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found: Bern. Kunsthalle. Science fiction, 1967. | 2019-04-20T13:03:30 | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82006010.html |
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The EPLS (https://www.epls.gov/) is an electronic, web-based system that identifies those parties excluded from receiving Federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain types of Federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits. The EPLS keeps its user community aware of administrative and statutory exclusions across the entire government, and individuals barred from entering the United States. The user is able to search, view, and download both current and archived exclusions. | 2019-04-22T17:58:55 | http://usgovxml.com/dataservice.aspx?ds=EPLS |
Harald Gaptooth would eventually be grateful for having known nothing of what was to happen that night in Lanark town, but even as he began to recover from his injuries he was aware that his own laziness and ignorance had saved his life. He knew, too, that had his friend Bernard of Boothby not been sergeant of the guard that night, he would have been flogged for reporting drunk for duty and being openly mutinous. But he had had no slightest idea, before the world went mad, that anything significant was about to occur; no suspicion that the scene he was witnessing would be seared into his eyes so that he would see it over and over again in the years to come whenever someone mentioned certain things or named certain names. Gaptooth knew none of that. Looking back on the events afterwards, all he would recall was his anger that night, unusual this time because it had a focus, as opposed to the dull, constantly burning anger that consumed him at other times.
He had been angry about being stuck on guard duty when he ought to have been out carousing somewhere on a well-earned leave, safe by a tavern fire on a night that was cold enough for the dead of winter when it ought to have been bright and balmy with the breath of spring. No one had expected snow so late in May. And no one was ready for it, after two months of sunshine and soft weather. Daffodils and crocuses had been blooming for weeks, many of them withered and gone already, and new leaves were bursting their buds on trees everywhere.
And then God, with a malice that denied all logic, had decreed not only that it should snow but that the temperature should plunge within hours and the snow should be blown everywhere by shrieking winds that cut a man to the bone, chilling the marrow at the centre of him.
His commander, the sheriff Hazelrig, a strutting, pride-filled cockerel, had gone off somewhere four days earlier and had not returned by the time the start of Gaptooth’s promised furlough came around two days later. That meant that Gaptooth’s release had been delayed—that was how Bernard of Boothby, the sergeant, had put it—until the sheriff’s reappearance, because the hot-headed fool had taken almost the entire garrison with him and Lanark town was now seriously undermanned at a time when reports of local rebellions and unrest were coming in daily. Two more days had passed since then with no word from Hazelrig, and the sheriff’s acting lieutenant, Sir Roger de Vries, was visibly worried.
Then, the night before, a fitful wind had sprung up, blowing out of the northwest, and by dawn a heavy, blustering snowstorm had changed the world. By sunrise, visibility had shrunk to less than a longbow shot, and the sight of snow-shrouded, impenetrable masses of trees looming just beyond the town walls was giving rise to thoughts of being attacked while most of the garrison was absent. De Vries had issued orders that all watches were to be double-manned and changed to a four-hours-on, four-off frequency, replacing the standard six-and-six format. No one was permitted to go outside the gates for any reason, and all leave was cancelled until such time as the sheriff returned and garrison life was restored to normal.
Even before word of these new restrictions was passed, Gaptooth’s anger had begun to bubble sufficiently to send him to the nearest alehouse. He set about drinking determinedly as soon as he got there, before noon, and by the time his shift came around, four hours later, he was thoroughly soused, barely able to walk back to his barracks. His friend Bernard, the sergeant of the guard that afternoon, snatched him by the arm as soon as he set eyes on him and dragged him quickly into the lee of a storehouse and out of sight. There he threatened him with hellfire and damnation for being drunk on duty and reminded him of the penalty for being found unfit for guard duty in times of emergency. He sent Harald off with a flea in his ear and a dire warning to wash himself and be sober by the time he showed his face on the parapet walk, lest he find himself arrested and thrown into the cells, where he would, beyond a doubt, be hanged once things returned to normal. De Vries was rattled, Bernard said, probably afraid and certainly unsure of himself, and he would not think twice about reinforcing his authority at the expense of anyone who crossed him.
And so Harald Gaptooth washed his face and head in icy water from a barrel outside the latrines, cursing the weather all the time and shivering like a man with ague as he scrubbed at his cropped, wet hair with a rough towel. Then, wrapped in a heavy sheepskin coat, and with a long muffler made of joined strips of the same fleece wrapped several times around his neck and lower face, he presented himself for guard duty on the tower walk above the castle’s main gate.
Sergeant Bernard eyed him with surly hostility but made no reference to what his friend was wearing. He himself wore a heavy, ankle-length cloak of wax-smeared wool that was completely waterproof. Gaptooth had once owned its twin, but he had long since sold it for money with which to drink, whore, and gamble.
Gaptooth cursed his friend, because the bridgewalk was the most public guard post in the garrison, exposed at all times to watching eyes, so the sentries up there never had the slightest chance of slacking off for a few quiet minutes. They were on parade constantly, even in the dead of night, trudging incessantly between the man-thick end posts of the great gallows that towered above them, their every move illuminated by the beacons that blazed on either end of the bridge over the town gates that gave the post its name. That night, Gaptooth knew he would be glad of the beacons’ heat once they were lit, but two hours of daylight yet remained. All he could do in the meantime was brace himself and keep moving, hoping that the constant pacing back and forth would keep the blood flowing through his veins and stave off frostbite.
There were no bodies hanging from the gallows that day, and Gaptooth was grateful, for even though the chill of the snowy air would have killed any smell of death, Harald, like all his garrison mates, had deep-dyed memories of pacing the bridgewalk beneath a frieze of ripe and rotting corpses in the heat of summer days, and he felt his belly tightening even at the passing thought of it. He had cared nothing, ever, for the people hanged there. They were all Scotch, and merited being hanged for that alone, but he bitterly resented the summer-rotted stench of them, and resented, too, that he and his companions were forced to do duty directly beneath their decaying hulks, breathing in the filth of their stink and walking through the swarms of flies they attracted. Yet where better to place a gallows than directly above the town’s main gates, where everyone coming and going would see the dangling bodies and reflect upon the folly of incurring the wrath of English justice? It made perfect sense. Still, every garrison trooper who had ever spent a summer guard watch parading beneath the stinking carrion detested the bridgewalk and the duty of manning it.
The wind grew stronger towards the end of his watch, shrieking with malice and increasing the noise of the two great beacon fires to a deafening roar. He tightened his fleece coat about him and rewrapped his thick muffler more snugly around his neck before marching over to the right side of his post, to stand as close as he could get to the fire in the great brazier, bracing his back against the pillar of the gallows, his spear cradled in the crook of his elbow as he clapped his hands and stamped his near-frozen feet. When he looked up again, his vision distorted by the dazzling firelight, he saw the shapes of Bernard and someone else coming towards him from the far end of the bridge, moving eerily through the whirling snow until they walked into the light from the hissing brazier on that side. They had already seen him marching, knew he was awake and alert at his post, and he felt a surge of gratitude that the wind had roused him when it had, for the man walking alongside Bernard of Boothby was Sir Roger de Vries himself. Harald drew himself fully upright, taking a firm grip on his spear shaft and squaring his shoulders, stooping forward slightly to increase the few inches of distance between his shoulder blades and the pillar at his back. He didn’t think de Vries would accuse him of lounging, but he had long since stopped being surprised by the behaviour of any knight.
But the newcomers did manage to surprise him, albeit without intending to. Just as he raised a hand to address the guardsman, Bernard of Boothby leapt silently into the air and spun away to Harald’s left, a short, twisting convulsion that sent him over the edge of the parapet and down to the cobbles beneath. A moment later something blasted the spear out of Harald’s hand and hurled him backwards into darkness.
When he opened his eyes again Sir Roger de Vries was kneeling on the causeway in front of him, looking up at him from no more than ten paces away, and Harald felt a panic-stricken urge to laugh and look away from the sight of a knight kneeling to him. Then sanity returned and his stomach heaved, for he had no wish to see what he was seeing. Although everything in front of him was blurred by swirling snow and flickering firelight from the braziers, and his eyes felt strange, he had no doubt that de Vries was dying there, on his knees on the bridge, gaping up at Harald with his mouth dripping blood down over his curled beard and onto the rich fabric of his winter cloak, reflecting red and black flickers from the brazier flames. And then as Harald watched, appalled, the knight pitched slowly forward to reveal two long, lethal arrows in his back—unmistakably yard-long broadheads from an English longbow—and Harald felt fear claw suddenly at his bowels. The word treason stamped itself into his mind and he turned to spring away to safety and raise the alarm. Except that he did neither, for he could not move.
Fear flared up in him like the beacon at his back. Gasping in panic, he felt his gorge rise in a surge of nausea. He fought it down and forced himself to remain still, keeping his eyes closed and breathing as deeply as he could. He counted to ten, willing his breath to slow towards normal, then did it again, and felt calmer. By the end of his fourth count of ten, he permitted himself to open his eyes.
The knight De Vries lay face down on the bridge in front of him, clearly dead and already dusted with a coating of snow that appeared black around the base of the two arrows. Apart from the swirling snow, nothing else moved anywhere within sight—and it was then that Gaptooth realized his sight was limited. Something was hampering him, stopping him from moving; now he felt pain and an intense pressure beneath his chin. Fighting off another flare of terror, he willed himself to stay calm, and then he peered downward.
It took him several moments to understand what he was looking at, but then he recognized the finger-thick shaft of another English broadhead. It was lodged hard beneath his chin, tilting his head up and backwards and pressing his skull hard against the curving surface of the gallows frame at his back. He could see along the entire length of the angled shaft to the fletching and the deep bowstring notch at the end. He tried turning his head to the right, to pull his chin clear of the arrow’s shaft, and an explosion of agony seared the entire left side of his head. He remembered the massive blow that had thrown him back. It had hit his spear! The damn thing must have glanced off and angled upward to pierce his throat, and he marvelled that he was still alive. A moment later, though, he knew he must be wrong. He could not have lived had the arrow really pierced his throat. Gaptooth was familiar with broadhead war arrows and their wide, triple-barbed, razor-sharp edges, and so he knew that if the warhead had struck him, he would not be capable of moving at all. He would already have bled to death. The lethal arrowhead had missed his throat, and he realized that it had penetrated the thick strips of fleece wound about his neck, piercing them firmly enough to nail him to the gallows post at his back. The pain told him an edge of the broadhead had cut him, somewhere along the jawline, but he felt no strength draining from him and so a clear-thinking part of him recognized that the wound must be a minor one.
And then he heard sounds close by him and he froze just as two men ran by, stooping low and ignoring him completely as they went to examine the snow-covered body of de Vries. One of them pulled the two arrows from the dead man’s back, using the full thrust of his thighs to rip them free, then gripped the corpse by the shoulder and heaved it over onto its back. Then he turned and looked over his shoulder. The fellow’s eyes swept Gaptooth up and down before he turned back to his companion.
As soon as the man spoke, Gaptooth became aware of the clamour of voices from the street below the gateway tower, voices he had not noticed until that moment. He narrowed his eyes slowly until they were mere slits and watched as the second man went obediently to the side of the ramp and raised his voice in a shout.
“Will! Up here on top o’ the gate,” he shouted with a sweep of his arm. “It’s me, Scrymgeour. There’s a dead knight up here might be the one you’re lookin’ for.” As he moved back to where his companion still knelt over the body of Sir Roger de Vries, he jerked his thumb towards Gaptooth. “Was it you shot that one?” he asked.
Harald Gaptooth found himself marvelling at the ways of God. The trick now, he knew, was to keep these men thinking he was dead, and that meant making no movement that might be seen by anyone. Luckily, he knew now how to achieve that, for the Scot had told him how he looked: pinned at the neck to the gallows post by a single hard-shot arrow that was supporting his entire weight, his head and body twisted sideways in different directions and one leg thrown over the other. He inhaled slowly, with great care, and willed himself to remain motionless, his unfocused eyes gazing into the blowing snow beyond the stone parapet.
The Will fellow, clearly their leader, was now standing between his two men, all three of them gazing down at the corpse at their feet. Seeing that they were ignoring him, Harald dared to open his eyes completely and take careful note of the newcomer. The fellow wore a rough tunic, belted at the waist and covered with a thick woollen shawl that was pinned at his shoulder, and his long, sturdy-looking legs were encased in trews of heavy cloth, their lower ends wrapped in the leather cross-bindings of heavy, thick-soled boots with iron-studded soles that left clear imprints in the snow. He was tall and bearded, with an enormous breadth of shoulder and depth of chest coupled with long, heavily muscled arms that would have marked him unmistakably as an archer, had he been English. But he was not English, and clearly he was no archer, for he was carrying a huge sword, the longest sword that Harald Gaptooth had ever seen. He had been holding it reversed at his side as he approached, the elongated hilt pointing downward, the tapered blade stretching upward over his right breast, but now he leaned on it as he looked down at the dead man, his elbow hooked over the weapon’s wide, down-curving cross-guard.
“Ye’re sure he’s a knight?” The question was an idle one, Gaptooth knew, for the tone of the man’s voice indicated that his thoughts were elsewhere.
The leader turned his back on the dead knight and looked around him, and Gaptooth quickly closed his eyes, not daring to breathe, but the other had no interest in him, for a moment later he spoke again, his voice coming this time from the far end of the bridgewalk parapet. Harald opened one eye with great care and saw the fellow standing there looking down, then turning back to gaze up at the crossbeam of the great gallows overhead. He stood there for a moment and then bent over the bridge, looking down into the street below.
“Aye, Will.” The response from below was immediate.
They all turned away and Gaptooth snatched a cautious breath that was suddenly full of the odour of smoke. The man Scrymgeour cocked his head.
There followed a brief period wherein the wind sprang up with renewed ferocity, forcing Harald to concentrate hard on not shivering and betraying himself. Scrymgeour and his companion worked hard in the meantime, finding and raising a long ladder to rest against the gallows crossbar and separating heavy coils of rope while their leader stood silent, lost in his own thoughts and seemingly oblivious to the wind. Then a small knot of well-dressed, unarmed men appeared from Harald’s right, eyeing him nervously as they shuffled by him. The man called Will saw them but made no move to acknowledge them until one of them raised a hand timorously to attract his attention.
The leader drew himself to his full height and frowned as he closed his fingers tightly on the cross-hilt of his sword so that his knuckles showed white against the darkness of his skin. He looked the speaker up and down, then scanned the small group with him before glancing at Scrymgeour and his companion, who had stopped working and now stood watching. He glared at them until they registered his look and turned away to busy themselves again.
