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There have been periodic warnings in the last two centuries that automation and new technology would wipe out large numbers of middle-class jobs.
In the early 19th century, for instance, a group of English textile artisans, known as Luddites, famously protested the automation of textile production by seeking to destroy some of the machines. A century later, concern rose again over "The Automation Jobless," as they were called in the title of a Time magazine story of February 24, 1961. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson even empaneled a Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress to confront the productivity problem in 1964 — specifically, that productivity was rising so fast it might outstrip demand for labor. The Commission ultimately concluded that automation did not threaten employment, but that didn't permanently close the case.
Employment displacement concerns are valid and have regained prominence. For instance, in their widely discussed book, The Second Machine Age, MIT scholars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee offer an unsettling picture of the likely effects of automation on employment.
While we can say with certainty that the past two centuries of automation and technological progress have not made human labor obsolete — the employment‐to‐population ratio actually rose during the 20th century as women moved from home to market — past interactions between automation and employment do not necessarily predict the future. There's no fundamental economic law that guarantees every adult a living solely on the basis of sound mind and good character.
In particular, the emergence of greatly improved computing power, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics raises the possibility of replacing labor on a scale not previously observed. If this should occur, the primary challenge will be one of income distribution rather than non-employment. How can we ensure that the largest number of people gain from the surge in productivity?
Labor Market Polarization
Automation does, indeed, substitute for labor — as it is typically intended to do. However, automation also complements labor, raises output in ways that lead to higher demand for labor, and interacts with adjustments in labor supply.
The frontier of automation is rapidly advancing, yet the challenges to fully substituting machines for workers in tasks requiring flexibility, judgment, and common sense remain immense. In many cases, machines both substitute for and complement human labor — substituting for workers in routine, codifiable tasks, while amplifying the comparative advantage of workers in problem-solving skills, adaptability, and creativity. Focusing only on what is lost misses a central economic mechanism by which automation affects the demand for labor: It raises the value of the tasks that workers uniquely supply.
The biggest challenge as new technologies emerge is in the types of jobs created and what those jobs pay — not the number of jobs per se. Although automation may not prove the enemy of employment, it may pose a large challenge for income distribution. In the last few decades, a "polarization" of the labor market is emerging in which employment gains accrue disproportionately in jobs at the top and bottom of the distribution. The rapid employment growth in both high- and low-education jobs has substantially reduced the share of employment for "middle-skill" jobs. In 1979, the four middle-skill occupations — sales, office and administrative workers, production workers, and operatives — accounted for 60% of employment. In 2007, this number was 49%, and in 2012, it was 46%. (See "Polarization in the U.S. Labor Market.")
What specific job changes can we expect going forward? Consider the surprising complementarities between information technology (IT) and employment in banking. When automated teller machines (ATMs) were introduced, their numbers in the U.S. economy quadrupled from approximately 100,000 to 400,000 between 1995 and 2010. You might assume that these machines all but eliminated bank tellers in that interval. But U.S. bank teller employment actually rose modestly from 500,000 to approximately 550,000 over the 30-year period from 1980 to 2010.
IT enabled a broader range of bank personnel to become involved in "relationship banking" as the routine cash-handling tasks of bank tellers receded. Banks recognized that tellers could be both checkout clerks and salespeople, forging relationships with customers and introducing them to additional bank services like credit cards, loans, and investment products. This is an example of a fundamental economic reality that is frequently overlooked: Tasks that cannot be substituted by automation are generally complemented by it.
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Job Quantity Versus Quality
Even if automation does not reduce the quantity of jobs, it may greatly affect the quality of available jobs. As the price of computing power has fallen, computers and their robot cousins have increasingly displaced workers in accomplishing explicit, codifiable tasks.
Tasks that have proved most vexing to automate are those demanding flexibility, judgment, and common sense — skills that we understand only tacitly. In particular, two broad sets of tasks have proven stubbornly challenging to computerize.
One category requires problem-solving capabilities, intuition, creativity, and persuasion. These tasks, termed "abstract," are characteristic of professional, technical, and managerial occupations. They employ workers with high levels of education and analytical capability, and they place a premium on inductive reasoning, communications ability, and expert mastery.
The second category includes tasks requiring adaptability, visual and language recognition, and in-person interactions — which we call "manual" tasks. Manual tasks are characteristic of food preparation and serving jobs, cleaning and janitorial work, grounds cleaning and maintenance, in-person health assistance, and numerous jobs in security and protective services.
Workers in abstract, task-intensive occupations benefit from IT because of strong complementarities between routine and abstract tasks, elastic demand for services, and inelastic labor supply to these occupations over the short and medium term — even though these activities present daunting challenges for automation. IT, then, should raise earnings in occupations that make intensive use of abstract tasks and among workers who intensively supply them.
The Role of Machine Learning
When considering how human labor can complement new technology, I see two distinct paths: environmental control and machine learning. The first regularizes the environment, so that comparatively inflexible machines can function semi-autonomously. In the second approach, engineers develop machines that attempt to infer rules from context, abundant data, and applied statistics.
Some researchers expect that as computing power rises and training databases grow, the machine-learning approach will meet or exceed human capabilities. Others suspect that machine learning will only "get it right" on average, while missing many of the most important and informative exceptions.
My prediction is that employment polarization will not continue indefinitely. While some of the tasks in many middle-skill jobs are susceptible to automation, many will continue to demand a mixture of tasks from across the skill spectrum. For example, medical support occupations — radiology technicians, phlebotomists, nurse technicians, and others — are a significant and rapidly growing category of relatively well-remunerated, middle-skill employment. A significant stratum of middle-skill jobs, combining vocational skills with literacy, numeracy, adaptability, problem solving, and common sense, will persist in coming decades.
This prediction has one obvious catch: the ability of the U.S. education and job-training system (both public and private) to produce the kinds of workers who will thrive in these jobs of the future. In this and other ways, the issue is not that middle-level workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human-capital investment must be at the heart of any long-term strategy for producing skills that are complemented, rather than substituted, by technological change.


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The tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the pre-monsoon season (May - June) have intensified since 1997 compared to 1979 - 1997. This has been attributed to decreased vertical wind shear due to the dimming effects of increased anthropogenic black carbon and sulfate emissions in the region. The decrease in vertical wind shear, however, is not the result of these emissions, but due to a 15-day on average earlier occurrence of tropical cyclones, according to a study spearheaded by Bin Wang at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa and published in "Brief Communications Arising" in the September 20, 2012, issue of Nature.
"About 90% of the pre-monsoon tropical cyclones occur during a small widow in late spring. The mean date during which the cyclones with maximum intensity occur has advanced from June 8 in the earlier period to May 24 in the second period," explains Bin Wang. "This advance has been accompanied by a significant decrease in vertical wind shear, which leads to tropical cyclone intensification, because large vertical wind shear is most destructive to intensification."
"The ultimate reason for this earlier occurrence of storms and their intensification is the tendency we have noticed for the southwesterly monsoon to begin earlier in recent years," says Wang. "This earlier monsoon onset is related to the greater warming of the Asian landmass than the ocean and thus an increased temperature ocean-land contrast over the last years. This greater temperature difference may strengthen the monsoon and create more favorable conditions for the formation of tropical cyclones."
"All the changes that we see in the pre-monsoon storms and the earlier monsoon onset since the late 90s, can be the result either of natural variability, namely the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, or of warming effects due to greater greenhouse gas emissions, but not the effect of increased aerosols. Only time and more research will tell."
Funding: NASA and the institutional grants of the International Pacific Research Center (JAMSTEC, NASA, and NOAA).
Citation: Bin Wang, Shibin Xu, and Liguang Wu: Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms: Brief Communications Arising, Nature, Sept. 20, 2012, 489.
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Holiday Lights at the Village Green
Celebrate the holiday spirit at the The Village Green in Cottage Grove. Their outdoor gardens offer over half a million Christmas lights, food and beverages, fire-pits, Santa visits and more! Here are the top five reasons to visit this unique holiday market before Christmas.
1. The Lights
The lights are obviously the main attraction here. See over 500,000 Christmas lights covering the gardens at The Village Green. Walk through the light tunnel, see the Three Sisters Mountains, giant light-up presents, snowmen and more!
2. Food & Drinks
This German-themed market offers food and drink booths throughout. Enjoy Bratwurst, tri-tip sandwiches, fondue plates and Bavarian pretzels for dinner and then finish with a cinnamon roll, salted caramel covered brownie, kettle corn or sweet pretzel for dessert.
Their drink menu offers kid favorites like hot chocolate and apple cider. Adult beverages include Gluhwein (hot spiced wine), hot buttered rum, hard cider, beer and orchata rum coffee. Adults can also add a kick of hard alcohol to hot chocolate or apple cider.
3. The Artisan Vendors
Artisan vendor booths are open for holiday shopping. Browse handmade gifts such as birdhouses, candles, jewelry, clothing, holiday décor and more. This is a great place to purchase locally made gifts to loved ones for the holidays.
4. The Fireplaces
It may be chilly outside this time of year, but you'll stay warm by the many fire pits throughout the market. Soak in the warmth while listening to live music from local bands and musicians. Blankets and covered seating areas available as well.
5. Santa!
Bring your kids (and your pets!) to visit Santa. Santa's living room is all set-up and he's waiting to hear those Christmas wishes and take photos. The entire market is pet friendly, so bring them down to get their picture taken too! Santa will be there every night the market is open. There is no cost to take photos with Santa but bring your own camera!
Plan Your Visit
Certain nights also feature special appearances. December 8 will have reindeer and December 14 will have carolers strolling through the market.
The Village Green Christmas Market is open Thursdays – Sundays from 5 – 9 p.m. from November 23 – December 23. Save money by purchasing tickets beforehand. Tickets also available at the door.
Stay the night at The Village Green by booking a lodging package that includes overnight accommodations, admission to the Christmas market, drink voucher, commemorative mug and breakfast.


