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On May 18th, Polish heavyweight prospect Krzysztof Zimnoch (14-0-1, 11 KOs) will face former WBC world champion Oliver McCall (56-12, 37 KOs).
This will be Zimnoch's first eight round bout and takes at Arena Hall in Legionowo, Poland.
McCall, 47-years-old, has one of the best chins in heavyweight boxing and has never been stopped. In his last fight, he lost a decision to Francesco Pianeta, who challenges Wladimir Klitschko on May 4th. Although he is far along in age, the fight presents a big test for Zimnoch. | 2019-04-19T02:15:35 | http://www.bokser.org/content/2013/04/17/174753/index.jsp |
"Moonlight Mermaid No. 1" (which means there will be another one... I've had requests for brunettes. (smile) ). The mermaid's tail is textured and shimmery. The fin part of her tail is covered with teenie tiny clear glass beads and the paint beneath it shows through. Thanks for viewing! | 2019-04-23T04:34:32 | https://www.ebsqart.com/Artist/Melanie-Douthit/76/Art-Portfolio/Mermaid-Moon-No-1/691024/ |
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The U.S. Department of Treasury sanctioned Lebanese national Kassem Mohamed Chams and his company, Chams Exchange Company SAL (otherwise known as Ali Mohamed Chams and Partner) yesterday. Treasury’s designation was issued pursuant to both the Kingpin Act and the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act (HIFPAA), and it underscores the convergence of Hezbollah’s terror finance and narco-trafficking.
According to Treasury, “Kassem Chams and his international money laundering network move tens of millions of dollars a month in illicit narcotics proceeds on behalf of drug kingpins and facilitate money movements for Hizballah.” The money flows from Australia, Europe, and Latin America – including Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela – on behalf of La Oficina de Envigado, a designated Colombian cartel. The drug money-laundering network is linked to Lebanese and Colombian national Ayman Joumaa, who was both sanctioned and indicted in 2011 for working with Colombian and Mexican cartels. Treasury’s announcement also noted that Chams Exchange operated out of Brazil and Venezuela, suggesting that Hezbollah’s other money laundering networks may operate there.
Treasury’s action highlights the broader nexus between drug trafficking cartels and terror financiers. In Latin America, crime syndicates involved in the production and trafficking of cocaine increasingly rely on Hezbollah’s illicit finance networks. Hezbollah levies a commission for facilitating the use of businesses and financial institutions, such as Chams Exchange, to subsidize their terrorist network, which is increasingly squeezed by U.S. sanctions.
The designation of Chams Exchange marks the first time Treasury used HIFPAA authorities since its congressional passage last October. The legislation imposes secondary sanctions not only on known Hezbollah entities, but also on those “determined by the President to be engaged in fundraising or recruitment activities for Hizballah.” Thanks to the secondary sanctions mandated in HIFPAA, future actions could target Chams Exchange’s business partners in Latin America, or any company or individual that rents facilities, provides banking services to, receives bribes from, or otherwise assists those designated for fundraising or recruitment. In short, the administration has an opportunity to take a network-centric approach toward Hezbollah’s criminal activities.
Treasury’s designation is an important first use of HIFPAA authorities. The wider net makes U.S. sanctions much more effective. And the revelation of another drug connection helps shine a light on the growing nexus between Hezbollah’s finances and narco-trafficking.
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Matthew Zweig are senior fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), where they also contribute to FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP). Follow Emanuele on Twitter @eottolenghi. Follow FDD on Twitter @FDD and @FDD_CEFP. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy. | 2019-04-19T14:17:16 | https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/12/treasury-sanctions-against-lebanese-exchange-house-shows-narco-terror-convergence/ |
The Pee Dee Tennis League is an adult tennis league for players 18 years and older. The PD League offers 4 different leagues throughout the year.
Registration for the Spring season begins mid December with the season running from early February until the end of April and has three divisions: 18 & Over, 40 & Over, and 55 & Over. Each division is divided into NTRP levels from 2.5 to 4.5.
The Mixed Doubles season runs from May through late July.
The Combo season runs from mid August through Early October.
The Singles season runs from mid August through Late October. | 2019-04-24T00:42:05 | http://www.thefta.com/pages/index.cfm?siteid=18608 |
Much research shows it is possible to design motivating and healthy work, which in turn has positive consequences for individuals and their organizations. In this presentation, I argue that these dominant motivational and job strain perspectives on work design continue to be important but are insufficient, especially in the context of current challenges. In this presentation, I advocate some specific new directions. First, in light of continued large numbers of poor quality jobs, I propose that more attention should be given to the factors that shape the design of work, that is, the antecedents of work design. Second, I propose the importance of work design as a vehicle for individual growth and development. Third, I identify important topics for work design given artificial intelligence and other technological changes occurring in work. I present illustrative studies relevant to these future directions. | 2019-04-20T22:08:19 | https://aow2019.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=8867 |
Have you seen Crate and Barrels new line of pet accessories? Blankets, food bowls and collars galore. Though I am partial to that adorable treat jar! The Hansen's just may need to invest in one for our own lovable pooches. | 2019-04-24T22:28:39 | http://www.fitnessandfootball.com/2010/09/dogs-life.html |
You can substitute scampi with large prawns.
Cut the fennel and onion into julienne (thin slices) and add to the mixing bowl with the balsamic vinegar and oil, toss in. Cut bell pepper into small cubes, add to the bowl. Remove the rind on the orange then cut into segments and add to the mixing bowl (save all orange juices and add it to the salad); gently toss in the bowl with all ingredients. Reserve at room temperature.
Clean scampi, leave tails on if desired. In a bowl mix together olive oil, citrus juices, garlic, chopped coriander and orange zest. Add scampi and leave to marinate for 30 minutes to 1-2 hours. Heat the frying pan on a medium-high heat, add scampi without marinade. Cook for 2-4 minutes on each side, depends on the size of scampi. Season to taste.
Season the salad and gently mix. Divide the salad evenly on plates. Serve salad with scampi placed on top. Sprinkle with finely chopped coriander and drizzle even more oil, if desired.
Sharing at 62nd FF party with Angie, co-hosts Jess, Prudy and all guests! Hope you all gonna love these bright, healthy and delicious dish!
Apr4April 4, 2015 • By milkandbun • This entry was posted in Appetizer, Festive Cooking, Fish and Seafood, Healthy choice and tagged appetizer, citrus, citrus marinade for scampi, cooking, extra virgin olive oil, fennel, fennel orange salad, fennel salad, fine dining at home, food, food photo, food photography, food styling, fried scampi recipe, healthy, healthy cooking, lime, low-carb recipe, orange juice, photo, photography, recipe, romantic dinner, romantic recipe, scampi, scampi recipe, scampi shrimps, seafood, shrimps, starter, Whole30, Whole30 recipe. Bookmark the permalink.
Looks delicious, such a colourful dish.
What a wonderful combination of flavors…the scampi had to be delicious.
Gorgeous photos and amazing recipe. I love citrus and shrimp. So summery and wonderful. I love this recipe!
Yum, seafood and citrus is wonderful. This looks so refreshing!
Lovely way to let the flavors of the scampi shine! So fresh!!
It turned out an amazing combination! 🙂 Hope you will give it a try!
Sounds refreshing, perfect for the warmer weather, which is slowly getting here but I have faith! Those scampi look beautiful!
I’ve never cooked scampi as usually use prawns – but this is a great recipe and probably would work well with many types of fish. Thanks for sharing!
It was so delicious that I couldn’t stop eating it! 😀 Have a nice week, too Jhuls!
Mika. You have good food recipes and beautiful pictures. I like your Citrusy scampi with fennel salad, with mouth watering pictures. This shrimp is popular in Vietnam. Since shrimps are fresh, so you can grill or boil them. If boil it, use just little bit of water only. Do not over cook it. The grilled shrimps are tasty and juicy. We make simple dipping sauce for seafood with little bit of salt, fresh ground pepper, and lime. If you watch Food Network (American cooking channel), shrimp head is the best part for the chefs. Use shells and heads for seafood stock.
Looks like such a refreshing salad!
Beautiful! I love this kind of salad. I made shrimp salad a few weeks ago (and posted on my blog). it was easy and light. NOW I love to try yours soon! | 2019-04-26T02:01:56 | https://milkandbun.com/2015/04/04/citrusy-scampi-with-fennel-salad/ |
Users can assemble their own battery operated Indigo Racer Racing Car with this mighty motors kit, and learn how it works at the same time. The kit contains all the components needed to assemble an electric car. All that is left is to race it !
Consumers can order 1 piece. Retailers must order a minimum of 2 pieces. | 2019-04-22T20:22:29 | https://newdimensionoz.com.au/product/mighty-motors-indigo-racer/ |
Leading energy company, Jemena, has released its draft Jemena Electricity Networks 2021-25 Plan, outlining the company’s future plans for evolving the energy grid, reducing residential electricity prices and maintaining reliability of the network.
Jemena's electricity network delivers electricity to over 330,000 homes and businesses in northern and western Melbourne.
“We are now calling on customers to provide feedback on the draft Plan as part of the second round of customer consultation,” said Jemena Managing Director Frank Tudor.
The draft Plan was developed following extensive consultation with residential and business customers to ensure it meets their needs over the next five years. The Plan is available for customer feedback over a two-month period before it is submitted to the Australian Energy Regulator in mid-2019.
Throughout consultations, customers consistently highlighted energy affordability as a priority. Jemena has committed to play its part in reducing bills for residential customers for the next five years.
“Affordability was an issue that almost every customer raised with us during the first phase of engagement. The draft Plan proposes to reduce residential electricity network prices by an average of $90 over five years while continuing to maintain the reliability of the network. This is in addition to the $90 reduction on average residential prices we have delivered since 2016,” said Mr Tudor.
Preparing the grid to support increased use of renewable energy was also a top priority for customers.
“Customers told us they want a network capable of supporting and enabling increased feed-in of solar and other renewable generation. The draft Plan includes a number of initiatives that enable more feed-in to the grid from Distributed Energy Resources like solar panels and battery storage,” said Mr Tudor.
“As part of our first phase of customer consultation we held a series of People’s Panel workshops where we engaged actively over many weeks with a cross section of community members in Melbourne’s north-west to understand their views on the future of our electricity network. Not only did we listen to what our customers wanted, we adopted each of the 25 recommendations from the People’s Panel.
Visit yourgrid.jemena.com.au to view and submit feedback on the draft Electricity Pricing and Services Plan 2021-25. Submissions are due by 31 March 2019. | 2019-04-20T04:29:57 | https://www.home.com.au/en/newsfeed/jemena-seeks-feedback-on-five-year-vic-electricity-plan |
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The prevalence of corruption and fraud in a country in a society affects the level of honesty and uprightness of its citizens. A study by behavioural economists Simon Gächter and Jonathan Schulz explored how the prevalence of rule violations across a society affects the intrinsic honesty of its individual members, thus creating dishonest citizens.
Deception is part of human nature. There are instances when individuals resort to a varying degree of dishonesty to better serve their individual interest. Of course, there are mechanisms and institutions placed to control deceptive behaviours that could result in serious harms. In schools, suspension or expulsion are the consequences of cheating and plagiarism. Laws in a given society criminalise severe forms of dishonesty such as petty crimes and fraudulent activities.
While deception is inherent, every individual is also capable of intrinsic honesty. There are individuals who have an established moral compass that keeps them from resorting to deception. But the prevalence of corruption and fraud in a society corrupts intrinsic honesty according to Gächter and Schulz.
Corrupt societies create an environment wherein dishonesty becomes a norm. People also justify their level of dishonesty based on the extent of dishonesty they perceive in their societal environment.
The researchers carried an experiment that first involved creating an index of the prevalence of rule violations or PRV index by collecting data and information on corruption, tax evasion, and fraud recorded in 2003 from 159 countries.
After data and information collection, the researchers performed a behavioural experiments between 2011 and 2015 that involved 2,500 participants with an average age of 22 from 23 countries with PRV scores. It is worth mentioning that these participants were still children in 2003. They were too young to have affected the kind of dishonesty measured by the PRV index.
In the experiments, the researchers tested these participants to see how they honest would be in a situation in which they could lie without being found. The participants partake in a game in which each of them rolled a dice twice while seated in an isolated booth. They were then asked to report the first number that came out during their first roll. These participants knew that reports were unverifiable.
Take note the participants were told that they would receive a cash incentive depending on the number that appeared from the first dice roll. For example, “five” would be incentivised with 5 money units and “two” would be incentivised with 2 money units.
It was impossible to ascertain whether each participant reported the true result of his or her first dice roll. However, the rule of probability and statistics would tell the average claim of the entire participants should be 2.5. This was not the case.
Gächter and Schulz also reiterated that it was impossible to tell apart different levels of dishonesty. If ever participants lied, everyone would have reported the highest number that appeared in the first dice roll. Rather than reporting the number they had not roll at all, the researchers believed that most participants reported the highest number that appeared between the first and the second dice roll. Gächter and Schulz called this behaviour a “justified dishonesty” in which the participants resorted to bending the rules in order to feel better.
The results were not a form of blatant cheating or an outright dishonesty. There was a certain degree of truth to the claims. However, these results were anything but honest. The researchers noted that these dishonest individuals were not brazen liars but truth-stretchers.
Interpreting the results required the researchers to determine the different levels of justified dishonesty based on the country of origin of participants. Doing so involved grouping the participants and determining the average of money unit claims. In addition, this required referencing the level of prevalence of rule violations of the involved countries.
Further results revealed that in countries with low PRV level, participants claimed 3.17 money units on average. On the other hand, in countries with high PRV level, participants claimed 3.5 money units on average—this placed them a bit beyond the justified dishonesty level according to the researchers. This also means that there was a correlation between the PRV level of a country and the amount of money claimed by its citizens.
Examples of countries with low PRV level with participants that claimed lower money units on average were Austria, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Examples of countries with high PRV level with participants that claimed higher money units on average were Morocco and Tanzania.
Remember that the participants were too young to have contributed to PRV index obtained from data and information in 2003. This means that the results of the study suggested that these participants have been exposed to the norms that affected how they behaved in situations that required either honesty or dishonesty.
The same results also suggested that institutions and cultural values influence the prevalence of rule violations, which, through different theoretically predicted and experimentally tested pathways, influence the intrinsic honesty of people and rule following. In addition, people benchmark their justifiable dishonesty with the extent of dishonesty they see in their societal environment.
Further details of the study of Gächter and Schulz are in the article “Intrinsic Honest and the Prevalence of Rule Violations across Societies” published in March 2016 in the journal Nature. | 2019-04-24T18:06:50 | http://www.versiondaily.com/study-corrupt-societies-create-dishonest-citizens/ |
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This easy casserole sounds so good and different. The recipe is courtesy Paula Deen. | 2019-04-25T05:27:11 | http://www.recipepuppy.com/?similiar=116505 |
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CR 4789: Approach work is underway and bridge rail has been placed at the new bridge at the tributary of Blackwater Creek. At Risinger Creek, right of way preparations have begun and a detour bridge will be placed as construction begins to replace the bridge and approaches. | 2019-04-26T14:40:05 | https://www.lightandchampion.com/node/195404 |
An STD is a serious disease, for which treatment is often necessary. According to the American Social Health Organization, about 19 million new STD cases are reported in the United States per year. Certain STDs show no symptoms - but symptom free does not mean disease free. Most doctors don't routinely test for STDs and because many types can be asymptomatic, it's important to be proactive.
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This site is run by S L Ezekiel Tan, Orthopaedic Registrar, Department of Orthopaedics, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, Australia and also have an interest in photographic and radiological imaging. I decided to publish this website to disseminate information about stereoscopy, with particular regard to medical imaging so the learning curve for others is less steep.
Where are all the images? - I have decided not to include too many images on this site for two reasons - firstly, they will take too long to load; secondly, most of the images that I am working on are real patient data and will not be made publically available. If you want to see examples, please contact me by email with your professional details. If you are passing though Newcastle, Australia and want to have a look - let me know.
If you want help with setting up a stereoscopic system or recommendations, I'd be happy to try to help. I'd also be interested to hear from any other people involved in development of stereoscopy in medicine.
Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed in this site are my own personal opinions and are not to be taken as professional advice. | 2019-04-26T13:48:54 | http://orthostereo.com/about.html |
Who likes unwanted guest? And if excess fat be that unwanted guest, it’s even more distressing! By the way, guests are temporary so why do you let excess fat own your body? When you let this happen, it’s the beginning of a complete physical and mental torture. So, today let’s talk elaborately about fat or weight loss.
So, brush aside all the lame excuses of time crunch, workload in the office, late night sleeping routine, etc. etc.
As and when you get up from your bed drink at least 1-1.5 l of water. If you want you can choose drinking the same amount of lukewarm water too. In no time, your body will be devoid of all the toxins and be completely cleansed from the inside. Make it your everyday ritual.
After you’re done with your morning green tea or lemon-honey solution, try to get some quality sunlight for good 10-15 minutes. Vitamin D from the sun rays makes our bones strong. By early morning we don’t mean only at 5 or 6 a.m. for you can easily get a quality sun light till 9-10 a.m. This leaves little space for excuses. You don’t have to skip your breakfast as this is the most important meal if you’re wishing to lose weight. This is because, after a heavy breakfast we do not usually sit in our chairs or couches. Rather, we get going on our respective works. Hence, breakfast is easily digested by the body.
Watch your calories: Do not eat blindly if you want to lose weight. Count your carbs and fats in every product that you eat for a week. Restrict from taking more fats and carbs because they are the main sources which make you fat.
Eat more proteins: Proteins build up your body in the needed proportions. unlike carbs and fats, proteins don’t accumulate at few places. Instead, they help you maintain a good physique altogether.
Drink more water: It keeps your metabolism active and helps you stay fresh, energetic and hydrated.
Eat slow: Eat without disturbances. Do not watch T.V., laptops, phones while eating. You should always eat slow without talking. If you really need some entertainment, you can play some nice music.
Less stress, More success: Stay stress free. This will help not only in losing extra weight, but will also increase your productivity in every field.
