text:
By Matt Browning, Director of Communications
Grocery shopping has become quite a chore for Robin Turner. The WVSU extension agent spent the better part of 2015 learning about the proper handling and storage of fresh produce for the University's new cold chain initiative, which educates farmers on how to keep their crops fresher longer during the post-harvest process.
"Shopping can be difficult," Turner says with a laugh. "I'll sometimes walk into a market and cringe at how things are being stored and showcased."
Now armed with a wealth of knowledge of proper food handling and storage, Turner is on a mission to impart the same education onto the state's farmers, with the ultimate goal of providing the consumer with better fruits and vegetables. Thanks to a grant from the USDA's 1890 Capacity-Building Grants Program, she's well on her way.
Turner spent the fall and winter providing training to a series of 20 farms during the first pilot phase of the program. Through a series of four workshops, participants learned about all aspects of care before harvest, after harvest, all the way to the consumer, using proper cold storage techniques.
Cold storage, or cold chain, technology refers to the proper refrigeration and storage of crops during the time between harvest by the farmer and end purchase by the consumer to help ensure peak freshness. But, it's more than simply temperature control – it's a scientific process with multiple facets of instruction.
One facet, for example, is educating farmers on information they can share with the buyer to prolong the life of the fresh produce. It's all meant to create a healthier system of locally grown produce in the Mountain State.
"The local foods movement is being embraced all over, which is great," she says. "But we've learned that many small-scale farmers lack the resources necessary to maximize the life of the crops they're growing. The old adage that one bad apple destroys the bunch, for instance, is true, and that surprises some people."
Arming the state's small farmers with knowledge about post-harvest, cold storage technologies will help fill the gap that currently exists in farmer education. The resources that do exist, Turner says, tend to target large-scale producers, not necessarily the family farmer peddling wares at the local farmers market.
"Lots of small farms are participating in farmers markets, community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs, and so on," Turner says, "but the crops aren't maintaining long-term freshness because of improper cold storage practices during post-harvest."
Part of the problem is not only a lack of education but also a lack of affordable resources. WVSU's project is not only providing the needed education but also looks to provide the same high-level resources available to large-scale producers at a more affordable price.
"We're hoping to show them, 'here's what the big guys can do, and here's how you can implement the same practices on a smaller, more affordable scale,'" Turner says.
Teaming with the West Virginia National Guard, WVSU Extension Service is helping repurpose many of the state's former armory sites into agricultural education and resource centers, complete with cold storage equipment and technology that will be readily available to small farmers. Turner has been providing workshops through the project at armory sites already, and demand is increasing.
"The first series of trainings has gone very well, and interest is growing," Turner says. "We're excited to see what's next."
The pilot phase targeted 20 farms in a regional cluster, and organizers plan to expand into new regions of the state soon. In the meantime, Turner will continue working with the pilot participants to ensure they are correctly implementing what they learned during winter training into the farms during the growing season. She'll be performing site visits this spring and summer, providing farmers with technologies such as CoolBot thermostatic controllers and cooler systems to incorporate into their practices.
The cold chain initiative is supported by the USDA 1890 Capacity Building Grants Program Award No. 2014-38821-22397 and the 1890 Center for Excellence Award No. CSF-1609-W.


text:
This is a record of how to make a workable PBX using SEMS and KAMAILIO on CENTOS 6.3. This procedure will be applicable to most OSs that can run CENTOS and KAMAILIO.
This is not a description of how to do it. It's a log of my attempts to make it happen. The last post will be a recipe to follow.
First, what is a PBX AKA PABX AKA EPABX ?
Using Wikipedia we see that PBXs have the following list of capabilities
- Auto attendant
- Auto dialing
- Automatic call distributor
- Automated directory services (where callers can be routed to a given employee)
- Automatic ring back
- Call accounting
- Call blocking
- Call forwarding on busy or absence
- Call park
- Call pick-up
- Call transfer
- Call waiting
- Camp-on (?wtf?)
- Conference call
- Custom greetings
- Customised Abbreviated dialing (Speed Dialing)
- Busy Override
- Direct Inward Dialing
- Direct Inward System Access (DISA) (the ability to access internal features)
- Do not disturb (DND)
- Follow-me, also known as find-me: Determines the routing of incoming calls.
- Interactive voice response
- Music on hold
- Night service
- Public address voice paging
- Shared message boxes (where a department can have a shared voicemail box)
- Voice mail
- Voice message broadcasting
- Welcome Message
Strewth! That's a lot!. Maybe I'll just try and do a subset for now.
Luckily a lot of them look like standard functions that SEMS can natively implement. Or at least reasonably simple code can make it happen.
By way of background I've already written SEMS applications that handle multiple simultaneous calls – this in conjunction with heavily tricked out networks of kamailio servers.
My plan now I guess is to look very closely at the SEMS SBC and see what can be done with it.
The basic model will be a Kamailio proxy handling PSTN upstream trunking (SIP trunking) and local and remote UA registrations.
Incoming trunked calls will be landed on the SEMS instance which will then make a new outgoing call to registered handsets. Local PBX calls will similarly be routed by Kamailio and hosted on the SEMS instance. This is pretty much the same model as described in the freeswitch implementation at
The difference is that SEMS will act as the SBC and media server. In addition I plan to implement MWI natively in SEMS, plus busy-lamp functionality using the kamailio resource list server and publish commands from SEMS.
More to follow when I learn all about SEMS sbc.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
CHICAGO -- Designated Survivor is a new ABC drama that explores what would happen if a catastrophe struck the capitol, if a designated survivor had to become president in an instant. Kiefer Sutherland takes over the oval on TV. In real life, those who've had to be the designated survivor say it can be downright frightening.
The scenario is not fiction; it's one government officials actually train for. Those who have been the designated survivor described it as a frightening but also reassuring experience. They said Secret Service and military aides take it very seriously, even if they found it hard to believe that they were just one calamity away from becoming President of the United States.
"I was absolutely shocked and somewhat upset that I was going to become the designated survivor," said Tommy Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin and cabinet secretary.
While President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress, Thompson was holed up in a secret government facility.
"The concerns were so much more magnified that evening. Our whole government, Supreme Court is in one building. What could happen?" Thompson said.
"It was in a mountain and it had all the capacity in order to run government from there. They wanted to make sure if that a terrible tragedy were to happen, government would continue. Vice President Cheney was almost anal about C.O.G. - continuity of government - so from 9/11 until January, several secretaries - at least one or two - had to spend the weekend out at this location where I was at," he said.
Only later did Thompson learn he wasn't the only designated survivor that night; Vice President Cheney also spent the evening in a secret bunker.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was the designated survivor twice during his time as a cabinet secretary in President Bill Clinton's administration. "You have the secret service with you, you have what they call the football with you, you have the communications devices because if it happened, you would immediately be at war," he said.
On television, "Designated Survivor" illustrated the tension of a terror-fueled turnover of power. Former commerce secretary and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said it's something people in government drill for.
"All the agencies that were there had worked through this scenario themselves so they were prepared. And then I'm the guy who walks in with no knowledge of anything and they're like, 'Ok, Mr. President, what do you want to do?' And I'm like, 'Okay! What do you think?'" Daley said.
Daley was the designated survivor during Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address. While Clinton talked, Daley dined with his brother, some friends and a small army of newly reinforced Secret Service agents.
When word came that the speech was over and the president was safely back at the White House, Daley said 'his' security vanished.
"The cars leave and I have to get a cab and go home!" Daley said.
As for not becoming president that night, he felt good about it.
"Thank god! Probably for the country. Thank god in a lot of ways for the country!" he said.
The idea of having a designated survivor originated during the Cold War when there were concerns about a nuclear strike. They're selected by the White House Chief of Staff and are typically lower level cabinet members; someone whose absence wouldn't generally be noticed.
Watch "Designated Survivor" Wednesday's at 10 p.m. on ABC7.
ABC7 News contributed to this story.
Meet the real designated survivors hit show is based on
More Videos
Show More


