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– RyAnne Noss, wife and caretaker of SFC (Ret.) Scot Noss.
Scot comes from a family with a rich military background. His dad served in Vietnam and later retired as a first sergeant for a National Guard unit. Both Scot's grandfathers served in WWII. He grew up in camouflage and his dad's combat boots. He truly had a calling.Scot always pushed himself physically and mentally to the limits. He knew Rangers were the elite soldiers of the military and he wouldn't have it any other way. However, on February 17,2007 during his 8th deployment, life for us changed forever when Scot was severely injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Scot suffered from a severe traumatic brain injury that left him, still 9 years later, minimally conscious or semi-comatose and 100% dependent on daily living activities.
My role is to make sure Scot has the best medical care that he deserves. I take him out in the communities for activities like the movies, bowling, state parks, football games, shopping ( he doesn't like that very much but never did !) and even took him to FL to see the Gulf of Mexico. His nurses never leave his side however sometimes nurses don't show up for their shift so I am responsible for Scot.
I was trained well at the Tampa VA and I am self-sufficient in taking care of Scot. He has a very regimented schedule and if it is deviated from he gets cranky. Scot hardly ever lays in his bed during the day. We exercise him every day either on his PT Mat or his bicycle. Thanks to Lead The Way Fund's generous donation, we were able to finish out a PT room for Scot that could be utilized all year long. Because of the heated/cooled capability as well as a humidity control unit for the basement, we were able to create a very healthy PT environment for Scot. We are able to bring him down every day to enjoy either PT Table time and/or his motorized bicycle. This physical activity is essential to maintain Scot's health. Also, we live in Tornado Alley, so the PT room provides a safe place for us to take Scot during inclement weather.
We have a lake across from our house and the neighborhood was so kind to build a ramp for the small bridge, so we get Scot out for fresh air daily (if weather permits). We try to keep as normal of a routine for him as possible.
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Little Things 12 – Phone Numbers/
Welcome to this week's edition of "Little Things", a weekly blog series covering the small changes that you can make to improve marketing performance.
Last week's topic was provide customer incentives.
This week's tip:
Give a Phone Number
File this week's tip under obvious, but often ignored. I could write a whole series on obvious but often ignored. But for now, make sure you provide a phone number everywhere you advertise.
That includes:
- Paid search ads
- Landing pages (really any page on your site should have an obvious phone number)
- Brochures
- Print ads
- Mailings
- Billboards or outdoor ads
- Free business listings
- Radio or TV spots
I realize that not every company is a direct marketing company that needs to track each and every action to see how many leads or purchases it got them. But why leave something as simple as the phone number off of anything that might attract potential customers?
One of the key aspects of marketing is to make it easy for people to take action. If your ad works, it will create interest. And you want it to be as easy as possible for a person to turn that interest into some form of purchase, trial, or further research. A phone number does the trick every time.


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The basic movements are four: right, left, up and down, although sometimes you'll have to perform them together, exactly as if you were dancing in the dance floor.
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St Mary's Church in Bagillt
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Bagillt (/ˈbæɡɪlt/; Welsh pronunciation: [ ˈbaɡɪɬt]) is a small town and community overlooking the Dee Estuary, near Holywell in Flintshire, Wales. At the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 3,918,[1] increasing to 4,165 at the 2011 census.[2] The community also includes the villages of Walwen and Whelston.
Bagillt was part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in the early medieval period. In the 12th century, Owain Gwynedd and his forces retreated to Bryn Dychwelwch, the "Hill of Retreat", above Bagillt while being pursued by superior numbers of Henry II's forces.[3] Castell Hen Blas, a motte-and-bailey castle, lies within the boundaries of Bagillt. It was the birthplace of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Wales, probably around Easter 1212. The castle ruins were partially excavated in the mid-1950s. Dafydd's birth was commemorated by the unveiling of a plaque on the wall of the Upper Shippe Inn in the centre of the village on 25 July 2010; this was 770 years since the issue of his earliest surviving charter as prince.
Mostyn Hall, the seat of one of the oldest Welsh families, lies close to Bagillt. Parts of the building date from the time of Henry VI in the 15th century. The future Henry VII is said to have been concealed in the Hall by the lord of Mostyn, Richard ap Howel, during the reign of Richard III. The Hall now houses antiquities and manuscripts pertaining to British and Welsh history that were brought from Gloddaeth Hall, Llanrhos.[3]
Industrial Revolution[edit]
The Gadlys Lead Smelting Works was established by Edward Wright and his associates, who were generally Quakers, in 1704. Organised as the London Lead Company, they kept the workshop open until 1799. John Freame, one of the founders of Barclays Bank, was involved in this initiative.[4]
By the late 18th century, Bagillt had become a centre of mineral extraction and manufacturing. Hundreds of men laboured in eleven collieries that surrounded the village. There was also a factory and works that produced and refined zinc, lead and iron.
Bagillt already had several quays on the banks of the River Dee, where fishing boats had moored for centuries. But by the early 19th century, these had grown into docks where cargo destined for the factories and foundries of England were loaded.