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Cruises to Bermuda from New York & Baltimore
Getting lost will certainly have a new meaning for cruisers bound for the islands of Bermuda; but one that is not, thankfully, associated with that treacherous triangle. This British overseas territory also known as Somers Isles (not Summers Isles), sits all by itself in the North Atlantic. Bermuda's closest neighbor at least 1,000 kilometers away. It stands to reason, then, that cruises to Bermuda from New York or Baltimore and back could mean days at sea, leaving only the determined to uncover the treasure that awaits.
A Cruise to Bermuda's Hot Pink Beaches
Perhaps because of sheer distance (and that imaginary polygon) that the volume of visitors does not really swell beyond half a million a year. Although this might change soon with bigger Bermuda cruise lines calling in at King's Wharf; making it possible to snag a towel-sized patch of pink sand when your ship makes it past Bermuda's infamous coral reefs.
There is plenty of rose-colored real estate to choose from, but Horseshoe Bay is the most celebrated because its pink crescent shape against the blue sea is as picturesque as the hype. A cruise to Bermuda won't be complete without a day of snorkeling, and Church Bay, with its reef close to shore and protected from the vagaries of the Atlantic, is the place to be. West Whale Bay is most strategic for catching a glimpse of migrating humpback whales, while Chaplin Bay is famous for its privacy. The longest shoreline, Long Bay, and the most visually stunning, the jagged-peaked Jobson's Cove, are all worth a detour. All are in West End.
Exclusive Cruises to Bermuda from Baltimore
One of the staples of Bermuda cruises from Baltimore is an exclusive cruise that usually last from six to seven nights. Assuming two days are spent at sea, there is still plenty of time left to explore the treasures of Bermuda that beguile not just beach connoisseurs but also aficionados of (British) history. A close look at the British colonial architecture at Saint George inscribed as a World Heritage Site should top the list; followed by shopping and some sightseeing at the capital, Hamilton; and capped off by a generous serving of naval and shipwreck history at King's Wharf.
Apart from tourism, Bermuda's economy is heavily reliant on offshore financial services, which means that for every bikini-clad sun-worshipper there is swashbuckling golfer. Since Bermuda-only cruises usually spend separate days on each of these ports, there is more than adequate time to hit the tee, learn history, shop until you drop, laze on the beach, and party hard after dark, or any combination thereof.
Cruises New York to Bermuda and the Caribbean
New York to Bermuda cruises, with extended trips to the Caribbean, depart from Cape Liberty and call on King's Wharf, Philipsburg in the Dutch outpost of Sint Maarten, San Juan in Puerto Rico, and Labadee in Haiti (exclusively leased to Royal Caribbean). Cruises to Bermuda from New York can be as short as five nights, but mixed cruises are as long as nine.
The distance from Bermuda to the Caribbean Basin is considerable; so you will spend more time sailing and less time beach bumming. For a cursory look at the highlights of each port of call, a few hours would suffice, unless you are caught in one of those pink nooks that are just too picture-perfect to be true.


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Kristy King is the Director of Forest Restoration for the Natural Resources Group of NYC Parks. Here we get to know Kristy and the work that her department does to bring degraded land back to life in the surprisingly diverse range of natural areas of New York City.
Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in forest restoration work?
Kristy King: I've always been interested in biology and used to explore the woods and streams behind my house in Columbia, SC. I can't say that I was on track to work in forest restoration from a young age, but I've always been fascinated by the outdoors and felt that nature is an important part of the human experience. When studying biology in high school, ecology fascinated me the most due to the profound interconnectedness of life and the environment. I was so blown away by the complexity of it all and knew I wanted to dig deeper.
Can you tell us about your educational and career trajectory?
King: I studied Biology (focus on botany and ecology) at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and graduated in 2003. At that point I felt unsure about my trajectory and worked for some months as a florist and a field assistant performing vegetation surveys in the cypress swamps of Francis Marion National Forest, north of Charleston.
I then scored an entry level job with NOAA/National Ocean Service as a marine biologist (basically a lab technician) studying the ecological impacts of harmful algal blooms. I did that for three years and while it was very cool, I didn't feel personally invested in the field and didn't want to work as a laboratory scientist for my entire career.
I started independently exploring subfields in ecology and was quite taken by urban ecology both because I personally wanted to live in a big city and because I felt excited about the potential impacts of performing science and management where so many people live!


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Predictions and Nudges: What Behavioral Economics Has to Offer the Humanities, and Vice-Versa
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 304. $26.00.
Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Pp. 280. $25.95.
The informed law and humanities reader can hardly fail to be aware that the field of economics has undergone a "behavioral revolution" over the past several decades, and that this revolution has spilled over into the legal academy. Open an economics journal these days and you are likely to find any number of articles billing themselves as "behavioral" in orientation. Similarly, law reviews are filled with articles bearing titles ranging from "A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics" to "Harnessing Altruistic Theory and Behavioral Law and Economics to Rein in Executive Salaries" and "Some Lessons for Law from Behavioral Economics About Stockbrokers and Sophisticated Customers."
What does this behavioral turn in economics and legal scholarship signify? In economics, "behavioral" means adapting insights and methods from cognitive psychology to choices that economists had previously analyzed with a rational actor model. Traditional economics assumes that individuals are able to process information quickly and without mistakes. Behavioralists modify the traditional model with findings from cognitive psychology showing that individuals fall prey to common and predictable errors in information processing such as framing, over-confidence, and hindsight bias, to name only a few of our cognitive failings.
Recommended Citation
Anne C. Dailey & Peter Siegelman,
Predictions and Nudges: What Behavioral Economics Has to Offer the Humanities, and Vice-Versa,
Yale J.L. & Human.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol21/iss2/6


