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Everyone’s talking about the recent White House Correspondent’s Dinner. And while POTUS was not in attendance, the correspondents who keep the White House in check made sure not to miss it.\nToday’s World Press Freedom Day. This year marks its 25th celebration, with the main event happening in Accra, Ghana.\nThe theme this year, Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law, covers issues of media and the transparency of the political process, the independence and media literacy of the judicial system, and accountability of state institutions toward the public.\nJournalists play a critical role in holding governments and institutions accountable.\nIn a free society, transparency is especially important in the political process because the public relies on news media to inform on issues affecting them and provide critical reporting.\nCoinciding with World Press Freedom Day is the release of Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2018 World Press Freedom Index.\nBased on the level of freedom available to journalists, the index provides a ranking of 180 countries.\nIn an ideal world, journalists should be able to report without fear of censorship or retribution. Regardless of clear and present danger, journalists continue to fight the good fight.\nWhile reporting on the political process in Malta (ranking No. 65 on the index), Maltese reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb outside her home. Her death led to the creation of The Daphne Project, which consists of a group of 45 journalists from 18 organizations representing 15 countries who are picking up the work she left behind.\nThe Guardian recently wrote a piece about The Daphne Project: A Milestone in the Fight to Defend Press Freedom.\nDown two spots from 2017, the U.S. ranks No. 45 for world press freedom. The ranking should come as no surprise, as U.S. news media increasingly has experienced hostility over the past several years, particularly after the 2016 presidential election.\nAccording to RSF, this mainly is due to President Donald Trump’s attack on the free press.\nRead up on America’s role in a ‘climate of hatred’ for journalists on Columbia Journalism Review.\nMost surprising with the new RSF rankings might be the decline of press freedom in Europe. The United Kingdom, falling 18 places since 2002, remained at No. 40, one of the worst in Western Europe. One of the primary reasons have been new media laws in the UK which have aided in creating a hostile climate toward journalists.\nIn Myanmar, journalists face violence and threats in their commitment to hold institutions accountable. Myanmar ranks No. 137. It’s been reported that two Reuters reporters have been accused of possessing secret government papers and have been arrested, potentially facing 14 years in prison.\nRanking at No. 138 (down two spots), India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using prosecutions to gag journalists who are overly critical of the government. According to RSF, no journalists have been convicted, but the threat encourages self-censorship.\nThis year’s UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is being awarded to Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, an Egyptian photojournalist.\nShawkan was arrested while covering a demonstration at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in Cairo and has been in jail since 2013.\nAnne Thomas is a manager of customer content services with PR Newswire. Follow her on Instagram @anniepallam or connect on LinkedIn.\n← Looking for a little inspiration? Follow these photographers on Instagram.
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Make hundreds of Lazy Angle blocks in 1 to 6 inch finished sizes. Learn the simple technique of cutting and piecing A and B shapes to create a multitude of patterns. The ruler slides easily over the fabric until pressure is applied. Then, our exclusive gripper holds the fabric in place while cutting, eliminating slipping and miss-cuts! It comes with fully illustrated step by step instructions or scan the QR Code printed on the ruler to view a video demonstration. Creative Grids Rulers have a MAP (Minimum Advertised Pricing) Policy. Please do not advertise them for less than the suggested retail.
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Fire Safety Advice for Landlords. A selection of fire safety related guides. Written by our expert advisers.\nExploring the recent law changes across the UK regarding the provision of smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms in rented accommodation.\nA comprehensive guide for landlords which describes some fire safety considerations for common property types and is based on "normal risk" and able-bodied occupants.\nA guide to the smoke and carbon monoxide alarm regulations introduced in October 2015 which are intended to standardise and clarify the responsibilities of landlords.\nUnderstanding different types of fires and the result of different types of fires can help landlords to choose the most appropriate form detection and alarms for their properties.\nCould Multi-sensor Smoke Alarm Save you Money?\nAre you suffering from false fire alarms and the related costs? Multi-sensor fire detectors reduce the risk of false alarms substantially while being very responsive to a wide range of real fires.\nHow would you react if it seemed that your Carbon Monoxide alarm kept false alarming? We explain how CO detectors work and how this poisonous gas should be dealt with if your alarm does sound.\nA guide to the legislation due to be introduced on December 1st 2015 regarding the provision of long-life carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in privately rented housing in Scotland.
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1. MEGE houses out of shipping containers speeds up to buy shipping container pool. Mege provides a comfortable life for you.\n1. At MEGE, we have our own testing lab to ensure accuracy and speed.\n2. Like other top enterprises, MEGE Shelters Inc. regards quality as the hallmark. Ask!
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We have lived here over two decades. Our modest 5-acre property is home to Renée and Sean and our two dogs, two cats, and Maggie the horse. We live and work here full-time and absolutely love summers on the Southfork. We have 4 acres in hay and a huge garden. We both have workshops on the property and enjoy meeting and hosting travelers, since we spend so much time out here by ourselves.\nWe don't yet have bathroom access set up for travelers, so we are offering only to self-contained campers and small RVs at this time. But we can provide electricity, wifi, potable water, and coffee with muffins in the morning.\nHmmm we couldn't find any listings within Southfork Retreat that match your search criteria. Try removing filters or zooming the map out and searching again.
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Let's explore in more detail your attitudes and culture since they are the cornerstones of objective decision making and setting ethic boundaries.\nDo a self-awareness check regarding an attitude. Let's take the emotionally-charged topic of substance abuse.\n1. What is your earliest memory of having a negative reaction to seeing someone drunk?\n2. Was it in your childhood?\n3. Was it a relative, family friend, or neighbor?\n4. Secondly, what was your response to this situation?\nI recall I was about 8, and my aunt had had too much to drink. She was very sick the next morning. I observed everyone being very supportive the next morning, and she seemed almost to have "hero" status with my mother, father, her husband, and other family members who provided her with various home-remedy hangover-cures.\nMy learned response and what felt right then was, "we care for those who have consumed too much alcohol." This felt like the "right" response. This "right" response was reinforced by significant others and the media, as alcohol consumption was an accepted sophisticated activity. The American way of the 50's and early 60's movies was that dad and mom would have an after-dinner nightcap.\nThe resulting "boundaries therapy challenge" is that whenever a client mentions drinking, then internally for me, a red light goes off. I need to do a perspective check and remind myself that not everyone who drinks is a problem drinker.\nHow Do You Learn to Know Yourself?\nHow do you learn to know yourself and to use yourself to effectively set ethical boundaries with your clients? Let's look at how your attitudes and behaviors are learned.\n6. Development of feeling that people who respond differently are "wrong."\nHow do these six stages apply to setting ethical boundaries with your clients?\nTo increase your self awareness of how your attitudes are linked to your past behaviors and your current setting of client boundaries, I would like for you to turn the CD player off a minute and think back to an emotionally-charged situation from your childhood. Secondly, what was the response of others and what was your resulting learned-response as being the "right" reaction? Thirdly, think where you are regarding this response at present. Recall the most recent time that this issue came up in a session with a client. What was your response? What was the client's attitude towards the issue? Now turn the CD off for this self awareness exercise.\nWhat are six stages in attitude formation from past experiences? To select and enter your answer go to Ethics CEU Answer Booklet.
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Gifts can be made “in honor” or “in memory” of a brother, or loved one and can be made on a one time or sustaining basis.\nLearn more about how to give though bequest, charitable remainder trust and other planned giving opportunities.\nMasonic Medical Research Institute accepts grants from private, corporate, and community foundations and gifts made through Donor Advised Funds given through banks and financial institutions. For more information please contact Alex Simon, Director of Development at [email protected] or 315-624-7483.\nMany times, individuals will pool resources together to honor and memorialize loved one who support humanitarian ideals. If you are interested in a naming opportunity please contact Alex Simon, Director of Development at [email protected] or 315-624-7483.
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Crab feast chairman Sue Weber and club members will give a wrap-up of the recent crab feast during a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Annapolis at noon Aug. 11 at the Annapolis Yacht Club, 12 Dock Street. The group also will talk about the club's upcoming 95th anniversary celebration. Call 410-739-2024 for information.
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When I was growing up and starting to leave the Saturday morning cartoon phase, X-Men was one of the brightest spots on TV. So much so that to this very day, there are people fascinated with the show at the same levels of Batman: The Animated Series kind of obsession. The show actually became a success through some of the weirdest circumstances ever, but its a story few know about because of the way morning network television was written about and documented back then. Thankfully, Eric Lewald took the time to create a fascinating look at the series in his book, Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series, which we got a review copy of.\nThere’s a lot about the book we don’t want to give away so we’ll keep it nice and short in case you’d like to check it out. This book goes over everything you could ever want to know about the X-Men cartoon, from the planning and writing, to the thoughts on what to adapt from the comics, talking with the voice cast about their roles in the series and how they came to find the role. There’s a lot of facts about this show that people don’t know and it’s a little surprising that if one thing went wrong at any given point, it might not have succeeded. Like how the series was a passion project of the head of FOX Kids at the time and she put her job on the line to make it happen. Or how the series debuted in the spring after most cartoons on the air already ran most of their 26 episode run in the first half of the year and were now on fumes giving X-Men little competition.\nPreviously on X-Men is about as in-depth of a look into a cartoon show as you’re going to get in a day-and-age where any show can be seen at any time of the day. They literally don’t make these like they used to, and because of all its success, the show holds a fond place in the hearts of many from a certain generation. It makes for good reading if you want to know every single detail you ever wanted about the series and the choices and legacy behind it.
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Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel speaks to CNN about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas on February 25, 2018.\nPARKLAND, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday suspended embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, blaming him for failures in the response to the Parkland school shooting.\nThe new governor criticized the lawman’s handling of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.\n“Today, he merely fulfilled a campaign promise,” Israel said.\nJeff Bell, president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association, said his organization applauds DeSantis’ decision.
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Although state trademark registration offers fewer benefits than trademark registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, state trademark registration can be a cheap alternative for securing limited trademark rights. Federal trademark registration can run anywhere from several hundred dollars to $3,000, depending on the type of mark being registered and the amount of attorney's fees. On the other hand, many states charge less than $100 to file a trademark application. Keep in mind that state registration will not offer multi-state protection, nationwide priority status, incontestability, a presumption of validity or the ability to file a trademark on an intent to use basis.\nVisit the United States Patent and Trademark Office's State Trademark Information Links website (see Resources). Click on the link for the appropriate state trademark office.\nGo to your state trademark office's trademark application on its website.\nPerform a background search to see if your proposed trademark, or a substantially similar mark, is already in use. You will need to search in the USPTO's Trademark Electronic Search System as well as your state's trademark database. If your mark is already in use by a business providing similar services, you should not attempt to register the mark.\nComplete your state trademark application by providing your name and address, a description of your trademark, a classification of the types of goods and services your mark describes, the date when your mark was first used, and any other information required by your state. Note that the application requirements will vary by state.\nSubmit your application along with the applicable filing fee to your state trademark agency. Fees will vary.\nThe requirements and advantages of state trademark registration are different in every state. Be sure to consult with a trademark attorney in your jurisdiction. Some states might require that you provide an example of your mark being used in commerce.
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::.. Tourist Attractions > Saint Mesrop Church ::..\nSaint Mesrop is a Qajar era (1785–1925) church in Arak where the Armenian community of the city worships. Built in 1941, this church has a rectangular plan. The church has several lightwells and two entrances in the south and west. The bell tower is located across from the western entrance. The complex includes a clergy house, prayer hall and a congregation hall. Saint Mesrop Church was registered as a National Heritage Site in 2001. The favorable economic conditions in Arak and vicinity of Armenian villages of Lilian (from the Khomein environs), Mohajeran and Shazand in this area were among the factors of building this church. This church belongs to the followers of Jesus Christ (PBUH), the Protestant branch, which embraces Christian on Sundays.\nThe church plan is a rectangular acolyte shaped in size of 24.6 x 15.6 meters. It is located eastward to the west and consists of three parts: public, altar and two side chambers adjacent to the altar. In the center of the church, four octagonal columns bear part of the weight of the arches of the porch and the dome of the one-piece. The weight of other domes and vaults is transmitted on the graves. The altar has been created inside a large, spacious vault, which is about 1 meter taller than the church floor. In the sanctuary of this church, all the images of the holy Mary and his son Jesus Christ are beautifully seen, and the symbol of the crucifix is seen above the painting. For the strength of the church building inside the walls and columns, wooden beams are embedded. The church's exterior facade is decorated with brick. The roof of the church relies on four columns connected by arches to each other and to the walls. The church has several skylights in four directions, with two entrances in the southern and western parts. The bell tower of the church is located in front of the western entrance.\nIn addition, they cherished the memory of Armenian martyrs throughout history as Armenian martyrs in the Iran_Iraq imposed war, with the construction and installation of a large chapel, on the southwest side of the yard. This church was registered on December 25, 2002, number 3533. Arak has another church called Ammanville, which was built in 1942 and belongs to the Protestant Armenians.
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This course explores listening to and communicating with children and young people about their everyday experiences.\nThis course explores listening to and communicating with children and young people about their everyday experiences focusing on times when they feel unsafe or when plans for their care are being made.\nWe will look at the process of communication, relationships and challenges faced by workers as well as the roles and responsibilities of professionals, the dynamics and power inherent in communication with children and the methods and approaches to direct work.\nDeveloping an understanding of the child’s needs and impairments (from children’s rights’ standpoint) you will look at how participation can be promoted at all stages of work with children and families.\nThis course is for anyone who works with children and young people with a disability in any organisation, business or charity and wants to improve their ability to communicate and capture the voice of the children and young people they’re working with.\nRaise awareness of communication and successful approaches to supporting children and young people with communication difficulties.\nReflect on your own role in encouraging successful communication.\nCover all aspects of communication including verbal and non-verbal, listening and understanding, and social use of communication.\nProvide guidance on assessing communication needs and accessing appropriate additional support and advice.\nIntroduce a range of useful communication strategies, tailored to the needs of participants relevant to their daily working practice.\nDeveloping models of communication relevant to the children and young people they support.\nUnderstanding the communication needs of the children and young people they support in terms of both understanding and communicating with others.\nUnderstand the importance of their role in promoting positive communication.\nRecognise a range of communication tools and strategies used with children and young people with communication difficulties which are relevant to those they support.\nGain practical ideas for positive communication, which can be integrated into their daily home and work environments.
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There are plenty of ways to support Hastings & Rye Labour Party. Perhaps you could help with a leaflet round, or help with canvassing (knocking on doors) and, of course, we can never have too many envelope stuffers!\nSo even if you haven’t much time to spare, there will still be lots of ways you can get involved. If you’re interested please get in touch.\nIf you are interested in joining the Labour Party, please click here or call us on 0845 092 2299. There are a variety of different rates.\nIf you’d like to donate to the Labour Party in Hastings and Rye, please click here for more details. Every penny counts!\nThere is also a monthly General Committee meeting. These used to be held at the Hastings & Rye constituency office (The Ellen Draper Centre, 84 Bohemia Road, St Leonards-on-Sea. TN37 6RN). However due to the large increase in membership these are now held in larger venues within the constituency. All local branches send delegates to attend this meeting. Labour members who are not delegates can still attend but will not be able to vote. Your Branch Secretary will keep you informed of the dates and venues of meetings.
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Using a well-known circuit, I show you how to build a simple computer interface so your logging software can send CW through your radio.\nThe logging software simulates someone using a straight key. It changes the voltage on an RS-232 pin and the electronic circuit uses a transistor as a switch, grounding the lines as though someone grounded the contacts of a straight key.\nThis interface will let you work a contest or pile-up using your logging software – without having to use a key or paddle.\nI got the last Mountain Topper QRP radio of 2015 from LNR Precision (according to Ryan).\nI’ve been having a ball with this gem for the past 10 days. In this video, I tell you about the radio and then show you how to use nearly every feature. It’s a long video that I made for those who may be interested in this jewel-like little rig… which should be EVERYONE!\nContacts with 1/10th of a Watt!\nMy friend Tim Kreth (AD4CJ) sent me a couple of cell phone videos that he shot last weekend during the ARRL Sweepstakes contest.
