring about the 30 Rock star, he gave a wild answer to Today show host Hoda Kotb.
“Me and my wife been quarantined for three weeks, so she’s pregnant three times. Every week she got pregnant,” Morgan said. “We’re also roleplaying a lot now. She playing a young maiden who’s grandfather was infected with coronavirus, and I’m the scientist who discovered a cure, and she’ll do anything to save her grandfather’s life. Anything.” The Last O.G. actor then talked about getting his pets tested for the virus, including his shark and moray eel (both of which he actually owns) and a 600-pound silverback gorilla, and “I’m going to take him down to NewYork–Presbyterian, and get him tested.”
The interview eventually turned serious, or at least as “serious” as Morgan ever gets (although he’s very genuine when discussing health-care workers, after what happened to him in 2014), but that came after two minutes of pregnancy, coronavirus-themed roleplay, and gorilla talk. He also, at one point, defended President Trump, saying that “it’s difficult for him.” It did not sound like a bit. Needless to say, people were confused.
Tracy Morgan said he impregnated his wife 3 times in 3 weeks, wants to get his gorilla tested for ‘rona, has a N95 mask, and said we shouldn’t place blame on Trump for how he’s handled the pandemic. Hoda gracefully got through that interview, but I know she was like… pic.twitter.com/Bcrvrj6WTM
— Jennifer D. Laws (@jenniferdlaws) April 7, 2020
— Maurice Corbett (@Maleco_BC) April 7, 2020
you have to wonder what the thought process was behind putting a quarantined Tracy Morgan on live TV but I’m sure glad they did pic.twitter.com/OqFaN9O0my
— John Anthony (@chocobohomo) April 7, 2020
Anyone else see that weird AF interview with Tracy Morgan on the TODAY show? 🥴
— a n d r e a (@awndrayhey) April 7, 2020
Tracy Morgan should social distance himself from jokes.
— Luca Baptiste (@AnAmericanRebel) April 7, 2020
— Jonna Bonnette (@jonnabonnette) April 7, 2020
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We are excited to be able to confirm that we have established an ‘After School Club’ in Barrowby C of E Primary School.
This provision is called the ‘Old School Room After School Club’ and is open Monday to Friday, during term time from 3.15 pm until 5.30 pm.
Our After School Club offers a healthy snack and a light meal. The light meal will vary, example meals may be jacket potatoes, wraps, homemade soup. These will be freshly prepared on site by our After School Club staff.
Our After School club also has two choices of sessions:
From 3.15 pm to 4.30 pm - £4.00 with a snack and drink.
From 3.15 pm to 5.30 pm - £7.50 including a light meal and drink.
Throughout the After School Club the children will enjoy listening to stories and playing games as well as having the opportunity to ‘get active.’
If you wish to make a booking our Old School Room After School Club, you will need to log into your ParentmailPMX account.
4.30 pm after school club
5.30 pm after school club
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On July 5, the United States Women’s National Soccer Team defeated Japan in the Final of the 2015 Women’s World Cup by a score of 5-2. The outcome was never in doubt as the U.S. jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first 15 minutes of the match behind Carli Lloyd’s hat trick. The American women avenged their defeat to Japan in the 2011 World Cup Final and won the prestigious tournament for the first time since the Mia Hamm-led 1999 squad. The Americans also won the tournament for the third time overall, more than any other nation.
Admittedly, I’m late to the party here. I was slow to get into soccer (where I’m still a novice) and even slower to get into women’s sports. Growing up and into my 20s, I was pretty dismissive of women’s athletics and female athletes. But a funny thing happened: I got married and I now have two girls of my own. I’ve had them involved in sports since they were both old enough for three year old t-ball. As it would happen, both of my girls have shown a real interest in soccer, forcing me to jump in with both feet.
I’ve learned the ropes of soccer, but more importantly, I’ve gained a newfound appreciation for women’s athletics. With my girls, we’ve watched all sorts of sports because I believe it’s important for them to see that, yes, girls can plays sports. Not only can they play, but they do so very well. As the girls’ interest in soccer has increased, we’ve become huge fans of the Women’s Soccer team at the University of Kentucky. Head Coach Jon Lipsitz was nice enough to give us a tour of the recently completed Bell Soccer Complex and gave my girls a goal to shoot for: If you work hard enough, you can be a Wildcat soccer player.
We watched every U.S. match during the run to the World Cup title. By the time the team had completed group play, my oldest knew the roster forward and backward and had a firm understanding of the strategy head coach Jill Ellis was employing to move the US team toward the title. The Americans won their group in what was uninspiring fashion. The team didn’t look championship caliber, particularly on the offensive end. Coach Ellis changed the formation for the knockout stages and did something not a lot of coaches would have done; she moved longtime star Abby Wambach to the bench.
The revamped American attack scored 7 goals total in the semifinal against Germany and in the Final against Japan. Not only were they scoring, but the upgrade in the offensive pressure made the impressive defense that much better. The American defense gave up a goal against Australia in their first match of the tournament and didn’t give up another until they had scored 4 goals against Japan in the Final. The Americans were just short of the German team record of 540 shutout minutes for a single World Cup.
The U.S./Japan Final matchup was the most watched soccer match in U.S. TV history. According to the website Awful Announcing, the Final drew a whooping 26.67 total viewers on Fox and Telemundo. Per Fox Sports:
The USA’s emphatic 5-2 victory over Japan in the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2015™ final, America’s first Women’s World Cup championship since 1999, is the most- watched soccer match in U.S. history, according to Nielsen. The match posted a prodigious 12.9 household rating/share with 25.4 million viewers, and peaked at 30.9 million between 8:30-8:45 PM ET.
Part of those numbers could be simple nationalism for the Red, White and Blue, but we could be at a turning point where women’s sports and female athletes move more into the mainstream.
For years, “playing like a girl” was a derogatory schoolyard taunt. In 2015, it means playing hard, playing well and being the best in the World. It’s about time we all learn to play like a girl. So, thank you Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo, Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Lauren Holiday, Sydney Leroux, Kelley O’Hara, head coach Jill Ellis and the rest of the players coaches and staff. Thank you for playing hard and bringing the hardware back to the U.S.! | <urn:uuid:e146f5bb-eb92-4822-a6ec-48ed9c4235d4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.cameronmillsradio.com/2015/07/13/usa-soccer-play-like-a-girl-win-like-a-girl/ | 2020-09-25T07:09:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.975415 | 951 |
The term hedging is based upon a specific investment strategy, in order to avoid losses. There are several ways to make Hedging: For example, with the options ” Put” and ” Call” , with short selling , with Future lectures and so on.
The aim of hedging strategies is to prevent possible catastrophic losses. For example, if our biggest investment does not go well, hedging would cover the main loss completely or at least partially.
Essentially, you have to go short on the market (take a “put” position) to its currency to sell and then buy it back at a low price. For example: I am selling a currency or number of shares , which I do not possess , and I collect a payment. Now I owe a financial intermediary. I need to buy again within a certain time to pay back my debt. The economic advantage is again buy at a low price and take the difference .
