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10 Signs You Need to Quit Your Job
Author: Maurie Backman | July 12, 2018
How to know when the time has come
If you're frustrated with your job, you're not alone. A surprising 52% of Americans identify as being unhappy at work, according to data from the Conference Board. Still, dissatisfaction comes in varying degrees of severity, and clearly, you can't just jump ship the second a single aspect of your job starts to bug you. On the other hand, there are certain job-related drawbacks that are difficult to overcome, and if they don't improve over time, it's a sign that you ought to pick up and resign. Here are a few key signs that you may want to think about quitting sooner rather than later.
1. You're overwhelmingly bored
We all experience our share of on-the-job tedium, whether it's having to sit through endless meetings or dealing with hours of paperwork. But once you come to find that you're spending the majority of your time at work feeling bored and restless, and you're not actually learning anything new, it's a sign that either you've outgrown your role or it was never the right one for you in the first place.
2. You're underappreciated
Most managers don't march around singing their employees' praises every hour on the hour. But that doesn't mean you don't deserve some recognition for your hard work. If your boss consistently refuses to acknowledge your efforts, and you can't remember the last time you were rewarded or commended for going above and beyond, then it's a sign that your manager (or company) just isn't appreciative. And the longer you stay in that situation, the more frustrated you're apt to grow.
3. Your manager isn't helpful
Your boss is probably a busy person and may have trouble carving out one-on-one time to spend with you. But if your manager is never accessible, and offers no input or guidance whatsoever when you make it clear that you need it, you may be better off leaving that job and working for someone who will support you and help you advance your career.
4. Your coworkers aren't supportive
Working in a cutthroat environment can mess with your wellbeing in a very big way. If your colleagues are the back-stabbing, unsupportive type, that's reason enough to seek out a new position at a company that fosters teamwork and collaboration. Remember, the people you work with can make or break your experience, and if you've landed upon a group of toxic colleagues, you should know you deserve better.
5. Your work-life balance is non-existent
In any given job situation, you're apt to encounter periods where you're forced to work late, log on after hours, and give up the occasional weekend to meet deadlines. But if your position requires you to constantly be on, thereby destroying any semblance of a work-life balance, then you may be better off finding a role that's not quite as demanding. It's one thing to be willing to work hard, but you shouldn't have to completely compromise your personal life in an effort to excel on the job.
6. You don't like the company culture
Your office environment is a function of not just the people you work with, but the culture your company aims to uphold. So if your work atmosphere is just plain negative, it may be time to switch to a company that values and respects its employees. Incidentally, dissatisfaction with company culture is the No. 1 driver of younger workers quitting their jobs, so if you leave for that reason, you'll probably be in good company.
7. Your health is suffering
It's one thing to give up certain elements of your personal life in an effort to succeed at work. But if you come to find that your job is negatively impacting your health, it's a sure sign that you need to get out of there before things get worse. If you're constantly struggling with work-related stress or have a role so demanding it prevents you from getting enough sleep, it's time to put your wellbeing first and move on.
8. You're in a dead-end position
We can't all expect to get promoted every year. But if you can't remember the last time you advanced professionally or were given new responsibilities at work, it's a sign you're in a job that's going nowhere. And if that's the case, you're better off escaping that dead-end role sooner rather than later.
9. Your compensation stinks
It's natural to want to make more money at work, but if you're being paid far less than the average person with your job title, and your company refuses to come up salary-wise, it may be time to seek out an employer who's willing to be more generous. Your earnings at your present job will likely influence your future salary, so the sooner you snag that much-needed boost, the better. Also, while money can't necessarily buy you happiness, earning more of it can alleviate some financial stress and improve your quality of life -- which is why it pays to go after the money you know you deserve.
10. You no longer care about your performance
It's one thing to get frustrated at work from time to time and let your responsibilities slide as a result. But once you reach the point where you have no interest in working hard or performing your best, it's time to jump ship. Not caring at all about your work is classic symptom of burnout, and you're better off escaping a bad job situation before it wreaks havoc on your mental health.
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During the American Civil War, gender roles and expectations were clearly defined. Men expressed their masculinity by being soldiers while women were expected to stay on the home front. This untitled cartoon by John McLenan clearly shows how men could be stripped of their masculine qualities if they did not fight as soldiers. Because the husband in this cartoon chose not to fight, he is given the qualities and duties of a "stay at home" wife. Not fighting in war was associated with weakness and subordination. These qualities were further associated with the expectations of women at the time.
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I got bit by the Tutorial bug..Another Tutorial called Pinkalicious!!
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Tutorial Pinkalicious
Supplies used
Template by Missy # 394- You can get it Get it here
FTU Kit by Tamie called Pinkalicious- Get it here
Tube by Keith Garvey- Buy that here
Font I used-A&S Snapper
You must have working knowledge of Photoshop- I use Photoshop CS5
Let's Go.....
Open up the template and resize it so you can put your name...etc. Delete credits.
Open paper 8 and paste into Raster 20- the pink circle.
Open paper 11 and put this paper in 18 and the copy of 18. (the back rectangle)We are going to put a border around them. Hit CTRL layer at the same time so you have a "dancing line" effect. Add another layer under the paper layer...Go to select-modify-expand and make selection 3 Hit OK. Set your foreground color to white flood fill. unselect the layer.
CTRL D. Go to filter, noise, add noise. You want around 50% uniform-monochromatic. Hit OK. Repeat
with the other rectangle.
Open paper 6 and paste it into the two smaller squares. Resize the paper so the wording on the
paper is smaller.
Paper #9 is going in the front rectangle. Paper #1 goes in the outer circle..So far you should have
Now for the tube. Re-size and center your tube in the middle. Take your rectangle marquee tool and copy and paste half of the tube. Copy and paste her in the front rectangle like this..
Repeat so you have another tube on the other side. Merge them and change it to overlay. Copy and paste the whole tube in the back rectangle. Change that layer setting to soft light. Repeat the same in the other rectangle. Ok..the front tube, duplicate it twice. Bottom layer, go to filter-Blur-
Gaussian Blur. Set the radius to around 6 pixels. Second layer leave normal. Top layer set to screen.
Now onto the elements...
Open Bows 2 and 4. Resize them and place them on top left corner and bottom right of the front rectangle. Merge and drop shadow using these settings..
Open ribbon eyelet. Place it where the black dots are on both sides. You can delete the dots if you want. Merge.
Open up the diamond. Re-size it smaller and put it next to the upper bow. Duplicate and put another right next to it. Merge and repeat on the bottom.
Open up ribbon. Resize it smaller and place it upper right corner of front rectangle. Open string and place it sideways behind bow by the back rectangle.
Open up ribbon 4. Resize and flip it right above the right bigger rectangle.
Open fluffy heart-resize and put it on the left side. Same with the butterfly. Drop shadow them both.
Ribbon 2 is going behind the star string and tilt it a little so it's seen.
Open flower- resize it and place it upper right front rectangle. Duplicate. Put another one next
to it. Merge and drop shadow.
Open up splatter under all the layers. Duplicate it. Place one in the upper right and the other in the lower left.