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I am commercial and portrait photographer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I have worked at Fabricut since 2013 as a commercial photographer shooting interiors and set spaces. Shooting ads for local business as well as the five brands for Fabricut.\nMy husband and I love to travel in our teardrop camper. We enjoy time outside and I love to capture it as well.
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I thrive on helping organizations identify core values and strengths, discover opportunities, and connect with audiences through storytelling.\nPurpose-driven brands originate internally from your identity — it’s who you are at your core, the value you create, and what you stand for. Discovering this is a collaborative process in which we seek to learn what’s true from your point of view as well as that of employees, partners, and customers. Once defined, the identity becomes your north star for all organizational decisions.\nBrand strategy involves discovering market insights and converting them into actionable opportunities for innovation and growth. Living up to a brand promise, especially for purpose-driven brands, requires an integrated strategy for aligning culture, operations, processes, and products with your mission and identity.\nExpressing your brand in ways that are authentic, resonant, and simple requires smart visual and verbal communication.
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Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by Sharer, Apr 25, 2013.\nI have my pc hooked up to my tv. I usually watch free Hulu (not Hulu Plus) which is very entertaining. Does anyone know of some other great free internet channels like Hulu?\nLol, whats on free hulu ?\nSolarmovie.eu is the top one for me right now. They've got shows and movies and most of the links work.\nWhy watch channels when you can just take out the series/movie you want and watch?\nMake sure the web address solarmovie.eu is correct.\nThe .eu site redirects there.\nMovie2k.to, better than any other without a doubt.\nIt's software that you can install on your computer and it comes with A LOT of channels/genres. Some live, some on demand.\nYou can also buy android TV boxes (with HDMI output) and load the XBMC app and watch on your big screen TV.\nA lot of times the show will have free episodes on the site, but there is an advertisement every once in a while, but IMO it gets the job done-free TV.\nThey have the most shows that I have ever seen at a free internet tv site.
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Good on ya to give 'er a go despite the conditions, Smerch. Driving to work today, I stopped by a spot along the Grand River in Cambridge and she was running high and muddy. Also stopped along Riverside Park in Cambridge and couldn't even drive into the park as the Speed River had overflowed the bank there. Oh well, 'tis the season. What can ya do?\nMuddy water ( 1 cm. vis.) everywhere ! Checked out a few carp -cat spots yesterday , loaded with raunchy smelts , worms , large minnows , corn ....and some unknown stuff either attract , or scare off the fish . Well , the bullheads were hungry for most of our arsenal of baits, some a decent size to keep us interested . A couple of perch were interested in the worms , one over 11" (spawned out hen) . ...hoping things get better as the water viz gets better . ...slow start on the carp this year with only 2 banked . Looks like a perch trip may be in the cards ..... ...as Scottydog used to say .....Good fishing !\nIn my opinion, I think you're more right about carp than those who call 'em "invasive." I believe the term "naturalize" best represents carp, who were stocked here well over a hundred years ago as a food fish, and are now one of the only fish that can survive in the degraded habitats we've created.\nWell it’s cheaper here then out in B.C. seen it was 1.78L there.\nHank Williams Jr. , country boy can survive . " catch catfish from dusk till dawn"\nI fished 2 tournaments at Wellers Bay way back. Fished it with Bob Izumi and a few other guys that made it to tv. It was a walleye/pike tournament both times and the fishing was great. Bobs brother Wayne actually taught me how to use a bait caster at Wellers Bay. Get a good topo map or if you have a gps unit you will need it. I lost a prop one year when in 15 ft of water rocks sticking up below the surface attacked my prop.\nLooking for info about fishing this area . My daughter is moving to the Weller's Bay & Consecon Lake area ,south of Trenton next month . Boat access from the trailer park is at Weller's Bay . ....wondering if these spots have good walleye fishing . Lake Concecon looks land locked ...may be a bass -pike fishing lake ? Our trailer will be at Mohawk Bay ...about 30 minute drive away where we have good walleye-pike-bass-drum and plenty of perch . They have a 14' aluminum & like to fish . anyone fished this area ?\nThat was my thought. That catfish could swallow him whole.\nIs there a pre registration? Or just show up the morning of?\nThat is good news, but planned for an early finish and under budget three years out … give me a break, plenty of time for things the government is involved in to go wrong. I saw a local politician trying to say it was their doing for ontime and under budget.\nYea it says CCIW again this year. Hopefully Canadian carper will update on here soon.\nYa that’s why I said screw it last night. Would need 5oz weight to keep it down. I’m sure today is even worse.\nJust pull one of the 2 plugs jack ....save a bundle !\nNo FB also , no interest in it ..... I was checking out a lot of info about Hammi harbour today ....Googled up " pier 8 hamilton " ...lots of posts from NFN (2015) , pictures , derbies & posts from past NFN members ....remember Coachman ? Lots of good stuff to read ! Even some posts & pics about using flies for carp .....check it out ! There's a good chance I'll be at Deseronto during the derby , hoping to get our trailer back there near walleye opener & spend lots of time there this year .\nYes, thank you for passing on that info D. No FB for me either. Is the location yet to be announced, or is it at Canada Center For Inland Waters again?
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After Lynn and I were married in 1946, we visited the Spiker farm pretty often. One of my fondest memories is of Marjory frying little sun fish. They were always so good! Lynn said her secret was that she never moved out of her tracks – she turned them often and served them when they were just right.\nLynn Spiker loved peaches. Grandma Spiker would always have individual dishes of peaches at each plate before they sat down to eat. Lynn said he waited until everyone finished eating to see if he could have extras.\nLynn often talked about his time spent at Sunny Point school. He said he would look out the window and long for the day to end so he could get out to “tend” his animals. He said he often helped Dorothy with the dishes so she could go out with him.\nBecause John heard his dad speak of “Sunny Point”, that was his choice of names for the Bread and Breakfast he and Sue own.
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The American dollar is currently worth 1.29 in Canada (Feb 2018) !\nTo get a fair exchange rate, It is recommended that you convert your USD funds to Canadian cash for your time with us.\nBank machines are widely available and debit is utilized almost everywhere.\nA valid passport or enhanced license is required for entry to Canada. Apply early!\nAirport Code for MacDonald Cartier International Airport it YOW. The airport is approximately 53 miles (83 km) from the show site.\nAll dogs that are foreign born and foreign owned and enter Canada for the sole purpose of entering Canadian Kennel Club (CKC) events will no longer require a CKC registration number, but will require an Event Registration Number (ERN). To avoid losing your win, the ERN number MUST be applied for within 30 days of the first day of entering a CKC event and is valid for the life of the dog.\nN.B A valid rabies vaccination certificate is required for each dog entering Canada and returning to USA. Please note that the certificate should also reflect ownership of the dog.\nAll images/ artwork property of the Gordon Setter Club of Canada and may not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the webmaster.\nPlease send comments, suggestions or reports of dead links to the GSCC webmaster.
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Macbookgames.net team has great news! TheHunter: Call of the Wild 2019 is finally available for all the MacBook and iMacs owners. It is a simulation video game, developed by Avalanche Studios and published by THQ Nordic. TheHunter: Call of the Wild 2019 for macOS gives the most immersive hunting experience created so far. What are you waiting for? With this stunning game, it is your chance to test your hunting skills.\nThis game shows you a beautiful open world full of life, from imposing deer and bison to the numerous birds, creatures and insects of the nature. You get to experience different animal behavior, changing weather events, full day and night cycles. Also the acoustics is very realistic, scents are carried by a new wind system. All the systems team up to increase immersion and wake up the hunter in you. TheHunter: Call of the Wild 2019 for macOS offers a first-person perspective, the player takes aim from a lookout tower. There are many peaceful panning shots of the animals grazing in the areas. New animals exist in the Vurhonga Savanna reserve including the Lesser Kudu, Blue Wildebeest and Cape Buffalo.\nTheHunter: Call of the Wild 2019 focuses on tracking, stalking, and capturing animals with weapons the player has from the start or with earned ones. The multiplayer mode brings a social aspect by including an in-game chat to communicate and synchronize with other hunters. Animals can be tracked with GPS device which also shows current missions and also the time. In the same time, you can track animals via their footprints, vocal calls, eating or other areas they use for drinking and bedding. Night hunting is another possible in-game and is essential for some species.\nNow, the game is available to download as .dmg . Once .dmg file is downloaded, just open it and extract the game in applications folder. It is easy and fast!\nTheHunter: Call of the Wild 2019 for macOs has 15 animals available to hunt, including several breeds of deer like the Whitetail Deer, Roosevelt Elk but also predators such as the Black Bear. You can choose from a variety of weapons, different caliber rifles, shotguns, pistols or bows. You must to select your weapon very carefully, the right one for the hunted animal. This way you get the highest score possible. If you want, you can take pictures of the hunted animals using the provided camera. You must be aware of the wind direction and speed. Many species have a sharped sense of smell. So getting closer to those animals is quite difficult even if you have experience.
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while this company has both good and bad aspects. Most of a typical day would be out in the field doing inspections if you are a technician and if you are a manager then you spend most of your day in meetings.\nLeadership lacks integrity and strategic vision. High turnover and very little emphasis given to developing employees. This company has potential to be great but management needs to look at improving themselves.\ncompany has an excellent reputation, great people to work with,very supportive in individual growth with consulting business. Very good benefits and easy going about time off.\nI really enjoy my work here and have learned a lot in such a short time. The people are friendly and helpful and are very supportive. The only downfall is that the position is part time.\nAlways push people to grow personally and professionally. The company structure is very oligarchy in technical operations. This is to maintain proficiency and consistency, but can limit the ability of employees to grow independent critical analysis skills.\nAsk a question about working or interviewing at Forensic Analytical Consulting Services. Our community is ready to answer.\nHow did you feel about telling people you worked at Forensic Analytical Consulting Services?\nHow often do raises occur at Forensic Analytical Consulting Services?
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How do you keep your dog feeling good?\nRegular exercise helps prevent obesity and health risks associated with aging. It also expends energy which can help your dog cope with separation anxiety and misbehavior in your absence (if he’s tired, he’ll nap instead of eating your couch cushions).
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Dr Gronow commenced a private Multidisciplinary Pain Centre in 1980 in the Sydney CBD. These services expanded to the commencement of an inpatient cognitive behavioural program at Ryde in 1989. In 1996 the Sydney Pain Management Centre moved to Parramatta where a full range of paint management services are provided. These include interventional therapies, medical services, individual and group CBT programs, injury management and vocational assessments. Each patient has an individual treatment program to meet their needs and requirements through patient involved planning sessions and case conferencing. Since 1999 Dr Gronow is Director of Multidisciplinary Pain Services at Westmead Hospital. Recently the Sydney Pain Management Centre has expanded its services at Sydney Adventist Hospital and now provides full multidisciplinary assessments and management, including interventional therapies. Dr Gronow is the President of the Australian Pain Relief Association, and Past President of Australian Pain Society and Kuring-gai Medical Association.\nDr Gronow's research interests include: Clinical trials on new drugs for neuropathic pain; Use of opiates in chronic pain; Efficacy of interventional treatments; and Multidisciplinary pain management.
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Marisco (seafood or shellfish) refers to any one of a number of edible marine animals such as shrimp, clams, crab, mussels, lobster, octopus, squid, oysters and other species of mollusks and crustaceans.\nThough fish (pescado) is not technically seafood, fish species are usually served alongside shellfish dishes. The two types of food are often lumped together in the same category on restaurant menus and signs and in cookbooks as pescados y mariscos (fish and seafood).\nMariscos are prepared and consumed in a variety of ways. See some of our dishes below.\nFood so great, it'll make you sop your plate.\nNorth pacific true cod filets dipped in our house made butter, served with a heaping amount of chips.\n1/3 pound of fresh ground chuck on a pretzel bun, served with tomato lettuce, onion. Add cheese, bacon or avocado.\n1 pound calamari prepared in our house signature batter. The best in the valley guarantees you'll be back for more.\nA taste of the sea is what you deserve.\nJumbo shrimp wrapped with bacon served with our special sauce.\n1 pound of calamari prepared in our house signature batter.\nA heaping pile of Idaho fries topped with cheese and bacon and served with a side of ranch.\nNorth pacific true cod fillets dipped in our house made batter, served with a heaping amount of chips.\n1/2 pound of jumbo shrimp breaded, served with fries.\nShrimp in cream sauce, served over angel hair pasta and house salad.\nShrimp cooked to perfection with bell peppers, tomato, onion and jalapeno. Served with rice and salad.\nServed on top of rice with salad and garlic bread. Salmon fillet style.\nServed with tomato, onion, cucumber, cilantro and avocado - Hot or cold.\nShrimp, octopus, baby clam and imitation crab.\nShrimp, octopus, baby clam, imitation crab and oyster.\nAngel hair pasta with shrimp, tomatoes, cilantro, onion tossed in a light lime sauce.\nAngel hair pasta with shrimp, tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, bell pepper and cilantro tossed in a light olive oil.\nAngel hair pasta with shrimp, crimini mushroom and onions in our house made diablo sauce. Your choice "low, medium or hot."\nAngel hair pasta with butter or Parmesan cheese.\n"Food tastes better when you eat it with friends and family."\nTell us your name, phone number, date, time and # of guests.
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Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies | wanna come with?\nIt is definitely baking season. I went to stock up on sugar the other day and the shelf was almost completely empty – I got the last bag! Everyone is gearing up for their holiday baking. Baking at this time of year makes the house feel so cozy and warm and homey.\nAnd speaking of holiday baking, not only did I participate in the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap again this year (stay tuned – I’ll be posting my recipe for that one on the 16th), but I also organized another cookie exchange with my coworkers. We did it last year and it was great fun (and delicious). I think we had 9 people participating last year. This year we had 17 people signed up! Sadly, a few had to drop out at the last minute, but we still had 13 people in the end. And so many delicious, delicious treats. I might be hoarding them all to myself.\nFor last year’s exchange, I made some chocolate-dipped peppermint marshmallows, which I’ve been making for the past few years as part of my holiday baking repertoire. In fact, there are a few people who eagerly await them each year. Sadly, the humidity is really high in Vancouver right now, which doesn’t do sugar any favours (we’ve hit the rainy season – today we’ve got the 4th storm in a week). So instead of marshmallows, I decided to make a cookie which would combine the same flavours. Which brings us to this week’s double chocolate peppermint cookie. This is actually the same base chocolate cookie that I used just last week for the double chocolate peanut butter swirl cookies. It’s a good chocolate cookie recipe that lends itself well to variations. In fact, they had a peppermint variation listed in the book – but their version called for the green peppermint chips, and I didn’t really think they felt festive enough. So I did a bit of my own tweaking. This is the result.\nInstead of using green mint chocolate chips, I increased the amount of regular chocolate chips to make these cookies really chocolate-y. Then I added peppermint extract. And finally, taking inspiration from peppermint bark, I topped them with some crushed candy cane. The resulting cookie has that perfect blend of chocolate and peppermint, with a lovely crunch from the candy cane topping.\nRemember when I mentioned that I didn’t make the marshmallows because the humidity was too high? Well after I crushed the candy cane, I found it kept clumping up and getting sticky right away. That’s what humidity does to candy.\nAdapted from the double chocolate base cookie dough recipe from Tina Casaceli's Milk & Cookies. The recipe says it will make 2 dozen cookies (ha!) – I got 65 using my usual slightly larger than tablespoon-sized cookie scoop.\nIn the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugars together on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 or 4 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add the peppermint extract and beat again to incorporate.\nTurn the mixer down to low and add the dry ingredients, mixing until just barely combined. Remove from the mixer and add in the chocolate chips either with a spatula or by hand. I prefer to knead inclusions in by hand to ensure they're distributed evenly.\nUsing a small cookie dough scoop or by forming the dough into small balls, portion the dough onto the baking sheets about 2 inches apart to allow for spreading. Press each down slightly with the palm of your hand.\nBake for about 15 minutes, rotating the baking sheet halfway through the baking time. Immediately after removing from the oven, sprinkle a few bits of crushed candy cane on top of each cookie. Allow to cool on a wire rack for a few minutes before removing the cookies from the pan and allowing them to cool completely.
