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There are several artists named Norma Jean, the by far most popular being a metalcore/mathcore band from Douglasville, Georgia, U.S.A. (1). Norma Jean is also a country singer from Wellston, Oklahoma (2). (1) Norma Jean is a metalcore/ mathcore band from Douglasville, Georgia, USA- a suburb of Atlanta. They were originally known as Luti-Kriss. They released two albums: an EP (titled 5ep) in 2000, and a full-length release, Throwing Myself on March 13, 2001. |
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Ants on a Log. Fluffernutters. Classic PB&J. And who didn’t make a pinecone-peanut butter bird feeder as a kid?\nWe put it on bananas, slather it on french toast and of course eat it straight off the spoon.\nNo matter what country I’m headed to, you can be certain I’m tossing a couple jars of skippy in my rucksack. Whether it’s for a familiar snack, a quick spoonful of energy, or to tide me over til I figure out the grocery situation, peanut butter exists for me in the gray area between “luxury” and “necessity” when backpacking.\nIt’s one of those things you don’t realize how much you miss until you wake up with a craving for a nice PB&J. All of the sudden the idea of collecting all THREE ingredients at the same time seems an unbeatable obstacle. Decent peanut butter, fresh sandwich bread, and a jar of grape jelly just never seem to exist in the same place at the same time once you cross the ocean. If a simple sandwich is such a challenge, you can forget about chocolate-peanut butter ice-cream in the summer heat or that big bag of Reese’s cups come Halloween.\nGetting peanut butter while living abroad can be a challenge—you can try to make that jar from home last as long as possible, but soon you’re scraping the bottom and praying someone will pay international shipping on a care package full of Jif. Still, sometimes it’s not as far away as you think, so long as you know where to look.\nCanada & United States: In US & Canadian supermarkets it’s hard to miss—peanut butter is spotted taking up a good chunk of the aisle, with various brands, sizes, and flavors.\nMexico: While not as popular as in the rest of North America, PB is still fairly easy to find in Mexico, especially in big-box stores like Walmart, where Peter Pan and Great Value can be found at a decent price.\nChina: IF a store has it, it’s often found in the sauce aisle near the mayonnaise. Since neither mayo nor PB are popular, they can be hard to spot—and smaller stores don’t care it at all. It’s hard to find western brands, but Chinese peanut butter is decent (if a bit dry).\nIndonesia: This one’s tough, guys—despite boasting world-famous peanut sauces and peanut soups, I’ve yet to actually locate a jar of PB in Indonesia. If they’re out there, they’re hard to find.\nJapan: Right where it should be, near the breads and jellies. You can even get the giant tubs at Costco in Japan!\nKorea: Often found near the bread in the bakery section, surrounded by nutella & banana spreads. Korean peanut butter is actually pretty good and comes in both crunchy and creamy.\nLaos: While difficult to find in the store, PB is a surprisingly common topping for roti pancakes (one of the best street desserts you’ll find in SE Asia). You’re best bet at finding it in the stores is near the nutella or by the actual peanuts.\nMalaysia: Finally, another country that appreciates PB! Malaysia is one of few SE Asian countries that actually offers variety, often located near the sauces and seasonings.\nPhilippines: Boasting world-famous peanut spreads that rival American brands, the Philippines are a Peanut-Butter Oasis. Thinner than what North Americans are accustomed to, Filipino PB is a bit grainy and just as sweet.\nThailand: Perhaps one of the easiest countries to find PB in, Thai stores carry multiple US brands including Jif and Skippy, conveniently found near the Jams & Jellies.\nVietnam: Vietnam carries store-brand and local peanut butters which will often be found near the soups & seasonings, and while delicious they are often quite oily and runny.\nArgentina: So far, no one I know who has travelled through Argentina has been able to locate PB.\nBrazil: Similar to Argentina, PB seems to be a near-impossible find.\nChile: Walmarts in Chile have Great Value (store) brand PB.\nCosta Rica: Peanut Butter is often found in the “imported foods” section of the grocery, with many familiar brands.\nPeru: While there are rumors that some expats have been lucky enough to find a jar of Peter Pan, American-style peanut butter is almost non-existent in Peru, and unfortunately I’ve never heard the local style described in a manner even close to edible. Your best bet is to look near the condiments.\nIt’s always exciting delving into foreign cuisine, but sometimes you just need those familiar tastes of home.\nHAHA ! I struggle to get my home comforts and I’m a British expat in Brussels.\nAhh this is hilarious!! I never knew I would need a “where to find peanut butter abroad” list but this is so handy!\nWhat a great topic to blog about. Here in Australia everyone is crazy about vegemite (equally challenging to find overseas!) I’ve brought some to my ESL classes a few times, but I’ve yet to find an international student who actually likes it! |
Here's a spring-summer look to love: Bend Seating, a recently launched collection of wire chairs that Los Angeles-based Gaurav Nanda spent two years developing. The line's five seats include the Farmhouse chair, above, which takes its name from the barn-shaped back.\nBend Seating takes its cues from the 1950s work of sculptor Harry Bertoia, whose metal rod chairs remain midcentury modern classics. "They are mainly made of air," he once said. "Space passes right through them."\nNanda, a former designer for General Motors, says the Bertoia creations for Knoll Studio are "the standard in wire chairs," though he wanted to find a way to update the concept -- "to offer something different, something edgier, a lot more intricate and comfortable."\nNanda's decorative influences stem from 1970s crafts: The intricate patterns of his mother's handmade macrame planter-holders show up in the Farmhouse chair.\nString art and Spirograph drawing sets inspired the Drum, which triples as an ottoman, stool or side table. It's shown at right with Nanda's Bunny chair.\nWith prices from $400 to $475, the pieces fall on the high end of the spectrum for wire chairs. Knoll sells made-in-U.S.A. Bertoia side chairs for more than $600, but knockoffs in the $100 range are plentiful.\nNanda says each of his pieces is machine-molded and receives 300 to 400 handmade spot-welds at a factory in China. The chairs are sandblasted, rust-proofed and powder-coated in Los Angeles. The amount of materials also plays a role in pricing. The wires on Nanda's chairs are spaced less than a quarter-inch apart, much closer than wires on a Bertoia chair.\n"They provide tons of support," Nanda says. "You can sit on these chairs without a pad for a long period of time and be extremely comfortable."\nChannel-quilted cushions are available starting at $50 and can be special-ordered in outdoor fabrics such as Sunbrella for an additional charge. Southern California retailers include Colcha in Venice, but the chairs can be purchased directly from the Bend Seating website.\nKeep reading to see more great views of the designer's new seating, including the Bunny lounge chair with cushions and the Lucy and Ethel side chairs.\nThe Bunny lounge chair, shown here with cushions, is available in black, white and orange. The cushions come in the colors shown here as well as black and white.\nThe Lucy and Ethel chairs can be used at a desk or dining table. "Lucy has the crazier pattern, and Ethel is more upright," Nanda says. |
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What’s a table without flowers?\nI’m decorating the table with new spring flowers and flowerpots from Ellos.dk for a touch of Easter a la Mie.\nNo bunny rabits or chickens, just Easter-colored tulips hand picked from the market.\nYou’ll find the flowerpots here, the water carafe here and the long-haired lambskin pillow here.\nOOTD: Pico scrunchy, Ellos linen shirt, Ellos denim skirt, Gucci loafers and Ellos straw basket. |
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The Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamdallah on Thursday said that he holds the Israeli government responsible for the safety of journalist Mohamed al-Qiq.\nHamdallah asked the international community to help secure his release, and reiterated the need for an international force to protect Palestinians against a brutal Israeli occupation.\nIsraeli authorities sentenced al-Qiq to six months administrative detention on the 17 of December without charge or trial, with his detention subject to indefinite renewal.\nAl-Qiq has been on a hunger strike for 65 days; his health is deteriorating fast. According to health experts, the risk of death grows tremendously after 50 days of a hunger strike; few individuals are able to survive beyond 70 days on water alone.\n“Israeli politicians and their surrogates have long claimed that Israel is the ‘only democracy’ in the Middle East, but this is a far cry from the truth,” said Jamal Dajani, Director of Strategic Communications & Media for Prime Minister Hamdallah.\nHe added that Israel has deliberately stepped up its attacks against Palestinian journalists, in order to silence them from reporting about Israeli human rights violations in the West Bank. |
Don't buy expensive bottles of organic pest control spray. Make your own!!!\nYou can use just soap and water. You can add the Neem oil with just soap and water. You can do soap, essential oil, and water. The point is, you don't have to use all the ingredients at the same time, but you do require an emulsifier. If you are using soap and not agsil16h to emulsify than make sure you are using enough soap to emulsify the oil. Shake every minute or so while spraying and use right away.\nPro Tip: Switch it up and don't let the bugs get used to what you're doing. This is KEY to winning the war.\n2. Agsil16H (Potassium Silicate) 1.5 Grams of Agsil16H per Ounce of Neem to Emulsify.\n6. Neem Cake: Soak (with or without a bag) 1 cup in 1 gallon water for 24 hours and strain. Use soap or emulsifier at 1 ounce per gallon then spray! Also, Top dress with dry neem cake at 1 teaspoon per gallon of soil for container plants to prevent house flies and mites from developing in the soils surface.\nUse all sprays right away!\nSpray in the early morning or late evening. Spray more often when it's hot out and when it's raining. Spray less in the winter, maybe once every 5-10 days as preventative measure.\nInsects lay eggs on the underside of the leaves. Hence it is important to spray on the underside of the leaves as well.\nEach acre of land can be sprayed with 15 gallons of ready to use solution.\nPro Tip: You can use garlic and Cayenne pepper too. Get creative and test the new recipes on 1 plant in a small area first.\nPlease post any questions in the comments area, and I will answer them personally.\nIf you have a specific pest problem, please include details. |
Let's Do It for ME!: IIMEC8 DVD now ready for delivery!\nIIMEC8 DVD now ready for delivery!\nThe 2013 Invest in ME conference DVD set is now to ready for distribution. They are sold at the lowest possible price: UK: £14, Europe: £15, Outside Europe: £16, all including p&p/shipping. To order and see details of the speakers and their presentations, click here.\n"Am going to order a number of copies of the DVD when it goes out, and can only recommend that people do likewise, so we can start rolling out the education that came out of yesterday's conference where Invest in ME had pulled together so much vital research under one roof. Fantastic. For me it was a huge big chunk of blue sky!! Keep positive all my friends and just hug the organisers of this event for what they achieved yesterday".\n"Ross came back effervescing with enthusiasm and praise for the conference and the speakers. He also kept dipping into the journal and reading me sections. I need to have a look but I have a suspicion that that may well find its way into local medical hands. Thank you IiME." You can read the online version of the 2013 conference edition by clicking here.\nInvest in ME replied: "Thank you to everyone who came and supported this conference. It was a very uplifting day in many ways. Also the biomedical research meeting was excellent, and the pre-conference dinner event. The charity is also appreciative of all the positive comments from the speakers - some of them first time to the conference - and their comments of support for IiME. Also wonderful support from Norway and Sweden - many patients and carers coming here in large numbers. Thank you again to all those supporting the same objectives - more high-quality biomedical research into ME, more education about the real situation with ME and more awareness of the need for more funding of bomedical research". A meeting of the European ME Alliance was held the following day and so there are many positive outcomes in the pipeline.\nThe IIMEC8 conference and Biomedical Research into ME Collaborative meeting (BRMEC) were the most successful yet. Mainstreaming ME Research was the theme and title of the conference - Infection, Immunity and ME - reflecting our view that ME research is finally accepted as part of proper science and deserving of consideration for careers in research and for funding.\nThere was a great sense of optimism about the future of ME research. New researchers are learning about ME and becoming interested in this area of medicine. The data is pointing clearly to immune system dysfunction and the detective work is well underway to help solve at least some of the mysteries in this very complex illness.\nMany of the body's systems are involved and there is a great deal of work for researchers from many different areas in different countries.\nThe situation of severely ill bedbound ME patients was also discussed by some of the presenters at the 2013 IiME conference. Some extemporaneous notes on severe ME from the conference, and after, are available here. Doctors simply do not know what to do with these patients so there is an urgent need for education.\ngreat efforts over the years. I would like to add my thanks to all these people, and in particular to both Invest in ME and the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation. I must also thank ANZMES for giving me the opportunity to attend such a wonderful event."\nClick here to read Dr. Vallings full report in pdf.\nClick here to read Mark Berry's report on Phoenix Rising.\nClick here to order the order 2013 conference DVD.\nClick here to read the Journal of IiME 2013 conference edition online.\nClick here to subscribe to the Invest in ME newsletter.\nPress Release for IiME's Big Break win of £2000! |
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$10.50 $11.99 Save 12% Current price is $10.5, Original price is $11.99. You Save 12%.\nWe hear a scrape behind us, and my guide’s pale eyes flick past my shoulder. His hand is a gold-brown blur as it flies to the hilt of a scim slung across his back.\nA simple movement full of menace. A reminder that he is not just my guide. He is Elias Veturius, heir to one of the Empire’s finest families. He is a former Mask—an elite soldier of the Martial Empire. And he is my ally—the only person who can help me save my brother, Darin, from a notorious Martial prison.\nIn one step, Elias is beside me. In another, he is in front, moving with unnatural grace for someone so big. Together, we peer down the tunnel we just passed through. My pulse thuds in my ears. Any elation I felt at destroying Blackcliff Academy or rescuing Elias from execution vanishes. The Empire hunts us. If it catches us, we die.\nI pull a dagger from my belt and try to hear beyond the clicking of tunnel tarantulas and my own breathing. The prickling sense of being watched fades—replaced by something worse: the smell of pitch and flame; the rise and fall of voices drawing near.\nI slide into the crypt, suppressing a shudder at the loud crrrk of a resident tarantula. A scim that Darin forged hangs across my back, and its hilt clanks loudly against the stone. Stop fidgeting, Laia—no matter what’s crawling around in here.\nElias ducks into the crypt after me, his height forcing him into a half crouch. In the tight space, our arms brush, and he draws a sharp breath. But when I look up, his face is angled toward the tunnel.\nEven in the dim light, the gray of his eyes and the sharp lines of his jaw are striking. I feel a jolt low in my stomach—I’m not used to his face. Only an hour ago, as we escaped the destruction I wrought at Blackcliff, his features were hidden by a silver mask.\nHe tilts his head, listening as the soldiers close in. They walk quickly, their voices echoing off the walls of the catacombs like the clipped calls of raptor birds.\nThe soldiers enter our tunnel, and one pokes his lantern into the crypt across from ours. “Bleeding hells.” He recoils quickly at the sight of whatever lurks within.\nOur crypt is next. My belly twists, my hand shakes on my dagger.\nBeside me, Elias releases another blade from its sheath. His shoulders are relaxed, his hands loose around the knives. But when I catch sight of his face—brows furrowed, jaw tight—my heart clenches. He meets my gaze, and for a breath, I see his anguish. He does not wish to deliver death to these men.\nBut if they see us, they will alert the other guards down here, and we’ll be neck-deep in Empire soldiers. I squeeze Elias’s forearm. He slides his hood over his head and pulls a black kerchief up to hide his face.\nThe soldier approaches, his footsteps heavy. I can smell him—sweat and iron and dirt. Elias’s grip on his knives tightens. His body is coiled like a wildcat waiting to strike. I clamp a hand onto my armlet—a gift from my mother. Beneath my fingers, the armlet’s familiar pattern is a balm.\nSuddenly, further down the tunnel, a thud echoes. The soldiers spin, draw steel, and hurry to investigate. In seconds, the light from their lantern fades, the sound of their footsteps fainter and fainter.\nWe emerge from the crypt, and a tremor rumbles through the tunnels, shaking dust loose and sending bones and skulls clattering to the ground. I stumble, and Elias grabs my shoulder, backing me into the wall and flattening himself beside me. The crypt remains intact, but the ceiling of the tunnel cracks ominously.\nWe cut through the catacombs with new urgency. With every step I expect to hear another patrol, to see torches in the distance.\nWhen Elias stops, it is so sudden that I barrel into his broad back. We’ve entered a circular burial chamber with a low, domed ceiling. Two tunnels branch out ahead of us. Torches flicker in one, almost too far away to make out. Crypts pock the chamber walls, each guarded by a stone statue of an armored man. Beneath their helmets, skulls glare out at us. I shiver, stepping closer to Elias.\nBut he does not look at the crypts, or the tunnels, or the distant torches.\nHe stares at the little girl in the center of the chamber.\nShe wears tattered clothing and her hand is pressed to a leaking wound in her side. Her fine features mark her as a Scholar, but when I try to see her eyes, she drops her head, dark hair falling into her face. Poor thing. Tears mark a path down her dirt-streaked cheeks.\nShe lets out a tiny sob. “Help me,” she whispers.\n“Let me see that cut. I can bandage it.” Elias drops to one knee so he’s at her level, the way my grandfather did with his youngest patients. She shies away from him and looks toward me.\nI step forward, my instincts urging caution. The girl watches. “Can you tell me your name, little one?” I ask.\n“Help me,” she repeats. Something about the way she avoids my eyes makes my skin prickle. But then, she’s been ill-treated—likely by the Empire— and now she faces a Martial who is armed to the roots of his hair. She must be terrified.\nThe girl inches back, and I glance at the torch-lit tunnel. Torches mean we’re in Empire territory. It’s only a matter of time before soldiers happen by.\n“We can’t just leave her.” His guilt is plain as day. The deaths of his friends days ago in the Third Trial weigh on him; he doesn’t wish to cause another. And we will, if we leave the girl here alone to die of her wounds.\nElias’s eyebrows shoot up. I cannot blame him. It is not what I expected either.\nShe glances at my neck, my ears, my wrists. With that look, she gives herself away.\nI stare at the tar-black orbs where her eyes should be, and scrabble for my dagger. But Elias is already in front of me, scims glimmering in his hands.\n“Back away,” he snarls at the girl, every inch a Mask.\nAt my clear disgust, her lips curl in a sneer that looks obscene on her otherwise sweet face. She growls—the guttural sound I heard earlier. This is what I sensed watching us. This is the presence I felt in the tunnels.\n“What are you?” I whisper.\nShe whips her arms out, her hands gleaming with a strange viridescence. Elias flies toward her, but she evades him and fastens her fingers on my wrist. I scream, and my arm glows for less than a second before she is flung backward, howling, clutching her hand as if it is on fire. Elias pulls me to my feet from the dirt where I am sprawled, pitching a dagger at the girl at the same time. She dodges it, still shrieking.\nElias swings at her, sliding one of his scims across her neck. He’s not fast enough.\nElias reels back, shock etched into his eyes. Light flickers in the tunnel. Three torches bob swiftly toward us.\nWho in the skies is he? I don’t ask, only bring up my dagger in response.\nHer words die as Elias’s scim rips through her heart. “Efrit, efrit of the cave,” he says. Her body slides off the weapon and lands with a solid thump, like a boulder falling. “Likes the dark but fears the blade.\nNo such luck. I hear a shout and the thunder of bootsteps behind us.\nThree auxes and four legionnaires, fifteen yards behind us. As I race ahead, I whip my head around to gauge their progress. Make that six auxes, five legionnaires, and twelve yards.\nMore of the Empire’s soldiers will pour into the catacombs with every second that passes. By now, a runner has carried the message to neighboring patrols, and the drums will spread the alert throughout Serra: Elias Veturius spotted in the tunnels. All squads respond. The soldiers don’t need to be sure of my identity; they will hunt us down regardless.\nI take a sharp left down a side tunnel, pulling Laia with me, my mind careening from thought to thought. Shake them off quickly, while you still can. Otherwise . . .\nNo, the Mask within hisses. Stop and kill them. Only eleven of them. Easy. Could do it with your eyes closed.\nI should have killed the efrit in the burial chamber straightaway. Helene would scoff if she knew I’d tried to help the creature instead of recognizing it for what it was.\nHelene. I’d bet my blades she’s in an interrogation room by now. Marcus—or Emperor Marcus, as he’s now called—ordered her to execute me. She failed. Worse, she was my closest confidante for fourteen years. Neither of those sins will come without cost—not now that Marcus possesses absolute power.\nShe will suffer at his hands. Because of me. I hear the efrit again. Reaper walking!\nMemories of the Third Trial jolt through my head. Tristas dying upon Dex’s sword. Demetrius falling. Leander falling.\nA shout from ahead returns me to myself. The field of battle is my temple. My grandfather’s old mantra comes back to me when I need it most. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.\nBeside me, Laia pants, her body dragging. She is slowing me down. You could leave her, an insidious voice whispers. You’d move faster on your own. I crush the voice. Besides the obvious fact that I promised to help her in exchange for my freedom, I know that she’ll do anything to get to Kauf Prison—to her brother—including trying to make her way there alone.\nIn which case, she’d die.\n“Faster, Laia,” I say. “They’re too close.” She surges forward. Walls of skulls, bones, crypts, and spiderwebs fade away on either side of us. We’re far south of where we should be. We’ve long since passed the escape tunnel in which I hid weeks’ worth of supplies.\nThe catacombs rumble and shake, knocking both of us down. The stench of fire and death filters through a sewer grate directly above us. Moments later, an explosion rips through the air. I don’t bother considering what it could be. All that matters is that the soldiers behind us have slowed, as wary of the unstable tunnels as we are. I use the opportunity to put another few dozen yards between us. I cut right into a side tunnel and then retreat into the deep shadow of a half-crumbled alcove.\n“Will they find us, do you think?” Laia whispers.\nLight flares from the direction we were headed, and I hear the staccato clomp of boots. Two soldiers turn into the tunnel, their torches illuminating us clearly. They halt for a second, bewildered, perhaps, by the presence of Laia, by my lack of a mask. Then they spot my armor and scims, and one of them releases a piercing whistle that will draw in every soldier who can hear it.\nMy body takes over. Before either of the soldiers can unsheathe their swords, I’ve impaled throwing knives into the soft flesh of their throats. They drop silently, their torches sputtering on the damp catacomb floor.\nI lunge back to the alcove, pulling her with me and loosening my scims in their scabbards. I have four throwing knives left. Not enough.\nThe last word leaves my lips as the soldiers who were following us come into view from the tunnel to our left. Five yards away. Four. In my mind, the knives have already flown, already found their marks. I burst from the alcove and let them loose. The first four legionnaires go down quietly, one after the other, as easy as scything grain. The fifth drops with a sweep of my scim. Warm blood sprays, and I feel my bile rising. Don’t think. Don’t dwell. Just clear the way.\nSix auxes appear behind the first five. One jumps onto my back, and I dispatch him with an elbow to his face. A moment later, another soldier rushes me. When he gets a knee to the teeth, he howls and claws at his broken nose and bloody mouth. Spin, kick, sidestep, strike.\nBehind me, Laia screams. An aux hauls her out of the alcove by her neck and holds a knife to her throat. His leer turns into a howl. Laia’s shoved a dagger into his side. She yanks it out, and he staggers away.\nI turn on the last three soldiers. They flee.\nIn seconds, I collect my knives. Laia’s whole body shakes as she takes in the carnage around us: Seven dead. Three injured, moaning and trying to rise.\nWhen she looks at me, her eyes grow round in shock at my bloodied scims and armor. Shame floods me, so potent that I wish I could sink into the ground. She sees me now, down to the wretched truth at my core. Murderer! Death himself!\n“Laia—” I begin, but a low groan rolls down the tunnel, and the ground trembles. Through the sewer grates I hear screams, shouts, and the deafening reverberation of an enormous explosion.\nI don’t get to ask how she happens to know this fascinating tidbit, because at that moment, telltale silver flashes from the tunnel to our left.\n“Skies, Elias!” Laia’s voice is choked, her eyes wide. One of the Masks approaching is enormous, older than me by a dozen years and unfamiliar. The other is a small, almost diminutive figure. The calmness of her masked face belies the chilling rage that emanates from her.\nBoots thunder from our right as whistles draw even more soldiers. Trapped.\nLaia dives straight into my stomach, a graceless, desperate leap so unexpected that I topple back into one of the wall crypts. I punch straight through the thick cobwebbing over the crypt and land on my back atop a stone coffin. Laia’s half on top of me, half wedged between the coffin and the crypt wall.\nBOOM. The ceiling of the tunnel we were just standing in collapses all at once, a thunderous rumble intensified by the roar of explosions from the city. I flip Laia under me, my arms on either side of her head to shield her from the blast. But it is the crypt that saves us. We cough from the wave of dust unleashed by the explosions, and I’m keenly aware that if not for Laia’s quick thinking, we’d both be dead.\nThe rumbling stops, and sunlight cuts through the dust. Screams echo from the city. Carefully, I lift myself away from Laia and turn toward the crypt entrance, which is half-blocked by chunks of rock. I peer out into what’s left of the tunnel. Which isn’t much. The cave-in is complete—not a Mask to be seen.\nI scramble out of the crypt, half dragging, half carrying a still-coughing Laia over the debris. Dust and blood—not hers, I affirm—streak her face, and she paws at her canteen. I put it to her lips. After a few swallows, she pulls herself standing.\nRocks obstruct the tunnel to our left, but a mailed hand shoves them away. The Commandant’s gray eyes and blonde hair flash through the dust.\n“Come on.” I pull up my collar to hide the Blackcliff diamond tattoo on the back of my neck. We clamber out of the ruined catacombs and into the cacophonous streets of Serra.\nNo one appears to have noticed the collapse of the street into the crypts—everyone is too busy staring at a column of fire rising into the hot blue sky: the governor’s mansion, lit up like a Barbarian funeral pyre. Around its blackening gates and in the immense square in front of it, dozens of Martial soldiers are locked in a pitched battle with hundreds of rebels dressed in black—Scholar Resistance fighters.