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Freeware software is any type of computer software that is free to use, it may have some restrictions like the author of the freeware software retains his copyright, you can use it freely in your own home or even distribute to your friends but the author has the right to control the distribution of his freeware software, he can always modify it and even sell it in the future, also you can only use it in an area that he expressly allows you to. You can not sell his product and typically the software is distributed without its source code, so it can not be modified by the user.
How did freeware software come to life? Thank this man, Andrew Fluegelman, he was an attorney and a computer magazine editor for PC-Talk, he invented the term freeware that was trademarked in the 1980s, since then the trademark was abandoned and anyone can legally use this term.
You can legally download any freeware software you like. There is a long range of programs you can download and use for free like games for Pc or Android/Ios, Drivers, Audio andVideo software, Antivirus, and the list goes one.
You can get quite decent freeware software like avast! Antivirus, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for your internet security, Winamp Full version for listening music or even a real-time 3D-modeling and animation tool like 3DCrafter, this is why I love Freeware Software you can get awesome programs without pirating software from torrent sites or illegal downloading sites and then getting into trouble. So next time your antivirus freeware software detects a virus or you listen to music in Winamp don`t forget to thank Andrew Fluegelman. | <urn:uuid:5fdcac14-a789-4db9-ad11-6954fd9cc25a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://wikifo.com/what-is-freeware-software/ | 2017-05-23T05:09:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607369.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523045144-20170523065144-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.939578 | 354 | [
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Wow, some art! I know it has been a while since I last posted any artwork other than sketches and work related to my webcomic, but hay, I've been busy working on some concept art that I'm not allowed to post anywhere cos it is secret squirrel level eyes-only type thingy.
Any-who, to the art:
This is a one off 'fan art' for a Sky Arts competition of Baby Doll from the new film, Sucker Punch. The art contest has quite an open remit, so I stuck to my guns and did something that I am comfortable with because I only had the one evening to get it done in (busy see). So I went with a female character, I wanted to do something Manga related, hence her face and body shape, and this lead to the idea of Baby Doll. Not only that, I wanted a character that would be instantly recognisable, purely from the point of view of that if it was a random Manga girl, it may get over looked. However, Manga girl from new smash hit film, may cause the judges to pause a moment and take a look. Of course, this may hinge on if they had seen the film and liked it or not! | <urn:uuid:262451c7-2fd3-4588-923d-72442697bdcb> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.simonbreeze.com/2011/03/sucker.html | 2017-05-24T04:06:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607786.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524035700-20170524055700-00611.warc.gz | en | 0.979513 | 252 | [
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CALGARY — A bill to add another year onto the terms of municipal politicians will be introduced in the legislature early next week, says Alberta’s Municipal Affairs minister.
Doug Griffiths says he will bring in a bill to increase municipal terms to four years from three in time for the municipal election next fall.
The bill will also include changes to the provincial election act, shepherded by Justice Minister Jonathan Denis.
“Municipal councillors have the same challenges we do,” Griffiths said. “They spend the first year sorting everything out, figuring what they are doing. Then they have a year to get stuff done and then they get into what everyone calls the red zone — the year before the election. Making four-year terms can help make sure that there’s more productivity and taxpayers are actually getting better long-term planning from their councillors.”
Every other jurisdiction in Canada, except Alberta and B.C., has moved to four-year terms already, with Saskatchewan being the most recent, he said.
Griffiths said the bill, prompted by resolutions from the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties and the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, will result in election savings of about $11 million.
“There’s not going to be a lot of controversial stuff in our piece,” he said.
The bill will also include some other undisclosed minor changes supported by the public and municipal councillors, he said.
“We’re clarifying the rules around voter identification,” he added. “I think it is important for voters to have consistency.”
He said voters who aren’t on the voters’ list will have to provide identification in the future, but some of those changes won’t be implemented immediately.
The intent is to help municipalities with their voter identification and enumeration, making sure they’ve got complete voters’ lists, he added.
Denis said the changes to provincial election laws regarding election fundraising will provide greater accountability.
“I expect to see greater transparency,” he said. “I also expect to develop a new system of enumeration that is better for the taxpayer, but also creates a better list. I also expect to follow the chief electoral officer’s recommendations as closely as possible.”
The government has promised changes to the election laws to ensure the chief electoral officer is empowered to release publicly the results of investigations into violations of fundraising rules, particularly rules that forbid municipalities, Metis communities, post-secondary institutions and provincial agencies, boards and commissions funded by the Alberta government from donating to political parties. | <urn:uuid:163d1d10-6b8e-456b-aa06-d96a9a790353> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Legislation+will+extend+terms+municipal+politicians+four/7537234/story.html | 2017-05-25T05:20:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607998.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525044605-20170525064605-00304.warc.gz | en | 0.95501 | 550 | [
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Have you tried doing a reset, that is pressing on the recessed reset button (either at the rear or underneath)? Of course, this will also erase all user settings/configurations.
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.
Good luck and kind regards.
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I need to move 8 of my email accounts to a different PC that already has MS Outlook running on it with a number of other email addresses that I need to monitor. I would prefer not to add the new email addresses to Outlook and would prefer to access them on a separate email client. What are the best choices in this regard? Obviously, Outlook and the client would need to play nice with each other, but that shouldn't be a problem, these days should it? I ask because the last time I needed to do this, I used Outlook and Eudora and they did not have any issues with each other, even running simultaneously. Yes, I know, I am getting old... I don't think that it exists, but an email client that works with Outlook calendar invites would be ideal. Thanks! | <urn:uuid:1f9576ea-6fec-4d72-84e0-6babecb34e2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/best-non-outlook-email-client.205987/ | 2017-05-26T05:41:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608642.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526051657-20170526071657-00124.warc.gz | en | 0.98085 | 163 | [
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We departed with snow on the ground and returned to a tropical paradise. Time to hunt for the sun hats, t-shirts and factor 50+. However, the weather was not the only surprise. The rabbits had being doing what rabbits do and there were micro-bunnies nestled in the grass in the orchard. Fortunately they were too small for the pot and were gently deported into the field and given a stern warning about trespassing.
I try to garden in a wildlife friendly manner, but sometimes the other inhabitants of Ardivachar Headland take advantage and squatters’ rights. One of our local pairs of Oystercatchers decided that my new gravel garden was the perfect des res in which to start a family.They are sitting very tight, and we are having to dash out to the greenhouse or compost bin to try to minimise the disturbance. However, the incubators seem unperturbed, they just waddle off quietly and hide behind the fence until we’ve gone. With an incubation period of 24-27 days, the garden is going to get very weedy while we wait for the egg to hatch. Normally 2-3 eggs are laid, so it is either a second attempt or one or more of the eggs was predated while we were away.
The garden was looking very sparse at the end of April, reluctant to spring into life as the strong northerly winds brought cold arctic air and clear skies. However, as soon as the wind direction changed and the north-easterly winds immersed us warm continental air, the herbaceous beds took on a bright green, lush tropical hue. It was the start of the annual chickweed wars and it was growing faster than I could remove it. Underneath this all enveloping green duvet, my plants are struggling for light and air. This happens every year, and despite my best efforts, I never seem to gain a semblance of control. I have tried mulches and various planting strategies, but with no success. It seems that I’m destined to spend most of my summers on my hands and knees weeding and cultivating Hebridean Zen.
Although it has been a cold start to the growing season, in the polytunnel the plants have benefitted from the sunshine and the protection from the chilling winds. We are eating spinach on a daily basis with lettuce, rocket, radishes and beetroot in various combinations for lunch. Can one have too much of a good thing? One of the delights of this time of year are the first green vegetables and I’m watching the strawberries in anticipation. We’ve already sampled the first new potatoes and picked the first peas. Our winter peas have been an outstanding success and I am amazed that they produced a crop at all. For the first time we are able to eat small, sweet home-grown peas before July! Fortunately there are plenty of pods as the temptation to eat them straight from the plant is almost irresistible.
Outside the vegetable garden remains stubbornly empty (apart from the weeds) with just one bed planted with onions and shallots and one with celeriac. The weather is still very unsettled, the temperature oscillating by 10°C or more as the wind direction changes. The soil is just about warm enough for the carrot and parsnip seeds and I hope that by the time the peas and beans are ready to go out that June will be warm with balmy breezes rather than wet and blustery. It can’t be as bad as last year and the omens are good as my tomato plants are all producing flowers. Wishful thinking, no just an optimistic gardener. | <urn:uuid:d79a390b-06af-497d-abb3-ef9e74400b7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://croftgarden.wordpress.com/2016/05/ | 2017-05-26T05:27:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608642.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526051657-20170526071657-00124.warc.gz | en | 0.973694 | 751 | [
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That is a lot of happy snoozing we see :)Enjoy your Easy Sunday!Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ
I'll join you in a minute. Just have to finish up breakfast. xx
Sure making good use of all the space, enjoy your snoozes
It is a good day for a nice long Easy and y'all nailed it! Keep plenty dry everyone!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I love your new header!!Hey kitty friends! Mahoney ya want some baloney?Hugs madi your bfff
How fun. Nothing like a good snooze on a Sunday. You're right, you're babies know how to do easy.Have a purrfect Easy Like Sunday. My best to your wonderful mom. ♥♥♥
OMC, you three! You sure do know how to do the easy. :)Happy Sunday, dear friends.
They love each other's company while sleeping but Mahoney begs to differ heheh!Have an easytastic Sunday :-)
You are just too cute, not to mention pros at Easy Sunday. Happy snoozing!
Nice that everyone is enjoying their "easy!" catchatwithcarenandcody
Such cuties, glad you are all relaxing.
It looks like a purrfect relaxed Easy Sunday ! Purrs
Looks like a nice, peaceful Sunday!
Now that's what I call a great easy!
You all are having such good snoozes.
Oh, to be able to lie on a windowsill and stretch out in the sunbeams!
You kitties are the easy experts
Happy Snoozing! That's what Sundays were made for!
That is some good Easy Sunday stuff going on there. We had a good Easy going too but the flashy beast came along and disturbed it. Mom wasn't happy because we ruined her shot. Better luck next time:)Woos - Lightning and Misty
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How to Save Money When Going Out
You’re broke. I get it.
That doesn’t mean you should be sitting at home on your ass. It just means you need to get smarter when it comes to spending those limited funds. With nearly a lifetime of experience in being broke, I’ve learned a thing or two about stretching a dollar. Here I’ll try to translate that into more drunken nights on less money.
1. Find a bar and become a regular.
It is a known fact that a regular’s dollar goes further than your dollar. This doesn’t mean you have to be best friends with the bouncer or bartender. Just make sure they recognize your face—and for the right reasons. Tip well, be patient and don’t be fancy with your ordering. If you’re patient, you’ll eventually be rewarded with free and/or stronger drinks. But don’t expect this treatment every time, and don’t forget to tip even when the drinks are free.
2. Tip as you go.
I know a lot of people say to leave a big tip on your first drink so as to ensure proper treatment throughout the night, but this is a gamble. At busier bars, sometimes the bartenders switch off and you’ll be stuck with someone who has no clue you left a $50 early on in the night. So tip as you go to avoid losing out big in the beginning.
3. Buy two drinks at a time and tip as if you only ordered one.
You should always tip—but if you’re trying to save cash, sometimes combining the order can save you a couple bucks. Sure, you probably look cheap as hell, but at least you’re playing by the rules.
4. Don’t buy from shot girls or any female for that matter.
No matter how broke you are you’ll end up tipping more than you should because you are weak. Trust me.
5. Don’t buy people shots, buy pitchers of beer.
Not only is it cheaper up front, but you still end up with a bunch of people feeling like they owe you something. In the best case scenario, offer to buy the first pitcher without making a big deal about it—and make sure you pour everyone a beer. As long as you plan on hanging out with those same people (and they aren’t assholes), you’ll be drinking free the rest of the night.
6. Drink the good stuff first and then switch to the cheap stuff.
Obviously as you get more drunk, you’ll quickly realize you can’t taste the difference between Patron and that curious clear liquid on the bathroom floor. At that point, it’s not worth wasting money on something you’ll never remember anyway. Spend accordingly.
7. Beware “specials.”
Just because Patron is two for one shots tonight, does not mean you should order it. It’s still likely more expensive than anything you would normally order, and well…that’s just ridiculous.
8. Set your budget before you leave your place.
If you put $40 in your wallet you’re going to spend $40. If you put $70 in there, you’re going to spend $70. Get the picture?
9. This should go without saying, but pregame if at all possible.
Not only is the beer cheaper, but maintaining your buzz will be infinitely more manageable once you’re at the bar or club. Instead of dropping all your money to get your buzz going, you can order a drink to sip on and spend your time socializing instead of standing around waiting at the bar.
10. Buy what’s on draft.
It’s almost always cheaper than buying by the bottle. I usually order draft until I’m ready to start moving around a bit and then I’ll get a bottle to carry around with me.
11. If you’re going to be a baller and tip ridiculous, leave $20s not $50s.
They carry the same general effect and you can do it more often. Plus you’re less likely to wake up the next day wondering how you’re going to pay rent.
12. Bring a close female friend, and make sure it’s ladies night.
You’ll be drinking free all night long. Just make sure it’s not a female friend you’re interested in romantically as you’re probably going to lose all your dignity.
13. It sounds dumb, but get to know your cheap beers.
Often times bars will jack up the price a bit on Budlight bottles or Miller Lite because they know that’s what most people default to. If you know a few alternative cheap beers, and your goal is to get drunk fast, you’ll be in a better position to stretch that dollar.
14. If you plan on going to a bar that has a cover, try to get a on list.
This will keep you from waiting in line and sometimes avoid paying a cover. Just scan Facebook for someone working for a promoting company and message them. They need you just as badly as you need them.
15. Figure out the food situation before you start drinking.
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This is a very short summary of what I view as the 5 most important facts in understanding alternative models for LDS truth claims. To the best of my knowledge, every point made in this document is accepted as factual by both LDS and non-LDS scholars (please correct me if I am mistaken and I will alter the document).1
1. The 3rd facsimile is incorrectly translated
Joseph Smith mis-translated the characters above the heads of the figures in the third facsimile.
Joseph refers to Egyptian characters in specific locations on facsimile 3 and he gives a translation. This translation does not match the translation made by BYU scholars. The Book of Abraham lds.org essay generally admits “the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham.”
- The Joseph Smith Papyri (youtube)
- The Book of Abraham: Criticisms, Defenses, and Implications
- LDS Essay – “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham” (lds.org)
- A response to “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham” (Dr. Robert Ritner)
2. The Book of Mormon is packed with 19th century ideas
The well-known Mormon historian Richard Bushman recently observed:
The Book of Mormon has a lot of nineteenth-century Protestant material in it, both in terms of theology and of wording. I am looking for an explanation of how and why it is there.
The Book of Mormon is similar to books of its time, and it addresses concerns specific to 1830 Protestant America. By any measure it contains an immense number ideas, phrases, and theology common to the early nineteenth century. Here are two examples of many:
- There are many points of similarity with the sermons of Jonathon Edwards Jr. and Sr.
- The book “The Late War”, by Gilbert Hunt, is very similar to the Book of Mormon in style and content. It contains extensive chiastic structures, like the Book of Mormon, and it also contains many similar Hebraisms.
- Religious and Historical influences on the Book of Mormon (Thomas Donofrio)
- Anachronistic Christian Doctrine in the Book of Mormon (LDS Church is True Blog)
- Protestant material in the book of Mormon (my compilation)
- Anachronistic Biblical phrasing derived from the 19th century (exmormon subreddit)
- New Approaches to the Book of Mormon (signature books)
3. Spiritual confirmations are common to members of many religions
Members interpret spiritual experiences as a confirmation that their faith is true. But these confirmations are common to members of many faiths (e.g., Judaism, Catholicism, Seventh Day Adventist, Scientology, Islam, and Divine Truth), many of which hold central tenets that flatly contradict core LDS doctrines.
- Testimony, Spiritual Experiences, and Truth: A Careful Examination (bwv549)
- Testimonies of Other Faiths
- Spiritual feelings appear to confirm contradictory positions
4. LDS leaders taught that the Priesthood/Temple ban was divine
A 1949 First Presidency statement declared:
The attitude of the Church with reference to Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord…
And a 1969 First Presidency letter stated:
Our living prophet, President David O. McKay, has said, “The seeming discrimination by the Church toward the Negro is not something which originated with man; but goes back into the beginning with God…Revelation assures us that this plan antedates man’s mortal existence, extending back to man’s preexistent state.”
The Lowry Nelson letters and the Stewart Udall letters demonstrate the unwavering confidence Church leaders of that time had in the divinity of the Black Priesthood/Temple ban and the doctrines and teachings supporting it as well as the manner in which dissent may be treated in the Church.
5. Joseph Smith’s polygamy is ethically problematic
In a recent interview, the most faithful LDS apologists on polygamy recounted the feelings of reviewers of their recent book on the topic: “At the end of the book [the book reviewer] didn’t get a warm fuzzy feeling and that’s not really something we think we can deliver with this topic.”
- Joseph frequently misled others about practicing polygamy.
- Joseph was sealed twice to the Partridge sisters in order to hide the first sealing from Emma.
- Joseph promised a 14 year old girl—one who said “I hated polygamy with my heart”—that, in her own words, “If you will take this step, it will ensure your eternal salvation and exaltation & that of your father’s household & all of your kindred.”
- After other failed proposals to Zina Huntington, Joseph wrote to the seven month pregnant mother—happily newlywed to Jacob Huntington—the he (Joseph) had “put it off and put it off until an angel with a drawn sword has stood before me and told me if I did not establish that principle [plurality of wives] and live it, I would lose my position and my life and the Church could progress no further.” (source)
- Year of Polygamy (Lindsay Hansen Park)
- Mormon Polygamy Documents (all documents on Joseph Smith’s polygamy)
- Joseph Smith’s Polygamy (LDS polygamy apologist)
- LDS Essay – “Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo” (lds.org)
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It's cheap - but any other laptop could to the same job. Other used laptops may be even better and cheaper. Does thee EEE offer special (gps) hardware or other methods making it superior to OLPC, Cloudbook etc.? Should we name every hardware which might run software for gps tasks? --traut 14:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- I don't have an EEE yet, but apart from it being cheap it's very small, already has Linux on it, and needs special treatment because JOSM doesn't cope well with the resolution at the moment. It is also very attractive to the technically-minded crowd which OSM also recruits a lot of people from. If the OLPC was as easy to get as the EEE, we would probably see a Wiki page about it here as well. Not sure about the Cloudbook, it certainly has had much less press coverage. --Colin Marquardt 16:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- I expect the XO (OLPC) will get a page once the first OSM'er gets one -- a step-by-step on installing typical OSM applications and GPS connections on Sugar would be a useful addition to the wiki.
- My main reason for highlighting the EEE was that its small size, weight, linux compatibility, and low cost make it ideal for lots of mapping uses (e.g. cycling or camping trips) People thinking of buying one may want to know in advance how many of the apps they can expect to run, and how easy they are to install (remember this isn't a 'standard' OS like most used laptops come with Ubuntu or Windows) Ojw 20:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- Does Bluetooth work? And is it possible to connect a BT 'GPS mouse'?--Polyglot 21:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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- “(Nighttown is) such a cool venue…(there’s) an intimacy that close quarters inspire between performer and audience…everyone who comes into (Nighttown) is almost like friends…the audience really supports (Nighttown) more than almost all the venues we’ve ever played…the audiences are the caretakers of the room, and they really keep it alive.” Thanks, Cheryl Bentyne, The Manhattan Transfer.
- Nighttown’s New Chef Brings the Venerable Restaurant into Modern Times
- New Chef at Nighttown
- Thanks, Debbi Snook at The Plain Dealer, for the great review.
Nighttown - One of the 25 Restaurants Cleveland Can't Live Without -- The closest thing Cleveland has to an Algonquin Round Table is Nighttown, a New York-style supper club that attracts a most deliciously diverse clientele. Named by Down Beat magazine as one of the world's "100 Great Jazz Clubs," Nighttown draws the serious music fans for sure. But there is far more to the joint than hot licks and cool chords. The menu is decidedly old-school but well-executed, with dishes like whole artichokes, roast duck, trout amandine and Dublin Lawyer ruling the roost. The comfortably appointed dining rooms, bar and patio burble with conversation as doctors, professors, writers, artists and students exchange bon mots over bouron and beer. It's this rare triple identity - as serious restaurant, inspired jazz club, and especially as living room to an intellectual community - that makes people continue to flock to "The Top of the Hill.- Scene Magazine
Best Jazz Club -- Nighttown has been the anchor of Cleveland's jazz scene since 1965, and it's only grown smoother with age. Acts like Benny Green, Eliane Elias, Kurt Elling, Joe Lovano and Brad Mehldau have made Nighttown one of Down Beat's 100 Best Jazz Clubs in the World. There's live music four nights a week (or more) year-round, and you can listen from any of its cozy settings: a warm, welcoming bar area, a casual lounge, an intimate private dining room, an all-weather outdoor area, and a more formal main dining room. No matter where you sit, you'll hear world-class music and, we predict, feel 20 times cooler than you really are.- Scene Magazine
Best Jazz Club -- Besides boasting the best-sounding live music room in all of Cleveland, Nighttown is also one of the few places in the entire nation that still treats aging jazz legends like the icons they are. But it's not about the old-school here; plenty of young jazz stars stop in on their way up the ladder.- Scene Magazine
Best Place to Hear Live Jazz/Best Jazz Club in Cleveland -- With its up-close seating and fine acoustics, Nighttown is the place to take in all the live jazz that your heart desires. Featuring a jam-packed schedule that includes national acts one or more times a week, a fine selection of wine and an excellent menu (the Nighttown Steamers is a personal favorite), Nighttown continues its run as the best place in town for jazz.- Free Times Reader's Choice Awards
Best Sunday Brunch" & "Best Live Music- Circle East Magazine
- Best Suburban Hotspot (East) Award to Nighttown — thanks, Cleveland Magazine!!
- “Nighttown continues longtime tradition of fine food & hot jazz,” says the Heights Observer.
- Check out the reviews in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine and Currents monthly magazine.
- “Best Sunday Brunch” from Cleveland Magazine.
- “Best Music Venue” from Patch.com 2012.
- “Best Outdoor Dining” from Citysearch 2010.
- We are also much honored by Northern Ohio Live for their Award of Achievement.
- Nighttown was voted Cleveland’s Best Romantic Restaurant in AOL’s 2010 poll.
- Nighttown was voted Cleveland’s Best Place for Live Music in AOL’s 2009 poll:
- Intimate, acoustically delightful and jam-packed with aficionados of the nations great musical invention, theres no better place for jazz for hundreds of miles than this highly regarded restaurant and club in Cleveland Heights, named by jazz bible Downbeat Magazine as one of the top 100 jazz clubs in the world. International, national and local acts pepper a busy schedule which features shows nightly, and many without a cover.
