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IBEW Statement on EPA Carbon
|New EPA regulations could mean lost jobs and disruptions to the energy grid.
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The IBEW is studying the lengthy rule on carbon emissions for existing facilities. We will review it with a fair but critical eye, as our concerns with the EPA’s new rule are the same as we have expressed over past agency dictates — namely that the regulations focus solely on the environmental aspect of public policy at the expense of balancing our nation’s economic and energy needs.
The President spoke eloquently over the weekend about concerns for public health and cleaner air. Like most Americans, we share those goals. It will do our nation little good however, to achieve these goals at the expense of a balanced energy portfolio capable of meeting the demands of modern society. The jobs of thousands of working men and women and the well-being of their communities are also worthy of saving.
The EPA has a track record of underestimating the impact of its rules, making faulty predictions that have cost tens of thousands of good jobs. In 2011 the IBEW and several other unions testified before the agency, predicting that 56 gigawatts of generation would be lost due to plant closings under then-proposed rules. At the time, the EPA estimated only 4.7 gigawatts would be lost. Experts now confirm that 56 gigawatts will indeed be lost by 2016. Approximately 90 percent of the plants scheduled to close were required to run during last winter’s polar vortex to prevent grid disruption. We will critically examine the new rules to determine how much additional capacity could be lost.
Despite the wishes of the President and the environmental movement, renewable energy such as wind and solar are simply not ready to replace other fuel sources in meeting the demand for electrical power and will not be for the foreseeable future. That leaves natural gas as the only viable alternative in the short term. Our nation has learned from bitter experience that relying too heavily on one energy source is not a sound policy.
We will continue to work with the President and the EPA to craft rules that are more in tune with the reality of the electrical power system and that are part of a balanced approach that moves our nation toward achieving all of its goals for the environment, the economy and our energy future.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
The Right Not To Learn
This is an important right in the United States of America. David Brooks, among other conservative columnists, often writes about the horrible liberal elitists in their ivory towers, the ones who are not your salt-of-the-earth type of people with the proper scorn towards book learning. The Palin sagas showed us that the Right To Remain Ignorant is something many would like to see as a constitutional amendment.
Sinclair Lewis notes this tendency in his 1930s anti-fascist novel It Can't Happen Here, so the tendency is not exactly a new one. But it IS a very American one.
And more complicated than it seems at first glance, because people just don't walk around, eyes closed and fingers in their ears, trying their utmost to stay as ignorant as possible. Rather, the assumption is that one already knows everything that is necessary to know, and that the solution one arrives at, based on that mysteriously acquired knowledge, is the correct one.
Hence Lewis' picture in the book about the contempt many Americans in the 1930s held for the job of a politician: Why, anyone could do it! The problems are obvious and the solutions even more so! If you just get rid of the current scum and install some new ignorant people you will do well!.
Where that initial (and sufficient) knowledge comes from is unclear. But personal experience rates very highly as an acceptable source. That such personal experience may not be typical and even might be highly colored by emotions of the less admirable kind isn't addressed in this way of thinking, perhaps because to gather other types of information would require the equivalent of that hated book learning.
This whole topic is an odd one. I can see myself writing on it, through the eyeballs of David Brooks, and what do I see? An elitist (?) goddess, someone who is not in the mainstream, someone who is not real and wholesome and in touch of the truthiness that is everywhere. How dare she write on this topic? Who does she think she is? Is she ridiculing the ignorant?
And that shows you the marvelous sleight-of-hand that has taken place! Knowledge has become not something that you have to work to acquire but something which is about emotions, about social rankings, about making yourself better than other people! Perversely, knowledge has become something which props hierarchies! And the solution to this dilemma is not to open up the gates of learning for all but to deny the value of learning altogether. Or, perhaps, to ridicule the ignorant ones because that props up another type of hierarchy?
Instead of discussing the very important questions about information, bias and the limits of learning of all types, what do we do, in the public political debates? I think people defend their own truthiness, not in the sense of digging up evidence or juxtaposing explanations but in an emotional sense: What the f**k makes you think that your knowledge is better than mine? We are all equal here!
It is oddly emotional. But we don't see it that way because politics is not labeled the emotional exercise it often is. It is also based on the idea that everything we are presented with should be easy-to-digest and delicious, and that's something the television has created. If you expect to acquire all the information you need by lying on the sofa with a nice cool (it's so hot here!) bottle of beer in your paw, you are going to be sorely disappointed.
Learning really is hard work. Sure, you can make it more interesting, you can teach better, you can personalize the message and provide an easier path to more knowledge. But ultimately learning is hard work, and that is one of the reasons why it is possible to sell learning as unnecessary.
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Lessons Learned From Lolo Creek Fire – Community Meeting July 15 [AUDIO]
A wide variety of agencies are presenting a Lolo community wildfire preparedness meeting on Tuesday,July 15 at the Lolo Community Center.
Executive Director of Firesafe Montana Jennifer LaManna said that residents who lived through the Lolo Creek Complex fire last summer will have the opportunity to go over the lessons they learned, and how to respond if another fire should break out.
“This is a meeting for anyone to get more information on how they can be prepared for next year,” she said. “Agencies involved include the main sponsor, the Lolo Community Council, along with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association, Missoula Rural Fire, Firesafe Montana, Bitterroot Resource Conservation and Development, Missoula Disaster and Emergency Services, the Lolo National Forest and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.”
LaManna said attendees will have the opportunity to look back on what happened last year, and be better prepared for a fire this summer.
“We’ll have a discussion about the evacuation process and how decisions were made there,” she said. “We’ll even have details about some new tools to make evacuations go even smoother this year, as well as keep our families safer.”
LaManna said the meeting is not just for Lolo residents.
“Everyone is invited to come, from Missoula and Ravalli County,” she said. “This meeting is a good nexus to get discussions going on how to be prepared for another fire.”
The Lolo Community Center is located at 12345 Highway 93 South.
Below, find a complete schedule of agencies and discussion topics..
Refreshments and introductions
Discussion and simulation of what happened on the Lolo Complex Wildfire. The on-scene Incident Commanders of the wildfire in Lolo Creek will recap the initial 48-hour interagency response to a fire that would rapidly become the nation’s #1 priority.
Discussion of the evacuation protocol during the Lolo Complex, how to prepare for the next evacuation, and enhancing your family’s emergency preparedness throughMissoulaCounty’s Smart 911 program.
Managing your property and small forest to increase forest health, decrease the risk of catastrophic fire, and how to receive grant funding to help get the job done!
Ready Set Go- putting all the pieces together.
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Great vidio alex!! I know I know I somtimes get nervous when playing good players
when you go so quickly like that, its hard to understand.
@benzo: yes i saw that. I think it is a bit too rushed. I thought of a6 and then b5, to open the a file, but Rc7 also introduces the idea of b5. Then, you get the file right off the bat. Rc7 gives multiple ideas, where as b5 is one-dimensional.
"Maybe it's better not to be the best, then you can lose and it's okay."
No, Josh. Just learn to handle losing.
Very good lecture, Alex!
At 12:50, would b5 be ok for Black?
this was sort of like a Seinfeld episode ... hand wringing ... crazy topic ... humorous and what else can I say ... cutting egde! Great job!
I watched this the morning before I had a tournament game where I beat someone 400 points better, using your advice. I was able to play against an unsound sacrifice in the dragon and pressed instead of curling into a ball like I have in the past (I'm 1540 v 1940). Thank you for this good practical advice and the accompanying examples :)
One of the most helpful videos on Chess.com and I've watched hundreds. Extremely important things to consider here. Thank you very much!
No "professor" moves. That's a good one.
I'll always remember the Nakamura-Lenderman game as the "Lenderman Shuffle".
"Respect everyone, fear no one."
Excellent job covering a common yet rarely discussed topic. When we see you admit to your mistakes and overcoming them it somehow makes it easier for us to do so. It's honest introspection such as this that is key to improvement at all levels. Also, congratulations on winning the National Open!
Guilty, as charged, Alex.
I know that fear of losing is my largest shortcoming, and hope to venture out more psychologically because of this video. I know opponents love to punish your confidence when it doesn't work.
Sorry about the "Alex" familarity. I'm currently reading "Kings of New York", and feel kind of like I know you.
Playing just the board, not the opponent, is easier said than done.
You are so right. In the my last OTB tournament, I offered a draw against a WIM being a pawn up. She accepted it, and I again missed the chance to score a full point against a titled player. Almost seems that against stronger players there are only two results in my mind, lose or draw the game. Maybe this series helps me to remove that mental blockade.
Good video sir!
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Gone is the brewpub scene, replaced by a standard faux-Italian setting that Bravo! describes as "Roman ruin decor." This is accomplished with plaster columns in the Corinthian manner, topped off with replica plaster beams that appear to have been broken off in a Pompeii-like disaster. Roughened antique-look beige plaster walls and scattered chunks of plaster bas-relief wall decorations accentuate the ancient-Roman look. A few big potted palms and heavy circular hanging lamps add a hint of the 19th Century; track lighting in the no-smoking section (inefficiently separated from the smokers) is carefully positioned to illuminate the tables, a helpful touch.
An open kitchen, shiny in stainless steel and glass, gives diners a view of the chefs at work; their busy hollering adds a distinct note of controlled chaos to the restaurant's otherwise discreet background music. Sturdy tables are draped in white cloth covered with protective butcher paper (and a few Crayolas for the kids to draw with), and youngsters are also given yellow balloons in this child-friendly place.
An unopened bottle of Chianti is placed on every table as a decoration and, perhaps, to encourage wine sales, although somewhat to our surprise, instead of the usual invitation to cocktails, our server led with "Can I get you started with a Pepsi or something?" Well, no, thanks.
Bravo! makes a point of training waitstaff to provide exceptional service, a process that seems to yield spotty results. Our server was friendly and cordial (and earned a decent tip), but she seemed to do her job from a script rather than by observation. She was careful to explain the menu in almost painstaking detail, and checked - almost too often - to see how we were doing. But our water glasses went unattended throughout the meal, and we were left to handle our own wine refills (a function that I'm just as happy to serve without assistance anyway).
A bit uneasy with the wine ritual, she got the cork out of our Chianti after some struggle, then neglected to offer a taste before filling the glasses up to the brim. Nor did she think to ask how we wanted our steaks and chops cooked - a lapse that I fortunately noticed, intervening with a bid for rare rather than risking chef's choice.
Speaking of wine, the list is relatively impressive for a "casual eatery," featuring more than 60 selections by the bottle (and a dozen by the glass) on a worldwide list that tilts toward Italy but also ranges from the U.S. to South America to Down Under. Bottle prices range from $16 (for Stival Pinot Grigio) to $99 (for Argiano Brunello di Montalcino; the top white is Staglin Family Vineyard Chardonnay for $75), with plenty of good choices in the teens and $20s range. Wines by the glass are $5.25 to $8.95 and appear to be priced at one-third of the bottle price, which makes a bottle seem like a better buy for parties of two or more.
One of the less-expensive wines on the list looked like the best bargain: Renzo Masi 2000 Chianti Rufina (from an often neglected satellite of the Chianti region near Florence). At $18 for a bottle, $5.95 a glass, it's not badly marked up over the $13 local retail shelf price for the '98. There's nothing fancy or elegant about this wine - hey, it's a Chianti! But it's soft and so fruity it almost seems sweet, simple but approachable, with warm dark cherry and plum flavors and plenty of acidity to go with food.
If you prefer something stronger, there's full bar service, including grappa, single-malts and a half-dozen martinis from the O-shaped bar that's off to the left as you enter.
The menu is fairly extensive and covers a range of mostly familiar Italian and Italian-American dishes. Appetizers are $3.95 (for Italian wedding soup or the soup of the day) to $8.95 (for baked cheese ravioli under cheesy Alfredo sauce or the redundantly named "shrimp scampi"). A signature starter is artichoke and spinach cheese dip with flatbread, $7.95.
Side salads (included with dinner entrees) are $3.25 to $4.95 a la carte; dinner salads are $8.95 to $9.95. Pizzas and flatbreads from the igloo-shaped Italian wood oven - too large for an appetizer, our server advised - are $6.95 to $8.95.
About 25 main-course options are subdivided among Specialita della Casa ("house specialties"), Pasta, Bistecca ("steaks"), Seafood and Specialita di Grilia ("grilled specialties"), and range in price from $8.95 (for spaghetti Bolognese, spaghetti with meat sauce in the style of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna) to $19.95 (for an 8-ounce beef filet topped with Gorgonzola cheese). The catch of the day, not available at the time of our visit, is market price.
Complemintary foccacia bread - made on the premises, the server said - was served warm in an attractive wire basket lined with paper napkins. It was light and crumbly with a pleasantly crisp but not chewy crust, heavily laced with dried herbs, served with a splash of olive oil flavored with sun-dried tomatoes and more dried herbs.
The soup of the day, cream of mushroom ($3.95) was served in a white porcelain cup that looked a bit like a baptismal font for a doll. A Roman doll, of course. The soup was good, rich with cream, full of brown-mushroom flavor and a pleasant nutty nuance - perhaps a dash of walnut oil - garnished with chopped parsley and a dollop of fruity, peppery green olive oil dribbled on top. Served hot it would have been perfect; lukewarm service knocked off a few points.
Pepperoni "Tasca" ("pocket") flatbread ($6.95) made a hearty appetizer, enough for two to share or to be a light dinner course. This pizza-style starter consisted of a half-circle (four slices) of crisp flatbread with large, thin rounds of pepperoni captured between two layers of thin, breadlike crust, baked like a pizza and topped with thin-sliced onions, bits of canned Italian-style tomato and shavings of hard Italian-style cheese. It came with a wide ramekin of standard-issue marinara sauce with a pool of granular white cheese that looked a little like cottage cheese but was probably crumbled feta.
In a pleasant touch, salad forks and plates (as well as dessert spoons) come to the table cold, stored in a wine cooler box, the server said.
Chopped salad ($3.25 a la carte, $2.55 with pizza or pasta, included free with entrees) was chopped all right - a mound of crisp lettuce, tomato, cucumber and black olives chopped into small bits and tossed together with a sweetish dressing.
The Caesar salad (same price structure) was a little better, a standard presentation of crisp, cold romaine lettuce cut in squares, topped with a creamy Caesar dressing (no whole anchovies but there's a slight, pleasant whiff of them, probably from Worcestershire sauce), and dressed with plenty of grated Parmesan and small, crunchy croutons made from toasted foccacia bread.
Some of the pasta dishes looked tempting in a comfort-food way - I wavered over "Mama's lasagna, ($10.95); but grilled meats evoke Tuscany, a Northern Italian region more focused on the grill than the pasta pot, and we decided to indulge.
The wood-grilled double-cut lamb chop ($18.95) was a full rack cut into two four-bone sections, ordered medium-rare and served dead rare, it came to the table pale pink and just barely warmed through. It's a good thing we don't mind it like that. Excellent lamb indeed, it was tender enough to eat with a spoon.
Twin filets scampi style ($18.50) featured two petite (4-ounce) filet mignons of equally high quality, criss-crossed with grill marks, seared on the outside and warm pink medium-rare in the center, just as ordered, served on what looks like a red-wine reduction atop a then, herb-butter sauce on the plate. It was garnished with three fair-size grilled shrimp on a skewer, which looked appetizing but proved otherwise: The shrimp were mushy and overcooked and short on flavor.
Both dinners were served with "Tuscan" mashed potatoes (dense and thick, studded with fine-minced scallions) and string beans that someone in the kitchen apparently mistook for haricots verts - they needed a half-hour of simmering and apparently got about 30 seconds of blanching, coming to the table bright green, woody and raw - topped with a small ration of diced tomatoes.
We passed on richer desserts in favor of ice cream and sorbet, which came in oversize portions on large plates, garnished with a triangular sugar cookie and a pretty good strawberry considering the season. Mocha crunch gelato ($3.95) was really good, creamy and flavorful, with a distinct coffee flavor and crunchy bits of bittersweet chocolate to add textural interest. Lemon sorbetto ($3.95) was dense and snappy with tart lemon flavor. It seemed a bit heavy for a sorbet, but we had no objection to the taste.
You wouldn't ask for a coffee drink with milk in Italy any later than breakfast, but hey, this is Louisville, and big cups of frothy cappuccino ($2.65) made a warming finish to the evening.
Nothing was really bad except the beans, but the overall experience, as noted, left me more inclined to mutter "OK" than jump to my feet yelling the restaurant's name. For a dinner that came to $82.20 with a very modest wine and rounded up to just a buck under $100 with a $16.80 tip, I expect a little more excitement. $$$ | <urn:uuid:7d510cc7-f96b-468d-ad6e-8c19dc19be97> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/bravo.shtml | 2016-10-24T23:31:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719815.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00461-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952852 | 2,483 | [
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Local Chef to Study in Spain
Jeffrey Weiss of Mission College looks forward to culinary training with Spanish chefs
By Stett Holbrook
FOR Spanish-food lovers in Silicon Valley the pickings are pretty slim. But Jeffrey Weiss hopes to change that. Weiss graduated with top honors from Mission College's hospitality program two years ago. He went on to Cornell University's prestigious hotel-administration program, where he has spent the past two years. He says that his education at Mission College and his experience cooking with Lion and Compass chef and mentor Steve Chan prepared him well for the rigors of the program.
Ever since he traveled to Spain several years ago, he has loved Spanish food and has aspired to open a Spanish restaurant of his own in Silicon Valley. Back when he was a student at Mission College, department head W. Haze Dennis remarked on Weiss' drive and focus. "I wouldn't be surprised to see his name out there," he said. "He's very ambitious."
Weiss is taking another step toward his goal as he heads off on a year-long scholarship to cook in Spain in August with some of the country's biggest names. The scholarship was awarded by the Exterior Cultural Ministry of Spain and is given to only 12 young cooks around the world, only two of whom are from the United States.
Weiss, 32, apparently has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. While at Cornell, he made a connection with Spanish cooking superstar Jose Andres, who runs several acclaimed Spanish restaurants in Washington, D.C. Weiss spent a summer working for Andres' organization THINKfoodGROUP and things went well enough that Andres wrote Weiss a letter of recommendation that helped him win the scholarship.
While in Spain, Weiss will intern at Restaurante Adolfo with chef Adolfo Muņoz in Toledo and at Calima with chef Dani Garcia in Marbella. After his year in Spain and after he finishes up his last semester at Cornell, Weiss says he wants to come back to Silicon Valley and open his Spanish restaurant.
"I'm hoping to bring back [all my experience] when I come home," he says. "I'm a California boy all the way. I'm not going anywhere." I'm holding him to it. We need more good Spanish food around here.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
The communist graffiti is barely visible in the receeding darkness, while the early Christian motif is publically displayed, to the interest of younger Serbs like my friend Nebojsa. This picture, though took on a crappy disposable, seemed to sum up my week in Serbia. I put a little more effort into this.
Upon arrival we met up with a visiting scholar who took us to a "liturgical music group" at the Belgrade Academy. Not sure what to expect, we entered a beautiful Beaux Arts style building and found ourselves in an office crowded with families and lined with antique books. At the center was a joyful man at a piano, glad for more visitors. The group sang piece after piece of liturgical hymns from eastern and western Christianity. I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden one man recited a significant portion of Matthew 16, from memory, in Latin. If this is what the Belgrade intelligentsia are up to, then one more farewell to Yugoslavia. We left as more people joined in, and had dinner in a neighborhood which resembled Montmartre in Paris, only cheaper.
Communism and Clinton have done a number on Belgrade, and Serbia in general. Bombed out buildings and war memorials to civilians killed by the NATO campaign are common, civilians who hated Milosevic as much as the rest of the world did, probably more. The economy is struggling, but seems however to have made a positive turn. The people are friendly, the food was phenomenal. My Serbian friends who study Byzantine art and architecture aren't doing so because they had it drilled it into them when they were young, but for the opposite reason. Communist education left the subject completely neglected and now they're fascinated by a heritage long ignored. Conversely, at the monastery of Zica , we witnessed an orthodox priest struggling to convey his liturgical lesson to about fifty unruly schoolchildren. Things have changed. Medieval Serbia is a beautifully puzzling blend of East and West. One could spent a month there and still not visit all the countryside monasteries. The hospitality of monks and nuns follows what I've come to accept as the rule - you're either ignored, or treated with an almost absurd hospitality.
Nis, my host Nebojsa's (and the Emperor Constantine I's) hometown, has been through a lot. There one finds a testimony to Ottoman oppression (the skull tower), its own concentration camp from the Nazi days, and a massive Communist resistance memorial which seemed to suggest to Serbians that the only reason there aren't concentration camps anymore is thanks to Tito. Somehow the churches made it through all this (not without their own share of resistance), and in Belgrade they were even showing off a bit. The massive church of St. Sava is even bigger than Hagia Sophia.
The inside of St. Sava's is still being built. Cement grinders and cranes, workers and construction noises abound. But the people can't seem to wait, which made for a perfect parable of the Kingdom of God. A few well-placed icons and candles amidst the chaos suggested a future completion. Worshipers adored Christ despite the distractions, in anticipation of the day when their worship will be complete. I hope I'm not being too cryptic, but has it ever been otherwise? | <urn:uuid:fa57c8dd-02d6-4a08-9df3-8c39693a16b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.millinerd.com/2007/07/serbia.html | 2016-10-24T23:32:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719815.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00461-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97531 | 686 | [
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Remember when I insisted that we’re finished with major projects around the house?
Well, Tom made a liar out of me.
…to be incorporated into our new deck…
…a slab of concrete was left all by itself with no purpose in life whatsoever and nothing leading to it. This apparently bothered Tom no-end!
Admittedly, the nice little fire pit and seating area that Tom and Kat had made years earlier…
…had deteriorated badly and now we’re left with this:
According to Mr. Has-To-Have-A-Project Tom, something new was called for in the area.
So what’s he doing now, you ask? (Don’t you? I do!) How is he spending every spare minute in his summer, you ask? (Don’t you? I do!)
He’s making a big ol’ fancy backyard water feature! This thing will have it all, from a gurgling spring to a cascade over a descending bed of river rocks, to a full-fledged waterfall that one can sit on and dangle one’s feet over, to a dry pond and creek bed. Like most of Tom’s projects, what began as a quick what-if ponder has blossomed (careened?) into a major project. And, like most of his major projects, this one will end up to be amazing and great and I will once again feel awful for all my belly-aching about the mess and the time and the lack of other activities that we should be doing in our old age.
