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Klondyke Garden Centre-Weaver Vale is a garden centre you'll find at Winnington Lane Northwich, Cheshire . You'll find an excellent range of plants within the garden centre, as well as many other gardening products. For more information on the range please refer to the website. Klondyke Garden Centre-Weaver Vale is one of the many garden centres in Cheshire .
Have questions about this garden centre in Northwich? Check the opening times above and you can be sure that when you visit, you won't be left standing in front of a set of closed doors. Of course, you can also check out the website for more information. Perhaps you like a good old fashioned chat and would prefer to phone? Then dial the number for Klondyke Garden Centre-Weaver Vale: 01606 79965 and you'll be greeted by a friendly member of staff.
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The number of businesses choosing to outsource their payroll and other HR duties is currently on the rise, but there are still some businesses that are bucking this trend. For some businesses, however, the resistance stems from a misunderstanding of what it means to outsource your payroll. Here are a few common misconceptions some business owners have about outsourcing their payroll, and why they aren't necessarily accurate.
Even a large company with the resources and staffing required for a full-time dedicated payroll administration staff can benefit from outsourcing. Your business is always looking for ways to improve efficiency, and in many cases, outsourcing payroll is the more efficient option. Employees don't stick around forever and if one of the key members of your payroll staff goes, so does their knowledge and expertise. By partnering with a trusted and experienced payroll provider you avoid the need to hire and train new employees, making your payroll administration much more efficient in the long run.
The truth is that businesses of any size can benefit from outsourcing. Say you own a small business that is still in the process of growing, you probably don't have the resources needed to hire and train payroll professionals. Even if you can somehow manage to find room in your budget for dedicated payroll staff, that money is probably better spent elsewhere. A company with experience providing payroll services will be able to work with businesses of any scale, even small start-ups.
This is only the case if you choose the wrong partner. When outsourcing a part of your business operations, whether it's payroll, distribution or any number of other functions, you need to find a partner that works for you. There should be clear lines of communication at all times and you should never be kept in the dark about anything as it relates to your business. A payroll provider is there to handle repetitive daily tasks, not to take over a big chunk of your business operations.
If your current payroll system isn't working as efficiently as it needs to be then outsourcing can produce both hard and soft cost savings. A well-functioning payroll administration system will bring with it increased employee satisfaction, lower turnover rates, and ensure that you are in compliance with all laws and regulations.
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Welcome! On this page you can find the current local time in Kalgoorlie, Australia. And in any city available in our database. If you want to know how much time is in another city, accurate to a second, select it in the drop-down list below. Real exact time is displayed online. Our server of the most exact local time is available round-the-clock and provides also additional information: date, time zone, day of the week, time of day, weather, neighboring cities, sunrise and sunset and much more. The clock is synchronized with the server online, which guarantees the relevance of information. Today 25 april 2019 year, wednesday. | 2019-04-25T16:32:18 | https://sunsetsunrisetime.com/exact-time/kalgoorlie_380.html | [
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First aid training is held on a regular basis to prepare our students to be able to respond appropriately to any occurring injuries. We also organize many activities in relation to basic health care to promote a sense of health and hygiene amongst our faculty and students.
NTU Hospital conducts health checkups on all new and transfer students for free. Then we will follow up on individuals with significant health problems to ensure that any further health care is properly provided.
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Description: Broad-lined Erastria Moth is a medium-sized (27-37mm) moth with dull gray to brown wings in the spring brood, and straw yellow to olive wings in the summer brood. The postmedian line is complete, diffuse, and curved slightly outward, often with a diffuse spot just beyond at the midpoint. The underside is yellow and variably tinted with bright pink in the summer brood.
Similar species: The Thin-lined Erastria Moth (Erastria cruentaria) is similar, but has a thinner and more sharply defined postmedian line. The colors are the same, but the underside is marked with orange to reddish purple.
North American Range: This moth ranges from Connecticut to Florida, and west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Texas.
Flight season and broods: Adults fly from April to July. This is a double brooded species.
Habitat and Food Plants: The habitat consists of non-coastal pine barrens, glades, former oak savannas, grassy openings in old quarries, powerline right of ways in the Northeast, and shale barrens in Appalachia. The food plant is New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus), and possibly clover and Rubus species.
Behavior and Ecology: Adults feed on the one Ceanothus species, taking nectar from the flowers. They can often be flushed out of the food plant patches during the day and taken at lights.
Population trend and potential threats: The population size is not known, but it is recorded from NatureServe (2011) to have a long-term 50-90% population decline (NatureServe). This moth may be threatened by growing deer populations that overbrowse the host plant, succession, habitat fragmentation and loss, Gypsy Moth spraying, and inappropriate fire management.
Management practices: Management practices should include restoration of habitat since this species needs substantial tracts of land as it does not persist long on isolated patches of the food plant. Fire may help with this, but it is unknown how vulnerable the pupae are to fire. | 2019-04-21T18:18:48 | https://www.vararespecies.org/specie/Erastria%20coloraria | [
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When it comes to indoor signs in Lubbock, TX we have you covered, from basic office signage to elaborate one of a kind signage we are proud to offer Lubbock the very best!
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The Economic Society of Singapore (ESS), formerly the Malayan Economic Society, was established on 28 July 1956, as a result of an initiative by graduates and staff from the Department of Economics from the then University of Malaya in Singapore.
On 28 March 1969, the Society changed its name from the Malayan Economic Society to the Economic Society of Singapore, in response to the new independent and sovereign status of the Republic.
Since 1976, the Society has been one of the founding members of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Association (FAEA). The Society published a journal, the Malayan Economic Review (MER), which was later renamed the Singapore Economic Review (SER) in 1969. The SER is now regarded as the leading journal in the Asia Pacific and it is in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) indexed journal.
Today, ESS has expanded to include members from the academic, government and business sectors. The Society organizes conferences and networking sessions to foster discussions of current economic issues relating to Singapore and the region.
Welcome! This microsite contains all the information related to the publication, Economics & Society.
Background information on Economics & Society as well as the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) to which this publication belongs can be found under the About tab, while the content from our latest and past issues can be found under the Current Issue and Past Issues tabs respectively.
Should you be interested in working with us to contribute an article to a future issue of Economics & Society, please follow the instructions in our Call for Articles.
Thank you for visiting and we wish you an enjoyable and insightful journey through our content!
The Economics & Society editorial team would like to invite members of the academia, government, and industry to contribute articles for the next issue of our publication. The theme of the next issue is Man & The Law and contributions should discuss issues at the nexus of Economics and the law.
All topic areas related to the impact of economics on the law (or regulation) or the impact of the law on economics are of interest and in scope.
Please contact the following members of the editorial team with your topic of interest via email and we will follow up with you. | 2019-04-25T22:17:23 | http://www.econsandsociety.com/index.html | [
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Info about Corcoran HS Gymnastics members are listed below. Everyone listed below participated in Gymnastics when they went to high school. Registering allows you to be listed with your fellow Gymnastics members.
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"A gathering to explore, develop and implement diverse and innovative actions which solve Hawai`is community food insecurity."
And insecure we are. Imagine that something disrupted the supply of oil to Hawaii. How would we get our food? Hmmm?
How do communities, with rural roots and values, build thriving and sustainable communities that promote positive social change?"
The conference will be held in Wai`anae on May 20-21 with pre-conference workshops on May 19. The organizers have arranged for scholarships for native Hawaiian youth.
Among the workshops is one on Edible Schoolyards, a concept which is also the subject of a resolution making its way through the Legislature to establish edible school gardens in public and charter schools as one way to combat childhood obesity and diabetes. The resolution is supported by the Slow Food Hawaii and Slow Food Oahu convivia.
Check out the agenda and workshops. This is a very worthwhile conference. Please also help spread the word. | 2019-04-24T18:23:01 | http://www.freerangegourmet.com/2005/05/hawaii-works-on-food-security-attend.html | [
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With your support, the Down Syndrome Program can continue to advance understanding and treatment of Down Syndrome.
Philanthropy has always been an essential part of Mass General’s history, dating back to the founding of the hospital in 1811. Gifts from individuals help to support the hospital’s three-part mission of innovative research and education in addition to patient care that is second to none.
To make a secure online gift to support the Down Syndrome Program, please visit the MassGeneral Hospital for Children donation form. In the "Designation" box, type in "Down Syndrome Program," and complete the rest of the form.
Parent Support and Education Groups: Education and knowledge-sharing is important for parents and families. Donations help us to organize parent support and education groups, where families can come together to share resources and learn from medical professionals (and each other!) about caring for a loved one with Down syndrome. Groups are also available in Spanish.
Groundbreaking Clinical Research: We strive to deliver the highest quality care possible for our patients with Down syndrome, and this is in part thanks to groundbreaking clinical research that constantly helps us improve treatments, therapies, and our understanding of the medical complexities of Down syndrome. When you donate to support our research, you are helping people with Down syndrome live even fuller, healthier, and happier lives.
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Educational Meetings: Each team member in our Program is constantly striving to become even more knowledgeable about Down syndrome. Attending and participating in local and national conferences strengthens our ability to provide the best care for your son or daughter. Funding that helps defray the costs of travel and registration expenses enables our team to participate in these meetings.
Miles for Mass General: Are you running in a race and want it to benefit the MGH Down Syndrome Program? Run any race in the world in support of the Down Syndrome Program by visiting the Miles for Mass General website and registering your unique fundraising page here. No fundraising minimum required! | 2019-04-19T07:16:59 | https://www.massgeneral.org/children/give/down-syndrome-program.aspx | [
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Monday night Christine invited me to be her +1 for Karen Elson's sold out solo show at Le Poisson Rouge.
She was...luminous. Magical. Incandescent? I may not know the right words. I died more than a few times.
I don't think I will have a day where I am like, I NEED to listen to a Karen Elson record today; it's the only thing that will get me through; it isn't exactly my thing..BUT- her voice is gorgeous. I was taken aback at how incredible she sounded.
SPEAKING OF INCREDS, let's discuss how she LOOKED: That long peachyglowdress (with matching fascinator AND microphone fringe) and her unbelievably hypnotically gorge orange flame pennylocks. Superjelz x 100 millzbillz.
I am sorry to gush, but she is a VISION. And my hair idol. And so pretty I want to CRY.
Oh and no bigs, my second hair idol and Head of the Pennylocks Hair Association, Grace Coddington was there, front row and center. Amaze.
*ADM is AY DIOS MIO! Obvi, it's the new OMG. PASS IT ON!
I love the clothes. It's really quite fantastic.
I saw her perform not too long ago with The Citizens Band at the Henry Street Settlement. Absolutely amazing and her voice was surprisingly really good!
sounds like you had a time.
ahhaha, "*ADM is AY DIOS MIO! Obvi, it's the new OMG." I will surely be adding this to my vocabulary.
uhhhh my so-called life reference? ADM!
Her voice is so gorgeous. Her style is also lovely, I really like this style. Thank you for sharing the post. | 2019-04-26T01:47:47 | http://www.feelslikewhitelightning.com/2010/03/i-call-her-red.html | [
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We are not accepting any orders now, but will next spring. Please enjoy our website.
I send a very warm hello and best wishes for a great 2019 daylily season to all our daylily friends and previous customers. Daylily folks are the best! Please enjoy our website even though we are not accepting any orders. You can find our 2019, 2018 and 2017 introductions, “Oz” theme introductions which continue to be popular throughout the daylily world, and previous introductions including the "Cupcake" series. The current sales price is listed with the descriptions. Our daylilies have met the hybridizing goals of being distinctive, having superb garden performance, being resistant to rust and containing that special knack to give you a happy feeling when you observe them. If you see any you are interested in now please contact me to reserve any if we will have them available next year. We are in short supply of most of our daylilies. Please bear with me on a reply for I have a few health issues and I am not as fast at doing things like I use to do. Best wishes to you in your gardening endeavors in building a better world through daylilies.
Pictured (L-R) are Tim with 'Strawberry Cream Cupcake', Hans with 'Grandpa's Little Sweetheart', and Heather holding her Best Seedling in the 2018 Savannah Show. | 2019-04-24T16:15:08 | http://herringtondaylilygarden.com/ | [
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Tom gets his 4th ring.
I was looking at a win, until Kearse came down with the most improbable catch since Manningham's helmet catch. (Even the look on Brady's face was screaming "Oh NO. Not again!!!" I must say, as stupid as that final call was, it was executed fairly well, and should have scored. Except the next improbable event...an undrafted rookie reading the play. And yes...possibly more than any other superbowl, Tom Brady owes Butler. Big time. In a big way.
A win is a win. I'll take it. Just as Tom will gleefully accept his 4th ring in 6 tries, and he will, some day, accept his first ballot HOF induction.
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So you’ve done it. After months of thoughtful design, countless hours of troubleshooting, and after dozens of fried breadboards, you’ve emerged with a final design ready to hit shelves at a store near you. But even after all of the effort, the puzzle isn’t yet complete. Now comes the time to seek out, negotiate, and commit to a manufacturer who will take your work of art and turn it into a real-life manufactured product.
The task at hand, however, isn’t as simple as one might expect. With the rapid advancement in so many manufacturing shops, it seems like everybody and their mother boasts services that get you exactly what you need. Next day prototypes? No problem. Two thousand units by next week? Easy. 16 point quality checks? We’ll make it 17.
While this may sound like the road to choosing a manufacturer will be easy, pay heed to the imposters. The old adage ‘you get what you pay for’ could never be more appropriate here and should be your first lesson. More than just cost associated, there are a handful of other considerations you should be making while you embark on your (hopefully not too) long and (hopefully not too) perilous journey to signing and working with a manufacturer.
Ensuring a robust range of service and expertise will often lead to a quality manufacturer.
As with many companies, both domestic and overseas, trying to come up in the industry, manufacturers will boast about their extremely broad range of services and capabilities to meet any project’s requirements. Although most factories around can meet your requirements, it’s certainly another argument to make on how experienced they are in meeting said requirements.
This is common to see amongst newer to the game manufacturers simply trying to talk their way into a contract here and there offering the world, but constantly coming up short. Be sure to do your research and possibly ask questions: Does the company have a long-standing reputation for great work? Do they have any past references they can point you to? Are they offering you exactly what you are seeking or are they offering you their capabilities?
In an interview with Rick Hartley, he outlines the complexities that modern designs hold which then attests to the larger complexities of manufacturing them. Manufacturing is an intensive process that requires careful and rigorous attention these days, almost as much as the design itself.
Along the same lines as above, a great manufacturer will be very open and honest about their capabilities and previous work, but more than just their history, you should be looking for excellent communication both external (to you), and internal (to their internal teams).
How quickly can you pull information from deep inside their operations? Besides the speed of communication, what’s the quality like? Do they know what they’re talking about? Are they providing you with just the answers you are looking for or do they give you the answer and then some?
Complexity in designs are catalysts for complexity in communication. Ensuring your manufacturer can disseminate, compile, then formulate a proper response in the inevitable event of tricky issues arising would be a top priority for me.
The right manufacturer will offer just the right amount of support services.
Make it a priority to find out not just if your manufacturer is flexible, but what steps they take when flexibility is needed. Let’s assume that one of the parts of your design is in short supply during the third production run (Third run?! Hot dog, look at you go!). What steps will they take to mitigate the issue?
Will they replenish the parts you need, delaying production by a week, or will they have the expertise to suggest various alternatives to keep delivery dates on track? What about their other clients? How will the manufacturer prioritize you amongst others?
In these times of mitigating issues, it’s additionally beneficial to dive in and take a look at the support teams that you’ll be dealing with. Asking similar questions as before: how knowledgeable are their support teams? What’s the communication and response time of issues? And their quality of knowledge? All great things to ask while vetting your short list of manufacturers.
A great interview with Dirk Stans here touches on some of the common flexibility and support pitfalls experienced when taking your design into the manufacturing realm.
It’s not just about one piece of the manufacturing puzzle; rather a plethora of piece that all fit into one goal.
Bringing it back full circle, the thoughts of ‘you get what you pay for’ should be on your mind throughout the processes of seeking a manufacturer, and similarly the number you see at the bottom of a quote shouldn’t be the only thing you take into consideration. This is a trivial tip for most designers out there but absolutely needs to be mentioned here.
The way we like to think of additional costs in the end quote of a design is not as an additional dollar amount, rather as insurance to the inevitable issues that will arise during the length of your contract.
You are not just paying for the design anymore, you are paying for the range of expertise and service they have under their belt. You are paying for their communication and transparency along each run. You are paying for their flexibility and support. You are paying for a quality manufacturer.
Although tricky and extremely intimidating to begin, choosing the right manufacturer simply takes a bit of patience, some forethought into what you are looking to gain, and a big picture overview of each factor at play. Simply put, if you treat finding your manufacturer like finding a significant other, you’ll be well on your way to finding the manufacturer of your dreams!
By not honing in on one aspect of the manufacturer, rather a broad aspect of each of their features, you’ll certainly come up with a short list of quality companies who can get you exactly what you need (and more!). Keeping the basic considerations in mind, be sure to start with their range of services and expertise, their communication, flexibility, cost, and quality. As you begin to dive deeper and deeper, you’ll begin finding your own questions to ask; questions that are near and dear to your design.
If you want to know more about specifications that can elevate your strong design start into a stronger production finish, the Altium community and experts are a great resource and always available to talk with you about how you can make the most from your manufacturing process. | 2019-04-25T00:20:36 | https://hax.co/2018/03/12/finding-success-find-right-manufacturer-design/ | [
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The compaction of loose soils and building infill materials are a central activity of day to day operations on the building site. Many construction defects can be attributed retrospectively to an insufficient load-bearing capacity or inadequate compaction of the subsurface. Only when unambiguous verification of the quality of the earthwork exists are you protected against expensive remedial work. Professionally conducted earthwork check tests protect you from ruts forming in road surfaces or subsidence occurring in excavation pits.