Limit sugar and refined carbs: Sugar kills body metabolism and increases body fat and weight. Our body requires a small amount of sugar per day. If you ever have a sugar rush, go for a spoonful of honey or some dates. All fruits have natural sugar, so opt them rather than the refined sugar.
Dairy and nuts: Nuts are rich in protein, dietary fibers and healthy nano- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, nuts are satiating foods that help you suppress your appetite.
Finally, we’ll suggest you take up some kind of physical activity. Whether you go for workout in the park or gym, or do yoga on your terrace or skip a rope or do crunches and planks inside your house, anything would suffice.
One thing you should keep a note of is that exercise or any aerobic activity on empty stomach fetch far better results for weight loss. Those who lift weights in the gym or at home must do your cardio workout AFTER your weight training. Don’t do it in the starting. This is because our body is at the fasting stage or empty stomach stage after the weight training session as all the carbs (glucose) are used up.
Also, if someone is not able to exercise in the morning can do so in the evening. But, be consistent. Your body doesn’t demand as much as you might be thinking. You only got to be a little more observant of your habits. Little changes can produce magnificent effect in toning up your beautiful body. | 2019-04-23T06:23:33 | http://impulseluxury.com/2018/09/12-best-and-easy-ways-to-lose-fat-with-our-helpful-tips-for-quick-results/ |
Episode 15: Bravotv.com's Editor debates which was more awkward -- Heather's trip to the DMV or Alexis and Tamra's lunch.
Hello Orange County fans. This week everyone was trying to work through their issues/growing pains/angsty comments from their children. While some 'Wives built a bridge to their future, others saw their bridges to each other pretty much torched (looking at you Tamra and Alexis). Let's recap shall we?
We open with Vicki finding solace from her fight with Briana in some mindless photocopying. Thankfully Brooks also swings by to bring her some coffee and breakfast (eating is low-priority in Gunvalson-land), and most likely a sweet love note (we didn't see it, but I imagine it was hiding in the bagel bag).
Over coffee, Vicki explains just how terrible their chat was -– and ponders the deeper reasons for B's anger. The sticks, stones, and words have hurt Vicki. She feels it's unfair how difficult it is for Brooks to date her, especially when her kids are doing things like call him an "opportunist."
We’ll have to see how many cards and love notes it takes to keep these two afloat in this troubled time. And if there's a Hallmark greeting or candygram to get Vicki and Briana on the same page.
Would a Heather by any other name be a sweet? That's the question, as Heather struggles with the concept of finally taking Terry's last name. She has lunch with her fellow thespian friend Dina Waters (loved you in Six Feet Under girl) to discuss making Terry's moniker her own. Heather's worried because people are always saying "do-brow," and indeed I do agree with her that it doesn't evoke the classiest connotations. However, what can you really do about other people's poor pronunciation skills? Love finds a way.
And so she trucks her fancy pants over to the DMV and finds that most of the staff is in less than jovial spirits. One would think they’d appreciate a little comedy in their long days, but hey Heather will just have to take her comedy act elsewhere.
Meanwhile in a fashion-forward robe on a porch in another part of the O.C., Gretchen and Slade are discussing their future. Gretchen wants to take Heather's advice and see a therapist to discuss their issues. Gretchen's upset because she doesn't know how to help him, and so why can't she help him help himself, you know? And so after a very sweet handhold the kids hop into the car and speed off to enlightenment.
The pair immediately begins discussing the fiscal issues, and Slade does his best to assure Gretchen that things will get fixed. The reason for the hold up? Slade admits that he can't focus fully on his business because he's bogged down in Gretchen business. She's upset because she doesn't want him to feel that he has to do those things for her, and carves some time out for the business of being Smiley. And so we shall see if 10 am to 2 pm is enough time for him to focus on his business and get them ready for a life together.
Speaking of businesses, Tamra is getting in gear to build her dream gym. Inspired by her father's own successful business, she is ready to rock and roll with her latest venture -- meeting with folks and folding Eddie into the process to make it that much more successful.
She even takes some time to interview trainers that can do pushups while chanting her name, strip, or, strangely enough, accentuate their vaginas with pretzel poses. . . Maybe she should keep interviewing trainers for a bit. A perfect business isn't built overnight.
I'm going to be honest, I didn't see the point in writing a recap of this episode without including Vicki's reaction to Gretchen's voicemail message.
If this is any indicator of the trip to come, Costa Rica is going to be amazing. Why wouldn't you want to go to a place that has monkeys and water and is really amazing (at least according to Vicki's sell)?
Alexis is continuing her balancing act, this week wearing her Alexis Couture hat for a magazine shoot. Alexis is proud that she's growing as a model -- and a designer. Once again, Alexis Bellino is driving the bus to greatness.
Unfortunately, along the route is an interaction with Tamra. The gals decide to sit down and hash out their issues before the big trip, but seems like they'll still be packing some baggage. Tamra makes the executive decision to be brutally honest, and brutally honest she is -- going straight for the jugular and calling Alexis "an extremely shallow person."
She even invokes Terry's comments about her. The conversation ends with Tamra saying she doesn't give a s—t about Alexis or her husband, so Costa Rica should be fun right! Never travel abroad angry, isn't that the old axiom.
Next week it appears everyone else decides to give Alexis their two cents (or colón) as well. What did you think of their chat? Was Tamra a little too honest? Or did Alexis need to listen up? Leave your thoughts in the comments. | 2019-04-26T01:53:34 | https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/season-7/blogs/tough-room |
British Dressage is delighted to announce Jo Byrne as the new Regional Development Officer for the Northern region. After 30 years in policing, which included a secondment to the Home Office, Jo will now combine her extensive skill set, organisational ability and ‘team player’ mentality with her lifelong love of horses and dressage.
Jo followed the path of many keen young horsewomen in completing her BHSAI after leaving school but then realised that in order to financially support her hobby, she would need an alternative profession, so joined the police.
Originally from Walsall, Jo started her policing career with the West Midlands Police, reaching the rank of Chief Superintendent before making the move north to join South Yorkshire Police. She retired last June having become the first female Assistant Chief Constable at South Yorkshire Police.
Throughout her career, she kept horses as a hobby and is active as a competitor, owner and trainee judge with British Dressage.
Jo said; “I’m thrilled to be joining BD as the Northern RDO. My home is in Sheffield and I’m familiar with many of the Northern venues, so I am determined to get out and about in the region to meet everyone. I’m looking forward to working with the regional committee to support our organisers, judges and volunteers and to develop opportunities for training and competition. | 2019-04-20T23:02:57 | http://www.equitrader-online.co.uk/industry-news/new-rdo-bd-northern-region/ |
What is a Ductless Split System and How Can it Save Me Money?
In the never-ending search for savings when it comes to your utilities, we know that the home comfort system in your home tends to use the most energy. Some homeowners feel that if they shut vents in rooms that are not always in use, it’ll save energy costs. Not true. If you want to control what rooms are cooled or heated, you might want to consider a ductless split system.
A ductless split system—seems like a mouthful, sounds confusing, but really, it’s not. They’re ductless because they do not require adding or using ductwork throughout the home, which can save time and money.
Ductless Split Systems work well in new home additions (saves you money on running new ductwork) or smaller houses. They are a good choice when extending or installing ductwork isn’t feasible, as well as newer, efficient homes that might require only a small space conditioning system (tiny home fans rejoice).
You can choose to install as many or as few units as you wish—a single unit, or even a multi-unit is available. Like a standard heating and air conditioning system, a ductless split system has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor component is mounted on the wall and connected with a simple wiring process to the outdoor unit.
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Tina Marie - Forever and Always: "Summer Paradise"
Good morning wherever you may reside!! At present we are on our yearly holiday at our favourite location beside the beach. So it only seems logical to post a beach themed creation. A few days ago I posted "Beachside" which was created using the "Beach Affair" collection from Fabscraps. This layout titled "Summer Paradise" has been created using the same collection, this time a little less embellishing and a lot more mixed media. Not my usual style......but I like it! I hope you do too!
For this layout I used a lot of the Fabscraps chipboard "Beach Affairs" collection. I absolutely and totally love these pieces. I have dressed them up with gesso and inks and a little bit of crackle accents.........my fave thing to use!
I just love this lighthouse chippie.......thankyou Fabscraps! Again I have done some painting with my inks to colour this piece and the same for the title.
A collection of shells is always made on our holiday stay at our beach location. These shells were from our last stay and I love to use them on my layouts to try and capture the story behind the photo.
And if you look closely at the Anchor here you will see the crackling effect made using Crackle Accents. It also accentuates the inking colours.
Well that is all from me today. I hope you have enjoyed your stay here today.
I will be back again real soon........stay tuned.
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Paint netting with gesso and dry. Apply gesso to all Fabscraps chipboards. Paint the lighthouse alternating panels with Royal Blue ink and a little water. Ink all edges with Rusty Hinge and apply Crackle Accents with finger to highlight some areas. The title has been inked with Bisque and Royal Blue and then crackled.
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Your layout is now complete. Just hang and frame!! | 2019-04-25T02:37:57 | http://tinamarie-foreverandalways.blogspot.com/2015/01/summer-paradise.html |
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Basketball tryouts can be stressful. You want to play your best and prove that you deserve a spot on the team but only have a short period of time to do so. The tendency for tryouts as a player is to put all of your effort into scoring points, because that is usually what gets the most attention.
This is just one factor though that coaches are looking for. Coaches are evaluating you in so many other areas as well, and if you only focus on scoring you are going to miss out. That is why we have put together a list of 10 areas to focus on at your basketball tryouts.
Nothing is going to show a coach that you aren't really invested in the team like showing up out of shape. In fact, most coaches will have a lot of conditioning in their tryouts just to weed out the players who are out of shape. This is a very easy way to show which players have been putting in the time and are serious about making the team, and which players just showed up hoping for the best. So get in shape ASAP.
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If you are not able to get in the gym early, make sure you are all the way ready to go when the gym doors open. No coach wants to look over and see you still putting your shoes on or changing your shirt when you should be out on the court warming up.
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The Browns have been the leading QB controversy all season, and they just opened up the door on themselves this past week by benching Hoyer in the 4th quarter. Johnny Manziel definitely made his case, leading the Browns to their only TD of the day. Yes, Brian Hoyer has struggled greatly over the past 6 games, but he still has led the team to a 10-5 record as a starter. Cleveland made the right decision on Wednesday to stick with Hoyer. If the Browns were out of the playoff hunt (which they very well may be after this week), then it would be fine to get Manziel some reps. But Hoyer still gives them the best chance to win, and has led them into this situation anyway.
Wow was Ryan Fitzpatrick playing with a chip on his shoulder after his return to the starting job; 6 TD’s!
Dallas has a better road record (6-0) than at home (3-4). What happens if they play in Lambeau this year against the 6-0 at home Packers?
With only 4 games remaining, the Buccaneers have both a shot at the #1 overall draft pick and to host a playoff game.
Denver’s kicker Connor Barth kicked 5 FG’s in his first game with the team. In 11 previous games, Brandon McManus only made 9 total.
A Quarterback tossed 6 TD’s in a game for the 4th time this year, which is the most in any season.
Dallas pulled off a convincing win last night, and guaranteed that they will have a winning season for the first time in 5 years. But they have 2 very tough games coming up against the Eagles and Colts, and you wonder if whispers of another December collapse will come with them being 3-3 in their last 6 games after starting 6-1. For a 2nd straight year, a 10-6 team very well may miss the playoffs in the NFC, so Dallas needs to take at least 2 more down the stretch.
Trent Richardson has vowed to jump into Dawg Pound if he scores against former team. Mike Pettine has essentially dared him to do it. Not that Richardson left on bad terms by any means (it was Cleveland who shockingly traded him), but will still be fun to see how many concessions are “wasted” by being dumped on a player should this actually happen.
Holy crap are there a slew of great games this week! Nearly half the slate has both teams fighting for playoff spots.
Colts at Browns: Richardson and Cribbs go back to Cleveland. How will Hoyer do?
I don’t see how it isn’t Seahawks @ Packers and Broncos/Colts @ Patriots if it turns out like this.
Packers/Patriots. Patriots win. Would love to see any of these teams make it and beat the Packers. | 2019-04-22T08:48:55 | https://fmquarterback.com/2014/12/05/fmqb-playoff-push/ |
A few weeks ago on February 29, New York City’s exclusive Players Club opened its doors to one of their own, member Michael Riedel – the weekly theatre columnist for the New York Post and author of Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway, an in-depth look at the power players behind the scenes who fought for the soul of Broadway from the 1960s up through the 80s and 90s and oversaw the shift of Broadway from the days of “ice” – profits skimmed off the top of the box office gross to grease the palms of Broadway employees on all levels – to the dawn of the Disney era on Broadway and the cleaning-up of Times Square, a former den of iniquity that now shines like the top of the Chrysler Building.
The Club itself is steeped in rich New York history. Founded by Edwin Booth (John Wilkes’s brother) in 1888, its clubhouse on the south side of Gramercy Park is a beautiful 19th Century Gothic Revival-style mansion, the interior of which is just as stunning. Revelers at Riedel’s soiree rubbed elbows in close proximity to stunning portraits of Christopher Plummer as Prospero in The Tempest and Katherine Hepburn, just a few of the scores of theatre luminaries who’ve counted themselves among the Players’ members.
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His bold assertion is a little hard to believe however, even if his empathy may not manifest itself often in his day-to-day work, which often infuriates his subjects – he’s known for a tiff with Harvey Weinstein over the fate of Finding Neverland and earning the creative team’s ire during the run of 2003’s Gypsy revival with Bernadette Peters, among many other spats.
After cocktail hour ended, Riedel sat down in the clubhouse’s dining room with producer Liz McCann (known for producing Edward Albee’s plays), general manager Albert Poland, and actor Lee Roy Reams (who starred in the original production of 42nd Street). The foursome reminisced about the old days, recounting stories of the Shuberts and Nederlanders before shifting into somewhat darker waters, recounting the final years of legendary director-choreographer Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line) and the onset of the AIDS crisis.
It’s a time that fascinates Riedel. Not only did he cover the onset of the AIDS crisis in Razzle Dazzle. If he has his way, he’ll have a chance to tackle that era again – not just the 80s and the rise of AIDS, but the era of hedonism that came before. Though there’s talk (only rumblings at this point) of a sequel to Razzle Dazzle, Riedel has his eye on another subject as well. Riedel told me, “I’m particularly interested in Robert Stigwood, the Australian impresario who created Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and then did Eric Clapton in Cream and created the Beegees and produced Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta and Grease and then just disappeared. He died just last month. I was always fascinated by him, because I wanted to tell a story of 70s popular culture, and he was the great producer of that era, but he in the end was brought down by the hedonism of that era. I’m quite interested in the 70s scene in New York City and Los Angeles and London, when almost anything you wanted to do you could do, because there was no knowledge, no fear, of this thing that would bring everybody down called AIDS. So I’m interested in popular culture before the AIDS crisis.” Here’s hoping Riedel has a chance to tackle Stigwood’s story as well. | 2019-04-21T11:02:31 | http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/michael-riedel/ |
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Don't miss the opportunity to live in exclusive Executive 9 Club at Marston Slopes 1 block away from Foothills Golf Course. This stunning corner lot fully custom built brick ranch home features cathedral ceilings a welcoming living room with an arch gallery and four beautiful white pillars, home office, family room with a fireplace, custom kitchen with granite countertops, island and stainless steel appliances, spacious master bedroom with a 5 piece bath including jetted tub, wall to wall mirrors, his and hers walk in closet, skylights, marble floors, french doors, large balcony with magnificent city and Downtown views. Laundry room on main floor w/ cabinets and closet. Professionally landscaped with sprinkler system. Walkout basement with large family room with built in cabinets, wet bar and french doors to a large covered patio great for entertaining.$2000 carpet/floor allowance.Contact me for a private showing. Be sure to watch the property video, 360, photo gallery and areals link. | 2019-04-24T15:00:37 | https://www.tuppersteam.com/property/7846-west-oxford-circle-lakewood-colorado-2710042 |
This is a drawing of a pontoon bridge train on the road. These trains were brought from Washington and traveled overland south toward Stafford. At the Occoquan River, the water was too high, so they transferred the pontoons and horses to ships to complete the trip. Part of the delay was due to the necessity of acquiring horses and mules and training them to harness. | 2019-04-22T00:48:57 | https://staffordcountymuseum.com/exhibit/second-federal-occupation-and-union-valley-forge/ |
ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) simulator is an easy-to-go application to learn and simulate different ACLS scenarios. Choose from the above dropdown menu a scenario to start your simulation. Have fun!
write an ACLS simulation case/scenario whenever you have ACLS expertise. See JSON format examples for cases, actions and drugs.
Mauij, MD by day, developer by night and all the good in between.
If you liked acls-simulator take a look at my others projects SlimPlanner: team scheduling made easy and DriveMyDev: customer feedbacks for developer.
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A Photography student at The Sixth Form College, Solihull has been shortlisted for an award for her artwork, which showcased diversity in society.
Claudia Pettifer (aged 17, from Yardley Wood) attended the FE Sector Diversity Awards with family and staff from the College. Organised by the National Centre for Diversity, the event was set up to celebrate ‘fairness for all’ in Further Education. Claudia was shortlisted for the Diversity Arts competition award for her Photography work, which was a montage of all the faces she sees on a regular basis.
Claudia was not the only student to do artwork with a diversity theme; 17 A level Photography students completed work with a diversity theme for an internal College competition. All submissions are currently separately judged by a panel of photography experts, to determine a winner and runner up. All submissions will be exhibited as a group of work within the College once they have been judged.
In preparation, the Photography students did a research visit to the exhibition ‘East Meets West’, which is currently on at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and they had a week to respond to the live brief for the College competition. Four of the students who went on the visit have also been running an Instagram ‘take over’ for the ‘East meets West’ exhibition.
This work supports the College’s strategic priorities and our equality objectives. The College is currently working towards an Investors in Diversity Stage 2 award through the National Centre for Diversity. The College is currently ranked inside the top 25 in the country for equality and diversity, out of more than 100 organisations, as announced at the FE Sector Diversity Awards recently. | 2019-04-23T20:00:17 | https://www.solihullsfc.ac.uk/news/photo-diversity-award/ |
Celebrate your graduate with #1 Grad Danglers!
