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Governments of Canada and Ontario celebrate affordable housing in Northumberland County and Quinte West Français
Jul 10, 2017, 10:30 ET
COBOURG, ON, July 10, 2017 /CNW/ - The governments of Canada and Ontario announced the funding of three affordable housing developments across Northumberland County and Quinte West with a ground-breaking event at 86 Munroe Street in Cobourg. When completed, this development by Retirement Life Communities will provide 14 units of affordable rental housing for seniors.
Kim Rudd, Member of Parliament for Northumberland-Peterborough South, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, along with Lou Rinaldi, Member of Provincial Parliament for Northumberland-Quinte West, on behalf of the Honourable Chris Ballard, Ontario's Minister of Housing and Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy, made the announcement today. Mayor of Cobourg, Gil Brocanier, also participated in the event.
The Retirement Life Communities development received more than $1.64 million in combined federal and provincial funding through the Investment in Affordable Housing agreement.
The announcement also celebrated two other initiatives, which will provide an additional 25 affordable housing units in Northumberland County and Quinte West, bringing the total federal and provincial contributions for all three housing developments to more than $3.79 million.
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The following developments were also celebrated today:
- Twenty-four units of affordable rental housing at 6-39 Kingspark Avenue in Campbellford, which received more than $2 million in funding.
- One unit of affordable housing at 23A Gould Street in Trenton, which received $150,000 in funding
"Our Government is committed to working with Ontario to develop and implement local solutions to housing. This investment is helping Ontarians access safe and affordable housing that meets their needs." – Kim Rudd, Member of Parliament for Northumberland-Peterborough South
"Ontario is working hard to provide individuals and families across the province with a safe and affordable place to call home. We believe our partnerships with the federal government and municipalities help us achieve that goal, allowing us to strengthen our local communities." – Lou Rinaldi, Member of Provincial Parliament for Northumberland-Quinte West
"Northumberland County thanks the Governments of Canada and Ontario for this investment, which addresses a pressing need in our community by supporting the expansion of our local stock of affordable housing. One of the County's strategic priorities is to foster a thriving and inclusive community, and increasing the number of quality affordable rental units is vital to this effort." – Mark Walas, Warden, Northumberland County
"Having the opportunity to provide affordable housing in Northumberland County, and especially in the Town of Cobourg is an honour. We strive to deliver high quality housing which meets and exceeds expectations, all at affordable costs to meet the needs of the residents of our community. On behalf of my company, Retirement Life Communities, Lawson Gay of Gay Company Limited and our joint venture, Affordable Housing Solutions Corporation, we wish to thank all the individuals, too numerous to name who have worked so tirelessly to make the project a reality." – Josef Ger & Lawson Gay, Founders, Affordable Housing Solutions Corporation
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- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has been helping Canadians meet their housing needs for more than 70 years. As Canada's authority on housing, CMHC contributes to the stability of the housing market and financial system, provides support for Canadians in housing need, and offers unbiased housing research and advice to Canadian governments, consumers and the housing industry. Prudent risk management, strong corporate governance and transparency are cornerstones of CMHC's operations. For more information, please call 1-800-668-2642 or visit www.cmhc.ca.
- Investing in affordable housing programs is part of Ontario's plan to create jobs, grow the economy and help people in their everyday lives. Since 2003, the province has committed more than $5 billion in funding for affordable housing, which has helped support more than 22,000 new affordable rental housing units, more than 335,000 repairs and improvements to social and affordable housing units and rental and down payment assistance to more than 93,000 households in need. These investments complement the commitments made through Ontario's recent Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy update, and support the province's goal of ending chronic homelessness by 2025. For more information on affordable housing in Ontario, visit ontario.ca/affordablehousing.
Stay connected:
- Follow CMHC on Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Follow Ontario's Ministry of Housing on Twitter.
SOURCE Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
For further information: Media contacts: Émilie Gauduchon, Press Secretary, Office of Minister Duclos, 819-654-5546, [email protected]; Angelina Ritacco, Public Affairs, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 416-218-3320, [email protected]; Myriam Denis, Press Secretary and Communications Advisor, Office of Minister Ballard, 416-585-6333, [email protected]; Conrad Spezowka, Communications, Ministry of Housing, 416-585-7066, [email protected]


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Keynote addresses from James Curleigh, Frederic Cumenal, and Brunello Cucinelli
The Financial Times will host its 12th annual Business of Luxury Summit 22-24 May 2016 at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco. Co-chaired by FT editor Lionel Barber and fashion editor Jo Ellison, the event will gather the world's leading artists, economists and executives to discuss how technology has changed the global luxury market.
The US west coast has led the technological revolution and is an ideal setting to explore the impact of automation on creativity. As manufacturing methods evolve, speakers and delegates will explore how luxury brands are redefining themselves in an era of 'see now, buy now.'
Lionel Barber said: "Technology has changed what luxury means to the modern consumer, forcing brands to rethink how they engage with their customers. At the FT Business of Luxury Summit, industry leaders will debate the role of creativity and craftsmanship in an increasingly automated world, particularly in US and Asian markets."
Rodrigo Bazan, President, Alexander Wang
Francesca Bellettini, Chief Executive Officer, Saint Laurent
Thomas Chauvet, Head of European Luxury Goods Equity Research, Citi
Adrian Cheng, Founder of K11 and Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook
Peter Copping, Creative Director, Oscar de la Renta
Brunello Cucinelli, President and Chief Executive Officer, Brunello Cucinelli
Frederic Cumenal, Chief Executive Officer, Tiffany & Co.
James Curleigh, President, Levi's
Michael Evans, President, Alibaba Group
Lisa Green, Head of Industry, Fashion and Luxury Brands, Google
Victor Luis, Chief Executive Officer, Coach, Inc.
Hiroshi Ohnishi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.
James Quarles, Global Head of Business & Brand Development, Instagram
Paolo Riva, Chief Executive Officer, Diane von Furstenberg Studio LLC
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lauren Santo Domingo, Co-founder, Moda Operandi
Daniella Vitale, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, Barneys New York
Martin Wolf, CBE, Associate Editor & Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Previous Summits have been in Vienna, Marrakech, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Venice, Tokyo, Monte Carlo, and Mexico City.
See the full 2016 FT Business of Luxury Summit agenda and list of speakers. Follow news about the summit via @FTLive and #FTLuxury.
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The Financial Times, one of the world's leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 793,000. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving almost half of total traffic.

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Shine with the brilliance of diamonds and the heart holding the blue topaz flower within it inside. Made of 18 KT gold and 0.231 CT diamond this pendant looks best with a tiny heart diamond ear stud.
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When comparing Shark Navigator Lift-Away NV352 vs Vacmaster VBV1210, the Slant community recommends Shark Navigator Lift-Away NV352 for most people. In the question"What are the best vacuum cleaners?" Shark Navigator Lift-Away NV352 is ranked 1st while Vacmaster VBV1210 is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Shark Navigator Lift-Away NV352 is:
At a price point below $120 it is extremely hard to find a matching competitor to this versatile, powerful, and highly adjustable vacuum cleaner. It's efficient in different cleaning scenarios and the suction power it offers is on par with more expensive units.
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Pro Excellent value for money
At a price point below $120 it is extremely hard to find a matching competitor to this versatile, powerful, and highly adjustable vacuum cleaner. It's efficient in different cleaning scenarios and the suction power it offers is on par with more expensive units.
Pro Versatile
One of the most standout features of this vacuum is the possibility to detach the canister from the bottom part of the vacuum and just carry it around as a canister unit. This allows to reach and clean spots that would be hard or impossible to get to with a traditional upright cleaner. It comes in particularly handy when cleaning steep stairs or narrow places where it would be hard to maneuver with a full-sized vacuum.
Pro Keeps the air clean
This vacuum is equipped with a HEPA filtration system to keep the air free of allergens and dust particles. The foam filter protects the motor from large dust particles, and the HEPA filter filters the outflowing air from the vacuum, preventing allergens and microscopic dust going back in the air. This is important to allergen-sensitive people, and the air will feel overall fresher after cleaning.
Pro Swivel steering
Like more expensive Dyson upright cleaners, this one has a swiveling head to help you get around tight spots and under the furniture. It isn't as good as on premium models, but still makes the job a lot easier.
Pro Really strong suction
Pro Easy to carry around
Weighing only 12 pounds, this vacuum cleaner is easy to maneuver and carry around.
Pro Fairly long power cord
The power cord is 25 ft. long, allowing to cover a wide area without the need to go from one outlet to another.