The best currency pair is the combination of GBP / JPY as it currently has the highest interest rates. In any case, we can independently choose the interest. One must then control the rate of the broker and this is not difficult . Before you open an account with a broker , you should check if the broker allows the opening of a position for an unlimited period of time and whether he himself claims the commission .
The commissions are definitely beneficial , even if it initially appears to us not as if the agent asks for a fee for the maintenance of the position , he offers us very likely to leave the position open for long periods .
Then you should check up on how much net your account has. The hedging strategy really requires a lot of money. If the currency pair GBP / JPY is desired , for example, as a cover , one needs at least $ 20,000. This is necessary to ensure the maximum monthly period for the pair GBP / JPY in altitude of 2000 pips . One must also not forget that if two different positions are open at two different brokers , you have to pay the spread twice . The first trading day and interest are in fact only necessary to cover the cost of the spread .
This is very important in order to get any request for margin ( profit margin ) .
Ultimately, the money management helps us to be able to manage such a situation here . We recommend monthly profits to be obtained. Doing so may cost a fee , so you should therefore check with your own broker , when he allowed a cash withdrawal during the opening of the positions or not.
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Travelers have found that booking a Thursday departure is the best way to save up to 114% on the cost of booking your flights compared to booking on days of the week where this route is of high demand.
To save up to 40% on this flight, we recommend booking at least 19 days prior to travel. The price may fluctuate and will likely increase closer to your departure date. Users on Cheapflights have found tickets from New Orleans to Fayetteville from $244 1-2 weeks out and tickets from $379 for flights departing within the next 72 hours.
August can be a great time to fly to Fayetteville from New Orleans with a flight ticket averaging about $284. Cheapflights users have found deals in the month of August for as cheap as $154. The most expensive prices can be found in the month of January.
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The past twenty years have seen vast strides forward in developing electron, X-ray, and neutron diffraction-based characterizations that probe engineering alloys during in-situ processing and thermo-mechanical loading at increasingly short time scales. However, the full utility of these experiments is limited in that the analyses of the measured data extract only a fraction of the encoded information about the microstructure at any given time. Rather than analyze diffraction data with a physics-based X-ray model to try to extract structural information chosen a priori, a team comprised of researchers from CHEXS, Cornell, and NIST used the unsupervised learning technique, locally linear embedding (LLE), to condense X-ray data down to critical microstructural (dislocation configuration) evolution information. The LLE method finds a set of coordinates in a lower-dimensional space that maintains the local neighborhood character (similarity or dissimilarity) of nearby data observations. While LLE will determine similarity in a tractable representation, physical understanding still comes from discovering what underlying features or physical processes maintains the neighborhood character.
The research team applied LLE directly to in-situ X-ray diffraction data to discover and monitor underlying dislocation motion in an additively manufactured (AM) nickel-based superalloy, Inconel 625 (IN625). They find that in this case, the LLE analysis of time series X-ray diffraction data identifies, without intervention, both the onset of plastic deformation (yield) and transients associated with the mobility of dislocation populations that underlie the strength and plasticity behavior in the alloy. While this is a single demonstration, the approach can be applied to numerous other studies of deformation and materials processing.
The application of various machine learning techniques to materials science has promised to revolutionize the field, but to date, application to structural materials performance or processing has been limited. Researchers foresee the approach demonstrated here being applied to many other data types and material evolution conditions beyond X-ray diffraction data and uniaxial loading. Any time series of scattering data (electrons, neutrons, or X-rays) encoded with microstructural information will likely yield valuable insight, and the approach can also be applied to data gathered during other thermo-mechanical loading conditions and processing environments. A natural application is the analysis of diffraction data measured during additive manufacturing processes or other extreme heating and cooling scenarios, such as quenching, to identify critical points of microstructural development and guide modeling of kinetics in constitutive models. However, even applying this analysis to understanding more traditional heat treatments for process modeling optimization could prove extremely valuable.
Need for CHEXS Experimental Capabilities
The full cross section of the AM IN625 specimen was illuminated by a high-energy X-ray beam (61.332 keV) at CHESS, one of the few facilities in the world optimized for this type of experiment. The X-ray beam, which was 1 mm tall by 2 mm wide, illuminated a volume at the center of the gauge section and traveled in the –z direction. As the sample was deformed, the sample was also continuously rotated (rocked) about the y direction to rotate more crystals into the diffraction condition. Diffraction peaks from a 10○ rocking motion were integrated onto single images for processing. The diffraction data was collected on a Dexela 2923 area detector located 877 mm behind the specimen every 470 s. The detector was translated horizontally 135 mm from the direct X-ray beam to prevent collection of diffraction peaks near the rotation axis that would provide misleading characterization of the microstructure evolution.
This work is based upon research conducted at the Center for High Energy X-ray Sciences (CHEXS) which is supported by the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1829070. AJB received support through the Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-16-1-3126).
Darren C. Pagan, Thien Q. Phan, Jordan S. Weaver, Austin R. Benson, and Armand J. Beaudoin
Unsupervised learning of dislocation motion
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It's been almost two decades now since the original Mafia came out, which was released way back in 2002. Mafia: Definitive Edition is a remake of the original, built from the ground up for the modern gaming generation. The game is set to release for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on September 25 but we had a chance to preview the game, and here are our impressions.
Both, those of us who have, and haven't played the original, can immediately agree on one thing about the remake. It looks fantastic. It also fills a void, when it comes to open-world games in historic settings. Assassin's Creed is the only other franchise we can think of that does that. Of course, it's not THAT historic, since the setting is the early 1900s, 1930's to be exact. Still counts. Like we mentioned above, this is a full remake, so everything from the environments, to the buildings and the characters has been rebuilt. By all means, this is as good as a brand-new game.
Of course, that's not all that's new. Thankfully, the gameplay elements also feel like they belong to a newer game. As compared to the original Mafia which felt rather stiff, especially when it came to the third-person combat. The Hangar 13 team that worked on the original Mafia actually worked in some of the gameplay mechanics from Mafia 3 in order to accomplish this.
Now, if you're someone who hasn't played the original Mafia, then driving will take some getting used to. Heck, even if you've played the original it'll take some getting used to. You see, in the 1930s, cars weren't exactly zooming around. You're basically driving around in slow motion. The game stays true to its time setting this way, and roads are littered with road signs for you to follow, GPS of the time period. The name of the game is immersion, and Mafia has it in oodles. For those of you who've played the original, that one level which involves stealing and sabotaging a race car and then winning said race, still very annoying.
The original Mafia arguably had the best story in the Mafia games. That still stands today. The game follows Tommy the cab driver's story as he stumbles into the Salieri crime family, and then proceeds to become a member, all of it told by him as the narrator. The game does have a large open-world, but the story and progression is fairly linear, and moves pretty fast. Which is not a bad thing; the game doesn't force you to do minute side-activities. And the story is gripping enough that you want to see it to the end for the conclusion. It's nice for once, not seeing your map littered with icons for side-quests and activities. Of course, this in no way means that there aren't things to do outside of the story, there's plenty of variety in that as well, from races, to shootouts, to collecting cars etc.