#1 Grad Danglers will add trendy color to the celebration! Featuring colorful foil swirls with cardstock cutouts of grad hats and the words Congrats Grad, these ceiling danglers make the perfect graduation party decoration. | 2019-04-24T19:48:41 | https://www.stumpsparty.com/-1-grad-danglers/p/DNG1GR |
So, the school holidays are over and it's time to well and truly get back into work. Now may well be a good time to start thinking about revamping your office ready for 2019, but what type of desks should you go for?
Will you be expanding in the not too distant future?
Do you have enough room for the type of desks you would like?
Do you need space-saving desks?
What are your desks being used for?
What style of desk would be your ideal?
There are a number of desk options available, so it is useful to understand what they each are.
You can adjust this desk to either a sitting or standing position, which is great for your employees wellbeing. It turns out that we were not made to sit for long periods of time, which makes this desk the perfect choice.
These desks are often smaller than traditional desks and are designed to be configured into rows. This design often allows for any expansion in workforce.
Can fit neatly into corners and ideal for a spacious office and comes with both curved and straight-edged designs.
Also known as an L-shaped desk, are made up of a main desk and an additional work surface that is perpendicular to the main desk. Great for if you need a large work surface.
Wave Desks have a curved front so that the desktop is deeper on one end than the other, allowing for larger equipment and provide extra support for your favoured hand whilst using a mouse. These desks come in either left-handed or right-handed options.
These are modular systems that easily fit together. Joining three together can provide you with a collaborative working space ideal for teams.
You should also consider whether your desks need, screens, integrated storage, modesty panels (don't dismiss this too quickly), or cable trays.
Get in touch and let us help you find the perfect desks for you and your team.
What would the perfect desk look like for you? Let us know in the comment section below. | 2019-04-22T08:48:29 | https://www.futurefile.co.uk/l/our-guide-to-office-desks-and-how-to-choose-the-right-one/ |
Do You Commit These 5 Pull Up Mistakes?
I remember clearly when I started calisthenics a few years ago, how sad I was when I realized that I could not do a single pull-up. I remember clearly when I started I was really annoyed, so I came up with my ideas how to make this exercise easier, to do at least 3-4. I tried to place my elbows in different angles, I just did about half of the motion, and I swung to push myself up high. Sometimes I looked like a mad monkey.
However, I was proud of myself as I could do 5-6 pull ups after some week.
The only problem was that what I did were not pull ups or at least not correct ones. And with that I could not get the results I wanted. In addition, I usually felt pain in my shoulders and forearms because of the bad performance.
I was so used to these “ugly” pull ups that it was hard to get rid of them when I learned how to do them correctly.
To sum it up, I made all the mistakes that are mentioned in the video below.
There is an essential factor if you work out that is always perform the moves correctly. No matter if you use weights or your own body. That is the only way to get results.
In the next video, you will learn the most common pull up mistakes and the techniques to cure them to enjoy all the benefits of this fantastic compound exercise.
Let’s recap what you have learned.
Do not use the momentum. Do not swing and keep your body as stable and straight as possible.
Place your elbows correctly that lets you pull them behind your back.
Concentrate on your back muscles by pulling your shoulders back.
Do the full range of motion. Go down and push yourself up over the bar.
What if you cannot make a pull up at all?
Instead of committing the mentioned mistakes to do one, there are a few exercises that can help you a lot. In the following video, you learn efficient methods. Or, try the assisted pull up machine first to get basic strength.
That is all guys! I think from these two videos you can learn everything you need to know about how to do pull-ups correctly. This bodyweight exercise will do a miracle to your upper body strength. Hence, do not neglect it from your workout routine.
Do you want to know what the best bodyweight back exercises are? Check this post!
Did you find these pull up tutorials helpful? Share with your friends.
How can I make more pull ups? I have been doing bodyweight exercises for about a year now. I develop with most of the well-known exercises such as push ups, dips, etc., but I cannot develop at pull-ups. I can make 8-10 reps correctly, but not more than that. Any ideas?
I had the same problem. Grip and abs strength is important, so do more exercises to improve the strength of these body parts. Here you can find exercises for grips. If you have extra fat on you, get rid of it. The lighter you are, the easier to pull. And finally, you may try doing lat pull-downs. | 2019-04-24T09:47:46 | https://fitbodybuzz.com/pull-up-mistakes/ |
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If internet videos could return me to a normal emotional state, I needed YouTube to be invented about 20 years earlier.
WTH, my indie station just played Public Enemy. Not even mad, good turking music.
wow dude, nothing was keeping you from still going for the last however long. wow. You thought you had it in the bag and ignored the fact I do the exact same thing, every day. 10k during the day, another 10 to 20k that night. You got cocky, that's on you.
I like to play up the angry old guy gimmick as much as possible. | 2019-04-25T04:35:57 | https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/04-12-fine-friday.2222/page-71 |
Happy Holidays to you & yours, El Gnomo!
Late getting back to you on this but I am excited!!! I probably wont pick it up till a few months later though when it starts getting more chilly here.
Ahh I see! Pretty cool.
Hah good question. I have some mutual friends with Parsons from the UF days, so I lurked for a while. Figured out this was a good board with some good people so I signed up!
Fan of the all the Florida teams (Gators, Heat, Dolphins; and none of the Houston teams).
How did you find your way here or what gives? Ha.
My cousin played football for Spurrier at UF when Wuerfel was QB. He won a NC, Sugar Bowl 52-20 against FSU. Jason Odom, RT. He was drafted by the Bucs and played for them for a bit. | 2019-04-24T15:55:03 | http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php?members/el-gnomo.53261/ |
Multibeam-bathymetric data from Kveithola Trough show a seafloor characterized by east–west-trending mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) overprinted by transverse grounding-zone wedges (GZWs). GZWs are thought to form by deposition of subglacial till at temporarily stable ice-sheet marine termini between successive episodic retreats (Batchelor & Dowdeswell 2015). Sub-bottom profiles show that the present-day morphology of Kveithola Trough is largely inherited from the palaeo-seafloor topography of the GZWs, which is now draped by deglacial to early Holocene glacimarine sediment about 15 m thick. The ice stream that produced such subglacial morphology was flowing from east to west towards the shelf edge in Kveithola Trough during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Its rapid retreat was probably associated with progressive lift-off and successive rapid melting of grounded ice induced by eustatic sea-level rise. | 2019-04-19T23:22:11 | https://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/231?etoc= |
Analog Devices has developed hundreds of reference designs to help solve our customers' system level application challenges from mixed signal designs, to software drivers and algorithm development.
The AD-FMCOMMS3-EBZ is a high-speed analog module designed to showcase the AD9361, a high performance, highly integrated RF transceiver intended for use in RF applications.
It’s a new beginning for Analog Devices and Linear Technology, and together we become the high-performance analog industry leader. Browse our Combo Circuits from the Lab to help you solve your circuit design challenge. | 2019-04-25T04:55:46 | https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/reference-designs.html |
Choose a main color – find inspiration from the blue sea, green palms, white sand, or another element you fall in love with. Maybe even just your favorite color!
Choose an accent color. I love complementary colors that really POP off of the main color. These are colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. Use the Color Scheme Designer to play with different ideas.
Choose a third color. I like using a neutral base – think white, ivory, sand, navy, chocolate or black.
Its good to try to keep the colors within the same saturation range when you are playing with different colors together. Example: soft pastels or rich jewel tones. If you’re going for a monochromatic palette, layer varying saturation of the same hue. Bottom line, have fun! Play! Get inspired! Check out our Pinterest Boards for ideas or look through color palettes below. | 2019-04-26T06:01:06 | http://somethingbluevi.com/caribbean-wedding-color-palettes/ |
Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her influence extends far beyond the borders of her country, inspiring hope that Islam, democracy and all human rights can co-exist despite the challenges faced in these turbulent times. Defying government obstacles, she also created and is the leader of one of the first independent, non-governmental human rights organizations in Iran: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child.
"Shirin Ebadi received the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for her democracy-building efforts and her work to improve human rights in Iran"
As a woman in Iran, Shirin Ebadi''s life has paralleled the dramatic changes within her country, and her call for dissent and support for human rights has rung clear during the political and religious upheaval in the Middle East. Making history as the first woman judge in Iran, Ebadi was stripped of her basic rights by the religious revolutionaries, whom she once supported, who declared women unfit to serve as judges. She fought her way back as a human rights lawyer, defending women and children in controversial, politically charged cases. She has been arrested and been the target of assassination, but through it all, has spoken out with quiet bravery on behalf of victims of injustice and discrimination.
Shirin Ebadi is a formidible and courageous speaker, who received the Legion d''honneur degree from French president Jacques Chirac in 2006. Having received more than 20 honorary doctorate degrees from different countries in USA, Canada, Turkey and Australia, she provides her respected unique perspective on issues including philosophy, religion & spirituality, ethics, religion, society, motivation and inspiration, development policy and law.
Independent, outspoken, and incredibly intelligent, Shirin Ebadi is a towering figure with a commanding voice that will not be silenced. She courageously champions democracy and basic human rights for women, children and all individuals. | 2019-04-18T14:18:23 | https://www.celebrityspeakers.nl/eng/our-speakers/profile/shirin_ebadi |
Home Resource Metal by Tutorials: New Chapters Now Available!
If you aren’t familiar with Metal, it’s Apple’s framework for programming on the GPU. The framework allows you to build your own game engine where you can create 3D scenes and build your own 3D games. This book will introduce you graphics programming in the trusted By Tutorials style.
Chapter 11, Tessellation and Terrains: In Chapter 10, “Fragment Post-Processing,” you learned how to detect a rectangle, how to take advantage of the Vision framework and how to turn a detected surface into an ARKit plane. However, you left the plane generation chapter with one outstanding issue: it’s not oriented correctly. You’ll fix that in this chapter. You’ll also “upgrade” the rectangle detection with QR code detection and you’ll add some user interaction, too.
Chapter 12, Environment: Learn about sjyboxes, cube maps, image-based lighting and more as you add some surrounding features to your virtual environment. | 2019-04-20T03:14:16 | https://smartsoftware247.com/metal-by-tutorials-new-chapters-now-available/ |
Insight is the clear understanding of a complex situation. From the course, I developed three insights that represented important things that I learnt. These insights are personally important to me and they will help me in future as a project manager. These insights were the importance of psychic prison metaphor in project and organizational management, importance of imaginization in management and the importance of creating value to an organization. This essay describes what these insights were, why they were personally important to me and how I may act on them in future.
From the course, I learnt the concept of psychic prison metaphor. This concept argues that human beings have a knack for being trapped in webs of their own creation. Since people’s ideas run and manage organizations, it is hard for them to find new ways of running the organization. This leads them to be prisoners of their own old ideas. Morgan described how this concept works by using an allegory known as The Republic, where people found themselves chained in a cave and they could not move or see what was outside their cave (Morgan, 1997). The reality of the people who were in the cave were the shadows in front of them and the sounds that they heard from outside. Thus, they ended up constructing the reality of the outside world based on what they experience inside the cave. If someone from outside world happened to come in the cave and tell the dwellers of the cave what the outside world was like, the dwellers would not believe and they would prefer sticking to what they think the outside world is like (Schabenland, 2006). Considering this concept, managers are able to understand why most workers find it hard to accept organizational change. It is important for workers to learn this concept since it would help them know of ways that they may be caught in a self-sealing work-place environment. Furthermore, some managers find it hard to change their leadership styles since they still trust their old styles even if they are not profitable.
The insight of organization as a psychic prison was important to me due to several reasons. By understanding this concept, I came to learn of ways that I may happen to find myself caught in the psychic prison. Furthermore, I learnt the importance of changing my personal beliefs if I find that they are not helping the organization achieve its goals and profitability. I also learnt the importance of trying to fit with the organization culture by changing my personal attitudes. Organization culture is important since it helps maintaining a good working environment in any organization (Cameron, 2006). From the concept of psychic prison, I came to learn why I might find it difficult to accept change in the organization that I work in. Most people in an organization do not accept change since they fear that they may lose power on the individual level. This is because most managers feel that when they accept change, they may end up giving their subordinates more power. Furthermore, workers may feel that organizational changes may end up threatening their job security. This is because after an organization undergoes transformation, some departments may be eliminated and thus causing lay-offs in the organization (Palmer, Dunford and Akin, 2008). In addition to this, workers may not be willing to undergo new forms of training in order to understand the organizational changes. Due to these factors, I came to learn why workers prefer to remain in their psychic prisons and fight for their old values and beliefs. Moreover, the concept of psychic prison helped me understand the importance of finding ways of achieving integration and balance in an organization. Integration and balance of employees and activities in an organization helps the employees work in their environment more efficiently and communicate more effectively and thus they share their own ideas more freely. Due to this, a worker would not be trapped in his own ideas and imaginations that may create conflict and disagreements in the organization.
In future, I might act on the insight of organization as a psychic prison in several ways. I may use ideas generated by the brain to increase the understanding of how to co-ordinate activities in an organization and not stick to old ideas that the brain generated before. Furthermore, this insight would help me understand the need of changing from the rationality of bureaucracy, a concept that most organizations adopt in their management structure. This is because bureaucracy discourages innovation and creativity of workers and thus workers would stick to old production methods even though they cause the organization to suffer massive losses (Bilton, 2007). In addition to this, this management structure leads to dissatisfaction of employees and thus an organization may end up suffering high rates of employee turnover. I also learnt of ways of reducing the effect of organization as a psychic prison. In future, if I have an organization and I want to avoid employees being trapped in a web of their own ideas, I would first train them on benefits accepting change. Through the training, the employees would learn of ways of successfully accepting change. Furthermore, I would allow employees to give their own personal contributions on how to improve organization management. By contributing their own ideas, the employees would feel that the organization values them and thus they would not be trapped in their own psychic prison (Delbridge, Gratton and Johnson, 2006). From this insight, I came to learn on benefits of changing my ideas and welcoming organizational change. This is because new ideas on management may lead to cost savings in an organization. This is because new production methods that a worker may suggest may reduce wastages and shortages of production. Furthermore, it may improve corporate relationships due to th better relations with suppliers and customers. Due to this, the corporate image of the firm may improve thus boosting its sales and revenues.
From the course, I learnt the insight of imaginization in project management. This concept allows managers to use creativity and critical thinking to find new ways of solving tasks facing them (Morgan, 1997). If a manager faces the problem of poor and ineffective communication between all his workers that leads to wastages in production process, he needs to find out the root cause of the problem. He needs to find out whether the noise that production machines produce causes the communication breakdown or whether poor selection of a communication channel causes it. This concept stresses on the importance of all employees creating a shared understanding for its success. It argues that if all the employees in an organization share a common understanding, then it is likely that the organization would have a sense of shared vision and values and thus the organization will be able to achieve all its goals and objectives (Owen, 2009). Furthermore, this insight concentrates on personal empowerment as one of its pillars for success. It acknowledges that when a person thinks that his role is being challenged by any factor, he may fail to find a way of responding to this challenge. Imagination helps people grasp new perspectives on the situation facing them and find new possibility for development. This insight also concentrates on developing capacities for continuous self-organization. By using this idea, a manager would be able to anticipate the challenges that may face a particular project and find ways of preparing himself for the challenges that may face him (Chong, 2010). Moreover, this insight concentrates on finding new images for new ways of organizing a project. It argues that although organization charts are an important tool in defining management, they are a limiting tool since they imply an organization is a structure that people can freely engineer and re-engineer for success of a particular project.
The insight on the importance of imaginization to project management was important to me due to several reasons. From this insight, I came to learn on the importance of a manager using creativity in order to change his management styles. Most managers view employees as machines and thus they design wage systems based on piece rate compensation. A manager could use creativity in order to develop other models of compensation such as based on the quality of work or level of customer satisfaction (Cicmili, 2006). Through this, the quality of products that an organization produces would improve and at the same time improving employee satisfaction. Furthermore, imaginization stresses on the importance of observing the cultural differences of all employees in order to manage them successfully. If a manager concentrates on understanding the cultural diversity of all his employees, then he would manage them better since he would avoid doing things that are not in accordance to the beliefs or culture of a particular employee (Schwabenland, 2006). Furthermore, imaginization helped me identify new ways of designing an organization structure instead of concentrating on the traditional organization structures that encouraged bureaucracy. Through this insight, I learnt of the importance of managers involving employees in major management decisions. If he involves the employees in these decisions, employees would become more motivated since they would know that management values their personal views. The employee turnover would thus reduce and thus the organization would not incur additional costs on hiring and training new employees . This insight also stresses on the importance of a manager anticipating challenges that may face his project and looking for creative ways of finding solutions for these challenges. Due to this, I learnt of the importance of an organization b preparing itself for any uncertainties or risks that may face it. These risks include financial and operational risks.
In future, I may act on this insight in several ways. This insight would help me use creativity to solve organizational problems that may be facing me. For example, if sales in a project that I am managing continue dropping due to intense competition in the market that I may be operating in, I will use creativity to find new ways of shifting my target market to a group that other companies are not concentrating on. Furthermore, if my company incurs high supply chain costs, I may use creativity to try to reduce the supply chain network in order to cut down the distribution costs hence improving profitability. Furthermore, I would use this insight to encourage employee participation in critical tasks that my company engages in. Through employee participation, I would be able to increase democracy in the organization and thus improving employee retention and satisfaction (Palmer, Dunford and Akin, 2008). Furthermore, if I get assistance from my employees in formulating organization goals and plans, then the employees would be more comfortable in executing tasks that they formulated in the organizational plan. This insight would also help me anticipate challenges that may face the project that I manage. By anticipating the challenges and losses, I would be setting aside provisions that would cover these uncertainities thus avoiding huge financial losses.