\n“This way!” I angle away from the governor’s mansion, knocking down two approaching rebel fighters as I go, and aim for the next street over. But fire rages there, spreading rapidly, and bodies litter the ground. I grab Laia’s hand and race toward another side street, only to find that it is as brutalized as the first.\nAbove the clang of weapons, the screams, and the roar of flames, Serra’s drum towers beat frenziedly, demanding backup troops in the Illustrian Quarter, the Foreign Quarter, the Weapons Quarter. Another tower reports my location near the governor’s mansion, ordering all available troops to join the hunt.\nJust past the mansion, a pale blonde head emerges from the debris of the collapsed tunnel. Damn it. We stand near the middle of the square, beside an ash-coated fountain of a rearing horse. I back Laia against it and duck, desperately searching for an escape route before the Commandant or one of the Martials spots us. But it seems as if every building and every street adjoining the square is aflame.\nLook harder! Any second now, the Commandant will dive into the fray in the square, using her terrifying skill to tear a path through the battle so she can find us.\nI look back at her as she shakes the dust off her armor, unmoved by the chaos. Her serenity raises the hair on the back of my neck. Her school is destroyed, her son and foe escaped, the city an absolute disaster. And yet she is remarkably calm about it all.\n“There!” Laia grabs my arm and points to an alley hidden behind an overturned vendor’s cart. We crouch down and race toward it, and I thank the skies for the tumult that keeps Scholars and Martials alike from noticing us.\nIn minutes, we reach the alley, and as we’re about to plunge into it, I chance a look back—once, just to make sure she hasn’t seen us.\nI search the chaos—through a knot of Resistance fighters descending on a pair of legionnaires, past a Mask fighting off ten rebels at once, to the rubble of the tunnel, where my mother stands. An old Scholar slave trying to escape the havoc makes the mistake of crossing her path. She plunges her scim into his heart with a casual brutality. When she yanks the blade out, she doesn’t look at the slave. Instead, she stares at me. As if we are connected, as if she knows my every thought, her gaze slices across the square.\nA Torch Against the Night (Ember in the Ashes Series #2) 4.7 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 37 reviews.\nA dark book, full of layers, some still waiting to be peeled back. At first I rolled my eyes with helenes pov. Then after a few sections I realized I looked forward to her parts. I'm excited about Harper, seems like he will be a good character partnered with helene. I can't believe I have to wait TWO YEARS for the next book! I hope not too many others die, but I know its necessary for character development. I hate ( and like) what happened with elias in the begining, but I know it will complicate everything in a horrible, complex way.\nBetter than the first book! Character development was enjoyable and logical. Story was well writtenand condusive to inspiring one to turn to the next page. I can't wait for the next books to come out!\nThis sequel wad so worth the wait. I was so pleased with this book. The journeys these characters go on is amazing. The beginning was a little slow but once the story got going i could not put it down. I know the author announced books 3 and 4 will be coming but now i am sad i have to wait so long for them! I love Laia and Elias together. They make such a great team. And the chapters from Helene's point of view really help you understand her more than the first book. Please keep writing because I need more stories of the Empire and of Laia and Elias!\nFantastic. Wonderfully dark, even more so than the first in the series, An Ember in the Ashes. The characters' journeys are quite unique and very surprising - several twists that I didn't see coming. With the trials and Blackcliff out of the picture the reader is taken on a road trip unlike any other - it gives the author plenty of room to world build. As an added bonus we get Helene's first person perspective, and it was certainly worth the wait. The book sticks with you - themes and experiences that I had to dissect and contemplate long after the final page. It's certainly the hallmark of good fiction. I haven't read anything quite like this. Incredible job - I cannot wait for the next one.\n4.5 stars This was so so so much better that the first one. I was definitely hesitant to even read it since I struggled with Ember, but pretty much right off the bat I was struggling between wanting to devour it and savor it. The first part of the book is a slow burn. There is some build up and some planning and then all of a sudden, a page gets turned and it's like a roller coaster. At one point, the tension was so heavy, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Excellent characters and an interesting story filled with heartbreak, action, and more feels than you could shake a stick at. I certainly hope we get at least one more book. Edit: 7/15/16: Sabaa told me she has two more books in her head and is waiting to see if they'll be able to come out and play.\nI love Laia and Elias unwavering determination. They never give up!\nSabaa Tahir's sequel to the amazing “An Ember in the Ashes”, "A Torch Against the Night" tells the story of Laia and Elias’ continued escape from Blackcliff Academy in Serra where the evil elite soldiers (Masks) are trained for the Martial Empire. Laia, a Scholar and former Scholar revolutionary informant as a voluntary slave to the supremely evil Blackcliff Commandant, is determined to save her brother, Darin, from the worst prison in the Empire, Kauf. Elias, former Mask in Training and former Aspirant in the Emperor Trials, gave Laia his oath to help save Darin when she rescued Elias from his execution for failing the Emperor Trials. As they cross the empire, they have to stay hidden from those tracking them: Elias’ evil mother, the Blackcliff Commandant; Helene, Elias’ best friend from Blackcliff and the new Blood Shrike (lead executioner to the new Emperor); and all of the previously mythical horrors recently unleashed by the Nightbringer, who wants to destroy all Scholars. Helene, who was extensively tortured for Elias’ escape, is ordered to hunt Elias down while fearing the new Emperor’s designs on her family if she fails. The future of the Martial Empire and its enemies are at stake. "A Torch Against the Night" is the incredible five star sequel to the amazing book, “An Ember in the Ashes”. The worldbuilding from the first book grows to include the Tribes. I like how Tahir portrays the strengths of each character while simultaneously showing how they cope with their previous or ongoing traumas. I like Laia’s quiet inner strength and Elias’ determination, like a legendary soldier committed to his just cause. Notwithstanding Helene’s position, it is easy to feel moved by her desire to serve her Empire, despite its transgressions (especially against her). The incorporation of the mythical horrors of the Scholar Empire helps this story transcend a typical 4 star series and become a series worth re-reading countless times. My opinion is solely my own, but I do want to thank Goodreads, Penguin Teen, and Sabaa Tahir for a copy of this awesome book.\nThis is a must-read! So much action, so many plot twists, and just the right dash of romance. Loved it and already can't wait to read book 3, A Reaper at the Gates.\nThis book was fantastic. The series is growing much more complex and interesting as it goes along and I LOVE it when series do this!\nGreat storyline that keeps you reading- refreshingly unpredictable!\nAn outstanding second edition to this series. This book was action packed and very fast paced. My heart was left aching, and I cannot wait for the third installment to be released!\nRead it in one day between watching grandkids soccer and baking cookies! Laia and Elias's story makes my heart ache!\nMust read series... can't wait for more!\nIn this second installment in the series . Amazing isn't the only word i would use to describe this outrageously incredible book. It is definetly a must read!!!!!!\nLaia and Elias are on the run from the Empire. They are hunted by old enemies and old friends, but Laia is determined to rescue her brother, and Elias is determined to keep his promise to help her. This sequel picks up right where An Ember in the Ashes left off, and the pace doesn’t slow. We learn more about the characters we already know, and meet a few new ones along the way. Deciding who to trust is key. Once again, Tahir pulls you into her world and doesn’t let you go. Rich characters, detailed plot, and adventure on every page. This second novel more than lives up to the first, and I sincerely hope there is a third in the works. Tahir is an amazing storyteller. As with the first, this YA is definitely more suited for mature young adults: detailed, brutal violence; mild swearing; and a mild, cut-away love scene. |
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At Tuesday night over the Mekong River in LuangPrabang city’s north, some 220 km north of Lao capital Vientiane, tankers were busily carrying concrete for the casting of No. 21 pier foundation of the bridge.\nTang Gaoyun, division secretary of the Communist Party of China working committee with the China Railway No.8 Engineering Group (CREC-8), responsible for the construction of the third section of the China-Laos Railway and the construction of the two cross-Mekong River railway bridges, told Xinhua on Wednesday that after building the No.21 pier foundation of the LuangPrabang railway bridge, his CREC-8 division has planted a major milestone along the China-Laos Railway, which means the completion of the main and the most difficult work of the two cross-Mekong River bridges’ construction.\nAs one of the key projects of the China-Laos Railway, the LuangPrabang cross-Mekong River super major bridge is 1458.9 meters long, with 34 spans. And the construction of No.21 pier is the most complicated and risky, due to its proximity to the main shipping lane in the middle of Mekong with deep water and strong current around.\nThe China-Laos railway crosses Mekong River twice on north of LuangPrabang, with the LuangPrabang bridge and Ban Ladhan bridge under construction. |
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I read this book over the days I spent commuting to and from work.\nApril/May is a time in Europe and Australia (and elsewhere?) when we are remembering our war dead. In the Netherlands it was a couple of days ago when the liberation of the country by predominantly Canadian forces at the end of World War 2 was celebrated. In Australia, April 25th is ANZAC Day, when we remember the ill-fated invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli (Gelibolu) by allied forces in The Great War. ANZAC Day is an opportunity for us to remember all the people who have been affected by war up to the present day, it is usually quite sobering and these days I cannot attend a service or march through the city without sobbing loudly.\nI think of my Dutch family’s wartime history, the childhood my Father and Uncle had that was ruled by fear and hunger. My Opa and another Uncle taken to work as slaves in Austria. The disappearance of yet another Uncle for three years and the heartache my Oma must have had, thinking and worrying about him- sobering indeed- and this is just one family. Lately however, my thoughts have turned towards my Welsh Grandfather and his experiences as a Gunner on the Western Front in France in The Great War. My Mother says he made his wartime service sound like a lot of fun, but I think somehow that being gassed twice and serving for the duration was anything but, his was a generation of men who did not talk much about the bad times.\nSome of my questions have been answered by this book. We Will Remember Them is a collection of anecdotes and thoughts from men and women, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers about their experiences in the First World War, The Great War, The War to end all Wars (unfortunately not).\nAs I wrote before, I read it commuting and often found myself crying, smiling, sniffing and anything in between. I experienced so many emotions reading people’s thoughts that I was often exhausted after a ten minute train trip.\nI don’t have much to say really, I recommend this to anyone who has had a family member who has fought in a war, or an interest in twentieth century history. There are no holds barred in the descriptions of the dead and maimed; but there is also outrage at the treatment of these ex-servicemen and women and/or their families after the end of hostilities and the loss of a generation of young men who never married the young women they left behind, the families they never had, the opportunities missed. There is also comment on the Versailles Treaty which contributed so much toward the rise of Nazism in Germany and ultimately, the Second World War.\nThis book includes all opinions. Some men found life in the army (and fighting) a wonderful, empowering time, a time of cameraderie not equalled since; others were left embittered at lost opportunities and a lifetime of hardship due to injury, or lack of education, or the changed world.\nOne thing was constant however, that War changed everyone.\nThe eloquence of the old soldiers and thier families talking about the horrors they lived through during and afterwards, makes me wonder what has happened to the vernacular where the lowest common denominator rules and nowadays we abbreviate, OMG, LOL, LMAO etc etc- are we any better off…really? |
Clear aligners are the future of orthodontics, but digital orthodontics evolves so rapidly that it is hard to keep pace. This book approaches clear aligner treatment from a diagnosis and treatment-planning perspective, discussing time-tested orthodontic principles like biomechanics and anchorage and demonstrating how to apply them to orthodontic cases using these appliances. Each chapter explains how to use clear aligners to treat a given malocclusion and teaches clinicians how to program a suitable treatment plan using available software, how to design the digital tooth movements to match the treatment goals, and finally how execute the treatment clinically and finish the case well. This clinical handbook will prepare orthodontists and dental students to exceed patient expectations with the most esthetic orthodontic appliance currently available.\nSandra Tai, BDS, MS, has been an Invisalign certified orthodontist since 2000 and is currently an Invisalign Top 1%/Diamond Provider who has teated over 1,500 cases with Invisalign. As an editorial board member for the Journal of Aligner Orthodontics and a member of Align Tech Faculty in North America, she is involved in several clinical research projects and FDA clinical trials with clear aligners. Dr Tai is currently a clinical assistant professor in Orthodontics as well as the coordinator for the Invisalign program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She also maintains a busy international lecture schedule, speaking to orthodontists all over the world about clear aligners and their potential. Dr Tai is a Fellow of the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists, Canada, as well as a member of several professional organizations. She is also the founding member and past president of the Orthodontics Ties Seminars Study Club in Vancouver and the Vancouver Invisalign Study Club, where she mentors and trains dentists in the Invisalign system. She received her graduate training in Orthodontics at the University of Minnesota. |
The Sydney 43 ELEKTRA sailing upwind with Black Titanium main and jib. The black film ads durability of the lamination.\nUK Sailmakers pioneered loadpath sails with the Tape-Drive® construction method three decades ago. In loadpath sails the aerodynamic loads are transferred from the sail’s cloth (usually a mylar film or skin) and seams to bundles of high strength yarns that run continuously between the corners of the sail.\nTitanium® sails are made with a grid of continuous carbon loadpath yarns running unbroken between the three corners of the sail; those yarns are laminated between two layers of 3D-shaped film. In the Titanium construction process, the yarns are laid dry–without glue–to reduce weight and to prevent the carbon yarns from becoming brittle.\nFurthermore, not coating the yarns with glue makes for lighter, more flexible, and more durable sails (by 15-30%), which makes happier foredeck teams and happier owners who are not replacing their misshaped and broken sails as often.\nThe outer mylar films are the epidermis of the Titanium sail that protect and hold all the layers together. Shiny and weatherproof on the outside, the black or grey PET skins are tacky on the inside from the copolymer coating; this holds the yarns and films in place until the final lamination has been completed.\nThe PET film is a key element to this sandwich: at only 1.3 micrometers thick, this material is incredibly tough; PET is most familiar for its use in plastic bottles and in some paper currencies; try tearing either of these apart. Sunlight and heat up to 50°C/120°F does nothing to PET, not even making it shrink like many similar materials.\nThe film-yarn-film layers are placed onto a variable geometry thermoform in which the sail is UV and heat bonded into one piece at 1 bar pressure under vacuum. The copolymer melts around the carbon fibers resulting in a whole that becomes substantially stronger than the sum of its parts.\nAn Open 50 with offshore racing Titanium sails that have double-sided taffeta.\nWhile very strong, Titanium can be made more durable with the addition of a finely woven polyester taffeta layer laminated to both sides of the sail. The taffeta layers can add some strength to the sail, but the main benefit is to give the sail protection from abrasion, which is a great benefit for offshore racing. For Titanium sails, taffeta is only available in grey. |
Paid parking is available throughout the town centre and in most of the surrounding streets, varying in hourly rates from €1.30 to €2.50 depending on the area. Parking vouchers can be purchased from GTT authorised retailers (tobacconists, newsagents, cafés)and at ticket machines.\nThe main pedestrian areas in the centre are Via Garibaldi, Via Lagrange and Via Carlo Alberto, the shopping streets. A limited traffic area (ZTL) has also been put in place; from Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 10.30am, only cars with permits can pass through (residents, disabled, coaches, etc.). Within the ZTL some streets are for use solely by public transport also in the afternoons, evenings and on public holidays. |
Italy has so much to offer - From the popular cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice to the isolated and secluded Tuscan hill towns and Cinque Terre. Also, the ancient city of Pompeii and picturesque Portofino!\nThis unique city was built on mud banks of a lagoon over one thousand years ago. |
Fukawa grew up overseas and has ample experience playing junior golf. She has also played the West Coast Mini-Tour for 3 yrs and upon returning to Tokyo, she taught at the Nicklaus Golf Academy. She is fluent in both English and Japanese and enjoys teaching golfers of all levels. She also continues to support disabled golf and volunteers to help their events.\n"It is an exceptional feeling to be able to teach this life-changing game of golf." |
Beginning Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 7 am, Bechtel Blvd. (from Bienville Blvd. to the railroad tracks) will be closed to thru traffic until Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. barring any unforeseen circumstances. The purpose of this road closure is to make necessary drainage repairs. |
IRS certified volunteers help prepare both federal and state tax returns free of charge. Volunteers will help you access the tax credits you are eligible for. This service is provided by the AARP and is available free to tax payers with low to moderate income, with special attention to those 60 years of age and older. Call United Way 2-1-1 or 319-739-4211 to schedule an appointment. |
R.E.B.T or Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy to give it its full name, is a modern effective therapy system that was originally thought up by Albert Ellis during the 1950’s.\nR.E.B.T is sometimes referred too as “rational emotive therapy” or simpler still, as “rational therapy”.\nR.E.B.T, is a type of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), that is focused on helping clients change irrational beliefs, and is one of a very few therapies in psychology that has evidence in support of its effectiveness.\nR.E.B.T is known as the rational therapy, because at its core, this most modern of therapies is all about understanding how we make sense of our emotions.\nEverything we feel and everything we do, involves emotions, so Ellis developed this action orientated approach to psychotherapy, which produces results by helping clients manage they’re emotions, they’re cognitions and they’re behaviours.\nThis most wonderful and modern of therapies, teaches us that it’s not events, or things that upset and disturb us, but rather how we view these events, or things. In essence, how a person thinks, influences their feelings.\nWhen a person believes illogical and irrational beliefs about themselves, others, and the world, psychological problems and mental distress will often be the result.\nThe goal of REBT is to help people alter these negative thinking patterns and irrational, illogical beliefs, in order to overcome any resulting psychological problems.\nI have created this course, in such a way that everybody can benefit from this amazing therapy approach. No special knowledge of psychology or therapy is needed, as the course is wrote for beginners.\nAn open mind and a willingness to rethink the way in which you view yourself, others and the world is all that is required for you to gain maximum benefit of the REBT model.\nREBT can be effective for a long list of disorders and issues, with a good body of evidence supporting its effectiveness for each one.\nAs you can see, REBT is a versatile approach, helping people with a wide range of psychological and life issues.\nIncluded in the course, you’ll find a number of resources to help you apply the principles of REBT easily and effectively.\nWelcome To REBT, Let's Get Started!\n9. What Do I Need To Benefit From This Course?\n10. What Can REBT Treat?\n11. Why Do I Need It?\n12. Can REBT Be Used For Self-Help Or Self-Management?\n13. How Does REBT Differ From Other Therapies?\n14. What Are The Similarities With CBT?\n15. How Does REBT Differ From CBT?\n16. What Is The ABCDE Model?\n17. The "A" Of The ABCDE Model Stands For "Activating Event"\n18. The "B" Of The ABCDE Model Stands For "Belief System"\n19. The "C" Of The ABCDE Model Stands For "Consequences"\n20. The "D" Of The ABCDE Model Stands For "Disputing"\n21. The "E" Of The ABCDE Model Stands For "Effect"\n22. The "Three Basic Musts"\n29. Case Studies & Examples: The "Three Basic Musts"\n31. Emotional & Behavioural Consequences Of The "Three Basic Musts"\nThis course is suitable for beginners and contains everything you need to get started in applying REBT to your life!\nIncluded in the course, you’ll find a number of resources to help you apply the principles of REBT easily and effectively. You're expected to go through the attached pdf file for your class project.\nI am a Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Therapeutic Life Coach.\nI run a very successful practice in Harley Street, London which is recognised the world over as a centre of medical excellence. |
How much money have you spent trying to make money on the internet? I’m guessing you have spent thousands of dollars or at least hundreds hunting down online success.\nFurthermore, how many times have you probably bought the right product that would lead you down that path.\nJust pause for a moment then be honest with yourself, really look at your situation did they work.\nOf course not, most do not!\nWell, I will be brutally honest with you here, you were destined to fail right from the start. You see, you can buy all the money making Books, training videos, home study courses, software tools, etc., and you will still fail.\nInformation Products, they are the axis the internet turns on, billions of people every week use the internet seeking it, that’s right it’s the information age, and you need to embrace it for you and your family now, or you will get left behind!\nSo how will Information fulfill my dreams exactly on the internet?\nBy selling Information Products, they are key to your success!\nYou know it’s a fact that information products create most of the internet successful businesses, and entrepreneurs, in fact, one that came to my attention grossed a staggering $100 000 000 over twelve years to date, selling information products!\nOf course you most likely are not going to achieve that level of success, lets keep it real, but it just goes to show the power and profit of these types of products, and the guy was only a travel agent struggling to earn a living for himself and his family.\nI can relate to that too, believe me at one time! You know information products have the edge, so Here’s the 5 Key Reasons why You Should start an information product’s business online!\n1 It’s an extremely low cost business to start up!\n2 When a sale is made from your website, it practically made by selling fresh air, this is because they are downloaded automatically in a digital format!\n3 You don’t hold any stock that you bought in that won’t sell!\n4 You don’t have to go out all the time venturing down to the post office!\n5 You can use a middleman for a small fee to handle all the transactions smoothly even putting your proceeds into your bank account, this is what I meant by autopilot!\nAs you can see, these 5 key reasons alone make it an easy decision why you should start an information product’s business online to be a success! |
You’re invited to a unique Information Technology (IT) professional development mixer. Come learn from one of the newest IT companies to select Halifax as home. Listen to stories from the heart of the world’s financial sector about how IT is responding to the recent global financial crisis.\nDon’t miss this chance to hear from an international expert and chat with your colleagues from the local IT sector while enjoying award winning beer produced in Halifax by Garrison Brewing. You’ll even get a tour of the micro brewing facility.\nYou’ll be hosted by The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and Citco Technology Management Services Inc. You’ll also learn about the CIPS scholarship fund as Citco makes a contribution to the fund on behalf of all IT professionals in our region.\nThe evening promises to be educational and fun. Food and refreshments (including Garrison Ale) will be provided. Attendance is limited so please register by emailing [email protected]. |
Everything is Borrowed was published by New Door Books on May 9, 2018.\nListen to Nathaniel Popkin on the Life Elsewhere radio program from NPR talking about Everything is Borrowed (click the May 13, 2018 episode).\nListen to Nathaniel Popkin on the Give and Take podcast talking about Everything is Borrowed.\nListen to Nathaniel Popkin on Yale Radio’s Museum of Nonvisible Art talking about Everything is Borrowed.\n“As Nicholas Moskowitz peels back the layered history of his neighborhood, releasing anarchists and holy men, immigrants and philosophers, and his own lost love, he discovers that we cannot build a meaningful future until we learn to honor the past. Both poignant and cerebral, Everything is Borrowed is an evocative meditation on the bond between a man and the places that formed him.\nPrevious Previous book: Who Will Speak for America? |
