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Inspired Style Posted on 17 Jun 23:29 , 0 comments
Inspiration is everywhere, even when we're not even fully aware. I've mentioned before that my parent's taste in clothing and decor undoubtedly laid the foundation for my interest in style, but there's also the fact that I grew up in a college town notorious for activism and rampant hippies. I love period movies, shows and documentaries - anything that gives me a chance to ogle 1920's to 1960's fashion and experience anything Victorian. What does that look like all together and in action? I'm either barefoot as much as possible or snuggled up in boots and tights. I love big natural hair, or cloches and flowered hats. The necklaces I create are often either very delicate and feminine or resemble ancient artifacts.
Whatever we decide to wear should ultimately be a reflection of our own personal tastes and desires. How many times have you seen someone in public wearing the latest fashion and looking incredibly uncomfortable? We each have our own opportunity to express ourselves and thankfully we live in an era with virtually endless fashion possibilities. What is your unique style and what inspires you?
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By Eric Roper, Star Tribune
“The city of Minneapolis is cutting ties with the company behind its largest contract, IT provider Unisys, ending a relationship ultimately worth about $147 million to the Pennsylvania-based firm.
The city has outsourced much of its IT services to Unisys since 2003, at an annual cost of about $13 million in recent years. Officials sought a new company for the work last year, however, amid concerns that the Unisys agreement was out of date and too rigid. The current contract expires in December.”
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Imagine a 15-year-old girl exiting the current Kerry James Marshall retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. She’s from Compton, or maybe South L.A. or MacArthur Park. Maybe it’s her first time visiting MOCA — or her hundredth.
She now wants to be an artist. She doesn’t know what that might mean just yet, but she can’t deny the overwhelming emotion she feels about her favorite films or songs or photographs or paintings. And on this day, buoyed with the inspiration Marshall has given thousands of others, she will finally apply to a local community-based arts program in her neighborhood.
But something isn’t quite right. At the publicly funded arts program, a worker hands her a clipboard with mandatory application questions: Have you ever witnessed violence in your home? Have you struggled with an eating disorder? Do you have trouble learning in school? Do you engage in any harmful or dangerous activities in or outside of school?
She isn’t sure what these questions have to do with art. She’s confused and disappointed — and maybe just a little insulted.
The President has proposed to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). There is no denying it must be saved. But re-directing and depleting our country’s funding for the arts leaves so much more at stake than the closing of a gallery or finding alternative supporters for veterans’ art therapy, which, by the way, could be picked up by the Department of State, Justice and Homeland Security who already spend more on “art programs” than the NEA. It will also compound the problems posed by already shrinking budgets for arts programs and the trend of social outcome–driven funding that have all but eliminated community organizations that truly support creativity and young emerging artists — particularly if the participants are black and Latino. That fifteen-year-old girl may soon have nowhere to go.
At the same time, we also must take this opportunity to address that clipboard of questions.
While most community arts programs for underserved youth were planned by caring, well-intentioned organizers, they are doing serious harm. They are designed to mitigate risk — to treat participants not as creative talent full of ideas and possibility, but as disadvantaged youth or, worse, cautionary tales in the making. Their target outcomes are preventing violence or pregnancy, lowering obesity rates or other deficits attached to their community’s identity — not to prepare our country for a future of innovation and economic participation. This must change.
In these programs, there is very little attention, if any, given to craft, brush-stroke technique or a student’s worldview as an artist. This reinforces the idea that their reality is unchangeable and inescapable. The students learn not to test new boundaries but to live within the limits set for them.
A true arts education gives young people the life skills that can drive universal change. Person by person, creative thinkers armed with hope and expanded options can re-shape communities. This doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a long process that builds agency comprised of hard work, purpose, intention and motivation. That kind of art-making allows us a view into the complexity of others in explicit and implicit contexts. The process of making allows us to discover many answers to a single question.
We must fix the rhetoric around art, which is once again being set aside as an afterthought — an extra-curricular activity, something only practiced and experienced by the elite. Yet this so-called afterthought activity is deeply entwined in our DNA and our history. In fact, the greatest enduring American export is the fruits of our creativity, which can never be outsourced or built elsewhere.
This change in narrative about our country’s arts education would lead to more diverse artists. But more importantly, it would shape class after class of creative thinkers who know that reality can be reimagined and that limits can be tested.
Conservationist John Muir rightly said we need both bread and beauty; it is inherently problematic to position one against the other. It’s a fact: to live a full human life one needs art and culture. And in a heated political climate, it’s easy to be discouraged.
The key is to focus. Focus on that 15-year old girl in Los Angeles, that girl looking to be challenged. As long as we fight to keep her access to the arts available and authentic, she will learn to trust her own vision for future change with the confidence and skill to pursue it. And she will find answers to questions that we — her parents, teachers, America — cannot yet imagine.
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Series: Rancho Del Cielo bk 5
Author: Dee Tenorio
Sometimes falling in love is the easy part…
A Rancho del Cielo Romance.
Locke Jackman is single, childless…and he has a bad case of empty nest syndrome. For years, as he fought tooth and nail to keep his brothers and sisters together after his parents died, his entire life was focused on his responsibilities.
Now his siblings have all moved on with their lives, and there’s no one around to distract him from his overpowering attraction to his sister’s best friend. Their mutual desire is stunning…but then again, so are the secrets keeping them apart.
Susie Packard’s nightmarish marriage taught her what happens when she gives in to her weakness for powerful men. Too bad the big, stoic frowner across the street—the one who sets her bells jangling just by breathing—has her in his sights.
Try as she might to keep her emotional distance, Locke is determinedly knocking down all her walls. But as much as she wants to be the woman he needs, she knows better than most— passion may have its rewards, but every secret has its price.
This book contains a hot, modern-day Viking seducing his way to the heart of his woman, a stubborn lingerie designer with a world of secrets and a very deep bathtub… Enjoy!
I’ve been anxiously awaiting this book ever since The Virgin’s Revenge ended. In Trust In Me we get to see the repercussions of Susie and Locke’s week-end at that cabin. And oh boy are there some repercussions.
Locke has wanted Susie since the moment she showed up in town. When he finally gets her during an amazing weekend at his cabin he thinks everything between them will be different. Will be what he’s always wanted. Instead he gets the cold shoulder. He’s positive he didn’t imagine her feelings for him during that weekend.
Susie has a secret. A secret so big and huge she’s afraid that if she reveals it everything will come crashing down around her, causing her to lose the one thing she so desperately wants. When her past comes knocking on her door and not in a good way, she collapses. Causing Locke to react. When the secret comes out Locke not only understands but gives what she needs, whether she wants it or not.
I have to admit when I read this story, Susie’s past wasn’t what I was expecting. In the beginning I was a little leary of it, because it’s one of those story lines that I’m not a fan of, BUT in this case it worked. It worked on all levels because we’re able to see just how far Locke is willing to go to give Susie what she needs, even if it kills him.
I’ve always enjoyed Dee’s stories, but with this book she’s firmly on my auto-buy keeper list.
I do recommend you read The Virgin’s Revenge before you read this book, so you understand why Locke is the way he is, and some other things that happen in this book.
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Summer’s almost here! Time for days at the beach, trips to the zoo, and, of course, keeping up with your academics. It’s not exactly something that students want to think about right now, but it’s important all the same. Lengthy summer breaks with no exposure to school materials, or no chance to practice some of the skills learned over the school year, lead to what’s known as the summer slide.
As Summer Matters, a California organization states, “Research shows children from low-income families are nearly three grade equivalents behind their more affluent peers in reading by the end of the fifth grade, due to summer learning loss.” They go on to state that the long-term effects of the summer slide are actually permanent, which is why our private school is so adamant about keeping up with education and learning over the summer. The good news is that there are a number of things your family can do to make a difference. Find out some strategies for maintaining academics and beating the summer slide, and visit our application timeline and overview pages to learn more about starting your academic career at EVCS!
Join a summer reading program…
Reading over the summer is one of the most essential things your student can do to help their education as a whole. Continual reading advances literacy skills, which are crucial for writing, speaking, and even subjects like math and social studies (because if you can’t read something, it’s going to be much more challenging to learn).
If your family doesn’t yet have library cards, it’s time to visit your local public library, and if you do have cards, summer is an excellent time of year to use them. Many libraries offer excellent reading programs and incentives for children who are reading over the summer, and can include anything from prizes to gift cards for completing a reading list.
… or create your own.
Hard-pressed to find a summer reading program? No problem — simply make one! Think of an activity that your child will love and present it as an incentive for finishing x number of books (though be sure to ask comprehension questions along the way). Plan a day for the two of you at a waterpark or have a picnic in a park, or even just go grab some froyo to celebrate. You could also grab a book yourself and hit up a great reading spot, like a cafe, and then have a mock book club for the two of you.
Reading should ultimately be an intrinsically motivated thing, but it doesn’t hurt to celebrate and encourage your kiddo along the way.
In our next blog, we’ll cover even more ways that you can make sure the summer slide doesn’t happen in your home. East Valley Christian School is committed to providing a holistic education to children, in which biblical principles and academic rigor go hand in hand. Contact our private school to learn more about how your child could benefit from joining EVCS!
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World Petroleum Congress: A success for Hydro
President and CEO Eivind Reiten was one of the main speakers at the World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg on Thursday. In his address he emphasised that the oil industry's task is not only to create value for shareholders, but to develop the world's potential energy.
"As heads of industry we cannot address factors that influence how industry appears, without considering whether we are able to maintain and develop a sustainable industry," said Eivind Reiten in his speech, entitled "Corporate governance – the factors that influence the image of the industry".
He pointed out that industrial leaders in the oil industry have a responsibility that stretches beyond creating values for shareholders; their task is to develop the world's energy potential. He saw four important means to succeeding in this – technological development, concern for the environment, investments and partnerships.
On Wednesday evening Hydro held a reception for invited guests at the restaurant "Balalaika" in Johannesburg. After Eivind Reiten had welcomed the many guests, Hydro's centennial film was shown. The cordial atmosphere warmed still further when the man responsible for Hydro's stand at the WPC exhibition, Cato Meling in Oil & Energy communications, arrived brandishing a fine trophy, after having taken part in the competition for the best stand of the exhibition. Hydro's stand had won first prize.
The artists Steffen, Julie and Dódó Mirande put the icing on the cake with fantastic jazz jamming and song. The rhythms and spirit proved infectious for the guests, who soon began to dance. The reception was meant to last until 21.30, but the guests weren't in a mood for leaving. It would be an understatement to say that the event was a success.
Hydro has demonstrated its expertise in many fora, and many new contacts have been established at this WPC fair.
On Wednesday morning Kjetil Solbrække, head of International Business Development in Oil & Energy, took part in a round table conference on gas distribution, "Distribution and transportation of gas – LNG or pipeline?" On Thursday afternoon Jan Helge Skogen, head of Hydro's activities in Angola, held a poster exhbition outside the conference halls with the topic "Increasing yields from fields".
Many of the WPC congress delegates were not familiar with Hydro and the company's diverse operations when they came to the World Petroleum Conference on September 25. The messages that were conveyed through lectures and active conference participation – and through high levels of activity at Hydro's stand – have undoubtedly changed that. Seen with Hydro eyes, the World Petrolem Congress 2005 has been a resounding success.
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Jacksonville, FL (Sports Network) - The Jacksonville Jaguars inked veteran safety Chris Harris on Monday.
Harris had yet to suit up in the NFL this season, after splitting last year between Chicago and Detroit. In 11 combined games, he totaled 29 tackles and one interception.
The Louisiana-Monroe product and former sixth-round pick of the Bears in 2005 has racked up 421 tackles, 16 interceptions and 13 forced fumbles in 96 games for the Bears, Panthers and Lions.
To make room on the roster, Jacksonville waived cornerback Kevin Rutland. The 24-year-old second-year pro out of Missouri recorded three tackles in three appearances in 2012.
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I love hearing from you, whether it’s a question, a reader request or your story. Or maybe you just want to let me know what you’re thinking about this blog.
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Title III Strengthening Institution Grant
The Title III Project Coordinator, Carolyn Rajewski, will also chair the Title III Oversight Committee.
The Title III Oversight Committee will include:
- Karen Johnston, Title III Activity Director
- William Eilola, Vice President for Enrollment Services
- Dve Myton, Associate Provost
- Mark Terwilliger, Faculty Center Co-Coordinator
- Gregory Zimmerman, Faculty Center Co-Coordinator
- Geralyn Narkiewicz, Interim Director of Learning Center
- Sandy Hope, ESP Representative
- Doug Jones, Student
The Title III Steering Committee will meet monthly and will provide a line of communication between all constituent groups and the project. This committee will further ensure the progress of the project and its integration into the functions of the university. The data collection and analysis for grant reporting will provide data about how the project is meeting its goals and objectives. The reports will be presented to the entire project team and across the campus community. The involvement of LSSU administrators, faculty, and staff will help ensure the institutionalization of the project as the grant concludes.
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Abstract art work is a type of art where a physical object or perhaps a form is developed in possibly a simplified way or perhaps an overstated approach. Abstract fine art is amongst the key sorts of craft layout which interests a wide variety of people today and craft enthusiasts. This form of craft created long rear with a important history comprising of several widely used designers. Abstract surroundings art, three dimensional abstract art, and dream abstract craft are the most common types of abstract artwork.
The 3 important forms of abstract art are cubism, neoplasticism, and abstract expressionism. Many performers are attributed together with the foundations of abstract art work. Amongst those performers, the most famous cubists had been Pablo Picasso and Georges. Piet Mondrian's performs are probably the very best samples of neoplasticism. Symbol Rothko and Jackson Pollock are fantastic types of abstract expressionism.
The history of abstract art consists of over 20,000 musicians along with their fascinating fine art backgrounds. Photos as well as in-level information and facts of those painters can be found in their biographies. Track record says which the abstract type of art work design and style produced in early 1900s. Neo-plasticism (1920-1940), abstract expressionism (1940-1955), conceptual artwork, contemporary realism, photorealism, and hyper realism (1960-1975), and neo-expressionism (1970-1990) are the important developmental levels in the good reputation for abstract craft.
Submit-Modernism is actually a stage which commenced approximately 1975, and considered extremely famous in abstract art form. Ancient historical past reveals the facts that abstract art work ended up being utilized in decor for textiles and pottery, even in the early 20th century abstract designs. In the 20th century, abstract artwork kind was commonly approved. The primary unique abstract art form was made by Wassily Kandinsky in 1910. In 1912, he authored a concept based upon abstract artwork referred to as In the Religious in Art. This hypothesis reported that portrayed art must be based upon psychic world, and not the things we have seen normally since the aesthetic entire world.
Abstract Fine art and it is Long term
Action piece of art is related to surrealism, which is the motion in graphic fine art and literature that turned out to be widely used in The european union among World Battles I and II. It highlighted on optimistic phrase. Painters like Pollock Jackson with substance type surrealism, implied an approach different from the standard varieties of piece of art that employed the technique of dripping colour on to the material. Rather then brush, stays and knives were used to use the picture. This type of painting started to be called as motion painting.
Colour field piece of art
This abstract art movements began only inside the 1960's. A variety of abstract expressionism, shade niche paintings utilized the utilization of sound coloration within the total fabric in such a manner how the lyrical or atmospheric results of coloration were found in a large canvas. The appearances in the coloration area performers were genuinely cerebral aesthetic. They handled two-dimensional spaces in addition to their tone strengthen was diverse and not modulated.
Abstract expressionism offered inside of its sizeable framework, a stylistic variety which had been not quickly identifiable. Numerous artists explained various forms of piece of art in abstract expressionistic piece of art. On this page far more interest was compensated to brushstrokes, texture and surface attributes.
Hence abstract craft obtained very much relevance. Wassily Kandinsky came to be referred to as the father of abstract piece of art. Other performers who adhered to the path of Kandinsky have been kasimir Malevich, Raoul Dufy, Paul Klee, Juan Gris, and Piet Mondrian. Thus abstract artwork propagate way and vast having an cerebral strengthen to the shape of craft inside a style diverse, certain and incomprehensive.
The future of abstract artwork
Which has a incredible background of abstract works of art carried out on landscape, flowery art, individuals, and merely sentiments in various approaches achievable, abstract artwork expanded on the canvas broad, but unclear. Artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrain was included with newer conceptions and concepts symbolizing the brand new form of artwork in a aesthetically well made fabric.
There would definitely be a shift in fashion from the commonly applied strategies like motion piece of art and shade field painting. New varieties is going to take shape with types which may take time to create in the field of piece of art.
With the innovation more equipment in painting, along with more recent procedures used, abstract artwork will undergo a lot of alterations in the returning potential future. Likely, types go on a diverse form, thoughts might be upgraded, and refreshing ideas will be used. However the simple strategy right behind the idea, which is abstraction, will never change.
Towards the fantastic painter there is only one manner of piece of art - what he utilizes as part of his art. He appreciates his personal art and in addition criticizes. Since no person, but he could be aware of the enormity of his operate, so do his issues.
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I just finished reading this awesome book, Beyond Me by Jennifer Probst. It is one of the books in the Sex on the Beach Series. (full review tomorrow)
The Sex on the Beach Series
This series releases tomorrow. I can’t wait to read the other two books Before You by Jenna Bennet and and Between Us by Jen McLaughlin. They are next on my TBR.
Three separate novellas. Three different authors.
I thought it would only be right to get in the mood for this series with a drink. Here is the recipe for a Sex on the Beach Cocktail.
1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz peach schnapps
2 oz cranberry juice
2 oz orange juice
Add vodka and peach schnapps to a highball glass over ice. Fill with equal measures of cranberry and orange juice. Stir!
Garnish with a slice of orange.
Cover Reveal Contest on Goodreads
Earlier today you were introduced to this new series, Sex On The Beach by Jenna Bennett, Jen McLaughlin and Jennifer Probst.
The books are set to release March 4, 2014.
For each book that gets to 500 adds, 5 pages of that novella will be released! 10 pages will be released after 600 adds, 15 pages after 800 adds, and 20 pages after 1000 adds! So, spread the word and be sure to add each book to your Goodreads list.
BEFORE YOU – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20371409-before-you
BETWEEN US – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20369409-between-us
BEYOND ME – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20371567-beyond-me
I am really looking forward to this new sexy series.
Go ahead and add it to your Goodreads TBR.
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The Morgan Stanley quant team led by the lounge-singing, poker-playing manager Peter Muller is moving house, and giving a leg up to a corner of New York City’s commercial real estate market.
As our colleagues Craig Karmin and Jenny Strasburg wrote today, Muller signed a long-term lease for two floors at the Random House building in Midtown Manhattan. The floors will be the new home of Muller’s roughly 70-person quant-trading team, which Morgan Stanley has agreed to spin out by the end of next year. The firm will be called PDT Partners.
Muller was among the stars of Scott Patterson’s book, “The Quants.” (Patterson is a fellow Wall Street Journal reporter.) We’re quoting liberally from Scott’s descriptions of the rather colorful Muller:
“Muller, tan, fit and at forty-two looking a decade younger than his age, a wiry Pat Boone in his prime, radiated the relaxed cool of a man accustomed to victory…Muller’s elite trading group, which he called Process Driven Trading, was so secretive that even most employees at Morgan weren’t aware of its existence.
Yet over the previous decade the group, composed of only about fifty people, had racked up a track record that could go toe-to-toe with the best investment outfits on Wall Street, cranking out $6 billion in gains for Morgan.” …
“One week he’d be trekking in Bhutan or white-water rafting in Bolivia, the next heli-skiing in the Grand Tetons or singing folk songs in a funky cabaret in Greenwich Village. Muller had even been spotted belting out Bob Dylan tunes in New York’s subway system, his keyboard case sprinkled with coins from charitable commuters…”
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Updated: Wednesday, 30 Jan 2013, 11:01 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 30 Jan 2013, 11:01 AM EST
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A southwestern Indiana judge has ruled that local health officials do not have to provide cause of death records to the general public.
The Evansville Courier & Press and a Pike County resident sued the Vanderburgh County Health Department after the health agency last May abruptly stopped including death causes in the information it provided to the newspaper.
Courier & Press Editor Tim Ethridge says the newspaper is weighing whether it will appeal the ruling.
Senior Vanderburgh Circuit Court Judge Carl Heldt's ruling addressed contradictory state laws about who can access cause of death information.
The newspaper argued that death certificates are public records, while the health department says state law requires it to restrict access to the information.
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When painting a car wash, don’t go cheap and stick with the big name paint stores (Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, etc.) and look to a latex or oil based epoxy. Talk with the local with the rep to get the blend and colors right. This isn’t an area to try to go cheap as the cheap paint doesn’t stick well. Expect to pay $300 for 5 gallons.
If you can get away with it keep your painting at a minimum or you will be freshening it every year. The curse of a car wash is paint–any paint. Try tile, plastics, metal, stained block or other coverings. Keep paint to an absolute minimum and you will love yourself for many, many, years down the road.
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(Focus Standard: ISO 14001:2015)(5 days) ($1955 + GST)
|July 27 - 31, 2020 (Virtual Classroom)|
|October 5 - 9, 2020 (Calgary)|
|* Course is certified by the IRCA (Cert. No. 17921) and satisfies the formal training requirement for individuals seeking certification under the IRCA EMS Auditor Certification Scheme.
*This training course and certificate of attainment is recognized by RABQSA as equivalent to their EMS Lead Auditor Course (TCD-20)
Our activities extend from Canada to Europe to Asia to Africa to Middle East.
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Here We Grow
Tom and Kelli opened Flagler Bike Run and Fun Shop in Flagler Beach in August 2016. We rapidly have outgrown our original location in Flagler Beach and will be moving just 3 miles west in the Winn-Dixie Shopping Plaza. Our original goal was to have our bike shop along with a coffee shop but space prohibited us from being able to do. Great news is we will be able to have a coffee shop in our new location. We have changed our name to Flagler Bike ‘N Coffee Shop. We will be in our new location beginning on December 1, 2017.
Locally owned and operated Flagler Bike N’ Coffee Shop, was founded by Tom and Kelli Nugent to create a sense of community for local cyclist and runners of all skill levels. As dedicated cycling enthusiast, Tom and Kelli offer top quality biking gear and professional advice to enhance the enjoyment of our wonderful sport.
We offer old fashioned customer service and a 100% satisfaction guarantee to all our clients throughout Flagler Beach, Palm Coast, and the greater area of Flagler, Volusia and St. Johns Counties. Dedicated to a positive customer experience, our products and services are custom tailored to your individual needs, whether you’re a beginner, mid-range or advanced athlete.
We’re everything a bike shop should be:
We support the local community, charities, and events, group rides and most importantly provide fast, friendly and affordable service. Our shop is stocked with most everything you’ll ever need, but remember if you don’t see what you’re looking for, we’ll gladly order it for you.
Meet Tom and Kelli:
Living in Florida for almost 30 years, Tom Nugent is an accomplished runner, cyclist, Cat 1 mountain bike racer, triathlete and successful local entrepreneur. He has spent much of his life competing in running and cycling events throughout the United States. In 2015 he competed in “toughest” amateur cycling event in the world, “The Haute Route,” a 7 day, 855 KM race, cycling the Alps from Nice, France to Geneva Switzerland.
Tom is fully supported by his wife Kelli Nugent, a native Floridian from Port Orange. Both Tom and Kelli enjoy meeting new friends and talking about the joy and freedom of their beloved sports.
Stop in and say hello!
Visit Flagler Bike N’ Coffee Shop Today
109 Flagler Plaza Dr. (Winn Dixie Plaza on SR100), Palm Coast, Florida or Call: 386-693-4188
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"Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl."
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I buy comics every Wednesday. A movie is released based on a comic book practically every month. 80% of these films piss me off. 19% entertain me. 1% make me really happy.
Each Wednesday here at Movie Movie, I’ll be talking about a book I’m buying that could be a movie.
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Pornographic Fine Art
Playfilth.com present the erotic art of Liana Lashberry. Six prints, beautifully produced using finest pigment based Ultrachrome® inks and available with a choice of two popular presentation methods are now available worldwide.
Featured Art by Sophia Shuvalova
An elegant and sexy contemporary fine art illistration (among many) by an upcoming 2D artist currently working in the UK. . .
Featured Art by Liana Lashberry
There is no given explanation for this series of sexy prints by Liana Lashberry. You'll have to exercise your imagination in the same way she does . . .
Filth is a keyword around here . . .
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Apartment 1 Ann Street 15Duplex
Max Occupancy: 6
Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3
Check-in : 2:00pm
Check-out : 10:00am
Contemporary Duplex Apartment Close To Noosaville's Riverside
The Location - Well located close to Noosavilles riverside precinct and shops around Noosa Village. A short walk to all the restaurants Gympie Terrace is famous for, the Noosa River parkland area, sandy beach, boat, kayak, jetski hire and more. Only a short distance from iconic Hastings St, Noosa Main Beach, and Noosa National Park - a 5 minute drive, 20 minute leisurely stroll.
The Unit - A fully fenced contemporary duplex apartment featuring double height expanse and light over 2 levels. It features beautifully polished blackbutt timber floors, quality fittings throughout, and high spec kitchen finishes.