He spun on his heel and stalked away, leaving the delegation of townsfolk to make their own way back whence they had come, and Scrymgeour and the other man were soon joined by a large group carrying the bodies of the seven dead Englishmen from below. By the time the beacons were replenished by the raiders, sometime close to midnight, eight corpses swung from the bar above the gates in the freezing wind, and Harald Gaptooth, ignored and untouched, had come to believe that he would, in fact, die there, nailed to the gallows post. But though he was stiff and sore and bruised and chilled to the bone, he was close enough to the beacon brazier for its heat to keep him alive.
By dawn the storm had passed. The snow had stopped, the screams of maimed and wounded men had been silenced, and as far as Gaptooth could tell from where he was, the flames of the burning houses were dying down. Drifting in and out of awareness as he was, though, he could not have said afterwards when it was that he became aware that the Scots raiders had moved on. There came a time when he noticed that he appeared to be alone on the bridgewalk. The creak of ropes above his head told him the English bodies hung up there still, twisting in the little wind that remained, but he could see or hear nothing to indicate that any other living being shared the walk with him, and as the sun began to crest above the trees in the distance beyond the gates he finally dared to rouse himself.
He straightened his legs and pushed the small of his back against the gallows post, and then, braced for the first time in hours, he raised his right hand and grasped the arrow that had saved his life and pushed it sharply up and away from him. The shaft snapped, his bracing leg gave way, and as he fell, the fleece wrappings slid free, spilling him to the ground with fresh, warm blood gushing down from his neck and into his clothing. He landed hard and heard himself cry out at the agony that seared his left side from neck to ankle and he knew that something in him was broken. But he was alive, and for a while he writhed on the snow-covered bridgewalk, trying without success to move his left arm and shoulder. Then, weary and chilled and sweating with pain despite the cold, he managed to crawl, on his right side, as far as the centre of the bridgewalk before he lost consciousness.
He was found there by the first searchers from the town, and for the rest of his life he would tell anyone who would listen how he witnessed the fury of the outlawed felon William Wallace on the night the Scotch Ogre had first raised his head to ravage Lanark town after killing its sheriff and slaughtering its garrison. | 2019-04-22T00:39:13 | http://www.jackwhyte.com/the-guardians-series-introduction/an-introduction-to-the-guardian/the-guardian-sample/ |
Last week I was introduced to a fellow blogger. Mike's Bloggity Blog. I instantly fell in love with him (so to speak...). Believe it or not we met painting bowls for the Empty Bowl Benefit for the Calgary Food Bank (watch for information on that this Friday April 27th).
Look no further than Mike's Bloggity Blog for your fill of Canadian Content! FINALLY! This adorable, bald blogger has what I've been looking for on Canadian Entertainment. Our country is full of artistic life, and Mike will showcase it all! He'll give you a dose of television, albums, concerts, live theatre, books and anything Canadian Entertainment (even Canadian politics... which can be entertaining!) Plus don't miss out on his contests.
Thanks for the heads up Mike, for the info on Ben Mulroney! Mr. Ben, will be back on the air with Kelly Ripa! His first co-hosting duties was when Live With Kelly came to Banff and it was a rating success. It was the best numbers of the week! So now they want to bring him back, but this time he'll be live in studio with Kelly in New York city! Watch for Ben in New York May 4th. And you have to watch Mike's interview with Kelly Ripa here! I LOVE that he got her Moosehead Beer! Nice touch.
Mike has also expressed his opinion of the Garth Brooks mayhem. And no, I didn't get tickets either, but looking at the Brighter Side, Mike has started a facebook group trying to convince Garth and his band to add a second show. Join the conversation here.
Stay in the loop with Canadian Entertainment with Mike's Bloggity Blog! I love it! Bookmark it today! | 2019-04-21T21:10:48 | http://www.thebrightersideyyc.com/2012/04/mikes-bloggity-blog.html |
Using a proprietary processing method we straighten wires with diameters starting from 0.002” across a range of standard medical grades materials, alloys and exotic metals. All wires are cut to your custom length with tolerances down to +/- .01”.
Our grinding capabilities include both manual and computer-controlled processing.
From custom welds to ball welds and shape setting we specialise in high volume manufacturing of formed wires, stylets and other device components. Using robotics, we offer high precision in complex shapes for a range of materials from Stainless Steel to Nitinol. Our high precision processing equipment enables us to form and flatten to tight tolerances. | 2019-04-20T18:10:31 | http://www.creganna.com/technologies/wire-coils/wire-processing/ |
Board meetings are scheduled for the 2nd Monday in each month at 6:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Agendas are posted in the local newspaper.
Please call the Board of Education at 931-864-3123 for more information. | 2019-04-21T10:48:53 | https://www.pickettk12.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=536767&type=d&pREC_ID=1047461 |
The layout and color scheme looks more or less the same as it did in the beta version, light blue over a white background by default. The biggest change in terms of actual design is that the lower control bar has been removed entirely, with functions moved into the hamburger menu and a floating action button (which can be difficult to see if you have icon view active). If you're not a fan of the new color scheme, The app includes full theming support.
ES File Explorer remains free, and it's available for most Android devices (including Android TV). Advanced features include FTP access, cloud storage compatibility with most popular services, and a highly configurable interface and favorites system. | 2019-04-21T12:39:59 | https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/09/01/es-file-explorer-expands-its-material-design-interface-to-the-play-store-version-after-beta-testing/ |
R esponsible for initiating and coordinating the clerical and secretarial functions required of an administrative office such as handling correspondence and word processing, making travel arrangements, answering telephone and e-mail inquiries, organizing meetings and files.
Assists the Chief Executive Officer with routine administrative office function support services.
Demonstrates the ability to order supplies; completes and authorizes requisitions.
Demonstrates the ability to compile and organize data for annual department budget.
Demonstrates the ability to monitor and reconcile expenditures of budgeted funds.
Able to put together data from different sources for special projects; prepares reports.
Maintains procedures and controls to promote communication and adequate information flow.
Demonstrates the ability to perform secretarial duties, i.e., typing, dictation, correspondence, preparing reports, memos.
Answers the telephone in a professional manner; directs calls appropriately.
Maintains department records, files, policy and procedure manuals.
Communicates appropriately and clearly to the director/manager, coworkers.
Is a resource person both within the department and to administrative staff of other departments.
Demonstrates the ability to schedule meetings between departments, directors/managers.
Demonstrates the ability to be flexible and organized. | 2019-04-18T15:20:10 | https://careers.ahcancal.org/jobs/12208828/administrative-assistant-ft |
“CallTestCase using in try-catch block throws StepFailedException”.
If users use callTestCase in try-catch block, KS should NOT throw StepFailedException. Main Test Case should pass if nothing throws in the catch or finally block.
If users use callTestCase in try-catch block, KS throws StepFailedException and marks the main test case failed.
The main test case is expected to pass. Even if the sub test case failed and threw StepFailedException, the try block in the main is expected to catch it.
The issue reports that KS 5.10.1 will actually behave different. The main test case will actually fail in KS 5.10.1. When the sub test case threw StepFailedException, the try block in the main is unable to catch it.
I wanted to witness the behavior.
a caller that calls a sub test case without try-catch block; the sub test case does not log failure, does not throw StepFailedException.
a caller that calls a sub test case without try-catch block; the sub test case does log failure, but does not throw StepFailedException.
a caller that calls a sub test case without try-catch block; the sub test case does log failure, and does throw StepFailedException.
a caller that calls a sub test case with try-catch block; the sub test case does not log failure, does not throw StepFailedException.
a caller that calls a sub test case with try-catch block; the sub test case does log failure, but does not throw StepFailedException.
a caller that calls a sub test case with try-catch block; the sub test case does log failure, and does throw StepFailedException.
A long list of test cases. I wanted to make my test cases concise.
I should develop a new custom keyword, namely fail(), which encapsulate the detail behavior.
* This keyword emits the message given as 1st argument into Katalon log.
* The FailureHandling object given as 2nd argument is respected.
if FailureHandling.OPTIONAL is specified as the 2nd arg, it emits the given message as Info. That’s all. It works just like WebUI.comment.
if FailureHandling.CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE is specified as the 2nd arg, it emits the message as failure plus the stack trace, but does NOT throw any StepFailedException.
OK, this was just what I expected.
2019-01-28 15:04:17.961 ERROR c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - ❌ com.kazurayam.ksbackyard.PrimitiveKeywords.fail(message, CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE) FAILED.
But actually I could not see it. Test Cases/caller - CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE should not throw a StepFailedException but it actually does. I think it is a bug in Katalon Stdudio 5.10.1.
2019-01-28 15:27:15.439 ERROR c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - ❌ com.kazurayam.ksbackyard.PrimitiveKeywords.fail(message, STOP_ON_FAILURE) FAILED.
the try-catch block in the caller is expected to catch the StepFailedException raised by the callee test case, but it does not.
I could reproduce the problem reported by “CallTestCase using in try-catch block throws StepFailedException”.
My custom keyword fail() greatly simplified the test cases for investigation.
I was inspired by org.junit.Assert#fail.
But I want to make my test case codes concise.
Katalon 6.0.5 fixed the problem. | 2019-04-23T13:50:10 | https://forum.katalon.com/t/fail-a-primitive-keyword/18369 |
The Volvo Ocean Race keeps knocking down Vestas 11th Hour Racing, and the joint American-Danish team keeps figuring out ways to make its way around the world. Vestas 11th Hour Racing replaced its broken mast on Wednesday, two days after the 65-foot sloop arrived in Itajai, Brazil, following a journey of 1,200 nautical miles from the remote Falkland Islands under a jury rig.
Start the conversation, or Read more at NewsOK.com. | 2019-04-26T14:10:47 | http://sailingweekly.com/vestas-replaces-mast-ahead-of-next-leg-in-volvo-ocean-race/ |
This stapled booklet contains 100 diagrammed chess studies, composed by Leonid Kubbel, with solutions. They can be solved without a board or pieces.
Leonid Kubbel was born in St Petersburg in 1891 and died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942. Altogether he composed 2784 chess studies and problems.
Published 1998, softback, stapled, 50 pages. | 2019-04-21T18:09:05 | https://www.chessdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Leonid-Kubbel-a229Y.html |
Du, J. H.; Jin, H.; Zhang, Z. K.; Zhang, D. D.; Jia, S.; Ma, L. P.; Ren, W. C.; Cheng, H. M.; Burn, P. L.; Du, JH (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Met Res, Shenyang Natl Lab Mat Sci, 72 Wenhua Rd, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China.; Jin, H (reprint author), Univ Queensland, Ctr Organ Photon & Elect, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
Abstract The large surface roughness, low work function and high cost of transparent electrodes using multilayer graphene films can limit their application in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, we develop single layer graphene (SLG) films as transparent anodes for OPV cells that contain light-absorbing layers comprised of the evaporable molecular organic semiconductor materials, zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc)/fullerene (C60), as well as a molybdenum oxide (MoOx) interfacial layer. In addition to an increase in the optical transmittance, the SLG anodes had a significant decrease in surface roughness compared to two and four layer graphene (TLG and FLG) anodes fabricated by multiple transfer and stacking of SLGs. Importantly, the introduction of a MoOx interfacial layer not only reduced the energy barrier between the graphene anode and the active layer, but also decreased the resistance of the SLG by nearly ten times. The OPV cells with the structure of polyethylene terephthalate/SLG/MoOx/CuI/ZnPc/C60/bathocuproine/Al were flexible, and had a power conversion efficiency of up to 0.84%, which was only 17.6% lower than the devices with an equivalent structure but prepared on commercial indium tin oxide anodes. Furthermore, the devices with the SLG anode were 50% and 86.7% higher in efficiency than the cells with the TLG and FLG anodes. These results show the potential of SLG electrodes for flexible and wearable OPV cells as well as other organic optoelectronic devices.; The large surface roughness, low work function and high cost of transparent electrodes using multilayer graphene films can limit their application in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, we develop single layer graphene (SLG) films as transparent anodes for OPV cells that contain light-absorbing layers comprised of the evaporable molecular organic semiconductor materials, zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc)/fullerene (C60), as well as a molybdenum oxide (MoOx) interfacial layer. In addition to an increase in the optical transmittance, the SLG anodes had a significant decrease in surface roughness compared to two and four layer graphene (TLG and FLG) anodes fabricated by multiple transfer and stacking of SLGs. Importantly, the introduction of a MoOx interfacial layer not only reduced the energy barrier between the graphene anode and the active layer, but also decreased the resistance of the SLG by nearly ten times. The OPV cells with the structure of polyethylene terephthalate/SLG/MoOx/CuI/ZnPc/C60/bathocuproine/Al were flexible, and had a power conversion efficiency of up to 0.84%, which was only 17.6% lower than the devices with an equivalent structure but prepared on commercial indium tin oxide anodes. Furthermore, the devices with the SLG anode were 50% and 86.7% higher in efficiency than the cells with the TLG and FLG anodes. These results show the potential of SLG electrodes for flexible and wearable OPV cells as well as other organic optoelectronic devices.
Corresponding Author Du, JH (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Met Res, Shenyang Natl Lab Mat Sci, 72 Wenhua Rd, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China.; Jin, H (reprint author), Univ Queensland, Ctr Organ Photon & Elect, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
GB/T 7714 Du, J. H.,Jin, H.,Zhang, Z. K.,et al. Efficient organic photovoltaic cells on a single layer graphene transparent conductive electrode using MoOx as an interfacial layer[J]. ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY,2017,9(1):251-257.
APA Du, J. H..,Jin, H..,Zhang, Z. K..,Zhang, D. D..,Jia, S..,...&Jin, H .(2017).Efficient organic photovoltaic cells on a single layer graphene transparent conductive electrode using MoOx as an interfacial layer.ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY,9(1),251-257.
MLA Du, J. H.,et al."Efficient organic photovoltaic cells on a single layer graphene transparent conductive electrode using MoOx as an interfacial layer".ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY 9.1(2017):251-257. | 2019-04-26T08:54:51 | http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/79191 |
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Sarah Larson writes about “Richest Hill,” a podcast about Butte, Montana, and the town’s history; the Berkeley Pit, a Superfund site on its outskirts; and E.P.A. funding. | 2019-04-21T10:53:04 | https://casaclimare.com/?cat=1143 |
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In Daniel Dencik's agreeably meditative, beautifully shot documentary "Expedition to the End of the World," a three-masted schooner carries a cadre of scientists and artists to a mostly ice-encrusted region of northeast Greenland that, because of global warming, is now passable for a few weeks each year.
The mostly uncharted area and its exploratory bounty provoke this eccentric, witty and chummy group — experts in archaeology, marine biology, geology and the visual arts — to philosophize on evolution and humankind's impact. They fish, take samples, wander, draw, record and speculate on what that polar bear in the distance is up to.
Is life a rare event? Are we changing our environment too fast for us to adapt to it? Is it hubris to talk of climate change as bad if the planet is essentially a history of natural disasters?
