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Had a great event without a major problem. Sharing the track with IMSA meant the vintage racers could only be on track three times: practice/qualifying on Wednesday, 1-hour enduro on Thursday and a ½-hour sprint on Friday. All our track times were in late afternoon.
Almost at the start of our practice/qualifying, our driver reported on the radio there was a problem with the brakes. The pedal was strong, but stopping action was reduced. Since this was only a ½-hour session, we decided to continue at a careful pace. Upon inspection, we found a piece of rubber from the track had wedged itself between a brake pad and the rotor and burnt to a crisp.
The enduro was pretty wild. Over 70 cars took the green flag. We started from way back; yet, some luck was on our side. Bob Leitzinger, who is a very experienced and fast driver, had also had problems during qualifying his own Datsun 510, and we were able to get right behind him at the start. We followed him as he negotiated through traffic and passed many cars right after the start. Our mandatory pit stop went well; we added some fuel and everything looked normal, but then lost some 37 seconds with an unscheduled stop to correct a minor problem. Even with so many cars on track, it was an incident-free race with no yellow flags.
Forty-one cars started the sprint race, which was uneventful for us, although there was one yellow flag when a car was stranded on Turn 3. We had some clean racing with Datsuns, Porsches, Alfas, BMWs, a Pinto and even Camaros and Corvettes. We finished 2nd in class, behind none other than Bob Leitzinger.
Although Sebring is very hard on equipment, we had the best reliability up to this point since Moya Motorsports first took to the track. On Wednesday afternoon, after our qualifying run, we spent some time correcting the brake issue and doing routine inspections. After that, we had plenty of time to enjoy our time at Sebring and visit other teams. Photos will follow soon.
Our next event will be with HSR at The Mitty in Road Atlanta at the end of April. Our development continues as both our car and pilot become faster.
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Angels Helping Humans is a partnership between Bethany, many angels, and Light Beings. Spiritual clearings are performed by focusing Love and Light. Bethany is professionally trained and experienced in the use of clearing protocol and dowsing. It is said that truth is stranger than fiction which is especially true in spiritual cleansing.
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Datsun 240 260 280 z V8 conversion
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- Make: Datsun
- Model: Z-Series
- Year: 1977
- Mileage: 5,000
- Engine size: 5.0
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1977 Datsun Z-SeriesThis is not a car for the weak. She will chew you up and spit you out if you let your attention wander for one second. The 302 V8 up front is no joke. It has a cam, intake, headers, Holley Avenger, MSD, GT40p heads, roller rockers, aluminum radiator with electric fan, and more! It only has about 5,000 miles on the engine but ebay wont let em put that in for some reason.
The transmission is a T5, the seats are brand new full back race seats with brand new racequip 5 point harnesses. The steering wheel has a quick disconnect on it to make ingress and egress easier. All of the gauges have been replaced with Autometer gauges with backlights. The rearview mirror was replaced with a Wink.
To go along with the big, bad, very loud, and very powerful v8 are bigger and better brakes. We upgraded the front calipers and swapped out the rotors for slotted and cross drilled units. The brake lines have been replaced with stainless steel.
The the rear spoiler is functional and the flares are BAMFs, the biggest flares one can get and they are still not big enough for the 10x17 inches in front and 11x17 inches in the rear. She still spins the tires!
I have more invested in this car than in my first house! But she is worth it! There is nothing like strapping yourself in and letting the v8 roar. She gets tons of looks and can back it up!
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Neck Pain
Chiropractic Care as A Neck Pain Treatment Option
If you have been suffering from neck pain for a long time, chiropractic care could be a great relief. It's a non-surgical way of treating the pain. Chiropractors are known not just for treating a specific condition or symptoms, but a whole person.
Neck pain is common in adults, but it can hit you at any age. 15 percent of the U.S. adults complain about neck pain that lasts for at least one complete day in the course of a year. The pain can suddenly develop from an injury or overtime because of poor posture. Usually, self-care such as improved posture, resting or ice massage can alleviate the pain but if the pain is serious or persistent, you will need a proper neck pain treatment.
The question now is when is neck pain serious? If the problem is serious, you will experience symptoms such as tingling, numbness, or weakness in your arms, shoulders or hands; neurological troubles, problem with coordination and balance, fever, chills etc.
Chiropractors can treat different types of neck conditions such as cervical sprain injuries, intervertebral disc injuries, face joint sprain, degenerative joint syndrome, whiplash, and more.
How Do Chiropractors Diagnose?
As you visit a chiropractor for treating your neck pain, they will first diagnose it. To find out the cause of the pain, they begin with determining which areas have restricted movement. They might ask you to walk in front of them to observe your posture and spinal alignment. This is meant to understand your body's mechanics.
After performing your physical exam, the chiropractor will inquire about your past medical history or order an X-ray or MRI for diagnosing the cause of neck pain if they feel that it is pertinent to do so. All this information will help the chiropractor in understanding your pain and come up with a customized treatment plan. If surgery is the only option left to treat your condition, you will be referred to a spine surgeon.
Chiropractic Treatments For Neck Pain
Usually, chiropractors use a combination of treatments to treat the neck pain. These treatments include:
- Flexion-distraction: It's a hands-on spinal manipulation in which some pumping action is performed on the intervertebral disc. No direct force is applied.
- Spinal manipulation: It's a specific spinal manipulation technique that helps restore joint movement by gentle thrusting.
- Instrument-assisted manipulation: For this method, a hand-held instrument is used to apply force without pushing into the person's spine.
Manual Therapies For Neck Treatment
- Soft tissue therapy: In this treatment, special instruments are used for diagnosing and treating muscle tension.
- Joint stretching and resistance: It's a manual treatment meant to reduce the neck pain and other symptoms.
- Trigger point therapy: Its purpose is to relieve tight muscles and painful points.
- Massage therapy: It's a therapeutic massage meant for relaxing tensed muscles.
The neck pain treatments offered by chiropractors aim to fix the root cause of the pain instead of just treating the symptom. This no-surgery and no-drug treatment has alleviated the pain of thousands of people.


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Let me get right to it. It's not your body. Your sexy does not live in your hair or your lips or your hips. For me, ya pre-baby, sure it was nice having some eyes on me and feeling desired, it was a healthy ego boost. Having a baby turned my body (and my world for that matter but that is another post) upside down. My body decided to hang on as tight as it could to that extra 20 lbs like it depended on it. Like the baby depended on it. I tried to tell my body the baby was fine and we could go back to "normal now," but it didn't listen. I fought and struggled and toiled and expected and counted and omitted and worked very very hard around lake Merritt in Oakland …whew! Nothing. My body was just plain different now.
My sexy had to be re-defined. Do I like my belly? No. Do I love the way it looks because it made my baby? Nope, and I have heard that one before- bless you if you got there. My sexy only returned when it had nothing to do with my relationship to my body but my relationship to my whole self. Providing more space, more time to settle than I have ever needed before, re- balancing to my new normal whatever that is, as I re- discover and re- define. It wasn't just my body that it was different, it was my whole being. You cant "loose weight" on your whole being, so I stopped trying and my sexy came back.