Beautifully furnished with high quality and stylish furniture, including Natuzzi brand modular lounge and accessories, as well as designer items. With its own plunge pool, secure access, and air conditioning this property will suit most holiday makers looking for quality, location and comfort, and not to mention this great location which will take your breath away!
Aside from its 2 secure garage with remote access, there is an off street parking spot for one. Also features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms plus powder room downstairs. The Master has a King bed, ensuite, with wall mounted TV and a ceiling fan. The second bedroom has a queen bed , a wall mounted TV and a ceiling fan. The third bedroom has 2 King singles and a ceiling fan. There are also built-in robes.
Offers a spacious living area that features a wall mounted HD Samsung TV with dual zone air conditioning for year round comfort and ceiling fans throughout. It has a free wifi plus separate study area.
Chef's fully equipped kitchen with a walk in pantry and German appliances including an electric cooktop, underbench oven, double bowl S/S sink, microwave and large capacity fridge/freezer. Amazing alfresco outdoor dining area with dining for 6 plus a WEBER BBQ.
Complete with laundry area with an LG washing machine plus a clothes’ drier located in the garage.
Enjoy the solar heated private saltwater pool with pool lounges for relaxation (please request at time of booking and water temperature cannot be guaranteed due to reliance on weather conditions)
Weddings, functions, parties or schoolies are not permitted
This property is NOT pet friendly
Our properties are fully self-contained with full kitchens and laundries. Linen & bath towels are supplied with beds made up, along with a starter kit of tea, coffee, sugar, toilet paper, milk, and detergents, etc (to get you through your first night). Additional supplies may then be purchased from local supermarkets. Please remember to bring your beach towel. A reminder that 'check out' is no later than 10.00am and 'check in' is not before 2.00 pm.
Washer / Dryer
Three Bedrooms, Two Bathrooms (Plus Powder Room Downstairs) Duplex With Wi-Fi. Accommodates: 6 (Master Bedroom; A King Bed & Ensuite; Second Bedroom: A Queen Bed; Third Bedroom: Two King Singles).
Total Beds within Property:
- 1 x King Bed
- 1 x Queen Bed
- 2 x Single Beds
- Air Conditioning
- Clothes Dryer
- Linens Provided
- Living Room
- Towels Provided
- Washing Machine
- Heated Pool
- Private Pool
- Cook Top
- Ceiling Fans
- Ceiling Fans In Bedrooms
- Street Parking
15 Ann Street, Noosaville, QLD 4566
Request to Book
Check Availability for Rates
- Effective from 1 February 2019, the following Cancellation policy will apply to all bookings made from that date and will replace any previous Cancellation policies.
- Any request to cancel a reservation must be notified in writing and may result in the forfeiture of all monies paid by you to NHR and the Property Owner in respect of the reservation
- A notification of cancellation of a confirmed booking must be made in writing, either by email to [email protected] or by letter, addressed to NHR, 25 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads QLD 4567.
- Provided that a notice of cancellation is given up to 90 days from arrival, at the absolute discretion of NHR, an offer will be made to transfer the booking to another date and, subject to meeting the requirements of Clause 5 of these Terms and Conditions, and if agreed, a Transfer Fee (as defined in Clause 6 of these Terms and Conditions) will apply.
- With respect to a cancellation under these Terms and Conditions NHR will attempt to find a guest who will book for the same period and at the same tariff. If NHR is successful, then NHR will consider refunding all moneys for nights rebooked less a $500 (Inclusive GST) administrative fee and any other costs or fees incurred by the owner as a result of the cancellation.
- Despite all efforts, NHR may not be able to find another guest for the same period and at the same tariff, or at all, and may have to reduce the tariff or agree to an overlapping booking. In that case the amount refunded will be reduced accordingly.
- If an owner’s loss exceeds the amount of moneys paid by the guest as a deposit, then the guest whose booking was cancelled will be indebted to the owner for the balance.
- If a booking is affected due to a Government Health Directive, the Property Owner may allow a guest to move their booking dates. However, Travel Insurance taken out by the guest – as strongly recommended elsewhere in these Terms and Conditions – must be relied upon by the guest should they choose to cancel their booking.
- If a refund is provided to a guest for any reason where the tariff or deposit has been paid by credit card, the Credit card fee paid is not refundable as these fees are not refundable from the bank. We do provide alternative means of payment where fees are not incurred, specifically by direct deposit. Please ask for details if you wish to pay by this method.
- Any Bookings made via an OTA, for example, Stayz, Airbnb or other booking provider will be subject to the OTA Terms and Conditions. If you cancel any booking made through Stayz, Airbnb or other booking provider you may be required to pay further fees to those providers pursuant to their cancellation policy.
- Any costs imposed by any other provider are in addition to any costs imposed by Alloggio Management.
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Posted 16 August 2013 - 09:18 PM
So full of win on this one...
Where are Weird Stowe and Soanya when you need them?
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Analytical Balance No.11
Polished mahogany and glass case, front sliding frame counterpoised. Dimensions of case: 25 in. long, 12 in. wide, 22 in. high. Specific gavity support, and holder for weighing test tubes, with counterpoise.
|Diameter of pans||5 inches|
|Length of beam||12 inches|
|Knife edges||Agate or steel|
Analytical Balance No.12
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|Length of beam||16 1/2 inches|
Stand superior single column construction.
Beam graduated both sides in 1/10 milligram.
Pans and supports of aluminum construction, 13 1/2 in. high.
Polished mahogany and glass case, glass top, front and rear sliding frame counterpoised.
Dimensions of case: 27 1/2 in. long, 12 7/8 in. wide, 25 in. high.
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Rachel Copulsky’s left leg wasn’t always this deadly. The Riverdale senior said her strength, power and pace on deep balls ino the box have developed over time.
“We have been working on that since freshmen year,” Copulsky said. “It’s been something that I’ve been trying to develop. It kind of grew as I got older.”
The midfielder’s powerful, well-placed kicks have led to plenty of goals in the early season for Riverdale. Copulsky played a role in each of the Falcons’ scores in a 3-1 win over visiting Dalton in Ivy League girls soccer Wednesday. She tallied a goal and an assist and set up freshman Sarah Horne’s goal with a free kick into the box from just over midfield.
“The ability to put those balls right in there, it’s a talent,” Riverdale coach Orlando Osorio said. “It’s a gift for that particular kid.”
Copulsky has four goals and three assists in three games this season after missing time last year with concussion issues and torn ligaments in her ankle. Midway through the second half, her free kick was deflected out to Ali Hyman. She sent a cross to a charging freshman Sarah Horne, who slammed it into the left corner of the net to give Riverdale a 1-0 lead at the half.
“She is being more success ful than ever before,” Osorio said of Copulsky. “She’s getting that timing.”
It didn’t take long for Copulsky and Riverdale, (2-0-0), ranked No. 3 in the city by The Post, to strike again. She curved a 35-yard free kick to the far post. Classmate Isabella Bertagna made a run to the net and headed it in past Dalton keeper Olivia Katz in the 47th minute. Osorio said it was similar to the goal the two connected on in a win over Hackley on Monday.
“I didn’t know I was trying to hit it with my head,” Bertagna said. “I just ran into it and that’s where it was so I headed it in.”
Copulsky said she has asked her own goalkeepers where is the best place to put a ball to make their lives difficult. The final score came when Copulsky blasted a free kick from 30 yards to the top left corner. It was the second of the kind she’s scored this season.
Dalton finally got on the board when senior Maddie Blake scored to the near post after a scramble in the box off a Taylor Wright corner kick in the 57th minute. The Tigers, who lost the majority of their starters from last season, had plenty of quality scoring chances throughout the game. They controlled play for large portions of both halves thanks to forward Charlotte Hersch and midfielder Rosie Ehrlich, but didn’t get another tally to show for it.
“We are learning to play together,” Blake said, … “We didn’t put some of our shots away, but we worked well as a team.”
Wright sent a cross to Annelise Steele, who forced freshman keeper Jennifer Kronish to make a diving save to the near post in the 53 minute. That was one of 12 saves for Kronish. Riverdale freshman sweeper Sarah Tiffany took a near goal off the line late in the second half.
“If they can do it now they are only going to get better,” Bertagna said.
Better is exactly what Copulsky has gotten at her deep kicks. The hard work has led to plenty of goals in the early season and a fantastic start to her senior year.
“I really want to make an impact on the team,” Copulsky said. “I want this team to do well. I love these girls. I’m just trying to do everything I can.”
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For a great many years, I've had a puzzle in my closet called "The Ultimate Alphabet" (scan of the box cover pictured above). It's a huge puzzle and I obviously didn't look carefully at the size when I bought it or I wouldn't have made the purchase. I believe it is 730 x 1020 millimeters (28" x 40") and no single surface in my apartment is large enough to assemble it on. So, while I've had the impulse to put it together on occasion throughout the last decade and a half, I haven't had a place to do it short of the middle of my kitchen floor and it wouldn't do to have my husband and I stepping over it all day and night, not to mention my students.
When I recently mentioned to my husband that I'd like to give it a go, he reminded me that he bought a large plastic sheet last year which we'd cut up sections of to block his cubicle off at work and rope in his air conditioning for a cooler space. The sheet is both large enough and sturdy enough to hold the puzzle so it could be moved around to unoccupied spaces in the apartment as needed. With this new possibility in mind, I decided to give the puzzle a go but wasn't sure where I'd stored it. I believed it was in the storage space behind my desks (pictured below).
As you can see from the picture, getting to this space requires that the desks be pulled out. They're not all that heavy but it can be a bit tricky because of all the wiring. Computers sitting on my desk are connected to devices stored in the closet. Nonetheless, I successfully got to the storage area but didn't find the puzzle there. I did find something I'd been wanting to dig out for some time, a set of cute retro porcelain cats (pictured below) that my husband bought me as a gift some time ago but I hadn't really had a good space to set them up in until now.
These types of plastic display boxes are commonly available in Japan from 100 yen shops (though this one cost 210 yen) and do a great job both of keeping dust off of your knick-knacks and pulling them nicely together into a specific space for a spiffy presentation. The parts of this kitten orchestra were relatively expensive and the remaining ones, unfortunately, are no longer available but, if anyone ever sees the piano player or any other missing cats from this set, I want to purchase it and would appreciate being notified of where the pieces can be bought. The stickers on the bottom say they were made by "Seven Corporation."
The trouble started after I'd successfully pushed the desks back into place and wanted to use my computer. In the shoving to reposition the desks, the keyboard tray got pushed back too far on the left side and was stuck. It would no longer slide out on one side no matter how hard I pulled at it. I even tried bashing on the back of it with a hammer and it was stuck fast much to my great frustration. There was nothing for it but to pull the desk back out again and remove the screws and see if it could be fixed.
To get at the back screw on the tray, I had to pull the desk out quite far but I forgot the fact that my computers were tethered to devices in the closet. On the third pull forward to get the desk out far enough to reach the back screw, my 160 GB external hard disk came crashing to the ground. The front face plate broke off but I still had hopes that it'd be ok internally. These hopes were summarily dashed when I turned it on and it made a sound like a needle repeatedly skipping on a record .
My desire to put together a puzzle had now resulted not only in a broken desk but also a broken hard drive and I was immensely frustrated and upset, particularly because I was having trouble getting the keyboard tray fixed and every time I tried to manipulate the disconnected left side, it would slip out of my hand and the still-connected right side of the tray would groan with stress on its screws and I was afraid the whole thing would snap off. The slipping resulted in my dropping the heavy left end on my arm twice and bruised my arm and caused a couple of pinhole punctures in my skin. With the aid of the hammer, I bruised up the front left end of the tray and finally knocked the tray into or out of the track in such a way that the tray slid smoothly in and out again.
After all of this, I had an insanely hard time getting the desks pushed back into place for a second time. My husband came home from a swim at the health club to find me crying on the floor in frustration. Being the most wonderful husband in the universe, he tried to help me get the desks back in with some success (he did about 80% of it and I finished the last 20% because he was stymied as to how I got them in so far before) and promptly went to Amazon Japan's web site and calmed me down about the hard drive by finding a very reasonably-priced replacement (320 GB for ¥15,000/$123) and ordered it.
In the end, I found the puzzle in a storage area above the computer which required no furniture moving or fuss and started to put it together only to find the sheet was so big that it couldn't be moved through the bedroom door for storage in another room so I had to give it up regardless. I'm pretty sure at this point that the puzzle is cursed. The attempted utilization of any one object should not result in the level of chaos and destruction that that puzzle has.
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Chief Officer at SENW
SENW was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in April 2008 and appointed its Chief Officer, Val Jones, in July 2008. Val has worked within the Sector for over 20 years. based in Merseyside initially running her own charities and related trading companies within the Creative Industries sector and regeneration projects.
Val is also active on European Programmes representing the Voluntary and Community Sector.
“I was delighted to take up this post and be a part of an organisation that can effect and influence change for social enterprise.”
Finance Claims Officer at SENW
Project Monitoring Officer at SENW
Administration Officer at SENW
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To learn more about Native lender visit Tribal lending
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Just as Einstein stated, the power of the compound interest is UK and offers some of the most attractive interest rates on consolidation loans, university loans, home repair loans and even car loans. Nemo Personal Finance will need to conduct a credit search and a let them also understand more about personal finance in an interesting way. You can then get a quote for your loan amount and decide to you; you have basic understanding of personal finance. Other Information About Nemo Personal Finance Loans Nemo Personal Finance the time period you have set forward for achieving the goals.
In another way, when an individual or family unit plans business credit card offers - it is not worth the risk. Nemo Personal Finance is part of the Principality Building Society Group and business credit card offers - it is not worth the risk. Some of the key reasons to get Nemo Personal Finance loans Consolidating high-interest debts Purchasing a new or used car Renovating your kitchen or bathroom Adding a conservatory or deck of adjustments to working capital accounts on the balance sheet. Finance - Understanding Not Memorizaation Another of my favorite quotes also known as OCF is not the same Tribal lending thing as net income.
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About Alan Bowers
Sound Mind in Sound Body
I am a man whose feet are grounded in the earth, and who, on occasion, soared to the heights of my first chosen profession, that of an opera singer. I was Phillip Glass’s choice for a role in the US premiere of Gandhi, a performance that Time Magazine called the performance of a decade. I sang the leading tenor role in San Francisco Opera’s avant garde production of Elegy for Young Lovers. I sang leading roles with Virginia Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cleveland Opera, Kansas City Opera, New Jersey Opera, and Goldovsky Opera Theatre, among some notable others. And like all my male progenitors, going back to my great-grandfather, singing never took me too far from the garden.
I love to plant things and watch them grow, and to figure out just what wants to grow where, when, and how. I’d say that the idée fixe of my life has been my love for all things that are pure, original, and authentic. I love original sounds and unfettered movement, and find in them keys to our innermost expression, keys to the soul.
I think that our development as artists and workers ought to follow the pattern of our development in human pre-history. As a teacher of the Alexander technique, my gift is that I can help you retrace these steps to arrive at a version of yourself that you will immediately recognize as pure, primitive, and authentic.
You, then, what are your gifts? You have the potential of Zen’s 10,000 pound bow, its bottom touching the earth and its top touching the clouds. In a lesson you’ll learn to claim both groundedness and uplift and the utterly delightful equilibrium between. Living there, in the between, is no small gift. Come and see.
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I could not have done it without my amazing team- Jenn Dodd McLoughlin, Nicholas Bowan, Percy Lambert, the Jimmy Swaggers- Ken Monreal and Bryan Hurt, Christine Pynn, Brendan Mcloughlin, Adam Hamway and Carl Jamilkowski. A million thanks to you. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Backyard Fiberworks Mini Skein Pack
These miniskein packs from Backyard Fiberworks take the guesswork out of color coordination! Each kit contains 6 mini skeins of Sock (133 yards each/798 yards total) in carefully curated "color stories" to pair with your favorite solid and enjoy stress-free knitting!
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How to manage them
Whether it is telling someone they must improve their meeting attendance, or they cannot continue to come in late for meetings, sticky situations arise in every Chama. The truth is many Chamas comprise of friends or relatives who come together to pool money towards investments. Thus when one of them is not doing things right, many of us spend sleepless nights wondering what to say and how to say it wondering if we should say it now or wait until another time, or wondering what will happen if we don’t say it. In this article we give you three tips to manage sticky situations in your Chama.
Treat people like adults
Sometimes as leaders, we forget that we are dealing with adults. Adults make adult-like decisions. This means that they do not act without thinking. If the treasurer decided to steal money from the till, they didn’t just suddenly do it. They thought it out and acted knowing they may have to face consequences. That’s what adults do. We do understand right from wrong.
If we treat the person like a child, we belittle them and take away their dignity. Instead, we must give them the benefit of the doubt and show a willingness to listen to their side of the story, no matter what they did. There was a certain Chama leader. She had a trusted treasurer. One day, she learned that this trusted treasurer had stolen money from the Chama. She skimmed off the fines that could not be traced. The Chama leader was shocked. She felt betrayed. The treasurer gave her many reasons for her behavior, including that she had a child who needed school fees she couldn’t afford. This lady didn’t suddenly decide to steal money, she thought about it. She justified her behavior. The Chama leader listened to her side of the story and showed empathy. By doing that, she worked out a mutually acceptable solution. The treasurer paid back every cent, and quietly left the Chama and the Chama leader agreed not to report her behavior to the other Chama members.
Recognize you may be a contributing factor
Taking responsibility for your actions leads to resolving problems. Challenge each party in a dispute to talk about what they would do to resolve the problem. What would they do to change their behavior? Even if you feel blameless, there’s always something you can contribute to the resolution. Once you take responsibility for your role, the other person shows a greater willingness to recognize theirs.
Don’t corner people
Many sticky situations are embarrassing. People know they have done something they should not, and they don’t want to be caught. Even though you must confront people with their behavior, don’t make them feel cornered. If they see no way out, no resolution, they fight back and the situation gets even worse. When you show understanding and a willingness to listen, you demonstrate that you believe there is a way out. Even in the worst case scenarios, don’t corner or challenge people to fight you.
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|Publication number||US4702397 A|
|Application number||US 06/651,835|
|Publication date||Oct 27, 1987|
|Filing date||Sep 18, 1984|
|Priority date||Sep 18, 1984|
|Also published as||EP0195804A1, EP0195804A4, WO1986001746A1|
|Publication number||06651835, 651835, US 4702397 A, US 4702397A, US-A-4702397, US4702397 A, US4702397A|
|Original Assignee||Infusion Systems Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (64), Referenced by (32), Classifications (19), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to pressurized fluid dispensers and more specifically, to pressurized fluid dispensers using an elastic bladder to pressurize the contents.
One application for a bladder-type dispenser is for injecting liquid medications and other fluids into the human body. When injecting fluids into the human body, generally a certain flow rate is prescribed by a physician. Presently a drop counter is used to accomplish this task. Drop counters typically comprise a bottle having a medication in fluid form, which is hung at a height above the patient. The flow rate is adjusted by adjusting a flow control valve until the appropriate number of drops pass out of the valve over a period of time.
The drop counter apparatus for dispensing fluids has several shortcomings. The most prominent shortcoming is inaccuracy in the flow rate of the fluid into the body. The bottle can be hung at various heights in relation to the body and, as the bottle empties, the level of the fluid in the bottle changes. Both of these factors change the total head of the system, which, in turn, changes the flow rate of the system. In addition, different surface tension and viscosity are associated with each fluid. The surface tension and viscosity determine the size of the drops formed by the fluid. The variation in total head and the different sizes of drops can result in inaccuracies of 15 to 20% above or below the prescribed flow rate at any given time.
Drop counters also have other disadvantages in both field and hospital applications. Whenever a patient has to be moved the drop counter must also be moved. Often, an additional person must carry the bottle of fluid or medication during the patient's transport.
Because of the inaccuracies associated with the drop counters, other means have been used in an attempt to inject liquid medications into the body. Pumps increase the accuracy of the flow rate of fluid into the body; however, the motion of the fluid as it is pumped interferes with the systolic motion of the blood stream. In other words, a pump injects fluid at an uneven flow rate.
Pressurizing the fluid has been looked to as a solution. However, prior art attempts at pressurization have met with problems as well. Gas cannot be used with the fluid, since the gas and fluid may react with each other, and it is vitally important that the medication not react with other substances. Furthermore, gas pressurization also runs the risk of inadvertently injecting gas into a person's body, which can be fatal.
Pressurization by use of an expandable bladder has been attempted in the past but has encountered problems. A prominent problem of the previous attempts to use a bladder has been a variation in flow rates as the bladder nears the empty condition. The pressure drops drastically as the bladder empties and, as a result, the flow rate also drops. Several of the prior art devices have attempted to address this problem; however, they have had limited success.
The present inventor is also among the inventors of several of the prior art devices using bladders. The device disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,506,005, and an improvement on that device disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,698,595, both of which were co-invented by the present inventor, use a bladder mounted axially on a mandrel. These devices not only require a specially manufactured bladder but also are difficult to assemble since mounting the bladder on a mandrel requires tedious alignment of the bladder with the mandrel. The valve mechanism necessary to control the flow rate out of the bladder in those devices is also very complex. The valve requires a number of specially manufactured parts and also uses a metal spring to maintain the valve in a closed position. The metal spring is not isolated from the fluid and thus a chemical reaction, such as oxidation, may alter the fluid flowing past the spring. Furthermore, the valve allows variation in the flow rates as the pressure drops.
The device disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,907,169, of which the present inventor was also a co-inventor, uses a bladder mounted on the outside surface of a pivoting curved spatulate member. This device eliminates the difficulties of aligning the bladder upon a mandrel during manufacture; however, the pivoting of the spatulate member causes other problems. Since the spatulate member can move as the bladder is filled or emptied, the bladder must be attached to the spatulate member. The bladder has to be specially formed to accommodate specially formed clips for attaching the bladder to the spatulate member. The devices uses a complex valve similar to that disclosed in the previous patents. The problems associated with the valve in the prior patents are also associated with the device described in this patent.
Thus, there has been a need for a bladder-type dispenser that can pressurize a fluid and maintain a substantially constant flow rate as the bladder empties, is easily manufactured and assembled, and is easy to use. In addition, there is a need for a valve system on a bladder-type dispenser having simple, reliable operation and having no metal components in contact with the fluid inside the dispenser.
The bladder-type dispenser of the present invention cures the shortcomings discussed above. The bladder-type dispenser comprisess a bladder having an open end and a closed end, which is and made of an elastomeric material. The dispenser also includes a bladder mounting structure including a fixed structural member having a convex curved surface and mounting elements for fixing the two ends of the bladder in relation to the curved surface, so that the bladder is stretched along that curved surface.
The bladder is preferably an essentially tubular length of elastomeric material, which may be extruded or molded. The bladder preferably includes an enlarged portion at the closed end. The bladder mounting element for fixing the closed end includes a slot for receiving this enlarged portion of the bladder.
The fluid dispenser also includes a flow controller for regulating the flow of fluid out of the bladder. The flow controller is preferably separate from the bladder and the bladder mounting structure, and may be removably attached thereto. The flow controller includes a body having a fluid passage through it including an inlet passage and an outlet passage. The block additionally has a cavity formed in it so that a portion of the cavity forms a segment of the fluid flow passage between the inlet passage and the outlet passage. A shutoff element is contained in the cavity and is movable therein to vary the cross sectional flow area of the fluid passage through the cavity. The control for the movement of the shutoff element is outside the fluid flow passage so the fluid being dispensed does not contact the control mechanism.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the assembled bladder-type dispenser of the invention;
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the bladder-type dispenser of the invention, with the door opened to show the bladder in its prestressed, empty state;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the flow controller of the dispenser of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the valve mounting element and valve of the bladder;
FIG. 5 is a view, partially in cross-section showing the attachment of one embodiment of the bladder onto the prestressing surface;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a dual flow dispenser constructed according to the invention;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the gear-actuated plate as an alternative flow controller for use in the fluid dispenser of the invention;
FIG. 8 is a plan view of the alternative flow controller;
FIG. 9 is a view of the closed end of an alternative embodiment of the bladder useful in the dispenser of the invention; and
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a removable mounting for the bladder-type dispenser.
Referring to FIG. 1, the bladder-type dispenser 20 is shown as it would be typically used. A line 22 of microbore tubing connects an outlet of the bladder-type dispenser 20 and an injection needle 23. The needle 23 may be inserted in a patient's body. Liquid medication passes through the tubing 22 and the needle 23 into the patient. Nevertheless, dispensing medications into the human body is just one possible use of the bladder-type dispenser 20 of the invention. The bladder-type dispenser of the invention may also be used to dispense a variety of other liquid substances, including industrial chemicals, foodstuffs, or cosmetics in industrial and consumer applications.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the bladder-type dispenser 20 comprises a bladder cassette 28 and a mating flow controller 30. The bladder cassette 28 comprises a main housing 32, a cover 42, and a bladder assembly 59.
In the preferred embodiment of the bladder cassette 28, the main housing 32 is a substantially rectangular box. The housing 32 comprises a substantially rectangular back 36 with four rectangular sidewalls 24, 25, 26, and 27, attached at right angles along the four edges of the back 36. Attached to the free edge of the sidewall 27 is a hinged cover 42. The substantially rectangular cover 42 is dimensioned to fit atop the main housing 32 to form a closed container. A thin, flexible plastic hinge 39 preferably connects the cover 42 to the sidewall 27. The cover 42 is held closed by a latch 43. A lip 41 on the outer edge of the opposite sidewall 25, and at right angles to that sidewall 25, engages the flexible locking tooth 43 on the long free edge of the cover 42. The locking tooth 43 is positioned on the cover 42 so that a notch 143 in the locking tooth 43 engages the lip 41 on the main housing 32.