To determine the load-bearing capacity of soil, we conduct a static plate load test in accordance with DIN 18134. In confined conditions, for instance on small plots or in pipeline trenches, we can perform dynamic plate load tests pursuant to TP BF-StB Part 8.3, if you require. And we are available at any time and any place for determining densities in accordance with DIN 18125 and light dynamic probing pursuant to DIN EN ISO 22476-2. With earthwork check tests from GTC-Nord, you will always have solid ground beneath your feet.
To test the load-bearing capacity or close-to-surface density of the soil, most building constructors trust in the static plate load test pursuant to DIN 18134. Due to its detailed standardisation, this is the most precise earthwork test with the highest level of reproducibility. The static plate load test involves applying repeated incremental levels of stress and relief to a circular plate by means of a pressure assembly and measuring the subsidence of the plate in the subsurface. A truck or excavator is used as a counterweight; at GTC-Nord we usually use our own cone penetration vehicles.
In the case of the static plate load test, not only are the applied pressure and the depth to which the load plate sinks measured, but also the easing of the pressure in the soil following the pressure load. The deformation modulus Ev2 is then calculated from the data; this is a mathematical value that takes into account both stress and subsidence and is used to classify the load-bearing capacity of the soil. Static plate load tests in accordance with DIN 18134 enables conclusions to be drawn about a variety of soil parameters, as well as allowing indirect determination of the Proctor density. It also serves as verification of the suitability of soils and subsurfaces as building ground or for use in the entire field of earthwork, foundation engineering, and road construction.
Dynamic plate load testing pursuant to TP BF-StB Part 8.3 can be employed in rail construction, deep pipeline trenches or any other confined locations that do not allow static plate load testing due to the necessity of a counterweight. However, the considerably smaller load on the building ground brought about by the lightness of the drop weight tester means that the test volume is considerably smaller than with static plate load tests.
The lightweight drop weight tester comprises a guide rod, at the upper end of which a 10kg plate is disengaged. An electronic measuring module determines the value of the dynamic deformation modulus Evd in MN/m², which can, if preferred, be converted into Ev2 quantities by means of correlation values.
The determination of soil density is an important factor for evaluating soil properties of importance to building engineering. Density determination in the field pursuant to DIN 18125-2 involves samples being taken and the soil sample’s mass and volume being determined. To ascertain the volume, we use either a cutting cylinder or a densitometer (balloon method).
To determine soil density using a cutting cylinder, we drive a standardised cylinder into the soil. Any protruding sample material is removed, the faces compared, and the cylinder sealed tight to prevent the soil from drying out. In the laboratory, we weigh the content of the cylinder to determine the moist mass; the exact volume of the soil sample is determined from the dimensions of the cylinder. Determining densities with the cutting cylinder is particularly suitable for fine-grained soils (sands, silts and clays).
To measure density using a densitometer (balloon method), a metal annulus disc is placed on the soil, after first removing the grass cover. We then take away the loose rock through the hole in the metal ring down to 1-1.5 times the internal diameter of the ring. The volume of the sample is determined on site with a rubber balloon filled with water, which is pushed into the hole by the densitometer. A scale is attached to the densitometer that shows the volume of water used. The moist mass of the soil sample is determined in the laboratory. Density determination using the densitometer is suitable for both cohesive and non-cohesive soils. The method is particularly recommended for fine-grained soils with embedded gravel and stones and for coarse soils with no sharp-edged stones. | 2019-04-20T23:03:51 | https://gtc-nord.de/en/services/earthwork-check-tests/ | [
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Acclaimed musician Jonathan Wolff created the music for 75 primetime network TV series and is best known for his iconic Seinfeld theme. Now retired, he thrills concert and lecture audiences with wonderful insider stories and Q/A about his remarkable Hollywood career including yada yada of working with Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David.
A masterful pianist (think Will & Grace), Jonathan Wolff offers a performance lecture about his musical journey that is both entertaining and informative. Hear how a young artist from Kentucky became a Hollywood music legend and composer for some of TV’s hottest shows!
The Isaac M. Wise Sisterhood mission is to support our community and enrich not only our lives but of those who may need an extra helping hand. Proceeds from the Seinfeld Music Fundraiser will support the Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank which partners with local social service agencies to provide diapers to low-income families while raising awareness of the basic health need for diapers. The Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank vision is to eliminate the existence of diaper need in our community so that ALL babies have a chance to be healthy, happy, and safe.
People say diaper need will disappear when pigs fly. We say welcome to Cincinnati... where pigs fly!
Please bring a package of diapers to the event to donate! | 2019-04-25T18:47:08 | https://www.wisesisterhoodlectureseries.org/ | [
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Another Sunday, another race event, and another traffic advisory. The Po Leung Kuk Charity Run will start at 8:30 am and members of the public are advised that the section of Tai Mong Tsai Road between the entrance of the Po Leung Kuk Pak Tam Chung Holiday Camp and the exit of Pak Tam Chung Bus Terminus will be intermittently closed from 8:30 am to 8:50 am on 27 January 2019.
Actual implementation of the traffic arrangement will be made by the Police depending on-site traffic conditions at the time. Affected motorists are advised to drive with utmost care. Motorists should exercise tolerance and patience in case of traffic congestion and observe the instruction given by the Police. | 2019-04-24T18:19:19 | https://saikungbuzz.hk/2019/01/traffic-disruption-along-tai-mong-tsai-road-on-sunday-27-january | [
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Credit Counselling Yorkton - Are you stressed about your debts? Maybe your credit is all maxed out, you can't sleep, and your financial worries are affecting your relationships? If so, we can help.
The Credit Counselling Society also provides alternatives to filing for bankruptcy in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. | 2019-04-22T04:55:07 | https://www.nomoredebts.org/canada/saskatchewan/yorkton/credit-counselling.html | [
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We have at our disposal many tools and picking devices, we can pick open a large number of safe key locks using the latest technology picking devices. We also use fibre optic video camera scopes for scanning problems inside safe doors.
With 30 years experience on safe and vault opening, repairing and upgrading, from high grade bank vaults to medium grade commercial safes and low grade household safes following on from my father who dedicated his whole life to the industry.
With this vast amount of experience and knowledge as a foundation then bringing new technology and modern techniques and equipment into play we offer a safe service that is second to none, whether it be Safe cracker service, Lock change/upgrade, Fitting of electronic/digital locks, Key cutting, Combination/code changes, Safe moving/installation or advise on safes and support.
For more info on our services then please do not hesitate to call us on +44 (0)751 715 0405, alternatively you can email us via andrew@specialistsafeservices.co.uk.
Concerned over reliability issues with your safe?
Contact us anytime by phone or using our online form - We look forward to hearing from you. | 2019-04-20T23:00:19 | https://specialistsafeservices.co.uk/ | [
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Get the single, Head Shoulders Knees and MOO!, and mix up the well-known song, “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.” Moo, meow, bark, and oink your way through this exciting new ESL kids’ song.
SKU: CD2-02-mp3 Categories: BINGOBONGO Rock Vol. 2, BINGOBONGO Songs, MP3 Tags: BINGOBONGO Rock Vol.2, Head Shoulders Knees And MOO!
BINGOBONGO Rock Song: Head Shoulders Knees and MOO!
This BINGOBONGO song, Head Shoulders Knees and MOO!, is the best thing to ever happen to an ESL classroom. It’s the ultimate combination of body parts, animal sounds, and body moving. Play this song once and kids won’t stop begging to sing it again, lesson after lesson! The ending also speeds up in this version, making it a great warm-up song, end of class song, or song to change gears when moving between topics in a lesson. Goodbye Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes! Welcome Head Shoulders Knees and MOO!
2. Let’s moo like a cow!
Head, shoulders, knees and moo, moo, moo, moo!
3. Let’s meow like a cat!
4. Let’s bark like a dog!
5. Let’s oink like a pig!
6. Let’s sing it any way you want! | 2019-04-18T23:42:50 | https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/head-shoulders-knees-and-moo-mp3-song-download/ | [
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A cloak can help transform a child into the princess of their dreams. These newly re-designed smooth velvet cloaks with hood coordinates perfectly with our princess dress ups and offer hours of imaginative fun. Accessories sold separately.
Features: Machine washable. Sizes: S/M 3-5 yrs. 28" from neckline to hem. M/L 5-9 yrs. 32" from neckline to hem. | 2019-04-22T10:17:05 | https://www.bestdressedtot.com/costumes-and-dress-up/deluxe-red-cloak/ | [
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Thread: which is better??Blackberry Bold / Blackberry Curve / Blackberry Javelin / what?
Blackberry bold or javelin or gemini ? | 2019-04-23T18:09:01 | http://www.ihav.net/vb/backberry/better-blackberry-bold-blackberry-curve-blackberry-javelin-what-978831.html | [
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We have undertaken the initiative of CPR classes for the health and wellbeing of our parishioners and perhaps for your own family members. You may also be aware that we have had some parishioners in need of help during Mass. We are offering a CPR class in the event that we are in the presence of someone who needs our help. The American Heart Association has long provided classes to learn to be ready for emergencies as we never know when they can occur. The need is for immediate intervention. If you wish to help someone survive a heart attack or stroke, sign up for this Adult CPR class. The class will be Saturday June 18 from 9 AM to 12 noon. The instructors are AHA certified and your certificate is good for 2 years. The class does require standing, kneeling, and using your hands and arms for doing compressions. If you have physical limitations, this may not be the right class for you. Father Octavio is supportive of this venture and wants parishioners to be prepared to help their families and each other. To assist those who want to help others, the church will pay half of the fee and the parishioners are asked to pay only $25.00 each. We need at least 30-40 parishioners to sign up, preferably 6 to 8 from each regularly attended Mass time. This is in the event of need of help during Mass, we might have someone who has undergone the training to assist. Please contact: Rose Caballero @ 361-443-6556 or rosecab@yahoo.com. to sign up or for more information. | 2019-04-22T02:23:38 | https://www.sjnsa.org/church-events/6/18/2016/cpr-classes-for-sjn-parishioners | [
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1. Briefly, from your own experience, what do you perceive is the biggest problem in the health system?
Healthcare is currently based on the treatment of symptoms, usually through pharmaceutical methods. The model should be moved in the direction of finding root causes of illness, and focusing on the root cause rather than focusing on symptoms. That is a matter of education, primarily. Also, people should be rewarded for proactively preventing illness, since prevention reduces dependence on the healthcare system.
2. How do you choose a doctor or hospital? What are your sources of information? How should public policy promote quality health care providers?
I choose by asking others who they go to and who they would recommend. I rarely see a “gatekeeper” physician, preferring to take responsibility for my own health.
Public policy should reward physicians who successfully move their patients to individual responsibility rather than rewarding those who see the most patients, because the “quantity, not quality” paradigm encourages the use of pharmaceutical fixes of symptoms, which eventually leads to more prolonged and burdensome end-of-life illnesses. Policy should also look at redefining laws regarding “practicing medicine without a license” to allow traditional naturopaths and health coaches more latitude in their work with clients, since they can successfully help their clients reduce their reliance on the healthcare system.
3. Have you or your family members ever experienced difficulty paying medical bills? What do you think policy makers can do to address this problem?
Haven’t yet experienced difficulty keeping up, but anticipate the possibility in the future due to family members with expensive dental problems and degenerating vision problems.
No specific ideas on this one other than the obvious ones: put a cap on medical expenses, with the cap reduced for early childhood and people on permanent disability or social security; make a higher percentage of medical expenses tax deductible and/or tax free; and provide a predefined and guaranteed level of care for all individuals (e.g. UK’s National Health Service).
4. In addition to employer-based coverage, would you like the option to purchase a private plan through an insurance-exchange or a public plan like Medicare?
Yes, especially to help the unemployed, self-employed, and part-time workers.
5. Do you know how much you or your employer pays for health insurance? What should an employer’s role be in a reformed health care system?
In my home state, employers are required to pay for health insurance. This keeps wages lower, makes it harder for small businesses to survive, and is a burden on all employers. I would like to see the expense spread out so that the burden is shared by all, rather than being solely the responsibility of employers.
With an insurance pool, employers could be rewarded by encouraging healthy lifestyle habits among their employees, since they could purchase health insurance at a lower premium. In other words, they could buy primarily accident and emergency insurance, and would not be forced to pay for expensive medical treatments for those who should share responsibility for illness developed due to lifestyle choices (e.g. most heart disease due to poor dietary choices, lung cancer and emphysema from smoking, diabetes from poor diet and lack of exercise, some forms of arthritis, etc.) In other words, if somebody wants to smoke, drink, be obese and not exercise, they should expect to pay a higher medical premium, and if someone wants to consciously live a healthy lifestyle, they should not have to subsidize the insurance for those who do not make healthy choices.
Also, insurance coverage should include a broader recognition of alternative therapies, and should include dental and vision care as a part of basic coverage.
6. Below are examples of the types of preventive services Americans should receive. Have you gotten the prevention you should have? If not, how can public policy help?
I have gotten the screenings and preventative measures I felt I should have. I have not had a flu shot and do not intend to get one in the foreseeable future, but I do use a variety of public service screenings to monitor my health and fine-tune my lifestyle choices to stay within healthy parameters.
7. How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?
An audience of dandelion-blowing kids gathers around to see what is so curious. They have spent part of the summer morning chasing through a field playing tag, sending dandelion umbrellas floating into the sky with a single breath, collecting ladybugs, tentatively tasting a wild berry that was not yet ripe … but now, they gathered around a new curiousity.
Stooped in the middle of the group, on center stage as it were — although the setting is in a meadow — a young girl no more than seven years old reaches out to touch the leaves of the plant she just discovered.
As her finger neared the leaf, the leaf quickly closed itself by folding the edges into the middle.
The other kids in the group abandoned their dandelions to look for more of the same kind of plant. Their attention did not move on to other magical bits of the day until everyone had their fill of the mysterious leaves that seemed to shrink shyly away from human contact. It was a sensitivity plant, or sensitive plant, they soon learned.
That moment had many echoes throughout the years. There was an echo when walking through a thick patch of ice plant … the polar opposite of the sensitivity plant. That was on the seashore, where the sea anenome makes a very similar gesture to the sensitivity plant as it captures food carried on the tide, closing itself upon its unsuspecting prey — as well as closing at the touch of a child’s finger. There was a strong echo of the sensitivity plant when picking a basketful of fiddle-head ferns for a salad. They had to be picked at the right season, and the right time of day, before they opened their leaves for the day. And there is a faint echo of the sensitivity plant every year as the seasons change and different facets of the natural world go into dormancy, pulling back to a protective stance.
Years later, the thread that started that day in the meadow would be revived for one of the students when he learned in a botany class that the mimosa pudica was a carnivorous plant, and when the leaves closed, the plant was hoping to enfold an insect small enough to ingest for a bit of nutrition. A magical moment of childhood resolved by finding a scientific explanation. The moment from childhood was no less magical, but the universe was one step closer to having a comfortable explanation.
Discovery seems to satisfy a deep urge in people. Something as simple as the sensitivity plant may already be known to millions of other people, but the moment when one particular child reaches out a finger for the first time and sees the plant respond to them … that is always magical, no matter when and no matter where it takes place.
That sense of wonder, that awe, is repeated in a kaleidoscope of different situations for children who are just discovering the universe on their own. The magic eventually evolves into a structured way of looking at the universe, a way of explaining away the parts that are not yet understood, or that have not yet been discovered. The world view evolves into a familiar structure, but that does not mean that there are no more surprises, no more discoveries to be made.
It just means that the way one’s mind understands the universe is sufficient at the moment. There are no overwhelming mysteries, no anomalies so obvious that they cannot be ignored.
That is not to say that there are no anomalies. It’s just that the mind has a way of ignoring what it doesn’t understand … ignoring the unknown until it is impossible to deny its existence. The proverbial “elephant in the room” that may be obvious to most people, but is invisible to anyone whose view of the universe has not yet discovered a rational explanation for elephants. | 2019-04-25T12:26:16 | https://donchild.wordpress.com/2008/12/ | [
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Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a roughly 25,000-square-foot lease renewal and restructure for SunTrust Bank at 777 Brickell, an office property totaling 288,485 square feet in Miami’s financial district. The longtime anchor tenant signed on for an additional 10-year term.
Located at 777 Brickell Ave., the property recently underwent an improvement program that included upgrades to the common areas, elevators and garage. The building features on-site management, 24-hour security, a full-service salon, covered parking and A restaurant on the ground floor.
SunTrust Bank has been anchoring 777 Brickell since the asset’s completion in 1978 and continues to hold top-of-building signage. The new lease agreement comprises 22,000 square feet of office space on the ninth floor and 2,810 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The bank will open a new, redesigned branch in the building’s lobby.
The Cushman & Wakefield team represented both the landlord and the tenant. Managing Director Andrew Trench and Vice Chair Brian Gale worked on behalf of building owner Alliance RE Holdings while Managing Director Jason Donald, Executive Director Tony Jones and Senior Director Ryan Levy worked with Thomas Crociata, first vice president at SunTrust Bank.
“We are pleased that ownership understands the benefit of SunTrust maintaining its position within the market and that it was willing to accommodate the new initiatives and branding SunTrust is rolling out to better serve its banking clients,” Donald said in a prepared statement. | 2019-04-22T08:56:02 | https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/suntrust-bank-renews-miami-cbd-office-lease/ | [
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Economic data, robust meger & acquisitions activity, and a slew of impressive earnings reports provided Wall Street with enough momentum to recuperate losses from the previous trading session on Thursday, as stocks rallied across the board.
The Conference Board heartened investors when its 3-6 month outlook for the US economy for the month of January was in keeping with what economists had been expecting. Coupled with the previous afternoon’s announcement that social media giant Facebook would purchase the massively popular chat app Whatsapp for $19 billion, investors were unphased by an unforeseen decline in the Philadelphia Fed’s Business Outlook Survey for February.
Equities.com welcomes its newest contributor: Eugene Obiero, editor of The East Africa Energy Blog, a boots-on-the-ground information portal in the service East Africa’s nascent and very promising natural resources market.
Briend Lundin of the Gold Newsletteron the 2014 rebound for gold.