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One of the more powerful features in SharePoint 2013 is the preview that you see when hovering over a search result. For Office documents, you not only see a preview, but you can actually navigate through the Word file, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation using embedded controls and links.\nUnfortunately, the out of the box preview for PDF files is not as exciting, and provides only a rudimentary view of the file. While there are several approaches to modifying the PDF hover panel, some require programming knowledge beyond what a typical SharePoint user may have. An excellent blog post for creating a PDF preview quickly with minimal programming experience can be found here. That blog shows how the PDF preview can be accomplished in SharePoint Server 2013 by using an iFrame to display the content in a PDF reader. The solution works just like Office document previews, which open in an iFrame containing the Office Web Apps.\nPDF Viewer: This solution requires that a PDF viewer exists on your local machine. The instructions were developed using the latest version Foxit Reader, a powerful and free PDF viewer available here. I really like Foxit, but if your system already has Adobe Reader or another PDF viewer installed, I encourage you try it before changing your viewer.\nContent: You will need several PDF files that contain searchable text. Make a note of what search terms you might use to return these documents in search results.\nSharePoint Online: You will need to log into an Office 365 Enterprise tenant. If you do not have a tenant, first navigate to the Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise Preview site, click Try it, and follow the instructions.\nOnce the tenant has been created, log in using the credentials sent to you.\nStart at the top level site (for example, https://TenantName.sharepoint.com).\nUpload several PDF files to the Shared Documents library of the top-level site.\nNavigate to the default search center (for example, .\nConduct a search, using a query that will return one or more of the PDF files you uploaded previously. Note: it may take 5-10 minutes for the search crawler to index the new files; repeat the search until you see PDF results.\nDisplay the out of the box PDF preview by hovering over a result. Note the hover panel displays very little information.\nIn the search center site, at the upper right, click the gear icon and select Site Settings.\nUnder Web Designer Galleries, click Master pages and page layouts.\nIn the Master Page Gallery, click Display Templates, and in the page that opens, click Search.\nScroll until you find the file Item_PDF.html.\nUsing the context menu, download a copy of the file to a convenient location on your local computer.\nOpen Item_PDF.html in a suitable HTML editor, or in Notepad.\nSave the file as PDF_Default.html.\nUpload the modified display template HTML file to the Search display templates library, accepting the default settings in the windows that are displayed.\nResult types are a convenient way to configure how search results are displayed. Here, we create a simple result type that uses the new PDF display templates we just created.\nReturn to the search center page.\nClick the gear icon and select Site Settings.\nUnder Search, click Result Types (Note: do not click Search Result Types under Site Collection Administration).\nName the result type PDF with Preview.\nNext to Conditions, in the Which source should results match? drop-down menu, ensure that All Sources is selected.\nIn the What types of content should match? drop-down menu, select PDF.\nIn the What should these results look like? drop-down menu, select PDF Hover Panel Advanced.\nYou will see the new result type in the list. Note that this new result type will take priority over the out of the box result type for PDF files.\nNavigate back to the default search center (for example, ).\nRepeat the search that returns PDF results.\nHover over one of the results. Note the rich preview that appears.\nClick anywhere in the preview. Scroll up and down through the document.\nWhile in the preview, right-click and note you have access to all the PDF reader options and settings.\nIn this tutorial, you learned how to create a rich PDF preview in SharePoint Online Search by making minor modifications to the default PDF display template and by using the modified template in a result type.\nAs stated previously, the above solution was created and tested in Internet Explorer 9 using Foxit Reader. Your experience may differ if you use other environments because other browsers and PDF viewers may handle iFrames and PDF viewing differently than Internet Explorer. For example, Chrome has its own default viewer which must be disabled before Foxit Reader or another viewer will work. Since browsers and viewers are updated frequently, I encourage you to experiment!\nWorks great how do I get it working in my Libraries?\nI have followed the article a couple of times however cannot get this to work for me.\nI do have IE 10 and we are running the Wave 15 version so not sure if this is the reason.\nThanks for the article! straight forward! |
The following Trading Policies and Procedures form part of and are included in the Application and Agreement that has been made with the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. By signing the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Client Application and Agreement, Client agrees to abide by these Trading Policies and Procedures. The purpose of the following trade rules and regulations is to facilitate trading among Clients by promoting a system of good business practices and understanding of the guidelines set forth for all barter exchanges by the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) and the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA).\nNATURE OF THE PARTIES: The "Barter Business Exchange, Inc." hereafter referred to as "BBE", is a trade company that acts as a clearinghouse and third party record keeper of trade transactions among its Clients, which are businesses that contract with BBE to organize and facilitate barter of their goods and/or services with other Clients. "Client" is a business that has contracted with BBE to exchange its goods and/or services with other Clients and wishes to subscribe to BBE's record keeping and barter services. "Barter Broker" is the BBE employee whose function it is to assist Clients in the sale and purchase of goods and services.\nNATURE OF BARTER DOLLARS: A "Trade" is a barter purchase or sale of goods and/or services whereby payment is made in barter dollars posted to Client's account pursuant to these Trading Policies and Procedures. A "Barter Dollar" is an accounting unit used to record the value of trades. Ownership of barter dollars denotes the right to receive goods and services available within the BBE trade network. Barter dollars may be used only in the manner and for the purpose set forth in these Trading Policies and Procedures. One barter dollar is equal to one dollar in U.S. currency. Barter dollars will not be considered legal tender, securities, or commodities. Barter dollars may not be redeemed for cash. BBE disclaims responsibility for the negotiability of barter dollars.\nDEFINITION OF A CLIENT IN GOOD STANDING: A Client who conducts trades in accordance with these Policies and Procedures, is current in any monies owed to BBE, and has a valid Barter Card, is considered a "Client in Good Standing." Only Clients in Good Standing are entitled to the services of BBE. When a Client has by his or her conduct or misconduct displayed to BBE the inability to meet the standards set in Client's own industry relative to the quality of goods or services, or has been charged with the commission of a crime involving fraud or moral turpitude, or otherwise exhibits to BBE that the Client's reputation in the business community has been diminished, then for the protection of the remaining Clients, BBE reserves the right to restrict the use of Client's barter dollars to purchases only and shall restrict the rights of said Client to sell or advertise Client's goods or services for sale until such time as Client can exhibit to BBE that the standards expected in Client's own industry can be met. Expired debit cards shall remove a Client from being a Client in Good Standing.\n$100 REFERRAL BONUS: A referral bonus of one hundred ($100.00) barter dollars will be given to each Client who introduces and refers a new BBE Client. To qualify for the referral bonus, Clients must provide BBE with the following information about the potential Client: company name, owner's name, location, and phone number. Referral bonus is paid to Client when the new Client's Application and Agreement has been accepted and approved by a BBE Officer.\nBARTER CARDS: "Barter Cards" are printed plastic cards issued for identification purposes only. Client must have a barter card in order to make a purchase. Barter cards issued to Client's account shall remain the property of BBE and must be returned upon demand. Client is solely responsible for all charges made on barter cards issued to Client's account. BBE is not responsible for use of barter cards by unauthorized persons. The individual signing the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Trading Policies and Procedures as well as any individual using a barter card personally guarantee any transaction as well as any cash service fees that may have occurred as a result of such transaction. Barter cards are issued to all authorized barter cardholders listed on the Client Application and Agreement free of charge. All requests for additional barter cards must be in writing and signed for by the Client. Additional barter cards for new authorized barter cardholders are free of charge. Clients will be charged a ten ($10.00) dollar cash fee for each replacement barter card.\nUSE OF TRADE CERTIFICATES (DEBIT CARDS, GIFT CERTIFICATES and SCRIP): The following rules govern the use of Debit Cards, Gift Certificates, and Scrip. Once Trade Certificates are purchased, they cannot and will not be replaced if lost, stolen, or damaged. Trade Certificates should be used as soon as possible after they are purchased, and must be used before their expiration date. All tips, gratuities, and sales taxes must be paid in cash at the point of purchase by the buying client. BBE reserves the right to refuse to sell Trade Certificates to clients who have previously refused to pay the proper taxes and gratuities or have created other problems at restaurants or other selling establishments. BBE is not responsible if a business refuses to accept Trade Certificates and BBE will not make restitution for any cash charges that Client may incur. BBE will not extend expiration dates and/or buy back Trade Certificates that are expired. All disputes concerning the use of a Trade Certificates are between the Client and the business issuing the Trade Certificate, and BBE bears no liability in the event the issuing business refuses to honor the Trade Certificate or ceases to operate the business.\nHOUSE ACCOUNTS: "House Accounts" have prearranged the payment of their cash transaction fees with BBE. On the front of the Client's barter card, it will state that the Client has a "PRE-PAID DEBIT CARD”. The trade procedure for both the Selling Client and the Buying Client is the same as a normal trade account. These accounts are used for BBE employees, Client sub-accounts, Clients who are closing their account with BBE, and members of other barter exchanges who are spending within the BBE trade network. BBE reserves the right to deny the sale of a Pre-Paid Debit Card to any person for any reason.\nBARTER DOLLAR LOANS: Clients who have a negative barter balance (barter purchases and/or barter fees exceed barter sales) will be charged a monthly barter finance charge of one and a half (1.5%) percent (eighteen [18%] annually). Purchases by Clients must be limited to the amount of barter dollars in the Buying Client's account. Clients wishing to apply for a barter dollar loan may submit an application for approval. Clients grant to BBE the right and power to make barter dollar loans to any Client on terms and conditions consistent with Client's credit worthiness and ability to repay. BBE is under no obligation to extend credit at any time. Clients will be required to compensate BBE in cash on demand for any deficit amount in their barter dollar account resulting from purchases made without sufficient barter dollar balances or without prior barter dollar loan arrangements.\nRIGHTS OF BBE AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS: Client recognizes and grants to BBE the right and power to: 1.) Regulate and control the number of outstanding barter dollars with the trade network; 2.) Borrow barter dollars and spend them within the trade network. Such borrowing will be sufficiently collateralized by specifically pledged assets of the system pursuant to the guidelines established and imposed by the International Reciprocal Trade Association.\nBROKERAGE FUNCTION: BBE serves in a brokerage capacity by organizing and facilitating trades among Clients. Responsibility for the conduct of a trade is exclusively that of the two Clients participating in the trade. THE DUTY TO INSPECT GOODS AND SERVICES FOR QUALITY AND QUANTITY RESTS UPON THE BUYING CLIENT. Trades are entered into on a voluntary basis between the Clients. BBE assumes no responsibility for the quality, timely delivery, warranty or service being traded. Clients should exercise the same diligence entering into trades as normal cash transactions. Client does hereby indemnify and hold BBE harmless with respect to any claim, debt, or liability whatsoever, arising out of any trade exchange transaction wherein Client is a buyer or a seller.\nTRADE DISPUTES: BBE is functioning in a brokerage capacity and as a third party record keeper. BBE is to be held harmless on any liability question arising between Clients. Trade disputes are only between the Buying Client and the Selling Client and shall be settled by the parties themselves. Clients may wish to submit a "Complaint Form" to BBE. A copy of this Complaint Form will be kept in each Client's file and a copy will be mailed to each Client. If BBE receives more than two (2) complaints on a given Client for either poor performance or attempting to charge in excess of Client's normal retail prices, BBE reserves the right to terminate Client's account.\nAVAILABILITY OF GOODS AND SERVICES: BBE shall continue to solicit new businesses having goods and services to satisfy the needs of all Clients. BBE is committed to provide only those goods or services actually available in the trade network. Because of high Client demand and short supply, certain goods and services are available on a limited basis only. Requests for these goods and services will be placed on a "Waiting List." Buying Clients are responsible for contacting their Barter Broker if they wish to be placed on the waiting list. Clients with negative barter balances (purchases exceed sales) and/or past due cash fees will be removed from all waiting lists. BBE is not responsible if a Client cannot find specific products or services to buy from the other Clients.\nCOMMITMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: is only responsible for commitments and representations made in writing by authorized BBE Officers. Barter brokers, agents, or employees of BBE have no right to bind BBE to any obligations or representations whatsoever without such written authorization.\nClient's account must have a positive barter balance.\nClient must give written notice to the BBE Trade Department. On Hold status cancels contractual commitments by BBE regarding exclusive territories or other applicable agreements.\nClients who charge other BBE Clients cash for their products and services who have not notified the BBE Trade Department in writing that their account is “On Hold” prior to sale will be charged a twenty-five (25%) percent cash transaction fee on the total amount of the cash sale.\nTAXES: Selling Client shall charge the Buying Client the appropriate sales and excise taxes in cash and collect and record these on the BBE 3-part form at the time of sale. Under no circumstances will BBE be responsible to pay any sales, excise, use or other tax on behalf on any Client. Clients are advised that transactions involving barter dollars are generally treated as taxable events for federal, state, and local tax purposes. The declaration and reporting of all applicable local, state, and federal taxes resulting from trades rest solely with the Client. BBE is required by federal law to obtain the correct Taxpayer Identification Number of Client (who is required by law to provide such number) and to report all trade sales of Client to IRS on Form 1099B. Failure to provide the correct Taxpayer Identification Number may result in the imposition of backup withholding of twenty (20%) percent of the gross proceeds of each sale transaction, under federal law. Client agrees to hold BBE harmless for any actions BBE takes to comply with federal tax laws. Clients should seek professional tax advice.\nTIPS AND GRATUITIES: All tips and gratuities shall be paid in cash to the Selling Client at the time of purchase by the Buying Client.\nCASH TRANSACTION FEES: Client agrees to pay a twelve and one-half (12.5%) percent cash transaction fee based on the gross value of each purchase as agreed to on the Client Application and Agreement. Cash transaction fees are only charged to Clients when they purchase goods and/or services within the trade network. Selling Clients do not pay a cash transaction fee. An additional two and one-half (2.5%) percent cash transaction fee will be charged on all inter-exchange purchases (purchases made from other barter exchanges). If Client’s cash fees are sixty (60) days past due from issuance of statement, Client grants BBE, at that time, the right to permanently increase the twelve and one-half (12.5%) percent cash transaction fee on all purchases to a fifteen (15%) percent cash transaction fee on all future purchases. BBE may, at its option, require advance payment of Client transactions fees.\nWORK-IN-PROGRESS TRADE DEPOSITS: The following procedures apply to trades involving special orders, construction jobs, service work, or long term leases and other work-in-progress transactions.\nIf the written estimate is more than five hundred ($500.00) barter dollars, Selling Client should obtain a work-in-progress deposit/down-payment in barter dollars in the same non-refundable manner as a cash transaction. This is done with a 3-part form and work-in-progress authorization number. Selling Client must obtain a work-in-progress authorization number from the BBE Trade Department BEFORE THEY START THE TRADE. BBE will only issue a work-in-progress authorization number for the barter amount in the Buying Client's account. BBE will not issue work-in-progress authorization numbers for Buying Clients who are not in good standing. Work-in-progress deposits and down payments are considered normal trades. Clients are required to follow applicable policies and procedures.\nBuying Client (Buyer) should contact his or her assigned Barter Broker to discuss all desired purchases. The Barter Broker will give the Buyer a list of available Selling Clients (Sellers) in the BBE network to fulfill the Buyer’s needs. If a Seller is "On Hold", the Buyer may ask to be placed on a waiting list. If the Buyer needs to purchase products and services that are not available, the Buyer should contact his or her Barter Broker to request that BBE recruit new members who do sell the desired products and services.\nIt is the Buyer's responsibility to contact the Seller. Buyers must identify themselves as members of the Barter Business Exchange when they contact the Sellers.\nThe Buyer must present his or her barter card at the time of purchase. However, if the Buyer is paying with gift certificates or scrip, it is not necessary to present a barter card.\nIf the trade involves special orders, construction jobs, service work, or long-term leases and other work-in-progress trades, Buyer should ALWAYS get a written estimate from the Seller before authorizing work to begin.\nBuyer purchases the Seller's goods and services at the Seller's prevailing retail prices for 100% trade. However, all taxes and gratuities must be paid in cash by the Buyer to the Seller.\nAt the time of purchase, Buyer must sign a completed 3-part form.\nThe Buyer's account will be debited for the amount of the purchase when the authorization number is issued by the BBE Trade Department. Special Travel Procedures—a twenty ($20.00) dollar cash booking fee will be charged for all travel requests outside of North Carolina. Client must complete and sign a Travel Request Form to travel within the BBE network. Once a reservation has been confirmed, it CANNOT be cancelled for ANY reason.\nClient must have a valid, current barter card and be a Client in Good Standing in order to make a purchase. Client is solely responsible for all charges made on barter card(s) issued to Client's account. BBE is not responsible for use of barter cards by unauthorized persons.\nAt the time of purchase, the Buyer must present his or her barter card. However, if the Buyer is paying with gift certificates or scrip, it is not necessary to present a barter card.\nSellers will provide their goods and services at their prevailing retail prices for 100% trade to Buyers in good standing. Seller will provide all materials and labor on trade.\nSeller must collect all taxes and gratuities in cash from the Buyer.\nIf Seller fails to call BBE for an authorization number at the time of sale.\nSeller must complete a 3-part form for each transaction. Each 3-part form must contain the following information: Seller's company name, Seller's account number, Buyer's company name, Buyer's account number, Buyer's signature, description of the goods and services traded, date of purchase, an authorization number or a work-in-progress authorization number, total barter dollars charged, taxes paid in cash, and gratuities paid in cash.\nIn order to receive credit for the trade, the Seller must mail the top copy of the completed 3-part form to BBE.\nIf the signed 3-part form is not submitted to the BBE Office within 30 days of issuance of statement, BBE has the right to reverse the trade, in which event; it will be the responsibility of the Seller to collect from the Buyer.\nFailure to follow these procedures will place responsibility for the transaction on the Seller and not on BBE.\nRECORD KEEPING AND ERRORS: All active Clients will receive a monthly statement of account online in the BBE Marketplace. Client's monthly account statement will be considered accurate as printed unless the BBE accounting department is given written notice of any discrepancies within thirty (30) days of issuance of statement. All copies of statements requested within sixty (60) days of issuance will be sent free of charge. All requests after sixty (60) days of issuance will be subject to a one ($1.00) dollar barter charge per statement. IRS audit of Client's account is subject to a twenty-five ($25.00) dollar cash charge per hour with a one (1) hour minimum. A cash administrative fee of fifty ($50.00) dollars cash for each trade transaction will be charged to any business or individual who provides BBE with an incorrect Taxpayer Identification Name and/or Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and/or fails to submit any taxpayer number information.\nADMINISTRATIVE FEES: An administrative fee of fifteen ($15) dollars cash and fifteen ($15) dollars barter will be charged to Client's account each month. The monthly administrative fee is due upon receipt of the BBE monthly account statement. Clients who request materials to be sent via certified mail will be charged seven ($7.00) dollars cash.\nJOINT AND SEPARATE LIABILITY: When the Client's Application and Agreement is accepted by a BBE Officer and an account is opened for Client in BBE trade network, the Client and individual signing for the Client hereby assume joint and separate responsibility for all purchases and fees as outlined on the Client's Application and Agreement and in these Trading Policies and Procedures.\nLATE PAYMENTS—FEES THIRTY (30) DAYS PAST DUE: BBE accounts will be deemed past due if not paid within thirty (30) days of date on statement. All fees and charges, including cash transaction fees, administrative fees, and other charges to Clients by BBE are compensation for services rendered in processing Client into the exchange system, operating the clearing house and brokerage functions, administering these Policies and Procedures, maintaining records, and facilitating Client's use of the exchange system. Client agrees to pay BBE the full amount of such fees within fifteen (15) days of issuance of the monthly statement; otherwise BBE shall charge Client a cash penalty on the outstanding cash balance at the rate of two (2%) percent per month on the unpaid balance, OR a ten ($10.00) dollar cash late charge, whichever charge is greater.\nLATE PAYMENTS ~ FEES SIXTY (60) DAYS PAST DUE: If cash fees are sixty (60) days past due from issuance of statement, Client grants BBE, at that time, the right to permanently suspend any loan agreements established between Client and BBE. If cash fees are sixty (60) days past due from issuance of statement, Client grants BBE, at that time, the right to permanently increase twelve and one-half (12.5%) percent cash transaction fee on all purchases to a fifteen (15%) percent cash transaction fee on all future purchases.\nLATE PAYMENTS ~ FEES NINETY (90) DAYS PAST DUE: Any account continuing in a delinquent status for three (3) consecutive months may be closed without notice by BBE. Barter dollars in the account will be forfeited and placed by BBE in its general operating account unless outstanding fees are paid. At any time in the future, the Client may reestablish the account and reclaim the barter dollars by: (1) Paying all cash fees owed on the outstanding balance, AND (2) Paying a processing fee of one hundred ($100.00) dollars cash.\nRETURNED CHECKS: Any Client that has a check returned to BBE by the bank will be charged a thirty ($30.00) dollar cash penalty.\nDIRECT TRADES: Direct trades between Clients to avoid cash transaction fees are prohibited, and if consummated are subject to standard cash transaction fees payable upon demand. Such trades WILL RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF TRADING PRIVILEGES FOR BOTH CLIENTS INVOLVED. BBE reserves the right to publicly announce such terminations to the existing Clients.\nOVERPRICING: Clients will sell their goods and services at their prevailing retail prices for 100% trade credit. Selling Clients are not obligated to honor sale prices and may charge their prevailing retail prices. BBE reserves the right to inquire into complaints of overpricing. Violations may result in termination of Client's account. Buying Client is responsible for reporting all incidents of overpricing to the BBE Office.\nBBE has received more than two (2) complaints on a given Client for either poor performance or attempting to charge in excess of Client's normal retail prices.\nClient commits fraud against BBE or other Clients.\nClient is trading directly with other Clients without paying cash transaction fees to BBE.\nClient is not following the Trading Policies and Procedures.\nA client is not a Client in Good Standing as defined in paragraph 3 hereinabove.\nThe filing of any proceedings or petition by Client under Federal or State law seeking protection from its creditors or any assignment made by Client, whether formal or informal, for the benefit of Creditors.\nThe appointment of a Receiver or Trustee with respect to Client's business affairs or the filing of any involuntary proceeding against Client by its creditors.\nClient's loss or suspension of any license held by it which is necessary for Client's business operation.\nOwes outstanding cash fees due to BBE which are more than thirty (30) days past due. The trading privileges of the Client shall be reinstated immediately upon payment of such past due fees.\nClient ceases to be a Client in Good Standing. Client shall be given notice of such suspension. The trading privileges of the Client shall be reinstated immediately upon Client’s cure of the reasons for such suspension unless due to the nature thereof, BBE decides to terminate the Client for cause in accordance with the above Section 30.\nIf Client has a positive barter account balance (sales exceed purchases) and is a Client in Good Standing, Client may stay active and spend the balance until purchases equal sales. Until barter dollars are spent, monthly administrative fees will be charged to Client's account. If the Client has a positive barter account balance (sales exceed purchases) and the Client’s Application and Agreement has been terminated by BBE, Client will be required to pay the twelve and one-half (12.5%) percent cash transaction fee or the fifteen (15%) percent cash transaction fee on the remaining barter dollar balance prior to spending the remaining barter dollars and will be issued a “Debit Card”. Further, such barter dollars shall be spent within ninety (90) days of notice to terminate the relationship with BBE. All barter dollars that are not spent within ninety (90) days from the date on the termination letter will be forfeited and placed by BBE in its general operating account.\nBarter cards must be returned immediately upon termination.\nIn the event BBE incurs any costs or expenses to collect any sum due BBE from Client, then BBE shall be reimbursed by client for any such costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees. In the event BBE is the prevailing party in any other controversy or proceeding involving Client, then BBE shall be entitled to the recovery of its costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys' fees in addition to such other remedies being sought therein.\nIf a BBE member shall go out of business, any debt owed to BBE shall be repaid from the BBE Member Loan Fund directly to BBE and will become immediately due to BBE in cash. This payment constitutes a sale to the Client. BBE is required by law to report all barter income to the Internal Revenue Service on a 1099B. Client will then be sent to an attorney or collection agency. All barter and cash debts, including debts paid by the BBE Member Loan Fund, will become immediately due to BBE in cash.\nADDITIONAL BUSINESS LISTINGS: Clients having more than one (1) business may be listed under an additional trade categories in the Barter Business Exchange Marketplace at no additional charge so long as only one account statement is required. Client having more than one business that requires separate account statements may open separate accounts for each business at no additional charge. Client will be charged a monthly administrative fee for each business having a separate account.\nADVERTISING AND THE BBE MARKETPLACE: Unless otherwise stipulated between the parties of this Agreement, Client authorizes BBE to notify and advertise to other Clients and potential Clients the availability of Client's good and/or services. Applicant authorizes BBE to send broadcast fax and email advertisements to their business.