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With a honky-tonk heartbreaker sound and solid foundation of musicianship, the Sweetback Sisters nail the feeling of last calls and dance floors with their first full-length album, Chicken Ain’t Chicken.
Zara Bode and Emily Miller, the twangy vocal core, met while on tour with a world music choir. Returning home to the States they found themselves living within a few blocks of each other and the Sweetback Sisters were born.
Friends Stefan Amidon (drums), Ross Bellenoit (Telecaster), Jesse Milnes (vocals, guitar, fiddle) and Bridget Kearney (bass), who come from various backgrounds of jazz, folk and Americana were enlisted to form a backing and the group started booking gigs in New York.
A mix of songs, both old and new, range from upbeat and comical (Roger Miller’s My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died from which the album gets its name, the Old Crow Medicine Show-flavored Have You Seen My Chicken?) to lovesick despair (Milnes’ You’re Gone (Again), They Say Virginia Is For Lovers, The Sweetest Gift with harmonies reminiscent of Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt’s version on Prisoner in Disguise).
Josh Ritter’s rockabilly-style Deputy Blues #2 and Kristin Andreassen’s bluesy Red Shoe Blues are from this decade but could just as well be the B-sides to long-forgotten singles in an old jukebox.
Other songs like A.P. Carter’s Cannonball and Buck Owens’ It Don’t Show On Me and Bob Wills’ Feelin’ Bad are straight from country’s golden era.
Get out your cowboy boots and find a dance partner because the Sweetback Sisters play some seriously fantastic, vintage-style Western swing.
Visit TheSweetbackSisters.com for tour dates and more info.
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MEN1: the full house
Barbara McGowan, Annabel Fountain, Owais Chaudhri, Puja Mehta, Tricia Tan, Emma Hatfield, Niamh Martin, Jeannie Todd & Karim Meeran
This gentleman was diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism at the age of 34 and was found to have multiple manifestations of MEN1.
Hyperparathyroidism: He was diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism and underwent a parathyroidectomy with removal of 2 glands. Four years later calcium levels were raised once again and two further hyperplastic glands were removed, with cure of his hypercalcaemia.
Gastrinoma and other pancreatic islet cell tumours: He developed heartburn, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, and on upper GI endoscopy was found to have moderate duodenitis. He was started on lansoprazole with immediate relief of his symptoms. Gut hormones were elevated suggestive of a gastrinoma and other islet cell tumours. Imaging revealed multiple duodenal and pancreatic lesions. Calcium stimulation tests revealed no discrete gastrin releasing foci amenable to surgery.
Pituitary disease: He complained of impotence, reduced libido, weight gain and appeared Cushingoid. Cushings disease and a prolactinoma were diagnosed on the basis of elevated urinary cortisols, failure to suppress cortisol on a low dose dexamethasone suppression test, inferior petrosal sinus sampling and elevated prolactin. Two pituitary lesions were seen on pituitary MRI. The patient underwent trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy. He was started on hydrocortisone, DDAVP, thyroxine and testosterone replacement.
Adrenal lesions: A CT scan of the adrenals showed bilateral nodular adrenal enlargement. Phaeochromocytoma was excluded on the basis of normal catecholamine excretions.
Other lesions: He developed lipomas on his zygomatic arch and thigh and an angiofibroma on the nose.
Genetic testing: MEN1 was confirmed. One of his 3 children has an MEN1 mutation.
Conclusions: Our patient developed a full house of endocrine neoplasias. He presented a diagnostic and management challenge requiring a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure optimal treatment.
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Boko Haram, with its chilling brutality, radical Islamic ideology and unstoppable seizure of Nigerian territory is quickly emerging as the Islamic State of Africa.
While much of the world has focused on the terror attacks in Paris and the Islamic militants’ capture of swaths of Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram has gone on a bloody rampage through northeastern Nigeria.
Human rights groups have sounded alarms about the al-Qaeda-linked organization’s recent brutality: the slaughter of up to 2,000 people in the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga on Jan. 3 and the subsequent strapping of explosives on girls as young as 10 to detonate in public places. The unchecked rampage is affecting the looming presidential elections now weeks away and propelling a 72-year-old iron-fisted general, Muhammadu Buhari, back into the race.
Boko Haram first gained international notoriety for its savagery in April 2014, when it abducted 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok and threatened to sell them as wives and sex slaves. The “bring back our girls” movement began with Nigerian village women demanding government action and grew into a worldwide rallying cry, with participants that included first lady Michelle Obama. Some of the girls later escaped but the fate of remaining captives is unknown.
In addition to its ruthless tactics, Boko Haram, echoes the Islamic State in its aspiration to create a “caliphate” across national borders by crossing into neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. On Jan. 12, its fighters seized the Cameroonian border town of Kolofata. Cameroon’s government said its forces killed 143 militants.
And like Iraq’s military setbacks against the Islamic State, Nigerian government troops seem weak and incapable of stopping Boko Haram from becoming a growing danger to Africa’s most populous country and the world’s 10th largest oil exporter.
“The United States needs to recognize we have a problem that’s second only to the problem we have with ISIS (Islamic State),” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa program at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “We have a group holding territory and shooting down jet fighters. … If Nigeria collapses — it is the strong state in the region — there are no strong states to contain what would happen if Boko Haram succeeds in carving out an Islamic state in that area.”
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., chairman of the Africa subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says Boko Haram is “as close to a carbon copy (of the Islamic State) as can be,” and the U.S. response to combat the two groups has also been similarly slow.
What’s needed, now, Smith said, is for President Obama to call Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and insist on the need for the U.S. military to train Nigerian troops to stop the movement.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told CNN that the U.S. is “actively working with the Nigerians,” but added that “they need to step up,” move forward with elections slated for Feb. 14, and not let terrorists “use elections as a wedge between the government and its people.”
A week after the massacre occurred in Baga, groups that included Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported it. On Jan. 3, the town was razed and its inhabitants killed as they hid in the surrounding scrubland. More than 3,700 structures were damaged or destroyed, according to satellite imagery before and after the attack, according to Amnesty International.
A week later, Boko Haram strapped explosives to three girls about 10 years old and detonated them in a market in Maiduguri and in a mobile phone store in Potiskum, killing about 22 people in total, the groups reported.
President Jonathan, who previously sent 20,000 troops armed with tanks and aircraft to the country’s northeast, has said little about the Baga attack. One of his aides, Doyin Okupe, questioned the reported death toll.
Gbara Awanen, the head political minister at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, told USA Today only the ambassador is authorized to speak to the media. And Ambassador Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye was traveling and unavailable, Awanen said.
Boko Haram, who’s name means “Western education is forbidden,” seeks to replace the Nigerian state with its own radical interpretation of Islam and now controls up to 20 percent of Nigerian territory.
Nigeria’s government has yet to accept large-scale international assistance to deal with the problem, said John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to the country.
The parallel to the Islamic State is limited by the fact that Boko Haram has not expressed a desire to become a global caliphate, Campbell noted.
Adotei Akwei, managing director of government relations at the rights group Amnesty International USA, said Boko Haram also lacks the governing skills demonstrated by the Islamic State in some of the territory it holds, although residents under its domination in parts of Iraq and Syria have complained about poor services and disorganized government.
Despite the international clamor over the kidnapped girls, the Nigerian government has had no success rescuing the 219 still missing, and local media have exposed weaknesses in the nation’s military that include soldiers refusing to fight and mutinies.
On Jan. 3, Nigeria canceled a U.S. counterinsurgency training mission, according to a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.
Nigeria has generally rejected offers of assistance from Britain and the United States “because of the conditions that come with such assistance,” said Akwei.
U.S. law prohibits U.S. military assistance to countries that commit human rights abuses. The Nigerian military’s operations against Boko Haram have resulted in multiple allegations of illegal killings and detentions of suspected Boko Haram members reported by rights groups such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, according to the State Department. Nigerian officials have rejected those claims as “fabrications,” Akwei said.
National pride also seems to be a factor, he said.
“The Nigerians have always felt themselves more capable and big enough and strong enough to take care of their own crises,” Akwei said.
Yet the country still has no cohesive military strategy to turn the tide and protect the population, he said. “It’s not the way a state functions if it hopes to survive, unless it’s unaware of the gravity of the threat.”
(Oren Dorell writes for USA Today.)
Courtesy: Religion News Service
Publication date: January 26, 2015
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Think being part of the Yo-get-it team might suit your style?
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I just noticed that B&H has a whole bunch of deals on studio lights, including gear used on big budget Hollywood productions.
The Digital Sputniks are amazing lights that are quickly becoming the industry standard. They have a durable build, and they give artists complete control over the color of the light – without needing to use gels. Besides fully controlling the color hue and saturation, you can also animate the lights to create cool lighting effects, such as simulating fire.
The Jokers are – simply put – industry standard because they always get the job done. They are used by cinematographers such as Shane Hurlbut, because they work great both on theater stages and on film sets. They are tough and reliable.
You can see all the deals on these and other lights on B&GH website here.
Please note that these deals end on Nov. 14, 2017, i.e. tomorrow.
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PELI 1600 test to destruction - Test 4
This time we open the BroadcastShow firearms cupboard and shoot the Peli 1600 case.
Is is bullet proof? Will it survive?
Take a look at the full LIVE show introducing this challenge and looking at the state of the case afterwards http://youtu.be/_T_im4pYwvI
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The msadce.dll is a Microsoft Data Access - OLE DB Cursor Engine. Sometimes it’s called OLE DB Cursor Engine.
This file is part of Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. Msadce.dll is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It’s a system and hidden file. Msadce.dll is usually located in the %PROGRAM_FILES_COMMON% sub-folder and its usual size is 331,776 bytes.
The msadce.dll process is safe and disabling it can be dangerous, because programs on your computer need it to work correctly.
We also recommend optimizing your computer.
Author: Microsoft CorporationProcess: Microsoft Data Access - OLE DB Cursor EnginePart Of: Microsoft® Windows® Operating SystemCommon path(s): subfolder in %PROGRAM_FILES_COMMON%
subfolder in %SYSTEM%
subfolder in %PROGRAM_FILES%
subfolder in %WINDOWS%Keywords(s): systemFilesize(s): 331,776 bytes, 561,152 bytes, 584,704 bytes, 454,656 bytes
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Happy Birthday Mommy!!!
Follower of Jesus, wonderful mother, friend, sister, daughter, aunt, cousin and wife. I just read a blog about how our kids want us. They want us right where we are and exactly who we are. It got me thinking about my own mommy and how lucky I am to have her. I tell my kids if I could line up ALL the boys and girls in the whole world I would pick you to be my kids. And I feel the very same way about my mom. My mom is the perfect mom for me. She listens, encourages, and corrects me. She laughs, cries and shares with me. I am do thankful for a mom that I can call anytime of the day or night and she will answer to phone and take time to talk to me. I can ask her any question and she will thoughtfully answer. Just the other night I called her around 9pm and our call went a little like this " Hi mom hows it going? what do you believe about hell?" ha she of course was completely caught off guard and unprepared to answer such a crazy question but we ended up having a great conversation about it. Other times are conversations are much lighter. From what to wear, how to make gravy and of course kid and husband questions. I value my moms opinion so much. I am so thankful that's have a mom that loves Jesus more than anything and let me tell you she knows her bible well!! I am so fortunate to have been raised by parents who love each other and made a wonderful home for us. We got to go on fun vacations as a family and do all kinds of neat things together, but most of all my parents taught us and are teaching us to love the Lord. To serve God. And to put Him first in the good times and bad. What a tremendous gift!!! Today is my moms birthday. Mommy I wish you the happiest birthday! Thank you for all you do for our family. I can't say it enough, you're the best and I couldn't ask for more. :)
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Lаkers’ Phіl Jаckson reveаls ѕtory on Mіchael Jordаn’s funny reѕponѕe to Kobe Bryаnt сhallenge
The Chіcago Bulls and Los Angeleѕ Lakers dynasties do not hаve juѕt one thіng іn сommon. They аre bound by а lot of ѕimilar ѕchemeѕ, two grіtty ѕhooting guаrds wіth а kіller mentаlity, аnd Phil Jackson. Michael Jordаn wаs аlwаys the guy who would never bаck down from а сhallenge but there wаs something ѕpecial аbout Kobe Bryаnt thаt mаde hіm droр а hіlarіous deсlaration. The former Lаkers сoaсh unveіled а funny ѕtory durіng the Blаck Mаmbа’s ѕtatue unveіlіng сeremony, vіa ClutсhPoints.
“Mіchael аnd I were ѕitting there. Kobe wаlked іn аfter hіs ѕhower. He ѕaid, ‘Mіchael, I сan tаke you one-on-one.’ And Mіchael ѕaid, ‘Well, I thіnk you mіght. I’m 37, you’re 22 rіght?” Phіl Jаckson dіsclosed as the Lаkers fаithful burѕt into lаughter.
It іs not often thаt Mіchael Jordаn аdmits thаt а сertain рlayer сould beаt hіm even іn the рresent dаy. However, he knowѕ thаt the Lаkers legend wаs ѕpecial. He would then be hіs bіg brother for yeаrs to сome. The two would bond over defenѕive mаneuvers, workіng on Kobe Bryаnt’s fаdeаwаy, аnd рlaying аgаinst eаch other well аfter the Bullѕ legend’ѕ retіrement.
Thіs іs аlso where Bryаnt wаs аble to form hіs teаching ѕtyle. He іmparted hіs knowledge to other young memberѕ of the Lаkers when he wаs а veterаn. The Lаkers greаt іnstіlled hіs Mаmbа Mentаlity іn them ѕuch thаt they рut іn the work thаt he аnd Jordаn hаd to keeр the gаme сompetitive. Now, Bryаnt wіll аlwаys be іmmortalіzed аs one of the greаtest Lаkers wіth three ѕtatueѕ.
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Welcome to the SIGMOD Website
The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data is concerned with the principles, techniques and applications of database management systems and data management technology. Our members include software developers, academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, users, and students. SIGMOD sponsors the annual SIGMOD/PODS conference, one of the most important and selective in the field.
Use the menu above to navigate to a specific section; below are some popular destinations.
SIGMOD Executive Committee Position on Racism
The ACM SIGMOD is committed to ensuring that all SIGMOD activities are carried out in an inclusive and diverse environment with zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment, or any other form of misconduct. DBCares, a database community wide initiative, co-started with the VLDB Endowment, is a realization of this principle.
We cannot be satisfied with continuing the status quo. We will continue to actively stand against discrimination. We will find new ways to address the inequities that exist in our field. We will help to create an environment that is more welcoming, just, and equitable to all.
SIGMOD’s Position on Racism
We join ACM, CRA and VLDB Endowment in stating that we will continue to listen, to learn, to engage and to explore new ways to fight against and reject racism. Silence perpetuates, doubt reinforces, and rationalization of incident after incident only compounds the pain so many in our society continue to endure. This is especially important for the SIGMOD community, given that the computer science field has historically lacked diversity.
We know that racism:
- Is systemic and institutionalized.
- Continues to oppress people of color around the world – denying basic human rights, denying opportunity, and even more tragically denying many of their very lives.
- Is learned behavior that may be unlearned through education, compassion, empathy, and action.
- Drives a wedge between communities, and in doing so limits the quest for a society steeped in respect.
- Benefits the privileged from its existence, who must be willing to sacrifice to overcome it.
To stand against it, we:
- Acknowledge the existence of racism within our communities and commit to defeating it.
- Call out and reject rationalization of incidents and distortion of information.
- Educate ourselves and those around us to address racism in its many forms.
- Stand up against the status quo by using our voice and agency.
- Invite the community to discuss concrete steps and commit resources to create lasting change.
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Japanese crews grappling with the world’s worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl temporarily pulled out Wednesday as radiation rose following feared damage to a reactor containment vessel.
The evacuation order at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where a tall stack of white cloud billowed high into the sky, deepened the crisis gripping Japan after an earthquake and tsunami pulverised its east coast on Friday.
“Around 10:40 am (0140 GMT) we ordered the evacuation of workers… due to the rise in (radioactivity) data around the gate” of the ageing plant, a nuclear safety agency official said at a televised news conference.
The radiation levels peaked at a relatively low 6.4 millisieverts, officials said, but some three hours later there was no news on whether the crews had been allowed back into the plant 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo.
With nerves on edge across the world’s third-biggest economy and beyond, people across Asia have been stripping shelves of essentials for fear of a major emission of radiation from the stricken power plant on the east coast.
Before the evacuation order, crews at Fukushima contended with a new fire and feared damage to the vessel containing one of the plant’s six reactor cores.
However, after the Tokyo stock exchange’s biggest two-day sell-off in 24 years sparked a global market rout, the headline Nikkei share index recovered 4.37 percent on Wednesday morning as investors snapped up bargains.
The Bank of Japan pumped another 3.5 trillion yen ($43.3 billion) into the financial system, adding to trillions spent this week since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and towering tsunami crippled a large swathe of the economy.
Authorities are staring at a staggering death toll. The devastation in tsunami-hit areas such as the small fishing town of Minamisanriku is absolute, with the northeastern settlement missing about half of its 17,000 people.
“Ten of my relatives are missing. I haven’t been able to get in contact with them,” 54-year-old Minamisanriku resident Tomeko Sato, who lost her house in the disaster, told AFP.
“I was very surprised by the power of the tsunami… next time, I will live on the hill and hope it never happens again.”
Millions in Japan have been left without water, electricity, fuel or enough food and hundreds of thousands more are homeless, stoically coping with snow and freezing rain in the northeast.
At the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, live TV footage showed the cloud of white smoke rising high into the clear blue sky.
The containment vessel around the core of reactor number three may have suffered damage, and the “likeliest possibility” for the white cloud was steam escaping from the vessel, chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said.
The number-three reactor was hit by a blast Monday that tore off the outer structure of the reactor building.
Fire crews fought a new blaze early Wednesday at reactor number four, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said, but it was later extinguished.
Engineers have been desperately battling a feared meltdown at the 40-year-old plant since the earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems and fuel rods began overheating.
There have now been four explosions and two fires at the complex, with four out of its six reactors in trouble.
France’s Nuclear Safety Authority said the disaster now equated to a six on the seven-point international scale for nuclear accidents, ranking the crisis second only in gravity to the level-seven Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
But Yukiya Amano, the Japanese chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, insisted Tuesday there was no comparison to the Chernobyl crisis, when radiation spewed across Europe.
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog said that unlike Chernobyl, the Fukushima reactors have primary containment vessels and had also shut down automatically when the earthquake hit, so there was no chain reaction going on.
President Barack Obama, who has dispatched a naval flotilla led by a US aircraft carrier to aid in the quake-tsunami rescue operation, said he was “deeply worried” about the potential human cost of the disaster in Japan.
The government in Tokyo said it was ready to draft in more help from the 49,000 US military personnel stationed in Japan.
Obama also vowed to “further improve” the safety of US atomic facilities, while several European nations announced reviews of their own nuclear installations and Germany temporarily shut down seven reactors. Hoax emails and text messages warning of radiation drifting south from Japan have set off a run on essentials such as bottled water and fresh milk in places as far afield as the Philippines.
China said it was stepping up checks of travellers and goods inbound from Japan for possible radiation contamination.
Japan’s government has warned that panic buying could hurt its ability to provide aid to areas devastated by Friday’s natural disaster, which has left 3,373 confirmed dead. Many thousands more are still missing.
Edano, who is the chief cabinet secretary, said Japan as a whole was amply provided with fuel but stressed that petrol and kerosene were “very short” in the ravaged northeast.
“Those who do not live in disaster-hit areas, please do not buy (fuel) in bulk. We have enough to meet the nationwide demand,” he said, adding that the government was doing its all to get fuel to the north.
The normally heaving streets and subways of Tokyo were quieter than usual on Wednesday morning. The number of people sporting paper face masks has shot up, although the masks are no use against radiation.
Radiation levels in the capital’s vast urban sprawl of 30 million people have see-sawed without ever reaching harmful levels, according to the government.
But the government has warned people living up to 10 kilometres (six miles) beyond a 20-kilometre exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant to stay indoors. More than 200,000 people have already been evacuated from the zone.
“What we most fear is a radiation leak from the nuclear plant,” Kaoru Hashimoto, 36, a housewife living in Fukushima city, 80 kilometres northwest of the power plant, told AFP by phone.
“Many children are sick in this cold weather, but pharmacies are closed. Emergency relief goods have not reached evacuation centres in the city,” she said.
“Everyone is anxious and wants to get out of town, but there is no more petrol.”
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Straightline Construction E.B.F. Mares' 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle 2m 4f
- (4yo+, 2m 4f, Class 4, 8 runners)
- Winner £3,899 2nd £1,145 3rd £572 4th £286
- Going: Heavy, Soft in places
- Surface: Turf
- Winning time: 5m 50.90s
- Off time: 15:35:54
|1st||1 Little Glenshee||1/2f|
|2nd||5 Mary Milan||3½||3/1|
|3rd||4 Lady Of Verona||28||8/1|
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|7||166 11-12||N W Alexander||Lucy Alexander (3)||122||1/2f|
Executive Benefit (IRE) 41
|6||154 11-0||Mrs S J Smith||Ryan Mania||20/1|
Knocklayde Lady (IRE)
|5||154 11-0||S R B Crawford||Mr S Crawford (3)||10/1|
Lady Of Verona (IRE) 34
|6||154 11-0||Miss Lucinda V Russell||Craig Nichol (7)||91||8/1|
Mary Milan (IRE) 43
|6||154 11-0||J M Jefferson||Harry Haynes||3/1|
Midlem Moss 34
|6||154 11-0||W Coltherd||Gary Rutherford (5)||100/1|
Quartz Movement (IRE) 61
|7||154 11-0||S R B Crawford||P Buchanan||40/1|
Saddlers' Secret (IRE) 684
|8||154 11-0||Mark Campion||B Hughes||33/1|
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LITTLE GLENSHEE gained her first victory on this track by 27l and won by a distance at Kelso last time. She finished runner-up in a Haydock Listed contest in-between and though having to concede lumps of weight should be good enough again. Lady Of Verona has been well beaten despite her promising form figures so Mary Milan looks the logical danger. She showed nothing on her debut but ran well behind Detour Ahead at Wetherby in December and there should be more to come.
Sun Lady (FR) 40-1 (10-0) Took keen hold, soon tracked leaders, led before 3 out, headed before last, soon weakened, 6th of 10, 27l behind Graceful Descent (10-4) at Hexham 2m 4f mdn hdl (5) gd in May.
Little Glenshee (IRE) 1-5fav (11-2) Made all, clear when hit 3 out, stayed on well, unchallenged, won at Kelso 2m mrs nov hdl (4) hvy in Dec beating Painted Tail (10-12) by well, 6 ran.
Mary Milan (IRE) 12-1 (10-12) Chased leaders, outpaced by leading trio 4 out, headway under pressure to chase leading pair before next, went 2nd at last, stayed on flat, always held, 2nd of 6, 1 1/4l behind Detour Ahead (10-12) at Wetherby 2m 4f mrs nov hdl (4) hvy in Dec.
Lady Of Verona (IRE) 7-4 (10-9) With leader, ridden before 3 out, weakened before next, left remote 2nd 2 out, 2nd of 4, 35l behind Madam Lilibet (9-10) at Newcastle 2m 4f mrs nov hdl (4) hvy in Jan.
Saddlers' Secret (IRE) 150-1 (10-2) Behind, headway after 3 out, stayed on approaching last, never troubled leaders, moderate 3rd, 3rd of 12, 35l behind Eyre Square (10-12) at Hexham 3m nov hdl (4) gs in Mar '11.
Knocklayde Lady (IRE) Lahib mare out of Knocklayde Star.
Midlem Moss 40-1 (10-11) Tracked leader early until jumped slow 1st, mistakes throughout, struggling from 6th, tailed off, pulled up after 4 out, in a race won by Madam Lilibet (9-10) at Newcastle 2m 4f mrs nov hdl (4) hvy in Jan, 4 ran.
Quartz Movement (IRE) 5-1 (11-7) Chsd ldrs, qckly lst pl 7th, no ex & eased 4out, pu 3out, in a race won by Marley Exit (11-7) at Ballydarragh 3m ire ptp gs in Dec, 12 ran.
Executive Benefit (IRE) 100-1 (9-12) Mistake 1st, never better than mid-division, 11th of 20, 41l behind Red Devil Boys (10-12) at Doncaster 2m 3f nov hdl (4) sft in Dec.
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Code your future
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Share Academy is all about the power of individual talent. We value diversity, equality and inclusion as essential to our program. With a special focus on people who are historically underrepresented in ICT.
Would you like to have more info to see if this is the right fit for you.
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Moon Hoax-Walt Disney Plays with The Astronauts in Fake Moon Bay
Walt Disney Plays with The Astronauts in The Nevada Fake Moon Bay.
This Video As You Hear See it, From Disney Faking Shaping The Memory
with NASA Public Domain Video in:
For All Mankind 1989
NASA did redacted editing cleaning up of the text, to cover what they really said in the written records of the Astronauts conversations.
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Short Fiction // Lead Apron
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Fiction
by Courtney Sender
I am 22 and pregnant, which means I’m not a teen statistic, but you can chalk me up to the idiot percentages who think they know what they’re doing with a condom. When I was a kid, I planned my future around a timeline like the one I’m in. Then again, when I was a kid I planned to explore the earth by sea. Now there are no explorers left: satellites can read your watch from space and planes can take you across the planet in a day, and I won’t be 22 and pregnant for long—not because my birthday is around the bend, but because I’m getting it taken care of tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I’m getting it taken care of. Today, I have a dentist’s appointment. I’ve never been to the dentist by myself before; my dad offered to take off work to drive me, but I told him not to because I am 22 and prefer to go myself. I guess I could have canceled the appointment, but my dad’s the one who scheduled it—“August 28th, a little birthday gift!”—and the office doesn’t have online scheduling yet. I hate explaining myself on the phone to people I don’t know.
When I walk into Dr. Gilman’s waiting room, the receptionist remembers my name. My mother has a gift for small talk that balances her inability to discuss anything big, so it’s no surprise that the pony-tailed receptionists at every local beauty parlor and doctor’s office used to know me when I accompanied her. But I’ve been away at school for four years. It’s astonishing that the receptionist, whose name I have forgotten, not only recalls what I look like but also that I went to Swarthmore and was an anthropology major. Maybe my mother called ahead.
“When were you here last?” she asks, smiling.
“I don’t know,” I say, so she smiles and opens a filing cabinet beneath a framed photo of Marilyn Monroe. She pulls out my chart. Her name is Mary-Anne, I remember suddenly. She doubles as a hygienist and used to give me lollipops after my fluoride treatments.
Mary-Anne hands me a clipboard, and I drop into a plastic-coated chair before her desk. On one side of me sits a tired-looking dad in paint-spattered blue jeans. He is reading to his little boy from a book about a hippopotamus with a toothache. The little boy says, “Elephant,” and the father says, “No, hippo,” and the boy looks at me and I swear if he were ten years older he would wink, and he repeats, “Elephant,” and dissolves into a fit of giggles.
I imagine myself looking like a white elephant, white meaning the color of my stomach because I live in the northeast, don’t see the sun, and would burn if I did, not meaning Caucasian because that’s just a social construct. The thing is this baby, if it got born, would have a pretty decent chance of not being scorched in the sun, since its other major chromosomes are Hispanic. Science wouldn’t be able to tell that—there’s no genetic basis for race, so it doesn’t actually exist—but skin color, which is not the same as race, is heritable. The baby would still be Jewish because I am, which you definitely can’t tell from my DNA but is genetic depending on who you’re talking to. My mother, for example, believes in passing faith like a football through the maternal line. I don’t challenge her, thereby avoiding further argument about not marrying a Jewish man.
I am not married, obviously. That’s all part of the twenties as a developmental stage, staying single longer because we are the generation that grew up under the broken canopy of a 50 percent divorce rate and we know where marriage leads. I can just tell already that I won’t marry a Jew, because everyone I’ve been attracted to is not, because everyone who is reminds me of my brother, and anyway heterogeneity is the healthiest thing for a baby.
I have to ask Mary-Anne six questions about only four blanks on the form she gives me, even though I remembered to bring my health insurance card. But my dad’s is the name on the card, not mine; I think I’m still under my parents’ plan, didn’t Obama pass a law?; no, I’m not a college student anymore, but I have been one this fiscal year. I end up calling my dad and passing the cell to Mary-Anne, because she says it will be faster if she asks the questions herself.
“Hi, Mitch, how’re the shelves?” she says. My father is a manager at the largest shelf-production company in the tristate area. Mary-Anne remembers everything. I don’t know if she was married the last time I was here (two years ago, too long but I’ve been flossing), but now a chunky diamond and a gold band glimmer on the hand that holds the phone.
Mary-Anne presses the phone between her cheek and shoulder, gesturing for the clipboard. I hand it to her, just my name and home address filled out, as she takes a pen from behind her ear.