Lost Heaven, the fictional version of Chicago, looks gorgeous. The attention to detail is easily noticeable, and the city feels dense and alive. The churches, the skyscrapers, the old cars driving around, the people. It all comes together very nicely and only adds to the immersion we were talking about earlier.
Mafia: Definitive Edition is a remake of an open-world game that came out long before Rockstar's GTA III or Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games, which set the standard we look for in open-world games. With Mafia, Hangar 13 have decided to stick to the original formula, and it's great. The feeling of there being a lot you can do, without having busywork shoved down your throat is a win-win in our books. Not to mention, the game looks gorgeous, and the story has aged well. Definitely a good pick-up for anyone looking for an open-world, story-driven game.
Developer: Hangar 13
Publisher: 2K Games
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Release date: 25 September 2020
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Sensing is the information “feed” for all cognition. Cognition is the sensory -processing attribute of directed action, and our sensory potentials co-evolved with our cognitive and movement abilities. As Living Things acquired more complex abilities, for example being able to move, the sophistication, scope, and sensitivity of our sensing abilities increased.
Our ancestral cognitive mechanisms are dominated by our senses. The evolution of sensing abilities, therefore, offers a perspective on the qualities of our reflexes, drives, instincts, and emotions. Tying the emergence of each of these ancestral cognitions to the emergence of the facilitating sensory ability clarifies the purpose of both the cognitive mechanism as well as the locomotor functions that co-evolved alongside each sense. As each of these sensory modalities is “locked” to its concurrently evolved cognitive and locomotor functions, better understanding these relationships can aid in identifying how our complex sensory processing is influenced by these ancestral mechanisms. For example, instincts and vision co-evolved, which creates in our species a strong linkage between visual activities based in movement with instinctual responses. We normally neo-cortically suppress1 these instinctual responses, but in stressful situations can observe their emergence.
There is also a strong linkage between the senses which we evolved and the Dimensional Paradigms. We co-evolved mechanisms to move through dimensionally more complex space along with the ability to sense the surrounding dimensions. For example, vision is line-of-sight sensing and co-evolved with our ability to move along a line, intrinsically forward-backward movements. Hearing senses the surrounding horizontal plane and is more immediately associated with mammals who also evolved more dynamic lateral movement abilities.
Making sense of what is sensed is as important as sensing itself. Without some sensory recognition mechanism, the sensory data is useless. Only after the data is processed does it becomes reduced to information useful for selecting a course of action. The pre-requisite evolving neurology for processing the sensory information is the third leg, along with movement and our senses, of the tripod that facilitates complex evolution. At its foundational level, this cognitive function filters for threat, enabling immediate activation of protective responses. Our Startle Reflex is a good example of this. Another example of a protective reaction at a more recent evolutionary layer is Blind Sight, in which instinctual protective responses are activated non-consciously. However, the scope of these cognitive functions extends far beyond protection and forms the foundation for increasingly complex activities like hunting, nurturing children and going to Mars. The layered attributes of the cognitive component of sensory processing are discussed in the paper on:
Cognition and the Evolving Brain
Our senses pick out a subset of the spectrum of the available sensory potential of our surroundings that has proven to be beneficial to our survival as a species. When we enter into a protective response our awareness becomes hyperfocused on these sensory inputs. Tunnel Vision is an example of this reflexive response. However, when we are in a calm state of being it is possible to become aware of sensations from our surroundings which only very loosely correlates with our senses. Witnessing the energetic field around Living Things, or feeling the presence of someone behind you whom you cannot see are common examples of this. It is likely that as children we all experienced a much broader sensory feed, but acquired the skill to focus on aspects aligned with our social consensual reality. As adults, as we gain experience managing our innate protective mechanisms and can maintain a calm state of present being, we open ourselves to a broader experience of the sensory potential surrounding us.
1Neocortical suppression of underlying neurology is a subject that was studied extensively by Sor Charles Sherrington. A brief discussion of his findings:
Activation of Reflexes
In the sections below each of our primary sensory domains is discussed in the context of its evolutionary emergence along with the qualities of the associated cognitive and locomotor mechanisms.
LIGHT: VISION / CAT SLIT EYES
MAMMALS: CAT EARS THAT ROTATE INDEPENDENTLY
This contraction of sensory processing happens in some form with all of our primary senses.
HEARING: We focus on low-frequency vibrations. The work of Dr. Steven Porges has helped clarify this dynamic.
TACTILE: Hair follicles stand on end, making us hypersensitive to touch. There is a neurological linkage from hair follicles to the Enteric Nervous System which probably predates the emergence of our Central Nervous System.
VISION: Hyperfocus, tunnel vision.
A discussion on our Sensory/Processing Core
THE SENSORY/PROCESSING CORE
A discussion on our core structural attributes:
THE FOUR CORES
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There are 648.56 miles from Walworth to Arena in northwest direction and 739 miles (1,189.31 kilometers) by car, following the I-94 W route.
Walworth and Arena are 11 hours 26 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop .
This is the fastest route from Walworth, WI to Arena, ND. The halfway point is Saint Augusta, MN.
Walworth, WI and Arena, ND are in the same time zone (CDT). Current time in both locations is 12:56 am.
Any questions or tips to share?
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With Halloween just around the corner, we thought we would show you something REALLY spooky! These vines growing up this home's siding are scary indeed. Not only can their roots damage your siding, but the vines serve as a conduit for bugs and can trap moisture. Trim all vegetation at least 12 inches away from your home.
This week I performed two inspections in a row that had leaking dishwashers. When I begin an inspection, I always run the dishwashers on a normal cycle. Since my inspections last a minimum of three hours, I always have a chance to check on the dishwasher during and at the end of an inspection. In both cases, these dishwashers started leaking within 10 minutes, with one of them pouring a significant amount of water on the floor (pictured) in a very short period of time. These issues highlight how important a thorough home inspection is and how much time, money, and aggravation you will save yourself by getting an inspection before you buy. It is my job to find things like this and to provide you with a comprehensive overview of your potential new home and I take this responsibility very seriously. Plus, it is a great feeling knowing we helped our clients and likely saved them money as well.
Does this look odd to you, too? This is a picture of two exhaust fan pipes from two separate second floor bathrooms vented into - but not out of - the attic. Excessive moisture from these fans is constantly vented directly into the attic, which causes condensation on the wood sheathing of the roof, on insulation, and anything else that is kept in the attic. This excessive moisture has led to what appears to be mold growth on the wood sheathing. This growth will continue to spread and the wood will eventually deteriorate. This means a leaking roof in addition to the undesirable effects of mold and/or other organic growth that you most definitely do NOT want in your home. In a nutshell, ALWAYS VENT OUTSIDE. You will save yourself money and headaches (and undesirable living conditions) if you do!
After all the rain from Hurricane Florence, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone about a very simple fix that can save you thousands of dollars in water/foundation damage.
