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The Service Centre for Young Researchers is the central contact point for prospective doctoral candidates, doctoral candidates and postdocs at Bielefeld University:
- The consultants offer individual advice on questions concerning your doctoral or postdoctoral phase at Bielefeld University, planning an academic career and making applications for third-party funding.
- It organizes a range of information events for young researchers.
- Every two months, the Service Centre produces a Newsletter for Young Researchers, informing young researchers of calls for proposals, training opportunities and internal university developments.
- It organizes Peer Review for Third-Party Funding for postdocs who wish to make their first application.
- It coordinates the Bielefeld Young Researchers' Fund, an internal funding measure that supports young researchers at all career levels.
The Service Center for Young Researchers sees itself as being at the interface to all other services for young researchers at Bielefeld University and can refer you to the relevant department for a specific question.
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Lot 190: David Hockney
Lot 190: David Hockney
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How To Get From San Salvador To Merida
San Salvador
The Parque El Nacional EL Boqueron is a piece of nature that is close to the city. It is one of the many volcanoes in Central America where it is worthwhile to stop for a moment.
The Paseo de Montejo has a row of beautiful buildings and presents what kind of history and culture lies in the city of Merida. In the evening there is so much to do and the street is closed to vehicular traffic.
Here are the available modes of transport from San Salvador to Merida.
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Bus Ticket From San Salvador To Merida
The distance between San Salvador to Merida is 200 km. From the San Carlos bus terminal, take the Tica Bus Transport Service that is bound to Reformita (Guatemala City). From here, take the TransMetro bus that goes to Tipografia. From here, take another TransMetro bus that will take you to San Agustin. Next, take a Linea Dorada bus that is heading for Santa Elena; from here, take a passenger van that will take you to Merida. The total travel time is 21 hours for US$185. For details, check: http://www.ticabus.com/eng/rutas.php?id=2
If you choose to drive, the travel time is 19 hours.
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Looking at PCLinuxOS as a Corporate Desktop
In a post I made a while back, the Linux distro PCLinuxOS showed up in the comments. When I stuck my foot into it in a reply, the creator of the distro, Texstar jumped in to set me straight. My mistake was to say the PCLinuxOS was now based on Debian. Another poster pointed out I needed to do my research better. Too true. I had two data points.
I had read someplace on the Internet of a forum that PCLinuxOS was now Debian based, and
I had looked at PCLinuxOS briefly when I was trying to decide what Distro to use for my last LinuxWorld lab, saw that it used Synaptic, forget that there was an RPM version of that tool, and moved on.
It is even worse than that though: The article I read that gave me this idea in the first place is lost to history, but I saw a post at Desktop Linux that reinforced it:
"Once installed, more than 5,000 additional packages are available through PCLinuxOS's Synaptic software manager and file repositories. This works essentially in the same way as Debian and Ubuntu's update system. "
I stopped reading there. Had I just finished the paragraph, the very next sentence was:
"However, instead of using deb packages, it uses RPM. Thus, PCLinuxOS users must use their distribution's own repository -- it is not interchangeable with the Debian or Ubuntu program libraries.
Well fine. Just fine. IRNIdjut. I normally do actually research stuff better than that. Really. I should have know better: A few years back, I used an early release of PCLinuxOS in the Linuxworld lab as the class boot-able LiveCD. I only stopped using it because a newer version of PCLinuxOS dropped Evolution for space on the LiveCD disk reasons. I needed Evolution for the lab.
Even worse: I used to be a [RPM based] Mandrake user! I used Mandrake for years. Texstar used to package up all sorts of things to make Mandrake better, and was one of the, if not the most popular packagers for Mandrake "back in the day." [Mandrake is called Mandriva now] Worse: Texstar even lives in the same city I work! I should know his stuff better that this. Argg!!! This is just embarrassing, to say the least.
I Have No Choice. I Must Do Research.
Having stepped into this royally, the only way to be able to look in the mirror is to test PCLinuxOS 2007. One of the comments to my post about PCLinuxOS asserted that PCLinuxOS is 100 times better than Mint. I am surrounded by Mint systems. Mint is based off of Ubuntu, and there is an article in the PCLinuxOS Magazine September 2007 Issue 13 is titled "Ubuntu's Hype is Misleading".
I am always open to change. Starting back in the post "Most Popular Linux Desktop?" post, I wondered what the hype around Ubuntu was all about and set about testing it. I ended up using Mint as my primary Linux desktop ever since.
I decided to use the Dell D620 that I posted about inLinux Mint 3.0 and the Single Dell". Mint had been on the unit for about a month. Everything was working more or less in a well known way. Evolution was the main pain point, since it crashed fairly often, at least until I figured out a new way to set it up (I pointed it at the OWA web server rather than the MS Exchange server for the WebDAV connection. That made it run much better. No idea why yet.). The other, slight lessor issue was that the wiggle stick and the track pad used different mouse acceleration profiles. I could not get them synced to save my life. The wiggle stick fast. The trackpad slow and therefore mostly useless. The computer itself is speedy fast, what with its T7200 Core 2 Duo.
Mint on the D620 grabbed the CD image from a mirror on the net, burned it, and then moved out of the way on the hard drive to make room for PCLOS (PCLinuxOS's official abbreviation). Aside: Interesting that there is no LiveDVD version of PCLOS. There is clearly a large number of packages in the repository that they could put on by default if they had a LiveDVD version. From my last LinuxWorld lab I learned most everyone was able to boot a DVD these days. That would be nice, because then they could put Evolution back on the install media, and I would have another option of the lab!
LiveCDs are the Best-est
Any Linux Distro that does not have a LiveCD/LiveDVD version is missing the boat. It is so nice to be able to test the distro *from* the CD, to be sure there are not major issues before you roll the Distro down. As easy as Linux is to install these days, I still spend a fair amount of my after-hours life doing these types of things, and the LiveCD is just too nice to not use. Even Fedora 7 is on board with a LiveCD you can install from! PCLinuxOS booted, asked a few questions about the network, and I was up.
The LiveCD gives you the option of "root" or "guest" to log in as. I go in as 'guest', password 'guest', and a normal looking KDE desktop with some distro specific artwork appears. There is an icon on the task bar to start downloading updates (Synaptic, but labeled "package manager")... which is odd in a way. I'm running off a LiveCD. My read/write space is limited by the ramdisk. No way I could put new packages on this while it is running LiveCD. Next to Synaptic icon on the taskbar is something that anyone that has ever used Mandrake knows: the DrakConf utility. I'll need to use both of these once I am running PCLOS installed off the hard drive, so I note their presence and move on.
The trackpad and wiggle stick are accelerated the same. Nice.
Finding no issues running PCLinuxOS from the LiveCD, I clicked on the installer icon, reworked the disk layout to preserve my /home, and watched the D620 CD drain the LiveCD onto the harddrive in short order. Screaming fast install. Here's the disk layout:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1824 14651248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1825 3040 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3041 3283 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 3284 9729 51777495 83 Linux
On the Dell D620, sda1 is the BMC corporate MS WinXP image. sda2 is "/". sda4 is "/home". I formatted sda2 and sda3 (swap). As a first challenge to PCLOS, I was going to leave all my files from Mint laying about my home directory. Mint was set up with both Gnome and KDE, so all the config files from a months use were there. There was no issue at all with anything. KDE (the default GUI of PCLOS) fired up, went in, and everything was great. Well. Mostly.
Intel Graphics Chip
Like Ubuntu, but not like Fedora or Mint, PCLOS did *not* set up the Intel graphics chip correctly at first. Worse, the Drakconf utility that lets you fix this was nowhere to be found on the desktop anymore. It was there on the taskbat when it was booted on the LiveCD: now it was gone. It actually took me a few moments to dig up what the config utility is called (been a while since I used Mandrake), and fire it up from command line. *Now* it noticed I needed to install the "915Resolution" package to deal with the hardware. I said it could. Download. Install.