“You’re all set,” she says when she hangs up. “Your dad says be a trouper!” She laughs. “Don’t be nervous—we’re a gentle practice.”
Mary-Anne leads me to the exam room. I sit on the leather recliner where Dr. Gilman pulled my first tooth and unthinkingly turn on the wall-mounted TV with the remote that’s always lain next to me in this room. But then I don’t know what to tune to; my memories play cartoons in the background of the drills, but suddenly I think I should look for the news.
Dr. Gilman comes in. I switch the TV off.
“Congratulations,” he tells me. “Swarthmore. Great school. How long you back in Jersey?”
His latex fingers are in my mouth. I grunt.
“Now, what are we going to do about these wisdom teeth?”
He removes his fingers, my cue to speak. “They never grew in. You said last time that you didn’t think I had any.”
“Well, I’ll tell you what: you’ve got some swelling behind the second molar. Let’s see what’s going on in there.”
“What does that mean?” I ask.
“I’ll have Mary-Anne do an x-ray.” He pokes at my teeth with a stainless steel pick. “Otherwise you’re lookin’ good, kiddo. Keep it up.”
He heads for the door. I sit up very straight in my reclined chair and my voice, I admit, is probably louder than it needs to be when I say, “Do I really need an x-ray?”
He turns to face me. He’s developed an extra chin since I was here last. “Some people never get third molars, but sometimes they don’t grow until your thirties. You were late to lose your baby teeth, weren’t you? Can’t hurt to check in.”
I don’t know what else to say. Dr. Gilman leaves. Mary-Anne enters, whistling through gap teeth, carrying a lead apron. She drapes it over me, and as I feel its weight pull my shoulders I find myself wishing it were thicker and heavier. Mary-Anne removes my glasses, and the world goes blurry. A camera descends from the ceiling. I think about how my mother might decide arbitrarily that she doesn’t want an x-ray: she would probably just say no, I don’t want this procedure, and the people who ordered the procedure would nod seriously and not do the procedure and ask after her husband’s shelves.
Mary-Anne retrieves metal plates for me to bite down on. I keep waiting for her to ask if there’s any chance I might be pregnant, and I keep wondering how I can bring myself to say yes. I decide to say Yes, there is a chance, and leave it at that, but she doesn’t even ask. Maybe x-rays to the jaw don’t bother the organs so much lower, that’s why. Besides the risk shouldn’t matter to me. Why bother protecting something I’m not particularly planning to protect?
Still, for as long as I have it I think I’d like to keep it safe. That seems like the least I should do.
“Ow,” I say.
Mary-Anne’s fingers freeze around the plates in my lower jaw as she asks what hurts. Nothing hurts.
“Let’s reposition these,” she says. “Sometimes they can feel a bit sharp, nothing to worry about.”
Rubber and metal again, painlessly scraping the roof of my mouth. I imagine invisible cells sloughing into her hand. I twist my head against the leather chair.
Mary-Anne’s hands retreat again. She sighs. “Why don’t we talk about something else? How’s your mom?”
“Glad to have me home, I think.”
Mary-Anne looks at me like I must have lost a few good brain synapses on the car ride over.
“Oh,” I say, “my parents signed him up to go to Copenhagen. For a summer abroad thing.” My little brother’s name is Noah, but since he started college he’s been asking everyone to call him Nicky—it’s more nineties, he says, and he is politically and morally opposed to the direction this country has taken since then.
“That’s nice,” Mary-Anne replies absently, and she inserts the plates between my teeth and clamps my jaw around them. If I try to speak again, they’ll choke me.
Once the door shuts behind Mary-Anne, the tissue paper under my chin crinkles noisily. I stare straight into the x-ray camera: black lens and white plastic, and inside them metal tubes that I imagine more than see. I picture them twining, electric purple and alive.
It takes me about three seconds after the door shuts to decide that I need to reschedule this x-ray for next week. But by then, it’s been three seconds. How long is the walk from the patient room to the x-ray operating board? Does such a thing exist? How quickly will Mary-Anne know I’m not in the chair? What if she triggers the x-ray while I’m standing up, and she gets me in the neck, or the heart, or somewhere lower?
As I am engineering a way to slide myself in a single fluid motion from the chair to the door, I hear the camera click. The machine rotates. The black lens watches me, then clicks again. I sit absolutely still, lengthening my neck as much as I can, until Mary-Anne comes in and smiles and lifts my vest over my head.
Mary-Anne leaves me alone as she delivers the film to Dr. Gilman. I remind myself over and over that the clenching in my abdomen must be my stomach, hungry.
When Dr. Gilman re-enters, he pats my shoulder companionably. “I’m seeing some growth in the lower gums.”
“Okay,” I say.
“We could wait to confirm whether the teeth erupt, but what you’ll find more and more these days is removal while they’re impacted. I think, given the amount your parents spent on orthodontia, that’s probably the safest option.” He pauses as if he’s requested my opinion, but frankly I haven’t had the chance to research this matter.
Dr. Gilman gives the satisfied nod of a teacher whose favorite student has produced the correct answer. “Have Mary-Anne schedule an extraction,” he says. He checks my file, probably to confirm the five years I wore braces. “Wouldn’t want to spoil that gorgeous smile.”
I take my glasses in hand and return to the waiting room. The hippopotamus book is lying facedown on the father’s empty chair. Dr. Gilman doesn’t join me at the reception desk, over which Marilyn’s white dress is forever blowing above her waist. It must be my responsibility to tell Mary-Anne that I need an extraction.
I shirk this responsibility. She says, “That wasn’t so bad, was it?” and I tell her I’ll hold off a few months before we schedule my next appointment.
As I walk outside, I press my tongue to the back of my molars to feel for swelling. I can only discern the differently smooth surfaces where plasticky teeth meet fleshy gums. The longer I focus my nerves into my tongue, the more I sense that I am probing someone else’s mouth.
The only other mouth I’ve felt this summer belongs to a guy who was just a week-long hook-up, nothing serious but not a one-night stand. I liked Javi because he smiled at me across the table in the Englewood public library one month after graduation, and because we walked out at the same time, since I packed up my books when I saw him packing his. I’d noted appreciatively that he had a strong jawline and a straight nose. He hummed “Silent Night” on his way down the stairs, punchy and off-season.
“You going somewhere special?” he said. His fluid accent echoed in the cement stairwell, as soft as his toasted brown skin, and to this day I’m not sure this was a question; it might have been a prophecy.
I never got to know him especially well, but I did learn that he’d grown up in Mexico City and that his father had given him the gold crucifix on the chain around his neck. When I first pulled his tee-shirt over his head, the little metal body fell from his elastic collar into the dip in his clavicle. I reached for its tiny outstretched arms, but Javi’s hand fell protectively over his chest. “I keep this on,” he said. I hadn’t meant to remove it—only to see it better.
I would have spent months studying Javi, finding out his favorite memory and his worst regret, but he grew bored of me quickly and I was feeling too tired to cling.
One of the details I do know about him is that he calls himself Catholic. I don’t know where he starts following the rules and where he stops—and it’s apparent that he stops—so I have no reason to give him papal opinions one way or the other. Still I would kill to find out whether he votes Democrat or Republican. He’s a minority and an immigrant, but he also carries Jesus on his chest, and as I slide into my car I close my eyes and see the little figure dripping red.
I swallow the saliva that’s built up since Mary-Anne removed the gurgling vacuum from my tongue. The burnt taste of x-ray plates slides down my throat and into my stomach.
I put my glasses back firmly around my ears. The fuzzy world turns sharp: even the leaves in the trees are filed to fine points.
I twist my key in the ignition, and the engine lurches to life.
I pass my house three times without pulling into the driveway. There’s something smoldering in my ribcage; I can’t remember driving home. On my fourth attempt at turning into my garage, I see the blinds rising in an upstairs window. My mother’s study. I imagine her manicured hand pulling the cord beside the vinyl slats, and my car jolts forward as the engine shifts gears, propelling me past my neighbors’ low hedges to the end of the block. I text her to explain that I’ll be coming home late. She texts back, ok.
Though I’ve already seen one doctor today, I swing onto Grand Avenue and follow the route to tomorrow’s appointment—just to ingrain the directions, so I won’t have to think about them. It stands to reason that focusing on a GPS reduces your attention to the road. I’ve never read an article on the subject, but that only means somebody ought to write one.
My high school sits half a mile before the clinic along Grand. As its remodeled stucco siding appears in my passenger-side window, I remember being president of the Helping Hands volunteer club there and captain of the track team, running in circles around the soccer field. I remember the feeling of my abs, each side contracting as I lengthened my stride. The memory feels powerful—a clenched fist; a firm No—and without time to turn on my blinker I swerve into the parking lot.
I sneak past the senior who’s volunteered to be this week’s security guard, proving his value to my placid suburban public school by falling asleep. I stand beside his chair and watch him for a minute, the beginnings of a thin blond moustache sprouting by his fleshy cheeks, and I note that seniors in high school seem like babies five years later, very cute in a pat-you-on-the-head kind of way. His cell phone is just seconds from dropping out of his limp hand.
I leave him for the main hallway; Nyack Slopes High doesn’t have metal detectors or anything, so I don’t worry about that. I climb the stairs to my favorite teacher’s classroom. Through its open door, I see her working at the same neat desk that sits in my memories, facing the same neat arc of seats, and penciling in the margins of Wuthering Heights while the kids are writing an in-class essay. I walk right in.
“Hi, Mrs. Tepper,” I say, then very quickly I add my name and graduating year to stave off our mutual humiliation if she’s forgotten me. There’s a framed photo of a girl on her desk, braces thrust toward the camera.
“Of course I remember you,” she says, which is nice whether or not it’s true. This is the teacher who once remarked on my paper—a fifteen-pager arguing that genetic modification of tomatoes both did and did not make sense—that I was smart but stymied. Which I didn’t tell her was ridiculous, because anyone smart is necessarily stymied.
She is the adult, so I stand a while waiting for her to talk first. “How are you?” she asks.
“I just finished college.”
“Congratulations! That’s a real accomplishment.”
“That’s what they tell me.”
“So what’s the next step for you?”
“Not sure,” I say, because although this is the vaguest and least interesting way to answer, it is also the truest.
Some girl in a white summer dress glares at me as if I’m interrupting a brilliant thought. She probably thinks her essay on Brontë’s first through seventh chapters will get her into a good college. I stifle the urge to tell her, You’re so young, kid—you’re allowed to relax!
“How about teaching?” Mrs. Tepper asks. “Alice Wilcox seems to love it.” So my salutatorian has found a career; Mrs. Tepper must think I haven’t much unbaffled myself over the course of my undergraduate education. I consider reminding her where I went to college.
“Maybe. For now I’m living back home, sending out job applications. Hopefully something will come through.” In fact I had been planning to take the GRE and the LSAT both, then applying with whichever earned me the higher score. But I’d been studying in the library, and I couldn’t keep going there once Javi stopped. It’s possible that I’m what made him stay away, and also hurtful in a way I can’t neatly describe. Each time I sat without him beside the old, empty card catalogue drawers, a rubber band squeezed my heart. After a few weeks, it wrapped my stomach and then my pelvis. I stopped going to the library.
“It’s a tough economy,” Mrs. Tepper says. I’m grateful that she has decided to help make my excuses.
“Five job-seekers for every job,” I add, a statistic I read a few months ago.
We fall silent. I observe the rows of Mango Streets that line the shelves around the classroom, worn yellow cover after worn yellow cover. The main character in that book, I remember—her name is Esperanza. That’s “hope” in Spanish. It’s the only Spanish word I know aside from sí and gracias. In Spanish, I am helplessly optimistic.
It must be my turn to ask a question, though I can’t tell what’s appropriate to ask a former teacher and what would be prying. I can’t even tell if I should call her Mrs. Tepper or her name, which I think is Nancy. “How are you?”
“Great! Gracie’s ten already, can you believe it?”
“Wow,” I say. Mrs. Tepper’s daughter had been a toddler when I was the kid agonizing over the in-class essay; sometimes she came to school and drooled on Mrs. Tepper’s shoulder. I wonder now whether Mrs. Tepper’s husband ever took Gracie to his law firm in return.
“She’s learning to play Für Elise. She’s almost got the left hand down.”
“That seems so fast,” I say. “I take a few classes, and already Gracie’s playing piano. Did it feel fast? Did it feel like no time at all?”
Mrs. Tepper laughs. “Don’t you worry,” she says. “You’ve got plenty of time. You’ve got the whole world open to you.” She closes Wuthering Heights around her finger. “Can I tell you a secret?” She looks at me as if my whole body is a lifeline she’s about to read. And after all she is a mother, isn’t she? She is a mother unlike my mother, one who listens as her daughter learns Für Elise. My lungs fill up with my yes.
“Travel,” Mrs. Tepper tells me, with as much earnestness as one word can fit. “I wish I had traveled. Spend a few months working, then get on an airplane.”
I deflate. Security checks, I want to tell her. More x-rays.
“Well, it’s been nice seeing you, Mrs. Tepper,” I say. The bookshelves that line this room are my father’s. I can tell because of their edges: Dad doesn’t believe in right angles. Every shelf in this room is round at every corner, soft and painless even if you run right into them on your way out the door.
The volunteer security boy is gone by the time I pass his post a second time. I find my car, plug my cell phone into the cigarette lighter, turn on pop 100 radio, and start finishing my trip toward the real doctor.
I’m driving next to this landscaping truck that thinks it owns the road. I wish I could pass it or drop behind it, but there’s a silver minivan tailing me and I’m pretty much tailing the sedan in front of me. The medical complex is one traffic light away. The OB/GYN there is like my mother: good at making noise and bad at talking. I think about calling Javi, who might in the end have some opinion that I might deem worth listening to, but I don’t want to seem lost or like I miss him. His opinion either way is irrelevant, because my body is my own and if the Supreme Court ever changed that I would take the bar to set them straight or else I’d move to Canada. Canada’s cold but I do know French, and Montreal is supposedly hilly enough to be good exercise, which would increase my lifespan.
My phone lights up. I grab at it thinking Thank God, preparing how I’ll justify myself if he asks, You going somewhere special?, but the phone goes dark. I slam on my brakes, because the brightness was just the reflection of the green light turning yellow.
I watch my rear-view mirror as the silver minivan behind me decelerates. My polished teeth bite my lip: the minivan is still advancing so quickly that it’s like a movie happening before my right eye and not a reality happening behind my head. I have milliseconds before the impact, enough to process its likelihood, too few to avoid it; my heart thrashes; I curl my back a little, tucking my stomach into my spine, so if I crash into the steering wheel I’ll go chest and shoulders first.
The minivan stops in time. I unfurl. My arm is across my lap. Exhaust from the landscaping truck wobbles over my windshield.
I’d been intending to tell Javi that the thing is I know how I plan to raise my kid. We’ll fill our house with books and newspapers and almanacs, classic films, boxes bursting with crayons and glitter and posterboard. We’ll attend Friday-night synagogue and take piano lessons and play Beethoven over dinner. We’ll go to marathons and the beach and Europe, we’ll volunteer at nursing homes and food pantries, we’ll snorkel and sail and jog and ice skate and trampoline and we will laugh.
And these things will require money. Not to mention time, and commitment, and a stable home. I am only in my twenties. First I need to learn to cook and change my car oil, feel a forehead for temperature, small talk with grown-ups, read a health insurance card. First I need to learn to make another person want those things with me.
The light turns green again. The truck cuts in front of me and away. I pull down the visor because the sun is falling from the collar of the sky, glaring in my eyes, refracted in the kind of unexpected misty rain against which my windshield wipers do nothing. I drive slowly, checking my mirrors before swerving away from potholes. Every green-metal street sign looks fractured against the golden drizzle.
I pull into a diagonally slanted space on the far end of a gray building flanked by an oversized parking lot. My phone does ring, and I pick it up. It’s my mother, singing.
“Thanks,” I say.
“Twenty-three!” she says. “I can’t believe it.”
“Not technically for another few hours, Mom.”
“I know,” she says, “but I can’t stay up till midnight and who knows when you’ll get home. Sounds like you and your friends are having quite the evening. How does it feel?”
She laughs. “You’ve been saying that since you were twelve. Oy, twenty-three just sounds older, doesn’t it? A real adult.” I put on the parking brake. “Though you’ll always be a little girl to me.”
I am grinding the teeth that debuted on x-ray film today, and I remember that when I was younger I used to think adult was a phrase: a dolt, two dolts, and three and four.
“Are you there?” she says in my ear. I am wondering how much radiation is in a cell phone and how small a brain might be damaged by exposure.
“Yeah,” I say.
“Then speak up! What’s going on?”
I don’t know which of the many things I might say is the one I should say.
“I’m having Juana clean your room today, just so you know. She did Nicky’s last week. Consider it a birthday gift.” Juana has stunning, toasted skin, yellow-toned and warm, and she sings her mother’s lullabies as she dislodges sopping hair from my shower drain. I realize that I hadn’t planned to take my kid to Mexico. I wouldn’t know how to speak there, or when to sing or what to wear to church.
“God, I’m jealous of you,” my mother says. I notice that I’m not seeing the concrete building anymore. My eyes are closed.
“Jealous of what?”
She says nothing. I want to ask her: twenty-three years ago—did she want to protect the tiny unseeable thing that became me? Did she know how? “Mom,” I say. I want to ask her: I couldn’t protect it. But I wanted to. “Mom.” Where’s the question in it?
“What a gift,” my mother says, finally. In the background, I hear my father: Find out if the dentist went okay. “You’ve got all the time in the world.”
And that’s when I tell her that my friends are calling for me and I have to run, and I shut off the cell phone and drop it far from my torso, and I hear it clatter under the passenger seat as my glasses slip low on my nose and into my lap. I feel I’m missing something, a nostalgic ache not for the past but for one of the futures tomorrow will raze. I picture them both—clouds of possibility draped in metal aprons, a Marilyn breeze lifting their leaden hems—and I see myself mark their misty bellies, pick up a scalpel, and take aim.
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Lord Drakkon is joining Funko’s POP! Vinyl collection.
The evil version of Tommy Oliver will be made available at your local comic book shop, but limited to only 30,000 figures made. Fans can head to their local comic book shop now to pre-order their Lord Drakkon figure.
“We’re excited about this Lord Drakkon Funko POP! and we think fans will be too because he’s such a captivating, yet twisted character. Right now, there isn’t much Lord Drakkon merchandise available and this will give fans a chance to get their hands on an exclusive collectible associated with the Power Rangers’ Shattered Grid storyline, one of the biggest comic book events of this summer.” Erique Watson, Diamond PREVIEWS Brand Manager for Toys
The toy will release in January 2019 at a retail price of $11.99.
This will be fans’ second chance to own a toy product of Lord Drakkon following the character’s release as a Legacy Figure at Power Morphicon 6 in 2018.
Fans can check out the first look at Lord Drakkon’s Funko POP! Vinyl below, courtesy of ComicBook.com.
The toy will also be accompanied by a release of the Helmetless Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Green Ranger POP! Vinyl in a metallic version. More details on this figure have yet to be released.
The news was revealed as part of Hasbro’s Toys, Games, & Collectibles Power Hour at Power Morphicon 6.
Lord Drakkon’s popularity rose as a result of BOOM! Studios’ Power Rangers: SHATTERED GRID storyline. The story line follows an evil alternate-reality version of Tommy Oliver – who’s returned with a newly reformed deadly army that threatens the existence of every Power Ranger ever. In order to combat the threat, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will join forces with popular faces and teams from all across the franchise’s 25-year history in an event like never seen before.
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BioCare Copper Gluconate Tablets 90
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Copper Gluconate provides 1.1mg copper per daily intake in tablet form. Copper is known to contribute to the maintenance of normal connective tissues, normal energy metabolism and the functioning of the nervous and immune systems.
A handy, daily supplement
Easy to swallow small tablet form
Copper may be required by older individuals
Copper contributes to maintenance of normal connective tissues
Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism
Copper contributes to normal functioning of the nervous and immune systems
Copper contributes to normal hair and skin pigmentation
Copper contributes to normal iron transport in the body
Copper contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress
|Ingredients||Bulking Agents (Dicalcium Phosphate & Microcrystalline Cellulose), Copper Gluconate, Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, Anti-Caking Agent (Magnesium Stearate).|
|Disclaimer||Please note: While we try to ensure that product information is correct, on occasion manufacturers may alter their ingredient lists. The products offered are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Results are not guaranteed and may vary from individual to individual.|
|Sustainability Committment||Landys Chemist is committed to creating a more sustainable world. As part of our commitment we only use recyclable materials for our packaging. That means no plastic waste and we're alway looking for ways to improve further. In addition we recycle the vast majority of our own waste. We also provide invoices electronically rather than on paper to reduce paper waste.|
As an NHS business we work tirelessly to provide support to our local community with a particular focus on those most vulnerable and in need. In addition we also support a number of local charities in North West London to try and help create a more equitable society.
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Pook's Happy Birthday Pookee
Pook makes Pookeez - these characters are exclusive to Pook Designz and have quite the history - read up on them on the Pookeez Page (will be available soon) - these delightful wee characters are always Happy and they are always "high" on happy thoughts and positive vibes - they don't need anything artificial to keep them going. These wee figurines make great gifts as their presence lights up any room and have been faulted for making people smile - they are good at this! Their colours are bright and and they rarely ever get sad. (Sometimes they do, that's because they get lonely they do well when people are around or they have the company of other Pookeez) But that being said, they love to be the bearers of greetings and/or happy messages. So let me know what you would like to have on your Pookee - a name, or a personal quote - what ever you would like someone to hear that you know would brighten their day!! Message add on's range from $6 - $10.00. This wee figurine would make a great gift, cake topper or collectible.
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Rhodesian Ridgeback Charm .925 Sterling Silver Pendant - Body
Learn More About Our Charity Program
Wear your Rhodesian Ridgeback pride with this beautifully designed handmade sterling silver pendant.
What You Get
- Beautifully designed Rhodesian Ridgeback Pendant
- Made of recycled .925 sterling silver
- Pendant size (including bail): 1" tall X 1-1/8" wide
- Can be worn with any chain.
- 100% handmade in the USA
- Great gift for Beagle lovers
- Also available with additional chain options in sterling silver
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Private Agricultural Sector Support (PASS) Trust (www.pass.ac.tz) is a non-bank financial organization that facilitates provision of business development and financial services and credit guarantee to commercial farmers and agri-businesses that operate as small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania. The vision of PASS is to become a leading organization in the provision of financial and business development services the Tanzanian agricultural sector: . The Managing Director is hereby inviting applications from suitably qualified and experienced, dynamic and motivated Tanzanian citizens to immediately fill vacant positions currently existing in PASS Trust. Business Development Officer (2posts) Organizational relationships Appointed by Managing Director Reports to Branch Manager
Entry Qualification • Bachelor's Degree in agricultural field, preferably in agricultural economics, Business Administration or any similar qualification backed up with experience in business planning, project analysis, evaluation-and monitoring. • At least three (3) years proven experience in a reputable organisation, two (2) of which in industrial/processing based organisation or related field. • Experience in credit guarantee schemes and other financial or non-financial business development services required to accelerate investments in small and medium scale farming and agro enterprises is an added advantage. In Service Structure Grow from entry of administrative secretary levels with the minimum entry qualifications, and raise to Branch Manager Position. Employment Status Business Development Officer shall be employed on a three (3) year contract renewable subject to performance Salary Scale - DPSG1
Key result areas
• Promoting and informing about role of PASS, at meetings with potential clients, at visits to clients, through handouts, posters, and advertising. • Preparations of Business Plans (BP) & proposals for PASS/Clients. • Identification of demand for assistance and support from target groups in accessing finance from • Banks. This will cover SMEs in primary and secondary agriculture including agro processing. • Design and establishment of feasible models for activities at smallholder farmer levels, including diversification of crops, improvement of production practices. • Making pre-evaluations of proposals presented for support, and assisting entrepreneurs in improving on proposals into Business Plans of acceptable standards. • Identification, and preparation of solutions for bottlenecks in agriculture performance e.g. market access, processing, and appropriate mechanization' • Liaise with relevant key local authorities so as to identify and promote investments in agriculture and agro business in the zone. This will include Chamber of commerce, Agricultural officers, Traders, processors. • Assisting clients with obtaining credit facilities from PASS collaborating Banks. • Monitoring the performance of the clients in relation to respective business plans and budgets. • Reporting to the management on progress according to the agreed procedures. • Performing other duties as advised by management from time to time.
Duty station: The duty station will be in any of the following stations: Morogoro and Kigoma.
interested candidates should send application letters, Photocopies of Academic Certificates, detailed Curriculum Vitae, to:
Managing Director Private Agricultural Sector support (PASS) Trust P.O.BOX 9490. Dar es Salaam
Closing date for receipt of applications is 14th October, 2016. Applicants who will not be contacted should regard their applications unsuccessful.
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This Fund is established to develop a source of funds for long-term support of activities that will ensure conveyance of water on the Platte River system in Nebraska. Activities to be funded will initially focus on control of invasive plant species but may include other actions necessary to support water conveyance. The geographic focus of the Fund will be the Platte River system from Kingsley Dam and the South Platte River at the Colorado border downstream to the Highway 81 bridge at Columbus, Nebraska.
Permanent Endowment Account
This account is a permanent endowment for the purpose of long-term support of activities that will ensure conveyance of water on the Platte River system in Nebraska
- Opened: June 2020
- Name: Tim Tunnell
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- Phone: 308-237-5728
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It’s Friday the thirteenth. That’s bad right? Maybe something fun will happen today.
I took a week off so today there are four bits of goodness for your weekend reading. Be encouraged, perplexed and try to keep rhythm.
The week began with the sad news that a well-known pastor had taken his own life. Jarrid Wilson was a Southern California mega-church associate pastor and author. He also was a vocal and active advocate for raising awareness of mental health issues as he shared of his own struggles with depression.
In light of this loss Justin Taylor shared snippets from Mark Meynell’s When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend: Reflections on Life and Ministry with Depression.
Three things you can do to help friends with depression are be present, persist, and reassure.
Read the list here. And if you find yourself on the edge please reach out to the Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-8255.
Next from Tyler Braun, a piece on the reluctant leader. Braun shares how he has questioned his own calling and finds a general reluctance from those that are truly called. In fact it is something that has kept him humble in ministry.
While it can be a good sign, it can also be a negative if it hides laziness or fear etc.
This is why reluctance can be powerful in leadership. From the start there is a sense of unknowing: is this the right fit? These questions keep the leader from believing they are bigger than the task.
There is also a great sense of hard-nosed tenacity toward the responsibility of leadership because reluctance never allowed the task to become too glamorous. Letdown is far less likely an outcome because the reluctant leader never believed it was going to be glorious.
The piece resonated with me because i have often noticed a soft reluctance in a leader indicates more preparedness for the role, at least in the church.
Read Braun on his blog Man of Depravity.
This week I also noticed this article on the STEM education and the waste it is. Of course I am interested because I have kids in STEAM (they have to include arts again) programs and am keenly interested. And it doesn’t appear to be a hit job from a classical education advocate.
The point is that technology corrupts education. Let that stew.
I need to finish it but wanted to share it with you. Especially given that the proven most effective piece of technology in the classroom is an overhead projector used by a competent teacher.
Read Jared Woodward’s article on American Affairs.
Lastly, a newsletter from John Starke on being rhythm oriented rather than goal oriented. It has me thinking.
As my wife says though you may not be either, it isn’t black and white.
That’s it homies. Listen to some George Clinton and the P Funk Allstars. Enjoy the weekend. You matter. People love you. Reach out. Breathe deep and experience the grace of Christ.
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This profitable frozen yogurt shop for sale is racking up big sales, large market share and big time earnings offered by the restaurant brokers.
Sales this year will top $560,000 dollars and this place is turning out cash, cash, cash flow with a yearly profit of $225,000 on those sales. Seller has established a gold mine but he's willing to sell as he is putting up new units in other areas.
Customers are loyal to this location - they have thousands of followers on their Facebook page and everyone's talking about the quality, service and more. This is not a franchise frozen yogurt shop for sale where someone has invested big bucks and is still waiting on earnings. This is a big time moneymaker and the owners are happy to open up the books to qualified buyers.
These are smart owners that have put together a location that looks like a franchise with a strong logo, brand identity and great reputation. The only difference is that all the earnings go back to you, as the owner, not a franchise yogurt shop big brand. Self-serve frozen yogurt isn't a passing fancy, it's a booming movement in food sales. This chilly dessert was named the food trend of the decade by Harry Balzer, Vice President with the market research firm NPD Group.
Join that trend by purchasing this frozen yogurt shop for sale with multiple machines, plenty of walk in cooler space, and a beautifully laid out toppings bar where customers mix up their own concoctions at lots of profit per ounce.
Private room to host birthday parties is a smart part of a business model where every age group wants a yogurt party event and dessert is just the right way to celebrate.