Composed of breathtaking images and cheeky bits of humor, Dencik's travelogue reveals a journey with curious traces of the past, eye-popping encounters with a wild present and — in discovering an oil company's ship in the group's midst — a weighted reminder of our future as stewards of the Earth.
"Expedition to the End of the World."
Playing at the Downtown Independent, Los Angeles. | 2019-04-19T07:08:43 | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-expedition-end-world-review-20140905-story.html |
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Hello Everyone! Hope you are all having a great day so far. A little bit about myself - I've recently graduated from Rice University with my Master's of Music degree. I am a concert pianist, as well as a professional figure skater. I have toured with the production Holiday On Ice in Europe, performing both as a figure skater and a live musician.
Most importantly though, I have a passion for teaching and love to help my students improve. There is nothing more satisfying than communicating knowledge that I've learned to my students and see the progress build throughout the months of hard work. I have taken piano pedagogy courses throughout my undergraduate and master's studies, and am comfortable with teaching students of all ages and levels.
My piano teaching studio is set up at my apartment in Downtown, and I teach ice skating at the Galleria mall, Memorial city mall, as well as the Bellerive Ice Center. | 2019-04-24T23:03:43 | https://takelessons.com/profile/vincent-i |
Author’s Note: Very busy this week due to Australia stuff. Hence why no posts since last weekend. Got some downtime coming up, meaning more posts. 6 more weeks, and I’ll be able to post a lot more. Here’s your offering for today! | 2019-04-19T08:59:19 | https://musicandfiction.com/2015/04/ |
Fireline is one of the strongest thinnest cords I have come across. The two sizes I am familiar with are size D and B. Size D is a little thicker than B. D is .008″ and B is .006″. You will need a needle to work with this cord. The size needle that has an eye that will fit both is John James Beading Needle #11.
This combo (needle/cord) is a good choice if you are making a ladder bracelet where your bead holes are very small. The cord itself is barely visible. | 2019-04-20T02:37:21 | https://theknottydoitall.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/fireline-cord-and-needles/ |
> Why is that nice? This way the pcb company has your "sourcecode".
> "File->Plot", Select "Gerber" and push the "Plot" Button?
In every PCB tool I've used, Gerber generation is a separate, configurable process which can easily be misconfigured. Visually checking my Gerbers for common mistakes is a normal part of my flow, no matter what tool I use, even after I have the settings dialed in. Yes, I usually just click "plot" as you say, but I still proof the plots for mistakes that can creep in, such as designing a board with more layers than I had previously used in that particular tool installation, and forgetting to emit the Gerbers for the added layers.
Back when I had to review a lot of customer PCB designs as an applications engineer for a chip manufacturer, I'd regularly get Gerbers from professional designers which required post-processing such as changing drill scaling and offset before I could even view them, and that taught me to be a lot more careful about my own Gerber generation. I suspect that full-service PCB houses would just quietly fix problems like that and only raise flags for serious errors, so many designers probably never got any feedback about their Gerbers being messy. But no-touch quick-turn shops require pretty clean Gerbers, so skipping Gerber generation lowers the bar for inexperienced PCB designers.
I don't personally send in PCB source files instead of Gerbers, but I can see how being able to do that can be helpful and convenient for beginners. | 2019-04-22T18:22:16 | http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2017-February/026556.html |
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The Purple Martin Safety System with Pole 12 Room Bird House is designed for the serious Purple Martin landlord. Designed to shelter Purple Martins. 12 apartments allow birds to room together.
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This glossary describes terminologies used in TimeTec Patrol solution on the Web and Mobile App.
Auto Scan Auto Scan feature is available for NFC checkpoints (except in Offline mode). Guards do not need to select a specific NFC checkpoint from the list before scanning an NFC tag. When your phone is placed at the tag, the system will automatically detect the relevant checkpoint that has just been scanned.
App Lock This is referring to any third party mobile app that can be installed to lock the smartphone from downloading or launching any other new applications. It can also be used to prevent users from uninstalling the 'App Lock' application or quit TimeTec Patrol App.
Admin This refers to employees that have been given Administrator privilege (i.e. assigned to a System Role). You can create multiple System roles that are customized with different access rights to modules and divisions.
Beacon Beacons transmit small amounts of data via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) up to 50 meters, and as a result are often used for indoor location technology, although beacons can be used outside as well.
Checkpoint Patrol route is a sequence of checkpoints that security guards need to follow during their patrol rounds. Each checkpoint represents a specific location, affixed with an NFC/ Beacon device for scanning as well as contains the details of action required from that particular checkpoint.
Checkpoint ID Each checkpoint has a Checkpoint ID, which is auto-generated when the checkpoint device is enrolled by Admin Guard via TimeTec Patrol Mobile App. The ID value is from the NFC Tag's manufacturer supplied UID (Unique Identification) code or Beacon's UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).
Data Fields A data field is a column to input/store data; commonly used to refer to a column in a database or a field in a data entry form or web form. Data field may contain data entered as well as displayed data in TimeTec Patrol.
Field Layout The field layout is the viewing rights of fields in the system which is assigned by the system administrator.
First Day of the Week Set the preferable first day of the week, eg: Mondays for most countries and Sundays for some countries in the Middle East, to be applied to the entire system.
Follow Sequence One of two 'Scanning rules' that can be applied to a Patrol Route, the other being 'Random Scan'. Guard(s) must scan the 1st checkpoint before moving on to the 2nd checkpoint in the sequence and so on.
Hierarchy Chart Hierarchy chart displays the position level of the users based on their designations in an organization.
Inactive Users Inactive users are users who no longer valid in your system for reason such as being terminated, suspended or resigned.
Interval Scan (min) Time allocated (in minutes) for the interval between scans required at each checkpoint, e.g. if you set 10 mins interval for checkpoint 2, the guard(s) will then be expected to complete the scan at checkpoint 2 within 10 mins after completing the scan at checkpoint 1.
Job Order Message sent to guards on duty for additional/ad hoc tasks.
Live Camera View In System Settings, you can enter login credentials for your EpiCamera account to connect it with TimeTec Patrol. Once connected, if you add cameras into the EpiCamera solution, you will thus be able to watch the live stream directly from TimeTec Patrol's Live Camera View page.
Live Feed Display of the latest patrol tour records including start tour, end tour and check-in at each checkpoint.
Mobile ID A unique ID registered in the system for all Patrol Devices and used in the initial device activation. Mobile ID is retrieved from the Mobile App and inserted to TimeTec Patrol to generate a pairing code. Subsequently, the pairing code is to be inserted into the Patrol device for first time login.
NFC Near Field Communication, or simply known as NFC is a type of technology that enables two electronic devices to establish communication. In TimeTec Patrol, NFC Tags can be used as checkpoints that are scanned via TimeTec Mobile App during patrol rounds.
Offline Mode Offline Mode in TimeTec Patrol Mobile App is used to facilitate guard patrolling in areas that do not have Internet access. Before entering the offline area, enabling this mode will allow the system to retrieve Offline data such as routes and incidents list from TimeTec server. Once the Internet connection is re-established, security guard will need to tap on Upload Data to push the data back to server.
Organization Structure The Organization Structure module allows you to create Division and Patrol Location with multiple sub-levels. It is crucial to create Patrol Locations as many basic steps/functions (e.g. add checkpoints, create Patrol routes, assign guards) must be applied to a specific Patrol Location. Division on the other hand is optional, only used for organising the patrol locations and can be created according to your organization's branches, department or sections (e.g. Human Resources).
Panic Button Panic Button is a feature in TimeTec Patrol Mobile App that will automatically send out alert notifications (S.O.S. Alert) when it is triggered by the guards, complete with the user’s GPS location and auto-captured photos. Simultaneously, the phone will also play a siren to attract attention or provide warning to the surrounding population.
Patrol Devices Smartphones being used as a tool to perform patrolling as well as enable the monitoring of patrol rounds. To add patrol device, users will have to download TimeTec Patrol Mobile App into a smartphone, retrieve the Mobile ID and input it to the system for one-time activation.
Patrol Location A location grouping used for the systematic management of security and patrolling operations. Typically, a separate Patrol location is created for any geographical area which is located far from the existing site and contains different group of guards stationed for duty.
Patrol Records A summarised and/or detailed account of the performance for the guards' patrol rounds.
Patrol Route Patrol route is a sequence of checkpoints that security guards need to follow during their patrol rounds.
Patrol Schedule Details of the list of security guards scheduled for certain patrol routes on certain days and time.
Random Scan One of two 'Scanning rules' that can be applied to a Patrol Route, the other being 'Follow Sequence'. Guard(s) can choose to scan in any random order, but must complete all checkpoints before ending the tour.
System Roles TimeTec is designed to provide restricted access to authorized users as permitted by the company. You can achieve this by creating System Roles and then assigning the appropriate System Roles to selected users (i.e. appoint as Admin). You can create multiple System Roles that are customized with different access rights to modules and divisions/patrol locations.
Tardiness Late actions or actions not on time committed by guards on their patrol rounds, which includes checkpoint scans, start tour and end tour. The system measures timing of both the 'Early' scans and the 'Late' scans when reporting tardiness.
Tolerance (min) Amount of deviation +/- (in minutes) allowed between the actual interval and the scheduled interval scan time before it is considered as tardy. This is used to assess both early and late checkpoint scans. For example, if you set 10 mins interval and 3 mins tolerance for checkpoint 2, once the guards have surpassed the 10 mins interval time, they will still have an allowance of 3 mins to complete the scan before it is considered as tardy.
User ID User ID is a unique ID for individual user that is available in TimeTec.
Voice Note When guards report Incident through the TimeTec Patrol Mobile App, they can attach a voice recording file to describe the incident better. Admins can then replay the voice note at the Incident Report listing to obtain more details of the situation. | 2019-04-20T16:58:13 | https://www.timetecpatrol.com/glossary |
The debut Holiday release from Bob Baldwin, a gentle fusion of Jazz, with some of Baptist Church roots, featuring Corvina Nielsen on vocals, and tributes to Donny Hathaway and Vince Guaraldi. Available at iTunes and Amazon.
7. Greensleeves - What Child is It? | 2019-04-24T08:15:01 | http://www.bobbaldwin.com/2016-the-gift-of-christmas/ |
Souvenir is a memory play framed by the recollections of pianist Cosme McMoon about his longtime relationship with tone deaf 1940s society warbler Florence Foster Jenkins. In the pantheon of unforgettable divas, there has never been a soprano to rival the legendary, indomitable, Madame Florence. Fashionable New York audiences flocked to their "by invitation only" concerts. | 2019-04-24T22:28:44 | https://mail.artistreevt.org/showsevents/ |
sometimes i think that in life we just need to reflect. on ourselves, and how we treat people, how we live, and how we act – because all these things added up creates “you.” right?
i chose this quote ( and to draw it out ) because sometimes i feel like we get caught up in being just like somebody else. i find myself thinking… if i was a better designer or photographer, i’d be just like them. i’d get all the business they have and my success would go to a different level. i’d have new clientele and then i’d be recognized and creativity would just come to me, like it does to them.
then, my life would be just like theirs. never worrying about money, or what i’d fill my days with. or how to grow. or how to make decisions… it would just be super easy just like their life is.
but its not. and its never been that easy. i think creatives in general are always searching. for inspiration. and guess what? we are uninspired. a lot. more often than you think. we get lost, have to gain focus again, and get back on track. but then sometimes, we have to take a step back and reflect on who YOU are. because there is only one you. nobody else is just like you. they don’t look like you, they don’t act like you, and their life is completely different than yours. so why act like them? you have you. and you should be the best version of you that you can possibly be. because nobody out there will do it for you. and we need more unique people out there.
this wednesday, i guess i’m feeling a little fall. its interesting how things change week to week, and how you feel like you just don’t need that something anymore.
gold studs // ever since courtney kerr showed off her gold studs, i wanted them. they are just timeless and classic and really hard to find. i’ve searched many department stores and i just can’t find a similar pair. btw, i love CK’s style and tendency to be boho.
market list // ahm hello how cute? laid out just as i write them, and on kraft paper? duh.
sam edleman heels // i’ve been a lover of sam’s shoes since i first saw them in dillards. a little edgier style but classy at that. these are a color block version that i’ve been swooning over for a long time.
jersey fatigue jacket // love this slinky, comfy jacket from anthropologie. i particularly love the dark grey blue version, but the olive green will do for fall!
what are you swooning over this week?
Here’s a fun new series. Wednesday Wants. I’ll make sure I tag them all so you can see week to week what I’m interested in. I decided to do a new series on what I wanted, because we ( females mostly ) are always surfing online trying to find the best price, cutest option, etc. So, heres a little recap of what’s on my mind this week.
lacquered desk accessories // I’ve been slowly putting my new office space in the city together, so I’m going clean, simple and chic. I’m in love with these new lacquered white supplies – the tape dispenser, paper storage, and the journals. Not a bad price either!
Jesus // He’s not just for this week. He’s for my life. I’m focused, creating an even better relationship, and setting my eyes on Him.
gray monogrammed pillow // I’m looking for a cute and unique pillow for my bed, that’s not too trendy and not too bold. I’m going with a white and gray theme for tranquility and I’m loving the simplicity.
ms mr band // My new stylist introduced me to the band MS MR. Wow, what a cool, fresh take on music.
Look for great new work to be posted, fun inspiring images and please share! | 2019-04-20T22:26:53 | http://image2impact.com/blog/page/12/ |
Jersey Shore's Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino received an eight-month prison sentence and two years of supervised release Friday in federal court for tax evasion.
TMZ reports that Situation's brother Marc has also been sentenced, ultimately being given two years and a fine of $75,000. At federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Situation was supported by fellow Jersey Shore cast members DJ Pauly D, Jenni "JWoww" Farley, Ronnie Magro-Ortiz, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Vinny Guadagnino, Deena Cortese, and Angelina Pivarnick. His fiancée, Lauren Pesce, was by his side.
Today is sentencing day for Mike #TheSituation Sorrentino in Newark Federal Court for his tax evasion case.
Both Situation and his brother pleaded guilty back in January to filing falsified returns on an estimated $8.9 million of income between 2010 and 2012.
The Jersey Shore reunion series Family Vacation returned to MTV in August with a two-hour special. The inaugural season bagged MTV a handful of viewership records, including the biggest unscripted debut since 2012 and the highest-rated series premiere (Live+3) in network history.
The second season is still in progress, with its finale—titled "What a Drag"—set to air later this month. | 2019-04-24T16:22:26 | https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2018/10/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-sentenced-8-months-in-prison-for-tax-evasion |
There are three kinds of ketones, and the urine is only tested for acetoacetate. As you switch to the more efficient fat-burning process, you convert that acetoacetate to beta-hydroxybutyrate. So, yes, your test can show negative or zero ketones. Look at other factors. Are you losing weight? Are you feeling good? If you’re doing 20 grams net carbs a day or less, you’re going to be in ketosis, no matter what.