Those cinder block foundations will support big ol’ flat stepping stone rocks that will lead down from the deck, over a running river (OK, a babbling stream) with another stepping stone rock right in the middle of it, onto a big wide rock surface, and finally onto the patio that started this whole crazy project.
Allow me to walk you through the above photo. If nothing else, it will show Tom that I actually have been listening!
A “spring” will start the whole business at the top of the the area surrounded with brick. Then there will be a patch of cascading river rocks. (The water running over it should sound great!) The stepping stone in the middle of the river will be where the white bag is in the photo, the main waterfall will be just beneath the white bag on top of those two big rounded cinderblocks, and the dry pond will be below the waterfall, where the deep hole is.
(Yes, it is a godawful mess. Thanks for pointing that out!)
There will even be a dry stream bed cascading down the hill from the dry pond.
That 3-foot-deep hole under the deck? That’s for the pump. Apparently it needs to be at a lower depth than the bottom of the dry pond.
It’s been hot in Seattle lately and when Tom finished digging that hole yesterday he was covered heat-to-foot in sweat! Poor guy. I feel so sorry for him, forced to build this amazing water feature!
Oh, and that slab of concrete that started all this in the first place? The destination of those big rock steps? That will be covered with flagstone and there will be a new fire pit on it, surrounded by stone seating.
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This week we discuss the unique user names on iTunes, offer sound legal advice on assault, and talk about Phil Collins’ Live Aid accomplishment.
Plus we get around to discussing the box office numbers.
It’s Reel Spoilers 141: ‘Krampus’ Box Office Report.
You’ve been warned.
Starring: Tom O’Keefe, Kevin Brackett, Dan Graney Joe Buttice
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Send them a legal notice to change the set it they refuse then file a complaint in the consumer forum.
A purchaser is required to be more vigilant and law cannot help those persons who remain silent/unvigilant at the appropriate time. What were you doing at the time of its purchase? Why didn't you noticed its name and warranty card when it was being given to you. Why didn't you demanded the assurances in writing? All these questions are very vital and you have no reply against them except that you blindly believed on the oral assurance. So no consumer complaint lies except as covered under warranty card. | <urn:uuid:1ad8120c-a6bb-48a6-8d44-10cc62eef3c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.legistify.com/QnA/answer/consumer--rights | 2016-10-24T23:32:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719815.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00461-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985593 | 123 | [
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On November 7, multinational drug maker Eli Lilly (2012 profits: $4 billion) filed a notice of intent to submit a NAFTA investment claim challenging Canada's system for granting patents after being denied one for its ADHD drug Strattera. Ears perked up around the world. As Public Citizen explains in a recent primer on the case, "Eli Lilly's move marks the first attempt by a patent-holding pharmaceutical corporation to use U.S. 'trade' agreement investor privileges as a tool to push for greater monopoly patent protections, which increase the cost of medicines for consumers and governments."
The case is important given the high-profile controversy related to patents and other pharmaceutical monopoly rights in the Canada-EU free trade negotiations, which are coming to a conclusion, and because of how the Trans-Pacific Partnership could also extend patent protections to Big Pharma.
Eli Lilly's NAFTA challenge, the latest in a list of about eight current cases against Canada worth at least $2.5 billion, takes aim at Canada's "promise doctrine." Over the past decade, Canadian courts have started to require firms to prove that a patented drug is more than just useful under the definitions in the Patent Act, but that utility is tied to the promises a firm makes about how the drug works and how it is different than existing drugs.
Eli Lilly says in its notice of intent that, "This nonstatutory 'promise doctrine' is not applied in any other jurisdiction in the world," and that it "contravenes TRIPS Article 27(1) and NAFTA Article 1709(1) by imposing onerous and additional utility requirements that have had the effect of denying patent rights for inventions which meet the conditions precedent to patentability." (TRIPS is the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights.)
But as Public Citizen explains, that's not a bad thing. In fact, the promise doctrine makes Canada patent regime stronger in many ways than U.S. and European equivalents:
The corporation lambasts this patent policy framework as "discriminatory, arbitrary, unpredictable and remarkably subjective." It presumes to declare what Canada's policy should be -- that Canada must issue a patent and allow a drug firm to charge monopoly prices if a medicine has a 'mere scintilla' of utility.
The result of a NAFTA win for Eli Lilly, says the U.S. public and consumer advocacy organization, "could expose Canada to a slew of investor-state attacks from other drug companies that have had patents invalidated because their medicines have not met the promises they made to initially obtain patents." (Canadian courts recently invalidated Pfizer's patent for Viagra, though for different reasons related to a failure to disclose the exact molecule that lifted men's spirits, so to speak.)
'Minimum standards of treatment' and expropriation
As in most recent NAFTA and many international investor-state disputes, Eli Lilly is claiming that the Canadian courts' decision to invalidate its patent for Strattera violates minimum standards of treatment guaranteed in NAFTA's Chapter 11. Public Citizen explains that both Canada and the U.S. argue this definition should be limited to due process under the law, "But investor-state tribunals have generated increasingly inventive interpretations of the minimum standard, arguing that it also requires governments not to enact policies that could plausibly violate foreign investors' expectations."
Here the firm claims that despite having recourse to the courts as any other company would, the court's decision, and the Government of Canada's failure to overturn that decision by granting the patent, "contravenes Lilly's most basic and legitimate expectations of a stable business and legal environment." They say they could not have anticipated that the "promise doctrine" would interfere with their right to profit when they first made their investment in Canada, and that they were deprived of "full protection and security," as if we were in the middle of a civil war.
Eli Lilly also argues that Canada prematurely took away its exclusive patent rights for Strattera, which amounts to a direct expropriation -- as if their factory had been seized -- in contravention of NAFTA Article 1110. Alternatively, the firm argues, the court and government actions are an indirect expropriation of its right to profit in contravention of global treaties -- NAFTA and TRIPS -- that are legally binding on Canada.
But as Public Citizen comments:
NAFTA's Intellectual Property Chapter contains no general commitment to comply with other intellectual property agreements. Rather, in describing the standard that signatories are to meet–providing "adequate and effective protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights" -- NAFTA names four specific international agreements, the substantive provisions of which signatories are to give effect in their domestic law: conventions concerning phonograms, literary and artistic works, industrial property and plant varieties.
Moreover, WTO rules can only be enforced when one government formally challenges another government before a WTO tribunal. There is no right in the WTO for a corporation to directly challenge sovereign governments. Arguing that NAFTA requires countries to enforce international agreements and rules not even listed in NAFTA would vastly expand corporate rights to directly attack government policies -- and would do so under terms to which governments never agreed.
"Worryingly," continues the fact sheet, "the establishment of just such a backdoor means for private corporations to directly challenge governments for alleged TRIPS violations is one serious concern raised about the TPP's draft Investment Chapter, which expands considerably on NAFTA's rules."
Eli Lilly's notice of intent to file a NAFTA claim is only the first step. The next is filing the actual claim, and then Canada's counter-claim before it can go behind closed doors to an investment tribunal outside the country. The case, and many other current NAFTA investor lawsuits against Canada (ex. Lone Pine's challenge to Quebec's fracking moratorium, or the St. Mary's Cement case against an Ontario decision denying them the right to dig a quarry, among others) show just how badly we need a radical reform of these treaties to better balance corporate rights to profit with the public right to regulate and set policy.
On February 5, more than 70 Canadian, Quebec and European organizations issued a joint statement against including investor-state dispute settlement in the Canada-EU trade deal. There is news today that Canada and the EU are still wrestling with language in the investment treaty but that it threatens to be even more pro-investor than NAFTA. The Eli Lilly case and the number of multinational pharmaceutical companies based in Europe creates even more urgency to say no to excessive investor rights in the CETA and other Canadian trade negotiations.
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RUFC - McAllister extends deal
Rotherham United have extended the deal of striker Craig McAllister until the end of the season
Speaking to MillersPlayer the twenty-nine year old said, 'I'm happy to stay here until the end of the season.
I've been disappointed how things have gone but I am confident that will change now I've had time to settle in and I hope my second half of the loan will be better than the first.
'I hope I can help Rotherham get to that next stage and get automatic promotion.'
In his time with Exeter, Craig scored seven goals in thirty-four games and his deal there is up at the end of the season.
'It's good to be playing,' the Scottish striker said, 'but, at the end of the day it's goals that tell stories for forwards and I will be trying my hardest. Once one comes they seem to flow but it's just getting that one at the minute.
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By Alexandra Edwards
In celebration of Hispanic Cultural Heritage Month, join us for an illustrated lecture by José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, PhD, entitled “Cuzco School of Painting: The Basics.” This event will take place in the library first floor lounge on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, at 1:00 p.m.
The Cuzco School, or Escuela Cuzqueña, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition that originated in Peru during the Colonial period. Dr. Gastañaga, an assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will take the audience through an illustrated introduction to the Cuzco School during the 17th and 18th centuries. His presentation will include images to guide and demonstrate his lecture.
Though a historical genre, art from the Cuzco School continues to appear even in contemporary America. Dr. Gastañaga points to the 2006 national Christmas stamp as a recent example. “It is,” as he describes, “a beautiful Virgin painted by Ignacio Chacón in Cuzco in 1765 and now a part of the Engracia and Frank Barrows Freyer collection of Peruvian Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum.”
The Cuzco School is intimately connected to the colonial history of Peru. As Dr. Gastañaga explains, “During the Colonial times in Latin America paintings were produced in large numbers, especially to decorate churches and important public places.”
But the art style wasn’t just practiced by Europeans in Peru. “The School was a guild that gathered Europeans, Indians and mestizos (mixed) who followed initially European models but later evolved towards local motives and a unique style.” The guild eventually divided and, he says, “the Indians and mestizos started to create an art of religious content and regional customs and scenes that ultimately defined the characteristics of the School.”
The paintings serve as a useful counterpoint to more frequently studied European art. “Students can learn a great deal from these paintings, not only because they show how European major styles like Baroque and Mannerism developed on the other side of the Atlantic, but also because they are a wonderful standing point from which contemplate the life, values and aspirations of Latin Americans during the centuries of colonization.”
Dr. Gastañaga says that the paintings can be enlightening across disciplines and time periods as well. “Although I work with literature and historiography, I have always found in paintings a very suggestive complement. In the case of the Colonial paintings one can see how it evolved from the reproduction of European models to the depiction of regional scenes and finally we will find the use of painting to support local movements of revalorization of the pre-Columbian past.”
For those interested in learning more about the Cuzco School beyond Thursday’s lecture, Dr. Gastañaga recommends Carolyn Dean’s Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cusco, Peru (Duke University Press), “a thorough study on a set of paintings depicting the Corpus Christi celebration in Cuzco at the end of the 17th century.” Alternately, the Pedro de Osma Museum in Lima, Peru, offers a quick online view of selected paintings, with information in Spanish.
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Redesign to improve safety and lethality of 120-mm mortar system for US Army
Mortars are one of the oldest forms of artillery, evolving from devices that fired stone projectiles a few hundred meters to become a mainstay of any modern army's arsenal. Benét Laboratories is continuing this evolution by tweaking the 120-mm mortar system currently used by the US Army to increase range, reduce weight, improve user safety and cut costs.
Located in upstate New York, Benét Laboratories is the US Army's primary design, development, engineering and production & field support facility for large caliber armament systems, including cannons, recoilless rifles and mortars. In an effort to retain a competitive edge on the battlefield, a team led by Wayland Barber, chief of the Mortars and Recoilless Rifle Branch at Benét Labs, has developed a number of upgrades to the 120-mm mortar system currently fielded by the US Army.
The redesign sees the fire control system (FCS), which is currently attached to the tube, moved to the mortar's bipod. Benét Labs says this will reduce the amount of stress and movement the FCS is subjected to during a fire mission and help improve accuracy.
The system will also feature a new baseplate that is designed to provide greater stability for extended range munitions. The baseplate is the part of the system that two soldiers stand on to set it firmly in the ground. A qualification test that was completed recently using the new baseplate saw 3,000 rounds fired without incident. The redesigned baseplate is also expected to provide savings for taxpayers, with Benét Labs saying that once it enters production, it will be almost 50 percent cheaper to produce than the current legacy baseplate.
The third and final element of the 120-mm system in line for a makeover is the cannon tube, which has been improved to withstand the higher tube pressure, heat, and muzzle velocity of extended range ammunition that is set to be developed.
"The current 120-mm mortar system has good range, is reliable, and the troops like it," says Bob Cooley, a Benét Labs Integrated Process Team leader. "But as good as that system is, [these] product improvements that we are currently working on may improve Soldiers' safety, increase range by up to 25 percent, and reduce the system's weight by nearly 16 percent."
Benét Labs is planning to put the redesigned 120-mm mortar system through its paces in full-quality testing in the 2015 fiscal year. Barber's team is also looking at providing design improvements to the current 60-mm and 81-mm mortar systems.
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(Reuters) - Four beheaded corpses were found by residents of a town in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security sources said, blaming Islamist militants waging an insurgency against Cairo.
The security sources in Sinai and Cairo, said residents of Sheikh Zuwaid found the bodies two days after the men were abducted by gunmen while traveling in a car in the town, a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
The Sinai militants are not believed to be officially linked to Islamic State insurgents who have swept through parts of Iraq and Syria and have released a video purporting to show the beheading of a U.S. journalist.
The attacks by the Egyptian militants initially targeted security forces in Sinai - a remote but strategic part of Egypt located between Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal - but they have since extended their reach to the mainland with bombings of security installations.
The government says nearly 500 people, mostly from the army and police, have been killed in clashes and in attacks by Islamist insurgents angered at Mursi's removal. Rights groups have put the number far higher, saying that many hundreds of Brotherhood supporters, meanwhile, have been killed at the hands of security forces. | <urn:uuid:09576a56-fd89-40eb-b04d-1bb8e6f9d0a4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1028217/pg2 | 2016-10-27T05:38:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00018-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966754 | 320 | [
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Mass. seeks 10,000 mortgages for new homebuyersAP , Associated Press
Jun. 10, 2013 12:15 PM ET
BOSTON (AP) — State officials are seeking a commitment from banks to approve at least 10,000 mortgages for first-time homebuyers over the next five years.
The Massachusetts Home Ownership Compact, announced by Gov. Deval Patrick and state officials on Monday, calls on lenders to originate mortgage loans for buyers with household incomes that fall below the median income in their geographical areas.
"By giving more young people and families the opportunity to own a home, we retain our talent pool and create sustainable long term economic growth," Patrick said in a statement.
Representatives of several banks that have signaled support for the compact joined Patrick for the announcement at the home of a first-time homeowner in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. The institutions include Citizens Bank, Sovereign Bank, Eastern Bank, Rockland Bank and Trust, Enterprise Banks and Blue Hills Bank.
The compact will be administered through the nonprofit agencies MassHousing and Massachusetts Housing Partnership.
In addition to setting the goal of 10,000 mortgage loans over the next five years, state banking regulators planned to announce Monday $1.3 million in grants to 11 regional foreclosure prevention centers and 10 centers that encourage individual and first time homeownership.
"The centers receiving these grants do critical work, providing valuable education to potential home buyers and aiding those who are underwater or may be at risk of foreclosure," said Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.
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Good Evening everyone! I'm so happy I stumbled onto this site as our first cruise is just around the corner and I was hoping you could enlighten us.
What are the best excursions, in your opinion, to take while at Cococay and Nassau? We are sailing out on Souverien on 4/18 and the couples going with us are all split on what we should do and from what I've read, the $105 day at Atlantis is a waste of money because the place is a zoo. What about the glass boat boats in Cococay or the Parasailing? Are they worth the cost? Is the snorkeling better in Cococay or Nassau?
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Adjusting duration makes layer invisible?
by Kaela Waldstein on Mar 21, 2010 at 9:10:03 pm
I am using the Videocopilot "Energy" effect in one of my projects. It uses a precomposed layer called "Twister" which is comprised of three layers: Camera, Core, and Twister. I must have messed up somewhere, because the Camera and Core layers are fifteen seconds in duration, while the Twister layer is only a fraction of a second long. I want to adjust the whole precomposed layer to be six seconds long, like the rest of the comps in my project. But when I do that, the effect is no longer visible in my main project window -- the layer is there along with the other comps but there is no layer bar for it.
Does this make any sense? I am quite stumped.
Re: Adjusting duration makes layer invisible? by Michael Szalapski on Mar 22, 2010 at 1:18:53 pm
How did you adjust the length? I'm guessing when you adjusted it your layer just moved in time. Select your layer and press alt+home (or option+home) See if that brings it back.
Or, since it's really short, it may just be too skinny for you to see. Go to the end of your comp and press alt+] (or option+]
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Sorry. It’s just that this Pelosi-is-running thing is like blogging gold. Or blogging crack. Anyway, Allahpundit on the news that the soon-to-be-ex Speaker is pushing through, despite it all:
The good news: The GOP just became a prohibitive favorite to hold the House in 2012. The bad news: …I actually can’t think of any.
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MILTON, Ga. – With the unexpected passing of Dean Riopelle, the “monkey man,” Sept. 24, what will happen to the animals he so loved?
Sam O’Neal with the Department of Natural Resources said things would remain the same.
He said Riopelle was in partnership with a corporation to house and breed the animals, and the primary caregiver will remain on the premises.
He would not provide the name of the partnership or primary caregiver.
O’Neal said the corporation is licensed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but that Riopelle held the permit with the DNR.
“We’ve been in contact with the primary caregiver and are already in the process of changing the permit to the corporation’s name,” he said. “The permit would expire in 2014 but given the circumstances, we’re changing the name now.”
O’Neal said the DNR has inspected the property multiple times and the community shouldn’t be concerned with safety issues.
“Of course, there is always the possibility of a tree falling on a cage or something, but at this point, the animals are secure and we’re pleased with how things are being handled,” he said.
Milton is staying on top of the situation.
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thanks for your answer! I appreciate your help, and sorry, I didn't want to put xampp in question;-) but I was for a moment insecure.
I get following message on the xampp control Panel v3.2.1
20:51:29 [main] Initializing Control Panel
20:51:29 [main] Windows Version: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
20:51:29 [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.3
20:51:29 [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
20:51:29 [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
20:51:29 [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
20:51:29 [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
20:51:29 [main] about running this application with administrator rights!
20:51:29 [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
20:51:29 [main] Checking for prerequisites
20:51:29 [main] All prerequisites found
20:51:29 [main] Initializing Modules
20:51:29 [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 80
20:51:29 [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 443
20:51:29 [main] Starting Check-Timer
20:51:29 [main] Control Panel Ready
20:51:37 [Apache] Attempting to stop Apache (PID: 1384)
20:51:37 [Apache] Attempting to stop Apache (PID: 9388)
20:51:37 [Apache] Status change detected: stopped
20:51:53 [Apache] Attempting to start Apache app...
20:51:53 [Apache] Status change detected: running
20:52:06 [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL app...
20:52:07 [mysql] Status change detected: running
20:52:09 [mysql] Status change detected: stopped
20:52:09 [mysql] Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly.
20:52:09 [mysql] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
20:52:09 [mysql] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
20:52:09 [mysql] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
20:52:09 [mysql] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
20:52:09 [mysql] If you need more help, copy and post this
20:52:09 [mysql] entire log window on the forums
About Administrator: I am logged in as Administrator, says the Windows Benutzerkonten-information. - Xampp is now running on C:\xampp . Before I had it also in my own folder, in order to be on the good side with administrator rights, but MySQL didn't work either. I even downloaded the TweakUAC-programm and tried it without any restrictions concerning registration-rights, but also negativ.
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Our cross-fit trainer is back and making us work for the bodies we want. In this Instagram video, he gets in some cardio with an AirDyne machine, and works his shoulders and quadriceps with bench thrusters. Thrusters are a simple and effective exercise, if you can muster the strength to do them properly. As always, if you are just trying out an exercise, start with a light level of weight and increase until you are pushing yourself enough.
To begin a set of thrusters, sit down on a bench and rest your dumbbells on your shoulders. From there you stand up and raise the dumbbells over your head, thrusting high enough that your elbow is completely extended. From there, you lower the dumbbells to your shoulders, and then sit back down on the bench for another rep. Combining this with cardio is a great work out if you are short on time. Our trainer increases his reps by two for each set, all under a 6-minute time cap.
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November's ballot for county and township offices likely will be a little larger after 10 a.m. Saturday when the Tippecanoe County Democratic Party meets to caucus.
Four candidates have filed paperwork. Thomas Busch filed paperwork Friday to be slated for circuit court judge, according to a declaration filed at the Board of Elections.
Michael Childress filed paperwork last week to be slated for a candidate for Wea Township board, and Michael Oxenrider filed his request to be slated for the Wabash Township board. On Tuesday, Larry Funk of Clarks Hill filed paperwork to be slated for the Lauramie Township board race.
There are no contested Democratic candidates in any of the races to be slated, Democratic Party Chairwoman Heather Maddox said Monday. But that might change. Would-be candidates have until noon Wednesday to file their intent with Maddox and the Tippecanoe County Board of Elections.
But just filing the paperwork doesn't make the would-be candidate a shoo-in to be on November's ballot.
Maddox and the caucus members must OK the candidates. Technically, Maddox said, the party chairman could be the sole approval of slating candidates, but that's not how she operates.
"This makes everybody part of the process," she said.
The party is considering picking candidates for circuit court judge, county assessor, county council 4th District, as well as seats on township boards in Fairfield, Wea, Wabash, Jackson and Lauramie townships. But Maddox declined to elaborate on potential candidates who have not filed their intent at the Board of Elections.
"I've never been one to just put anybody up to fill a spot," Maddox said. "We like to get high-quality candidates."
The caucus begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Hanna Center, 1201 N. 18th St., Lafayette.
Both political parties have until noon June 30 to slate candidates to appear on the ballot in the November election.
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I woke up this morning with my dog sitting next to my bed, waiting for me to open my eyes. His tail was going everywhere. Everywhere. And it reminded me of a conversation that an old co-worker and I had about "Wagging Tail Syndrome". If you haven't heard the expression, here is the definition:
Wagging Tail Syndrome (WTS): When your salesman gets off the phone without all of the job requirements saying they have the best order in the world.
