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Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, posted a pair of messages on his corporate blog that it is worth calling attention to regarding the OLE Project final report, if you haven’t already run into them: OLE; The unanswered questions and Library Software Solutions – We need a higher level of discourse... Equally important is the comment on the first by Brad Wheeler, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Indiana University. The whole thread should take about five minutes to read; five minutes well spent if you are interested in the intersection of community source software development with proprietary, closed-source software development. It is even more important if you are looking for a case study of governance issues surrounding community source software development. Go ahead…I’ll wait.
This is a preview of A Thread of Comments on the OLE Project Draft Report. Read the full post (653 words, 2:37 minutes estimated reading time)
I’m reading the notes from the Atlanta OLE Project regional workshop and right up at the top are these two statements that struck me as insightful. The first gets to the heart of how physical items in a library are different from digital items with respect to library service commitments:
With print items, we’re trying to give people access; with electronic trying to keep them out.
This stems, undoubtedly, from the first sale doctrine in copyright law; the library has purchased the item and chooses to lend it to others for a period of time. With electronic items, though, we typically agree to licenses, which — as contract law — trumps the rights given by copyright; those license are more restrictive in what we can and cannot do with the digital versions.
This is a preview of On How Physical and Electronic Differ for Library Materials. Read the full post (275 words, 1:06 minutes estimated reading time)
Coming out of the face-to-face meeting in Rutgers earlier this month, the OLE Project has posted a number of announcements for upcoming events. The first is a webcast on Nov. 20, 2008 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm Eastern Standard Time, US, free of charge and open to anyone. The webcast topics are:
Update on the project
Timeline and topics for remaining project activities
Overview of upcoming OLE workshops and invitation to attend
Overview of working groups and invitation to participate
Q&A
Registration is required; directions for accessing the webcast will be emailed to those who register. There is a limit of 200 participants (the maximum the webcast service allows), and the session will be recorded for later playback.
Richard Akerman’s recent post highlighting SOA resources at Educause reminded me about the aggregation point on Educause Connect for SOA resources. I’m assuming significant number of those interested in applying SOA to library systems are at an institution of higher education or in some related organization, so I’m adding the RSS feed for that aggregation to Planet LibrarySOA. This will undoubtedly result in a large spike of “new” postings to the planet aggregator, but should settle down after that.
This is a preview of Adding Educause Connect’s “Service Oriented Architecture” Term to Planet LibrarySOA. Read the full post (125 words, 30 seconds estimated reading time)
I am pleased to announce the formation of Planet Library SOA — an aggregation of blog postings and resources related to the application of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software paradigm to library systems. You can follow the topic by reading the aggregation website, but the best way to follow along is by subscribing to one of the feeds (atom, rss1.0 or rss2.0) in your favorite newsreader. Those in the conversation at the beginning are Eric Schnell, Lorcan Dempsey, Richard Akerman, Stephen Anthony, and the Talis corporate blog. If you are looking for an introduction to the SOA topic with a slant towards library services, I humbly suggest you read my series on DLTJ starting with Defining “Service Oriented Architecture” by Analogy.
Adding Your Voice
If you publish on the same topic and would like to be added to the Planet Library SOA aggregator, please let me know:
This is a preview of Introducing “Planet Library SOA”. Read the full post (270 words, 1:05 minutes estimated reading time)
This month I’ve come across one great article and one great report on Service Oriented Architectures. The first came from Sally Rogers at Ohio State University in the form of an article from CIO magazine last year:
This article does a great job at laying the groundwork for the broad “what” and “why” (as well as the “why not”) of SOA, and I agree with Sally that it makes a better introduction to the topic than most of the white paper that I presented at the meeting. The two best paragraphs out of the article come towards the very end:
This is a preview of Combining Service Oriented Architecture with a Single Business Approach. Read the full post (592 words, 2:22 minutes estimated reading time)
It is my honor and pleasure to be asked to speak at a one-day symposium called “The Future of the Integrated Library System” hosted by the University of Windsor on November 15, 2006. More information can be found at the symposium wiki. I have a one-hour talk with the title “Could We Do What They Are Doing? Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries” that will build on the library-oriented SOA postings and comments made here last month. (And I do intend to get back to the series — after all, I need to draft a whitepaper for the OhioLINK Technical Advisory Council to write on that same topic as well!)
This is a preview of “Applying the SOA Model to Libraries” talk coming up at the U-Windsor “Future of the Integrated Library System” symposium. Read the full post (330 words, 1:19 minutes estimated reading time)
I know I said I would only be taking “a day’s break” from posting about applying the Service Oriented Architecture pattern to library services but, well, real work gets in the way. Thoughts are still bubbling around — some of them have even reached draft form — but nothing new yet. In the meantime, though, take a look at this DLF Workshop on Developing a Services Framework for Digital Libraries to be held on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 in Boston. These sound like great outcomes:
This is a preview of DLF’s Upcoming Workshop on Developing a Services Framework for Digital Libraries. Read the full post (276 words, 1:06 minutes estimated reading time)
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Getting and Keeping Your Little One’s Attention
Some expert advice for making arts-related outings little-one friendly
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Family outings can be quite the task with preschoolers in tow, especially when their attention spans are as short as lines to see the Mona Lisa are long. Whether you’re headed to a concert or museum, cries of “I want to go home!” or “I’m bored” will have you dashing towards the exit faster than the person next to you can say “Shhh!” But your child loves arts and crafts and dancing around to music at home, so what‘s the problem?
First, it’s key to understand what kids this age are like: “Three- and four-year-olds have an attention span ranging from 3 to 15 minutes—and that’s when they’re totally engrossed, so it’s really not fair to expect your preschooler to sit patiently through a jazz concert or a play—even if it’s geared towards his age” says Dr. Jayne Bellando, associate professor of pediatric psychology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
“Additionally, your child is still developing self-control and coping skills and hasn’t yet mastered his vocabulary enough to convey what he wants (probably to leave the jazz concert and make a beeline for the playground). Instead, he uses whining, crying, kicking, and screaming to get his point across himself— especially if he’s sleepy or hungry.” Not exactly music to your ears.
Luckily, experts say arts-related trips are doable, and can even be enjoyable. If an outing is on your family’s agenda, use these four tips to keep meltdowns at bay—and keep your child’s attention focused.
Keep it short. Today isn’t the day to tour two floors of the museum. Choose one kid-friendly exhibit (the more hands-on activities, the better) and then call it a day. Of course, you won’t be able to control the length of some outings—such as the duration of a musical performance—so have an exit plan in mind. Look up the running time before you go. If it’s on the lengthy side, consider choosing aisle seats so you can duck out for your own personal intermissions without disturbing other members of the audience.
Do your prep work. Preschoolers love structure; it makes them feel safe and gives them something predictable to look forward to at a time in their lives when they really don’t have any control of what they do or where they go. Outings to a local arts exhibit or theater performance break the familiar routine. While it may seem obvious to arrange the excursion so that it doesn’t disrupt naps, mealtimes, or bedtimes, it’s also important to explain to your preschooler what to expect so that the new experience doesn’t take her by surprise and result in a tantrum.
On the car ride over, spell it out in kid-friendly terms: “Right before Mary Poppins starts, the room will get dark. Then there will be bright lights, like giant flashlights, on the stage. Once those turns on, it’s important to be as quiet as we can so we don’t disturb the actors!” Remind her of the protocol once you reach your seats. By the time the lights dim, she’ll know the drill.
Avoid lines. Start your outing off on the right note by making sure you don’t have to linger in a ticket queue for too long. “Preschooler’s don’t have a good grip on time, so if you tell your child that you need to wait 15 minutes to get into the art museum, to him that feels like an eternity and he’s going to become impatient,” says Carl Arinaldo, author of Essentials of Smart Parenting. Translation: You will have lost any chance of having an enjoyable visit before you even step foot in the building. Your best bet is to call ahead to find out when the wait is estimated to be the shortest.
Remember to recap. Once you’re home, have a discussion with your child about the event. Ask him about his favorite part of the day and highlight good behavior, advises Arinaldo. (“Remember how quiet you were during the play? You did such a great job!”) Not only will this help further engage your preschooler in the experience, but the praise will encourage her to behave the next time you have an outing.
If a lack of interest or full on outburst forces you to leave early, don’t feel dismayed. “Remember to look at the long-term goal,” says Dr. Bellando. “This isn’t about getting your child to sit through her first ballet performance or sit mesmerized in front of a Monet painting. The objective is to establish a life-long appreciation for the arts.” And today was one step in the right direction.
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In anything, you always need to keep an eye on context and circumstance. Seeing something without keeping these things in mind can easily lead you to over or underreact. My problem is that I usually keep these things too close, so I usually end up underreacting horribly. Something bad happens to someone? well; that’s horrible, I sympathise and understand what you’re going through, respect your position in the grand scheme of things and want to help you get through it… but at the same time there’s probably 3 billion people in the world worse off than you at any given moment. Deal with it, and move on. You’re still alive after all…
This attitude causes me a fair bit of self-aggro because I know I’m leaning too far to one side of the balance. I know this all too well, but often fail to set it right.
keeping all this in mind, it’s safe to say my mother’s had a difficult one. Details aren’t needed, but let’s just say I’m incredibly grateful to have been raised by such a strong woman.
Being an only child of a single parent, and a protective male, I worry about her. I know she’s alright on her own, but still I worry. It’s only natural. Which is why she didn’t tell me anything about her taking a detour home from work, until I got home after a late nights training.
I came in the door to find a football matchday programme sitting on the kitchen table. In my tired state I was confused enough but this was something else entirely. I wondered to myself ‘did ma get me a footy programme on her way past the stadium?” because it simply didn’t occur to me that she would go to a match.
She bounced happily into the room and, with a mischievous grin, told me how she was on her way home from work feeling tired,unappreciated, lonely and just a little bit depressed when she saw the local team was playing a group game for the European league. On the spur of the moment, she decided to see if there were any tickets left, seeing as it was the team she supported with her father as a child and she had nothing to rush home for.
Quite a few things flew through my mind at this point, most of them worries. She went on her own?, what about the crowds? what about her going home at a late hour? what about her health? and, in my flurried state, what about the small but noticeable element of hooliganism?
“I say, you there: come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough, old boy!”
I voiced none of these concerns as she sat bubbling away at the kitchen table. She described how, after asking if there were any tickets left at the ticketdesk, the nice young man gave her a free one that someone had left because they couldn’t make it. Importantly, the person who left the ticket told the attendant to give it away for free and, surprisingly in a world that can grind you down all too easily, the attendant didn’t think to make himself some money and just gave it to my mother; happy days all round.
She then went on to describe, between fits of laughter, how she approached the stewards carrying the few bags of shopping from Tesco’s she had bought just before, and another nice young man jokingly ‘confiscated’ a bag of grapes because “he hadn’t had his dinner yet”, after which she gave him a few oranges to tide him over.
After that, she found a seat in the unreserved area alongside another few people who had obviously gone along on their own. There was, yet another, nice young man who spent the whole match with his head in his hands while biting his nails, who kindly offered to grab her a cup of tea at half time, and an older man just behind her who compared any slick pass by a player to someone of his own generation: “great pass…just like georgie best that was…lovely tap there; reminds me of a young Liam Brady…”
It was great to see her genuinely happy, and even greater to have found out that the fates conspired to make her detour as enjoyable as possible.
I’ve let things slip, in too many ways.
Trying too hard to keep things in context, I’ve forgotten just how bloody hard she’s fought all her life, and what an incredible person she is. This story reminded me of many she had told me during my life but which I’d shamefully forgotten. The time she went with women’s rights activists on the train to Belfast so taht they could buy condoms (which, in Catholic Ireland during the 80’s, were strictly illega, immoral and forbidden)…
…or the time her and a similar group of forward thinking women entered a bar and ordered a round of pints (large glasses of beer; don’t know what the American equivalent-if there is one- is, sorry) to which the barman replied “women don’t drink Pints, they drink lady drinks”…
well, the gathered outside and settled on a plan.
They returned to the barman and ordered a round of whiskeys (expensive stuff in Ireland during the 80’s recession- and yes, this is not the first recession nor will it be the last). The barman obliged, after making sure they wanted them, and then when the large round of whiskeys were laid out on the bar they informed him that they would only pay for the whiskeys when he served them the pints they had asked for…
and many many other stories she’d told me. Some to inform, some to warn (a sombre confession of my late fathers drug habits when she found out I was going the same way springs to mind) and some just to entertain. I had forgotten most of them, until I was reminded just how exemplary she can be.
But the most inspirational, and unfortunately the easiest forgotten, is the things she did without mention. The things she did, and still does, every day to keep things ticking over. The things that you don’t notice when it’s there, but are painfully absent when they’re gone.
I’ve let things slip, in too many ways
Never again shall I waste the days
I wanted to finish this with John Lennon’s ‘mother’ when I started, but it’s a little bit too sad. I don’t know what I’ll do when she’s gone, and it’s only rarely that I listen to that song because it gives me quite a realistic idea of how I’ll feel. No; instead I’ll post something she’d enjoy (and which reminds me of her bouncing into the house after seeing it live, raving about the lightshow, the wall, the music and the nostalgia).
If this post has gotten you thinking about your own mother and you’d rather contemplate mellow, then look up the Lennon song, if not then put this on full screen and sound…and enjoy. That chorus is just heavenly;)
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Hi,
I should start off by saying I discriminate, I discriminate plenty. I don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sexual preference, disability, social status or take part in any other narrowminded attempt to boost my own self confidence by judging others lower than me.
I do discriminate at the most basic level though: based on the attitudes, behaviour and actions of people.
It would be great to live in a world where there was no discrimination because we all got along in a "hands across the world" kind of way...but we don't. To help us move along to the ideal world we all want, we Do have to discriminate, discriminate against the bad elements of our behaviour and attitudes, the most basic discrimination possible: good, or bad.
In what will hopefully be a rare use of an inspirational quote, I think this sums it up best:
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order;
to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life;
we must first set our hearts right."
What do I mean by this? well it's obvious really...get your shit together. | {
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“Look Now” was a spectacular show comprised of photography, installations, painting and video art. The images were often disturbing as the examples of Gottfried Helnwein’s haunting painting of a child in military dress and Tony Oursler’s disembodied, frog-like talking heads, which amused, admonished and interrogated their audience went fully to show. The exhibit attempted to “confront us with the realities that lie behind and between our fantasies of who we are and of the world in which we live,” and this was certainly chillingly and mesmerizingly achieved.
There’s something exciting, refreshing and exhilarating about visiting a truly cutting-edge exhibition of contemporary art. But, how long do you really spend at the exhibition? One hour, maybe two? At 21C Museum Hotel, you can actually reside among some of the most interesting art pieces of our time.
The establishment, which opened early this year, was developed by a husband and wife team, Steve Wilson and Lee Brown. This couple are the proud owners of an extraordinary collection of art, 80 pieces of which are on permanent display in the space.
The museum’s primary aim is to celebrate the artists of the 21st Century with just one rule; all of the artists displayed must be living. While many galleries have extra facets to their business to afford them the liberty of showing quality art, Steve and Lee have taken it one step further. By creating this fabulous museum, hotel and restaurant, they have made their venture self-sufficient, with each arm of the business feeding into the other to financially support one another.
Located on Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, the very construction of 21C is a piece of art. Completely gutting four warehouses and a bank, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects LLP Architects, from New York, designed the amazing space which retains the historical integrity of the stunning building. In essence, what they did was build a building inside the huge structure which allowed them to design and manipulate their own light and room size. The result is an airy, bright and modern building with all of the features of a fantastic old Southern block.
The museum itself is located off the main lobby of the hotel but the art and antics are not confined to this area. It is behind the counter, in the restaurant, in the bedrooms, the elevator, the corridors and even the bathrooms. It is as if the building is possessed by clever and wonderful art. Some of my favourite pieces were those scattered around the building. In Proof, a five star restaurant with a fabulous bar, there are four alabaster goats, each almost five feet in height, which appear to be hung by rope from the wall where the open kitchen is on view. The most interesting and funny piece, however, is the installation in the bathrooms off the lobby. The artist is a plastic surgeon by profession and an artist in his free time. In his work, he specialises in dealing with blind patients. During his years working with them he began to get annoyed at how fully sighted people seem to feel it is okay to stare at the blind because they cannot see them. In this installation all eyes are on you. The artist filmed blind people’s unseeing eyes and placed them in tiny TV screens in the mirrored wall. In the ladies’ room, they are located in the mirror, which makes reapplying your makeup a whole new experience. In the men’s, they glare down from right above the urinal. Wilson claims it teaches a lesson in vanity.
Also in the main lobby is a crystal chandelier which sings opera arias. As the chandelier reaches a crescendo, it begins to rattle and shake. Similarly, in the elevator and along the corridors are installations using videos and lights. One transfers your image on to a wall where your silhouette becomes a streaming image of binary language, in true Matrix fashion. Another records your image as you walk toward the screen and immediately distorts it so that you feel like you’re trying to walk up a corridor that is getting smaller and smaller.
Once you enter the bedrooms, which are exquisitely decorated, the exhibition does not stop. Above the bed are notice boards upon which prints of the featured art from the transient and permanent collection are mounted. These you can purchase as you check out of the hotel. Yet, another technologically insane feature of the trip is that each room has its own i-Pod that the staff fill, upon your request, full of your favourite music before you arrive. This is truly a hotel of the 21st century.
The museum itself is a delight. This 9,000 square foot space, excluding the video lounge, aims to “mount dynamic group shows and solo exhibitions reflecting the global nature of art today.” And, simply taking into account its first two exhibitions, I would estimate that it will succeed as “the only museum of its kind in America.”
“Look Now” was a spectacular show comprised of photography, installations, painting and video art. The images were often disturbing as the examples of Gottfried Helnwein’s haunting painting of a child in military dress and Tony Oursler’s disembodied, frog-like talking heads, which amused, admonished and interrogated their audience went fully to show. The exhibit attempted to “confront us with the realities that lie behind and between our fantasies of who we are and of the world in which we live,” and this was certainly chillingly and mesmerizingly achieved.
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Hello, I'm really excited to have found your company. I'm a new customer, but am very pleased with the extremely good quality of the products so far. The Organic Cranberries sweetened with apple juice are delectable. I've tried dried cranberries before, but have never found anything like these that you sell. They are so moist, tender, and flavorful. Just the right balance of sweetness and tartness. Yummy! The Organic Halawi dates and the Organic Thompson Raisins are fantastic, and I'm very pleased to be able to buy these products that come from California farmers. The Organic Quinoa is delicious and extremely clean (no small stones as is often found in bulk bin quinoa). I'm looking forward to trying the Organic Amaranth and "truly wild" Real Wild Rice harvested by the Ojibwa native Americans. To be able to buy rice such as this, as such a good price, is fantastic!! I don't want to forget the black sesame seeds. They are incredibly flavorful and a perfect texture. I've never found sesame seeds before that I enjoyed just eating by the spoonful right out of the bag, Thanks so much for all that you do, Sincerely, Ann Springfield, Oregon
DISCLAIMER:-None of the products in this catalog and on our website are intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any illness or disease, nor is it our intention to prescribe any course of therapy. The descriptions in our catalog and on our website are for educational purposes only. | {
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While Apple is usually hesitant to issue press releases about its manufacturing plans, politicians and Apple’s suppliers are not. That may be how word got out about Apple’s plans to build a facility in Mesa, Arizona, a large suburb of Phoenix.
“Apple is indisputably one of the world’s most innovative companies and I’m thrilled to welcome them to Arizona,” said Governor Jan Brewer in a statement. “Apple will have an incredibly positive economic impact for Arizona and its decision to locate here speaks volumes about the friendly, pro-business climate we have been creating these past four years.”
Gt Advanced Technologies was also willing to drop Apple’s name. It released Q3 earnings today and mentioned a new deal with the tech giant.
The company also announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in Arizona where GT expects to employ over 700 people. Apple will provide GT with a prepayment of approximately $578 million. GT will reimburse Apple for the prepayment over five years, starting in 2015.
Although the agreement does not guarantee volumes, it does require GT to maintain a minimum level of capacity. GT will be subject to certain exclusivity terms during the duration of the agreement. GT expects this arrangement to be cash positive and accretive to earnings starting in 2014. Gross margins from this new materials business are expected to be substantially lower than GT’s historical equipment margins. However, the company believes the strategic nature of this agreement and the benefits associated with building a recurring revenue stream are important to its continued diversification.
Continuing to Drive Sapphire Manufacturing Cost Improvements
GT has accelerated the development of its next generation, large capacity ASF furnaces to deliver low cost, high volume manufacturing of sapphire material. These R&D efforts will support its non-LED initiative with its new customer and are expected to enable the expansion of GT’s LED, industrial and specialty sapphire businesses by positioning GT and its equipment customers as the industry’s lowest cost sapphire producers.
Management Commentary
“We are very excited about this agreement with Apple as it represents a significant milestone in GT’s long term diversification strategy,” said Tom Gutierrez, GT’s president and chief executive officer.
“We believe that it is in the long-term best interests of our company, employees and shareholders to build a robust sapphire materials business with recurring revenues,” Gutierrez continued. “By leveraging the new materials operation and our enhanced R&D efforts, we will be well positioned to drive the growth of other sapphire opportunities, including the expansion of our LED and industrial sapphire businesses in partnership with our ASF customers.
“We remain committed to our other established and emerging capital equipment businesses, including our HVPE solution for downstream LED manufacturing, Hyperion thin substrate solutions, silicon carbide (SiC) growth platform and technologies to drive the next-generation of low cost solar. We are encouraged by the improving market conditions in each of these sectors and the technical progress we continue to make across these platforms. As a result, we remain confident in our ability to grow these businesses over the next several years,” Gutierrez concluded. | {
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Sneaker of the Week: Jordan Spizike OG Black Cement
While the weather may be indecisive Nike is going to ensure that it’s a hot summer for sneaker releases. They’ve decided to bring back one of the most widely accepted Jordan mash-ups in a highly sought colorway. Enter the Jordan Spizike — the upcoming kick is officially our Sneaker of the Week.
Spike’s take on a few of his favorite silhouettes is a mammoth of a model and in black cement its footprint gets even bigger. The black leather is backed up by elephant print paneling with a spinkle of cement on the tip of it’s wing. Supple leather help define this pair, and a clean white midsole rounds the look out perfectly.
You can pick up the Jordan Spizike OG in this Black Cement colorway at select Nike retailers on June 20. | {
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November 23, 2010
Expect To See A Next Generation Of Lighter And Tougher IPads, IPhones and iMacs. All Made With Carbon Fiber.
Do you ever wonder why everything I getting lighter and lighter and that include the airplane that you fly in and your car? If you ever get a chance to fly Qantas in an A380, you’ll find the economy class seats are all carbon fiber. It is very commonly used in planes due to lightweight.
Carbon fiber is basically plastic, it refers to plastic reinforced by a graphite textile. It is also know as alternatively as carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber composite. Carbon fiber is not cheap, but has a fantastic weight-to-strength ratio and that’s why they are used in high-quality cars, boats, bicycles, and planes, including popular Formula One racecars. A small piece can withstand an impact of many tons and still deform minimally. Carbon fiber composite is currently the best material that the world can produce in appreciable quantities. Introducing carbon nanotubes into the fiber is currently in late research stages, and may offer improved ratios of 10 times or greater – a space age material indeed.
Apple engineer Kevin M. Kenney sees the future of carbon fiber and tablets, they are applying for a patent called simply "Reinforced Device Housing" that describes a way for various weaves to be backed by carbon "spine" to provide greater torsional rigidity -- to keep you from twisting it and cracking an LCD. Imagine the next generation of lightweight iPad, iMac and iPhone. IMac is still have a weight and heat issue. In face, Panasonic started making a ultra lightweight laptop many years back, but not for export. Some needs to overcome the perception that plastic is cheap as this is no ordinary plastic. Sony as early as 2005 launched two new VAIO TX series notebooks both made of carbon fiber making them the strongest and lightest with the least amount of thickness. They were ahead of Apple.
