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Now that you’re eating for two (in terms of nutritional needs not quantity), you need to watch your intake of food and drink more conscientiously, to ensure that the developing fetus gets enough of the nutrients he or she needs. If you haven’t started, it is time to start eating nutritious and well-balanced meals. If morning sickness, heart burn or frequent hunger pangs are getting you down, try to eat 5-6 small meals a day instead of 3 large ones.
Your daily diet should include food from the four main food groups:
Fruits & vegetables
Avoid boiling as this reduces the nutritional value
Green leafy vegetables like spinach are great for increasing your folate levels
Starchy carbohydrates including breads, pasta, rice and potatoes
Choose wholegrain whenever possible
These include lean meat, fish, eggs and pulses
Some red meats like beef and liver boost your iron levels
Oily fish like salmon are great for their Omega-3
All meat should be properly cooked before consumption (pass on the medium rare steaks for a while)
Calcium is important for bone-building – both for you and baby
These include milk, cheese and yoghurt
Don’t suddenly start eating proportions that make it seem like you are preparing for a marathon! Your body probably only needs 200-500 more calories that you would normally eat, and your appetite may fluctuate throughout the nine months, especially during the first trimester.
Do refrain from any sort of dieting during your pregnancy, as withholding certain foods from your body could harm you and your baby. Instead, keep to a balanced, wholesome diet, and try not to worry about losing the weight you are gaining. Remember that having a steady weight gain is a good sign that all is progressing well.
On the other hand, if you do gain weight too quickly or are overweight to begin with, your gynae will probably advise you on what foods to cut back on and what kinds of exercise you can do to keep fit. Here’s 10 ways to avoid gaining too much pregnancy weight!
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In 2012, UCLA linebacker Eric Kendricks led the Pac-12 with 10.6 tackles per game. In 2013, he finished third with 8.8 per game.
But he’s never been named to the all-conference first or second teams and has settled for honorable mention honors both years.
A bit ignored, perhaps — particularly when he shared the side of the line with the eventual ninth overall pick in the NFL draft and a freshman who turned heads all over the country with his two-way play.
“Absolutely,” head coach Jim Mora said when asked if Kendricks had been overshadowed. “Anthony Barr is the reason for that, obviously. That’s understandable. Myles (Jack too). But it’s his time now.”
Mora is one of the more defensive-minded coaches in a conference responsible for a fifth of the country’s top-20 scoring offenses. Quarterback Brett Hundley stands to get more headlines, but it’s Kendricks who may be especially key on the other side of the line.
On the field, Mora praised Kendricks’ tenacity and called him the defense’s “glue guy.” As for intangibles, Mora admitted the senior is quieter than most, but that reticence only adds more punch when he does decide to speak up.
“He’s a sweetheart,” Mora continued. “That sounds really silly, calling one of my players a sweetheart. Like if my daughter dated him and married him, I’d be fine with that. And he has nice hair.”
But back to football. UCLA lost defensive coordinator Lou Spanos to the Tennessee Titans in January and promoted linebackers coach Jeff Ulbrich, once a gritty middle linebacker who spent his entire NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers.
Ulbrich’s biggest change has been making the Bruins’ 3-4 base more flexible and frequently installing nickel formations to utilize the team’s suddenly deep secondary. But his own playing experience gives him a wealth of knowledge that would be difficult to replicate otherwise.
“There are little tricks that you don’t understand unless you’ve played the position,” Mora said. “Little things that you have to learn. Jeff wasn’t the most talented guy in the world, but he developed and created this toolbox of tricks that helped him survive and flourish for 10 years in the league.”
That advantage times itself nicely with Kendricks’ own development. The 6-foot, 230-pound Fresno native spent parts of last season playing through a sore ankle, a bruised back and various other aches and pains inherent to his sport. Kendricks, asked to think of the last time he felt fully healthy in 2013, struggled for an answer.
“As close to it — I don’t know,” he said. “I sound like I’m complaining right now about my injuries last season, but there’s tons of people who played with injuries last season. Not just me.”
He missed two full games, including UCLA’s 42-12 win over Virginia Tech in the Sun Bowl, and was held out of contact in spring following ankle surgery. The silver lining of operating at less than 100 percent health? He had to find other ways to compensate.
“At first, I was relying on my athletic ability,” Kendricks said. “But now, I can get to spots faster than I would ever anticipate before just by looking at the formation before the play. I know where it’s going to lead to. Things like this is what the development of football’s all about, and that’s what coach Ulbrich is helping with.
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ok, i would like to build a good gaming computer. i play AmericasArmy mostly, but i would like to also get Medal of Honor 2, and such games.
i currently have like a 2-3yr old computer from gateway. now i was wondering if i should try and update that, or build my own computer?
i would be building this is stages, not all at once. being 16 with a minimal job money flows slowly Crying
few things id like to know:
what are some good sites to shop from?
the motherboard, how do i know parts with work with each other?
what brands do you like, what are best for gaming?
im kinda basing it off of that, but not spending that much at a time. im getting what i need and then updating or adding more to that. i would like to use the SLI system
if you dont want to click link, here is thier specs on thier computer.
CPU AMD Athlon FX-57 $1,100.00
Motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe $166.00
HDD 2X WD740 Raptor; 4x WD3200 $1,050.00
Video Card 2x Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX $1,070.00
RAM 4x 512MB Corsair XMS Xpert $520.00
Sound Card Creative Audigy4 Pro $280.00
Case Koolance PC3-725SL $470.00
Water Blocks 2x for Vid Cards, CPU $260.00
Power Supply Seasonic S12-600 (600W) $160.00
Fans 4x Antec Tri-Power Blue LED $44.00
Lighting Kit Logisys Cold Cathode Lighting Kit $6.00
Optical Drive Lite-ON 16x DVD+-RW IDE Drive $50.00
i wasent going to get that video card for obvious reasons lol, im starting with 1gb of ram... deff. not that case lol.
i dont know what CPU to get, that motherboard i am getting tho (A8N-SLI Deluxe). so yea, im basing it off of this, but not as crazy.
even tho the motherboard supports 2 cpu's, 2 vc, and such.. do you have to have both for it to work, or can u have one. i dont want to speend 1k right off to beable to use the computer.
also do you recomend and kind of cases, and what watt of power will i need guessing on what i have so far?
dont kno if it works but here is my wishlist on newegg.com
i saved it, and its shared - buylist
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The Math Book : From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics Paperback
This is an accessible, fascinating book that unravels the mysteries and beauty of mathematics.
It covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. This paperback version of the bestselling title includes facts about scientists' lives and real-world applications of the theorems.
Maths' infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this fascinating book.
Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history.
Among the numerous delights readers will learn about in this inviting anthology include: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares from centuries ago, the discovery of pi and calculus and the butterfly effect.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 528 pages, full colour illustrations throughout, includes photographs, 250 illustrations
- Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co Inc
- Publication Date: 19/01/2012
- Category: History of mathematics
- ISBN: 9781402788291
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Review by drardavis
This was a very pretty book with page long descriptions of historically significant mathematical concepts. Each description was accompanied with a full page related image. However, you will need to search further for any significant understanding of the ideas.
Review by julie10reads
The sub-title gives the best summary of this gorgeous book. I find the iridescent prime numbers on the cover particularly charming. Haven't made it through all chronologically ordered 250 milestones--that would simply be a forgettable gorge--but am trying to ponder a) familiar concepts or theorems such as The Golden Ratio (de Pacioli 1509), the Mobius Strip (Mobius 1858) or the Riemann Hypothesis (Riemann 1859), whose incantatory titles are fun to pronounce and b) a dawning comprehension of the mathematical mind's deployment of functions with symbols (numbers etc.) to identify the infrastructure/laws of reality, like the geometry of a spiral shell or the ear canal. Here is where I start to understand why famous mathematicians were/are often philosophers or deeply religious people--the theorems and proofs ultimately aim to answer all life's questions and we will finally know who we are and then why we are here. I still don't get how mathematicians can put forth conjectures or theorems that require centuries to prove; or problems that we don't yet have the technology to solve?!The empirical method is so much more agreeable--to me any-way.Pickover almost always succeeds in helping us innumerates appreciate the importance of each milestone, only occasionally furnishing explanations as impenetrable as the problems themselves.9 out of 10 Recommended to lifelong learners readers of history and science and fans of lavishly illustrated books. | <urn:uuid:bf2e1d38-83de-433c-a463-953b17865938> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Clifford-A-Pickover/The-Math-Book--From-Pythagoras-to-the-57th-Dimension-250-/10721533 | 2016-10-21T18:58:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00146-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905404 | 598 | [
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Seven years after his directorial feature film debut, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, John Krasinski is back to show off his skills with the new dramedy The Hollars. And by the looks of it, you should head to the theaters with a box of Kleenex.
The story follows the Hollar family after its matriarch is diagnosed with a brain tumor. It mostly revolves around John (played by Krasinski himself), a struggling graphic novelist who is awaiting the arrival of his first child. He flies back home, leaving his pregnant girlfriend Rebecca (played by Anna Kendrick), and finds himself back in the middle of the small town life that he has once left. (As his brother says, "You should really call more.") He once again gets caught up with his ex-girlfriend, Gwen (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead), as he tries to figure out what he's doing with Rebecca, and, really, the rest of his life.
The film debuted at Sundance, where it was met with mediocre reviews. Critics' main complaint was that it fit the Sundance mold a little too much, and doesn't offer much of anything new to the drama-comedy genre. Still, with a stellar cast that also includes Margo Martindale, Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day, and Richard Jenkins, it's definitely worth a watch.
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Road to Serfdom
2. The Road to Surfdom by F.A. Hayek
(or did you mean Hayek's exploration of the music of the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean as well as Gidget
) isn't the most applicable book by Hayek to Bitcoin, IMO (most of Hayek 2.0 (when he stopped writing about economics and largely turned his attention to general sociopolitical issues) isn't that applicable). The Denationalisation of Money
(Hayek 3.0) is the most applicable to Bitcoin and Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle
, Prices and Production
, and Profits, Interest, and Investment
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Drama in EVE tends to be confusing and shadowy at the best of times. In this case, we have a CSM member and CEO of one of the most promient organizations - EVE University - going after CCP's Security Team over a decision to temporarily ban a member of EVE University for market botting, and confiscating 317 billion ISK after the player had donated it to the corporation prior to biomassing his character.
The player, referred to as "John" for the sake of anonymity, had been temporarily banned from EVE. In an unusual twist, the player's ISK and assets had not been confiscated, as is usually the case with botting-related account actions - an oversight that CCP acknowledged. After the ban, the player liquidated his assets and donated 317 billion ISK to EVE University, which was confiscated after a director petitioned to ensure whether it was safe to use.
After a series of petitions back and forth between EVE University and CCP regarding the confiscated 317b, Kelduum went public calling CCP Security to account for their actions in a public thread on the EVE University forums, which was promptly upvoted to the top of the EVE subreddit.
Unfortunately, it seems that Kelduum may have been too trusting. In his thread, he offers the following explanation for the banned member's behavior:
It transpires that “John” had been temporarily banned from EVE as CCPs ‘Team Security’ had identified his actions as ‘suspect’ - he was a station trader, and a very good one at that, playing trade markets in EVE like a professional, using the common tools available, as well as custom built tools, but never automating anything to do with the EVE client himself - the closest he ever got was probably to create custom in-game-browser pages to streamline his workflow, meaning he would log into an alt, and update around 30 orders a minute for 10-20 minutes at a time.
We need not point out that a human cannot update 30 orders a minute without the use of a bot; in common parlance, a 'custom tool that allows you to update an order every two seconds' is a 'market bot'.
Given the attention the controversy has attracted, the head of CCP's security team, CCP Sreegs, has taken the unusual move of commenting publicly on the matter:
There are a number of things wrong with the assertions being made in other forums, which is a topic I'm sure the author of these posts is familiar with because we discussed them prior to his rather selective reporting of the incident. Here's the facts as we need be concerned from an eve perspective:
1) John was botting. That is not even close to in dispute.
2) We committed an error in not removing the isk before it got to EVE-U. However we did rectify this problem and our logs show that it was discussed and approved prior to either them receiving the isk or petitioning. We apologized to EVE-U however the petition was escalated as high as it could be and the decision remained. We cannot typically share this information with them as it's really none of their business.
3) The only authority higher than the Director of Security for these complaints is the Executive Producer and then the CEO. This is a higher level of escalation than the Customer Service arm and IA automatically looks at our work. I'm not sure why we feel we should be able to escalate higher than the highest reasonable authority but the fact is that this team operates with significant oversight. We believe the issue here to be more that this particular CSM feels he isn't in the loop, something which is quite frankly the only proper way to do business in a unit that handles secrets.
Frankly we're a bit disturbed by the allegations made here given that the person in question waited until they exhausted every resource possible prior to posting this then lamented the lack of an escalation path. Not getting the answer you like isn't a lack of an escalation path and never will be.
There are a number of interesting follow-up posts by CCP Sreegs in the EVE-O thread. We decline to comment on the controversy itself, as it has rapidly escalated into a classic 'he said, she said' situation, save that even the defenders of the alleged botter seem to acknowledge that he was botting save for definitional quibbles about the nature of botting itself.
Update: Kelduum has replied to Sreegs, updating his original post on the Eve-Uni forums with the following:
I'd love to know what I was selectively reporting exactly, barring the things I cant post, but still...
Replying to each of the points:
1. Then all we needed to be told was "The ISK came from botting". I had asked if this was the case, and was bushed off repeatedly, being told that "its nothing to do with you", despite us actually having the ISK. In fact, this has happened a couple of times in the past when we have had donations which came from botting or RMT, and as the CEO I received a courteous mail outlining what had happened and why the ISK went missing.
2.a) The only words which could be construed as an apology were related to the one week response in the original petition. At no point has an apology for not removing the ISK earlier been made. I'd love to post the text of the petitions and/or other things, but that would get me banned.
2.b) The petition was responded to by one member of CCP staff, at one level, and on asking for it to be escalated, was told there is no escalation at all for the security team. As mentioned, I asked around if anyone knew of another escalation path, and reached dead ends, and statements that there is literally no higher authority than themselves. Again, I can't post this proof.
3. At no point was this explained, anywhere, by anyone. If it had been, then it could of been handled quietly. I'll leave the rest of that section detailing that members of the security team being oversight for the security team as exercise for the reader to determine if they think this is a good idea or not.
Finally, not getting any answer is what causes people to look for an escalation path, at which point being told there is no higher authority (which is now revealed to have been a falsehood) is what causes unnecessary drama like this.
The missing apology, and the missing explanation were what was being asked for. Its nice to have them, finally.
Update: Destructoid reached out to CCP for comment on the issue, and the company had this to say:
There’s not a time where we happily remove ISK from players--unless they’ve done something wrong and then it’s more of a duty as strengthened by policy. There is recourse and escalation in the event of a false positive. The security team works jointly with many departments including Legal and Internal Affairs to make sure they “get things right” and continuously evaluates their processes. In terms of “accountability”, the security team is ultimately beholden to the Executive Producer, our legal department and then of course to our CEO.
For us, it’s a best practice not to discuss specific security investigations and actions with third parties. Even though CCP is probably one of the most open and communicative companies in all the gaming industry, we simply have to keep some areas of our company a bit secret in order to be effective. Botters and RMTers will take any shred of methodology they can learn from us and alter their ways to avoid detection. For the health of EVE and the benefit of our EULA-abiding players, it’s actually best we aren’t as transparent as some people might wish in terms of tactics and strategies. | <urn:uuid:01912428-44fb-4153-b17c-ed56d7ab8653> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.themittani.com/news/eve-uni-botting-controversy | 2016-10-24T01:39:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719463.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00270-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982152 | 1,625 | [
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George F. Lee / [email protected]
Joe Tsujimoto, a teacher at Punahou School, is the author of the book "Morningside Heights: New York Stories."
New York community seen with aloha
What's Bamboo Ridge, our most dependably local publisher, doing putting out a book of New York stories? Try wait; everything will be revealed in time.
"Morningside Heights: New York Stories"
by Joe Tsujimoto
(Bamboo Ridge Press, $20)
There are two upcoming readings and book signings by Joe Tsujimoto:
Wednesday, Oct. 1
» 7 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. reading
» University of Hawaii at Manoa, Campus Center Ballroom
Friday, Nov. 7
» 6:30 p.m. Reading, reception to follow
» Native Books/Na Mea Hawaii Ward Warehouse (together with Mavis Hara, author of "An Offering of Rice")
Although Joe Tsujimoto's loosely connected coming-of-age tales are set in Morningside Heights, the west-side Manhattan neighborhood not far from Harlem, they've got a distinctly local feel. The sounds, the smells, the crowds and the place names might all evoke a big city, but the young boys who run through these streets and the stories offered up here definitely could have been plucked from the streets of Kalihi or small-town Hilo.
The lifelong friendships the boys make and the way they hang together, despite their different backgrounds and knowing they will inevitably have to separate, all will appeal to Hawaii readers.
The book's narrator is Kenji, who grows up in New York and takes a circuitous route that eventually lands him as a middle-age man in Honolulu, much like Tsujimoto himself, who grew up in New York but now teaches creative writing at Punahou School.
Tsujimoto is perhaps best known in scholarly circles for several books he's written aimed at helping others learn to write or teach writing. This is his first published collection of fiction, and it's got the depth and well-polished sense of a work that's been a long time in the making.
The first half is set on New York streets that will seem familiar to anyone who grew in up in just about any ethnically mixed Honolulu neighborhood in the past 50 years. It's the kind of place where the "dry cleaners on the corner, which would later become a flower shop owned by a Greek, used to be a shoe repair store run by two Jews." And it's the kind of place where the Irish, the Jews, the blacks, the Puerto Ricans, the Haitians and even an odd Asian come together to give the neighborhood life.
As the book opens, a 16-year-old Kenji has just been kicked out public school.
"So, big deal. I got kicked out of school," he says. "My mom cried. My sister stroked her hair. Big Deal. And I walked out of the apartment and into the street where I belonged."
It's there, on the streets and in the tenements, that we meet the multiracial cast of characters who will be Kenji's band of brothers now and in the future, even as they get old, get married, go off to war, turn into alcoholics, die or, even more sadly, fade away into respectable adulthood.
Together they run the streets and sometimes cross over into the other New York world, the one represented by nearby Columbia University, where Kenji and his friend Sully work in the business library and spend much time eyeing the coeds.
The stories are funny, quirky, sad and full of life, just like the kids who take part in them as they work their way toward a sometimes too-early maturity.
It's the people on the periphery who really bring the scenes to life: Red the Cop; Beano, the black, one-armed elevator operator; Mr. Draper, the gay college librarian who looks out for Kenji as best he can and helps several of his friends get into college; Adrian, the full-blooded American Indian who sees an omen of disaster in his living room on the Halloween night when Kenji may have heard the ghost of his dead father; Virgil, the body-building ex-con turned chef, poet and philosopher; or Momo, the poolroom bookie who will eventually "put a .32 in his mouth and blow himself away, outwitting Mr. Cancer."
Eventually Kenji leaves Morningside Heights behind, joins the Air Force during the Vietnam War, works his way through several love affairs, a long, rather doleful marriage that takes him to Upcountry Maui, divorce, a return to Manhattan and ultimately back to Hawaii. Having suffered much love and loss, he's never quite able to leave the old neighborhood behind.
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Re: ZEPHYROSAURUS -- Does anyone know of data...?
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:06:06 -0400 "RAY STANFORD" <[email protected]>
> DOES ANYONE OF YOU 'OUT THERE' KNOW WHETHER SUFFICIENT
>MATERIAL HAS NOW BEEN RECOVERED FOR US TO DETERMINE WHETHER
>HAD A SMALLER MANUS, AS COMPARED TO ITS PES, THAN DID >HYPSILOPHODON?
The Museum of the Rockies has a partial skeleton referred to *Zephy*,
and lists dimensions of various bones belonging to it in its paleo
department web site.
Listed dimensions of pes and manus include:
MT III (right): 96.3 (unit not listed, but I'm guessing
MT I (r): 56.6 [mm]
MT I (left): 55.3 [mm]
MT V (l): 30 [mm]
?MC II (?r): 7.8 [mm]
If these dimensions are right, and the rest of the manus and pes are
similar in proportion to *Hypsil*, I would say it has a very small manus
relative to pes. According to my rough calculations, *Hypsil* has a
ratio of MC II to MT III is about 1 to 4, while *Zephy* is less than 1 to
10, if the bone identified as MC II really is MC II.
> Ray Stanford
>P.S.: Now let's not have a stampede here! :)
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Remember Sungha Jung? The little Korean kid playing California Dreaming? Well he's grown up...
Dad lets his kid play Halflife 2 without telling him there is no Halflife 3
Guy falls asleep in traffic and ends up doing a huge burnout
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The third time’s the charm.
After scheduling the last two episodes of Drive for July 4th, FOX rescheduled them for Friday, July 13th. The network subsequently pulled them entirely but they later said the episodes would be posted online today. True to their word, the final two episodes can be seen here. The first four are available for purchase via Amazon.com and iTunes and the last two should be available there soon. | <urn:uuid:1c8571e9-0596-4304-8fbc-c9771714ad8b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/drive-final-two-episodes-online/ | 2016-10-26T04:06:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720615.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00394-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982776 | 90 | [
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Canadians Michael Parkatti and Mike Marrone are in Cambridge, Massachusetts participating in the 2008 summer session of Y Combinator – a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups, to begin work on their new stealth-mode Internet startup. In a special GlobeTechnology.com feature, Parkatti and Marrone will be filing weekly reports as they work they way to publicly launch a new Web-based business in August.