Sure, we all have done it...when we were Jr. Sales Reps. What made us get over it? Experience...that's what. What I mean by that is we were burned at some point by submitting the wrong candidate to the role, or we gave it to the recruiting team and they could never come up with a candidate...but our competition did, or your recruiter got a great candidate only to find out the need wasn't real...the list can go on, but the common error is that the sales rep got off the phone too quickly. So, how do you get through this?
Slow Down -- You may notice the signs/symptoms when it starts to happen (if you are an in-the-trenches manager)...your sales reps starts to qualify...but only asks 1 or 2 questions before they start to say things like "We will get right on this for you."
This is where you need to tell that sales rep to SLOW DOWN. You can be excited, but it doesn't help if you qualify a bad order...because it means nothing unless you close the deal. Check lists can help, putting a sign in their cube that says Slow Down with a picture of some crossing guard blowing their whistle at you...anything. Get that sales rep to slow down and make sure they take a full order.
Team Work -- Sometimes, well, most times our Sales Reps are not technical gurus (if you have read my previous blogs...I do IT Recruiting). Not their fault...they are better at selling than programming. These types get the WTS so quickly it makes their heads spin. So, what we will do to get around that is have them get the "buyer" on the line...once they have a need ("Why yes I need a web developer!"), then we have them say "Mr. Manager, I want to get my technical recruiter on the line to get the details from you so we know exactly what you need and nothing gets lost in translation." Haven't had a single manager say no yet.
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The award-winning Mariachi 7 Leguas, based out of Pharr, Texas, have been entertaining audiences throughout Texas and Mexico since 2004. Founded by Emilio Santos, this 12 piece ensemble consist of University students and young working professionals from all over the Rio Grande Valley. Most recently, they were named “Mejor Mariachi 2010″ in the “Sones de Mariachi por el Mundo” competition which consisted of forty-eight video entries from mariachis across the world. For more information contact Emilio at 956-345-0910 or visit them at their website at mariachi7leguas.com.
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Temple Boy Excerpt
Because I don’t think I ever posted it here, or not in some time, the Temple Boy collage:
And now for the excerpt.
The world is ruled by time.
Sitting on the white rocks littering a cliff, Charles Perry Elliott looked out over the Catalian Sea and turned a small blue ball over and over in his hands. Time. There were a lot of new concepts plaguing his mind since his life-altering trip back to Rothborne Parish three months ago, but “the world is ruled by time” was a concept that kept cropping up, and since his most recent bungle illustrated that so very painfully, it was worth revisiting the idea again. Because it would probably be a good thing if he didn’t destroy the universe with a flan.
Ten minutes. The custard had been taking too long to set, and with nothing to do but think, Charles had realized how easy it would be to talk it into being done, and so he had. What harm could it do?
As it turned out, ten minutes could turn into a weird, tentacled thing and expand beyond mortal comprehension, especially if one were fool enough to shove it into the Void as if that magical dimension were some sort of cosmic garbage bin.
The world is ruled by time.
Charles stared down at his hands watching the small blue ball of light glow softly against his palms. It was unexpectedly warm. In the Void it had been a monster, and it had made his sister the mighty witch scream in terror. Charles hadn’t screamed — he’d just opened his arms and welcomed it home with a laugh. One of the few advantages, he supposed, of being a god. When you could see how the monsters were put together, they just weren’t as frightening any longer.
But now here in the world once more, as the author of this mess, it fell to Charles to correct it. Which meant he now had to find this warm little ball of time a new home.
It was even bluer than the azure waters below him, bluer than the bright blue sea muted by white peaks and foam as it crashed upon the even whiter sandy shores. The ball was a blue that seemed to hum in the back of his mind, swirling gently inside the tender membrane that kept the chaos at bay.
This ruled the world, this strange blue stuff. In the Void it had grown and multiplied, for there was no time in the Void. It was like Catalian lace in Etsey; in its native land it was a rare and beautiful flower. In Etsey it had nothing to check it and so became a weed that even now, four hundred years after its first introduction to the island, still threatened native grass — all this from one cutting’s seed drifting into a meadow. So had it been for the ten minutes, and without limits, it had expanded to unimaginable size.
A moment of it could create a parallel universe. The barest scratch of a millisecond could alter the fabric of an entire world.
As the sea breeze kissed his face and ruffled his hair, Charles poked the bright blue ball hesitantly with his finger, watching the membrane dent briefly, sending the depths swirling into a new pattern around his intrusion. He made a soft chuff at the back of his throat and shook his head. Magic, he thought for the thousandth time, was a very strange beast. He lifted the ball and held it in front of his face as the new patterns fell into place. Time, it seemed, was even stranger.
The ball warmed hotter in his hand, and it called to him softly. It was trapped, condensed. It had tasted life. It wanted it back.
“Patience,” Charles admonished it.
When he’d still been in the Void, he’d played with it. As he’d held the snarl of time, he’d had the fanciful thought that it looked like a nest of snakes. No sooner did Charles think this and the strange ropes of light grew heads, eyes, and mouths, and sharp, pointed teeth. There had been a lot of shouting then, and if Madeline hadn’t coached him into thinking of something calmer and easier to contain, it might have been the strangest death of a god, ever.
“Damn your imagination,” Madeline had said many hours later when they were both collapsed on her bed at their rented cottage. “I told you never to let your thoughts wander in the Void. It’s bad enough for any novice, but you, Charles, create things.”
Charles held his free hand in front his face and stared. The hand of a god.
He made a face and lowered them again.
The problem was that since the ten minutes had grown, now they could not simply, for example, go back into the flan. It was now so big it would create a Continent’s worth of flan or make a single flan so dense it would sink through the center of the earth and make the world implode upon itself. Madeline had advised him to study it, to learn the weight and limits of it, and when he felt he had an appropriate understanding of it, she would help him turn it into something suitable.
As she’d gone off to weapon practice with Jonathan, she’d begged him to please, please not do any more new magic without discussing it with her first. Charles had sheepishly agreed and gone off to the cliffs to think. He was still there, many hours later. But he’d stopped thinking about possibilities of the time ball a long time ago, because the first idea his mind had come up with had been so consuming he hadn’t been able to dwell on anything else, only the ways to execute the plan.
Because he couldn’t stop thinking that maybe, just maybe, he could use the time ball to bring Timothy back.
The thought had started innocently enough. He’d been thinking what a strange dish flan was, like the custards he knew from home in Etsey and yet not like them at all. He’d realized Timothy had likely grown up with flan, and then the familiar sorrow had returned, reminding him that had things been different, had he been stronger or smarter or something Timothy could be with him now.
It wasn’t fair that Timothy was gone. It wasn’t right. They’d been lovers for a matter of days, and then there had been all that nonsense with the demons and the witches…and then they’d both found out they were gods. Shouldn’t that have meant they had power? Shouldn’t that have meant they could do whatever they wanted?
Why in the name of the Goddess had it meant Timothy had to be broken into a thousand pieces and turned into little more than an echo for Charles to chase down and try — with no idea how to do so — to restore him?
It all had made Charles feel so impotent and full of rage — and then the idea had dawned like a sunrise in his mind. He had a ball of time big enough to spawn a universe.
Could it bring back a man?
The ball twinkled at him. Go ahead and try.
Charles skimmed his thumb across the swirling surface of the ball. Could the ball of time be a man? Easily. A man, a woman, a bit of both — truthfully, it would likely need to be a large group of people. Could it bring back a man, as in, bring a man back to life from death? Yes. As with so much of his power, Charles could see what he could do without understanding exactly why, could know his potential without understanding all that potential contained. It led him constantly into trouble, as with the flan. Whenever he recovered from his bungle it all seemed obvious how he’d been ridiculous, but in the moment of action it was always so easy and clear there seemed no reason not to try out the ideas dancing in his mind. Bringing back Timothy was tricky, and so it warranted a great deal of examination. Tempting as it was to act on impulse, he wouldn’t risk it without Madeline. Not for this.
He stared hard at the ball, relaxing his mind to let the deep knowing inside him rise forth and whisper. Could this ball of time be a man? Could it?
Yes, the knowing whispered. But not that man.
It was the same answer Charles had received every time he’d tried to find a new way. The ball of time had a lot of power. But then, so did Timothy. And that must be accounted for.
He turned away from the ball, refusing to let its siren call reach his ears and set his teeth against the ache rising inside him. It was the same problem they kept running into, he and Madeline as they tried to construe magical theorems as to how Timothy could be brought back. It was why, Madeline said, they would need the shards and the veils: the magical pieces of the Goddess had strewn across the world to rescue her lover. The Goddess had rescued him three months ago. All he wanted to do now was return the favor.
But how would they find pieces of the Goddess? What did they look like? Where exactly would they hide? Jonathan had been convinced the place to look was Catal, in the country where Timothy had been born, but so far all they had found was ruin and death and dust.
Charles opened his eyes again and stared blearily down at the blue ball of time. So many uncertainties, many of them full of despair and darkness. If they did find a shard, would it give them Timothy, or just another version of the Goddess? Would he have to be reborn completely, leaving Charles to lust after a toddler?
Would Timothy remember Charles? Or would he love alone in vain?
Charles didn’t know. He didn’t know the answers to any of his questions. He didn’t know how to find Timothy or the Lady or even a decent pint of ale in the ruined coastal cities of Catal. He didn’t know anything. He couldn’t do anything. Any efforts he made to save his lost love were like this stupid ball of time: accidental, unexplained, and potentially catastrophic. They would never find so much as one piece of the Lady, not at the rate they were going. They knew nothing, they had nothing, and nothing was changing.
Perhaps it was time to face the truth: Timothy was gone. Forever.
Charles’s thumb brushed against the bright blue pulse, his vision blurring.
Timothy is gone forever. But I have ten minutes of spare time sitting in my hand.
The ball began to throb, shifting back and forth in his hand to display its eagerness. Yes, yes. Use me. Make me something. Anything.
Could he use the ball to go back in time? That took a lot of energy, he knew, and he had the feeling it would leave the ball as nothing more than what he’d pulled out: ten minutes. It was hardly any time at all, just enough to tease — but if it was the choice of that, or nothing, was there even a choice at all? He could go back. He could find Timothy and see him again.
And if he had more time — if he took ten minutes out of something else, if he withdrew more time and let it expand further, if he did this over and over again, he could keep going back forever.
Perhaps he could keep Timothy from dying, if he thought hard enough.
But what would happen to the world if he went back in time? What if he changed the wrong thing? What if he hurt people? What would happen to him if he manipulated himself out of existence?
Did he care?
Charles lifted the ball of time and held it in front of his face. It didn’t have consciousness, but it had desire. It wanted to live. It wanted to be anything and everything, and it had no preference if this was a life of love or pain, if it was an existence as a rock that did nothing more but be worn away by wind and water or if it were an insect living long enough to be eaten by a bird. And he could put it anywhere. It could be anything. Anyone.
But maybe, maybe, if he kept studying it, he could find a way for it to be a version of Timothy. If only he could stop the voice in the back of his head that kept shouting at him that this was a terrible idea, he might get it done.
Charles opened his hand again, looked down at the ball, and sighed.
“I am a very bad god,” he told the ball.
It winked eagerly back at him, indifferent to his declaration. Make me. Use me. Give me life!
“No. Not yet.” Charles tucked the time ball into his pocket. “Not until I’m sure.”
Sure of what, though, he couldn’t quite say. He sighed.
The ball trembled, eagerness spilling into anger. Charles pressed against it absently, though he blinked when a small streak of light flashed out from the depths of his pocket and up into the painted sky.
Make me! Give me life!
Charles opened the pocket and glared down at the ball. “Patience.”
He felt a bit of pride as he felt what Madeline called “the God voice” creeping into his tone. He sighed in relief as the tone seemed, at last, to work. Shutting the pocket, he returned to his woeful musings.
The sun was starting to set, and Madeline and Jonathan would be back soon. He would tell Madeline what he had discovered, and he would let her advise him about the ball. He would not spin it into a life, and he would not go back to see Timothy. Not without telling her.
Maybe I should just die and put this farce to rest, he thought bitterly, and not for the first time.
“Yes,” said an unfamiliar voice from behind him. “Perhaps you should.”
A brown-skinned man dressed in a white shirt and pants standing on a high rock, staring down at Charles. He had bare feet, which should have been bloody after climbing over these razors, but in fact, not his feet nor anything else on his person was so much as mussed.
He smiled down at Charles with equally perfect dispassion.
He looked weirdly familiar.
“Do I know you?” Charles asked.
The stranger’s smile tipped crookedly. Damn and blast, but there was something about him. Something drawing Charles in.
“Who I am will take some time to explain,” the stranger replied at last.
“I have plenty of time. Plus a bit extra, in fact.” Charles gestured to the space beside him. “Come, sir. Have a seat, and we will tell each other stories.”
For a moment the stranger’s face went oddly flat and unreadable. But it must have been a trick of the light, for then the smile was back, wide and bright, white teeth against beautiful skin the color of the flan with which Charles had nearly destroyed the world.
“I’d love nothing more,” the stranger said, and continued to make his way down the rocks toward Charles.
It wasn’t until the man looked away, glancing at something over his shoulder on the other side of the hill beyond that Charles realized that the stranger’s opening piece of conversation had been in response to a private thought. Which in Charles’s world wasn’t even novel any longer. But he realized, too, what it was that he had thought: that perhaps the world would be better off if he were dead.
The stranger turned back to Charles once more, but this time there was nothing but malevolence in his smile. And with sinking dread Charles realized why the man seemed so familiar.
He was androghenie, a magical child of the Lord and Lady. Charles’s own son stood before him. Looking very much as if he’d like to murder dear old dad.
“Shit,” Charles whispered, backed up against a large rock, and reached into his pocket to clutch desperately at the pulsing, eager ball of potential time.
* * * * *
One’s lover, Madeline had long ago decided, was quite possibly the worst candidate for a fencing instructor, no matter how deep the love between student and master, no matter how skilled he might be at teaching. Which made the fact that Madeline’s lover was her only candidate for instructor that much more of a bitter draught to swallow.
“You must hold the sword in front of you, Madeline,” Jonathan scolded her.
She glared at him. “I am.”
Jonathan lowered his foil and crossed the stone courtyard to stand behind her, shifting her arm to the center of her body as he maneuvered her into an entirely uncomfortable sideways-standing position. “Any part of your body you expose becomes a liability. You want to make as narrow a target as possible. Be as thin as the sword if you can, and always keep it in front of you. Not to one side or another. Exactly in the center, in line with the middle of your body. Think of the sword as extending from your heart. You are one with it.”
Madeline pursed her lips but nodded, making the correction, wondering how in heaven one was supposed to fence without toppling over. “But how do I thrust from here?”
“You don’t. If you end up in a duel, I intend to fight it for you. This is a defensive position only, to keep you from being attacked.”
Madeline lowered the sword and put her hands on her hips. “What sort of nonsense is this? I thought you said you were going to teach me how to fight! You never mentioned I would be holding off adversaries until you could show up.”
“I will teach you offensive fighting later,” he assured her, though the promise rang a bit empty to Madeline. “But that is too complicated for now. I want you to be able to hold your ground until I am able to come to you.”
“You are being ridiculous. You can’t always protect me. I must learn to defend myself.”
“Later. Soon,” he added when Madeline gave him a harsh glare. “Again. Show me again.”
She took up her position once more, and he made several thrusts, which she blocked, though she also nearly tripped over her hem. He pointed his foil at her skirts. “You should switch to harem pants. They are much like skirts.” His lips quirked in a smile. “And you will look very fetching in them.”
Madeline shook her head. “I like my skirts.”
Oh, she knew he was right. There weren’t many women left alive in Catal, but those who were all wore the pants he described, and yes, the garments did look terribly comfortable. She had three different styles and colors back at the cottage, pants Jonathan had bought for her to try. She would admit to giving in and stroking the material, which was softer and suppler than anything she had ever felt. Sturdy too — the harem pants would be highly serviceable, Madeline was quite sure of it. And yet she couldn’t bring herself to wear them, stubbornly insisting on her long, heavy skirts, no matter how much they made her sweat or how often they got in her way.
The truth was that the skirts remained the last bit of Etsey she had.
For three months Madeline, Jonathan, and Charles had been searching for Timothy. To Jonathan, who sought his wartime friend, and Charles, who sought a lover, it was personal. To Madeline it was something different, something she hadn’t quite been able to name yet.
Madeline and Jonathan ran from the witch’s Council and murder charges respectively, and Madeline and Charles had both left the only world they’d ever known to sail far south to the balmy shores of Catal. Madeline had wept for the loss of her sister’s companionship. She had mourned her position as village witch. And then she had tucked her sorrows at the bottom of her heart, ready to move on and face her new world.
It had not proved as easy as that, she found, both to banish her homesickness and to find her place in Catal.
Most of the time Jonathan wouldn’t even let her speak her native tongue, too focused on making her learn Catalian. Even the Etsian soldiers they encountered didn’t feel like the men she knew from home. Most of them were from the Seven Cities or Boone and thought the northern parishes of Etsey were full of bumbling, superstitious fools. They also, in grand Etsian tradition, felt women belonged back at home in front of a hearth, not wandering around a heathen land. What little respect she could glean by declaring herself a witch was eroded by the fact that witches didn’t travel, and they certainly didn’t have lush heads of curling hair piled into knots at the base of their necks. In fact, witches didn’t have any hair at all.
None but Madeline, but that of course was too complicated to explain without reliving their whole adventure, most of which even the most superstitious Etsian would have difficulty believing.
With each day Madeline felt further and further from the country she had always assumed she would never leave, lost deeper and deeper into the strange, increasingly fruitless quest she shared with Charles and Jonathan. She missed the routine and habit of her duties in the village. She missed helping people with simple, everyday tasks. She missed her sister with an ache that often made her weep long into the night, silently so Jonathan and Charles could not hear.
Jerking herself out of her melancholic reverie, Madeline swished her foil back and forth in front of her, as if the motion might chase her demons away. “I’ve had enough fencing lessons for now.” She nodded at the dusty road leading to the east. “Did you still want to go explore that old temple?”
“Fane,” Jonathan corrected her, though he did so with an amused smile. “Call it a temple in front of a Catalian and you’ll get a pointed lecture on the uselessness of deity worship.”
Madeline frowned at the gold-domed structure in the distance outlined by the setting sun. “But you said they kept shrines inside and lit incense and that all their important ceremonies were held there. That sounds like a temple to me.”
“Exactly. Which in my opinion is why they argue so angrily.” He held out his hand for her foil. “I’ll run these back to the cottage while you fetch Charles.”
“Charles will not be coming,” Madeline said, trying to keep the tightness out of her voice. “I sent him off to think of a way to deal with his apocalyptic custard.”
Jonathan looked confused a moment, then shook his head. “Something tells me this is one of those stories I’d rather not hear.”
“Yes.” Madeline shoved her sleeves higher on her arms, telling herself there was no point in being shy about baring her elbows since Catalian women revealed their entire arms, but she still blushed. Thankfully, the color was hard to detect as her face was already red with exertion. She wiped a sweaty lock of hair away and moved into the sliver of shade near a white stone wall. “I’ll wait here for you. But will you bring my bonnet back down with you please?”
Once he was gone, she shut her eyes and sagged, fingers fumbling with the top buttons of her dress.
The stones behind her were hot and dry, which was essentially the state of the entire country as far as she could tell. Hot and dry with occasional patches of bleak green. Jonathan assured her that before the war it had looked much better, that the desert had been verdant fields when the aqueducts still stood, when the engineers’ centuries of construction and transformation had served as a lifeline to the region. Madeline didn’t doubt that the cities looked better without all the rubble and better access to water, but she had a suspicion they had still been beastly hot.
Even before its being mercilessly destroyed, she was quite sure she would still have found everything about Catal to be completely, hopelessly wrong. Yes, the people were open-minded, except for their penchant to sneer at religion. But that didn’t mean the country wasn’t wrong to an Etsian’s eyes. The food was strange. The customs were strange. She still forgot to bow to the host when she entered a common room, and she didn’t like doing it much when she did remember. For one, she still had a hard time finding the host. It could be a man or a woman. He or she wore nothing special outside of an extra earring.
And then there was the problem of eating. Outside of spoons for soup — which was always served cold and made sickeningly sweet — bread was the only allowed utensil, and “bread” was not the fluffy brown-speckled loaves of home. This stuff was flat and slightly stiff and tasted as if it had been baked with herbs she used in spells. Butter wasn’t even a consideration. They didn’t even have a word for it in Catalian. To top it all off, she could only eat with her right hand, because her left was “unclean.” It had taken her weeks to work that one out. Apparently she was meant to wipe herself after using the necessary using her left hand and only her left hand, which while being disgusting to contemplate had explained why she’d been forced to take bits of rag along with her when she went to the latrines. She’d thought she’d just had a bad run of toilets without paper. But no, this was what the spigot of water and soap cake were for.
Madeline had seriously considered stowing the bread at her meals to use as paper instead of a food shovel.
But the food and the heat weren’t even the worst of it. That honor was reserved for the women who could not seem to stop themselves from flirting with Jonathan.
She tried not to notice, tried to focus on the fact that Jonathan never went out without his silver ear clip with the green bead that indicated he was happily partnered. He never encouraged any of the flirtations, which happened everywhere from the docks to the market to the common tables at the inns where they stayed.
He didn’t exactly brush them aside, either. When she’d mentioned this — casually of course — Jonathan had only pursed his lips and told her they’d never get anywhere in their search if he was rude, and he’d sworn to her he had not cheated on her and would not, ever.
But the unspoken phrase that had lingered then and lingered always was “would not ever again.”
Footsteps on the courtyard stones made her glance up sharply, but it was only Jonathan coming back. She gave him the bravest smile she could manage as she hurried to button up her dress.
Jonathan gave her a weary look. “Madeline. As I’ve told you before, you could walk bare-chested in Catal and people would only think you were from the south. They’d wonder at your skin color at first, but as soon as you tanned they’d just assume you were the issue of an Etsian soldier.”
Madeline did not stop buttoning. “It isn’t seemly,” she said, knowing it would start an argument, but she didn’t care. She was too hot. She rather wanted a fight.