Apple’s patent text is pretty broad and it raises some issue: Embodiments may house any number of electronic components. For example, certain embodiments may be used to form the exterior surface of a mobile telephone, a laptop or notebook computer, a tablet computing device, a desktop computer, a television, a stereo receiver, or practically any other electronic device. Expect to see a generation of lighter and stronger Mac products soon.
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Expect To See A Next Generation Of Lighter And Tougher IPads, IPhones and iMacs. All Made With Carbon Fiber.
Do you ever wonder why everything I getting lighter and lighter and that include the airplane that you fly in and your car? If you ever get a chance to fly Qantas in an A380, you’ll find the economy class seats are all carbon fiber. It is very commonly used in planes due to lightweight.
Carbon fiber is basically plastic, it refers to plastic reinforced by a graphite textile. It is also know as alternatively as carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber composite. Carbon fiber is not cheap, but has a fantastic weight-to-strength ratio and that’s why they are used in high-quality cars, boats, bicycles, and planes, including popular Formula One racecars. A small piece can withstand an impact of many tons and still deform minimally. Carbon fiber composite is currently the best material that the world can produce in appreciable quantities. Introducing carbon nanotubes into the fiber is currently in late research stages, and may offer improved ratios of 10 times or greater – a space age material indeed.
Apple engineer Kevin M. Kenney sees the future of carbon fiber and tablets, they are applying for a patent called simply "Reinforced Device Housing" that describes a way for various weaves to be backed by carbon "spine" to provide greater torsional rigidity -- to keep you from twisting it and cracking an LCD. Imagine the next generation of lightweight iPad, iMac and iPhone. IMac is still have a weight and heat issue. In face, Panasonic started making a ultra lightweight laptop many years back, but not for export. Some needs to overcome the perception that plastic is cheap as this is no ordinary plastic. Sony as early as 2005 launched two new VAIO TX series notebooks both made of carbon fiber making them the strongest and lightest with the least amount of thickness. They were ahead of Apple.
Apple’s patent text is pretty broad and it raises some issue: Embodiments may house any number of electronic components. For example, certain embodiments may be used to form the exterior surface of a mobile telephone, a laptop or notebook computer, a tablet computing device, a desktop computer, a television, a stereo receiver, or practically any other electronic device. Expect to see a generation of lighter and stronger Mac products soon. | {
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CC Skye
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CC Skye
Los Angeles based styling with a completely uptown look, designer CC Skye has been called Hollywood’s hottest new designer by InTouch and consistently ahead of the trends by WWD. The signature style of CC Skye embraces everything for bags, purses, and accessories that is a main wardrobe staple of today. Each season brings a totally fantastic edge to a different CC Skye handbag collection, with an unpredictability that is a thrill to see. CC Skye has received the nomination for the Best New Accessory Designer by GEN ART and the celebrities that are donning the look include Megan Fox and Alessandra Ambrosio. | {
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In an investigation done behind a 2014 incident in Chicago, where a Sgt. George Granias assaulted a woman after she was already cuffed, it was found that Granias owned several racist website domain names. Her attorney trying to defend her on the claims that the attacks were racially motivated dug this up and this to say about it:
“She was beat up at the police station by a Chicago police sergeant because she was a vocal black woman,” says Brendan Shiller, Johnson’s attorney.
But on top of that, attorneys uncovered domain names bought by Granias that begin with the N-word – for example, “n**gadown.com,” “niggerific,” Niggauns,” in addition to sites like “murdertech.com,” “necroarmy.com,” and in a not so subtle dis to Illinois’ former governor, “patquinnsucks.com.” | {
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CONCORD, N.C. - Marcos Ambrose is set for next year, and with the addition of a new sponsor he'll be looking to bounce back from a tough 2013 season.
With only three more opportunities to try and at least win one race for the past three seasons, Ambrose finds himself looking forward to next year where he will have Twisted Tea join Stanley and DEWALT as primary sponsors of the No. 9 Ford at Richard Petty Motorsports.
"It's time to deliver for me and it's time to deliver for the company," Ambrose said during the Twisted Tea car unveiling. "We are excited about our plans for 2014. We've got everything we had in 2013 and then some. I think we've got more assets and more resources to go at it.
"We are excited about Twisted Tea coming on board as a brand new sponsor in NASCAR. It suits Richard Petty Motorsports really well, it suits me really well. I'm an off-beat guy and it's a bit of an off-beat brand. I think our fans will really enjoy what we are going to do with our activation in 2014 and more importantly what we do on the racetrack."
Ambrose is also looking forward to some rules changes for next season that he thinks will suit RPM's two-car operation.
"I think the rules package for 2014 is going to help teams like us - teams that have a limited engineering resource because we can actually make changes at the track without having to worry about getting through the templates and getting through inspection, which has been a real problem for us," Ambrose said. "If you are not right before you get there it was very hard to make the cars better in 2013 because there's so much engineering (that) went into getting the cars low without having trouble getting the cars through the sticks, through inspection."
Ambrose will be entering his fourth year with RPM. Since coming to the United States from Australia in 2006, he's scored three poles, 39 top 10s and 15 top fives, including two wins at Watkins Glen International. But this season he's yet to score a top five.
"I'm absolutely focused on making the most of my opportunity in 2014," Ambrose said. "I'm having a great time, but 2013 has been tough no doubt about it. It's hard to keep your head up and I sacrifice more than most to be here in America. I'm a long way from my family and from home. Every year that you are away you need good reasons to be here and winning is a really good reason and that’s what I'm all about in 2014. I want to win and I want to make the Chase and will go from there."
Twisted Tea, which will be an associate sponsor next season, will be the primary on the No. 9 car in the fall at Dover International Speedway - one of Ambrose's best oval tracks a mile or more in length based on top 10s (3).
"We had some options, but we know that Dover is a very challenging track so we’re excited from that standpoint," said Jon London from Twisted Tea Brewing Company. "Doing it in September as well gives us a chance to really generate some build-up and excitement for the race. We are actually going to be putting together a sweepstakes that will running over the course of the spring and summer where four of our drinkers will have the chance to be honorary pit crew members for that race."
Ambrose worked his way up the ladder in NASCAR, racing in the Camping World Truck and Nationwide Series before ultimately reaching his goal of competing in Sprint Cup in 2008 with Wood Brothers Racing and JTG-Daugherty Racing.
"I came to America to be in the biggest form of racing in world," Ambrose said. "I just wanted to experience it and I didn’t have any preconceived notions that I was going to make it work. I came here from the bottom. I fully expected to start from scratch and I did. I just built my way up. I'm a better driver today than when I arrived. I'm thrilled to be a part of the sport of NASCAR.
"To have come to America on a wing and a prayer and make it stick I'm really proud of what I've done and I've got a lot more to give and I'm looking forward to doing that in 2014 and the future. I'm not saying 2014 is it, but we're certainly focused on 2014 on being that breakout year." | {
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I found a new coupon on our Coupon Database! It is a PDF for the Curad bandages!!!! It is a $0.50 coupon that will double to $1.00 This week they are on sale at Albertsons for $0.50 - making them completely FREE! Now -- you will only get the $0.50 value because the coupon value cannot exceed the amount of the product. | {
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How to watch Virtual Reality Porn on your iPhone?
Virtual reality is changing how people look at pornography and the world is starting to take notice. Every day, more and more individuals are purchasing headsets to check out VR content. A large portion of them use their goggles to look at VR porn. While there are some VR headsets which stand alone, most work with smartphones. Both Android and iPhone owners are able to check out virtual reality smut. But iPhone users have a tougher time since Apple has strict restrictions against pornography. Still, when it comes to how to watch VR porn on your iPhone, the steps are easier than some think.
In truth, there has never been a better time to begin watching virtual reality pornography. The adult industry is investing millions into it and call it the future of porn. Plus, adult film production companies are making new VR porn films daily to keep up with demands. You also have regular folks who are finding ways to record and produce their own private virtual reality adult videos. As a result, people can find millions of free VR porn videos online. To see these videos using your iPhone, follow a few simple steps.
The first thing you need to do is download either Mobile VR Station or Free VR Player app from the App Store. The applications are what will let you see VR content from top sites. A few of them are WankzVR porn and BadoinkVR porn . Once you have those apps installed, you can visit those or other adult sites directly using your browser. People can choose to download the videos or stream them. The former is great because if you download them manually, you can watch them anytime you wish. Also, you don’t have to wait for the VR porn videos to load or use mobile data.
Streaming options are also awesome because you can watch as many as you want. Other adult apps make streaming VR porn effortless and provide numerous options. Apple iPhone users can also use the Free VR Player app using their computer and iTunes. All they have to load the VR porn videos directly using a cable. Watching virtual reality porn on your iPhone is surely going to be an immersive experience. We suggest you find a quiet and private place. And be prepared to be extremely aroused, engrossed and mind-blown. | {
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Jeff’s Art Projects
Even my most ardent supports turned squeamish when I decided to tweet my root canal live. Some people just don't like dental procedures showing up in their Twitter feed.
Looking back on my art making I can start to make some definitive statements about my work (one of the great pluses of getting older). Two things come to the surface: my younger realization that putting one disparate idea next to another can often produce an idea that can be both interesting and long-lasting seems to hold true. And, twisting conventions, that is, using new platforms for communicating my ideas —an experiment in finding the edges of these new ways of communicating— is rich with possibilities.
I began as a photographer in the 1970s and immediately started experimenting with the medium: blueprinted images (cyanotypes) on canvas to making another 19th century process, collotypes, bend to my 20th century aesthetic (an utter failure, by the way). But it was the experimenting that proved to be the most important thing I learned in graduate school. At first, I wanted to be a “good” artist. So I began to look for a recipe for that success. Yet, my teachers kept asking me questions I couldn’t answer. What I didn’t realize, at first, was these questions had no right answers. That set the stage for the rest of my life. | {
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Home remedies for constipation
Do you suffer from constipation? There is nothing to be ashamed of. We all have to "go", and at some time or another, the process may be a bit stuck. Sometimes it's easy to make things flow regularly again, but other times, nothing seems to work and you can't help but endure the discomfort of not, say, download for days and days.
Constipation is what happens when there is difficulty emptying the intestines and is usually associated with hardened stools in the form of granules or painful. It can be caused by several things, most commonly the regular consumption of processed foods, poor hydration, infrequent exercise, irritated bowels, certain medications and stress. Constipation can be harmless if its effects are short lived. However, when it is durable, it can pose a threat to your overall health and can manifest itself in the form of irritability, lack of concentration, bad breath, swelling, headaches, backaches and can be the cause of illness for a number of diseases due to the toxic environment created within the intestine.
The good news is that you can eliminate obstacles that may be hampering the regular flow of digested food through your system.
Here are some remedies that will surely help.
Pods or senna leaves
For immediate relief, senna is an excellent herbal laxative. With its potency inside its pods or leaves, senna can be consumed as a tea. Its pods or leaves can be purchased at most pharmacies and can be used without a prescription. To make this tea, boil some pods or senna leaves in a small pot of water. Let cool and drink a small cup of tea at bedtime. You can add some grains of Epsom salts to the infusion to reduce grip pain. It is not recommended that you become dependent on laxatives to defecate, as this could alter the natural balance of digestion and elimination of the body. Senna should not be used more than once a week.
Daniel's fast
The best long-term solution for constipation is to improve the diet. Fasting is an excellent practice that lightens the burden on the digestive system and promotes vitality in the body and mind. Daniel's fast is a biblical diet followed by the prophet Daniel in the self-styled book of the Bible. This type of fasting will greatly reduce inflammation in the body and provide enough fiber and nutrients to help the digestive system regain balance. It also improves mental alertness and clarity.
To perform this fast, whether for 10 days or 21 days, you must completely eliminate all forms of animal protein from the diet, including meat, milk, eggs or cheese. Alcohol, sugar and processed foods, such as flour (and gluten-free products), oils and unnatural drinks should also be avoided. What can be consumed are: fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, oatmeal, peas, beans, herbs, spices and plenty of water. Combine (this diet) with regular exercise and you will surely get great benefits from this fast.
Effective hydration
Sometimes, when we drink water it can be more important than how much we drink when we do it. Here are some quick steps and not for effective hydration that can help relieve constipation:
Do: Drink one (or more) glass of warm water in the morning when you get up before eating anything. A few drops of pure lemon juice or apple cider vinegar in your glass will make it even better to defecate.
Do: Drink a glass of water an hour before or after meals.
Do: Drink a glass of water before bathing.
Do: Drink a glass of water an hour before bedtime.
No: Drink large amounts of water (or other drinks) with meals. This dilutes the gastric juices in the stomach and slows the digestive process.
No: replace water with juices or soft drinks. Water in its simple form is what the body needs to hydrate. Sugary drinks can contribute to constipation.
Slippery Elm
Finally, the slippery elm bark (available in capsules in most pharmacies) is a digestive herbal reliever, as it covers the mucous lining of the stomach and intestines and improves bowel movements. Acting as a lubricant, it can make "going" softer and less painful. Be sure to take these capsules as directed by your pharmacist, preferably on an empty stomach.
By following these remedies, you will surely be on your way to say goodbye to constipation and greet a healthier and happier colon. | {
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CFH News
Preferred Site Announced
Preferred site for Bellevue permanent men’s homeless shelter announced
Bellevue – December 19, 2018
The search for a site to build a permanent shelter in Bellevue for homeless men took a significant step Wednesday, as Bellevue-based Congregations for the Homeless (CFH) announced it is pursuing part of a surplus property owned by King County located at 13620 SE Eastgate Way, Bellevue in one of the land use districts approved for shelters.
David Bowling, CFH Executive Director, said the organization conducted an extensive review of sites in Bellevue, based on feedback from the community and guidance from the Land Use Code Ordinance passed last July by the Bellevue City Council.
“CFH reviewed over a dozen sites,” Bowling said. “From that list, we evaluated seven of the sites against a robust set of 13 criteria to ensure a shelter that works for the wider community and effectively serves men experiencing homelessness.” The surplus King County property on Eastgate Way meets Bellevue’s zoning requirements, meets key criteria for addressing community safety concerns while also meeting the highest needs of men experiencing homelessness and can reasonably be developed within our three-year timeframe, Bowling said.
Bellevue leaders have been looking for a permanent year-round shelter site to serve men experiencing homelessness since 2014. This year, the Bellevue City Council adopted regulations to guide permitting of Homeless Services Uses. They include holding a community meeting, signing a “Good Neighbor Agreement” with the city defining safeguards, and establishing an advisory committee.
“Ultimately,” said Bowling, “the challenge is to give confidence to both the city and community that this is an appropriate site we can have up and running by 2022. Time is a major factor. We hope our current winter program at Lincoln Center will be expanded to year-round services soon. Once that happens, we expect to only have three years to operate here under the emergency permitting process. Therefore, we have just three years to get a new permanent facility approved and built so we don’t close our doors to the men. Time is of the essence to serve men from Bellevue and the greater Eastside who are experiencing homelessness.” | {
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Yiying Fan | Shanghainese | world traveler | journalist | dog lover
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SHANGHAI — When her beloved dog Nini turned 10, Zhang Yueyan became concerned. How many years would she have left with her companion?
The news that Hollywood star Barbra Streisand had her pet cloned brought comfort; by the time Nini was on her last leg of life, Zhang could do the same. The only thing holding her back was that the cheapest option, a South Korean company, charged $100,000. But last year, a biotech company in Beijing, Sinogene, entered the market at about half the price. “Ever since, I didn’t fear her death anymore,” Zhang, 32, tells Sixth Tone.
Zhang has become one of just a few dozen Sinogene customers so far. But the company sees great growth potential in China’s market. The country’s dog owners spent 106 billion yuan ($16.5 billion) on their estimated 50 million pets in 2018, a 20.5% year-over-year increase, and have spawned such lavish amenities as pet hotelsand pet funerals. From 20 cloned dogs in 2018 and 20 more orders in the first quarter of 2019, Sinogene hopes to grow to duplicate 500 dogs annually within five years, serving Chinese and foreign customers. The company also clones horses and is developing more “biotherapy” products for pets.
Twenty-three years after Dolly the sheep, animal cloning is no longer necessarily cutting-edge technology, however Sinogene’s duplicate dogs are part of China’s fast-developing world of genetic research. In recent years, Chinese researchers have successfully cloned two monkeys, produced healthy mice from two female parents, and cloned a gene-edited dog — the latter also done by Sinogene.
The Chinese government is supportive, with its latest five-year plan calling foraccelerated research into DNA testing and therapy. But lagging regulation has left large ethical blind spots, such as when, late last year, a Chinese researcher caused a storm with his announcement of the first gene-edited human babies. In June, new rules restricted the collection and use of human DNA in China, but cloning dogs and other animals remains unregulated — as it does in other countries — despite considerable moral issues.
But for Sinogene’s customers, love for their pups trumps any concerns. “Nowadays people treat their dog as a family member who is their spiritual sustenance or companionship,” says Zhao Jianping, the company’s deputy general manager. “When they lose their pets, they want their (pets’) lives to continue.”
The first step of cloning a dog is taking a DNA sample of the parent animal. Last August, when Zhang’s 19-year-old Nini fell seriously ill, Sinogene sent vets to collect a tissue sample from the dog’s rear leg. “It was a minor procedure. She didn’t even bleed,” Zhang recalls. Using the sample, Sinogene produced and stored identical cells that, after Nini passed away in October, the company could use for another Nini.
But the rest of the process involves many more dogs than just the old and new Ninis. Sinogene maintains a breeding base on the outskirts of Beijing with some 1,000 beagles — the international lab dog of choice. According to Zhao, Sinogene collects immature egg cells from three to five of these lab dogs, and then combines them with the parent dog’s cells to form embryos. One embryo is then implanted into a surrogate mother, who will successfully get pregnant 50% of the time. In case of failure, this monthslong process is repeated with another surrogate mother. On average, it takes half a year for a cloned puppy to be born, and they are then delivered to their owners after two months.
A technician does a cloning-related experiment at Sinogene’s lab in Beijing, July 2, 2019. Fan Yiying
During Sixth Tone’s visit to Sinogene in early July, six surrogate beagle mothers and their eight cloned newborns were resting in the nursing room, each mother and their one to three puppies in their own 1-square-meter cubicle with water, food, and toys. Staff keep a close eye on the moms and pups. Twice a day, the mothers get to run around outside. Sixth Tone could not visit the breeding base, but Zhao says conditions there are “as humane as possible” and include two meals and up to three hours of playtime a day.
Zhao defends the use of lab dogs, saying “it’s the beagle’s mission to cooperate with experiments.” He adds: “Surrogacy is a very small trauma to dogs, which is similar to sterilization.” To surrogate, the animal will have a small wound in their abdomen, and then the cloned embryo will be transferred directly to the fallopian tube without any damage to other tissue. The abdominal wound usually recovers within a week. Every dog is used as a surrogate twice, usually between the ages of 2 and 5, and then put up for adoption, Zhao says. Already some 200 beagles have found new homes. A majority of customers choose to adopt the surrogate mother of their cloned puppy.
In any case, dog cloning now requires significantly fewer dogs compared with when the technology was first successfully attempted in 2005. Then, South Korean company Sooam Biotech reportedly implanted 1,000 embryos into 123 surrogate dogs to produce the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy.
In December, Nini’s clone was born, and in February, on Zhang’s birthday, Sinogene’s crew delivered the 2-month-old to her new home in Shanghai. “It was the best birthday ever,” says Zhang, petting her new pal on her lap. She’s decided to also call her Nini. “I only want one dog in my life,” she says. Initially, there were some doubts on whether the new Nini would age to look like the original, but after some months of growth and a haircut, the resemblance is striking, says Zhang. “They even sound the same and have the same twisted joint in their tails.”
At Shanghai Companion Animal Hospital, Dr. Yang Qiqing, who’s a veterinary specialist, tells Sixth Tone that clients have been inquiring about pet cloning since last year. “Some pet owners’ feelings for their pets may be beyond the imagination of non-pet owners and vets,” he says. Yang considers cloning unnatural. “It can only restore the appearance, but it can’t restore the personality, memory, or emotion,” he adds. Sinogene’s Zhao says that clones will look like the parent dog and have the same general health, but that differences in how they are raised may cause their behavior to be different.
Yang says the surrogate dogs used for cloning may suffer some psychological pain. “It can only be compensated by providing more living space for surrogate dogs and increasing dog-walking time,” he suggests. Despite increased attention to animal welfare, China still lacks a law to protect their rights. “When we do have such laws and regulations, I think we should include provisions for cloning pets,” says Yang.
Despite this lack, there is plenty of interest. In March, China’s first cloned police dog, Kunxun, was born in Sinogene’s lab. She is the genetic copy of Huahuangma, a 7-year-old veteran of the Pu’er City police force, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, who earned the nickname Sherlock Holmes because she “helped crack dozens of murder cases,” according to newspaper China Daily. The hope is that cloning such top-rate police dogs will reduce training time and costs. “Cloning is the best way to pass on a good individual’s genes,” says Zhao. “If done in batches, the cost will be relatively low, and the quantity can increase rapidly.”
Hu Bao, a 31-year-old advertising manager in Shanghai, has decided to clone his dog. Tuoba, 3, is a rare mix of poodle and bichon, and Hu is concerned he might not be able to find another one. “She has a perfect size, she’s smart, she’s quiet at home, she doesn’t shed, and she doesn’t smell,” he says.
Hu pays close attention to developments in biotechnology and has read about Sinogene. He’s decided to clone Tuoba in 7 years’ time, when she’s 10. “I look at cloning from a rational perspective,” he says. “I’m aware that the cloned dog won’t be the same, but I know I will want dogs like Tuoba to accompany me for the rest of my life.” He adds: “If I had another dog, I’m not sure if they would be functionally as perfect as Tuoba.”
For now, Hu’s priority is saving up. Sinogene currently charges 380,000 yuan for a cloned dog, but Zhao says the price could come down in the future. “If the market is large enough, and our efficiency is relatively stable, then the price has room for adjustment.”
Back in Zhang’s apartment, three of her neighbors drop in to play with the new Nini. They joke that they have to be gentle and careful since she has cost a fortune. Zhang acknowledges that the new Nini won’t replace the old one, but the cloned puppy is helping her with the grieving process. “Now every time I flash back to the things I did with the old Nini, I carry the new Nini in my arms. I look at her and talk to her as if Nini is still here.” | {
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Acumatica Expansion Edition
Acumatica understands that every business is different and has different needs, which is why they have decided to change the way they do things. There will no longer be a standard version of Acumatica because there is no one standard for what a business needs. From now on Acumatica will have 3 levels of functionality. The starting level is the Foundation Edition, Expansion Edition and for big companies, there is the Enterprise Edition.
Included in Acumatica Expansion Edition:
Advanced Financials
Monitoring & Automation
10 Entities
'Small' Resource Level
10GB SQL Server Storage
10GB Media Storage
Available Add-ons:
Advanced Distribution
Order Management
Fulfillment
Project Accounting
Intercompany Accounting
Advanced Payroll
CRM
Portals
Fixed Assets
Deferred Revenue and Contracts
Exchange Integration
Entity Add-Ons
Additional Storage
Active Standby Failover
Resource Level Upgrades
What Kind of Companies Use it?
Acumatica Expansion Edition is ideal for companies that have been around for a while, have a sizable amount of intended users, and needs a fair amount of storage for their data. Expansion edition was packaged for mid-sized organizations with multiple facilities and/or facets. It is a powerful tool where midsize companies can get top-of-the-line functionality at a price that is affordable for SMBs. Acumatica is an all-in-one ERP solution so every department can work, monitor and communicate on the same software and with no user license costs.
Along with its eminence functionality, Acumatica also has great scalability for when your company grows. It's all about meeting customer needs and you can upgrade or downgrade at any time. Not only that but you can choose which deployment option your business. You can choose between public cloud (SAAS), private cloud, or on-premise and if that doesn't get you excited you are also free to change it at any time. Contact our team of experienced professionals to learn more about this powerful yet flexible solution. Call us at 800-331-8382 or email us at [email protected].