Lots of apps and website offer keto diet challenges—basically, a blueprint for the keto diet with a fixed starting and ending point (they typically last for a week to a month, though some may be longer). Speaking of apps, plenty of keto-centric ones are right at your fingertips (a.k.a., your smartphone), like the KetoDiet app, which can help you calculate your macros and track your keto diet effectively.
Since this is my full-time job, donations really help me keep afloat and allow me to post as much to the website as I do. I really appreciate any donation you want to give, but you can change the price yourself. I’ve added in $15 as the suggested price. I think that’s a very fair price considering other websites are charging in the hundreds of dollars, and I’ve seen what they are like on the inside.
Indeed, there's plenty of research to support ketogenic diets in the treatment of some devastating neurological conditions. But can it really help the average Joe or Joanne lose weight? Well, yes, in theory — especially ultra low-calorie versions. But is it suitable for long-term, sustainable weight loss and improved health? The jury's still out on that.
Julie Hand is a certified holistic health and nutrition counselor (Institute for Integrative Nutrition), personal fitness trainer (National Personal Training Institute), and yoga teacher (Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health). Though she can’t resist trying every science-backed health tip, she also has a penchant for crystals and astrology (don’t judge). You can find her walking the beach (coffee in hand, of course) and practicing the ukulele on weekends.
It is not necessary to be as strict with children as you would be for yourself. Children are generally more insulin sensitive than adults, which means their bodies can deal with sugars and carbs more efficiently. Focus on whole foods, good sources of protein, lots of good fats (essential for brain development), and getting carbs from nutrient-dense sources. | 2019-04-19T16:22:57 | https://ketodietlists.com/keto-friendly-foods-cheap-keto-meals.html |
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We had an overflow crowd for our April meeting in Clark Hall on the Case-Western Reserve Campus, since it had been advertised in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and on a local radio station. Our guests were Karen Doornebos, author of Definitely Not Mr. Darcy, and Sandy Lerner, who writes under the name of Ava Farmer. Ms. Lerner’s book is Second Impressions. She also is the founder of the Chawton House Library.
Each author discussed her work and Ms. Lerner told us about her desire to preserve writings by the approximately 3,000 women who wrote during the 19th century. The ladies had a question and answer period and autographed their books for us. Jane Austen Books was also on hand with a sampling of their wares.
Following the meeting the speakers and regular members were invited to the home of JoAnne Podis, where we enjoyed discussing our successful event! | 2019-04-26T06:12:54 | http://www.jasnaonc.com/2012/05/meeting-minutes-april-21st-2012.html |
The Solar Ocean Jasper medallion comes in a myriad of swirling planetary shades. Resonating the healing qualities of the sea, these crystals, found only in Madagascar, work through your solar plexus chakra, enhancing your personal power. Each disc – encased in gold – rests near your heart, nurturing optimism.
Realise your self worth with each gentle tinkle of the golden disc fluttering beside the patterned medallion – each as unique as its wearer. Hung on a heavy silver chain, it can be layered with other necklaces such as the Cosmos Neck Ring. | 2019-04-21T14:36:16 | https://pignastudio.com/shop/necklace/oceanjasper/2 |
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This article by Phil Hearse will appear in the Summer 2008 edition of Socialist Resistance which is out soon.
A counter-revolutionary offensive in Latin America is gathering pace as the left-wing tide of the early and middle parts of the decade falters. In 2002-5, diverted by the war in Iraq, US imperialism took its eye off the ball and was outflanked by the leftward development of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and by the election of the Evo Morales’ MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government in Bolivia. However since 2006, the revanchist right, backed up by huge amounts of US money and political support, has been fighting hard for the overthrow of Evo Morales and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. In both countries crucial questions of left-wing strategy are posed by these developments.
On 8 May Evo Morales declared a referendum on the future of the government for August 10. The prefects of the country’s regional departments will also have to submit themselves to a popular vote on that day. This is a make-or-break strategy in which Morales is hoping to reinforce his position as well as deal the right-wing opposition – who hold several regional prefectures – a major blow.
But taking the struggle onto the terrain of a referendum or bourgeois democracy in general is an extremely dangerous tactic for it is normally the strongest terrain of the right and the ruling class. It is also the one most open to manipulation by right-wing forces who control most of the means of mass communication. This was a major mistake of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua that led to their overthrow in 1992. That the referendum gambit is an uncertain one is shown by the defeat of Hugo Chávez’s referendum on constitutional reform on 5 December last year.
Morales and the MAS-led government have adopted the referendum tactic because of the pressure imposed by the pro-autonomy vote in Santa Cruz, a virtual declaration of unilateral independence by this gas-rich and white-dominated province. The rightist leaders of Santa Cruz organised this illegal referendum on the back of a racist campaign against Morales and the indigenous population. Claiming ‘they want to dominate us’ the campaigners demanded the right to dispose of the Santa Cruz gas profits for their own exclusive use.
Santa Cruz is one of several ‘Media Luna’ (half moon) states that surround the centre of the country in a semi-circle. In all of them the rightist leaders advance the demand for autonomy. If their campaign succeeds it is easy to foresee a similar demand being raised in the oil-rich Venezuelan province of Zulia as a means to attack the Bolivarian revolution.
The political space for the right-wing offensive has been created by the stalled transition in Bolivia. This centres on two major questions. First, the Morales government has ruled out any move towards socialist transition in favour of the creation of ‘Andean capitalism’. This means that the 2006 ‘nationalisation’ of the country’s hydrocarbon resources amounted only to a renegotiation of the tax revenues of the transnational corporations that retain effective control of those resources.
Second, the attempt by Morales and the MAS government to effect progressive constitutional change through the constituent assembly came to nothing. The government buckled to right-wing opposition and conceded a veto on major changes to the right-led regional departments.
What is being tested in Bolivia is an attempt to carry out major reforms in the interests of the poor and indigenous majority within the framework of capitalism, in the epoch of neoliberalism. The danger is that the MAS has aroused the monster of counter-revolution while lacking the means to kill it.
Bolivian vice-president Álvaro Garcia Linares has accused the US government of funding the secessionist movement and there is little doubt that organisations like the National Endowment for Democracy and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are deeply involved in the promotion of the Latin American right – spending for example, $26 million on the 2006 presidential election in Venezuela.
On May 23 the likely next president of the United States, Barack Obama, accused Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez of ‘degrading’ Venezuela’s democratic institutions and said he would ‘fully support’ the counter-revolutionary war being waged by the Colombian government against the left-wing FARC guerrilla movement. Thus, once again, Obama signalled to the US ruling class his loyalty to their interests and his intention to stay within the political mainstream.
His statement comes at a time when the Bolivarian revolution is going through a very difficult period. This difficulty was most dramatically signalled by the defeat of the December 2007 referendum on constitutional reform. Most analyses of this defeat point to the ‘stay-at-home’ factor – the refusal of hundreds of thousands of previously pro-Chávez voters in the poor areas to come out and vote. An analysis of that problem is crucial to understanding the weaknesses of the Bolivarian process (see below).
The contradictory pressures facing the revolution can be summed up in three key areas: a) the self-organisation and political confidence of the workers movement and the poor b) the class struggle and the reactionary offensive of the right c) the strategy, or rather lack of it, in the government and workers movement for a transition to socialism.
In an important recent article Kiraz Janicke and Frederico Fuentes (1) point out that the movement for workers control or co-management has been rolled back and the union movement is significantly weaker than three years ago, with the very promising UNT (National Union of Workers) weakened by internal conflicts. At the root of these were debates over the attitude towards the Chávez government and class independence. These debates go through the Bolivarian movement as a whole.
Against these negative signs, popular participation in the PSUV (Venezuelan United Socialist Party) continues at a high level. Some 80,000 participated in the elections for the party’s new leadership, elections which saw the defeat of some important rightist or ‘moderate’ figures. Moreover Hugo Chávez has recently taken some important steps. On March 15 he announced the nationalisation of a dairy processing plant and a large chain of slaughterhouses, actions that gave the state sector control of 40% of milk processing and 70% of meat processing. In addition the whole of the cement industry has been nationalised.
On April 3 Chávez announced the nationalisation of the SIDOR steel plant, the scene of a 15-month struggle between the workers and the plant owners Tachint, a joint Italian-Argentinian transnational. In this struggle the workers were brutally attacked by the national guard, and the bosses were supported by the minister of labour and the local ‘ Chávista’ state governor Francisco Rangel Gomez. The former accused the workers of being ‘counter-revolutionary’. Only with the intervention of Chávez and vice-president Ramon Carrizalez did the government clearly take the side of the workers.
This is symbolic of the strategic problems of the Venezuelan revolution as a whole. The Bolivarian movement is not united; it has a reformist and bureaucratic wing, deeply entrenched in the national and state governments, that does not want to go beyond reforms within capitalism. At the same time neither within the unions nor the PUSV is there a clearly elaborated strategy for socialist transition, a plan to deepen workers control or a plan for anti-capitalist structural reforms within the economy that would radically change the position of the poor.
According to Fuentes and Janicke, “…another feature of the union movement, particularly striking in the context of the radical social changes in Venezuela, is the lack of a strategy aimed at deepening the Bolivarian process towards the construction of socialism and genuine workers control.
The position of the poor is the heart of the matter for the Bolivarian process. One recent estimate put the number of workers in the informal sector at 47% of the total. That is symptomatic of a country riven with poverty and class divisions. The most optimistic projections say that something like 27% of the people in the country still live in poverty, despite important gains in health and literacy and the effects of poverty-reduction programmes. It is the poor in the informal sector who are the main victims of the sabotage of the oligarchy and the right, for example the food shortages engineered by hoarding, unmasked by the government early this year.
The government’s poverty-reduction programmes have been undertaken with oil revenues at a time of very high oil prices. Revolutionising the position of the poor would mean breaking the power and wealth of the oligarchic elite, whose position is based on revenues from the oil industry and on services industries that ultimately depend on the oil sector.
No successful strategy can be worked out without answering fundamental questions. For example, which class is in power and what is the nature of the government? These are questions that many sectors of the international left struggle with. Socially the dominant class is the capitalist class and, paradoxically, under Chávez they have been enjoying boom conditions as the oil price rockets.
Poverty reduction and health care as well as literacy campaigns are important but they do not address the heart of the matter and they cannot radically change the situation of the poor. The Chávez government is a radical reforming government that fights under the banner of socialism but lacks a strategy to conquer power. It is not what Marxists have referred to historically as a ‘workers government’ – it could only become such a government by mobilising the workers, the poor and the peasants for the conquest of power.
But that means a level of mobilisation and self-organisation that has not been achieved today, despite the hundreds of thousands of Bolivarian faithful who turned out in Caracas on May day. It could only be turned around by dynamising the Bolivarian process with a direct appeal to break the power of the oligarchic bourgeoisie, economically and socially.
The present situation of a stalled transition is very dangerous. A failure to transform the situation of the poor leads to resignation and demoralisation – and it was this factor that ensured Chávez’s defeat in last year’s referendum. The reactionary mobilisation of the right aided by imperialism feeds off this demoralisation and apathy and can even create cynicism and make direct political gains in popular sectors.
The defeat of the Bolivarian process would be a traumatic and probably very bloody affair, with terrible consequences for the left, the working class and the poor – and demoralising consequences for the left internationally. Only by a radical change in direction can this danger be overcome.
The harbinger of the regional counter-revolutionary offensive was the US-aided electoral fraud in Mexico in July 2006, which kept out the ‘centre-left’ presidential candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador. This was rapidly followed by the brutal military suppression of the protest movement in the state of Oaxaca, which had occupied the state capital in protest at the corruption of the state’s right-wing governor. The fraudulent election of the right-wing Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party (PAN) was important for the US, as it stemmed the tide of left and leftish governments rising in Latin America.
Venezuela and Bolivia have broken the regional isolation of Cuba and created a new dynamic in Latin America and internationally. Whichever candidate becomes the next US president, the reactionary offensive will continue. A key part of that offensive will be aid to military operation in Colombia against the FARC, especially along the border with Venezuela.
As in much of Latin America the oligarchic bourgeoisie and important sections of the middle class in both Bolivia and Venezuela are driven by reactionary hatred of the poor, the workers, the indigenous and the peasants. In the next period they will pose the question of government, probably violently. The poor and the oppressed need to return the compliment by posing the question of power. | 2019-04-22T08:47:28 | http://socialistresistance.org/counter-revolutionary-offensive-in-latin-america/169 |
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At Restaurant Marketing Systems we create a lot of material to make the public aware of the benefits of our information and services. I write most of the copy myself. However, the best advertising for our systems comes from the people who have actually benefited from them. Here is a small sampling taken from the reams of letters and testimonials we receive. I can assure you, all of these people are real, and their attitudes and their words are their own.
“Thanks to Restaurant Marketing Systems and you strategies we have a BOOMING business and have the whole way through the past couple years in what they’re calling a recession. In fact, last year was our BIGGEST year yet to date- and we’ve only been in business just 5 short years! Since using your system, we have steadily increased our sales each year and are on track to top all numbers this year with over $1.7M! Thank you Rory Fatt and everyone at RMS! Cheers to continued success!
“With Rory Fatt’s help, 2009 had a $14,000 sales increase over 2008 and a $5,000 profit versus an $18,000 loss in 2008. 2010 sales were up $110,000 and total profit was over $50,000 or 1,000% higher than 2009. This all being after all expenses and my salary. I give Rory Fatt credit for at least 70% of this. I don’t think I’d be in business today had I not made the decision to work with him. In 2011 we are on pace for a third record year, back to back. Thank you, Rory!
“Rory has profoundly changed my life – not only my business life but my personal life, in how I do things and how I see the world. The greatest thing that I have learned is the quality of my time. Christmas time is a busy time of year in the restaurant, and obviously New Years Eve. My wife who is a passionate skier wanted to go skiing over the Christmas vacation because the kids were out of school. This was a real challenge for me to take this trip and take a leap of faith and go out and spend a vacation with my family over New Years Eve. Everything went smooth, and I was on the vacation of a lifetime with my family.
“Before RMS I was in a slump. I had lost my mojo and my confidence. Sales had plateaued and I was lost as to what to do to turn things around. The future seemed bleak, I began to think that I was going to go out of business and I might loose my house. All my money was invested in my business and I had no more to put in. I was depressed and I was dragging down everything and everyone around me. I was thirsting and I had not dug the well!
Then I found Rory Fatt. Everywhere I look now I see a marketing opportunity. I now cannot wait to get to the restaurant. My wife has her husband back and my kids have their father back. I am optimistic about the future and we are all having fun again. My staff is happy because I am happier and we’re all making more money.