Best Jazz Club -- The intimate, inviting concert room has the best acoustics of any venue in town. It's also one of the few local clubs that places the audience within spitting distance of the musicians. It all makes for a comfy, rewarding experience.- Free Times Reader's Choice Awards
Best Place to Hear Live Jazz/Best Jazz Club in Cleveland" & "Best Outdoor Dining in Cleveland- Free Times Reader's Choice Awards
Best Late-Night Dining- NorthernOhioLive Best Restaurants
Best Late-Night Dining" & "Best Ambiance- NorthernOhioLive Best Restaurants
Best Hip Jazz Locale" & "Best Late-Nite Dining" & "Best Alfresco Dining- NorthernOhioLive Best Restaurants
Best Late-NiteDining & Best Alfresco Dining- NorthernOhioLive Best Restaurants
First Place "Best Live Entertainment- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
First Place "Best Dining Ambiance- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Outdoor Dining, Best Community Spirit & Best Live Entertainment- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Outdoor Dining," "Best Fine Dining" & "Hippest Scen- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Place To Go On A Date Or Celebrate" & "Best Place To Stop For A Drink" & "Best Outdoor Dining- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Date or Special Occasion" & "Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests" & "Favorite Restaurant- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Outdoor Dining & Best Romantic Dinner" (2nd Place for Best Bar & Best Live Performance Venue)- FutureHeights Best of Cleveland Heights
Best Alfresco Dining- Cleveland Jewish News
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Awakening is an arousal from sleep, in a literal or a figurative sense.
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- The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
- Irving Babbitt, Representative Writings (1981), pp. xvi-xvii
- Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.
- Henri Bergson, On Intuition vs. Intellect (1907)
- Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains."
- John 9:39-41
- Just as a blind man might find a jewel amongst heaps of rubbish, so this Spirit of Awakening has somehow arisen in me.
- Santideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, V. Wallace and B. Wallace, trans. (1997), § 3.27
- How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.
- John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 183-184
- I remember when I first went to Singapore. I marveled at how planned everything was. But the sense of marvel was not totally positive. They had everything laid out for you: where you were going to be born, what you were going to do as a child, where you were going to get your education, where they would channel you when you’d go to work. They had things planned out for your retirement, and then for your death. It gives rise to the feeling that you might as well go ahead and die and get it over with, if that was going to circumscribe the totality of your life. But thinking about the possibility that true awakening can be found through your efforts: that breaks through those circumscribed limits. That’s not part of anybody else’s plan, but that can be part of your plan. And to whatever extent you can nurture that conviction, it keeps your heart nurtured and nourished as well.
- Thanissaro, Conviction and Confidence (2010)
- I hearing get, who had but ears,
- And sight, who had but eyes before,
- I moments live, who lived but years,
- And truth discern, who knew but learning’s lore.
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Do You Have Decision-Fatigue?
You know, when you waffle over making decisions that should be simpler than they feel.
You make dozens of decisions every day ranging from simple ones (what to wear in the morning or what to eat) to more complex ones (whether you’ve outgrown a relationship or a job description).
Sure, there are areas of your life where you feel confident. And at other times, you find yourself stuck in a figure eight loop of uncertainty. Have you missed key opportunities because you couldn’t make up your mind? RUSH said it best in their song Freewill, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
Watch the video above and in 5 short minutes, you’ll learn how to make decisions simply, quickly and easily, no matter how complex. In only two steps, you’ll be making the right decision…every time.
Do you know what you value?
Have you used what’s most important to you to guide your decisions?
Do you pay attention to what gives you energy and what drains you of energy?
You have to know yourself to navigate this busy, complex world. Once you get clear on these two points, your decision-making process will be easy.
The TalkRx Community thrives on your comments and it’s a great place to get support. I’d love to hear:
- Where in your life are you confident in your decision-making process?
- What decisions do you struggle with?
Have a question for me? #AskDoctorNeha on Twitter.
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Azerbaijan, Baku, March 17 / Trend E. Ismayilov /
The Azerbaijani State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) will bring its own gold reserves up to 30 tons by late 2013, SOFAZ head Shahmar Movsumov said in an interview with The Business Year: Azerbaijan 2013.
"According to SOFAZ current investment policy, up to five percent of our investment portfolio may fall to gold," he said. "We started making our investments in this kind of assets in February 2012 and acquired about 15 tons by the end of last year."
He said that as a kind of assets, gold has several unique characteristics that make it attractive to investors. Gold can act as an effective tool of hedging inflation and currency risks in the long term prospect. Moreover, gold ensures protection against high volatility in the financial markets during economic downturns.
SOFAZ buys physical gold on the London Metal Exchange and temporarily stores it in JP Morgan's London vault.
SOFAZ has already begun bringing gold to Azerbaijan. The first batch of gold was imported into the country on January 11, the second batch - on February 1 and the third batch - on March 1.
Referring to the plans for this year, Movsumov stressed that 2012 was marked by SOFAZ's entering the state securities market, real estate and gold. SOFAZ extended the exposure of currency portfolio, which includes the Australian dollar, the Russian ruble and Turkish lira in 2012. SOFAZ will continue working in this direction, as well as to further diversify the investment portfolio in 2013.
"We plan to increase our exposure for public and private shares," he said. "We will also strengthen our position in the real estate. Currently, we are examining new regions attractive for making investments in property."
According to SOFAZ's investment strategy, up to 5 % of SOFAZ investment portfolio may be invested in assets, up to 5 % - in real estate and up to 5 % - in gold for the first time since 2012.
SOFAZ was established in 1999 when its assets amounted to $271 million. As of Jan. 1, 2013, SOFAZ's assets hit $34.129 billion.
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Project image is an updated look of what I am expecting my printer to look like. I have 80mm X runners instead of the 40's in the original build and decided to make some angle brackets to help support them.
Just started my OX build. Going to attempt to used 3D Printed plates as I have a large printer that is capable of printing them - even the main gantry ones.
Also intend to go a little bit bigger with my build - currently I have some extrusions allowing for a 1500 by 1000 build. Will have to do some evaluating to make sure the system can handle this big of a build as ultimately I want to be able to put on a large spindle to allow for aluminum cutting. As another builder mentioned - can always reduce size if needed.
I am also planning to use a Smoothieboard I already have, biggest concern is its ability to drive the NEMA 23 steppers (amperage). It is a nice board and has additional mosfets to drive the spindle and anything else - has 2 high amp mosfets (12A, up to 24V) and 2 lower power mosfets ( 5A, up to 24V ). Smoothieboard guide to CNC
For a spindle/router I may look at building one of the RC motor spindle as show in another project. Looking for the URL for that project but currently cannot find it - did download the design files though.
Here are my 3D printed plates - very strong but not as good as aluminum I imagine.
Made some 3D Printed parts today for my build - made some NEMA 23 Spacers and some 80mm angle brackets. The spacers were actually designed by Robert Hummel in his build, I just converted them from CNC cut to 3D printable files.
I started gantry assembly. I decided to bolt the two X rails together to make them as ridge as possible. The main gantry image is just a test assembly, I am going to take it apart and make a final assembly. Have a couple clearance issues I need to fix before proceeding.
Frame put together with gantry - waiting on GT2 belts and pully's.
Printed the 80mm angle brackets but during assembly I had a DU moment and realized they were going to get in the way of my gantry Y movement! Here is a picture of them anyway - may use them to mount the frame to the table.
An OX build - little large than specs and plates 3D printed
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Rascal Flatts’ Longtime Managers Sue Band
Rascal Flatts are being sued by their former longtime managers, Turner Nichols, according to Courtroom News Service. The Nashville-based management company is seeking a 15% cut from the band’s upcoming tour, which they claim to have negotiated.
“We are disappointed they have chosen to file as we had hoped to address these issues privately, however we hope that this can be resolved amicably,” the band said in a statement today (April 14).
The suit, which was filed in Davidson County Chancery Court, names the band and its three members: Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus. According to Turner Nichols, the band paid the management company’s fee until their parting in February, but they are owed commission through June 2013. Additionally, they are demanding payment for TV appearances and DVDs that it negotiated.
The management company also cites their longtime relationship beginning “when the defendants were struggling and unknown singers, initially financing their careers out of the plaintiff’s own funds. The plaintiff has guided the defendants’ careers to success as internationally famed singers and recording artists, as multi-platinum record sellers, and as tremendously successful touring artists who have achieved astounding financial success, earning hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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FolderMemo is a note pad application to be able to manage the memo with the folder.
It is possible to set the password of each folder respectively.
The coordinated function of "Evernote" and "Twitter" is installed.
Because it is possible to put a check in the note pad, it is possible to use it as a simple Todo list.
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I've been meaning to get a new psu for quite some time now. I built my first computer two years ago and purchased a no name brand generic 450watt psu for $20. I needed it at the time just to build my system and test things out before getting comfortable. I was going to replace it with something better and a bit more reliable long ago but I guess I got "too comfortable".
My psu still works but I don't trust it now that I have quite a bit of expensive hardware in my pc. During the process of building my pc I purchased a lot of expensive equipment such as my $400 sound card, $200 rare cpu, and other such things. I also attach a lot of expensive hardware to my usb ports every now and than such as my 500GB Seagate Free Agent Pro backup drive, or 80GB I Pod.
As mentioned my psu still works to this day, but I am beginning to lose confidence in it. For starters every time I open the side of my pc case to blow off any internal dust the psu begins to howl when I boot it up for the first time. The howl lasts about 1-2 minutes and than goes away never to be heard from again. I can than go on my pc day in and day out restarting and turning it off without a problem. It will not make that sound until I go off and dust the inside of my pc again with a can of compressed air, and than reboot for the first time. I was told that this may be dust collecting in the bearings of the psu fan trying to spit it's way out because I probably blow the can of compressed air around too much. I was also told by someone that it could be some type of residue the can of compressed air leaves behind that my psu does not like and tries to spew out!
Nevertheless it has occurred to me that the explanations my close confidant suggested may be wrong. The reason being because my psu howls during other instances such as when I unplug my pc for over 30 minutes, and when I move my pc around. I'm a bit weary of this psu and really want to change it. The lights go out in my area a lot and brownouts occur as well. I know I need a UPS box too but first things first no?
Anyways the psu in my pc is 450watts so I'd like to get the same wattage if possible since I find no reason to have more [my pc runs fine as it is]. It also has to be a 20 pin psu because my motherboard doesn't take anything else. I have absolutely no idea what psu I should get. I have no knowledge whatsoever when it comes to psu's. To be honest I'm lost!! I don't even know which brand names are the best and which ones to stay away from. I'm hoping more than one of you can suggest a very good psu that can last me a long time. One that would be reliable and handle bad electrical currents and problems due to the air conditioner at home turning on or heater if possible. Now I know that's more of a job for an UPS box but I hear some psus filter out bad stuff which is what I want. I also hear some are good agaisnt surges and power outs. Oh and one more thing IT MUST BE A VERY VERY VERY QUIET PSU BECAUSE I AM AN AUDIO ENGINEER WHO RECORDS AUDIO IN THE VERY SAME ROOM MY PC IS IN. Any noises will be recorded when I'm working [even a snap of a finger]. So it is very important that I get one that is as silent as possible [it doesn't have to have so many fans inside - one seems like enough].
BUDGET: $50-$100 MAX
Here go my pc specs in case your wondering what's under the hood:
HP Vectra VL400
Lin Lin Socket Adapter
P3 Socket 370 (Tualatin 1.4Ghz)
512MB PC133 Infineon Sdram
80GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
120GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
10GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive
500GB Seagate Free Agent Pro External Usb/Esata Hard Drive
LG Dual Layer DVD-RAM +/-/R/RW (x2)
Windows Xp Home w/Service Pack 2
ATI Sapphire Radeon 9550 256MB 128Bit AGP4X V+D+T
M Audiophile 192 Professional Sound Card
HP Ultra VGA 1280 17'' CRT Monitor
Deer 450 Watt PSU w/20/24 Pin Connector
Mad Catz Analog Joystick USB Pc Controller
Cooler Master Silent Led Light Fans (x3)
Mutant Mods Acrylic Atx/Micro Atx Case
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|There's more than one way to do things|
Well, I'll repeat some of the feedback you've been given by more than one person that you seem unwilling to listen to.
I see no point in so much code just to restrict what I can do with my personal nodelet. I'd much rather just have a text box. Then I can very easily move things around with cut'n'paste in a WYSIWIG manner (instead of pretending like I'm programming in BASIC and renumbering my lines -- which is an okay interface for web-based reordering in some ways, but doesn't even come close to just being able to move things around with cut'n'paste). I'd like to be able to copy the contents into an editor and sort them or run Perl on them, or whatever. Why make such a complex interface when it mainly restricts what I can do when a very simple (nearly trivial) interface it so much easier to use and more powerful?
I'd rather you rename the node "Personal Nodelet Settings" to match the naming of the other personal settings pages (though there may not be much point in having it as a separate page when it becomes mostly just a single text box).
I guess you didn't bother to look too much at existing data you'd have to deal with before you wrote this code. You said it was "fully tested". Do you bother to test it on any existing personal nodelets? How can you consider that "fully"?
Though such values are outside the scope of the original design of the nodelet so I'm not that concerned that people might have to fix their nodelets to work again (or better).
In fact, I'd just run a quick s/<br>/]<br />\n\[/ on everyone's settings and delete a bunch of code (and test, etc.) and be done. Nearly every aspect of the nodelet now become simple one-liners.
Update: Added a missing "not".
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These are installed at North Metro Atlanta homes that have soggy lawns with poor grading, or wet basements and crawl spaces. They are sometimes referred to as agricultural, land, rubble, perimeter, sub-soil, or rock drains. Whenever it rains, or you have melting snow on your property, the moisture flows downhill and it can accumulate next to your exterior foundation walls, or in low-lying areas of your lawn. This isn't just an eyesore, but it can also seep into the soil and cause problems for your existing landscaping, or it may actually find its way into your home via basement wall or floor cracks. This can lead to expensive and serious damage.
What Do They Do?
They provide an easy channel for moisture to flow through. This water will run through the trench and into a perforated pipe which will then empty a safe distance away from the home and low-lying areas of the lawn. This means that you will never again need to deal with giant puddles or ponds of water which have built-up on your lawn.
The trench should be sloped about an inch for every 8 feet in the direction you want the moisture to flow.
The water will be able to be diverted to:
- Drainage ditches
- Dry wells
- The city's sewage system
Building a Retaining Wall
If you are getting a decorative wall installed on your property, you are going to need a French drainage system set up. It should be placed behind the first set of stones or blocks in the wall. If you choose to not get one put in place, water flowing down the hill will build-up behind the wall. Eventually, this will either cause serious problems with erosion, or it may damage the retaining wall to the point of needing certain sections replaced.
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Interwrite Updates Bluetooth Classroom Pad
Interwrite Learning has announced an update to its Interwrite Pad, a wireless (Bluetooth) interactive pad designed for classroom use.
The Interwrite Pad allows teachers to create interactive whiteboards using any surface in a classroom in conjunction with a digital projector. It also provides remote access to the teacher's computer and lesson materials. Multiple Pads can be used in the same classroom.
The new version of Interwrite Pad receives adjustments to its look and feel and also now comes bundled with Interwrite Workspace, which normally sells for $249. Workspace is a teaching software that provides educators with more than 4,000 K-12 teaching resources, including Interwrite Sims, which is a library of educational Flash files. Workspace also includes access to Interwrite's online library of lessons created by teachers.
In addition to providing Workspace free with new Interwrite Pd units, Interwrite is also offering free upgrades to current Pad users. (See link below.)
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About the author: David Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's online education technology publications, including THE Journal and Campus Technology. He can be reached at [email protected]
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PUBLISHED BY Joshua Clare-Flagg ON 20 Feb, 2017.
Christopher Ward released the latest iterations of their long standing Malvern range earlier this month. The obvious change was the new logo; but there’s more to the Mk3’s than just that. They feature the brand new case shape; and this model – the C3 Chronograph – has a new movement within which alters the dial configuration completely. Before, the subdials were laid out at 10-2-6, but now we have a hint of IWC Portugieser thanks to the 12-6 layout.
Costing £350, it’s still a great price for a Swiss Made chronograph, so let’s take a closer look. I’ve only had the watch for less than a week, so here are my brief thoughts.
- Dimensions: 39mm diameter x 10mm height x 46mm lug to lug
- Weight: 60g
- Movement: Ronda 3520.D
- Water resistance: 30m / 3ATM
- Lug width: 20mm
- Price: £350
The dial on this model is a classy off-white champagne colour. The dials are available in a domed opalin (this one) or sunray (like the C5 Mk III I reviewed here) finishes.
The sub-dials have a very light concentric circular pattern at a lower level, providing gentle depth and texture to the dial. I like them being located at 12 and 6, as mentioned previously I think it’s a classy layout which lends itself to an IWC Portugieser.
The beveled date window is an interesting design. It has two cambers above and below which introduce the wheel itself with the dial.
The main minute and hour pitched hands are blued, which are a classy touch and works well with the off-white dial. They also provide good legibility as the other hands are all steel colour, so you don’t get distracted by them.
The dial features polished applied baton hour markers – but you need to be aware that they are located at every other hour. This is a design feature, but personally I would prefer to have them at every hour as I’m not too sure why you wouldn’t. At the base of the hour markers is a fine channel which splits the dial up.
The left-aligned logo is at 9, and I think it looks perfect on this watch thanks to the subdial layout.
The dial as a whole is well executed and looks quality.
The new Malvern style case is very fluid and features “light catcher lines”. It’s an incredibly pleasant design, which create a slimmer profile on the wrist. This results in it being very comfortable on the wrist, especially as the diameter and weight is already easy to wear.
Whereas the C5 Mk III and the C1 Grand Malvern cases are fully polished, here we have brushed sides. The polished facets include the top, bezel and caseback. The introduction of the brushed finish makes this model slightly more casual, therefore a bit easier to wear in day-to-day life.
The piston-inspired pushers are great to look at and easy to use. They feedback well and give you a nice click.
The push-down crown feature the twin-flag motif deeply and accurately engraved.
The twin-flag also features in the centre of the caseback, which has an engraved centrepiece with specifics surrounding it.
Sitting on top of the dial is a domed sapphire crystal, with an effective layer of anti-reflective coating.
As is always the case with Christopher Ward, the strap is made of very good quality leather. It’s comfortable, soft and supple. It also has the twin flags pattern printed on the underside.
The width is 20mm wide at the lugs, reducing down to 18mm at the buckle – the perfect size to match the dimensions of the case.
The strap features quick release pins; something that should be on every strap going in my opinion – they just make changing straps so easy and ensure no tool marking if you need to remove them.
The polished tang buckle features the left aligned Christopher Ward logo deeply engraved on the one side, which looks in place nicely.
The movement powering the C3 Mk3 is the quartz Ronda 3520.D. It’s not a movement I’ve come across before, but I do like what it offers. Firstly, the setup of the subdials located at 12 and 6 is a little bit different, plus it offers a full 12 hour chrono which is unusual for a quartz.
The big second hand is the running chronograph seconds, whilst the running seconds is located at 6. The subdial at 12 contains 2 hands, which displays the minutes and hours of the chronograph. Each rotation of the minute hand is 30 minutes.
It’s Swiss Made and battery powered, boasting 4 jewels and is gold plated.
It has a 54 month battery life. The movement is practical, will prove to be reliable, and a little bit different too.
It’s a shame the C3 Chronograph has seen a price increase (I reviewed the Mk II here, priced at £250), but it’s obvious to see that the watch in itself is higher quality. The obvious contender for this is the lovely new case, which is a splendid shape and equally as well finished. The dial itself also looks a lot better. It feels that the overall quality has been upped, which in my mind is a good thing – at least the price hike has a reason behind it and you are getting more for your money.
It’s a lovely looking watch, and £350 is completely suitable for a Swiss Made quartz chronograph. Don’t forget you get a 5 year warranty with Christopher Ward watches, as well as great customer service; something that is worth something on its own. The only thing to be aware of is the hour markers missing on every other hour. | <urn:uuid:a3f16c26-ce97-45d8-ad39-f6e157998605> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.watchitallabout.com/christopher-ward-c3-malvern-chronograph-mk-iii-watch-review/ | 2017-05-24T07:55:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607806.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524074252-20170524094252-00333.warc.gz | en | 0.962247 | 1,267 | [
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What makes a piece of art “Jewish”?
Must it consider a subject with an explicitly Jewish theme? Does it have to be about Israel, or the Holocaust, or bear a Jewish symbol, or reference some other idea with great cultural cache? Must the work of art deal in bar mitzvahs and bagels and the Torah or a Jewish text to hold within it the essence of Judaism? Or can an artist and a participant learn something, improve upon something, contribute something to a rich cultural and religious Jewish life by focusing not on what makes us different, but rather, by the close examination of where the edges of one idea bleed into another?
Liz Lerman, a world-renowned choreographer, activist, educator, founder of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and a Covenant Foundation grantee, has been thinking about these “porous borders” as she debuts her latest creation, the theatrical dance production “Healing Wars” which opened at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC in June 2014.
“We recognize a piece as being Jewish if its about something Jewish—like the shtetl, or anything we [as a community] have come to decide is a Jewish subject matter,” Lerman said, when asked if her latest work might fall under the rubric of ‘new Jewish text.’ “But lets start with the most essential premise: I’m Jewish. Therefore, anything I do is Jewish too. If I’ve made that piece, then it has to be Jewish.”
“We need to get ourselves out of the “box,” she says. “I have been at various times in the Jewish box, the modern dance box, the post-modern box, the female box, the middle aged female box and soon to be the old-female-white-girl box…I am all those things.”
The same might be said of Lerman’s “Healing Wars.” To call it a dance performance is reductive, and ignores the visuals, the music, the drama, the cinema and the spoken word of the piece. Rather, “Wars” refuses to be defined solely as one thing. At the beginning, in a backstage pre-show, audience members wander through a “living gallery” of portraits—one performer portrays Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross and a volunteer nurse in the Civil War, as she sorts through letters to soldiers. Another “portrait” shows a soldier suffering from what today would be defined as PTSD. He sits in a rocking chair, locked in an attic, as black and white images of violence are projected onto his head via an old-fashioned reel. As audience members wind around the gallery they end up on the stage, where they encounter the actor Bill Pullman, emcee of the performance, in conversation with Paul Hurley, a war veteran and an amputee, who also dances in the show. Pullman and Hurley are engaged in a conversation about Hurley’s service in the U.S. Navy and the attack in Bahrain where he lost his leg.
One witnesses all of this before the dance portion of the performance has even begun. From the moment audience members enter the theater, they are pulled out of their lives and confronted with the “unrest,” as Lerman puts it, that forces one to consider, evaluate, and hopefully, leave the theater perhaps a bit more impassioned to act toward change.
While the content of “Healing Wars” is not explicitly Jewish, the ideas and motives of the piece most certainly are. Part of the Civil War project, which commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, “Healing Wars” considers the experiences of the healers who treated both the physical and emotional wounds of those in battle. Here, as audience members watch dancers and actors portray both the wounded and those who heal them, one can’t help but meditate on ideas of loyalty, compassion, struggle, and resiliency. These are all Jewish ideals. These are all Jewish values.
Then there are the interrelated concepts of loss and death, central to this performance, widely explored and addressed within the laws and customs of Judaism, and ever present in our daily news feed. One can’t help but see “Healing Wars” through the prism of the international conflicts of today, and not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the performance directly addresses. For as the initial run of “Healing Wars” closed in DC, the political situation in Israel rapidly destabilized. Children in Israel and in Gaza cowered in bomb shelters as sirens blared, just as Lerman’s dancers cowered on the stage under the thunder of staccato drum beats.
“The wars are different but the functions don’t change,” Lerman asserted. “A soldier is a soldier and a mother who loses her son is the same as any mother who has ever lost a son in battle. I see “Healing Wars” as an effort to bring the civilian community to its senses about what its like to be at war for this long,” she offers, upon considering the effects of the performance. “I think we’ve numbed ourselves to the fact that it’s happening.”