Add copyright info and name and tada..Your done!! Sorry if it was confusing but I'm just starting to write tutorials. Hope you enjoyed it.
Also, Missy has great animations also so if you want to add one of them, that would be great too!!!
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This is actually not a new piece-it was completed in August but couldn't be posted until after Christmas. I'm really excited about how this turned out. The painting is of my childhood home, but I was amazed at how painting something I've seen thousands of times could make me look at it so differently. The painting is acrylic on paper, 5 x7 in. I took in progress photos again this time, because it was so much fun the last time I posted them. Prints or greeting cards of this piece can be purchased here.
And here is the finished piece.


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McCormick Salad Toppins Crunchy & Flavorful. Made with real vegetables.
Sunflower Seeds, Soybeans, Textured Soy Flour, Rice, Onion, Carrots, Canola Oil, Red and Green Bell Peppers, Salt, Sugar, Parsley, Barley Malt Extract, Caramel Color, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Lactic Acid, Yeast Extract, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate (Flavor Enhancers), and FD&C Red #3.


text: I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works, except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where one would expect). I just built python from source and that version does use ActiveState 8.4.19. I wish I knew what's going on. Not being able to use the binary distros is a bit of a pain. Just out of curiosity: which 3rd party Tcl/Tk did you have installed when you made the installer? Perhaps if it was 8.5 that would explain it. If so I may try updating my Tcl/Tk -- I've been wanting some of the bug fixes in 8.5 anyway. -- Russell On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:35 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 15 Apr, 2009, at 22:47, Russell E. Owen wrote: > >> Thank you for 2.6.2. >> >> I see the Mac binary installer isn't out yet (at least it is not >> listed >> on the downloads page). Any chance that it will be compatible with >> 3rd >> party Tcl/Tk? > > The Mac installer is late because I missed the pre-announcement of > the 2.6.2 tag. I sent the installer to Barry earlier today. > > The installer was build using a 3th-party installation of Tcl/Tk. > > Ronald


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It started off innocently enough. I have a tremendous 8-month old Belgian Golden Tripel that I am rationing, hoping to still have some left when it's two years old or more. But I like Belgian Golden ales well enough that I decided to brew another one, this one not as strong but just as flavorful. As I pictured how it might taste, an evil thought crept into my mind: What if you added… No, my mind said, you can't. That would ruin it. The evil thought insisted: But just imagine… No! Make it straight, you know you'll be disappointed if it doesn't come out…
So I went back to my original plan, I wasn't going to add anything. Or was I? I decided to leave it to fate. If at the last minute, as I was brewing, the evil thought came back to me, I would see what I could do…
Long story short, I did it. I put a couple of secret ingredients into the boil as "aroma hops"… I will not divulge the exact nature of what I added until I am sure I like it (a couple months down the road…), and maybe I will not even notice them, maybe I didn't add enough… maybe I will decide to add more as "dry hops" in the secondary… but at least I'll know, and I will have tried something different.
Basilique, Belgian Golden Ale with herbs
5 gallons, all-grain
- 8 lbs. Belgian pale malt
- 1 lb. cara-Belge malt
- 1 lb. malted wheat
- 1 oz. Perle hop pellets (6% aa)
- 1 oz. Saaz hop pellets (4% aa)
- small pinch each of 2 secret ingredients…
- White Labs Belgian Golden Ale yeast (WLP570)
- 2/3 cup corn sugar (for priming)
Procedure: Crush grains. Heat 14 quarts water to 162°F. Mash in grains, hold at 152°F for 75 minutes. Heat another 14 quarts water to 170°F, begin runoff and sparge. Collect 26 quarts sweet wort. Bring to a boil, add Perle hops, boil 30 minutes. Add Saaz hops, boil another 28 minutes. Add small pinch of first secret ingredient, boil 2 more minutes (60 total). Remove from heat, add small pinch of second secret ingredient. Steep 5 minutes then chill to 80°F. Take a hydrometer reading, pour into a sanitized fermenter, splashing well to aerate. Pitch yeast, seal and ferment 8 to 10 days warm (65 – 68°F). Rack to secondary, age two to three weeks cool (50 – 55°F). Prime with corn sugar and bottle, condition cool for four to six weeks.
IBU's: 35.1
Secret Ingredients: don't worry, nothing illegal going on here. Common kitchen herbs, I am just reluctant to share the recipe until I have tasted it! Even a Guru gets to have some secrets… I will let you all know what I used when I know if it worked or not – stay tuned!


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Last week, GMAC basically stopped evicting homeowners and foreclosing homes in 23 states when it got caught filing affidavits without any personal knowledge. That's good news, but here's what rubs me the wrong way: debt buyers do the same thing, and nobody seems to care.
For example, a custodian of records for Midland Funding recently admitted knowing nothing about the 200 and 400 affidavits he signed every day. But Midland Funding didn't put a stop to its operations. In fact, I would be surprised if Midland Funding changed its procedures at all.
And Kevin Marciniak, who is an employee of Messerli & Kramer and custodian of records for (at least) Livingston Financial, North Star Capital, Dakota Bluff Financial, Bayfield Financial, Pipestone Financial, River City Financial, Pioneer Financial, ABL Financial, and Red Rock Lake Financial, does not know anything more than GMAC's employee. At a recent deposition by our firm, he admitted that he knows little more than the date of last payment and the balance due—information he gets in a spreadsheet from the previous debt buyer. But the companies Marciniak works for are still filing thousands of lawsuits a year in Minnesota.
I suspect you would learn similar information from every debt buyer in the country.
There really are laws against this sort of thing, so why are debt collectors getting away with filing 70,000+ lawsuits a year in Minnesota? Do the courts sanction this behavior? Surely not, even though it sometimes seems like debt collectors have taken over the civil justice system.
The reason, I suppose, is that you can get away with pretty much anything until you get caught by a consumer rights attorney. Judges cannot do anything until they are asked to by a plaintiff. GMAC got caught, but the debt buyers remain at large.


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Relive Every Great Moment of 2012 in Just 4 Minutes
The ball has dropped which means it's time to begin alphabetizing your New Year's resolutions. But before welcoming in 2013 and throwing out last year's memories, take one last chance to relive all the glorious, splendid, heartbreaking, tragic, viral, sweet, crazy and fantastic moments of the past 12 months.
From Honey Boo Boo to the birth of Blue Ivy, SOPA to NASA, iPhone 5 releases to GIF domination, Gabby Douglas' golden moments to Chick-Fil-A PR nightmare, cannibals to a Cruise-Holmes split, to a string of mass shootings that will make us remember this year's incredible heroes and victims — here's to you, 2012.
And best of luck 2013, you've got no Mayan apocalypse, Olympic games or U.S. presidential election on the books — just hope K-Stew cheats on R-Patz again so we'll all have something to eulogize in 2014.