Todd Rosenbluth and S&P Capital IQ Editorial’s Brian Egli discuss the status of the ETF industryafter a rough January.
Senior Editor Joel Anderson traces back the origins of gold’s value.
Michael Teague weighs in on Chevron’s (CVX) recent, jaw-dropping public relations gaffe in Pennsylvania.
Dennis Miller discusses the advantages and relative safety of Master Limited Partnerships (MLP).
Senior Editor Jacob Harper unpacks the popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp that Facebook (FB) just purchased for $19 billion.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) shed 1.8 percent on the day for the benchmark index’s worst performance, after its earnings statement for the recently-ended fourth quarter showed profits off by a whopping 21 percent, while Verizon Communications (VZ) was closed the session on top, adding nearly 3.5 percent after a controversial net neutrality ruling ended up in its favor.
Tech shares were the primary beneficiaries of the day’s rally, with Facebook (FB) adding 2.3 percent on the index’s heaviest trading. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , and Intel (INTC) were in tow with substantial gains.
Shares of grocery stock Safeway (SWY) jumped a solid 2 percent after the company posted its Q4 earnings statement, and hinted that it may be putting itself up for sale.
Tech stocks almost completely dominated the exchange, with a massive 98 percent leap for laser display firm Microvision (MVIS) , after Sony Corp. (SNE) announced that it will the company’s technology in a new HD projector product.
The bigger story by far however was Tesla Motors (TSLA) , who added another 8.4 percent by the bell after releasing yet another impressive earnings report, and undermining some of the rumours about the company’s possible acquisition by Apple Inc. (AAPL) . Small-cap drug manufacturer Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. (RPTP) saw shares 15 percent higher after releasing promising results from an 18-month study of a treatment for Huntington’s Disease that it currently has in development. | 2019-04-21T02:27:03 | https://www.equities.com/news/wall-street-surges-back-to-life-on-economic-data-and-strong-balance-sheets | [
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Click the button below to add the Magic Kitty Halloween Bead Ornament Kit Mill Hill 2006 Autumn Harvest to your wish list.
A charming Magic Kitty for your Halloween decor! Can be used as an ornament or a brooch. Autumn Harvest kit makes one counted glass bead Magic Kitty ornament or pin with Mill Hill Treasure. Optionally, Velcro (not included) may be glued to back and attached to clothing, greeting cards, gift packages, etc.
Finished Size: 1.5 x 2 inches.
Copyright 2006 Mill Hill. Parts from USA, Germany, UK, France, and Japan. | 2019-04-21T20:04:05 | https://www.austiners.com/magic-kitty-halloween-bead-ornament-kit-mill-hill-2006-autumn-harvest/ | [
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Gulet Queen Lila is one of the best luxury Gulets for a yacht charter in Turkey and Greek Islands. Gulet Queen Lila is specially designed to offer a relaxing and entertaining atmosphere to exclusive guests, thereby adding to the pleasure of their yacht vacation. You can easily charter this yacht by Guletyacht.net and then sail on an unforgettable cruise.
Queen Lila is a high-quality Gulet, 30 meters in length, and completely renovated in 2006. There are modern and spacious cabins, specially designed with hall and deck. She accommodates 12 guests in 2 Master, 2 Double, 2 Twin Cabins, Each has a private shower and toilet. All yachts, including cabins, are air-conditioned.
There is a fully equipped kitchen, an indoor and outdoor dining area, and an air-conditioned lounge. There is a TV, DVD and music system in the saloon. There is also a large sun deck with enough sunbathing mats for all. The jacuzzi on the Gulet Queen Lila deck offers guests a pleasant atmosphere as well.
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Gulet Queen Lila is a luxury yacht sailing in a peaceful and tranquil environment. It is fully equipped equipment, ensuring your safety as you visit places From Fethiye to Gulf of Gocek, Ekincik Gulf or Kekova. from Bodrum to Gulf of Gokova or Gulf of Hisaronu, to Mandalya Gulf including Ephesus. From Marmaris to Gulf of Hisaronu or Gulf of Gocek and Fethiye. All can be mixed with the Greek Islands or visiting only the Greek Islands is possible. One way cruise is possible from one to another one, please ask.
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Open the door to your child’s movement potential now that they are walking!
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This post is a public apology for taking nearly 6 years to complete the world's most advanced brewery that costs lest than $500.
I must take part in this hobo brewing. How is it done? Its potential in my dirt kid lifestyle must be realized.
Dude, I just saw this. You know, maybe I should be thanking you for letting me down. Living the hobo lifestyle has opened up my eyes to a whole new world of let downs, goals I will never reach, and friends that only stick around as long as the liquor.. | 2019-04-23T02:01:59 | http://www.catholicbeer.com/2008/10/brian-brews-like-hobo-because-i-let-him.html | [
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Good Morning friends and I am grateful to have you here with me today as I open up our kitchen all ready as part of the Styled for Spring Home Tour!
Welcome to those of you who are visiting from my sweet friend Lucy at Craftberry Bush. Lucy’s talent is breathtaking and I always enjoy seeing how she decorates through the seasons. A very big thank you to our hosts Randi from Randi Garrett Designs and Jennifer from Decor Gold Designs!
I am excited to share how taking some simple steps with the kitchen give it that vibrant feeling of Springtime. The kind that makes you want to breath in the fresh air, open the windows and sit back for the choir of chirping birds outside.
I don’t make huge changes overall, but budget friendly and quick ones that easily turn the space around.
When transitioning our space from the cold months to the ideals of Spring, I really started craving some soft pops of color. This year you will be seeing some tones of pink and blue and of course my favorite neutrals ;).
Just like the season itself, new life emerges from the stillness of Winter – it is a different kind of magical season.
Of course I like to use what we already have and let it evolve to fit the time of year we are in.
I know that the fresh bloom of the season is greeted by fragrant flowers and festive Farmer’s Markets. Oh do I LOVE Farmer’s Markets. I get to take my woven bag and fill it up with all kinds of goodies. The selection of florals is incomparable as are the fruits and veggies.
We often ooh and ahh over the size of berries and veggies that surround booth after booth. Even though Farmer’s Markets aren’t quite happening right now (where we live) they are coming soon and there are some wonderful ways to use these delights as part of your decor.
Flowers make any space come alive. They look pretty in sinks, baskets and of course vases. In this case I even used an antique pitcher.
I sprinkle them around our kitchen as they make me smile any time I get a glimpse.
Then there are the special ingredients that make our homes inviting and call us to stay and visit.
Those juicy blueberries get folded into flaky scones and turn a sunny morning even brighter. I seem to be catching my littles dipping their fingers into the bowl for a taste or ten, ha!
Using produce and flowers to fill it are the details that make it all special.
This season carries hope, it delivers joy and it leaves us with promise. I treasure this season and all it has to offer, striving to enjoy all those beautiful gifts it yields.
Thank you very much for being here today. Don’t forget to visit my amazing friend Kathleen at Lindsay Hill Interiors. She has a kitchen that I have long admired its’ pretty details and I am always inspired by the colors she uses with her designs! Here is a peek down below which includes today’s entire tour!
Here are both week’s linked for you to go and see all the spring beauty!
It’s gorgeous, Annie! I love your kitchen and you’re always the best at styling everything so pretty.
hello. I normally do not comment but this post deserves a comment. it is beautiful how you style and those scones look delectable! is the recipe on the blog? Love, love, love. what an inspiration!
Carmen thank you so much and I am flattered that you did take the time to share! These were actually from a simple mix I found at the store with some fresh blueberries (Fisher’s Original scone mix I believe) – so easy and they are the best! Again thank you so much for stopping by – have a wonderful weekend ahead!
It’s all just so gorgeous, Annie! I love your soft spring colors. All so beautiful!
Kathleen thank you so much sweet friend, I appreciate it!
Just so beautiful Annie!! I always love your gorgeous styling! And your florals never fail to amaze me! Love it all!!
Whoa, such a pretty and inviting home! And your photos are stunning!!! So glad I got a chance to stop by your blog today! | 2019-04-26T05:54:29 | https://www.zevyjoy.com/uncategorized/styled-for-spring-home-tour-our-kitchen/ | [
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1. Completing my last yoga teacher training homework assignment. We have one final weekend where we’ll teach our practicum, have a graduation ceremony, and end with a potluck. Right now, I am taking time to honor what I’ve accomplished, to celebrate. I am wiser and more compassionate as a direct result of the last nine months, blessed by the heart effort of my teachers and my fellow students, forever grateful.
2. A new training class for me and Ringo, this time one that shares my philosophy, wants to help me build a wise and compassionate relationship with my dog.
3. Getting back to work at CSU. I’m in my new office, which is way too hot in the afternoons and will never be as pretty as my “real” office, and because it was most recently a dorm it feels kind of like working in an empty hotel, but it’s good to be getting things done, to see everyone again.
4. Pick-Your-Own Strawberries at Garden Sweet. We were in Oregon too late for the real strawberry season, so it was good to still have one here. Also, finally a carrot from our own garden.
5. Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread, my new favorite thing. I grated a bunch of zucchini from our garden and froze it so I can keep having this. My mouth is watering just telling you about it.
Bonus Joy: My boys, all three of them. Eric took this picture and texted it to me the other day with the title, “We need a bigger couch.” This is Ringo and Sam piled on top of Eric while he was trying to nap.
This entry was posted in Gratitude Friday and tagged Gratitide Friday on August 22, 2014 by jillsalahub.
It went SO fast, Alane! I’m going to imagine Ann there so I can keep my sense of humor about it all, because she always made us laugh. | 2019-04-24T00:56:49 | https://thousandshadesofgray.com/2014/08/22/gratitude-friday-121/ | [
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Opponents of the deal say it both carries financial risks and deepens Hungary’s energy dependence on Russia. The country already relies on Russia for 80 per cent of its oil and 60 per cent of its gas imports.
Budapest awarded contracts to design, build and maintain two 1,200 megawatt reactors in the town of Paks, 75 miles south of Budapest, to a subsidiary of the Russian atomic energy company Rosatom in December. But the decision to conceal some details of the contracts on grounds of national security provoked suspicion among Mr Orban’s critics and in Brussels.
Although the European Commission did not raise objections to an intergovernmental agreement signed by the two countries just over a year ago, the award of contracts for the Paks plant has thrown up thorny antitrust concerns.
Two EU agencies are now examining the agreements. Euratom, the nuclear watchdog, is withholding approval for the plant’s fuel supply on technical and financial grounds, though talks are ongoing, said one official briefed on the matter. All nuclear fuel supply deals by EU member states must receive the green light from the agency.
Competition investigators from the European Commission are also looking at state subsidies and the legality of contracts awarded to Rosatom and its affiliates without a tender.
The antitrust inquiry — described as a possible case of violation of EU law by officials — is still at an early stage, giving Hungary an opportunity to strike a bargain with Brussels before a possible full formal investigation.
The battle of wills is part of a broader struggle between EU technocrats and Russia over Europe’s energy security. Last year, Moscow scrapped its $50bn South Stream gas pipeline into eastern Europe after EU regulators said Gazprom, Russia’s gas export monopoly, would break competition rules by both supplying the gas and owning the pipeline.
For EU diplomats, Mr Orban’s decision not to hold a competitive tender underlined fears that his close links with Moscow could lead Hungary to resist attempts to ramp up sanctions against Russia.
On an official visit to Budapest last week, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, confirmed that Moscow would finance 80 per cent of the project’s total costs, saying he attached “great importance” to it.
Politicians from Hungary’s green LMP party, who have launched legal challenges to the project’s secrecy in a Budapest court, warned that Paks would be an expensive mistake.
“We would like to see our country break free from Russian energy dependence, while Mr Orban seems to be seriously addicted to it,” said Bernadett Szél, the party’s co-leader.
A Hungarian government spokesman said the commission was trying to interfere in national energy policy “by stealth” and warned that attempts by Brussels to build a single internal energy market threatened EU member states’ sovereignty. | 2019-04-21T07:00:58 | https://www.climatesceptics.org/europe/hungary/hungary-russia-nuclear-deal-faces-eu-obstacle | [
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Right up front … I don’t have any tattoos and for the most part, I ignore them on other people. So why am I talking about them? I received an email from someone who has been a chef for the last 10 years and wanted to know what my opinion was on tattoos within the profession of architecture. At first, I thought this was an easy question to answer, but after letting it bounce around my head for a while, I’m not sure I know how to respond.
In order to respond to this email and articulate a position, I decided I should figure out what I actually thought about tattoos and would the presence of tattoos on an individual color the way I view them as a professional. The person who sent in the email told me that he has two “full sleeves” meaning that both of his entire arms – from the wrist to his shoulders – are completely covered in tattoos.
Generally speaking, I don’t understand the motivation that would cause someone to permanently mark their body with a tattoo. There are some instances where I understand why – like the great number of individuals in the service who get tattoos that will identify them with a certain branch of the military – I get that. If you are going to put your life on the line and count on the people around you to help make sure you don’t die, you get a free pass. The tattoos I don’t understand are the “barbed wire around the bicep” type tattoos. I can’t help but think that eventually your current super-awesome arm, full of muscles and looking sweet – is going to look like a pair of pantyhose with laundry stuffed into one leg once you become a senior citizen. Not as cool anymore but does anyone really care about that sort of tattoo in the workplace? Once you’re dressed for work it won’t be visible … so no big deal right? Maybe, but what we are really talking about here is the perception of the individual and the thought process of getting that tattoo in the first place.
I had a potluck roommate in college who had a tattoo … but it wasn’t just the choice of tattoo [shudders] that he choose, but the location [double shudder].
It is possible that this experience might have jaded my opinion.
This is ‘Hot Stuff‘, a character from the comic book associated with ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost’ and ‘Wendy the Good Little Witch”. This was the tattoo that my roommate had so lovingly placed on the inside of his thigh … high and tight to his … ahem, (whispering) groin. In his version of the tattoo, the trident that Hot Stuff was carrying was pointing towards his hot stuff and in script underneath were the words … you know what’s coming here, don’t you?
… it said “Hot Stuff”.
I know what you’re thinking, but no, it wasn’t hot. It was very, very far from hot. It was my daily torment to see my roommates “Hot Stuff” because he liked to be in our dorm room “au naturale” as often as possible – which pretty much meant whenever he was in our dorm room. As you can surmise, he and I did not stay in touch after that year. I have no idea where he is or what he is doing now, but since he was the first person I had up close and very personal experience with who had a tattoo, it’s possible that I might have transferred some of my opinions of him onto all people who have tattoos.
Back to the original question: Would a person who is considering the field of architecture experience any difficulties if they had tattoos? Should it matter if someone has tattoos? I know that we architects are a purportedly creative and receptive group artistically, so that adds a bit of a wrinkle to this question. For me and my office, I concluded that it doesn’t matter as long as it isn’t visible when dressed for work. We don’t have any jobs here where you can sit comfortably in the back flexing your creative abilities and not interfacing with the client. Since that’s the case, you have to realize that you don’t just represent yourself, but the people and company you work for. I am put in a position to represent and speak on behalf of my company daily and there isn’t any doubt that my appearance is judged by the individuals I address – they are professional people and there is a certain amount of professionalism that is expected. Does a tattoo prevent me from being professional? Of course not, but I’ve said it here before – when you work in a service industry, perception is reality.
I really wanted to conclude that having an assortment of visible tattoos on an employee would be a non-issue – and it still could be based on the job they were filling. In trying to address this question, I attempted to make it a black and white issue but I don’t think that’s possible. There are many things that would come into play – where the tattoos are located, the content of the tattoo, the role of the employee, etc. | 2019-04-22T04:52:21 | https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/tattoos-and-the-professional/ | [
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Georgetown University is a respected, private university located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. This area is also a desired address among the politicians and diplomats that call the nation's capital their home away from home. Georgetown also plays athletics in the Big East Conference. Within three miles of the university you'll find several options that allow you to enjoy everything this area offers.
The Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center (acc-guhotelandconferencecenter.com) is on the north end of the Georgetown University campus, next door to the university hospital and the Lombardi Cancer Center. The hotel maintains 13,500 square feet of meeting space that can accommodate up to 1,680 people and can be divided into 14 different meeting rooms. The hotel regularly hosts weddings, receptions and conventions. The hotel has standard rooms that feature work desks and Internet access. Guests have access to Yates Fieldhouse and a fitness center, the Faculty Club restaurant and a Starbuck's coffeehouse.
Wisconsin Avenue runs to the east of Georgetown University and features a couple of lodging options. The Georgetown Inn (georgetowninn.com) touts its 96 rooms, designed and decorated in a European style. Standard rooms feature small work desks, while Georgetown Suites include CD systems, sitting areas, bathrobes and slippers. The hotel offers dry-cleaning services and meals at its own restaurant, the Daily Grill. If you wish, restaurants such as Five Guys and Paolo's are down the street. The Hotel Monticello of Georgetown (Monticellohotel.com) is next door to several retail options, an art gallery and restaurants such as the Historic Georgetown Club. This is an all-suite hotel with rooms that feature pillow-top beds, wet bars, microwaves and refrigerators. The Monticello also has a business center, valet parking and concierge services.
The Georgetown Waterfront area is next to the Potomac River, just east of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. In this area, you'll find the Georgetown Waterfront Park and the Shoppes at Georgetown Park. The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown (ritzcarlton.com) features an inviting lobby with a fireplace, plus dining at the Fahrenheit Restaurant and drinks at the Degrees Bar. All rooms at the Ritz-Carlton have a DVD home-theater system, wet bar, sewing kit and complimentary shoeshine service. There is also an on-site spa and an adjacent 14-screen movie theater. The Georgetown Suites (georgetownsuites.com) is a little further east of the Ritz and is an all-suite property. Room types include studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, town home and penthouses. All suites have a full kitchen, robes and high-definition TVs. The Georgetown also offers its own complimentary breakfast and complimentary wireless Internet.