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On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher pitched a holiday for people who don't have children and argued that not having children is the best thing you can do for the environment.
Maher said, "Now that we've had Mother's Day and Father's Day, let's set aside this Sunday to celebrate people who are neither, with a new holiday called, 'I Didn't Reproduce Day.'"
Maher clarified that there isn't anything wrong with "having a small number of children."
He later stated, "[N]obody ever celebrates us, and they really should. Because you know what Mother Nature loves even more than electric cars? Condoms. There's literally nothing you can do that's better for the environment than to not produce another resource-sucking, waste-making human being, probably with a bad attitude."
He later added that having or not having children doesn't have a "moral dimension" to it, and is merely a matter of preference.
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On October 14-16, 2015, FANTA, in collaboration with the International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (iLiNS) Project, hosted a technical meeting, where program implementers and researchers convened to share evidence and operational lessons learned and discuss programmatic considerations regarding small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS). The main issues that arose around SQ-LSN from the conference proceedings include uptake by target populations, social and behavioral change communication, economics, and logistics.
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compression is a natural part of mastering.. you know this i know this.. we all know this.. its not like im using each compressor to shove the sound to its very peak.. the first one to to add suble gluing thats all just slight (VERY SLIGHT) compression to glue it all together.. every book and vid i've read on the subject always starts with a sidebus(ssl) compressor to glue you track together...if you do that in pre master great ... i do this first instead of on the mixdown its a resource saver... after that the multi band does all the work and the limiter has a slight thresh of 1-2 db but its only purpose is to keet it from going over -0.1 db that's all.. like i said previously to another helpful person you guys are very helpful all this is great info and it did help me figure out my issue.. but you can't cook with just salt and pepper sometimes a little spice and garlic will that your dish up a notch...
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"Therefore, remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called 'the uncircumcision' by what is called 'the circumcision,' which is made in the flesh by hands—remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:11-12).
Hope is a person. His name is Jesus. If you have Him, you have hope. If you don't have Him, you don't have hope. It is devastatingly simple. Hope is not found in people. It is not found in ourselves. It cannot be attained through possessions, position or status. It does not come from self-effort. Hope will forever evade us if Christ does not break into our hopelessness.
Being "separated" from Jesus describes the rift of the fall. It is our condition before God. We have willfully disconnected from our life source. The chasm between us is of our making. I have sinned. I have rebelled. I have transgressed. I have disobeyed. I have been foolish. I am guilty and I am hopeless. This is me without Christ. This is you without Christ.
I have sinned. I have rebelled. I have transgressed. I have disobeyed. I have been foolish. I am guilty and I have hope! This is me with Christ. This can be you with Christ if it is not already. Hopelessness is our current state and without Christ will become our permanent state.
Extended hopelessness is hell.[1] Push our status without Christ past death and into eternity and you have hell. Hell is a certain, fixed reality for all who reject Jesus Christ. It is to be eternally "separated" from Him. Hell is an existence with no hope, ever.[2] Tomorrow never gets better there. [3] Darkness never lifts there. Things don't ever improve there.
There is no plot, no story, no character development, no joy, no purpose. The slightest ray of hope will never shine on that dark, lonely place. It is pure, unmixed, unchanging despair. Even the hope of hope is banished from that cursed place.
To be without Christ is deadly. There is a reason that Jesus speaks so often about this terrifying reality.[4] Hope has come and is calling us out of hopelessness. He is wrenching us away from eternal despair.[5] Hope is on a rescue mission.
[1] Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 7. "It can be said that living without hope is like no longer living. Hell is hopelessness, and it is not for nothing that at the entrance to Dante's hell there stand the words: 'Abandon hope, all ye who enter here'" (emphasis mine).
[2] Suffering in hell is described in the New Testament as "everlasting punishment" (Matthew 25:46), "everlasting fire" (Matthew18:8), "the fire that shall never be quenched" (Mark 9:45), "the worm that never dies" (Mark 9:46), "flaming fire" (2 Thessalonians 1:8), "everlasting chains" (Jude 6), "eternal fire" (Jude 7), "the blackness of darkness forever" (Jude 13), "the smoke of torment ascending up forever and ever" (Revelation 14:11, 19:3), "the lake of fire and brimstone" in which the devil, the beast, and the false prophet "shall be tormented day and night, forever and ever" (Revelation 20:10).
[3] This stands in stark contrast with the reality of heaven. Heaven is characterized by fresh joy-filled tomorrows. Sam Storms, "Joys Eternal Increase: Edwards on the Beauty of Heaven," Desiring God 2003 National Conference (www.desiringgod.org). "Heaven is not simply about the reality or experience of joy, but its eternal increase. The blessedness of the beauty of heaven is progressive, incremental, and incessantly expansive." He grounds his discussion in Ephesians 2:7, "God made us alive together with Christ and raised us up with him so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." The progression of eternity will be the continual unveiling of God's great kindness toward us found in Jesus Christ. We will forever unpack his saving mercy to us. He further explains. "We will constantly be more amazed with God, more in love with God, and thus ever more relishing his presence and our relationship with him. Our experience of God will never reach it consummation. We will never finally arrive, as if upon reaching a peak we discover there is nothing beyond. Our experience of God will never become stale. It will deepen and develop, intensify and amplify, unfold and increase, broaden and balloon. Our relishing and rejoicing in God will sharpen and spread and extend and progress and mature and flower and blossom and widen and stretch and swell and snowball and inflate and lengthen and augment and advance and proliferate and accumulate and accelerate and multiply and heighten and reach a crescendo that will even then be only the beginning of an eternity of new and fresh insights into the majesty of who God is!" Hell is heaven's opposite. If heaven is the eternal incline into greater joy and happiness, hell is the eternal decline into greater despair and darkness. The utter absence of hope and its possibility is a dreadful dimension of eternal punishment. Three times Jesus uses the language of "outer darkness" to describe hell (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30). He is capturing the pure unmixed despair of a place void of light and hope. Peter uses the language of "pits of darkness" and "black darkness" to convey this reality (2 Peter 2:4, 17, see also 1 Samuel 2:9 and Isaiah 8:22).
[4] W.G.T. Shedd, The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1986), 12. "The strongest support of the doctrine of endless punishment is the teaching of Christ, the Redeemer of man." D.A. Carson, The Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10 (Baker Books, 1991). "Jesus himself speaks twice as often of hell as of heaven." Leon Morris, "The Dreadful Harvest." Christianity Today (May 27, 1991). "Jesus spoke more often about hell than he did about heaven. We cannot get around this fact."
[5] It is his work of gathering a lost people to himself that the gates of hell cannot withstand (Matthew 16:18). Hell will not prevail against God's saving activity. Once rescued from gates of hell, we are called to join his mission. Charles Spurgeon captured this well. "If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and un-prayed for."


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Supastition - Best Worst Day
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- Producer: Dirty Art Club
- Album: The Blackboard
Being that today is indeed Monday, it's likely your day is pretty sh*tty right about now. Well, suck it up, because your bad day doesn't even compare to Supastition's Best Worst Day. On his latest video single, the North Carolina emcee showcases his storytelling abilities, exhibiting a crisp flow that is the perfect complement to Dirty Art Club's smooth beat, based around a dusty vocal sample. Although Supa wakes up feeling great, we quickly see (thanks to the Shamus Coneys-directed visuals) and hear that something is definitely not kosher. While it might be the artist's Best Worst Day, his engaging bars are guaranteed to improve your day. Best Worst Day can be found on Supastition's Blackboard EP, out now.


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Hello from the West Metro:
Winter is here! I hope everyone has partnered with a reliable snow vendor for the remainder of the year. If you happen to need help with your property, feel free to reach out to your FSM.
Things are still running steady on this side of the city. We continue to bring on new business and new customers. Our office is continuing to grow as well.....which is great for the operations side of things!
Tyler, Kirsten and I are staying busy with a large floor work and carpet cleaning project that will wrap up at the end of December.
I also have a few other projects going on myself, which consist of patching and painting walls in private offices/conference rooms. Additionally, I have a large warehouse power washing job going on, in which we are washing concrete walls that are 32' tall and totals 300,000 sq ft! We rented 2 scissor lifts to complete the scope of work. Pretty cool project to be able to do!
I would like to say Happy Thanksgiving to all and safe travels.