From the course, I came to learn on the insight of organizations concentrating on the importance of creating value rather than concentrating on product creation. By concentrating on this insight, organizations would focus on the benefits a particular project brings to the organization. If an organization successfully adopts this concept, then it would consider concentrating on the satisfaction of all its customers and increasing the shareholders wealth by investing in viable projects (Cameron, 2006). According to research conducted by varioous scholars, this concept moves from the traditional perspective that customer’s offering is an output of the production process to the perspective that customer’s offering is an input in value creation of customer’s processes. Due to this fact, a company would be concentrating on looking at customer’s requirements and specification before producing any good or offering any service (Delbridge, Gratton and Johnson, 2006). This would help in reducing complaints from customers due to increased customer satisfaction. Value creation lies on the principle of concentrating on the benefit of a particular program rather than the product of the project. Furthermore, it concentrates on improving second level relationship between the company and its customers. When companies adopt this concept, they should consider understanding the context of a business first and use this concept as the guiding framework of developing a project. This concept also emphasizes on the importance of long-term profitability of a company rather than short-term profitability. This would also ensure that the organization maintains its going concern. Furthermore, value creation helps an organization attain maximum efficiency in its processes of production thus eliminating wastages and delays.
The insight on the importance of organizations concentrating on creating value was important to me due to several reasons. From this insight, I was able to know why companies such as DuPoint and Coca-Cola have succeeded in obtaining a large market share worldwide after adopting this insight. I also leant that it was not easy to incorporate value creation in an organization since in some situations it may fail to integrate well with the culture of an organization. It was also important to me since I came to learn that when management adopts this concept, it needs to concentrate on budgeting its funds to avoid wastages, strategic planning in order to define future goals and performance measurement in order to identify departments in an organization that fail to achieve the set targets. I also learnt on the importance of training all the employees in an organization so that they become aware on the importance of creating value in an organization and how they could help in value creation. From this insight, I learnt of the benefits of an organization concentrating on its long-term profitability and thus it does everything in order to create value to the customer operations (Winter, Andersen, Elvin and Luvene, 2006). This insight was also important to me since I learnt the criteria that financial managers and project managers use to select projects that would help in creating value to an organization. I learnt that managers have to determine first how much money to invest in a particular project. The managers then calculate the returns that they earn from that project and determine whether they are sufficient to cover the risks. If the returns are not sufficient to cover risks, then the investment opportunity is not creating value to the organization or customers and thus the managers should consider abandoning the project (Holman and Thorpe, 2002). Furthermore, this insight was important to me since it gave me the urge of researching further on the process that a project manager should follow in order to implement value creation in his organization. I learnt that the project manager should first consider gaining commitment from the senior management about his proposal. He should then develop a customized value creation framework for the organization. Lastly, he should concentrate on ensuring that all employees accept value creation in their organization.
In future, I might act on the insight of value creation in several ways. I would ensure all the projects that I manage concentrate on creating value to customers. I would achieve this by ensuring I follow customer specifications in all the projects that I engage in. Furthermore, I would ensure that I listen to customer’s complaints at all the times and change my production methods so that they correspond to what the consumers want (Palmer, Dunford and Akin, 2008). Furthermore, I would concentrate in carrying a market research first before I launch a new product in the market so that I include customer requirements in all my products thus creating value in the organization. Furthermore, this insight taught me on the importance of project appraisal before investing in any given project. In future, I would first calculate the long-term profitability of projects that my company proposes to invest. I would then consider the risks that I may face when I invest in that particular project and if the risks are more than the returns, I would advice my company to abandon the project. From this insight, I learnt on the importance of educating all the employees before introducing a concept of value creation if it was not present in an organization. In future, before I implement value creation in my organization, I would first train all my employees on the importance of accepting change in an organization. Furthermore, I would then advice them on how to easily incorporate value creation in their organization.
To conclude, from the course I learnt many things. I learnt on the benefits of concentrating on organization and political culture from the case study of Multicom and Media 2000. Furthermore, I came to learn how managers could use imaginization in order to manage an organization better. Furthermore, I learnt how the blueprint of London’s Olympic had included emerging trends in project management such as integrated business solutions, organizational change and delivery of long-term public services. From the course, I developed the insight on the importance of the concept of psychic prison, imaginizition and value creation. In future, I may use these insights to improve customer satisfaction in all the projects that I engage in, change management styles and implement organization change more effectively. | 2019-04-25T10:35:14 | https://supreme-essay.com/samples/management-/the-reflective-project-manager.html |
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I would like to get one lakshmi narasimhar saligram. can you please tell me where i will get good ones.
Pls. note that buying and selling of shri shaligram is prohibited and anyone indulged in such act will be punished and will remain in hails for a very long time as per puranas ( skanda Puran and Padma Puran ) .
Hare Krishna!!! My name is Harigana das, I'm an iskcon pujari in Mexico City, and I worship at home 2 Salagram Shilas, 1 as Radharani and 1 as Krishna., I understand that technically speaking Salagram is Lord Vishnu himself, but, if we check the story of Radha Raman from Vrindavan, the Salagram Shila of Gopal Bhata Goswami self manifested as Krishna! So, if wherever Lord Vishnu is Sri Laksmi is also there, therefore, wherever Lord Krishna is Sri Radharani is also there right? So, this is not my only question, the thing is that I worship 2 Salagram Shilas, and some devotees say that according to sastra, we most worship 1 or 4 or 6 or 8 and so on in even numbers...1 Salagram is ok, and more than that has to be in even numbers, but to have 2 or 3 Salagram is not considered to be ok!!! What is your opinion about this matter? I love Radha and Krishna, but I also love Salagram Shilas, I most have 2 Salagram Shilas since the mood of my worship towards them is as Radha and Krishna! Hope you can give me an answer!
Can any one help me to buy Anantha Saligrama or LAKSHMI NARAYAN SHALIGRAM? | 2019-04-24T10:42:50 | http://bharathkidilse.blogspot.com/2009/09/shaligram.html |
For quite some time I’ve been waiting and hoping for the day when I live in a space where I can paint a wall of stripes and assemble a wall of picture frames. That day has finally arrived! I wandered over to Georgia Ave Thrift Store today, my favorite thrift store thus far this side of DC (not the overpriced “antique” store near my apartment), and snagged a few sweet picture frames. With such a great selection of frames to choose from, it was really a tough decision. I must have spent at least an hour obsessing over the options … and possibilities. But, I ultimately decided to grab a few frames in the old world style, in all different shapes and sizes. My decor is a bit rustic — lots of wood, neutral/earthy tones, and metal — and I felt that the elegance of a few old world frames would really add a nice touch.
I wasn’t too jazzed about the colors because they wouldn’t really work with my decor, and I’m a sucker for consistency. You could say that I’m a recovering match-aholic (I absolutely can’t wear gold and silver at the same time). So, I bought a can of brushed nickle spray paint and hurried on home before I bought anything else. (I also snagged an awesome decanter. Now I have to figure out how to use it.) Not wanting to end up with an entire wall of elegant silver frames (snooze-fest), I decided to create some contrast by adding a couple simple stained wooden frames.
Strategically organizing the frames on the wall was trickier than I thought it would be. You can go for the structured, even look. I preferred a more haphazard, yet organized feel. I didn’t want the frames to line up completely, I wanted a bit of organized overlap. Some suggest plotting out a diagram to help guide your frame placement beforehand. I, however, went the trial and error route, so you can imagine how many holes are in my wall right now from placement failure. If you have the foresight to create a diagram, go for it! If not, you can always cover the holes with, well, frames of course!
I love the results! Every stroll through my hallway is just a treat. It’s really a daily blast from the past. I always receive compliments from visitors both on the wall gallery itself and the quality of my personal photography. I’ll continue to add frames, rearrange frames, and swap out photos to keep things interesting. | 2019-04-24T01:06:56 | http://theothercat.com/the-crafts/diy/wall-o-picture-frames/ |
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, ed. by Charles Henry Rowell.
This is a bizarre collection. It seems that it has been pulled together as a relentless “anti” to one thing: the Black Arts Movement. Charles Henry Rowell’s introduction and many of the quotes he gleans are aimed at rendering the Black Arts Movement as old school, backward, fundamentally artless. He calls his poets “literary,” i.e., Black Literary poets.
is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves, as artists, to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody. These poets bear witness to the interior landscape of their own individual selves or examine the private or personal worlds of invented personae and, therefore, of human beings living in our modern and postmodern worlds.
My God, what imbecilic garbage! You mean, forget the actual world, have nothing to do with the real world and real people ... invent it all! You can see how that would be some far-right instruction for “a marginalized community,” especially one with the history of the Afro-American people: We don’t want to hear all that stuff ... make up a pleasanter group of beings with pleasanter, more literary lives than yourselves and then we will perhaps consider it art!
This embarrassing gobbledygook was probably a paraphrase of the editor’s personal gobble. But the copywriters might be given a temporary pass because they know nothing about Afro-American literature; it is the Norton“suits” that could be looked at askance because of their ignorant hiring practices.
Rowell says this is an image for the poet’s struggle and transcendence. But Lord, I never did see myself or the poets I admired and learned from as awkward patsies! In 1985, Rowell had Larry Neal on the cover of his literary magazine Callaloo, after Larry’s death from a heart attack at forty-three. You can look in the magazine and see that Larry Neal was no “awkward patsy.” Or that after leaping / falling we would not be glorified by some unidentified “silken rustling in the air, / the angle of ascent / achieved.”Actually it sounds like some kind of social climbing. Ascent to where, a tenured faculty position?
Rowell’s attempt to analyze and even compartmentalize Afro-American poetry is flawed from the jump. He has long lived as the continuing would-be yelp of a Robert Hayden canonization. Back in 1966 I was invited to Fisk University, where Hayden and Rowell taught. I had been invited by Nikki Giovanni, who was still a student at Fisk. Gwen Brooks was there. Hayden and I got into it when he said he was first an artist and then he was Black. I challenged that with the newly-emerging ideas that we had raised at the Black Arts Repertory Theatre School in Harlem in 1965, just after Malcolm X’s assassination. We said the art we wanted to create should be identifiably, culturally Black — like Duke Ellington’s or Billie Holiday’s. We wanted it to be a mass art, not hidden away on university campuses. We wanted an art that could function in the ghettos where we lived. And we wanted an art that would help liberate Black people. I remember that was really a hot debate, and probably helped put an ideological chip on Rowell’s shoulder.
I find the list of what Rowell calls “Precursors” quite flawed, but it predicts and even prefaces his explanations and choices. He lists Gwendolyn Brooks,Robert Hayden, and Melvin B. Tolson. But how can one exclude Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, andMargaret Walker, who are the major poets of the period after the Harlem Renaissance? This kind of cherry-picking reveals all too clearly what Rowell means by “literary” poets.
Brooks’s most penetrating works illuminate Black life and the “hood.” Langston, most people know, is the major voice of that period and what we mean when we talk about Afro-American poetry. What is distinctive about Rowell’s introduction is that just about every page mentions the “Black Arts Movement,” “the Black Aesthetic poets,” “the Black Power Movement” — all like some menacing political institutions. But that poetry was created in a different time, place, and condition from the verse that Rowell presents here as new revelation.
In other words, the works of these new poets are the direct results of what such poets as Yusef Komunyakaa, Ai, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Toi Derricotte, Harryette Mullen, Nathaniel Mackey — the first wave — dared write, which is whatever they wanted and in whatever forms and styles they desired, as the influence of the Black Arts Movement was first entering its decline.
Growing up in the South, having closely observed what hatred does to the human spirit, how it corrupts and diminishes ... I unconsciously disavowed any direct association with the Black Arts Movement.
Are we being faulted for “hating” slavery, white supremacy, and racism? For trying to fight back, just as the Deacons for Defense and Justice did by routing the Klan in Komunyakaa’s own hometown of Bogalusa, Louisiana?
By the time I started to write seriously, when I was I was eighteen or nineteen years old, the Black Arts Movement had gained momentum; notice had been taken. The time was ripe; all one had to do was walk up to the door they had been battering at and squeeze through the breech.
As I wrote more and more ... I realized that the blighted urban world inhabited by the poems of the Black Arts Movement was not mine. I had grown up in Ohio ... I enjoyed the gamut of middle class experience, in a comfy house with picket fences and rose bushes on a tree-lined street in West Akron.
But that is not the actual life of the Black majority, who have felt the direct torture and pain of national oppression, and that is what the Black Arts Movement was focusing on, transforming the lives of the Black majority! We wanted to aid in the liberation of the Afro-American people with our art, with our poetry. But the deeper we got into the reality of this task, the more overtly political we became.
The lynching of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks’s resistance, Dr. King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (the peoples’ resistance), the bombing of Dr. King’s home in Montgomery. The sit-ins, sclc, the Civil Rights Movement. The emergence of Robert F. Williams and his direct attack on the Klan. The emergence of Malcolm X. I went to Cuba on the first anniversary of the Cuban revolution. The rise and murder of Patrice Lumumba, the African Liberation Movement. I met poets like Askia M. Touré and Larry Neal in front of the un screaming our condemnation of the us, the un, Belgium, Rockefeller for murdering Lumumba and our support for Maya Angelou, Louise Meriwether, Rosa Guy, Abbey Lincoln (all great artists), running up into the un to defy Ralph Bunche. The March on Washington, the bombing 0f 16th St. Baptist Church and the murder of four little girls. JFK’s assassination, Watts, Malcolm’s assassination, Dr. King’s assassination, rebellions across America!
All those major events we lived through. If we responded to them as conscious Black intellectuals, we had to try to become soldiers ourselves. That is why we wrote the way we did, because we wanted to. We wanted to get away from the faux English academic straitjackets passed down to us by the Anglo-American literary world.
Rowell thinks the majority of Afro-American poets are MFA recipients or professors. Wrong again! Obviously the unity and struggle in the civil rights and Black Liberation movements have resulted in a slight wiggle of “integration” among the narrowest sector of the Afro-American people. Rowell gives us a generous helping of these university types, many co-sanctioned by the Cave Canem group, which has energized us poetry by claiming a space for Afro-American poetry, but at the same time presents a group portrait of Afro-American poets as mfa recipients.
Rowell organizes his view of Afro-American poetry like this:precursors, Modernists, 1940s–1960s; the black arts movement, The 1960s and Beyond. There’s me, Mari Evans, Nikki Giovanni, Bobb Hamilton, David Henderson, Calvin C. Hernton, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, A.B. Spellman, and Edward S. Spriggs. Where is the great Henry Dumas or Amus Mor, who inspired a whole generation of us? Where are the Last Poets, whether the originals Gylan Kain, David Nelson, Felipe Luciano or the later incarnation Abiodun Oyewole, or Umar Bin Hassan? Most of the poets in the ground-shaking anthology that tried to sum up the Black Arts breakthrough, Black Fire, are nixed.
Of the group “Outside the Black Arts Movement,” Bob Kaufman and LeRoi Jones(Rowell omits Ted Joans) were called “the Black Beats” and had already formed, under the influence of William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, and the surrealists, a united front against academic poetry with Allen Ginsbergand the Beats, the San Francisco school, O’Hara and the New York School,Charles Olson and the Black Mountain poets. It was the murder of Malcolm X that sent me and other Black artists screaming out of the various Greenwich Villages to a variety of Harlems!
We saw poets like June Jordan as allies. Check her statement in this anthology: “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” Lucille Clifton and I were classmates at Howard, taught by the great Sterling Brown, as were Toni Morrison and A.B. Spellman. Brown’s fundamental insight on America flows through our works.
That Rowell can disconnect Etheridge Knight from the deep spirit of the Black Arts Movement is fraudulent. Sherley Anne Williams says in her blurb, “I remain, more firmly now than then, a proponent of Black consciousness, of ‘The Black Aesthetic’ and so I am a political writer.” You ever read Alice Walker’s marvelous poem “Each One Pull One”?
We do not worship them. We do not worship what they have made. We do not trust them we do not believe what they say.
Jayne Cortez is obviously close to the spirit of the Black Arts Movement, in the content and force of her poetry, although Rowell stays away from her best known works. Lorenzo Thomas, who actually identified with the Black Arts Movement, is likewise dissed. It is the spirit of resistance, of unity and struggle that connects us. And where is the mighty Sekou Sundiata, whom I first met when he was sixteen at a meeting for those getting ready to go to the 6th Pan African Congress in Dar es Salaam? One of the finest poets of his generation, and not even a mention. Plus no mention of Marvin X, who founded Black Arts West in 1966 with Ed Bullins.
Gaston Neal, criminally underknown, was also director of the New School for Afro-American Thought in dc. His work has yet to be published in its collected version. If you don’t know Sun Ra’s music, it’s doubtful you know his own powerful verse. Other missing significant: Arthur Pfister. Tom Mitchelson, Kalamu ya Salaam, Amina Baraka, Brian Gilmore, Mervyn Taylor, Lamont Steptoe, John Watusi Branch, Everett Hoagland, Devorah Major, Kenneth Carroll, DJ Renegade, Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Charlie Braxton. Where is Nikki Finney? Or the bard of Trenton, Doc Long?
We must urge our artists and scholars ... our most advanced folks fighting for equal rights and self-determination ... to create an art and scholarship that is historically and culturally authentic, that is public and for the people, that is revolutionary.
A sharp class distinction has arisen, producing a mini-class of Blacks who benefited most by the civil rights and Black Liberation movements, thinking and acting as if our historic struggle has been won so that they can become as arrogant and ignorant as the worst examples of white America.
It is obvious, as well, looking through this book, that it has been little touched by the last twenty years of Afro-American life, since it shows little evidence of the appearance of spoken word and rap. E.G. Bailey, Jessica Care Moore, Ras Baraka, Ewuare X. Osayande, Zayid Muhammad, Taalam Acey, Rasim Allah, Black Thought, Daniel Beatty, Saul Williams, and Staceyann Chin are all missing. This “new American poetry” is mostly dull as a stick.
Without the fetters of narrow political and social demands that have nothing to do with the production of artistic texts, black American poets, since the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement, have created an extraordinary number of aesthetically deft poems that both challenge the concept of “the American poem” and extend the dimensions of American poetry.
This is poppycock at its poppiest and cockiest. You mean the struggle for our humanity is a fetter (to whom? Negroes seeking tenure in these white schools who dare not mumble a cross word?). Why is the struggle for equal rights and self-determination narrow? To whom? Racists? You think Fred Douglass was not one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth century because he kept demanding an end to slavery? Bah, Humbug!