However, the dim prospects have not deterred my business partner, Mike Marrone, and I from throwing caution into the wind and participating in the most high-profile entrepreneurial launch pad possible: Y Combinator. For those unfamiliar with Y Combinator, it can be roughly described as a Venture Capital firm that provides seed funding for startups. However, their obvious corollaries with the traditional venture capital industry end there. From a first-time founder’s perspective, Y Combinator is exactly the sort of program that provides the means to achieve our ambitions. On top of the seed investment, they also provide many of the intangibles (product advice, connections, ready access to hundreds of potential investors) that first-time entrepreneurs usually lack. In exchange they receive a small percentage of equity from each founding team. For the current three-month session (June to August), 22 teams have converged on the Boston area.
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Valet mode allows the owner to track every detail of the vehicles usage when being driven by valet services.
2015 Chevy Corvette adds Valet Mode
Performance Data Recorder also comes standard
August 18, 2014
If car enthusiasts were to make a list of things they don’t trust, valet services would consistently be in the top three. Hell, most of us car enthusiasts have problems handing over the keys to a Honda Civic, let alone our priceless (in our own mind) weekend driver.
Chevrolet has come to alleviate those fears a bit by adding a Valet Mode to the 2015 Corvette as a standard option. The system allows the driver to lock interior storage compartments, disable infotainment, and can monitor the pimply teenage driver behind the wheel of your baby with audio, video and vehicle data all being recorded. Valet Mode is activated through the use of a four digit pass code in the settings menu that makes it only usable for the owner of the car.
The Performance Data Recorder can track speed, power, RPM and g-forces all while recording HD video.
The very same audio, video and vehicle data function that can record valet dishonesty can also keep record of your track times as a Performance Data Recorder. When activated, the PDR can record HD video, in-car audio and data including speed, RPM, gearing and g-forces. Any video that is recorded can be viewed instantly from the ’Vette’s monitor or downloaded to a computer for unlimited viewing. Data recorded can be saved on to a SD card within the vehicle’s dedicated card-slot; more than three hours of driving video can be saved to an 8GB card.
The Corvette’s Performance Data Recorder was developed with racing partner Cosworth, the British company that supplies data telemetries for Corvette’s own racing team.
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We are masters
Our husbands died in Vietnam. We are raising children and some, our children’s children.
We are postmen, hairdressers, butchers, lawyers, garbage collectors, nurses and produce salesmen.
We work at Sam’s Club, local banks and schools. Our American Dream died in the economic crash. We have lost sons and daughters in 9/11 and Iraq, and are burdened with grief as well as fear for what our young ones will inherit.
Physically, whether man or woman, we are experiencing the most dramatic challenges our bodies have ever endured, or will ever endure again. We are awkward. We are rough.
Once alive and vibrant, our hands now fail us when attempting to open a jar; knees ache when we work in the yard for too long; and we break into a sweat simply trying to stand.
Some of us have competed all of our lives—some of us, never. We are overweight, underweight and skinny fat. We have grown physically weak, but mentally tough; and some have become emotionally crippled by life’s challenges.
We have lost direction. Life has changed so much from what we had originally hoped it would be, and too fast for us to keep up. Our mentors have all gone on and honestly, how could they possibly give us what we need anyway, when their battles are the same as ours? To whom do we look for wisdom?
I am 52 years old. I live in Louisiana. I am a master and part of the “we.” I am awkward. I am rough. I have been challenged in my life. And CrossFit has changed me.
My son Joshua Trahan owns CrossFit Breaux Bridge, the box where I train. Joshua is brilliant but easily bored, strong yet unchallenged, hungry but never satisfied—a Marine who returned from Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, still unfulfilled and miserable. Years and years of alcohol abuse became his vice and it nearly cost him his life.
In the spring of 2010, CrossFit was sweeping the Marine Corps. Following a disastrous series of events, he moved to a residential facility out of state and immediately embarked on the road of recovery, which he calls a “spiritual and physical climb from the bottom.” With CrossFit in his sights as a total philosophy—not a simple workout plan—his journey began.
But that is his amazing story to tell.
Having not seen him for more than nine months and only two telephone conversations, I walked into his first CrossFit box. My 31-year-old son, sober, clear-eyed, focused and intense: owner of CrossFit Breaux Bridge.
He looked at me square in the eyes and said: “CrossFit saved my life.”
I was a skinny fat yogi who while hunting lizards with my then 4-year-old grandson nearly dropped heavy sheets of plywood on him. It would have crushed him. That was the first time I had ever felt that I wasn’t physically strong enough to protect him.
I joined CrossFit Breaux Bridge the following Monday. I have been to the box every single morning since then, excluding travel (and even then we visit other boxes.) I never want to feel helpless like that again, especially knowing that there is something that I can do to prevent that from happening.
The thing with CrossFit, though, is that it is contagious. If you find success in one area, it just bleeds over into another area, changing habits of sleeping, eating and self-care. It feeds a hunger to succeed, and so while the original intention may have been to “get stronger” as I got older, it has become so much more.
I think Greg Glassman knew that’s how it would be.
I want everyone my age to know their lives can be different. If you are a master, you can still know the intensity of competition and the reward of accomplishment.
One year after opening his box, Joshua qualified for regionals and finished 30th. I finished 17th in our region in the masters division of the Open. For all that we had lost, it was incredibly redeeming.
As the Open comes around this year, I’ve been thinking about movements that I couldn’t do last year and now can. And then my next thought was into next year. I should be able to get that snatch I’ve been working on since day one. I can’t wait. I forget I’m 52. What a wonderful thing!
As a master, my age is a reality, but when I’m competing at the box with women 20 to 30 years younger than me, I never even think about it. CrossFit has given me the mind that “if they can do it, then I can do it.”
A new school of thought
I am a thinker. And I am thinking that throughout my lifetime, it has always been the older men and women who pioneered new territories. They were the people youth looked to for wisdom and instruction about life, health, commitment, hard work, dedication and motivation. It was the “white-haired” that helped us make sense out of life’s hardships, and encouraged us as we figured out where we fit, and where we belonged.
These great people taught us values, ethics and survival, and we are better people for it.
I am compelled to do an about face. I must stop looking at what has gone and instead focus on what has come.
It occurs to me it is the younger men and women who are pioneering new territory. It is a new terrain being forged by the young with guts and determination. They are soldiers, they are warriors and they are young.
They are not white-haired, some not yet fathers or mothers. They may have yet to take positions of authority.
These young men and women are CrossFit athletes and there are thousands of them.
As a master, I find myself looking to these young people for direction and hope. They are the new “greats.” Their passion, stamina and drive give me courage. I read about them in the CrossFit Journal and other publications. I hear their stories at the CrossFit Games and online. I see them in our box and every other box I visit.
They are magnificent. They are teaching us so much about human character, integrity, dignity and inner strength.
And so to you—the masters yet to be—it is from you that we receive instruction about life, health, commitment, hard work, character, determination and motivation. You assure us that we fit and that we belong.
We train in warehouses and garages with yard sale purchased equipment and sand-filled basketballs, showing that we can be content with being frugal.
You show us how to become physically strong so as to match the mental toughness we have accumulated through life’s long road, learning balance.
You are the people who teach us value and ethics and survival, and we are better people for it.
We are masters. And you are our inspiration.
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M. Rothenberg “History of Science in United States: An Encyclopedia"
Routledge | 2000-11-27 | ISBN: 0815307624 | 615 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
This encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, and is designed for students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States.
Special emphasis is placed on the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine. These interrelationships form a unique perspective that allows the reader to see how technology and medicine influenced--and in turn were influenced by--the progress of scientific thought in the United States. Bibliographies at the end of entries cover not only the most recent and authoritative sources on the subject, but also introduce the reader to specialized literature.
In addition to its coverage of individuals, concepts, and discoveries, the book also contains numerous entries on the major U.S. scientific organizations, institutions, and schools of thought and on the roles they played in the development of science, providing key information on the background of American science from colonial times to the present.
The more than 500 entries were all written by experts in the field, ranging from senior scholars with world reputations to young scholars presenting the fruits of their research. As a result, this single volume is a unique forum that presents the results, interpretations, and debates among three generations of historians of American science-much of it heretofore available only in specialized literature-to a broad audience of readers.
*Focus on the connections among medicine, technology, and science
*Some 500 entries ranging from 200 words to 3,000 words in length
*Thorough, analytical index
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Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
The Samuel F. Adelan Foundation is a Non Government Organization based in the Philippines. Under the said Foundation are The Samuel F. Adelan Learning Center, The Samuel F. Adelan Scholarship Fund, The Adelan Feeding Program and Community Services, and The Adelan Hog Growers Cooperative.
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Power of Apple Sidelines Multi-Device Charging Station Project on Kickstarter, Devs Promise to Refund Backers
The portable chargers looked promising, but the devs hit a brick wall when Apple denied their application to integrate the new Lightning interface into the POP devices. (Apparently, you can’t just use Lightning without expressed written consent from Apple.) Just like that, Apple torpedoed the whole project, which underscores just how powerful the company is.
With the POP project dead in the water, the developers had another problem, which has cropped up for others recently: What happens to the money they raised? Kickstarter doesn’t make it easy to give back funds, but POP developer Jamie Siminoff was determined to refund 100% of the money he was given.
His solution was to launch his own crowdfunding site (called Christie Street) that he said in a post is “designed to handle needs that can arise from products – such as refunds – in order to prevent compromised products from being delivered.”
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Starflower Oil is extracted from the seed of the starflower plant (borage officinalis), a pretty blue flower that grows in parts of Europe and North Africa. Starflowers have long been known for their medicinal properties,and starflower oil is one of the secrets of blossoming health for today’s woman.
Starflower oil is the most concentrated plant source of GLA (gammalinoleic acid) known to man. This is why starflower oil capsules are an ideal source of this essential nutrient and are one of the most popular and acclaimed nutritional supplements for women.
GLA is well known for its beneficial effects on the immune system, and is considered to be a powerful regulator of metabolism and the hormonal system.
It’s no surprise then that starflower oil capsules are often used as an essential remedy for PMS, mood swings, menstrual cramps, breast tenderness and other menstrual problems as well as menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes. GLA also has anti-inflammatory properties and may be indicated to alleviate the symptoms of colds, bronchitis, and respiratory infections in general. Starflower oil can also prove beneficial for eczema, psoriasis and other skin conditions, and even high blood pressure.
The recommended dose for the full starflower oil benefits is 1000mg a day, which we advise to take as a single capsule. Beware cheaper products as they will probably contain only 500mg of oil and you will need to take twice as many.
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The award-winning By Malene Birger label offers relaxed tailoring and effortlessly feminine pieces, with looks from the past transposed into the future. Launched in 2003, the brand is bold, bright and effortlessly chic, priding itself on luxe knitwear and elegant separates. Established by Malene Birger herself, the fashion house takes inspiration from art, interior design and culture while cleverly injecting 50s and 60s references. Malene Birger is the go-to name for fashion fundamentals. This range of By Malene Birger pants is stylishly modern with a nod to traditional forms. Leggings, tapered pants and printed pants pair seamlessly with simple tops for a fashion-forward injection of high-end glamor. | <urn:uuid:64d1f7f2-07f4-4977-9924-0b04a28c5f17> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.lyst.com/shop/by-malene-birger-pants/ | 2016-10-23T01:23:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00074-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91368 | 151 | [
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Internet Safety: Spam & Viruses
From May 2012, Optus will be attempting to contact customers who we believe have had their computers affected by the DNSChanger virus. If you receive such a notification from Optus, it is important that you take action to remove the virus before 9 July 2012.
What should you do?
- Take action before 9th July 2012. If you fail to remove the malware from your computer, you will be unable to connect directly to internet websites after this date.
- The best way to prevent your computer being infected is to use anti-virus software and a firewall, and keep your security programs up-to-date.
If you are already using anti-virus software, we recommend you update your software then scan your system to detect and remove any virus you may have.
If you don't already have anti-virus software on your computer, we strongly recommend you get one. There are many options available to choose from.
Optus is offering a 30 day free trial of our Internet Security Suite which will remove the DNSChanger virus. When you activate the Optus Internet Security Suite, your computer will be scanned and any viruses removed. After 30 days, you can keep the internet security product for only $6.99 per month (or approximately 23 cents per day) to ensure your computer remains protected. If you do not want to keep your computer protected with Optus Internet Security Suite, you will need to cancel the service within 30 days otherwise we will automatically start billing you. For more information, check out optus.com.au/securitysuite to install.
- Once you have updated your anti-virus protection, visit www.dns-ok.gov.au to check if your computer is still infected with the DNSChanger virus.
If it appears that the DNSChanger virus has not been removed, please contact your anti-virus software vendor. There are many variants of the DNSChanger virus, so they may need to provide additional assistance to remove the virus from your computer.
If you use the Optus Internet Security Suite, please contact us.
How do we know your computer may have a virus?
Optus participates in a government scheme called the 'Australian Internet Security Initiative' whereby Optus is sent information on IP addresses believed to have some form of virus. Your IP address was on a list shown as being affected by the DNSChanger virus.
What is DNSChanger?
DNSChanger is a piece of malware (malicious software) which can change your computer's DNS (Domain Name System) settings. This can enable others to interfere with your internet experience, for example by re-directing you to fraudulent websites which allow further malware to be installed on your machine.
The DNSChanger malware needs to be removed from your computer and your DNS settings restored.
Why do I have to take action before 9 July 2012?
International law enforcement agencies have closed down a ring of cybercriminals believed to be responsible for the worldwide spread of DNSChanger, and have replaced their rogue DNS servers with a temporary but correct DNS solution. However, we have been notified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority that the replacement servers will be shut down as early as 9 July 2012. This means that unless action is taken to remove the DNSChanger malware and restore proper DNS settings before that date, customers may not be able to connect to the internet from 9 July.
For this reason, we need you to take action as soon as possible to remove the malware from your computer.
Need more information?
For more information on the DNSChanger malware, or to check if your computer is still infected, visit www.dns-ok.gov.au.
Not everyone who uses the Internet has good intentions. A few simple tools and useful information can make all the difference to keeping your computer safe.
A computer virus is a program or piece of code loaded onto your computer without your knowledge. It is designed to copy itself into your computer's programs and spread itself from one computer to another.
Computer viruses are usually written with malicious intent by hackers and are typically spread through email attachments, webpages, shared documents, spreadsheets, .exe files and software programs. Viruses can have negative effects on your system - even a simple virus can quickly wipe out the contents of your hard disk or crash targeted software applications.
This may all sound scary, but protecting your computer against viruses is easy. All you need to do is install antivirus software and keep it up to date. Antivirus software automatically checks all new CDs, disks, email attachments and files downloaded from the Internet. If a virus is detected, the antivirus software helps to eliminate it and repair your files.
Managing Your AntivirusSoftware
Once you have installed your antivirus software, you should immediately scan all files on all of your hard disks and memory.
You should also check the antivirus software is configured to:
- Run every time your computer starts.
- Run in the background.
- Scan floppy disks.
- Scan all download files.
- Scan all emails and attachments.
- Automatically check for and install updates.
Always check your software is being updated. Most current Antivirus programs automatically update in the background while you use the Internet. Ensure that automatic update is active and the updates come through regularly. Around 200 new viruses are detected each month, so it is extremely important to keep your antivirus software current.
Find out more about Viruses at the Optus Learning Centre.
What is spam?
"Spam" is unwanted and unsolicited junk email on the Internet that may include sexual or offensive content.
FREE Optus Email Spam Filtering - Try Optus Email's FREE Spam Filtering tool and discover other tips for protecting your email from unwanted messages.
How does the Optus Email Spam Filter work?
The Optus Email Spam Filter has been designed to protect you and your family from receiving Spam or unsolicited commercial email.
The Spam Filter will check your email as it arrives at your mailbox on the Optus mail systems. If the email is identified as looking like Spam then the email will be moved to a separate Spam Folder.
The Spam Filter uses both detailed statistical analysis and a constantly updated "blacklist" to sort out unwanted messages. It provides you with an effective way of minimising the volume of spam that you receive.
It's very simple to use. To activate or deactivate the Spam Filter you need only login to the Spam Filtering page using your Optus username and password, then agree to the terms.
When activated, email that you receive is automatically filtered to remove as much spam as possible before it gets to your Inbox.
The mail which has been filtered is placed in a Spam Folder which you will find listed with your other mail folders in Webmail. If you wish, you can view the contents of your Spam Folder and sift through the contents, to ensure that the filtering process has not moved a non-spam message there. The Spam Folder will be automatically emptied after 14 days.
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Coach ordered up a field goal and Seattle's rookie delivered
"Things clicked," Brown said. "We got a good snap, a good hold. I did it. It was awesome. Perfect."
It came during a 35-13 loss Sunday at Green Bay, a record that almost didn't happen.
The Seahawks were working the 2-minute offense as the first half was winding down. Coach Mike Holmgren, hoping for a possible touchdown or a shorter field goal attempt, became upset when Matt Hasselbeck was sacked near the 40.
"I was so ticked off that we took the sack right there," Holmgren recalled. "I mean, I was off the charts, so I probably wasn't thinking straight. I just grabbed him and I said, 'Go out and kick it.' I had no idea how long that kick was."
Special teams coordinator Pete Rodriguez glanced at Holmgren, wondering if the coach had lost his mind. Even Brown was puzzled. He paused while jogging onto the field and looked back at Holmgren.
Instructed to go ahead, Brown lined it up. He figured it was the last play of the half, and he'd just swing away.
"I knew I hit it well enough that the wind was going to let it carry," Brown said. "Then the offensive line stood up and I couldn't see anything, but (holder) Tom Rouen was going, 'Man, I think you're going to make this."
Brown ran to one side for a better view. When he saw the officials' arms go up to signal a successful kick, he celebrated.
"I loved it," Brown said. "I just remember opening my arms and running to the locker room. It was pretty exciting."
Brown got his opportunity in Seattle after Lindell joined the Buffalo Bills after last season as a free agent. Brown was drafted in the seventh round out of Nebraska, an opportunity he'd always dreamed of.
"It's great to come in here and do well, really establish myself," Brown said. "I have a three-year deal, and I really want to make them feel this is the best investment they've made, as far as kickers go.
"For me to do that, I've got to stay focused, to take these moments and keep going," he said.
There's still plenty to work on, after all, like improving the distance on his kickoffs.
"He really did a nice job," Holmgren said. "He kicked that one a lot longer than his kickoffs, which was good."
Brown made a 61-yard field goal to win a game in high school back in Oklahoma, so he felt confident he could make one from 58. "It's a little different off a 2-inch block in high school," he said.
Brown also felt his record kick could have sailed through the goalposts from another 2 or 3 yards back. The NFL record of 63 yards was set by Tom Dempsey of New Orleans on Nov. 8, 1970, and matched by Denver's Jason Elam on Oct. 25, 1998.
"The way I see it, the 58-yarder was a great moment for me in my career, a good start," Brown said. "But it's probably going to be a 30-yarder that makes or breaks my career.
"It's probably going to be a game-winner or come at a pivotal moment when they really need the kick. That's when I really want to come through," he said.
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Planetary Magick: Invoking and Directing the Powers of the Planets (New)
by Denning, Melita
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Book ID: 9780738727349, 0738727342
Llewellyn is pleased to bring back into print Planetary Magick, one of the most respected and sought-after magick books ever written on the topic of planetary spellwork, and now the fourth book in Denning and Phillips's renowned Magical Philosophy series.
Planetary magick lies at the root of all astrological, alchemical, and Qabalistic lore. Although the planetary powers of the cosmos are far beyond our intervention, their correspondences in the depths of the psyche are within our reach through certain special meditative and ritual methods.
The complete system of planetary magick is set forth here, and is designed for both the beginner and the established mage. This book includes 65 classic magical rites in full detail and provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the foundation of Western Magick. Osborne Phillips and the late Melita Denning were internationally recognized authorities on the Western Mysteries and two of the foremost exponents of the Ogdoadic Tradition, the premier hermetic school whose influence and works are historically traceable for the past one thousand years. The authors received their esoteric training in the magical order Aurum Solis, which was founded in 1897 and is still active today.
Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality
Allen, Lasara Firefox
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
"Jailbreaking the Goddess
is an important contribution to the writings on Goddess tradition and feminist spirituality. . . . I love her political savvy, her sensitivity around issues of diversity and cultural awareness and appropriation, and her unabashed celebration of pleasure, sensuality, and life!" -- Starhawk
Jailbreaking the Goddess is a revolutionary revisioning of the feminine divine. Where the maiden, mother, crone archetypal system is tied to female biology and physic...
Tarot of Marseilles - Conver 1760 Restored (Standard Deck)
Jodorowsky & Camoin
Based on years of research with the goal of creating the definitive Tarot de Marseille, this deck is a labor of love that possesses fine details and the passionate workmanship of Phillipe Camoin -- last heir to the centuries-old legacy of Marseillan cardmakers -- and acclaimed artist and tarotist Alejandro Jodorowsky. Influenced most heavily by the deck of Nicolas Conver first printed in 1760, this premium deck is a treasure for readers and collectors.
Keeper of the Tarot of Marseilles Tradi...
Beyond the Mauve Zone. Enhanced Edition.