Logged out, restarted X, back in. Still 1024x768. Another trip into Drakconf, and I reset the panel type from 1024x768 to 1280x800.
Log out. Restart X. Still whacked. Back into Drakconf. Go into "Screen Resolution". 1280x800 not an option. 1280x960 is. At the bottom are the words "Other". I pick that, and now it redraws the menu with all sorts of resolutions, including the one I need.
Exit, out. In. Now the fonts look like crud. KDE control center can fix that: Turn on anti-aliasing, force the DPI to 96, save, exit.
Come back in, and now it looks right.
This is not better than Mint so far. But after this it gets better...
Building the Perfect Corporate Linux
Launching Synaptic, running update installing north of 200 updates (about the same ball park in terms of number of packages as the first time I fired up Mint), rebooting, going into Synaptic again, start tweaking this out as a corporate desktop. I noted along the way that the Synaptic update has Firefox moved from 220.127.116.11 to 188.8.131.52: that is goodness. I was afraid I was going to have to override the default browser install.
The PCLOS kernel is oddly old, at 2.6.18. That kernel version was released last September, 2006. Mint on my Acer is at kernel 2.6.20, Fedora on my Dell C400 is at 2.6.22, and kernel.org is at 2.6.22 as well. This only matters of course if I turn out to need one of the new features of the later kernels. So far, on the D620, that does not appear to be the case, other than possibly ACPI.
If you have to work with MS Exchange mail servers and do cross calendaring with MS Windows users , then you have pretty much only one choice for email client: Evolution. Two, if you count Outlook Web Access and your favorite browser.
Evolution is not installed by default. PCLOS dropped it in favor of Thunderbird a while back. But it is still in the PCLOS apt repositories, and Synaptic can pull it down. Even though the kernel is "backlevel", the Evolution groupware suite is the same release (more or less) as Mint's: 2.10. Normally when I change out the OS level on Linux, I move all the Evolution dot files into backups, and create all new, since Evolution has a history of not dealing well with upgrades. I took a flyer, brought Evolution up as is, and it happily accessed the .evolution, and other .gnomeish files and worked like a champ. Out of the box. No issues so far. That might be a first.
I need other things: Avahi, HFS+, Quanta, Bluefish, NVU (yes... I know. I like to mess around with different HTML generation utilities, even though I almost always just fall back to Google Docs in the end.). I need Planner, and it is available.
At this point, I am noticing another thing. The package repositories are actually pretty fast. One of the reasons I stopped using Mandrake was that their repositories seemed to get slower and more painful to use every release. In fact, the Mandrake package manager was no great shakes back then (No idea now: I put up Mandriva 2006 last year, but on hardware so slow that I could not evaluate how fast anything was), so I can see why Texstar opted to use Synaptic instead when he forked Mandrake/Mandriva to create PCLinuxOS. These PCLOS repositories are on par with Mints in terms of download times. Mint, being on top of Ubuntu, which is on top of Debian means that there are well over 20,000 packages available. PCLOS has less than that, at 6882. Does that matter? Not so far. Everything I have looked for was out there as an installable. Whatever is not there, it is so far not something I use.
Office Sweet
OpenOffice is nice and current at 2.2.1. Even better, on the KDE menu, I can invoke the "Web Writer" mode separately from the "Writer" mode. This is the way it should be IMHO: OpenOffice acts differently in those two modes, and the Web Writer not only lets me edit the HTML directly, it tends to generate far cleaner HTML than OpenOffice Writer, doing a "Save as HTML". That latter mode puts in all sorts of extra text layout directives that try and make the doc look exactly the same on the web as it does on the printed page. That means the HTML pretty much sucks rocks. It may be 100% standards compliant, but it is a mess to work with. Better than MS Word doing a "Save as HTML", I will give you that. That really is not saying much though, as MS Word is well known for creating bad HTML. Not sure about the new 2007 version. Never seen it. I suppose it is possible it got better there: the new version of Frontpage was supposed to be getting fixed in terms of its standards compliance. Maybe the same HTML engine? I digress....
On Screen Mr Sulu.
When I press the tiny, dedicated volume up, down, or mute buttons on the D620 (special keys above the keyboard) when it was running Mint, an on screen display popped up, showing me what I was doing, and thye keys worked. PCLOS does not appear to know how to deal with those keys. I don't really care that much. Kmix is easy to click on and tweak, but on the other hand, it is another thing Mint does that PCLOS doesn't. I poked around in Synaptic looking for a package that might not be installed, but nothing was apparent. Keywords like 'laptop' and 'Acer' and 'Dell' turned up nothing when searching in Synaptic. I was looking for Acer because there is a new project to make Acers special keys work, similar to the IBM laptop package like "tpb".
Install as Root
I do not like to log into root. Its a security thing. I do it when I have to: Single user mode, FSCK, etc. But mostly I like to work from my userid and leverage sudo to power me through the additional software package installs from my userid. Perhaps the missing DrakConf is not installed in my pedestrian accounts taskbar by default but available on Roots.. Maybe it is buried on a menu someplace. I tried to "switch user" over to root, but the screen flashes brightly and I can't get in to look. I did not try logging out and then back in as root. The key point was that Drakconf was hiding, not that I might be able to find it on an extended search.
/etc/sudoers is not pre-configured by the install to include my account, so I fixed that, and I also added an icon button for Drakconf to the KDE task bar. I think it is pretty elegant the Ubuntu / Mint add the first user defined *automatically* to /etc/sudoers.
I supposed this is a schism point for Linux: how separate do you keep root? How powerful do you make the default user account? On one end, some distros just let you into root and are done with it. Ubuntu/Mint hides root altogether, but sets up sudo cleverly so that by entering your password you can install things. PCLOS is more on the "Use two accounts to do separate things" end of the spectrum.
I don't really know which one is better. In PCLOS, I made my userid able to do rootish things via sudo authentication. On Mint, I set roots password, and configure so I can log into it *if I want to*. These are all personal preference things, and as long as the distro lets me set it up how I like, I guess it does not matter much.
ACPI out to lunch
There is a little KDE app called Kima the PCLOS includes. Kima reads stuff out of ACPI and displays it on the task bar. Actually, I set up a second task bar. I moved the KDE default one to the top of the screen, added a new panel, and put Kima and the active tasks on the new bottom bar.
Kima or ACPI or both have lost their minds. Where Mint displayed sane fan speeds, cpu frequencies, and whatnot with its gnome apps for such things, Kima says that the CPU's never drop off 2 Ghz, and that the fan is running at 7974 - 8016 rpm. If the fan was running that fast, it would be a banshee of supersonic screaming, and the D620 laptop would be hovering. In fact, something is lying, because when I put hand at the back, left hand side of the computer where the Core 2 Duo heat sink is, there is only a tiny whisper of a breeze coming out of it. I assume that this is an effect of the back-level kernel. It is not serious, but it is annoying.
That being said, here is another subjective observation to place into the pipe and smoke a bit: PCLOS seems faster than Mint. I have not measured anything, but it just feels crisper. That is not something I would have expected from a 2.6.18 kernel, since for one thing a number of the enhancements up the road have to do with laptops, ACPI, and the scheduler.
Suspend is a real hit or miss affair. This also worked better on Mint. I am thinking it is the new kernel again.