ALL of the downspouts and pipes around your home should extend at least 6 feet away from your foundation. You can do this yourself by adding flexible pipe (found at Lowes or Home Depot) to the end of the downspout, or if you want something more aesthetically pleasing, you can have piping like a French drain added below ground, leading away from the foundation.
If you don't address drainage issues (like the one pictured), water - especially heavy rainfall - will continually seep into the foundation, crawl space, etc., and will gradually weaken the foundation and make your home unstable. Cracks in the foundation will eventually form under these conditions and could lead to major (and costly) damage over time.
From Rick & Lori:
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Introduction to Business and Office Skills (Level 4)
- Cardonald Campus
- SCQF Level
- Start Date
- 31 Aug 2020
- Qualification Type
- Course Type
- Short Full-Time
- 19 weeks
This Introduction to Business and Office Skills course is designed for those who are new to office administration and IT packages. It is also appropriate for those who would like to improve their basic skills. You will gain up-to-date skills needed to work in an office environment. You will learn how to use Microsoft Office packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
What will I learn?
- Keyboarding and speed typing
- Word processing
- Administrative services
- Information Technology
- Telephone skills
- Desktop publishing
- In-house Examination
Employer and industry links
The College has employer links with a variety of organisations. As part of your course you may go on a trip to visit an organisation and/or guest speakers may be brought in.
Jobs and further study
- Administration/ Business/ Finance/ IT Level 5 at Cardonald Campus
- If you wish to progress, you should gain a high grade in your internal exam and pass all units, as well as having an excellent academic reference and attendance
- This course will prepare you for administration work in an office environment across a very wide range of industries.
Entry requirements (minimum)
- Two National 4 level units or equivalent
- Applications are invited from those without formal qualifications, but have relevant work/life experience
- An interview will be part of the selection process
Making an application
For courses starting in August, you can make up to two applications.
Applications are made to a course and a first choice of campus. If the course is oversubscribed at your first choice you will be automatically considered for alternative sites and may be made an offer without a further application.
- You will receive an automated email confirming that we have received your application (remember to check your SPAM folder if you do not hear from us) and will be in contact as per the following stages:
- Interview and entry skills assessment. This will consist of some basic numeracy and a short piece of writing about why you wish to do this course.
- The process will consist of an information session, a skills assessment and a one-to-one interview. You must bring any qualifications with you.
- Interviews will take place between January and August depending on availability of places. The earlier you apply the more likely you are to secure a place.
- At interview, discussion will take place to ensure you have applied for the correct level of course therefore it is vital you bring any qualifications you have with you
- Outcomes will be sent by email within 10 working days of the interview.
If you live some distance away and would prefer a telephone interview, please let us know on application.
- Once an offer is received you must reply within 10 working days or risk losing your place.
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How Serious is Bronchitis?
Leading to smaller airways in the lungs, called bronchioles, the bronchi branch off on both sides of the windpipe. Bronchitis is a condition of the bronchi that causes the linings of the airways to become inflamed or irritated.
In healthy conditions, mucus is produced in the walls of the bronchi to trap particles that could cause irritation. Bronchitis typically develops from an infection that causes the bronchi to overproduce mucus. These infections can typically be viral but at times bacterial. To move the excessive mucus, the body responds by coughing.
Bronchitis can be acute, where the symptoms are temporary and last up to three weeks, or chronic, where symptoms last several months and are usually reoccurring. How serious bronchitis ultimately is, depends on the type the patient has. To better understand the severity of bronchitis, we will evaluate the characteristics of both acute and chronic infection. Your Heritage medical provider can evaluate you, to determine what treatments are necessary for your condition.
What is Acute vs Chronic Bronchitis?
The main difference between acute and chronic bronchitis is the duration, severity, and reoccurrence of symptoms the patient experiences. Acute bronchitis, which usually develops shortly after a cold, is identified as lasting only a week or two with a cough that could linger for weeks after infection is gone. The infection generally clears up on its own without the need for medical treatment. Typical symptoms of bronchitis are temporary and short-lived, thus typically no long-term or permanent damage is associated with acute bronchitis.
Chronic bronchitis is defined as having a mucus producing cough for three months per year over two consecutive years. With chronic bronchitis, the condition is much more serious, ongoing (long-term), and results in the bronchial tubes being constantly inflamed and irritated. Long term lung damage or disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), can develop if chronic bronchitis is left untreated. The primary cause of chronic bronchitis is smoking.
The primary symptom of acute bronchitis is a cough that produces mucus. The mucus is generally clear, greenish, or yellowish but in some cases, may be pink if blood is present. Other symptoms are similar to an upper respiratory infection such as headache, mild fever, sore throat, congestion, aches, and fatigue. With adequate rest and fluid intake, acute symptoms often clear up on their own within a few weeks.
Chronic bronchitis symptoms are similar but generally more severe, significantly longer lasting (three months or more), and incurable. In addition to the symptoms associated with acute illness, chronic bronchitis patients may also experience a high-grade fever, shortness of breath, wheezing, or difficulty breathing.
How Serious is Bronchitis?
As discussed, the seriousness of bronchitis essentially comes down to whether it is acute or chronic in nature. Acute bronchitis, while a temporary inconvenience, is manageable, symptoms generally clear up on their own in a matter of weeks. At Heritage we recommend being evaluated by one of our qualified medical professionals. Chronic bronchitis is a much more serious condition that can result in reoccurring or permanent symptoms. Long-term medical treatment is generally needed to manage the symptoms and patients can experience permanent lung damage or disease.
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Materials: Expedit 4-compartment (2), 96″x 20″ pine project panel, 8′ wood mouldings (2 each of 3 different designs), L brackets (4), wood glue, finish nails
Description: I’m a work-at-home author and knitwear designer whose only office space is carved out of the hallway between our foyer and dining room. My desk has to fit against the triangle wall formed by a staircase. Making my own desk from 2 Expedits gives me 8 feet of beautiful desktop real estate, while only taking up 20″ of hallway.
While I love the quality and value of Ikea furniture, most of the styles are too modern-looking for me. To make my desk look more traditional, I added moulding from my home improvement center. First I trimmed around 3 sides of the bottom of each Expedit with 1 3/4″ moulding, mitering the corners. Then I added 4 1″ L brackets to the upper inside edges of each piece to anchor the desktop. After that I layered 2 different mouldings and ran them all the way across the front and 2 short sides of the Expedits. I hid all the finish nail holes with putty and paint. Then I added the desktop (which I stained and varnished beforehand), securing from underneath with the L brackets.
I’m really happy with my new desk; the extra width more than makes up for its narrowness. I got exactly the right sized desk with lots of storage, too. The project took just a weekend, (most of which was waiting for paint and varnish coats to dry, and cost just under $200.
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Most children snore from time to time, especially if they have a cold or stuffy nose. It’s estimated that up to 20% of young children snore frequently, and about 10% snore every night. Snoring can run the gamut from minor, harmless noisy breathing to a symptom of a health problem that needs to be addressed. For about 2-3% of children, snoring is an indication of a sleep disorder or a breathing problem that requires medical attention.