Request a Demo
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Forgotten Epidemic Symposium Reflection
Posted on January 01, 2012 by Jamaal D. Weatherspoonm Children's Home Society of Florida Family Support Worker-Early Head Start Program
Jamaal D. Weatherspoonm Children's Home Society of Florida Family Support Worker-Early Head Start Program
When I was given the opportunity of writing a blog for the month of January, I was both honored and simultaneously intimidated (if you ask me about this now I will likely deny it altogether). I have been involved in youth activism since I was a pre-teen and to this day I still find it a fun, yet altogether difficult challenge to express the thoughts and feelings of an entire generation in good faith that they will be taken seriously by the elders. Being a firm believer in the Adinkra concept of Sankofa, I believe it is absolutely necessary to get the support, encouragement and guidance that come with working alongside those who are more experienced, as well as paying homage to those who paved the way so that we can have a present day platform on which to stand. Conversely, I am just as firm a believer in the fact that providing this much needed support and guidance is why our predecessors existed in the first place, for the main goal that of the current generation should be to enhance the possibilities for those who follow. This dynamic has played itself out repeatedly through the numerous interactions that I have had the good fortune of sharing with many of my esteemed colleagues, and I would like to think that I provide a fresh source of innovation, creativity and optimism.
During the recent NAACP and CFAR Forgotten Epidemic Symposium, I was fortunate enough to be exposed to some of the most dynamic personalities in this country. One particular conversation with an elder a stood out in my mind, “how much is enough? Have we not suffered enough so that your generation can prosper without being subject to many of the same obstacles that we fought so hard to overcome?
I began to reflect about the pain this woman must be feeling. She fought hard to end the systematic injustices that plagued our people only to be faced with modern day racial barriers. The answer I gave was simple, we can and we will overcome these obstacles by standing on the shoulders of our forefathers .Through legitimate solidarity ,we allow ourselves to maintain our focus on the vision and keep the end in mind because we are fighting for people who are just like you and me. Ryan White or no Ryan White, unity in the midst of crisis is what makes the struggle relevant. The world is a stage, and the inhabitants are its actors. Our lives set the template on which this production occurs.
This is why the human dynamic will always be relevant. HIV/AIDS is merely another facet of that expression. The 30 years that HIV has experienced its own discovery, growth, outbreak, and it’s soon to be decline is merely another representation of that very same life cycle. Though I will not be as ambitious as to personify a retrovirus, the manner in which it has both compartmentalized and simultaneously united our community gives it the role of the antagonist in this "phantom of the opera"-esque play that the 20th-21st centuries have brought the black community.
Much like the society we live in, we (in) directly gave birth to it, however it has methodically adapted to us via our behaviors, (be they sexual practices, drug use, or process of childbirth) and learned to integrate itself JUST enough to cause us harm much like every other opposing force that we have come in contact with in the duration of our history. If we can actively search within our own selves; to not only identify and debate about-but to systematically address what plagues our minds, we will be able to collectively acknowledge that yes: HIV/AIDS is a disease, but that it also doubles as a symptom that has manifested itself as a result of a negative mindset.
IF we can address the lack of responsibility with which we've treated ourselves (and by extension, each other) then with a combination of legislation change, collective effort and social responsibility we can TRULY eradicate this (and any other) pandemic. As idealistic as this may sound, we indeed have everything we need to create a solution, because we have each other to give purpose to our own efforts. | {
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MSC Musica
MSC Musica
MSC Musica not only launched a new class of ecological cruise ship, she launched a new class of cruise – a spacious world of graceful lines and superlative choice, enriched by the creativity, fine natural materials and attention to detail that have always distinguished MSC Cruises. Life aboard is beautiful from the moment you step on board; from the central foyer’s three-tier waterfall to its see-through piano, floating suspended on a crystal floor above a pool of shimmering water. Indulge in succulent Italian gourmet specialities in Il Giardino, treat yourself to the Kaito Sushi Bar, or explore a luscious array of authentic Italian pizzas.
DAY 1 Sunday 17 January, 2021 Depart Australia We depart Australia and travel to Cape Town, South Africa. Known as the “Mother City”, Cape Town is the oldest city in South Africa. Perched between the ocean and Table Mountain, with a national park as its heart, there is nowhere like Cape Town.
DAY 2 Monday 18 January, 2021 Cape Town, South Africa On arrival we join our local guide, who will take us on a sightseeing tour to see many fabulous sights such as the imposing brick and stucco Houses of Parliament, the Victoria and Alfred dock area, and the Bo-Kaap area, where the Cape Malays live in brightly-coloured cube houses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. We take the cable car up Table Mountain for wonderful views of Table Bay, the city and the sea (weather permitting). Later we check in to our hotel. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 3 Tuesday 19 January, 2021 Cape Town A free day to explore Cape Town. Perhaps take a ferry to visit the infamous Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of his 27 years imprisonment. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 4 Wednesday 20 January, 2021 Embarkation Today we are transferred to the port to board the MSC Musica for our cruise up the west coast to Namibia. Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 5 Thursday 21 January, 2021 At sea A free day to enjoy the facilities of the ship. Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 6 Friday 22 January, 2021 Walvis Bay, Namibia Walvis Bay is small port on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia and the gateway to the Namib Desert. Sheltered by the Pelican Point sand spit, its tidal lagoon is home to abundant birdlife including flamingos, pelicans and Damara terns. The harbour is busy with fishing boats and ships. Dolphins, whales and Cape fur seals inhabit the Atlantic waters around the Pelican Point Lighthouse. Take a tour into the desert or explore the curio markets, craft shops, art galleries, museums and the beachfront. Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 7 Saturday 23 January, 2021 Luderitz, Namibia This German village huddled on the coast of the vast Namib Desert is a surreal relic of German colonial rule. The village was founded by the Bremen merchant Adolf Lüderitz who, being a tobacco merchant, was interested in planting tobacco in Africa. Speculating on mineral deposits in the area and establishing colonial territory in Africa, persuaded Bismarck to place South West Africa under German control in 1884. Diamonds in the desert made it all happen, and it is as if a German village was suddenly plucked from Europe and set down on the African coast, caught between the icy South Atlantic and the burning desert. The Atlantic waters off Lüderitz are home to seals, penguins and other marine life. Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 8 Sunday 24 January, 2021 At sea A free day to enjoy the facilities of the ship. Perhaps take a dance class or just relax by the pool. Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 9 Monday 25 January, 2021 Disembarkation/Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe After disembarking the MSC Musica we are transferred to the airport for our flight to Victoria Falls. On arrival, we will be met by our private coach and transferred to our hotel for check in. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 10Tuesday 26 January, 2021 Victoria Falls A free day to explore the Falls area. Victoria Falls are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, which is more than 2km wide at this point, plunges noisily down a series of basalt gorges and raises an iridescent mist that can be seen more than 20 km away. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 11 Wednesday 27 January, 2021 Victoria Falls Another free day to explore the Falls area. Perhaps try riding the rapids down the Zambezi River or try bungee jumping off the bridge over the Zambezi River. Or go into town to explore and meet the locals. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 12 Thursday 28 January, 2021 Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe This morning we are transferred to Hwange National Park and our Safari Lodge, where we will stay for the next three nights. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 13 Friday 29 January, 2021 Hwange National Park Named after a local Nhanzwa chief, Hwange National Park is the largest Park in Zimbabwe, occupying roughly 14,650 square kilometers. It is located in the northwest corner of the country about one hour south of the mighty Victoria Falls. It became the royal hunting grounds to the Ndebele warrior-king Mzilikazi in the early 19th century and was set aside as a National Park in 1929. Hwange boasts a tremendous selection of wildlife with over 100 species of mammals and nearly 400 bird species recorded. The elephants of Hwange are world famous and the Park’s elephant population is one of the largest in the world. We will hopefully see the ‘Big 5’ – Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino and Buffalo. We’ll also see many varieties of colourful birds. Our experienced guide will help us spot hard-to see animals, so we make the most of the safari. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 14 Saturday 30 January, 2021 Hwange National Park A free day for you to explore Hwange National Park. You may like to take a morning or afternoon safari or enjoy have a rare opportunity to experience life in an African village with a cultural tour of one of the local villages Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 15 Sunday 31 January, 2021 Departure This morning we depart the safari lodge and are transferred to the airport for our flights home. Meals included: Breakfast
DAY 16 Monday 1 February, 2021 Australia This evening we arrive in Australia and the tour concludes.
Inclusions
Economy-class flights from Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Perth/Adelaide to Cape Town and return from Victoria Falls
Economy-class flight from Cape Town to Victoria Falls
2 nights’ accommodation in Cape Town including breakfast
3 nights’ accommodation at Victoria Falls including breakfast
3 nights’ accommodation in Hwange National Park including breakfast
Sightseeing tour of Cape Town
Professional English-speaking manager in Cape Town, Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls
1 game drive in Hwange National Park
Cruise taxes and port & handling charges
Not included in the price
Additional travel arrangements not detailed in the itinerary. These will be quoted for separately
Drinks on board
Lunches when not on the ship
Meals not listed in the itinerary
Ship gratuities
Gratuities for local guides
Availability
All cabins are subject to cabin availability. Please call 1800 630 343 for details on fares and information on other cabin categories.
Extending
You can stay longer in southern Africa for minimal cost. Please contact Value Holidays on 1800 630 343 for more information.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Touring can involve a considerable amount of walking and stair climbing in the places visited and it is important that all tour participants have a level of physical fitness that allows them to take part in this activity without the need of assistance from others.
Tour Costs: The tour costs are based on airfare, shipping, general transport, accommodation costs and foreign exchange rates at 14 December 2019. Cruise Offers Value Holidays reserves the right to alter the costs if any of these factors change, giving any passenger that has booked the right to withdraw with full refund of monies paid or modify arrangements.
Deposits and Payments: A deposit of $1,500 per passenger is required at the time of booking. Full payment will be required 121 days before departure of the tour from Australia. A 1.5% administration fee will be charged for payment made by credit cards.
Air Taxes: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth as listed in the itinerary. Please contact us for air taxes from different cities. Air taxes are valid as at 14 December 2019. If they change due to government and airline charges and currency variations, Cruise Offers Value Holidays reserves the right to charge additional amounts.
Cancellation Conditions: Number of days before sailing.
Days prior to Departure
Cancellation Fee
Over 121 days
$1500
121 days or less
100% of full fare
Non appearance/no written notice
100% of full fare
Travel Insurance: Travel insurance is recommended to cover the costs of cancellation fees due to illness, death in family, etc.
Minimum Tour Numbers and Conditions: The tour has been priced on the basis of a minimum number of passengers having booked 121 days prior to departure. Cruise Offers Value Holidays reserves the right to cancel the tour, giving a full refund of all monies paid or offer arrangements to proceed with the tour at a modified cost.
Tour Organisation: Cruise Offers Value Holidays reserves the right to change advertised entrances if necessary, for the smooth operation of the tour.
Refunds: The tour is based on arrangements that do not allow for any refunds in respect to sightseeing, accommodation, meals, airfare or other services not utilized after the tour has commenced.
Travel Documents: All passengers will require a valid passport with at least six months validity from your return date. Visas will be required for Zimbabwe for Australian passport holders. Details will be provided by Cruise Offers Value Holidays.
Baggage: All passengers qualify for the 20kg free baggage allowance.
GROUP AIRLINE SEATING: Please note; you will be booked as part of a group booking with the airline, this means we are unable to confirm any seating requests. Pre purchasing of flights and payment of airline seat booking fees allows allocation of specific seats. Additional costs will apply.
TOUR PARTICIPATION: Children under 5 years of age are ineligible on coach & cruise tours. Children under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Passengers with disabilities are welcome on Travelrite & Cruise Offers tours provided they are accompanied by a companion capable of providing all necessary assistance, and do not require special assistance from Travelrite & Cruise Offers personnel. Travelrite and Cruise Offers reserves the right to refuse to carry anyone if it is felt the individual cannot cope with the requirements of coach & cruise tour travel and who may require services and facilities that Travelrite & Cruise Offers cannot guarantee will be available. You agree to not hold the Travelrite & Cruise Offers responsible for any decision made by any of them or any service provider to refuse to carry you, provide any facilities or accommodation to you or to provide any service to you.
Responsibility: Cruise Offers Value Holidays (a division of Travelrite International) is the tour organiser. Cruise Offers acts only as an agent in the making of arrangements for hotels, transportation, restaurants or any other service and do not assume any liability whatsoever for any injury, damage, death, loss, accident or delay to person or property due to an act of negligence or a default of any hotel, carrier restaurant company or person rendering any services included in the tour, or by act of God. Further no responsibilities are accepted for any damage or delay due to sickness, pilferage, labour disputes, machinery break-down, quarantine, government restraints, weather, terrorism or other causes beyond their control. No responsibility is accepted for any additional expense, omission, delays, re-routing or acts of any government authority. The passage contract between the carriers concerned, when issued, shall constitute the sole contract between the carriers and the purchasers of this tour and/or the passengers. The right is reserved to withdraw any tour and/or make such changes in the tour as may be found desirable or necessary for the convenience of the parties and the proper carrying out of the tour. This contract shall be construed in accordance of the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia and any legal action must be taken in the State of Victoria. Attention is also directed to the terms and conditions of the MSC Musica/Opera cruise passage contract with MSC Cruises, detailed on their website www.msccruises.com.au. If you do not have a copy of this form please contact Cruise Offers Value Holidays and we will send one to you.
DELAYS AND UNFORESEEN EVENTS: You engage Cruise Offers to book this tour on your behalf and you acknowledge that Cruise Offers acts as your agent for the purpose of making contracts between you and the various providers of accommodation, transportation and other services that comprise the tour. Cruise Offers may without reference to you provide or make available to you, or may as your agent engage any third party to provide or make available to you, any good or service which Cruise Offers reasonably believes is necessary for your benefit to maintain the tour itinerary, repatriate you or otherwise accommodate, transport or sustain you in circumstances in which the tour itinerary fails wholly or partly for any reason. You appoint Cruise Offers your attorney for this purpose. You agree to pay Cruise Offers any cost thereof and you indemnify Cruise Offers in respect of any cost it incurs in this regard. Cruise Offers advises you to obtain travel insurance generally including in respect of the risk that any such good or service may become required.
HOW TO BOOK: Bookings can be made by completing a booking form and sending it with a deposit of $1,500 per person to:
ABOUT CRUISE OFFERS: Cruise Offers Value Holidays (a division of Travelrite International Pty Ltd), is a well-established travel company which has been marketing throughout Australia for over 30 years. It has two fully ATAS accredited (No. A10538) offices at Balwyn and Heathmont. As such they directly represent the major airlines of the world and all major domestic and international hotel, tour and transport operators. Travelrite International Pty Ltd is a full member of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents – AFTA.
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
Cruise Offers will collect and store the data contained on this booking form on our secure PCI Compliant server. Your email address will be stored on our mailing list and may be used for sending out relevant Cruise Offers promotions or upcoming tours. By completing this booking you agree to these terms. You may request the removal of your data from our system at any time after your tour has completed. To do so you can fill in adata removal request. | {
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While it still blows my mind that light has weight, it also still causes me to stop and think that information has value and that our information can demand a high cost. Companies regularly mine our internet browsing history to see where we have been to predict where we might go in our internet searches. But have we lost the difference between cost and value? It has been often remarked upon here and elsewhere how we give away our personal data or data exhaust as it is called, making us believe that there is no value to our information. It is something like the exhaust from our cars that needs to be taken away and dealt with like a crying child throwing a tantrum in a museum. And yet, this very stone which we have rejected becomes the cornerstone of so many company’s existences. If Google couldn’t track our data, how would they know how to market to us, to tell us what we needed, what we should value, what we should want and how to get it? In short, we give them things which we are told have no value and then they to use these things, our opinions and our interests to determine what we should pay for what we are told we should want.
It seems that what we value we are no longer willing to pay for and what we pay for what we no longer value. We pay money for products that we know we will have to replace in a year or less as they will have no value left and pay money to get people to look, click or follow a website. We pursue a vapor we value but at what cost?
“I knew you were going to say that!”, is something that my wife occasionally says to me, either due to my predictability (possibly) or (hopefully, more likely) that we have known each other for so long we know how each other thinks. This kept ringing in my ears as I read “The Isles Have Eyes” a tremendous new book by Joseph Turow. Turow details the way in which our long tail of data is being gathered, used to predict our behavior and to market to us without our knowing how much we are being manipulated. It seems that in time our phones or possibly an implanted device will tell marketers which stores we go to, what we buy and try to anticipate our needs by sending us messages either to remind us a product we have purchased before or give us coupons or discounts to persuade us to purchase a product. This may happen online but we can also be targeted in brick and mortar stores and possibly in our homes. It seems that we are turning into pawns in an electronic chess game where the winner gets our money.
Yes, the internet was going to shut down the brick and mortar stores and we were all supposed to do all our shopping online but that does not seem to be the case. Why else would brick and mortar stores go to such lengths to predict our behavior and profit from it? It seems that some brick and mortar stores are actually thriving and giving higher satisfaction than usual. If shopping is all about the experience will we want to be guided electronically through the store, like a blind man through the snow or be allowed to make our own decisions free from electronic insight? | {
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The State of Tennessee Unclaimed Property Division uses audits to enforce the Unclaimed Property Law. In the tabs below we explain how we use audits and what to expect if you are audited.
Types of Audits
Selecting Audits
Penalties
Depending on the circumstances the scope of the audit will vary from a complete review of the company or entity’s records to a “desk audit”. A desk audit typically limits the scope of what is being reviewed. For example a desk audit may just be a review of the companies policies and procedures or how they perform the due diligence requirement.
The State of Tennessee Unclaimed Property Division uses various statistical data and analysis to select what companies or entities we will audit. The most prevalent method uses the company or entity’s unclaimed property reporting history. The best defense in being selected for an Unclaimed Property audit is to be in compliance or to enter into a CDA with the State of Tennessee Unclaimed Property Division.
Tennessee law provides for penalties to be assessed for noncompliance with the law. There are two types of penalties: | {
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Two major high street retailers are recalling homeware and kitchenware items.
Both Aldi and Primark are advising customers to stop using the products and to return them to stores.
Aldi is recalling its Mini Fryers, while Primark is pulling four of its cushions off the shelves.
Aldi
The budget retailer is recalling a range of Mini Fryers due to a potential electrical fault. Customers are being asked not to use the product and instead return it to their nearest store where a full refund will be given.
If you have any questions you can contact customer services via email, [email protected]
The product details are:
Product name Mini Fryer
Brand Ambiano
Aldi code 95760
Barcodes 20072452, 20072476, 20072469
All three colour variants:
Stainless steel, red and grey
Primark
The high street chain is recalling four of its cushions due to a flammability risk. The affected products were on sale in UK stores between May 28, 2017 to February 13, 2018.
Primark said that the cushions do not meet its flammability standard.
The cushions include a unicorn, a heart-shape, a sequin one and a supersoft one.
Anyone who has bought any of the items should return them to a Primark store for a full refund. Proof of purchase is not required.
Primark said: "We have identified a potential issue with the cushion filling used in these products.
"With prolonged exposure to an ignition source, the product may pose a flammability risk." | {
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This Tahari navel inspired suit is so pretty. Both pieces are textured and fit so nicely. The pants have been hemmed to fit a petite woman, but the jacket was never altered. The pants are mid-rise.
Label will say size 6, but the pants are now 6P. | {
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Allergen Information: CONTAINS: TRACES OF CORNAdditional information from the manufacturer: Made in a dedicated facility that is free of the eight most common allergens. Contains NO: wheat, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, egg, soy, fish or shellfish. Also made without casein, potato, sesame and sulfites. Ingredients have been additionally tested to ensure strict allergen control standards are met.
My four year old is on a special diet. Poor thing used to love chocolate, but she had stomach issues. Now she is GFCFSF (gluten-free, casein-free, and soy free.) I was SO happy after finding these here. She deserves a yummy chocolate treat sometimes. Tastes like a milk chocolate bar... just without the tummy aches.
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Mar 23, 2010 | By charley
I love this products. It is not to sweet but yet has just enought sweet nice. So it is not over welming
Absolutely NO artificial colors or dyes, NO artificial flavors, NO artificial sweeteners, NO preservatives, NO hydrogenated oils! | {
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In 1851 a Charter was granted to the city of Portland by the Legislature of Oregon. By this instrument corporate powers were lodged in the “People of the city of Portland,” constituting them “a body politic and corporate in fact and law” with all necessary legal privileges. The city limits were to be fixed by a line beginning at the northwest corner of the donation claim of Finice Caruthers, running thence easterly by the north line of that claim to the river bank, and by a projection of the same to the middle of the Willamette; thence northerly by the middle of the river to the projection of the north line of Couch’s claim; thence west seventy chains and south to the place of beginning.
There was little that was peculiar about the charter. It provided that the officers should be mayor, recorder, treasurer, marshal and assessor. There should be a common council of nine members. All of the above offices were to be filled by election of the voters of the city. By appointment of the city council there were to be city attorney, street commissioner, city surveyor and city collector. Election day was fixed on the first Monday in April, yearly.
Elections were to be by ballot and a residence in the town of thirty days in addition to the qualifications of voters in the then territory, was required. No election was to be held in a saloon, or any place where ardent spirits were sold. Proper provisions for appointment in case of absences were also made.
The common council was invested with the usual powers, being authorized to pass ordinances not in conflict with the constitution of the State or the United States; to collect taxes, provide water, and guard against fires, diseases, nuisances, and disorders; to license taverns, and all other forms of business or trade usually put under some sort of restriction; and to suppress gambling houses and other immoral things. Property outside of the city limits for such necessary purposes as pest house, water works, etc., might be purchased and owned. Duties of officers were carefully specified.
Among provisions likely to be amended was that forbidding the mayor and members of the common council to receive pay for their services; to allow a protest of the owners of one-third of the property on a street to stop improvements ordered thereupon, while two-thirds of the expense of all improvements of streets was to be borne by the property adjacent; and the provision that land within the city limits not laid out in blocks and lots should not be taxed by the city.
Among miscellaneous provisions were that fixing the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1st; that giving the decision of a tie vote at any election to the common council; that no officer in the city government should have any interest in city contracts; that an oath of office must be taken and that any ordinance calling for an expenditure of above one hundred dollars must lie ten days before passage.
In 1858 certain amendments were made, by which the city was to be divided into three wards, each electing three members to the council; to allow collection of port dues on ships and steamers; and to pay the councilmen three dollars per day for actual service. In 1860 this provision for paying councilmen was repealed. In 1862 an amendment was added, relating principally to street improvements, providing that half the expense of such improvements should be borne by the owners of adjacent property, and that a protest of the owners of two-thirds of the property must be obtained to arrest any street work ordered by the council.
In 1864 the entire instrument was revised and written in a more perspicuous style. The limits of the corporation were extended so as to include the Caruthers Claim. The mayor was to serve two years; the election was to be on the third Monday in June. The fiscal year was to begin with January, the city was not to incur an indebtedness of above fifty thousand dollars; a dredger might be owned and operated by the city on the lower Willamette. The mayor and the councilmen should receive no compensation. In 1865 an amendment was made in regard to laying out new streets; and constructing sewers and drains.
In 1872 a new charter was granted, which was quite a voluminous document, and introduced many changes. The limits of the city were extended so as to include the whole of the Caruthers and Couch claims, and a space seventy chains and over still to the west. The city was divided into three wards, the first including all that portion north of Washington street; the second, that between Washington and Main streets, and the third, all south of Main street. Each ward was to elect three members to the common council for three years each. The mayor was to be elected for two years, and was invested with the veto power, requiring a two-thirds vote to pass an ordinance without his approval. The treasurer and assessor were to be chosen by the common council, and the attorney, street commissioner and surveyor were to be appointed by the mayor, with the consent of the council. The office of. recorder was abolished and a police judge was instated to succeed him. This officer was to serve for two years, holding regular court, and came to his position by appointment of the mayor. The office of marshal was also abolished, and the police department was placed under the supervision of three police commissioners appointed by the governor. The mayor and council-men were forbidden to receive a salary, or other compensation; the rewards of the other officers were definitely fixed, that of police commissioner being three dollars per day for actual service. Special policemen were allowed, but they were not to receive pay from the city-being left, it would seem, to obtain their wages from private persons asking their services. It has recently been earnestly recommended to abolish the “specials.”