\nSECURITY INTEREST: Client grants BBE a security interest in all barter dollars credited and to be credited to Client's account for the amount of all unpaid cash fees. In the event of the insolvency or bankruptcy of Client, all cash fees shall be due and payable in full. Upon the filing of positions under Chapter 7, 11, or 13 of the Bankruptcy Code or an Assignment for Benefit of Creditors, no trade shall be allowed until all cash fees due BBE have been paid in full. Should the Petition under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code be lifted by or against Client, or should the plan lifted pursuant to either Chapter 11 or 13 not provide for the full payment of all cash fees due BBE, BBE shall have the option, in lieu of filing as a creditor, of treating the barter dollar balance equal in value to the amount of cash fees owing and terminate the account, provided, however, that at such time as BBE does receive all of its cash in full, and in the event of discharge, pursuant to Chapter 7 notice is received from the Trustee that the barter dollars have been abandoned, BBE shall re-credit the barter dollars to the Client's account.\nASSIGNMENT OF ACCOUNT: A Client's account is not assignable or transferable without BBE's express prior written consent. Barter dollars may not be advertised for sale without BBE's express written consent. In the event of bankruptcy or insolvency of a Client where assets of the Company will be sold, BBE has the first right of refusal to bid on barter dollars to be liquidated.\nFEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS: Clients shall abide by applicable federal, state, or local laws, or regulations appropriate to any trade, and BBE shall not be responsible for any failure on the part of Clients to comply. Client agrees to hold BBE harmless for any action BBE takes to comply with applicable laws or regulations.\nWARRANTY: The sole and exclusive warranty made by the Selling Client is that it has title to such products free and clear from any lien or encumbrance. Other than set forth above, goods and services are sold "As Is, Where Is", with respect to any goods or services purchased by the Buying Client through BBE. Buying Client recognizes that such items are produced and provided by others and not by BBE or its affiliates. BBE makes no warranty either expressed or implied, by operation of law or otherwise and disclaims all liability as to the fitness, quality, delivery date, merchant ability, prices or any term of the trade transaction, and the Buying Client shall look solely to the manufacturer, distributor or retailer of such merchandise for any warranty. Buying Client acknowledges that any trade transaction in which it participates shall be on a voluntary basis.\nAMENDMENT OF TRADING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: BBE may at its sole discretion change the Trading Policies and Procedures of these Agreements from time to time, by giving Client thirty (30) days prior written notice. Failure to give BBE written notice of objection thereto within such thirty (30) day period shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by Clients. By using the Barter Business Exchange Website and Marketplace, you agree to accept these changes, whether or not you have reviewed them. Also, purchases or sales after thirty (30) day notice period shall constitute Client’s acceptance of such amended Barter Business Exchange Trading Policies and Procedures and shall be subject to the provisions thereof without exception .All changes to this agreement must be in writing and signed by an officer of BBE. The Client Agreement and these Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Trading Policies and Procedures constitute the entire agreement between the Client and BBE and replace all prior agreements, if any, whether oral or written, between Client and BBE or any predecessor of BBE. Neither Client nor BBE have relied upon any representation or promise, which is not contained in the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Trading Policies and Procedures.\nDISSOLUTION: In the event that the BBE trade network terminates or otherwise ceases to do business, all Clients in a negative trade position will pay amounts they owe in cash (one barter dollar being equal to one dollar in cash in U.S. currency) into a fund. The fund, less expenses, will be distributed pro rata to all Clients who are in a positive barter dollar position. Thus all Clients in a positive position will receive cash for their barter dollars to the extent that the funds permit. BBE shall not be liable to any Clients for cash or barter dollars beyond the distribution of such funds as aforesaid.\nENFORCEMENT OF TRADING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: Each and every term and provision combined in these Trading Policies and Procedures is severable from every other term and provision therein. If any such term or provision should be judged invalid, illegal, or unenforceable it shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of the remainder of any other term or provision of the Trading Policies and Procedures. The remainder shall remain valid, legal, enforceable, and in full force and effect. In the event that legal action must be taken by BBE against a Client to enforce any provision of these Trading Policies and Procedures, BBE shall be entitled to recover attorney fees, costs, and simple interest at the rate of eighteen (18%) percent per year from the date of default until payment, and Client agrees to court venue chosen by BBE attorney.\nGUARANTOR PROVISION: The Client affirms that s/he is the owner / officer / agent of the member business entity and acknowledges that the establishment of Client’s account is conditioned upon the personal guarantee by the Client for the payment of debt incurred hereunder and the Client hereby personally and unconditionally guarantees payment of any and all debt incurred by his/her said business entity. All BBE members will be required to sign a personal guarantee for any debt which is currently, or may in the future become, due. The personal guarantee guarantees that any and all debt incurred by Client’s business shall be paid in a prompt and timely fashion. The personal guarantee is in addition to the contractual relationship between BBE and Client. For all accounts that are not paid-in-full within thirty (30) days following the termination date, a one and one-half (1 1/2%) percent monthly service charge will be added to the account. In the event that attorneys’ fees are incurred for collection with or without suit, the Client agrees to pay such fees plus court costs. If the client is a corporation, a LLC, or other business entity, the person executing the Client Agreement, to induce the granting of credit to the Client, and in consideration therefore, does hereby guarantee personally payment of all amounts owed to BBE, and hereby waives any requirement on the part of BBE to proceed with its claim against the business entity, either first or concurrently, as a condition precedent to bringing any action against such individual on the basis of this guaranty. The Client and individual signing the Client Agreement hereby assume joint and separate responsibility for all purchases and fees as outlined in the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. 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Any exception to this policy, such as by way of example a trade transaction involving a cash component, must be approved in advance by BBE, without exception.\nBASIS FOR COMMISSIONS: On all transactions engaged in by Client through BBE, or for which BBE referred Client to a potential trading partner, the commission due BBE shall be based upon the full value of the transaction, regardless if the transactions is paid for by cash, cash/ trade blend, credit card, check, direct trade, or through another barter company in which Client is a member.\nWAIVER: BBE, in its sole discretion, may from time to time waive any provision of the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Trading Policies and Procedures for any Client as it deems warranted in its sole discretion. Any such waiver, to be effective, must be in writing and executed by an authorized officer of BBE. It is understood that any such waiver shall be strictly limited to the specific terms of the written waiver document. Except as provided for by the foregoing, any failure of BBE to insist upon strict compliance with any particular term or provision of the Barter Business Exchange, Inc. Trading Policies and Procedures, or any delay or omission on the part of BBE to enforce any such term or provision, shall not constitute a waiver with respect to any such term or provision.\nBBE is unable to contact Client at the most recently updated contact information furnished by Client. BBE may, at its sole discretion, close the abandoned account, placing any positive trade dollar balance in the BBE General Operating Account.\nWebsite or the online BBE Marketplace for any reason whatsoever.\nor call (919) 469-5538 for personal assistance. |
Two New Trailers for The Day of the Doctor are Here!!! | "The Brotherhood of Evil Geeks"\nTwo New Trailers for The Day of the Doctor are Here!!!\nWith ony a couple of weeks until the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, the BBC has released two new trailers for the much anticipated anniversary special.\nThe Day of the Doctor stars Matt Smith and David Tennant as The Doctor. Along with them are their companions Clara and Rose played by Jenna Coleman and Billie Piper and also includes John Hurt as another version of The Doctor that the 11th seems very afraid of.\nCheck out the trailers now!\nThe Day of the Doctor will be released all over the world on The BBC on Saturday, November 23rd and will be in theaters for one night only around the world on November 25th! This special marks the first time that Smith and Tennant have shared the screen together since Tennants final episode in 2010. Whovians around the world are waiting on the edge of their seat for this event and I know that I for one cannot wait!\nPosted on November 10, 2013, in Annoucements, TV and tagged 50th Anniversary, bbc, BBC America, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Matt Smith. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment. |
In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world's greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka'au'a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions--and American legends.\nAn unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith's Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West.\nWhat few understood when the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands' rugged volcanic slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s.\nTracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, "Holy City of the Cow." At the turn of the twentieth century, larger-than-life personalities like "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne's annual Frontier Days celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the "Daddy of 'em All."\nThe hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders' shoulders during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn't just astound the locals; they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the binary narrative of "cowboys versus Indians," and the very concept of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring questions of identity, imperialism, and race, Aloha Rodeo spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the American West. |
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JanSport is bringing the Bonfire Sessions back to SXSW for a night of incredible live music, free beer, s'mores and more. Join us and noisey at Cheer Up Charlies on Wednesday, March 14 featuring performances by Shame, Joey Purp, Smino, Tierra Whack and more.\nRSVP HERE and continue to follow @jansport and #BonfireSessions for updates and the latest news. |
It is important to understand what lost respect means.\nbut rather the adults did something that ended up losing the respect of the kids.\nIf we look at it from this perspective then we can make our efforts towards re-earning what was lost.\nit is because they want to BE respected!\nThey don’t want to be treated with disrespect.\nThis attitude totally ignores the experience of the young person who is in pain.\nOnly pain leads to disrespect.\nwe should be focussing on healing the pain that has caused the situation in the first place.\nof seeing, listening – deep listening and accepting (dealing with the cause!).\nIf we’re really serious about regaining respect then we must be patient and persistent.\nIt cannot be an overnight job. Once a person loses respect, trust and feeling safe with you, it takes time to repair.\nwho has judged you and has made you feel less than worthy.\nWhat would it take for that person to regain your trust, for you to believe that they are sincere, even after all they have done?\nThis is how we must approach bringing our disenchanted youth back into the fold.\nWe must show them that we really are worthy of their respect.\nthat we have been disrespectful to our kids and figure out how to be more respectful.\nIf we can admit it to them so much the better.\nWhen they begin to see us treating them differently they will respond.\nReally they’ll have no choice!\nMake these changes even a little more each day.\n-Can we honour them for who they are rather than trying to impose upon them our values and ideas of who they should be?\n-Can we give them the freedom to make their own choices, even if we don’t agree with them.\nAND support them through whatever the consequences of those choices are?\n-Can we celebrate them equally in their successes and their failures?\n-Can we demonstrate unconditional love and acceptance so they can begin feeling safe to be themselves around us?\nThe problem is… how many adults are willing to go in this direction?\nHow many can see the disrespectful teen as injured rather than rude?\nCan feel the pain of the youth before their own indignation?\nCan see the problems of youth being as serious as their own?\nsuch as stricter discipline to “keep them in line”?\nWhen more of us see them this way more healing will occur.\nThe healing will bring self-respect and then respect for others will naturally arise. |
In video production, lighting is primarily used for obtaining proper exposure. However, it can also be used to help enhance story elements.\nOften lighting is used as a visual clue to inform the viewer that they should feel a particular way about a scene or character. Soft, even light works great for a natural and more flattering look, but if your character is a rugged individual, or the villain of your movie, soft lighting won’t help their tough-guy persona. In fact, it will lessen the appearance of any shadows and facial lines that can accentuate a menacing scowl or mischievous smirk. For lights that add to your character’s unpolished demeanor consider lighting placement and intensity.\nIn order to step away from the more glamorous effect of soft and even lighting, try using smaller light sources to light your subject. The harsher light will create more shadows and highlights, emphasizing facial creases and pits. This style can hint to the audience that the individual is a force to be reckoned with.\nPlacement of your lights can also add depth to your character. By placing your key and fill lights further from the center of your subject’s face (away from the camera), and by raising the position of the key, you’ll be able to create more shadows. Try experimenting with the position of the key and fill light until you find the desired look.\nWhether your subject is the glamorous or rugged type, putting them in the the right light will tell your audience more about the their character. Learning how to emphasize your subject’s facial features with the proper light will help you create a great story with convincing characters. |
Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Wednesday reiterated that Omar Abdullah met with top BJP leadership to discuss modalities of government formation after 2014 Assembly results were announced.\n“It is a simple question, why should BJP be worried about news in the media that Omar Abdullah was discussing government formation with them and issue a denial. It is Omar Abdullah’s sweet wish who he wants to ally with. But given that he fought the whole campaign projecting himself as the sole warrior against the BJP, the utterances of Omar Abdullah unambiguously suggest that aligning with the BJP is a political sin.\nThe reality as it stares in our faces is that Omar Abdullah is no warrior and instead acting like a spurned lover. He was in love with the BJP sin and aspired to be the “sinner” and was spurned. It is the sinlessness of Omar Abdullah of not being able to commit the sin that troubles Mr. Abdullah rather than the sinfulness of having committed the sin.\nThe people of Kashmir deserve to be enlightened that this person who has been sermonizing us about the ills of BJP had no qualms aligning with it in 2014? He had no qualms in 1999 and will have no qualms aligning with it even at a future date”, he added. This meeting is a reality and in the context of aligning with BJP, Mr. Omar Abdullah is a repeat offender.\nwith him, Sajad said that even letters of support from members who did not belong to the BJP-NC duo had been collected. |
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The First Year Experience (formerly Freshman Orientation) is a course administered through a collaboration between the Division of Student Development and the Office of Academic Affairs. Its primary purpose is to guide and support incoming students in their efforts to make a successful transition from their high school experience to their new college environment.The course topics are carefully crafted to address specific adjustment needs as well as to provide freshmen with new knowledge and information that will help them succeed academically and personally in their first year. These topics also provide a foundation for a successful and timely journey to the bachelor degree.\nFreshmen must earn a “P or “Pass” grade in each semester. (Fall and Spring EDU 151 – 152. The completion of the course is an academic requirement for graduation.\nSuccessful transition will be realized when freshmen assume the personal responsibility for their learning and development, demonstrating and applying specific academic and life skills in their first year--Agency. To support such knowledge and skill acquisition, freshmen will be required to begin to develop Acuity— by achieving a clear understanding of how to navigate the Morehouse and AUC environments, access specified college resource tools, such as tutorials, academic advisors, career placement staff, registration and learning support, etc. And above all, each student must be clear about expectations--both his expectations of the Morehouse College experience and, in turn, what Morehouse College expects of each student.\nDuring this semester, each student will better understand the importance of developing, articulating and demonstrating Integrity—inside the classroom and in the world. Cheating on a test, plagiarizing an essay or research paper robs a student of this trait. Academic honesty is one of the most immediate ways that the student can demonstrate integrity whether it is in taking an exam or writing a paper. Beyond that, students will be encouraged to demonstrate this sense of honesty and honor in every situation he encounters.\nThe 21st Century man of Morehouse is Consequential, that is, he strives to have a positive impact whether through community service or contributing his talents and intellect to edify and uplift others.\nThe First Year Experience is also about creating “ties more brotherly” by working together to accomplish some of your assignments as well as creating online and real time learning communities that can continue beyond this semester. Brotherhood in this sense is ‘a friendship unlike any other’ built upon mutual respect and love for the beloved Morehouse Community and the World House that Dr. Martin Luther King described. |
When one considers the types of materials used for masks, costumes and halloween decorations it is difficult to associate halloween with eco friendliness. One also has to consider what tends to be chucked on bonfires and the noise pollution which has shattered the nerves of many family pets over the years.\nBe creative and make your own halloween costumes by reusing old materials from around the house. Get the kids involved in the design process and save some money in the process. If you are time restricted charity shops can be a good place to pick up a halloween costume.\nAsk yourself do those cheap plastic black and orange decorations really look good? Think of it they all end up going to landfill! If you are buying them make sure to store them away and so you can use them again next year instead of buying more. Ideally though you should use natural products such as pumpkins to create your seasonal decor but don’t throw the inside of the Pumkin after you have hollowed it out. Instead make some delicious homemade pumkin soup or google pumkin recipes to make something you havn’t tried before. Pumpkin pie anyone?\nWhen the trick or treaters come calling hand them out some organic or natural treats. Halloween is a celebration of harvest season after all. If sending the trick or treaters out from your home make sure they are accompanied by a reuseable bag to carry the goodies. Creating your own trick or treat bag out of old pillow cases lying around the house could also be an innovative approach.\nIt is important when out and about on dark halloween winter evenings that you are appropiately dressed and lighted. When it comes to lighting there are many solar, shake and wind-up solutions that will never require replacement batteries. Consider a Wind Up Flashlight, a Shake Flashlight or perhaps the Solar Powered Baglight.\nKeep safe and enjoy the ocassion.\nJust bought a radfan and can not believe the output from system ,fans very silent.Also bought some ecobulbs and house looks bright at last. |
Every time something is discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the whispers begin. Is it the queen? Has she finally been found? They're asking about Nefertiti, the legendary beauty who was married to one of ancient Egypt's strangest pharaohs. Her burial site has never been found, and its location is one of the enduring mysteries in Egyptology.\nThe buzz is now as loud as ever, as scans of King Tut’s tomb indicate there may be hidden chambers behind sections of walls. Questions have inevitably arisen about possible links to Nefertiti, and whether archaeologists will peek behind the walls to find room after room filled with the dazzling grave goods of the long-lost queen.\nIt's exciting, of course, to speculate about a treasure that could eclipse the wondrous things that came to light when Tut's tomb was found in 1922. But in the world of archaeology, it's information, not gold, that's priceless. And experts are now hoping for something beyond the bling.\nThe now iconic bust of an elegant, beautiful Nefertiti was discovered in 1912. It lay in a royal sculptor's workshop at the archaeological site of Amarna, the ruins of the capital city built by Nefertiti's husband, Akhenaten.\nThe list of ancient Egyptian kings, as we know it today, is a work in progress—a compilation made by modern scholars and based on found fragments. Nefertiti’s tomb could hold clues that will help Egyptologists understand a royal succession that's still unclear.\nEarly in the 14th century B.C., at the height of the 18th dynasty, a powerful pharaoh named Amenhotep III ruled Egypt for more than four decades. When he died, his son and heir, Amenhotep IV, took the throne. But something caused the new pharaoh to break with tradition in ways that were shocking.\nHe smashed the temples and statues of a popular god named Amun and began to worship a god named Aten, represented by a sun disk. He moved his capital to a new location in the western desert, a place called Akhetaten, meaning "Horizon of the Aten." He changed his name from Amenhotep, or "Amun is Pleased," to Akhenaten, "He Who is of Service to Aten." And he revolutionized the country's art, launching a realistic style that depicted him with a flabby beer belly rather than the usual idealized six-pack abs of a young and virile pharaoh.\nNefertiti—"The Beautiful One Has Come"—was Akhenaten's principal wife. She's most famously known from a stunning painted limestone bust that was found in a sculptor's workshop in the ruins of Akhetaten in 1912.\nThere's no record of Nefertiti and Akhenaten producing a son. But they had six daughters, and we know their names: Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre. Like every pharaoh, Akhenaten had more than one wife. One of the minor consorts may have been the mother of the future King Tut, whose original name was Tutankhaten—"Living Image of the Aten."\nDid Nefertiti Rule as a King?\nWhen Akhenaten died, Tut didn't become king immediately. Someone else, a shadowy figure named Smenkhkare, seems to have ruled for about two years.\nCould that have been Nefertiti taking on a new identity? Possibly. Nefertiti certainly played the expected roles of elegant royal wife and devoted mother. But some experts believe that she became her husband's co-ruler during the latter part of his reign. When he died, she somehow managed to stay on the throne, ruling with all the attributes of a male pharaoh. And she took a new name—Smenkhkare.\nWe don't know much about the roles of women in ancient Egyptian society. As far as we can tell, most were anonymous wives and mothers. At the upper levels of society, some performed duties at temples. But the royals played by different rules entirely. If Nefertiti did take the throne and rule as a man, it would have been unusual, yes, and unexpected, surely, but not unprecedented.\nIf Nefertiti was Smenkhkare, it would make sense for her to be buried in the Valley of the Kings, the great royal cemetery of the 18th and 19th dynasties. She was a pharaoh, after all.\nWhy Would She Be Buried With Tut (Or Vice Versa)?\nWhen Smenkhkare—whoever he or she was—passed on, King Tut rose to the throne. By then Egypt's spiritual life was taking a 180-degree turn, as the faithful rejected Aten and returned to the traditional god Amun.\nTut's name was now a liability, since it was linked to the heresy of Akhenaten's regime. It had to change, and fast. And so he became Tutankhamun—"Living Image of Amun."\nTut was only eight years old or so. But in time he married one of Nefertiti's daughters—possibly his half sister. She too had a name problem. At the start of her life, she was Ankhesenpaaten—"She Lives Through Aten." And so she too made a switch, to Ankhesenamun—"She Lives Through Amun."\nWhen King Tut died, after ruling for only a decade, there apparently was no place to put him. Royal tombs often had long passages and numerous chambers, and cutting all those spaces into the limestone cliffs of the Valley of the Kings was a laborious process. Maybe Tut's final resting place had barely been pecked at. Or perhaps it hadn't even been started.\nIt's possible that the teenage pharaoh was placed in a tomb that had been started for someone else and was only partly finished. In that case, the void that appears in the recent scan may lead to the rough, working edge of construction.\nOn the other hand, Tut may have been buried in the tomb of a royal who died before him, someone of his same stature. And if that royal is Nefertiti, it means he was laid to rest with someone who was both his stepmother and mother-in-law.\nFrom today's perspective, it seems a strange twist of fate. But who knows? In their convoluted, inbred family, Nefertiti and Tut may have adored each other like mother and son and would have been perfectly fine with the idea of spending eternity together, separated by only a wall. |
At this year’s CES 2019, Lenovo has introduced to the public on their latest models from the ThinkPad lineup in the form of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and ThinkPad X1 Yoga.\nComing in at 14.95mm thin and starting at 1.08kg, it features a 14-inch display. The Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon comes with a Dolby Atmos Speaker System, where it features two top-firing tweeters and two down-firing woofers to deliver a more realistic and immersive sound worthy of a premium laptop.\nThere’s also four far-field microphones to help you with your conferencing collaboration experience and with the system being digital assistant ready, you can utilize voice commands by using Cortana in Windows 10 or Alexa.\nAccording to the company, you can work continuously with its 15-hours of battery life. The laptop also offers LTE-A Wireless WAN and CAT 16 LTE, offering gigabit speeds where supported.\nThere’s a selection of displays available, including 500 nit, 10 bit, 4K Dolby Vision panel, or a new brighter 400 nit FHD display.\nThe ThinkPad X1 Carbon will be available later in the year in June, with an expected starting price of US$1709 (roughly RM7032).\nIn addition to the Carbon, Lenovo has also introduced the new ThinkPad X1 Yoga. The laptop is thinner and lighter (1.35kg) with a smaller footprint thanks to narrower bezels and is contructed in a precision-machined aluminum chassis.\nOther than that, it comes with a premium keyboard, display options, Dolby Atmos Speaker System, far-field mics, and of course a long battery life.\nIt also supports all docking solutions, such as the ThinkPad Mechanical Dock. Additionally, tyou can the ThinkPad Pen Pro to offer multi-mode pen input.\nSimilar to the X1 Carbon, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga will be made available in June 2019. As for the price, the expected starting price is US$1929 (around RM7937).\nPokdepinion: These laptops most certainly looks for those professionals who travel a lot. I don’t see myself being able to afford them. |