Jonathan didn’t disappoint her, flattening his lips and glaring. “If it’s me you’re worrying about being seemly for, I might point out to you that I have seen your neck and your breasts as well. In point of fact I believe I was rather intimate with them this morning after breakfast.”
“It’s not for you,” Madeline said.
“Then it’s a waste of suffering, because no one else here will care.”
“I care.” Madeline snatched her bonnet from him and slammed it on her head, tying the ribbons beneath her chin.
Jonathan opened his mouth to argue, paused, then stalked across the courtyard toward the gate with an angry grunt.
Madeline followed, wishing she could take more comfort from her martyrdom to her country’s sense of fashion. The truth was that if she didn’t think she’d pass out inside of ten minutes, her preference would be to wear the full black habit of an Etsian witch: headdress, veil, and all. For years and years it had been the only clothing she had worn, and it was difficult to leave it behind. Even in this heavy, full-sleeved, full-skirted charcoal-colored linen and wide-brimmed black bonnet she felt naked and foreign. Her own ear clip was more jewelry than she had ever worn as a witch, and it was a far cry from the rough leather-and-bead necklace which had been her childhood protective charm.
But the day was hot even by Catalian standards, and as she and Jonathan stumbled deeper into the ruins of Rashek’s city center, her principles began to weigh quite literally upon her. She gave in and undid three buttons, and when Jonathan stopped at a haphazardly bubbling broken fountain to wet his handkerchief, she took it from him gratefully and applied it directly to her sweating neck.
He refilled their leather flask and handed it to her. The water here was wrong too, full of clay and tang instead of the loamy pull of earth, but Madeline was so parched and overheated she would have accepted whole bits of pottery, so long as it was wet.
“The fane is just ahead.” Jonathan gestured with the flask before using the edge of his shirt to wipe his brow.
The shirt was open all the way to his waist. It was very distracting.
Madeline allowed herself only a glance, though, before moving her eyes to the golden dome. “I’m surprised the Cloister armies didn’t pry the metal from the roof.”
Jonathan’s countenance grew dark, but he said nothing further on that point, only reached out to her, offering his hand. “The rest of the path looks to be very rocky.”
It was indeed, making the short distance between them and the fane take twice as long as it should have. Madeline was almost glad, because focusing on her footing kept her mind from taking in the ruins around her. She only wished she could turn off her senses as well.
There were no ghosts here, but there was no shortage of the echo of pain. She could feel the shock, the fear, and the deep, hollow sorrow that still lived in the fallen stones. Sometimes she could sense specifics: by a short wall two boys had been raped and then slain before their mothers, who had been carried off. The shell of a burned-out library glowed with despair of scholars who had burned with their books, not caring at all for the loss of their flesh but aching at the death of their beloved texts. Worst of all was a wide open square, for though it was empty and clean now, Madeline could still smell the echo of the stench of the dead bodies piled as high as the gold dome of the fane. Out of habit, she extended her powers, grounded to earth, and whispered silent prayers to the Goddess.
Then she remembered that technically that was her sister just now, or her idiot brother and his flan. She laughed, pressing a hand over her mouth and nose as she blinked against tears.
Jonathan drew her other hand to his lips and kissed it. “Do you want to stop and rest?”
Madeline shook her head, tugging at her skirt as she let out a ragged sigh. “No. I want to get inside the fane.” She paused. “Unless there was raping and killing inside there too?”
Jonathan shook his head. “That was why I wanted to inspect this one. All the other fanes were destroyed, but this one is completely untouched. No one knows why. It might be nothing, but I was hoping it might be meaningful to us in some way. Timothy was born here, after all. In Rashek, I mean.”
It was a reach, Madeline acknowledged, but after three months of touring nothing but rubble that had once been bustling cities of a thriving, happy country, she was ready to reach with him. It wasn’t as if they’d had any luck anywhere else.
They were before the building itself now. It stood at what had once been the apex of a circular street, raised up on a marble dais, accessible by now-crumbling stairs of the traditional Catalian white stone. The fane itself was completely round, flanked by pillars of white, constructed of a terra cotta brick until it reached the roof, which gleamed in the setting sun. There was no door, only an open portal, and within Madeline could see shafts of sunlight coming through the slitted horizontal windows near the roof in the brick sections between the pillars. She could also see torches burning inside.
“Is someone here?” she asked Jonathan.
He shook his head. “The inner cities are still abandoned, and despite this fane, Rashek is no exception. But fanes are an important part of Catalian culture, and as the only survivor, this place has become quite sacred. People make pilgrimages here. That’s why there’s a path.”
Madeline glanced back at the heap of rubble they had just crossed, marveling that this could be considered a path. “What do they do here, if they don’t worship?”
“They leave things. Symbolic things. For example, as a rite of adolescence, a toy or mark of childhood is brought.”
“Wouldn’t the fane become very full after a while?”
Jonathan shook his head. “They burn what they bring. Sometimes they burn messages, when they have nothing to give. If it is an item that cannot be burned, they sell it, change it into something combustible, and they burn that.”
Burning an offering. And yet they insisted they weren’t religious. “But who are they giving these things to? Where do they believe the burning matter goes?”
Jonathan smiled. “Ah. For the answer to this I must defer you to the centuries-old debates of Catalian philosophy.” He shrugged. “Timothy always said the greatest purpose was for the giver. Sacrifice is a great teacher, he said. Loss is forced upon the sufferer, but sacrifice is a deliberate giving of oneself.”
Madeline studied the dark portal of the doorway. “There is such a great deal of freedom in Catalian culture. Freedom to dress. Freedom to think. Freedom to choose how one sacrifices.” She shook her head. “Should this be given to Etsians, we would all be drunken gluttons inside of a week. But not here. Quite the opposite happened, it seems.”
“And there you have the reason the Cloister despises Catal so much. The laws of the Cloister are so rigid they make Etsian customs seem loose and casual by comparison. Can you imagine suffering the indignity of such a contradiction to your philosophy living a mortar’s throw across the great chasm?”
Madeline pursed her lips. “I was thinking more that I should try to discover whether it was the Catalians or their philosophy which led to their success, and that if possible one could find ways Etsians could emulate it safely.”
“And that is why I love you.” He rested a hand on her shoulder and kissed her cheek. “Come. Let’s go inside and have a look around.”
Madeline took his offered arm, lifted her skirts, and ascended the steps with him. She let out a breath of relief as she felt the painful echoes of the inner city die away, and she embraced the cool, blank cleanness of the fane’s aura. She quickened her steps, eager to cross the threshold of the open doorway.
But at the top of the stairs she stopped walking, stumbled to the side, and pressed a hand to her chest.
“Something is wrong,” she whispered. But no sound left her mouth.
She tried to turn to Jonathan, but she could not see him. She had not let go of him, but she could not feel his hand. She could feel nothing, see nothing. It was dark, so very dark, pressing against her and around her, making her heavy.
“Help me,” she cried, but once again, she didn’t hear her own voice.
And yet she could hear something heavy sliding across a stone floor.
There was a flash of light: cold, faint, hollow light, sickly-green tinged with yellow. The light looked and felt wrong. And yet Madeline could not help but move toward it, compelled to touch it. To give herself to it. In the light’s flare, she could see the dark, grinning, supernatural face of a man. He did not look kind.
“Come,” he whispered. She stepped toward him.
There was a snap and a growl behind her. The darkness overtook her again, heavy and wet. She smelled blood. Heart’s blood. It coated her mouth and filled her throat and ran into her veins.
Not that one. Come with me, the blood whispered. You are my light. I will not let you go.
Madeline screamed. She spat out the blood and pushed away. She blew out the yellow-green flame. She felt both forces reach for her, and she pushed harder, pushed with every ounce of her power.
She saw a small flare of light, remarkable only for its ordinariness, and in its glow she saw a man. Not the strange green-glowing face, but just a man, a leering, swarthy, nefarious-looking man holding a match.
* * * * *
And as she fell, Charles stood reeling on the cliff top, staring up at the man in white before him.
“You are androghenie,” Charles whispered. He drew an unsteady breath, a strange bouquet of emotions catching in his chest. “You are my son. How — how did you find me?”
The man in white made a mocking bow. “I am Bassam. As for how I found you?” He gestured vaguely to the sky. “I followed the wake of your destruction. It was not very difficult to see where you were.”
The muck he’d made in the Void. Charles winced and rubbed at the back of his head. “Yes. I’m working on that.”
The man made a derisive sound through his nose and lowered his hands.
Charles could not stop staring at him. An androghenie. He tried to remember this one, tried to find that moment when he had cast this one in particular back into the world, but like so much else he needed to know, this information belonged to his god-self, not his man-self. This man was just another of the souls he’d saved. The souls he’d given new life.
The souls who, the time they’d met before that had killed him, stolen his power, and sealed him in four different prisons.
This one looked ready to give Charles more of the same. And he was powerful too. He looked like he wouldn’t have any trouble hacking Charles in half, though Charles got the feeling this one wasn’t interested in giving him a quick, easy death.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
Charles held up a hand. “Now, let’s hold on just a moment. I understand that you’re angry with me. And I can’t remember the details, but I know when I gave you rebirth I might have sent you to a painful place. For that I am sorry. Very sorry. But you can’t kill me. You know this.” The hand still in his pocket closed over the ball of time. “The entire universe would fall into itself.”
If anything, Bassam looked even more smug. “It would have, yes. But then you made that interesting hole just a few hours ago. A hole full of power. I have put it to good use.”
The hole had power too? “Fucking hell,” Charles whispered. He took a step backward.
He bumped into someone.
Charles whirled around, relaxing a little when he saw it was a woman, not a big demon with an axe. He was also relieved to find she wasn’t an androghenie. She didn’t look friendly, however. In fact, he thought, taking in the long, curved sword in her hand, she looked rather dangerous.
She also looked disturbingly entranced.
“Wait,” Charles said, stepping back in the other direction. He stumbled into the white stones, noticing they now formed a circle. Not good. “Wait!” He looked more carefully at the woman advancing on him: she was tall and astonishingly beautiful, with long dark hair and dark eyes, with skin the color of Timothy’s.
“This is Alys,” Bassam said. “She is the most senior member of the p’dka, and she is here to kill you.”
“P’dka?” Charles’s mind was racing. “But that’s the ruling body of Catal! It’s made of men!” He took another panicked step backward. “And they were all killed in the first days of the war, years ago!”
“Yes, she was killed. But the p’dka was never composed of men. What you simple Etsians viewed as the leaders were but messengers, the servants of the p’dka. The women who ruled were never seen, living their lives in seclusion, consorting only with their advisors and the Cariff, the head of the senate, to produce more noble rulers. The only exceptions to this were for executions.” He laughed. “Don’t worry. Their blades are very sharp.”
“But — if you brought her back from the dead — ” Charles looked in horror at the woman in front of him. “That will change everything. You will change reality. You will change time!”
“The world is ruled by time,” Bassam said. “And if I rule time, I rule the world.”
“The Lord rules time,” Charles whispered, still eyeing the woman’s sword.
“Yes, you do,” Bassam agreed. “But if you are dead, a new Lord can arise. And as it happens, you are standing in a circle of sacred stones, and they are of the correct color and shape to make you vulnerable.” He nodded to the woman. “That knife is no ordinary knife. You will find all the symbols of the elements inscribed upon it.”
There was a discomforting light in Bassam’s eyes, and with a sick heart Charles realized this androghenie was mad. Driven that way because of the circumstances Charles had delivered him to, most likely. My fault. He wanted to reach out to the man, to help him. To fix him. But just as with everything else, he didn’t know how.
“You cannot rule without a Lady,” Charles said, “and only the Lady can truly kill me.”
“Look upon her again,” Bassam suggested.
Charles looked. At first, he saw nothing. Then, in the same way he had been able to see how to move time, he realized he had another way of looking at her, and as easily as lifting a veil, he shifted his view. He cried out as he saw her, truly saw her, his shout full of joy and sorrow and terror.
He had found one. He had found a shard of the Lady at long last.
Except it was wrong. The shard was true, but it was…warped. Abused. Trapped. It had been raped to give this man his power. It had been forced to reveal Charles’s presence. It had been forced to bring this woman back to life.
And now this woman would kill him.
“Do not try to stop this.” Bassam’s voice was like velvet. “She is under my thrall and cannot be swayed. And if you try to shift away, I will find you. You left a hole in the Void, and you left it unguarded, unmastered. A shard rose to cleanse it, and I captured the shard. It was nothing to take it. Now her power is mine. And soon yours will be too. If you leave, I will find you. I will hunt you and kill you. You are too stupid to rule, Lord. The world will be better without you in it. Kill him, Alys.”
The woman in front of Charles lifted her arm above her head, and then, still staring sightlessly at him, swung the blade down to Charles’s neck.
In his pocket, Charles’s thumb brushed the edge of the ball of time, and the world stopped.
The knife was a hairsbreadth from his neck, and when he moved, he cut himself on it. With the blood flowing from the slice, Charles stepped to the side, reached up to his bleeding neck, and sighed.
He pulled the ball of time out of his hand and stroked it sadly.
Goddess bless, but this was the cock-up of cock-ups. Worthless! He was so worthless! He’d spent his last three months moping and moaning, and now, just like this, he was done. The first shard he’d found, and it was coming to kill him. Meanwhile Bassam had found it without any trouble at all. Had just swooped in and picked it up and hurt it and confused it, and now this. Timothy would be trapped forever, and all because of his failure. If there were anyone else who could take his place, Charles would gladly let this woman kill him and just get out of the real hero’s way.
As the thought echoed in his mind, Charles went still. And then slowly, sadly, he began to smile.
He was still smiling as he drew the ball up to his bloody neck, coating it with the sticky-sweet substance. The ball was almost hot now, pulsing in regular rhythm, and as the blood seeped inside of it, it turned a deep, passionate purple.
Charles bent to the frozen, warped shard of the Lady and brushed a tender kiss against her lips. Tears ran silently down his cheeks.
“I’m sorry, Timothy,” he whispered, and pressed the bloody ball into the woman’s mouth. “May he serve you where I have so miserably failed.”
He stepped back against the knife and pulled his hand from the ball.
The world whirled back into motion, and the knife cut through his neck in one smooth, clean swipe, severing his head from his body.
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5 Best Free Online Radio Apps For Mac Users
Radio has evolved in a great way and is still very popular. It is one of the most convenient options to listen to continuous stream of music for hours without touching the system. However, the local radio stations are not good in the sense that they don’t play the exact genre which you want to hear at a particular time or a defined chat show which is not aired on the local radio. This is the time when the need of online radio shows up. Here is a list of few amazing free online radio apps for Mac users:
iTunes for Mac
iTunes features cool number of radio stations and give you the option to add your own stations. You need to go to your iTunes settings in order to activate it. A Radio tab is visible on the library. You get access to a large variety of categories where there are options of abundant of radio stations to choose from. However, you cant record the songs you are listening to.
Pulsar for Mac is a satellite radio player which means you require an account and subscribe to the service of radio players via satellite like Sirius and take full benefits from it. The interface is similar to iTunes with features like pausing, favorites and Growl support. However, you cannot record audio.
Download Pulsar for Mac
It is a music social network website which supports a radio and keeps a list of everything you listen. It is a different app as compared to other stations as it keeps a track of what you listen and then only displays those tracks which you want to listen to depending on similar music taste. It is a great instrument for finding new music which would actually be according to your taste. So grab it now and avail the features of this radio station.
Radium is a menu bar application which allows you to listen to any radio station which you want to. Another free online radio apps for Mac users that allow you to import station from iTunes or from a link, or just find a keyword like “indie” which will bring a list of radios to meet the required keyword. It contains a history of each and every song which you have listened to. You have the option to share your songs with Facebook and Twitter.
Download Radium for Mac
Snowtap for Mac is one of the best and complete online radio stations. It has all the features such as recording audios, scheduling of radio programming, addition of any station you want to. It comes pre-loaded with a handful of radio stations. It is very expensive but very great with such distinct features.
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Online Radio Apps
There are plenty of options out there to listen to radio on your Mac. However, my favorite is Snowtape. By spending a small price, you get the benefit of features like recording, large number of radio stations, schedule of radio programs and editing of your music. It is a must app for a big radio fan. So if you are a Mac user , you just dont need to miss out any music. Download these free online radio apps for Mac users and enjoy!
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I tried to update a 5.x installatin, but installation failed to migrate database. So I uninstall the installation and restarted the server and new install new version of Spiceworks. The installation gets stuck at 95% and I receive the message: Spiceworks is taking longer than usual to start
Anders Lindhe @ IT-Artisans in Sweden
I had a similar issue a few revisions ago. Mine was resolved by backing up the database, uninstall, perform fresh install then restore database.
I chose to start from the beginning and yet I can not complete the installation :-(.
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The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user.
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Constituents: 5mM Sodium citrate, pH 4.0
Endotoxin level is less than 0.1 ng per µg (1EU/µg)
This product is an active protein and may elicit a biological response in vivo, handle with caution.
再構成Centrifuge the vial prior to opening. Reconstitute in water to a concentration of 0.1-1.0 mg/ml. This solution can then be diluted into other aqueous buffers and stored at 4oC for 1 week or -20oC for future use
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The Darvas box method was developed by Nicolas Darvas as a way of identifying strong trending markets which consolidate before resuming their trend. His style of trading was the subject of his best selling book 'How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market'.
We have programmed the Darvas box method into a set of TradeStation indicators and also expanded upon the original Darvas box method, including the ability to identify both long and short Darvas boxes.
The Darvas box indicator can be inserted into a chart and as a Darvas box forms the indicator will draw trend lines at the support and resistance levels of each Darvas box. The Darvas box indicator can then alert you when prices breakout of the box thus providing you with an opportunity to enter a trade, or build upon an existing position, as the market resumes its trend.
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Long Darvas boxes that have formed during a bullish phase in AAPL. In addition to the yellow lines, which represent the top and bottom of the Darvas box, the indicator also displays the actual top and bottom box values.
Short Darvas boxes, this time in red, that have formed during a bearish market. Again the indicator identifies the Darvas boxes both visually with red trend lines and with the actual box values as text on the chart.
While Nicolas Darvas originally only used the Darvas box method to take long trades we have adapted the Darvas box indicator to identify short forming Darvas boxes that occur during strong bear market trends.
We have also made the Darvas boxes more flexible by adding various settings including the ability to set the number of bars required to setup a Darvas box, and the ability to set the top and bottom limits of the box based upon different prices and volatility. The chart below shows the Darvas box indicator set to identify boxes formed over 20 bars instead of the original 3 bars.
You can set different prices to determine when a breakout occurs. For example using the high and low price will trigger a breakout of the Darvas box immediately. Using the closing price will only trigger a breakout if prices close outside the boxes range, but should prices breakout of the Darvas box intrabar and then retreat back into the box by the close of the bar then the current box would remain active. The chart below on the left shows a Darvas box indicator set to detect breakouts that occur intrabar while the chart on the right identifies breakouts at the close of the bar, ignoring intrabar breakouts.
We have incorporated the option to include a trend filter as part of the indicator adding the requirement of a bullish/bearish trend prior to identifying a Darvas box. The chart below shows long and short Darvas boxes being identified while using a 50 bar moving average trend filter.
The Darvas box indicators include the option to expand each boxes support/resistance levels by a set percentage so as to require a stronger price move to occur before triggering a breakout of the box thus eliminating small false breakouts signals. The indicator in the chart below has been set to include a 1% buffer to each Darvas boxes top and base.
When applied to a RadarScreen the Darvas box indicator provides extra information in additional to displaying support and resistance values.
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The Lemonbuster's inspection of a 2008 Cadillac STS-V part 3
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List of Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS: Fundamentals (P. M. Atkinson and G. M. Foody). Uncertainty in Remote Sensing (C. E. Woodcock). Toward a Comprehensive View of Uncertainty in Remote Sensing Analysis (J. L. Dungan). On the Ambiguity Induced by a Remote Sensor s PSF (J. F. Manslow and M. S. Nixon) . Pixel Unmixing at the Sub pixel Scale Based on Land Cover Class Probabilities: Application to Urban Areas (Q. Zhan, M. Molenaar and A. Lucieer). Super resolution Land Cover Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery using a Hopfield Neural Network (A. J. Tatem, H. G. Lewis, P. M. Atkinson and M. S. Nixon). Uncertainty in Land Cover Mapping from Remotely Sensed Data using Textural Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks (A. M. Jakomulska and J. P. Radomski). Remote Monitoring of the Impact of ENSO related Drought on Sabah Rainforest using NOAA AVHRR Middle Infrared Reflectance: Exploring Emissivity Uncertainty (D. S. Boyd, P. C. Phipps, W. J. Duane and G. M. Foody). Land Cover Map 2000 and Meta data at the Land Parcel Level (G. M. Smith and R. M. F uller). Analysing Uncertainty Propagation in GIS: Why is it not that Simple? (G. B.M. Heuvelink). Managing uncertainty in a Geospatial Model of Biodiversity (A. J. Warren, M. J. Collins, E. A. Johnson and P. F. Ehlers). The Effects of Uncertainty in Deposition Data on Predicting Exceedances of Acidity Critical Loads for Sensitive UK Ecosystems (E. Heywood, J. R. Hall and R. A. Wadsworth). Vertical and Horizontal Spatial Variation of Geostatistical Prediction (A. Wameling). Geostatistical Prediction and Simulation of the Lateral and Vertical Extent of Soil Horizons (B. Warr, I. O. A. Odeh and M. A. Oliver). Increasing the Accuracy of Predictions of Monthly Precipitation in Great Britain using Kriging with an External Drift (C. D. Lloyd). Conditional Simulation Applied to Uncertainty Assessment in DTMs (J. Senegas, M. Schmitt and P. Nonin). Current Status of Uncertainty Issues in Remote Sensing and GIS (G. M. Foody and P. M. Atkinson). Index. | <urn:uuid:0056828c-6f28-4fd0-b0e0-7a1a03a08b75> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nhbs.com/title/161624?title=uncertainty-in-remote-sensing-and-gis | 2016-10-23T01:27:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00069-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.760711 | 592 | [
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The republic's present-day territory was not called Moldova or
Moldavia until 1940.
Accommodation, Language in Moldova, Map
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Moldova, formerly the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, is situated
between Romania and Ukraine.