There’s also the question of what happens after; after war, after death, after the shooting stops and there’s an eerie calm on the battlefield. To begin to try and answer this, Lerman created two characters that represent spirits—one, portrayed by Samantha Speis, is tasked with helping soldiers die and escorting them to “the other side.” This spirit is tired, she’s restless, but she’s also ever-present, on stage in most scenes, gently coaxing the dying toward death.
And then there’s the character portrayed by Keith A. Thompson. He is a wanderer, a former slave. Audience members watch him flit lightly on his toes, floating above the rest, his presence almost ethereal.Lerman explains that in her research she learned that freed slaves often buried the dead in an effort to earn money during the Civil War.
“I see him as Elijah,” Lerman confides, when asked about Thompson’s character. According to the rabbis of Talmudic times, Elijah was a prophet who escorted souls to heaven or hell, and the only hero from the bible who never dies, but rather, leaves the world on a fiery chariot, destined to return when the messiah comes. Some might also see Thompson’s character as a one-man chevrah kadisha, aided by the female spirit, who is perhaps a re-invisioned shechinah.
The multiplicities in Lerman’s work cross the boundaries we routinely erect around social status, religion, race, ethnicity, gender and age. Instead, audience members are free to ponder interconnected ideas, which is precisely as the artist intended.
“Inquiry, questioning, searching for truth, these are pursuits that are shared—by scientists, artists, rabbis—even if we go about it differently, we’re all on that same quest,” Lerman says, though she notes that she feels a certain pride in how Judaism is set up to encourage such questioning. “What [Jews] have to offer is that we’ve thought about and written about moral questioning. Yes, this inquiry may be true of all people, but Judaism has multiple systems within our books to come upon the problem again. Are we being compassionate enough? Are we taking care of each other, enough?”
Lerman wants the art to change you, and its impossible to leave a performance of “Healing Wars” without feeling even a little bit changed. Whether its watching Paul Hurley gently slide his prosthetic limb under a bench and give his full weight to Keith Thompson in a beautiful duet dance, or listening to Bill Pullman argue with the spirit about who shall live and who shall die, or watching footage of American soldiers in Iraq as they stare death in the face and release tension by dancing to a Lady Gaga song. The sights and sounds of this work shake the audience out of complacency.
“I’m interested in people’s potential to create meaning out of their own lives and out of the world around them,” Lerman says. “I’m interested in understanding the way in which one’s own knowledge can be revealed to them through art and how one might emerge from that experience renewed, reconnected, or willing to do something…to realize they have some power in themselves.” | <urn:uuid:30799d3f-f6da-4dcd-83a1-25e2fb88e87b> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.covenantfn.org/sightline/news/5/62/An-Artist-Tackles-Life-Loss-and-What-Comes-Next-Liz-Lerman-s-Healing-Wars-Opens-in-Washington-DC | 2017-05-25T08:33:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00026.warc.gz | en | 0.961992 | 1,842 | [
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JERUSALEM (Mar. 10)
Negotiations for the establishment of a rabbinical seminary in Russia to graduate orthodox rabbis for service in all parts of the U.S.S.R. are now being conducted by the Moscow Jewish Community and central Soviet authorities, it was reported here today by the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council of Palestine.
Vaad Leumi officials stated that their information was based on advices received here from Moscow. They added that the Moscow Jewish Community is now recognized by the Russian Government as the official spokesman on religious affairs for the Jews of Russia. They also revealed that the projected rabbinical seminary, if established, will receive from the Russian Government the same facilities given to seminaries of other religions. | <urn:uuid:ce9a18f2-84ec-4440-b22d-fa46a71d4ed0> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.jta.org/1944/03/12/archive/rabbinical-seminary-planned-in-russia-will-graduate-orthodox-rabbis-for-u-s-s-r | 2017-05-25T08:53:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00026.warc.gz | en | 0.980056 | 156 | [
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The party begins tonight!!!
With performances from:
SIMON de PURY
Celebrate the official opening of Better Days and play a part in one of Mickalene Thomas’ most ambitious installations to date. Check the events page for details.
Check out footage recorded at our preview event, June 10, 2013.
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اتحادیه های کارگری، قدرت چانه زنی و گسترش بازدهی اوراق قرضه شرکتی: چشم اندازهای مدل اعتبار سازه
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|22471||2011||14 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||محاسبه نشده|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 2084–2098
This study investigates labor union effects on bond yield spreads from perspectives of structural credit models by employing American bond observations from 2001 to 2007. This research finds that union strength significantly and positively relates to bond yield spreads (this effect is roughly equal to that of issuer rating for one standard deviation change when controlling for well-known variables). The empirical results also show that the positive effects become weaker when management has higher bargaining power. Additionally, union strength volatility significantly and negatively relates to bond yield spreads and capital structure (leverage). The above results are robust when controlling for credit ratings, collinearity concerns, industry effect and tax effect.
Among structural credit model literature, Merton’s (1974) model is the forerunner and has many extensions. Merton’s (1974) model assumes that firm value follows a diffusion process and default occurs when firm value falls below debt face value (i.e., the default threshold) at the debt maturity date. The model estimates a firm’s asset value from its equity market value using the option-based theory, so that the determinants of an option value, such as asset volatility, firm leverage and others, influence corporate bond values.1 The extended structural credit models add other risk variables into Merton’s (1974) framework, such as interest rate (Longstaff and Schwartz, 1995), optimal capital structure (Leland and Toft, 1996), time-varying default threshold (Collin-Dufresne and Goldstein, 2001), incomplete accounting information (Duffie and Lando, 2001), and default event risk (Driessen, 2005).2 It reveals that both the systematic risk and a firm’s idiosyncratic risk affect corporate credit risk. Recent studies document that a firm’s idiosyncratic risk also plays a significant role in explaining yield spreads (Campbell and Taksler, 2003) and results from a firm’s characteristics or real activities.3 However, few existing studies explore the relations between a firm’s idiosyncratic risk and its real activities. The purpose of this study therefore is to fill part of the important gap by investigating the idiosyncratic risk effects resulting from labor unions on corporate credit risk. Most labor union related studies emphasize on exploring how unions affect the wealth of equity holders rather than that of debt holders and are from the perspectives of profitability and strikes (Lewis, 1986 and Becker and Olson, 1986). According to Merton’s (1974) framework, changes in a firm’s profitability and firm value variations caused by unions may also affect the value of debt holders’ claims, and therefore also the firm’s credit risk. However, few existing studies consider the effects of unions on debt holders’ wealth and incorporate them into corporate credit model settings, or investigate their effects on bond yield spreads from perspectives of structural credit models.4 To address this issue, the current study employs American bond market data to examine the effects of unions on bond yield spreads from structural credit model perspectives. This investigation also contributes to the line of literature of exploring the determinants of corporate bond yield spreads, which is an important topic in credit risk management. This study explores the potential effects of unions on a firm’s credit risk from four perspectives: asset returns, asset volatilities, default thresholds and a firm’s cash flows. The first three are the major elements of Merton’s (1974) structural credit risk framework (also called stock-based credit risk) while the last one is the key element of flow-based credit risk (Chen et al., 2011). Lewis (1986) states, from the viewpoint of asset returns, that unions are commonly linked to wage raises, which generates additional costs on employers so that strong unions have negative impacts on a firm’s productivity and profitability (Clark, 1984 and Vender and Gallaway, 2002). In addition, union work rules which aim to protect union members’ jobs may slow down the production process. Card (1996) shows that union workers earn 17% more than non-union workers. Ruback and Zimmerman, 1984 and Bronars and Deere, 1994 find that union-organizing activities significantly lower a firm’s market value (a proxy for a firm’s future profitability) compared to its industry peer’s. Higher wages demanded by union members lead to higher production costs and lower earnings. Addison and Hirsch (1989) also document a negative impact of unions on a firm’s profitability. Becker and Olson (1986) show that firms lose sales and profits during strikes, which cause a decrease in shareholder wealth.5 As a result, the wage and strike effects suggest that firms facing stronger unions would have lower operating cash flows and asset returns.6 Therefore, from the asset returns perspective, unions increase a firm’s credit risk and bond yield spreads. The effects of unions on asset volatility are twofold: generating uncertainty in operating performance and reducing R&D and risky investments. Becker and Olson (1986) show that firms with unions might face the threat of strike if their wage proposals in the collective bargaining cannot meet unions’ demands. As a result, the threat of strike casts uncertainty on firm operating performance and increases volatility of a firm’s asset value distribution.7 On the other hand, beginning with Connolly et al. (1986), many studies support that union firms have lower capital investments and R&D activities. Chen et al. (forthcoming-a) show that firms in unionized industries adopt a less risky investment policy and this action is beneficial for bondholders’ wealth. The R&D intensity effects of a firm on bondholder returns are not definite in the literature. Hence, from the asset volatility perspective, the effects of unions on bondholders’ wealth are indefinite. Existing studies discuss the effects of unions on default threshold from two angles: capital structure and additional priority claims to a firm’s assets. Regarding capital structure, because a higher level of financial liquidity encourages unions to demand higher wages, unionized firms tend to have a higher debt level which reduces a firm’s liquidity and mitigates union’s wage demand. Bronars and Deere (1991) find a positive relationship between industry unionization rate and industry leverage ratio. Matsa (2010) obtains similar results. In addition, Chapter 7 (liquidation) of bankruptcy rules explicitly regulates that labor claims have a higher priority than secured and unsecured creditors’ claims to bankruptcy liquidation proceeds.8 A firm with higher union strength has a higher average wage which results in higher obligatory payments prior to bond holders’ claims and decreases bond holders’ recovery rate (or almost equivalent in effects to an increase in the level of default threshold). The above two viewpoints suggest a positive relation between union strength and a firm’s credit risk (or bond yield spreads). Hilary (2006) finds that management has an incentive to maintain information asymmetry over outsiders when facing organized labor.9 Information asymmetry contributes to an imprecise knowledge of firm value for outside investors. Firms also have an incentive to engage in earnings management when facing collective bargaining. DeAngelo and DeAngelo (1991) find that US major steel companies suppress earnings before contract negotiation to extract union concessions in 1980s. Since debt holders face greater uncertainty on firm’s asset value distribution (including both asset returns and volatility) under a higher degree of information asymmetry or earnings management, a unionized firm’s credit risk will be higher (Duffie and Lando, 2001, Yu, 2005 and Lu et al., 2010). Summarizing the union effects from the above three perspectives of structural credit models, this study preliminarily proposes that unions decrease a firm’s asset returns and increase its default threshold. Union effects on a firm’s asset volatility are indefinite. Within Merton’s (1974) structural credit model framework, a firm’s asset returns negatively relate to corporate credit risk while the firm’s asset volatility and default threshold positively relate to it. Therefore, this study hypothesizes that union strength positively relates to credit risks from the perspectives of asset returns and default threshold, while the relation is uncertain from asset volatility perspective. Besides the above three perspectives of structural (or also called stock-based) credit models, this study also considers the labor union effects from the perspective of flow-based credit risk (the risk of insufficient liquidity for repaying obligations due). Klasa et al. (2009) suggest that firms hold less cash to shelter corporate income and gain bargaining advantages against unions. They also provide empirical evidences of a negative relation between corporate cash holdings and industrial unionization rate. Holding less cash decreases a firm’s internal liquidity and leads to an increase in the firm’s credit risk. As a result, unions also increase a firm’s credit risk from the perspective of flow-based credit risk. Therefore, both perspectives of structural (or stock-based) and flow-based credit risks suggest that unions increase a firm’s credit risk and its bond yield spreads except for the asset volatility viewpoint. Accordingly, this study hypothesizes that the stronger the union, the more pronounced its effects on firms’ credit risk. This study empirically investigates whether or not union strength significantly influences corporate bond yield spreads when controlling for well-known yield spread determinant variables, such as leverage, equity volatility, maturity, coupon, issuance amount, information uncertainty, information asymmetry, and cash flow volatility, by employing a sample consisting of 1607 firm-year data, which accounts for 5446 annual bond observations from 2001 through 2007. Following Hilary (2006), this study uses the product of labor intensity (later denoted as LINT) and industrial unionization rate (later denoted as R) as the proxy for union strength (later denoted as LSTR). The intuition is that unions’ impacts will be greater for firms in a highly unionized industry and with high labor to capital ratio. Empirical results of this study show that union strength significantly and positively relates to bond yield spreads. The yield spreads increase 21.43 bps per standard deviation increase in union strength. When controlling for credit ratings, leverage ratio and other well-known variables, the influence of union strength on yield spreads is roughly equal to that of issuer (firm) credit rating and approximately a quarter of that of leverage ratio (the yield spreads increase 11.40 bps, 13.21 bps and 45.97 bps per standard deviation increase in union strength, firm credit rating, and leverage ratio, respectively). The results of this research also show that the positive effects of union strength on a firm’s credit risk become weaker when a firm has higher bargaining power (as measured by leverage ratio, cash flow volatility, cash holdings and degree of information asymmetry). Furthermore, union effects are significant when additionally controlling for well-known idiosyncratic risk variables related to incomplete information stated in Duffie and Lando (2001) and others. This study also illustrates that union strength volatility (LSTR_Vol) significantly and negatively relates to bond yield spreads and capital structure (leverage ratio). The results are robust when controlling for credit ratings, collinearity concerns, industry effect and tax effect. Therefore, this study supports that the idiosyncratic risk effects resulting from unions have a substantial impact on corporate credit risks. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the theories and hypotheses. Section 3 summarizes major variables used in the empirical examinations. Section 4 presents and analyzes empirical results. Finally, Section 5 provides concluding remarks.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
Few existing studies investigate the labor union effects on bond yield spreads from perspectives of structural credit models. The current study fills part of the important gap by employing 5446 American annual bond observations from 2001 through 2007. Empirical results of this study show that union strength significantly and positively relates to bond yield spreads when controlling for spread determinant variables well known in the literature, such as leverage, equity volatility, maturity, coupon, issuance amount, information uncertainty, information asymmetry and cash flow volatility. This is consistent with the predictions based on the perspectives of structural (or stock-based) and flow-based credit models except that of asset volatility. The results of this research also demonstrate that the positive effects of union strength on bond yield spreads become weaker when a firm has higher bargaining power. A firm’s idiosyncratic risk effects of unions on bond yield spreads also exist in the presence of incomplete information variables mentioned in Duffie and Lando (2001) and others. This study also finds that union strength volatility significantly and negatively relates to bond yield spreads, leverage ratio and current union strength. Finally, union strength helps traditional structural credit risk models explain the bond yield spreads from the perspective of idiosyncratic risk effects. The results are robust when controlling for credit ratings, collinearity concerns, industry effect and tax effect. | <urn:uuid:f8dc9aa2-aa7b-4470-b49d-a4de9e475506> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://isiarticles.com/article/22471 | 2017-05-26T09:26:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608652.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526090406-20170526110406-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.904769 | 2,938 | [
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LAS OLAS LAUNCHES SALES PROGRAM
Bahia de Caraquez, Manabi Province, Ecuador, April 12, 2014
Las Olas is pleased to announce the launch of our regular sales program. A selected group of lots are now available for sale to the general public for the first time.
Last year, Las Olas tested the North American market’s desire to purchase either a full-time residence or second home on the beautiful Manabi coast of Ecuador through a limited Founder’s Club offering. Las Olas was extremely pleased with the results of that initial trial which officially came to a close on December 17th of last year. “The invaluable input from our Founder’s Club members helped us form the Las Olas community. It is not just our vision, it is a combination of the wants and needs of our community members that makes Las Olas special” said David Maksymuik, Founding Partner, Las Olas Ecuador.
Las Olas is happy to announce the opening of our sales office on Bahia and the release of additional homes and condos in three of the six communities.
Our Founder’s Club members proved to be an active group! For this reason Las Olas created a wide variety of activities showcased by a world class golf course, a beach club – complete with a spa and restaurants, a tennis club, a state of the art equestrian center and a 650 acre nature reserve with hiking, biking and horseback riding trails.
Las Olas is a private oceanfront golf course community located on a 15 mile stretch of unspoiled beach on the Pajonal coast of Ecuador. The Founders, Randy Russ and David Maksymuik created a community they want to live in. A community inspired by the past where people know their neighbors on a first name basis. “People don’t just live in their homes” says David Maksymuik, “they live in their community as well”. “Our model is based on the future as well” says Randy Russ. “The technology is built into our homes maximizing protection from the elements and respecting nature at the same time”.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Nathalie Quijano at 786-372-9331 or email at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:d5f43716-bcc0-4f4b-8c2b-87617e7f41af> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://lasolasecuador.com/las-olas-launches-sales-program/ | 2017-05-26T09:07:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608652.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526090406-20170526110406-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.937587 | 501 | [
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May 16, 2015
"Thank you so much. That was an amazing bike. I'll be honest, I've been a Felt road bike rider for years but when it comes time to splurge on a tri bike it'll be a QR. I beat my 56 mile split by over 30 minutes! Every time I glanced at my Garmin I was going faster than I ever had on a consistent basis. I love that bike! Thanks again for everything & I will definitely be renting again @ my next event." -Jay
"This is the second time I have rented a bike from QR. I have no intention of ever racing on anything other than a QR at my upcoming Ironman Races.
I often tell people that training on my Cervelo P1 and racing on a QR is like running all year with a parachute then going without on race day. Its obviously a huge jump from my training bike.
At the event I appreciate your assistance preparing the bike for race day. I have nothing but positive comments about the customer service I have received. You guys rock!!!!
The race … . . well Texas was number 4 for me. It was a very difficult race and didn’t think I would survive the weather. I wasn’t able to acclimate and got my butt handed to me. With that said, I was able to cross the finish line and complete the day!!
Thanks again for your professional assistance and making renting a bike a stress free enjoyable process. Appreciate your work!!" -Trevor
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"I refuse to let the past determine the future, or failures set the stage for the rest of life; I refuse to rule out the possibility of a miracle around the next corner. And I refuse to give up on my dreams even though they are thread bare and far-fetched. It's a battle for sure but one we only lose if we give up".
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I’d been having Braxton hicks contractions for months on and off, but Thursday about every second or third one was strong enough to make me stop and think something was going on. By Friday afternoon they were getting more regular and of consistent strength, but still not enough for me to worry about. Saturday morning I woke up at 7:30 with contractions every 5 minutes almost to the second. By 10am they were still coming and getting a tad stronger. Enough to convince me that I was in early labor. I focused on keeping myself busy and tried to ignore them. I made a big batch of breakfast burritos to freeze, took a long shower, cleaned the house, ran errands, made nursing tanks, tried to take a nap, went for a walk around the neighborhood (and another…and another). All the while I was making sure I was being a good laboring Momma and drinking lots of water and eating high protein snacks 🙂 Nothing changed. Nothing. My contractions continued to come every 5 minutes like clockwork, but they didn’t go away, and they didn’t get any stronger. My hopes for having a baby on D-Day and National Homebirth Day dwindled as the hours ticked by.
Hubby, Little Man, and I killed time at the splash pad then had our last dinner out as a family of 3 together at a local restaurant. We came home and went for another walk… Still no changes so I finally decided to head to bed. I tried to sleep, but laying down only made the contractions worse, and they pushed on my bladder so I had to get up to pee what seemed like every 20 minutes. By 1am I knew I wasn’t going to get any sleep, but I forced myself to stay in bed and rest as much as possible for the big day that I knew was coming. At 3am I couldn’t take another contraction laying down so I got up to walk around the house. I bounced on my birth ball and watched a couple episodes of Bones to take my mind off of them, and decided it was time to wake Hubby up around 4:30. Poor guy was exhausted, but sweetly sat with me and decided to call Dawn, my midwife, a little after 5. When she got to the house, she checked my vitals, spoke with us for awhile, asked a few questions, and decided to check my dilation. At that point in time, she said she couldn’t feel all the way around to one side of my cervix because I had a bulging bag of water and didn’t want to mess with it too much for fear of breaking it, but she guessed that I was about 8cm! I was pretty excited! She called our doula/midwife assistant, Brandy, and our photographer, Tavia, and let them know it was time to head this way. Both of them live fairly far away so they hurried to make it before the baby came. (Little did we all know it would be a much longer day than anticipated haha) | <urn:uuid:89ef9e67-1d5b-4e11-a428-950adac872a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.bluebonnetacres.org/june-bugs-birth-story/ | 2017-05-27T14:02:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608954.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527133144-20170527153144-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.988099 | 638 | [
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I've finally realised we all make mistakes...but does that mean we give up?
The answer to that is no.
We all have and will make mistakes, but we don't give up, we pay a consequence then learn from it.
I made a mistake, and I got my consequence and i have learnt from it, I've apologised to my 'friends' over 5 times since I lost nearly all of them, and I've finally started to gain their trust and they've become friends with me again; but I've still lost 3 of my other best friends.
I've sent two of them over 10 text messages apologising because if I try to talk to them face to face they walk away...
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Vintage Royal Ruby Bubble coffee service set for four.
Set of Royal Ruby Bubble cups and saucers. Includes four saucers and four cups. Two sets of four are available. Choose quantity above.
Beautiful patented Royal Ruby color by Anchor Hocking, USA circa 1940’s to 1960’s. This popular pattern was called Bubble. The first Anchor Hocking catalog featuring this pattern in 1941 called it Bullseye. The Bubble pattern came in Royal Ruby, colorless, Forest Green, Sapphire Blue, Opaque White, and Iridescent.
It’s great fun to collect the Bubble pattern. A large number of table glass and decorative forms were produced. The Royal Ruby color is most highly sought by collectors. Royal Ruby table glass, vases, etc. are favorites for adorning the holiday table.
Anchor Hocking made glass to endure heavy use. It’s hard to find this glass without some signs of usage because it is all at least 50 years old now. There are two sets available (choose quantity above) and all are in pristine condition. One set consists of (4) saucers and (4) cups. | <urn:uuid:fe2a4a9f-8574-4dc8-8035-412d2d0cf1b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://retroartglass.com/product/royal-ruby-bubble-coffee-set/ | 2017-05-28T20:27:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463611560.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528200854-20170528220854-00228.warc.gz | en | 0.924826 | 247 | [
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Port of Houston Authority Chairman Earns Engineering Award
Port of Houston Authority Commission Chairman James T. Edmonds was awarded the American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Award in Transportation for a project that Houston-based Klotz Associates completed in 2008 for PHA’s $95-million, 100-acre Bayport Phase I Container Yard.
Klotz Associates implemented a technically challenging application of roller compacted concrete, or RCC, on the container yard. The two, 9-in. layers comprised the largest multi-layer placement of RCC to date and the first-ever in Texas, demonstrating effective use of RCC for future PHA and other industrial projects. The project used sustainable materials, managing fluctuating engineering design, budgetary and scheduling issues and was completed ahead of schedule. | <urn:uuid:6431cd11-d18e-4013-8987-7d4bf5d1c38a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.enr.com/articles/19840-port-of-houston-authority-chairman-earns-engineering-award | 2017-05-28T20:31:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463611560.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528200854-20170528220854-00228.warc.gz | en | 0.906129 | 160 | [
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Various information and an interview with Jason Kries
A lot of news for you all today surrounding various subjects such as the upcoming match this Saturday, Jason Kries’ appearance on mlssoccer.com’s Extratime Radio, and other various random items.
First of all, the random but pertinent stuff: Three RSL personnel were nominated in different categories of the Governor’s State of Sports Awards. Kyle Beckerman features in the College/Pro Athlete Male category, Saborio’s backheel against the Sounders is one of the nominees for Play/Highlight of the Year category, and Jason Kries is up for running for the Coach of the Year award. This is the competition’s inaugural year, so be sure to participate and support Real! http://www.stateofsportawards.com/ (Just a side note: Be sure to click the vote button on the RIGHT side of the thumbnail.)