Pennsylvania Avenue might be the most famous street in America. The Northwest portion of Pennsylvania Avenue is still in the Georgetown area, but if you drive east you'll reach the White House and the Capitol Building. The Washington Suites Georgetown (washingtonsuitesgeorgetown) is about two miles from Georgetown University and is just east of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Northwest. This is an all-suite property that features separate living and sleeping areas with amenities such as full kitchens, two flat-panel TVs with HD programming and a work area. Other amenities include complimentary breakfast, business center and fitness center. The Melrose Hotel (melrosehoteldc.com) is also about two miles from Georgetown and near the Washington Circle Park and K Avenue. Guest rooms include bathrobes, small refrigerators, wireless Internet and complimentary newspaper delivery. Other amenities include the Landmark Restaurant, Library Bar, business center and valet parking. The hotel accepts pets for a nonrefundable cleaning fee.
Postins, M.C.. "Hotels Near Georgetown University in Washington, D.C." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-near-georgetown-university-washington-dc-57744.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
Shops along Wisconsin Avenue, as viewed from M Street, N.W., in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in the 1800s, the shops are recognized as contributing properties to the Georgetown Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.
Members of Plan A Hoyas and H*yas for Choice protest in Red Square on the campus of Georgetown University.
Georgetown University's Healy Hall from the east side taken at sunset from the Walsh Building.
Two Money Matters volunteers from Georgetown University table at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. | 2019-04-19T15:08:30 | https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-near-georgetown-university-washington-dc-57744.html | [
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I’d always play my soccer games wearing mismatched socks. As long as one of them was red, the color of the other didn’t matter as long as it was distinctly not red. The motivation behind my bold fashion choice? Nothing beyond an attempt to give my opponents something to think about.
As a player of somewhat limited ability I’d take whatever advantage I could get.
Occasionally my vastly more talented teammates would ask me if I wanted the ball to the red side or non-red side and inevitably I’d have to look down and see what side the red was on that day. Confusing my teammates wasn’t a particularly good strategy… especially since my goals were about as common as a good Nicolas Cage movie, but I did enjoy hearing opponents occasionally discussing my attire and planning their defenses.
I remember wrenching my back during that same game and needing to spend most of my time on the sidelines. I can also say with certainty that there’s no way I scored more than 4 goals that entire season. 2 was definitely a high water mark for any one game despite what the opposition mistakenly believed for a fleeting moment.
I’d shared this story with Snowflake long before she became The Right Foot of Rockville™️, but as can happen when you’re a parent: yesterday… months after hearing my tale… for the first time she insisted on wearing mismatched socks. Somehow it this was more proof of my DNA, leaving my lovely red headed wife to worry that our snowflakes have inherited my fashion sense.
Unfortunately the mismatched socks coincided with the end of our season-long winning streak as too many of our girls were distracted with playing in the dirt. For her part, the Right Foot of Rockville was still running over opponents and pounding the ball toward the goal and screaming at her teammates to keep their heads in the game like it was a life and death situation.
She gets that from me too. Her ability to score goals however must come from her mother. | 2019-04-24T23:57:29 | https://traumaticparentingworkshop.blog/2018/05/13/dressed-to-thrill/ | [
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Vanessa made crafts and sold them to raise money for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She also collected scarves for the homeless and tied them around trees in downtown Minneapolis.
Two students worked with local Starbucks managers to get their coffee shops to compost and have clearer recycling signs.
Two students brought dogs from a local shelter, Indigo Rescue, to campus during midterms to help students relieve stress. They also collected money for the shelter and raised awareness about dog adoption.
Should this be the future of philosophy? The answer depends on what we think ‘philosophy’ is. Valentine claims that the job of philosophers is to help their students acquire “wisdom,” by which he means “the intelligence to live well.”3 But many subjects other than philosophy help students live well (e.g., accounting). Not all who live well are good philosophers and not all who live poorly are poor philosophers; hence philosophy is not “the intelligence to live well.” Philosophy, as I understand it, is theoretical—roughly, the use of reason to investigate fundamental questions that cannot be settled empirically: Does God exist? What do we know? What is morally right?, and so on.
Service-learning enthusiasts in philosophy don’t disclaim theoretical learning, nor do they typically call for activism to be injected into nearly every philosophy course. Still they use language that subtly disparages purely intellectual pursuits. They speak, for example, of the need to bring philosophy into ‘real life’ and ‘the real world’ as if it currently takes place elsewhere.4 Consider again the term ‘Engaged Philosophy.’ Presumably, what makes Engaged Philosophy engaged are the students’ service projects. If so, then the implication is that philosophy classes without service projects are disengaged, or at least less fully engaged than those that have them. Engagement with ideas seemingly doesn’t count as genuine engagement.
It is notoriously true that into whatever you do not put your whole heart and soul, in that you will not have much success. Now the two masters, theory and practice, you cannot [both] serve. That perfect balance of attention which is required for observing the system of things is utterly lost if human desires intervene, and all the more so the higher and holier those desires may be.
Does this apply to disciplines outside of the sciences? There’s room for doubt. When investor Bill Miller donated 75 million dollars to the Johns Hopkins University philosophy department—the largest ever donation to a single philosophy department—philosopher Michael Huemer criticized him for not donating the money to a more effective cause (assuming that his goal, in giving to charity, was to do as much good as possible). According to the data at GiveWell.org, that sum of money, donated to a highly efficient charity, could have saved the lives of 25,000 extremely poor people. Hiring nine new philosophers won’t in all likelihood yield any comparable benefit.
Here’s the rub: Huemer’s reasoning extends to every dollar invested into the humanities or pure mathematics, each and every one of which would, by the same logic, be (morally) better spent elsewhere. Imagine that it were possible to press a button that would reallocate all of this money to a GiveWell charity. In addition, all of the resources private individuals spend investigating these fields would be similarly redirected. Should a utilitarian like Peter Singer press this button? Doubtless, this would produce a short-term utility spike. But in the long term, I doubt that the bargain would be a good one even on utilitarian terms.
If the reallocation were constant—so we’d never reinvest money into these fields—then pressing the button would amount to a cultural cashing-out. Whichever society did this would be intellectually diminished and its members might be less willing and able to come to the aid of others on a continuing basis. With no moral philosophers like Peter Singer around to persuade them of their duty to donate, people might forget why they are going through such trouble. Ultimately, then, some resources ought to be devoted to “curiosity-driven inquiry” in these fields—though it’s hard to say precisely how much.
If we grant that philosophers have a legitimate role investigating purely theoretical questions, then they have reason to keep utility-based justifications for what they do, and especially politics, an arm’s length from their research. Philosopher Bas van der Vossen has argued that philosophers, at least those interested in political questions, have a prima facie duty to abstain from political activity.8 Philosophers’ primary charge is finding the truth and members of professions have duties to avoid things that make them predictably worse at their jobs. Empirical evidence exists that political involvement introduces biases that make the truth more difficult to discern. Hence, it is at odds with political philosophers’ professional duties.
The best response to van der Vossen, I think—and it is one he considers—is to say that if philosophers do have a duty of this kind, then it isn’t a duty that matters very much. After all, it will frequently be in competition with stronger duties, such as the duty not to stand idly by as injustice occurs. Philosophers shouldn’t eschew political engagement altogether. But the weaker claim that philosophers should generally avoid doing philosophy and political activism at the same time is reasonable. We should, out of epistemic modesty, avoid combining investigation with tasks likely to introduce bias—paradigmatically, political activism. The same goes for pedagogy.
If we had good evidence that service-learning is the best way to transmit philosophical ideas and methods, then the benefits would outweigh the risks. Four philosophers associated with the Engaged Philosophy website have published a pilot study that purports to show that philosophy courses with ‘civic engagement’ components have salutary effects.9 Students in service-learning classes, interviewed at the beginning and end of the semester, report gains in a variety of skills relevant to good citizenship. Qualitative analyses of students’ written final reflections supported these results.
I anticipate the objection that my demand for rigor is selective, since we also lack empirical evidence that traditional methods work.11 But we already have good reason to think that traditional methods have something going for them. Those of us who have doctorates in philosophy acquired our expertise through years of reading, writing, and listening to lectures (which service-learning enthusiasts deride as ‘sage on the stage’ teaching). If all of this were bankrupt, then our expertise, and the expertise of those with PhDs in other disciplines taught in the same way, would be hard to explain. Since it evidently isn’t bankrupt, the onus is on those who claim to have something better.
Even if service-learning classes have all the advantages enthusiasts claim, such classes should remain novelties. Integrating service-learning throughout the philosophy curriculum, as Valentine suggests, would likely accelerate the instrumentalization of higher education. Philosophers already face pressure—from administrators, politicians, and laypeople—to justify their discipline in terms of its economic. They shouldn’t want to find themselves facing similar pressure from within their own ranks.
The anti-theoretical tone of the service-learning movement, implicit even in the rhetoric of moderates, makes this worry reasonable. The slope here really is slippery. If we accept that even 20 percent of a student’s grades should be service-based—on, say, the grounds that philosophy belongs in the ‘real world’—then the open question will be “Why not more?” Most university classes can be repurposed as ‘service-learning’ courses; only philosophy concerns the fundamental questions at its core. Diverting attention away from theoretical concerns in an effort to make philosophy ‘relevant’ will instead make it redundant and irrelevant. Pressing philosophy into public service would be a disservice to philosophy.
1 The advocates of Engaged Philosophy bill it as an alternative to service-learning because it is student directed. However, if service-learning (sometimes spelled with a hyphen, sometimes without) is simply pedagogy that involves service projects, then Engaged Philosophy is a form of service-learning. That is how I will be understanding the term here.
2 Valentine, Eugene J. “Service-Learning as Vehicle for Teaching Philosophy” in Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Philosophy. Ed. David C. Lisman. (Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 2000), pp. 130.
4 For a typical example, see Peter Singer’s forward in Experiential Learning in Philosophy. Ed. J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016), pp. xii-xiv.
5 Oxley, Julinna and Ramona Ilea, “Experiential Learning in Philosophy: Theory and Practice” in Experiential Learning in Philosophy, ed. by J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016), p. 7.
6 Peirce, Charles Sanders. “Philosophy and the Conduct of Life” in The Essential Peirce Volume 2, ed. by The Peirce Edition Project (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 34.
9 Hawthorne, Susan, Monica Janzen, Ramona Ilea, and Chad Wiener “Assessing Student-Initiated Civic Engagement Projects in Philosophy Classes” in Experiential Learning in Philosophy, ed. by J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016).
10 Another study cited on the Engaged Philosophy website is Lies, James M, Tonia Bock, and Jay Brandenberger. “The Effects Of Off-Campus Service Learning On The Moral Reasoning Of College Students.” Journal Of Moral Education 41.2 (2012): 189-199. This reports that service-learning students increased their average scores on tests psychologists say track development in moral thinking (a control-group of randomly-selected students from the same university did not). Perhaps these findings reflect well on service-learning in general, but they aren’t, and don’t purport to be, evidence that civic engagement enhances philosophical instruction. Thinking about ethics like an adult, though desirable in an ethics student, doesn’t imply any knowledge of ethical theory. By analogy, service-related learning in a mathematics class might increase critical thinking generally without conferring knowledge of the specific mathematical concepts and procedures central to the class.
11 Philosopher Neven Sesardić has argued in an essay for Quillette that although philosophy departments claim to increase their student’s critical thinking abilities, all they know is that philosophy majors tend to have good test scores. So nothing rules out the possibility that philosophy simply attracts smart students. Economist Bryan Caplan has also, in his book The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton University Press, 2018), produced a lot of very dispiriting evidence about education generally.
“Those of us who have doctorates in philosophy acquired our expertise through years of reading, writing, and listening to lectures (which service-learning enthusiasts deride as ‘sage on the stage’ teaching). If all of this were bankrupt, then our expertise, and the expertise of those with PhDs in other disciplines taught in the same way, would be hard to explain. Since it evidently isn’t bankrupt, the onus is on those who claim to have something better”. This final sentence begs the question. And without the final sentence the argument is circular. The same claims could be made by any “discipline” (e.g. postmodernism).
“If we accept that even 20 percent of a student’s grades should be service-based—on, say, the grounds that philosophy belongs in the ‘real world’—then the open question will be ‘Why not more?’ “. Any necessary discontinuity (cut-off pregnancy length for abortion, age to be licensed to drive) requires a somewhat arbitrary cut-off point.
These are arguments from a doctorate of philosophy?
There really is a problem of adjudicating value in such things as the humanities. Part of the problem is de-ratcheting the already ratcheted pseudo disciplines (like theology – and I don’t mean the historical, psychological, literary, etc aspects of theology, I mean the cultish self-serving departments and institutions built around belief). The ratcheting is partly done by training new acolytes in the new fad, who will then go on to populate the departments (because they’ve not learnt anything that will allow them to thrive in the real world) and create more acolytes. Part of philosophy is built on a fetishisation of historical philosophers and of coolly seductive pretentious sophistry. The author is nobly trying to defuse a seductive new trend and avoid the ratcheting of this aspect of philosophy. Good luck.
Someone needs to tell the children that there’s a huge difference between a vocation and avocation.
You’re right that the author’s first defence is circular, as it stands. But I think you’re wrong that philosophy has a value problem—or that it has any more of a value problem than other academic discipline animated by the open-ended pursuit of knowledge. I offer an example leading to a general conclusion.
Medieval philosophers spent a lot of time on defeasible (= “defeat-able”) reasoning, that is, arguments where the conclusions are only likely and might turn out to be false. Legal reasoning was one of their primary concerns. Defeasible reasoning was obscured for a time by the rise of formal or symbolic logic (e.g., Frege, DeMorgan, et al.), but it made a comeback in the mid-twentieth century when it was formalized into to what’s nowadays called non-monotonic logic. “So what?” you ask. Well, it turns out that this kind of reasoning first analyzed by angel-counting medieval theologian-philosophers is just the sort of thing you need to make artificial intelligence work. Who knew?
Put another way, justifying philosophy is hard because it’s hard to say what it is in the absence of concrete goal. It’s far easier to say what it’s not. Volunteering in a soup kitchen, for example, may well contribute to the public good, and I would even say that it would be valuable as a learning experience and that it’s an example of good citizenship. But learning civics by doing one’s civic duty has no more to do with doing philosophy than learning to use the potty.
Thankyou, well said. Better than the author of the article above.
I think the author is a tad defensive, but also correct in applying skepticism. However, I must admit, the general impulse, if not the specific implementation, sounds a bit like labs in science classes. Labs are intended to give students hands-on experience with science and scientific principles, to complement (not compete with) lectures, and to give students some skills in basic techniques. As in this case, labs can be fantastic learning experiences or awful wastes of time in which students just plow through cook-book experiments learning nothing, and everything in between. However, philosophy seems to lack the long tradition of such activities, so they’re starting from zero and having all the attendant “teething troubles”.
Maybe I’m biased by coming from the sciences, where there’s usually a tight relationship between lab activites and lecture material (e.g. “We’re going to synthesize aldehydes, which you learned about this week”), these “service activities” don’t seem to have much clear relationship to the class, but rather a vague and nebulous one (perhaps even purely cosmetic). But that doesn’t mean the concept is flawed, just the implementation – I’ve seen some AWFUL scientific labs.
I rather wonder if online debates / comment sections would be more useful? It doesn’t have the touchy-feely goodness of most of these activities, but seems more likely to connect to the course material in a way that reinforces it.
I agree on the feeling of defensiveness seeping through this timely piece of writing. I found it quite interesting that in critiquing the idea of ‘Engaged Philosophy’ and ‘Service-Learning’ the author should reach out for tools developed by the scientific community rather than using philosophical methods. From my perspective, the vulnerability of the research in the pilot study is not the small sample size, but the failure to define exactly what is meant by a ‘good citizen’. After all, the ‘good citizen’ of Stalinist Russia is quite different to the ‘good citizen’ of Dayton Ohio or even of Nangalam Province in Afghanistan today. ‘Good’ is a relativity.
Thus, the first requirement of philosophy is the accurate definition of the meaning we put in the terms we choose to use. The same can be said of the author’s approach to ‘injustice’ as being something that the ‘good’ philosopher should put aside their rational enquiry to resist. However, what is meant by ‘injustice’? Are we talking about the manifold minute injustices that occur on a daily basis in the lives of families, or the injustices of the pogrom? The other problem with injustice is of course that our entire existence is built up of big and small injustices inflicted and suffered as we are buffeted by life itself. We live in an inherently unjust and uncaring universe and we are specifically evolved to inflict and absorb injustice. Is this capacity to live as perpetrator and sufferer what makes us human?
This is why the activist whispering about injustice in our ear is the modern equivalent of Satan whispering in Christ’s ear in the desert. The whispered messages are true, but they are truth used to pervert us from our commitments to the pursuit of understanding. For the activist, real understanding is the threat they fear most and the philosopher must remain on that narrow path of seeking real understanding and not succumb to the temptation to become ‘relevant’ and ‘useful’. The practical people who build our world and do our good for us cannot work without that understanding and they are too busy building to have the time for thinking. Yet, all of their endeavours are built upon a philosophical foundation supplied by thinkers.
If the natural sciences have a lecture/lab combination, then the analogous combination in the humanities seems to be lecture/discussion. In each, the lecture part is someone telling you what has been done, and the second part is actually doing it. For natural sciences the “what has been done” is largely experiments, so doing it is of course doing experiments. (And observations, etc.) In philosophy, the “what has been done” is largely arguments. So doing it is making arguments as well.
I’m sure the value theory parts of philosophy have rather direct applications in the world, but so does a lot of applied science. Yet, we do not see a push for natural science classes to become engineering classes.
Applied science yes, but pure science not always Nichole, or never (deep sea biology). I wouldn’t know the usefulness of ontology, or phenomenology. Philosophers I like most (such as Heidegger) were rather unpractical and useless scholars. Though, their alumni (Hannah Arendt, Beauvoir) could turn that in a more applicable direction, of course.
Begging the question and circularity are the same thing. Furthermore: the argument doesn’t beg the question. It alleges to establish that “service-learning” advocates have the burden of proof. The reasons for this conclusion are, roughly: *Philosophers (and similar academicians) have decent expertise; they have been trained in ordinary ways that don’t involve “service-learning; if such methods are “bankrupt,” then their expertise is difficult to explain. So ordinary methods apparently work fairly well.* So, etc. Not the strongest argument of all time, but ok. And more to the point: not circular.