Pro Bagless dustbin is easy to empty
There are no bags that you need to replace or clean out. Instead, the dust is collected in a bin that can be quickly emptied. It worth noting that that can create a large dust cloud for a moment.
Pro Clog-up protection
If the vacuum does clog-up, it will start to suck air through an emergency vent to prevent the motor from burning.
Pro Helpful accessories included
The vacuum ships together with four attachments: 2 crevice tools, a dusting brush, and a tool that helps removing pet hair.
Pro Adjustable suction power
It is possible to adjust the suction power with a valve on the handle. This can come in handy when you are, for example, dealing with small or high pile carpets.
Pro Filters don't need to be replaced, just washed
The filters are washable and don't need to be replaced, but you have to remember to wash them once every 1 or 3 months for optimum performance.
Pro Perfect for heavy jobs
This unit has one of the most powerful motors in its price range, being capable of outputing a maximum of 5 hp of raw power. This immense power allows it to suck up large amounts of liquid, large pieces of sawdust, or even screws.
Pro Easy to dispose of debris
If you happen to use the vacuum to collect liquid and large debris, it is very straightforward to dispose of them. You don't have to pick up the unit to pour out the liquid. Instead, you can use a large drain port.
Pro Big, yet portable
Weighing 17 pounds, being 18 inches wide, and having a canister that can hold up to 12 gallons of dust, this vacuum is big. But it's also quite portable. It has four 360-degree casters that, once attached, making this unit easy to roll around. Because of its wide footprint, it is very stable and unlikely to tip over.
Pro You can turn it into a blower
It can be transformed into a blower and the powerful motor can produce more than 200 mph of wind power to blow leaves or other stuff around.
Con Not the best choice for pet owners
If it gets too much animal hair, it gets clogged up easily.
Con Feels cheap
It isn't made from premium materials and that is very noticeable. Overall, the construction quality could be better.
Con No LED headlight
There's no light in front of the cleaner, which would be handy when cleaning under furniture.
Con Suction can be too strong
It could make it very hard to clean rugs because the suction is so strong, even when set to the lowest suction power, that the vacuum is too hard to push and has to be pulled and lifted to clean rugs making it a not-so-easy task.
Con Non-retractable power cord
The power cord doesn't retract into the unit.
Con No dustbin sensors
The vacuum will not warn you when it needs to be emptied. You have to keep an eye on that yourself.
Con There is no height adjustment
You can't change the height of the vacuum, so it will be hard to do things like cleaning high-pile rugs.
Con Has a plowing effect
The vacuum tends to push around larger debris instead of cleaning it up. This means a couple of extras passes are needed to get the floor completely clean.
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Klondike - Preview
Preview by Jack Foley
GAME of Thrones star Richard Madden and Abbie Cornish (Robocop 2014) head up an all-star cast that includes Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), Sam Shepard (Mud), Tim Blake Nelson (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?) and Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) in the hit US mini-series Klondike.
Coming to DVD on May 5, 2014, the show is produced by the legendary multi-award winning Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) and has been gaining critical-acclaim in the US ahead of its UK premiere on Discovery Channel later this month.
Based on incredible true events, the six-part adventure about the ruthless and cut-throat quest for gold in turn-of-the-century America takes its inspiration from Charlotte Gray's book, Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike.
Having just graduated from college, the highly ambitious Bill Haskell (Madden), along with his best friend set off for the Yukon to stake claim on the gold that remains untapped in the hills near Dawson City.
However, the trek quickly becomes more treacherous than they could have ever imagined with perilous rapids, avalanches and savage wolves standing between them and their fortune.
Once they reach Dawson City Bill meets beautiful businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney (Cornish), the two are instantly drawn to one another but when Haskell crosses the path of the ruthless local gangster known only as The Count (Roth) he soon realises that the real danger is only just beginning.
Win Klondike on DVD
To celebrate the release of Klondike on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday, May 5, 2014, IndieLondon is offering readers the chance to win 1 of 3 copies on DVD. Simply answer the following question…
Q. Who wrote the book upon which Klondike is based?
Simply send the answer to Klondike competition and include your name, address, telephone number and email
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Running Time: 272 mins approx (6 episodes)
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Mi Padrino is a moderating organization specializing in the crowd-gifting events for the global Hispanic event market. The company offers a reliable alternative to traditional means of padrinos (financial sponsors) and promotes traditional Latin American cultural celebrations such as Quinceañeras, weddings, Tres Años and baptisms. Offering both a B2C and B2B revenue model, Mi Padrino has solved a huge problem for the Hispanic people yet has given national and local businesses an opportunity to capture the attention of the fastest growing demographic in the US.
Update - Year 1:
Mi Padrino has been growing exponentially since its launch in June 2017, blowing a year-end user goal of 600 out of the water, with actual users totaling 50,000! Founder Kim Gamez won $50K at a female pitch competition in Upstate New York in October '17, and just a few weeks later went on to win $100K at Accelerate Michigan's Innovation Competition! Mi Padrino was featured nationwide on the cover of Quinceanera Magazine this Spring, and is excited to announce that Carley Roney, Founder of TheKnot, has joined the team as a mentor/advisor. Mi Padrino recently closed a Series Seed investment led by Astia Angels, and is currently part of the Desai Accelerator in Ann Arbor. The company has many strategic partnerships in the works, is building features that will allow growth into Mexico, and is on track to hit 500,000 users this year!


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Okeechobee County Florida Board of County CommissionersHome Menu
Healthcare Facility CEMP Reviews
In 1995, House Bill 911 was signed into legislation which requires all health care facilities to have a comprehensive emergency management plan (CEMP). The CEMP must be developed by each facility and then submitted to the the local emergency management office for review against the specific state criteria. The purpose of this bill is to reinforce the concept that your health care facilities, as part of doing business, are responsible for your residents. This responsibility is not just during normal business operations, but also during emergency situations. Preparing your health care facility to work through emergencies in times of need will save lives and protect property. This planning will allow your health care facility the ability to continue to provide for and take responsibility for services your residents need, which they have paid for and will require during emergency situations.
Disaster plans are to be developed by each individual facility that addresses all the required criteria found in the State's criteria checklists and the appropriate requirements found in Florida Statute and the Florida Administrative Code. These disaster plans must be submitted, reviewed, and approved annually by the Okeechobee Office of Emergency Management, for compliance in addressing those criteria.
If you run a healthcare facility in Okeechobee County, you are required by Florida Statute to submit a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) to Okeechobee County Emergency Management for review annually. Currently, the facilities that are required by Florida Statute (F.S.) and Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) to develop and submit a disaster plan to Emergency Management for review are as follows:
Criteria, Statutes and Rules
|Adult Day Care Facilities
|F.S. 395.1055 (1)(c)
|Ambulatory Surgical Centers
|F.S. 395.1055 (1)(c)
|Assisted Living Facilities
|F.S. 400.441 (1)(b)
|F.A.C. 58A-5.024 (1)(j)
|Nursing Homes
|F.S. 400.23 (2)(g)
|Intermediate Care Facility for Developmentally Disabled
|Residential Treatment Center
|The required Emergency Management Planning Criteria and other required forms for your facility type may be requested by contacting our office (see below).
Other Required Forms:
- Emergency Power Plan Criteria (Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities Only)
- Facility Contact Information Form
Any changes in the criteria, reporting processes, or any additional criteria requirements will be at the discretion of the State Agencies and Florida Legislature. The interpretations of what meets the required criteria found in the disaster plans will be at the discretion of the local emergency management office.
Okeechobee County Emergency Management does not have an electronic emergency plan review process, and so the healthcare facility plans listed above should be remitted either in person in a tabbed binder or in a single document email to:
Healthcare CEMP Review Contact Information:
Additional Information:
The local health department is the reviewing agency for non-facilities (i.e. home health agencies, home medical equipment providers, hospice, and nurse registries). The Okeechobee County Emergency Management office has no authority for these plan reviews. The Florida Department of Health has implemented a new process of the review of these plans as described below.
The plans for all non-facilities will submit their plans to the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Bureau of Preparedness and Response (BPR) using the following link: FDOH BPR Plan Submittal
For providers unable to make an electronic submission, CEMP's can be mailed to:
ATTN: CEMP Reviewer
Florida Department of Health
Bureau of Preparedness & Response
4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin A-23
Tallahassee, FL 32399
For questions, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com by email or call (844)234-9307
Disaster plan submissions from these medical providers should be coordinated with the local health department office at:
Florida Department of Health - Okeechobee
ATTN: CEMP Plan Review
1728 NW 9th Avenue
Okeechobee, FL 34972
NOTE: The Florida Department of Health does charge a fee for their CEMP review process. Please contact their office for more information.