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Rising Detroit hip hop artist Rocdwell is celebrating the New Years with the release of his upcoming album, "SIMPLICITY" (The Life That Makes the Songs) dropping Feb. 6th. His new album is a concise soulful collection of inspirational and motivational music that was created to be a soundtrack for everyday life. Rocdwell provides his riveting stylish, smooth delivery that will take you on a journey through his musical brand of SoulLifeMusic, inspiring his listeners to live better, love better and do better. Motivate your 2020 all year with this impactful breath of fresh air to the Detroit hip hop music scene.
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I'm not a church goer anymore, yet I promised myself I'd attend a Christmas Eve service at my sister's church to support her and my nephews during my visit to them over the holidays. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how difficult that decision would end up being for me.
Let me begin by saying that there was a time when I really did love going to church every Sunday. That started well over two decades ago now when I found a very lively church in Washington D.C. to attend called The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). There, my Spirit moved every Sunday and I always looked forward to attending the services there. Yes, I was one of those who would raise my hands and praise the Lord, and no, it wasn't a fake thing, as I truly felt that much joy in my life in serving God. Frankly, it was such a major shift from the previous church I had belonged to, that being one of those revival churches with a live band and a projector on a big screen, as they had rejected me when I came out of the closet and told me I was a sinner. Nevertheless, I spent the better part of a decade affiliated with MCC and even became a deacon during my years of membership there. After a period of a few years where I moved to the middle of nowhere and wasn't able to find a church to be a part of, I came to the Boston area to be closer to my sister and attempted for the next several years to find a new church home. Sadly, I'd experience three separate rejections in the process, each because of my sexuality, and each being one of those revival types of churches. While there were a few churches I attended that did accept me for who I was, I didn't feel my spirit leap at any of them. Regardless, I became fed up with all of it and began to forge my own path of hope, faith, and spirituality with God, one that didn't involve being a member of any physical church.
So, in light of all that, when my sister asked if I wanted to attend a Christmas Eve service at her church during my visit there, I said yes, only because it had been so long since I'd been to any service and also in that I wanted to support my youngest nephew who really wanted to spend as much time with me as he could. As I sat there in the service with him and the rest of my sister's family, as well as my partner, I watched a number of people raise their hands and praise the Lord just like I used to do. I wish I could have felt what they were feeling and boy, did I try to feel some of that. All I could feel though was sadness. Sadness for all the people who have been rejected by so many churches that have looked and felt just like this one. Sadness for all the health issues I continue to face and the silence I continue to feel from God about it. And sadness for feeling so darn alone inside, even in the midst of all that joy.
I wasn't present during this service at all really, and found myself jotting down my thoughts on their bulletin while there, which led to me writing these very words here. About the only time I was present was when they asked if anyone wanted to come up during the service and be prayed over. I waited and waited and waited while that part of the service was going on, yet kept feeling a desire within me to go up. I honestly had a battle in myself during that time and eventually found the courage to walk up. I don't remember what was said during the prayer that this 20-something guy said as he embraced me, but what I do remember was the tears flowing from my eyes, tears that yearn for a closer presence from God, tears for all the people who have felt rejected from God because of conservative religious people, and tears for all the pain I still have to live within this body.
When the service ended shortly thereafter, I have to say I was very much relieved and was glad to head back to my sister's home. While I would love to be a part of a church again, especially one where my spirit moved with upbeat music and plenty of fellowship, I truly struggled to feel much of that there. Whether that was because of my past or present circumstances I don't know. What I do know though is that I hope to one day be a part of some church again that practices the unconditional love of Christ, one that doesn't look at things like homosexuality as a sin, and one where all are welcomed no matter what. But, for now, I know God knows I tried my best to be present at my sister's church, and hopefully one day I will find a congregation again I can call home…
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An adventure in Africa can be a very expensive business indeed, with that in mind it is of the utmost importance that we take care when it comes to the cost of your trip.
We add no charge for our services in the planning and booking process, instead we are paid a modest commission by the lodges and service providers that we recommend and use. The prices we charge will be the same or even lower than if you were to book each lodge, flight or transfer directly. We're free, we're informed and we are great fun to work with – get in touch!
Our guiding fees vary with destination and length of trip. We will quote and agree these together at the beginning of the process.
Although we plan, book and guide safaris for a wide range of budgets, these all sit within the medium to high end of the spectrum. This is where our experience lies, we did not run, guide for or live in low budget lodges and one must always play to one's strengths!
We need to start with a figure to work towards and this must be one that you are comfortable with. Many of our destinations are seasonal and come with low and high season prices while the length of time you want to spend will also clearly impact the end cost. Therefore our date window is the next item on the agenda of discussion.
From this point on we can talk about areas in which you can save on the cost without jeopardising the experience as well as those areas in which we think you may want to consider "a splurge".
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I've been working on this DPF-based plugin for a while :)
It distorts the input signal by applying a custom transfer function, which you can design yourself using curves.
- Add up to 100 nodes in the graph
- Symmetrical and asymmetrical waveshaping
- Resizable vector-based UI
Get the plugin here:
Just follow the build/install instructions in the README.
If you want more info on this plugin, there is a small WIP manual available here:
It's quite broken on MacOS right now, but it should work on Linux and Windows.
Let me know if it works correctly on your system.
Anyway, don't be shy to send me some feature requests / bug reports / comments / whatever :)


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This past January, Simon Cowell shocked the world when we cleaned house following the debut season of his American version of "The X Factor," letting go of judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, along with host Steve Jones.
What could Cowell have up his sleeve for season two? How about Britney Spears?
That's the word circling the "X Factor" camp. Although nothing official has been announced by anyone involved, People magazine cites sources close to the situation as saying "there have been talks" and that Cowell and Spears "are in negotiations."
U.S. & World
Spears would certainly make a big splash on a show looking to rebound from a solid but far from blockbuster inaugural season.
When Cowell was asked about the interest from Spears during a press conference a few weeks ago, he remained coy.
"Are we flattered that there could be interest? Yes," Cowell said, before adding, "I've learned a big lesson: Keep your mouth shut. Don't give it all away."
Selected Reading: People, Radar Online, Daily Mail