London: Starfire Publishing, 2016. Limited Edition. A new, enhanced edition of BEYOND THE MAUVE ZONE, fully corrected by Michael Staley using Kenneth Grant's personal copy with his annotations. The volume has also been re-set, and includes a new index that should prove most useful. A FINE CLOTH COPY in illustrated dust jacket. Custom end papers. Colored frontispiece, and twenty-four page plate section with the majority of the images being in color. 324 pages, indexed. Octavo. This is the eighth,...More
The Blazing Dew of Stars
Smith, David Chaim
London: Fulgur Limited, 2013. Limited to 1001 copies only. Square landscape folio. For those who have had the joy of handling and experiencing The Sacrificial Universe
released last year, this new book will continue that fine tradition. The Blazing Dew of Stars
is a complex mystical text which speaks with many voices to introduce the practice of Kabbalistic contemplative alchemy. The volume offers glimpses of a rare view of direct application and immersion into the Real, intertwini...More
The Sworn Book of Honorius: Liber Iuratus Honorii
Honorius of Thebes
Ibis Press / Nicolas-Hayes
As the title testifies, students were sworn to secrecy before being given access to this magic text, and only a few manuscripts have survived. Bits of its teachings, such as the use of the magic whistle for summoning spirits, are alluded to in other texts. Another key element of its ritual, the elaborate Seal of God, has been found in texts and amulets throughout Europe.
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LONDON [MENL] -- A Western boycott movement has asserted that it blocked aproposed procurement of Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles by France.
Nov 04, 2015
LONDON [MENL] -- A European defense major has unveiled an advancedIsraeli-origin unmanned aerial vehicle.
Aug 24, 2014
LONDON [MENL] -- The government has acknowledged significant delays indeveloping an Israeli-origin unmanned aerial vehicle for the British Army.
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BiographyBorn Robert Jeryl Ward in Luthersville, Georgia, he moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1960 and formed the Ohio Untouchables. The group released series of singles from LuPine label including "Your Love Is Amazing" which would become one of Ward's signature songs. Ward left the group in 1965.Then he moved to the Detroit area, actually residing in Toledo, Ohio and released some single under his name in the late 60's. He disappeared from the music scene sometime in the 70's after working as a session player for Motown.It was in the early 1990s that he came back into the spotlight. He was "rediscovered" by Black Top Records and released his first full-length album Fear No Evil in 1991. He released two more albums in the next four years for the label. In the mid-1990s he did limited touring, including a date in Minneapolis with Curtis Obeda and "The Butanes", and several dates in Michigan including Kalamazoo, Three Rivers and Grand Rapids. After the label folded in the late 1990s, WRKR Kalamazoo blues DJ Marty Spaulding, who Robert had appointed his manager, arranged a recording contract with Delmark Records to release New Role Soul in 2000. In his last years he faced a series of health problems, including two strokes, which prevented him from performing or recording.He died at his home in Dry Branch, Georgia, about six miles from Macon, on December 25, 2008. | <urn:uuid:19ab7e1e-07cc-42d8-9484-29a18e9fbcbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.radionomy.com/en/artist/312453/Robert-Ward | 2016-10-24T05:13:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00136-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987232 | 302 | [
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
So picture this, if you will.
You post about meeting John & Sherry of YHL.
And then walk away from your laptop and do not even pick it up again until Saturday morning because your week was so crazy busy.
You leisurely log-in to your blog, ho-hum.
And suddenly there are ALARMS going off.
With FLASHING LIGHTS.
All pointing to your blog stats:
Yes, you bet your young house love I SHRIEKED.
Because if my blog hits were going crazy off the charts, this could only mean one thing:
John and Sherry had linked to my blog.
I jumped over to read their Jan 17th blog and will now give you a instant replay of what occurred:
But first I jumped back over to my blog, to re-read what I had written, of course.
Saw that John had commented.
This is getting out of control. How much more can my little heart take?!
I called my sister. Who immediately wanted me to let everyone know that:
a. She says hiiiiii.
b. She is super sweet and nice. And not at all like my post made her out to be.
c. She will be writing a counter-post to my post.
d. Most likely after a glass of wine.
Ok, fine. So I added in "D". But it's probably true.
Needless to say, there has been a ton of blog traffic in McMommyworld. And the timing....oh the timing.
Because I am in the middle of a blog makeover behind the scenes and things are so messy around here!
I was going to surprise you all with the makeover reveal but now the joke's on me because SURPRISE!!!
All the guests showed up early to the party and I'm still in my robe, with the towel on my head, brushing my teeth.
So everyone just come in, make yourself a drink, and relax.
I'm going to put my makeup on so I don't look like this.
Then? We will REALLY get this party started.
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Agreed ,the new proposed format certainly spice's things up a bit.
Not very forgiving in the wind though.
Anthony didn't seem to have any problems picking out the killzones on the mini kills , he just got caught out like the rest of us with the wind and his scope isn't great.
I think Gregg done a great job with the course today and the new format gives a more varied course layout.
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The British Computer Society (BCS) describes itself as The Chartered Institute for IT. It is a charity with a distinguished past and an important future. Previously BCS did some excellent work promoting the “European Computer Driving Licence”. As the name suggests the ECDL is pretty generic. The course they do which is associated with it can be an excellent introduction for people coming to computers for the first time or who are in need of a refresher. The ECDL covers the basics explaining, among other things, about database software, presentation software, word processing and spreadsheets as well as the internet, email and the fundamentals of good security practice.
Now the BCS has developed a new package which, quite simply, it calls “e-safety”. Whereas the ECDL is designed for a range of potential audiences, “e-safety” has been expressly put together for schools. And of course it is all about the internet. I did the test and passed! Not sure what I would have done if I’d failed. Probably banished myself to Siberia.
The package comprises 30 hours of learning, of which 20 are guided. 20 lesson plans are provided mapped to the curriculum for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 and there is the test which I took to verify that the candidate has understood the concepts that have been presented in the lessons.
You are taken through fundamentals like how to delete files and the role and importance of the Recycle Bin, the history file in the browser and similar. You also learn about malware and how to combat it by ensuring you keep all your software up to date. The importance of firewalls and anti-virus software are explained and triple underlined.
Social networking sites get a lot of attention
Social networking site do’s and don’t, understandably, get a great deal of attention as they are probably the most used applications by children and young people across the world.
Sadly cyber bullying will be an issue in practically every school in the country. A lot of it will be linked to social networking sites, but some will not and may involve mobile phones or other internet enabled devices. These are also dealt with in some depth on the course, and there is a particular section which addresses reporting abusive behaviour, whether to the site where the bad behaviour happened or is happening, or to the police or CEOP in certain types of cases.
Cookies are explained and real situations are simulated so that students can learn from and in environments which they will readily recognise. The language is typically plain and straightforward, which of course it needs to be, not for the kids but usually for the teachers!!!
Not funky, but effective
It wasn’t the funkiest presentation I’ve seen of late but it certainly was thorough, plus you’ve got the extra reassurance of the BCS imprimatur. Anyone who gets beyond their pass mark will definitely have shown they have the knowledge to use the internet safely. It covers everything that might be referred to in any of the curricula used in the schools of the four nations within the UK.
Demo being arranged in London
Any teachers living in or around London and the South-East might like to take a closer look. They are putting on a demo of the materials and the examination at their London office on 15th November. Not sure if they are doing a roadshow for those who live too far away to make a mid-week trip to the capital a possibility but you could always ask. | <urn:uuid:9f32740f-5f42-4969-873a-a28884fcfc00> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/i-passed-my-exams-yippeee/ | 2016-10-25T06:35:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719960.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00198-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961808 | 724 | [
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This is a guest post by Stephanie Leutert, a research associate here at the Council on Foreign Relations who works with me in the Latin America program.
In recent years, Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has played a leading role in crafting some of his country’s best known foreign policy and regional integration initiatives. Serving as Hugo Chávez’s foreign minister from 2006 to 2012, Maduro made a name for himself in the foreign policy world through his more radical policy (toward states such as Syria, Iran, and Libya) and at times, more pragmatic approach (especially toward Colombia). But in his role as president, Maduro’s foreign policy agenda has diminished, and will likely stay that way as long as his capacity to project abroad is limited by the turmoil at home.
From the beginning Maduro has struggled to gain his political footing. Unlike Chávez—who won his elections by landslides—Maduro entered office with both a slim majority and the din of cacerolazos (pot-banging protests). Soon after, he faced an opposition leader defiantly meeting with Colombia’s president, the voting dead scandal, and a leaked recording revealing his party’s infighting and corruption. While these types of political scandals and rivalries are nothing new in Venezuela, Chávez quickly put out the fires through a combination of charisma, public popularity, a network of political appointees, and strong military ties—all of which, to varying degrees, Maduro lacks.
Perhaps even worse for Maduro is his responsibility to keep Venezuela’s troubled economy afloat. Nearly complete focus on the country’s oil resources (making up a full 97 percent of exports) combined with widespread mismanagement across key sectors has affected average Venezuelans. Electricity and food shortages are common (one of every five basic goods is considered scarce) and the inflation rate hovers between 20 and 35 percent (even hitting 42 percent earlier this month). The crisis has already threatened Maduro’s approval ratings, ensuring that the country’s economy (and not foreign policy) will receive the lion’s share of his attention.
To top it off, Venezuela’s “twenty-first century socialism model” that was promoted across the hemisphere is also becoming a tougher sell. The state-based model has been losing regional-integration ground—at least in the public relations realm—to the Pacific Alliance (a free trade agreement between Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and perhaps soon Costa Rica and Panama). These countries have so far agreed to eliminate 90 percent of tariffs, integrate their stock markets, and encourage more seamless migration, providing an energetic alternative to other regional initiatives. While it is still too early to predict how this newest alliance will fare over the long term, its growing buzz has detracted attention from Venezuela’s preferred models.
This is all not to say that Venezuela’s foreign policy can be counted out—it can’t, especially given the country’s enormous oil reserves, Chávez’s legacy of regional leadership, and Maduro’s willingness to irritate the United States for a few political points. But stabilizing his grasp on power and Venezuela’s economy will dominate Maduro’s agenda. And though efforts to unite Latin American countries through trade and energy will continue, today’s most popular initiatives may not be in the style that Chávez or Maduro would have wished. | <urn:uuid:7c1ede96-a845-4c4f-be2b-ab223e93f969> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.cfr.org/oneil/2013/08/20/guest-post-maduros-limited-foreign-policy-agenda/ | 2016-10-26T07:31:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720760.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00260-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960944 | 708 | [
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2014--2015 学年第二学期高二年级第一次月考英语试卷 张 越 张 烨 代春梅 第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 60 分） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） We all need a healthy environment. 1 , we produce waste every day and it 2 harm
to our environment. Though we are young, we can still do 3 to help. In fact, even the simplest everyday activities can make a real 4 to the environment. Here are some ideas for you to live a 5 life. Remember these three 6 : reduce, reuse and recycle. Reduce means “use less”. Don't 7 things. This saves money and reduces pollution and waste going into the environment. Before we buy something new, think if it is really 8 or maybe the 9 one will be just as good! When we do buy things, choose local products if possible, and try not to buy too many things from a 10 country. Reuse means “use again”. Use things for 11 possible. When we buy things, make sure that they 12 a long time. We should take care of them 13 they will last, and we should 14 them if we can instead of throwing them away and buying new ones. Don't use a paper cup or a paper bag. It’s better to use a china cup and a lunch box because you can use them 15 . Recycle means “change things into something else”. Although it 16 energy to change something into something else, it’s better than 17 things or burning them. Find out 18 can be recycled in your neighborhood and take part in recycling programs. We should also buy 19 made from recycled materials, such as recycled paper, to help save 20. 1. A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. | <urn:uuid:1ae7190d-dddc-441f-8b22-c3887afd13ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://lanxicy.com/read/8676c39ec6900596c04628cd.html | 2016-10-26T08:22:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720760.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00260-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914169 | 505 | [
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I am excited about GroceryFreak.com, a new website that has been developed by The Saving Freak (a member of the IWBNIN Team). It is focused on helping you save TONS money on groceries and consumer goods.
The IWBNIN team is passionate about helping you accomplish far more than you ever thought possible with your personal finances. It drives everything we do. The Saving Freak is passionate about saving money and teaching others how to do the same.
NOTE FROM JOE: The Saving Freak will be teaching about GroceryFreak.com in addition to "how to save money on nearly everything you buy" at the I Was Broke. Now I'm Not. Book Signing/Seminar – TONIGHT, October 7th, in Anderson, SC. Click HERE for more information and to register. | <urn:uuid:af72f9cd-2e8f-41cb-a70b-2592b7ea3d15> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.josephsangl.com/category/series/save-money-on-groceries/ | 2016-10-26T07:45:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720760.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00260-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950268 | 171 | [
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They’ll head out together in July
The Boggs have announced a short stint on the road with Built To Spill, kicking off July 16 in Detroit.
The band are currently touring to support the release of their album
‘Forts’ and will take in five cities on the jaunt.
The dates are:
Detroit, MI St Andrews Hall (July 16)
Chicago, IL Vic Theatre (17)
Omaha, NE Slowdown (18)
Denver, CO Friday – Ogden Theatre (20)
Salt Lake City, UT The Depot (21)
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- TheStreet's Jim Cramer says Home Away (AWAY) has real earnings and a real franchise in its management of vacation rental properties for both property managers and regular customers.
Cramer calls this a powerful concept for a powerful company that does many things right and has 30% growth, but investors still hate the stock. When he sees companies like this with solid balance sheets that are hated, he tells investors not to short the stock. When Home Away comes down to near-market multiple, which is possible in this market, then Cramer suggests buying the stock.
Must Watch: Jim Cramer Says Home Away Has Real Earnings
----------Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates HOMEAWAY INC as a "hold" with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate HOMEAWAY INC (AWAY) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income and disappointing return on equity."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 1.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 26.1%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- AWAY has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. To add to this, AWAY has a quick ratio of 1.96, which demonstrates the ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $26.37 million or 6.52% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, HOMEAWAY INC's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 28.22%.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Internet & Catalog Retail industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 134.2% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $4.55 million to -$1.56 million.
- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Internet & Catalog Retail industry and the overall market, HOMEAWAY INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
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I am seeing more and more comments on EverythingHealth that are not real but are simply there to drive readers to commercial webpages, advertisers or porn.
All bloggers love comments and the dialog that goes with social media. That is why we blog and I never delete controversial comments or criticisms. Most commenters are respectful and very thoughtful and I learn a lot from my readers. I read all comments and reply when warranted.
I am going to add a function to the blog where I will approve comments before they are posted. This will allow me to delete the spams early as they are showing up on my old posts also. We'll see how this goes!
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Our firm employs a Certified Payroll Specialist who holds responsibility over preparation of payrolls and the related remittances, preparation of T4s and T5s, and WorkSafe BC filings. By staying current on the frequent changes surrounding payroll we are able to ensure our clients are up to date on employments standards avoiding issues before they come up. These services are tailored on a client by client basis in order to best meet each client’s particular needs.
Our firm employs a QuickBooks Certified Pro Advisor who is available to instruct clients on the proper use of the QuickBooks Small Business Accounting suite of programs. This service can be provided on client sites or at our office. Beyond technical instruction we will also provide information on setting up a proper filing system. Follow-up visits are provided to ensure that the system is working in an effective and efficient manner.Back to top | <urn:uuid:0b8b4dc2-3a70-4729-92a6-e8c3eb37c8b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://kochharandco.ca/services.php | 2016-10-27T10:52:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721268.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00322-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944226 | 542 | [
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The Sky This Week, 2013 January 15 - 22
The Moon, 2009 NOV 22
The Moon waxes in the evening sky this week, passing through autumn’s dim constellations before ending the week among the bright stars of the Great Winter Circle. First Quarter occurs on the 18th at 6:45 pm Eastern Standard Time. Luna manages to avoid bright encounters until the 21st, when she drifts less than a degree south of Jupiter during the course of the evening. The pair will be closest at around 11:00 pm.
Moonlight will gradually start to flood the evening sky with light, extinguishing all but the brightest stars as the Moon climbs toward the winter constellations. Indeed, this will be one of the best times of the year to examine Luna’s rugged surface through the telescope. A popular phrase among amateur astronomers is that the Moon is "looked over, then overlooked" by new telescope owners and seasoned veteran observers alike. However, she is also our closest neighbor in space, and as such reveals lots of detail in even the smallest telescopes. Each night offers views of new lunar vistas as the "terminator" that divides the lunar sunrise line slowly creeps across the lunar landscape from night to night. The Moon’s features are dominated by impact craters ranging in size from the vast lunar "seas" caused by impacts from large asteroids in the early chaos of the solar system to small "pit" craters that challenge the resolution of your telescope. It is almost impossible to appreciate the scale of these formations, though. The smallest craters we can routinely see in our 12-inch refractor here at the Naval Observatory are comparable in size to the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is a very impressive formation to see in situ. Most of the craters seen in amateur telescopes are tens of kilometers across, and there are literally thousands of them. The "southern highlands" of the Moon are a jumble of craters and other tectonic features which bear mute testament to the violence of the first billion years of solar system history. Careful examination will show many different kinds of landforms as well, such as great isolated mountain peaks jutting out of the smooth lava plains of Mare Imbrium or vast cracks and sinuous rilles caused by expansion of lunar crust over the eons. So give our only natural satellite a good look this week. She is a fascinating companion.
The bright stars of the Great Winter Circle compete with the Moon and Jupiter for your attention. Take the time to look at them, especially if you have a pair of binoculars. You’ll be surprised at how much a little optical aid will bring out the colors of these bright stars, from the gold glimmer of Capella to the ice-blue of Sirius and Rigel and the warm ruddy tint of Betelgeuse and Aldebaran. On chilly nights the view of Orion’s belt stars almost seems to shimmer in my view. The middle star, Alnilam, is one of the most intrinsically bright stars in the galaxy, shining with a luminosity of some 250,000 Suns across a gulf of over 2000 light years. If Alnilam were located at the distance of Sirius, just over 8 light years away, it would appear brighter than the Full Moon in our nighttime sky!
Jupiter outshines all the other stars in the winter sky and after the Moon is the most rewarding object for telescopic view. You’ll have a particularly good evening of exploration on the 21st, when the Moon glides just south of the giant planet. Once again the sense of scale is distorted if you view both objects in a low-power field. Jupiter appears tiny compared to the pockmarked landscape of Luna, yet its true size is miniscule compared to the distant planet. Jupiter’s four large moons, discovered 403 years ago this month by Galileo, are comparable in size to the Moon, but they appear as tiny dots in all but the largest telescopes. If you have a three-inch or larger aperture telescope, you can watch the shadow of the largest moon, Ganymede, drift across the southern edge of Jupiter’s disc between 10:00 pm and midnight EST on the night of the 17th.
Saturn now rises at around 1:30 am in the southeastern sky and nears the meridian in the southeast as morning twilight begins to gather. This planet is not as dynamic as Jupiter, but the dullness of his disc is more than made up for by the graceful arc of the planet’s famous rings. If you look carefully at the planet’s vicinity before the sky begins to brighten you should see several tiny pinpoints of light that seemingly swarm around the planet. A good four-inch telescope should reveal five of Saturn’s icy moons, and an 8-inch instrument should show enigmatic Enceladus when it is at elongation. This latter moon is remarkable for the water-ice geysers that the Cassini space probe discovered near its south pole. | <urn:uuid:7d0b4329-e220-4b93-9ef0-b85b4b3112b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/tours-events/sky-this-week/the-sky-this-week-2013-january-15-22 | 2016-10-27T10:43:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721268.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00322-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941371 | 1,041 | [
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I stayed here with friends for two nights while visiting places of interest on the Cape Coast. The staff was friendly and the accommodation was clean, spacious and air conditioned which was very much appreciated.
While on the Cape Coast we visited the Kakum National Park and Canopy Walk, we also visited the Slave Castle which was very interesting.
- Also Known As:
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Hi everyone! If you’re like me, you have a basket, drawer, and/or shelf full of awesome stamps that don’t get used as often as they should. I think a lot of us associate stamping more with cardmaking than with scrapbooking. I decided to challenge myself and create a scrapbook page using stamps in a predominant way.
Here’s what I came up with:
Sweet by Stacy Cohen. Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper and Stampin’ Up!; Punch and stamp: Stampin’ Up!; Ink: Clearsnap and Stampin’ Up!; Flower: Prima Marketing; Button: Bazzill Basics Button; Embossing powder and glitter: Ranger Industries; Other: Adhesive and ribbon.
In lieu of patterned paper, I created part of the page background using Stampin’ Up’s! Mosaic Madness stamp set. I’m usually hesitant to stamp directly on my page because there aren’t a lot of “do-overs” when it comes to paper and ink. So I stamped the images on colored cardstock then punched them out with Stampin’ Up’s coordinating Mosaic Punch. The added bonus of doing it this way is that the stamped images can be adhered with 3D adhesive to give them some dimension.
I wanted to add some sparkle (because I’m a girl who loves a touch of bling on every page!), so I used medallion stamps with sticky embossing powder and glitter. I stamped the images on white cardstock using embossing ink, poured on some Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder, heated it up with my heat gun, and then sprinkled on the glitter. It takes a little bit longer than just regular stamping with ink, but I think the sparkly effect is worth the few extra steps.
Who needs premade alphabet stickers when you’ve got alphabet stamps? The great thing about alphabet stamps is that you’ll never run out of vowels and other frequently-used letters. Just stamp them over and over again!
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The wireless accelerometer can be used in a host of applications where knowing impact, vibration, inclination, etc. is required.
The Monnit Wireless Accelerometer is available in 3 profiles:
• Profile 1 - Accelerometer activates
at a set time interval (defined by user)
and measures g-force along X, Y and Z axes.
Primary use is as an inclinometer or tilt sensor.
• Profile 2 - Accelerometer samples at 800 Hz over a 10 second
period, and reports the measured MAXIMUM value for each axis
in g-force and the AVERAGE measured g-force on each axis
over the same period, for all three axes.
• Profile 3 - Accelerometer activates when g-forces are
exceeded by a user defined threshold - up to 8 g-force.
The user can key in the desired threshold for the g-force
New "Self Registration" Feature for iMonnit™ Software
The iMonnit Online Wireless Sensor Monitoring System has a new "Self Registration" feature which allows users to create their own accounts and assign their own wireless gateways and sensors.
