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I was downloading a 3 GB file from Mega. Unfortunately this Mega file hosting web site downloads the file into a temporary location through the browser instead of downloa… (read more)
I was downloading a 3 GB file from Mega. Unfortunately this Mega file hosting web site downloads the file into a temporary location through the browser instead of downloading it like a normal download.
Anyways, while I was downloading, at 54% the download got interrupted saying transfer quota exceeded and I need to wait 4 hours to continue download again. and my girlfriend didn't know this so she thought my download already completed and deleted the file :( After 4 hours of waiting I was unable to continue the download since the file is no longer avaliable anymore :/
Now my question is, where this 1.5 GB file gone? I have already checked %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\myprofile\storage\default\https+++mega.co.nz but it's not there, the folder size is 102 KB.
I checked %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\myprofile\storage\temporary too but that folder is completely empty.
Also checked AppData\Local\Temp as well but it's not there either. The size of my Temp folder is just 10 MB.
While I was searching this, I saw some people saying (if I understood correct) the temporary download location of Mega isn't in hard drive, but in the RAM instead. I want to ask can anyone confirm is this actually true? and if so what happens to that space in RAM when download interrupts like this? Does it delete it from RAM automatically when I close Firefox?
Can anyone with knowledge in this regard please help me with this problem :( I am on SSD and already have a very few space left and I don't want to clutter my SSD with 1.5 GB unusuable file :(( Neither want 1.5 GB space got occupied in my RAM :((
Thank you so very much in advance.
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Grow Your Career with RACT
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We offer internet marketing solutions and believe that only by working together can we grow individually and as professionals and make a lasting impact. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d be thrilled to have you as part of the RACT family.
We as internet marketing services providers are always on the lookout for amazing talent and have opportunities for students, fresh graduates, and experienced resources.
- Develop, write, and edit content to support project needs for a wide variety of marketing platforms and mediums including websites, blogs, email newsletters, social media posts, articles, print, broadcast, etc.
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- Minimum 4 years of professional writing experience with Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, English, Public Relations, Journalism or related field.
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At RACT we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to RACT are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.
We know that sometimes the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you’re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, RACT is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law. Please ask the Talent Acquisition team for more information.
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Bridgefield is comprised of one five storey block and three six storey blocks incorporating 250 apartments over a common basement car park. There are 7 No cores between the four blocks with a combination of one, two and three bedroom apartments. The electrical scope of works comprises the electrical fitout of all apartments and the electrical installation of the common areas in all cores and the basement carpark. The project is currently underway with a completion date of late 2019.
- Client: Cosgrave Development
- Architect: McCrossan O Rourke Manning Architects
- Consultant: McElligott Consulting Engineers
- Main Contractor: Cosgrave Development
- Contract Value: €2,600,000
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We would love to become your source for Marble Gizmo! Please feel free to call or email us if you have any questions. We do stock Marble Gizmo and they usually ship within 1 day. We work very hard to honor our shipping and delivery estimates! PetBird Xpress is proud to represent BELL. We never sell unproven off-brand products. We appreciate the opportunity to serve you! Join our 12,000 satisfied commercial and residential customers.
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MADISON -- Gov. Tony Evers and Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Josh Kaul today slammed Republicans on the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) for delaying a plan to use the first tranche of Wisconsin’s $31 million in National Prescription Opiate Litigation (NPOL) settlement funds to combat the state’s opioid epidemic. The funds were awarded as part of agreements that Attorney General Kaul entered into with pharmaceutical companies, settling the state’s legal claims. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) received its first $6 million payment on July 29 to begin using immediately, while the remaining $25 million is expected by the end of the calendar year.
Last year, Gov. Evers signed Assembly Bill 374, now 2021 Wisconsin Act 57 (Act 57), into law, paving the way for much-needed funds to flow to communities throughout Wisconsin to address the opioid epidemic through a settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors. Act 57 also requires that DHS receives 30 percent of the total allotment of NPOL funds, while counties and municipalities that participated in the litigation receive the remaining 70 percent. The final settlement agreement approved by JFC in November 2021 will provide more than $280 million over 18 years to the 87 local governments involved in the litigation and $120 million, as well as $9.6 million in additional restitution, to DHS for programs aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic and saving lives.
Under Act 57, DHS is required to submit a plan to use the state’s opioid settlement funds to JFC for the committee's approval under a 14-day passive review period. Under the passive review process, if no objection is raised by a JFC member, the plan is considered approved by the committee and funds are released. During that 14-day period, however, a member may object to the item, and because the Legislature has excluded themselves from record-keeping requirements, JFC members can functionally anonymously object to the item. Today, a member of JFC once again objected to the state plan to immediately use available settlement funds to combat the state’s opioid epidemic. As no Democratic committee member objected to the plan, the objection could only have been raised by a Republican JFC member. This is not the first time Republicans on the committee have come under fire for using the objection process to delay the expeditious release and use of funds. A full list of committee membership is available here.
“Wisconsinites across our state have felt firsthand the effects of the opioid epidemic on their loved ones, friends, and neighbors, and these families and communities need these funds now to fight the opioid epidemic and get resources to folks who need our help,” said Gov. Evers. “The opportunity to invest millions into getting people treatment, support, and services does not come along every day. For these legislators to turn their backs on the people of Wisconsin, especially given increases in substance misuse and the mental and behavioral health challenges our state is facing today in the wake of the pandemic, it simply defies logic.”
The most recent delay also marks the second time in recent months that JFC Republicans have objected to the state plan, once again delaying funds that could be immediately invested to combat the opioid epidemic across Wisconsin. In April, DHS submitted an initial plan in advance of having received any of the state’s settlement fund allotment so the state could begin implementing the plan as soon as it received its first tranche of funds. A Republican JFC member objected to a revision of the first proposal made by DHS to reflect how the payments would be received. DHS resubmitted the plan on July 28, for the committee’s consideration under the passive review process, to which a JFC Republican member objected today. Last week, DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake, Attorney General Kaul, and Paul Krupski, DHS Director of Opioid Initiatives, participated in a media briefing to provide details and explanations for the items included in the settlement plan. That briefing is available to watch on YouTube.
“Wisconsin communities need funding to fight the opioid epidemic now,” said Attorney General Kaul. “Wisconsin DOJ has fought hard and continues to fight to bring substantial resources to Wisconsin to combat the opioid epidemic, and there’s no good reason for Republican legislators to stand in the way of getting funds distributed that will save lives.”
Wisconsin’s opioid crisis began in the late 1990s and has been evolving since, with an almost 900 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths between 1999 and 2018, and in 2020, the state saw a record high of 1,227 opioid-related overdose deaths. The state has seen a surge due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, drugs laced with synthetic substances, like fentanyl, and the use of multiple substances. While the state continues its all-hands-on-deck approach to addressing the epidemic through state and federal dollars, the settlement funds allow the state to do even more, faster, with an approach that recognizes that each person and community has different needs.
“DHS’ opioid settlement plan has been informed by Wisconsinites directly impacted by this epidemic,” said DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. “Through listening sessions, we heard feedback on our plan from nearly 600 Wisconsinites, including people living with an opioid use disorder, their families and friends, and providers. Today’s objection is blocking urgent relief our partners across the state need to help Wisconsinites suffering with opioid use disorder.”
DHS made its recommendations based on recommendations from the public, advocates, providers, first responders, and other partners whose experience cover the full spectrum of those impacted by the epidemic. In January, DHS held listening sessions around the state to hear from the public and stakeholders on what they see as the priorities for using these settlement funds. The report submitted to JFC was based on those recommendations. The DHS plan implements a phased approach corresponding with the payments Wisconsin expected to receive this year. The recommendations in the plan include:
- Making immediate investments in harm reduction;
- Increasing the availability of Narcan and fentanyl test strips around the state;
- Investing in new and updated treatment facilities;
- Enhancing data collection and surveillance;
- Providing funds for tribal nations to address the dramatic increase in opioid overdose deaths; and
- Establishing family support centers to provide information, education, and healthy coping skills while building resiliency for family and friends of people with substance use disorder.
The Evers Administration has been advancing a number of efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, such as the state’s new pilot “Hub and Spoke” model of care, as well as investing approximately $47 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding to increase community-level supports for people who have been grappling with mental health and substance use challenges. Additionally, last year, Wisconsin joined the Bloomberg Opioids Overdose Prevention Initiative, which provided $10 million to combat the opioid epidemic in Wisconsin over the next five years.
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WINNETKA, Ill. — Antique lovers who were around Winnetka, Ill., March 6-8, were offered a great opportunity: two major antique shows, a few blocks apart, and on the same days!
The oldest of the two, celebrating its 40th year, was the Winnetka Antique Show, benefiting the Winnetka Community House. Forty-one quality dealers, from Illinois and 15 other states, enthusiastically exhibited their treasures. The majority of the out-of-state dealers were from the East Coast, and several said they looked forward to the Chicago area exposure.
Volunteer chair Luvie Myers and her committee prepared for a year for this show. She thought the crowd was a little slow, but steady. She also noted, “The economy is a huge challenge, but the antique market will come back.” In spite of economic worries, she observed that the quality of items displayed had not decreased. Luvie noted the special guest lecture by Chris Jussel, original host of the “Antiques Roadshow,” had been well received and well attended. The Chicago Tribune wrote about the show and quoted Chris’ view of the antique market: “At the moment, certain pieces of furniture are selling at about half of what they would have sold for 5 or 10 years ago.” The Tribune also noted this puts antiques very much in a “buyer’s” market.
Georgian Manor Antiques, of Fairhaven, Mass., demonstrated an English Regency rosewood davenport desk, made by Gillows, circa 1810, that exhibited exceptional wood grain and patina. With a mechanical writing platform and several side drawers, it could still function well today. It stood 35 inches high by 20 inches wide, and could find a spot in your home for $19,000. Owner Enrique Goytizolo noted he has presented at this show for 16 years and did feel that the excitement was a little less this year. On the counter side, he noted, “Some buyers are taking advantage of the moment.”
The Winnetka Antique Show prides itself on variety, and an unusual group offered was three Tang Dynasty tomb guardians, Lokapala, made between 618-907 AD. Trace Mayer Antiques, Louisville, Ky., offered the guardians, with their “fierce looks,” at $3,800 each. Trace opined the show was slower than usual but, in general, that he was doing fine.
Leatherwood Antiques, Sandwich, Mass., displayed a variety of choices for showgoers, including a New England homemade circa 1920 tripoli card game board. Maintaining most of its original paint and sized at 30 inches by 30 inches, it could be added to your game room for $1,100. Owner Mo Wajselfish said, “This has always been a good show for me,” and also noted a lot of old customers come back to look for additional items. He tries always to have interesting items on hand and said the economy has not been an issue for him as yet.
Malcolm Magrauder Antiques of Millwood, Va., proudly displayed a circa 1785 two-part pearlware spirit keg on a stand. The upper barrel was molded with applied grapevine and other decorations. It is marked “Wilson” and has a sterling silver spigot. You could store your spirits in it for $4,750. Malcolm thought the show was slow compared to the previous 10 years he has shown. He noted many past shows had drawn more Chicago buyers, and this show now seemed a bit more “small town” in appeal. He agreed, as did most dealers, that the economy has affected antique buying.
The Winnetka Woman’s Club held its 11th annual show just a couple blocks from the show benefiting the Community House. The Woman’s Club show featured 43 dealers from Illinois and 12 other states, and one from the UK. Show manager Judith Andersen thought the show looked good and that dealers were upbeat. She noted that attendance was down a bit and that there seemed to be more lookers and fewer buyers. It seemed to her that “some buyers are more focused and looking for only one wanted item.”
A new feature this year was a Modernism Room, with three dealers showing newer items and focusing on “decorator” needs.
Displayed prominently on the wall of Peter Nee’s Millwood Home Antiques booth was a monumental faience Russian platter, made in the 18th century. Sized 30 inches by 22 inches, it depicted different architectural buildings and primitive figures. He noted it was intended to depict several different cultures. This dramatic piece was priced at $14,650. Peter observed attendees were drawn to unusual things and were being selective in their buying. He also opined the “minimalist” look was in—one item on a desk, not several.
Derek and Tina Rayment Antiques of Chester, England, sell only barometers. One of their best examples was a large French Giltwood, 8-sided piece with heavy wood carving. It was made circa 1810, and signed “Binda, Paris.” Its size, 35 inches by 25 inches, and its ornate carving, especially at its top, made it even more desirable. It was priced at $12,500, which would buy delivery, hanging, and a guarantee that it would work. Derek said he has a large client base, which helps his sales in this area; he has done the Winnetka show often and has repeat customers.
When asked about the economy, he noted it is much worse in England, partially because they have a smaller country with less resources.
Wendy and Ian Stacy, Redcoat Antiques, of Sleepy Hollow, Ill., were exhibiting for the first time. They had spent several years on the waiting list, so were pleased that the opportunity to set up at the Winnetka Woman’s Club Show had arrived. Their booth featured many British and military items, including an unusual circa 1900 leather and brass Imperial German Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) with slight damage to the brass decoration and a replacement chin strap for $595.
Ian, originally from the UK, thought the attendance was steady but not crowded and that the quality of the show was very high.
A circa 1900 carved rocking hobby horse with original leather, hair, paint and eyes was priced for $975 from Daniel’s Antiques, Chicago. It was an attractive piece in good, original condition.
When asked about the show, Dan thought attendance was “a bit slow, like most shows.” He also noted that there seemed to be fewer interior decorators shopping for their own, or their clients’ needs. His final comment was that, even in spite of the economy and buyers being more selective, “I am the eternal optimist!”
In spite of slowness in the market, most dealers from the Winnetka shows are optimistic about the future of the antiques market.
For more information regarding the Winnetka shows, contact the Winnetka Community House at 847-446-0537 or the Winnetka Woman’s Club at 847-446-1830.
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Stephen Overall has written an interesting article in the Financial Times on the motivation of workers, titled On the scent of the light reward (subscription required), in which he gets straight to the point:
Why does the worker work? Friedrich Engels asked the question in 1844. “For love of work? From a natural impulse? Not at all! He works for money, for a thing which has nothing to do with the work itself.”
Few have ever thought otherwise. In the Affluent Worker studies of the 1960s, sociologists investigated car workers in Luton and confirmed that work was a means to an end, a temporary surrender of liberty for the sake of material reward. This remains true today.
According to the article more recent research suggests that the keys to motivation lie in five different “dimensions”. Apparently, motivation flows from:
- building an “internal brand” with which employees can identify.
- communicating the organisation’s values.
- demonstrating better leadership.
- offering a challenging and interesting work environment
- good performance management and continuous improvement.
According to one academic working on this topic, any serious attempt to investigate the nature of motivation “…needs to begin from an examination of policies and practices that operate in an organisation. Unfairness is the greatest demotivator.”
That’s all interesting food for thought; particularly the comment about unfairness. Who decides what’s fair and what’s not? Since we’re talking about the employee’s motivation, it would seem to me that the employee’s perception of fairness is of paramount importance. However, I wonder how often employees and management would share the same definition? Not often, I’d bet.
Sometime ago I wondered why the media often refer to Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein as simply “Saddam”. Wouldn’t this abbreviation be equivalent to referring to his main opponent as “George”? And if so, why does the media discriminate in this way?
Well I struggled for a while to find the answer, but it turns out that Saddam Hussein’s full name is “Saddam Hussein al-Majd al-Tikriti”. Most Arab names have a genealogical structure; individuals are called after their father and paternal grandfather and may also reveal the geographical region from which they come. So we can to some extent dissect the President of Iraq’s name as follows:
- “Saddam” is the epithet that he chose upon becoming ruler of Iraq and is derived from the Persian word meaning “crush”.
- “Hussein” was his father’s first name
- “al-Majd” refers to his paternal grandfather.
- “al-Tikriti” refers to the town closest to his place of birth, Tikrit.
So, a rough English translation of his name would be “The Crusher/son of Hussein/son of Majd/from Tikrit”. In addition, his true first name was apparently “Hussein”, but that was dropped when he assumed the name “Saddam”.
You can probably see why journalists may have been uncertain about what to call him. While the BBC uses “Saddam”, Canada’s Globe And Mail calls him “Mr. Hussein” (see MP wants Hussein to face trial). For more details see the CTV article You say Saddam, I say Hussein – what’s in a name? and from Slate in 1998 What’s the Name of Saddam Hussein?
One of the most consistently good reads on the web is Mark’s Mailbox, the letters page on the web site of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn. Steyn is a Canadian, but he currently lives in New Hampshire, having spent several years working in London. His work regularly appears in the National Post in Canada, The Daily Telegraph in Britain and the Chicago Sun-Times in the U.S., among other publications. As his web site (SteynOnline) pretentiously proclaims, Steyn is a "one-man global content provider". (If you see a link between Steyn and publications once owned by Hollinger International Inc., you’d be correct; The Lord Black of Crossharbour is apparently a big fan of Steyn’s work.)
I don’t read his columns very often. Although his writing is frequently very good, Steyn’s views are too extremist for me, and rarely substantiated by any serious objective analysis. Mark’s Mailbox, on the other hand, is a weekly must-read. Here’s a sample just from this week’s letters page:
You are such a hateful person! There is nothing good that appears in your negative, inflammatory columns! I have begged the Chicago Sun-Times to stop running your pieces. You want to bring on the war? Only a crazy person would talk that way. Perhaps you can share a room with BC Premier Gordon Campbell when he goes in for substance abuse rehab as it is clear that only someone drunk or on drugs would write the things you do.
May you be surrounded by neighbours who all vote for the NDP!
David L. Blatt
There really isn’t much chance that Steyn’s columns can compete with fan mail as entertaining as that! I highly recommend his web site, but stick to the letters page for a really good read.
I don’t really like simply recycling the news, but yesterday I was tempted and now I can’t resist.
Yesterday’s bizarre, but all too credible, story was about a bus driver who was assigned to a new route. Not knowing the way, he asked two fourteen year-old passengers to direct him using the London A to Z. Unfortunately, none of them paid attention to the height restrictions on their improvised route, and consequently they ripped off the top of the bus by driving under a bridge that was a foot and a half too low! For more, see the BBC News at Lost bus driver’s bridge crash.
Now today, comes the news that “A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed”. This story (Talking fish stuns New York) is rather incredible to say the least, and so hilarious that I had to share the best bit:
Mr Nivelo [one of the fishmongers] told the paper he was so shocked he fell into a stack of slimy packing crates, before running in panic to the shop entrance and grabbing Mr Rosen, shouting: “The fish is talking!”
However his co-worker reacted with disbelief. “I screamed ‘It’s the devil The devil is here!’, but Zalman said to me ‘You crazy, you a meshugeneh [mad man]!” Mr Nivelo said.
A disbelieving Mr Rosen then rushed to the back of the store, only to hear the fish identifying itself as the soul of a local Hasidic man who had died the previous year. It instructed him to pray and study the Torah, but Mr Rosen admitted that in a state of panic he attempted to kill the fish, injuring himself in the process and ending up in hospital.
I think we’re all just a little too stressed at the moment.
Here’s an hilarious story from BBC News – British Gas sends out £2.3 trillion bill:
Utility British Gas has admitted sending one of its customers a bill for £2,320,333,681,613. Brian Law of Fartown, Huddersfield, received the bill last month as a final demand after failing to pay an earlier bill of £59. The sum of £2.3 trillion was apparently due for electricity supplied to Mr Law’s new home in Fartown. And the letter from British Gas threatened to take him to court unless he paid the amount in full.
Can you imagine the look on his face? It’s very funny as long as it someone else’s tragedy. I laughed out loud.
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Unformatted text preview: Saturday she makes a big breakfast which usually includes bacon, eggs, pancakes, sausage, and biscuits and gravy. While everyone is asleep she makes sure that all of their plates are made and ready to eat when they wake up. While everyone is sitting and enjoying their homemade breakfast she cleans up, gets her kids clothes ready for the day and makes sure her dog has food and water. She does occasionally enjoy a few television shows of her liking in between trying to teach her kids the skills they will need to know when they start school. Lorenc 1 But the majority of her day consists of things that will better her and her family’s lifestyle. If I could think of what the perfect homemaker is, she is my first thought. I am so glad to have met her and be as great f friends that we are....
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- Spring '11
- English, Thought, Vegetable, Kelli Lorenc
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Goalkeeper Training in Birmingham
Venues throughout around Birmingham
David Rimmer is an ex Aston Villa keeper
David started playing in goal for the age of six and straight away was recognised for his goalkeeping abilities.
At age just nine, David had most of top professional clubs in his region after his signature. After much soul searching Dave signed for premiership club Aston Villa.
David spent 7 seasons at Aston Villa until he was asked to go on loan to neighbouring and fellow premiership club, Birmingham City. He went on a tournament with them to Italy and played that well that Birmingham City offered him a full time contract, which David accepted.
Sadly after a short spell at Birmingham City he received a nasty knee injury which sidelined him for over a season. On his return to football David signed for Tamworth were he tried to get back to full fitness.
David’s knee never recovered to its full flexibly, so he decided to drop down a league and play for semi professional team Alverchurch FC and start focusing on his goalkeeper coaching.
“One thing that helps me as a goalkeeper coach” states David, “Is that I have worked with some of the best goalkeeper and goalkeeper coaches in the game, which include, Mark Bosnich, David James, Ben Foster, Nigel Spink and Paul Barron.”
The experience I have gained working with the above has gave me an extra edge with my goalkeeper coaching, and moving my students forward.
David is FA qualified and having tasted professional success himself, he states he will go to any length to help any of his students make the professional grade.
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The Floppy is a soft skinned golf ball designed for use indoors. The unique design of The Floppy mimics the feel and action of a real golf ball. The softness allows you to practice your game indoors.
Born from a simple idea one rainy day, The Floppy™ was developed to aid the golfer in the practice of their short game.
The Floppy™ is a soft and pliable ball with a woven cover. The unique materials and design of The Floppy™ help mimic the feel and action of an actual golf ball while the softness allows practice indoors.
[via product page]
Rest of details and illustrations after the jump.
Cost: $10 per pack (limited time) @ Floppy
The Floppy Helps engrain the proper muscle memory.
Whether you want to practice your game at the office, or your family room. The Floppy™ will give you the same feel and feedback of a normal golf ball without the fear of damaging your property. Designed for the short game The Floppy™ works wonders with your wedges.
Now you can have the the freedom to practice your golf game when ever and where ever you like.
The unique Patent Pending design of The Floppy™gives the golfer fantastic and realistic feedback. Because The Floppy™ feels, rolls and spins like a golf ball it helps build muscle memory and engrain the proper swing. Now you can work on your touch and timing and perfect your short game indoors anytime.
Try The Floppy™ and you’ll will be amazed at how much fun you will have practicing your game whenever and wherever you want.
And yes The Floppy™ will lower your scores!
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SOLAR SYSTEM QUILT
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- 1 x Solar System Iron On Motifs
- Backing fabric
- Cotton wadding
- Heat n Bond 30cm
- 4 x Fabric Traditions - (Yellow for the sun and corners, Navy for the galaxy and Turquoise and Purple for borders and binding.)
Step 1 - Navy Fabric Traditions Cut a piece 85cm x 110cm.
Step 2 - Yellow Fabric Traditions Cut a piece 30cm x 30cm for the sun and cut four 12.5cm x 12.5cm squares for the corners
Step 3 - Turquoise Fabric Traditions Cut four strips 7.5cm x 112cm for borders
Step 4 - Purple Fabric Traditions Cut four strips 12.5cm x 112cm for borders and cut five strips 5.5cm x 112cm for the binding
Step 5 - Cut backing fabric and wadding 133cm x 165cm
Step 6 - Copy the sun image onto the Heat n Bond paper. Following the Heat n Bond instructions, iron Heat n Bond image onto Yellow Fabric Traditions, cut out the sun shape, then iron sun onto Navy Fabric Traditions
Step 7 - Lay backing on table, smooth wadding on top of backing and centre Navy Fabric Traditions on top of wadding. Birch Quilt Basting Spray can be used to do this step but is optional.
Step 8 - Using a chalk pencil, draw 9 orbits around the sun, pin and stitch.
Step 9 - Pin Turquoise Fabric Traditions along top and bottom of panel (all thicknesses) and sew using a ¼ inch seam allowance. Press strips open to extend panel. Pin turquoise strips to both sides of panel including over previous strips. Press strips open.
Step 10 - Sew a Yellow Fabric Traditions square to each 12.5cm wide Purple Fabric Traditions strips and add to the quilt in the same way as the Turquoise strips, placing the yellow squares in each corner. Press strips open.
Step 11 - Trim quilt to edge of yellow and purple borders.
Step 12 - Sew 5.5cm wide Purple Fabric Traditions binding strips end to end with a diagonal seam and iron in half lengthwise. Pin folded binding along quilt edges, mitring the corners as you go. Sew. Fold binding over to back of quilt so that folded edge sits past the stitching line. Pin. Either hand sew binding in place on the back of quilt or 'ditch stitch' from the front of the quilt making sure the binding is caught at the back.
Step 13 - Place iron on planet motifs on orbit lines around the sun and iron as directed.
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CHUWI Vi8 Plus, cheapest quad-core Windows 10 tablet; Specs, Price and Availability
In the past one of the main reasons that made people stay away from Windows mobile devices is its relatively high price but things have changed since the introduction of touch-optimized Windows OS including its latest Windows 10 and the company’s decision to offer the OS free of charge for mobile devices like tablet and smartphone. And now OEMs are able to offer Windows devices as cheap as $100 and such one is the new Windows 10 tablet dubbed CHUWI Vi8 Plus.
The device is certainly not the best Windows 10 devices out there but you get a decent specs for that price worth considering one and there is nothing to lose here and I find it a good option among other budget devices.
For connectivity, CHUWI offers Bluetooth 4.0, OTG, HDMI, WiFi, and even USB Type-C connector that is faster than microUSB 2.0.
If you are looking for a budget Windows 10 tablet, you must consider getting this device. The device is priced less than $100 and is available right now from Geekbuying . That is certainly a tempting price tag that you can get a Windows 10 tablet with such specs during this holiday season.
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While there are many commercial cleaners to address a clogged drain, they often contain harsh chemicals that can be harmful to you and the environment. Fortunately, you can use many natural and non-toxic household items to make simple and effective drain cleaners, which C. Lee Services shares below:
1. Boiling Water
Boil water and run it down the drain in a slow, steady stream. Repeat this until the drain is clear.
2. Baking Soda and Vinegar
Mixing baking soda and vinegar results in a chemical reaction, which produces carbon dioxide gas and creates a foaming action that helps to dislodge and break up the clog. The baking soda also helps to neutralize any unpleasant odors that may be coming from the drain.
3. Dish Soap and Hot Water
To use dish soap and hot water for drain cleaning in Akron, OH, pour a few tablespoons of soap down the drain, followed by a pot of boiling water. Run lukewarm water to flush out any remaining debris.
4. Baking Soda and Lemon Juice
Squeeze one lemon and mix it with a cup of baking soda, then pour it down the drain. Then, pour lukewarm water to flush it out.
If you have a severe clog or persistent drain issues, it’s best to seek drain cleaning services. At C. Lee Services, we have a team of licensed and experienced plumbers ready to address all your concerns. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.
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2023-09-23T02:18:19Z
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Hostels in Germany are a popular way to explore and get to know the country intimately. You would experience authentic German living in one of these accommodations and really enjoy your trip to the fullest extent.
There are over 600 hostels across Germany. You are sure to find one, if not more, near any of the popular tourist destinations.
This concept of German hostels came about in 1909 and was as a result of the ingenious mind of Richard Schirrmann, a German school teacher. He was quite an outgoing character who loved to take his class on excursions frequently.
He quickly realized the need for a hostel where young students could afford to stay and explore the area to their heart’s content. And thus was born the idea of the youth hostel.
But what was originally intended to cater to the youth is no longer their monopoly, but has grown to include people of all ages looking for a clean, airy accommodation at a tidy price.
In fact, the demand for these places is so high during festivals and holiday seasons that you would need to make a booking well in advance to avoid disappointment. Oktoberfest and summer season are invariably high on the list of visitors, so plan and book accordingly!
Now you may wonder what exactly these places are like. Hostels in Germany are located in fabulous surrounds sometimes with quite a history attached to add charm and character. You could be staying in an old infamous prison, a farm house, a historical building, or even a renovated castle!
While some German hostels decide to stick to their old world charm, others have gone ahead and added modern comforts such as Wi-Fi Internet access or broadband. So it all depends on what exactly you have in mind for your Germany vacation.
You can share a dormitory with bunk beds and regular beds with a fun group, or enjoy a room all to yourself. Singles, twin, and even triple rooms are available at most locations. You may get an ensuite with your own bathroom or share a common facility.