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The development of the international tourism project "Roman Emperors' Road" was a focus of the meeting of Bulgarian and Croatian Economy Ministers in Zagreb.
Tourism harbors a great potential for the Bulgarian-Croatian economic ties, according to Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, and his Croatian counterpart Duro Popijac. Traikov was in Zagreb on Wednesday as a part of the Bulgarian state delegation led by PM Boyko Borisov.
The "Roman Emperors' Road" is a project for an international cultural itinerary of four countries Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia. It focuses on promoting cultural heritage from the Roman Empire period combining with modern practices such as spa tourism.
In Bulgaria, the itinerary includes Roman routes that are still in use today as major transport arteries such as the Danube River, the Sofia-Plovdiv-Svilengrad road, the Black Sea panorama road, the Economy Ministry reminds.
Ministers Traikov and Popijac have hailed the growth of the Bulgarian-Croatian trade by 10% in 2010 y/y. Traikov remarked in Zagreb that Croatia's accession to the EU will boost substantially the exchange of trade and investments.
Traikov and Popijac opened a Bulgarian-Croatian business forum, while Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister in charge of tourism Ivo Marinov took part in the Joint Bulgarian-Croatian Tourism Commission.
In 2010, Bulgaria's trade with Croatia amounted to EUR 117.6 M, 10% more than in 2009. Bulgaria was visited by 14 186 Croatian tourists in 2010, also a 10% growth y/y. Croatian companies invested a total of EUR 38 M in Bulgaria in 2000-2010.
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Anne Carson's Nox is one of the strangest, most beautiful, most human books I've ever seen. It's an elegy to her brother Michael, who died in 2000 and from whom she'd been almost completely estranged since 1978. After he died, Carson created a notebook—what she called an "epitaph"—that recorded her brother's life and her own mourning. I'll let Meghan O'Rourke describe it to you (because she was the first person to describe it to me):
"Nox" is as much an artifact as a piece of writing. The contents arrive not between two covers but in a box about the size of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Inside is an accordion-style, full-color reproduction of the notebook, which incorporates pasted-in photographs, poems, collages, paintings, and a letter Michael once wrote home, along with fragments typed by Carson. The reproduction is done painstakingly, and conjures up an almost tactile sense of the handmade original. A mourner is always searching for traces of the lost one, and traces of that scrapbook's physicality—bits of handwriting, stamps, stains—add testimonial force: this person existed.
Translation, the act of renaming, is clearly crucial to Carson's method of coming to grips with loss. The first page is a yellowing, blurred poem in Latin: Catullus' poem 101, an elegy for his brother, who also died on a distant shore. . . . Most of the left-hand pages that follow are given over to lexicographical entries, defining each word of the Catullus elegy. The right-hand pages meditate on the difficulty of elegizing a brother who had disappeared from Carson's life long before his death.
It's a book about process—the process of grieving and the process of translation. Something about reading Nox feels a little intrusive, like reading someone's very private diary. But on the other hand, it also feels like Anne Carson is letting you check out the inside of her brain and look at the way her personal grief dovetails with her work as a poet and translator.
Here's her translation of Catullus 101. Read Nox to understand how this one specific person, Anne Carson, got to this specific rendering of this poem.
Many the peoples many the oceans I crossed—
I arrive at these poor, brother, burials
so I could give you the last gift owed to death
and talk (why?) with mute ash.
Now that Fortune tore you from me, you
oh poor (wrongly) brother (wrongly) taken from me,
now still anyway this—what a distant mood of parents
handed down as the sad gift for burials—
accept soaked with tears of a brother
and into forever, brother, farewell and farewell.


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Our Sales Team
The Offshore Sailing School Sales Team
The people you meet on the phone, at boat shows and through emails, work at Offshore Sailing School headquarters in Ft. Myers, Florida. They are all avid sailors and boaters, have taken or about to take one or more Offshore Sailing School courses, and are very knowledgeable about our locations. Our Sales Team is inspired by Beth Oliver, Director of Marketing on our Executive Team.
Sales Manager
Wendy moved to Florida in 2007 from Milwaukee with her husband. She studied business at Eau Claire University in Wisconsin and has worked in Sales and Administration with GE Medical and Verizon. An entrepreneur, she has owned and operated two small business in Milwaukee and Cape Coral, FL. Growing up near Lake Michigan Wendy enjoyed sailing in the summers with her husband and three daughters. Her hobbies include fishing, boating, and traveling. Her direct line is 239-985-7509; email email@example.com.
Sales Associate
Dawn's story started when a sailor fell in love with a local girl as his boat was docked at her Mediterranean island. Growing up on the Pacific in Southern California, and spending summers in the Mediterranean, she was always in or on the water – body boarding, fishing or sailing. It was a huge life change when she took a promotion in Colorado. Her passion has always been focusing on the customer; from starting a successful private label brand to helping restaurants be profitable. As a former All-American Soccer Player at the University of San Diego, she found time along the way to coach professionally and play in the WPSL. But more significantly, on the field is where she met her incredible husband! Getting back on the water and joining Offshore Sailing's amazing sales team has been a dream come true for this California girl. Her direct line is 239-985-7524; email email@example.com.
Sales Associate
Matthew is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Business Management and History. He is focused on customer service and helping others turn their sailing dreams into reality. Growing up on a river in Northern Indiana, he spent nearly every free hour navigating small streams and fishing for smallmouth bass. His passion for the water was greatly expanded when his wife completed her graduate degree in Speech Pathology and took a job on Florida's Suncoast. When Matthew isn't spending time on his vintage European mopeds or musical instruments, he can be found on one of the many barrier islands around the Fort Myers, FL area looking for Scotch Bonnets and Junonias. Taking a job with Offshore Sailing has been one of his proudest accomplishments and has given him the ability to pursue his dream of sailing the Caribbean with his father. His direct line is 239-985-7524, email email@example.com
Sales Associate
When her two sons left the nest, Diana elected started sailing on Highlanders in Indianapolis, IN. In 1997 her General Motors job moved to Detroit where she raced on a C&C35, J120s and NA40s at Bayview Yacht Club – one season as skipper and seven seasons as crew chief. She has sailed "her favorite boat," the Colgate 26, since its introduction in 1997 and has taken every course Offshore Sailing has to offer. During her four years as President of the National Women's Sailing Association, she taught at Women's Conferences, led Caribbean flotillas and Chesapeake schooner sailing programs. Diana joined Offshore in 2004. Her direct line is 239-985-7506; email email@example.com.
Sales Coordinator
Cheryl is a Navy daughter and a Navy wife. She grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore and Southeast Virginia and has always loved being around waterways. When her husband left the Navy, they moved to the Roanoke Valley and they would have to plan trips to visit friends and family in order to get back to the water. When Cheryl's husband accepted a job with a major commercial shipping line, it allowed them to move wherever they wished, and they happily settled in Southwest Florida, where family and Cheryl's water awaited. Cheryl enjoys spending time on her lanai, enjoying the views and reading books. Her direct line is 239-985-7530, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Operations Coordinator
Jerri moved to Florida in 2003 from Lansing, Michigan. She attended Edison College in Ft. Myers earning an Associates degree and later transferred to Florida Gulf Coast University earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource Management. Prior to coming to Offshore Sailing, Jerri worked various customer service positions in the banking and hospitality business and most recently as a manager in human resources at a local resort. Her hobbies include spending time with her dog Mia, participating in 5k mud and obstacle course events, boating and fishing, watching and attending college and professional football games. Jerri's direct line is 239-985-7500, email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Big Data In Manufacturing
The world of collecting and aggregating data to gain better insights is something the manufacturing industry is beginning to build upon. Understanding your supply chain, or reducing overheads like labour costs is now becoming a data-driven process.
In most industries, the use cases for big data could be drawing in external data sources like weather or social data. However, in manufacturing, it is subtly different. In manufacturing, it's critical to have a much more holistic approach to data including traditional business intelligence, predictive, and big data sources.
Factors Impacting Manufacturing
One of the well-known key factors that impacts manufacturing profitability is overheads. Unfortunately though sometimes actually defining and understanding the root causes behind overheads can be very challenging.
For instance labour costs in manufacturing averagely equate to 30-40% of overall costs, and having a data-driven process to track labour means being able to analyse which labour activities are productive, and which activities raise overheads and impact the overall profitability of the business. Big data in manufacturing is usually generated internally rather than blending external data as is typical in other industries.