In 1846, navvies laying track for the North Wales Coast Line reached Bagillt. The Chester and Holyhead Railway officially opened on 1 May 1848. The local mines and works that had used these wharves now switched to haulage by steam train. Bagillt railway station had extensive sidings and goods yard. It closed in 1966.
In 1879 a working men's club and cocoa house was built on the High Street in the Pentre area by public subscription. The building was named the Foresters Hall; it is an impressive three-storey red brick building which is supported by the Bagillt Heritage Society. It was built to promote temperance and was originally associated with the Foresters Friendly Society. It was the first cocoa house built in Wales.
But the industrial age created problems: in 1848, the same year the railway opened, a book was published in London entitled Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of Education in Wales. It detailed the poverty and hard living of many people in Bagillt and the Flintshire coalfields in the 19th century:[5]
In some of the collieries the men are paid every other Saturday, and do not return to their work till the following Tuesday or Wednesday. In Bagillt and in the adjoining town of Flint the old Welsh custom of keeping a merry night (noswaith lawen) is still prevalent, and, being generally reserved for a Saturday, is protracted to the following Sunday, during which drinking never ceases. The custom is represented by the clergy and others as involving the most pernicious consequences.
I saw two men stripped and fighting in the main street of Bagillt, with a ring of men, women and children around them. There is no policeman in the township. The women are represented as being for the most part ignorant of housewifery and domestic economy. The girls are very early sent to service, but marry as early as 18, and have large families.
Women are not employed in or about the mines, but spend most of their time in cockling, or gathering cockles on the beach. They have low ideas of domestic comfort, living in small cottages dirty and ill-ventilated, and at night are crowded together in the same room, and sometimes in the same bed, without regard to age or sex.
Bagillt remained a hard-working boom town for more than a century. For instance on 31 May 1873, a local newspaper, the Wrexham Advertiser, reported that so many new coal workings had opened near Bagillt that it was becoming difficult to find enough miners to work in them:
No less than four new collieries have been recently started near Mold, and it is becoming a serious question how to get labour to work them, all the men available in the district being already engaged. The colliery nearest the town on the north side is named Hard Struggle from the difficulty experienced in obtaining water to get up steam. Another to the east side is named Slap Bang from the fact that coal has been found near the surface. To the south the Linger and Die company are doing their best to reduce the price of coal and to enhance that of labour. While to the south east the Strip and at it company are showing the world how to make the most of it. We hear of numberless other ventures, but these are the principal.[6]
In July 1897 work commenced at Boot End, Bagillt, on the huge Milwr Tunnel which would drain water from the mines working the lead lodes under Pentre Halkyn. Digging started at a point 9 feet (2.7 m) below high-water mark on the Dee foreshore.[7] The tunnel was driven southwest at a gradient of 1:1000. It was brick-lined where it passed through coal measures and shale but unlined after the first 1.5 miles where it passed through chert and limestone. In 1908 the tunnel was draining more than 1.7 million gallons of water per day through the drainage channel and into the river at Bagillt.[7]
Bagillt was also the site of the Hawarden Iron Works, situated near the Dee Bank Quay. It was famous for production of a number of waterwheels, including the Snaefell Wheel at Laxey, Isle of Man.
But by the 1930s the Great Depression had brought hardship and misery to the area as many of the manufacturing works and collieries were closed. Large numbers of people were now out of work and in severe financial hardship. The days of industrial might have ended in Bagillt. The area was now falling into long-term decline. Before the Second World War many people left in search of work: some moved to cities like Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool while others went overseas to Canada and America.[8]
Present day[edit]
Today Bagillt and Greenfield remain areas where unemployment, social deprivation and child poverty are key issues. A report in 2004/05 called Flintshire Childcare Sufficiency Assessment concluded that child care was needed to help parents.
The Parent Childcare Survey found that 17% of women not in work (6% of all women with children) said that they did not work because they couldn't find suitable childcare. This figure represents approximately 660 families across Flintshire. If childcare were accessible to these women, the local economy would benefit by around £11.5m per year through earnings alone.[9]
According to North Wales Police, the overall crime rate in Bagillt East rose by 200% from 2007 to 2008; in Bagillt West this figure was only +3.7% in the same period.[10]
In 2013, Bagillt was formally twinned with Laxey, Isle of Man, after a visit to Laxey by members of Bagillt Heritage Society to see the Snaefell Wheel (now renamed the Lady Evelyn) recently restored by the Laxey and Lonan Heritage Trust. The wheel was built in Bagillt (see above).
For elections to Flintshire County Council Bagillt is divided into the wards of Bagillt East and Bagillt West,[11] which each elect one county councillor.[12]
Bagillt Railway Station[edit]
The North Wales Coast Line formerly served Bagillt railway station, but the station is no longer in use, having been closed in 1966 due to the Beeching cuts. Trains now run fast through the location, although the station's footbridge still remains to this day.
Bagillt lies on a former section of the A548 road. A by-pass was built in the late 1960s for the A road.
Facilities include a community-run library, reopened in 2014 following closure by Flintshire County Council in 2011, a few local shops, pubs and parkland. The Wales Coast Path passes through Bagillt by the side of the River Dee, and the Bagillt Heritage Society have signposted a Heritage and Industrial Trail from the Wales Coast Path to various sites around the village. The Bagillt Heritage Society also acquired the old sewage works near the site of the former Bagillt Railway Station for a future Community Gardens Project.