The street commissioner was invested with large powers. Street improvements were to be paid by tax on property adjacent and could be discontinued upon the remonstrance of two-thirds of the property holders interested, Changes of grade were to be paid for out of the general fund. Taxes, except for the dredging of the river, were not to exceed one and one-half per centum of the assessed value of city property per annum. The indebtedness of the city was not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. The financial needs of the Police Department were to be determined by the police commissioners, and the sum requisite was to be provided by the common council by tax.
The details of the instrument. are very minute, and some features, as the last mentioned, were likely to produce friction in working.
By the charter of 1882, which, with various amendments, is still in force, the boundaries of the city were so extended as to embrace the Blackistone place on the north, and some additions on the south and west, while the middle of the Willamette was still left as the limit on the east. City authority is vested in mayor, common council and board of. police commissioners. The three wards are continued with substantially the same boundaries as before, each of which is entitled to three members in the common council. Councilmen, mayor and treasurer come to their office by vote of the electors of the city. The auditor is elected by the common council, holding his term at their pleasure. The attorney, street superintendent and surveyor are appointed by the mayor, with the consent of the council, and are removable for cause. Election is the third Monday in June. A residence of six months in the city and of ten days in the ward, in addition to qualifications as elector of the State, is required of the voter. Careful rules of election and regulations as to vacancies and absences are provided.
The common council is invested with ample powers to carry on the business of the city, to secure good order, to regulate dangerous occupations, to prevent the introduction and spread of disease, and to suppress nuisances and immoral business. Authority is granted to impose a tax of three mills for general municipal purposes, and three and a half mills each for the support of the paid Fire Department and of the Police Department. Assessments of property in the city are made according to the assessment rolls of Multnomah County.
The mayor is the general head of the city government, making an annual message to the common council, in which he reports upon the state of the city and recommends such measures as he deems proper. No ordinance may become a law without his approval unless passed subsequently by a two-thirds vote of the council. The treasurer is held to keep a strict account of the funds of the city, and the auditor keeps full record of all warrants and bills, issues licenses and makes annual lists of all property subject to taxation. The city attorney attends upon all actions to which the city is a party, prosecutes for violation of city ordinances, and prepares for execution all contracts, bonds or other legal instruments for the city. The street commissioner exercises a general care over the streets, the public squares and the parks; supervises surveys, and requires improvements ordered by the council to be fully and faithfully completed.
The Police Department is under the police commissioners, who are elected by the voters of the city and serve without salary. They organize and supervise the police force. The police judge, however, who must be an attorney of the degree of an attorney of the Supreme court of the State, and whose court is of the degree of that of justice of the peace, is appointed by the mayor, with the consent of the common council. He has jurisdiction of all crimes defined by city ordinance. His salary is not to exceed $2000 per annum. All police officers are strictly forbidden to receive compensation other than that provided by ordinance, under the general regulation.
The Fire Department is under three commissioners who are appointed by the mayor with the consent of the council. Their term of office is for three years. Compensation of all officers or employees of the Fire Department is prescribed in the legislative act erecting the same.
The City Water Works are, by this charter, placed in the hands of a committee appointed by the legislature with the power to fill all vacancies occurring in their own body. They are independent of all other departments of the city government.
A fuller account of these two latter departments is given further down in this volume.
Police Department
Much care and expense have been bestowed on the police department. There is difficulty always in a city in securing enforcement of the laws against certain forms of vice and immorality. These often find refuge in the cupidity of property-owners and others and the law can seldom be enforced with vigor. But on the whole good order is maintained in Portland.
The police force of the city consisted at first simply of the marshal. As his duties became too great for his personal attention, deputies were appointed by him, or by the council.
By the Act of 1872 a regular police system was inaugurated. The office of marshal was abolished, and the management was given to a board of three police commissioners holding office three years, elected each year in order. The board was to be responsible to the people only. The office of recorder was succeeded by that of police judge, who was first appointed by the mayor. The system remains substantially as at the present time. The expenses of the department are to be determined by the commissioners and the necessary sum may be raised by the common council by tax not to exceed 3 1/2 mills.
Below are given the names of the policemen from 1872, the time of the new order. The names of marshals and judges will be found in the list of city officers. | {
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Dumb Facts » Government
Gene Simmons, of the shock-rock group Kiss, earned a B.A. in education and speaks four languages.
The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
During the Stalin era, education in Russia was stressed. As a result, a majority of Russian women and men are very intelligent and hold degrees. In fact, Russia’s literacy rate is about 98 percent.
If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world.
During 2002, two hundred thousand dollars were approved to be spent in Georgia to build a “group shelter” at Jefferson Davis Historic Site.
Samuel Colt’s first gun manufacturing factory went bankrupt.
In the Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget, 8.7 million dollars was alotted to the Georgia Technology Authority for “portal development”.
During the Manhatten Project, 18 people were injected with plutonium to test the effects of nuclear weapons on humans, which caused numerous health problems, and most were not even aware it had occurred.
The H-4, more commonly known as the “Spruce Goose”, was the largest airplane ever to be built, and first lifted off on November 2,1947. The unexpected flight lasted for approximately a minute and stunned onlookers who had never seen a plane so massive (the Spruce Goose’s wingspan was 320 feet). Designed, constructed, and flown by Howard Hughes at the first trial run, the plane would never fly again. Final cost: 22 million dollars paid by the federal government and 18 million dollars paid by Hughes personally (numbers not adjusted for inflation).
In 2002, three and a half million dollars were approved to be spent in Georgia for the construction of a “fishing area” in Ocmulgee Wildlife Management Area.
The Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget gives 4.7 million dollars to the department of human resources for postage alone!
In the Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget, $65,000 was spent to buy a new cooler for the Georgia School for the Deaf.
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On Thursday, January 4th 2018, Saima Akram, a food safety officer from Punjab Food Authority (PFA) registered a FIR against officers of the Dolphin Force and five con artists who were pretending to be journalists, for harassment of her and four other female colleagues.
The FIR was registered at Saddar Barooni police station after five imposter journalists approached them at a bakery located on Adiala Road where Saima and her colleagues were conducting an inspection on Wednesday evening. These five imposter journalists approached Saima and her colleagues and purported to be journalists from private news channels such as Royal News and Khabrain Newspaper.
he provincial assemblies have also passed eight laws for the protection of rights of women in the last three years including Domestic Violence Act, 2013 by Government of Sindh.
They proceeded in accosting statements from the Punjab Food Authority female officers that were recorded on their camera “illegally” since they were neither journalists belonging to the news channels that they claimed to be a part of nor were the PFA officers obligated to provide any media channel with statements regarding their inspection.
The PFA officers were not accompanied by any security personnel because they did not consider that they would be faced with any kind of security threat or harassment while conducting routine inspection at a bakery. When the PFA officers attempted to escape from the vicinity, the five imposters created obstructions and along with members of the Dolphin Force, an elite security unit in Punjab, surrounded their car disallowing them from fleeing the unpleasant scene.
The purported media persons along with the members of the Dolphin Force began to harass them by knocking on the windows and attempting at opening their car doors. The FIR clearly alleges that the members of the elite security unit, not only supported the five imposter journalists but coerced the Saima Akram to give statements about the inspection to the fake media while threatening them by stating that their car could not exit the area until they complied with these irrational demands.
An official from the Ministry of Human Rights recently stated; “If women are not economically stable and reforms in courts system is ensured, grievances of vulnerable groups could not be addressed”.
The media personnel created further chaos and exacerbated their harassment when they called in other traders to speak on camera creating propaganda against the Punjab Food Authority.
Despite various attempts at Akram and her colleagues to avoid giving statements to the con artists, on the grounds that they were truly working for the Punjab Food Authority and they were not obligated to prove their affiliation or justify their routinely inspection, they were forced to succumb to the Dolphin Force personnel that were in close cohesion with the imposters.
The FIR contains names of the five imposter journalists and although the report mentions the involvement of the Dolphin Force personnel, specific names have not been mentioned. The TV channels; Royal News and Khabrain have subsequently stated that the imposter journalists have no affiliation with their organizations.
The increased amount of attention that has been given to harassment and domestic violence against women by the law enforcement has further empowered women to speak up.
The City Police Officer (CPO) Israr Ahmed Khan Abbasi has confirmed that an FIR has been registered against the five imposter journalists under the following sections, including Punjab Food Authority Act, 2011, for harassment, obstruction and other charges. He concluded that raids are being conducted to carry out the arrests of the mentioned persons and bring them to justice.
Harassment in workplaces, as well as private and public places, has been a serious issue confronting the economic and personal wellbeing of women in Pakistan. However, the rapid economic and social changes that have taken place in Pakistan in the past few decades have resulted in women being more active in the economy. Along with the increased participation of women in economic, social and political fields, they have gained an unprecedented awareness of their rights to stand up against harassment in any shape, size or form.
The increased amount of attention that has been given to harassment and domestic violence against women by the law enforcement has further empowered women to speak up for their rights with the firm knowledge that the law stands behind them in safeguarding their rights.
The media personnel created further chaos and exacerbated their harassment when they called in other traders to speak on camera creating propaganda against the Punjab Food Authority.
An official from the Ministry of Human Rights recently stated; “If women are not economically stable and reforms in courts system is ensured, grievances of vulnerable groups could not be addressed”.
There have been significant law reforms in the past few years that have further empowered women by offering them adequate safeguards against harassment while increasing the undesirable consequences for offenders who do not follow these laws.
The federal government has taken the following steps for ensuring the rights of women in the last three years; Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace (Amendment) Bill, 2014, Hindu Marriage Bill, 2015,Anti-Rape Laws (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2013 and Anti-Honour Killing Laws (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2014. The provincial assemblies have also passed eight laws for the protection of rights of women in the last three years including Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2013 by Government of Sindh.
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Hirono Measures for Hawai‘i Aviation Advance
Congress advanced measures authored by US Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaiʻi in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 that will support Hawaiʻi’s disaster relief efforts, aviation workforce, and rural air service.
The bill includes provisions introduced by Senator Hirono which help to ensure reliable air service to Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi; close loopholes that leave veterans working for the FAA and Transportation Security Administration without full veterans’ preference protections; set minimum rest periods for flight attendants equal to pilots; and make permanent the TSA’s policy of extending automatic PreCheck eligibility to active-duty service members, National Guard and Reserve members, including their accompanying children.
“Hawaiʻi families depend on air travel, and will benefit from this update to federal laws governing the FAA,” said Senator Hirono. “In addition to updates to important air travel regulations, this bill sets aside $1.7 billion to help communities across our country, including in Hawaiʻi, recover from natural disasters. I’m proud to have worked with my colleagues on a bipartisan basis to secure this funding, bolster oversight to ensure air service to Kalaupapa meets the needs of the community, protect the rights of the Hawaiʻi veterans working at the FAA and TSA, set 10 hour minimum rest periods for flight attendants, and continue TSA PreCheck benefits for the men and women serving in our Armed Forces.”
Senator Hirono’s measures in the FAA Reauthorization Act follow her efforts to hold the Department of Transportation accountable for reliable air service to Kalauapapa, provide equitable rest periods for flight attendants, introduction of her bipartisan FAA Veterans’ Preference Protection Act last year, and her longstanding support for TSA PreCheck and other traveler programs.
“Air transportation made possible by the Essential Air Service program is Kalaupapa’s lifeline to the outside world – not only for us residents who need to travel for medical needs and to conduct personal business in Honolulu, but also to see our families and to allow family members and friends to visit us and pay respects to the graves of their relatives who died here,” Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa, President of Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa said. “We appreciate Senator Hirono’s longstanding leadership in support of Kalaupapa and for passing her legislation to strengthen oversight over the Essential Air Service program to ensure air service quality and community satisfaction.”
“The VFW Department of Hawaiʻi thanks Senator Hirono for her leadership in fixing a longstanding inequity for veterans working at the FAA and TSA,” Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Hawaiʻi Commander Maria B. Vaa-Igafo said. “Passage of this legislation is necessary to ensure FAA and TSA veteran employees in Hawaiʻi, American Samoa, and across the country have the same ability to address violations of their veterans’ preference rights in the hiring, selection, and promotion process that their counterparts in other federal agencies have.”
“Flight Attendants are cheering the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 that includes a provision to combat Flight Attendant fatigue by increasing minimum rest from 8 hours to 10 hours,” Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said. “Senator Mazie Hirono was the first to introduce this language when she served in the House of Representatives and she kept up the fight in the Senate for our safety, health, and equality. We thank Senator Hirono for her relentless efforts to close this safety loophole and harmonize minimum rest with our counterparts in the flight deck.”
Sen. Hirono said the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 would benefit Hawaiʻi by:
Extending Federal Airport Infrastructure Funding: Authorizes over $3 billion per year through 2023 for the Airport Improvement Program. For Fiscal Year 2018, Hawaiʻi received more than $28 million in AIP funding, which goes toward improving airport runways and other critical infrastructure.
Continued Support For Essential Air Service at Kalaupapa, Waimea and Hāna Airports: Maintains current funding levels for the Essential Air Service Program which currently ensures minimum standards for reliable air service at Kalaupapa, Waimea, and Hāna airports. A provision authored by Sen. Hirono requires the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General to review the agency’s oversight over unsubsidized carriers to ensure air service quality and community satisfaction.
Providing Over $1 Billion In Disaster Relief For Hawaiʻi and Other Affected States: The bill provides $1.68 billion for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief program for disaster-affected states like Hawaiʻi to assist with infrastructure, housing, and economic recovery.
Expanded Protections For Hawaiʻi’s Aviation Workforce: The bill includes a provision pushed by Sen. Hirono to increase minimum rest periods from 8 to 10 hours for Hawaiʻi’s 3,500 flight attendants so that they are equal to pilots. Also included is Sen. Hirono’s bipartisan FAA Veterans’ Preference Protection Act which ensures all veterans’ preference laws apply to the FAA and TSA which employ around 300 veterans in Hawaiʻi. To address sexual misconduct, the bill establishes national task force to review air carriers’ responses to allegations and instances of sexual misconduct, allegations, and increases the civil penalty for interfering with cabin or flight crew.
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Kirith Kirin Book Summary and Study Guide
Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Kirith Kirin
Jessex is a normal boy who grew up as all little boys do, but he soon was called upon to enter the service of the exiled king. There he fulfilled prophecy after prophecy and was trained to be a wizard or Thaanarc. When his training is complete, he is immediately thrust into battle against an evil wizard who has ruled the kingdom for far too many lifetimes. At his side are the king, Kirith Kirin, and the other twice-named. The twice-named can be killed, but if they are not killed in battle, poisoned, etc., then they live forever. This is the story of their battle to regain the kingdom of Arthyn for Kirith Kirin.
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Jim Grimsley does a superb job on crafting a completely different world. He creates a richly textured land complete with details as to how magic works, how different races came to be and how the land is ruled. The details really make this world come alive and helps the reader understand all of the subtle ramifications that come from one small act.
This book is written as a type of personal history that Jessex wrote long after all of this happened and, as such, is written in third person instead of the more active first person. This is a bit disorienting at first, but the reader soon adjusts and is captivated all the same.
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Flying through RPM Builds with Koji: Pass #1 Results
Well, it looks like we’re just about finished with Pass #1 to build all of the imported SRPMs we can from upstream. The GoOSe Project results are looking good.
Build statistics from 2011-11-01 through 2011-12-09
Completed Builds: 658 Failed Builds: 296
It appears that a bit more than 1⁄3 of the builds failed and notifications are going out to the package owners. This means we can work through each of them and resubmit them. Odds are that most of them are due to dependency issues and only a few for other reasons.
We’re preparing for Pass #2 this weekend. We’ve discovered some interesting things, however, so here’s something we’ll be putting in place first (hopefully):
A repository to track BANNED and EXCLUDED (for now, other names may arise) SRPMs.
At the moment, there are SRPMs we cannot build because we don’t support an architecture (s390, for example) There is no reason to build packages that won’t work. There are also some packages that contain proprietary content we need to scrub, even though the license states they are free software. These packages will have to wait unless they affect a critical path of getting GoOSe 6.0 composed in coming weeks.
The plan here is to create a repository to track these banned / excluded SRPMs. Skein will query this git repository for the BANNED and EXCLUDED files to make sure any request, grant, or build actions first check to make sure the package is not in either list. If the package is in the list, skein will refuse to act upon the package and the requester will have to resolve the issue before attempting again.
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This book is full of inspiring and remarkable stories from all over the world that illustrate vividly how enterprises can create real value. It illustrates that there is an alternative to a myopic and narrow capitalism that trades in inequalities, exploitation, collective burnout and negative consequences for our shared natural environment. It demonstrates that businesses can contribute to a better life for all ‒ if their leaders go beyond viewing enterprises as single-purpose money-making machines and develop purpose-driven enterprises that create real value for all.
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What is the primary purpose of business? The standard answer is ‘making profits,’ but some visionary entrepreneurs and leaders fundamentally disagree. Instead of just making money, they choose instead to “dig deeper” and make a difference through creating real value – improving the lives of others even as they find deeper meaning in their own. These leaders build enterprises that provide identity and a sense of purpose, create positive relationships and a place to learn and thrive, embed sustainability in all that they do, and strive to improve the quality of life of all of their stakeholders. Although not their primary focus, they also make healthy profits, as their unique approach to value creation provides them with a sustainable competitive edge.
Digging Deeper is a book full of inspiring stories that illustrate that there is an alternative to a myopic and narrow capitalism that trades in inequalities, exploitation, collective burnout and negative consequences for our shared natural environment. Remarkable examples from all over the world vividly demonstrate how enterprises can create real value through focusing on what the authors call the 6 Ls: long-term orientation, lasting relationships, local roots, limits recognition, developing a learning community and taking leadership responsibility seriously in its very best sense.
Digging Deeper liberates the term “value” from the tight chains in which the global financial community has bound it and demonstrates that businesses can contribute to a better life for all ‒ if their leaders can go beyond viewing enterprises as single-purpose money-making machines and develop purpose-driven enterprises that create real value for all. | {
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Announcing Annual Discounts for Elastic Cloud Standard
If you haven’t perused our Cloud subscriptions, you may be unaware that we sell hosted Elasticsearch in 3 ways. These subscription levels are Standard, Gold, and Platinum. They are distinguished by features and different SLAs for support. For the purpose of this post, I want to focus exclusively on Cloud Standard, our most affordable feature-packed offering.
Starting Simple, Starting Small, Full Access
As the creators of Elasticsearch, our support team is backed by the engineers who wrote the code. And, for critical use cases, this is an incredibly important requirement. However, we know that the business of hosted products differs slightly. The ability to start small and expand on demand is an assumption for any “hosted” or “SaaS” or “other cloudy term” offering. With that in mind, we believe Cloud Standard is a fantastic starting point for those looking for a hosted Elasticsearch solution.Does your cluster require less than 64 GB of RAM in total?
All Platinum X-Pack Products & Features (including Field & Document-level security and Graph) are available for no additional cost.
And, starting last week, annual subscriptions of Cloud Standard enjoy a 15% discount on the total cost. The math is simple. Design the cluster you desire in the pricing calculator, then apply the discount and calculate the annualized cost. You can get the details, and sign the contract, by contacting us.
But why a discount for annual customers?
Put simply, we believe that Elastic Cloud is the best hosted Elasticsearch service around. And, for those of you who desire an ongoing relationship, we want to recognize your commitment with a discount. Don’t dismay. The hourly pricing isn’t going away. But it doesn’t stop there.
Infrastructure Matters. Here Are Some Updates to Ours.
Reporting - Is there a manager or business user in your life who just wants to see a report -- either periodically or at a scheduled interval -- in their email? Reporting matters, so much so that we wrote an entire blog post about it. What we didn’t share in that post is that the reporting release required rethinking Kibana instance sizing (Yeah, Elastic Cloud comes with Kibana) and ensuring that the asynchronous report process would not negatively impact the experience of usage of Elasticsearch and visualization and discovery in Kibana. Report away in Cloud.
New Region Coming Soon - You want ‘em? You got ‘em. Our approach to expanding available regions has been simple. Let you, the user, tell us what is the priority. There has been enough feedback on a specific region, that we will be adding the ability to launch Elastic Cloud clusters in us-west-2 (Oregon) soon.
5.0 RC1 - Getting the latest release, on the day of release, simply isn’t enough. We’re starting to expose milestone releases on Cloud as well, so you can kick the tires of the cutting edge. This requires a substantial amount of tooling and work with our build process and will be first realized with the release of 5.0 RC1 for public consumption on Elastic Cloud. (Still not familiar with 5.0 or the Elastic Stack? You should be.) The goal is to be able to expose nightlies. (Do you test nightlies or use updated, non-release software in your environment? Soon you can in Cloud.)
Seeing is Believing. Coding is Understanding.
We have long said that the best way to understand the Elastic Stack is to use it. The same is true for Elastic Cloud.
It is simple, really simple.It is powerful, absurdly powerful.It is -- now -- cheaper, 15% cheaper. | {
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Court approves compromise deal by which soldiers who were made part of experiment without their knowledge will be compensated.
The Defense Ministry will pay out tens of thousands shekels in compensation to
every one of the 716 soldiers and officers who agreed to take part in a once
secret anthrax vaccine trial, following a compromise deal to settle lawsuits
filed by dozens of volunteers who suffered negative side effects after being
injected.
The vaccine trial, named Omer 2, took place between 1998 and
2006, and sought volunteers from elite IDF units. Following the trial, a number
of participants complained of side effects such as breathing problems and skin
conditions.
Ninety one soldiers who sued the Defense Ministry will
receive NIS 36,000 each, while the remainder of the trial’s participants will
receive NIS 27,000 each, amounting to a compensation package of more than NIS 20
million.
In a joint statement released by the Defense and Justice
ministries, the state denied wrongdoing, saying, “More than a decade ago, the
defense establishment concluded that Israeli civilians and soldiers faced a
tangible threat from anthrax attacks, possibly via missile attacks, and that
defense measures were essential against this unconventional threat. In line with
this assessment, the Defense Ministry began developing a vaccine in Israel which
was based on an American vaccine, in order to provide a solution to members of
the security forces and civilians.”
The statement added that military
medical researchers who developed the vaccine “did not expect any dangerous side
effects,” and that “the vaccine used in the research contains materials that
exist in many vaccines given to babies on a regular basis, such as for tetanus
and hepatitis.”
The research “was carried out in the safest way” on
volunteers, the statement continued.
Defense figures said they took into
account the fact that those who sued were volunteers, and as a result, the
Defense Ministry decided to settle the issue through compensation, it
said.
The Medical Research Administration, which operates under the IDF’s
Chief Medical Officer, will provide care for volunteers, while a financial fund
will be created to handle compensation payments.
During the trial period,
a quarter of participants were given an American version of the vaccine, while
75 percent were injected with the Israeli vaccine, which had not been previously
tested. Members of both groups went on to suffer side effects.
The trial
program had in the past been severely criticized by the Israel Medical
Association.
In 2009, the Defense Ministry, responding to lawsuits and
criticism, said, “Thanks to Omer 2, Israel has a medical reply for the general
public against a most severe threat.
We thank the volunteers and
appreciate their willingness to take part in this important trial, and their
contribution to the general security of residents of Israel.” It went on to say
that the Israeli vaccine is as safe as the anthrax vaccine developed by the
US.
Those who sued raised questions over the way the vaccine trial was
conducted, and challenged the adequacy of the monitoring of volunteers and the
subsequent care provided to them. | {
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Both Samsung Galaxy S9 Models to be Priced Over $1000
With the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus slated to be announced in a couple of days at Mobile World Congress, one of the big questions was around the price points for each device. Thanks to the awesomeness of Evan Blass, we know that both devices are going to top the eye watering $1000 mark.