What happened to Paulson Road project?\nThe in basket: Greg Salo writes, “I travel about two or three times a week on Paulson Road near Brownsville (in Central Kitsap).\nHe saw a short article in the Kitsap Sun saying it finally would start Jan. 9, but it didn’t and now those signs giving specific dates have been turned away from the view of drivers, he said.\n“Now it is Sunday, 29 January, and Paulson Road is still open.\nThe out basket: The county announced a delay around the first of last month. Doug Bear, spokesman for Kitsap County Public Works says, “We are waiting on materials. The work could start as early as 2/13 but may be delayed again until 2/20. We’ll post updated information on The Road Report as soon as we get confirmation on the delivery of the materials.” The Road Report is found on the county’s Web site under Public Works. |
The Human Rights Institute builds the capacity of the BHRH Lawyers’ Network membership through an annual continuing legal education program focused on human rights in the United States. Past trainings have focused on The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the human rights to housing in the United States; advocating for human rights in state courts; ethics and domestic human rights lawyering; and engaging with U.N. human rights mechanisms. The CLE trainings are open to all.\nThe Symposium, Advancing Racial Justice and Human Rights: Rights Based Strategies for the Current Era, aimed to develop U.S. lawyers’ understanding of opportunities and challenges in implementing human rights principles of non-discrimination, equality, and participation. It was also a space to evaluate lessons learned from the successes achieved by the domestic human rights movement over the past two decades, and to chart a path forward at a time when human rights standards are permeating movement building, litigation, and policy advocacy to address individual and structural racism and discrimination.\nThe 2017 Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual CLE brought together more than 100 U.S. lawyers, law students, academics, and other international human rights experts to discuss strategies for localizing human rights in the U.S. The 2017 symposium/CLE program explored the relevance and challenges of state and local implementation of human rights, specific strategies for effective and creative implementation, including the women's rights treaty, the role of state courts, and advocacy for the right to water and sanitation in local campaigns.\nThe 2016 Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual CLE brought together more than 100 U.S. lawyers, law students, academics, and other international human rights experts to discuss approaches to advancing U.S. social justice advocacy through engagement with UN human rights experts. Panelists explored the opportunities that the special procedures offer to raise the profile of U.S. human rights concerns and advance advocacy efforts to address them. The 2016 symposium/CLE program used examples involving advocacy with the UN special procedures on U.S-related issues including the right to water, criminalization of homelessness, solitary confinement, access to reproductive healthcare, and discriminatory policing practices, among others.\nThe 2015 Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual CLE brought together practitioners and experts to discuss advocacy strategies for engaging with the Inter-American Human Rights System in the United States. Panelists explored the doctrinal and structural framework of the IACHR and examined case studies on a range of issues, including detention, economic and social rights, and women’s rights. The 2015 symposium/CLE program used examples from the U.S. and the Americas to demonstrate how human rights advocates might improve the efficacy of the Inter-American Human Rights System, and deepen the impact of their advocacy.\nThe 2014 Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual CLE on domestic human rights focused on the 20th anniversary of U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The full day symposium brought together over 100 lawyers and advocates to discuss the history of the treaty and explore strategies for engaging with the U.S. government and the CERD Committee around the treaty body's August 2014 review of U.S. compliance.\nBringing Economic & Social Rights Home: The Right to Adequate Housing in the U.S.\nU.S. lawyers are increasingly engaging international human rights law and strategies in their domestic social justice advocacy efforts. A strength of the human rights framework is its ability to address the intersection of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights. Yet pursuit of economic and social rights presents special challenges in the U.S. legal context. This symposium explores strategies for advancing economic and social rights advocacy in the U.S., focusing in particular on the right to housing. Participants will examine legal developments pertaining to the right to housing and related rights, both internationally and in the U.S. And, drawing on international human rights, participants will explore promising approaches to establishing the right to housing in U.S. courts and through other advocacy efforts.\nThe United States ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1992. As the U.S. government and civil society prepare for the fourth periodic review of the United States’ compliance with its obligations under the covenant, this program will examine the history and impact of U.S. ratification and engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Committee, which monitors its compliance with the covenant, and will look ahead at the possibilities for ensuring U.S. accountability for its human rights commitments.\nThis program explored strategies for U.S. lawyers to effectively engage with UN human rights mechanisms as a means of furthering domestic social justice advocacy efforts. Participants received a grounding in the international human rights system and mechanisms as well as an understanding of strategies for engagement with civil society and government and challenges of local implementation and follow-up.\nThis training explored whether and how adoption of a human rights framework in the domestic advocacy setting shapes a lawyer’s ethical responsibilities.\nThis training explored the use of transnational standards in developing state law jurisprudence to protect economic and social rights such as health and housing, as well as non-litigation human rights legal strategies in advocating for economic justice.\nPlease see below for copies of the PowerPoint presentations used at conference.\nWhen advocacy in civil and human rights cases is unsuccessful in U.S. courts, lawyers sometimes turn to the Washington, D.C. based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as an alternate forum to air their clients’ grievances. This CLE training focused on how this tribunal affects U.S.-based advocacy.\nOver the past few terms, the Supreme Court and other U.S. courts have shown a growing interest in comparative foreign law arguments. This all day CLE program was designed for domestic public interest lawyers considering when and how to incorporate foreign sources into domestic litigation and advocacy. The program provided an overview of the Supreme Court’s use of foreign law, considered the controversy and debate around the use of such sources arguments, and examined case studies of legal strategies using foreign sources. The session concluded with a skill-building session on how to conduct foreign law research.\nExperts on the use of foreign legal sources led the sessions, providing insight into judicial attitudes towards such sources and strategic considerations in their use in different U.S. forums. Click here to view the conference agenda. |
A collaboration between scholars at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, the Institut d'Asie Orientale, and the TGE-Adonis, this project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas. These are often of even greater historic interest than might ordinarily be the case, as the destruction of materials inside China in war and revolution in the twentieth century, and especially during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, means that there is a relative dearth today of accessible photographic records in China itself. Turmoil in China, and emigration from the country, also led to the development of a large Chinese diaspora. Moreover, thousands of foreigners lived and worked in China between the 1840s and the 1950s, and many thousands more visited for longer or shorter periods. Chinese emigrants, foreign expatriates and visitors alike took, bought or otherwise acquired photographs. Many of these are in libraries and collections in the West, and in addition our research in modern Chinese history has led us to many interesting private collections. Images from private and public collections are available here. An exhibition of this material took place in London, Bath, and Durham in 2007-2008. A further exhibition took place at the Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol, from 17th January to 21st February 2009. For more details click here. Collaborators in Spain are holding an exhibition of photographs from the collection in Pamplona which opened in November 2009. This link also leads to an order form for the companion volume to the exhibition, Picturing China 1870-1959: Photographs from British Collections (Chinese Maritime Customs Project Occasional Papers No.1, 2007, ISSN: 1755-6643). The project was also the subject of a supplement to the winter 2008 (No.46) International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter. This can be accessed at the IIAS site, or as an Adobe Acrobat file of the entire supplement here (warning, this is a large file, 3.24mb).\nThe photographs archived here come from the collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. They shed light on political events such as the 1925 May Thirtieth incident, on working and social life, on treaty port architecture, commercial history, the history of dress and fashion, and of course the history of photography in China. They were taken by talented amateur photographers, by foreign snap-shotters, professional studio photographers, and others. These images were taken, acquired or bought by those living or visiting China.\nThese digital copies of the images are made available here for educational, reference and research purposes. As well as a variety of modestly sized collections, this project has worked with a number of larger bodies of material including photographs related to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, diplomat Foo Ping-sheung (Fu Bingchang), holdings relating to the Shanghai Municipal Police, the G. Warren Swire collection, and the J.C. Oswald collection (SOAS). |
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$1500 ish from me for authentic JMar artwork isn't too expensive in my opinion.\nThought they would be more popuular than they are.\nCongrats on those amazing collections Scooter & Fozthebear, thanks for sharing.\n"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!"\n1) When you put those 3 WCW belts together, you realize that they make sense together thematically (and if you add the US, Light-Heavy, and TV belts, and then you'll definitely see what I mean). Dunno if it was accidental on Reggie & Dave's part, or if it was their plan all along, but they just *work* when they're put together.\n2) Winged Eagle has been put on blue leather, *Big* Eagle has been put on blue leather, and we've seen a recent WWE WHC replica releather onto blue leather, which makes me wonder...I know I can't afford this for my replica, but if somebody with an Undisputed put theirs ALSO onto blue leather...? |
Petro Sea Logistics, a joint venture between Belgian Sea-Invests and Côte d’Ivoire's Petroci, has added a Grove GMK6400 all-terrain crane to its fleet. The crane will be going straight to work at an oil field in the Port of Abijan.\nPetro Sea Logistics turned to Grove's African dealer Paterson Simons for the purchase. Formerly a buyer of strictly rough-terrain cranes, Petro Sea Logistics opted for an all-terrain GMK6400, which features a best-in-class 400 t capacity, as well as a 60 m boom. Its optional removable outrigger box, self-rigging auxiliary hoist and self-rigging MegaWingLift (which can boost its capacity by nearly 70 per cent) have made the crane one of the most successful in Grove’s history.\nPasico Ghana, a subsidiary in the Paterson Simons network, worked with Grove to provide Petro Sea Logistics with quick, localised support for the GMK6400, as well as extensive training and warranty options. The crane is scheduled to immediately begin oil field operations at the Port of Abidjan. |
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Guy Debord’s writing is at times difficult, tortuous and repetitive. So I find it helpful that he also wrote easily understood, succinct (if by necessity simplified) slogans. The name of his 1968 book, The Society of the Spectacle, is one such example: inherent in the title is a notion of a world in which the story, the representation of a thing, and the entertainment value of that representation has displaced the actual thing.\nIf Debord’s message is that the reality we enjoyed has been created, Crimp shows us how it is made, and then turns the camera on us, so we watch ourselves watching. In The Treatment, the young lady’s treatment at the hand of a violent young man is sacrificed by the manipulative film executives – her is tale twisted, warped and joined with other stories whilst the girl herself is discarded. Neither truth, nor the person are important: the narrative is. As an audience member, this is unsettling: are we culpable in this warping of a young woman’s life?\nCrimp employs a similar technique in Face to the Wall, where the narrative is repeated, re-drafted and improved, with careful regard to the words chosen - “An aerosol - that’s right - that’s good - of blood, which he hadn’t foreseen”- but with the content, the meaning and implications of these words almost discarded.\nDebord writes The Society of the Spectacle in the lead up to the Paris Riots of 1968. Crimp writes Fewer Emergencies barricaded in a hotel room in Zurich in 2004, with anti-globalisation riots as a backdrop. In both instances, not only does the violence seep into the writing, but the concerns of the rioters (both specific economic concerns and a generalised disaffection and desire for violent change) are explicit in the texts.\nThese texts pre-date a world where a man can stream the murder of his daughter to his estranged wife on Facebook Live, or where Daesh’s brutal snuff movies are ‘most viewed’ on YouTube. But both speak of the attraction of horror, a return to the braying mobs of the public execution, where justice is subsidiary to entertainment. Crimp makes us watch. This is what we always do anyway. This is why traffic moves slowly around car crashes.\nHe makes us watch, and then he shows us ourselves, the middle classes, the theatregoing classes, watching. Applauding. |
Breakfast Hash is a dish we love to make in large batches for our family to reheat all week. One thing we love is how filling it is, if you’re like us and have teenagers then they will love it. The savory sausage has just the right amount of heat too. Along with the kale and red peppers that adds such a brightness to the overall dish. Breakfast Hash is a one pan wonder that can be prepared using a large cast iron pan. Let’s admit the fewer dishes we have to do the better!\nStart out by preheating your cast iron pan, really any large sauté pan will work. Next add ground pork, make sure you don’t confuse this for another sausage that has added ingredients. The only ingredient you should see on the package is pork. You will add your own spices, most likely with ingredients you have in your pantry. This Breakfast Hash has the right amount of heat from the red pepper flakes that you will love.\nOnce again don’t premix the ingredients, we’re all about ease in the kitchen. Simple place the spices on top of your meat and then mix it all up with your spatula. It will all incorporate just fine. Making sure to get a good caramelization will evoke a ton of flavor to this dish.\nAdding red peppers and purple onion adds great color and texture to the dish.\nNow once everything is cooked to this point, simple push the contents to one side of the pan to cook your potatoes. This is a great was to use your left over baked potatoes! Our grandma was famous for taking her left over potatoes and using them for breakfast. NEVER waste anything was her motto, this is how we learned to use what we have to create a new meal. It’s a skill everyone should try and develop!\nThe last few minutes is where we like to add 2 cups of chopped kale. The earthy flavor of the kale along with the sweet heat of the pork sausage is an amazing combination profile. We hope you enjoy this dish as much as our family!\nPlace ground pork in a preheated cast iron skillet. Add a tablespoon of avocado oil.\nAdd the spices on top of the raw ground pork.\nSimply mix all the ingredients using your spatula and cook until the pork is no longer pink.\nNext add the red peppers and purple onion.\nNow simple push all the contents to one side of the pan to cook your potatoes. This is a great way to not dirty another dish yet get the potatoes nice and crispy.\nSauté with 1 tablespoon of avocado oil until the whole dish starts to caramelize.\nThe last few minutes add chopped kale.\nOne of our favorite things to do is to take the Breakfast Hash and place a sunny side egg on top. The perfect cooked egg where the yolk just spreads over the whole dish when broken into is a winner.\nThe great thing about this recipe is you can switch out ingredients you have on hand like sweet potatoes, zucchini, brussel sprouts. Really just about any vegetable that you like or is starting to go bad in your fridge! |
Influenza or the flu is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract caused by one of three strains of influenza virus – A, B, or C. Symptoms include fever, chills, body aches, headache, fatigue, dry cough, sore throat and congestion.\nPandemic influenza is a global outbreak of influenza to which people have little or no immunity and for which there is no vaccine. The infection spreads easily, causes serious disease and can spread world wide very quickly. Symptoms can include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting as well as normal flu symptoms.\n1. A new influenza virus needs to be introduced to which humans have little or no immunity.\n2. The new virus must be able to replicate in humans and cause disease.\n3. The new virus must be able to efficiently transmit itself from one human to another.\nThere are about 3 pandemics each century. The three pandemics in the 20th century occurred in 1918-19, 1957-58, and 1968-69.\n1968-69 34,000+ deaths in U.S.\n1957-58 70,000+ deaths in U.S.\n1918-19 675,000+ deaths in U.S.\nThe number of deaths depended more on the virulence of the virus than on treatments available. More Americans died of the flu in 1918-19 than died in WWI. In fact, more Americans died of the 1918 flu than died in all the wars in the 20th century.\nThere are some facts about vaccines that should be understood when discussing pandemic influenza.\n• Vaccines are virus specific. They are only effective against one form of one virus.\n• They protect but are not 100% effective.\n• They do not cure influenza.\n• Yearly flu vaccines are developed based on informed predictions of which flu strain will be most predominant that year.\n• A pandemic virus is unknown until it infects and it will take at least six months to develop a vaccine against it.\nWhy should I be concerned about pandemic flu?\n• There is no sure way to stop a pandemic from occurring.\n• We cannot predict when the next flu pandemic will occur BUT the longest period between pandemics has been 42 years. The last one occurred in 1969.\n• We cannot prepare a vaccine until the flu begins infecting people.\n• We cannot prevent the spread of influenza without very exacting measures; it is very contagious.\n• We cannot cure influenza.\n• We cannot cure viral pneumonia, a possible secondary infection to flu.\n• Bacterial pneumonia, another possible secondary infection, has a 20-30% death rate even with antibiotics.\n• Flu symptoms may be more severe during a pandemic and the flu may have more complications.\n• Even healthy people are at increased risk for serious complications during a flu pandemic.\n• The number of deaths could be high.\n• We know little more than they did in 1918 about how to cure the flu or how to prevent it. We only know how to lessen the impact IF those measures are implemented.\nHow will a pandemic affect me?\n• 50% of the population could become infected.\n• Work absenteeism is expected to be about 40% which could result in disruption of normal utilities, banking, businesses, etc.\n• A pandemic could last 12 to 24 months.\n• Communities could be affected by several waves lasting 3 to 8 weeks each.\n• Vaccines and antiviral drugs will be in short supply and vaccines will not be available until at least the second wave of flu.\n• Available healthcare will be limited because of high demand.\n• You will probably be on your own or have limited assistance.\nThe current (2007) concern of health officials is the H5N1 avian influenza. It is a particularly virulent virus in birds, causing widespread death in flocks in a short period of time. It spreads from wild birds to domestic birds and can be transmitted to mammals. It has spread to humans who have had close contact with infected domesticated birds. It has met 2 of the 3 prerequisites for a pandemic to occur. Currently, it has not spread from human to human but that is the fear because it continues to evolve. If that were to happen, we would have a pandemic. Officials are trying to keep the virus from spreading by trying to eliminate it from chicken populations through mass slaughter and vaccines. The H5N1 appears to have similarities to the virus which caused the 1918-19 pandemic, so we can look to that pandemic to learn how to treat and prepare for the next pandemic. |
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Art Canvas Print: Join Mr Ernest Hemingway Mustard and his rabble of friends with this wonderful canvas print by British artist, Sam Toft. Mr Mustard is seen walking carefully through a pretty woodland which is blossoming with bluebells as his little dog Doris takes the lead. Following closely behind are three inquisitive sheep as well as Mr Mustard’s cat called Stripes. This afternoon walk is sure to brighten up your walls with its tranquil tones and homely feel as Toft creates another lovely art piece based on the daily life of Mr Ernest Hemingway Mustard and his nearest and dearest.\nHigh quality, framed Tiptoe Through The Bluebells, Sam Toft canvas print with a bespoke frame by our custom framing service. |
SBS today launched SBS CQ: Cultural Intelligence an online resource to be followed by a televised forum to advance the debate about diversity in Australia.\nSBS CQ will bring together media commentators, experts and influencers to debate media and diversity for a forum to be broadcast on December 22. Hosted by World News Australia’s Anton Enus, the forum will discuss whether the media is friend or foe in the nation’s discussions about diversity.\nThe website – www.sbs.com.au/cq - which goes live today will be home to exclusive web-only content and will become a permanent hub for views, news and research about diversity.\n“SBS will use its expertise as a broadcaster and thought leader on diversity to provide new perspectives on long-standing debates about multiculturalism,” SBS Managing Director Michael Ebeid said.\nParticipants include former Immigration Minister the Hon Amanda Vanstone, former Network 10 and 9 news directors and Daily Telegraph journalist Joe Hildebrand who will share the floor with community advocates and refugees including the Liberal candidate for Cabramatta Dai Le, Bahati Masudi from SBS’s Go Back To Where You Came From and Pino Migliorino from multicultural peak body FECCA as well as commentators and researchers including Julie Posetti, Ien Ang, Tanveer Ahmed, Ghassan Hage and Andrew Markus. The forum will be broadcast on SBS TWO on Thursday, 22 December at 8.30pm.\nSBS CQ online hub features exclusive interviews with key thinkers and commentators as well as resources including SBS’s research into Australian attitudes towards immigration, refugees and asylum seekers. |
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The debt ceiling crisis barely was averted Tuesday when President Barack Obama and other top Democrats were ready to change the subject.\nObama offered little praise for the $2.1 trillion deficit package during a press conference at the Rose Garden, instead vowing to fight for “new jobs, higher wages and faster economic growth” in the coming months – an agenda he has tried to resurrect at least a half-dozen times in the past two years.\nDemocrats on Capitol Hill are backing up Obama, hoping to take up various proposals dropped from the debt ceiling compromise or sidetracked by the winding debate, such as approving trade deals, extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, and allocating funding for new highway infrastructure and a clean energy program.\nAnd those super wonderful ideas?\nSurface Transportation Funding: Didn’t we already try fixing potholes and painting bridges with the Stimulus?\nNew Job Tax Credit: They’ve tried to bribe companies to hire with the Stimulus, too. How’d that work out?\nFree Trade Deals: This is simply thrown in there as a sop to Obama’s talking point on this subject. No one can really explain how this will help, just that it will.\nAid to State and Local Governments: So, the federal government is supposed to continue prop up the state and local governments with money they don’t have to do…what, exactly? Again, we tried this with the stimulus, and now the states are in even worse shape.\nLiberals really have no new, or worthwhile, ideas. Someone gives a speech and says “we need jobs.” A prarie dog pops its head up and chirps “high speed rail.” Another says “paint bridges.” Another says “spend money.” Amazingly, none of the political wonks ever think to ask successful liberals like Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, or Peter Lewis (Progressive Insurance) how to create jobs. |
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Asking people to take individual responsibility for their health care expenses is not a tax. Asking them to do so via a particular method, in this case the purchase of an insurance policy rather than, say, just paying expenses as they go, is a tax.\nEven if Obama were right in #2, he would still be wrong given the rules embedded in this bill. Young, healthy people will be forced to subsidize the old and those with pre-existing conditions by the rules imposed on insurance companies. These rules effectively make it impossible to charge full cost to the old and sick, so that the young and the healthy will have to pay more. Because the young and the healthy will not see values in policies at the prices they will be paying (given these transfers), they won't value the policy with is EXACTLY why the law has to force them to buy it. Which is why it is a tax.\nFirst, knowledge about supply, demand, individual preferences and resource availability is scattered -- much of it never articulated -- throughout society. It is not concentrated in a database where a group of planners can access it.\nSecond, this "data" is dynamic: It changes without notice. No matter how honorable the central planners' intentions, they will fail because they cannot know the needs and wishes of 300 million different people. And if they somehow did know their needs, they wouldn't know them tomorrow.\nMoore declares capitalism evil, but he's never clear about what "capitalism" means. Considering how much time he spends documenting the cozy relationship between business and government, I thought he might mean "state capitalism."\nBut then he uses the term "free market" as a synonym for what he doesn't like.\nWhat does the free market have to do with businesses manipulating government and strong-arming Congress for bailouts? Moore properly condemns both.\nA libertarian student at GWU pushes Michael Moore on this issue, captured on video.\nvisits the National Archives to see if the Constitution establishes capitalism as the country's economic system. Seeing the words "people," "union," and "welfare" in the document, he says, "Sounds like that other ism."\nThe reason is because free-market capitalism is not a system. It is the un-system. It is the lack of a system. It is the chaotic, anarchic, bottom-up actions of 300 million people acting to direct their lives as they see fit and improve their own financial well-being. The fact that it works without top-down coordination, that the right number of pencils get manufactured each year without a pencil czar, is a testament to the power of a few simple tools, particularly price, in signaling to individuals where they might best employ their own time and capital.\nAnyone want to bet that things like homeopathy will get included in the government's "must cover" rules under the new health proposal?\nmust pay a thousand dollars before the insurance company starts paying. |