Historically, much of the country was referred to as Bessarabia,
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Weather in Europe:
Local weather forecasts for destinations around Europe.
The capital of Moldova, formerly known as Kishinev, is situated on
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Chisinau was captured by the Ottoman Turks in the 16th century and
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New Hampshire - EnergySmart Schools Program (New Hampshire)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
Financial Incentive Program
|Name||New Hampshire - EnergySmart Schools Program|
|Incentive Type||Other Incentive|
|Eligible Technologies||Comprehensive Measures/Whole Building, Custom/Others pending approval, Unspecified technologies|
|Energy Category||Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs|
|Program Administrator||TRC Energy Services|
|Date added to DSIRE||2011-03-03|
|Last DSIRE Review||2012-01-09|
Through a grant from the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Fund (GHGERF), the NH EnergySmart Schools Program offers schools in the state an opportunity to better understand their energy use and information about how to reduce that consumption. This program does not offer financial incentives, rather it offers free technical services to benchmark schools' energy use. For schools that are found to be energy efficient, the program will provide additional verification services required for the Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR label.
Participating schools must submit their electric and heating bills for at least 12 months (preferably 36 months) and complete the program's "Building Data Request Form." The information will be analyzed and results will be provided regarding the buildings' performance and compare the buildings to other schools. The report will include recommendations for improving energy efficiency, as well as summarize utility and state incentives that are available to off-set costs of implementing recommended improvements.
|Contact Name||NH EnergySmart Schools Program|
|Department||TRC Energy Services|
|Address||155 Fleet Street|
|Address 2||Suite 305|
|Place||Portsmouth, New Hampshire|
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In this installment of New Product Monday we collected a look at new machines that offer ways to maximize efficiency when moving material around the farm. Check out this quick sampling of the latest tools.
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Once you park the planter, with nice weather it'll be time for projects, and mowing, around the farm. Here are a range of tools that help you keep the farmstead looking fresh; and for taking on some of those projects you've been meaning to cover all these years.
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Middleton, Barry K.
Aziz, Mustafa M.
Speliotis, D. E.
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IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
This paper reports on the influences of magnetic media remanent magnetizations on the output levels in digital magnetic tape and disk recording. While at low densities a high magnetization is required for a high output, a lower magnetization is required at high densities. However, for particular applications, an output near to the maximum can be obtained from a wide range of remanent magnetization values, which suggests possible uses for media with diverse properties.
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In the confusion of natural disasters or armed conflicts, cultural objects are often subject to theft, illegal trafficking, and sale at a very high price especially in developed countries. In this connection, criticisms and legal claims have been leveled against developed countries including Japan. Against this background, Japan became a party to two important agreements and two related protocols related to the cultural heritage. On September 9, 2002, Japan became a party to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property [hereinafter the "1970 UNESCO Convention"]. On September 10, the day on which the Convention entered into force for Japan, two domestic laws to secure implementation of the Convention were enacted: the Act on Control of the Illicit Export and Import and Other Matters of Cultural Property (Act No. 81 of 2002) and the Act for the Partial Amendment of the Act for the Protection of Cultural Property (Act No. 82 of 2002). They came into effect on April 1, 2005. Later, in 2007, Japan ratified the 1954 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (hereinafter the "1954 Hague Convention"). In the same year, Japan also became a party to both of the two Protocols to the Hague Convention. Accordingly, the Act for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Act No. 32 of 2007), implementing the Hague Convention and two Protocols, was enacted in the same year.
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NOVA Advisor (Motorized - 4x4) Selected -
I have learned, "Congratulations" are in order, Jim Putman (Hombre - Region 2) has been appointed to the Nonhighway and Off-Road Vehicle Activities program (NOVA) as one of the motorized representatives (4x4).
As part of a fifteen member committee, they advise the Recreation and Conservation Office's (RCO) director and funding board on the ranked grant requests for motorized - nonmotorized and nonhighway projects - along with education and enforcement (E&E) programs that are related to NOVA activities; also when needed, they are called upon to provide assistance to the RCO director on policies, procedures, statewide planning and legislative issues.
Congratulations again Jim, you have your work cut for you now.
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NOVA Advisor (2000 - 2011)
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The historic city of Gloucester has been saved from descending into a cesspit of vile sexual depravity. A planning application to turn a hotel into a "private member's sex club" complete with a "fetish room" for "adult enjoyment" has been turned down. It is thought that the Mayor's wife held the casting vote-she was holding his genitals in the other hand.
The private members club was to provide a venue for those with an alternative sexual lifestyle, such as gay men and women (formerly called lesbians), bisexual men and women (only alternative at weekends), transvestites, cross-dressers, cross-genders, variables and swingers.
However a local campaign has won the day. Susan Johnson, spokesperson, said "I'm not having someone swing their variable in my face! This town is for decent folk. I've nothing against gay people, except how they behave. If a gay man were to pretend to be a straight man then I would welcome him with open arms."
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EVERY baby needs something stylish to spit up on, don't you think?!
Every mom wishes she had dozens of these beautiful puke-wipers because they're SO handy, you use about a hundred a day, and moms just might actually enjoy a 3:00 a.m. feeding with some of these! (okay, I'm stretching that one...)
A friend of mine asked if I would sew up some burp cloths for her new baby girl coming soon and I agreed - as long as she brought over something yummy to munch on. She bought all of the fabric and cloth diapers, I just did the sewing. Here's what she brought, too! YUM!
I see these burp cloths being sold EVERYWHERE and they're so easy to do. You could make a dozen of these in an hour.
First of all, a word about my crazy-ugly (crugly) green mat. It is SUCH an eyesore but I want you to sear it into your corneas because you NEED to use a grid in order to get all of your cutting straight. Center the tops and sides of your fabrics at the same time. If your fabric doesn't fit, fold it in half.
Start by measuring the width of where the diaper is layered. These diapers were about 6 inches, so I figured 1/2 inch on both sides and 2 inches on the bottom of extra fabric would do the trick.
Cut a 7" x 20" strip of fabric. You could probably fold a yard in half and get two strips out of that one cut.
Iron about 1/4 inch on both sides.
(Check out the CRUGLY mat! It's been very well loved...)
Center the strip directly in the middle of the diaper, making sure your top edges are centered on both ends.
Press the top edges 1/4", fold over the top of the burp cloth, press and pin.
After making a couple of these ahead of time, I discovered that it's easier to stitch the top overlapping folds first before anything else.
Stitch close to the edge, about 1/8 of an inch.
After you've got the top two overlaps stitched, start at the top of one edge, stitch all the way down, close to the edge, and then do the other side.
AND THAT'S IT! You could do an entire pack of burp cloths in about 30 minutes!
These look so cute all folded up so nice. Come up with some creative packaging and you'll have the best baby shower gift ever!
VARIATION: Covering one side
Same concept, only we're going to cover the back of the cloth completely for a different look.
Measure 2 inches all the way around your burp cloth, cut to fit.
Make sure your lines are STRAIGHT!
Press about 1 inch all the way around.
Take one of your diapers, make and sew a center strip WITHOUT the top overlapping. You can leave that raw because you're going to cover it.
Center the diaper on your backing, fold, press, and pin all the way around.
It really is so much easier to iron as you fold and pin.
Just tuck in the corners and overlap them - nothing fancy here. We're talking spit-up, ladies!
So this is how I did mine - you can do yours any way you want. I started at one corner at the very top, backstitched it in place, stitching close to the edge of the fold, all the way down to the bottom of the next corner, backstitch, and cut the thread.
Start again for each corner. Otherwise, you'll have openings where each corner overlapped and I'm not about to hand-stitch those shut since this is a BURP CLOTH.
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Testing Master Socket
This is a discussion on Testing Master Socket within the Sky Broadband help forums, part of the Sky Broadband help and support category; Just phoned Bt , They did a line test and everything was ok an advisor will ring me back between ...
- 01-10-06, 11:46 AM #31
Just phoned Bt, They did a line test and everything was ok an advisor will ring me back between 2pm-4pm on my mobile so i guess ill have to explain to them that my phone line is dodgy. Only thing is i know when an engineer comes he is going to say its my fault as theres loads of extensions on it and it looks like a mess. I just dont want to be footed with a huge bill.
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- 01-10-06, 12:00 PM #32
If you have an intermittant fault then the line test was probably just when the fault wasn't there.
Old sockets can wear out. I expect you've noticed that the phone crackles when you touch the plug/lead that is plugged into the master socket and changing to a different phone doesn't help?
Sounds like you need your master socket looked at.
- 01-10-06, 12:48 PM #33
A crackling line can be caused by bad connections or loose wireing.If the phone cut's out after 4 rings,it's "ring-tripping" & is caused by bad extensions,faulty wireing ect.You could say that the plug socket feels loose & when you 'waggleit'you're line goes dead.(normally caused by the wife hoovering & smacking the socket with the hoover,breaks the connections inside )
With regards to the extensions,just say they were alreadt there when you moved in!
Failing that,if you see a (U-hum!) NTL engineer in the street,bung him £20 & ask him to replace it with a CTE-5 master (Same as a BT NTE-5,no difference apart from the logo) But if you tell anybody,I'll get wheelie to run you over!
- 01-10-06, 01:06 PM #34Ray
Some Advice.. Its always advisable to inform your old ISP as soon as you have migrated that you have moved.
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- 01-10-06, 01:16 PM #35
Will the outcome of the telephone conversation be final or will the engineer decide whether or not a charge is required because i dont want the engineer turning up replacing it then saying thats £110 please
- 01-10-06, 01:26 PM #36
Have that discussion with the person on the phone.
Normal practice is that it is free if it concerns their equipment. Chargeable if it is yours.
- 01-10-06, 02:29 PM #37
BT just phoned back and it was some indian women who i could barely understand, she told me to disconnect any other equiptment ie sky tv router etc and she will call back in 30mins. I cant see me getting anywhere with this women its absolutely perfetic why call it British Telecom might aswell be Indian Telecom.
- 01-10-06, 03:05 PM #38
I had bad line problems about 5 mins into a call. It wasnt till my DW said it starting happening AFTER I tested the new router in the master socket that I realised what had happened
The test socket is clipped to the back of the main socket, the bottom clip had come unclipped. This meant the face plate wasnt fully in the test socket.
This clip isnt great and I reckon with a little "force" the clip gives. Remove your faceplate and see if the test socket has any "give"?Sky Broadband Max | Wired | Clarity modified ADSL master socket | 10m twisted pair ADSL extension
- 01-10-06, 03:11 PM #39
I dont have a faceplate, its just the standard socket not nte5 or whatever its called.
BT just called back Engineer is coming out Fri 6th, Hopefully the engineer will replace the socket and not charge.
- 01-10-06, 03:14 PM #40
best of luck
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2011 Fellowships Awarded
Ten graduate students in California and ten in New England were chosen as this year's 2011 Switzer Fellows. Our newest class of Fellows come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. The new Fellows' academic institutions include: University of Connecticut, Yale University, MIT, Vermont Law School, Tufts University, Lesley University and University of New Hampshire on the east coast. On the west coast, we have new Fellows from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and Stanford University. | <urn:uuid:1d1734d9-7a48-44bd-af2e-5451659a9b22> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.switzernetwork.org/grants-awarded/2011-fellowships-awarded | 2016-10-26T07:30:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720760.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00255-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955104 | 112 | [
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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- As far as the Cavaliers are concerned, Semih Erden is a 7-foot question mark.
Since being obtained from the Boston Celtics at the trading deadline about 10 months ago, Erden has played in four games, making one start, and averaging 3.3 points and 2.8 rebounds in 16 minutes a game.
He missed 19 Cavs games last season with a strained right adductor and a sore right heel, then had shoulder surgery. He showed up for training camp with a broken right thumb suffered while playing in his native Turkey over the summer.
So it was good news for the Cavs when Erden returned to practice on Monday at Cleveland Clinic Courts.
"He did the whole practice," Cavs coach Byron Scott said. "He looked OK, a little winded. Obviously he doesn't have the offense down pat, but for the first time out he looked pretty good. He's still got a ways to go."
Though Scott cautioned that there was no timetable for Erden's activation -- he will not be available for Tuesday's game against visiting Charlotte -- it's not completely out of the question that he could be available during the upcoming seven-game, 13-day trip that starts on Wednesday at Toronto.
Looking ahead, Scott figures the Cavs' next practice could be at Portland on Saturday. "We'll evaluate him again then and see how he is," Scott said of Erden.
The coach said right now it's too early to get a good read on the big man.
"He still makes basketball plays when he's out there," Scott said. "He's got a good basketball sense, a good basketball IQ. But he still needs repetition, especially on the offensive end. Five-on-zero is one thing, but five-on-five is totally different. He needs as much five-on-five as he can get right now."
As the only legitimate center on the roster, Erden could be a valuable commodity as a backup to starter Anderson Varejao. Samardo Samuels has been inconsistent in that role, really struggling against New Jersey on Sunday, and Ryan Hollins has played in only one of the first four games.
Scott admitted he's eager to see Erden.
"When we got him, he had a couple of injuries," Scott said. "We tried to get those all taken care of and tried to get him on the floor as healthy as possible but he kind of re-injured some of those things.
"I think we're all pretty anxious to see him at full strength, [when he's] able to get out there and play on the basketball floor just to see what we have."
"Last night was his best game on both ends of the floor," Scott said. "Defensively, the one guy who had been killing us on the boards last year when we played was Humphries. He destroyed us on the boards, and last night he had five rebounds."
Humphries averaged 13.5 rebounds in four games against the Cavs last season, with 23 in one game and 18 in another.
3 for Gee: Alonzo Gee said he won't be challenging Daniel Gibson in shooting any time soon, but he did set single-game career highs by making three of five 3-pointers on Sunday. His five attempts were as many as in the first three games combined.
After working on his shooting during the lockout, he's much more confident in his range.
"I didn't shoot [the 3-pointer] as much as I'm shooting it now," he said. "If I'm open, I'm going to shoot it."
Last season in 40 games with the Cavs, he made 17 of 49 3-pointers (34.7 percent). In 11 games with Washington and San Antonio in 2009-10, he made 7 of 9.
The last word: From Jamison on his protege, rookie power forward Tristan Thompson: "I can tell you now, in four or five years, I wouldn't want to have to deal with him night in and night out. It's one of those situations where I can sit back and say, 'I remember him as a rookie' when he's playing in All-Star Games and things of that nature. I'm a big fan of his. I can't wait for him to be a household name in the league." | <urn:uuid:1f8b801c-59bb-468c-9070-99b6e701a9e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2012/01/center_semih_erden_returns_to.html | 2016-10-27T11:14:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721268.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00317-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989103 | 908 | [
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What an experienced marathon runner considers "mild" would be extremely daunting to someone with a sedentary lifestyle. It’s all subjective. In general, though, mild exercise might include brisk walking, leisurely biking or gentle calisthenics. Check with your health-care provider before beginning an exercise program for the first time or if you have been away from fitness programs for a while, or if you have any chronic health issues.
Mild cardiovascular exercise may take many forms, generally notable for low impact on joints and a relatively undemanding pace. For example, walking is a mild form of exercise, whether performed at a brisk or leisurely pace. Contrasted with running, it exerts far less impact on the knees and other joints. Along with walking, many examples of mild exercise form part of common daily routines. For example, walking up stairs is usually a mild exercise. Leisure activities, such as cycling, canoeing or swimming, also offer mild workouts, provided you practice them at a low to moderate intensity.
Strength training doesn't have to be about pumping iron at intensive levels. You can strengthen your muscles and bones, ward off various diseases and improve your stamina by strength training with relatively light weights. If you prefer to exercise without any equipment, opt for calisthenics such as situps and pushups. To keep the workout light, use adapted versions or reduce your number of repetitions to suit your comfort level.
Mild exercise isn't just something for the infirm and elderly. If your schedule or energy level won't accommodate more intensive workouts, mild to moderate workouts can dramatically improve your health. According to a 2007 study reported in "Time," regular mild exercise reduced the tendency to develop dementia. A 2001 study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" found that regular, mild activity decreased the chances of heart attacks. While more vigorous exercise had an even greater effect, the study found that walking for two hours per week decreased the risk of a future heart attack by 30 percent.
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most adults should get at least 30 minutes of exercise each day. Depending on your fitness level and schedule, you can derive the daily exercise quota from a range of mild to moderate activities, whether leisure activities like dancing and swimming, or typical chores, like mowing the lawn. As a general rule, during cardiovascular activity, maintain a pace at which you can comfortably carry on a conversation. Stick to this guideline throughout, and monitor your progress by checking how long it takes to cover a certain distance or what your pulse rate is after a certain length of time exercising. | <urn:uuid:18861f70-12b6-413d-ac7d-5b7b3e96c1e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/538133-what-is-mild-exercise/ | 2016-10-27T11:02:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721268.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00317-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947387 | 542 | [
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Time to adopt a new approach
The method Rothesay Primary has devised to release teachers for their 1.5 hours a week of non-contact time is "uncharted territory", says the headteacher. However, the big map of France on the wall of Kathy McKirdy's furniture-free classroom helps the Isle of Bute pupils to get their bearings.
"Bonjour, la classe."
The response of the infants seated in a circle on the floor is instant and enthusiastic. Rhymes, songs, games and activities keep restless hands and feet active and brains focused and entertained.
"Where would we wear this chapeau?" Ms McKirdy asks, holding up a floppy, multi-coloured hat.
"In the sun," Rebecca replies.
"In French, please. Il y a du ...?
"Well done. Now everyone, turn to face around the circle and do the actions gently on the person in front: il neige."
Snowflake fingertips flutter lightly on children's backs.
"Il pleut." Raindrops pitter-patter, a few too heavily. "I shouldn't hear anyone go 'Ow!'," Ms McKirdy reminds them.
Overlooked by bright pictures and big text of un mouton, un escargot, une tomate, une aubergine and even a grinning, green dinosaure, the youngsters throw themselves wholeheartedly into the French lesson, pretending to pull on wellies, splash in puddles and swim in the sea.
Forty-five minutes later they troop out of the classroom and in come older pupils, who get a similar lesson taught in a similar way.
"It's very much a multi-sensory approach," says Ms McKirdy. "That's why there are no chairs or desks. The kids learn by doing, saying, seeing and listening."
Ms McKirdy, formerly an experienced P5 class teacher at Rothesay Primary, now provides all the weekly non-contact time for her colleagues, with two 45-minute sessions of French and drama for all 14 classes in the school.
The opportunity to move from class teacher to specialist was one she took only after some deliberation but it was, she says, an ideal opportunity to pursue a growing interest and expertise developed through continuing professional development. This was topped with a total immersion course for primary teachers at the Centre de Linguistique Appliquee in Besancon, in the Franche-Comte region of eastern France.
"I didn't have Higher French when I left school. I had been attending courses at the Alliance Francaise but was still only about A-level standard before going on the course, for which I got funding from the British Council.
"I am still experimenting with all the things we learned. I wasn't convinced about games and activities, the multi-sensory approach, for the older kids. But it's working fantastically well with all ages."
Teaching every pupil each week in a school of almost 400 is a very different job from teaching the same 25 pupils every day, says Ms McKirdy.
"But I enjoy seeing the different groups. I like the variety.
"The enthusiasm of the children is very rewarding. It's like their own little language and they love it. They're shouting 'Salut' and 'Bonjour' to each other in school and going home and singing happy birthday to their granny in French."
For headteacher Roddy McDowell, the children's response is no surprise because the teaching methods exploit modern research about accelerated learning and enlisting the whole brain.
"We now know children have to be actively involved for real learning to take place. The atmosphere in a classroom has to be right and the kids have to be stimulated. My own observation is that going to another teacher and doing a lesson in a very different way has a big wow factor for kids."
Mr McDowell believes increased use of specialists in primary schools will bring gains in children's learning and motivation, but will also test the schools system at several critical points. "We need to make sure pupils are not treading water at any stage of their education. We have to be flexible enough to cope with kids coming to upper primary and secondary with greater skills in particular areas of the curriculum."
Drawing specialists from the ranks of class teachers, while an attractive option for primary schools, does create a particular challenge for management, says Mr McDowell. "We now have a specialist based in our school who can't share many aspects of her job with her colleagues in the staffroom. So Kathy could easily become professionally isolated."
To avoid this, the school has been forging closer links with the modern languages department at Rothesay Academy, whose staff now team-teach once a week with Ms McKirdy. This has the added advantage of providing the academy with a clear idea of future pupils' attainment.
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[Tweeters] White-winged Skagit Snow Goose - unusual or not?
calocitta8 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 07:54:41 PST 2010
Looks like it's a partial albino. There seem to be a few black feather-vanes
on one of the wings, meaning it's not a total albino. I've never heard of
this in Snow Geese before, but that may be in part because it's tough to
notice them, compared to say, an albino Canada Goose in a flock of normal
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Beach Dee <beachdee at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Been away for a year or two but glad to be back with Tweeters!
> Question: Today on the way to La Conner we stopped to show an out-of-town
> visitor the SNOW GEESE. Snapped a few pics with the pocket cam and when got
> home and looked at them, noticed one pic of two geese flying shows one with
> all-white wings. In the same pic is a normal black-tipped-wing bird.
> Anybody with the expertise/experience, is this common? Couldn't get
> anything to come up on Google. Here's a link to the pic (I haven't done
> anything to the photo except crop it):
> http://naturepics.homestead.com/naturepics-display.html. Would appreciate
> any enlightenment.
> Dee Warnock
> Edmonds, WA
> beachdee at hotmail dot com
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August 19, 2014
Whatever Are They Looking For?
There is no doubt the good outweighs the bad by fare more than a little and so I shouldn't look at people digging through the archives as being negative.
If they like my writing it is both possible and likely they are having fun reading old posts and getting a greater sense of what this wacky old man has written and is writing about.
But I would be lying if I said I am not curious about whether they are just perusing the shelves or looking for something in particular.
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Prefab metal buildings make use of metal as the main component for its construction. It has gained immense popularity over the past few years. The most commonly used metals used in building construction have always been steel and iron but the prefabricated metal buildings have come up very recently.
Steel buildings and all its elements like frames, beams, walls and roofs, columns, etc, have been able to gain popularity over iron and steel buildings due to a number of reasons. The prefabricated metal buildings helped in bringing down the overall cost and aids for a faster construction. Besides, they are highly durable and needs very less maintenance.