Perhaps it would be better to merely note that any radical proposal for change has a burden of proof.
The proposal is awful, of course. It’s the latest part of a push to basically eliminate philosophy by turning it into something else–and something else that’s already being done to death elsewhere. Feminists want us to make philosophy more like women’s studies, the progressive left (including feminists) wants us to turn away from abstraction and toward social “justice” indoctrination…and the enthusiasm for “engagement” is, as Case notes, just another aspect of that push.
The same as with culinary affairs and chef cooks, where fast food and Macs don’t suffice, import the continental talented in the field, quite an improvement, I guess. Einstein was also a famous immigrant, but whether that is also so with the hereditaries of the Frankfurter Schule and the Post modernists? That’s the question, of course, I think not, but once you decided, you have to proceed and pursue in some way or another. In Holland we say: -then you remain with the baked pears-.
Yes, fair enough, begging the question is implicitly circular (but a particular kind of circularity). You seem to have then gone on to talk about a different argument about burden of proof being on those advocating for a change, but I was pointing out floors in the authors “proof” of value in the discipline as it stands. If he can’t provide proof, then I suggest he’s making an argument for ratcheting down the self-supporting cabal. But I bow to your obviously greater wisdom here, and support your fight to keep philosophy philosophy. But my perspective is that philosophy is already overblown. There may be an analogy here to a (currently) relatively benign religion being a vaccine against a different, (currently) less benign religion.
I think, pragmatism is the very core of all US philosophy (Dewey, Rawls,James), that’s their only strength. In Europe (but also Asia), abstrahism and transcendentalism is more valued.
A sad but not unsurprising development. Philosophy is the last bastion of reason in the humanities—the walls battered and a few breaches, but the city’s not overrun yet. The fact that such a ridiculous proposal has any legs at all isn’t good sign, though. The specious reasoning reminds me of Plato’s Euthydemus: Some degrees give credit for work placements; activism is a kind of work; therefore, philosophy should give credit for activism. I’m surprised no one suggested quantifying marks with numbers of windows smashed and “Nazis” punched.
Activism or volunteering or community work is no more relevant to philosophy than it is to mathematics or chemistry, though it seems to have been stitched up with the same fourth-rate casuistry: Marx said doing philosophy involves changing the world; smashing windows changes the world; therefore, smashing windows is doing philosophy. Maybe there can be a Jordan Peterson version where changing your underwear is changing your world and, therefore, changing your underwear is doing philosophy. I don’t see why not.
Interesting aside. I recently read a breakdown of GRE and LSAT scores by degree. Turns out philosophers finish at the top overall (physicists came second), and philosophers score highest on verbal and spatial. Only a few hard science and engineering degrees beat them on quantitative reasoning, though you’d be surprised how few. I recall that philosophers beat statisticians, for example, on quantitative reasoning, which is kind of funny.
Being a philosopher myself, I’m not much good at anything other than tests. Embedding hyperlinks is beyond my ken. But i found it again at Daily Nous (http://dailynous.com/value-of-philosophy/charts-and-graphs/). Since I don’t take this all that seriously I didn’t check it again before writing. Turns out I misremembered some of the details, but my overall report was accurate.
This is such a sad essay in so many ways it is difficult to know where to start but I suppose the first sentence is as good a place as any.
Karl Marx was not a philosopher no matter how many times philosophy or political science professors claim that he was. The reasons are many but the main point would reflect the shallowness of Marx’s psychological analysis that fails to encompass the breadth of humanity’s diversity of soul. As such he is more properly thought of as a variety of sociologist with an emphasis on economics. A philosopher discovers and creates; a sociologist observes and measures.
This is cursory, of course, but important because of the old adage that “the high is capable of understanding the low but the low cannot understand the high”. Since philosophers represent the highest form of humanity as the most complete version of a rational being – a definition tracing back to Aristotle – this is offered as a quick and dirty observation that Marx didn’t have a clue what he was talking about with the above claim.
The other point I would like to make concerns the use of the word ‘philosopher’. I have seen academics who work in philosophy departments refer to themselves in this manner on several occasions in articles on this platform. It is probably just me but I find this self designation demeaning to the tradition.
A philosopher is a giant amongst men. A person whose strength of mind is so great as to fully escape the prejudices, misunderstandings, myths and foibles of their time and place. They are the great minds whose seminal thought transforms humanity’s interpretation of their subject matter. They are an exception rarely seen in any single generation. The furthest point on the bell curve of rational beings.
This does not describe the dusty and mundane teachings encouraged and rewarded in academic settings. Whenever I see somebody self-identify as a philosopher I have to admit my immediate reaction to their writings is less than charitable.
Of course, def, a distinction is needed between the real philosophers, and the philosophy teachers and scholars. Of that first category, there are or have been about 10 in the New World (though, if you are very strict, maybe none), and some 100 in Europe and Mid East. Of that second category, there might now be 10.000 or over, globally.
Perhaps the problem stems from the cultures desire to constantly specialize, narrowing down again and again.
The “philosopher” you describe has never existed and will likely never exist. You’re fetishizing flawed individuals as perfect beings, not very rational it would seem. Of course the fact that you cling so tightly to reason is another flag giving us some idea about your own foundational biases.
It doesn’t matter how flowery or eloquent you want to put things, all those you hold up are ignorant, but a particularly dangerous ignorance, one that allowed them to believe they were not, one that allows others to insist on their correctness.
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We've also enjoyed the friendship and generosity of Peter and Judy Stockdale who own an organic farm in Enderby. Stockdale Farm has essentially provided the beginnings of our food forest for free. Seabuckthorn, Damsen and Italian Plum, Goji Berries, Strawberries, Choke Cherry, Elderberry, Comfrey, Lemon Balm, Black Currants, grapes... and I've probably forgotten one or two! A visit to the Stockdales is always a joy. The conversation is stimulating and the warmth is rejuvenating.
And probably the most touching relationship we've developed is that with Sonia Stairs and Henry Caron at Boundary Farm in Southern BC. They operate perhaps the most reputable Seed Garlic farm in Western Canada and yet have been exceedingly generous with their time, wisdom and help in getting us started. What to many would have been seen as competition, was to them an opportunity to make new friends and contribute to the success of others. We were glad to have the chance to share with them our discovery of the Spader, which has inspired them to pursue one of their own.
Stories like this are good to keep in mind as we set our sights on serving the earth and the land beneath us. The earth is just as much inspired by our generosity and service as people are. Permaculture is a stand for the shift from self-obsession and fear to thinking and acting for the benefit of the Other. | 2019-04-23T06:01:20 | http://www.rasacreekfarm.com/resources/permaculture | [
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While in graduate school, she started working as a court interpreter for the counties of Hennepin and Ramsey in the Twin Cities. She also attended ESADE (Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas) in Barcelona, Spain as an exchange graduate student. She received her MBA (MIS Concentration) from the University of Minnesota in 1994. She is currently attending the University of Santa Monica - Master's in Spiritual Psychology (Class of 2011).
Ms. Trevino got her certification as a Spanish Court Interpreter from the State of Minnesota Supreme Court in 1995 and became federally certified in 2005. She continued developing business relationships with different clients in Minnesota, Florida and California. In 2001, she became co-owner and co-managed another interpreting agency in the Twin Cities.
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Pending Disciplinary for Gross Misconduct. Should i resign?
I have been suspended from work and have a disciplinary meeting for Gross Misconduct on Monday to discuss it. The charges are trumped up, some are absolute lies. I can prove some are true but not others. Either way I'm fairly sure they want me out and they have enough evidence to do it. I don't care about losing the job but I really don't want a sacking on my record. I have adequate savings so I'm not worried about not getting job seekers. I know I'm innocent of it all and so do the people that matter so I'm not worried about proving anything really. Is it better to resign? I've been told my company just give a very basic reference i.e 'he worked here from x date to x date' Would I have to do it with immediate effect on Monday morning? Thanks in advance for any help/advice. This is a horrible time.
How should I proceed with CRS?
Just over a month back, Harlands came after me with £50 in admin fees for an unpaid £39.99 DD to a gym which I left without formally cancelling. This is my fault and I accepted full responsibility. Here's a timeline of events (this is an email I sent to CRS when the debt was "passed on" (even though they're the same scummy company in essence)): Today, I got this reply-- To which I replied How should I proceed? Can anybody with any experience with such matters weigh in here? How likely are they to pursue me and take civil action? And, if so, how likely am I to succeed given my attempts to pay as outlined in the above email. Thank you!
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WCA Should i be concerned?
Hi, Im hoping to get some advise on my last WCA. Ive had four assessments at each one the HPC had my ESA50 infront of them, at my last WCA the HPC didnt have my ESA50 infront of her and was looking at my last review via the computer. It makes me worry that the HCP didnt have my ESA50 at all. My WCA was also ended within 20minutes, the HCP then said she had to make a phone call, then came back in to say she has enough information to write her report and not to worry. Is this sosmething i should be concerned about? P.S I was in WRAG for 2 years before being moved into the SG on the third year. All help is very much appreciated.
How would i go about finding out if a landlord (housing association) is liable by law/regulations or contract to perform certain repairs/modifications on the property? I have a few issues that i would love to get remedied but have little luck getting them looked at seriously. One being a very common problem for all the flats i know in my block is that people upstairs simply walking quietly across the floor causes all kinds of very loud creaks and bangs. Very disturbing if your underneath even with tv or music on and ive seen how unavoidable it is from the other side too walking on such floors when visiting neighbours. I had a lot of trouble with a noisy neighbour years ago which culminated in noise equipment and so on being installed which picked up this noise (on top of the fights) but my landlords refused to even listen to the recordings offered by the local council. Secondly i live in my 2nd bedroom which is very small. Since they moved the boiler out of the large cupboard and into the bedroom (there was a CO leak from the waste gas pipe) and boxed in underneath it as well as boxing in pipes running along the floor the room has become massively unusable as a bedroom. Placement of door, window, radiator and said boxing making any kind of half sensible arranging of a simple bed and wardrobe very oddly laid out. i would like ideally to have the pipes running across the top of the wall rather than bottom. Lastly the flat has no drying facilities. No outside washing lines, no front/back garden or balcony. it had a simple line that crossed the bath at one point (it was crap and never used as someone was always wanting to shower or bath) but that was made unusable some months ago when they had to replace the shower and its now in the way. Just wondered how i would go about checking up on building regulations or similar to see if i can force a remedy on any of these problems. Previous experience has taught me they wont do bugger all until they have to. Thanks. | 2019-04-26T15:55:01 | https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/tags/should/ | [
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Hello. Welcome back to Blogmas Day Five, I hope you read yesterday's post on A Small Beauty Haul.
Despite the fact that I did do my November Favourites not too long ago (inserts a plug here), but there are more things that I have been loving at the moment. Hence, this blog post.
I love liquid eyeliner, I love the wing. It is my favourite thing about makeup and I have been through a lot of eyeliners over the past years but finally I have reached a conclusion that my favourite liquid eyeliner is from the inexpensive, affordable brand MUA. Their Matte Black Liquid Eyeliner is my favourite thing at the moment, I am in love. Applying eyeliner is easy with this applicator.
I am a massive baker, I love baking. All I do is bake and you might be seeing a blog post on that Monday for Blogmas Day Seven! I love trying out new recipes and basically challenging myself. My favourite things to bake are fruit cake and chocolate cookies.
There are many Youtubers that I am loving at the moment, but if I had to narrow it down it would be Tanya Burr, Zoella, Carli Bybel, Nicole Guerriero, Grace Francesca and IntheFrow. I have been loving the channels for the past couple of months but recently,I don't know there is something about their channels recently that has made me love them more.
Haha, I am sure that you were all expecting me to talk about some bloggers that I have been loving at the moment. They are TheCosmeticAsthetic, JasmineTalksBeauty, BethNorton and BeautyByKelsey. You might be seeing 1 or 2 of these lovely bloggers on my blog very soon! So don't miss out. But I have been loving a lot of bloggers at the moment, reading blogs has now become a must-do on a daily basis.
What have you been currently loving?
Make sure you come back tomorrow for Blogmas Day Six! | 2019-04-26T08:48:26 | http://www.thatbellemakeup.co.uk/2015/12/currently-loving.html | [
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After public officials, cyclists and schoolchildren, the nation’s pet chickens have become the latest group to succumb to Britain’s "high visibility culture,” writes Jasper Coping of the Telegraph.
These bibs are not just an adornment. They are made of a durable fluorescent fabric specially designed to assure any wandering bird can be seen in dim lighting.
The “High Vis Chicken Jackets” have been developed by Omelet, a company which manufactures fashionable chicken coops to cater for the expanding domestic-chicken market.
“Most people who have chickens as pets will have them out and about, and we do hear about chickens that cross the road, he added.
Chickens tend to put themselves to bed – or roost – at dusk, but Mr. Paul said that was a time when they were particularly vulnerable to traffic and also in a hurry to get home.
The bibs cost around £12 ($16.50 USD) and are available in pink or yellow, went on sale earlier this month in Great Britain, according to the Telegraph. | 2019-04-24T06:06:19 | https://www.opposingviews.com/category/chickens-go-hi-vis-safety-gear | [
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The basics of synchronous generators are explained in this section. This article discusses about construction and working of synchronous generator , principle of operation of synchronous generator is . Construction of synchronous machines. They supply the electric power used by all sectors of modern societies: . A machine that generates an alternating voltage when its armature or.
The brushless, electronically controlled version of the AEM synchronous generator with integrated AEM voltage regulator (AVR) meets the highest standards in . AC SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS. Why do we study AC synchronous generators ? Like other electrical machines, synchronous machines can be operated as either generators or motors. We will concentrate on synchronous generators , then . Using the simplified generator power flow diagram it can be seen that the. Power and torque equations for balanced synchronous generators can then be .
The turbine turns the rotor of the synchronous generator via the generator shaft onto which electromagnetic poles have been placed. There are windings on the . These relays are used in transmission lines protection as distance relay and in synchronous generator loss of excitation protection as LOE relay. In comparison of the conventional bulk power plants, in which the synchronous machines dominate, the distributed generator (DG) units have either very small . In the history of developing the mathematical . Synchronous generators for small hydro power plants, for wind mills, for marine. The gas turbine – synchronous generator systems are widely used for electric energy generation, because of their economic operation, reliability and low . WEG Electric Machinery (WEM) synchronous generators provide high quality and reliability along with low maintenance and long life. Meaning, pronunciation, translations and . Abstract – Self-excitation for synchronous generator is described in the paper.
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Elementary synchronous generator. Hence the connection of the generator to . Retrying library for Python. Contribute to tenacity development by creating an account on GitHub. As explained previously, there are basically two types of synchronous generator : (1) those whose fields are separately excite and (2) those whose fields are . If the generator is equipped with permanent magnets, the system of rings and. The control of the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) can be . Industry Applications, vol.
Elissa Soares De Carvalho. The generator cooling has been studied in depth using specialized softwares and validated by laboratory models to ensure. Efficient end winding cooling. The test platform for PM synchronous generator is used both for . | 2019-04-24T17:59:16 | http://hapchikov.ru/synchronous-generator/ | [
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Remember one thing; Barack Obama’s stated goal is to bring down capitalism and establish a new world order. (Google UN Agenda 21). He intends on spending us over the financial cliff.
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He is trying to shut down the coal industry also, and Colorado gets two-thirds of its electricity from coal. | 2019-04-25T15:42:35 | https://www.craigdailypress.com/news/g-schneider-vote-for-romney/ | [
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BMW has a flood of details today on your SUV position, 2019 X7. The 2019 BMW X7 will be the largest SUV (or "BMW Machine") in automaker advertising, with three-dimensional housing and room for seven broadcasters. This is not the first three SUV from BMW, but it is the largest, most powerful yet. It has more space than current offerings with the crucial reliability of high-tech technology features and some of the highest enjoyment given by a German version.
X7 locations at the company and you will receive a maximum of 90.4 square feet of space.
At that time, there are two options to choose from, but mated and fast running run and running. An average of 3.0-liter operating cylinder (335 horsepower, 330 billion meters) is controlled by xDrive40i, with a magnitude 4.8-liter V8 (456 hp, 479 lb-ft) sound for xDrive50i. BMW estimates that the two components will increase from X7 to 60 mph to 5.8 seconds in 5.2 seconds, individually. The power is not limited to the operation: Manufactured by factory manufacturers, X7 is selected to weigh up to 7,500 pounds.
The X7 xDrive40i starts with $ 73,900. For xDrive50i, the market starts at $ 92,600.
What do I get for all that Cheddar?
The standard features are, as you would expect in a high-end German SUV, abundant. On the base xDrive40i has 21-inch wheels, adjustable pneumatic suspension, electronically controlled dampers, four-zone automatic climate control, blind spot monitoring, lane change warning and mitigation, front and rear collision warning, collision mitigation Front and rear view camera with rear traffic alert. The pneumatic suspension mentioned above is able to reduce the height of the X7 by 0.8 inches (to raise or load cargo) or raise it up to 1.6 inches to get off the beaten path.
Options are also plentiful, including items such as 22-inch wheels, remote start, three-panel panoramic sunroof, a 360-degree surround-view camera, captain's chairs for the second row (reducing the total number of seats to six) and heated ventilated and massage front seats. Another extra available is Active Cruise Control, which is BMW's adaptive radar-based cruise control system that uses GPS to predict traffic and change transmission shift schedules. There's also a wide variety of interior designs to choose from, including nine different leather selections and even glass-made controls for things like the gear lever and the volume knob on the radio.
There are also several packages available that include a Dynamic Handling package (M Sport rear differential, M Sport brakes, adaptive suspension, four-wheel steering), a cold weather package (five-zone automatic climate control, front and rear seats) with heating, heated armrest front seats, heated steering wheel), a Premium package (soft closing automatic doors, electric blinds for the rear windows, heated and cooled cup holders, front screen), and an executive package.