“I’ve met person after person that your system is working for and I get inundated with materials left and right. I have cancelled every marketing or advertising program we had before I met you, every newspaper ad, yellow pages ad, anything we had, and we put all our funds into implementing several basic strategies that I learned through RMS. I now spend less on advertising and marketing and get a better return.
“Rory’s system has freed me up to do some of the things I like to do in my life. It’s also made my work a little more interesting. With his system, my sales are up. More importantly, my lifestyle has improved dramatically.
I still am in the restaurant working every night, but I’m not there six and a half days a week. I’m living a better lifestyle and my income is growing every month that I implement this system.
That’s a part of what got me involved with Rory, to go to the next level. I’m getting better return, and better profits. And, whatever I’m able to receive and return is awesome. Everything has become a lot more effective. It’s great. I’ve always been good in the operations and I’ve grown up in the restaurant business, but being with Rory has just polished my skills, and really taken me up to the next level.
It’s given us focus. It’s taken the guess work out of promotions. It’s allowed us to have confidence. When we choose a strategy and we put our hard earned dollars into it, we know that we’re going to get results. That’s one of the key things that it’s done for us, is that we’ve taken things that are proven and we don’t have to guess.
This has been a powerful tool for us to maintain our staff year-round because we’re in a resort town. So, it’s given us the ability to increase sales throughout the year to keep our staff full time and to grow our sales. The focus of this program is all independent restaurateurs. We all have the same voices in our head, and the same things going on, and the same questions, and the same concerns.
It’s a very small investment in terms of results. Nobody’s paying me to do this. You’re looking at someone who’s happy. I feel it with conviction.
It’s done amazing things for our business, and I suggest it to anybody.
“I have a small operation that is part of a franchise. Our corporate marketing department consists substantially of being sent window clings and menu board items. Our growth has all come from our individual marketing efforts and those ideas came from Rory Fatt. We had previously been spending an average of $18,000 per year on advertising in the paper, Money Mailer, ValPak, Ad Pages and a few others. The tracked results were minimal given the investment and I was usually having to throw in a discount to get them in…not the type of customer I was looking for to begin with!
So we simply started with one basic strategy from Rory. We have done almost no other marketing. I have increased my sales and customer loyalty, and reduced my advertising costs. Last year, we selected a second strategy and used in once in the summer and once at Christmas – we had our best summer and our best holiday period ever!
I purchased the package in December from Rory’s Restaurant Marketing Systems. And since that time, our business has grown over last year. I wasn’t showing those kind of figures before I started doing this. Rory’s package has definitely helped increase my sales, the number of people who flow through the restaurant. We’re getting lots more people because of what we did from Rory’s package.
If you don’t have the package, get the package. It’s a definite help to getting rolling and getting business on the right track.
We’ve been in the restaurant business for 30 years, and this is the first time that we’ve ever had any type of advertising that we know is working because we can measure it. Radio, television, newspaper, you can’t measure it. But this, we can.
We’ve just been really happy with the whole situation. We’re considering doing things now that we never would have even thought about, just because of Rory’s system. So yes, it’s paid for itself.
When I started the system, I was very excited, because I knew that something had to change in our restaurant, and hadn’t known what. And almost the same in the following months. RMS is like following a diet program, the more you do the more results you see. Well Done Rory.
Rory’s full of energy, he’s a lot of fun. His follow-through is really good. He does what he says he’s going to do. I would recommend belonging to RMS to anybody in this business.
It’s great to get the newsletters and tapes monthly. I listen and read them immediately. It confirms to me what I’m doing right and also gives new great ideas. In the last year 3 new Franchises have come in close by and our sales are still increasing.
Rory’s helped me make more money than I thought I could ever make and had more fun doing it. One thing that we like is the old saying, “If you want to pick a dozen roses in the fall, plant 1,000 in the spring.” So we’ve planted about 20 different things. Almost everything he says, we try. So we have so many things going. We’re in a small town of 12,000 people and we draw 400,000 guests a year.
If you do the things, even a part of the things that he suggests, and all of a sudden this thing becomes fun.
Rory knows the restaurant business. And believe me, you will be happy to follow his system.
I have put to use only 2 of Rory’s Strategies in the 6 months that I have owned it. I used them for only one month big time results. I can now get the customers in the door. It definitely works.
Rory knows his stuff, bottom line. It’s like I told my brother. “These people know what they are doing. Rory knows. The people he brings in know. So, listen to what they say, and then do what they say.” They can be your coach. Bottom line.
I have only seen sales increase. When I first started with RMS 2 years ago, I was ready to pack it in. Now, I don’t have enough room to handle all of the business. I only advertise to my existing customers and have lines out the door. This is the first year we actually showed a profit. Never thought I’d see the day!
Just so you guys know….I am implementing the techniques learned from Rory’s program. We will continue to utilize the concepts. Thanks!
Rory, I am firmly convinced that the key to continued sales growth year after year is to continue the RMS strategies daily, thus increasing sales.
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I started your system this past month, unfortunately, I have only had time to read the Quick Start Guide but I did implement several suggestions and the results have been outstanding.
We have to say, first of all, that becoming a member of RMS in January 2003 was the best thing we ever did for our business! At that point in time we had been in business for almost two years. In our second year alone, we spent $5000.00 on JUST radio advertising, and our sales went sideways. It was discouraging, as anyone knows. Your membership program seemed a reasonable alternative to try, with your focus on independent restaurants, especially with your money-back guarantee if we weren’t satisfied.
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In February, we began a second strategy, which we still maintain today. It worked very well for us especially, being a new restaurant in a highly saturated restaurant market. At the beginning of March, we started our third strategy, which we do every month.
We haven’t been disappointed! We have so much information! Throughout the last year and a half, we have implemented a little of what info we picked up, fine-tuning what we had. We know more can be done, but we want to be sure we do things right, and so far we can testify to a definite positive growth in our business.
Twice we’ve been nominated for business of the year in the restaurant category through the local Chamber of Commerce, and this last spring we were chosen second – best restaurant in our category, an honor usually reserved for franchises! Thank-you Rory! | 2019-04-26T02:40:31 | http://www.roryfatt.com/testimonials |
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Has anyone even heard a whispered rumor that someone may have one of these that they are willing to sell?
Back to the top one last time. | 2019-04-19T02:24:46 | http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/leica-eveready-case-for-televid-77.3972448/ |
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Emma has graduated from Lincoln University with a Commerce degree in 2013 and is currently working at her Scholarship Partner as a Marketing Co-ordinator.
Emma is also a First Foundation mentor. | 2019-04-18T22:27:16 | http://www.firstfoundation.org.nz/scholarship-student/emma-muir |
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I am now able to share with you the secret project I have been working on for the last couple of months. A friend from my PhD days was getting married and when I asked her what she would like as a wedding present she sent me a crochet pattern for campervans! Once the bridesmaids dresses were all sorted I received a gorgeous parcel of wool in colours to match the dresses. This yarn was from Abstract in Walthamstow and I would like to thank Alessandra for all her help in selecting the appropriate weight yarn and colours for the project. Abstract is a fantastic little shop so do pop in if you are in the area (I hope to go back soon too!).
So, why campervans? The wedding was to be campervan themed! Wowsers! This was all very hush hush so I had to keep this project a secret for aggges- pretty hard when I was so excited about it! The campervans were destined for bunting for the cake table at the reception.
and in situ on the big day!
Isn't that cake just awesome?! I'm really pleased with how they turned out, but most importantly the bride and groom were too!
Superb job! Very well done dear! They are looking super cute. My husband has campervan hire Australia business. I have also made such woolen campervan designs to decorate some of our camper vans.
Oooh, that's great! Would love to see some pictures! | 2019-04-21T09:12:45 | http://www.sallystrawberrycreations.com/2014/07/crochet-campervan-bunting-my-secret.html |
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बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिका सहायक प्राध्यापक पदांची भरती करिता इच्छुक पात्र उमेदवारांकडून विहित नमुन्यात अर्ज मागविण्यात येत आहेत. | 2019-04-23T02:51:49 | https://www.fjs.co.in/jobs/mcgm-assistant-professor-recruitment-3394 |
Let’s pretend your coworker surprised you with your favorite Starbucks drink during work. How do you feel about her? Most likely, she is now on your good side. Germans might even say you now have a Stein im Brett with her (literally translated: a “stone in the board”).
In German, if someone has a Stein im Brett with you, it means that person now has your sympathy. In other words, that person did something to win you over. But to understand where this phrase came from, we will have to take a close look at the origins of this strange German saying.
You know that friend of yours who just won’t stop talking? That person you can never get off the phone, or the person who goes on and on with pointless stories? Germans have a name for someone like this: a Dampfplauderer!
A Dampfplauderer is a person who has always has something to say, but never says anything of substance. This sort of person likes to hear him or herself talk. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we’re often stuck listening to a Dampfplauderer, pretending to care while contemplating how to end the conversation. The English translation for the word Dampfplauderer is “chatterbox” – and that’s a pretty good translation. The word chatterbox, after all, is usually associated with someone that has a lot of idle chatter, but says very few meaningful things. Listening to a Dampfplauderer, you might start wondering what the point of their story is, only to realize there is no point.
The term consists of the words Dampf, which means “steam”, and plauder, which means “chat”. So a literal translation could be “steam chatter” – someone whose words come out like steam – lacking real substance.
Are your pants too short? Are your socks visible when you sit down? You may be wearing a Hochwasserhose!
The word Hochwasserhose means “high-water-pants” and it refers to a pair of pants that don’t quite cover your ankles. Such pants would be great if your bathroom is flooded – or if heavy rains are flooding the streets outside! After all, you wouldn’t want to get your pants wet, would you?
Originally, a Hochwasserhose was designed to be worn during floods. In 1534, a German physicist “invented” the concept, creating stylish pants that were short and perfect for rainy weather.
Today, however, people jokingly use the word Hochwasserhose to make fun of someone’s super short pants, which do not fit them the way they are supposed to. Parents, for example, might refer to their child’s Hochwasserhose after their kid has a growth spurt, leaving their pants too short at the ankles. In the workplace, you might spot a colleague whose pants are too short, exposing their dress socks for the world to see. In this case, wearing a Hochwasserhose is not the most stylish decision!
But in some cases, a Hochwasserhose can be intentionally designed that way – either for purposes of fashion or utility. So-called “ankle jeans” – which end just before the ankle – are intentionally designed to be short and considered stylish. | 2019-04-20T02:58:41 | http://germanyinusa.com/category/word-of-the-week/page/2/ |
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Family Guy Dead Meat Junior T-Shirt - This is an officially licensed Family Guy t-shirt from the hit animated tv show and this tee shirt makes a perfect gift for any Family Guy fan. This Family Guy t-shirt the entire Griffin Family. Family Guy t-shirt color is as shown and these tees come in junior sizes only and is made of a super soft sheer type shirt. All of our Family Guy t-shirts not only look good, but these tees are made to last. Our Family Guy t-shirt is offically licensed and this tee shirt is made of 100% cotton. If you have questions regarding our Family Guy tee shirt or any of our other tv show merchandise, please email us with the product name and number. | 2019-04-23T15:52:05 | http://www.teesnthings.com/griffin-family-guy-junior-t-shirt.aspx |
Having sold homes in and around Pasadena California for many years now, I’ve seen a lot of situations where Pasadena home buyers find a home of their dreams, but somehow going through the steps of the home purchase they make decisions that jeopardize their transactions.
If you are thinking of buying a home in Pasadena or are in the middle of a real estate transactions, I am hoping that these home buying tips will help you. They are not in any particular order, but each of them is critical and important in their own way.
Do NOT, and I mean, absolutely do NOT, quit your job in the middle of escrow. Home buyers, sometimes think that if they have already been approved for a home loan, they will be fine quitting or changing jobs after the fact. Unfortunately, that’s one sure way to be declined for your home mortgage. Banks will verify employment and salary just before funding your home loan. Funding usually takes place 2 days before you close escrow on your new Pasadena home. No verification, no funds, no sale.
You, the home buyer, didn’t meet with a lender for a complete consultation to get preapproved and did not set a budget for your home purchase. It’s important to understand how much you are able to afford before you make an offer on your home. Once you find your Pasadena home, you will start incurring costs – for home inspections, sewer line inspections, appraisal, permits, etc. If you did not do your due diligence and did not take the time to sit down with a lender, complete a full application and provide all the requested paperwork, you don’t really know if you’re qualified for a loan on that home.
Pre-qualifications, where lenders just do a quick analysis over the phone without submission and full underwriting review, mean absolutely nothing. As we say in the real estate business, prequals are not worth the paper they’re written off.
Ensure that you have been fully approved for your mortgage and you understand what your budget is.
How much money should you borrow from the bank? The rule of thumb in real estate lending is to make sure that your monthly payment does not exceed 36% of your income before taxes.
Also, ensure that you understand what your closing costs will be and how much money you should set aside to cover these home purchase costs.
What are Pasadena real estate closing costs?
Do not understand your mortgage choices. There are so many different types of real estate loans to choose from. Each one is unique in its own way. As a home buyer, explore all your options. A good real estate mortgage lender will ask questions that will help them recommend the appropriate financial product that is right for your individual needs.
Did you know that there are 40 year fixed mortgage loans available now? Is an FHA loan the best solution for you? Are you a first time buyer? If so, did you check to see if there are any down payment assistance programs available to you? How long do you anticipate living in your home? Less than 5 years? Maybe a fixed loan that adjusts after 5 or 7 years is the best way to go for you? You have many, many options. Explore them!!! Buying a home is a huge decision!
You are not being represented by a real estate agent. Or, you are being represented by the seller’s agent, also known as the listing agent. Now… unless you know this real estate agent very, very well and you have the utmost confidence in him or her being able to objectively look at both sides of the transaction and gear you in the right direction having your best interest in mind, hire your own real estate agent.
The great thing about being a home buyer is that you do not have to pay a real estate agent commission in most cases. The home seller pays the commission to their real estate brokerage and that real estate broker will share the commission with the buyer’s real estate agent. Simple, isn’t it? Get your own buyer broker representation! Find a real estate “pit bull” that will ensure your interests are protected!
You saw the house, wrote the offer and never went back to check on the neighborhood. Ouch… escrow is underway and you find out that the neighbor next door has a band that practices in their garage every Sunday morning. Or, you drive in for a home inspection to see that there’s no parking on the street because there’s some sort of on-going activity taking place a block away from your newly found home. You see what I mean, right? If you are not 100% familiar with the neighborhood, take the time to drive by the house and around the neighborhood at different times of day and evening. Check your commute time to work from the house. See what it’s like being in that neighborhood or on that street on weekends.
You did not get the home inspected by a professional inspector. Every home should be inspected by a California CREIA (California Real Estate Inspection Association) approved home inspector. Living in California, termite inspections are a must. And, when buying a home in Pasadena, San Marino or any of the surrounding cities, consider hiring a sewer line inspector.