text:
As alternatives to conventional fasteners and joining materials, adhesives and sealants provide unique solutions for the construction industry. Polyurethane adhesives and sealants in particular help simplify construction processes and reduce their overall cost by providing rapidly cured, durable yet flexible bonds that are resistant to chemicals, heat and water.
Adhesives and sealants used in the construction industry must be durable, stable and resistant to heat, weather, chemicals and moisture. Sealants and adhesives based on polyurethane (PU) building blocks are ideally suited for the production of laminated engineered wood products, the application of flooring, the sealing of movement joints and earthquake mitigation projects.
Covestro offers a broad range of raw materials designed for the formulation of PU adhesives and sealants intended for use in the construction industry:
PU adhesives and sealants have the right balance of properties for construction applications:
Using our raw materials, tailor-made adhesives and sealants can be produced for many different construction applications.
Last updated:
General Conditions of Use
Privacy Statement
Bookmark this page
Copyright © Covestro AG
Feel free to contact us
How Covestro materials make our life more efficient and comfortable.


text:
After a lull for a couple of weeks, the Lowell Summer Music Series announcements for the upcoming season have resumed, with news that Boz Scaggs will return to Boarding House Park on Saturday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets, which are $59 in advance and $159 for premium seating, go on sale Friday, March 23, at www.lowellsummermusic.org.
Scaggs last performed at Boarding House Park in 2013, and he did an encore that included a rendition of the Fenton Robinson blues classic "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" that LSMS organizer Peter Aucella said "took off into the stratosphere! Certainly one of the great moments at our venue to hear him do that so well live."
Scaggs' musical journey began decades ago when he met Steve Miller as a pre-teen at a Dallas private school. Though his given name is William Royce Scaggs, a classmate gave him the nickname "Bosley," which later was shortened to "Boz" and it stuck. Miller and Scaggs played in bands together in high school and again in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before they went their separate ways, though they remained friends and collaborated many times in their early years.
Scaggs worked with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Duane Allman in his early years, but in 1976, using a group of session musicians who became the band Toto, he recorded "Silk Degrees." That album reached No.
Scaggs released "Middle Man" in 1980, and it included the hits "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo," both of which reached the top 20, as well as "Look What You've Done to Me" from the "Urban Cowboy" soundtrack and "Miss Sun" from his greatest-hits album. Both of those songs reached No. 14 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he joined Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, Michael McDonald and others as The New York Rock and Soul Revue. He again partnered with Fagen and McDonald in 2010 as the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue. In 2015, he released "A Fool to Care," an album of mostly covers that included collaborations with Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt.
A check of a setlist from last year shows that Scaggs plays pretty much all of his biggest hits mentioned above, so expect a fun show filled with great music.
Expect to hear two more LSMS announcements next week, which would make 10 shows announced thus far in the 2018 lineup. The season starts with David Crosby & Friends on June 14, followed by Rhiannon Giddens on June 15, Fitz & the Tantrums on June 17, Brian Setzer's Rockabilly Riot on June 24, Scaggs on June 30, Ladysmith Black Mambazo on Aug. 11, Postmodern Jukebox on Aug. 17 and Blues Traveler on Aug. 18.


text:
Coridian offers a full UDI compliance
solution that guides our clients through both understanding the UDI rules and
also provides the services to help them achieve successful implementation of
their UDI compliance project from labeling and verification to GUDID data
submission. Let Coridian help you
comply. Fill out the form on the right, call 952-227-9147 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
The 9/24/16 deadline for Class II Submissions has passed! Did you miss the deadline? Compliance is not optional, contact us today at firstname.lastname@example.com for all you GUDID submissions and UDI labeling needs!
Enterprise UDI Software Solution Case Study (PDF)GUDID Submission Solutions
UDI Labeling Solutions
Verification Solutions
Regulatory InformationUDI Project Plan (PDF)
Copyright 2017 - Coridian Technologies, Inc. | All Rights Reserved | Terms of Use


text:
Homework: Take home practice test #17-25.
Follow directions & show any work necessary to correctly solve and minimize mental math errors!
5th Grade Math Teacher, Lewis and Clark Elementary School
Homework: Take home practice test #17-25.
Follow directions & show any work necessary to correctly solve and minimize mental math errors!
Homework: SOL take home practice test #9-16.
Follow the directions and show work as instructed.
Homework: A take home practice SOL test was sent home today.
#1-8 were to be completed on lined paper.
Please follow the directions on the front page of packet.
Students were also required to have the packet signed.
Homework: Probability worksheet. Please show work as instructed in class.
It is not much, but might help you answer correctly.
Homework: Graphing review packet is due tomorrow.
Fill in and interpret scales carefully for all answer choices.
Homework: Graph packet. Please read & interpret the scales correctly. Fill the scales in like we did in class/notebooks. Use a straight edge to help you follow the data across the graph.
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your Spring Break as much as I did.
Homework: Mean/Median/Mode/Range worksheet. Due Wednesday!
Must show all work on lined paper for full credit.
Please refer to notebook examples.
Homework: Some classes started a mean/median/mode/range/stem-leaf plot quiz today others did not due to picture schedule. Continue to review for quiz.