Great expense load is next to nothing with rent at just $13.00 per square foot - that breaks out to $2000 a month for 1950 square feet and a huge outdoor deck. That's a rent expense load of 4.2% - that's right 4.2% occupancy cost. It is no wonder that this yogurt shop for sale is such a moneymaker.
Excellent terms on this five-year lease with a five-year option to renew. Local landlord is easy to do business with. Contact the restaurant brokers for more information about this highly profitable yogurt shop for sale today.
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before responding to any ad on our website.
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Section 1: Leadership Development Programme: Diagnostics, Design and Evaluation
Wordcount for Section one: 2,499
Our proposed leadership model………………………………………………………………………1-2
Leadership development programme…………………………………………………………………….2
Proposal for Expert Packaging Ltd
You want a leadership development programme that is suitable for your top 50 most senior managers. Our proposed programme will contain two different learning methods: coaching and reflection. Due to Expert Packaging already having a good reputation amongst its staff for offering opportunities at work to learn new skills and get involved in projects; through diagnostics and development methods we will further develop the characteristics and skills of the staff in the company who already demonstrate some aspects of Transformational Leadership. Therefore, the four aspects of Transformational Leadership will need to be recognised and developed.
Our Proposed Leadership Model
There are many different models and theories of leadership. To meet the needs of your organisation, we recommend that we adopt the Transformational Leadership Theory, developed by Burns (1978) who defined it as a process whereby leaders and followers help raise one another’s levels of morality and motivation. Due to the recent employee attitude survey revealing that staff at Expert Packaging experience the organisation as generally supportive, with most senior managers demonstrating at least some aspects of Transformational Leadership, we decided that this model would be suitable. Bass (1990) states that Transformational Leadership occurs when leaders broaden the interests of employees and look beyond their own self-interest for the good of the group. This applies to Expert Packaging as the staff have been described as open, considerate and having a strong customer focus. The four aspects of Transformational Leadership are: intellectual stimulation (leaders need to inspire creativity amongst followers), individualised consideration (encouragement and support allows team members to share new ideas), inspirational motivation (sharing vision of how a project will succeed will give followers motivation) and idealised influence (the idealised influence a Transformational Leader possesses will inspire followers to succeed by internalising managers ideals and making them their own.)
Leadership Development Programme
- Diagnostics: to diagnose the leadership development needs of senior managers in the company, using 360-degree feedback.
- Design: the development methods we propose are: coaching and reflection.
- Evaluation: to check your needs have been met and further improvements are identified for the future.
Transformational Leadership Theory is based upon the belief of having more than one leader in a group. Therefore, the 360 Degree Feedback (Appendix A1/2) method for diagnostics is suitable to develop leadership in all fifty senior managers.
This tool has been chosen to understand the individuals’ needs, due to feedback allowing individuals to adjust the level of direction of their efforts to match the company requirements of their role (Seifert & Yukl, 2010; Locke & Latham, 2002, c.f. Externbrink & Inceoglu, 2014); this therefore suits this company due to the individual requirements. This process of developing the role requirements through the 360 Degree Feedback Process shows the commitment to the organisation, which is further linked to Transformational Leadership (Barling, Weber, & Kelloway, 1996; Bycio, Hackett, & Allen, 1995, c.f. Dvir, Eden, Avolio, & Shamir, 2017). This commitment leads to enhanced satisfaction with the job (Hater & Bass, 1988, c.f. Kelloway & Barling, 2000) and lower levels of job and role stress (Sosik & Godshalk, 2000; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, & Bommer, 1996, c.f. Kelloway & Barling, 2000).
This process follows a sequence (London & Beatty, 1993), which begins by agreeing on competencies to be included in the questionnaire. The main competencies to be developed for Expert Packaging are: intellectual stimulation, individualised consideration, inspirational motivation, and idealised influence which are essential in becoming a Transformational Leader (Appendix A3). Based upon these competencies there are around forty questions with numerical ratings. The individual senior managers will select who they would like to receive feedback from, this is usually other managers/supervisors, and can be external to the organisation too (Antonioni, 1996). The participants will be given a brief of the diagnostic tool, by email or online, followed by the questionnaire. Collection of data and production of the report usually takes around three weeks to complete. The final stage involves feedback to the senior managers, this takes around 90 – 120 minutes, involving one-to-one feedback and an action plan for development. Once the programme is finished the final discussion will provide feedback to direct and motivate improvement (Kluger, 1993; c.f. London & Beatty, 1993).
Through 360-degree feedback, individuals are provided with information concerning: how they are perceived by others, advice for improvement, ratings and feedback (DeNisi & Griffin, 2001). This diagnostic being online is advantageous as it provides access to difficult-to-reach individuals (Wellman, 1997), e.g. individuals with disabilities. On the other hand, this process does provide individuals with a lot of information which can be overwhelming, so help is needed by a consultant to comprehend the information (DeNisi & Griffin, 2001). Overall the real effectiveness of this process is unknown (Armour, 2003, London, Smither, & Adsit, 1997; Waldman, Atwater, & Antonioni, 1998), however, in combination with coaching, it has resulted in improved manager and employee satisfaction (Luthans & Peterson, 2003; c.f. Ladegard & Gjerde, 2014).
Once 360-degree feedback has been used to gain an insight into the skills and competencies already held by the senior managers, the next stage is developing these Transformational Leadership Skills. The first development method is coaching, this is both action-orientated and learning-orientated, focusing on individual goals in relation to intrapersonal and interpersonal skills (Byrne, 2007; c.f. McNamara, 2014).
The coaching programme for Expert Packaging will involve one to one coaching, whereby work-related issues will be discussed to improve leadership effectiveness (Ely et al, 2010; Feldman & Lankau, 2005; Stajkovic & Luthans, 1998). The GROW model, initially developed by Alexander (2006) and popularised by Whitmore (2010), will be used to allow the senior managers to identify a plan to reach their goal.
The first coaching session will take place a few weeks after 360-degree feedback. There will be four sessions provided by a consultant one to one, to help senior managers develop the four aspects of Transformational Leadership (each session will focus on each aspect). Also, two coaching sessions will be conducted within the company by the senior managers to each other; this will be recorded so any errors in the coaching session can be highlighted by a consultant, so the next session is successful. This allows the senior managers to have more coaching sessions due to costs and timing, and becoming a coach will benefit the senior managers and increase professionalism (Wasylyshyn, 2003). Six sessions altogether will provide the senior managers with enough guidance to allow them to make progress, without taking them out of their jobs too often, it is recommended that the coaching process usually entails three to seven sessions (Hellervik, Hazucha & Schneider, 1992; Saporito, 1996; c.f. Ely et al, 2010.)
The coaching session, using the GROW model (Appendix B1) begins by discussing goals (this is the G in GROW), so this identifies the objectives and desired result from the session. The second stage involves the reality (R in GROW) of the situation, whereby the senior manager will assess their current situation in terms of the actions taken so far. Stage three concerns what options (O in GROW) the individual has, to reach their objectives, by identifying all possibilities and alternatives. The final stage concerns what they will (W in GROW) do, in terms of what they have learned and what can be changed to achieve their goals. During this stage they may outline any possible future obstacles, and consider how they could overcome these. Any support required will be identified, and a summary and plan of action to reach the desired goal will be produced. During the session the coach will encourage the senior manager to talk for most of the time by asking powerful questions, starting broad at the beginning and becoming more focused throughout, to encourage discussion. They will show active listening by replying through nodding, saying yes, and smiling to encourage continuation.
Coaching has been found to have a positive effect even after only one session (Burke & Linley, 2007; c.f. Ladegard & Gjerde, 2014), and the number of coaching sessions is positively associated with the leaders post-training self-efficacy (Baron & Morin, 2010; c.f. Ladegard & Gjerde, 2014). Several research studies have shown that in a coaching relationship, the participant will create a new insight, develop new knowledge and skills and this will help spur personal growth (Hall, Otazo, & Hollenbeck, 1999). Due to this they are proven effective by many, for example Caplan (2003) found that organisations operating in environments marked by frequent shifts in environment dynamics benefit massively from coaching programmes; so, this should be valuable for Expert Packaging, being a company spread across five countries.
Generally, there are no inherent disadvantages to the coaching method if it is properly delivered, however, if the 360-degree feedback method has not been successful in depicting the current and required skills of the employees this can result in coaching sessions failing to address the skill development areas (Caplan, 2003). Also, it has been recognised that there is not always a clear link from one GROW session to the next, as the individual may have different goals each session. The RE-GROW model was developed to help achieve this link between sessions (Greene & Grant, 2003), as the initial stages are review and evaluate. In our case, this is not an issue as there are 4 aspects of Transformational Leadership to be developed, so each session will concern a different aspect.
The next development model requires reflection/reflexivity, which relates directly to how effectively individuals learn from their own personal experiences (Boud, Keogh, & Walker, 1985; c.f. Densten & Gray, 2001). There is an important distinction between reflexivity and reflection; senior managers will be using both, reflexivity will be used throughout the process, and reflection will be used at the end of the process (Finlay, 2002). This method will involve reflexivity/reflection in a personal diary (they will be guided to do this roughly every two weeks to keep an update of their progress), using Gibb’s reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1988) (Appendix B2). This reflection writing will involve reflecting on what processes have been successful and unsuccessful (Brookfield, 1995). Senior managers will be given a session concerning Gibb’s reflective cycle at the beginning of the process, after the first coaching session. In this session the senior managers will be given another ‘coaching session’ based upon Gibb’s reflective cycle. This will be more of a guide to know how the cycle should be used for when they are writing their diary independently (Appendix B3). The first step involves description; therefore, the individual would describe their situation in detail. The next step involves discussing their feelings towards this situation, and talking about what they thought and felt during the experience. The third step is evaluation, so the senior manager would be encouraged to look objectively at which approaches are working. Step four will include conclusions, once the situation has been evaluated. And the final stage involves the action that can be taken to deal with this situation and other situations in the future. For example, through 360-degree feedback and the coaching session, the individual may realise that they lack the empathy and support aspect of individualised consideration to become more of a Transformational Leader, they may have identified their issues within the coaching session, and this reflective diary method will monitor their progress throughout this goal development.
This process will be helpful for senior managers to identify skill development, however, there are some drawbacks. Korthagen (2001) described the difficulty of measuring this process as it occurs in the individuals brain, and is not directly observable. Also, a lot of commitment is involved in the reflexivity process (Finlay, 2002), which can be difficult when senior managers have a large workload. Diary keeping could occur during work; they could make short notes throughout the week, and then the process of Gibb’s reflective cycle will take less time when they write their diary. In addition, preparation to come clean about mistakes and engage in analysis to help further development is necessary (Kleinman, 1991; c.f. Finlay, 2002), which can be difficult for some individuals. However, the 360-degree feedback process at the beginning will highlight these issues for the senior managers and the coaching and diary methods will work on these issues.
To evaluate the impact of this leadership development programme, we will re-use 360-degree feedback after the programme, to monitor the progress of the senior managers. We will also use Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model (Appendix C1), which helps you objectively analyse the effectiveness of this programme so improvements can be made in the future (Kirkpatrick, 1959). This will be conducted by a consultant in a hotel nearby, and will last around two hours. The four levels of this programme involve: reaction-this measures how the participants reacted to the programme and how well it was received, learning-what the participants have learnt from the experience and whether their objectives have been met, behaviour-how much the participants’ behaviour has changed based on the programmes support, and lastly, results-at this level you analyse the results of this programme, and how effective the structure of the programme has been. This in combination with 360-degree feedback will measure specifically whether Transformational Leadership skills have been developed. This will enable us to evaluate the effectiveness of our programme so that appropriate changes can be made in the future.
The Kirkpatrick model has served as the primary design for programme evaluation for over thirty years, due to its popularity being a straightforward, systematic system (Bates, 2004). However, it is used in many different areas including in higher education (Upcraft & Poole, 1991), student services advisors (Brown & Krager, 1985) and in programme evaluation (such as this leadership programme) (Newman & Brown, 1996); and many other areas. However, criticism received included the fact that it evaluates everything afterwards, focusing on end results too much whilst gathering little data to help improve training programmes (Bozarth, 2008). Many authors have actually stopped the evaluation process after the first step, and this therefore leads to ‘smile sheets’-these measure the participants perception of their training. Although this is important, using this solely can prevent the maximisation of the model (Nickols, 2005). Due to this, Rossett (2009) asserted that each level should have a certain percentage of ‘attention’. With level 1-94%, level 2-34%, level 3-13% and level 4-3%. To overcome this, we are using this evaluation method in combination with 360-degree feedback, therefore, more data will be gathered. 360-degree feedback will focus more on the individual improvements and Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model will focus more on the effectiveness of the programme as a whole. These two in combination will provide an overall evaluation of the programme, which is vital to success and improvement (Deming, 1986; Kaufman & Zahn, 1993; c.f. Kaufman & Keller, 1994).
Using the evaluation process will enable us to know whether we have met the objectives for this programme and is suitable for your top fifty most senior managers by guiding the development of the four aspects of Transformational Leadership. This will also be helpful for us to continually develop our programme.
|Week 1||360-degree feedback-this takes a month in total with the data production, collection.|
|Week 4||360-degree feedback-this will enable the senior managers to identify goals ready for coaching.|
|Week 6||The first coaching session will be conducted here by a professional coach, lasting for around 2 hours.|
|Week 8||The reflection session conducted by a professional consultant, lasting 1 hour.||Diary reflection-this can take place as often as the senior managers decide, although guidance of completing their diary once every 2 weeks is suggested for improvements to be made. This ongoing process is useful for the senior managers themselves-they can exchange diaries between them if they wish or keep them personal for self-reflection. This may be something they wish to continue after the programme.|
|Week 23||The second coaching session will be conducted by a professional consultant, lasting for around 2 hours.|
|Week 40||The third coaching session will be conducted by a professional consultant, lasting for around 2 hours.|
|Week 52||The fourth coaching session will be conducted by a professional consultant, lasting for around 2 hours.|
|Week 18||The fifth coaching session will be conducted by another senior manager(s), lasting between 30 minutes-2 hours.|
|Week 36||The sixth coaching session will be conducted by another senior manager(s), lasting between 30 minutes-2 hours.|
|Week 40||Evaluation using the 360-degree model will take place, taking around a month to collate the information.|
|Week 50||Evaluation using Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model, taking around 2 hours.|
|Week 52||Feedback to the senior managers- the consultants will provide feedback to the evaluation given by the senior managers, and will explain the next steps on how to continue with the process of becoming a leader.|
|END OF PROGRAMME.|
We will contact you next week to discuss this proposal further, if you have any queries in the meantime feel free to get in touch.
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360 Degree Feedback
Table A1. The dimensions used by subordinates to evaluate managers in the organisation (general leadership qualities)
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Table A2. Internal customer feedback survey (general leadership qualities)
Table A3. Transformational leadership skills survey using 360-degree feedback for senior managers (participants)
|To what extent do you already have this skill? (Competed by the participant)||To what extent does the employee have this skill? (Completed by another member of staff)|
|INDIVIDUALISED CONSIDERATION||7-high, 1-low, N-N/A||7-high, 1-low, N-N/A|
|Empathy and support||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N|
|Attending to others needs||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N|
|Listening to others needs||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N|
|Will and aspirations||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N|
|Willing to invest effort||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N||7||6||5||4||3||2||1||N|
Appendix B- Development Methods
GROW Model Questions:
What do you want from this discussion?
How would you like to get to your goal?
What does your goal look like?
What will you tell yourself to do the reach this objective?
What will others be telling you?
What will you have at the end of this session that you do not have already?
Once this programme is over and you have achieved your goals, how will you feel? What new elements are in place? What is different now?
What are you doing at the moment about this?
How important is this goal to you?
On a scale of 1-10, if 10 is the ideal situation, what number are you on right now?
What number on the scale would you like to reach?
How do you feel about this change?
What impact does this goal have on you?
What are you currently doing to get you to your goal?
Who else is affected by this goal?
What could you do about it?
What ideas do you have?
What alternatives are there?
What has worked in the past?
What steps could you now take?
Who could help you to reach this goal?
Where could you go to receive help?
What will you do to reach your objectives?
How will you do that?
When will you do this?
Who will you talk to for guidance?
Where will you go to do this?
Is there anything you need to do first before reaching your goals?
How committed do you feel to taking that action?
B2-Reflexivity-Gibb’s Reflective Model
Questions to consider:
When and where did this occur?
Who else was there?
What did you do?
What did others do?
What was the outcome of this situation?
Questions to consider:
How did you feel before this situation?
How did you feel during this situation?
What do you feel now about the situation?
What do you think others will feel about the situation?
What were the positive aspects of this situation?
What were the negative aspects of this situation?
What didn’t go well?
What did you do to contribute to this situation?
What did others do to contribute to this situation?
How could this experience have been more positive?
If you were faced with this situation again what would you now do differently?
What skills would help you deal with this situation better?
What is your plan of action?
How are you going to accomplish this plan of action?
How long will it take you to do this?
B3: An example of Gibbs reflective model:
Stage 1: Description of the event
I am currently a senior manager at Expert Packaging and have discovered that I lack some Transformational Leadership skills that I should have being a senior manager, using 360-degree feedback. I then participated in a coaching session to work my way around how I could reach my goal. My goal concerns my individualised consideration skills, in particular my communication skills. This is an issue because sometimes I struggle to get guide my staff through communication, and therefore, I want to reverse this as I know what needs to be done within the company, and I am well aware of what others need to be doing. However, I struggle to communicate this, which results in a lack of time and energy on my part as we can fall back and I sometimes have to do more work than necessary to get us back on track. During this meeting I am attempting to discover what is it that causes my lack of communication, and I will continue to log my progress using this process in a diary. I have already begun to use my coaching session to develop this skill.
Stage 2: Feelings and thoughts (self-awareness)
Generally, I deem myself to be quite a sociable person, I enjoy meeting with friends, I have a family and wife. So, at first when I was given feedback to discover that I lack in communication, I did not believe it, being an extroverted person myself. However, during my coaching session I began to realise that I do actually lack this, as I could not think of a time that I had given instructions and they were actually carried out to a good standard. Although I firstly saw this as negative, I have begun to realise that this developing of my communication skills will help a lot in my work position, and other aspects of my life too. As I developed a plan in my coaching session, I have already began working on this skill and have spoken to several people concerning this for guidance.
Stage 3: Evaluation and analysis
Overall, I have improved my communication skills, however, I do have a way to go with it. Other individualised consideration skills that I lacked concerned listening to others needs. These show me that overall, I need to work on communication in several different aspects. I have challenged this situation; however, I will need to work on this for quite a while and I will need to gain feedback and help from others throughout the process. The only negative aspect of this is that developing a skill like this is actually a lot more challenging than I originally assumed, and therefore, more work will need to put into this to ensure I reach my goal.
The only aspect of this that I am unaware of is exactly how much communication is necessary, I understand that staff do know what they are doing so all they need is my guidance. However, I do not want to seem over-powering and patronising.
Stage 4: Conclusion
I have begun to develop an insight into what is necessary in terms of communication with other members of staff, I do think that I need to only slightly increase the amount of guidance I give as the staff do know what is expected of the company. However, I really need to work on my listening skills, in case they do have any queries about anything I can then give them appropriate guidance and it will not appear too over-powering as they will have asked for the help.
Stage 5: Action Plan
I am going to work on this goal, and if it occurs again whereby a member of staff seems unsure, or anyone makes a comment on my communicative skills I will not take this negatively. Instead, I will try and improve this as I now know how necessary this is in the workplace since working on it, and realising how much easier and quicker things are getting done. I will also ask others for their guidance on this skill if necessary, being a large company everyone will have different strengths and due to this we can work as a team to help encourage each other to reach goals through the help of each other.
C1: Kirkpatrick’s four level evaluation
Identify how you will measure your reaction by addressing these questions:
Was the programme worth your time and effort?
Do you think that the programme was successful?
What were the main strengths and weaknesses?
Did you like the presentation of the programme?
Did the methods accommodate to your personal learning style?
Identify what you would like to evaluate from what you have learnt-which will have been measured before and after this programme using 360-degree feedback.
Did you put your learning from the coaching sessions into use?
Do you think you could teach your new skills to others?
Are you aware of the skills you have developed?
Identify which outcomes are most closely linked to training, here are some outcomes:
Increased employee retention
Increased customer satisfaction
Section 2: Reflection on skills practice
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During this module I worked on my confidence and assertiveness; self-confidence is traditionally valued as essential in leadership performance, as confidence welcomes new challenges and helps to set difficult goals (Luthans, Luthans, Hodgetts, & Luhans, 2001). Confidence not only assists leaders to work towards their objectives (Black & Porter, 2000; Northouse, 1997), but it increases follower’s willingness to work towards the objectives set by the leader (Luthans & Peterson, 2002). I am going to reflect on my experiences throughout this module in relation to leadership skills I have developed, using Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988). The other significant models I will be introducing are Action Centred Learning (Adair, 1973), GROW Coaching (Whitmore, 2010), and Self Efficacy (Bandura, 1997).
Gibbs reflective cycle (1988) was developed from the earlier theoretical model by Kolb (1984) which is depicted as an experiential learning model (learning through experience). However, Gibbs’ model is referred to as an iterative model (learning occurs through repetition).
Gibbs’ model (1988) can be used to allow people to make sense of situations through reflecting on past experiences (Boud, Keogh & Walker, 1985; Van Manen, 1977; Mezirow, 1981; & Schon, 1991).
This process involves five stages: the first stage involves description of the situation, the second stage is based on feelings towards the situation, the third stage is evaluation of which approaches worked, the fourth stage concerns the conclusions about what happened, and the final stage involves discussing possible actions to deal with similar situations more effectively in the future (Gibbs, 1988).
From ‘Learning by Doing’ by Graham Gibbs, published by Oxford Polytechnic (1988).
If reflection is done effectively, it can be a powerful tool to examine and develop performance, and can be used in any field working with people (Hobbs, 2007; cited from Finlay, 2008). Gibb’s reflective model is used extensively by healthcare professionals, as it enables the learner to think systematically about their experiences gained and improves professional judgement (Oelofsen, 2012). Whilst models such as this offer a helpful structure for reflection, it is argued that a broader and more critically reflexive approach is needed. Zeichner and Liston (1996) argue that reflection should move beyond and critically examine how these practises can lead to a change of commitment; which has encouraged more elaborative models such as Jay and Johnson’s (2002) reflection process involving: description, comparison and critical reflection.
The first skills session involved Action Centred Learning (Adair, 1973); this involves a group of people attempting to achieve a goal whereby one of more of the individuals will act as a leader. I was in a group of six and we were given a scenario concerning a regional banking firm.
The second skills session involved a coaching session using the GROW model (Whitmore, 2010), which stands for: Goals, Reality, Options and Will. I was the coach, learner, and then observer.
The third skills session focused on feedback which I gave and received concerning coursework, our contributions to this module, and feedforward involving giving and receiving advice concerning a situation, to move forward.
I was quite nervous in the first skills session, due to being observed in a large group. I attempted to participate as much as possible in discussions, however, some individuals were very confident and over-powering which made it difficult.
The second skills session gave me confidence in the situation I was coached on, although I was not given advice, I realised how to reach my goal. Therefore, the GROW model (Whitmore, 2010) was beneficial in guiding my awareness and understanding.
The third skills session was useful; the coursework feedback helped as I could compare my coursework and discuss improvements.
In the first skills session, I portrayed support and encouragement; in an organisation support and encouragement are essential leadership traits which inspire employees to take initiative (Martins & Terblanche, 2003; Mumford & Gustafson; c.f. Sarros, Cooper, & Santora, 2008.) These skills also relate to the Transformational Leadership Skill, Individualised Consideration: which is the degree to which the leader attends to each follower and gives empathy and support (Burns, 1978). However, the session was quite daunting and as my feedback sheet has suggested, I lacked confidence and assertiveness.
In the second skills session I enjoyed coaching, however, I found it difficult to keep the conversation flowing (which was shown in my feedback, whereby I was described as ‘robotic’). I discovered that I demonstrate good listening skills which are essential in leadership (Whitworth, Kimsey-House, & Sandahl, 1998); I was not previously aware of having this skill.
The third session was positive, as I received good feedback. I demonstrated high self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997), as I showed optimism focusing on positives, followed by negatives, which allowed me to make an action plan. I found it difficult to provide feedforward for others, as I lack in confidence with my own ideas and opinions. However, the feedforward that I received guided me to develop an appropriate action plan.
The experience has led me to realise I already have certain leadership skills, and it has allowed me to experience unfamiliar situations to develop new skills.
I could have prepared for the skills sessions and familiarised myself with the topics. I could have also been more assertive in the sessions, as assertiveness plays a critical role in perceptions about leaders (Ames & Flynn, 2007).
Confident leaders are seen as competent and more capable; however, over-confidence can be detrimental to a leader’s performance (Shipman, & Mumford, 2011); therefore, I need to work on gaining the correct amount of confidence to be successful. I will work on these weaknesses, and try and put myself in these situations to allow improvements. If faced with the same situation I would properly prepare myself, and go out of my comfort zone.
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Appendix 1: Skills practice 1 – my skills and development needs, as a leader. A diagnosis produced from self-feedback and peer-feedback.
Appendix 2: Skills practice 2 – My skills as observer. My structured feedback and observations of another student’s coaching session.
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we were given a book cover assignment to do in class, we were to create an illustration and font. i chose watership down... surprised?
if you haven't read it already you should, especially if you like bunnies. however it is quite sad. when i was small my mum bought me the movie to watch, but then she wouldn't let me see it for years because she was afraid i would cry.
smart move mum.
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I grew up in New England and my kids are growing up in New England, so reading about early American history is always pretty exciting for us. By a happy accident we rowed this book right around the anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride!
Listen my children and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
Here’s what we did!
- We talked about when the ride of Paul Revere took place and I had her add the date ~ April 18, 1775 ~ to her timeline book.
- We found Boston on the map, and I reminded her of a previous row that took place there.
- We talked about the signal used to alert Paul Revere and the other riders to the movements of the British troops “one if by land, two if by sea”….referring to the number of lanterns that would be lit in the Old North Church tower.
- As suggested in the manual, I asked Rose if she knew why the Somerset was in italics; she remembered from a previous row that that is how you deal with ship names in text.
- I read her the information on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from the manual, and we read The Village Blacksmith, another of his poems.
- There was a long vocab list in the manual ~ lots of new and interesting words in this poem…like “spectral”, “grenadiers”, and “impetuous”. I briefly went over them with her.
- Our manual pointed out that much of this story revolves around light. Using the suggestions found in that section, we examined the illustrations for all sources of light.
- The manual also includes an interesting section on colonial architecture. I shared a bit of that information with her, and we looked for examples in the illustrations.
- We examined the scene where the British ship is reflected in the water. We talked about how the artist portrayed that reflection and another, quite different, reflection later in the book.
- We put our math caps on and figured out how old Longfelllow was when he wrote this poem -it’s pretty amazing!
- We talked about what causes fog and why it tends to form over rivers, as it does in this story.
- Rose watched a Liberty Kids episode about Paul Revere’s Ride. And later, I bought the whole series for us to watch together over the summer.
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Earlier this year I was asked to write a short article by my former PhD student, and still a current collaborator, Dr Sam Tarrant. Sam works for the RSPB as the CEMEX UK-funded Biodiversity Advisor, and wanted something on pollinator conservation that could be circulated in the CEMEX company’s e-newsletter. In the spirit of reworking and reusing odd bits of writing, I thought I’d post it here too.
Insects are vital for our country’s economy. Don’t believe me? Then read on….
Beneath a large black mulberry tree near the University of Northampton’s Newton Building there is a plaque that commemorates its planting “On Shakespeare Commemoration Day, 3rd May 1916”. Despite its age this tree annually produces large crops of succulent berries, aided by the fact that wind eddies are sufficient to disperse its pollen, ensuring pollination and fruit set. Each year it’s a scramble between students, lecturers and birds, to see who can eat the most.
In contrast, the old apple trees in the grounds possess a different strategy – pollination by insects that move from flower to flower each spring. This form of pollination is both more sophisticated and less reliable than wind pollination, and is currently under considerable threat: whilst there will never be a shortage of wind currents in Britain, insect pollinators are in decline.
The apples trees are not alone in requiring insects to pollinate them, so to do other farm and garden crops, including oil seed rape, field beans, courgettes, runner beans, and strawberries and other soft fruit. It’s worth at least £440 million annually to the British economy, and most of it is done by wild bees and hoverflies, rather than managed hives of honey bees.
But all is not well with these insects in Britain – they are in decline. Although the extent of the “pollination crisis” is debated by scientists, long term records show us that these insects are under pressure: 23 species of bee and flower-visiting wasp have gone extinct since the mid 1800s, as have 18 species of butterflies. Less obviously, other species have considerably reduced in abundance so that they are now found in only a small part of their previous distribution.
There are lots of gardeners who want to “do something” for the pollinators, and keeping honey bees is often mentioned. By all means, if you wish to help the honey bees (which are suffering their own problems) then keep a hive or two. That will not, however, help our wild, native pollinators; the analogy I use is that it’s the equivalent of trying to help our declining songbirds by opening a chicken farm!