IMHO Beryl is fun if not utterly useful. Ubuntu has announced that Beryl's soul-mate Compiz will be enabled by default in their next release [7.10, or "Gutsy Gibbon"]. PCLOS ships Beryl and Compiz installed, and either can be enabled from the KDE Control Center. This is a very nicely integrated bit of work. I wish all the DrakConf functionality was in the KDE control center too. Or KDE Control center was tossed and all it's functions put into DrakConf. Having two apps for system config is really not intuitively obvious. I digress: Beryl / Compiz is the point here.... I enabled Beryl.
Beryl runs well, is fast, is stable, and all the effects do not seem to slow the computer in the slightest. Mint was/is good in this regard as well.
When I installed PCLOS, I defined the wired interface. It was late at night, I was at the office still. No wireless. Just Cat5. When I took it home to continue the testing, PCLOS did not automatically decide that it should switch to the wireless interface instead. Mint does. Ubuntu does. DrakConf brings up the interface easily, sees the access point, and connects to it no problem. The Intel wifi hardware is no issue (unlike Fedora).
I do not know if I had started by defining the wireless interface first if PCLOS would do better here. Clearly all the parts are in place. The hardware is located, defined to the OS. There just is not a process that looks to see which interface has a valid connection available. My iPhone can do that, switching between Edge and Wifi, and preferring Wifi when it is available.
This whole test has given me an idea for my next post over at http://on-being-open.blogspot.com. I'll start on that as soon as I finish this. [Update from the future: Schism>/a> now posted ]
It might have occurred that this is hardly a great comparison: Mint versus PCLOS is a Gnome interfaced Distro (by default: KDE can be installed, and like Ubuntu, there is a KDE version of Mint ) versus a KDE default interfaced version (and while I did not do it, it looked like I could install Gnome onto PCLOS with Synaptic). If someone says that PCLOS is better than Mint, what I can not tell is whether they are at least in part saying that KDE is better than Gnome. This is part of why I mostly focused on things that underlie the GUI. I have no GUI axes to grind. I can use KDE or Gnome. I like them both. I know most folks have a strong preference for one over the other. My only statement of opinion in this regard is that I think people with MS Windows backgrounds will be more comfortable with KDE to start.
I am also not sure looking at PCLOS as a corporate desktop is a valid thing to do, any more than when I looked at Fedora for the same thing. The home page of PCLOS contains a history of PCLinuxOS, and that has the following line in it: "Since Mandrake was a trademarked name myself and others decided to name the livecd after our news site and forum pclinuxonline thus PCLinuxOS". The news site and forum has no history, mission statement, why we are here kind of thing that I can find, so I am going to make a supposition. The PC of PCLinuxOS is from the same machine most people use to run OS's, I.E. PC = Personal Computer. There is no server edition. There no paid-for support option (The home page link "About Us" in fact says :
Customer Support:
If you need customer support, please visit our friendly forums .
Nothing about central management tools (although plenty third party stuff is out there for Linux that would probably work with PCLOS).
Mint has a helpdesk support option, and Ubuntu has Canonical support.
My point is I just wrote an article about using a community supported personal computing Linux version running KDE and compared it to a completely different kind of version of Linux. They both have that chewy Linux goodness inside, but they are not really valid comparisons in any other meaningful way. My one constraint: That I was looking at it as a Corporate Desktop should have set alarms bells ringing.
Oddly, that initial criteria worked in PCLOS's favor here. Not having wireless at the office, the way wireless must be manually set up every time is no big deal most of the time. For me.
Go back through "Adventures", and in posts too numerous to link here you will probably get the idea of why my thinking is on what the killer application is for a Linux corporate desktop. Well, two of them: OpenOffice is a given. The other is Evolution. If you are an MS Exchange shop, and you don't want to live with a web browser interface to email and calendar, then Evolution is a must. PCLOS's version of Evolution (even though it was not on the default install) has so far been more stable than Mints, and that means I'll keep PCLOS on the Dell D620 for now.
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Editor's Note: All names except Bearden's have been changed in this article to protect the identities of those involved.
It all started when I was in kindergarten. There was a kid in my neighborhood named Carter. (He was a year older than I was.) I remember him kissing me one day while we were playing. Just a peck on the lips. It startled me, but we laughed it off, and I didn't think anything of it. A few months went by and that led to exploring other areas of our bodies. That would happen here and there with him in the coming years. We always kept it a secret. As we got older, these innocent encounters developed into intentional desires. We quickly stopped around fifth grade. My parents are pastors, so I grew up learning about biblical truth. We began to understand and learn that boys don't do that with each other.
In the last few years of our adolescent friendship, Carter shared with me that during those kindergarten encounters, he was replicating with me what a male family member had done to him. After that conversation, we never brought it up again.
We didn't really talk much after he went into junior high. We grew apart, and by the time we got to high school, I really didn't know him anymore. From my perspective, everything in his life seemed fairly normal. He had girlfriends and played sports. He was fine from the outside. A normal dude.
As for me, behind the scenes, there was an emotional roller coaster that felt like it was derailing. I really loved playing soccer and basketball, but I was more into music, singing and dancing. I had a few girlfriends here and there. But the relationships never really lasted. On the surface, I guess I looked OK too. But there was confusion and pain lurking in the background of my life. I found something that became an outlet for me—ballet. I know it sounds crazy, and it's not common for young men to dance, especially in Texas. But I loved it.
My entire family is involved in ministry. I have an aunt and uncle who travel the world as evangelists. Another aunt, Cindy Ratcliff, is Joel Osteen's senior worship leader. There are countless pastors and worship leaders. (Ministry is a family affair.) Ballet and dance became something that only I did. It was mine. It became a personal way for me to express myself, so I began training to be a professional dancer.
As I began to mature, I developed an attraction to the same sex. This led me to explore my sexuality and try things with other guys. Before I knew it, I had fully opened a door, walked through it and heard it lock behind me. I had allowed the devil to trap me into a mess.
It led me from online relationships to real-world sexual encounters—sneaking guys into my house and sneaking around town. By the time I was 17, I couldn't even count the number of men I had sexual encounters with. Those experiences led me to trying drugs and doing things I never thought I would do. Sin does that.
I remember one day, my mom came downstairs into my room. She saw something on my phone and then proceeded to ask questions. We had a few encounters like this before. She would find something on my phone that made it obvious that I was struggling with my sexuality (whether it be conversations or apps). Each time I would repent and pray and think everything was OK. Then the temptation would creep back in and I would act on it. It was a cycle. That's what happens when you don't get to the root of sin.
This last time I managed to keep it a secret, and then I was caught. I remember telling my mom that this was "who I was" and "I wasn't going to change." (Those were declarations the enemy wanted me to profess.) I ended up running away that night. I was living with different people in my city. Not long after that, I happened to be dancing in Dallas with our ballet company, and I remember getting a call from my parents. They wanted to drive up from South Texas to come support me and watch me dance. It meant the world to me. After the performance, they asked if we could have dinner. During the meal, they shared with me that they wanted me to move home. They wanted to love me where I was. What I didn't realize is that they wanted to love me through my healing. Perspective changed for them.
They had a conversation with a family friend who shared with them that only through love can you see the heart turned.
I ended up moving home and during that time, my mom had gotten connected to Janet Boynes Ministries. Janet Boynes was coming down to speak at our church but with the primary intention to get to know me. The week before she arrived, I went to youth camp with our church.
The last night of youth camp, I found myself standing in the back of the room. A longtime friend named Mikayela came up next to me. She noticed that the Holy Spirit was doing something in my heart. She knew the struggles I had walked through. She asked me, "Grayson, are you ready to leave this mess here?" I said, "Yes."