As for the Black Power movement’s “death,” last I heard we have an Afro-American president who has taught the Republicans the value of community organizing twice. But what Rowell proves is that the old Black-White dichotomy is in the past, at least on the surface. The struggle, as my wife Amina always says, is about whose side you’re on. Romney and them lost because they don’t even know what country they’re in. Neither does Charles Rowell. | 2019-04-26T08:28:41 | https://www.tribes.org/web/2013/06/14/a-post-racial-anthology |
Sarah Gambito and Joseph O. Legaspi were sitting in a hammock at a big, Filipino family gathering. Surrounded by food, love, and comradery, the two friends came to a realization: We need this in our literary lives. Right then and there, they agreed that Asian American writers needed a place to find family—and they were going to create that space.
While Gambito and Legaspi may not have necessarily set out to alter the literary landscape by creating Kundiman, that’s exactly they did.
The heart of Kundiman is the summer retreat, which brings in new fellows each year—with attention to diversity in ethnicities, identities, genre, and style—to study with established APIA writers. That’s where fellows most readily find the literary family Gambito and Legaspi dreamed of in that hammock. And today, these fellows have collectively published more than 200 books of poetry and fiction. They’ve garnered top awards, teach in writing programs around the country, and are working in their communities as teaching artists and organizers.
As Kundiman celebrates its 15th anniversary this week (you can still get tickets to their fabulous NYC gala), we’ve got a list of 15 Kundiman writers whose work—on and off the page—celebrate and foster community and family.
Palestinian-American poet, author, activist, and bioengineering PhD candidate George Abraham’s work is as necessarily complex as it is clear in intensity and purpose. As one reviewer noted regarding their use of the colonizer’s language: “Abraham masterfully takes over the English language, as well as the English poetic tradition, to deliver a profoundly diasporic Arab narrative.” Holding multiple consciousnesses and homes within them, Abraham queers language, crosses borders, and moves their readers/listeners profoundly. They have two new works forthcoming: Birthright from Button Poetry and a hybrid poetry/art chapbook with artist Leila Abdelrazaq the specimen’s apology from Sibling Rivalry Press.
Maybe you know Asghar as the writer and co-creator for the Emmy-nominated web series, “Brown Girls.” This groundbreaking show about the friendship between women of color in Chicago has been delighting all of us queers of color—and it promises to get an even wider audience, having been picked up last summer by HBO. But you should also know this poet and performer for her “brutally beautiful” poems that explore the complexities of being a woman, immigrant, an orphan, of having a brown body that breaks and heals. Her debut book of poems, If They Come for Us from One World/Random House, is on shelves now.
There’s no hiding in a Jason Bayani poem. You come for tough love, for straight talk on what it means to navigate American culture as a Filipino American man, for the painful wrestling of ancestral and personal memories. And you’re rewarded with brilliant flashes of what personal and societal transformation can look like. Bayani’s not only a talented poet, he also helps foster the Asian American arts scene in San Francisco as the artistic director of the Kearny Street Workshop. Keep an eye out for his second book of poems, Locus out next year from Omnidawn Publishing.
Brown explains the genesis of his latest collection of poetry, ICON: “My complete name is Frederick Douglas Brown. How could one named after such a remarkable figure avoid it?” Taking this challenge head-on, Brown considers and re-considers role models and heroes through musical and deeply moving poems. A committed educator for more than 20 years, Brown is also the co-founder and curator of “un::fade::able-The Requiem for Sandra Bland,” a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism.
Chen doesn’t so much write poems as alchemically weave text that stitches itself into the seams of your body, demanding a visceral response. “Tell me a fragment, show me a secret ingredient slipped between gaps of memory,” they demand. Sense and meaning in their work comes not from linear logic but from gut logic, heart logic: the logic of resistance and revolution long practiced by queer folks and people of color. A writer and a community organizer, Chen recently won the Transgender Poetry Lambda Award for their latest collection, recombinant.
We’re waiting with anticipation for Choi’s latest poetry collection, Soft Science, to be released by Alice James Books next year. Like the rest of her work, expect it to be smart, funny, rigorous, and deeply invested in shaking things up in order to build a different world. This “queer, Korean-American poet, playwright, teacher, organizer, pottymouth, GryffinClaw, and general overachiever” makes a lot of things happen, including the Brew & Forge Book Fair, which brings together poetry readers and writers to build capacity in social justice community organizations.
Doan finds enormous pleasure in the beauty, imagination, and most importantly, flair in the work of his favorite soccer players and his favorite poets. Lucky for us, his own work sparks with those very same qualities. Doan’s first collection—a deceptively quiet meditation on violence, gender, desire, and belonging—We Play a Game, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 2017.
As an educator, Giles lives for “the first time someone opens their mouth and believes in the power of their own story.” As a seasoned performer, Giles channels their own power and stories to take audiences for harrowing, heart-wrenching, and redemptive rides. Giles is an international and national Underground Poetry Slam Champion from Honolulu, Hawai’i. Their finely crafted poems build on the oral traditions of Polynesia to take on contemporary issues of immigrant identity, colonization, representation, and masculinity.
Our stories are our own; we must tell them or others will create alternative narratives—often false, often harmful. Formerly undocumented and a fierce organizer for Undocupoets, Joseph has honed her storytelling across multiple genres as a poet (her collection Driving Without a License won the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize), essayist, and librettist. Joseph’s work weaves her own truths and luminous stories within today’s anti-immigrant and racist contexts. And by so doing, she helps us become clearer on the work we must do to shape this world into a different story we all can tell.
Lyrical and devastating, Moon’s poetry might leave you a little broken. I think of it as an invitation to abandon what keeps me comfortable, to loosen any fixed understandings of identity I might have, and to accompany Moon more authentically as she navigates society. As she explains: “I was born in India and adopted into a white, Southern family. From an early age, I learned that ‘belonging’ meant complicating traditional narratives.” She is at work on a second collection of poetry that examines adoption, infanticide, and women’s rights in India.
Shah writes with revelatory honesty about memory, racism, love, and community. Her essays read like a heart-to-heart you might have with your BFF, while her stories beautifully evoke longing, lacunae, love. And across genres, her work is embodied—visceral and intimate—so it comes as no surprise that her pedagogy as a teacher is informed by meditation and movement traditions. “Writing is a physical act and these experiences and practices fundamentally altered my approach to writing and teaching,” she says.
What does it mean to be “foreign”—in a place, to oneself, within the world? That word and its weight figure in both Shepard’s memoir title (The Girl from Foreign) and her debut short story in the New Yorker (“Foreign-Returned”). No wonder: the Pakistani-American writer and documentary filmmaker’s work interrogates questions place, loss, and identity. “I’m absorbed by the narratives we carry with us and how they inform and shape who we are, as well as by the idea that our migrations are not always linear paths from old country to new country but in fact a navigation, or a re-navigation, of multiple trajectories,” she says.
Vang’s Afterland won the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. So if you haven’t yet picked it up, do yourself a favor and dive into Vang’s poems about the aftermath of the U.S. “Secret War” in Laos and its effect on the Hmong people. “How does one memorialize a failed war that most people don’t even know about or would rather forget?” she asked in a New York Times Op Ed. Her acclaimed poetry debut, (“among the most satisfying débuts by an American poet in some time”) is a powerful, skillful, and devastating answer to that question.
Tamiko Beyer is a poet, freelance writer, and author of We Come Elemental, Dovetail (co-authored with Kimiko Hahn) and bough breaks. | 2019-04-19T04:23:55 | https://lithub.com/the-newest-wave-of-asian-american-writers-you-should-know/ |
Utah now penalizes a texting driver who causes a fatality as harshly as a drunken driver who kills someone. Since I live in the state and know some people who lost their son (who was on his way home from his son's soccer game, sitting at a stoplight and got rear-ended) to a teenager who was texting and driving, I find this especially applicable. Full-blown negligence. | 2019-04-19T08:21:14 | https://longboredsurfer.com/links/driven-to-distraction---nytimescom |
This season fashion is taking prompts from the 80s and 90s and the jewellery styles are also following outfit. Have a look at some of the styles that are being revitalised in the newest in the bling.
The interest from the buyers to research with stylish jewellery while still building a collection of responsible pieces that can be utilized in varied settings is larger than ever. The hottest style now is the adjustable chains. It is quite difficult to navigate the lengths of the necklace that should exactly match the outfit. With the caliber to get adjusted from choker length to opera length, a single adjustable length chain can take care of the whole issue. Nowadays, gold long necklace designs in 30 grams, are coming with adjustable chains so that you can easily match it with any type of outfit.
Nowadays designers are also displaying some asymmetrical earrings in the runway. When the swinging chain and tassel variations are mix and match, they are giving a very cool look. You can wear a pair of earing that brushes your shoulder with a hoop.
Yet another very fun style from back 80s which is in trend now is the long chain linked gold bangles in 10 grams. They are very easy to wear and can be layered up. Just sparkle up your wrists with this newest style bangles’ can be worn every day and also on some special occasions.
Another biggest and hottest jewellery comeback are anklets. You can just dig your jewellery box and just polish them or else you can also check out some stores for some new variations. They will look just great with ankle cropped pants, flats or short skirt.
One of the hottest jewellery styles of 2018 is chandelier earrings which are very long, weighty and decorative. If the stones are real, they are even heavier but some custom jewellery with gems that are simulated are lighter and are quite comfortable. Chandeliers come more in dramatic old styles which have a great impact if you are going for an evening event. You can also wear one to keep in the asymmetrical mode.
The necklaces with pendants have become highly popular this year. Big amulets embedded in solid gold or silver looks just amazing when they swipe around your neck. Then layering these necklaces is yet another good way of showing your pendants. You can first start with a choker containing a pendant that hangs right on your collarbone and then you can put on longer necklaces that will reach your chest or waist. | 2019-04-25T00:06:56 | http://www.stylebees.com/jewellery-trends-2018/ |
Courtesy of Girma Berta and Addis Fine Art.
Girma Berta is a self-taught photographer who shoots his images on an iPhone. His vibrant, painterly work documents his hometown, Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The artist has been working as a graphic designer for some time while painting on the side, and both those mediums have seeped into his photographic work. In his project Moving Shadows I + II, we see masterful, cut-out individuals isolated stylishly on a bold and colourful background.
Girma claims to capture “the beautiful, the ugly and all that is in between”. He refuses to romanticise his subjects, simply documenting them as they are, in a moment of transit. “By isolating my figures”, the photographer explains, “it becomes just about them without any distraction”. The bright tones behind the subjects accentuate them; the yellows, blues and greens pop, drawing our gaze.
These warm colours reflect his city, the fashion, the culture, the feel. “I love contrasting colours”, he explains. “It expresses the contrasting life I see throughout my photography”. Although Girma’s images regularly show figures at work, carrying baskets and pushing carts, they are never portrayed as victims. If poverty is depicted, it is not made emotional, but rather a fact of life, alongside the children who run and play. His work is authentic, showcasing life as it is.
The world he documents is one of the passersby rushing about their business. “When I take the photo it’s like I am not there”, Girma tells us. “I don’t believe humans notice things out of the ordinary while they are in transit; hence a photographer using his phone won’t be noticed”.
The subject matter he examines is thus an isolating one, capturing a planet where everyone is alone. Interested in “compositional harmonies that are brought about by the skewed placement of figures”, Girma’s metaphysical statement is made more intense by his use of space, dropping his figures in the corners of the background.
The images are modern and minimalistic. The photographer’s use of a phone to create his artworks is symbolic of the current digital revolution underway across Africa. He is representative of a younger generation now stepping into a digital art world. | 2019-04-19T13:48:41 | https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/girma-berta-moving-shadows-i-and-ii-photography-160818 |
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You are here:: » TP » ABBYY OCR & NLP » Technology & Features » OCR & PDF » Why use FlexiCapture Technology?
As a name for a product line of professional applications (Standalone, Distributed) to process forms, classify documents and extract data. The structured information then can be used in business processes.
Further details on the FlexiCapture products and solutions can be found here: English, German, French.
FlexiCapture Engine provides the toolkit for developers including technologies for processing structured and semi-structured documents.
FlexiLayouts and FlexiLayout Studio are the heart of the technology to develop and define document definitions and the extraction logic to make the magic happen.
Below some fundamental differences between custom rules to extract data from raw text and FlexiLayout technology.
Simple data extraction from “plain OCR text” files often uses regular expressions .
But in structured documents the layout contains very valuable information. It is not just logos, image and text areas, but also lines and gaps between different elements which structure content on a document.
The illustration shows the differences between the document analysis of an invoice for fullt-ext OCR and the same document processed with an own FlexiLayout on top of the pure block analysis.
Complex document structures with repeatable elements, e.g.
Scanners have a fixed geometry.
So the information on the same type of documents will have more or less at the same coordinates.
When a camera is used to capture the documents, the distance between the document and the sensor are most likely never the same.
This results in a different reproduction scale and there fore the information will be located at different coordinates → a simple approach with coordinate look up will fail.
FlexiLayout technology does not use an absolute set of coordinates so it can deal also with mobile images. | 2019-04-24T01:05:22 | https://abbyy.technology/en:features:ocr:why_flexicapture_technology |
This bean cleaning machine or bean cleaning line is an automatic bean processing line integrated with cleaning, destoning, selecting, brushing, grading, color sorting and winnowing processes.
The line is in double layer steel structure with equipments arrangement. It uses electric centralized control system, up to continuous automatic operation.
This bean cleaning machine refers to the bean fine cleaning plant or bean fine cleaning line, which can process beans by fine cleaning with great efficiency and effectiveness. Compared with preliminary cleaning plant, it can help us get fine bean products.
We offer bean fine cleaning plant to maximize performance and flexibility to suit your bean cleaning needs. All of our cleaners are precision cleaners with good sealing property and reliable performance. Bean fine cleaning machine can process various kinds of beans, such as soybean, kidney bean, mung bean, navy bean, sword bean, pea, cowpea, chickpea, butter bean, lentil, broad bean, black soya bean, small red bean and so on.
The bean cleaning machine or bean fine cleaning line includes processes of once magnetic separation, twice cleaning and destoning. Materials are conveyed by elevators and 2 groups of aspiration systems are used to dedust. It includes 2 sifting processes to remove big and small impurities in the raw bean. Then the destoner fully removes the stones. The magnetic separator increases purity of the finished products to guarantee good taste by removing metal impurities so as to prevent them going into the final beans.
Once selection and twice brushing processes lead to lustrous beans, increasing high yield, low brokens and uniform granules.After color sorting, the beans up to national standard can be packaged. Once selection process removes impurities in the bean; twice polishing processes dedust the materials to increase lustrousness;The vibration sifter grades out brokens in the finished products while the complete fine beans are conveyed to color sorter.The sorted kernels are selected again and then go to packaging cabinet. Finished products go to belt conveyor to be manually selected and then mechanically packaged through buffering bin.
The project includes multiple groups of aspiration systems, meeting requirements for environment protection and reducing dust concentration. It also decreases noise in the workshop, guaranteeing secure and clean operation.
It is equipped with overvoltage, undervoltage and electrical shock protection systems, making sure secure power supply. | 2019-04-26T11:46:22 | http://grain-processing.org/PRODUCTS/Bean-Processing-Equipment/625.html |
The events of September 11 changed how we perceive national security as a society, a government, and as individuals. This is as true of national security specialists, who have been aware that America has been at war with terrorism sine at least the 1990s, as it is for those whose sense of geographic security was shattered in New York and Washington. There is talk of “new war” and “new rules,” and concern that we not apply twentieth-century lessons to a twenty-first-century war.
Over time, September 11 and its aftermath will test our interpretation and application of domestic law. It may also test the traditional framework under international law for resorting to and applying force. But much will, and should, stay the same for lawyers. As a result, the objective of this paper is to give some personal insight into the application of the law of armed conflict to the 1999 Nato Kosovo air campaign from the perspective of a lawyer serving the president as commander in chief. National-level legal review is critical to military operations, not just in determining whether the commander in chief has domestic and international legal authority to resort to force, but also in shaping the manner in which the United States employs force. Lawyers also have an important role to play in sustaining “good-government” process, offering a degree of detachment and long-term perspective.
Baker, James E., "When Lawyers Advise Presidents in Wartime: Kosovo and the Law of Armed Conflict" (2002). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1453. | 2019-04-23T07:58:41 | https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1453/ |
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Geothermal energy is derived from the thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth’s interior. In the case of deep geothermal, the source of energy can be situated over 1.5 km underground, being used for electricity and heat generation. This geothermal resource is renewable because the extracted hot water is reinjected back into the ground after the heat transfer. Furthermore, the amount of heat extracted is negligible compared to the heat capacity of planet Earth. | 2019-04-24T17:51:08 | https://smartcities-infosystem.eu/energy/deep-geothermal-energy |
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Lovely 3 bedroom - 2 bath home in peaceful setting, 2 miles from the historic center, lovely environment.
The property is located in one of the loveliest parts of Aix in a peaceful, country setting in the northeastern side of town, which has been protected from development. This is important in a city which has tripled in size in the last 60 years. It has beautiful Provencal vegetation and both a front and back garden. One is able to walk into the heart of town in a little over a half hour (only 2 miles from the Cours Mirabeau, the Champs Elysees of Aix) or take advantage of the bus transportation about 700 meters from the property. And there is a beautiful country walk in the other direction towards a 15th century tower, which also takes about a half hour.
The property consists of a main house occupied much of the year by the owner and a gate house with 2 apartments and a studio all with different levels and separate entrances on different sides of the house. The principal gate house unit (#67062) has a living room, dining room, and kitchen with high ceilings and an open plan. All the rooms are spacious and light, tastefully furnished, completely insulated including double pane windows (important in Europe where energy is expensive), with overhead beams, and Italian tile throughout.
There are 3 spacious, double bedrooms , 1 with two single beds, 1 with a queen-sized bed, and 1 with a double bed (sleeping for 6 people), 2 bathrooms, 1 of them en suite. All have large built-in cupboards. The 2 larger bedrooms have French doors opening on to the back garden. The Kitchen and dining room have French doors leading to the front terrace and garden. There are skylights in the kitchen and living room. The house is equipped with a washing machine, micro-wave, oven, dishwasher, refrigerator-freezer, induction burners, flat-sreen TV, DVD player, and wifi internet connection. Dishes, cookware, and linens are provided. The environment is lovely.
