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Hello guys! This is going to be a quick post to say that I am not going to be very active on my blog in the future weeks. I’ve got a lot of work to do for Uni and I won’t get the time to post as often as I am used to. I will do my best to schedule some posts and I hope that it’ll work out! I really don’t want to abandon the blogosphere and I’m working to find an appropriate schedule where I’ll find the time to do everything.
I hope you are all okay and are having a great time!
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High, with a rounded head of foliage, and greyish-green 3 to 7-lobed palmate leaves, somewhat resembling the leaves of the castor-oil plant in shape and size.
Polyphyllus, 3 ft., forms noble tufts of palmate leaves, and long spikes of bluishpurple or white flowers in June and July; L.
- Colonial branching or palmate perforate corals, with abundant trabecular coenenchyme.
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On account of its very large beautiful palmate-peltate leaves, which sometimes measure as much as 2 ft.
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ORDER: (1) DENYING EX PARTE APPLICATION TO STAY [DOC. 48]; (2) SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE; and (3) GRANTING EX PARTE APPLICATION TO LODGE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL [DOC. 53]
THOMAS J. WHELAN, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is Defendant Millennium Laboratories Clinical Supply, Inc.'s ex parte application for an emergency stay of Magistrate Judge Ruben B. Brooks' October 25, 2013 order granting Plaintiff Ameritox, Ltd.'s motion to compel (the "Enforcement Order"). Millennium also seeks an order allowing it to file certain documents under seal and to provide the Court with a CD copy of the documents.
The Court decides the matters on the papers submitted and without oral argument pursuant to Local Rule 7.1(d)(1). For the reasons discussed below, the Court DENIES the ex parte application to stay Judge Brooks' Enforcement Order [Doc. 48] and GRANTS the ex parte application to lodge documents under seal [Doc. 53].
I. Ex Parte Application to Stay.
Relevant to Millennium's stay request are (1) whether it has made a strong showing that Millennium will prevail on the merits, (2) irreparable injury to Millennium, (3) any injury to Ameritox, and (4) the public interest at stake. Hilton v. Braunskill 481 U.S. 770 , 776 (1987). These factors do not support Millennium's stay request.
As an initial matter, it is important to point out that the standard of review is clear error. Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(a). This standard is highly deferential, requiring a finding that the magistrate judge's findings of fact are clearly erroneous and the district court is left with a "definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." Burdick v. Comm'r Internal Rev. Serv. , 979 F.2d 1369, 1370 (9th Cir. 1992). Millennium's ex parte application fails to demonstrate a likelihood of prevailing on the merits under this standard.
For example, Millennium objects to Judge Brooks' finding with respect to Request No. 2 on the ground that the request does not require Millennium to produce linked-by-name information. Request No. 2 provides:
Documents sufficient to identify, for each customer or account for whom MLCS has provided, arranged, facilitated, or been involved in any manner with providing or arranging POCT Cups (including reagents), the amount charged for each POCT Cup, the amount the customer or account actually paid for the POCT Cups, the terms under which the customer or account received the POCT Cups, and any written agreement under which the customer or account received the POCT Cups.
See Millennium's Obj [Doc. 52], 10:24-11:3.) According to Millennium, this language only requires it to produce "all aspects of the transaction data" but without the customer names. ( Id., 13:4-15.)
But Millennium's reading of this request arguably ignores the "each customer or account" language. Although the request specifically seeks transaction information, such as the amount actually paid for cups, it seeks the information in relation to "each customer, " whose identity is therefore part-and-parcel of the discovery request. At the very least, assuming the request is somewhat vague with respect to whether it requires Millennium to link the transaction information to the customer, Judge Brooks' interpretation appears reasonable and, therefore, is not clearly erroneous.
Moreover, Millennium's objection may be untimely. To the extent Millennium is asserting that the request is vague with respect to whether it requires linked-by-name information, Millennium arguably should have raised the objection in connection with Judge Brooks' consideration of the motion to enforce the out-of-district subpoena.
Millennium also fails to establish irreparable harm. Millennium argues that the Enforcement Order requires it to disclose proprietary information to one of its primary competitors. However, pursuant to Judge Brooks' Protective Order, Millennium may designate the documents as "Attorneys' Eyes Only." ( See Protective Order [Doc. 21], ¶11.) Based on this available designation, the Court finds Millennium's claim of irreparable harm unpersuasive.
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7 December 2015
Architectural Association, London
It’s the penultimate week of term and the unmissable event this week has to be the last lecture of the term on Monday evening – Practice not Perfect by TYPE Studio. TYPE was started by Sam Nelson who graduated from the AA with Honours in 2012, and Tom Powell who he studied with at Bath University where they did their Part 1. The lecture which is part of our What’s Next series that invites graduates, both recent and established, back to the AA to discuss their unique forms of practice, will look at how TYPE was set up and the different projects that the practice has worked on over the past few years. It’s a busy time of year for everyone but it’s a nice chance to take an hour off, listen to an engaging and inspiring lecture, and have some free drinks afterwards – we hope to see you there!
Also this week, Elisa Valero launches her new title Light in Architecture: The Intangible Material in the AA Bookshop on Wednesday evening and on Friday Will Wiles takes his Malign Interiors Night School Book Club to the Sir John Soane’s Museum to read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. | <urn:uuid:d7ab0ffd-fcf4-4ac0-82f9-193e845b587b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://conversations.aaschool.ac.uk/term-1-week-11-edit-2/ | 2017-11-22T10:53:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806569.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122103526-20171122123526-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.967744 | 255 | [
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Hafan Y Mor Holiday Park, Pwllheli, Haven Holidays
Existing Pools refurbishment including two new swimming pools
WCR was selected to undertake this major swimming pool refurbishment project based on our years of swimming pool construction experience.
The original pool complex was the former Butlins Holiday Camp, Pwllheli built in the early 1990’s and now in need of a facelift. The project included removal of the existing Kiddies play pools and construction of a new design Kids pool and full interior refurbishment including reception area and Millie’s Cookies bar. The existing pool layout was altered by removing and adding reinforced concrete walls, flumes refurbished and a new level deck adult exercise pool.
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Eric Wright About Buffy Animated Future
jeudi 10 février 2005, par Webmaster
As a huge Buffy fan, can you tell me what the cartoon’s current status is ?
It’s frustrating. It’s probably the biggest heartbreak that I’ve had, because it’s such an amazing show. The scripts that were written for the cartoon were written by Steve DeKnight and Joss (Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Jane Espenson wrote one of the funniest scripts I’ve ever read in my life. And they’re not getting made.
It just kills me that it hasn’t happened yet, but it’s such a hard thing, because Buffy is so ... it breaks all boundaries of entertainment, you know ? The peg doesn’t quite fit into one shaped hole. Networks think they knew what to do with it in the beginning, and now, even though it’s a success, they don’t know what to do with the cartoon. "Is it a cartoon for kids ? Is it for adults ? Should it be in primetime ? Should it be Saturday morning ?"
I started working on it back in season four (of the live-action Buffy). I was hired and laid off, like, six times. ... The last thing I did - last year, I guess - we did a four-minute pilot.
But, you know, I’ve worked on so many like this. You just kind of get used to the weird politics and the weird, for the lack of a better term, pissing contest that happens when everyone’s trying to get a piece of the action. For all the crap that’s on television, there are so many great things that fall by the wayside because of all the politicking that goes on.
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What started out as a peaceful protest Sunday night, quickly turned into a night of violence as riots and looting followed the police-involved shooting of an unarmed teen over the weekend in Ferguson, Missouri.
Some shop owners in the St. Louis suburb refused to stand for the chaotic crime sprees in which two officers were injured, 32 arrests were made and 12 businesses were vandalized and burglarized, including a gas station destroyed after it was set on fire.
The owners of St. Louis Ink Tattoo Studio and County Guns — who share a storefront in the same strip mall — stood guard, letting the looters know their businesses weren’t up for grabs.
“We didn’t want them coming in here and then running around with a bunch of free guns,” Adam Weinstein, owner of County Guns, told the Riverfront Times.
Weinstein, who wore a tactical vest, armed himself with an AR and a pistol, while Mike Gutierrez, owner of the tattoo shop, similarly accessorized.
As the two men and their friends showed up to stand guard, looters were already ransacking a Dollar General store in the same strip mall. The looters began to move toward Weinstein and Gutierrez’s shops, but quickly changed their minds once they saw the men were armed.
Moments later, police arrived and quickly assessed the damages before shooting off to another call.
Other nearby businesses hit by the looters included a clothing store and a Cricket Wireless store.
Silas Chung, who owns Up N Up Fashion, said a window was smashed and clothing racks were stripped bare. He has experienced two burglaries in the nine years he’s been in business, but nothing like this.
“It is what it is.” Gutierrez said. “People just got too into their emotions.”
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Up for adoption is a Baby Dimples type of mama doll that is unmarked and was made in the early to mid - 1930’s. I am selling as-is due to issues with her composition - see the images of her undressed (image #9). I have had her in my collection for years and have enjoyed her but am thinning out my baby doll collection. Her issues are some paint flaking here and there and some cracks on her composition mostly on her legs and feet that is hidden with her little age appropriate footed nighty. She has the most adorable face and unique painted upper two teeth and vivid - vivid dimples on each cheek - too adorable. She has lovely blue tin sleep eyes that work perfectly and all of her painted features (eyelashes, eyebrows, lips - teeth) along with high-high coloring on her face. She displays adorably with her clean vintage nighty, coat, matching bonnet and two of her little rattles that will also be a part of the sale. Please examine her images and let me know if you have any questions about her. Thank you for looking. | <urn:uuid:aed9e85c-b08a-48c6-927a-65c7f9643ba3> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.rubylane.com/item/970899-00413/1930x92s-18x94-Happy-Baby-Doll-Mama?search=1 | 2017-11-23T06:32:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806736.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123050243-20171123070243-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.97704 | 230 | [
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A stall in a coffee shop located near Yishun Bus Interchange, only sell steamed chicken. Also, it is recommended by Singapore Media such as My Paper and New City Beat (a Singapore Variety show).
925 Yishun Hainanese Chicken Rice Hot
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Not that great
I was glancing through other reviews before I wrote mine, and I'm starting to wonder if we have the same place in mind. Why does everyone find the chicken rice here so fantastic? I live nearby and eat it on occasion, but it has always tasted mediocre to me. I'm no chicken rice connoisseur either, so it can't be that I'm not enjoying it because I'm really particular.
Much prefer Pow Sing at Serangoon Gardens.
Best chicken rice in the North
When it comes to chicken rice in Singapore, everyone has their own personal favorite chicken rice stall. To me, what makes a good chicken rice would be their rice and how soft their chickens are.
Yishun's Hainanese Chicken Rice is hard to miss thanks to their huge signboards and long queues during peak hours. However, I never waited for more than 15 minutes for a table as they serve very quickly.
I specially love their roasted chickens. The skin is crispy and the chicken meat tender. The sauce that comes with it isn't too salty nor diluted. Their chicken rice is to die for. Every grain is plump and extremely fragrant. It isn't too oily as well.
They do take aways as well but I personally feel that the take away chicken rice is less tasty as the rice tend to get soaked up in the chicken sauce, causing it to be too soggy. With a friendly price tag, efficient servers and yummy chicken rice, I'm definitely recommending this place!
Famous in the North
A corner stall located at Block 925 in a coffee shop in Yishun, this stall should not be foreign to the north-dwellers. Although Block 925 do humbly boasts of other delectable food like the prawn noodle, each time I choose to eat at 925, I cannot resist ordering the chicken rice!
There is, most often than not, always a queue for the chicken rice, but I never had to line up for more than 10 minutes to order since they are always efficient. Once they have taken your order, you just have to keep the receipt and they will serve the food to you within 5 minutes.
They only have white chicken rice (my favourite!) I usually order the bigger serving because it is really that good - the cheaper option is definitely not enough to satisfy. Even my best friend who eats really little can finish the big plate! One of the best thing of 925 chicken rice is that the chicken is served in a different plate from the rice, garnished with pickles and cucumbers and drizzled with a generous amount of sauce. I like them separated so the rice doesn't get soggy from the sauce. The chicken, of course are always tender and delicious, I always feel that a plateful is not enough!
925 chicken rice is always the one thing I never fail to suggest when my non-north-dweller friends ask for recommendations for good food in the north. If you haven't tried it yet, you are really missing out. I personally feel that it is equivalent in standard to Boon Tong Kee, and it is so much more friendly on the pocket!
The best chicken rice in town.
I'm sure this place, affectionately known as 925 Chicken Rice to many, would not be unfamiliar to the Northerners. In my opinion, even after tasting Tian Tian Chicken Rice and such, I find myself returning to Yishun Blk 925 for the ever so familiar chicken rice time and time again.
This stall may be one of the most prominent stalls in that hawker centre. The huge signboard and the queues would make it very hard to miss. They only serve white chicken rice but that would suffice for me - the tender chicken meat, thinly sliced cucumbers and their chilli go so well together. Some chicken rice stalls have very tough and hard to chew chicken meat but definitely not those here. In fact, I think they can be swallowed without chewing if you wanted to because the meat is that tender. Topped with fragrant rice and a bowl of soup that tastes like home, I don't think there's any qualms about having a plate of piping hot chicken rice here.
Not only is their chicken rice absolutely tasty, their service is very prompt as well. Food is usually served around 5 minutes after your order is taken. For chicken rice lovers, you have to try this! It is absolutely worth the queue, which is usually not very long and will be cleared very fast.
unique chicken rice, recommended to dine-in
I've eaten from this chicken rice stall since young, and I would say that the taste of their chicken rice beats most of the other chicken rice I've eaten before. I love how the stall serves boneless chicken rice for the convenience of lazy eaters such as myself. It is actually quite amazing how the staff can remove the chicken bones so skillfully without compromising on the overall appearance of the plate of chicken.
However, one great setback is that the takeaway chicken rice doesn't taste as fantastic as if you dine in at the hawker centre as the steamed chicken, the sauce, and the rice will all be packed together. The sauce tends to make the rice too salty, coupled with the fact that the rice itself is already slightly oily, I guess this wouldn't be the healthiest option for health savvy individuals.
My chicken rice stall in Yishun
Many years ago when I still went to Yishun GV for movies, I would always come to this stall for their chicken rice. I am a Hainanese myself and my father can cook very good chicken rice and this is one of the few stalls that can cook Hainanese chicken rice like my father.
The secret of cooking good chicken rice was controlling the amount of ingredients added to cooking the rice. Some stalls cooked the rice too oily, some stalls cooked the rice too plain with not enough fragrance. This stall seemed to have perfected their control and every time that I visited, their chicken rice tasted the same, not too oily and always fragrant enough.
The other important part of chicken rice was the chicken. To cook the chicken to the correct tenderness required a lot of skills and even my father was not always able to control the correct tenderness. But this stall must have a lot more practice than my father because they must have cooked at least 50 chickens a day so they were able to achieve the right tenderness for the chicken meat.
One of the best places for chicken rice in the north
There are quite a number of excellent Hainanese chicken rice stalls in Singapore - not that many in the north though! Fortunately there is 925 Yishun Hainanese chicken rice. I almost always have this whenever I pass by.
The chicken is really firm and fresh here, especially the breast meat - not like some other places where you get this flaky, powdery taste. The rice might be a just a tad oily for some folks, but it goes really great with the chicken soup, or you could order a dumpling soup from a nearby stall to go with as well.
They also add a bit of 'achar' (pickled cucumbers, chilli, carrots), something that I've not seen in most other stalls. It adds a bit of uniqueness to the combination.
Decent, I guess.
925 Chicken Rice has certainly earned a name for itself, but I don't think it's much different from any other chicken rice stall. The quality and portions are not consistent. Sometimes, as other reviewers have noted, they serve tender enough breast meat that isn't a chore to eat. But other times, and most of the time, I would say, the breast meat is tough and dry and also...somewhat meagre, as though the chicken was anorexic when it was alive. Of course, if you don't want to take any chances with their breast meat, ask for the drumstick.
I do love the flavourful rice though, which tastes even better with their chilli. But, on the whole, while they serve pretty decent chicken rice, it isn't good enough to keep me coming back and wanting more. Don't expect to wow your palate at this place.
Delicious chicken rice
As a big lover of chicken rice - one of my favourite local delicacies - I must say that 925 Yishun Hainanese Chicken Rice did not disappoint. Affordable and sumptuous, my plate of chicken rice was truly a happy meal.
Breast meat is usually tough, but the breast meat that I ordered was tender and juicy. The rice was also soft and tasty, and to me the rice is the most important part of the dish. Chicken rice has a unique, slight ginger taste to it and the chicken rice I ordered was just perfect.
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So, you are head over heels in love with your partner. Why keep it to yourself? Let the world know about it- get matching tattoos etched.If you want to thank your mother for everything she has done for you, get a matching mother daughter tattoo inked on your skin and let her know that she plays an important role in your life. Tattoos are such a cool thing to show off. And the kind of drama couple tattoos add to your relationship is simply unmatched. If, however, you don’t know what a desirable tattoo could be like, read on the options below- they are definitely some of The Best King Queen Tattoos for Couples ever!
Best King Queen Tattoos for Couples in Love
That white ink magic
Gone are the days when black ink used to be the only option available for tattoos. Today, white ink is as popular as black ink, and for many, it is the ultimate go-to when it comes to getting a tattoo done. But have you ever wondered why some of the Best King Queen Tattoos for Couples are in white ink, because of the subtlety it oozes out. Simple designs or letters like ‘K’ and ‘Q’ look absolutely adorable in white ink.
That big arm tattoos screaming for your attention
So, you love people’s attention. Well, we all do! And there is no harm in being attention seeking. In fact, when it comes to couples, being a little attention hungry actually looks cute. So, what are you doing to pull people’s attention to your lovely bond? If nothing as of yet, why not get the massive king and queen crowns etched on your arms. Trust us- we have seen some of the Best King Queen Tattoos for Couples engraved on arms.
That adorable finger tattoo
What are you planning to do for your next love anniversary? Probably you are thinking of getting each other rings. Yes, that’s a lovely idea, but do you even know how much that could cost you? A fortune, especially if you can’t settle for anything less than diamonds. If expressing love to each other and celebrating your relationship is the main motive, why spend so much unnecessarily- why not get finger king and queen tattoos etched? You can get your tattoo done on the same finger as your partner’s for some added cuteness.
Red ink mania!
Yes, it’s almost a mania. The world is so much in love with red ink tattoos. And when you are in love, red could mean a world to both of you. Hence, instead of choosing black or white ink, you can straightaway go for red. With red ink, you can get the Best King Queen Tattoos for Couples etched, and that’s no exaggeration! Although, you can go for any size, it’s better to keep things simple when you are opting for a red ink tattoo. That’s because getting a too large tattoo done in red ink could look overwhelming and gaudy.
That phantom effect!
If you are someone who is bored of sweet and decent and subtle tattoos, then getting the king and queen skull tattoos etched would be the best bet. If you thought they are ghostly, then yes, you were right. But they also look absolutely quaint and badass.
Playing chess the tattoo way!
A lot of couple loves the idea of getting chess king and queen done on their arms or wrists. This is an amazing idea and is definitely in vogue. The USP of the idea is its uniqueness. So, if you wish to make your tattoos stand out from the crowd, go for these chess pieces.
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Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub is a very familiar figure among Israelis. He is interviewed frequently by the Israeli media because journalists have almost direct access to him. They know him, and he knows most of them. He was even a member of the “Partners for Peace” group, organized by supporters of the Geneva Initiative, which calls for a two-state solution, and he is something of a darling among peace organizations in Israel, which frequently invite him to meetings and conferences on topics such as coexistence and peace.
This being said, Rajoub is known as someone who trusted the Israelis and cooperated with them throughout the second intifada. Sadly, his Israeli “friends” refused to pay him back in kind.
As commander of the Preventive Security Forces in the West Bank during the second intifada, Rajoub was the only senior Palestinian security official to keep his men in check and prevent them from taking part in terrorist attacks against Israelis. Nevertheless, his command center in Beitunia was bombed and destroyed by Israeli forces. Since then, his name has been bandied about by the Palestinians as someone who trusted the Israelis and got stabbed in the back in return.
It has been a long time since that happened. In conversations I had with him in the past, he told me that he learned his lesson and drew the appropriate conclusions. One of these was to win back the trust of the Palestinians and to convince them that his motives are entirely and purely Palestinian. All he wants is to advance the Palestinian cause. He has no other stake in the game, personal or otherwise.
The truth of the matter is that Abu Rami, as he is known in the West Bank, did manage to win back his reputation. He has since emerged as a powerful and influential figure in the Palestinian Authority. Many people raised an eyebrow when he submitted his candidacy for his current position, and they were certainly surprised when he won. He is now the head of the Palestinian Football Federation.
Rajoub took this job as seriously as any other job he ever had. Forced to start from nothing, he began to promote Palestinian sports. This meant setting up an infrastructure where none existed beforehand, or if it did exist once, it had since been destroyed during the intifada. He built sports fields and gymnasiums, and he provided support for local soccer teams in towns and villages throughout the Palestinian Authority.