text:
Impact of genetic modification on country image of imported food products in European markets: Perceptions of channel members [An article from: Food Policy]
This digital document is a journal article from Food Policy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Risk to the image of food exporting countries in foreign markets for food products has been advanced as a reason for them to ban commercial release of genetically modified (GM) crops. The aim of this paper is to explore the reality
List Price: $ 8.95
Price: $ 8.95
Find More Genetic Modification Products


text:
Looking back -- the pictures of these people, at our teachers, in our last yearbook...these are mostly pictures of people much younger than we are today, but they were grown ups, then, and we had vast perceptual and experiential differences...teachers and students, and we did not pay them, the teachers or the differences, enough attention.
Mrs. Turner of English
Mrs. Danielson, Latin
Mrs. Burton who taught Reading, in English
Dan Fogelberg shares this story with us about Fairview Art Teacher Nelson Sampson:
We know where George Hoos and Susie Noel are, and I can find Dorothy Rupert, and Mr. Finniseth from Douglas Jr. High is somewhere in Alaska with Kathie Collins, but someone has to help out with all the rest of the people who taught us and who ran the school and who kept the school running...email us if you know where anyone of these people are, please: email@example.com
Teachers pictured from the top left to the bottom right are:
Mrs. Rupert was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize:
Dorothy Rupert (born 1926) served 35 years as a public high school teacher and counselor, 14 more years in the Colorado House and Senate, and decades in the peace and women's rights/human rights movements. She has consistently supported education, relentlessly and courageously tackled difficult legislative issues, and traveled the globe for peace. Dorothy embodies commitment, passion, vitality, caring, sincerity, never-give-up determination, and joy. As she nears 80, these traits shine more brightly than ever.
Teachers pictured from top left to bottom right are:
Teachers pictured from top left to bottom right are:


text:
Watch monthly live webcast - Like us on Facebook - Subscribe on YouTube
Explosions such as the big bang don't produce order or information (Talk.Origins)
Claim CE441:
- The universe was supposedly formed in the big bang, but explosions do not produce order or information.
Source: Big-Bang-Theory, 2002.
CreationWiki response: (Talk.Origins quotes in blue)
1. The total entropy of the universe at the start of the big bang was minimal, perhaps almost zero. Because it was so compact, it had considerably more order than the universe we are in now. The complexity we observe around us today can be produced from the ultimate order of the hot but cooling gas of the big bang.
That is true only of the universe as a whole. There are parts of the universe that are more ordered, and have a lower entropy than could be obtained by simply squeezing all the matter together, specifically life. Furthermore, the initial energy of the Big Bang would have greatly increased entropy in moments. The initial order of the singularity would have been reduced to total chaos almost instantly. In any case, this order is not claimed to be information, of the kind that is stored in DNA.
2. The big bang was not an explosion. It was an expansion. Besides the fact that it got bigger over time, the big bang has almost nothing in common with an explosion.
This is essentially true and Talk Origins's cited source clearly states this, so it is unclear where they got the wording of this claim. However the Big Bang has far more in common with an explosion than just expansion, it has heat and lots of it. The energy of this initial expansion would have been like an explosion destroying any order that had previously existed and reducing it to total chaos.
3. Explosions do produce some order amidst their other effects:
Not in and of themselves. There is always more than just an explosion involved. The explosion is just a source of energy that gets channeled into some form of order by something external to the actual explosion.
- Large surface explosions, such as nuclear bombs, produce the familiar mushroom clouds. There are not very highly ordered, but they are not purely random, either.
This results from the Earth's redirecting the explosion. This is more ordered than the actual explosion. A nuclear explosion in space or underground produces no such effect.
- Supernovae produce heavy elements...
Supernovae are more than just explosions; they are combinations of explosion and implosion. This situation produces in a short period of time, heat and pressure sufficient to cause fusion of heavy elements. It is actually part of the triggering event rather than the actual explosion.
...the shock waves from them compress interstellar gases, which begins the formation of new stars.
- This is just theory, not an observed fact.
- If it occured, it would result from the explosion's providing energy to an external system, with the system applying the energy in a relatively organized way.
Once again this is a case of an explosion's supplying energy to a system that is capable of directing it in an organized manner. In this case, the atomic structure of carbon is capable of directing the energy to form an organized structure.
This occurs only because the explosion occurs inside a structure designed to contain and direct the force of the explosion. Put the same amount of air and vaporized gasoline inside a soda can and ignite it, the resulting explosion would blow the can to bits


text:
Henry OLIN was born approximately 1719, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. East Greenwich is one of the oldest towns in Rhode Island, legally established in 1677. The first OLIN known to settle in the area was his father John OLIN. There is an Olin Family Society, also on Facebook [closed group], and their society's 'webcards' genealogy with various OLIN family tree lines, which I have not investigated as thoroughly as I need to. And there are several books published about this very early settler, available through Internet Archive.
Henry apparently had 4 wives (sequentially, of course), with a total of 16 children. The records are not clear as to which wife was the mother of which children, specifically the mother of our direct descendant, his son, Caleb, b. in 1753.
One can see several breaks in the children's births which may indicate the death of a wife, and a subsequent marriage: (a) after #2, John's birth; (b) after #7, Henry's birth; (c) after #8, Sibil's birth. The birth years are not listed for daughters Susannah and Rebecca, who are listed in published works as born between son Pelig's birth and son Caleb's birth.
Henry's children by his various wives :
- Justin, b. 17 Jul 1739; d. 7 Jul 1821, Liecester, VT
- John, (3rd), b. 17 Sep 1741; d. 24 Sep 1831, Shaftsbury, VT
- Pelig Olin, b. 20 May 1746; d. Cambridge NY [son]
- Susannah, b.?
- Rebecca, b. ?
- **Caleb [ancestor], b.8 Dec 1753, Old Warwick, RI; m. 15 Jan 1775 to Freelove Mitchell; 11 children
- Henry, b. abt 1754, d. young
- Sibil, b. abt 1758 [dau]
- Paris, b. 1765, d. bef 1780 [son]
- Hannah, b. 1767
- Sarah, b. 1770
- Ezra, b. 1772
- Phoebe, b. 1774
- Henry, b. 1776
- Nancy, b. 1779
- Joseph, b. 1781
If you have any information or questions about any of the above details, do contact me via calewis at telus dot com, or leave a comment below.