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The idea that the baby boomers — who began retiring in droves in 2011 — will eventually crash the stock market has been going around for years. But will it actually happen?
Cathy Pareto, president of Cathy Pareto & Associates, a wealth management firm in Miami, Fla., believes the idea is farfetched because people who retire don't just yank all of their assets out of the market at once. They gradually shift their retirement assets from higher risk equities to lower risk bonds and stable value funds as they age, she said.
"You don't plan for retirement the day before or the day after you retire," she said. "Most have moved out of the stock market and already are invested in bonds, so the premise of this idea that all of these people are moving out of the stock market at once is flawed. They can't afford to do that."
Another reason Pareto doesn't believe the boomers will crash the market is that Treasury bond yields are very depressed. The current yield is less than 2 percent, "so retirees can't afford to live on those types of yields," Pareto said. "If you look at the S&P 500, the dividend is just above 2 percent. Granted, you take a different kind of risk to get that kind of income, but retirees would be hard pressed to make any reasonable money in just bonds in this environment."
The baby boomer generation encompasses 78 million people who were born between 1946 and 1964, according to the Congressional Budget Office in its report, "Will the Demand for Assets Fall When the Baby boomers Retire?"
"Some economists warn that if the baby-boom generation begins to sell off assets to finance retirement, there could be a steep decline in the demand for assets, particularly stocks," the 2009 report found.
Some economists concluded that the increase in baby boomers' demand for assets during their high-saving years is what caused the stock market to be so strong over the past two decades.
"In principle, if such an unusually large cohort were to sell its accumulated assets to finance consumption during retirement, the total demand for assets in the economy could fall substantially over several decades and the prices of those assets could decline as well," according to the CBO. "However, empirical evidence about the behavior of earlier groups of retirees suggests that baby boomers will not sell their accumulated assets quickly after they retire."
Evidence from past groups of retirees shows that most people don't substantially change the composition of their asset portfolios upon retirement, the report found.
The recession has caused many people to defer their retirement to a later date, which would reduce the amount of assets they would need to sell off to finance their retirement lifestyle. "The aggregate effect on asset demand might be small, however, if people delayed retiring for only a year or two," the report found.
The CBO added that foreign demand for U.S. assets should help counterbalance the baby boomer exodus.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco attempted to tie demographic trends to stock prices in its August 2011 report, "Boomer Retirement: Headwinds for U.S. Equity Markets?"
"Many baby boomers have already diversified their asset portfolios in preparation for retirement," the report stated. "Still, it is disconcerting that the retirement of the baby boom generation, which has long been expected to place downward pressure on U.S. equity values, is beginning in earnest just as the stock market is recovering from the recent financial crisis, potentially slowing down the pace of that recovery."
The Federal Reserve Bank used a statistical model in which the equity price/earnings (P/E) ratio depends on a measure of age distribution. It constructed its P/E ratio based on the year-end level of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index adjusted for inflation and average inflation-adjusted earnings over the past 12 months. It also measured age distribution using the ratio of the middle-age cohort, age 40-49, to the old-age cohort, age 60-69. It referred to this as the M/O ratio.
"In our view, the saving and investment behavior of the old-age cohort is more relevant for asset prices than the behavior of young adults. Equity accumulation by young adults is low. To the extent they save, it is primarily for housing rather than for investment in the stock market. In contrast, individuals age 60-69 may shift their portfolios as their financial needs and attitudes toward risk change," the report found. Social Security benefits also help determine how people react to retirement saving as they age.
According to its data, the Federal Reserve Bank found a high correlation between the P/E and M/O ratios between 1954 and 2010. For example, between 1981 and 2000, baby boomers reached their peak working and saving ages and the M/O ratio increased from about 0.18 to about 0.74. During the same period, the P/E ratio tripled from about 8 to 24.
In the 2000s, as the baby boomers began to age, both the M/O and P/E ratios declined substantially.
"Despite theoretical ambiguities, U.S. equity values have been closely related to demographic trends in the past half century. There has been a tight correlation between population dependency ratios, such as the M/O ratio, and the P/E ratio of the U.S. stock markets," the report concluded. "In the context of the impending retirement of baby boomers over the next two decades, this correlation portends poorly for equity values."
Market participants may assume the markets will react badly to the retirement of the baby boomers, which also could have a negative impact on the stock market in the future.
"It's hard to keep emotions in check when it comes to money issues," Pareto said. "Emotions get you in trouble. You let your fears take over logical decision-making. That is classical behavioral finance. You can look at numbers all day, strip things apart numberwise, but you have this other nontangible force out there which is people's behavior, which is directly tied to emotions. It is not so black and white."
She added that she is more concerned about the baby boomers' effect on health care and the drain on entitlement programs than their effect on financial markets.
For more Boomer coverage, see:
Boomers: What They Worry About
Targeting Younger Boomers: The Future of Retirement Planning
Protecting Boomers from Themselves


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Studying abroad has many benefits that help you grow professionally and personally. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity that allows students to expand their horizons. In 2016 alone, international students in the U.S. surpassed the 1 million mark, with 31 percent from China.
Recently, an article entitled "My Child, This Is Why We Sent You Abroad" went viral in China. Here is what the author, Jasmine Cheung, had to say.
Making decisions with new possibilities
When a student decides to further their studies overseas, it is a positive step toward overcoming their comfort level while experiencing a new environment in a foreign country. Apart from enhancing their academic qualifications, students will be able to develop the necessary creative, innovative, and independent skill sets that are imperative for future development.
They will gain self-sufficiency and learn how to think on their feet when studying overseas. They will also learn how to hear the voices of others and hone their teamwork skills. They will become aware of the possibility that they may not always be right as they are exposed to different ways of thinking in a group.
Developing independence and opportunities
Being alone in a foreign country makes a student independent and self-reliant in terms of solving issues and making important decisions that will in turn influence their future.
They establish relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. This creates an opportunity for students to learn, explore, and expand their horizon. It also provides an opportunity for international networking.
As a part of their study curriculum, students can decide to do an internship in a foreign company. This provides an opportunity for them to obtain a placement offer after their completion.
Adapting to new situations
In class, at a favorite lunch café, or even during a weekend getaway, students will be thrown into unknown and potentially difficult situations. While it's an exciting time to experience these novel moments, they may be forced outside of their comfort zone and feel a stronger need to scrutinize the situation, and to better plan for new situations.
The planning, organizing, and overall workflow can be applied to their career. Having studied abroad, they are now more equipped to handle high intensity demanding job roles, regardless of the field.
Communicating better
While studying abroad, during even the simplest interactions, they will be learning how to communicate in new ways daily. Depending on the language of the host country, they might resort to using a hybrid form of the English language, hand gestures, or a completely new language in their day-to-day interactions.
They will also learn to decipher facial expressions, body language, and gestures in order to successfully understand others and communicate their own opinions, needs, and questions.
Whatever method they use to communicate while studying abroad, they will be developing important cross-cultural communication skills that will undoubtedly help them in their future careers.
Jasmine Cheung concluded:
"In fact, the biggest gains are that they realize that they can survive in any country, and that they can pursue any future dream with newfound determination and skills. These two qualities alone will benefit them for the rest of their lives."
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Trying to rescue dogs in Romania is an incredibly hard and demoralising thing to do. Every day dogs die. Every day more puppies get dumped. Every day there is some new horror and every day we struggle with our limited to funds to save as many of these poor souls as we can. It is heart wrenching and exhausting. The thing that helps keep us going though are our happy tails. It is seeing all the dogs that we have managed to save happy and free in their new homes that brings that glimmer of hope that keeps us going.
Month: June 2015
Our dream of hope
If you have been following our blog or Facebook page you will know that we are often overwhelmed with sick, injured, very young or old dogs who need special care. Sadly for most of these the only place for them is the shelter. The sick and injured get to spend time in the vet's kennels but once they are better sadly we have to send most of them back to the shelter, often back to the same place that they were originally injured. Last year, and again this year, we were allowed to make improvements at the shelter to build special separate kennels for the young puppies. Puppies that make it into the puppy kennels no longer have to fear getting attacked, and even killed, by the adult dogs, and they do not have to starve as they no longer have to share their food with bigger, stronger dogs. Funding allowing we vaccinate them and provide them with special puppy food to improve their chances of survival. Thanks to these improvements we have managed to bring the death rate down a little from 90% but still far too many die. Finally older dogs have no where to go and have to face a miserable old age and reduced chances of survival in a shelter where they have to compete with, and defend themselves against, younger stronger dogs. Often these older dogs will have been pets that have never had to defend themselves on the streets but have now found themselves dumped at the shelter while their "family" decides they no longer want them due to their old age.
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The Love Stix Range are all retro designs with low full rails and hull designs and finished to a high gloss polish.
All boards are hand shaped by myself (Chris Barker) to the highest standard and glassed using what i consider the best materials available on the market and finished to a high gloss polish. There is no regard to time; they are a labour of love!