Prefab metal buildings are used in the construction of residential houses, garages, churches, schools, shopping centers, warehouses, and so on. They come in a variety of colors and can be constructed in various sizes too. One of the biggest advantages of steel buildings is that they can be established on any kind of surface and also can be shifted to other locations if need arises.
Features of Steel Buildings
The high tensile strength of steel makes this type of construction very secured and long lasting. The wide range of custom designs and tough acrylic finishes are among its other features. They are highly practicable and also contribute immensely to increase the aesthetic appeal of any construction.
The roof and wall insulation calls for an easy maintenance of the inside temperature of the construction. Steel buildings come with some special features too that you can select from which are security screens, bullet-resistant construction and windows, through-wall drawers, speaker systems, non-combustible materials, etc. You can even place a number of accessories on prefabricated metal buildings which may include liner panels, overhead doors, roof extensions, sliding doors and windows, vents, and canopies.
These steel buildings or the prefabricated metal buildings are constructed out of galvanized steel and galvalume. The later one is a form of steel that comes with aluminum-zinc coating to prevent it against rust, corrosion, and any other kind of abrasive conditions. This makes the steel so durable. Besides, they also have the capacity to stand the harshest of weather conditions and are much better in comparison to galvanized steel. Also, they display no discoloration.
Prefab metal buildings are much more affordable in comparison to wooden buildings. You can keep away building costs thereby saving a lot of money. Since metal is a durable material, so you can expect a long lasting performance for years to come. Wooden buildings need repair after a few years and hence you need to spend a lot after their maintenance. The prefab metal buildings being moisture resistant, disallows any penetration of the moisture thus saving the interior. It will keep your building fresh all throughout.
Steel buildings are a better reflector of heat keeping it cool under hot climatic conditions. You must make sure that your design and metal for such construction meets the building guidelines of your area. Always choose a manufacturer who is going to offer you all the details in writing. To get hold of such a manufacturer, you can go through the internet.
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Peppa's House is just 400 metres from Roma Trastevere Train Station and from tram number 8 linking to Rome centre. It offers air-conditioned apartments with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TV and washing machine.
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The Western Australian Disability Discrimination Unit is a part of Sussex Street Community Law Service Inc. We conduct Disability Discrimination Outreach Service as St Mathhews Church, Jull Street Armadale every second Wednesday morning by appointment. For an appointment please call (08) 6253 9500.
What is the Disability Discrimination Unit (DDU)?
The DDU provides free information and advice to people who feel they have been discriminated against due to their disability.
What is a disability?
The legislation which makes it unlawful to discriminate against someone due to a disability / impairment includes the following in its definition.
- Physical disability e.g. quadriplegia
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It covers disabilities in the past, present or that may exist in the future e.g. Hereditary diseases such as Huntington's disease.
What legislation governs disability discrimination?
There are two Acts governing disability discrimination;
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Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably than others. Discrimination can be direct or indirect and includes harassment and being asked discriminatory questions.
- Direct discrimination is where a person with a disability is directly treated differently because of the disability
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Who can complain about disability discrimination?
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What areas of life is it unlawful to discriminate based on disability/impairment?
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The Disability Discrimination Act also covers
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The Disability Discrimination Unit also engages in community legal education by informing people about their rights so that they can address issues relating to their or another's disability. If you would like to arrange for someone to provide your group with information on disability discrimination contact the office on 6253 9500.
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A pretty fly with black and yellow thoraicic markings, lightly patterned wings and technicolour eyes often hogs the lowlight by forest trails, where the insects engage in scintillating displays on leafy platforms. Wings atwitch, forelegs raised and bottoms up, the flies issue quiet challenges to each other with unusual disregard for personal safety, a possible consequence of their vague resemblance to small vespids, though they possess the full power of their tribe to apparate when prodded.
My best, not entirely unresearched, guess as to the identity of these insects is Adrama rufiventris, a tephritid distributed from Thailand to Papua and synomymised, though not always, in the literature with Adrama selecta. Stubby, pendulous antennae; a scutellum with four backward-pointing bristles; a conical ovipositor; and femora bearing a row of ventral spines – these are the visible hallmarks of the genus, whose 13 or more species occur throughout the Orient and Australasia, and which includes Adrama determinata and austeni, two not-insignificant pests of tea seeds. The larval habits of this inland species are not known, but Adrama rufiventris has been obtained from a gutta-percha tree in Thailand, while a congener discovered in local mangroves has been reared from the fruit of Excoecaria agallocha.
Tephritidae, a large family with at least 40 local species, includes the true fruit flies (as opposed to the dipterous lab-rat Drosophila, which favours sour over fresh fruit), a lineage with largely host specific habits, although a few subfamilies have polyphagous, saphrophagic or even parasitoid members. Many tephritids boast colourful ommatidia and smoky cells, the latter of which are employed in showy courtship rituals that may also involve a dab of fragrance from eversible glands. Some species are known to exchange oral fluids in a gesture of reeking intimacy, an act that may be analogous to the presentation of juicy prey by male empidids to their mates. Broadly applicable but frustratingly vague, these observations point to a need to tarry by wayside leks, interpret the fine prints on fresh blades and learn the specific outcomes of these persistent efforts to sidestep rivals and claim the prize of fly-by seductions. | <urn:uuid:7c7fe722-6ef4-414d-ba12-c4d42a7f1d15> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://budak.blogs.com/the_annotated_budak/2012/11/flydae.html | 2016-10-23T03:02:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719139.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00502-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926476 | 519 | [
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Regulations Respecting the Election of Rules of Origin for Automotive Goods
P.C. 1993-2111 1993-12-15
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to section 13Footnote * of the Customs TariffFootnote **, is pleased hereby to make the annexed Regulations respecting the election of rules of origin for automotive goods, effective on the day on which subsection 113(3) of An Act to implement the North American Free Trade Agreement, being chapter 44 of the Statutes of Canada, 1993, comes into force.
2 In these Regulations,
- automotive goods
automotive goods means goods referred to in any of subheadings 8703.21 to 8703.90, 8704.21 and 8704.31; (produits automobiles)
- unliquidated entries
unliquidated entries means any automotive goods that are shipped directly to Canada from the United States, that entered Canada during the period beginning on January 1, 1989 and ending immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, and in respect of which a final determination has not been made in accordance with section 3 before the coming into force of these Regulations. (importations à origine indéterminée)
- SOR/98-28, s. 15.
3 For the purposes of these Regulations, a final determination has been made in respect of automotive goods where
(a) a determination of origin has been made in respect of the automotive goods and the period for requesting a re-determination of origin in respect of the automotive goods under section 60 of the Customs Act has expired;
(b) a notice of decision in respect of a re-determination of origin has been given in respect of the automotive goods under section 60 of the Customs Act and the period for requesting a further re-determination of origin in respect of the automotive goods under section 63 of that Act has expired; or
4 For the purposes of the determination of the entitlement to the benefit of the United States Tariff, in respect of unliquidated entries, an importer of automotive goods may elect, within 180 days after the day on which these Regulations come into force, to apply
(a) the United States Tariff Rules of Origin Regulations; or
5 Where an importer of automotive goods elects, in accordance with section 4, to have the NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations apply, that importer may elect to use the method set out in section 10 of those Regulations instead of the method set out in section 9 of those Regulations to calculate the value of all non-originating materials.
6 Where an importer of automotive goods elects, in accordance with section 4, to have the NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations apply and where the producer of those automotive goods had a 1989-1990 fiscal year that began after January 1, 1989, the producer may include, in that fiscal year, any unliquidated entries that entered Canada during the period beginning on January 1, 1989 and ending immediately before the commencement of the producer’s 1989-1990 fiscal year.
7 Where any provision in the NAFTA Rules of Origin Regulations requires a notice to be filed or given within a producer’s fiscal year, the reference to the producer’s fiscal year shall be read, for a producer of automotive goods where the importer of those automotive goods has elected, in accordance with section 4, to apply those Regulations, as a reference to the first fiscal year of the producer after the coming into force of these Regulations.
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CFS West Installations has over 25 years of experience in the installation of flooring systems. We offer superior warranties for our clients upon inspection of floors.
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Ecology/Main Glossary< Ecology
<<< << Chapter 1 | Glossary 1 |
A Glossary of Terms Related to Basic Ecology
Biological control or biocontrol: 1. In general, the control of the numbers of one organism as a result of natural predation by another or others. Specifically, the human use of natural predators for the control of pests or weeds. Also applied to the introduction of large numbers of sterilized males of the pest species, whose matings result in the laying of infertile eggs (Allaby, 1998). 2. The release of one species to control another (Carlton, 2001). 3. The management of weeds using introduced herbivores (often insects) as biological control agents (Booth et al., 2003). 4. Control method involving a biological control agent that is a natural enemy of a target pest (Heutte and Bella, 2003).
Biological diversity or biodiversity: Used to describe species richness, ecosystem complexity, and genetic variation (Allaby 1998).
Bioregion: A biological subdivision of the earth’s surface delineated by the flora and fauna of the region (Allaby 1998).
Biota: The plants and animals of a specific region or period, or the total aggregation of organisms in the biosphere (Allaby 1998).
Community: Any grouping of populations of different organisms that live together in a particular environment (Allaby 1998).
Disturbance: An event or change in the environment that alters the composition and successional status of a biological community and may deflect succession onto a new trajectory, such as a forest fire or hurricane, glaciation, agriculture, and urbanization (Art 1993).
Ecosystem: A discrete unit, or community of organisms and their physical environment (living and non-living parts), that interact to form a stable system (Allaby 1998).
Endemic: A species or taxonomic group that is restricted to a particular geographic areas because of such factors as isolation or response to soil or climatic conditions; this species is said to be endemic to the place (Allaby 1998) and would be native.
Exotic species: This term is commonly used in publications and literature, and is similar to the terms alien species, foreign species, introduced species, non indigenous species, and non native species (Heutte and Bella 2003). Other definitions include: 1. An introduced, non native species, or a species that is the result of direct or indirect, deliberate or accidental introduction of the species by humans, and for which introduction permitted the species to cross a natural barrier to dispersal (Noss and Cooperrider 1994). 2. In North America, often refers to those species not present in a bioregion before the entry of Europeans in the 16th century, or present in later parts of that region and later introduced to an ecosystem by human-mediated mechanisms (Cohen and Carlton 1988).
Fauna: The animal life of a region or geological period (Allaby 1998)
Fitness: Survival and reproduction ability of an individual
Flora: Plant or bacterial life forms of a region or geological period (Allaby 1998).
Habitat: 1. The place, including physical and biotic conditions, where a plant or an animal usually occurs (Allaby 1998). 2. The physical conditions that surround a species, or species population, or assemblage of species, or community (Clements and Shelford, 1939).
Indigenous: A species that occurs naturally in an area; a synonym for native species (Allaby 1998), although see "endemic".
Native range: The ecosystem that a species inhabits (Booth et al. 2003).
Native species: 1. A synonym for indigenous species 2. A species that occurs naturally in an area, and has not been introduced by humans either intentionally or unintentionally (Allaby 2005). 3. In North America, a species established before the year 500 (Jeschke and Strayer 2005)
Naturalized species: 1. A species that was originally introduced from a different country, a different bioregion, or a different geographical area, but now behaves like a native species in that it maintains itself without further human intervention and now grows and reproduces in native communities (Allaby 1998). 2. A non native species that forms self-sustaining populations but is not necessarily an invasive species (Booth et al. 2003).
Niche: the role the species plays in the functioning of the ecosystem: the "functional status of an organism in its community" (Charles Elton, in Odum, 1959).
Population: A group of potentially inter-breeding individuals of the same species found in the same place at the same time (Booth et al. 2003).
Ruderal species: A plant associated with human dwellings, construction, or agriculture, that usually colonizes disturbed or waste ground. Ruderals are often weeds which have high demands for nutrients and are intolerant of competition. See also native weed or invasive native (Allaby 1998).
Species: A group of organisms formally recognized as distinct from other groups; the taxon rank in the hierarchy of biological classification below that of genus; the basic unit of biological classification, usually defined by the reproductive isolation of the group from all other groups of organisms (Allaby 1998).
Weed: 1. A plant in the wrong place, being one that occurs opportunistically on land or in water that has been disturbed by human activities (see also ruderal species and native weed or invasive native), or on cultivated land, where it competes for nutrients, water, sunlight, or other resources with cultivated plants such as food crops. Under different circumstances the weed plant itself may be cultivated for beneficial purposes (Allaby, 1998). 2. A native or introduced species that has a perceived negative ecological or economic effect on agricultural or natural ecosystems (Booth et al., 2003). 3. A plant growing in an area where it is not wanted (Royer and Dickinson, 1999).
- Allaby, M. 1998. Oxford Dictionary of Ecology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Art, H. W. 1993. The Dictionary of Ecology and Environmental Science. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
- Booth, B. D., S. D. Murphy, and C. J. Swanton. 2003. Weed Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems. Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing.
- Carlton, J.T. 2001. Introduced Species in U.S. Coastal Waters: Pew Oceans Commissions Report. Pew Oceans Commissions: Washington, DC.
- Clements, Frederic E., and Victor E. Shelford. 1939. Bio-ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 425 pp.
- Cohen, A. H., and J. T. Carlton. 1998. Accelerating invasion rate in a highly invaded estuary. Science 279: 555-58.
- Colautti, R. I., and H. J. MacIsaac. 2004. A neutral terminology to define 'invasive' species. Diversity and Distributions 10: 134-41.
- Heutte, T., and E. Bella. 2003. Invasive plants and exotic weeds of Southeast Alaska. Anchorage, AK: USDA Forest Service.
- Jeschke, J. M., and D. L. Strayer. 2005. Invasion success of vertebrates in Europe and North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(20):7198-202.
- Noss, R. F., and A. Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. Washington, DC: Island Press.
- Odum, E. P. 1959. Fundamentals of ecology. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia and London. 546 p.
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Description: Garden Screen Wall North East of Heighington Hall
Date Listed: 6 July 1986
English Heritage Building ID: 110771
OS Grid Reference: NZ2502722459
OS Grid Coordinates: 425027, 522459
Latitude/Longitude: 54.5967, -1.6141
NZ 2522 HEIGHINGTON CHURCH VIEW
(North side, off)
11/22 Garden screen wall
Garden screen wall. Probably early C19. Stone plinth and coping. Hand-made
brick in irregular English garden wall bond.
Tall, flat-coped c.20-metre long wall, with rough stone plinth, is partly broken
down at left. Pair of tall and wide pointed arches, with taller embattled top
sections, flank centre. Low pointed-arched doorway at right.
Listing NGR: NZ2503122453
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
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Budget 2014: Older Australians will be worse off
Older Australians have fared poorly in the 2014 Budget with hits to the age pension, introduction of co--‐payments for health care, changes to aged care, and the abolition of measures to improve housing affordability.
Ian Yates, CE of leading seniors advocate COTA Australia said despite the Treasurer's apparent public anxiety about the impact of an ageing population, this budget has no real strategy to address it.
"Reducing pensioners living standards is a poor substitute for a comprehensive strategy for an ageing Australia.
"The ageing population comes with both challenges and opportunities and measures in this Budget simply tinker around the edges without putting in place any sustainable measures to plan for the demographic change."
Mr Yates said older people will justifiably see the changes to the indexing of the aged pension, to begin in 2017, as a major attack on their quality of life.
"Far from ‘improving' the pension system as the Government claims, the changes to the pension indexing arrangements mean pensioners will be $80 a week worse off in ten years.
"This is a massive cut to the income of older people who simply can't afford to absorb it. As a result we will see many older people slip back below the poverty line.
"It is staggering that the Federal Government has gone further and faster in its changes to pensions that was even recommended by the Commission of Audit."
Mature age employment
Mr Yates said many older workers will welcome measures to provide business with $10,000 incentives to employ older workers.
"Sadly, the fact is that age discrimination is still a big issue in Australia and any measures which encourage employees to consider employing an older person will benefit society as a whole," Mr Yates said.
"If people will have to keep working until they are 70, a range of measures need to be put in place to make sure there are jobs for them.
"Right now almost 200,000 Australians in their 50s and 60s are languishing on the Newstart allowance and many won't find a job until they are eligible for the age pension. The new "Restart" initiative is predicted to assist only 32,000 of these - a good start but not enough by itself.
"What is missing from the Budget is measures which provide retraining to older workers or address the needs of older people to have more flexible working arrangements as they age. The Government will need to make these a priority long before the pension age rises.
"We note that the full cost of the ‘Restart' program is more than paid for by mature age workers losing the Mature Age Worker Tax Offset, with a couple of hundred million left over to go back to Treasury."
Mr Yates said older people are the major users of Australia's health care system, so introducing $7 co-payments for GP visits, pathology and diagnostics and 80c for medicines will put basic health care out of reach for many seniors, even with the caps that have been put in place.
"Out of pocket health expenses are already a barrier for older people to visit their doctor or take their medications and these new measures will simply exacerbate the problem.
"This is turn will mean conditions which may have been easily treated in the early stage will worsen and put pressure on the more intensive and expensive end of the health care system - hospital care and surgery.
"As such this initiative is counter-intuitive, is likely to cost the government more over the long term and will lead to poorer health outcomes for many older Australians.
"Older people are in fact being hit with a triple whammy as large users of healthcare and medicines, getting slugged for visiting a doctor, having a blood test and then and filling their prescriptions."
Mr Yates welcomed the fact that the bulk of the current aged care reform package would continue intact, although COTA is concerned about some of the aged care measures in the Budget.
"The biggest concern is the projected cut to the rate of real growth in the Commonwealth Home Support Program, from six per cent a year to 3.5 per cent after 1 July 2018," Mr Yates said.
"This was totally unexpected and will be a huge disappointment to the hundreds of thousands of older people and their carers who depend on very basic home support (currently HACC) services to keep living at home.
"This is the front line of aged care and it makes no sense to cut it.
"In addition, the axing of the Aged Care Payroll Tax Supplement will see aged care providers pass on more than $650 million to consumers over the next four years in higher accommodation charges.
"Giving aged care providers back the $1.5billion Aged Care Workforce Supplement over five years will do nothing for development of the aged care workforce however we welcome its redirection to community aged care providers and residential care, and we welcome the 20% increase in the viability supplement for rural and remote providers.
"Older people will also welcome the bringing forward of community aged care packages over the next couple of years which will help address the existing extreme shortage of care for people in their own homes."
Mr Yates said he was disappointed about the decision not to continue to National Rental Affordability Scheme or put something in its place given the rise in homelessness of older Australians and real housing cost pressures on many more lower income retirees.
"Older, single women are particularly at risk and abolishing the NRAS is likely to force more older people into homelessness," Mr Yates said.
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Canada's most exciting human rights project ever. A vision of the late Israel Asper, this new national museum will be located at the Forks in Winnipeg. It will include a large Holocaust gallery.
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The personal care home of choice for Manitoba's Jewish community. It observes Jewish traditions which allow its residents to enjoy and maintain a Jewish way of life.
Gunn's Bakery: A Winnipeg tradition! Gunn's Bakery is one of the oldest family-run bakeries in Western Canada providing its customers with old country style, kosher baking since 1937. Founded by Morris Gunn, a baker's son who emigrated to Canada from Poland in the thirties.
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J-PEG - the Young Adult Division of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg
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Gotta Have Faith Ch. 1byCJT©
Tom sat in the small room that served as his uncle's office, papers were strewn about and the place smelled of coffee. Tom was a 22 year old man who just graduated from college with a degree in Criminology. His hopes were to get on with the FBI, but would like to just land a law enforcement job. But, unfortunately economics were not helping the situation any. And jobs were very competitive at the federal level. In one month, he would start the rigorous testing for the FBI but he needed money in the meantime so he had called his uncle who was himself a retired cop and now ran a security company.
The door opened up behind him and the large man that was his uncle ambled into the room sitting down across the desk from Tom he gave him a broad smile.
"Hear you start testing for the FBI next month?" he looked at him with pride in his eyes.
"Yes end of next month." Tom replied his boyish smile creeping across his face.
"Good, no excellent! You are going to make a helluva agent!" the pride in his voice was unmistakable.
"Only problem is that...."
"That it is next month and you need money now." His uncle finished the sentence for him.
"No problem, I can put you on the job here until you get through all that crap, then you will be set. How is that?" his uncle was making the statement not really asking the question. "Tell you what I have this new customer who wants to put a guard at his home permanently, haven't really got anyone good enough to fit the bill right now, still interviewing, why don't you take over there for awhile and then we will both have a problem solved."
"Sounds good to me, is it a private residence?"
"Yes, the home of Tim Mcgraw and Faith Hill."
"You are shitting me." Tom blurted.
"I am a fan, yes." Tom could not believe it. A famous star to start his career with.
"Good here is the address go out there now and relieve the guard there he will fill you in on what you are supposed to do." Tom's uncle rose a sparkle in his eye, "No star gazing you are on the job now."
"Gotcha" Tom rose shook his uncles outstretched hand.
"Federal agent Thomas Wills, like the sound of that!"
"Me too!" Tom laughed as he left the office.
Tom made his way out the house of two of country music's best talents. He arrived and parked across for the shed that served as the guard shack, an older man stepped out his white hair blowing in the summer wind. Tom went up and introduced himself and shook the older man's hand.
"Well there really ain't nothin to this here job son" the man's drawl was evident that he was old south all the way. "Mr. Mcgraw, well he is a nice feller, wants his wife and kids safe, had a break in couple weeks back, perverts mostly taking underwear and some other stuff, spooked them both, great kids they are. Anyway he headin' out on tour and wants the missus to be safe here, that is why we are here. You walk the grounds from time to time, no one gets in unless they have an appointment or are on this here list. This button here opens the gate and there is the phone, line to the house is 11 and that there red light means that there is a problem in the house git your ass up there quick. Monitors are self explanatory. There you go, any questions?"
He said the instruction fast but this really was a brain dead job so Tom thought so he shook his head. The man picked up his lunch box and headed out the door.