Bagillt is also home to two county primary schools, Ysgol Merllyn,[13] located in the main village area, and Ysgol Glan Aber,[14] in Bagillt Boot End.
- ^ 2001 Census: Bagillt, Office for National Statistics, retrieved 30 June 2008
- ^ "Town population 2011". Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bagillt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 201.
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My original research was on the early twentieth century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer (published in January 2009 with Princeton University Press as Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture) but my interests have since shifted to moral and political philosophy. I have written essays on the ethics of capitalism, the value of happiness and the philosophical importance of the history of ideas. My most recent book, co-written with my father Robert, is called How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life. It came out in the UK with Allen Lane in June 2012 and has been translated into 15 languages worldwide. A following book, The Language of the Virtues, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
I appear regularly in the press and on radio on subjects including philosophy, religion and intellectual history. Here is a link to a Radio 3 debate between me and Richard Layard on happiness: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mkbqq. And here is a video of a talk I gave on "genuine leisure" in Dublin on 15 October, 2014: http://www.iiea.com/events/an-adequate-economic-discourse-for-the-europe-of-our-grandchildren
Research interests
Ernst Cassirer
Virtue ethics
Ethics and economics
The history of the virtues
Research supervision
- Ernst Cassirer
- Twentieth-century German philosophy and social thought
- Art as a social practice
- Virtue ethics
- Ethics and Economics
Research students
I am currently supervising Toby Sherman, who is writing a doctoral thesis on conceptions of happiness. From 2010-2013, I co-supervised Christopher Fear, who wrote his thesis on Collingwood's theory of history.
Modules taught
- PHL1005A - Evidence and Argument 1
- PHL1112 - Philosophy of Film
- PHL3013 - Virtues and Vices
- PHL3037 - Aristotle's Politics
I first studied philosophy together with theology as an undergraduate at Oxford from 1992-95. After graduating, I worked for two years with a Moscow NGO and a further two with a London-based publisher and think-tank. I returned to Oxford from 2000-05 – the politics department this time – to do a doctorate on the late idealist philosopher of science and culture Ernst Cassirer, spending two years as a visiting student at the Humboldt University, Berlin. I speak fluent German and rusty Russian. Apart from philosophy, I enjoy looking at art and architecture, cooking and playing ping pong.


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Reasonably comparable to the rivalry between skiers and snowboarders, coffee-drinkers and tea-drinkers have much to say about one or the other. Ultimately, you can all rest easy, beverage enthusiasts. Both black coffee and green tea (in moderation) have benefits that keep your body running strong. Shucking subjective opinions aside, here are a few considerations to make when deciding whether you'd like to stay with your favorite drink or give the other a go.
Black Coffee
Keep in mind that when we say black coffee, we really mean black. No cream-filled mocha cappucinos allowed. Black coffee is low in fat and calories and offers a healthy jolt of energy through the caffeine it provides to your body. Caffeine affects a variety of things, including your central nervous system and the rate at which your fat cells break down body fat. Studies suggest that the caffeine in black coffee can help decrease your depression, increase your focus, and burn fat faster. Antioxidants are also present in black coffee, the levels of which beat out certain wines, teas, fruits, and vegetables. Don't be fooled by the amount of water you use to make black coffee. The coffee itself is still providing a great deal of nutrition and help to your body.
Green Tea
As with our usage of black coffee, we mean standard green tea, and not variations which include extra, less-healthy goodies. Green tea, along with black coffee, contains levels of caffeine content that help stimulate your brain and increase fat burning. It also is host to a plethora of antioxidants which improve the functionality of your body. It has even been suggested that the antioxidants present in tea decreases your chance of various cancers, including breast, prostrate, and colorectal. Green tea leaves are full of bioactive compounds which are commonly attributed to the medicinal success of the drink, and it also has a small amount of important minerals.
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With both of these drinks come an overwhelming amount of options that decrease the original nutritional value of the standard drink. If you're looking to acquire a tea- or coffee-consuming habit, choose wisely. Pick brands that try to stick to the minimum ingredients and which don't focus on quantity rather than quality. And, as with all things, enjoy these beverages with moderation. Drinking too much caffeine from either drink is an unhealthy way to treat your body, and you'd do best to appreciate coffee and tea without excess. When it comes to the battle between black coffee and green tea, however, everyone's a winner.


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About the Hotel
Why We Love This Hotel
- This hotel has views overlooking the lake
- The spa features an indoor pool, a hammam, a Laconium, an ice fountain, a terrace and a tea room
- The hotel is in Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park, popular for walkers and mushroom pickers
The Hôtel du Béryl sits on the banks of a lake in the resort of Bagnoles de l'Orne, on the edge of the Forest of Andaines. Located in Normandy, the region is popular for hiking, walking and cycling.
The restaurant La Pommeraie serves traditional French cuisine. There is also a bar.
The spa is has an indoor pool, a hammam, a Laconium, an ice fountain, a terrace and a tea room. Treatments are available (supplements apply).