German hostels often come with an in-house bar and restaurant adding considerably to the fun quotient. They also come with self-catering kitchens where you get to put your culinary skills to the test. Some provide bed linen while others may charge a small fee for this luxury. Find out before you set out, if you’re really looking to keep to a budget.
Hostels in Germany come under various groups such as the German Backpacker Network and the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH). There are also the independent ones that offer a great place to put your feet up.
The way to go is to have a membership that lets you stay at any of a wide variety all over the world. To stay in a German Youth Hostel, you would need a membership in either the German Youth Hostel Association or the Hostelling International Association. In case you are not a member yet you can always sign up at the reception when you get your bed.
Now have fun in our hostels in Germany! :-)
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Presenting a List of Requested Repairs for a Contract
Correct way to Present List of Requested Repairs
There are always at least 2 ways to do things -- the correct professional way and the slack way.
Buyer A has a ratified contract on Seller B’s property. Buyer A has managed to get a “real deal” on the property.
Buyer A is represented by Agent A and Seller B is represented by Agent B.
The ratified contract is contingent upon home inspection being satisfactory to the Buyer A.
Buyer A hires a home inspector who does a very thorough job of the inspection -- his report is full of repair items -- most of the repair items are insignificant -- things like a cracked switch plate, etc.
Agent A then submits to Agent B the home inspection report and says “Fix everything on the report”.
The home is 15 years old, so there are going to be some small items -- any buyer should expect this.
In my opinion as a broker-in-charge, giving a home inspection report and saying “Fix everything on the report” is most unprofessional and says that Agent A is taking the lazy way out.
Agent A who is representing Buyer A should go over the report with Buyer A and they should make a list of the items that the Buyer A really needs to have repaired.
Then this list of items should be presented to Agent B who will then present to Seller B. Seller B is much more likely to try and handle all on the list if presented in this fashion.
I’m just saying ---- let’s be professional and do our job.
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2021-05-16T17:30:00Z
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Afrobeat crooner, Rema starts the year 2023 at an impressive pace as he begins his record-breaking “steezz” as always. Rema, whose real name is Divine Ikubor sets another record with his debut studio album “Rave & Roses” which becomes the first-ever and only African debut album to have earned certification.
The project has earned platinum and Gold certifications in countries like Switzerland, France, and Netherlands. It will also be recalled that “Calm Down” a track off the album how now gained up to 300 million views on Youtube. This is, as a matter of fact, a record-breaking achievement for the 22-year-old.
“@heisrema’s debut album, Rave & Roses is -certified Platinum in Switzerland -eligible for Gold Cert. in France -eligible for Gold Cert. in Netherlands —It is the first-ever and only African debut album to have earn a certification.”, he wrote.
See Rema’s Tweet below;
.@heisrema’s debut album, Rave & Roses is
-certified Platinum? in Switzerland ??
-eligible for Gold? Cert. in France ??
-eligible for Gold? Cert. in Netherlands ??
—It is the first-ever and only African debut album to have earn a certification.
— REMA STATS? (@RemaStats) January 5, 2023
Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ Climbs Almost 300 Million Youtube Views
Nigerian Afrobeat star, Rema is on the lips of everyone on social media, after his most recent feat with his song, Calm Down. Rema, who released the song, “Calm down” about 10 months ago scored another impressive feat after the song garnered almost 300 million views on youtube.
“Calm Down” is off Rema’s debut studio album, Rave and Rose, which was released earlier in the year 2022. The Mavin record singer also released a remix with American singer, Selena Gomez, which is already the most streamed Afro-beat song in the year 2022. This is only one of Rema’s many achievements so far in the year 2022.
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BI Group is the construction holding and the recognized leader in the real estate market of Kazakhstan. The holding has been operating since 1995 and during this time it has earned a reputation as a professional and reliable partner.
BI Group today is a multibusiness holding, the structure of which consists of divisions and directorates in various spheres of construction, development, and engineering.
One of the company’s missions is to maintain and increase trust. This is why trust is the main capital that the company accumulates with each completed project. The company receives orders for the construction of high-rise buildings for residential and commercial purposes, high-tech plants, highways and bridges of international importance, energy, and social infrastructure. More than 700 projects implemented in Kazakhstan and abroad are the result of the work of professionals who love their work.
BI Group builds houses and roads to the house, factories for the production of the products needed by people; clinics and schools to improve the quality of life. The specialists of the company put their souls into each project. BI Group is confident that their mission is to build happiness for customers.
One of the company’s projects is the “Zelenyy kvartal” (Green City Block). This is a unique residential complex that combines urban comfort and ecological cleanliness of country life. The complex includes 10 residential buildings and 3 office buildings. In addition, on its territory is the shopping center Green Mall. The peculiarity of the project is that all the buildings are united by a common podium, inside of which there are parking lots, a fitness center with a swimming pool, a kindergarten, bank branches and other necessary infrastructure for the residents of the complex. Another feature of the project is that only 1/3 of the total area is occupied by facilities, and more than 2/3 of the area is allocated for landscaping and a park area.
BRABBU is a brand that allows to completely furnish a residential or hospitality space for small areas as well as for large ambitious projects. It is a furniture brand which tries to stand out from all the variety of furniture. Designers of BRABBU work in an urbanized style by bringing in the interiors a powerful energy of the megacities, enclosing it in a natural envelope. Each product is in a certain harmony, which is built on contrasts of materials, textures, and colors and is able to recall jungle, forests, and taiga.
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Dubai: An unbeaten century by Younus Khan, the first of the series, took Pakistan to a superb position as they piled on a 180-run lead at the close of the second day of the third test against England Saturday.
The hosts ended the day on 222 for two in their second innings to leave number one-ranked test side England facing a third defeat in the three-test series unless the struggling tourists suddenly strike form.
The England bowlers laboured as an unbeaten 194-run partnership between Younus (115 not out) and Azhar Ali threatened to take the match away from Andrew Strauss's men, who must bat last having crumbled in a similar position in the second test in Abu Dhabi.
Younus's 20th test century was studded with 11 fours and one six and came of 195 balls as the 34-year old batsman skillfully worked through England's pace and spin attack.
Azhar eased to his half century and was unbeaten on 75 off 246 balls at stumps.
The post-lunch run-scoring was in stark contrast to what has been seen in the match and series so far.
This test, being played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, had already seen 22 wickets fall in less than two days.
Six wickets tumbled in the morning session.
Both Pakistani openers were dismissed cheaply. James Anderson struck first, dismissing Taufeeq Umar (6) for the second time in the match, this time caught at slip.
Left-arm spinner Monty Panesar trapped Mohammad Hafeez lbw (21) on the sweep.
Earlier, Pakistan bowled out England's lower order to trail by 42 runs as the touring party made 141 in reply to Pakistan's first innings of 99.
Abdur Rehman's five-wicket haul ensured a half century by captain Strauss (56) only resulted in a modest lead for England.
Pakistan, playing their home matches in Dubai due to security reasons, launched their spinners into the attack and they found immediate success.
Rehman, enjoying a purple patch of form, got his fourth wicket in the match when he dislodged the leg stump of nightwatchman Anderson (4) in the first over.
A doosra by Saeed Ajmal rapped Stuart Broad (4) on the pad and was given out on review. Rehman got his fifth wicket as Strauss stepped out to heave one over the park, only to be stumped.
Graeme Swann added a quick 16 runs but was soon caught by Rehman following a lofted shot off Ajmal.
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Canadian Ski Council “Snow Pass Product Poll”
RULES AND REGULATIONS
The Canadian Ski Council (“CSC”) is pleased to present the “CSC Snow Pass Product Poll” contest.
The Contest is governed by the rules set out below. By entering the Contest, you agree to abide by those rules and the decisions of CSC. You also agree to comply with all applicable laws.
CSC is entitled, in its sole discretion, to interpret these Contest rules as needed, and its interpretations and decisions are final.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. ANY PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES:
By participating in the Contest, you fully and unconditionally agree to and accept these Rules and the decisions of CSC, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. You must fulfill all requirements set forth in these Rules to be eligible to win a Prize. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws. The Contest is void where prohibited by law.
In these contest rules and regulations (“Rules”), the following terms have the meanings set out below. In addition, other capitalized terms have the meaning so given to them.
|Administrator||Canadian Ski Council|
|Business Day||A day on which CSC’s head offices in Woodbridge, Ontario are open to the public for business.|
|Contest||The “CSC Lapsed Skier and Snowboarder Research” draw contest described in these Rules|
|Contest Closing Date||March 12, 2019 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time|
|Contest Facilitators||Canadian Ski Council|
|Contest Period||The Contest Period starts on February 24, 2019 at 12 am Eastern Time and closes on the Contest Closing Date.|
|Contest Requirements||The guidelines and criteria that entrants must abide by to be eligible for the Contest.|
|Contest Site/Links||Links are:
|CSC||Canadian Ski Council|
|Prize||Any prize described in these Rules|
|Region||Canada (including Quebec)|
|Released Parties||The Contest Facilitators, their affiliates, divisions, subsidiaries, resellers, dealers, distributors and advertising/promotion agencies, and their respective employees, officers, directors, agents, mandataries, contractors, and representatives.|
|Site||www.skicanada.org and any services available on or through that site.|
|Month||Each calendar month during the Contest Period, calculated using Eastern Time.|
|Prize Draw Date||The prize(s) will be drawn on March 18, 2019|
|Survey||A CSC Research Panel online survey relating to the sporting habits of the panel member.|
The Contest is free to enter, is open to all CSC Research Panel participants, and any other individuals who were contacted by the Administrator and invited to participate in the CSC Research Panel Poll, provided that those individuals are legal residents of Canada (including Quebec), and are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence (as defined below) (“you” or “Entrant”).
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are legally eligible to enter the Contest under any laws applicable to you in your jurisdiction of residence or otherwise. The employees, officers, directors, representatives and mandataries of the Contest Facilitators, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee, officer, director, representatives, and mandatary are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
The Contest is void outside the Region(s) specified and where otherwise prohibited by applicable federal, provincial, or local laws, rules, or regulations. The Contest Facilitators may request valid proof of identity, residency, age, and other relevant documentation, and may disqualify an entrant if a Contest Facilitator determines (in its sole discretion) that the provided proof is not sufficient.
The Contest opens on February 24, 2019 at 12am Eastern Time, and closes on the Contest Closing Date. The Administrator’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Contest.
HOW TO ENTER:
Entrants may enter the Contest by completing a Survey and completing the contest entry information on the Survey form within the Contest Period. Only one entry will be accepted per entrant.
Entries that do not include all the required information or do not adhere to the Rules will be considered void. The Contest Facilitators will determine whether entries meet the Contest Requirements and otherwise comply with the Rules. The Contest Facilitators are not responsible for lost, misdirected, or incomplete entries.
There will be three random draws from all valid entries. The draw will be held at the Administrator’s headquarters by noon (Eastern Time) within 7 days after the closing date. There will be 5 prizes awarded for a total approximate value of $125.
The CSC will provide the Prize to be awarded. No substitution Prize will be made unless the CSC, in its sole discretion, determines otherwise, and the CSC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute a Prize or a component thereof with a prize of equal or greater value.
A Prize must be accepted as awarded. The odds of winning a Prize are dependent on the number of eligible entries received during the contest. If, as a result of an error relating to the entry process, drawing or any other aspect of the Contest, there are more potential winners of Prizes than contemplated in these rules, there will be a random draw amongst all eligible Prize claimants after the Contest Closing Date to award the correct number of Prizes.
Potential prize winners will be contacted as described below. To be declared a winner and eligible for the prize, you must be in compliance with these Rules, and must sign and deliver to the CSC (within any period the CSC specifies) a standard declaration and release form, which will include: a declaration of your compliance with these Rules, an acceptance of the Prize as awarded, a publicity release, a liability release, the correct answer to a mathematical skill-testing question, and any other documentation that the CSC may require. If you cannot be contacted within 2 business days after the selection date, if you do not otherwise promptly respond to CSC’s communications, if you do not correctly answer (without assistance of any kind) the mathematical skill-testing question, or if you do not sign and return any required documentation within the time periods that CSC specifies, you will forfeit the Prize and your entries will be declared void.
The Contest Facilitators will mail the five verified winners a $25 Visa pre-paid card using the postal address provided by the participant in the winning entry.
To obtain a copy of the winners list or a copy of the Contest Rules and Regulations, send your request and contact details to:
Canadian Ski Council
7600 Hwy 27, Unit 14
or email [email protected]
A Prize is personal to the winner and is non-transferable. Acceptance of any Prize shall constitute and signify the winner’s agreement and consent that the Contest Facilitators may use the winner’s name, photo, city, province, likeness, entry, and Prize information in connection with the Contest, and for future advertising, promotion and publicity, worldwide, in any manner and in any medium including on the internet, without limitation and without further payment or consideration, except where prohibited by law. Each winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with receipt of a Prize.
REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTY:
The Contest Facilitators may disqualify you if you do not meet the Contest’s eligibility criteria, do not comply with or attempt to circumvent these Rules, attempt to disrupt or undermine the Contest, or attempt to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Contest Facilitator representatives.
Except where otherwise prohibited by law, participation in the contest constitutes a winner’s consent to CSC’s use of the winner’s name, hometown and photograph for promotional purposes without further notification, permission, payment or consideration. CSC will only disclose your first name in advertising unless you consent to CSC also disclosing your last name.
If you use fraudulent entry methods you may be disqualified. You may also be disqualified if you tamper with or in any way attempt to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair practices, or attempt to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Contest Facilitator representatives. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to enter will be deemed to be the person who made the entry. For the purposes of these Rules, the authorized “account holder” is the natural person assigned an e-mail address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.
Nothing contained in these Rules shall be construed to: (i) give any party the power to direct and control the day-to-day activities of the other; (ii) constitute the parties as partners, joint ventures, principal and agent, mandatary, employer and employee, co-owners or entrants in a joint undertaking; or (iii) allow you to create or assume any obligation on behalf of CSC.
By entering the Contest, you fully and unconditionally agree to and accept these Rules and the decisions of the Contest Facilitators, which are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest.
The Contest Facilitators reserve the right to cancel, modify, extend or suspend the Contest at any time (subject to approval of any regulatory body having jurisdiction), if it is determined that the Contest cannot be run as originally planned or if fraud or any other occurrence comprises the fairness or integrity of the Contest. In that event, the Contest Facilitators may award prizes at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment, or award no prizes.
If the Contest is operated in Quebec, Canada, any decision to be made by the Contest Facilitators may be subject to a ruling of the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux du Québec.
The parties have expressly requested that this agreement and any related document be prepared in the English language. If there is any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English language version and the French language version of these contest rules, the English version will prevail, govern and control. Les parties aux présentes ont expressément demandé à ce que cette convention et les documents qui s’y rapportent soient rédigés en anglais. En cas de divergence ou d’incohérence entre les versions anglaise et française de ces règles de concours, la version anglaise prévaudra, régira et contrôlera.
The Contest Facilitators are not responsible for human error, theft, destruction, or damage to entries or other factors beyond their reasonable control.
You assume all risk of damaged, lost, late, incomplete, invalid, incorrect or misdirected entries. The Contest Facilitators make no warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in connection with its ability to in any way enable, develop or market the idea set forth in your entry.
The Contest Facilitators shall not be liable to a winner or any other person for failure to supply any Prize or any part thereof, by reason of a Prize becoming for reasons beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Facilitators unavailable or impracticable to award, or for any force majeure event, technical or equipment failure, terrorist acts, labor dispute, or act/omission of any kind (whether legal or illegal), transportation interruption, civil disturbance, or any other cause similar or dissimilar beyond the Contest Facilitators’ control.
The Released Parties shall not assume any responsibility whatsoever for any of the following: delayed, failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions; technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, internet, or other connections; the availability, accessibility, technical failure or miscommunications of computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions; the incorrect or inaccurate capture or failure to capture information whether caused by the Site or Contest Site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, network or otherwise arising out of or relating to the Contest; theft, loss, destruction or damage to an Entry in whole or in part; and other factors beyond their reasonable control. The Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to your or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Contest or downloading materials from or use of the Site or any Contest Site.
ANY ATTEMPT BY YOU TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE SITE OR ANY CONTEST SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF APPLICABLE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE CONTEST FACILITATORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM YOU TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW AND TO DISQUALIFY YOU FROM THE CONTEST.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE:
BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, YOU AGREE THAT THE RELEASED PARTIES WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR, AND WILL BE RELEASED AND HELD HARMLESS BY YOU AND YOUR HEIRS, EXECUTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FOR ANY CLAIMS, LIABILITIES, OR CAUSES OF ACTION OF ANY KIND OR NATURE FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES TO PERSONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DISABILITY OR DEATH, AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, DUE IN WHOLE OR IN PART, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, NOW OR IN THE FUTURE FROM THE DELIVERY, ACCEPTANCE, USE OR MISUSE OF THE PRIZE, ANY AND ALL USE AS PROVIDED HEREIN OF YOUR ENTRY, OR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST AND/OR ANY RELATED CONTEST. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE SITE AND ANY CONTEST SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IN WHICH CASE SUCH LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION SHALL APPLY ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW IN THE RELEVANT JURISDICTION.
BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, YOU FURTHER AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS THE RELEASED PARTIES FROM ANY DAMAGES, INJURIES, CLAIMS, CAUSES OF ACTIONS OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING ACTUAL LEGAL FEES AND EXPENSES) ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO: (A) YOUR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ANY OF THESE RULES; (B) ANY MISREPRESENTATION YOU MAKE UNDER THESE RULES OR OTHERWISE TO ANY RELEASED PARTY; (C) YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST; OR (D) THE DELIVERY, ACCEPTANCE, USE OR MISUSE OF THE PRIZE.
CHOICE OF LAW:
These Rules shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein, without reference to its conflicts of laws principles. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract including any question regarding its existence, interpretation, validity, breach or termination or the business relationship created by it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Canadian Arbitration Association Arbitration Rules, in accordance with its rules, as amended from time to time. Any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with participating in this Contest, but in no event attorneys’ fees. You hereby waive all rights to: (i) claim or be awarded any punitive, direct, indirect, incidental, and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses (but in no event attorneys’ fees); and (ii) to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.
For Quebec residents: Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.
For more information please contact CSC:
Canadian Ski Council
7600 Hwy 27, Unit 14
or email [email protected]
This post is also available in: French
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This month the Independent Brewers Association (formerly the Craft Beer Industry Association) launched their new initiative to raise the profile of real craft beers and assist consumers in differentiating them from their mass produced, industrialised cousins that have been slyly entering the market of late. This initiative comes in the form of the seal that you see above, and we are very proud to say that as an independent, all Australian brewery we are a part of this program and you will be find this seal on our products very, very soon!!
The aim of this seal is to promote locally owned and independent products and to differentiate them from the pseudo “craft beer” that mega-breweries and multi-national brewing companies are introducing to the market.
These industry giants are producing pseudo "craft beers" to piggy back on the consumers trend toward craft beer and the global trend of buying local products and supporting local businesses. Through their marketing these conglomerates and industrialised breweries severely blur the boundary of what the consumer associates with craft beer. They make their beers sound local when they're not and they just slap craft on their label and enter the markets.
Because they have marketing budgets that we as small independents dream of as actual budgets it’s very hard to compete with them. This is why the IBA was created. It currently represents around 50% of craft brewers in Australia and all of them can apply for and use this seal. We hope to see more independent breweries getting on board with the IBA and this program in the near future. Together we are stronger!!
This argument and the abuse of the word “craft” by these industry giants is happening worldwide and was perfectly highlighted a few weeks ago in a public exchange over in the USA when Peter Coors, the chairman of MillerCoors -the World’s 7th largest brewery by volume-, sent an open letter to the Brewers Association slamming their support of craft beer and their distaste toward mega-breweries like his. The perfect response came from Nikos Ridge, president and co-founder of craft brewery Ninkasi Brewing in Oregon, explaining where these multi-national, profit seeking conglomerates are at fault. Give both letters a read and tell us what you think.
Over in the USA there is also a case brewing (pun intended) where a mega-brewery is being accused of trying to fool customers with their marketing. Stone brewery, started in 1996, are suing Peter Coors' MillerCoors conglomerate for breach of their trademarks.
Yes you the consumer are whom can help us here! Keep an eye out for the Certified Independent Seal and spread the word! Tell your friends, ask other breweries that you visit if they know about it and use it. Use the hashtag #askforindiebeer on social media and help us keep the craft beer for those that do it for the love of beer, not just for the profits!
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A Care Quality Commission report has highlighted a number of concerns at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
A report has highlighted major failings in the care of vulnerable children in Cumbria
Sir David hasn't ruled out moving services back to the Westmorland General Hopsital
Professor Sir Mike Richards, from the Care Quality Commission, tells ITV Border about the screening process outlined in the report.
A new report by the Care Quality Commission has placed North Cumbria Health Trust in the bottom band of hospital trusts in the country.
The findings are based on data that includes death rates, serious errors and patient surveys.
13 risks were identified at the North Cumbria trust, including 10 that were elevated.
These included "never events" of incidents that should never happen in NHS hospitals, higher than expected death rates and issues over the time patients waited for treatment.
The report will act as a screening tool to identify which trusts need the most rapid CQC inspections and where inspectors need to focus their attention.
A Cumbrian hospital has been criticised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The CQC carried out an unannounced inspection last month at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven.
The report issued today criticises staffing levels, medical record keeping and the standard of care given to patients. The hospital has until mid-July to address the problems.
Kim Inglis reports.
The Acting Director of Nursing for North Cumbria University Hospitals, Chris Platton, says that changes have to be made, following the report by the Care Quality Commission:
"There can be no excuses for not meeting the expected standards set out in this report and unacceptable that both our staff and patients have historically endured standards of care which fall way below that of which any of us would expect from the NHS for our loved ones.
"The CQC has made a number of recommendations for action in the report which have already been addressed by the Trust since their visit in May.
"An action plan is also in place to ensure delivery of further significant improvements to patient care.
– Chris Platton, Acting Director of Nursing, North Cumbria University Hospitals
"The report does recognise that the Trust has already made improvements and this drive continues with vigour.
"There is no doubt that we are on a long journey relating to improving the quality of the services we deliver and the feedback, so far, from this inspection shows that we are taking steps in the right direction and beginning to make a difference.”
The Care Quality Commission has released a critical report into the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven.
The report highlights staffing levels, patient welfare and care and record keeping as areas of concern.
An unannounced inspection of the hospital was carried out in May.
The Health Secretary is calling for a 'change in culture' in the health service, after the Care Quality Commission allegedly covered up a report into their own failings.
Jeremy Hunt said if there was a cover up over the deaths of mothers and babies at the Furness General, those responsible could face sanctions and could be stripped of their pensions.
You can watch the full report from Hannah McNulty below.
The NHS regulator in England - the Care Quality Commission - has named the individuals allegedly involved in the hospital deaths inquiry 'cover-up'.
CQC say four members of staff present when the discussion about the deletion occurred. They were: former Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower, her former deputy Jill Finney, media manager Anna Jefferson and head of Regulatory Risk and Quality Louise Dineley.
The CQC is facing claims its staff ordered the destruction of evidence in a report which was critical of the regulator's failure to prevent deaths of mothers and babies at a Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
The Health Secretary has insisted that it is right and proper that the Care Quality Commission names those officials allegedly involved in any 'cover-up.'
Jeremy Hunt told me that the speed with which CQC has dealt with this and responded, proves the systems in place now are working.
The Care Quality Commission names are due within the next hour, according to Whitehall sources.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called the allegations "shocking" and said it is one of the worst things he has seen in his lifetime:
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Body Bag (Apamo Ara) – 2020 Yoruba Movie MP4 DOWNLOAD
What could make people endure challenges in marriage. Love for spouse or fear of speaking up. An eye opener that mirrors on present challenges of mental, psychological and emotional abuse in most relationship and marriages today.
Find out more. A star stunned movie featuring Princess Damilola, Ronke Odunsaya, Ibrahim Chatta, Bimpe Oyebade, Laide Bakare, Bukunmi Oluwasina, Bolanle Ninalowo and a host of others.
Title: Body Bag (Apamo Ara) Genre: Drama, Thriller Series: Yoruba Movies Source: ApataTV Stars: Princess Damilola, Ronke Odunsaya, Ibrahim Chatta Runtime: 99mins Released Date: 2020
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Here’s a confession: for all the cooking I do, I’m still sometimes a little leery of cooking seafood. I grew up in a landlocked area, so the wealth of seafood we have here on the coast still sometimes astonishes me. Here’s what we did have where I lived: salmon. The best salmon in the world, actually; but still – salmon, and salmon alone. For years, I avoided it, because I was tired of it. Why have salmon when there’s so much else out there?? But eventually I came back around, and this recipe is a big reason why. It is so easy, and practically foolproof. If you’re afraid of screwing up fish, try this. It’s a great confidence booster.
My favorite place to buy salmon is (of course) Costco; I usually buy large fillets that are about 2 pounds, sliced from one side of the salmon. When it goes on sale, I buy several and stick them in the freezer. Right now, one package is enough to feed our family, but leftovers are growing scarcer as the babies’ appetites grow!
Easy Roasted Salmon
- 1 fillet salmon, 2-3 pounds, cleaned and de-boned (skin on is fine)
- 3 heaping tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika*
- 2 teaspoons very coarse sea salt such as Maldon
Pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray it with nonstick spray. Combine the brown sugar, paprika, and sea salt in a small bowl and mix thoroughly. Lay the salmon skin side down on the baking sheet and cover it completely with the brown sugar mixture; pat gently to adhere. Roast for 15-18 minutes, until cooked through.
That’s it! Super easy, super moist salmon.
For those of you who are using my recipes to feed kids, be aware that this can be spicy! The smoked paprika is a little too hot for our babies’ palates at full strength. I just scrape off the top crust before I give it to them and they’re fine, though I make sure to have water or milk ready just in case!
*Smoked paprika is literally the only thing I buy at Williams Sonoma, though I ogle everything. My regular grocery stores don’t have it, and I really like the quality of the one they have there. And yes, you want smoked paprika specifically! Regular paprika has a whole different flavor, and won’t combine with the brown sugar to make barbecue-y smokiness.
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kidmartinek (4676) - austin, Texas, USA - JUN 6, 2016
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Blood orange color. Small white head. Smells like orange dreamsicle. Very delicous orange cream flavored desert beer.
L_Lovecraft (243) - - JUN 5, 2016
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Fruits and honey, golden/orange with practically no head, light/medium body, medium carbonation, taste of grass, fruits and much honey...quite "imbranata" but not so bad.
Muggus69 (2119) - Yarram, Vic, AUSTRALIA - MAY 19, 2016
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
330mL bottle from Booze Bud. BB 07 2017
Pours a hazy orange gold body, small dense head persists,
Sweet honeyed nose - candied orange, barley sugar, cereals and floral vanillary notes.
Reasonably dry body, quite lean for strength, slightly chalky texture, moderate carbonation.
Toasty malts on body - bread crust, orange juice, floral native (Aussie-type) honey, odd savoury esters on the finish. Touch of acidity on finish, lifted bitterness.
GoufCustom (1619) - HONG KONG - APR 14, 2016
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
330 ml bottle bought at Castello Del Vino in Admirality.
Looks: Cloudy hazy straw golden honey colour with traces of yeast sediments; Near zero head and residual soapy white foam which fades in 10 seconds. Fairly good sticky lacing with barely detectable slight carbonation.
Aroma: Very fragrant and sweet malt, with strong orange, strong floral, pineapple, vanilla, plums, strong wheat, strong molasses, earth, spices, bread, strong Bel yeast and lemon.
Taste: Medium sweet malt, with strong marmalade, strong floral, wheaty tartness, sugar, earth, strong spices, strong dry biscuits, strong yeast, lemon, medium bitter hops and grass.
Body: Mid to light. Dry, thin but slick palate.
Mouth Feel: Strong biscuity malt in a fairly watery but slick background. Lots of jammy orangey goodness abound (Pacifica?) with strong floral and nice fruity sweetness. Dry and yeasty , quite spicy than rounded with pretty sharp lemon. Fresh and nice!
Hoppiness: Strong orange, strong floral, earth, spices and lemon in nose. Strong marmalade, strong floral, earth, strong spices, lemon and grass in taste. Bitterness is fairly strong for an abrupt, mid to high astringent sweet bitter finish.
After Taste: Dry. Floral sweet and quite bitter to mouth.
Comments: My goodness, this one is a fusion Belgian Ale with strong vanilla estery base fused with lorry load of Pacifica-like hops for very pleasant jammy fruity aroma and taste, backed with sharp hoppiness. It’s sweet, low on head and looks, but the orange blossom taste is simply irresisitable. A keeper!
