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The Super Scope Excalibur Lenses are made from high quality optical, coated and tempered glass. This results in a lens that has an extremely clear image with 99.5% light transmission. All Specialty Archery Lenses are optically centered, which is extremely important in choosing a lens.<P>Designed to be used with Lens Decals, the Excalibur Lenses continue to be a dominate force in target archery. The Super Scope lens size is 1.345" (approximately 1 3/8") and weighs 100gr.
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Staff of Madison Hills
Madison Hills has a staff that loves God with all their heart, that works hard to see his will done and who care deeply about the Kingdom. If you have any questions be sure to contact them.
Ben Stroup – Lead Preaching Minister
Ben has just begun his ministry at Madison Hills and our church family is extremely blessed to have him and his family. Ben and his wife, Whitney, have 2 sons Abel (4) and Cohen (2). You can contact Ben at email@example.com
Lawrence Wedemeyer –
Worship Minister /Administration
Lawrence and his wife Emily have come to us from Ohio. Agriculture was his first love until Emily came along and stole his heart! Lawrence has served previously as the worship leader at his home church. Lawrence is a jack of all trades, including taking a cow from the field to your dinner plate! You can contact Lawrence at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jeremy Wasch – Teen/Associate Minister
Jeremy and his wife Kendra are Ohio State Buckeyes through and through, but we have learned to practice patience and forgiveness! Jeremy is a graduate of Kentucky Christian College and is an amazing leader and mentor for our teens – middle school and senior high. They have three great kids – their oldest Hayden and the twins Pyper and Peyton. Contact Jeremy at email@example.com.
Steve and Terry Marino – Children's Director
Steve and Terry lead our Children's ministries – elementary age. They love kids and the kids love them. If you want to have your children taught about Jesus and following him bring them to Steve and Terry. They are great! You can contact them at email@example.com
Kim Masters – Preschool Director
Kim has been our preschool director for many years. She loves these kids and teaches them about Jesus through fun games and activities. You can contact Kim at email@example.com
Elders of Madison Hills:
Chairman – Bob Jones
David Bramer
Cecil Bullins
Ron Chapman
Tim Edwards
David Lowery
Ryan Kluempke
Tommy Masters
Lonnie Smith
Elder For Life – John Young
Deacons of Madison Hills:
Chairman – Sean Hamilton
Mike Agee
Randall Alcorn
Jeff Baker
Greg Beck
Mike Cummings
John "Fuji" Damron
Jason Davis
Jeremiah Duerson
Joe Duerson
Bobby Lakes
Steve Marino
Rodney Rhodus
Bryan Tucker
Rick Whitesides
Ed Wilson

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iBatch 1.2 Featurelist and Workshop
18-Mar-2011 20:20:34
Software News
As promised, here you will find the feature list of upcoming iBatch Version 1.2. On top of that I would like to announce a workshop to be published in upcoming Amiga Future Magazine. The article will show you something about "Workflowmanagement" in iBatch. Convert Images, subtitle them, save them in html image gallery and printout an image list, with just a few mouseclicks. Once set up, it will work automatically ("workflow"). This can be accomplished via new "workflowmanager".
New Features in iBatch Version 1.2
massive speed increase for thumbnailcreation, due to usage of jpg exif header embedded thumbnails (optional)
Metainfos (ISO Speed, Shutter Speed, capture date....) derived from jpg exif header will always be extracted and saved into seperate textfile
Metainfotextfile (exifinfo.txt) will automatically be updated, when you process images via iBatch.
All Exif Metadata from file of origin will therefor be preserved.
additional capture date based renaming modes
Windowposition and -size will be saved on exit
new addcomment-plugin
add up to four lines of text to your image
fill in Exif metadata automatically (filename, capturedate, cameramodel, ISO Speed, Shutter Speed, Exposuretime, FNumber, camera program)
updated addhtml-plugin
uses comments from addcomment-plugin in order to subtitle images on html website
new workflow-plugin
execute upto five plugins one after another automatically
e.g. workflow-plugin -> addcomment-plugin -> addhtml-plugin ->... (convert images, subtitle them and create html image gallery in one go !)
new extension-plugin
rename imagefiles extension e.g. from JPEG to jpg
delete iBatch related files, in case they are not needed anymore (thumbnailsubdidr, exifinfo.txt, pairship.syn...)
additional documentation
- updated iBatch pdf manual
- pdf manuals for plugins
- pdf conversion-profile overview (shows settings of included "conversion-profiles")
Keyboard navigation is available for all plugins. This guarantees a very fast workflow. Donnot even think about reaching for your mouse. Everything can effectivly be entered via keyboard. A very fast html gallery creation, e.g. during computer shows, is no problem. I am really looking forward to show of iBatch at the next Amiga Event or sports event.
iBatch (Image Batcher) allows users to easily convert/rename/renumber/resize/rotate a bunch of pictures at once. The pictures to be processed can be collected in a "Batchlist". In order to organize your batchlist ibatch provides a "Viewer" and "Batchlist browser" tool.
A fast workflow is guaranteed even on slow systems. This is accomplished by using preprocessed thumbnails/preview images for the "Viewer" or "Batchlist browser" tool. All thumbnails will be kept in sync with their corresponding source directory. Before you start the "Viewer" tool, iBatch will therefore check for existent thumbnails and add missing thumbnails from the given sourcedir automatically.
The whole program can be perfectly used for organizing/resizing digicam pics. Furthermore it becomes handy, when you have to convert whole image directories at once.
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Date published: January 25, 2017
Sports Centre launch new Nursing membership
Our Nursing students can now purchase the first ever "All Inclusive 6 week Nursing" Sports Centre membership for a one off payment of just £28.00.
This package entitles student nurses to unlimited use of the four gym rooms, swimming pool (including sauna and spa), the full programme of fitness classes, personal exercise programmes with our fitness instructors, and use of the squash courts.
Daley O'Neal, Front of House and Customer Relations Manager at the Sports Centre, said: "From engaging with the students and hearing their feedback, we believe that this unique shorter term membership will help ensure that we have an option specifically catered around our nursing students' course and work placement requirements."
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Vintage bathroom accessories are applying the accessories from the bathroom and it makes your bathroom to be more chic, seem shabby because you use vintage style. In this modern era, people also make their home or include in their home there is bathroom and they also make the bathroom with vintage style designed in their bathroom. They may think that this style will make their house more to be old looks, as they love old fashion style.
Yourself style with vintage bathroom accessories
If you apply this style in your bathroom, your bathroom is characterized your style because the bathroom include its accessories in the bathroom add your personality to the bathroom. You may add vintage accessories to you bathroom because there is no other reason because vintage style is timeless feature from the past until now. Then, the accessories, which are installed in the bathroom with its details and character, make your bathroom to be more warmth as the atmosphere when you apply the vintage style.
12 Photos Gallery of: Vintage Bathroom Accessories Is Timeless Style Of A Bathroom
What should you choose to apply vintage accessories?
Designing your bathroom is easy and enjoying activity. To apply the vintage design, some examples of accessories in the bathroom are classic bathtub, vintage pattern of wallpaper, towers bars, soap dishes and so on. All parts that is appeared in your bathroom make the bathroom has a great design and the accessories is gorgeous, make it looks antique.