Rajoub’s greatest achievement as chairman of the Palestinian Football Federation is his investment in sports education. He poured money into this in the belief that soccer provides young people in the Palestinian Authority with a challenge. It keeps them busy, and that means that it keeps them off the streets, where there is nothing to do. It keeps them away from militant groups, and it provides them with a framework where they can reach competitive athletic achievements. In other words, soccer keeps young Palestinians out of trouble. Rajoub has offered Palestinian youth an opportunity to stay away from terrorism by playing soccer instead.
You might even call it sports in the service of peace.
But then, the man who should have been celebrating, the person who turned the towns of Jenin and Hebron and Nablus from hotbeds of terrorism into greenhouses for the soccer stars of tomorrow, learned that Israel is embarrassing him again, and taking away any reason he might have had to celebrate.
Last week, on Aug. 15, just as the West Asian Football Confederation’s youth tournament was about to begin in the Palestinian Authority, Rajoub was informed that Israel is refusing to grant access to the territories to 13 players, coaches and sports officials from Iraq, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. The reason given was security considerations.
It is true that only 13 people were denied access, and only five of them were actually players, but as far as Rajoub is concerned, Israel has stabbed him in the back yet again and ruined his celebration, after months of planning and preparation. Instead of having everyone talking about the fact that the West Asia youth championship is taking place in the Palestinian Authority, they were talking about how athletes and officials were denied access by Israel.
Speaking at a tense press conference, Rajoub offered a scathing critique of Israel. Perhaps he was trying to win back some respect after his dignity was trampled, but it was apparent that he could hardly control himself: “We’re prepared to bring the members of the Organizing Committee [whose entry was barred by Israel] in by helicopter, so that they don’t see any Jews, any Zionists, any devils, and any bastards.”
He then took on another task into which he can pour all his energy: convincing FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football, to revoke Israel’s membership. According to Rajoub, the very fact that FIFA allows Israel to behave this way grants legitimacy to the occupation.
It is hard to believe that FIFA would actually expel Israel from the federation. There may be an investigation, and Israel will have to clarify why it would not allow these sports figures to participate in the tournament. But the greatest damage has already been done. As of this week, the Palestinian public has started seeing Israel as having impeded a football tournament, and it did this at the very time that negotiations between it and the Palestinians were underway in Washington.
Palestinians consider the impediment of the competition as an Israeli declaration of intents, saying that it is not really interested in peace.
It is quite possible that the decision to prevent at least some of these sports figures from the Arab world from entering the Palestinian Authority was made on the basis of real security considerations. Nevertheless, there is still one question that must be asked: Does anybody really believe that some soccer player, regardless of whether he is from Jordan, Iraq or the United Arab Emirates, would really come to this tournament to launch a terrorist attack? Would he conceivably join one of the armed groups operating in the Palestinian Authority?
There is no way Israel will be expelled from FIFA. On the other hand, this week it transformed Jibril Rajoub from a peace partner into a foe.
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In 1998 he received the prestigious national Award, 'Chowdiah Award for Music' from the Government of Karnataka in India for excellence in the field of instrumental music. He has also received awards from the Indian State Government of Karnataka for his contribution to music,- the Sangeet Nritya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Karnataka Rajya Prashasti in 1996. In 1980 he was the subject of a documentary made for the television in Eden, Yemen, entitled Finnan Min-Al-Hind (Artist from India). Rajeev Taranath's distinctive musicianship demonstrates striking imaginative power, technical excellence and emotional range. He is respected for the clarity of musical understanding which he brings to the unfolding of a raga and the beauty of the tone he evokes from the sarod.
The New York Times (April 14, 1982) described his music by commenting with great enthusiasm about the exuberance and versatility of his playing, which ranged from the spiritual to the spirited. Rajeev was a Ford Foundation scholar (1989 to 1992) and researched during this period on the Teaching Techniques of the Maihar-Allauddin Gharana. Rajeev has also received guidance from Pandit Ravi Shankar and Shrimati Annapurna Devi. From 1995-2005 he was a member of the music department faculty at the prestigious California Insitute of the Arts in Los Angeles, California. Rajeev Taranath frequently performs and tours throughout India and internationally with concert engagements for major Indian music conferences, Universities, western chamber music series, world music festivals and Indian cultural organizations dedicated to the presentation of high caliber Indian classical music. (Source: http://www.rajeevtaranath.com/bio.htm ) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply..
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Urker July 17th 1895
My dear Tom – As Mary Menary is about on a visit to Mrs Wright , I must endeavour to write to you, though I am a bad hand at it. My first item of news is that poor old Aunt McCullagh died on the 12th inst. very peacefully. I am now “the pickle next the wind”; the oldest person in the family; in fact the only old person in it except poor Aunt Bess , who is very weak & frail, even more so than I am. Johnny McCullagh is still lying without much if any hope of recovery & James Donaldson is as bad as ever; they are heart broken with him. Beatrice Brown is still ill with jaundice; she rises for a little while every day, but never leaves her own room.
Now for the good news. Julius is doing well; though Dr McBride (who examined him last Sabbath) says that some days of his complaint remain still. But he is able to be up every morning & to take his meals with the rest. There was some rumour about him going to England; but I will not let him go until the Dr assures me that he is perfectly fit for it. Both Doctors say that his complaint had been working on him for a length of time; and they always said that his recovery would be very tedious. But thanks be to God that he recovered still. We often thought that we would have to lay him beside his little sister in Creggan . He was the most patient & obedient little sufferer that ever I saw. He is a sweet little fellow; just as harmless as when he used to be sweeping the leaves before the door. Nothing could exceed the care his Aunts Mary & Sally took of him; they sat up with him every night through the whole of his illness, & Dr McBride visited him every day & sometimes twice a day. I gave Dr McBride the whole of the ten pounds you sent; none of us thought it a penny too much. He was very thankful & would have taken less. Eliezer will pay Dr Wilson out of Cavananore money. Andy’s Tom has had a relapse; he made too free, which makes one the more particular about Julius. Tom looked right well during the fortnight that I spent in Forsterstown , but Dr O’Reilly said the remains of the complaint were there still; you can see he was right. Tom was worse than Julius; he was suffering from the complaints at once; influenza, whooping cough, & water on the lungs; for which last, an operation had to be performed. Julius escaped the operation, though he was in danger for some time. Four of Andy’s children were ill at once. Emily told me that she did not take care of her clothes for five weeks.
As for house news, we are all well & the old place is kept in good order. The road is not finished, nor will not be this year; but it is passable. The crops look well; and thanks be to God, everything prospered with me since I became sole manager, except the Prairie flower ; she will never do another turn of work; but I could not find in my heart to get her put to death. I sent her abroad thinking she might have a foal but no foal came. Foaly is a splendid horse & well supplies her place. It was proposed to me to sell him; but nobody loves a good horse better than I do, so I kept him for myself. Poor white lily was got lying on the road in a dying state about a year ago; she seemed to have been worried; but no one saw it done, or knew what did it. She was the last of your Father’s pets. I was very sorry for her, but not so sorry as I was for the death of Dick . Julius has a pet kitten in which he takes great delight. I do not know how he will leave it behind.
I think from what Minnie wrote, that she intends to be home before next summer; it would surely be more pleasant for her to be near her children; but what about you? Glad as we would all be to see you; I fear that “the old cow” would not do so well without you. She never throve in your absence. Still I would not say a word to discourage Minnie from coming home. She must have fretted awfully about Julius; & it seems from what you wrote that Hongkong does not agree with the younger children, they are so liable to take turns of fever there. May the good Lord direct you all for the best; for it is not in mortals to direct their steps.
These kingdoms are now in the throng of a general election. I hope that God will keep out the Home Rulers. Confusion to them for a pack of rascals.
I have no anxiety at present about any of my children or grandchildren, except Andy’s Tom; for Julius I hope is out of danger, if he takes care of himself.
That the Lord may bless you all, from the eldest to the youngest is my daily prayer.
With love to Minnie, Kathleen, Amy, Dorothy, and the younger children, & most of all to yourself, I remain your ever affectionate Mother
Mary MENARY, daughter of William MENARY & Mary JACKSON – sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON
Which Mrs. WRIGHT this may be, I do not know, but I suspect William Joseph WRIGHT – a brother of the James Francis WRIGHT that Mary would marry in 1902. In this case, the visit is likely to Ballinore, Co. Monaghan.
Eliza WALLACE wife of James McCULLAGH of Drummuck (I believe) at the time of her death. According to notes by “Blin” Sarah BROWN, she was "Of Clohog" - daughter of Attorney Wallace. The description as “Aunt” is likely somewhat loose. Her mother Jane DONALDSON was a sister of the John DONALDSON who married Elizabeth Johanna JACKSON – who was an aunt.
Elizabeth Johanna JACKSON who married John DONALDSON.
John Wallace MCCULLAGH (1840-?) – NOTE he had an older brother with the same name born in 1834 who died before he was born.
James DONALDSON, son of John DONALDSON & Elizabeth Johanna JACKSON had suffered from mental illness for years.
Beatrice Matilda BROWNE, daughter of Margaret JACKSON & Rev. Daniel Gunn BROWNE.
George Julius JACKSON, son of Sir Thomas JACKSON & Amelia Lydia DARE.
Probably Dr. John McBRIDE of Freeduff.
Emily Bradford JACKSON, the twin of Amy Oliver JACKSON who dies as an infant in 1874.
Mary (JACKSON) (MENARY) GRIFFIN –sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON
“Sally” SARAH (JACKSON) GILMORE – sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON
Eliezer GILMORE, husband of Sarah JACKSON. They lived next door at Liscalgot.
Dr. WILSON?
Cavananore, Co. Louth, a farm that Sir Thomas JACKSON now held the lease for.
Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON – brother of Sir Thomas JACKSON
Thomas Dare JACKSON, son of Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON
Forstertown, Co. Meath home of Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON – brother of Sir Thomas JACKSON.
Dr. O’REILLY – presumably a doctor near Trim, Co. Meath, although the name also shows up in the Coroner’s Casebook that I have transcribed..
Eliza Emily GILMORE, wife of Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON
A favoured old horse.
A horse mentioned in other letters.
White Lily seems to be another favoured horse.
I am guessing that Dick was another horse.
Amelia Lydia DARE – wife of Sir Thomas JACKSON
The family’s pet name for the HSBC.
Thompson BROWN, son of Thompson BROWN & Elizabeth JACKSON – sister to Sir Thomas JACKSON – worked for HSBC and seems to be on leave.
Samuel GILMORE, son of Eliezer GILMORE & Sarah JACKSON – sister to Sir Thomas JACKSON. He also worked for HSBC.
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Our New, Happier Comment Policy…
As I was on vacation last week I did a lot of brain thinking. We went up to Sacramento, dropped the kids off with grandparents, and spent 3 days (and nights!) just the two of us at the most relaxing hotel, The Ritz in Lake Tahoe. It was amazing and honestly I haven’t felt that clear-headed in a long time. I could feel a shift coming on about a lot of things, and some are SO good. But if I am to clearly look at my job and life and figure out what gives me unnecessary stress (kids, for instance are necessary stress), then there is one thing that was just all of a sudden so easy to eliminate. And I feel a huge relief.
After 8 years of not monitoring or deleting comments we will now delete anything that is written without regard or respect for the human being/s who work hard to produce the content. It’s so easy all of a sudden. To be clear – negative comments, criticisms, and suggestions are all absolutely welcome – please don’t stop those. I love the dialogue and feedback is crucial to the progression and success of the blog and to me, personally. You’ve helped me become a better designer, writer (ha), mom, and person. I want to know what you like, don’t like, how we could be better, etc. You have opened my eyes and have expanded my world with your thoughtful criticism and intelligential dialogue. I really need feedback – good and bad, but with respect.
Hate-filled comments close me down. They make me less transparent and I become far less interesting and way less funny (plus nauseous, anxious, and riddled with vulnerability, etc). I find myself not wanting to write the posts, not taking risks, and just apologizing over and over with so many disclaimers trying to reduce the backlash as much as possible. Strangely the more honest and transparent I am (especially about mistakes and money), the meaner the backlash – but by only a few people. It’s confusing, for sure, but I have to listen to the 99% of you who want that and not the 1% who make me feel like garbage for whatever vulnerability I’m displaying that day.
So here is a good method: If you have a criticism of us you feel compelled to write then pretend that an 8 year old, someone who is just learning how people should behave in the world, will read your comment out loud in front of you. If that makes you uncomfortable then perhaps rephrase it. I think this is probably a great way to go about life, actually.
Even though it’s just a few of you, there is too much power in that negativity and despite me not being particularly sensitive (I couldn’t have this job if I were), the effects are latent and long-lasting.
IT’S VERY GOOD NEWS 🙂 Look how happy I am –
I already feel SO MUCH BETTER. We implemented it last week and while there were only a couple comments deleted before I could read them (which is the goal) it meant that I could click on ‘comments’ with excitement, not fear. We now run a cruelty-free blog and ironically by censoring the hate, I feel WAY more free to write.
But listen, if you find yourself wanting to leave mean comments all the time then perhaps you should find someone else that better inspires your life and style. I’m clearly not the right fit for you, you aren’t that into me, and frankly the feeling is mutual. There are other sites (or bridges) that haters can troll with the sole purpose of hating – they’ll be happy to have you 🙂
Sorry it took me so long to do this. I felt that by censoring you I was taking some of the open democratic nature of the blog away, but I’m not. Just weeding out the hate. BUH-BYE!
Now to those of you who are not compelled to be mean (which is most of you), thank you so very, very much for all the support, positivity, and encouragement. Thanks so much to those of you who have a criticism and know how to phrase it in a way that won’t make it feel personal or disrespectful. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you. If I offend you I WANT TO KNOW, please don’t think this is me wanting just positive comments. It’s not. You mean a lot to me, and I want everybody to feel happy when they come here (including me :))
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In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mark Hamill spoke at length regarding his involvement with Star Wars: Episode VII. Yesterday, Showbiz 411 reported that Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford were all set to return, although an earlier report said a deal with Ford wouldn’t be closed for weeks or possibly months. In this case, it’s best to go straight to the source, and Hamill confirmed his earlier comments that George Lucas wanted to know if they were interested, and that the filmmakers have been talking to them. Lucas also told Hamill that if they didn’t want to do the sequels, “they wouldn’t cast another actor in our parts; they would write us out.” And on that day, George Lucas finally did something right again. Hamill went on to say, “I can tell you right away that we haven’t signed any contracts. We’re in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm.” Hamill added “Both have had meetings set that were postponed — on their end, not mine. They’re more busy than I am.”
Hit the jump for much more including what Hamill assumes will happen with the characters, other actors he’d like to see return, and the visual style of the sequels.
“I’m assuming—because I haven’t talked to the writers—that these movies would be about our offspring, like my character would be sort of in the Obi-wan range [as] an influential character. When I found out [while making the original trilogy] that ultimate good news/bad news joke the good news is there’s a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she’s your sister. I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to wind up like Sir Alec [Guinness]. I’m going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.'”
Of course, Obi-wan was in a self-imposed exile, but since the Empire was defeated at the end of Return of the Jedi, I don’t see why Luke would have to live out in a desert igloo with droids.
“I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous, in my opinion, anyway….hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings — I’m sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that’s unfortunate. If they listen to me at all, it’ll be, ‘Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.'”
I think plenty of fans agree with Hamill, but that approach seems unlikely since the demands of what moviegoers want in terms of spectacle can only be served with massive amounts of CGI even though the original trilogy holds up perfectly fine. Hopefully, they find the “right balance of CGI and practical effects” rather than the green-screen heavy world of the prequels.
“Another thing I’d want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee [Lando Calrissian] and Tony Daniels [C-3PO], everybody that’s around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody’s on board here, rather than just one.”
That’s a very thoughtful sentiment, although I think once you get past Luke, Leia, and Han Solo, it may be tougher to bring back outside characters in terms of where they would fit into the story. Perhaps past the point of Luke, Leia, and Han, you have old supporting characters reduced to cameos in order to make way for the new characters.
Michael Arndt is working on the pic’s screenplay as we speak, and once Star Trek Into Darkness opens in May, Abrams will be able to devote his full attention to Star Wars for the next 2-3 years. As such, we should be hearing some more solid information regarding Star Warslater this summer.
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Sunday, January 23, 2005
The world lost a major player today, with the death of actor, talk show host and comedian, Johnny Carson. Johnny was considered by many to be the King of late-night TV for 20 years, and a major star who I loved and respected. I go back with Johnny to my High School years watching his talk show, "Who Do You Trust?". I knew then, that he would go on to become a major celebrity and maintain that status, while others faded into the woodwork. He had great timing. Life is all about time an timing.
Remember the swami, the magician, and the Wizard!
He has the punch line.
Always leave them laughing ...
One day your soul will get the joke
and you will have the Last Laugh!
By Johnny! See you on the other side!
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i admit i haven't stayed up and watched conan host the tonight show, but i've seen a few clips and it looks pretty fun. good funny ideas executed well.
in this one, conan got william shatner to recite sarah palin's farewell speech like a beat poem. brilliant.
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Presentation on theme: "“If it touches your hands, it should be a catch.”"— Presentation transcript:
1 “If it touches your hands, it should be a catch.” WIDE RECEIVER MANUAL“If it touches your hands, it should be a catch.”Woody Hayes:
2 Table of Contents Coaching Philosophy Position Philosophy Position GoalsStance & Start (Alignments)StemsReleasesReading DefensesRoute TechniqueCatching The FootballBlockingWarm Up DrillsWagner’s Offensive Overview
3 Position Philosophy Position Philosophy My Philosophy as a wide receiver coach is to define the fundamental skills essential to playing successful football. Our position play is predicated on working hard at helping the offense make big plays. Key components in blocking, catching the football, running precise routes and scoring touchdowns are important ingredients to a successful offense.Blocking: I believe this is the heart of wide receiver play. The will to learn and understand the assignment as well as, keeping a good stance is a great way to gain advantage over the defensive back. Being able to block at the wide receiver position is just as important as any offensive position. Many long runs, or short receptions that turn into long gains, are the result of a wide receiver’s willingness to block.Catching the Football: is not just about possessing great hand-eye coordination, it’s about being able to play the position with poise, under pressure and distraction. This is the true test of the position.Running routes: Running precise routes with intensity, hustle and recognizing coverage’s is the key to out-smarting the defensive back. Furthermore, wide-receiver’s must know the basic elements of route running: (locate corner, near side linebacker and safety) stance and start, releases, pad-level and get-off. The receiver runs hard for four quarters while the defensive back slows down, the receiver’s effort becomes relentless and he wins the battle.Scoring: is the hardest skill to teach. Scoring depends on how well the wide receiver incorporates all the dynamics from the practices, film study and actual game experiences.Ultimately, my offensive philosophy stems from sound fundamentals and hard work. With Self-discipline, determination, 100% effort and hustle, the direct result will prove positive towards the offense unit success.
4 Position Goals Give 100% effort and hustle Block on every play Beat press coverage using good release techniquesRun precise routesCatch every pass that is thrown in my directionBall Security (Limit Turnovers)Make Big Plays (Run and Passing game)Master the Offensive systemNo dumb penaltiesHelp the team Finish in FCS Top 25Win the Northeast ConferenceTo be the best WR Corp in Nation!
5 Everyday GoalsDid we outwork the Defense (One on One’s, Skelly, Hook-up, Team)?Did we communicate on every play (Huddle and Alignments)Did we use our fundamental techniques in the run game, pass game and screen game?Did we catch every ball thrown our way (not just for our individual stats but for our QB, O-LINE and ENTIRE team)?Did we make BIG PLAYS and play with excitement and passion?
6 POSITION PROGRESSION PROGRESSION CLASSROOM K “WHAT” TO DO AND “HOW” TO DO IT IS KEY TO SUCCESSKPROGRESSIONCLASSROOMALIGNMENT - HOW TO LINE UP!ASSIGNMENT – WHAT TO DO!SPLITS – ROUTE SPACING!FIELDSTANCE – EFFICIENT!RELEASE – “HAVE A PLAN”!TOP OF ROUTE – WHAT THE ROUTE CALLS FOR!FINISH- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD & GREAT PLAYERS
7 WR Practice Schedule Periods Time Instructions Tempo Comments FundamentalsPre PracticeWarm up DrillLowCombo DrillsROA10 MinutesRoute RunningHighConcept of the DayHighIndividual10 MinutesCatchingJugs /Tennis ballHighBlocking10 MinutesHook UpCompete1 on 110 MinutesWR’s vs. DB’sHighBeat PressScreen Drill10 MinutesScreen Vs. Cut BagsHighLandmarks
8 Alignment WR’s Alignment Outside # 1 to field aligns top of the number to field.Outside # 1 in boundary aligns top of the bottom ofNumbers.Inside # 2 to field aligns 2 yards outside of hash.Inside # 2 in boundary splits the different betweennearest offensive lineman and outside WR.Note: WR splits will be adjusted by play and formation. 3x1 the # 3 WR aligns 2 yardsinside of the hash. Think split different between # 2 WR and nearest Offensivelineman.