This new enhancement provides the ability for users to create new iMonnit accounts and add or move wireless sensors, gateways and networks to and between their accounts. We have made the process easy and instantaneous so users no longer need to place a service request with Monnit Support.
Another benefit of this new feature is that it allows OEMs and VARs to stock Monnit wireless sensor products without the need for pre-configuration of wireless gateways, sensors and networks.
Let's take a look in our crystal ball to see what the future holds at Monnit?
Monnit's development team will be bringing you a new line of more powerful, long-range wireless sensors. With industry leading technology and power management these new long-range wireless sensors will introduce the ability to extend your wireless sensor network further than ever before. They will work on the same networks as all other Monnit Wireless Sensors, and transmit their data back to the iMonnit Online Wireless Sensors software. If you would like to learn more about these new sensors or be notified when they become available, please email us at [email protected].
Are you monitoring your machinery for predictive maintenance? Do you know how often your machinery is running and if it is running within its correct specifications? Deviations from specified parameters in vibration or temperature, if left unchecked, can cause expensive repairs and downtime.
Machines such as motors, pumps, compressors and boilers, when run frequently, have the potential for worn out parts which can cause failures to occur. The main value of life cycle monitoring and predictive maintenance is to allow convenient scheduling of corrective maintenance, and to prevent unexpected equipment failures. The key is "the right information at the right time". By monitoring equipment parameters, you can understand how your equipment is running, and plan for maintenance accordingly, avoiding unplanned downtime.
Using Monnit Wireless Sensors for conditional monitoring allows maintenance to be scheduled, or other actions to be taken to avoid the consequences of failure, before the failure occurs. We recommend using Monnit's affordable wireless temperature sensors, activity sensors, accelerometers and pressure sensors to monitor the different parameters of your machinery. There are no wires to worry about, and the setup process is amazingly simple.
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Optimizing Wireless Sensor Range With Proper Orientation of Wireless Antennas.
We've had some questions on antenna placement lately so we thought it would be a good time to share this helpful tech tip again.
In order to get the best performance out of your Monnit Wireless Sensors, it is important to note proper antenna orientation and sensor positioning. Antennas should all be oriented in the same direction, pointing vertically out of the sensor. If the sensor is mounted flat on it's back on a horizontal surface, you should bend the antenna as close to the sensor housing as possible giving you the most amount of antenna pointing vertical. You should make the antenna wire as straight as possible, avoiding any kinks and curving of the wire.
For optimum signal strength determine the height at which the majority of your sensors will be mounted at and position the wireless gateway at the same height. The sensor signal strength will reduce if the sensors are positioned higher than the wireless gateway. Also sensors should be at least 3 feet away from each other and the wireless gateway to function properly.
Correct Antenna Orientation
Antennas should all be pointing vertically and devices should be at least 3 feet apart.
Incorrect Antenna Orientation
Antennas should not be pointing vertically and horizontally, and devices should not be closer than 3 feet.
Incorrect Sensor Positioning
Sensors should not be mounted high with wireless gateways mounted low. Also, avoid positioning sensors or gateways on the floor.
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- The idea of escaping to another life is not a foreign one to me – sometimes, I just wish I could.
Summary from GoodReads:
Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice-not only that, she knows how to cross over. But even in her darkest moments-like her mother’s suicide-Quinn hasn’t been tempted to slip through…until she receives devastating news about the baby she’s carrying.
The grief lures her to peek across the portal, and before she knows it she’s in the midst of the other life: the life in which she married another man, and is childless. The life in which her mother is still very much alive.
Quinn is forced to make a heartbreaking choice. Will she stay with the family she loves and her severely disabled child? Or will an easier life-and the primal need to be with her mother-win out?
I devoured this book. I mean, I’ve been on a bit of a reading diet lately due to school and other real life nonsense but this book… this book refused to let me out of its grip.
It wasn’t that it was necessarily a very different story, or unique, or strange – it was just that it was a very compelling story. A story that dealt with life and death, with decisions, with family relationships and choices that may not always be the easiest ones to live with.
Quinn is faced with a decision – the decision to live one very hard life or choose a life that, although it contains its own problems (nothing is perfect), would ultimately be an easier one for her – one where she’d be the one taken care of rather then the one facing a lifetime of care. Which does she choose? That’s for the story to tell.
I never once felt this story drag, and had it been written less beautifully I think it might have. There’s not a lot of action, not a lot of much that actually happens on a day to day basis, but the internal struggles of the characters and the decisions being laid out before the reader are enough to keep the momentum going.
The Other Life will make a fantastic book club read and will be on my mind quite a bit in the upcoming days. And of course, I’m very grateful to it for getting me back into the “reading groove”.
About the Author
Ellen Meister is the author of three novels, THE OTHER LIFE (Putnam, 2/11), THE SMART ONE (Avon A, 8/08) and SECRET CONFESSIONS OF THE APPLEWOOD PTA (Morrow/Avon, 8/06), as well as numerous short stories. In addition to writing, she served as editor for a literary magazine, runs an online mentoring group for women authors, and curates for DimeStories, a literary radio program. Ellen does public speaking about her books and other writing-related issues. She is working on her fourth novel, FAREWELL, DOROTHY PARKER.
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Due to his left ankle injury, Jeter will DH and hit leadoff instead of playing shortstop.
Manager Joe Girardi said that Jeter's ankle injury is something that will likely affect him for the rest of the season.
When asked if Jeter's injury is a chronic ailment, the manager said, "I've not heard the doctors say that, but in my mind that's something that I believe. Could it get better as time goes on? Sure.
"But a lot of it probably depends on how he lands on it or if he lunges. It could take a while."
Jeter left the Yankees' 5-4 win on Wednesday night against the Boston Red Sox in the top of the eighth inning after re-injuring the ankle, which he originally rolled last week in Tampa.
But Jeter, who rarely leaves a game on his own will, and almost never admits to an injury, insisted again on Friday that he was fine.
And, in typical fashion, the 38-year-old offered little other insight on the injury, other than to say he thought he could play shortstop if needed.
"You either play or you don't. I'm playing so it's not an issue to talk about or discuss," he said. "I've always been that way; I'm not going to change. You either play or you don't, that's the way I've looked at it."
Jeter played and played well in the Yanks' win over Boston on Thursday. His RBI single in the seventh gave the Yankees' a 2-0 cushion in a game they'd go on to win by the same score.
Jeter, who leads the AL in hits and is batting .323, also tied Willie Mays for 10th on the all-time hits list.
Girardi said, from here on out, he'll check with Jeter on a daily basis to determine his availability.
The manager admitted if the Yanks had a 10-game lead in the division instead of being tied for first with Baltimore, he may have opted to give Jeter a few days off.
But, he noted, that extra time off may not help in this case. If Jeter lunges and hits the bag the wrong way or lands on his left foot awkwardly, it could re-aggravate the injury.
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A slight small girl, tangled thin brown hair, Emily walked sloth like round her house. Looking for school things. Steps dragging, she dug out shoes from under dirty clothes at the back of her cupboard, put them under her suitcase. Scuffed and torn, they needed some care. Didnít matter, nobody would see they werenít polished.
She didnít want to go to sleep. Sleep meant waking up. And school. She didnít want dinner either, she felt sick. Felt like she had swallowed fear. There it was, alive and real, playing a dark game in the pit of her stomach. Usually, she would ignore it, be strong like Mum said. Play pretend. Yet, Sunday night, the dread would become so big. It would take over the whole evening. She couldnít think of anything else.
A few tears struggled to the surface. Emily quickly brushed them away. Why did she have to go? She hated this school. Hated those girls. Hated that big dormitory. It wasnít fair.
ďEmily, have you got your laundry bag?Ē Her Mum called out. Emily didnít respond. She always felt a bit bad when she was horrible to Mum. She shouldnít be. She knew Mom didnít really mean to do this to her, but she was so angry at it all and it made her become beastly and unreasonable.
ďDonít worry, love. I have it here. Clean and fresh.Ē Mum would almost never get angry back when Emily was horrible. Kind of wished she would. Why didnít she? When someone is horrible to you, you should be horrible back? Often, she could hear Mum and Dad discussing things in the next room, talking about her, even though the door was closed, and she would get really really angry.
Sometimes all this would make her so angry, she wouldnít talk to them. It was easy. She could just feed the angry monster in her tummy. Think really hard about how horrible they were and then she would become so angry she didnít need to talk to anyone at all. She could ignore the kids at school, ignore the teachers, ignore everyone.
It even made the fear monster go quiet. If she was really angry, then that fear in her tummy, she didnít care about that.
ďEmily darling, you have to go to bed now. Itís an early morning tomorrow,Ē her Mum came into the room carrying the last of her things to pack. Emily looked at her Mum, looked at the pile of things. That feeling of dread so big in her tummy. It was hard not to cry.
Mum sat on the edge of her bed, tucked the covers round her. Emily avoided eye contact. She knew it was hurtful, but still did it. Mum looked tired. Emily could see she was trying very hard to smile. She held up Emilyís old pink panther attempting to be cheerful, ďlook who has come to wish you goodnight? He has come to say Goodnight mademoiselle Emily!Ē She used a funny French accent. The accent made Emily angry, she wasnít a baby any more. Mum used to do that when she was super little. Stupid kid games really.
They would laugh and laugh together. They would pretend that they were in Paris. Pink panther was a French detective. She hadnít felt so heavy full of anger back then. It was all before she had to leave for this horrible school, and everything changed at home.
Mum leant over, kissed her head. ďI am packing Pink Panther. Donít listen to those other kids. Itís gonna get better, I promise. I love you, ok? Be strong. Sleep tight.Ē
The light went out and Emily watched Pink Panther lie crocked on her suitcase in a dim glow from the passage. A strange expression on his face. Was Mum always strong? Sometimes she would look like she wanted to cry or something but she would smile for Emily. Be strong, thatís what she always said. Be strong. Easy for her. Probably she didnít have an anger monster. And grown ups donít get scared much, do they?
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S.F. vigil for ‘Iranian 13’ draws 100 to protest spy trialby JOSHUA BRANDT, Bulletin Staff
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"If my cousin is a spy for Israel, then so was the Ayatollah Khomeini," said Fred Zaghi at a solidarity rally Monday for the 13 Iranian Jews on trial for espionage.
Zaghi, who emigrated here from Shiraz, the southern Iranian city that is home to most of the accused spies, was one of more than 100 people who attended the vigil at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El.
Now living in Los Altos, Zaghi said he grew up "learning about Judaism" from his cousin Asher Zadmehr, the leader of the fervently religious Jewish community in Shiraz.
Zadmehr, 49, was among the Jews arrested for espionage early last year.
"It is beyond ridiculous that he's being persecuted for being a spy," said Zaghi, who helped lead a Ma'ariv (evening service) for the imprisoned Jews after the rally.
"This trial just tears my heart out."
Since the trial began earlier this month, eight of the 13 have pleaded guilty of espionage, one has pleaded guilty to other activities but not to spying, and four have pleaded innocent. However, the proceedings, which are not open to the public, have been widely criticized as a show trial.
The concept that Jews around the world constitute "one big family" prompted Hillary Davis, another audience member, to travel nearly 100 miles to attend the vigil.
Noting that one of the defendants was just a year older than her, the 16-year-old from Stockton's Temple Israel, said the jailed teenager could have been "my brother -- or my boyfriend."
Davis, one of four teens who made the commute with their rabbi, was not the only person who had a hard time understanding how an adolescent could be placed on trial for spying.
"Who are these so-called spies?" thundered the Rev. Gerry O'Rourke, director of ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.
"They are tailors, shoe clerks and religious leaders," he said, "and I sincerely doubt any of these people are likely to be cast in a James Bond movie."
The professions of the accused are not relevant, according to Zaghi, who said the Iranian government is only concerned with prosecuting religious leaders.
"The Iranian government is a lot smarter than people think," Zaghi said. "They want to eliminate the Jewish community from the top down, so they take away the leaders. Anyone who promotes Judaism is a target."
Over the years, there have been plenty of targets, according to statistics provided by the American Jewish Committee, one of the sponsors of the event.
Seventeen Jews have been executed since the Iranian revolution of 1979, many of them for spying.
The number of Iranian Jews condemned to death because of their religious beliefs should cause a "clench in people's stomachs," said Dan Grossman, president of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council, another event sponsor.
The gathering was also sponsored by the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League and the Board of Rabbis of Northern California.
Grossman, the evening's moderator, linked the fate of the "Iranian 13" to that of downed Israeli pilot Ron Arad and famed diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued Jews during World War II and who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
"The scales of justice are warped in this trial," Grossman said. "The Jews on trial have been falsely accused and appallingly treated."
According to speaker Iftekhar Hai of the United Muslims of America, the trial is not in keeping with Islamic traditions.
"This trial goes against the basic principles of Islam," said Hai. "There are no witnesses, and no attorneys present-- so let me be quite clear that this is not the Islamic way of justice."
That injustice was addressed by Jim Lazarus, who represented Sen. Dianne Feinstein at the event.
Lazarus read from a resolution co-sponsored by Feinstein, a San Francisco Democrat and an Emanu-El congregant, and by fellow U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat from Greenbrae.
The Senate resolution calls for the charges against the 13 to be immediately dropped and for the prisoners to be subsequently released.
The outcome of the trial will play a large factor in determining whether U.S. sanctions against Iran eventually will be lifted, according to Lazarus.
The resolution didn't mitigate Zaghi's fears, however.
"I'm not worried about the United States," said Zaghi. "I'm worried about countries like France and Germany that trade with Iran despite the U.S. sanctions. These countries are supposedly on the frontlines for human rights -- but all they care about is helping their economy."
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How does Christ’s passion liberate from sin? Perhaps surprisingly, Thomas’s first answer (III, 49, 1) is entirely Abelardian: “Christ’s Passion is the proper cause of the forgiveness of sins in three ways. First of all, by way of exciting our charity . . . it is by charity that we procure pardon of our sins.”
His second answer is Augustinian, reliant on the concept of the totus Christus : Christ’s passion causes forgiveness because “He is our Head” and thus out of love “He delivered us as His members from our sins, as by the price of His Passion.” He gives the odd illustration of a man who pays off a “sin committed with his feet” by doing good work with his hands, but the point is clear. The atonement works because Jesus is the head of a body, so that whatever He does and achieves benefits the members. Ecclesiology invades soteriology.
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Weeks ahead of the expected launch at the 2012 Samsung Mobile Unpacked event, it seems that Vietnamese site Tinhte has managed to get ahold of the GT-I9300– which is likely the actual model name for the Galaxy S III, if Samsung decides to follow its existing naming convention. The leaked specs say that the phone features a 4.6-inch 720×1184 resolution display, a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 8MP camera, 16GB internal storage, microSD, and Android 4.0 ICS. According to Tinhte the 2,050mAh battery will also have NFC capabilities built right in.
Overall, the phone looks pretty cool and certainly looks legit enough. Still, until the London announcement at the 2012 Unpacked Event, I’d take it all with a grain of salt. As usual, reaching out to Samsung delivered nothing more than a generic “you’ll tell you more at the 2012 Samsung Mobile Unpacked” response. You can get a closer look at the device through the video below, but keep in mind that it is in Vietnamese.
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April opening eyed for Concord senior center
A new senior center should open in Concord by April, organizers announced Wednesday, after securing 4,000 square feet of rental space that will allow them to offer meaningful programs designed for a range of seniors.
The private, non-profit Centennial Senior Center should open in early April at the Smokestack Center, a multi-tenant development at 254 N. State Street, which is across Route 3 from the New Hampshire State Prison.
"We are so excited about this new location as it will truly allow us to support people as they age through activities, education and advocacy, with an end goal of improving the quality of life for everyone," said Vivien F. Green, executive director of the Centennial Senior Center.
She said the space allows Centennial to provide for the Baby Boomer generation as it enters its retirement years.
Green said the new space will allow the private, non-profit organization to expand current programs, which are now being offered at space provided by the Concord Parks and Recreation Department.
She said the space will be big enough to launch a "Lunch and Learn" program, where topics such as Medicare and chef demonstrations will be presented.
The space will allow Centennial to offer programs during the evening for seniors who work during the day, she said.
Traditional programs at Centennial include health and wellness, yoga, art and strengthening.
The space is all on one floor, with offices, classrooms, an informal sitting area with a fireplace, a large meeting space that will hold as many as 80 people, and nearly two dozen parking spaces. It will offer the ability to use webinar, video and teleconferencing.
"It will cater to people age 50 to 100 or more and will offer traditional as well as non-traditional activities, supporting people as they age with a multi-generational approach," Green said.
Centennial conducted surveys and held listening sessions to determine the needs of the center, Green said.
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Works with Cities XXL.
- Cities XXL Community MOD
- Game Version:
- Cities XXL 2015
This mod has not been tested on Cities XL
Place the file . patch in your "mods" folder as shown below
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cities XXL\Paks\mods
- This mod, allows the construction of smooth roads.
Works only on the roads included in the original game
Photo showing the construction of a normal route in "Cities XXL"
As you can see, the road is sawtooth.
With this mod, roads act as a bridge
behaves like a bridge over water
Photo of @skullz613, Thank you
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Neighbors are split on whether a public right-of-way that includes this 80-foot-wide beach in Wilmette should be improved by the village as a park or nature preserve, or sold to its two adjacent neighbors. Officials expect to make a decision by the end of the year. (John P. Huston, Tribune photo)
Wilmette officials have reopened a year-old discussion about a public right-of-way that serves as a free access point to Lake Michigan, squeezed between two multi-million dollar homes.
The 80-foot-wide piece of land begins at the eastern dead-end of Elmwood Avenue extends about 600 feet to the water's edge. Its two immediate neighbors want to pay the village in excess of $1 million for the land to make it private and block access, but a large group of residents wants the land to remain public as a "passive use," possibly as a nature preserve, bird sanctuary or scenic overlook.
Thanks to last year's debate, it has become a more popular destination, neighbors said. This summer it attracts more people than ever, and has led to increased parking problems on their residential streets, illegal drug use and partying, as well as safety concerns for beachgoers in the unregulated waters, they said.
Residents provided suggestions on what to do with the land at a recent meeting of the Village Board's Municipal Services Committee. Chairman Cameron Krueger said it is the trustees' goal to determine the land's highest and best use, and that "almost nothing is off the table, so long as it is legal."
"We have a terrific asset that we need to figure out what to do with," Krueger said, adding that the current situation is "not untenable."
Krueger estimated the three-member committee will meet twice more on the subject in order to select three or four possible outcomes for the property, along with their associated costs and legal implications, before the issue is discussed and decided later by the Village Board. The Wilmette Park District, which had representatives at the meeting, could potentially play a role in the property.
Several suggestions were offered for the village to consider, including an outlook accessible from the street side with no access to the beach; a completely open nature preserve; or restricted access regulated by a gate with an automated key-card system.
Dennis Chookaszian, the neighbor to the north, said he and the Noyes family to the south hired an appraiser last year in an effort to acquire the land. He declined to provide the appraised value, but said that it was "significant" and "more than $1 million."
Records show that it was a small public beach until 1933 when it was closed because of nuisance issues. A wooden fence blocking access was removed in recent years after it fell into disrepair.
"There's really no difference between what was occurring in 1933 and what is occurring now," said Beth Beucher, of the 1400 block of Sheridan Road.
Several residents who have signed a petition to keep the rare piece of public beachfront open offered different viewpoints.
"This piece of property is a very unique, unreplaceable asset that the village is now responsible to return to the public," said Daniel May, of the 600 block of Elmwood Avenue. "And I am not one who is willing to compromise in having limited or restricted access to the general public to this property."
Others favored allowing the land to be public in some limited or restricted fashion. Guy Chipparoni, who lives near the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Sheridan Road, said living near the lakefront means regular traffic.
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Tory MP under fire for 'tar baby' comment
CTV.ca News Staff
Published Friday, May 29, 2009 6:41PM EDT
A Tory MP known for his partisan attacks and bare-knuckle parliamentary style is facing accusations of racism after he twice used the term "tar baby" in the House of Commons Friday.
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, used the term in response to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's decision to back away from his predecessor's unpopular carbon tax policy.
"On that side of the House, they have the man who fathered the carbon tax, put it up for adoption to his predecessor and now wants a paternity test to prove the tar baby was never his in the first place," said Poilievre.
He used the term again later during question period.
Liberal MP Ralph Goodale raised the issue at the end of question period and asked that Poilievre apologize for using the term.
"In addition to being a pejorative term, which might well prove to be unparliamentary, the parliamentary secretary might consider that there are many authorities both in this country and many others that consider the term racist," said Goodale.
Responding, Poilievre said he wasn't aware that the term had racist connotations.
"I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance. My reference to the term 'tar baby' was a common reference that refers to issues that stick to one," he said.
Poilievre hasn't officially apologized and the controversy continues to spread in Ottawa.
Later on Friday, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings, who is black, decried the term and demanded an apology.
"As a black child growing up, I was called all sorts of pejorative names based on the color of my skin, including the 'n-word' and 'tar baby' -- and believe me, it was hurtful," said Jennings.
"I am offended by Mr. Poilievre's insensitive remarks --and I know leaders in the black community across Canada feel the same way."
However, the prime minister's office appears to be digging in its heels and refusing to apologize.
In a press release issued Friday afternoon, the PMO stated that the term has been used by national media in Canada for something that sticks.
Tory MP Andrew Saxton said his "colleague meant no harm" when he used the term.
"It's a completely different usage of the term -- it's a usage that's been used for a very long time (and used) by many politicians, including Liberals," he told CTV's Power Play on Friday.
Still, ignorance is no excuse, said NDP MP Malcolm Allen.