The 75 rooms offer views of the lake or forest and some have a terrace. There is free Wi-Fi.
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- Accessible bathroom in some rooms
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What a sorry mess. If you're one of those entirely rational people who tend to avert their eyes from stories about the internal workings of the Labour party, you may have so far missed the brouhaha about candidate selection in the Scottish constituency of Falkirk. The party's high command has suspended the troubled selection for a parliamentary candidate there, after allegations that the trade union Unite has been signing people up as party members en masse, supposedly without some people's actual knowledge. Its aim, it is said, was to secure the Labour candidacy in 2015 (the sitting MP is the disgraced former army major, Eric Joyce) for Karie Murphy, a senior aide to the party's head of campaigning, Tom Watson, and the favoured candidate of the union's leader, Len McCluskey – who, some people are fond of pointing out, was once Watson's flatmate.
Murphy has now stood aside, but the row about Falkirk goes on. Kim Howells, the former Labour minister and MP for the Welsh seat of Pontypridd, has piped up and, given that part of the world's association with a somewhat closed, anti-democratic kind of Labour politics, he should know. He thinks Unite's alleged behaviour "threatens the whole reputation of the Labour party". So does Peter Mandelson, who said that episodes such as the Falkirk debacle "risk damaging Labour's reputation and undermining our electoral appeal".
Meanwhile, Unite is threatening legal action against the party to which it is by far the largest donor, and pointing out that its championing of such candidates as Murphy is part of a drive to "ensure that people who share working class and trade union values are successfully selected as Labour party prospective parliamentary candidates in winnable constituencies just like Falkirk".
The kind of shenanigans said to have occurred in Falkirk is as much a part of Labour history as any of its more romantic aspects. In 27 years as an on-off follower of the party's internal affairs, I have heard the same stuff time and again: whispers about ghost members, signed up in their droves and paid for with a single cheque; talk about parties within parties, and conspiracies to fix selections; cases in which favoured candidates have been parachuted into seats – and, shall we say, assisted by powerful forces in the party's upper echelons.
Most political parties have their own versions of such stories, but the Labour one is particularly entertaining. The Blairite right has been as involved as the union-backed/Brownite left: witness the great stink kicked up in Blaenau Gwent circa 2005, the short-lived kerfuffle about Georgia Gould, the daughter of Tony Blair's polling guru Phillip Gould, or the disaffection and anger sparked by suggestions that Mandelson – yes, him again – had effectively reserved the seat of Stoke Central for his good friend Tristram Hunt.
There are some days when the entirety of Labour's build-up to the next election seems to be reducible to an ongoing dogfight over candidacies between Unite, and the Blairite pressure group Progress. The former, to hear the latter talk, are antediluvian thugs who intend to turn the party into McCluskey's fifth limb; from the reverse perspective, Progress is the vanguard of an entryist conspiracy by Oxbridge-educated neoliberal fifth columnists (or something). Both apparently believe that they are on the side of righteousness. And, I suppose, that the ends justify the means.
Which brings us to a great Labour mistake that is being exposed as never before. Contrary to centre-left groupthink down the ages, the ends do not justify the means. In fact, if you conduct yourself in a closed, anti-democratic, fix-crazed kind of way behind the scenes, you will poison your own politics to the point that any talk about being "progressive" will start to look very questionable. By the end of his time in office, the irreconcilability of those two elements was etched all over Brown's face.
The same tension was there in the Blairites' cynical use of Old Labour political machines to bag the required number of safe seats (check out how many senior New Labour figures had seats in the north east). And, as much as it pains me to write this, it seems to be evident in the big unions' apparent attempts to further the course of working-class emancipation via the use of stitch-ups. Gandhi had it right: you have to walk it as you talk it, and "be the change you wish to see in the world". Labour has never really understood that notion; perhaps it never will.
Is there any way out? There actually might be. Some time ago, I wrote a piece for the Guardian opposing the idea of open primaries for candidate selections. I said they would increase the influence of big money, and reduce politics to the stuff of name-and-face recognition, as well as diverting attention from the case for electoral reform. I still have my misgivings. But if the Falkirk story – along with others – tells us anything, it is that the standard-issue Labour model of candidate selection is broken, and that something has to be done to prise the process away from entrenched interests who are trying to sustain a grim kind of politics-by-clique. In the modern world, they won't get away with it: news can now get out in a flash. At the same time, however, orthodox political parties are apparently shrinking into moribund husks, which only increases the temptation to stage takeovers, and fix internal processes.
What we need is a great opening-out in all the parties, via which genuinely local voices and maverick candidates can come to the fore, and the fabled parachute is folded away. The best argument in favour of primaries, it seems to me, is the presence in the Commons of the Conservative MP, Sarah Wollaston, selected via an open system (which the Tories now seem to have shunned), and precisely the kind of uncontrollable, expert, irreverent voice that so rarely comes to the fore. She is arguably parliament's most interesting presence. Such is the challenge Labour faces, but seems barely interested in addressing: to either get with a kind of politics that sits comfortably with the 21st century and might demonstrate at least some belief in the practice of democracy; or to leave things unchanged, while the intrigue and scandal extends into the distance.