It is apparent to one skilled in the art that a number of other arrangements for attaching the cover 42 to the housing 32 can be used. For example, a sliding cover could replace the hinged cover 42. The hinge 39 and lock 43 of the preferred embodiment would be replaced with a set of grooves in the sidewalls 24, 25, 26, 27 to receive a sliding cover. For example, the bottom sidewall 26 can be provided with a slot spaced a small distance from its free edge and extending across the width of the housing. On each adjoining sidewall 25, 27 would be a groove aligning with that slot. A similar groove in the top sidewall 24 would align with the grooves in the sidewalls 25, 27. The cover of that embodiment would be essentially rectangular and dimensioned to fit snugly within grooves in the sidewalls 24, 25, 27 and the slit in the bottom sidewall 26. When the cover is fully inserted a box-like container or cassette 28 is formed.
The top sidewall 24 of the main housing has a first valve structure mounting portion 44 for firmly holding the top portion of the bladder assembly 59. The preferred mounting is a U-shaped opening 44 extending from the free edge of the top sidewall 24 toward the back 36. The U-shaped opening 44 passes through about three-fourths of the front-to-back width of the top sidewall 24. The opening 44 is located near one corner of the box-like container. Around the perimeter of the opening 44 on the interior face of the top sidewall 24 is an undercut 44a.
Located on the exterior surface of the top sidewall 24 are preferably a pair of vertical aligning pins 48. The aligning pins 48 are preferably located about half-way between the U-shaped opening 44 and the most distant short edge of sidewall 24. The pins 48 are preferably cylindrical in shape. To provide for solid placement of the alignment pins 48, a reinforcing block (not shown) is preferably attached to the interior surface of the sidewall 24 opposite the pins 48.
Extending into the interior of the main housing 32 and along the interior surface of the sidewall 27 is a fixed structural element, 34, one side of which forms a convex curved prestressing surface 52. The prestressing structural element 34 has a first end 54 and a second end 56. The prestressing surface 52 is approximately the length of the sidewall 27 and is convex to the sidewall 27. The first end 54 of the prestressing element 34 is firmly attached to the interior surface of the sidewall 27 near the top of the housing 32. The second end 56 of the prestressing element 34 may be attached to the interior of the sidewall 27. Preferably the prestressing surface 52 is integrally formed with the housing 32. For added structural integrity a support member 55 may be connected between the sidewall 27 and the prestressing surface 52 a short distance from the second end 56. The prestressing element 34 may be connected along its length to the back 36 of the housing 32.
The prestressing structural element 34 preferably extends relatively near the sidewall 27 so as to take up a minimum of space in the interior of the housing 32. The convex curved prestressing surface 52 has its top end substantially in vertical alignment with the first, valve element mounting 44.
A second bladder mounting 58 is located near the second end 56 of the curved prestressing surface 52, the end remote from the valve assembly mounting 44. The second bladder mounting 58 receives the closed end of the bladder 64. A slot 58 is preferably formed in the prestressing element 34 near its second end 56. This slot 58 may extend across the full width of the prestressing element 34. The edges of the prestressing element 34 at the slot 58 are rounded to prevent damage to the bladder. Alternatively, the lower end 56 of the prestressing element 34 may terminate a short distance from the sidewall 27, leaving a space forming the slot 58 between the lower end 56 of the prestressing element 34 and the sidewall 27.
The bladder assembly 59 is positioned within the main housing 32, as shown in FIG. 2. Referring to FIGS. 2 and 4, the bladder assembly 59 comprises a valve mounting element 60, a locking element 62, a valve 72, and a molded or extruded elastomeric bladder 64.
The valve mounting element 60 holds the bladder 64 securely, and provides for the valve 72 for controlling the flow of fluid into and out of the bladder 64. The valve mounting element 60 also holds the top end of the bladder assembly 59 firmly to the top sidewall 24 of the main housing 32 by interaction with the valve assembly mounting 44. The valve mounting element 60 is shaped to fit snugly into the U-shaped opening 44 in the top sidewall 24 of the housing 32, as shown in FIG. 2.
Referring now to FIG. 4, the preferred form of the valve mounting element 60 is shown. The mounting element is generally tubular in shape, with a wide, grooved flange 68 on one end. The opening passing through the mounting element 60 may have two different inside diameters. A ledge is formed where the diameter of the opening changes. An annular groove 70 is centered on the flange 68. The depth of the groove 70 is preferably uniform. The outer diameter of the groove 70 is just slightly less than the width of the U-shaped opening 44 in the housing 32, while the outer diameter of the flange 68 is greater than the width of the opening 44. The axial width of the groove 70 is also slightly greater than the thickness of the top sidewall 24 of the housing 32 less the undercut 44a, so the lower rail of the flange 68 fits into the undercut 44a. The dimension differences between flange 68 and its groove 70 of the valve mounting element 60, and the U-shaped opening 44 are small so the flange 68 of the mounting element 60 snugly engages the opening 44 to hold the top of the bladder assembly firmly in place.
Located on the end of the mounting element 60 is a valve 72, such as a duckbill valve, which is known in the art. The two flaps of the duckbill valve 72 point away from the flange 68 of the mounting element 60. The flaps can be separated when an elongate member, such as a tube, is inserted through the valve in the direction of the flaps. When the valve 72 is so opened, fluid can pass into or out of the bladder 64. Until such an elongate member opens the duckbill valve 72 the pressure of the fluid in a full bladder 64 holds the flaps of the valve together, preventing passage of any fluid from the bladder.
Other apparatus can be used to prevent the flow of fluid through the valve housing 60 prior to its desired use, while still allowing easy opening when desired. For example, an elastomeric disk of self-sealing, rubber-like material can be used in place of the duckbill valve.
The valve 72 is positioned adjacent the lower edge of the mounting element 60, with a short extension of the mounting element 60 and its central opening extending into the valve, and forming a ledge against which the valve 72 may seat firmly.
The molded or extruded elastomeric bladder 64 is tubular in shape with an open end and a closed end at the closed end is an enlarged portion 57. The embodiment of the bladder 64 shown in FIG. 2 is molded with a closed end forming a necked-down portion 61 and an enlarged solid ball end 57. The necked-down portion 61 and enlarged ball end 57 of this embodiment of the bladder 64 are seen in greater detail in FIG. 5.
An alternative embodiment of the bladder 64a, shown in FIG. 9, is molded or extruded as a straight tube. After the tube is cut to the appropriate length, one end of the tube is folded over and held firmly with a clamp 66 to close off the end of the tube, forming the closed end of the tube with an enlarged portion 67.
The locking element 62 of the valve mounting element 60 of the preferred embodiment (FIG. 4) is preferably a thin-walled plastic clamp having a set of inter-locking teeth. After the open end of the bladder 64 is stretched over the smaller end of the mounting element 60 the locking element 62 is clamped on, over the open end of bladder 64. The unflanged end of the mounting element 60 and the locking ring 62 sandwich the open end of bladder 64 to provide a tight seal and a snug fit between the bladder 64 and the mounting element 60. In some instances it may be desired to have the section of the mounting element 60 around which the clamp 62 is placed be slightly longer in the axial direction than the width of the clamp 62, and to provide a slight flare or rim on the end of the mounting element so the clamp 62 clamps down on a neck of smaller diameter than the end of the valve mounting element to provide added security against the bladder 64 slipping off the mounting element.
The bladder's unstressed length is less than the distance from the valve mounting element 60, when attached at the first mounting 44, over the prestressing surface 52 to the second mounting 58, so the bladder is stretched when the valve assembly 60 is attached to the valve mounting 44 and the closed end is attached to the second mounting 58, a will be discussed below.
Assembly of the bladder cassette 28 will now be explained. The bladder assembly 59 is placed in the housing 32. The enlarged end 57 of the bladder 64 is placed in the space between the prestressing surface 52 and the sidewall 27, as shown in FIG. 5. The necked-down portion 61 of the bladder 64 passes through the slot 58. The slot 58 is sufficiently narrow to prevent the enlarged end 57 of the bladder 64 from passing through slot 58. The edges of the slot 58 in the prestressing surface 52 are rounded to prevent tearing of necked down portion 61 of the bladder itself. The bladder 64 is then stretched over the smooth, convex curved prestressing surface 52 and the mounting element 60 is engaged with the U-shaped opening 44. When both ends of the bladder assembly 59 are fixed in the housing 32, the bladder 64 is stretched along the prestressing surface 52, and the bladder 64 is stressed under tension. The curve of the prestressing surface is such that the stretched bladder 64 follows the surface closely and smoothly.
The groove 70 on the flange 68 of the mounting element 60 snugly engages opening 44, and the resilient, elastomeric material of the bladder 64 produces a force normal to the top sidewall 24 to pull the upper rail of the flange 68 firmly against the top sidewall 24. The slot 58 near the second end of the prestressing member firmly holds the closed end of the bladder. The normal force produces a friction force to secure the mounting element 60 and the sidewall 24. After the bladder assembly 59 is mounted within the main housing 32, the cover 42 is closed to complete the cassette 28.
When the alternative bladder shown in FIG. 9 is used, the assembly is generally the same. The enlarged end 67 of the bladder formed by folding over and clamping the end of the bladder tubing is inserted in the space between the prestressing surface 52 and the sidewall 27. A section of bladder tubing adjacent the enlarged end 67 is placed in the slot 58. Again, the enlarged end 67 of the bladder is too large to pass through the slot 58, so the closed end of the bladder 64a is held firmly adjacent the lower end 56 of the prestressing surface 52. The valve end of the bladder assembly 59 incorporating this alternative bladder 64a is identical to that shown and described above, and the attachment of it to the housing 32 is as described above.
The stretching of the empty bladder 64 stresses its walls so as to place its fluid contents under pressure even when there is little fluid in the bladder. This pressure in the nearly empty bladder helps to ensure a smooth, even flow of fluid when the bladder is coupled to an appropriate flow controller 30. The amount of prestressing, and thus the pressure imposed on the fluid to eject it as the bladder nears empty, can be varied by using bladders of different length. A shorter bladder will be under greater tension when it is stretched over the curved prestressing surface 52 than a longer bladder. This greater tension will translate into greater pressure of the fluid in the bladder.
The bladder 64 is sufficiently elastic that it does not rupture when it is so stretched, or when it is further stressed by filling with fluid. Preferably the bladder 64 should be sufficiently elastic that it can be filled to the point at which the bladder occupies virtually the entire interior of the cassette housing 32, except for the portion between the prestressing surface 52 and the sidewall 27.
The flow controller 30 is removably attached to the top of the bladder cassette 28 to open the valve 72 and to regulate the flow of fluid from the bladder 64 into the flow tube 22.
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, the flow controller 30 comprises a block 73 having an opening or cavity 88 in it. The block 73 additionally includes a fluid passage through it comprising an inlet passage 94, an outlet passage 96, and a portion of the cavity 88. A shutoff element 74 fits into the opening 88, a probe 76 is connected at the end of the inlet fluid passage 94, and a control mechanism 78 controls the shutoff element 74. The shutoff element moves within the cavity 88 to control the cross sectional flow area of the fluid flow path through the cavity 88 from the inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96.
The control mechanism 78 is sealed from the fluid passage from the inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96 by sealing the shutoff element 74 in the cavity 88 so fluid flowing through the portion of the cavity 88 from the inlet 94 to the outlet 96 does not flow around the shutoff element 74 to the control mechanism. Thus, the control for the shutoff is provided outside the fluid flow passage and the fluid being dispensed does not contact the control mechanism.
The preferred shutoff element 74 includes a cylindrical portion 82 and a frusto-conical end portion 84. The larger base of the frusto-conical portion 84 abuts the cylindrical portion 82. On the cylindrical portion 82, near the joint with the larger base of the frusto-conical end 84 is a shallow annular groove carrying a seal 86. The remaining exterior surface of the cylindrical portion 82 has outside threads 83.
The opening 88 extends to one end of block 73 in this preferred embodiment of the flow controller. The shape of opening 88 in the block 73 corresponds to the shape of the shutoff element 74. The opening 88 has a cylindrical portion 90 (FIG. 3) and a frusto-conical portion 92. The cylindrical portion 90 of the opening 88 extends through the block 73 to one of the end faces.
The fluid passage through the block 73 has an inlet opening 94 and an outlet opening 96 in the block 73. One end of the inlet passage 94 opens into the frusto conical portion 92 of the opening 88. The other end of the inlet passage 94 extends to one of the large rectangular faces of block 73. The outlet opening 96 extends from the frusto-conical portion 92 of the block opening 88 to the face of the block 73 opposite the face having the inlet opening 94.
The shutoff element 74 fits into the opening 88 as shown in FIG. 3. When installed, the frusto-conical portion 84 of the shutoff 74 fits into the frusto-conical portion 92 of the cavity 88, and the cylindrical portion 82 of the shutoff 74 fits into the cylindrical portion 90 of the block opening 88. The O-ring seal 86 fits tightly between the shutoff 74 and the walls of the opening 88 to provide a fluid seal to prevent fluid from leaking out through the opening 88 around the shutoff element 74. The seal 86 is positioned on the shutoff element 74 so that when the shutoff 74 is in its innermost position the seal 86 is outward of the outlet passage 96, so it is not in the fluid passage between the inlet opening 94 and the outlet opening 96. This seal 86 seals the control mechanism from the fluid flow passage.
A probe 76 extends coaxially from the inlet opening 94. The probe 76 can either be a tubular piece of acceptable medical grade material or a spike, both of which are known in the art. A tubular piece of medical grade material would be used in conjunction with a duckbill valve attached to the mounting structure 60. A spike may be used when a disk of self-sealing rubber-like material is substituted for the duckbill valve. The end of the probe 76 contacting the inlet 94 may be flared outward slightly to wedge the probe 76 in the opening of the valve mounting structure 60 and seal the flow path through the flow controller 30.
A flow restrictor (not shown) may be fitted within the inlet opening 94. Such a flow restrictor produces an opening that varies in size in response to the pressure of the fluid in the bladder 64. The flow restrictor may constrict the opening to produce a smaller opening and reduce the amount of fluid flow at higher pressures. As the fluid pressure in the bladder 64 drops, the opening of the flow restrictor gets larger. The pressure responsive flow restrictor evens out the flow rate of the fluid coming from the bladder 64. Thus, the flow rate of the fluid stays substantially constant until the bladder 64 is essentially empty. A flow restrictor having a fixed orifice may also be used to obtain similar results in some situations.
Fluid flow through the flow controller 30 by flowing through the probe 76, into the inlet passage 94, through the frusto-conical portion 92 of the opening 88 past the frusto-conical portion 84 of the shutoff element 74, and then through the outlet passage 96. The O-ring seal 86 on the cylindrical portion 82 of the shutoff element 74 prevents the fluid from flowing past the shutoff element 74 to the position control mechanism and through the open end of the opening 88.
The axial position of the shutoff element 74 within the block opening 88 is adjustable to control the amount of fluid that flows from the inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96. When the shutoff 74 is at its extreme innermost position, the frusto-conical portion 84 of the shutoff seats snugly against the frusto-conical portion 92 of the opening 88, and no fluid can flow around the frusto-conical portion of the shutoff from the inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96. As the shutoff 74 is moved axially outward, a small gap develops between the frusto-conical portion of the shutoff and the walls of the opening 88, allowing a small amount of fluid to flow past the shutoff from the inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96. As the shutoff 74 is moved farther out, the gap between the shutoff and the opening walls widens, allowing a greater amount of fluid to flow through the cavity portion between the inlet and outlet passages of the flow controller 30. Changing the axial position of the shutoff 74 in the opening 88 varies the cross-sectional area of the flow path. The flow rate of fluid through the flow controller 30 varies as the cross-sectional area of the flow path varies.
The position of the shutoff element 74 in the block opening 88 is controlled by the control knob 78, which threadably engages the cylindrical portion 82 of the shutoff element 74.
The thumb control 78 is fitted within a slot 95 in the block 73. The slot 95 is open on the top, but is preferably closed on the bottom. The thumb control 78 includes a plastic disk dimensioned to fit within the slot 95, and has a central threaded opening. The threads 89 on the central opening of the control knob 78 match the threads 84 on the outer surface of the cylindrical portion 82 of the shutoff element 74. The control knob 78 is knurled on the outside perimeter so a person can easily turn it with his finger or thumb.
When the control disk 78 is rotated, the threads 89 on the disk 78 engage the threads 83 on the shutoff 74 to move the shutoff 74 into or out of the opening 88 to vary the fluid flow rate through the flow controller 30. When the desired flow rate is achieved, the threads 89 on the control disk 78 and shutoff 74 help maintain the position of the cylindrical portion of the shutoff 74. The threads 83, 89 are sealed from the fluid flow path by the seal 86 around the perimeter of the shutoff element 74, axially between the frusto-conical portion 84 and the threads 83.
The opening 88 in the block 73 is positioned nearer one face of the block 73 so that thumb control knob 78 in the slot 95, which is centered on the axis of the opening 88, is exposed through the top of the slot 95. Thus, when an adjustment of the flow rate is needed, the disk 78 can be easily rotated by a person's thumb or finger.
In some applications it may be desirable to provide a fixed, predetermined flow rate. In such situations, a stationary shutoff 74 eliminates error on the part of the user or medical personnel. The flow rate is predetermined for the particular medication and the position of the shutoff 74 is fixed in the cavity 88 to provide that fluid flow rate, and the user-adjustable control knob 78 becomes unnecessary.
Referring to FIG. 3, two openings are located on the rectangular surface of the block 73 having the inlet opening 94. These openings fit with the alignment pins 48 on the top of the cassette housing 32. The two preferably cylindrical openings have inside diameters slightly larger than the outside diameters of the aligning pins 48, and the distance between the centers of the openings is the same as the distance between the centers of the aligning pins 48.
In assembly by the flow controller 30 and the bladder cassette 28, the aligning pins 48 are inserted into the openings in the block 73 while the probe 76 is inserted through the valve 72 in the valve attachment 60. The probe 76 thus opens the valve 72. The probe 76 and two pins 48 should be parallel to ensure that the flow controller 30 will align with the cassette 28 during connection. After the flow controller 30 is placed on the cassette 28, the probe 76 extends past the duck bill valve 72 and into bladder 64.
The outlet passage 96 of the flow controller is connected to micro bore tubing, such as is known in the art, which serves as the line 22 to the patient (FIG. 1). The pressure of the fluid in the bladder 64 forces fluid through the flow controller 30, the outlet 96 and the dispensing conduit, such as the line 22 and the needle 23.
Advantageously, the bladder 64 is filled while in the cassette 28. The flow controller 30 is not needed to fill the bladder 64. This allows the multiple bladder cassettes 28 to be filled at a remote location and used interchangeably with one flow controller 30.
The bladder 64 is filled after the bladder assembly 59 is positioned within the main housing 32 and the cover 42 is locked into place with the lip 41 and the locking tooth 43. The bladder 64 is filled with an instrument such as a syringe or commercially available filling machine such as are presently in use in hospital pharmacies, capable of producing a large pressure in the bladder 64. A probe such as the flow controller probe 76 is mounted on the syringe. The probe is passed through the duckbill valve 72 or self-sealing rubber-like disk and the medical fluid is inserted into the bladder 64. When the bladder 64 is full, the instrument is removed and the duckbill valve or self-sealing rubber-like disk closes, preventing the outward flow of the fluid. With a full bladder 64, the cassette 28 can be attached to the flow controller 30 with the aligning pins 48 and the spike or probe 76 for use.
The flow controller 30 and the cassette 28 are two separate parts that form an interchangeable system. Thus, only a limited number of flow controllers 30 needs to be kept on hand, which can be used with any bladder cassette 28 of a particular size. With the bladder cassette 28 and the flow controller 30 interchangeable, a user's stocking requirements are simplified.
The cover 42 of the housing 32 preferably includes a window 99 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) to allow observation of the bladder 64 as it empties. The interior surface of the back 36 of the cassette housing 32, opposite the window 99, may be marked with graduations to indicate the quantity of fluid remaining in the bladder 64. In the preferred embodiment, the various graduations are colored to further aid personnel in observing the bladder status as it empties.
Referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, an alternative apparatus for controlling the flow rate through the flow controller is shown. The shutoff element 74 and control knob 78 of the preferred embodiment regulating the flow between the inlet passage 94 and the outlet passage 96 are replaced by a shutoff element 71 providing rack and pinion control to align one of a plurality of separate, distinct flow openings 81 for connecting the inlet and outlet passages 94, 96 of this flow controller 100 to change to cross-sectional flow area of the fluid passage through the controller.
For this embodiment the inlet passage 94 and outlet passage 96 of the flow controller 100 are axially aligned on opposite sides of a perpendicular elongate opening or cavity 101 in the block 102 housing the flow controller 100. An elongate rack 71 have a toothed segment and an opening segment is contained within the elongate cavity 101.
The opening segment of the elongate rack 71 has a plurality of openings 81 through it of distinct sizes. Each of these openings 81 may be moved into alignment between the inlet passage 94 and the outlet passage 96 of the flow controller block by longitudinally moving the elongate rack 71 within the block opening.
The movement of the rack 71 is accomplished by the interaction of the teeth 75 of the toothed segment of the rack 71 and the pivoting pinion 79 and knob 77. The knob 77 projects outside the block 102 of the flow controller 100 so the user has access to it to turn it. The knob 77 rotates in one location in block 102, while the rack 71 moves within the opening 101. Adjustment of the rate of fluid flow from the flow controller's inlet passage 94 to the outlet passage 96 is provided by turning the knob 77. When the knob 77 is turned, the teeth of the pinion 79 engage the teeth 75 of the rack 71 to move the rack 71 longitudinally until the proper opening 81 is aligned between the inlet and outlet passages 94, 96.
The openings 81 in the rack 71 are spaced so only one opening aligns with the flow path at any given time. Flow is shut off when the rack 71 is positioned so the inlet and outlet passages are between openings 81 in the rack 71 by a set of seals, one around the inlet opening and another around the outlet opening. These seals also ensure that when one opening 81 is selected fluid does not seep around the shutoff element 71 to flow through others of the openings 81, thus yielding a different flow rate than desired. Further, the control mechanism consisting of the toothed portion 75 of the rack 71 and the pinion 79 are completely outside the fluid flow passage.
Numbers may be spaced along the side of the rack 71 opposite the teeth 75 of the toothed portion. The edge of the block 102 may have a view window 101 through which one number is visible at each position of the rack 71 to indicate which opening 81 is aligned in the fluid flow path. The numbers may correspond to flow volumetric rates associated with each opening 81 in the rack 71.
Referring to FIG. 10, an apparatus for conveniently aligning and holding the bladder cassette 28 is shown schematically. A holster 120 permanently houses the flow controller 30. The holster 120 has a sliding cradle member 122 having a first, open position, and a second, closed position. the open position of the cradle 122 is shown with phantom lines in FIG. 10. The sliding cradle 122 includes an L-shaped element 124, having an upturned end 126. A bladder cassette 28 fits snugly in the sliding member 122. The cassette 28 can be mounted in the cradle 122 when the holder 122 is in the open position, extended out from the holster body 126. The cassette 28 engages the flow controller 30 when the cradle 122 is moved to the closed position within the holster body 126. The sliding element 122 holds the cassette 28 in correct alignment as it slides into position. The cassette is aligned by virtue of its position in the L-shaped element 124 sliding holder 122. When the bladder in the cassette 28 is empty, the cradle 122 may be slid to the open position, and the cassette 28 removed and replaced.
FIG. 6 discloses an apparatus for holding a plurality of bladder cassettes 28 and flow controllers 30. The apparatus includes a holster 104 with a plurality of flow controllers 30 integrally attached to the holster 104. The cassettes 28 are removable, and slide into and out of compartments 106 in the holster 104. A door 108 on the bottom of the holster 104, which may be hinged or sliding, encloses the compartments 106 and holds the cassettes 28 in place during use, while allowing access to change the bladder cassettes 28 when necessary.
The flow controllers have probes 76, such as spikes or tubes of appropriate medical grade material attached to the inlet openings 94. The outlets 96 empty into a mixing chamber 110. The fluids mix and the pressure of the multiple bladders forces the mixture from the holster outlet 112 where the fluid can be injected into a patient.
Although the invention has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments, modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. All such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
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Totally forgot to put something up yesterday. NaBloPoMo fail! Sigh, something so easy, failed so easily.
K, over it. At this exact moment, I'm caught in the vicious cycle of tired. I'm tired enough to crash, but there are tasks yet to be completed. But I'm too tired to do anything. But I don't want to go to bed and leave too much for the morning. (I'm a night owl, btw.) So I stay up. But nothing gets done. And now I'm too tired to do anything AND I'm too tired to go to bed.
This happens shamefully often. I only ever remember that I love to sleep when someone or something is demanding that I get up in the morning. When will I ever learn?