Why snoring happens
Snoring occurs when the soft tissues at the back of the throat relax during sleep and vibrate. There are several things that can cause this condition, such as:
- When a cold is present the airway is being squeezed
- Excessive thickness of throat tissues
- Enlarged tonsils and adenoids
- Repeated exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke
- Health issues such as allergies, asthma, reflux (GERD), some neurological conditions, or sleep apnea
Sleep Apnea (Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome or OSA/OSAS)
If your child is a very restless, noisy sleeper, breathes through his mouth, and snores or snorts loudly, he may be suffering from a sleep condition called sleep apnea. “Apnea” means “absence of breath.” The most disturbing symptom of this sleep disorder is that the sleeper stops breathing for up to 30 seconds, occasionally longer, usually followed a noisy intake of breath. This is very frightening for a parent to witness, and should be taken very seriously, but in general, it is not life threatening and can be treated. The main causes of sleep apnea include a narrow throat or airway, enlarged tonsils or lymph nodes, obesity, and facial abnormalities.
It is not common with every child who snores has sleep apnea. Generally, however, if snoring is loud or is combined with other symptoms, apnea could be the problem. Conversely, not all children with narrow airways, enlarged tonsils, or excess weight have sleep apnea.
Apnea can cause significant sleep deprivation and compound other sleep difficulties. Continued untreated apnea can cause heart problems, high blood pressure, slowed growth, hyperactive behavior, bedwetting, and learning disabilities.
What is the cure?
The most common remedy for childhood sleep apnea is the removal or reduction of the tonsils and/or adenoids. Other common treatments are enlarging the air passage, holding the passage open during sleep, or (when the condition is caused by obesity) weight loss.
When to check with a doctor
If any of the following describe your child it would be wise to discuss your child’s snoring, and any other sleep symptoms, with a medical professional. You should contact your pediatrician, a sleep clinic, or an ear, nose, and throat specialist if your child:
- snores almost every night
- snores loudly
- is a very restless, noisy sleeper, and breathes through his mouth
- chokes, gasps, wheezes, or holds his breath in his sleep
- appears to be tired even after a good night’s sleep
- sweats heavily during sleep
- frequently wakes up with a headache
- has a nasal sound to his voice and he regularly breathes through his mouth
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I am currently in the process of writing my book. It is still a work in progress, but it is coming along and I am excited for one day soon when it is a finished product and I can share it.
My message or purpose to the book is to help retiring athletes, but I feel that anyone in transition will benefit. Life transitions and/or big life changes give us all similar feelings and struggles along the way. My goal is to break the silence and candidly sharing my struggles. Expect a relatable account of what happens emotionally and physically after your athletic career ends. I will strive to give my reader insight on the journey of chasing a dream, but more notably, perspective on the journey that commences when you retire and begin to navigate in a world beyond.
For anyone who aspires to write a book, perhaps I can share some of my learnings along the way to better help anyone who goes on this adventure. Nothing extremely earth shattering has occurred, but nonetheless I think it could be helpful.
Today's tip: remember to tell the story!
Seems so simple. It can be a challenge when you are writing your story, especially when it is personal. There have been moments when I have felt lost in my storytelling because I was thinking ahead to how my reader would interpret my words. As a writer, you cannot control how your words will ultimately be interpreted. The only thing you can control is how you tell your truth.
I have also romanticized my past to myself. It took my sister Marla spurring me back into reality and reminding me of my struggles along the way. We can use people around us to keep us on point. This applies to life outsdie of writing as well. Family, however yours is defined, is everything. | <urn:uuid:bf762168-4407-44c8-894e-1fe9eab78369> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.kristaguloien.com/single-post/2015/10/15/The-Book-Beyond-the-Finish-Line | 2020-09-25T06:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.971734 | 361 |
Launch sites for Kayaks, Canoes, SUPs and other watercraft
A dry summer saw a significant drop in the level of Lake Burley Griffin but things are back to normal after some good rain and around its 40+ kms of shoreline are plenty of publicly accessible places to launch your craft. Below are some you might like to try. Above are photos of the locations. Not included are commercial operators listed here and Rowing Clubs around the lake, which are for members only. Full details are at Rowing ACT and new members are always welcome.
Molonglo Reach - next to the Burley Griffin Canoe Club - there is a small pontoon and a section of sandy riverbank for easy launch of canoes, kayaks and SUPs. The area also has public toilets, picnic tables and parking.
Grevillea Park (between The Boathouse restaurant and Capital Lakes Rowing Club). - A long sandy stretch of shoreline with parking. There is also a ramp for launching powerboats or sail boats.
Kingston Foreshore – this is Canberra’s only absolute waterfront residential development. Although there is no shore as such, since retaining walls were necessary to create the area’s boat harbour and surrounding waterfront, a small jetty was included in the design. This is adjacent to the “Walt & Burley” restaurant and bar and easily accessible for residents and visitors and includes a couple of racks to stow kayaks. Also, a second floating jetty is under construction as part of the Sapphire apartment complex to be completed later this year.
Bowen Park - A small jetty suitable for kayaks/SUPs just near the new ‘On Lake Café’. There is free parking and public toilets nearby.
Aspen Island A small beach adjacent to the National Carillon. Access is via a footbridge. There is paid parking through the week and free on the weekends (please check signs for details). There are picnic tables and public toilets nearby.
Commonwealth Place – A curved wet dock located on Queen Elizabeth Terrace between the Segway hire shop and Elixir Café.
Regatta Point - Centrally located but a bit of a hike from the carpark. There is a jetty and small gravel beach. This is where you could hire paddle boats last summer.
Henry Rolland Park – Opened in 2018, this section of waterfront has been developed to include barbecue and picnic facilities, outdoor fitness equipment, lawn areas for play or relaxation. The park is also connected to a brand new 150m boardwalk that has two timber jetties and a wet dock for canoe and kayak access.
New Acton - Small ramp and gravel beach adjacent to the jetty and site of the original paddle boat hire and lake cruise business. This just along the shore from Henry Rolland Park. Soon to be redeveloped but for the moment there is parking and public toilets nearby.
Lotus Bay - This is along the bay from the Canberra Yacht Club and Canberra Dragon Boat Association and has a wooden jetty and ramp for sailboats and powerboats and a sandy beach for kayaks, canoes, and SUPs. There is restaurant, bar and facilities (for members) at the Southern Cross Yacht Club restaurant as well as public toilets nearby and ample parking.
Acton Peninsula – A jetty and small sand/gravel area on the western side behind the National Museum of Australia.
Yarralumla Beach - Yarralumla Beach is a popular location on the southern shoreline of Lake Burley Griffin. Close to the suburb of Yarralumla it is popular with swimmers, and ideal for kayaks and other small craft. West Lake to the north is popular with wind surfers. Yarralumla Beach has a generous sandy beach, designated swimming enclosure with swimming platforms, ample free parking, toilets and barbecues. It is 15 minutes from the city centre of Canberra.