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Festival of Romance Fun!
Just back from the Festival of Romance weekend in Bedford, and what a weekend it turned out to be! The Silent Touch of Shadows won the Best Historical Read category of the FoR Awards, which was an absolutely wonderful surprise! Especially as I was up against such amazing books, all written by my lovely friends as I mentioned in the last post. Huge thanks to the organiser of FoR, Kate Allan, the organiser of the FoR Awards, Sarah Taylor, and the reading panel led by Louise Graham!
That wasn't all though as my lovely publisher Choc Lit also won a prize – Publisher of the Year – which was brilliant! Huge congratulations to everyone on the Choc Lit team 🙂
Here are some photos from the Awards Ball, courtesy of Liz Fenwick and Michael Matthews – many thanks to them for allowing me to post these!
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Congratulations once more, Christina! It was a great evening. And it went on a long time. x
Comment by Sue Moorcroft — November 20, 2012 @ 7:15 am
Huge congratulations – much deserved! That was a great party too…
Comment by Celia Anderson — November 20, 2012 @ 7:26 am
Once again, congratulations, Christina!
Liz X
Comment by Liz Harris — November 20, 2012 @ 7:37 am
Lovely photos! And your win was well-deserved, Christina; I thoroughly enjoyed The Silent Touch of Shadows – an evocative title and a good read.
Comment by Alison Morton — November 20, 2012 @ 8:42 am
Thanks everyone! Yes, a lovely evening (although very long, as you said Sue :))
Alison – thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Comment by Christina Courtenay — November 20, 2012 @ 9:53 am
I am so pleased for you Christina and The Silent Touch of Shadows really deserves that award, it's a fantastic book.
Comment by Sarah Callejo — November 20, 2012 @ 10:04 am
A great read, Christina, and well-deserved win!
Comment by Margaret James — November 20, 2012 @ 10:16 am
Congratulations Christina!
Comment by Hywela Lyn — November 20, 2012 @ 8:33 pm
Glad everyone had such a good time, and congratulations to Pia, and to Choc Lit.
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Free Money for Seniors vs. Forced Savings
We have looked at conservative stock investing vs. Social Security and found it a bit less impressive than some results found in some conservative sources (including an example given in Charles Murray's book). Maybe I did the math incorrectly. But most likely the bigger reason is here we compare Social Security with inflation adjusted annuities. That inflation adjustment rider is expensive. Free money for seniors to the tune of $1000-$1300/month plus an annuity does rather well, even with a lower than FICA/OASI lifetime savings.
And we can expect a lower than FICA lifetime savings on the part of many unless the government forces people to save, and that would present serious problems.
The Problems with Forced Savings Plans
Many people when left to their own devices will spend their money while young and only start saving for retirement after the need is obvious, when the hair starts turning gray and it's too late to take full advantage of the market. Others invest recklessly while young, going for 10:1 gains, succeeding sometimes and other times going bust. (The author of this site falls into the latter category.) A forced savings plan easily takes care of workers in the first category. Make people save while they are young and they take advantage of the markets over a long enough time to average out the bumps. But to deal with the second category, the government must restrict investments to those it considers safe enough for retirement savings. In other words, the government must get involved in investment decisions for millions of workers.
We have a name for a system where government directs investments to favored corporations: fascism. It is no coincidence that Chile pioneered forced savings while under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Fascism sometimes works—Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler got Germany back to work—but the downside of such concentrations of power can be quite unpleasant. Even without virulent racism or nationalism, a system of government-private partnership can degenerate into crony capitalism.
Our pay as you go retirement safety net keeps the government out of investment decisions. Social Security is in some ways more free market friendly than a forced savings plan. But pay as you go also gives the working class inferior returns on investment overall. It thus widens the wealth gap between workers and capitalists when investments rise faster than wages. Furthermore, our government is becoming a poor credit risk, and government bonds are the sole investment of the Baby Boomer trust fund.
Our proposal is to let workers fly the financial trapeze, but with a more than adequate safety net. If you want to take risks, you could. If you succeed, great! Upward mobility is enhanced. If you fail, you get a lower middle class fallback retirement. If you want a guaranteed better than lower middle class retirement, you can have that as well: save and invest. Over time we shall explore ways to make conservative investing even safer, how to make ordinary bank CDs pay and how to tame some of the fluctuations of the markets without stifling new companies. What we don't do is force everyone into the same low risk low return retirement plan.
Index Funds vs. People's Capitalism
If you follow the popular financial media you will hear it repeatedly: buy index funds; they are hard to beat in the long term. The advice has merit, but I still don't like index funds, and have some qualms about mutual funds in general. They have their place and do not take my dislike as financial advice. The problem is global. Index funds defeat the fundamental purpose of stocks: coupling risk, responsibility and reward.
When most company stock is owned by mutual funds, who owns the companies? Do we want the big mutual fund companies to control the corporate boards? Or do we want the few direct shareholders to control the boards with a minority of shares? Or do we want management to play without owner supervision?
And then we have the fundamental dilemma of mutual funds: a successful open-ended fund attracts more shareholders. We have positive feedback. The fund manager must then either diversify beyond his expertise or move the market of the shares the fund holds. And should investors lose confidence in the fund, the fund must sell shares which pushes down the price of the portfolio, thus feeding the selling frenzy.
Positive feedback leads to bubbles.
And what do index funds do but buy in proportion to market cap? Index funds are by definition trend followers. Trend followers increase market momentum, making the market peaks higher and valleys lower. That which is a timid investment for a few becomes a source of market mania if too many people resort to index funds. And index funds are supposed to be cheap to manage; they have no business voting their shares.
And what of new corporations which are not on any index? Do we limit their investments to rich angels and venture capital firms? Wouldn't it be more fun to have the green hippies who hang out at Whole Foods investing at the ground floor of the latest alternative energy firms? For science fiction fans to invest in spaceships? If we are to have democratic government and capitalism, perhaps The People need to get involved in the game of capitalism. Otherwise, power flows to the experts: the oligarchs and the bureaucrats.
Worker ownership of the means of production entails risk, responsibility. A safety net for seniors is desirable if all are to be allowed to play.
And it is not for everyone. Conservative investments can and should be available to all who have the patience for them as well as those who opt to aggressively save near the end of their careers. If you want the stability that Social Security promises, the market could be set up to provide it.
Stabilizing the Markets
Business is uncertain. There will always be risk. But much of the risk is artificial, created by leverage and unsupported derivatives. Many big investments are kind of boring without these risk concentrators and accentuators. Many big money players want more action without having to muck about actually running a business.
The government could clamp down on some these games without reams of regulations or unduly burdening the economy. A classic example of such successful regulation was when the government demanded more than 10% margin for buying stocks after the crash of 1929. We have not had a comparable crash since. A more recent negative example has been the government's promotion of low money down mortgages. As with stocks in 1929, excessive leverage led to a great crash.
Other regulations have been less productive. Excessive reporting requirements unduly burden smaller corporations. Especially with Sarbanes-Oxley, it is often better for a smaller new corporation better to be bought out than have an IPO. And Sarbanes-Oxley has failed to make the markets any safer. We will explore some simpler options in a future article.
And we shall also explore how some non Wall St investments could give better returns with some regulatory changes and a few tweaks in the tax code. Those who fail to invest while young or lose to risky investments need some conservative options to place their catch-up savings.


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Your one stop shop for holiday gifts! Peruse artisan vendors while enjoying live music, appetizers and wine throughout our main tasting room.
Vendors slated to appear (subject to change):
- Wallace Reid Jewelry
- Oregon Olive Mill - Red Ridge Farms
- Sokol Blosser Food Products
- Chocolate from Pitchdark
- Artist Scott Vonstead


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Prestigious community of Meadowlark! Two story Dream Home to be completed soon. 1 block west of Chinook mall, minutes from downtown. Easy access to Glenmore trail, schools, shopping & amenities, this is one house you need to see. Designed & Built by Custom High end Boutique Builder Brady Building Ltd. This custom home will feature 5 Bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a huge open concept layout, stone & stucco exterior, 3 car garage, & a separate 2 bedroom illegal basement suite. At almost 4000 sq ft above grade, this home will have everything you could want. Main floor includes a huge open concept from the living, dining & custom built kitchen. Main floor also features an office, mud room & half bath. Upstairs will feature 3 bedrooms, plus a bonus room/4th bedroom. A huge master suite with double sided fireplace, walk in closet & huge master en suite. The basement features a separate entrance to an illegal suite down that also has an open concept from kitchen, living room & eating area. Backyard boasts a detached 3 car garage, huge deck & treed privacy. Come view Brady Buildings showhome located at 123 Hillgove Cres SW to get an idea of the final finishes. (By appointment only) Be the first to make this home your own!
Bar, Ceiling 9 ft., Deck, No Animal Home, No Smoking Home, Patio, Ceiling 10 ft.
Fully Finished, SUITE - Illegal
Back Lane, Fenced, Flat Site, Landscaped, Playground Nearby, Public Transportation, Schools, Shopping Nearby
Disclaimer: Information herein deemed reliable but not guaranteed by CREB®.
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Join us Saturday, August 11th from 9:30am-1:30pm for our End of Summer Plant Sale!
We will be selling house plants, outdoor plants, trees, and gardening supplies and tools at 4500 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602. Inventory changes daily. All proceeds benefit our mission to promote sustainability, resource sharing, and community building.
Interested in volunteering? Contact our Volunteer Coordinator – firstname.lastname@example.com
Immediately following the sale will be our speaker series – learn more here.