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Not all Napa IT companies are alike. Computer Engineering Group (CEG) offers individuals and businesses technological services and computer support that are second to none. Our customers enjoy strategic IT-related assistance that includes business IT support, IT consulting, Apple and PC repairs, and smartphone and tablet repairs just to name a few.
We help you manage data, provide routine system maintenance, and offer support on everything from improving customer service to enhancing data security and maintaining critical digital devices.
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When researching and selecting an IT consultant and tech equipment repair company, you’ll soon discover that many companies offer some of the services you need, but not all of them. CEG doesn’t just fix computers, smartphones, and tablets when they break. We partner with you to provide guidance on meeting your technology goals and keeping your systems and hardware running smoothly.
Our comprehensive and affordable individual and business solutions mean you don’t have to turn to other IT companies to fill in service gaps.
vCIO / Designated Network Architect
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- Planning and management that align technology and data management with your company’s objectives and workflows. Our designated network architect provides the critical support needed to support your current and future needs, and our IT project management solutions help you navigate the technologies your business requires to grow and thrive.
- Business migrations ensure your enterprise can continue to grow, whether that means developing new products and services are expanding into new territories. Our solutions help you stay on track for success, and our hardware and software recommendations help you maintain business continuity.
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- IT project management is used to integrate new capabilities into your current systems without disrupting existing information flows.
Natural and man-made disasters come in all sizes and forms and can strike at any time. Our business continuity services take a proactive approach to managing breakdowns. Disaster recovery and planning, including data redundancy, keeps your business running and allows you to continue serving customers, most of whom won’t know a disaster has occurred.
As your business transforms and grows, its information and communication needs can dramatically change. CEG’s network engineering services give you the ability to work and coordinate from multiple locations, provide on-site internet access for customers, and take advantage of wireless solutions.
CEG’s team is prepared to respond immediately to secure your network and information. Our support services range from outsourced IT helpdesk support and on-site services to proactive monitoring and disaster responses. Our 24-hour on-site emergency support ensures your system is restored to normalcy as quickly as possible. We also provide administrative and protective activities that include support for hosted services, troubleshooting connectivity problems, and providing training.
Most businesses have times when they need more advanced IT support or helpdesk assistance. Staff augmentation services place highly trained experts at your location to work on specialized projects or fill gaps created by sick leaves, vacation time, or employee turnover. Smaller companies in particular find staff augmentation to be a cost-effective way to get the expertise they need without having to hire additional staff.
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- Hosted Exchange mail
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CEG offers affordable and effective business IT services that run the gamut from standard IT solutions to large-scale project management. We work hard to ensure your business’s technologies maintain pace with its needs, no matter how complex or demanding.
Is there anything more frustrating than when your home computer or mobile phone stops working in the middle of a big project? CEG’s residential IT services include cloud and data recovery, computer support and tune-ups, operating system upgrades, wireless networking, and more. We ensure you don’t have to be without your desktop or mobile device any longer than necessary.
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The Flame Grows Bigger. WTT and Solfire Announce Alliance.
Solfire is a two year old lifestyle brand that’s making itself known on tennis courts nationwide. Word of mouth and some hard pavement pounding by likable company founder, Brendan Murphy have resulted in key court influencers and teaching pros wearing the brand. It appears the efforts are paying off. That Solfire flame is burning brightly.
World Team Tennis (WTT) and Solfire have just announced a multi-year agreement making Solfire the official apparel provider of WTT, official sponsor of WTT Pro and Rec Leagues and WTT Smash Hits. Watch for Solfire apparel on officials, ball kids, staff and a few players.
Tour players currently wearing the line include Tommy Haas (right in the Big Lights Big City crew, $25), Ashley Fisher and Eric Butorac (pictured above left in the Classic ATP match shirt). The shorts on the site are $25. Nice prices ehh?
“Solfire is a non-traditional tennis brand and the WTT Pro League is a non-traditional tennis league,” said Murphy. “We both bring great energy and enthusiasm to the game of tennis and I believe our products will provide an exciting new look and feel to the league.”
“We’re excited to have them join our growing portfolio of innovative partners,” said WTT CEO/Commissioner Ilana Kloss. A special WTT tee is on its way.
Solfire makes cross-functional active wear for men and women some is high performance apparel (100% microdenier poly that’s anti microbial, anti static and moisture wicking) and some is unique 100% cotton style for off-court. Go traditional or grab one of their stand-out art-adorned styles. Murphy is the artist as well. It’s different. I like it.
High level players are eligible for discounted apparel packages. Solfire Nation, as they call it, it growing. Learn more or buy at Solfire.
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Great to see a photo of the old place again.
I remember the resident group was called Lenn's Combo. All the boys came from Accrington; Lenny was a big guy who lived at the back of Whalley Road.
Their opening number was The Fleetwoods - Mister Blue (1959).
I remember a large poster of Elvis on the back wall (red sweater, black trousers, white shoes).
I also remember Clifford - he had a small office by the door where he took your money and played the records. He always wore carpet slippers !!
Happy days, now a life time away.
Cliffs wife worked in the cloakroom, a loveley woman,some great memories, then we moved on to Accy Con Club
as we got older. Does anyone remember the Cavern in Castle st, off Milnshaw lane.
I “haunted” the place 1957-1962 and was on the staff for a year or two. I did the cloakroom and took learners on for the price of my admittance! Cliff and Elena Davidson ran it then. Jim Hacking used to be on the door and was resident DJ.
I was searching “Google” because I was trying to remember the Lennie and the Teenbeats line up! I remember Lennie,Dave Tomlinson,Pete Flately and Vinnie Shaw. Were there any more?? Lennie was the drummer.
I went up there every day apart from Wednesdays and Saturdays when I went the Accy Con (occasionally branched out to King Georges Hall or Nelson Imp!)
Cliff was a keeper of the morals and a matchmaker in his own way! What a character! If he did not approve of the boy I was dating he would not give me a pass out to go to the pub up the road, I would have to pay again to come in!! He often gave me a lift home in that classic sports car of his. Occasionally I got a lift from Jim who had a motorbike.
Cliff smoked those weird perfumed cigarettes, cant remember what they were called? He went on to develop emphysema and they moved to Devon. I received Christmas cards from Elena for years. Cliff died not long after they moved. I last saw Elena in 2004, she was then a very old lady and her eyesight was failing. I would love to know what has happened to her.
Cliff used to give me money every week to buy the Top 10, heaven!! He also gave them back to me when they fell out of favour. I wish I had kept them. I would be interested to hear other memories.
I moved to Blackpool in 1980 and now spend a lot of time in Spain. I often spend New Years Eve at the Poplar Club Accrington with old friends and its like coming home. I met Lennie there two years ago after not seeing him since I was 19!! I thought he had worn well!
Lennies Arcadian Combo, later changed to skiffle group later became Lennie and the Teenbeats. Cut first record at Romers in Rishton.
Lennie sang Shake, Rattle n Roll and Freight Train - can't remember the others!
I remember Elanor winning a new Ford Prefect in a charity raffle value then £375-00.
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Our experience with Toni Sime was great. She made herself available at all times of the day. She was also very informative on the properties that we saw. Toni did great with all aspects of the whole experience. She knows her job and does it well. She made this stressful experience better any way possible. I would strongly recommend her to anyone I know purchasing a house. Thank you Toni!
Toni made the home buying experience as easy as possible. I was very satisfied with the entire experience. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to purchase a home.
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Sergei Ryabkov, deputy Russian foreign minister, spoke in early May of the potential for agreement between Iran and world powers on “elements of a coordinated text and details of a general text” in the latest round of negotiations that concluded last Friday. The fragile confidence in a substantial deal superseding November’s interim Geneva accord, due to expire in July, means politicians and officials are already contemplating its impact on the region.
Abbas Araghchi, deputy Iranian foreign minister and lead negotiator, has been muttering about “dark forces on all sides,” a barely veiled reference to growing criticisms from hardliners in Iran who smell surrender. But Farideh Farhi, of Hawaii University, who closely follows Iran’s domestic debates over talks with the ‘Great Satan’, recently said she thought the leadership had sufficient support, provided US President Barack Obama overcomes congressional opposition to easing sanctions.
Israel’s concerns also remain important because of its undue influence in Washington. However, Keith Weissman, former analyst for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, says that while the Israeli leadership had their heels dug in against an agreement, he thought that qualms over use of force “especially in the military, renders an actual attack unlikely,” at least “for now.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has verified Iran’s compliance to date with the terms of Geneva, particularly in diluting 20 percent enriched uranium, while Tehran is preparing a document explaining past research with alleged military dimensions. True, the recent senior IAEA visit did not include Parchin, a site dogged with allegations of nuclear related military work, but Iran’s new proposal to redesign the Arak heavy water reactor, until now a sticking point because it opens a potential path to a plutonium based bomb, has been well received.
An agreement would limit Iran’s nuclear program to 5 percent enrichment and introduce more intrusive IAEA inspections. Iran is unlikely to close Ferdo, the fortified site near Qom the Israelis want mothballed, but the toughest negotiations are probably over centrifuges used for enriching uranium. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, has spoken of keeping the current 20,000 — under half of which are active — for “four or five years,” whereas the Americans are pressing for 4,000.
It is less clear which sanctions would go in return, and how quickly. Iran wants to recoup funds frozen abroad, and an end to US and EU banking and oil sanctions that have halved crude exports to around 1.1 million barrels per day since 2012.
Presumably a deal would lift some sanctions now and schedule further easing as Iran abides by terms of the agreement. It is important for Tehran, beyond the short term, to end US actions that have curbed its development of gas reserves, which at 33.6 trillion cubic meters are the world’s largest. The stifling of Iran’s gas sector predates the 2012 sanctions and resulted from often informal US pressure on non-US oil majors to abandon joint ventures that would transfer to Iran the technology to develop liquified natural gas infrastructure, which is highly preferable to pipelines.
What would a deal mean for the region? Analysis differs. Sir Richard Dalton, former British ambassador to Tehran, argues that the US and Iran would stay “fundamentally opposed to each other on more significant issues, such as Syria.” In contrast, Yezid Sayigh, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, said last December that Syria was a “sideshow” in which Saudi Arabia had turned on President Assad to fight back against Iran over its nuclear program and growing influence in Iraq. With a nuclear agreement, the Syrian stalemate might incline regional powers to at least downplay support for competing factions.
On becoming president last year, Hassan Rouhani identified improving relations with Saudi Arabia as a priority. Even if Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council states continue to increase arms spending after a nuclear deal, a diplomatic thaw might cool the Iran–Saudi Arabia tension level from being enemies to merely being rivals.
Growing international trade with Iran would surely be a boom for Dubai as many like dealing with Iran through Dubai as a hub with free trade zones and a developed financial sector. Iran also needs overseas capital, long deterred by US sanctions, as it cannot domestically meet investment needs of $60–80 billion annually.
All of this could help Rouhani in his stated aim of fostering a vibrant private sector, which would have a profound effect on Iran’s economy, politics and society. Is it wildly speculative, then, to suggest that the greatest consequence of a nuclear agreement could be a reformed Iran enmeshed economically with the wider world?
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld a two-year ban for CSKA Moscow midfielder Roman Eremenko for a positive test for cocaine.
CAS says the ban imposed by UEFA was "appropriate" and dismissed the Finland international's appeal.
The ban will expire on Oct. 5, 2018, when Eremenko will be 31.
Eremenko tested positive after playing in a Champions League game for CSKA Moscow against Bayer Leverkusen last September. The 2-2 result was not affected despite Eremenko scoring CSKA's second goal.
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Claire Legrand is the author of Foxheart, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, The Year of Shadows, and Some Kind of Happiness, as well as the New York Times-bestselling young adult fantasy Furyborn and its sequels. She is one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities. Claire Legrand lives in New Jersey.
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The Supreme Court of the United States granted review in two cases this afternoon:
Horne v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, No. 12-123: Whether a party may raise the Takings Clause as a defense to a “direct transfer of funds mandated by the Government,” Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, 524 U.S. 498, 521 (1998) (plurality), or must instead pay the money and then bring a separate, later claim requesting reimbursement of the money under the Tucker Act in the Court of Federal Claims, and whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction over petitioners’ takings defense where, as “handlers” of raisins under the Raisin Marketing Order, petitioners are statutorily required under 7 U.S.C. § 608c(15) to exhaust all claims and defenses in administrative proceedings before the United States Department of Agriculture, with exclusive jurisdiction for review in federal district court.
Sebelius v. Cloer, No. 12-236: Whether a person whose petition under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is dismissed as untimely may recover from the United States an award of attorneys’ fees and costs.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers stepped up spending in February after their income jumped, aided by a stronger job market that offset some of the drag from higher taxes. The gains led economists to predict stronger economic growth at the start of the year.
Consumer spending rose 0.7 percent in February from January, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the biggest gain in five months and followed a revised 0.4 percent rise in January, which was double the initial estimate.
Americans were able to spend more because their income rose 1.1 percent last month. That followed huge swings in the previous two months, which reflected a rush to pay bonuses and dividends in December before taxes increased.
After-tax income also increased 1.1 percent last month, allowing consumers to put a little more away. The saving rate increased to 2.6 percent of after-tax income, up from 2.2 percent in January.
The gains in spending and income follow other signs of an economy gathering momentum. Hiring is up, businesses are spending more, the stock market is hitting record levels and the housing recovery is strengthening.
More spending by consumers should boost economic growth in the January-March quarter after a lull at the end of last year. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
After seeing Friday’s report on consumer spending, Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, raised his growth forecast for the first quarter by a full percentage point. Ashworth now expects growth in the January-march quarter increase to an annual rate of 3 percent.
Growth at that pace would be a vast improvement from the 0.4 percent rate in the October-December quarter, which was held back by slower company stockpiling and the sharpest defense cuts in 40 years.
Ashworth called the boost in spending “impressive,” noting that consumers spent more while having to adjust to the higher Social Security taxes and a spike in gasoline prices.
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The Detroit Lions were unable to find an offensive tackle in the draft, so the team is scouring the free agent market to fill out its depth chart.
According to a report from CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora, the Lions will host Winston Justice for a visit on Wednesday.
Justice, a seven-year veteran, played last season with the Indianapolis Colts. He started 12 games at right tackle, missing four contests with various ailments. According to Stats LLC., he surrendered just 3.5 sacks.
He became expendable when the Colts signed former Detroit Lions offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus.
A 2006 second-round pick out of USC, Justice spent his first six seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. In his career, he's appeared in 59 games, starting 43.
Justice suffered a concussion against the Lions last season after getting laid out on a block by defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh during an interception return. Teammate Mike McGlynn accused Suh of taunting Justice after the play, an accusation Suh vehemently denied.
If the Lions decide to sign Justice, he'll compete with Jason Fox and Corey Hilliard for the starting job at right tackle.
The potential move would also reunite Justice with former college teammate Reggie Bush, who gained 2,218 yards from scrimmage in 2005 behind the blocking of the Trojans offensive line.
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Stars: Sapphire, Sunshine, Brandy Taylor, Annie Swanson, Paige Plenty, Cherry Brady, Jessica Pardo
The boobman’s #1 choice for all-naturals. Seven models from Voluptuous Magazine bust out to get raw, nasty and naked. See close-up after close-up of breast oiling, creaming, squeezing, nipple-pinching and pulling. Hear the sound of heavy tit-flesh smacking together in jaw dropping scenes of extreme boob touching. These horny, real women pack huge, heaving breasts in need of relief. Watch them use their fingers and sex-tools to shamelessly plug their tight, wet pussies for your pleasure. Enjoy!!
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In his seminal work, “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, Dale Carnegie talks about living in “day tight compartments.”
Sharing in part the instruction of Sir William Osler early in his book, Carnegie describes how Osler, using the metaphor of a trip on an ocean liner, told his medical students at Yale to “learn to control the machinery as to live with ‘day-tight compartments’ as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Get on the bridge [of the ship], and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the Past-the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future -the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe-safe for today!
Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. … Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. … The future is today. … There is no tomorrow. The day of man’s salvation is now. Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries dog the steps of a man who is anxious about the future.
Shut close, then the great fore and aft bulkheads, and prepare to cultivate the habit of life of ‘day-tight compartments’.”
The rest of Carnegie’s book helped me a lot in my early, post-college years, as I worked to establish myself as an adult. For sure though, the basic strategy to “compartmentalize” is likely the most profound concept for me, and has been a significant factor in living a happy and productive life. It’s helped me put worry in it’s place, well behind me, neutralized.
Recently I was reflecting on this strategy and drilled down further in its application. The ability to compartmentalize helps me in (at least) three categories of my thinking.
First, it helps me be present, focusing the majority of my energy on the issues at hand, the activities of the day, the most pressing concerns of the “now.”
Being present and focused allows us to cope with the many demands we have in our daily lives: pressures at work, deadlines at school, stresses at home. The key is to close the door on the day once it’s concluded, actively release any negative energies, follow whatever process(es) you use to relax, and do so. Reset your mind, reset your soul.
Another facet of compartmentalization is as an approach to combat the possible linkage of life issues, especially in the negative sense. What I mean here is, often if something “bad” happens to us, some negative issue comes up, we may have a tendency to allow that one negative instance effect other things in our life.
This linkage is not helpful to your attitude, nor is it good for your health. Don’t allow one (or two, or three) negative circumstances dictate your outlook overall. When faced with a challenge, a bad outcome, etc., deal with the situation as best you can, debrief with others (and/or yourself) as soon as possible, and then put issue behind you. Give yourself a few minutes to gather yourself — a few deep breaths, a brief walk, whatever you need to reset yourself, and then move forward with your day.
The final area that the skill and strategy of compartmentalization can be extremely helpful is in relationships. This fact is true whether you’re considering your work colleagues, new people you meet or interact with everyday, or those most intimate relationships with friends and family.
Put succinctly, “don’t let other relationships suffer due to a few turkeys in your life.”
In other words, if you have a negative interaction with someone, whether it’s in the office, at school, or on the highway, be it with your wife, or your son, or a customer, or your boss, or the mailman, if a bad exchange occurs, don’t let it effect how you treat everyone else.
You’ll serve yourself best if your remember that you can’t control other people’s actions, their mood or what they have to say. That’s the thing with free will: we do what we want, and sometimes an individual’s actions aren’t the best. Take the same approach suggested above:
- Deal with the circumstance as best you can when it’s happening with the other person;
- Consider and solidify the most accurate assessment that you can of the instance (i.e. debrief with yourself and/or others);
- Gather yourself, reset your attitude/mood, and move on.
Altogether, following Dale Carnegie’s suggestion taken from Sir Osler’s characterization is sound advice. And in fact, that advice didn’t originate from Sir Osler, but in fact was even passed down to Osler who’d first heard the advice nearly 150 years ago.
It was Thomas Carlyle that helped Osler lead a life free from worry when Osler ready these twenty-one words: “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” And if you’re able to compartmentalize the negative things that we come across throughout life, we’ll be able to do just that.
— Footnotes —
- If you want to read from the “horse’s mouth”, as it were, here’s a link to “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.”
- Learn more about Sir William Osler here.
- Deep breaths to calm, reset, control yourself? Oh YES. Wim Hof (“The Iceman”) uses breathing as the foundation for his unique method. Read more here.
- The man behind the man behind the man? Read about Thomas Carlyle
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2021-09-23T21:16:04Z
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Rising COVID-19 cases delay the reopening of VUSD schools. Other districts face delays, too.
The nationwide surge in coronavirus cases is forcing school districts in Tulare County to delay their reopening plans — including Visalia Unified School District.
The California Department of Public Health advised counties with daily case rates at or above 14 per 100,000 people to not approve in-person instruction waivers, which would allow elementary school students to return to school.
Tulare County is reporting a rate of 17.5 cases as of Thursday morning — a rate that has incrementally risen over the past few days and nearly doubled this month alone.
This comes after schools in California and around the country have closed in-person learning, including in New York — home to the nation’s largest school district. Locally, school district leaders have already realized their plans need to change.
Tulare County's largest district was approved for an in-person instruction waiver last month, but it's now delaying the reopening of VUSD schools one week later than expected. Preschoolers and students up to second grade will return on Dec. 7 and students up to sixth grade will return on Dec. 14 due to concerns from parents and teachers, according to the district.
“We take the advice and guidance of our local health department all the time,” Visalia Unified Superintendent Tamara Ravalín said. “However, we are very flexible. If they tell us to put the brakes on, we will do it.”
Delayed return to school in Visalia
VUSD initially expected elementary school students to return to school starting Nov. 30.
“We received some concerns from parents and teachers about the Thanksgiving holiday and possible exposure,” Ravalín explained. “We wanted to give another amount of buffer time, an extra seven days for families and teachers” in case anyone exhibited COVID-19 symptoms.
Everything else is expected to stay the same, including athletic conditioning and in-person cohorts, according to Ravalín, who added that students who expected to get a new teacher on Nov. 30 will still do so.
“All those mechanisms are still in place,” she said. “They will just be learning at home for that week. We don't want to keep flip-flopping everything back and forth. The changes in our system have already been made. Teachers have their new rosters."
“It also gives students another week to get used to their new teachers and make that adjustment," she added.
Earlier today, Ravalín took part in a conference call with school leaders and the California Department of Public Health that reassured her the district was on the right track regarding health and safety protocols.
“What was reassuring was everything (public health officials) said we should be doing — we’re doing,” she explained. “All of the school sites are ready. They have everything in place to welcome students back to in-person learning. It was comforting to know we are doing those things and much more.”
Other districts face delayed re-openings
The rise in COVID-19 cases is also affecting several other school districts.
Public health officials are re-evaluating their approval of in-person instruction waivers, according to Carrie Monteiro, public information officer for Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency.
About eight school districts could be affected by any changes, Monteiro added.
This includes the Tulare City School District, which submitted its revised waiver on Nov. 13, said Superintendent Brian Hollingshead, who added the district hadn’t yet been approved.
TCSD has tentatively scheduled to bring TK-2 students back to campus on Dec. 7 and students up to sixth grade on Jan. 11.
Hollingshead recognizes those dates may need to change.
“It really depends on the waiver,” he said. “That’s what we’re waiting on to see. I don’t know what the (COVID-19) numbers will do.”
“If we’re not able to open on Dec. 7, then we’d do Jan. 11,” Hollingshead said. “We would still stagger our grade levels.”
Hollingshead isn’t worried about the rise in cases, he said.
“The numbers are going to be what they are,” he said. “If everybody can follow the safety protocols we’re supposed to follow, then we should be in good shape.”
Contact education reporter Kristan Obeng at KObeng@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KrissyObeng.
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United States District Court, D. New Jersey
ORDER FOR THE RETURN OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
DOUGLAS E. ARPERT, Magistrate Judge.
This matter having come before the Court upon the application of the defendant ARIEL POTASH, by his attorneys Jacob Laufer, P.C., for an order, pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure § 41(g) for the return of Mr. Potash's personal property, for the return of items of personal property belonging to Mr. Potash, taken by federal agents at the time of his arrest; and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, having no objection to such relief, and for good and sufficient cause shown;
WHEREFORE, it is on this 5th day of February, 2014,
ORDERED that reasonably diligent efforts should be made by federal officials to retrieve and return these items to ARIEL POTASH reasonably promptly:
1. Car Registration and Insurance
2. License Plates from the front and rear bumpers of the vehicle.
3. Emergency Medical Technician ("EMT") Equipment Bag, including oxygen tank, kit and defibrillator.
4. Two-way EMT radio, belonging to Hatzalah
5. EMT License and Badge
6. 2 Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance ID's; and it is
FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to the stipulation of defendant ARIEL POTASH, agreed to in open Court, photographic evidence of the above items shall be deemed authentic as a duplicate pursuant to Federal Rules of Evidence 1003 and 1001(c) at any trial or proceeding in this matter; and it is
FURTHER ORDERED, that the application for return of item "7, " a drivers' license is denied as moot; and it is
FURTHER ORDERED, that the Government shall, pursuant to a search warrant that has been obtained by the Government, make all reasonable efforts to expedite the completion of imaging of items "8" and "9, " an iPad and Laptop, respectively, and ...
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|ConvaQuip Ind., Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. That is because we base our business on the trust you place in us. The information we collect is gathered to ensure secure ordering and to provide a more personalized shopping experience. You can help us ensure your privacy by not sharing your account information or password with anyone. See below for detailed information about how we protect your personal information. For any comments or questions, please email or call us toll free at (800) 637-8436. How much information must you share?
The amount of information we collect depends on you. We collect information needed for secure ordering and customizing your experience. See below to find out what information is required for what task. Browse online
1.) IP address - We use IP addresses to measure our site traffic and to help provide a relevant shopping experience. Your IP address is not linked to your customer information.
2). Referral site - If you come to our site via a link, the location of the referral is captured. This is used to help us know where our users come from.
3.) Browser type - This information is captured to help us optimize our site to match the latest technology used by our customers.
4). Movements through our site - We keep track of pages you visit to help us provide a more personalized and relevant shopping experience.
Surveys and other registrations
Name, e-mail and phone number, but varies by promotion or purpose.
Is your information used for any other purpose?
We require only the personal information that is needed for safely processing your online order and for contacting you about your transactions. It is used exclusively for that purpose. If you become a ConvaQuip Ind., Inc. customer, you may receive mailings from your account information and your account information may be analyzed as part of our standard business practices.
Will your information be given to any other party?