text:
Cookies Privacy Policy
1. Categories of personal data collected
2. Purposes of personal data collection
3. Cookies
1. Categories of personal data collected
When you interact with the BBMRI website, other websites developed by us or via e-mail, we receive personal data relating to you or to someone we deem has authorized you to provide this information to us.
Typical cases where we collect your personal data include when you register for an event organized by us, when yyou register for access to BBMRI private area, when you use one of the scientific services we provide or when you interact directly with us via e-mail for scientific, organizational or other purposes.
When you participate, access or sign up to any of our scientific services, activities or online content, for instance if you create an account with one of our services, we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address and more rarely postal address, or your telephone or mobile number depending on the activities. In particular, if you submit data to one of our databases (e.g. the BBMRI DB) or create an account on one of our project portals we require a valid email address to create the account. By submitting your details, you enable us to provide you with the services, activities or online content you have chosen.
We also use cookies (see section 3 below for details) and collect IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet) from visitors to our websites.
Categories of personal data collected shall include the following:
- Name and address details
- Phone details
- Institutional affiliation
2. Purposes of personal data collection
BBMRI uses your personal data for a limited number of purposes connected to our mission.
Where we consider using your personal data for other purposes we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for the use of your personal data for purposes other than those listed below.
Purposes for which we may use your personal data include the following:
- Subscriptions (Newsletters, publications, event announcements)
- Recruitment
- Conference registration
- Scientific collaborations
- Registration of users of our or shared facilities, including statistical reporting thereof
- Scientific services, activities or online content and to deal with your requests and enquiries
- "Service administration purposes", which means that we may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for, (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance);
- To contact you about a database submission you have made, including any content you provide.
- To provide you with information about our services, activities or online content;
- To personalize the way our content is presented to you (e.g. if the first thing you look at every day on our website is our recent news items, we may present this information or a link to it on your homepage);
- To use IP addresses to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, and to establish the number of visits from different countries.
- To analyze and improve the services offered on our websites. In order to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience, we may also use information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for strategic development purposes.
3. Cookies
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
On BBMRI website or other websites developed by us website cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the website to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalized features cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly they may not be able to take full advantage of all of the website's features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to the BBMRI website or other websites developed by us, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
b. How do we use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyze the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example, if on a previous visit to our website you went to our bioinformatics section, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight information about the bioinformatics databases on your second and subsequent visits.


text:
Here is the link to my card in Design Space: https://ca.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/25311098
Happy Crafting!
|Kellys Koncoctions
My Design Team Sister Emily came up with a fun challenge this week in honour of National Old Stuff Day. I had never heard of this day and had to look it up. Historically, antique dealers and others interested in relics of the past set aside the 2nd day of March annually in appreciation of bygone artifacts. Presently people celebrate the day by revisiting their past. This include going to museums, wearing an old piece of clothing, listening to old music, etcetera. So Emily has challenged us to use an old cartridge we have not touched in at least 6 months. I needed a birthday card this month so I used the Wild Card 2 and Zodiac cartridges. In honour of this unique National Old Stuff Day, I am giving this card to an "old" person..............he's a real Relic hahahaha. He knows who he is and also knows this is all in fun. Please hop over to Bitten By The Bug 2's blog site to see what the Design Team has come up with to inspire you to join our challenge this week.
Here is the link to my card in Design Space: https://ca.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/25311098
Happy Crafting!
3/2/2015 04:27:59 am
What a fun birthday card Kelly! It was nice learning more about National Old Stuff day. It's always fun to go back in time and revisit some old things including our carts. lol I'm sure the person you are giving this card to will love it too!! Hugs, Brenda
3/2/2015 10:35:24 am
What a great idea to follow through and give this card to your "old" friend. He will love it. I love the embossing and design of your card.
3/5/2015 03:01:54 am
Your friend is going to love this!! I love the bright colors!
3/5/2015 07:40:16 am
Wonderful bright happy colors! Fun design too!
Leave a Reply.


text:
AUSTIN, Texas – The new entry to on-airport economy, long-term parking lots B-G has opened. Travelers seeking to use these lots should be prepared to take the new exit from the roadway leading to the terminal, Presidential Blvd. Accessed from the left lane of Presidential Blvd., the new exit is approached sooner on Presidential Blvd. than in the past.
The new exit for economy lots B-G is updated and expanded to meet increasing parking demands. It is part of a larger "Tuning Up" for the airport's parking, ABIA Park With Ease. The overall improvement project for parking includes construction of a six-story garage, new exit plazas and roadways, and upgrades to signs along Presidential Blvd. For more details on this project, visit http://www.austintexas.gov/page/construction-projects#garage .
Those wishing to follow airport construction projects may subscribe to the airport's free e-newsletter "Tuning Up" Construction Updates. To subscribe, send an email to email@example.com with the subject line "Subscribe to Tuning Up."
For more information on parking locations and rates at the airport visit www.abiaparking.com . Parking information and status is available 24/7 by calling 512-530-3300.
The airport of choice for Central Texas is Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). New nonstop international flights include London Gatwick, United Kingdom (LGW) on Norwegian Air, www.norwegian.com/us, Punta Cana (PUJ), Dominican Republic on Vacation Express, www.vacationexpress.com, Guadalajara, Mexico (GDL) on Volaris, www.volaris.com, and Mexico City, Mexico (MEX) on AeroMexico, www.aeromexico.com. New for SXSW 2018: Delta to Amsterdam (AMS), www.delta.com, and SAS to Stockholm (ARN) www.flysas.com/en/us/. Find all nonstop routes with the free interactive flight guide on www.abia.org. Connect with us on Twitter, @AUStinAirport, Facebook, www.facebook.com/abia and on Instagram, @AUSairport.