Also, news was released today that Javier Morales and Alvaro Saborio received their green cards. This is nothing less than huge as it frees up the international slots in our roster that we needed open.
The last of the slightly random stuff pertains to this weekend’s home opener against the Red Bulls. Firstly, the game may be on St. Patrick’s Day, but WEAR RED, NOT GREEN. You’re much more likely to get pinched for not wearing red to the game. However, the only green products that will be okay for the game will be the classy looking green jerseys we had for Earth Day back in 2008 and the all-new special edition green scarves that you can get at the team store this week along with a voucher for tickets in the north section of the stadium for $35. Also, a huge thing is going to happen before the match for the first time in Real Salt Lake history: A march to the match! That’s right, meet at the outside the south end of the stadium near the Colonel’s Corner at 7:30 to join others in walking around the stadium and singing and shouting your guts out for the Claret and Cobalt!
Now on with the gist of this post. Mlssoccer.com’s analysts at Extratime Radio decided to call up our coach Jason Kries and ask his opinion on a few things. It was an interesting interview. You can go ahead and check it out on the MLS website, but I’ll be covering most of it here.
When asked about how much stock he put into the win against LA, Jason Kries responded, “Enough stock to gain confidence. . . Am I gonna say that we’re gonna be the best team in the league because of that win? Absolutely not.” He went on to say that he knows what it’s like to play in both the CCL and MLS and acknowledges the stresses that the Galaxy are forced to deal with.
The guys on ET Radio seemed to be very interested in Velasquez (as most everybody is these days). Kries said that he realized that this was the first time he had ever started a rookie in the first game of the year. But this start came under several specific circumstances. Firstly, Tian has shown that he deserves it by working extremely hard throughout the entire preseason. Also, the start was greatly affected by the absences from the regular starting IX.
According to Jason, the injury situation seems to be getting slightly worse. Apparently a few guys won’t be able to shake off some knocks from the clash in Los Angelas. Tony Beltran took a hit to the knee and will most likely sit out the match this weekend. Both Sabo and Javi’s schedules got backed up. Javier hurt his knee when he scored his goal. Alvaro knocked up his knee in training. Neither are expected to contribute any more than they did in the opening game of the season. Will Johnson is still out for the next few weeks as he recovers from his surgery in Germany. Nat Borchers seems to be getting better. He featured in the reserve game against FC Dallas that the RSL second team eventually lost 3-1. Ironic huh? Anyway, coach says to expect more newer and younger guys to get some time against New York. | <urn:uuid:12cd77f1-6147-40ae-805f-cf05898f6fba> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://claretpapers.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/various-information-and-an-interview-with-jason-kries/ | 2017-05-28T20:16:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463611560.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528200854-20170528220854-00228.warc.gz | en | 0.970374 | 892 | [
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My mother saw the raccoon first.
She was chopping veggies in front of an open window, hoping for a breeze because it was August, and already hot and sticky before ten in the morning.
My little sister sat in the window; I played across the room.
The rhythm of my mother’s knife slicing against the cutting board slowed, stopped. She laid the knife down.
“What?” My sister asked.
I came over.
Through the sagging window screen, we watched the dirty raccoon shuffle onto our lawn. Its jaw and neck rolled and jerked as it went. Bloody, milky foam was plastered around its mouth. It looked pathetic, not dangerous. Like it was looking for someplace to die.
We jumped when it snapped and pawed at a bumblebee that got close to it. Its belly was covered with thick black mud. Behind our house was an oozing swamp that stank like turpentine from rotting pine needles and made the humidity worse. The raccoon must have come out of the swamp.
When I moved toward the door, my mother said, “Don’t even think about going outside.”
I volunteered to kill it. We needed to kill the rabid raccoon and I was the man to do it. I promised not to leave the porch or go near the body. I got my BB gun from under my bed and even put on a pair of safety glasses, and my mother relented and gave me a few BB’s she and my father kept hidden. I had my own, of course.
I went out on the porch, loading it.
The raccoon reared up, spraying bloody foam.
The puffing BB gun wasn’t strong enough to kill it, not even after a few shots.
My mother ordered me back inside when it was clear that I’d failed.
We lived too far from civilization—the flavored ices and stickball in the streets my friends were all probably enjoying—for an animal control service, so my mother called the state police.
Two troopers eventually showed up.
Both of them saluted my mother, touching two fingers to the brims of their wide Stetson hats. They had a quick conversation, staring at the raccoon. One of them was young and fresh faced. The creases in his neat uniform led the way as he squared off against the raccoon, gun drawn.
Justice was about to prevail.
His shot, loud through the thick, humid air, blasted the raccoon back a couple feet; bloody chunks blew out of it.
My sister and I cheered from inside the window, and the faintest smile crossed the young trooper’s face.
Then he aimed again and fired again, blowing more chunks out of the dead raccoon. And again. And again. And again and again and again and again and again, again again again again until his clip was empty, the overlapping shots like machinegun lightning. Finished, he changed clips and holstered the gun, waving at the cloud of smoke around him.
The sense of adventure soured as the second trooper, an older man with beard stubble and a small potbelly, assumed the same squared stance and drew his gun.
“It’s dead,” my sister said, as the older trooper aimed at the raccoon’s mangled body.
“It’s dead. Why are- It’s dead, it’s dead-”
-and my mother clamped a hand over her mouth when the trooper turned to stare at us.
She was right. It was dead. Definitely dead, deader looking than any dead thing I’d ever seen, but the older trooper shot it anyway, more bloody bits flying up as he emptied his clip into the raccoon. He wasn’t as good a shot and hit the grass a few times.
They returned to their cruiser, but instead of getting out a net and a bag like we expected, they leaned against it, chatting. The younger trooper kept gesturing, excited.
Uncertain, my mother returned to the vegetables but didn’t pick up her knife.
“Stop watching them,” she told me. “Go play.” My sister was already looking away.
I didn’t want to play, not until they left.
But they stayed.
Nervous, I couldn’t take my eyes off them, like I was a hostage to curiosity. Or to the troopers themselves.
Or to their guns.
I felt naked.
“I told you to stop staring at them.”
A while later another cruiser pulled up and two new troopers got out. They shook hands with the first ones, examining the meaty pulp that used to be the raccoon.
Then they each squared off against the dead raccoon and emptied their clips into it. The last trooper, a black man built like a linebacker with a granite face had perfect timing; his crackling gunshots evenly punched the air like a metronome.
They’d shot the raccoon sixty times. At least.
My sister started weeping again and my mother cradled her face.
The troopers all shook hands again. The two newcomers drove away.
When original set got into their cruiser my mother yelled and pounded on the window frame until the heavyset trooper looked at her.
“Take it with you!” she screeched, pointing at the raccoon, making scooping, carrying motions with her hands, which were shiny with my sister’s tears and snot.
The trooper smirked.
“Goddamn them. Had their… their… fun and now they’re leaving.”
“Fun?” I asked.
My mother just frowned.
The cruiser’s lights flashed as they backed down our driveway.
My mother put on my safety glasses and rubber gloves and went outside. She poured out an entire bottle of bleach on the mangled raccoon, then swept it into a tripled up trash bag and double wrapped the broom before throwing both away. The bleach left a bright, white, bald spot in the middle of our lush, emerald lawn that my father could never get rid of.
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Iterator listing the names of all
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The team at Pixel Film Studios is extremely proud to present ProCutX for Final Cut Pro X. We worked really hard with our programmer friends at LightWORK Solutions Inc. to get this app done right for needs of today’s creative editors
Aliso Viejo, California (PRWEB) February 07, 2013
"The team at Pixel Film Studios is extremely proud to present ProCutX for Final Cut Pro X. We worked really hard with our programmer friends at LightWORK Solutions Inc. to get this app done right for needs of today’s creative editors, and we are extremely happy with the finished product," said Christina Austin, CEO of Pixel Film Studios, "We are already working with LightWORK Solutions Inc to start on the 1.1 version of ProCutX."
Built from the ground up to meet the needs of today’s creative editors, PROCUTX™ breaks free from the menus, tabs, and shortcut keys to streamline editor's tasks. This application gives users control over all the FCPX editing tools in one clean, fast interface, eliminating the need for clicking and searching through the Final Cut Pro X menus. From import to export, PROCUTX™ can speed up every step of the FCPX editing process.
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August 16-21, 2000
To tell you the truth, this road trip did not have the most auspicious beginning.
Mary's eye had been bugging her for a couple of days, and when she woke up on Wednesday, our day of departure, it was really bothering her. It was scratchy, she couldn't keep it open very long, and when she did, it would water and swell up. She decided to take some Advil and let me do the driving, then go to her parents' doctor in Memphis if it wasn't better by Thursday.
So I drove, the whole way, across I-70 to St. Louis, then down I-55 into Memphis. I didn't actually mind it; Mary's car is a sassy 2000 Honda Accord with all the bells and whistles and a built-in lumbar adjuster, so it was very comfortable. She slept most of the way, since her eye had kept her up half the night.
We had gotten a late start, though, while she was deciding what to do, and the jury was out on whether we would arrive in time for Survivor. Her parents had only been in the house a few days and didn't have any cable yet, but did have a TV with rabbit ears that got one station: CBS.
So we hauled ass down the highway, playing a joint-venture version of license plate bingo. (We started out playing against each other, but since Mary was visually impaired and asleep half the time anyway, I was winning 10 to 1 when we decided to join forces.)
We pulled into her parents' driveway at 7:15, happy that we would probably still be able to see the immunity challenge and the Tribal Council. Her parents were out at a minor-league baseball game, so they had left a key with the neighbor across the street.
I start hauling bags out of the trunk while Mary goes to knock on the neighbor's door.
And knock. And knock some more. And walk around to the back porch and knock on that door.
No one is home.
And we are pissed. Not only are we missing the show, but we've just spent nine hours in the car, and Mary's eye is killing her. While we roam around trying to break into the house, someone pulls up at the neighbor's, but it was just someone coming to visit and they told us the family was probably at church.
Great. So we put our stuff on the back porch and go to one of Mary's favorite restaurants for dinner, (Mary moved to another part of Tennessee in high school and graduated from UT) where a TV in our line of vision showed us that Sean was a goner, just like we figured.
Mary's eye is about to explode, however, so we ask the waitress where the nearest hospital is. We checked to see if anyone was home yet, which they weren't, and then went to the emergency room.
Two hours later, at about 10:30, Mary is discharged with a patch over her eye and a prescription for Percoset, her parents are finally back from the damn baseball game, and though they tend to be chatty people, I cut them off with an apology because I was about to fall over dead. They showed me my room and where the bathroom was, and then I did, in fact, fall over dead.
We spent Thursday helping Mary's mother unpack while her father was at work. The idea of spending your vacation helping someone else unpack may sound strange, but I was glad to do it. Mary's mother had a stroke when Mary was about 7, and became paralyzed on her right side. She can still walk with a brace on her leg, but it's basically one step at a time: taking a step with her left leg, then bring her right one up from behind. She can hold light objects with her right hand, but can't lift her arm away from her body.
Obviously, it was very easy to help out. And Mary's parents were incredibly generous while we there. They paid our way into everything and took us out to dinner each night, so I had no problem at all providing some labor.
But, finally, Friday. We got up, got dressed, and headed downtown to Graceland.
--Paul Simon, "Graceland"
The first thing that surprised me was that it is downtown. It isn't
off somewhere on some idyllic estate, out in the country. The house
is set back a little from the street (Elvis Presley Boulevard, of
course), but there's gas stations and motels and crap all around it.
The second thing that surprised me was the size of the house itself, which, from the outside, is not that big. You always hear about the Graceland Mansion, the Graceland Estate... from the outside, at least, it appears to be a very normal-sized house.
The coolest thing about the tour is that it's done by audio. As you board the shuttle bus that takes you up to the house, you are handed a headset and a walkman to wear around your neck. The tape gives you a little introduction as you ride up the driveway, then tells you where to go once you're inside the house.
I thought it was kind of cheap at first, but it really is the best way to do it. You can go at your own pace (Mary and I hung back a little to let the bulk of our group go ahead), and as you stand there looking at the room, you hear Priscilla in your ear talking about a certain evening they spent there. It really brings the whole thing to life, so that instead of just looking at a room full of furniture, you can almost see Elvis walking around.
No, we didn't actually see Elvis walking around. That whole Elvis-is-alive thing isn't still going on, is it?
We saw the living room with the 20-foot couch, the dining room with blue suede curtains, the kitchen where Priscilla pleaded with the cooks to make something other than meatloaf, the pool room with pleated fabric on the ceiling and walls, the entertainment room with three televisions, and of course, the infamous Jungle Room, with the shag carpeting on the ceiling and the waterfall on one wall. You don't get to go upstairs (I think I read somewhere that his aunt still lives up there), so no bedroom, nor the bathroom where he died.
Then we walked out around the back of the house a little, and there is an actual estate back there; I think they still keep horses, although we didn't see any. Then you move into the truly fun part, the Trophy Room, which is really more like a Trophy Maze. All the great Elvis memorabilia is in that room. The gold and platinum records, the Grammys (only two, for gospel recordings), the costumes, the album covers, the movie posters, the merchandise (Elvis lipstick?), the press clippings. It was really amazing, especially for someone like me, who was only 5 when he died.
There really won't be anyone like him again. I mean, no one is ever going to pay $11 to go tour Michael Jackson's estate, or Madonna's, or Garth Brooks's. He helped launch the era of rock-n-roll, and before a time when every move was reported on Entertainment Tonight. The most scandalous thing about him was his death; the only semi-tabloidish thing he did in life was hit on Priscilla when she was 14, and even then he ended up marrying her.
The tour ends at his gravesite, which also has the graves of his mother, father, and grandmother. I didn't notice this, but apparently the tombstone spells his middle name wrong ("Aaron" instead of "Aron," or vice versa), which helped to fuel the speculation that he was still alive. Ridiculous, but I do wonder why they never bothered to fix it.
We headed back to the gift shop and I bought twelve dollars' worth of postcards (they're in the mail, everyone) and an Elvis Week 2000 commemorative coozie (let's face it, "tacky" was the word of the day).
And that was it. I enjoyed the hell out of it, and fully intend to go back again. I have never been a huge Elvis fan, but I have always wanted to go to Graceland. It's just such an American thing to do.
--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaking of American.
You do have to take the good with the bad, sometimes, and on the recommendation of a friend, we spent Saturday afternoon at the National Civil Rights Museum.
I had never heard of it, did not even know it was there, until I was talking to Laura just before I left. She had driven across the country between her first and second years of law school with a friend, and they had stopped in Memphis also to see Graceland, but saw a sign for the NCRM and decided to go there too.
Martin Luther King was killed at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis in 1968. In the mid-70's, ownership of the motel transferred to a charitable trust, and the Museum opened there in 1991.
The tour starts in a movie theater, where they play a brief film which is basically an overview of the civil rights movement and the purpose of the museum. You then move on to the exhibits, which start with a history of slavery and the Emancipation Proclomation. You basically move chronologically through the museum, and every major event has some kind of interactive exhibit. The historical exhibits are mostly pictures and documents with very detailed explanations underneath, until you get to the mid-1950's, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The interactive exhibit? The bus. You can walk onto the actual bus that Rosa Parks was sitting in when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.
It was the most incredible thing I have ever experienced. You walk on the bus, and there is simple gray life-size statue of Rosa Parks sitting in her seat. The signage above her, where ads usually are, have been replaced by a short description of the events of that day, how she sat in an empty seat in one of the first five white-only rows, and the conversation between her, the driver, and the man wanting her seat.
And piped in around you is an angry male voice. "Move to the back." "I said get up, woman. This man gets your seat." "You better move to the back where you belong, or I'm calling the police." "I said MOVE!"
And there she sits, her bag on the seat next to her, her expression complacent, but steadfast.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has walked off that bus with eyes welled to the brim. I was stunned, just stunned, because I realized that this isn't something that happened a long, long time ago, in a distant, undeveloped, uncivilized country. It happened right here, in America, not 50 years ago.
There were exhibits like that for every major civil rights event. There is an actual lunch counter with similar statues, and behind them is video of black men and women being ripped from the chairs and beaten just for sitting there. There is a picture of a young white minister beaten to death for eating at a black diner. There is a large wheel you can spin to see what kind of excuse the voter registration clerk is going to give you as to why your registration is going to be denied this time. There is powerful video of 15, 16, 17-year-old kids holding their heads up and walking into previously all-white schools while rotten fruit and racial slurs are hurled at them.
The tour ends at Martin Luther King's motel room. One wall has been glassed in, and the display details the evening, minute by minute leading up to his death. The bed is unmade, the tray of leftovers from his meal still sitting there, a jacket tossed on the second bed.
The whole afternoon just left me speechless. Mary and I talked about it on the way home, and were really disgusted by how little we knew before we walked in there. We obviously knew about Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks, and a little about Brown v. Board of Education, but not enough, not nearly enough. Our American History classes in high school taught us about slavery, obviously, but after the Civil War, minorities disappear.
And we know why. It's shameful, how hard African-Americans have had to work, how many lives have had to be given up, to enjoy the freedoms the American part of their heritage was supposed to guarantee them. And it's shameful how much the rest of us take those freedoms for granted.
I know I'm not qualified to say anything about this. One trip to the National Civil Rights Museum does not an activist make. It made me think, that's all I'm saying.
We headed out Sunday and made half the trip, stopping over to stay
with Kay and her mother outside St. Louis. We met Kay's new boyfriend
(thumbs way up), had dinner and frozen custard, then Kay
and I stayed up talking while watching The Whole Nine Yards
with half an eye.
Then up this morning, back in the car for the haul across Missouri, back to my apartment and laundry and little kitty-face, for the next day and a half, anyway.
It's good to be home for a while, but it was a great trip. I had as much fun as I thought I would, and I learned a great deal more than I thought I would.
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The Parsi Zoroastrians are often seen as a medical paradox. On the one side, there are numerous members of the community working energetically into their nineties, while on the other side, the Parsis have some of the world’s most unusual allergies, among the highest rates of cancer, serious eye problems and other diseases.
Any analysis of medical data needs to consider the sudden drop in fertility within the community in the last two generations. Is this due to genetic or sociological reasons?
Dr.Anahita Pandole of working with the help of the BPP has stated that almost 90% of infertility cases among the Parsis can be treated with correct intervention. She has kindly consented to assist the community and Parzor is sharing her paper and information as a service to the community. For information about help available Click here.
At the beginning of the Project, the importance of conducting research, analysis and collation of traditional Parsi medical methods and herbal remedies was realized and the traditions still maintained by the bonesetters, vaids, hakims that are still available but will soon become extinct were to be studied and recorded. Translation and publication of this information can be undertaken for the benefit of the allopathic school and the general public.
It was felt that data be collated at Parsi Institutions such as the Parsi General Hospital, Mumbai, and Nariman Home, Surat. The Parsi General Hospital could become a centre for a Medical Databank storing and providing information immediately to the community.
During field trips a major issue that came up for discussion was the demographic and medical profile of the community. The empty Parsi Vads and Vadis of the Hajira belt, bear silent testimony to the loss of numbers. There is tremendous economic activity in this region. Massive industrial estates run by giants like Essar, Reliance, Kribhco, tower over the landscape. Very few notice the silent deserted Parsi villages just off the highway. Why did the villagers leave? Did they just die out?
Medical & Sociological Research
Clinical, cellular, molecular and genetic studies, which will complement socio-economic and attitudinal studies are being undertaken. The first study by Dr. Narendra Joshi has begun on the Molecular Typing of HLA Alleles of Parsi Women with Breast Cancer. Funded by the Lady Tata Memorial Trust and supported by the Parzor project, Dr. Joshi’s work is being carried out at the Cancer Research Institute, Tata Memorial Mumbai. Dr. Joshi has appealed for participation in the study and details are provided along with his address for those who would like to take part in this important research.
Under the demographic and health module four studies involving medical issues have been initiated recently.
Dr. Nadir Bharucha and Dr. Thomas Kuruvilla, Dept. of Neuroepdemiology, Medical Research Centre, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai are studying the Prevalence of Neurological Disease and Hypertension in the Parsi Community. Since the Parsis suffer from a very high rate of these disorders, along with sub optimal control of hypertension, it is important to try and initiate health activities once the results of the study are complete. The study will also focus on epilepsy in order to initiate medical activities and reduce mortality rates for this group.
Dr. P.K. Gadhia, Dept. of Biosciences, South Gujarat University, Surat, has begun the Haematological, Biochemical and Cytogenetic Study on Parsis. The main objective of this study is to obtain information of the different genetic factors affecting the community with special emphasis on chromosomal disorders and other diseases. Due to their small numbers and continual inbreeding, the Parsis face problems that have a genetic base like the G6PD syndrome. This study, which will explore these issues and deficiencies, also aims at taking remedial action in the future for the benefit of the community.
Dr. J. V. Undevia of the Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai has undertaken a critical over view as the Review of Genetic Studies on the Parsis of India. The extensive data, which he is gathering will form a basis for future work during the genomic millennium. This will also suggest steps for initiating action to develop programmes and provide information not just for the Parsi community but the other groups identified as being vulnerable to similar problems.
Mrs.Katy Gandevia, Department of Medical and Psychiatric Social work, TISS is undertaking a survey among medical practitioners in Mumbai to elicit their knowledge of the recurrent medical problems of their Parsi patients.
These scientific studies are just the beginning of this Health Module. The aim is to work out a strategy of research, which will culminate in positive steps towards addressing and redressing some of these issues.
In many ways, the situation of the Parsi Zoroastrians in India reflects that of any rapidly urbanized community and the studies and findings would therefore be of relevance to all sociological and medical research in a rapidly changing age and country.
From the medical point of view, some diseases seem to have higher rates of prevalence amongst Parsi Zoroastrians and medical researchers would find it useful to study such diseases with a focused target population in the hope of finding possible remedies. There is a link between the social, socio-psychological and physical health of a community.
Three sociological and demographic studies, on Youth, the Elderly and the Family are also being conducted under this module.
Demographic transition among the Parsis: A study of the Familial, Marital and Socio-Psychological dimensions – Dr. Shalini Bharat, Head Unit for Family Studies TISS, Mumbai.
A study of Parsi Youth in India – Ms. Lata Narayan, Unit of child and Youth Research, TISS, Mumbai.
A study of the Elderly and Aging Community – Dr. S. Siva Raju, Unit for urban Studies, TISS, Mumbai.
In this major task of Introduction, Collation and Coordination of the Demographic and Health Module, we are happy to report that the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust has sanctioned funding for five of the above seven studies and that the BPP(Bombay Parsi Panchayat) is supporting the Studies of the Elderly(Dr. S Siva Raju) and the Study of Parsi Youth(Ms. Lata Narayan).
The Census will work along with Parzor on the Study of the Elderly. All these studies are based across India. In this way it is hoped a correct picture of the community across India will emerge and benefit all scientific and medical research.
By this cross spectrum of studies Parzor finally hopes to create for the first time in UNESCO history, a detailed social and health profile of a community.
All this research will feed into the Data Bank to be set up in Mumbai and help create a network of researchers in social work and the social sciences, medicine and the sciences, who will share their findings and provide opportunities for others to build on them in the future.
Please Contact Us and tell us how you would like to participate in furthering this Research.