We walked up to that altar together. She was a friend who had prayed for my freedom for years. At that altar, I broke in the presence of God. Looking back on it now, I realized that God was allowing me to break so He could put me back together. I surrendered all of the pain, the hurt, the lies, the deception, the addiction—I gave it to God. In that moment I found my freedom and began my process of healing. Now, freedom and healing are two different things. Freedom happens in an instant, but healing is a process.
In the coming days, I met Janet, and she partnered with me to walk out that healing process. It wasn't easy. There were ups and downs—moments where I would stumble, but I never stayed down. Jesus always had an extended hand toward me if I would fall. Just as He did with Peter out on the water.
Now today as a 23-year-old man, I stand completely free and healed. I'm about to marry the most beautiful girl in the world. She is the one I am honored to be able to stand next to and do ministry with. I get to mentor and disciple young people all over our community. With an online community and following of over 340,000, I am now seeing young people healed and set free. I share my story and preach hope.
This article originally appeared at Janet Boynes Ministries.
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by Abby Hoicowitz
Development News
(a Toledo Business Journal publication)
by Abby Hoicowitz
Area businessmen – Greg Repass and Rich Iott – are investing in a new concept for the Toledo region. Construction was recently completed on a $2.6 million Phase I project including 20 units at Stone Oak Business Condominiums near Airport Highway and Albon Road. Available for personal, business, or retail use, about half of the condos function as "mancaves," an idea Repass and Iott are expecting will take off in the Toledo area.
The condos can be bought or leased. According to Repass, the mancaves can be used to house a range of items, such as boats, motor homes, inventory, records, classic cars, hot rods, snowmobiles, personal hobbies, and more.
"Some people have million-dollar car collections and want to bring their buddies to see it," Repass stated. "We cater to a more affluent crowd and small business person that wants a quality-built, brand new product they can really be proud of."
Repass shared an example of a Stone Oak mancave that includes a completely restored, working Coca-Cola machine; a 1950s gumball machine; a couch converted from a vintage Coca-Cola cooler; and wainscoting made from racecar trailer flooring.
In what Repass calls the "Indy car room" loft, a table is constructed from the front wheels of a racecar that competed in the Indy 500. Bar stools were created using auto shock absorbers and chrome pickup truck bed rails are used for safety bars and handrails. A conference table has an Indy car floating underneath and a Ferrari V12 hand built, aluminum model engine as a centerpiece.
"I built the Indy car room around that centerpiece. That was my 'swatch,'" Repass noted.
The room also utilizes Italian leather, glass mirrors, and chrome, hand assembled or built in Toledo by local craftsmen.
"Nobody else in Toledo is doing mancaves yet," Repass explained. "Mancaves, luxury, and turnkey condominium ownership are what set us apart… This new mancave luxury condo concept will be, for the new millennium, much like self storage was for the 1970s."
Repass also discussed several of the companies currently located in the Phase I building. For example, DreamLine Coaches uses a condo for two charter buses that charter customers to casinos, baseball games, and conventions.
Additionally, a virtual office company has recently located in the facility. Once custom renovations of the condo are completed, the space will include cubicles, a conference room, private offices, a bathroom, a kitchenette, and more.
"It's perfect for a person just starting out. Any small starter business," Repass noted.
Other tenants at Stone Oak include an overhead sprinkler company, a company specializing in cleanup of foreclosed residential and commercial properties, a construction company, a title company that uses its unit to store files, and a Toledo-based paper products company using two units for office space. Patsy Thompson Designs LTD uses a condo as a warehouse for quilting materials. According to Nikki Stone, warehouse manager, the company moved into the condo approximately two months ago.
According to Repass, tenants often gain business by networking with neighboring companies.
"Our major mission is to do something for the little guy," he explained. As president of Precision Motors, he has worked on the Airport Highway and Albon site for 30 years. Since 1980, he has purchased a little land at a time and currently owns the large property. About six years ago, Iott partnered with Repass.
"Rich was one of the biggest stimuli in helping me with this [development]," Repass stated. "I didn't know if it was a great time or market, but he said a great idea is a great idea. He really pushed and encouraged me to do it. I don't know if I would have tried by myself."
Once the decision was made to move forward on the project, Repass and his wife travelled across the US to research mancaves in other locations, noting what they viewed each doing right and each doing wrong.
"I have been a small businessman my whole life. We wanted to figure out a way for the little guy to have real estate ownership. Even during bad times, the banks at least recognize real estate as an asset that they'll lend against… We really are tailor made to the cottage industry and mom and pop startup businesses."
Approximately 25 permanent jobs and 150 local contracting jobs will be created as a result of Phase I.
Repass stated, "A big goal was to make sure we used as many northwest Ohio suppliers and companies as we could. [Iott] and I are both northwest Ohio guys; we can afford to move wherever we like, but we choose to stay here [in Toledo]. We're really proud to use a large percentage of northwest Ohio suppliers and hire skilled northwest Ohio laborers from the community."
Springfield Township and Lucas County have been assisting Repass and Iott with the project.
The condos are climate controlled, insulated, and designed with flex space from 1,500 and up. Additionally, they include fluorescent ceiling lighting, a 100,000 BTW GFA furnace (wired for A/C), an insulated overhead door, a commercial overhead door opener with remote, plumbing, exterior security lighting, six-inch thick concrete floors with reinforced fiberglass to support heavy buses, and wiring for high-speed Internet, cable, and phone.
Interior walls are non-load bearing and can be added / removed if needed.
Optional additions include bathrooms (sink, toilet, shower), lofts (for office storage, a poker room, etc.), air conditioning, neon lighting, cabinets, a wet bar, epoxy flooring / tile, floor drains, and diamond plate wainscoting / trim.
Repass discussed some of the benefits of purchasing a Stone Oak Business Condominium. He explained that many neighborhoods have deed restrictions prohibiting exterior buildings, and many yards are not large enough to build a mancave. Additionally, tenants don't have to worry about grass cutting, snow plowing, or landscaping. Tenants pay their own utilities and the condo association covers insurance.
"By design, this is not a low stress environment facility," Repass concluded. "This is a no-stress environment facility. From ownership to hanging out, whatever the situation is, my job is to make this no stress."
Repass shared that 19 of the 20 completed condos have been sold. The company is currently taking orders for Phase II, for which it is planning to break ground in spring 2011. Another $2.6 million will be invested in the 20 units to be added on the west end of the existing 22,500 square foot facility.
Once the Phase II condos are filled, Repass and Iott plan to build at least one – and possibly two – more 40-unit facilities on the site as well. In the next 10 to 12 years, they would like to build about 20 facilities around the region, creating a franchise and cookie cutter concept with Stone Oak as the flagship.


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by National Wildlife Federation
Learn How to Balance the Lure of Technology with Outside Play Time
Spring has sprung but how many kids have noticed? Many may be glued to video games or too busy tweeting to go outside and hear a real tweet. In addition to the lure of electronic gadgets, the great outdoors has lots of competition when it comes to kids. To help parents incorporate more "green time" into their children's lives National Wildlife Federation's Be Out There movement has created "Outdoor Play for Every Day: A Parent's Guide for Overcoming Common Obstacles to Kids and Outdoor Play"., www.beoutthere.org/outdoorplay .
Most parents intuitively understand that spending time outdoors is good for their kids: it makes them grow lean and strong, enhances imaginations, and gives them time to let off steam and just be a kid. However, getting the kids outside isn't always easy. Some of the major challenges that keep kids indoors are:
• Overloaded schedules
• The lure of technology
• Concerns about child safety
• Lack of good play places and ideas
• Misconceptions About Nature and Weather
The Be Out There Parent Guide includes tips, activities and information to help overcome these common obstacles so kids can do what comes naturally, playing outdoors.