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We won't pay €3.1bn Anglo debt bill, insists Pat Rabbitte
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Pat Rabbitte has upped the ante on the next €3.1bn Anglo Irish Bank debt bill by insisting it will not be paid.
The Government managed to get this year's €3.1bn payment for the wind-up of the bank postponed before the fiscal treaty referendum.
But it now faces paying another €3.1bn installment of the debt IOU – which is known as a promissory note – on March 31.
It is under increasing pressure to reach a deal on this because the gradual repayment of the €31bn Anglo debt is adding €1.9bn to the State's massive interest bill next year.
Mr Rabbitte made it clear that there was no intention of paying the next €3.1bn installment of the Anglo IOUs by the March 31 deadline.
"We didn't pay the promissory note this year and as far as I'm concerned we're not going to pay it next year either," he said.
"It's as simple as that."
Mr Rabbitte's comments went further than any of his cabinet colleagues, who have spoken only about efforts to strike a deal on the debt.
The Department of Finance said last night that Mr Rabbitte's remarks were broadly in line with previous comments made by Finance Minister Michael Noonan, who also said the Government does not want to pay the €3.1bn tranche of Anglo debt.
Mr Rabbitte went a step further with his "can't pay/won't pay" remarks on RTE's 'The Week In Politics'.
"We can't pay. This was an IOU entered into by the previous government when the Anglo Irish Bank collapsed and the notion of us paying it next March doesn't arise," he said.
Sensitive negotiations are taking place with the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt over how to reduce the cost of paying for the wind-up of Anglo.
Mr Rabbitte acknowledged that the ECB was a "difficult institution" to bring around to stamping the deal, but he believed it would be done before March 31.
The Government is not seeking a write-off of the Anglo debt, but is hoping to stretch out the repayments over a much longer period to relieve the pressure on the national finances.
Mr Rabbitte's decision to step up the rhetoric was welcomed by government backbenchers, who are aware that paying another €3.1bn towards the cost of Anglo would be politically disastrous after last week's cost-cutting Budget.
Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan said it was "absolutely essential" to get a favourable deal on the Anglo debt.
"The justified harsh reaction to the Budget is accentuated by the fact that most of the money saved will go to meet our promissory notes requirement. I find it hard to stomach," he said.
The repayment of the €3.1bn Anglo IOU is built into the figures for Budget 2013. However, the Department of Finance has emphasised that even without this, the €3.5bn in spending cuts and tax increases would still be needed to reduce the huge gap between current spending and income.
Labour chairman Colm Keaveney said a clear message had to be sent to Europe that an Anglo debt deal was a critical step towards economic recovery.
"We've honoured the debt of private banks and it's causing great strain," he said.
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"The 1606-2006 Duyfken Voyage marks the 400 th anniversary of the first documented European contact with Australia. The story of this defining period in our history will be told as Duyfken visits 25 ports around Australia, reminding us of the importance of our coastal and maritime heritage and giving those who visit the ship a deep appreciation of history in the raw and the courage and skills of 17 th century seafaring explorers.
Today 85 percent of Australians live within 50 kilometres of the coast, which supports much of the nation's social, tourist and recreational activity.
Our 25,000km coastline is rich in natural, historic and Indigenous heritage treasures. This includes places associated with European settlement, Indigenous sites, Macassan (early Indonesian) sites, historic buildings, wharves and jetties, lighthouses, coastal defence installations and shipwrecks.
There are thousands of stories for us all to share. I hope you enjoy your own voyage of discovery as you follow this historic journey."
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Formatting and Editing Table Cells in iBooks Author
Once you have your table inserted into your iBooks Author pages, double-click the cell to edit its contents. Press Tab to move from left to right from cell to cell (or to the first item in the following row) and Shift+Tab to move from right to left from cell to cell (or to the last item in the preceding row). You apply formatting and styles to cell text just like you do any text.
The rest of the table tools relate to formatting cells or their contents. Most are split between the Table inspector's Table pane and its Format pane; you have to access a few of the tools elsewhere.
The Table pane's Edit Rows & Columns pop-up menu (as well as the submenu that appears when you choose Format→Table) has two options related to selected cells:
Merge Cells: Merge the currently selected cells. The contents of all the cells are retained in the merged cell; a tab is inserted for each blank cell in the selection.
Split Columns and Split Rows: Divide the currently selected cell into two columns or two rows, depending on your choice.
The Table inspector's Table pane has two related controls that apply to the selected cells in the table:
Cell Borders: Use the eight icon buttons to apply a stroke (line) to the designated area of your selected cells. Select the stroke type (None, Thin, Medium, Dashed, or Dotted) in the unnamed pop-up menu below the buttons, enter the stroke weight in the unnamed field or use its stepper controls, and specify the color by clicking the adjacent swatch to open the Colors panel.
Cell Background: In this pop-up menu, the Color Fill option puts a solid color as the cell's background, and Color Gradient puts a gradient fill as the background.
In the Table inspector's Format pane, select the Wrap Text in Cell option to allow text to break across multiple lines to fit in the cell. If this option is deselected and Automatically Resize to Fit Contents is deselected in the Table pane, text that doesn't fit in the cell gets cut off, so only part of it appears.