"Oh and they are out right now won't be back until after seven." with that he left the building walked over to his car and left. Tom gave a wave and stepped inside looking at the clipboard with all the days activities
8:05 Gardener arrives (Cleamons)
9:00 Hard Copy crew arrives sent on their way
10:37 Mcgraw-Hill leave for interview
12:00 walked grounds
3:00 Simmons leaves
Tom looked at his watch and on the next line wrote 3:10 Wills starts shift walks grounds, he attached the clipboard and then made his way through the side gate, and up the drive, he walked the perimeter of the house first checking bushes and sheds, he saw the large riding lawn mower sitting next to the pool house he made his way there when he was close enough he began to hear voices. Tom knew that there were only five people other that himself there the house, the gardener, the nanny, the cook and of course the two kids, Tom approached cautiously from the side and peered in the window, inside stood a woman who was completely naked. Her long black hair came to about he middle of her shoulder blades her nipples were hard and she was talking to someone Tom couldn't make out, the lady was about 30 with big brown eyes and a great body, her breast were about 34c and were very firm her stomach was well sculpted and her pussy was completely devoid of hair she was stunning to look at, which would explain why Tom could not remove his eyes from her, but a movement from the side caught his attention a large black man came from the darkness of the shadows.
"Look I just don't have time right now." he said to her "I have to finish the lawn and trim the hedges, besides who is watching the kids?"
"Geno, the cook." she said making her way to him placing a hand on his bulge, she began to rub it causing it to raise even more, "Just a quickie and you can get back to work, I mean really how could you turn down a completely naked woman?" Tom was wondering the same question. So here was the gardener and the nanny, and what a nanny she was Tom thought to himself . The big man, Cleamons, reached out with a big hand and brushed her hair back from her face, he moved it to the top of her head and then gently but forcefully pushed her to her knees, a seductive smile broke out across her face. Her small hands reached up and undid his belt and snap of his pants, she pulled them down to his ankles freeing his 10 inch manhood, Tom gasped at the size of him, Jesus he will tear her apart!
Tom was stunned but he was also entranced he couldn't tear himself away. The nanny took a hold of Cleamons' large cock and stroked it gently, she pulled it down to her face and licked the head of it, it jumped in her hand, she slowly entered just the head of the black man's cock into her mouth, Cleamons let his head fall backward and closed his eyes at the sheer pleasure of her warm mouth around his cock, her tongue flicked out to the slit and toyed around the massive head. She slowly put more of his cock into her mouth, about 5 inches was in now and she began a rhythmic motion with her head up and down on his massive cock. Occasionally pulling it out to run her tongue around the head and to suck on his balls. Her hand gripped the base of his member and began to help stroke him too. Her mouth was back around his cock, only more of it was in her mouth now, her head came back to the end, the man's cock glistening with her saliva, she again went down on his cock slowly, even more of this man's huge cock disappeared into her mouth.
Tom was shocked, he began to wonder if she could fit the whole thing in her mouth, as if she was reading his mind, she carefully and slowly engulfed the entire member and held it there for a second, not moving as the big man let out a low growl, Tom's mouth dropped, he didn't think it was possible! The man was just too big but there she was his whole cock swallowed, she came up slowly off of it, Cleamons opened his eyes and looked down to her, fire raged in his eyes, desire, in its purest form, with one hand he scooped the small brunette off the floor and carried her to a table there he set her down and pressed her face first on top. This was close to the window that Tom was standing near in disbelief, all she had to do was look up and she would see him. Tom moved more to the side so he wouldn't be seen be them, his own cock which seemed puny compared to Cleamons' was at full attention and Tom rubbed it through his pants. The nanny laid her head down on the table her dark hair laid out across it. Cleamons moved in behind her and licked his hand then massaged his member with it, he pressed the huge head against her pink lips that were already wet from excitement. Slowly he pushed his member forward pushing into her, her eyes closed and a smile crept across her face.
"Oh... God .....Oh yes... that feels sooo good." She gasped. Cleamons began a steady plunge into her, she pushed her hips back to meet his thrusts, the big black man reached out and took a handful of hair and gave a tug, the nanny's head came up as she looked back at him with eyes that screamed "Fuck me" in them. Cleamons increased his speed never letting go of her hair.
"Ohhhh yea baby fuck me, yes......c'mon fuck me with that big cock, I want it all in me do it now!" Cleamons unbelievably did just that slamming all 10 huge inches in her small body her breasts jumped with each violent thrust, the nanny reached back and threw one leg up onto the table, then reached through her legs and started to massage his balls, his bag, thick and solid with cum slapped against her clit with every thrust. His lovemaking was now almost violent as her took another handful of hair.
"You like that do you? You like my big cock spreading you out?" His voice was almost a growl.
"Oh god yes!" Tom could see her breasts jumping with the force of his thrusts, he couldn't take much more or he was going to explode right in his pants!
"Oh God I am gonna cum!! " the nanny yelled, he let go of her hair and grabbed both hips in his massive hands and began to pull her into his thrusts, his cock driving her pussy lips apart, the lips pulling at his cock the heat rising in her pussy with every powerful stroke, "Here I goooooooo!" with that her body became hard and tense, he plunged his cock even harder in her the sound of their bodies slapping together now audible through the windows, his cock barely visible in her pussy, as he only pulled a little out with each thrust, her cum flowed out around his massive cock and down his balls.
"Oh shit baby here I go too!" Cleamons grunted, he pulled his massive cock out, the nanny spun around and began to stroke his cock covered with her own cum, the massive flesh began to burn around the slit and then with one final grunt Cleamons released his seed all ever her, thick streams shooting out hitting her in the chest covering her tits and nipples some thick and clinging to her nipples some running down her cleavage toward her stomach as she pulled on his massive member pulling every bit out she could. Once the cock stopped squirting she began to lick the head clean gently, The big man was breathing heavily.
"Shit that was great Nancy!" he exclaimed. She looked up at him and smiled
"You are telling me! That is just what I needed!" Nancy the nanny said standing up, she looked around and picked up a towel and began to clean herself up. Tom took this moment to get back to the guard shack before he was discovered.
He got back just as he heard the big mower start back up, he was hard as a board and needed to be released, his own breathing was erratic. He looked up and down the deserted street and on the monitors he saw that Cleamons was back to mowing and the Nancy made her way inside the house with a final wave at Cleamons. Tom sat in his chair quickly opened his pants and released his aching member, his purplish head was sticking out above his band of underwear he jerked the band down freeing his cock. He began to stroke himself almost violently, he needed to cum and fast! His mind filled with images of Nancy, her breasts bouncing, her nipples hard, the pink lips of her pussy spread apart to allow the huge black cock into her, the way she screamed out during her own orgasm still filled Tom's ears, Tom felt his balls tighten and then his cum shot out in a powerful stream coating his stomach with a massive load, sticky and hot it ran into his belly button as he reached for some nearby napkins and tried to clean himself up.
"Shit!" was all he could say when he couldn't get it all up with the few napkins that he had. He looked up and saw a Ford Explorer making its way down the street slowing it was obviously pulling in here.
"Great!" Tom muttered as he pulled his shirt down and zipped up his pants enclosing his still hard member. The Ford pulled up and he stepped out of the building grabbing his clipboard on the way out. The driver's side widow was tinted but came down, there Tom stood, the bulge in his pants not going away, and the driver removed her sunglasses, it was Faith Hill. Her blonde hair pulled back in a pony tail, her blue eyes dancing as a smile appeared. Her face was even more beautiful in person than in any video.
"Oh Ms. Hill I didn't know it was you." Tom stammered He reached inside and pushed the button to open the gate. Tom bent at the waist so his bulge would not be noticeable.
"That is all right, you must be Tom, Jim Wills' nephew, he said you would be out tonight, says you are going into the FBI!" She looked like an angel and sounded like one too, she had a slight southern drawl. Tom blushed he looked to the ground then back up at her lips were a perfect shade of red as they pulled back against her teeth in another smile.
"Are you allowed to blush in the FBI?" She joked.
Tom laughed a little at his own discomfort. "Only with permission!" he quipped. She nodded her head with laughter.
"Mr. Mcgraw didn't come back with you?" Tom asked realizing he wasn't in the car and that she was back early
"No" Faith looked down at the wheel of her truck " He left to go on tour tonight." She said sorrowfully. "Well, I will let you get back to whatever you were doing."
If she only knew Tom thought as she drove up the lane. Tom pushed the button to close the gate and stepped back into the shack, watched the Explorer pull up to the front of the house and Faith get out, her blue jeans were tight against her body.
"Man would I like to see that up close!" Tom said staring at her ass as it swayed as it climbed the steps and entered the house. Tom rubbed his cock through his pants again.
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Antiviral Therapy for HCV in Liver Transplant Candidates
Steven A. Gonzalez, MD, MS
Source - HCV NEXT March/April Issue @ Healio
The emergence of direct-acting antiviral therapy has transformed the management of chronic hepatitis C virus infection. The availability of telaprevir and boceprevir in 2012, followed recently by simeprevir (Olysio, Janssen Therapeutics) and sofosbuvir (Sovaldi, Gilead), has provided clinicians with more highly effective and well-tolerated treatment options. An important subgroup of patients who have historically experienced the greatest challenges in HCV therapy are those with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation. Although these individuals may have the most to gain by achieving viral eradication, they have also been faced with lower efficacy, poor tolerance and safety concerns while undergoing therapy.
Chronic HCV remains the most common chronic blood-borne infection in the United States, with an estimated prevalence of 5 million individuals. It accounts for two-thirds of newly diagnosed chronic liver disease and is the leading indication for liver transplantation. Although the overall US prevalence of HCV infection is expected to decline, the proportion of individuals with cirrhosis is on the rise. Consequently, the proportion of liver transplants for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) attributed to chronic HCV has progressively increased over the last decade (see Figure 1). In light of these trends, HCV will continue to be a major source of liver-related mortality as the prevalence of clinical decompensation and HCV-associated HCC is projected to increase further over the next few decades.
Figure 1. The most common indications for liver transplantation in the United States in 2013. *Approximately one-half of transplant recipients with HCC have underlying chronic hepatitis C virus.
Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis; PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis.Data obtained from the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/).
Source: Gonzalez SA
As recurrence of HCV is universal in liver transplant recipients with HCV infection at the time of transplantation, efforts to achieve viral eradication prior to transplant could significantly improve outcomes. Recurrent HCV infection can lead to allograft dysfunction, chronic hepatitis and progressive fibrosis, resulting in cirrhosis within 5 years in up to 30% of individuals. The development of cirrhosis in this setting is associated with rapid progression and a high risk for clinical decompensation. Although it occurs in less than 10% of patients, a rapidly progressive form of recurrent HCV known as fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis C can develop within the first 6 months following transplantation and may lead to allograft failure within 1 year. As a result, the presence of HCV infection has remained an independent risk factor for increased mortality in liver transplant recipients.
Challenges of Interferon-Based TherapyAntiviral therapy involving interferon-alfa (IFN) has presented a major challenge to patients with advanced HCV-associated liver disease due to its poor tolerability and increased risk for adverse events, particularly in patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation. Prior to the advent of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy, several small studies evaluated the potential role of IFN-based therapy in patients with advanced liver disease, including liver transplant candidates. These studies found that if HCV RNA clearance can be achieved immediately prior to undergoing liver transplantation, a post-transplant sustained virologic response can occur in 42% to 75% of patients (see Figure 2). However, these studies also demonstrated a significant increase in the risk for adverse events associated with IFN in this population, including bacterial infection and pancytopenia. As a result, dose reductions and treatment interruptions were common. Although clinical decompensation of liver disease was frequently reported in these studies, the incidence was similar between treated patients and controls.
The first prospective, randomized, controlled trial evaluating pre-transplant antiviral therapy in patients with chronic HCV involved a cohort of patients from the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL). Patients enrolled were randomized 2:1 to receive treatment with pegylated interferon-alfa (PEG) plus ribavirin (RBV) or no treatment. As potential living donor liver transplant recipients and patients with HCC who met criteria for model end-stage liver disease (MELD) exception points, participants in this trial were considered ideal for evaluating treatment efficacy based on a lower prevalence of clinical decompensation and a predictable or shortened waitlist time. Although this select group had a mean Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score of 7 and MELD score of 12, pre-transplant serious adverse events occurred in almost one-half of treated patients, with a significant increase in cytopenia and infection compared with controls. A key finding in this study was an association between duration of pre-transplant therapy and virologic response, in which SVR was achieved in 50% of patients who maintained therapy for greater than 16 weeks while SVR did not occur in any patient treated for less than 8 weeks.
Figure 2. Post-transplant SVR in patients achieving negative HCV RNA at the time of transplantation. *In patients with at least 4 weeks of viral negativity prior to undergoing transplant, post-transplant SVR occurred in 96% (24/25). Abbreviations: IFN, standard interferon-alfa; RBV, ribavirin; PEG, pegylated interferon-alfa; SOF, sofosbuvir.
Source: Gonzalez SA
Experience with Protease InhibitorsAlthough not specifically targeting a pre-transplant population, the largest experience with protease inhibitors in patients with advanced HCV-associated liver disease has arisen from the French Compassionate Use of Protease Inhibitors in Viral C Cirrhosis (CUPIC) study group. This study involved a cohort of 674 patients with compensated cirrhosis who previously failed antiviral therapy. All were treated with combination PEG, RBV and telaprevir (Incivek, Vertex) or boceprevir (Victrelis, Merck). Safety and response data in 497 patients who completed at least 16 weeks of therapy were recently reported. Approximately 60% of patients received telaprevir, 98% had a CTP classification of A and the mean MELD score was 8. Similar to past experiences with IFN-based therapy in patients with advanced disease, this study noted a high rate of serious adverse events (40% overall), including significant anemia in 29%, requirement for erythropoietin stimulating agents in 51%, hepatic decompensation in 2.4% and six deaths (1.2%), mostly due to severe infections. Factors independently associated with an increased risk for on-treatment clinical decompensation or mortality included thrombocytopenia (platelets ≤100,000/mm3) and hypoalbuminemia (serum albumin <3.5 g/dL).
Telaprevir and boceprevir have not been extensively studied in patients with decompensated cirrhosis or liver transplant candidates in the form of a pre-transplant regimen of antiviral therapy.
Sofosbuvir and BeyondSofosbuvir, a nucleotide analogue with inhibitory activity against the HCV NS5B RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, has emerged as a potent DAA with favorable tolerability, efficacy in multiple HCV genotypes, and a high barrier to resistance. The high potency associated with sofosbuvir has led to the availability of effective IFN-free regimens, particularly in patients with genotypes 2 and 3. IFN-free therapy involving sofosbuvir may also be considered for genotype 1 infection in patients who are IFN-intolerant, IFN-ineligible or in those with advanced liver disease. Phase 3 clinical trials in patients treated with combination sofosbuvir and RBV only noted mild increases in fatigue, insomnia and anemia compared with placebo, while the incidence of adverse events did not appear to be increased in those with compensated cirrhosis compared with noncirrhotics. Results from phase 3 studies suggest that the potential for SVR may be slightly diminished in patients with cirrhosis; however, the overall SVR rates remain comparatively high in these patients (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. SVR in treatment-naive patients with compensated cirrhosis receiving sofosbuvir-based therapy. Data shown are based on results from phase 3 clinical trials.Abbreviations: PEG, pegylated interferon-alfa; RBV, ribavirin; SOF, sofosbuvir. Sources: Lawitz E. N Engl J Med. 2013; Zeuzem S. The Liver Meeting 2013.
Source: Gonzalez SA
A phase 2, open-label, multicenter, prospective study recently established a role for sofosbuvir in the treatment of patients with chronic HCV awaiting liver transplantation. This study enrolled 61 patients of genotypes 1 through 4 with compensated cirrhosis and HCC awaiting deceased donor liver transplantation. All patients were within Milan criteria for HCC, most were infected with genotype 1 HCV (74%) and most had failed prior IFN-based therapy (75%). All patients received up to 48 weeks of sofosbuvir and RBV. Of 44 patients who received a liver transplant, 41 (93%) achieved viral clearance at the time of transplantation. In patients who had reached week 12 post-transplant, 25 of 39 (64%) achieved SVR (see Figure 2, page 31). Most importantly, the only independent predictor of post-transplant viral clearance was the duration of negative serum HCV RNA prior to transplantation, as 24 of 25 (95%) of patients with at least 4 weeks of undetectable HCV RNA achieved SVR.
Sofosbuvir has been studied in combination with other DAA agents in patients with compensated cirrhosis, including simeprevir; however, data are limited. Interim results from a phase 2 clinical trial of sofosbuvir and simeprevir with or without RBV in patients with genotype 1 infection suggest a favorable virologic response associated with this combination. This trial, known as the COSMOS study, included patients with advanced fibrosis who received 12 weeks of therapy. Eighteen patients with compensated cirrhosis were included. Although one-half were prior treatment failures, overall SVR 4 in cirrhotics, defined by negative HCV RNA at 4 weeks following completion of therapy, was observed in 17 of 18 (94%) patients. In light of the small numbers of patients with cirrhosis included in this cohort, it is difficult to ascertain the safety profile associated with this regimen in patients with advanced liver disease.
As antiviral therapy for chronic HCV evolves and promising new DAA agents become available in the near future, our ability to achieve rapid viral clearance with minimal risk for adverse events will continue to improve. This has major implications for special populations including those with advanced cirrhosis, HCC and liver transplant candidates. Achievement of viral eradication at the time of transplantation may significantly improve post-transplant outcomes. Although initiation of antiviral therapy at an early phase following transplantation may also be an option, other factors must be considered including the need for immunosuppressive therapy, risk for allograft dysfunction in the setting of HCV recurrence and the potential for other post-transplant complications. A regimen of sofosbuvir and RBV has now been approved in the treatment of individuals with HCC and compensated cirrhosis secondary to HCV who currently await liver transplantation. Although safety concerns will likely continue to present a challenge in high-risk groups with advanced liver disease, efforts to optimize virologic response and ensure an adequate duration of viral negativity prior to undergoing transplantation may significantly enhance our ability to prevent post-transplant recurrence of HCV.
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Stevan A. Gonzalez, MD, MS, is an HCV Next Editorial Board Member and attending physician in the division of hepatology at the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor All Saints Medical Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas. He can be reached at 1250 8th Ave., Suite 515, Fort Worth, TX 76104; email: [email protected].
Disclosure: Gonzalez reports serving on speaker’s bureaus and advisory boards for Gilead.
Source - Healio
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Åkesson, whose anti-immigration party burst onto the Swedish political scene after the September election, acknowledged that only an extremely small portion of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims committed terrorist acts, but said many more "sympathise with Islamism."
Åkesson, whose Sweden Democrats' requested Wednesday's parliamentary debate following the country's first-ever suicide attack, insisted an important debate had been stifled in Sweden by "a fear of being branded Islamophobic."
Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who staged the December 11 attack on the eve of his 29th birthday, had sent messages invoking Islam before blowing himself up near a busy shopping street.
He was the only person killed in the attack.
Justice Minister Beatrice Ask acknowledged extremism existed in Sweden, but tried to nuance the picture.
"I think, personally, that a lack of hope and optimism and real or perceived injustices attract mainly men to extremist movements," she said in her opening remarks, also criticising the Sweden Democrats for voting against a proposal on increased international cooperation against terrorism.
Green Party parliamentarian Maria Ferm meanwhile blasted Åkesson for "trying to connect the typical picture of a terrorist to the Muslim man," insisting that only 0.34 percent of all terror attacks in Europe are committed by Islamic extremists.
Most attacks, she said, were carried out by rightwing and leftwing extremists.
Åkesson rejected that argument.
"To compare militant vegans from Umeå (in northern Sweden) with jihadists is a confused approach," he said.
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BARKERS Butts have taken centre Matt Tassell and tight head prop Neil Williams on loan from Rugby Lions to boost their efforts to climb away from the Midlands One relegation area.
Both will play in tomorrow's home game against fourth-placed Luctonians, although their arrival is balanced by the loss of fly-half Barry Silvester (knee ligaments) and hooker Matt Davies (neck) through injury.
Silvester's likely absence for the rest of the season gives Barkers a particular problem at No.10 following the departure of Dave Warwood to Australia.
KENILWORTH have increased options in the pack for their home game against Camp Hill with Paul Whitehurst and Charlie Buckle fit again and new signing Findlay MacMillan ? who has moved from Broadstreet ? also in the running for a squad place.
STRANDED at the foot of the table, Banbury face a ?must win? home game against Hereford tomorrow.
South African prop Henk Hattingh replaces injured coach Martin Hobley while No.8 Rob Cockerton has his first start since returning from injury.
Banbury: Ferguson; Viggers, Noyce, Jackson, Flemming; Purnell, Hurst; Hattingh, Brown, Wilkins, McNally, Chatterton, Cummings, Cockerton, Brooks. Reps: Cartmell, Mascall, Herlihy.
WINGER Paul Bale is back for Newbold?s home game against Newport in Midlands Two West.
Newbold: Leech; P Bale, Conning, Fletcher, Mills; Andrews, Shaw; R Evans, Kirby, R Welsby, S Evans, Reading, W Hare, J Hare, S Bale. Reps; Wooldridge, P Welsby, Bennett.
LEADERS Old Laurentians have No.8 Ian Bowie and flanker Gary Smith back from injury for their home game against Derby.
Old Laurentians: D Wallis; E Wallis, Wraith, McConville, I Wallis; Palmer, Reed; King, Hammond, Chaplow, Willis, Sheriff, Longrigg, Bowie, Smith. Reps; Cleaver, Storey, Marsella.
AUSTRALIAN No.8 Travis Ludbrook makes his first league start for Midlands Two East leaders Hinckley, at home to Huntingdon.
Ludbrook, who played the second half in last week?s win at South Leicester, replaces holidaying Dave Johnson and Gareth Rae takes over at full-back from Neil Harbour for the same reason.
Hinckley: Rae; Lennox, Roy, Dignum, Bennett; Graham, R Massarella; P Massarella, D Massarella, Carvell, Goodall, Stratford, Walton, Ludbrook, W Johnson. Reps: Brittain, Ashfield, Sanderson.
BROADSTREET'S Midlands One game at Longton has been put back to March 23 because of the home side?s involvement in the Intermediate Cup.
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Are LED’s Becoming More Versatile?
My last blog focused on ways to eliminate the amount of energy consumed by interior and exterior lighting. You may recall one of the tips was to replace inefficient fixtures/lamps with those rated as high efficiency.