16 Things You Forgot Happened in 2012
1. GoDaddy Supported SOPA and Faced the Consequences
2. Teen Urged the Web to Boycott Girl Scouts for Allowing Transgender Members
3. #Linsanity Took Over Social Media
4. News of Whitney Houston's Death Broke on Twitter
5. "KONY 2012" Went Viral and Backfired
6. TIME's Breastfeeding Cover Shocked the Internet
7. The 'Amercian' Dream
8. Bullied Bus Monitor Got the Vacation She Deserved, and Then Some
9. Reddit Solved a Cryptic Code and Brought Adventure to the Web
10. Marissa Mayer Became the First Pregnant Fortune 500 CEO
11. Twitter Suspended Journalist Who Tweeted Olympics President's Email Address
12. Jonah Lehrer Plagiarized Himself and Falsified Quotes
13. Police Officer Who Pepper Sprayed Students Loses Job
14. Curiosity Rover Checked In to Foursquare for the First Time
15. KitchenAid Tweeted Joke About Obama's Dead Grandmother
16. Google Fiber Expanded in the Midwest
Video and photo courtesy of Ryan James Yezak.


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Can we walk into a future with trust? Our faith would say we can. This is actually one of the great themes of the Bible. People set off on journeys, not knowing what they will encounter along the way, or where they will end up.
Abraham and Sarah were called to set off on a journey, to leave everything, and to go far into the unknown. "God said, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you…So Abraham went." (Genesis 12: 1 & 4)
Moses faithfully left Egypt with the Israelite former-slaves, relying upon God's care and guidance along the way. He didn't even get to see the Promised Land after years of leading the people through the wilderness. He died beforehand, and his successor, Joshua, is the one who actually finished the trip.
Jesus' family did the same thing. When they heard about Herod's threat to the baby, they left in the middle of the night for Egypt. I'm sure that was Not how Mary pictured spending the first year or two of her babies' life!
The 'journey' is an ancient symbol of a life of faith. We see it many times in the Bible. We are people who listen for God's call, and try to follow it. We know that the first, earliest name for Christianity was 'The Way." We follow Jesus, and we follow the Way God leads. Journeys and following are always times of trust.
I don't believe that God has every step of a person's life choreographed ahead of time. Rather, each step that we choose opens up new possibilities for the next step. God always invites us to choose the direction with the most life and love for the most people.
This is an uncertain, but exciting time for the future of Parkway United Church of Christ. The unknown can provoke anxiety, stress, or fear, especially when it involves things or people that are important to us. God knows that. These are also the times though, that have the most potential for newness, for creativity, and for making choices that show what we value, and who we are.
The image of a journey involves mystery. All of life actually involves mystery. We never know how things will turn out, but we make good, informed choices to the best of our ability. That is how God leads us. That is how God still speaks. We can trust that, and we can trust ourselves.
I appreciate being with you as together, we explore 'The Way' forward!


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Irving Berlin's White Christmas at WBTPublished: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:00 pm By: Chesley Plemmons Source: CurtainUp Westchester
We might as well be married. We fight all the time and we never have sex." - Marsha, explaining her relationship with Hank.
"When Im worried, and I cant sleepI count my blessings instead of sheep, And I fall asleep, counting my blessings" - Sentimental lyrics from the pen of Irving Berlin
Relax fellow Bah Humbuggers! I havent gone sentimental on you. (Review spoiler ahead!) But Im about to say some very encouraging words about the production of Irving Berlins White Christmas at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford, New York.
True, this is the same smaltzy musical I reviewed a couple of times during past holiday seasons on Broadway. And true, while I found those productions entertaining, there was little question about their obvious tinsel time emotional manipulation. We critics are often quick to give the devil his due, so Im happy this time to give the dancer his due. And that dancer is Randy Skinner who created the original choreography for White Christmas and at Westchester has taken on the responsibility for directing the show and recreating his dances.
The emphasis on dance makes a considerable improvement in the show as a whole, and the thrust stage at the theatre brings the energy right into the laps of the audience. Based on the 1954 Paramount Pictures movie, which starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney, the plot is strictly a buddy story married to a back-stage, "lets put on a show" scenario.
WWII War vets Bob Wallace (Sean Montgomery) and Phil Davis (Jeremy Benton), now successful Broadway performers, are scheduled to leave for a Florida gig when they stop to check out a pair of singing sisters, Betty (Lindsie Vanwinkle) and Judy Haynes (Kelly Sheehan). You can do the math. Two guys, two girls, a couple of love songs and romance is underway sort of. One duo, Bob and Judy, get off to a bumpy start. As we say now: "no worries."
The girls are, themselves, on the way to a holiday gig, in Vermont, scheduled to sing at an inn owned by the guys former commanding officer, General Waverly (Jamie Ross).
After some romantic trickery, the foursome arrives at the Vermont Inn just as a heat wave has melted all the snow and endangered not only the Christmas
show but also the inn itself.
show but also the inn itself.
How love conquers all, and song and dance triumphs over fickle weather, makes up the A-B-C plot. Fortunately there is an almost unending flow of delectable melodies from the great (and maybe currently somewhat forgotten) Berlin.
Skinner, with the help of associate director/choreographer Mary Giattino, has devised exuberant routines for the large and talented cast of 25, which were constantly rewarded with


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Vision Spinner III is ideal for novice to intermediate vapers. The Vision Spinner 3 kit includes a variable voltage battery and incorporates a long-lasting 1600mAh battery with a Protank clearomizer. This 1600 mAh battery will outlast the competition and give you the diversity of vaping at different voltages. Vision Spinner 3 1600 mAh battery will last about 20 hours of constant use. It's variable voltage from 3.3 to 4.8 volts, and is adjusted by turning the knob at the bottom of the device. Vision Spinner 3 will be a great gift for anyone looking for a sleek ego-style vape pen.
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Longer life span for the new upgraded PCB and battery cell.
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Exit Art is in Week Eight (May 15 – 19) of our last exhibition, Collective/Performative, before closing. It features Pablo Helguera, who will host a series of gatherings, culminating in a 3am performance, inspired by the 16th-century Spanish Academia de los Nocturnos (Academy of the Night Revelers) who created the first "tertulia," an intellectual soiree, that functioned as a secret literary society.
The Academia de los Nocturnos (Academy of the Night Revelers), which emerged in in Valencia, Spain, in the 1590s, was one of the first artistic social gatherings in the form of the soirée. Part a secretive fraternity meeting late at night, part a gathering of wannabe poets, the academy held literary contests on a regular basis and became a support group for the then emerging modern literary art forms. In tribute to the closing of Exit Art, artist Pablo Helguera revives this golden age community in the form of a week-long sonnet workshop, culminating with a very late night (3am, in fact) performance and literary contest on the last day of operation of Exit Art.
The Academia de los Nocturnos is looking for participants to be official fellows of the academy. The workshops will include discussions on poetry and speech and will generate material for presentation on the public performance. No experience in poetry is necessary. Performers, writers, and non-writers and non-performers are welcome to apply. Participants must commit to attend the workshops on Tuesday, May 15; Wednesday, May 16; and Friday, May 18 from 6 – 8pm and the performance on May 19 at 3am. If
interested, send an email with your CV to email@example.com with the subject line "Sonnet Workshops."