You can set the formatting for the numerals and other values in your table in the Format pane's Cell Format pop-up menu. The default values are similar to those used in charts, with a few additions: Automatic (iBooks Author figures out the appropriate format based on the cell's values), Number, Currency, Percentage, Date and Time, Duration, Fraction, Numeral System (which lets you set the base, such as base 8 for octal values and 16 for hexadecimal values), Scientific, and Text.
Any custom value formats defined in previous tables or charts in the current e-book also appear, as does the Custom option to create additional value formats.
Each value format has its own options to control its specific display. For example, if you choose Currency, you can select which currency symbol to use, whether to include separators in values larger than 999, how to handle negative values, how many decimal places to display, and whether to use accounting style (which places a tab between the currency symbol and the value, aligning the value on its decimal).


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Welcome to Southeast Vision Rehabilitation
As "baby boomers" are starting to age we are seeing an increase in eye diseases that are impairing vision. As eye diseases advance, vision deteriorates. In the early stages regular glasses are able to help, but there comes a point where regular glasses don't make a difference. When that happens there are a variety of options available to help.
We provide very special aids to help our patients with low vision. In addition to evaluating which low vision devices will increase quality of life for our patients, we train patients to use their remaining sight so they can function as independently as possible and continue to enjoy high quality of life.
Southeast Vision Rehabilitation also specializes in treating patients that have incurred vision problems from head trauma or brain injury. Regardless of the reason for the head injury, vision problems often occur as a result. These vision problems can cause complete or partial vision loss, or be as subtle as an eye coordination problem which results in double vision, balance and movement problems, dizziness and motion sickness.
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This past Friday morning I woke up and stared around my room and asked myself. How can I write, work on my picture book and raise three sons with piles of notes, photos and school artwork laying everywhere? I also became fed up with the entire room being the same color of white! I had photos piled on a shelf over my head that I feared might pull the shelf off of the wall, along with notes from Barney & Lexi that I had worked up before I rewrote it and sent it off you NYC. To top it off, my sons, Lynden and Ethan's artwork from the end of school was laying about and that is the one thing I proudly love to display, it also makes them feel awesome!
Thus, I laid out my plan to remedy the situation. That Friday night, after my sons fell asleep, I began taking everything down and off of my walls and piling them onto the little table that rests in what you might call my kitchen but is so small, you might think otherwise.
I then made through five hours of work on my saturday morning. Between the few customers we had that morning, I spent my time gathering rollers, brushes and paint for my room. I found an awesome color that went great with my carpet, (I needed something that complimented the tan carpet, since the white did nothing but make it look dirty). I also wanted more work space to write and do layouts and rewrites. I brought home some lumber to add-on to my existing desk which was soon to be place in a different area.
I went home, cleared my room and began filling nail holes. Then came time for the moment of truth, PAINT! After four hours and two coats the room not only looked great but got me even more excited about getting back into it! Before I could do this, I rented a Rug Doctor and cleaned my carpet, not once, but, twice! Dear god there was so much filth in it, it was hard to believe my sons played on it!!
I put in new electrical outlets and a new light switch to top it off. Last night (saturday night) I was up until 2 a.m. working on it before I succumbed to the pressure of fatigue!
I woke up at 9 a.m. and went right to work on my new desk. I cut my lumber and stained it to match my current desk, which turned out awesome! I then began to move everything back in and place things back onto the walls in a fashion I found motivational. After almost 24 hours of work it is almost finished and look outstanding. When I am done I will have to show you!
Well, next Sunday is the first start of the summer edition of the picture book, I will have some great shots to share and as always looking forward to hearing from you wonderful folks!! As it is 9 p.m. I best let my own folks turn in for the night, thus meaning, I need to leave the internet behind for another week.
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The Promise of Leadership™ workshop, is the beginning of the journey to self-discovery, identifying specific attitudes and behaviors that prevent leaders from being effective.
The Promise of Leadership™ workshop is a transformative personal and professional experience. In only four hours, it provides a powerful catalyst to dramatically increase leadership effectiveness.
Built around The Leadership Circle Profile™, the program helps leaders focus on and develop their creative leadership competencies. These skills have been shown to improve the participant's leadership abilities, bring out the best in others, and significantly increase the performance of the overall business.
The workshop also helps leaders identify and mitigate tendencies that hinder effectiveness, such as emphasizing caution over action, self-protection over productive engagement, and confrontation over collaboration.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Jamison Law is "The Beast!" So says a student....
The following is an excerpt from an assignment I gave to masters-level students taking a course on counseling skills. I asked the students to provide a short autobiography at the beginning of the term. I also asked them to have some "fun" with it. The student gave me permission to use this...I'm not sure how to take it, though.
Therapist: Hi there, Joanne. I'm very glad to meet you. . .
Client: Wow, I can't believe I actually made it to your office.
Therapist: Why do you say that?
Client: I got lost on the way and thought I was going to go crazy.
Therapist: (Chuckling) There's no such thing as a crazy person in my office . . . you don't need to worry about that.