The infotainment interface of the X7 uses the latest version of the BMW iDrive system and a high-resolution 12.3-inch touchscreen display in the middle. As with other iDrive systems, the X7's interface uses a center console-mounted knob and a series of buttons and buttons mounted in the console or dashboard. In our experience, the iDrive system is very easy to use. This interface includes the usual stereo and navigation systems as well as a concierge service, on-street parking information and real-time traffic information, all included in the first four years of ownership.
The xDrive40i comes standard with a 10-speaker stereo and a revised Harman Kardon sound system for the xDrive50i. Both models include a Bowers & Wilkins sound system with 20 speakers as an option. Charging wireless devices and a Wi-Fi hotspot are standard.
In addition to the above features, the X7 has an optional system called the Driving Assistant Professional package. An integral part of this package is the advanced congestion assistant, which offers some interesting functions for stop-and-go traffic. At less than 60 km / h, the X7 can steer, brake and accelerate depending on lane marking and road conditions. The system uses an indoor camera to monitor the driver's nose and eye position to ensure that the driver's attention is on the road. If this is the case, the system can continue operating without the driver having to put his hands on the wheel every 30 to 50 seconds, unlike some similar systems where the steering wheel input is required to be semi-regular. | 2019-04-22T02:21:39 | http://www.eliancars.com/2018/12/2019-bmw-x7-suv.html | [
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Toronto, November 21, 2017 - Tom Hearn is the 2017 recipient of the $2,500 Tim Sims Encouragement Award, awarded to a Conservatory Program graduate at the Second City Training Program. Tom was presented the award Saturday, November 18th at Second City's "A Year in Revue - Conservatory Showcase". The Tim Sims Encouragement Award honours a promising Canadian comedic performer who is in the early stages of their career.
Tom Hearn is a graduate of Mount Allison University (Bachelor of Arts, Drama) and has been performing improv and sketch comedy in Toronto for several years. As a producer and performer he has worked on shows including Bad Dog Theatre Company (featured player), The Pageant, Hookup, Kinsey Fail (founding member), Sketchy Show, and Sunday Night Live. He wrote, directed and starred in the web series Mama, and can be seen this holiday season in the Second City Holiday classic “Miracle on Mercer Street”.
Established in 1991, the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) is passionately committed to building long-term support for the arts in Ontario. In 2016-2017, the OAF paid over $3.2 million in endowment income and $325,000 in awards and scholarships. | 2019-04-19T07:33:10 | https://ontarioartsfoundation.on.ca/news/153 | [
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Some call Reno’s downtown alleys the heart of the city’s infamous past. Others say the alleys paint a vivid picture of early Western society. Either way, for decades the network of alleys that criss-cross downtown represented the heart of Reno’s gambling and demimonde activity.
The alleys were laid out by Joseph Madison Graham as part of the first map of Reno in 1868. At that time, these unpaved avenues provided access to horse corrals, sheds, and small industries. Early maps don’t name the alleys, but they were designed generally to be 20 feet wide. By the 1890s, large buildings were being built that fronted on main streets and crossed the entire street depth through to the alleys. Modernization affected the alleys and eventually they were paved, utilities were put underground, and parking was regulated.
Douglas, Lincoln and Fulton Alleys were colorful portals into a world of gambling, speakeasies, bootlegging, vice, corruption, and occasionally, murder. Further east, Lovers Lane had a long-standing reputation for prostitution, and occasionally, opium dens and speakeasies. Today the alleys are mostly utilitarian and overlooked, often unpleasant with dumpsters and idling vehicles. Most of the alleys have been shortened, as casinos and new buildings took over their footprints.
The alleys are public rights of way. These major alleys were dignified in recent years with glitzy signs, shaped like red arches and outlined in light bulbs. But the razzle-dazzle of these signs mark mostly vacant pathways, evoking a by-gone world of excitement, thrills and the underbelly of Reno life. There were many more alleys, now gone, in downtown Reno north of the railroad tracks. In addition to the commercial alleys in the downtown area, many of Reno’s older neighborhoods have residential alleys that provided access to garages and yards. | 2019-04-20T04:10:48 | http://renohistorical.org/tours/show/11 | [
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Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story illustrated by the creator of Stuck and This Moose Belongs to Me -- now a #1 New York Times bestseller!
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. | 2019-04-23T18:46:58 | https://www.fictiondb.com/author/drew-daywalt~the-day-the-crayons-quit~399359~b.htm | [
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If you are planning on selling your home in Carmel, Carmel Valley, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Monterey, Seaside, Marina or the Highway 68 Corridor, here are a 8 tips to help you prepare so that you’re not scrambling last minute.
1. Construction Permits: Go to the city or county office and make sure that any construction permits have been closed out. Even if you haven’t taken any out, the previous owners may have.
2. Make sure all of your toilets and faucets meet the current Monterey Peninsula Water Management District standards. If any of them are not in compliance, get them changed prior to listing your home. If you have other water fixture related questions contact us for a free consultation.
4. Pre-home inspections: For homes that haven’t been updated in several years or need a lot of work, have a home inspection done by a reputable home inspector prior to putting the house on the market and provide to buyers as an attachment to the seller disclosure. Either fix anything major, and state that in the seller disclosure, or sell the house in as-is condition. This will avoid buyers renegotiating your already discounted price. Even if your house has been updated, but you haven’t had an inspection done in several years, it’s not a bad idea to have a pre-listing home inspection that you attach as part of the seller disclosure. This way you have the option of fixing issues ahead of time, and all other issues will have been disclosed. Surprise free inspections are a good thing for buyers!
5. Check your mortgage balances - home equity lines of credit count! If there is a possibility that your home’s value is less than your mortgage balance, and you don’t have the funds to make up the difference, we can guide you through the process and help you with your options. Same if you are behind in your payments. Foreclosure should be your LAST resort. Short Sales are a better way to go!
6. Before you start investing money fixing your house up for sale, consult with a Realtor. For example, last week I was called out on a listing and the homeowner had just spent $15,000 updating her bathroom. However in one minute, I knew that the property (land) was worth more than the house and that it would most likely be a tear down grabbed up by a builder. She basically threw that $15,000 away.
7. Staging: Paint colors matter. Light matters. Furniture matters. Clutter matters. Staging matters more than ever because the first impression today is online, not in person. Just watch some of the staging shows on HGTV or look at the photos of my listings and you’ll see what I mean. I’m happy to offer advice on this. And if necessary, will recommend a professional stager. Whenever I list a home that didn’t successfully sell with another Realtor, 9 times out of 10 the house was not staged properly for the photos. It’s crucial today.
8. Photography: The number one thing consumers want to see online when shopping for a home is lots of pictures! It is critical to have professional photos taken of your property and to show it in the best possible light and from the best angles. We once took over a listing from another agent who failed to get it sold and by simply taking an aerial shot of the home that included the view, we were able to put it under contract in just a few days! The house looked amazing and people could now see there was a great view of the Monterey Bay from just about everywhere. In real estate, a picture is worth 3000 words!
The busy selling season will soon be underway and what you may not be aware of is that my teams pre-listing consultations are free of charge and no obligation, so if you’re trying to figure it out on your own...Just stop...and get a professional! | 2019-04-26T05:37:22 | http://www.searchmontereypeninsulahomes.com/blog/8-tips-monterey-peninsula-home-sellers-putting-your-home-market/ | [
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I have listened to Relient K since their first CD came out and then I was hooked. At the time, they were a lot more "punk-y" but they had catchy fun lyrics, and in the end, it was okay because I was a middle school girl who didnt know much about music anyway. However, it seemed as we both grew up and transitioned- them in style, lyrics, and musical arrangements, me in maturity and finding out who I was- we both found our way through their music. If I could make a soundtrack to my life, I'm sure the majority of it would be Relient K. When they put out a CD, it fit perfectly to where I was at musicaly. Their albums are full of memories for me and when I play them after a long time it is like visiting an old friend. They are coming out with a CD soon and I am just overjoyed to see what they will come up with! | 2019-04-19T16:51:20 | http://www.lunasloves.com/2012/08/my-all-time-favorite-band-in-like.html | [
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Cities and cyber currency | Crisis? What Crisis?
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A Camden church has started accepting Bitcoin donations. St Martin’s in Gospel Oak says it wants to keep up with the times and has warned that the current financial system is not all that reliable. I’ve just checked where else I an use my Bitcoins in Kings Cross. Clink hostel takes them, but that’s it so far. So how far is the Internet currency from being one more tool in the creation of a localised economy?
Back in the 80s a big new alternative economy idea was LETS – Local Economy Trading Schemes. The idea was to bypass the mainstream economy by creating local networks of exchange and trading that would be mutually supportive. These could be local currencies or simple barter systems – antecedents to the currently fashionable idea of the ‘sharing economy’ – where time became the currency that was the basis of exchange. Hence time-banking. In that pre-Internet age the logistical tasks must have been daunting – all that photocopying, keeping paper records, passing information around at meetings or by post.
So I was pleased to find the idea still survives – a LETS network is still in existence and you can find local time-banks from Penwith to Thurso. A small number of local currencies are still in circulation too, and occasionally generate media interest – Brixton, Bristol, Totnes. This despite the difficulties in creating notes and having to beat the pavements to generate interest amongst shoppers and shop-owners. Not surprisingly all are in strong outposts of the transition movement. Other initiatives have stood the test of time less well. It’s several years since I last used my Big Issue ‘Wedge’ card to get a discount from local stores.
For the LETS community the idea was to facilitate exchange without a money system at all, and there will always be a place for that idea. But could the local currencies be overtaken by the rise of Bitcoin, the alternative currency for the cyber age, making feasible an ideal that was practically so difficult in pre-digital times? It’s tempting to feel the social need for an alternative currency is now matched with the technology that can make it a reality: that financial crisis and technological developments have in tandem created the conditions for crypto currencies to emerge. And that could in turn spur the development of City economies, able to create their own currencies.
It’s not obvious why parallel currencies should emerge. Whether Bitcoin or Brixton pound, they involve consumers in an extra transaction, converting between the ‘standard’ currency and the alternative. In the Brixton case its easy to see how the costs of this extra transaction are outweighed by the benefits it brings. Traders benefit if more transactions take place in the area covered by the currency; consumers get the reassurance that local shops are more likely to survive. And the costs are very low; there is little risk of not being able to spend your Brixton pounds.
For Bitcoin the potential gains look bigger. Forex transaction involve the costs of currency conversions anyway, so it’s easy to see this being cheaper through a web-based account with no need for a money changer. Peer to peer payments can also be kept out away from prying eyes of government, to avoid tax or make payments for illegal goods, which has inevitably caught the media eye.
But to be ‘real’ money crypto currency needs to be more than an internet transactions token. It would have to move beyond fulfilling just one of the economist’s standard definitions of money – a means of exchange – to meeting the other two as well – a unit of account and a store of value. But this is less technical than it sounds. Whether a currency is a unit of account or not is really a matter of sentiment: when comparing the monetary values of goods for exchange do I “think” in terms of pounds, dollars, euros or Bitcoin? This is a bit similar to becoming fluent in a language, when you stop translating in and out of a mother tongue. Money as store of value is simpler – can I be fairly sure the cash I have in my account today will be worth much the same tomorrow, next week or next year?
How could crpto currencies move beyond being a means of exchange and take on these two extra roles? Their fate will be the mirror image of trust in State backed fiat money. Another financial crash, after the stoking of yet another asset bubble, followed by mass loss of savings as governments are unable to afford more high profile bail-out, and we could see trust in national currencies ebbing away very rapidly.
We’re now so used to State money it’s difficult to imagine it not existing. But paper money was the invention of goldsmiths in the 16th century, a promise to pay against gold holdings, and as recently as 1921 banks in England were still able to print their own notes – so long as they were located more than 65 miles from London. The last to do do was a bank in Somerset with a name, “Fox, Fowler & Co”, redolent of financial cunning. From the Bank of England being given a monopoly on note printing, it was then but a short decade to the 1931 break with the gold exchange, marking the arrival of modern ‘fiat’ currency: money backed by nothing more than trust in the state. It’s enshrining in law – ‘legal tender’ – gives but a veneer of solidity. Legal tender has no real practical application.
So a system created less than a century ago has no claim of permanence. A central bank issuer made sense for a period, roughly equating to the dominance of the nation state. But it will fail to prevail if a debased, untrusted currency loses its role as a store of value, creating the opening for a modern version of Fox Fowler & Co.
For sure, Bitcoin as set up couldn’t the job. To go viral it would need the backstop of a transparent and trusted institution – something a bit more transparent than the shadow world of mysterious data miners that currently control the supply of Bitcoins. There’s also a debate about whether the ‘cap’ on Bitcoin creation is dangerously deflationary, based on the economic theory that wages sometimes need to fall, when the skills of those workers get out of date. Given that money wages are sticky – people don’t like taking a pay cut – inflation does that important job instead. This is much the way public sector workers are being treated at the moment. This use of inflation to ‘grease the wheels’ of the economic engine is of dubious morality. But more importantly for this debate is that it’s a technical issue that can be resolved if crypto currrencies bring in some economics knowledge to go with their competence in algorithms.
And perhaps this need for new monetary institutions is where smaller economic units like city economies and devolved nations come in – with local banks creating their own crypto currencies. How about it Scotland?
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged localisation, money, network. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-24T06:35:48 | https://46gordonsquare.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/cities-and-cyber-currency/ | [
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The man, who is about 35, fell just west of Mount Diablo, the CHP said.
Fire department personnel found him in a remote, hard-to-reach area suffering from back and leg injuries.
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To accelerate development of the society, by mainstreaming the education process amongst deprived strata of the region (Charotar), and also by facilitating quality higher education.
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From a lack of motivation to a busy schedule that gets you meet deadlines just in time, there are a myriad of things that can stand in the way of being efficient with your time and energy. However, there are some eLearning productivity tips that can help you to get the most out of every workday.
Managing your time effectively can help you find time to study more and to learn better. From a lack of motivation, low energy levels, poor focus to a busy schedule, there are a myriad of things that can stand in the way of being efficient with your time and energy. However, there are some eLearning productivity tips that can help you get the most out of your time.
Irrespective of the fact that you are a morning person or a night owl, we all have that time in a day when we are at our best and brightest. Find out when you are at your peak, and (try to) schedule all the onerous tasks during that frame of time.
If you are not sure, try working at a task in the morning for about two weeks. Then find yourself a similar task and work on it at night for another two weeks and so on. Keep a tab on your performance at different times of the day.
This is actually the secret of ultra productive people. They tackle the hardest tasks when their minds are fresh, which is usually before lunch, and schedule meetings in the afternoon.
Saying yes to everyone may the apple of everyone’s eye but the habit will jeopardize your productivity. It is no different with your eLearning projects.
If you take up every project and then on top of it you have an eLearning course to pursue, you will be stretched too thin. It is as simple as understanding the fact that ‘Not everything is important at the same time’. When you are pulled in too many directions, you cannot focus on the task at hand. The result: You miss deadlines and the quality of your work suffers.
Learn to value your time. Become aware of your capabilities. Then tell yourself it is okay to say no and pass up a project, rather than take it up and complete the task half-heartedly and then fail to deliver to a high standard results.
If it surrounds us why not use it. The various apps that lets you manage your time, track your progress, schedule and organize your tasks, and remind you with alerts and notifications that you are lagging behind can be ultimate tools to tap the available time to the best of use.
You'd be tempting to multitask in order to achieve more but if you are trying to learn something new, it becomes counter productive. Instead you should strive to focus on the task at hand.
Cut out interruptions, set up a nice dedicated working environment, and seek to increase your focus by using techniques like the pomodoro technique or by meditating regularly.
The human mind is probably the most powerful machine that can exist at this point of time. However there is one crucial factor, that differentiates the human brain from any human made machine and that is taking rest. We need to rest and take a break to reset our thought process and get to our best self.
So taking too much pressure and getting into an eLearning course soon after your work hours seems to be bad idea. Instead play an instrument, listen to song, talk to friends, take a power nap or go for a nature walk. The idea is to freshen up and get into the learning mode with high focus levels. My personal advice would be to stay away from laptops and mobile phones during breaks to make sure your eyes also call it a resting moment.
These words by Paul J. Meyer, a globally renowned success and motivation coach, will always remind you that productivity is not in the genes. You have it in you to become more productive. You simply need to take a more conscious approach to time management to see better results. | 2019-04-23T12:35:25 | https://elearningindustry.com/5-elearning-productivity-tips-time | [
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Multi-stakeholder regional alliances have generally been successful with public reporting, but they have struggled with quality improvement. Regional health information exchanges have generally not used multi-stakeholder governance and have often been poorly connected with public reporting and quality improvement in their regions.
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Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-1157 are to be kept in separate 3m x 2m x 3m quarters connected to a secure common area in Sector-07. Curfew is to be enforced at 11pm EST every evening until 6am the following morning. Security must consist of 12 armed guards trained in crowd suppression. SCP-1157-1 is to be kept in isolated quarters not connected to the main containment area.
All staff working directly with any instance of SCP-1157 are to maintain the highest level of information security. No mention is to be made of Foundation staff names, project information, or containment procedures within the SCP-1157 containment area. Verbal communication with SCP-1157 is to be kept to an absolute minimum unless authorized by Dr. Torres. No clothing or equipment used when interacting with SCP-1157 can contain any identifying information. Personnel, including members of MTF Gamma-7, are instructed to carry only digitally encrypted forms of identification when involved in containment or study of SCP-1157.
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During a bifurcation event, SCP-1157 personnel are to initiate Protocol-G7 before wake up call.
Description: SCP-1157 is a Caucasian male with brown hair and blue eyes. The subject''s anomalous nature was first discovered when an instance of SCP-1157, designated SCP-1157-1, surrendered to the local police in ███████, AZ, claiming to be a member of a terrorist cell. When a bifurcation event occurred while SCP-1157 was in police custody the subject was brought to the attention of the Foundation and transferred to Sector-07 for containment and study.