M_Sack (621) - Sydney, AUSTRALIA - FEB 12, 2016
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Bottle. Golden with orange hue. Citrus aromas. Estery elements and quite sweet. The bottle said pale ale, obviously a Belgian styled version. Some citrus hop bitterness
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
hrabren (922) - Zagreb, CROATIA - NOV 27, 2015
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
At Vinocom, Zagreb, Croatia. Hazy golden, small white head. Fruity, spicy aroma. Funky. Sweet, fruit candy, sugar. Medium body, soft carbonation. Light sweet finish.
Lunkie (1817) - Glen Iris, AUSTRALIA - AUG 15, 2015
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Herbal hop spice aroma. Murky Amber coliour fair head and lacing. Spice malt flavour. Smith palate.
vanvenlo (1776) - Glen Iris, AUSTRALIA - AUG 15, 2015
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Citrus candy aroma.Amber,ok head&suds lace.Light malt,herbal flavour.Bitter herbal candy malt&sulphur herbal aftertaste.
Fashawn (587) - ITALY - MAR 17, 2015
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Gran bella.scoperta. Birra giallo.carico, aroma di mela verda e spezie, in bocca presenta mela, erba tagliata e sentori finali di cannella. Buona e dissetante, leggera al palato e mediamente frizzante.
CanCrusher (933) - Ilirska Bistrica, SLOVENIA - FEB 20, 2015
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Bottle 0,33L. Slightly hazy, orange/copper colour with average big, frothy, off-white head. Nice fruity aroma of orange, tangerine, pineapple and some caramel. Taste starts light sweet with orangade note, became bitter for a moment and finish moderate sweet. Medium body, oily texture, lively carbonation. Too sweet for me.
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Showing off my new spiffy Gek-styled outfit at the Anomaly:
Somebody dropped a couple Void Eggs in my inventory while I was (briefly) AFK at the Anomaly - and then this happened (might be unrelated, not sure).
I was going to ask here if anybody wanted them, but ultimately I destroyed them. Word is these Eggs that are being given away at the Anomaly are the product of cheating, anyway.
BTW some time ago I bought 3 pieces of armor from the QS Companion, but these are not showing up in the Appearance Modifier - what am I missing ?
There was a post about it on the subreddit a few days ago, detailing a recipe that apparently worked wonders. Might be worth a shot.
The main reason for my interest in making Nanites is I figured I might want to upgrade my A-Class Fighter and that takes 50,000 Nanites. But the process is so slow, I may have to bite the bullet and cross my fingers for an S-Class to find its way to me, and then upgrade its hold. I already have like 20 SAMs in storage and will have more if I keep scrapping ships, whenever I am lucky to find cheap A-Class Explorers and Figthers to melt.
In fact, as I previously noted that the economics of scrapping are not great - I have now the creeping suspicion that SAMs instead make it very much worth it: there is a relatively good chance to get SAMs even from small ships that cost a couple millions. Contrast with an individual slot costing up to dozens of millions at the Outfitter station!
On a lucky shot, up to 3 SAMs can come out from a ship that only costed me 2.5 Mils, gave back scrap for 1.75, plus ~900 Nanites. 800,000 Units for that is nothing (especially as I currently have 1.6 Billions in my account)
Another way to make Nanites would be refining, however I imagine you would want to set up an extraction rig for silver and gold since most of the other refiner processes seem to involve materials that must be gathered manually, either directly or indirectly (e.g. Pugneum)
On that token, I am personally at a stage of refiner proliferation for a variety of reasons:
- I have a Ferrite Dust gig that I posted about previously, because I have been crafting/building stuff that literally eats it (e.g. Supply Depots require 10 Metal Platingeach, Extractors 5). Additionally I do sometimes process the excess into Magnetised Ferrite for selling, even though the profit is negligible compared to other schemes and makes me question that it’s worth the time and effort.
- I have begun burning through Condensed Carbon (previously living off the land) because of the Stasis Device / Fusion Ignitor pipelines. Initially, these Gases came from my “Condensed Gases” chest, where I had stored everything acquired through either Missions or Frigate Expeditions. Eventually I had to craft my own, and all of the advanced Gas Products require non-inconsiderable quantities of Condensed Carbon.
- Additionally, I am transforming excess plant matter from the Hydroponic Farm into regular Carbon as a precursor.
- I have the whole Residual Goop -> Viscous Fluid -> Living Slime -> Runaway Mould -> Nanite pipeline.
And 5. eventually I will also run out of Advanced Alloys used in the $$$ pipelines mentioned above, and will have to synthesize my own if I intend to keep making those products. (so that mean setting up more extraction rigs).
In fact, I should probably start to put some thinking into optimizing my production and refining operations, since the hydroponic farm is currently hosted on the Freighter, and it does seem there is a hard limit on the number of Refiners you can have in certain types of rooms (?).
I am enjoying this part of the game as it pushes more or less the same buttons as Factorio - although I would like it better if there was a way to automate the basic processes more.
Just like Factorio allows the player to focus more on the planning and balancing sides of things, I would love to have bots or other automatic mechanisms picking up materials from one place or machine and feeding them to the next step of the process (Slime Rancher has something like that, too!)
And I would love to be able to set up AI ships and give them rules for picking up materials at bases, deliver them at another point, picking up the end results, and so on.
Additionally, it would be fun to set AI ships up in a fashion similar to the Patrician family of games, where you give them a trade route, rules for logistics and buying and selling.
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The inevitable stop, start and stuttering of the Korean peace process was bound to manifest itself soon after the hugs, expansive smiles and sympathetic back rubs. Dates have been set – the Kim-Trump summit is slated to take place in Singapore on June 12, though there is much time for disruptive mischief to take place.
One field of possible disruption lies in air exercises between the US and South Korea known as Max Thunder. Such manoeuvres have been of particular interest to the DPRK, given their scale and possible use as leverage in talks.
The latest irritation was occasioned by claims in Pyongyang that the US had deployed B-52 Stratofortress bombers as part of the exercise despite denying that this would take place. This was construed, in the words of Leon V. Sigal, “as inconsistent with President Trump’s pledge at President Moon’s urging to move toward peace in Korea.”
The position against using such nuclear-capable assets had been outlined in Kim Jong Un’s 2018 New Year’s Day address. The South, he insisted, should “discontinue all the nuclear war drills they stage with outside forces,” a point reiterated in Rodong Sinmun, the Party newspaper, ten days later: “If the South Korean authorities really want détente and peace, they should first stop all efforts to bringing in the US nuclear equipment and conduct exercises for nuclear warfare with foreign forces.”
While these matters were unfolding, President Donald Trump’s national security advisor was being his injudicious self, doing his bit for global insecurity. Never a diplomat in the true sense of the term, John Bolton remains a traditional head kicker for empire, the rustler of discontent.
Bolton, history teacher incarnate, wants to impress upon the North Koreans certain jarring examples. A favourite of his is the so-called Libyan solution. How well that worked: the leadership of a country maligned but convinced in its international rehabilitation to abandon various weapons programs in the hope of shoring up security. More specifically, in 2003, Libya was convinced to undertake a process US diplomats and negotiators parrot with steam and enthusiasm: denuclearisation.
“We should insist that if this meeting is going to take place,” claimed Boltonon Radio Free Asia with characteristic smugness, “it will be similar to discussions we had with Libya 13 or 14 years ago: how to pack up their nuclear weapons program and take it to Oak Ridge, Tennessee.”
The problem with this skewed interpretation lies in its false premise: that US threats, cajoling and sanctions has actually brought North Korea, tail between legs, to the diplomatic table. Being firm and threatening, according to Bolton, has been rewarding. This reading verges on the fantastic, ignoring three years of cautious, informal engagement. It also refuses to account for the fact that Pyongyang made firm moves in Washington’s direction after the insistence on firm preconditions was abandoned by Trump.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also been rumbling on the issue of a firm line, suggesting that he, like Bolton, has a preference for the stick approach. Despite speaking about “warm” and “substantive” talks with Kim, he claims that any agreement with Pyongyang must have a “robust verification program” built into it.
The suggestion of the Libyan precedent was enough to sent Pyongyang into a state, given their developed fears about becoming the next casualty of unwarranted foreign intervention. Libya did denuclearise, thereby inflicting what could only be seen subsequently as a self-amputation. As missiles rained down upon Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, launched by the British, French and the US ostensibly for humanitarian reasons, a sense of terrible regret must have been felt. Soon, the mad colonel would be butchered, and his state torn asunder in a sectarian reckoning.
As the air assault was taking place, the North Korean foreign ministry identified the problem: the bargain between Libya and the western powers to surrender its nuclear weapons program was “an invasion tactic to disarm the country”. The intervention “is teaching the international community a grave lesson”.
The state news agency KNCA took note of Bolton’s remarks, issuing an official rebuff highlighting the status of the DPRK as a true, fully fledged nuclear weapon state: the “world knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq, which have met a miserable fate. It is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK, a nuclear weapon state, to Libya, which had been at the initial stage of nuclear development.”
The DPRK’s vice foreign minister, Kim Kye Gwan, was unequivocal in warning. “If the US is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-US summit.” Bolton received specific mention: “We do not hide a feeling of repugnance toward him.”
The Trump White House preferred to give different signals. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is claiming that the president will be his own man on this, though Trump’s own reading of the “Libya model” has proven confusingly selective. In any case the leverage brought by US ultimatum to disarm without genuine concessions is hardly likely to gain traction. The response from Pyongyang will be simple: resume missile testing and further enlarge the arsenal.
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8000+ soldRegular price $397.99
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
You Want What?
I recently came across a flyer that an Islamic group was handing out to public school administrators. It described allegedly urgent “problems” facing Muslim public school students and outlined what school administrators must do about them. Here is an excerpt:
“In view of the teachings of Islam, Muslim students in your school should not be required to:
(1) sit next to the opposite sex in the classroom,
(2) participate in physical education, swimming or dancing classes. (Alternate meaningful educational activities should be arranged.)
(3.) attend coed physical education and swimming classes. (These should be held separately for boys and girls in a fully covered area — no glass doors or windows without curtains.)
(4.) have opposite sex physical education instructors.
(5.) wear swimming suits that fail to cover all the private parts of the body down to the knee.
(6.) take group showers — they should be provided with separate and covered individual shower facilities
(7.) participate in plays, proms, social parties, picnics, dating, etc. that require free mixing of the two sexes,
It isn’t only Muslims who demand special accommodations. All sorts of groups demand one or another adjustment. Conservative Christians, including former President George W. Bush, require that the biology curriculum pay obeisance to creationism. Some black parents urge that schools strip allegedly racist novels, such as Huckleberry FInn, of all things, from the curriculum. Evangelical Christians demand the elimination of school Halloween celebrations because they allegedly provide Satan and his minions with access to the kids. Italian-Americans insist that Columbus still discover America in history books, even if he didn't. Polish-Americans would have Thadeus Kusiusko
Taken collectively, there is an astounding range of parental expectations that public educators are expected to satisfy. Of course, the chances of accomplishing this in any meaningful way are zilch. But when school authorities keep trying, bad things happen.
In his classic, “Tragedy of the Commons,” Garrett Hardin argues that free access to common resources brings ruin to all. The classic example is an open access public pasture where everyone is permitted to graze his or her animals. To preserve this commons, all participants must agree not to overgraze it. If even one of the users insists on adding more animals than the commons can support, this public pasture is ultimately destroyed.
Restraint by all is required. The trouble is, it is seldom achieved. It is in each farmer's interest to put more cows onto the common land, even if, in the long run, the land is ruined.
The nation’s public schools are similar to Hardin’s public commons in that they are an open access resource. And school time and the curriculum are the equivalent of the forage in Hardin’s pasture in that when special interest groups fail to restrain themselves they are, in a sense, “overgrazing” our schools by placing excessive particularistic demands on them.
Even school board members should recognize that infinite accommodation is impossible given finite resources. Yet over and over again they try to accommodate special pleading. The result is a down the rabbit hole with Alice world where even those who clearly recognize there are limits, act as if there are none.
For public schooling to be viable, everyone has to limit his or her demands and adopt an ethic of restraint. If all cooperate in this, everyone gains. Unfortunately, participants who, out of moral obligation or naiveté, moderate their demands while others remain immoderate, loses.This leads to a situation where it seems logical to keep pressing for one's particularistic demands even though everyone's benefits would be greatest if all restrained themselves. In game theory this type situation is called the "prisoner's dilemma."
If, as is likely, mutual restraint fails to materialize, school administrators can (1) continue to pretend there are no practical constraints on accommodation and ultimately reduce education to a farce; or (2) start saying “NO!” to special pleading.
To examine this issues further, see http://www.newfoundations.com/EGR/Conjecture.html
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The look of Love has an undeniable glow.....
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For: Most skin types. Gluten Free.
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Bailenson, J.N., Pontikakis, E.D., Mauss, I.B., Gross, J.J., Jabon, M.E., Hutcherson, C.A., Nass, C., & John, O. (2008). Real-time classification of evoked emotions using facial feature tracking and physiological responses. International Journal of Human Machine Studies, 66, 303-317.
We present automated, real-time models built with machine learning algorithms which use videotapes of subjects’ faces in conjunction with physiological measurements to predict rated emotion (trained coders’ second-by-second assessments of sadness or amusement). Input consisted of videotapes of 41 subjects watching emotionally evocative films along with measures of their cardiovascular activity, somatic activity, and electrodermal responding. We built algorithms based on extracted points from the subjects’ faces as well as their physiological responses. Strengths of the current approach are (1) we are assessing real behavior of subjects watching emotional videos instead of actors making facial poses, (2) the training data allow us to predict both emotion type (amusement versus sadness) as well as the intensity level of each emotion, (3) we provide a direct comparison between person-specific, gender-specific, and general models. Results demonstrated good fits for the models overall, with better performance for emotion categories than for emotion intensity, for amusement ratings than sadness ratings, for a full model using both physiological measures and facial tracking than for either cue alone, and for person-specific models than for gender-specific or general models.
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Dear Word Detective: For a few years, I have been trying to figure out if “blithely” and “blindly” have historically been used interchangeably. My understanding of “blithely” is, basically, “doing things without thinking about them, therefore running the danger of doing dangerous things.” And some uses of the word “blind” definitely would fit with that, such as “following someone blindly” or “going blindly forward.” My guess is that some phrases might have originated with either “blind” or “blithe” as the word, and then people misheard them. The reason I have been wondering this is that a couple years back, I studied the history of the organized blind movement. While studying, I learned about the use of blindness as a negative metaphor for the inability or unwillingness to think. I know there are a lot of such phrases, but some at least seem like mistakes. — A. Greenwick.
There are indeed a lot of such phrases, many of which began as metaphors but have become established English idioms, usually in a derogatory sense. Strike the “usually” — I can’t think of a single positive case. One such use that I have watched wax and wane in the course of my life, and currently seems to be increasing again, is the use of “retarded” (or “retard”) applied to a person perceived to be either wrong on some question or simply uncool. This obnoxious use seems especially popular on the internet, where it is, unfortunately, impossible to simply punch the offenders in the nose. Come on, developers. There should be an app for that.
“Blind” first appeared as an adjective in Old English, based on Germanic roots carrying the sense of “sightless” as well as “obscure, dim, in darkness.” But “blind” also brought with it the figurative senses (as enumerated by the Oxford English Dictionary) of “lacking in mental perception, discernment, or foresight; destitute of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light,” and these senses were used in English as often as the literal “sightless” sense. The use of “blind” to mean “undiscriminating, reckless, not discerning, etc.” (“The blind veneration that generally is paid to antiquity,” Hogarth, 1753) dates back at least to the 15th century. So the modern use of “blind” as a negative metaphor is nothing new in English.
“Blithe” is a completely separate word with a much happier history. The roots of “blithe” lie in early Germanic forms meaning “gentle, kind, happy, cheerful” and the like, and the ultimate source of “blithe” seems to be a root meaning “to shine.” Can’t get much cheerier than that. In English, where “blithe” first appeared in Old English, it meant simply “kind or friendly” to others or “happy and cheerful” in demeanor (“His spirit was blithe and its fire unquenchable,” 1872).
This “fun to be around” sense of “blithe” chugged along happy as a clam until the 1920s, when (perhaps reflecting the disillusionment born of World War I) it suddenly took a darker turn. In “England, My England,” a collection of short stories, D.H. Lawrence employed “blithe” in a new, negative sense of “heedless, careless, or unthinking” (“From mother and nurse it was a guerrilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls.”).
This “who cares?” sense of “blithe” is now, unfortunately, by far the most common (“The era of cheap fuels led to a blithe disregard of second-law fundamentals,” 1977), and seeing “blithe” used in any sense more positive than “unrattled” (“The story’s part-blithe, part-resigned tone … will ring familiar,” LA Times, 3/11/12) is rare.
The relatively-new “heedless, careless, or unthinking” meaning of “blithe” certainly overlaps with the much older figurative uses of “blind,” but I doubt that confusion of the two words has played much part in their evolution (which is not to say that some people haven’t confused them at times). The change of the meaning of “blithe” from “cheerful” to “witless” seems a natural evolution of the sense of the word.
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42 Make the Most Of Your Used Office Furniture Palo Alto
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Special Collection 1 - Article 8 | Pages 247-278
Spousal communication about the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi
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|Date published:||19 Sep 2003|
|Keywords:||AIDS/HIV, gender, Malawi, marriage|
This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data from married men and women in rural Malawi to examine how they comprehend their risk to HIV/AIDS and what preventive strategies they consider within marriage. Program efforts to promote behavior change have consistently focused on promoting chastity before marriage and fidelity while married or using condoms. These behavioral prescriptions are suitable for extramarital contexts but not within marriage, where the condom is far from being accepted as a suitable preventive tool and spouses face the reality that one’s vulnerability to AIDS is not confined to his/her behavior alone.
The survey data show, unsurprisingly, that those who have the most reason for concern (e.g. those worried about contracting the disease) and those who have greater program and informal social contacts are most likely to communicate. The semi-structured interviews show that husbands and wives use subtle and gendered strategies to encourage fidelity; they talk to each other about the consequences of HIV/AIDS on their children’s and their own lives as a prelude for highlighting and justifying joint sexual prudence.
These results show that rather than giving up to fate, marital partners are actively challenging and persuading each other to reform sexual behavior to avoid the intrusion of HIV/AIDS into the home.
Eliya Zulu - African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Gloria Chepngeno - Zulu African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
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|Spivak, Marla - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA|
Submitted to: Evolution
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: July 22, 2009
Publication Date: September 3, 2009
Citation: Simone, M., Evans, J.D., Spivak, M. 2009. Resin collection and social immunity in honey bees. Evolution. 63:3016-3022. Interpretive Summary: Honey bees can combat disease at the individual and colony level. Propolis (plant resins collected by bees and used throughout the nest) collection is carried out by all honey bees, though the effects of propolis on bee health are poorly understood. Since propolis has antimicrobial properties, we predicted that higher levels of propolis could relieve pressure on other honey bee disease responses. In fact, colonies whose hive boxes were coated with propels showed lower bacterial levels and lower immune expenses. This information suggests that bee propolis levels could be manipulated as one way to improve productivity and disease resistance in the field. A management tool such as that would prove helpful for beekeepers and bee breeders.
Technical Abstract: We determined if the use of resins, complex plant secretions with diverse antimicrobial properties, acts as a colony-level immune defense by honey bees. Colonies were enriched with extracts of Brazilian or Minnesotan propolis (a bee mixture of resins and wax) or were left as controls. We measured gene transcript levels of four antimicrobial peptides and one gene involved in cellular immunity to determine if the presence of propolis can compensate for individual immune responses. Honey bees in propolis-rich colonies showed lower immune transcript levels and lower overall bacterial loads, providing evidence that the nest environment affects these traits.
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Nothing says it’s Christmas quite like the whole family putting on matching outfits for the annual holiday card. Ideally, you want a portrait where most of you are smiling, and the crying is at a minimum. Families take the picture delightfully dressed up or completely comfy in pajamas. While either is adorable, give some thought to where your photo shoot will take place, what your kids can handle at their ages, and what else you’re trying to achieve with this photo.
Once you decide on the tone of your photo, it’s time to pick from the best family Christmas outfit ideas. We’ve rounded up options that are a mix of formal and casual, ones that would work in many venues, and ideas for different family ages and configurations. You’ll even be able to include your pets if you want to. The decision is half the fun, so enjoy looking through these picture-perfect pairings to find one that fits the vibe of your family.
Pajamas are the classic Christmas family matching outfit go-to, and we love the whimsy of everyone dressing as elves. Cotton pajamas are easy to buy in everyone’s size and always look great in front of the tree at home. Choose between stripes, green versus red, or a whole array of different elf pajama designs. The best part is then the family can wear them all winter long, so you’ll get your money’s worth.
Reindeer-themed pajamas have hoods with antlers which make for an adorable, cozy, informal family photo at home by the fire. For any pets, you could throw antlers on them without full-on PJs. But if you find a set that does offer a matching pet option, you should get them.
Yes, one more pajama option because they are the most popular matching family outfit with good reason! These are just for fun. The old-timey PJs with that opening on the bottom make for adorable family Christmas photos with a wholesome feel. Browse through all the funny sayings on the flaps and the different colors and patterns before making your choice.
Mix-and-match green and red
You don’t all have to be in exactly the same outfit to be matching. If you wear cotton tops with khakis or everyone is in a print like plaid, that will tie in the common theme enough so it’s still a cohesive look. Half of you could wear green while the other half wears red.
Red plaid is a versatile option for everyone. From a tree farm setting to a cocoa with Santa setup or even a home fireplace shoot, red plaid suits boys, girls, and pets. Even if you don’t buy the outfits in a set, red plaid pieces bought separately for each family member could easily be worn long after the family photos are taken. Get your plaid in a cozy flannel or other material, but no matter what, this style choice will infuse the feeling of the season into your family pictures.
“Ugly” Christmas sweaters
They might have a reputation as ugly now, but we prefer the term classic. Make them more casual in jeans or dress them up with slacks and skirts. Have everyone wear the same sweater or find similar sweaters that are variations on a theme.
Everyone could choose a sweater they like best (like a dinosaur with a Santa hat) or all the girls wear one style while all the boys wear another. They even make baby onesies that are Christmas sweaters, and of course, sweaters for dogs as well.
Don’t want matching pajamas? Won’t wear those sweaters again? If your family doesn’t want to do the usual or you just want to try something different for a year and see how it goes, there are fun alternatives.
Are you that fun family? Costumes aren’t only for Halloween. Go Grinch-style, channel your inner Charlie Brown Christmas, or show everyone that A Christmas Story lives forever in your home by dressing in your favorite Christmas costume idea.
Funny tees or sweatshirts
Maybe you want to match, but not be so cutesy on the clothing. Find a Christmas-themed tee (Target usually has good ones) or sweatshirt with a saying, show, or movie your family loves, and everyone could wear the same one or a version that is related to the theme. It’s more casual and it’s something everyone will be able to wear over and over again.
Whether it’s sweaters or PJs, your family’s smiles are what matter most. Remember to have fun with it because even if the photo is more dressed up, you still want genuine cheer coming through. You want to be able to look back at the photo with a positive memory from a nice photoshoot, so be ready to make it as quick as possible for everyone before the toddler is over sitting still.
Use props or take it outside, but whatever you do, keep it light. Let the kids play around and make sure to have some jokes ready to tell to keep the little ones engaged. No matter which matching Christmas outfit choice you pick, the holiday photo is going to look beautiful and you’ll have a memory to cherish for holidays to come.
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I find in most cases I also want to delete the old image because it is obsolete. I'd like to see an option for this to be automatic. This would streamline the process.
Thanks for submitting your idea.
Do you mean that you would like the old image to be removed from your recently used image history when you replace an image with another?
What if it is a completely different image (not an update of the same image) and you do not want to delete the old image from your recently used?
You have to go into the add image window anyway when you replace an image with another so you can just remove the image from your recently used before you select the image to replace it with.
So, you would open the properties of the image you would like to be replaced, click on 'Select image' (1), then remove the current image from your recently used history (2), then select the new image (3) (or you can select an image from the VideoScribe image library).
It's not possible to preview how an image will draw in VideoScribe before it is imported into VideoScribe unfortunately. The imported image will be selected automatically on the canvas after you import it so you can double click it on the canvas to open the properties and preview from there.
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Junior Golf Drivers For Sale
The golf players are well acquainted with what are exactly known as the best golf drivers but for those who are new to the game of golf might get confused by the term golf drivers. Well there is no brain-game involved in understanding a golf driver and its significance. There are of course some specifications for choosing the best golf driver. If a driver has a roughly elliptical face shape in a way that the long axis of the ellipse is tilted upward towards the toe at an angle recording twenty degrees or more the agreement between the perimeter of the club face and the hit pattern just goes perfect.
You wouldnt want to carry a club thats way too long for you obviously. A professional club fitter will test some parameters just like the shaft length lie angle shaft flex shaft type grip size golf club head design and set make up. As much as possible this should be done to ensure that you get the right golf driver for you. Like acquiring a suit tailored just for you obtaining the appropriate driver must also involve having it custom-made for your needs and wants. In planning to play golf you need to figure out if youre just playing it throughout the weekend or are you devoting and investing far more time on it.
It should essentially be within 7.5 degrees to 13 degrees. The angle decides on how well you get the ball high into the air. If you are an amateur go for a lower value if not go for the higher angle. As far as the shaft length factor the longer the shaft the more is the speed. So you could opt for lengths between 43-46 inches. As far as the material of the shaft is concerned you have a plethora of steel graphite and other materials available. For the modern times graphite should suit your putting needs. Lastly you need to finalize on the grip size which should essentially be smaller because larger grips reduces the swing of the club.
The tradeoff may be the unusual shape yet other styles launched in the market like the X460 offer avid golfers a uniquely balanced all-titanium option that not only delivers great ball speed deep drive and stability but isnt embarrassing to have in the golf bag. Speaking of looks a golf driver that seems to have it all from sleek looks to near-perfect accuracy to build quality and overall value for money is the TaylorMade R9. As record-setting American pro golfer Jack Nicklaus once said golf is a game of power. Well the TaylorMade R9 is one of the drivers that offer power. Some golfers have a love affair with specific brands and the TaylorMade Tour Burner has figured highly in many players lives. Another favored option from Callaway the Big Bertha Driver is noted for its oversized head.
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Gosh, it's been ages since I've so much as looked at this story. Here goes.
I am indebted to the immortal P. G. Wodehouse for what Aziraphale says about ducks.
Watch as I elegantly do away with the need to mention how I was indebted, and which book the inspirational passage was from! I did this partly out of laziness, but mostly because I couldn't remember which book it was that I got the passage from. I still can't. I think it is one of the Blandings books: it is not one of Wodehouse's earlier stand-alones, because as I remember it the writing was the writing of a Wodehouse who had got into his swing and knew exactly what he was doing, which is not true of many of his earlier works. And it is not Jeeves & Wooster because Bertie could never be that coherent, bless his befuddled little heart.
Anyway. The passage involved a depressed character finding comfort in feeding ducks, and it proceeded to muse upon that peculiar quality of ducks, viz. their changelessness in a shifting world. There is, Wodehouse observed, something very dependable about ducks. You can always depend on them to be ducks, for one thing.
I read this passage standing on one leg in a bookshop, and it fizzled quietly in the back of my mind as I went home and had my dinner and did what you do when it is night and you have not much to do till bed-time, and then finally the fizzling got too noisy for me to ignore, so I sat down and wrote this. I just wanted Aziraphale to say the thing about the ducks. All the plot stuff came later, just so's I could justify writing about Aziraphale and Crowley creating ducks to be little feathered rocks in troubled times.
I am lame, but you have probably guessed this already.
* * *
City of Angels: Commentary
* * *
In the latter days, when the Darkness grew, the Vengeance of the Lord was much about the Silver City. What he did there was his function and his being: the hunt and the retribution. When he saw wrong, he eliminated its cause, with the cleansing of blood.
There was much wrong in the City in those days.
Here I am using that tremendously sophisticated literary technique known as Blah Blah Exposition. This bit's supposed to familiarise people who hadn't read Murder Mysteries with the setting, and what was going on and everything, but now that I look at it again I don't think it does the job very well.
I mean, it's all very well if you've read Murder Mysteries: "All right," you'll say, "we're starting off with Raguel doing his vengeance-y thing in the City, and the Rebellion's coming soon to Heavens near you. On with the story!"
But if you hadn't read Murder Mysteries, you'd be at sea. You'd be all, "What? What is this Darkness of which you speak? Why is the Vengeance of the Lord a boy? Blood's a rotten cleaning agent!" Bit of a hash altogether, Self, old chap.