Doing some currency conversion, it means that the Galaxy S9 is going to be just over $1000 while the S9 Plus will be hella expensive at $1299.
It is already known that Samsung is going to be throwing out some big incentives to upgrade to the new S9 lineup so in reality, not many will pay that full frontal assault of a price. Equally, Samsung could drop the S9 price to a “comfortable” $999 so they can push it as being under the one thousand mark. Still, no matter how you slice it, these are going to be expensive devices.
Both the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus will launch with Android Oreo and will come with the much revamped Samsung Experience 9 user interface. The rumored 5.8″ S9 will have 4GB of RAM and 64GB of Storage. The larger 6.2″ S9 Plus will have 6GB of RAM with the same storage but, it is rumored to have dual rear cameras. | {
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This creates a .rvmrc file in the top-level folder for each of these projects. A typical .rvmrc file looks like this:
environment_id="ruby-1.9.3-p125@subcryption"
When you cd into folder 'subcryption', RVM uses the Ruby and the gems bundled together as "ruby-1.9.3-p125@subcryption" (a version of Ruby, plus a 'gemset') automatically.
It is best to check these RVM 'gemsets' in to source control. When a developer works on project X, with Ruby version N, patch P, he uses gemset ruby-N-P@X. When he changes the gemset, he checks it in. That way, every developer is using the same Ruby, and the same gems, per project. Otherwise, just because it works on your machine, doesn't mean it'll work on anyone else's. | {
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Looking to get one of the re-release pink bimatrix in X flex to play in my R11. Looking for something under 45", any recommendations on how short I can get one without having to mess with weighting and such?
I have one butt cut at 42.5" in an adams 3 wood.....its awesome and didnt mess up anything.....if you replace it at same length as another shaft the swingweight goes up 4 points due to the steel tip section
hit is with so much authority
that when you find it
and it sees you, it is trembling.
Yeah, no need to mess with weighting with the steel tip section. I think some of the guys in the True Temper test group cut theirs down to 44.5" and still had it swingweight a little higher than normal. | {
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It has been a long time between posts, and this current post covers an area that I've been musing over for an equally long time (and then some!). At the IUCNWorld Parks Congress in November 2014, I had been struck by how mainstream the idea of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) already was (NCA can also be referred to as Environmental Accounting or Full Cost Accounting). I had been aware of the 1997 paper by Costanza et al. on the value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital, and the work by The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB) to mainstream the economic visibility of nature, but I had not realised how broadly NCA concepts had been adopted by individuals and organisations in the conservation and development fields. In particular, UNEP and the World Bank were championing NCA as an essential tool for future sustainability and for establishing 'green economies'. An excellent and succinct graph and write-up of pivotal events and publications fostering NCAcan be found at Globe International's page on the international efforts towards natural capital accounting.
My following blog post is a slightly modified copy of an opinion essay that I submitted as part of my Masters of Environmental Management program. There is a lot more to this topic than can be covered in a single blog post (or opinion essay), but it's a start. Some additional resources/links are provided at the end of the post.
Natural Capital Accounting: Is pricing nature the best way to protect it?
The past three decades have seen the steady development of accounting systems designed to capture the true economic worth of ecosystems and the beneficial services that flow from them. The natural world provides countless ‘free’ services, referred to as ecosystem services, including the generation of clean air, stabilisation of water catchments, providing timber and fibres, and absorbing wastes (Costanza et al., 1997; MA, 2005). Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) seeks to represent these services in financially measurable terms to reduce the overexploitation and degradation of natural systems (UNSD, 2014). Despite mainstream progress of NCA, concerns about the efficacy of this conservation approach abound, and sceptics, including myself, remain unconvinced that this solution will be a panacea to humanity’s ongoing exploitation of the natural world.
For a quick primer on what Natural Capital Accounting is, and what it seeks to achieve, see the following short video by the World Bank:
Ackerman and Heinzerling (2002) provide a detailed analysis of the limitations of economic rationalisations of the natural world. A critique of the economic process of NCA is essential for understanding the limitations of allocating dollar values to nature through tools such as contingent valuations, revealed preferences, travel cost analyses, and hedonic pricing, as well as for understanding the limitations of a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) as a decision-making tool (Anderson et al., 2014). Despite the necessity of an economic critique, I believe that the economic arguments for and against NCA can divert attention away from other salient critiques of NCA. It is these other issues that I will delve into further.
An initial critique of ecosystem service valuations questions the legitimacy of placing dollar values on complex systems that possess non-use and intrinsic values (Kenner, 2014). This critique of NCA pits opposing standpoints against one another, divided along utilitarian versus ethical perspectives, and anthropocentric versus ecocentric values. The former perspective embraces trade-offs between theoretically commensurate environmental costs and benefits to human amenity, while the latter perspective argues that financial comparisons--between ecosystems and development proposals--are fraught with irreconcilable subjectivity, and that human amenity is not the only relevant criteria to satisfy.
A second common refrain against NCA is an opposition to the commodification of nature (Figgis et al., 2015), or turning nature into dollars. Proponents of NCA argue that the Dollar (or Euro, Yen, etc.) is used as both a measure of value and a common unit for comparison between natural and financial systems (UNSD, 2014). This is not about putting a price tag on nature, but providing a measure by which trade-offs and decision-making can be enhanced through knowledge of the costs and benefits of retaining, removing, improving, or permitting the degradation of an ecosystem (Weber, 2014). At the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney, I listened to Achim Steiner, then executive director of UNEP, argue the case for ecosystem valuations, stating that a failure to place a price on nature effectively leaves nature valued at zero dollars (A Steiner 2014, pers. comm., Nov. 14). It is a compelling point that shows how nature can appear invisible to national and business accounting measures, but it is also a clear representation of the way NCA frames humankind’s relationship with the environment by arguing that environmental degradation is a product of undervalued and overlooked “natural capital” (Weber, 2014).
Achim Steiner, 2014 Executive Director of UNEP, speaks at the IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney. Image: James Lee
Framing nature in terms of economic systems alters the values with which we assess the environment. NCA brings “scarcity, efficiency, and profit” (Gomez-Baggethun and Ruiz-Perez, 2011) to the fore as essential criteria for conservation decision-making, pushing aside other possible values such as the existence value of nature. NCA proponents express an aversion to intrinsic or existence values, noting that they are incompatible with financial analysis. The mere mention of existence values, or non-financial metrics, elicits bold protestations that such thinking is “dangerous” (Helm, 2015) and that it is “unacceptable” to leave nature with “an effective ‘zero’ price” (TEEB, 2010, p. 12). Arguably, the incompatibility of existence values with ecosystem valuations speaks more about the inadequacy of economic valuations than it does about people’s perceptions of nature. Furthermore, the justification--that humankind will continue to exploit unpriced services--uncritically assumes that pricing ecosystems is the solution to the exploitation, without considering that the development and fostering of other, more ecocentric, values and ethics presents an alternative pathway.
Another concern at the forefront of ecological economics and sustainable development is the question of distributional equity, or the just disbursal of costs and benefits from development efforts (Illge and Schwarze, 2009). The greatest beneficiaries of direct ecosystem services are poorer communities, especially in developing countries, as they disproportionately rely on their local environments for food, shelter, clean water, and for resilience against environmental shocks such as storms, floods and droughts (De Coninck, 2009). Against this imbalance of direct environmental dependency, there is great concern that NCA will not guard against unjust distribution of costs and benefits. To borrow an example by Monbiot (2014b), a shrimp farm may generate fewer benefits than the intact mangrove it is proposed to replace, but if the ecosystem service benefits of the intact mangrove are enjoyed by the local community, while the financial benefits of a shrimp farm go to a private farmer, there is little reason to assume that the mangrove will remain intact, despite its greater natural capital value.
Implicit in this concern about NCA are questions of power and political influence, which are inherent in decision-making processes. Environmental decision-making is not conducted in a scientific or an economic vacuum (Kiker et al., 2005), but in a dynamic, socio-politically charged environment complete with development lobbyists, special interest groups, local communities, multi-national corporations, and, unfortunately, corruption. Power is also a concern at the valuation stage of NCA, with vocal opposition to the methodologies of ecosystem accounting coming from civil society organisations (CSOs) and Indigenous groups (Kenner, 2014). Kenner (2014) highlights the disparity between actors in the Global North, including NGOs, the World Bank and other financial institutions, leading the process of valuing natural capital in the Global South, where environmental values are not uniform--and potentially poorly understood or consulted--leading to a paternalistic imposition of Global North values into the Global South. In these circumstances, NCA could lead to the perverse outcome of undermining local communities’ rights to manage and protect their own environmental commons, and usurping local governance institutions (Global Forest Coalition, 2012, cited in Kenner, 2014).
A critical concern regarding NCA is that the pricing of nature overlooks the underlying behavioural patterns that continue to drive environmental degradation. While pricing nature addresses the market’s failure to account for the free services it utilises, the process of ecosystem valuation does nothing to address the ongoing culture of endless consumption, demand for single-use conveniences, ongoing economic growth, and ongoing population growth. Biodiversity offsetting, as a particular expression of NCA functionality, is a clear example of avoiding the behavioural drivers of environmental degradation (Arsel and Büscher, 2012). Offsets effectively allow the continued decimation of ecosystems so long as an analogous ecosystem is preserved, restored or created. There is, to me, a lazy hubris inherent in biodiversity offsets, as human knowledge of ecosystem dynamics and function is far from perfect, so offset ecosystems may not fulfil the same functions, or hold the same socio-cultural (or spiritual) relevance (Monbiot, 2014a), as the ecosystem sacrificed to development. It is laziness to not examine the deeper values and connections people have with natural areas, and it is hubris to think that our offsets will be adequate compensation for ecosystem losses when the exact impact of losing those ecosystems is unknown.
Alternative strategies for conservation and environmental management that do not require natural capital valuations do exist, but they require deeper engagement with the socio-political, cultural, legal and economic values of local communities. Baveye et al. (2016) explore the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) as an effective, yet complex, tool for environmental decision-making that does not undertake financial valuation of ecosystem services; rather, it relies on decision-makers to understand the benefits of healthy ecosystems to inform their decision-making processes. MCDA also recognises that environmental decision-making is not isolated from ethical and moral considerations, which cannot be reduced to simple, uniform economic measures (Kiker et al., 2005). Another approach to environmental management and stewardship that does not require ecosystem valuations involves providing legal standing and protection to ecosystems or landscapes. This emerging and developing approach to conservation has its own challenges to address (Burdon, 2010), but unlike natural capital accounting, it wholly embraces the intrinsic value of nature.
Despite positive aspects of Natural Capital Accounting, including the aim to make the environment more (economically) visible to human endeavours, there remain several objections to the process of valuing ecosystems and their services. Above all, the process of accurately translating complex ecological systems into meaningful economic values remains contested and it is arguably incapable of accounting for the ethical, non-use, non-monetary, or intrinsic values that people feel the natural world embodies. The a priori rejection of non-monetary, socio-cultural (and spiritual) values, by some proponents of NCA, suppresses and de-legitimises other ways of valuing and relating to the natural world, and forces a questionable, transactional framing onto the environment. Underneath the economic reframing of the environment, an unwillingness to address the behavioural drivers of ecosystem degradation remains. It is my hope that developments in Natural Capital Accounting are applied with great caution, lest irreversible damage and perverse outcomes become its legacy.
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Cinnabon Opens 26 Bakeries, Announces Development Agreement for More
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June 25, 2001
Atlanta - Cinnabon, a subsidiary of AFC Enterprises
Inc., announced that it signed development agreements with two new
franchise partners and extended agreements with current franchise
partners that have committed to build 32 new Cinnabon bakeries.
"The previous owners of Cinnabon followed the philosophy of
having a large number of company-owned bakeries," explains
D'Wayne Tanner, vice president of new business development.
"We've taken a different approach which allows us to grow
the brand faster as a franchise company."
Following that philosophy, Cinnabon has started selling
company-owned units in outlying markets. Since AFC Enterprises
acquired the brand in 1998, the company has converted 17
company-owned units to experienced franchise partners. The company
is looking to convert more bakeries in markets such as Boston;
Kansas City, Missouri; Central Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana,
Salt Lake City and Tennessee. -AFC Enterprises
Inc. | {
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RefineM CEO NK Shrivastava Featured on OzarksLive
August 8, 2017
On Tuesday, August 8, RefineM CEO NK Shrivastava was interviewed live for Springfield television station KOLR-10’s “OzarksLive” program as part of its Business Spotlight.
OzarksLive is a daily program from KOLR-10 that features news about Springfield and the Ozarks region through interviews and segments. One of their regular segments is a Business Spotlight, highlighting a business in the community. NK described the nature of projects and the value of project management, and also talked about RefineM training and its goals. | {
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Hand Clasp Hypnosis Suggestibility Test
The hand clasp demonstration is an impressive hypnosis suggestibility test that can be performed in a group setting to find the “best of the best” potential volunteers for a Stage Hypnosis Show.
Audience members are guided to clasp their hands out in front of them while focusing on the idea that their hands are locking together and will not come apart no matter how hard they try to pull them apart. The test is successfully “passed” when the subject, probably to their amazement, is unable to pull their hands apart regardless of their effort to do so.
The hands are finally released by a simple suggestion from the Hypnotist. For example, “On the count of three, your hands will come apart…”
Also referred to as “The Hand Locking Test”, this demonstration is both a hypnosis suggestibility test and a hypnotic induction rolled into one. If a subject is willing to give this process full effort and concentration, they will quickly be led from full wakeful alertness into a good working state of hypnosis. From there they can be further directed into a deeper state of hypnosis with a rapid induction.
Any person who succeeds in getting their hands locked together is certainly a good candidate for a stage hypnosis show. Despite the myriad of distractions around them, they’ve shown potential to wrap their mind around a specific thought to it’s immediate realization. This requires a both a high degree of concentration and creative imagination, combined with a willingness to apply these inherent traits.
Hand Clasp Hypnosis Suggestibility Test
Of course, it’s not entirely up to the subject alone. The Stage Hypnotist must have a presence that generates confidence that the expected result will become a reality. Furthermore, the Hypnotist must also be able to make the process easy to follow with simple instructions.
Effective use of language can be very helpful. The suggestion to “try to pull your hands apart” is an implied suggestion to fail. The word “try” implies “failure”.
Wanting to find out the origin of this demonstration, I looked it up in the magnum opus, The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism, by Ormond McGill. Here’s what I found:
The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism
“The Hand Locking Test” was first introduced to the public by the famous French pharmacist turned psychologist, Emile Coué.
Coué became internationally known through his classic suggestion phrase: “Every day, in every way, I am becoming better and better.” He is recognized as the father of autosuggestion, which is another word for waking suggestion and/or waking hypnosis.
Coué performed the test upon every patient in his clinic, and, if it did not work for them, they were dismissed from treatment until it did.
How to Perform Hypnosis Suggestibility Tests
For those interested in learning to apply this demonstration, here are some key points that actually apply to any kind of hypnosis suggestibility test:
The Subject Must Treat the Experiment with Seriousness
This is a personal choice on the part of the participant. The concentration required makes it difficult to succeed if the subject is looking around or distracted in conversation. Hypnosis is not “multi-tasking” and requires dedicated focus.
When working with individuals or small groups, an experienced Stage Hypnotist can quickly discern whether the subject(s) are giving their full attention to the task at hand before proceeding.
The Suggestions Must Be Delivered with Confidence
Confidence in the delivery comes with practice and experience. The success of any hypnotic demonstration is directly correlated with the following:
Hypnotist rapport with the subjects. Do they like you? Do they trust you?
Confident delivery of clear, easy to understand suggestions.
Some final words on the subject again from the Grandmaster of Stage Hypnotists, Ormond McGill:
Bear in mind that the study of hypnotism unfolds the laws of personal influence. A man who sways multitudes by the charm of his voice and charisma is no less a user of the power of suggestion than is he who fastens another’s hands together. Both operate under the same law. The study of hypnotism forms a remarkable background for the development of a personality that is forceful, dynamic, and charming. Such qualities the successful stage hypnotist must possess. | {
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We are raising money to bring two new dogs up from North Carolina, including Dusty on the left. Please help us fund this mission if you are able.
Dusty was an owner-surrender whose owner said he no longer had time for him. Dusty's owner did not take good care of him. As with all the surrendered dogs at the shelter, he was put on the kill list for the next morning. A dedicated shelter volunteer would NOT let this beautiful dog with so much potential die. She posted him on Facebook and we called in the pull several hours later. We are hoping to get him up within the next week. We will be looking for a foster home for Dusty because he is being treated for heartworm (not contagious) and needs a quiet, mellow home where he can finish his recovery. He is totally safe to be around other dogs, but shouldn't engage in too much play. | {
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Instructions for the Presto Microwave Popcorn Popper
Use different oils and seasonings to customize microwave popcorn in your Presto popper. (Image: popcorn image by Eric E from Fotolia.com)
Microwave ovens have made enjoying popcorn a much easier proposition than it used to be--no more big pots and burned kernels. You can control the quality of your microwave popcorn by controlling the ingredients used to create it. The Presto Microwave Popcorn Popper lets users select the popping corn, choose the type of oil (if any) that they used and control the amount of salt used for flavoring.
Things You'll Need
Presto Microwave Popcorn Popper
Oil
Popping corn
Popcorn salt or table salt
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Clean the microwave’s interior if there is any grease or food residue and make sure the turntable (if your microwave has one) is properly in place. Note that if the interior of your microwave is smaller than 10 inches wide by 6 inches high, the Presto Microwave Popcorn Popper will not fit.
Secure the popping bowl to the popper’s Powerbase concentrator. Line the tabs on the popping bowl with the grooves in the base and rotate the bowl until it is locked into place. Once the bowl is attached, place one of the PowerCup concentrators into the bowl and press down.
Add one-third of a cup of popping corn onto the PowerCup concentrator. If you are making oil-popped popcorn, place 1 to 2 tbsp. of oil on the PowerCup concentrator before adding the popping corn. If you are making butter-flavored popcorn, add 1 to 2 tbsp. of butter-flavored oil to the concentrator prior to adding the popping corn. If you are making air-popped corn, simply add the popping corn without any additional oil.
Place the Presto Microwave Popcorn Popper’s cover on the bowl and place the popper in the center of your microwave oven. Set the timer for five minutes and set your microwave on its high setting. Your popcorn should be ready in two to five minutes. Listen carefully as your popcorn is popping--once the popping slows down and there are two- to three-second intervals between the popping, it is time to stop.
Remove the popper from your microwave using the carrying handle on the popping bowl. Lift the lid carefully, angling it toward you to prevent potential steam burns. Sprinkle your popcorn with salt (if desired) and serve.
Tips & Warnings
If you are making a subsequent batch of popcorn, thoroughly wipe down the PowerCup concentrator with a damp cloth. This will remove the residue from the previous batch of popcorn's oil and salt.
Popcorn salt has a finer texture than table salt and will adhere better to the popped corn; however, sea salt and table salt also work adequately.
Use different types of oil to add extra flavor to your popped corn. Use sesame oil, infused olive oils or butter to change the taste of your snack.
PowerCup concentrators become hot during the popping process. Allow to cool thoroughly before attempting to handle the concentrator or carefully remove using metal tongs.
Avoid using the "Popcorn" setting on your microwave. Listening for the two- to three-second interval between pops is the surest way of avoiding burned popcorn. | {
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Q: “Erode” seems to take on the whole of human history in such a compact, yet literally eroded poem in terms of format. Your decision to use three major points of reference - the Biblical beginning, the Greek mythos, and a tumultuous present-day - strike me as purposeful. I wonder how you came to choose these points, and if there is a greater significance to the idea that we whittle down history to fit our preconceived notions of the world?
A: “Erode” is, or at least over time has become, a poem about histories, plural because I think there are multiple kinds of history. There are manifold personal and societal histories—family histories, relationship histories, histories of religion and science and cities, nations, civilizations, geological histories. I’ve lately been interested in the ways these histories can overlap and influence each other, build on or tear down each other so this poem and its allusions came out of that exploration a bit. I was raised in a religious household and studied philosophy and myth in college. There’s even a nod in the second stanza to Fitzgerald’s ending for The Great Gatsby. So much of what has gotten me to where I find myself today (an openly queer, nonreligious poet and writer) is about my intellectual history influencing my personal history. So in essence all of my histories bleed together at a certain point. In that bleeding though, some things often erode, find themselves wasting away or changed by time. There’s revisionism, there’s forgetfulness, there’s repression. It’s important to acknowledge that history qua history is not truth, but a constructed narrative that, as we find ourselves here standing at one end of it looking back at the other end, it becomes distorted in our looking, like the horizon always seen but escaping into the distance. | {
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What Are The Best Natural Anxiety Medications?
Anxiety is the type of condition that people want to cure quickly. Most of those that live with anxiety recognize that it's something that takes time to clear - something that you need to commit to for an extensive period of time.
But that route can be frustrating, and you may need help along the way. That's why so many people choose to turn to anxiety medications. The problem is that many of these medications have serious side effects, and may alter your brain chemistry and your personality in a way that can be dangerous. Natural medicine is the alternative, providing many of the same benefits with less of the risk.
How Severe is Your Anxiety?
Natural medicine is more effective for mild to moderate anxiety. If you haven't yet taken our free 7 minute anxiety severity test, take it now so that you can score your anxiety, compare it to others, and see if there are other solutions that can help you treat it.
Medicine Based on Anxiety
There are different types of anxiety, just like there are different types of natural medications for anxiety. How you treat your anxiety symptoms - whether it's through therapy, medicine, or any other treatment - depends on the symptoms you're experiencing.
Warning: Natural Anxiety Medication and Safety
Another issue that must be noted before recommending any natural medicine is that the stronger the medication is, the less safe it is - even when it's natural. Anything that alters your body's chemistry can cause side effects, or at least may interact with other drugs, alcohol, or foods. While natural medicines are safer than prescription medications, the stronger a medicine is, the more careful you need to be about using it. Always be in touch with a doctor before using any type of medicinal anxiety treatment.
In addition, medications can become a crutch that may make dealing with anxiety worse. It's crucial that you never only use medicine without a supplementary treatment. Natural medicines for anxiety, as you'll see below, are a great way to stop anxiety now, but they don't do anything about anxiety in the future. If you only use medications, you'll start to depend on those medications for relief, and make it harder for yourself to learn techniques to control future anxiety.
The Best Natural Anxiety Medicines
While many treatments have been linked to reducing anxiety, with various levels of efficacy, there are three particular natural medications that have shown great success at reducing anxiety symptoms.
Kava
Of all available research, kava is by far the most effective natural treatment option for anxiety. It's an herb that has been used for decades to fight anxiety with a considerable amount of success, and one that has research-supported benefits for reducing anxiety. It also has all of the qualities of a safe, natural medicine:
It's non-addictive, so you can use it often without worrying about dependency.
It doesn't cause any known side effects.
It can be taken as needed.
It doesn't cause any withdrawal symptoms.
Kava supplements are powerful enough that they have been favorably compared to prescription medications with fewer adverse reactions.
But because kava is so powerful, it's not without its risks. You have to avoid alcohol consumption when taking kava because the two interact poorly. You also need to be careful of kava if you have any liver function problems, and you should talk to your doctor if you're taking any other medications. Kava is powerful enough that it acts like a medicine, and so there are issues that may cause kava to interact with other medications you put inside your body.
Passionflower
Passionflower is essentially a weaker version of kava, but doesn't seem to have any of kava's risks. Some people find passionflower to be a great tool for combatting anxiety, but others find it to be a bit too weak, and claim that it's only good for regular maintenance.
Still, many of those taking passionflower swear by it, and because it appears to not have the side effects of kava, it may be worth trying. Passionflower is still a relatively new treatment, however, so still keep your doctor informed before taking this type of supplement.