A study of the Hadvaid tradition over the past few years of Parzor research has yielded very interesting insights. Those born in Gujarat will remember that before orthopaedists and physiotherapists became a part of our routine medical dictionary, the Parsis relied along with many others in Gujarat on the kick that cured.
Hadvaids or bonesetters who have across generations diagnosed and healed bone disorders, with their skill and their secret poultices. Linked with this was a system of massage and even today the Hadvaids of Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda and Bombay have patients lining up outside their clinics from early morning.
The Madhiwala family was famous; the late Mancherji Madhiwala had been provided a Silver Pass on the railways, by the authorities because of his great gift of healing and charity. This humble farmer travelled the length of Gujarat healing fractures and dislocations, even slipped discs and other serious problems, with his poorer patients lining up to meet him at the railway stations on the route.
On our field trips in October 2001 in Gujarat, we spent a good deal of time filming and recording the Hadvaid tradition. Dr. Farokhshah Gustadji Bonesetter, his wife Villoo and son Dr. Jarsis Bonesetter are well known figures in Vadodara (Baroda). Jarsis is a qualified allopathic doctor, who studied in Mumbai but returned to join the family tradition of healing. They along with Dr. Dara Nadirshah Hadvaid and Dr. Noshir Burjorji Hadvaid of Ahmedabad, shared their knowledge of osteo-arthritis, sprains, strains, fractures and dislocations, sciatica and serious problems of the spinal column and their techniques of healing.
The Hadvaids rely on a highly developed sense of touch. A patient, Mr. Sheresh Shah at the Bonesetter Clinic in Baroda had fallen off his scooter after an accident. I don’t need an X-ray, we have come to this clinic for generations, we trust them 100%. This doctor is much better than an orthopaedic surgeon . His dislocated shoulder was set right before our very eyes, the whole sequence from pain to cure being recorded on camera.
The Hadvaids, relying on the evidence of their fingertips, palpate the muscles and ligaments of the patient to understand the problem and use manipulation to set bones into position and heal fractures. This is followed by anti-inflammatory applications of poultices or ‘laeps ‘. Earlier, Hadvaids did not use any oral medicines but as they laughingly commented earlier patients had more power to bear pain. Today some of them supplement their treatment with either homeopathic or allopathic pain relievers.
The system of laeps is interesting. The first is a white laep followed by a red or black laep depending on the swelling. The white laep is soothing and reduces inflammation and swelling. The red and black laeps are stronger and are used after either a week or ten days once the initial bruise or pain has subsided. All the Hadvaids forbid the use of sour or bitter foods and even tomatoes or curd are not allowed in some cases. The splints they use are made of bamboo and cardboard but the bandages and cotton are sterile. The philosophy is simple: for an initial injury heat is contraindicated because heat causes expansion. Cold contracts the blood vessels and the bleeding or haematoma decreases. The white laep acts like a cold compress, after initial healing the stronger red and black laeps restore circulation and muscle tone. The black laep is used sparingly for it is very strong.
The ingredients, which go into these poultices, are closely guarded family secrets but for the sake of medical research, some of the Hadvaids have shared these with Parzor. While many legends on the origin of these healers can be found across Gujarat it is obvious that this group of people have carried this great tradition from Iranian times, since many of their ingredients are from Iran and Central Asia.
Despite some of the rare ingredients used, the Hadvaids maintain a Zoroastrian sense of charity and keep their fees very low, even waiving fees for needy patients. Their charges seem absurd in the modern world of medicine; a dislocation or fracture is healed for just Rs. 120/- and the laeps range from Rs. 40/- to Rs. 80/- per application. Yet their skill cannot be measured in monetary terms. They all have a complete knowledge of anatomy, orthopaedics and pharmacology and make their own poultices with a chemist’s precision. While the younger Hadvaid no longer follows the famous kick for a slipped disc, patients who have been cured firmly believed in the efficacy of this method. All the Hadvaids we spoke to believe that they can diagnose cancer and TB of the skeletal system by touch and are proved correct following radiological examinations. Diseases like cancer and TB need other treatments and the Hadvaid immediately ensures that these patients are shifted to the correct hospitals.
At the conclusion of the first phase of health studies a seminar was held at the YB Chavan Centre Mumbai in December 2008. The findings of the researchers were presented. The recording of the discussion Click here and a note on action points needed has been added to the summaries of the presentations.
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DALLAS – The opening of a neighborhood grocery store is generating a considerable amount of buzz in the Highland Hills community of Southern Dallas.
A new Save a Lot is opening at 3540 Simpson Stuart Road. Neighbors say it’s the first grocery in the area in nearly eight years.
Farrington says the new market has been all the buzz with many of her friends.
”I’m very impressed,” Farrington said as she looked around the produce section. “I mean it’s clean. It’s nice. This is the best looking store I’ve seen in a long time.”
It has been a long time since this southern Dallas community has had access to any grocery store. Most neighborhoods travel several miles for food. Many rely on corner stores for quick items.
”Well, you have to go to another city, practically,” explained Farrington as she described her grocery shopping routine. “You have to go to DeSoto, Lancaster, or somewhere else to find anything.”
This new Save A Lot is independently owned and operated by local businessman Joseph Kemp and his family.
Kemp said, ”It’s a give back to the neighborhood.”
He owns an apartment complex nearby and he is familiar with the food challenges in the area.
Kemp said, ”A lot of mornings, I would see kids eating cheese tots, or donuts…Not saying that those aren’t good. But they are not nutritional.”
As a dad, Kemp said he wanted to do something.
”Now a kid can come across the street and get him an apple, get him an orange,” Kemp explained, “rather than go to the donut shop.”
Opening the Save A Lot in this area was not easy. Kemp says he navigated hurdles with the help of former Councilman Tennell Atkins.
“This neighborhood is an oasis,” Atkins explained. “It’s growing. You’ve got UNT, Paul Quinn, but you’ve also got Amazon, Inland Port. You’ve got 30,000 people in this little 2-mile distance here that need food.”
Folks also need jobs. And the grocery store is bringing some to the community.
Kemp explained, ”For 25 to 30 jobs, I had in excess of 800 resumes.”
Neighbors like Farmington are giving their seal of approval.
”I see everything is organized,” she said as she examined the aisles and prices.
City leaders say they are optimistic the grand opening of this market could be a sign of great things to come in this community.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Erik Wilson said, ”We want to make sure that’s successful so that spurs development, not only in this area, but throughout Southern Dallas.”
The Save A Lot in Highland Hills will celebrate its grand opening at 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 28.
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By now most of us know that any sort of automated link building (or buying) service isn’t going to go out and build awesome links in bulk. Theoretically it may provide some ROI, but it’ll likely be short-lived, and either way it wouldn’t be safe to build a whole strategy around the tactic.
Conversely, manual link building is a time-consuming process involving planning, research, content creation, outreach, and more. With a successful campaign the ROI can be tremendous despite all that time invested. Fortunately, we have some tools that provide assistance in this otherwise difficult task from SEOmoz, SEO Book, Raven, MajesticSEO and others.
But I’ve found there are still some small holes in the link builders’ toolkit, whether that be in research, monitoring, outreach, etc. The following are some of the processes that I would love to have automated by a tool, but are either too difficult to build on my own or are really just impossible. Nevertheless, I hope I can spark some conversation at the very least. Without further adieu:
Instant Alert for Citation Mentions
Will Critchlow of Distilled built a rough draft of this very tool in his post on SEOmoz. The tool monitors the web via Google Alerts, and at the first sign of an unlinked mention of a company, the tool alerts the SEO, providing a quick target for outreach.
“Hi there, I’m writing from Company X. We’re doing a bit of outreach to build company awareness, and I stumbled upon your blog post/article that mentions us. I was wondering if you’d consider linking to us where you’ve mentioned my company…”
Ideally, the tool works fast, as the author is much more likely to make a quick edit for a recent post. As an added bonus, this tool would provide the Twitter handle or email address of the post’s author, as described in a later ‘dream’ tool.
Competitor Link Monitoring 404 Follower
A brilliant link building tactic that has been discussed in the past is doing competitive research to determine where links to your competitions’ domains send a 404. Again, this provides an awesome outreach target:
“Hi. I noticed your link to Company X’s website is no longer working. I thought you might find this page a suitable replacement: URL…”
A tool to continuously monitor your competitors’ backlinks and alert you in the event of a 404 would be fantastic. Once again, bonus points if the tool could provide contact information to the linking site with the alert.
Successful Linkbait Campaign Finder
Working at a web marketing agency I’m faced with the task of getting a grasp on a niche relatively quick. New clients would love to hit the ground running with link building campaigns, and I can’t blame them. But their niche could very well be uncharted territory for me or anyone in the office. It’d be foolish to say I knew what the influencers in this niche love to share without doing some research.
That’s where this tool that locates the past successful linkbait campaigns in the niche would be invaluable. Hypothetically, the SEO could provide this tool with a seed list of domains in the niche, the tool would expand to include more within this broad ‘neighborhood’, and would return the linkbait most often shared.
An alternative approach would be a search mashup that when queried with a niche would return the blog posts, videos, infographics, and other embeds that have received the most links and shares. In other words, a modern search engine without on-page or domain level off-page signals. A bit more difficult, but I’d imagine popular bookmarking services like Delicious could provide context for URLs and domains with collective users’ tags.
Guest Post Opportunity Finder
Here’s a tool idea that is really just a mashup of a related sites or ‘neighborhood’ finder tool and a set of advanced search queries.
Provide a niche, or a seed set of related domains, and this tool returns related domains that have allowed guest posts in the past (using a simple “guest post” OR “guest author” OR, etc. query). Bonus points, yet again, for contact details of target blogs.
Ever since the demise of the effectiveness of Yahoo’s Site Explorer, I’ve bemoaned the inability to query a set of backlinks’ on-page content. I most often did this to get a feel for a company or their competitors’ link building successes with widget or other embeddable content. Oh, “linkdomain:domain.com ’embed footprint'” query, how I miss thee.
My coworker Justin Briggs blogged about an alternative, which involved creating a Google custom search engine. This approach is brilliant, but is time-consuming and has some limitations.
My hypothetical tool wouldn’t have to be too different from the functionality that Site Explorer used to have. Provide the tool with a domain, which returns links to that domain, then allows the SEO to query the page content of those linking URLs.
An enhancement would be a tool that detects similar text surrounding a set of backlinks, so the SEOs query could be just a domain or URL, and the tool returns backlinks that may be from embeddable content.
A True Social Shares / Link Building Mashup
With an ever-growing importance on social signals, I think its time to start including this data in our backlink reports. Of course, easier said than done. But a tool that returns a top pages report for a domain, a la Open Site Explorer, combined with the number of tweets, FB shares, upvotes, Stumbles, etc., would be fantastic.
Contact Details Retriever
I’ve referenced this hypothetical tool more than once with good reason; it’s a time consuming and arduous task. I’ve also included it last on my list because not only would it be incredibly useful, but it’s probably impossible to build to return reliable results (and maybe illegal?). Shame.
But, in theory, we’d provide this tool with a set of outreach target URLs or domains, and it would return Twitter handles and email addresses on the page. Technically, not an impossible task, but how would we know we’re receiving THE contact details?
Automated link building isn’t the greatest way to build links, but automating pieces of link building with some of the above hypothetical tools would decrease the necessary investment, and allow SEOs to focus more on being creative and providing greater return.
If you’re looking for some more link building discussion, the Distilled guys are running two link building conferences – in New Orleans on 25th March (book here) and in London on 18th March (book here). The focus is on actionable tips and tricks so if you need more links, these events are the places to be. | <urn:uuid:c94301f6-9bf0-43bf-b7a1-eef7abefe9ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.searchenginejournal.com/link-building-tools-i-wish-someone-would-build/28027/ | 2017-05-23T10:50:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607620.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523103136-20170523123136-00362.warc.gz | en | 0.928667 | 1,497 | [
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Rating: 5 Stars
I don't even know where to begin. At 7% in I was thinking how batshit insane this all was, how this amounted to nothing more than straight up child abuse. This is not religion, this is not faith, this a money-making scheme built on the backs of children - from those who were unfortunate enough to be born to Sea Org members (the most highly committed Scientology members) and separated from their families for months or years at a time, to others who did forced manual labor to build The Ranch, all while receiving no actual education in anything but the doctrine of LRH (L. Ron Hubbard). There is no way on earth that I could ever be separated from Eleanor in that way for so long. No job or commitment is worth that. Ever. Nothing. Yet without batting an eye Jenna's parents relocated away from Justin (her brother) and Jenna WITHOUT TELLING THEM. The siblings found out from the family living with them what was happening, and by then their parents were already gone. I can't even.
It absolutely breaks my heart to even look at this cover and see this sweet face, and to know that her childhood was completely destroyed by these monsters - her own family being among the perpetrators. Worse still, to know that there are so many who went through and continue to go through the exact same thing she did - the psychological torture, the emotional abuse, even physical abuse. Heartbreaking is the only way to describe it.
Prior to reading this book I had very little knowledge of Scientology. I know it is a super expensive, super secret
cult 'religion' that does not believe in pain medication or psychiatry. And it makes Tom Cruise jump around on couches acting like a damn fool. I mean really, would he have done that BEFORE becoming more involved with the cult 'Church'? No. Before that, when he was still married to Nicole, he was normal. There are still many, many things I do not understand (like why are adults called Mr. regardless of gender?) and so I am no expert, but I know what the experience was like for THIS child. I also do not understand why, at the age of seven, Jenna's job at The Ranch was to be the health monitor, keep track of all the illnesses the other children had, and to administer vitamins and help those who were injured. I also do not understand why when books like this come out, these abuses and allegations are not looked into by the authorities. Jenna, however, made a good point after her parents had left the cult 'Church' and didn't talk bad to Jenna about it at all, who was still very much involved. She made the statement that you can't tell a brainwashed person that they are brainwashed, they won't believe it. Perhaps this is why even if any authorities were to look into the allegations, they would come up with nothing, or very uncooperative people who do not see anything wrong with the way they and those around them are treated.
This was a very engaging, horribly heartbreaking story. Ultimately though, Jenna escapes (as the subtitle states, so no spoilers here) and has gone on to speak out against the
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How to Make (or Order) a Healthy "Lean-Body Margarita"
...Plus my delicious "Super-Human Margarita" recipe
I'm sure you know that most Margaritas are a disaster for your body... some popular Margaritas can have as much as 500 calories, mostly from all of the sugar or high fructose corn syrup in the sour mix used or from added agave syrups that are added many times.
Remember from a few of my past articles, while I don't advocate getting full blown drunk if you want to have a lean and healthy body, I also want to be realistic and know that most people have no desire to give up drinking altogether... and I believe it can be perfectly healthy to have a few drinks a couple times week.
In fact, some studies even show moderate drinking of alcohol (1-2 drinks a day 3-4 days a week) can possibly extend lifespan and improve health.
Personally, I love red wine and I've also been enjoying my own version of a "lean-body Margarita" recently.
If you want to be lean, a typical Margarita when you're having a couple drinks with friends is one of the WORST things you can order, and all of that sugar or corn syrup is going to do nothing but go straight to your belly flab.
But there is a way to enjoy delicious Margaritas WITHOUT all of the sugar or corn syrup...
First, how to order a low-sugar healthier margarita at a bar
If you're ordering at a bar, make sure the bartender is 100% clear that you don't want any sour mix in your margarita. Make sure they don't add any agave nectar either, as that is just pure sugar as well. There's nothing healthy about agave nectar despite the healthy sounding name. Just tell them you want nothing but tequila, a little triple sec or cointreau, and a little club soda. And then you want 5 or 6 (or more) lime wedges to squeeze into the drink. I'll usually use a whole lime if they can give it to me.
This modified margarita has very little sugar and even has the health benefits of the fresh limes too. You can easily save 400 calories on this compared to just ordering one of the standard Margaritas off of a typical menu that is loaded with sugar.
Now, if you want to go one step further, here is my Super-Human Margarita recipe I've been playing with lately... this may sound weird, but I've honestly had at least a dozen friends try this and every single one of them LOVED this margarita recipe!
Geary's Super-Human Margarita Recipe
Into a glass, mix:
Mix all of these with a spoon in an ice filled glass.... and voila, you've got about the healthiest mixed drink that's possible! and delicious too!
By adding the Superfoods-Cocktail mix (that's what I call it), even though this has about 76 superfood ingredients like greens, probiotics, exotic mushrooms, enzymes, etc, it also has a nice fruity sweet flavor (with no added sugar) that goes perfectly with a Margarita.
I think you'll be shocked how delicious this is! All of my friends I've made this for loved it.
Remember that heavy drinking will definitely hurt your efforts for a lean and healthy body, but 1-2 drinks a couple days a week I think can actually be a healthy part of your plan. Drink responsibly, and make it a healthy drink!
Share this idea of healthy margaritas with your friends below and have fun!
Also, I have a full article on how to balance moderate social drinking into your fitness plan and stay lean...make sure to read it:
7 tips to enjoy moderate alcohol and stay lean
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|Hana Horakova has been the driving force for Czech national teams for more than a decade but will not feature this June in France|
The 33-year-old star was the stand-out player in an absorbing Final win against arch-rivals ZVVZ USK Prague, amassing 30 points in a superb 87-83 success.
However, the former FIBA Europe Player of the Year revealed she won't be linking back up with her national team colleagues on their preparation schedule ahead of taking to the floor in France - even if her display in the Final was one of her best in recent years.
Speaking to sportovninoviny.cz the guard revealed, "I have decided EuroBasket Women will happen without me. That's enough."
National team play-caller Lubor Blazek added, "Although I would be glad if she wanted to play, she wants to have fun and think of the family. I have to respect this."
Not always someone who leads the way in scoring but normally the provider for others, Horakova could barely remember the last time she racked up such a phenomenal score.
She was naturally delighted with the Cup success for Brno for what has to date been a challenging season - and especially since her team have been out of form recently, dropping a couple of league games against the likes of Hradec Kralove and Trutnov.
She said, "I have probably never given 30 points in my life and yet it was mainly because we played as a team. Due to good ball movement, I just kept getting into good positions.
Horakova's career high in FIBA Europe competitions is 36 points, dating back to a U16 European Championship game against Bulgaria in 1995.
"Recently, we too did not work well, this is true. It was not underestimating (opponents), we were just troubled.
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So, let’s talk about keeping you active, healthy and full of energy this autumn.
With those long summer days almost behind us, it’s easy to let the cooler temperatures put you off from spending time outside… so it’s easy to stop exercising completely, and spend more time indoors doing things like watching TV, and sitting for long periods of time.
And let’s be honest, you and I both know that a lack of movement can lead to stiffness and unwanted pain, which can get in the way of your day-to-day life.
So, with that in mind, let’s look at what you could possibly do to keep moving and reduce the risk of experiencing stiffness this season - here’s some of the tips I give my patients:
Embrace gentle movements:
One way you can keep moving now that it’s cooler outside is to bring your activities indoors.
Go for a swim, take up yoga, pedal away gently on an exercise bike while watching your favourite programme - seriously you’ll love just how easy that one is to do.
In fact, one of my patients Diane absolutely dreaded using her exercise bike, until I told her just how easy it is to make it a healthy habit if she used it whilst watching her favourite programme Eastenders, and now she doesn’t mind using the exercise bike at all!
The key is to find something that you enjoy, to get your body moving gently so that you keep yourself fit and healthy, which brings me on to my next point…
Boost your immune system:
Here’s an important one, especially to keep you from visiting the Doctor’s surgery.
Whenever the seasons change, and I feel a need to boost my immune system, I first look to Mother Nature. Some of my favourite immune-boosters are to drink plenty of fresh water and eat plenty of foods packed with nutrients - such as Manuka honey, garlic and root veggies. You could even make some delicious pumpkin dishes this autumn, especially if you’ve had to take part in carving them!
As the days will soon become shorter, now is the perfect excuse to take time to really look after yourself.
Use this autumn as an ideal time to relax at home, enjoy early nights, cook nutritious food, and maybe even find a new activity to enjoy.
I might even start Yoga again.
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The minimum order for bulk personalization and customization of this item is 250 pieces. We can provide 1 sample with a random logo for evaluation purposes, or a virtual proof of your order prior to production.
*Most orders are charged a production set-up fee.
**Purchased samples may include random imprint to evaluate imprint quality and location.
***Some logos, designs, and imprint methods may require additional charges. This may include additional run charges, set-up fees for extra colors, stitch counts and/or locations.
Why am I charged a set-up fee on most orders?
Imprinting and customization require special screens and plates for the imprinting and personalization process.
Do I get a proof before my order?
Yes, all orders recieve a FREE art proof in a PDF format for you to approve prior to production that comes from our art team.
What art formats do you accept?
We prefer high quality vector artwork in .eps, .ai (adobe illustrator), with fonts converted to outlines. We may also accept high resolution .jpg, .gif, .psd, or .pdf files. We can fix your art for free!
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- Patient Comments: Turner Syndrome - Diagnosis
- Patient Comments: Turner Syndrome - Symptoms
- Patient Comments: Turner Syndrome - Treatment
What are the symptoms for Turner syndrome?
Girls who have Turner syndrome are shorter than average. They often have normal height for the first three years of life, but then have a slow growth rate. At puberty they do not have the usual growth spurt.
Non-functioning ovaries are another symptom of Turner syndrome. Normally a girl's ovaries begin to produce sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone) at puberty. This does not happen in most girls who have Turner syndrome. They do not start their periods or develop breasts without hormone treatment at the age of puberty.
Even though many women who have Turner have non-functioning ovaries and are infertile, their vagina and womb are totally normal.
Girls with Turner Syndrome are usually of normal intelligence with good verbal skills and reading skills. Some girls, however, have problems with math, memory skills and fine-finger movements.
Additional symptoms of Turner syndrome include the following:
- An especially wide neck (webbed neck) and a low or indistinct hairline.
- A broad chest and widely spaced nipples.
- Arms that turn out slightly at the elbow.
- A heart murmur, sometimes associated with narrowing of the aorta (blood vessel exiting the heart).
- A tendency to develop high blood pressure (so this should be checked regularly).
- Minor eye problems that are corrected by glasses.
- Scoliosis (deformity of the spine) occurs in 10 percent of adolescent girls who have Turner syndrome.
- The thyroid gland becomes under-active in about 10 percent of women who have Turner syndrome. Regular blood tests are necessary to detect it early and if necessary treat with thyroid replacement.
- Older or over-weight women with Turner syndrome are slightly more at risk of developing diabetes.
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Stocking your medicine cabinet with tissues, throat lozenges and the latest over-the-counter cold busters is one way to go. But the best way to protect your health, experts say, is getting a flu shot. A bonus: This year, you may be able to skip the big, scary needle that shoots deep into your arm muscle and opt for a thinner, shorter needle that barely pricks your forearm.
The so-called “ouchless” needles are less than one-10th of an inch long and are about the width of a human hair, according to ABC News. Compare that to the one-and-a-half-inch needles used for a standard flu shot.
We’ve got a few other strategies to help you shore up your immune system so you can get through the season sick-free:
- Eat chicken soup: Chicken contains an amino acid called cysteine that prevents inflammation in the nose and thins nasal mucus. Plus, chicken soup usually contains fresh garlic and onions, both of which contain powerful immune-enhancing chemicals. A bonus: If you’re already sick, the hot liquid also helps soothe a sore throat.
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Karin Berquist (played by Melinda Culea) was a specialist in canine behavioral studies who befriended Mulder in an online chat room. After the arrival of the T'ien Kou and a number of brutal murders resembling dog attacks, Mulder sought her aid in the investigation. He and Scully visited her home, where she lived with many dogs and in near total darkness with all the blinds closed. She published a number of books about canine behavior such as Better Than Human.