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Our Kruger Trip Report, camping holiday: 16 - 24 December 2010
(Gauteng, South Africa)
We had the most fantastic holiday in Kruger Park. Friends Mario and Jennifer Fazekas suggested we enter at Phabeni Gate and to have camera’s at the ready, because we were sure to see some sightings on route to our camp, Skukuza.
Well, indeed we did. Firstly, the staff at Phabeni Gate were extremely helpful, polite and friendly. Certainly made one feel enthusiastic about entering the Park.
Camera was at the ready // Four pair of eyes were open and studying the surrounds as we started our journey in the Park.
This was on the S1 Doispane Road. Our first sightings – BUFFALO, KUDU and IMPALA, wow. Thereafter Elephant; a spotted Hyaena and her two pups, right on the side of the road. They all looked in fantastic condition.
We were thrilled with this start of our animal sightings.
We arrived at Skukuza and went to the front desk. We were met with friendly staff, who assisted us with the greatest of ease. We then set off to find a suitable camp site.
After driving around and around we settled on one right next to a tar road. It was open with no trees to shade under, but that was per choice, as we didn’t want our new Tent to face any damages from thorns, etc..
We set up camp and sat back to enjoy our first ‘cold one’ in the afternoon. Our two children (boys ages 16 and 13) decided they wanted to go and explore around the camp site. We found Mario and Jen on our travels through the site. There we all sat together planning our early morning trip for the following day. Up at 4am, ready to exit Skukuza at 04h45 on route to spot some of what Kruger has to offer. We were NOT disappointed.
Sightings made during this trip. Leopard (on the H1-1); Cheetah (on the H1-1); Lioness (on the H1-1); Elephant; Buffalo; Giraffe, Zebra, Hippo; Impala; Kudu; Wildebeest; Warthog; Klipspringer; Tortoise; Vultures; Baboons and Vervet monkeys; and Rhino’s (on the S3 sand road) (wonderful to see that majestic animal roaming freely and complete with horn! The SanPark anti-poaching team were always at the ready and were spotted on a few occasions patrolling the ‘hot zones’)
Bird life a plenty too. Martial Eagle; Brown Snake Eagle; Lilac Breasted Roller;
European Roller; Red-crested Korhaan, Cape Parrot, African Fish Eagle, Yellow-billed kite; Juvenile Snake Eagle; Ground Hornbill; White-backed Vulture, Southern yellow- billed hornbill, to name but a few.
A visit with the Fazekas family to LAKE PANIC (just off the H11) was a treat of note. Camera’s ranged as follows:
• Mario (big bazooka);
• Jen (a bit smaller, but still huge);
• Jen’s Dad (hot on Jen’s heels with camera size);
• my hubby (our own mini, mini bazooka);
• Me, well have a little Fujifilm S8000 “point and shoot” that didn’t let me down;
• then lastly Jen’s mom with a blackberry....! No matter what was required, we were ready!
We had a full range of sizes and abilities all ready for action, and we were not disappointed. Fish Eagle who skimmed the water, catching a water monitor and flew to a perch where she sat and battled with her prize. The water monitor not giving up easily and we witnessed a battle between the two of them for quite a while.
A few Malachite Kingfishers; Pied Kingfishers; Woodland Kingfisher; Thick Billed Weavers; Herons; Africa Jacana; Terrapins; Crocodiles. What a fantastic hide this was and one worth a revisit during our remainder of our stay in the Park.
Throughout our 8 day holiday, we covered the following area’s using Skukuza as our base. From Skukuza to Phabeni Gate (the S1) // to Pretoriouskop Camp (the H1-1) // to Berg-en-Dal Camp (the H2-2, then H3 and S110) // to Lower Sabie Camp (via the S114, S25 and H4-2) // to the Nkuhlu Picnic site (on the H4-1 for a taste of their renowned Buffalo pie) and to the lapa overlooking Mlondozi dam (on the S29 sand road). This is where we had our first LEOPARD sighting and what an experience that was! Every day was a joy and an excitement for the whole family. Not one day did we return to camp disappointed in what we spotted on route.
On our last day, we packed up camp and decided to exit through Malelane Gate, travelling down the H1-1 and H3 all the way through, stopping only at Afsaal for some refreshments. On this road we spotted our three Ground Hornbills.
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A book like Mark Bowden’s “Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues and Beasts” gives hope to the author in every reporter. By hitting it big, as Bowden did with “Black Hawk Down,” everything else becomes publishable, whether it deserves to be or not.
“Road Work” is a collection of 19 pieces Bowden wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications during the past 25 years. Extending the life of journalistic writing via publication between hard covers can be a risky business. Some of the stories in “Road Work” are timeless, others are yesterday’s mashed potatoes, still others simply don’t deserve to live on within the pages of a book.
The selection seems designed to show off Bowden’s range: He’s a sensitive dad here, a hard-boiled cops’ reporter there; a political pundit one day, a sportswriter the next; a praisesinger for Americana in one story, a dauntless world traveler in another. We also see Bowden trying on different voices, notably Tom Wolfe’s. We hear the glib techno-military Wolfe of “The Right Stuff ” in a piece about pilots flying missions over Afghanistan and the italicizing, capitalizing, exclaiming and mocking Wolfe in an article about the battle over the placement of a Rocky statue at the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Bowden has his own voice. He should stick to it.
Probably the weakest piece in “Road Work” is the one on the 2000 Democratic National Convention. Bowden writes in his head note that the tightly scripted infomercial that is the modern political convention made him “pine for the days of smoke-filled back rooms, the days when real decisions were made at the conventions, and when reporters could unearth real news.” Name another reporter who doesn’t agree.
Character in Narrative Writing
The other clunkers in the book, about an annual Thanksgiving football game between rival Missouri high schools and about tryouts for a suburban Philadelphia high school basketball team, lack the key element in any successful piece of narrative journalism: the delineation of character. As Mike D’Orso wrote in an essay, “Finding Character,” that appeared in “Points of Entry” in 2002, “Action, setting, issues—all those things matter in a nonfiction story, but what matters most when it comes to narrative nonfiction is characters. People want to read about people. More than anything we are fascinated—appalled, amused, delighted, dismayed, inspired, entranced—by the men and women who stand up and breathe on the pages of a well-crafted story.”
No one quite stands up and breathes in “The Game of a Lifetime” or “The Unkindest Cut.” The first story tells us in a general way why the Turkey Day football game is so important to the people who live in Webster Groves and Kirkwood but offers only snapshots of past and present participants, not portraits. (Try out H.G. Bissinger’s “Friday Night Lights” for a Texas-sized version of the same basic story.) The second recalls former (Baltimore) Sun reporter Ken Fuson’s 1997 chronicle of tryouts, rehearsals and opening night for a high school production of “West Side Story,” but next to Fuson’s detailed sketches of cast members, Bowden’s thumbnails of the aspiring basketball players seem halfhearted. It is as if he didn’t find the kids all that interesting or didn’t get to spend enough time with each of them to get to know them. When we find out at the end who made the team and who didn’t, we don’t care much either way.
A reader might feel better acquainted with Massa, the 51-year-old gorilla at the Philadelphia Zoo, than with any of the people in those two sports stories. At the end of “Urban Gorilla,” one almost feels as if “this ragged and toothless figure” cannot himself decide whether lifelong confinement has been worth it, after all. On one hand, it is hard to argue with Massa’s longevity, which is a tribute to the quality of the care he has received in captivity. On the other hand, there is his profound boredom. Bowden’s lovely lead sets up all that is to come: “Day settles softly down from the skylight over Massa’s bare confinement like some dim memory of sunshine.” Elsewhere we see him “rolling his baleful black eyes vacantly around the familiar edges of his world,” swatting his swinging tire in disgust and turning his sorry old buttocks on his human visitors.
Here we also get to see Bowden doing one of the things he is extraordinarily good at, physical descriptions. Near the end of the story, Bowden describes Massa’s face and eyes, but his earlier description of the ancient ape’s body is even more poignant:
“Age has withered this old brute to almost half his youthful bulk, a transformation that intensifies the alarming resemblance to his slender cousin, Homo sapiens. His jet-black skin hangs in loose folds at each joint and in chevrons down his shrunken chest and belly. His gray coat is tattered from decades of hair-plucking, a habit long ago identified as a symptom of pathological boredom.”
Consider these other finely wrought drawings, this one of Michael Koubi, former chief interrogator for Israel’s General Security Services in “The Dark Art of Interrogation”:
“He has blue eyes in a crooked face: time, the greatest caricaturist of all, has been at work on it for more than sixty years, and has produced one that is lean, browned, deeply lined, and naturally concave. His considerable nose has been broken twice, and now ends well to the right of where it begins, giving him a look that is literally off-center.”
Here’s a quick one of minor league ballplayer Rob Swain from “The Great Potato Pick-Off Play”:
“Swain was a short, crewcut infielder with a muscular frame and such tiny feet that his teammates used to say his shoes were small enough to drape over a rearview mirror.”
And here, instantly recognizable to a baseball fan of a certain age, is Philadelphia Phillies great Mike Schmidt:
“He has high, prominent cheekbones from which his face cuts down sharply in two angled lines to his chin. What must have been a difficult case of teenage acne has left scars along these chiseled features, softening them somewhat, adding to his weathered complexion a curious blend of ruggedness and vulnerability.”
Finally, there’s this perfect rendering of Norman Mailer:
“His blue eyes, under a spray of white eyebrows, are quick and playful. He stands on the balls of his feet and seems always intently aware of where his hands are—in his pockets, gesturing, pointing, striking out at some elusive, invisible enemy dodging just in front of him. Mailer’s clipped white curls are a happy mess. He has exceptionally large ears, the kind of ears kids probably teased him about when he was little. They protrude like supersensitive listening devices, making his face seem wider than it is long.”
This kind of descriptive writing, etching character onto physical characteristics, is harder than it appears to be. The one exception to the character-trumps-all rule is “Rhino,” an excerpt taken from a four-part series Bowden wrote about efforts to save the black rhinoceros from extinction. Like the Turkey Day and basketball tryout stories, this one is more of an ensemble piece. However, unlike the other stories, the landscape itself stands forth as a vivid presence in this one:
“The pitted clay gave way to sand that shifted slightly underfoot with each step, slowing them. The patrol climbed down a small embankment to the surface of a dry streambed. Gnarled remains of trees, washed along during the February floods, lay sunbaked and withered on the sand. Dusty air dried our mouths and throats.”
It helps, of course, that around any bend in the trail, Bowden and the antipoaching patrol he accompanies into the Zambian bush are likely to surprise a hippo, a croc, a rhino, or a herd of elephants or Cape buffalo.
The most striking thing about “Road Work” is that the stories grounded in Bowden’s observations of what went on before his eyes are indistinguishable from the scenes he reconstructed from the recollections of others. Indeed, if Bowden didn’t mention his use of reconstruction in some of the head notes, it might not even occur to most readers that he did anything other than describe scenes he had witnessed.
That’s a tribute to Bowden’s skills as a writer and his even more impressive skills as a reporter: Like all the great narrative journalists, Bowden must be a relentless asker of questions, a painstaking gatherer of minute detail. In “Fight to the Finish,” about a man’s losing battle against depression, the main character is so palpably present in the story that it’s astonishing to learn from the head note that Bowden never met him: What he knows about him, he learned from the man’s family and friends, from letters and photographs. The same goes for Bowden’s impressive profile of Saddam Hussein, though here it’s a bit galling to see Bowden, writing a year before the invasion of Iraq, sounding the alarm about Saddam as an imminent threat to the United States.
In “Cops on the Take,” on the other hand, it would be surprising to learn that Bowden did not reconstruct: It’s hard to imagine a reporter being welcomed at a pimp’s meetings with dirty cops or squeezing into a “surveillance hideaway” with two FBI agents. But how, then, does Bowden know so much? The dialogue wasn’t a problem: The FBI agents got the pimp and the police on tape. And certainly Bowden would have visited the restaurants where some of the meetings took place so he could describe the framed prints on the wall to his heart’s content. But can we believe that the pimp recalled for Bowden “the sunny silver sheen” of “steam rising from sewers and manhole lids” as he waited on a street corner to meet the cop he’d have to pay off to stay in business? Or that “fists of gritty air from passing trucks bumped him off balance and steeped him in the stale odor of spent fuel”? This would be one observant sleazeball.
Similar questions arise while reading the irresistibly goofy “The Great Potato Pick-Off Play.” Here, if Bowden claimed to be in on the hidden potato trick from the outset, we would probably take his word for it. But the head note reveals that Bowden read about the stunt on the newswire and “got Bresnahan and his teammates to reconstruct the stunt.” And so when Bowden describes the stadium lights and the sunlight “mingling to create a setting that seemed eerie, unreal” we have to ask if someone provided that description to Bowden or if he visited the stadium at the same time of day as when the pick-off play took place and sketched in the details after the fact.
It is hard to argue with such atmospherics. They add much to a story, and where’s the harm if Bowden spends a March morning on a Philadelphia street corner to get a sense of the look and smell of the air? At the same time, it is important to note that this sort of detail, whether obtained from a keen-eyed source or sketched in later by the writer, represents a significant departure from journalistic practice.
Reporters get their information in three ways: by observing, by interviewing, and by researching documents. All information obtained from human or printed sources is usually attributed to those sources. We can then assume that unattributed information was gathered by the reporter-as-observer.
Not so with narrative journalism. Now the reporter is describing scenes he did not witness and reproducing speech he did not hear without telling the reader how he knows what he knows. Should he? Does anyone other than a spoilsport journalism professor even care?
Perhaps not, but space isn’t quite as precious in a book as it is in the newspaper. When an author is writing head notes anyway, why not include some words about how he got parts of the story—as Bowden did in great detail in his masterpiece of narrative reconstruction, “Black Hawk Down”? Journalism students, a primary audience for a book like “Road Work,” would find such information instructive.
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Well, seeing as there's really nothing to wear out, I can't imagine they're anywhere near the end of their useful life. I'm a reliability engineer in the semiconductor industry, by the way.
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LEAVITT BLOG, DAY THREESUGAR LAND, Texas -
Aeros rookie center and resident comedian Alex Leavitt
has agreed to be a regular contributor to Aeros.com
during training camp. Leavitt was the ECHL’s Rookie of the Year in 2005-06, becoming the first rookie in 15 seasons to lead the league in scoring while helping the Alaska Aces to the Kelly Cup title. Laughs are optional. Aeros.com
introduces day three of the “Leavitt Blog”.
I hear we’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from this blog. Good to hear. Keep it coming.
Yesterday I had a big plan to get a bank account and cell phone, but I went back to the room and went into coma pretty much.
I didn’t get anything done really. What’s that word where you put stuff off…Oh, I’ve been a procrastinator lately to the fullest extent. But if the coaches are reading this, I’m back focusing.
I called my girlfriend for awhile and talked to her. She was in a sweater and sweatpants but right now I don’t care. I kinda’ miss her, too bad she’s back at home.
What else did we do…We went to eat at the steakhouse across the street. It was the best meal I’ve had so far. It was good to get that Alberta style beef taste inside of me.
This morning was the same routine again. I woke up around 7:45, had a really healthy breakfast – a donut. We came to the rink, went through team stretch, which was good, and then the scrimmage was good today.
I played with a bunch of different guys, but mostly with (Matt) Foy. The guy skates about four times faster than I do, so it’s kind of easy when he does all the work and I sit back and he gives me the puck.
I scored a goal. I kept the puck and got it signed by all the guys. It’ll Probably be on E-bay next week for rent money. So look for that on E-bay, it’d be great if the Houston fans could help a guy out.
Even though it’s Friday night, I’ll behave myself to the full extent. We’ll be back at the rink at 9 a.m. Saturday to find out who’s playing in the exhibition games.
So maybe I’ll just go see a movie. I hear that MTV show that they made into a movie with the guys who do crazy things is a real thriller with a good plot. I’m interested to see where those guys are taking their careers. I might pop in and go see that. Other than that, lay how and maybe hit up Hooters again.
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On the night of November 30, Tibetan time, Kunchok Kayab immolated himself in Aba (Tibetan Ngaba) in Western Sichuan. The self-immolations began in Aba back in 2009. Last night's was the 90th since then, and the 28th during the 30 days of November. As is usual, Kunchok Kayab called for the return of the Dalai Lama and freedom for Tibet before setting himself alight. He was appartently still alive when the security forces put him out and took him away. His current status is not known.
Some observations. I think now that we're up to 90 we can confirm that this is an organized campaign ratgher than a contagious expression of existential despair. It's also accelerating, thouhgh it hasn't yet managhed to stimulate wider large scale protests. There have been protests, some quite substantial, but these have been mainly limited to the funerals of those who died. Neither Tibet or the Tibetan parts of China are in widespread revolt.
I think we can also confirm that, contra Chinese allegations, the Dalai Lama is not behind it though as far as I'm aware he has refused, in a spiritual leader capacity, to tell people to stop. If this was a Dalai endorsed, exile led campaign it would have got much more publicity, something the DL is notoriously good at getting.
We also know that this campaign is being carried on in defiance of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile, which has called on the self-immolations to stop. The CTA supports the Dalia Lama's middle way policy of seeking genuine autonomy rather than full independence. Many of the self-immolators have called for full independence as well as the return of the DL.
While the self-immolation campaign is obviously internal to Tibet, and mainly seems to be concentrated in Tibetan China - the old Khampa lands of Cham and Amdo - there is apparently some external support from exiled Tibetan intellectuals, expressed through the Voice of America's Tibetan service. This has in turn generated some conflict between the CTA and the VOA's Tibetan service, as detailed here at the Hindu:
The crux of the dispute lies in the increasing discomfort within the government-in-exile over the self-immolations by Tibetans inside Tibet (almost 80 till the beginning of this week) that has triggered a debate in the exile community about the usefulness of continuing with the Dalai Lama’s middle way approach. Most of those who immolated themselves had been demanding complete independence and the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet. Those opposed to the Dalai Lama’s policy said Mr. Ngabo irked the government-in-exile by encouraging open discussions on various options for Tibet’s future, including outright independence.
His removal was preceded by several interactions between government-in-exile officials and RFA head Libby Liu.
What seems to be happening is that Tibetans opposed to the CTA policy have been making an end run around them using VOA, apparently with some support in the US congress. I have no idea whether anything broadcast on the Tibetan service is actually encouraging the self-immolations. I am reminded a bit here of the performance of the Hungarian service of Radio Free Europe before and during the 1956 revolt, which encouraged a maximal approach to protest while promising help which the US government as a whole had no intention of providing. | <urn:uuid:cc9f4802-0fc3-4dd0-a531-faad4009be32> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2012/12/self-immolation-and-the-middle-way.html | 2016-10-28T17:43:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725451.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00250-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975767 | 708 | [
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
June 9, 1969
U.S.A. ex rel. Rudolph RUFFIN
Vincent R. MANCUSI, Warden, Respondent
The opinion of the court was delivered by: JUDD
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JUDD, District Judge.
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He was sentenced by the Supreme Court, Bronx County, on March 30, 1965 to ten to twenty years imprisonment and is presently incarcerated in Attica State Prison, Attica, New York.
Proper venue for this application lies only in the Western District of New York, where the petitioner is in custody, or in the Southern District, within which the petitioner was convicted and sentenced. 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Enforcement of the venue requirement is particularly appropriate here, since the petition showed that two prior applications have been filed in the Southern District. These are stated to be Docket Numbers 67 Civil 4725 and 68 Civil 2598.
While this court is not the proper District under either alternative of § 2241(d), it has jurisdiction to transfer the proceeding to a proper District. 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). Section 2241(d) may be considered to establish proper venue rather than jurisdiction. Power to transfer does not require even that personal jurisdiction have been obtained. Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman, 369 U.S. 463, 82 S. Ct. 913, 8 L. Ed. 2d 39 (1962). In the present case, service of process has not yet been made, but personal jurisdiction could be obtained here because the respondent is subject to service anywhere within the State of New York. F.R.Civ.P. 4(f). Section 2241(d) merely indicates the District in which the application may be most expeditiously considered. Since this application has been filed in the "wrong" venue, it may be transferred in the interest of justice to one of the Districts in which it could have been brought. Dismissal of the petition would be a "time consuming and justice-defeating" technicality, as the Supreme Court said in Goldlawr (369 U.S. at 467, 82 S. Ct. 913, 8 L. Ed. 2d 39).
The petition is ordered transferred to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Rita M. - posted on 11/10/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )
I'm pretty sure it, but I guess it would also depend on the work, help you get, age of kids, and how understanding/helpful your partner is.
My daughter is 1 month old, and this is my second month in Maternity Leave, now in my job I'm allowed a third month, and I want to take it because I still can't leave her and not start getting anxious as the time flies, how will I manage at work?? Even if it is a part time. I breastfeed but thankfully my Aunt got a friend to lend me her Medela.
Heres another problem...we are tight for money, and my boyfriend has been living with us, and his job totally sucks and no one is really hireing at full time, he has many depts to take care of, and it makes him feel like a good for nothing father, it depresses him that he can't even buy his daughter pampers, soon the water/light bills will be coming and my Mom expects him to help pay...problem is he has nothing! nada! zip! zero! He wishes I wouldn't take the month since I would be working everyday, and I want to help him more than anything, yet he doesnt really understand what it is I'm going through, just like he didn't understand (and I quote:) "Why the F**k are you depressed!!" during my post partum depression.