Client: I'm really relieved, cause there have been times on my way to work that I knew that the cops were following me.
Therapist: Why did you think the cops were following you?
Client: Well, I work at a residential treatment center for teen girls, and I swear, every time I get on the road to go to work, a cop follows me. I think he is stalking me.
Therapist: Stalking you?
Client: Yeah, I mean, first, I hear him on the radio to his dispatcher, telling her that he just spotted me. Then I take evasive maneuvers.
Therapist: How do you hear his radio?
Client: Through my car radio, silly. The conservative talk radio guys are actually sending messages for the cops.
Therapist: How long have you been hearing these messages?
Client: Oh, since I had my twin boys about 16 years ago. But it got a lot worse after I had my last baby at age forty-one. That one really put me over the edge. You know, don't you, that Rush Limbaugh is planning on divorcing his wife to run away with me?
Therapist: What evidence do you have for that?
Client: Well, I've been married to this terrific guy for 30 years, see? And had seven remarkable children. . .perfect really. Never done anything bad in their lives. . .
Therapist: You believe that?
Client: What's to believe? They just are perfect.
Therapist: (Muttering and writing in his notes) Wow. . .delusional . . .
Client: Anyway, Rush said that all I have to do is to get my LPC from Argosy, and then he will leave his wife. So that's why I enrolled. Hey, did you know that on my American Express account that Argosy is spelled ORGASY??? Somebody switched the letters of the university's name on the bill. It's a conspiracy!
Therapist: You pay for school with American Express? Whoa. . . (He scribbles another note)
Client: It's true, I swear! My husband always collapses on the ground laughing when he sees the name of my school on the account . . . He can't figure out how to pronounce it—Orgassy? Or--
Therapist: (Interrupting) So what does your husband think about this new marriage?
Client: Oh, he loves Rush, too. It'll all work out. I only have about another year and a half of classes. My biggest hurdle is this class I gotta take from Jamison Law.
Therapist: Man, I heard he was a beast.
Client: Same. I'm really anxious. I just need a few sessions of therapy to calm me down and get through his class. Then I'm sure everything will work out.
Therapist: What do you mean by "everything will work out"?
Client: You know—I'll get an "A", get my degree, get my license, marry Rush Limbaugh, and start my own residential treatment center and be rich for life!
Therapist: I have a friend that might be willing to see you instead of me. . .
Client: You don't like me? You're trying to abandon me? (she crouches in an attack stance)
Therapist: Don't think of it as "leaving" exactly. Think of it as, er, expanding your network.
Client: If you try to get rid of me, I'll sic Jamison Law on you! You'll regret this! (She lunges across the desk at the therapist).
Therapist: (Yelling) Security! Security! Get in here! She's crazy!!
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Vital life-saving machines have been installed by a North East mall to save customers who shop until they drop.
The Galleries is the first shopping centre in Sunderland to announce the arrival of on-site defibrillators to help people who have a heart attack.
It has received three of the machines, which use an electric shock to put the heart back into a normal rhythm.
A dozen staff have been trained by North East Ambulance Service to use the high-tech, equipment, costing £2,500 each. Trainer John Duffy said: "First aid and defibrillator training is vital in a busy shopping centre like the Galleries and it means if anyone falls ill or suffers a cardiac arrest, the staff can greatly increase the chance of patient survival."
Les Pickering, centre manager, said: "The investment has been made by the Galleries to ensure that our customers receive the best possible care while on our premises.
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The use of pallet dispensers ensures that pallets will be correctly positioned onto conveyors. However, pallet dispensers can also be used to unload pallets directly to the floor.
Common applications that require pallet dispensers include high speed automated palletizing, load forming lines, manual access for pallet dispensing and storage, ASRS systems, pallet repair systems and AGV systems.
Typically long-lasting as well as highly reliable, pallet dispensers offer heavy duty construction and the ability to interface with existing equipment. Pallet dispensers are useful in industries such as medical, cosmetics, consumer, food processing, warehouse, chemical processing, material handling, paper and pharmaceutical. Pallet dispensers can dispense most any pallet types including slave board, plastic, wood or metal pallets.
A pallet dispenser holds a number of pallets, often ranging from 15 to 20 pallets, and then distributes the pallets one by one into the conveyor or onto the work area. Pallet dispensers can be either manual or automatic.
Manual pallet dispensers are unloaded through the use of a forklift. A forklift or a hand pallet truck can either access the pallet in the front or on the sides with the forklift accessing one side and the hand pallet truck unloading from the other side.
Automatic pallet dispensers can be powered by hydraulic, pneumatic, or electro-mechanical means and use that power to dispense the pallet themselves, instead of having to be unloaded by another piece of equipment. There are numerous different pallet dispenser configurations including hook tine pallet dispensers, side entry pallet dispensers, high level pallet dispensers and low level pallet dispensers.
Hook tine pallet dispensers consist of four swing-in hook tines, which are sharp, projecting points or prongs mounted to a hopper; they raise and lower in accordance with the pallet stack. Side entry pallet dispensers consist of a pair of telescoping tines that are mounted onto the deck of a hydraulic table and are able to project out to support and elevate the pallet stack.