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If you seek improved customer satisfaction and increased efficiency, productivity and demand, IMPACT Advanced Quality Training can provide your employees with the knowledge they need to help you achieve these goals.
Successful organizations continually search for quality improvement in their people, processes and products. This course will provide your organization with the critical skills to understand, implement and manage many quality standards, be it ISO 9000 Quality Management Standards, medical device quality standards, aerospace quality standards or automotive quality standards. With these skills, you will be building an organization capable of handling the challenges that accompany growth, prosperity and change.
This course is fully customized based on your specific industry and requirements.
Who Should Attend?
All staff members should be indoctrinated into the principles of the Quality Management System and the impact these standards will have on the way your company does business. Key operating staff, supervisors, line managers, and senior managers that attend will leave with the skills necessary to successfully implement and sustain the specific Quality Management Standards.
What you will Learn?
|Principles of Quality Management
|Development of Quality System Documentation
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Buying a futon bed is a great choice. A futon bed can be used during the day as a sofa and makes a great bed for sleeping on. However, before buying you should know what futon bed mattress qualities to look for.
Maximum comfort
It isn't the frame of a futon bed than provides the comfort; it's the futon bed mattress. If you haven't yet bought your futon bed you should be aware that futon beds come in two forms; bi-fold and tri-fold. A bi-fold futon bed folds the mattress in half whereas a tri-fold futon bed folds the mattress into thirds. This means that a tri-fold futon bed mattress isn't as thick or as supportive as a bi-fold futon bed. Therefore, if you're going to be using your futon a lot for sleeping on, then a bi-fold futon bed mattress is a better choice.
A futon bed mattress can be defined with the following qualities:
Weight, firmness, rigidity, and flexibility. A lighter futon bed mattress is a good choice as long as it gives the comfort you want. If you're planning on using your futon mainly as a bed then a heavier futon mattress is usually going to be the best option. Firmness is a measurement of the "feel" or "give" of the mattress when used as a sleeping or sitting surface. This quality is what people define as 'comfortable'. Rigidity is the ability of the futon bed mattress to retain its shape along its edge when being used as a bed or sofa. The rigidity of a futon bed mattress is more important when the futon is being used mainly as a sofa.
Flexibility basically defines how easy folding the futon mattress is going to be. If you are going to folding the mattress daily from sofa to bed back to the sofa again, then buying a futon bed mattress with a lot of flexibility makes sense. Futon bed mattresses are made from a variety of materials. The different materials used in futon mattresses will directly affect the four qualities of weight, firmness, rigidity, and flexibility. The following is a rough guide as to the qualities of futon mattresses made from 100% cotton, cotton and foam, cotton and polyester, 100% polyester, and innerspring. See more.
All round cotton
Futon bed mattresses made from 100% cotton are at the heavier end of the scale, as is its firmness and flexibility. However, the rigidity is quite low. A futon mattress made from a mixture of cotton and foam is much lighter and less firm than that of one made from 100% cotton. The rigidity of a cotton and foam futon mattress is quite high, so is ideal for futons that are going to be used mainly as a sofa. A futon mattress made from cotton and polyester is also light and not too firm. Its rigidity is less than that of 100% cotton or cotton and foam mattress. However, a futon bed mattress made of cotton and polyester is quite flexible. A futon mattress made from 100% polyester is by far the lightest of all; it also rates well for firmness and rigidity.
A futon bed mattress made using inner springs is by far the heaviest and would only be used when the futon bed is almost always used as a bed. As you might expect, the rigidity of a futon mattress using inner springs is excellent. The flexibility of an inner spring futon mattress is quite poor, but you would only really buy this type of mattress if the futon is going to be used as a bed most of the time. Check out this site: https://www.bestfutoninfo.com/best-futon-guide/


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Another week, another batch of favorites! This week, I decided to focus on my first two food loves, pastries and pasta!
The Ultimate Easy Savory Tart Recipe with Tomato, Pesto, and Goat Cheese - via Tooting Mama
I learned a long time ago that not all pastries are sweet! In Hawaii, I once had savory pancakes paired with fried chicken! That was a huge lesson for my culinary mind. A savory pastry can stand on it's own as a side? I can't wait to try this out!
Hot Chocolate Brownie Ice-Cream Sandwich - via Treasure Every MomentLooking for an easy and delicious recipe? Try this tomato, pesto and goats cheese tart #foodblogger #foodie https://t.co/aVwhfPx69F pic.twitter.com/nJj8FDu6z8— tootingmama (@tootingmama) September 16, 2018
I live in Texas, in Houston to be exact. If you follow Houston weather at all, you know it's hot. It's hot all the time. It's even hot in the winter! So, we find ourselves drinking hot chocolate, just because it is appropriate for the season! it may still be hot out, but it's December, so I'm having my hot chocolate. This ice-cream sandwich may be the solution we have been looking for!
SUMMER RECIPE: Hot Chocolate Brownie Ice-Cream Sandwich https://t.co/QyAjWck1Sl #foodblogger #summer pic.twitter.com/ksskuDlfhM— Helen (@Treasure_E_M) September 16, 2018
Giant Chocolate Chip Sharing Cookie - via Treasure Every Moment
I have a pretty big appetite, sometimes to the point of greed. When the bowl of queso is nearing the end, I find myself sad that the queso is almost gone, only to realize that I have been chain eating chips and queso up until the point it is almost gone! I don't usually have that problem with cookies, because they are not usually shareable! Challenge accepted!
RECIPE: Giant Chocolate Chip Sharing Cookie - you'll need all your willpower to not eat it all! https://t.co/05FUcM6J6C #foodblogger #recipeoftheday pic.twitter.com/m4MSAa0cA0— Helen (@Treasure_E_M) September 16, 2018
Spicy Bacon and Chorizo Penne - via Cooking with Anadi
This recipe has three of my top requirements: spice, bacon, and pasta! Put these ingredients in any recipe, and you'll find me drawn to it like a fly to streetlight! Otherwise, this recipe is incredibly simple, with only 5 listed steps, which is another thing I like. I've never understood these recipes that list 37 ingredients, with 3 dozen steps. Food should be simple. I can't wait to try this one!
In need of a bold and hot pasta dinner tonight? This super speedy and spicy penne with bacon and chorizo is the perfect recipe for you! Top it off with fresh basil and parmesan cheese!— Anadi Misra (@_anadizzle) September 16, 2018
RECIPE >> https://t.co/asb8qgESp8#recipeblog #RecipeOfTheDay #Cooking #foodblogger #foodblog pic.twitter.com/IMUCGKysgo


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The rational case for Voter ID
It may come as a surprise to some of you who know me to hear that I am in favor of Voter ID. I think that having a standardized method of identifying valid voters, and limiting those voters to a single vote, is a great idea. I don't think we have much of an in-person voter fraud problem in the United States, but I'm a big believer in being better safe than sorry.
However, my objection to the current spate of Voter ID laws is that, from my perspective, they have been designed for no purpose other than to disenfranchise Democratic voters in Republican-controlled states during the upcoming 2012 elections. You can quibble with this if you like, but given that there is not an in-person, voter identity fraud problem in this country, these laws are not designed to fix something that's broken. As they stand today, they are designed solely to limit the ability to vote for those who do not currently have a proper photo ID and who would have difficulty in getting one in time to vote, which are primarily poor/Democratic voters.
I currently live a lifestyle such that having a valid, acceptable form of photo identification is not something I ever have to think about. I have a drivers license and a passport, and although they aren't always 100% current (because I'm lazy and/or forgetful), I can easily afford the time and costs involved to keep them up to date, and have easy access to all necessary supporting documentation.
However, that has not always been the case for me, and isn't the case for many, many Americans. These Americans still have a right to vote, however, even if they have not navigated the myriad processes necessary to obtain an acceptable photo ID and to keep it current. Again, for those of us of a certain means, it may sound ludicrous to state that having a valid photo ID is a burden, but it is for a large number of people.
As an indicator, current estimates indicate that 6% of Americans don't have broadband internet access today. To those of us who are 'connected', it's difficult to conceive of someone living a disconnected lifestyle. Some of the disconnected simply choose not to connect even though they have the means, but many of them do not have the wherewithal or circumstance that allows for digital connectivity.
Now picture a disconnected person trying to get a photo ID. How do they even learn the process? Go down to the DMV? What if they don't drive and there isn't mass transportation where they live? What if they work a job where getting away during municipal office hours is difficult or impossible? What if they don't have a copy of their birth certificate? What if the cost of getting their birth certificate and/or photo ID comes down to a choice between feeding their children or getting an ID?
Consider not only the costs for documents, but the lost income from taking off of work, and the potential of being let go if they start spending hours away from work to duel with the faceless, uncaring paperwork bureaucracy. Consider that if they choose to risk precious time away from work, they might have competing priorities, like taking themselves (or their children) to the doctor. Consider that they might have to bum a ride from someone to get to the government offices – but may have to choose between burning the favor to help with getting an ID versus getting a ride to the grocery store or clinic.
This paperwork burden and time investment can prove difficult for someone of limited means to undertake. I know that for those of us of a certain economic level it may be difficult to relate and/or easy for us to sit in our ivory towers and say that the right to vote is sacred and that these people should prioritize paperwork above everything other competing need. But in the heat of living a life where you hang by your fingernails from day to day, that's a difficult choice to make.
However, I think this problem should be addressed, once and for all. I think that after the current election, there should be a national, bi-partisan movement to setup a single, national Voter ID standard, and that acquisition of that ID needs to be 100% absolutely free of cost, require absolutely minimal in-person presence, and have options available for any necessary commuting/travel. There should also be a concerted effort to educate and inform all voters of all means as to what this free process entails. This avoids the 'poll tax' problem, and starting it after the upcoming election gives everyone enough time to address their ID problems before the next election cycle.
I think this needs to be done at the federal level, because my take is that if it is left to the states then Voter ID will continue to be a partisan voter-disenfranchisement tool rather than a voter-enablement tool. Also, I think having a single Voter ID authority will set the stage to allow for voting to move into the 21st (or at least late 20th) century, such as by creating an infrastructure that could be leveraged for online voting.
So, I am very much in favor of a reasonable and fair Voter ID system, setup in a non-partisan way, that does not impose a 'poll tax', and which is instituted with enough lead time such that all potential valid voters will have the time to navigate the process. Let's enfranchise *and* identify all valid voters, because there's is nothing more American than a free and fair election for all.