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App Reviewamendation: Safe In Cloud
This was originally going to be a review, but it ended up sounding like a recommendation. So. There's that. Like the title? No? Damn.
…anyways, back in June of this year I wrote about password security, and how one might protect oneself from account compromises. Today, I've edited that post to include another great app for Android that helps further that cause, and it goes by the name Safe In Cloud. Do note however, that this app can be used for storing much more than passwords. You can store information about your car like what size tires it uses, insurance information, WiFi logins, or anything else you need to remember. It's great for keeping all of your "need to knows" in one neat little place.
To get a sense of where I'm coming from, allow me to share some back story. I used just about every password app on the Android market, and most of them are flawed in one way or another (ugly and dysfunctional user experiences were the heart of the problem for the vast majority). The last one I used was mSecure, and I used it for a very long time until I became fed up with the user experience and started to worry about backing up my passwords in the event of getting a new phone, since I read some stories involving the problems people had with importing their backup file. It seemed that the only solution would be to sync it with the desktop app on the computer. Well, turns out the price tag for the desktop app was $19.99. The app itself costs $4.99 (though I bought it for $0.99 during a sale), so together that's $25. Now, I don't know about you, but charging a customer for an app and then expecting them to pay an even higher price to receive what I consider to be required functionality, is ludicrous. I mean $4.99 is impulse territory, but $19.99 for what many could assume would come bundled with the app (especially due to some relatively tricky wording in the apps description at the time)? Unacceptable. So I went looking around for a new app, to see if there was something better before throwing more money at mSecure.
The rest is history; I found Safe In Cloud, and I definitely appreciate the pricing route that the developer took with it. It makes it easy to recommend this app's $1.99 price tag. Not just that, but the 100% functional desktop beta bears the ever-extravagant price of FREE. Note that I am unaware of the developers pricing intentions with regards to the desktop version upon full release, but if it's $4.99 or less (or remains free), then I'll be more than happy to pay the price to use it. I'm not cheap, and I realize that neither $1.99 nor $4.99 is a whole lot of money, but I am a firm believer that if you build a great app and people recommend it enough, then the sheer number of users will make up the difference. This is me doing my part, and I don't like to recommend crap, so don't take that lightly! Hopefully, if the developer decides to monetize the app a bit more, maybe he might consider doing something that wouldn't impact normal users, such as–for example–a fee for early beta access, or additional icons (more on that below, it's a customization option). All I know is that I hope the path taken is not one aimed at screwing users, as I feel strongly about what I believe to be ethical or at least moral (which explains 90% of my dislike for Apple! The way they choose to operate and the manner in which they conduct themselves… you can be a profitable business without abusing people financially).
Quit with the rambling and get on with it!
Alright, alright. Let's get back to what makes Safe In Cloud the best password app around.
"This is by far the most functional, frequently updated, loaded with features, most visually pleasing and easy to use password app of them all–and I've tried a LOT."
That quote is from none other than yours truly and it represents this review in a nutshell, but allow me to break that down and elaborate on it just a bit.
Safe In Cloud does its job and it does it well. It uses 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption for storing your passwords.
What does a bank, the U.S. Government, and the Military all have in common? 256-bit AES Encryption.
Frequently Updated & Loaded with Features
Updates come frequently (at least once or twice a month) that add new features or improve on existing ones. One such update was adding cards akin to Google Now, and another added in the fly-in feature I mention in the box below.
Organize your passwords with labels and assign them an icon and/or a color of your choosing (see screenshots at end of post). When a developer is fully behind their app, it shows! This app trounces the competition despite being out for far less time.
Visually Pleasing & Easy to Use
Uses official Android design guidelines to provide a pleasing user interface (includes a separate UI for tablets) and an easily understood user experience. Swiping in from the left (like in the YouTube app) reveals a fly-in menu full of your own personal labels which serve as categories for your personal information, making it really quick and simple to get what you need.
Synchronizes via the cloud service of your choice (Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Skydrive) in order to backup your data and keep it up to date wherever you are. Get a new phone? Download the app, and just import from the cloud and you're ready to go! Want to use it on your desktop? Same thing. Just follow the instructions and you're good to go in less than a minute. The best thing about the desktop app is that it looks and works just like the Android app so you don't have to learn anything new to use it.
What app do you use? What's your favorite? Disagree with something I said? Sound off in the comments below!
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Employment disputes can have far-reaching implications for a company's reputation, market share and ability to retain and attract talent. When the stakes are highest, employers, boards and senior executives turn to Paul, Weiss for our deft handling of internal investigations and track record of favorably resolving complex employment litigations.
The Department of Labor Announces Final Rule for Overtime Pay Exemptions Under the FLSA
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On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor (the "DOL") announced a final rule that revises overtime exemption regulations for certain executive, administrative, and professional employees ("white-collar employees") and highly compensated employees under the Federal Labor Standards Act (the "FLSA"). The revised regulations contain four major changes:
- raising the minimum salary level that full-time white-collar employees must earn to be exempt from overtime pay to $913 per week or $47,476 per year;
- allowing nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments to satisfy up to 10 percent of the minimum salary level for white-collar employees;
- raising the minimum annual compensation that highly compensated employees must earn to be exempt from overtime pay to $134,004; and
- providing a mechanism to automatically adjust the minimum salary and compensation requirements every three years.
The new regulations take effect on December 1, 2016.
The FLSA requires most employees to be paid overtime pay at time and one-half the regular rate of pay for all hours worked in a work week in excess of 40 hours.
However, Section 13(a) of the FLSA has long provided an exemption from overtime pay for certain executive, administrative, and professional employees-the "white-collar" exemption. To qualify for the white-collar exemption, employees generally must meet three tests. First, they must primarily perform executive, administrative, or professional duties, as defined by the regulations-the "duties test." Second, they generally must be salaried employees, meaning that they are paid on a predetermined and fixed basis that does not change based on the quality or quantity of their work-the "salary basis test." Third, they must be paid a minimum salary set forth in the DOL's regulations-the "salary level test."
Section 13(a) also exempts so called "highly compensated employees"-employees who regularly perform executive, administrative, or professional duties; whose primary duties include office or non-manual work; who earn at least the minimum weekly salary level provided in the white-collar exemption; and who earn a minimum annual compensation, which is set forth in the DOL's regulations and includes salary, bonuses, and incentive payments.
The Changes in the New Regulations
The DOL's revised overtime rule only affects the salary and compensation requirements. No changes were made to the duties tests.
- The new overtime rule sets the minimum salary level for the white-collar exemption at the 40th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest wage Census Region. That number is currently $913 per week or $47,476 annually.
- The new rule also amends the white-collar exemption salary basis test to allow nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments to meet up to 10 percent of the new minimum salary level test, provided that those payments are made on a quarterly or more frequent basis. In other words, beginning on December 1, 2016, up to $4,747.60 in bonuses or commissions can be used to satisfy the $47,476 white-collar exemption minimum salary level.
- The DOL also revised the minimum salary level for highly compensated employees to the annual equivalent of the 90th percentile of earnings for full-time salaried workers nationally, which is currently $134,004. The other existing requirements for the highly compensated employees exemption remain in place.
- In addition, the new rule provides that salary level and compensation minimums will automatically adjust every three years, beginning on January 1, 2020, to maintain the earnings percentiles mentioned above. For future automatic adjustments, the DOL will publish all updated minimum salary and compensations levels 150 days prior to when they will become effective.
Guidance for Employers
The new rule will affect all industries across the country, and many positions that were previously clearly exempt under the white-collar exemption will become non-exempt. Indeed, the DOL estimates that the new rule will change the exemption statuses of over 4.2 million workers.
Currently, white-collar employees making more than $23,660 are exempt from overtime pay. Under the new rule, the threshold salary for qualifying for the exemption more than doubles to $47,476. This means that any employees making between $23,660 and $47,476 who previously qualified for the exemption are no longer exempt under the new rule, irrespective of their job duties and responsibilities. Similarly, highly compensated employees who previously were exempt and made between $100,000 and $134,004 no longer qualify for an exemption.
To prepare for and ensure compliance with the new overtime exemption rule, employers should consider taking the following actions:
- Audit payrolls to determine which employees and positions that are currently classified as overtime exempt are affected.
- Determine whether impacted employees should be reclassified as non-exempt or have their salaries raised above the new minimum salary levels.
- Update payroll and time-tracking systems to take into account impacted employees.
- Train new non-exempt employees on tracking and recording their time to account for overtime hours.
- Create a plan to clearly communicate and discuss the overtime rule changes with employees.
Finally, because minimum salary and compensation requirements will be automatically updated in the future, employers should also consider the following actions to ensure long-term compliance with the new overtime rule:
- Analyze whether a restructuring of the organization is necessary to better accommodate anticipated increases in payroll costs such as consolidating roles or reallocating duties.
- Modify compensation and payroll structures to incorporate the capacity to track and comply with automatic minimum salary level and compensation adjustments.
The final overtime rule can be found here.