But the story still seems to work for people who haven't read Murder Mysteries anyway, so I seem to have got away with it. Phew.
His hunt brought him to many places in the City, and of those places he was most often in the Hall of Being, where what would be the universe waited for Creation. It was the most interesting place in the City, according to those who worked there. Concepts that would become realities when the universe was Named were designed in the Hall -- everything from Ideals and Fish, to Plastic and indeed, Everything.
That's a remarkably uninteresting list of Things. If I were writing this again I'd probably come up with a better one. (Wombats would probably be involved.)
On this particular day, Raguel was searching for one particular designer.
It was taking a long time. The angel was not a famous one, nor was the project on which he was working of much importance. But Raguel had a hunch that he was the angel he needed, and as the Vengeance of the Lord, his hunches were premonitions of the truth.
Finally, by a process much like descending the stages of importance among the angels, he found an angel who could help him.
"Caphriel?" said the angel. "He was assigned to a minor project with Aziraphale, wasn't he? You should be able to find him over there."
Raguel ascended the mezzanine galleries that encircled the Hall of Being. He did not have far to rise.
La la la, let us emphasise how very insignificant Aziraphale and Caphriel are in the grand scheme of things, in order to explain why Raguel does not totally kick Caphriel's ass later for listening to dangerous dissident talk.
This is the impression I get from canon, anyway: Aziraphale and Crowley don't strike me as being awfully important in the hierarchies of Heaven and Hell. You get the feeling that being sent to Earth is sort of the Powers' That Be equivalent of an unimportant desk job -- you dump your less impressive agents there because it's where they'll do the least harm.
(This is an idea that gets reinforced in the sequel to this story, wherein the Iron Archangel boots the angels who have incurred more than their ordinary portion of his wrath to Earth.)
There was only one angel in the gallery to which he'd been directed. The angel was not Caphriel, Raguel was quite sure of that. He did not know Caphriel, but he felt an unswerving certainty that an angel that less resembled Caphriel did not exist in all the Silver City.
He stood amidst a chaotic jumble of papers and scrolls and small glowing models. Every flat surface was covered with mysterious creations, although fortunately nothing seemed likely to bite Raguel. The lone angel had plucked a mother-of-pearl feather from his wings, and was for some reason sucking it.
Aziraphale is cuuute! He is sucking the feather because he
"Aziraphale?" Raguel ventured tentatively.
The angel whirled around abruptly, and stared at Raguel. It was obvious that he did not receive many visitors.
You think Aziraphale needs to get out more, you should see the guy who does Computers.
"Good grief. You gave me a fright," he said. "Um. May I help you?"
There was frank curiosity in his voice. From all appearances, Aziraphale was not an important designer. No angel had probably ever thought he could help with anything before.
He and Caphriel were pretty much working in happy isolation, in other words. They were friends. Having Caphriel around sort of brightened the place up -- it was nice, having someone to talk to. Now Caphriel's gone, Aziraphale's been pretty lonely.
"I'm looking for Caphriel," said Raguel. He noted the way Aziraphale's face fell. "I was told you were working on a project together."
"No. I mean, yes. We were assigned to Ducks." Aziraphale looked mildly apologetic. He put down the feather -- its end had been dipped in some wet black substance, and it left a trail on the papers. "It wasn't a very important project, I'm afraid. Just a sub-division of a sub-division. I -- we've already finished it."
"Caphriel was your partner?" Aziraphale nodded. "Could you tell me anything about him?"
Aziraphale told Raguel. Why should he have lied? They were both angels, and evidently Aziraphale had yet to hear of Duplicity.
"He was the mastermind of the project, really," he said. "He had all sorts of new ideas. He might have designed Inspiration. Ducks wouldn't have been what it is now, if it weren't for him."
"Ducks was his idea?"
"Well, no. Not strictly, no. I mean, the feathers were my suggestion. And the bills, and the webbed feet -- the whole fact of being birds, you know. I thought it would add a certain spark. But Caphriel -- well, Caphriel simply elevated the whole concept beyond just birds. It was amazing, what he did for it."
Caphriel thinks outside the box. That's going to get him into serious trouble eventually, of course.
I started writing this part first, then thought, oi, it might be a good idea to sort of provide context for this, yeah, so I went back and wrote the beginning in a mad rush, impatient to get back to the ducks. (Ducks!) And then I came back here, finished the conversation, stuck on the ending, and posted it, hoping it didn't look too patched together. So if the story's always felt a bit disjointed to you, that's why.
"What did he do?"
"Well, you know Change?" said Aziraphale.
"It's one of the real basics," said Aziraphale. "I had nothing to do with it, of course. It was one of Zephkiel's." He pulled a face, though not a disrespectful one; he apparently expected Raguel to be impressed. "It's very complex. The concept that things--" he waved a hand vaguely -- "do not stay the same. That nothing remains in the state in which it is begun. It's going to be one of the constants of the universe, you know."
See, here's some stuff you're gonna miss if you haven't read Murder Mysteries. Like, Zephkiel? Who is this guy? The knowledge isn't essential to understanding this story, but it does add a bit to the theme.
"That's all part of Irony, of course," he added. "Ironic, you know, that Change will be one of the things that do not change. Brilliant work. Brilliant." His eyes shone with wistful admiration, the admiration of a craftsman for a true master.
"Caphriel was interested in Change?" Raguel probed.
"Hmm? Oh, yes. Change." The angel squinted at Raguel earnestly. "He thought Ducks should be a, a counterpoint of sorts to Change. An opposing force, as it were. Opposing forces are very important: Life and Death, for example, Love and Indifference, that sort of thing. They -- they off-set, they complement each other. Increase the other's force. Without Dark, what would we know of Light?"
Love and Hate aren't opposites, of course.
"And Ducks would an opposing force. To Change."
Aziraphale nodded happily.
"That was the idea. That Ducks should be one of the things that do not change. No matter the mad whirl of events around them, the drama or mundanity of life, Ducks will always remain the same. There will always be a certain essential duckness to them. They will be a -- comfort to those who suffer Change."
"There is suffering in Change?"
"Yes. Dear me, yes." Aziraphale's face was grave. "There is Regret in Change. I told you it was complex."
"I see." Raguel looked around the gallery again -- the shelves, the piles of paper, the strange symbols inscribed in gold and ink and soft lead. There was a note stuck upside-down on the wall beside him. It said, copy-editing, yes/no?
"You are no longer working on Ducks? What is your project now?"
A strange look came into Aziraphale's eyes, like the quietly worshipful expression angels had when they thought of the Lord. Yet it was subtly different -- there was a tinge of possessiveness in it, a pride and protectiveness that both lit and darkened the love.
"Books," he said dreamily. "I am working on Books."
"Ah." Raguel paused. A picture of Aziraphale was forming in his mind. "Aren't Books inanimate objects?"
"Well, yes." Aziraphale wrinkled his brow. "It would be rather inconvenient if they were animate objects, although -- if they could move . . . yes, that's a very interesting idea . . . ."
"So you've been demoted."
"Perhaps by flapping the covers, like wings," Aziraphale was murmuring to himself. "I beg your pardon? Oh. Well." He didn't look offended, more hurt at Raguel's crudeness in referring to his change in position. "Yes, I suppose you could say I've been demoted. Caphriel did most of the work on Ducks, I won't deny it. He was a creative genius. I just worked out the small details. My strength was never in animate objects, anyway."
In the book, Crowley expends quite a lot of effort in understanding people and doing his job according to his knowledge. He's got initiative. I mean, granted, a lot of what he does isn't exactly evil, but it is effective. Aziraphale, on the other hand, just kind of does what he's been doing for the past millennia -- he's got this kind of idea of humanity already, and he just goes with it. I mean, spot of divine ecstasy? Bit old-fashioned, if you ask me. It's not that Aziraphale doesn't know better, though -- from his interactions with people, he clearly understands how they tick. Part of why he sticks to the book is 'cos he's terribly conventional (Telegraph reader, duh), but I think a big part of it is that he's just terribly lazy. He just wants to get on with his life and collect his books and watch his concerts and so on; he can't be bothered coming up with new ways of influencing people to be good.
So, yes. Living things? Not Aziraphale's strong point. They require such a lot of energy.
Oh, and: the books flying thing is a reference to Terry Pratchett's Sourcery, in which books do flap their covers like wings.
"But I don't really think of it as demotion," he said. "After all, I have been given a wonderful opportunity to work on Books. You know, I think it's going to be quite important. Nothing on the scale of Love or Inspiration, of course, but Books are going to be much more important than mere records of other things. They will become a part of History -- maybe you've heard of History? It's quite a new concept. Very important. I believe Books will play quite an instrumental part in it. They will transcend their original purpose."
"And," he added, "they'll look very nice when they're all lined up neatly, too."
"Quite," said Raguel politely. He had the picture of Aziraphale now: a soft-hearted, dithering, fussy, gentle mind. With hidden depths, maybe, but not the sort of depths that would hide a wrongdoing or rebellion of any great magnitude. Aziraphale was not the angel he was looking for.
Nah, Aziraphale's too lazy.
If Aziraphale seems a bit fluffy to you, remember that this is baby!Aziraphale. It's a long way from here to the Aziraphale of the Arrangement, or even the Aziraphale of Eden, making polite small talk with the Enemy.
"What about Caphriel?" he said. "I believe he is no longer working with you?"
"No." Aziraphale lost some of his lustre. He averted his eyes. "He's, he was assigned to Snakes. Quite an interesting project. Better than Ducks, of course. Higher in the food chain."
"Can you tell me where to find him?"
"In a higher gallery. I'm not sure which one. I haven't seen him since we finished Ducks." Aziraphale picked up an illuminated letter and set it down again.
"He's destined for great things," he said. "He's very innovative, you know."
"No doubt," said Raguel grimly.
He turned to go. He stopped, and looked at Aziraphale, alone with his Books in the gallery.
"Is there regret in change for you, Aziraphale?" he said gently.
Aziraphale started. Then he wrapped his wings around himself. He still did not look at Raguel.
"Yes," he said, in a small voice. He seemed to feel something more was needed. "Very complex concept. I -- I could never have done it myself.
"Brilliant work," he said softly. "Brilliant."
Raguel thought of saying something, but he couldn't think of anything to say.
Caphriel was not in his gallery.
Raguel found him in the park. He was slouching beside a river, glaring at it as if it had done him harm.
All the angels' eyes were grey, but there was an odd gleam in Caphriel's: a strange amber sliver glistening in its depths. A reflection of the golden City sky, perhaps.
Ooh, foreshadowing! Really this is totally lame, but I couldn't resist. It would be a little less contrived in a visual format, perhaps. A comic'd do it better.
He grew pale when he saw Raguel, and Raguel knew he was getting close. He felt his function come upon him.
"I am Raguel," he said.
Caphriel's eyes were wide, but he did not flinch.
"I kind of guessed," he said. Like someone reciting a line from memory, he added, "May I -- help you?"
"There has been a wrong done in the Hall of Being," said Raguel. "The senior designer, Phanuel, told me of it." He watched Caphriel. Caphriel watched him back.
"Phanuel has been working on a very important project," said Raguel. "He calls it Justice."
"I've heard of it," said Caphriel, when Raguel was silent. "Punishing those who do wrong, rewarding those who do good, right? Intriguing possibilities, but can't say I've ever had anything to do with it. It's a bit beyond me. Small fry, you know. Snakes and Apples, that's about my province. Terribly sorry I can't help; maybe you should look up someone higher up, like Zephkiel . . . ."
He'd been quietly edging away while he babbled. The light that transfigured Raguel welled up within him, and it illuminated the fear on Caphriel's face. Caphriel stopped.
"Someone has been interfering with Justice," Raguel said slowly. "Destroying Phanuel's work on it. Trying to get rid of it. Why would they do that, Caphriel?"
Caphriel's mouth worked, but he said nothing. He seemed to be struggling with something.
"I could only think," said Raguel, "that someone might not agree with Justice. That someone might not think it was . . . just."
Caphriel lost, or won, his internal battle. He burst out,
"Someone! Lots of uh -- angels think it isn't just! It isn't!" He was trembling with terror, yet he went on,
"You -- they -- you killed Saraquael! We -- everyone heard about it! He loved, and you killed him! And that's only one instance, there are so many -- and you call that justice? Justice? When we are killed for being what we are? We should have mercy."
"Only the guilty need mercy," said Raguel flatly. "The innocent accept justice."
"The guilty? Guilty of what? Love?" Caphriel flailed wildly. It wasn't clear what he was fighting, except that he was fighting something. "Love is right! It's one of the best ideas, it's -- and -- if we were not meant to feel love, why did He create us? Why does He kill us, when we are only following what we are, what he created us to be? Why does He kill us, when we cannot help ourselves?"
Caphriel already knows he loves/is in love with Aziraphale, depending on your interpretation of their relationship. Aziraphale is still stuck in "he did brighten up the place so" territory. Aziraphale's better at lying to himself than Caphriel, which makes things easier for him.
"The Name is infallible and ineffable," said Raguel sternly. "We cannot discern His motives, or question them." He stepped closer to Caphriel. "But you have, Caphriel. Is that why you thwarted Justice?"
"I didn't! I never did!" Caphriel shrank back. "I -- I never had anything to do with it! I told you, it's beyond me!" Defiance flared. "But I agree with it. I agree with everything he's done. He's right. He's right about everything he's said. I've, I've walked in the Dark too, and the voices speak truth. They must. Why should He keep us from the Dark, if He has nothing to hide?"
Raguel's hands grasped Caphriel's shoulders. Caphriel was shaking. Raguel gazed into his eyes, and saw the truth. All of it.
Raguel released Caphriel, and felt his function leave him. Caphriel was still staring at him with wide, wary eyes, but fear was no longer in them.
"What in Heaven's Name is going on?" he said, after a long silence.
"You should not listen to Lucifer," said Raguel. "He has -- strange ideas."
He felt he could say that much, if nothing more.
That amber gleam surfaced again in Caphriel's eyes. He lifted his chin.
"No. He's right," he said. "He understands. He's going to make things better."
That amber gleam again! I'm giggling at myself. Maybe I should have made him hiss as well. "No. He'sssss right." Hee!
Raguel looked at the defiant angel, and though it was not an emotion to which he was used, he felt pity.
"Maybe," he said. It would be betraying his duty if he said more. "What were you thinking about when I found you just now?"
Caphriel looked down guiltily.
"Apples," he said. "Er. I have a feeling that Apples will be connected with Snakes. In some way. I think it's going to important, some day."
"Like Books?" said Raguel.
There was a flicker in Caphriel's eyes, before he looked away.
"I think you might want to see your friend again," Raguel said gently. He did not add, before it is too late.
It was already too late.
Caphriel looked up again, hopefully.
"I won't get in trouble?" he said. "I -- I thought I. He." He fell silent. Then he said,
"Lucifer told us -- Saraquael was killed. Because he loved."
"That was only part of it," said Raguel carefully. "You won't get into trouble."
As Below, So Above. Heaven operates a "don't ask, don't tell" policy too.
Not now, he thought. Nor was Lucifer going to be punished for meddling with Justice. He would be told to stop it, and that would be an end of it. For now.
It would happen again -- these small rebellions. And then one day, one day . . . the Reckoning. Raguel knew this. He was the Vengeance.
He knew, now, which side Caphriel would be on, that day. His mind was a roil of questions and doubt. Aziraphale was only one of his issues.
Crowley's always struck me as a dude with more issues than Rolling Stone. He doesn't let them stop him from having a good time, but they're there, sitting patiently in the back of his mind, waiting for something big to bring them out to play. It comes of having a basically honest nature, I expect, though he'd be terribly insulted if you told him that.
This version of Crowley's fall doesn't jibe very well with the book's version -- Caphriel isn't sauntering vaguely downwards so much as staggering, here -- but I thought it was allowable because I never have put much credit in Crowley's claim that falling wasn't such a big deal. Because Crowley cares. Falling would only not be a big deal if, well, Hell wasn't a big deal -- which, I admit, might very well be true for Good Omens canon, in which Heaven and Hell are harder to tell apart than two things that are very much alike.
In the Murder Mysteries universe, however, Hell is very definitely a Bad Thing. So the Fall is a Bad Thing, and anything Crowley might tell himself in the future about not minding much is only half-true. He might like his job; he doesn't like being a demon. Crowley doesn't think of himself as one of the bad guys.
It was already set in a pattern. Nothing anyone did now would change the pattern. It was the will of the Name.
"You should see your friend as soon as possible," Raguel said again. It seemed the least he could do.
"I will." Caphriel stared at Raguel. "Thank you."
Raguel was already walking away.
"Don't," he said.
He was the Vengeance of the Lord, and one day he would be called to his function. He would be more terrible than any other angel, for that day would be a terrible one.
There would be trouble. Not now. But soon.
And there you go! Note how I did not say very much about Raguel. This is because I'm not very interested in him. He's just the Yenta-Detective-Guy-Who-Moves-The-Plot-Along, poor chap. You know I only dragged Murder Mysteries in it because I like its idea of Heaven -- Raguel and the other angels in the story aren't very interesting characters in and of themselves, IMO. But your mileage may vary, of course.
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Growing up, 18 was the Age At Which It All Happened. At 18, I could vote. At 18, I could drive. And at 18, I could legally purchase alcohol.
When we moved to the USA some ten years later, more than a few of my new American friends expressed surprise that our mother country could be so unwise as to allow teenagers to “drink and drive” at the same time. My honest response was that I didn’t see that it was a problem: it was (of course) illegal to drink and drive simultaneously, but that 18 was the age at which we could choose whether we would drink or drive seemed reasonable to me.
At the same time, I was grappling with a very different “drinking culture” in the college town we were in, where most of the student population were clearly too young to drink legally, but were doing so anyway. I heard more than one story of a college student nearly poisoned to death by alcohol on their 21st birthday. The drinking excesses seemed extreme to me.
And yet, the tee-totalling culture in our little Christian community seemed extreme to me too. As a volunteer in the college ministry, I was advised that if I chose to keep alcohol in my house, I should keep it out of sight in case any students saw it when they dropped in.
My husband and I tried hard to comply, but I cannot guarantee that there weren’t any occasional Merlot sightings.
Another 10 years has passed, and I find myself in a different world once again. In this world I have small children, and two of those children are now of an age where they can read my Facebook newsfeed and see things like this:
Kristen Howerton recently wrote about whether parents should tone down the drinking jokes on social media, and I took her advice to heart. The thing is: my children are learning about drinking, whether I say something about it or not.
I’m thinking, then, that it might be best for me to say something. Yes, I’m going to teach my children how to drink, because I don’t want them taught by my silence and my jokes. In particular, I want to teach them:
The WHO of drinking:
We drink with people we trust, people with whom we feel safe. If we are in a public place, we need a “buddy”. We don’t drink alone. My kids need to see this modeled at home, in real life as well as on my facebook page. It strikes me that much of our cultural joking about drinking makes it seem like a glass of wine is all about relaxing-me and rewarding-me. But as with all things: life is not about me.
The WHEN of drinking:
We need to consider the timing and context of drinking: if you’re underage, it’s not time. If you’re in the company of someone who struggles with it, it’s not time.
The WHY of drinking:
We drink to celebrate, to remember, to honor. I loved this quote from Tony Kriz:
Alcohol can be used to medicate and to numb the soul. Too many hope for a pause, to forget their many pains: heart pains, soul pains, relational pains, hopelessness, and loss. Yet the Bible doesn’t support these uses.
In the divisive church climate around alcohol, I don’t know if you choose to drink or not. But either way, the best theology of wine is that it is a metaphor of joy and heaven. It was not created to be a tool of personal and interpersonal destruction. (Teetotalers and imbibers can certainly agree on that.)
Alcohol was created to help commemorate the significant moments of life. My theology is simple: God gave us wine to remember, not to forget.
The WHAMMY of drinking:
I want to tell my kids what alcohol does: it affects the way your body processes information, and it affects our decisions. This is part of what is nice about drinking – it makes us feel light-hearted (at first). But I also want to tell them that this is what I don’t like about drinking – the feeling that I am not in control of my own body. We talk a lot about self-control in our house. I want my kids to know that self-control is not just a word which we use to talk about whether we drink. Self-control is also the thing we increasingly forfeit if we have too much, and as a Christian that is concerning.
I haven’t yet decided whether teaching my kids about drinking will mean we let them sip from our glasses as teens in the safety of home, as my parents did. But for sure, it means we’re going to talk about it rather than smirk about it. When it comes to my kids’ “script” on the topic of alcohol, I want to be the primary author.
Their education about alcohol will not begin when they are 18, or 21, or whatever the legal age might be. Their drinking education begins now: theory first, and practice in the years to come.
This post first appeared on the author’s blog
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Polarstone® is an engineered quartz product. Top of the line technology allows this solid surface to be durable, beautiful, and truly unique. Beyond design, Polarstone® quartz is a top of the line product that requires very little maintenance. These surfaces are easy to clean and hard to damage, resulting in the best quartz surface possible. Using Polarstone® quartz has many benefits over other materials like granite for stone surfacing.
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GRAND FIR [Abies
& Jeanne Rose
[fall 2001 issue of the Aromatic News]
This large, grand tree is Abies
grandis, the Grand
Fir that lives in the coniferous forests of the Northwest as well as
being used as a landscape tree in many places of the world.
, Grand Fir is used throughout the city for its shapely beauty and
scent. In Strybing
Arboretum, in the
(which 100 years ago was a lake on the edge of the Sunset District),
the Grand Fir has a prominent place.
When walking in the
, take along a 5 foot long hooked
cane so that you can pull down a branch of this handsome tree and
smell the needles. There is a confer and citrus note to the needles
that is particularly appealing.
History: Kwakwakawaku shamans wove its branches into headdresses and
costumes and used the branches for scrubbing individuals in
purification rites. The
Hesquiat tribes used its branches as incense and decorative clothing
for wolf dancers. Grand
Fir bark was sometimes mixed with Stinging Nettles and boiled and
the resulting decoction used for bathing and as a general tonic.
The Lushoot tribe boiled needles to make a medicinal tea for
colds (it contains vitamin C). The
Hesquait mixed the pitch of young trees with animal oil and rubbed
it on the scalp as a deodorant and to prevent baldness.
Abies alba which is
the tallest European tree and lives to 350 years is much grown for
construction work and telegraph poles and was favoured by the Greeks
and Romans for building fast warships, especially for oars of
triremes. But since 1900
this tree has been much attacked by aphids and has been replaced by A.
grandis (D. Don) Lindley (white or giant fir) from
. This tree reaches 100
meters and was introduced into
in 1834 and grew to a height of more than 62 meters by 1989.
Current Uses: Grand Fir has that delicious holiday Christmas tree
odor. It is green and
vegetative in its back note, slightly citrus in its subsidiary note
and strongly coniferous in the top note.
The smell is rich and sweet and joyous.
Grand fir is used at the holiday season to scent the air and
keep it fresh and airy or to aerate the sickroom. Use a mixture of
10% Grand fir to 90% water or a conifer hydrosol to spray the room
and scent the air or use 50•50 Grand Fir to Rosemary or mint
hydrosol water solution for refreshing the sick room.
When using at holiday time and this includes any time during
the season between All-Hallows and Valentines Day, spray the tree,
spray your rooms, spray the wreaths, spray the bathrooms, spritz the
decorations or the furniture, to keep everything fresh and smelling
Perfumery and Cosmetics: Grand fir can be added as a fresh note to
many different types of perfume blends. When one is traveling and
comes across those nasty smelling
amenities that smell of Bitter Almonds
it is only Grand Fir essential oil that can be added to the
shampoo or hand lotion samples that will negate the bitter almond
smell and add its own delicious sweet conifer note. Grand Fir
essential oil mixed with other essential oils can act either as
scent or therapy to all kinds of custom skin care products. Grand
Fir can also be used as an inhalant with other conifers for all
types of respiratory
problems and conditions.
Contraindications for this oil:
Rose Aromatherapy has a Holiday/Party Essential Oil
kit that contains this rare and beautiful oil for all your
environmental needs. The
kit normally retails for $45 + $8.50 for shipping and
handling. It contains 5 other essential oils, all pure and
undiluted and ready for use. The kit with its selection of
oils is packaged in a handmade tapestry bag with a holiday
motif and contains a laminated card with all directions for
219 Carl St.
All rights reserved 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. No part of this article may
be used without prior permission from Jeanne Rose.
© Authors Copyright Jeanne Rose,
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in reply to
Maintaining state in modules
Is it a CGI or non-CGI script? Look on the CPAN for 'session' to find ways to keep a session going, and store the info based on the session.
Why not make a base class and subclass it with a way to do it with dbm's. Then, subclass to use MySQL (or whatever). People can subclass to use with whatever data store they wish to use (a DB, flat file, directory structure, etc...) that way your design will make it more portable.
Also, look on the CPAN, and search Google for ways other are maintaining state, so you don't re-invent any wheels.
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Letting God shine through regardless of my imperfections.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
I'll admit, I'm pretty proud of this picture. Just wanting Grandparents to know you will be getting new pictures of your little girls. The friend who takes them is out of town, so I'm trying to improvise. I'm just not quite satisfied with JC Penny's or Target, so... we'll see what I can do. Digital cameras and computer programs can make anyone look like a photographer. :-)
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Last Wednesday (April 18, 2012), Lucy Koh, a US District Court Judge, may have paved the way towards a truce on one of the fiercest fronts of what is now commonly known as the “Smartphone Patent Wars”. She ordered Tim Cook and Choi Gee-Sung, the CEOs of Apple and Samsung, to meet and work out their bitter and prolonged patent disputes. The two firms have indeed spent the last months suing and countersuing each other, all over the world, for alleged patent infringements (this infographic nicely summarizes the main episodes of this “battle”).
As most companies in the smartphone industry are fighting similar battles (for a very effective presentation of the existing feuds, see the animated graphic proposed by the Financial Times), the peacemaking process that Lucy Koh initiated may prove crucial for saving the industry from a potential collective suicide.
The legal quagmire that currently plagues the smartphone industry results from a combination of forces that regular readers of this blog should be familiar with by now.
1. Smartphones are the archetypal example of a cumulative innovation. They exhibit indeed the two types of cumulativeness: complementarity and sequentiality.
- Complementarity describes the fact that a second-generation product requires the combination of a number of different first-generation innovations (‘many-to-one’). This is clearly the case for smartphones as they result from the collision between computers and mobile-phones, which are themselves already cumulative in nature.
- Sequentiality refers to the notion that a first-generation innovation leads to the creation of many second-generation innovations (‘one-to-many’). This is also the case for smartphones insofar as all handsets have to incorporate a number of existing standards (for, e.g., wi-fi access, email transfers or video display).
2. The previous technical features raise important-and potentially conflicting-economic issues regarding the allocation of intellectual property rights. On the one hand, complementarity raises the prospect of the ‘tragedy of the anticommons’: the allocation of strong property rights to separate right-holders results in higher prices (‘royalty-stacking’) and higher transaction costs. In this respect, some form of ‘collective’ or ‘shared’ property is more prone to favor interoperability and easy access to interfaces.
Sequentiality, on the other hand, is likely to create hold-up opportunities for first-generation innovators if intellectual property rights are defined too broadly (i.e., if the first-generation innovation confers the patentee rights over subsequent innovations).
3. The importance of the previous two problems is magnified by the sheer density and size of the ‘patent thicket’ that engulfs the smartphone industry: according to estimates, a smartphone is open to a quarter of a million patent claims. If you factor in the diversity of players (as companies flock from industries as diverse as equipment manufacturing and software development), the crucial need for interoperability (just try to imagine how painful your life would be if several incompatible email services were coexisting), and the high profitability of the whole market (the global mobile phone industry reached a value of US$1.18 trillions in 2011), you easily understand why even though private solutions to the previous problems do exist (patent pools and standard-setting organizations address the tragedy of the anticommons while licensing agreements may solve the hold-up problem), these solutions are very hard to achieve in the smartphone arena.
Accordingly, some players in the market have called upon the competition authorities to sort out the mess. Some observers have been rather critical of the authorities’ abilities to do so. For instance, Yann Ménière recently posted an article on this blog expressing doubts that competition authorities would be able to impose sanctions that address the fundamental problem(s).
What do you think?
Could competition law play a useful role in achieving a truce in the smartphone patent war? Or are there any other solutions that could push the industry back to a path where consumers benefit more of inventions than patent litigators?
Under what circumstances could the litigation of patents (or other IP rights) become abusive and objectionable from a competition point of view? (In responding, you should refer, where possible, to the ECJ case law and take into account, among others, the fundamental right of private parties to defend their rights before the courts).