This property is available for professors on sabbatical as well as short term vacation rentals. It is free starting August 15, 2019. | 2019-04-19T12:19:41 | https://www.sabbaticalhomes.com/Home_Rent_House_Rental_Aix-en-Provence_France_67062.htm |
The specifications and features of Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 says a lot of how incredibly awesome the device will always be in the hands of people who desire to live a smarter life in this digital age where everything is going mobile. The Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 is one of the leading smartphone devices out there that makes it possible for users to be able to do this or that at anywhere or anytime which is exactly what the word mobile stands for. But from THEUPSPOT we see the Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 like other devices out there that isn't 100% exempted from having issues as time goes on because its mere hardware (body) well designed with coded instructions to make it usable (spirit and soul).
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A camera is one of the major thing users check for in Samsung smartphones or other related devices when they want to buy a new or even a used phone. Recently, we've seen a tremendous upgrade in the cameras of newly released Samsung (Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3) phones and devices from other manufacturers which simply means the camera is one of the most valuable assets of Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 and other devices.
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So, if you are having issues with your new or old Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 smartphone camera? You're unable to snap pictures, the app shows failure or error notice? Here are six possible ways to that might fix the camera issue of Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 device. But please do not disassemble your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 phone if it is still under the warranty period else you won't be eligible to request a replacement or free fixing that the warranty covers.
· Unmount the SD Card inserted in your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 or Replace it with a new one.
· Check the Camera module of your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 and make sure it I not loose. Tighten up loosed screws if possible.
· Tap the Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 camera like two to three times.
· Perform a factory reset to see if it will fix your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 device.
· Change the Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 Camera Module. You can place an order for one from any of the leading online stores like Amazon or eBay.
· Still can't fix the Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 camera failure with the previous tips. Then, send your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 back to the supplier for repair if it is still under warranty. Else, look for a smartphone technician.
There is nothing or little you can do when your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 becomes unresponsive due to error which shows a notice that "Unfortunately, YouTube has stopped working" which rarely occurs in Samsung devices. You probably won't be able to run and or use any other application. When you try to launch or use other application in that Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 it will pop up a screen that shows you the errors notice with no other option other than to press OK to dismiss that notice.
· Reboot your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 and quickly navigate to.
· Re-Enable the app and that should solve your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 problem.
· Go to your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 settings and press the connection option.
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· Put off your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 and reboot it again to see if that will automatically solve the problem.
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· Reboot your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 again.
Check to see that you have inserted SIM to your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 correctly.
If the SIM is too old, then go for a SIM swap before you use it in your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 new device.
If the problem still persists, hand your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 over to a technician for a proper check.
Try to format the SD card with a system and reinsert it in your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3.
Try that Card on another device and try other SD card in your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 to be able to isolate the issue.
Make sure your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 has all the latest updates installed.
Make sure you using the authorized charger or similar charger to the one that came with your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3.
Take off your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 case to ensure a better charger connection.
If your Samsung Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3 battery is draining too quickly, the most common factor is the installation of third-party apps. As already mentioned, you need to disable it by taking your phone into the safe mode.
Download and install any pending update on your Galaxy Ace Nxt, Style or Ace 3. | 2019-04-25T06:25:59 | https://www.theupspot.com/2018/10/samsung-galaxy-ace-nxt-style-or-ace-3.html |
On Nov. 4, members of Local 2061 in Cocoa, FL ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with United Space Alliance (USA), ending a five-month long strike by nearly 500 workers at the Kennedy Space Center.
IAM members there include electrical technicians, crane operators and drivers for the giant crawler that moves the space shuttle to the launch pad.
Since the strike began on June 4, Machinists have walked picket lines every day during one of Florida’s hottest summers on record. In addition to oppressive humidity and tropical downpours, temperatures regularly exceeded 100 degrees.
Community and labor support for the striking workers remained high throughout the dispute. On August 30, hundreds of IAM members traveled from the union’s National Staff Conference in Orlando to join the picket line.
The new contract increased pensions for current members and secured retirement benefits for future hires. The General Wage Package calls for flat rate increases rather than percentage raises, a move that provides for a more equitable distribution of raises among all members.
The addition of the IAM 401(k) Plan into the contract is an important benefit for future hires. Twelve contracts at the Space Center contain the IAM National Pension Plan (NPP) and the 401(k) Plan can be rolled into the NPP at any of those locations.
Five hundred IAM members at Amtrak, who have been without a new contract since 1999, will be free to strike the rail carrier on December 1, 2007, unless the President of the United States intervenes and appoints a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB).
A 30-day countdown began when the National Mediation Board formally released the IAM and Amtrak from mediated negotiations on October 31, 2007.
Once empanelled, a PEB has 30 days to investigate the dispute and issue its non-binding recommendations for settlement. After the PEB reports to the President, the parties to the dispute have a second 30-day cooling-off period to consider its recommendations. If no agreement is reached, the parties will be free to engage in self-help at the end of the second cooling-off period. The company can then lockout workers or impose employment terms and the union is free to strike.
The IAM opened bargaining with Amtrak in December 1999 and is negotiating as part of a 15,000 member-strong labor coalition that includes the Transportation Communications Union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Transport Workers Union.
All coalition partners have been released from mediation after numerous requests and will make a unified presentation to the PEB. Retroactive wage increases, work rule changes and employee contributions to healthcare premiums are among the contentious issues.
President Bush is lobbying hard on Capitol Hill for a vote this week on the Peru Free Trade Act, legislation that would expand NAFTA into South America and create a new wave of low-wage competition for U.S. workers.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a comprehensive plan addressing America’s growing energy and environmental challenges at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa yesterday. The New York Senator said her plan would create up to five million new jobs through renewable energy advancements, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut foreign oil imports by two-thirds from projected levels by 2030.
To achieve these goals, Clinton’s plan would raise fuel standards to 55 miles per gallon by 2030, establish a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund to invest in alternative energy and create a “cap and trade” system for carbon emissions by big businesses.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today (after lung cancer). The Local 873 committee was alerted to the critical need for awareness and early detection by fellow member Janice Tobak, who lost five of her immediate family members to breast cancer. The Women’s Committee felt it important to bring this issue to the union body and the community as a whole. All proceeds were donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. | 2019-04-21T16:21:10 | https://www.goiam.org/news/imail-for-tuesday-november-06-2007/ |
There are different reasons that cause silica low rates in our organism. We born with 7g of silica in our body transferred by our mothers, we use this until we grow and we start absorbing it from food sources. Scientist states that we are used to diets with 10 times more silica and only 2-3% of silica consumed from food source is actually absorbed. The reasons of this decreasing rate of silica are due to aggressive horticulture methods and chemical burns of the micro organisms in the soil, responsible of solubilizing inorganic silica. Consequently the soil and then vegetables and animals have less amount of silica in their structure.
The 21th century diets often differ from the ideal, with refined foods replacing raw vegetables, seeds, roots, leaves and fruits. Asian and Indian diets are higher in silica content than Westerners which explains why these groups have less injuries as in hip fractures.
Silica absorption decreases with age. All other experiments in which silica deficiency has been induced have demonstrated the importance of the element for the normal development of connective tissue and bone.
Problems in Joints and Bones: Ligaments, Tendons and Cartilage.
Sports Injuries, Arthritis, Arthrosis, Osteoporosis.
Cardiovascular problems: Cholesterol, Hypertension, Atherosclerosis.
Skin, Hair and Nails. Extended Healing Duration. Weakness in the connective tissue.
We are born with 7g. of silica throughout our body. Silica levels decreases with ageing 1% every year. Dietary intake of silica declines with age by approximately 0.1 mg/year. Losses are more intense from the age of 35/40 years onwards. Teenagers have 400% more silica than the elderly. (70-80 years). Silica diminishment leads to reduced collagen production and many other molecules. Females have 35% less silica than males.
Want to learn more about Silica Rich Foods? | 2019-04-20T20:42:22 | http://benefitsofsilica.com/lack-of-silica/ |
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has asked all Church units to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Church welfare plan by organizing their own day of service during 2011.
“The service may be undertaken at any time during the remainder of this year, and its length may be flexible depending on the service rendered,” a letter from the First Presidency read.
The call to serve comes on the heels of President Henry B. Eyring’s conference talk during the Saturday morning session of April general conference.
“The feelings of unity will multiply the good effects of the service you give,” President Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency, said. “And those feelings of unity in families, in the Church, and in communities will grow and become a lasting legacy long after the project ends” (“Opportunities to Do Good,” Liahona and Ensign, May 2011, 25).
The First Presidency offered guidelines for members planning service projects, including inviting community members and full-time missionaries to become involved and designing projects so that families and individuals can participate. Publicizing the projects to raise awareness and interest was also encouraged.
Many wards, branches, districts, and stakes have already answered the call. Some service crews donned yellow Mormon Helping Hands shirts while others just rolled up their sleeves, but from donating blood to sprucing up community buildings, the response by members has been overwhelming.
Elder Walter F. González of the Presidency of the Seventy presides over Church affairs in the North America Southeast Area. He first challenged every congregation in his area to give a day of service in 2009.
Every year since then members in the southern United States have organized annual days of service. Elder González said he is happy to see that congregations throughout the Church will have that opportunity this year.
In Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 11 congregations answered the call to serve by donating food and giving blood on April 16. Several LDS meetinghouses were used as drop-off locations for food donations, while others were staging places for blood donations.
Chainsaw-wielding members of the Jonesboro Ward in Georgia, USA, gathered at the Stately Oaks Plantation, legendary site where the movie Gone with the Wind was filmed, on May 14 to haul broken branches.
The last week of April, Saints in California and Hawaii, USA, joined with community volunteers for the annual Mormon Helping Hands Day.
In San Diego, California, USA, 150 volunteers helped clean 3,000 headstones at the Fort Rosecrans Memorial Park, a veterans’ cemetery.
Latter-day Saints in Palos Verdes, California, USA, partnered with a nonprofit organization called Clean San Pedro to sweep and clean the streets and sidewalks in the central area of San Pedro, collecting over one ton (900 kg) of refuse and litter.
Members of the Charlotte North Carolina (USA) South Stake answered the First Presidency’s call for a day of service during 2011 by partnering with a local charity to put on a welcome basket item drive.
More than 2,000 paper bags with a list of much-needed items were placed throughout the community. A week later, nearly 130 volunteers spent 150 hours collecting the bags and donating the items to families transitioning from homelessness to new housing.
Primary children from the ward made “Welcome Home” signs for the families.
In Georgia, USA, the Griffin Ward came together on Saturday, May 21, to scour the inside and outside of a local homeless shelter, the House of Hope.
In Clinton, Mississippi, USA, Latter-day Saints met to spruce up the Jackson Zoo, mulching flower beds, painting, and repairing equipment.
Elder González emphasized that members’ service will bless both those within the Church and those who are not members.
Members in California, USA, clean up their city. | 2019-04-23T06:04:16 | https://www.lds.org/study/liahona/2011/09/news-of-the-church/called-to-serve-you?lang=eng |
Where is Josep Miquel Arenas Beltrán?
The rapper, who performs as Valtonyc, convicted for his lyrics, has fled Spanish territory to avoid going to prison and to work from Europe in defence of freedom of expression, according to a number of sources El Nacional has spoken too. The rapper has gone into exile, probably to Switzerland or Belgium.
This Thursday will see the end of the ten-day period he has to present himself at prison. He could choose from any he wanted in Spain, but has decided to not go to any. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by Spain's Supreme Court for his lyrics on charges of glorifying terrorism, humiliating victims, insulting king Juan Carlos I and threatening Jorge Campos of the right-wing political party Actúa Baleares.
Although he had 10 days to go to prison, the musician was otherwise free to travel as he wished, and wasn't to have been monitored. Nonetheless, it's believed that police put together a surveillance and tracking team to prevent him catching a flight or leaving the island of Mallorca where he lives. If so, they appear to have lost his trail.
Valtonyc has left before. He's left the island whilst police were preparing a team precisely to avoid him doing so. Hundreds of his fans bought plane tickets in his name with different destinations in a campaign designed to throw off Spain's security forces. The rapper left Mallorca more than 10 days ago without raising any sort of suspicion.
In fact, the large-scale buying of tickets in his name started after he had already left Spanish territory. The request was from 15th to 24th May.
The police started warning this Tuesday that they didn't know where he was. In fact, it's been days since the musician has appeared in public; the only news about him has been on social media.
Valtonyc planned, as has now become public, to not present himself voluntarily to prison, which would mean a legal warrant being issued and him being arrested at home to be taken by force into custody. As such, if he doesn't turn up by himself, police will go to his house to find him. But the rapper has already hinted on Twitter that they won't find anyone there.
Translation: Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow, they're going to knock down the door of my house to put me in prison. For some songs. Tomorrow, Spain is going to make a fool of itself, once again. I'm not going to make it so easy for them, disobeying is legitimate and an obligation in the face of this fascist state. Here nobody surrenders.
Meanwhile, his lawyer, Juan Manuel Olarieta, has already appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He's presented an appeal calling for the two sentences to be overturned. In the appeal, they argue that the rapper's basic rights have been violated. The lawyer asked Strasbourg to suspend his entry to prison whilst the appeal is considered. | 2019-04-22T20:27:16 | https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/spanish-rapper-valtonyc-flees-europe-prison_271152_102.html |
16 brightest ideas to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Countries, driven from powerful case studies that match with the realities of two countries: Cameroon and Uganda.
In this book, each of the cases studied is connected to one of the SDGs with the appropriate solutions and,also provides the author’s view on the process to realize the SDGs.This is done with clear and simple statements that can be understood by every reader.
Cases are both in French and English depending on the original target audience.
14 AMAZING SECRETS TO LEARN FRENCH IN ONE BOOK!
I am happy to move from blogging to blooking , a numerical version of a book that gathers the 14 articles I wrote on language since the last 6 months.
It’s an opportunity for you to have a global view of what happens in and outside the language class from the learners perspective.Additionally,you will discover concrete actions to contribute to development in one of the most multicultural countries in Sub-Sahara Africa by the use of language power.
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“French is hard!” is a common sentence heard from language learners. Though it might be stressful to listen to learners saying that, it shows that there is something deep happening: They have entered their uncomfortable learning zones!
These are four of some challenges faced by French learners. This list is not exhaustive, I just focused on the common ones I often hear from learners.
The gender: How do you know a word is masculine or feminine? That’s one of the first questions asked by a new French learner. I generally give two obvious answers to help the learners: Have a good bilingual dictionary and master your vocabulary while learning.
Accents: é; à è û; ë ê ô. How do you master these accents? Two activities can help in this: Visual focus and phonetic activities. Take a time to make vocal rehearsals with words having an accent. Singing in French can be very good for that because it’s funny and you learn in an informal way.
Pronominal or Reflexive verbs: I can see the stress on the students’ face when they try to translate the « Vous vous appelez comment? » in English. This is new for learners and they have to integrate it by just accepting that it’s French. S’appeler, se laver, se brosser, se coucher, se promener, se fâcher, etc. are a category of verbs mostly used to communicate on emotion, one’s body or location. They should not confuse these with verbs in English that are commonly used with reflexives pronouns.
French and irregularities: After given a rule in grammar to French students, you can witness a smile on their faces because English also has many rules and some are similar to French. Suddenly, there are irregularities and you hear them complain again: “Banange! That French!”. If you accept that there are irregularities, your brain will also accept it as part of a new competence to develop.
All these uncomfortable situations are due to the fact that most learners still think in English while they are at the beginning (and even intermediate) level. Therefore, it’s a very good sign if you start noticing differences between French and English (there are also some similarities!).It shows that you are starting to think in French, and it’s an excellent process to develop new languages abilities. So move forward and don’t be discouraged!
Dear Students and French Trainer, this article was introductive and I would like to hear your own experience on the challenges you encountered as a French Learner or a French Trainer.
Hervé-Boris NGATE, Psychologist / Language and Cross-Cultural Trainer.
My journey as a BLOGGER started 10 months ago from an unexpected situation. So, must I learned was through an experiential learning cycle process. I would like to share with you the major steps I took when starting my journey as a Blog author and writer.
I have always had the passion and the desire to write; Before I started blogging,I had 15 years of writing various contents like a thesis, reports, articles, and proposals.I also have the habit of writing notes when I meditate the Bible.
My first article was supposed to be published on the Blog of an organization who hired me. Unfortunately, we could not go further because of some misunderstanding and …I decided to start my own Blog. A quick turn to wordpres.com and my first article was posted on my Blog (https://seed4future.wordpress.com/)! What a joy when I saw that the article was viewed (2 views).
With great excitement, I published another article until that month I had 24 views and 8 visitors for 4 articles published. I felt an overwhelming joy when I noticed in February that my Blog posts were viewed in 4 countries and one International Organization. That month I had 83 views and 53 visitors.
In the month of March, I decided to evaluate the impact of my posts and do some research on how to write better posts. I discovered some tips on how to increase and diversify my audience. I also learned how to make good use of social networks like Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Seed4future/), Twitter (Bngate@twitter2016) and LinkedIn (https://ug.linkedin.com/in/herveborisngate).
So I decided to act on what I learned, and the only article I wrote on April (https://seed4future.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/la-classe-therapeutique/) increased the visibility of the Blog in an amazing way! I had 142 views and 102 visitors from 12 countries in 3 continents. The following months, I wrote other articles on language (where my major audience is) and reached 163 people with 124 visitors from 22 countries.
Currently, my Blog has about 24oo views, an average of 1800 visitors and more than 30 000 people reached in 91 countries in 5 continents. My greatest joy was when my articles were read for the first time in China and Russia last month.
In the month of June, I used my Blogger competencies to apply for a UN Online Volunteer work and was recruited. This was an amazing month of information and communication job rewarded by a second recruitment in the month of July for the same purpose. Currently, I am volunteering for the UNDP as a Representative Summaries of Publications and Articles Writer because of the quality of the articles I write on the Blog.
As I was moving on, I felt the growing need of community managers to share my posts while I will invest more time in writing and authoring. Currently, I manage a team of 1 community manager and one proofreader of my posts. This is considerably increasing the number of people reached by my Blog posts and, the rewarding part for the team members is the experience they gain in their engagement.