text:
Decorative Inserts, also known as Pegs or Buttons, are commonly inserted into the face of Stiles & Rails and Center Panels to create an accent look on Cabinet Doors, Face Frames, Wainscoting, an other components. Routed Face Options are an alternative to Decorative Inserts, which create a similar look without the need for an insert peg or button.
WalzCraft offers Round, Square, Diamond and Butterfly shaped Decorative Inserts. The catalog specifications above provide current availability for sizes and grain (face or end).
To order, please specify the Decorative Insert of choice along with the Insert Pattern. All wood species are available with the exception of the DP300 (see catalog specifications).
Most inserts will have a vertical grain direction and are not visible on the back side of the product.
*Decorative Inserts can only be ordered installed in a product.
Please refer to Technical Information under the Resources tab of our website to view Stile & Rail & Outside Edge Profile options that are compatible with Decorative Inserts.


text: July 29, 2014 | WEBBIZ 'Man bites dog' is. That's why it's news when George Will, Glenn Beck, and Hugh Hewitt break with the Conservative Media Hive Mind and argue that desperate poor children at the border should be treated like human beings and not like the disease-bearing alien terrorists that haunt the imagination of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife right wing media's vile jingoist agitprop. May their tribe increase.The good news is that, among my solidly conservative Catholic readership (admittedly a subset of American conservatism, but still a big voice), the bulk of the response is swinging toward the obvious Catholic teaching about the Good Samaritan, the parable of the Sheep and the Goats and the Corporal Works of Mercy and away from the secular right wing Malthusian baloney that is currently mouthing all the Planned Parenthood rubbish about overpopulation and scarce resources. A few years ago the secular right was all atwitter about demographic winter and the terror of Muslims outbreeding us. Now all of a sudden, when the Christian children are from Honduras and not American wombs, we are hearing that this will break the back of our economy, so we have to, oh, what's the word I'm looking for?, abort their pleas for help and remand them to rape, sex slavery and death. What rot.And the reason? Well, there's sacred and holy paperwork of course. Plus manmade rules and regulations. So important. But the most repulsive one is "amnesty equals abortion". We need to abort these kids back to sex slavery and death because it's the prolife thing to do, doncha know. After all, they might grow up and vote Democrat for some mysterious reason when they learn enough politics to know just which political subculture regards them as vermin who need deportation and extermination for the sake of political power.I am really heartened by the refusal of


text:
Page 3 of 4
Barbara Huck's Kisiskatchewan is an ambitious reach into the past, breathing life into the private lives of historical figures in the Hudson's Bay Company fur trade. Set on the Great Plains in the late 18th century as smallpox is decimating First Nations communities, Kisiskatchewan weaves the competing ideologies of the time into a great epic of survival during massive historical change.
(From: Notes of jury members put into the awards brochure at the McNally Robinson Awards ceremony,where Kisiskatchewan won the 'Book of the Year' Award)
After finishing, I felt as if I had been to another world.
Peter Enman - Editor, Calgary
[A] very moving story extremely well written ... and one that I highly recommend.
M. Harrison - Prince Albert, SK
I couldn't put this book down! This story shows such depth of understanding of Cree, Blackfoot and Orkney cultures that I was totally captivated.
Alex Paul - Winnipeg, MB
Bravo! Beautifully written, subtle and ambiguous but lots of action. Many mysteries.
Heather Robertson - Aurora, ON
Kisiskatchewan is a great tale that you won't want to put down, and you'll learn some Canadian history along the way
Winnipeg Free Press


text:
Springfield Co-operative Homes is no longer accepting Housing Applications. The waiting list is closed.
Application forms for each type of unit are available below for download. Applications submitted without required documentation will not be processed. Incomplete applications will also result in non-processing. Membership application forms are to be submitted to the Co-op Centre at 1376 Credit Woodlands Court, Mississauga, Ontario. Co-op Centre hours are Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Emails and faxes will not be accepted.
The Co-operative maintains a waiting list by date of application and type of unit requested. When a unit becomes available, the following happens:
For more information on eligibility requirements, see our Eligibility page.


text:
Dance: Art vs. Sport
We are often asked: "Why don't we participate in competitions?"
Although we firmly believe in the concept that dancers are elite athletes, we do not believe that dance performances should be treated as a competitive sport.
Although everyone pays the same amount for tuition, and entry fees not to mention the long hours of commitment, someone is going to go home a winner and sadly, someone will go home feeling like a loser.
The competition industry is based on concept, choreography and staging. Also the choice of music and costume selection influence the judges' decision
It doesn't seem fair to the child who has no control over these choices.
The opinion of the judges is subjective based on their personal taste. To truly compete on a level playing field or dance floor, each dancer would have to perform the exact same choreography. Then the dancers would be judged on technique, execution and presentation.
Another element of the competition team process is the rehearsal of specific choreography as opposed to classes in technique; Preparing a winning routine versus training to be able to execute any choreography.
We at CJDS are committed to building the foundation of classically trained dancers who are confident and versatile.
All of our dancers leave performances feeling like winners and our audiences leave feeling inspired and entertained.


text:
The High Life
The surprising psychological benefits of working out
Turns out exercise does provide more than just a brief runner's high. According to a new study in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, university students who exercised for more than 15 minutes said they felt more satisfied and relaxed before going to sleep. Also surprising: the more vigorously the subjects worked out, the more likely they were to report "pleasant-activated feelings" like enthusiasm and excitement.
Filed To: Fitness


text:
HD VERSION (1920 x 1080 px)
South Bank and London Eye time lapse compilation. A compilation of 6 clips from the South Bank collection- silhouette of the London Eye pods starting up, sequence of 3 shots from inside a London Eye pod, wide angle of the London Eye with a cloudy then clear sky, the London Eye and Westminster Bridge just before sunset, pan from the London Eye to the Houses of Parliament through sunset, sunset of the London Eye and County Hall from the opposite side of the river. All the clips are available in longer form in the main collection and this compilation is in UHD (4K), HD and web versions. 60 seconds
Pricing for compilations:
Web = £59
To buy the 4K (UHD) (3840x2160px) version click here
To buy the Web (320 x 180 px) version click here
For a watermarked preview click here and use the download link
More about The London Eye –
The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Also known as the Millennium Wheel, its official name was originally published as the British Airways London Eye, then the Merlin Entertainments London Eye, then the EDF Energy London Eye. Since mid-January 2015, it has been known in branding as the Coca-Cola London Eye, following an agreement signed in September 2014.
The entire structure is 135 metres (443 ft) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres (394 ft). When erected in 1999 it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel. Its height was surpassed by the 160 m (520 ft) Star of Nanchang in 2006, the 165 m (541 ft) Singapore Flyer in 2008, and the 167.6 m (550 ft) High Roller (Las Vegas) in 2014. Supported by an A-frame on one side only, unlike the taller Nanchang and Singapore wheels, the Eye is described by its operators as "the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel".
It is currently Europe's tallest Ferris wheel, and offered the highest public viewing point in London until it was superseded by the 245-metre (804 ft) observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard, which opened to the public on 1 February 2013. It is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.5 million visitors annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture.
The London Eye adjoins the western end of Jubilee Gardens (previously the site of the former Dome of Discovery), on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth.