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Once upon a time, it was German Shepherds and Dobermanns that the media got its teeth into.
Now, it's the turn of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
The price for increased newspaper sales has been an exponential increase in staffy deaths - as potential owners shun this loveable breed, condemning many to a lonely death after their seven days are up in the pound.
Look at all the websites. Multi-breed rescues are full of staffies, and Animal Helpline is no exception.
We get more calls about saving staffies than any other breed.
So, why consider a Staffy?
Here's a multitude of reasons.
Generally, they:
* Love human company.
* Suffer few illnesses, reducing vet bills.
* Are loyal and loving to the end.
* Are sound sleepers - staffies often love nothing better than a good snooze in a comfy place when you're out at work.
* Don't need lots of exercise - two 30 minute walks a day keeps the average staffy very happy.
* Are easy to train - most staffies can master sit, stay, into bed, out (for a wee), up, down and rollover very quickly.
* Feel your emotions - and are there to give you a cuddle when the world is getting you down.
* Require little grooming thanks to a short coat.
* Respect their home environment - it's rare to find a staffy which will soil indoors.
* Are at the quieter end of the spectrum when it comes to noise.
* "Talk" to you when excited - so endearing to hear.
We love staffies here at Animal Helpline. Their smiling faces and easily-contented nature warms even the hardest of hearts.
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I don't know if it's the 10 cups of coffee I had at home this morning before my 9 a.m. meeting at Starbucks or the bowl of smothered cabbage and peppers I had for lunch at the Four Way Restaurant (unbelievable), but I feel like adrenaline is running through my veins right this minute. It could also be because it is January and as I write this it's around 70 degrees outside and the kids at the Soulsville Charter School outside my window are lying on the grass reading books like they were in Central Park. It's a good day. It's also Friday, which doesn't hurt.
But I think more of it is that I am just so freaking in love with Memphis I don't ever want to leave it again. I went out of town for the holidays and, while it was great to visit with old friends I hadn't seen in a long time, I couldn't wait to get home. I needed to drive past the studio where Al Green recorded all that phenomenal music and see purple and neon-green houses and get to that bowl of cabbage.
The latest, greatest news to happen in Memphis was the recent announcement that Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love, aka the Memphis Horns, will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy next month, the highest honor the music industry bestows on musicians. No one I can think of is more deserving. And no other city in the United States can lay claim to them. This will be the fifth time in five years that someone from Memphis has received either a Lifetime Achievement or Trustee award from the Recording Academy. We had Booker T. & the M.G.'s and Estelle Axton in 2007, Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell in 2008, former Stax Records owner Al Bell in 2011, and now the Memphis Horns in 2012. Come on with that. You don't like Memphis? Move to Dallas or some other place that is completely devoid of soul.
The list of artists with whom Jackson and Love recorded reads like the most prestigious who's who list in the music business: Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, the Doobie Brothers, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Peter Gabriel, U2, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Billy Joel, Steve Winwood, Robert Cray, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, and dozens of others. To date, the two have performed on 52 number-one records, 116 Top 10 records, 83 gold and platinum records, and 15 Grammy winners. Take that to Austin or Seattle or Nashville and ask them what's up.
I get asked all the time about why Memphis has had and continues to have so much musical talent and I still don't know the answer. But I hope everybody in this city takes note and appreciates it — from the old days of Stax and Hi to the punk scene in the late 1970s and early '80s to all that's going on now.
I think it has something to do with the fact that people from Memphis who make music aren't pretentious, they don't give much of a crap what other people think, and they aren't afraid to be themselves and step out on a limb. How common was it, after all, for a black saxophone player and a white trumpet player in the 1960s South to team up and live like brothers for most of their adult lives? It was pretty unheard of. But Love and Jackson didn't see color like so many people at the time. They just loved each other and had a sound like no other trumpet player and saxophone player in the world. Yep, only in Memphis. And as I mentioned, no one deserves this Lifetime Achievement Award more. Except for me, of course, for when I played the guitar at the Bull Shot on the Highland Strip in 1977 while under the influence of a little pill called a Quaalude. I don't know why I never got my props for that. I was robbed of my fame and forced to live a life behind the scenes.
But back to that adrenaline ...
I think part of it is also because things are starting to look up, not only in Memphis but also across the country. I just read that there were 200,000 new jobs in December and that the national unemployment rate is at its lowest point since February 2009, not long after President Obama inherited that mess from the previous administration and Wall Street and the Evil Empire of credit card companies and banks. And he is finally scaling back the military and military spending, which is jaw-dropping if you really stop and think about the way this country acted for the eight years before his presidency. And yet once again, as I mentioned recently, somehow he will get no credit and the Republican candidates running in their primaries will find a way to turn this good news into some sour-ass criticism of him — if they don't take credit for it themselves.
Of course, the way they are bickering and attacking each other, each one would have to take credit for it individually and blame the others for it not being better news. If Newt Gingrich could stop gnawing away at his own flesh for a couple of minutes, I'm sure he would find a way to blame it on Obama's communist ties. What a bitter, sad man he is. I don't feel so bad about my non-award-winning career after all.