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So yesterday I woke up to a rainy, miserable Saturday …Garage Saling was definitely not on my to-do list…BUT.. there was this ONE Garage Sale Ad in the Classifieds that was CALLING my name…WHY you ask?…because in their list of stuff for sale they mentioned Quilting Books and supplies. So off I hustled and arrived 10 minutes before the GS opened…the EARLY BIRD gets the worm has always been my motto. In this case there were no worms to be had…when I asked the lady having the GS to point me to the Quilting Stuff she looked at me with this blank look…then pointed to a box of 30 year old musty, poly-cotton fabric and a couple of doll patterns. Sometimes Garage Sales are like that…and other times you hit the Mother Lode…so with rain dripping down my neck I headed off…no win fall…no SCORE...no nothin'!
But all was not lost…I headed to the Local Library and took out these lovelies….
I also signed out three audio books so that I can 'read' and sew at the same time…bliss…my two favourite pastimes combined!!
And I also hit the Video store and rented "It's Complicated"..with Meryl Strep and Steve Martin (Hey, has he had surgery?? Isn't it distracting when all you can think about during the movie is whether they have been under the knife or not…and why do they do it?? Who do they think they are kidding…just get old…like the rest of us! Seriously, I drive my husband crazy with comments like this..maybe because I made them throughout every scene that Steve was in..) The movie was a good rental…there was one laugh out loud moment for me …and I'll let you figure out 'which moment' that was when you see it!
All in all, considering it was a miserable, rainy Saturday, I had a great day…how about you?
Have a super Sunday and Happy Quilting!


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How to hack a Facebook without surveys
In our world, social networking is an important part of our daily lives, and one of the networks with the most impact is Facebook. We all have a profile, and most of us spend a decent portion of our time there.
The privacy offered by this network is the most important thing, and the security of the site is getting stronger as time goes by. However, no system can ever be perfect—it will always have breaks and errors, and these will be utilized to infiltrate software that collect information, private software and methods that trick the system for the sole purpose of hacking a Facebook account.
This post will only talk about the safest and most important methods to hack a Facebook account without doing surveys. The information we share is completely accurate, so you can rest assured and continue reading. And, of course, you can test the methods that we are going to show and recommend to you.
Most of the time, we want to get the data of a person who belongs to our social circle, without affecting others. An example would be: to know if your partner was cheating, to know what's going on with a friend with lots of problems, to know what a person is saying or thinking about you, to play jokes on your friends, family, coworkers, etc.
Would you like to be able to hack a Facebook account without taking any surveys? We all would like this, and it's possible because there are different methods to get this information. Even if Facebook has a great anti-hacking system, there is always a method to break into the security and take advantage to get the information you would like to have from someone else's Facebook account. Logical methods to obtain a person's password, user name, and other data without using any complicated software, no surveys, and fast; that's what we are going to talk in this post.
Hacking a Facebook without surveys: Direct Facebook profile link
There are fraudulent and false methods to hack a Facebook account without surveys. The first thing we will review will be the https://howto.piraterfaceook.com/ page, a page that has been around a long time. This professionally coded website offers two of the best methods to hack Facebook today, elaborated with the most advanced programming languages based entirely on PHP, JavaScript, Brutalforce, CSS and HTML, all managed by major computer professionals, providing daily support to the website for maximum performance. All in all, an effective and safe way to hack a Facebook page without surveys.
This site runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Its active operation has a Spy that captures the slightest vulnerabilities of Facebook, making requests of users and hacks into a Facebook page without surveys.
The website has an effective and completely clean code. There is no danger at any time of catching a virus or malicious malware; we can always use it safely.
Let's start the process of hacking a Facebook without surveys on the page, taking the URL link from the Facebook profile of the person you want to hack
Do you see the red arrow? That's the link we have to copy and paste into howto.piraterfaceook.com to continue with the hacking system.
It also works if you paste the profile photo link of the person you want to hack, as shown in the following image:
Once you have copied, immediately go to the page, to paste it into the blank text box.
You've taken the initial data to continue the process of hacking a Facebook without surveys. Paste the link to their profile (or profile picture, if you can access it), then click on the "Hack" button to launch the HTML JavaScript console, and start getting the most essential data.
Once you launch the console, the process of breaking the security that you want to hack with no surveys and direct data collection begins.
Data collection was successful—the console has completed the process, and shows you briefly the precise details of the person you want to hack. If you want to see it, click the "View data" button.
You can now continue with the process of hacking a Facebook without surveys to see that, when it finishes, it gives you the opportunity to get the data in two ways, 1) obtaining referrals (which basically works by sending the website to a number of friends or family members in order to publicize the site to more people, and to test the best hacking service, ending with the release of the information), and 2) surveys, but in this article, we'll only use the referral method; it works perfectly.
To choose the referral method, just copy the links that the website gives you (the link at the top, which can be sent through any social network, for example: Twitter, Messenger, Skype, WhatsApp, etc., and the second link is perfect to send to your friends on Facebook).
You will share these two links on all your social media accounts, increasing the chances of getting the required 10 people quickly and dynamically. And if you want to be sure when you get to the required number, then we highly recommended you use the "Receive Email" option for you to be notified in real time when the process is finished.


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Friday, June 25, 2010
Deterring illegal immigrants
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- John Innes said...
I wonder if the Illegal Immigrants solution could be adapted to solve Australia's (or Julia Gillard's) problem - a stream of boats arriving from Indonesia loaded with illegal immigrants, who now in their hundreds or thousands spend months or years in detention awaiting processing?
There are no employers to fine, but if the sum budgeted to pay for a year's expenses per head for operating the detention center could be offered for information leading to the conviction of the person in Indonesia who is organizing the people-smuggling racket, we might be saving money and stemming the flow. The illegals/refugees may have come from intolerable conditions in Iran, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan, but if they went back rich, such a sum might set them up for a life of luxury when translated into their own currency and compared to average wages. As there are a lot fewer smugglers than smuggled, it would be cheaper to extradite and jail the smugglers than house the would-be immigrants.
But perhaps there is a better Chapman Solution?
- June 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM


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Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford. Ecco. $25.99, 192pp.
Richard Ford, as decorated an American writer as currently exists, has thus far avoided mining his own life for material. He is known most widely for his Frank Bascombe novels, which comprise a trilogy (and lingering additional linked collection) that on the surface appears like an update to the Updikean conceit of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom: take an American every-man (always white) and let him wander through the vicissitudes of postwar middle-class life. And while there are some similarities of conceit and ambition, the Bascombe novels aren't really updates on the latest decade, as the Updike novels were; moreover, Frank Bascombe, as a character and narrator of his own adventures, is a much different presence: no detail of his travels goes undetected, undescribed, unphilosophized. Bascombe's narrative voice is a great lyrical weather balloon, expanding and contracting and oftentimes contradicting, which gives Frank the paradoxical effect of seeming both interminably wise and also full of noxious gas. His reports of conditions on the ground are not wholly accurate.
As with other extremely convincing first-person narrators, there is the frequent readerly trap of confusing Frank Bascombe for Richard Ford. And while parsing out the distinctions between these two creatures is not the purview of this review, Ford is interesting in that he is a postwar novelist first and foremost. He is consummately a "fiction writer." In this way he's again less like the protean Updike, who tried his pen at every genre imaginable, and more like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, or, more his contemporary, Lorrie Moore: writers who found their niche and worked it tirelessly with few stray efforts into journalism or playwriting or—the great specter over novel-writing for the past 30 years—the confessional narrative memoir. That is to say, there is something heroic (I think) about the celebrated writer who today doesn't write a memoir, who resolutely clings to the old-fashioned but still perhaps functionally useful world of making things up—the writer who scorns the obvious market rewards and staves off the pangs of reality hunger. These writers' relentless devotion to fictionalizing—Junot Diaz! George Saunders! Alice Munro!—is reaffirming.
But now Richard Ford has written a memoir. To be sure, it is strange, almost an anti-memoir. The book consists of two halves, a recently written remembrance of his father and a remembrance of his mother, written shortly after her death in the early 1980s. The conceit of the book is that his parents are essentially unknowable and that they had a rich and fulfilling life before he arrived on the scene—that he came "between them." His view is of the only child who sees the margin where his life ends and theirs continues on without him. The result is a memoir that is empathetic to his parents' sovereignty as adults.
The best part of the book is about his parents' life before he came along. His father, Parker Ford, was a salesman for the Faultless Starch Company who travelled around the south visiting grocery stores, demonstrating and hawking his product. For many of those early years his wife Edna simply travelled with him. They kept an apartment in Arkansas that was mostly a provisional landing pad and otherwise lived on the road out of hotels and diners, and the picture Ford paints is a pre-interstate-highway-system, responsibility-free bliss. "He and she—barely out of their twenties and exceedingly happy—handed out little boxed starch samples and cotton hot pads to the country girls, who were flattered to receive such gifts at a time when nobody had anything."
When Richard comes along they settle down in Jackson, Miss., a central location for Parker to venture out each work-week, returning to the now home-bound Edna and baby Richard only on the weekends. Domestically speaking, Richard's father is somewhat of a stranger in the house, and the lacuna of his character floats somewhere within the haze of this book:
I cannot remember, over the years, my father ever explicitly teaching me much. . . He did not teach me to read and did not, that I remember, ever read to me. He did not teach me to tie knots or to hunt or to shoot a gun or how to start a campfire or how to change a spark plug or a tire. . . . He didn't talk to me about sex or girls, about religion, about his own worries, about current events or politics. . . . I do not recall ever having an actual discussion with him; I don't remember him asking me what was going on in my mind. . . . When I think about my father through the haze of all these poorly recollected details, my truest and most affectionate assessment of him was that he was not a modern father. Indeed, even then, when I knew him best, he seemed to be from another place and another time far away.
When Richard is four, his father has a heart attack, but after a brief recovery period, his life as a traveling salesman resumes with only the alteration of a few surface habits. Twelve years remain until his second, fatal heart attack. Toward the end of his life, Parker is seized with a yearning for the suburbs and a car of his own, a pique of aspiration that Ford approaches but ultimately refuses to fully interpret. "It's also just as possible to think of him—for once—as a man of his time. If the suburbs were not his glimpsed dream in the clouds, they were nonetheless there and new, and he could go toward them—a country boy with no wish to return to the country, who'd exceeded his station and found himself free to think of things many other people thought of." And yet a page later, he writes "And so once again I approach their otherness and they elude me, as our parents do." This is coming from the author of Independence Day, which is almost totally about real estate and the psychodrama of place in the American male imagination. Yet his thoughts about moving to the suburbs and then moving back into the city after his father's death are alarmingly slim; they suffer from a willed anemia. It's as if his parents are kryptonite to his normal powers of observation and interpretation.
The most riveting portion of this first section of the book is the moment his father has his second, fatal heart attack and its aftermath. It's here that Ford's powers as a novelist are briefly let out of their cage, and where the simple incongruity of the horrible event is felt. This is also a climax in terms of family drama and psychological depth. After the viewing of the body at the funeral home, Parker Ford's brother orders that the body be shipped back to Atkins, Arkansas, for burial in the family plot—not at a location of his wife's choosing, a site where she could presumably join him when her time came. In this moment of family revenge and cruelty, the mother-in-law's rage at her youngest son marrying outside the family's approval is finally made manifest, and there is nothing the teenaged Richard or his poor widowed mother can do about it. It's a gesture of Faulknerian spite, and Ford knows it. But again he shies away from dwelling on this rage and instead concludes with the oddest observation:
Some men have their fathers all their lives, grow up and become men within their fathers' orbit and sight. My father did not experience this. And I can imagine such a life, but only imagine it. The novelist Michael Ondaatje wrote about his father that ". . . my loss was that I never spoke to him as an adult." Mine is the same—and also different—inasmuch as had my father lived beyond his appointed time, I would likely never have written anything, so extensive would his influence over me have soon become. And while not to have written anything would be a bearable loss—we must all make the most of the lives we find—there would, however, not now be this slender record of my father, of his otherwise invisible joys and travails and of his virtue—qualities that merit notice in us all. For his son, not to have left this record would be a sad loss indeed.
Here Ford blithely asserts that had his father not died a tragic premature death he wouldn't have been a writer at all—this coming from someone who's published eleven previous books, won the Pulitzer Prize, and who is generally regarded as a torch-bearer of lyrical, realistic fiction in the 21st century. To be so seemingly glib over one's life work is simply baffling. "A bearable loss"! As if writing books were like a semi-memorable vacation that you once took. And then to say that a small redemption in the face of his father's death is this "slender record," where Ford lays out the qualities that would have indeed comprised an admirable portrait—invisible joys and travails, etc.—but which have been hardly sketched at all in the preceding pages. Every time his father comes alive on the page, Ford backs away, frightened. It's almost as if, at this moment, he is ashamed of what he's done—committed a memoir—and is trying to cover his tracks.
The mother section, though composed much earlier, follows chronologically. Richard is a surly teenager with brief, criminal lapses in behavior, difficulty in school—and then suddenly he's off to the University of Michigan and somehow miraculously becomes the writer he is today. (Though it's not the focus of the book, that is a memoir I would like to read: how the father-less boy of a couple of Arkansas hicks with no academic aptitude and no apparent literary leanings somehow becomes Richard Ford, Decorated American Novelist. What in the hell happened?)
The most interesting part of the latter half of the book is the brief amount of high school time where Richard is still living at home with his widowed mother and they are both sexually active and on the prowl. His mother, quite naturally, begins to date again: "He was a big, bluff, good-natured man, possibly in the furniture business, who drove a Lincoln Continental with an automatic pistol strapped to the steering column. I liked him. I liked it that my mother liked him. It didn't matter that he was married—not to me and, I guess, not to my mother. I really have no idea about what was between them, what they did alone." This is supreme bunk, of course, a negligent narrative blindness. But the young Richard seems to know more about what's going on than the older Richard putting these words on paper. One night when his mother doesn't come home, and he knows she is with the boyfriend at the apartment he keeps in town, Richard drives over and bangs on the door. The mother is there, hanging out and having a drink, and her seventeen-year-old-son says, "Where have you been? I didn't know where you were."
This moment of role-reversal, the son turned into a kind of father who simply wants to know where his child is located, who wants to be a fully informed party regarding her deviance, seems to end the relationship between his mother and the boyfriend, and seems to end all future romance for the mother. As far as Richard knows, there is never another man. Young Richard goes to that apartment for some reason, even if the adult Richard no longer recalls what it was.
There's also a companion scene where a terrified Richard confesses backseat sexual transgressions to his mother out of fear that he's gotten his sweetheart pregnant. His mother lies her head off and tells him he has nothing to worry about, an obfuscation for which the adult Richard, now writing this memoir, praises her. These are some of the most intimate moments of parent-son transaction in the book.
At the end of the book, after his mother succumbs to cancer, Ford writes, "But somehow she made possible for me my truest affections, as an act of great literature bestows upon its devoted reader." It's notable that when he's confronted with describing his love for his mother, Ford's writing becomes mostly opaque. There are many moments in the book of almost-sense. The sentences pile up into a mirage of clarity, but then a paragraph later, the reader does a double-take.
As I record these events, I realize that like many renditions of childhood, mine—under time's ruthlessness—might seem incomplete or lacking. I do not believe, however, that I was ever ignored or given a short straw, or that my father was anything but a good father—as good as he could be. . . . But if I had to I would say that because I was his son, I can recognize now that life is short and has inadequacies, that once again it requires crucial avoidances as well as fillings-in to be acceptable. Most everything but love goes away.
Where his father's death is the tragedy that somehow gives him permission to write, his mother's existence is described as the text that teaches him how to read—that makes possible his "truest affections," though it's not clear what these are, what precisely she has bestowed upon him. But lest we get too caught up in the notion of his parents as interpretable beings related to his life in literature, Ford reveals his modus in the Afterword:
Has it been my hope to testify to my parents' lasting-ness? To their greater-than-obvious importance? In another son's hands, a memoir might do that—try to confer an extra "dimension" where one might not have been evident before. I, however, have tried not to make grand claims for my parents. If anything, I've tried to be cautious, so that my own acts of telling about them and their influence on me not distort who they were. I've thus tried, as best I could, to write only about what I factually knew and did not know. My parents were, after all, not made of words. They were not literary instruments employable to conjure something larger. Lastingness seems foreign to them and to the sense they had of themselves. If you had known my parents, I'm comfortable you and I could come to different assessments of them. But my hope is that by this writing they would simply be recognizable as the two people I say they were. At day's end, my fondest wish is that my notice of them will ignite thoughts in a reader's mind that my parents can partly, usefully occupy.
What a strange, self-defeating way to approach a memoir of one's parents. If they are not ultimately "employable literary instruments," why write about them at all? And don't they—simply by virtue of being now written about—become literary instruments thus employed? It's as if he wants to capture them, but not too forcefully, and he wants the reader to understand them, but not too clearly.
Here are the last lines of the Afterword:
The memoirist is never just the teller of other people's stories, but is a character in those stories. So, to write about my parents long after they've gone inevitably discloses hollow places, failures, frailties, rents and absences in me, insufficiencies that the telling, itself, may have tried to put right or seal off, but may only have re-opened and left behind, absences that no amount of life or truthful telling can completely fill or conceal. These I agree to live with. Though when I turn to regard life—my own or others'—I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught of all that's happened and still is happening, by how much that's gone from me. Absences seem to surround and intrude upon everything. Though in acknowledging this, I cannot let it be a loss or even be a fact I regret, since that is merely how life is—another enduring truth we must notice.
What are these "absences" he constantly alludes to? Why can't he let an absence be a loss or even something he regrets? What sadness is he so forcefully denying?
In the mother portion of the book, Ford thinks about his parents after his surprise conception and the abrupt end of their life on the road together, wondering what they made of that shifted state: "Psychology was not a science they practiced any more than history was. . . . They simply found, if they had not known if before, that they'd signed on for the full tour. . . . I don't think the intrusion of me into their lives was anything they didn't think of as normal and at least as all right. Life was going this way now and not that way anymore. They loved each other. They loved me. Nothing else much mattered. They must've accommodated."
Of the plentitude of parental love flowing through the Ford house we are simply going to have to take Ford at his word. I am not a psychotherapist, but to think of one's own existence as an "intrusion" in any way seems to deny one's own validity, one's right to exist. And I hope I don't sound like a "you're-okay, I'm-okay" cream-puff when I say that I hope my own children feel that their existence is slightly more than "at least as all right."
This assertion of happiness comes a few pages before a brief memory of his mother running away from him, leaving the six-year-old Richard in the front yard. "Just running away, her flowery cotton dress flapping in the warm breeze. . . . I have always understood from this event that there might be reasons to run away." What these reasons might be, he either can't or won't discuss.
His effort to perceive and praise his parents' separateness from him surpasses simply being a counterintuitive but interesting observation and begins to become a kind of special pleading, almost as if he is making a philosophical excuse, a post facto justification, for their aloofness. What in his telling are fiercely independent intimate parents—"They wanted me; but they did not need me. Together—though perhaps only together—they were fully formed"—in another's telling would be a parental disinterest bordering on neglect. Perhaps the rotor blades of my own parental helicopter are fyup-fyup-fyup-ing too loud here, and I am judging the past (though how else to look at it?), but it's the parents who are the absence.
What they talked about and what was in the air was only the present, interrupted by the long times between Monday and Friday. These absences made their closeness to each other even more paramount, since together was where they'd always, only been. I was where things had deviated and always sensed that. For all this to be blissful [Ford's repeated description of his childhood] love is certainly required, and a willingness—on my part—to fill some things in and deflect others.
What seems unsaid here is that his arrival as a child in their lives was an accident—a mistake—and he was aware of it; he was not just a person who came "between them" but an obstacle, a burden, a sentence. This is the overwhelmingly sad discovery that the book has led me to, but that Ford doesn't seem to want me to make. Ford seems resolutely committed to not speaking ill of his parents, an old-fashioned stance, morally admirable, but it makes for a tepid, confusing memoir, a memoir that is less than forthcoming, a book that is less than frank. Its stylistic vagaries pile up: there are too many rhetorical questions, too much summary, too many paragraphs greased with italics, and precious few moments of dialogue in the whole book. It's a memoir by a writer who doesn't seem to want to write this memoir.
There are promising embers left glowing in the margins that would make a fabulous novel: the way his maternal grandmother, exceedingly young when she gave birth to Ford's mother, insisted that this mother be known as her sister rather than her daughter; there is the parental parallel, years later after the death of Richard's father, where his mother says they should think of each other as partners more than parent and child; there is the time his mother gets shipped off to a catholic school because her new stepfather takes too keen an interest in her (Humbert Humbert clouds in the forecast); there is the time little Richard is shipped off to these very same grandparents after his father's first heart attack so that Edna can go back on the road with her traveling husband; there is the previously mentioned moment when the stay-at-home Edna runs away from a six-year-old Richard, standing helpless in his front yard; there is the brief moment in an elevator when Edna, in answering a casual question about offspring, forgets she has a child. One wants Frank Bascombe to show up and start talking and turn this into the rollicking novel it seems to want to be. One's reminded of Philip Roth's memoir, The Facts, which ends with a letter from Roth's famous alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who explains just how boring Roth is without Zuckerman's filthy, uncontainable, unmitigated mouth. Well Frank Bascombe's certainly more polite, but he'd be able to make lunch out this loose bag of ingredients in no time.
Perhaps it's not only heroism that keeps my beloved fiction writers from writing a memoir: you have to be shameless to write a good memoir—shameless and brave. You have to be willing to sell someone out, most often yourself, nail people down, penetrate their absence, paint the picture with more than just negative space. You have to reckon with them, not just notice them. It's a messy, cruel, deviant enterprise. In hindsight, lying about people who never existed seems much healthier for all involved.
Barrett Hathcock is a short story writer currently writing the great American birdhouse. He has written one collection of stories, The Portable Son. He lives in Mississippi.
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The assumption that customers would reach out for many more iPhones once they were available with Verizon may do that thing that "assuming" does to you and me.
According to an industry analyst, HTC's Thunderbolt is outselling iPhone at Verizon Wireless stores.
The 'Bolt is Android-based and optimized for Verizon's zoom-zoom 4G network.
Walter Piecyk, via BGR.com, at international research firm BTIG called 150 stores and found that 28 percent of stores said the Thunderbolt was selling better, with only 11 percent pointing to the iPhone.
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I look forward to the butterfly show at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati every year. The butterfly exhibit takes us from spring to summer with a gorgeous array of butterflies and flowers.
I look forward to the butterfly show at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati every year. The butterfly exhibit takes us from spring to summer with a gorgeous array of butterflies and flowers.
I love to go to the Krohn Conservatory's Butterfly Show every year but this year's theme might be my favorite. Why???
I look forward to the Butterfly Show at the Krohn Conservatory each year. The butterflies are gorgeous and it's so exciting when you discover one has picked you to land on. The key is the have your camera ready because those moments happen FAST! I'm looking forward to discovering what this year's theme as "Butterflies of the Philippines" will bring.
Here is a little more about this year's show.
This year's exhibit features the colorful and exotic Butterflies of the Philippines, and they will preside over a majestic tribute to the marvelous Filipino culture. The showroom will be filled with butterflies soaring among bold displays that will immerse visitors in a sumptuous tropical environment. A large, dramatic mural of an erupting volcano and a wildly cascading waterfall will provide a striking backdrop for many tropical plants such as ornate orchids, brilliant bromeliads, delicate anthuriums and dramatic dracaenas.
Many exciting events have been planned throughout the 12-week Butterfly show to allow visitors to experience the free-soaring butterflies and to discover even more about the vibrant, engaging and gracious Filipino culture.
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A few months ago, my family and I attended the "Flight of the Butterflies" Omnimax film at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
We absolutely loved being able to watch the process of the butterflies. I also now want to go to Mexico to see them in person.
Here is more from the Museum Center website:
The iconic monarch butterfly is a true marvel of nature. Weighing less than a penny,
it makes one of the longest migrations on Earth across a continent, with pinpoint
navigational accuracy, to a secluded place it has never been. Follow the monarchs'
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Flight of the Butterflies is at the Cincinnati Museum Center for a limited time!
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Resilience at the Roots
On December 8, 2017, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz joined lifelong activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn for a conversation about international solidarity and organizing in today's political climate as a benefit to support the work of EcoViva and our partners in Central America.
The video below tells the story. To donate to EcoViva in suppoft of their efforts, click here,
From the directors: "
Resilience at the Roots follows a community in El Salvador who, after fleeing government repression and spending a decade in exile, returned to their country to rebuild their lives in the coastal lowlland areas surrounding the Bay of Jiquilisco. But their challenges were not over: in 1998 Hurricane Mitch hit, and other severe storms followed, washing away homes, destroying crops, and burying the community in rising waters. They recognized that these storms were linked to climate change and loss of protective mangrove forests, and so began to organize. Today, the movement they started has succeeded in creating a network of vibrant, democratic communities that protect and restore their natural resources and ecosystems, and has grown into one of the most successful global organizing models working for climate justice "