There’s no question that Light-Emitting Diodes (LED’s) are the most efficient light source available on the market today. Unfortunately, based on a significantly higher initial capital cost basis compared to most conventional lighting technologies, many people continue to opt for the less expensive option despite the documented energy savings potential.
Good news! LED lighting firm Lemnis Lighting has launched three lines of its Pharox LED bulbs, including the new 200-lumen Pharox BLU which costs under $5. The three Pharox 350 lumen bulbs will use 6.5 times less energy per annum than its typical 40-watt incandescent counterpart, and in most cases, has a simple payback of less than two years.
The Department of Energy predicts that the price of LED lamps and packages will drop by about 30 percent each year until 2015 and 10-15 percent per year for the following 5 years. Similar to Lemnis Lighting, smart energy products firm Noribachi streamlined pricing of its LED lighting resulting in reductions of up to 31 percent across its product line.
Another shortcoming of LED’s had been the limited availability of technologies as potential lighting alternatives for all fixtures. It seems like each quarter, new technologies are being launched to address and resolve this issue. Example: many industrial facilities – warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and cold storage applications – use high bay fixtures to illuminate the space. Inefficient technologies such as metal halide and high pressure sodium lamps were typically the preferred choice because more effective options didn’t exist.
Dialight has just unveiled a 17,000 lumen LED High Bay luminaire designed for a wide range of industrial lighting applications. The units operate on an integrated universal power supply enabling uncomplicated replacement of conventional sources such as metal halide and high pressure sodium fixtures. This model nicely compliments Dialight’s existing low bay model typically used for lower ceiling height applications, such as parking garages and cold storage facilities.
Until now LED’s have been overlooked as a viable option to replace inefficient lighting technologies due to cost and availability. Lighting firms have responded to this outcry, and have been taking strides to develop technologies capable of replacing a broader range of existing fixtures at a more attractive price point; so don’t rule out LED’s when tackling your next lighting project. | <urn:uuid:abefec38-ae64-4f12-82d7-80528d68375d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.greenfrontiernc.com/greenblog/entry/progress-in-the-led-sector.html | 2016-10-26T11:14:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00121-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937541 | 538 | [
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good use of a smaller bedroom
genius. the bottom of my closet is always a mess and wasted space...this solves that!
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10-19-2013, 01:34 AM #1
Help! iPhone4 won't sync suddenly, all storage is "Other"!
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Hey everyone! I apologize if this is the wrong place to post! I was looking for a better spot!
I'm in some desperate need of help! I've been a longtime apple user. This is a bit complicated. Going to try and make it clear and simple. It's an iPhone 4 that's well taken care of, and running the latest version of iOS7.
-We all have iPhones. We use the same itunes account to share music between us all. Then -we each have a personal itunes account for iMessages, facetime, etc per iPhone.
Our computer uses the buying account. Our phones use our personal accounts. We plug in to get our music.
-I've had no trouble in the past. Suddenly songs are saying they aren't authorized to be added to the iPhone. All accounts are authorized on the computer. Old songs are not being removed, it's just new ones won't be added.
-We tried logging into the computer account on the iPhone to download right there on the phone from Purchased. The songs got stuck at "Processing" after downloading and were not added to the phone. We logged the phone back into the personal account, and plugged it into the computer.
Now we can't add any song from our library to the phone. The phone shows 28gigs of "Other", instead of the categorized space. It's a pretty big mess from the way I'm looking at it, and I'm not sure what to do! I feel like I've tried everything! I want to be able to add new music to our iPhones just like how we used to.
10-21-2013, 04:42 AM #2
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- 27" iMac i7 (2011) 10.11, Mac Mini i5 (2014), iPhone6s, Apple Watch, iPad Pro 9.7, AppleTV (4)
I'd suggest a hard boot to start with - hold sleep/wake and home until the phone goes black and the apple symbol appears. Then try again.
If it's still showing 'other' as everything I'd do a backup and restore of the phone in iTunesNot been around these parts for a while. Trying to change that . .
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I LOVE these little shorts! Instructions were great and easy to follow, and the final product is just too adorable. These shorts make a great staple piece for any little girl's wardrobe. The 2 pairs I have made (2T and 3T) have both run true to size.
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This is exactly what I wanted. Probably not a beginner's sewing but well written and easy to follow. The fit is great and runs true to size or possibly a tiny bit small. Homemade shorts are a must when you have a child with a tiny waist.
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The bubble shorts may take a few more steps, and a little more time to make but it is SO worth it! They fit perfectly, and looks so professional people will be amazed you made them!! Pair great with the sweetheart halter for a perfect summer outfit!!
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By Tadias Staff
Saturday, September 10, 2011
New York (TADIAS) – World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will kick off their Annual Meetings in Washington D.C. later this month. According to the announcement, tentative schedule of events slated for September 23-25 include seminars, luncheons, and briefings exploring the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness.
On Saturday, September 24th, from 11:00am to 12:00pm, a panel discussion entitled “Africa Needs Growth That Delivers Jobs” will take place at the Wold Bank. Among the guests listed to address the panel include Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, Founder of SoleRebels and one of the 2011 World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders. She was also recently named by Forbes magazine as one of ‘The 20 Youngest Power Women In Africa.’
“This is one of the key panels at this annual meeting and we wanted a very dynamic young African entrepreneur who has created jobs herself to give a real time business perspective,” said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank Vice-President for Africa Region. “Bethlehem was top of our list. Her participation will inform the critical debate on inclusive growth in Africa and provide key insights for policy makers, development partners and other participants.”
“We are very excited to have her participating,” Ms. Ezekwesili said in a statement
We asked Bethlehem a few questions regarding her upcoming presentation:
TADIAS: What is your speech going to focus on?
Bethlehem: I have been asked to give a real time business perspective as an African entrepreneur who has created jobs, and I would like to focus on what the challenges have been and where I see opportunities lie. I will be drawing on my background to look at sustainable ways to create jobs, especially for Africa’s growing youth population.
TADIAS: Do you have a blueprint for change?
Bethlehem: Not sure about blueprint, but my hope is that I can be a catalyst for policy makers and development folks to add a key dimension to their thinking on job creation so that they understand that entrepreneurs, specifically grassroots entrepreneurs are the engine of job creation.
TADIAS: What’s your perspective on how Africa can achieve economic growth?
Bethlehem: I do strongly feel that finished goods, in particular branded finished goods, hold the seeds to economic development. Across the continent there is too much extraction and not enough finished products, which has historical roots. This can be addressed by looking at what grassroots entrepreneurs are doing. For example, there are huge opportunities for the continent in the area of digital commerce. As a continent we have been late out of the gate. Strong efforts need to be applied as there are immense opportunities in various fields. The bottom line is that African entrepreneurs can create world class brands. But they are drowned out by too many issues. My goal is to start unlocking that potential.
TADIAS: How can the Diaspora participate?
Bethlehem: The Diaspora is key. They are investors, entrepreneurs, and the market for made-in-Africa products. They are also ambassadors of these brands in their respective countries. The way I look at it is that the Diaspora and the motherland are one. And if we function as one, we will then increase both our prosperity and visibility on the global stage.
TADIAS: Thank you, Bethlehem, and wishing you continued success!
Bethlehem: As always thanks to Tadias. Your wonderful readers have shown us so much love over the years. Its been inspiring to receive that.
You can learn more about the The 2011 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings at www.IMF.org.
Bethlehem Alemu Among The 20 Youngest Power Women In Africa
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>Glad to hear trachea "nicking" technique worked.
>Sodium pentathol (hope I spelled that correctly) anesthetize to put animal
under, open chest area, collect blood with heart stick (effectivly
euthanizes mouse), nick trachea, then perfuse with fixative OR OCT for
fresh frozen sections. I do not know what dosage is, but your animal
people can help you there. The heart still beats normally after sodium
pentathol, might be worth a try.
>As for needles, saw the feeding needles, have used oral gavage, but
getting the right size tip on these is not easy, we opted for cheap seats,
and dulled 18 guage needle. Feeding needles are plastic, correct? If so,
nice for less damage to tissue while inserting, glad there are other
options for this.
>Nice to hear you are happy, --- on a Monday morning!
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Support 3: Chf0.9000 (support line from Nov 4)
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Welcome to the Breastfeeding Coalition of
Meetings are held the 3rd Thursday of January, April, July and October at 6:00pm.
Please call (916) 276-8016 to verify breastfeeding meeting location.
The mission of the Breastfeeding Coalition of Placer County is to promote and support breastfeeding as a vital part of the health and development of children and their families in our communities.
To ensure breastfeeding is recognized as the normal method of infant and young child feeding in Placer County; all health care providers in Placer County will be knowledgeable about, promote, and provide support for breastfeeding; and every woman in Placer County will have access to the information, resources and community support necessary to breastfeed for as long as she wishes.
- Improve the access for Placer County families to comprehensive, current, and culturally appropriate breastfeeding care and services.
- Promote breastfeeding awareness and education for health care providers and agencies serving new mothers and their families.
- Inform the public about the existence of breastfeeding support networks.
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Smoked Salt is a great way to bring the smoky flavor of your Egg to other food items that you cant (or don't have the time to) prepare on the Egg.
Creating your own smoked salt is very easy but does require a bit of time.
Start by presoaking 3 pounds of hickory chips until fully saturated, at least an hour - all day would be better. Hickory is preferred because it creates a heavy dominate smoke and you want the strongest smoke you can get. You are looking for three things from the soaked chips:
The smoke itself is the flavoring agent for the salt.
<2> The moisture given off by the wet chips acts as a carrier to bond the smoke to the salt.
<3> The wetness of the chips will expand the timeframe that the chips will give off a heavy smoke.
After getting the lump going, put about 2.5 pounds of the soaked chips directly on the lump. Be sure to let the chips drip in a strainer for at least 10 minutes before placing them onto the lump. (The lump should be almost almost completely covered by the hickory chips.) Insert your platesetter in the legs up position. Take the remaining Hickory chips (about a 1/2 pound.) and place them into a large pan then fill the pan full of water. Carefully place this pan onto your platesetter.
As the water pan heats up it will generate steam, which you want as a catalyst for bonding the smoke to the salt. When the pan boils dry, the chips in the pan will then smolder for additional smoke. I recommend a temperature of about 250F as this will generate stem and also maximize the burn time of your fuel.
This setup will immediately start giving off billowing clouds of thick smoke. Personally I do this at night just to avoid the interest that this much smoke can create. No need to have firefighters shaking their heads when you explain you are cooking salt. (Having your wife shaking her head will suffice!)
One of the keys to getting the salt to absorb the smoke is "surface area". I recommend using disposable aluminum pans, and spreading your salt out in a thin layer across the surface of each pan. Approx 3/16th's of an inch is perfect.
Since the key here is quantity, you can stack these trays vertically on the grill by using something to create a space between them for the smoke to infiltrate. I found that the lift-grids you find in toaster-ovens are perfect as they provide a couple of inches of separation between each tray for air circulation.
Kosher Salt and Sea Salt are recommended for best results, and iodized table salt is best avoided. Remember you are smoking the salt, not cooking it. As the melting temperature of salt is over 900F, you don't have to worry much about getting too hot - but the lower the temp the longer your lump will last. As spices go, salt is a really impervious material and is probably the most difficult spice to smoke - fortunately it is also hygroscopic and wants to absorb moisture - this is the property that we are taking advantage of in order to get it to absorb the smoke.
As the salt starts to absorb the smoke-laden moisture it will start to change color taking on a brown-caramel like hue.
Since it's the salt crystals on top that are most exposed to the smoke and most take in the flavor it is important to stir the salt in your trays. When you stir the trays you will notice how the salt underneath does not get the same benefit as the salt that was at the surface. Do this every four hours until you are satisfied with the results of your smoke. I find that you need at least 16 hours for a good consistent smoke and 24 hours is even better.
One thing to be aware of is that the steam you are generating will sometimes condense on your upper vent. When this happens it will sometimes drip back into your grill and onto your salt. If you have a grill with a particularly "crusty" dome, you might find dripping to be an issue in other places too. The best solution here is to have a top "Cover Tray" that will catch any such drips. I found that with a clean dome the problem is minor and the few drops that did occur left dark spots in the salt, but since it also welded those crystals together they were easy to lift out and discard.
picture illustrates that you can fabricate a tray out of Aluminum foil if
you desire, this approach allows you to customize your tray size and shape
to that of your grill..
After 16 hours the salt will darken up rather nicely. If you put it into a canning jar while it is still hot, it will draw a seal due to the cooling. This will help the salt keep it's flavor for months at a time. (This picture shows Kosher Salt and Smoked Kosher Salt for a color comparison:)
The above arrangement with 1 16-inch aluminum-foil tray and 2 12-inch Aluminum-foil pans resulted in a yield of about 4 1/2 pounds of salt. The squarish jar (with the darker lid) contains Sea Salt whereas the other jars contain Kosher Salt:
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Henry the tortoise isn't the traveler his owner thought he was. In fact, he isn't even the tortoise his owner thought he was.
More than a week after the 30-pound African sulcata tortoise escaped from his outdoor enclosure near Black Road in Waterville Township, a Whitehouse man scooped up a tortoise fitting the same description Wednesday about 1/8 of a mile away and contacted Henry's owner.
If the newly found tortoise is Henry - which his 26-year-old owner, Connie Luderman, insists it is - the 6-year-old animal took eight days to make his trek. And what about the look-alike tortoise that, since being captured last week along Monclova Road in Monclova Township, about five miles from Henry's home, has been eating Henry's food and inhabiting his living space?
Well, he looks very much like the tortoise he unwittingly imitated.
"There's really no special markings so that you would be able to tell the difference between these two turtles," Ms. Luderman said. "It's just crazy that there would be another lost turtle that looks just like [Henry]."
David Spalding, 38, thought he saw debris in the middle of Black Road around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, but when he got closer, he saw it looked more like a concrete turtle. And then it pulled in its head.
He said the animal was "extremely friendly," and his two children enjoyed playing with it after he brought it home and put it in a dog kennel.
Ms. Luderman, who was contacted by the family, picked up the animal Wednesday evening, he said.
The tortoise Ms. Luderman picked up last week doesn't quite act like Henry, she said. In fact, its way of walking and tolerance of being touched near the head - something Henry doesn't like - made her realize something was amiss. She said she hopes to find its owner and has taken both animals to the vet.
For now, she is letting the extra tortoise stay in an outdoor enclosure with Henry and his brother, Humphrey.
R. Andrew Odum, the Toledo Zoo's reptile curator, said African sulcata tortoises are common in the pet trade. Some people buy 2 to 3-inch long baby tortoises, which in time can become large, strong, and destructive, he said.
Many U.S. pet stores sell the reptiles, which easily reach 80 to 110 pound.s and often weigh more than 120 pounds when they are grown, according to the Phoenix Zoo. The largest on record weighed in at 232 pounds.
"Containment is not easy" for larger tortoises like Henry, Mr. Odum added.
Apparently both creatures chose the right weather for walking. Native to some of the hottest and driest areas in northern parts of Africa, sulcatas are used to heat like that the animals faced during their travels over the past week.
They couldn't survive an Ohio winter, Mr. Odum said, but the current weather "is just wonderful for them."
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More than $1 million in raised for railroad rehabilitation
Rails to the Future announced recently that more than $1 million has been raised in local match for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant the state of South Dakota is applying for.
The State's TIGER grant application is seeking $12.6 million for a $29 million project to rehabilitate the state-owned railroad from Chamberlain to Presho. Earlier this month, the state Railroad Board committed $14 million toward the grant. The local match will add more than $1 million more in local commitments to the grant application.
The commitments have been made by farmers, businesses, ag organizations, tribal and local governments that support the project.
"We are very pleased with the level of local support for this project," said Steve Halverson, president of the Rails to the Future. "This amount of local match will significantly increase our chances for being awarded the TIGER grant."
The official grant application will be submitted by the state Department of Transportation next week. The state expects to know whether or not its application is successful by the end of the year. | <urn:uuid:f341fae6-1380-4cd5-8dd4-126184fa9e48> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/content/more-1-million-raised-railroad-rehabilitation | 2016-10-24T11:10:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719564.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00430-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944362 | 232 | [
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For many of us, the Xperia Play just wasn’t quite tempting enough to throw out your PSP or 3DS, but there’s no doubt that mobile gaming is on its way to the big leagues. The dedicated D-Pad was an excellent idea, but there simply weren’t enough games supported to make it a worthwhile investment. But what if you could slap a game controller onto your phone and play to your hearts’ desire, only to remove the controller when it’s time to make a call or head out of the house? That would be lovely wouldn’t it?
Meet Fluctel’s Gametel Gaming Controller — a bluetooth controller that latches on to any Android phone that runs Android 2.1 or higher. Oh, and did I mention that it’ll support over 50 games straight out of the box, including Cordy, Asphalt 5 HD, Reckless Getaway, Guns’n’Glory, MotoX Mayhem, Happy Vikings and Zenonia.
According to PocketGamer, the Gametel Gaming Controller offers about nine hours of battery life and automatically shuts down after six minutes of inactivity. The controller connects to the phone via Bluetooth, which means that you can also disconnect the controller and play from afar. A handful of powerful Android devices sport kickstands these days so that’s an option, but if your phone supports HDMI out then you’re in for a real treat. No console, no expensive games — just you, your phone, and the gaming controller duking it out on the big screen.
The controller sports spring-loaded clamps and rubberized grips to lock your phone into place, but that surely can’t protect against gamer rage, so no throwing this controller across the room, OK?
The truth is, no matter how excellent your phone’s graphics are or how fast your processor is, some games are just annoying using on-screen controls. That’s why the Xperia Play was such a brilliant idea, and why the Gametel Gaming Controller is an even better one.
The controller isn’t available yet, but the company has an email notification sign-up on its website. The controller will retail for around £49.95 (US $67), and should show its D-Padded face in December. | <urn:uuid:3f341ca5-219a-4645-a28c-5b8deffbdbcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/17/gametel-gaming-controller-turns-any-android-phone-into-an-xperia-play-but-better/ | 2016-10-24T11:29:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719564.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00430-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918551 | 487 | [
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After a winter of development before the 2010 World Superbike season, the official Yamaha YZF-R1 entries pumped out an impressive 228bhp at the crank at a giddy 15,000 revs. The Yamaha R1 also featured a much nicer engine character compared to 2009, and a cleaner power band.
A new design of exhaust, lighter but also more free flowing, and some intake mods gave the increase in power to the Yamaha Superbike. The Akrapovic pipe was a 4-2-1-2 unit, which was complicated, but kept the twin exhaust exit design intact on the R1. A new camshaft came along to match these changes, to make the superbike better at the very top.
A narrower radiator compared to 2009, a new design of rear seat/tank unit that is also the rear sub-frame and a carbon fiber tank, acting as a stressed member, were other main changes.
The winter development was not translated to results very early in the year, and there was a rush to get back to some 2009 parts and settings.
Tire life on the Yamaha R1 was an issue sometimes, the opposite of what should happen with their particular superbike, with its cross-plane firing order. When settings matched to tire choices, competitiveness was at hand.
The Marelli system used in 2010 was much like the 2009 WSBK version, with improved maps, but the same basic ECUs.
Yamaha were enthusiastic Öhlins users, running a TTX40 rear shock (RSP40) and the TRVP25 front forks. Race distance was the issue for the Yamaha Superbike, but with Cal Crutchlow (who has taken Ben Spies spot in MotoGP for 2011), scoring six poles it clearly had pace to spare, while Brembo brakes took care of scrubbing off speed. | <urn:uuid:378d9e04-d486-438a-a620-7a0b579b496c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2011/01/05/superbikes-of-2010-wsbk-yamaha-yzf-r1/ | 2016-10-24T10:38:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719564.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00430-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971518 | 381 | [
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Even with a growing number of browser available on the Google Play Store, Dolphin Browser HD remains a favorite for power users, including those of us here at Android Community. The latest update adds a bevvy of new features, mostly surrounding Dolphin’s evolving user interface. The biggest change is a new menu bar that slims down the old double-row interface and hides a lot of the less immediate menu options behind more stylish icons, allowing users to keep an eye on more of the web window at once. You can download it for free in the Google Play Store.
Dolphin calls the the redesigned menu layout “spring cleaning”. The icons are reduced to the Bookmark bar shortcut, a combined forward/back button, a combined icon for both Gestures and the new voice search feature Dolphin Sonar, the “more” button that expands into the settings menu, and the right-hand menu bar. Refresh has been moved to the top bar and “Exit” is now hidden in the More button. The add-ons themselves get full titles instead of tiny icons, and there’s a new “go to top” button that appears automatically when scrolling up, which avoids backwards scrolling on long pages.
The gestures and Sonar interface get a facelift too, but that’s mostly cosmetic changes. What this update indicates is that Dolphin isn’t sitting on it’s heels – they’re in it for the long haul. A lot of these little changes bring about a minimal appearance and immediacy of function that I strive for when I customize desktop browser like Chrome and Firefox. The fact that the developers of Dolphin are adding them on their own tells me that this is my kind of browser. The “scroll to top” button alone is worth a try for any serious web user. | <urn:uuid:8f6b2c69-ffbf-4d3b-8a5b-159c40462f75> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://androidcommunity.com/dolphin-browser-hd-8-0-update-redesigns-ui-20120412/ | 2016-10-25T12:05:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720062.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00492-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884597 | 379 | [
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Winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award, the "Holman Bible Atlas" is the leading Bible atlas in the English language. Through the use of 132 full-color maps, more than 100 color photographs, timelines, chart summaries, and helpful sidebars, it places readers in the geographical, historical, and cultural contexts of the Bible and enables them to experience its perennially relevant message.
The book is presented in two broad divisions: physical geography of the Ancient Near East and biblical history periods from the patriarchs to the Christian era until Constantine. The content is arranged in line with specific biblical texts so that teachers, pastors, and students will see the key events of the Bible and Christianity with exceptional clarity.
There's also a wealth of written and visual information regarding various people groups (Aramaeans, Moabites, Phoenicians, etc.), great empires (Egypt, Babylonia, Rome, etc.), and the road systems, agricultural year, and economic life of ancient civilizations based on archaeological recoveries.
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