High level pallet dispensers and low level pallet dispensers, or floor space pallet dispensers, refer to the positioning of the dispenser: high level pallet dispensers are positioned above the conveyor, while low level pallet dispensers are positioned on the floor next to the conveyor.


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All cliche-mongers are annoying. None is more annoying, however, than the politician or pundit who announces that "elections are only won from the centre ground of British politics" and expects the audience to applaud the profundity of his insight. It is true – or, rather, it is a truism – that no party can hope to win without the support of centrist voters. But the land centrists inhabit is a treacherous place. Just when you think you've found it, the centre ground shifts beneath your feet.
In 2006, David Cameron rejected the Thatcherite policy of slashing public spending and announced: "We have moved back to the ground on which this party's success has always been built: the centre ground of British politics." Now he is slashing public spending with a ferocity Thatcher never managed. In 2007, Gordon Brown slapped down Peter Hain for criticising opulent City bonuses. Such talk would alienate aspirational voters and bring to an end Labour's winning strategy of "occupying the centre ground of British politics". Within less than a year of Brown passing his grand judgment, the bankers rewarded him by crashing the economy.


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After protests, Kings hope to be 'champion for change' by investing in black youth
This was no regular visit by NBA players to the local community.
The events that led to current Kings Vince Carter, Garrett Temple and the retired Doug Christie to attend "Kings and Queens Rise: A Youth Voice Forum for Healing" were born from the pain of a community still in shock over the shooting death of Stephon Clark, 22, an unarmed African American who was shot and killed by Sacramento police officers in his grandmother's backyard.
Police were responding to a report of someone breaking car windows. Clark had no weapon, only a cellphone, when he was shot.
Protests followed, leading the doors to Golden 1 Center to be blocked for two Kings games, preventing thousands of fans from attending. Those events led to the Kings partnering with Build. Black. Coalition and Black Lives Matter Sacramento in an effort to find ways to invest in the black community—and ways to prevent situations like Clark's death from happening again.
"There's a powerful thing, that this community saved the Kings," Christie said, referring to multiple attempts at relocation before Vivek Ranadive stepped in as majority owner. "For the Kings to now bring it full circle ... I'm so proud of Vivek and the Kings."
The forum was to help with the healing process and give youth a voice, and is the first part of a long-term plan for the Kings to invest into black youth.
Pastor Les Simmons' South Sacramento Christian Church hosted Friday night's forum. He said the partnership between the Kings and community is "still being forged," but Friday was a step in the right direction.
Simmons said the forum was more than a "moment" but a commitment to seeing "equitable change."
"(The Kings) wanted to help sponsor tonight and bring the community together for some healing for dialogue to really lift up the youth voice," Simmons said. "But then there is a multiyear commitment that is developing to invest equity in our communities and continue to lift up the youth voice, as well as make that investment in accountability, particularly policing in our communities. What does that look like? What reform needs to happen that we all can collectively lead this movement and lift up together?"
Ryan McClinton, a community organizer with Sacramento Area Congregations Together, said the partnership with the Kings shows youth that the team "values their lives" beyond just their status as paying customers.
McClinton working with Kings helps facilitate building equity in the black community, with the hope of setting an example for how other sports franchises can invest in their local communities.
"It shouldn't only happen in Sacramento," McClinton said. "It has to start in Sacramento because we have a chance to lead the nation in this massive change, this champion for change, if you will. But how does it carry over into other states across the country as well?"
Temple said by the Kings stepping out into the forefront, they've brought awareness to the issues that led many to protest after Clark's death. That the protest was so close to the Kings, literally outside the doors of their workplace, made it resonate even more.
"A protest is to create awareness to an issue and then you have to follow it with action," Temple said. "Whether it be your personal action or action with legislation or action by the people that are in office—the community, the cops. ... The eyes have been on Sacramento, they are on Sacramento right now."
Added Carter: "I think that's what the movement is about: Why? Why does it have to be this way? Let's change that mentality and thought process."
Simmons and McClinton echoed sentiments of how the economic gap in Sacramento communities makes it clear that the Kings' partnership and events like Friday's forum are needed.
McClinton said that's especially important for the NBA, a league that is predominantly black that has many players giving back to the community, even without the assistance of the league. McClinton pointed to much of the community work by Cleveland star LeBron James as an example. James is deeply invested in his home state of Ohio; he has even paid college tuition for students.
"The reality is the league is a black league," McClinton said. "It's a lot of black players in everything that makes the highlight reels to the styles that come forward. So how are you guys transforming the reality of the lives that they came from and so they aren't detached? How are you helping them do it in a meaningful way?"
The Kings took a step in doing so with their partnership with Sacramento's community groups, including the city's Black Lives Matter chapter.
"There's a renaissance going on in different areas of our city and you look around, it's not reaching certain areas of our city," Simmons said. "That'll tell you right there how much that investment into our communities is needed."
Carter said no one should think they can't support because they're not in Sacramento. He emphasized that celebrities have a big platform that can bring attention to issues. That attention can lead to change.
"For the athletes and entertainers who feel like they can't be a part of it, your voice is just as important," Carter said.