Machines continuously generate data, and this data has been traditionally used in a maintenance capacity for monitoring alerts if certain operating conditions were met. However, organisations are now starting to use predictive technologies to pre-empt serious failures, which reduces overheads in fixing and replacing expensive machinery. The clever organisations are also collecting, storing, and processing ALL of the data their machines can generate; and are using sensory technology to expand the range of data collection to be used for reporting.
By considering a manufacturing business in more of a holistic way and extending cost forecasting to include the whole supply chain, delivery schedules, and even perhaps retail operations to sell your manufactured goods allows suppliers to track all raw material orders; and means that receiving data allows you to understand where in the supply chain a given commodity or part is located. The benefit of this is that it starts to eliminate manufacturing delays and costly downtime, and improves logistical efficiencies
It's critical in Manufacturing to have well-structured and managed business intelligence reporting capability to understand profit generating and non-profit generating activities. It is critical to change reactive machinery alert systems to proactive predictive pre-emptive monitoring and reporting to reduce machinery replacement costs. Finally, it is important to embrace sensory technology across your whole business and supply chain to achieve crucial efficiencies and cost savings. This way you can start to define and understand the root causes of overheads and plan a reduction plan to improve which will ultimately lead to greater profitability and company stability.
Some industries could think of Business Intelligence, predictive, and big data almost as separate things or add-ons which are blended together at some stage, but in manufacturing it's absolutely key to think about all of these internet of things (IoT) as a single design or solution, all working ubiquitously together.
If you recognise any of the above or you are interested in finding out more about data-driven solutions to improve your business, my advice would be to start building an ecosystem of partners who have the skills and capabilities to assist you on your journey to greater profitability.
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There isn't a shopping trip to my local grocer that doesn't involve bananas since we're big banana lovers in this house. As the weather heats up, my stock of frozen, over-ripe bananas increases dramatically because their shelf life seems to decrease dramatically. You're never supposed to put bananas in the refrigerator, but I guess you're not supposed to keep them in a desert, either. Point being, I always have some banana-bread-ready specimens in the freezer.
This recipe came to the top of my in-box recently via Anne at Uni Homemaker, a blogger I follow and whose recipes always look simple and delicious. She had adapted her recipe from Two Peas & Their Pod who had, in turn, adapted it from somewhere else. Along the way, the adaptations included less and less granulated sugar – a change I'm always happy to see, and more vanilla (also never a bad thing). I was also intrigued by the buttermilk, and I just so happened to have a bottle in my fridge perilously close to its expiration date.
I was feeling better about the reduced sugar when reality set in: how good is any banana bread without chocolate chips?? Honestly, without them, I'm not sure anyone in this house would give banana bread a second glance. So, for fun we threw in a few of those, too. Who needs reduced sugar, anyway? I'll justify it by continuing to tell myself buttermilk has fewer calories and less fat than regular milk. So, what's a few chocolate chips, right?
While the recipe originally said to cool completely before serving, there was no way that was happening. Personally, I like mine a little warm so the chocolate has that decadent, gooey consistency. To cool, or not to cool…that's your dilemma. Either way, it's tempting, moist, and delicious. Enjoy!
Chocolate Chip Buttermilk Banana Bread
- 1/2 c (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 2/3 c granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 c mashed banana (about 3 medium)
- 4 tbsp low-fat buttermilk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 c all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 c semi-sweet chocolate morsels
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 9-inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, mashed bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla until well mixed. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and stir in thoroughly. Slowly fold dry ingredients into banana mixture being careful not to over mix. Gently stir in chocolate morsels.
Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 55-60 or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the bread in the pan for about 15 minutes, then remove from pan and place on wire rack until completely cooled. Slice and serve.
Baker's Notes: Since buttermilk is more acidic and quite a bit tangier than regular milk, I thought there would be a noticeable flavor difference between this recipe and my standard recipes. I can honestly say, though, I detected no difference at all. After our taste test, I perused the internet for other buttermilk banana bread recipes and found quite a few, most of which called for a lot more buttermilk – anywhere in the range of 1/3 to one full cup. I also discovered that the tanginess in buttermilk is mellowed during baking, so I think 4 tablespoons isn't enough to make a perceptible difference in taste. The final product was no less delicious, but I think I might make it again using more buttermilk to see if I can't bring out more of the buttermilk flavor.


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Christ, His Gospel, His Church And His Judgement
Sunday, 28 October 2018 // Hebrews
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A Mighty Fortress is Our God, All Creatures of Our God and King, By Faith
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Mixed media (or multi-media) music. Music which incorporates one or more additional modes of expression, eg, speech, action, film, light effects, sculpture, dance. The idea of a 'total art work,' promulgated in the music dramas of Wagner, underwent a transmutation in the anti-romantic climate of the 20th century. Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat and Oedipus Rex, with their purposely startling juxtapositions of singing, narration, and mime, dealt in a kind of theatric polyphony remote indeed from the monolithic euphony of a Wagner opera. Their fundamental intention, 'intensification through mixture,' was not very different, though, and in a sense all staged musical pieces, including opera, are mixed media. This article, however, concentrates on music which incorporates uncustomary extra-musical presences, rather than on those ensconced in tradition.
Rooted in the bizarre refreshments of surrealism and dada (1910-20, Breton, Apollinaire, Duchamp, etc) mixed media flowered in theatre, music, film, and the visual arts after World War II. As the trend became a movement, John Cage emerged as the prime musical mover and his 'happenings' influenced both composers and other creative artists.
In Canada, Norman McLaren's experiments, starting in the late 1940s - drawing with coloured inks directly on film and on optical sound tracks to create in effect a unification of sound and light - were essentially cinematic studies, for the most part using fairly simple images and sound sources. Among more sophisticated and musically oriented works, Mercure's Structures métalliques, I, II and III (1961-2) were pioneer essays, mixing electronically manipulated real sounds with the sounds of metal sculptures struck onstage. Other mixtures of media occurred in Beckwith's radio collages Wednesday's Child (1962) and Canada Dash - Canada Dot (1965-7), Joachim's Illuminations I and II (1965 and 1969), Somers' Improvisation (1968), Charpentier's Orphée (1969), Weinzweig's Around the Stage in 25 Minutes during which a Number of Instruments Are Struck (1970), Schafer's Patria II (1972), Joachim's Mankind (1972), Tremblay's Oralléluiants (1975), Cherney's Tangents I and II (1975-6), and Deschênes-Harvey's Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (1976).
These examples employ elements of theatre (in what otherwise would be concert pieces); or mechanically or technologically produced effects; or - in the case of Mankind - slides and incense, four synthesizers, and four readers (ordained priests of four established religions), in addition to piano, timpani, and organ. Few of these would be considered hardcore mixed-media works, but they do represent Canadian composers' substantial, if conservative, response to multi-media possibilities.
The foremost exponent of mixed media in Canada probably has been Udo Kasemets who, in Toronto in the early 1960s, devised improvisational works for various combinations of performers (singers, instrumentalists, and/or dancers). Kasemets was the director of a number of concert series, culminating in the Synergetic Theatre at the Isaacs Gallery where happenings of a duration sometimes exceeding 24 hours took place in the mid-1960s. He lectured on music and mixed media at the Ontario College of Art 1970-87.
Other Canadian works of the 1960s and 1970s incorporated mixed-media techniques, eg, Don Druick's sound sculpture Tennessee-Buffalo Run (1971); John Fodi's Musick Bockxd (1969) for three actors/dancers and seven music boxes; Clifford Ford's Living Space (1973) for two dancers, lights, and 4-track tape; and Michel Gonneville's Guide (1976) for five performers - voice, flute, clarinet, piano, and mime - whose task is the unification of five works of different eras.
By the 1970s the financial difficulties of mounting such happenings reduced the number of mixed-media proponents. One notable exception was R. Murray Schafer, who produced several works in this genre, including Apocalypsis and several works in his Patria series. However, the marked increase in mixed-media productions throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s was perhaps facilitated by the improved quality and cheaper cost (hence greater accessibility) of various technologies (videotape cameras and players, computers) which could be used to generate music and/or to synchronize it with slide projections, or to control lighting, etc. Mixed media composers active during this time include Steven Gellman, whose Universe Symphony involved orchestra, synthesizers, and lighting effects, Jean Piché (Song of Late Summer for mixed chorus and tape, commissioned for Vancouver's Expo 86), Alain Thibault, Diana McIntosh, and Henry Kucharzyk.


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John Duarte and co-plaintiff Duarte Nursery won a round Thursday (Sept. 3), when U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) could be charged with violating Duarte's First Amendment rights.
Previously, Duarte had sued the Corps in October 2014 charging Fifth Amendment violations alleging the taking of his property without due process.