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Cameron stands by Maria Miller as she is forced to apologise and repay £5,000 in expenses
David Cameron has insisted that he will not sack his Culture Secretary after she was forced to make a humiliating apology in the Commons and repay nearly £6,000 in overclaimed mortgage expenses.
Maria Miller was heavily criticised by the cross-party Standards Committee for failing to co-operate with a 15-month investigation into her use of allowances, repeatedly providing only the "minimum necessary" information about her expenses.
But the group of MPs took the unusual step of rejecting the independent standards commissioner's verdict that she should hand back a total of £45,000. It also cleared her of using her Commons expenses to support her elderly parents in a taxpayer-backed second home.
In a short statement to MPs today Ms Miller said that the committee had dismissed the


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Choosing the perfect phone can be tough. Tell us what you plan to choose next. Share this Poll with your friends and family.
Switching From IOS to Android
Dump Your IPhone For a Galaxy Note 2 I finally took the plunge and dumped my Iphone for a Galaxy Note 2, and I suggest you do the same. Truthfully this was one of the hardest tech decisions I have
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To search and book flights to La Coruna in 2020 and 2021, please enter your requirements and click the search button above.
La Coruna, often known as Corunna to British tourists, is a wonderful and popular city in the Galicia region of Spain which blends contemporary and smart with historic and cultural. It would win no prizes for size, being only the 17th largest city in the country, however, if there were a prize for sporting the most beautiful beaches, there is no doubt that this popular holiday destination would be a strong contender, if not the winner.
Famed for its vast stretches of glistening sandy beaches and boasting more than 2,000 hours of sunshine a year and a blissfully warm climate tempered to comfortable levels by its next door neighbour, the Atlantic Ocean, La Coruna is a magnet for both beach-loving tourists and water-sport loving athletes.
Its two most popular beaches are Playa del Orzan and Playa del Riazor, both of which run alongside La Coruna's impressive ten-kilometre long promenade – one of the longest in continental Europe. They sit in the Orzan Bay, which is separated from the city's main shipping port and marina by the headland it is tucked behind. These two stunningly beautiful, idyllic hot spots are located in the very heart of this holiday destination, making access to them a doddle.
When visiting Orzan, do not miss Domus Museum and Casa del Hombre (the House of Man) if you enjoy a little intellectual culture on your travels. There are also an array of aqua sporting opportunities on offer, not limited scuba diving, sailing and surfing. Other beaches you might want to visit during your stay include Adormideras, Las Lapas, Matadero, Oza, San Amaro and San Roque.
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Communication Tips
The messenger is more important than the message. People need to like you before they're willing to listen to you.
Advocating ≠ arguing. This is not a zero-sum game. It is about showing how you and the person you're speaking to can win together.
Emotions carry more weight than logic. You need to reach their heart before you reach their head.
Respect the process. You are not going to turn an Israel critic into a staunch Zionist overnight. Small steps will result in long-term gains.
Ask open-ended questions. It makes people evaluate/own their ignorance or beliefs, while showing you value what they have to say.
Listening is learning. Do it to understand, not just to rebut. Until you understand the concerns of the person you're speaking with, you cannot address them.
Know your audience. You must determine who it is you're attempting to reach before determining your methods of doing so.
Respect the circumstances of the interaction. Time, place and other social and environmental factors influence your ability to persuade.
Seek common ground. Find broad bases of truth and agreement before focusing on the nitty-gritty.
Tell your narrative rather than tearing down someone else's. Building a positive identity around Israel is much more effective than attacking the Palestinians.


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Our Estuary: Squamish outreach 2017
The Squamish Watershed Society has completed another successful school program! This year the program was held in the beautiful Squamish estuary, right where the Squamish River meets Howe Sound. With Shannon Falls rushing in the background, over 500 kids were lead through 4 stations emphasizing the interconnectedness of all life within the estuary. For the … Continue reading
The Pacific Streamkeepers Federation – Put librarians in charge of enviro protection?
Put librarians in charge of environmental protection??? That's what a Byrne Creek Streamkeeper said in response to this astounding quotation from the aforementioned article: "In a single year, the Toronto Public Library levied more fines for overdue books ($2,685,067 in 2009) than the total amount of fines obtained by Environment Canada in more than two … Continue reading


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Holiday World Announces $3.5 Million Expansion for 2018
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"We're adding a fun elephant-themed water-play area for younger children," says park president Matt Eckert. "When we discovered the Swahili word for elephant is Tembo, we named our new slide complex Tembo Falls and the junior wave pool Tembo Tides."
Seen in concept art above, the new area will have two distinct attractions, both aimed at kids under 54 inches tall and their families.
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Kids will also love Tembo Tides, a junior sized wave pool that will have various spray features included in the shallow end of it. Guests will also want to check out the new Riverside Retreats, described as "mini cabanas" in the water park.
Elsewhere in the amusement park will be all new live entertainment, including a "stunt show, musical magic show and a strolling brass band." Various track improvements will be made to the Voyage wooden roller coaster, and an electric car charging station will also be added.
Along with the announcement came this video showing off the various additions, check it out below!


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Thursday, June 30, 2016
New Release ~ Against the Rules is Available Now!
Against the Rules ~ Available Now
Kelly O'Connor's out of control
An RA at Halton University, he spends his off nights at a club, hoping to find what he's looking for in rough sex with strangers.
Until one night the play gets a little too rough. An isolated room, a dangerous situation…and an unexpected rescue.
Ian Larkin knows what Kelly wants—a true Dom, someone who will protect him instead of using him, someone who can take him to the edge without pushing him into unsafe territory.
Ian knows just what Kelly needs, and he's the only man who can give it to him.
There's only one problem: Kelly is a student, and Ian is a teacher.
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Home > JOSIS > Vol. 2018 > No. 16 (2018)
Recent efforts have focused on modeling the internal structure of space-time prisms to estimate the unequal movement opportunities within. This paper further develops this area of research by formulating a model for field-based time geography that can be used to probabilistically model movement opportunities conditioned on underlying heterogeneous spatial fields. The development of field-based time geography draws heavily on well-established methods for cost-distance analysis, common to most GIS software packages. The field-based time geographic model is compared with two alternative approaches that are commonly employed to estimate probabilistic space-time prisms - (truncated) Brownian bridges and time geographic kernel density estimation. Using simulated scenarios it is demonstrated that only field-based time geography captures underlying heterogeneity in output movement probabilities. Field-based time geography has significant potential in the field of wildlife tracking (an example is provided), where Brownian bridge models are preferred, but fail to adequately capture underlying barriers to movement.
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Long, Jed A.
"Modeling movement probabilities within heterogeneous spatial fields,"
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2018.16.372
Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/josis/vol2018/iss16/5


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Hello Readers, I am going to review Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan. Since ages, Cleopatra has been worshipped as the epitome of beauty. In ancient tales, clear problem free complexion of royal beauties had been accredited to special ubtan recipes. However in our times skin maintenance problem has got bigger with added issues like pollution and stress haunting our lifestyle. Thus once again one has to turn to natural remedies to maintain a problem free skin and my search ended with this brand Gia bath and Body Works.
Gia Bath & Body Works is a brand based in India, committed to making Handcrafted Luxurious skin care treats. They use pure and raw natural ingredients to formulate Vegan skin enriching products. The Website of Gia Bath and Body works showcases the whole range of products available with them and full transparency is maintained with the ingredients used. Their range is free from harmful preservatives, hardener, parabens, SLES and SLS etc. Lets get started with Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan Review.
Price of Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan : Rs.750/- for 100 gms
Directions for Use: Can be used as a scrub or mask, for your face and body
Ingredients :Sandalwood, Fenugreek, Saffron, Turmeric, Lentils and Almonds
Shelf life : Mentioned on pack
Color : Yellow
Smell: Fusion of turmeric and other ingredients.
What Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan claims
- Cleopatra is also safe for kids.
- Keeps Acne at bay.
- Nourish your skin keeping it soft and supple.
- For all skin types.
My experience with Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan
Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan is a face pack in powder consistency. A lightweight jar is used to pack the same. There are two sizes to choose from, 100 gms and a sample size which comes as a surprise in their monthly subscription boxes. This tiny jar helped me with 7-8 uses as I used a thin layer on my skin every time. The pack resembles turmeric powder and even its fragrance is too close to the same
As I do not have my teenage super oily skin anymore, my initial thoughts were like I received a wrong product as this particular facial ubtan mainly fights acne and helps in maintaining soft skin. This ubtan has small exfoliating particles which soften on mixing with water and feel gentle on the skin. Usually I apply the ubtan mixed with rose water for about 5-7 minutes till its semi dry and then with wet hands scrub off the product from the skin.
The first thing which impressed me is that it does not give that scary yellow tinge on the skin which most turmeric based packs do. This ubtan as promised clears skin of excess oil and dirt, melts down the dead skin and unleashes a brighter and supple soft skin. I rediscovered the hidden benefits of this ubtan when I carried it on my way to another city as I had the travel size jar with me. On the way something happened I don't know whether it was insect bite or some allergy; I got rashes all over my face. Even after two days the face looked bumpy and red.
As I did not have access to kitchen remedies I applied this pack concentrating the affected area for 4 days back to back until it got over. After every use I used to exfoliate the skin gently and it did not hurt at all. After 4 uses the rashes vanished completely without any marks which left me spellbound as every little thing leaves a spot on my face. Plus a another great feature of this pack is after having it applied it back to back it did not let the tan sit on my skin. Even after being outdoors for long I could maintain a tan free skin with regular use. Surprisingly it does not dry out the skin ever like most anti acne products do, rather skin feels nourished and super smooth to touch. I would highly recommend this face pack to every girl struggling to maintain a problem free skin.
Overall Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan is one of the best vegan facial ubtans free from preservatives and parabens. It lives upto its name being Cleopatra as it helps fight breakouts and rashes, exfoliates skin to unleash its inner beauty, brightens skin by removing sun tan, lightens marks and all this without drying out the skin.
Also read
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Good about Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan
- A must have product in every girls kitty
- Worth every penny invested in it
- Free from parabens and preservatives
- Extremely impressive ingredient list
- Fights acne and other skin problems
- Makes skin baby soft with gentle exfoliation
- As a scrub its gentle on the skin
- Does not dehydrate the skin
- Lightens marks
- Suits all skin type
- Safe for kids too
- Apart from products they also have montly subscription boxes which is a great way to try products before investing in a full size
Bad about Gia Bath and Body Works Cleopatra Ubtan
- Absolutely Nothing
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Fashion and Beauty Rating : 10/5 (yes you read it right, its that good)


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Solitaire: Eastern State Penitentiary
Solitaire (Demo)
Sound Installation
31 seconds
A demo recording for my upcoming sound installation at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia addressing solitary confinement. The piece utilizes manipulated vocal tracks to create a sense of what solitary confinement is like for the 80k+ men, women and children placed in it everyday in America. The finished piece is currently on display as part of ESPHS's 2016 class.