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Major Prize Winners Announced!
After a very successful Warren Miller tour in both Australia and New Zealand, we are very excited to announce our 2018 winners of our Major Prize competition!
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Stuart Noad likens having a brain injury to being a tiger that has lost its teeth. "You may still look like a tiger on the outside and you are sent back out into the wild to carry on with your life – but you can't actually survive," he says. The 49-year-old stonemason was seriously injured last May after coming off his bicycle on his way home from work. Airlifted to hospital, he later spent three weeks in the specialist neurological rehabilitation unit at Bath's Royal National hospital for rheumatic diseases (RNHRD), known locally as the Mineral hospital or Min. It is a period he credits with putting his life back on track. "You have to manage your life totally differently after a brain injury – and they understood that, even though I didn't at the time," he says. "They all had such insight and they were incredibly and totally patient."
But the neurological rehabilitation unit that made such a difference to Noad's life is closing this weekend, a victim of financial pressures at the hospital which, critics fear, are seeing highly specialised NHS services sacrificed for the sake of short-term cost savings.
According to Kirsty Matthews, chief executive of RNHRD, the number of more specialised cases to the unit has remained constant at around 50 a year, but a reduction in referrals overall over the last two years has seen income fall by 50%.
"This has had a very sharp impact on what is a relatively small service within one of the smallest specialist foundation trusts in the country," says Matthews in a statement. "With financial losses running at £430,000 a year, the service was not covering its direct costs or making a contribution towards the wider hospital infrastructure costs that support it. To recover this position, the service would need to be making a surplus of approximately £590,000 per annum. In response, the trust has reviewed all options and made great efforts to adapt but has not been able to resolve the fundamental position where the business model for the neurological rehabilitation unit is now no longer financially viable."
The decision to close the unit came after the health regulator, Monitor, stepped in over the trust's worsening financial position in May 2012. The trust has agreed to merge with the larger Royal United hospital in Bath later this year.
National resource at risk
But the RNHRD's own governors have been worried about the alternatives for patients needing neurological rehabilitation. In January, they warned in a public statement that "the closure of the Bath service will deprive the whole south-west of a specialist high-intensity neuro-rehabilitation facility, and will significantly reduce the national resource for training new doctors and therapists, both to deliver the next generation of experts to provide this service, and to give experience and advice to clinicians receiving these patients when they return to their home community".
Matthews says discussions have been ongoing to find alternatives for those who would have been seen in the Bath unit. Bath and North East Somerset council has been keeping an eye on the situation. In a paper last week to its wellbeing scrutiny panel, the south west specialist commissioning group, which is currently responsible for purchasing specialist NHS services in the region, said extra beds would be provided for the most serious cases at facilities in Oxford and Bristol, and less serious cases would be referred to a range of other centres with spare capacity.
But with radical changes to the NHS coming into force on 1 April set to transform the way services are commissioned, there are fears that an already stretched resource will not be given the priority it deserves.
Brain injury charity Headway says cost-cutting of acute and post-acute services for people affected by brain injury is not limited to the south-west of England. Across the UK, it says cuts to services are leading to those needing support being abandoned by the system.
The closures "will severely impact on the lives of local people who require highly complex specialist acute care in order to make the best possible recovery from brain injury," says Headway spokesman Luke Griggs.
At RNHRD, which looked after patients with brain injury caused by accidents or illnesses such as stroke, multiple sclerosis and brain tumours, around half of the 67 staff, often with many years of experience, are facing redundancy. Andy Ballard, senior negotiating officer for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), says: "It's always hard when jobs are lost, but this is more than that. People who work there are really grieving for the loss of a service that's made a difference to people's lives. What the Min does is so highly prized, offering something very special to people with those particular needs to make a crucial difference to their recovery. They provide a quite exceptional service and they are heartbroken that it's going to disappear."
A report last month on specialist rehabilitation by the Office of Health Economics for the law firm Irwin Mitchell found that rehabilitation services were already a "Cinderella service". With the NHS expected to find £20bn in savings by 2015, the authors warned that even more expertise is at risk. Yet, according to the report, early intensive rehabilitation after a brain injury can save as much as £1.6m over a patient's lifetime in reduced long-term support costs. As Colin Ettinger, partner in Irwin Mitchell's personal injury team, puts it: "If you have decent rehab services in place, they more than pay for themselves. It really does make a difference – very often people can go back to work, even if it's not what they did before. They are less of a burden on their family, the state or social services."
Professor Mike Barnes, a specialist in neurological rehabilitation and chair of the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum, says 3,000 beds for acute brain injury rehabilitation across the NHS and private providers is already "grossly inadequate".
New commissioning arrangements will only make that worse, he says, with local commissioners not seeing the issue as a priority and "considerable confusion" about what will be commissioned nationally. "It's frankly a bit chaotic at the moment. We can't get a clear answer from anyone on who is going to be commissioning what and when," says Barnes. "We are starting from a low baseline and when you add in that chaos and, even worse, shutting a unit like Bath, we have real concerns. There is no doubt it will lead to further gaps in provision and further very patchy provision."
Rebekah Middleton, professional adviser at CSP, agrees. "There is real concern that people who need those services increasingly over time are not going to have access to them and are going to have to manage with lower levels of expertise, specialism and intensity," she says.
The NHS Commissioning Board was not available for comment.
For Noad, getting used to his new life after leaving the Min has been a tough process. Although he received some specialist outpatient support, contact with a psychologist who had no experience of brain injuries reinforced his view that it is expert support that really makes a difference. "I was appalled and angered to hear that the one place that I knew understood my condition was being closed down," he says. "At any time, let alone when you've had a brain injury, it would be almost cruel to be given access to something that you didn't know existed and that was so special, and then to see it thrown away."


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Azure Storage
Configure Azure Blob Archive Storage
Azure storage is great. Good thought to open on right? Of course! This year Azure graced us with the ability to (preview) the new Azure Archive Storage. Obviously this is enticing, especially at it's (current) $0.0018/GB price point. For more cost informaiton on Azure Archive Storage you can visit the link below.
Now this is nice, but I found myself a bit perplexed. How do I configure a storage account as an "archive" storage account? As it turns out, you don't. Let's walk though configuring an archive blob tier.
First, obiously you need a storage account. The Archive access tier is currently available on either "Blob" or "General Purpose v2". General Purpose v2 will work the same way, you'll just also have the ability to host non-blob storage (File, Queue, Table). I'm going to just choose Blob though for this purpose.
Account kind selected, I'll create the storage account. You can choose whatever Access Tier you'd like, that's the access tier all of your objects will inheret by default. I choose "Cool" here because you will have to upload data before you can archive it and the cool tier saves money initially.
Alright storage account created, let's go open it up.
If you go to the "Configuration" tab you can see the default acces tier you selected durring creation. Here is where I was a bit confused, why don't I have the ability to select archive? You'll see in a bit.
Go ahead and create a container, and upload a file. I created a container with the very complex name of "container1", and have uploaded my very important image file that I want to archive.
Can see above that the inhereted access tier is "Cool" which was set at the storage account level. If you go into the blob properties you can see at the bottom there is an option to select the access tier for that specific file. Ah! There is it, Archive!
I'll go ahead and select Archive, and see the the following message.
Please be cognizant of this, they aren't kidding when they say that rehydration can take a long time. We can now refresh and see that the file is set to an access tier of "archive".
Fantastic, we've archived the file! Now here is where you have to be careful, while the file is in archive the only data you're able to access is the file metadata. The file itself is NOT ACCESSABLE until rehydrated. If you try and download the file while archived you can see the following message.
Archive storage is designed to be very long-term storage that you don't need to access immediately, thus the low cost point. If you do need to access your file, you simply go back to that object and change it's access tier to either Cool or Hot. It will then go through the "rehydration" process to move the file back into an accessable access tier.
I urge you to take that message seriously, in this example it took about 8 hours for my 48k image file to be rehyrated. They say it takes longer for larger files, and I'm going to test that next. Though in the mean time, assume it will take quite some time to be accessable again. After which time, WHEW! I recovered my very, very important file.
There you go, how to configure Azure Blob Archive Storage.
I hope I've made your day at least a little bit easier.
Changing Azure Recovery Services Vault to LRS Storage
Back in the classic portal with backup services it was an easy fix. Simply change the settings value of storage replication type. I've recently started moving my workloads to recovery serveries vaults in ARM, and noticed something peculiar. By default, the storage replication type of the vault is GRS.
If your needs require geographically redundant storage, that that's perfectly fine. I however don't have such needs, and trust in Microsoft's ability to keep data generally available in a LRS replication topology. It should be just like it was in classic, as an option anyways, right? Strangely, the option to change the replication type for the storage configuration on the vault is grayed out.
Odd, right? I thought so, until I found this.
Okay, well it's not optimal but it looks like I need to remove the backup data from the vault to change the storage replication types right? Well, I gave that a shot and no go. I had the same issue, the option was still grayed out.
I ultimately had to completely delete, and create a new recovery services vault. Once it's initially created you can change the replication type.
Ah, finally! Then register the VM(s), run some backup jobs and voila! Confirmation that the vault is using LRS storage.
I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.