You will have a free access to 4G internet to link the theory with the practice. Therefore, you need to have a personal Laptop, a Tablet or a Smartphone. The day (s) of the training depend on the group interested (maximum 5 persons per group per training session because of the limited capacity of the Modem) and the venue shall be communicated to interested people.For individual training, a specific arrangement can be done on request.
There is also an opportunity for online training through Skype and Whatsapp with supporting documents. | 2019-04-25T23:45:08 | https://seed4future.com/2016/09/ |
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Our goal is to safely reunite children in foster care with their birth parents.
Our Safe & Together program works with Portland families with children ages birth to eight who are in foster care. The goal of our program is to reunite families and to prevent future occurrences of foster care placement by keeping children safely at home.
We do this by providing intensive home visiting and individualized support, and connecting families with stabilizing resources. We work in partnership with the birth parent(s), foster parent(s), DHS/Child Welfare, and mental health professionals.
Our Safe & Together Program also encourages families to participate in our parent-child playgroups and dad-specific services.
Impact NW’s Safe & Together program receives funding from the Portland Children’s Levy.
Please call our Safe & Together program at (503) 294-7492 to learn about our range of services. Your conversation will be completely confidential. If Impact NW isn’t the best fit for you, we’ll help connect you to the services you need. | 2019-04-23T13:53:53 | https://impactnw.org/programs/early-childhood/safe-together/ |
Nestled in Albuquerque’s north valley is the historic village of Alameda. This area was the center of the Alameda Land Grant in the 17th century. Originally a farming community of handcrafted adobe homes surrounded by irrigated fields, Alameda retains much of its original character today. On the side streets, like Guadalupe Trail, you’ll often find yourself on narrow dirt and gravel roads which lead to rustic adobe homes, horse and cattle pastures, apple orchards and brilliant green alfalfa fields. Hidden in the rural beauty are many artisans eager to share their creativity.
Alameda is bordered on the east by the railroad tracks that originally helped to bring New Mexico into the modern age. To the north lies Sandia Pueblo. The famous Rio Grande, New Mexico’s life blood, forms the western border of Alameda, and the historic village of Los Ranchos roughly forms Alameda’s southern boundary.
More info on Alameda at the Alameda Studio Tour Website. | 2019-04-23T16:35:37 | https://anvanews.wordpress.com/alameda-history/ |
Texas Cretaceous Coastal Landscape, for Perot Museum of Nature and Science, by Karen Carr and Karen Carr Studio, Inc.
Towering dinosaurs, rare fossils and virtual paleo-habitats are just a few of the features that make the T. Boone Pickens Life Then and Now Hall a must-go destination for dinosaur lovers, fossil collectors or just about anyone who has ever wondered what life was like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Inside the 11,000-square-foot exhibition space within the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, you’ll discover awe-inspiring fossil finds like the infamous predator Tyrannosaurus rex or the plant-eating Alamosaurus. You’ll also discover how plants and animals have adapted to changing conditions over the millennia — and you’ll have the chance to introduce beneficial adaptations of your own as you create a virtual animal to do battle in our videogame challenge. | 2019-04-26T11:48:42 | http://karencarr.com/portfolio-images.php?XID=614 |
Last night, I dreamt I was part of a class learning to draw. What did this dream represent to me, I wondered?
Even as I asked the question, I had to laugh. Just the word “drawing” told me everything I needed to know.
Drawing is an art form.
The act of moving charcoal across paper, i.e. drawing, is an act of creation.
To draw something is to bring it to you, for example drawing cash from an account or drawing attention in a crowd.
Drawing also implies tapping a power source, for example, an appliance draws electricity through an outlet.
In the dream, it took me forever to pick out the perfect place to sit and create my latest drawing assignment. Once settled, I began talking myself out of drawing at all. The assignment had been to draw my classmate, a good looking man named Paul. I knew one of the other women was hoping to begin a relationship with him.
Pretty flimsy excuse for dodging an exercise in creativity.
I, too, desired my hunky classmate, though my dream self wouldn’t acknowledge it.
If I drew him, I would energetically draw him to me. A good thing, right?
What then? What if I had proof that I was an infinity powerful creative being? Overwhelming!
What if everyone knew as well as I did that I didn’t deserve it?
And there’s the real rub of it. Apparently, I’m still grappling with feeling worthy. Still hesitant to use my full power of creation. Still trying to rationalize my fears by pretending to protect someone else’s best interests—as if any of us are qualified to know what’s in the best interest of another.
How are you doing with these questions? How do you hold yourself back? Where do you fling yourself headlong into creation? And how adept are you at admitting your desires (and believing you’re worthy to live them)?
As for me, guess I’ll be going back to class tonight!
Is there such a thing as interdimensional hokey pokey? It sure would explain a lot about my “reality” these days.
My dreams have become crispy vivid, including coherent conversations with people I love. Some of these dreams contain obvious information about my past lives. And while I wouldn’t describe my dream state as lucid, I am far more conscious in my sleep than ever in the past, able to bring what I learned there into my eyes-open time.
I’m currently reading William Buhlman’s book, and while I expect there will be some useful info for me around this experience, I’ll be (delightfully) surprised if he calls it the interdimensional hokey pokey.
Last night in meditation, I saw me walking over glowing coals and I looked an awful lot like this fella here—arms out, head up, laughing deep and loud as I made my merry (yet majestic) way through the red hot field of embers.
So far, I’ve only firewalked in my dreams, but I just know I’ll get the chance to do it for real. Super excited about it. Have you ever done it? Would you?
I’ll be the first to admit it—I can be stubborn about acknowledging patterns. Yet it frustrates me that Team Sally is so patient, I could keep my fingers in my ears singing la-la-la until I draw the last breath of this lifetime without them ever insisting I take notice.
That’s the nature of free will.
Yesterday, I acknowledged a pattern that’s been occurring for at least a year. I took it to the Tarot for insight and came away puzzled, so I brought my request for clarity into my meditation.
The only suggestion I feel I really understood: go without TV for a week. Uh… OK. I can do that. I think.
Can I expect a spiritual Scooby snack for doing this? I don’t know. But two questions do have me glued to my seat. One: will I really make it for a week? And two: how many amazing things might I learn/accomplish as I go?
Could I have come to these ideas on my own? Seems likely. But the way that they arrived makes me more inclined to try them than if I blew threw the problem with mere logic.
This morning, I applied suggestion 2 with a dash of 3, and guess what? I achieved escape velocity exactly when I’d hoped. Thanks, Team Sally!
*You may be plagued by very different big, burning questions. Fret not. I’ll bet this method will work for you, too.
The name of this game is, “If this were a sign, what would it mean?” It’s one of my favorites.
I played this game today when I found a simple ballpoint pen on the sidewalk on my way to an appointment. I picked it up, and when I learned it didn’t belong to anyone inside, had a better look at it. Its writing tip was exposed, cap secured atop the other end—this pen was ready for action. And now it was mine, if I wanted it.
It made me smile. It helped me exercise my intuition. And it planted a seed of hope. Does it matter whether finding it was truly a sign from the Universe/God/higher self? Not a bit. But this is definitely my pen. | 2019-04-24T00:15:50 | http://sallyfelt.com/category/playfulness/page/7/ |
Once you’re in legislation college, you will begin desirous about the type of law through which you’d wish to specialize. Some specializations embody felony regulation, enterprise law, tax legislation, divorce regulation, patent law, and environmental regulation. However when asking what varieties of legal professionals are there, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Typically the lawyers will communicate with the clients while the mediator is present, and generally the attorneys and the shoppers will meet alone.
Divorce lawyers deal with all issues arising from the dissolution of a marriage, resembling asset distribution, spousal support, and child custody, visitation and support points—often referred to as Household Law. Most lenders will strive very arduous to show that the argument isn’t true, which is why bankruptcy attorneys should be skilled in proving the case otherwise.
Property planning legal professionals be certain your family dealings are all so as if/when something goes unsuitable. We’ve got award-profitable legal professionals all through the UK, prepared to help with your case. Traffic lawyers battle traffic citations on behalf of purchasers or give advice to get out of a violation of running during red light or dashing ticket.
You probably have an occupation illness, then these are the very best group of attorneys who will see to it that you have been compensated by your employer. The crimes dealt with by legal defense attorneys vary from small offenses akin to shoplifting to extra critical crimes similar to DUI, drug trafficking, assault and battery, and even homicide.
And if you are still in highschool, you then’ll find your interests may change a number of instances over and you will neglect about regulation college (for whatever reason you wished it within the first place). Now, I have the uncommon pleasure of partaking with young professionals as a regulation professor. | 2019-04-24T20:49:33 | http://www.stoptheboycott.org/four-sorts-of-attorneys-you-ought-to-by-no-means-rent.html |
Five outstanding young singers have been selected to sing in the finals of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition, ‘The Mathy’ for 2015.
Spanning five different voice types, the finalists are bass baritone Jeremy Kleeman (24), counter tenor Maximilian Riebl (23) and the only female contestant, soprano Rebecca Gulinello (24), all from Victoria. Joining them from NSW will be tenor Damian Arnold (23) and baritone Benson Wilson (24),from New Zealand.
Accompanied by the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra conducted by Maestro Johannes Fritzsch the will be competing for over $200,000 in prizes & opportunities.
This year the Finals Concert will be judged by Linnhe Robertson, as National Adjudicator who will be joined by Conal Coad, Michael Halliwell, Emma Matthews and Simon Lord.
The IFAC Australian Singing Competition for opera and classical singers is Australasia’s premier competition and the richest of its kind. Since 1982 more than $2.8million in prizes has been won with nearly 3,000 singers shining in the spotlight. | 2019-04-24T23:08:51 | http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/australian-singing-competition-finals/19384.html |
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A series of floods took place on the Des Moines River in 1851, 1859, 1903, 1944, 1947, and 1954. In 1938 and 1944, Flood Control Acts were passed which led to a lengthy study of nine sites on the Des Moines River. Two of the sites studied were chosen for the construction of dams: Red Rock and Saylorville.
Construction of the Red Rock Dam began in 1960, and the dam was finished in 1969. The primary purpose of the dam is to reduce flood damage along the Des Moines River below the dam, as well as along the Mississippi River further downstream.
The Red Rock project cost a total of 88 million dollars. This amount was divided three ways. Approximately one-third was spent to purchase land around the site. Another third was spent to relocate 96 miles of the Wabash Railroad, 42 miles of highway, 2 miles of gas lines, 225 miles of electric lines, and 8 cemeteries. The final third was used to construct Red Rock Dam. The project was costly to build but has paid for itself many times over. By protecting property, lives, and crops, an estimated 449 million dollars had been saved during 1969 to 1999.
The Des Moines River Basin begins in Minnesota and extends through Iowa to the Mississippi River. The runoff from over 12,000 square miles of land drains from this basin into the Des Moines River above Lake Red Rock. The Des Moines River joins the Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa.
Saylorville Dam and Red Rock Dam work together to provide flood control on the Des Moines River and Mississippi River.
While the earthen segments make up most of the dam, the control structure is where the action is. Each part of the structure has a specific and important function.
The "Stilling Basin" functions to still the river water as it flows out of the dam. Slowing the water decreases bank erosion. To slow the water, large concrete blocks called "baffles" were placed in the basin. There are 25 baffles, each the size of a passenger van, lined up in two rows in the basin.
The "Sluice Gates," located inside the control structure, empty into the stilling basin. There are 14 hydraulically- operated sluice gates. Each is five feet wide and nine feet tall. These gates are used when outflow is less than 38,000 cubic feet per second.
Unlike some dams, Red Rock has a "controlled" spillway through the use of the "Tainter Gates." Each gate is 41 feet wide and 45 feet tall. These high outflow gates are used only during high water conditions. | 2019-04-25T07:45:03 | https://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lake-Red-Rock/About-Us/ |
Learn:1st World Problems is a satire exploring the narcissistic world of the creative industries, in this case fashion, uncovering not only the duplicitous traits needed to succeed but also the internal pressure to stay relevant. A slightly older Creative Director overhears her younger more edgy colleagues dismiss her new collection and her. In an impassioned push for creativity, originality and recognition the Director designs a new piece of work which will eventually be her downfall.
Originating as a music video for Canadian artist Kroy, director Jonathan Desbiens, known as Jodeb, takes Learn on a straighter narrative path than his previous music short film hybrids (Still in the Cage featuring music from Skrillex). He shows a deft hand at using music to inject energy and emotion while effectively holding it back to allow the dialogue to shine.
The purely young female cast and the context of the fashion industry explores this quest through a specifically female and millennial perspective. Shot on 4:3 the film echoes the cool hipster polaroid photos flooding Instagram and the use of graphic subtitles in colloquial language (‘she is just too basic’) feels like a snapchat filter or a YouTube lyric video. The chic outfits and white minimalist warehouse reflects a cool world where real relationships are replaced by the struggle for success. With only a limited number of spaces for woman at the top of almost any industry this dog-eat-dog world behind conceited smiles strikes a pertinent tone.
SYNOPSIS: A satirical short about a fashion Director whose quest for recognition takes a dark turn. | 2019-04-20T12:58:36 | https://oneroomwithaview.com/2017/11/13/short-of-the-week-learn-1st-world-problems/ |
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Anastacia Kompos | Ascension Energies– Narcissists are ‘attempting’ a ‘final’ attack on Empaths. This is going ‘back’ to the core of a deep Ancient Wound on the Psyche (there is more to this as this is going back to childhood as well, more may be shared later in another part).
Please know that narcissists do feel very deeply…so very deeply that it has overwhelmed them AND due to this and not fully owning their deeper ‘darker’ or shadow sides, out comes the narcissist (label)…as their way of ‘coping’.
Underneath or ‘secretly’ these souls are jealous of the Empath who feels openly and is ”unable’ to hide this…well yes many of us had to ‘hide’ this to cope, yet we really ‘suffered’ in silence within.
As we were feeling very very deeply and could not ‘help’ but to feel as we do….this is us and this is who we are.
We just didn’t know this and have had to grow into this, to own this or empower ourselves.
So this brings me back to the narcissist ‘personality’ for the sake of a word or label ;-).
Yet we are needing to grow into this…and this takes time.
Let us shine the LIGHT on those so called ‘narcissistic personalities‘.
As in, we may need to realize with those close to us who are ‘like this’ we have somewhere along the line have had love for them.
Realize the bigger picture of that we gave so much of ourselves that we ‘expected’ this to be returned as we gave.
As Empaths are very very brave and courageous souls…and this is what the Narcissist is jealous (and insecure) of.
As often the ‘struggle’ is the head and the heart which can sort of go into a ‘battle’ with this.
Remembering not to be hard on yourself and not to take on their negativity. Not to sink back into the old emotions. Not to play the ‘games’ that they play and oh so very well that they can fool many others.
By respecting ourselves and giving ourselves the love firstly. And honoring ourselves.
As when we ‘back’ ourselves the Divine will back us up each and every time, that we are brave enough to do so. | 2019-04-21T10:22:24 | https://mysticalraven.com/spirituality/4103/narcissists-vs-empaths-2017-is-the-year-of-the-empath |
Here is your chance to see which teams are the brainiest and we all know that when it comes down to brains vs brawn, you always go with the brains, right?. I have been doing Lumosity for 8 years now. Dont know if it is making me smarter but I do think it works on some things like memory, attention, and speed that people my age (62) need to worry about. I honestly believe the BOT should invest in a group membership or two. | 2019-04-20T12:35:54 | http://www.leathernecknation.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&p=26477 |
Over the last few years a steady stream of experiments has flowed out of the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Some, like the Single Oak Project, have made it into consumers’ hands (and their glasses) while others, like Warehouse X, have so far yielded only data points.
This glimpse into the distillery’s culture of experimentation and ceaseless effort to improve is not just a look inside its processes, it’s also a look back in time – all the way back to the days of Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr. and George T. Stagg.
And the laurels are impressive, indeed. With 200+ years of history behind the distillery, Buffalo Trace has simply too many accolades to list here.
But beyond his responsibility for producing quality whiskey, Wheatley also has a responsibility for maintaining that tradition of innovation highlighted by all those awards.
Encompassing the ‘Embrace Change’ philosophy is the Buffalo Trace Experimental Program.
“We’ve got over 14,000 barrels in inventory of experiments. Different types of experiments like wood, grain, distillation, environment,” Wheatley explains.
Starting in 2006, select results of that program have been released to consumers under the Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection label. Releases have included chardonnay- and zinfandel-finished bourbons (2007), rice and oat recipe bourbons (2011) and “Old Fashioned Sour Mash” bourbon (2015).
But some sub-projects within the Experimental Program are large enough to stand on their own. These sub-projects each focus on different elements of the whiskey production process.
The sub-projects all run on different time scales and time lines, too.
“Warehouse X is probably minimum of twenty years. The Estate program is probably forever, there’s no end to that one. And Single Oak was kinda finite,” Wheatley continues.
Originating in 1999, the Single Oak Project consisted of 192 barrels made from 96 Missouri Ozarks trees. Those trees were hand-picked by then Warehouse Manager Ronnie Eddins. Each tree was divided in half with the tops and bottoms made into separate barrels. The staves were then air-dried for either 6 or 12 months and given either a number 3 or 4 char. They were filled with distillate from a variety of mash bills cut to either 105 or 125 proof. Lastly, they were placed into two different warehouses – one with wooden ricks and one with concrete floors.
In addition to the human-introduced variables, the trees were selected to have fine grain, medium grain and coarse grain wood.
Eventually, the mature bourbon was released in batches at three-month intervals starting in 2011. Once the bottles were in the marketplace, consumers were asked to comment and rate the bourbons they had purchased. Over 6,000 of them did.
“What I like about that project – we do a lot of projects where we’ll taste something and it might be fifteen people tasting of our panel. And we’ll get results and things. But this one literally we got 6,000 results which takes out the subjectivity and gets it down to statistical data, right?” Wheatley asks rhetorically.
The project concluded in June 2015 with barrel #80 being crowned the winner.
Looking back on the scale of it, Wheatley laughs. “It was kind of a nightmare,” he says.