Yarralumla Bay – Yarralumla Bay is a busy hub of watercraft activities situated on the south west shores of Lake Burley Griffin. Several rowing and sailing clubs are situated on both sides of the bay. Kayaks and stand-up paddle boards can be hired from the YMCA Paddle Hub on the eastern side of the bay.
Orana Bay – This is the next bay to the west of Yarralumla Bay. There is a public jetty on the eastern shore and a boat ramp.
Black Mountain Peninsula - A prominent bushland area on the north-western section of the lake, accessible by road with playgrounds, walking paths and picnic areas with BBQs and facilities. Home to several rowing clubs with a beach and boat ramps and several pontoons on the western side.
Weston Park East - sheltered bay and designated swimming beach, protected from the prevailing north westerly winds. Located on the shores of Tarcoola Reach, this area has a swimming enclosure with pontoons, a generous beach, BBQ’s, toilets and parking.
Kurrajong Point – Located at the end of the Weston Park peninsula with a sandy beach and parking for around 20 vehicles.
Weston Park West - Looking towards the rowing lanes, Weston Park West is a great location for spectators to watch rowing events which are held along Yarramundi Reach. Weston Park offers a large playground, barbeques, picnic facilities, ample parking and toilets and is only 20 minutes from the centre of Canberra. There are a few floating pontoons and accessible areas for launching kayaks and SUPs.
Acacia Inlet - Located at the northern end of the long stretch of water between Yarramundi Reach and Weston Park West is a small jetty and fixed long concrete dock. They are mainly used for rowers during time trials and competitions but if there are no events being held then they can be used to launch kayaks, canoes, SUPs etc.
Having lived in Canberra for decades, I've only recently discovered the joys of kayaking. My craft of choice, the trusty Green Hornet (in fact a "Quest 10" manufactured by Canadian company, Riot) provides an ideal platform to photograph lake landscapes, the occasional event on the water and other items of interest. | <urn:uuid:3d82c70d-b7e8-44e1-9276-94db318dc723> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.lakeburleygriffin.com.au/blog/where-to-float-your-boat | 2020-09-25T06:01:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.951078 | 1,291 |
At Amuria High School in Uganda, even though female students live at the school as boarders, perfect attendance is not guaranteed. Girl children are required to fetch water during school hours and they can sometimes miss up to three hours of school. Along the way to retrieve water, they also face the threat of violent attack, including sexual assault. What is more, since there is no water on the school grounds, their meals can be served late, and during menstruation they can miss up to a week of studies because they can’t clean themselves properly. In fact, without a reliable supply of clean water to drink, as many as five girls per day faint from dehydration.
According to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, “girls who have been educated are likely to marry later and to have smaller and healthier families. Educated women can recognize the importance of health care and know how to seek it for themselves and their children.” Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) states that, “young adolescents face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than older women.”
In 2012, Florence Acharit and Eunice Aliamo of Orphans and Widows Association for Development, a local non-governmental organization, met with the headmaster at the high school to propose a water project: to build a rainwater harvesting system. They had learned to build a roof catchment with an Interlocking Stabilized Soil Brick (ISSB) tank at the Global Women’s Water Initiative training. After speaking to the headmaster, they all agreed that the best place to build the tank would be on the girl’s dormitory to serve the 200 boarders who live there during the school year.
Before the tank was built, the school nurse reported that she used to spend much of her time and what little money the school had on medicines and trips to the clinic when the girls fell ill. Since the installation of the tank, water-related diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, and urinary tract infections have decreased significantly. The cooks are also serving meals on time so the girls can be attentive and have energy for their studies.
This project didn’t just help the female boarders at Amuria Primary School. Families recognized the importance of having water on the school grounds, and came together to donate time and materials for the construction of the tank. According to the head teacher, they saved money that would otherwise be spent on clean water (approximately $3.25 US per day) and medical expenses when students fell ill from water-related disease (upwards of $120 US per week). Along with donations from the community, the high school has been able to accumulate over $4,400 US of the $7,200 US they need to complete construction of a borehole that will serve the community at large.
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The consumer is the true engine of our economy. The more people buy, the better our capitalist system works. While consumerism works well on a macro level, sometimes people over-extend themselves on the micro-level and accumulate debt. If you need to get yourself out of the red, consider using a home equity loan.
Being a good American takes a lot of money. Our businesses thrive when consumers are happy and flush with cash. Even in the harrowing days that followed 9/11, our politicians urged us to get out and go shopping.
Pumping money into the economy is a great way to help America, but it can hurt you on a personal level if you're not careful. Very often, people spend too much money on shopping trips, and acquire debt that they simply can't pay off.
If you've been a loyal consuming American who's now heavily in the red, a home equity loan can help you get back in the black.
There are two types of second mortgages: A home equity line of credit (HELOC) and a home equity loan. Both can be used to pay off debt, but each has a specific application.
A HELOC works like a credit card; it's a line of credit that uses the equity in your home as collateral. By switching your debt load over to a HELOC, you can take advantage of the loan's favorable interest rate, which is often much lower than credit cards.
A HELOC is a good choice for paying off smaller amounts of debt, primarily because it carries a variable interest rate. However, if the Federal Reserve decides to hike rates, payment on a large amount of debt could prove burdensome.
Home equity loan basics
For larger loads of debt, consider using a home equity loan. This is a fixed-rate, fixed-amount loan. You borrow the money in a lump sum, and make set payments over a certain period of time. Because you're locked into a rate, you don't have to worry about market fluctuations. It's ideal for large, one-time expenditures like home improvements or debt consolidation.
When you shop for a second mortgage, consider a number of different variables. Look for the lowest rates, the best terms, and the lowest closing costs. Make sure that your home equity lender also has a number of references and excellent customer service. Work with a bank or credit union that bends over backward for your business.
If you've built up a hefty amount of debt by spending a little too much time at the shopping mall, take comfort. You're not alone. Many Americans are in the same boat. However, just because others are in the same financial crunch doesn't mean that you shouldn't take action. Get yourself back on the right track by searching for a home equity loan. It's a smart way to pay off your debt, and get your own personal economy booming again. | <urn:uuid:3838d6dd-65f3-491b-af7d-0124ff432851> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.mortgageloan.com/pay-off-debt-with-a-home-equity-loan-2376 | 2020-09-25T06:33:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.960408 | 588 |
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Recurring Billing Enhances Cash Flow
Recurring payments are popular for subscription billing models for online entertainment, internet services, downloads, and digital goods sold by high risk merchants.
Recurring billing creates a predicable revenue stream for high risk merchants. And expands the life cycle of customers over a longer period of time than single transactions allow. Once recurring billing is established, customers get used to seeing the payment on their monthly statement and continue to pay month after month.
Consumers are increasing comfortable with recurring billing, largely due to the recent growth of online bill payments for household bills. Aite Group forecasts that over 5.6 billion bills will be paid online in 2012, growing to over 6.3 billion in 2013. Consumers already enjoy the convenience of recurring monthly payments for utilities, rent and other household bills.