text:
I have been intrigued by the theory expounded by the MIT physicist Max Tegmark that the universe is composed entirely of mathematical structure and logical pattern, and that all perceived and measured reality is that which has emerged quite naturally from the mathematics. That theory simplifies the question of why mathematics is such a powerful and necessary tool in the sciences. The theory is platonist in essence, reducing all of existence to pure mathematical forms that, perhaps, lie even beyond the realm of spacetime. Mathematics, in fact, may be eternal in that sense.
The Tegmarkian scheme contains some compelling arguments. One is that atomic and subatomic particles have only mathematical properties (mass, spin, wavelength, etc). Any proton, for example, is quite interchangeable with any other. And, of course, these mathematical particles are the building blocks of the universe, so it follows that the universe is composed of mathematical structures. Another is that the vastness of the universe is not so vast if composed of math, which can outpace any physical greatness with ease, even when all specie of multiple multiplying universes are in the mix. Tegmark's theory coexists happily and cozily with Hugh Everett's famous many-worlds hypothesis.
Dr. Tegmark, by the way, explains our conscious-being status as being the result of the evolution of "self-aware mathematical structures".
I have taken a liking to Max Tegmark. His ideas somehow make a lot of sense to me, and I find his theory actually liberating and satisfying. However, it just about makes the case that reality itself is illusory (which in my heart I'm quite okay with).
Anyway, given the power of his theory, and it's potential utility, I am surprised it has not been a more visible subject of inquiry and reflection among philosophers. I would be delighted to know the place that such theory has in the philosophy of existence, the philosophy of mathematics, the theory of knowledge, or the philosophy of science. Is Tegmark's theory an active and common subject of debate? (I think it should be.)
I will confess that I don't see the charm of Tegmark's view. I quite literally find it unintelligible, and I find the "advantages" not to be advantages at all.
You suggest a few possible attractions of the view. One is that "atomic and subatomic particles have only mathematical properties (mass, spin, wavelength, etc.) and hence we might as well see them as nothing but math. Any proton, for example, is quite interchangeable with any other." But first, the fact that we only have mathematical characterizations of these properties is both false and irrelevant insofar as it's true. It's false because knowing something about the mass or the spin or whatever of a particle has experimental consequences. It tells us that one thing rather than another will happen in real time in a real lab. If that weren't true, we'd have no reason to take theories that talk about these things seriously; we'd cheat ourselves of any possible evidence. Of course, we may not know what spin is "in itself," and perhaps to that extent, we only have a mathematical characterization of it. But as Bertrand Russell pointed out roughly 100 years ago, it doesn't follow that spin has no intrinsic character; it only follows that we don't know what spin is "in itself."
As for the fact that electrons and whatnot are interchangeable, all that this means is that as far as quantum theory is concerned, they have no intrinsic properties that distinguish them; all electrons have the same mass, the same charge and the same total spin. But they don't all have the same position nor the same momentum, nor the same spin state. (Alice's electron might have spin-up in the vertical direction; Bob's might have spin-down, to take just one possible difference.) And in any case, how would the existence of intrinsically indistinguishable objects count in favor of the view that it's math all the way down?
As for the vastness of space (or space/time), why does this need an explanation? Is it puzzling that the universe is vast and possibly infinite as opposed to finite and small? Why is small less puzzling than big? And in any case, is the view the the universe is nothing but number and the like less puzzling than the idea that the apparently palpable things around us are really timeless mathematical abstractions? How do we account for the unshakeable appearance to the contrary? Something about consciousness, maybe? I don't think we get any help by talking about "the evolution of "self-aware mathematical structures." I'll confess that I have no idea at all how this is supposed to explain consciousness, let alone what it actually means. (Do self-conscious mathematical structures sleep with colorless green ideas? And what are their offspring like?)
I suppose someone might say that my reaction is a sign that I'm hopelessly intellectually conservative. No doubt I'm not the best judge of that. But I think there's a difference between not getting excited by new ideas that really do explain things and pseudo-explanations that give us the illusion of insight without delivering the real goods. Except in my case, I don't even experience the illusion of insight when I'm told that really, everything is nothing more than abstract mathematical structure. I'm inclined to think that we're in the realm of Pauli's "not even wrong."
Finally, please don't take my pique personally. I first encountered a view like Tegmark's roughly 25 years ago, when it was offered by the physicist Frank Tipler. I had much the same reaction then, in spite of my genuine admiration for Tipler's imagination. But nothing I've heard in the intervening two and a half decades has looked like a reason to react differently to the latest incarnation.


text:
Well, the first few days of ROW80 have been productive enough. While traveling around Malaysia, I've found the time to finish all the chapters of my novel that are required for this second round, so anything done in the next 70-odd days in that regard will be icing on the cake. I've also done a decent job of keeping up on the fitness and French study goals; knocked out a few more pages on "Charming", popped over to Author Karma and did my 30 minutes of networking, and have drafted an analysis of my latest KDP Select promotion which I'll post up here in a day or two. Major milestones listed below. Looking forward to seeing how everyone else is doing this week!
- Write 6 Chapters of "The Notorious Mister Wickham" - 100%
- Finish "Charming" - 80%
- Build my "Core Group" to 25 people - 8%
- Run 3 KDP Select Promotions - 33%


text:
Keith Heinly, the Manager of Community Impact, said in an email to faith-based organizations, "It's easy to use a FamilyWize Card. There are no forms to fill out, waiting period or registration. The card is really just like a reusable prescription coupon on all FDA approved medicines.
"Anyone in your family, your work, your church or your neighborhood can use it immediately. You can even use it if you have health insurance, both during deductible periods and for anything your insurance does not pay for."
According to Heinly, the card will help with anything your insurance does not pay for as long as participating pharmacies are used. More information can be accessed at http://familywize.org/.