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And before the game I was confident of picking up at least a point which would have continued our flight towards the top end of the table. In last seasons visit we had an ’Owler here when a 4-1 defeat had dented our play-off hopes and had also been our fourth successive loss at this famous, but now looking a bit dated, old stadium. Owls fans I spoke to before the game were buoyed by the sacking of their manager less than 24 hours before kick-off but I personally thought that they would be there for the taking, even though our side was still heavily depleted with injuries. The dynamics of the game changed midway through the first half when the Ben Pearson locked feet with an opponent in the middle of the park, just like a bearded vulture would on its prey. I thought the challenge was maybe a yellow-card offence as contact was made but his past disciplinary record and previous relationship with the opposition fans, plus the fact that the injured player rolled about like my cat would while waiting for her tummy to be tickled contributed enormously to the game-changing decision. It ruined it as a spectacle for the vocal travelling fans who had opted to follow their team across the Pennines instead of going Christmas shopping with the missus. After Wednesday scored we did try to get back in the game and showed no shortage of effort but with 10 men it was just too big of a mountain to climb. My man of the match was Declan Rudd who made at least four outstanding saves which kept the game live for us until the end.
Preston North End Fans' Panel: John Smith's verdict on PNE's defeat at Hillsborough
Owls are predators feared by many other birds but with only one win in their last 10 matches, the ones of Sheffield Wednesday should have held little fear.
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Sunday, 23rd December 2018, 11:23 am
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LONDON (MarketWatch)—Most European stock markets closed with weekly gains on Friday, after data showed consumer spending picked up in the U.S., while a well-received Italian auction calmed investor nerves, following a double-notch downgrade of Spain’s credit rating.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index (SXXP) rose 0.8% to 259.12, rising for a fourth consecutive. The index was 0.5% higher for the week to date.
“Risk appetite is back on, after the strong U.S. data” said Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg, chief economist at FIH Erhvervsbank. “The U.S. economy is far bigger and is more important to investors, so when they pull out of U.S. treasurys they after good news they invest in stocks.”
Swedish engineering group Sandvik AB (SAND)was among biggest advancers, rallying 12.5% after a record-high order intake for first quarter where profit beat market expectations.
The broader European stock market rose in morning trade after well-received bond auctions in Italy, where the government sold 5.95 billion euros ($7.9 billion) of various maturities--close to the top end of its target range. Borrowing costs for the 10-year bonds, however, rose to 5.84% from 5.24% in a March 29 sale.
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The FTSE MIB index (FTSEMIB) climbed 1.9% to 14,778.90, with Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl (PMI) gaining 6.9%.
“With the current condition in the euro zone, today’s Italian auction was a major test of sentiment, and it seems to have calmed investor nerves,” said Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec Securities.
But the positive sentiment may prove short lived and will be tested in the coming weeks, he said.
“This has just not been a another week of pure gloom as we have seen recently. We had some mixed numbers,” he said. “The major tests over the next weeks are the elections in France and Greece, and we also have local elections in Italy coming up as well.”
Markets were also tested in afternoon trade Friday, where stocks shortly trimmed gains, after disappointing U.S. gross domestic product data. GDP for the first quarter in 2012 grew 2.2%, down from a 3.0% growth rate in the previous quarter. However, consumer spending was the main driver for growth and picked up 2.9% in first quarter, up from a 2.1% rise in the previous three-month period.
Separately, U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose in April to 76.4 from 76.2 in March. UMich sentiment ticks higher in April
Elsewhere, Spain was once again in the spotlight after Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services late Thursday cut the country’s long-term sovereign credit rating to BBB+ from A with a negative outlook, citing concerns about government debt, a shrinking economy and additional support that could be needed for the banking sector. Read about the Spain downgrade.
“Spain will remain a threat for the whole euro zone for quite some time, “ said Stefan Angele, head of investment management at Swiss & Global Asset Management, in a note. “Spain is simultaneously too big to save and too big to fail. It may ultimately require a euro-zone solution that is much bigger and more wrenching than the process in Greece.”
The IBEX 35 index (IBEX), however, followed its European peers higher and closed up 1.7% at 7,145.80.
The French CAC 40 index (PX1)was 1.1% higher at 3,266.27 buoyed by drug maker Sanofi. Shares rose 2.5% after first-quarter earnings jumped 50%, beating expectations. Sanofi Q1 net profit up 50% on higher sales
Engineering firm Vinci SA (DG) advanced 4.2% after revenue in first quarter beat market forecasts and it raised guidance for 2012 revenue.
Banks gained ground, with Société Générale SA (GLE) up 3.1% and Credit Agricole SA (ACA) up 4.5%.
In Germany, banks followed the broader European trend. Commerzbank AG (CBK) added 2.7%, while Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) gained 0.9%.
The DAX 30 index (DAX) gained 0.9% to 6,801.32, finding additional support from pharmaceutical firm Bayer AG (BAYN), which rose 3.1%.
The U.K. FTSE 100 index (UKX) closed 0.5% higher at 5,777.11, as Barclays PLC (BARC) BCS, -0.40% advanced 4.7%. Bank executives apologized at an annual meeting for the bank’s pay policies and said pay levels must be pushed lower. Last week, Chief Executive Bob Diamond and Finance Director Chris Lucas agreed to cut bonuses until the bank improves its profitability.
Man Group PLC (EMG) surged 14.1% after Société Générale upgraded the stock to buy from hold.
HBC, -0.30% CRH PLC (CRH) gained 3% after J.P. Morgan Cazenove lifted the stock to overweight from underweight.
Miners also helped lift the index as metals prices rose and heavyweight BHP Billiton PLC (BLT) BHP, -0.46% gained 0.8% and Vedanta Resources PLC (VED) added 1.7%.
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Trail mix (and all of its antioxidants and healthy fats) meets a high protein, high fiber, soft, and dense quick bread to make the perfect on-the-go snack of your dreams! Grab a slice of this Trail Mix Quick Bread as your post workout snack or as part of your workday lunch.
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through the link there is no additional cost to you, but I will make a small commision that allows me to keep bringing you delicious healthy dessert recipes!
If there’s one thing that can disrupt a day of healthy eating, it’s coming home starving after a long day and popping anything and everything into your mouth the second you open the door (guilty!). It’s on these days that I realize how helpful meal prepping is. It’s also something I realize I don’t have the organizational skills for.
Do you meal prep?
If so, can you teach me your ways?!? 😉
What I do know how to prep, though, is snacks! Nutritious, quick, and easy snacks! Like this Trail Mix Quick Bread. Trail mix is always a go-to of mine for fast, on-the-go snacks because you can literally throw a bunch of nuts, seeds, and a handful of chocolate into a baggie and go. And, it’s full of healthy fats, protein, and essential vitamins and minerals.
If you’ve wondered why trail mix is such a great snack for taking on, well, trails…aka hiking, it’s because the healthy fat from all the nuts and seeds keeps you fuller for a longer period of time than just carbs or protein, and gives you sustained energy to get through your hike.
But, I’m taking it a step further and adding all that trail mix goodness to a tender, dense, quick bread. It’s still super portable, but now you get this amazing contrast of textures from the crunchy nuts and seeds to the soft bread.
It’s no ordinary bread, either. It’s made with protein powder and sweet white sorghum flour. Don’t let the name fool you, though. It may be called sweet white flour, but it is actually a whole grain. Protein and fiber?? Check and check!
Plus, to me, sorghum flour has more of a savory taste than other flours, like coconut flour which is kind of sweet on its own. It is nice in the bread because it really pulls together all the other ingredients that aren’t overly sweet, either.
What makes this Trail Mix Quick Bread healthy:
- It uses sweet white sorghum flour, which might not sound like it, but is actually a whole grain and full of good for ya fiber
- It’s high in protein
- There’s no refined sugar
- Full of important vitamins and minerals
- It’ll make your skin pretty (well…it’ll help anyways. Pumpkin is full of vitamin C which helps collagen production. See ya wrinkles! 😉 )
- It’s totally customizable!
- shredded coconut
- chocoalate chips
- sunflower seeds
- mini M&M’s
- dried apricot
- dried cherries
Do yourself a favor and bake this Trail Mix Quick Bread up today! Your future starving self will thank you!
Kaylie | Healthy Hacks
Yields 1 - 9x5" loaf
Gluten Free; Vegan; High Protein; High Fiber; Refined Sugar Free
30 minPrep Time
30 minCook Time
1 hrTotal Time
- ½ cup buttermilk*
- 1 large egg**
- 3 Tbsp maple syrup
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup sorghum flour
- ½ cup soy protein powder , unflavored (or vanilla)
- ½ cup tapioca flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt (can omit if your mix-ins are salted)
- 1 ½ cups your choice of mix-ins, chopped
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan and add a piece of parchment paper to the bottom.
- If needed, mix the buttermilk and flax egg and set each aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk the egg and maple syrup together.
- Add the pumpkin and vanilla extract and stir together.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flours, protein powder, baking powder and soda, and salt.
- The buttermilk should be slightly curdled by this point - add the buttermilk (and flax egg, if using it) to the wet ingredients, and stir together.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients 1/3rd of it at a time, stirring after each addition until most of the dry ingredients are incorporated. Work quickly and after the final addition stir until there are no lumps.
- Fold in the mix-ins.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 28-32 min. or until the edges are set and golden brown, the top is firm but slightly squishy if pressed, and a toothpick inserted into the center will come out with a few crumbs.
- Allow the loaf to cool completely in the pan.
- Once cooled, remove from the pan, slice it up and enjoy!
*You can make buttermilk by mixing ½ cup of your milk of choice + ½ Tbsp apple cider vinegar and setting it aside for 10 min.
**Can sub the egg for 1 "flax egg". To make, mix 1 Tbsp flaxseed meal + 3 Tbsp water and set it aside til gel-like.
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Intelligent Decisions Inc., based in Ashburn, VA, announced on October 17 that it has acquired Manning Services Incorporated, a business based in Dumfries, Virginia specializing in custom application development and cloud migration services. “We’re delighted to welcome MSI to our team. They will … [Read more...] about Intelligent Decisions acquires Manning Services Inc.
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First comes love, then comes a proposal … then comes a baby?!
Christina Aguilera and fiancé Matthew Rutler are expecting their first child together. This will be the second kid for "The Voice" coach, who has a 6-year-old son, Max, with her ex-husband, Jordan Bratman.
Rutler popped the question to Aguilera, 33, on Valentine's Day.
The couple met on the set of her 2010 film "Burlesque" and have been dating for nearly three years.
This will be the second marriage for the singer, who was hitched to Bratman from November 2005 until October 2010.
So far, Christina has stayed mum about the happy news on Twitter.
We just have one question … boy or girl?!
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Wishbone–a visual voting app–uses native advertising to surreptitiously target girls and young women between the ages of 13 and 25.
Quite simply, the app puts two pictures side by side, and visitors vote on the picture they like better. So in the example here, the app asks “Batman or Captain America?” However, you can’t help but notice that it is also all about the Minions.
Now is this an ad? I don’t know. But neither do the teenage girls (the site is 91% female) that are spending time voting on the site.
So what’s the issue?
An article in Ad Exchange noted, “Two million users engaged with the Taco Bell content [voting if they wanted to spend $1 or $5 for breakfast]. A separate campaign for Victoria’s Secret’s Pink line generated more than 1.5 million opens and a 26% click-through rate.” And, because the app is so popular they generate 25 million votes per day–that’s an awful lot of free market research.
As I discuss in my book, Black Ops Advertising, marketers are finding evermore clever ways to put branded content in front of us without us knowing we are being sold. In the case of Wishbone, we might think this is not a major issue. After all, it’s just a couple of pictures. What difference does it make if I vote for KFC chicken over McDonald’s McNuggets? Or, if your daughter likes Kim’s hair long versus short?
The difference is that the user has supplied important marketing research to the advertiser. Click on KFC, and you can be sure that the cell phone will be retargeted with ads to visit the local chicken joint, as will any computer or tablet associated with the account.
For marketers, this app is incredibly clever: it’s crowdsourced A/B testing combined with access to important market research on a key advertising demographic. For consumers, the benefits are not so clear cut.
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Confirming Fergus McFadden's absence for the All Blacks game and the extent of Kearney's injury, Ireland team manager Michael Kearney said: "Fergus has unfortunately fractured the fifth metacarpal in his right hand. He'll be sidelined for a number of weeks.
"Rob suffered a blow to the ribs and has a subluxed costal cartilage. This was very painful at the time and is improving well but he won't train for the early part of the week.
"It is very much a day-to-day injury and is hard to tell at this stage whether he will be available to play Sunday."
Munster full-back Felix Jones has been called up to the squad to provide cover as has Ulster's Darren Cave, who Kearney said will add 'a bit of flexibility to training this week' with Brian O'Driscoll nursing a tight calf.
Meanwhile, the hamstring injury that forced out-half Jonathan Sexton off at half-time in the defeat to Australia continues to threaten his participation against New Zealand.
"In terms of his chances of been ready for Sunday, the only thing I can say at this stage is that he hasn't been ruled out.
"I'd say that Joe (Schmidt) would like them to train by Friday, but Rob and Johnny are two world class players and I think that Joe will give them every chance he can to have them ready on Sunday."
Regarding his own calf issue, O'Driscoll is confident that he will be back close to full fitness for Sunday's showdown as he gears up for one final crack at the All Blacks.
"I would be pretty positive (about the injury). I've been unfortunate this year that I've had a few niggly things and this calf has slowed me down a little bit," explained the 127-times capped centre.
"I got it at training and it kept me out for longer than I thought. It has just stayed with me a little bit. I could feel it at the weekend a bit but I managed to see out the game.
"But there are lots of times I haven't played at 100% fitness and all going well, if I handle the week well I shouldn't be far off 100% come the weekend."
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for the opening of my exhibition
I heard music coming from this house
somebody was practising the Bach piece that my father played every night when he came home from his work at the university
as a child I lived to sit under the piano to be enveloped in the music
This evening I had to be content with standing on the street
Thank you everybody who came last night
I had no idea I had so many friends in New Orleans!
And thank you NOCCA and particularly my friend Nikki Jackson for the exhibition opportunity
thank you too, to my friend Shelley for simply being.
Thank you Frank from the Joan Mitchell Center for schlepping in my "twig" collection (and going back for another load)
and also the JMC for once again hosting me here in beautiful New Orleans
And thankyou Christine
for sending me beautiful fragrant flowers
an unexpected joy.
,,,sorry about the lack of links, I shall fix that when I arrive home in a few days. Haven't quite worked out how to do that on the Batfone !
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It’s standard practice for “hero shooter” games to offer alternate skins, letting you completely change the way your character looks. What’s less common is for them to adopt a more MMO-like style of letting you mix and match different parts of your look, but that’s what Hi-Rez Studios has done with the latest beta patch to Paladins: Champions of the Realm.
Update 32 breaks out the “full body” skins into three categories — head, body, and weapon — for Pip and Bomb King, with more champions to follow. Prices for those skins have been adjusted downwards to account for their partial nature.
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By K.J. Cardinal
I know that I might be conceding the "Father of the Year" award with this statement, but even though today is Anna's eight-month birthday, all I can really think about is tonight's Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
I'd like to think it's because I'm taking my dad to the game tonight and we're both fired up, but truth be told the Celtics in the playoffs seems to take precedence over EVERYTHING in my life...even Anna?!? So much of my life has changed with the birth of Anna, but my obsessive compulsive behavior surrounding the C's in the playoffs apparently will never subside.
As you've witnessed right here on The Cardinal Blog over the past month and change, Anna has gotten the playoff bug too. It all started with the awesome Celts sweat suit from Ben & Lynsey and included photo shoots with Red & Larry Legend's sneakers as well as getting creative with her floor mat. I'm glad that she's been able to get into the spirit of the playoffs too...God only knows what I'd have to do with her if she wasn't into it.
Luckily for Anna, over the past week she has been able to become a model student in the subject of the greatest rivalry in NBA history. Her daily routine of watching her favorite cartoon "Super Why" has taken a back seat to NBATV, ESPN Classic and any other station that's carrying anything Celtics related.
She actually witnessed "Daddy's" curse-laden tirade at the DVR yesterday when his 60-minute recording of "Larry Bird's 50 Greatest Moments" was pre-empted by 40 minutes of an overtime WNBA game. Good lord was I fired up. If she could talk, I'm sure she would've asked Mommy, "Why's David Stern an a*shole?!"
Anyway, no need to worry Meme, I'm still feeding Anna and changing her diapers and whatnot. It's just that my mind is 100% preoccupied with the NBA Finals. I'm sure my Dad's in the same boat...especially since I called him this morning to tell him that James Taylor is singing the National Anthem tonight.
It'll be the perfect way to start a night that I've always dreamed of. I know I'm a total sports junkie, so it says a lot when I say that seeing the Celtics in person in the NBA Finals is #1 on my sports wish list. So, tonight a dream comes true for me...now let's just pray the C's can get it done.
By the way, Happy Birthday Anna...and BEAT LA! BEAT LA! BEAT LA!
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1994 The Opportunity Thinker Business Launch: To help clients strengthen their business results by deploying productive creative thinking tools and processes, a 21st Century business necessity. de Bono Thinking Systems methods are the tools most often applied: Six Thinking Hats | Lateral Thinking | Focus on Facilitation
An independant consultant and small business owner, Lynda has been working steadily since 1994.
First Client: Hughes Aircraft
International Experience: Canada, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, United States
1992: Certified by de Bono in Six Thinking Hats
1994: Certified by de Bono in Lateral Thinking during her business start-up
1995: Launched Lateral Thinking power sessions
1997: Recognized for her contribution helping the global distributor earn a spot on the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies list; the sales increase was 785%
1997: Raytheon launches Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking workshops
1998: Standford Alumni Association invited Lynda to present Creative Thinking: Breaking New Ground for Creating Innovative Business Solutions. Her presentation was produced as a video and included in the Standford Executive Briefings catalogue.
1998: Nestle launches The Fundamentals of Creativity and Innovation workshops
1999: Southern California Edison launches Critical Thinking Skills incorporating Six Thinking Hats
2003: Inducted into the Innovator's Club for exceptional performance and innovative contributions to the application of de Bono Thinking Systems methods
2004: The Innovation Instinct concept and model launches
2004: Professional services--de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. retained Lynda Curtin to create, lead the product development, and commercialize a de Bono Advanced Facilitation course. Focus on Facilitation: How to Lead Productive Thinking Together Meetings that Deliver Remarkable Results was launched
2004: Completed a world tour launching Focus on Facilitation for de Bono Thinking Systems distributors. Led the train-the-trainer events
2006: Innovation Boot Camp Handbook launches. Written with David Markovitz of GMP Training Systems, Inc., David and Lynda's innovation program was included with the U.C. Irvine executive development curriculum focused on the next generation of leaders in the pharmaceutical industry
2006: HP launches three-day Lateral Thinking Innovation and two-day Six Thinking Hats Creativity Power-Sessions for workforce development
2006: de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. secures Lynda's editing services to update Lateral Thinking materials
2007: Joined the exclusive group of ten members worldwide qualified to lead events featuring the de Bono Suite of Productive Creativity and Innovation Thinking Tools: Lateral Thinking | Six Thinking Hats | Focus on Facilitation
2008: Johnson & Johnson launches four-day Focus on Facilitation Power-Sessions
2009: United States Patent and Trademark Office approve Trademark for The Opportunity Thinker
2009: JPL/NASA launches Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats Power-Sessions
2010: Power-Up Your Organization's Thinking conversation sparker cards launch
2010: JPL/NASA launches four-day Focus on Facilitation Power-Sessions as part of their Innovation Foundry team member orientation
2011: LIFT Your Thinking PowerPoint Inspirational CD launches
2012: The Six Thinking Hats® method celebrates 20 years as a business process for creative thinking, collaboration, and communication. Lynda celebrated by hosting an exclusive two-day Executive Deep Dive in Los Angeles.
2013: Launched a collection of "LIFT Your Thinking" creativity articles
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The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, which includes the Barron Gorge National Park, is an internationally recognised biodiversity hot spot. It has more than 1,500 endemic vascular plants (meaning they are found nowhere else on earth) and is home to an amazing array of native fauna. This includes but is not limited to, 60% of Australia’s butterfly species, 40% of Australia’s bird species, 30% of Australia’s mammal species and 29% of Australia’s frog species. While these are just statistics when you read them, they’ll come to life when you visit Kuranda, the Village in the Rainforest. Here you can observe a wealth of Australia’s native animals, birds and butterflies in close proximity in the magnificent habitats in and around the Village and at our award-winning attractions.
For nature in the wild you may take the time to enjoy a jungle walk, a peaceful stroll along the river Esplanade or a boat trip on the river. The tropical forest environment is home to many unusual birds; binoculars combined with a keen sense of hearing will bring this world to life.
If the gods are smiling, a glimpse of a friendly harmless fresh water crocodile, a playful platypus and a green tree snake will surely reward the observant visitor. Take the time to wonder at the magnificence of the superb fig trees lining the main street of the Village. Gaudy parrots, argumentative yellow fig birds, and the luminescent blue Ulysses butterfly are easy to spot among the ferns and orchids crowding the canopy of these big trees.
Watch for “thick-knees”, long legged and chattering looking for nesting sites in the council car park. A visit to some lovely gardens and small parks in and around the Village, will reward you with colour and bird song. Look for lizards warming up in patches of sunshine. Time for a coffee, of course, there’s always time in Kuranda.
Kuranda The Village in the Rainforest is also home to a number of award winning wildlife attractions. A visit to one, or all of these great places, will provide you with the unique opportunity to get up close and personal with some of Australia’s most beautiful and beloved critters.
Birds and butterflies can be found at the Heritage Markets, which is home to Birdworld and the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary. At Birdworld over 350 birds roam freely throughout the enclosed habitat, including the iconic Southern Cassowary, colourful rainbow lorikeets, cockatoos and Amazonian macaws. While the Butterfly Sanctuary is home to over 2,000 tropical butterflies, free fluttering and flying amongst rainforest plants and a man-made stream. Watch for the electric blue Ulysses and neon green Cairns Birdwing.
Cuddle a koala and see many more beloved Australian critters, including kangaroos, possums, wombats, water dragons, turtles, snakes, bandicoots, quokkas and so much more at Kuranda Koala Gardens. They’re also located inside the Heritage Markets.
For those who want to go a little further afield, we can suggest Rainforestation Nature Park. This award winning attraction is home to a diverse array of creatures, including koalas, dingoes, snakes and lizards as well as having an extensive tropical fruit orchard and providing Army Duck tours through the rainforest. They are also home to the Pamagirri Aboriginal Experience. There’s also Paradise Kuranda Guided Rainforest Walks, where locals will share regional history and point out native plants and animals on a leisurely stroll through the forest. Or Kuranda Rainforest Journey’s where you get amongst it on ATV quad bike tours.
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We are tired to hear so many crying out loud with Brexit, it seems that it is going to be the end of life on this Earth. Nobody is going to be deported, nothing is going to change just a bit of paperwork, just like every foreigner who want to settle down in Spain, how do they do it? Russians, Tunisians, South Americans, etc… Please learn how to speak Spanish to start with – incredible how so few take time to learn it!!
You are in Spain, be respectful and learn… if a Russian can do it, so can you.
Stop complaining about everything, the British Empire is over! You want out OK, you want in ok, but stop crying all the time.
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Wallpaper – Sanderson – Glasshouse – Hampton Trellis
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Accurately interpreting the exquisite detail of botanical drawing, The Glasshouse from Sanderson is a truly stunning collection of eleven wallpapers, each respectfully designed to showcase the undeniable beauty of the original plant or flower.
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Hampton Trellis coordinates magnificently with all designs in The Glasshouse collection. Named after the wonderful maze at Hampton Court this smart structural geometric pattern has been rotary printed to provide a chalky opaque ground against the metallic and gritter detailing of the trellis design.
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Kenneth Lin is an American tech entrepreneur. Founded in 2007, his best known business is Credit Karma, an online credit score monitoring service, and he continues to serve as CEO.
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My Bio: I started Credit Karma in 2007 to help make credit easy to understand and really free. In the last nine years, we've given away over one billion credit scores and changed the market. Yesterday, we announced our goal to make tax preparation and filing truly free as well.
Is 2-factor authentication something that is on your agenda for Credit Karma? I love the site and would like to see that feature added for an extra layer of protection, especially now that you will be offering a tax option.
Yes two-factor is on our roadmap. We have a number of new security features at launch including SMS verification.
I realize you are offering a free service so you may not offer these features but I have to ask:
Will you provide any kind of guarantees? Often tax filing software will provide accuracy guarantees so that any fees or interest incurred due to filing errors will be reimbursed by the preparers.
Any kind of audit support?
How do you envision this generating income for you? You’ve said before you don’t like when companies sell people’s data so you don’t do that but any general ways you will profit? It would be upsetting if the classic saying, “if it’s free you’re the product” were true here.
One nice thing about the credit scores on credit karma is they not only provide your score but explain a little more behind it. What it means, what factors go into it, etc. This has really helped educate a lot of people (myself included) what credit scores are and some of the logic behind them. Will your tax software be the same? Will it explain how the tax brackets are broken down? Or what the difference is between capital gains vs normal income and how it’s taxed. I know in the US we constantly argue about tax policy and it seems like educating more people about how taxes work would be beneficial regardless of party affiliation. I guess I'm curous how much of an educational bend you've added?
Most of the guarantees that we see in the space are the refunding of the cost of the software. If we follow that model, we would be refunding you $0 as part of our guarantee.
In your question, you are implying quality. We are not going into this net new. We bought a company that has been providing taxes for 10 year and is white label provider for one of the major tax preparers online. As part of providing the service, we have to go through IRS and state certifications. Finally, I suggest you try our service against another major provider. You should get the same results. At that point, it is up to you whether you want to pay on that other provider or file with us for free.
As for audit support, we are still working through our features. We don't know if the audit supports that others market is valuable. We want to understand that aspect fully before we engage. With that said, we will have a full team of certified tax professionals who can help answer questions about our service (email, chat, phone). All for free, no upsells
I spoken about how we plan on using the data in another thread.
Edit: changed CPA to certified tax professionals but we have both.
What is your credit score?
It was about 810. I recently missed the first payment for the first time in my life and it dropped to 765. :(
Why should I choose you over your competition, such as TurboTax and my own personal bank (in terms of notifying me of a credit report/score?)
In tax, I think TurboTax is a good product. Today, the main difference will be price. Our service is free no matter what schedules, income, states that you need. In the future, we think that integration on our platform will make the experience more seamless. For example, we will know that you bought a home from the credit report and double check to make sure that you are getting your mortgage interest deduction.
As for credit, we have the most robust platform. We have two bureaus, credit reports, credit monitoring, direct dispute, credit simulator, etc. With that said, we are always happy when banks give away the data. Better informed consumers lead to better outcomes.
I am curious as to why Credit Karma focuses on the less used, and seemingly less valuable, Vantage model. Is it a cheaper resource as you won't have to pay for the FICO models or are you and your company seeing a trend away from those FICO models?
Great tool btw. I recommend your site for anyone trying to understand and dive into their credit profile.
There are a few reason for this. One is that FICO is expensive and scores are a commodity. FICO also sells about three dozen variants. Which means even if we used them, the chance that the score you see on the site is the same as the one the lender uses is low.
Secondarily, the trend is to move away from credit scores in underwriting. Scores were great when banks didn't have statisticians or large data processing capabilities 1980-1990s. Today, everyone embraces big data. That means banks can compute their own risk score from the credit report. The score computed by FICO or Vantage becomes a smaller variable in the approval process.
I should also say scores still do matter for small banks which don't have the resources. Scores are also good for describing general risk. For example, you might describe the average score of your portfolio of loans to signal the relative risk.
Awesome! Y'all did an awesome job with the rebrand and new experience design, love it.
Thank you. I am sure the brand, marketing, and design teams will love that feedback. I think it looks great too.
What do you plan on doing with the data collected from these? Also, would your free tax form be as simple as something such as turbo tax?
I should be clear that we aren't going to be selling the information like some people suggest. First, I think saving people $50-$100 a year is a pretty powerful reason.
The business reason are that we will be able provide better advise and recommendations. Let me give you two examples.
As for the simplicity, yes we absolutely think it will be as easy as any other provider in the market. Long term, we think it can be easier by leveraging the information from reports and other sources like I referenced in the mortgage example.
Our mission statement at Credit Karma is "to make financial progress possible for everyone". Credit scores are certainly a defining metric.
Earlier this year, we realized that there were many similarities in the credit score space as the tax space:
You just launched in Canada, and now you've announced taxes. Are there any other things you're working on adding?
Yes, a lot. We have been working on many really cool features. Expect a couple more awesome features in Q1.