Scully correctly picked up on an attraction between Berquist and Mulder, thinking that each saw the other as a kindred spirit. While speaking privately with Berquist, Scully realized that she suffered from lupus, which would explain the perpetual avoidance of sunlight.
During the investigation of a supposed wanshang dhole, she encountered and disliked Ian Detweiler. Ultimately, she faced down Detweiler in the form of the wanshang dhole, which she had prepared to tranquilize but did not. As the creature lunged at her, they both fell from a second-story window. Berquist was killed in the fall. (TXF: "Alpha") | <urn:uuid:88ed54d2-0cdb-4703-b846-39948b93ec13> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Karin_Berquist | 2017-05-27T17:41:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608984.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527171852-20170527191852-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.97847 | 237 | [
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When I was a wee lass I counted various iterations of Chanel’s Chance to be my signature fragrance. I don’t know that I ever wore the original Chanel Chance, but I’m pretty sure I wore a bottle of the Eau Fraiche before switching to Eau Tendre when it was released and sticking with it for another bottle or two.
And by wee lass I mean middle school me: me pre-perfume obsession. At some point, I don’t remember exactly how it happened, I lost interest in the Chances, which felt too easy, too impersonal a choice, and just not reflective of who I was any longer. And so one by one I started bringing other perfumes into my life, ones that resonated more deeply with me and that I appreciated almost artistically. And some of those were also made by Chanel. 🙂
Fast forward a couple of years: Today I decided I wanted to wear Chanel’s 31 Rue Cambon, so I fished out my little sample vial (I consider myself to ‘own’ a lot of scents I only have samples of, simply because when you reach a certain number of fragrances you don’t need a large volume of any one to keep you satisfied.) Anyway. Imagine my dismay when I pulled it out and saw that it was very much on the edge of empty. Well, another perfume to go on my small sample/decant wish list. But for now I’m wearing Guerlain’s Shalimar, which isn’t at all similar but has a nice anti-rain warm and toasty vibration. Like I have a cozy vanilla-civet aura that evaporates the cold drizzle.
But I want to talk about my favorite fragrances from the Chanel line- now that I’m thinking about them and the notes, rather than sniffing an ad that smells as much of magazine paper and scent sample. 😉
31 Rue Cambon: 31RC is this gorgeous peppery iris with a citrus bite, grounded by a bit of polished patchouli (the patchouli isn’t super evident, for all of you misguided patchouli haters out there).
Bois des Iles: Ahhh, I love Bois des Iles. It’s an aldehydic sandalwood with classical floral underpinnings. The sandalwood-aldehyde combination has a lovely gingery snap to it that reminds me a tad of gingerbread, without being food-y at all. The sandalwood warms it up while the aldehydes keep it cool, it’s a great contrast. I’ve a little decant of it.
No. 22: It’s a fizzing hummingbird of a fragrance, mostly aldehydes backed up by the classic Chanel florals and an incense accord. It’s somehow carbonated, vibrating at a very high frequency. I have a little spray sample and I do very much enjoy wearing it. I remember testing it senior year of high school on a day I was home sick. I stayed on a comfy chair all day reading The Phantom of the Opera.
Coromandel: The realization just gave me pause, because it’s kind of surprising to me, but I think Coromandel is my most worn Chanel fragrance, although Misia may be gunning to claim its spot (it’s weird to think of these very refined and elegant fragrances ‘gunning’ to do anything). Coromandel is a mannerly patchouli, cleaned up and powdered with white chocolate. Because of the combination it manages not to be edible, so much as nuzzly. I have a small decant and find it lovely year round, but particularly superb in autumn.
Cuir de Russie: I have a little glass vial of Cuir de Russie that I don’t wear quite enough, but that I am very grateful to have, since it’s such a lovely scent. It’s a birch tar derived leather treading this exciting line between feral and ladylike. It’s not a campfire smoke, cowboy and beef jerky leather (they definitely do exist, and in unwashed droves), but neither is it a delicately perfumed suede glove. Maybe in the spectrum of leather goods, one would call it an english riding saddle- dignified, practical, and elegant. The leather accord is softened up by gentle, barely there florals.
Misia: Misia is a relatively new release from Chanel, their entry into the somewhat crowded ‘scents that smell like high end cosmetics’ niche. And it’s remarkably good- my favorite of the cosmetics-inspired scents that I’ve tried. Like the others, it’s a powdery and vanillin rose-violet combination. Where the Chanel differs, for me, is in the perfect level of village (not so big as to feel bombastic, not too light as to feel ‘weakly feminine’). It also splits well between syrupy and powdery types of sweetness, while still not succumbing to being too sweet or cloying. Well done.
All of those entries are from Chanel’s Les Exclusifs line, which is a bit more expensive (not such a big deal when one is living 2-3 mL at a time) but also tackles more interesting artistic concepts. There are some other Chanel fragrances that I can happily recommend, even though I don’t wear them myself- I don’t think there’s any big miss in the Exclusifs line, although some do suffer from being a bit faint (La Pausa and 1932, for instance). And No. 19, Cristalle (especially if you can find vintage iterations, the oakmoss is important to the original conception), and No. 5 Eau Premiere would be my choice from the mainstream line, even though I don’t wear them. In fact, with all of the changes No. 5 has been subject to, I would suggest Eau Premiere, a recent flanker, is preferable.
Chanel is a reliably good fragrance line, and one of my favorites (though I have many- I’m not fickle, but I am polyamorous (when it comes to perfume!)). I admire it especially for its loyalty to its own brand aesthetic. The Les Exclusifs line is extremely cohesive, always very elegant and tasteful. They’re great ‘proper’ scents when you need to be a boss (a measured, good boss) and get things done. It’s an attitude that very much appeals to me, the part of me that wants to be well turned out and effortlessly on point. | <urn:uuid:9215785d-e366-4fbb-b8c2-fedb0d5c56d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://listmimsy.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/to-smell-like-chanel/ | 2017-05-27T17:31:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608984.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527171852-20170527191852-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.949223 | 1,453 | [
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Skiers may gather and enjoy a varied gastronomical proposal, as well excellent wines and apéritifs, at 6 different spots in La Parva ski resort. The classical La Marmita offers its delicious fondues or Magellanic lamb cooked in a metal cross and a wide variety of sandwiches, soup and salad. The St. Tropez restaurant menu has the signature of an international chef who presents dishes such as frog's legs, lamb and delicious Italian specialties. It opens its doors at 8 in the morning and breakfast includes croissant and chocholate bread. At night, pisco sour is served at the bar before closing.
At El Piuquén pub, heli-ski films are shown in the company of delicious pizza, ideal for aprè-ski time.At the base of the “Alpha” run, above the ski school, El Manzano offers good dishes to fight cold weather in an international menu including pasta, meat, fish and seafood, as well as good Chilean wineries.
This season, 3100 restaurant offers its new terraces that show the best sights of the mountain range. Delicious French and Chilean sandwiches, soups, anticuchos and pisco sour may be enjoyed until 4 in the afternoon.
Another place is La Pirca, which welcomes skiers with delicious dishes made with salmon and other proposals of the high cuisine.
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When we first saw them beginning to appear again on the pages of trendy gourmet cookware and home-furnishings catalogues, we groaned. After all, we remember the days when no self-respecting cook was without a fondue pot, and fondue parties were all the rage.
The trend died as quickly as it started, however, largely because many fondue recipes produced terribly disappointing results. In addition, the cheap knockoff fondue pots that flooded the market as the craze hit its peak not only looked awful but also often were dangerously easy to tip over, dumping boiling-hot liquids on guests and hosts alike.
After a bit of consideration, the case for a fondue revival became much stronger. First, the generation of fondue pots now on the market has been designed with safety and esthetics in mind. Second, fondue fits right into the current trend in ``grazing foods,`` small samples of a wide variety of dishes rather than a sit-down meal of four or five courses. Finally, fondue makes sense for summer back-porch entertaining. It`s fun and, best of all, quick and easy.
Originally, fondue is said to have developed as a way for country cooks in the Swiss Alps to use up scraps of cheese and stale bread. As the dish made its way from the mountains to the cities, the cheese sauce got dressed up with wine, kirsch, onion and garlic, among other flavorings.
Many varieties of fondue exist today. The oldest are cheese, fondue friture and fondue bouillon. Fondue friture is said to have developed in the Bourguignonne region of France, where field workers cooked raw meats by dipping them in hot oil for a light evening meal. Fondue bouillon, made with stock or broth, is said to be a derivative of the Chinese Mongolian fire pot, brought back to Europe by a Swiss traveler. Chocolate fondue became popular during the 1960s fondue craze, the invention of a publicist for a chocolate company.
The main trick to any successful fondue is to make sure all the ingredients are fresh and of the best quality.
Traditional Swiss fondues feature Gruyere, Vacherin or Emmental cheese alone or in combination with the others. Fontina also is good for fondue because of its rich flavor and creamy texture when melted. Other cheeses that work successfully for fondue include most in the Swiss or cheddar families. Avoid cheeses that become stringy when melted.
For fondue friture, heat vegetable oil for cooking slices of beef and chicken that have been marinated in soy sauce and wine. Vegetables also can be cooked this way. Try a selection of fresh pea pods, slices of zucchini and yellow squash and button mushrooms for heating in the oil along with the beef and chicken.
In the far reaches of some rarely used closet somewhere in your home you probably have an old fondue pot. We vote for dusting it off (making sure it`s good and stable) and putting it back into service for great-tasting summer fun.
FONTINA AND SHERRY FONDUE
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
12 ounces fontina cheese
1/2 cup whipping cream
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon arrowroot
1/3 cup dry sherry
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Dash cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
Cubes of crusty French or sourdough bread
Dice the cheese. Mix cream, egg yolks, arrowroot, sherry, mustard and peppers in heavy-bottomed saucepan until smooth. Add cheese. Melt, stirring constantly, over low heat. Do not boil. Transfer to fondue pot. Serve immediately with bread for dunking.
Four to six servings
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
8 ounces good quality semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 tablespoon confectioners` sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons raspberry-flavored liqueur
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We talked with Marvin Sapp about his new album, I Win, for our March/April 2012 issue.
We couldn’t include it all in the magazine, so we’re giving you more of the interview– right here, right now!
GT: What’s your favorite song on your new album, I Win?
Sapp: The title track, “I Win.†It\’s not the first single, but I really think it is going to bless people. The lyrical content talks about decreeing and declaring that we win. It\’s written by Brittney Wright, an unbelievable vocalist in her own right.
Sapp: Absolutely. Aaron Lindsey (producer), Myron Butler (vocal production), Joseph Burney (A&R at Verity) and me—we\’re just an unbelievable team when it comes to music and how we work together. It\’s like a hand to a glove. I love it.
GT: How do you balance your duties as a major recording artist with the practical demands of being a father?
Sapp: I have an incredible community that helps me. I maintain a connection with my kids’ teachers through something RenWeb, which is the most unbelievable thing given to a parent, but it\’s hell for children. (laughs)
It enables me to remain connected to teachers, see grades, see when homework is not completed… they automatically send me email notifications about all of that. I can call my kids when assignments haven\’t been done, or ask about a particular grade they received. It’s really helpful when I’m on the road.
Also, American Express has a service called One Pass. Intead of leaving cash, I can upload finances to their little credit card accounts and I can monitor their spending. When they spend $.99, it emails or texts me, letting me know what they bought and where. If I see it and don\’t approve, I can call them up.
These tools don’t replace parenting– they just enable me to be a parent when I\’m on the road. My kids enjoy that, I think. They might say they hate that Dad\’s always in their business, but they really like it.
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Check out this track listing from the new album, I Win, in stores on April 3, 2012:
2. Teach My Hands To War
3. I Belong To You
5. I Win
7. The Hymns Medley
9. My Testimony
10. Do Me Like You
11. Keep It Movin’
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Baseline perturbations were conducted to evaluate individual technologies. Each of the five technologies was evaluated against the reference vehicle for a fixed set of performance parameters to determine sizing impact and resulting cost-effectiveness trade-offs. During this process, vehicles were resized to keep constant mission radius (generic SEAD mission used). Payload and propulsion system were held constant. The technologies were combined as a set to examine and assess synergistic effects that may accrue. Products of the technology excursions were quantified. Products of the technology assessment were quantified using the FWV goal criteria and referenced back to the 1995 state-of-the-art (SOA) baseline. | <urn:uuid:624335bd-bfdf-474f-bc7e-d3c4ee3e55dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/docs/fatereport/sld038.htm | 2017-05-29T00:08:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612003.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528235437-20170529015437-00204.warc.gz | en | 0.974504 | 141 | [
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No two actors have had more varied and successful careers in film than Harrison Ford and Samuel L. Jackson. That having been said, artist Jeff Victor has wonderfully and adorably illustrated the evolution of their careers in cartoon form. Check them out below.
Drawn as part of the artist’s “Evolution” series, Victor selected some of the actors’ most iconic roles to show the progression of their careers.
He’s also in the process of Kickstarting a second collection of his artwork, entitled “Adorkable”, which will contain further “Evolution” pieces including Robin Williams, Angelina Jolie, Bill Murray and Christopher Lee.
He’s already far surpassed his goal, but you can still contribute to the Kickstarter if you want to get a copy of this remarkable man’s remarkable book full of remarkable art.
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Meet Amber Housey
Meet Denise Clemmensen
Every Shoe has a Story
Meet the Flipsiders!
Be a Flipsider
to be able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious
The ability to walk in someone else's shoes and feel what the other person is feeling.
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The last dividend announcement was on Feb 22 and went ex-div on March 1. Announcement should be anytime now.
As long as they say ...We are committed to paying 54 cents for the future merger,, then we break the 25.98 barrier. $27-28ish is the new 23-26, with the dividend starts to strain hedge funds from shorting. Nasty 2 bucks last 2 years paid to me . Always buy at 23ish and sold at 26ish. But darn looks better now. BUT..BUT..BUT all depends about the next day or so before they give shorters,,poopy stains,,just sayN
Let's consider changing CEO's, what have we got to lose?
most likely announcement of the 54 cents dividend is causing price increase today.
Dividends are about cash flow-telcos can pay out such a high dividend like MLPs can-by virtue of big depreciation and previous losses. That is why this merger is great deal as they can use precious losses from both companies, along with huge depreciation to shelter income thus showing loss while paying out best in class dividend. It is a bargain at this price.
Dividend should be made public today or tomorrow,, so a bit more false flag bad news down grades because of this or that. Trying to get you people to either sell it now or at the very least not buy more. If theydo cut the dividend then it is going down a little before recovering in a month or 2. Most likely a full dividend on the way
Activist investor Keith Meister sees 40% upside in CenturyLink stock......
This companies last earnings conference call, gave nothing...as far as how they were going to start making money, or change the ship around...other than their acquiring of Level3. That seems like counting on a lot. Especially with another company that had to do a 15/1 reverse split just to get their valuations where they are? I don't see the competitive advantage with this company, when they SELL data centers? Wouldn't we want them to keep those? as business owners of the company, DATA centers would seem to be what you would want to keep?? Cloud storage and all? Maybe they had to sell them to pay the dividend?
There is something wrong with a company, that all people talk about is "buying the dividend", and "when are we going to get paid for the dividend?" What good is 1/4 of 9.xx% when the stock keeps dropping MORE than that???, LOOK at the one year chart people! They are NOT financially sound enough to keep paying more than they make! NO Co. is! And as far as this last pump and dump hedge fund speaker, how many share did he sell after his last nice little 4% uptick, from his speech? Activist investor HAS to say those things with 5.5% ownership of the Co. I have seen other companies with activist involvement go right down the drain ...right down to pink sheets.
IBD'S TAKE: CenturyLink pays a dividend, along with much bigger Verizon and AT&T. All phone companies are under pressure to sustain dividends amid slowing revenue growth, and the Level 3 deal should help, analysts say
What goes down for without good reason usually goes up pretty quick. Since it is all guess work and gambling, trading ranges, macd, stochastics and luck said buy CTL . I cried whn I had to buy it 7 cents over Fridays close when most of my jewels were down...but it seems to have worked out for me, may the force continue it's blessings.
Anyone know what is the date for their next quarterly dividend payout?
CNBC just said a big stock guru likes CTL and he reportedly is coming on to say why in a few minutes. I guess that caused today's big pop. Luckily, I had bought 2500 shares near the open. Sometimes it pays to be lucky rather than good.
finally someone in the financial community sees the financial upside with this merger.
I purchased CTL on 3-22. Will I receive the June dividend? Thanks
22.35 to 26.04! Almost the same trade every 3 months! Buy at 23ish average down a bit if it touches 22.50 and sell at 25.70. Wash and rinse..wait a bit this time ,,but sure as Sherlock it is goona hit 25 and change. Oh and that dividend is not being cut..
I hated that CC, and have no faith left in this management team. They can't even meet expectations when the bar is set 3 inches off the ground. Wouldn't be surprised to see this retest 22.5 in the next few weeks
Serious problem facing the company . So yesterday I called to get a price and see if I left Comcast I actually would save . According to the company web site my house can get speed of 150 . I had to repeat myself couple of time like my address and was put on hold . she came back and told me maximum speed I can get is 1.5 . who can survive with speed of 1.5 . I told her my house is eligible for 150 speed . Apparently she had added some more digits to my house # and told me she was DEAF .
I will stay with Comcast as this company has many serious problem a sad story
Curious to see if Barron's has a comment on CTL tomorrow. I saw a short article from Barron's on the internet that pretty much said CTL's future depends on the Level Three acquisition. I guess that means the next quarter or two will continue to have some earnings issues. I wonder what CTL will do with the dividend after the acquisition if it does get final approval.
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Tucked away in a rural area of St Saviours, yet close to the local amenities and schools that the parish has to offer, this 4 bedroom detached home is part of a stylish modern development that is only 8 years old. Boasting quality fixtures and fittings throughout and in superb condition, this house is ready to move into! The ground floor accommodation is extremely spacious, with a large eat in kitchen, fully equipped with the latest appliances and granite worktops, a spacious lounge, with doors leading onto the sunny garden, a shower room and a utility room. Upstairs, there are 4 bedrooms, with the master bedroom benefiting from an ensuite bathroom and a house bathroom. The large loft space has been floored and provides ample storage. Externally, there is a single garage, that can be accessed from the utility and parking for a further 3 cars. Freehold. OFCH. Under floor heating throughout ground floor level and in ensuite bathroom. All mains. No Gas. | <urn:uuid:8cb7f49e-ec6b-4475-8067-c60db6329b7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.legallais.co.uk/estate-agents/buy/properties/4251874/ | 2017-05-23T14:52:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607647.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523143045-20170523163045-00084.warc.gz | en | 0.949118 | 200 | [
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I like to plan Unit studies into our school year and our first one this year was on the Reformation! We had loads of fun and learned a lot. Here are some things we did:
1. We went on a heretic...er, book hunt at our library and found as many books and videos as we could on the subject.
2.We colored pictures, solved crosswords and wordsearches.
3. We researched and printed up valuable information online.
4. We watched an insightful PBS special that narrated the life of Martin Luther.
5. We had spelling and vocabulary words that included words like indulgences, Protestantism, martyr, recant
6. We learned the Five Sola's of the Reformation, what the Diet of Worms were (my children just loved this) and what a papal bull was.
7. We used timelines to do math.
8. We had a creative writing assignment on what the Reformation was about, what they liked about it and how they would change the world in the spirit of 'Semper Reformanda' which in Latin means 'always reforming' the cry of the Reformers.
9. We chose who we wanted to be for a Reformation celebration we are attending.
10. We created lapbooks. This involved all the cutting, gluing, taping, tracing, handwriting practice, art and creativity that we could muster.
Here are some of our pictures (click on them to enlarge):
The Cry of the Reformers: Hidden inside this square is----Semper Reformanda!
We pasted 'A Mighty Fortress is Our God' inside this fold out, we sang the song and had it playing while working on these books
Look inside for the indulgences
We printed indulgences off the internet and stuck them in this envelope
All of this studying led us to desiring to celebrate this wonderful event in history as a tradition in our home annually as a Reformation Celebration. Click here to read about how we are going to remember this event. We will also be spending the rest of our week preparing our costumes for a Reformation Faire, and we have all already handpicked a reformer that we will be dressing up as.
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I have been wanting to publish some of my research on amari for a long time. Finally, here it is: “Amaro: Drinking Bitterness for Health and Pleasure” on the Remedia blog.
“Économie du marché”, séminaire d’anthropologie économique et politique, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, March 17, Marseille, France.
“Where are the female chefs ? Reproducing and challenging gender stereotypes in Lyon’s professional kitchens”, International Conference on Food History and Food Studies, March 25, Tours, France
Charismatic Substances Workshop, Morphomata Centre for Advanced Studies, May 14 & 15, Cologne, Germany.
Cibo, culture, società. Una prospettiva di genere, Expo Milano, June 8. More information here.
April 11 – “Wild ferment: constructing nature, obscuring labor in the natural wine movement” at the American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting in Boston, MA, April, 11-12, 2014 – 10-11:45am session “In/visibilities and Un/accountabilities in Food”
May 25 – “Teaching Italian Culture through Food: An Anthropological Approach”, American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
May 26 – “Vino e cultura: un progetto di antropologia dal vigneto al bicchiere” Patrimonio immateriale e antropologia dell’alimentazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Bicocca, 14h30-17h00, Edificio U16, aula 14 (IV piano) – Via Thomas Mann 8, Milano, Italy.
June 5-8 – Umbra Institute, Food Conference, Perugia, Italy, Keynote.
Here is a summary of a recent talk I gave at the College of the Atlantic on the anthropology of wine and the concept of the taste landscape that I am developing in relation to the cooperative production of wine in Carema, Italy. Read more…
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“I just saw Annie, and I didn’t look at Daddy Warbucks the way I would have 20 years ago,” Warren Leight told The New York Observer over the phone. “The show has really warped the way we look at the world, at least those of us writing it.”
Leight, the showrunner for Dick Wolf’s last-standing Law & Order program, Special Victims Unit, was struggling to understand how people watch “marathon” sessions of the show he manages. “The children episodes are disturbing, even to us,” Leight said.
He singled out one such episode, entitled “Friending Emily,” in which detectives go to an FBI office to view images of abused children. Leight sounded shocked, tired and a little bit horrified over a detail that he and his writers chose to put in the episode. He sounded a lot, in fact, like SVU’s former protagonist, Elliot Stabler.
“There is a kid in diapers whose photo we show,” Leight said. “We found it on an Internet pornography site. It had 37,000 hits in the last four days.” (Which, it turns out, is the exact line that a government official says during the episode.)
“I mean, a bunch of us on the writing staff have children,” he said. “Nobody really wants to write this stuff. It’s dispiriting.”
The show may upset its own writers, but Law & Order: SVU has outlasted every other show that Wolf created. It’s been two years since NBC nixed the original Law & Order, after 20 seasons. Even after the cancellations of two highly promoted spinoffs, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Los Angeles (not to mention an ill-fated fourth spinoff called Law & Order: Trial by Jury), SVU is still going strong.
It’s one thing to say that violence sells. It’s another to say that gruesome sexual attacks on the most vulnerable members of society—children—can power the remaining show in an unusually successful franchise. Even last season, when its ratings were at their lowest, SVU was still the sixth-most watched show on NBC, ahead of 30 Rock, The Office and everything else in the Thursday-night lineup. At its peak, SVU was able to topple the original Law & Order when they were on the air together.