The 3am performance and poetry contest will be open to the public. The Academia de los Nocturnos fellows will act as judges for the contest.


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Every Sunday we meet together to worship God, hear from His word, pray together, and encourage one another in our fellowship.We welcome everyone young and old of any background to join in or just to come and learn about God. Our primary service is at 9.45 on Sunday morning.
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The Crow's Nest Residence at Sugar Bowl Ski ResortApr 08 2014 · 0 comments · Award-Winning Project, NISHKIAN MONKS, Residential, Seismic ·0
Located in the Crow's Nest development at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in Tahoe, California this 5,600-square-foot, three-story, unique ski-in/ski-out chalet is truly a one-of-a-kind custom home. Nishkian Monks PLLC participated in the project as the structural engineer of record, working directly with San Francisco-based architectural firm Baldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg/BCV Architects, and general contractor Mt. Lincoln Construction of Truckee, California. Situated in the Sierra Nevada mountain range where maximum expected design snow depth is 16 feet – equating to 380 pounds per sq.ft. of snow weight, construction of this luxury residential building posed challenges due to the site and program constraints. Additionally, the site is located at one of Sugar Bowl's highest reaches – higher than many of the resort's ski lifts, and situated in a region of high seismicity. BCV Architects challenged Nishkian Monks with designing a multi-folded, double sloping plane roof with oversized overhangs out of wood framing that could support the extreme roof snow loads. Through numerous design iterations and collaboration with BCV, Nishkian Monks successfully achieved a structural design for BCV's striking exposed wood purlin roof. The roof purlins were arranged in such a fashion so as to emanate from the center of the chalet when viewing the house from any side.
Our engineers incorporated a steel frame system into the design of the chalet to be utilized to resist extreme seismic forces and to expedite construction in a region where snow accumulates most of the year. The Crow's Nest Residence is constructed of a combination of reinforced concrete, steel frames, conventional light wood framing, and heavy timber construction. The main level is set 13-feet above finish grade to provide protection from the annual snow pack, and is constructed of board formed concrete walls and concrete topped metal deck. Integral with the main floor is a large outdoor concrete deck cantilevered 15-feet beyond the lower level walls. The upper level of the chalet is constructed of conventional light wood framing. The roof is uniquely designed with multi-folded, double sloping planes from front to back of the chalet. The roof planes overhang 10.5-feet at the front of the chalet, and 5-feet at the sides and the rear of the chalet. The structural members of the roof were an architectural focal point of the chalet design. BCV Architects designed a roof purlin layout in three radial arrays; one array for each sloping roof plane. BCV challenged the Bozeman firm to engineer a wood roof structure to achieve their goal of spectacular sloping purlin arrays and large overhangs. A difficult roof structure was made even more difficult with a design snow load of 380 pounds per sq.ft. (psf). As a comparison, most roof structures in the State of Montana are designed for a roof snow load of 30psf; less than a tenth of the snow load for the chalet!
Nishkian Monks developed a three-dimensional computer model of the roof framing to help facilitate designing of the wood purlins. Multiple design iterations were completed with the architect to achieve the aesthetically pleasing look and resist the tremendous snow loads. In the end, 6.75-inch wide x 19.5-inch tall, high-strength (specially fabricated) glue laminated wood purlins were utilized to support the roof. The purlins radiated outward from three different origins to form a 4ft-6inch spacing at the overhangs. Our engineers were able to achieve all wood framing for the exposed beams as desired by the architect, except at the valleys. At those locations, steel beams were utilized and wrapped in wood to conform to the rest of the roof.
The remainder of the framing for the roof assembly was a special design of wood rafters in a composite sandwich panel, overlaid with vented cold roof framing. The rafters were a combination of high-strength engineered lumber and 2×8 Fir framing at a spacing of 8-inches and 16-inches depending on span. The sheathing for the cold roof had to be designed for the extreme snow loads as well, and required ¾-inch thick plywood sheathing spanning to 2×4 wood sleepers at 16"o.c.
Special connections for the roof purlins had to be developed and fabricated for this project. On two sides of the roof, 18 roof purlins were originating from a common location. 8 of the purlins were ended before reaching the origin of the array; transferring their loads to the remaining 10 members. The purlins were connected to a steel bracket at the origin of the array. The bracket was designed to minimize appearance and express the wood.
The roof structure was supported with a steel frame. The steel frame allowed for numerous large and small fenestrations around the perimeter of the chalet, and aided in the speed of construction (necessary to avoid significant delays with and costly snow removal). The steel frames also served as part of the lateral force resisting system for the structure. The large snow load coupled with the potential for high seismic ground accelerations resulted in the need for steel moment frames to resist lateral forces.
The exposed cantilevered concrete deck presented additional challenges. The large front roof overhang was determined to not afford shelter for snow accumulation on the deck. The deck was therefore designed for the same 380 psf snow load as was used for the roof. To support the heavy self-weight of the structure and the snow load, steel beams and braces encased in concrete were used. The encased steel frames were tied back to interior concrete shear walls on the lower level to resist overturning forces from the cantilevered deck.
A final design challenge for this project was engineering a foundation to resist the concentrated accumulation of snow loads and self-weight of the structure. Low soil bearing capacities resulted in large, unconventional sized (as compared to similar sized structures) continuous footings.
The challenges Nishkian Monks overcame in designing this architecturally expressed structure with some of the largest snow loads in the United States and steep, rugged terrain was an opportunity that the team relished. Over the years our engineers collaborate diligently with home owners and design teams to ensure the desired aesthetic environment is attained utilizing cost effective creative structural solutions. If you need assistance with your custom home design or facing another construction challenge, contact us to schedule a meeting with one of our team members.
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* C$ touches high of 98.13 U.S. cents
* Bonds follow U.S. Treasuries higher
TORONTO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Canada's dollar touched its highest level in just over six weeks against the U.S. currency on Wednesday as the greenback slid after the Federal Reserve raised expectations of more monetary easing.
The Fed expressed greater concern on Tuesday about sluggish U.S. growth and low levels of inflation in a statement that many took as opening the door wider to pumping more dollars into the economy. [ID:nTRU002490] [ID:nN20109053]
"I think they've (Fed) made it clear to the street they have complete vigilance for deflation as opposed to inflation," said Firas Askari, head of foreign exchange trading at BMO Capital Markets.
In reaction, Askari said "you saw every currency in the world rising against the U.S. dollar" as quantitative easing essentially involves buying U.S. Treasuries or bonds and flooding the market with greenbacks.
"The other simple way of looking at it is yields will go down and people don't want to hold U.S. dollars that are a lower-yielding product than other currencies out there," said Askari.
The Canadian currency strengthened to C$1.0191 to
the U.S. dollar, or 98.13 U.S. cents, its strongest level since
Aug. 6. But by 8:00 a.m. (1200 GMT), it retreated to C$1.0225
to the U.S. dollar, or 97.80 U.S. cents.
Askari said the market will be looking for support and resistance at C$1.0185 to the U.S. dollar and C$1.0270.
The Canadian currency ended Tuesday's session at C$1.0268 to the U.S. dollar, or 97.39 U.S. cents.