Valerian Root
Valerian works differently than kava and passionflower. In a way, valerian works more like a benzodiazepine. It doesn't necessarily reduce anxiety itself, but it does promote relaxation which can help with anxiety symptoms. Valerian root is a great tool if you struggle with sleep, and may be useful if you're trying to relax before bed but find your mind wandering.
There do not appear to be any side effects with valerian root either, but some people claim it can cause enough fatigue that driving while taking valerian may not be the best idea. If you've never taken valerian root before, take it at a safe time in a safe location to see how you react, and as usual keep your doctor posted.
Other Herbs and Natural Medicines for Anxiety
Many other natural medications have been prescribed for anxiety, but their success rates vary and are not entirely clear. St. John's Wort, for example, is an herb meant for depression but believed to have an effect on anxiety. Nevertheless, the research hasn't backed up this claim. The three above have been successfully used for anxiety for years with minimal side effects, and research has often supported their success as a natural treatment for anxiety.
Still, you need to remember that you should never depend on medication alone, otherwise your mind will lose out on its ability to cope further. That's why you need to make sure you're complementing your natural medicine with some type of medication free anxiety reduction strategy.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The Ball State men's tennis team handled The University of North Dakota Friday, sweeping the opposition, 7-0. The win pulled the Cardinals' season record to an even 7-7.
Ball State jumped on North Dakota from the get-go, picking up the day's first point winning two of the three doubles meetings. The Patrick Elliott/Andrew Stutz and Lucas Anderson/Matt Helm combinations knocked off their UND counterparts 8-2. Elliott and Stutz improved to 6-0 while Anderson and Helm paired together for the first time. Junior Ray Leonard and senior reigning MAC Player-of-the-Week Austin Smith played in the first doubles position, but came just short, 8-6.
The Cardinals followed a strong doubles performance with a clean sweep in singles. The Cards won each match in straight sets. Sixth singles player Patrick Downs had the best showing, defeating North Dakota's Jared Vigen 6-1, 6-0. The win was his ninth singles victory of the spring. Elliott (6-3, 6-0), Ray Leonard (6-3, 6-3), Smith (6-1, 6-1), Anderson (6-1, 6-2) and Shashank Nautiyal (6-1, 6-2) played from first to fifth singles respectivley and were all victorious.
Ball State continues it's westward swing with a match against UNLV Saturday morning an 11 a.m. before returning to Indiana with a match vs. Illinois in Indianapolis on Sunday, March, 23rd at 6:00 p.m. The Cardinals host Butler the following Thursday in Muncie. | {
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Focus On Doing A Few Tasks Well, Rather Than Filling Up Your To-Do List
The more items you mark off of your to-do list, the more productive you're being, right? Actually, that may not be the case. If you've packed your schedule full of things that only get part of your attention, you may be wasting effort. Instead, do a few things well.
As productivity blog 99u points out, filling your time with tasks that only get a minimum amount of your focus isn't really being productive. It's being busy. Rather than fill up your time with things that don't get your full attention, reduce the extra projects or side gigs to one or two items, then put all your effort into those. The more focus you give fewer tasks, the better they can turn out:
You can't do everything, or be everything, all the time. For accomplished creatives, that could be a difficult truth to swallow. There are projects that may never make it past the brainstorm stage. There are ideas that may never grow beyond kernels of thought. But that means that the ones that do will be kick-arse.
While some tasks are non-negotiable (you probably shouldn't put all of your focus into taking care of just one of your three children), we often fall into the trap of feeling like things are important when they're not. Meetings and conferences are probably optional. Your five side projects could probably be whittled down to one. By removing the less important tasks, you can make your more important ones even better.
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Python has become the programming language that grows fastest
According to Stack Overflow , a reference site for programmers that has 40 million visitors per month, of which it is estimated that more than 16 million are professional developers or students of university-level programming, Python has a fairly solid case to be considered the programming language with the highest growth currently .
Stack Overflow is based on the percentage of pages containing Pyhton-related questions within your platform. For the first time in June 2017, the questions related to Python surpassed those of Java and JavaScript , the two languages that historically have the highest percentage of visits.
In Stack Overflow they emphasize that the numbers of this trend are focused on high-income countries , such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the like, since between them they represent 64% of the traffic on their website.
However, other countries such as India, Brazil, Russia and China, which make enormous contributions to the global ecosystem of software development, have also seen Python growth.
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In countries that are not considered high income, Python is the eighth most visited language, and yet remains the fastest growing , even increasing faster in popularity year after year than in the richest countries.
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Celeb Spotting: At the Peace March for Delhi Gang-Rape Victim
The death of the Delhi gang-rape victim in Singapore caused rage among people. Even our Bollywood celebrities came forward to show their support in the fight to end violence against women. Shabana Azmi held a peace march and was joined by B-town celebrities such as Deepika Padukone, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan and more. | {
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A CEO Gets Fired, Puts Down His Sword, and Ends up Grateful
A CEO of 15 years called me a few weeks ago after being notified by the board that he was being suspended. This powerful and ambitious man was shocked and angry. He revealed to me all of the critical thoughts he was having about the others involved, and acknowledged that he was plotting out his various revenge scenarios in his mind. I reminded him that his seeing the other partners as adversaries and treating them as such was one of the reasons he was in this situation. The bully he thought he was staring down was actually living within. I asked if he would be willing to focus on our commitment #13:
I commit to seeing all people and circumstances as allies that are perfectly suited to help me learn the most important things for my growth.
He agreed to shift his perspective and open to what he could learn from this situation. Over the course of the next two weeks, we spoke frequently as he navigated negotiations and moved through a lot of emotion. He continually recommitted to seeing his partners and the situation as opportunities to learn. And boy, did he ever learn.His ultimate realization was that he wanted to leave his role a couple of years earlier, but was unwilling to admit it and take action for several key reasons:
1. Avoiding sadness. He loved his team dearly. His small company was like a family to him. The thought of leaving them was heartbreaking, and he didn’t want to feel the loss.
2. Avoiding disappointment. He had a vision that his company should have been worth more than it was after 15 years of leading it. He did not want to feel his disappointment about what their actual value was. He stayed on to try and drive the value up to avoid his disappointment rather than listen to the internal truth that he was ready to let go.
3. Scarcity mindset. He was concerned that he could not recreate the income he was making in another role and stayed put from a fear that there would not be enough money elsewhere.
4. Superhero syndrome. He had been responsible for financially supporting his family and was afraid that if he did not handle their financial needs, they would suffer and he would be responsible for their pain. He realized that he was casting them as victims and himself as hero. This way of relating was exhausting him and disempowering his family.
A few weeks into our conversations he was permanently terminated. Instead of taking out his sword, he is celebrating that this is a great gift his partners are giving him; one that he was unwilling to give to himself. This newfound freedom to follow his true heart’s desire is opening the door to a new kind of relaxation that he hasn’t known for a very long time. Maybe not ever. He is (calmly) negotiating with all of the parties involved and finding that the more he sees them as allies the less drama he is creating with them. With surprise he said to me, “I see that I have been the source of the conflict, not them. And when I shift I create a different experience of them. I have so much more power in creating the situation than I knew.”Now he’s learning to allow himself to:
1. Feel the loss of his colleagues in his daily life
2. Admit his disappointment that his financial vision didn’t come to be
3. Experience abundance mindset
4. See himself and his family as equally empoweredHe is living with what is rather than what could have or should have been. He’s free to make choices based on trust rather than toxic fear. How about you? Is there a way you are living your life that is not fully aligned with what you really want? What allies do you need to come into your life to help you learn to live from trust rather than fear? | {
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Presenting… The FoodPrint Guide
Experience The FoodPrint Guide app here. Safari and Chrome are recommended. The core idea for this app is that people learn by experience. Immediate input and output means we can learn in a natural, intuitive way. Unfortunately lifestyle sustainability calculators don’t usually work like this. It’s a concept only – the data included in the app is not scientific but more-or-less assumed from a personal interest in the topic of food and sustainability. However, real data would be a little complex as there would be a mix of water, processing, land-use, climate impact figures behind each item. I’d love to see that, however from a usability and learning perspective, I’m pleased with this demonstration.
The Problem
The larger problem is un-sustainability in the way all of us eat. This includes our food choices and also where, how and in what manner we purchase and consume it. The smaller problem is the lack of a food sustainability calculator that encourages experiential learning, and doesn’t feel judgy.
The Challenge
In newswriting, it’s said that you should write for 13 year olds, because that’s the level most of us read at. App use is the same – however probably 13 year olds have an advantage over adults, and aiming for use by a six year old might be better. I started with a much more complex version of this interface – and during the course of developing I realised much of it wasn’t necessary. I trimmed down elements and the core concept became more evident. As the app was simplified, it became more obvious to interact with.
How it Works
The app runs on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The range sliders for each food are given minimum and maximum values relative to their (supposed) environmental impact. Those values are multiplied by a food miles factor. The resulting figure is then brought into constrain by a multiplier which controls the width of a div containing representations of earths. Because each earth is a certain size, the number of earths visible can be controlled using javascript. Compatibility The basic elements are styled HTML5 range sliders. There will not be complete browser compatibility but Safari and Chrome are fully working. I aimed for progressive enhancement for other browsers however there will be critical usability issues if the slider thumb icons don’t display.
Interface
The interface is simple and visual to allow for a wide range of use. It is styled responsively in that it will be usable on phones and also large computer displays. A dark look gives a spacey feel that sits well with the planet visual reference. The planet pane, with the call to action is fixed to the bottom of the screen, to allow for constant monitoring of the results of tweaking – unless the screen is at a hight that would obscure most of the rest of the app. | {
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Crowds waited outside Romford Train Station as he arrived by train fashionably late, before marching down South Street with councillors and candidates in tow.
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During his jaunt, which also saw him visit The Liberty Shopping Centre, the charismatic Mr Johnson was greeted by camera-wielding fans, posing for photographs and thriving on the good-natured heckles he received from afar, including “vote Ukip” and “vote Labour.”
He also spoke to the Recorder about his fondness for the town.
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Object in the Vagina
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Foreign objects or forgotten tampons may cause a vaginal infection. Young girls might insert pieces of toilet paper, small toys, or household objects into their vagina. Teens and adult women may forget a tampon or a birth control device.
The most common symptoms of a vaginal infection caused by a foreign object include a change in vaginal discharge and a bad odor. Immediate removal of the object usually relieves these symptoms.
Removal of an object in a young girl requires treatment by a doctor to reduce the risk of complications and to evaluate the possibility of abuse.
Removal of an object in a teenage girl requires evaluation and treatment by a doctor so sexual activity, high-risk sexual behavior, and birth control can be discussed.
How to remove an object from the vagina
You may attempt to remove an object from your vagina, especially if you think it might be a forgotten tampon or a birth control device.
Wash your hands with soap and water.
Squat down, sit on the toilet, or stand and put one foot on the bathtub.
Insert two fingers into your vagina. Sweep your fingers back and forth and try to feel the object or a string if one is attached.
Tighten your lower abdominal muscles as if you are going to have a bowel movement. This may push the object lower in the vagina, so you can reach it with your finger.
Once you feel the object, grasp it and pull it out of the vagina.
If you cannot find the object, you will have to see a doctor. It is important that you get the object out as soon as possible.
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What show is this? It just says Cheap Trick. It's not from any of the official DVDs that I'm aware of. Rick mentions Brooklyn and Falkner & Manning from Jellyfish are playing with them. 2009-ish because they played "These Days". If you have Sling it is on demand for anyone who cares to view this. | {
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Amazing Cow Facts for Kids
Amazing Cow Facts for Kids
No Male Cows!
Did you know that there are no male cows? It’s true! The male species are called bulls or steer. A female is a cow but only after she has given birth to a calf. A calf is a baby cow. Before a cow has given birth she is referred to as a heifer. The species are also referred to as cattle.
What do Cows Look Like?
Cows have a head with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. They have two ears and four legs. They have large bodies. When most of us think about cows we picture a large animal with a white body and black spots. Not all cows are black and white. Cows can be all white or all black. Some cows are brown and others can be a yellowish or orange color.
Cow Facts
Cows are herbivores meaning they eat grasses, plants, corn. They do not eat meat.
There are over 1,000 different breeds of cattle!
They are smart and intelligent animals.
Cows Make Friends!
Cows are very social and emotional animals. They like to interact with other cows. They even become friends with other cows.
Did you know that cows also can hold a grudge? They will often stay mad at another cow who they felt were mean to them or treated them badly.
Cows communicate with other cows by saying moo. Cows will use different tones in their voices when communicating. If they are trying to call their calf (baby) they often will have a soft tone. When they are upset the tone will be loud.
Fun Facts About Cows
A male is called a bull. A female who has given birth is called a cow. A female who has not given birth is called a heifer. A cow is pregnant for nine months, just like people. A baby cow is called a calf. A calf is about 90 pounds when it is born.
An adult cow can weigh between 400-1,600 pounds! They have 32 teeth. Cows drink 35 gallons a water a day. They eat 50 pounds of food a day. Cows eat grains, grass, hay and lettuce.
Can you believe that there are over 1 billion cows that live in the world! Cows live on every continent except Antarctica.
Cows are Sacred
In India where they practice the Hindu religion cows are sacred and are allowed to roam the streets free. They see cows as a maternal figure or a caretaker. They believe If a mother cannot produce milk for their newborn baby, milk from a cow would be the next best thing.
Cows are also worshiped and celebrated during many different festivals throughout India.
Around 300 million cows live in India!
More Fun Facts about Cows
Cows live up to 25 years.
They can run 35 miles per hour.
In deep mud, cows can run faster than horses!
A cow has one stomach with four compartments. The rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. Cow are ruminates meaning they can digest the food that can normally not be digested.
Like a human’s fingerprints, no two cow’s spots are exactly the same.
Cows have an excellent sense of smell. They can smell up to 5 miles away!
Beef and milk come from cows.
Veal comes from calves.
Cows and Milk
We get our milk from dairy cows. In the U.S dairy cows are bred to produce milk.
Cows do not produce milk until after they have given birth.
We make most dairy products such as butter, cream, ice cream and cheese from the milk we get from cows.
Did you know that it takes 350 squirts from a cow to get one gallon of milk!
A cow can produce 6 gallons of milk a day!
Each dairy cow produces 200,000 cups of milk in her lifetime.
Dairy cows produced milk for approximately three years. After they can no longer produce milk, they are often killed and used for meat.
Milk Facts
The glass milk bottle was invented in 1884. The plastic milk bottle started being used in the US in 1967.
Home delivery of milk started in 1942.
21 billion gallons of milk is produced in American every year. The average American drinks 25 gallons of milk a year.
Did you know that drinking milk about you eat something spicy will help cool the burning sensation in your mouth? So, the next time your mouth is burning from spicy food, drink milk!
The state of California produces the most milk in the US, Wisconsin is number 2.
Farmers actually measure milk in pounds not gallons.
Milk can be good for you. It has a lot of nutrients including protein, calcium, vitamin D, B12, and potassium. Milk also supports healthy bones and teeth.
Fun Facts About Cows
Cows can go upstairs but cannot walk down.
Until the 1850’s most American families owned their own cows.
Cows first came to America with pilgrims. They arrived in the colony of Jamestown in 1611. | {
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Very good condition toys help your baby to develop motor skills :) Develop the child's eye hand co-ordination and pincer grasp, both required for writing
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Russia: NATO Announced July Meeting Without Consulting Moscow
Acrimony between NATO and Russia continues, with the latest NATO meeting of foreign ministers spending a lot of time talking about ways to really spite the Russians. The thing that seemed to irk the Russian Foreign Ministry the most, however, was the announcement of a meeting between Russian and NATO officials ahead of the July summit.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed “bewilderment” at the announcement, noting that meetings of the Russia-NATO council require consensus of both sides, and insisting that Russia was never even consulted about the possible meeting.
Since the NATO-backed regime change in Ukraine in early 2014, and the subsequent declaration of independence by Crimea and its accession into the Russian Federation, NATO and Russia have been on an increasingly hostile footing, and such meetings, once routine, have become rare and controversial.
Along with a major cutback in NATO-Russia ties, the tensions also split up the G8, the group of eight leading industrial countries that includes six NATO members. Russia was “suspended,” effectively making this the G7, though in practice G7 summits have just boiled down to everyone talking about how much they don’t like Russia and how glad they are the Russians aren’t present. Germany, one of the NATO members, today reiterated their opposition to letting Russia back in. | {
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Options for the treatment of Chronic Pain: Part Four - Alternative Treatments
In this penultimate article in our series of treatments for chronic pain we will be looking at alternative treatments that have been used or are currently being tested..
We will be exploring a number of treatments that are readily available and some that will be available in the near future.
Near Infrared Light Therapy
One such treatment that has recently been tested in clinical trials with great success is near infrared light therapy or photobiomodulation, which is the medical term. This treatment isused to target neuropathic pain.Light therapy is the use of near infra-red light on the skin which targets the specific nerve endings in the skin, which cause the sensation of pain.
These nerve endings can cause the sufferer to experience hyper-sensitivity and stinging of the skin when in contact with wind or water or in some cases tight clothing. Symptoms tend to vary largely from person to person.
Research into light therapy discovered that there is a subpopulation of sensory neurons that produce a receptor called tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB). It is these specific nerve endings that are responsible for transmitting signals that the brain associates with chronic pain. Researchers developed a light-sensitive chemical that attaches to TrkB and can be injected into the skin.
The chemical then attaches itself to these receptors and infra-red light is applied to the skin. Doing this causes the nerve endings to shrink away from the surface of the skin, resulting in reduced pain as the nerve endings are less likely to be triggered by contact with the skin.
Further studies into this are currently ongoing and we may see this treatment being offered as a treatment for chronic pain in the near future.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is a treatment that is extremely common and is regularly used in the treatment of chronic pain. Physiotherapy is the manipulation of the muscles and joints of the body through carefully crafted exercises. Most people that have suffered an injury will be referred to a Physiotherapist at some point during their recovery. The aim of physiotherapy is to focus on the movement of the body and ensure that mobility is maintained in the joints and muscles, thereby keeping people active and stopping the body from locking up due to lack of movement.
You can now self refer for physiotherapy through your GP practice on the NHS, or it is possible to pay for this privately. A physiotherapist will work with you and your doctor to create a treatment plan that is specific to you and to your pain. Visit your GP to discuss this if you think physiotherapy may be helpful to you.
Weighted Blankets/Gravity Blankets
Many sufferers of chronic pain report that difficulty sleeping and reduced quality sleep is one of their most troublesome symptoms. Although not recommended for those suffering from hyper-sensitivity or those who find pressure on a limb or affected area to be painful, weighted blankets have been recommended for improving sleep and sleep quality alongside anxiety.
These blankets are specifically tailored to you and the ideal blanket weight is approximately 10% of your body weight. They are fully breathable and weighted with tiny glass beads sewn into pockets inside the blanket. Many people find that the increased weight of the blanket provides a calming effect which helps to eliminate generalised anxiety.
The increased weight of the blanket on the body is designed to increase production of serotonin in the brain which is a natural painkiller. The blankets can be purchased online and are made specifically to your body weight.
Cannabis Oil “CBD Oil”
A derivative of the addictive but illegal drug cannabis, CBD oil is one of the newest treatments on the scene and has proved to be quite successful according to some sufferers at targeting Chronic Pain. CBD oil is legal in the UK as the hallucinogens that cause the traditional ‘high’ experienced in the use of cannabis have been removed.
There is a range of opinion in regard to the effectiveness. Many believe that as the hallucinogenic properties are removed to make the oil legal in the UK that it isn’t as effective. However on the other hand many chronic pain sufferersswear by the use of CBD oil as a holistic or alternative medicine/ painkiller.
CBD oil can be purchased from pharmacies and health food shops, but we recommend that you should consult with your GP or other medical professional before using this.
Massage
Chronic pain can be positively affected by treatments such as massage. Massage like physiotherapy is manipulation of the muscles. The benefits of massage include improved mood, reduced anxiety, and increased range of movement. Massage, much like weighted blankets, increases the brain’s production of serotonin which as explored previously, is a natural painkiller.
Massage in the treatment of chronic pain can be extremely effective for sufferers of conditions such as fibromyalgia and arthritis.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is the teaching of subconscious communication between the brain and the body. It has the benefit of being completely medication free so the risk of addiction isn’t present as with other treatments discussed such as opioid painkillers.
Hypnosis is used to achieve a state of consciousness where the brain is focused and peripheral awareness of sensations like neuropathic pain is reduced. In this state it is possible in some to use “hypnotic suggestions” to train the brain into ignoring the sensations of pain when in a conscious state.
Some sufferers find this very effective, but again there is a range of differing opinion in regard to the effectiveness of such treatments. Like many alternative medicine and therapy techniques, there are limited scientific studies that prove any physical or psychological benefits. Some patients may experience a positive placebo effect and so therein may be a reason to not dismiss such treatments out of hand, a benefit is a benefit whether placebo or not.
Acupuncture
An alternative treatment derived from ancient Chinese medicine. Scientific studies are non-conclusive on the positive effects of this treatment, however many people with chronic pain swear by this form of treatment. Some specialist physiotherapy practices may use this in conjunction with massage and traditional physio techniques.
Acupuncture is becoming more and more common in recent years as a medical treatment for pain relief. Acupuncture is the use of extremely fine needles being tapped into pressure points under the skin in order to stimulate the sensory nerves and reduce pain.
The needles then produce a light tingling sensation in the nerves. Acupuncture is not readily available on the NHS, and as such it is usually a private treatment. However, we would strongly recommend discussing this with your doctor beforehand.
Acupuncture therapy usually takes place over a number of sessions and lasts anywhere from 40 to 60 minutes. The effectiveness of it is subject to a lot of debate, with some believing the benefits are psychological with a positive placebo effect rather than anything physiological.
If you have any questions or feel that you may be experiencing chronic pain as a result of an accident or injury please do get in touch.
At Goughs, our specialist chronic pain lawyers are highly experienced and can help you understand your condition and will always seek the opinion of top medical experts and leading barristers to reinforce your claim.
This approach allows us to build a strong case, ensuring that you feel safe in the knowledge that we are in the best possible position to try to secure compensation that will assist you for the rest of your life.
We encourage you to take advantage of our free initial consultation and we will come to see you at home, at work or anywhere in England and Wales to discuss your claim on a no win no fee basis.
We take the time to really understand what you are going through and will explain exactly how we can help.
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Please note that calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes.
The term partner is used to refer to a member of Goughs Lawyers LLP or an employee or consultant withequivalent standing and qualification. A list of members is available at the registered office, 5 Bath Road, Melksham, SN12 6LN. | {
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Lay down your head
And show me if you like it
Lend me your ears
And read me like a book
This conversation
It strikes me
No need for words
It's all understood
Lay down your head
And show me if you like it
Wondering if there is something
We did wrong
Nothing can stop me
From shaking
Why did we have to fire that gun?
Lay down your head
And show me if you like it
Wondering if there is something
We did wrong
Nothing can stop me
From shaking
Why did we have to fire that gun?
Why did we have to fire that gun?
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The modules, rated at 305/310w, were installed at Bhadla in the state of Rajasthan and the project generates enough electricity to power around 7,000 households.
Roha is investing in renewable projects as part of a drive in environmental sustainability. The solar project is one of five plants, which are being built in Rajasthan State as part of Rajasthan’s state solar policy.
MY Kim, senior vice president of Hanwha Q CELLS in India, said: "Hanwha Q CELLS is pleased to power one of Roha's solar power plants and to support its clean energy initiatives. Hanwha Q CELLS has booked about 270MW to major energy companies in India year-to-date, with over 200MW of modules scheduled for shipment in 2015. We expect to accelerate our business in India going forward." | {
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Federal vs. Private Student Loans
If you’re about to become one of the 44.5 million college students borrowing money in the United States, make sure you understand your loan options. Two basic types of student loans exist: federal and private. In this article, we’ll look at the pros and cons of Federal vs. private student loans.
Here’s what you need to know about your student loan options – both for now, when you take them out, and for the future when you have to start repaying them.