9 Motions and Shifts Why Motion? Gives defense a different look Match up purposes (WR VS. LB)Helps offense gain an extra man atP.O.AHelp offense disguise base playsAllows the Offense to out leveragethe defenseHelps WR release clean from LOSAllows offense to identify man or zone coverage
10 Stance Stance 2 Point, outside foot back. Both knees bent, forward Lean with weight on balls of feet. Shoulders overFeet. Elbows slightly bent. (Sprinter’s stance from 2point.) Get a picture of the pre-snap coverage, butyou must see the snap of the football. ( Combat orRelax Stance.)AlignmentsA. Vertical1. Outside WR (X)- On the line scrimmage. Helmetmust be within rear most part of the center. (Putfront foot even with front foot of the tackle.)2. Inside WR (Z)- Off the line scrimmage but criticalthat you crowd the ball as much as possible. Preventwasted space, but don’t cover the TE. Your helmetmust clear rear most part of nearest down lineman,not including center. (Put front foot even with backfoot of TE.)
11 Start Start The start will be initiated by driving forward off the back leg and, almost simultaneously, pushing intothe stride with the front leg. The first several stepsshould drive the WR up and out of the stance.WR must have enough weight distribution to theback foot and enough knee flex to drive itforward: 60% - 40% distribution.First Step: (Start)No false steps – front or back foot.No false movement – front knee bend.Transfer all weight to front foot, push off frontfoot, rip back foot through.Great arm action ( 90 degree running form)Stay low – flat back.Shoulders must drive down as he explodes fromthe LOS, hiding his numbers from the DB.7. Make Eye contact with defender
12 .StemStemming allows the WR to attack the DB’s leverage. WR eyes should look through the DB, not at ground. Movements must be precise as they indicator of making a break. This area of the route is where expression becomes critical. The use of our eyes, head, shoulder fakes and change of speed are critical.
13 Releases . Types of Releases: When releasing from the Line of Scrimmage the WR needs to a have a plan forhow he is going to attack the defense. The WR ‘s plan depends on the technique usedby the defender. The WR must execute his plan using good technique.Furthermore, the WR needs to change up his plan , so the defender does not catchonto his release.Basic Premise:Release with your feet, finish with your hands.Beat the defender off the ball with speed before he has a chance to react.Move the defender. Make him move his feet, get him off balance, get him out ofthe way.Types of Releases:Speed Release - Use speed release whenever possible. It gets the receiver verticalimmediately. Put the release side foot back. Find a spot 1 yard outside and 1 yardin back of the defender. Explode out of your stance taking your first step at thatspot. Get low and skinny taking the target away from the defender. Rip theopposite arm and leg through getting vertical. The key is beating the off the ballwith speed and staying low . This release is used when defender is playing a softtype of press or when there is space between the WR and defender.Stutter - A quick 3 step maneuver used to force defender to set his feet. Shorten your stride length on the leg opposite the direction you are releasing. This followed by two quick balance steps where your feet are about parallel and directly under the hips. Pop the near side foot and crossover, pulling the opposite leg through, accelerate (get up on your toes)!Single Move – A change of direction maneuver very similar to the stutter, but with a more deliberate first step at the shoulder opposite the side of escape ( also a “heavy” head and shoulder lean, get your chest over the front leg). Since this is a slightly slower escape you must work hard to pull the opposite leg through on the crossover.Double Move – Use when defender expects the single move. Step to the side of your desired release using quick feet and staying low. The defender expecting you to come back the other way. Foot Press and head stick at the defender then go.
14 Releases . Types of Releases: Swim -The swim release can be used as a change up release to the rip release WR needs to hammer the forearm of the defender to the side of the escape. Strike with a closed fist and a firm lower arm. Turn your chest to the defender and whip your far side arm over his shoulder. The far side arm should also be firm with a closed fist, striking the defender in the back. WR should cross over with the far inside leg as you swim. Its critical to get the leg at least even with the defenders hip. Use the far side arm to push yourself into the stem.Diamond – Step opposite the side your release for 3 steps in attempt to make the defender move in that direction. You must use quick feet and be ready to finish with your hands. Stay low and compact. The key is to sell the defender with your hips, toes, shoulders and eyes.Throw By– The throw by release is a release used vs. hard press technique inside. The WR is going to take a outside release pushing vertical and at the top of the he should plant off his outside foot. He is going to take his inside arm and grab the waist of the DB and pull himself through with his outside arm. This release is used on Curl and Dig routes.Whip – This is abbreviated version of the swim. The whip is used vs. a defender who is simply trying to get his hands on you, not necessarily trying to collision your release. Swat with arm to the side of escape and whip the far side arm over the extended arms of the defender. Pull through with the far side arm and get the defender’s hands low. Note: Accelerate up the field.Best -The best release is used by outside WR running vertical routes vs. squat or rolled up corners. The WR needs to attack the DB’s outside shoulder with low pad-level. If the DB gives the WR a hard shoulder outside denying him the outside, then the WR needs to plant his outside foot in the ground and slip back inside to his landmark. On the contrary, when the DB is giving the WR a soft shoulder outside the WR needs to attack the shoulder and stay outside working to his landmark full speed.Note: The best release will turn into a positive outside release if any WR aligned inside the outside WR runs a out or flat route.
15 Reading Defenses Coverage Identification The majority of our route conversions are based on defender’stechniques rather than on particular coverage's. It will benefit thereceiver, however, to be able to identify basic pass coverage's andhave some idea of how they work. They will help you to understandthe overall pattern concept, not just your individual assignment.Two Basic Elements of identification:ContourAs you set in your stance, glance at the overall “contour” or shapeof the coverage, accounting for depth and alignment, then narrowyour focus to the three defendants nearest you. This is called“READING THE TRIANGLE”. The configuration of these threedefenders will not only tell you what the coverage is, it will identifyeach defender’s responsibility.TechniqueA second method is reading the technique and body posture of thedefender over you. Zone coverage defenders will normally belooking in at the football. Their posture will be fairly upright, theirdepth will be loose and alignment will be head up to outside. Mancoverage defenders will be aligned inside, looking directly at thereceiver. Depth will be tighter than usual and their stance will belower to the ground and more compact.Note: All coverage identification must be confirmed after the snap!!!
16 Reading Defenses F C C F OLB SS COVER 2 TRIANGLE A deep half player on or outside the nearhash mark, and two level defenders responsiblefor Flat and Curl (usually positioned within 5yards of the LOS.) Widest level defender mayfunnel or bail” inside level defender will normallyCollision the release inside – out.COVER 3 TRIANGLEA deep outside third defender and a deep middlethird defender positioned in MOF. Curl to flatdefender is close to the LOS. He may hold-upinside receiver or expand quickly to the outside
17 Reading Defenses F C C F OLB COVER 0 MAN No Triangle unless it’s Man –Free coverage.Technique is inside and the cushion is fairly tight.“Press” Man puts the defender within 4 yards ofthe receiver. Defender’s eyes are locked on.COVER 4 TRIANGLESimilar to Cover 3 look, but with the FS displacedtoward the wide side. Two deep Quarter fieldplayers with a flat defender underneath. Technique of quarter players usually aggressive zone with tight cushion. Confirm Quarter coverage by locating deep half field player to the backside of formation.
18 Reading Defenses S XXW F D C F C N C W M C S R T N E M W D R T E RooflineThe Roofline is the outline of the coverage and will tell the Wide Receiverthe number of defenders deep. MOFO=Cover 2,4 and 6, MOFC=Cover 1,3.Examples of RooflineXXWExample of Cover 3 Roofline (MOFC)Example of Cover 2 Roofline (MOFO)F DCWMCSRTNEQC F CMSWDRTNEQQQQQQQQ
19 Partner Release Drills: Speed Release Single Release Drill .Release DrillsPartner Release Drills:Speed ReleaseSingle Release DrillDouble Move DrillBest ReleaseSemi Best ReleaseThrow By DrillDiamond Release
20 Route Technique Techniques used to Change Direction: “DIG” “OUT” . Digs & Outs – We can use a “Speed Cut” Technique or a “Square Cut”Technique.Speed Cut – Stick your foot in the ground , point your toe and angle step,snap your head around and get FLAT as quick as possible. RememberOn speed cut we want to change directions without losing speed or bodyPosition.“DIG”“OUT”Foot in ground at 9 Yards12 Yards = Final Depth15 Yards = Final DepthBe FlatBe FlatFoot in ground at 9 YardsFoot in ground at 12 YardsRun a straight line to break pointStick Outside foot in the ground(Start foot press 3 yards from final depthPoint your toe and angle step andsnap your head around4. Flatten at the final depth of route.Run a straight line to break pointStick inside foot in the ground(Start foot press 3 yards from final depthPoint your toe and angle step andsnap your head around4. Flatten at the final depth of route.
21 Route Technique Techniques used to Change Direction: “Hook” “Comeback’ .Route TechniqueTechniques used to Change Direction:Hooks & Comebacks – We can use “Run” around the Cone Technique.Run around the cone– Stick your foot in the ground at the proper depth, sink your hips, point your toe and angle step, snap your head around theCone. Stay low and compact and keep your arms moving.“Hook”“Comeback’Foot in ground at 9 Yards14 Yards = Final Depth14 Yards = Final DepthFoot in ground at 12 YardsFoot in ground at 12 YardsRun a straight line to break point (Kiss(Top)2. Stick Outside foot in the ground at designateddepth and sink hips.3. Point your toe and angle step and snap yourhead around.4. Run around the cone staying low and compactand keep arms moving.Drive back to the thrown ballRun a straight line to break point(Kiss Knee at the Top)Stick Inside foot in the ground at designateddepth and sink hips.Point your toe and angle step and snap yourhead around.4. Run around the cone staying low and compactand keep arms moving.Drive back to the thrown ball
22 Route Technique Techniques used to Change Direction: “POST” “CORNER” . Posts & Corners – We use a Foot Press technique.Foot Press – Press your foot in the ground at the designated depth, stepWith your opposite foot at your reference point and accelerate.“POST”“CORNER”Foot in ground at 9 YardsFoot Press at 12 yardsRun a straight line to break pointFoot Press with outside foot atDesignated depth.Step with inside foot pointing thattoe at your reference point andaccelerate.Be ready to adjust to flight ofThrown ball.Foot Press at 12 yardsFoot Press at 12 yardsRun a straight line to break pointFoot Press with outside foot atDesignated depth.Step with inside foot pointing thattoe at your reference point andaccelerate.Be ready to adjust to flight ofThrown ball.Run a straight line to break pointFoot Press with inside foot atDesignated depth.Step with outside foot pointing thattoe at your reference point andaccelerate.Be ready to adjust to flight ofThrown ball.WR
23 Route Technique Techniques used to Change Direction: “SQUARE DIG” .Route TechniqueTechniques used to Change Direction:Square Cut- Run a straight line to final depth of the route. StickYour foot in the ground, sink your hips, gather your feet, foot pressAnd snap head in the desired direction and accelerate staying flat.“SQUARE DIG”Final Depth 12 YardseWR1. Run a straight line to the break point which is at the finaldepth of the route.2. Stick your outside foot in the ground, sink your hips, gatherYour feet, foot press with your outside foot, snap your head insideand accelerate staying flat.
24 Route Enders Drill w/ Agile Lean Drill One on One .Route DrillsRoute Drills:Route on AirRoute Enders Drill w/ AgileLean DrillOne on One
27 Catching the Football Passing Catching Method A. There isn’t one way to catch a football. The object is to catchthe ball, the method used is secondary to the result.B. Some great receivers are arm and body receivers, especiallyon Curls. This method is used to avoid fumbling and being hit.C. it is generally best to catch a football in your hands, much likea baseball. Pluck it – snatch it and reach for it with hands giving contact.
28 Thumb and Finger Placement Thumb & FingerThumb and Finger PlacementD. When running with the flight ofthe ball, the thumbs are out. Other-wise, the thumbs are inside.When catching the football withinthe framework of the body, thethumbs are inside.
29 Low PassesLow PassesE. On low passes, when the ball is inches off the ground, cradle the arms-elbows together and close to the body. Lower the body so that your chest or the numbers on your shirt are at the same level as the flight of the ball. Do not reach for this type of throw.
30 Low PassesLow PassesF. Catching balls below the waist WR needs to extend his arms away from his body. The WR needs to have his palms and thumbs open facing up. The WR should track the ball with his eyes and his hands should be close enough where the football cannot escape. ( think pinkies together.)
31 Adjustment to Ball Balls Thrown Behind WR . On balls thrown behind the WR-use the pivot reception. Turn thebody completely. Do not reachback with one hand.G. Carry the arms high in regularsprinting position and reach atthe last second. Running witharms extended results in loss ofspeed.
32 Hands Hands II. HANDS A. Must have excellent hands, that is the first pre-requisite.B. Hands must be loose andrelaxed – fingers extended.C. Cushion the ball at contact- your hands should give withthe catch.D. The hands should be like flypaper – when the ball hits, itsticks. Avoid the double catch.concentrate and make the catch.
33 Eyes Eyes III. Eyes A. Must have complete concentration on the ball. B. It is essential that the ball is locked and secured intoyour hands. Always focus your catch into your hands untilyou can read the writing or numbers on the ball.C. There is a critical area, one yard in front of the hands witharms extended. The Receiver who drops the ball generally takeshis eyes off the ball and begins to look for running room. Lookthe ball into your hands.D. Great Receivers possess excellent hand and eye coordination.
34 Determination Determination IV. Determination A. A great WR has the attitude that heand his Quarterback are the only twopeople on the field and that he willcatch everything thrown in hisdirection.B. He never gives up but will makethe supreme and courageous effortto make the catch.C. He is always going full speed.
35 Knowledge of System Knowledge of System . V. Knowledge A. Must possess a complete picture of the total passing game.B. Full knowledge of total coverage.C. Full knowledge of the tendencies and abilities of the individuals within the coverage.D. He must have the talent to master the art of move making so he can defeat the individual in man to man coverage and at the same time, be able to make any adjustment necessary in the event he is working against zone defense.
36 Concentration Concentration VI. Concentration A. Concentration on the ball and noton the opponent’s movement.B. Concentration on the coverage sothat any adjustment of the route canbe made.C. Utter disregard of possible contact.
37 Catching the Football Body Control VII. Body Control A. Must be able to shift gears byrunning full speed, then stop and jump.B. Be able to go full speed and changechange direction – breaking at sharpangles rather than running circles.This is a requirement for good movemaking .
38 Running After the Catch Catching the FootballRunning After the CatchIX. Run after the CatchA. To have the talent of a RB is a raretalent.B. Make the first down before youthink of touchdown – have in mindthe necessary distance for the firstdown.Big PlayA. All WR are expected to come upwith a big play – impossible catch,the key block that springs the runnerfor the distance.B. They are expected to produce theextra effort that results in atouchdown.
39 Catching the Football Timing VIII. Timing A. Timing consist of timing your ownroute in relationship with the QB’sdrop.B. Knowledge and feel for the timingand rhythm of the pass will preventQuarterback sacks.C. Keep in mind that all passes havesome degree of rhythm. Passes thrownon rhythm are generally completed.
40 Catching the Football Big Play Big Play A. All Receivers are expected to come up with a big play – impossible catch, the key block that springs the runner for the distance.B. They are expected to produce the extra effort that results in a touchdown.
41 Ball Security Ball Security 1. Hold the ball high and tight. pressure points.3. Fingers4. Palm5. Forearm6. Bicep7. Rib Cage8. Two Hands on the footballwhen expecting contact.9. No switching hands in traffic10. Keep the football in outside arm.
42 Catching the Football Stiff Arm Ball-carriers run towards defenders who are attempting to tackle them. By positioning the ball securely in one arm, the ball-carrier can fully extend his other arm, locking his elbow, and outstretching his palm. Then, the ball-carrier pushes directly outwards with the palm of his hand onto the chest or shoulder of the would-be tackler. The fend is a pushing action, rather than a striking action.A stiff-arm fend may cause the tackler to fall to the ground, taking him out of the play. Even if the tackler keeps his feet, it becomes impossible for him to complete a tackle, as he cannot come close enough to wrap his arms around the ball-carrier.
43 Catching the Football Expecting Contact Two Hands on the football when expecting contact.
44 Catching Drills Confidence Drills: Snake High and Behind Low and BehindWrong Shoulder( Baseball Drill)Collision Drills:BlasterHalf Suicides( 2 Catches and Contact)Collision Drill Vs. Strong Safety or OLBDistraction Drills:DrapeDefender Pass by (one WR and DB line)Pole ( Drill can also be done with stand up dummy)Windows Drill (Colts and Curl drill)Note: Emphasize catches from every angle.Concentration Drills:Jugs Machine DrillsTennis Machine DrillsNumbers and LettersAround the ClockOut Bounds DrillsSideline DrillsGauntletJump Ball Drills
45 Blocking The Complete receiver understands the importance of perimeter blocking and downfield blocking.WR blocking on plays ensure that the offense willhave success in the screen, run and pass game.1. Body Position2. Finish all blocksWHY DO WE BLOCK?We must work hard for our teammates if we expect them to work hard for us when we get the ball.Blocking is not about ability but rather heart and commitment .Blocking is a mind set, be physical at all times, take pride in beating up your opponent.Blocking is 90% mental, 10% technique.
46 BlockingThe first thing our WR’s must understand blocking is just as important as catching touchdowns. In order to achieve successful blocking the WR must understand theFollowing:WR must understand blocking rules (insideand outside runs)Explode off the ball selling vertical routeBreakdown 3 to 2 half yards in front of thedefenderBody Position – upon contactWeight on balls of the feetFeet slightly wider than armpit width---buzzing feet (foot fire)Knees bentButt downArch in backHead up, chin backSlight bend in elbowsShuffle and mirror the defender movementsHelmet below defender chinKeep Elbows tight to rib cageHeels of hands on breastplate – Hands higher then eyesHands open, Thumps upKeep feet moving (Drive the point of attack12
47 Blocking Drills Drills Partner Fit Up: Purpose: Each WR fits up on his partner to get a great feel for finalbody Position.Contact: Violent Punch3 points of contact – hands and eyes form a triangle that creates ahard blocking surface. Snap chin back as you roll your hips andmake contact. Emphasize the hands inside (turn the shield upsidedown)Accelerate feet and widen base on contact. Must really concentrateon not stopping the feet as you punch.4 Point Punch: violent punch , roll hips. Snap chin back2 Point Punch: feet moving, violent punch, roll hips, snap chin back,accelerate feet and widen base.Procedure:2 Groups of WR facing each other, 1 yard apart. The WR’s facingsideline is the WR group and WR’s with their back to the sideline willbe DB’sOn coaches commend the WR will strike the defender.
48 Blocking Drill MenuBlocking Progression:Fit Up DrillHalf Way DrillMirror DrillCut –Off DrillHook -upCut – Block Drill
50 Blocking DrillsHalf way Drill Diagram;Half way Point
51 Blocking Drills WR will Mirror Defenders Movement Mirror Drill Diagram;WR will Mirror Defenders Movement
52 Blocking DrillsCut Off Drill Diagram;Cut off Points
53 Blocking Drills Drills Partner Fit Up: Purpose: Each WR fits up on his partner to get a great feel for finalbody Position.Contact: Violent Punch3 points of contact – hands and eyes form a triangle that creates ahard blocking surface. Snap chin back as you roll your hips andmake contact. Emphasize the hands inside (turn the shield upsidedown)Accelerate feet and widen base on contact. Must really concentrateon not stopping the feet as you punch.Procedure:2 Groups of WR facing each other, 1 yard apart. The WR’s facingsideline is the WR group and WR’s with their back to the sideline willbe DB’sOn coaches commend the WR will strike the defender.
54 WR Warm Up DrillsDrills:Cones (45/90, foot fire and 5 point Mesh)Hitch DrillsLaddersAround the ClockDrag DrillBall Security (Tunnel and Partner) Drills
55 Fordham Offense Overview Why No-HuddleRecruiting ( We couldn’t go toe to toe with conference foes)Multiple Tempo’s ( Use Tempo’s as a weapon)Increase number of offense snaps in Practice and GameLimits defense substitutionsFatigues defensive UnitLimits defense communication and unityForces defense to play a base fronts and coverage’sAllows offense to play at a very fast paceWhy Spread FormationForce defense to defend entire fieldLimits number of defenders in the Box( Run Game)Match Up issue’s (WR vs. LB)Experience coaching No- Huddle Spread Offense:7years of experience spread offenseCoached in 2 Types of Spread offense. (Air Raid and Spread Opt.)Wagner’s 3 Base Tempo’s:BasePurpleZorroNascarFormations: 2x2 and 3X1Personnel: 10,11 and 12
56 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE YEARS 20052005 NEC Champions2006 AwardsMike Melvin “Bill Tierney Award”2007 AwardsPatriot League ChampionsNCAA FCS Playoff BerthNational FCS Top 25Ranked Second in Passing offense in ConferenceAsa Lucas “2ND Team Patriot League”Sylvester Clarke “Bill Tierney Award”2008 Awards2009 AwardsLed the nation in Passing OffenseJason Caldwell “2nd Team All American”Jason Caldwell “1st All Patriot League”Jason Caldwell “ All ECAC All Star”Asa Lucas “ 2009 East Coast Bowl Participate”Brandon Anderson “Patriot League Academic Honor Roll”3 Wide Receiver with over 40 receptions2010 AwardsRanked Second in total offense and rushingJason Caldwell ranked second in receptions and receiving yards in conf.Jason Caldwell “ Sporting News Preseason Top 10 WR”Jason Caldwell “ Sporting News Preseason All American2011 AwardsRB Darrly Whiting NFL Free Agent2012 AWARDS2012 NEC Champions2013 AwardsTyree Watkins “ James Robb Award Winner | <urn:uuid:43a5716e-91ed-4e82-afb7-334b775eda56> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/2482423/ | 2017-11-19T10:43:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805541.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119095916-20171119115916-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.896403 | 6,617 | [
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Google And Razer Are Teaming Up On A Game Console
Fresh out of Google’s I/O Conference comes a cautious step into the world of living-room gaming. Razer is best known for its work on high-end gaming PCs, laptops and tablets, and it just announced a micro-console, along the lines of the Amazon Fire TV under Google’s substantial aegis. The console will run Android TV, giving it a full suite of streaming capabilities, and that’s about all we know right now.