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Our School's out camp offers a safe environment, with supervision & fun in-house activities. Our Camp follows the teacher workdays & Holidays of the Wake County Traditional School System.
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- Lots of Skating
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- Movies on Big Screen
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We offer a safe, clean & secure environment with trained staff & counselors. Student to Staff Ratio is 10:1
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September 8, 2008, New York - We never received a response to our requests for context information on the Economic Case for Auctions in New gTLDs paper ICANN posted on August 6 despite our Point of Information post, emails, and phone calls. The paper, written by ICANN staff and its "auctions partner" PowerAuctions LLC, concluded that an auction, not comparative evaluation, was the best means for allocating a contested city TLD.
The prevailing view has been that a comparative evaluation would discern a winner between contesting applicants for a city TLD. And while there's been no indication of a formal shift in ICANN policy, without an indication from the ICANN as to the paper's purpose or status, we thought it prudent to post our thoughts on the issue prior to the September 7 posting deadline. The post presented a bleak assessment of the result of an auction between a community focused, slow growth applicant (Connecting.nyc Inc.) and a financial value bidder:
My concern is absolutely fundamental. For if the recipient of the .nyc TLD is to be decided by auction, we will loose. And our hope of finally having the opportunity to put the full capabilities of the Internet - and that includes the DNS - to address the cities current needs and future growth opportunities, will be lost.
I concluded my comments with the following suggestions:
What the ICANN needs to do is acknowledge that there are entities called cities. That the DNS's historic neglect of these environmentally efficient locals, where more than ½ the earth's population now live, must end. The ICANN needs to recognize that cities have special needs that can be addressed by TLDs. And the ICANN needs to establish criteria and processes for judging the best application for this important civic resource.
This is a critical issue. And while it's difficult to imagine that a shift of this magnitude would happen without public input - I'm still hoping the ICANN's apparent lean toward auctions is just a vacation time, slip-through-the-cracks oversight by staff - we may need to send some enlightenment mojo to ICANN on this. So keep alert. (Commons photo courtesy of Jeremy Becker.)
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago
By John van Wyhe & Kees Rookmaaker (edd)
Oxford University Press 319pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
The centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace's death is an appropriate year in which to publish this edition of his correspondence from the Malay Archipelago. Wallace described his eight-year journey, or sequence of journeys, undertaken between 1854 and 1862 as the 'central and controlling incident' of his life. Over its course, he made heroically extensive collections containing many 'new' species; he conceived the dividing line between the Asian and Australasian biological regions now known as the Wallace Line; and he wrote a number of hugely influential scientific papers, including the formulation of his theory of natural selection, which astonished Darwin and led swiftly to the joint announcement of the theory at the Linnean Society in 1858 and, as a direct consequence, the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species the following year.


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Date: Saturday, July 9 2011
From/to: Aigurande to Super-Besse Sancy
Distance: 189km
Type: Hilly
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After yesterday's pancake-like parcours, climbs a plenty await the riders on stage eight, as the race reaches the Massif Central.
Preceding the finish at the top of the third-category ski resort of Super Besse are two fourth category climbs and the second-cat Col de la Croix Saint-Robert.
The 11km drag into the finish shouldn't pose any problems for the GC contenders, who could decide to save themselves for the fast-approaching Pyrenean peaks.
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As your local electric cooperative, CHELCO takes pride in the community. We are your neighbors and friends. Whether we are raising money for charitable causes (CHELCO for children pictured) or donating time during the holidays, we are proud to be here for you.
2016 Relay for Life
CHELCO recently participated in two Relay for Life events April 22, Crestview and North of the Bay in Freeport. Between fundraising and the events, the teams raised $8,000 for the American Cancer Society. The teams also won the Purple Glove Challenge video that CHELCO and Southland employees produced. See the video below.


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Fearless Self Expression in Branding.
It's a thing.
It's a magnetic thing.
A thing you simply cannot. stop. looking. at.
People who are singing their own tune, totally rockin' out to their unique beat are absolutely magnetic. They are intriguing, and they are the people we tend to remember.
Vulnerability in Business is Authentic
Courage in branding is a beautiful thing. When a person's essence — the very core of who they are — is clear, we are able to distill that essence down into a really unique brand. We can pull a set of textures, images, messages, colours, and a way of communicating that is an honest-to-goodness representation of everything that person is. And that mirror of who they are? That's when the brand becomes truly powerful.
In my experience the process of getting down to one powerful and magical brand only happens when you know exactly who you are, and when you have the courage to put yourself – your true self – out there.
It happens when you let go of the shoulda' woulda' coulda's and start moving towards the I-am-becomings.
Don't be afraid to show your growth! People love transformation stories. We love watching people evolve and learn. We love to see people who are open and willing to put their quirky out there to be judged by the world. And then own it!
Vulnerability in business? Ahhh for me it's an absolute joy to see. In the audio clip above, you'll explore a 2 minute micro podcast on fearless self expression in branding (taken from my daily draw business oracle series) along with other people's audio replies, and the conversation that emerged about courage in business.
Grab your coffee and hit play for a quick, casual and intriguing conversation on vulnerability in business and being brave! It's all about showing up as you.
Listen to the amazing community and the responses.. especially the ukelele serenade in there! And please Join us on anchor.fm if you have an iOS device! (I hear that Android support is on the way.)


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Three tiered system so that we can deliver the best form of coaching to enhance the players needs and so that players are put into a competitive environment surrounded by players of similar abilities to further develop their game.
We don't play weekend league fixtures, we are a bridge between grass roots football and professional academies, helping players make the jump into professional organisations. Friendly fixtures are organised throughout the year against professional, semi-professional country, district and other similar academies. We create a platform for our players to shine against carefully selected opposition.
We have several current professionals and International players who have come through our academy system and are now proving themselves at the senior level.
A professional contract, although what every player dreams of, is not the only outcome we plan for. We also assist players with ventures down different avenues:
Several SEFA scholars have gone on to further their education at Universities in the U.K & USA
We also have some former SEFA scholars working with us as part of our SEFA staff, working with us and playing semi-professional football.
Our elite tier is our highest level within the SEFA academy. These sessions are geared to those players that demonstrate exceptional skill, performance and attitude and are hungry to become an academy player at a professional club. With this in mind, players can expect to train within an environment that is as close to that of a professional academy as possible. Players will be expected to consistently show exceptional technical quality, first class decision making skills, and an ability to take on board and apply very detailed technical and tactical information. Elite players will typically have played for a professional club or been on trial at one, or play at a county or district level.