The Fed move followed data that showed Canada's annual
inflation rate slowed in August, suggesting the Bank of Canada
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Government bonds followed U.S. Treasuries, which rose after the Fed statement was seen as signaling the U.S. central bank was open to pumping more money into the economy. [US/]
The two-year bond was up 8 Canadian cents to yield 1.418 percent, while the 10-year bond gained 46 Canadian cents to yield 2.844 percent. (Reporting by Jennifer Kwan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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Trawling in the Age of Technology
Trawling is an old and somewhat indiscriminate way to catch fish. As techniques advance, the ability to devastate fish populations exists and is obvious. Regulations ensue. For example: increased horsepower allows vessels to tow larger nets. The goal being increased trawl door spread and the ability to sift through more water volume; therefore in some places the result is to regulate the amount of horsepower. Technological advances in trawl door design allow for increased door spread with reduced horsepower. In other regions total time to fish is regulated, resulting in higher horsepower vessels in order to speed to the fishing grounds to meet the time regulations. The point is that the desire to regulate and control the situation is met with advancements in other aspects of the overall trawling system. The goals are noble. The fisheries need to be regulated, even the most contentious, conservation minded fisherman can benefit from the science that usually results from the regulatory process. But it certainly is interesting to watch the varied ways that politicians try to grapple with the issue.
One of the goals of regulating fisheries and trawling in particular should be to encourage advancement in techniques and technology. Not in an "apply for an exemption" fashion but to make sure that the regulations are written broadly enough to stimulate ideas. Look up 50 CFR 223.207 - Approved TEDs, for example. It is specific enough that it deters innovation or advancement in design. Contrast this approach with the hard cap on salmon in the pollock trawl fishery. "Here is the 'hard cap' number, industry. Don't exceed it." Everyone with an idea is free to try implementation. This is by far the better approach. Both industry and science are hard at work to resolve this issue. At the same time these innovations and ideas are being reviewed and evaluated for future hard caps and for other trawl by-catch issues. The amount of knowledge being gained through these exercises is tremendous. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is fun, but knowledge for a purpose, sustainable fisheries, in this case has tangible value.
There are three main areas where technology is advancing in trawling; Trawls themselves, where materials and designs are changing. The tasks the trawls are asked to perform are not just to capture the fish but to capture some and release or exclude others based on size or species. For trawl doors, the original task was to simply create enough spread to open the net. This has expanded to include opening the net while staying off the bottom and doing it with less drag and fuel consumption. In some places specialized doors and techniques are used to fish among or along pipes lying on the bottom without doing the pipelines any damage. Finally, with trawl electronics a significant amount of effort is going into the technology because this is how the trawl and trawl door effort are measured in the actual fishing environment.
Catch Monitoring is the generalized phrase that is used to encompass the overall electronic measuring effort for both trawling and seining. There are two portions to the electronics effort: wireless and third wire.
Wireless devices communicate acoustically with the vessel, each other and at times with a third wire receiver. Wireless sensors, "eggs" in industry parlance, have generally been used to measure a parameter; door spread for example but also depth, height, temperature or filling rate of the cod end. Advances in the technology allow measurement of trawl door pitch and roll as well as water current direction relative to the trawl.
As always, when a fisherman is presented with a tool designed, developed and manufactured for a particular task, they find another way to use the tool or a different parameter to measure. This type of collaboration between the fishermen and the manufacturer is incredibly valuable to the industry and exponentially advances the technology. As a very basic example depth sensors designed to give the depth and sinking rate of a seine were quickly adapted to trawl doors and subsequently used all over the trawl to give the fisherman an idea of how the entire trawl is behaving. Does the cod end fly higher than the headrope? Is the mid-section of the trawl ballooning? The depth of any point on the trawl can be measured and an accurate comparison can be made to another point on the trawl. Separately or in conjunction with the depth the height from the sensor point to the bottom can be measured. This was originally conceived as a way to measure the headrope to bottom distance. This is used to confirm the design criteria of the trawl and to "see" how the door spread and trawling speed affect the opening height. Door spread is also a parameter of supreme importance. Door spread morphed quickly into wing spread and even into measuring if and how far an excluder flap was opening.
Trawl Eyes, an echosounder on the headrope, have been around for some decades providing the fisherman with confirmation that the trawl is open and fish are entering the net mouth. Advances in this technology have followed advances in echosounders and the new Trawl Eye sensor from Simrad now includes CHIRP. This allows the sensor to "see" small targets including shrimp with the acoustic range to distinguish fish swimming with or feeding on these shrimp. Trawl Eye sensors are now routinely used in the trawl tunnel either with another trawl eye or third wire trawl sonar located at the headrope.
One of the advantages of wireless sensors is the ability to determine the geographic location of the sensor. This technology has been available from Simrad since the very late 1980s and is in use in certain segments of the market usually based upon the environment. For example if the area being fished is flat and free of obstacles, position is not overly critical. However if the area varies greatly in depth, has many obstacles or strong currents then the trawl position is important. Trawl position can only be determined if both the range and the bearing to the trawl can be accurately measured. This requires fairly sophisticated electronics and there rumors of other companies entering the trawl position market.
Third Wire catch monitoring systems have also been around for some decades and have generally been used by larger vessels. Third wire systems are usually more reliable in terms of constant communication due to the difficulties in the wireless communication link. However the cost of a winch and wire and the maintenance keep this technology out of the hands of some fisheries. There are two main advances in the technology related to third wire systems. More and faster data is one and real time video is the other.
Faster update rates with trawl sonars are possible due to the advances in multibeam technology. Multibeam technology allows an entire trawl opening image to be displayed every 3 seconds or so and is compared to a scanning sonar which updates the trawl opening image every 30-45 seconds. The amount of data coming from a multibeam sonar compared to a scanning sonar is extreme and this has necessitated advances in the communication link. Typical third wire cables have coax copper or even steel conductors and this limits (particularly the steel) the amount of data transfer that is possible. Future advancements will require going to a higher quality cable or paying particular attention to the location of cable runs within the vessel.
The biggest advancement in third wire trawling is Real Time Video! Simrad pioneered this technology for the ability to really see the performance of salmon excluders in pollock trawls. Since the advent of these real time cameras the use has blossomed to include krill trawlers for gear observation, hake trawlers for species identification and now even shrimp trawlers to determine catch rates and the location of the concentration of the shrimp!
Trawling technology will continue to advance and developments such as opening the trawl at depth to safely release unwanted fish at depth or opening and closing "flaps" on trawl doors to allow for the trawl to be actively steered are in the design phase. Different materials to decrease drag and increase fuel efficiency are also underway. The desire on the part of fishermen to target the right size and right species at the right time is very strong. The desire to increase the quality of the product, which increases the value to the consumer, is also prevalent. All of these factors make the future of trawling very healthy, profitable and environmentally sound.
Michael Hillers has been with Simrad Fisheries since 1984 and specializes in maintaining the link between the fishermen and the engineering and development teams at the various Kongsberg factories that design and manufacture the fishing acoustics.