Given the fact that Google is working with Razer on this, we can assume that there’s going to be a decent focus on gaming. Razer has become quite good at cramming high-end graphics capability into a small form factor, so it will be interesting to see the specs on this new machine when they’re announced. The company has promised that the device will be affordable.
“This is a console of the future,” Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO said in a statement. “Built on Google’s incredible Android TV platform, the Razer micro-console incorporates not only hardcore and casual gaming, but music, movies and other entertainment and social applications, all on an affordable system.”
Even as the PS4 and Xbox One duke it out for dominance in what we’ll now call the “high-end game console” space (formerly just the “console” space), smaller competitors from big companies are jumping into the ring. First we had Amazon Fire TV, now this, and we can assume that the next version of Apple TV will include some sort of gaming capability. There’s also the Ouya, but…well…poor Ouya.
The basic idea of the micro-console is this: people like video games, but many just aren’t into spending the amount of money required to stay current with consoles. They also like streaming video, so that makes a gaming component an excellent feature for selling your streaming box. It won’t be able to run the fanciest new games, but these companies are banking on most people not caring. Essentially, these companies are hoping that there is an entirely new device category that sits somewhere between a Roku and a PS4, with customers that like a little of both.
I’m a little skeptical about how well the game mechanics here will hit the right market — obviously the best way to combine streaming video with games is to play Candy Crush while watching Law and Order — but I’d guess that Google is going to go for a slightly heavier gaming focus than Amazon did with the Fire TV. Razer is a well respected brand in the gaming community, and choosing a company with that kind of cred isn’t a coincidence. We’ll see if Razer can segue that reputation into building a microconsole that gamers can get behind. | <urn:uuid:25f60c77-89dd-4411-ae1d-fdb196d82360> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://strictlynospeculation.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/1287/ | 2017-11-19T10:19:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805541.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119095916-20171119115916-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.950218 | 603 | [
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Cost of living in Patna, India compared to Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Cost of living in Patna (India) is 40% cheaper than in Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
For example, to keep the same standard of living that would require 1,600KM in Zenica you would need to make just about 967KM (₨37,769) in Patna.
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Monday, May 02, 2011
#sgelections PAP, you are missing the point
I am sick of the words 'track record', are you?
This term being repeatedly used as a trump card by the incumbent party's members further cements the fact that they are truly missing the point.
So, what is
the point exactly?
The PAP does indeed have a track record - a cleaned up Singapore River, HDB flats, tuberculosis control, making spitting in public illegal, transitioning Singapore's economy from primary to tertiary industries, et cetera. Note that these examples really are, firstly, true - just pick up any history book - secondly, they are facts in history, that is, the past.
If the PAP continues to advocate that its track record in the past is the basis for our future, it is nakedly acknowledging that Singapore as a society has not evolved as a civilisation since the time of our independence from the British. Which is saying that Singapore has not truly developed, a huge political leadership failure! The implication of what they have been touting, is that as long as we have our basic needs met, we are satisfied, and should be, (or else). That may be true for the poorest of the poor: food to eat, shelter and safety, these are the basic needs of any human being, cf. Abraham Maslow. Before you can talk about intrinsic needs of a human being such as self-esteem, we really do need shelter, be it HDB flats or the what-have-you sheltered walkways.
But harping on and on about having provided the basics as their track record only reflects how archaic and uncivilised the minds of the PAPies are. I refer you to Emile Durkheim
, The Division of Labour in Society, 1893
(emphases mine) -
This does not mean that civilization has no use, but that it is not the services that it renders that make it progress. It develops because it cannot fail to develop. Once effectuated, this development is found to be generally useful, or, at least, it is utilized. It responds to needs formed at the same time because they depend upon the same causes. But this is an adjustment after the fact. Yet, we must notice that the good it renders in this direction is not a positive enrichment, a growth in our stock of happiness, but only repairs the losses that it has itself caused. It is because this superactivity of general life fatigues and weakens our nervous system that it needs reparations proportionate to its expenditures, that is to say, more varied and complex satisfactions. In that, we see even better how false it is to make civilization the function of the division of labor; it is only a consequence of it. It can explain neither the existence nor the progress of the division of labor, since it has, of itself, no intrinsic or absolute value, but, on the contrary, has a reason for existing only in so far as the division of labor is itself found necessary.
In layman's terms, "Who cares about upgrading?!" is the very essence of this sociological thought, and this extract alone should be read in accompaniment with the rest of Durkheim's writings to gain a full picture of what I am about to say. We have evolved as a society, which means that now what we need apart from food and shelter, and 'upgrading', are 'complex satisfactions': Political freedom, not a mock sense of democracy. Solidarity - a feeling of kinship and community. I could go on, but let's just stick to these two examples.
You have probably heard enough from opposition party members about how the PAP wayangs
through the GRC system and suchlike. I shan't elaborate more, but I will refer you to an extract from NSP's Ken Sun's book, "Concerns for Political Balance" which quotes Dr Lawrence Britt in his article, "Fascism Anyone". According to Sun's book, Britt listed several critical features of Fascism:
... Disdain for human rights: people are persuaded that it is all right to ignore certain human rights such as imprisonment without trial, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc... Cronyism and corruption: important state institutions are often governed by friends, relatives and associates who appoint or support one another, without much accountability and transparency. Unfair elections: common use of threats, and legislation to control or influence the voters. Other tactics include boundary gerrymandering, smear campaigns, character assassinations, hounding of opposition candidates, media manipulation and lawsuits.
I think you can make your own conclusions as to how fascist, or democratic, Singapore's political regime is from what Sun has written. (I would advise that you research on the history of Fascism on your own too; triangulate your research from multiple sources.)
What I do want to pitch in on is the need for Singaporeans to feel a sense of connectedness to one another. As Durkheim has expounded also in his sociological theory, population growth that is too rapid leads a society towards a disintegration of its persona, essentially degrading the solidarity of its people. As I have written before, nobody is propagating a supremacist regime
of completely disallowing population growth through foreign immigration to our country. But the toll it takes on the social structure of our nation is apparent, valid, and relevant. When the PAP fails to address this issue, it fails to fulfill the human need to feel a sense of belonging. Yes, I am referencing Maslow again, because really, who hasn't read his theory of the hierarchy of needs? Yet the PAP seems stuck on merely wanting to fulfill the lowest rungs of this hierarchy of needs and banging on about its track record of already doing so. It really makes me wonder how well-read my majority representatives of state truly are, if they do not even exhibit basic academic knowledge of psychology, sociology and management schools of thought.
I am no academic, I only got a third class honours grade, and I had to dig up Durkheim to read again because I only scraped through first year sociology. But if I can write this, and the PAP can't even make one layman reference to the more intrinsic needs of Singapore as a civilisation, then really, the party has missed the point so greatly that there may never be any way back. | <urn:uuid:14ec3b56-97a8-4402-90ab-6573953dd35f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://takingavalonapart.blogspot.com/2011/05/sgelections-pap-you-are-missing-point.html | 2017-11-20T06:02:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805914.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120052322-20171120072322-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.965067 | 1,320 | [
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The World: Ura, Bhutan's library
The village of Ura looks like it came out of a fairy tale a cluster of farmhouses in the midst of a valley of green. Most everyone here in this tiny community works the land. The children here represent the new, modern Bhutan: They're learning to read, and in English.So when a non-profit group announced it wanted to help the village start a library, the reaction was lukewarm. The library is only the second free lending library in the entire country. The other one is ten hours away in the capital Thimphu. | <urn:uuid:6c883849-903f-4477-8c18-d992b650dec9> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.noodle.com/learn/details/82090/the-world-ura-bhutans-library | 2017-11-20T06:12:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805914.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120052322-20171120072322-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.953931 | 125 | [
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It's impossible to do this work without a community of encouragement and motivation. Jess is profoundly grateful to the following individuals and communities for their continued generosity, education and wisdom.
- Jim Bennitt and James Tennant, my teachers and co-owners of Tejas Yoga, for their relentless and profound teachings, their generosity of spirit and their boundless depth of wisdom.
- The diverse and knowledgeable teaching faculty of Tejas Yoga Teacher Training program: Elesa Commerce, Karen Klutznick, Rich Logan, Dianna Oles and Katie Rowe Mitchell; and the teachers at Tejas Yoga, who opened their classroom and their teaching practices to me, from whom I continue to learn each day.
- The 2014-15 cohort of teacher trainees, who are a supportive, affectionate family of friends and colleagues. Thank you for sharing and studying and talking and listening and growing with me.
- The Tantricago Crew, who help hold space for a consistent practice and who inspire me with their hard work and dedication, just by being present and encouraging: Monica, Aja, Adam, Pierce, Dianna and Bolananda, the O. G.
- Dana Cruz and Andrew Given, who created a consistent space for me to heal and process both physically and emotionally, and who continue to facilitate healing and support.
- A.J. Barks and Alyssa Schukar, for taking my ideas and turning them into beauty and brilliance.
- My community of colleagues, friends and family, who've let me put them into postures, talk their ears off about Sanskrit minutiae and give hours of unsolicited Ayurveda advice. I'm grateful for your patience and willingness to put up with me.
- Dana Cruz-- massage therapy and bodywork
- Andrew Given-- craniosacral, Structural Integration and sound therapies
- Chicago Women*s Health Center-- gynecological, counseling, acupuncture, primary care and TGAP (Trans Greater Access Project) services on a sliding scale
- A.J. Bark of Hippocampus Cards-- graphic design and feminist custom cards
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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Northern Fire Rescue Station 12 Update
Review project program; discuss budget options
Messrs. Tucker, Foley, Eggleston, Shadman, Stumbaugh, Lilley
LEGAL REVIEW: No
November 1, 2006
The Hollymead development area is currently served by the Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company, the Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Company, and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Volunteer Rescue Squad. Because of the distance from the current stations to the Hollymead development area, the current system cannot meet the five minute fire response time standard nor the four minute EMS response time standard as defined in the County’s Comprehensive Plan. Therefore, the Northern Fire Rescue station project is primarily justified to cover gaps in service. The Hollymead area continues to grow with the addition of the Hollymead Town Center, North Point development, and expansion of the NGIC. The need to provide adequate fire and EMS protection in this growing area further justifies the Northern Fire Rescue Station.
When fully operational, the Northern Fire Rescue station will house an engine, ladder truck, ambulance, and tanker. The apparatus complement will require three double-deep apparatus bays. The station facility plan also includes living space to accommodate volunteer and career staff (bedroom, showers, office space, etc.), training/community room, exercise room, and four dorm rooms that will accommodate four live-in volunteer members.
The University of Virginia Foundation proffered a parcel of land suitable for a fire rescue station during the rezoning process for the UVA Research Park. The parcel, generally located off Airport Road, is within the Park. One complication of utilizing this proffered site rather than purchasing another in the area is that a new road will need to be constructed by the UVA Foundation to provide site access. This road will eventually become part of the County’s planned parallel road system identified in the Comprehensive Plan and through the work currently underway in the Places 29 Master Plan. In addition, during the design process for the fire station itself, staff worked closely with the UVA Design Review Committee (DRC) to ensure that the station met the park’s design requirements. While both of these issues have impacted the cost of the project, they have helped to avoid potential additional land cost and have resulted in an ideal location for response time. Finally, utilizing this site will further the development of the needed parallel road system approved with the original rezoning of the Foundation property and currently included in the County’s Comprehensive Plan.
To date, the Board has appropriated $3,699,500 for the construction of the facility, which was the original total cost estimate in FY 2002/2003 for design, construction and equipping of the facility. This estimate reflected staff’s best estimate nearly four years ago and was based on the construction industry at the time and our experience with the construction of the Monticello Fire Rescue Station. Since that time, construction costs have increased dramatically (see attachment A) and several adjustments have been made based on the site conditions and actual design of the facility. As a result of the final design, on August 31, 2006 five bids for the project were received with prices ranging from $4,600,000 to $4,746,000. Based on these bids, staff now projects the total cost of the facility, including design, construction and building equipment to be $5,945,300. The primary reasons for this increase are listed below.
Goal One: Enhance the Quality of Life for all Citizens.
Goal Three: Develop Policies and Infrastructure to Address the County’s Growing Needs
The project bids have exceeded the budgeted amount due to four main factors:
1. UVA DRC design requirements increased exterior materials costs
Because the station is in UVA’s Research Park, the building’s exterior was designed to meet UVA’s Design Review Committee requirements. Staff estimates that UVA’s DRC requirements impacted the budget by approximately $600,000.
2. The addition of dorm rooms and study areas to attract live-in volunteers increased the building’s square footage by 557 sq. ft.
Volunteer members are needed to help the staff the Northern Station. The addition of four live-in dorm rooms will attract additional volunteer staff and will help to avoid the cost of hiring three career staff at approximately $180,000 annually.
3. Parcel terrain challenges increased site work costs
The proffered parcel required significant site work due to the slope of the lot, location of an adjacent wetland area, storm water management issues, and buffer requirements. These issues were more significant than normal because a new road will need to be constructed by the UVA Foundation to provide site access. This road will eventually become part of the County’s planned parallel road system identified in the Comprehensive Plan and the work currently underway in the Places 29 Master Plan.
4. Market demand increased cost of building materials
Since the revised 2003 estimate, construction materials have increased substantially. The increase in cost is attributed to the 2005 hurricane season compounded with the rapid, unexpected rise in cost for cement, steel, iron, copper, asphalt, petroleum, and the booming housing market. Experts quoted in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal have indicated that construction spending has risen 30% to 40% in the past 18 to 24 months alone. Further information on cost increases is provided in attachment A.
The Staff has identified several options available to the Board of Supervisors when considering this shortage of funding. It should be noted that in today’s construction environment, projects that are delayed experience a cost escalation of 0.75% per month. In real terms, a $4.6 million project will see a cost escalation of $34,500 each month.
o Negotiate with the low bidder to make changes where possible without impacting the overall program for the building. The County’s architect has estimated that there may be a savings between $90,000 and $140,000. This will have a schedule impact of about three months. Because we currently have active bids, we believe this can be done without the monthly escalation in cost, if this process begins immediately.
o Value engineering by an independent professional. Our architect has estimated a savings of approximately $300,000 to $400,000. This process would have a schedule impact of six to eight months and require additional review by the UVA Foundation Design Review Committee and the County ARB. If the footprint is altered it will also require another review by Community Development staff. There would also be a cost of hiring an independent firm for this work. Based on the six to eight month delay, this could result in an estimated net savings of approximately 90,000 to 190,000, excluding the cost hiring a value engineering consultant.
o Reduce the program requirements. This will impact the schedule by nine to twelve months, and require the full blown review process as dictated above. Any savings realized will need to be reduced by approximately $270,000 to $360,000 because of expect cost increases over the time period. This option will also involve a significant delay in service and consideration of changing major components of the project. If this option is selected, staff will need direction on which components of the project to remove.
o Award to the low bidder. To fully fund this project as designed and bid, an additional $2,245,800 would be necessary to cover all project costs and provide a modest contingency of 7.5%, increasing the total project budget to $5,945,300.
The ultimate budget impact will depend on the option selected by the Board, as outlined above.
That staff negotiate with the apparent low bidder in an attempt to save costs where quality and long term maintenance will not suffer, nor redesign the project that would require additional reviews by the UVA Design Review Committee, County ARB, or County Community Development Department.
Attachment A – Memo from George Shadman, Escalating Construction Costs
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AboutDr. Reena Daniel, MD is a Doctor primarily located in McKinney, TX. She has 18 years of experience. Her specialties include Internal Medicine. Dr. Daniel is affiliated with North Central Medical Center - West Park Campus and Medical Center Of Mckinney. She speaks English.
Dr. Reena Daniel has the following 1 specialty
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An internist is a physician who focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the adult population—both acute and chronic.
These doctors are often who adults see as their primary physicians because they treat a broad range of illnesses that do not require surgical or specialist interventions. They also work to help a patient maintain optimal health in order to prevent the onset of disease.
In addition to treating the common cold and flu, internists also treat chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
Dr. Daniel is affiliated (can practice and admit patients) with the following hospital(s).
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130 S Central Expy
McKinney, TX 75070
Medical Center Of Mckinney
4500 Medical Center Dr
McKinney, TX 75069
18 Years Experience
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The family of a Battle toddler who died of leukaemia have this week paid tribute to him.
Little Thomas Lawson sadly passed away on February 5, aged just two.
His mum, Hollie James, said: “Thomas was like any other carefree, healthy, happy two-year-old boy who loved to play, whether it was playing monsters with his brothers and sister, digging up worms in the garden or going on one of his ‘adventures’ with his partner in crime, Oscar.
“In November we started noticing a few bruises on his legs and didn’t think much about it. However, more and more bruises started to appear over him and one evening in the bath a huge bruise was apparent on his knee. He hadn’t had a big fall or accident so we arranged to take him to the doctors. From there we were sent straight to the hospital. At the hospital a parent’s worst nightmare happened. Thomas was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a form of blood cancer on November 30. There are no words to describe how shocked we were.”
Thomas was trasferred to St George’s in London for chemotherapy.
He had to be treated for all kinds of infections due to the leukaemia. Thomas then suffered a major stroke due to an infection, which resulted in loss of movement down his left side and loss of speech.
Hollie added: “Little by little we slowly started to lose Thomas. He went for an emergency brain scan and was moved to intensive care. He kept having seizures, fits and more strokes. A few days later a scan showed a bleed all over the brain. We got told we had to say goodbye to him, The pain was horrible and still is now. I cannot believe all the support we have had already from the community and people we don’t even know. He was such a popular boy.
“His identical twin brother Oscar and older brother Theo and sister Elsie miss him so, so much but we light a candle for him every night and blow it out and say good night to him.
“Words can’t explain how hard, stressful and emotionally difficult these past couple of months have been for us.
“Through the support of our family, friends and people we don’t even know we are getting and going to get through this.”
Friends and family set up a JustGiving page before Thomas died, initially to help pay for specialist equipment for him. The target set was £15,000. Almost £8,500 has so far been raised since the JustGiving page was set up which will now be used to help Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) and Children with Cancer Fund.
Sarah Dyer, a friend of one of Thomas’ family members, has also decided to organise a charity dog walk in Bexhill in aid of the cause. The walk is taking place on Sunday, February 26 from Galley Hill to South Cliff. People who want to take part should meet at 10am, with the event starting at 10.30am. Donation is £2 per dog. Ring Sarah on 07429 056063.
Hollie added: “Any money raised will be donated to all the charities that have helped us in this difficult time. We cannot thank everyone enough and if our story can help raise awareness and educate people on childhood cancer and recognise the good work of charities then something good has come out of this dreadful situation.”
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The tree hugger in me feels a bit guilty...the homeowner in me is FREAKING excited!!!!
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Yay!! That area looks awesome Mel!! Can't wait to see the progression!!
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Moses, in seven:143, will come the way of those who are in really like, he asks for the eyesight but his need is denied, he is designed to suffer by remaining commanded to look at aside from the Beloved although the mountain has the capacity to see God. The mountain crumbles and Moses faints with the sight of God's manifestation on the mountain.
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It spanned a period of some twenty several years and, the moment it absolutely was believed to generally be transmitted to Muhammad by Archangel Gabriel, Believers uncovered it by coronary heart."[citation essential] It can be customarily considered to happen to be penned down throughout Muhammad's life.
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The Quran often asserts in its text that it is divinely ordained. Some verses inside the Quran manage to suggest that even people who don't speak Arabic would fully grasp the Quran if it have been recited to them.
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It hurts the victims, the weak, who do not have a voice, mainly because it causes it to be even challenging for them to get justice. Begin to see the a few studies and do you discover any sensitivity or worry toward the target:
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It’s at all times good to cease riding after one hour and even much less so your body doesn’t get strained. A good tip to search out these kind of blogs is by following the hyperlinks from other feedback back to the poster’s weblog. If you are attempting snowboarding for the very first time, it is a good suggestion to start your first few runs on the bottom of the slope. There are additionally totally different qualities of fiberglass, and the upper the quality the lighter weight it will be. Remember the purpose of the construction of a snowboard is to be as light-weight but in addition as strong as doable.