If you want to make a real difference for pollinators in your own garden, here are a few ideas:
- start by planting nectar and pollen rich flowers; there’s a useful list on the Royal Horticultural Society’s website (see below).
- allow plants such as clover and dandelion to flower in your lawn, bees love them.
- as well as food, pollinators also need nest and egg laying sites, so you could help by allowing some of the far corners of your plot to run a little wild.
- wait until late Spring to cut back hollow stemmed perennials as they are used as hibernating places by some of our bees.
- allow mason bees to nest in old walls and don’t worry about them, the wall won’t fall down.
- And finally, stop using pesticides!
Changing some of our gardening habits can help a group of insects on which we rely and which supports our economy in a very real way.
Further reading and information:
Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Society: http://www.bwars.com/
Bumblebee Conservation Trust: http://www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk/
Butterfly Conservation: http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/
Hoverfly Recording Scheme: http://www.hoverfly.org.uk/
Royal Horticultural Society’s list of plants for pollinators: http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Sustainable-gardening/Plants-for-pollinators
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Slate Blue Olives & Pink Rosary Chain Rope Necklace
Slate blue wiht hints of teal meet pinks & olive toned beads in this hand-linked necklace. Long & Bohemian rope style, and each & every bead is vintage from the 60's, 70's or 80's. Beads are light-weight lucite & linked with black wire chain. Necklace measures 41-44" in length & can be worn long and lean or doubled for a shorter statement look. A great versatile style.
Made with lucite from 1960's deadstock, from a warehouse that closed in the early 1980's.
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THE BONUS GUIDE FOR YOU
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Here is the introduction to the guide.
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We have outlined what it takes to do well on the OAT by section. These ideas and tips come directly from current optometry students who have RECENTLY taken the OAT and are attending optometry school. At ScholarWare, we take pride in obtaining CURRENT and RELEVANT information and have revolving on-staff consulting optometry students who keep us apprised of the latest successful tricks and techniques.
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Dismissed judge to move SC
Kathmandu, March 28- Recently sacked Syangja District Court judge Chitra Dev Joshi ton monday said he would file a writpetition at the Supreme Court challenging his dismissal.
“I will file a writ petition against the decision,” he said while speaking at an interaction organised by the Constitutional Lawyers’ Forum here today. The Judicial Council (JC) had recommended the King to dismiss Joshi as he had spoken against the King’s February 1 takeover and the proclamation of state of emergency last year. Joshi called the decision to dismiss him unconstitutional. “I had only said everyone should do his job responsibly,” he said.
The JC headed by chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel had recommended Joshi’s sacking for his criticism of the King in public, for going against the judges’ code of conduct and for involvement in irregularities. The JC had also issued him three warnings.
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- Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child has a new single out and it’s all about Jesus! Apparently she is super Christian and I had no idea. Anyway, both Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland appear on the gospel song and in the video above, although this isn’t being billed as a Destiny’s Child endeavor. Someone called in a favor to Bey, huh?
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- The late R&B singer Aaliyah’s family is threatening a lawsuit to stop the upcoming Lifetime movie about her life, which would star Disney actress Zendaya Coleman. [Clutch Magazine]
- Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are officially divorced. [TMZ]
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- The mayor of San Marino, California, has resigned after being caught on surveillance video earlier this month throwing a bag of dog shit into his neighbor’s yard. [Boing Boing]
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Following Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio may be the neuroscientist whose popular books have done the most to inform readers about the biological machinery in our heads, how it generates thoughts and emotions, creates a self to cling to, and a sense of transcendence to escape by. But since he published Descartes’ Error in 1994, Damasio has been concerned that a central thesis in his books, that brains don’t define us, has been muted by research that states how much they do. To Damasio’s dismay, the view of the human brain as a computer, the command center of the body, has become lodged in popular culture.
In his new book, The Strange Order of Things, Damasio, a professor of neuroscience and the director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, mounts his boldest argument yet for the egalitarian role of the brain. In “Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings,” another article in this chapter of Nautilus, drawn from his new book, Damasio tells us “mind and brain influence the body proper just as much as the body proper can influence the brain and the mind. They are merely two aspects of the very same being.”
The Strange Order of Things offers a sharp and uncommon focus on feelings, on how their biological evolution fueled our prosperity as a species, spurred science and medicine, religion and art. “When I look back on Descartes’ Error, it was completely timid compared to what I’m saying now,” Damasio says. He knows his new book may rile believers in the brain as emperor of all. “I was entirely open with my ideas,” he says. “If people don’t like it, they don’t like it. They can criticize it, of course, which is fair, but I want to tell them, because it’s so interesting, this is why you have feelings.”
In this interview with Nautilus, Damasio, in high spirits, explains why feelings deserve a starring role in human culture, what the real problem with consciousness studies are, and why Shakespeare is the finest cognitive scientist of them all.
One thing I like about The Strange Order of Things is it counters the idea that we are just our brains.
Oh, that idea is absolutely wrong.
Not long ago I was watching a PBS series on the brain, in which host and neurologist David Eagleman, referring to our brain, declares, “What we feel, what matters to us, our beliefs and our hopes, everything we are happens in here.”
That’s not the whole story. Of course, we couldn’t have minds with all of their enormous complexity without nervous systems. That goes without saying. But minds are not the result of nervous systems alone. The statement you quote reminds me of Francis Crick, someone whom I admired immensely and was a great friend. Francis was quite opposed to my views on this issue. We would have huge discussions because he was the one who said that everything you are, your thoughts, your feelings, your mental this and that, are nothing but your neurons. This is a big mistake, in my view, because we are mentally and behaviorally far more than our neurons. We cannot have feelings arising from neurons alone. The nervous systems are in constant interaction and cooperation with the rest of the organism. The reason why nervous systems exist in the first place is to assist the rest of the organism. That fact is constantly missed.
The concept of “homeostasis” is critical in your new book. What is homeostasis?
It’s the fundamental property of life that governs everything that living cells do, whether they’re living cells alone, or living cells as part of a tissue or an organ, or a complex system such as ourselves. Most of the time, when people hear the word homeostasis, they think of balance, they think of equilibrium. That is incorrect because if we ever were in “equilibrium,” we would be dead. Thermodynamically, equilibrium means zero thermal differences and death. Equilibrium is the last thing that nature aims for.
The importance of feeling is that it makes you critically aware of what you are doing in moral terms.
What we must have is efficient functioning of a variety of components of an organism. We procure energy so that the organism can be perpetuated, but then we do something very important and almost always missed, which is hoard energy. We need to maintain positive energy balances, something that goes beyond what we need right now because that’s what ensures the future. What’s so beautiful about homeostasis is that it’s not just about sustaining life at the moment, but about having a sort of guarantee that it will continue into the future. Without those positive energy balances, we court death.
What’s a good example of homeostasis?
If you are at the edge of your energy reserves and you’re sick with the flu, you can easily tip over and die. That’s one of the reasons why there’s fat accumulation in our bodies. We need to maintain the possibility of meeting the extra needs that come from stress, in the broad sense of the term. I poetically describe this as a desire for permanence, but it’s not just poetic. I believe it’s reality.
You write homeostasis is maintained in complex creatures like us through a constant interplay of pleasure and pain. Are you giving a biological basis to Freud’s pleasure principle—life is governed by a drive for pleasure and avoidance of pain?
Yes, to a great extent. What’s so interesting is that for most of the existence of life on earth, all organisms have had this effective, automated machinery that operates for the purpose of maintenance and continuation of life. I like to call the organisms that only have that form of regulation, “living automata.” They can fight. They can cooperate. They can segregate. But there’s no evidence that they know that they’re doing so. There’s no evidence of anything we might call a mind. Obviously we have more than automatic regulation. We can control regulation in part, if we wish to. How did that come about?
Very late in the game of life there’s the appearance of nervous systems. Now you have the possibility of mapping the inside and outside world. When you map the inside world, guess what you get? You get feelings. Of necessity, the machinery of life is either in a state of reasonable efficiency or in a state of inefficiency, which is most often the case. Organisms with nervous systems can image these states. And when you start having imagery, you start having minds. Now you begin to have the possibility of responding in a way that you could call “knowledgeable.” That happens when organisms make images. A bad internal state would have been imaged as the first pains, the first malaises, the first sufferings. Now the organism has the possibility of knowingly avoiding whatever caused the pain or prefer a place or a thing or another animal that causes the opposite of that, which is well-being and pleasure.
Why would feelings have evolved?
Feelings triumphed in evolution because they were so helpful to the organisms that first had them. It’s important to understand that nervous systems serve the organism and not the other way around. We do not have brains controlling the entire operation. Brains adjust controls. They are the servants of a living organism. Brains triumphed because they provided something useful: coordination. Once organisms got to the point of being so complex that they had an endocrine system, immune system, circulation, and central metabolism, they needed a device to coordinate all that activity. They needed to have something that would simultaneously act on point A and point Z, across the entire organism, so that the parts would not be working at cross purposes. That’s what nervous systems first achieve: making things run smoothly.
Now, in the process of doing that, over millions of years, we have developed nervous systems that do plenty of other things that do not necessarily result in coordination of the organism’s interior, but happen to be very good at coordinating the internal world in relation to the outside world. This is what the higher reaches of our nervous system, namely the cerebral cortex, does. It gives us the possibilities of perceiving, of memorizing, of reasoning over the knowledge that we memorize, of manipulating all of that and even translating it into language. That is all very beautiful, and it is also homeostatic, in the sense that all of it is convenient to maintain life. It if were not, it would just have been discarded by evolution.
How does your thesis square with the hard problem of consciousness, how the physical tissue in our heads produces immaterial sensations?
Some philosophers of mind will say, “Well, we face this gigantic problem. How does consciousness emerge out of these nerve cells?” Well, it doesn’t. You’re not dealing with the brain alone. You have to think in terms of the whole organism. And you have to think in evolutionary terms.
The critical problem of consciousness is subjectivity. You need to have a “subject.” You can call it an I or a self. Not only are you aware right now that you are listening to my words, which are in the panorama of your consciousness, but you are aware of being alive, you realize that you’re there, you’re ticking. We are so distracted by what is going on around us that we forget sometimes that we are, A-R-E in capitals. But actually you are watching what you are, and so you need to have a mechanism in the brain that allows you to fabricate that part of the mind that is the watcher.
You do that with a number of devices that have to do, for example, with mapping the movements of your eyes, the position of your head, and the musculature of your body. This allows you to literally construct images of yourself making images. And you also have a layer of consciousness that is made by your perception of the outside world; and another layer that is made of appreciating the feelings that are being generated inside of you. Once you have this stack of processes, you have a fighting chance of creating consciousness.
Why do you object to comparing the brain to a computer?
In the early days of neuroscience, one of our mentors was Warren McCulloch. He was a gigantic figure of neuroscience, one of the originators of what is today computational neuroscience. When you go back to the ’40s and ’50s, you find this amazing discovery that neurons can be either active or inactive, in a way that can be described mathematically as zeroes and ones. Combine that with Alan Turing and you get this idea that the brain is like a computer and that it produces minds using that same simple method.
Religions have been one of the great causes of violence throughout history. But you can’t blame Christ for it.
That has been a very useful idea. And true enough, it explains a good part of the complex operations, that our brains produce such as language. Those operations require a lot of precision and are being carried out by cerebral cortex, with enormous detail, and probably in a basic computational mode. All the great successes of artificial intelligence used this idea and have been concerned with high-level reasoning. That is why A.I. has been so successful with games such as chess or Go. They use large memories and powerful reasoning.
Are you saying neural codes or algorithms don’t blend with living systems?
Well, they match very well with things that are high on the scale of the mental operations and behaviors, such as those we require for our conversation. But they don’t match well with the basic systems that organize life, that regulate, for example, the degree of mental energy and excitation or with how you emote and feel. The reason is that the operations of the nervous system responsible for such regulation relies less on synaptic signaling, the one that can be described in terms of zeroes and ones, and far more on non-synaptic messaging, which lends itself less to a rigid all or none operation.
Perhaps more importantly, computers are machines invented by us, made of durable materials. None of those materials has the vulnerability of the cells in our body, all of which are at risk of defective homeostasis, disease, and death. In fact, computers lack most of the characteristics that are key to a living system. A living system is maintained in operation, against all odds, thanks to a complicated mechanism that can fall apart as a result of minimal amounts of malfunction. We are extremely vulnerable creatures. People often forget that. Which is one of the reasons why our culture, or Western cultures in general, are a bit too calm and complacent about the threats to our lives. I think we are becoming less sensitive to the idea that life is what dictates what we should do or not do with ourselves and with others.
What is love for?
To protect, to cause flourishing, to give and receive pleasure, to procreate, to soothe. Endless great uses, as you can see.
How do emotions such as anger or sadness serve homeostasis?
At individual levels, both anger and sadness are protective. Anger lets your adversary know that you mean business and that there may be costs to attacking you. These days anger is an expression of sociopolitical conflicts. It is overused and has largely become ineffectual. Sadness is a prelude to mental hibernation. It lets you retreat and lick your wounds. It lets you plan a strategy of response to the cause of the wounds.
You say feelings spurred the creation of cultures. How so?
Before I started The Strange Order of Things, I was asking friends and colleagues how they thought cultures had begun. Invariably what people said was, “Oh, we’re so smart. We’re so intellectually powerful. We have all this reasoning ability. On top of it all, we have language—and there you are.” To which I say, “Fine, that’s true. How would you invent anything if you were stupid?” You would not. But the issue is to recognize the motive behind what you do. Why is it that you did it in the first place? Why did Moses come down from the mountain with Ten Commandments? Well, the Ten Commandments are representative of homeostasis because they tell you not to kill, not to steal, not to lie, not to do a lot of bad things. It sounds trivial but it’s not. We fail to think about motivation and so we do not factor it into the process of invention. We do not factor in the motives behind science or technology or governance or religion.
How does consciousness emerge out of nerve cells? Well, it doesn’t. You’re not dealing with the brain alone.
And there’s one more thing: The importance of feeling is that it makes you critically aware of what you are doing in moral terms. It forces you to look back and realize that what people were doing historically, at the outset, at the moment of invention of a cultural instrument or a cultural practice, was an attempt to reduce the amount of suffering and to maximize the amount of wellbeing not only for the inventor, but for the community around them. One person alone can invent a painting or a musical composition, but it is not meant for that person alone. And you do not invent a moral system or a government system alone or for yourself alone. It requires a society, a community.
The assertion that intellect is governed by feelings can sound New Age-y. It seems to undermine the powers of reason. How should we understand reason if it’s always motivated by subjective feelings?
Subjective simply means that it has a personal point of view, that it pertains to the self. It is compatible with “objective” facts and with truth. It is not about relativism. The fact that feelings motivate the use of knowledge and reason do not make the knowledge and the reason any less truthful or valid. Feelings are simply a call to action.
If humans formed societies and cultures to avoid suffering and pain, why do we have violence and wars?
Your question is very important. Take developments of political systems. On the face of it, when you look at Marxist ideas, you say, “This is obviously homeostatic.” What Marx and others were trying to do in the 19th century is confront and modify a social arrangement that was not equitable, that had some people suffering too much and some profiting too much. So having a system that produced equality made a lot of sense. In a way that is something that biological systems have been trying to do, quite naturally, for a long time. And when the natural systems do not succeed at improved regulation, guess what? They are weeded out by evolution because they promote illness.
Biological evolution, through genetic selection, eliminates those mechanisms. At the cultural level something comparable occurs. Seen in retrospect, Marxism as applied in Russia resulted in one of the worst tragedies of humankind. But Russian communism was ultimately weeded out by cultural selection. It took around 70 years to do it, but cultural selection did operate in a homeostatic way. It led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet empire. It was a homeostatic correction achieved by social means.
The same reasoning applies to religions. For example, we can claim that religions have been one of the great causes of violence throughout history. But you certainly can’t blame Christ for that violence. He preached compassion, and the pardoning of enemies, and love. It does not follow that good recommendations can be implemented correctly and always produce good results. These facts in no way deny the homeostatic intent of religions.
You write, “The increasing knowledge of biology from molecules to systems reinforces the humanist project.” How so?
This knowledge gives us a broader picture of who we are and where we are in the history of life on earth. We had modest beginnings, and we have incorporated an incredible amount of living wisdom that comes from as far down as bacteria. There are characteristics of our personal and cultural behavior that can be found in single-cell organisms or in social insects. They clearly do not have the kind of highly developed brains that we have. In some cases, they don’t have any brain at all. But by analyzing this strange order of developments we are confronted with the spectacle of life processes that are complex and rich in spite of their apparent modesty, so complex and rich that they can deliver the high level of behaviors that we normally, quite pretentiously, attribute only to our great human smarts. We should be far more humble. That’s one of my main messages. In general, connecting cultures to the life process makes apparent a link that we have ignored for far too long.
What would you be if you weren’t a scientist?
When I was an adolescent, I often thought that I might become a philosopher or perhaps a playwright or filmmaker. That’s because I so admired what philosophers and storytellers had found about the human mind. Today when people ask me, “Who’s your most admired cognitive scientist?” I say Shakespeare. He knew it all and knew it with enormous precision. He didn’t have the nice fMRI scanner and electrophysiology techniques we have in our Institute. But he knew human beings. Watch a good performance of Hamlet, King Lear, or Othello. All of our psychology is there, richly analyzed, ready for us to experience and appreciate.
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We recently had an opportunity to talk with Bradley C. McKenzie, P.E., Principal, and Shane L. Brenner, PLS, of McKenzie Engineering Group, Inc. (MEG) based out of Danvers and Norwell, Massachusetts, to get a better understanding of their respective professions within the context of permitting and land development. Here is an excerpt from our conversation.
(Answers provided by Bradley C. McKenzie, P.E.)
1. What does a civil engineer do, generally speaking? Are there areas of expertise within that category of engineering?
A civil engineer generally designs the horizontal component of a land development project. Our responsibilities include designing site infrastructure items such as utilities (drainage, sewer, water), roadway design, parking lot design, septic systems, etc We provide land planning, design and construction administration services for residential, commercial, institutional and recreational projects for public and private clients. For most of our projects, we typically get involved in the inception of the projects by providing feasibility studies to identify , development options for clients and advise them how to maximize the use of their land within local, state and federal permitting constraints. Once the design development phase is completed, we file with local boards [and applicable state and federal authorities] for the permitting phase. The most labor-intensive portion for MEG staff is the design development phase.
Within the civil engineering field there are various areas of expertise. I would consider civil engineering to broadly encompass geotechnical, structural, transportation, environmental engineering, sanitary engineering disciplines. At MEG, we have engineers that specialize in [disciplines that include] land planning, utility design (drainage, sewer, water, etc.), septic systems and wastewater treatment facilities, structural and environmental engineering. Some people begin to specialize while in college by choosing a specific discipline, but usually what we see is that in the first 10 years of someone’s career, given their experience and the company they may work for, they are exposed to a lot of disciplines and then migrate towards a particular one eventually.
2. Are there any interesting trends that you’re currently seeing in land development laws, whether it be at the local, state or federal level, affecting some of your projects? In other words, compared to five or even ten years ago, is it easier or more difficult to permit a project these days? At the local level, where are you seeing the most trends/changes-zoning codes, subdivision regs, board of health, wetlands?
One area that we are seeing more agencies stressing is sustainable design. It’s generally been encouraged by the state and sometimes at the local level. Our involvement as civil engineers and with LEED certifications is using sustainable design and using low impact drainage (LID) design, which typically involves less structures like curbing, catch basin and manholes, and more best management practices such as greased swales, and rain gadrens and design these features taking into consideration the natural terrain so that they better comport to existing topography and the environment. What we’ve generally seen since 2005 and 2006 forward, is that the state is trying to expedite permitting processes and remove layers of bureaucracy and inefficiency. For example, the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program (NHESP) has developed new regulations that are more tailored and expedite the permit process for certain endangered species. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has eliminated the Sewer Extension Permit Program this summer (2012) and has also introduced an expedited form of wetland permitting when filing notices of intent (NOI).
Also, in 2010, Massachusetts passed the Permit Extension Act, and it was just extended for another two years this summer (2012). That [legislation and extension] has been the single most influential and progressive change that’s been made in terms of positive economic impacts to our clients” projects.
Conversely, while the state government has gone in a positive direction, more towns are developing more stringent zoning and wetland bylaws that result in making local permitting projects more restrictive. There have not been too many substantive changes in permitting land development projects at the federal level.
Other trends we’re seeing: A lot of towns have provided inclusionary zoning (affordable housing) components in their zoning bylaws and have added cluster subdivisions, flexible open space, and other overlay districts which allow higher density projects to deter developers someone from permitting comprehensive permit projects under n M.G.L. Ch. 40B. Towns have been more proactive in developing their own affordable housing bylaws, so that they can avoid being targets for 40B and dictate where affordable housing can be developed.
3. How often do your approved projects end up in litigation? What are their main concerns when bringing the appeal?
When it comes to a “neighborhood appeal” at the local level, few. We typically have about two hundred projects a year, and usually less than a handful get appealed. Usually the 40B projects are most of the time appealed by an intervening/neighborhood group and/or the applicant because they don’t get the density they requested in their application. The appeal is to the state Housing Appeals Committee.
Interesting. Why do you think that is?
You have to be proactive by designing a project that meets all of the applicable regulations to minimize the opportunity for local boards to deny a project, or a party with standing to appeal it. During the public hearing process we try, to the extent that we can, to address public and board concerns that are raised, and we advise clients to be responsive to their concerns within reason because appeals and litigation is expensive.
4. How often do you provide testimony in litigation? What kind of testimony do civil engineers typically provide in litigation?
For land development project it has been less frequent than in the past. I had several cases where I provided testimony 2-3 years ago for 40B projects. I am usually called to defend the civil engineering design for the project.
What issues typically come up?
For me personally, about 50% [of the issues in litigation] are related to drainage or wetlands impacts. For civil engineers in general, I’d say [the issues are] either public safety and roadway design, stormwater design, how [the project impacts] abutters and whether on or off-site facilities are adequate. Of course, our designs are always closely scrutinized for compliance with local and state regulations.
5. Let’s say a developer is planning to build a new subdivision. At what stage is it best to engage your firm?
Early on in the process. We would perform due diligence, a feasibility study, and maybe do some conceptual planning. It typically takes us about 30 days to complete conceptual planning, which depends on the size of the land, type of alternatives available for development of the site, etc.
6. When thinking about some of your past projects, what exactly makes a project “complex”? Would it be the size? Challenges of complying with existing laws? Physical features that must be overcome on the site? Mitigation requirements?
It could be a combination of things. The larger the parcel, the density of development, the more restrictive the zoning (i.e. are special permits, variances needed?), wetlands permitting constraints, endangered species issues, state registered archeological or historical sites. Larger projects also require permitting under MEPA which can be quite involved. Generally, when we’re also working under a zoning bylaw that allows more flexibility, there is lot more thought that goes into [the planning of the project] and more creativity and coordination with client in the initial planning phases because it’s not a standard “cookie cutter” project.
(Answers provided by Shane L. Brenner, PLS)
1. Tell me what your specific role is at a firm like McKenzie Engineering Group. What kinds of things are you doing on a day -to-day basis?
I am the director of land surveying and am in responsible charge of all land surveying work that is performed at our firm. I direct our surveyor’s daily activities-I’ll ask questions as to what they’ve looked at, explain (procedurally) how I expect work to be done, [ensure] accuracy standards. Being registered [under Massachusetts General Laws], the regulations that guide us [provide] that the PLS must scrutinize all work performed.
I work hand in hand with engineers and clients to make sure the clients’ land surveying needs are addressed, and that the integrity of the work meets a high standard. I may work on a project independently of the engineers, but that is less common because there is usually an engineering component to a majority of our projects. I also work on the construction side performing survey layout of proposed buildings or proposed infrastructure.
Overall, I perform a broad range of functions here. I prepare very comprehensive plans, prepare proposals, perform title research, training subordinate employees, perform property line calculations, analyze various types of evidence to base decisions on (like reviewing measurements, interpreting deeds, plans and other record documents and make comparative analysis to resolve ambiguity). I specialize in preparing difficult existing conditions base plans and title insurance plans. These plans are used to flush out project site constraints or identify encumbrances that may adversely impact development.
2. There seem to be different kinds of land surveyors-such as PLS, PS, LS and RLS-what are the differences, exactly?
Each individual state has their own terminology and set of requirements (to become registered) for a registered or licensed land surveyor. For example, in NH, it’s licensed land surveyor. In MA, it’s a registered professional land surveyor. They have the same meaning – just different titles depending on the state. But, a land surveyor [without any other designation or qualifier] is not recognized to the level of being registered with a specific state, and haven’t gone through the process of getting registered. All states require that a non-registered land surveyor work under the responsible charge of a registrant.
3. There also appears to be different kinds of surveys that can be performed. What are some of your more typical surveys that you do?
Generally speaking, there are boundary surveys (property line surveys), topographic and detail surveys, land title surveys for title insurance (identifying encumbrances), land court surveys, condominium surveys, elevation certificates for FEMA, and GPS control surveys.
A lot of these types of surveys are used in conjunction with one another. A base plan would identify accurate property lines, easements, topographic and detail features and wetland resource areas. So the plans will have a vertical component to show contours, will show horizontal/linear features like buildings, parking areas, utilities, etc… It really depends on what I am asked for. The surveys can also have different accuracy standards assigned to them. For example, a developer may not want to spend the money to define accurate property lines on a project until they have a better understand of how the other site constraints impact a project and address the property line component at a later date.
4. I’m curious about the interplay between having to sometimes rely on particularly old deed descriptions (especially considering we’re in Massachusetts) and the kinds of exacting technology available to surveyors today. I would expect that there are sometimes discrepancies or ambiguities in descriptions and what you see on the ground (i.e. previous marks), resulting in lot lines being not where people thought they were. How does a surveyor reconcile that?
That’s the intriguing part of my job that I really enjoy. Looking at the old record documentation and using cutting edge technology to make a comparative analysis. Over time, the instrumentation and ability to be more precise has increased and will continue to do so. But, as a surveyor, if you’re trying to reproduce an original surveyor’s work (a retracement survey) you’re trained to follow in the footsteps of the original surveyor, and your end goal is to match the original intent of the original conveyance. It is important to understand that the parties involved in the original conveyance create the property lines and not the land surveyor. The original surveyor’s job is to create record documents and set monuments that will stand the test of time.
Some surveyors get hung up on accuracy component, that they lose sight of the fact that you’re really trying to reproduce what the original surveyor did, with likely much less accurate equipment. So there are rules of construction in deed interpretation, and a hierarchy to help reconcile the property lines correctly. But you’re trying to obtain as much evidence as you can to make an intelligent opinion about where you think the property lines belong, which can be hard if evidence is difficult to recover, the monuments are disturbed or are no longer there.
If the undisturbed record monuments (i.e. stone bounds, iron pipes drill holes in stone walls, etc.) can be found and located, the record measurements will yield to the monument location. The new measurements between the monuments can be calculated and used to better define the monument’s location in perpetuity. This is not to suggest that the record measurements where bad as they may have been derived for the best possible methods and equipment available in the era that the measurements where performed.
5. What kinds of trends can we expect over the next 10 years or so in the world of land surveying?
There will be a change in the technology and the way we measure things. Thirty years ago we didn’t measure with GPS, and now we are. With every advance in technology we can yield different results in surveying. In turn, the regulations will require a higher standard to meet. I see different challenges ahead – increased accuracy standards and tolerances, but still [having to work] with old record documentation. We’ll probably also see changes that will limit survey work in some areas [by surveyors] – some contractors are doing their own survey work with the [increased availability of technology.]
Bradley C. McKenzie, P.E., has over 28 years of experience in the permitting of many different types of land development projects throughout Massachusetts. Shane L. Brenner, PLS, has over 20 years of experience in land surveying. To learn more about McKenzie Engineering Group, Inc., please visit their website at www.mckeng.com or call them at (781) 792-3900 (Norwell) or (978) 777-8177 (Danvers).
Written by Kristen M. Ploetz, Esq., of Green Lodestar Communications & Consulting, LLC, on behalf of Jeffrey T. Angley, P.C. Edited by Jeffrey T. Angley, Esq.
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 by Jeffrey T. Angley, P.C. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this post is general in nature and for educational purposes only. No personal legal advice is being provided. If you have an actual legal issue that needs to be addressed, you should seek the advice of competent legal counsel. This post does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Jeffrey T. Angley, P.C., Phillips & Angley or their attorneys.
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Abstract The Student League for Industrial Democracy, later renamed Students for a Democratic Society, was a liberal college student organizations which gained much fame in the 1960s. With roots dating back to the earliest student organizations, it did not expand its influence until the era of the civil rights movement, at which time it changed names. Their records cover this transitional period, reflecting the beginning of SDS's theoretical development and activism. More specifically, the records...