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Immediately after the judge's order, Duarte's attorneys from the Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amended complaint charging that the Corps filed a retaliatory lawsuit against Duarte when he went to the media to describe his struggles with the CoE. Those struggles began after Duarte plowed a field in Tehama County and planted wheat.
(For more details leading up to the Sept. 3 court actions, see: Plow Field, Go To Jail? Feds Threaten John Duarte. He Slugs Back)
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The court record shows that even after Duarte filed suit the Corps took no legal or other enforcement actions. Instead, the Corps fought Duarte's charges alleging lack of jurisdiction and other procedural issues.
Tony Francois, Duarte's attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, said that,
"The Second Amended Complaint alleges that the retaliation against Duarte Nursery and John Duarte (for suing the government, and making statements against the Army Corps in the press, on radio, and on television) was a substantial reason for the Army Corps and Justice Department bringing their lawsuit for supposed Clean Water Act violations.
"Prevailing on this claim will require the government to prove that they would have sued the Duartes and their company even absent the retaliatory motive. We do not think the government will be able to show this."
On April 23, 2014, the judge rejected the Corps' request to have the case dismissed. On May 7, 2014, the Corps filed a counterclaim. Duarte's attorneys subsequently obtained documents they say indicate the counterclaim was retaliatory:
According to Judge Mueller's Sept. 3 court order allowing the First Amendment violation claim,
"In May 2015, they [Duarte's attorneys] received the following documents among others in response to a production request: correspondence surrounding the filing of the counterclaim, correspondence containing a third party's observation that the counterclaim is retaliatory, and a deposition of Matthew Kelley of the Army Corps staff, who testifies about the unusual circumstances surrounding this litigation."
The judge's order allowing the First Amendment complain to be included in the trial concluded that,
"Plaintiffs' allegations support some inference that defendants filed the counterclaim in retaliation, and that the counterclaim's enforcement action would not have been filed without plaintiffs having first brought their initial claim. Plaintiffs plead injury of a violation of their rights to free speech. The claim is therefore legally sufficient…."
Francois said in a blog about the judge's order, that "Evidence discovered in the case shows that the Army Corps would not have referred this matter to the Justice Department, until our client sued the agency."


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3 Tips Before Hitting the Road This Summer
Summer vacation is one of the busiest times out on the road. Families can spend time traveling, taking advantage of a lengthy school break and long days of sunshine. You may have your RV gassed up and ready to go, but do you have a real idea of what you need to do before taking off on your next adventure? Texas offers some of the best family vacation possibilities, and so you may decide to do some exploring. Before loading the family up and hitting the open road, try these three tips to make the trip go smoothly.
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Calle Ocho came alive Sunday!
The music, dancing, food, and crowds filled Southwest 8th Street for the festival's 40th anniversary.
"One of the best Calle Ocho's ever," said Jerry Fernandez, President of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana. "Fifteen stages with the best musical talent from South America playing all over the place."
While many showed up to dance, others came for the food.
"Cuban sandwiches," said Lamont, a tourist from the north east.
"So I'm interested in the food, he's interested in the people-watching and taking pictures," said his date, Sakina. "I've never tried a Cuban sandwich before and figured this would be a great place to try it!"
The road from 27th Avenue to 12th Avenue was closed off to allow the thousands to wander around. Billed as the largest Hispanic street festival in the southeastern United States, the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana puts on the event each year.
"One of the highlights we're having today is the 'croquetaso,' the first-ever eating croqueta-eating championship," Fernandez said. "We have some of the best eaters in the world competing here."
With an impressive 158 croquetas in eight minutes, Carmen Chincotti from New Jersey won the contest.
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Everybody's favourite Italian chef Gino D'Acampo has officially launched his first My Coffee & Deli Bar!
The new Italian fast-casual dining offer, which is located on the ground floor of his Pizza & Prosecco bar in fashion retailer Next, is Gino's third venue in the city.
Visitors can choose to eat in or take away – with a breakfast, lunch and early evening menu that rotates throughout the day, every day. Guests will be transported into the streets of Italy with Neapolitan coffee and excellent Italian cuisine.
Diners are invited to skip the queues by pre-ordering online at at www.Gino2Go.com. A free delivery service is also available on orders over £30.
Speaking on the opening, Gino D'Acampo said: "I'm super happy to officially open the doors to My Coffee & Deli Bar, a place that serves real Italian food, as it should be, to eat in or to go.
"Lifestyles have changed with more and more of us eating on the move and looking for a quick and varied offer. I don't believe that convenience should compromise on quality nor come at a premium price.
"At My Coffee & Deli Bar guests can pop in for a quick, real Neapolitan coffee, a bite at breakfast or enjoy lunch. I've created a menu that I'm confident will satisfy every taste, all made fresh by my brilliant team."
Topping the list of breakfast favourites at My Coffee & Deli Bar are a wide range of hot sandwiches, croissants, cakes, muffins and much more, all made in-house by skilled pastry chefs and bakers at Gino's own bakery. Superfood yoghurts, home-made porridge topped with berries, honey or nuts, and fresh fruit are also available for those wanting a healthier option.
The lunch menu, available from 11am, boasts hand-stretched Neapolitan pizza, homemade pasta and classic sandwiches with a unique Italian twist – served on artisan Piadina and Spianata breads. For those with a sweet tooth, delicious traditional desserts are also on offer, such as tiramisu and panna cotta, alongside a wide selection of vegetarian, vegan and gluten free dishes.
Gino has also had some fun crafting a tasty selection of cold pressed juices with his closest friends. All made in house, 'Celebrity Juices' will be served, including Bunton's Beetroot Boogie, Phillip Schofield's Feel Good Factor, Keith Lemon's Carrot Kick and Gino's Fruit Fantastico. A percentage of all sales will be donated to Gino's charity of choice, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Diners wanting to take the weight off their feet and look out over historic Exchange Square can take advantage of My Coffee & Deli Bar's relaxed window bar or soak up the last of the Indian summer sun on the outdoor terrace. Further low-level seating is available at the rear of the restaurant and provides a glimpse of the latest trends available in Next.
Guests looking to extend their stay and enjoy a chilled glass of Prosecco or an Italian beer, can move on up to Gino's Pizza & Prosecco Bar with ease, with an internal lift taking guests straight up to the restaurant, located within Next.
The launch of Gino D'Acampo – My Coffee & Deli Bar follows the success of Gino's restaurants in Leeds, Harrogate, Manchester, Liverpool, Hull and London, with further restaurants to launch in partnership with Individual Restaurants in 2018 and a strong pipeline in place for 2019.


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76th National Scientific Congress Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA)
Perth Convention and Exhibition CentrePerth, AUSTRALIA Visit the Venue to read more
On behalf of the Organising Committee I am delighted to invite you to the 76th National Scientific Congress of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists. The Congress will be held in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from Saturday 7th to Tuesday 10th October 2017, which marks 10 years since the last Congress was held in Perth.
The logo and theme of the Congress –"Bridging the Elements"- are inspired by the newly developed Elizabeth Quay and its iconic footbridge, located next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Quay was built to bring the Swan River and Perth City together again and our Congress once again aims to bring together the many different elements of Anaesthesia.
The highly enthusiastic Local Organising Committee from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Anaesthetic Department has worked hard to produce a Congress with an outstanding scientific program and an exciting social program.
Our invited speakers are Professor Michael Avidan from Washington University of St Louis Missouri, Dr Philipp Lirk from Harvard University, Associate Professor Marjorie Stiegler from the University of North Carolina and Professor David Story from the University of Melbourne. Along with local speakers and facilitators, they will bridge the many elements of pre-, intra- and post-operative care in anaesthesia through an extensive scientific program consisting of concurrent lectures, special interest group sessions, refresher courses, workshops, small group discussions and research and poster sessions.
Our social program will open with a Welcome Reception on Friday evening where you will be able to catch up with old friends and meet new colleagues. Saturday evening will be an Exhibitors function that will give our sponsors and delegates a chance to mingle in a more relaxed setting. A new social element of this Congress is the appropriately themed Gala dinner – A Song of Ice and Fire on Sunday night, which for the first time will enable our weekend delegates to join in a festive night of food, wine and dance. Finally "A Night in The Park" on Monday evening at the State Reception Centre (Fraser's) in Kings Park will allow you to experience the wild flowers in full bloom and the breathtaking views of the Swan River and Elizabeth Quay.
Clear blue skies with balmy weather are the norm during springtime in Perth. I would highly recommend coming to Perth earlier or staying longer afterwards to enjoy and explore what our vast and amazing state of Western Australia has to offer – food, wine, natural attractions and a wide variety of outdoor activities.