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Ranking the NBA's new head coaches: Who is facing the most pressure?\nFrom dynasty do demolition: Anything is possible for Billy Donovan and the Thunder.\nSeven NBA teams will open the 2015-16 season with new head coaches, but the state of the profession was relatively stable this summer thanks in part to a number of guillotine candidates managing to hang onto their jobs. Toronto’s Dwane Casey, Cleveland’s David Blatt, and Washington’s Randy Wittman all survived despite rumors and rumblings at various points of last season, while Byron Scott returns to the Lakers’ bench despite posting the worst single-season winning percentage in the franchise’s illustrious 67-year history.\nAll told, coaching turnover decreased for the second straight season: there were 14 new coaches entering the 2013-14 season and nine new coaches entering last season. What’s more, there were zero true repeat offenders. The Timberwolves are the only team opening 2015-16 with a new coach for the second straight season, and they’re only doing so because of the terrible circumstances surrounding Flip Saunders’ battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At this time last year, by comparison, five teams were trotting out new coaches for the second straight season.\nSeven coaching changes is still a lot, however, and pink slips were handed out by contenders and also-rans alike. In truth, there weren’t that many surprises, in part because the highest-profile firings—Scott Brooks in Okahoma City, Tom Thibodeau in Chicago, and Monty Williams in New Orleans—were at least somewhat anticipated.\nLet’s welcome the new coaches in the only manner that seems appropriate: ranking them by who faces the most pressure this season. The following factors weighed in these rankings: external expectations, the talent and experience of the roster, the team’s recent success (or lack thereof), their level of experience, the organization’s front-office and ownership dynamics, and market size.\nFew NBA coaches have a sweeter setup than what Skiles will enjoy in Orlando. For starters, he’s a proven turn-around artist being asked to execute a turn-around. He took over rebuilding situations at his three previous stops—Phoenix, Chicago and Milwaukee—and he eventually coaxed meaningful improvement out of all three teams. This job is right in his wheelhouse, and it helps that he’s taking over from a first-time coach in Jacque Vaughn who never really distinguished himself or managed to instill a perceptible team identity.\nRoundtable: Which NBA star is under the most pressure this season?\nEven better, the Magic’s failure to win more than 25 games in each of the last three seasons has plunged expectations about as low as they can go. But, wait, there’s more: Orlando has been collecting young talent for three years now, including first-round guys like Victor Oladipo, Nikola Vucevic, Tobias Harris, Aaron Gordon, and Elfrid Payton, so Skiles isn’t inheriting an empty cupboard. Improvement from this developing core is expected, if not guaranteed, as they gain experience. Orlando ranked 25th or worse on both sides of the ball last season, and it’s hard to imagine Skiles will let that happen again.\nThere are other tie-loosening factors at play. Skiles happens to be a popular former Magic player who spent five seasons in Orlando during the early-1990s, he’s working under an unproven GM in Rob Hennigan, and he doesn’t have any imminent, franchise-changing free-agency decisions looming over him. The national media has understandably ignored this franchise since Dwight Howard left, so Skiles is free to take his time getting the ship righted. If the Magic beat expectations and make a surprising run at a low playoff seed, Skiles might even find himself in the Coach of the Year conversation.\nAs with Skiles in Orlando, the easiest way to make a good first impression as an NBA coach is to take over from a rookie who fell flat on his face. The Brian Shaw era in Denver was one of the most underrated disasters in recent memory: He couldn’t settle on lineups and rotations, he called out and clashed publicly with his players on multiple occasions, he failed to get consistency from a fairly talented and expensive roster, he admitted to struggling to connect with his younger players and, in perhaps his lowest moment, he tried rapping his pre-game scouting reports. As the kids say: Bruh.\nTo be clear, Michael Malone had his own share of drama during his 106-game tenure in Sacramento. But Malone showed real progress in Year One, before he was abruptly canned by wild-card owner Vivek Ranadive, and he succeeded in connecting with his All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins, which was his top order of business. The miffed (and, in some cases, outraged) reaction to his firing, and Sacramento’s retched play under his interim successor Tyrone Corbin, made his tenure look better than his 39-67 record might initially suggest.\nTwo full years of directionless weirdness from the Nuggets’ front office has unintentionally set up Malone nicely this season. Denver doesn’t have a single 2016 All-Star candidate on its roster and it plans to start teenager Emmanuel Mudiay at point guard after dumping Ty Lawson and his off-court issues to the Rockets. Those two factors alone guarantee that expectations are nonexistent in the loaded West.\nIndeed, Malone’s season will be deemed a success if Denver improves its bottom-five defense, if Mudiay shows the potential to be a foundational player, and if the front office gains clarity on which members of its mish-mashed roster are keepers (hint: not JJ Hickson). That’s a pretty low bar, all things considered, and Malone should be up to the task. The only real hurdle will be balancing minutes between the younger members of his roster and his roster’s numerous veterans, as competing interests exist up and down the roster.\nThe bulk of the pressure facing Sam Mitchell was unavoidable. It just boils down to timing: Mitchell was named interim coach, in place of Saunders, less than a month before Minnesota opened training camp. That’s not an ideal situation for any coach, let alone one who hasn’t held a head job since 2009 and is being asked to take over a 16-win roster with no timetable on how his job status might change going forward. Best wishes to Saunders for a full recovery, and major kudos to Mitchell for stepping up to the plate in the Timberwolves’ moment of need.\nHandicapping the 2015 NBA Rookie of the Year race: Who are the favorites?\nOnce the games begin, Mitchell will begin facing the heightened expectations and scrutiny that comes with two very promising No. 1 overall selections: Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns. Both players have the potential to be perennial All-Stars, and any stagnation or stumbling in their developmental arcs will lead to second-guessing. This is a legitimately tall order: Mitchell must maximize the talents of two players who aren’t yet of legal drinking age with little in the way of preparation time.\nFurther complicating matters is a roster that’s equal parts youth movement, retirement home and hospital ward. Ultra-vets Kevin Garnett, Tayshaun Prince and Andre Miller are all the definition of known quantities, but any on-court success they achieve this season will necessarily come at the expense of Minnesota’s prospects. Meanwhile, Ricky Rubio, Kevin Martin and Nikola Pekovic have proven to be valuable rotation players when healthy and progress-killers when sidelined with injuries. Add it all up, and Mitchell will be juggling all season long.\nLastly, there’s an element of impatience in Minnesota that doesn’t quite exist in Orlando or Denver, as the Timberwolves haven’t made the playoffs since 2004. The extraordinary circumstances surrounding this job and Mitchell’s history as a long-time player with the Timberwolves may help ease some of that burden on that front, but many fans will nevertheless expect significant progress over a dismal 2014-15 season. Again, kudos to Mitchell for leaping into this fray.\nOf the seven coaches on this list, Alvin Gentry is the trickiest one to gauge because there are two sets of competing factors at play when it comes to the expectation game for the Pelicans.\nOn the inflationary side, there is the very real demand for progress. Monty Williams, Gentry’s predecessor, was fired at arguably the highest point of his tenure. Williams had spent the previous four seasons building up a new core following the departure of Chris Paul, and he had succeeded in landing New Orleans in the playoffs thanks to a dramatic victory over the Spurs in a win-or-die season finale. Parting with Williams sent a clear message: his best wasn’t good enough, and Gentry inherits that burden.\nFueling expectations even further is the nonstop, warranted hype around Anthony Davis. Last season saw Davis progress from star to MVP candidate, as he led the league in Player Efficiency Rating at age 21 and landed at No. 3 on SI.com’s Top 100 Players of 2016 list. A talent like this puts his coach in “no excuses” territory far more quickly than you might think. For comparison’s sake, LeBron James made the Finals at age 22, while Kevin Durant went to the West finals at age 22 and the Finals at age 23. As crazy as it sounds, a first-round exit for Davis, even at age 22 and even in the West, might be viewed as a disappointment this season. That fate would be doubly disappointing for Gentry when compared to the ring he won as a Warriors assistant last season.\nNow, let’s talk deflation before the hype train hits 100 miles per hour. Above all else, there’s the injury factor. Gentry’s been dealt a pretty crummy hand: Jrue Holiday, Eric Gordon, Ryan Anderson, Omer Asik and Alex Ajinca are all either injured, injury-prone or recovering from a serious injury. That’s roughly half his rotation; no team can be expected to thrive with so many questionable links in the chain.\nThe Pelicans’ lack of success historically and the fact that they’re not the Saints both play to Gentry’s advantage. The franchise hasn’t won a playoff series since 2008 and should get some time to build up. That’s especially true now that Davis signed a five-year rookie extension this summer. With that signature, all Pelicans’ plans became multi-year plans.\nOn balance, Gentry will need to show progress this season, both with the potency of the Pelicans’ attack, which is his specialty, and in molding Davis’s path to greatness. The health of his club will determine how far it goes, and it may well end up being the chief explanation if they flat-line in the postseason. This season, Gentry should enjoy the benefit of perspective, which is more than can be said for the three remaining names on this list.\nRemarkably, there was some doubt as to whether Karl would survive the summer. The current Kings regime isn’t exactly known for its grace under fire, and Karl courted tension with All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins with some questionable comments in the media. Cooler heads ultimately prevailed, but only after an awkward encounter between player and coach at Las Vegas Summer League and yet another round of Cousins trade rumors.\nKarl is in a unique position, even for an NBA coach: outsiders expect, and in some cases are rooting for, an utter catastrophe. Chaos is a distinct possibility. There are so many potential potholes looming: Cousins’ volatility, Rajon Rondo’s unpredictability, owner Vivek Ranadive’s impatience, GM Vlade Divac’s inexperience, a whole host of lineup questions, and a drab team culture that hasn’t produced a winning squad since 2006. In that light, it might be tempting to see Karl as a success if the Kings are merely bad but not embarrassing or overtly dysfunctional.\nBut it’s just not that simple. Ranadive has proven that he isn’t willing to settle for bad. Cousins is clearly sick of being bad. And Karl, a former Coach of the Year with 26 years of NBA experience, isn’t used to be being bad. If the Kings are bad again, they won’t be going quietly into the night. There will be blood in one form or another.\nPerhaps that’s one reason Karl came out and said his team has the potential to go .500, which amounts to a high bar for this organization. The stakes are high, the margin for error is slim, and 41 wins would represent significant upward momentum that would ease a lot of tension and buy everyone involved a little time. Divac made enough short-term moves this summer to make 41 wins a reality, but a lot of things will need to break right to actually make it happen. That said, Sacramento hasn’t been known as a place where a lot of things break right in recent years, so Karl enters 2015-16 with about as much pressure as any coach that’s likely headed to the lottery will ever face.\nWhen Fred Hoiberg decided to make the jump from Iowa State to the Bulls, he was forced to make a series of trade-offs. In exchange for getting to coach one of the NBA’s biggest and most successful brands, he has to deal with the scrutiny that comes with playing in one of the country’s largest markets and work under a management regime that clashed with his predecessor. In exchange for getting to coach one of the East’s deepest and most talented rosters, he has to find a way to keep everyone happy while implementing an entirely new system. In exchange for inheriting a squad that made the playoffs five straight years, he has to win—big and immediately—lest he be compared unfavorably to Tom Thibodeau.\nThe pressure is coming at Hoiberg from all sides: from above, from the fan base, from his accomplished roster of players, and from comparisons to the recent past. And that’s before you even consider the negative energy that seems to build over the team whenever Derrick Rose opens his mouth, or the injuries already sustained by Rose and Mike Dunleavy Jr., or the likelihood that Rose will miss time for one reason or another this season, or the brewing rumors of discord between Rose and Jimmy Butler. Opening night is still weeks away and, if it wasn’t for Derek Fisher and Matt Barnes, the Bulls would have already lapped the field when it comes to unnecessary distractions and potentially damaging noise.\nIt says a lot about Hoiberg’s confidence and competitive nature that he welcomed all of these headaches when he could have kept on enjoying the good life as “The Mayor” of Ames. In a best-case scenario, his higher-paced, free-flowing system helps Chicago finally get past LeBron James in the playoffs, and Hoiberg gets a congratulatory Steve Kerr-like treatment from the media. In a worst-case scenario, injuries strike yet again and the Bulls realize, too late, that Thibodeau’s single-mindedness was indeed the key to overcoming mid-season adversity.\nThe rational view here should be one that emphasizes patience during the transition, particularly because many of Chicago’s key pieces—Rose, Joakim Noah, and Paul Gasol in particular—are questionable fits in a more wide-open style. Unfortunately, “rational” and “patience” are luxuries that a team that has been stuck as a quasi-contender for a half-decade simply can’t afford. Fair or not, Hoiberg will need to hit the ground running and show real results right out of the gate.\n“Hey, coach, I’m really glad you could meet with us today. We’d love for you to consider joining the Thunder. There’s really only one catch, and I hope it’s not too big of a deal. If something doesn’t go quite right, whether it just takes you awhile to to the NBA, or whether it’s an injury to one of our three stars who all underwent surgery last season, or whether our young supporting pieces fail to deliver in the postseason, or whether our tough conference competition simply outplays us, there’s a chance—a small chance!—that Kevin Durant decides not to re-sign with us next summer.\n“Now, if Kevin doesn’t re-sign, then there’s a chance—again, a small chance!—that we’ll either need to trade Russell Westbrook or prepare for him to leave in 2017. Now, if Kevin and Russell both leave—this is only a hypothetical!—then there’s a chance Serge Ibaka leaves too. Then we might—might!—be rebuilding around Enes Kanter. At that point, there’s a chance—a small chance!—that we would be dealing with a disillusioned fan base that can’t wrap its head around the fact that we never won a title and made just one Finals appearance with eight years of Durant and Westbrook together. Plus that whole James Harden thing, but we actively avoid mentioning that.\nHopefully, that’s not quite how Thunder GM Sam Presti’s recruiting pitch to Billy Donovan went this summer. Whether Donovan chooses to publicly acknowledge this nightmare scenario or not, there’s no getting around the immense stakes facing Oklahoma City this season. A title run could re-open a championship window that extends for the next five years, or more. Another injury-plagued season like last year might lead Durant to seek out greener pastures and bring down the entire house of cards.\nOne could argue that Donovan, who arrives from the University of Florida, will face more pressure this season than any NBA coach in the last five or 10 years. Erik Spoelstra might have been axed if the Heat had stumbled in the 2011 playoffs, but the “Big Three” era would have continued on without him. David Blatt might have gotten the quick pull if he had cost the Cavaliers their second-round series against the Bulls with his terrible timeout call, but James wasn’t going to leave Cleveland after one try.\nWhat, precisely, is the range of possibilities for Donovan in his first year as a professional coach? Everything from dynasty to demolition. Now that’s pressure of the highest order. |
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One of the allures of Native American art is that everyone regardless of ethnicity can find something interesting in its imagery. Native American art can depict the past, a simpler way of life, but when it goes contemporary the viewer can see social issues evolve to meet the needs of a current society.\nNative American artists Steve Tamayo and Donel Keeler understand the past, and by using innovative techniques and found materials, they present a refreshing view on a very traditional subject.\nTheir work in the two-person show, Traditions Transitioned, on display currently at RNG Gallery in Council Bluffs, reflects a diversity of interests and new directions for this art form. The exhibit offers the opportunity to study and debate the origins of materials and technique as well as the interesting use of traditional mediums in a contemporary style.\nIn “Oldies, But Goodies,” Tamayo presents a lighthearted modern interpretation of Native American footwear. The light tan moccasins made out of ceramic are richly detailed with light and dark blue painted beadwork and adjustable bow ties at the top of the shoe.\nWith “Buffalo Spirit,” you can see the influences of his heritage within this piece. The piece consists of a painted old bull buffalo skull. The top half of the skull is painted black depicting a ghostly buffalo, while the bottom part of the skull is painted bright red accented with white designs. The skull is filled with sage.\nWhen looking at the sky the viewer can see a bright yellow orb in the vivid blue background with drifting buffalo clouds low on the horizon. The colors are gorgeous – the blues, yellows, oranges, and browns jump off the canvas.\n“Parfleche Design” is an architectural arrangement of what looks like an up-close detail of a patch of beadwork from a piece of clothing. The most impressive feature Keeler seems to focus on is his choice of colors. The canvas looks like fabric and the bright turquoise and deep red juxtaposes with the tan canvas. It is a simple painting, but it boasts much texture and shading.\n“I mainly use acrylic paint to present subjects like buffalo, horses, native hunters and other aspects of native life. I go back in my Native American background and bring back the history that I was told,” he said.\nNative American art can reflect the customs of its various tribes by intertwining popular culture along with their contemporary view to historic themes. These two artists present the complexities of the Modern Native American experience and allow the viewer a glimpse into the nuances, meanings and perspective of identity that focuses on their heritage.\nTraditions Transitioned continues through February 1st at RNG Gallery. 157 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA. For details, go to dixiequicks.com/category/rng-gallery or call 712-256-4140.\nA Valentine’s Day Evening Fit for the Gods!Taxes and Medicaid and Mountain Lions? Oh, My! |
One of the most severe requirements on MERIS is posed by calibration. A very accurate band-to-band calibration relative to the solar spectral irradiance is required for ocean colour applications. The imaging principle of MERIS imposes, in addition, a need for detector elements to be accurately normalised.\nThe basic hardware requirements for an onboard calibration system offering both a uniform reference signal over a large field of view and a stable absolute spectral reference signal has led to the preferred solution which utilises diffuser plates illuminated by the Sun.\nThe calibration hardware is implemented on a selection disk. A stepper motor allows the selection of any of the five positions of the disk as required by the instrument mission requirements.\nA diaphragm is introduced in the field of view.\nA Sun-illuminated white diffuser plate is inserted into the field of view of MERIS at the cross-over point of the five cameras' fields of view. The diffuser provides a reflectance standard across the entire spectral range and field of view. In this way a full aperture instrument calibration which follows the same optical path as in the observation modes is realised. During the calibration the signal is recorded for 512 frames. Each frame is corrected for offset and smear components. The averaged signal is then divided by the BRDF of the diffuser obtained from on-ground characterisation and stored onboard, yielding the absolute radiometric gains. If the on-ground calibration mode has been selected, the onboard processing is limited to the averaging over the 512 frames. The gain coefficients are calculated on ground.\nFigure 3.6 - Calibration hardware.\nThe radiometric diffuser is exposed to the Sun for a cumulated period of about 1 hour during the MERIS lifetime. Some limited degradation caused by radiation exposure may be expected. A second diffuser is therefore provided to evaluate changes in the BRDF of the commonly used diffuser. This diffuser is used infrequently and thus does not degrade as quickly as the first diffuser. The ageing of the radiometric diffuser is monitored by comparing the data acquired with both diffusers.\nThis is achieved by using the wavelength diffuser featuring well-characterised absorption minima. MERIS is reprogrammed to sample adequately the absorption features. As a result, the spectral distribution law is obtained, which relates spectral bands to their wavelengths. It is also envisaged to use as an alternative the solar Fraunhoffer line absorption seen when observing the radiometric diffuser. The wavelength diffuser is inserted into the field of view of MERIS. A precise wavelength calibration of the O2A absorption band is performed by comparing the diffuser measurements of the O2A band, normalised by a baseline through adjacent bands, with pre-calculated values.\nThe Earth and Sun optical paths are blocked by a shutter.\nFollowing extensive environmental tests, SpectralonTM has been selected as the diffuser material. Diffusers manufactured with this material offer the required uniformity over the field of view and a remarkable stability. A diffuser plate doped with a rare Earth oxide is used for the spectral calibration.\nThe onboard calibration sequence calculates the calibration coefficients for all FR pixels of the 15 spectral bands, stores them on board for further use during full processed observation mode. |
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Theory of mind¿our capacity to understand what other people think and feel¿grows significantly in the preschool and early school years. This is recognized as a crucial period for social development yet 30 years of research has not yet answered these basic questions: Do children with relatively advanced theories of mind also excel at navigating the everyday world of friendship and peer group dynamics at school? And conversely, do developmental delays in acquiring a theory of mind explain some of the peer problems that children with autism or deafness face? The proposed longitudinal project will be the first to supply a comprehensive and causally convincing answer to these core questions. |
Nursing students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) are seeking donations of eye glasses to take to Thailand next month for villagers in rural and remote areas.The eight Bachelor of Nursing students will spend a fortnight in northern Thailand as part of an international study experience through CSU Global.The students will be involved in primary health care and assessment in villages and towns in the remote Wat Jan region.In partnership with OPSM in Dubbo, they're collecting reading and sun glasses to donate to the villagers they meet on the trip.Lecturer in the CSU School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Ms Cathy Maginnis said, "The donated glasses makes such a difference to the lives of the villagers."Many of them work all day in the rice fields or with other farming crops, such as corn, strawberries and coffee, so they're out in the sun and the glare all day, often in water."There's a lot of glare and they do suffer a lot, as they get older, from cataracts and glaucoma."The sunglasses certainly helps with some of that eye care."It also allows the villagers to engage in their traditional handicrafts from which they make an income."Nursing students last year donated glasses during a similar study trip to Thailand."The looks on their faces when we were able to give them a pair of glasses last year were just wonderful. It was a fantastic moment for both them and us."People are urged to donate reading or sun glasses by dropping them off at OPSM in Dubbo or CSU in Dubbo by Friday 9 June.The students depart for Thailand on Friday 16 June.The international study experience is one of many programs supported by CSU Global. The students are each eligible to receive a $500 Vice-Chancellor Travel Grant.\nLecturer in the CSU School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Ms Cathy Maginnis is available for comment. Contact CSU Media.\nPhoto: A CSU nursing student hands over eye glasses in a Thai village in 2016. |
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1The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."\n2The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, [saying], "Rule in the midst of Your enemies."\n3Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power; In holy array, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You [as] the dew.\n4The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek."\n5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.\n6He will judge among the nations, He will fill [them] with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.\n7He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up [His] head. |