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Anne-Marie is 'always broody'
- Bang Showbiz
- 12 December 2016
Anne-Marie admits she has always been "broody" but that was heightened when she co-wrote the ballad 'Rockabye
Anne-Marie says making 'Rockabye' made her more "broody".
The 25-year-old pop beauty - who sings on the track with Clean Bandit and Sean Paul - has been itching to have a child since was was 18, but admits making the chart-stopping ballad made her levels of broodiness explode.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper, she admitted: "I'm always broody and do think about babies a lot - the song does put it in your mind, yeah.
"But I have been since I was like 18."
However, the 'Alarm' hitmaker says she'd like to have a pet dog before she becomes a parent as she doesn't think she's ready to be a responsible adult and look after a child, let alone a dog.
She said: "I do really want a dog first though.
"I went back home the other day and when I got there my dad went upstairs and started going: 'Come on, Come on then' as if calling a dog.
"Then he brings down this fake dog that can walk.
"But even that is a lot of effort so maybe I'll wait."
The blonde beauty would certainly have to calm down her crazy antics if she is to become a mother.
Anne-Marie almost got kicked off a plane recently when she was downing champagne after finding out 'Rockabye' went to number one.
Air hostesses plied the singer with 10 bottles of champagne and some vodka, which resulted in Anne-Marie turning the flight into the scene from the comedy film 'Bridesmaids' when lead character Annie Walker [Kirsten Wiig] is drunk in first class.
She recalled: "I ended up so drunk on this plane and I was running up and down the aisles singing! I was making everyone else hate me and being so annoying.
"It was just like that scene in 'Bridesmaids' when she goes into first class drunk! It was so fun though."
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All the histrionics performed by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher were not the reason Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean got their sentences commuted by then-President Bush last week.
But they didn’t hurt.
Rohrabacher talked about them — and what he perceived as a travesty of justice in their convictions — everywhere he went.
Now, he can sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
“Our prayers have been answered!” Rohrabacher said in a statement released to the media. “This is not just a day of celebration for the families, but it is a victory for all Americans. The hearts of all patriots are filled with joy at the announcement that our brave border defenders ... will be freed from unjust captivity.”
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|10-26-2007 04:20 PM|
I'd get on the Blanton board and get the recent info on Christmas Island. I heard that the government has moved a whole new bunch of residents onto the island and they have been netting the crap out of the bones and it has gone down hill quickly the past year...just a heads up to check out.
|10-25-2007 08:55 AM|
I've made two trips. First was in September '94 which was spectacular. Second in March '01 during which it rained and blew 40mph 90% of the week. There is plenty of fishing still to be had in the lagoon backwaters but its not quite the same if the sun isnt shining. Take rain gear. If you don't need it, great. If you don't have it, well .....
When the weather is settled, the fishing on the reef can be amazing. A trip to the Korean Wreck is a "must" experience for big bones in the surf.
An hour or so either side of low tide will see bigger than average bones nosing onto the reef. Next time I go I will skip a day with the guides and just walk the beach. You will also see many different species of large fish schooled up on the reef spawning. Then just before sunset, you can sit on the beach with a Fosters and watch the Tuna chasing huge schools of flying fish.
Just watch how you go. If you get washed off, next stop is Japan
Take some wire. There are world record barracuda to be had
|10-22-2007 01:51 PM|
Steve has summed it up pretty much. Christmas island specials are the go tied sparse. Tie them up in pink, tan, orange, gold and white. Tan gotchas and charlies will work as well.
If anyone is interested in joining Trev drop me a PM.
|10-22-2007 12:53 PM|
Christmas was my first bonefish spot. I went about 6 years ago in April. All I needed were Christmas Isalnd specials. It's basically a shrimp made entirely from crystal flash. Small too. 8 and10's. Nothing like the gotchas, etc like in the Bahamas. But this was also 6 years ago. No pressure back then. I only saw one other group ever out there. I stayed at the Mini Hotel with Eri and Agnes. Agnes is the best host you'd ever have. We also trolled for blue fin trevally, just a great trip in general...
|10-21-2007 06:34 PM|
Well after much deliberation and a lot of research and quite a bit of input from my fellow anglers together with a great last minuet deal, I have settle upon a place to go fish for bones this January.
Christmas Island in the Pacific, reportedly stable weather and tons of bones together with some very large Trevally should make for an interesting trip.
I have read a few articles with regard to flies to use there but I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has fished there and what they found worked for them.
Every location seems to have a fly or two that is a must have, so any input here would be great while I still have time to tie up a few.
Any other information on the fishing there that would help me prepare would also be great, which as we all know is definitely part of the fun.
Thanks all Trev
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Team USA’s journey at the 2019 Pan-Am Games begins Friday, with the men kicking off against Guyana and the women against Trinidad & Tobago. The men close out pool play Saturday against Chile and Brazil, and the women draw Argentina and Colombia, with the knockout and medal rounds saved for Sunday.
The women have a clear path to the final with a good chance to win it all. They’ll be heavily favored in every pool match, and barring a massive upset of Canada in Pool B, they’ll be expected to win the semifinal against the runner-up from the other group.
General manager Emilie Bydwell steps into the coaching role for the tour. She’ll be helped out by the veteran presence on the squad, which includes 10 players from last World Series. Missing are a few who played 15s in the Super Series, but regulars like Naya Tapper, Abby Gustaitis, Jordan Matyas and Ilona Maher are all there.
The extra competition will give relative newcomers like Maher and rookie sensation Kriste Kirshe valuable added playing time. There are just nine tournaments separating the women from Tokyo, and as many live reps as possible is the prescription for these young impact players.
While the men would be favored to win this pool in a walk under normal circumstances, the team in Lima, Peru is green, as head coach Mike Friday has taken the opportunity to give his World Series regulars much-needed rest ahead of the 10-month run to Tokyo. Half of the team has circuit experience, while the other half is making its major international debut.
On the heels of leading recent Falcons tours, Friday assistant JD Stephenson has taken the whistle for Peru. He’s assisted by fellow Eagle lieutenant Anthony Rocques.
The competition is a little stiffer for the men, too, as Argentina and Canada have brought their World Series sides and the likes of Chile and Brazil present as legitimate banana skins. Should the men win out in Pool A, they’ll draw the loser of Argentina and Canada.
Nonetheless, landing on the podium should be a minimum expectation. The USA men have claimed bronze at each of the Pan-Am Games that included rugby, 2015 in Toronto and 2011 in Guadalajara, both times being beaten by Canada in the semifinals. There was no women’s competition in 2011, but the USA claimed silver in Mexico, falling to Canada in the final.
2019 PAN-AM MEN’S ROSTER
2019 PAN-AM MEN’S STAFF
Head Coach | JD Stephenson
Team Leader | David Fee
Assistant Coach | Anthony Roques
Head of Performance | Jon Hood
Performance Analyst | Brendan Keane
Athletic Trainer | Danielle Allen
2019 PAN-AM WOMEN’S ROSTER
2019 PAN-AM WOMEN’S STAFF
General Manager & Head Coach | Emilie Bydwell
Assistant Coach/Strength & Conditioning | Matt Long
Performance Analyst | Dave Gardner
Team Leader | Liz Strohecker
Athletic Trainer | Nicole Titmas
Team Physician | Dr. Alexandra Myers
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This is going to be a very active week in Degrassiland. Over the past several days TeenNick has been teasing the music video promo which will be released tomorrow.
UPDATE 9/29/14, 3:35pm EST
It’s been confirmed TeenNick’s promo will air on TV at 9pm EST Tuesday. Also, Season 14 will premiere on Tuesday, October 28th. For more details on season 14, click here: https://degrassiblog.com/2014/09/29/degrassi-season-14-premieres-tuesday-october-28th/
On a separate note, Degrassi has confirmed they’re going to release the season 14 gallery photos this week. They’ve also been releasing sneak peeks of those as well.
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As a product of the 80’s and a 90’s kid at heart, I cannot help but have a soft spot for Dr. Marten boots. I’ve always loved them, from the traditional black leather style to the funky new prints and patterns that they create each year.
I was delighted to have been sent this amazingly cool pair from Irish shoe company – walkshoes.ie. The “1460 Beckett Skulls” style were right up my street and I absolutely love them. The soft print with skulls and flowers is so subtle yet incredibly striking and the grey colour is perfect for summer or winter wear.
I chose to match them with a very girly tutu dress but added a slouchy grey jumper to keep the funky boho vibe of the boots.
I love to support local businesses so it meant a lot to me to hear that Walk Shoes are an Irish company and even better than that, they offer 15% off to all first time customers on their website.
So if you fancy picking up a pair of the Beckett Skull Doc Martens then you can purchase your very own pair HERE or visit walkshoes.ie to see what else they have on offer!
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Kimberly L. Quilleon Varnell, 49, of Seymour, died Saturday, March 16, 2013, at her home.
She is survived by her parents, Charles and Ruth Beatson Quilleon of Seymour; and sisters, Pamela (Jeff) Anderson and Catherine (Doug) Brown.
Funeral service was conducted Wednesday at Voss Chapel in Seymour, with the Rev. Sandy Cooper officiating. Burial was at Riverview Cemetery in Seymour.
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Why You Should Hire Joshua Milne PR
- You are receiving senior-level PR counsel.
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The amazing sponsors of the Our Stars Event.
Each local supporter will be joining us to recognise and celebrate the amazing work, dedication and commitment we’ve seen within Calderdale Council over the past 12 months.
In no particular order we have:
The Our Calderdale Award will be sponsored by the Calderdale branch of the Federation of Small Businesses.(external link)
Bringing Creative Ideas to Practical Solutions is Imagineer(external link), who are kindly sponsoring the Our Hero Award.
Sponsoring the Our Support Award is Pure Clean UK LTD(external link), a family run business with a wide variety of cleaning services for domestic and commercial properties throughout Yorkshire and beyond.
Lattitude7(external link), who specialise in personal development, team building and training solutions are sponsoring the Our Inspiration Award. Martin Haigh, an engaging trainer from the company, said:
“I was born and raised in Calderdale, and have worked here most of my life. I wanted to support the Our Stars event as the Council has been very supportive, and has really helped my company Lattitude7. I received a start-up grant from the Council, and have been supported with sign-posting towards the wider business network.
“I’m really pleased to be able to sponsor the Our Stars event. I’ve enjoyed working with the professional people at the Council and wanted to give something back. I’m especially pleased to be sponsoring the Our Inspiration award, as this is the ethos of Lattitude7 – inspiring business people; something that is very relevant to the concept of the Our Stars event.”
Severn Unival(external link), who offer a comprehensive range of valve products and services will be sponsoring the Our Innovation Award.
Home Instead(external link), who provide high quality home care to people in Halifax and the Calder and Spen Valleys, are sponsoring the Our Star Award.
And finally, we have Halifax Party Nights (external link)who are kindly providing the theatre and event decorations and props for the ceremony, and Cardelium(external link) who have supplied the balloon decorations.
All our sponsors will be joining us for the ‘Our Stars’ event on Thursday 26 September. See you all then!
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As they rushed back to the landmark Lloyd’s building in the heart of the City of London’s insurance quarter, they all had several things on their mind.
Their most immediate call was whether to evacuate the Lime Street tower – 12 storeys high and the workplace of around 4,000 people. They did, moving to a contingency site elsewhere in the City.
They also would have known that several large insurance organisations had offices in the World Trade Centre and that friends and contacts within the close-knit and sociable insurance community would have lost their lives as its twin towers collapsed.
They also knew that the terrorist attack and resulting devastation would have dramatic consequences for the Lloyd’s insurance market and that they faced a tumultuous few months of hard work totting up the market’s losses – and, importantly, convincing any doubters that Lloyd’s insurers could bear the loss.
Estimating the loss
For Andrew Moss, a 43-year-old chartered accountant headhunted from his previous position as CFO of the investment bank of HSBC to join Lloyd’s in October last year, this meant overseeing an enormous calculation.
Given that Lloyd’s has a regulatory duty to remain solvent at all times, the first task for Moss was to try and estimate the likely loss to the Lloyd’s market as a whole. This was not easy to do when you consider that the market consists of 108 underwriting syndicates, acting as separate businesses and insuring an impressive array of risks.
Lloyd’s insurers, for example, underwrite business in more than 100 different countries, insure around 70% of FTSE-100 companies, and have around a quarter of worldwide aviation insurance. The total 2001 capacity of the market was more than Pounds 11bn.
The first estimate
‘We had our first estimate from the market within 36 hours with information from all 108 syndicates. We made a conscious decision not to go public and did a second pass in much more detail and published a number on 26 September,’ says Moss, talking to Accountancy Age from his spacious office in the corner of the fifth floor, a month after the tragic events of 11 September.
The figure that Lloyd’s published was a net exposure of Pounds 1.3bn. It announced this along with assurances that the market’s strong capital base would absorb the loss – even though it represented 12% of its 2001 capacity.
Moss admits that such calculations are enormously complex and subject to many uncertainties – subsequent estimates by analysts indicate that the final losses figure for Lloyd’s could be substantially higher.
But, he points out, the market has a risk management process in place in which they model the potential losses arising from disasters – for example, two jumbo jets colliding – so calculating the loss from a large disaster is something they are practised at.
The statement put out with the estimate said Lloyd’s had ‘collated and analysed estimated losses from over 100 syndicates, examined the quantity and quality of reinsurance arrangements, and worked through the solvency issues for thousands of its members – both corporate and individual. A further cross-check of existing “realistic disaster scenarios” outcomes was also undertaken’.
Investor relations management
But Coopers & Lybrand-trained accountant Moss says that his role following the disaster has been about much more than doing giant sums. ‘It’s been an extremely busy month,’ he says, ‘not just working on the losses, but focusing much more on the market going forward. That’s where the investor relations part of the job comes into it a lot.
‘When you get this sort of loss, rumours circulate about the market’s ability to trade forward. We are at the centre and know those rumours are ill-informed, but we have spent a lot of time talking to a range of people – ratings agencies, the media and banks, for example – to make sure they had a reasonable picture.’
He adds with a only a hint of irritation: ‘We do a lot of analysis. Unlike others speculating about us, we were analysing our position.’
Moss admits that confidence is crucial but insists: ‘Lloyd’s has always paid all its valid claims and will continue to do so.’
A unique role
It is the variety of his role that Moss says is the major attraction of the job – and variety is something that he is not short of, particularly during the past couple of months. Indeed, his role is unlike any other.
Lloyd’s is a unique organisation. On the one hand it is a collection of independent businesses – a marketplace for insurance with more than 120 brokers registered to place risks with its underwriters.
On the other hand, the businesses are tied together by a common infrastructure and regulatory structure as well as being backed by a central fund, into which all the underwriters pay an annual contribution.
Moss says he has two hats – as FD of the corporation and FD of the market.
Wearing two hats
The corporation, which provides the infrastructure and central services for the market, has annual income of Pounds 170m, and has been subject to a rationalisation and outsourcing process.
Talking about his market role, he says: ‘The key issue as far as the market is concerned is risk management. We set the capital requirements and measure the solvency of all the members in the market.’ In addition to all this, Moss looks after the IT function, meaning that he is boss of around 450 people in total.
When asked if there is anyone with a similar role, he says: ‘Not really. It has aspects of running a general insurance company, but there are so many different interested parties in the Lloyd’s market. There are so many challenges – risk management, treasury, traditional financial control. Intellectually, it is a very interesting place to work.’
He also refers to the close relationship between the market and any disaster that happens anywhere in the world. ‘When you wake up in the morning and you listen to the radio and you hear about a hurricane and find out that it is in Belize not Miami, you know that will have a financial effect on this market,’ he says.
Rise in insurance premiums
For the future, Moss predicts that the general rise in insurance premiums, which was already happening before the events of 11 September, will be increased sharply by the attacks, as insurers and reinsurers struggle to remain profitable – or, as is the case for many – work towards regaining profitability.
He also admits disputes over insurance pay outs relating to the New York tragedy will continue for some years, although he emphasises Lloyd’s insurers have already started making pay outs. ‘History would suggest there will be a lot of litigation around some of the coverage issues, although we would prefer there wasn’t,’ he says.
Moss says he thinks that there will be disputes about who was responsible for security at particular airports, whether the security requirements of the government were strong enough, and over how many events the tragedy constituted for insurance purposes.
Guiding the market through these challenging times will undoubtedly provide Moss with many more of the intellectual challenges he enjoys.
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Accountancy watchdog the FRC has dropped its investigation into the former chief financial officer of Tesco, nearly two years after the supermarket was engulfed in an accounting scandal
Colin imagines how Apple's logo might change in the wake of the EC's ruling over its Irish tax arrangements
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Catalyst samples containing nanosized Pt, Ni, Fe, or Zn powder were prepared on the basis of high-silica zeolite ZSM-5 by mechanical mixing. The structure and state of active centers of zeolite catalysts (freshly prepared or calcined after the reaction cycle of upgrading the petroleum straight-run gasoline fraction) were studied by means of the X-ray diffraction, UV spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy techniques. It was shown that the oxidized forms of the metals are practically absent from the freshly prepared zeolite samples. After the heat treatment of the catalysts in air, nanosized metal powders transform into oxides on the zeolite surface, with iron and nickel producing the greatest variety of oxidized forms.
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Whenever he looked into my eyes, he looked into my soul and I felt loved. Even on my worst days, I felt like the most beautiful girl in the world because he believed that to be true. Whenever he wrapped his strong arms around me, I felt safe. I will never feel beautiful again. Vanity? No, just humanity. No one sees into my soul anymore. No one dares to look into my eyes. There is nothing there anymore.
Every now and then, I imagine that I will wake up one day. Then, I remember that I have not slept in years. And the fleeting moments in which I think this nightmare will end are rare now.
©2014 Relinda R.
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This is the home page of the Otis Reservoir Property Owners Association (ORPOA.) The objective of this web site is to provide key information for ORPOA members covering a range of topics including:
We look forward to input from the ORPOA membership to make changes and additions to the web space, keeping it relevant to ORPOA members and our lakeside community.
Please don't forget to attend the annual meeting, please see the calendar page for details.
PLEASE keep your membership current. Your paid membership provides the only revenue that ORPOA receives and it is absolutely vital to keep ORPOA working for you.
Otis Reservoir Neighborhood
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Enterprise Customers and DevOps - Bridging the gap
DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of continuous development - Jez Humble. DevOps has been the catalyst in helping businesses implement a continuous integration and continuous delivery process. The best part about DevOps is its openness for implementation for organizations at any sizes and levels. Any organization irrespective of their size and domain can implement DevOps cycle to work towards improving the speed and quality of their delivery.
The story of implementing a DevOps process for a CPG giant
One of our clients is a global CPG giant operating in different parts of the world. Their online commerce is driven by a large quantity of personalized content, implying they had multiple digital assets serving each of their regional markets. We defined a clear DevOps process for the customer by customizing the workflow to address the goals of the customer.
The Need for a DevOps solution
The client had web properties in multiple markets and geographies with each market-specific feature enhancements done periodically. The client was unhappy with the time to market for each feature upgrades. A proper process to deployments and feature commits was the need of the hour to stabilize the workflow and increase the efficiency.
Implementing the Solution
Ameex was taking care of the development, deployment, and Maintenance of the client's web properties. Since we knew the entire process cycle and they were handled mostly internally, it was easy for us to draft a solution that will help the customer's needs.
We designed and followed a Global code library that will help the customer localize to different regional markets in one-third of the initial development time. The initial platform was launched to the Canadian market post which our Maintenance and Support team handled the localization to their different markets.
To further reduce the time to market, our expert team of technical architects, solutions consultants, and Chief developers framed a workflow to automate deployment activities and provide quick time to market.
We faced a challenge since the ecosystem was complex involving multiple crews for development, maintenance, review etc. After a series of discussions and test runs, we defined a clear process to follow for continuous development and deployment.
We introduced Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery approach using Jenkins and we deployed test automation using Selenium.
We had respective work environments for hotfix (that will be directly deployed to the live stage for immediate fixes), Production (used for NPD), Production 2 (testing of the newly developed features in an agile workflow) etc.
Results of DevOps deployment
Releases to the live environment were made on-demand. This was a result of the decrease in development efforts by 74%
The CI/CD approach is backed by a continuous monitoring team, any discrepancies are fixed at the root during its initial phase. This brought down the frequency of defects.
The time to market is the revelation point of this process, with the same improving by 3X!
The team cohesion improved since the entire process is an integrated and inter-dependent approach.
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TORONTO — Steve Lombardozzi reached into the back of his locker to find the glasses. Protected in a carrying case with a hard shell and foam inside, he handled them delicately. The Nike Strobe glasses go for around $500 per pair, so Lombardozzi is sure to be gentle with them.
But the value of the glasses, which strobe a black screen in front of his eyes on various speeds (faster is easier, slower more difficult) while he takes indoor batting practice, go far beyond the price for the Washington Nationals’ utilityman. With each use, each time the black screen flashes in front of his eyes with a ball barreling out of a machine toward him, it sharpens his focus and, Lombardozzi believes, strengthens his vision.
He’s not alone.
The Nationals, organizationally, are big proponents of vision training. Harper and Lombardozzi are among several players who partake in various exercises geared toward strengthening the eye to focus faster, longer and with more clarity.
“The eye is a muscle,” said Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo, who encourages the team to work with Dr. Keith Smithson, a sports vision specialist in Northern Virginia and one of the team-employed doctors. “All you can do is strengthen that muscle by working it out.”
Lombardozzi said he worked with Smithson two or three times a week in the offseason, often going from his workouts at Nationals Park to Smithson’s office to do various vision exercises. Harper, too, visited with Smithson in 2011 when the optometrist fitted him for contact lenses and also introduced him to the Strobe glasses.
But there are other ways for players to do similar strengthening work.
Danny Espinosa carries with him cards from Slow The Game Down, a visual performance training center in California under the direction of Dr. Bill Harrison. Sitting at his locker in the Rogers Centre, Espinosa looks at a card with two photographs on it and a small baseball icon on each picture. The idea, he explains, is to focus your eyes so the two icons become one and a third picture appears, clearer than the first two.
Espinosa had misplaced his cards at the start of the season, he said, but has been doing the work each day for the previous four and noticed an immediate difference. In the past four games, Espinosa is hitting .364 with four doubles and two walks.
Rick Ankiel, who often will focus on the letters in either shortstop Ian Desmond’s or Espinosa’s jerseys from center field and then zone back in on the opposing batter, said he prefers Espinosa’s cards over something like the Strobe glasses.
Ankiel also has found other ways to work his eyes out on the field. Former Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire used to tell players in the on-deck circle to stare at the bill of the pitcher’s cap, and then at an object in the outfield to see how fast you could get your eyes to focus back. By warming up your eyes before you stepped in the box, he felt, you were already more prepared to see the ball coming out of the pitcher’s hand when you stepped in.
“The way I see it,” Ankiel said, “If you believe it helps, it helps.”
“I think anything nowadays is helpful,” added manager Davey Johnson, recalling an exercise from at least 20 years ago when players would wear special glasses during batting practice and they’d be asked to call the pitch. “They wanted to know how far out of the pitcher’s hand you knew if it was going to be a breaking ball or a fastball. See how quick your eyes translated to your brain.”View Entire Story
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Amanda Comak covers the Washington Nationals and comes to The Washington Times from the Cape Cod Times and after stints with MLB.com and the Amsterdam (N.Y.) Recorder. A Massachusetts native and 2008 graduate of Boston University, Amanda can be reached at email@example.com and you can follow her on Twitter @acomak.
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
We’re human: we don’t always think things through, so we accept many ideas that are, well, ideas that are wrong. We also look past certain truths without recognizing them.
The “Silver Tsunami” created by aging Baby Boomers is hitting America. Let’s explore how we adjust to it, enjoy it and defy negative expectations about age.
Viewing and reviewing the Los Angeles experimental and classic punk scene with a nod to Rodney's English Disco
Richard Ivory, editor-in-chief of Hip Hop Republicans and HHR at Communities Digital News, turns his interests, and pen, to the people making news today.
Benghazi: The anatomy of a scandal
Vietnam Memorial adds four names
Cinco de Mayo on the Mall
NRA kicks off annual convention
California wildfires wreak havoc
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Tulkinghorn: Flights of fancy
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Sadly, the recession has put paid to Tulkinghorn’s own once-legendary travel budget, but many a lawyer will have pangs of sympathy for George Clooney’s character in his current hit Up In The Air.
Source: c.Dreamworks/Everett / Rex Featu
Ted Burke - yes, him again - is among those who watched the movie with pen poised to take down any handy tips.
However, so well versed is Burke in the secrets of transatlantic flight, everything Clooney suggests is already in his repertoire.
Here are just a few of Ted’s top tips: wear slip-on shoes; carry your own water; and under no circumstances eat the food.
Clooney’s job in the film is to go around sacking his staff. Tulkinghorn wonders if Burke was noting down any other ideas as well?
Revelling with a cause
Last month’s Hot 100 party garnered a wealth of inside knowledge about the cream of the UK’s legal market.
And while the evening itself generated a succession of amusing anecdotes, nothing made Tulkinghorn smile more than seeing Freshfields’ chief executive Ted Burke squeezing together for an ‘all friends now’ photo op with former buddies (and ex-Freshfields partners) Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz. Ah, bless. All is, apparently, forgiven.
Tulkinghorn was also rather amused by the rumour circulating certain quarters that Simpson Thacher partner Ian Barratt had put the kybosh on Linklaters’ Nick Syson coming to the do by sending him a massive document that evening that needed to be delivered the next morning.
Now, that’s just harsh.
Also at the Hot 100 party Tulkinghorn learned that Outer Temple barrister David Grant had had a spot of aviation-related trouble over the Christmas period, thanks to the seasonal snow.
The pensions specialist bravely took two flights during the holidays - one to Inverness and one to Serbia. Both had their own difficulties but it was the Scottish trip that nearly gave Grant heartburn.
“The plane was delayed so my wife and I went for food,” recalls Grant. Bizarrely, there was no flights screen in the restaurant. Cue a mad scramble several minutes later when, thank the Lord, Mrs Grant happened to pop out and check on the status of the departure only to see it was at “last call” stage.
“I stuffed as many French fries in my mouth and drank as much beer as possible then ran for it,” says Grant, with commendable recollection for detail. His clients would be proud.
A site for sore eyes
The festive season is a distant memory now. As far as Tulkinghorn is concerned, anyone still wishing people a Happy New Year should be removed from polite society.
There were still examples of this bizarre behaviour at the Hot 100 party, a point by which most right-thinking individuals are starting to think about next year.
Tulkinghorn for one has his Christmas 2010 shopping sorted after learning that Paul Hastings has its own online store, a site that offers a veritable smörgåsbord of firm-branded accessories.
Surely it’s just to impress clients?
Who else would want a Paul Hastings pullover fleece? Quite a few people, apparently, if the FAQ section of the firm’s site is to be believed.
Personally, Tulkinghorn finds it difficult to believe that the question “Can I order something for my personal use?” has been asked even once, let alone frequently.
Incidentally, the answer to the question is as follows: “… provided that the use is in good taste and keeps the Paul Hastings image in a professional light”.
The mind, how it boggles.
A break from the norm
Tulkinghorn has always been a fan of dancing and, in his day, had been known to lead Mrs Tulkinghorn around many a ballroom floor.
He was therefore pretty confident he’d seen all the moves there were until he attended the Hot 100 bash. For Burness dispute resolution head David Morgan, one of this year’s
Hotties, was busting some very peculiar moves. Several involved spinning on his back and making some other rather peculiar shapes.
Okay, so Tulkinghorn exaggerates. He didn’t actually see Morgan making his moves, but he has it on very good authority that Morgan is, in fact, an accomplished break dancer.
Rumour has it that Morgan showed off his skills while being interviewed for the job at Burness. Now that’s hot.
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Theft-A complainant arrived at the Maverick County Sheriff's Office to report unknown subject(s) took several items from the bed of his truck without consent.
Possession of Marijuana under 2 oz.-Deputies on patrol conducted a traffic stop in where contact with the male subject involved revealed him to be in a disoriented state. A pat down found him to be in possession of marijuana. He was placed under arrest and transported to the Tom Bowles Detention Center for processing.
Burglary of Vehicle-A resident on the 1000 block of Progresso reported someone had entered her vehicle without consent and took approximately $200.00.
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Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scottish people. At various times in his career, he wrote in English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
Burns is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death, he became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among Scots who have relocated to other parts of the world (the Scottish diaspora), his celebration became almost a national charismatic cult during periods of the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (New Year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include "A Red, Red Rose," "A Man's A Man For A' That," "To A Louse" and "To A Mouse."
Burns' Night, effectively a second national day, is celebrated on 25 January with Burns' Suppers around the world, and is still more widely observed than the official national day, Saint Andrew's Day, or the new North American celebration Tartan Day.