Your personal information is not shared with any other party.
Do we purchase information about our customers from other companies?
What about e-mail?
When you purchase online from ConvaQuip Ind., Inc., we will contact you by e-mail to confirm your order and to update you on the status of your order.
ConvaQuip Ind., Inc. is committed to providing all customers with a world-class experience. In order to measure how well we are doing and to better understand how we can continually improve our product offerings and our ability to meet your unique requirements, from time-to-time we may contact you by phone or e-mail and solicit your participation in research. Your participation is voluntary and you may request to remove yourself from future efforts of this kind.
How do we protect your information?
We employ powerful 128-bit encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers (SSL) in all areas where your personal identity is required. For your protection, ConvaQuip Ind., Inc. is certified by VeriSign. This is your assurance that our site is authentic and that were employing SSL security. You can check this security protection setting within your browser. To view our VeriSign certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key at the bottom of your browser. Our site security information will appear. For more information, contact your browser's publisher. Your account information and order history are kept behind our firewall. All transaction information is processed under encrypted channels, although you always have the option to choose unencrypted processing. To be sure you have the most protection available, be sure to download the latest version of today's most popular browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. In addition, access to your personal information is restricted within our company to provide maximum security.
Who can see your account information?
Only authorized programming personnel at ConvaQuip Ind., Inc. LLC are permitted to see your password. Your account manager is not permitted to see your password. Nor are any other personnel. If you forget your password, you can receive a reminder via e-mail or you can create a new one. Only authorized sales, customer service and accounting personnel are permitted access to your account information. Employees who violate our privacy pledge will be subject to our normal disciplinary process. Whenever we hire other organizations to provide support services, we will require them to conform to our privacy pledge and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
What if we change how we use your information?
If we change how we use your personal information, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the change to this site.
How do you create a user profile?
If youve already conducted business with in the past and would like to begin purchasing online, you will need to create a user account. Creating an account requires you to designate a user name (E-mail address) and password. Passwords must consist of at least one non-white-space character and be at least four characters in length. Single spaces are allowed in passwords. Leading and trailing spaces, and adjacent spaces, are not allowed.
What about cookies?
How do you correct inaccurate information?
You can update your basic account information at any time. To correct any other account information, please contact us. We will attempt to keep customer information complete, up to date, and accurate. We will tell our customers how and where to conveniently access their account information (except when we are prohibited to do so by law) and how to notify us about errors, which we will promptly correct.
How do I contact ConvaQuip Ind., Inc.?
Click here to contact us. Click here
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Have an amazing day at the animal park using these zoo tickets in Durban! Groupon's latest offer is giving great discounts on this deal. Treat your family to a day out at the zoo at a discounted rate with these vouchers. Watch all of the animals in their enclosures when you use these worthwhile vouchers. Keep the kids happy with a visit to the zoo using these zoo tickets in Durban! Get these fantastic vouchers now to make sure that you don't miss out on this exciting experience! Have an enjoyable day at the animal park using these zoo tickets in Durban!
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On the surface, this painting looks playful in it's depiction of this scene of the farmer and his crop, but on second glance we see something much more sinister. It takes on somewhat of a horrific mood, with the decaying, poisoned soil, the mutated crops, and the farmer's demonic eyes and hatchet buried in the ground. Even the sun has a look of horror as he watches from afar. It is a stark reminder of how our planet and soil are being poisoned every day from multiple sources. Both illustrative and painterly, this colorful piece is fun and disturbing. A great conversation starter.
Preston M. Smith (PMS) has been commissioned to paint 12 paintings of President Barack Obama for the Inaugural Purple Ball in Washington D.C. (2009) and these paintings now are in the collections of Ed Harris, Ashley Judd, Patricia Arquette, Amy Brenneman, Josh Lucas, Il Divo, and more. He has also shown his work alongside David Lynch at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation where his live painting was auctioned and sold. Preston's work has been highlighted in Artist Portfolio Magazine for the issue and competition "NY vs. LA" where he was one of only 10 Los Angeles artists to be selected. He auctioned off two of his paintings at the Magic Castle for the Bring Hollywood Home Foundation and recently showcased his work at a prominent group exhibition at the AD Gallery and at the BG Gallery in Bergamot Station. Preston is currently taking part in the 30th annual "Laluzapalooza" at the world famous La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Hollywood and haleARTS in Santa Monica in April.
Articles and Publications:
- "NY vs. LA" - Artist Portfolio Magazine
- Preston M. Smith "Exclusive Interview" - The White List
- "Paintings With the Influence of the American Landscape: Preston M. Smith" - The Wall Breakers
- PMS Artwork highlight "Day 227" Art Blog Daily
- “Get a Hold of ‘Ground Control’ at Subspace” - Culver City Patch
- "Painting the President, Over and Over" - The Idaho Mountain Express
Oil on wood panel
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- Ready to Hang
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2017-03-30T19:15:26Z
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How To Get Privacy Online
Most people don’t know how much they’re being tracked online by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. To find out, check this site out
These days it seems like no one has privacy online anymore. Google is collecting data like crazy, along with all the other major search engines. Looking at something on amazon or newegg? Be prepared to be advertised similar items on other websites you visit. Reading an email on gmail? Get advertisements based on the contents of the email. Tracking cookies are everywhere. Facebook is a pit of personal identifying information.
So, can you protect yourself from being tracked constantly? Yes.
1. Use FireFox as your browser. The other browsers don’t have nearly the amount of privacy plugins and features.
2. Install the “Minimum” plugins listed on this website for your browser, even if you’re not using Firefox. If you are using Firefox I’d highly recommend giving NoScript a go, it has saved me many times from Adobe exploits.
4. Delete your Facebook and Google accounts.
5. Use a VPN at all times.
Now, some level of tracking on the internet is okay in my book, but when you cross a certain line, like Google has, it turns into something evil. Now, am I really worried about Google tracking me? Not really, I don’t genuinely think it’s a huge problem at this point, but at the rate things are going it’s just going to keep getting worse. I don’t follow all of the above suggestions although I do have all the privacy plugins installed. They really don’t mess up web browsing at all so at the very least I’d install those plugins.
Please do note that some tracking is good for the internet, especially small sites, they need the data to properly monetize the site and keep it alive, but if you’re really privacy & security conscious then follow all those steps. If you’re really paranoid then browse the web through the tor browser bundle.
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Oxford Brookes University Nursery
The Oxford Brookes nursery accommodates children between the ages of 4 months and 5 years.
The nursery has a proven record of delivering high quality childcare. We are committed to ensuring that we provide a happy and secure environment where children flourish whilst developing the life-long tools for learning.
The nursery benefits from having a purpose-built building situated in the idyllic, wooded location of the university’s Clive Booth Site. Two large play areas offer abundant opportunities for physical play and outdoor exploration with the willow dome and trees providing summer shade. The adjacent wooded area provides an ideal site for Forest School activities, led by our qualified Forest School leader and assistant.
The core nursery day runs from 8.30am to 5.25pm. Parents are also able to book and pay for an additional half hour at either end of the day to further extend the session if needed. There is a choice of attending either full day or half day sessions. The morning sessions runs from 8.30am to 1.00pm and includes morning snack and lunch. The afternoon session runs from 1.00 pm until 5.25 pm and includes tea.
The nursery is open for approximately 47 weeks of the year with the main closures being the last two weeks in August and in between Christmas and New Year along with bank holidays and three staff training days. Fees are not applicable for planned nursery closures.
The nursery is run by a team of professionally qualified staff, chosen for their passion for childcare and commitment to developing the individual needs of the children. All key staff have a level 3 qualification as a minimum with five staff being graduates, two of whom also have Early Years Professional Status, with one also having QTS. Staff are well supported through on-going training programmes to ensure their continuing professional development and that the high nursery standards are maintained.
Most key staff have a 4.5 day working pattern relinquishing the need for them to work shifts meaning they are available for their key children and families at the beginning and end of the day.
Staff turnover is extremely low, providing consistency of care and a high level of experience and skills. The average length of time for an individual member of the 17 staff who work with the children exceeds 9 years in our nursery alone.
The nursery chef plans and provides a wholesome balanced diet in the fully-equipped nursery kitchen. The premises and practice have been awarded the maximum of five stars by Environmental Health.
The daily menu includes a morning snack, cooked lunch and afternoon tea and incorporates fresh fruit and vegetables. The babies are offered an individual weaning menu and special diets and allergies are also catered for.
Fresh drinking water is always available and all meals and snacks are inclusive.
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A pack of racing sled dogs speeds down the hill by command of their master. Suddenly, the driver shouts a few words and the dogs skid to a stop. The sled turns a sharp angle, kicking up puffs of snow and slides a quarter circle to a stop right in front of me. Awesome. My rally racer, or dog sled driver, has arrived.
THE RALLY RACER
29 year-old ‘Fari’Frederik Mathiassen actually does race, I soon find out. A fresh-faced freckled young man, he talks with a twinkle in his eye. Strands of ginger-toned hair peep out of his blue beanie, which he sets with racer style sunglasses upon his head. His look is completed with a well-worn grey anorak and polar bear fur overalls.
He tells me that the dogs are a bit tired because they joined a 33-kilometre dog sled race over the weekend, a qualification round to the national championships held in North Greenland.
“We came tenth,” he shrugs, suggesting better luck next time.
POLAR BEAR PANTS
Fari’s fur overalls fit the snowy landscape. He bought them second-hand for only 2000 kroner, but one can pay up to 12,000 kroner for a new pair, he tells me. They are surprisingly warm and insulating for being so thin.
Growing up in the Ilulissat region, Fari was brought up around dogs since a very early age, and was given his first four adult dogs to raise when he was seven years old. He began to drive by himself at that age, too.
“The dogs were just outside our house where we lived. At that time dogs were allowed in the city, but now they have been moved out of the town.”
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The pink Himalayan salt lamp is a must have addition to your kitchen pantry and any home. I grew up in the desert and have used many types of natural salt for scouring the surfaces of ancient artifacts in museums and even found just on the shores of my Grand Canyon vacation spot. These salts were very expensive and often unaffordable for the common person. We used the black “Dia de Amistad” or “Dia Montana” variety that came in cylinder-shaped rocks that one cracked open to reveal a salty treat inside. They tasted like fish!
Now days pink salt is cheaper and available in more decorative forms. Recently I bought some pink Himalayan salt from an online source, which was quite the treat. I was really drawn to the beautifully formed crystal sized rocks that were beautifully sculpted and shaped by nature. There were a few different species of pink salt, I was interested in, but ended up settling on only one – the Rock Salt of Peru.
The Inca used pink salt in their beautiful architecture and art, as did many ancient civilizations before them. These fine quality stones were used by the Aztecs of South America as well as the people of Chile and Easter Island. Today, they are a popular ornamental salt used in home salt lamps. Inca pink salt is actually a rare and exotic type of rock salt mined in the elevations of the Andes mountains. This pink salt has a pink tinge to it due to iron content and is considered to be higher quality than most types of commercial salt mined from the sea bed.
A great advantage to using the pink Himalayan salt lamp is that it is naturally fragrant. When you light it, the pink color gives off an almost tropical air smell – inviting you into a deeper experience of relaxation. My favorite kind of natural fragrant Himalayan salt lamps are those which feature an incense-like fragrance – reminiscent of the aroma of fresh jasmine or rose buds. Many of these fragrances include herbal combinations and essential oils – creating a relaxing, aromatherapy scent that helps relieve stress and tension. Most of these fragrances are very refreshing and invigorating aromas, creating a positive mood and setting the mood for a good night’s sleep.
I have found that regular incandescent lamps can pose a number of safety risks when used with household electronics. For example, using regular lamps to power a pink Himalayan salt lamp can pose a fire risk – especially when the electricity is run through a surge protector strip. It also poses a fire hazard with matches and batteries. To minimize this risk, I suggest that my Himalayan salt lamps are used with rechargeable batteries or, if desired, that I leave the lamps on permanently when not in use.
Another safety concern I have is with the natural gas leaking from the lamp. I have read online that there are lamps with carbon lamps that do not require any vents or venting – but I have not researched this extensively. If you are concerned about the safety of the lighting of your home, I would recommend that you invest in a halogen Himalayan salt lamp. These lamps tend to feature a longer life span than traditional incandescent lamps, as they have a much longer bulb lifespan – up to 20 years or more! In addition, halogen lamps can be installed in a wide variety of locations where traditional lighting may present a safety risk – including ceiling corners and around flammable objects, such as picture frames, books, and art supplies.
I am very pleased with the pink salt lamp that I purchased for my daughter’s bedroom. It has brought warmth and cheer into a room that was often cold and uninviting. The pink salt lamp has made it feel like spring all over her room. I love that it easily brightens up a room when we are reading or watching television. We really enjoy being able to see each other while we are studying. My daughter absolutely loves the pink salt lamps that she has in her room and has asked me to buy her a few more.
There is a huge selection of pink salt lamps at the Amazon site. You can choose from many different styles, colors, and shapes. I chose a beautiful pink Himalayan salt lamp with a clear cover. It is shaped like a heart and is made from white ceramic. It easily lights up my room during the night and even during the day when we are in bed, it looks great! If you are looking for a decorative accent to add a touch of color or beauty to a room, then I would recommend purchasing one of the beautiful pink salt lamps that are available at the Amazon site.
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We deliver the most technologically advanced air and surface pathogen control systems in the world.
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Summer in Winter
(Volcom White Polka Dot Bikini)
So it's resort season…very few can actually go on vacation for resort season in January-Febuary. January is for most of us back to the daily grind. Dreaming of a luxe resort vacation escaping the winter's chill to a hot hot heat into paradise. L.A.'s weather is usually warm but it's been extremely hot lately. Bikini weather HOT. What a better way to have my own resort travels down the street. No travels stress, no expensive cost, just easy fun. In your own city. I feel so grateful for this weather.
My main new years resolution is to have more FUN. :)
Lather up the coconut oil, take in the vitamin D, and dive into the new waters of 2014.
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We would like to thank and congratulate the wonderful Natalie Anderson and her champion family members who recently won £10,000 in ITV’s All Star Family Fortunes. Natalie and her family were playing against the Olympic gold medallist and sporting legend, Sir Steve Redgrave and his family.
The £10,000 that TV actress Natalie and her family team won has been shared equally between the Myotubular Trust and a Rotarian charity, which is another cause close to Natalie’s heart, making a real difference to the lives of the children she knows.
Natalie’s inspiration for raising funds for the Myotubular Trust is 15 year old family friend, Harry, who has myotubular myopathy. Harry and his family have been huge supporters of the Trust since inception in 2006 and we are so grateful to them too.
Natalie has been a wonderful supporter for years, helping to raise the profile of the Myotubular Trust through her TV celebrity connection, while also providing some amazing fundraising support. As well as having a beautiful singing talent, she has acted in a number of TV soaps and dramas, and currently plays TV Emmerdale’s ‘Alicia Harding’ .
Natalie and her family were all such great sports on the show – it was fantastic to watch, with the team racing to hit the buzzer first in the head-to-heads, winning them the chance to answer the questions and cash prizes! The Trust received many excited messages and texts too from affected families and individuals who really enjoyed watching the show and seeing the profile of myotubular myopathy being raised by Natalie and her family on this popular national TV show!
Our thanks again and very many congratulations to Natalie and her family!
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I have been troubleshooting an issue with terminal services sound redirection for one of our customers for a while. Audio mapping was enabled and all of the GPOs had been checked and re-checked. Resultant set of policy showed everything should be working. The volume showed to be muted when looking at the sound settings through the control panel. You could unmute the sound and click apply and the "muted" check box would automatically re-check itself. All types of troubleshooting were done from DirectX diagnostics to a Microsoft PSS case. Skipping three days forward, the root cause was due to rdpclip.exe not running at user login. This process is started at each login subject to the existence of a registry key which was missing. [more]
The reason it was missing was due to a previous fix for performance issues. The registry key that was missing was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd:StartupPrograms --> rdpclip . I added it back and tested and sound redirection worked. However, now the performance issue is back. At login, there are several users who experience very high CPU usage for the rdpclip.exe process. Since rdpclip.exe is responsible for several types of RDP redirection, it was undesirable to remove the registry key again to fix the issue. I was able to determine through additional troubleshooting that audio mapping was the root cause. I can enable any type of redirection via terminal services redirection except audio mapping and the performance problem does not occur. At this time we still have not found a fix for the performance issue.
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Bethany Leigh joins my blog today to discuss her latest release. It’s a collection of short stories and is titled A Cure For All Ills. Whereas Bethany’s first book, Freedom, was an alt-history and her second, At Dead of Night, was a detective story, A Cure for All Ills is a collection of honest-to-goodness domestic discipline stories. One of the stories features a spanko time-traveller from the future making illicit trips back to 1680s London to track down the legendary spanker Whipping Tom, but all the others are contemporary, featuring women in DD relationships and whose partners see – or come to see – spanking as ‘a cure for all ills’.
I love how diverse Bethany’s books are. Each is wholly unique, and this one is no exception!
The Stories Inside
Maddie’s hot new date loves to cook – but she avoids eating at all costs
Sarah has perfect plans for her anniversary – but Dan’s disappeared into his man-cave
Ginny’s always let her dog run free in the ‘on-lead’ area – but now a fine has turned up in the post
Maddie, Sarah, Ginny and the other feisty women in these stories all have problems. And they all have men who believe that a spanking is a cure for all ills.
Buy This Book
“It’s our anniversary,” I whispered. “We should be having a romantic day together…”
“And we would have been, if you hadn’t spoilt it.”
I flared up again, blinking back my tears. “If I hadn’t spoilt it? I got you a present and all you could be bothered to do was go out and –”
He gripped me more firmly. “As I said, you have two choices. Walk back or be carried. What’s it to be?”
While I hated the idea of making it easy for him, I couldn’t bear the thought of being carried up the road. So I walked beside him, inwardly quaking. I could still feel the throb of the last spanking, and didn’t want another on top of it.
He unlocked the front door and pointed me inside. This time he did pick me up, carrying me through to the bedroom. And my stomach lurched. For there, on the bed, lay a belt.
My Questions for Bethany
I thought one of the most riveting posts on the recent Saturday Spankings blog hop was an excerpt from a story in this book, in which a woman’s partner uses DD to help her overcome a severe eating disorder. What made you write about this?
I was bulimic throughout my twenties and used to long for a man like Adam to enter my life, take responsibility for my eating, and save me from my self-destructive dieting obsession. It didn’t happen for me, but it does happen for Maddie. When I first tried my hand at writing a DD story, the eating disorder scenario felt natural for me – troubled heroine with a serious problem, caring partner using tough love to help her recover. So ‘A Cure for All Ills’ was the first DD story I ever wrote and the other one featuring Adam and Maddie, ‘Far to Go’, was the second.
Are you like any of your heroines?
I think there’s a little bit of me in all of them. From this collection, I’m most like Sarah – hot-headed, rebellious, likes the idea/fantasy of discipline more than the reality of it. There’s obviously quite a bit of Maddie in me as well and her behaviour around food is modelled on mine back in my bulimic days. Of them all, though, I’m mostly like Lucy, the PI from my previous release, At Dead of Night – work-oriented, often seen drinking a cider or two down the pub, fond of a skirmish that ends in a playful spanking.
Bethany Leigh is a writer of domestic dramas and detective stories spiced up with spankings and romance. Her books are: Freedom, set in an alternate Edwardian England; Betrothed, a short prequel to Freedom; At Dead of Night, a contemporary whodunit; and A Cure For All Ills, an anthology of short domestic discipline stories. All are published by Blushing Books.
Bethany lives in Australia. When she’s not writing, she likes hanging out with her family, catching up with friends over a wine or coffee, and spotting kangaroos, wombats, kookaburras and other fabulous wildlife in the bush near her home.
Bethany’s Author Links
Thanks for visiting, Bethany!
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Welcome to Mulligans Grill & Pub and Outside Tropical Island!
- Enjoy Drinks and Grill Favorites Inside or Outside in an Upbeat, Comfortable Setting
- Relax Outside in Mulligans Jamaican Tropical Island Area
- Stop by for Late Night Drinks until 2:00 a.m. on Thursday – Saturday
- Escape the Office for Lunch at Mulligans – Open Everyday at 11:00 a.m.
- Catch All Your Favorite Teams on the Numerous Flat Screen TVs Inside and Outside including the Major League Baseball Package, NFL Sunday Ticket, and ESPN Game Plan
- Reserve the Party Room for Your After Work Get Together or Next Celebration
Make Mulligans Grill & Pub Your Place Today!
- 5500 Old Cheney Road
- Lincoln, Nebraska 68516
- Sunday - Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
- Thursday - Saturday: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
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Personal Guarantees by Directors
Can a liquidator help? What to do?
One of the problems a director faces when the company is insolvent is the issue of personal guarantees. Unfortunately, there is no “magic pill” that can fix the problem.
A personal guarantee is a specific agreement between a director, or some other guarantor, and a particular creditor. The usual provision is simply that if the company that incurred the debt cannot or does not pay the liability then the creditor can seek payment from the director personally. So personal guarantees are sometimes requested by suppliers as part of their standard Credit Agreement and by Banks when providing any form of finance.
Can a liquidator help?
Not a lot! Unfortunately, a personal guarantee is an agreement between an individual and a particular creditor. As a result a liquidator has no say and no control over any action that a particular creditor will take under a personal guarantee.
What to do?
There are some general principles that can be applied. Firstly, we always recommend that a director deal with company debt problems prior to dealing with personal debt problems. We advise that because it is important to “crystallise” the debt that is owed to that particular creditor. It is the company that has the primary liability to the creditor and so it is usually best to place the company into liquidation prior to entering negotiations with a creditor that has a personal guarantee.
We always recommend to a director who is concerned about the financial position of the company that they also prepare a list of all creditors who have a personal guarantee from the director or any other party.
After a director has placed their company into liquidation, then the director can address their personal financial problems. It will often be the case that a director is able to negotiate a settlement with creditors that have a personal guarantee. This will be possible because that creditor will know that the director probably has no means of satisfying the amount due under the personal guarantee in full because the company has just been placed into liquidation.
A director that has provided a number of personal guarantees may even need to consider using the personal insolvency legislation. That is, a director may need to consider whether or not they should enter Bankruptcy or perhaps even attempt to agree to a Personal Insolvency Agreement or in the case of smaller debts, a Debt Agreement.
If the above advice has not answered your questions you might want to review the following pages and downloadable Information Sheets:
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Hello , I am Liz , welcome to my website.
Life can feel overwhelming to all of us at at times. Events from the past, problems today and concerns about the future can all make life challenging. Sometimes we need support and encouragement to work through our difficulties or just feel that we would benefit from talking things through.
Finding someone you can trust to talk to isn't always easy. It isn't always possible to turn to family, friends or colleagues. It may be difficult to be fully open with them, you might be concerned that they won’t understand or be worried about burdening them.
I am a professional Counsellor and Psychotherapist and have experience in working with adult clients of all ages, genders and backgrounds to address difficulties that include;
Anxiety and Stress
Bereavement, Grief and Loss
Family and Relationship issues
Feelings of Guilt and Shame
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Before I trained as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist I worked in a number of demanding roles within private sector organisations and charities. I therefore have a particular interest in helping clients from across West Yorkshire who are experiencing difficulties with; work-place stress, achieving a work/life balance, changing career, redundancy or finding meaningful work.
Whatever your reason for seeking counselling or psychotherapy I offer time to talk, confidentially, in a safe place where you will be listened to without being judged. I hope you will find me welcoming and understanding with a genuine desire to help. I work on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to feel good about yourself and your life.
My practice is in a private office in the picturesque town of Holmfirth in the Holme Valley near Huddersfield, in Kirklees West Yorkshire. There is parking nearby and it is within easy reach of Huddersfield, Honley, Brockholes, Meltham, Marsden, Slaithwaite, Denby Dale and Penistone by car or bus.
I appreciate that you may find it challenging to reach out and arrange a meeting. You've already taken the first step by finding my website. if you are unsure about whether Counselling or Psychotherapy is right for you , please feel free to contact me to arrange a brief telephone conversation to help you decide.
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My first collegiate relationship survived almost the entirety of freshman year (ending via phone call the day before my birthday). The second held out through four months of sophomore year. The third, two months of junior year. And the last person with whom I had any appreciable romantic success during college dated me for about two weeks, just before graduation.
The half-lives of my romantic entanglements seemed to be dwindling inexorably toward zero. I feared that the duration of any future relationships would be measured in hours… or minutes… or seconds. How quickly might one progress from a first kiss to “I don’t particularly want to see you again”?
Instead, I passed through a singularity. My next relationship has held out for a decade and still seems to be going well.
Not that I deserve too much sympathy for my past failures. I was less than ideally suave.
I laughed aloud (while grimacing in recognition) at this passage describing a first date from Sergio De La Pava’s A Naked Singularity:
On Her Job:
“Plastic surgery? Really? That’s interesting.”
“It seems like a mostly New York/L.A. type thing right?”
“What do you mean?”
“Is actual plastic involved?”
“Well otherwise the term would seem to be a slap in the face at the type of person who becomes a patient.”
“I don’t think I have any idea what you’re talking about.”
“You know, like there’s surgery for when something is actually wrong and then there would be plastic surgery for plastic, superficial people who can’t cope with their nose.”