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Latest information regarding Ms.Natsumi Kogawa . English version is at the bottom.\nWe opened facebook page. Please like this so that you can keep track of the latest info.\nWe are organizing giving out flyers at the Vancouver Public Library downtown and at Holdem station.\nNatsumi hasn't been located yet. Please don't be distracted by wrong information. We are working closely with Police on this matter.\nShe's been missing since Sep 8th. The last message from her to her friend was 11:30am on Thursday. Her friend sent her another message around 4:30 pm but she didn't respond after. She hasn't been back to her shared house. She left there with her black backpack, wallet, and iPhone. She lives 2 minutes away from Holdom sky train station in Burnaby. She often goes to the library in downtown, goes to her friend's place near Joyce station. There's no Amber alert for adults so spreading the word on social media is the only way.
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Just over 10 years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy created a joint program, ENERGY STAR®. It assists businesses in tracking energy consumption and protecting the environment through energy efficient products and practices. With this energy performance system, energy managers can benchmark the energy consumption of their buildings against similar buildings nationwide. The system, which uses a scaled rating of 1-100, evaluates several factors to make building performance comparisons as accurate as possible. Included are the impact weather differences have on energy demand and consumption, the physical building spaces, and the operating characteristics of each building.\nThe availability of a tool that conveys the effects of behaviors on energy use enables building operators to clearly demonstrate the need to focus on certain target areas at each site. Over time, behaviors can be influenced and changed as positive impacts are demonstrated through an improved rating. ENERGY STAR provides an easy-to-understand metric of energy performance, and encourages awareness through the publishing of case studies, annual awards, and access to the ENERGY STAR label for site recognition. Using the ENERGY STAR rating system as a first step to benchmark your facilities' performance is a low-cost means to jump start an energy awareness program.\nHow can ENERGY STAR impact hotels?\nAccording to ENERGY STAR, each year the hospitality industry spends over $7.5 billion on energy alone. Reducing energy consumption by just 10 percent across the industry could help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 6 million tons. Research reveals that tactical improvements in energy efficiency can reduce energy spending by 10 to 30 percent, without forfeiting service, quality, or luxury.\nThe hospitality industry is well served by a common energy metric because it enables them to benchmark and track energy usage across multiple sites. Benchmarking energy use is a first step in the process of assessing energy performance and measuring ongoing progress towards established goals. Once rated, hospitality facility managers can track changes and differences at each site, letting them consider the necessary modifications to improve energy consumption. ENERGY STAR is a low-cost benchmarking tool that offers a clear-cut way to understand and communicate how a hotel's performance is measuring up to others.
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The difference between managing and leading is as large as the difference between night and day. We manage stuff and we lead people. Perhaps the biggest single difference is that stuff, budgets, inventories, buildings, etc. don’t have feelings. That alone makes managing a whole lot easier than leading, at least to me.\nPeople have feelings. For many of those people, emotions can be easily offended. That’s why it’s vital for a leader to care about their people. You can care about people without leading them but you simply cannot lead them without caring for them. An attitude of genuine caring will shape every other interaction and communication you have with your people. If you do not possess a genuine nature of empathy you will struggle as a leader.\nManaging is very much about today. It’s a one day at a time kinda thing. Leadership is of course about today but it’s also about tomorrow, the next day, the next week and the next years. That’s why leading requires vision and managing requires tenacity. Managing is a very specific business, it’s the art of steering the ship on a well-defined course. Managing requires facts, data, and objectives. Leadership is the art of turning the unlikely, and at times the impossible, into tangible, reachable, realistic objectives. Organizations seldom manage their way to success. Organizational success requires leadership. Managing is an inside job. Managers utilize their internal resources to make things happen and achieve the goals of the organization. Leaders understand the outside as well as the inside. This provides them with the insights required to see their entire business environment and anticipate needed changes as well as understand potential opportunities.\nLeaders influence while managers direct. It’s really not always that black and white but it’s almost always that black and white. While leaders focus on what will matter, and on why it will matter, managers tend to focus on how it will matter. Said another way, leaders decide what to do and managers decide how to do it. Unless of course the leader is also a micro-manager and then all bets are off. Leaders are really the heart of an organization. They inspire, coach, vision cast, create and nurture the organizational culture. They keep the organization moving forward through communication and motivation. No organization succeeds without solid leadership.\nNo offense to leaders but managers are more like the brains of the organization. They make the rules, set up policies, programs, etc. Managers are about business, not people. No offense to managers but they usually see people as just another tool or asset they can use to get the task completed. No organization succeeds without diligent management.\nFrequently the skill sets and the more important mindset of managers and leaders are so different that it’s challenging for one person to possess both. But “things” tend to work better when managers have a heart and a whole lot better when leaders have a brain. And it’s not that one person can’t be both a good manager and great leader, it’s just that it requires effort and dedication that sadly, too many managers and leaders appear unwilling to make.
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Shouting out our recent Relentless rockstars – Brittany, Dave, and Pam.\nReflecting on the last episode of the Relentless podcast when I was put on the hotseat.\nThanksgiving health and fitness: It’s an individual journey. Period. No one can or should pass judgement on anyone else without considering context (and headlines and snap advice rarely do).\nThe idea of aligning expectations and actions and having no regrets.\nKeep your workouts consistent while eating/drinking is inconsistent.\nThink ahead and decide what is worth it to you and what are the mindless triggers that lead to regrets later.\nDeclare a “hard stop” after your indulgence(s).\nMind: Employ the power of teamwork.\nBody: Lift heavy things. If new to the game, put into action a simple routine of pull, deadlift, push, and squat/lunge (described in the audio).\nBusiness: Take a step back during holiday downtime and consider the forest, not the trees.\nNo ask – only a big thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!\nIn this episode I welcome in…myself? Yes, we flipped the script. Relentless Riss takes over the hosting microphone and puts me on the hot seat!\nSnapping out of an uninspired funk with a Brian Dawkins hit compilation.\nBeing inspired by Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Hard Work and Patience” video.\nCrediting The Count of Monte Cristo and The 4-Hour Workweek as a formative literary cocktail.\nWinning the Endless Summer contest via author Tim Ferriss and traveling to Japan.\nDrawing inspiration from Rolf Potts’s Vagabonding and deciding to keep the travel unstructured.\nA first journal entry from Japan: “This is a strange and negative experience.” Thereafter? The experience of a lifetime.\nHuge thanks to Chris Plentus, Keith Norris, Tony Federico, Steven Doherty, Kristie Matevish, Cathy Pellegrino, and Steve Liberati (in order of appearance) for their awesome and challenging questions!\nQ: Give us a sense of your morning and/or evening routines.\nQ: What forms of media can you consume over and over again?\nQ: How do you think other people perceive you and does it jive with how you perceive yourself?\nQ: What’s something that not a lot of people know about you?\nQ: Would you rather have fingers as long as your legs or legs as long as your fingers?\nQ: Discuss what kind of guts it takes to leave your former cushy gig to dive into the wild, wild West of entrepreneurship.\nQ: How do you maintain work/life balance when you own a business with your fiance?\nQ: How do you think it’s best to deal with clients/friends/family that claim they want to make a positive change in their lives but you question their methods and dedication to that change?\nQ: In your experience what quality do you see in your clients that enables them to make the most dramatic changes in their lives or what qualities are most helpful to ensure success in meeting goals?\nRock bottom is an unfortunate precursor to success.\nQ: Even though it is illegal do you think it is possible for a person to safely use TRT/steroids/performance enhancing drugs and not have them prescribed by a doctor?\nQ: Would you use TRT/steroids/performance enhancing drugs?\nQ: In a fight to the death who would win – The Mountain from Game of Thrones and Dutch from Predator?\nQ: What is the most overlooked quality for performing at a high level?\nQ: How difficult is it to properly follow a ketogenic diet and how harmful can it be to incorrectly follow one?\nQ: What is the most exciting thing you see happening right now in the physical fitness industry?\nQ: How much do you bench, bruh?\nQ: What is your endgame? When is the empire built?\nQ: When you’re an old man sitting in your rocking chair, what will be the most proud thing that you tell your grandkids about yourself?\nAre you doing anything for yourself today that you wouldn’t do for yourself tomorrow?\nIf yes, is there a good reason why you are doing this today?\nIf no, are you trying hard enough?\nIt’s time for episode 20 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast!\nIn this episode I welcome in Gavin McKay – Unite Fitness founder and president, serial entrepreneur, coach, and meditation enthusiast.\nDrawing inspiration from the Dalai Lama and recommending Shambhala as both a professionally helpful and relaxation resource.\nWith the enormity of higher education investment in mind, encouraging others to allocate money to travel and exploration.\nGrowing up in a football town – “It was sort of a Friday Night Lights mentality” – and having that be the roots to his health and fitness interests.\nUsing travel, reflection, and journaling to crystallize his mission in health.\nWriting and having an unreleased book.\nUnite and Relentless teaming up to benefit two causes – MANNA and Steve’s Club.\nDividing and conquering labor to produce a well-executed event.\nAdvice on creating your own event: have a concept, differentiate it somehow, and connect with an existing community – “pull on strings that are already there”.\nLearning from Crossfit’s journey – first building on the backs of their affiliates and later landing a major sponsorship (Reebok) that vaulted them to the next level.\nEstablishing and writing out your new-hire criteria.\nBeing unable to get a trademark for the business’s original name – Fusion Crosstraining – and taking a year to re-brand it to Unite Fitness.\nUsing a technique called masking to develop creative images on his Instagram account.\nBringing on partners and figuring out the right mix of money and sweat equity to give away.\nSeeing irritation as a red flag to make a change.\nOver time having the studios separate themselves as his lead service and exploring ways to expand them locally and nationally.\nGoing inside via meditation to deliver outside in the form of management and leadership.\nUsing Tara Brach’s guided meditation and preferring the morning-time.\nHaving the philosophy of “heart, muscle, mind” and bringing everything down with a stretching/rolling/relaxation oriented 5-minutes at the close of the workout.\nBusiness: Force yourself out of your bubble and create a network of business people. Be uncomfortable in the moment, and try until you connect with someone.\nIt’s time for episode 18 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast!\nIn this episode I welcome back Tony Federico, personal trainer and fitness manager, Paleo Grilling author, Paleo Magazine Radio podcast host, Paleo Fitness Magazine editor, avid blogger and Instagramer.\nPart one of our discussion can be found here, and this time around Tony and I dig into topics on the business and entrepreneurial side of the coin.\nHow to maximize your personal productivity.\nBeing the director of a fitness center and managing his own clients along with employees, customers, and facility demands.\nConstructing an experimental multi-media e-book presenting recipes in a fresh manner.\nTracking everything with Google Calendar.\nEmbracing responsibility and looking for new opportunities within his fitness profession.\nBalancing two forces – employees feeding information up with big bosses feeding information down – as well as having customers on either side.\nStep-by-step to manager: First improve as an employee, second embrace new opportunities to get your feet wet, third when you become a manager understand that you’re starting from scratch.\nDealing with tough employee situations and respecting the individual to generate positive results.\nBeing a strong leader by empowering others.\nIntroducing Powerful Personal Trainer, a co-production, idea, and product to help other personal trainers.\nMatch your idea to your preferred lifestyle.\nExpanding on the process of creating Paleo Grilling – writing, promotion, review copies, radio, tv, podcast, and blog appearances. The writing process doesn’t end when you put your pen down.\nKey components of a podcast: sound (mic), recording program (I use Evaer to record Skype conversations), editing program (I use Audacity), and publishing platform (I use Libsyn).\nKey components of a book: concept, outline, draft, rewrites and edits (sometimes keeping space constraints in mind), refinement, (possibly) photographer, layout, and (possibly) printing.\nWhy books are often a team effort.\nPress: Train along with our public Spartan Training workouts via Philly.com. Last week? Self care and maintenance. This week? Race level intensity.\nPodcast: Blast from the past: Episode #7 with Keith Norris (Part II).\nEvent: An awesome video from this weekend’s Spartan training race at Steve’s Club.\nNext up on the interview front: Tony Federico Part II.\nThe purpose of exercise is to elicit a desired response.\nTake a moment to consider your desired response, as this dictates the quantity and quality of exercise you should be doing.\nMind: Keith Norris: “The body and the brain develop simultaneously. If you take one of the stimuli away or you dumb down one of the stimuli, the others are going to suffer.” Consider and develop your mental game.\nBusiness: Find other like-minded, inspirational, and reliable business owners and connect with them. Think abundance, not scarcity.\nTell one friend or family member about this podcast. THANK YOU for taking listenership up almost 100% in October!\nPress: Train along with our public Spartan Training workouts via Philly.com. Last week? Deck of playing cards workouts. This week? Self care and maintenance.\nPodcast: Blast from the past: Episode #15 with Marissa Pellegrino.\nAssess the recent studies linking the Mediterranean Diet to increased brain size and processed meat with cancer.\nConfront the reality of medical study inaccuracy and the fact that most foods – coffee, meat, and wine included – cause and prevent cancer at the same time!\nUnderstand why most studies are inaccurate.\nImplement a strategy of breathing easy, using common sense, living well, and not falling prey to sexed up media.\nMind: Visit your local bookstore (or reclaim a past, positive habit).\nBody: Create a playing card deck workout.\n5 days remain to fund a Steve’s Club teenager. Be my hero, click here, and change a life!
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During all of our services, our kid's classrooms provide much more than childcare. Kids teams engage the youngest members of our church in fun and engaging services that clearly communicate biblical truth. Join the fun and experience a world where kids meet Jesus on their level!\nMiddle school and high school students can participate in everything adults do. They volunteer on the Go Team, get connected through small groups, give their resources, and invite their friends and family to worship with us. East Coast Youth also attend their own special services and events to help them grow their faith, character, and relationships.\nEast Coast Young Adults is a community for those who are at least 18. Whether you just graduated from high school, are starting your career or are in the middle of getting your degree, you're invited to be a part of our services, events, and Small Groups! We meet the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm. We’d love to have you be a part.\nEast Coast Believers Church is a family church. God created marriage on purpose and with a purpose; we want to help you find God's purpose for yours. If you are thinking about getting married, building your marriage and family, or walking through a difficult place we want to help you and your family thrive.\nPrayer allows us to connect directly with God. Asking for Gods help is only one part of prayer; it can be much more. The best relationships have strong communication, that's why we believe that praying together and communicating with God makes such a difference here on earth. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life. Prayer is a great place to start believing God.\nDuring His time on Earth, Jesus started one organization—the local church. When we join together to share Jesus’ love with people around the world and in our own community, we begin to see The Great Commission happening before our eyes. Together, we're making a lasting impact in the communities we serve. How much of a difference can one person make? More than you think.