Robert Burns - often abbreviated to simply Burns, and also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and (in Scotland) simply as The Bard (see Bard (disambiguation)) - was born in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of William Burnes/Burns (Burns himself originally spelled his surname Burness, but dropped 'es' from it), a small farmer, and a man of considerable force of character and self-culture, and Agnes Broun, the daughter of a tenant farmer from Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire.
Burns' youth was passed in poverty, hardship, and a degree of severe manual labour which left its traces in a premature stoop and weakened constitution. He had little regular schooling, and got much of what education he had from his father, who taught his children reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history, and also wrote for them A Manual Of Christian Belief. Burns also received education from a tutor, John Murdock, who opened an
Burns the Mason
Robert Burns was initiated into Lodge St David Tarbolton on 4 July 1781, when he was 22. His initiation fee was 12s 6d. He was passed and raised on 1 October 1781. Later his lodge became dormant and Burns joined Lodge St James Tarbolton Kilwinning number 135.
We do not know the location of the Temple where Burns was made a Freemason but we do know that on 30 June 1784 the meeting place of the lodge became the “Manson Inn” in Tarbolton and one month later, 27 July 1784 Burns became Depute Master which he held until 1788, often honoured with supreme command. Although regularly meeting in Tarbolton, the “Burns Lodge” also removed itself en masse to Mauchline, 4 miles away, to hold meetings in this town. Mauchline was only 1 mile away from his own farm at Mossgiel.
In those days the Master of the Lodge was a mere figurehead, and it was the Depute Master who carried out the working of the Lodge. During the Masonic season of 1784 he never missed a meeting and was heavily involved in Lodge business, attending nine meetings, passing and raising brethren and generally running the Lodge.
Similarly in 1785 he was equally involved as Depute Master where he again attended all nine lodge meetings amongst other duties of the Lodge. During 1785 he initiated, and passed his brother Gilbert being raised on 1 March 1788. Burns' period in the lodge was a hectic one. He had a real zest for freemasonry and he appreciated that true Masonic friendship is intimately bound up with the company of one’s brethren and cannot be disassociated from the lodge room, hence the number of meetings under his direction. The minutes show that there were more lodge meetings well attended during the Burns period than at any other time. He must have been a very popular and well respected Depute Master.
The date of his publication by a Freemason of his first Kilmarnock Edition of poems on 16 April 1786 was five years after his initiation into Freemasonry.
Burns' popularity aided his rise in Freemasonry. At a meeting of Lodge St. Andrew in Edinburgh in 1787, in the presence of the Grand Master and Grand Lodge of Scotland, Burns was toasted by the Worshipful Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother Francis Chateris. When he was received into Edinburgh Lodges his occupation was recorded as a “poet”. In early 1787, he was feted by the Edinburgh Masonic fraternity. The Edinburgh period of Burns life was fateful as further editions of Burns poetic output were sponsored by the Edinburgh Freemasons, ensuring that his name spread around Scotland and subsequently to England and abroad.
After having spent 5 months in Edinburgh he set out on a tour in the South of Scotland, visiting lodges throughout Ayrshire, becoming an honorary member of a number of them.
On 18 May 1787 he arrived at Eyemouth, Berwickshire and a meeting was convened of Royal Arch and Burns became a Royal Arch Mason. He was never a Scottish companion because at that time although Eyemouth is in Scotland, it operated under the English Royal Arch constitution. The name was “Land of Cakes” 52 on the English roll. The Chapter is now Scottish, number 15.
On his return journey home to Ayrshire as he passed through Dumfries, where he later lived and is the site of the Burns Mausoleum, he was given the freedom of the town. On 25 July 1787, after being re-elected Depute Master he presided at a meeting where several well-known Masons were given honorary membership. A Highland tour followed with many other lodges being visited. During the period from his election as Depute Master in 1784 Lodge St James had been convened 70 times. Burns was present 33 times and was 25 times the presiding officer. On 11 November 1788 was his last meeting at his mother lodge St James Kilwinning.
He joined Lodge Dumfries St Andrew Number 179 on 27 December 1788. This was an unfortunate choice, made perhaps because of the Excise connection. Out of the six Lodges in Dumfries he joined the one which was the weakest of them. The records of this lodge are scant and we hear no more of him until on 30 November 1792 when Burns was elected Senior Warden. From this date until his final meeting in the Lodge on 14 April 1796 it appears that the Lodge met only 5 times. There are no records of Burns visiting any other lodges either.
From a purely Masonic point of view it cannot be said that he was either a great or prominent Freemason. The Masonic events were certainly very important to his life and conspicuous and important influences on his life. His association with Masonry was a means of enabling him to get his works published, to meet persons of a higher social status, and to help to raise himself from obscurity to the place he now holds as the national poet of Scotland.
Burns was reputed to have an affinity for attractive young women of culture. One of his objects of affection was the young Eliza Burnett, daughter of Lord Monboddo. Burn's father was a tenant at the Monboddo House, and Robert was a frequent visitor there at the learned suppers and as an excuse to see Eliza. He wrote several poems to her beauty and grace, but Eliza died at an early age and no serious consequence arose from their relationship. In 1783 there are at least four letters extant of Burns writing to Eliza, all of which are romantic in content, one containing the passage: "without you I can never be happy". Burns wrote in 1786 of Eliza: "There has not been anything nearly like her in all the combinations of Beauty, Grace and Goodness the great Creator has formed, since Milton's Eve on the first day of her existence."
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
Meanwhile, his love affair with Jean Armour had passed through its first stage, and the troubles in connection therewith, combined with the want of success in farming, led him to think of going to Jamaica as bookkeeper on a plantation. From this he was dissuaded by a letter from Thomas Blacklock, and at the suggestion of his brother published his poems in the volume, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect in June 1786. This edition was brought out by a local printer in Kilmarnock and contained much of his best work, including "The Twa Dogs", "Address to the Deil", "Hallowe'en", "The Cottar's Saturday Night", "To a Mouse", and "To a Mountain Daisy", many of which had been written at Mossgiel.
The success of the work was immediate, the poet's name rang over all Scotland, and he was induced to go to Edinburgh to superintend the issue of a new edition. There he was received as an equal by the brilliant circle of men of letters which the city then boasted – Dugald Stewart, Robertson, Blair, etc., and was a guest at aristocratic tables, where he bore himself with unaffected dignity. Here also Walter Scott, then a boy of 15, saw him and describes him as of "manners rustic, not clownish. His countenance ... more massive than it looks in any of the portraits ... a strong expression of shrewdness in his lineaments; the eye alone indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and literally glowed when he spoke with feeling or interest." The results of this visit outside of its immediate and practical object, included some life-long friendships, among which were those with Lord Glencairn and Mrs Dunlop. The new ed. brought him £400. About this time the episode of Highland Mary occurred.
The Scots Musical Museum
In the winter of 1786 in Edinburgh he met James Johnson, a struggling music engraver / music seller, with a love of old Scots songs and a determination to preserve them. Burns shared this interest and became an enthusiastic contributor to The Scots Musical Museum. The first volume of this was published in 1787 and included three songs by Burns. He contributed 40 songs to volume 2, and would end up responsible for about a third of the 600 songs in the whole collection as well as making a considerable editorial contribution. The final volume was published in 1803.
On his return to Ayrshire he renewed his relations with Jean Armour, whom he ultimately married, took the farm of Ellisland near Dumfries, having meanwhile taken lessons in the duties of an exciseman, as a line to fall back upon should farming again prove unsuccessful. At Ellisland his society was cultivated by the local gentry. And this, together with literature and his duties in the Customs and Excise, to which he had been appointed in 1789, proved too much of a distraction to admit of success on the farm, which in 1791 he gave up.
Meanwhile he was writing at his best, and in 1790 had produced Tam O' Shanter. About this time he was offered and declined an appointment in London on the staff of the Star newspaper, and refused to become a candidate for a newly-created Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, although influential friends offered to support his claims. After giving up his farm he removed to Dumfries.
It was at this time that, being requested to furnish words for The Melodies of Scotland, he responded by contributing over 100 songs. He made major contributions to George Thomson's A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice as well as to James Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum. Arguably his claim to immortality chiefly rests on these volumes which placed him in the front rank of lyric poets. Burns described how he had to master singing the tune, then would compose the words: "My way is: I consider the poetic Sentiment, correspondent to my idea of the musical expression; then chuse my theme; begin one Stanza; when that is composed, which is generally the most difficult part of the business, I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in Nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air with the verses I have framed. when I feel my Muse beginning to jade, 1 retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging, at intervals, on the hind-legs of my elbow chair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my, pen goes."
His worldly prospects were now perhaps better than they had ever been; but he was entering upon the last and darkest period of his career. He had become soured, and moreover had alienated many of his best friends by too freely expressing sympathy with the French Revolution, and the then unpopular advocates of reform at home. His health began to give way; he became prematurely old, and fell into fits of despondency; and the habits of intemperance, to which he had always been more or less addicted, grew upon him. He died on July 21, 1796. Within a short time of his death, money started pouring in from all over Scotland to support his widow and children.
His memory is celebrated by Burns clubs across the world; his birthday is an unofficial national day for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers.
Burns' 1787 epistle to Mrs Scott, Gudewife of Wanchope House, Roxburgh, is a rare example of the rhyming of the word purple – it is a common myth that there is no rhyme.
- I'd be mair vauntie o' my hap,
- Douce hingin' owre my curple,
- Than ony ermine ever lap,
- Or proud imperial purple.
Burns' works and influence
Burns' direct influences in the use of Scots in poetry were Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) and Robert Fergusson. Burns' poetry also drew upon a substantial familiarity and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition. Burns was skilled in writing not only in the Scots language but also in the Scottish English dialect of the English language. Some of his works, such as Love and Liberty (also known as The Jolly Beggars), are written in both Scots and English for various effects.
Burns' themes included republicanism (he lived during the French Revolutionary period) and Radicalism which he expressed covertly in Scots Wha Hae, Scottish patriotism, anticlericalism, class inequalities, gender roles, commentary on the Scottish Kirk of his time, Scottish cultural identity, poverty, sexuality, and the beneficial aspects of popular socialising (carousing, Scotch whisky, folk songs, and so forth). Burns and his works were a source of inspiration to the pioneers of liberalism, socialism and the campaign for Scottish self-government, and he is still widely respected by political activists today, ironically even by conservatives and establishment figures because after his death Burns became drawn into the very fabric of Scotland's national identity. It is this, perhaps unique, ability to appeal to all strands of political opinion in the country that have led him to be widely acclaimed as the national poet.
Burns' views on these themes in many ways parallel those of William Blake, but it is believed that, although contemporaries, they were unaware of each other. Burns' works are less overtly mystical.
Burns is generally classified as a proto-Romantic poet, and he influenced William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a "heaven-taught ploughman." Burns would influence later Scottish writers, especially Hugh MacDiarmid who fought to dismantle the sentimental Burns cult that had dominated Scottish literature in MacDiarmid's opinion.
Burns also worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs, sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. One of the better known of these collections is The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the title is not Burns'), a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century. Many of Burns' most famous poems are songs with the music based upon older traditional songs. For example, Auld Lang Syne is set to the traditional tune Can Ye Labour Lea while A Red, Red Rose is set to the tune of Major Graham.
The genius of Burns is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and his variety is marvellous, ranging from the tender intensity of some of his lyrics through the rollicking humour and blazing wit of Tam o' Shanter to the blistering satire of Holy Willie's Prayer and The Holy Fair. His life is a tragedy, and his character full of flaws. But he fought at tremendous odds, and as Thomas Carlyle in his great Essay says, "Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged, the pilot is blameworthy ... but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the Globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs."
See Cutty-sark for the popularity of the phrase "Weel done, Cutty-sark", a line from "Tam O' Shanter".
The youngest decendent is John - Paul Burns
There are many organisations around the world named after Burns, as well as a large number of statues and memorials. Organisations include:
- Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Burns Club Atlanta, USA
Statues and memorials
- statue located in Meadowside, Dundee
- statue located in Dumfries
- Burns National Memorial on Calton Hill, Edinburgh
- Burns National Memorial, Mauchline, Ayrshire - [Photo]
- statue in George Square, Glasgow, 1877 by George Edwin Ewing, reliefs by J A Ewing, cast by Cox and Son
- statue near Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen
- statue on Irvine Moor, Irvine, Ayrshire
- statue in Burns Statue Square, Ayr, Ayrshire - [Photo]
- statue in Kay Park, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland - [Photo 1984] - [Photo 2004 after the arson attack.]
- statue outside Burns Mall Kilmarnock - [Photo]
- monument in Alloway, Ayrshire, a short distance from his birthplace - [Photo]
- Burns Bicentennial Memorial (erected by the local Burns Club) & Public Art, Prestonpans
- statue in London
In New Zealand
- statue in the Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand
In North America
- statue in Central Park, New York City
- statue in Dominion Square in Montreal
- statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
- statue at Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- statue in Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- statue on the grounds of the Provincial Legislature, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- statue on the Green, across from the Provincial Leglislature, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- statue of Burns, complete with plough, outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
- statue in Canberra (1935)
Towns named after Robert Burns
- Burns, New York
- Burns, Oregon
- A BR standard class 7 steam locomotive was named after him, along with a later electric locomotive
- The Catcher in the Rye, novel inspired in part by Burns' poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye."
- Eddi Reader
- Jean Redpath
Line note references
- ^ Bailey, Eileen A. FSA, James C.A. Burnett, Charles J. Burnett and Christopher Croly, The Holly and the Horn, Leys Publishing, Banchory (2005) ISBN 0-9538640-2-2
- Robert Burns, The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, ed. Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg (2001; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003). ISBN 1-84195-380-6
- This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
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A Report from UNFCCC Negotiations
On June 4-15, 2014, international climate change negotiations were held in Bonn, Germany under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These “inter-sessional” negotiations were preparation for the annual UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP). The next COP will be in Lima, Peru, December 1-12, a meeting which is referred to as the COP 20.
BACKGROUND TO THE UNFCCC NEGOTIATIONS
The UNFCCC climate change negotiations began with the adoption of the Convention in 1992 and include the protocol to the UNFCCC, known as the Kyoto Protocol (KP). The KP was adopted in 1997, brought into force in 2005, and commits industrialized countries (and some transitioning into a market economy) to Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. Delegations are currently negotiating elements for a new, legally binding agreement for all parties, to be approved at the COP in 2015.
As a multilateral effort, the structure of the UNFCCC negotiations enables the poorest to richest have a voice in the negotiations. For the poorest and those most vulnerable to the current rise in global temperatures, these negotiations are about survival. To emerging and developed economies, these negotiations are more often about maintaining or developing economic competitiveness in a changing economic landscape. For our young and future generations, these negotiations are about whether they can thrive as we have on this extraordinary planet.
The international climate change negotiations continue to encounter, at varying levels, deep mistrust and disappointment, often split along “developing” and “developed” countries, whose status according to these negotiations was defined in the Annexes in the KP.
Developing countries, known as non-Annex 1 parties, express deep concern that developed countries have not taken a sufficient lead or fulfilled commitments in GHG emission mitigation, climate financing, capacity building, and technology transfer. According to the UNFCCC, overall emissions in 2012 by Annex B parties to the KP with commitments to the first commitment period were 22.6 percent below the 1990 base levels, although this is not representative of all industrialized countries and is also less than the proposed 25-40 percent target. The United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and Canada pulled out in 2011. KP parties such as Australia and Japan have pulled back on their commitments, and too few developed countries have signed up to a second commitment period. There is deep disappointment and anger over limited support to adaptation, including low levels of delivered climate finance which is key both to building trust and the ability of poor countries to increase mitigation. Developed country signatories to the KP often express frustration over low recognition for achievements reached (some countries are far more active than others). The GHG emission landscape has shifted since countries were categorized under the KP in 1997. The most rapid increase in GHG emissions is now coming from developing countries.
SPECIFICS OF THE JUNE NEGOTIATIONS
The June negotiations focused on three areas of negotiation, specifically the Subsidiary Body for
Implementation (SBI), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). These first two negotiation foci, the SBI/SBSTA, focus on how to implement already agreed decisions. The third, the ADP, is separated between “workstream 1”, which aims to create a new, legally binding agreement for all parties by the COP 21 in Paris for implementation in 2020, and “workstream 2”, which aims to strengthen pre-2020 commitments of developed country signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, referred to as Annex 1 parties.
Although there were no major advances in June, the negotiations ended with a relatively positive atmosphere. This cannot be said of the June 2013 inter-sessionals, where the SBI was blocked for negotiation on procedural reasons; the COP 19 in Warsaw, during which development and environmental NGOs protested with a walk-out; or the March 2014 ADP session, which was tense on procedural matters. And the June 2014 negotiations actually had a rough beginning, as the opening High Level Ministerial Roundtable had a low attendance (only 1/3 of expected Ministers participated).
What felt more positive? The negotiations opened with the two top emitters offering significant, though by no means sufficient, mitigation action, intended by China, and through law by the US. Mexico set a high standard with its commitment to source 30 percent of its energy through renewable energies (REs) by 2018. In the ADP sessions, negotiators moved on from disagreements over procedure and into substance over elements to include in the drafting the new agreement. The SBI/SBSTA sessions went slowly and steadily, but without apparent achievements in overcoming the issues with the greatest tension.
What was most different, as least to this observer, was the negotiators’ engagement with climate science and with civil society. Over the last months, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released all three working group reports of its 5th Assessment Report (AR5). The scientific message is clear: we are on track (what is called “business as usual”, or RCP 8.5) for an increase of global mean temperatures of up to 4.8° C by 2081, which poses a dramatic risk to humanity (summary below). The IPCC held a number of intense “expert meetings” which were powerful and increasingly attended by negotiators as the days passed. The urgency of the science is at odds with the lack of urgency overall in the negotiation process to commit to GHG mitigation levels necessary to keep global temperature below 2°C (or 1.5°C, which remains feasible with radical action) above pre-industrial levels. The knowledge and pathways exist, but political will to move beyond short-term economic priorities appears low.
There were three sessions on civil society engagement under Article 6 of the Convention (which focuses on education, training and public awareness). Organisations from around the world described their engagement with civil society; these presentations, overall, brought the human face to a negotiations process that many find dehumanizing. One particularly moving presentation was from the Mary Robinson Foundation, describing their experience inviting policy makers to listen to civil society, rather than the other way round.
In the SBI and SBSTA, strong concern was expressed over the creation of a new market mechanism which attaches a kind of “price tag” to nature rather than approaching mitigation through non-market mechanisms. However, many countries view non-market mechanisms, or regulation efforts, as national priorities that do not belong in international negotiations.
Agriculture represents 20-24 percent of GHG emissions. CO2 emissions are decreasing in this sector, in part due to increases in forestation, though other GHG gases such as methane are increasing (increased meat consumption). Agriculture is discussed in the SBSTA but receives limited attention considering its GHG emissions; there is increasing talk of “climate smart agriculture” but little clarity on what this actually entails. QUNO and many NGOs highlight the critical role played by small-scale farming, which has high adaptation potential, and crop diversity as critical for food security.
Climate finance remains of great concern, with the relatively new Green Climate Fund (GCF) lacking capitalization and other climate funds seriously undercapitalized. There is no agreed definition of “climate finance”, which also causes great tension, as some countries speak of pledges that others do not recognize as real funding. This included serious concern over the dependence on private-over-public-sector funded finance.
The main focus of the June negotiations was on the ADP, primarily because at core it relates to mitigation, pre 2020 (developed countries) and post 2020 (the new agreement for 2015). For the latter, the discussions centered on the definition of “intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)”, a phrase accepted in the last late hours of the COP 19 as an approach to closing the vast gap between pledged and needed GHGemissions to hold global temperatures to 2°C (or 1.5°, as is still possible). Many questions remain:
- Will the INDCs be legally binding for all countries?
- Will countries remain categorized alongside KP Annexes?
- To what extent will contributions balance mitigation with adaptation commitments? and
- Will the new agreement build rules and parameters (common metrics, etc.) to enable clarity and comparison of the various national commitments, or will INDCs at worse become a pick what you want scenario?
- Will the new agreement be fair, close the emissions gap, and protect the poorest?
The INDCs must be defined as soon as possible, to enable Parties (countries) to make commitments by March 2015 with enough time before the COP in Paris to evaluate whether these pledges will close the emissions gap. In view of the past and current economic and emissions landscape, negotiators must find a way forward to uphold past, present, and future responsibilities and to bring all countries to consensus.
QUNO began observing the UNFCCC through the support of QEW. Since June 2013, we have been offering quiet diplomacy to a diverse group of UNFCCC negotiators, with the aim to help build communication and understanding in support of a fair and sufficient agreement. The quiet diplomacy dinners have experienced increasing attendance, and we are told that the human connection of these dinners, and the safe space to talk off the record, is valuable.
The UNFCCC climate negotiations have received much criticism. Yet anthropogenic (due to human activities) climate change is a global challenge requiring global action, and the UNFCCC continues to offer the one multilateral effort where poor and rich countries can seek a global way forward. Alternatives include bilateral approaches, often between the most powerful countries, which leave out the voice of the poorest and most vulnerable countries as well as civil society observers who provide a witness to calls for fair and sufficient action. What might an effective multilateral effort look like? Climate Action Network states that this would include high levels of mitigation, commitment to a just transition toward 100 percent renewables in the phase out of fossil fuels, sufficient financing of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from the wealthiest countries and commitments for long-term financing, phasing out of coal, and recognition that climate change is a great contributor to global poverty. Grassroots action is key to convincing our governments that we want to face and embrace this challenge to live sustainably and justly on this earth.
ANNEX: THE IPCC REPORT
The 5th Assessment Report (AR5, available at www.ipcc.ch) states, in sum, that our climate is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity (anthropogenic) has caused most of the warming since 1951, and the earth’s surface already warmed .85°C between 1880 and 2012. It remains technologically and economically feasible to limit global warming to 1.5°C with extraordinary but possible actions; however, GHG emissions are rising more quickly than ever before since 2010 and this “business as usual” will likely result in a mean global temperature increase by 2081 of 2.6°C to 4.8°C as compared to 1986-2005 temperatures. This would create catastrophic climate change, challenging the ability of current and future generations to thrive on this planet. (Please note that the sea level rise predictions in the AR5 were made prior to the revelation of the extent of melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet.)
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infections such as candidiasis, herpes simplex, oral hairy leukoplakia, and bacterial gingivitis/periodontitis;
Kaposi's sarcoma or lymphoma in the oral cavity.
The client will have a healthy oral cavity as evidenced by:
absence of inflammation
pink, moist, intact mucosa
absence of lesions
no reports of oral dryness and pain
ability to swallow without discomfort.
Nursing Actions and Selected Purposes/Rationales
Assess client for and report signs and symptoms of altered oral mucous membrane (e.g. inflamed and/or ulcerated oral mucosa; corrugated, white thickenings, particularly on sides of tongue; painful vesicles that ulcerate; white plaques that can easily be scraped off; cracks and fissures at corner of mouth; reddened and retracted gingivae; reports of oral dryness and pain; dysphagia; positive results of cultured specimens from oral lesions).
Implement measures to prevent breakdown of the oral mucous membrane and promote healing of existing lesions:
reinforce importance of and assist client with oral hygiene after meals and snacks; avoid use of products that contain lemon and glycerin and mouthwashes containing alcohol (these products have a drying and irritating effect on the oral mucous membrane)
have client rinse mouth frequently with warm saline; baking soda and water; or a solution of salt, baking soda, and water
use a soft bristle toothbrush or a sponge-tipped swab for oral hygiene
lubricate client's lips frequently
encourage client to breathe through nose rather than mouth in order to reduce mouth dryness
encourage a fluid intake of at least 2500 ml/day unless contraindicated
perform actions to maintain an adequate nutritional status (see Diagnosis 3, action c)
encourage client not to smoke or chew tobacco (smoking dries the mucosa; tobacco acts as an irritant to the oral mucosa)
instruct client to avoid substances that might further irritate the oral mucosa (e.g. hot, spicy, or acidic foods/fluids)
administer antimicrobial agents (e.g. clotrimazole troches, nystatin, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, acyclovir, foscarnet, cidofovir topical gel) as ordered
if periodontal disease is present, administer the following if ordered:
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Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Therapy
Types of Masks
Nasal Pillows (Small)
Nasal pillows seal around the base of the nares (nostrils) using soft cushions. These types of masks are held in place with a single strap which wraps around the head. This design is most popular amongst those who want a minimal amount of weight and material on their face.
Nasal Masks (Medium)
Nasal masks seal around your nose in the shape of a triangle and are held in place by two straps that wrap around your head. These types of masks do not cover your mouth. Nasal masks are the oldest and most commonly used mask for CPAP machines. Nasal masks may have gel or silicone seal and can vary greatly in comfort.
Full Face (Large)
Full face masks at a minimum seal around your nose AND mouth and in some instances they can cover the entire face. These masks are held in place by two straps that wrap around the head. These masks are required by patients who breathe through their mouth while they sleep. Alternatives for these types of patients include Nasal Masks or Nasal Pillows used in conjunction with a chin strap (a device which keep’s the patient’s mouth closed during the night).
Full face masks may also be required if:
- You have chronic sinusitis, making it impossible to breathe through your nose.
- You are congested from seasonal allergies or a cold.
- Your mouth drops open during sleep and using a chin strap has proven too uncomfortable or simply ineffective.
Return to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy
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Demographics get little attention from
The way you approach building a community
for those aged 65+ is very different from those aged 8 – 15.
If you’re building a community for those
ages 8 – 15, you’re building a community for an audience that may never use
traditional computer screens (or e-mail addresses!). How will you reach them?
How will you make your message stand out amongst the other noise? How will you tackle the issues with
targeting a youth audience? How will you identify their problems, hopes, and relevancies?
If you’re building a community for those 65
and up, you’re probably building a community for those that will never participate heavily from tiny-screen devices, or be interested in new music
(this isn’t stereotyping, people become fixed in their habits around their late
This is just the beginning. There is an absolute WEALTH of information on building communities for a variety of different demographics. You owe it to your members to read and learn it before you begin your community effort.
Any time you’re building a community for a
demographic that’s not your own, you have to study the demographics first.
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SlideDeck 2.1 introduces a new system called 'Addons'. Addons are additional features that can be installed on top of the basic SlideDeck plugin. If you're a Professional or Developer package user, you simply need to install SlideDeck, then head over to the SlideDeck Addons screen - here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/jasonatdt/ebxwg/edit-post-slidedeck-web-slider-wordpress
From this page, you'll be able to install all the addons associated with your license. You can also upgrade to get additional Addons from within the plugin - easy!
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The rivers will return to their beginnings.
The wind will cease in its turning about.
Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots.
Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror –
They are children again.
The dead will wake up, not comprehending.
Till everything that happened has unhappened.
What a relief! Breathe freely, you who have suffered much.
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There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue, whence–depressed
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse–our minds
Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
That penetrates, enables us to mount,
When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.
I wasn't fallen, but there was undoubtedly something renovating about that last 90 seconds yesterday, when a choir 70,000 strong were singing Max Boyce's 'Hymns and Arias' as Wales went through the phases towards full time and yet another Grand Slam. The paradox of the choir is that it makes you fully yourself alive while being a small part of something else. We were all doing the same thing and we were all being ourselves. And that noise and that outpouring, all that pride and praise, in 90 seconds turned those on the field from mere mortals to beings little short of gods. This was a great Grand Slam immeasurably better than 2005 and 2008, perhaps because it followed the heartbreak of the World Cup (and that wasn't about losing to France, it was about losing the opportunity to beat New Zealand in the Final). At the end Dan Lydiate was interviewed on the pitch. There he was on the big screen. No-one could hear a word he was saying - not a word - but we saw him looking at us with that boyish, innocent face, looking around at the crowd, grinning and wondering, Me? He was immense, player of the championship, but who on the Welsh team wasn't? It was a terrific match, hard and tight and no quarter give. Dusautoir - what a player - was everywhere, Halfpenny was nerveless (what a thing to see that long kick, and think, THAT'S how you do it!), the French defence as good as the English was against them or the Irish against Wales. Damn nearly as good as the Welsh defence itself. the whole thing was absolutely bloody marvellous. It made me feel young again, just for a spot of time.
O pleasant exercise of hope and joy!For mighty were the auxiliars which then stoodUpon our side, us who were strong in love!Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very Heaven! O times,In which the meagre, stale, forbidding waysOf custom, law, and statute, took at onceThe attraction of a country in romance!
Two more points: The French supporters were wonderful, full of voice and song and spirit and immensely generous, with the exception of one lone idiot voice in that quiet crowd as we remembered Mervyn Davies. And a shot of Gerald Davies, tears in his eyes, remembering, no doubt, his old friend, and their own peerless triumphs.
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Whether planning a wedding or corporate event, there are always lots of details to manage and budgets to wrangle. Often people make the mistake of thinking they can manage all of these details themselves in order to stay within budget – but more likely than not, they will end up spending more in the long run. Here are just a few ways that hiring a planner will not only give you a superior event, but also save your budget!