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Merit is a Chicago grad student with a wealthy family she tries her hardest to ignore. One night she's attacked by a vampire and left for dead, then saved when another vampire, Ethan Sullivan, finds her and brings her over. Now Merit is a vampire whether she likes it or not — and embroiled in vampire politics, again whether she likes it or not. Chloe Neill's vampires are divided into Houses, which are sort of a cross between corporations, mob families, and frats. Ethan is the head of Cadogan House, and now Merit belongs to it as well.
Merit's attack is part of a larger pattern of murders, giving Some Girls Bite a mystery plotline, but that aspect of the story is not very prominent. The major focus here is Merit's adjustment to life as a vampire. Her journey throughout the book is compelling; she starts out feeling sorry for herself and then decides... Read More
Chloe NeillChloe Neill was born and raised in the South, but now makes her home in the Midwest. When she's not writing, she bakes, works, and scours the Internet for good recipes and great graphic design. Chloe also maintains her sanity by spending time with her husband and their dogs. Connect with Chloe at her website.
Some Girls Bite: A light read, with chick-lit overtones and cute dialogue
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Friday Night Bites: Better than the first book
Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill
In Friday Night Bites (2009), the second in Chloe Neill's Chicagoland Vampires series, Cadogan House is in trouble again. The villain of Some Girls Bite has gotten off with a slap on the wrist, and now there's a journalist threatening to expose some of vampire-kind's less savory secrets to the public. When the journalist turns out to be an old friend of Merit's from her high-society upbringing, she is thrust back into the world she spent her human lifetime trying to escape. Then it turns out there's a traitor in the House…
I love the way Neill approaches the mystery here. Merit may have unusual physical and psychic strengths and several men infatuated with her, but it's her brain that's most important in solving this puzzle. Merit's research skill... Read More
Twice Bitten: Can't wait to start the next book
Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
Vampire troubles have been all over the news in the last few months. Now the shapeshifters, still in the closet, are debating whether to stay where they currently are and help defend the vamps against possible persecution, or retreat to their lands in Alaska. Gabriel, their leader, doesn't expect this to be a battle of words alone, and so Merit and Ethan are working as his bodyguards.
Violence does erupt, and Merit learns of a planned hit on Gabriel. Now she must ferret out who is plotting against him and stop the assassination. Along the way, she has to deal with shifters' prejudice against vamps and vice versa.
Meanwhile, Merit's relationship with Ethan takes a few steps forward… and a few steps backward. The "downs" are made extra poignant by the fact that Merit is so normal. Her heartache is something almost all of us can relate to, and I love the way she held her... Read More
Hard Bitten: Seriously evil cliffhanger
Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill
The Chicagoland Vampires series started out fairly light and has gradually become darker. The unpretentious, easily digestible writing style is still in effect, and humor is still present, but Merit's troubles have increased in complexity and the emotional stakes have been steadily raised. Hard Bitten is the fourth in the series and the darkest so far. Chloe Neill brings together a number of previously introduced plot arcs, and all hell breaks loose.
Merit is touched by Ethan's recent gestures but still wary of him after their breakup in Twice Bitten. She doesn't have much time for romantic angst, though, because Cadogan House is in trouble. The events of the past few books have put Cadogan, Ethan, and Merit on the radar of both the human and vampire authorities. We�... Read More
Drink Deep: Another enjoyable installment of CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES
Drink Deep by Chloe Neill
This review contains a big spoiler for the previous book, Hard Bitten. If you haven't read Hard Bitten yet, hit "Page Up" now — and then get caught up on the CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES as soon as possible, because these books are fun!
There's a more somber tone this time around, though. It's been a few months since Ethan Sullivan's death. Merit and Cadogan House are recovering, but both heroine and house are still keenly aware of the Ethan-sized hole left behind. Merit is feeling a tentative attraction toward her friend and partner Jonah, but she's not sure she's ready to date again and is still haunted by disturbing dreams of Ethan. Malik has taken over Cadogan House, but a supercilious Greenwich Presidium bureaucrat is making everyone's life miserable. Public opinion of vamp... Read More
Biting Cold: Feels like a filler episode
Biting Cold by Chloe Neill
Biting Cold (2012) is the sixth book in Chloe Neill's CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES series. It's impossible to even give the premise of this book, let alone a useful review, without mentioning major spoilers for books four and five, Hard Bitten and Drink Deep respectively, so if you haven't read those books, stop reading this review now!
Is the coast clear? OK, here goes. Ethan has just come back from the dead, but he and Merit hardly have a chance to catch up; they must immediately embark on a road trip to stop Mallory before she can reach the Maleficium spellbook and unleash the evil bound therein. But not everything goes according to plan during this trip, and soon they're back in Chicago with a dangerous new supernatural enemy to face.
The character arc of Mallory is the most compelling aspect of Biting Cold. The showdown be... Read More
House Rules: Did Not Finish
House Rules by Chloe Neill
Chloe Neill's CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES novels have been brain-candy reading for me for a few years now. The books are quick reads that don't require a lot of thinking but provide action, romance, humor, and occasional pathos. But, sad to say, I think I'm breaking up with this series.
I had high hopes at the beginning of this seventh book, House Rules. Neill introduces a mystery: two rogue vampires have gone missing, last seen at one of the vampire registration offices the new mayor has set up. In the other main plot, Cadogan House has voted to secede from the Greenwich Presidium, and that would surely shake things up a bit.
The series, however, has fallen into the same trap that Neill's DARK ELITE series did for me. The plot often seems secondary to immature bickering among the characters. It's not funny enough to work as comic relief; it's just sniping. An example ... Read More
Firespell: Best appreciated by its target audience
Firespell by Chloe Neill
There are YA books that translate well to an adult audience, and there are those that are best appreciated by their actual target audience. I suspect Firespell is one of the latter. I found it an average read, but I think I'd have really liked it at the age of thirteen or so.
Case in point: Here is how magic works in the Dark Elite series. If someone has magical talent, that talent manifests at puberty. From puberty to the age of twenty-five, the magic is a really cool enhancement. But after the age of twenty-five, the person must give up magic, or else it becomes a corrupting (and addictive) force. The people who don't give up their magic, called Reapers, have to steal the life force of young people in order to keep exercising their powers.
I keep thinking about this as a metaphor, and about how w... Read More
Hexbound: No sense of high stakes
Hexbound by Chloe Neill
The second in Chloe Neill's DARK ELITE series, Hexbound follows the continued adventures of Lily and her friend Scout at St. Sophia's School for Girls, as they face both teen drama and evil magicians.
I've had a bit of trouble getting into this series from the beginning, but couldn't initially put my finger on why. I got a little over halfway through Hexbound and encountered a scene that made the issue clear to me — and sapped my interest in the book. Neill tells us that the conflict between the Adepts and the Reapers is a matter of life and death, but the way these scenes are written, they don't feel any more tense than the scenes of ordinary teenage conflict between cliques or romantic rivals. There's not a sense of high stakes.
This scene is a good example of the problem. A ward has been tri... Read More