At intervals of approximately 4 weeks all instances of SCP-1157 will undergo a simultaneous bifurcation event at 3:08AM EST. While SCP-1157 sleeps each subject will split into two identical instances. The event is accompanied by a burst of light and energy which disables any recording devices. Any clothing or other items worn by SCP-1157 will be deposited on the bed underneath the subjects.
Protocol-G7 is to be enacted immediately after every bifurcation event. The containment area is to be flooded with a gaseous sedative. A security team equipped with gas masks must enter the containment quarters and remove one of each resulting subject pairs for euthanasia, study and disposal.
SCP-1157 displays a limited form of shared consciousness. While each instance exhibits their own personality and can make individual choices they also experience the surface thoughts and impulses of all other instances.
45 instances euthanized during containment.
Foreword: Following initial containment, the 2 instances of SCP-1157-1 were separated and individually questioned.
Dr. Torres: Can you explain the nature of your condition, please.
SCP-1157-1: I go to sleep, and when I wake up there''s one more of me.
Dr. Torres: And this has happened before?
Dr. Torres: Is something wrong?
SCP-1157-1: Heh. They can hear us, you know, the rest. <Subject smiles> They''re not happy with me.
Dr. Torres: You can hear them all?
SCP-1157-1: Yes. A bunch of scared bullies shouting in my ear. I saw what they did. I saw what I was becoming…No…Not me. You. I made a choice! <Subject shuts eyes, breathes deeply> I''m sorry. There''s a lot of them now. It''s overwhelming sometimes.
Dr. Torres: I can imagine. Would you like some time alone?
Dr. Torres: Oh. Right. My apologies.
Closing Statement: Despite being in a separate sound proof interview room, SCP-1157-1/2 was able to repeat the conversation verbatim.
Utilizing intelligence gathered from SCP-1157-1 interviews, MTF Gamma-7 successfully located and detained 3 more instances of SCP-1157 before they could go into hiding. However, operations for the next several weeks turned up only empty apartments and dead ends. SCP-1157-1''s usefulness has diminished rapidly as other instances are now aware of his cooperation and are providing deceptive intelligence.
Following a second bifurcation event SCP-1157-1, now consisting of 4 separate instances, showed increasing signs of distress. An argument over SCP-1157-1''s complicity in Foundation activities resulted in a physical altercation and the death of the subject advocating against cooperation. All instances of SCP-1157-1 have been put into indefinite sedation to avoid mental coercion by the growing collective.
Intercepting e-mail correspondence between loose SCP-1157 allowed us to locate a safe house used by numerous subjects. MTF Gamma-7 was met with small-arms fire upon engagement, forced to terminate 2 instances, captured 7. Computers and correspondence found on the property indicate that SCP-1157 is aware that an organization is tracking them, but they have no knowledge of the Foundation itself. Requesting a clean-up team to scour the property for any other evidence of SCP-1157 activities.
Interviews with instances of SCP-1157 reveal a narcissistic personality and increasing distrust and contempt for anyone that is not SCP-1157. Subjects have also shown increasingly skillful attempts at tricking researchers into revealing sensitive information. Outside of SCP-1157-1 the subject remains uncooperative.
Agent Thomas was lost in our latest engagement with SCP-1157, along with 2 other Gamma-7 members. The bastards have spent the last month training and stockpiling weapons. The warehouse we tracked a subject to held enough SCP-1157 to outnumber us 3-to-1, all armed. Even after capturing 16 and killing 31 there are likely even more SCP-1157 unaccounted for now than there were when we first discovered them. I''m submitting a request for at least a tripling of Gamma-7''s numbers and resources. If we don''t lock this down in the next month or two we''re going to start seeing these guys on every street corner.
The contained instances of SCP-1157 attempted a riot to break out of Sector-07 immediately following a bifurcation event. Using their increased numbers SCP-1157 assaulted the Protocol-G7 team. Reinforcements allowed security to resolve the situation, at which point Protocol-G7 was completed without further incident. Containment procedures were revised and SCP-1157 were restricted to individual quarters for one week. 5 days later each instance of SCP-1157 carved the following into the wall of their quarters: "You cannot contain me. Should one escape your grasp thousands will arise within the year." | 2019-04-21T18:03:00 | http://nn5n.com/index.php?page=object&language=English&prefix=scp&object_number=1157&postfix=en | [
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Version 2.0 of the South Georgia Player Rankings sees expansion from a Top 40 to a Top 55. There are 19 new names, each designated with the acronym NR. There has also been movement within the player rankings. The LR column stands for rankings from Version 1.0, while the CR column stands for current rankings in Version 2.0.
Four prospects in the initial rankings have been taken out; they have transferred to schools outside the designated South Georgia Area. They are Jamarion Ellis of Eastman (Ga.) Dodge County, Omar Burroughs of Savannah (Ga.) Savannah Christian, Aalah Brown of Valdosta (Ga.) and Weston Franklin of Jesup (Ga.) Wayne County. Ellis, Burroughs and Franklin have transferred to Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy; Brown is headed to Alpharetta (Ga.) Denmark.
There are currently 15 prospects in the South Georgia Rankings with at least one FBS or FCS offer, six of which have five of more offers at this time. Kingsland (Ga.) Camden County offensive tackle Micah Morris leads all South Georgia prospects with 17 offers. Leesburg (Ga.) Lee County receiver Chauncey Magwood has also reached the double digit mark with 11 offers.
Defensive end Jacques Hunter of Valdosta (Ga.) Lowndes is the highest new entry at #12. As a sophomore he recorded 30 tackles, seven TFL’s and while leading the team in sacks with six. Hunter currently has an offer from Colorado State.
Coming in at #14 is dynamic wideout Lemeke Brockington of Moultrie (Ga.) Colquitt County. As a sophomore he caught30 passes for 604 yards and six touchdowns, all team highs. Though he currently has no known offers this whirling dervish will surely demand major college attention.
Bainbridge (Ga.) shocked the state of Georgia by winning the GHSA-AAAAA Title this past season after finishing the regular season (5-5). One of the leaders for the Bearcats was two-way standout Caleb McDowell. As a sophomore he accounted for over 1,500 all-purpose yards while recording 35 tackles and two interceptions. McDowell currently holds offers from Colorado and Florida Atlantic. He makes his entry at #18.
Valdosta (Ga.) linebacker Jaylin Alderman comes in at #23. This athletic backer also played some receiver for the pass-happy Wildcats. His versatility may allow him to project at several positions at the next level.
Coming in at #24 is Richmond Hill cornerback Jordan Clark. Clark recorded 35 tackles, four TFL’s while leading the team with three interceptions. He also caught five passes for 85 yards. Clark has already picked up an offer from West Virginia.
Savannah (Ga.) Islands (#45), Xavier Bean Brunswick (Ga.) (#46), Joe Fusile Richmond Hill (Ga.) (#51) and Britton Williams Richmond Hill (Ga.) (#55).
The next rankings update for the South Georgia class of 2021 will take place after the spring evaluation period. | 2019-04-25T03:07:07 | http://southernpigskin.com/recruiting/2021-south-georgia-player-rankings-v2.0/ | [
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FlyInside places you inside the cockpit of your favorite airplanes and lets you fly! Oculus Rift support for FSX and Prepar3D!
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With 24 days remaining, FlyInside FSX is fully funded! So many of you backed the Kickstarter so quickly, I can't thank you enough! | 2019-04-19T03:19:13 | https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1232710074/flyinside-fsx/updates | [
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Awesome News for One of Our Fellow Athletes!
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland! John will be competing in Flight 7 – Men 60-64. The games will take place on June 24-25, 2017.
I think I saw Kate Boeve on that list as well. | 2019-04-22T04:52:09 | https://michiganhighlanders.com/2017/02/02/awesome-news-for-one-of-our-fellow-athletes/ | [
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Are you become a host for Thanksgiving ceremony? If you become the host for Thanksgiving party but you do not have any ideas for your table setting, these creative Thanksgiving Place Cards ideas may help and inspire you to make your own Thanksgiving place cards. Using fruits, fallen leaves, nuts, papers, vegetables or wooden sticks, or even a clothespin can transform an ordinary place card into a simple and charming Thanksgiving place card.
With a light brown paper, you can make a stylish Thanksgiving place card. Cut it out in various leaf shapes and decorate them with golden sparkle. Then, you write the person’s name in each leaf. You can cut brown felt into a shape of small boat, too. Sew it and let the top open. Then fill the boat with cute and small decoration stuffs. Next, write the person’s name in a paper, put it into a twig, and place it in the centre of the boat. Then, the boat shaped Thanksgiving place card is done.
Another creative idea is using the form of words puzzle or using few fallen leaves. For the puzzle place card, you print the Thanksgiving place card in the form of words puzzle. The person’s name is inside the puzzle, so you can ask them to search for their names. Do not forget to provide a unique or creative pencil in each place card. For fallen leaves, you pick up few of them and dry them. Then, you paint them in golden color, and let them dry again. Finally, write the person’s name on them and place them on an empty plate. | 2019-04-25T16:23:47 | https://homesfeed.com/thanksgiving-place-card-ideas/ | [
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But once there, he wasn't too keen on having his picture taken in front of Ollivander's (he had been made to change out of the costume in order to fit in his carseat safely).
While not overly crowded, there was a line to climb to the top of Gringott's, making picture-taking difficult. You can kind of see Gareth's head behind the post there.
Considering it was just a a family enterprise and was built in a driveway, it was very impressive! Mal was upset that it wasn't longer/there wasn't more to do. They have had some weekends where they've made more of an event of it, but I didn't want to try and go with all the crowds on a weekend.
Otherwise, our break has been very restful. The afternoon of Diagon Alley, the kids played on the computer, while Ryan sat on the couch doing something, and I took up the rest of the couch napping. It was a perfect way to spend the afternoon. We've watched a few holiday movies here and there and the kids have been eagerly counting down to Christmas.
WHOA?!?!?!?!!? That Diagon Alley is INSANE!!! That is so cool!!!!! Who does stuff like that???
I am so seriously impressed! | 2019-04-21T16:05:18 | http://family.rmphelps.com/2017/12/diagon-alley-gingerbread-cookies.html | [
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I got Jim tickets to an Avalanche (NHL) game for Valentines Day. Two weeks earlier Greg Pojar called w/ tickets to the game the week before. I swear, my gifts to Jim always get ruined.
We went anyway, even though Greg stole my thunder. The game was a riot. I love that stadium! | 2019-04-19T12:17:04 | http://treetopflyin.blogspot.com/2008/04/denver-colorado-avelanche-game.html | [
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Electrical engineers create innovative technology solutions in a wide range of areas from handheld communications to solar panels; from cardiac pacemakers to autonomous robots; from wireless networks to bio-engineered sensors that detect dangerous pathogens; and intelligent surveillance systems that perform face and motion recognition. Employers visiting campus seek out electrical engineering students for recruitment more than any other major at the University of Maryland.
During senior year, students will also complete a capstone design course that integrates classroom learning with hands-on practical design. Students thereby gain valuable technical skills for subsequent graduate study and/or technical advancement.
Due to the similarity in curriculum, students in Electrical Engineering are not allowed to earn a second major or degree in Computer Engineering.
The Electrical Engineering undergraduate program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
PEO #2. Earn a graduate degree from a top ranked graduate program in EE or related field.
PEO #3. Become an innovator and/or entrepreneur in an EE or related space.
The current overall undergraduate enrollment in Electrical Engineering (EE) is 517 students distributed over all four years of study (as of Fall 2017). In the 2016-2017 academic year, 126 students were granted Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
For students who entered the EE program as freshmen in Fall of 2012, 70.9 percent graduated in four years and 81.4 percent graduated in five years with a degree from University of Maryland, College Park. For students who entered the EE program as freshmen in Fall of 2012, 53.5 percent graduated in four years and 59.3 percent graduated in five years with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. | 2019-04-22T22:56:57 | https://ece.umd.edu/undergraduate/degrees/bs-electrical-engineering | [
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Over the next few weeks, new students will receive truckloads of unsolicited advice. Some of it will be valuable and much of it will be useless, if not plain wrong. You’ll have to sort through the platitudes, to learn what to trust and what to eschew.
My advice is in the newspaper, though, so you might as well trust me blindly.
For many, college represents a radical departure from the soft yellow walls of adolescence. The choices facing you are incalculable, endless even, and sometimes their consequences can be far-reaching. In all likelihood you will have more academic, social, and professional freedom now than you ever had before. The range of opportunities available to you cannot be overstated, nor can the caliber of the people around you.
It is easy to understand the University of Pennsylvania as an institution so steeped in history, prestige, and endowment-dollars that its structures and systems are unassailable. It is easy to see professors as giants of academia, to be feared instead of approached as they stride through the halls. Some clubs appear so serious and closed-off that the thought of joining (or, God forbid, being rejected from) is entirely unappealing.
These illusions must be broken for you to thrive here. Through some combination of hard work and sheer luck — and it always is a combination, one way or another — you are in a position that only a tiny fraction of the people in the world will ever enjoy. To believe that you aren’t deserving, or aren’t capable, of taking advantage of the incredible opportunities at this school is to waste the effort and good fortune that earned you a spot here.
Marketing materials and Convocation speeches often say things like, “Students from our university go on to change the world,” as if it is the education alone that empowers them to impact their surroundings. The degree can’t hurt, obviously, but the truth is that you already have the power to change the people around you, or Penn, or even the world.
Be ambitious. Take risks. Start a petition for whatever the hell you want; if no one signs it, you’re no worse off than you were before. Sign up for 300-level classes just because the syllabus sounds awesome, no matter what the difficulty rating is on Penn Course Review. Join eight clubs and figure out your favorites later. Wear a muscle tee to the gym, even if you have small arms. They’ll get bigger.
Of course, now that you’re in college, you’re responsible for your own actions. Gone are the rigid structures of high school and life at home. This newfound agency is daunting at first, but the rewards — for yourself and the people around you — can be immense.
Thousands and thousands of students have come through Penn’s doors and made it out the other side to have happy, successful lives, regardless of how badly they bombed their a cappella audition or how awkward their meeting was with an econ professor. Not all risks pan out, but memories of getting rejected from a party or being bored at the Penn Ikea Furniture Building Club’s first meeting will fade fast.
This is not to say that, after freshman year, it’s too late to try new things and take risks. However, the sooner you realize your potential, the more campus can benefit from your skills, talents, and passions.
One last piece of advice: The Compass thing is a myth. If you fail your midterms, it’s your fault (but you will be fine). | 2019-04-20T22:29:31 | https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/letter-from-the-president-freedom-freshman-year-move-in-quad-dorm-penn-upenn-philadelphia-nsi | [
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NEW YORK -- Disney Interactive Media Group has unveiled original Web series targeting an influential demographic -- moms.
Margie Gilmore, vice president of online originals, told a group of media buyers gathered for a Digital Content NewFront presentation Thursday at SoHo House that the shows strive to remain true to the Walt Disney Co.'s heritage of storytelling -- while offering an honest, open and authentic voice that some within the company found "a little uncomfortable."
"There's not a lot of pixie dust in the world of parenting," Gilmore said. "We have to strike a balance between being Disney and being relevant and real."
The new digital shows build on Disney's considerable portfolio of assets targeting moms, including Babble Media, with its extensive roster of mommy bloggers dispensing parenting advice, and iParenting Media, which operates a network of websites geared to parents.
One series, "Moms of," features interviews with the mothers of accomplished athletes, musicians, inventors and teachers. One vignette Disney screened focused on 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, whose mother, Shonda Ingram, advises, "As mothers we don't have all the answers ... you just have to keep fighting and working hard to raise your child."
Other shows, "That's Fresh" and "Thinking Up," fall into the self-help category -- leavened with humor. The cooking show is hosted by Chef Helen Cavallo, who describes herself as "50% Italian, 50% Colombian and I'm 100% New York." Each episode features one fresh ingredient that can be prepared in multiple ways.
"Moms are looking for answers. 'What's for dinner?' 'How can I feed my kids in healthy ways, in the time that I have?'" said Gilmore, who was an executive producer for Food Network. "We're working with the irresistible Helen Cavallo. ... She's so funny and so warm, and she's the kind of person the kids won't look away from, and the moms won't look away from."
Television personality and author of "Courtney's Creative Adventurers," Courtney Watkins, hosts "Thinking Up" -- which provides imaginative children's activities, drawing from her eclectic background as a teacher of kindergarten and art and a designer of jewelry, murals and greeting cards.
"Courtney is like no one else I've ever met -- an embodiment in how to be a creative adventurer with and for your kids," Gilmore said. "She's a mom who can so easily access what it means to be 8 or 9 years old."
As with other media companies, Disney indulged in a bit of celebrity sizzle: comedian Ali Wentworth filmed an episode of "Daily Shot" -- a show mixing news, celebrity gossip and topical issues sprinkled with wit -- at SoHo House, instead of its typical setting at her kitchen table.
"As you can see, we're not in my kitchen," Wentworth joked in her opening. "I'm here with a bunch of really really close friends, some family, some in-laws. ..." | 2019-04-24T23:21:40 | https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/04/disney-interactive-targets-moms-with-original-series.html | [
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Prerequisites: State POST handgun training and certification & the 24-hour SSGT Advanced Handgun: Operator Course.
The SSGT Two-man Close Quarters Battle Handgun: Operator Course is specifically designed for those officers working in pairs while conducting their duties in an urban environment. This course begins with reinforcing safe weapons handling and application methods for close quarters operations.
A series of clearance principles are taught on a flat range that allow the officers to isolate and master common situations found during clearing operations. These fundamental principles that apply to all urban clearing operations are demonstrated, taught, and drilled repeatedly in a safe live-fire environment on a range before officers apply these skills in buildings.
The course progresses into using buildings with common obstacles and layouts to continue to reinforce the application of principles in various urban environments. Theses fundamental skills are trained and are applicable across the operational continuum IE clearing, active shooter, and rescue operations.