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Bird-watching is excellent, with more than 300 species recorded. Many animal species can be seen including Giraffe, Zebra, Wildebeest, Kudu, Nyala, Bushbuck, Waterbuck and Hippo and of course Impala and Warthog.
There is a good network of game-viewing roads which are well marked for easy navigation. There are also many marked walking and cycling trails. Visitors can drive, walk, or cycle around the reserve at their leisure and at their own time; no guides are necessary.
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Civil engineering is the main and the most ancient construction type, where stable economy is the most important influencing factor. It is the field that makes direct impact on the quality of population living standards.
One of business areas of construction Group OSNOVA is civil engineering ranging from private cottages to tower buildings involving complex underground part under conditions of restricted urban area. Group has huge experience in constructing civil buildings and projects, which can be proven with numerous successful projects.
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Group of companies OSNOVA meets all the requirements and demands of Customers; it is in line with economic situation and general condition of the area, transforming challenges into its constant success.


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Music Track Title: Rumble Thump
Catalog ID: 383288 ISRC: US5UL1007775
Description: Intense garage rock & a thumping bass, distorted synth riffs & raging guitars. Sounds like the White Stripes jamming with Led Zeppelin. Ideal action or suspense underscore. Angry rebellious filled with swagger & attitude. Blazing Corporate ad campaign, Nascar extreme sports biker bar hard partying
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Keywords: Cracker Distorted Synth Riffs Cars Trucks Pickups Riffs Blues Rat Pedal Heavy Over-The-Top Outrageous Fun Teen Angst Big Concert Drugs Sex Wild Rock N Roll energetic high energy youth drama thirtysomething smokey bar biker babes wild crazy driving modern rock track with a big, dramatic sound for action movies, sports, aerobics, fitness dramas, corporate branding, new car commercial, pickup, truck endurance road tests new media projects, video webisode sitcom wrestling Top Model, Millionaire Matchmaker. Themesong or commercials for sports show, hot new cars, manly fashion, fun catwalk, swinging, street smart swaggering rave kegger party beach party frat party tailgate action football game video game TV commercial Movie trailer Film credits intro outro anthem beer commercial
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We at St Philip's Church aspire to be an authentic, brave and creative community. A family. A people on mission. We are inspired by both the words and the ways of Jesus.
We are a people called to pursue transformation together.
We want to see transformation in individual people's lives, in communities and across the city of Sheffield.


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Following yesterday's heartfelt interview with Jason Derulo on KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show, the singer has teamed up with Rubystone Entertainment to announce a fundraising opportunity for the Challenge organisation to support children and families living with cancer.
Jason Derulo has established himself as one of the most successful pop acts on the planet and he's notable to look at either. The chart-topping global superstar back to Australia in November for shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane with special guests T.I., Austin Mahone and Pia Mia.
Rubystone Entertainment are aiming to raise $100,000 for children and families with cancer by donating $10 from every concert ticket sold to Challenge with no cost to the purchaser. Awww good on you guys.
To take part in the campaign, purchasers log on to the ticketek website, choose their city of choice and enter the 'challenge'password. Automatically $10 will be donated to Challenge, supporting Kids with Cancer at no extra cost to the ticket purchaser,
Here's a bit about the charity...
In over thirty plus years of operation, Challenge has become known and respected as a not-for-profit organisation. Through camps, hospital support, parent support, retreats, concert tickets, family holidays, counselling and more, Challenge bring colour and relief to the lives of children and their families as they face the pressures of a life-threatening illness. Challengeoffer face to face support all year round and their promise is to deliver practical, personalised services of exceptional quality to ensure that children and families living with cancer are well supported.
And what the Challenge CEO David Rogers says about the partnership...
"Music is a great source of enjoyment and comfort for children living with cancer, especially during treatment. We are thrilled to be teaming up with Rubystone Entertainment for the Jason Derulo Tour, especially as we regularly see the pure joy attending a live performance can bring to a sick child. Every ten dollars from each ticket sold will be going towards Challenge services, in particular our music and art therapy programs, in supporting children and families living with cancer, 365 days of the year,"
So show your support and get your ticket here now..!


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Salvation Is Not Enough
by Jeffrey Snell
11/24/2009 / Christian Living
"Just believe"... "Have faith"... these are words intended to offer encouragement to
struggling believers facing a challenge. Unfortunately, while accurate, they are much easier to say than do, and, quite frankly, incomplete. In fact, this reveals the heart of most believers' struggle: to truly believe God, not just believe He exists.
Though not raised in a Christian home, my upbringing was laced with respect for
Christianity--in fact, for all religion. But it was a disconnected respect; a courteous nod rather than an affirmation of value. Religion, though not explicitly described as such, was intimated to be a comfort and a reason for those who needed it to sustain them in life. Interestingly, in recent years this approach to Christianity has become fairly standard. Many unbelievers in public arenas have regularly adopted this perspective to respectfully demean those who structure their life choices around faith in God, even Jesus Christ. ("Respectfully demean" admittedly sounds like a bit of an oxymoron-at best a paradoxical hybrid, born of the present unacceptability of blatant hostility.)
Becoming a Christian at twenty, I discovered that God had so many more resources than I possessed! My introduction to college effectively crushed my self-esteem; the Lord offered His in its place. The most powerful hope I could ever have imagined surged through my heart, growing firmer as I faced trials here and there, giving me confidence I had forever sought but never genuinely felt.
Working toward finishing my degree as graduation approached, I began to seek employment. What good is a college degree without a job, right? I had visions and so many plans: I would interview with at least ten companies, all of which located within a day or two of my family; they would all offer me huge salaries and perks to come work for them; the positions I chose from would be dramatic, exciting and in my precise field of interest. I signed up for my first three interviews, attended my first and was told they had no openings in my desired field. My heart sank a bit. Also, the only location they were hiring for was 2500 miles away, on the other side of the country. I grew more disappointed. And the last and worst part of this, my first interview... it was clear immediately this was where Christ was calling me to go! Thus the first real challenge to my faith began.
Struggles with faith come in innumerably different shapes and sizes. Some seem extremely difficult to survive and yet turn out to be deceptively straightforward. Others appear quite simple on the surface but bring about deep, heart-wrenching agony. Mine was the latter. The only other two interviews I had--which incidentally were with companies hours from my home--went fairly well, but with little interest on either side of the table. More confirmation of what I didn't want to hear: God had prepared the way for me, and all I needed to do was make the decision to move out, walking on nothing but my faith. But faith in God's existence, even believing that Jesus Christ is His Son and that He saved me, is not the faith I'm referring to.
If your first thought after that statement was "Huh?" join the club. Ultimately, I made the choice to trust Him and follow His plan, and thank God I did! But this is where I became confused in those heady days of breaking out into the "real" world. You see, I always understood that believing God was God, believing in the inerrancy of His word, was the entirety of faith. Stand on that, and you will never fall. Fourteen rather arduous years later I've learned this to be a true but incomplete answer. I tried for many of those years to make that faith be enough for me to live a righteous life; what I encountered time and again was failure. But how could that be? Was my faith not genuine? While this is a valid and crucial question for each of us to ask ourselves, I was certain I knew the truth of the Gospel. What I didn't grasp was that eternal life in Christ is not limited to salvation. I needed more.