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In the contemporary world, there is an emphasis on all things natural and environmentally friendly. This has had a huge impact on prevailing interior design trends, and triggered a host of innovative and interesting concepts for forward-thinking property owners. One of the most prominent is the idea of optimising exposure to natural light within the home, which has been facilitated by the development of products such as frameless glazing and French windows. Given this and the number of complimentary natural wood and oak furniture items also available from suppliers such as Shackletons, there is every chance that this trend will retain its popularity for a considerable period of time.
Furniture that holds the ability to morph into something else or can simply be stored out of the way is a cheap alternative for those looking to make the most of their space. Sofa beds, as mentioned, are ideal contraptions with multiple uses and if you're planning on inviting guests over, having a set of chairs nearby that don't take up any space when not in use can be the perfect antidote. It's a great way of adding space to the home as well as giving you the ability to host the perfect dinner party or get-together.
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Northern Kentucky means business. It's more than a slogan, it's a fact.
Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties are a primary
economic engine for the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. They
represent about 17 percent of the region's population but produce 22
percent of the new jobs, according to Tri-County Economic Development
(Tri-ED), the Northern Kentucky economic development agency.
"We have a lot of things going for us and still do,
despite the ebb and flow of opportunity," says Steve Stevens, president
and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
Through April of this year, for example, nine
companies announced $130 million in new investment, adding more than 400
new jobs. That doesn't include Toyota's $360 million investment
announced in April to expand its Georgetown assembly plant to produce
the Lexus ES 350, adding up to 750 jobs. Toyota's North American
manufacturing and engineering headquarters in Erlanger employs 1,400.
And its parts distribution center in Hebron employs another 400.
Last year, two dozen companies evenly split between
relocations and expansions, created more than 3,700 jobs. That was
nearly triple the prior year's job growth and the fourth best growth on
Probably the best testament to Northern Kentucky's
business climate is that many of its major employers are expanding. In
addition to Toyota, that includes cosmetic maker L'Oreal USA, machine
tool maker Mazak Corp., German-based automation supplier Balluff Inc.,
and online retailer Amazon.com.
Data compiled by Hoover's found more than 1,000
businesses in Northern Kentucky generating at least $1 million in annual
revenue. What makes Northern Kentucky attractive for new or expanding
Stevens says it starts with location. The region
sits within 600 miles of nearly half of the U.S. population, ideal from
the standpoint of logistics and distribution. The region has excellent
transportation access that includes Interstates 71, 74, 75 and 275, plus
the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron offers
nearly 200 daily flights. Cincinnati ranks as the nation's fifth
largest inland port with 52 million tons of barge traffic on the Ohio
River and mainline rail service includes CSX, Norfolk and Southern
"The cost of doing business is relatively low,"
Stevens says. Kentucky was ranked the seventh most business-friendly
state and the sixth lowest cost state for new corporate headquarters in a
recent Tax Foundation Report.
The region's quality of life, from schools to recreation amenities, is also important to new and expanding businesses.
"We have very livable community," says Stevens. "It is as much about where you live as where you work."
The region's civilian workforce of about 200,000
supports a diverse economy with 45 percent of total jobs in the business
sector, 44 percent in services and about 11 percent in manufacturing.
Making sure those workers have the necessary skills
for tomorrow's jobs is an ongoing challenge for Northern Kentucky as it
is for other regions. A survey found local manufacturers have about 700
unfilled jobs. The requirements for many jobs lost during the recession
have changed, Stevens says, and employers are turning to job retraining,
recruiting ex-military and even retirees for part-time work to fill
their need.
One big advantage not often mentioned, Stevens says,
is the spirit of community and cooperation that gets things done
developed over the last 40 years among Northern Kentucky communities. It
started with the merger of two chambers of commerce, creating the
Northern Kentucky Chamber in 1969, continued with Tri-ED and shared
services in sanitation, water and transit.
"I have to credit our forefathers with the foresight for a lot of that," he says.
So what resources are available to start or relocate a business to Northern Kentucky?
A good place to start is the commonwealth's small
business web portal (www.onestop.ky.gov) that offers information and
resources for planning, starting operating, expand and moving a business
in Kentucky.
The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
(www.nkychamber.com) is the primary business advocate, monitoring needs,
offering training for employees, and sponsoring job fairs. Its
jobs-nky.com website, in partnership with Tri-EE, is a tool for
employers searching for workers with skills.
Tri-ED (www.NorthernKentuckyUSA.com), formed in 1987
by Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties as the primary economic
development vehicle, focuses on attraction, retention and expansion
of industries in three main areas: advanced manufacturing, professional
office operation and technology.
A Tri-ED division, NKY E-Zone, offers a support
program for businesses ranging from start-up entrepreneurs to
established companies commercializing a new product, technology or
process. That support includes early stage grants, forgivable loans and
equity investments through the Kentucky Enterprise Funds and the
Kentucky Department of Commercialization and Innovation. The E-Zone has
assisted more than 200 local startups and early-stage companies.
Business education and training resources at Northern Kentucky University (www.nku.edu) include:
• The Small Business Development Center (www.smallbiznku.com) offers one-on-one
consultations at no cost to on developing a business plan, access to
capital, strategic growth, marketing, technology, and internal process
improvements. It is part of a network of centers across the
• The NKU College of Informatics, operating out
of a two-year-old, $52 million facility, is focused on communication,
computer science and business informatics. Through its Center for
Applied Informatics, students work with companies and others on
cutting-edge projects.
• The NKU Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship
Institute offers academic and outreach programs in entrepreneurship. The
outreach programs include companies that use student teams to address
issues in their business such as marketing, finance and human resources.
Gateway Community and Technical College
(www.gateway.kctcs.edu), part of the Kentucky Community College system,
offers a variety of associate degree and certificate training. Its
Center for Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness, opened at its
Florence campus in 2010, offers workforce training in all types of
manufacturing skills.
Thomas More College (www.thomasmore.edu), the
Catholic liberal arts college in Crestview Hills, allows MBA students to
put what they've learned to work serving as consultants to businesses
and other organizations dealing with challenges.
The Greater Cincinnati chapter of the Service Corps
of Retired Executives [SCORE](www.scoreworks.org) offers variety of
small business information from retired business people and resources
across the entire region.
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Strong performance up to 140 °C
Just in time for the K 2016 EMS-GRIVORY launches a new Grivory HT product line. The new grades can withstand higher loads at temperatures up to 140 °C, allowing for thinner-walled components and thus for weight and cost savings per part
In 1994, EMS-GRIVORY launched the market introduction of the high temperature material Grivory HT. In the meantime, EMS-GRIVORY has become market leader in Europe and offers the widest range of PPA products in the world. Now, EMS-GRIVORY is introducing a new Grivory HT product line with considerably increased temperature performance onto the market.
Higher E-modulus, increased heat distortion temperature
The new Grivory HT grades are used in all application areas where PPA reaches it limits for mechanical loading. With the same melting point as Grivory HT1 (325 °C), the new product line offers significantly more performance. The E-modulus at 140 °C has been increased by 50% and the heat distortion temperature (HDT/C) by 50 °C to 250 °C. With the same geometry, the new Grivory HT grades can withstand higher loads at elevated temperatures. New, thinner-walled components can be engineered, representing weight and cost savings per part.
Market introduction covers four basic grades: 40 and 50 weight percent glass-fiber reinforcement with both organic and inorganic stabilisers in each case. Possible target applications for the new Grivory HT grades are clutch and gear components as well as structural parts and supporting brackets in the engine compartment.
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One of operas three tenors, Spaniard, Placido Domingo is the first-ever recipient of the Birgit Nilsson prize, which he referred to in his acceptance speech as the equivalent of a musical Nobel prize.
He received the award in recognition of his life's work in Opera. The award was named after Birgit Nilsson a soprano from Sweden who performed with Domingo on many occasions, and who died four years ago.
Domingo stated that throughout his career he had been given many highly desirable awards, but that none he had ever received filled him with so much emotion.