What Are Federal Student Loans?
Federal student loans are offered by the government. They’re unique because your credit history or score does not matter for qualification. As of 2019, interest rates are fixed at 4.45% for undergraduates and 6.0% for graduates.
You do not have to start repaying these loans until you graduate. You can also put your debt on hold with deferments and forbearances. Depending on your situation, your federal loan may be subsidized to avoid accruing interest while you’re still in school or using a deferment period.
It’s virtually impossible to find a private student loan that offers such a laundry list of benefits. But federal student loans do have one significant drawback: You can’t refinance one unless you switch it to a private lender and waive your benefits like income-driven repayment.
What Are Private Student Loans?
Private student loans are offered by the same institutions that offer personal loans, auto loans, and home mortgages: banks and credit unions. Most students only turn to private loans to cover any gap not paid for by federal student loans.
Private student loans are more difficult to acquire because they demand higher credit scores, but you may qualify for a higher borrowing limit and lower interest rate than those offered by federal student loans.
You can expect a few unwanted drawbacks of private student loans as well:
Variable interest rates that have the potential to increase over time
Very little flexibility for alternative or income-based repayment plans
You may need to make payments while you’re still in school
Deciding Which is Best For You
Thanks to the flexibility and easy approval offered by federal student loans, it makes sense to maximize your use of them before turning to a private lender. Utilize subsidized federal loans as much as possible to shield yourself from interest charges until you graduate.
Selecting federal loans gives you the comfort of knowing you can defer, use a forbearance, or arrange an income-based repayment plan if money ever gets tight. If you find yourself in a better financial position in the future and a lower interest rate becomes a higher priority, you can always refinance into a private loan.
In most cases, private student loans only make fiscal sense out the gate if you have a near-perfect credit score and a steady income to make monthly loan payments without any concerns.
Either way, you’re about to commit to a boatload of debt for many years ahead. It’s a necessary evil to achieve your educational goals, so make sure you monitor your debt wisely and ask for help if you ever need it. | {
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Professor Duncan Derrett has kindly allowed me to place of of his many contributions to Evangelical Quarterly on-line in PDF and assures me that even though he is now in his 90s we still can expect more articles to come. | {
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Nikon are running an online teaser campaign dubbed “I Am Coming” with a countdown of less than 34 hours. Recent Nikon rumours include the launch of new professional DSLRs and the company’s venture into compact system cameras. It seems that only time will tell (33 hours, 11 minutes and 8 seconds, to be exact)... | {
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Description of problem:
With FC3-test2 (and also the latest development version of xorg-x11),
I can't copy/paste between programs running locally (using unix
sockets, I guess) and programs running on another host. When I'm
pasting from a remote program to a local one, the local one sometimes
hangs for a few seconds (this mainly seems to happen in KDE programs)
and then continues without having received any input.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.8.0-4, 6.8.1-4.
How reproducible:
Always, and with all X programs.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh -X somehost (including localhost, so it's not caused by using
different X versions)
2. start X program
3. try pasting something from the 'remote' program to a 'local' program
Actual results:
Nothing happens, except a hang for a few seconds in some cases.
Expected results:
New input in the local program.
Additional info:
Pasting between two different remote programs (not using the FC3-test2
X libraries), both connected to my FC3-test2 X server, does work.
Hm, I've started downgrading everything and it started working again
after downgrading openssh.. I don't quite understand how openssh can
only break one specific X protocol function: everything about
X-forwarding was working fine, just pasting failed.
I'm not sure whether this means it's an openssh bug and the component
of this bug should be changed to openssh, or if it's somehow an
incompatibility between xorg and openssh 3.9.
It does, thanks!
There should probably be a note about this "trusted" X11 forwarding in
the release notes because X11 forwarding is pretty useless in the
default configuration now. Currently there's only a remark about the
file permissions for ~/.ssh/config.
Onno this was mentioned in the release notes -
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/ :
"The behavior of ssh clients that are invoked with the -X flag has changed. In
OpenSSH 3.8 and later, X11 forwarding is performed in a way that applications
run as untrusted clients by default. Previously, X11 forwarding was performed so
that applications always ran as trusted clients. Some applications may not
function properly when run as untrusted clients. To forward X11 so that
applications are run as trusted clients, invoke ssh with the -Y flag instead of
the -X flag, or set ForwardX11Trusted in the ~/.ssh/config file."
Were there some other release notes which didn't mention this?
Correct, this is not an X bug. This is a change in the upstream openssh
default operation with X clients. Since this may affect some users
configurations in a way that is unexpected, we made sure to document
this change of behaviour in Fedora Core release notes as mentioned above.
Thanks Sitsofe.
For those who want to know the exact difference between trusted and
untrusted, I got this from a friendly and helpful RedHat employee. :-)
From Ray Strode ([email protected]) on 2005-01-25 12:20 -------
Hi,
-X means that ssh will use untrusted auth cookies for it's connections
to the xserver.
-Y means that ssh will use trusted auth cookies.
The xauth man page describes this:
If the trusted option is used, clients that connect
using this authorization will have full run of the display, as usual.
If untrusted is used, clients that connect using this authorization
will be considered untrusted and prevented from stealing
or tampering with data belonging to trusted clients. See the
SECURITY extension specification for full details on
the restrictions imposed on untrusted clients. The
default is untrusted.
If you have the package xorg-x11-doc installed, then you can find the
SECURITY extension specification in
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-doc-*/Xext/security.PS.gz
Note
You need to
log in
before you can comment on or make changes to this bug. | {
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The 56th IEEE CDC would like to offer tiered sponsorship opportunities with potential exhibit space for interested corporations.
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The tiered sponsorship and exhibitor packages are briefly described below;
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Sponsorship and Exhibitors Levels/Terms:
A variety of sponsorship packages are being
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Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise Tour Half Day
Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise Tour Half Day
60 EURO60 EURO
Tour Itinerary
Morning pick up from hotel and continue to;
- Golden Horn, an inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul and
forming a natural harbor. One can see the old city and Galata tower
panoramically while cruising from
- Spice Bazaar, located close to water front nearby the New Mosque. This is a
bazaar where you can find numerous kind of spices, dried fruits, nuts and seeds
and also many other things.
- Bosphorus Cruise, through the waterway separating the two continents, Europe
and Asia, with a possibility to take photographs of marble palaces, ancient
wooden villas of Ottoman architecture besides modern residential and luxurious
apartments.
End of tour, transfer to your hotel.
Includes
Excludes
- International airfare
- Drinks and meals which are not listed at the itinerary
- All personal expenses
- All customary tips to drivers, guides and escorts are made at the travelers’
discretion
- Turkish Visa Fee
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A ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME THAT IS VIBRANT YET SLEEK, DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AT EVERY TURN
Inside Villa Amrita
A home that presents an air of refined Ibiza sleek with a unique brand of opulence, the one-of-a-kind Villa Amrita unfolds over 1,900 square-metres (nearly 20,500 square-feet) of light-filled, lustrous and textured spaces that frame startling, take-your-breath-away views of the Mediterranean, Marbella and the coasts of Gibraltar and Morocco.
Designed to impress at every turn, Villa Amrita is a spacious estate of graceful Spanish design with floor-to-ceiling glass, textured jewel tones and polished white marble. It is this combination of Indian flair and Ibiza modernity, that is at once unexpected and yet completely natural – a marriage of styles that both contrasts and complements.
Luxury at Villa Amrita is in the details: In massive windows that ensure the sea is always present, always with you. In the plush, crimson-red Versace sofa that curves through a massive living room. In the underfloor heating, which breathes warmth into glossy marble throughout the home. In stained-glass, double-height windows, which refract the Spanish sun into rainbows that dance across the villa’s floors. In the pops of art-deco charm and Cubist paintings that deck the walls. In the giant koi pond and infinity pool-with-a-view, which beckon you outside, to relax and rejuvenate.
This is Villa Amrita, at once the embodiment of the exclusive Marbella lifestyle and the essence of warm, welcoming India. This is your perfect retreat, your tranquil sanctuary, your one-of-a-kind villa with abundant personality. Welcome.
THE UNMATCHED VIEW IS THE BEATING HEART OF VILLA AMRITA
Relaxing at Villa Amrita
Villa Amrita sits tucked into the exclusive area of Las Cascadas de Comoján, Sierra Blanca – the hills of Marbella, where the elite have vacationed for more than half a century. Here, secreted into these scenic mountains and perched atop privileged real estate, the villa’s floor-to-ceiling glass walls open onto some of the most startling panoramas of Marbella, the Golden Mile and, in the distance, Gibraltar and Morocco.
This unmatched view is the beating heart of Villa Amrita, where every room, every lounge space, and every terrace pays homage to sparkling Marbella and the glittering Mediterranean.
If views are the heart of Villa Amrita, then relaxation is its soul. The Spanish sun shines down, warming Ibiza-style sunbeds. Beautifully manicured gardens surround a turquoise infinity pool, which spills into the lush greenery of the surrounding mountains. Take a walk – the cars here are few and far between – and head inland, into nature ripe with eagles, deer and wild boar.
At the villa, a 12-metre tropical fish tank anchors an opulent Gentlemen’s club, complete with sound-proofed cinema. TV lounges spot the villa. A garden bar invites you to mix a cocktail and enjoy the view. Poolside daybeds beckon you to an afternoon of reading and sunbathing. An outdoor grill, table tennis and manicured gardens lend themselves perfectly to lazy afternoons.
Who this villa is for
The Family Collection
Villa Amrita is a magnificent space for large families or two families travelling together, with a fantastic pool, gardens and very spacious suites, two of which have their own living room. The cinema will be a hit with the kids, if they can’t cast their gaze away from the incredible wall of tropical fish! There’s plenty of room for large extended families and wheelchair access with an elevator if needed, but the 1,900m2 of living space means you are certainly never under each other’s feet.
Celebration Collection
Villa Amrita is a wonderful space for a special celebration with loved ones. You have a large exterior terrace for dining and an outdoor deck by the pool with sea views where your guests can enjoy poolside cocktails and canapés.
For Weddings and Celebrations (subject to acceptance)
Located in Sierra Blanca, Marbella close to several wedding venues
Wide panoramic sea and mountain views from pool and gardens
Wedding ceremonies can take place in the garden with the villa and mountain as backdrop
Distribution
Sleeping
Bedroom 1: Master suite on top floor in striking black and white decor, a double queen-sized bed (2 x 140cm beds), opens out to terrace with panoramic views, living area with sofas, TV, en-suite bathroom which interconnects with the second master suite at the other side. Bathroom has Jack and Jill vanity units with central (huge) bathtub, separate shower cubicle and two loos. Bedroom also features an interconnected dressing area between the two suites.
Bedroom 2: A second master suite on the top floor which interconnects with the main master via the bathroom and dressing room. Light blue modern décor, sitting area with 2 fun day beds and TV, 160cm king-size bed. Perfect for a family with children wanting to be close to master suite.
Bedroom 4: Mirror of bedroom 3, also on top floor guest bedroom in opulent peacock blue colours, with king-size bed, en-suite shower room in light grey marble with vanity. Separate living room with TV and space for 2 children’s beds on request.
Bedroom 5: Brand new studio style suite on the ground floor with split-level bedroom-sitting area, small coffee station/kitchenette and modern en-suite shower room. Décor is in rich forest greens with tropical plants. French doors open out to the lower terrace with sitting area.
Bedroom 6 + 7: Available on request for staff. Ground floor apartment with 2 double bedrooms, a small kitchen and living room with pool table, TV, leading out to private furnished terrace. Shared bathroom with bath tub and separate shower.
Some bedrooms have space for an additional bed for a child or a cot, please ask us for details. Bedrooms 3 and 4 both have a living room which can be made into additional bedroom space on request for a supplement, ask for details.
Living
You enter Villa Amrita through a striking art deco-style, stained-glass and double-height wall of windows, which reveal a marble entrance and double staircase, where coloured light dances on a floor of intricate marble and Art-Deco glass wall. This entrance, both astounding and memorable, offers just a hint of what awaits inside the villa.
Travel through to a vast living room with enormous glass walls – floor-to-ceiling windows that invite a startling panorama of the Marbella coastline, the Costa del Sol, and a distant Africa. There is seemingly no barrier between indoors and out. This is, unquestionably, the best vantage point on the Marbella coast.
The villa’s rich décor harkens back to the owner’s native India: jewel tones and gold highlights, plush fabrics and over-sized everything, including the massive, scarlet-coloured Versace sectional sofa in the main living room. Textures abound, from velvet and leather, to ostrich skin and richly coloured taffeta. Cubist paintings add interest.
In addition to the main living room, there are a further four lounges: two TV lounges adjoining the top-floor bedroom suites; a small lounge with pool table and private terrace in the staff apartment; and a Gentlemen’s lounge in the basement (see Relaxing, below).
Busy executives can keep business going smoothly in the Lamborghini office, fitted with vintage butter-soft ostrich skin desk and chairs, a suitably stylish space to entertain your very best clients.
A lift connects all floors of Villa Amrita, making the home wheelchair accessible to most areas.
Eating
A formal, indoor dining room graces the open-plan living area. It offers a formal dining seating for 8-10 guests. An additional dining space in the kitchen seats 10, handy for children to eat earlier if needed. The kitchen dining area looks out onto the gardens and outdoor dining terrace, which offers incredible sea views and dining space for 10 guests. (Additional child seating can be arranged)
The spacious kitchen features a striking turquoise-and-black colour palette, with accents of white polished-stone worktops. Hobby and pro chefs appreciate the professional-grade NEFF appliances, ovens, warmers, tandoor, double sinks and islands, cooking station with three induction hobs, and grills.
Relaxing
Villa Amrita is a home built for entertainment and relaxation. Take a dip in the white marble infinity pool or simply recline on the adjacent Ibiza-style sunbeds. The views from the pool are incredible!
Surrounding the pool, an enormous and impeccably manicured garden offers a peaceful koi pond, bar, modern Ibiza-style seating, and light-up tables. A gas BBQ and American fridge are located on the main terrace, which has two seating areas, two dining tables (seats 16 in current configuration), and table tennis.
Indoors, the basement has been converted into a plush Gentlemen’s Club, anchored by a hypnotic 12-metre tropical fish tank. The games area houses a snooker table, bar and secret bodega, while the sound-proofed home cinema offers VIP seating, a soft sofa, a projector, and BOSE surround sound.
There is also a complete home gym, with treadmill, bench, multigym, free weights, stepper, exercise bike, and bar with fridge.
This Villa Offers The LVC Difference
TheLVC Difference
Housekeeping Included
Villa Amrita rental includes a complete clean and linen change once a week plus additional light housekeeping in 1 or 2 visits during the week. Additional housekeeping hours can be booked and paid for in advance to cover things like after-dinner clearing up or personal laundry, and we can also source live-in maids if required.
Your reservation with The Luxury Villa Collection includes automatic membership with our expert Concierge. This includes a pre-departure itinerary planning service so all your travel arrangements can be taken care of in advance, then the Concierge team are on the end of a telephone for anything you need during your stay.
The Concierge team are nearby during your stay for a more hands-on approach, and their personal hours can be paid for locally at the end of your stay.
They can cover all manner of things from restaurant reservations, shopping errands, personal assistance at the shops, as well as arranging children’s nannies, golf, excursions, chefs and so on. Please do ask for anything you need and we will do our best to assist.
Villa Amrita is within easy reach of a whole range of amazing experiences near Marbella to add to your travel memories. From exciting family adventures to world-class golf, gourmet delights to beauty spa’s, we work closely with the best local suppliers to help make your stay extra special.
Explore the cities of Andalucia with a personal guide from our expert partners. Enjoy a selection of day tours or bespoke itineraries all with a door to door service in air-conditioned vehicles. A perfect choice for a first-time stay in Marbella is the escorted wine and tapas tour of Marbella Old Town, where you can get to know the secret corners of this Spanish centre.
A complimentary hamper is our way of welcoming you to Spain. We have chosen a taster selection of local produce, so you can get straight into the holiday vibe. If you would like us to pre-stock the fridge with a selection of food and wine, please do ask us for details.
If you prefer not to cook, we work with Michelin-grade professional villa chefs who can prepare a range of local or international dishes for you and your guests.
LOCATED IN MARBELLA’S MOST EXCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
ENJOY THE PRIVACY AND LUXURY OF CASCADAS DE CAMOJAN
Camojan in Sierra Blanca is located just a few minutes from the centre of the glamorous resort of Marbella. This private gated estate is a top choice for some of Marbella’s finest mansions and villas.
Villa Amrita is located in the beautiful area of Cascadas de Camojan, Sierra Blanca; a high-end gated estate of multi-million pound mansions and chic apartments.
A gentle two minute hop in a car will take you to the chic and sophisticated centre of Marbella’s Golden Mile, dotted with designer shops, bordered by sandy beaches served by upmarket restaurants and beach clubs. It’s just a couple of minutes drive to the glamorous port of Puerto Banus to take the upmarket vibe a notch higher still.
For eating out you are spoiled for choice within a 2km round trip. Enjoy Michelin-grade dining at the likes of the Hotel Puente Romano or Melia Don Pepe, or head to stylish out-of-town hot spots like Finca Besaya for a night of amazing food and entertainment. Along the beaches to the East and West there are a mixture of family run “chiringuitos” serving up the fresh catch of the day, while infamous beach bars like the Ocean Club offer gourmet cuisine with a taste of the Mediterranean and party nights to remember.
For down time, take a stroll around the boutiques of Marbella’s old town and stop for tapas near Orange Tree square, have our private guides take you on an old-town discovery tapas tour to see a side to Marbella you may not know. Or if you fancy just jumping in the car you can easily visit typical white villages further along the coast, like Mijas and Benahavis, or smaller harbours like Capo Pino and the original fishing village of La Cala for a really Spanish vibe and some amazing sea food.
Situated in on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Marbella is a resort known widely for it’s glitz and glamour, but for those to choose to explore the area you will find plenty of Spanish charm, culture and character . The resort is renowned for its sunny climate that puts the “Sol” in Costa del Sol, and here we have mile upon mile of beaches, white villages, bustling shops and breath taking scenery, making it an ideal holiday destination for families and groups of friends alike.
In Marbella you will find something for all tastes, from world-class cuisine to characterful tapas bars, from local produce to designer labels, and from beach to breathtaking mountain walks | {
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Genesis Tarn 29
The Tarn 29 is pitched as ‘a fast rolling package‘ that will ‘happily handle anything and everything the UK’s trails can throw at‘ it. Sharing the same steel frame as the Tarn 20, it’s well set up to more than match that claim.
Where the Tarn 2o adopts a more monster truck approach to tackling trail obstacles, the Tarn 29 puts its big wheels to use to finesse a line through and over the rowdier sections of trail typical of the terrain to be found on our Tour of the Tarns ride. It’s a bike that’ll happily spin up to speed and hold it well, as it clocks up the miles and smooths out the ride, rolling well over roots and rocks alike. The RockShox Reba SL matches the intent and capabilities of the bike well. It’s a fork that rewards finesse, tracks well and isn’t overly fazed when things turn technical.
Shimano SLX M7000 in its 2×11 drivetrain guise gives an impressive gear spread that’ll happily tackle long days in the saddle or short sharp grunts, and gives a decent ‘get out of jail free card’ in the shape of a 26×42 winch gear that’s bound to be appreciated on that last climb of a long day. Looks wise it competes well with it’s higher end stable mates.
Add it all together and you get a bike that’s as happy in the mountains as it is whipping around the average trail centre, capable of turning its hand to cross country or dealing efficiently with a rocky Lakeland pass. | {
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01 July 2011
Back in March I commented on the opening of a new nursery school in Alcala, with places for 120 children. This has become the subject of the first public clash of swords between the former and current Mayors - and I suspect it won't be the last.
According to a press release on Wednesday, the nursery has had to be closed because it was in too dangerous a condition. The new administration claims that it was opened before getting its official licence for first occupation, and hadn't been finished off properly; the air conditioning wasn't working, the kitchen wasn't finished, and most significantly, an electrical cable was suspended in the air and not buried underground, as required by a technical report that was discovered in the Town Hall on 7 June.
This has given the new regime a splendid opportunity to write to all the parents of the children informing them of the shortcomings of the old one.
It is claimed that the former Mayor, Arsénio Cordero, opened the nursery on 28 March, with cynical disregard for the safety of the children and employees, in order to to give publicity to his party, the PSOE. (This was apparently the last date on which public works could be opened before the start of the electoral campaign.)
The PSOE have of course denied all the accusations. They claim that nursery building was perfectly legal when it was opened, and met the technical requirements of the construction project (which did not include air conditoning or a kitchen). The reason the cable had not been buried was because 6 metres of it would run through a cañada [canyon], which for environmental reasons requires a period of public consultation before permission can be granted by the Provincial Delegation. This period expires on 10 July and the work can be completed on 11 July.
I am really trying to be objective here. Although I support the PSOE locally, I am perfectly willing to accept that they might be guilty of all sorts of misdemeanours. But if there were any doubts at all about safety in a nursery school, of all places, why would they risk some dreadful accident in the in the period leading up to the election? The new nursery is a great improvement on the old one, with much more space and better facilities. Given that no other school in Alcalá has air-conditioning either, why is it a problem that it isn't working yet?
And looking at the state of the electrical wiring in the streets of Alcalá, is one more overhead cable that much of a threat? Is the new regime going to put all of these underground too? That would be nice ... and would keep our local builders and electricians in work for decades! | {
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While Birmingham’s very own renegade art posse, The Distorted Minds Crew will be cooking up some of the most visually twisted and mind bending designs live right before your eyes.
There will also be an open-art space where you will be able to scrawl up some of your own designs on the night, in keeping with our ethos of collaboration within the local creative community and the projector will be beaming for some more moving eye candy!
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TWO teenage yobs who attacked and robbed a pair of older strangers, breaking one victim’s jaw, have been locked up for a total of eight years.
The surprise dead-of-night assault was announced with 16-year-old Thomas Mann’s first punch and associate Andrew Linton’s declaration: “You’re getting robbed.”
They pounced on 31-year-olds Christopher Norman and David Hutchinson as the men were about to enter a house on The Esplanade, Redcar, in the early hours of July 5.
The men were punched and kicked on the ground by the thugs, who made off with their phones and cash, Teesside Crown Court was told.
Linton put on a knuckle duster and threw a punch which broke Mr Norman’s jaw, while Mr Hutchinson was knocked unconscious, said Gale Gilchrist, prosecuting.
The men were left with cuts, bruises, swelling and grazes to their heads and bodies.
Linton was picked out at an identity parade and Mr Norman’s phone was later found in his bedroom. Mr Hutchinson’s blood was found on one of Mann’s trainers.
Linton, of Westminster Close, Eston, and Mann, of Ullswater Road, Skelton, each admitted the two robberies.
Sentencing, Judge Peter Fox QC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, told the pair it was a gravely serious joint attack and their first custodial sentence was inevitable.
He said: “Both of your victims fell to the ground, both being assaulted by you with kicks and punches to the head and body.
“You expressly declared your purpose of robbery, and that you effected by taking the mobile telephone of each victim and some cash.
“I’ve seen the photographs of the external injuries of each of these victims. It is not only a shocking attack but a surprise attack, and it was a very painful one.
“No doubt it would have left no insignificant consequence.
“Neither of you has got good character to speak of.”
He sent Linton, who already had violence on his criminal record, to a young offenders’ institution for five years.
Mann had previous convictions, including another robbery when he was just 13.
For him, the judge said, even a maximum detention and training order was “wholly inadequate in my judgment for your behaviour and for you as an individual, even if you were to some extent led into this by your co-defendant.” | {
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Mike Pence Sees ‘Hand of Heaven’ on Israel, Recommits to Moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
Vice President Mike Pence recently commemorated the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ vote which led to the establishment of Israel’s nationhood.
The UN resolution to establish the state of Israel took place on November 29th, 1947. In commemorating the anniversary, Pence noted that God’s hand can be seen in these events.