6 Tips to Increasing Revenues from Recurring Payments
- Give customers a good reason to opt for recurring payments. To quickly obtain the benefits of recurring payments to your bottom line profits, motivate your customers to sign up by offering a discount or other incentive.
- Simplify the sign up process. Make sure the procedure is easy to understand. Let the customer know when the billing will occur.
- Make it easy for customers to cancel recurring billing. Let customers how to cancel and make the process as effortless as possible to reduce customer frustration. This will help keep chargebacks low, while increasing customer satisfaction.
- During the first cycle of recurring billing, advise the consumer in advance of the payment being debited. Some merchants will continue sending notification of billing every month. Other merchants will simply send an email the first month confirming the on-going billing along with information on how to cancel. Once recurring billing is in place, consumers get used to seeing on a monthly statement and monthly notices may no longer be necessary.
- Accept alternative payments, such as echecks in addition to credit cards. Millions of Americans regularly pay for goods & services online with electronic checks.
- Keep recurring billing safe by using tokenization within your payment gateway. Instead of keeping card numbers on file, the gateway encrypts transactions and sends a token to complete the transaction. This eliminates the need for you to keep card records on file.
Recurring billing stabilizes cash flow by providing you predictable revenue streams.
High risk merchants selling digital content, adult entertainment, and streaming media commonly have recurring billing models. Recurring payments for tangible products are also on the rise.
Recurring payments are an affordable and convenient way for shoppers to buy from you. And increase the lifetime value of customers to your business.
Are you interested in boosting sales & profits with recurring billing?
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Hills are a runner’s classic frenemy. On the plus side, they represent natural workstations for getting fitter and tougher, and you can use hills tactically to break a rival in a race. But few runners seek out the in-the-moment experience of climbs, which produce a recovery-run pace from race-level efforts. That said, most runners I know can name a hill on familiar route that alternates between an ally and a nemesis: A favorite hill.
The most important thing about a favorite training hill is its personal appeal. That’s because, if you’re clever, you can use this incline for all of your hill workouts. Whether you’re looking for a long run with some serious elevation change, an off-label tempo run, a classic set of uphill repeats, or a session that emphasizes changing gears, you can get a lot of literal mileage out of one well-chosen grade, or more specifically, loop. And, on days when you’re not brimming with motivation, this familiarity can be important.
The hill should feature a significant, but not extreme, grade – say, 6 to 8 percent, or about 80 to 100 feet of gain per quarter-mile. It should be about 300 to 500 meters long, with a clear transition from the top to flat ground; if it takes 90 seconds to two minutes to climb at 3K-to-5K race effort, it will serve. The grade need not be uniform, but at no point should it become either too extreme for normal running or too gentle to feel like the “extra” work you want.
To be useful for the range of workouts below, your hill should be part of a larger loop about three-quarters of a mile to a mile long, with a descent longer and gentler than the corresponding climb. Shaded is better, though in the wintertime this might mean an accumulation of ice.
The Orchard Loop
My own favorite hill after 36 years of running sits within shouting distance of the house my family had built in 1978. I ran loops here regularly every summer before cross-country season in the late ‘80s, though in a haphazard way. When I lived nearby into my early thirties, I would drive to my folks’ house just to get a reliable dose of vertical churn (as well as fine views).
Today, the then-nascent Apple Hill Farm is a popular local attraction, and its owners still welcome the odd young harrier – and plenty of deer – onto its bountiful slopes. The data show that it fulfills the general requirements of the workout, and the grass makes the steep part of downhill less jarring than the graph suggests.
Runner/Coach: Kevin Beck, 2:24 marathoner, has coached runners from high school to masters
Hill: The Orchard Loop, East Concord, N.H.
Length of Loop: 0.94 miles
Length of Ascent: 0.31 miles
Elevation Gain: 121’ feet (202’ for the entire loop)
Average Grade: 7.4%
1) The Snell Run
The late 800-meter-to-mile legend Peter Snell was noted for his hilly 22-mile training runs around Waiatarua in his native New Zealand. You can treat your own circuit as a segment in a medium-long or long run and complete a number of loops at a wholly aerobic effort. Each loop should take about 10 to 12 minutes at this effort.
Limit the time you spend on the circuit – about one-third of which will be climbing – to about 30 minutes initially, progressing to no more than 60 minutes in any run if you make this a regular occurrence. Also, do the easier portion of the run after this part. The first time you try it, start with the hill circuit; work toward tackling it with up to an hour already in your legs.
This kind of run is especially useful prepping for Boston or another hilly marathon (I know from experience).
2) The Lumpy Tempo
This is a shorter, more intense version of the above session. Instead of keeping the pace as close to “conversational” as possible, use this workout to learn to ride the anaerobic edge without the cushion of a flat, uniform surface.
Start with two loops, and treat them like a 5K you’re holding back in because the real race is in two days. So, no slamming down the hills or killing yourself on the inclines, because you want to feel like the effort is about the same at all points. You can add a third or even a fourth loop once you’re really fit.
This is invaluable training for the gears-changing demands of cross-country, but all runners benefit from developing a sense of the rough aerobic-anaerobic boundary, regardless of event or season.
3) Old-School Repeats
This is a year-round standby in countless worldwide guises. After a warmup of at least 10-12 minutes, run up the hill with even and an effort approximating that of a 3K-to-5K race. Jog to the bottom taking about one and a half the amount of time it took to reach the top.
If you distribute your effort right, you should feel like the end, while not necessarily nigh, would be welcome after about six round trips. You can do up to ten reps in one session; if you start hankering for longer recoveries early on, reduce the effort slightly and try to hit eight.
4) Shuttle Climbs
One way to practice running “over the top” is to run up your 400m hill at 3K to 5K race effort, turn around and jog three-fourths of the way down, run 400m in the direction you started, and repeat this until you finish with a flat 300 jog followed by a flat 400. You’re therefore progressively shaving off portions of the incline as a reward of sorts for not quitting, while learning to maintain effort and change gears as you transition from incline to flat.
Schematically, the workout is 400 up; 300 up/100m flat; 200m up/200m flat; 100m up/300m flat; and 400 m flat, all with about 300m between in the opposite direction, coming back down the hill less and less with each rep.
If you’re not cooked after one set, you can start another, which should give you a half-mile jog to the very bottom. My chief memory of the one time I did this is that it went by quickly and watched a sunset, both of which are usually good signs.
Kevin Beck has written extensively for Running Times, Competitor, Triathlete, Men’s Fitness, Motiv Running, Marathon & Beyond, the New York Road Runners and elsewhere. The editor of Run Strong (2005) and the co-author of Young Runners at the Top (2017), Beck has coached high school cross country and adult athletes ranging from everyday marathoners to the occasional Olympian. The runner-up at the 2004 USATF 50K Road Championships, Beck holds personal bests of 14:58 for 5K, 51:32 for 10 miles, 1:08:29 for the half-marathon and 2:24:17 for the marathon. | <urn:uuid:fd85a362-8daf-4459-befe-66e720d0f672> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.podiumrunner.com/training/workouts/my-favorite-hill-the-orchard-loop/ | 2020-09-25T07:13:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.936963 | 1,540 |
This easy stroganoff recipe is prepared with chicken and mushrooms that’s why its very easy to cook. The stroganoff can be either served with boiled rice or dinner rolls or any bread you like. You may also prepare this recipe with beef but in that case you will have to use undercut beef as it takes lesser time to cook.