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This title deals with the life and times of Hugh M. Hefner. This is an illustrated autobiography with highlights from Playboy's first 25 years. Hugh M. Hefner presents an illustrated autobiography with chronological highlights from Playboy's first 25 years. His personal life and career - from cartoon-drawing childhood to astonishing success with Playboy - are revealed in the most intimate portrait ever. Released on the 60th anniversary of the magazine, this sumptuous six-volume anthology celebrates the decadence, sophistication and wit of the original men's magazine and its creator.
Hugh Hefner's Playboy highlights the extraordinary years from 1953 to 1979, with a selection of each era's spiciest centerfolds and writing by literary icons Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac and Ray Bradbury, as well as some of the most important Playboy interviews, including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Roman Polanski. A wealth of never-before-seen ephemera from Hefner's personal archives includes original artwork, cartoons and correspondence, and a long autobiographical text about his youth, military service, early career as a cartoonist, numerous girlfriends and eventual success with Playboy. A vast selection of personal photos - many previously unseen - include behind-the-scenes shots from the Playboy Mansion, Playboy Clubs, and the Big Bunny jet. This is the definitive history of Playboy and its legendary founder.


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Strange and Wonderful at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Strange and Wonderful: American Folk Art from the Willem Volkersz Collection
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
February 8 — June 1, 2014
This represents the Fine Arts Center's first major foray into American folk art. The work of American folk artists is made outside the mainstream art establishment and remains close to the core of our essential human experience. That's where collector Willem Volkersz found his inspiration. Strange and Wonderful highlights his extensive collection's most dynamic works — pieces by self-taught artists who capture a raw passion and a sense of whimsy that recalls the essential creativity in all of us.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903


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Kylie Jenner Is Selling Concealers Now But Fans Think There Is A MAJOR Problem With That
8 December 2017, 11:38 | Updated: 18 December 2017, 16:16
Everyone keeps asking the same question and they have a point.
Kylie Jenner is officially branching out of the world of lip kits. The internet is reacting to news that the youngest Jenner has decided to try her hand at solid lipsticks and a range of 30 concealer shades.
It's a bold push for the businesswoman, but some people are voicing concern over the practicality of buying concealer online from a retailer that does not accept returns or issue refunds.
Before you buy your new Kylie concealer...no refunds. You're expected to buy a product without ever having seen it with your eyes. May the odds forever be in your favors. LUL pic.twitter.com/nljceiuOvp— Capt. Morgan (@hrod17) December 7, 2017
How's Kylie Jenner gonna come out with all these concealer shades when she doesn't even have a store where anyone can swatch her shit? Like are we just supposed to guess by looking at pics online? pic.twitter.com/GJyZ7yqDHf— alexa (@AlexaGreenwoood) December 7, 2017
Wait so if Kylie Cosmetics is mostly sold online how are people gonna swatch a nonrefundable concealer...— Ash ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (@laflowerashley) December 7, 2017
Here are the thirty colours swatched on a few different skin tones.
Anyone with a multi-step beauty routine knows that concealers can cross over into iffy territory very quickly.
Because Kylie Cosmetics do not have physical locations where buyers can swatch the products on their skin (and a no returns policy), fans are wondering how they are supposed to figure out their colour match.
Kylie Cosmetics does currently have a limited holiday pop up in seven US Topshop locations, but perhaps it is time to get these products into big retailers like Sephora for more than just the holiday season.
Kylie Jenner just dropped concealer...her store is online only...how the f am I supposed to find my color? And then she says, follow my instagram for when I post pictures of your shade so you can find the perfect match? ARE YOU STUPID?— Leia Organa Solo (@eve_afi) December 7, 2017
Nah how is Kylie cosmetics selling concealer when they have no opportunity to swatch it and a strict no return policy?? 🤔🤔— Beth Johnston (@BethIlseJoyce) December 7, 2017
Ok Kylie u have 30 shades of concealer but how am I supposed to match myself ONLINE— Anna Marie (@annaamaarie) December 7, 2017
Looking at a photo online isn't the same as swatching it on your actual skin. I, myself, have never bought a concealer online unless I'd purchased it in a physical location previously.
Some fans are calling on the cosmetics company to revisit their returns policy in this instance, especially because these concealers aren't likely to come cheap. Perhaps Kylie Cosmetics should do what hardware stores do with paint and offer small sample product so customers can try it at home.
Saying that, we're almost 100% positive Kylie's loyal fans will buy up the concealers the second they're available on December 13th.