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Stop Bullying Now!
The Stop Bullying Now! Campaign Web site was created especially for adults. Here you'll find resources about bullying awareness, prevention and intervention. No matter how you interact with children and youth, there are many ways you can Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Click here to visit the website.
Click here to visit this government sponsored website with information on bullying prevention and response.
National Center for Bullying Prevention
The National Center for Bullying Prevention website has some great interactive features and learning tools. Additionally, they have a website specifically designed for middle and high school students, where they can find ways to address bullying, to take action, to be heard, and to join an important social cause. Click here to visit the National Center for Bullying Prevention Website. Click here to go directly to the Teens Against Bullying website.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) Youth. Click here to visit their website for resources and more.
Adolescent Counseling Services Resources
"Breaking the Stigma: Bullying" Forum
If you were unable to attend the "Breaking the Stigma: Bullying" community forum or missed the live broadcast on Public Access Channel 28, be sure to check back here in the coming days for links to watch the forum online. Also be sure to check the Palo Alto Media Center website for a schedule of programs as the forum will likely be re-aired in the near future.
5 Part Bullying Blog Series
While recent teen suicides and campaigns such as the "It Gets Better Project" have brought national attention to the issue of bullying, it has always been prevalent amongst our youth. At Adolescent Counseling Services and particularly in our On-Campus Counseling Program, our staff frequently sees students who are targeted by bullies because they are different. Whether it's sexuality, race, social class, physical appearance or for no particular reason whatsoever, bullying is a real problem that has significant and life-threatening consequences for its victims.
As a parent or concerned member of the community, it is easy to feel helpless when these tragic stories of young lives lost flash across the television screen. While there is no immediate answer or solution, we can begin to do our part by learning more about what causes bullying behavior and the variety of ways in which it manifests itself in and outside of our schools. Earlier this year, we posted a 5 part series on bullying. Here are the links in case you missed it:
Bullying Part 1 – Definining Bullying
Bullying Part 2 – The Effects of Bullying
Bullying Part 3 – Bullying Statistics
Bullying Part 4 – Characteristics of Bullies
Bullying Part 5 – What can we do about it?