You bought the most expensive house on the block. Shall I say more? If you have a lot of money and it doesn’t really matter – go for it. But, if you’re like the rest of us, please do not buy the most expensive home on the block. THINK RESALE VALUE!!!
Take the time to look at comparable homes prior to writing the initial offer.
Ensure that the home will appraise.
Have a discussion with your real estate agent to see how much this home will be worth 3, 5 or 7 years from now. When I represent home buyers, I always ask myself – if I had to sell this home today what would its pros and cons be.
Review all offer terms carefully. Crafting an effective offer is a skill. Strategize on the best way to write an offer with your real estate agent. Are you asking the seller for concessions? Is your offer clean? Is it contingent upon you selling your home? Present yourself, home buyer, in the best light by being approved by a lender, providing proof of funds, writing an introduction letter to the home seller and having a great and experienced real estate agent effectively packaging all this for you.
Read More: 5 Tips to get more home for your money!
And, just for fun, here’s one of my favorite posts – What can you expect from a great real estate agent! Watch the video – it’s hillarious!!!
Buying a home in Pasadena or any other city can be stressful and can have many pitfalls. Ensure that you are guided by a real estate professional that you trust and respect and who has YOUR best interest at heart. | 2019-04-22T16:06:30 | http://www.pasadenaviews.com/nine-stupid-things-buyers-do-to-mess-up-their-home-purchase/ |
So, what is happening in Albertina?
Do you know about any projects to create safer places in Albertina? Tell us more. | 2019-04-24T00:04:16 | http://www.saferplaces.org/westerncape/Albertina.html |
Gig at OTAGO UNIVERSITY UNION HALL (LUNCHTIME GIG), DUNEDIN, N.Z.
Gig at GLADSTONE, CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z.
Gig at WINDSOR, AUCKLAND, N.Z.
First live gig of the tour! | 2019-04-26T02:15:01 | http://www.softbomb.com/gigs/view/id/1811 |
A tad fatter than CU&PNo.1, this volume of mostly macro mode – and still personal – phone camera shots comes in at 42 pages.
It wasn’t until 2010 that I acquired a Nokia camera phone. Then began my photo-journalling journey. That date was still 4 years prior to my diagnosis with Asperger’s Syndrome – when my newly-obsessive snap-happy life was made clearer: taking photographs was a way to encapsulate the intensity of my visual sensory input experience; plus, being busy taking photographs gave me a way to be self-contained within stress-inducing social situations.
The discovery of further encapsulating the intensity of the lone-wanderer photographic experience into a mosaic-style grid ‘collage’ of 12 images began with the Nokia in my day-to-day life in Devon back in 2010, and continued with my life-changing move to Brighton to explore being proactively political and creativist in a trans-aware/trans-embracing (and neurodivergent-supportive) city.
Back in 2004, on a part time arts course – including film studies – the subject was film noir. Relatively new to me at the time I threw myself into reading Dashiell Hammett and watching a handful of films – The Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon, Gilda, etc – to jen up on the world of the ‘hard-boiled’ private detective and the femme fatale.
Putting in fewer class hours on other subjects than my peers, I offered to do extra in film studies, and so when it came to actually creating five minutes worth of film noir, I found myself becoming overnight screenplay writer, director, wardrobe mixtress, props producer, editor – and probaby gaffer and key grip into the bargain.
The femme fatale – dons high heels, gets her kicks.
The femme fatale dons high heels, gets her kicks.
And so diverts the world-wise private dicks.
Her silver tongue proved not to be her bond. | 2019-04-23T11:00:25 | https://offthetrolleyproductions.blog/ |
erl_expand_records — Expands records in a module.
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There’s a gusher at Charlo Whorton’s Colorado Landing RV park at the end of West Cedar Street in La Grange. Actually there are three of them.
There’s big doings in Walhalla (but don’t tell anyone).
Hint: It’s a movie set for an independent production titled “The Lost Husband,” based on a novel of the same name by Katherine Carter.
It was a case of musical chairs on the La Grange square last week. Kat’s Two, Katherine Hanslik-Svatek’s multiple vendor antiques business at 213 W Travis will become Judy’s Attic. The Judy in question is Judy Tobias, one of Hanslik-Svatek’s vendors. The official changeover comes Nov. 1. | 2019-04-24T08:43:02 | https://www.fayettecountyrecord.com/authors/h-h-howze |
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Podioracket Episode 18! In this episode you will hear Heather interviewing Thomas Gideon and Tim Dodge, news and contest info, as well as the latest entry in the Podiobooks.com Promo contest. We did it all in another twenty-two minutes of pure fun.
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Announcing a casting call from @bignutter. He’s looking for Bible Readers to do Genesis 1:1-10, Mark 16:15 & 1 Peter 4:10 all KJV, and also another unspecified quote. He’s accepting Male and Female readers. Certain Male voices are ideal, such as Fractured Horizon Promo Voice. Sorry nutter the our VOG (Voice of God) belongs to us! But we will spread the word.
Support our Troops by opting-in to Operations Ebook Drop founded by Ed W. Patterson. Smashwords is joining with Ed in the endeavor. Mark Coker put up a great blog about how this operation is going to work. Here is the link to the blog post.
The Mark of a Druid has a new website and contest 11 is now live. Let Rhonda now what you think of the new site and sign up.
Arlene Radasky needs names for her characters in her new novel SEA HAWK. When you email her with your suggestions, she will put your name in the hat for a FREE signed copy of THE FOX, sent anywhere in the world. Winner will be drawn on October 30, 2009. For all the details go to her website.
Our most recent entry was played in this episode and submitted by Mark A. Rayner, author of Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals.
FACBOOK RADOM SELECTION– Click on “become fan” on Brian’s Facebook author page. He’ll give away one signed copy each week in October to randomly selected fans through Facebook.
QUICK ANSWER WINS A PRIZE– The first three listeners who email Brian with Betty’s secret (from the book) will get a signed copy. 2) The first listener who emails Brian and tells him what weapon Monica uses(and how she uses it) in the last scene will get a book.
Shownotes are coming on these shows at BTR-PR. You can set reminders and not miss a show!
October 27 6:00pm PST J.C. Hutchens Rush day for 7th Son and we are giving away some amazing schwag! | 2019-04-23T02:22:19 | http://www.podioracket.com/main/2009/09/22/episode-18-thomas-gideon-and-and-tim-dodge/ |
This class will teach the basics methods and techniques of oil painting for those at the beginner level. And for students who have already been in oil class, they can continue their studies. The class is open to all levels.
Students may provide their own materials. Please register by phone or in studio to avoid the fee. | 2019-04-26T04:55:33 | https://www.hunakaistudio.org/classes/clay-sculpting/ |
Clients describe the team's "excellent lawyers" as "practical and responsive."
Increasingly, governments and public bodies are choosing a wide range of solutions for transferring existing public services to the private sector, including risk sharing arrangements between public and private organisations. These solutions can be highly complex, involving numerous parties with a variety of differing interests and concerns. They also vary according to the individual circumstance and require a broad range of co-ordinated legal services.
We have an established reputation in rail, roads, defence and IT. Our lawyers have also been at the forefront of the burgeoning European PPP market, and have advised on pathfinder projects in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal and Greece.
Our team advises clients on all legal aspects relating to the structuring, financing, construction and operation of PFI and PPP projects. We have worked on the full range of transaction structures used in PPP projects, including privatisations, joint ventures, government-owned contractor-operated arrangements and outsourcing contracts. Our track record has given us a comprehensive understanding of the issues faced by all participants involved in PFI/PPP projects. We have over 100 lawyers working on PFI/PPP projects across our growing network of offices.
acting on several matters including management contracts for hospitals and the outsourcing of a fully integrated healthcare computerised information system.
advising on the policy framework for PPPs in the rail sector. The brief includes Dublin's proposed €1.8bn on-street light rail network, a €5.7bn metro system and (possibly) several heavy rail networks. The project has given us a key role in the development of PFI/PPP structures in one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing European PFI/PPP markets.
advising, in conjunction with the Athens-based law firm Kallimopoulos Loukopoulos & Chiotellis, the Greek Government and their advisor, Bank of America, on the construction programme of six motorways.
advising the Dutch municipality in their capacity as a joint venture partner in relation to the design, construction and development of infra-structure projects HSL and Betuwelijn.
advising the Province of North Brabant and the Dutch Ministry of Finance on the first ever PPP road project in the Netherlands, the A59 road scheme. This project has an estimated capital cost of £80m. In advising on this project, we confirmed our position at the forefront of pathfinder projects in the global PFI/PPP arena.
acting for Crown House Engineering and Carillion plc, the de-merged construction services arm of Tarmac plc, in relation to a PFI project for the South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. At the time of our appointment, this was the largest hospital re-building programme for 30 years.
we are currently advising on various PFI/ PPP issues, including the European wide tendering process and the commercial procurement of the new IT system that will cover both the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency. The contract for the consortia bidding for this work is expected to be in the region of £200m.
advising the facilities manager, a member of the Compagnie Générale des Eaux Group (now Vivendi), in relation to "Project Prime", a contract for the provision of office accommodation services to the Department of Social Security (now Department for Work and Pensions) with a capital value approximately £250m.
advising on the legal aspects of an IT/IS refurbishment and the implementation of an information management strategy which will take place on a PPP basis. The value of the MCA's IT programme is expected to be in the region of £200m.
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Situated in Angus you will find the picturesque little town of Montrose. This Royal Burgh is a charming place filled with history. As a coastal town it has seen its fair share of wealth and prominence. In times gone by Montrose was filled with wealthy landowners, rugged sea captains and prosperous merchants. Its role in the sea-faring history of Scotland has come about largely due to the fact that the town enjoys a natural harbor which has been used for centuries. Montrose is situated between the South and North Esk river mouths and long ago it was used for both import and export and saw ships arriving from as far as the Baltic, France and Portugal. Today the Montrose port is used mainly to support the North Sea oil industry.
The early success and subsequent wealth of the people of Montrose is very much seen in the outstanding and often lavish architecture that abounds here. Many of the pinkish-gray buildings that still stand were once framed by sturdy gables that only the more wealthy could afford. It also has the widest High Street in all of Scotland. Today Montrose is home to an internationally important wildlife sanctuary. The sanctuary takes the form of a tidal lagoon and is home to a variety of fish, birds and other animals. The wildlife sanctuary is one of Montrose’s most popular tourist attractions and it is truly a local treasure. Visitors who come to enjoy the wildlife sanctuary often also spend time visiting the sea cliffs between Montrose and Arbroath as these provide the perfect nesting grounds for a number of sea bird colonies.
In times gone by, Montrose was also home to a beautiful castle which was occupied by Edward I in 1296. However, William Wallace destroyed the castle which is the reason you will not find a castle in Montrose today. Montrose has excellent beaches which are never terribly crowded and provide the perfect setting for a late afternoon walk. You will also find that Montrose is situated fairly close to a number of other small towns and attractions. Why not take a walk around this picturesque little old harbor town and discover the magic of Montrose for yourself? | 2019-04-24T01:59:18 | https://www.scotland.com/regions/angus-and-dundee/montrose-2/ |
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SpaceX has successfully docked its Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the first commercial crew vehicle to ever reach the station and the start of an exciting new era of spaceflight.
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Discover and watch the top TV shows, Movies, radio streams, TV guides. and internet TV from your Country. | 2019-04-18T21:11:56 | http://mariboo.info/viewtopic.php?t=48710 |
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Forrest Yoga is a modern yoga style based on Hatha yoga. It was created by and named for Ana T. Forrest, an American yogini. It is known for its long holding of positions, emphasis on abdominal core work. | 2019-04-18T21:22:03 | https://udaya.com/yoga-styles/forrest/ |
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Upon creating a third-party custom field in a Network instance, a user needs to configure a field-level Network Expression(NEX) Rule: vid__v to copy the record's Network Entity ID to this field. However, after setting up the desired number of Country Groups, it is not possible to update this value for all Country Groups. The user attempts to verify, copy, or type it. Browser cache is cleared. Apparently, the NEX Rule always saves for the first Country Group, but not for the others. Why is the user not able to save the NEX Rule for all Country Groups?
This is expected behavior. The newly created custom field in question is managed by the customer, and it is enabled in third party systems as well. This is the reason why the user cannot update the field.
The Country Groups are not updated because some of the Countries in the Groups are managed by a third- party system, and the custom field is configured as a Master Managed field in these systems. The user can either update the third-party system configuration, or in the Data Model page, remove the Countries managed by this third-party system from the Country Groups. Then, the NEX field is updated. | 2019-04-21T08:41:21 | https://support.veeva.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000140394-Unable-to-Update-Field-Level-Network-Expression-Rule-in-Veeva-Network |
Nothing says romance like chocolate and wine. We recently found that there is better way to combine the two than at the World of Chocolate Museum and Café.
Located in a less congested section of International Drive, World of Chocolate Museum and Café is filled with delectable treats sure to entice your taste buds. But this is not just a chocolate shop. World of Chocolate offers an entertaining and atypical date night experience via a museum tour and a wine pairing experience with delicious gourmet chocolates.
The thought of wine and chocolate had my heart leaping with excitement for our date night. Upon arriving, we snagged our Golden Ticket for the museum tour at the front counter. The tour and wine tasting is $26.85 per person. There is the option to participate in each activity independently; the tour is $16.95 and the wine tasting is $12.90, which includes three wines and three truffles.
Tours are conducted every hour daily beginning at noon with the last tour starting at 7pm. The tours last 45 minutes and are on a first-come first-served basis. The museum and café are busiest when the weather is rainy and during the weekends, so be sure to arrive a little early during those times.
After a short video presentation, we digitally journeyed to the rainforest to learn where chocolate first began– the cacao pod. From there, we traveled through time learning about the evolution of chocolate. One may think a history lesson in chocolate would prove to be a little on the boring side but our tour guide, David, was full of fascinating facts and witty humor which were a far cry from a typical history lecture. He kept us interacting, engaged and smiling the entire tour.
We then proceeded to a gallery of sculptures made of solid dark, milk, and white chocolates. This sight was a feast to our eyes! We lingered in the gallery staring at these beautiful masterpieces like wide-eyed children. There are famous landmarks from across the world and busts of well-known figures to behold; hats off to the artists for their time and astonishing talent.
Once we finished ogling the detailed show pieces, the tour continued with displays of retired machinery used to make chocolate.
Then it was off to the tasting room where the tour culminates in what everyone is been waiting for: chocolate we could finally eat!
Awaiting us were several types of bite-sized chocolates; dark chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate with curry, and chocolate with sea salt, to name a few. Don’t expect a rushed frenzy to ensue though. We were given plenty of time to savor and enjoy these fine delicacies. The tour ended with displays of smaller chocolate sculptures and – spoiler alert – a surprise hot chocolate tasting.