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In addition to decades of business experience, I have over 20 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and coaching students from age 5 to adults primarily in the subjects of Math (including Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Statistics among others) and SAT/ACT test prep. I am currently a college Math instructor, and I am a former member of MENSA and a published author, including a recent book published on advanced test taking techniques for the SAT and ACT. I have tutored and coached baseball on an individual basis and for teams. I am a member of the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame in baseball. I have also made a living for several years playing poker (a practical use of math and observation skills).\nAll of the teaching/tutoring/coaching that I do is very much "hands on". I have "been there and done that", and I've found the best way to learn is by doing as long as you are doing it right. That's where I come in. Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. I also make things easier to learn by getting into the mind of the student to know how they relate to the subject and finding the right way to communicate the knowledge.\nRate details: Each lesson is a minimum of 1 hour. Cancellation penalty is 1 hour of time regardless of the amount of time booked.\nI have an MBA, and I have worked in the business world for 31 years. I have held titles from Analyst to Assistant Vice President. I have owned and operated my own business consulting firm specializing in voice and data communications. I have worked in management, sales, and technical positions in industries such as, Information Technology, Banking, Real Estate, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Marketing, Engineering, and Casino Operations.\nI have 20 years of experience in addition to a Masters degree. I also recently published a book on advanced test-taking techniques for the ACT and SAT, including ACT English. My students have averaged a 25% increase over their previous score with some exceeding a 50% increase.\nI have 20 years of experience in addition to a Masters degree. I also recently published a book on advanced test-taking techniques for the ACT and SAT, including ACT Reading. My students have averaged a 25% increase over their previous score with some exceeding a 50% increase.\nI recently published a book on advanced test-taking techniques for the ACT and SAT. My students have averaged a 25% increase over their previous score with some exceeding a 50% increase.\nI have a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA). I am also a published author. I have worked as a tutor and teacher, but more importantly, I know how to make learning fun and easy.\nI have a Master's degree in Management Information Systems which relies heavily on math. I had an overall GPA of 3.75 throughout 6 years of college, and my math GPA was 4.0. I also worked as a math tutor to other college students. More importantly, I know how to make learning fun and easy.\nI have a Master's degree in Management Information Systems which relies heavily on math. I had an overall GPA of 3.75 throughout 6 years of college, and my math GPA was 4.0 (including Trigonometry). I also worked as a math tutor to other college students. More importantly, I know how to make learning fun and easy.\nI am currently a college math instructor, and I have tutored math students for over 20 years. I also recently published a book on advanced test-taking techniques for the SAT and ACT. My students have averaged a 25% increase over their previous score with some exceeding a 50% increase.\nI am currently a college math instructor, and I have tutored math students for over 20 years. I also recently published a book on advanced test-taking techniques for the ACT and SAT. My students have averaged a 25% increase over their previous score with some exceeding a 50% increase.\nMember of the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame in baseball. Played second base and shortstop in college. Helped set the NCAA season record for double plays by a team. Career .342 batting average in 4 years of college. 12 years of coaching baseball teams and 4 years working as a tutor & head coach for the Las Vegas Baseball Academy. Expert in hitting, base running, and fielding instruction.\nI made my living in Las Vegas for years playing poker. I have also dealt poker in Las Vegas, including the World Series of Poker. I have played against the best in the game.\nI have a Master's degree and over 15 years experience teaching, tutoring, and coaching. I also have many years of experience teaching and training adults. The GED is a worthy accomplishment. I am certified to tutor in all the necessary subjects, and with over 30 years experience in the business world, I relate to adults well.\nWe had recently moved to Georgia and our daughter was struggling with the dramatic change in the Math curriculum. After trying several options, this was our last resort. In a few short sessions, she went from a failing grade to a 95% on her last test. I can't thank Tom enough for what he has done. Not only have her grades improved, but her self confidence in her Math abilities has climbed as well. He is a great teacher that cares about his students and who encourages and lifts them to their full potential.\nMy daughter is a great student, but wants to get higher on her ACT. She was impressed with his knowledge and how he was able to pin point her weakness and devise a plan to strengthen it. That was the very first lesson.\nHe really explains the entire question to help My daughter with concurring the Math issues. We will definitely see improvements in her test scores.\nMy daughter worked with Tom to review Math and test taking skills for the ACT. She thought he did a great job and she is hoping to raise her score. He was reliable, and helped her locate which weak math areas to work on. I would definitely recommend Tom for any math or Test prep needs.\nGreat preparation for the ACT!\nTom has met with my daughter twice now, and we couldn't be more pleased. He is friendly, patient, and kind. He also explains everything very clearly and simply. Tom has created a game plan for all of my daughter's sessions with him between now and the ACT. The student walks away feeling encouraged and equipped for success on the test. FYI, for the ACT, Tom suggested that each session be 2 hours long. They're lengthy, but he keeps thing interesting and engaging. This tutoring experience is already worth the time and investment, and my daughter is looking forward to practicing more with Tom, then attacking the test next month.\nAfter 3 lessons, we're already seeing an improvement in math practice scores! Looking forward to the next ACT test. Tom is very motivating and encouraging.\nTom has been exactly what we were looking for in a tutor. He is professional, gets to know his student (strengths/weaknesses), sense of humor, patient and explains things in such a way that my daughter understands and grows in confidence. From new strategies for the ACT/SAT to specific skills/knowledge/problem solving, he is outstanding!\nTom was GREAT! Meagan felt really comfortable with him, and likes his approach to learning different techniques to help her improve her ACT scores! We're very happy we found Mr. Luna and look forward to a Meagan continuing to work with him.
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Meltzer, Brad, (author.). Brick, Scott, (narrator.). LaVoy, January, (narrator.).\nPhysical Description: 11 audio discs (780 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.\nRead by Scott Brick and January LaVoy.
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The beginning of the year is always the time decisions are made. Starting a detox and slimming programme could be one of them. Here are our tips to prepare your body for your weight loss with a Detox to flush toxins out and make your slimness program more effective. It works in 2 stages.\n30 days body preparation with an extensive detox to cleanse and flush toxins out of the organism.\nDetoxing is an essential part of a slimming program that is often forgotten.\nOxidative stress, pollution, chemicals, overeating and stress accumulate in the body, and generate toxins that build up and clog the organism, reducing organ functions, often inducing fatigue, skin issues, and in some cases depression, anxiety and reducing immunity.\nFucus: Rich in fibers & trace elements, it facilitates intestinal transit and promotes healthy bowel habits.\nLithothamnion: With a pH between 9 and 12 it maintains an ideal and stable pH stomach balance for improved digestion and elimination.\nLaminar: Has a purifying action.\nAscophyllum: due to its high concentration in vitamins, this algae helps tissues oxygenation and strengthening.\nDetoxification helps reduce fat storage, provides a proper amount of oxygen for tissues to breathe, clear the skin, guts and other physiological functions and most important to improves and maintains a steady flow of blood.\nYour Body is now ready for the second stage: slimming program.\nToday’s new lifestyle make us more and more sedentary, because of technology.\nThis is why starting this program with a self commitment to follow a healthier lifestyle will make this program even more successful: move daily, eat well, drink enough water and get enough sleep.\nGreen Tea: With its diuretic and pro-circulation effects, it stimulates the use of lipids in the organism.\nGuarana: Caffeine-rich Guarana promotes weight loss and encourages release of stored fats, increases metabolism, works as an appetite suppressant.\nFucus: A natural appetite suppressant, which induces the feeling of fullness to help with weight loss.\nGinger: Known to stimulate digestion and an overall tonic and energy booster. It is used as a remedy for tiredness.\nPineapple: Containing the enzyme bromelain which has decongestant properties, pineapple helps reduce local fat deposits that cause “orange-peel” skin.\nWe recommend you read our articles Natural Detox 7 Habits to Include in Your Life and 8 Reasons You Could Be Overweight to have a better understanding on how to include healthy habits in your life.\nYou are ready to start your program now!
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After a night of heavy rain the day dawned bright and clear and we had 10 cars arrive, drivers were:- Rex; Nest: Jimmy (with the Benz 'Lubbish Car - now for sale at 650K); Neil; Lionel (just back after 4 months in California); Robert; Paul; Rob; Daycha & Franck.\nNeil, Robert & Rob came only for the coffee and chat leaving 7 cars to make the circuit of the Ping. Before setting out we presented a CCL umbrella to sponsor Chris Barr and Paul took the opportunity to outline the new Website launch.\nWe left NIM City at around 11.30 and proceeded gently south, following the Ping from T it's 'junction' with the 1st Ring Road. We were crossing the Ping by the Hang Dong-Saraphi Road AR around 12 and returned via the West bank and doubling slightly back to arrive at Ban Wang Tan at 12.20 where Khun Dee, the restaurant manageress had reserved parking spaces for us.\nWe were conducted to our lakeside reserved seating where 12 sat down to lunch and selected from the extensive menu. By coincidence everyone choose from the Thai section so an extensive selection was enjoyed by all.\nSeveral of the people attending said they will return for another meal under their own steam as it was so enjoyable & relatively inexpensive.\nThank you Rex for being our run organiser this month & for putting this together for us all to enjoy.
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A Whisky is Art bottling of long-aged Bunnahabhain from Silver Seal. It was distilled back in 1980 and aged for an impressive 34 years before bottling back in 2014. The whisky combines Bunna's weighty spirit and maritime character with citrus and soft spice notes – a classic.
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He was recorded by the name of "Charles" in error, while living with his parents.\nHe was recorded while living with his parents. He worked on the farm.
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The TS570R is a Smart Auger valve controller capable of controlling all Techcon TS5000 series and TS7000 series. With a universal power supply it is a fully ‚plug and play‘ system and can be used immediately, anywhere in the world.\nFirst in its class, the TS570R is equipped with internet port and WIFI connection to allow users to monitor and make precise parameter adjustment remotely. This feature enables the unit to fit in Smart factory that requires Industry 4.0.
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When you watch the match again – and I know you’ve kept the full 90 minutes and the highlights programme, of course – have a good look at the moment when Delia Smith has a TV reporter’s microphone brandished at her.\nThe impromptu, heartfelt salute she gave the Yellow Army sums up why I am still high on euphoria about the Wembley triumph over Middlesbrough.\nThat fact – that Norwich fans stayed loyal in League One – has become an accepted part of the narrative of our club. We take it for granted now. But it was an extraordinary thing.\nThe season when Norwich slid into the third tier, Middlesbrough slipped out of the Premier League. But while our fans were renewing season tickets and, in many cases, forgoing a price rebate, the Boro unfaithful were turning their backs on their club.\nThe following season, in the Championship, Middlesbrough’s attendances slumped by 8,481 – very nearly a third. The following season, another 3,000 deserted. The season before last, crowds at the Riverside were down to 15,748 on average – a massive 12,881 reduction from the figure they’d achieved in the Premier League. Even last season, when they lead the division on occasions and had superb home form, the Riverside average remained below 20,000.\nMeanwhile, in the Suffolk town that wanted to be a City, there were more than 10,000 empty seats on average in the season that has just ended (a week earlier for them than it did for us). And, don’t forget, we gave them two full houses to push up their pitiful average.\nYet our crowds went up in League One! We had the 19th biggest crowds in the land. The increase was due, in part, to David McNally’s determination to find somewhere – anywhere! – to stick extra seats. Some credit has to go, as well, to the man McNally replaced: Neil Doncaster. On his watch, and at Delia’s bidding, an enormous amount of work was done to make the match-day experience at Carrow Road safer, more family-friendly and more enjoyable for everyone (even when the football was dreadful). But by far the most credit must go to … us.\nNow, I have to be careful when I say anything about supporters being special. I upset Newcastle fans enormously by deriding all that tosh about “the Geordie Nation” and their claims of being really, really passionate – and, incidentally, pointing out that when they were last relegated, their crowds fell by 5,000.\nAll clubs have passionate fans. All clubs are special to those who pay to watch them. And it is arrant, offensive nonsense to claim any one set of fans “deserve” success.\nBut the steadfast, stoic loyalty Norwich supporters demonstrated in the summer following relegation to League One was truly remarkable. And, as I have written many times on this site, even the 7-1 home defeat which welcomed us to League One could not deter us. Three days later, an unexpectedly large contingent travelled all the way to Yeovil for a Tuesday night League Cup tie.\nSo allow yourself that smile that keeps coming back. Because, boy, it was good! City marmalised Middlesbrough. Playing on the front foot, hitting crisp passes deep in their territory and exuding quality in every position, Norwich City gave those of us who care about them an unforgettable day.\nNow though, I’ve got work to do. I’ve retired from the Express, Sky Sports News, talkSPORT and all that. At 63, it’s time to spend more time with my money – I mean family! But I’ve taken on one project that I am loving. I am editing a book of Norwich City essays by club legends and famous fans (plus me). It will be called Tales From The City.\nIwan’s chapter is a masterpiece. Holty’s irrepressible ebullience shines through in his chapter. Gunny’s essay has a surprise revelation. Michael Wynn Jones takes us to the absolute heart of our club. And so on.\nBut I extended the deadline for those, like Sky’s Simon Thomas, who needed to see how this season would end before committing to print about Norwich City. So now I’ve got to get a move on so that everything is ready for the October launch (tickets went on sale this week, what a co-incidence!).\nHealth and happiness in your retirement Mick. You can devote more time to the things you love in life starting with the book. In the shops for Xmas I see, canny that. Imagine there will be many partners and children of Norwich fans who will receive that as a stocking filler!\nI’m married with teenaged kids but I have to say that last Monday was one of the happiest days of my life. And such a formality without any nail biting or stress.\nDelia should be knighted for staying with it through thick and thin. She’s got pennies compared to many owners but if you read Henry Winter’s report on our win in the Telegraph, you get a great sense of why owners like her are so important to English football. I don’t care about promotion but Monday was a great reward for all we’ve been through.\nNew book sounds great. Retirement? Lawn bowls seems to be terribly popular for your age group.\nCan’t you do anything about Blatter now you have time on your hands?\nSounds a good book. Anyone else good in it?!\nGood boy Mick! As written previously, to hug your loved ones whilst jumping up & down singing with joy is about as good as it gets. Thank you to one and all at NCFC.\nGood luck on your retirement, Mick. Hope you’re still going to contribute to My Football Writer.\nGreat great day! Happy retirement. I will follow you next year – more time to plan the trips to see the Canaries.
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I take baths in 2 inches of water but always collect the cold water in a bucket while waiting for hot water. If I shower, I always turn water off while lathering up, then back on to rinse. Huge water saver. Also installed 2 rain barrels for outdoor watering.
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The Koran has been called the most ideologically influential text in the world. Enter the heart of the Muslim world and the lives of people abiding by the Koran. Their relationship with the Book reveals a complex, beautiful and often contradictory guide for humanity.
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The Modular Transverse Toolkit (MQB) is currently Volkswagen’s most widely used technology platform. It forms the basis of a variety of models ranging from the small Polo to the large US SUV – the Atlas. All MQB models are equipped with transverse engines installed at the front. The benefits of the MQB include extraordinarily efficient use of space. As one of very few automakers, Volkswagen is able, thanks to the MQB, to offer all its conventional models with an electric powertrain, too. The Golf is an example: to date, this is the world’s first and only car offering customers a choice between petrol, diesel, CNG, electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains.\nVolkswagen will be enhancing its model range by an innovative spectrum of completely new drive systems. These include affordable mild hybrid drives with 48V technology, new high-tech diesel engines that will also be available as hybrid variants and what is currently the world's most cutting-edge natural gas drive. Volkswagen has now announced initial facts as part of the Vienna Motor Symposium (26 to 27 April). The technologies showcased in Vienna as world premieres form a vital part of the progressively aligned Volkswagen drive strategy. It involves the combination of state-of-the-art petrol, diesel and natural gas engines, new hybrid systems and purely electric drives. With this combination, Volkswagen will among other things meet the CO2 fleet emissions target of 95 g/km prescribed in the EU as of 2020.\nFour months ago, Volkswagen celebrated the world premiere of the new Tiguan at the International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) in Frankfurt. Ordering has now begun for the second generation of the newly developed Tiguan. At the sales launch, three versions will be available at prices starting at 30,025 euros. Shortly thereafter, the entry-level model will be available for 25,975 euros as well as versions with other engines.
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There a lil twist on the show this year, instead of cooking at the the winner’s home. This round Dato Chef Ismail brought the winners to 8 locations which include 7 restaurant each have special theme like arabic, korean, nyonya, balinese, japanese and indian. Yeay for more varieties!\nAlso happening at the same time from April to July 2017 Chef’s Like Campaign Live Cooking Tour at few dealers outlet nationwide. Duringthe Tour, there will be cooking demo ofcoz and they are also giving out numerous gift to customers including a Pensonic Multi Cooker. Here arethe list of the outlet and the timing, Dont miss out!\n• Ban Huat Electrical Sales and Services, Penang (29 April 2017, Saturday 11.00am).\n• CY Cash & Carry, Kedah (5 May 2017, 11.00am, Friday).\n• Wah Lee Group, Penang (5 May 2017, 4.00pm, Friday).\n• HK Home Enterprise, Kedah (6 May 2017, 3.00pm, Saturday).\n• AEON BiG Bukit Rimau, Selangor (20 May 2017, 2.00pm, Saturday).\n• Tesco Mutiara Damansara, Selangor (15 July 2017, 1.00pm, Saturday).\n• Giant Kota Damansara, Selangor (16 July 2017, 9.00am, Sunday).\n• Chan Furniture & Electrical Store, Sabah (29 July 2017, 2.00pm, Saturday).\n• Bright Scott Electrical Sdn Bhd, Sabah (30 July 2017, 12.00pm, Sunday).\n• SenQ, Sabah (30 July 2017, 4.00pm, Sunday).\nDo visit the outlet to find out on how to join Pensonic Chef's Like Campaign Season 4 Live Cooking Tour 2017. We are at the end of this post, I wish you all the best and till next blogpost. dont forget to take it easy and smile.