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Airline Pilot Wannabes, Don't Lose Hope!
It was August, 1966. I had a massive 180 hours in my little black log book, the ink wasn't even dry on my instrument ticket and I was headed back to Kansas City, Missouri to be interviewed for a Flight Officer position at TWA.
If I got past the stare down of the captain interviewers and they figured I had enough of the TWA "right stuff" I would then be given a physical and considered eligible for being hired as a pilot for Trans World Airlines.
The night before the interview, as I sat in my hotel room in the old President Hotel in downtown Kansas City, my mind was racing as I thought about the whirlwind I had just been spit out of, finding myself here, being interviewed for an airline dream job.
In 90 days, I had trained for and completed my private pilot's license, and my commercial and instrument ratings at the old Flight Safety training academy at San Carlos airport.
After passing my instrument ticket check ride, I was sure if I ever had to do a missed approach out of an ILS approach as part of the hiring procedure, I'd for sure crash and burn. But, as it turned out in those days, they didn't require a simulator check to get hired.
Come on, how could you expect a 180 hour pilot to pass a sim check in a 707, full motion simulator when all he's had in his throttle hand was a little push/pull handle to make the thing go faster.
I remember not sleeping that night; I got up early to walk around the corner to stare, wide-eyed, at the TWA training center at 12th and Baltimore streets.
In my wildest dreams, I couldn't imagine being here, crossing the threshold into that building, and being considered for a pilot position at an airline that was, not only one of the premier airlines in the world but it also happened to be my first choice as an airline to fly for.
How presumptuous of me, 180 hours! How could I even call myself a pilot!?
When I walked into the lobby, I was welcomed by the receptionist and told to take a seat in the reception area. The area had probably 15 or 20 straight back chairs arranged around the perimeter of the room.
Every chair was filled with a guy who looked just like the other guys; black or dark suits, white shirts with dark ties, shined shoes – you know the look if you've ever interviewed for a job, especially a pilot job!
(I remember thinking, "This secretary must have to really stifle a laugh every day, watching guys like me file in, all looking like we showed up to audition for the sequel to the "Men in Black!")
As I took an empty seat in the middle of these guys, I looked around; I was sitting in the midst of a bunch of guys who looked like they just finished Navy Seal BUD week training; sitting straight as a stick, well composed, looking dead ahead, 12 o'clock, square jawed, you know the look.
After sitting there for a few minutes, I struck up a conversation with the guy on my right. He told me he just returned home from military flight duty in Vietnam.
He proceeded to tell me "Yeah, I just got back from 'Nam." I asked him, "What were you flying over there?" He said, "Caribous."
I couldn't help myself; I asked him how many hours he had. "About 3000," he says.
"What the heck am I doing here!?" I thought to myself.
"If I sneak out now, maybe I can make the noon flight back to SFO. Except my return ticket isn't good until tomorrow…O.K, stay with it, I'm here now, give it my best shot."
Then the Caribou driver pointed across the room to another Navy Seal type and says, "Yeah, that's a buddy of mine over there. He was in 'Nam with me, flew Otters, doesn't have as much time as me, only a couple thousand hours."
"Only a couple thousand hours! You're killing' me; give me a break!"
Sheesh. Now I really started to sweat. I tried to think good thoughts, calm myself and stop sweating, because I didn't want to go into the interview, smelling like a goat, and ruin one of the two white shirts I brought with me; one for the first day interview, one for the physical the next day.
Every time one of the two office doors would open, a captain would emerge and call one of our names.
As each Navy Seal suit filed separately into one of the two interview offices, I peered down a hallway that connected the two offices. As the interviews finished up I noticed some of the interviewees were directed to a room on the left down the hallway and some of them were directed to another one on the right.
I figured the guys with the most flight time were in the room on the right with the most guys in it. And the other room on the left held guys like me, the "imposers," the "wannabes," the "rejects."
I knew I was going to be herded out of the interview and into the room on the left with the other "untouchables!" But I tried not to let my mind go there; I couldn't help myself.
Just as I was trying to figure out how to slip out of the office without the receptionist noticing me, one of the captains came out of his office and called out, "Mr. Botta?"
That was it. I cinched up my skinny tie, patted down the lapels on my confirmation suit, walked into the office, and waited for the captain to invite me to sit down like I read I should do.
I was confused. The captain immediately made me feel like I belonged there. I thought, "Why would he do that if he was only going to herd me out of his office and into the reject room?"
Oh well, I'm here, might as well see if I can compensate for my lack of flight time by being a really nice, personable guy.
He asked me a bunch of questions; about flying, aerodynamics, weather, why I wanted to work for TWA, what kind of movies did I like, did I like girls, what I studied in college; those kinds of questions. The girl question would probably cross the line these days…
He didn't bother to ask me about my flying time. Why the heck would he? It wasn't enough to make any difference! He was probably just being nice so I would say something complimentary about TWA on my return flight home.
Then he asked me a big one, the one I was afraid of, the one about my college degree."Why do you think you're qualified to fly for TWA with a Social Science degree?" "How do you think a Social Science degree prepared you to fly airplanes?"
I was silently thinking to myself, "Man, I knew he was going to ask me that. I wish I had stuck with that mechanical engineering program at San Francisco State, even though I hated engineering."
I can't remember what I told him but I stumbled through the rest of my answers, giving it my best shot with each one.
By the end of the interview, I'm thinking I did pretty good but probably not half good enough to make up for my measly 180 hours.
After a few more questions, the captain stood up, shook my hand and said, "Thanks for coming Mr. Botta." That was way too formal, too polite. If I was hired, he should be giving me a hug or something, right!"
Then he opened the door, pointed down the hall and said, "You'll be a captain here at TWA within 3 years. Now just go down the hall and into that room on the right, Sir. Good luck."
"Why is he saying that to me, a private pilot, airline pilot wannabe with no chance of ever being hired, much less being a captain here!? Besides, that's the room down the hall with the guys who just got hired. He must have made a mistake!"
"At least they gave me a round trip ticket, and they serve booze on the airplane so I can get hammered on the way home this afternoon with the other West Coast losers."
I walked about twenty feet down the hallway, opened the door into the room and sat down. I looked around and there were about 5 guys sitting there. I struck up a conversation with one of the guys and he asked me, "How'd you do?"
I said, "I have no idea Man. It seemed to go pretty well."
Then I offered what I thought was my best rationale for not getting hired; "I was up against all you guys with thousands of hours. How did you expect me to get hired!?"
He said, "Wait a minute buddy; you do know we're the guys that got hired, right?"
I looked at him and said, "What!? You gotta be kidding me! Are you sure?"
He says, "Yeah, the other guys got escorted out of that other room and they're down in the lobby, waiting for a ride to the airport!"
I just started laughing; but I could feel my eyes overflowing with tears of joy.
I knew at that moment I could make it through the physical, because my pulse was now back to something less than a hummingbird's!
The guy asked me, "What's the matter, Man?"
I said, "Someday, if we ever fly together, I'll tell you!"
And I still had a clean white shirt for my physical the next day…
PS: Looking back and hearing the interview captain's statement, "Son you'll be a captain at this airline in 3 years," ring in my ears, I thought about the 23 years I spent as an apprentice in the flight engineer and co-pilot's seats before I upgraded to captain.
The 70's fuel crisis, lousy upper level management, stagnant growth, corporate raiders, ad nauseam, took its toll on my flying career. And even though things didn't go as forecast, I too, finally found my own, adequate version of "The Right Stuff."
And it was still the best job that a guy could have who didn't want to work for a living!