Now it was time for the wine and chocolate pairing! Jonathan was our host for the tasting. We couldn’t have asked for a more hospitable presenter. He asked for our wine preferences to which he perfectly picked complementing wine and chocolates.
In order the make the experience more affordable, the tasting now includes 3 wines paired with 3 truffles.
While I would love to be considered a connoisseur of wine, I am just shy of a novice. Jonathan, our exquisite wine and chocolate sommelier, accurately explained the many distinct flavors that our palates experienced while educating us about the paired wines and gourmet chocolates. His knowledge was extensive and he was gracious to share it with us. To make sure our taste buds stayed fresh and primed, we were offered crackers to eat between tastings to cleanse our palates.
On our way out, we perused the chocolate shop for some treats to take home and I am so glad we did. A few days later and I still can’t get the delicious chocolates and wines out of my head! Thomas and I agreed this was one of our favorite date nights in Orlando thus far.
Note: Since our visit, World of Chocolate renovated the wine and chocolate pairing to make it an even more enjoyable and affordable experience. They’ve also added a few additional experiences, including a Fondue + Tour for Two and a Date Night experience with a cheese platter. See all packages here.
In need of a girls night out, birthday outing or corporate event idea? World of Chocolate has a private room to host such events and ensure a memorable time will be had by all. | 2019-04-26T03:56:14 | https://www.orlandodatenightguide.com/2015/09/chocolate-wine-pairing-at-world-of-chocolate-museum/ |
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Search engines are programs designed to direct Internet users to a list of relevant websites corresponding to users' requests for information about a topic or subject (Palanisamy, 2014). They are crucial for accessing Internet resources. We defined search engine usage behavior as users' behavior when using online search engines.
According to discretionary behavior theory (Morrison & Phelps, 1999), individual and contextual factors, such as job characteristics and search context, can affect user behavior. Perceived search skills reflect the individual's search capabilities and, thus, are an individual factor. Perceived search engine reliance reflects the user's perception of his or her reliance level on search engines in the context of his/her employment, and is a workplace environment factor. Thus, we believed that the individual's perceived search skills and perceived search engine reliance would affect his/her search engine usage behavior.
Search engine advertising (SEA) is based on user-generated queries in search engines (Narayanan & Kalyanam, 2015). However, some users believe there is too much SEA and they distrust the authenticity of the SEA information. User dissatisfaction with search results negatively impacts future choice of search mode, so that the user may choose a different interface, such as an alternative search engine or another search method (Telang & Mukhopadhyay, 2005). In addition, a negative perception of advertising that arises from perceived advertising clutter or prior negative experience can lead to the user avoiding advertising by closing down pop-up advertisements, or scrolling down from banner advertisements on website pages (Cho & Cheon, 2004) and, thus, their negative perception can indirectly affect users' consumption of the advertising media (Rojas-Mendez, Davies, & Madran, 2009). Thus, we hypothesized that users' negative perceptions of SEA would affect their search engine usage behavior.
In prior research, Lewandowski and Sunkler (2013) found that the effectiveness of search engine performance significantly affected search engine usage. Wu, Chuang, and Chen (2008) analyzed the factors that influence search engine use: the factors that support the user's query process and that provide the basic task context for information seeking to allow users to access the relevant information (hygiene factors); and the factors that help users to navigate, browse, and comprehend the retrieved information related to the task-content aspect of information seeking (motivational factors). Palanisamy (2014) focused on the impact of privacy concerns on use of search engines. Liaw and Huang (2006) studied the effects of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on search engine use.
However, researchers have paid little attention to the influence of factors influencing search engine use from the perspective of discretionary behavior theory and SEA. Moreover, most of the earlier research on search engine use was based on English-language search engines. China differs from English-speaking countries in terms of both the culture and the language, and Chinese users may display different behavior from those in English-speaking cultures when they encounter SEA. Thus, we studied Chinese-language search engines in the current research.
In contrast to existing research, we introduced discretionary behavior and advertising avoidance theory, and examined the factors influencing search engine usage behavior in the Chinese context. Specifically, we measured two types of search engine usage behavior that we defined as: (a) general usage of search engines, for which we measured the overall user profile of search engines use; and (b) specific use of search engines, for which we measured whether or not users use search engines to obtain information in particular e-commerce situations.
Publication information: Article title: Factors Influencing Search Engine Usage Behavior. Contributors: Li, Yi - Author, Yuan, Zhihui - Author, Li, Yujie - Author, Liu, Jing - Author. Journal title: Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. Volume: 46. Issue: 1 Publication date: January 2018. Page number: 1+. © Scientific Journal Publishers, Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2018 Gale Group. | 2019-04-23T04:50:27 | https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-525606698/factors-influencing-search-engine-usage-behavior |
It’s no wonder 27-year-old Thierry Chow knows how to put together such a good outfit—she organizes things for a living. The former art and illustration student, who studied in Toronto, returned to her native Hong Kong in 2010 to learn how to harmonize spaces from her father, feng shui master Chow Hon Ming. Now she’s putting her own twist on the practice by forgoing some of the traditional feng shui trappings in favor of modern touches like perfume air purifiers and sleek copper sculptures. Here, she breaks down the elements of Hong Kong style, which—like the city itself—is equal parts classic and contemporary.
How would you describe style in Hong Kong?
The style here is quite influenced by different places, like Korea or Japan, and then some parts of Europe, so people dress really differently, though you won’t see a lot of crazy outfits. People wear a lot of black, maybe with a beanie or sneakers. They have a good sense of fashion, but are safe. My style is similar, but I like to wear a few pieces to stand out.
What’s one thing you’d never see someone wearing in Hong Kong?
Flip-flops! People will look at you funny. You only wear them to wet markets.
I usually stay in the Causeway Bay area, which is basically the downtown of Hong Kong. I like a store called Fashion Walk, which sells COS, Alexander McQueen and Theory. I also like going to the Times Square Shopping Mall, which has Lane Crawford’s Miss Ming brand.
I’ve recently become obsessed with pink, dark red and purple items, so I chose this feathered top that I got in Causeway Bay and paired it with a black jacket from a Korean brand called Tower and a pant-skirt from a local Hong Kong designer. Then, I added my favorite vintage pink sunglasses and a dark pink bag from Maje. | 2019-04-25T09:44:07 | http://old.hemimag.us/2015/05/01/on-hong-kong-style/ |
What happened to Buster from The Supervet? Did the dog recover?
The final episode of The Supervet series 13 saw the adorable sheepdog Buster head to Fitzpatrick’s for treatment.
The poor pup was in constant pain because of a spinal condition.
But what happened to Buster after the show? And has he managed to avoid surgery and fully recover?
The Supervet S13 E6: Buster in the consultation room.
Who is Buster the dog?
Buster is a 7-year-old Briard (French sheepdog).
He’s a fun-loving pooch who lives with Lara and Iain and their two children.
Buster had already visited Noel Fitzpatrick for treatment to an ankle injury when he was a puppy. But he made a return in 2018 with a much more serious problem.
What happened to Buster on The Supervet?
The family initially thought the lameness in his leg was arthritis, but it was actually degenerative lumbosacral stenosis.
A bulging disc in his spine was causing damage to the nerves.
To alleviate the pressure on his nerves, he had three steroid injections administered by Noel into his back. And luckily for Buster, it was a success!
Did Buster make a full recovery?
But the family discovered more heartbreaking health complication after he was treated at Fitzpatrick’s.
Sadly, he was diagnosed with a bleeding mass on his spleen.
Iain, Lara and their local vet made the decision to put him to sleep to alleviate his suffering.
CATCH UP WITH THE SUPERVET: NOEL FITZPATRICK ON 4OD NOW. | 2019-04-20T06:16:42 | https://www.realitytitbit.com/channel-4/what-happened-to-buster-the-sheepdog-on-the-supervet-noel-fitzpatrick-has-he-recovered |
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We accept purchase orders from public school districts. Please contact us directly to set this up by phone at (510) 667-1035, or by email at [email protected]. After your school district information has been processed, you may send us your orders by mail, fax, phone or email.
You may mail us your order with a check. In order to accurately compute shipping charges, you will need to place your online and proceed to checkout, but do not complete your purchase. The online shipping module will properly compute shipping charges based on the weight of the items you ordered as well as your shipping address. You may also contact us with your order and have us compute the shipping fees prior to sending us your check. Please include a phone number so that we can call you with any questions before processing your order. | 2019-04-23T02:25:23 | https://www.montessorird.com/purchasing-methods |
Technavio’s analysts forecast the global nanotech-enabled aircraft power solutions market to grow at a CAGR of 8.89% during the period 2017-2021.
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Technavio's report, Global Nanotech-Enabled Aircraft Power Solutions Market 2017-2021, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market. | 2019-04-19T18:15:39 | https://www.researchbeam.com/global-nanotech-enabled-aircraft-power-solutions-2017-2021-market |
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Find out what’s happening at area clubs in the ClubCorp family. | 2019-04-18T17:28:08 | http://www.clubcorp.com/Clubs/Buckhead-Club/About-the-Club/ |
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Congratulations to this year's Beta Club Inductees--by far our LARGEST group ever!
Calling all makers! Here's your chance to visit Union County's technology and manufacturing powerhouses!
The uniform store is now open!
Order by 7/31 to pickup items at Open House. See flyer for opportunities throughout the year.
Longest Spelling Bee in WMS history!
Going from 36 incredible spellers down to one is never an easy job. This year was harder than ever!
Read one student's experience while learning about the world in Global Studies.
Two students' perspectives on the benefits of taking a robotics class.
Check out our club options for 2017-2018!
Each student will have a chance to sign up for a monthly club of his/her choice.
Time to think about coming back...Click here to see the Open House schedules and supply lists.
Why not grab an extra item or two?
The WMS Office Hours are: Monday-Tuesday 7:30-5:30, Wednesday-Thursday 7:30-11:30 and closed on Fridays. The office will also be closed July 3-4.
we have tons of rising 6, 7, and 8 grade students looking for clothes for next year. As you clean out the closets this summer, we want your gently used uniform items!
A slam dunk for one 7th grade student!
Seventh grader Marcus Montgomery is one of this year's Union Power Cooperative basketball camp scholarship recipients. Marcus will attend UNC-Chapel Hill's basketball camp in June.
Michael Drewery took part in a science project in 8th grade. He now returns to WMS to share where this assignment has taken him.
BFF 2017 is Out of this World!
WMS presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Jr.
Elijah Scheinson rises above the rest in this year's school Geography Bee. He then went on to compete in the state competition.
WMS moves to block schedule for 2017-2018. Have questions? On Thursday, May 11, we’ll host a “Schedule Spotlight” from 10-10:30am and again from 6-6:30pm. Click here for a copy of the schedule.
WMS makes its first appearance in the Southwest Piedmont District National History Day Competition.
Students walk away with several prizes and the chance to compete at the state level.
Although Weddington is the first middle school to raise over $50,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, we are not stopping there! Read on to find out how you can donate online and help our efforts to find a cure for blood cancer.
We are so fortunate to have so many talented 7th and 8th grade Visual Arts students. Many have had work featured at the Pineville Fall Fest Art Show and others had work in the State Employee’s Credit Union.
Students participate in Steve's Coats for Kids. In exchange for a donation, students were able to wear jeans on January 13.
Who will accept our hair net challenge?
Servants with a Heart arrives February 10. To date, WMS students have packaged and had over 125,000 meals delivered.
Mr. Leake decided to do a little experiment. What a surprise for this 8th grader that was rewarded for a kind gesture.
Mrs. Gobble is the WMS Teacher of the Year! She has taught for 14 years, approaching each year with the belief that "teaching is about developing and fostering a lifelong love of learning".
Your chance to meet Dr. Houlihan and share your ideas for UCPS.
Be sure to vote on Nov. 8!
On Nov. 8, Union County residents will vote on $54 million in school bonds.
If you need to come by the school, please keep in mind that WDMS will be open Monday – Tuesday 7:30am-5:30pm and Wednesday – Thursday 7:30am-11:30am. The school will be closed on Fridays. | 2019-04-21T15:25:05 | https://www.ucps.k12.nc.us/site/default.aspx?PageType=14&DomainID=56&PageID=105&ModuleInstanceID=12023&ViewID=c83d46ac-74fe-4857-8c9a-5922a80225e2&IsMoreExpandedView=True |
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So Wednesday night I was in a car accident and my truck was totaled. Both the other driver and myself are uninjured, but because of that I wasn’t able to write a post Wednesday or yesterday. I’m working on getting everything sorted out with the insurance companies and looking at new vehicles which is taking a lot of time so I will be on a hiatus for a little while. Hopefully it won’t be very long and I’ll be able to get everything resolved quickly and get back to my story so I can finally get into the real meat and potatoes of what I want this blog to be. I’ll talk to you guys soon and have a great Thanksgiving with your families!
For a while we were sustaining things the way they were, but then I completely forgot about a test in one of my classes (for whatever reason, none of the tests for that class took place during the scheduled lecture hours, we had to take a test in a separate building on our own time). This was a pretty big deal because I needed to get an A in all of my classes that semester in order to continue attending that school and transition to a full-time student the next semester. I’ll tell you why that was the case in a later post. I was also very far behind on a paper I needed to write, so I decided to just withdraw from the semester and focus on work, maybe get some overtime, and try to find a new job with day hours. I applied to several, but they either paid less than I was already making or the position was filled between getting a call and my interview. I found one that seemed ideal, flexible hours so I could help with the kids, but during the day so I wouldn’t be killing myself, and enough money to be worth making the switch. I went to the first week of training while still working my security job, and had a week of practice after that. It was an in home sales job, and my practice week went incredibly well, I actually made more money from one sale (a couple of hours) than I did in an entire paycheck working security. I thought I was golden. Thought.
The first month was a trial run to make sure we didn’t all drive each other crazy and we could handle sharing responsibilities. I kept my apartment and most of my things, especially furniture, stayed there, but unless I needed something specific and unusual I didn’t go back there. It was an interesting transition that was stranger than just moving is because I had two places I could go depending on how I was feeling, and it gave us an easier out in case things didn’t work. While we had some hiccups, things went smoothly enough for me to move out of my place and most of my furniture to storage. Shortly after that was when we did start having problems. I was finally put on a set schedule at work, but it was the graveyard shift Friday through Sunday and Tuesday, that combined with school left me with very little time at home, and since (I really need to come up with a nom de plume for my wife, let’s call her) Hazel worked traditional hours, I rarely got to spend waking time with her, kind of defeating the purpose of moving in. The only plus side was I did get a lot of good bonding time picking up the boys from school and daycare and taking care of them until Hazel got home. I’ll tell you about that tomorrow.