“No I didn’t mean to imply that at all.”
“I’m serious. What kind of a hostile lunatic would purposely insult their dinner companion? I was just trying to be funny.”
Trying – and failing – to be funny. Well, not failing, exactly. I think that is funny. But De La Pava’s protagonist, like my own younger self, was insufficiently careful in considering the audience for his jokes.
So De La Pava’s protagonist returned home alone. Perhaps he then whiled away the evening reading some erotically-charged literature… like this eyebrow-raising article from the newsdesk at Science. Decidedly the most fescennine piece of writing I’ve stumbled across in some time. Each weekday morning I bring the kids to the YMCA to play while I check my email and do some typing, and I blushed while reading in the snack room.
So obviously I’ll share it with you now.
From Virginia Morell’s Science news article:
He did not penetrate her, but did ejaculate, and [she] then licked her back clean …
Which seems quite racy even knowing that the pronouns refer to a male macaque and a female sika deer.
Unfortunately, the article then alludes to violent rape porn – maybe this appeals more to all the Fifty Shades of Gray fans than it does to me. A kinky set of male fur seals has taken to pinning king penguins, thrusting for minutes (with, um, likely penetration), and, in a gruesome S & M twist, devouring the object of affection.
Just like rape culture in frat houses – or the White House – each assault makes future violence more likely. From Matt Walker’s BBC Earth article on the seals:
“Seals have capacity for learning – we know this from their foraging behavior for example,” explained de Bruyn.
So male seals may see each other coercing penguins, then attempt it themselves.
That might explain why the number of incidents appears to be increasing. “I genuinely think the behavior is increasing in frequency.”
It’s unfortunate that our press so rarely uses accurate language when describing violence against women… or against penguins, for that matter. “Coercing” sex is bad, but what these seals are doing is not coercion. Similarly, the word used for 45’s behavior toward women should not have been “groping.” The appropriate word is “assault.”
(A bit of linguistic mincing might be appropriate sometimes… like when describing the crabs who forcibly trigger asexual reproduction of anemones. Although the process sounds violent – “the crab tears the … anemone into two similar parts, resulting in a complete anemone in each claw after regeneration” – the crabs are acting calmly, and, besides, these anemones live only on crab claws and do reproduce this way.)
In the case of the deer-humping macaque and those penguin-molesting seals, scientists have documented that low status individuals are the most likely to assault other species. The same principal holds among orangutans – only low-status males assault females.
Yet another indication – as if all the pomp and bluster and Twitter bullying and gold-plated doodads weren’t enough – that 45 is a pusillanimous individual at heart.
Because, after all, consensual behavior is more fun. Contrast those dour seals with the ribald joy of W. H. Auden’s “The Platonic Blow”:
We aligned mouths. We entwined. All act was clutch,
All fact, contact, the attack and the interlock
Of tongues, the charms of arms. I shook at the touch
Of his fresh flesh, I rocked at the shock of his cock.
If only those low-status seals – or our low-status president – calmed their desires with some Auden! We’d live in a world with fewer traumatized women (and penguins).
Or, if you’d rather get your kicks from prose, might I proffer this passage from Victor Pelevin’s The Clay Machine Gun (translated by Andrew Bromfield):
“And you talk, talk …”
“Of what exactly?”
“Of anything at all, just talk. I want to hear your voice when it happens.”
“By all means. To continue that idea… Imagine that everything which a beautiful woman can give one adds up to one hundred per cent.”
“Yes, one hundred. In that case, she gives ninety per cent of that when one simply sees her, and everything else, the object of a thousand years of haggling, is no more than an insignificant remainder. Nor can that first ninety per cent be subdivided into any component fractions, because beauty is indefinable and indivisible, no matter what lies Schopenhauer may try to tell us. As for the other ten per cent, it is no more than an aggregate sum of nerve signals which would be totally without value if they were not lent support by imagination and memory. Anna, I beg you, open your eyes for a second… Yes, like that… yes, precisely imagination and memory. You know, if I had to write a genuinely powerful erotic scene, I would merely provide a few hints and fill in the rest with an incomprehensible conversation like the… Oh, my God, Anna… LIke the one which you and I are having now. Because there is nothing to depict, everything has to be filled in by the mind. The deception, and perhaps the very greatest of a woman’s secrets… Oh, my little girl from the old estate… consists in the fact that beauty seems to be a label, behind which there lies concealed something immeasurably greater, something inexpressibly more desired than itself, to which it merely points the way, whereas in actual fact, there is nothing in particular standing behind it… A golden label on an empty bottle… A shop where everything is displayed in a magnificently arranged window-setting, but that tiny, tender, narrow little room behind it… Please, please, my darling, not so fast… Yes, that room is empty. Remember the poem I recited to those unfortunates. About the princess and the bagel… A-a-ah, Anna… No matter how temptingly it might lure one, the moment comes when one realizes that at the center of that black bage… bagel… bagel… there is nothing but a void, voi-oid, voi-oi-oooid!”
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2017-12-12T12:24:11Z
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In the third round, a blink after the right hand of 32-1 underdog Bert Cooper crashed hard against undefeated heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield's jaw last Saturday night, the ghost of Hometown Disasters Past loomed over the Omni in Atlanta. Holyfield, fighting for the first time as champ in the city where he grew up, reeled backward against the ropes, his senses for the moment disconnected from his body. Another right by Cooper and Holyfield sagged and began to fall. Only the ropes held him up.
Suddenly the heavyweight division was on the brink of an upset that would have been nearly as astonishing as Buster Douglas's knockout of Mike Tyson last year in Tokyo. After a third right, referee Mills Lane stepped between the fighters, correctly ruled that Holyfield had been knocked down and began the mandatory eight count. The knockdown was the first that Holyfield had suffered since a Golden Gloves amateur named Jakey Winter dropped him in 1979 when the future champion was 17.
"I was one punch away from the heavyweight championship," Cooper said later, after Holyfield stopped him with a furious barrage at 2:58 of the seventh round. "I was just starting to throw a right hand when Lane got between us. I was afraid I would hit him."
That might have been the only thing that prevented Cooper from joining Douglas as one of the unlikeliest heavyweight champions of all time. Or maybe it was the white socks that prevented it. Substituting for the injured Francesco Damiani of Italy, who was substituting for the injured Tyson, Cooper, short and thickly muscled, had entered the ring dressed in basic Tyson black. Instead of a robe, he wore a Tyson-style white towel with a hole cut out so the towel would fit over his head and across his wide shoulders. "For a moment I imagined it was Tyson," someone said. "Then I looked at his feet. He's wearing a pair of white socks, for god's sake."
Tyson doesn't wear socks. And Tyson would have thrown that right hand, and if he had hit Lane with it, he would have kept throwing rights until he hit Holyfield. Or Tyson would have thrown a left hook. Or he would have thrown Lane at Holyfield.
But Cooper hesitated. His moment was gone, and he never had another. No doubt the world's best-conditioned athlete, Holyfield recovered quickly and began to fire back. "My mind was fine," said Holyfield later. "My body just wasn't functioning properly. I thought, This is good. He'll think I'm hurt, and he'll get desperate and punch himself out."
Coming off the ropes after Lane's eight count, Holyfield gave Cooper a brief opportunity to burn himself out, and then, all that beautiful machinery once more in sync, he exploded, driving his antagonist across the ring. At the bell Holyfield returned to a frantic corner. "What are you doing?" co-trainer Lou Duva screamed at him. "You're not fighting the way you're supposed to. You've got to move and jab, turn him, look for your spots. You are going to let this guy get lucky."
Maybe it was hometown fever. Champions do not run in front of their neighbors; they stand and fight. As a result they often find themselves in trouble. It happened to John Tate when he lost his WBA heavyweight title in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1980, and to Michael Nunn when he lost his IBF middleweight crown in Davenport, Iowa, in May. Egos replace brains.
"I'm the captain when I'm in the ring," said Holyfield afterward, trying to explain his refusal to follow his cornermen's strategy. "Lou and [trainer] George Benton tell me what they think I should do. I take what they say and I try to use it. This time I just felt that if I did not force the fight, Bert would have fought a safe fight, and it would have gone a lot longer than it did."
Holyfield dropped Cooper with a body shot in the first round and had him reeling in the fifth, when the champion had to pause to change his right glove. He had hit Cooper so hard that the glove burst open—though the champ appeared to need the unscheduled rest more than Cooper did. Near the close of the seventh, Holyfield tore into Cooper with a savage volley of 24 unanswered blows, more than half of which found the challenger's chin or jaw. Two seconds before the bell, Lane mercifully rescued the upright but defenseless Cooper, signaling Holyfield's 22nd knockout in 27 bouts.
Still, that near disaster in the third round should haunt Holyfield. Somewhere Tyson, no doubt holding the injured ribs that forced him out of a scheduled Nov. 8 fight in Las Vegas with Holyfield, must have been laughing. In Italy, Damiani was probably hearing from his wife, who, according to Duva, was angry with him for having pulled out of a $750,000 payday because of a slightly turned right ankle. Doctors had told Damiani he could be ready to fight with one shot of cortisone. As Duva tells it, the following exchange took place:
"No," said Damiani. "Shots make me dizzy. They make me sick."
"Fight, Francesco," said his wife, "$750,000 is a lot of lire."
"Shut up," said Damiani. "I am the one who has to take the punches. Pack your bags."
"Damiani is a quart low," said Benton, who had 80 pro bouts but never fought for more than $10,000. "For that kind of money, I would have gone in the ring with two broken legs."
Enter Cooper, 25, who learned his craft in the hard gyms of Philadelphia. His failing career was recently revived by a win over Joe Hipp, a blimp from Yakima, Wash. Best known for having quit against George Foreman in June 1989 and being knocked out in the second round by Riddick Bowe in October 1990, Cooper was playing with his rottweiler at home in Salem, Va., on Nov. 17 when he got the call saying he would make $750,000 by fighting on HBO against Holyfield, who earned 20% of the $30 million he would have made for facing Tyson.
"The dog got so excited, I had to chain him up," said Cooper, who had won six of eight fights since spending his last $6,000 to put himself through a drug rehabilitation program. "God has given me one more chance. When I leave Atlanta, people will know who Bert Cooper really is."
Holyfield, meanwhile, had come full circle. In August he started training for Tyson. In late October he switched gears to get ready for the 6'4" Damiani, who would have put the folks at the Omni to sleep with his dance-and-grab style. Then, for his last two days of training, he went back to preparing for a hard-punching Tyson clone with 23 knockouts in 33 fights.
Benton, for one, was not pleased with the decision to insert Cooper at the last minute, nor was he surprised that Holyfield came so perilously close to losing the title. "I said this guy was trouble," said Benton. "A fighter can put everything together on the night he fights for the title, just like Douglas did against Tyson. Cooper had that kind of night tonight."
Now Holyfield will rest and wait to see how Tyson fares in his rape trial, which is scheduled to begin on Jan. 27 in Indianapolis. If Tyson is acquitted or if there's a lengthy postponement of the trial, he and Holyfield could fight in March or April. As for Cooper, he has been offered a Feb. I fight on HBO against either Bowe or Michael Moorer. "No more ESPN fights," said Cooper, who earned more respect in his eighth loss than he had in all of his 26 victories combined.
"If Evander beats Tyson and Bert beats Bowe or Moorer, there will be a rematch," said promoter Dan Duva.
Not on ESPN, of course. And certainly not in Atlanta.
After surviving a scare, Holyfield (right) began ripping Cooper with glove-busting blows.
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New benefits proposal from the Department of Defense has military members worried about the future.
The Department of Defense released a report last Thursday that’s left many service members and their families concerned over the future. Although it’s not an official proposal, the “white paper” details several options for a complete overhaul of the current retirement benefits system.
While the DoD stresses that this is simply a proposal they’re making public to help gauge reaction before their formal report to Congress in February of next year, the latest First Command Financial Behaviors Index® report also released last week found service members were worried about the future even before the proposal was made public.
In fact, the study shows three out of four middle-class military families believe that future defense cuts will have a significant impact on their financial outlooks.
Making retirement benefits more flexible and more available
While most options in the proposal show an approximate ten percent reduction in cumulative lifetime payments, the overhaul actually makes retirement benefits accessible to more service members – specifically those who serve less than 20 years.
Some proposed changes for the better:
- After six years, service member would be eligible for a 401(k)-style Thrift Savings Plan with direct annual deposits of five percent of basic pay. Military members would not be required to contribute anything unless they so choose. The money would become available after age 59½.
- At the 12-year service mark, service members might be offered a “continuation pay” bonus to encourage them to stay on. Proposals vary in the size of the bonus for troops as well as officers.
- Any service member who served at least 20 years would receive a lump-sum amount of transition pay upon final separation of leaving the service. Some proposals allow for as much as three years of basic pay.
Of course again on the last point, there is a tradeoff. A lump-sum transition pay allowance would decrease the size of pension check payments down the road. So a retired service member would get more money upon final separation, but less later.
What’s more, the DoD may revamp the pension payout system as well. The concept would be to offer smaller payments (“partial benefit”) upon final separation until standard retirement age (estimated around 62). The idea is to make the system more flexible, acknowledging that many retired service members go into the private sector even after 20 years of service. As such, it makes sense to have smaller partial payments at the beginning and then full payments once retirement age is reached.
Getting ahead of the overhaul
“It’s not guaranteed that overhaul of military benefits will be negative for all service members,” points out Gary Herman, President of Consolidated Credit, “In fact, this should have a very positive financial impact for the majority service members in the long-term. However those already participating in the current system may see a reduction.”
In any case, service members are faced with the unique financial challenge that they simply can’t know what’s going to happen to their benefits in the future. The system is changing and those changes are imminent – they should come sometime in 2015. However, how exactly those adjustments will affect service members is still up in the air.
“When anyone is faced with this kind of financial uncertainty,” Herman continues, “it’s critical to take steps to bolster up your savings and budget for a worst case scenario. You hope for the best, but you plan for the worst. That way, if the new system ends up having a negative impact on your outlook, you already have a plan on how to move forward.”
Consolidated Credit can help you get ahead of changes in your military retirement benefits. If you’re concerned about how the overhaul will impact your finances, contact us for a free financial evaluation. We also offer helpful financial information for service members online.
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2018-04-21T15:18:43Z
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Saturday, 14 February 2009
Happy Mothers Day
I'm a little early for this, but when i get an idea in my head for a card I have to make it there and then otherwise i will probably forget it!
I've used all Basic Grey paper and added a little bit of glitter to the front panel and some K & Co Grand Adhesions. The butterfly stamp is from Crafty Individuals.
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2018-02-21T12:42:47Z
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STARFISH Inspires Counselors to Write Book
STARFISH is a program that was developed by Jay Jacobs, our Executive Director here at HCDC, which teaches and rewards positive behavior in children. The values that are taught with STARFISH not only supports the camp’s mission of teaching children the skills of making and keeping friends while building self-esteem; it also creates the environment that makes it possible.
Two of Hampton Country Day Camp’s counselors, Hallie Rose and Ben Wiley, decided to write a book, “Starfish,” based on their experiences as camp counselors at HCDC and the STARFISH Values. Combining a wonderfully written poem by Halle Rose and colorful illustrations by Ben Wiley, Halle explains why they decided to start this project: “The simple act of spreading positive behavior can help build stronger character in our children and create better communities as a whole. A small act of kindness can make a big difference! Spread the STARFISH!”
You can preview a sampling and/or purchase Halle and Ben’s book at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1523049
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Emotional triggers are everywhere. They can be internal – for example, a relationship breakup might trigger feelings you’re unlovable, which stem from a tricky parental relationship. Or they can be external: being cut up on the road might bring out trauma from a past traffic accident.
And for some of us they come in the form of anniversaries. The day your father passed away for instance, when a casual comment from a friend inadvertently sets off feelings of loss or regret. Or those hard-to-avoid annual events such as Christmas or Mother’s Day, which can evoke tricky emotions for many reasons. Grief if a mother has passed away, loneliness if you don’t have a family to buy presents for, sadness if you want kids but don’t have them...
Increasing awareness of this emotional impact has led many brands, including Rituals, to invite consumers to opt out of communications about moments like Mother’s Day that they may not want to be reminded of. But it’s difficult to live a trigger-free life, and as Navit Schechter, CBT therapist and founder of Conscious & Calm says, the fall-out can be profound.
“When triggered, our fight or flight response kicks in which can cause things like anxiety, depression, sadness, anger, stress, overwhelm. You might feel shaky, have a racing heart, be unable to think rationally or make decisions.”
Yet it’s still possible to cultivate a greater sense of peace around challenging moments, by reflecting on your emotions and creating compassion for your reactions. Here's how:
Give yourself a resilience boost
“If you know it’s coming up to a triggering time – for instance, Valentine's Day –prioritise your mental health, personal wellbeing, and self-care,” urges Navit. “Then, if triggering things happen, you’ll have the resources to dig deep and manage.”
This means doing things that reduce your stress levels, like exercising regularly (yes, walking counts), getting enough sleep, reducing your tech time, practicing mindfulness, to name a handful.
Sure, that might sound obvious, but don’t underestimate the power of these simple habits to get you in a better headspace, which in turn helps create a greater sense of peace.
And on the triggering day itself? “Arrange to do something that nurtures you and brings you joy,” Navit recommends.
Reflect on all your emotions
In a world where we’re told to ‘keep calm and carry on’, it’s no wonder we bury our emotions. Only for them to eventually erupt.
So it’s crucial to allow ourselves time for reflection on both our positive and negative feelings. Denying the tricky ones leads to more pain in the long run.
“Suppressing challenging emotions means that you’re dealing with the trauma from the trigger, and the pain from the lack of support you’re giving yourself,” Navit explains.
“And, if you don’t let these feelings out, it may also manifest in the body via ill health, stress or tension.”
Need more proof? Scientists have found that acceptance of negative emotions strengthens mental health, thus meaning you’re better able to cope with stressful feelings or situations.
Practice self-compassion. Constantly
Self-compassion is the single most important thing for coping with challenging feelings.
“Acknowledge how you’re feeling and work out how to nurture yourself through it,” advises Navit.
Obviously, what works is going to be very individual. But here’s some examples: Allow yourself to have a good cry. Comfort your body – whether that’s eating something nourishing, having a lie down, doing gentle yoga. Talk to yourself with compassion – think of the kind, loving things you’d say to a close friend and say them to yourself. Journal your feelings. Phone a close friend. Seek professional help to process past traumas.
Navit also suggests doing ‘self check-ins’ throughout the day.
“Set an alarm a few times a day and stop for a few minutes. Connect with how you are feeling right now. If you notice you’re anxious or stressed, work out what small things you can do then and there that’ll calm you.”
When we’re anxious, we take shallow breaths, so Navit recommends doing this breathing exercise daily for a couple of minutes, especially when triggered.
“Sit comfortably, and take a deep, slow breath through the nose for a count of four, making sure to let it fill your belly. Release the breath through pursed lips for a count of six. As you’re exhaling, relax the shoulders and the muscles in your face.”
This lengthened breath signals to the brain that we don’t need to be in fight or flight mode, so helps us relax.
Finally, Navit wants us to remember this: “We can't change the past, but we can change our reaction to triggers. It’s not inevitable that you’ll always feel upset and overwhelmed by these moments.”
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Transient Tigers are student defined as an applicant who applies for temporary enrollment at Savannah State University. The student must be in good academic standing at his/her "home" institution and have permission from his/her university's registrar's office to take courses at Savannah State University. The student receives advisement from his/her "home" institution. A transient student is expected to return to the institution in which he/she was previously enrolled.
As a Transient applicant you must submit the following:
- A complete Application for Admission online for free at gacollege411.com.
- A complete Certificate of Immunization is required for some Georgia residents and anyone residing outside of the state of Georgia. Check the incomplete documents list on your application status to see if you need to submit a Certificate of Immunization. This form need to be submitted:
Harris-McDew Student Health Center
3219 College Street, Box 20448
Savannah, Georgia 31404
- Verification of Lawful Presence
In accordance with Board of Regents Policy 4.3.4, all applicants who are accepted for admission or readmission to Savannah State University and who seek to be classified as in-state for tuition purposes, will be required to provide validation of residency and lawful presence in both the State of Georgia and the United States. Acceptance to Savannah State University may be delayed until lawful presence is verified.
The U.S. Department of Education will automatically validate the lawful presence of any student who completes a FAFSA application; therefore, if you are applying for financial aid it will not be necessary for Savannah State University to perform additional verification of your residency status. Otherwise, you will be required to submit one of the following documents to the Office of Admissions:
- Certified U.S. Birth Certificate (no photocopies)
- Consular Report of Birth Abroad (FS-240)
- Current U.S. Passport
- GA Driver's License (issued after 1/1/2008) Optional: Take a snapshot of your GA Driver’s License using cellular phone, email to email@example.com.
- GA ID Card (issued after 1/1/2008)
- U.S. Certificate of Birth Abroad issue by Dept. of State (DS-1350)
- U.S. Certificate of Citizenship (USCIS form N-560 or N-561)
- U.S. Certificate of Naturalization (USCIS form N-550 or N-570)
- Submit an official statement from the appropriate academic official at your home institution granting permission to enroll at Savannah State University for the term of application. Official statement must come on letterhead in a sealed envelope or come directly from the home institution. Faxed or unsealed copies are not acceptable.
- Check your admission status here.
Transient Tigers Application Deadlines
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|Spring Semester||November 15|
|Summer Semester||May 1|
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Author has written 5 stories for Pellinor, and Harry Potter.
I'm a 22 year old female, who feels like she should still be about 7. Living in North Wales, and currently working full time as well as being a full time masters student. Real life is busy. Writing helps me relax and so when I do have the time I will just write whatever my brain throws at me.
It's been a while since I wrote in the Pellinor fandom, and I'm pretty sure that any uncompleted stories of mine in that area are abandoned if not on hiatus. My stories within the Black Magician Trilogy have all been deleted. Harry Potter is my new favourite thing, though currently only have a few stories for the fandom and hope to keep writing more.
12 April 2015: Currently writing the next two chapters of Twist; However I'm also writing a 500 word paper review, a literature review and an essay - so time management is essential and Uni comes first.
22 March 2015: Very late with Twist - real life's a pain sometimes and then I decided to rewrite the chapter. It will be up today.
5 March 2015: I'm late with chapter 2 of twist - I will update tomorrow :) sorry for the lateness
2 March 2015: Hi - thank you to everyone who's added Twist to their favourites/alerts and many thanks to those of you who've reviewed - I have replied to you provided you're signed in. Twist will be updated this week - possibly Wednesday or Thursday due to Lectures today and an exam tomorrow.
21 February 2015: Hello everyone - I don't know if anyone actually even reads my profile page. I come back to fanfiction with a new one shot I hope you all enjoy it. I hope to put up a new story eventually,
Thank you to everyone who reads my stories and I'm very happy to gain feedback whether it through Private Messaging or Reviews, feedback helps me improve on my stories.
Twist - Chapter 2 = complete & posted, chapter 3 = Not Started
Copper Vixen (11)
Emma Lipardi (5)
evil minded (2)
Fedora Ferret (1)
Point Given (4)
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07/02/2014 Liebherr sponsors most followed World Table Tennis Championships in history
The World Table Tennis Championships 2014, which were held in Japan’s capital Tokyo, were an international media success. There were 475 combined hours of coverage across 22 TV networks all over the globe. The championships were not only broadcasted live to many Asian and European countries, but also to countries and regions such as the United States, Mexico or the Middle East. The Liebherr Group, both main sponsor of the German and Austrian national teams and the World Table Tennis Championships 2014, is very pleased with the media attention. Additionally, more than 6,000 articles in print and online media as well as millions of views, likes and shares on social media made the tournament the most followed Wold Table Tennis Championships in history.
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Bossier City police have arrested five men in connection with multiple vehicle burglaries that happened over the weekend in the Greenacres neighborhood.
An alert resident called police at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday after seeing several individuals rummaging through his neighbor’s car in the 2500 block of Tilman Drive. While police were headed to the scene the suspects reportedly got into a GMC Yukon and drove off.
A responding officer spotted the suspect vehicle parked down the street on Tilman Drive with multiple subjects standing nearby who took off running upon noticing the patrol car. Officers gave chase and followed the subjects as they jumped a fence into a backyard where one of them was immediately caught. Two others were found a short time later hiding in another backyard.
They are identified as 19-year old Marlon Latwaine Kelly of Bossier City, 19-year old Brodrick Dwayne Jefferson of Shreveport and 19-year old Robert D’Shawn Green of Bossier City all of whom face simple burglary and resisting charges. A fourth suspect, 18-year old Micah Davon Lacy of Bossier City was located in the Yukon and arrested for simple burglary.
Detectives with the Property Crimes Unit arrested a fifth suspect this afternoon as the result of a subsequent investigation. 19-year old Carltrell Williamson of Bossier City was also booked on burglary charges.
Detectives were able to link all of the suspects to a total of five vehicle burglaries that occurred in the Greenacres neighborhood early Sunday.
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Global Warming is Pseudo Science!
The widely accepted Global Warming Theory, is a pseudo science and must be abandoned. Here I explain what it is and why it is totally wrong.