First of all, LOVE this service! Started using it a year and a half ago when I was trying to get a mortgage. It really helped me to see how things I did affected my score, and I closed this past August. My question is... never mind. I saw the answer in reading TFArticle. Ok, here's a question. Are there any plans in the works to get Experian as well? Not so concerned with getting the trimerge at this point, but it would be nice to get the whole picture. Thanks!
No plans at the moment. We have a number of initiatives that we believe will drive more value to our members. Like Tax!
May be a more obscure question. But as a visual designer, I'd like to know a little about your design team. What size is it? Do y'all contract work out? In house design team? What are your thoughts on how a well designed site/mobile experience does for your customer base?? Cheers!
Edit: autocorrect spelling mishap
We have about 10 designers internally. As we have moved to more surfaces (desktop, iOS, Android, mobile web), it has become more and more challenging to move quickly. We usually design in house but in certain instance like our new rebrand we want different perspectives so we brought in an agency to help.
For the tax forms you don't support, will we be able to manually enter the relevant information into the 1040? For example if I needed to enter something on Form 1040, line 48 even though you don't support the other forms relating to that line.
The product teams' answer is: "is it depends, in some cases you need to attach the form which we cannot provide if we don’t facilitate that form."
My answer is: it sounds like a big kluge. Don't do it.
Ok thanks for your reply! I didn't mean to criticize your quality I'm definitely pleased with your credit score service and I had heard about your acquisition. More of a question about the guarantees I see on other tax software. Wondered if you'd provide the same.
What about my education question?
Don't worry, I wasn't offended:). Just trying to read between the lines. Regarding education, we won't have that level of content this year. It will much more about a simple and clean experience. We will incorporate more of the education into the product in future year. But I'm not sure that it would be as detailed as credit since tax code may change a lot whereas credit has been pretty steady.
Also thank you for being a member!
In case of an audit will you keep a certain number of years files backed up?
Will you support filing extensions or amending past returns?
We support both extensions and amending. We will allow you to keep yours filings as long as you want and permitted by law.
I have all my credit reports frozen. Will I be able to use your tax return service?
As long as you can pass the knowledge based authentication questions, yes.
Will the software allow international student to file taxes??
International students require 1040-NR which we won't support for the 2017 tax season.
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So instead of using your house address (which is what a lot of filers do), if you employ Northwest Registered Representative, you can utilize their address throughout your LLC filing and keep yours off public records. This likewise will remove junk mail, which I think is a fantastic bonus!Note: You can utilize their address in your LLC filing regardless if you hire them as just your Registered Agent or you hire them to form your LLC and be your Registered Representative.
If you don’t have the time or perseverance to Do It Yourself and form your LLC yourself, if you work with Northwest ($39 + state cost) to form your LLC, they include their Registered Representative service complimentary for the 1st year. That’s a $125 discount rate. After that, service in year 2 (and onwards) is $125 annually.
If you call most other business in this industry, you’re most likely going to speak with some sales associate who hardly comprehends what a Registered Agent is or how to form an LLC.On the other hand, I actually like that Northwest doesn’t have any sales reps. Pretty much everybody in their business does customer support.
So when you call, you talk to a friendly individual who knows what they’re discussing. I find this very helpful. Proceed and offer them a call: 509-435-9053. Their hours are Monday to Friday, from 6am to 5pm Pacific/9am to 8pm Eastern. Ask any concern you want. I believe you’ll be impressed when the phone is answered immediately (no phone triggers or extensions), the person you speak with is very friendly, and most notably, they are experts at what they do.
This is why I believe Northwest Registered Agent is the best business in the area. In both their Registered Agent service ($125 annually) and their LLC formation service ($39 + state fee), you’ll get the following 2 functions at no surcharge. . If your LLC has a yearly filing, they’ll send you an e-mail pointer before it’s due.
While I’m a pretty arranged person (I have calendar tips for almost everything), I like this free extra service. It just offers me more confidence that my LLC yearly report will be submitted on time. Keep in mind: This totally free service is simply a pointer. If you desire them to also make sure the LLC yearly report filing, they can do that too for an additional fee.
Any mail that is sent out to your LLC will be scanned by Northwest and after that published into your online account – . Whenever a document is published to your account, you’ll get an email alert. Keep in mind: While Northwest will let you utilize their address on your LLC filing, they do not desire to be receiving your mail.
Fortunately, all Internal Revenue Service, tax, and banking records are personal and are not on public records. In summary, Northwest Registered Representative is my personal recommendation (and the service I utilize myself). I like the truth that they have actually been in service for more than twenty years, have incredible consumer assistance, and I really like that they let you use their address in your LLC filing in order to keep your address off public records.
For this factor, it’s important to understand that the addresses on your LLC’s filing get listed on public records and may appear in google searches. If you were believing of utilizing your house address, however would rather keep it off public records, you can employ Northwest and use their address instead.
Any mail that is sent out to your LLC will be scanned by them and uploaded into your online account. Northwest generally charges $100 + state costs to form an LLC. However, we’ve worked out a discounted rate (60% off) for LLC University ® readers. If you hire Northwest to form your LLC ($39 + state charges), they’ll include their registered representative service totally free for the 1st year, in addition to letting you use their address for privacy.
LegalZoom’s LLC formation starts at $149; Northwest begins at $39 ($110 less expensive with Northwest)LegalZoom charges $249 per year for Registered Representative service; Northwest includes that complimentary for the 1st year (then it’s $125 per year)evaluates mention how hard it is to cancel unwanted services with LegalZoom (some state their sales team utilizes aggressive strategies)last I checked, LegalZoom pitches you 7 upsellsthose upsells amounted to $1,688 (yes, you check out that properly)LegalZoom’s base bundle takes 30 organisation days for LLC approval; Northwest takes 2-5 organisation days (in the majority of states)support at Northwest is quicker to respond and they’re much more knowledgeable I recommend Northwest over LegalZoom.
However, I advise utilizing Northwest instead of IncFile. IncFile’s LLC formation starts at $49; Northwest begins at $39 ($10 more affordable with Northwest)last I examined, IncFile pitches you 9 upsellsIncFile charges $29 per month to utilize their address; this is consisted of free with Northwestreviews on IncFile consistently mention that support is truly hard to get a hold ofwhen I got in touch with both companies, the assistance at Northwest was a lot more well-informed and they were a lot easier to obtain for questions While IncFile is certainly much better than LegalZoom, I do not believe they take on Northwest.
Response: If you have actually read this far and you’re thinking, “What the heck is a Registered Representative ?!”, apologies for leaving you hanging. Let me explain: A Registered Representative is an individual or company who agrees to receive legal mail (called “service of process”) on behalf of your LLC in case your company is taken legal action against.
In almost all states (except Ohio) your LLC’s Registered Agent should have a physical street address (no PO boxes permitted) in the state where you’re forming your LLC. The Registered Representative need to likewise typically be available during normal organisation hours (9am– 5pm) in case “service of process” gets here. . Service of Process consists of the shipment of legal documents such as a grievance, summons, or subpoena.
By requiring all LLCs to have– and continually maintain– a Registered Agent, the shipment of legal mail and court files can be tracked and accounted for within the state. This resembles how ‘qualified mail return invoice’ works, however in the legal world, this is how process servers– (individuals providing legal files)– produce a record that something was provided.
It simply depends upon the state. The term Registered Agent is most typically utilized in 39 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The other terms used are as follows: Registered OfficeResident AgentStatutory AgentAgent for Service of ProcessTo see which terms are utilized in which state, please see here: what is a Registered Representative contacted each state?Depending on yourstate, you may see Northwest Registered Agent describe themselves as a: Commercial Registered AgentCommercial Local AgentCommercial Statutory AgentCommercial Representative for Service of ProcessCommercial Registered Office Company (CROP)Again, they all mean the same thing: a business that accepts receive Service of Process on behalf of your LLC.Answer: You’ll want to form your LLC in the state where you’re legally “negotiating organisation”.
Even if you have an online service, due to the fact that you are operating that business from your house, you are still negotiating business in that state. What about Delaware, Nevada, and Wyoming? Should you form your LLC there?Check out the pros and cons here: finest state to form an LLCAlthough you can read the Northwest Registered Agent evaluates online, I’ve extracted a few of my preferred here: “These men are real.
They do simply as good a task as LegalZoom. They do it for more affordable. And they do it with 1 or 2 day turn-around, free of charge, whereas Legal Zoom charges HUNDREDS of dollars for that. They also have terrific individuals available on the phone. . I paid. I got service.
Legit service. I’m very, extremely happy I discovered these men. LegalZoom would’ve taken a month and cost far more.”– Carlos Augusto, California(source: Google reviews) “Regarding what I hear from a lot of reviews, Northwest Registered Representative is among the more smooth companies to deal with in concerns to business formation and registered agents.
I quick fired so lots of questions at him, all of which were responded to patiently with specificity and experience. Within 30 minutes, I went from being someone who knew little to nothing about business development, to being someone who had the ability to move things forward with certainty.”– Dylan P., New york city(source: Yelp reviews) “Down-to-earth rates without any covert gotchas, quickly turn-around, responsive client service and all round pleasurable company/service to handle.”– Ozan B.(source: Bbb reviews)Northwest Registered Representative is the 3rd biggest Registered Agent provider in the U.S.With any company of that scale, it’s almost impossible to make everybody delighted.
Furthermore, Northwest has a 100% Error-Free Guarantee. This is what’s on their website: We form numerous LLCs every day, and each filing is backed by our 100% error-free warranty. Although exceptionally rare, in the 20 years we have actually been in business, we have actually found out that errors do occur. Needs to an error take place, we’ll submit every change needed to make sure your company info is precise (at no cost to you). I think that promotes itself. Upgraded Jan 20, 2020 To filter evaluations, Check in or Register. Northwest Registered Representative 10Your trust is our top issue, so business can’t change or get rid of reviews. Former Staff Member – Agency Employer I worked at Northwest Registered Representative full-timeProsGood Pay, Great work environment. ConsIt is a task. There’s always cons. Adults handle them.
Enjoyable office. Fair settlement and benefits. Relatable supervisors. Continued, continual development. ConsGrowth management, suggesting we need more employees:-RRB-. Continue readingHelpful (1 )Flag as InappropriateNorthwest Registered Representative 2019-05-10March 12, 2019Helpful (1 )Current Staff Member – Corp Guide in Spokane, WARecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have actually been operating at Northwest Registered Representative full-time for more than 3 yearsPros- Startup mentality, completely driven by their staff members and really work to produce an environment where everybody can have a good time, but still be efficient.
Snack Friday is a great time:-RRB-. – Low stress sales environment compared to some I have actually remained in, the product sells itself. – Great deals of opportunities to grow your career. You might not constantly move position-wise, however your list of duties can grow to challenge yourself. – Annual reviews are something to eagerly anticipate with this company instead of to fear.
We argue, we laugh, we sob, and we having fun – . Would not trade my 8 hours a day with anyone else:-RRB- well for work anyway. – This service is steady and growing! I understand being steady shouldn’t be a pro, but some comfort goes a long way!Cons- It’s a pro to some, a con to others, however movement is difficult.
Continue readingHelpful (1 )Flag as InappropriateNorthwest Registered Agent 2019-03-13January 24, 2019Helpful (1 )Existing Worker – Corporate Guide RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have actually been working at Northwest Registered Representative full-time for more than a yearProsNorthwest Registered Agent has a great balance of effort and enjoyable in a relaxed work environment. With a youthful staff and stand-up desks, its modern workplace has the perfect combination of work and convenience.
I’ve been here for over a year now, and I’m still going strong (). ConsI actually wish that we could bring animals into work. Continue readingHelpful (1 )Flag as InappropriateNorthwest Registered Agent 2019-01-25Thanks for the kind words:) Continue readingSeptember 12, 2018Helpful (3 )Previous Staff Member – Anonymous Employee Doesn’t RecommendNeutral OutlookI worked at Northwest Registered Representative full-timeProsMost other individuals there were nice.
A supervisor desired me to enter into an outside organization that is a religion however they claim is not. I went to HR with this problem and both of us stopped within a couple of weeks. Handy (3 )Flag as InappropriateNorthwest Registered Agent 2018-09-12Northwest Registered Representative is a HIPPA and PCI compliant work location, so we can’t have workers cellular phone at work stations.
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We are People Living with HIV in North America. We are part of a Global Movement. We are organizing and we will not be silenced. We are a network of people with a common identity despite our differences and diverse experiences.
As part of a Global Movement we have representation on the Global Board of GNP+ which is a Network of Regional Networks of HIV Positive people. Which enables us to work and collaborate with people on issues having a global impact.
We develop, support and nurture the development of actions and programs to promote the rights and quality of life of People Living with HIV.
The Board of Directors of GNP+ North America is made up of Leaders from our community.representing it in all its diversity.
We represent People Living with HIV in Canada and the United States of America.
Anyone living with HIV is eligible to be a member, to present themselves for a seat on the board, have their say and benefit from the experience of building a strong and proud community. To find out more click on the governance link below.
Want to become a member? You will be automatically added to our mailing lists.
Want to help us out? We run on a shoe-string budget. Click on the donate link to help keep us afloat.
Follow us on Facebook. Click on the Facebook link to keep up to date.
Follow us on Twitter. Click on the Twitter link to see what's happening.
Laurel Sprague Regional Coordinator (Currently on leave)
Mike Sangster - Co-Chair (for Canada)
Terje Anderson - Co-Chair (for the USA)
Trevor Stratton - Vice-Chair (for Canada)
Robert Suttle - Vice-Chair (for the USA)
John Tenorio - Treasurer
Christian Hui - Secretary
Cecilia Chung - International Representative
Board of Directors Canada
Rodney Rousseau - At Large (CA3)
Robert Bardston - Prairies/Northwest Territories (PRA)
Maureen Achieng Owino - At Large (CA1)
Steve Ross - Québec/Nunavut (QC)
Christian Hui - Ontario (ON)
Mike Sangster - Atlantic (ATL)
Tyler Cuddahy - Pacific/Yukon (PAC)
Trevor Stratton - At Large (CA2) (Alternate Rep to Global Board)
Board of Directors USA
Margot Kirkland - (US3)
Cecilia Chung - California (US1) (Rep to Global Board)
Dee Borrego - Massachusetts (US4)
Tami Haught - Texas (US5)
John Tenorio - Colorado (US6)
Terje Anderson - Vermont (US8)
Robert Suttle - Pennsylvania (US2)
Tre Alexander - (US7)
Representation and voting is based on residency. i.e
Canadians vote for Canadians.
Americans vote for Americans
Canada (CA) 5 Regional and 3 At-Large Seats ATG.
Even years (ATL-Atlantic, ON-Ontario, CA1, CA2)
Odd years (QC-Québec/Nunavut, PRA-Prairies/NWT, PAC-Pacific/Yukon, CA3)
Regional seats are ideally pre-elected by regional caucuses. And ratified at the AGM.
This does not preclude nominations from the floor if a seat has not been filled by a regional caucus.
USA including Puerto Rico and US territories & possessions
(US) 8 At-Large Seats ATG.
Even years (US2, US4, US6, US8)
Odd years (US1, US3, US5, US7)
Seats are elected at the AGM.
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Clear PVC pouch with neck cord. You can still use your phone and take photos while it is protected. Use it on the farm or for any water based activities
Size: 11cm x 17cm
Please note a delivery time of 10 working days applies on this product
Milk Bottle Lollies in a cellophane Bag with Fonterra Logo Sticker attached. Yum!
Please contact Promoworld for discount on bulk orders - note this only applies ot orders of 100+ units
Heavy duty nylon, internal pockets, contents for emergency care and resuscitation. This kit would be especially useful for travel and work use.
Contents: 1x Combined Pad, 1x Eye Pad, 2x Emergency Blanket, 1x Long Adhesive Strip, 2x Triangular Bandage, 10x Band Aid Strips, 4x Soap Wipes, 2x Elastic Bandage Roll, 4x Cleaning Wipes, 1x CPR Shield, 1x Scissors, 1x Tweezers, 1x Adhesive Tape Roll, 2x Adhesive Plaster, Knuckle Size, 3x Adhesive Plaster, Butterfly Size, 3x 6x7cm Adhesive Island Dressing, 2x 6x10cm Adhesive Island Dressing, 2x 6x7cm Semi-permeable Dressing, 2x 6x10cm Semi-permeable Dressing, 2x Conforming Bandage Rolls, 1x First Aid Notes, 1x PVC Bag, 24x18x7.5cm
Small Wooden Box, with burnt Fonterra Logo, containing native seedlings:
1x Nikau Palm
1x Cabbage Tree
Also includes planting instructions card.
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Occupy Orange County to March, Protest in Santa Ana and Irvine Thursday
Despite law enforcement sweeps at Occupy camps from San Diego to Oakland to New York City, Occupy Orange County remains determined to keep the movement alive. With Thursday being billed as an International Day of Direct Action, local Occupiers plan on marching and protesting at multiple locations in Santa Ana and Irvine.
The former executive assistant saysOccupy Orange County Irvine
has plans to start their actions on Thursday at 3 p.m., near Main Street and Von Karman Avenue, where the group has protested corporate greed and its influence on politicsmultiple times during the past month
. This will be followed by a protest in solidarity withmoveon.org
at theJohn Wayne Airport
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Link 1: keybr.com - Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free!
Required: Flash...How does Keybr.com work?
Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again; that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language. These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it’s almost impossible for the letter ‘W’ to follow the ‘Z’ in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as “the,” “that,” “with,” and so on. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.
Keybr.com is a web–based software that runs directly in your browser. You don’t have to download or install anything! The most recent and up–to–date version is always with you. You can use it from any computer connected to the Internet, and your typing statistics are kept on the web site and available on–demand.
Login or connect with Facebook to keep track of your progress.
Link 2: Typing Competition - 10FastFingers.com
10FastFingers tests your typing in sessions of 60 seconds. Your score/result is compared to others who have used the site in the past 24 hours.
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Published: Fri 21 October 2016
Grammatical number in English is horrible, and we should just give up on it.
Granted, this is something we can say about basically every aspect of the
English language, and there's a queue from here to Worcestershire to grouse
about our horrendous spelling, but I feel the dreadfulness of our plurals tends
to go unnoticed.
First off, we have our pronouns. The first person is straightforward with "I"
and "we". Well, unless you're royalty, but that's rare enough to ignore. The
second person made sense once upon a time, when we still had "thee" as its
singular, but now it's all just "you". There is also "y'all", but for reasons
that probably boil down to classism, a lot of people have a problem with it.
The third person used to be straightforward. The only confusion was in the
singular, where "she" could refer to either certain inanimate objects or women
(who men wished were inanimate). From the 19th century, when prescription of
"he" as the generic singular really got started, through the turn of the 21st,
things were simple. There was order, there was reason, there was misogyny.
But, fairly recently, we've started getting this bizarre notion that women
matter, and maybe we shouldn't assume a non-specific person is a man. Thus, we
saw the return of the singular "they", and the weird grammatical gymnastics it
requires. On top of that, we've just started to realize there are far more
genders than English is remotely prepared to deal with. This means using "he"
or "she" (or even "he or she") could still be factually and grammatically
incorrect. While there have been attempts at adding new pronouns for enbies to
use, they've all kinda fizzled (I'd say partly because there are
too many). This leaves us with no choice but to accept
the inevitable rise of the singular "they".
This, alone, I would consider sufficient evidence that communicating number in
English is absurdly complex. Clearly, to do so for people is just not a thing
we'll even be able to manage at all. But this barely scratches the surface.
Look at "everything". Despite meaning multiple things, it's singular because
you're referring to each individual thing by itself. Sure, you get used to
that, but if you think it's intuitive you're kidding yourself. And British
English will refer to a company as plural ("Apple are courageously removing
the headphone jack") because it's a group of individuals, but in America a company is
singular ("Apple has outrageously slaughtered the headphone jack"). I guess
this is because in America, corporations are people, my friend.
We also have phrases like "notaries public", where we pluralize the first word
of the phrase rather than the second. It's because the latter is an adjective,
of course, but if we're going to violate the rule that the adjectives should
come first, why can't we violate the rule about which one gets pluralized?
Then we have words from other languages, where the choice about whether to use
that language's own plural seems to be entirely random. You can say "indexes"
or "indices", "emojis" or "emoji", "paninis" or "panini"; it depends only on
how much smarter you want to sound than the person you're talking to. And you
can go right ahead and say campuses, but don't you dare say alumnuses.
Clearly, grammatical number in English is a convoluted disaster of inconsistent
and meaningless rules. A thorough understanding of them must surely come only
from steeping in their senselessness long enough for them to gain an illusion
of logic. I would humbly propose that we simply do away with number entirely.
If everything are plural, nothing are confusing at all. With these one simple
change, the English languages will make much more senses. Besides, we're
already fine with just calling pants, scissors, and glasses by the plurals all
the time, and deer, fish, and aircraft by the singulars, so would we really
even be missing anything? Sure we might sound like
those ones characters from Futuramas,
but we'll save ourselves some lots of hassles.
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TRANSFER OF SCHOOLS: EMSB Chairman Angela Mancini is deeply disappointed with the decision by Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge’s to transfer two school buildings – John Paul I Junior High and General Vanier in St. Léonard – to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Ile (CSPI). Gerald McShane Elementary School in Montreal North will not be transferred. As requested by the Minister, a copy of the letter explaining his decision has been transmitted to parents and staff of the three schools. Ms. Mancini has announced that a Town Hall meeting only for parents, administrators and Governing Board members from John Paul I and General Vanier will take place next Tuesday evening, July 2 at Laurier Macdonald High School in St. Léonard. At that meeting a contingency plan will be presented. Please read our full press release and the letter from the Minister.
EMSB ADOPTS BALANCED BUDGET: On June 26 the EMSB Council of Commissioners adopted a balanced budget for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Council is pleased to highlight that, according to the budgetary rules, the EMSB has included in next year’s budget, the equivalent of 15 percent of the adjusted June 30, 2018 accumulated surplus. This will allow the board to benefit from an amount of close to $7.3 million in additional operating monies to support the educational projects in all EMSB schools and centres next year. Approximately 20 percent of this amount ($1.3 million) will be allocated directly to schools and centres to support local projects and initiatives. Another $1.7 million is invested in direct services to students and for various educational initiatives to support various programs in partnership with the schools and centres. An amount of $2 million is reserved for costs related to relocation of students and expansion of space related to the use of our school buildings.
MAJOR SCHOOL CHANGE: The EMSB has formally launched its first Major School Change consultation since 2012 in an effort to assist two French school boards in need of more space for their students. A number of scenarios involving possible school mergers and relocations in the East End have been proposed by the EMSB Long Range Planning Committee. These will now go out for consultation. Schools identified will be asked to present briefs in December, with hearings scheduled for January 2020 followed by a special board meeting to vote on the proposals with any changes to take effect on July 1, 2020. A second Major School Change consultation may be launched in the spring of 2020. The document will soon be posted on the EMSB website. However, in light of the Minister's decision, some adjustments may be necessary.
WILLINGDON EXPANSION: There has been a lot of excitement at Willingdon Elementary School in NDG in recent months as they prepare for the introduction of the Senior Campus. It will debut on Coronation Avenue in September for students in Grades 5 and 6. Meanwhile, Westmount Park Elementary School will close for two years for renovations. Students will be relocated to facilities in Ville Emard and at the Marymount Academy International campus in NDG. Veteran broadcaster Suzanne Desautels has prepared some fantastic podcasts (short radio shows) on the moves. They make for great listening.
Please click on these links.
Please click on these links.
Students spend some time at their new campus
Suzanne visits Westmount Park Elementary School staff and students on the eve of their move
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Argininosuccinate synthase (ASS1) is a key component in the liver urea cycle (UC). Outside the liver, ASS1 participates in the citrulline-arginine cycle. This cycle supplies the cellular needs for arginine and its downstream essential metabolites, as nitric oxide (NO), in a cell specific manner1,2. Indeed, patients with germline mutations in ASS1 are severely ill. Yet, in many cancer types, ASS1 expression is epigenetically downregulated and is associated with poor patients’ prognosis3-6. In these cancers, we (the Erez and Ruppin labs), previously reported that ASS1 downregulation increases the availability of its substrate aspartate for pyrimidine synthesis, supporting cell proliferation7. Furthermore, in many cancers, we and others have demonstrated a more general tumor metabolic urea cycle dysregulation (UCD), which further enhances pyrimidine synthesis8,9.
The increase in pyrimidine levels in high UCD cancers, generates a mutational bias favoring pyrimidine that correlates with higher levels of hydrophobic-immunogenic antigens and hence with increased response to immunotherapy9. This is important since although immunotherapy is a promising treatment for numerous types of cancer, only a small number of cancer patients qualify to receive them and of those, the treatments succeed in less than half. Along these lines, in several common types of cancer, ASS1 is overexpressed for a yet unknown survival benefit10-11. We were therefore intrigued to decipher the metabolic gains that high ASS1 expression may provide to such cancers, surmising that such understanding may further advance our ability to treat these cancers.
In the current study, we first analyzed data derived from human samples in the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and found that tumors with high levels of ASS1 were more likely metastasize and responded less to immunotherapy. Pathway analysis revealed that ASS1 expression correlates with the expression of gluconeogenesis genes. Validating these results in the lab, we further found that the activation of gluconeogenesis, leads to an increase in its branching metabolic pathways, consequently increasing the production of purine, and the ratio of purine relative to pyrimidine. Based on our previous results which demonstrated that high pyrimidine promote response to immunotherapy, we now hypothesized that an imbalance in the other direction could have a significant effect in resistance to immunotherapy. Following confirmation of our hypothesis in tumors from mice and humans confirmed this idea, we next asked whether we can regulate the purine-pyrimidine balance to improve the response to immunotherapy.
Indeed, female mice injected with breast cancer cells treated with mizoribine, a purine synthesis inhibitor, became responsive to immunotherapy. Importantly, by collaborating with Prof. Angel Porgador and his colleagues from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, we demonstrated that treating PDXs of lung cancer patients that were unresponsive to immunotherapy with mizoribine, generated reactivity in autologous T-cells taken from the same patients as exemplified by an increase in IFN-g secretion following treatment with anti-PD1 immunotherapy.
Our results are encouraging as they suggest that clinically, by metabolic modulation of nucleic acid ratios in tumors, we can promote response to immunotherapy in “cold”, non-responsive tumors.
1 Husson, A., Brasse-Lagnel, C., Fairand, A., Renouf, S. & Lavoinne, A. Argininosuccinate synthetase from the urea cycle to the citrulline-NO cycle. European journal of biochemistry 270, 1887-1899 (2003).
2 Erez, A., Nagamani, S. C. & Lee, B. Argininosuccinate lyase deficiency-argininosuccinic aciduria and beyond. American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics 157, 45-53 (2011).
3 Liu, Q. et al. Reduced expression of argininosuccinate synthetase 1 has a negative prognostic impact in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. PLoS One 12, e0171985, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171985 (2017).
4 Sahu, D. et al. Argininosuccinate Synthetase 1 Loss in Invasive Bladder Cancer Regulates Survival through General Control Nonderepressible 2 Kinase-Mediated Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2alpha Activity and Is Targetable by Pegylated Arginine Deiminase. Am J Pathol, doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2016.09.004 (2016).
5 Kim, Y. et al. Reduced argininosuccinate synthetase expression in refractory sarcomas: Impacts on therapeutic potential and drug resistance. Oncotarget 7, 70832-70844, doi:10.18632/oncotarget.12225 (2016).
6 Wu, L. et al. Expression of argininosuccinate synthetase in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 28, 365-368, doi:10.1111/jgh.12043 (2013).
7 Rabinovich, S. et al. Diversion of aspartate in ASS1-deficient tumours fosters de novo pyrimidine synthesis. Nature 527, 379-383, doi:10.1038/nature15529 (2015).
8 Kim, J. et al. CPS1 maintains pyrimidine pools and DNA synthesis in KRAS/LKB1-mutant lung cancer cells. Nature 546, 168-172, doi:10.1038/nature22359 (2017).
9 Lee, J. S. et al. Urea Cycle Dysregulation Generates Clinically Relevant Genomic and Biochemical Signatures. Cell 174, 1559-1570 e1522, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.019 (2018).
10 Delage, B. et al. Arginine deprivation and argininosuccinate synthetase expression in the treatment of cancer. International journal of cancer 126, 2762-2772 (2010).
11 Szlosarek, P. W. et al. Aberrant regulation of argininosuccinate synthetase by TNF-alpha in human epithelial ovarian cancer. International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer 121, 6-11, doi:10.1002/ijc.22666 (2007).
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A business model that demonstrates trust and commitment.
I was speaking to the Vice-President of a multi-billion dollar company who wanted to throw out a client who kept coming back and renegotiating his deal. With the help of my team, here is how he responded instead: “I want to work with you but only if the terms of the agreement work to serve both our best interests. If this is a one-sided deal, we cannot continue to work together. Please get back to us when you are willing to make this a mutually beneficial relationship .”