Around that time, I got lucky with my scheduling and was consistently getting weekends off, so I started spending more time with them all during the day. I finally took the woman who would become my wife on a real date after convincing her we should. At the beginning she would say “we don’t date.” We didn’t do the standard dinner and movie because that’s boring and doesn’t really allow for any sort of real connection or conversation. I took her to Dave and Buster’s, and we had a ticket competition. We took turns picking games that we would each take a turn on, and whoever has the most tickets at the end got the other’s to use for a prize. I don’t think it needs saying, but I won, and I picked a stuffed Rigby from Regular Show who now lives in our youngest’s room. A few weeks after that we were exclusively dating. I started spending a majority of my free time there, and my dog was pretty much living there. So, while most people would think it’s too fast, about a month later I moved in.
So over the course of the next few months we kept doing our own things. Keeping in regular contact, but only seeing each other at most once a week. I didn’t meet her boys until a month and a half into our arrangement, and they were great. We got along, had a ton of fun, and they just saw me as a cool guy. The next time I saw them, the youngest had given me a new name, one that I still bear in love with pride today: Fun.
One thing I haven’t mentioned yet turned out to be the most important detail. Sometime between the otter pops and the cab ride, she told me her son was with his grandma and would be back in the morning. This was certainly a surprise as she didn’t look or act like she had kids, but it was more surprising that I wasn’t bothered by it. I had never entertained the idea of dating a single mom because it wasn’t appealing to me. All of the single mothers in my age range I had previously met were either looking to get a father figure for their child(ren) as quickly as possible which tends to lead to poor relationships that end badly or so obsessed with their child(ren) that they don’t have their own personality anymore. This woman wasn’t like that at all, and she had thrown in the towel on relationships.
There wasn’t a post on Friday because I had a three day drill, so I wasn’t flooded with a ton of free time.
When we left off, I had just hopped in a cab with a beautiful, fun, spontaneous woman and two of her friends. One was dropped off at his house without any incident and the other lived out of town and was staying in the guest room of the woman’s house, where I had been invited to hang out for the rest of the night. Not to dash anyone’s expectations, but nothing risque happened that night. We both had rules that we didn’t break and they were mutually respected. However, we had decided that once the rules had been satisfied, we weren’t going to be anything serious. Just a casual, friends with benefits type situation, which I was completely okay with for obvious reasons. | 2019-04-20T06:13:10 | https://prefabfam.com/category/uncategorized/ |
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Finally getting around to posting these photos. This was my first bear of the season. We spotted it just off the North Western Point of the Fort Prince of Wales. At first we were just excited to see a bear, but as we approached it appeared this bear was about to get into the water. Instead we soon realized it was dragging something out of the water and away from our Zodiac. What at first appeared to be driftwood turned out to be a Caribou carcass.
Endlich geht es darum, diese Fotos zu veröffentlichen. Das war mein erster Bär der Saison. Wir entdeckten es direkt am North Western Point des Fort Prince of Wales. Zuerst waren wir nur aufgeregt, einen Bären zu sehen, aber als wir uns ihm näherten, schien dieser Bär im Begriff, ins Wasser zu kommen. Stattdessen erkannten wir bald, dass er etwas aus dem Wasser und weg von unserem Zodiac zog. Was zunächst wie Treibholz aussah, entpuppte sich als Karibu-Karkasse. | 2019-04-26T07:44:48 | http://polarbear-us.de/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7290 |
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It pains me deep-like when those near and dear to me are hurting. And lately, the folks in my oldest sister’s family are having a bit of an identity crisis. You see, sis Kathy married a guy named Bobby Smajstrla right out of high school. Could have been one of those made-for-TV movies. High school cheerleader (Kathy, not Bobby) marries football star running back (Bobby, not Kathy), and somehow they stay married all the way into their geezer years. So, yeah, my sis went from the simple starched whitebread name of Kathy White to Kathy Smajstrla. If you’re reading this aloud, your tongue just had a stroke.
“Smajstrla,” as you may or may not know, is a Czechoslovakian name. There were lots of Czech types in my old hometown, just as there are lots of Czech types in this here state. The phone book in the town of West, Texas, for example, (which is nowhere near West Texas) has more consonants in it than any other publication west of the Mississippi. One of my best buds from my high school years, James Rejcek (a Smajstrla kin), taught me in the ways of things such as Czech customs, Czech cuisine, and Czech curse words. Example: If someone of Czech descent says this to you, “Jdi do hajzlu!” well, let’s just say they’re not being friendly at all. However, if someone of Czech descent asks if you would like a kielbasa or kolache, they are being very friendly and are offering you yummy sustenance. Mmm, kielbasa.
But I digress. As you may know if you stay apprised of world affairs, the sovereign state of Czechoslovakia angrily divorced itself around 1993, splitting into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. I use the term “divorce” intentionally because the breakup was termed by many as the “Velvet Divorce.” Some say the dissolution was brought about by economic reasons; some say it was due to tribal mentalities and long-simmering historical feuds; some say it was because the Slovaks insisted on putting mayonnaise on their jitrnice, which the Czechs viewed as sacrilege. Whatever.
Well now, the good folks of the Czech Republic have lately been stewing in their guláš over the very name of their fair land. Some think the name is just too darn long. The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina beg to differ, but there it is. Apparently, Czech Republickers are unhappy with a name that can’t fit on a t-shirt. So they’re revolting. (Revolting as a verb, not an adjective—although some of Bobby’s cousins are a bit mangy, but never mind.) So far, the leading vote-getter for the rename is Czechia. Hmm. I don’t know. Sounds kinda like a skin disease, if you ask me.
Recently, I asked sis Kathy what her family thought of all this dissonance and discord. She replied thusly: “Czechoslovakia split up?” OK, forget the whole thing. Sometimes I just get too worked up. Ooooh, who’s up for some karbanátek with egg?
Roger White is a freelance writer living in Austin with his lovely wife, two precocious daughters, a mildly obese dachshund, and a middle-aged cat with Esptein Barr Syndrome. For more of “This Old Spouse,” visit www.oldspouse.wordpress.com.
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My Aunt Leona drew my attention to your Czech article this week and mailed me a copy. I read with interest your observations and comments on what is happening in the Czech Republic. I did not realize your were so “up” on czech happenings in the old country. And for the record, it wasn’t me that taught you cuss words in czech. The only words I ever learned were “Pevo and Pupek” (beer and bellybutton) from my dad.
Hah! Hey, James! OK, it must have been Tabor then that schooled me. I hope you are doing well. I’m still in Austin, playing editor man. | 2019-04-26T14:46:02 | https://oldspouse.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/a-czech-by-any-other-name-or-the-case-of-consonant-dissonance/ |
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A young poet walks onto the hardwood floor of an illuminated stage. She positions herself within the bright orb of a theatrical flood light. A heavy and deep red velvet curtain provides the backdrop and frames her and a single microphone. She takes a moment, breathes inaudibly and assesses the audience with an even gaze. It is a packed house and the expectant faces look back at her, hushed with anticipation. Her first words are not poetry, rather an introduction of her clans spoken in Diné. Her voice is strong and clear.
“Kya” is Navajo, seventeen years old and loves to write. She struggles to balance home life and school work. On most days she is a vibrant, smiling student, who likes to doodle on her hands with a ballpoint pen. On other days, she is withdrawn, lethargic and unsmiling. On these days she is quiet and not willing to share in class. Nonetheless, she continues to scrawl verses of poetry in her tattered, beloved journal that she carries everywhere she goes.
As her poetry teacher and mentor at the Native American Community Academy (NACA) and an educator for the last eighteen years, I observe and understand that Kya will have good days and bad days. This is very much like a good portion of the students I have worked with in almost the two decades I have taught in middle schools, high schools, summer programs, and even in detention center charter schools across New Mexico.
The bottom line I have always found, is that reading, writing and performing poetry engages students to work through familial, communal, social, and emotional issues. Reading original poetry aloud in class can foster trust and empathy in the classroom community, while also emphasizing speaking and listening skills. And it is always of the utmost importance to honor student culture and language while doing so. This is especially imperative for Indigenous youth and students of color. It is my responsibility as an educator to provide robust and culturally-relevant and specific curriculum for my students; curriculum that is not only rigorous, but also framed through the lens of social and emotional wellness.
This means that in the classroom, we must honor the vast and heterogeneous cultural histories, traditional practices and contemporary, intersectional identities of Indigenous and POC peoples across Turtle Island and beyond. Our poetry and classroom texts must reflect the young people sitting in the desks looking back at us, and not just the prescribed Western canonized works of a select few. Additionally, it is then that we educators will find ourselves contextualizing social and emotional learning through a strength-based approach that celebrates students and where they come from, as well as where they plan to go. Poetry and the act of performing — sharing your stories with others — can work to cultivate a strong positive cultural identity for young people that is, in turn, ultimately consistent with academic achievement.
Harjo celebrates the word as a living and organic organism. It is a legacy of our ancestors and we are the honored descendants. Kya understands this. She says her medicine is administered through writing free verse and she code-switches fluidly between Diné and English in her poems. When she is anxious she writes about it. When she is depressed or experiencing a conflict with a peer, she writes about it. When she is angry or frustrated with the world, she writes about it. Like Harjo, Kya knows that every emotion, too, is need of a poem.
Kya writes about a lot of different topics. She writes of baby sisters and little brothers, Changing Woman, best friends, the continued epidemic of missing and murdered Native women, pow wows and her favorite punk rock bands. Kya has become well-aware that her knack and love for writing poetry and storytelling is a powerful medicine that promotes self-care, health and emotional wellness. It is also a platform for her to opine on the ways she perceives the injustices and inequities of the world. It is a platform to be heard and to hear others.
At NACA, representing over 65 plus tribal affiliations among our student population, it is our mission to engage students, educators, families, and community in creating a school that will prepare our students to grow from adolescence to adulthood and begin strengthening communities by developing strong leaders who are academically prepared, secure in their identity and healthy. It is the language of our vision and mission that informs the DNA of our school culture. The NACA community and experience will help students incorporate wellness and healthy life practices, community service and an appreciation of cultural diversity into their lives.
Our best practices of social and emotional learning start with the fundamentals of honoring where we come from. Essentially, it is a holistic and traditional circle of understanding ourselves in relation to our origin stories, relatives, and the world around us.
Social and emotional wellness is one in the same with our NACA personal wellness wheel, a visual tool that helps to guide our students in representing our core values of culture, community, responsibility, respect, reflection and perseverance. It is also a framework for our curriculum design across content and grade levels. Our wellness wheel is centered in a respect for Indigenous knowledge, thus a respect for our young students of our school.
The merits of spoken word poetry are plenty. Students are prompted to write about their own experiences, to imagine a world where physics need not to be applied; break barriers of imagination using imagery, hyperbole, alliteration, and even lyricism. Students write about celebration of self and of hardships endured. The act of writing with others in the room creates an immediate bond between peers. The act of sharing it aloud deepens it further. Poetry and spoken word align themselves with a standards and benchmarks, a plus for teachers, but also in its own way is completely unbridled and uncensored. Writing and performing original poetry is a transformative event for young people, in which they take ownership of their own learning, as well as the stories that connect all of us.
been asked if my people are even alive.
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Spoken Word Poetry as Medicine: A SEL Practice of Celebration and Identity for Indigenous and POC Youth and is located at http://selforteachers.org/spoken-word-poetry-medicine-sel-practice-celebration-identity-indigenous-poc-youth/. | 2019-04-26T10:19:55 | http://selforteachers.org/spoken-word-poetry-medicine-sel-practice-celebration-identity-indigenous-poc-youth/ |
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I haven't been to either of them but know the buildings they are in. I would call them pubs along with micropubs and craft ale bars. It's chain restaurants that I have the problem with.
I know a blogger who tried to present them with an award for the 4th best pub in London.They refused to accept cause they were a bar and not a pub although I think it they were pissed off at being 4th.4th is nowhere imo.
How could you not have been in one of them.Your train travels must pass through Euston.Cheapest beer around that area as well.
My Euston trains are too early for this place and If I go anywhere on the way out it's the unlimited coffee option in a JDW. I don't make a stop in Central London on the way back or nowadays anywhere else.
Here's a comparison of B&B's twitter poll with our very own Top 10 Pubs from earlier this year. There are 22 pubs appearing on both lists (their 77, our 203), with three of their top seven missing from our list altogether (Free Trade, Old Ship, Ship and Mitre).
FWIW I've been to four out of their top seven; 15 out of the 22 that are on both lists; 36 of their 77; and 106 of our 203.
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I think that;s an endorsement for both lists. I visited the Free Trade on the same day as the Cumberland Arms and preferred the latter. Seahouses is a long way North and isn't a very big town. I passed through it over thirty years ago and did stop for an early pint but it was more probably at the now closed White Swan. When I travelled to Belfast last year I stayed in the upper reaches of the Travelodge that overlooks the Ship & Mitre. I looked down on it wondering what it was like being completely oblivious of the reputation of it.
Here's something a bit different, voted for on twitter and collated by Boak & Bailey, let the arguments commence.
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I've seen this tag a couple of times, and thought it was fitting for the first day of the new year.
So, I'll take a minute to look back on the last year of blogging.
How many posts did you write in 2012?
This is hard, because I'm gonna have to count, lol. 190. Geez. I had a lot to say! I'm hoping to post even more this year, as I'm going to TRY to post just about every day. I'm still taking suggestions for tutorials, reviews, a series, anything! If there is anything at all you'd like to see, let me know!
Probably my post about my hair extensions. http://www.nikmakeupjunkie.com/2012/12/rebelle-hair-extensions-review.html Not that it was my most popular post, but I think it's the most thorough review I've ever posted. The post with the most views was, of course, my MAC giveaway, followed by my Fall Inspirations post.
What do you hope your blog is like in 2013?
I'm hoping to be more consistent with posting. I'd love to gain more followers. I'd also love my posts to become more structured, as in, a certain type of post on certain days. I wish I could sit here all day, everyday, working on posts and writing, but I have a job, a husband and a family, not including my furry family. It's really hard to be consistent, but I'm going to try. Any suggestions are welcome!
I'd like to take a second and thank all of you for a great year. I love blogging so much, I wish it was my job. I love each and every comment that I receive, and I get so excited everytime I get a new follower. Blogging is so much fun, and I love sharing everything with you guys! Thank you so much for reading, sharing and commenting, and please continue to do so throughout the new year!
This is going to work a little differently this time.
I'm still going to use rafflecopter, but depending on the first winner, there may be two winners.
As I'm unsure of the shipping laws for all countries, if the person who wins is from outside of the U.S., they will receive everything but the nail polishes, and U.S. winner will be chosen for the nail polishes. If the first person chosen is from the U.S., you will receive the entire prize.
PH Matchmaker bronzer. Won from a Physician's formula giveaway, never used!
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RAPID (RAPTOR Informing Decisions) is a JISC funded project running from February to August 2012.
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