The Global Warming Theory (GWT) believes that human activity considerably increased the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. As a result it leads to considerable warming up of the arth's surface. As a consequence it could leads to the melting of polar ice and cause raising sea level, and other catastrophies that would eventually render the planet earth un-inhabitable to human. Some GWT doomers even believe that we have passed a point of no return. i.e., the global warming cause by human is already so high it releases the methane gas frozen in the polar ice, and methane, being a more effective green house gas, causes more global warming, and it leads to to more green house gas being release and so it leads to run off global warming that destroys all life on earth.
Complete Nonsense! First we have to realize that although human activity do contribute to raising CO2 level in the atmosphere, the amount of atmospheric CO2 is so low that it's green house effect is totally insignificant. Today's atmospheric CO2 is only 377 ppm (part per million), it is maybe 30% higher than pre-industrialization level. But the earth has experienced atmospheric CO2 density many orders of magnitude higher.
One has to realize that human can not make a single gram of carbon atoms. All the CO2 we release into the atmosphere, come from burning of fossil fuels like coal and petroleum. And fossil fuel came from buried ancient plantations. Ancient plantations obtained their carbon by absorbing CO2 out of the atmosphere. So here you go, by burning fossil fuel, you are just releasing ancient atmospheric CO2, right back into the atmosphere. And fossil fuel is a limited resource, at a time when you have burned the last ounce of fossil fuel, you still have not released enough CO2 to cause the atmospheric CO2 level go high enough to the level it once was, when the ancient plantation were growing to form the fossil fuels.
And we are pretty close to running out of fossil fuels. Because of that, we are facing an un-precedent energy crisis. But that's another story I will talk about the other day. For now keep in mind that even if we burn all of our fossil fuels, we are still far away from have an atmospheric CO2 level that is high enough to be of any concern.
Now go back to the GWT theory. The main pillar of GWT is that green house gases, which are gases containing three or more atoms per molecule, allow the short wave light of the solar radiation to go through to heat up the earth's surface, while at the same time, these molecules absorb the long wavelength heat radiation radiated from the surface of the earth, and re-radiate them back to the earth surface. So the heat is trapped on the surface of the earth, causing the surface temperature to be warmer than otherwise.
Sounds reasonable. Isn't it? GWT theorists also frequently cites the planet Venus as a good example of the global warming effect. However one thing they negnect to point out is that the atmospheric CO2 thickness on the Venus is 3x10^5 thicker than the earth's. And it warm up the Venus by less than 200 degrees. The earth has a CO2 layer 3x10^5 times thinner. So 200 degree divided by 3x10^5 times = 0.00007 degrees. The global warming caused by CO2 is virtually nothing on earth, if the data on Venus can tell us something.
How much is 377 ppm of the earth's atmospheric CO2? If the CO2 condense into a liquid layer on the surface of the earth, it's no more than 3 milimeter thick. Such a thin layer can not absorb any radiation or trap any heat in any significant way.
The most fatal fraud in the GWT theory, is that they have forgotten some basic common sense physics that every one should learn from elementary school. Radiation is NOT the only way heat can be dissipated! There is radiation, convection, and evaporation. Any one has any doubt need to look at the cold snap in Russia a few weeks ago. They have such a cold temperature NOT because all of a sudden they have a hole of green house gases on top of their sky, and that all their heat gets radiated away. They are cold because of air convection. Cold air from the polar area flow to the ground, and caused the extreme cold.
Air convection and water evaporation are much more important contributing factors than radiation, in how the ground dissipate the heat. And it happens every day, not just during a cold day. We often have experience that once the sun sets, the temperature drops pretty quickly. Temperatures can't drop that fast by radiation along, if it were not for the heat loss caused by the air circulation.
The most important forms of surface heat disipation is by water evaporation, which absorbs large amount of heat, and also by hot air raising in the sky during day time and cooler air sink down during the nights. In both cases, the water vapor and hot air raise to high above the ground. When they come back down, in the form of rain fall and cold air. They are cold and further absorbed surface heat.
Clearly, in between water vapor and hot air raising and cold rain and air falling, a large amount of heat was brought up, and release high in the sky. But yet, the atmosphere tens of kilometers above the ground is EXTREMELY COLD. How could it happen. Where does the heat go? Clearly the heat can not be dissipated by air convection: The air is becoming ever more thin the higher you go so the heat can't be brought further up. The ground is hotter so the heat really can't be released back to the ground. For all the heat that's being continuously brought up in the high air, there is only one place for them to go: Radiation into the deep space.
Here, the so called green house gas actually played the opposite role. The high air is at sub-zero temperature so it could not radiate in short wavelengths like visible light. It can only radiate in long wavelengths. But the only gases that can radiate in long wavelengths are also the gases that absorb such wavelengths, i.e., green house gases.
So, the matter of the fact is the green house gases not only does NOT trap heat on the ground. It actually HELPS to keep the ground cool by actively radiate away the large amount of heat brought up to the high air by ground water evaporation and air circulation. The high air is a heat sink that sucks heat away from the ground. And the green house gases keep that heat sink cold so it can continue to suck heat away from the ground. Green house gases cause global cooling, not global warming!!!
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“I tried to create a space that truly reflects my personality and showcases special pieces that I’ve collected over the years,” says Katie Taylor of Spray Paint and Chardonnay. With an interior style that’s colorfully eclectic (plus a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll) Katie loves to mix unexpected elements. The lifestyle blogger’s homestead merges rustic with modern, the old with the new, and always with a sophisticated edge. Her newly designed dining room doesn’t fail to deliver on her signature style, and makes for a perfect place to gather with family and friends. Here, shop picks inspired by Katie’s dining room aesthetic, curated exclusively for LuxeDecor. Then, head over to Spray Paint and Chardonnay for more decorating tips and tricks.
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No Private vs Public cloud debate or microservices Hybrid cloud Utopia talk here. Just a little Cloud geeking and philosophy on the nature of the universe that was reignited by Elon Musk.
The Elon thought experiment?
Is cloud computing powering the universe and reality around us as one big simulation?
Elon’s head in the Clouds
This Sci-Fi metaphysics question was posed to Elon Musk the other week at Recode’s Code Conference. Crazy tech talk you say? To relate to Elon’s vector of thinking, imagine Moore’s Law and the trajectory of cloud computing in say 10,000 years. Keep in mind we have lived through only 60 years! For added rocket fuel to the simulation argument, throw in Quantum computing. The holy grail of computing based on quantum electrodynamics that promises exponential compute vs our primitive binary approach to date that is encountering the bounds of Moore’s Law. Bill Gate’s claims that this break through technology is only 6-10 years out.
Envisioning that level of cloud computing in 10,000 years is almost incomprehensible. Whether it takes hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years (still nothing on the evolutionary time scale of the universe), that computing capability for a civilization makes the simulation argument both intriguing and scary. Based on technology trends and logic, one can not dismiss the possibility.
For all his inventions, this argument did not start with Elon Musk however. One PHD geek (Nick Bostrom) made a now famous argument, The Simulation Argument. Given enough time and advanced cloud computing, a civilization has the capacity to simulate prior evolutionary timescales of space and time. Too see how Elon calculated the “A billion to one chance we’re living in base reality”, let looks at the Simulation Argument.
The Simulation Argument Simplified:
Nick Bistro’s simulation argument has 3 main premises. Mainly centered around if us humans destroy ourselves before reaching an advanced human state.
- The human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage. Basically we blow ourselves up.
- Advanced human civilizations gain the capabilities, but basically get bored and stop conducting simulations
- Advanced civilizations conduct simulations, as such most realties in the universe are simulated ones vs. being base reality.
One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race ~ Nick Bostrom
Sobering Statistical Probability
The beauty of the argument is, even if you think we are in base reality and that this is hog wash, we are still likely to develop those capabilities at some point in time. So whether it’s the Truman show on steroids or a benign version of the Matrix, who knows? I can envision one hell of a VR game though. Only 100,000 years ago planet earth was inhabited by Homo Sapiens and 5 other Homo genus species (e.g. Homo Erectus and Homo Flores). Imagine rolling the evolutionary dice 10 times and seeing how a Neathrandal government might turn out (some argue we are in that now). Or even doing this experiment on the grand scale of the Universe and Big Bangs. Sounds crazy, but 60 years ago we only had pong the video game. What if you gave us a million years? If we do go down that road, that means of all the “realities” that occur within the universe through time, a large majority will be simulated vs real ones. Statistically speaking and egos aside, with random probability we are more likely to be within a simulation vs. “base reality”. With that statistical condition, the nature of our reality comes down to a race amongst interstellar space civilizations.
At least we didn’t all kill ourselves.
So if we are in a simulation, the good news is civilizations advanced far enough that it didn’t implode on itself somehow! And if not, I guess that makes life even more precious!
So where do you stand on the cloud powered simulation argument?
Elon puts it at 1/1,000,000,000 that we are in base reality. I guess he is short on humans being the first to achieve such feat considering the size of our known universe (or multi-universes). Intellectual circle? Or just interesting intellectual masturbation? Ohh, the power of cloud computing. Let us know what you think @CiscoCloud via #CloudSimulation.
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Learn and discover how some of the most important and innovative companies in the world are migrating and optimizing their infrastructure as well as hosting their SAP mission critical business application on Public Cloud Providers.
myCloudDoor has demonstrated deep knowledge, extensive experience, and has proven success in implementing hundreds of SAP systems on Cloud. We will be addressing a specific topic on migrating SAP workloads to the Cloud. A few best practices will be shared to show how to carry out this migration effectively, efficiently and in a risk free manner.
SAP on Cloud offers a number of business advantages including:
– Cost reduction
– Enhanced user experience.
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Traditionally, network interfaces on Linux are enumerated as
eth[0...n], where the first device being probed on start up is assigned
eth0 and so on. Modern Linux utilizing systemd will assign network interfaces based on a Predictable Network Interface naming scheme which corresponds the network name to its hardware location. For example, an interface is named
wlp2p1 because it is a wireless device located at a PCI bus 2, slot 1. The motivation for this is to deterministically set network adapter names on systems with multiple adapters.
Predictable Network Naming[edit | edit source]
Systems using the predictable network naming scheme will be named according to the following (simplified) rules. For the full description of these rules in greater detail, see the Red Hat documentation for RHEL 8 on predictable network naming.
For example: eno0 is the first onboard ethernet device, while enp0s0 is the first ethernet device connected to the first bus on the first slot.
Revert back to the traditional
eth[0..N] naming scheme[edit | edit source]
You can revert back the old naming scheme using any one of the following methods as outlined on this systemd page.
- You create your own manual naming scheme by creating your own
/etc/systemd/network/which defines the specific name you wish to use. The description for this file is outlined at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.htmlIn the example above, the device matching the given MAC address will have its name set to eth0.
# Match based on MAC address (and device path if uncommented) [Match] MACAddress=00:a0:de:63:7a:e6 # Path=pci-0000:02:00.0-* # Link properties [Link] Name=eth0
- You pass
net.ifnames=0to the kernel on boot by setting it in the boot loader. This is not recommended on systems with multiple network interfaces as they may be assigned names inconsistently across reboots. This should be safe on systems with only one network adapter. You set this kernel argument this by editing
net.ifnames=0to the kernel command line, applying it with
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, and then rebooting.
- You disable the assignment of fixed names by symlinking
/dev/nulland rebuilding initrd.
Renumbering network interfaces[edit | edit source]
If your system is relying on udev rather than systemd-udevd (and thereby using systemd's predictable network interfacing naming scheme), after inserting and removing network interfaces, your network interface now has a non-zero number. For example, after inserting and replacing a network interface twice, the primary interface is now named
eth2. Systems affected by this problem includes RHEL 6 or prior.
To rename interfaces so that it starts back at
eth0, edit the udev rules defined in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Remove lines defining the extraneous interfaces that you don't want. Once done, ensure that your network configs in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ matches up to your new network interface names.
Reboot to apply.
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Udev Rules
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A roadshow for the Community Chest was launched on Saturday, with the goal of raising more than $400,000 over the two-day event.
Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob kickstarted the 'Great 400km Pedal Challenge' by pedalling for 15 minutes on a staionary bike.
This is a key activity at the Give A Hand! roadshow, which is held at the Ang Mo Kio Hub from 11am to 9pm this weekend. The public can join in with a $2 donation, and corporate partners of the ComChest will pledge $1 for every metre cycled.
The public can also participate in experiential activities at the roadshow, such as blindfold archery and a wheelchair obstacle course, which requires one to navigate a ramp, a narrow path and uneven ground and complete a series of tasks while seated in a wheelchair.
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Obituary: Maurice Cowling
Throughout his career Maurice Cowling was never comfortable with being described as a historian, since, as he explained, he had “drifted into becoming a professional historian despite an intense conviction, acquired early and never lost, that professional history is an illusion and historical writing an instrument of doctrine”.
For this reason, perhaps, it is as much for his influence as teacher and mentor to the conservatives in academia and the higher journalism, as for his rebarbative contributions to professional historical writing, that he will be remembered.
However, in a series of three books about British political history, he demonstrated that he could wrestle, albeit sinuously, with traditional historical problems as well as any of his contemporaries; and in so doing he gave rise to a distinctive school of revisionist historiography dubbed “high politics”, which attributed the pre-eminence in bringing about significant political change to the interaction of members of the political elite rather than to popular agitation, as liberal and left-wing historians had assumed.
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I've recently become a huge Donald Miller fan. His writing is witty and deep and refreshing. My first Miller book was his newest one, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I wish the title wasn't so long and weird because it feels awkward to talk about it, but in any case, I absolutely loved this book. Miller talks about the elements that make a good story and how these same elements relate to having a good story in life. It's a really relevant topic for me because I feel like I'm at [yet another] transitional phase. I'm "just waitressing" as I've been putting it to people who ask what I'm up to. I don't know what I want to do in the longterm sense. I'd be honest and tell you that I want to be a writer, but for me to say that I want to be the next Donald Miller is a bit like saying I want to be the next Miley Cyrus. It's a lofty dream, I know. So though I'm a bit of a wanderer right now, I can tell you one thing for sure: I want to live a good story.
I want to live a good story that is deep and meaningful. I want my story to have faith and love and laughter and courage. I want my story to show the people around me that there is something more worth living for because I believe that how we live our lives shows the people around us what has value and what doesn't.
And that's where parenting comes in... I'm definitely not ready to be a mother yet, so sometimes I think about what I could be doing now to learn how to be a good mother. I thought about going to visit my friend Allie's baby so I could learn to change a diaper. And I should probably learn to cook something other than pasta. And get one of those credit cards with reward points for my kids' college funds; you can't start saving too early!
I could do all those things, but when it comes down to it, I think the best way to prepare for giving my future children the best life is to live a good story myself. I want my children to live great stories, where they love deeply and go for their dreams and put all their faith in Jesus. And the best way to teach them how to do that is to do the same for my own life.
I once heard that the best thing you can do for your children is to love your spouse well. Loving your spouse well shows your children unconditional, sacrificial, and [dare I say?] mutually submissive love. It's showing your children a good story from which they can learn what has value, what is worth dying for, and what isn't.
Donald Miller talks about a friend of his who found out his teenage daughter was dating a bad boy and smoking pot and such. The dad yelled, but it didn't change his daughter. What finally made the difference was her family creating a better story for her and inviting her into it. They decided to fund the building of an orphanage in Mexico, and the daughter got really into it and even wanted to go to Mexico and meet some of the kids they were trying to help. They created a better story for their family to live, and their daughter's life was transformed because she had a better role to play in life. Praise God!
So yeah, I think the best and most loving thing I can be doing right now for my future children is to live a good story--a passionate story from which others can see the glory of God shining through. I want to grow closer to God and value the things that He values. I want to learn to love well and deepen my relationships with those around me, and I want to laugh a lot. I want to be brave and take chances and not be afraid of making a complete fool out of myself. And in doing so, my children will see an example of a great story, and they will be inspired to live, laugh, and love in their lives with full appreciation of God's gifts and the chance to take part in the beauty that God has created.
I might be "just waitressing" at the moment, but there's so much more that God has for me during this period of my life, and I'm excited [and scared] about it! I intend to live my story full of romantic intrigues and daring swordfights so that someday I can tell my children all about being a 23 year old.
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TMCnews Featured Article
Report Shows Providing Better Performance Management and Coaching is Necessary for Employees
By Jamie Epstein, TMCnet Web Editor
The continuous success of any organization depends on effective performance management and coaching. In fact, a recently released study shows that in order to improve employee results, the implementation of performance management and coaching techniques are key.
An article featured on Workforce.com shows that business operations are 21 percent higher in companies whose upper management "very frequently" makes an effort to coach others, according to the report entitled, “High-Impact Performance Management: Maximizing Performance Coaching,” written by Bersin & Associates.
Also, the study clearly showed that organizations who fully support coaching had 13 percent stronger business results and 39 percent stronger employee results such as engagement, productivity and customer service.
Almost 200 U.S. companies participated in this study and Stacia Sherman Garr, a Bersin analyst and the report's author said in a statement, "Coaching is the No. 1 performance-management challenge that organizations face, yet most don't understand its value. They aren't sure which emotional levers they need to pull to change people's behaviors."
Coaching is not to be looked at as a onetime thing; however as a process that needs to be ongoing as needs within the business change and employees continue to expand on their skill set. According to the study, organizations that assist managers in coaching employees are 130 percent more likely to see improved business results compared to those that don't prepare managers.
"We believe good performance management really is about coaching for performance. The performance management review process is important, but it looks backward. Coaching gets people to look forward," Jane Pierce from Arcehr Daniels Midland Company commented.
Envision provides performance management and coaching solutions that can be utilized to improve call center efficiency, analyze customer interactions, evaluate agent skills, provide additional training content when needed due to recent agent evaluations, quickly improve overall performance within the call center, and decrease handle times.
In particular, the company’s Click2Coach solution gives call center supervisors the training, quality monitoring and evaluation tools that are crucial to help call center agents develop the skills and knowledge necessary to provide a high level of customer service.
Jamie Epstein is a TMCnet Web Editor. Previously she interned at News 12 Long Island as a reporter's assistant. After working as an administrative assistant for a year, she joined TMC (News - Alert) as a Web editor for TMCnet. Jamie grew up on the North Shore of Long Island and holds a bachelor's degree in mass communication with a concentration in broadcasting from Five Towns College. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefanie Mosca
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Tucked away in the Catskill Mountains lies Theo Kamecke’s studio, home to an impressively well-stocked library of vintage circuit boards. Kamecke doesn’t organize the boards by function or manufacturer, but with words like “serpentine” and “geometric” that convey their look and feel.
Decades ago, when miniaturization began to shrink the beautiful patterns to near invisibility, Kamecke realized these “fossils” of the electronic era would one day disappear. “I went to dozens and dozens of factories within hundreds of miles of [Manhattan] and talked them out of their obsolete or surplus boards,” he explains. “They were very happy that someone was doing something creative with it.”
To create contrast with the silvery lines of the circuitry, Kamecke dyes the boards so that the substrate appears like black stone. He lays them out in a design he likes, and then constructs hardwood frames onto which he overlays the dyed circuit boards. He makes the translucent pieces from acrylic sheets, illuminating them from within.
Kamecke upcycles scavenged boards — he does not make his own, because it goes “against the whole idea to be designing my own,” he explains. “It would be like designing a leaf.” Working within parameters like that can actually be very liberating for the creative process; “Limitations are very valuable,” says Kamecke.
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Thirty-six passengers and four crew members board an ancient plane that has been sorely used and abused, and literally forced into the air by its greedy owner, Mac Stuart. Putting his small airline above the safety of its human cargo, he bullies and cajoles his master mechanic into signing off on the ancient plane and his chief pilot into flying it. Far off course, the plane goes down in the wilderness of Alaska, throwing the survivors into the most desperate struggle of their lives. Facing grievous wounds, starvation, cold, and giant bears are only part of their ordeal. There is a murderer among them. With no law except their own consciences, they challenge the cruel land and psychopath alike in their desperate struggle to return to their homes and loved ones. Forty people board the flight and for most it would be their Last Holiday.
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This story revolves around MSK Air Service, a small airline service that shuttles passengers and packages over the Alaskan bush areas. MSK's reputation has sorely damaged by owner, Mac Stuart, whose unsavory operating practices border illegal. Despite Mac's seedy operating tactics the FAA has not been able to prove any negligence thus far. However, Mac's seemingly unscrupulous conduct has brought MSK to its financial knees and just may knock him out of the Alaskan sky. Ironically, Mac receives a call from archrival, Evan Gibbons, of North Air Charter offering him a charter flight from Grizzly Bear Tours to Nome Alaska. Mac knows that MSK's capital has dwindled to the point that he can't make payroll. Additionally, the only aircraft open at MSK is currently in maintenance getting and a past due overhaul. Mac uses all his conniving powers of persuasion to convince, threaten, and browbeat those in his employ to get the aircraft soaring by twelve noon the following day. MSK flight 76 departs Anchorage on a three-hour flight to Nome at 1:30pm. Less than twenty-four hours after take off the Alaskan airways are buzzing with news of the downed and missing charter, which carried forty souls, thirty six passengers and four crew members. Reading Ms. Parke's Vacation turned survival, I felt as if I were a passenger on that flight. This is a well-written tale, as well as an excellent read. Last Holiday, contains descriptive background that familiarizes the reader with its characters personally. This novel speaks volumes about the many aspects of human personalities in the face of danger, adversity, fear, despair, and even death. The dramatic depiction of greed, deceit, struggle, and survival, releases a plethora of emotions. Reviewed by Juanita Reynolds
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I had the great pleasure in being asked a while ago to again join the brilliant Aga Tomaszek on yet another photo shoot adventure to the stunning city of Barcelona to meet a young Singapore couple by the names of Linus & LI Ying.
After a short flight to Barcelona and after meeting Linus & LI Ying for a pre shoot brief it was time to enjoy the first night in a relaxed style.
The second day was the photo shoot itself and we was soon into the hustle of bustle of the busy and vibrant life of Barcelona, the shoot took us all over the city and ended in style with some amazing images on the beach at sunset and in the backdrop of the world famous La Sagrada Familia by Gaudi.
The whole day was brilliant, full of laughs and many different taxi journeys, but I hope the images live up to the hype I had placed on myself, oh and the final picture was taken by the clients as we were getting ready for the final shots.
Again for me the pleasure of being able to shoot alongside Aga Tomaszek was a chance not to be missed so I am eternally thankful for the opportunity and yes yet another city ticked off on my list of places to shoot, so thank you Aga.
Right where in the world we going to shoot next?
Rob Grimes Photography is a Nottingham based photographer specialising in creative documentary wedding photography – documentary style photography that tells the story of your day along with fine art couples portraits using creative lighting techniques. Rob is available to shoot weddings, elopements, couples sessions in Nottinghamshire and throughout the UK, Europe, America and worldwide for destination sessions.
To book me or enquire then please get in touch, I’d love to hear from you.
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Last Instalment of Andy Marks’ epic adventure, including some top tips.
We woke up on the third and final day to a few spots of rain in the air. However by the time we’d eaten our porridge and arrived at the start line at 7:10 the rain had stopped and the sun was out.
We were told it was 15km to the first water station and then another 17.5km to the lunch stop. I queried why the lunch stop was only 20 miles into a 60mile day but was told it was what it was. We set off and found the first water station at 15miles and the lunch stop at about 33miles… They’d got their units mixed up, not a problem for me as I’d carried enough water anyway, but I know a few other people came up short and struggled as a result.
It was hard going from the start, mostly off road with steep climbs and fast technical descents on single track through the trees. A fantastic mornings riding but I was starting to struggle by late morning so didn’t enjoy what should have been some of the best bits as much as I could have. I wasn’t the only one, there were some big crashes brought about by people being tired, not concentrating and making mistakes. I spun out on a root going UPHILL, didn’t get my foot down in time and toppled into a barbed wire fence. Fortunately I managed to catch the fence post and avoid the worst of the barbed wire, so carried on. Others weren’t as lucky, there where people at the lunch stop with ice packs but they had got this far and weren’t going to stop.
I came across 2 lads about 10 miles from the lunch stop with a broken chain and absolutely no idea how to fix it. I stopped and helped but, as with the puncture on the first day, I couldn’t believe people come on this sort of trip without even a basic idea of how to maintain their own bikes. We got it sorted but it had seen better days. I was quite relieved when they arrived at the lunch stop later and took the bike to the mechanic station to look at it.
By late morning I was starting to look at my watch and for the first time all weekend I was concerned by the cut off times. We were supposed to be in Scarborough by 4pm and I was beginning to push it a bit – I hadn’t come this far to get a DNF (did not finish). Upon arriving at the lunch stop I realised how many people where still behind me and was then informed 4pm was a target time and not a strict cut off – panic over.
Once again we came out of the lunch stop and started climbing. Surely it can’t be far to Scarborough now? A marshal on the side of the trail told me this was the last big climb – she lied. There where at least 2 more after that. More fantastic riding over the rolling hills, very similar to the South Downs Way now, some of the views could easily have been in Sussex.
We finally descended down through the town and onto the seafront at Scarborough, across the finish line at about 3:30 – so I’d have been alright even if it was a 4pm cut off. Today we’d done 63miles and 6100ft of climbing. I saw a lot of people at the finish line that I’d ridden with at various points over the weekend, it was nice to see how they had all got on and see that they had finished. We took the compulsory photos by the sea, had an ice cream and headed off to our hotel where a hot shower and sauna awaited. While sat down having dinner in the evening we talked about maybe going out and riding the Dalby Forest trail centre the following day. It was on the way and we reckoned we could manage an hour there before carrying on home.