One of the biggest obstacles to getting kids out the door is the lure of technology. The lure of media starts early, accelerating and changing as kids progress. In today's world, technology is childhood's constant companion. A typical day for school-age kids likely includes early-morning texting from the bus stop, video games and social media after school, television viewing in the evening, listening to music on their smart phones and more texting after lights out. In fact, kids today spend on average more than seven hours each day in front of electronic media and only minutes in unstructured outdoor activities like climbing trees, building forts, playing hide and seek or bike riding.
"The virtual world is here to stay but should be tempered with real-world experiences that connect kids to the natural world around them," said Lindsay Legendre, manager of NWF's Be Out There movement.
NWF makes these suggestions to maximize outdoor time while balancing "screen time" and "green time".
• Monkey See/Monkey Do: Set a good example about limiting tech time and your kids will be more likely to follow suit. Talk to your kids and let everyone have a say on the amount of time that screens will be used each week so it's clear up front what the ground rules are.
• Pay to Play: Encourage kids to earn screen time by balancing it with equal amounts of reading, chores or playing outside. Len Saunders, author of Keeping Kids Fit and father of two, suggests that for every hour of physical activity, kids earn 30 minutes of tech time.
• Let 'Em Pick: Offer kids a set amount of screen time each day and let them decide how to use it, watch TV, play video games or surf the web. If the weather is nice and they want to trade their screen time for playing outdoors, they can bank their screen time for use on a rainy day.
NWF also gives some ideas for integrating technology into outdoor play:
• Go Geocaching: Take your kids on an outdoor adventure that combines popular GPS technology and a treasure hunt. Don't have a GPS? There are several smart phone apps that can do the trick. Learn more at www.Rangerricktrails.com .
• Picture This: Take photos of nature with your child and make an on-line collage of all the neat things you find – or share them on Pinterest
• Tweeting is for the birds: Scope out local birds or other interesting wildlife in your backyard and log into www.nwf.org/wildlifewatch to share your findings with others.
• Play Seek and Find: Have your child research your family's next outdoor adventure by searching online with www.naturefind.org to learn about local parks, hiking trails and other outdoor recreational spots near where you live. Then head out and enjoy a world of green.
For parents who want their kids to play outside more often to enhance their physical and mental health, but who struggle to overcome some of the common obstacles, the Be Out There Parent Guide can be a valuable resource and will help make outdoor play a part of every day. Best of all, the Guide will help parents teach their kids why it's called the great outdoors. More great ideas for enjoying outdoor time can be found at www.beoutthere.org .


text: Just recently back from a 2 week stint back home, the cold weather assured me that i have made the right decision to live in Thailand, but the high light of the trip was to get to pit crew for an old mate at Phillip Island at the MOTO GP, he was riding in the Aussie 125 GP bikes one of the support races. If you havent been to a Moto Gp since they moved over to 4 bangers the first thing you notice is the sound, these bikes sound different to any other bike ive heard before, and Rossi what can I say, I was standing on the infield near Honda corner during the last qualifier with 2 minuites to go and Rossi was in 8th, now i had been watching him all weekend and didnt seem like he had much different than the other guys but this lap was different, he looked like a totally different rider, sure enough up into third. Same deal in the race he was back in 5th or 6th when the rain started to fall, he must have realised that they would be pitting to do a bike change and needed to be in a good spot and once again hit that switch and turned into a different rider and shot into second. Actually you would be right to think thier were no other competitors in Moto GP if you look around the circuit, yellow shirts, jackets, pants and hair bearing the number 46 every where you look and the merchandising stalls had a good selection of hats, tee shirts, jackets and badges, well 50% of the stall, the other 49% was taken up by Rossi stuff at a third of the price more expensive than any thing else and the other 1% was 1 style of cap and tee shirt for Casey Stoner the local boy. Had a great weekend catching up with old mates but had a stressful moment leaving the track, you see i was flying out the same night to come back to Thailand and to avoid getting stuck in traffic i borrowed a mates cb 750 so i could get back to Melbourne in time to catch my flight, the plan was good and i had to get to the circuit fairly early in the morning to do the final preps to my mates 125 before his race, it was cold and really foggy, upon arrival i was ushered in to the motor cycle parking compound, i should have paid more attention to land marks because when i returned at the end of the day it was just a sea of bikes, as far as the eye could see, thier i was wandering around for ages trying to find my bike, just like hundreds of other people, by now in a panicked rush i didnt take the extra 5 minuites to gear up fully for the conditions and froze all the way back, downed my last mum cooked meal threw squeezed every thing in the bags and just made my flight. The other good thing that came out of my trip back was to be able to touch base with a lot of my old mates with bike shops and are more than happy to send parts over for me, so if your chasing some thing for your bike you cant get here in Thailand I may be able to get it posted over John


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When your Google Nest or Google Home speaker or display hears the hotword ("Ok Google" or "Hey Google"), it records what you say and sends the recording to Google to fulfil your request.
To hear a brief sound at the start and/or end of your request:
- Make sure that your mobile device or tablet is connected to the same Wi-Fi network or linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
- Open the Google Home app .
- Tap your device Settings .
- Scroll down to "Device settings", then tap Accessibility.
- If you want to hear a sound only after your say "Ok Google", turn on the toggle next to Play start sound and leave the Play end sound slider off .
- If you want your device to play a sound after you say "Ok Google" and after Assistant stops listening, turn on the toggles next to Play start sound and Play end sound


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Gini Wijnaldum did not have a medical today as earlier reported.
SkySports had claimed he was being tested this afternoon – however, according to the Echo, that claim was false.
Georginio Wijnaldum having medical at Liverpool training ground #SSNHQ
— Sky Sports News HQ (@SkySportsNewsHQ) July 21, 2016
They are saying that he will have a medical on Merseyside tomorrow, then fly out to meet his new teammates in the United States. They add that the deal has now been fully agreed between the two clubs.
David Thompson quits TalkSport
Klopp monitoring full-back
Ojo dumped out of Euros
The report claims we will pay £23 million up front with a potential further £2 million in add-ons. There is no suggestion that a player will be moving in the other direction as part of the deal.
The Dutch international scored 11 goals during his 12 months in the North East, but sought to leave the club after their relegation to the Championship last spring.
He will become Klopp's sixth signing of the summer and his second most expensive after the capture of Sadio Mane.


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Alexandria, VA Sept 9, 2013 TIA is proud to announce an ambitious new goal for its Veteran Initiative program. By the end of 2014, it is the Association's goal to have 100 veterans hired by its members.
TIA, starting very early in2013, has been working to help returning and disabled veterans find gainful employment with member companies across the nation. TIA has now enlisted over 70 companies in more than 30 states to help hire our returning warriors.
TIA's Chairman Geoff Turner has said "As TIA Chairman, I pledge to hire five veterans by the end of 2014 and challenge our membership to hire 100 soldiers over that period. I am proud to announce that our efforts are underway. We recently hired Claude Whittaker, who served our country with honor and distinction in the United States Marine Corps".
Turner goes on to point out with more than 1,300 TIA members in nearly every state, the Association has ability to effect a positive change in people's lives on a massive scale. The soldier's efforts in Tikrit and Baghdad, Kandahar and Kabul will long be remembered. "Today, I challenge us all to not forget them upon their return," adds Turner.
A society can be judged in part by how it treats those in need. Unfortunately, there are too many veterans who find themselves unemployed or underemployed. Our nation's experiment in self-governance could not exist without brave men and women willing to sacrifice on our behalf. Their efforts should be recognized and rewarded and TIA's members are stepping up to this challenge.