We look forward to hosting you in Perth in October for a most memorable and educational meeting.
Dr David Law
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Pinky's Fandance - Missi Pyle
Missi Pyle has always been very fan friendly. In fact, I've never seen her be anything but cool to fans.
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Alinghi to Join World Match Racing Tour
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Alinghi, Defender of the 33rd America's Cup, will lead an all-star cast of teams during this season's World Match Racing Tour. "It will be great for us to get back on the World Tour and its top level match racing," said Ed Baird, helmsman for Alinghi. Baird, three-time Match Racing World Champion, ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year and defending 32nd America's Cup helmsman, will lead Alinghi at most stops on the World Tour.
An interesting change to this year's World Tour has been the introduction of the 'Tour Card' which guarantees certain teams entry into all of the World Tour events based on their previous years performance. The six teams that qualified for World Tour cards this year include:
Ian Williams (GBR) Bahrain Team Pindar – 2 x defending ISAF Match Racing World Champion.
Sébastien Col (FRA) French Team/K-Challenge – America's Cup helmsman and ISAF ranked number one match racer
Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Team/Team French Spirit
Paolo Cian (ITA) Team Shosholoza
Adam Minoprio (NZL) Emirates Team New Zealand/Black Match Racing
Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team
One remaining wildcard has yet to be allocated but there is strong interest from several teams. In addition to those above; a number of top teams are planning to compete on this year's World Tour including: Magnus Holmberg of Victory Challenge, three-time Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie and his TeamOrigin as well as Peter Gilmour who announced at the Monsoon Cup that Yanmar would be coming onboard as a new sponsor.
The new invite policy stems from a collaboration of input from competitors, events and the Tour. 'The policy helps in a number of ways,' commented Tour Director Craig Mitchell, 'Teams with a Tour Card get an automatic invite to the first 9 events'. This will help them with their own promotion and search for sponsors as they know for certain which events they will compete in. In previous years a team would find out if their invite had been accepted only a short time before the event, stopping them from any kind of long term planning. The event promoters also benefit from knowing who the majority of competitors will be at their event early on in the year. In terms of the overall championship there is now a clearly defined path laid down to show teams how they can get onto the World Tour and compete for the ISAF Match Racing World Championship.
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Implementation and Evaluation of an On-Demand Bus System
This work aims to develop and evaluate a dynamic bus system which abandons the concepts of a traditional bus service like bus line, bus station and timetable. The resulting system supports bringing customers from any location to any location, has a fleet of buses the routes of which are updated repeatedly as requests arrive and are accepted, and employs time windows in order to guarantee the desired pick-up and drop-off times of customers. We propose a technical realization and evaluate its effectiveness by running simulations in which traditional and dynamic systems are compared. Even though the operational cost and financial efficiency from a bus service provider's perspective is not the focus of this evaluation, the preliminary results show that both the provider and the customers might benefit from an on-demand dynamic system. We also hint at the feasibility of such a system in not only low-demand rural areas, but also high-demand urban regions.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2017)
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- Andreas Heuvels
- Robin Rogner
- Karl-Heinz Krempels
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Men and women who are single have dating rules they follow, and it is not surprising that the rules vary according to gender. Men are much more adventurous, but women tend to stay in groups. The rule for single women is that they go out in a group, and everyone must go home at the same time. If a woman chooses to meet a man after the group has broken up for the evening that is okay, but she cannot leave her friends in the chosen social setting.
Men's rules do reflect their nature, and it is not uncommon for men to go out alone. While single women generally go to social events in a group, men may be alone, have a buddy with them, or they might be in a large group. It does not matter if they leave the group during the evening, and some of them have signals worked out in advance to let their friends know they are leaving early.
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We gave ourselves the job of listening to the full conference in English, and then we introduce you to some excerpts - not published in the FSSPX.NEWS article - from the conference of Bishop Fellay on February 3 of this year in the Priory St. Joseph, from Michigan, USA:
After reviewing the history of the Fraternity and its comings and goings in Rome since 2000, he returns to talk about the devastating Bergoglio, whom he calls "our beloved Pope Francisco":
Pope Francis told me that it was probably the Holy Spirit who inspired Pope Benedict not to go ahead (with excommunication) and leave the matter to the next pope. Pope Francis refused to sign our excommunication. He told me: I will not condemn you. To Cardinal Castrillón, the Pope said: "I will never condemn the Fraternity." The Pope told us: "You are Catholics." I know, everyone knows all the problems we have in the Church for our beloved Pope Francis , and at the same time, the same Pope tells us: I will not condemn the Fraternity. He told us: "They make me trouble in Rome because I am kind to you, and I say to them: Listen, I have the Anglicans, I have the Protestants, why can not I have these Catholics?" That is what he said to me! [It seems that Bishop Fellay was not insulted when he was placed on the same level with Anglicans and Protestants] It is clear that the Pope has had gestures in our favor and has multiplied them, at different levels, most are unknown They are small, they are practical, and I can say that the Pope is ready to help . For example, there was a pilgrimage. We wanted to go into the churches and say the masses there, in Rome. The Argentines let the pope know and it was done. [No wonder the priests of the Fraternity did not say anything against Francisco on that occasion! It is impolite to criticize a benefactor Pope from the pulpits! What will happen, then, when Francisco finally grants the prelature to the SSPX, "doing a great act of justice," "paying off a debt of long decades," "closing a bleeding wound for more than 40 years," "restoring his rights to Tradition ", and" opening an immense field of apostolate to Tradition "?] We had problems in Argentina with the government: it was a real problem for us to reside in the country, visas, etc. The Pope intervened personally, in an absolutely personal way at all levels. It achieved that we were recognized as a Catholic entity in Argentina. He called everyone, including our priory. Imagine when the brother answered the phone ... [Imagine when the Pope "regularizes" the Fraternity ...] He does that. At the same time he does things that are the opposite, in the whole Church. I do not have an answer. I have some answers but they are not complete, they are not total. My impression is that Pope Francis gives much more importance to the person than to the doctrine. And so, if he knows someone who has a problem, he will only see the problem and forget the doctrine. [A Vicar of Christ who forgets the doctrine!] Not only with us, with everyone ... With the divorced and remarried is the same problem. And the Protestants: Bishop Palmer, a friend of the Pope, dies. He is a Protestant bishop. The part of the Catholic family asks for a Catholic funeral. The Catholic Church "sent them flying", and Pope Francis decided that he should be given a Catholic funeral by a Catholic bishop. If the law is followed, one says "no way! But "he is my friend! Let's do it for my friend! " It is very difficult to understand all these things . [Read: "I can not understand this liberal pope because I can not understand liberalism] Because it's not the normal way people behave, usually people put doctrine first, faith." When a friend is against the faith, you should be told, correct yourself or you are no longer my friend. "Pope Francis seems to believe otherwise:" If you are my friend, you will always be my friend. " One answer I got from one of our priests, Argentine. for us, friendship is sacred, you are my friend, you are my friend no matter what happens, so do we believe that the pope considers us his friends, I fear that this word will be too strong, I would not say friend, but he has sympathy for us He read twice the book of Bishop Tissier about Bishop Lefebvre, that fat book, he read it twice, one does not do it if he is not interested ... Do not read this book twice! read twice? Try to reflect! He read it twice! One of our priests: "The Church was hard on him". [We would like to know if on this planet there is a non-Swiss who thinks it is true that Francis read twice the biography of Bishop Lefebvre written by Bishop Tissier. To be convinced that this is true (Bishop Fellay is, because he has repeated the "anecdote of the fat book" several times) reveals a monumental naiveté ] This is his human side, that is why he is in favor of migrants, of the marginalized , etc. He sees by the people. And look so much for people who forget the law. And of course we have a problem with that, of course.