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The twisted stars of the '80s trading card sets celebrate 30 years of adorable absurdity in IDW's new monthly series.\nBack in 1985, the minds over at Topps decided to poke fun at the Cabbage Patch Kids toy phenomenon by releasing a set of trading cards that warped the cute little dolls into strange, twisted, and yes, gross, caricatures with names like Up Chuck, Potty Scotty, and Oozy Susie.\nCreated by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the Garbage Pail Kids debuted back when trading cards was at an all-time high. Its tongue-in-cheek take on pop culture struck a chord with kids and adults (though not usually teachers), leading to everything from posters and buttons, to an animated TV show, and even a live action motion picture. Now, nearly thirty years later, the junkyard juveniles are making their way to the comic scene for the first time with a brand new anthology series, courtesy of IDW Publishing.\n"As a child of the Eighties, I was at ground zero for the Garbage Pail Kids phenomenon," series editor Denton J. Tipton said. "The profoundly irreverent stickers spoke directly to the rascal inside each and every one of my classmates, and helped us drive our teachers to the brink of insanity. I couldn't be more happy to be working with some of the giants of alternative comics to push the buttons of an entirely new generation of educators, many of which likely remember when the poo-covered sneaker was on the other foot."\nHate cartoonist Peter Bagge, who provided art for the all-new character "Comic-Con Ron" (shown at right), will be a part of the new series, which will bring together various writers and artists, including many of Topps' official Garbage Pail Kids artists. Each issue will expand on the GPK universe, spotlighting new and classic characters as part of an anthology of loosely connected stories. Current plans are for the Garbage Pail Kids comic to hit store shelves next year, coinciding with the franchise's 30th anniversary.
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No stranger to style, Tom Ford returns with something new for our wearing, and timekeeping needs. Last year it was announced that Tom Ford was partnering up with Bedrock Manufacturing to create the brand’s first timepiece. Today we get our first look at the design, the 001. This sleek and stylish new watch comes rocking a curved case that is designed to sit perfectly on your wrist while providing a stunning look in the process.\nThe timepiece also boasts a strap system that was created to quickly switch out bands, which we assume should be packed with options. The watch features a clean rectangle case with a clean white or black dial. Each dial features contrasting numbers providing something clean, comfortable and contemporary.\nWhile there is no word yet on when the 001 will officially launch, but we expect to see it soon at major Tom Ford flagships worldwide. Have a look at the clean timepiece in the images below and stay tuned for much more from Tom Ford coming very soon.
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Hundreds of new fake outdoor plants are released every year. On the one hand, it is good because you have many options to choose from. On the other hand, you have to waste a lot of time to find a really good product. Our top list of the best fake outdoor plants will help you to cope with this task much faster.\nOur team had to look through hundreds of fake outdoor plants to create this list of the best products. We thoroughly compared them using such aspects as material, weight, cost, assembly quality, and many other details. Feel free to contact us and suggest any ideas if you think that we have missed something in our list.\nHigh quality plastic material is eco-friendly and hassle free without watering and trimming. Lush green plastic plants decoration add color to your flower arrangement, succulent wreath, wedding centerpiece, liven up reptiles enclosure. Full size: 6.3″ wide x 14.37″ tall, each plastic wheat grass has7 flexible greenery stems and generous leaves. True to life artificial wheat grass to spruce up home, bring overflowing greenery to geometric hanging planters or galvanized pot, indoor terrarium and other wall container. Fake small plants to home centerpiece, kitchen, office table, farmhouse, window box, also uv resistant fake plants for outdoor garden, verandah.\nFamily happy time,: you can invite friends and families enjoy the afternoon refreshments at the ideal home, with multiple bushes give an interesting effect, while the leaves bring the forest straight to you. Feature,: no pruning and watering for people who have a busy schedule or but want to enjoy the overflowing of greenery. Artificial wheat grass with, 4 bunches, 7 stems each bunch, total 35 stems. 6.3″ wide x 14.37″ tall leaves near nature life like. The ideal home,, big and full artificial shrubs brighten up your home with overflowing greenery, and never wilt. Generous and elegant, well made and vibrantly colored, looks real-like. One square foot requires 3-4 pack of grass to fill.\nWonderful decorations,: wheat grass for window box, garden, office, verandah, wedding decoration is here with this lovely eucalyptus tree branches. The multiple bushes give an interesting effect, while the 600 leaves bring the forest straight to you. This is an indoor / outdoor piece (uv resistant) and no maintenance required, will not be damaged. Add color and fullness to floral arrangements and centerpieces. Certified safety material,, faux grass bushes in lush green sustain the sunlight of spring for you in any time. Natural fresh color, poisonless and harmless 100% safe, eco-friendly. This silk bushes will never die off and easy take care of it, can against fierce wind rainstorm and insolation.\nWhat do I have to do in order to get a refund for a fake outdoor plants?\nShop has a customer-friendly return policy, which means that you will not have any difficulties returning your money. If there is something wrong with your fake outdoor plants, you only need to contact the customer support and ask for a refund. However, you should carefully read the item’s description before buying a fake outdoor plants.\nSet of one fake trees: you’ll be receiving 1 artificial outdoor trees with each order. Set the boxwood artificial topiary trees up together as a pair to frame a path or separate them to accent your indoor/outdoor d cor. For offices or homes: unlike your average fake plant arrangements, these fake plants have been designed to decorate both residential & professional settings. Display them outside of your home or to greet business patrons. Each almost 4ft tall: each of the spiral topiary trees included in this set stands about 4 feet tall (1.2m). The greenery is adjustable, so you can use them as spiral trees for front porch decorating, decks, foyers, entryways, walkways, etc. Set them up indoors or outdoors.\nYou can wipe them down with a damp cloth, use a duster or spray them down if needed. Pp and pe plastic leave and wooden tree trunk.\nWe compared hundreds of various fake outdoor plants and chose TOP options with the best price/quality ratio. It was not easy, since manufacturers present new modes of fake outdoor plantsevery year. We made an unbiased review and used only important factors, such as prices, materials, weights, and many other things.\nPerfect sized – the tree is 51″ high and 21″ wide and has total 370 elegant green shiny leaves. You can choose if you want it with or without a basin. Top quality decoration tree – this braided money tree is made of the best materials on the market, it will never fall apart, wear-out or let you down. Your purchase includes a hassle-free 30 days money back guarantee. If you don’t like your new tree, simply return it for a full refund. No sun or water needed – tired of dead plants at home or at your office because you don’t have the time to give it water on a daily base. This plant cant live forever without both water and sun.\nFor indoor or outdoor – this elegant decoration tree can be used at home in your living room or kitchen, it can also be used at your office, swimming pool, fireplace and much more.\nWhat am I supposed to do if I get a wrong product instead of the chosen fake outdoor plants?\nIf you were unlucky enough to get a wrong or broken product, use electronic mail or international telephone to contact the customer support team. They will help you to return your money or get the right fake outdoor plants.\nMeasuring 5.35 feet in height. Lightweight plastic decorative tree plant, easy to carry and decorate this everywhere you want. Perfect tall silk plant artificial trees for home or offic decor. Great faux plants decor gift for your friend’s new opening. Basic assembly and shaping needed, great indoor-outdoor decorative plants. Containers not included, ship with bare root like you see on the picture. (actually it can stand straight without pot). Wonderful artificial plants palm tree, perfect for your swimming pool decoration.\nShould I get a fake outdoor plants with a lifetime warranty?\nThe recommended warranty period depends on how often you use your fake outdoor plants, how expensive is it, what company made it, and many other factors. Manufacturers sell their most expensive products with a lifetime warranty, while the least expensive fake outdoor plantsmight be not guaranteed at all. We think that the best warranty period for a good fake outdoor plants is five years.\nWhat should be my main choice criteria when buying a fake outdoor plants?\nAs you might have guessed, the weight of a fake outdoor plants is one of the main factor to consider. Another important aspects is its material. If the fake outdoor plants is assembled well, it will serve you for many years.\nDo I need to worry when buying a fake outdoor plants online?\nMany people use online shopping every day. It is absolutely safe because you are secured by layers of customer protection programs. You are not risking anything by ordering a fake outdoor plants since you can easily return it and receive your money back. We see no reason to worry while ordering goods online — it is a convenient, cheap, quick, and, of course, safe method of shopping.
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1. We cleaned our apartment pretty much top to bottom. And rearranged the bedroom.\n2. We did grocery shopping early and bought non-perishable, stove-free dinners (read: farmer’s market tomatoes + basil on a french baguette with mayo) and bottled water.\n3. I stayed up too late drinking a Hurricane or two.\n4. The next morning, I couldn’t sleep off my hurricane after-effects because the wind was being too windy.\n6. I cried about forgetting to put in our cold-brewed iced coffee together before bed (see: Hurricanes), and Lance brewed me some espresso.\n8. After it became evident that the power was *probably* not going out, we did all the laundry, folded it all and put it ALL AWAY. I need a hurricane every Sunday, people.\n9. I started to contemplate how stupid weather reporting is. I am all for being sensible and safe, but Weather.com was getting a little ridiculous. It seemed our forecast was getting more and more favorable as Irene approached, but Weather.com wasn’t like “Great news!” it was like “(things aren’t looking as bad) BUT YOU STILL BETTER BEWARE OF CATASTROPHIC DEVASTATION!! AAAAGH!!! DOOM!\nEven today – it’s gorgeous and sunny, but Weather.com wants me to REMEMBER THE FURY!!! IT’S NOT GONE YET!!\n10. Ummmm yeah. Things got real boring from there. I pretty much couldn’t put down this one book I was reading.\nYou know the feeling. The book becomes your life. Either you’re reading it, or you are laying around bored and thinking, “I should probably just go back to reading,” and you finish a chapter and don’t stop to think “maybe I should take a break,” you just keep flipping the pages and then it’s time for bed but maybe you could read one more chapter?\nSurely I don’t need to tell you that this is best achieved on a rainy, lazy, hurricainey day.
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Diana's Flowers proudly serves the Victorville area. We are family owned and operated. We are committed to offering only the finest floral arrangements and gifts, backed by service that is friendly and prompt. Because all of our customers are important, our professional staff is dedicated to making your experience a pleasant one. That is why we always go the extra mile to make your floral gift perfect.\nLet Diana's Flowers be your first choice for flowers.\n*Our shop is open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, and closed on Sunday. Valentine's Day 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. To help assure on-time delivery during the busy holiday season, place your order at least 1 day prior to the following major holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Administrative Professionals Week, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Our shop will always be closed on the following holidays: Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.\nIf you have any questions or need more information, please contact us directly at 760-843-1111. We're always here to serve you and make your flower-sending experience a pleasure.\nOur shop serves the following areas in California: Victorville, Adelanto, Hesperia, and Apple Valley.
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Background and Objectives: End TB strategy (WHO) emphasizes ‘reaching the unreached’ patients. In Pakistan, only about 69% of the estimated TB cases are currently being detected/ notified. Around 2,000 private clinics have been engaged to deliver quality TB care in Pakistan. These clinics: screen, diagnose, prescribe, educate and follow-up TB patients. A process evaluation was conducted to assess the fidelity and feasibility of TB care; also inform the need of further modifications (if any).\nMethods: The study in four selected districts employed a sequential mixed methods design. The clinical records of 2,783 TB patients at 120 clinics were included for clinical outcomes; whereas 4 doctors, 4 clinical assistants, 4 male and 4 female TB patient were interviewed at 4 selected clinics.\nFindings: During one year: 120 clinics got 8,064 patients with cough ≥ 2 weeks smear-examined; and registered 951 smear-positive and 2,799 all type TB cases. The use of smear results and chest X-rays to diagnose pulmonary TB varied widely across clinics. The drug prescription was found in-line with program protocols. At completion of first two month; around 93% of smear-positive patients got smear-examined; and 93.7% of the examined were found converted. The smear-positive TB cases achieved 93.7% success rate (i.e. cured plus completed) at private clinics. The estimated average cost of treating a smear-positive and all type TB case at a private clinic was USD: 125 and USD: 44 respectively.\nConclusion: The study supports continued provision of TB care at private clinics, through district-led public-private partnership approach.
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If you have been denied SSD and/or SSI disability benefits, you are not alone. Nearly 75% of all initial applications are denied. If you have been denied, you only have 60 days from the date of the denial to appeal your claim and request a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge. Every day you put off filing your appeal is one more day you are going without benefits. It can take up to 24 months to have a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge after you file your appeal and cases are scheduled for hearing in the order they are received. DO NOT DELAY in contacting us. We want to get your appeal filed and begin working on your case right away!\nHave you been denied for SSD and / or SSI benefits?\nSocial Security Disability Insurance (SSD) is, in fact, an insurance policy. As you work, you pay your "premium" through the FICA taxes deducted from each paycheck. As you pay your premium and earn quarters of coverage, you become insured for disability benefits. Essentially, you must work 5 of the last 10 years to be insured. Once you stop working, you are insured for five years after you stop paying into the system. To be eligible for SSD, you cannot be working earning substantial gainful activity ($1,170/month for 2017) and your disability must begin while you are insured or before your insurance has lapsed (5 years after you have stopped working).\nThe amount of Social Security benefits you can expect to receive depends on your earnings history. It could be anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars per month. Medicare attaches to SSD benefits two years after your entitlement date. Medicaid attaches to SSI benefits the month after your entitlement date.\nA successful application could take around 20 months to process, depending on your case. Applications which require a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge take longer to process.\nWhat will it cost me to hire Waud & Lamb, PLLC to handle my Social Security claim?\nIt will cost you nothing unless we are successful in winning your case. The amount an attorney may charge in a Social Security Disability claim is fixed by law: 25% of your back-benefits or $6,000, whichever is less. An attorney may not charge a fee in a Social Security claim unless it is approved by the Social Security Administration.\nHow long does it take to start receiving payments after I have been awarded benefits?\nGenerally you should expect to receive your monthly benefit checks within 60-90 days of being awarded benefits.\nSSI is a needs-based program. It has the same medical requirements as SSD but it is not based on your work history. The benefit amount is fixed; everyone gets the same benefit amount although some may receive less depending on certain criteria such as living accommodations. To be entitled, an individual must first meet certain financial eligibility requirements.
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5, male height is not less than 1.8 meters, female height is not less than 1.75 meters.\n6. Graduates of physical education colleges, professional team coaches, retired players or other relevant skills and conditions are preferred.\nCandidates must have love basketball, basketball training qualifications, English fluent spoken English, standard Mandarin, strong adaptability, communication ability, sports spirit, team spirit and entrepreneurial spirit, good appearance, male height not less than 1.8 meters, female height of not less than 1.75 meters.
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"The positive side of the changes, is that literally everything looks nice now," he said. But he then thundered, "I get angry when I'm in the bakers, and there are no Schrippen (the Berlin slang for white rolls) only Weckern (the Swabian term). And its exactly the same for plum cake," he went on, which the relative newcomers call Pflumendatschi (a Swabian term.) "That makes me really the last defender of the Berlin dialect."\nThierse added: "I hope the Swabians realize they are now in Berlin. And not in their little towns, with their spring cleaning. They come here because it's all so colorful and adventurous and lively, but after a while, they want to make it like it is back home. You can't have both."\nThere are no comments yet on "Welcome to Schwabylon"
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852 is the country calling code for Hong Kong.\nHong Kong is a country on the continent of Asia. The capital city of Hong Kong is Hong Kong.\nDial the country code for Hong Kong - 852.\nWhen calling Hong Kong from the UK, please note the time difference between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.\nThe local time in Hong Kong is now . The date is .\nThe time difference between Hong Kong and UK (United Kingdom) is 7 hours.\nThe currency used in Hong Kong is the Hong Kong dollar (HKD).\nThe location of Hong Kong is shown on the map below.