I am convinced I am not the only one who stopped short of God's whole gift in this way. Many believers I've encountered struggle with frustration and disillusionment, depression and anger; they truly believe in Jesus but continue to struggle. No one ever told them that what is needed in the believer's life is more than just faith in Jesus' work on the cross. Now, before you shout "sacrilege!" let me state that Jesus' work alone brings salvation, to be sure; but the moment we are saved from our sin is not the end of the story! In my experiences, I discovered that believing I am saved simply was not enough to prevail over spiritual and physical battles each day. Our enemy does not cease his attacks on us once our eternal future is out of his grasp--he simply alters his strategy from direct assault to seige and deception, and I had no idea how to be victorious in that.
In order to walk in Christ, to live righteously day to day in the midst of this spiritual hostility, we must continue to learn who He is, not merely rest in what He did for us.(Ph. 2:12-13) In theological circles, this is known as sanctification; unfortunately, the what and how of sanctification is often explored in sermons and teaching only a fraction as often as salvation. Just "religiously" reading my Bible every day wasn't cutting it. The Lord wants us to know Him more intimately every day. He has so much to show us! And in knowing Him more, we begin to take on His perspective and apply it to the day before us, bringing understanding. Who brings that understanding? The Holy Spirit. John 16:13 says "when he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth." Of course, we receive the Holy Spirit upon salvation, but still, the decision to listen to His guidance is ours.
God's word tells us "be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD." (Ps. 27:14) Understanding that His spirit's power is outside of any present struggle we are enduring allows us to take heart and fight on, though victory may appear hopeless. Be encouraged! He will not abandon us, though our enemy attempts to persuade us He will. Through the Holy Spirit's instruction of His word and ministry to us in prayer, we rise, as Philippians 4:7 promises, into His peace, superior peace that "transcends all understanding." And that peace will carry the day.
Copyright (c) 2006 Jeffrey R. Snell
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For a limited time, you can order something called "The May Queen" at Nitehawk Cinema's two Brooklyn locations.
Described as a "short rib and lingonberry hand pie," it's a grotesquely fitting special for the psychedelic freakfest film Midsommar — a movie so colossally fucked up that it drove one rattled guest to ask a manager for cocaine, just to get through the screening. (So rattled was this guest that she also evidently forgot how cocaine works.)
She hadn't ordered the hand pie, but I can probably guarantee you that someone has. And I'm not sure about you, but eating one of those during a horror movie sounds like the functional equivalent of drinking vodka in line for a Tilt-a-Whirl.
Aside from occasionally inducing nausea, I've come to view the recent scourge of "dine-in" movie theaters like Nitehawk and the Alamo Drafthouse — particularly in Brooklyn, where numerous have opened in the last few years , but also in cities across the country — as fundamentally antithetical to movies themselves. These establishments allege to improve the moviegoer's experience with artisanal pub fare and themed cocktails delivered to one's seat but they simultaneously misunderstand why some of us go to the movies in the first place: to escape. They're gentrified foils to the old-fashioned immersion of the cinema, which is increasingly hard-won amid the onslaught of technological diversions endemic to modern life.
If you haven't been to one of these dine-in movie theaters, here's how they work: Typically, they feature some kind of modified cabaret-style seating; at the Alamo Drafthouse and Nitehawk, a menu is placed on your table, under which there is a dim light and a slot for pencils and paper. Before the film starts — or whenever, really — you can write down what you want on a scrap of paper. A waiter will slink by to pick up your order and will later return during the movie with your food and/or beverage. This is how you end up trying to watch The Souvenir while the couple next to you flirts over a bottle of red and mojo-marinated shrimp tacos.
Maybe you like the idea of scarfing down a meat pie while watching the most psychologically devastating film of the year.
There are numerous aspects of the dine-in movie theater experience I find loathsome. To name a few: I hate the way the waiters are relegated to scurrying up and down the aisles like blind mice, walking half-stooped through the rows to avoid blocking the screen. I hate how people who've ordered crunchy foods try, and fail, to eat them noiselessly. I hate the whispered exchanges regarding tater tots. I hate the smell of cheeseburgers in the dark.
Whereas traditional movie theaters are expressly designed to pull you in, this stuff inherently yanks you out. I'm not a film snob; I once watched The 400 Blows wine-drunk on a flight to Dubai. But for people who go to the movies to sit in the dark and turn off their phones and forget themselves for a few hours — or even, to, I don't know, share in the collective fright or delight of the audience — it's not hard to see how some dude shoveling kale salad into his mouth can become its own brand of spoiler. Nor is it hard to imagine why a movie theater is a genuinely horrible place to enjoy a kale salad.
Of course, there are economic incentives behind the dine-in theater — a justifiable urgency to transform moviegoing into an "event" in the Netflix-and-Chill age. Concessions have always buoyed the movie theater business, and they've taken on an even more outsized significance as ticket sales have declined. It's worth noting, too, that many dine-in theaters tend to show the kind of movies mainstream theaters rarely do — which is precisely why I find them so hard to avoid. Ultimately, if being able to scarf down a banh mi hot dog while watching, say, Gasper Noé's Climax gets you to a movie you otherwise wouldn't see, I suppose that's a good thing (if not a gross thing).
Yet something more insidious undergirds this trend, too. The dine-in movie theater seems to spring from the same fount of consumer-driven brainstorming that brought us driving ranges-cum-nightclubs, grocery stores-cum-bars, coworking spaces-qua-gyms, and gyms-qua-coworking spaces. In these spaces, it feels like the physical world is contorting itself to match the combinatory, all-at-once-ness of the digital realm. It may be a coincidence, but it should also come as no surprise that the rise of dine-in movie theaters over the past decade reflects the growing ubiquity of streaming services — of dinner with a movie, as opposed to dinner and a movie. Perhaps what we really want from cinemas nowadays is not a "night out," but the same level of convenience fast Wi-Fi and DoorDash grants us on a night in.
Still, maybe you like the idea of scarfing down a meat pie while watching the most psychologically devastating film of the year.
But consider how few places like movie theaters exist nowadays, how rare it is to devote your undivided attention to a piece of art for more than an hour. Museums are fast becoming slaves to Instagram. Concerts are increasingly spoiled by Snapchats nobody wants to see. TV is routinely watched alongside a perpetually refreshed Twitter feed. The latest season of The Real World airs on Facebook. I can't say for sure, but I suspect some people watching Roma on their iPhones paused it to take a few swipes on Tinder.
Which is why the movie theater is an institution worth protecting from merely above-average bar food. And why I'd implore you to settle for popcorn like a normal person. Dinner will always be there for you afterwards.
As will cocaine, I guess.
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When a terrorist massacred 50 people at two New Zealand mosques last week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern immediately grasped the nettle. "I can tell you one thing right now," she told a news conference. "Our gun laws will change."