TRAINER: 25 year Special Forces (Green Beret) Operator (SGM, Retired) who served as instructor and Program Manager at the JFK Special Warfare Center’s Special Forces Hostage Rescue and Sniper Schools. Mr. Nevils has years of real world application in diverse combat environments conducting and refining the principles and skills taught in this course. Trainer has mentored and successfully led thousands of U.S. and indigenous forces in countless counter terrorism operations during the Global War on Terrorism. | 2019-04-25T16:33:57 | https://www.gossgt.com/16-hour-two-man-cqb-handgun-operator-course/ | [
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Learn why store bought almond milk can be causing digestive upset and how to make your own at home.
Make your own Almond milk at home free of thickeners and preservatives. So simple and so delicious you may never want to go back to store bought almond milk again!
Do I need to soak the almonds first?
It is not necessary to soak the almonds first in order to make almond milk. You may want to however, because soaking the nuts overnight deactivates the enzyme inhibitors present in the skin of the almonds, thus activating the enzymes in the almond making them available to us.
How long will the milk keep for?
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A sole-tenant node is a physical Compute Engine server that is dedicated to hosting VM instances only for your specific project. Use sole-tenant nodes to keep your instances physically separated from instances in other projects, or to group your instances together on the same host hardware.
Read Creating sole-tenant nodes to learn how to create nodes and place your instances on those nodes.
Read Sole-tenant node pricing to learn how to calculate prices and discounts for sole-tenant nodes.
Each node is associated with one physical server, and is the only node running on that server. Within your nodes, you can run multiple instances of various sizes without sharing the host hardware with other projects. You can specify node affinities between your nodes and the instances that you want to run on those nodes. Use these affinities to either group several workloads together on the same nodes or isolate your workloads from one another on different nodes to meet your data compliance requirements. To use sole-tenant nodes, you create node groups, which contain one or more nodes, rather than creating individual nodes.
For example, some payment processing workloads might require physical isolation from other workloads or virtual machines in order to meet compliance requirements. Sole-tenant nodes ensure that your instances do not share host hardware with instances from other projects, but you can also use labels to specify how your instances are arranged on your nodes and separate instances with sensitive workloads into their own private nodes away from your other non-sensitive workloads.
Each node within a node group must have a node type. A node type specifies the total amount of cores and memory for that node. Currently, the only available node type is n1-node-96-624 node type has 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory, available in multiple zones. Nodes of this size can accommodate VM instances up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory, but you can also fill the node with multiple smaller VM instances with various sizes including custom machine types and instances with extended memory. The instances that you run on your nodes must have at least two vCPUs. When a node is full, you cannot schedule additional instances on that node.
Note that a node type applies to each individual node within a node group (not to the node group as a whole). So, if you create a node group with two nodes, each node is allocated 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory. You must have enough vCPU quota to support the total vCPUs required for the node group to successfully create the group. For example, two nodes would require 96 vCPUs x 2 = 192 vCPUs so you must have at least 192 vCPUs available to create the group.
To see a complete list of node availability, run the node-types list in the gcloud command-line tool.
Periodically, Compute Engine will replace older node types with newer node types. When a node type is replaced, you will be unable to create node groups using the old node type, and must upgrade your node templates to use the new node types. As a best practice, you can configure your node templates to use flexible node type requirements. Read the creating node groups page to see examples of node templates with flexible node types.
If your node's host system requires maintenance, the node and all of the instances on the node continue to operate while they live migrate to updated host hardware.
Sustained use discounts and committed use discounts reduce the costs of your sole-tenant nodes. Read sole-tenant node pricing to learn how discounts apply to sole-tenant nodes.
VPC networks work with instances running on sole-tenant nodes the same way that they work with normal VM instances. You can use VPC networks to establish network connections between sole-tenant instances and normal VM instances.
Use custom machine types or predefined machine types to create instances on your sole-tenant nodes. Because you already pay for the vCPUs and memory of the node itself, you do not pay extra for these instances.
Create managed instance groups on your node groups. Your managed instance groups can use autoscaling while running on sole-tenant nodes, but the node groups cannot automatically scale.
Combine VMs with multiple machine types on each node. You can use a mix of different machine types and custom machine types on the same node until the node reaches its vCPU and memory limit, which is defined by the node type.
Sole-tenant nodes are only available in select zones. Review the Regions and Zones page to learn which zones currently support sole-tenant nodes.
Create sole-tenant nodes and place your instances on those nodes.
Use sole-tenant nodes to Bring your own Windows license. | 2019-04-26T12:20:23 | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/?hl=es-419 | [
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There is more to a roof than meets the eye when looking to purchase new. Residential roofing system is an industry term that we use when all the components of a roof are made by one manufacturer.
As your Owens Corning Platinum Preferred residential roofing system contractor, we are proud to say, whether we install a 25-year asphalt shingle, or a lifetime impact resistant shingle on your home, everything that we put on your roof is made by Owens Corning. That is one of the many things that sets us apart from our competitors and enables us, not just to install a roof, but to install a “roofing system” on your home. When installing roofing systems, Owens Corning has given us the right to offer their material and craftsmanship warranty’s that last up to 50 years.
TAG Roofing & Exteriors is also certified to install McElroy Metal Roofing Systems. Just like OC before, we have aligned ourselves with McElroy as an industry leader in metal roofing products. This allows us to offer a class 4 hail resistant metal product to you that McElroy will stand behind for generations to come. | 2019-04-20T01:14:45 | https://www.tagroofingexteriors.com/residential-roofing-systems/ | [
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-enter the "What the Elle do you know" competition.Click here for the answers!
-check this article about removable collars : Fringe Trend : The Removable Collar. I just love the idea and I will try to make one of my own the next week! | 2019-04-19T12:15:08 | http://stardollbroadcast.blogspot.com/2011/08/to-do-list_12.html | [
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Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufacturer’s new technologies, products and solutions that address tough macro challenges across diverse industries.
Co-ops are always eager to learn and quick to pick up the work.
The multiple work experience opportunities!
The Co-op Program is an excellent opportunity to study and get industry experience - go for it! | 2019-04-23T13:59:34 | https://www.coop.unsw.edu.au/sponsors/honeywell | [
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Wild Columbine is a weaving and textile design studio of Seattle based artist, Kelly Neistat. It represents a sampling of creative work spanning both original and curated textiles. These pieces are meant to add a charming, invigorative, one-of-a-kind element to your life.
Each piece is created or chosen with its textures, tones, and space in mind. These woven textiles evoke a continued conversation in design, bridging the gap between old-world and modern cultures. Through this endeavor, new life is being given to traditional techniques.
Kelly Neistat currently resides in Seattle, WA. When she is not in her weaving studio, you can find her exploring the city, taking weekend trips to the mountains and the coast, or spending time in her rooftop garden. | 2019-04-25T06:25:38 | https://wildcolumbine.com/pages/about | [
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We are Supplier and Seller of: londa, maybelline, kerastase, loreal, macadamia, goldwell, revlon, tigi, kardashian beaut.
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We are Supplier and Seller of: loreal, kerastase, matrix, wella, shampoo conditioner brand name, john masters, goldwell, pupa, tigi.
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The company`s main business is buying and selling professional hair products.
We are Supplier and Seller of: l oreal professional hair products, wella professional, matrix products, parlux blowers, lisap hair products, senscience hair products, goldwell hair products, davines hair products, koleston.
Perfect care marketing Export/importer, manufacturer and distributor of health & beauty product etc hairdressing supplies, beauty products and salon equipment across South east asia, euro and us.
We are Supplier and Seller of: kerastase, loreal, shiseido, nioxin, redken, goldwell, biotherm, clinic, morocanoil.
We are Supplier and Seller of: kerastase, american crew, foenix, fudge, goldwell lagoom, loreal, wella. | 2019-04-23T22:57:25 | http://europe.bloombiz.com/default.cgi/action/viewcompanies/Suppliers-Factories-Manufacturers/goldwell/ | [
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The property is located on the southern side of Grange Ave. The property is listed as R3 zone under the Marsden Park Precinct LEP maps and falls under the Blacktown City Council.
It is also known as LOT 1 IN DP781987, LOTS 3 & 4 SECTION ‘J’IN DP 193074 with a total site area of 3.27Ha. The site area to which this proposal is specific to, is 9527sqm.
The site address is known as: 205-209 Grange Ave, Marsden Park. Future shopping facilities, schools and other local services are within walking distance of the site.
Total area 32,760 sqm approx.
Front area combined 9,527sqm approx.
Rear area combined 23,233sqm approx. | 2019-04-24T22:00:11 | https://snowdenparkes.com.au/property/house-nsw-marsden-park-snowden_1_1220/ | [
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BOSTON, January 16, 2013 – Personal bankruptcy filings in Connecticut dropped by 15 percent to 7,242 in 2012, down from 8,518 in 2011, according to a new report from The Warren Group, publisher of The Commercial Record.
Chapter 7 is the most common option for individuals who are seeking relief from their debts, and accounted for 86 percent of bankruptcy filings in Connecticut in 2012.
In the fourth quarter, 1,628 filers statewide sought bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7, compared to 1,795 in the fourth quarter of 2011. The fourth quarter saw the slowest quarterly bankruptcy pace of 2012. The second quarter experienced the most bankruptcy volume, with 1,955 Chapter 7 filings. Fourth quarter bankruptcies were 22 percent of the annual total. In the second quarter, bankruptcies peaked for the year and represented 27 percent of the annual total.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings increased more than 9 percent to 1,022 in 2012, up from 934 in 2011.
Chapter 11 filings, which are used for business bankruptcies and restructuring, also rose slightly last year. Filings increased 9.2 percent to 130, up from 119 in 2011.
A total of 8,394 filers statewide sought protection under Chapter 7, Chapter 13 and Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code in 2012, down from 9,571 in 2011. | 2019-04-24T22:10:29 | https://www.thewarrengroup.com/2013/01/16/conn-personal-bankruptcy-filings-drop-15-percent-in-2012/ | [
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A diaphragm wall solution for a quay at a new container terminal in East Port Said has tamed 'unconstructable' ground.
Max Soudain reports from Egypt.
Abrilliant white concrete deck stretching more than a kilometre gleams out from the desert as the Suez Canal prepares to meet the Mediterranean.
Soon it will be covered with huge dock cranes busily loading and offloading cargo from massive container ships.
When it opens in just over a year, the new East Port Said container terminal will mark completion of the first phase of an ambitious scheme to develop a sea transport 'mega hub' in the eastern Mediterranean. A vast expanse of untouched land, mainly desert, offers room for expansion and associated industrial development.
The US$310M scheme will be built in phases, largely dependent upon the success of the container terminal. The port is 1.3km east of the east branch of the Suez Canal (or Port Said Bypass) and 1km from the coast on a newly formed channel from the Mediterranean.
Future plans include extension of the quay wall from 1.2km to 7km and construction of northern and southern basins with liquid and dry bulk terminals and a further 5km of quay walls.
New road and rail links from Port Said, funded by the Egyptian government, are part of the first phase of the project. These include a road bridge at Kantara and rail bridge at El Ferdan crossing the Suez Canal.
Electricity, water and wastewater systems are also being built up.
Planning began in 1997 and in 1999 the Egyptian ministry of transport awarded the build, operate and transfer contract to Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT). This is a joint venture of Europe Combined Terminal Company of the Netherlands and Danish shipping firm Maersk Sealand, together with Egyptian investors.
SCCT awarded the construction contract to the Racon consortium - Italian contractor Rodio and Egyptian firm Arabian International Construction. The maritime research and consultation centre in the Ministry of Transport awarded the design and engineering supervision of the quay wall to Cairo consultant Hamza Associates.
The firm devised the project masterplan and designed and supervised construction of the quay wall, the coastal engineering and dredging elements .
Container ships up to 350m long with 50m wide beams and draughts of 15m will be able to berth at the quay wall.
The main design challenges arose from the extremely weak soils, predominantly soft clays, and the variable hydrological conditions caused by dredging of the canal to allow the big ships to dock. Hamza Associates chairman and founder Dr Mamdouh Hamza says the site had previously been considered 'unconstructable' by several consultants.
The first step was to characterise the ground through a multi-stage site investigation. Unusually, all the bidding contractors joined forces before tendering began to obtain the best results. 'This meant the soil risk was transferred to the winning contractor, so we managed to eliminate Clause 12 claims for unforeseen ground conditions, ' says Hamza.
Site investigations were supervised by UK firm, the Geotechnical Consulting Group.
Cone penetration testing with piezocones was carried out, along with high quality sampling from boreholes using hydraulic piston sampling and rotary coring, insitu vane tests and SPTs.
Results, combined with laboratory tests, were used to check design calculations and to determine engineering properties for 3D finite element analyses (carried out using the Flac3D package). Three continuously sampled boreholes were also logged to record a detailed picture of the soil fabric.
Ground conditions comprise 5m of hydraulic fill and dredged silty sands and clays from construction of the east branch of the Suez Canal, 8.5m of beach deposits (sand with broken shells) and the Nile Delta Clay - 15m of plastic clay with occasional sand layers followed by 30m of very plastic clay. Basal beds of alternating thick layers of sand and stiff laminated clay lie about 60m down.
Despite initial concerns over the bearing capacity of the thick Nile Delta Clay deposits, soil properties were better than first thought, with clay strength 60% higher than previous estimates.
Conventional design of quay walls usually incorporates sheet piles and tubular piles, he explains, but the higher strength of the clay meant that a different approach could be taken.
Design had to consider not only the enormous operating loads of the 12 massive quayside cranes and 36 gantry cranes but also, in the short term, the effects of forming the 16.5m deep berthing channel in front.
Settlement calculations had predicted 47mm of vertical movement without dredging, which in fact caused heave in the structure to give a total settlement of only 8.5mm.
The quay wall is a retaining-bearing concrete structure with a free height of 20m on the canal side and a 35m wide deck. The main support is provided by transverse rows of four, 3m wide, 1m thick and up to 63m deep barrettes founded on the basal beds.
The rows are 7m apart and barrettes are spaced at between 10m and 11m.
A continuous 1m thick, 35m deep diaphragm wall provides support along the front face and a similar 10m deep structure runs along the back. The walls have 3m long primary panels and 4m long T-shape secondary panels, the latter connecting with the outer barrettes of each row. Hamza says using concrete rather than steel allowed local materials to be used, saving about US$26M.
Construction of the wall began in January 2000, 200m back from the initial dredging channel. First, two well-point dewatering lines were put down, 13m from the seaward edge and 17m from the land side, to lower groundwater level. Four rows of sand drains running along the wall area were then installed to reduce pore water pressure. Next, a working platform had to be built. Up to 2m was excavated, replaced with sand fill and topped with crushed stone.
Guide walls, up to 1m deep, were built for the walls and the barrettes. In both cases they were formed using hydraulic grabs under bentonite slurry. The T-shaped wall panels are fitted with steel stop ends to link with the primary panels. All the barrettes and the walls were then trimmed down to 0.5m below ground level and longitudinal and capping beams cast.
A key element of the design is the removal of 5m of soil from inside the quay wall, reducing earth pressure on the structure and balancing the operating loads of the heavy cranes. This reduces the effects of heave and deformation of the structure.
The deck is designed to allow for the effects of the ground conditions, temperature variation and even earthquakes. Precast elements are laid on 3m high and 0.8m wide beams connecting each row of barrettes and connected to the wall capping beams by a cast insitu slab.
The wall and the surrounding ground is heavily instrumented to monitor movements of the structure during construction, dredging and operation of the terminal. On the wall surface, surveying points measure vertical and horizontal movements; vibrating wire strain gauges monitor axial strains and stresses in the barrettes at four levels; sliding micrometers monitor axial deformation with depth; and inclinometers measure horizontal movement on the barrettes.
For the ground, surface settlement points measure vertical movement across the wall, multiple point deep extensometers measure the distribution of vertical movement with depth at the front and back of the wall, horizontal movement is measured by inclinometers and groundwater pressure by multiple point vibrating wire piezometers.
In the aggressive environment, reinforcement corrosion is also a concern. An anode ladder system is used to monitor the penetration of chloride ions and an embedded reference electrode system measures the potential of the reinforcement.
Dredging by a joint venture of Boskalis, Ballast Nedam, Jan DeNul and Hyundai began in March 1999. Work involved forming the inland channel from the sea, running roughly parallel to the east branch of the canal; the berthing channel at the quay wall site; a ship turning circle and a short cut to the east branch to the south.
All dredging and coastal work, including construction of a 2.3km long breakwater, coastal protection and dredging of an approach channel, is now complete. Construction of the container terminal will begin soon, with the first ships due to dock in the first quarter of 2004. | 2019-04-25T11:54:40 | https://www.newcivilengineer.com/grounds-for-innovation/806602.article | [
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Would you do a favor for someone if they offered you a FAVR?
If you received a FAVR, would you use it to ask for a favor or would you sell it?
Think of a Favor you would like to ask for. What would you pay for a FAVR to get your favor? | 2019-04-22T06:53:17 | https://favr.io/survey/ | [
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Say “goodbye” to both cataracts and astigmatism at the same time.
Traditionally patients receive a monofocal IOL that generally provides good distance vision without glasses or contacts. However, many patients that also have astigmatism will still experience blurry distance vision because standard IOLs do not correct astigmatism. Corrective eyewear or additional surgery is needed to reduce blurring and distortion caused by astigmatism. | 2019-04-20T09:32:22 | https://eyesoftexas.us/services/cataract-treatment/acrysof-iq-toric-iol/ | [
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stage of finding common set of ports, options etc.
so it have some additional ports.
"memcached" without SASL, pecl-memcached without SASL, "libmemcached"
8_4_amd64-projectA-options) So far so good.
poudriere.d/projectA-options) were built with default options.
I expected poudriere to combine options from both directories together.
as "only the first found options directory is mounted".
found directories according to CUSTOMISATION order?
8_4_amd64-projectA-options directory by one "poudriere options" command.
(projectA-options) to the other (8_4_amd64-projectA-options)?
What is the best way to maintain this kind of configuration? | 2019-04-23T00:36:49 | https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2015-April/099004.html | [
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