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Race Results | Photos| Standings
Kyle Busch scored his second consecutive win of the season when he took the checkered flag in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
It was also his second straight win at Bristol and his seventh overall in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at the .533-mile track (Bristol Winners).
Busch nudged by Kyle Larson with six laps to go and was able to drive to his 45th career victory (All-Time Winners).
"That was a heck of a run right there with the 42 (Kyle Larson) – chasing him down, being able to get to him, being able to get by him and then trying to hold him off with some lap traffic ahead of us," Busch said. "I can't say enough about this Skittles Toyota Camry."
It took two days to complete after rain suspended the race on Sunday but when it picked up again Monday afternoon Busch was able to prevail despite cold temperatures and periods of more wet weather. He led five times for 117 laps, including the final six.
Larson, Jimmie Johnson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Alex Bowman rounded out the top five.
Aric Almirola, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano and Ryan Newman completed the first 10 finishers.
Brad Keselowski won Stage 1 and 2 (Stage Points).
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series now heads to Richmond Raceway next Satruday night.
How Busch Won: He chased down Larson and made contact with his rear bumper six laps from the finish and drove into the top spot. From there while Larson furiously tried to chase him down, Busch kept his Toyota in front to score his second straight Cup win.
Who Had a Good Day: Larson spun on lap 324 as the leader when Newman made contact but came back to score his second runner up finish of 2018 and first top-five finish at Bristol in his ninth race (Read More)…Johnson scored his first top-five finish since he finished third at Dover last October (Read More)…Stenhouse Jr. had an eventful day when he spun on lap 61 from 2nd and had an uncontrolled tire penalty from ninth on lap 130 but got his first top-10 finish of 2018 and has finished top 10 in three of the last four races at Bristol (Read More).
Who Had a Bad Day: Defending series champion Martin Truex Jr. was caught up in an early accident on Sunday and after finishing last the previous race in Texas was credited with a 30th-place Bristol finish…Chase Elliott was also a victim of an early accident and forced to make laps just to finish 29th…Brad Keselowski was a front-runner until late in the race when he fell back in the pack and finally cut a tire to hit the wall and finished 23rd.
What Else Happened: Weather. That will be the main takeaway from this year's Food City 500. Because of the constant interruptions from Mother Nature, it was nearly impossible to get a gauge or takeaway on the overall event. When there were extended periods of green flag competition, good racing was on display. Saturday's Xfinity Series race seemed to hit the sweet spot of balancing single file and side-by-side racing at Bristol but it was difficult coming to any real conclusion in Sunday's main event. Things definitely changed when the race was resumed on Monday as the intensity level escalated dramatically. Let's hope Bristol gets a picture perfect summer evening for the August night race because the track deserves a major weather break after the last couple years.
Quotable: "Got the 43 STP back out front where it belongs," crew chief Drew Blickensderfer after Bubba Wallace took the lead in the Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet.
Notables: Bowman had his career-best finish in his 89th start (Read More)…Almirola scored his best 2018 finish…Busch scored Toyota's third win of the year.


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The VP of strategic development investigates value propositions associated with product or corporate acquisitions, introducing new products to markets, and expanding into new markets. This VP defines objectives to gain market share and maximize profitability, and executes plans to make those objectives achievable. Partnering with leaders across the organization, it is this VP's responsibility to take advantage of the company's core competencies, and to recognize when strategies under consideration do not align with those competencies and therefore represent undue risk.
The VP works with leaders in project management and operations to ensure strategic business plans are successfully executed in the workplace. Strategy execution includes identifying and developing the necessary processes to link the strategic objectives portfolio to the project management office, thereby enabling an effectively coordinated implementation. This VP analyzes business metrics collected at the financial and project levels to verify objectives are progressing as planned, and to direct additional actions to be taken when problems or risks are identified.
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The VP of strategic development should have a graduate-level educational background, ideally holding a master's degree in business administration. Most people entering this role are expected to have a minimum of 10 years of experience working in strategic leadership, with a proven background successfully leading teams in strategy planning and development. Applicants should have exceptional communication skills and must be comfortable giving presentations to all levels of a corporation, from the board to hands-on employees.


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Who says you can't have s'mores for breakfast? This gluten-free, soy-free, vegan recipe for s'mores pancakes doesn't require the campfire and won't give you a sugar crash! Young or old, everyone will love a stack of these healthy s'mores pancakes!
Didn't I tell you? You should be super duper s'moreper excited! However, I on the other hand…am a bit disappointed. Why? Apparently, even though I follow food holidays like a hawk now (or so I thought), last Wednesday was National S'mores day. What!? I know! I go and post chicken satay on and push off this s'mores post in favor of fluff on that past Monday too! I thought I was going to cry! I was so angry! I really thought is was a cruel twisted joke. Maybe next year? Ironic enough, I was making homemade gluten-free graham crackers last Wednesday too, but had no idea it was S'MORES DAY!
Always go with your first choice, but I had to post the marshmallow first. Maybe I really should make a real editorial calendar and not just wing it every weekend when I write up my posts. I chose the recipes I share by feel, no plan, no strategy 😛 With all the content I have, this should be easy, but that's just not how I roll. So in the spirit of missing out on yet another food holiday opportunity, let's make this National S'mores Day #2!
I'm probably in the minority here, but I've never automatically associated s'mores with summer. I know people have been going s'mores crazy over the last couple of months, but to me, s'mores aren't solely a summer thing (now they sure won't be with the recipe!). It may be for the sad fact that I don't have many memories of ever making or eating the traditional s'more. The only time I remember sitting around a campfire and roasting marshmallows for s'mores was at some Boy Scout event for my brother (I kid you not!) Maybe I was like 6? and I don't even remember actually eating anything. Have I ever even had a s'more? I don't know!
Come to think of it, I may not have had many s'mores in my life because I've never actually liked whole marshmallows. I remember them tasting pretty terrible, actually. Wow, what a revelation! I did, however, always love the really artificial "fake" marshmallows like the ones in hot chocolate mix and in these granola bars (I ate many of those back in the day!) But when you make things homemade, you develop a new love and for marshmallow fluff…well…I'm totally in!
I do remember enjoying the rare Fluffernutter sandwich with the iconic marshmallow fluff. But I can still remember that being just too sweet for my likings. These pancakes, though, with this marshmallow fluff? Well, there is nothing that I DON'T like! Who needs a campfire when they have a pan, some pancakes, chocolate, and "pre-melted" marshmallow for the ultimate s'mores for breakfast!? I say these trump any s'more you could ever make because…well…PANCAKES!
More Amazing S'mores Recipes:
- 3-Ingredient Microwave Gluten-Free S'mores
- No-Bake Gluten-Free S'mores Parfait
- No-Bake Vegan S'mores Pie
Gluten-Free S'mores PancakesPrint
Gluten-Free S'mores Pancakes
Who says you can't have s'mores for breakfast? This gluten-free, soy-free, vegan recipe for s'mores pancakes doesn't require the campfire and won't give you a sugar crash! Young or old, everyone will love a stack of these healthy s'mores pancakes!
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
- 1/3 Cup Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 6 Mary's Gone Crackers Mini Graham Cookies* (crushed)
- 1/4 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
- 1/4 Cup Water
- 1/2 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- 1/4 Tsp Cinnamon
- Toppings:
- Allergy-Free Marshmallow Fluff
- 3 Squares of Enjoy Like Dark Chocolate Bar
- 4 Mary's Gone Crackers Mini Graham Cookies (crushed)
- Chocolate Stevia Syrup
- In a bowl, mix together all the pancake ingredients to make your batter.
- On the stove, heat a greased non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- Pour 1/3 of the batter in the pan and cook for 2 minutes, or until small bubbles form on the surface, flip and cook another 2 minutes. Repeat for 2 more pancakes.
- To create your s'mores pancakes, first plate one pancake, top with fluff and one square of chocolate, layer another pancake, fluff, chocolate, then layer the last pancakes, fluff, chocolate, crushed graham crackers, and drizzle on the chocolate syrup.
*You can also use Enjoy Life Crunchy Honey Grahams if you aren't strict vegan.
So I'm sorry I failed on delivering these sooner but aren't you glad you at least have them now? Plus, it's Monday which means you have the entire week to prep for making these s'mores pancakes this weekend! And when it's the dead of winter and you're craving those summer campfires again, just know that you can make a toasty plate of these s'mores pancakes to warm you up instead! This is a happiness life hack!
So tell me:
+ Have you made/had a lot of s'mores of not so much?
+ Do you like your marshmallow burned or lightly toasted? I always preferred it lightly browned.
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