The client wanted the lowest price for top-notch service. The company in question knows what his customers want and aligns his business model to reflect that need. They know how best to deliver what they asked for but they can’t do that below cost.
I aligned my business model to reflect the growth of my client’s business. My fees start out small and grow as the client's business grows. This benefits both of us and is my way of demonstrating my dedication to the client and to the growth of his company. Doesn’t that make sense?
What can you do to align your business model with your clients need?
Morty Silber, CEO
Mad Strategies Inc.
a Wizard of Ads Partner
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Breaking News! Geezers get out for special opening!
How’d I get here? … lined up at Gelson’s before the 0700 special opening for the 65+ crowd. I hope all those people who pushed carts way down the line will put them back by the time I get to the front.
The line behind me by the opening was just as long. They carded us at the door for a real thrill. Inside was crazy, but the shelves were not that full. I don’t usually go to Gelson’s, so I was unfamiliar with the layout. Others knew exactly where to go for their staples.
At 0800 I was at my regular grocery store, Smart and Final, where the line was small, the shelves were stocked (no TP, paper towels, hand sanitizer, eggs, or butter though), and checkout was quick. While I was there, they announced they’ll be opening every day at 0730 for “seniors only.”
Talked to another grandparent in line who knew the restocking cycles of all the Smart and Final stores in the area; she planned to make the rounds.
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It’s a strange time for marketers. Faced with stay-at-home orders and totally remote work routines, buyers’ behaviors are shifting. In response, your B2B company has probably had to adjust its messaging or offer pricing flexibility to adapt to the current climate. But have you considered the critical role your brand will play in determining how you adapt?
In this three-part series, we’ll share our recommendations of things you can do to fortify your brand while keeping it relevant and engaging. From leaning into your brand as a guide for decision-making, which we’ll cover below, to staying close to your audience and looking for alternative ways to drive brand loyalty, this series will help you tap into your brand as a resource during the current crisis and strengthen it to guide business decisions in the long term.
Right now: Let your brand be your guide
Adapting your marketing approach during a crisis is not about introducing an entirely new brand strategy — it’s about finding what’s most relevant within your existing platform to help guide your decisions. In the same way that you might modulate your message based on audience or channel, view the current crisis as just a new context for your brand to exist within. Start by digging into your brand elements, look to your team to help set your strategy for the short-term and remember to keep your team informed on any changes.
Lean into what’s relevant now
To help you adapt to the current climate, start by identifying which elements of your brand are currently the most relevant to the situation, and lean into those aspects. They’re likely the more human elements of your brand: your brand values, personality traits, brand purpose, etc. At Walker Sands, our brand values are Learn, Support, Do — and these days we’re rallying around our Support value to meet the needs of our clients and community.
For Uber, they’re focusing their attention on how their mission — helping people move from point A to point B — can adapt to continue delivering value, even when people aren’t moving around that much. They’ve launched two new services, Uber Direct and Uber Connect, to deliver produce and essentials, further strengthening their association with mobility and providing a valuable service to their customers during a difficult time.
Set your short-term strategy
If you don’t have a solid brand platform, you’re likely feeling a bit adrift. Use your entire team as a resource to help create a short-term strategy to guide your communication and decision making in the current climate. In other words, look beyond the marketing department — sales, customer service, operations and HR can all bring unique perspectives that can help shape your approach. Some questions to consider:
- What is a story that is emblematic of our culture?
- How do we want our customers to feel when they engage with our product/service?
- What values guide our day-to-day work?
- What inspires us about the work that we do?
Keep your team on the same page
Every single one of your employees represents a touchpoint to your brand. As you calibrate your new approach, it’s essential to make sure it’s universally understood across your organization. Consider creating a modified brand guidelines document and distributing it to your internal team to ensure a consistent brand experience for your customers.
Navigating your short-term brand strategy isn’t as daunting as it seems. By leaning on the relevant aspects of your brand to help guide your business through the current crisis, you will be able to weather the storm and will be well prepared to recalibrate based on how the market and your audience perceptions shift.
Down the road: Reevaluate the resilience of your brand
Whether you’re starting from square one or looking to reinforce what you already have in place, the period following a crisis is an opportunity to evaluate the strength of your brand and shore up any shortcomings. Start by identifying the challenges you faced, and trace them back to potential gaps in your brand. Here are some common pitfalls brands face in times of crisis, along with ways to overcome them:
- There was confusion about where your brand can play. If your brand is anchored too heavily in product/service attributes, it can be difficult to adjust to an environment where a heavy sell is not appropriate. Look to better understand the outcomes your offering creates or the identity your customers seek to embody when they use your product to build a more flexible brand.
- Your team wasn’t able to pivot your strategy quickly enough. Do you have clear brand guidelines in place? Are your brand values lived and actively applied in your organization? When your team is on the same page, you can move in unison and your brand becomes more agile.
- You were invisible. Were you overshadowed by your competition or the situation? Just like people, brands without personality or POV get overlooked. Build a stronger voice for your brand to break through and make an impression, regardless of the environment.
After understanding more about your challenges, continue to push yourself by asking tough questions to determine whether the crisis has intrinsically changed the way your brand is perceived:
- Has the situation shifted how our customers use our product?
- E.g,. Parents are starting to use project management tools outside of work to plan their children’s homeschooling schedules during school shutdowns.
- Has there been changes in sentiment around specific values that might be an opportunity to pursue?
- E.g.,. With more people out of work, frugality increases in importance. Could a cost-saving piece of technology, like Honey, be more relevant in this current environment?
- Have competitors expanded into new areas or are there new competitors that have arisen as a result of the current environment?
- E.g., Facebook adds “Messenger Rooms” video conferencing functionality to compete with the increasing popularity of Zoom and Google Hangouts.
There may be a lot of moving pieces currently, but don’t panic. For now, focus on your brand foundation and progressively evolve from there. A well-crafted brand can serve as your North Star to help guide your business during uncertain times. In our next post, we’ll talk about the importance of staying in close contact with your audience to adapt your strategies accordingly. Keep reading by clicking here.
If you need guidance on your brand strategy, Walker Sands is here to help. Contact our experts for a free branding audit with customized recommendations to enhance your B2B brand.
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If you think Jasmine Byrne looks nasty you have to be gay.
This would be a whole lot better if they turned the lights on.
What I can tell from the lighting is that, this scene is supposed to recreate a couple in bed at night time. But if I'm with Jasmine or any beautiful women for that matter. The lights will be on! ...along with a camcorder :)
Hell, not only would I have the lights on if I were fucking Jasmine Byrne, I would invite people over to watch. Just to show off
HOT SEX!! Jasmine really knows how to fuck back. As for the lighting it is called mood. It is the director's decision and I think it was a good one. There's plenty of light. You aren't missing anything.
One of the best one-on-one sex scenes I have seen in a long time: The lighting is meant to be INTIMATE, to create the illusion of a REAL COUPLE having SEX (not a PORN couple FUCKING). If you rely on bright lights and camcorders every time you get a chick in bed, you're missing half the fun...
hunter, don't think Xanther is gay, even gay men appreciate beatuy...retarded, blind, those are possibilities. Not one of Jasmine's best scenes but anything with this godess is worth watching.
great hot sweaty sex. looks real, feels real...
AWESOME camera work....
Jasmine Byrne just about blew the top of my head (both of them) right off! Wow! This is one of the hottest videos and babes I've ever seen. Maturbation heaven!!!
stretch'er out....light a candle...ART
She looks Really nasty thats why the lights are off
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From USA Jay Franco Disney Peter Pan Neverland 1 Pack Reversible Pillowcase - Kids Super Soft Bedding (Official Disney Product)
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All of our products are shipped from the US.
Delivery period is available within 21 days.
Our product is delivered from the US.
If there is a problem with the product, you can return it within 3 days after delivery.
You cannot return it due to the customer's change of heart.
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Soul food recipe websites are proceed to adapt and reinvent itself to meet altering shopper needs. Most Chinese language cuisines could be very high in sodium, from using MSG and soy sauce. So, go forward, add “a dash of this” and “a pinch of that” to convey out the true flavors of your southern recipes. Though Lakeland sells banana-shaped plastic circumstances to guard your fruit on your journey to work, it also shares heaps of wise and practical storage, serving and cooking products, and usually the best costs you will discover.\n\nMeals tips to guide your cooking are additionally commonly out there. Many speculate the tight economy has compelled many households to eat out less and prepare dinner more meals at dwelling. First, you will want to guantee that the water you might be using is boiling, and producing steam earlier than you add the meals to the steamer.\n\nNow you may see recipes calling for smoked turkey, which include as much as ninety five% less fat than ham hocks, fat again or bacon. Now are you able to see why major food manufactures are elbowing for a chunk of the soul food recipe market. All you wish to learn about roasting, pickling, and prepping meat is right here on this web site.\n\nWith these web sites you possibly can simply search primarily based on the type of dish you need to prepare dinner, resembling a main entree or dessert or you may search based mostly on what you wish to prepare dinner, akin to whether you need to use beef or chicken.
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Hotel child in Monmouth, family hotel in Monmouth and hotels children in Monmouth. Online directory with family friendly hotel Monmouth UK.
Find hotel family rooms in Monmouth. Kids hotels in Monmouth. Family hotel, child friendly hotels and hotels family rooms Monmouth, South Wales. Find Family Hotels in Monmouth, Ross on wye, Ross on Wye.
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Yes, we have many many satisfied customers who have won consistently using our system. However, there are swings in every game and you will not win every session. There is inherent risk in all gambling, so please play responsibly only with money you can afford to lose.
After purchase, a message containing the download link for Easy Money Blackjack is sent to your email. If, after 15 minutes, you still have not received this email, be sure to check your spam/bulk folder as sometimes it gets trapped there. If you still cannot find your login email, please contact our support via the Contact Us link.
Passwords are case sensitive and they are usually mixed case. The biggest problem that members have logging in is confusing characters such as the lower case L, with uppercase I, the number 1, etc. Please make sure to try all combinations before contacting our support. After your initial login, you can change your password from the Members Home page.
All credit card transactions for our Easy Money Blackjack System e-book are processed by our retailer, ClickBank, on their server. You will see the charge on your statement as such.
ClickBank uses secure server software (SSL) that is the industry standard and is among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. The “https:” at the beginning of the URL for the checkout page means that all of your personal information is encrypted, including credit card number, name and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.
Unfortunately at this time we do not accept cash, personal checks or money orders. If you do not feel comfortable using a credit card, we now offer Paypal as an alternative payment method. Paypal is a trusted form of sending money electronically and is used by millions of companies worldwide. It’s free to open an account online; just go to paypal.com.
Yes, our ebook retailer, ClickBank, can accept payments in 31 different currencies. You will see these options on the checkout screen (after adding to cart), in the top right hand corner.
Yes it does, however, please be aware that several online casinos are very loosely regulated and may engage in foul play (using rigged software programs) or may delay payments indefinitely. Please use only reputable establishments such those recommended on our site.
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You can play at any casino that offers at minimum the surrender rule. This includes casinos in Las Vegas, Reno, Macau, The Caribbean Islands, Central & South America, Asia, Europe and many other popular gambling cities and online casinos around the world. The more favorable blackjack rules allowed, however, the better the payout (i.e. double on any 2 cards, re-splitting aces, etc.).
Yes, for those advanced players, you can incorporate the money management strategy to boost your winnings. If playing online, we recommend Blackjack Sniper card counting software for count accuracy.
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Airflow Sensing Elements
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DPT-4003 Differential Pressure Transducer
The DPT-4003 differential pressure transducer sensor operates on the capacitance principal and is capable of sensing ultra low differential pressures. In the capacitance cell, a very lightweight, responsive diaphragm deflects a small amount when pressure is applied. This deflection results in a change in capacitance, which is then detected and processed electronically into a 0-5 or 0-10 VDC output signal linear to the differential pressure.
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- Reduces Trailer Ball Hole Size from 1" to 3/4"
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Yes, we are very powerful
Royalty may have faded in the 21st century, but the “royal we” seems to be alive and well. In an analysis of spoken and written communications in several different contexts, researchers found that individuals with more power or status used fewer first-person singular pronouns. Instead, they were more inclined to use first-person plural (“we”) or second-person singular (“you”) pronouns.
Kacewicz, E. et al., “Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies,” Journal of Language and Social Psychology (March 2014).
When Keisha goes to Harvard
In the last two elections, America went for a black president with a Harvard degree. But how do black candidates fare compared with whites in the regular job market? A recent study suggests they face substantial hurdles—even with a top-notch education. A sociologist sent out fake resumes in response to hundreds of job postings. Candidates with first names common among blacks—especially lower-class blacks—got significantly fewer responses and, when there was a response, it was more likely to be for a job with lower pay and prestige. Graduates of elite colleges were not immune: A black candidate from an elite college got about the same level of response as a white candidate from a second-tier college.
Gaddis, M., “Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race, Social Class, and College Selectivity in the Labor Market,” University of North Carolina (January 2014).
Be creative—like a criminal
If you need help thinking outside the box, you could do worse than to talk to some white-collar criminals. That’s one implication of a new study on the link between dishonesty and creativity. In several experiments, participants who were dishonest in reporting their performance on a task were also subsequently more creative. This was true even when controlling for initial creativity or when researchers made dishonest behavior hard to avoid. Because dishonesty is associated with breaking the rules, it enables more outside-the-box thinking; in fact, exposure to pictures of people breaking rules generated nearly the same effect.
Gino, F. & Wiltermuth, S., “Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity,” Psychological Science (forthcoming).
Marriage after gay marriage
In the United States, one point of contention in the clash over same-sex marriage has been whether it has any implications at all for opposite-sex marriage. Now, a study of marriage trends in the Netherlands—the first country to legalize same-sex marriage—found that overall opposite-sex marriage rates were not significantly affected by the change. There was, however, an underlying divergence in marriage culture after the change: “Individuals living in more-conservative municipalities (the Dutch ‘Bible Belt’) and those from more-conservative ethnicities (Turks, Moroccans, and other non-Western immigrants) have tended to marry significantly more....In contrast, individuals residing in the more-liberal four largest cities have tended to marry significantly less.”
Trandafir, M., “The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence from the Netherlands,” Demography (February 2014).
Disagreement, good for the bottom line
It can be pleasant to work with people with politics like yours. But shareholders who want a company to succeed should pray for political disagreement among company leaders. Corporations with independent directors who were more politically aligned with the CEO—as measured by political contributions—had “lower valuations, lower operating performance, a lower probability of CEO turnover following poor performance, weaker compensation incentives, and a greater likelihood of corporate fraud.” This effect was more pronounced for smaller boards and remained after controlling for demographic differences, social ties, and influence peddling.
Lee, J. et al., “Birds of a Feather: Value Implications of Political Alignment between Top Management and Directors,” Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).Kevin Lewis is an Ideas columnist.
He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Do you need Lime for your Lawn?
If you have never considered the use of lime for lawns, you might be missing out on important benefits for your turf. Lime and lime pellets help neutralize soil that is overly acidic resulting in green, lush grass, but if your lawn seems to be in fairly good shape, how do you know if you need lawn lime? The answer to this question is easier to determine than most people think, and Newsom Seed has everything you need to get started. From start to finish, our resources can help you test the PH of your soil for acid and recommend a course of action if you detect a negative imbalance.
Lime for Lawns | Testing and Diagnosing
Most lawns and turf do not thrive in heavily acidic soil because excess acid can burn and damage the root system. If left unattended, too much acid can ultimately kill the lawn, leaving only dead grass or brown earth in its wake. Testing soil before planting helps avoid the premature death of a lawn and keeps grass bright and in good condition.
In addition to lime pellets and lawn lime treatments, we at Newsom Seed provide several soil testing options and we always send the collected samples to a professional laboratory to acquire the most accurate results. Our staff can provide precise instructions on how to collect these samples or customers can use the detailed instructions and illustrations on our website to gather soil samples. No matter what, Newsom Seed is committed to helping you defeat acidic soil and grow a beautiful, vibrant lawn with lime pellets and lawn lime treatments.
- S1 for Lawns: This product tests your lawn's pH as well as how much organic matter, potassium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium your soil contains. A lawn lime and fertility recommendation is also included.
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The passion fruit is a tropical fruit of a plant that grows in the shape of a vine of which more than 400 varieties are known. One of the center of origin of this plant is Peru, it has two different varieties or forms: purple or purple and yellow. The first, mainly, is consumed fresh and thrives in semi warm places and higher above sea level, while the second grows in warm climates, from sea level to 1000 m altitude. In this article we will see everything about pruning passion fruit (how and when to do it, tools to use, etc), also we will take some time to see the care that you should eest with this fruit.
If you read to the end you will learn the best techniques for proper pruning, the right time to trim and the tools to do it. The article has no waste, I assure you. 😉
Note: Please note that the advice given here is general, this blog is consulted from many countries in the world, with totally different characteristics, what not all tips will be adapted in the same way in all cases. Once you finish reading the article it will be necessary to analyze all the information and apply what you have learned in the best way. If you have any questions, remember that you can contact us to make your inquiries.
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1. Care of the passion fruit
The main theme of this article is the pruning of the passion fruit, and all must be recognized that pruning is nothing but one of many care that needs to be carried out in this plant. Below we will list the most important care you should apply to have a healthy, strong passion fruit tree with the best fruits.
- Temperature: the ideal temperature range for this plant varies between 24 ° and 28 ° C. The higher the temperatures, the sooner it will reach the harvest season.
- Sun: The quality of the fruit is directly related to the light exposure of the foliar area of the plants. Five hours of light per day is recommended.
- Relative Humidity: The higher the relative humidity of the environment, the better the quality that will be obtained in the passion fruit as it will increase the weight and volume of the juice, giving it a good aroma and flavor.
- Soil: adapts to different soils provided they are deep and fertile, however the best soils are loose, well drained, without problems of salinity.
- Height: the altitude at which it must be planted depends on the variability, and everything in general goes from sea level to 1300 m in height.
- Diseases and pests: the most common diseases or pests that affect this plant are: anthracnose, nematodes and fusarium that attack the root of the plant. Check with certain periodicity to make sure that your maracuya is not being affected.
- Pruning: this article deals with pruning, so it could not be missing among the most important cares of the maracuya. In the following, we will develop this point in depth.
2. Tools needed to prune or trim a passion fruit vines
There are several tools that you will need to perform your pruning or trimming of a passion fruit. Each of them is appropriate for different cases depending on age, time of year, type of pruning, etc.
- Hand Pruning Shears: Stems up to half inch in diameter can be pruned with hand shears.
- Lopping Shears: It is suitable to use on stems between half inch and 2 inches in diameter.
- Hedge Shears: Manual and power shears are available for trimming hedges. Manual shears have long, flat blades with relatively short handles and are good for small jobs. Electric shears are a good choice for larger hedges.
- Saws: A number of pruning saws are available. These saws come with either curved or straight blades and of variable lengths and points. Curved blades that cut on the draw stroke are easy to use.
Keep in mind that you must disinfect all the tools before trimming your passion fruit. This will help prevent disease transmission, you will have to do it before you start pruning and every time you change plants.
2.1 Needed care of pruning tools
If you want to extend the useful life of your pruning tools there are some basic care.
- Use the right tool for a job and avoid twisting or straining it.
- Clean and oil tools regularly by wiping an oily cloth on blades and other surfaces.
- Keep cutting edges sharp by regularly using an oilstone.
- Wooden handles should be varnished or regularly treated with linseed oil to keep them from cracking or splintering.
Carry out the previous care on a regular basis and you will be saving good money on tools. 🙂
3. Why to prune passion fruit vine
All fruit trees need to be pruned for a control of the production and useful life of the plant, in the passion fruit is not the exception. If we want to list reasons why pruning should be carried out, we will have the following:
- Rebalance the tree among shoots, roots and fruit.
- Improve fruit quality, with more minerals available to the fruit.
- Keep fruit off the ground.
- Reduce tree size.
- Increase ease of harvesting.
- Develop trees with strong framework.
- Improve pest control.
- Improve profitability.
- Reduce costs.
- Restore tree vigor.
- Facilitates fumigations against pests and diseases, as well as their use.
- Reduce the total weight on the support system used.
- Creeping branches that hinder harvest are eliminated.
- Prevents ripe fruits from being enclosed between the branches instead of falling to the ground, which makes harvesting difficult and increases costs.
As you will see, the list of reasons why pruning is necessary is long, hence the importance of carrying it out correctly.
4. Types of support structure of the passion fruit
As the passion fruit is a climbing plant, it is necessary to build structures that allow it to develop and give a good distribution to the guides. The systems that can be used are: branches system, vertical espalier and the one of espaldera in “T”, this last one with a small modification turns into espaldera in cross.
Once the type of support structure has been selected, we will prune the maracuya in such a way that we shape the plant adapting it to the structure.
4.1 Branches system
This system consists of constructing branches with galvanized wire # 12, the height must be 2.0 meters and the posts are placed in a frame at each 5-7.5 meters. With this system the crop reaches a higher productivity, but presents a high cost due to the amount of wire used.
Another disadvantage is that it increases the incidence of diseases by the humid microclimate that forms under the ramada, besides the application of pesticides is difficult with the danger of causing intoxication in the workers.
4.2 Vertical espalier
It consists of placing rows of vertical poles of 2.0 m in height at each 5-7.5 meters, which support a wire of galvanized wire No. 12 on the upper part, to fix it staples are used for fencing. When there are strong winds in the area, a second strand of wire can be placed about 0.40 m below the first one.
According to Brazilian researchers, the second wire serves only to give greater fixity to the structure. The system with a single wire is the most used in Brazil because it is economical, easy to handle and allows a better association with other fruit trees.
4.3 T-shaped espalier
It consists of a row of vertical poles 2.0 m high that in the upper part are provided with a horizontal bar of 0.65 m long, through which pass 2 or 3 wires of galvanized wire. This system allows a better distribution of the foliage, improving the photosynthetic efficiency when exposing a greater surface of leaves to the solar rays.
It may not be so used, because it is more difficult to place and more materials are spent which increases costs, generally the costs of the trellises represent 50% of the total costs in this system.
5. Pruning passion fruit vines – How and when to prune
In modern fruit growing the concept of pruning part of a set of principles in which you have to take into account following factors:
- Forming a structure or skeleton on which to support the capacity productive
- Distribute the production organs so that they do not interfere in the luminosity and do not believe between them spaces of competition.
- Leave enough organs to have optimal production.
- Adapting the plantation frame according to the size of the variety or varieties.
- Know and differentiate the various types of organs that have the passion fruit, as well as its evolution and development.
In short, we will summarize this knowledge in a “concept of pruning “in which, respecting the natural way of vegetating of each variety, you get the largest “production volume” in the shortest time possible.
Throughout the life of the passion fruit there are several types of pruning that must be carried out, all governed by the principles described above. Among the most common prunings are:
- Formation and fructification.
- Cleaning pruning
- Cut of pacifiers.
In what follows we will develop one by one all the types of passion fruit pruning, with its objectives and forms of action.
5.1 Pruning of passion fruit – Formation and fructification
In some areas, training pruning is handled. Once the main stem is on the rope, it has to be cut out to branch out and form the “Pergola” or “T” that will later drop down to the ground forming a tablecloth.
The pruning of formation must be done after the transplant, placing next to the seedling, a tutor to whom the plant is fixed periodically by means of moorings with raffia pita. All the lateral shoots are eliminated, leaving only a single and continuous stem until reaching the first wire. If the conduction system is of two threads, lateral sprouts are left, which are tied laterally in opposite directions.
The central stem continues to be sprouted, growing to exceed the upper wire thread, in about 20 cm, when the spike is made, so that two branches are obtained, which will be tied in the wire, on both sides of the plant . The lateral branches and the cords are periodically fixed with wires, until the stake to favor the appearance of lateral buds.
From the cords come the lateral buds, which grow vertically and form the productive curtain.
5.2 Cleaning pruning of passion fruit vines
This is a classic pruning in all fruit trees, having to cut all the dry and / or diseased branches, which must be done without exception on an annual basis.
The main causes for which pruning is necessary in the passion fruit, as well as in all fruit, are to destroy foci of infection, decrease the weight of the plant, facilitate aeration, improve lighting and facilitate the penetration of pesticides to all parts of the plant.
If you trim branches of an important thickness, do not forget to place a healing paste. This will protect the plant from the entrance of any pest, such as fungal diseases. Another key to avoid the entrance of this type of diseases is to make the inclined cuts. Since it does not allow water to remain in the cut.
5.3 Cut of pacifiers
The work of cutting of pacifiers may be a type of pruning itself, but rather a task that is carried out both in the pruning of training, frutification and cleaning.
It consists of eliminating all the side shoots that emit the main stem to accelerate growth and guide a single stem to the top of the tutor who is two meters above ground level, with this work is also sought to obtain fruits of better quality and greater photosynthetic area within the plantation.
This work is done manually; In some cases, farmers usually leave two shoots or stems per site in order to prevent the death of any of them, or to increase yields per hectare.
5.4 Pruning of old passion fruit – Renovation
This pruning of the maracuya consists of making cuts of the fruiting or tertiary guides at 0.30-0.40 m from its insertion part with the secondary guides, it is done when the production starts to decrease or when there is too much foliage and there is a risk of it fall the espalier.
If the cut is made less than 0.3 m the plant takes more time to re-produce, the pruning on the main guide delays production much more and there is a risk of losing the plant.
Immediately after pruning it is watered, if it is in the dry season, and it is fertilized with urea or sulphate to stimulate bud buds.
6. Pruning passion fruit vines video
To close the post we leave a video of the Garden Tara channel, where you can graphically understand several things that we saw so far. I hope it helps you. 🙂
Well up to here we have arrived with this article in which we talked about how and when to prune a passion fruit vine. I hope you have no doubt when you should take your scissors and get to work. 😉
Maracuyá: todo lo que debes saber – arbolesfrutales.org
CULTIVO DE MARACUYÁ – Texto: Amaya Robles, Julio E
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New ground set 2 set bonus is broken.
So I got lucky with drops on drops after farming the Tholian ground quests and I decided to toss on the new set pieces when I got two the two set bonus. Well, when I did I noticed no buffs from being attacked, so I moved back to my other set assuming I just wasn't noticing it, but when I got the full three set I still saw no buffs and was not able to use the Violent Discharge ability. So either the proc chance is so small it's never actually useful, or it is in fact broken, which I'm leaning towards the latter.
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By John David Pitcher Jr., MD
In the Hebrew Scriptures, there are nine verses where “Inverted Nuns” (pronounced “noons”) are used as annotations. There is no consensus in either Jewish or Christian commentaries regarding the explanation of their purpose.
Two “Inverted Nuns” occur before and after Numbers 10:35-36, “Moses’ Cry of Grace” that occurs between the “Preparation of God’s People” (Numbers 1:1-10:34) and the “Presentation of God’s Grace” (Numbers 11:1-36:13) in that book of the Torah.
What is an “Inverted Nun”?
The name David with its dalet-vav-dalet (4+6+4) in Hebrew has the numeric value of 14, and the Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet. The letter Nun therefore is considered a letter symbolizing the Messiah, the Son of David, humble (bent) in its medial form at the first or middle of a word and righteous (upright) in its final form of a word (cf. James 4:10) and foreshadowed by Moses’ life. The spelling of the letter nun has both the medial and final forms of the letter. (In the illustration above, see the insert on the left of the sketch of the Messiah on the Cross).
The letter nun is one of the Hebrew letters with a tagin, a crown on the top of the letter, three marks that look like zayins that extend upward from the letter. (The other letters that typically have a tagin are gimmel, zayin, tet, ayin, tsade, and shin.
In the inserts in the sketch, I’ve taken the liberty to modify the zayins slightly. A single zayin on top of a letter is considered the “tittle” of Matthew 5:18.)
The “Inverted Nun” then, is the Rejected Messiah (see the insert on the right of the sketch, inspired from Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” when the Messiah looked at the second thief and accepted him that day into Paradise with a “You’re accepted because I was rejected” look of his eyes).
But can we prove that the “Inverted Nuns” annotate the Rejected Messiah using Scripture? And how does that line up to what the Jewish sages have written?
Since Numbers is the Source Text of the Apostle Paul’s Midrash (commentary) that occurs in the letter of 2 Timothy, it should be no surprise that Paul hides in that letter the explanation of the “Inverted Nuns” for us to discover.
(There are 74 words in 2 Timothy that are used in order in 47 sections—some multiple times in a section—out of the 70 Rabbis’ translation of the Hebrew into Greek from 47 sections of the Book of Numbers. There are 83 verses and 1238 total Greek words in 2 Timothy representing a 6% in order word usage, higher if the multiple uses are accounted for, in Paul’s letter to Timothy from the Torah.)