.I want more than anything to help him since he has helped me a lot, even though he doesnt understand my feelings and mood swings (reason why I searched and found Circle of Moms :D)
His stress is all financial, but to top it all, he hasn't been able to finish collage, for many reasons, including not going to help me with our newborn. Because of that employers wont give him a job. He and I are both in the Culinary Arts industry, many places give chances to students, and he is still a student, but they just won't take him. Another thing depressing him is that TWICE already, he applies for a job, they call, they interview him, everything seems fine, they keep calling preparing him to prepare his papers and just like that, they stop calling. First time was with the office that also controls where I work, of course I didn't tell them he was my spause when refering him, before I knew it a knew worker was next to me, as the days passed I finally got the courage to ask him what he studied, and he said Accounting.....what was he doing in a kitchen? chopping salads? He did everything around the same time as my guy, and he was chosen. And the other happend a few days ago, he applied to a kitchen in a hotel and so did a friend who just graduated high school, first year in collage, both put in their resume at the same time, a day later they called her up, interview and now she has a job in the kitchen, what does she major in? PSYCOLOGY!! And they havn't called him. It's very frustrating and annoying, now he is appling to anything to see if they call him up, and nada still.
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Jobs in Parkland, FL
- 8,577 Jobs Available
- 28,131 Population
- $59,000 Average Salary
The city’s name, Parkland, is quite fitting because it is designed to look and feel much like a park. The city held off on allowing any store or even traffic lights to be added to the city until early in the 2000s in order to keep the park-like feel. The city is part of the Miami-Fort Laderdale- Pompano Beach area. If you are looking for jobs in this area, you will want to be concerned with the job market, including top occupations and the average wage.
The average wage in this area is $925, which is slightly lower than the national average of $1,048. Unemployment is around 5%, which is just below the 5.3% national average. Looking for jobs in Parkland, Florida, you’ll want to take a look at the top industries, which include trade, transportation and utilities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and government. Growth has been seen in all the industries, except government, which saw a very small 0.1% decrease. The top occupations in this area include retail salespersons, customer service representatives, food preparation and serving workers, cashiers and waiters and waitresses.
Writing a good resume is crucial to getting a job. Employers rely on your resume to learn a lot about you, your skills and your experience. You have to make sure it is polished. Here are some tips to get your resume in shape as you hunt for jobs in Parkland, Florida.
1. Always proofread your resume. Running a spell check isn’t enough. You need to read over it to be sure everything makes sense and there are no grammar errors.
2. Get help if you need it. If you don’t know where to start or just need someone to help you proofread, don’t be afraid to ask for help.
3. Use reverse chronological order. Most employers are going to expect your resume to be in reverse chronological order, so avoid any confusion by following this general formatting guideline.
4. Keep your resume under two pages. Ideally, one page will be enough, but two is really the longest you should make it. You want it to be easy to scan and read through.
5. Don’t put references on your resume. If an employer wants references, they will ask for them.
A job hunt anywhere is going to involve a lot of work. Things are no different when you are searching for jobs in Parkland, Florida. You will have to make yourself stand out and find a way to convince employers that you are the right person for the position. Here is some advice to help you with your job search.
1. Consider looking outside your current industry. You likely have skills that will transfer to another industry, so consider an industry that maybe has more jobs available right now. This will open up more jobs and opportunities.
2. Use your network but don’t rely on only them. You should contact everyone you know and get the word out that you are searching for jobs in Parkland, Florida, but you also need to keep looking on your own. Don’t expect other people to do the work for you.
3. Attend job fairs. Job fairs allow you to meet multiple employers at one time. You can fill out applications and sometimes even do interviews.
4. Keep a positive attitude. It can be difficult to job hunt, but you have to stay positive and keep your eyes on the end goal.
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NANAIMO, B.C. — Jayavathana Kuganesan says she will never forget her first day in Canada, which started in 2000 at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on emigrating from Sri Lanka: “There were so many people with different faces, skin colour, hair, clothes and languages.”
For Chris DeBruyne, who came from the Netherlands in 1950, thoughts of what he was leaving were top of mind: “One thinks deeply, leaving everything behind that I treasure … and will I ever see it again?”
They’re among the memories collected in “Canada: Day 1,” which explores newcomers’ experiences on their first day in Canada.
The exhibition — the first travelling show launched by Halifax’s Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 — is being presented at the Nanaimo Museum on Vancouver Island until Sept. 1.
It includes oral histories, archival images and art works, offering visitors a glimpse of the challenges immigrants face in finding their way in a new country, says the museum of immigration.
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With the recent trend towards consolidation, airline alliances have become a useful way to connect route networks. Doug Wint analyzes the pros and cons.
Turkish Airlines has announced it will begin service linking Istanbul with Houston on April 1, 2013 using Boeing 777-300ER jets.
Ethiopian Airlines joins Star Alliance, American Eagle to lay off over 220 employees, FAA approves iPads in the cockpit, and more…
The “Superga Air Disaster” kills the entire Torino AC football team, US Airways joins Star Alliance, EAS Flight 4226 crashes after overshooting a runway and demolishing dozens of buildings, Lunar Orbiter 4 and Magellan space probe launch, Amy Johnson sets another speed record and more!
A collection of this week’s aviation news and odd happenings, including an A380 delivery, passenger escaping from aircraft, Midwest’s last flight, an IL-76 crash, animals attacking airplanes, a man being denied first class upgrade, CO’s first Star Alliance aircraft and more.
Continental’s first jet in Star Alliance colors, a 757-200, entered service last week to celebrate the airline’s entry into the network.
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Why You’re Not Making Any Money Online….
WARNING: This post may be offensive for you…please only read if you have an open mind.
I want to change things up a bit from the usual sales pitches and shiny objects you may be used to seeing and just be brutally honest with those of you who may be totally frustrated by all of the internet business opportunities out there.
I am sick and tired of seeing a new shiny offer every time I open my email and get totally disgusted by this when I think of all the people who will be sucked into another new opportunity to make money only to wind up in the same place they were before just with a little less money they had before it. It’s no wonder that everyone gets so frustrated and exhausted!
I’m here to let you know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel! After all of the frustrations and problems I encountered….I finally started making money online and you can too but you need to change a lot of things when it comes to your attitude!
Also, I am extremely sorry in advance if this post offends you or upsets you in anyway…..I am really just trying to help and just want to see you succeed!
Here’s a few of the main reasons why you are failing to succeed online and what you need to do to fix this….
You Don’t Focus On One Thing and You Give Up Too Soon!
This is one of the most common mistakes that I see other people making when trying to make money from home. You find a business opportunity or a system to follow that will teach you how to make money online but you do not stick with it. You give up after the first couple of months of receiving no results. You don’t follow through the complete training or you skip steps because they involve too much work. You feel as if you’ve been scammed because you should be seeing your first million dollar month after 30 days.
Let’s be honest for a second here….
While, some successes can happen overnight, this is a very unlikely event no matter what anyone or any product tries to tell you. Most any successes people have achieved will have taken a lot of behind the scenes work or even many more failures before they hit success. Some businesses almost exclusively lose money for the first year or so before they get in profit.
IT TAKES TIME TO MAKE MONEY!!
You will never find anything that will make you money without a little time and effort!
It took me close to 3 years before I saw any sales from my internet businesses, I worked and fell for every possible system and scam out there before I learned how to create my own home business and create a sustainable income for my family from home.
If you find a system, you need to give it time to work for you. You need to be constantly learning about everything that you can. Learn how to generate traffic. Learn how to make sales. Learn how to write sales copy. Keep constantly learning and you cannot fail!
You Won’t Spend Any Money
Believe me when I say that this particular failure is a very controversial one to bring up and it may upset many people when I say this but….
YOU NEED TO SPEND MONEY ON YOUR BUSINESS!
There is simply no way around this….in order to create profits and make your life easier, it is necessary to invest in your business. The internet has made life as an independent business person very easy and depending on what business you decide to go with, you can get by starting one with a very low budget.
I am not saying that you need to put up your house and bet everything on your business but you need to come up with a workable budget to commit to your business.
Look, I know that everyone has to struggle sometimes with cash and I know that when I first started I spent every dime I had….Seriously, I lived off Ramen Noodles and Eggs alone for a couple of weeks just so that I could commit more money to my business and change my life for the better.
Never spend more than you can afford but you cannot get around the fact that IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE MONEY!
If you’re really living day to day and check by check then you must find a way to put aside a little bit of money each week until you come up with enough to finance your business! There is always a way!
You’re Looking For a Quick Buck!
I think we all may of at some point fallen for an internet scam at one time or the other. Truth be told, if you’ve been searching for a way to make money online, you’ll have found and fallen for at least one scam that preyed on those looking for an easy dollar.
Let me tell you something right off the bat, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN EFFORTLESS RETURN ON YOUR DOLLAR!
The bread and butter of all the hucksters and scam artists online are the people who are looking for a quick and easy return or a quick fix for making cash…….you will always get scammed in the end if all you are looking for is a short term gain!
You need to be constantly learning new skills and building a long term business. If you are building a business you will be building a long term asset that you can tap into for quick cash whenever you need it. You will never need to be worried about fast returns and quick cash fixes because you have something solid that is always paying you. You can then leverage this asset into even more profits if that is what you wish.
When you look for the quick dollar, you are focusing on the wrong things – you are not building something that’s long term, you are essentially gambling your money and the odds are never in your favor!
So you’ve heard all the reasons why you are failing with your internet business….what can you do next?
If you are a beginner and you want to really learn how to build a long term business then I would highly recommend you take advantage of the Plug In Profit Site system! It’s one of the most straight forward and easy to use systems that will not only build you a long term business, it will give you new skills that you can use and apply in future businesses that you choose to start.
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Government Bid Opportunity
The Regional Contracting Office, National Capital Region, Marine Corps Base Quantico Virginia currently has a requirement for an IDIQ contract for parts needed for repairs of the various rifles belong
Category: 49 - Maintenance and Repair Shop Equipment
To view this Bid we recommend the Federal, State & Local package.
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Wilmington, Delaware (PressExposure) September 10, 2012 -- This session will delve into the new changes made into HIPAA regulations.
HIPAA regulations, the result of the HITECH Act of 2009, now carry many new changes, at least four of which are radically different from existing rules.
Firstly, the role of a Business Associates (BA's) and how they are covered has changed. They are now covered directly under Privacy Rule's use and disclosure limitations and the Security Rule's safeguard provisions, and will be directly responsible for compliance with the regulations.
Secondly, BA's also now have a new definition, and this is explored in this session. Their sub-contractors are also now part of being BA's, and this calls for a new approach on what needs to go into a Business Associate agreement the BA establishes.
Thirdly, the rights of individuals to receive electronic copies and request for certain kinds of information to be withheld have been strengthened and expanded. This calls for a review of existing rules.
Fourthly, since BA's have now emerged as the leading source of health information breaches, they need to implement good practices into their business to avoid penalties.
This webinar will explore each of these sections in detail. Participants will get more clarity on the new changes made to HIPAA, and will have a more thorough knowledge of how to go about.
When: October 11, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
By whom: Jim Sheldon-Dean, founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, will conduct the webinar. Sheldon-Dean provides a vast array of consulting services that benefit healthcare firms situated across the nation. He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup.
The webinar will benefit
o Compliance director
o Privacy Officer
o Security Officer
o Information Systems Manager
o HIPAA Officer
o Chief Information Officer
o Health Information Manager
o Healthcare Counsel/lawyer
o Office Manager
o Contracts Manage
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MOBILE, Alabama - Chickasaw and Satsuma officials said today is a day for the history books.
It's the day the two cities - after months of negotiations - finally got to start their own schools.
"It's done," Chickasaw school board President Bob McFall said after the paperwork to separate from the Mobile County Public School System - representing eight month's worth of negotiations - was signed.
He and Satsuma school board President Linda Robbins smiled and congratulated each other, and members of their school boards applauded.
But about 20 minutes earlier, in the same room of the Mobile County school district's central office, members of the Mobile County school board said it was a sad day. As they voted unanimously to sign the separation agreement, they wished Chickasaw and Satsuma well but said they want to make sure no other cities decide to leave.
Chickasaw and Satsuma have become the second and third cities to split from the state's largest school system, following Saraland.
The two cities still have a lot of work to finish by August, which is when they plan to welcome their own students. That includes hiring superintendents, principals, teachers and other staff; making any needed repairs to facilities; organizing bus routes; and enrolling students.
"We're going to bring our children home," McFall said.
Chickasaw and Satsuma city leaders have said they wanted their children to attend schools within their communities; and they wanted to have more control over how education dollars are spent and their schools are run. The cities have talked of splitting for at least a decade now, with city councils there deciding to go through with it last year.
"Today was very momentous for us," Robbins said. "We're very pleased to be able to celebrate. Our students, our parents, our community has been patient."
All students who live in the two cities will attend schools in their own cities, with just a few exceptions. Juniors will be allowed to remain in Mobile County's high schools until they graduate. And special-education students enrolled at the county's Augusta Evans Special School and the Regional School for the Deaf and Blind can remain, but the city school districts will have to reimburse Mobile County for the cost.
Chickasaw and Satsuma are taking ownership of three school facilities apiece. But Mobile County will be able to lease - by forgiving Chickasaw $100,000 in construction debt - Hamilton Elementary to operate its elementary magnet school for math and science.
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The good news for taxpayers working on their 2011 tax returns is there aren't many major surprises this filing season.
"It's not too significant a year in that there's not a lot of uncertainty," says Mark Luscombe, principal federal tax analyst at CCH in Riverwoods, Ill. The Bush-era tax laws were extended through 2011 and 2012, so taxpayers generally know what to expect when it comes to how much they'll owe.
But just how you get to your final tax bill could be different. Some other tax changes, many slipped into legislation years earlier, are taking effect with 2011 filings. And the Internal Revenue Service has revised or added forms to help it collect what it says we owe.
These tax law changes could help some filers pay a lower tax bill. Or they could cost others a few more tax dollars.
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Kuwait profile - overview
- 3 December 2015
- From the section Middle East
Kuwait is a small, oil-rich country nestling at the top of the Gulf, flanked by large or powerful neighbours - Saudi Arabia to the south, Iraq to the north and Iran to the east.
Its oil fields were first exploited in the 1930s, and since the development of the petroleum industry after World War II and independence in 1961, oil has dominated the economy, making up around 90% of export revenues.
In 1991, the country was the scene of a massive US-led international military campaign to oust Iraqi forces, which had invaded the year before. Operation Desert Storm saw their eventual removal, but Kuwait's infrastructure was left in bad shape and had to be rebuilt. Oil exports stopped for a time.
Twelve years later, Kuwait played host to another massive military presence as thousands of soldiers massed on the Iraqi border for the US-led campaign in 2003 to disarm and oust the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Kuwait was the first Arab country in the Gulf to have an elected parliament. Moves to change the male-dominated political structure culminated in the granting of full political rights to women in 2005.
In May of that year, parliament gave women the right to vote and stand as candidates in elections for the 50-seat National Assembly.
More generally, the growing assertiveness of parliament has led to frequent confrontations with the government, especially after Islamists made major gains at elections in February 2012. The annulment of those elections and subsequent changes to the election law prompted an opposition boycott of fresh polls in December 2012, putting Kuwait's relatively liberal political credentials in doubt.
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Detection thresholds for gaps, overlaps and no-gap-no-overlaps
2011 (English)In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, ISSN 0001-4966, Vol. 130, no 1, 508-513 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Detection thresholds for gaps and overlaps, that is acoustic and perceived silences and stretches of overlapping speech in speaker changes, were determined. Subliminal gaps and overlaps were cate- gorized as no-gap-no-overlaps. The established gap and overlap detection thresholds both corre- sponded to the duration of a long vowel, or about 120 ms. These detection thresholds are valuable for mapping the perceptual speaker change categories gaps, overlaps, and no-gap-no-overlaps into the acoustic domain. Furthermore, the detection thresholds allow generation and understanding of gaps, overlaps, and no-gap-no-overlaps in human-like spoken dialogue systems.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Acoustical Society of America , 2011. Vol. 130, no 1, 508-513 p.
General Language Studies and Linguistics Computer Science
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ProjectsThis work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) project No. 2009-1766 Samtalets rytm (Rhythm in conversation).
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How to Earn Money INSTANTLY From A New E-mail Subscriber (Without Selling to Them)
The old saying goes, “the money is in the list.” Frankly, I’ve gotten sick of hearing that over the years. As someone who has a fairly large e-mail list (around 6,500 subscribers), I make very little money with my e-mail list.
In fact, I may even be losing money with it.
Why do I bother keeping a list? Because the benefits generally extend beyond the money. For example, I was able launch The Daily Interview earlier this year and have instant traffic to it, thanks to my e-mail list. It’s a powerful resource to have.
Today, I’m going to talk about something entirely different – a way to make money from your e-mail list right when someone subscribes, and you don’t even have to sell to them.
How You Can Actually Make Money Instantly From a New E-mail Subscriber
One of the great things about running The Daily Interview is that I get to meet and learn about lots of different internet entrepreneurs. One of these entrepreneurs I interviewed – Tim Bourquin – actually had a product that I could use, and I think just about anyone with an e-mail list could too. (Here’s a link to the interview – it’s actually my most popular interview to date.)
It’s called After Offers.
(This is not an affiliate link, nor am I getting compensated for writing this review.)
The basic premise is this: Someone signs up to your e-mail list, and instead of being directed immediately to your “thank you” page, they are prompted to select free guides that might be interesting to them. These free guides are of course lead magnets for other people’s e-mail lists.
If any products are selected, the information the person input to sign up to your list (usually, name and e-mail address) is passed onto the person whose free guide is being requested, and automatically enrolls in that person’s e-mail list. For each guide that is selected, you get paid.
My Experience with After Offers
So far, I’m very pleased with After Offers, and it’s left me wondering why I didn’t know about anything like this sooner. I know people have been sending their e-mail subscribers to landing pages and other targeted pages (which you can still do with After Offers, after they choose their free guides), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a way to directly monetize your thank you page.
Here’s what it looks like when someone signs up to my e-mail list on My 4-Hour Workweek:
It’s pretty simple. They select guides they want, I get paid per guide they select, and actual owner of the guide gets a new e-mail subscriber.
Setting it up is really easy too. All I had to do was redirect my thank you page to my customized After Offers page (see screenshot below).
This is how it looks set up in my Aweber account. I’m sure you can do the same thing with other e-mail providers as well, as long as they have the ability to pass on subscriber information.
So far, the experience is great. I have After Offers set up both on My 4-Hour Workweek and The Daily Interview, although because My 4-Hour Workweek receives more traffic (and therefore more subscribers on a regular basis), it’s performing a lot better.
Below are my stats for last month (April):
Not bad at all – it basically covers my cost for having Aweber (e-mail marketing tends to get more expensive once your subscriber list reaches a certain point). And May is off to an even better start from what I can tell.
The screenshot above is what you’ll see if you log into your After Offers account – they provide real time tracking of your leads and earnings. Very user friendly. They also provide some analytics, so you can see how many offers a typical subscriber selects, and how your site compares to others in the After Offers network.
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On average, e-mail subscribers select two offers. I’ve been earning $0.50 per offer chosen, which means I probably earn roughly $1 on average from each subscriber that chooses an offer. Again, not bad for simply redirecting my thank you page. It’ll be an easy $40-50 addition to my monthly passive income, and I would expect that to grow once I begin to focus on growing my e-mail list at The Daily Interview.
Is After Offers for You?
There are only a couple drawbacks I can see with After Offers, but ultimately, they aren’t really too negative.
The biggest thing right now is that this may not be for every niche. Currently, I think the offers available are best suited for websites/e-mail lists in the internet marketing or entrepreneurship/business niches. If you run a food blog, you may not be able to use this effectively. I could be wrong about this (perhaps I’m only seeing the offers that are relevant to my sites), but I believe this to be true.
With that said, I think this is a temporary situation. After Offers is a relatively new service, and as they continue to grow, I’m sure they will cater to wider audiences.
The only other negative point is that it’s not currently open for everyone to join. You must fill out a form, and be invited into the program. Honestly though, they are very quick to work with, and I’m confident that if you have a website or blog that fits with their advertisers, you will be up and running in no time. At the end of the day, this is probably a positive thing because it maintains the quality of their service and keeps advertisers happy.
If you want to give it a shot, check out After Offers here.
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'The Unit' Takes Over CSI's Old StudioBy Carolina
August 12, 2005 - 10:51 PM
Santa Clarita film office head Jason Crawford can finally relax: he's found a new show willing to take over the studios vacated by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation when, after five seasons, it shifted production to Universal City.
Back in May, Crawford expressed his disappointment at learning the original CSI show would be leaving Santa Clarita so it could film on a big studio lot, rather than the relatively small studio complex which it had used since the first season. Local business owners feared a loss of film-related revenues, but now Crawford has been able to entice CBS to film its new drama series The Unit in the old CSI studios. "The city worked with Santa Clarita Studios to find and bring up the show," Crawford told the Los Angeles Daily News.
The Unit is a drama series revolving around a covert team of special forces operatives who risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe. The show was picked up by CBS for midseason, meaning that if any of the network's new fall shows fails to win over an audience, The Unit will be put into its place. Besides 24's Dennis Haybert, Felicity's Scott Foley and Angel's Amy Acker, The Unit also stars two CSI alumni: Max Martini, who played Bob Keaton in three episodes of CSI: Miami, and Michael Irby, who appeared as Ignacio Paez in Miami's "Breathless" and as Eduardo in CSI: New York's "Night, Mother."
Santa Clarita isn't merely providing studio and office space for The Unit, as the city's surroundings will be used to portray the many foreign countries to which the series' military agents will travel. "Santa Clarita has a mix of the residential city life location, as well as the undeveloped hillsides that they need for the action," Crawford said. In fact, Santa Clarita is so versatile that CSI will continue to shoot some of its outdoor scenes there, even after moving to Universal City for its indoor shooting -- Crawford revealed that last week, CSI came to Santa Clarita again to film the trailer park explosion with which this year's season premiere begins.