If one wears custom orthotics in ski boots, you’ll want them in snowboard boots too. The book includes plenty of good off-the-hill info in there that can enable you get started. It seems good although and it feels like the way in which forward, so I’ll be engaged on it. There’s an important balance of novice, intermediate and superior snowboarding at Fernie but due to its huge acreage, there’s truly extra knowledgeable terrain than the whole dimension of many different North American ski resorts.
Never ski or snowboard alone – especially if you’re planning on experimenting with new freestyle tricks and strikes. Similar to the boards, the bindings show here are easy, light-weight however will do the job with out breaking the financial institution. A lengthy snowboard will navigate by way of powder a lot better and can have you flying down the slopes. Remove the bindings and roughen the floor with a very advantageous sandpaper on a versatile sanding block. | <urn:uuid:aec9d001-84a2-427d-b49f-d9c7b04e8ec9> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.bronzevillehistoricalsociety.org/a-beginners-guide-to-ski-and-snowboard-freestyle-tricks.html | 2017-11-18T17:24:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.94361 | 635 | [
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Queen Latifah has an impressive professional career, but very few people know about the challenges she has faced as a caregiver for her mother Rita Owens. In 2004, Owens was diagnosed with chronic heart failure, and Queen Latifah immediately moved her to Los Angeles to provide care for her. While the transition was initially a challenge, their relationship is now stronger than ever.
Living with Heart Failure and Scleroderma
According to the CDC, over 5.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with heart failure. While this cardiovascular disease can be fatal, seniors can manage it by making healthier lifestyle choices. Rita Owens manages her heart failure with prescriptions and an implanted defibrillator while recovering from a rare autoimmune disease known as scleroderma. Treating these conditions can be difficult, but Queen Latifah and her mother have taken the challenges in stride.
Caring for a senior loved one can be challenging for families who don’t have expertise or professional training in home care, but this challenge doesn’t have to be faced alone. Family caregivers can turn to Cleveland West Home Care Assistance for the help they need. We provide high-quality live-in and respite care as well as comprehensive Alzheimer’s, dementia, stroke, and Parkinson’s care.
The Importance of Daily Interactions
In a recent interview, both Queen Latifah and her mother opened up about the positive changes in their lives. Like many other family caregivers, Latifah initially faced difficulty managing her caregiving duties. Even though Owens has moved back to her home in New Jersey, Latifah still visits and calls her as often as possible. Many of her friends call Latifah “the General” because she oversees a team of caregivers, family members, and medical specialists.
Caring for a senior loved one can be rewarding, but it can also be overwhelming for family caregivers who have other responsibilities they need to focus on. For these families, the perfect solution is respite care. Cleveland West families rely on our caregivers whenever they need time to rest, work, run errands, and even go on vacation.
The Life of a Caregiver
Being a caregiver has changed Queen Latifah’s life for the better. During an interview, she said caring for her mother has made her conscious about her own health and wellbeing. Since her mother has heart failure, Queen Latifah is also at risk of developing this condition if she doesn’t maintain a healthy lifestyle. Both Latifah and her mother have switched to a healthy diet filled with fresh vegetables and proteins.
Queen Latifah and her mother are now involved with the American Heart Association’s Red Steps Challenge, which brings awareness about the early signs of heart failure so people can start making healthier lifestyle choices. In its earliest stages, heart failure often produces a variety of symptoms such as persistent coughs, irregular heartbeats, swelling of the extremities, and rapid weight gain.
Heart failure can also increase the risk of developing dementia in aging adults. Many families have no experience in specialized home care for seniors, which can make life a bit more challenging when an elderly loved one is diagnosed with dementia. The Cleveland West, OH, dementia care experts at Home Care Assistance are here to help. We designed a program called the Cognitive Therapeutics Method, which uses mentally engaging activities to slow the progression of dementia, and all of our live-in and respite caregivers are expertly trained in dementia care. Call (440) 455-4031 to learn about our comprehensive senior care services. | <urn:uuid:9eedfa87-c3c1-4a00-a75d-dfda89101c36> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.homecareassistanceclevelandwest.com/queen-latifah-caregiver-for-mother/ | 2017-11-18T17:40:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.958058 | 734 | [
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WhatsApp Download Latest Android Version With Full Emojis
All new emojis have been added to Apple’s texting platform with the new update to iOS 9.1 and is just a matter of time until we will Android will get a new set of emojis. WhatsApp is close behind and already updated the app for iOS and Web. The updated Android app is ready and is already starting to roll out with the new set of emojis.
At the moment the update version 2.12.372 was released on the company’s website for testing prior to a global release on Play Store, but it is said to be followed by 2.12.373 to fix minor bugs. The updated version brings a lot of new emojis to the app and reorganizes them in a similar way to that of the iOS app or WhatsApp Web.
Together with new facial expressions, dollar signs, extreme sadness, nerds reversed smile and many more, was a new sign of the horns emoji. This one joins the previously added raised middle finger and Spook sign, all categories have received new gestures, for example the nature tab receives a turkey, an unicorn, a spider and a shamrock, while the food tab gets taco, burrito, hot dog, popcorn and a champagne bottle cap. Sports and activities gets their own tab which now includes, among others, new racing car models, new medals, ice skating, weightlifting, volleyball and a lot more.
Flags have been separated from symbols now, hearts have also been moved to the symbols tab, and are no longer included in the people tab. A new tab with travel destinations and places of worship was created and objects tab has new additions like plenty of crossed swords, shopping bags, joystick, a microphone, a funeral urn and a coffin.
There is a list of iOS 9.1’s emoji available that has more details about the new ones and we are pretty sure that those emojis will be the ones implemented on the Android version of WhatsApp, but, until you update to 2.12.372, you will not be able to receive the new emojis, they will only be shown as a blank box. | <urn:uuid:5e07ff40-72e8-4d41-b809-e72bd9be6ec0> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://tech.blorge.com/2015/12/03/whatsapp-download-latest-android-version-with-full-emojis/21125 | 2017-11-18T17:40:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.941712 | 448 | [
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ANCA-associated vasculitis in which there is no complement consumption and no deposition of immune complexes. Affects predominantly small vessels.
Our Churg-Strauss syndrome Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Churg-Strauss syndrome Churg-Strauss syndrome: A disease characterized by inflammation of small arteries and veins in persons with a history of asthma or allergy. Aside from the inflammation of blood vessels (angiitis or vasculitis), there are ab...Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8163
<syndrome> Widespread necrotizing angiitis with granulomas. Pulmonary involvement is frequent. Asthma or other respiratory infection may precede evidence of vasculitis. Eosinophilia and lung involvement differentiate this disease from polyarteritis nodosa. ... (12 Dec 1998) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
(cherg strous) a form of systemic necrotizing vasculitis in which there is prominent lung involvement with severe asthma, eosinophilia, and granulomatous reactions. If present, skin lesions consist of tender subcutaneous nodules and bruiselike spots. Called also allergic granulomatous angiitis.Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
Type: Term Pronunciation: chŭrg strows Definitions: 1. asthma, fever, eosinophilia, and varied symptoms and signs of vasculitis, primarily affecting small arteries, with vascular and extravascular granulomas. Synonyms: allergic granulomatosis, allergic granulomatous angiitisFound on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=87831
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The support of alumni and friends is important to Wolfson in fulfilling our plans for the development of the College.
See below for our current priorities, as the College continues to grow so do our opportunities and need for support.
Supporting students through scholarships and increasing the number of fully-funded research fellowships is the core ambition of Wolfson College's fundraising activity. Last year we were successful in reaching our goal of 50 DPhil Scholarships for the 50th anniversary. We are now looking to find the next 50.
The graduate scholarship matching fund scheme, where permanent endowment funds are created on a 60:40 donor matching basis, has made a significant difference to the College. It was used to augment the extremely generous legacy from Emeritius Fellow Frances Marriott. A number of specific scholarships have been funded in the same way in the subjects of Economic History, Jewish Christian studies in Late Antiquity, Korean Literature, Semitic Philogy, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and Classical Art.
The Annual Fund
Since the College foundations over 1,100 Alumni and friends of the College have made donations. More than half of these donations have been made since 2008. We want to improve our alumni giving participation rates in order to continue to grow the pool of funding and, in turn, expand scholarship giving and other student support. In the current environment, students need all the help they can get. Please give today and make an online contribution here.
The academic clusters have created a distinctive and exciting academic profile for the College. There are many ways to support the Wolfson clusters such as funding a scholarship associated with a specific cluster, research support, prizes and travel grants to members of the College.
There are currently two modest building projects in the planning stage to further enhance College facilities. The old lodge, the buttery and some small rooms in between are being reconfigured for more up-to-date conference and social space in the College. The specifications are projected to be in of the same standard as the new Academic Wing and building works are being planned for 2019. A cost of at least £500,000 is projected for which a portion will need to come from fundraising.
A new fitness facility to replace the existing weight room and gym and to add studio space for dance, yoga and other group activities is projected for a site next to the Gandy buildings and the squash courts. Planning permission was granted some time ago for such a facility, but the concept needs to be rethought in the light of the College's current needs. This is likely to be £1 million project for which a donor is being sought.
The Boat Club now has a sponsor in Investec and their sponsorship has recently been expanded and extended through 2019. Student sports remain very important and there are continuing efforts to bring alumni back to College to join in student/alumni events. Support for sports gear and events is always welcomed.
Please remember that legacy giving has been the great strength in building Wolfson College's - and much of Oxford University's - collective wealth. It is part of what has funded the excellence at this great University. If you are thinking about giving a legacy to Wolfson College, please contact the Development Office.
6 November 2017Aris Lecture 2017
This year's lecture will be delivered by Emeritus Professor, University of Oslo, Per Kvaerne and Tenzin Kesang of Dharamsala.30 October 2017The Ronald Syme Lecture: Migration and the Metropolis: How ancient Rome stayed great
Professor Greg Woolf delivers the Ronald Syme Lecture this year.23 October 2017Imagining the Divine: Exhibition
Wolfson scholars collaborate on a unique exhibition on the art of major world religions at the Ashmolean Museum.
Networking21 - 21Nov NovSocial Science TableTuesday 21 November -12:45pm to 1:45pm
The Wolfson Social Science Tables are for any Wolfsonians and guests who want to get together every now and again to talk social science. Whether you’re a student or a fellow, whether you've come back from 2 years in the field or have spent the last 2 years struggling with Stata (or a manuscript!), whether you’re an eminent geographer or just someone who wants to figure out what social science means, we’d love to see you at the tables.Lectures and Seminars21 - 21Nov NovLives and LettersTuesday 21 November -5:30pm to 7:00pm
This discussion centres on an understanding and appreciation of letters as repositories of complex meaning, creating unique possibilities that weave together the textual, visual, material, biographical, and cultural. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Matt Bevis, University of Oxford, and Hugh Haughton, University of York, will talk about their work on literary letters in relation to life-writing and biographical practice.Lectures and Seminars23 - 23Nov NovTravelling and Filming in GandharaThursday 23 November -5:00pm to 6:30pm
In this public lecture of the Classical Art Research Centre's Gandhara Connections project, the historian and broadcaster Michael Wood will be showing film footage and talking about his travels in the area of ancient Gandhara (roughly northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in the course of more than thirty years of documentary film making. | <urn:uuid:f0005167-b6f7-4470-a5f8-c2518fd61a24> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/alumni-friends/campaigns | 2017-11-21T02:43:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806310.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121021058-20171121041058-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.948265 | 1,088 | [
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11/21/2017 The top 5 most valuable united states coins
Throughout the ages the United States has produced some of the world’s most valuable coins. Here are the country’s Top 5 picks based on their current value, which is based on the collector’s ability to find them in uncirculated/mint condition.
11/21/2017 A penny for your thoughts! Moment disgruntled customer gets his own back on Domino's pizza by paying for his entire £25 meal using more than 1,200 2p coins
This is the hilarious moment a disgruntled customer paid for his £25 meal at Domino's pizza with 1,200 2p coins to get revenge on a delivery driver he had a row with. Billy Martin, 23, dumped exactly 1,287 coppers on the counter to pay for his £25.74 ... | <urn:uuid:b4c7dbd8-d16c-4dfa-9bbb-b1d732c5a201> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.mycoindealer.com/store/product.php?productid=1767&cat=0&page= | 2017-11-21T21:07:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806426.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121204652-20171121224652-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.97106 | 175 | [
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So, your team has been working REALLY hard to complete your solution to your Team Challenge and practicing Instant Challenge in-between. Your local tournament is coming up and you are getting super excited to not only present your solution but to also see all of the other teams that have chosen your Challenge. What other solutions will you see? Who will you meet? The possibilities are endless! To help you get the most out of tournament day, here are some extra fun things that you and your team can do.
- Find a Buddy Team: At your tournament, there will be a lot of teams from your area. Choose a Challenge you would like to see, as well as a team you would like to meet. Introduce yourselves and ask the team members about their solution, their creative process or how much fun they have doing DI. You never know when you might find a lifelong friend.
- Watch a Team in Another Challenge: Over the last few months and weeks, you have been solving just one Challenge. However, there are up to five other competitive Challenges that teams are solving and presenting their solutions to at the tournament. Try and see a Team Challenge solution for every Challenge.
- Grab a Meal and Celebrate: After your team has presented its Team Challenge and Instant Challenge solutions, it’s time to celebrate before the Closing Celebration and awards. Go out for a meal and while you are there, talk about your favorite parts of the day and what you saw or learned. This is a great way to reflect on the journey your team took to get to the tournament.
- Practice Instant Challenge: Every team at the tournament will be presented with a never-before-seen Instant Challenge. If you have time, get some last-minute practice in. You could find a table in the cafeteria or a quiet, unused classroom if there is one available.
- Thank a Volunteer: There are sometimes hundreds of volunteers that are necessary to put on a Destination Imagination tournament experience. Local volunteers spend countless hours preparing to give you and your team the best possible time while you are there. Be sure to thank at least one volunteer at your tournament.
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Bert Jansch - Blackbirds of Brittany 7"
To follow on from the earlier release of Avocet, Earth commissioned me create the artwork for the Record Store Day release of Bert Janch's Black Birds of Brittany.
The track talks about the effects on bird species after the 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill off the coast of Brittany. Many bird species were effected by the spill including the Gannet which has a large population on the Seven Island Nature Reserve, Brittany.
The artwork was created to continue the conversation of the track onto the front cover and highlight the devastation but also the hope of specie recovery after the disaster.
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MAESTRO PHOTO CONTEST 2010
The entry criteria for the EISA Maestro Photo Contest 2010 is a picture story based on the theme of TRANSPORT comprising 6-10 pictures.
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1. The front desk attendant at the gym asked me if I was on the track team. Clearly, he's never seen me run, throw, or jump. And my polo vaulting isn't so great either. (I've been trying to think of a track and field activity I might not be a disaster at, and I think I might be ok as a hurdle. That R is missing on purpose.)
2. I picked Kevin out of a crowd. Well, not a crowd, but a small pack. (If you're as bad at identifying your husband in a group as I am, you have to start small.) He's in Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Marathon, and I actually recognized him on the live finish cam. Go Kevin! I'm proud of you! | <urn:uuid:1f976dbd-665a-4849-8583-e2a0e1dc5c4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://archiknist.blogspot.com/2010/12/2-things-that-may-never-happen-again.html | 2017-11-25T00:07:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809160.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124234011-20171125014011-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.982949 | 160 | [
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The superior 4-star Ramada Sofia Hotel offers an ideal spot in a market area close to restaurants, bars and entertainment venues. The hotel occupies 16 floors and was renovated in 2002.
Ramada Sofia Hotel is located 1400 meters from Vitosha Mountain and 1300 meters from Slaveikov Square, with the rest of Sofia easily accessible with the central railway station. The city center lies within 2 km from the venue.
Such shopping places as shops, a pharmacy and a supermarket are a few steps from the property.
The hotel offers convenient location, a 250-meter stroll will take guests to Sofia Central Railway train station. Ramada Sofia Hotel is 15 minutes’ drive away from Sofia airport.
There are 601 non-smoking rooms appointed with free Wi-Fi, central heating, pay TV, a personal safe and a trouser press. These rooms have marble floor and elegant furniture.
Eat & Drink
Guests can try hot drinks in the café bar. Serving Eastern European and Italian specialties, Hadjidraganovite kashti is about 250 meters away.
The conveniences such as free self parking, a beauty salon and a lift are offered on site.
There are a spa centre, a treatment room and a sauna as well as steam baths, Turkish bath and massage available for guests' relaxation. Fitness classes, a gym and a jogging track are among the on-site facilities.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
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Last night, the Financial Women’s Association held its Annual Dinner and Women of the Year Awards at the Grand Hyatt New York. Each year the FWA honors an outstanding woman in the private and public sectors. This year’s private sector honoree was Karen Peetz, CEO, Financial Markets and Treasury Services, BNY Mellon. The public sector honoree was Gail J. McGovern, President and CEO, The American Red Cross.
Trish Regan, anchor and reporter for CNBC emceed the event. Having hosted for the past two years, she always saw the importance of honoring women. But now, recently having given birth to twin girls, she said the awards took on further significance, causing her to reflect on “the challenges they’ll face entering the workforce.”
Additionally, many of the speakers of the evening reflected on the importance of nurturing and encouraging the next generation of financial women. Mentorship was the prevailing them of the evening, as the FWA’s new Volunteer of the Year award honored the Co-Chairs of its Mentoring Program. The awards honored two of the organization’s outstanding young mentees as well.
Women of the Year
“I’m thrilled to be honored by the FWA,” said Karen Peetz, CEO, Financial Markets and Treasury Services, BNY Mellon. Peetz explained that she had sat on the dais for past awards, “so I knew this was a big deal!” She continued, “The award has been given to so many people I respect – I’m fired up that I was the private sector honoree.”
Peetz was enthusiastic about the importance of mentors in her life. She said, “I’m incredibly moved about this honor and grateful for those responsible for getting me to this point. I’m here tonight because people took an interest in me.” She continued, “Mentors make the difference in the outcome of your life and your career.”
Peetz recalled a mentor she met at her previous role at Chase. She explained, “He saw the need to move me from sales to P&L. He sent me to London so I got that international experience.” And when Peetz was ready to move on from Chase, “He encouraged me to leave when it was time, to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.”
She explained that mentorship can make the difference for women in the financial industry. “The statistics about women breaking through to the top echelons of business can be disheartening. For that to change… we need to take an active interest in each other’s careers.” She continued, “I encourage every woman to be a mentor.”
Peetz said the best advice she ever got was from that mentor. “Have confidence,” she said. “People want to follow people who have confidence.” As for career advice, she said, “It’s very important that you – early on – that you don’t let any time go by with out setting formal goals.”
Peetz recalled a family tradition. Every New Year she and her family members would share a personal goal and a professional goal for the coming year. “I was always better at the professional goal,” she joked. She said the tradition allowed for “heavy self reflection.” She encouraged people to think hard about the skills they need to develop or improve.
The FWA’s public sector honoree, Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross was unable to attend the event. But accepting the award by video, she said, “I’m glad we’ve reached the point that instead of being the only woman in the room, there are many women in the room. And tonight, women own the room.”
She described the Red Cross’ work in Haiti, and explained that when she has asked Hatians how they were managing following this year’s earthquake, many would respond in Creole, “I’m striving.” She continued, “When people ask me how I’m doing, I answer ‘I’m striving.’”
Ann Kaplan, Chair of Circle Financial Group and adjunct professor of Finance at the Columbia University School of Business accepted the award on her behalf. She said, “There’s still so much work to be done to promote women in every endeavor.”
The Importance of Mentoring
In addition to the private and public sector awards, the FWA also gave a Volunteer of the Year award. FWA President Stephanie Hauge explained that volunteerism was at the intersection of private and public sectors. The award was given this year to the Co-Chairs of the FWA’s Mentoring Program: Francoise Jeanpierre, Columbia University Medical Center and Wendy Liebowitz, Liebowitz Marketing Services Inc.
Jeanpierre said, “Mentoring is the most powerful influence you can have in the professional future of anyone.” She explained that, “the mentoring program is as big as everyone who gets involved.”
Two FWA mentees were honored with cash scholarships: Ashlee Cerda, a Senior at Murry Bergtraum High School and Olga Barskaya, a Senior at Baruch College (CUNY). Cerda said, “The FWA has transformed me to the woman I am today.” Barskaya said, “I’m proud to say that the FWA has and will continue to be part of my journey.”
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Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced yesterday that Brigadier-General Francis Agwi will continue as commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force on an interim basis.
General Agwi’s term as Commander expired at midnight last night.
The process to appoint a new commander is currently underway.
“The appointment of Agwi on an acting basis is therefore necessary to fill the vacuum, and to maintain command and control in the force while the appointment process is completed.
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Got Reiki Into A Hospital
This is the story of how we balanced intuition, strategy, and learned to patiently follow the thread of openness of others who supported our intention to build the Reiki Clinic in the Department of Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.