What’s clear: People love watching Special Victims Unit, especially young women and mothers. In fact, since the show launched 13 years ago, females age 18 to 34 have been its most consistent viewers. “Two-thirds of our audience are women,” Leight said. “I honestly don’t understand why, completely. I don’t get it when parents say they watch the show with their kids, either.”
Lisa Friel, a lawyer who spent nearly 30 years in charge of sex-crime prosecutions in the New York City District Attorney’s office, understands the impulse. Friel, who actually oversaw SVU-style prosecutions at work, used to watch the show with her high school-age daughter, now 18 and a college freshman.
Some of the subject matter they may have encountered: an episode titled “Consent,” in which a young girl is drugged with GHB; the aforementioned “Friending Emily,” in which an older frat brother conspires with a newer pledge to kidnap and rape a high schooler and then broadcast the videos of her molestation on the Internet; and “Brotherhood,” in which a pledge master is murdered after raping several women as well as the fraternity’s own pledges.
“It wasn’t like I was watching it with her when she was 7,” Friel told The Observer. “But when the time was right, when she was old enough and when I thought it was appropriate to start dealing with these issues, it was another way to open the dialogue.”
The writers’ lunchroom is plastered with New York Post and Daily News front covers, enough to extinguish one’s creative juices … or appetite. Every Law & Order installment has a noted “ripped from the headlines” element, and at times the show has even presaged the news. During Leight’s tenure, for instance, SVU had an episode (“Personal Fouls”) about a basketball coach using his charity as a conduit for kids he could molest. The show aired “two weeks before the Jerry Sandusky story came out,” Leight noted, with a hint of pride.
As the weblog Gothamist asked its readers at the time, “Not to pull a total conspiracy theory here, but this particular story scales pretty high on the ‘just a coincidence’ scale, don’t you think?”
Leight explained that the storyline wasn’t based on any inside information, but that it wasn’t a complete coincidence, either. SVU has a team of rape counselors, crime survivors, detectives and other law-enforcement experts who advise the writers on plot points. “Male-on-male sex crimes was just something that people were telling us was happening,” he said. “The show had never really tackled that issue in a substantial way.”
Is it possible that Wolf has succeeded where so many well-meaning educators and lawmakers have failed—at getting young people engaged with important but taboo subject matter? Friel works at T&M Protection Resources LLC, a firm that offers sexual education and investigative services to universities and corporations. She believes that SVU has helped blow up the myths of sexual assault—primarily, that it most often takes place in a dark alley at the hands of a stranger. In fact, studies show that 80 percent of sex crimes are perpetrated by a familiar face, and that jumps up to 90 percent if the victim is a child. “Rape is most often perpetrated by someone the victim knows,” she said, “which is something SVU helped people understand.”
But the show hasn’t always been an easy sell. When Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered in 1999, starring Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay as detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson, it was criticized for sensationalism. There was just no TV precedent for a series that tackled not just the rape or molestation of adults, but also, with disturbing frequency, of children as well. It wasn’t unusual to have a scene in which a small boy or girl was found wandering around the city, dazed, with blood running down his or her legs.
The most brutal episodes violated yet another TV taboo: Some of the kids were murdered as well. Longtime viewers of the show may have seen a 15-year-old found in the bushes, a dead baby discovered in a cooler and a 14-year-old war refugee with a slit throat.
Lisa F. Jackson is one of the show’s critics. “SVU portrays a universe of sexual violence that doesn’t really exist,” said Jackson, director of the HBO documentary Sex Crimes Unit. To make the film, Jackson spent two years inside the Manhattan District Attorney’s office with the prosecutors of sex crimes.
“SVU shows a universe that people prefer over the reality of rape and sexual violence,” she said. “In real life, most victims don’t show physical signs of assault, and it’s a lot harder to identify victims because they don’t come forward.”
Especially during the final Christopher Meloni years, SVU seemed intent on pumping up ratings with increasingly outlandish crimes and plot twists. Stabler’s own children were kidnapped, a hackneyed plot recycled from 24.
“I think people are remembering stuff from Season 10, Season 11,” Leight said carefully, when asked about the more exploitative aspects of the show’s storylines. “I think toward the end of the Meloni era, it got a little … fetishistic. It was like anything else: You had these great writers on the show for 10 years working with the talented [original showrunner] Neal Baer, and they keep pushing the limits, pushing the limits. When we came in two years ago, our whole idea was to bring the show back to the basics.”
SVU has sailed past its 300th episode, is well into its 14th season and has survived the loss of one of its two stars. It might be worth considering that there is something in it besides cheap thrills. It’s hard to think of SVU as entertaining. Riveting, perhaps.
Leight would have us believe that SVU exists as a public service, and that the writers get no pleasure in creating these dark stories, especially if they involve children. Like SVU’s relation to real-life sex crimes, his contention probably has some element of the truth, but isn’t the whole story.
During our interview, Leight asked us what we thought of the recent accusations that Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, had once been sexually involved with an underage teen.
We said we thought it wouldn’t be too long before an episode about a child-molesting puppeteer would make it onto SVU.
Leight coughed and was quiet for a moment. “Yeah … probably not for a while.”
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Squire Barnes of Global News explored what actually is an “ish”. So, he went to the finest institution of higher learning and interviewed the students to see what they think?
The question is: If someone is meeting you at twelve “ish”, how much time do you really have to work with.
Women tend to wait at least 15 minutes. Men will wait for a good 30 minutes.
The “ish” is nothing new.
Airlines do it all the time, flights delayed. Buses are always running on an “ish” due to traffic problem. And then there’s the occupation that is most liberal of all, Doctors! To them, an “ish” could be any length of time. As for everyone else, they seem to agree that an “ish” is somewhere within the range of 15 minutes. That’s pretty much industry standard. Certainly no longer than 30, those are the generous ones.
Once you have passed the person’s “ish” boundary, you are officially late.
Being a punctual person, an “ish” is only an excuse for being late and this is where my patience runs out.
So, what’s you take on these questions:
- What exactly is an “ish”?
- What are the parameters of an “ish”?
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Perhaps it’s time that taxpayers pull their funding from American colleges. After all, we are repeatedly told that colleges provide our young people with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in the modern economy.
And yet, my friends, we have this:
That’s right, ten percent of college graduates believe that Judge Judy, the sharp-tongue jurist who hosts her eponymous daytime TV show, sits on the United States Supreme Court.
Perhaps we should, in Judge Judy’s words, review the facts here!
These idiots are not everyday Americans. They are not college dropouts or college freshman. They have graduated from the institutions that are supposed to make them the most educated people in the world.
And they think that Judge Judy sits on the Supreme Court.
Heaven help us, America.
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India is one of the most populated country of the world where much of the population are very poor. One of the important task of any Government is to provide education to all and improve the literacy rate of the country to march a head in the development of the country. Till now our education system is mainly oriented on Government based public system. Public education system primarily concentrate on giving education to large masses rather than giving importance to providing quality education. Due to this, the quality of education in our primary, secondary and colleges fallen below the standards which gave scope for the private organizations to dominate over public education system at present. The situation has reached a stage where Government authorities are also believing that it is good for the Government to privatize education to reduce the burden in running the Government public education institutions at all levels. Now the question is, if such a thing happens, is it possible to implement Right to Education act provision which envisages right to free education to all which was passed in the Parliament in the year 2009.
What is the need of privatization of education in India?
In the past our Government institutions are the basis for education in India. These institutions worked very well in the past because of very honest people used to work in those times with great dedication. But as time passed Government educational institution became lethargic because of inefficient functioning of our Governments, lack of proper grip of Government on the management of these institutions. More than this the teachers who are working in these institutions are not much bothered about their duties because they are having job security. These reasons made worsening of standards in these institutions and this gave a lee way for the origin of private institutions. The running of private institutions mainly depend upon the quality education they provide and the result they show out of their efforts. The managements of these institutes have to put their heart and souls in order to such goals. For this the private institutions have to stick on to their tasks and put a lot of hard work when compared to their Government counterpart institutions. In this way the disciplined and efficient way of functioning of these institutions attracted public. At first rich people got attracted to these institutions and slowly the middle class as well as ordinary people also trying their best to join their wards in these institutions because of the quality education they are providing. Government is spend lot of money on their educational institutions on infrastructure, facilities, salaries for the employees who are working in these institutes without any positive encouragement make them talk about privatization of educational institutes which saves a lot of money in their annual budgets.
What are the pros of privatization?
1. It provides quality education to our children because of the disciplined and efficient functioning of these institutes.
2. The institutes always look for up gradation of the technologies that what they use in their institutes so that they are always up to date to the present times.
3. Public may feel happy because the time and money they spend on their wards may not get wasted in any way.
What are the cons of Privatization
1. Because of complete privatization rich, middle class and poor people have to depend on these private institutes for the education of their wards. This definitely affects the education system in India and many people cannot even complete their primary education as cost of the education in private institutions is not feasible for the poor or even for ordinary people. There will be a drop in percentage of education in higher, Degree and PG level of education.
2. Private institutions turn education institutions into private business firms and this makes the value of education go down.
3. At present the literacy rate in India is 70% and if complete privatization of education happens it reverts back to the old situation leading to the problem of illiteracy.
4. Privatization makes education costlier even for rich people.
What are the alternatives for the Government regarding privatization of education?
1. Government has to follow present semi- privatization system so that government as well as Private institutions run simultaneously. Those people who afford to study in private institutions they can study and they can get the quality education. Government institutions aid in providing education to poor and it helps in improving the literacy rate which is so important for the development of a country.
2. If Government is serious about the strict and disciplined management of the educational institutions, once again public get attracted to these institutions and they become popular. If Government give value to the certificates got from Government institutions public start join in Government institutions only. This change will help the child to get education at a very low cost.
3. If Government step towards complete privatization of education, it has to take several stringent measures to provide free education to poor and disadvantaged people of the society. In case, if complete privatization occur, Government has no need to spend any money on infrastructure, salaries for the staff, maintenance of schools etc. This money they can spend on for assisting private organisations in building their infrastructures and in maintenance of the institutes, providing education to all poor people by way of paying money through efficient money transfer system. This system will enable even the poor people of the society also to get quality education. This alternative approach will help the Government to provide quality education to all without spending anything from their pocket.
In one way privatization leads to improvement of quality education in our education system but on other hand it deprives free education to all now as it is envisaged in our constitution. Improvement of Government institutions in the present situation appears to be bleak. The better option appears to be aiding private organizations by providing infrastructure facilities, basic amenities etc. by the Government which makes our education system work efficiently. But to provide quality education to the poor also, Government has to adopt an efficient money transfer system as fees for the poor child to study private institutes. | <urn:uuid:d2bb8fba-fae3-4879-9312-575842a8527c> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/151184-What-pros-cons-privatization.aspx | 2017-05-27T21:22:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609061.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527210417-20170527230417-00372.warc.gz | en | 0.965344 | 1,161 | [
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FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY. Jane Marum Roush, Judge.
Andrew T. Elders (Elders, Zinicola & Blanch, PLLC, on brief), for appellant.
Katherine Quinlan Adelfio, Assistant Attorney General (Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Present: Judges Alston, McCullough and Senior Judge Annunziata.
[63 Va.App. 346] ROSEMARIE ANNUNZIATA,
Jonathan Nathaniel Ramsey appeals his convictions for burglary, abduction with the intent to defile, malicious wounding, and sexual penetration with an inanimate object. Ramsey argues that the trial court erred (1) in denying his motion in limine to exclude the expert opinions of Kathryn Colombo and Dr. Mark Perlin as being based upon hearsay not in evidence; (2) by excluding as irrelevant evidence of third-party guilt of E.V.; (3) by quashing his subpoena duces tecum and forcing the return of certain documents related to E.V.; and (4) by denying his motion to declare E.V. an adverse witness prior to and during direct examination by defense counsel. We disagree with Ramsey and affirm his convictions.
" On appeal, 'we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.'" Archer v. Commonwealth, 26 Va.App. 1, 11, 492 S.E.2d 826, 831 (1997) (quoting Martin v. Commonwealth, 4 Va.App. 438, 443, 358 S.E.2d 415, 418, 4 Va. Law Rep. 127 (1987)). So viewed, the evidence proved at approximately midnight on August 27, 2011, A.B. was in her kitchen and [63 Va.App. 347] noticed nothing out of the ordinary. At approximately 4:00 a.m., A.B. woke up because she heard her five-year-old daughter, V.R., calling, " Mommy, Mommy, Mommy," from downstairs. A.B. went downstairs and found V.R. naked from the waist down with multiple cuts on her body, leaves in her hair, and her shirt covered in blood. When A.B. put V.R. to bed earlier that evening, V.R. was not covered in blood and she was dressed in a clean shirt, underwear, and leggings.
The window in A.B.'s kitchen had been forced open, and muddy footprints were found on a bench below the window. The footprints matched the shoes taken from Ramsey after his arrest. The authorities determined that palm and fingerprints on the open window were left by Ramsey. Ramsey admitted he broke into A.B.'s home in order to steal items and asserted that E.V. was with him, but A.B.'s purse and several electronic devices in the kitchen and living area were not stolen.
The authorities found V.R.'s underwear and leggings in a wooded area near her residence, lying on top of a Farberware kitchen knife. The items were found in a wooded area that was less than a 60-second walk from V.R's front door and a 40-second walk from Ramsey's front door. The authorities submitted V.R.'s shirt, the underwear, the leggings, and the knife for analysis. During the execution of a search warrant for Ramsey's residence, the authorities found a blood-stained T-shirt in a trash bag and a pair of men's underwear with blood stains in a separate trash bag, together with other trash Ramsey admitted came from his kitchen. One of the bags was found on the back deck of Ramsey's residence; the other bag was found inside a trash can beside the deck. The size and type of the men's underwear were the same as those Ramsey was wearing when he was arrested. The authorities also found a Farberware knife in the sink. The knife had the same handle design as the knife found with V.R.'s clothing.
The blade and handle of the knife tested positive for blood, and V.R. could not be eliminated as a contributor of the DNA profile developed from the blood stains. V.R. could not be eliminated as a contributor of a DNA profile developed from [63 Va.App. 348] the blood stains found on the front left leg of the men's underwear. Neither V.R. nor Ramsey could be eliminated as a contributor of a mixture profile from the interior waistband of the men's underwear. V.R. could not be eliminated
as a contributor of a blood stain found on the T-shirt seized from Ramsey's trash bag at his residence. Ramsey could not be eliminated from a mixture profile from the interior neck of the T-shirt.
At some point after his arrest, Ramsey learned that his friend, E.V., had been convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery of a seven year old. The offense occurred in February 2010 when E.V. was thirteen years old. Ramsey obtained the details of E.V.'s conviction from the Commonwealth through the discovery process. Prior to trial, Ramsey used a subpoena duces tecum to obtain E.V.'s probation file from the Fairfax County Probation and Parole office. The Commonwealth moved the court pretrial to declare the subpoena duces tecum invalid and order Ramsey to return the documents. The ... | <urn:uuid:ecf34687-dceb-4902-a8ab-470a5a921dc5> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://va.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20140513_0000141.VA.htm/qx | 2017-05-29T03:58:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612013.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529034049-20170529054049-00180.warc.gz | en | 0.965899 | 1,155 | [
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Open until 4th December and selling one-of-a-kind art works, fashion and novelties by established and emerging artists, this is the place to get your hands on treats and gifts you won't find anywhere else!
With specially commissioned works – from wall prints to dog bowls, scarves to Christmas cards – ranging from £10 to £20, 000, it's the perfect place to buy, browse and be inspired! Our favourites had to be the artist Linder Sterling's bright red lip print and the amazing, totally extravagant dog bowls by Donald Urquhart.
And we love that throughout the month, they'll be familiar faces from the arts and fashion worlds fronting and staffing the shop. Just imagine popping in for a browse to find Rupert Sanderson behind the counter – you’d certainly stop for a chat.
A great opportunity to raise money for the artistic community and public programmes that Studio Voltaire support, get down to this artistic endeavor to show your support and bag yourself something really great.
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Stanford engineers discover how seawater salts affect coastal algae, good and bad
Active chemical agents in saltwater help to break down the byproducts of coastal algae in ways that seem to counteract deadly algal bloom but may have other, less desirable effects.
Scientists have long studied the role that free radicals play in freshwater because of how these charged compounds affect the chemistry of our drinking water. The special nature of these processes in saltwater ecosystems, however, has been poorly understood.
Now civil and environmental engineers at Stanford have discovered how salty free radicals in seawater act as a double-edged sword – sometimes they break down poisonous byproducts of algae but at other times they diminish the supply of beneficial algal byproducts.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor William Mitch and PhD student Kimberly Parker explore the effects of a seawater-specific category of chemical agents known as halogen radicals.
Halogens are the elements such as chlorine and bromine that together with sodium dominate the salt content of seawater. A free radical is a type of oxidant, a compound that is missing an electron. This makes free radicals highly reactive with other chemicals because they steal electrons to make up for their own missing electron.
The free radicals in freshwater are oxygen-based, and are the same types of radicals that cause damage in the human body that you counteract to a degree by consuming and producing antioxidants. In seawater, however, free radicals are halogen-based.
“Most of the research to date has been focused on freshwater because we drink freshwater,” Mitch said. “People have assumed that what goes on in freshwater applies to seawater.”
But when the Stanford duo looked carefully, they saw that the seawater-specific halogen radicals had some special interactions with the algal products found in coastal environments.
Especially along the coast, seawater contains lots of broken down organic matter, including decomposing leaves and plants washed out to the ocean via rivers.
“When you go to the beach and see bubbles when the waves crash, that is due to organic matter soaps left over from fats within algae and other species,” Mitch said.
When molecules of this dissolved organic matter absorb sunlight, the material gets excited enough to become a temporary oxidant. These temporary oxidants steal electrons from the chloride and bromide salts, creating halogen radicals that in turn interact with algal byproducts, notably two compounds, one harmful and the other beneficial.
The harmful algal byproduct is domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by the Pseudo-nitzschia algae. Last summer and fall, the largest ever recorded algal bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia spread along the Pacific coast from Central California to Alaska, disseminating toxic domoic acid into the seawater.
“One of the major effects it had economically was that it shut down the production of Dungeness crab along the West Coast,” Parker said.
Mitch and Parker found that naturally occurring halogen radicals are capable of breaking down more than half of the domoic acid along the coasts, thereby helping to control the spread of this deadly toxin.
But halogen radicals also degrade about half of the dimethyl sulfide (DMS) produced by algal blooms, which might impact the rate of climate change. DMS ends up in the atmosphere and helps form clouds, which reflect sunlight back into space. The more sunlight reflected back into space, the less heat greenhouse gases can trap in the atmosphere.
Mitch and Parker found that the halogen radicals in seawater are orders of magnitude more effective at degrading domoic acid and DMS than the free radicals in freshwater. The halogen radicals are less reactive than oxygen-based free radicals in freshwater and they specialize in scavenging electrons from easy targets like domoic acid and DMS, two compounds with loosely held electrons.
“Halogen radicals are not wasting time on other compounds,” Mitch said.
Now that Mitch and Parker have discovered the importance of halogen radicals in saltwater, they’re looking at these same free radicals in sea mist. With salt concentrations five to ten times higher in mist than seawater, will the same reactions occur even more intensely?
“People had recognized that salt forms these halogen radicals, but they never said what happens to them – that was the end of the story,” said Mitch.
The Stanford engineers hope this new understanding of halogen radicals will find its way into improving climate models and controlling future coastal algal blooms.
“By understanding the fundamental chemical processes affecting marine algal blooms, we can better understand how blooms like last summer’s, and those in the future, will impact coastal ecosystems,” Parker said.
The paper is titled “Halogen radicals contribute to photo-oxidation in coastal and estuarine waters.” Funding for this research came from the National Science Foundation and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Parker was supported by the Abel Wolman Fellowship from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Gerald Lieberman Fellowship from the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University. | <urn:uuid:e10e4bb9-ee6b-43a0-8316-69cbdafd1457> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://news.stanford.edu/2016/05/09/stanford-engineers-discover-seawater-salts-good-bad-effects-coastal-algae/ | 2017-05-30T09:02:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.944251 | 1,073 | [
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“Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences” has been published on a regular basis since 1984 in social sciences and a refereed academic journal since 2003. The journal can publish articles in Turkish, English, German and French.
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Taking a page from Jurassic P ark, South Korean researchers used DNA from an endangered wolf species and an egg from dogs, a closely related species, to clone two female wolves.
"In the case of animals on the brink of extinction, it's hard to preserve them even with artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization methods as their number is so small," Lee [Byeong-chun] said. "The nuclei transplantation technology used in this case could be a way to restore the endangered species."
The researchers are currently trying to determine if the female wolves are capable of reproducing. If they can, the inherent difficulty of cloning may make natural reproduction the preferred method of species propagation.
Lee said his team removed somatic cells from a wolf bred in the zoo and implanted them into 251 ova extracted from 41 dogs. Then, the fertilized eggs were transplanted to 12 female wolves, who acted as surrogate mothers. Two of them gave birth to one cloned wolf each, he said.
Lee was a key member in the Korean cloning fiasco involving Hwang Woo-suk, so his claims are subject to additional scrutiny from scientific journals. The bright spot is that the technology used was the same as that which created the dog Snuppy, Hwang's only success, so there's a good chance this work is legitimate.
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Woke this morning to find a hatched keet in my bator! I put 5 eggs in it that Sophia had stopped setting on after she hatched out 6. I candled them and thought they might have a chance so popped them in the bator. I saw one had "cracked" late yesterday, heard a loud "peep" last night before going to bed, and woke this morning in time to watch it push it's way out of the shell. My temp has been ranging between 99.9 to 101.5. I have been having a hard time with humidity but was able to get it up to 72 yesterday afternoon. Thanks Peeps, without you this baby would never had taken it's first breath! | <urn:uuid:a0bd2fe6-a204-45f8-be29-6ae7f576b918> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/thanks-peeps.566056/ | 2018-05-22T12:25:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864725.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522112148-20180522132148-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.989251 | 147 | [
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“I was sent to kill her.”
There was one rule for this job. No witnesses.
Then I saw her. She wasn't supposed to be there, and I can only imagine what those dirtbags had been planning for her with her gorgeous blonde hair and her deadly curves. So I did the one thing I knew I shouldn't: I killed every a**hole in that room and I took her as my prize.
I don't save people's lives. I'm a killer, a hired hitman for the Russian mob. But I tell her to trust me, and I mean it. I'm not going to let anyone take her away from me. I'd sworn off women long ago, but I can't resist her long legs and wicked mind, and every time I tell myself I'm being foolish, she gets down on her knees and begs me not to leave her.
I'd rather die than lose her and the baby I know she'll give me.
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A new and unique combination!
The Apollo 24 in combination with 50 paper sensor inserts. This allows the user to train with their own underwear. Very effective and convenient!
The Apollo 24 is the smallest and most lightweight alarm for during the day! That is why it is also very practical for children. The Apollo 24 can be used very discreetly due to the different alarm possibilities: sound, vibration or a combination of both. The acoustic alarm has 3 levels: soft, medium and loud volume. And the vibration alarm is easily felt.
The Apollo 24 is battery-powered. It has a light to indicate that the battery needs to be replaced.
Dry-Mate: The paper sensor insert
For an effective training, it is important that the alarm is triggered upon the first drops of urine. The training is all about learning to sense this bathroom moment. The paper sensor insert "guards" about 200 cm² in the regular underwear. As soon as urine is detected anywhere in this area, an alarm is triggered. This effective approach allows for quick progress and allows accidents to be under control soon.