text:
On September 15, 2014, I wrote a blog titled "EPA's Standard Operating Procedures for RFS: Delay, Delay, Delay." EPA has not issued the final rule yet for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). We do not know what the renewable volume obligations are for 2014, even though the year is almost over. EPA is required by the Clean Air Act to promulgate these volumes annually by November 30 of the previous year.
EPA did send the final rule for the 2014 RFS to OMB on August 22, 2014. Although this was very late, we had an expectation that there would be a final rule promulgated before the end of 2014 because this interagency review process is supposed to be finished in 90 days or less. However, on November 21, 2014, EPA announced that this will again be delayed and the final rule for the 2014 RFS will be issued sometime after January 1, 2015.
What happened to cause this time out? The elections in November? The runoff in December for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana? My guess is the interagency review revealed a lack of consensus in the Administration.
So, we will finish the 2014 compliance period without a 2014 RFS final rule. But what does this mean for 2015?
At least 2015 does not have elections for the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives. But we know that the Agency will be late again, because the proposal for the 2015 RFS has not yet been sent to OMB for interagency review. Recall that the final rule for the 2015 RFS should be issued by November 30, 2014.
EPA expects the 2015 RFS proposal to be issued in May 2015, but RFS tardiness is not new: after all, EPA did not promulgate the 2013 RFS final rule until August 2013. Given these constant stoppages, maybe the title of this blog should actually be "Delay, Delay, Delay, and Delay Some More."


text:
Our January Women in Architecture issue has created a big stir, and reaction is still coming in. We recently received the following from Peter Wilson, director of the Wood Studio at the Forest Products Research Institute in Edinburgh:
I've been following your campaign re female architects and the opportunities and rewards available to them in the UK and thought you might like to know that we are running a seminar at which all of the architect speakers represent this side of the profession.
This wasn't any kind of gender preferencing on our part – it was simply that these were the ones who were not only best able to show recent examples of green timber architecture in Scotland, but who individually had the experience of several such projects under their belts. That they command respect within the profession here is probably best evidenced by the fact that the event was absolutely full (over 200 architects and engineers from all over the country).
This is not the only area of timber design in which female architects are prominent here. Keep up the campaign!
New Dimensions in Green Timber Architecture took place last Friday at Napier University, with three case studies showing recent examples of green timber projects.
The panel and projects presented include:
- Sue Whittle and Jenny Humphreys, Simpson & Brown Architects - Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
- Helen Lucas, Helen Lucas Architects - Frisealach and other houses
- Melanie Goode, PAGE/PARK Architects - Rosslyn Chapel Visitor Centre
- Subscribe to Footprint by email.
Have your say
You must sign in to make a comment
Please remember that the submission of any material is governed by our Terms and Conditions and by submitting material you confirm your agreement to these Terms and Conditions.
Links may be included in your comments but HTML is not permitted.


text:
On September 30, 2016 by Kim
Yesterday we gave you our top 5 Tips for Allergy Friendly Entertaining. Now that you have some basic principles in place, here are some menu and recipe ideas for you to use as you plan. We have several sample menus and compilations of recipes for different needs. Please feel free to share your favorite recipes and resources in the comments below to help those who are planning allergy friendly meals. Don't forget that with your Membership, you can mix and match any of these recipes to meet your needs and the needs of your guests with your own custom menu!
If you are hosting this year, we have allergy friendly holiday recipes and sample menus to help take the guess work out of planning a meal that is special and nourishing for all of your guests.
Sample Gluten Free Dinner Menu
Appetizer – Gluten Free Dairy Free Holiday Ham Balls
Main Dish – Citrus Glazed Cornish Game Hens
Side Dish – Garlic and Bacon Green Beans
Side Dish – Gluten Free Dairy Free Pumpkin Apple Harvest Rice
Dessert – Gluten Free Dairy Free Gingerbread Cake
Other Gluten Free Recipes
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Stuffed Pork Roast
- Rosemary Balsamic Glazed Rack of Pork with Roasted Vegetables
- Orange Rosemary Salmon
- Spiced Roasted Cauliflower
- Fall Flavors Quinoa Salad
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Spiced Apple Pancakes
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Cranberry Orange Scones
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Fudge
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Candy Cane Cookies
- Peppermint Bark (assure GF ingredients)
Sample Dairy Free Brunch Menu
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Puffed Oven Pancakes with Glazed Fruit **
- Sausage and Pancake Breakfast Balls
- Latkes **
- Slow Cooker Breakfast Fritatta **
** also gluten free
Other Dairy-Free Recipes
- Slow Cooker French Toast Casserole
- Hearty Pumpkin Apple Muffins
- Tender Braised Short Ribs
- Homemade Cranberry Sauce
- Cranberry Raspberry Relish
- Whole Foods Sauteed Carrots with Sage **
- Roasted Garlic Herb Green Beans **
- Autumn Sausage Casserole ** (Freezer version – login required)
- Veggie Packed Roasted Red Pepper Soup **
- Cowboy Caviar **
- Maple Bacon Acorn Squash **
** also gluten free
Sample Paleo Dinner Menu
* Paleo recipes are grain free and dairy free, so most of these can double for GFDF recipes. Just check with your guests if you have a doubt.
Appetizer – Paleo Buffalo Chicken Wings
Main Dish – Turkey with Cauliflower Carrot Herb Mash
Side Dish – Paleo Bacon and Brussel Sprout Hash
Dessert – Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Other Paleo Recipes (i.e. grain free and dairy free)
- Paleo Bacon Crusted Pork Tenderloin
- Rosemary Pork Roast with Fall Vegetables
- Slow Cooker Roasted Chicken and Gravy (Freezer version – login required)
- Slow Cooker Apple-Cherry Pork Loin
- Whole Foods Crusted Prime Rib
- Paleo Green Bean Casserole with Turkey
- Paleo Pumpkin Bread
- Paleo Pumpkin Cranberry Breakfast Cookies
Auto-Immune Protocol
- AIP Holiday Mini Menu November 2014
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Lemon & Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast
- AIP Cranberry Maple Orange Pork Chops
- Gluten Free Dairy Free Chicken Pinwheels
- GAPS Cauliflower Rice
- AIP Pumpkin Bites
- Pumpkin Spice Cake with Gingersnap Crust (Freezer version – login required)
Low FODMAP
- FODMAP Mini Menu January 2014
- Low FODMAP Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon
- Seaton Sunday Roast Chicken
- Ginger Cranberry Pork Roast (Freezer version – login required)
- Sweet Potato Drop Biscuits (Freezer version – login required)
- Paleo Coffee Cake Muffin