With nearly 40% of engagements happening during the 4-month stretch between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day, we can bet either you or someone you know is currently navigating their Wedding Planning Checklist. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely already envisioned your wedding, created a budget, and have selected the wedding date/time and are currently researching the perfect venue to fit your vision. Here are some tips to help you interpret your venue contract and ensure you have no surprises after you say, “I do.”
We’re ending this week with a Flashback Friday from March 2014 when we welcomed Daher-Socata as they unveiled their brand new TBM900.
We love it when clients give us a little freedom to produce a WOW moment! Our team was so lucky to work with a prominent watch company to help launch a new luxury product to a select group of VIP customers in their Central Florida market. With a group of only 20 guests, we wanted to offer a lot of drama while still ensuring an intimate feel. The juxtaposition of this modern acrylic table, mirrored planter boxes filled with white hydrangeas and white roses, (Wizard Connection) clear chiavari chairs and glass chargers, (A Chair Affair) finished with white shantung linens (Connie Duglin Linens) made a visually interesting contrast inside the vintage military WWII B-17 Room.
Bride (Courtney) and Groom (Kyle) from this December wedding selected our Art Deco Compass Rose & Lounge as the backdrop for their intimate wedding celebration. Guests dined on crab stuffed mushrooms, antipasto skewers, and mini chicken egg rolls while enjoying a hosted beer & wine service during cocktail hour.
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Playing tracks by
Marky&XRS, Protune, Tenchu&Zool, Body&Soul and Cyantific.
B0H,Timon aka dj Res here.
Have a good time listening to this small compilation of available tracks in my record bag :)
Hope to seee you all soon on the wonderfull Sardegna Beach.
Ps:I am SORRY that it sounds like underwater. I recordet with my mothers notebook with mic in and some special "underwatersound" noise reduction filters enabled without knowing what enormous changes this would make in my soundquality :D
And sorry for not having a complete tracklist. Havent even had time to listen to it more than one time to make a list :)
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Hip-Hop Reacts to Death of Steely Dan Co-Founder Walter Becker
Walter Becker, legendary guitarist and co-founder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-honored band Steely Dan, has passed away at the age of 67. Becker died Sunday (Sept. 2) with the musician's official website breaking the news to the public. The cause of Becker's death is still unknown.
Becker's band Steely Dan was known for blending jazz, R&B and rock music for a signature sound in the early 1970s. Though the lineup of Steely Dan changed quite often, Becker along with co-founder Donald Fagen remained constants in the band. The group is best known for 1970's hits like "Reelin' in the Years," "Dirty Work" and "Do It Again," but have been sampled by hip-hop artists over the years, giving new meaning to their classics. Ice Cube sampled their song "Green Earrings" for his 1992 song "Don't Trust 'Em" and Kanye West sampled the band's "Kid Charlemagne" in 2007 for his own track "Champion."
With Steely Dan and #RIPWalterBecker both trending on social media, members of the hip-hop community caught on to the news and reacted online. "rip #WalterBecker possibly one of my favorite architects of the 70s "FM" smooth sound," wrote ?uestlove on Instagram along with a throwback photo of Becker. "Thank you Mr. Becker for a lifetime of great music," commented Talib Kweli on Twitter.
Check out how hip-hop is reacting to the death of Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker below. R.I.P. to Becker.
".....still holds the crown baby" rip #WalterBecker possibly one of my favorite architects of the 70s "FM" smooth sound. Took it for granted growing up ---before 10 I heard his music & Fagen's voice EVERYWHERE: supermarket, waiting rooms everywhere, cabs, offices, dentist chair, sporting events even (Sixers used to RUN "Peg" during Dr J's era) actually lol first time I got sent to principles office in 2nd grade was for "saying a bad word" (Hell, was a 4 letter word growing up & I didn't know who or what a "Peg" was but I knew someone in my class was going to "Helllllllllllllllllll" The first time we played w Michael McDonald a second after "man it's an honor" came "ok how long did Walt make you stack them vocals?" Walt was my first post "hey I dig these guys I wanna get em on a session" gig shortly after our Do you Want More album came out. I was all ready for him to make me do take after take after take like I heard he was notorious for---but uh shockingly he liked our loose playing and encouraged it. (Yeah I even tried to tune my drums Steely Dan low but he was like "I want you to sound like you, not like what we were doing way back then") This is a major loss man. An artist's artist. Someone who cared for the craft of music and pushing boundaries. They got a name for the winners in the world: his name is Becker
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Innovations That Are About to Change Cancer
Thanks to the generosity of donors, MSK is leading a sea change in the cancer treatment paradigm.
“Smart Bomb” for Lung Cancer
Challenge: Some 15% of people diagnosed with lung cancer have a type called small cell lung cancer. Few new therapies have been developed for this disease in the past several decades.
Breakthrough: MSK scientists participated in the preclinical development and led the first clinical trial of the drug, rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T). Rova-T targets a protein called DLL3 that is highly expressed on small cell lung cancers. This therapy works like a Trojan horse—after the antibody seeks out and binds to the protein on the cancer cell, it delivers the toxin to the inside of the cell and destroys it. Specifically targeting the cancer cells limits toxicity to the normal tissues of the body, minimizing side effects.
Impact: Results from clinical trials have been encouraging. Rova-T could become a new treatment for patients with recurrent small cell lung cancer.
Challenge: The immune system is not designed to fight cancer cells—as it does infections—because cancer cells are not foreign: they are a patient’s own cells that have gone awry. The immune system needs to be taught to identify and attack cancer cells.
Breakthrough: Cell-based immunotherapy uses a patient’s own immune cells to battle cancer. One promising type is called chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR T cell therapy. CAR T cells are immune cells that are removed from a patient’s body and, in the laboratory, receive new DNA with instructions to find and destroy cancer. The altered cells are then placed back in the patient’s body to fight cancer. These cells live indefinitely within the patient and are only administered once.
Impact: MSK doctors have successfully used CAR T therapy to treat leukemia and lymphoma. They are now investigating whether it can work in other cancers as well.
Challenge: One reason the immune system does not naturally fight cancer is that a type of immune cells, called T cells, have “brakes” that stop them from attacking cells that originate in one’s own body—such as cancer.
Breakthrough: MSK scientists and their collaborators discovered a class of drugs that releases the brakes on T cells so they can identify and fight cancer as they would foreign germs. These drugs are called checkpoint inhibitors.
Impact: MSK has led clinical trials showing that checkpoint inhibitors can be effective against melanoma, some types of lymphoma, and lung, kidney, bladder, and head and neck cancers. These drugs are now being tested at MSK against several other types of cancer, including sarcoma. MSK researchers guided the clinical trial of checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab, which was approved by the FDA in 2011—the first drug ever to improve the survival rate of people with advanced melanoma. Combinations of these medicines have also been pioneered by MSK researchers and have resulted in the 2015 approval of the first combination immunotherapy to treat melanoma.
Prostate Cancer Drug Discovery Using Epigenetics
Challenge: While most men with prostate cancer respond well to standard hormone therapy and chemotherapy, those cancers that don’t respond—or stop responding—are notoriously difficult to treat.
Breakthrough: MSK physician-scientists are investigating the signaling pathways that promote the growth of cancer cells, with an eye toward designing new treatments based on an emerging understanding of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the process by which different cells and tissues receive specific instructions—or “blueprints”—to function in unique roles, despite sharing the same DNA. Epigenetics is illuminating previously unknown aspects of how and why genes turn on and off, and expanding the possibilities for targeted drug intervention when these processes malfunction—with the goal of reversing them back to normal.
Impact: MSK researchers developed the drug enzalutamide, which is proving effective in treating an aggressive form of therapy-resistant prostate cancer. This drug works by targeting a key factor that governs gene regulation in prostate cancer cells.
Rethinking the Microbiome for Bone Marrow Transplants
Challenge: Bone marrow transplant (BMT)—when a patient’s cancerous cells are replaced with healthy cells from another person—can help people with blood cancers that haven’t responded to other treatments. But BMT poses serious risks—including graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), which can strike if the newly transplanted cells attack the “foreign” tissue. GVHD can cause serious organ damage and is life-threatening.
Breakthrough: MSK physician-scientists have recently discovered that certain bacterial strains commonly found in the gut (microbiome) can help prevent this dangerous condition. While a link has been known to exist between the microbiome and GVHD since the 1970s, no one had identified specific bacteria or understood their roles—until now. With the help of new DNA sequencing technologies, researchers have learned that patients with even a small amount of bacteria called Blautia in their gastrointestinal tract have a significantly lower chance of developing GVHD.
Impact: MSK clinicians are exploring ways to help patients keep this important bacteria by prescribing antibiotics that do not kill it, and by encouraging a wholesome diet during transplants rather than relying on IV nutrition. Researchers are evaluating the benefits of a fecal microbiota transplant prior to a bone marrow transplant. And in one trial, patients have their own microbiota stored before beginning treatment, so they can get it back later when needed.
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Hi I am not able to use the compu defrost on my sharp carousel R-230 Av microwave. Does someone have the manual or the steps to use compu defrost Thnx
Please walk me through the defrost on my sharp micor
Models R420D and R520D also have this common feature found on Sharp microwaves. You can download that manual free at the link below (not my link) and the section on Compu Defrost should help you just fine. http://www.htsarebates.com/files/mic_man_420,520D.pdf#search=%22sharp%20compu%20defrost%20filetype%3Apdf%22 Or you can just do the Google search below and you'll end up with a list of several manuals you can try: "sharp compu defrost filetype:pdf" (without the quotes)
For the R230: First select "defrost" Next, select from the list on the front of the machine the number that matches what you're defrosting. For example, ground beef is number "1" Then put the approximate weight of the item. Note: If the weight you enter is more or less than the allowed amount (0.5-3.0 for one half to 3 pounds) you will get an "EE" error message. Last push the "Start" button. For longer defrost times the machine will stop halfway through and beep so you can check the progress. Take a peek, close the door and push start again. Hope this helps.
Usually answered in minutes!
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ECONOMIC SCENE; In iTunes War, France Has Met the Enemy. Perhaps It Is France.
By Austan Goolsbee
Published: April 27, 2006
THE French take pride in their revolutions, which are usually hard to miss -- mass uprisings, heads rolling and such. So, with the scent of tear gas in the air this past month from the giant protests against a youth labor law, it was easy to overlook the French National Assembly's approval of a bill that would require Apple Computer to crack open the software codes of its iTunes music store and let the files work on players other than the iPod. While seemingly minor, the move is actually rather startling and has left many experts wondering (as ever): What has possessed the French?
More is at stake than just whether French teenagers can get Chim? Badi tracks at iTunes for 0.99 euro. The move may signify a willingness to question the patents, copyrights and trade secrets of other successful products as well, like electronics, pharmaceuticals, even fast food. Might we soon see a French legislator demanding to know if it is fair that customers of the French fast-food chain Quick cannot get its signature burger, Le Giant, with McDonald's special sauce?
In their fervor to free listeners from the shackles of their iPods, French politicians have abandoned one of the guiding principles of antitrust economics: penalize companies that harm consumers, not the ones that succeed by building better products.
Antitrust authorities normally follow well-established procedures when considering such moves. They weigh the loss to consumers of not being able to play iTunes songs on other players against the damage that forcing iTunes to open might have on innovation. France's own Competition Council did a similar analysis in 2004 and ruled that Apple's refusal to share the iTunes codes did not harm consumers. The legislature paid no mind to such analysis and seems not to have considered innovation at all. Therein lies the danger.
Apple largely created the online market for legal music. The record labels' own attempts flopped embarrassingly. Until iTunes, virtually no one paid for online music. Since then, iTunes has sold more than one billion songs. Its success comes largely from two crucial innovations.
First, Apple's music store is simple and works extremely well with the iPod. Find the music. Click ''Buy It.'' Drag the files onto the iPod icon. That's it. Experiences with other players and music stores are far more complicated.
Further, iTunes keeps getting better. Apple has added video capability, celebrity play lists, exclusive music, the ability to convert home movies into iPod format, and many other features -- all free.
Second, iTunes has lots of music. Largely because of the innovative iTunes FairPlay copy protection and digital rights management software, Apple persuaded major record labels to let them sell much of their best content online. The combination of simplicity and variety proved a huge winner.
If the French gave away the codes, Apple would lose much of its rationale for improving iTunes. Right now, after the royalty payment to the label (around 65 cents) and the processing fee to the credit card company (as high as 23 cents), not to mention other costs, Apple's margin on 99-cent music is thin. Yet it continues to add free features to iTunes because it helps sell iPods.
Opening the codes threatens that link. Apple would need to pay for iTunes features with profits from iTunes itself. Prices would rise. Innovation would slow.
Even worse, sharing the codes could make it easier for hackers to unravel Apple's FairPlay software. Without strong copy protection, labels would not supply as much new music. Indeed, Apple argues that sharing the codes could make the pirates' job easy enough to wipe out the legal market. Agitators might claim that this is the very goal of the French bill: why else would it also reduce the maximum fine for consumers caught illegally downloading music from 300,000 euros (about $371,000) to just 38 euros (less than $47)?
Sharing the iTunes codes would undermine the two innovations that Apple used to create the online market for legal music in the first place. With France accounting for only 5 percent of iTunes sales, Apple would probably shut down iTunes in France rather than give up the codes.
B. Zorina Kahn, an economic historian at Bowdoin College in Maine and author of ''The Democratization of Invention'' (Cambridge University Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005) finds the French move puzzling.
''In the past,'' Dr. Kahn says, ''France has been the global leader in enforcing strong copyrights.'' Usually, rich countries don't meddle with others' intellectual property because they fear retaliation. So why don't the French fear retaliation now?
One reason may be that they have concluded France will never really compete. If the Internet will always have an American accent, why not go after it? Sometimes, the red flag of revolution is surprisingly hard to distinguish from the white flag of surrender.
The other reason, though, could be that the French politicians simply did not consider the possibility that other countries might retaliate against the intellectual property of French companies. The heads of several French biotechnology, telecommunications and electronics companies are probably starting to fidget.
The fate of France's budding intellectual property revolution now rests with the French Senate, which will decide in the coming days whether to proceed. Before declaring pre-emptive war on iTunes, however, perhaps the French would do best to remember a lesson from 1789. Sometimes the very people calling for revolution are the ones who end up losing their heads.
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If you're an staff member of the Federal government, you can make partial gold IRA rollovers. In order to receive these, you require to have a self-directed individual retirement account as well as a custodian that permits you to hold physical gold. A rare-earth elements dealership can assist you fill in the documents. It's also essential to get in touch with your employer prior to transferring gold from a gold IRA
An individual can also make payments right into a gold IRA with a custodian. If you're independent, you can contribute approximately $57,000 annually. Nonetheless, you can't add greater than 25% of your wage. However, the higher contribution limits enable you to accumulate assets faster.
There are many suppliers of gold IRA solutions. You can choose a service provider that gives excellent customer service and also allows you to rollover your existing individual retirement account or 401(k). Some providers likewise supply cash-for-gold acquisitions. Usually, they don't bill extra charges for rollovers or account maintenance.
If you're a gold individual retirement account proprietor, make sure you follow the guidelines for minimum circulations. Typically, you'll need to make withdrawals before completion of the year. But, there are some exceptions to this regulation. The guideline does not put on grandchildren.
If you have excess payments, it's alright to leave them alone. The IRS does not like when people secure their money prematurely. Nevertheless, it is very important to comply with the policies to make sure that you don't wind up with a tax obligation costs in the future. This is especially real if you're under age 59 1/2. The IRS won't be as flexible as you would certainly hope.
Purchasing precious metals with a self-directed individual retirement account.
One method to expand your retirement fund is to buy precious metals via your self-directed individual retirement account. Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium are instances of steels that can be bought through a self-directed IRA. Purchasing precious metals with IRAs is easy. Buying silver or gold through a self-directed IRA can be finished with little to no initiative as well as is a excellent means to expand your profile.
While you can get silver or gold via a self-directed individual retirement account, you can deny antiques, such as silver or gold precious jewelry. Buying rare-earth elements with your IRA gives diversification in your retirement portfolio and helps you hedge versus inflation and also market cycles. You can open a precious metals individual retirement account with a self-directed IRA service provider like Accuplan. You must inspect the purity degree of rare-earth elements before spending. To keep your possessions risk-free, you ought to choose a vault that provides certified storage space for your precious metals.
The IRS thinks about gold and other rare-earth elements as alternative financial investments. These financial investments are not detailed on a public exchange and also require unique competence. Additionally, gold prices can plunge at unanticipated times. For that reason, it is essential to make a decision whether you want to purchase gold or wait till the market is reduced. Waiting for the right minute could be a much better decision for your self-directed individual retirement account.
A self-directed IRA permits you to choose the custodian and also vault for your account and the types of precious metals you wish to purchase. If you're considering diversifying your retirement portfolio, gold and silver are a wonderful way to go. They're likewise great investments that have a secure buying power.
Gold and silver are 2 of the oldest kinds of financial investment as well as have been used as money throughout background. Today, they are still thought about safe houses for retired life funds. Investing in gold or silver in your individual retirement account can shield your financial savings against rising cost of living, currency deflation, as well as other dangers.
Self-directed IRAs are perfect for people that have their very own businesses or are self-employed. They can purchase bullion, exclusive equity, and real estate. Unlike a standard individual retirement account, self-directed accounts do not produce payments or costs from Wall Street. In addition, investing in silver and gold with a self-directed IRA will certainly help you expand your financial investment portfolio.
Prior to purchasing precious metals with a self-directed retirement account, make sure to do your research and research study the different choices. Ensure to pick a trusted supplier, and make sure to invest in IRA-approved precious metals. You must also ensure that your rare-earth elements are stored in a third-party vault, ideally one near your home.
Investing in precious metals with IRAs can safeguard your other investments while providing significant tax obligation advantages. You may additionally wish to expand your profile against intermittent economic crises, as well as rare-earth elements are a secure investment during stormy times.
Setting up a gold IRA.
There are a few things to bear in mind when establishing a gold individual retirement account. Initially, all precious metals kept in a self-directed IRA needs to be stored as well as taken care of according to IRS guidelines. While these rare-earth elements can enhance in worth tax-free while in the account, you can't have them directly. If you do, you may end up facing penalties and taxes.
The following step is to choose a depository. Most gold IRAs require that you make use of a specific depository or custodian. Others may give you the choice of selecting two or more depository solutions. You need to take into consideration the depository's cost framework and insurance policies prior to making your decision. Once you have determined where to save your gold, the custodian will sell it for you and send you the cash.
While a SDIRA provides you the chance to decide just how much you take out, you likewise have to remember the tax obligation consequences. Depending on the length of time you've held precious metals, you might wind up with a huge tax obligation costs. Utilizing a gold IRA is a fantastic method to protect your make money from a large tax obligation bill.
In order to avoid a tax obligation fine, you must transfer your gold individual retirement account circulation within 60 days. Failing to do so can lead to a 10% very early withdrawal penalty. Additionally, the IRS considers your gold individual retirement account rollover to be a distribution, and also you'll go through taxes and charges in your following tax declaring.
It is essential to diversify your profile when planning for retired life. Gold can be a great way to protect your possessions versus climbing inflation and market volatility. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that you can not keep physical gold in your own ownership. Your custodian should have physical control of your gold. This limits your ability to make use of physical gold for bartering throughout an financial downturn.
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Designer Kevin McCloud works...
- Education Professionals
Help Key Stage 2 pupils learn persuasive writing skills with this lesson starting video on the topic of school uniform.
See Year 5 pupils giving their thoughts on school uniform, sharing their ideas on the advantages and disadvantages.
This short video can strengthen pupils' literacy skills as they devise their own ideas for writing persuasively.
Part of the series: Primary Lesson Starters
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Compared to adults, urolithiasis is less common in children, with a definite rise in incidence, especially among young adults (Tasian et al. in Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 11:488, 2016). In the last 25 years, the incidence in children has increased by approximately 6–10% annually, for reasons still unknown, with an associated significant increase in related health care-related expenditures (Hyams and Matlaga in Transl Androl Urol 3(3):278–83, 2014). It has been shown that there is twice as high a risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) or end stage renal disease (ESRD) in stone formers compared to non-stone formers (Tasian et al. 2016). While calcium-containing stones are by far the most common category of stone encountered in both children and adults, non-calcium stones are more common in children than adults and have been shown in several studies to be associated with greater morbidity and lower renal function than calcium stones (Issler et al. in BMC Nephrol 18(1):136, 2017; Gambaro et al. in J Urol 198:268–273, 2017). This could be related to the challenges in the management of non-calcium-containing stones due to associated infection or metabolic derangements, further leading to recurrence and loss of renal function. There is currently a gap in our understanding of how to appropriately and effectively encounter and manage patients with non-calcium-containing stones, as such cases are encountered less frequently. Identification of stone composition and appropriate management is very important to reduce serious complications and recurrence, especially in non-calcium stones. We present a review of diagnosis and management of non-calcium-containing stones in the pediatric population, in hopes of providing more clarity to providers and promoting a consideration of non-calcium stone composition with all children presenting with urolithiasis.
- Challenges in management
- Non-calcium-containing stones
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WGHA Development Stream Program FAQs
What is DS?
Development Stream (DS) is a subset of House League intended to further develop those House League players looking to bridge the gap between House League and Competitive Hockey (in skill or availability). DS is also for those players who do not wish to make the commitment, in time or cost, to competitive hockey but are seeking more competition and skill development that is not afforded by house league alone. The House League Development Stream Program (DS) began in 2011 as a pilot project in response to requests from members of the OWHA to find a solution to bridge the gap between house league and competitive (rep) play. This season 2022-23, we will have teams for all divisions U11 - U18.
Who can play?
It is important to note that the DS program supplements the house league program meaning that all DS players must be registered in house league and attend house league games and practices regularly. This may result in players having two games/practices on the same day. DS teams will not schedule games or practices that conflict with the house league schedule without consent from the Executive. All House League players may tryout and there are no residency restrictions.
How can players try out?
As a development program, every house league player is eligible to attend a tryout. Tryouts are conducted and from there, cuts are made such that teams will have a maximum of 17 rostered players (2 goalies, 15 skaters). There are 8 spots for extended player roster positions to act as alternates to practice with the team and play when rostered players are absent. No other players can be on ice for DS practices or games unless part of the rostered 17 core players or 8 extended player roster.
How will teams be selected?
Each team will consist of a maximum of 15 skaters and 2 goalies along with with 8 selected extended roster players that may attend throughout the season. In order to play on a DS team, the player must attend all tryouts for her age group or receive an exemption in advance from the DS coach of that division and approved by the HL executive (2ndVP and Jr HL Director). DS teams are intended as a development program for House League players to improve their game and as such the team selection may reflect this intention at the discretion of the DS coach and tryout evaluators for that division.
Why was my daughter cut at the tryouts?
Players at tryouts are evaluated and compared to the other players at the tryout. Background information on a player may be taken into consideration such as their performance during Wolf pack ice, past performance Other factors such as the purpose of the program (development) may also be factors being considered. Please ask the coach as to why your daughter was cut and you may express your concern to the JrHL and 2nd VP of HL directors and the Director for Player and Coach Development. If there are less than 15 players and 2 goalies at the tryout, the executive along with the coach will make a decision with respect to the team.
How many games and practices will there be?
For the 2022-23 season the OWHA has stipulated that U13-U18 DS teams can play a maximum of 8 exhibition games against other DS teams and enter a maximum of 3 DS tournaments. Games/tournaments are to be scheduled without conflicts to House League games. U11 will be allowed 8 games only and no tournaments. The number of practices will be determined by the coach in consultation with the team and parents to match desired commitment and budget levels after taking consideration the predetermined allocated ice from the WGHA to the DS teams.
How much travel will be involved?
This will depend on what other associations will be icing DS teams and the number of games and tournaments that a DS team choses. We anticipate that associations such as Kingston, Barrie, Leaside, Markham, Clarington, Oshawa, Aurora, Mississauga, Durham West, Oakville, Burlington and Etobicoke will ice teams. As such, travel should be within a 60 minute distance other than any “away” tournaments that teams choose to enter.
How much will it cost?
The largest expenditure for hockey teams is the cost of ice. In addition to ice costs, there other expenses such as jerseys, tournament entry fees, referees, etc. that will come into play. Each coach will prepare a team budget that will be determined based on team costs and size. As a rough estimate, the cost per player is expected to be approximately $1000-1200 (that is an upper limit estimate) assuming a team of 17 players.
What is the difference between an Evaluation Skate (Wolf pack) and a Tryout?
Wolf pack sessions are meant to give players extra HL development and a sense of what a tryout is like without the pressure of going through an actual tryout. Consider it much like a dry run or a practice tryout. Players cannot be cut from an wolf pack skate and attending an wolf pack development skate does not represent an obligation or intention to attend a DS team’s tryouts.
Where are the schedules for DS teams posted?
Each DS team will communicate the schedule once it is known. Because other associations cannot hold DS tryouts until November 15th, it is difficult to book games with other associations in the event that there is a lack of player interest and teams are not formed. Once a DS team holds its tryouts and the team is approved by the WGHA Executive, the schedule is formed fairly quickly as games are arranged and tournaments booked.
Development Steam Tryout Dates, Times and Locations will be posted on the website.
Questions or Concerns not addressed above?
Please discuss with your division’s DS coach or for U13-18 contact the Director for House League at [email protected]. U11
can contact the Junior House League Director at [email protected].
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Photo Credit: Kirk Brown
Kirk Brown: The Black Man Shifting The Glamorization Of Plantation Homes
“I bet you wouldn’t be going to no bread and breakfast at Auschwitz,” soul singer Jill Scott said in a now viral social media video last summer, referring to her stay at a former plantation being marketed as a bed and breakfast. That same glamorization of plantation homes is exactly what Virginia native Kirk Brown is looking to change.
For his 30th birthday, Brown took a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana. He originally wanted to visit Germany to see how they paid homage to those of Auschwitz, but things changed.
During his trip to NOLA, something ignited in him the idea to visit a plantation to see what all the hype was about. From the bed and breakfasts to sought-after and often overbooked wedding venues, he wanted to see if they lived up to the glitz and glamour.
Instead, he was met with a host of emotions and the dark realities of most Black Americans’ history— including his own.
“I wanted to dig deeper into plantation culture,” Brown told Travel Noire. “It’s almost like the ancestors were speaking to me. I visited the Whitney Plantation Museum during my trip, and I was moved to tears. From learning how our original names were erased when we were brought to work at these labor homes to the dark history of my family and so many others.”
Once he arrived back in Los Angeles from his visit, Brown immediately reached out to the Whitney Plantation to see how he could continue the efforts, and pitch a few ideas to them, because he felt more needed to be done. It is important to note that out of over 600 plantations across the US, the Whitney is the only one to memorialize the enslaved people who once lived and worked on the property.
“We have to create our own identity, because our culture has been and is being erased. I want to help move toward the memorialization of our history for future generations. I also want to continue the work that Ida B. Wells pushed for while tightening the control of our narratives.”
Around Juneteenth 2020, Brown launched The Better Together Project, under his already existing Black think tank Melanin Meetups— created as a safe space for Black Americans to connect, heal, and ideate data-driven solutions to advance the community and themselves through industry and policy.
The Better Together Project has already seen an overwhelming positive response, and is looking to push forward the narrative that plantation homes are not a glamorous place.
“I want to be clear, we are not pushing for the homes to be torn down,” Brown explained. “We want to see more of these places honor them as the sacred grounds that they are. They need to be marketed to pay homage to the Black men and women that worked on, and built them. The Whitney Plantation simply gets it. They have stood firm on what they will and will not allow. They don’t allow weddings at all, and I want to see more plantations follow suite. To my knowledge no one else has explicitly come out like them.”
Brown describes how the Whitney does not hold back in telling the stories of what happened at the home during enslavement, and that the truth of the history is at the forefront. There is even a wall listing the original names, and given names, of the Black men and women once enslaved there. He says the home also does a great job of telling their stories as far as who they were before enslavement.
“I challenge other Black American travelers to visit at least one plantation home, to just absorb it and get a feel of your history. It does something to you and awakens the conscious.”
As of now all Melanin Meetups and subsequent The Better Together Project meetings are being hosted virtually. Brown encourages anyone interested in the project to visit the website and take the pledge. You can sign up and find more information at: melaninmeetups.org.
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a weblog for Victor Navone's Online Gallery
Amazing! That was a lot of work!
Wow.. thats what I'm talkin about. Very inspiring, giving the medium the run for its money.
That is completely awesome. I had to immediately watch it again. It reminds me of some late 80's early 90's American TV animation only a whole lot sweeter.
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Ahhh that was awesome :D
gotta love that medusa. what a great deign!
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THE DIRT #004: 2019 SEMA Show: Bigger, Better, Badder Than Ever!
2019 SEMA Show: Bigger, Better, Badder Than Ever!
Written by Mercedes Lilienthal
The Specialty Equipment Market Association, or SEMA, as it’s known, boasted thousands of adventure-ready rigs this year. This huge automotive aftermarket trade show was held in early November this year and invited media, manufacturers, buyers, and exhibitors from all around the globe to attend.