Recently, as a kind of spiritual successor to the Single Oak Project, Buffalo Trace announced a new tree-based experiment: barrels made from 300-year-old oak trees. There’s no precedent for using oak that old to make barrels.
In 2015, the company purchased 282 acres of land adjacent to their distillery. This land is being used for building additional barrel warehouses and to raise estate experimental grains.
So far, two harvests have been reported: Boone County White corn, a strain which dates to 1876, and Japonica Striped corn, which is an 1890s purple kernel corn. These are both as different from the most commonly used corn – hybridized Yellow Dent – as it is possible to grow. No release date has been set for Single Estate whiskeys made from these grains.
No release date has been set for barrels matured in Warehouse X, either, but last November Buffalo Trace issued a press release with the first results of experiments conducted in the uniquely-constructed building.
Most other barrel maturation warehouses are usually either simple wood or stone walls encasing wooden ricks. They are also basically entirely subject to outside temperature. Warehouse X, however, is composed of four independent chambers where every conceivable element can be manipulated plus one open-air chamber which acts as a control.
Temperature, humidity, airflow and even sunlight can all be monitored and modified to suit the needs of different experiments. After only three years of operation, Warehouse X yielded a staggering 3.5 million data points.
“The Warehouse X project – we called it ‘The Future of Aging.’ So for us it’s about how do we treat our barrels in the future, to make plans for the future, based on those results, which unfortunately will take twenty years to get what we need,” Wheatley comments on the longevity of the project.
But the information gained from Warehouse X will last effectively forever as the lessons learned shape the way new barrel warehouses will be built.
Even though the experiments might only be obvious when in bottles labeled as such, the reality is there’s experimental whiskey in every bottle Buffalo Trace produces.
All of the knowledge of over two centuries of ‘Embrace Change’ have created the award-winning spectrum of bourbon and rye whiskeys available now and new knowledge will shape them into the future.
As a scientist, Wheatley views his experiments through the lens of this goal.
“Our philosophy in our experimental program is to be purposeful in our experiments. In other words, we’re always looking for something. So, if we try a new corn or a new grain, what are we trying to learn from that experiment and how does that help us in our legacy brands, or how does that develop new flavors? There’s always a purpose to these experiments,” he says.
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New Booze News: Balcones, Compass Box, Woodford Reserve and More! | 2019-04-21T18:55:33 | https://blog.distiller.com/quest-perfect-bourbon-buffalo-trace/ |
The baptism scene in the woods.
My favorite theme is her treatment of the theological concept of Kenosis.
Oh right, and now I understand why is was important that Harry be “the seeker” on the team.
And I hope there’s no more doubt that JK Rowling has written a work clearly in the tradition of the Inklings. And a very well done one at that.
I found the end and the epilogue surprisingly satisfying. I expected to be sad when it was over, like with any good, big book, but I wasn’t.
Also,unlike Tolkien JK is really, really funny. Brilliant! | 2019-04-26T05:46:19 | https://entangledstates.org/2007/07/21/my-favorite-sce/ |
People of Povlja have prepared a perfect holiday for your children, on the island of Brač in the town of Povlja. The whole club will be adapted to your children. With Slovene trainers we will take care of various workshops and sports animation along the sea.
The first club in Povlja on the island of Brač will have a special emphasis on the activities . In cooperation with the Sports association Športni junak, we will prepare a special program. Activities will take place every day from 9:30 to 12:30. We will prepare sports games, skill polygon, elementary games, ball games, relay games, rolling skating, search for hidden treasures, creative workshops and final entertainment for children.
The sports animation program will be provided by professionally trained trainers with extensive experience in working with children.
This will be a holiday for the parents as well. Parents, the first half of the day will be yours, only yours. Children will be “employed” with workshops and an animation program, which will be carefully supervised by the trainers.
You’ll have time for yourself. Time for pampering, relaxation time, a glass of wine in a company or for two.
Close your eyes and imagine … where do you see yourself? Do you imagine? … These may be your first-time vacation in Povlja on Brač. Relaxed with your children.
You can choose between 6 daily, 7 day program and 10, and 11 daily programs.
The offer is valid until 9 April 2018. More info could be found here. | 2019-04-20T04:53:11 | https://bestofbrac.com/brac-event/childrens-club-povlja/ |
NewTek Discussions > LightWave 3D Support > General Support > Texturing a lumpy asteroid.
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I've downloaded an untextured high resolution asteroid model - see attached image. On comparing the model with some photos, it's pretty clear that the smooth areas are darker dust, and the lumpy bits are lighter rock embedded in it.
So does anyone know a way of separating out the lumps for a different texture?
It would be a lot of work but you could try the 'Tools -> Triangle Relocation' feature in your copy of AccuTrans to move the lumps to a new layer.
I was hoping for something automatic - with 6400k polygons manual is not really an option!
Maybe some way to persuade a texture node to return a value which corresponds to local smoothness? I suspect its a long shot!
hey, that looks like a very promising solution - and thanks for the wiring diagram for the nodes!
I'll give that a go.
Here's the results, it's not quite there as it seems to run around the edge of the lumps, rather than over them, but it looks to be a really good starting point.
3 versions here, a false colour one to show the values returned, a 'grime' one, to emphasize the limits, and a starting point for the final ruin with banded colours, I think baking the surface and editing it may well be a good way forwards.
Unless anyone has suggestions for making it better directly? | 2019-04-25T07:59:06 | https://forums.newtek.com/archive/index.php/t-124854.html?s=5154adc79e53b4490a914ce283c35c2b |
The West Virginia car registration process is simpler than that of many other states. Residents are not required to get emissions tests at either the state or local levels. There are relatively few forms involved in the application process, and motorists may submit their applications at any DMV office. Owners are even allowed to apply for registrations before they have had their vehicles’ safety inspections completed.
Some crucial DMV registration requirements do apply, however. While vehicle registration renewal is available online, initial transactions must be done in person. Motorists must be West Virginia residents to register a vehicle. They must also hold appropriate minimum auto insurance and must have their vehicles inspected for safety every 12 months. Thoroughly reviewing the registration processes and criteria for new vehicles, used vehicles and out of state vehicles can simplify and streamline motorists efforts to register a car in West Virginia.
There is no specific deadline by which motorists in West Virginia must get a vehicle registration for a newly purchased vehicle. However, as vehicles cannot be legally driven without registrations and titling and registering vehicles can be done at the same time, most motorists register vehicles immediately upon purchase. Motorists new to the state have 30 days to apply for DMV registrations for their vehicles.
Proof of identity and residency (e.g. a drivers license).
Proof of vehicle ownership (e.g. a title and/or bill of sale).
A completed registration application form.
Payment for any and all associated car registration fees and taxes.
Registrants have 10 days from the date of registration to get their automobiles inspected per state mandates.
All motorists registering a car in West Virginia must carry state-mandated minimum auto insurance policies. They must provide proof of insurance at the time of registration and keep evidence of their insurance with them whenever they are operating vehicles.
$25,000 in injury liability coverage for one person per accident.
$50,000 in injury liability coverage for two or more people per accident.
$25,000 in property damage liability coverage.
All policies must be issued by insurers licensed to do business in the state. Motorists who fail to meet insurance mandates may have their DMV registrations revoked and face fines and other penalties.
Emissions inspections are not part of West Virginia car registration requirements at the state, county or local levels. No emissions testing is necessary for any DMV transaction.
Vehicle Safety Inspections are required on all registered vehicles once per year. Inspections must be conducted by state-authorized mechanics or shops. Motorists may apply for and receive registrations before having their vehicles inspected. Residents who do so have 10 days from the date of registration to get their inspections completed.
Due to reciprocity agreements, for the purpose of vehicle registration, the state accepts safety inspection stickers issued by approved mechanics in Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
How to register a car in West Virginia depends on whether a vehicle is newly manufactured, used or is transferring in from out of state. In all cases, motorists will use the same application form and need proof of insurance. However, supplemental documentation and fees will vary.
Nearly all dealers offer free car registration services when motorists purchase newly manufactured vehicles. Motorists typically must supply proof of insurance and ID, but dealers do the rest.
Proof of identity and residency such as a valid drivers license.
Proof of ownership including a Manufacturer’s Certificate of Origin or title and notarized bills of sale.
Odometer statement if there is no room to write the vehicle’s odometer reading on its title. Odometer disclosures are required for all vehicles under 16,000 pounds gross weight that are less than 10 model years old.
Payment for titling and car registration fees, as well as taxes, where applicable.
Motorists who have already had safety inspections completed should bring proof of passing inspection, as well. Those who have not must arrange to have their vehicles inspected within 10 days.
Proof of identity and residency such as a drivers license.
Proof of ownership and insurance.
Completed application forms and payment.
Additionally, motorists will need copies of their out of state registrations. If they do not have safety inspection stickers from reciprocally recognized states, they must either bring evidence of a newly conducted inspection or schedule one within 10 days.
There are no unique or distinct car registration requirements or privileges for members of the United States Armed Forces in West Virginia.
The West Virginia DMV offers temporary registration permits in 10-day increments. Temporary permits are available for purchase online. Permits can be used for the one-time transportation of unregistered vehicles in a variety of circumstances. They may not, however, be used to drive unsafe, damaged or salvage vehicles on public roads.
Motorists registering a car in West Virginia will be issued a single license plate upon completion of the registration process. Specialty plates may be ordered at the time of registration, if desired. Additional forms and fees will apply.
Motorists will also be charged sales tax on newly purchased vehicles. Tax is levied at 6 percent of the sale price for vehicles costing over $500 and $30 for vehicles costing less than $500. | 2019-04-25T16:11:52 | https://www.dmv.com/wv/west-virginia/vehicle-registration |
Preparations for the 13th Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary School Students in Nigeria are in top gear as more and more participants are showing interest for it. The competition, which entries opened since March 28 as part of activities lined up to mark the 71st birthday of the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Dr. Mike Okonkwo, is still very open.
The topic for this year’s competition, which entries ends on May 27, is “The State of the Nigerian Nation: Redefining Our Values”. The competition, orgainsers say aimed at contributing to the educational sector in the country and also to encourage young Nigerians to excel in their world by developing the ability to think through issues and make a change in their world even at their tender age.
Over the years the competition has been very successful in helping these youths to develop analytical and problem-solving skills. Like in previous years, the star winner school gets three Internet ready desktop computers and a printer, while the student goes home with a trophy, Laptop, N100, 000.00 cash and a plaque. The first runner up school gets two Internet ready desktop computers and a printer and the student goes home with a cash prize of N75, 000.00 with a plaque. The second runner up school gets an Internet ready computer, while the student gets N50, 000.00 cash prize and a plaque.
For participation in the 13th Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary School Students, the entry requirements include: Essay of maximum of 2000 words, a passport photograph of the student, full name, address, contact telephone number, class, school and name and telephone contact of the principal. Essay could be submitted through email to [email protected] or by post to The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) International Headquarters, Obanikoro/ Anthony Oke Bus Lagos.
The prizes for this year’s competition will be presented to the winners at the 17th Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture, which has been scheduled for Thursday, September 1, 2016 at the Muson Centre (Shell Hall) by 10.00 am prompt.
Dr. Mike Okonkwo is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) a.k.a. Power in the Word with over 200 branches in Nigeria and across the globe. He is an Apostle to this generation, whose life has impacted millions around the world. A father to many, and a pastor to pastors across the globe, Okonkwo is also a dynamic conference speaker, crusade evangelist, a national spokesman for Nigeria, and an advocate of balanced Christianity.
As the host of ‘Power in the Word’ a life-transforming television broadcast series, Okonkwo’s Holy Spirit inspired insight into the Word of God is remarkably outstanding and empowers millions in Nigeria and across the globe. He is also the host of ‘Power for the Wise’ a daily devotional programme on radio that is transforming lives on a daily basis. He is also an author whose books have been life-transforming tools in the hands of those who have been privileged to come in contact with them.
Convener of the Communion of Covenant Ministers International (CCMI) and a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Okonkwo is a man driven by the passion to show the love of God to humanity in every way the Lord enables him. This passion gave birth to the Empowerment for the Less Privileged Foundation, a non-governmental organisation committed to alleviating the plight of the less-privileged in the society through donations to hospitals, establishment of free vocational training centres, running free preparatory schools for students in the secondary schools, and facilitating regular public enlightenment campaigns on health issues amongst others. He also pioneers a scholarship fund for talented students.
To contribute his quota to national development he started the Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture in 2000 and the lecture has grown to become a major contributor to government policies as it brings together seasoned men and women to discuss burning national issues. Also to encourage the writing skills of children in secondary school and also to help them become solution providers to the nation, the Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition was born.
In 2012, he was honour with a National Honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR) by the Federal Government. Okonkwo is married to Bishop Peace Okonkwo and they are blessed with a daughter, Uche. | 2019-04-20T16:12:32 | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/15/13th-mike-okonkwo-essay-competition-heralds-trems-bishop-71st-birthday-2/ |
Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial primary race is wide open, according to a poll by Goucher College released just days before the campaign filing deadline.
Nearly half of the Democrats who are likely to vote in the primary say they have no preference among the seven candidates in the race, and the majority say they don’t know enough about the candidates to form an opinion.
The poll, which was released on Thursday, asked Democrats whom they would select if the election were held today. Forty-seven percent said they were undecided or had no preference, a statistically insignificant change from September, when a Goucher poll found 44 percent had no preference.
“It suggests to me that there is a lot of time for some serious movement to happen” before the June 26 primary, said Mileah Kromer, director of Goucher’s Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center.
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III fares the best among the potential Democratic challengers, with 19 percent saying they support his campaign. Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz receives 12 percent and former NAACP president Ben Jealous follows with 10 percent.
The poll found the rest of the field in the single digits. Tech entrepreneur Alec Ross has 3 percent support, while state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr., attorney James Shea and former Michelle Obama aide Krishanti Vignarajah each received 2 percent.
Kromer speculated that many Democratic voters are focused on the White House and national politics and have not tuned into the gubernatorial race.
In another Goucher poll released earlier this week, Gov. Larry Hogan’s approval rating remained strong and unchanged since September, at 61 percent.
But the poll also found that the Republican incumbent’s chance of reelection is not certain.
Forty-seven percent of Marylanders say they are “leaning toward or will definitely vote” to re-elect Hogan to a second term, while 43 percent say they are leaning toward or will definitely vote for a different candidate. Another 10 percent say they are unsure who they would vote for if the election were held today.
The poll was taken Feb. 14 to 17. The questions on the Democratic primary included 454 respondents who identified themselves as registered Democrats, and had a margin of error of 4.8 percentage points. The poll results on Hogan released Tuesday included 658 registered voters, with a 3.8 percentage-point margin of error. | 2019-04-22T22:34:04 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/goucher-poll-race-for-maryland-democratic-gubernatorial-nomination-is-wide-open/2018/02/21/1fc05a18-1716-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.3922a83f30ee |
Event organizers say "to change everything, we need everyone."
Nassau County, NY - September 21, 2014 - The People's Climate March is happening this Sunday, September 21. The march is to raise awareness about the climate crisis in the world.
In Nassau County, a dedicated group of volunteers, lead by Bob Young of Merrick, and Dan Lamparter of Long Beach, are organizing and sharing the message directly with the people. Young and Lamparter started a group called, the Nassau County People's Climate March NOW.
The group is made up of Nassau County residents from from Bayville to Seaford, and everything in-between. They are attempting to reach thousands of Long Islanders in hopes more residents will participate in Sunday's march. They created a Facebook page, are distributing fliers, and calling friends in the hopes that Nassau County is properly represented in the march.
"As a lifelong resident of Long Beach, I saw first had the destruction of Super Storm Sandy. People lost their homes, local business were devastated, my family and I were displaced for months, as were many of my friends and neighbors. Climate change is real, and this march is important to raise awareness of how local Long Islanders are being impacted. We need people to like us on Facebook, and join with us on Sunday, September 21,” stated Lamparter.
People from across the nation will be participating in the march, and it is expected to gain international attention.
"I am out on the streets with an invitation to change everything. World leaders will be in New York City for a United Nations (UN) summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution. On Sunday, Nassau County residents have an opportunity to demand a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. To demand a world safe from the ravages of climate change, a world with good jobs, clean air and water. We as a people have our future on the line and the whole world watching. To change everything, we need everyone, join with us at the march,” stated Young.
The march begins at 11:30am and it will line up along Central Park West, from 61st street up to 86th street. Residents interested in marching are encouraged to email Bob or Dan at [email protected] or message them on the Facebook page.
Photo by Matthe S. Hynes.
Subject: LongIsland.com - Your Name sent you Article details of "Nassau Residents Support the People's Climate March" | 2019-04-24T12:37:46 | https://www.longisland.com/news/09-17-14/nassau-support-peoples-climate-march.html |
A focused, calm and resilient mind requires self-leadership. Podcast episodes include meditations by Dave around self-leadership, mindset and mindfulness ideas and notions that have helped him on his personal journey. Earlier podcast episodes include deep and intimate conversations with high-performers, founders, adventurers, endurance athletes, authors, and many more, discussing the mindset they've used to overcome obstacles, and how through deep conviction, grit and commitment, they've summited and continue to summit new peaks in their lives.
January 14, 2018: Monday's Leadership Meditation - Self-compassion.
January 7, 2018: Monday's Leadership Meditation - Fear.
December 10, 2018: Monday's Leadership Meditation - Ego.
December 3, 2018: Monday's Leadership Meditation - Environment.
November 26, 2018: Monday's Leadership Meditation - Courage. | 2019-04-26T12:27:55 | https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/milestone-mind-mindset-vision-action-growth?refid=stpr |
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I got this specifically because I’m always using the split function in my back seat and usually drive around with half the seat up and half of it down. I like that this comes with the mesh pieces to cover the exposed part when the seat is folded, it’s a nice touch. I just wish it would cover the back of the seat too but for the price I can’t complain. | 2019-04-21T14:08:36 | https://www.fhgroupauto.com/product/premium-pu-leather-seat-covers-rear/ |
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Today there are many freeware packages obtainable for customers to select from akin to backup software program, file backup software, anti virus, and more. The software program can increase business administration with its useful and practical features. | 2019-04-25T18:25:45 | https://www.newsdigestng.com/category/softwares/software/page/4 |
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