"While Israel was built by human hands, it's impossible not to see the hand of heaven here, too," said Pence, while speaking at the Queens Museum in New York City, which is also the site of the historic UN vote.
In addition to commemorating the 70th anniversary of Israel’s nationhood, Pence reiterated the Trump administration’s commitment to moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"President Trump is actively considering when and how to move the American embassy," Pence stated, adding that “[The United States] stands with Israel because her cause is our cause, her values are our values and her fight is our fight.”
Pence also said that the Trump administration is working to repeal some of the aspects of the Iran Nuclear Deal:
“[O]ur administration is working with Congress to overcome some of the Iran deal’s most glaring problems. Under President Trump, the U.S. will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. This is our solemn promise to you, to Israel and to the world.” | {
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The Philadelphia Eagles acquired Darren Sproles from the New Orleans Saints on Thursday for a fifth-round draft pick.
The move was followed by the Eagles agreeing on a two-year contract with former Dolphins cornerback Nolan Carroll.
The Saints get the second of Philadelphia’s two fifth-round picks in May. It previously belonged to the New England Patriots.
Sproles is coming off one of his least productive seasons. He ranked in the bottom five among punt returners with a 6.7 yards per return average and was third-worst among kick returners with an average of 21.3. Sproles had 71 catches for 604 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 220 yards and two scores.
Carroll had three interceptions and two sacks in 12 starts last season. He’s the fourth free agent signed by the Eagles since Tuesday, joining safety Malcolm Jenkins and special teams standouts Chris Maragos and Bryan Braman. | {
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Dale Monks named Extension Cotton Specialist of Year
A group of cotton industry experts have named C. Dale Monks, professor and Extension cotton specialist with Auburn University, as the 2008 Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year.
Monks received the award at the Extension Cotton Specialist’s awards banquet during the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio.
Sponsored by Bayer CropScience, the annual award and banquet has been a featured event at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences since 1984. Extension cotton specialists representing every cotton-producing state select a recipient annually based on leadership and industry service.
Charles Burmester, Auburn University Extension Agronomist and fellow Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year (2000), began working with Monks at the North Alabama Belle Mina Station in the mid-1980s.
“Dale has always had the ability to relate well to people,” Burmester said. “He has the best interest of farmers at heart, and it shows in everything he does. He is someone you can count on professionally and personally.”
Monks and Burmester share more than a common university. They both grew up on small, diversified farming operations, Monks in Tennessee where his family grew watermelons and sweet potatoes and Burmester in north Alabama. The two even share the same February birthday.
“One thing you notice quickly about Dale is his commitment to his family,” Burmester said. “He has an amazing ability to work collectively with other area Extension agents and still balance work and family responsibilities. Those core values come across in everything he does.”
The foundation of Monks’ research program is focused on the practical problems experienced by cotton and soybean producers in Alabama and the Southeastern United States. This provides him with many opportunities to visit producers in the field and observe problems associated with production. It is through these visits and numerous meetings that he is able to design his research programs to fill specific scientific voids.
His trials are conducted via small plot research trials on Alabama Experiment Station locations and on producers’ farms. Monks believes on-farm research often has a much higher degree of acceptance since the producer can participate and gain a better understanding of the work.
Another area where he is involved is in the “Alabama Cotton Program,” an interdisciplinary effort of agronomists, agricultural engineers, entomologists, plant pathologists and research faculty aimed at providing research and Extension programs. The program targets county agents, crop consultants, producers, industry representatives, and state and national cotton interests.
As an Extension crop physiologist, Monks has worked primarily with cotton and soybean variety evaluations, plant growth regulators for cotton, plant growth and development, and environmental impact on cotton.
Burmester said Monks is “very deserving of this award, and I think it shows his dedication to Alabama agriculture and cotton in particular. I am proud to call him my colleague and friend.”
Steve Nichols, Bayer CropScience U.S. agronomic manager, said the company is proud to sponsor this longstanding award.
“Extension has always been one of the cornerstones of this industry, and we are pleased to congratulate Dale Monks on this notable achievement in his career,” Nichols said. “Dale delivers a high level of professionalism and has a strong commitment to his customers, colleagues and family. It is a pleasure to see Dale recognized by his peers for his dedication and service to the industry.”
Monks has been honored for his work in agriculture and has served many roles, including: Alabama Extension Specialists Association president (in 2000) and American Society of Agronomy (1999). He received the Early Career Award for Technology Transfer, Southern Branch of American Society of Agronomy in1997.
Monks is involved in several committees at Auburn University and holds several positions with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), including Environmental Issues Group, leader for biotechnology (2002 — present); chairman, State Cotton Expo (1993 — present); member, Alabama Experiment Station Soil Testing Services, Agronomy and Soils (2000 — present); and member, Central Alabama Cotton Workshop Committee (1999 — present). He served as director, Alabama Extension Specialists Association, Agriculture and Natural Resources, ACES (2002 — 2004). Monks is also a member of the Southern Conservation-Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture Planning, Agronomy and Soils.
Monks received his bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University, his master’s degree from the University of Arkansas and his doctorate degree from the University of Georgia. He and his wife Terri have been married for 25 years and have three children. | {
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Your local Scumbag Radio DJ lives in a magical land where deep cuts don't exist, an "all request" hour is suspiciously similar to the regular predetermined Clear Channel line-up, and "commercial-free" actually means "we'll do live reads and repeat our call letters and slogan between each song." It's a land where radio DJs still obnoxiously talk over the beginning and end of the song to impede those of us holding a tape recorder up to the speaker to steal the song (because that totally still happens post-Napster).
The Scumbag Radio DJ buys "jokes" off Prepburger and thinks cheesy sound effects will punch up their long-winded anecdotes about shopping. The Scumbag Radio DJ thinks every band has only two songs and "Call Me Maybe" should be played every other hour. You probably hate the Scumbag Radio DJ, and so do we.
A meme appeared on Quickmeme last month to catalog our many complaints about this insufferable staple of an obsolete format. Our favorite image macros about the Scumbag Radio DJ are collected below. Thanks to Quickmeme for the assist.
Join The Discussion
I was a Scumbag Radio DJ for years and we hate the same songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and, you get the picture, as much as you. In my day it wasn’t “Call Me Maybe” but “Hotel California”. The Scumbag Radio DJ does what they do to keep their job, you see, stations that try to offer some variety get creamed in the ratings. If you want variety listen to stations that offer it. | {
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Phoenix Suns fans made it clear during the last game of the season that they want Steve Nash to finish out his career with them. The “We Want Nash” chants and all the signs were a heartwarming sight, but unfortunately sentimentality doesn’t always get you what you want.
“I think the team could use more playmakers,” he said. “It depends on your strategy. You could go for bigs. You could go for a consistent 20-a-game scorer. Or you could go for a few more playmakers are different positions. The team and the club need to really analyze what their philosophy is moving forward and put a contingency plan together to build the best team. It’ll be an interesting period.”
It’s not an unreasonable request for the two-time MVP. Nash only has a couple years left to play and he doesn’t want to spend them on a bad team. He showed this year that he’s still got it. He was second in the league in assists behind Rajon Rondo and if you look at the team that’s around him, he clearly still has the ability to make his teammates better than what they should be capable of.
But he’s putting the Suns in a tough place. This summer will be an offseason full of restricted free agents, meaning that the Suns may have to overpay for talent that they might be able to get for cheaper next summer. However, Nash won’t want to wait until next summer, he wants to see the improvements now. To clear enough cap space to pay unrestricted free agents they’ll need to dump a good chunk of the team they have now, which could possibly include Robin Lopez, Shannon Brown, Michael Redd and even Grant Hill. These guys all have talent, but if the Suns have to get rid of their contracts to sign some bigger names and make Nash happy, I say go for it.
The Suns should be doing everything they can to try and recreate the magic of the team that almost made it to the NBA Finals (damn hip check). Get some All-Stars around Steve Nash and see what he can do with some real talent. If they have to overpay a little bit this year, it’s probably worth it to keep Nash around rather than have him leave behind a group of B-teamers. | {
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Paradol
Monday, April 8, 2013
It seems we have caused some ruffles in New Eden, and [AJSIE] has ticked some people and corporations off.
A pretty busy weekend for my EVE-Mail inbox, as I had received at first an extortion letter from Stryker McGavin demanding 100 million ISK or we will be hunted down. Not too notable an issue, aside from the affiliation of his current corporation, ROME0-The First One is Always Free.
ROME0is a member of TEST, who of course needs no introductions from a miner in Anttiri.
So Why?
Someone placed a bounty on us supposedly, yet no bounty amount shows against theAJSIEcorporation. So... a personal contract then, agreed to with a corporation allied withTEST, to hunt down members of a small HiSec industrial corp...
As I have said... we pissed someone off.
To add to the fun, the next day,Kingdom of Demons[K-O-D] declares war on us... This one is a little easier to understand.
The little thief, Murhain Agittain, amuses himself by buzzing around in a slave transport, stealing ore from unsecured cans in hisec. Of course this is only to instigate a retaliatory response so he and his bored buds have new corps to declare war on.
Bring It....
My usual sign off would be peace... I don't think that will apply for awhile... | {
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enMills and Mill Villages Photograph Collection http://www.provlib.org/blog/mills-and-mill-villages-photograph-collection
<p><em>This is a guest post from Spring 2014 intern, Taylor McNeilly. Tyalor is currently in the MLIS program at Simmons College in Boston. </em></p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/mills-and-mill-villages-photograph-collection" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/mills-and-mill-villages-photograph-collection#commentsarchitectureMillsphotographsRhode IslandRhode Island CollectionRhode Island historyWPARhode Island RedThu, 13 Mar 2014 19:49:48 +0000kwells4821 at http://www.provlib.orgRhode Island Theatre Collectionhttp://www.provlib.org/blog/rhode-island-theatre-collection
<p>Just in time to close out 2013, I'm happy to announce the newly processed <a href="http://www.provlib.org/sites/default/files/MSS%20017%20RI%20Theatre%20Collection%20Finding%20Aid_0.pdf" target="_blank">Rhode Island Theatre Collection</a>. This collection pulls together a number of theatre and performance materials previously uncataloged in the Rhode Island Collection. Our Fall intern, Jessica Lemieux, spent many hours organizing the items by theatre and then chronologically, rehousing them into archival folders and boxes and inventorying the them.<p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/rhode-island-theatre-collection" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/rhode-island-theatre-collection#commentsProvidenceRhode IslandRhode Island CollectionTheatreTheatre historyRhode Island RedFri, 27 Dec 2013 19:45:51 +0000kwells4725 at http://www.provlib.orgSeances, Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!http://www.provlib.org/blog/seances-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my
<p>Starting this evening, the Providence Public Library will be helping to host the <a href="http://www.film-festival.org/Horror_ri.php" target="_blank">RI International Horror Film Festival</a>. Getting into the spirit of the film festival and Halloween, here's a highlight of some or the Rhode Island Collection ghoulish works.</p><p> </p><p><img src="/sites/default/files/u35/photo%203.JPG" alt="" width="400" height="604" /></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/seances-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/seances-vampires-and-ghosts-oh-my#commentsghostshauntingsmesmerismRhode Island CollectionRhode Island historyRhode Island RedFri, 18 Oct 2013 19:25:37 +0000kwells4618 at http://www.provlib.orgIn Celebration of the Fourth of Julyhttp://www.provlib.org/blog/celebration-fourth-july
<p>The Rhode Island Collection has over 75 published pamphlets and printed speeches related to the celebration of Independence Day going back as early as 1788. Rhode Islanders have a storied tradition of celebrating Fourth of July - most especially in Bristol where the city hosts the oldest annual official celebration in the country dating back to 1785.</p><p><img src="/sites/default/files/u6/An%20Oration.jpg" alt="" width="319" height="577" /></p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/celebration-fourth-july" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/celebration-fourth-july#commentsFourth of JulyholidaysIndependence Daypamphletsrare booksRhode Island CollectionRhode Island historyRhode Island RedFri, 05 Jul 2013 15:59:57 +0000kwells4499 at http://www.provlib.orgNew on Exhibit - Hurricane Seasonhttp://www.provlib.org/blog/new-exhibit-hurricane-season
<p>Hurricane season on the east coast started on June 1st. The <a href="http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/hurricane-season-outlook-april-20130408">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association</a> (NOAA) is predicting an active year, but Rhode Islanders have weathered the storms before. </p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/new-exhibit-hurricane-season" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/new-exhibit-hurricane-season#commentsexhibitshurricanesRhode Island CollectionRhode Island historyRhode Island RedSat, 15 Jun 2013 15:36:45 +0000kwells4485 at http://www.provlib.orgEating like a Local: Clam Chowder and Clam Cakeshttp://www.provlib.org/blog/eating-local-clam-chowder-and-clam-cakes
<p>Full disclosure readers - I'm not a Rhode Island native. I grew up on the south shore of Massachusetts. Despite many day trips to Providence and Rhode Island beaches during my youth and the fact that I have made Rhode Island my recent home, I have much to learn about the local culture and traditions. And so I'll be sharing with you my adventures as I explore the state and will tie it all back in with our Rhode Island Collection materials. </p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/eating-local-clam-chowder-and-clam-cakes" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/eating-local-clam-chowder-and-clam-cakes#commentsclam chowderFoodrecipesrestaurantsRhode Island CollectionRhode Island RedWed, 05 Jun 2013 21:05:43 +0000kwells4469 at http://www.provlib.orgHonoring our Armed Forces in Rhode Island http://www.provlib.org/blog/honoring-our-armed-forces-rhode-island
<p>As we head into this Memorial Day weekend with the excitement of the start of summer and a long weekend of parades and cook-outs, it's worth taking time out to remember the Rhode Islanders who have served in our armed forces and for whom this holiday is dedicated. </p><p> </p><p><img src="/sites/default/files/u35/WC1002.jpg" alt="" width="575" height="296" /></p><p><em>WC1002, Hazel Greenleaf Collection. no. 85. Rhode Island Collection. Providence Public Library.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/honoring-our-armed-forces-rhode-island" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/honoring-our-armed-forces-rhode-island#commentshistoryMemorial DayParadeProvidenceRhode Island CollectionSoldiersRhode Island RedFri, 24 May 2013 20:42:58 +0000kwells4456 at http://www.provlib.orgGreetings and salutationshttp://www.provlib.org/blog/greetings-and-salutations
<p>I’m so pleased to be starting here at the Providence Public Library as the new Rhode Island Collection Librarian. You can’t imagine how thrilled I am to be working with this collection – the statewide focus belies the wide variety of materials that one can find in it. Everything from early printed monographs (that’s just a book y’all!), pamphlets, maps, photographs and postcards. In just my first two weeks on the job I’ve come across an 18<sup>th</sup> century newspaper issue, Civil War photographs and a commemorative book by the telephone company for t<p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/greetings-and-salutations" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/greetings-and-salutations#commentsintroductionlibrarianRhode Island CollectionRhode Island RedThu, 16 May 2013 16:32:30 +0000kwells4455 at http://www.provlib.orgWomen's History Month: In Loving Memory of her Little Girl: Past, Present, and Place in the Gladys Potter Garden http://www.provlib.org/blog/womens-history-month-loving-memory-her-little-girl-past-present-and-place-gladys-potter-garden
<p>This month I want to highlight Women's History Month by featuring an article by Rhode Island Collection researcher and Historian, Laura Prieto. Laura is a History/Women's and Gender Studies Professor at Simmons College in Boston, MA. She visited the Providence Public Library last month to research Gladys and Josephine Potter and the Gladys Potter Garden in Providence, RI.<p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/womens-history-month-loving-memory-her-little-girl-past-present-and-place-gladys-potter-garden" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/womens-history-month-loving-memory-her-little-girl-past-present-and-place-gladys-potter-garden#commentsRhode Island CollectionRhode Island RedWed, 13 Mar 2013 14:00:42 +0000tpotter4385 at http://www.provlib.orgResearch Tips and Tricks: Historic Business Researchhttp://www.provlib.org/blog/research-tips-and-tricks-historic-business-research
<p>Many requests that come across my desk have to do with historic business research. Patrons often want to find out any information on a particular business in Rhode Island; anything from where the business was located to how long they were in business. When I tackle such requests, one of my first impulses is to consult our collection of city directories.</p><p><a href="http://www.provlib.org/blog/research-tips-and-tricks-historic-business-research" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.provlib.org/blog/research-tips-and-tricks-historic-business-research#commentsRhode Island CollectionRhode Island RedWed, 12 Dec 2012 15:18:09 +0000tpotter4305 at http://www.provlib.org | {
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Andrew Korner
Journalist
Andrew was born and bred in Ipswich and has been at the QT since 2007. After starting out on the country rounds, he moved onto court reporting and then police and emergency services, which he has now been covering for the last three years. When he is not working on police rounds Andrew is busy sifting through the garbage of famous people, in search of ideas for his weekly column, the Naughty Korner. As there are very few famous people in Ipswich, Andrew is often forced to write his column about...
POLICE have seized an estimated $18 million in cannabis after raiding a sophisticated plantation near Esk this week.
Five men have been charged after police uncovered the operation at Buaraba on Thursday.
Detectives from the State Crime Command's Drug and Serious Crime Group, with assistance from the Gatton Criminal Investigation Branch, executed a search warrant at a property on Gatton-Esk Rd.
Police said the property consisted of a commercial sized shed and four industrial sized greenhouses, where police seized 3,731 cannabis plants, 1kg of dried cannabis and equipment allegedly used in the production of hydroponic cannabis including an intricate irrigation system.
The total estimated value of the crop is more than $18 million. Five men, including two aged 42, a 41-year-old, a 38-year-old and a 62-year-old were all charged with producing dangerous drugs, possessing dangerous drugs and possessing anything used in the commission of a crime. They will face court at a later date. | {
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• The Routt County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against a 29-year-old Steamboat Springs man accused of distributing methamphetamine to a person working with the All Crimes Enforcement Team drug task force. Steamboat man suspected of dealing methamphetamine | {
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"I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighborhood" is track #1 on the album Blues Summit. It was written by King, Riley B..
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I think I'm gonna have to move, people
I gotta move out of my neighborhood
Hey, I said I'm gonna have to move
I gotta get out of my neighborhood
Because you see
The women they tell lies on me
And the men they just don't mean me
No doggone good
Every time my telephone rings
Some lady trying to play
Some old funny game on me
Every time my telephone rings
Some lady trying to play
Some old funny game on me
And every time my front doorbell rings
Some angry six foot man
With a knife in his hand
They say I'm in love with a woman
That works down at the Chicken Shack
They say Deacon Jones' wife
Gave me a brand new Cadillac
That's why I gotta move
I gotta get out of my neighborhood
I tell you the people
They tell lies on me
Hey, they just don't mean me
No doggone good
My landlady came by my apartment
She came by just to make up my bed
But it took her all night long
Can you imagine what the neighbors said
That's why I gotta move
Hey, I gotta get out
Of my neighborhood
I tell you the people
They tell lies on me
Hey, they just don't mean me
No doggone good
Hey, I gotta move
Hey, I gotta move
I gotta move
I gotta move
Hey, the people, the people
Don't like me here, people
Oh you know they just don't mean me
No doggone good
Nobody loves me but my mother
Sometimes I think
She could be jiving, too
Hey, nobody
Nobody loves me but my mother
And she could be jiving, too
Now I think you know
Why I act funny, baby
Oh when you do the things you do | {
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The every day stories of three every day monkeys ..... now embarking on a whole series of new adventures after swapping the many pleasures of Wolverhampton for a more peaceful, bijoux, riverside way of life in Evesham.
MY DIFFERENT PAGES ..........
Thursday, 23 May 2013
OMG–Nigel and Darrell The Totally Unofficial Faux Faces Of Kinder!!!!
When we got in from work yesterday there was a parcel of a very mysterious type nature waiting in the porch of Castle Greysquirrel addressed to Monkey, Darrell and Nigel ….. to wit us!!!!!We didn’t recognise the handwriting, but were very excited by the romantic London postmark, because parcels from London are always very important.
We let Nigel do the honour of revealing the contents of the said parcel ….. OMG …OMG ...OMG… his (and our) eyes were as big as saucers as we all spotted the name “Kinder” through the bubble wrap …… and we have to admit, by this stage all our hearts were going ten to the dozen!!!It seems that although Darrell and Nigel had recovered fairly quickly after the mahoooosive,slight disappointment of both their applications to be the Face of Kinder 2013 being “rejected” as unsuitable, under a minor technicality, namely – that they are monkeys and not children (as required) …..
….The Lovely Kirsten from Kinder had obviously got wind of their let down and taken it very much to heart and in an effort to help Darrell and Nigel get over their “rejection” had sent them each their very own “Totally Unofficial Faux Face of Kinder 2013” packs …… A deafening silence fell upon our kitchen as we looked at them, we were all totally overwhelmed and moved in a Hello Magazine type way.
And, we are not ashamed to say that there were several manly sniffs …. to think that someone from such a company, in the midst of a national (worldwide??) campaign could be so kind and thoughtful as to take on board Darrell and Nigel's disappointment!
However, once Nigel had regained his composure, he immediately suggested that we had …. "better get stuck in" as it would look awfully ungrateful and rude not too! It was a gift that was meant to be eaten with robust pleasure and gusto, rather than just looked at …. and it would be wicked to let them go stale …..!
What is he like?
There then followed much happy nomming!!! ….. Our score on our Richter scale of noms? …… 20/10 of course!! Thank you Kirsten and everyone at The Kinder Factory, you’ve made three monkeys very happy, this was well worth being rejected for!!!!! xxxxx
Aren't surprises wonderful? Kirsten recognized the injustice of that one little technicality and made it right! I am certain those at Kinder can now see how your fantastic pictures enhance their candy....Save the wrappers!!....Dianne | {
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>Their Technical Department was not encouraging about
>effecting Content-Negotiation but I found that inserting the following
>PHP code ..........
>if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]) and
>stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"],"application/xhtml+xml") ) {My
>header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
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Unfortunately this is incorrect, and would violate HTTP 1.1, the Accept
header is considerably richer in what it can say than the above uses.
Particularly q values of 0, so you should also take care to not send xhtml
to an UA with accept headers containing:
text/html,x.application/xhtml+xml
text/html,application/xhtml+xml+chickens
text/html,application/xhtml+xml;q=0
text/html,application/xhtml+xml; q=0
text/html,application/prs.jibberjim; level="application/xhtml+xml"
or probably some other things, this is by no means an exhaustive list. See
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1 for more
information.
Cheers,
Jim. | {
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Where is My Heart? is a 2D puzzle platformer about three forest spirits (coloured brown, orange and black) who are lost in the forest. The player has to help them piece back together the environment so they can get home to the tree where they live. The game consists of 26 single screen levels. They are completed when the three spirits reach the magical tree.
The three spirits always appear at the start of the level and are controlled separately by switching between them. They are all able to move around and jump. They can stand on top of each other to reach platforms and buttons can make blocks and platforms appear in the environment. In specific locations they can form a tower of three spirits and the one at the top then transforms into a magical creature with a specific ability. The brown spirit becomes Antler Ancestor who can double jump. The orange spirit becomes Rainbow Spirit and can rotate the world. The black spirit becomes Bat King and is able to illuminate the environment to reveal platforms only visible to it.
The most prominent puzzle element of the game is that the level is split up in several comic-book panels. These form a single environment, but are often not in the right order and all over the screen. Even though they are apart, the logical sequence of the panels is maintained, meaning that if a character exists a panel to the right, it will appear in the next panel following the logical order, regardless of the position of the panel on the screen. The most difficult puzzles are used in conjunction with the orange spirit's ability to rotate the world. The character can jump, freeze in the air and then rotate the world to continue in another panel, even if that would be logically impossible. If the character is released outside of a panel or if any character falls down a gap, it dies immediately but restarts from the beginning.
Next to merely completing a level, it is possible to finish it in a better way by collecting all hearts along the way. There is also a perfect way to complete a level by collecting all hearts without dying once. Levels are unlocked one after another, but by perfecting them it is possible to reveal some earlier.
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