TIA is the professional organization of the $162 billion third party logistics industry. TIA is the only organization exclusively representing transportation intermediaries of all disciplines doing business in domestic and international commerce. TIA is the voice of transportation intermediaries to shippers, carriers, government officials and international organizations.


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Keywords, Key words Density And SEO
People put their words in print for various reasons including profit, praise, perpetuity or pleasure. Authors who write articles for addition to websites or submission to online article directories always face a troublesome task, in addition to producing a worthwhile article because they must be aware of primary key words.
Many times the idea for an article will appear from nowhere and any decent author will be able to flesh out the article with little difficulty. The problem arises when that author considers what must be done for his or her article to be discovered and read by online visitors.Credit: OneClickLearning.com
Information Is Only Valuable If It Can Be Found
No matter how interesting or valuable an article might be, if it does not find it's way to the first or second page of the Google search engine, it will probably remain lost in some lonely database never to see the light of day.
When an author considers the millions of articles and other information published to the web on any given day, they are rightfully concerned about the chances of their masterpiece finding it's way to the first page of Google. What do they need to do in order to have any chance at all of making it to that prized first Google page?
The problem involves a number of parts. First understanding what methods Google uses to determine which are the best sites or articles to place above all others. While page rank and backlinks play an important role it appears that Google uses something called SEO, (search engine optimization), as one of the most important.
The Important Role Of SEO
Describing SEO can take pages of text to cover all the various opinions and theories related to the subject. However for the online author the use of key words and keyword phrases, which is a part of SEO, is a high priority and will affect the finished article in a number of ways.
Proper SEO includes optimizing an article around a major primary keyword or keyword phrase. These keywords are what internet surfers use to find information through the use of a search engine. The exact words that these people use to find information are the words that will need to be included in an article to help it find a first page placement.
If a author were to write an article about mortgages and if mortgage were the primary keyword then that keyword should be placed in the title of the article. It will also need to be in the first paragraph as close to the beginning as possible. The same exact key word or phrase will need to be once in the final paragraph and sprinkled throughout the article at least once or twice for every 100 words. This is known as keyword density and it is important to maintain a high density, but at the same time making sure not to exceed a one or two percent density, or Google will punish that article labeling the extra keywords as keyword spam.
A Number Of Steps Are Necessary For Proper Search Engine Optimization
In addition to the above the primary keyword should be underlined once, italicized once and made broad once. The purpose of this activity is to show the search engine bots or spiders that crawl the article what the primary keyword or subject is. Remember in most cases your article will be seen by a piece of software and not a human. That software must be able to determine the primary subject of your article and determine whether it is a good unique authority article or just a rehash of already available information.
While this keyword placement is important, additional thought must be given to these keywords. In the case of the mortgage article an exact match search of this word might reveal that it is searched on average about 49,500 times a month. While all that traffic might be considered a sure path to a high first page ranking other considerations must be made.
How much competition is there from other sites on the first page. In other words will you have a chance to outrank an existing site. There are a number of factors which can be used to determine the strength of the existing sites. One of those factors is page rank. In general a site with a higher page rank has a better chance of retaining a high position. Of course it is more complex than this alone but a good determination can be made by considering the page rank of the first four sites on the first page of Google.
Checking mortgage on the first page of Google shows the first four positions are pg7, pg6, pg6 and pg5. This in effect means that without a lot of backlinking and other work it will be almost impossible to outrank any of these sites. It would seem that the next step would be to search for a keyword phrase which includes the word mortgage that gets sufficient search traffic but does not have so much competition.
Searching for a better choice of key words might lead the author to less competitive phrases such as home mortgage, first mortgage, reverse mortgage or any number of less competitive keyword phrases. The problem that occurs when trying to change the article to fit a new keyword is that it might be hard to convey the same information the author intended.
This describes the quandary. How can the same material be covered and at the same time satisfy this need for SEO optimization? In the off line world any author writing an article for profit would concern themselves to considering a particular subject that a publisher was interesting in purchasing. The article could be prepared with care to cover the subject matter in an informative or entertaining manner. It would not be necessary to try to build the article around a certain keyword.
The internet article author is faced with the sometimes troublesome task of completing the article with the primary key words inserted as mentioned above while making sure the article conveyed the information originally intended, and taking care to insure that the insertion of the primary keyword multiple times and in prescribed locations does not ruin the flow of the material.
In this article for instance which began as a discussion of the problems of incorporating the best primary keywords to gain the best chance of getting any article to the first page of Google, the primary keyword would have been "keyword". However that particular word has too much competition to be a good choice.
Doing a search it was found that the phrase "key words" received a good deal of monthly search volume and at the same time has very moderate competition making it a better choice. A close look at this article will reveal that it has been treated in the manner described above in the proper SEO placement. However an article of this type still offers some complications when trying to keep the primary phrase from appearing too often, even though it would seem normal in an article not concerned with keyword density.
If you found this article helpful you may want to read this one also:
Getting Started With Squidoo. Just A Few Easy Steps To Success


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Paulita Perfume Oil
This leather rose perfume oil is dusty and dew kissed pink roses, leather saddles and holsters, and flouncy rain-washed petticoats.
I think Paulita would get along just fine with Clementine, my inspiration for my Oh My Darlin' perfume oil.
Keep out of direct sunlight and high temperatures for best results. This perfume will come to you in a 1/3 oz glass roll on or dropper bottle. Choose your bottle style via the drop-down menu.
Made with high quality essential oils and phthalate free and nitro musk free fragrance oils in a base of sweet almond oil.
Click here for more Artisan Perfume Oils.
If you have any questions, please ask me!
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Skating Rinks & Sledding Hills
Outdoor ice rinks offered by the City of St. Cloud Park and Recreation Department seasonally include:
- Centennial Park
1725 Centennial Drive
Hockey and pleasure skating
- Lake George
425 East Lake Blvd
Pleasure skating only
- Northway Park
2450 15th St N
Hockey only
- Raymond Park
324 Raymond Ave. NE
Hockey and pleasure skating
- Rolling Ridge Park
6630 Kenwood Road
Hockey and pleasure skating
- Rotary West Park
1507 Goettens Way
Hockey and pleasure skating
- Southwood Heights
3500 17th Ave. S.
Pleasure skating only
- Seberger Park
2001 2nd St. N.
Pleasure skating only
- Schmidt Park
751 18th St S.
Hockey only
- Southside/Haws Park
805 13th St S.
Hockey only
- Talahi
1321 University Dr SE
Hockey only
Warming Shelters
Lake George Warming Shelter *3/4/20: Now Closed (Ice Skating) - 425 East Lake Blvd. The Lake George Warming Shelter will be staffed and open for public use, as ice conditions allow seasonally. The shelter will close for adverse weather or poor ice conditions. Please tune in to WJON or check our Facebook page for weather related or ice condition closures.
Hours (Seasonally):
Mon-Fri 4pm-8pm
Sat-Sun 1pm-8pm
Riverside Park Warming Shelter (Sledding) - 1725 Kilian Blvd.
Contact us for your sledding party!
Haws Park Warming Shelter (Ice Skating) - 805 S 13th St.
Call to schedule your skating party!
Contact Steve Krueger at 320-650-3053 for information on reserving a shelter for your skating or sledding party!
Skate Rentals
Looking to try out ice skating, but don't have skates? You are in luck, we do! The best part is that they are free to use! Donated by various groups and the local neighborhood association, we have a good number of skates located at the Lake George Warming Shelter. (We cannot guarantee availability of every size.) Have skates at home that aren't being used and are wondering what to do with them? Give Steve a call at 650-3053.
Sledding Hills and Ski Trails
Grab your friends, family and sleds and head over to Riverside or Calvary Park for some winter fun! Sledding hills are available for public use all winter long.