Explain below the last thing that has happened between the Neo-FSSPX and Rome:
We arrived in May of this year (2017) [La Vie was not wrong, nor was Non Possumus wrong with the entry of May 3, 2017 entitled: " La Vie: the agreement is imminent ". More "internet lies"?] They sent me a text that I had to sign, if I signed everything it would be all right and I said: the text is fine but it is not clear enough, it will cause problems among our people ... we would like it to be more Of course ... I think the text was correct but I did not sign it. But they gave it to me to sign, that was in March, then in May there was a meeting of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith; Then in June I receive a letter from Cardinal Müller that says: "I spoke with the pope, and we held a meeting of the congregation of the faith and all the cardinals of this meeting unanimously say that we must add some things. In the first place you can not say the old profession of faith, you must say the new one. They said: it is necessary, the other is insufficient. How can this be? Even for the bishops of the council it was enough and now it is not! What's going on? "And you MUST accept the council." First they told me that the discussion was open and now we must accept it. "You MUST say that the new Mass is legitimate." I was called to a meeting in Rome on July 12, but on July 2 the Pope dismissed Cardinal Müller. So I ask, what's going on? On the board, and they say "come to the meeting", so I went, and there they said: "What was that letter from Cardinal Müller ? We do not know her! We never knew about her! We learned because you published it, but we do not know what that is! "It was a letter from the cardinal prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith and they tell me they do not know it. Again, what is happening? However, the result or the effect is the new text that they presented to me where they say "they must say the new profession of faith", they say: "they must accept the council as such" [...] but you can discuss, you can ask, legitimately , and must accept that the mass is legitimate. " That's where we are now , and of course I wrote to Rome saying "I'm sorry but I do not understand". "One day they say this is enough, just firm; Two months later it is not enough anymore. Or is it that faith changes every day? What is this? " [Answer: the game to which the Romans have subjected him, Monseigneur] Well, this is the present situation. We return to zero point. There is a certain progress: I received a letter at the end of the year telling me that they received my letter and that they have decided to continue the dialogue, insisting that we must say the new profession of faith, that we must accept the council and the legitimacy of the new Mass. So we continue to dialogue. This is the present situation.
He ends by affirming that if we look for God, "miracles will happen", he explains what the Virgin of Guadalupe did to one of the Fraternity, taking him to a chapel of the SSPX in a miraculous way. He affirms that God does not abandon us and we must have a lot of faith, "God is with us". "He really cares what happens to us." So, dear readers, expect soon the "miracle" of the recognition of the Fraternity by the destroyer Francisco. Bishop Fellay said that we expected "miracles"!


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"Don't shoot the messenger!"
You normally tell that to someone when you're the innocent messenger, simply relaying the message. That phrase may work with family and friends, but the devil doesn't play by those rules. He wants to take down the messenger, the message, and he even (temporarily) killed the One who is the Message, Jesus!
Jesus warned us of the battle that would come. He told the disciples in Mark 13:13 that they'd be hated by the world because of Him. Translation: "Buckle up. Being My witnesses won't be easy."
In Acts 1:8, Jesus laid out His expansion plan for the church: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. As the church began living that out, the persecution in Acts 8:1 began.
When you live out Acts 1:8, you should expect Acts 8:1.
Persecution is a package deal with the Great Commission.
Thank God for the boldness of those in the early church who were scattered and preached the gospel (Acts 8:4). We are here today because of their boldness and willingness to take the gospel outside of their area. In fact, Philip's willingness to go to a deserted road heading to Gaza (see Acts 8) led to the salvation of an Ethiopian eunuch. Interestingly, Coptic Christians, who are persecuted severely in Egypt to this day (21 were beheaded on a viral propaganda film from ISIS just a couple years ago), trace their lineage back to the Ethiopian in Acts 8!
Satan is a defeated foe, but he's a foe nonetheless. He's going down, but not without a fight. Expect the battle.
Embrace the battle.
Walk in confidence.
God is with you, and when He's commanded something, He enables us to do it!
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1-54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora with annual editions in London, New York and Marrakech, a link between Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.
The fair launched its inaugural edition in Morocco between the 24 – 25 February 2018 at La Mamounia Hotel and presented special projects in partnership with Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Madeen (MACAAL), Musée Yves Saint-Laurent Marrakech and Fondation Montresso, as well as a wider program of events in partnership with other local institutions across the city, including Comptoir des Mines Galerie, LE 18 and Riad Yima, among others.
1-54 welcomed 4,000 visitors to view the offerings of 17 international galleries, which exhibited more than 60 contemporary artists from across Africa and its diaspora.
Sales were strong, but with the exception of a few rising stars, prices generally ranged from $1,000–20,000, still lower than other markets.
The variety of work showed that "African art" is a clumsy handle. Although it has often been essentialized in art history, Africa, after all, is made up of 54 countries. Here, a nuanced interpretation of African art is on view. Stories that tell of any African experience vastly differ from country to country, as does work guided by the experience of the being part of the diaspora.
London's Vigo Gallery has promoted art from Africa and the diaspora for the past six years and will offer rare works on paper from the 1970s by the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (1930).
He was the first African artist to have a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London and combines European styles with traditional Sudanese themes in his art. El-Salahi takes formal and ideological cues from modernist painting, resulting in a balance of pure expression and gestural freedom in his work. The mask-like faces and earth tones of his early graphic works channel elements of Cubism and Surrealism and incorporate Muslim iconography.
The London- and Berlin-based gallery Blain Southern, participating for the first time and showed interesting works by Abdoulaye Konaté (1953) from Mali. He questions the way in which societies and individuals, both in Mali and beyond, have been affected by factors such as war, the struggle for power, religion, globalization, ecological shifts and the AIDS epidemic. Employing material native to Mali, namely woven and dyed cloths, the artist creates large-scale abstract and figurative compositions.
Yossi Milo Gallery, from New York, focused its attention on the representation of artists specializing in photo-based art as the Burkina Faso photographer Sanlé Sory.
Through a solo and group exhibition program LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery provided a platform for artists and audiences from Côte d'Ivoire and abroad. During 1-54 it presented the Bissau-Guinean artist Nu Barreto (1966) who uses drawing, found objects and collage to awaken the viewer through his paintings, drawings, photographs and videos. His leitmotiv has been the condemnation of the oppressive acts in our world, especially denouncing the misery and suffering that plagues the African continent. He incorporates in his work the language of shapes, symbolic colors and motifs carrying a strong meaning.


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Dr. Ehaab Abdou
Dr. Ehaab Abdou is a social entrepreneur who co-founded Fat'het Kheir and Nahdet El Mahrousa NGOs in Egypt. Dr. Ehaab worked as a Senior Consultant at the World Bank and an Advisor for the Middle East Youth Initiative at Brookings Institution. He was also an Ashoka Fellow in 2004. Dr. Ehaab earned his master's degree in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh and obtained his PhD in the History of Education from McGill University.
Khalil El-Masry
Khalil El-Masry is a peace engineer. He co-founded 'Selmiyah' (Peacefully) movement promoting culture of peace in Egypt. Khalil also founded 'Madad' a social enterprise providing IT support to activists. Khalil is also a member of different peace building and intercultural exchange networks such as MitOst, Caux Scholars Program Alumni, and UN Alliance of Civilization Fellowship Alumni. He also worked as a consultant in different projects promoting co-existence and civic engagement. Currently, he is one of the co-founders of "The Globals", a new network of global citizens dedicated to foster global transformation.
Moataz Nasr
Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr explores traditions and new globalism, questioning geopolitical and social development in Africa. The artistic practice for Nasr is a tool and a language that embraces art, sociology, Sufism and history in order to encourage dialogue across geographical boundaries. In 2017, he has been selected to represent Egypt during the 57th Venice Biennale. His most recent group shows include the participation to the Yinchuan Biennale, China, curated by Marco Scotini and the participation to the International Contemporary Art Exhibition (ICAE2018), in Yarevan, Armenia, curated by Mazdak Faiznia.
Rapahëlle Ayach
Rapahëlle Ayach is the Founder and Director of Safarni. Safarni is engaging underprivileged children in "touch-feel" simulated travel adventures that provide meaningful intercultural interactions with people from other cultures. Under the name of Safarni, which in Arabic means "Allow Me to Travel," Rapahëlle engages the expatriate community in Egypt, Egyptian university volunteers, facilitators, and local CSOs with underprivileged children using an intercultural curriculum.
Ahmed El Karrany
Ahmed El Karrany is Head of Inclusive and Creative Economies Program at the British Council in Cairo and Adjunct Professor and Lecturer of Business and Social Entrepreneurship at ESLSCA Business School.
Yasmine Ibrahim
Yasmine Ibrahim founded the Digital Museum of Women to research, highlight, and preserve women's history in Egypt since the 1800's, along with providing women with knowledge and tools to be empowered through storytelling. Yasmine Ibrahim is a graduate of the Faculty of Law Cairo University and she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma on the status of women and women's rights in the MENA region from Lund University in Sweden.
Mohsen Kamal
Mohsen Kamal works as a freelance trainer in civic education with the Goethe Institut in Cairo. Mohsen graduated from Cairo University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2005 and since then worked in the human rights education field. He has an international experience in human rights being a fellow with the Human Rights Center – University of Minnesota in 2009, and serving in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament – Brussels in 2012. He also served as the Deputy Director of the Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence for four years.