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Spotlight on Young People's Achievements in National Youth Music Week
Youth Music Week in the Humber Region focuses on Afro- Rock
Photo/Broadcast Opportunity: Friday 31 October, 2pm at the Albemarle Music Centre, Ferensway Hull HU2 8LN. Young people from around the Humber Region who have taken part in music workshops during National Youth Music Week will be showcasing their achievements.
During the October half term, 100 teenagers from the Humber Region are taking part in a series of Afro Rock music workshops, inspired by a recent project with the world music band Etran Finatawa who appeared at this year's highly successful Musicport Festival in Bridlington.
These activities will be run by Music4U - the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone - and BBC Blast,as part of the National Youth Music Week celebrations organised annually by Youth Music to celebrate music of all kinds.
The band members from Niger worked with GCSE and 'A' level school children from Headlands Secondary School in Bridlington and Music4U's community musicians to learn African singing rhythms, drumming and guitar playing and gave the young people the chance to perform live on stage with them at Musicport.
Now Music4U's community musicians Lisa Oliver, Carol Dawson and Donna Smith will take what they learnt from these talented musicians and teach these new Afro Rock rhythms to young people in the region. Carol Dawson added that it had been a fantastic learning experience for the community musicians as well and they were now looking forward to sharing this knowledge. She elaborated: "The Niger musicians have given us a wealth of experience to pass on to young people in the region. The music is really so accessible and the rhythms so captivating, it will be very easy for everyone to join in regardless of their experience."
There will be four workshops next week - one in Hull, Scunthorpe. Bridlington and Grimsby and at the end of the week all the teenagers who have taken part will join together on Friday (31 Oct) at the Albemarle Centre in Hull where they will rehearse and then perform a concert for family and friends. They will also have opportunity to load their music, video and lyrics onto the BBC Blast website at www.bbc.co.uk/blast where their work can be listened to by thousands of other young people around the country. The website is also a useful resource for young people with lots of tips and tools covering a range of commonly asked questions ranging from how to put sound insulation in home studio through to what to you need to know when hiring a PA for a gig.
These activities will be run by Music4U - the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone - and BBC Blast, as part of the National Youth Music Week celebrations organised annually by Youth Music to celebrate music of all kinds.
Delma Tomlin, Music4U's Director added: "This is another fantastic for young people in the region to make music. We have been very lucky to work alongside the world music musicians Etran Finatawa who have
clearly inspired our community musicians and the young people. We have to thanks them for creating such a great musical legacy in our region by giving us the opportunity to find out first hand about their music and culture. It is a huge privilege to able to pass this knowledge and experience on to other young people in the region."
Other activities happening in Youth Music Week in the region include a Teenage Kicks: Under 16's Night Wednesday 29 October from 6pm - 9.30pm at Trin Youth Centre in Cleethorpes) organised by Richard Tipple, one of Music4U's young ambassadors and supported by North East Lincolnshire Council. This event features local young people and professional DJs, rappers and MCs including SOULBRUVA, DAVE CURTIS, Mike Society, NAYF RYDER, DJ TipZtaR[MC]. Tickets priced £2 are available from Trin Youth Club in advance on 01472 500029 or on the door.
Music4U is co-ordinated by the National Centre for Early Music who work in partnership with the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Councils and supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. More information about Music4U and the BBC Blast workshops can be found on the website at www.humber-music4u.com or on myspace at www.myspace.com/music4uhumber. Further information about Youth Music Week can be found at: www.youthmusic.org.uk
Press Contact: Shona Galletly on 07813 796 733 / 0113 255 1308
E Mail: [email protected]
Web Address: www.humber-music4u.com
Music4U is the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone. Music4U is co-ordinated by the National Centre for Early Music working in partnership with the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Councils. The Action Zones have been instigated and funded by Youth Music and are supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. More info is available at www.humber-music4u.com
BBC Blast is a BBC initiative which encourages, inspires and supports 13 to 19 year olds throughout the UK to get creative. It helps young people develop their skills and turn their ideas for art, dance, film, music, writing and games in to a reality. Their website is packed with opportunities to upload content, receive on-line tutorials and a wealth of accessible information www.bbc.co.uk/blast
Youth Music Week - is an annual event in the October half term holidays run by Youth Music. More information is available at www.youthmusicweek.org.uk
Etran Finatawa - Among the grasslands of the Sahel and the shifting sand dunes of the Sahara desert, two legendary nomadic peoples, the Wodaabe and Tuareg, are joined together through the raunchy guitars, camel-gait percussion and haunting voices of Etran Finatawa. Reflecting on their roots and with a nostalgia and warmth that mirrors the majesty of their desert home, these six musicians have toured constantly all over the World since the release of their BBC Award-nominated first album in 2006. The latest album Desert Crossroads, received excellent reviews in the national press. More information is available at: www.etranfinatawa.com and www.myspace.com/etranfinatawa | <urn:uuid:d65b4c43-b5c9-4a09-8699-0ae0c1a06299> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://ncem.co.uk/?idno=299%20title= | 2016-10-28T21:37:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00116-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947906 | 1,365 | [
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Part of the Penguin Great Loves series
Alone in his room in a dirty Berlin pension, Ganin reminisces about Mary, his first love.
He fantasizes that a fellow lodger's wife, due to arrive the next day, is his long-lost sweetheart and plots how they will run away together, leaving everything else far behind ...United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds.
Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date: 02/08/2007
- Category: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- ISBN: 9780141032900
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Review by TPauSilver
Mary is the story of Ganin, a Russian living in Germany after being exiled from Russia, as he remembers his love affair with Mary and waits to see her again soon. Mary is a lovely book. While the langauge isn't as bautiful as you might expect from some other Nabrokov book (*cough Lolita cough*) it's still intrieguing and compelling. Mary is a quiet book. It doesn't deal with big events or even big ideas buta more quiet kind of event. It's about a lot of things. It's about love and memory and the different kind of things we can love in different ways. It's about being away from your home but still loving it, it's about futility and hope. Not a lot happens in this book but it isn't about things happening, it's about the inner voyage of the main character and the ending is simply lovely. It's subtle and moving and though I didn't engage with it deeply as I read I found myself days after sat thinking about it, about the idea and meanings and messages, which is surely the sign of a truly worthwhile book. | <urn:uuid:dd77a4a4-1db7-4330-838a-a452c86788ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Vladimir-Nabokov/Mary/357739 | 2016-10-28T21:40:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00116-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954264 | 464 | [
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One in 2000
by Ajae Clearway
Every parent-to-be hopes for a "perfect" baby, but what does that actually mean? Every newborn is different, but some of those differences are scarier to parents than others. Each year an estimated one in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female with what is known as an intersex condition. It's a situation that's hard to talk about; it challenges our preconceptions about how things are "supposed" to be.
This provocative documentary demystifies the issue of sexual difference. At a time when five babies a day in the United States are having "gender reassignment" surgery, it argues that there is little evidence that such surgery is beneficial to the child. The program profiles several people born with ambiguous sexual anatomy, who have managed to deal with some very difficult family and social issues, but today are living "ordinary" and productive lives. It also includes a young mother who is matter-of-factly creating the conditions for her intersex baby to do the same.
Interweaving their stories with educational films from the 1950's, One in 2000 invites us to take a serious second look at how the media have dealt with sexual "normality." It will be an invaluable tool for educating and sensitizing parents, young people and many in the medical community as well.
Purchase $225.00 DVD
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One in 2000 demonstrates that the umbrella term "intersex" covers a huge range of bodies and experiences. It shows that truly effective care for intersex people means recognizing that there are many paths to health and happiness, and that the real experts are the people themselves. The program should be required viewing for every doctor, advocate, and academic dealing with this issue. Thea Hillman, Intersex Advocate; Author of For Lack of a Better Word; Former Board Chair, Intersex Society of North America
Awards & Conference Screenings
Cine Golden Eagle Award
Director's Citation, Honorable Mention, Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Bronze Award, Columbus International Film/Video Festival
Platinum Remi Award, WORLDFEST
Programmer's Choice Award, Cinematexas
Best Documentary, University Film & Video Association
Nextframe Traveling International Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Big Muddy Film Festival
Chicago Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
Silver Award, Patient Education, National Health Information Awards
Western Psychological Association
National Women's Studies Assocition,
2008 Film/Video Series
American Psychological Association
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Measuring Up: Should prenatal genetic testing determine who is to be born? Families who have had children with serious genetic conditions discuss their own choices, with commentary by several bioethicists and genetic scientists.
The Good Egg: Becoming a paid egg donor: it started as a way to finance her first film, but became an engaging journey through some of the personal and ethical realities of today's reproductive technology.
First Do No Harm: 'Intersex' describes conditions in which a person is born with mixed or ambiguous sexual anatomy. This video argues for a new understanding of this condition and for a new, patient-centered standard of care.
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What is it about working in the food service industry that makes transvestites so angry, uptight and aggressive? In most other aspects of daily life, cross-dressing men seem to be the life of the party; for instance, stick ‘em in a pair of sparkly, pink-sequinned, eight inch heels, pack ‘em on a bus and send ‘em into the Australian outback and they’re everyone’s heroes; wrap ‘em in a powder-blue feather boa and send ‘em out on a carnival float and the crowds will flock for miles to see their happy grins; or simply whack a diamante g-string and a fruit-laden headdress on ‘em and watch Australian bogans on bucks’ weekends in Bangkok descend upon their lively floorshows like shit-hungry flies to exchange clumsy homophobic slurs for witty, gregarious taunts delivered with a flirtatious wink and a quiver of a massive Adam’s apple.
But what is it about dressing transvestites in civvies and standing them out front-of-house in classy restaurants and eateries that makes them so friggin’ surly and offensive?
My first experience with a grumpy transvestite waiter/ess was many years ago while working as a lowly volunteer in wonderful Samoa. In those days, Apia wasn’t quite the bastion of fine dining it pretends to be today, but even then, with the right financial backing, one could aspire to some quality fare in either one of the two-and-a-half star hotels overlooking the harbour.
I can’t quite remember what the occasion was that saw the yet-to-be-Mrs Donkey and I deciding to splurge three week’s pay on a slap-up, pool side lunch, but it was with great excitement and culinary anticipation that we found ourselves deliberating at length over what seemed to us to be an extraordinarily diverse menu. In reality the selection probably wasn’t all that spectacular given that on this occasion I opted for a BLT, and I was already salivating like Pavlov’s dogs the day the dinner bell got back from the repair shop when the grotesque fa’afafine waiter/ess finally condescended to lift her enormous muli off her groaning stool and to waddle over to take down our order (which she did with a frosty scowl and neither small talk of her own, nor acknowledgement of ours).
An age later, we were alerted to her return by the air of inky black storm clouds her demeanour impressed upon the atmosphere, and despite the warning, we both jumped with fright as two catering-strength crockery plates angrily crashed onto the glass table top.
Immediately I noticed that my BLT had lost some ‘L’ along the way, that its ‘T’ had been replaced with orange processed cheese and that the ‘B’ had morphed into a thick slice of Spam. I turned to my happy waiter/ess to alert her to the mistake, only to discover that her massive behind was already thumping off into the distance to get as far away from anything resembling a customer as possible.
After some minutes of mundane deliberations with Mrs D about whether I should alert the surly old cow to the mistake or just to ‘suck it up’ and eat the congealing mess before me so as not to offend, I finally decided, in recognition of the cost and excitement of the occasion, to stick to my guns and ask for my BLT. I strode purposefully across the concourse to find our congenial Miss, who barely listened to my complaint before dismissing it with an offhand, yet aggressive, “You ordered a cheese and ham sandwich”.
At this I nearly choked on the angry sobs leaping to my throat, but I reined-in my fury by firmly assuring her that I certainly did not, and heaved against her anchoring bulk to drag her over to inspect my soggy meal as some kind of proof that I would never have ordered such a mess. Firmly, and with no small hint of steel, I demand she take the dish back, and return with my “Bee-Elle-Tea!”.
Perhaps sensing that my levels of anger and aggression were approaching her own, she tried one more sly parry to ward off the exertion of having to walk the full ten metres back to the kitchen. “Well who’s going to eat this, then?”, she spat, to which I finally lost all composure, “I don’t care … why don’t you eat it?”. And she literally stamped her massive hoof in anger as she ungraciously snatched my plate off the table (sending a congealing glob of orange cheese across the condiments and onto Mrs Donkey’s glasses) and tut-tutted off to the kitchen.
After what seemed many hours, my BLT finally arrived and was smashed onto the table in front of me with a thundery stare that made it all too clear what sort of response I’d receive if I dared any further exchange on the issue of my meal. I shouldn’t have been surprised to discover that while lettuce and tomato were now present on my plate, the ‘B’ remained a thick slice of Spam with curious orange butter-knife striations along its surface.
Upon our exit, our wonderful hostess mumbled one last grumpy remark regarding our failure to leave a tip … I wish I’d thought to retort that an untouched BLT was more tip than she deserved … but I’m no Oscar Wilde.
Jump ahead 12 years, and the culinary delights of sunny Port Vila, with its French-inspired cuisine and bustling tourist traffic, is bound to entice. But there comes a time when even Donkey can have too much of a good thing, and after 10 weeks straight of eating lunches of Vanuatu beef sautéed in butter and drowned in blue cheese sauce, I was looking for something a little … less heavy.
So I wandered along to the most popular patisserie in town and stood for an agonisingly long time to be noticed by the surly maître’ d, who when he eventually turned his heavily-shadowed lids in my direction, gave me an unimpressed once-over and simply walked-off towards an empty table. Upon reaching his destination, he turned and fixed me a filthy stare in reprimand for my failure to follow, and as I clumsily closed the space between us, he had already slapped the menu down on the table and disappeared.
Menu read and decision-made in 1 minute and 17 seconds … waited to place order with angry transvestite waiter for well over 7 minutes (he only consenting to leave his podium when I stood up and waved him over). He managed to take my order without ejecting upon me the bile that my presence seem to be generating in his throat, but I waited for almost an hour for my sandwich to arrive. When it did, it was delivered to my table with all the aggression and clattering pomp that only seven years of study at the Pacific Regional Hospitality Training College for Surly, Disgruntled Transsexuals can instil.
Owing to the lack of choice for reasonable lunch options in the town, I have become exposed to this waiter’s angry countenance at least twice a week, and I run into him in the town at least every couple of days, yet despite my attempts at jovial exchange, his demeanour remains unhappy, unimpressed and decidedly unfriendly.
These are just two examples of grumpy transvestite waiting staff I have encountered throughout the world. There have been others; the grimacing burger flipper at the Elwood Fish ‘n’ Chip shop, the huge café proprietor in Kolkata who unashamedly serves up whatever she wants to timid, pasty backpackers, regardless of their order, or the young transvestite working at the Phuket eatery who simply refuses to wait on any white male unless he is quite openly gay. This is not Donkey’s imagination, nor is it some kind of homophobic slur … I am just surprised that these lady boys bother with food service when it quite clearly doesn’t agree with them. Let’s face it, there’s nothing glamorous about serving sandwiches to upstart white tourists with too much money, but surely there are other jobs they could be doing? Alternatively, if transvestite waiting staff by day decided to lend their night-time, floorshow flare to the taking-down of sandwich orders, they may just receive more of a smile and an equally affable tip at meal’s end.
Of course, there is every chance that the demeanour of these transvestite waiters is just a reaction to me. My friend Brad once told me that I am way too butch to be an attractive option for a gay man … maybe my attempts at friendliness with gay waiting staff are mistaken for overtures, and like a heterosexual male bogan from Ipswich receiving unwanted approaches from a drunken, ugly broad while he’s trying to watch the rugby league game, their response is one of aggressive rejection.
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Psalm 139:23 - Search me, God, and know my heart
By Lewis Satini On August 14, 2017
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Though most sexual harassment cases involve a male superior and a female subordinate, the most recent case out of Sacramento involves two females. A utilities employee in Sacramento, Jewel Mason, recently filed a sexual harassment claim against Elsie Fong, her female supervisor and Program Manager. According to the claim, Fong created a sexually hostile environment for two years. When the plaintiff complained about the sexual harassment she was experiencing, she claims she was denied a permanent position in the department as retaliation.
Fong allegedly contributed to a sexually hostile work environment by wearing excessively provocative clothing, purposely displaying her undergarments, complimenting Mason's appearance, asking Mason personal questions about her life, intimately hugging Mason, and repeatedly directing sexual behavior towards Mason. The plaintiff also claims that Fong told her the job benefits were contingent upon Mason submitting to sexual acts.
In March of 2014, Mason made a complaint to Fong’s superiors. Though the harassment improved for a few weeks, the plaintiff claims Fong took away two of her paid vacation days around this time. Fong was also overhead admitting as well as bragging about the harassment allegations. In October 2014, Mason made a formal discrimination claim against Fong with the EEOC. Though Fong was moved from the city’s utilities department, Mike Malone, another manager, retaliated against the plaintiff. Not only did Malone also harass Mason, but he also reduced her job responsibilities. The plaintiff believes that she was denied a permanent position as well as a parking spot because of her complaint to the EEOC.
This is the third sexual harassment claim the city has seen in the last few months. The first was a claim against Mayor Kevin Johnson that was thrown out in May. The second claim comes from a former staff member of city councilman Alan Warren. Warren was allegedly using his authority to coerce subordinates into sexual acts. When the staff member refused to continue the sexual relationship, he fired her.
Do you think these women are actually being sexual harassed or do you think it is an example of following the trend?
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Preparing for a New Dog
When a new dog is set to join a family, there are some important equipment and supplies necessary for ease of managing the pet. If you are a new dog owner, you can look forward to many years of a fun, and a loving relationship with the new companion. Before bringing it home, it’s a good idea to visit a nearby pet shop and buy all these necessities to avoid making trips to the store when the canine has arrived home. These supplies will ensure you keep the canine happy, content, and healthy. Here are some of the essential supplies to keep ready and how important they are for your dog.
A Quality Dog Collar
Using the right collar as you go out for a walk with your pet can be enjoyable, however, using the wrong equipment can be a nightmare for you. It is an everyday safety items that is subject to tear and wear just like your clothing. Depending on your dog breed, size and your needs, there are a variety of collar types.
– Leather Collar: the classic leather dog collar is a favorite of many dog owners due to its durable natural material that does not irritate the animal. With the correct treatment, the leather collar can withstand moisture for years. They are comfortable for the canine and preferable for the dog with sensitive skin. Buying good high quality leather dog collars is an investment that will last for many years.
– Flat and Rolled Collars: this type of collar is great for attaching the tags and ID and are comfortable enough.
– Nylon Collar: these are the most popular collar due to the durability and water handling abilities. Cleaning a nylon dog collar is very easy, and they are less expensive. You can get them in almost every color and print and can be adjusted. You can get a decorated collar for a fancy looking pet.
– Plastic Collar: a collar can be made of plastic or made of another material then coated with plastic for added aesthetics and protection. They are cheap and are made with fun featuring all sorts of designs. Plastic collars are really inexpensive and are mostly used for decorative purposes. The plastic-coated nylon collar is stronger and well protected. They are also very easy to clean.
– Spiked Collar: this type of collar is designed to protect your canine from attacks from other dogs and wild animals and target the neck area to subdue. Most people, however, like the spike because of how great it looks on larger dogs, especially pit bulls. Spiked dog collars also make it more difficult for strangers to grab the dog by the collar.
– Custom-made Collars: now days, you can order custom-made collars handmade from a wide variety of materials. You have the option to choose the thickness, size, and inclusion into the collar. Custom made dog collars will be expensive, and it will take some time for the collar to be made. Some of the highest quality custom personalized dog collars are made by Yippr Pet Supplies
– Choke Chain: like the name implies, this dog collar is made of chain links and features no stop in it meaning the more pressure exerted, the tighter it gets on the dog’s neck. It can be very effective if used correctly; otherwise, you will injure or kill the pet.
– Martingale Collar: this type of collar is a hybrid between a regular and check chain collar. It is suitable or a canine whose head is smaller than the neck. It tightens when pressure is applied from the leash, therefore, giving negative feedback, so it does not remove the collar. It is not as harsh as the choke chain.
– Padded Collar: this can be made of any material but padded on the inside for additional comfort to the neck of the canine. Quality padded dog collars made of leather should last for years.
– LED Collars: a led lighted dog collar is popular for two reasons. If you like walking or letting your dog out to play at night, you will enjoy the safety feature of the led collar. Additionally, if you like glamor on your pet, then this collar suits you. The lights are placed inside the material for added beauty. A nice quality led dog collar will help keep your pet safe and visible to motorists, bicyclists and other pedestrians during low light hours.
A dog leash plays a very important role in your relationship with the dog. It provides both comfort and safety when you are out for a walk and provides your dog with great freedom especially the longer leash. There are two types of leashes: There are many styles of leashes available. People that walk their dogs in the early morning or evening really like a LED Dog Leash because it increases visibility of their pet. One of the long favorites has been a good Leather Dog Leash simply because they are very strong and last for a very long time.
– Standard leash: this type is made in a variety of material including nylon and leather and can be bought in varying lengths and widths. You can get a leash made of reflective fabric, or led collars are available for maximum safety.
– Retractable leash: this feature thick plastic grip that releases a thin nylon cord operating like a measuring tape.
Equipping your dog with a visible id tag is vital, especially if your pet gets lost. You can be contacted easily, or the dog can be taken back home since the tag can include the dog’s name, your contact information, and home address. However, the collar and id tags can come off since they are not foolproof. This calls for a backup in the form of a microchip. They are inserted under the skin to make it easy to identify the pet details and reunite it with the owner or even acquire its medical information.
Bed and Shelter
Even your dog needs a comfortable place to sleep. A warm place to sleep at night gives you dog a sense of security. Your canine companion also needs a comfortable bed sized depending on its size and breed. It is best to buy a bed made of a natural material with non-skid bottom. The covers should be removable and machine washable to make it easy to clean regularly.