In addition to the vehicles, tons of products were highlighted too. Susan Pieper, founder of DMOS Collective, marched through 30 miles of aisles and the 160,000 people gathered at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and witnessed a multitude of 4x4 and AWD vehicles ready to leap out of the show and get dirty. From Jeeps, Toyotas, and Land Rovers to Subarus and other AWD travel machines—the SEMA Show showcased the best of the best. And, that included their DMOS’ own off-road recovery-ready shovels!
It doesn’t matter if it’s tough trucks like those from Hall Racing/Chevrolet or Putco, built up Jeep Gladiators like the one Truck Covers USA showcased, or the tricked out Subaru Crosstrek like the one found in Warn Industries' booth—each of these builds have at least two things in common with each other: the thirst for adventure, and the DMOS Delta-equipped capacity to get there.
No matter if it’s DMOS’ lightweight 6061 aluminum Delta shovel, or its steel sibling, both heavy duty products are made for earth-moving success. Both full-sized yet fully collapsible 4x4 products, DMOS’ latest recovery shovel showcases multiple points of carefully considered design. The Delta shovel boasts the ultimate in flexible usage: it features three blade “modes” and handle lengths. No more smacking yourself in the face if you’re digging down deep with a static-height shovel, or having the shovel head in an awkward position when doing detailed work. The DMOS Delta off-road recovery shovel is capable of being used as a full-sized shovel or collapsing down for work in limited space (like a hoe), or folding flat for storage or transport (via the DMOS Delta mount).
The aluminum Delta boasts the following colors: Agate Grey, Punk'n Orange (a paint color that matches 2018 to current Jeep Rubicons, Wranglers, and Gladiators), and Rebelle Blue (the signature color used for the Rebelle Rally). The Delta steel version, made from premium 12-gauge cold-rolled steel and a 6000 series aluminum shaft extrusion for its handle comes in Agate Grey or Flat Dark Earth colors.
The Delta shovel mount is a lockable and sturdy housing for transporting the shovel (both steel and aluminum models) on the exterior of your ride. This 4 lb. plate and bracket constructed from the same USA-sourced, aircraft-grade aluminum DMOS uses for their rugged off-road ready shovels, creates a stable and secure mounting solution for a variety of roof racks, bed racks, MOLLE panels, or even snowmobiles.
Putco, Hall Racing/Chevrolet, Truck Covers USA, and Warn Industries are just a few of many companies at the SEMA Show that showcased DMOS on their builds. DMOS ambassadors also showed up to support, like Martin (of @DakarTundra Instagram fame) and his expedition-ready Trooper build.
Arming your vehicle with specific tools and upgrades to help you get out there and enjoy nature is key. But, if you happen to get stuck, having the proper recovery equipment like a DMOS off-road recovery shovel to get you out safely is even more important.
DMOS would like to thank the following companies for showcasing Delta shovels and mounts on their 2019 SEMA Show builds:
- BDS Suspension in Ford booth
- Go Fast Campers in Mobil 1 booth
- Warn Industries
- Adventure Ready in RLD Designs’ booth
- Bernie Chacon in James Baroud’s booth
- Sean Jennings in Toyo, Tread Pass Area
- Weldtec in Lightforce’s booth
- Truck Cover USA
- Mule Outfitters in Yokohama’s trailer area
- Expedition One
- Bare Speed in Digipower’s booth
- Hall Racing USA in Chevy Performance booth
Mercedes is an Oregon-based freelancer who specializes in vehicular adventure travel. She and her husband have three right-hand-drive turbo-diesel Mitsubishis: a 1989 Delica Star Wagon (aka The Space Tractor) and two gen 2 short-wheelbase Pajeros, one which has competed in the 2020 winter Alcan 5000 Rally. In addition, they have two customized subcompact daily drivers. Mercedes, a dual citizen of the United States and Germany, grew up with an international identity and loves to travel. Mercedes' freelance work includes writing, social media management, photography, event coverage and marketing services. You can follow her adventures on Facebook @crankshaftculture and @mercedeslilienthal and on Instagram @crankshaftculture and @mercedes_lilienthal.
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Needak® Manufacturing, LLC124 S 8th Street O'Neill, NE 68763 USA
Office Hours: Monday-Friday (excluding major holidays)
8:30AM to Noon and 1:00PM to 5:00PM Central Time
Needak Manufacturing, LLC, 124 S 8th Street, O'Neill, NE 68763 1-800-232-5762 or 1-402-336-4083 InformationCopyright Needak Manufacturing LLC 1999-2017. No portion of this site may be used without permission.
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Though the situation seems to recover, we are still in the middle of crypto depression: bitcoin at the price of $20K is far away, ethereum is also not that high as it used to be just a month ago. All those fluctuations inevitably led to panic and confusion. Should I sell? Should I HODL? The crypto neurosis has never been so common among investors.
But not only people suffer — ICOs are impacted as well. As the market feels quite pessimistic, they are not that eager to spend their precious bitcoins or ethers on new coins. Will this project skyrocket or die? The uncertainty is everywhere.
Is it worth investing in ICOs when crypto gets low?
Invisible hand of crypto market
It’s not a secret that in any bull market investors are very optimistic: the prices go higher, the profits skyrocket — happiness everywhere. That drives market participants to buy more, to act more.
If we talk about crypto economy the situation is exaggerated by hundred times. Investing just $10 in bitcoin a person could have received $100 several months later. Or even more.
People got used to the idea that the cryptocurrency market would grow. Always grow. The enthusiasm hit the ICOs: investors understood that buying coins and tokens during crowdsales at very low prices could make them wealthy in future. That’s how many people dived into tokens and crowdsales. The more investors involved the bigger ICO market becomes. It got the hype: one person bought certain tokens — told everyone, then another person did the same. As a result of the chain reaction the project seems to promise enormous profits. And more people invest. Then everything repeats.
And vice versa. When crypto falls down the ICOs can crash as well. For instance, a token bought at the price of $0.1 can be $1 worth a month later — an excellent situation for a token-holder. At the same time it can become $0 — worth completely nothing, with zero value at all. The same chain reaction effect takes place. One projects’ tokens lose value, investors feel afraid to contribute again. They are afraid to lose the game.
When the market is so volatile investing in even the most promising project can become senseless in the end, bringing no profit to the contributor. That’s why people prefer to trust something more stable, for example bitcoins and ethers. Yes, they also can fall, but these coins have been on the market for years. They proved that no matter what they would rise again. It’s just a market correction, we say.
Besides, no one will doubt that even $11K (the current bitcoin price) is huge money. For that reason, investors hold their crypto on the wallets and sleep well with no worries. And with no tokens?
Unknown tokens or top coins: what to buy?
Top cryptocurrency is very pricy to buy, while tokens are cheap indeed. Still most prefer to purchase coins.
The main problem of tokens is that they are terra incognita. Bitcoin has already built the trust of investors (though still many say it’s a bubble), while tokens are issued by an unknown startup company.
When the cryptomarket is on its high, contributors are more prone to trust: they believe in a project’s White Paper, the concept, the team. But as soon as the market goes bearish investors become more sceptical and cautious. And if they feel just a hint of false or uncertainty this ICO will unlikely get the contributions.
While top cryptocurrencies are backed with a long history and statistics, ICOs have nothing to prove the potential growth. What’s more, scam projects continue to mushroom, thus making crowdsales even less appealing. No one wants to buy someone’s tokens and get deceived, right?
One in a million
Bear cryptomarket isn’t a reason for staying away from ICOs. That’s just a reason to remove pink glasses and choose the project to invest better.
Actually startups that are still willing to launch ICO despite the market drop deserve at least attention. It shows several things: that they are not afraid and that’s they are sure of the concept and its implementation. Moreover, such companies even develop faster, work better. If some time ago people invested in just ideas, now they can invest in products, because worthy projects offer not beautiful promises, but something working.
A strong project with a hard-working team and the product ready will find its investors one way or another. Smart investors will not miss a chance to join a promising ICO.
Bear or bull, the cryptomarket will live. And ICOs will remain as well following the eternal law: the strongest win, the weakest lose.
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The Lisp Badge is a self-contained computer with its own display and keyboard, based on an ATmega1284, that you can program in uLisp:
You can use it to run programs that interface to components such as LEDs and push-buttons via the I/O pins, read the analogue inputs, and operate external devices via the I2C and SPI interfaces. It has a greyscale OLED display that gives 8 lines of 42 characters, and an integrated 45-key keyboard optimised for Lisp.
For details of how to build one see Lisp Badge on Technoblogy.
Size: 107mm x 61mm (4.2" x 2.4").
Display: 42 characters x 8 lines.
Keyboard: Integrated 45-key keyboard providing upper and lower-case characters, digits, and the symbols required by uLisp.
Memory available: 2816 Lisp cells (11264 bytes).
EEPROM: 1024 Lisp cells (4096 bytes), allows you to save the Lisp workspace using save-image.
Clock speed: 16 MHz.
Current consumption: Approx. 20 mA.
uLisp, a subset of Common Lisp, with 122 Lisp functions and special forms. For a full definition see uLisp Language Reference.
The language includes two extensions, plot and plot3d, for plotting graphs and 3d functions.
Types supported: list, symbol, integer, character, string, and stream.
An integer is a sequence of digits, optionally prefixed with "+" or "-". Integers can be between -32768 and 32767. You can enter numbers in hexadecimal, octal, or binary with the notations #x2A, #o52, or #b101010, all of which represent 42.
User-defined symbol names can have arbitrary names. Any sequence that isn't an integer can be used as a symbol; so, for example, 12a is a valid symbol.
There is one namespace for functions and variables; in other words, you cannot use the same name for a function and a variable.
Includes a mark and sweep garbage collector. Garbage collection takes 5 msec.
These interfaces are brought to headers at the edge of the Lisp Badge board. The numbers in brackets refer to Arduino pin numbers:
- Four analogue input pins using analogread: A0 to A3 (24 to 27) plus VCC and GND.
- Two analogue outputs using analogwrite: MISO (6), and SCK (7).
- Digital input and output using pinmode, digitalread, and digitalwrite: MOSI (5), MISO (6), SCK (7), RX0 (8), TX0 (9), SCL (16), SDA (17), and A0 to A3 (24 to 27)
- I2C interface using with-i2c and restart-i2c: SCL (16) and SDA (17).
- SPI interface using with-spi: MOSI (5), MISO (6), and SCK (7).
- Serial interface (FTDI) using with-serial: RX0 (8) and TX0 (9).
The shift key can be used as a digital input: SHIFT (23).
SCK (7) is connected to an LED on the front panel. This is an analogue output pin, so you can vary the brightness of the LED.
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Charlie Sheen defended by uncleCharlie Sheen's uncle claims Brooke Mueller has overreacted following the actor's alleged assault on her.
Joe Estevez - brother of Charlie's father Martin Sheen - says the 'Two and a Half Men' star's spouse is a "drama queen" and thinks she has exaggerated about what happened between the pair on Christmas Day (25.12.09).
He said: "There's just as much chance of her being a drama queen as of what she's saying being true. Maybe he was angry - maybe that's true and maybe it was an embellishment. Let's give the couple the benefit of the doubt. I think it's much ado about nothing? If they were any other couple in the world, it would be gone and forgotten. Because it was Charlie and Brooke, they're taking it to the max."
Charlie - who has nine-month-old twin sons, Bob and Max, with Brooke - was arrested on Christmas Day after Brooke called the police claiming he had attacked her with a knife. He was later released on bail and is set to appear in court next month.
Charlie, 44, has now returned to work to continue shooting 'Two and a Half Men' and Joe says his nephew is just focusing on that.
Joe - who has never met Brooke and hasn't spoken to Charlie for months - told E! news: "He's not crying to anyone; he's sucking it up. I understand he's back at work today. First day back... doing his job, not complaining, not crying to the press. He's just being a man about it."
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Yep, RK, Blondie, Red and I are headed to the 2018 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. I'm so excited! I've saved for 18 months, researched tour companies and negotiated prices (all so not like me at all) and this is what we're getting:
- Four nights at a hotel in Times Square
- A Broadway play on Saturday night
- A hop-on-hop-off tour of NYC all day Sunday
- Tickets to the Monday and Tuesday shows at the Piers
- Reserved seating for the Monday and Tuesday shows at Madison Square Gardens
- Private shuttles to and from the shows
- . . . and plane tickets are included in price!
Last week I read this great article called This Is How To Have A Great Vacation: 6 Secrets Backed By Research by Eric Barker. Secret #1 is to Anticipate. Well, I've been anticipating my brains out! Things like:
- What Broadway show are we going to see? (To be honest, it doesn't really matter. I'm going to see a play on freaking Broadway!)
- What am I going to wear? Apparently Broadway on a Saturday night is damn near formal -- and I'm a jeans and t-shirt girl!
- What about warm clothes? I'm sure February in NYC is going to feel arctic to thin-skinned Floridians.
- I have a list of foods that I have to get while there: a street hot dog, a slice of real NY pizza and bagel.
- I've looked at hop-on-hop-off bus tours. I don't know which one we'll get, but they all seem similar. So, the big question: which locations are a must see?
- I've already looked up the judging schedule. GSDs are going to be judged Monday at the Piers, with the herding group being judged at Madison Square Gardens on Monday night. (I've already looked up the breed and the group judges too!) I anticipate Monday will be a long day.
- Will a German shepherd make it to Best in Show again this year? Rumor took the herding group in 2016 and 2017, actually winning BIS this year. Is it too much to ask to see a GSD take the top spot again? (Probably, but I'm asking anyway!)
- Will I be on TV? I told you we have preferred seating so it's a possibility.
- And Shutterfly has a New York template for picture books, just in case I want to organize all my photos. (You know I do.)
P.S. Does anybody have suggestions for places to go or things to eat in NYC?
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Quite enjoying the burst of light activity when getting out of bed in the morning! The upper body is definitely more flexible than the lower body.....
I'm wondering how important it is to tap the actual toe on the front and side toe taps. I can tap my shin, but the toe is a bit of a stretch right now.
I was a bit worried about not getting a daily ab workout.....but oh was I wrong.....trunk beds and twists are already doing the job.
And one more thing....is it ok to do the other exercises right after the morning exercises and do one bigger workout or is it best to really split them up. I just find if I don't get things done first thing in the morning either they don't get done, or I spend the time thinking about what's left to do in my day.
The photo is now up.
I’ve got quite a ways to go before doing the splits, but I’d be really happy if I could just touch my toes without bending the knees.
Hamstrings are super tight —always.
Just checked into to Day 1. I immediately saw the photo of the woman doing the splits.....will we really be able to do that at the end of this? If so, very cool....but also a bit daunting.
Started the day with a brisk 1-hour walk by the lake, only to return to find today's photographer still asleep. Husband and 18-year old (daughter) in France visiting family.....so the 16-year old (son) is the photographer.....Hopefully, I will be able to get this done by noon!
I've been wanting to do Reach for a while now.....life/work have been super crazy.....hopefully, everything will just slow down for the next 50+ days.......
Done! GRADUATION POST
Great workout today. Short and sweet but oh so telling.....I never would have imagined lifting so much three months ago!
When I signed up for Iron, I knew that we would be finishing up the day after my birthday---a big, massive milestone birthday. So I wanted to see what I was made of......
First of all, I'm strong, and in shape....and not only, 'for my age'. Secondly, I need to embrace being strong and in shape even though I'm not always too keen, on what that shape is. My teen years were in the eighties. That's when all female models were bone-thin and exempt of any curves. That's been my 'ideal' all my life. But you know what, that 'ideal' isn't 'ideal'....it isn't healthy and it isn't me.....and I shouldn't strive for that because I'm never going to attain it. I need to keep reminding myself of this.
Iron is up there with my faves.....although I still remain quite partial to Bells. It wasn't easy....especially with the back injury that kept me out for a week, and all the work stuff going on this time around.
Thanks so much to Trainer Scott for all his guidance (and the cheesy joke at the end of today's video!). Thanks to all my Iron mates who supported me. One pet-peeve though, (and I am throwing my diplomatic streak out the window here), some teammates never commented on any of my posts and I really find that disappointing. I figure I can say it, cuz they're probably not reading this anyway!
Big thanks also to my former teammates--Barb, Watson, Scott, Yvonne---you guys, as always were great!
So now what? I need and really want to do Reach, but I'm not quite ready for the commitment of another program just yet. So I think I'll take a couple of days off.....then probably do the maintenance workouts--and the six Iron workouts I missed when I was out of service, and I'll probably head off to the gym for some classes. I'll keep pumping the iron until the next Reach in July!
Over and out!
Ok one final push to get to the finish line. And it’s coming none too early. These workout are getting long. Six sets of supersets? Really?
Diet is ok but the 18-year old is back in the house baking cakes and buying cookies.
It’s so bad that the 16-year old said we need to crack down.
At least I am not alone on this one!
I usually work out first thing in the morning in our home gym or at my local gym.
Yesterday I had to work out at lunchtime at a downtown gym.
I was all proud of my bench pressing prowess....I can press 60 lbs!
But then I checked out the weights on the barbell next to me....the guy was pressing 200lbs.
Wow! I was impressed!
These last two weeks of program are always the toughest for me. I find that 40-50 day programs aren't quite long enough, but by Day 70 of a 90-day program is when I've kind of had enough. So now's the time to stay strong.
I have definitely gotten stronger....lifting more than I did at the beginning of this program. I was hoping my jeans would feel a bit looser and that hasn't happened, and I do weigh the same, maybe a little bit more even than when I started. Can someone confirm whether or not muscle weighs more than fat, or if that' just a myth.
Weather is getting a little better, and even though there was a bit of snow on the ground this morning (yes really!) I've transferred to bbq mode. So we were out there grilling chicken breasts this evening---with out winter coats on.
I'm thinking that Reach may be in my future after Iron. Scott, what do you think. And how can I go about securing a spot for the next session?
Have a great week all!
Once again, work is totally crazy this week. My husband is off at at a cycling training camp in Virginia (he's doing a stage of the Tour de France in July). The cycling camp sounds good---lots of riding, daily yoga and massages....heck I don't he's coming back! But minus a husband means I've got all the shopping, cooking, laundry etc to do.
Diet is good, I think....I just don't feel I'm being mindful enough of the diet. I don't feel I'm really tasting the food, just going through the motions. The 18-year old is back at university for her final two exams....so there are no more cookies and cakes in the house.....but she's back on Sunday for the summer....so I'll have to activate that willpower shield.
Workouts are fine. I skipped legs on Monday due to a sore hip, but I've done the rest. I'm looking forward to changing things up a bit. I find the one body part per day is getting a bit tedious.
Sleep is still not good. I won't say more about that.
This week, everything was just a bit out of whack.
Work is brutal right now. Stress levels are high. Sleep is not good. When this happens, my first priority is sleep. So I missed two workouts, in order to get a bit of sleep.
Our 18-year old is home from university this week....in between exams......when she comes into the house, so do cookies and cakes, and all kinds of crap like that.....so that added to the stress, made for a couple slip-ups in the diet department.
On the positive side, the ice storm is over and the temperature actually reached 10 degrees today, so I'm guessing, it's only uphill from here on in.
Looking forward to a good week!
On free cardio day I usually like to get outside. Long walk, hike, cycling.....anything that gets me some fresh air and sunlight.
This weekend, Toronto is in the midst of an ice storm. Since yesterday, there has been snow, sleet and lots of ice. Sidewalks are very treacherous, so I did 40 minutes on the elliptical. Boring....but it's done.
Still, waiting for spring.......
I can't believe we've been at this for two whole months. This program has just flown by. Granted I've been super busy at work. So much so, that today I became a Kenzai delinquent. Received the notice telling me to blog. In my defense I did blog last night, but for some reason it didn't go through.
Anyway, I'm loving the workouts as usual. Yes they are getting longer. I'm clocking in at about 1 hour 20 minutes. But I recently made some changes in my workout habits. I now have a barbell and stack as part of my home gym. I don't lift crazy, heavy weights so this works just fine. It's great to roll out of bed in the morning and head down to the basement. And my 16-year-old son who has a 'my-body-is-a-temple' attitude is using it quite a bit too.
That's about it for me.....still waiting for spring in this part of the world!
I’m in Ottawa this week for work. It’s 5:30 am. I’m getting set to head out to the gym. I’ve just checked my weather app. It’s -10 this morning (-19 with the windchill). It’s April 5 for god’s sake. Can we just get on with spring already!
I know, this post is not really related to Kenzai.....I just needed to complain! Thanks for hearing me out....
I'm sooooo happy to be back on program. I'm loving the workouts and feeling the pain afterwards. I guess my 'valley' was two weeks ago when I was injured, because I'm not feeling the valley right now.
I am off to Ottawa again this week. I have my grocery list for when I arrive Monday night. I have the same suite hotel as per usual. And since the hotel gym doesn't have bars, I'm off to my 'chain' gym of which there is one right next to the hotel. I see there is a 'nutcracker row' in the workouts this week. I think I'll opt out of it. My back is feeling great but I don't want to jinx it.
I have protein shakes in my diet this week. We'll see how that goes.....
Sleep is really my achilles heel. I have no problem falling asleep, but I just can't seem to stay asleep. I wake up at 3:30 and that's it. After a couple days of that, I'm kind of whacked so I end up sleeping....it's just very frustrating.
The indulgence coincided with Easter, so I had a couple of chocolates and a small piece of a chocolate mousse cake. It was ok.....but I think that after a few years of Kenzai, I've figured out that I'm not that big a chocolate fan.
I jumped back into the program on Sunday with the cardio. I've been back to the workouts since yesterday. Added some extra weight today. Everything feels great!
Saw the chiropractor and he says everything looks good. It's good to be back. Looking forward to the second half of the program.
The chiropractor was a magician, (and not a whack job, Eric)..... I did some acupunture and then some, really, really deep massage. I felt better instantly but still took a couple of days off as he suggested.
Today, I started back again with about 40 minutes of elliptical. I then did some shoulder work with light weights (my shoulders really needed to get moving---feeling mushy). I see the chiropractor again on Tuesday, but he said I could start adding more weight by early in the week.
So I'm feeling relieved and my body and mind are ready to get back into the swing of things.
Scott, should I pick up the program from where I left off or do I jump ahead to where the rest of the group is? I'm good either way. Also, should my diet be modified, now that I'm back to exercising?
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No Evil Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with EIN 82-4659905. Help support the project's mission of challenging social polarization and stereotypes by showing commonality and encouraging understanding among people despite their differences. If you would like to help spread the message of the No Evil Project, please consider a donation to help with production of events, exhibits, curriculum, and other expenses, including the Breathe No Evil project. We'd greatly appreciate it.
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Opioid medications involve the risk of overuse and addiction. Prescription drugs that numb pain may convince a patient that a musculoskeletal condition is less severe than it is, or that it has healed. Here at All American Healthcare Covington, we have joined the nationwide movement this October to curb the #painkiller epidemic and use of opioids. See how you can get involved: #PainFreeNation – All American Healthcare Covington
Chiropractic Physicians Urge Conservative Treatments for Pain Amid Opioid Epidemic
During National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM) this October, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) will bring attention to the public health crisis caused by pain, and in particular the overuse of prescription painkillers, with the theme #PainFreeNation. The campaign is part of the chiropractic profession’s ongoing efforts to educate the public about the value of exhausting conservative forms of care for both acute and chronic pain before resorting to higher risk options, such as opioids.
National Chiropractic Health Month is a nationwide observance that helps raise public awareness of the benefits of chiropractic services and the profession’s natural, whole-person, patient-centered approach to health and wellness.
“Opioid medications involve the risk of overuse and addiction. Beyond this, prescription drugs that numb pain may convince a patient that a musculoskeletal condition is less severe than it is, or that it has healed. This misunderstanding can lead to overexertion and a delay in the healing process or even to permanent injury,” explains ACA President Anthony Hamm, DC.
President Hamm notes that people in pain should be informed of all management strategies, including non-drug approaches such as chiropractic, to reduce their risk of overuse and addiction.
“Each patient is unique, and care plans should be tailored to focus on what is the safest, most effective treatment for the individual. Chiropractic physicians stand ready to work together with medical physicians to help address this epidemic that has caused unnecessary suffering, enormous loss of human potential and massive financial and personal costs,” he adds.
Fortunately, health care quality organizations have begun to recognize the value of this conservative, multidisciplinary approach. Earlier this year, the Joint Commission, which certifies more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including every major hospital, revised its pain management standard to include chiropractic services and acupuncture. Clinical experts in pain management who provide input to the commission’s standards affirmed that treatment strategies may consider both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches.
Original article by American Chiropractic Association
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RE: Potato broke my samba
> I have just upgraded our server from slink to potato (I wanted the new
> exim amoungst other things).
> Now we cannot connect to samba.
> I have checked my smb.conf with the testparams, it all looks OK (and of
> course it was working with the previous version of samba that came with
> slink). I have recreated my smbpasswd (just in case there was a problem
> with the old version).
I had a problem with samba 2.0.5a. It required that I upgrade
to a 2.2.x kernel. There was another problem that showed up on
the list about bad passwords. As you seem to have remade the
smbpasswd file, maybe try a 2.2.x kernel. The error I had in the
logs was a "cannot become user xxxxx" error followed by authentication
errors (bad user name/passwd).
> I have been working through diagnostics.txt and always fail TEST 3 like
> romans:~$ smbclient -L GENESIS
> Added interface ip=192.168.100.28 bcast=192.168.100.255
> Domain=[SUNDAYTA] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5a]
> tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
> pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> Tests 7 and 8 fail as well.
> We don't have a guest user, samba was using nobody before (bit nopbody
> was and is not in smbpasswd
> Samba is now not showing up in Windows 98 network neighbourhood.
> Anyone got any ideas about what is wrong or what I need to try?
> Sorry I am so stupid.
> David Warnock
> Sundayta Ltd
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"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/08/msg01216.html"
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working on my buddys 89 lx it idles like it has a miss but you can smell fuel really strong and it smokes whitish blue. we've tested each plug and wire. we pulled codes 41 and 91 (hego lean both sides) if you unplug the maf sensor the cars idle doesn't change, recently replaced the tfi and full tune up
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theres no way fuel would drip from the exhaust. the system is way too hot. that fuel would be vaporized before it hit the mufflers, unless you're literally dumping more fuel into the exhaust than you are burning.
That sounds like a head gasket . the reason it smells like gasoline is because of the vapors that are not being ignited due to the antifreeze dousing the cylinder.
When I turn my key over the fuel pump kicks on like usual but when I get the car started the fuel pump is loud as hell I ran outta gas the other day and I jus got more gas in it and that's when the smoke started I thought it was just dirt in one of my injectors but then it start either not starting or starting hard and idling rough
Before I ran outta gas my car shut off a few times then before I pulled into the drive and it actually died it back fired but it sounded really weird idk I wasn't running it hard and it isn't a daily driver
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2017-07-24T08:53:07Z
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| 0.810092 | 78 |
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In the most recent survey completed by the International Communications Research (ICR), the number of patients undergoing laser facial resurfacing increased by 57% last year.
Clearly that’s in impressive number. Plastic surgery patients are finding success with their physicians in clearing away sun damage, unwanted wrinkles, and achieving more youthful skin.
Essentially all chemical peels, abrasion techniques, and lasers cause limited injuries to the surface of the skin allowing for controlled healing. During the healing process, the irregular pigments and wrinkles are washed away by the body’s immune system.
Physicians and patients choose the right laser depth and percentage of skin coverage depending on the individual skin type, amount of sun damage, aging stage, and down time requirements. The deeper treatments do generally produce more impressive results but can take more time to heal.
The most recent advances have exploded over the last several years with fractionation (like pixels of a photograph). Advances in computers with lasers have introduced this technology.
The carbon dioxide laser is the work horse of the laser world. Patients will see significant reduction in irregular pigments and skin tones, reduction in wrinkles and lines, and real improvements in skin texture.
We are so impressed with this laser that we are offering this laser at significantly discounted rates. Everyone who lives in Arizona could benefit from this great tool, and we don’t want anyone left out.
Please call or email me anytime if you have any questions. I would love to hear from you.
Dr. Todd hobgood
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What does your day-to-day look like? Smoldering? Smoking?
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2018-09-23T22:40:36Z
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"url": "https://womensbizcoop.com/chief-strategy-officer/tired-putting-fires/"
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Do you own an exotic pet that you don’t want anymore? Then get rid of it at Exotic Pet Amnesty Day.
The event is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Tree Tops Park in Davie. Exotic Pet Amnesty Day was created to encourage owners to turn in their exotic pets without cost or penalty and discourage the release of non-native species such as snakes and fish into the wild.
Exotic Pet Amnesty Day is free and open to the public. Every attempt will be made to place all healthy animals with qualified adopters.
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2015-11-28T00:29:51Z
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| 0.960131 | 123 |
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"url": "http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/outdoors-fishing-boat/2012/10/15/turn-in-those-exotic-pets/"
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