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CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS News has confirmed that Prestige, the limo company involved in the fatal accident in New York, had four of its vehicles taken out of service after inspections over the last two years.\nSo how do you know if the limo company you’re hiring is safe?\nCBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker went to find out.\nThe tragic limo accident in New York is top of mind for limo drivers in Chicago.\nWhen Gil Zamora of Signature Transportation learned the group killed in the New York stretch limo had sent a text to friends concerned about the vehicle’s condition….\n“Some cars you look at them and you can tell they’re just in bad shape. When it started making noise supposedly, I would say ‘what’s the noise? Pull over.’ It’s worth showing up to your event late, but you’re going to get there,” said Zamora.\nBut before you ever get in a limo, the Illinois Limousine Association recommends you check out the company’s safety record on a federal website called safer.fmcsa.dot.gov.\nYou can search by typing in the name of the company or its ID number, which you should be able to find on the company’s website.\nAny company with a yellow warning symbol in any listed category indicates a problem.\nMake sure you also check out the driver’s record. You want one that has no complaints.\n“Every six months we have to get inspected,” said Zamora.\nAll limos should have a sticker showing the car has been inspected by the state of Illinois.\nThe federal website has a lot of good information but if you cannot find the limo company’s ID on its website call the company and ask for it.
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Joël Muller has decided to bring a 17-man squad to Lyon for Saturday's match. Meniri and Djiba are missing due to injury.\nWimbée, Marichez - Alioui, Bassong, Béria, Borbiconi, Medjani, Mihoubi, Agouazi, Obraniak, Ouadah, Proment, Belson, Tum, Youla, Gueye, Contout.\nLes Lyonnais beat Metz 4-0 on Saturday, their 19th victory of the season. They remain nine points clear of Bordeaux having played the same number of games.\n26 goals scored; 21 from inside the penalty box and five from outside. 2 penalties (Bordeaux and Sochaux); 4 headers (Monaco, OL, OM and Auxerre); 4 from corners; 1 from a free-kick; 2 free-kicks; 10 from crosses; 37 yellow cards and 1 red.\nReactions to the match between OL and FC Metz.
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Yes, shopping at https://dspspoolsandsupplies.com is safe. You can access our Website home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. If you wish to make a purchase on our website, it is necessary that you register with us and provide personal information so we may process your order. Personal data that you enter (for instance, address and credit card information) is transmitted to our website in a secure manner using a Security Certificate provided by the leading internet security firm, Mcafee* with SHA-2 and 2048-bit encryption most widely used security protocol, SSL (Secured Socket Layer**). Compatible with all major browsers, your personal information is then stored behind multiple layers of security on our website.\n*Verisign, is the leading provider of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions used by websites and consumers to conduct secure communications and transactions over the internet and private networks. Be sure that you are ordering in a Secure Mode: When your browser is in a secure mode, you will notice an unbroken key or lock at the bottom left corner of the page.\n**Secure Socket Layer (SSL) means your personal information, including credit card number, is encrypted and is readable only by our order-processing department. Browsers that allow for SSL technology: We recommend using Netscape version 3.02 or later, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.02 or later. For AOL software users, version 4.0 or later is recommended.\nOur website does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. Because of the dynamic nature of our website and the internet, cookies are used to enable visitors to place orders on our website. A cookie is a small file stored on your computer that identifies you to our website. No personal information, credit card data or marketing data is stored in the cookie. We collect the personal data that you volunteer when using our services. We use this data for marketing and customer service administration. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.\nWe have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and accidental loss. All of our employees and data processors who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation. If you have any further privacy concerns regarding the use of our website, please contact us www.dspspoolsandsupplies.com .\nDSPS reserves the right to share customer information with third party vendors to perform services on its behalf. We make sure to obtain consent for such sharing where legally required.
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Amazing opportunity to own a unique 3 bedroom, 1.75 bath Beacon Hill home located on a dead end street. Surrounded by lush grounds and many trees this property has a beautiful territorial view-very peaceful atmosphere and surrounded by woods. Inside features a master bedroom on the main floor, large & open kitchen with eating area,hardwoods and plenty of windows throughout the home. Downstairs has another bedroom, bathroom and nice size rec room. Close to transportation,shopping. Come see!
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Every year, Web design grows and so many awesome things are being published daily, When thinking about website design, you must consider the full spectrum of possibilities that the internet presence. We push your website design imagination limits on a global scale.\nRecently, we have seen a surge in popularity of responsive web design, as more and more sites join the drive to become ‘mobile ready’ which is now even more important in the wake of Google’s Mobile Friendly update.\nWhile everyone is reflecting on the year that was and looking ahead to the year that will be, let’s take a look at some of the best website design trends we will likely see when we turn the calendar to 2016. You can view them all on one page here.\nWebsites generally are storytelling tools and storytelling can be more effective when visuals and motion are involved so the ideas and emotions can be transferred to the visitor easier. We’ve seen businesses implementing video on their websites. In 2015, this trend will grow even more with the endless possibilities of 3D graphics and HD quality videos to build that impression of real-life experience.\nAccording to us, people love the video as statistics show mind-blowing numbers of video consumption online.\nThis trend has been surfacing as a way to reduce clutter on websites, simplify navigation, and make the user experience more efficient. Minimalistic design includes several sub-trends that are prominent on the web today including flat design, use of iconography, heavy focus on typography, and more inclusion of white space between visual elements.\nThe grid structure has become widely used for displaying sections of information on websites, especially on the homepage where multiple service offerings or other pieces of information are presented and need to be organized to look nice. This way of laying out a web page works particularly well in responsive design as well since the columns of the grid structure can break down easily for more optimal display on smaller screen sizes.\nThese are just a few of the trends that are dominating the interwebs but they are constantly changing and new ones are surfacing all the time.\nDesigner expects the industry to “continue maintaining simple and minimal aesthetics,” with the web “becoming fully customized for different viewports”.\nModern websites can run pristine dynamic galleries and media slideshows on any screen size. Mobile smartphone browsers have come a long way combined with responsive design techniques.\nIt’s possible for a new web designer to pick up a simple responsive carousel plugin and code it right into any layout with ease. Code libraries are released for free and open source plugins come with fantastic documentation. jQuery makes frontend development even easier and this trend has skyrocketed into stardom over the last few years.\nFor the time being it appears that jQuery is the quickest and most efficient way to create galleries. You just need some images and a bit of time to play with the setup. As trends advance, I expect to see more animation and other techniques built into media galleries for the web.\nAlthough fixed headers have been around for years the trend has recently advanced quite a bit. The vast majority of designers have taken a liking to fixed navigation bars which stay on top of the screen at all times.\nOne of the most common techniques is to blend the navigation into the header while at the very top of the site. When a visitor first lands on the page all navigation links appear as though they’re just part of the header section. But as the visitor scrolls down this navigation become fixed in a small bar at the top of the screen.\nEver since the CSS3 specification was released developers have been hurling themselves onto the bandwagon of CSS animation. Web browsers are now more advanced to support CSS3 transitions and keyframes en masse. It’s only natural that as browser support increases there will be more developers getting their hands dirty.\nOne of my favorite modern effects is the scrolling page element animation. When a visitor scrolls down the page elements will fade-in or slide into view from offscreen.\nAdmittedly this can be a tricky concept for new developers to grasp. But it shows how much CSS3 has advanced in just a few short years. As frontend web development trundles forward I’m excited to see what the future has in store for web animation.\nWe have developed a Client Questionnaire that helps you to get your website requirements quite. If you have any questions or want us to bid on your e-commerce solution, please go to www.dsourc.com or contact us at 989-268-7858 so we can learn more about your project or simply fill out this form.
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Alcohol and travel insurance: How does drinking impact your cover?\nToo drunk to insure. How much is too much when it comes to alcohol and travel insurance?\nHaving a few drinks while on holiday could leave you with more than just a sore head.\nWe will not pay for claims arising directly or indirectly from any conduct engaged in by you whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs, unless prescribed by a doctor and taken in accordance with the doctor’s advice.\nThis guide looks at what "under the influence" means and in what circumstances insurers will pay alcohol-related claims.\nIs there travel insurance that covers alcohol?\nA common question travellers have is, "Will your travel insurance cover you if you're under the influence of alcohol?" Normally insurers will have a general exclusion that prohibits claims where alcohol was the root cause, which can be a nasty shock.\nInsurers see a lot of claims that are related to alcohol consumption, which is why this exclusion is designed to not only encourage you to be mindful of how much you're drinking while you're on holiday but also limit the risk to the insurer. The question of whether you're covered for drinking alcohol really comes down to how each insurance brand interprets its own exclusion.\nHow do different travel insurance brands treat alcohol and drug use?\nHow do insurers generally treat alcohol?\nMany travellers have asked the question (and rightly so): "How does an insurer know you were under the influence?" Unless you're drug-tested or breathalysed, an insurer can't know for certain how much you had to drink.\nWhile some insurers have been accused of using the alcohol exclusion to outright deny claims, most are fair and reasonable and assess each claim on its own merits. Generally it comes down to whether alcohol contributed to the incident, rather than simply whether alcohol was involved.\nSome use the yardstick that applies to all aspects of insurance: "Was the incident unexpected?" This simply means would a reasonable person expect their actions, in this case drinking too much, lead to an incident that could have negative outcome such as a claimable event? If the answer if yes, then the incident was not unexpected and would therefore not be covered.\nSouthern Cross Travel Insurance. The "reasonable person" test. SCTI cite having a few beers and then slipping over as an example of a reasonably unexpected event. Southern Cross contrast this with drinking all night and then jumping off a seawall, not realising the tide is out, as an example of an event that is not unexpected. Because a reasonable person could perceive an injury risk, no claim would be paid in this instance.\nCover-More. Cover-More take a slightly different tact and determine whether a claim is payable IF alcohol contributed to the incident or not. This means assessing the nature of the incident and if it would have occurred if you had consumed alcohol or not.\nTravelinsuranz. Travelinsuranz goes a step further and determines the extent of liability by the degree to which alcohol contributed to the incident. Rather than flatly denying the claim, Travelinsuranz will decide how much of the claim it will pay, based on how much the consumption of alcohol played in the event.\nMethanol poisoning occurs when someone consumes homemade alcohol containing methanol, a pure form of alcohol similar to ethanol. Not normally present in commercially produced spirits, methanol is converted by the body into a toxin called formic acid. This can build up in the blood and cause kidney failure, heart problems, liver damage, blindness, nerve and brain damage and ultimately death and as little as three teaspoons is all it takes.\nTravellers to South East Asian holiday destinations such as Bali and Thailand are considered most at risk of methanol poisoning due to widespread home brewing of spirits and substitution of drinks by disreputable bar owners. Authorities warn that the best way to guard against methanol poisoning is to be wary of offers of free or discounted drinks and not to drink anything unless it comes from a sealed bottle or can.\nTreatment for methanol poisoning involves seeking medical assistance as quickly as possible. At a hospital, a doctor will administer ethanol or a drug called fomepizole, both of which will inhibit the formation of formic acid in the body. Prompt treatment can reduce many of the toxic effects of methanol poisoning, but the trouble is those who drink several methanol laced drinks often go to bed drunk, allowing the more severe symptoms of methanol poisoning to develop over the next 12 to 24 hours.\nAs well as exposing yourself to the risk of methanol poisoning, drinking to excess at any time in a foreign country with different laws to our own is not considered wise. It can lead to accidents, assaults and robberies; all of which will not be covered by your travel insurance if your alcohol intake was a contributing factor. And with medical evacuation back to Australia capable of costing over $100,000, travel insurance is not something you want to be without.\nMost insurers look at alcohol related claims on a case-by-case basis, so if you consume one methanol laced drink and suffer methanol poisoning, you would normally expect to be covered. But most travel insurance policies contain a blanket drugs and alcohol exclusion and it is up to the individual insurer as to how this is interpreted, so far better to play it safe and drink with caution when holidaying overseas.\nInsurers have been known to refuse claims from people who've had their drinks spiked or suffered methanol poisoning from dodgy cocktails. So be careful what you drink.\nHow does travel insurance work when it comes to drug use?\nA common exclusion listed in every travel insurance policy is that your claim will not be paid if it arose because you were under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, unless the drugs were prescribed by a medical adviser and taken as directed. Unfortunately, many travellers are completely unaware of this exclusion and the many ways it can affect their cover.\nMedical claims that arise because you are under the influence of or addicted to drugs will not be covered. For example, if you smoked marijuana in Thailand, hopped behind the wheel of your hire car and were then involved in an accident, your travel insurer would not provide any cover for your medical expenses, legal liability or rental vehicle insurance excess costs.\nThe drug use exclusion can even apply to people who aren’t even travelling with you. If you are forced to cut your trip short and return home following the serious illness or death of a relative as a result of drug use, your insurer may not provide any cover for cancellation or curtailment costs.\nHaving a drink can be an enjoyable part of any overseas holiday, but if you want to be covered by your travel insurance, you should understand your insurer’s attitude to alcohol before you take out your policy. If they have an alcohol-related exclusion that is not clarified in the policy, it would be worthwhile talking to one of their representatives to see exactly where you stand. Otherwise your drinks overseas could turn out to be very expensive indeed.\nBudget Direct Comprehensive Travel Insurance offers you smarter cover that you can rely on while on your travels to include all the protection you need at low premiums.\nWhy do volunteers need travel insurance? Who should provide it? What should it cover? This guide looks at volunteering in general and doing overseas volunteer work.\nFind travel insurance policies for your next trip to Thailand. Learn the risks of travelling in Thailand and what you should ensure your policy covers you for.\nWhat is marijuana tourism? What happens to my insurance if I visit the Red Light District in Amsterdam? This guide takes a candid look at how travel insurance works when you venture away from the postcard tulip fields and windmills.
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When you're so excited but also so confused because you have no idea what to do next.But this year, we were lucky enough to get the best of both worlds, and both expectations of Lexington were met, making The Last Mile one to remember.\nEven though I haven’t grown up showing at The Red Mile, I feel very lucky to have shown there the last two years. While I can say there is no thrill like racking down the long rails on a gaited horse, I have never felt the crazy anticipation rush waiting for the gate to open and the bugle to sound before the Adult Equitation National Finals.\nTilly took the mud like a champ. Photo by Julia Shelburne-Hitti.\nI can definitely say, there is no feeling like walking your pattern for the UPHA Challenge Cup Final on Friday at 8 a.m., in just about ankle-deep mud while the much awaited sun was beating down on the track. By Saturday night, we never thought we would ever be so happy to see dust when the tractor came in to drag the ring. I set my goal for both finals to try and have the best rail work and pattern I could, but if we happened to come out with a Top Ten ribbon that would be all the more special, and most importantly to just enjoy the ride. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to tackle one last year on The Red Mile with than CH Chantilly Castle. While my nerves were heightened due to all the mud, Tilly never waivered or even put an ear back.\nDuring the rail portion, you could hear the squish and splash with each step around the track. After the rail work was completed, we waited for 17 riders to go before it was our turn to perform the pattern in both finals. Once the patterns were complete, there was one step left; we waited in the warm-up ring to hear the results just hoping that your number was one of those ten riders called back as the Top Ten. Not having made the ribbons before, needless to say I was beyond ecstatic and also in complete shock when I made the Top Ten.\nAs thrilled as I was, I realized that I had no idea what I was supposed to do now, this being the first time I had made it. I just kept saying “I don’t know what to do; I’ve never done this before.” Where do I go when we go back in? Do we go right for our ribbons? Do we trot in and wait? What comes next? The fun part was everyone around my confused self, trying to explain to me what to do as we’re trotting back in. Well as it turns out, I was lucky enough to go through this whole questioning process twice!\nIn the end, we came out 8th out of 18 amazing riders in the USEF Medal Adult National final and 4th out of 18 in the UPHA Challenge Cup Adult National final! And I cannot thank David Chretien and Jessica Saft enough for not only getting us this far, but also for everything they do every day!