Riverside also offers one, 2.5k loop, ski trail with both flat and rolling hill terrain, groomed for both skating and classical skiing.
- Riverside Park
1725 Kilian Blvd
Sledding Hill & Ski Trail
- Calvary Park
1800 S 17th St
Sledding Hill


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LGBTIQA+ Community Development and Access to Rights, Health and Social Welfare
SAATHII's LGBTIQA+ work is focused on amplifying community voices and efforts towards a shared vision of universal access to health, justice, social and economic protection.
Apart from contributing to national LGBTIQA+ advocacy efforts, our work focuses on supporting community-driven initiatives in the states of Gujarat, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu; with future work proposed in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram and Telangana.
Our community partners include All Manipur Nupi Maanbi Association (AMANA), Empowering Trans Ability (ETA), Maa Majhigouri, Nirangal-SIAAP, Queerala, Shamakami, Vikalp Women's Group and other collectives. We are also pleased to be collaborating with NGO partners such as Nirantar, Varta Trust, and with individuals such as Dr. Sameera Jahagirdar from Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry.
Current initiatives include Access, Empower, Sangraha and Vistaara. Past projects are listed below.
Study: Mental Health Study on Stigma and Depression Among Sexual Minorities
Mental health study on stigma and depression among sexual minorities is being carried out in two phases in the Kolkata office. Phase I took place from May 2011 to January 2012 and Phase II is from February 2012 to October 2012. The title of the project is "Modeling the Impact of Stigma on Depression and Sexual Risk Behaviors of Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and Hijras/Transgender women in India: Implications for HIV and Sexual Health Programs." Read More...
Santi Seva: Expanding Access to Education, Livelihood and Health Services among TG Communities in Bhadrak, Odisha
The "Capacity Building of Santi Seva Support Group for Male-to-Female Transgender Communities in Bhadrak, Orissa" Project, initiated in January 2008 with support from SAATHII and Fellowship, aims to improve the overall well being of Hijras, Maichiyas, and other male-to-female transgendered populations. The project also strives to reduce their vulnerability to HIV by strengthening the capacity of Santi Seva, one of the first and few community based organizations (CBOs) for transgender populations in Odisha. Read More...
HIV/AIDS Support Center Project : Support Center for Voluntary Agencies Working with Sexual Minorities and People Living with HIV/AIDS in Eastern India (2004-2008)
This project operated out of the Kolkata office and provided capacity building and educational resource support on issues of gender, sexuality, human rights, sexual health and HIV/AIDS to voluntary and government agencies working with sexual minorities, PLHIV and other vulnerable populations. An extension center of this project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha collaborated with government and voluntary agencies on scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions for sexual minorities and PLHIV. The project reached more than 15,000 sexual minorities and PLHIV through 23 voluntary agencies in Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur, Odisha, and West Bengal. Read More...
Network East and North-East Projects
This initiative involved three related projects:
- Network North-East: Mapping and Training MSM and Transgender Community Groups in North-Eastern India for Participation in National AIDS Control Programme– Phase III (2008)
- Network East: Mapping and Training MSM and Transgender Community Groups in Eastern India for Participation in National AIDS Control Programme– Phase III (2008-09)
- Network North-East Project Extension: Supporting NERO to MentorMSM and Transgender Community Groups and Targeted Interventions in North-Eastern India for Participation in National AIDS Control Programme – Phase III (2009-2010)
Film Based Research Project: "From the Third Eye"
The film aims to highlight the issues and concerns of male-to-female transgender people in India through discussions, interviews, studies, and the performing arts. It shows not just the struggles and sufferings of transgender persons, but also mirrors their tenacity to survive against all odds. Inspired largely by the personal experiences of a SAATHII staffer in Kolkata, the film tells the story of several transgender heroes across India. Read More...
Regional Transgender and Hijra Issues Consultation in Eastern India
National consultations in Delhi and Mumbai on health and development concerns of sexual minorities in 2008 and 2009 revealed serious gaps in the understanding of issues related to male-to-female transgender (TG) populations. Apart from concern that the government and civil society response to the HIV epidemic often overlooks fundamental developmental needs of transgender people, there was considerable debate on how MSM and transgender issues get conflated to the detriment of both populations. This lead to several transgender support groups and leaders from across India to plan focused consultations on what it means to be transgendered, the significance of Hijra as a distinct cultural identity, and cross-cutting as well as specific needs of transgender and Hijra communities in the country. Read More...
Cross-section study on prevalence on sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS among Trans-women residing in Chennai, Tamil nadu
Trans-women (Aravanis/ male-to-female transgenders) are among the groups that are at high risk of contraction and transmission of HIV in India. A cross-sectional study was conducted to address existing knowledge gaps regarding prevalence of HIV and STIs and sexual behaviors and practices. The study, constituting the doctoral work of SAATHII's Research Officer P.S. Saravanamurthy, was carried out in collaboration with SAATHII, the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) and the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. Read More...


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Welcome to Mark Noton and Sons Plumbing and Heating. We are a local plumbing and heating company based in Whatstandwell, Derbyshire. We cover a wide area in Derbyshire including Matlock, Belper, Wirksworth, Ashbourne, Derby, Chesterfield, Bakewell, as well as all the local villages.
Qualified specialists in the Installation, Servicing and Maintenance of Gas fired, LPG and Oil fired boilers and appliances.
We are accredited installers for Worcester Bosch which means we can offer extended manufacturers guarantees on all Worcester Bosch appliances.
We are also part of Grant UK's G-one scheme which means we can offer extended guarantees on grant oil fired boilers.
To find out more information about the services we offer please visit the 'Our Services' page.
Please use our 'Contact Us' page for our contact information
Thank you for visiting our website. Using the website you can find out about the services we offer along with contact details.
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Flynn Skye
Sequoia Mini Dress
$ 124.00
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A sexy little number in a deep wine color (perfectly named 'merlot'), this mini dress has adjustable straps and a low cut back. It's a great date night dress that pairs perfectly with Flynn Skye's Drappy Blazer (pictured here) or your favorite cardi.
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- 'merlot' colored mini dress
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True Acoustic Response with Dynamic Bellows Behavior
Newly developed for the FR-8x, Dynamics Bellows Behavior technology represents a real breakthrough for digital accordionists. In an acoustic accordion, sounds are produced by reeds that vibrate with airflow generated by the movement of the bellows; the resistance of the bellows constantly varies, depending on how many reeds are selected and how many notes are played at once. In the FR-8x, Dynamic Bellows Behavior automatically adjusts the air transfer in the bellows in real time based on the selected register and the number of notes played, accurately replicating the familiar and comfortable bellows feel of an acoustic accordion. Dynamic Bellows Behavior can be easily disabled for players that prefer the bellows feel of previous V-Accordions.
Redesigned Interface with Color Display and Intuitive Panel Layout
The FR-8x features a completely redesigned user interface that's more powerful and easier to use than ever before. A large, recessed color display makes it simple to see and edit various parameters, while the revamped panel layout provides fast, intuitive operation via many dedicated buttons and knobs. Three all-new programmable chin switches let you control a variety of functions such as changing registers, selecting user programs, and more, all without lifting your hands off the keyboards. Additionally, 1400 user program memories provide ample storage for custom settings, with quick fingertip recall in every performing situation.
All-in-One Operation and Onboard Battery Charging
The FR-8x is a totally self-contained instrument, complete with a rechargeable onboard battery and built-in stereo amplification system. Battery charging is accomplished simply by connecting the included AC adapter directly to the FR-8x, and you can play without interruption during the charging process. In addition, all device connections are now located right on the instrument, including MIDI, USB, and audio jacks for connecting to an external amplification or recording system.