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NSF Funds Big Data Brain Trust
Big Data NSF Funds Big Data Brain Trust By Dian Schaffhauser 11/05/15 The National Science Foundation (NSF) is making sure that big data gets attention in every pocket of the country. This week the NSF unveiled the establishment of four regional hubs for data science innovation, each led by a team of university experts and extending out to almost 300 other organizations, including non-profits, cities and businesses. Each big data or BD hub will specialize in particular areas of study and will provide guidance for building out "spokes" to undertake specific projects. The "big data brain trust" assembled within each hub is expected to develop and support regional partnerships and activities to address regional challenges. The goal is to simplify the creation of partnerships by covering coordination costs and creating…
Link to Full Article: NSF Funds Big Data Brain Trust
NSF Funds Big Data Brain Trust


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As part of the grant maker and funder research process, you can expect us to complete the following activities as appropriate to your organization's needs:
- Search for corporate, family, public, private and corporate grant makers on the local, regional and national level from our database, subscription databases including The Foundation Directory Online, GrantStation and EfficientGov Grant Finder, as well as other sources.
- Contact potential funders if appropriate, in order to determine degree of match.
- Provide a categorized binder of potential funders with contact information, grant deadlines, average awards and funding priorities.
- Recommendations as to the "best fit" potential funders and a process for approaching the identified funders based on the mission, goals and program activities of your organization, and its current funding needs..


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bruder. better by design.
Celebrating 30 Years of Product Innovation
At Bruder Healthcare, we believe that dry eye disease and pain should not stop you from doing the things you love. Since 1986, we have provided safe, effective therapeutic and analgesic products to medical professionals and consumers. We are proud of our excellent reputation for innovation and for our state of the art products that are used in medical settings and homes around the world.
Whether you suffer from dry eye disease, chronic or acute pain, Bruder has a product that will help you live a more active and fulfilling life. Our products are designed to deliver fast acting therapeutic relief from the pain associated with arthritis, muscle aches, joint pain, dry eye disease and more.
Contact Information:
Bruder Healthcare Company
1115 Ridgeland Parkway, #101
Alpharetta, GA 30004
770-410-0726 Phone
888-827-8337 Toll-Free
770-521-5557 Fax
Patient email inquires: email@example.com
Professional email inquires: firstname.lastname@example.com
Media/marketing inquires: email@example.com
Bruder Healthcare Company is headquartered just outside of Atlanta, Georgia USA.
Take 400 North to Exit 12-B (McFarland). Merge onto McFarland Road.
Go through two red lights, merge in to the left lane then turn onto Ridgeland Parkway in the Ridgeland Corporate Center Office Park. Take the first left into Building 1115. Bruder is located in #101.


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Take Advantage Of Old Android Smartphone – Read These Tips
Your old Android cell phones may definitively need in this. It may not be reacting and tolerating your summons. What's more, Child Vision now you should be feeling that it is nothing not exactly a futile box. Need not to stress! There is as yet something that you can do to your old Android cell phone. With a few safety measures and support, you can make your old cell phone perfect.
Here is a short guide, which can help you keep your old cell phone cheery . Taking after these manual steps will accelerate your Android cell phone once more. Here it goes:
Clear App Cache: You more likely than not introduced/un-introduced different applications or recreations on your Android gadget. This spares reserve information on your telephone. The store information or garbage records at the same time build the stacking time of a few applications and it likewise eats up valuable framework assets. By clearing this reserve information or garbage records, you can recover pieces of storage room and lessen the stacking time of utilizations.
Handicap Bloatware and Unwanted Applications: Having a considerable measure of storage room in your telephone is thoroughly fine. Be that as it may, keeping avoidable applications is destructive your cell phone's life. Bloatware alludes to the pre-introduced applications that are not being used, more often than not. For evident reason you don't utilize all your downloaded applications frequently. In this manner, there is no point keeping these superfluous applications. Unused applications fill in as asset hoards and devour valuable storage room and RAM. Uproot the bloatware. Additionally, cripple the applications which, you are not utilizing for the present. You can at whatever time empower these applications and use it.
Continue Updating the Phone's Software: Having an old Android gadget, doesn't generally mean to have a more established rendition of the product. Programming upgrades are not generally about new elements. These upgrades likewise think of bunches of minor bug fixes, which truly improve your gadget's execution. Continue redesigning the required programming or applications, as it will make your cell phone more responsive.
Dispose of Live Widgets and Wallpapers: Live wallpapers and gadgets, no doubt!! It looks so cool, yet they gobble up your framework's assets and moderate down your Android cell phone to the center. Attempt to restrain the gadgets on your screen and say no to live wallpapers; as they straightforwardly influence the execution and battery life of your Android gadget.
Utilize High-Speed Memory-Card: To make your old Android cell phone work more intelligent, you should embed a rapid memory card. The high get to speed of your memory card bit by bit improves the read-compose speed on your cell phone. Memory cards are accessible in a few types, for example, Class 10, Class 6 and Class 4. Class 10 and Class 6 are the very favored memory card classes. These help the gadget's whole execution.
Empower Battery-Saver Mode: Battery life assumes a significant part in expanding your gadget's general execution. To guarantee that it endures long, you should utilize your cell phone while it has adequate battery. Utilizing applications or surfing web as a part of low battery mode, antagonistically influence the battery life. With a depleted battery, your gadget's processor wouldn't have the capacity to perform viably. You can physically empower the battery sparing choice that gets initiated while utilizing Wi-Fi as a part of a low battery mode.


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18 Years Worth of Days
The average retirement lasts for 18 years. Are you prepared to fill that many days?
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Importance of Product Research
The goal behind any organization investing time and effort in product research is primarily to quantify or increase the business knowledge. And if the business has plans to introduce new products in the market or try any new function, it won't be wise on its part to hire just a few people in a room, throw in some information and carry on with whatever works.
Any business organization with a serious business goal would not resort to above methods. Though product research is totally an internal affair of any organization, a business can definitely seek any information it needs from external and public sources for seeking the knowledge it is in search of. Spending huge amounts of money are not at all required.
Forthcoming with new ideas is the first and primary step, but if the same is already in the blueprint, all it needs is the development of the same. Undertaking product research will help to transform your dream into realities.
Listed below are the five important reasons for any organization to undertake product research:
- Competitive Edge
Those companies that undertake regular product research have been found to have a higher chance of succeeding in the world market. For attaining the highest professional benefit, product research investments demand to come in handy with similar investments such as market research development or even development of the brand new process of business.
- Availing of Tax Credits
By undertaking qualified or genuine product research, an organization can settle costs relevant to that project with the aid of tax credits entitled for research and development. Such tax credits enable an organization to get a significant reduction in the tax bill. In the case of a small or medium enterprise, even tax credit for disbursement in cash is possible to get availed.
- Manifold increase in sales
There is a direct and undefined connection between the efforts undertaken by an organization for product research and the improved performance of a company. Organizations that engage in product research acts as the main driver for growth thus providing better results for investors.
- Innovate
An innovation of a product can help in developing in technologies that are high in value, develop designs as well as strategies for the organization that could be the beginning for the sustenance of prospective value helping to get a competitive edge. Highly successful businesses tend to innovate.
- Endorsing your goal
Having a clear goal about what you want to make from your business helps. For instance, if you decide to present the same service or product without any goal to flourish, then there are high chances that your business might take a back seat and you could be left in the rat race. Successful businesses always tend to look for ways to develop a competitive edge.
Product research is essential to boost the goal and vision of any business. Though it might seem difficult to do in the first stages, by seeking the help of experts you can make a lot from a small business idea. Do not shy away from taking the first step towards product research.