Planting the Seed
It's hard to say exactly when and where the seed for our work was planted. We both look back at a particular dramatic event when Janet was being treated in the emergency room for a heart condition, which had taken her to the hospital many times before. Her condition, although not life-threatening, was very disruptive to her life. Janet had learned Reiki in 1992 but had not been using it regularly. However, after reading the book Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch to Home, Hospital, and Hospice by Libby Barnett and Maggy Chambers, she remembered she had Reiki in her hands, and on this occasion, she self-treated prior to going to the emergency room. The results were dramatic. Prior to receiving the usual medical treatment, her symptoms were much less severe, and there were none of the usual side effects from the medication she received. During this experience, she had a surprising overall sense of well being and peacefulness -- not feelings usually associated with the Trauma Unit in an emergency room. While she was in the observation area, she imagined how Reiki could be useful for other patients with trauma. As one frightened elderly man was wheeled by, she knew that Reiki would be calming for him in this obviously stressful environment. It was a challenge not to jump off the gurney and put her hands on him.
Meanwhile, Ava had been steadily practicing Reiki since 1988, and was a Second Degree practitioner. She had often treated people with cancer, and had the good fortune to work with another Reiki Master in Japan giving workshops in healing and personal growth. When Janet suggested the notion of taking master training together, Ava had enough trust in the energy to know that the time was right.
We trained as Reiki Masters with Libby Barnett and Maggie Chambers from 1997 through mid-1999. We chose to train with Maggie and Libby because of their high integrity, relational ability, and their work of mainstreaming Reiki was in alignment with our intention. Our experience with Libby and Maggy has taught us the essential benefit of finding teachers who have similar values and goals. If you are interested in working in a hospital setting, we recommend finding like-minded Reiki teachers or practitioners to work with and support you to that end.
The first thing we did was to write a letter introducing ourselves to Dr. Cornelius "Skip" Granai, Head of the Department of Oncology. The Department had a Complementary Care Program underway, but no Reiki had been offered. We were invited to a series of four interviews and demonstrations with different levels of staff. This process took nine long months, which often left us thinking that we might be wasting our time. At the first demonstration/interview we submitted a formally written proposal for bringing Reiki into the hospital one morning a week, letters of recommendation, and client evaluations of our work. We made copies available for all who attended. Simultaneously, we applied to and were accepted by, the Rhode Island State Nurse's Association to offer Reiki training for nursing CEUs. This further enhanced our credibility.
After our first interview fortified our outer intention, we used a visual affirmation to strengthen our inner intention to become active members of the Complementary Care Team. We each made a collage that included photographs of our faces, which we glued into a photograph of the hospital staff. We also included images of material ease and abundance, directing our energy toward fair compensation for our services. At present everyone on the Complementary Care Team works on a volunteer basis; however, a fund-raiser has been planned for the purpose of generating financial support for our work.
During all interviews we worked to find common ground and build a language that could bridge our healing concepts with medical terminology. We spoke of Reiki's value as a technique for stress reduction, defining it as "energy nutrition" and an effective touch therapy. We found that the concept of Mind/Body/Spirit connection was acceptable, but avoided references to channeling, auras, energy fields, guides, and spirituality. We endeavored to "normalize" Reiki, to meet pragmatic scientific people on their own terms as much as possible.
We cultivated a "professional" image. We dressed conservatively. We demonstrated repeatedly, and the power of Reiki came through. It is important to say here that neither of us has any medical credential or experience. We simply presented ourselves as Reiki professionals. We recently learned that over a dozen other Reiki practitioners had previously been interviewed. The Director of the Complementary Care Program confided in us that we were the first "normal" Reiki practitioners she had interviewed. We're glad she saw us that way!
In the Hospital Setting
Once past the interview process, it became clear that we had to prove to the medical staff that Reiki would benefit the patients. Whenever possible, we treated staff, allowing them to experience the benefits firsthand. It was clear we were over the first hump when the nurses started to ask for our help with their patients.
Initially, we gave individual mini-sessions to patients during their chemotherapy treatments. Most patients had never heard of Reiki, so it was our job to explain it to them. We kept it simple. We introduced ourselves, explained briefly that Reiki might help them with pain, fatigue, anxiety, post-operative recovery, and side effects of chemotherapy. We distributed handouts to look at, and left the room, so no one would feel put-on-the-spot. We wanted to be sensitive to the fact that cancer patients often feel overly poked, prodded, and pressured, and we did not want Reiki to fall into this category. After a while, we would return to answer questions and see who was interested. Slowly the work gained acceptance and momentum, and people scheduled one-hour appointments in the massage therapy room. A third treatment format emerged when we were invited to treat patients on the hospital's surgical floor.
Hospitals are opening to Complementary Care services in order to maintain a competitive edge in marketing to patients as consumers. To that end, Women and Infants is currently producing a video including our work with Reiki to introduce their patients to their Complementary Care services. We're excited about the way Reiki is catching on, and are exploring ways to create hospital internships for our master level students.
"Chemotherapy treats the body, and Reiki nurtures the Soul."
The most exciting part of our work has been seeing the results of Reiki. Patients have experienced reduction in chemotherapy side effects, neuropathy, back pain, anxiety, fatigue, and faster recovery from anesthesia. They also report a general sense of comfort, well being, and relaxation. Several nurses and a few patients have learned Reiki as a result of being treated at the Clinic. Even the most resistant nurse who barely spoke to us for months finally asked us to put our hands on her. As of this article, at least one doctor is interested in scheduling a treatment for himself.
What Worked For Us: Recommendations
Janet Wing and Ava Wolf are Reiki Masters and owners of The Reiki Cooperative in Providence, RI. They provide treatment, training, and consultation to individuals, families, groups, and health care providers. You can call them at 401-727-3034 or e-mail at [email protected].
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The Parent Center’s goal is to create an atmosphere in which school and parents work together for the overall success of the student. The Center is a place for you to come learn, work, converse or just visit. We hold free monthly parent information sessions or workshops, and provide a space for all volunteers to meet and prepare for their activities.
To reserve the room for an upcoming meeting or activity, please email Parent Center Director Jody Chow at [email protected] or telephone her through the school office at (818) 788-1590.
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Our canine companions have a rich history, especially as service dogs, dating back to before the beginning history itself. In one recorded case, back in 300 BC, the Greek King of Epirus, Pyrrhus used dogs to determine the killer of its master. In the 14th century, King Louis XI was said to be the first person who used them as guard dogs and warn his majesty of “stranger danger.”
While today we may envision a service dog in the form of a stereotypical German Shepherd being used primarily by the police or military, but there’s a growing number of them assisting the disabled. In either event, they’ve still come a long way from being guardians during the middle ages. Today’s service dog can be found performing a multitude of tasks all around the world, but abuse of this system is on the rise.
There’s More Than Fido Flying
There’s a growing problem with this important part of the working animal population, people passing off pets as service animals, and some pretty unusual ones at that. In a recent article featured on Today, former flight attendant Hollis Gillespie laments, “You get on an aircraft and the cabin looks like a barnyard.”
Gillespie also stated she’s seen snakes, birds and pigs all flying aboard jumbo jets at no charge. She continues to offer, “Often it’s about the money, because one way travel with a pet on some airlines can be up to $600, depending on the size of the animal.”
Apparently, all you need for an animal to fly for free is an official looking service vest for your critter and a letter from a qualified, mental health professional. But there’s plenty of online venues where you can obtain both of these by simply filling out a questionnaire and paying a fee.
Today’s investigative correspondent, Jeff Rossen, did just that and was emailed an official looking document from a real, existing mental health professional without even meeting with him. Armed with his letter, Rossen took two flights with his dog Rory, who sat in his lap the entire time, no crate required. What’s even worse, no one bothered or offered to check his paperwork or questioned the dog’s authenticity as an official service animal.
No Harm, No Fowl
Many people might be thinking, so what’s the big deal, no one’s really getting hurt and people have just found a creative way of beating the system and saving a buck. But according to Laurel Van Horn, a disability expert from The Open Doors Organization, it’s a huge concern.
“When you try to pass off your animal as a service animal or an emotional support animal and it’s not, what you’re really doing is you’re passing yourself off as a person with a disability, and it can have real consequences for those who actually need these animals”, stated Van Horn.
According to statistics from the University of Arizona, only 0.9% of truly disabled people are paired with a service animal, which totals around 387,000 of these animals in the US. Compare that to over 43 million disabled Americans and then it becomes extremely unfair when you consider the “snakes on a plane” concept.
Shopping With Schnauzers
Increasingly more and more shoppers are bringing their small dogs into grocery stores and other retail outlets and no one seems to care. For example, while this topic was on my mind, just the other day I was getting in line at a home improvement store, when a dog on a leash passed in front of my cart.
The clerk snapped at me and told me to be mindful of the dog so that I wouldn’t strike it with my cart. I assumed from her remark that animals were allowed in the store since it wasn’t wearing a service vest. Upon exiting the building, I saw a clearly marked sign at the entrance that stated “No Dogs Allowed,” followed by the typical verbiage about service dogs being exempt from this rule.
Canines In Carts
The next day, I decided to do some investigative work of my own and went to a large, nation-wide retail grocery store and questioned one of the head clerks about non-credentialed dogs entering the store. “Judy” (who wished to remain anonymous) told me that customers bring their pets into the store “all the time” and that it’s a “daily occurrence,” especially smaller dogs they put into the grocery cart where children are often seated.
I asked if she ever requested a customer leave the store with their undocumented, unvested pet since animals aren’t allowed inside and she replied, “Corporate doesn’t want us to alienate the customers over this violation,” even though she completely disagrees with their ruling.
A Clear Health Code Violation
Judy went on to complain, “Imagine putting your groceries or even your kid onto a surface that could be contaminated with a dog’s saliva, hair, dander, urine or fecal matter through casual contact, it’s disgusting how many potential diseases they could be spreading.”
Judy continued, “Although service animals are welcome in the store, at least they’re confined on a leash and are walking on concrete floors, which are swept and mopped regularly, unlike the shopping carts, which are only cleaned monthly.”
These are just two of the many ways humans are abusing the service animal system and it’s becoming more problematic. Whether it’s frequent flyers trying to save a buck or pampered pooches in our retail outlets, it’s still an abuse of what service animals are supposed to represent and belittles the practice altogether.
What are your thoughts on the subject? Is this really no big deal or a growing problem?
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The Senior Adult Ministry at Carrollwood Baptist is for men and women 55 years of age and up. Our objective is to lead seniors into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by providing a ministry in three primary areas:
Regular Scheduled Activities
Life Ventures: Sunday morning Bible study at 9:15am
JOY Outings: These are monthy outings usually held on the 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month. Click here to check out our church calendar for upcoming dates for our outings.
Senior Adult Day: Sunday, May 6, 2018
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Related to undervalued: Undervalued Currency
A stock price perceived to be too low or cheap, as indicated by a particular valuation model. For instance, some might consider a particular company's stock price cheap if the company's price-earnings ratio is much lower than the industry average. To refer to undervaluation or overvaluation implicitly assumes some model of valuation. It is always possible that the security is valued correctly and that model applied is wrong.
The state in which a security's price is lower than it ought to be. A stock may be undervalued, for example, when its earnings and financial outlook are both strong, but its share price is still comparatively low. A number of factors may cause undervaluation, including lack of investor knowledge about the company, which, in turn, leads to low demand for its securities. Value investors seek out undervalued companies because they tend to provide solid returns for lower prices.
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Marsala is an Italian fortified wine that because of plunging quality levels and increasingly fewer markets has had great difficulty selling itself as a product worthy of purchase.
Interestingly, although wine has been part of the viticultural history of Sicily’s Trapani province since Roman times, English trader John Woodhouse is the man credited with ‘creating’ Marsala. He realized the similarity of the local wines to Maderia, Port and Sherry and in 1773 added grape spirit to the barrels he shipped to England. Ta da – a fortified wine industry eventually dominated by commercial houses was born.
Modern Marsala comes in either Oro, Ambre or Rubino and varying sweetness levels – secco (max 40 g/L residual sugar), semisecco (40-100 g/L) and a sweet dolce (over 100 g/L). There are five additional age categories as well – one year for Fine, 2 for Superiore, 4 for Superiore Riserva, 5 for Vergine and 10 for the Stravecchio version of Vergine.
This bottle of Fine Ambre Marsala is based on Cararratto grapes and was purchased just outside an extraordinarily restored Roman Emperor’s vacation villa in Sicily last year.
It is clear and bright, medium brown with legs. The colour indicates that Mosto Cotto was used to create the impression of a cask-aged wine by deepening the colour with the concentrate.
On the nose, it’s clean with medium plus intense aromas of cola, sarsaparilla, burnt brown sugar, caramel, a bit of coffee and clover honey.
The palate is medium sweet with medium plus acidity, medium body, medium fortification and medium plus flavour characteristics of strong cola, root beer, brown sugar, toffee and cookie dough (imagine butter and vanilla combined and ready to bake cookies). The finish is medium and offered the impression of orange zest.
The surprisingly moderately high acidity and medium (not viscous) body was refreshing and well balanced with the flavours and concentration.
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The next-generation 911 is nearly upon us, but before we wave goodbye to the 997, Porsche has announced one last special edition: the GT3 RS 4.0.
Packing the biggest engine Porsche has ever shoehorned into its road-legal 911, the GT3 RS 4.0 is powered by a 4.0 litre flat-six producing 368kW at 8250rpm, and 460Nm of torque at 5750rpm.
That's 33kW more than the stock GT3 RS, and 44 more than the 'regular' 911 GT3. Among its mechanical enhancements are the GT3 RSR race car's crankshaft, along with titanium connecting rods for the forged pistons.
Weighing in at 1360kg, there's also a carbon fibre bonnet and front quarter panels, lightweight racing seats, plastic rear windows and even "weight optimised" carpets.
Other features include lateral air deflection vanes in the front bumper - a first for a production Porsche. Combined with the rear wing, these lead to addition downforce of 190kg at top speed.
The 0-100km/h sprint is banished in 3.9 seconds, and 200km/h comes up in "less than" 12 seconds.
Porsche says the GT3 RS 4.0 will lap the hallowed Nurburgring in 7:27 - besting the GT3 RS by a good six seconds and even toppling the Carrera GT's 7:28.7 time.
Local deliveries of the 911 GT3 RS 4.0 commence towards the end of 2011, with Australia to be allocated less than 10 of the restricted worldwide production.
Porsche’s ultimate naturally aspirated 911 road car will be priced at $409,100.
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Since 1993, Chicago band The Tossers has been entertaining crowds with its energetic blend of Irish folk and punk rock.
The Tossers will perform Saturday, Aug. 2, at the all-day Fox Valley Irish Festival at RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, Aurora. More information is available by going to RiverEdge’s website, www.riveredgeaurora.com.
Kane County Chronicle reporter Eric Schelkopf had the chance to talk to The Tossers lead singer Tony Duggins about the upcoming show.
Eric Schelkopf: Of course, you guys are going to be at the Fox Valley Irish Festival with two other Irish bands from Illinois. Does that make it even more of a special occasion?
Tony Duggins: I’m sure it will. We’ll play with anybody.
Schelkopf: Of course, The Tossers celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. What should people expect when they come out this weekend? Are you going to play songs from your entire career?
Duggins: We’re going to do a song off every record at least, as well as hopefully some new songs and some old traditional stuff, too.
Schelkopf: What were your goals in starting the band in the first place?
Duggins: We were 18 years old. We were just trying to get into bars and play music and have a good time.
That was it. That was really it. And then people started coming to the shows and we started getting shows at bigger clubs, and it went on from there.
It was the people’s response to it, really. We were just having a good time.
Schelkopf: Are you surprised that people connected so well to your music and that here you are 20 years later?
Duggins: I always knew that I was going to try to make a career out of music. I didn’t necessarily know it would be with this group.
I assumed back then we would be just playing in bars and at festivals and stuff. It is a pleasant surprise that we’re still doing it after all this time.
Schelkopf: Being that you are from the South Side of Chicago, was it a given that you guys would be in an Irish band?
Duggins: Maybe, the way that fate turns out. You are surrounded by that [culture] in Chicago. We were.
I was never into Irish music as a kid because I didn’t think it was cool. As I got older, I started getting into more music than just punk rock and heavy metal.
Schelkopf: Were there any bands that led you to the fact that Irish music could be cool?
Duggins: Yeah, The Pogues, hands down. They are the best.
Schelkopf: What do you think your band has brought to Irish music?
Duggins: What we did bring was a contemporary turn to it, like The Pogues did. All the bands that kind of do what we do all have a slightly different bent on how they approach it.
The real thing that we’ve added to it is a place, in Chicago especially, where people can come together and celebrate their heritage.
Schelkopf: Of course, your brother, Aaron, is in the band, too. I imagine there are pros and cons about having a sibling in the same band. Are there more pros than cons?
Duggins: We may argue over stuff from time to time, but believe me, that’s very rare. We’re pretty much all on the same page as far as the music goes.
My brother is probably is one of the greatest assets we have in this band. Every one of us performs as best as we can.
Schelkopf: There are a lot of references to Chicago on your last album, “The Emerald City.” Would you say that it is your most personal album to date?
Duggins: It is. I felt like I really needed to represent myself a lot more on the album and where I come from.
It was time to make a homage to Chicago and my family and my friends.
At the end of the day, this is the reason why we are doing it. It is a celebration of culture and family and friends.
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To jolly up your holidays, how about a caption contest? Whoever writes the funniest caption for this photo wins a copy of my My Ruby Slippers. Drop your entry into the comments. 60 words or less, funniest version wins. Contest ends at midnight December 20.
My Ruby Slippers
MY RUBY SLIPPERS: THE ROAD BACK TO KANSAS: a story of place, a query, a quest. Do you know where you are? | <urn:uuid:461967ed-db55-494e-9ee9-9a622cc81dab> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://myrubyslippersthebook.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/make-me-laugh-win-a-copy-of-my-ruby-slippers/ | 2017-11-21T23:02:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806438.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121223707-20171122003707-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.821107 | 97 | [
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1.Can anyone help me how should i design my first web page in asp.net using C#
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4.how can i insert my first record in sql server db please please help then i would carry on my self.
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When the Arts Council give you funding, everyone wants to meet for a coffee. When the Arts Council don’t give you funding, Rachel offers to meet for a coffee.
Rachel Sutton is the Deputy Leader of Exeter City Council and therefore one the Glorious Leaders of the Socialist Republic of Exeter. Before that, she worked as an arts practitioner in beautiful Manchester and less beautiful Leicester. She came to Exeter to work for Arts Council England before they foolishly let her go and then foolishly let Exeter go and buggered off to Bristol, like so many artists before them.
Arts Council’s loss was Exeter’s gain. Rachel was elected Councillor for Exwick in 2010 and then Deputy Leader of the city. As with Stuart yesterday, Rachel has been a true champion of the Bike Shed. Her catchphrase is “oh, you really must speak to so-and-so”, followed a few weeks later by “have you got in touch with so-and-so yet?”. Beyond her sterling work chairing the steering group for Ignite, she’s brought the Bike Shed to the attention of the great and the good across the city. She wrote the Leader’s speech for the launch of Ignite in 2014 (not that he cared to read it out). And she briefed Ben Bradshaw on us when he spoke in the House of Commons debate on the arts.
We live in a brief moment in time where local authority support for culture is dwindling. Across the country, councils are faced with challenges to balance their budgets, challenges which often mean that non-statutory spending is cut. So far, Exeter City Council has maintained its culture budget. Much of this is to do with people like Rachel, people who don’t rant and rave but quietly persuade behind the scenes. Rachel puts up with a lot, not least from me. Everyone has an issue, everyone a complaint. How she takes it, I’m not quite sure. That she does, and that she keeps on fighting our fights, with more skill and more success than we ever could, is astounding. The Bike Shed, and Exeter as a whole, has a lot to thank her for. | <urn:uuid:8fbb15fe-d3c7-4ce7-a507-950c151927a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://ahistoryoftheshed.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/rachel-sutton/ | 2017-11-22T18:32:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.972758 | 462 | [
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Well, it's nearly arrived. I'm just about entering rising senior status here at DePaul. That's a scary thought. It's one of the biggest cliches but it really does feel like just yesterday I was standing on Clifton with several plastic tubs full of stuff that I thought would allow me to survive on my own, waiting to move into University Hall. A lot has changed since then, obviously, but perhaps just as many things have stayed the same. Im now thinking about how I want to make my senior year the best it can be.
For starters, with all my non-major required courses fulfilled, I'm going to fit in as many extra, personally interesting classes that I can. I'm slated to take a German class in the fall, which will be a great help in pushing me down the path of knowing as many languages as possible. I also intend to take as many advanced stage combat classes as my schedule will allow. I took one advanced combat class this quarter and it was truly awesome. I learned a more refined level of unarmed and rapier & dagger combat, which I had started in the basic combat class, and also learned quarterstaff combat, which I had never done before. Quarter staff, a six foot long redwood staff, is a weapon designed for guys like me. It was a blast to use the full length of the staff and alternate between very rapid and slow and deliberate passages of combat. This coming year, the featured weapons, in addition to more rapier & dagger and unarmed, are broadsword and knife. I freaking can't wait.
Among my other goals for the next year are to write an at least ten minute play, learn how to play guitar, and take a significant camping trip with my buddies. But, in a less concrete sense, I think this year will be especially important in figuring out how life after college will be. What it will look like and how I will handle it on a day-to-day basis. What's fortunate is that The Theatre School does a great deal to prepare its students for life as theatre artists after college. And, ultimately, I know it won't be that different besides the fact that I won't go to class everyday. Instead of that, I'll go to my job. Weird. But just the natural progression of things, I guess. As someone who worries quite a lot, I just need to keep reminding myself that I know how to survive and finishing school is something I can totally handle.