During more stable economic times, cure the technique for calculating vacancy rates for a commercial property appraisal was simple. For the most part, appraisers divided the number of vacant rental units at a property by the total number of rentable units to determine the vacancy rate.\nBut these are not stable economic times, and vacancy rates can be unintentionally deceptive. The commercial real estate market has become an aggressive playing field where competing landlords are scrambling to secure tenants for their properties.\n“Some landlords are offering one year free rent, with tenants only paying CAM (common area maintenance) charges to sign long-term leases,” reports Justin Vogel, a property manager in the Boise, Idaho office of Colliers International.\nConsider the example of a landlord who gives away six months of free rent as an incentive to attract tenants. That free-rent period is economically equivalent to a vacancy for that unit for half the year, yet the property is reported as 100% occupied in market vacancy reports.\nFree rent isn’t the only consideration in calculating economic vacancy. Landlords are coming up with creative tactics to attract tenants these days, and almost any concession that reduces a property’s net operating income can affect value.\n“We see landlords offering furniture, equipment and moving allowances on top of typical tenant improvements,” says Derek Hulse, senior associate at Colliers in San Diego.\n“When the tenant eventually moves, the landlord of course retains the tenant improvements, but often the furniture and equipment go with the tenant,” adds Hulse.\nRetailers have traditionally been recognized as experts in utilizing their right brain in developing creative methods for enticing customers through their front door. In these tough economic times, landlords are learning from their tactics.\nCommercial brokers report that landlords are paying bonuses as high as 6% as incentives to steer tenants to their properties. This is up from the 3% commission of previous years.\n“Fear is certainly the dominant emotion that is driving most real estate decisions and causing landlords to do almost whatever it takes to rent their properties,” says Fred Sheats, senior vice president in Colliers’ Atlanta office.\nHow does an appraiser account for what seems like an endless array of tenant concessions in the rental marketplace, and should these incentives be included somehow in our vacancy calculations?\nThe calculation for vacancy used in the income approach to valuing commercial real estate can vary widely depending on whether the appraiser is using market vacancy or economic vacancy. Herein lies the problem for real estate professionals.\nWhich approach should an appraiser use? Due to the changing economic environment and landlord incentives, this question has become increasingly difficult to answer.\nAs appraisers, our favorite answer to this question is, “It depends.” In calculating economic vacancy, the appraiser must compare actual performance to an ideal performance.\nHere is how the calculation works. Assume an appraiser is appraising a 25-unit apartment complex with 15 apartments measuring 900 sq. ft. and 10 apartments measuring 1,800 sq. ft. for a total square footage of 31,500.\nNext, assume that each 900 sq. ft. unit rents for $1,000 per month while each 1,800 sq. ft. unit rents for $1,700 per month. At 100% occupancy, the potential monthly income would be $32,000 ($15,000 + $17,000), or $384,000 annually.\nNow, assuming that five of the smaller units (900 sq. ft.) are vacant, physical vacancy would be approximately 14%. Using the property’s physical vacancy in the income approach to estimate the value of the property, the appraiser could conclude that the property is suffering a $53,760 loss in annual rental income.\nCapitalizing the rental loss at 8%, the value of the property could be diminished by approximately $672,000 due to the physical vacancy.\nOn the other hand, economic vacancy focuses on the loss of income rather than vacant physical space. Considering that the rental loss should also include incentives provided by the landlord, the loss of $60,000 annual income illustrated in the example above divided by gross potential of $384,000 annually produces an economic vacancy rate of approximately 16%.\nThat economic vacancy is two percentage points higher than the physical or market vacancy rate. Using the same 8% cap rate to determine value would cause an additional loss in value of approximately $78,000.\nThe appraiser must include those factors, which may affect income and include income loss from sources beyond vacant units. This income loss potentially includes collection loss, model units, moving allowances, rental concessions, tenant improvements, tenant perks, furniture, rental commissions and anything else that landlords are dreaming-up these days to attract tenants.\nThrough reworking the figures in the example above, the appraiser would deduct loss of income beyond vacant units and include these other losses as well. |
NEW DELHI: It took just 5 minutes for 60,000 welcome kits of Maggi to be sold out on Snapdeal as consumers thronged the e-commerce platform to lap up their 2-minute instant noodles.\nEarlier this week, Snapdeal had announced that it will sell Nestle's Maggi via a unique "flash sale model" as the noodles brand made a comeback after a gap of five months.\nWhile registrations for Maggi's welcome kit (containing 12 packs of Maggi, a 2016 Maggi calendar, a Maggi fridge magnet, Maggi post cards and a 'Welcome Back' letter) opened up on November 9, the sale began today on Snapdeal.\n"Snapdeal sold out the first batch of 60,000 Maggi Welcome Kits within 5 minutes of Maggi Flash Sale going live today. There has been much anticipation for the return of one of the favourite Indian brands and we have witnessed a phenomenal response to this sale from customers across the country," Snapdeal Senior Vice President (Partnerships and Strategic initiatives) Tony Navin said.\nA new batch of Maggi WelcomeKits will be on sale from November 16.\nMaggi was banned in June by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) which stated that it was "unsafe and hazardous" for consumption due to presence of lead beyond permissible limits. The company had withdrawn the noodles brand from the market. |
The Royal Society is offering a training scheme for scientists to gain insight in to how parliament and government work, and how you can use your research findings to inform policy making.\nTo take part in the scheme you will need to be able to travel to London for the Week in Westminster and be willing to arrange for your parliamentarian or civil servant pair to visit you at your research facility. The Royal Society will cover your travel and subsistence costs, including accommodation, for the Week in Westminster.\nThe Royal Society welcomes applications from scientists across all science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics (STEMM) disciplines working in academia or industry. To be eligible for the scheme applicants are required to have at least two years postdoctoral research experience or equivalent research experience in industry.\nFor more information and to apply visit this link.\nThe deadline for applications is Sunday 24 May 2015.\nResearch Visits to Japan: Two Opportunities!\nThis week I have received information about two separate fellowship opportunities for PhD Students and post docs to work in Japan. One is with Toshiba and the other is with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.\nDetails of each can be found below and as an attachment. If you’re interested in applying I’d be happy to support you in any way I can.\nThe Toshiba Fellowship Programme is a unique opportunity for recently qualified PhD level scientists, mainly from science, computing and mathematics disciplines. It offers a chance to journey alongside Toshiba into innovation, discovering a new world of research and development, as well as exploring and living a new cultural experience in Japan. The Programme has successfully operated for over 25 years, enjoying a strong and long-running collaboration with the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) as well as fostering and developing the relationship between Japanese industry and UK academia. The successful Fellow receives a generous package, including a fixed salary and relocation assistance to and from Japan, together with support and advice prior to and during their stay.\nToshiba Fellows usually remain in their team for up to two years. The type of work carried out depends mainly on which team the Fellow joins and the research project area. A normal working day is standard eight hours, Monday to Friday. So that they can settle in and feel at home in their work and a new country, Toshiba assigns a mentor to assist the Fellow in and outside of the workplace.\nHave completed their PhD by the time they begin working for Toshiba in Japan.\nProposals from applicants for new advanced research topics which are relevant to this year’s Toshiba Fellowship Programme research areas are also welcome.\nNationals of other countries may be eligible to apply for funding through JSPS Headquarters. Please check their fellowship programmes and eligibility criteria by referring to the following web page: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/index.html.\nAll computer science related topics are welcomed.\nVisit the call website (http://www.jsps.org/funding/2013/09/jsps-london-short-term-postdoctoral-fellowship.html). There is information there, including a guide for applicants and a checklist documenting everything you should supply. Applications can be submitted electronically to [email protected] by the 5 December 2013. They must be as Word documents.\nThe Royal Society invites applications for its international exchanges scheme. This offers a flexible platform for UK-based scientists to interact with the best scientists around the world. Funds contribute towards travel, subsistence and research expenses, and can be requested for either a one-off short visit in order to explore opportunities for building lasting networks or for bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations.\nApplicants must have a PhD or equivalent research experience and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute for the duration of the project. Collaborations should be based on a single project involving the UK-based scientist and the overseas-based scientist. Collaborations with any country outside the UK are eligible for this scheme.\nup to £12,000 for multiple visits to be completed within two years, including a maximum of £2,000 for research expenses.\nAs part of Google’s on-going commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, they are offering Google EMEA Travel and Conference Grants.\nThere doesn’t appear to be a deadline, so you can apply at any time, but it is only relevant for conferences chosen by Google which will be announced in the new year. |
Frogmore works with institutional investors across the globe to understand their requirements for UK real estate and deliver effective solutions accordingly.\nOur three value add funds are currently closed for new investment. They seek to generate superior risk-adjusted returns in which active asset and financial management are intended to significantly enhance both income and capital returns, as well as pursue select development opportunities.\nWe are also partnering with established institutions to develop and execute investment strategies with a specific focus, customised to their needs. |
Roll forward again to 2000 and the introduction of OS X (now macOS). A completely new operating system built around the incarnation of the internet as we know and use it today, built not to fall foul of the tricks of hackers and viruses, but built to be fast, useable, clean and customisable. It still stands on the same base today, albeit much improved, very much faster and with a LOT more ability.\nToday; from simple maintenance to repairs, networking and tuition, setting up and migrating software, working on anything Apple is a pleasure for Mac Doctor Norwich. It always has been and always will be. The best thing about helping clients with their Apple computers, is the satisfaction from seeing a client's requirements fulfilled.\nMove on to 1989, Mac Doctor Norwich is introduced for the first time to the Apple Macintosh - a Macintosh Plus. The revelation of a Graphical User Interface, the windows, the menus, the pointer and icons. The single button mouse, the built in floppy disk drive without an eject button. What this did was begin a love affair; Mac Doctor Norwich and Macs.\nMac Doctor Norwich has a long history of being involved in computers. In 1982, the Sinclair Spectrum 48K hits the market. It's not long until Mac Doctor Norwich gets into programming. He goes from there through Amstrads and Commodores, Atari STs and Amigas, and a variety of consoles too. |
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I am so happy that Nicole Kidman is talking about this.\nOn the limited-series show, his wife plays Celeste, the wife of an awful man who makes control freaks look docile. And Kidman admitted to Vogue that Urban was alarmed to see the bruises she brought home from work.\n“I didn’t realize how much of it penetrated me,” Kidman said. “I would go home at night sometimes and be in a lot of pain, and I had to take things like Advil because I was being thrown around physically. I was really bruised. |
This study offers an overview of the natural development of the use of an activity tracker, as well as the relative importance of a range of determinants from literature. Decay is exponential but slower than may be expected from existing literature. Many factors have a small contribution to sustained use. The most important determinants are technical condition, age, user experience, and goal-related factors. This finding suggests that activity tracking is potentially beneficial for a broad range of target groups, but more attention should be paid to technical and user experience–related aspects of activity trackers. |
A kilo-tesla level magnetic field is necessary to guide high-energy electrons at the speed of light, so the researchers employed magnetic fields of several hundreds of tesla. Because electrons, which are charged and have a small mass, easily move along a magnetic field line, they guided the high energy REB of 1MeV along the magnetic field lines to the core (the fusion fuel of 100 microns or less), achieving efficient heating of high-density plasma. They named the scheme "magnetized fast isochoric heating."\nThe article "Magnetized Fast Isochoric Laser Heating for Efficient Creation of Ultra-High-Energy-Density States" was published in Nature Communications, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06173-6. |
Plastic 2 is a plug-in for FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server that processes secure payments within FileMaker.\nFileMaker 7 or higher, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 6 or higher, Windows or Mac OS X 10.6. Rosetta on Intel Macs not supported.\nIf you unzip the zip archive containing the plug-in files and open the top-level directory, you will find two subdirectories labeled WIN (for Windows) and MAC (for Macintosh). The WIN directory contains two plug-in files, one with a .fmx extension and another with a .fmx64 extension. The file with the .fmx64 extension is only used for FileMaker Server installations, which are explained below. The MAC directory contains a plug-in file with a .fmplugin extension.\nTo install the plug-in, copy the plug-in from the WIN or MAC folder to one of the directories listed below. Directory paths are listed relative to the parent directory of the installation home directory of the FileMaker application.\nNote: Using the plug-in with the FileMaker Server Web Publishing Engine or the FileMaker Server Scripting Engine requires an Enterprise plug-in license.\nUninstall the plug-in by quitting FileMaker Pro or stopping FileMaker Server and removing the plug-in file from the appropriate Extensions or Plugins directory.\nPlug-ins will run in a fully featured demo mode until they are registered. While running in demo mode, the plug-in will run for 2 hours at a time. In order to get another two hours of demo time, you must restart FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server's database server module or FileMaker Server's Web Publishing Engine, depending upon where the plug-in is installed.\nTo register the plug-in in FileMaker Pro, you may either enter the license information in FileMaker plug-in preferences or by calling CCRegister inside a script. You must call CCRegister inside a script in order to register the plug-in for use with FileMaker Server.\nReturns: a 1 on success or a 0 on failure.\nWhen something unexpected happens, the plug-in will pop up a dialog showing what the error message is. This makes it easy to see what went wrong. However, in some cases, you (the developer) may prefer to show your own message to the user, or possibly not show a message at all. In that case, you can call CCSetErrorCapture ( true ). This will suppress the displaying of error dialogs.\nIf a plug-in is not installed correctly, all plug-in function calls will return "?"\nThe simplest way to check to see if money has changed hands in a payment processing function call is to check the result of the function itself. This is extremely useful when calling functions such as CCProcessPayment and CCProfileProcessPayment. The result of the transaction will give a transaction ID or the word ERROR. Using the CCLastError like in the example above will give further information about the error, such as if there is no network connectivity, or the card was declined.\n#Transaction is unsuccessful. Below is an example of how you might handle the error.\nFor more information on how to correctly install and work with plug-ins, check out the Plugins 101 documentation.\nUSA ePay can process a wide variety of transactions, including eCheck / ACH payments, profile-based payments, and subscriptions. For detailed examples of each of these transactions, check the demo file included as a download with Plastic 2. These scripts are ready for insertion into your own solution!\nYou'll need an account using the USA ePay Gateway, and use your source key and the PIN as the first two parameters for every plug-in function call that performs a transaction. You can log into your account at USA ePay and generate the PIN there. In the function signature template, you may see the terms merchant account name and transaction key instead of source key and PIN. This is due to the fact that Plastic 2 supports many gateways that use different definitions of log-in credentials.\nBefore processing any payments, you need to tell Plastic which gateway you are using. This is done by calling CCSetGateway.\nReturns: 1 if a valid gateway is provided, "ERROR" on failure.\nIf running card present charges, you should also set cardPresent to true when setting the gateway.\nTo run test transactions, call CCSetTestMode - If set to 1, tells Plastic to perform all subsequent transactions as test transactions. If set to 0, tells Plastic to perform all subsequent transactions as live transactions. If this function is never called, the default behavior of Plastic is to treat all transactions as live transactions.\nIf you would like to use Plastic to perform transactions against an alternate URL, call the CCSetGateway function with the additional parameter url, whose value would correspond to the alternate url. A gateway emulator is a common use case for an alternate URL. Gateway emulators fashion an application programming interface that resembles that of a competing gateway to ease the integration process for merchants who switch to their gateway.\nThe call to CCSetGateway acts as a flag, so all subsequent transactions will point to the alternate URL until otherwise specified or FileMaker is restarted.\nThis simple example will run a single charge and requires you to input a card number and expiration date. To prevent this information from being saved in your database and to simplify PCI compliance, jump to the #Payment Profiles section.\nOnce you properly configure your merchant account, you can quickly and easily process payment transactions.\nThe CCProcessPayment function will process a transaction and return a transaction ID. This function returns a transaction ID if the transaction is successful or the word ERROR if the transaction fails. For detailed information about the most recent transaction failure, call the CCLastError function before calling any other transaction-processing function.\nIn your script, you would then have a second line after setting the gateway.\nNote: It is important to store the resulting transaction ID because you may need it later to void the transaction, issue a refund or capture a previously authorized transaction.\nYou may submit optional parameters to most of Plastic's payment-transaction processing functions. These parameters will be submitted to the payment gateway along with the basic transaction information. Although they are not usually required to process an order, these parameters can be useful for tasks such as address verification or linking a transaction to a customer id or an invoice number. To supply additional parameters to a function call, add them to the end of the parameter list after the last required parameter, using a "key=value" syntax.\nPlastic 2 now supports payments via direct bank transfers and eChecks, via ACH payments. To take a payment via eCheck, use the CCProcessPaymentACH function after calling the gateway.\nYou must pass in the ACH Type and driver's license information. Do so by adding the extra parameters as key=value pairs. The blank placeholder is marked with ""; - normally you would use this parameter for a bank name, but that is not supported in USA ePay transactions.\nIf taking a Account Receivable Transaction (ARC) or Back Office Conversion (BOC) payment, you must also pass in a check number. If not, simply type ""; where that checkNumber field would be.\nA sale transaction for credit card contains two parts: an authorization which verifies and places a hold for the amount, and a capture, which actually transfers the funds.\nTo run an authorization, pass in an additional parameter authMode=AUTH_ONLY.\nAfter running an authorization, run the appropriate CCProcessAuthorizedPayment. Pass in the previousTransactionId from the transaction ID you received from the process with authMode.\nCertain types of merchant accounts are set up for reading physical card swipes, instead of taking orders via the web or over the phone. If you account is a card present account, like a retail store, then you will need to also send the data included on the magnetic stripe of a card. It is important to pass in swipe data if you have it, as your transaction may be downgraded to a more expensive rate if you simply type a card number.\nTo process a card present transaction, first call CCSetGateway with the parameter cardPresent=true. If CCSetGateway returns a 1, then you can perform a card present transaction.\nTo process a payment using card present accounts, you'll need the information in the magnetic stripe of the credit card. In Plastic, this information may obtained from a keyboard-emulating card reader, which essentially dumps text into a text field when the card is swiped, as if the text had been entered via a keyboard.\nWhile some card readers will contain software that parses that raw data from the magnetic stripe before dumping it to a field, this documentation refers to those keyboard-emulating readers that dump raw data. Raw swipe data contains two delimited pieces of information: Track 1 and Track 2.\nSee http://www.exeba.com/comm40/creditcardformat.htm for more information about Track 1 and Track 2.\nNote: As a convenience, the Plastic function CCTrackData will parse either Track 1 or Track 2 data as a return-separated string containing account code, cardholder name, expiration date (YYMM), and optional discretionary data.\nFinally, call CCProcessPayment and pass in raw swipe or track data. When processing a card-present transaction, a gateway will typically require you to pass in either the full raw swipe, Track 1 or Track 2. In most cases, you do not need to pass in card numbers and expiration dates.\nPass in either track1 or track2.\nWhen using CCProcessPayment, specifying the additional parameter "authMode=AUTH_ONLY" will perform an authorization as opposed to a sale transaction. Specifying the "isPartialAuthorization=true" parameter will tell the gateway to allow for partial authorizations of pre-paid credit cards, gift cards and debit cards.\nAfter specifying a partial authorization, you can request the remaining balance and the requested amount by using CCPartialGetRemainingBalance and CCPartialGetRequestedAmount. Both return the dollar amounts, and do not require any additional parameters.\nVoids a previously processed payment. The parameters are similar to the CCProcessPayment function, except dollarAmount is replaced with the addition of the previousTransactionID parameter. The previousTransactionID should be the transaction ID of the transaction you wish to void. This value is returned by the CCProcessPayment function. Alternately, you can use the CCLastPaymentTransactionID function to get the transactionID of the last processed payment.\npin - your merchant account password OR transaction key.\npreviousTransactionID - the transactionId of a previously processed transaction.\nNote that CCVoidPayment will only work on orders that have not settled yet, which means that it will generally only work on payments made that same day. To void settled orders, use CCRefund instead.\nSee also: CCLastPaymentTransactionID: the transactionID from the payment gateway service if the order is successful, or "ERROR" if there was a problem (use CCLastError for more detailed information about the nature of the error).\nTo credit a transaction, you need the transaction ID returned by CCProcessPayment. Pass this (along with other payment info) to the CCRefund function. This is similar to the void process, except it accepts a dollar amount and the credit card number (or the last four digits of the credit card number) used to process the original transaction.\nIf you do not pass a dollar amount, it will refund the whole amount of the transaction.\nWith subscriptions, payments can automatically be debited to a credit card or a bank account on a time period you specify. If you gateway supports it, there may be up to five functions used to manage subscriptions: CCCreateSubscription, CCCreateSubscriptionACH, CCModifySubscription, CCModifySubscriptionACH, and CCDeleteSubscription.\nUSA ePay supports all five subscription functions. Creating and modifying subscriptions all accept the same optional parameters, available in the table below.\nValid pay periods include daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, biannually, and annually. The number of installments specify how many transactions to run. A six month subscription would specify a payPeriod of monthly, and 6 installments.\nTo create a credit card subscription, use CCCreateSubscription. To create a bank account subscription, use CCCreateSubscriptionACH. Italicized items are optional.\nReturns: the subscription ID on success, "ERROR" on failure.\nAfter a subscription has been created, it can be modified with CCModifySubscription. If the original subscription was a bank account you'll use CCModifySubscriptionACH. The optional parameters can be set to "" if you do not need to modify them. The last two, marked with ""; are payPeriod and frequency, which cannot be modified.\nReturns: 1 on success, or "ERROR" if there was a problem.\nThere are no optional parameters with deleting a subscription.\nPlastic 2 features customer profiles, which allow you to submit customer and payment information to be reused for future transactions. This greatly simplifies PCI compliance, and keeps sensitive information out of your database. To get started, first you'll need to create a customer in the system. This will return an ID that you can then store. After that, attach a payment method to this newly created customer. This will return a payment ID, which together with the customer profile ID, you can run charges against.\nAfter creating a customer, it can also be updated, deleted, or retrieved. Retrieving a customer will return the information the gateway has saved about the customer, with the sensitive information masked. Customer ID is a end user set value, and Customer Profile ID is the one dictated by the gateway.\nWhich will return the last name of the profile requested.\nYou don't necessarily need to pass in a customer ID for creating or updating a customer profile.\nPayment profiles allow you to save payment information straight to the gateway for future use. To create a payment profile, call either CCProfileCreatePayment or CCProfileCreatePaymentACH, depending on whether the payment profile is a credit card or ACH. Credit cards are created with CCProfileCreatePayment and updated with CCProfileUpdatePayment. Italicized items are optional, and can accept ""; if not needed.\nReturns: Creating a payment will return the ID of the profile created, "ERROR" on failure. Updating will return 1 on success, "ERROR" on failure.\nAfter creation, payments can be retrieved with CCProfileGetPayment Payments can be deleted with CCProfileDeletePayment.\nReturns: Getting a payment will return the ID of the profile requested, "ERROR" on failure. Deletions will return 1 on success, "ERROR" on failure.\nACH payments are added and updated in much the same way as a credit card. Italicized items are optional, and can accept ""; if not needed. ACH payments can use the same CCProfileGetPayment, CCProfileValidatePayment, and CCProfileDeletePayment as above.\nOptional parameters: achType, driversLicenseNumber, driversLicenseState.\nYou can process a payment and refund transactions using the saved payment data. Please note you'll need to mark whether the original payment method was an ACH or credit card using the key=value pair.\nReturns: Payments return a transaction ID from the payment gateway service if the transaction is successful, or "ERROR" if there was a problem. Refunds will return 1 on success, or "ERROR" if there was a problem.\nPlastic includes a number of helper functions that allow users to retrieve data from the gateway or Plastic.\nTo execute any of these functions inside of a script, use a Set Field or Set Variable script step.\nCCGetCardIssuer(cardNumber) - returns the card issuer for a given card number, either: VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX, DINERS, DISCOVER, JCB. Returns an error if the card number is from another issuer.\nCCGetLast (name) - returns a value from the most recent transaction response that corresponds with the name parameter.\nM- CVV2/CVC2 Match - Indicates that the card is authentic. Complete the transaction if the authorization request was approved.\nN- CVV2 / CVC2 No Match – May indicate a problem with the card. Contact the cardholder to verify the CVV2 code before completing the transaction, even if the authorization request was approved.\nP- Not Processed - Indicates that the expiration date was not provided with the request, or that the card does not have a valid CVV2 code. If the expiration date was not included with the request, resubmit the request with the expiration date.\nS- Merchant Has Indicated that CVV2 / CVC2 is not present on card - May indicate a problem with the card. Contact the cardholder to verify the CVV2 code before completing the transaction.\nCCLastChargeResult - returns the gateway's result code for the last operation.\nCCLastPaymentAuthCode - returns the gateway's approval code for the last payment which was processed with CCProcessPayment.\nCCLastPaymentTransactionID- returns the gateway's transaction ID for the last payment which was processed with CCProcessPayment.\nCCLastRawResponse- returns the gateway's raw text response for the most recent transaction.\nCCValidateCardNumber (cardNumber) determines if a card number is valid. Does not indicate the validity of the card itself, only its number. Returns either a 1 for valid card, or 0 for invalid cards.\nCCLastError - returns the text of the last error triggered by a plugin function.\nCCLicenseInfo - returns information about the license used.\nCCVersion - returns the version of the credit card plugin which is installed.\nThis page was last modified on 7 November 2013, at 20:58. |