Some commentators have considered the “Inverted Nuns” to be a punctuation mark before verse 35 and after verse 36. Many Jewish sages however, based on the Talmud (Shabbat 115b, 116a) have said that the 85 letters of Numbers 10:35-36 encompassed by the “Inverted Nuns” comprise a separate book of the Torah: (1, footnote below)
These are said by many Jewish sages to be “the seven pillars of wisdom.”
1 Wisdom has built her house,
She has carved out her seven pillars;
2 She has prepared her meat,
She has mixed her wine,
She has also set her table.
3 She has sent out her maidens,
She cries out from the highest places of the city:
4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
5 “Come, eat some of my bread
Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
6 Leave your simple ways, and live,
Walk in the way of understanding. (Proverbs 9:1-6)
The sages say that part of the Torah representing Numbers 10:35-36 is “yet to be written.”
Note the English translation of the Hebrew of Numbers 10:35-36, “Moses’ Cry of Grace” (verse 35 is quoted by David in Psalm 68:1):
“When the ark went forward, Moses said, ‘Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!’ When it rested, he said, ‘Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.’”
The verb “rest” (katapausis) in Numbers 10:36 is used first in the 70 Rabbis’ translation of the Hebrew into Greek (the Septuagint, LXX) in this verse setting the tone of its meaning throughout Scripture and has eight occurrences in the LXX and nine occurrences in the New Testament:
Numbers 10:36 The Ark rested
Deuteronomy 12:9 No rest doing what is right in every man’s eyes
1 Kings 8:56 Solomon’s blessing: “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel…”
1 Chronicles 6:31 The Ark came to rest
Psalm 95:11 “They shall not enter My rest”
Psalm 132:14 Zion is God’s resting place forever
Isaiah 66:1 “Where is the place of My rest?”
Acts 7:49 Stephen quoting Isaiah 66:1 prior to being martyred for his faith in Messiah
Hebrews 3:11, 18 Paul quoted Psalm 95:11
Hebrews 4:1, 3 [2X], 5, 10, 11 Paul with further quotations and explanations of Psalm 95:11
2 Timothy 1:14 is a Midrash of Numbers 10:29-36 and 2 Timothy 1:15 is a Midrash of Numbers 11:1-6.
Although only one word is common in the first of the two sections, the thought of each section of the Midrash is similar to the Source Text.
In Numbers 10:29-36, Moses’ brother-in-law Hobab (meaning ‘to hide’ as in ‘to cherish’), a Gentile was offered to partake in the “good things” promised to the Israelites and in 2 Timothy 1:14 Paul wrote, “That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.” (The same Greek word “good” is used in both 2 Timothy and Numbers.) Through Midrash, Paul explains that “good thing” is the rest of Messiah.
In Numbers 11:1-6, immediately after “Moses’ Cry of Grace” Moses records “The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumbed some of the outskirts of the camp. The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated. The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burned among them.” (Taberah means “burning”.) In the following verses the people continue and complain about the provision of food consisting only of the miraculous manna. Paul records in 2 Timothy 1:15, “This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus (meaning “fugitive”) and Hermogenes” (meaning “born of Mercury”).
Certainly the similarity between the Midrash and the Source Text is clear in that those that turn from God as fugitives or revert to false gods will encounter their own Taberah.
So in the very context of Numbers 10:29-11:6 the “good things” that were promised to the Israelites were offered to a Gentile and then the Israelites complained against the LORD, consistent with the idea of rejection of the Messiah.
But what about the other seven “Inverted Nuns”? Where are they and do they add clarification to these “annotations”?
They are all found in Psalm 107 (vv. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 40) the first psalm in Book V of the psalms. Without getting too much into the structure of Psalm 107, a nearly symmetrical psalm with a turning point in verses 21-22, what is obvious is that E’ and B’ lack the details of symmetry within them:
A (1-4) those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south
B (4-8) they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them from their distress, he led them, a city where they could settle, let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind
C (9) the thirsty, the hungry, they rebelled, despised the plans of the Most High
D (10-16) they cried to the LORD in their trouble, he saved them from their distress, he brought them, let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind
E (17-20) rebellious ways, they loathed all food, they cried to the LORD in their trouble, he saved them from their distress, he sent out his word and healed them, he rescued them from the grave
F (21) let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind
F’ (22) Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy
E’ (23-27) his wonderful deeds
D’ (28-32) they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress, he stilled the storm to a whisper, give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind
C’ (33-38) thirsty ground, the hungry, a city where they could settle
B’ (39-42) wander
A’ (43) the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the LORD
Those sections that lack the symmetry are associated with the remaining seven Inverted Nuns. Six are before verses 23-28.
In verses 23-28 the psalmist foretells of a time when men would go out on the sea in ships, the waves were lifted up high, and with the up and down motion of the waves they reeled and staggered like drunkards and crying out to the LORD in their distress. In verse 29 the psalmist foretells that he would still the storm to a whisper and hush the waves of the sea and calm the sea.
Has that event ever occurred?
That event occurred twice in history when Yeshua the Messiah calmed the storm and the men that reeled and staggered were his disciples. (Matthew 8:18, 23-27; Mark 4:33-41; Luke 8:22-25 and also Matthew 14:22-33; Mark 6:45-52; and John 6:16-21.) Now the annotations clearly identify a name associated with “The Rejected Messiah”.
What about the ninth and final “Inverted Nun” in Psalm 107:40?
The final “Inverted Nun” in Psalm 107:40 leads up to a prophecy that was quoted by Hosea, the prophet that was instructed by God to marry a woman of harlotry for the Israelites had committed a great harlotry by departing from the LORD. In the final chapter of Hosea, the prophet foretells that Israel would return to the LORD who would heal their waywardness and love them freely.
The use of the final “Inverted Nun” in Psalm 107:40 is unfolded by Hosea in Hosea 14:1-9: Israel will soon accept the Messiah and will say “Return” (cf. Hosea 14:1; not ‘Come’) to us!”, leading up to the quotation of Hosea 14:9 that also ends the psalm in Psalm 107:43:
“Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them; but the rebellious stumble in them.”
The “Inverted Nuns” annotate the “Rejected Messiah” and Scripture identifies him as Yeshua the Messiah.
The persons identified in the A portion of Psalm 107 are further identified in the A’ portion of the psalm’s structure.
Could the part of the Torah “yet to be written” described by the Jewish sages be what Paul explains through Midrash as the account of the “Rejected Messiah” in the New Testament? I’ll leave it up to them to decide!
As for your faith in the “Rejected Messiah,” today is the day to be wise and understand it, to be prudent and know it. Accept his righteous sacrifice for your sin and walk righteously in the rest that he plans for you. He has looked at us in our sinful state and has accepted all of us that accept him, taking while on the Cross the rejection before God of many persons with sin, though he knew not sin. What rejection that must have been for him. What acceptance it is for us!
(1) Milgrom, Jacob. The JPS Torah Commentary Numbers. The Jewish Publication Society, New York 5750/1990, pp. 375-376 notes that Rabbi Judah the Prince claimed that Numbers 10:35-36 form a separate book. That claim is supported by the Mishnah: “A biblical scroll that contains eighty-five letters, as in the section that begins: ‘when the Ark was to set out’… (Mish. Yad. 3:5) and is confirmed by similar signs in Greek papyri and grammatical literature (S. Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950, 38-43).
Furthermore, he notes that a medieval manuscript attested that the two verses are associated with “The Prophecy of Eldad and Medad,” the two men that prophesied in the camp (Numbers 11:26-30) and Moses said “Oh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!” (Numbers 11:29; cf. 1 Corinthians 14:5)
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"Bring me song of the sea... sing me a song of the sea." After a sailor´s theme, a six pack of songs about the sea is so obvious I almost opted out in the end. But as there are simply too many great songs inspired by the briny, I had no choice really. Selecting six beauties out of a truckload of candidates was hard enough. Here´s the ones that made the cut.
Robert Wyatt´s contribution stems from his terrific Rock Bottom album. "You look different every time you come from the foam-crested brine, it's your skin shining softly in the moonlight... partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale..." Great stuff. Postrockers avant la lettre Codeine succeed in matching the rhythm of the waves, while freakfolkers Tunng are stuck in the big city, transistor radio buzzing, longing for the sea.
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And last but not least here´s Sandy Denny again, this time making an appearance with the great Fotheringay. "Sea flows under your doors in London town, and all your defences are all broken down... you laugh at me on funny days, but mine's the slight of hand... don't you know I am a joker, a deceiver? And I'm waiting for the land."
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When calculating the requisite guide housing width L, the above assumption should be taken into consideration by using a safety factor. SKF recommends using a safety factor f of at least 2 for operating temperatures up to 80 °C (175 °F). For operating temperatures above 80 °C (175 °F), the safety factor should be increased. However, at temperatures above 120 °C (250 °F), the selection of guide materials is significantly restricted.
The reduced effective load carrying width B of the guide (fig. 1) also need to be considered. It is approx. 2 mm (0.08 in.) smaller than the housing groove width due to the manufacturing and installation tolerances and the reduction by the chamfers and radii.
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IFRS - Fair Value hierarchies
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In March 2009, the IASB issued an amendment to IFRS 7: Financial Instruments: Disclosures, which will be effective for financial periods after 1 January 2009. One of the amendments relates to additional disclosures on classification of fair value measurement. Similar to the US accounting standard SFAS 157, the amendment introduces a three tier hierarchy disclosure for fair value measurement based on the significance of inputs. The three levels are:
- Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities, i.e. those that are readily available in the market and are normally obtainable from multiple sources.
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- Level 3: Inputs for assets or liabilities that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).
The significance of the input determines the classification of the financial instrument in the fair value hierarchy and each instrument would need to be evaluated in detail on a separate basis. The levels are to be ascertained on the basis of the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. For example, if a fair value measurement uses observable inputs that require significant adjustment based on unobservable inputs, that measurement is a Level 3 measurement.
While one would imagine that financial institutions will be more concerned about this additional disclosure, given the types of complex instruments they transact, corporates too have to carefully consider what levels their financial instruments would fall under, particularly when they hold over-the-counter (OTC) or bespoke type instruments such as interest rate swaps.
The following are some key considerations to help corporates in their classification:
Are all listed instruments classified as Level 1?
- Normally instruments that have direct listing on an exchange are classified as Level 1. However, questions such as how active the market is and how tradable the instrument is should be considered. An active market is one in which transactions take place regularly and at arm’s length basis. For example, if the trading activity for a security is low and the prices not updated on a regular basis, the security is likely to be classified as Level 2 or Level 3. Stale prices are also indicative of Level 3.
Are all FX forward and swap contracts Level 2?
- No. The underlying rates tradability and contract maturity should be considered. In the case of a swap with maturity of 30 years with observable market of 15 years, due to the long maturity factor, the swap may be classified as Level 3.
- Corporates should also consider other inputs such as credit risk and liquidity premium which may significantly impact the fair value measurement of the instruments in their entirety. If these inputs are based on an unobservable or inactive benchmark, the instrument may be classified as Level 3.
Are “Broker Quotes” indicative of Level 2?
- Quotes from brokers (intermediary market participants) are generally indicative of Level 2, if those quotes are executable and do not contain any waiver notices indicating that they are not necessarily tradable.
- Corporates should source quotes from more than one broker to ascertain their executability. If possible, corporates should evaluate the quotes based on the quality of supplier, how current the quotes are, the number of contributors, and the bid-ask spreads (higher spreads are indicative of an inactive market).
Is interpolation of pricing inputs indicative of Level 2?
- Interpolation between two inputs whether based on linear method or more sophisticated method is generally more reliable. This is because information is based on two surrounding known data points rather than one, hence indicative of Level 2. However, if a significant adjustment is required when interpolating, this would be indicative of Level 3.
How about extrapolation, is it indicative of Level 3?
- Not necessarily. The significance of the level of extrapolation required and the data from which the input is being extrapolated are key factors in determining the likely fair value hierarchy.
For example, for a market quote up to five years, extrapolating for the six year quote may not impact significantly the fair value measurement of a six year instrument. In this case the instrument is likely to be classified as Level 2. However, if the five year quote is extrapolated to 10 years for fair value measurement of a 10 year instrument, the long maturity will significantly impact the fair value of the instrument and it would likely be classified as Level 3.
Whilst Level 1 and 2 disclosures are relatively easy, the challenges will be on Level 3 disclosure which can be onerous. However, as indicated above, assessing the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement requires judgement and careful consideration on factors specific to the asset or liability. Corporates should have enough justification and evidence to satisfy their auditors when deciding on their classification.
If you are in doubt or have questions regarding the fair value hierarchy classification, please do not hesitate to get in contact with me using the comment facility.
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I have an 8830 and a Seido headphone adapter. This is my second 8830. The first one was recently replaced under warranty after the headphone jack broke (intermittent sound between headphones and speakerphone or no headphone sound at all). Now the second one just broke. The first one took less than 20 headphone plug-ins before it stopped working, and this one less than 5. Either I am very unlucky or there are is a design/quality control defect in these jacks. I can't be the only one. Are others experiencing these problems? Frequent warranty replacements are worse than no warranty at all....
I have two Seido headphone adapters for my BB 8800. I have had both of them for about a month. One is a straight 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter and the other is the recoiling cord version. A few days ago, the straight adapter became intermittent. At first I thought it was the BB Jack but when I switched to the other adapter, the problem went away. Make sure the problem is not the adapter by trying another adapter before replacing the BB.
I don't think I have my receipt any more so I'm probably out of luck for a replacement.
I have returned 2 of the seido adapters for my 8800. First did not work as stereo when I got it and the second quit after about 2 months of pretty regular use as I listen to audible books. It seems like the adapter lost its outside coat of paint as it turned from gold to silver color.
I have had this one for over a month and all seems great so far.
Seido has been very good about sending a new one with my only cost the return postage on my returned adapter. I would suggest you emailing customer service and explaining what yours is doing.
I just bought the Seido adapter as well. I will let you know how it goes. I hope it is just you that is having bad luck with the 8830, because this will replace my iPod, and if it only last a few days/weeks, it's worthless to me.
I have returned 2 8800's from TMO because the headset has been defective and once because the USB connection was very weak. I am not sure but the quality seems to be a bit lower than with the 8700 models. The housing looks great and the form factor is a litter smaller than I would like but the functions of the phone are good.
IMO I think the second generation 8800's will be much better, or at least I hope so.
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TORONTO — Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has hired RBC vice-president Teri Dennis-Davies as senior vice-president, equity, diversity and inclusion.
Dennis-Davies, who will start her new position on Oct. 19, has spent the last 14 years with the Royal Bank of Canada in a variety of senior roles in the Caribbean and Canada — most recently as vice-president, employee relations.
“MLSE and our teams are continually focused on bringing people together and representing the best of our community. The social issues that have been brought to the forefront over the past several months, including efforts to combat systemic anti-Black racism and highlight the need for social justice, diversity and inclusion are priorities that we must help address as civic leaders.
Teri’s breadth of experience and perspective will help further cement our equity, diversity and inclusion efforts as an organization, bringing together the many people and opportunities that will ultimately bring about positive change within our company and the community. We look forward to Teri joining MLSE next month and championing this cause for us.”
-MLSE President & CEO Michael Friisdahl-
Dennis-Davies will report directly to Friisdahl.
The MLSE job posting looked for candidates “to architect, design and champion the strategic vision, best-in-class practices and organization-wide meaningful programs that create deeper understanding, awareness, inclusivity and engagement for our employees, teams, fans and partners, and elevate their experiences.”
At RBC, Dennis-Davies led a global employee relations team responsible for managing workplace issues including diversity, inclusivity and respect, discrimination, harassment, health and safety, accommodations and performance management, while also advancing the company’s conduct and risk culture.
“MLSE has a very strong and influential voice in our community and I am thrilled with the opportunity to join them to help the organization, and its teams, achieve sustainable progress towards its goal of having a positive impact on these important issues,” Dennis-Davies said in a statement.
The hire is MLSE’s latest move on the diversity front.
In July, the Raptors named John Wiggins their vice-president, organizational culture and inclusion. Wiggins has been tasked with leading the campaign to address social injustice, inclusion, equity and political reform.
“We want to affect change on a global scale, and that has to begin at home,” Raptors president Masai Ujiri said at the time.
Wiggins joined the Raptors from Raptors 905, where he helped launch Canada’s first G League franchise.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2020.
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The South by Southwest conference and festival celebrated its 30th anniversary this past week in Austin, Texas. From March 10 through 19, the annual pilgrimage of entrepreneurs, artists, businesses and interactive organizations proved the conference has grown even larger and more influential over the past
Jenni Monet was arrested and charged with “engaging in a riot” while covering the Standing Rock protests. She speaks with MediaFile about her experiences, and her perspective on the #NoDAPL movement as an Native American journalist.
There seems to have been an uptick in media catering towards millennial women, with Washington Post’s The Lily being the latest to join in.
Google, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times round out our top picks for this week. Google – The women missing from the silver screen and the technology used to find them This article discussing a new technology is simply incredible.
From a young age, Jeff Kofman knew he wanted to be in the world of news reporting. As a former CBS and ABC foreign correspondent, Kofman earned an Emmy among other awards for his work covering breaking news events including the Chilean Mine Rescue, Hurricane
Rachel Maddow’s report on Trump’s 2005 tax returns caused quite a stir – but did the news really live up to the hype?
President Trump’s budget proposal takes deep cuts into federal funds reserved for the arts – including money that goes to NPR and PBS.
Foreigners who support a boycott of Israel are now banned from entering the country ISRAEL – The Israeli Knesset passed a bill on Monday night that will bar foreigners who have made “public calls” supporting the international boycott movement against Israel and its settlements in
A Syrian refugee in Germany lost his injunction suit against Facebook, in which he sought to make Facebook responsible for filtering out content that falsely linked him to crime or terrorism. A court in Würzburg on Tuesday ruled that the social media giant does not
Gossip journalism has always drawn eyes and gained intrigue. Whether a rumor is about a member of a politician’s family, or a regular person who just happened to stumble into overnight Internet fame—journalists pounce on any information they can find in order to get an
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Call it “Zona Romantica”, Old Town, or the South Downtown area, it seems everyone’s favorite neighborhood in Puerto Vallarta lies south of the Rio Cuale. Friendly, walkable and full of activity, almost everything you need is just steps away. We can arrange your perfect vacation rental from areas throughout the Bay, but primarily focus on this area.
Many of our rentals are at Selva Romantica. This newer development is located two blocks up from the Los Muertos beach pier, on the corner of Francisca Rodriguez and Pilitas. This is where we live and work so know the owners and the properties, and am generally on-site during high season to answer your questions and assist you in arranging tours and activities, or whatever you might need to enhance your stay in Puerto Vallarta.
Comprising a collection of seven buildings connected by meandering paths around the pool area, this is one of the newer neighborhoods in this part of town. Formerly the site of hotel “Eco-Safari”, a collection of older brick bungalows, the developer carefully saved the historic trees and plantings, and some of the original retaining walls, to preserve the charm and ambiance of the original buildings. Sited on a small rise, it affords a near 360-degree view of the Bay and surrounding hills. Even on the warmest days, a gentle breeze finds its way up to the shady common area.
What everyone appreciates and remarks on is what a quiet, peaceful oasis Selva provides despite its proximity to the shopping, restaurants, and nightlife that makes Puerto Vallarta so attractive to the visitors and residents alike. Within five minutes walk you can be on the Playa Los Muertos pier, playing in the surf, watching the sun set at your favorite beach bar, or enjoying one of the many fine restaurants in the area. A few extra minutes stroll puts you on the world-famous Malecon, a half-mile walkway bordering the ocean, which offers endless free entertainment and mingling with local people and visitors from around the world. No taxis or buses are needed, as Selva Romantica is located in the most walkable and accessible area in the city. There are studio suites, one-bedroom units and two-bedroom units available. In addition to the wonderful location, the resort offers the largest infinity pool south of the Rio Cuale, plus a huge heated spa tub next to it. A large common area on two levels in the center of the development offers different views and quiet gathering spots, along with a full gym (with ocean views!), sun deck and shady palapa with overhead fans to keep things cool.
Click on this link to view the layout of Selva Romantica. The ocean lies to the top of the page, for orientation purposes. The parking spaces assigned to each unit are shown, also. The gym and sundeck are to the left of the pool, with changing rooms and a small kitchen in the same building.
For rates and availability, or more information please contact us.
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The public outcry over skyrocketing flood insurance rates that resulted from the well-intended but deeply flawed Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act has largely been confined to gobsmacked coastal homeowners who saw the subsidized premiums on their vintage homes jump tenfold or twentyfold overnight.
Conspicuously absent in the uproar have been the nation's hundreds of thousands of coastal condo owners. Surely their flood rates have exploded as well, right?
Wrong. It turns out major condominium developments have sufficient clout to dispute -- and sometimes rewrite -- the flood maps that the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses to jack up homeowner rates, thus saving thousands of dollars for their Del Boca Vista residents. ("Seinfeld" reference, in case you're wondering.) In fact, this sort of thing has been going on for years.
Condo clout at work
The Tampa Bay Times recently reported that at least nine condo complexes in Florida's Tampa Bay area have successfully slashed their flood insurance premiums by convincing FEMA that its flood maps are just plain wrong.
One such complex, the 177-unit Land's End on Treasure Island, was originally rated by FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP, as being in the most hazardous "VE" zone, which seemed reasonable since the complex basically sits on the beach overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.
But when its annual flood premium approached $100,000, the condo association hired a consultant who demonstrated to FEMA that the growth of dunes and oceanfront vegetation has made Land's End a virtual fortress compared to its former, sunbathing self.
As a result, FEMA reclassified Land's End to zone "AE," a move that dropped the complex's flood insurance premium from $100,000 to about $9,000.
Association manager Cal Brummett was understandably delighted. "We're going to save $800,000 over eight years," he told the Times.
'An insane difference'
It was a similar story at Sunset Vistas, another Treasure Island waterfront condo development. When its annual flood insurance rate hit $400,000, Sunset Vistas pleaded its case to FEMA, succeeded in having the flood maps changed and walked away with an annual flood premium of less than $20,000.
"It was just an insane difference," admits Kelly Dees, a condo association officer.
Nearby homeowners would undoubtedly agree.
Even resort properties such as the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach have successfully petitioned for a more favorable zone.
Most flood map appeals are OK'd
FEMA estimates it gets about 30,000 requests nationwide each year for flood map revisions and approves about 90 percent of them. Nobody, including FEMA, considers the flood maps particularly accurate.
Yes, this may seem like a giveaway to the rich. But Ken Morris, president of Floodzone Revisions, a local company that helps property owners petition FEMA for reclassification, says his business is about righting a wrong that predates the Biggert-Waters flap.
"The bottom line is that perhaps many properties should have never been placed in the VE zone to begin with," he told the Times.
Let's hope the Biggert-Waters Version 2.0 legislation currently working its way through Congress mandates a comprehensive revision of those flood maps before charging an extra dime to anyone.
Follow me on Twitter: @omnisaurus.
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I can't believe that nimwit has anything of importance to say. He is 50% right and 50% wrong. So are a lot of the sluethers. He knows how to get hits to his site. When he becomes 100% right then he might and that is a big might be somewhat important.
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If you have students in your class with strong academic skills who are good with people and might be interested in helping other students, we welcome them to apply for tutor positions.
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- Help from experienced, top-of-their-class students (who excel in the area you teach and who know the expectations in specific courses)
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- A part-time, higher-than-minimum wage job that will fit into their schedules
- Practice in the subject area or skill (one learns by teaching)
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- Positive attendance
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- Have at least a 3.0 GPA
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Even though students may have mastered a specific subject area, they will still need to develop other skills to ensure they will be effective tutors. The seminar (most of which is online) will teach tutors the following:
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Here’s another one of my picks for my “Favorite Scenes” blog series. It’s an excerpt from my second novel BREATHE.
Why I chose this excerpt: This scene includes one of my favorite moments from BREATHE, when Jay shows Lincoln his tattoo of the two wolves running side by side and tells him that he wants a future together, all while they stand in the location where they had their first kiss.
Lincoln sucked in a long breath with Jay’s words. He watched the other man leave. Jay didn’t falter as he made his way through the bar and out the rear entrance. The door closed behind him, and Lincoln faced the line of whiskey bottles.
Could he really do this?
He wanted to believe he owed it to himself. The truth was, he owed it to both of them.
He stood and followed the same path Jay had, passing by the old guy sipping whiskey at a table near the bathrooms. Lincoln didn’t hesitate. He shoved open Sonny’s back door and exited into the warm night air. The full moon lit the parking lot more than the streetlamps.
Jay waited for him, leaning against the wall near where they’d first kissed, where they’d first touched.
“Come here.” Jay tugged him in close.
Lincoln couldn’t trust himself to hold Jay. He stared at the man’s chest—where the blood had been when he’d lifted Jay into his truck and drove him to the hospital, where he had pressed against the blood-soaked shirt as he raced through the streets, listening to the breaths gurgling out of Jay, feeling the tears stream over his own cheeks. “Are you okay?”
“I am now.”
He kept staring at Jay’s chest; it moved up and down with each breath. He’d spend forever watching the man breathe if he could.
Jay cupped Lincoln’s chin and forced his head up until their gazes locked. “I’ll be okay if you say yes. I don’t want to live without you.”
“This—us—it can’t work.”
“It has to.” Jay brushed his lips over Lincoln’s ear. “I don’t want to lose you.”
The warmth of Jay’s body against his made it hard to think. Lincoln gripped Jay’s hip in his hand. “Can you promise me every time you look at me she isn’t all you’ll see? That you won’t see everything I took from you?”
Jay kissed along Lincoln’s cheek and chin to the corner of his mouth. “Every time I look at you all I see is you. I can’t promise it’ll be easy, but I don’t even want to think what it’ll be like if we don’t try. She deserves to be remembered, to be talked about. I’d like to share her with you. I know you’re strong enough to learn to love her too. Not to hate yourself because we’re here and she’s not.”
“You give me a lot of credit.”
“You’ve earned it.” Jay wrapped his arms around Lincoln’s neck. The press of Jay’s mouth to his melted Lincoln’s resolve to think instead of feel. He pulled Jay closer. Their tongues met, like old lovers, tentative, slow at first, relearning each other, remembering what was so good about being together.
Lincoln fell into the sweet oblivion of kissing Jay. His world shrank to that parking lot, to the two of them.
Slowly Jay placed one chaste kiss after another on Lincoln’s lips before speaking. “I was thinking…”
“You think too much.” Lincoln leaned in. He wanted more of that kiss. More of Jay.
Jay pressed two fingers to Lincoln’s lips. “You need somewhere to live. And I could use help fixing up my place.”
“You can’t seriously—”
“I want you to live with me. If it’s too weird to live in my house, I want us to get our own place.”
“Jay…my sister needs me.”
“She’ll have you. She’s got the money to buy a new house. To take care of Jessica, the boys. There’ll be more than enough.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I gave her my share of the settlement. I never wanted it. It was my parents and Stuart who started it all.”
Lincoln stared at Jay, then grabbed him by the back of the neck and crushed their mouths together. Jay Miller couldn’t possibly be for real.
How the hell had this man, practically a kid, whom Lincoln had hurt so badly, kept from turning into an angry, jaded person? How had Jay learned to love again?
Following his lead was the least Lincoln could do. He wanted a life with Jay. Wanted to believe they could move beyond the past and really live again.
Wanted to believe forgiveness and love were enough.
Jay held Lincoln’s face in his hands. “Come home with me, Linc.”
Lincoln rested his forehead against Jay’s temple. “You’re sure?”
“I am.” Jay lifted the sleeve of Lincoln’s T-shirt and traced his fingers over the destroyed tattoo. “The eagle’s a symbol of courage and wisdom. Some believe if you can embrace both, you can fly above all of the shit in your life.”
“All of it?”
Jay nodded and rolled up his own shirtsleeve. The outline of an eagle feather crossed his upper arm; two wolves filled the interior of the feather, running side by side.
Lincoln ran the tips of his fingers over one wolf, then the other. “Why?”
“I wanted you to know…to see…we can both live beyond our pasts. Together.”
(c) Sloan Parker, 2010. All Rights Reserved.
The full story is available at: Amazon US | iBooks | B&N | All Romance eBooks | Kobo | Google Play
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Are you fascinated by 3D printing, but a little unsure that you could really do it? Come learn how to 3D print from start to finish!
We'll cover everything from the beginnings of 3D printing to types of printers and filaments, step-by-step usage of the Makerbot Replicator 2X printer and software needed to run it as well as troubleshooting methods.
Workshop fee: $25. Please sign-up by April 20th so we can plan for your attendance. Minimum age: 12
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