So, for the next year, I hope to soak up as much experience as I can from DePaul and my status as a student in Chicago and then figure out that whole being a functioning member of society thing. Piece of cake, right?
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We have a lot to be thankful for during the past year 2013.
We helped a few veterans acquire their service dogs.
Veteran Lou and Topeka
Ted Hoppe introducing Veteran James and Kira for the first time
Veteran Mark and Naya shopping
Veteran Josh Schutt will start his Service Dog Training 1.13.14
We made the front page this year! >> http://www.vnews.com/home/8864230-95/a-dog-in-service-of-one-who-served-white-river-junction-va-adapts-to
RJ Hoppe had an amazing trip to Europe, they were able to check in on the dogs and meet the new German Shepherd puppies that are in their new homes.
Our young client Josh is living happily with his Service Protection Dog Warrior. Josh was diagnosed with a brain tumor and has Warrior by his side to guide him through his daily life.
Josh with his scout troop leaders and Warrior
RJ Hoppe received his certification for training in American Street Ring
RJ & Ted Hoppe working with Tebow
Looking forward to making memories and changing lives in 2014. We wish you and your family a successful, healthy and happy New Year!
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LG has collaborated with Harman/Kardon to create its new premium Bluetooth stereo headset dubbed Tone Infinim (HBS-900). It has a stylish design that is almost similar to previous Tone series headsets from LG, but unlike others this has a glossy metallic finish. It has retractable wire management technology for tangle-free operation, sound and vibration alert to inform of incoming messages, jog button to fast forward and rewind, current time and battery status.
It use Bluetooth 3.0 technology and supports most audio profiles such as A2DP, AVRCP, HFP and HSP. The Infinim packs a 220mAh battery which boasts the longest standby battery time for a headset in its class i.e 550 hours. It has a 17 hour talk time and can give 14 hours of continuous media playback, jog button to fast forward and rewind through songs easily, and sound and vibrate functions so you can hear incoming messages and calls.
The headset is compatible with all smart devices with Bluetooth but it is optimized particularly for the upcoming LG G3 smartphone. It has the application Name Alert, which announces the name or phone number of person calling and Answer Me+, where raising the G3 to one’s ear will automatically disconnect Tone Infinim to allow for direct use of the smartphone.
The LG Tone Infinim comes in a glossy silver finish and sports a sleek curved design. It is supposed to be available in other colors as well, but for now silver is the only one available. LG has also packed a retractable cord with the Infinim, which leaves no exposed wires to tangle.
It would go on sale starting this summer and will be available worldwide. There is no word on pricing yet.
Key Specifications of LG Tone Infinim:
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The most frequently cited benefit of the internet was in helping people tap into social networks, and I don’t just mean MySpace or Facebook. For many internet users, their social network consists of their email contacts list, but they reap similar benefits. American communities are transforming. People communicate and maneuver in multiple social networks rather than being bound up in one solitary community that is defined by where they live. Yet people’s networks continue to have substantial numbers of relatives and neighbors — the traditional bases of community — as well as friends and colleagues. People are able to maintain active contact with sizable social networks by using email and the internet, even though many of the people in those networks do not live nearby. And by the way, internet users are not shut-ins, confining themselves to their screens. To the contrary, we find that the more that people see each other in person and talk on the phone, the more they use the internet. Let me say that again: the ore social you are offline, the more you use the internet. And the more they cultivate their ontacts, the more likely internet users are to reap the benefits: People use the internet to seek out others in their social network when they need help.
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I saw just the vehicle I was looking for my family online one evening. The next day I was going to call, but got busy at work. It was about 7:10pm eastern time when I looked up from my desk. Shannon had picked up my call and said they still had the car in stock. We arranged to meet on Saturday to see it since I was coming from out of town. The car was as advertised, in great shape with low milage and at a fair price. It was a bit more entailed than usual because we were from out of state and needed to make arrangements for wire transfers, etc. However, Shannon was great in telling me what I needed to do beforehand so we could make it happen if we liked what we saw. She is a great person with whom to work - very competent and professional and with a lovely personality. She saw the deal through to close it, in spite of a blizzard, adding warranties,and a few other peculiarities. It's a pleasure to work with good people like her. | <urn:uuid:b27dab6e-6984-479b-80c2-c2036701d9e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.dealerrater.com/dealer/Schimmer-Ford-Lincoln-Mercury-review-28158/ | 2017-11-24T07:38:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807146.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124070019-20171124090019-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.994767 | 212 | [
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He is in the final season of his three-year entry level deal and in 48 AHL games this season with Charlotte Checkers he has connected for a career high 6 goals and 15 points, which also puts him on pace to put up a best in that scoring category as well.
While listed at a moderate 6’1″ 195 lbs. he looks a lot bigger than those numbers. There’s little doubt his game is all about muscle and punishing opponents and he’s relatively effective in that role without getting himself into penalty trouble. He’s also a tidy +11 plus/minus on a team that knows how to win games.
In his debut the 22-year old skated 17 shifts for 12:18 total ice time and had one shot on net in a decisive 3-1 victory. He could stick around or at the very least be given a contract extension at the end of the season to see where it goes after a taste of the show.
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YOUR MIND IS SMARTER THAN YOU THINK
Who is in charge of your thinking
Gastric Band Hypnosis is the use of hypnotic techniques, NLP, Guided Imagery and CBT to help clients to believe that they have had a Gastric Band fitted. Hypnosis Cognitive Behavioural Therapy are then used to encourage them to eat according to their new stomach size.
Instead of undergoing surgery and spending in the region of €6,000 on having a real Gastric Band fitted, clients can obtain all of the benefits of Gastric Band surgery without any of the negative side effects of serious surgery.
Gastric Band Hypnosis is safe, non-evasive and is used to treat the whole person so the mind and body of the client can experience the wonderful benefits of Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
SIDE BENEFITS WITHOUT THE SIDE EFFECT
There are no side effects with Gastric Band Hypnosis, only confident and self-acceptance and the ability to say "NO" to problem foods and "YES" to healthy foods, healthy exercise and healthy life.
The issues that cause the client to overeat are addressed during the pre-talk, and thought behaviour is modified through hypnosis.
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Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
This week's Friday Night Lights stars: Adrianne Palicki and Jesse Plemons.
Lost was weird. Sort of redeemed itself by the end, but I spent a good chunk of it wondering whether Kiele Sanchez was supposed to appear as bad an actress as Nikki Hernandez.
Hey, at least we got a buried alive. That's always cool, right? We like the buried alive...
I suspect this is a "filler" standalone episode designed to fill up a week while the real "storyline" episodes were completed. This isn't uncommon in hourlong dramas with multi-episode story arcs. Lost was quite behind in its production this winter; I met a visual effects editor who was working on Eko's last episode the Monday before it aired. I wouldn't be surprised if this episode was penned with the intention of being produced quickly with a minimum of set time for major cast members, instead using a lot of second-unit crew and minor actors that didn't need to be filming other scenes.
Also, we got to see a Billy Dee Williams cameo!
Eko's last episode was filmed before the long hiatus. I suspect they've had time to start catching up since then.
Given the twist at the end, it really should have been their halloween episode.
It seems like Lost will have 2 real strong cliff-hanger episodes, and then they'll throw in just a random episode.
It was a creepy episode and I really had no major complaints with it.
But do people really keep a whole bunch of loose diamonds in safes? For no apparent reason.
This episode felt like it had a lot of "Murder, She Wrote" in it.
I used to have a set of nesting dolls (matrioshka) that I bought in Russia. I threw it out. The big doll on the outside was Bill Clinton and you eventually worked your way down to George Washington.
The part with Ben seemed a little on the nose, but it was interesting that Sun didn't blame Charlie at all but slapped Sawyer. It is tough being the scapegoat.
Yeah I'm kinda upset they killed her off.
A girl that is that attractive definitely has a place on the show. The only real eye candy on the show is Kate, so adding another couldnt hurt.
I've got a feeling those two arent dead. Lott said "Nothing ever stays buried on this island"...I think they'll end up coming back.
I'm such a Jack-Ben-Juliet fan that its taken away my interest in the other characters as well.
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How Many Uber Riders Are There?
Community Discussion| How Many Uber Riders Are There?
At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, held recently this October, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick gamely remarked that he currently does not use a car himself (his own car’s alternator belt was broken and his driver’s license was expired, he says).
The implication here is that he has enough trust in his company’s services to be able to get himself around.
But it really doesn’t take a genius to see through the jokes. Kalanick knows the value of his own company, and he knows that it is valued much.
How much is Uber worth 2016?
With Saudi Arabia’s recent investment, on paper Uber is now worth $68 billion, making it the most valuable privately-held company in all of Silicon Valley. Pretty impressive for a fledgling startup that hasn’t passed the one decade mark yet.
Uber Billion Dollar Loss…
However, Bloomberg News reports that Uber lost around 1.2 Billion just in the first half of 2016.
But, how many Uber riders are there?
At the same event, Kalanick also divulged that Uber now has 40 million active riders all over the world, most of which are paying at least fifty dollars a month to avail themselves of Uber’s ride-sharing services.
That’s a whopping six billion dollars per quarter. Even Bloomberg noted the fast jump, reporting in August that the company had processed $3.8 billion bookings in the first quarter of 2016 alone.
Though there are no official dates for an IPO yet, many are waiting with bated breath for this announcement. Kalanick did mention that if there will be an IPO, it will be “as late as possible.”
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The center is a practice dedicated to treatment of drug and alcohol addicted patients.We provide medication assisted treatment (MAT), counseling,wellness education,
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Dollar General Corporation - Sanitary Conditions Review
The Dollar General store in Mississippi on Nichols Blvd is extremely dirty.Management please come and inspect your store.
Customers should not have to shop in a store that looks and smells like a garbage dump.
The floors are dirty, the shelves are a mess and the staff is lazy.Please get new management or send someone to clean the store so that I can shop again in a pleasant environment.
Review about: Dollar General Corporation Sanitary Conditions.
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We all have our favourite memories and ideas about what makes the perfect holidays. Maybe yours is skiing on a powder white slope; lazing on a golden sunny beach under a palm tree; hiking in bushland; an eco holiday; rail journey or cruise – whatever the word “holiday” conjures up for you, there will be many dreams, memories, emotions and plans centering around the idea of a “break”.
A holiday of any type means you are taking a break, a “holiday” from something. For most of us this involves getting away from it all; spending time with family and friends; hitting the road and exploring the many twists and turns of a new place. When you live with diabetes you also need a break from the daily grind. Here is why you need to take a break from diabetes sometimes.
Why are holidays so special?
So why are holidays so prized, dreamt about and planned? Think about someone on a game show, what is one of the main things they want to win? Either a holiday or money to go on one. This holiday thing is the big time when it comes to something we are all working to achieve.
- full of down time
- often spent with those you love the most
- often taken without the usual hustle and bustle of every day life
- a time out from responsibilities and to do lists
- take you away from technological dependence (although nowadays this is not so true)
- allow you to go with what you feel you want to do with your time, rather than what you think you have to do
- full of happy and exciting memories; and
- are often taken in exotic or distant places.
However there are also those holidays which are taken close to home, perhaps at the family shack or caravan park, or over a few short days and don’t cost the earth. In fact those types of holidays are often some of the best.
The important thing is the time spent savouring life. The time spent slowing down, stopping to smell the roses, enjoying family and friends and the world around you. Even if you have the old family arguments, stress and the predictable travel problems such as travel sickness, mess ups with arrangements, missed or delayed flights, language barriers and an array of other problems especially when overseas, the ultimate memory of a holiday is usually positive.
Part of the pleasure of a holiday is the planning. Working out when and where you will travel to, where you will stay and what you want to do with the time, even if this is nothing at all! The rest of the joy is in the doing, and then, the remembering……
I have so many memories of holidays – as a toddler camping in a 2 man tent with my parents in the bush; as a child traipsing around Europe with my bohemian backpacking parents dragging a 2 year old and 7 year old all over the world; as a teenager (grumpy but secretly thoroughly enjoying) holidays to places like New Zealand and Fiji, as well as travelling around Australia; as an adult being so lucky to go to Italy and South Africa for work with my Mum in tow (these memories are absolute gold despite fraught airport moments and robberies!); and taking my own family on so many holidays – to the beach shack a few hours away, the caravan park in my home city, interstate to forests and beaches and theme parks and road trips – which are my favourite.
Holidays from diabetes
In life with diabetes you also need a “holiday” from it. Just like planning a holiday, you need to make sure you factor in time each day that has nothing do with diabetes, so that it sits right in the background. If managing diabetes is like a job, then surely holidays and short breaks are just as vital to your continued diabetes management as holidays are to your life?
How do you do this?
Think about how you are travelling with your diabetes – are you ok with it, are there areas you could manage better, are there areas you are focussing on too much? Do you have problems that you need to sort out? Does the balance of where diabetes sits in your life feel about right, or not? And how long since you have had a break?
Just like when planning your regular holidays or short breaks, even if all you do is take the occasional long weekend off work – you need to think about some regular breaks from diabetes. This does not mean stop looking after your diabetes.
It just means allowing yourself permission to:
- perhaps have a treat
- not check blood glucose as often for a day or so
- focus on other areas of your life for a bit
- do something you really love, like a weekend away or a day trip to the beach and be very mindful of the immediate surroundings and experiences rather than your diabetes tasks. Do what you need to, check your BGL’s, take your medication or insulin, but just do it and then move on to focus on the wonderful times you are creating in your life, with diabetes in the background
- do some relaxation and self talk which helps you to put diabetes into a balanced state in your life – that there are many other parts of your life that are important.
Sometimes your health can become the focus of your life. This can in turn make you “sick”. It is important to acknowledge that you are here, living every day – and that this is a gift. Taking a real holiday can be one way of helping you to take a break from diabetes and the stress it can bring.
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The dynamics of wages and employment in a model of monopolistic competition and efficient bargaining
Modern macroeconomic models with a Keynesian flavour usually involve nominal rigidities in wages and commodity prices. A typical microfoundation recurs to wage bargaining in the labour markets and monopolistic competition in the commodity markets (e.g. Blanchard/Giavazzi). A characteristic feature of those models is that deregulating the labour markets (i.e. reducing the bargaining power of workers and/or reducing the unemployment benefits) increases equilibrium employment; in a symmetric way, deregulating the commodity markets (i.e. reducing the market power of commodity suppliers) increases equilibrium employment as well. However, those models are typically static models which do not specify explicitly the economic process in time. In the following paper, we develop a dynamic macroeconomic model in which commodity markets are characterised by monopolistic competition and labour markets by wage bargaining. In this first version, the number of firms is fixed. The incorporation of firm entry and exit is left for further research. In our analysis the usual equilibrium solution is a fixed point of the dynamic model which exhibits the usual comparative static properties (deregulating the labour and/or the commodity market increases employment). However, depending upon the parameters the fixed point may loose stability through a Flip-bifurcation giving rise to cyclical solutions. We show that commodity and labour market deregulation may lead to instability and lower average employment. This result, valid in a dynamic framework, contrasts with the usual comparative static properties.
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It’s hours away from the end of another year. The end of the first year of a new decade.
I’ve spent the last few days going over the year and everything it contained. I’ve come up with things I would like to change. In all aspects of my life actually.
I’ve neglected a lot and am vowing not to from this point on.
I’ll be moving forward a lot here. With new thoughts, I have a lot of them, and sharing more experiences here. Not only with Neville, I love the way his mind worked, but how having that as a part of my growth has taken me to a different place of understanding.
Some design changes are on the way and I’ll actually be around a lot more. I want to get to know how you feel about Neville, about life. Your thoughts and feelings.
I’ve come to see that we all go through a lot of the same things. Not necessarily at the same time, but the same things for sure.
At one point I truly felt alone. Like I was the only one that these things were happening to. Silly.
More to the point though, how we go through all these things in our life is what I think builds us.
And maybe how I did it, or sharing with you some of the ways I did it will help someone. If I can do that for one person and they can pass it on then I feel I’ve done some of what I’m here for.
That’s enough for now. I’m rebuilding a lot this year. If you have signed up for the newsletter, which let’s face it is pretty random 🙂 you’ll be getting a notice in a couple of days with an update about what’s going on.
On that note, thanks for reading. Please leave a comment or a thought while you’re here. I’d love to here from you.
We’ll talk soon.
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For some reason people have wanted to give us free tickets lately. The girl managed to get two free tickets to watch the crows play today, so we went. On the way to the game we stopped off to get Subway and stood behind an old couple when we were ordering. When we got to the game we walked around and went in to see Tilney cause sh works there and then found some seats. We had traveled about 15km from Subway and were among 45,000 people and we managed to sit next to the same old couple we had stood behind in Subway. Kinda creepy really.
Its a long weekend this weekend and I have all three days off. So far it has been pretty damn good. Friday night we had a million different plans but decided to head into town and go on one of Calvins uni pub crawls. We got there quite late but soon caught up and had a very good night in the end.
Yesterday consisted of the girl and I not doing a lot but then heading to one of her friends 21st's. It was weird because she only knew a few people and I knew absolutely no one so we both got bored pretty quickly. We stayed for the speeches and then headed out to Calvins house for a few drinks. A friend of ours from Manchester is over here in Australia and another friend has come back to Adelaide from Brisbane so it was a bit of a reunion. We ended up playing video games and drinking a bit of beer so the night ended well.
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As the Organization name signifies, Forus Health means "Health For us” (Affordable, Preventive healthcare for me and my community). We are an innovation led technology enterprise focused on providing solutions that aims to address health problems of developing world. Our focus area is technology products for inclusive Health.
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Youth Culture Window
Three decades ago Madonna appeared on MTV in a wedding dress, writhing on the floor, seductively singing Like a Virgin at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). America gasped… and begged for more.
In a world without smartphones, MTV owned a generation of young people.
Now… they don’t.
In fact, this year MTV lost about a third of their VMA viewership compared to last year’s show, by far their biggest drop in history.
The writing has been on the wall for several years now.
Music Videos and Reality TV
In the early years MTV was the place to go for music videos. Kids would get home from school, throw their backpacks on the floor, plop on the couch, check their pagers… and turn on MTV. MTV was the place to be.
MTV founder and chairman Robert Pittman’s famous quote reveals a little about the channel’s incredible impact on youth culture:Soon, MTV switched their programming focus from music videos to reality shows, and young people readily followed. In fact, MTV was the go-to-place for reality shows. Name it: The Real World, Tila Tequila…The Jersey Shore.
And once a year MTV delivered the VMAs—the most accurate annual porthole into today’s pop culture (we would write about it each year). Every pop culture icon was present as unfiltered as TV would allow. Each year the VMAs would try new scandalous display to draw viewers.
And it worked.
In 2003 Madonna kissed Britney, a ploy making the front page of every news source in the weeks to follow. Year after year MTV tried harder. In 2011 Lady Gaga showed up in drag, and it drew the largest audience to date. This was a time when MTV still “owned” young people. In fact, at that time they provided the No. 1 show watched by 12-17-year-olds, Jersey Shore.
And then it happened.
Everything went mobile.
The Rise of the Small Screen
In 2012 American Smartphone permeation passed the 50% mark. In September 2012 Nielsen reported 58% of teens owning a smartphone, compared to just 36% the year prior—a huge leap! This created a noticeable shift where young people spent their time. Within a year (by 2013) we saw most Americans spending over 2 hours a day on mobile devices alone.
If young people wanted to watch a music video, they could watch it whenever they wanted… wherever they were. They didn’t need MTV. If they wanted to watch college kids get drunk and argue, they didn’t need to visit The Jersey Shore, they could find it on YouTube.
And MTV began losing its young audience.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying all of television lost its young audience. Most recent reports still show TV as the No. 1 media activity by tweens, and the No. 2 activity by teens (second only to “listening to music”). But much of this media use is highly mobile. Netflix binging is changing entertainment.
Somehow along the way MTV lost its appeal. MTV no longer owned reality shows. The networks did… and still do. (America’s Got Talent, The Voice…). And when kids weren’t turning to MTV day in and day out, they seemed to forget about the VMAs. After all, you could just watch the clips online the next day if anything outrageous happened.
A year ago the 2015’s VMAs revealed this trend, with a decrease in television viewers, but an increase in social media activity. Viewership was down despite MTV’s efforts to broaden the audience, showing it on 9 Viacom networks. But regardless of the dip in numbers, social media chatter about the event exploded, even breaking records on Twitter. In other words—young people didn’t watch the show, but when they heard about Miley’s “indecent exposure” they jumped to their mobile devices to watch, link, post and comment.
If MTV thought 2015 was just a small dip in television viewership, they experienced a rude awakening in 2016 when their numbers plummeted downward by a third. Cruel headlines emerged in the days to follow, like “Basically, Nobody Cares About 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.”
The VMAs had lost their draw.
I guess young people didn’t want to sit through another Kanye West speech.
The question many are asking is… who owns 14-year-olds today?
Will we ever see one pop-culture-giant emerge again like MTV?
Who has the eyes and ears of your kids?