That's what effective leadership looks like. New Zealand's Cabinet has now agreed in principle to overhaul those laws, experts are reviewing ways to make the country safer from firearms and, Ardern promised, "within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism, we will have announced reforms."
Contrast that with the United States, where just since 1970, more Americans have died from guns (1.45 million, including murders, suicides and accidents) than died in all the wars in U.S. history (1.4 million). More Americans die from guns every 10 weeks than died in the entire Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined, yet we still don't have gun safety rules as rigorous as New Zealand's even before the mosques were attacked.
The National Rifle Association (not to be confused with the vast majority of gun owners) will turn to its old smoke-and-mirrors standby, arguing that the killer's hate, not his guns and bullets, were the real problem.
But while it's true that white supremacy is deadly and needs to be confronted — something our vote-obsessed president blindly ignores — without the weapons of mass murder, 50 New Zealand worshippers would still be alive; 17 Parkland, Florida, schoolchildren and staff members would still be alive; nine Charleston, South Carolina, churchgoers would still be alive; 11 Pittsburgh congregants would still be alive; 58 Las Vegas concertgoers would still be alive; 26 Newtown, Connecticut, first-graders and adults would. ...
Why can't leaders in America learn from experience, the way leaders in other countries do? After a massacre in Australia in 1996, the government there took far-reaching action to tighten gun policy. In contrast, every day in America, another hundred people die from gun violence and 300 more are injured — and our president and Congress do nothing.
In fairness, liberals have often been unhelpful, broadcasting their own ignorance about the firearms they propose to regulate, or speaking blithely of banning guns or of "gun control" in ways that drive responsible gun owners into the arms of the NRA. I suggest dropping references to "gun control" and instead speaking of "gun safety."
It's also true that there are no simple solutions. The U.S. now has more guns than people, so criminals have a steady supply — and so do ordinary Americans at a time when suicides are at a 30-year high.
But gun laws do make a difference. When Connecticut tightened licensing laws in 1995, firearm homicide rates dropped by 40 percent. And when Missouri eased gun laws in 2007, gun homicide rates surged by 25 percent.
Polls show some measures have broad backing. For starters, more than 90 percent even of gun owners support universal background checks to ensure that people are legally allowed to own a gun before they buy one.
Astonishingly, about 22 percent of guns in the U.S. are still acquired without a background check. In parts of the U.S., you need a more thorough background check to adopt a dog than to acquire a semi-automatic AR-15 weapon.
The House passed a bill last month to require universal background checks, but it has little chance in the Senate this year.
Another basic step: Keep guns out of the hands of people shown to present a danger to themselves or others, such as when they are suicidal or threatening a domestic partner. Fourteen states have such "red flag" laws, and similar legislation is before Congress to achieve something similar at a national level.
We should likewise invest more in "smart guns" that can be fired only by an authorized person; it's outrageous that my phone requires a pin or fingerprint butthat an AR-15 doesn't. That would help with the estimated 200,000 guns stolen each year.
The regulatory model to follow is automobiles. We haven't outlawed cars, but we have required safety modifications (seat belts, air bags) and limited access to them (licenses, bans after drunken driving) in ways that have sharply reduced the fatality rate per miles driven.
If we took this approach to guns, many Americans would still die. But experts have suggested to me that we could plausibly reduce gun deaths by about one-third, saving 13,000 lives a year.
Slowly, the tide of public opinion is shifting. The NRA's extremism is turning some people off, and it seems on the defensive, so eventually we may follow New Zealand. But how many more people will die before the president and Congress act?
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Aerospace and defense company Boeing this week rolled out the Boeing Black a heavily secured Android smartphone designed for use by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, which no kidding will essentially self-destruct if tampered with.
In a filing with the FCC first obtained by tech media site Myce, Boeing's attorneys said that "any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable." While that may not mean the phone will become a fuming lump of plastic if tampered with think of the liability issues if it goes off accidentally! it's certainly an aggressive approach to smartphone security.
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That aggressive approach is apparent elsewhere in the Boeing Black's design. The phone boasts hardware-based encryption and secure boot, along with compatibility with major mobile device management systems, according to Boeing. The device is also highly modularized, with various additions like sensors, battery packs and satellite connectivity available. The operating system is listed simply as Android, but screen shots appear to show the device running some variant.
Boeing is also intent on keeping many details of the Black secret, as customers will have to sign a purchase agreement that prevents them from sharing information about the device with the public. Essentially, you'll need to sign an NDA before they'll sell it to you.The Black isn't exactly going to knock anyone's socks off with its published specs a 540x960 pixel 4.3-inch screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, clunky 13mm thickness but that's not really the point. It's a smartphone designed for security and little else, which could be tempting for the James Bond crowd.
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Animal Friends hits £1.25 million donated to animal charities
Animal Friends Insurance has announced that it has now donated over £1.25 million to over 230 animal welfare charities. Established in 1998, Animal Friends Insurance is a business that is dedicated to providing pet insurance cover whilst supporting animal welfare.
Last year the company challenged themselves to donate £1million by the end of 2012, this was achieved in November. In this time the brand has more than doubled its market share and continues to grow. Since December a further £250,000 has been donated to a variety of charity projects.
Animal Friends runs various initiatives including charitable grants for specific projects, one-off donations, an 'Employee of the Month' scheme and a 'Charity of the Month' voting application on their Facebook page, Feel Good Park.
Elaine Fairfax, Founder and Managing Director of Animal Friends, said "Providing support for animal charities is a core commitment of the company. Through our charity partnerships we've been able to have positive effect on many animals and we will continue to strive to help many more."
The company has worked with hundreds of charities in the UK and abroad. One recent benefactor includes the Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital. The charity recently received £12,000 from Animal Friends to build a new water fowl pen after Elaine Fairfax rescued a mallard duck and took her to the charity.
In addition to UK charities Animals Friends also supports many international animal conservation projects, one of which is The Born Free Foundation. Virginia McKenna OBE, Hon Dr of Science and Founder and Trustee of The Born Free Foundation commented 'The generosity and loyalty of Animal Friends Insurance knows no bounds. We have been so fortunate to have met Elaine and Chris Fairfax back in the early days, and have been enormously fortunate to have been one of the animal charities they chose to support. Their latest donation will go towards our sanctuary in Ethiopia. But it is not only with money that they show they care. They attend events; they are personally involved; they are true friends in every way.'


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While FAU has its second scrimmage Saturday, there will also be some big, meaningful games going on at FAU Stadium.
The Owls are hosting No. 19 Western Kentucky, the Sun Belt leader, in a three-game series that begins tonight at 6:30.
Here is what the Bowling Green paper had to say about the series.
Winning the series would be huge, in that it would put FAU right in the hunt for the regular season title and also give their RPI a big boost.
Yours truly will be at another ball park, many miles and many degrees cooler away, as I am in Philadelphia covering the Marlins at Phillies series for the Big Red S.
60 percent chance of rain tonight as cold front comes through. 40 percent tomorrow, with low in the 40s. Just luv the Northeast in the spring.
The view out my hotel. That is the Reading Terminal Market at the end of the street. The sky is already clouding up as the wave of gloom approaches.
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