Expanded Collection of World-Class Sounds
In addition to a full selection of authentic accordion sounds from around the world, the FR-8x is equipped with over 180 orchestra and percussion sounds, giving you the power to expand your music into unexplored territory. Included are traditional instruments such as strings and brass, plus electric and acoustic guitars, choir, church organ, harp, ethnic sounds, synthesizers, and a wide range of drum kits. With the Virtual Tone Wheel sound engine, you can play amazing organ sounds using Treble (upper), Chord (lower) and Bass (pedal) sections, with harmonic bar controls to personalize your organ sounds for any musical style. Four internal memory areas (8 MB each) are provided for loading new sounds from the Roland sound library.
Zones, Layers, and Drums
With the FR-8x, more layering and zone setup options are possible in the right-hand keyboard modes than ever before. Whole, Zone, High, and Low modes are provided, giving you the ability to play up to four different tones at once. Left-hand keyboard modes now include layering options as well. The programmable Drum function takes accordion performance to a fun new dimension, letting you play percussion sounds manually with the Bass & Chord buttons.
Powerful Multi-Effects and Onboard Looper
Explore all-new sonic textures with the FR-8x's four independent multi-effects engines (MFX), which provide dedicated processing for the Accordion, Orchestra 1, Orchestra 2, and Orchestra Chord sections. Each engine has 84 different effects types, offering a wide range of enhancement from subtle to dramatic. With the onboard looper, you can instantly record and overdub accordion performances using the FR-8x's enormous selection of sounds, creating impressive, on-the-spot backing accompaniment for improvisation.
USB Song Playback, Recording, and More
The handy MP3/WAV song player lets you play along with pre-recorded musical tracks for practice and live backing via optional USB memory. Just plug your USB stick into the convenient front-panel USB MEMORY port, then select and play songs with dedicated, easy-to-reach controls. With the touch of a button, your accordion performances can be recorded directly to USB memory as well, perfect for archiving, evaluation, and education. USB memory also offers a convenient way to save/load customized accordion sets and install new sounds and software updates. The USB COMPUTER port on the side panel opens up the world of modern music production to accordionists, providing the ability to easily connect the FR-8x to a computer and use it with popular MIDI software as a unique, expressive controller and a powerful sound engine.


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Tempe through Time
Tempe has a rich history and culture all its own. It was settled long ago by natives who built canals to support their agriculture and then followed by early American explorers who expanded the irrigation and canals. In the eighteenth century Tempe became an epicenter of military and agricultural activity. By the late nineteenth century it had become a more established territory with railroad developments that linked it to the rest of the nation's growing transportation system. Colleges then began to spring up to meet the demand of its growing populace.
Today, Tempe maintains its tradition of commerce and education, with the headquarters of two Fortune 500 companies and home to the largest campus of Arizona State University. Tempe flourishes as both a smaller community of Phoenix and a city of its own. Its agricultural roots are evident in its remarkable parks and outdoor recreation center, and the city's architecture gives a historic Southwestern flair to the city center and many Tempe homes even today.
Life in Tempe AZ
Owning a piece of Tempe real estate places you in one of Arizona's central hubs surrounded by the picturesque landscape that marks this part of Arizona. As the seventh largest city in Arizona, Tempe boasts a diverse economic base, giving its residents peace of mind on the job front. The city is home to a number of large corporations as well as smaller, locally-owned businesses, providing an ideal economic base for residents, students, and the tourist industry.
One of the biggest boons to the local economy is Arizona State University, the third largest university in the country, where over 50,000 students from 120 countries around the world interact with one another. The Arizona State University Sun Devils compete nationally in football, basketball and baseball and the Sun Devil Stadium has been home to Super Bowl games, Fiesta Bowl games and even the LA Angels training camp.
While Tempe borders cities like Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa and Chandler with their own unique destinations, Tempe itself possesses many of its own cultural activities and intellectual pursuits for residents and visitors alike. Tempe's own urban flair makes living an active, vibrant lifestyle quite easy to accomplish. Multiple performance venues feature shows, speakers, and events throughout the year, enjoy up-scale shopping, farmers markets and boutiques, and wander Mill Avenue with its scenic walkways and open air cafes set against a backdrop of newer high-rise developments. Popular Tempe home destinations downtown are the many Tempe condos for sale.
Tempe residents are actively involved in sports of all kinds, including some of the top-ranked golf courses in the world, scenic hiking up Tempe Butte, and biking trails that wind through rugged hills. The Salt River, Tempe Town Lake and the various parks located throughout the city add a touch of greenery to the landscape as well as many enjoyable outdoor activities such as renting a boat, fishing and attending concerts.
Tempe Real Estate
Buying new homes in Tempe are excellent investments and the options with Tempe properties are as diverse as the people: from spacious estates with views of the surrounding Southwest scenery to smaller family-friendly communities that offer a warm, welcoming environment. The setting is relaxed enough to have a slice of small-town living while also offering many great downtown activities. Tempe homes for sale are quite popular among professionals, young families, and retirees.
Whether you desire a new Tempe home built to suit, or a historic home rich in its landscaping in a neighborhood focused on beautification projects, there is something here to suit any lifestyle. Pinnacle Real Estate and Investments has been working in the area for many years and is the only real estate agency poised to match you with the Tempe home of your dreams quickly in this scenic Southwestern haven.
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Married Man On Cruise Charged For Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl With Teenage Boys
Wait, how does one go on a cruise with their wife and end up participating in some isht like THIS???!?!??!?!
Federal prosecutors said a Florida man participated in the group rape of a 15-year-old girl while onboard a Carnival cruise ship last weekend. Casey Dickerson, 31, was arrested on a federal sex charge Monday after an FBI investigation accused him and several teenage boys of having forcible sex with the girl in a cabin on the Carnival Sensation on Sunday.
A judge deemed Dickerson a danger to the community and ordered he be held at the Orange County Jail until his trial. He turned down a request Wednesday to be interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel. The other boys, identified only by their initials, admitted to having sex with the girl but have not been charged.
Federal prosecutors must seek permission from the Attorney General in order to file charges against juveniles. A U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman said Wednesday her agency is continuing to review the case. FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier said that even during vacations, parents must keep safety in mind and be aware of their surroundings. Children who are unsupervised are prime targets for victimization, he said.
"Whether at a sporting event, theme park, or a on a cruise, you need to be aware that there are hundreds of people from all walks of life participating in the related activity," Couvertier said. "This could include thieves, con men, and even child predators."
According to a criminal complaint, Dickerson and his wife were on the cruise that left from Port Canaveral on Aug. 16. The couple was given a second cabin after complaining about a noise issue with their first room, according to the complaint, but was allowed to keep both cabins.
The teenage victim told an FBI agent that she and another friend, also 15, went to Dickerson's cabin with him and four other boys. Once in the cabin, the girl said, Dickerson and the boys held her down and took turns having sex with her, according to the complaint. At the same time, the victim's teenage friend was being held in the bathroom by one of the boys.
As Dickerson and the others sexually assaulted the victim, they told each other to "switch," so that they would change positions. The girl said someone knocked on the door while she was being attacked and one of the boys answered it. The girl said she was on the floor of the cabin, wearing only a bra, and after the person who knocked at the door left, Dickerson and the boys continued their sexual attacks, the complaint says.
Eventually, one of the suspected attackers dressed the girl and her teenage friend was allowed out of the bathroom. The girl received medical treatment on the ship for her injuries. The FBI also questioned the boys allegedly involved in the attack. The boys told agents Dickerson gave alcohol to the victim and her friend, and that the victim was inebriated to the point that she could not resist the attacks.
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