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Ben (Lucas Hedges) comes from a well-to-do Upstate New York family. His mother Holly (Julia Roberts) and second husband Neal (Courtney B. Vance) live with Ben’s teenage sister Ivy (Kathryn Newton) and much younger half-siblings in a big, beautiful, picturesque house in the suburbs. But Ben no longer lives with the family — he lives in a rehab facility outside of town, where we learn he isn’t on his first attempt to overcome his addiction. When Ben shows up unannounced on Christmas Eve to spend some time with the family, only Holly really believes he’s there with the purest of intentions. His sister and step-father have seen him relapse too many times, and a Ben who’s using is not a Ben who should be around on Christmas Eve. Though he assures his family that all that is in the past, coming home also brings Ben back into an old life that isn’t nearly as buried as he wants it to be.\nBen Is Back marks the first collaboration between writer-director Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April) and his son, actor Lucas Hedges. (Technically the second, as a 10-year-old Hedges has a very small part in Dan in Real Life.) The second Hedges and Vance sat down at a roundtable to promote the film at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September, someone asked whether or not Hedges felt it made a difference that the lead in his new film was his own son.\nAt this point, about 20 seconds into the interview, Hedges starts to get misty-eyed.\n“And, you know, somehow I didn’t realize that you two were father and son,” adds Vance.\n“I remember when you realized it!” laughs Hedges.\n“The job is to tell this story,” continues Hedges. “I have found that when I’m aligned with the right material and working with the right people, I have uncommon strength. I have a capacity to do more than my limited sense of myself could do. I feel like, on our best days when all of us just kept our eye on making sure we were telling the best or fullest or most real and complex version of this story, that that was the goal. When you have a cast that’s this accomplished — and even in the smallest parts, we had some of the best actors — everybody brought it. The kids in the movie brought it. You can understand how kids can derail a movie, but these kids are so vivacious. It was just one of those projects where everyone came to it for a very particular reason — often a very personal reason, as it turns out. As the movie went on, people would pull me aside and tell me about their issues or an issue with a family member.\nRoberts plays the mother who loves too much in the film; perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the attention surrounding the film is focused on her performance.\nFor Hedges, Ben Is Back is very much a film of its time.\nNo Replies to "Peter Hedges and Courtney B. Vance on working with Julia Roberts and depicting the crisis of our time"
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In light of this festive holiday, we were so inspired by the inviting warmth of these tablescapes for Thanksgiving!\nHow sweet is this DIY dipped leaf place card?!\nWe wish everyone a safe, warm and happy Thanksgiving! Don't forget to snap some photos of your beautiful tablescapes to share with us!\nGuest blog post presented by Ilana from Sugar and Type, a design studio with a serious passion for paper!\nHello Buffalo! I’m so excited to be a member of Buffalo Indie Weddings, rep'ping your sister city, Rochester! I started my business after getting my Bachelors of Fine Art from RIT, and it’s been an incredible journey. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some amazing clients, and it’s been so fun to share my own journey planning my own wedding!\nWhen Kate from LoveWell asked me to contribute to a styled shoot she was pulling together, I jumped up and down with the opportunity to work with the long list of incredible vendors. The best part? It was being photographed at the exact place I was having my wedding just a couple months later, talk about inspiration!\nMajor swoon! Thank you to everyone who participated! This was some serious magic and it was so wonderful meeting you all!\nBe sure to check out more of the shoot by visiting Kate's blog.\nFor those non-traditional brides looking to do something offbeat for dessert, naked cakes are a fabulous option. Naked cakes strip away all the exterior frosting, buttercream and fondant and leave you with the beautiful basics. The texture and natural colors of the cake are the charming details that make this dessert so alluring. Just because this cake is 'naked' does not mean that it needs to be boring. There are so many fun ways to accentuate and accessorize this rustic sweet for your wedding!\nVary the textures to add interest. This Baby's Breath is such a fun addition!\nThe colors of this fruit and these flowers are an incredible combination. You can add even more personality to your cake with a cake topper!\nYou would never think to put succulents on a cake but they give it a lovely organic look.\nThese layers have a wonderful color palate and cascading flowers give a romantic feel.\nFarm tables are all the rage right now. They're unique, rustic, and really create a unique environment for your special occasion. McCarthy Events actually MAKES their own, and they're a huge hit! It'll take a lot for you to not want one for your dining room table - but worry not - you can actually do just that! Commission McCarthy to make a beautiful table for your wedding, and then take it home and use it as your new dining room table (talk about the perfect wedding present & reminder of your special day). The venue we picked ONLY had farm tables, and it made me all sorts of giddy inside!\nI seriously have to pinch myself when I'm looking at these! I love the way elegance can be mixed with rustic details and it pulls together so nicely, especially in beautiful upstate New York!\nBe sure to reach out to McCarthy for all of your farm tables needs!\nI'm so excited to share this trend that's hitting the Rochester area brides, and the fun photos from it! Before I even met DJ Naps from Breakthrough Entertainment, I knew him and his company as the "DJ Bride guy". I'd seen photos from Tammy Swales featuring the infamous DJ Bride, and knew I'd be seeing more of it!\nI absolutely love how the brides get totally into this, it's so fun to see them relaxed and enjoying themselves on their big day! These brides are total badasses, and the pictures are priceless! Thanks for sharing DJ Naps!\nIntroducing His and Her Weddings !\n10.05.14 Bridal Show & Wedding Marketplace VIDEO!
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2013 Suzuki Touring Boss 1500 with less than 100 miles! This motorcycle has never been sold as new from our dealership. It has been at our dealership since new and only used as Demo rides and display. It is a special package Touring Boss 1500 that features a full windshield, saddlebags, blackout package (pipes, mirrors, rims, forks, handlebars and more). Very good looking motorcycle that was originally priced over $13,000!
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The guests who gathered in a blizzard for an Italian mountain vacation had no idea what was coming.\nHe was pinned in the darkness by the unseen weight of beams and walls, ice and earth. He lay on his stomach, unable to move. His mind was cloudy; his heart sped with a sudden terror. What happened? Where am I?\nHe gasped for air and grabbed at a fistful of snow, shoving it into his mouth. He coughed out the dirt and the glass.\nHe surveyed what he could: His left leg had been twisted and thrust forward at an impossible angle, so that his foot rested near his cheek. He could move his left arm, that was free, but his right arm and leg were crushed and wedged beneath something enormous. He wasn't entirely alone, he sensed, realizing with horror that his chin rested on the knee of a corpse. He tried to still the panic, to recall the half-forgotten moments before everything went dark.\nHe had been speaking to his wife. They were standing in a doorway. And then: the whistling gust of wind; the momentary loss of consciousness; the sense of tumbling through space; the sounds of coughing, moaning; and the horrifying silence that followed. Had it been an earthquake? Had everyone died? He called to his wife in the dark but heard no answer. He thought about their 5-year-old daughter in Rome, across the peninsula. Then he heard voices, faint at first but growing more distinct.\nThe hotel stood in splendid isolation, high among the mountains. All around was forest and far beyond was the sea, the Adriatic, which the guests could glimpse on a clear day from any number of the hotel's enormous windows. Nestled up here on the flanks of Italy's Apennine Mountains—above the medieval town of Farindola—the Hotel Rigopiano had never been easy to reach, but then, its isolation only added to its appeal.\nSo, too, did the resort's well-known spa, adorned with its Roman-style frescoes, shimmering marble floors, and burbling fountains. It had been enough, in recent years, to attract Italian pop stars and celebrities; George Clooney had even stayed there in 2009 while he was filming The American nearby. From all over Italy, well-heeled vacationers were drawn, paying as much as $1,200 a night to take in the views of the canyon below, to enjoy the mountains as if they were theirs alone.\nIn plenty of ways, it was. There were no other buildings for miles. There never had been. The resort stood just inside the Gran Sasso National Park, situated incongruously among ancient mountains still on the move—sandstone peaks that, for millions of years, have thrust upward from the earth's center. It was a location that was beautiful and unsettled at once, a spot where the rhythms of nature tended to be indifferent to those who ventured there.\nLast January, snow began to fall across the Gran Sasso. For days it came down without letup, and the enormous drifts ringing the Rigopiano grew taller by the hour.\nFrom his home in the suburbs of Rome—120 miles away—Giampaolo Matrone watched the weather with rising concern over the trip he'd been planning. It was supposed to be a treat for his wife, an overnight getaway to a spa that her friends had raved about.\nBut now, given the blizzard, he wondered if they should make the drive—and whether the mountain road leading to the hotel was even open. Matrone phoned the Rigopiano and reached its owner, Roberto Del Rosso. Del Rosso said not to worry. Matrone simply needed chains on his tires, he was told. “Tranquilo,” Del Rosso said over the phone.\nWhat Del Rosso kept to himself was that things were growing bleak up on the mountain. Food and supplies at his hotel were already running low, and with only a single snowplow, officials in town were struggling to keep the road open.\nWhether it was ignorance or avarice, it's hard to know exactly why Del Rosso downplayed the gathering storm and encouraged more guests up the mountain. Maybe it was optimism: hope that the weather would clear or that more plows might arrive. The fact is, things didn't get better, and by the time Matrone and his wife reached Farindola, they were battling a total whiteout.\nGiampaolo Matrone endured 60 harrowing hours beneath the crumpled hotel.\nAt the base of the mountain, Matrone wrapped his chains around his tires and joined a line of cars inching along behind a small snowplow. An officer of the provincial police urged Matrone to head back down the mountain, but turning around on the skinny road was now nearly impossible, and besides, he had paid good money for the room.\nWhen the guests in the convoy finally reached the hotel, they were cold and exhausted. They found logs aflame in the fireplaces and red candles burning in brass candelabras, throwing a mellow glow on the unfussy reception area. But the atmosphere wasn't entirely cozy. They could hear the storm strengthening outside in the dark.\n“Don't be angry—start enjoying this,” Del Rosso said, announcing that he would keep the hotel's spa—the “beauty center”—open an extra hour to help the new arrivals unwind.\nThat night, as the cars outside the Rigopiano were cocooned in snow, only 12 of the hotel's 45 rooms were occupied. The inn may have had just 28 guests, but Del Rosso knew that it could have been worse. Business had always been brutal in the winter. In fact, since it had been built in 1958 as a modest hiker's hut, the Rigopiano had often closed up during the snowy months—even after it became a hotel in the 1970s. With no ski slopes nearby to attract visitors, the hotel was tough to sustain. Things got so bad in the 1990s that the hotel was actually abandoned and fell to ruin. “Vandals broke the windows, stole the plates and mattresses, sprayed graffiti,” says Massimiliano Giancaterino, the former mayor of Farindola.\nSo it had been something of a surprise when Del Rosso, the nephew of the original proprietor, re-opened the Rigopiano in 2007, pouring millions of euros into a dramatic expansion—the centerpiece of which was his beauty center, which he counted on to lure guests up the mountain year-round.\nBut the improbable resurrection had long borne a whiff of corruption. In 2012, prosecutors charged a handful of local officials and builders in a bribery scheme related to the project. After a drawn-out legal fight, the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. Still, questions lingered about how Del Rosso had so quickly obtained a zoning variance for a major commercial expansion inside a national park.\nBeyond those allegations of dodgy financial dealings, there were broader safety concerns—fears that some say should have kept the hotel shuttered forever. Pasquale Iannetti, an alpine guide who served on the town's avalanche commission, warned municipal officials in 1999 that the area—sitting in one of the most tectonically unstable corners of Europe—was susceptible to landslides and avalanches.\nGeological experts spoke up, too, noting a fact that the builders of the old hiker's hut must have neglected 60 years ago: The structure, located at the base of a canyon, sat in the path of a natural conduit for snow cascading down from Monte Siella. In fact, aerial photography had shown evidence of an avalanche in 1956 on the exact spot where the hotel now stood.\nAs the guests awoke on Wednesday, they discovered that their predicament had worsened overnight. The cars in the lot were invisible. The phone and power lines were down. Cellular coverage, always spotty on the mountain, had gotten worse. Now the only form of reliable communication was Wi-Fi, running through a satellite antenna on the roof.\nFaye Dame, a 42-year-old Senegalese immigrant who helped Del Rosso with maintenance work, was doing the best he could to clear a path in the driveway. It had been a few days since the hotel's last delivery of food and supplies, and employees in the kitchen were trying hard to manage what was left of the dwindling provisions. For breakfast, they put out a few microwaved croissants, some marmalade, and Nutella. It wasn't much.\nAfter breakfast, Matrone and his wife returned to the spa and climbed into the Jacuzzi. Matrone sank beneath the surface. And then: The hotel began to wobble. The windows rattled and the water in the tub sloshed over the edges.\nThe couple leapt out of the Jacuzzi and wrapped themselves in towels. They didn't yet know exactly what had happened—that a quake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale had struck the mountain—but Matrone had had enough. “Let's get the baggage and get out of here,” he told his wife, dressing quickly. Others followed him out into the parking lot, where they began excavating their cars. Fifteen minutes after the first earthquake, another tremor hit, this one measuring 5.6.\n• The Hotel Rigopiano’s spa was designed to lure visitors in winter. Before disaster struck last January, a blizzard had trapped 28 guests in the mountain resort.\nThey backtracked to the hotel, infuriated by the snow that choked the road beneath them but unaware of a larger threat developing far above them. High up on Monte Siella, the 6,650-foot peak looming over the Rigopiano, a soft bed of powder now some 500 yards wide had enlarged and grown precarious overnight.\nDel Rosso assured his frustrated guests that the road would soon be plowed. In the meantime, his staff cobbled together lunch. Around 1:30 P.M., as the guests ate, their plates began to rattle with the dreadful shake of another tremor. Two hours later came a fourth quake. Del Rosso said there was nothing to fear. Authorities were working to help them all get off the mountain, he said.\nMoments later, Del Rosso got an unhelpful reply from his nephew. Farindola's one turbine-style snowplow, the only machine powerful enough to clear the road, was out of commission, he was told. Nobody knew when a replacement would arrive. Del Rosso wasn't sure what to tell his guests; he confided in one of them, Sebastiano Di Carlo.\nAs the light outside faded, guests and workers alike tried to reach their families and searched for distraction. Adriana Vranceanu and her son huddled over a checkerboard in a playroom on the ground floor. She needed some aspirin and had sent her husband, Giampiero Parete, to the parking lot to find some in their car. Meanwhile, their daughter shot pool with two other children down the corridor in the billiard hall.\nA handful of guests sat in white upholstered armchairs and sofas. Matrone paced the reception area, anxiously discussing options with his wife. Del Rosso was just around the corner, in the hotel's handsome library nook. Half a dozen of his employees milled about in the kitchen.\nThis was when the snow on Monte Siella began to slide. Maybe it had been that fourth earthquake—a tremor measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale—that had dislodged the frozen slab of snow from where it rested, upon a slippery sheet of older snow. Or perhaps the massive accumulation of fresh powder overnight had finally created enough weight and instability to bring the whole thing loose. Whatever the cause, the path the snow was about to take was far less of a mystery.\nThey heard the avalanche before they ever saw it. As the wall of snow and ice tumbled downward, it pushed at the air, compressing it into a terrible low whistle—a kind of grim, naturally occurring warning to anyone in the disaster's path. To anyone, in other words, stuck inside the Hotel Rigopiano. As it churned, the avalanche gathered speed and size, and also rocks and trees. It grabbed everything in its way, fashioned it all into chaos, and roared down the mountain.\nWith the force of 3,000 Mack trucks, the snow slammed into the hotel at 60 miles per hour. Walls buckled. The avalanche thundered through the kitchen, killing the workers there, including Linda Salzetta, the young waitress, and Faye Dame, the Senegalese handyman. It tore into the alcove where Del Rosso had been standing, and then it raced diagonally across the two rooms where guests sat sipping hot drinks. There, a choice of seats determined life or death. Stefano Feniello, celebrating his 28th birthday, died instantly. His girlfriend, Francesca Bronzi, somehow stayed alive. Another young couple on a romantic getaway, Vincenzo Forti and Giorgia Galassi, were spared as well.