1 lb boneless chicken (cut in small cubes)
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp chili powder
1 cup cream
1 tbsp sugar
4 sliced mushrooms
2 green chilies
3 tbsp butter
1 tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
2 tbsp ketchup
1. Heat butter in a pan and cook flour in the melted butter till become pleasant roasted smell starts to come.
2. Then add 2 cup water with salt, pepper and ketchup and let the sauce cook till gets thicken.
3. After that add chicken, sugar, mushrooms and chili powder, cover and cook for 10-15 min till the chicken and mushroom gets tender.
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A contemporary gallery that fosters new visual art through a series of interesting exhibitions, and projects.
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In the past episodes, we've covered a lot of topics including the budget, storage, colors, and materials. In this episode, we talk about how important ergonomics is. This is what makes your studio the most comfortable and efficient for crafting. In the end, it's all about feeling the best in your space, as well as giving you the chance to be the most creative.
If the ergonomics is incorrect and your furniture is the wrong height, your shoulders and back end up hurting. In order to avoid these issues, making you feel comfortable and creative in your craft room is the most crucial thing.
Watch Episode 9 to learn more!
What did you think of this episode? What are your thoughts on ergonomics?
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Long Lucite Drip Earrings | Sterling Silver
The X Long Rock Candy Minis are lightweight, shoulder-grazing earrings that combine a nugget of Molten Sterling Silver and eight sculpted Lucite crystals. The baroque shape of the Lucite beads compliments the hand-carved Molten studs. Light enough to wear all day in the summer sun, or wear them to dress up an evening look with your hair tied back.
- Sterling Silver
- High-Polish Mirror Finish
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- Total length 6" (15cm)
- 5.75" (14cm) drop
- Butterfly fastening for pierced ears
- Item includes suede jewelry pouch and box
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Mini Wizz Food Processor. The mini chopper that does it all.
Whether it be the pungent cloves of garlic you don't want to touch, baby food that needs to be pureed, nuts chopped finely for a cake or a bit of pesto for the pasta Breville's Mini Wizz processes then easily and efficiently.
The mini Wizz can also be a cooks best friend in a kitchen where space is limited. Easy to use with ergonomic design and easy controls.
500ml Bowl Capacity
Chop, Whisk and Grind
18.5 x 14 x 22.5cm
Stainless Steel Blades
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
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Jenny Slate is a stand-up comedian, actress, author, and creator. She recently starred in VENOM alongside Tom Hardy and is well known for her critically acclaimed performance in OBVIOUS CHILD which garnered her a Critics’ Choice Award for “Best Actress in a Comedy.” On television, she is beloved for her roles on BIG MOUTH, PARKS & RECREATION and KROLL SHOW. Slate voices and co-created the internet sensation MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON. She also is the co-author of the New York Times Bestselling children’s books based off of the MARCEL short films. Slate’s next book, LITTLE WEIRDS will be a collection of nonfiction, personal pieces which will be released in November 2019. Slate will also reprise her role in THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2, opening in June 2019. Slate previously lent her voice to the Academy Award winning animated film, ZOOTOPIA.
Morgan was an English Language teacher in Korea and Ireland for 8 years. Her students were amazing and the grammar was dope. But she also loved to write. After two short amateur horror comics, and writing D&D and Call of Cthulhu games for her friends, Morgan found the opportunity to professionally write the kinds of stories she loves. She might be a trash witch, but she'll never tell.
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School: Los Tules
Comment: Maple School faculty says, “Karen was recognized last spring by Maple School faculty. Karen likes to play by the rules. She is always helping others by insisting that they play fair outside the classroom, because she knows it is the right thing to do. Karen is a very conscientious young lady.”
Pillar represented: Fairness: Playing by the rules.
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Do you want to measure depth gauge? Why depth gauge is required? To know more about these facts, you can get precise information from experts. It will be beneficial to measure to get the right measurement shortly soon. Get the tread down to, or beneath the base tread depth, and even the absolute best tread configuration can be overpowered by the street conditions bringing about lost footing.
Monitoring your tire tread depth is essential to your driving security so how would you check tires’ tread depth? For the most exact outcomes, you’ll need to utilize a tire tread measure.
In layman’s terms, these are the essential channels halfway situated on the tread that runs right around the tire. These sections will be our primary tread depth measurement focuses.
Step By Step Instructions To Utilize A Tire Tread Check
- Start with the check-in the crumbled, pre-measurement position, as appeared in the tread check picture above.
- The measurement stick stretches out at the inverse/top finish of the check as per the depth of the furrow.
- If you’re not in a decent situation to watch the perusing as the measurement is taken, for instance, if you’re venturing into the wheel wells to quantify mounted tires be careful not to knock the check and upset the perusing as you evacuate it to investigate.
- If tread depth readings change, which is the one to pass by? To be protected, we suggest a glass-half-full approach to that. If tires are worn unevenly, utilize the most minimal perusing.
Instructions to Measure
Each tire is outfitted with “wear bars” in those circumferential depressions, which demonstrate 2/32″. By no means should cheap tyres Melbourne be worn and utilized beneath least tread depth. In any case, note that even before least tread depth is reached, a well-used tire’s presentation on roadways with standing precipitation, particularly day off the ice, is reduced.
Track Depth Gauge
How to use a tyre depth gauge? A basic method to check your tire track profundity is by utilizing a track profundity measure. You can discover tire track profundity checks at your nearby car parts store. There are numerous models accessible, however, a modest straightforward graduated test check will work fine and dandy. You should simply stick the test into a depression in the track and press the shoulders of the test level against the track square and read the outcome.
Know about Wear Indicator
Each presentation, light truck, or medium business tire comes furnished with marker bars or wear bars inserted between the track ribs at 2/32″. They’re there to assist you with observing track profundity and settle on choices about tire substitution. Simply hope to check whether the track is flush with the marker bars. If they are, it’s a great opportunity to supplant the tire.
Try Not to Wait Until it’s Too Late
While the penny tire test delivers on what it guarantees demonstrating whether the track has arrived at as far as possible it may not be the best pointer of whether your tires are alright for the street. Tire execution can lessen significantly before your track hits 2/32″. If you figure your tires might be near requiring substitution, have them looked at by an authorized repairman. | <urn:uuid:61c3d9d8-9ffa-44ab-8b0a-c1eff1dc518b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.wistarburg.org/facts-on-using-a-tyre-depth-gauge/ | 2020-09-25T05:45:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400222515.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925053037-20200925083037-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.929535 | 691 |
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