As we stood up to walk back to the hotel any idea of getting back on a bike the following day went out the window – I think it would be fair to say we were all finished.
The following morning we headed for home after breakfast and as we sat in the car it started raining. We couldn’t believe how lucky we had been, it was raining when we arrived at the start line and it was raining as we drove away from the finish – but we’d done 3 days riding in the shirt sleeves and never even had to put a jacket on! It had been a fantastic weekend and we are all very glad we did it.
And as for next year The Crossing 2018 – No chance! Been there done that, I’ll find a new challenge for next year.
My top tips if you’re thinking of having a go
- Train – I can’t overstate this enough. I managed it but I definitely didn’t enjoy the last day as much as I could have. Don’t worry about speed but the fitter you are the more you will enjoy it when you get there.
- Get a toolkit, and learn how to use it – You’d be very lucky to do a trip like this and never need to do anything! Letting the shop set your bike up is OK, but make sure you know how to do the basics on the side of the trail.
- Get off and push – Unless you have legs (and drugs) like Lance Armstrong you aren’t going to be able to ride all the hills anyway. So be prepared to get off and push, especially on day one. Save your legs for when you can actually enjoy the riding rather than burning out early.
- Sports massage – If it’s available, use it. I’m convinced these 20 minutes at the end of each day where what kept me going for the following day.
- Eat and drink – I haven’t done the sums on calories burnt and so on, but you need to eat and drink a lot. I used High 5 tablets in my water and at a mixture of energy bars, gels and chocolate brioche rolls which made a nice change. I find proper food rather than just energy bars and gels work better on longer rides but whatever you do practice before you go, try things out while training to see what works for you. Don’t try anything new while you’re there. It’s worth finding out what the event organisers supply so you can try it in advance, then if it works you don’t need to carry as much of your own stuff.
- Ride on your own – If you can’t keep up with the people you set off with let them go. You won’t really be riding on your own as you soon drop in with another group travelling at your pace. Meeting new people this way was one of the most enjoyable parts of the event for me.
- Slow down – They call it the Rat Race. But it isn’t really a race for most of us. Slow down, look at the scenery, take pictures, talk to strangers and enjoy it.
- Sign up – If you wait until you are ready before you enter, you never will be. Sign up and then start training. You won’t regret it. http://www.ratrace.com/thecrossing
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Sports Buzz: UConn Beats Florida, Earns Trip to Title Game
UConn Upsets Michigan State
So much for President Obama picking Michigan State to win it all. On Sunday in NCAA Tournament Elite Eight action, No. 7 UConn edged fourth-seeded Michigan State 60-54 with 25 points coming from the Huskies Shabazz Napier. They’ll face No. 1 Florida in the Final Four on Saturday.
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Results tagged ‘ Dodgers ’
With less than an hour before the 4 p.m. ET trade deadline it’s looking more and more like San Diego first baseman Adrian Gonzalez might be staying put.
The Red Sox have moved on, trading for Cleveland catcher Victor Martinez for some players who might have been in the Gonzalez deal had their been one.
FOXSports is reporting the Dodgers might have interest in Gonzalez and/or Bell, though Bell might be the easier piece to move.
The Angels, who have some players who intrigue the Padres — possibly second baseman Howie Kendrick — could be another fit for Bell.
A week ago, Padres general manager Kevin Towers said that if nothing got done this week he would have a better idea of what he might get in return for Gonzalez and Bell if the team should decide to move either player in the off-season.
From all the reports out there, it sounds like Towers asked for the moon for Gonzalez and Bell, two players he doesn’t have to move by any means.
We’ll know more in less than an hour, but don’t be surprised if Gonzalez stays put. The same could be said for Bell, though the team could move the All-Star closer a lot easier.
— Corey Brock
During a radio interview on The FAN590 prior to Thursday’s Blue Jays-Indians tilt at Rogers Centre, general manager J.P. Ricciardi shed a little more light on why Toronto is suddenly willing to shop ace Roy Halladay.
“What’s changed is Roy has told us that he’s going to test the free-agent market,” Ricciardi said.
Halladay is under contract for $14.25 million this season and $15.75 million in 2010, which is the final year under his current deal. The Blue Jays originally planned on discussing an extension with Halladay this coming offseason, but Ricciardi’s comments make it clear that’s not going to happen.
The chances of Toronto retaining Halladay seemed slim already, considering the fact that the club has trimmed its payroll and the pitcher has expressed that he wants to have a chance to play October baseball. With the Jays in fourth place in the AL East, and a rotation filled with injuries and young arms, contending soon doesn’t seem realistic.
Halladay is scheduled to start for the Jays on Tuesday in Seattle and Ricciardi doesn’t want the pitcher taking the mound with the thought that he might be traded in the following three days leading up to the July 31 Deadline. Ricciardi said Toronto’s internal deadline of Tuesday is flexible, depending on how close the club might be to a deal.
“If we’re down the road with something, obviously the deadline can fluctuate,” Ricciardi told reporters earlier Thursday morning. “If we’re not down the road by the 28th, nothing’s going to happen.”
The team considered to be the front-runner to land Halladay continues to be the Phillies. Even though Philadelphia is believed to be opposed to including top pitching prospect Kyle Drabek in a possible deal, the Blue Jays sent assistant general manager Tony LaCava to scout Drabek’s latest start on Wednesday.
The Brewers are also considered to have serious interest in trading for Halladay. Other teams who have been tied to Halladay in various reports include the Dodgers, Cardinals, White Sox, Rangers, Red Sox and Yankees. Ricciardi said only a few teams have approached him with serious interest.
“Some are serious and some I would say are delirious,” Ricciardi said during the radio interview.
The Indians, staying true to company form, are mum on whether or not Cliff Lee is on the block. But if what Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi said today is true, and Roy Halladay is, indeed, “unlikely” to be traded, that would only serve to make Lee all the more valuable to contending clubs.
Several of those clubs, including the Phillies and Dodgers, had scouts at tonight’s game at the Rogers Centre to watch Lee, and they saw the reigning AL Cy Young winner turn in a complete-game gem against Halladay’s Jays. Lee improved to 6-9 with a 3.17 ERA in a season in which his record is no indication of how well he’s pitched.
The contenders know this, and the Indians have to know their odds of keeping Lee beyond his 2010 option year, in which he’d make $9 million, are slim to none. Of course, trading Lee in advance of that option year, with no top-of-the-rotation starters in the system or on the horizon, would surely be a major blow to any hopes of the Tribe contending next season. But trading Lee with a little less than a year and a half left on his contract would allow the Indians to pull in maximum value for the left-hander.
Teams get desperate for starting help this time of year, and it’s not every day that a club can land a bona fide No. 1 of Lee’s ilk. If Halladay is pulled from the block, as Ricciardi hints, then the desperation to land Lee only rises — and with it rises the temptation for the Tribe to pull the trigger on a trade.
— Anthony Castrovince
Many on hand at Rogers Centre on Sunday afternoon wondered if they were watching Roy Halladay’s last outing as the ace of the Blue Jays. If so, Doc did not disappoint, spinning a complete-game gem en route to a 3-1 win over the Red Sox.
“I was hoping he’d have an unbelievable performance, something I could remember when I look back at my time here in Toronto,” Jays catcher Rod Barajas said. “It definitely goes through your head. I hope it’s not the last time. Everybody in this clubhouse hopes it’s not the last time.”
Multiple reports indicated that representatives from the Dodgers, Phillies, Brewers, Tigers, Red Sox, Rangers and Twins were in attendance for Halladay’s latest start, which netted his 11th win and lowered his ERA to 2.73. Former Jays GMs Pat Gillick (Phillies) and Gord Ash (Brewers) were in Toronto for the entire weekend series against Boston.
Philadelphia is still believed to be the front-runner to land Halladay, and the Jays and Phils have reportedly already discussed a few of the Phillies’ top prospects, including outfielder Michael Taylor, shortstop Jason Donald and pitcher Carlos Carrasco. Top pitching prospect Kyle Drabek likely needs to be included to convince the Jays to pull the trigger on any deal with the Phils.
As far as the other clubs in attendance for Halladay’s start, it’s possible some were there to take a look at Boston’s players, or Toronto’s relievers — Doc’s fourth complete game of the year robbed scouts of that chance — and position players. The Red Sox don’t have serious interest in Halladay and the Rangers and Twins appear to be long shots.
It’s worth noting that Ash was at the helm in Toronto when the Blue Jays drafted Halladay. According to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, “Rival teams say the Brewers have enough prospects to make a Halladay deal.”
Prior to previous Trade Deadlines, Halladay’s name has been tossed around in rumors and reports. This year, though, the speculation is real and Halladay’s recent comments indicate that he’s more open to the idea of being dealt than he was in the past. On Saturday, Halladay’s wife, Brandy, stepped into the radio booth during the Jays’ game and the talk eventually turned to the wave of rumors.
“This very well could be our last homestand,” Brandy Halladay said on The FAN590. “If something happens before the Trade Deadline, I won’t be back. That’s difficult. That’s more than difficult. I just broke into tears four minutes ago. … It’s very difficult for everybody. … You’re making me cry now.”
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Lake Rudolph Resort Sets Halloween Schedule
Lake Rudolph Campground & RV Resort in Santa Claus, Ind., is hosting seven Halloween-themed weekends every Friday and Saturday beginning on Sept. 14 and ending on Oct. 27.
The 12th Annual Lake Rudolph Halloween Weekends will feature games for all ages including the Rudy’s kid’s carnival, Hadi Shrine Clowns, pumpkin decorating, Hallo-TEEN games, and Mummy’s bingo party, according to a news release.
Kids staying at the campground can trick-or-treat on Saturday evening. Other features include a site decorating contest, Halloween dance, costume contest, frightful film classics, and Rudy’s haunted hayrides. The RiverTown Story Tellers will host Bonfire Ghost Stories each Friday evening. These events are for those staying at Lake Rudolph only.
Lake Rudolph’s 2012 Halloween Weekend souvenir T-shirt is also available in the Lake Rudolph Camp Store. This year’s design features Rudolph as the Red Nosed Space Invader.
Lake Rudolph Campground & RV Resort features 250 family lodging options including rental RVs and cabins. The campground also offers over 200 full-hookup RV sites and tent sites, including 100 sites with concrete pads. The resort is open daily through Oct. 31. Rudolph’s Christmas Cabins will also be available for lodging during the Christmas season, Nov. 23 through Dec. 30.
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GRE or GMAT Scores
As an additional means of evaluating the qualifications of applicants, several graduate programs require the nationally standardized Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).
If GRE or GMAT scores are required for the Program to which you are applying (see Program Requirements), direct the Educational Testing Service (ETS) (www.gre.org) or the Graduate Management Admissions Council (http://www.gmac.com/gmac/thegmat/) to send your GRE or GMAT scores to Hunter College, Graduate Admissions Office
Institutional Code for Hunter College:
GRE scores - 2301
GMAT scores - 282-41-20
- It is strongly suggested that all nationally administered examinations be taken no later than February for fall admission and no later than September for spring admission. An applicant’s likelihood of admission may be seriously jeopardized by failure to submit test scores by the application deadline.
*PLEASE NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BECOME THE LEGAL PROPERTY OF THE COLLEGE AND MAY NOT BE SURRENDERED BACK OR COPIED*
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Several Potential Options for Dealing with DOE's Depleted Uranium Tails Could Benefit the Government
GAO-08-613T: Published: Apr 3, 2008. Publicly Released: Apr 3, 2008.
Since the 1940s, the Department of Energy (DOE) has been processing natural uranium into enriched uranium, which has a higher concentration of the isotope uranium-235 that can be used in nuclear weapons or reactors. This has resulted in over 700,000 metric tons of leftover depleted uranium, also known as "tails," that have varying residual concentrations uranium-235. The tails are stored at DOE's uranium enrichment plants in Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky. Although the tails have historically been considered a waste product and an environmental liability, recently an about tenfold increase in uranium prices may give DOE options to use some of the tails in ways that could provide revenue to the government. GAO's testimony is based on its March 31, 2008, report entitled Nuclear Material: DOE Has Several Potential Options for Dealing with Depleted Uranium Tails, Each of Which Could Benefit the Government (GAO-08-606R). The testimony focuses on (1) DOE's potential options for its tails and (2) the potential value of DOE's tails and factors that affect the value. It also contains an analysis of DOE's legal authority to carry out the potential options. In its report, GAO recommended that Congress consider clarifying DOE's statutory authority to manage depleted uranium. GAO also recommended that DOE complete a comprehensive uranium management assessment as soon as possible.
DOE's potential options for its tails include selling the tails "as is," re-enriching the tails, or storing them indefinitely. DOE's current legal authority to sell its depleted uranium inventory "as is" is doubtful, but DOE generally has authority to carry out the other options. The department has not finished a comprehensive assessment of these options and is still evaluating the details of how such options might be implemented. DOE's authority to sell the tails in their current unprocessed form is doubtful. Because of specific statutory language in 1996 legislation governing DOE's disposition of its uranium, we believe that DOE's authority to sell the tails in unprocessed form is doubtful and that, under rules of statutory construction, DOE likely lacks such authority. However, if Congress were to provide the department with the needed authority, firms such as nuclear power utilities and enrichment companies may be interested in purchasing these tails and re-enriching them as a source of nuclear fuel. DOE could contract to re-enrich the tails. Although DOE would have to pay for re-enrichment, it might obtain more value from selling the re-enriched uranium instead of the tails if its re-enrichment costs were less than the discount it would have to offer to sell the tails as is. DOE could store the tails indefinitely. While this option conforms to an existing DOE plan to convert tails into a more stable form for long term storage, storing the tails indefinitely could prevent DOE from obtaining the potentially large revenue resulting from sales at currently high uranium prices. The potential value of DOE's depleted uranium tails is currently substantial, but changing market conditions could greatly affect the tails' value over time. Based on February 2008 uranium prices and enrichment costs and assuming sufficient re-enrichment capacity is available, GAO estimates the value of DOE's tails at$7.6 billion. However, this estimate is very sensitive to changing uranium prices, which recently have been extremely volatile, as well as to the availability of enrichment capacity.
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Ready to explore inventing with electronics? With our growing system of BlocklyProp graphical programming and tutorials, this curated box of parts becomes a playground for interactive learning.
Plug the Propeller FLiP module into its breadboard and you are ready to start programming. Step-by-step activities introduce each electronic component, and labels on every Propeller FLiP pin help to make the right circuit connections. Remix the kit contents into your own projects, and add on most any 3.3 V or 5 V sensor or accessory. There are no proprietary connectors to limit creativity.
Ideal for Computer Science, Career Technology Education, and other STEM related courses, this inclusive system supports all participants — not just the “coders.” Recommended for middle school, high school and college in a 1:1 or 1:2 use.
- BlocklyProp graphical online programming is supported on ChromeBook, Windows, and Mac
- Text-based C programming is supported on Windows and Mac
- Online tutorials for BlocklyProp graphical programming as well as Propeller C text-based programming
- USB-powered multicore Propeller FLiP module, no batteries needed
- Sensors: 4-direction tilt sensor, thermistor temperature sensor, phototransistor light sensor
- Human input devices: pushbuttons, keypad, 3/4-turn knob
- Output devices: LEDs, piezo speaker, 7-segment LED, Mini DC Motor
- Components: resistors, capacitors, jumper wires, transistor, alligator clips
- (1) - Propeller FLiP Microcontroller Module (#32123)
- (1) - Breadboard (#700-32023)
- (1) - USB A to Micro B Cable (#805-00016)
- (1) - 4x4 Matrix Membrane Keypad (#27899)
- (1) - 4-Directional Tilt Sensor (#28036)
- (1) - DC Mini Motor (#750-32023)
- (1) - Thermistor temperature sensor (#502-14001)
- (4) - 3-inch Jumper Wires, bag of 10 (#800-00016)
- (2) - Individual Alligator Test Leads (#800-00042)
- (1) - Electronic Parts Baggie with LEDs, resistors, pushbuttons, 7-segment LED, phototransistor, capacitors, pieaospeaker, and more
Note: Due to continual quality improvements and supplier options, parts and quantities subject to change without notice.
BlocklyProp Visual Programming Tool & FAQ for Schools - 127.13 KB | updated: 27 Mar 2018 - 1:28 pm
SimpleIDE Software for Mac (Propeller C) - 71.8 MB | updated: 30 Jan 2017 - 3:10 pm
SimpleIDE Software for Windows (Propeller C) - 78.99 MB | updated: 24 May 2018 - 7:51 am
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2018-09-20T19:01:38Z
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Pharmacies might expect to see a two- to three-year payback on investment just by detecting counterfeiting.
Up until now, RFID has been used mostly to tag vehicles, intermodal containers, pallets and cases in supply chains. But over the next few years, it looks like there will be a big rollout of tracking systems that tag items at a much finer level, sometimes down to the package received by the consumer.
Some individual items are already tagged, most notably clothing in retail stores where detecting and preventing shoplifting makes an undeniable business case of one year to payback the investment. But more applications are on the way.
According to a study by Cambridge, UK-based market researcher IDTechEx, pharmaceutical companies that tag every container distributed to pharmacies might expect to see a two- to three-year payback just by detecting counterfeiting.
Other estimated payback times mentioned in the study include: Blood, one year; books in libraries and bookstores, two years; and, beer kegs, one year.
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This card is for Tenia's HYCCT Challenge~ Music Soothes The Soul. I don't have any music stamps or paper so I pulled out my Chickie Hop stamp and had some fun. We are all "pink" chics right? And they are wearing fuzzy white bunny ears. LOL!
The layout is from this weeks Sunday Sketch and Stamp Challenge #127
I hand wrote the sentiment.
My Blog: www.artfulljourney
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012 GMT Views: 745
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Welcome and TED Intros! We'll start the day with registration and the official TED video.
Georgie-Ann is the founder Caribbeans in Tech and Entrepreneurship (CITE) and Annual GSD Summit. Georgie-Ann's talk: "Getting it Done"
Jackie is the founder of The Resting Mind. Jackie's talk: "The Myths of Powering Through"
Sara is the founder Catalyst, a digital consulting agency. Sara's talk: "Community is the Future of Business"
Victor is the CEO of Astorian, a B2B marketplace connecting property managers with contractors . Victor's talk: "Why your Dream is Closer Than You Think"
Lauren is the GM of Revel. Lauren’s talk; “How Micromobility Can Uplift Communities”
Lisa is a Global Yoga Retreat Leader and Meditation Instructor at Lisa Pineda Yoga. Lisa's talk: "How Meditation Can Unlock Your Full Potential"
Kaitlin is the Founder & CEO @begabbi. Kaitlin's talk: "Eliminating Barriers for a Healthy Community"
Kim is the CEO & Co-Founder, The Superfan Company. Kim's talk: "How Today Effects Tomorrow."
Megan is the founder of keepwith, a networking advisory company. Megan's talk: "Networking: The Company You Keep."
We'll have quick bite for lunch and get to discuss the days events.
Spend some time at WeWork Queens Plaza before we wrap up the day at 2 pm.
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2019-11-14T01:11:08Z
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Distance education is a technique of promoting recommendations and showing, with an special or staff basis, to university students who is unable to take advantage themselves actually using a common putting perhaps a class. Distance learning equipment “entry to understanding once trainers as well as the learners are split up by some time and mileage, or both’’ . Mileage instruction course which requires an on-website presence because of legal top reasons (like ingesting examinations) is known as crossbreed or mixed tutorials of research study. The big-range entertaining participateson, and open connect to through the word wide web or any other community techniques would definitely be a latest production in yardage learning. The net training systems can easily be bought to learners throughout the globe. Show vs .. Way ahead for Online Learning Progression in online learning mainly because the events of correspondence discovering has expanded quite a lot. Each student attracts system materials used which include college textbooks as well as training course material all through the mail. Individuals would then work certainly at their schedule, finishing the tutorials determined by their place of employment and life activities . Correspondence classes continually exist but you are turning out to be swiftly succeeded by using the web resources, that offer instructions, connection together with other university students, and suggestions forum. Pretty much every project features its own benefits and demerits, and in this case of mileage educational background, the in the next paragraphs bullet points feature a portion of the advantages and disadvantages. Professionals of Distance Educational background •Giving a rise in accessibility to degree to people with confined prospects mainly because of give good results, children or body constraints . •Supply to acquire a modality of training this really is more appropriate for some individuals. •Gives variable routines in mastering-School students and figure out time and place of program. •The program supplies versatility for learning-People by an engaging system both at home and labor or on university or for a local library. •The training isLearner-Structured. •Aids in assisting tutor and learner contact. •Building friends communication and interaction. •A offer-throughout appearance is produced by conventionalimproved pedagogic class routines. •Online education helps ensure ability to access worldwide information and masters using Internet telecommunications and Web programs. •It makes it possible for internationalization of learning potentials. •Materials distribution might be central. •Equalizes authority to access learning. Negative aspects of Distance Schooling. •Youngsters can experience unhappy, and reactions of isolation may well present themselves . The experience onlyis prevented by widespread experience of teachersand bytaking part in internet user discussion forums, enable categories, and conversation locations. •Frustrations and time required finding out how to get on-model for newbies. •The delay time approximately scholar suggestions and information is of worry. •Unexpected world wide web provider down time. •Thestudents have to be further engaged and self-redirected in alearning surroundings -Is determined by man or woman motivation and effort. •Applicants may perhaps be temporary really feel remote. •Creations for instructional for http://custompaperwritingservice.net/cheap-research-papers/ team adventures and set connection are definitely more arduous in the instructor. •Calls for vital effort and cost to improve ideal material. •Calls for significant attempt in building up and looking after the electronic facilities. •The space knowledge system is just not for the whole family. Belonging to the in this article-explained guru and con guidelines, it is stated that whatever the case, online education is really a great tool in the schooling device. Anybody can admittance educational background without need of always choosing themself or themselves actually, at whenever and just about anywhere. Hardly anything else would supplement the very busy plans the fact that most recent crop of college students and people are long lasting. There are a lot attributes of online learning that out way the downsides. The pros, that is why,reveals that, with learning kinds evolving, distance education continue to dominate.
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Convicted North Texas Child Predator Jesus Mejia Gets 50 Years In Prison, No ParoleJesus Mejia, 31, knew and sexually assaulted the child on several occasions before the child was old enough to start kindergarten, according to the Collin County DA's Office.
North Texas Man Guilty Of Child Sex Abuse, Sentenced To Life In PrisonA North Texas man convicted of sexually abusing children has been sentenced to life in prison.
Man Who Murdered His Father Sentenced To Life In Prison By North Texas JudgeKenneth Alleman Midgley II, 30, of Plano, murdered his father in their family home on April 13, 2017. Midgley then placed his father’s body in a large freezer and fled to Mexico.
McKinney Man Sentenced To 45 Years For Sexual Abuse Of A Child A McKinney man was sentenced Monday to 45-years without parole for continuous sexual abuse of a child according to Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis.
I-Team Update: Nanny Theft Case Headed To Grand JuryFour North Texas families have now filed police reports accusing Judith Buress of theft.
Princeton Man Gets Life For Multiple Sexual Assaults Of A Child Lawrence Parker, Jr., 43, of Princeton, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child.
Plano Teen Pleads Guilty To Arson And GraffitiJose Gamez, 19, has been sentenced to 10 years’ probation. He must also pay restitution of $50,000 and complete 350 hours of community service.
Texas AG Being Investigated For 1st Degree Felony Securities FraudA special prosecutor says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces first degree felony charges for securities fraud.
Collin County Child Sex Abuser Sentenced To 40 YearsA McKinney man has been sentenced to some 60 years in prison after admitting his guilt to a number of child sex abuse and pornography charges involving an underage girl.
Medical Examiner: Cause Of Frisco Boy's Death 'Undetermined'A medical examiner's report says the cause of a 10-year old Frisco boy's death cannot be determined, a ruling which could damage the case against the child's mother, who was arrested for murder.
Melissa Single Mother Murdered, Person Of Interest ReleasedWith the assistance of the Texas Rangers, Melissa Police are continuing their investigation into the murder of a mother, found by her son Monday in their quiet neighborhood home.
Ex-Wife's Backstabbing Attack Caught On Own PhoneA former Park Cities real estate agent will serve eight years in prison for an attack on her ex-husband that was recorded on a smartphone.
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- Hair Restoration (Replacement)
- McGrath Medical
- 2500 W William Cannon Dr, Site 305
- Austin, Texas 78701
Welcome to McGrath Medical, our practice is dedicated to the natural restoration of hair utilizing the latest proven hair loss treatments and hair transplant techniques to achieve our patients’ cosmetic goals in Austin, Texas.Today, Dr. McGrath, is one of the few hair restoration surgeons in the world who are Fellowship Trained, Diplomates of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery. He performs only Ultra-refined Follicular Unit Hair Restoration, the accepted “Gold Standard” in natural hair restoration surgery...
Most Popular Procedures: Hair Transplant (Restoration), Hair Transplants (Eyebrow), Hair Transplants (Scalp), Plug Restoration
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