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instead of coveting, collecting, copying and finally shelving printed matter, i have begun to make them my own.
this piece was part of the Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition at Barbara Krakow in Boston. on the last possible day, i summoned the nerve to hand off this piece all wrapped tidy in vellum and white tape to the gallery. it being a new piece and a new direction for me my confidence seemed to be as empty as the interior of the piece. long story short it sold, someone liked it. and i wonder if the new owner untied the twine and looked inside or has left it as is.
with this piece and my new work i use catalogs, either retail or artist to create a visual journey thru cutting and/or adding to both sides of each page. yes, i have gone from copying each page to manipulating each page. so depending on how you look at it, front cover or page by page, the work becomes many small drawings or one total object. a journal of sorts addressing formalism & minimalism in an already constructed complete composition.
how to show them…most likely that is the most intriguing for me.
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Best-ever October for sales of Lexus vehicles
TORONTO, Nov. 1, 2013 /CNW/ - Led by the RAV4 setting a sales record for
the ninth consecutive month - and establishing a new annual sales
record of 27,996 with two months of 2013 still remaining - October
sales for Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) rose 2.9% over last year, with
17,594 vehicles sold.
Tundra joined RAV4 with a best-ever October, leading TCI truck sales to
an October record of 8,651 vehicles sold, up 8.5% versus 2012.
It was also an all-time best October for Lexus, with sales of 1,609
luxury vehicles, an increase of 5.9% versus 2012. This is the third
consecutive month of record sales for Lexus.
Toyota sales highlights for October 2013 (vs. 2012)
• Sales: 15,593 (up 3.5%)
Passenger car sales: 7,776
Avalon sales: 88 (up 266.7%)
Corolla sales: 4,312 (up 22.6%)
Prius c sales: 235 (up 97.5%) :: new October record :: 4th straight
month of record sales :: 2,582 year-to-date is new annual record
Truck sales: 7,817 (up 8.1%) :: new October record
4Runner sales: 360 (up 41.2%)
Canadian-built RAV4 sales: 3,051 (up 21.5%) :: new October record :: 9th
straight month of record sales :: 27,996 year-to-date is new annual
Sequoia sales: 79 (up 9.7%)
Sienna sales: 939 (up 11.5%)
Tundra sales: 1,008 (up 73.8%) :: new October record
"The RAV4 has had a huge impact on the compact SUV segment, with more
and more Canadians selecting this great vehicle month after month,"
said Larry Hutchinson, Vice President, Toyota Canada Inc. "And the new
Tundra, which came out just last month, is following suit. The
full-size pickup segment has become the second-largest in Canada, and
we are very excited about what we will see from Tundra in the coming
Lexus sales highlights for October 2013 (vs. 2012)
• Sales: 1,609 (up 5.9%) :: new October record :: 3rd straight month
of record sales
Luxury car sales: 775 (up 0.1%) :: new October record
IS sales: 339 (up 117.3%)
LS sales: 23 (up 155.6%)
Luxury SUV sales: 834 (up 11.8%)
GX sales: 36 (up 12.5%)
LX sales: 33 (up 57.1%)
RX sales: 716 (up 15.1%)
Scion sales highlights for October 2013 (vs. 2012)
• Sales: 392
FR-S sales: 130 (up 4%) :: new October record
About Toyota Canada Inc.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of
Toyota, Lexus and Scion cars, SUVs and trucks. Toyota is the first
full-line manufacturer to make all of the elements of the Star Safety
System standard on every vehicle starting in 2011. The Star Safety
System includes Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Traction Control
(TRAC), Anti-lock Brake System (ABS), Electronic Brake-force
Distribution (EBD), Brake Assist (BA) and Smart Stop Technology (SST).
TCI's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver,
Calgary, Montreal and Halifax and parts distribution centres in Toronto
SOURCE: Toyota Canada Inc.
For further information:
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Newton Police Department
• Jacob T. Whalen, 27, of Newton was charged with domestic assault after officers were dispatched at 6:05 p.m. Monday to 1453 N. 11th Ave. E. of report of a domestic disturbance. The victim was arguing with Whalen, who was her boyfriend, when he threw a cell phone at her which struck her in the stomach, leaving a visible red mark. Two witnesses saw the incident. He was taken to jail.
Jasper County Sheriff’s Office
• Emily L. Cook, 28, of Urbandale was arrested in Polk County by Urbandale police and transported to the Jasper County Jail at 2 p.m. Wednesday on an active warrant from the Colfax Police Department in a case regarding fraud.
• William D. MacDonald, 49, of Newton was transported to the Jasper County Jail by the Des Moines Police Department at 2:24 p.m. Thursday. MacDonald had a active warrant in Jasper County. Deputies met Des Moines officers to pick up MacDonald.
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An article by Kenneth Chang tells about a new framework for improving American science education.
The new approach suggests paring the curriculum to focus on core ideas. It would teach students more about how to approach and solve problems — rather than just memorizing facts.
An 18-member committee spent more than a year devising the framework and was led by Helen Quinn, retired physicist from SLAC National Accelerator laboratory in Menlo Park, CA.
According to Quinn, “That is the failing of US education today, that kids are expected to learn a lot of things but not expected to be able to use them.”
The 282-page report says that one of the big goals is “to ensure that by the end of 12th grade, all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science.”
An additional goal is to incorporate engineering into what is taught to students from elementary grades through the final year of high school.
The National Research Council released the report on July 19th.
American students have typically ranked in the middle on international comparison tests. This report offers just the latest of several decades worth of efforts.
Now that the National Research Council has established a framework, Achieve Inc., a nonprofit education group, will expand it into a set of standards. Similar standards for math and language arts have already been adopted by 44 states.
As Achieve works with states to develop standards, the core science — including evolution — is not up for debate. Says Michael Cohen, “What we’re not going to do is compromise the science just to get states comfortable.”
Every state will have the final say on whether to adopt the new approach.
The $2.26 million effort was financed largely by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also participating was the National Science Teachers Association for the Advancement of Science.
sole source: Kenneth Chang’s article in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/science/20curriculum.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Kenneth%20chang&st=cse
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Mary and Howard are the kind of people that make you want to sit for hours around their kitchen table and talk about life, love and gardening. They are deeply in love and kid with each other like they are twelve. But they're not. They're in their mid-seventies. And last weekend, I had the pleasure of being their wedding coordinator.
There is something so special about these two. The way they look at each other, the way they giggle with one another, it made my heart sing. And it made me a little weepy thinking about love after love. You know what I mean? These two lost the loves of their lives...and then found love again. I think that's remarkable. And very special.
Their wedding was different than most weddings I do. Mary didn't care about design the way most Brides do. I'm pretty sure she has never even heard of Style Me Pretty (I know, it's hard for me to believe too!). She didn't do anything because it was trendy or because she had a desire to get her wedding published. She didn't want to spend a lot of money on flowers or decor, she just wanted to walk down the aisle and marry Howard. So, while the decor was lacking the love was not. I feel blessed to have been a part of this wedding and I hope to keep in touch with these two love birds. I also hope that when I'm 75, I can cut a rug like Miss Mary can! | <urn:uuid:0e5309ee-094f-4151-8c7d-f23f20d40a2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://go-be-do.blogspot.com/2010/10/wedding-wednesday-mary-and-howard.html | 2017-11-24T09:20:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807344.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124085059-20171124105059-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.989776 | 304 | [
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Publishing label No More Robots and developer RageSquid today revealed the Descenders: Test Sessions, allowing players to check out upcoming mountain biking game Descenders for themselves for the first time before the full public release.
Announced earlier this summer, Descenders is extreme downhill freeriding for the modern era, with procedurally generated worlds, and where mistakes have real consequences. The Reveal Trailer has already had more than 500,000 views across YouTube and Facebook.
The Test Sessions Weekend, running from October 27-30, will give players a glimpse into how Descenders feels to play, and allow players to provide feedback on their experience, which will in turn help shape the final game.
Test Sessions participants will be able to pick a team, explore the overworld, and then compete across a number of procedurally-generated Descenders worlds, climbing the leaderboards, unlocking bikes and gears, and perhaps finding a secret or two.
Players can sign up for the Descenders Test Sessions right now, by going to the official Descenders Discord Channel at http://discord.gg/Descenders, picking a team, and hitting the Beta Signup link.
Descenders is being developed by Dutch studio RageSquid, and published by No More Robots, the new British publishing label from Mike Rose, with funding from creative industries fund nl, and sound design from Power Up Audio, best known for their work on titles like Crypt of the Necrodancer and Towerfall Ascension. | <urn:uuid:3662eb8b-28a1-48c8-ae82-5654af2771d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.comiccrusaders.com/the-descenders-test-sessions-weekend-coming-october-27/ | 2017-11-24T09:23:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807344.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124085059-20171124105059-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.937836 | 301 | [
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Rotorua District Council deputy principal fire officer Richard Horn at a scrub fire in Waikite Valley last week. The rural fire danger for the region is now extreme. Photo/Stephen Parker
Pumicelands Rural Fire Authority principal rural fire officer Paul Wright said the forest fire danger level was "extreme" right across the Central North Island.
"All sectors from Waihou Bay to Tauranga, Turangi and over to Tokoroa are all in the extreme.
"The worst most volatile areas are in the Galatea Valley area, which is more than twice the top level [of fire danger]," he said.
"Next is the Taupo/Tauhara region in the forests north of Taupo and also at Kinleith near Tokoroa."
Mr Wright said all fires and fire permits had been banned or cancelled in those areas and if anyone saw smoke or flames to immediately call 111.
He said all fire permits were cancelled last week. "We need significant rain, in the region of 20mm, to pull this back."
He said the ban also extended to all DoC land in the region.
In the Rotorua region there have been at least five vegetation fires in the last two weeks.
"Any fire could be a problem, fortunately we have had no significant fires due to quick notification from the public," Mr Wright said.
"Most of the fires we have had are due to carelessness of the public.
"Even before the total fire ban was put in place we have had a restricted fire ban since December, meaning you needed a permit for any fire.
"The fires we have had are due to people ignoring the ban, usually the less responsible people among us.
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CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF EIGHTEEN YEARS.
FROM THE DEATH OF ANTIGONUS TO THE FINISHING OF THE TEMPLE BY HEROD.
CONCERNING POLLIO AND SAMEAS. HEROD SLAYS THE PRINCIPAL OF ANTIGONUS'S FRIENDS, AND SPOILS THE CITY OF ITS WEALTH. ANTONY BEHEADS ANTIGONUS.
1. HOW Sosius and Herod took Jerusalem by force; and besides that, how they took Antigonus captive, has been related by us in the foregoing book. We will now proceed in the narration. And since Herod had now the government of all Judea put into his hands, he promoted such of the private men in the city as had been of his party, but never left off avenging and punishing every day those that had chosen to be of the party of his enemies. But Pollio the Pharisee, and Sameas, a disciple of his, were honored by him above all the rest; for when Jerusalem was besieged, they advised the citizens to receive Herod, for which advice they were well repaid. But this Pollio, at the time when Herod was once upon his trial of life and death, foretold, in way of reproach, to Hyrcanus and the other judges, how this Herod, whom they suffered now to escape, would afterward inflict punishment on them all; which had its completion in time, while God fulfilled the words he had spoken.
2. At this time Herod, now he had got Jerusalem under his power, carried off all the royal ornaments, and spoiled the wealthy men of what they had gotten; and when, by these means, he had heaped together a great quantity of silver and gold, he gave it all to Antony, and his friends that were about him. He also slew forty-five of the principal men of Antigonus's party, and set guards at the gates of the city, that nothing might be carried out together with their dead bodies. They also searched the dead, and whatever was found, either of silver or gold, or other treasure, it was carried to the king; nor was there any end of the miseries he brought upon them; and this distress was in part occasioned by the covetousness of the prince regent, who was still in want of more, and in part by the Sabbatic year, which was still going on, and forced the country to lie still uncultivated, since we are forbidden to sow our land in that year. Now when Antony had received Antigonus as his captive, he determined to keep him against his triumph; but when he heard that the nation grew seditious, and that, out of their hatred to Herod, they continued to bear good-will to Antigonus, he resolved to behead him at Antioch, for otherwise the Jews could no way be brought to be quiet. And Strabo of Cappadocia attests to what I have said, when he thus speaks: "Antony ordered Antigonus the Jew to be brought to Antioch, and there to be beheaded. And this Antony seems to me to have been the very first man who beheaded a king, as supposing he could no other way bend the minds of the Jews so as to receive Herod, whom he had made king in his stead; for by no torments could they he forced to call him king, so great a fondness they had for their former king; so he thought that this dishonorable death would diminish the value they had for Antigonus's memory, and at the same time would diminish the hatred they bare to Herod." Thus far Strabo. | <urn:uuid:73415a77-f480-4338-ab13-fe5d17b7d4b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.godrules.net/library/flavius/flaviusb15c1.htm | 2017-11-18T06:46:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804666.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118055757-20171118075757-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.988562 | 812 | [
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The story of Ai Weiwei is turning into a dark fable that seems to belong in another age of modern history. In Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo, a dissident intellectual recants his beliefs under pressure from an intolerant regime. It was a hit in the US, but Brecht, a communist, decided in spite of its success to return to live in east Berlin. Later, as he observed the absurdities of the Soviet regime, he was moved to joke that the state should elect another people.
Those absurdities are brilliantly recreated in the historically set Berlin film The Lives of Others, and anyone who has watched it must surely feel a shiver of familiarity at official news from China that Ai Weiwei is co-operating with enquiries into alleged economic crimes and bigamy. Observers who side with the Chinese government on this should be ashamed, and those who dislike Ai Weiwei's art and so welcome any prospect of his undoing are seriously confused about basic human rights. The fact is that regimes such as the Soviet and the Chinese are brilliant at exploiting weaknesses and flaws in the people they need to crush. Dissidents can be shamed and subdued in many ways. What do you think a police state is? It is a place where truth can be manipulated.
Ai Weiwei has spoken out eloquently for the universality of human rights and the worldwide hunger for freedom. Even if all the charges China are apparently raising were true, it would not alter anything – and given his brutal detention it is reasonable to assume they are false.
Something historically obscene is happening here. It is as if different times exist simultaneously. In one time-stream, democracy is in global demand and artists including Ai Weiwei are revealing the richness of China's culture to the world. Yet in the sinister second stream it is 1950, and dissidents can be blackguarded and bullied with total impunity by a system that takes Orwell's 1984 as a handbook.
The cleverest thing about The Lives of Others is that it lulls you into a similar eddy of time. You have no idea what year the characters suffer in – and then suddenly it turns out to be 1989 and the Berlin Wall comes down. What seemed a totalitarian system beyond resisting turns out to be a fragile fantasy world that vanishes overnight.
Ai Weiwei is not being tested here – not in the eyes of anyone who cares about freedom or justice. His oppressors are the ones who will be judged. Neither does he have to satisfy some western craving for heroics. "Pity the land that has no heroes," says a character in Brecht's play – to which Galileo replies: "Pity the land that needs heroes." | <urn:uuid:ed4dc010-8cf4-4ae2-b099-5cf5b86eaab1> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/apr/14/ai-weiwei-china-human-rights | 2017-11-19T01:21:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805242.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119004302-20171119024302-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.972875 | 553 | [
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Steven Kretchmer – Rockstar Blue Zircon and Diamond Platinum Pendant
Sometimes bigger is waaaaay better and we can’t stop staring at this stunning Kretchmer pendant made with 7 oz. of pure platinum. Wow what a Platinum Jewel of the Day!
Claudia Kretchmer designed this ‘Somewhere in the Rainbow’ Platinum and 24K crystallized gold “RockStar2” pendant featuring a 37.31 ct. color-shift blue Zircon accented with Diamonds (1.95 ctw.) stevenkretchmer.com | <urn:uuid:3f5d108a-06f7-4f8f-8154-8c0e9f2b335b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://platinumjewelry.com/product/a-rockstar-pendant/ | 2017-11-19T19:54:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805761.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119191646-20171119211646-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.67449 | 127 | [
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A DERELICT pub has been transformed from eyesore into the new heart of the community.
The rundown Bedford Hotel in Bootle is enjoying a new lease of life after having #300,000 invested in it to turn it into a community venue.
The pub shut down a few years ago and became a blight on the area.
It was a target for arsonists and quickly became dilapidated.
Builders stripped the inside of the pub of its fixtures and fittings, leaving the distinctive building standing.
Over 10 months the interior was transformed into the modern Evolve neighbourhood centre.
From the outside the building looks like the pub it formerly was, but indoors it has been refurbished with offices, a hall and flats.
Instead of popping in for a swift half, residents can visit for housing advice and a chat with their beat bobby.
Services at the centre are available to all residents in the area and include training and meeting room facilities for use by the community.
Four high quality apartments are also available for sale within the development.
Maria O'Brien, neighbourhood director for Evolve, said: "This centre is a real example of how this neighbourhood is changing.
"With our partners, including Sefton Council, we're working with local people to create a sustainable and vibrant place to live, work and invest."
In time it is hoped the venue will be used for all sorts of community activity.
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Trident - Perseus Case for Samsung Galaxy S 5 Cell Phones - Pink
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- Trident - Perseus Case for Samsung Galaxy S 5 Cell Phones - Pink
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For a proper fit.
Forms a snug sleeve around your device, providing durable protection against scratches, debris and damage due to minor bumps.
Constructed from plastic material to help keep your phone's display safe.
Lets you securely and comfortably grasp your device.
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Nice case for the S VApril 22, 2014
This is a nice silicon case. It says the color is pink. It is a very hot or neon pick and almost looks like a neon orange color.
I would recommend this to a friend
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I am totally confused. In my endeavours to remove Bastille-Firewall, I've looked everywhere on the net and I see that Bastille development ceases in U12, yet I have it installed on my U14 server and it is the default firewall even though I have UFW selected in my ISPConfig panel. How did it get there? I did not install it manually, therefore it either came with the OS install or through ISPConfig. To determine where it came from, I just did a vanilla U14.04.3 install and only added openSSH. Bastille was not installed in the process. This leaves ISPConfig as the possible source. So I've searched through the ISPConfig source code, and can't find any references to an apt-get install command that acutally installs it, and all the references to bastille pertain to managing port settings. I did find bastille-firewall.cfg.master, where a reference exists to a CVS repository but that is only in a comment. I've also checked my backed up dbispconfig data to see it it was loaded through a db record, but found nothing. How did Bastille get onto my system? What binary/source/meta package did it arrive in? I have disabled it using update-rc.d -f bastille-firewall remove but I could still use service bastille-firewall status. So I've moved the references to bastille that are iin init.d out of that folder. However I still have bastille files in a bunch of other places on my system: ./sbin/bastille-netfilter.backup ./sbin/bastille-netfilter ./sbin/bastille-ipchains.backup ./sbin/bastille-ipchains ./etc/Bastille.backup ./etc/Bastille.backup/bastille-firewall.cfg_org ./etc/Bastille ./etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg_org ./etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg RevertBastille returns command not found. Manually deleting files with 'bastille' in their name/path is easy, but what other files came with the package? Can anyone help me with this please? | <urn:uuid:4b35c4f4-cd6c-44f1-9ddd-34a3adb893b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/how-did-bastille-firewall-get-onto-my-system-and-how-to-remove-it-completely.72646/ | 2017-11-20T15:39:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806070.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120145722-20171120165722-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.906965 | 484 | [
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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) – With the countdown to Christmas coming fast, ‘desperation shopping’ is the sport of the day. “Yes, definitely,” says Michael Hernandez, with his hands full of bags. “Desperation shopping is kind of in full effect at this point.”
But, for once, economists say, it may pay to procrastinate. With just four weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, retailers were already under pressure to move product. Throw in a weekend lost to bad weather and retailers will be looking to make up lost ground.
“They still have inventory in the store and they want to get rid of it before the holiday,” says Ed Fox, marketing professor and retail expert at SMU’s Cox School of Business. He says bad weather encouraged shoppers to go online; but, brick and mortar stores are stocked with separate inventories and those products will be priced to move. Adding to the pressure on retailers, recent figures from the Commerce Department show that retail sales were up 7/10ths of a percent year over year in November. “That’s not the kind of growth that retailers were expecting. So they really needed to make it up in December and the weather set them back.”
And that could mean some good deals for last minute shoppers.
“A lot of the retailers have already started to mark down some of their prices,” says Martha Hinojosa, spokesperson for Galleria Dallas. “So the closer we get to Christmas Eve and Christmas, you’ll see a lot of discounts and increased promotions in stores.”
Apparel and electronics are two categories likely to be priced to move. But, don’t expect to find on this season’s ‘must have’ items. They’re still selling well. But, if you’re looking for deals….
“This weekend in particular, you’re going to see very strong markdowns as retailers try to catch up with their plans and their expectations,” says Fox.
But, Julia Bristow says not even a good deal could lure her to the mall this weekend… she’s looking to wrap up her shopping early.
“It’s going to be bad! It’s already bad,” says Bristow. “If you go to any store—it’s like the parking lot is full. You have to park across the street. It’s nuts! Don’t get out unless you’re crazy!” she warns with a big laugh.
And some shoppers agree.
“I’d rather spend more money than have to deal with the crowds, to be honest,” says Hernandez.
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