If your dog will be staying outdoors, then you need to buy or build it a spacious, safe shelter. This keeps out the weather and provides a sense of ownership to the dog. This is a place it can keep its toys and spend its day and night without disturbance.
Food & Water Bowls
The three most common material used for dog’s food and water bowls are plastic, ceramic and stainless steel. The choice you make will depend on their features and your budget. Plastic is durable, but if the dog chews on the bowl, then this material is not the best for it since the ingested plastic can be harmful. Ceramic, on the other hand, is very stable especially if the canine likes pushing its bowl after eating. They are however porous meaning you have to clean it daily. Stainless steel is the best choice recommended by vets since it is easy to clean and sanitize. They are very durable, and if it has a rubber bottom base, the bowl cannot easily slide on the floor.
You need grooming tools if you are to keep a dog. The grooming activity serves as a bonding experience with your pet as it is pleasurable to the dog. Items like bristle brushes, wire-pin brushes, slicker brushes, and de-shedder are all necessary for different purposes which are all enjoyable to the pet. You need to choose the right brush for each fur type or dog breed and use shampoo and conditioner specially formulated for the dog.
Bring fun to the life of your new dog with plenty of toys including chew and squeaky things. These will help keep it mentally active as well as physically involved as it relaxes in its shelter or corner. These helps channel its excess energy, so it does not get into destructive behavior. Consider buying food-dispensing toys, tug toys, fetch toys and chew toys among much more. | <urn:uuid:7f1507b4-d944-4dbb-a1f6-a68e543598a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.porta-us.com/ | 2017-11-22T10:39:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806569.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122103526-20171122123526-00682.warc.gz | en | 0.958445 | 1,649 | [
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With more stringent mortgage lending regulations these days, many adult children may look to their parents as lenders when they seek to borrow money for a house or other large purchase.
For parents, an intra-family loan can offer an opportunity to transfer assets, earn interest, and avoid triggering a gift tax.
If a family loan is structured properly, there are no gift tax or estate tax implications and families can still make use of the $14,000 annual gift tax exclusion and the lifetime combined exclusion of $5.43 million for gifts and estates.
Most investors may not be aware of the tax laws regarding these loans. A 2012 survey found 64% of those polled age 45 and older were “not at all familiar” with regulations requiring lenders to report earned interest income from certain loans.
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The lender must charge an interest rate based on prevailing IRS guidelines. Each month the IRS publishes the Applicable Federal Rates (AFRs) for loans of different maturities including short term (0–3 years), mid term (3–9 years), and long term (9 years or more). The lender can charge a higher interest rate, but he or she cannot charge a rate that is lower than the prevailing AFR or the IRS will consider the loan to be a gift.
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For the past couple of years we’ve been using our traditional children’s slot in church to run a series called ‘50 Christians’, giving a very brief biography and point of application for 50 significant Christians down the ages. I found the confidence to tackle church history from the What’s in the Bible series which is not afraid to teach church history to kids.
We backed up the series with a set of 50 baseball–type cards, each carrying a picture and some biographical detail. We had them printed as a set of business cards and encouraged the kids (and adults!) to collect the set. It was slightly amateurish as these things always are, but a really good use of the time in a church service to teach both children and adults the value of church history without getting into dry and dusty detail.
I’m glad to see the idea done well – better in fact than we ever did it – as a superb book by Clare Heath–Whyte and a matching set of cards with fantastic illustrations from Jenny Brake. Why not think about using these to do something similar to us? Clare’s book gives you the script and the teaching points, then the church could invest in enough sets so that kids can collect one each week. They will love it and learn as they go. Even adults might learn a thing or two. We had kids in our church buy albums to keep their collections and ask for missing cards when they were away. You could follow a similar pattern.
I’ve long been a little sceptical about kids’ slots in church: if kids are taught well in Sunday School I fail to see what value the talk adds other than giving a church member something else to prepare. Moreover, they often reflect the inability of a service leader to know how to lead a service so that it serves all the congregation, including kids. But that rant aside, here is a very useful way to use that five–minute slot that will do precisely what is needed – it really will make a difference and do something that is not being done elsewhere. It would be ironic indeed if the way for adults to appreciate church history was through the kids’ enthusiasm. But why not?
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The course consisted of 3 sections, with the Half Marathoners and Marathoners all starting out together on the Track.
The first section wound around Kenyon College, and put you on to the Kokosing Trail (to the right) for an out-and-back section. On the way back, the Half Marathoners would turn left to the college to finish on the Track, while the Marathoners continue straight on the Trail for another 7 miles or so before turning around and heading back to finish.
Nancy, Ty (her son) and Leopold (my son) were set to run the Half. Nancy's sister, Christy, was going to cheer them on as they left the collegel, so she'd be seeing them twice. Then, after they finished, they would all go to a point further down on the trail to cheer me on (again, I should see them twice as this was another out-and-back section).
So, we're off and running. It was supposed to be rainy, but it was sunny and warm. The first section of about 4-5 miles was very hilly. As we left the Track for the first hill, I was reminded of H.S. Cross Country, as the courses are usually at a school. And usually head out to a very big hill. What I'm trying to say here is that the first hill was THAT big.
It was pretty crowded once we hit the little walking path that intersected the college, and it seemed that no one knew how to run single file. I encountered group after group of 4-5 side by side runners. It was a little frustrating, but didn't last too long. This whole first section was just nerve wracking in that I could not establish any kind of groove. My pace was all over the place.
Finally, we left the hills, and I said good-bye to 10:35's followed by 8:40's kind of pacing. We made our way to the nice flat, Kokosing Trail. We took a right onto the Trail for the first out-and-back portion. It was warm and humid, and I had already adjusted to my 'B" goal of 4:05, but was leaving room to adjust it back to sub-4 if I could. At the intersection of 229 and the Trail, I did not see Christy as I expected to.
About a mile further down, I began noticing my left hip was getting a nagging sore feeling. Half a mile later, my right knee began emitting a sharp pain directly in the center of my knee cap. It panicked me a little, because I have never had knee pain in my life. I was wondering if this was just one of those weird "phantom pains" you sometimes get in a race, and I was hoping it would disappear as suddenly as it came on. I was not so lucky.
My First DNF
This right-knee/ left-hip pain continued to worsen steadily, to the point I knew I was dealing with a serious issue. The Trail seemed to have a slant to it, which must have been causing these pains to set in. However, with runners on both directions of the trail, I could not run on the other side where I could get off the slope. Long story short, I made the decision to DNF at mile 10, as the knee pain seemed like an injury in the making. Oddly enough, I felt fine with this decision. I was looking forward to seeing Nancy, Ty and Leopold, and cheering them on.
I met up with them at their Mile 8 (my Mile 10, as the turn around was at Mile 9) and told them the story. The crowds were much thinner now, so I could find the even surface on the Trail, and the knee pain immediately went away. The boys were doing 3 minutes of running followed by 1 minutes of walking, so I stayed with them and was having a really fun time. Nancy told us to go ahead, as she thought maybe the boys were staying with her and could do better.
A New Plan
At around Mile 12, Ty took off and I think he ran the rest of the way in without stopping. At this point, Leopold said he wanted to keep going and finish the whole thing*. After much discussion, I was assured he could do it, and thought he should be given the chance. I agreed to go with him, and I suggested he scale down to a 2:1 run/walk ratio. We passed the turn off for the Half at about 2:35, and switched race numbers.
Leopold was really enjoying things, and was basking in the recognition and cheers he was getting from the oncoming runners. We weren't talking much but he seemed to be in good spirits. As for myself, I was beginning to be aware that you use different muscles when alternating running and walking, and my legs were feeling thrashed. The hip was noticably present, but no knee pain at all.
I noticed the first change in Leopold starting in to Mile 17. Whereas he had remained relatively silent for the previous miles, now, when I shouted encouragement to other runners, he began to say things like, "Stop doing that. You should tell them they're doing BAD. Tell them to just drop out." Aha! My little cherub has hit the grumpiness stage (labor's equivalent of "transition"). How cute! I flagged down an aid on a bike, got an extra couple of Gels and a granola bar. (Thank you "Michelle who works at Kenyon College"!!).
It was also around this time that I was pretty sure I saw AZ, which put him at about Mile 20-21. AZ is much taller than I thought! He looked strong at this point- he was not loving it, but definitely getting it done. (Later, when we were at Mile 21, I'd think of him again. The flat, monotonous trail really, really gets to you).
Mile 19 - The final turn around
We finally hit the last turn around at Mile 19. Leopold seemed to be fine, but he later told me this was the hardest part for him. He realized he had to make it all the way back at this point, and he was really discouraged. We slowed quite a bit, and it began to be harder and harder to start running again each time the watched beeped at us.
Mile 20 -21
Mile 20 -21
The monotony really set in here. The Trail was so flat, we began to both have weird halucinations. If you looked at the trail just right, it would seem to move in a really weird way. Sometimes elongating, sometimes appearing to move closer. I have to say, I was a little concerned, and suggested we stop trying to see the road "move". It was hot, and we had just hit a patch of wind. Now, suddenly, the road was moving, there was thunder, and I swore I saw lightning. We had just had several episodes of furious rain that lasted mere seconds before suddenly stopping. Famine and locusts could not be too far off.
Soon, more aids on bicycles came by and told us there was going to be a cart coming by to pick us up as it was now RED conditions for the course due to lightning. They told us that if we had any metal in our pockets, etc. we should dump it and come back for it later. I think Leopold laughed, as he said, "Dude. You know you're on a metal bike, right?" The (metal) cart that eventually came by didn't even bother stopping as the bicyclists surely warned them Leopold may be armed and dangerous. Mentally incapacitated at the very least.
It was getting pretty hard to keep going. (That's one of those statements that non-marathoners read and it means nothing to them. Well, I'm not talking to those people. You guys know how hard these miles were). We were running 1 minute, walking 1 minute, and it was torture. Leopold had descended into a 'marathon shuffle'. He said nothing hurt, except his feet. They felt as if they were being pounded to death. He was past insults. He was pleading for a quick death.
A plane went by overhead. It looked like a military something or other. He looked up into the sky and begged, "Kill me! Please!!"
Miles 24_ 26.2
I honestly don't remember getting to Mile 26. It was just suddenly there. The college was on our right and you could see the Track. We were nervous,because we had never seen Christy, and had no idea if they were waiting, or what had happened. It was coming up to 6 hours that Leopold had been at it. We were both exhausted. Yet, Leopold hit the Track and ran the whole way in.
Final time: 6:23. (A 5:05 age-equivalent adjusted marathon).
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There are moments when small things go wrong on the boat.
There are moments, too, when you look at the weather and the seas and you say, to no one in particular, No, not today, and your boat stays where she is. I have met boats that forge onward through any weather at all, boats that hide from every shift of the wind, boats going west with the trades and boats heading east right into their teeth. Everyone dances to their own beat.
It was that into the teeth part, specifically around Cabo Beata, Dominican Republic, that helped me end up in rainy Jamaica. I was sick of fighting my way into the trades. I was sick of motoring and motor-sailing and pinching and wind in my face. The day that I was supposed to sail east from Haiti towards the Dominican Republic I called my friend and buddy-boater Aldo on the VHF.
“I can put my dinghy in the water and come to you, or you can put yours in and come to me, but we need to talk,” I said over the handheld.
“You stay there,” he replied. “I will be right over.”
This was part of buddy boating that Aldo and I did really well together. We knew how we communicated well and how we communicated less well, and face to face was the only way real decisions got made.
Aldo was soon on my boat, sitting in Ave del Mar’s salon. I told him that I didn’t like the forecast, I didn’t like the winds, I didn’t like the seas, and I would not be sailing east, at least not that day. As always I reminded him that he was free to go without me. That got tossed right out the window. “If you do not want to go, we will not go,” was Aldo’s simple reply. We had always respected an unspoken veto policy for all sailing plans. Sailing can be hard enough when you like the conditions. There’s really no need to head out when you fear them.
So we stopped and we regrouped and eventually we decided to sail to Jamaica, downwind at last, into the heart of the Caribbean Sea and with a world of options open ahead of us. From Jamaica we could head south towards Colombia and Panama or west towards Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Jamaica was brilliant.
It was on this sail from Haiti to Jamaica that there was a shift in the qi of my journey. Several new rips started to appear in the genoa, the predictable result of time, UV degradation, and good, hard use. The electronic tiller pilot died in a glorious blaze of flashing lights. Another winch took flight from the side of the mast. The fuel tanks started to decompose at a remarkable pace. The trip transpired without unnecessary risk but not without undue suffering. All of those little things were starting to add up.
In Jamaica I sat aboard the boat secretly mired in a low-grade panic about how to acquire a new tiller pilot and how to safely proceed with what felt like a decaying boat. I had an obligation to be back in Washington DC in October of 2017 for my niece’s wedding, and I had been worried about finding a hurricane hole somewhere in Central America where I could safely and affordably haul out for a month or two of travel. Adding now the challenge of new electronics, possibly new fuel tanks, and a need for new sails just over the horizon, and that trip south or west started to look like an escape tunnel that led to a fire pit. It just didn’t feel right.
“Ollie’s girlfriend put seven tubes of caulk around the chimney on the roof, so we’ll see if that works,” came the words from my friend Eric, who was watching over my leaky old house in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A small rental income from this beautiful old victorian home funded my sailing life aboard Ave del Mar. One of my tenants had just been evicted, so I had been without income for a couple of months, and now work had to happen to fix the roof before the vacant unit could be rented again. The house was just like the boat: lovable, capable, a bit tired, and in real need of attention.
There was a time a couple of years ago not three days into my journey from Annapolis when NOAA weather radio was calling for a small craft advisory on the Chesapeake Bay with sustained south winds over 25 knots and some sizable seas. I elected that day to feel my way into the Piankatank River through a dense fog, where with the help of my radar and AIS I fumbled my way up to an anchorage near Glebe Neck for three days of respite. Despite the fact that I sail solo, despite the fact that I like being alone out on the ocean, I do not embrace unnecessary risk. That’s just how I sail. Risk assessment was all that could go through my head as I sat in the marina in Jamaica staring at nautical charts and trying to make a plan.
Distilled down, my risk assessment looked bleak. At the very least my fuel tanks needed clean-out portholes added and the condition of their interiors assessed. It is possible they needed replacing altogether, which involves removing the cockpit sole and the engine, hardly a weekend project for a shade tree mechanic. The sails were taped where they were decaying, but that was a temporary fix. The autopilot was simply dead and needed replacing. Meanwhile, the rental house appeared to be collapsing under its own weight. South and west were calling, but so was my obligation to return for the wedding. In the end I knew what I had to do. I had no desire to be one of those derelict boats that ends up in some third world backwater, rotting away and blaming bad luck.
Forward is a strange word that means so many different things to so many different people. To me it meant taking steps, good steps, regardless of their geographic direction. Cutting miles up the Piankatank River to hide from stormy weather when I was fully green and inexperienced was forward progress because it was the safe thing to do. Delaying my crossing to the Bahamas from South Florida was forward progress because it was the wise sailing decision. Not beating into those trade winds to try to make the Dominican Republic under a cloak of false pride was forward progress, a pragmatic deferment to weather and sailing conditions.
So Ave del Mar and I are going to point the bow towards Reedville, Virginia, and head back to the marina where our journey began four years ago. I’ll be able to get the house in order, see some friends and family, officiate a pretty special wedding, and, in the quiet comfort of Jennings Boat Yard, I’ll be able to deal with those fuel tanks, winches, sails, and whatever else requires my attention, this time with the invaluable benefit of experience.
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Social networking superpower Facebook is ready to file its IPO papers as early as next Wednesday, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company will purportedly look for a valuation between $75 billion and $100 billion, with Morgan Stanley, which helped the company complete a large private placement a year ago, heading the list to lead the offering.
At the top end, that would immediately make Facebook one of the most valuable technology companies in the market, with a market cap behind only a handful of such firms as Apple (AAPL, $416 billion), Microsoft (MSFT, $245 billion), International Business Machines (IBM, $224 billion), Google (GOOG, $186 billion), Oracle (ORCL, $143 billion), Intel (INTC, $136 billion), and Cisco (CSCO, $105 billion). And yet, the company's revenue is a fraction of what these powerhouses make. Will the results be a portent of the success that Facebook will see in the future? Or, over the long run, could the IPO become the biggest tech disappointment that the Street has seen in many years?
One of the toughest jobs in making an IPO work is setting investor expectations. Aim too low and the company and early investors don't get the monetary value the stock sale could have brought. Too high, and you create the chance that investors, disappointed that the company didn't provide the results they thought it would, punish the stock and send its price into a tailspin.
What is normally a fine line has become a tightrope in high tech because of recent sector IPOs. For years, new IPOs were scarce, so when the likes of LinkedIn (LNKD), Pandora (P), Groupon (GRPN), and Zynga (ZNGA) went public, investors piled on.
Many of the recent tech IPOs fell flat, as share prices dropped sharply from their opening-day highs. Zynga quickly dipped and is only now back to its IPO pricing. Groupon is well below where it was just months ago, as are LinkedIn and Pandora.
Where's the money, honey?
As Zynga showed, even when a company makes solid revenue and profit, investors can quickly lose faith. Facebook has ridden a bigger wave of hype than any of these other companies, and reportedly has had solid sales and even earnings. But so much money has gone into it -- $2.34 billion to date -- that small just won't do it. Unless an IPO sees a huge uptake, the original investors won't be able to cash out at the levels that would justify their investments.
But a $100 billion valuation is twice as high as a year ago, and even mentioning a low end of $75 billion means that the company has flinched. According to private equity marketplace Sharespost, a transaction today at $34 per Facebook share implied a valuation of $80 billion.
Some researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have questioned whether Facebook is already past its prime. They argue that value of a social networking company is directly related to the number of users. As of last fall, Facebook's growth moved from exponential to an S-shaped curve (a sigmoid function for the math fans). One of the properties of such curve is a horizontal asymptote -- a flat line that defines a maximum value.
If the doubters are correct, and the glory days of user adoption are behind Facebook, that could limit revenue growth. Current sales estimates are in the $4 billion a year range, implying a price-to-sales ratio of 20 to 25. If the Swiss researchers are correct about growth, shares could tumble.
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State v. Domingo (ICA September 11, 2009)
Background. Domingo was indicted for one count of Accidents Involving Death or Serious Bodily Injury (HRS § 291C-12); specifically, that Domingo failed to stop his car at the scene of the accident and breached his duty to remain on the scene pursuant to HRS § 291C-14. Domingo and Tomlin were driving in separate cars on the H-1 freeway. Tomlin crossed his line and sideswiped Domingo, which caused both cars to crash into the guard rail. Tomlin's car flipped on its side and Tomlin died. Domingo's car flipped onto its roof. Domingo got out of the car, walked to the side of the freeway, and took off into the bushes. Approximately 30 minutes later, he returned to the scene.
Domingo pleaded no contest and moved for a deferred acceptance of no contest plea, which was not opposed. The circuit court sentenced Domingo to five years probation and denied the motion for DANC. The circuit court ordered restitution in the amount of $13,225.94 in restitution, which included funeral expenses, a gravestone, and ambulance fee, as requested by Mrs. Tomlin.
Criminal Conduct must have Nexus to Victim's Losses in Order to Impose Restitution. The ICA agreed with Domingo that the circuit court erred in imposing restitution. "The court shall order the defendant to make restitution for reasonable and verified losses suffered by the victim . . . as a result of the defendant's offense[.]" HRS § 706-646(2). According to the ICA, the restitution statute plainly states "a defendant cannot be ordered to pay restitution unless he [or she] caused a victim's losses." In this case, the criminal conduct was not linked to the amount requested by Mrs. Tomlin. Criminal liability for HRS § 291C-12(a) "does not require proof that the driver of a vehicle caused injury to or death of a person, but only that the accident the driver was involved in resulted in injury to or death of any person." State v. Chen, 77 Hawai'i 329, 226, 884 P.2d 392, 399 (1994). The ICA concluded that there was "no evidence in the record that Domingo's criminal misconduct caused Tomlin's injuries or death. . . . No nexus between Domingo's conduct and Tomlin's injuries and death has been demonstrated." The ICA reversed the restitution order.
The "Criminal Misconduct" v. just Plain 'Ol Conduct: a Hypothetical. In this case, the ICA held that there was no nexus between Domingo's conduct and the "victim's" injuries and death. Here, it was apparent that Tomlin caused the collision with Domingo, which resulted in his own death. But what if Domingo had caused the accident? That would provide a nexus between Domingo's conduct and the loss (the death). So would it mean that he would have to pay restitution? Perhaps not. The defendant must make restitution only for losses suffered "as a result of the defendant's offense[.]" HRS § 706-646(2). What is an "offense"? The statute never elaborates on the term so now it seems that for this question, the statute isn't so plain. One hint may lie in the ICA's opinion today. The ICA described a necessary nexus between Domingo's "criminal misconduct" and the loss. This could imply that an "offense" under HRS § 706-646(2) is the criminal conduct, i.e. the conduct element of the offense itself.
And if that is so, then even if Domingo did cause the accident resulting in Tomlin's death, he would still not have to pay restitution. He was charged with fleeing the scene of an accident in which a person died, The criminal conduct in that particular crime is the flight and dereliction of duty to stay and render aid, not the attendant circumstance of the death. But this distinction needn't be made here. Perhaps later. | <urn:uuid:4ec2cce8-869d-4a27-a1c2-38e995703e8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://hawaiiopinions.blogspot.com/2009/09/nexus-to-loss-necessary-before-imposing.html | 2017-11-24T18:36:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934808742.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124180349-20171124200349-00682.warc.gz | en | 0.971509 | 870 | [
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