Lina Al Khatib
Lina Al Khatib has helped more than 400 professionals to improve their professional skills and calibre. She worked with international agencies such as Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Italian Cooperation as well as local NGOs and enterprises. Lina holds a certificate in Management from Emory University in USA and participated in women entrepreneurship and leadership programs at the American University in Cairo. She is also the organizer of Cairocomix International Festival .
Sherwet Ahmed
Sherwet Ahmed works as a Program Officer at Oxfam International in Egypt. Sherwet was previously the Program Manager of 'My Right' program at the British Council in Egypt. She has been working in development for almost 14 years in a variety of development fields including gender, community development, environmental rights, natural resources, policy setting, advocacy, social entrepreneurship, youth, and civic education. Sherwet managed the Lazord Fellowship Program and founded the Lazord for Civic Professionals Program.
Nadeen Gamil
Nadeen Gamil is a feminist and a women's rights' advocate and her interest in this field is derived from her own personal belief and passion for women's rights' and gender equality in order to end all forms of gender discrimination and inequality in Egypt. She has been working with Dr. Nawal Al Saadawi since 2011, advocating against societal problems such as sexual harassment, rape, female genital mutilation, and domestic violence.
Muhammad Omar
Muhammad Omar is the Marketing Manager at Eventtus and was previously the Brand Manager Assistant for Sarmady (A Vodafone company) and the Co-founder and Blogger at E3langi.com.
Basma Tawakol
Basma Tawakol is the Business Unit Manager at Edupoles LMS and previously worked as the E-learning platforms manager at Cloudypedia (Google premier partner). She graduated from Ain Shams University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management, and has a diploma in Executive Management from the American University in Cairo. Basma has been engaged in civil society for more than five years with Alashanek Ya Balady – Ain Shams University and was also the co-founder of the Ezbet Project in partnership with Stuttgart University in Germany.
Yasmine Madkour
Yasmine Madkour is a writer, counselor, and wellness consultant. Yasmine is the Founder & Lead Coach of Well Work, which is specialized in office wellness to help professionals, companies, and organizations with mental health and productivity. She also founded "Ata' Eidak – قطع إيد" initiative, which is an women's anti-harassment movement and "Edeehom Fionkat – Give them a Ribbon" to stop men intrusion's into women's only public places. She is also the co-founder of Dawayr Cultural initiative that supports youth's exposure to new cultures and the founder of Doors Inc. for digital marketing services.
Ahmed El Garhy
Ahmed El Garhy is an instructor of career development at AUC. In addition to his two bachelor degrees in Radio & Television and Clinical Pharmacology from Cairo University, he obtained his MBA from Paris ESLSCA Business School of France in triple majors: International Marketing, Finance and Global Management. He is eligible to certify trainers as he is an internationally certified Master Trainer from Infosys int. & MCIT.
Nihal Zaghloul
Nihal Zaghloul works as an Associate Consultant in Research at Mission Talent in Berlin. Nihal is the Co-Founder and Fundraising Officer of New Imprint Foundation Development (حركة بصمة). She has been working in the field gender based violence in Cairo for four years. Nihal is a fellow in the Community Solutions Program, She was Africa's and Middle East (AME) Communications and Advocacy Consultant with Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLMUL).
Kariman El- Shaer
Kariman El-Shaer works as the Fundraising Officer at Baheya Foundation for Treatment of Breast Cancer. She is an ikteshaaf fellow from the first cohort. Her areas of interest are non-formal education, child and youth development, community organizing and outreach, non-profit management, and creative arts. She started her work in civil society when she was student as a volunteer at AYB. She worked at Save the Children as a caseworker with Syrian refugees and fundraising officer at Fard Foundation.
Ali Wanli
Ali Wanli has been working in the development field in Egypt and in Syria since 2011. He was previously the Director of the Communications unit at Fard Foundation and the Vice President of Communications at Syria Algad Relief Foudantion.
Mostafa Abosaif
Mostafa Abosaif is the Founder and Executive manager of Chefchaoun co-working space. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration and mass communication from Cairo University. Mostafa previously worked at Raya Data Center, Juhayana, Xceed, and Procter and Gamble.


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Policy Issues on the Promotion of Mental Health
The promotion of Mental Health works at three levels and each level is relevant to the whole population, to individuals at risk, vulnerable groups and people with mental health problems.
- Strengthening individuals - or increasing emotional resilience through interventions to promote self-esteem, life and coping skills, negotiating relationships and parenting skills
- Strengthening communities - this involves increasing social inclusion and participation, improving environments, developing health and social services which support mental health, workplace health, community safety and self help networks
- Reducing structural barriers to mental health - through initiatives to reduce discrimination and inequalities and to promote access to education, meaningful employment, housing, and support for those who are vulnerable.
Mental Health is thus the emotional and spiritual resilience, which enables us to enjoy life and to survive pain and disappointment and sadness. It is a positive sense of well-being and an underlying belief on our own and other's dignity and worth.
Recent transnational and national policies on mental health adopt a broader view than the traditional psychiatric model. This approach is directed at promoting good mental health, preventing mental ill health and ensuring early intervention when mental health problems occur.
It involves looking beyond prevention, to the relationship between mental well-being and physical health; behavioural problems; child abuse; violence and drug and alcohol abuse. In promotion and prevention policies such social determinants as living and working conditions; homelessness; poverty, social networks and support, unemployment and risk taking behaviour are included. In effect it means addressing the mental health impact of public policies, programmes and plans.
European Union Policy
In the EU Green paper "Improving the mental health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union" proposes to establish an EU Strategy on mental health to provide a framework for exchange and cooperation between Member States; by helping to increase the coherence of actions in the health and non health policy sectors in Member States and at European Union level. http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/index_en.htm
The European Treaty in Article 1`52 stipulates that all Community policies and activities shall ensure a high level of human health protection and shall complement national policies for improving health, preventing illness and disease, health information and education and shall encourage cooperation between Member States in these fields. Member States are exclusively competent for the organisation of health services, care and treatment.
Annex 5 of the Green Paper carries a Summary of selected European Commission activities relating to Mental Health between 1997 and 2004 based on these competencies within the Community policies and actions.
The Support Project
SUPPORT - www.supportproject.eu - is a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission under Priority Action Area Three (Health Determinants) of the Community Action Plan on Public Health. It carries news and information on current projects on mental health promotion and prevention as well the Goals of the SUPPORT project are:
- Supporting the EU Mental Health Strategy
- Engaging and Collaborating With Stakeholders
- Promoting the Exchange of Knowledge and Practice
- Making Policy Contributions in Relevant Forums
- Facilitating the Use of Mental Health Information
WHO Policy
The World Health Organisation has come to recognise the large burdens placed on society by mental illness. In addition, it has laid emphasis on the need for health promotion to be a part of the response to health threats, including those that relate to mental illness.
In recent years WHO have taken part in a number of policy initiatives in the area of mental. While many of these include elements directed at mental illness, some also are concerned with the promotion of mental health. These initiatives and publications include:
- The World Health Report (2001): Mental health; new understanding, New hope, Geneva, World Health Organisation: http://www.who.int/whr/2001/en/
- World Health Organisation (2005): Mental Health Declaration for Europe; Facing the Challenges, Building Solutions
- The Mental Health Global Action Programme (mhGAP) - http://www.who.int/mental_health/actionprogramme/en/index.html
International Policy Examples
- Making it Happen: A Guide to Delivering Mental Health Promotion
- The National Programme for Improving Mental health and Well-being in Scotland
- Mental Health Europe-Sante Mentale Europe
- Promotion, Prevention and Intervention in Mental Health in Australia
- Take Care of Your Mind: Canadian Mental Health Association


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Jon Stewart, Of Course
Last night Jon Stewart, of course, put the latest newsblork in the proper context. Go watch it.
One more thing that should be mentioned in this whole "if you like your plan, you can keep it" thing is the disruption that chapter 58 caused to private health coverage in Massachusetts. Lots of people with substandard plans (remember MEGA Life? We still do) had to change their coverage in 2007 as part of the introduction of minimum creditable coverage (MCC) - specifying minimum benefit levels to meet the individual mandate. A lot more people's coverage was disrupted in 2009, with the additional requirement that prescription drugs had to be included as part of MCC.
Yet Massachusetts seemed to take it all in stride, even though there was (and still is) serious opposition to the prescription drug requirement. Nobody was accused of any bad faith. There were no accusatory hearings or posturing, just some bills filed that die in committee every year.
Like I said, go watch this.
-Brian Rosman