\nThe snow—and the weight of everything it had brought down the mountain with it—ripped the hotel from its foundation, collapsed it into a pile of rubble, and sent debris flying more than 100 yards. Those caught inside, the ones not yet killed, were taken up in the churn and, when the tossing and tumbling came to a final stop, were left buried in the icy heap of rock and ruin. All was now still; everything had gone dark.\nOutside the hotel, Fabio Salzetta, the resort's jack-of-all-trades caretaker, had been working in the tiny boiler hut about 30 yards from the main building when he noticed an eerie silence. A few moments later, he tried to throw open the door, but it wouldn't budge. The little outbuilding was sealed in snow. So he pried away the window frame and wriggled outside. Standing there on an empty snowfield, he gazed at a trail of sheer destruction—as if a rake had been dragged down the mountain, toppling beech trees, crushing cars, chewing up everything caught in its path.\nSalzetta felt numb. He trudged forward in the snow, sinking to his knees. Wait, where was the hotel?\nThen he saw it—or what was left of it. The tip of the Rigopiano's roof poking out of a pyramid of ice-topped rubble. The entire building had been bulldozed down the hill. Billowing steam rose from the thermal pool.\nSalzetta shouted for a pair of colleagues who'd been outside the hotel while he was in the boiler hut.\nParete, who didn't even have a coat, appeared disoriented, distraught. “My family is inside the hotel,” he wailed.\nParete was fumbling with his phone, desperately trying to call for help. But his touch screen, soaked from the snow, didn't work at first. Salzetta, keeping his composure, cleared the snow from the exhaust pipe of Parete's BMW X5, and the two climbed inside. Finding a cell signal seemed to take forever. At least 30 times they dialed the emergency number, only to lose the connection. At last, they reached a dispatcher and Parete blurted out what had happened, but the woman didn't seem to grasp what she was hearing.\nAs he awoke, he confronted anew his terrible reality. He was buried alive. Despair washed over him. Who is going to save us? How can they reach us?\n“I have family inside!” Parete yelled. “I promise on the life of my son it was an avalanche.” But the emergency dispatcher, perhaps confusing Parete's report with an earlier call about a possible house collapse, was sure that he was exaggerating.\nGetting nowhere, Parete hung up in frustration.\nThe boss jumped into action. Minutes later, Parete's phone rang. On the line was Antonio Crocetta, the chief of the region's alpine rescue team—a squad of highly trained volunteers.\n“We're coming,” Crocetta promised, and asked Parete to stay calm.\n“How long will it take?” Parete wanted to know.\nThat wasn't possible now, Crocetta explained, because of the heavy snow, high winds, and risk of more avalanches. Darkness had set in, and Parete and Salzetta sat alone and afraid inside the car, the motor running, the heat now blasting.\nDown the mountain, at his base in the hillside village of Penne, Crocetta alerted the carabinieri, the military police, and mobilized his unit, a team of 14 men trained in rescue operations. Reaching the resort—or what might remain of it—would mean trekking six miles up the mountain, in the dark, through near-impossible drifts, while the blizzard still raged.\nBy 9 P.M., the squad—which included a surgeon, an anesthetist, a dog handler, and two veteran alpine guides—assembled in the dark, on the road just outside Farindola. They slipped on cross-country skis and strapped to each of them “seal skins”—nylon strips designed to let the skis slide forward but not backward. Each man carried a shovel and a sonda, a collapsible probe used to poke through snow and rubble to prod for bodies. They pulled on their masks and trained their headlamps into the storm. Then they started, single file, up the mountain, toward where they knew the Hotel Rigopiano once stood.\nThe snow was falling so hard, the wind blowing so strongly, that the men could see only a few feet ahead of themselves. Across their path, fallen trees blocked the way, half submerged by the growing drifts. When they could, the responders clambered over the downed logs. When they couldn't, they stopped to chop at the trees with saws and axes.\nFabio Prencipe was first in line. He was 26 and had served in the alpine rescue unit for seven years. He had dug through rubble and treated trauma victims after the terrible Amatrice quake in August 2016, which had killed nearly 300 people, but he had never encountered conditions as arduous as he did now. He bent low and plodded forward. After 100 yards, Prencipe had to stop. Exhausted, he gave up his position and moved to the rear, establishing a rotation that would continue as the men trudged upward. Even the unit's search dog, a German shepherd, struggled to advance against the howling, shifting wind.\nAbout six hours after leaving Farindola, the unit turned a corner, and Prencipe noticed the first signs of the disaster: a wide snowfield strewn with toppled trees. He heard the hum of a generator and saw the distant lights of the resort's beauty center. Drawing closer, he could make out the twinkling yellow bulbs of a Christmas tree. There was no movement anywhere—no sound, just rubble. While others circled the destroyed hotel, Prencipe spotted two headlights, beaming through the blizzard. Two hundred yards away sat Salzetta and Parete in the BMW. Prencipe raced in their direction.\n“How many people are in the hotel?” he asked.\nThe building was buried in a snow-covered heap, but Salzetta offered his best guesses. As Prencipe wrapped Parete—who still didn't have a coat—in a thermal blanket and took him down the mountain on a stretcher, other team members formed four-man lines and began probing the snow with their sondas. They found the first body after about an hour, buried under five feet of snow. It was Gabriele D'Angelo, Salzetta's colleague. He lay facedown, his arms wrapped tightly around the sack of pellets that he was carrying when the avalanche struck. Alessandro Giancaterino, who had worked as the maître d' of the hotel's restaurant, was found buried nearby. Later, Del Rosso's body would be discovered, too, pulled from beneath the rubble that crushed him as his hotel disintegrated.\nAs the alpine team probed for corpses and recovered the dead, Giampaolo Matrone lay in a coffin-sized pocket of air beneath 30 feet of snow, ice, and rubble.\nHe could hear nothing of what was happening at the surface. Shock had set in and he felt no pain, no hunger, no cold; compressed into his tiny space, his mind focused only on his need for movement and air. He began to view everything he was wearing as a hated encumbrance. A wool scarf had wrapped around his face. With his unobstructed left hand, he managed to remove it, then tore off his gold neck chain, adorned with a lucky eagle pendant from the Lazio soccer club. Although the temperature was well below freezing, he felt a powerful urge to shed everything that he was wearing. With great contortions, he wriggled free of his jacket and tore off his right shoe so that his naked foot lay against ice and snow.\nImmobilized in the darkness, he soon began to drift in and out of consciousness. He lost all sense of time. Surreal imagery drifted through his mind. At one point, he was walking alongside his wife through the back alleys of Monterotondo, toward the bakery his family operated there, taking note of every shop, every street corner, each crack in the pavement. Later, he was locked in the bakery's refrigerator, banging on the heavy steel door; he was swigging bottles of ice water and splashing the bracing liquid on his face. He saw his brother appear outside the door, yank it open, and beckon him to freedom. The thoughts were strange and richly detailed. He imagined rescuers swooping in on magic carpets, dressed like Aladdin in The Arabian Nights. At one point he imagined sitting inside a theater, watching a search-and-rescue team leading children across a stage to safety. Matrone raised himself from his seat and tried to follow them. In another vision, his best friend, a bodybuilder, materialized on the mountain where Matrone lay, lifting tons of concrete with his hands and setting him free.\nEach scene of entrapment was followed by liberation. Then he would wake and confront anew the terrible reality: He was buried alive. Despair washed over him. Who is going to save us? he asked himself. How can they reach us?\nLorenzo Botti and his dogs arrived on the mountain on Thursday morning, the day after the avalanche. A rescue specialist and expert canine trainer with the fire department, Botti had, with his dogs, dug out the dead in the Amatrice quake. Standing in the snow, looking at the remains of the hotel, he made a quick assessment: There's nothing to do—no chance of survivors.\nBy now helicopters were arriving, bringing firefighters who, like Botti, would begin picking through the rubble for the bodies. Police technicians had set up an antenna that allowed them to home in on buried cell phones. Wherever there were phones, there would be people—or, more likely, bodies. For many on the scene, the grim task ahead wasn't going to be a rescue mission but rather a retrieval operation.\nBotti began by slithering into the beauty center—which seemed remarkably intact. He moved carefully past dangling concrete and rebar. At the spa's reception desk, he paused and flipped through the appointment book. It was blank for the afternoon of January 18, confirming his hunch that the spa had been empty when the avalanche struck.\nHe turned his attention to the 30-foot-tall mound, buried under snow, that constituted the main structure of the hotel. After studying a crude floor plan drawn for the rescuers by Salzetta, Botti and his men mounted the wreckage, shoveled through ten feet of snow, and, when they found the top of the building underfoot, began sawing into the roof.\nWorking in teams of three or four, the men—firefighters and members of the alpine rescue team—carefully lowered themselves through the apertures they'd cut. Lights fastened to their helmets shone in the darkness, illuminating the twisted debris. The space was so cramped, so cave-like, the rescuers had to crawl on their bellies, hunting for tunnels through the heap. For hours they called out for survivors as they moved along, feeling past broken concrete beams and shattered furniture.\nFinally, at 11 A.M. on Friday, 30 hours after the search began, they heard something astonishing: It was a woman crying for help.\nAdriana Vranceanu—whose husband had gone to fetch her aspirin from their car before the avalanche and then frantically phoned for help—was bleeding from a head wound when firefighters found her and her son squeezed together in a crawl space.\nShe didn't remember much and grilled her rescuers for details. “Tell me what happened,” she said. “There was an earthquake, then a strong roar.... Something collapsed on me. A landslide?” As Adriana and her son were led to safety, she was told about her husband, how he'd been found, shaken but unharmed, in the parking lot. He was safe, they said, evacuated by sled to a nearby hospital.\nFinding the survivors electrified the rescuers, but what Adriana told them made an even bigger impact: “There are many other people inside the hotel.” The firefighters tunneled quickly toward the nearby billiard room. They cut a small hole in the roof and lowered a video probe. Gathered around a screen, the team could see the soft green felt of a pool table and then, shockingly, two small kids emerging from behind a sofa, drawn by the light from the hole cut in the roof. Somehow, the entire room appeared intact.\nThe firefighters broke through the wall and found three small children. Their eyes were wide and white. “Stay calm,” a rescuer said. “Get on your bellies, make like a centipede.” Carefully but quickly, the men ushered the children through the wall and out of the rubble.\nThe pile was frighteningly unstable. As they moved, the rescuers knew that the force of their digging and cutting-or another tremor-could bring it all down upon them.\nMeanwhile, another squad of rescuers picked up on a cell-phone signal, coming from a crawl space. They sawed toward voices crying for help. Soon they found the young couple, Galassi and Forti, as well as Bronzi, the girlfriend of Stefano Feniello—and they pulled them by their feet to safety.\nIt was after midnight now, Saturday, January 21—a full 55 hours since the avalanche. The rescuers had been working nonstop for more than two days in teams that were out of touch with one another while inside the wreckage. The pile was frighteningly unstable. As they moved, the rescuers knew that the force of their digging and cutting—or another tremor—could bring it all down upon them.\nPaolo Di Quinzio and three other members of the alpine rescue team burrowed on, breaking blade after blade on their circular saws, battling the wet masonry that stood between them and a faint cell signal detected deep in the ruins. Suddenly, they heard a voice. They silenced their saws and listened into the blackness: It was Matrone.\nHe could yell, but Matrone was still fading in and out of consciousness. When he grew quiet, he dreamed and saw in his mind a vision of his wife, Valentina Cicioni. She hovered over him, an angel of mercy, he thought. She assured him he would be okay.\nMatrone was awake now. He could see nothing in the darkness, but as the voices and the buzzing of saws grew louder, he became more alert. “Be careful with the saw,” he admonished the rescuers. “Be careful, there is my wife, my daughter.” In his confusion, he had forgotten that his daughter had remained behind in Rome.\n“We have put them in the car because it's cold,” Di Quinzio lied. He kept the conversation going, trying to keep Matrone conscious.\nFor several more hours, the squad punched through the tangled wreck. At last, around six in the morning, Di Quinzio's saw broke a hole through a final, thick layer of insulation. He pointed his light toward the opening and, peering in, spotted Matrone's back. There he was. For the first time, a bit of light filled the space where Matrone was trapped.\nDi Quinzio could see how the angled concrete beams had created a small cocoon in the wreckage that prevented Matrone from being crushed to death. Those near him had not been so lucky: Squeezed in the space with him were the bodies of two women—one supporting his head, one curled beneath his left leg.\nReaching him finally, Di Quinzio wrapped a cloth around Matrone's head so he couldn't see the bodies. “We're covering your eyes because of the dust,” Di Quinzio told him. Matrone played along, knowing he had shared the space with at least one body. Rescuers slipped body bags around the two dead women and pulled them through the hole with ropes. Di Quinzio touched Matrone's trapped arm and legs.\n“Can you feel that?” he asked.\nAs his eyes adjusted to the artificial light, Matrone studied for the first time his own pinned arm with horror. The wrist had swollen to four times its normal size, and most of the limb had turned black. The rescuers raised the concrete beams off Matrone's limbs with the hydraulic jack. “You are a badass guy, a superhero,” Di Quinzio said, as he reached beneath Matrone's armpits and gently lifted him out of his tomb.\nLooking up, I saw the trail of shattered trees delineate the avalanche's course. The cruelty of nature, the awful consequences for those who defy it, was impossible to ignore.\nFor the first time since the avalanche, he now felt cold. Wrapped in a thermal blanket, he was placed in a helicopter and airlifted to a hospital in Pescara.\nGangrene had burrowed itself deep into his right arm. The nerves in his right ankle had practically been destroyed. When he awoke from the first of many surgeries, Matrone was told that had he been rescued even two hours later, his arm would certainly have been lost.\nFive days after his rescue, as he began to make peace with what he had endured, Matrone was given the news that his wife had died—one of 29 people killed by the avalanche. Doctors had kept the information from him to protect his fragile psyche. Her body had been found, crushed by debris, next to where Matrone had been trapped. The angel who had appeared to him in his fitful dreams had, unbeknownst to him, never left his side.\nSix weeks after the disaster, I drove from Pescara through rural Abruzzo to visit the ruins of the Hotel Rigopiano. The hotel was sotto sequestro—technically closed to all but the police, firefighters, and government officials, pending the provincial prosecutor's investigation into allegations of criminal negligence. The families of some who had died in the Rigopiano had hired a well-known trial lawyer in Rome to press for a re-investigation of the 2007 zoning variance and an inquiry into the authorities' failure to clear the road.\nDespite the restricted access, my translator, the scion of an influential local family, had utilized his connections to get us to the site. As we neared Farindola, the massif came into view, its upper flanks covered by recent snow. Climbing up the mountain in our car, I spotted—among the felled trees—an overturned Jeep, which I was later told had belonged to Del Rosso, the owner of the hotel. The carabinieri allowed us through their checkpoint, and we drove toward what was left of the hotel.\nThe snow that had once covered the structure had been shoveled off, exposing a twisted mess, a giant freeze-frame of violence. Looking up the ravine, I saw the trail of shattered trees delineating the avalanche's course as it sped toward the hotel. The cruelty of nature, the awful consequences for those who defy it, was impossible to ignore.\nSix uniformed firefighters arrived for an inspection, and we trailed them through the knee-deep snow to the beauty center. Neat rows of NordicTrack bicycles, StairMasters, and weight machines filled the exercise room—a mundane tableau frozen as it was in the moments before destruction. I ducked beneath chunks of concrete and rebar dangling from the ripped-open roof and stepped over piles of dirt, bricks, wooden planks, and chunks of Styrofoam. I plunged deeper into the ruins, following a dark corridor past the surreally frozen massage and hydrotherapy parlors, until my translator warned me that it was time to leave. “Another earthquake tremor could bring the whole place down,” he said.\nAs I walked back to the parking lot, I encountered Fabio Salzetta, the hotel employee who had met the rescue squads in the parking lot and shared his knowledge of the hotel's layout. I had interviewed him two nights earlier in a café, and he nodded in recognition. “Tutto bene?” he asked, shaking my hand. He had come with the carabinieri's permission to observe the scene of his sister's death, and to perhaps recover his car, missing since the disaster. It seemed hopelessly optimistic.\nMoments later, a flatbed truck drove past, bearing his white Suzuki Vitara, crushed into a small square, as if processed by a trash compactor. It seemed hard, right then, to account for how Salzetta had himself been left unscathed—how, or why, the avalanche had spared any of the 11 who lived. Salzetta turned away and the truck disappeared slowly down the mountain.\nJoshua Hammer wrote about the life and death of a child soldier in the January 2017 issue of GQ.
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