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Whether you want to be the best you can be in your chosen career, progress into management & leadership, gain a further professional qualification or to fine-tune your skills and knowledge – we take colleague development very seriously at CVS and offer a wide range of clinical and non-clinical learning, training and support.
The Cert AVP Programme is a flexible postgraduate veterinary qualification that has been designed to allow you to choose your preference on the areas you study – whether than be a general CertAVP qualification or a designated certificate in a particular specialism. We work with Liverpool University to provide our vets with the support they need throughout their modules.
We currently offer a small number of residencies in our Referral and Laboratory Divisions.
We offer internships each year within our Referral Veterinary Hospitals and Equine Division.
We offer training to help our practice teams understand the new PSS, how to prepare your practice, what the inspector will do on the day and where to find checklists and guidance.
We also offer focussed training in conjunction with a number of key partners in order for our practices to gain extra points on the Practice Standards Scheme and work towards the Client Service Award.
For vets, specialists and nurses we offer external CPD support and annual allowances (for vets and specialists).
We offer a wide range of EMS placements across our practices in the UK and on many occasions, students who have visited us for EMS have gone on to join the CVS New Graduate Programme.
The CVS New Graduate Programme is a complete CPD and pastoral programme designed to support you in your first two years of practice. We currently employ circa 100 new graduates each year and with our wide range of practices across the UK, including Northern Ireland, there's a practice to suit everyone, from large 24 hour hospitals to small community practices.
We offer a wide variety of student nurse opportunities each year across all of our accredited training practices.
We are proud to be able to offer a large variety of specific training courses to allow colleagues in the laboratory division to gain additional qualifications relevant to their work.
These include undergraduate courses in:
A structured six day programme designed for managers with topics including; motivation and leading change, developing others and customer experience.
A six day programme specifically developed for our practice managers, covering a wide variety of topics, such as; leadership, resilience and recruitment.
Covering a very wide range of clinical and non-clinical subjects, such as:
For specific non-clinical roles, we also offer support and funding for professional qualifications. Examples of these being:
We are very proud to have been the first veterinary employer in the UK to offer all our colleagues the opportunity to participate in the Mindfulness in the Workplace programme.
We use mindfulness in the workplace because the wellbeing of our colleagues is of the utmost importance to us and mindfulness has been proven to reduce the destructive effects of stress, build resilience and create engagement.


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"Their hidden world is about to be revealed…"
"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder-much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered in strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murders are invisible to everyone but Clary.
Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon.
But why would demons be interested in an ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know…"
This is my second time reading this book, and it still delivered for me. It had a mix of everything I love, the supernatural, the comedy and the twists and turns throughout. Clary is a representation of a strong-willed girl and a good role model. The lines in this story are easily quotable like:
"Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
…"At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."
"That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain."
"aren't you, uh… reproducing?
"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things."
You can't help falling in love with Jace in this story… despite his narcissistic antics. But there are still other guys to root for.
I define this story as a transition story between all the gushy vampire love stories (because it still has vampires in it), this is real. Read this book if you liked "Tithe by Holly Black, any book in the Twilight Series or heck any book involving the supernatural. You will not be disappointed, I assure you.
I also recommend reading the entire series along with the prequel series, The Infernal Devices.
Go on, go read it…
Also, this is eventually going to be a movie, with Lily Collins playing Clary (not a decision I'm happy about) and Jamie Campbell Bower, which could be amazing until 1) he uses an american accent, 2) he buffs up a bit, he's kind of lanky. Other than that, I just hope they don't destroy the story with this movie, and they must use quotes from the book. THEY MUST.
(Sorry… this is a crap review. I just have nothing bad to say about this story.)


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Archive for 'Vaishnav Aradhyula'
Vaishnav Aradhyula (USCF Rating 2170); Master
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by admin.
Vaishnav has some impressive credentials: He was the 4th best chess player in the nation under 16; Captain of the 10th Grade, State, and National High School Champion Chess Team; National High School Blitz Champion; and the 2006 High School Chess Champion, to name a few. He has 4 years of excellent coaching experience, and […]


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|I am proud to be a member of this excellent organization and to lead a group of talented men and women who each day strive to keep our town a safe place to live, work and play.
As we continue to strengthen existing relationships and develop new community partnerships, you as a valued member of our community, will play a vital role in ensuring the Town of Cobourg remains as safe tomorrow as it is today. READ MORE


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But, before we begin, you should know that my plan is to bewitch you and give you someone to focus on. When I was younger, I loathed attention, but as a woman, I revel in it. After all, inquisitive minds do not like to be left ravenous for too long. I read voraciously, lift heavy, live intentionally and laugh easily. My joy is palpable, my magnetism unavoidable.
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This is a clip of Spencer Harding and Phil Johnson, hosts of 40K Radio, broadcasting here at Gamers Haven on July 11, 2008.
Gamers Haven ran a Warhammer 40K City Fight Tournament the day 40K Radio visited. The video here shows the amazing terrain specially built for this tournament.
40K Radio visited Gamers Haven on July 11th, 2008. Watch this video to get a tour of our store and the tournament we ran to celebrate the release of the new 40K rulebook.


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As is always the case with samples, these samples are generic. The forms were drafted for Oregon nonprofit corporations. You should adapt these for your own needs and with reference to the state law where you are incorporated or formed. For help, click here.
Sample Forms for Nonprofit Organizations
Board Operations Forms
Minutes of Board Meeting Template
Waiver of Notice of Meeting
Consent to Action without a Meeting
Membership Forms
These forms are to be used for voting by members in Oregon nonprofit corporations. Oregon Boards of Directors cannot vote by ballot or proxy.
Vote by Ballot for Election of Directors
Vote by Ballot for Proposed Action
Proxy Vote for Oregon nonprofit corporations
Release by Adults Served by Nonprofit Programs
Release by Volunteers in Exchange for Worker Compensation Coverage
Sample Policies for Nonprofit Organizations
Financial Controls Policies (with Guide) (for small nonprofits)
The following policies are samples of simple policies that respond to questions about these policies and practices on Part IV of the IRS Form 990. They allow you to answer "Yes" that you have these policies. You may need to draft more complicated policies to meet the other needs of your organization.
Board and Committee Minutes policy
Joint Venture policy
Records Retention and Destruction policy
Review of Form 990 policy
Transparency policy
Whistleblower policy


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How to choose a trainer for doma
Today let's talk about home equipment efficient and reliable helpers in the fight for a good slim figure.
Today let's talk about home equipment efficient and reliable helpers in the fight for a good slim figure.
Once you have clearly decided that home trainer you need, before you immediately raises a difficult question which simulator to choose? Now there are so many different proposals, from which dizzy. Given that most home exercise equipment is quite expensive, then the decision should be
not only thoughtful, but also balanced. Let's try to make a small algorithm of action for the selection of equipment for home, which will help to ease the buying proces.
First. What do you need?
First you need to properly and correctly identify the goals that will be the key to succes. The decision to purchase a home trainer is rarely spontaneous. I.e. man that is pushed to the fact that he started to think about buying, and that means he poses a specific challenge. It can be:
– improvement of health;
– muscle;
– weight los;
– increases stamina.
If you want to increase your muscle mas, then stop your choice on simulators, where you can perform the exercise by lifting weights. Not necesarily acquire any cumbersome installation, will be quite enough of dumbbells and barbells. Another excellent option in this case will be the weights.
Strength training is some of the fixtures that are arranged so that when lifting barbells or dumbbells can be download for different muscle groups.
All other tasks are ways to solve the cardiovascular equipment. Engage them in their various modes, you will choose depending on your preferences, physical abilities and level of training. Conduct training on the cardio equipment in different conditions.


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The professor, who's black, was handcuffed and searched by a white male officer, which she referred to as emblematic of officers' mistreatment of African-Individuals.
I'm not a math professional or even a math person. I feel in words not numbers. I've bother remembering which quantity bus takes me downtown, but I can easily bear in mind the names of all the stops on the best way. This is just one homeschoool mother's try to attempt to make some sense of math instruction and make it enjoyable along the way. Come peek into my journey.
The App Middle Download Card is non-compulsory. The card includes a code which you utilize to download further apps, video games and videos from the LeapFrog site, by way of LeapFrog Join, which you need to install onto the device. You too can pay for a similar apps utilizing a credit card, when you set up an account with LeapFrog. They may then electronic mail the code for the obtain. In the event you prefer to not use a credit card, then shopping for the App Center Card is beneficial. Also, the App Heart Card would make a terrific stocking filler this Christmas for someone who already has a LeapPad. Hope this helps.
If a physician, lawyer, or dentist had 40 individuals in his office at one time, all of whom had different wants, and some of whom didn't want to be there and have been causing bother, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without help, had to deal with them all with skilled excellence for nine months, then he might need some conception of the classroom trainer's job.
Interactives in the Elementary part present youngsters how fill out deposit slips and how you can deposit checks and cash. Another interactive explains key monetary planning terms, including budgeting, objectives, interest, financial safety, revenue, financial savings account, and deposits. Youngsters can watch how their financial savings account stability grows as they deposit a weekly allowance and it earns interest.