Over the years we have had some pretty amazing litters of puppies. Favourites have become cockapoos puppies and goldendoodles puppies, but pure Cocker Spaniels and Golden Retrievers are still right up there for their incredible personalities. We recently had a litter of Cocker Spaniel and Havanese X puppies born, “cockanese” as they have become known in short. They are absolutely adorable! The mix of the two breeds creates a wonderful hybrid dog that has a look very similar to a cockapoo puppy and a personality that matches.\nplease visit our Puppies For Sale page or join our Waiting List to hear about upcoming litters.\nWe breed our litters with American Cocker Spaniels. The American Cocker Spaniel is a loving and loyal dog, very social and companionable. Great with children, busy families and even the quieter home. Unfortunately for many these days, the Cocker Spaniel is a shedding and non-hypoallergenic dog. This makes ownership of this amazing breed impossible for those with allergies.\nThe havanese is generally our stud. The havanese is considered non-shedding (low shedding truthfully as all dogs lose some hair as it grows) and this makes them great for allergy sufferers, as well as those who don’t like to clean up hair. They have a very playful personality and are easily adaptable to condo or apartment living, they’re great for those who have never had a dog before and they are highly companionable and easily trained.\nThe combination of the two has made a wonderful smaller sized dog that wants to be everyone’s best friend and will be easily trained. Their hair is super soft and will not shed much, making them great for almost everyone now.\n**Please keep in mind that there are two kinds of allergies: to dog dander as well as the saliva. Unfortunately if you’re allergic to a dog’s saliva then every dog will cause a reaction. If you can make sure the dog does not lick you, then you can adjust to life with a dog if you have saliva related allergies.\nCockapoo puppies are so popular and are so incredibly sweet. Over all the years we have had these puppies we have heard from so many people how healthy the cockapoo is as well as how long the cockapoo will live. The personality of a cockapoo is so endearing! When you see one out and about, at the park or walking on the street, if they are well trained and cared for, it will make you want one of your own! They are so loving and smart and just overall wonderful pets. The Cocker Spaniel as a purebred is not high on the intelligence scale, however due to their willingness to please you, they can still be quick to train for the reward of your praise! The pure poodle however is an extremely intelligent dog, very high on the intelligence! Sometimes however this can make them overly hyper for some people, needing more attention than you have time to give them. The poodle has the low shedding hair, in stark contrast to the shedding/allergenic nature of the Cocker Spaniel. The cross of the two meets wonderfully in the middle, giving you a balanced and intelligent low shedding dog.\nThe cockanese by comparison has quite the similarities to the cockapoo. The purebred havanese is also very adaptable and intelligent and easy to train. They have a very lovable personality and with their soft wavy low shedding hair, the cross with the Cocker Spaniel mixes nicely with the havanese creating an incredible soft and fluffy hair. The havanese is also generally a smaller dog, typically under 13lbs full grown whereas the Cocker Spaniel is generally closer to 25lbs on average. The mix brings the full grown size of the cockanese somewhere in the middle, giving a nice lap sized dog that is easy to take with you, or just to cuddle up on the couch. |
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From Mike’s notes: The initial action from DRUM involved black workers wildcat strikes that shut down Chrysler’s Dodge Main and Eldon Gear and Axle assembly plants to protest racial discrimination, safety violations and poor working conditions. The immediate impact was that it forced the auto industry and the UAW to deal with the reality of racial discrimination that dominated these institutions. This resulted in changes that gave black workers access to all parts of the industry with the exception of skilled trades which even today, continues discriminatory practices throughout the industry. The Detroit walkouts by black workers impacted nearly all industries on the West Coast and the Northeast states. Some token changes occurred in the South and Midwest.\nWildcat strike Dodge Main 1968. Photo courtesy General Baker.\nThe League’s long-term strategy was to confront racism wherever it existed by using the strength of black workers and hopefully of white workers to destroy the second-class citizenship of black people. Black workers took the lead and created the League, an umbrella organization that linked and incorporated black groups in work places and community organizations. We planned strikes, boycotts, public shaming; we were open to any means necessary. Our fight is as necessary today as it was at the time because racism is so pervasive, so hardened as evidenced by threats to our right to vote, loss of power by unions, and the deterioration of our communities due to the growing wealth disparity and reckless use of corporate power in the U.S. today.\nRead more in A Black Revolutionary’s Life in Labor: Black Workers Power in Detroit a new book by Michael Hamlin with Michele Gibbs.\nPurchase a copy of Mike’s book on our website www.againstthetidebooks.com/books/. Follow our blog by clicking “follow” on this website. Visit us on Facebook: Against the Tide Books.\nAlso available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel.com, SOURCE Booksellers in Midtown Detroit and the Charles H.Wright Museum of African American History.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2013 by joanncastle. |
In a tweet on Friday, President Donald Trump again touted his daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump’s qualifications to replace United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who will be leaving her post at the end of this year.\nFor unclear reasons, Ms. Trump’s name arose for the position almost immediately after the announcement of Haley’s resignation, though she insists she does not want the position and the president claims that, despite so-called qualifications, he would be decried for nepotism.\nTrump has remained consistent in his lack of clarity as to just who is suggesting this. In today’s tweet, he said that “everyone” wants Ivanka as UN Ambassador, but Twitter users were quick to point out that that wasn’t the case.\nActually, many many people do NOT want Ivanka to be the UN Ambassador because there are many other people who have worked their entire lives to earn the opportunity to serve our country in that capacity. Shoe designers need not apply.\nEveryone does not, in fact, want this.\nIvanka herself has shot down the notion.\nIn addition to the wild unpopularity of the idea, others clarified that the appointment would receive cries of nepotism because it would, in fact, be nepotism. |
Boy, Mr. Henson, the unsung hero of hip-hop!\nI'll have to be sure to play the archive of this show the next time my house is overrun by kiddies. Like tonight at dinner.\nand do what with my laptop?\nmind you, John made so many little broadcast mistakes it was almost at home for such a thing to happen. In the best possible way.\nfor sure. so many people cherish having had their record mis-played by him. i think low thought it was pretty funny.\nThanks for the Sasquatch. That was hilarious.\nBTW, thanks again for all the suggestions of London visits you gave me (a month or two ago). We're going in late Oct/early Nov and have been plotting and planning relentlessly, incorporating many of your ideas. We're planning 5 days in London, 4 in Cambridge, and 5 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Woot!\nHello Everybody Here I AM!!! |
On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within...? This deluxe edition is limited in number and signed. |
This narrative, so fantastic, was long considered to be a work of fiction pretending to be fact. John Cockburn tells a tale of extraordinary and harrowing adventure, beginning when he and his crew were overtaken off the coast of Jamaica by another ship, “…mostly Spaniards, and commanded by Captain Johnson the Pirate, an Englishman, and Pedor Poleas a Spaniard” in 1730. The surviving crew escaped from jail in San Pedro Sula in Honduras, crossed the Isthmus to San Salvador and traveled to Panama overland.\n“This was the first setting out of a Journey, as we computed, through an unknown Tract of Land, (at least to us) which took us up ten Months, and I may say some times proved insupportable; for we were all the while exposed to many Dangers, and underwent many Hardships, as was possible for human Nature to sustain.” In his book, Cockburn described vegetation; animals; insects; and wrote short but vivid stories about the governments, dress, characteristics and customs of the descendants of the great Mayan empire and other native peoples (many of whom were at war with each other).\nThe book was re-printed many times. A folding map depicts Central America and the Isthmus of Panama.\nThe edition is appended with A Briefe Discoverye of Some Things best worth Noteing in the Travells of… a popular travel narrative by Nicholas Withington, who arrived in India in 1612.\nThis is architect Bernard Poyet’s proposal for the Paris public hospital (Hôtel-Dieu), then one of the busiest and least sanitary hospitals in the world (and that is saying something!). The hospital housed three to seven thousand patients a day in twelve hundred beds. Erected on the banks of the Seine by Notre Dame between 1200 and 1250, it was enlarged during the subsequent centuries in a haphazard manner. The original buildings suffered a series of fires between 1737 and 1772, leaving a large part of the complex destroyed. To replace the existing facility, Poyet (1742-1824), Architecte de la ville de Paris, conceived a circular building along the river, adjacent to where the Eiffel Tower stands today.\nThe wheel-shaped building would accommodate five thousand beds and allow for expansion. The ground floor would house the pharmacy, kitchens, administrative offices and other services. The upper floors were devoted to patient care, with sixteen rooms each accommodating eighty-four beds. The ring surrounded a circular courtyard with a freestanding chapel at its center. The plan included specialized outbuildings for birthing and highly contagious patients, large adjoining green spaces, an animal slaughter house. There were several critiques of Poyet’s plan, including that of the Académie des sciences, which objected to the building’s circular form. “The wards are too close as they approach the center…” The Académie was particularly concerned with “infected air” and the best means in which to vitiate it. Air flow was a huge concern. Wind flow was Poyet’s answer to this concern. He believed that the flow of water along the River Seine encouraged the flow of air.\nPoyet sited his hospital on an island, maximizing water, and therefore air, flow. The long, spoked wards opened at the short ends, allowing winds to flow the length of the wards and into the open central courtyard.\nThe royal commission chose an alternative plan, which was not realized until the 19th-century. There is evidence, however, that Thomas Jefferson approved of Poyet’s hospital design and drew from it for his Montecello. Jefferson was in Paris at the time of the publication of this pamphlet.\nPoyet continued to be involved in urban design schemes in Paris in the 1790s and in to the early 18th century. The author of this pamphlet, outlining Poyet’s plan, Claude Philibert Coquéau, was also a French architect. He joined the Ministry of the Interior in 1792.\nGuilty by association, Coquéau was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris and guillotined on 8 Thermidor II.\nThree folding etched plates illustrate Poyet’s design.\nRare Books copy in self-wrappers, stabbed as issued.\nThis anonymous critique of Poyet’s ideas for a new hospital downplays general concerns for overcrowding in the current hospital, argues that Poyet’s estimation of twenty-five percent mortality rate is high, suggests the quality of service is just fine, and objects to numerous aspects of Poyet’s design, including the number of steps to the second floor. Our copy is distinguished by manuscript annotations on several pages by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who points out the discrepancies between the Relevé’s contentions and the facts and clearly sympathizes with Poyet’s point of view. As a dedicated civil servant, Lavoisier was very interested in the reconstruction of the hospital, especially after the fire of 1772.\nLavoisier’s advocacy for renovation continued until he was beheaded in May 1794. |
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Monday Morning Halfback: Who's the greatest?\nFans around the world have an obsession with labelling the greatest players in their chosen sport.\nIt is equally the most interesting and most pointless of debates that sport fans busy themselves with the world over.\nFrom football's annual debate between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi (don't forget Pele), to basketball's debate about LeBron James and Michael Jordan (enter Stephen Curry), finding the 'GOAT' (greatest of all time) is one of our favourite pastimes.\nWith the advent of social media and an always-connected sport community, it has become the all-absorbing, time consuming cyclic debate at pubs, clubs and family barbecues across the country.\nIn cricket there is relatively no debate about the greatest of all time, disregarding India's passion for Sachin Tendulkar, in a heavily stat-based game, no one comes close to the Don. He's untouchable which ruins the fun.\nThat was simply unacceptable to cricket fans so they solved that problem with some clever syntax, another metric was needed: the "best since Bradman".\nAnd so we move to the topical debate of the current rugby league landscape – a question that seemingly demands answering today. Is Johnathan Thurston the greatest to ever lace the boot?\nBetter than Andrew Johns, Darren Lockyer, Wally Lewis, Clive Churchill, Reg Gasnier, Bob Fulton, Graham Langlands, Johnny Raper, Norm Provan, Dally Messenger, Arthur Beetson, Ken Irvine, Bradley Clyde et al.?\nThe crowd is clamouring to rank 'JT' against the best since 1908 and they want instant gratification.\nEach game that passes the conversation grows. Every time Thurston shows us something, the chatter builds. It started with hushed tones and whispers, but it has exploded into mainstream in the last few seasons.\nHow do you quantify it, where do you even start in a team sport played by many different shapes and sizes with completely different roles?\nProvan won 10 Premierships in a row, he even captain-coached and was immortalised as one half of the NRL trophy renamed in his honour. There is no more famous image in rugby league.\nIrvine scored 212 tries and no one has come remotely close since.\nChurchill – heck 'The Little Master' has the grand final's best player award named after him!\nMessenger – four of the awards hanging around Thurston's neck are named after him (Dally M medal). Tells you about the kind of player he was.\nLewis, he was simply dubbed 'The King'.\nJohns, named halfback of the century, apparently a decent player to boot.\nThurston? Four Dally M medals, three Golden Boot awards, two Premierships, a Clive Churchill medal, a World Cup in 2013 including man-of-the-match awards in all four games he played and a seemingly endless number of State of Origin series wins for Queensland for good measure.\nThe most important thing? He's still going, still adding to his legend every time he takes the field.\nIt only matters in our minds, but as sport fans, we love the argument.\nLet's go through that list again.\nThe greatest? There are so many 'what if' moments that go into a rugby league team and their chances of success. What if the Bulldogs had kept Thurston instead of Brent Sherwin at the end of 2004? What if Thurston had in fact decided to go to Penrith instead of changing his mind at the last minute to stay with the Cowboys? It is amazing to think what might have been.\nThe Cowboys would never have won the title without Thurston, in fact their 2015 season would have imploded after just four rounds. History would look very different and Thurston's place might have changed remarkably. Still, Thurston stayed and led the Cowboys to their first ever premiership, kicking a field goal to win the biggest game of the year in one of the greatest grand finals ever seen. It was the ultimate moment to immortalize one of the greatest ever.\nIt was the worst game the Broncos and Cowboys have played in their previous four encounters, but it will still go down as one of the best of the season and an absolute epic with the Cowboys fighting their way back from 18-6 to steal the game with a Thurston field goal. It added another thrilling chapter to one of rugby league's best rivalries. It is the first time since 1928 that two sides have played out three consecutive one-point games. At the moment, there isn't anything better in rugby league than watching these two champion Queensland sides duke it out.\nHopefully they'll meet again sometime in September or October.\nWhen Rabbitoh Kirisome Auva'a stayed back in the in-goal to lift up fallen Dragon Gareth Widdop, it looked like a nice spot of sportsmanship in a brutal game, however, it ended with the Dragons immediately shifting the ball from the 20 metre tap and scoring down the flank Auva'a should have been. It is hard to fault Auva'a at all, but we bet next time he'll race back into position before thinking of lifting up an opponent.\nWrite it in your calendar, the Women's Interstate Challenge between Queensland and New South Wales will be held on July 23 at Cbus Super Stadium. The Maroons will be looking to retain the title for an incredible 18th year after being held to a draw for the first time in 2015. With participation in the women's game up 30 per cent year on year and historic new pathways introduced, this rivalry is only going to get bigger and better. |
Green Egg Muffins with Ham and Cheese | Low-Carb, So Simple!\nThese joyfully spring-colored keto egg muffins aren’t just perfect for Easter: they make a superb and satisfying low-carb breakfast or snack at any time of the year. And they freeze really well, so keep a batch in the freezer and pop one into the microwave when you need to grab a bite on the run.\nOriginally, I wanted to post a cabbage recipe, but my cabbage experiments failed miserably. I was itching to develop a great recipe for roasted cabbage, but nothing worked: no matter what I did, I always ended up with a bland, tasteless result.\nThis was a family affair, too: My husband carried four large heads of cabbage home from the grocery store for me and I used all of them for my roasted cabbage experiments — all of which failed. Well, actually, I still have a few ideas I haven’t tried yet, so whenever I manage to get a perfect result (and when I stop being bored with eating cabbage!), I will certainly post the recipe here.\nSo, after my failed cabbage experiments, how did I end up with something as different as egg muffins? Since Easter is around the corner (and St. Patrick’s Day was just a couple weeks ago), I had the color green and green-colored food on the brain.\nAnyway, further recipe experiments were a bit delayed since I was suffering from pyelonephritis and sepsis (after eating rye bread which I definitely don’t tolerate but just wanted to try out to see if I would tolerate it anyway… it’s a long story, so I won’t bore you with it!), I spent a week in the hospital and after that I had to rest a lot at home. St. Patrick’s Day passed, and I didn’t manage to develop any recipes for that.\nLuckily Easter is on the way, though, and since I have almost all my energy and strength back, I decided that it’s about time to develop a new nourishing, satisfying recipe.\nI was reading my idea list — I have a long list for recipe ideas to develop and post here on my blog. An idea for green egg muffins caught my eye. That would be just perfect for Easter, I thought. I think I got the idea for green egg muffins when I once saw a recipe for a green omelet. Unlike omelets, egg muffins are easy to grab as a snack: plus, they store well and freeze well. Just perfect for a busy — or lazy! — lifestyle. Bake once, eat 12 times! And they make it easy to feed your family, too.\nSo, on my list I’d just written the title “Green Egg Muffins with Bacon and Cheese” — no further explanations or descriptions of the ingredients or amounts. So I started to ponder what would I actually need for those egg muffins.\nFirst of all, I wanted to switch bacon to ham. Ham is more juicy and tender, and I’ve just used bacon so much lately. And I wanted to be sure that these muffins would be juicy and tender.\nSpinach would provide the green color, and eggs would act as the base, because I was making egg muffins. I’d certainly need some cheese as well. Sharp cheese is perfect for baking; it gives plenty of flavor and perfects the texture.\nBut what about spices? Eggs, spinach, cheese — even sharp cheese — and ham would be quite mild. I certainly needed some spices, too.\nSince mustard is my favorite seasoning with spinach (I sometimes make spinach pancakes and just cannot eat them without a big load of mustard), I wanted to see how mustard powder worked here. It had to work: how could it not?! Mustard is great with basically any savory dish!\nBut I was still hesitating between frozen or fresh spinach. Since frozen spinach is so handy and affordable, I decided to give that a try. It might make the texture watery, but if I used enough eggs, I thought, that shouldn’t be a problem.\nSo I didn’t have a clue as to quantities at first, but after some hard thinking I grabbed these for my first experiment: 6 eggs, 10 oz (280 g) defrosted frozen spinach, 1 cup (240 ml) chopped ham, 2 cups (480 ml) Swiss cheese, 1 teaspoon mustard powder and 1/2 teaspoon unrefined sea salt.\nI placed all the ingredients into a bowl and whisked them with a gravy whisk until well blended. I spooned the mixture into 12 muffin cups (paper liners, actually) and baked them at 350 °F (175 °C).\nAfter 20 minutes I checked the result. The muffins were too raw and moist, so I continued baking them. After 35 minutes they looked good and I removed them from the oven.\nWhen the muffins were still hot, I couldn’t stop myself from peeling the paper liner from one of the muffins. It was pretty moist. Maybe they’d look better after proper cooling? Plus, when hot, they stuck to the paper liners.\nMoreover, the texture was a bit uneven. I was hoping for a more even and intense green color, but the muffins were spotty with pale yellow egg and green spinach bits. The spinach should be definitely be integrated more smoothly throughout the muffins. Maybe blending with a blender would help? And the amount of spinach was simply too much: I definitely had to reduce it.\nI wasn’t happy with the taste either — it was just plain weird! It must have been the mustard that was the culprit. And I was so sure mustard would have been just the perfect seasoning for these muffins! No way. I had to think of something else. Something spicy that could offer a proper kick. Red pepper flakes, maybe? Now that sounded good!\nAt least now I knew how to improve my recipe. I got the ingredients ready for my next experiment. This time, I was planning to use fresh spinach instead of frozen spinach. And instead of that terrible-tasting mustard, I was planning to use crushed red pepper for better flavor and that much-needed kick.\nSo, for this experiment, I took 6 eggs again, and this time I used 4 oz (115 g) fresh spinach leaves, plus 1 cup (240 ml) chopped ham, 2 cups (480 ml) Swiss cheese, 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper and 1/2 teaspoon unrefined sea salt.\nI placed the eggs and the spinach leaves into a blender jar. I blitzed them until the mixture was smooth and light green. And how smooth it was! I bet the muffins are going to be perfect now, I told myself.\nI poured the green mixture into a bowl and added the rest of the ingredients. I whisked them again with a gravy whisk until everything was well blended. Then I spooned the mixture into 12 muffin cups. This time the paper liners were slightly smaller, so there was some leftover batter. I noted that the recipe is just perfect for 12 medium paper liners.\nAfter baking the muffins for 20 minutes, I removed one muffin from the oven and checked the texture. It was a bit too moist, so I let the muffins bake a bit longer. Five minutes later I decided to remove the rest of them from the oven as they looked perfect. The center had risen remarkably and the muffins looked like green balls! After removing the muffins from the oven, the center fell slightly. Nothing catastrophic, though.\nMy taste test revealed a smooth and tasty result. No nasty bits of spinach. The muffins were moist, but not watery. The crushed red pepper gave them a perfect kick. I bet Sugar-Free Sweet Chili Sauce would be the ideal accompaniment for these muffins.\nAll the ingredient amounts seemed to be perfect. The 4 oz (115 g) spinach provided just enough color and flavor. There was enough delicious ham in each bite, and the sharp cheese added extra taste and made the texture perfect. Super! I was really satisfied.\nI made one more experiment with frozen and defrosted spinach. It wasn’t as perfect as the version with fresh spinach, but it was still tasty. The surface was somehow harder and slightly leathery and the bottom was moist. But they were still really good and they disappeared pretty quickly from the plate on which I had placed them to cool.\nThis is a very quick and easy recipe, so no special skills are needed. What is an absolute must, though, is a proper blender so that you can blend the spinach until really smooth. I’m afraid a food processor doesn’t create a smooth enough result, so a blender is highly recommended.\nI recommend using sharp cheese for these muffins. Personally, I love Swiss cheese, but other sharp cheeses, like mature Cheddar, will fit well.\nAs I mentioned above, fresh spinach makes perfect muffins, but you can use also frozen and defrosted spinach if you don’t have fresh.\nAfter preheating the oven and lining a muffin pan with paper liners, grab a blender jar and add the eggs to it.\nThen, add all the spinach.\nPour the egg and spinach mixture into a bowl.\nSpoon the mixture into the muffin cups.\nLet cool and serve warm. The muffins taste best the day after baking.\nAnd here’s the final recipe: I bet you’re going to love it!\nLine a muffin pan with 12 sturdy, medium paper liners.\nPlace the eggs and the spinach into a blender jar. Close the lid tightly. Blend until smooth and well blended.\nPour the egg and spinach mixture into a medium bowl.\nAdd the remaining ingredients (ham, cheese, and the seasoning). Whisk until well combined.\nBake in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes or until just done. Don't overbake.\nRemove from the oven, let cool and serve warm – with Sugar-Free Sweet Chili Sauce, for instance.\nThis version uses only crushed red pepper as seasoning. Personally, I think it gives these muffins enough flavor. However, you can use any seasoning you wish. I recommend something spicy, as these muffins seem to scream for something with a decent kick. Tabasco or another sugar-free hot sauce is a great option, as are cayenne pepper, chipotle, or chili flakes.\nYou can also add onion powder or garlic powder to further enhance the flavor. If you fancy a fresher garlic flavor, you can add a couple crushed garlic cloves to the batter.\nI didn’t add pepper to this recipe, but naturally freshly ground black pepper or white pepper are both great choices. Or you can go all fancy and try rose pepper or green pepper!\nInstead of ham, you can use bacon or any chopped leftover meat you happen to have lurking in your fridge.\nNext, I’m going to replace ham with crumbled feta cheese and see how that works. Spinach and feta is a great combination, so I expect the result to be outstanding!\nIf you prepare these muffins, let me know: I’d love to hear how you liked them!\nHi! I’m Elviira, a Certified Nutritional Adviser. My passion is to develop innovative, truly healthy gluten-free, sugar-free low-carb recipes that are simple and easy to make. I develop each recipe with care; as an R&D person I’m passionate about superb quality. Enjoy! |
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