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(Vancouver, Canada--March 24, 2014) The married duo of Peter and Julia Benson are pleased to announce the release of their horror feature film ‘Death Do Us Part’ on DVD in the United States and Canada on April 15th, 2014. Along with starring in the film, Julia and Peter also wrote and produced ‘Death Do Us Part’ with Ryan Copple. Anchor Bay Entertainment is distributing the film in the U.S. and Raven Banner Entertainment is handling the Canadian release. The film will also play at the Rio theatre on April 6th at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $10 at the door and $8 in advance.
‘Death Do Us Part’ is a horror feature film that tells the story of six friends who go to a remote cabin in the woods to celebrate a ‘Jack and Jill’ bachelor party. Things take a horrifying turn when members of the group are brutally picked off one by one. What starts out as a celebration, quickly descends into a bloody nightmare. Friendships are ripped apart and accusations fly in this blood filled psychological horror with a whodunit twist. The film was nominated for three Leo awards and stars Julia Benson (Stargate Universe, That Burning Feeling), Peter Benson (What an Idiot, Leap 4 Your Life), Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary, Arctic Air), Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary, Fringe), Kyle Cassie (Lost Boys: The Tribe, True Justice), Benjamin Ayres (Saving Hope, Less Than Kind), Dave Collette (Leap 4 Your Life, What an Idiot), Viv Leacock (Almost Human, Continuum) and Aaron Douglas (The Killing, Battlestar Galactica). Nicholas Humphries (The Little Mermaid) directed the feature film.
Peter and Julia are two well-known Canadian actors who are rapidly establishing themselves as a successful writing/producing/directing team with their company Married to the Boss Productions. Six years ago the married couple realized that they wanted more out of their careers and developed a passion for creating their own work. Their first project was a series that they co-created called ‘Kits’ which was accepted into the prestigious NSI Totally Television program. The script that Peter wrote garnered them a development deal with City TV and they served as Executive Producers on the project when a pilot episode was ordered.
Julia is best known for her Leo Award winning role as Vanessa James on ‘Stargate Universe’. Julia’s recent credits include MOWs ‘Nobody’s Fool,’ ‘Secret Liaison’, ’Chupacabra Vs. The Alamo’ and feature films ‘That Burning Feeling’ with Tyler Labine and ‘Kid Cannabis’ which is being released across North America on April 18th. Peter’s recent credits include feature films ‘Black Fly’, ‘Afterparty’, ‘Hasting Street’, ‘The Wingman’, ‘Leap 4 Your Life’, MOWs ‘Nobody’s Fool’, ‘Baby Bootcamp’, ‘Mystery Cruise’, and television series ‘Motive’, ‘Supernatural’, and Continuum’.
Up next, Julia and Peter are in post-production on their second feature film; a romantic comedy entitled ‘What an Idiot’. Peter wrote and directed the film and Julia produced it with the support of Telefilm Canada. Peter and Julia star in ‘What an Idiot’ along with Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie) and Kerr Smith (Dawson’s Creek). | <urn:uuid:37a3ed46-e385-427e-8f65-3e1364910166> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://news.creativecow.net/story/874903 | 2018-05-24T12:15:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866276.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524112244-20180524132244-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.943001 | 776 | [
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Rocky is a 1976 film starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, an amateur boxer who unexpectedly has a chance to compete in the world heavyweight championship. The movie spawned five sequels: Rocky II, III, IV, V and Rocky Balboa.
- The Winter 1986 issue of Muppet Magazine featured a comic spoof titled Wocky XVICCDLCVI... Gonzo appeared in the Clubber Lang role from Rocky III.
- Baby Bear's celebrations of learning in Sesame Street Episode 3230 are scored by a spin on "Gonna Fly Now," the theme of the 1976 film.
- In Episode 3809, Elmo tries to guess what Rocco's favorite movie is; among the movies he names is Rocky.
- In his book Before You Leap, Kermit says the original title for The Great Muppet Caper was "The Muppet Movie II," but Roman numerals were in short supply because of the Rocky movies.
- Sesame Street Episode 4302 features Telly training Elmo to be the Hot Potato Winner in a montage spoofing that of the Rocky films, putting Telly and Elmo in Mickey and Rocky's roles (and outfits) respectively. The montage is underscored by "Eye of the Potato," a parody of Rocky III’s theme "Eye of the Tiger."
- On September 20, 2015, Fozzie Bear posted a Twitter status: "Which U.S. landmark packs the biggest punch? The Rocky Mountains! Ahhhh! #WockaWocka! Apologies to @TheSlyStallone. Please don't hurt me."
- A 2017 Vanity Fair video of the Sesame Street cast reciting various movie quotes features Grover performing Rocky's famous line "Yo, Adrian!"
- In Rocky II (1979), Rocky mentions his plans for his earnings:
- During a montage meant to show Rocky's rise to fame in the beginning of Rocky III (1982), The Muppet Show can be seen and heard on a television. Jim Henson recorded a special Muppet Show intro as Kermit announcing that the episode featured Rocky Balboa, the title character of the film. Footage from Sylvester Stallone's 1978 episode of The Muppet Show was used and passed off as that of Rocky Balboa.
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You are right...
the link you provided above can not track this DRESSILY given 'reference' number.
I got the posted information of this number via:
and then going to the bottom right hand corner and inputting BJ14504060718928
Now, for BJ14502106095815 I get:
28-Dec-2015 01:52 PM UNITED STATES , the transfer of customs
28-Dec-2015 10:12 AM UNITED STATES , Arrived
20-Dec-2015 10:12 AM Transit Center，left hand navigation
20-Dec-2015 04:39 AM Exchange Bureau, have been exported directly
19-Dec-2015 10:36 AM Exchange Bureau, have been exported to open
18-Dec-2015 02:36 AM Small package Center, left
18-Dec-2015 01:02 AM Parcel centre,sealing
17-Dec-2015 10:02 PM Small package Center, receive
17-Dec-2015 08:02 PM Electronic information,receive
Keep in mind this order^ was placed on DEC 1st, 4 of the 5 items were shipped and the last item was sent:
-"order time: Dec 01,2015 03:29:40 AM"
-"Tracking Number: BJ14502106095815 By China Post surface mail Update date: Dec 16,2015 00:27:50 AM PST" on DEC 16th!
Apparently, my single tiny blouse is a customer issue?!?!
How long does it take to disclose which CUSTOMS location in the UNITED STATES this little parcel is being held hostage???
In the meantime...could you tell me just what carrier & what port?
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My cousin’s daughter turned 5 on Wednesday so they came up so we could go to the zoo today. I tried to get some awesome pictures but the animals weren’t feeling too show-offy today or were still a little in the winter sleepy mode. Except for the polar bears. They were playing a show off game, we are bad, look at us but stay away. I wish we had seen them swimming.
The first exhibit in the ABQ Zoo is the flamingos. I always love seeing them because they are so beautiful and vibrant colored, but boy do they smell.
Lions, tigers and bears, oh my!
A dang cute animal that I forgot to see what it was called… (it was confirmed for me, it is an Aussie wombat)
I followed this peacock for a little while trying to capture his vibrant colors but he eluded me. Then when we went to the elephants he was just sitting there.
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Sunday, 20 May 2018
THE annual meeting of the Friends of Nettlebed and District Commons will take place at Nettlebed community hall on Wednesday at 7.30pm.
Rod d’Ayala will give a talk describing the work volunteer groups have done restoring the commons.
To attend, call (01491) 641445 or email clerk@
13 March 2017
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Gores Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ CM: GRSHU, GRSH, GRSHW), a special purpose acquisition or ‘blank check’ company sponsored by an affiliate of private equity firm The Gores Group LLC, agreed to acquire Hostess Brands LLC, maker of Hostess Twinkies, Ding Dongs and CupCakes, from HB Holdings LLC, which is owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) and Metropoulos and Co., in a reverse merger deal with an enterprise value of approximately $2.3 billion or 10.4x the $220 million estimated 2016 adjusted EBITDA of Hostess Brands.
Funds managed by Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and family, the current majority owners of Hostess, expect to hold an approximately 42% combined stake in Gores Holdings upon completion of the transaction. Dean Metropoulos and William Toler will continue to lead the company as executive chairman and CEO, respectively.
Along with $375 million of cash held in Gores Holdings’ trust account, additional investors have committed to participate via $350 million private placement, led by Alec Gores, chairman and CEO of the Gores Group, and comprising large institutional investors, C. Dean Metropoulos (via $50 million of additional rollover contribution), and Gores affiliates. Gores Holdings completed its initial public offering in August 2015, raising approximately $375 million in cash proceeds.
Hostess is a bakery company founded in 1919 with the introduction of the Hostess CupCake to the American public. In 1930, Twinkies were introduced, which was an event many say changed the snack cake world. Today, Hostess Brands produces a variety of new and classic treats including Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Donettes and Fruit Pies, in addition to Twinkies and CupCakes.
Hostess had revenues for the twelve months ended May 31, 2016 of approximately $650 million and operates three baking facilities located in Emporia, Kansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Columbus, Georgia.
Hostess Brands LLC was formed in June 2013 as a result of a corporate reorganization and restructuring. The company is separate from Old HB, which was formerly known as Hostess Brands Inc. from 2009–2013. Old HB is currently under liquidation and sold its cake business to Apollo and Metropoulos creating the current Hostess Brands. The current Hostess Brands was formed as New HB Acquisition LLC to acquire the cake business (Hostess and Dolly Madison brands) of Hostess Brands Inc. Following the conclusion of the sale, Hostess Brands Inc. became Old HB, Inc. and New HB Acquisition became Hostess Brands LLC.
“I have enjoyed working together with Apollo to build a vibrant and exciting company, and we are pleased to partner with the Gores Holdings team as we move to the next stage of Hostess’ growth and expansion,” stated Dean Metropoulos.
“Hostess presents a unique opportunity to invest in an iconic brand with strong fundamentals that is poised for continued growth,” said Alec Gores.
“Hostess possesses exciting continued organic top-line growth potential and is one of the highest EBITDA margin and cash generative food platforms in the U.S. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Dean and Bill, along with the team at Gores, to further grow and build Hostess,” said Andy Jhawar, senior partner and head of Consumer and Retail at Apollo.
The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both Gores Holdings and Hostess, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2016, subject to the receipt of regulatory approval, and approval of the stockholders of Gores Holdings. Upon closing of the transaction, the name of the company will be changed to Hostess Brands Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as lead capital markets advisor, along with Moelis & Company and Morgan Stanley, and financial advisor and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP acted as legal advisor to Gores Holdings. Rothschild & Co., Credit Suisse and Perella Weinberg Partners acted as M&A advisors to Hostess. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius acted as legal advisor to Apollo. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison acted as legal advisor and UBS acted as financial advisor to C. Dean Metropoulos and his family.
Founded in 1987 by Alec Gores, the Gores Group is a global investment firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital base. Over its 25 year history, The Gores Group has become a leading investor having demonstrated a reliable track record of creating value in its portfolio companies alongside management. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Gores Group maintains offices in Boulder, Colorado, and London.
Apollo is a leading global alternative investment manager with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Bethesda, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Luxembourg, Singapore, Mumbai, Delhi, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Apollo had assets under management of approximately $173 billion as of March 31, 2016, in private equity, credit and real estate funds.
Metropoulos & Co. is a merchant banking and management firm focused principally on the food and consumer sectors in the United States and Europe. C. Dean Metropoulos and his management team partners have been involved in more than 81 acquisitions with over $12 billion of aggregate transaction value. Companies where Metropoulos & Co. has been an investor and Metropoulos has been an executive include: Pabst Brewing Company, Pinnacle Foods, Aurora Foods, Stella Foods, The Morningstar Group, International Home Foods, Ghirardelli Chocolates, Mumm and Perrier Jouet Champagnes and Hillsdown Holdings, PLC (Premier International Foods, Burtons Biscuits and Christie Tyler Furniture), among others. | <urn:uuid:65ffc3d2-f6da-45bd-8a92-d34e2377dfd4> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://exithub.com/gores-holdings-grsh-to-acquire-hostess-brands-in-2-3b-reverse-merger-deal/ | 2018-05-20T13:41:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863570.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520131723-20180520151723-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958197 | 1,236 | [
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ETSU Little Bucs program will host the fifth annual Angel Tree to provide Christmas presents to children, in which families might not be able to afford them.
Between Nov. 1 and the last week of classes, Little Bucs will take any donations of unwrapped presents and sign ups. Any family from Little Bucs or the community can sign up.
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CAD Clues is a great site for CAD Tips and Tricks interspersed with some CAD related news. They have had a free Android and iOS app available for some time and I have it installed on my Samsung Galaxy S2. I was tinkering around last night and wondered if I could convert it to run on my Blackberry Playbook. As you may know, the Playbook has the ability to run Android apps that have been run through the Playbook convertor.
I downloaded the app, converted it to a BAR file and then signed the BAR file so it could be loaded on to my Playbook. I used DDPB to load the app on to my Playbook and once installed, I ran it. Everything looked good, the main page worked fine. I then switched over to the Twitter feed page. On first run, the Twitter feed was a bit of a mess, legible, but a mess. I closed out of the app and restarted it again and the Twitter feed looked fine.
I believe that CAD Clues are going to add the app to the Blackberry App World, but if you want to download the app and know how to use DDPB, then you can get the BAR file from their website. Check it out over here. If you have no idea how to sideload apps on to the Blackberry Playbook using DDPB, check this brief tutorial. | <urn:uuid:28e141ec-2376-4092-9b3f-e02c9a5cc366> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://blog.cad-monkey.net/2012/04/cad-clues-app.html | 2018-05-22T13:40:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954288 | 288 | [
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In this video I share 5 reasons that will give you an indication of when it is time to end a relationship. These reasons are based on my own personal experiences, as well as through processes. I hope that they help you out with whatever circumstance that you may be facing. Remember, “this too shall pass”.
Dead End Relationship Signs (Video Summary)
1. Use Your Emotional Compass
Your heart cannot deceive you, if you are with someone, and you feel any kind of negative emotion frequently in their presence, that is the number one sign that you need to hit the road. Be it uneasiness, fear, sadness, anger or anything that simply does not make you feel good, this is an extremely important red flag that you need to pay attention to. Listen to your gut! It is almost always right.
2. If Your Partner/Friend Abuses You In Any Way
There are many forms of abuse. Emotional, physical, psychological, and even that not-so-obvious things. Like a cruel comment that is passed off as a joke, or being belittled, or having your deepest desires laughed at and rejected. Sometimes, the people that are the closes to us can do things like this to us, and this is not okay. If this happens to you, this person doesn’t really care about you, and if they do, they are too emotionally unstable to maintain a relationship with you that will nourish your and bring you up rather than drag you down. Either way, it would be a good idea to consider ending the relationship.
3. If They Try To Change You
Relationships are meant to foster love and connection, not control and a power struggle. If someone is always trying to change you, and is never satisfied with the way you are today, it will make you feel as if you are “not good enough”. This is terrible for your self-image and self-esteem. Seek out friends and partners who support and love you, rather than criticize and attempt to mold you.
4. If They Hurt Others
If someone seeks to hurt others, they do not regard the world as something to love and treat fairly. You will ultimately find yourself being burned as well, because you are no different than the rest of the world to someone. If you want friends who will not betray you and stay true to you, don’t go for the ones that are displaying dishonestly and disrespect to the people/things in their environment.
5. You Do Not Share Core Values
It is very difficult to foster a deep, intimate connection with someone who does not share your core values. Especially the big picture perspectives about the world. Of course, it’s not impossible, but if you are looking for a deep, genuine, heart to the connection, just keep this in mind. | <urn:uuid:ec34a6f7-9e80-4d19-b2aa-0399fd0e9825> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://mydaringheart.com/2015/05/13/when-is-it-time-to-end-a-relationship-the-signs/ | 2018-05-22T14:02:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960324 | 587 | [
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Unflappable Burling puts New Zealand in control at America's Cup
Hamilton (Bermuda) (AFP) - Team New Zealand's confidence in Peter Burling to helm their America's Cup challenge is proving well placed as the 26-year-old shows himself more than a match for Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill -- on the water and off.
Burling's impressive resume includes seven world titles -- including four straight in the 49er class with fellow Kiwi Blair Tuke.
The duo claimed 49er Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro last year in dominant fashion, clinching victory with two races to spare and winning by the most points of any sailing class in the Games in more than 50 years.
Still, there were questions as to whether Burling would be up to Spithill, who at 30 became the youngest skipper to win the America's Cup when he steered Oracle to victory in 2010.
Spithill then skippered Team USA's stunning comeback from 1-8 down to a 9-8 victory over a Team New Zealand skippered by Dean Barker in San Francisco four years ago.
Doubters feared that Spithill's match racing experience, and his talent for psychological battle, would prove too much for Burling.
Spithill's taunts clearly wore on Barker four years ago, and some wondered if the switch to making post-race press conferences mandatory for helmsmen was a bid by the defenders -- who largely set the rules -- to rattle Burling.
If so, it hasn't worked. The Kiwi has slipped the tough-talking Spithill's verbal jabs as smoothly as he's slipped past him on the startline.
Those starts were a source for concern for New Zealand during the challenger qualifying, but Burling has honed his technique in that area.
His ever-improving skills and eerily calm demeanor were on full display on Sunday when New Zealand overcame daggerboard trouble in the start box before race four to beat Spithill to the line en route to their fourth win in four races.
Their sweep of the opening weekend has New Zealand -- who started with a one-point deficit -- up 3-0 in the first-to-seven points series.
Characteristically, Burling downplayed his individual role, crediting the whole crew for the dominant first weekend.
"They (Oracle) pushed us hard in the pre-start but we are really happy with the way the guys on board kept finding ways to sneak out of the situations," Burling said.
Burling has used that focus on crew and Kiwi pride to keep the pressure of the Cup challenge at a minimum.
It's a young team, with skipper/wing trimmer Glenn Ashby the only holdover from the heartbreaking defeat in San Francisco four years ago.
"The guys on the boat know each other really well and it just feels like we are getting tighter and tighter as a group and performing better and better the more pressure we get put under," he said.
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Namaste Care Helps People with Advanced Dementia Live Not Just ExistName : Dr. Joyce Simard
Affliation : Associate Professor
University : Western Sydney University
Country : United States
Joyce Simard will describe beginning of Namaste Care which was devleoped in 2003 in a small nursing home in the United States for residents who could not longer participate in traditional activities. They were kept clean, fed, changed and placed in front of a television, or were bedbound, existing not living. She will then describe the Namaste Care program which is an enhanced nursing program for people with advanced dementia residing in care homes, hospitals, or living at home. It is also implemented in many hospice organizations. Namaste Care means “to honor the spirit within” and has two main principles. One is the environment of Namaste Care room where as many distractions as possible are eliminated, soothing music is played and the scent of lavender permeates the room. The second principle is “the power of loving touch”. Meaningful activities include a gently washing and moisturizing the persons face, hands and arms while softly talking to them. Ladislav Volicer will summarize research evidence of Namaste Care benefits. These include increased quality of life, decreased behavioral symptoms of dementia and decreased use of antipsychotics and hypnotice in people with dementia. Namaste Care is also benefiting family members of people with dementia and the facility staff.
Joyce Simard MSW Is An Adjunct Associate Professor School Of Nursing, University Of Western Sydney Australia And A Private Geriatric Consultant Residing In Land O Lakes, Florida. She Has Been Involved In Long-term Care For Over 35 Years Serving As Alzheimer’s Specialist For Many Health Care Companies Providing Services In Skilled Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Communities And Hospice Organizations Ms. Simard Has Written Numerous Articles And Chapters In Healthcare Books And Has Authored Three Books: “The Magic Tape Recorder”, A Book For Children About Alzheimer’s Disease And” The End Of Life Namaste Care Program For People With Dementia” Now In Its Second Edition Professor Simard Has Been Involved With The School Of Nursing, University Of Western Syndey, Australia And Also With St. Christophrer’s Hospice In The UK Measuring Aspects Of Quality Of Life For People With Advanced Dementia, Their Families And Staff Participating In The Namaste Care Program . In January Of 2013, Provider Magazine Recognized Her As One Of “20 To Watch“ For Her Leadership And Commitment To Improve The Lives Of Residents In Long-term Care Facilities. | <urn:uuid:eb64f68d-0e7c-4f95-bded-63e08c48d29e> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.alzheimersmeet.com/index.php/home/view_recent_abstracts/NDI_/NTc_ | 2018-05-22T13:59:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.902782 | 547 | [
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Thanks for another great Earth Day Soiree!
Find pictures, trivia answers, and event fundraising totals from our 2018 event below.
The answers you've been waiting for...
ROUND #1 - Plants Answers
1. What is the term used for the study of plants?
2. What plant in Disney’s Pocahontas is referred to as her Grandmother?
3.What is the longest living non-clonal organism on earth?
The great basin bristlecone pine
4. For whom is the Jardine Juniper named?
U.s. Secretary of Agriculture, William Marion Jardine
5. Which state named tomato juice the official state beverage in the 1800’s?
6. Name the term for the elongated flower cluster with single flowers on stems arranged along a stalk.
ROUND #2- Animals Answers
1. Name the professional basketball team that shares its mascot with the largest bird in Cache Valley.
New Orleans Pelicans
2. Identify the bird that sings this song:
3. What is the natural habitat of arboreal mammals?
In or amongst the trees
4. What is the scientific name for a cold-blooded animal?
5. What do you call an animal that is active at dusk and dawn?
6. What is a palmiped?
A bird with webbed feet
ROUND #3 - Ecosystems Answers
1. True or False: Forest Fires are always harmful to the environment.
2. All the Ecosystems on earth are connected by the ______ cycle.
3. An organism that creates its own food is called________.
4. Temperature, Light, air, water, soil, and climate are all_____Parts of the environment?
5. The chemical process where plants convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen is known as_____________.
6. What is the name for the underground network of rootlets used to transport nutrients between plants and fungi?
ROUND #4- Weather Answers
1.In what part of the atmosphere does the majority of our weather take place?
2.What 2002 Sheryl Crow song pays homage to basking in delightful sunny weather?
Soak up the Sun
3. Wind has a lot to do with a coming storm. On a sunny day, which winds would most likely to indicate a coming storm front
4. What is a zephyr?
A gentle breeze (3-7 mph winds)
5. Who discovered (Meteorologically) Peter sinks?
6. At what temperature are fahrenheit and Celsius the same?
Interested in sponsoring our 2018 Earth Day Soiree? View sponsorship opportunities here or contact Jennifer Hamilton at [email protected] for more details. | <urn:uuid:74ec5a0a-ad61-4e84-8f8d-3d5b4d496020> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://logannature.org/soiree/ | 2018-05-23T15:01:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865679.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523141759-20180523161759-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.855183 | 573 | [
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Discussion in 'What Breed Or Gender is This?' started by Denece&Lacey, Jun 15, 2008.
I have some EE that look just like her w/o the leg feathers.
CUTE She looks like an ameraucana/cochin mix. She looks exactly like my ameraucana on the top. Not sure what color that is but curious as to what others say.
She is full cochin banty.
That IS a full cochin, but it is a partridge cochin. She's so pretty.
I didnt know if it could be patridge. She looks checked from a distance.
I say Partridge as well.
well it is definetely not red brown. Red Brown they have a red neck and brown body. It is closest to partridge. Seeing how she is not full grown, maybe when she is her feathers will come out to a more partridge classic look.
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