text:
frequently asked questions
Some of our most frequently asked questions are listed below. If you can't find the answers you need then please email our support desk for more assistance.
Q. Can I try fizilog for free?
A. Yes. Download, install and run the fizilog software. Fizilog will automatically run as a free trial for 30 days. Your free trial includes all the same facilities as the fully licensed product and is not restricted in any way. When you are happy that fizilog is the right software for you, purchase a licence key from our online shop and enter it into fizilog to convert your free trial into a fully licensed installation.
Q. How do I buy fizilog, is it a download?
A. Use our online shop to purchase your fully licensed copy of fizilog. Your licence key is sent immediately by email, your software can be downloaded from this website. If you prefer a boxed product then these are available as optional extras in our online shop.
Q. Do you support Windows 7, which version of Windows do you support?
A. Fizilog is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. All versions of these operating systems are supported including 64bit. If you are running a 64bit operating system then we recommend you use our 64bit version.
Q. Do you have a MAC version?
A. Sorry no. Fizilog is only compatible with computers running Microsoft Windows. If you have a MAC then you will need a Windows emulator like Parallels.
Q. Do you have a 64bit version?
A. Yes. You'll find a 64bit version available on our download pages. You should use the 64bit version if you have a 64bit Windows operating system.


text:
Fleischer: Media 'Letting Down Its Professional Guard' Because They Don't Like Trump
'I'm Not Finished!': Sanders Battles CNN's Acosta on False Media Reports
Concha: Source Who Misled News Outlets on WikiLeaks-Trump Jr. Email Should Be Exposed
Ari Fleischer thinks the Trump administration is right to go after the mainstream media when they see inaccurate or dishonest reporting.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday accused the mainstream media of "purposefully" putting out false information, pointing to recent reports from ABC News and CNN that had to be corrected.
Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under George W. Bush, said it's understandable that journalists sometimes make mistakes, but it's interesting that those mistakes all too often seem to be anti-President Trump.
"I think the president and his team are right to put the pressure on the press, throw high, inside heat," Fleischer said on "Fox & Friends." "There's nothing wrong with that, and the press is used to it. They deserve it often."
He added that he doesn't think members of the press are going out of their way to make mistakes, they just can't stand the president and they want anti-Trump information to be true so badly.
"It belies the bigger issue, and that is the press is letting down its professional guard because they don't like the president. And they are making the mistakes," Fleischer said.
He said that he doesn't use the term "fake news" like Trump does, but he's confident that the press can handle the criticism.
Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2017
Watch more above.
Sarah Sanders: 'Laughable' for Obama to Try to Take Credit for Economy
Kirsten Gillibrand Blasts Back at Trump on Twitter: 'You Cannot Silence Me'
Bongino: Did DOJ Recruit Trump Probe Attorneys from Clinton Foundation?


text:
A young volunteer from Collinbridge received prestigious recognition for serving his local community at an event recently.
Philip McCorry, who is a member of Glengormley Ambulance and Rescue Service, was presented with a Pioneer Award Certificate from the Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Councillor Thomas Hogg.
The youth from Glengormley has clocked up over 200 hours service since becoming a volunteer with the team in September 2014.
Councillor Hogg presented him with the award on Thursday, December 17, at an event which was held in Mossley Mill.
The Mayor was full of praise for the young volunteer who has devoted a lot of his time to the rescue unit.
"I was delighted to welcome Philip and his parents to Mossley Mill to present him with the Volunteer Now Pioneer Award.
"To have undertaken two hundred hours of voluntary service with Glengormley Ambulance and Rescue Unit at the young age of twelve is a tremendous achievement.
"Philip is a great role model for young people and I wish him every success for the future.
"I think that young people generally attract an unfair amount of criticism, and it is important to highlight the good work that goes on within our borough by young people," the DUP Councillor commented.
Chief Station Officer at the Glengormley Ambulance and Rescue Unit, Don Kirk, believes that Philip's contribution and dedication was deserving of the award.
"I have been with this voluntary service for over 32 years now and I have yet to see anyone like Philip, who at every chance wants to help his community in many different ways.
"He is so outstanding in the way he wants to provide his time and services to senior citizens, but more so those with severe disabilities.
"I can't say enough about his kind nature towards his community. In this day and age we read all the time about young people causing trouble or hanging about the streets, doing nothing to help their community.
"However, here is a young lad stepping up to the mark to help others," Mr Kirk said.


text:
What books made a strong impression on you as a child?
The first book I remember really gripping me was Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or the Roly-Poly Pudding. The notion of being tied up and made into a roly-poly pudding was scary. It linked with personal experience; my grandmother lived in a country cottage with cupboards and wainscots and a grandfather clock just like the one on page nine. And my uncle was an undertaker who made his own coffins, so was a carpenter just like John Joiner. Most memorable book: Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. I read it on holiday, aged 12. A brilliant travel book. It made me want to be a naturalist.
Was it a challenge to you to make 'When Food Kills: BSE, E. coli, and Disaster Science' and 'Have Bacteria Won?' – popular-science books on subjects in which you are a world-leading authority – both succinct and comprehensible to the general reader?
Thomas Hood said that "the easiest reading is damned hard writing", and I agree. Success is not for me to judge. But with respect to succinctness and comprehensibility, the biggest influences for me have been Professor E. P. Sharpey-Schafer (I was his medical house officer at St Thomas' Hospital), described by his obituarists as "seldom orthodox but invariably precise…laconic…with a genuine hatred of pomposity…who published a great many papers without repeating himself"; Charles Darwin and George Orwell; and electronic media work, where the challenge is to summarise an issue, without notice, in fewer than four concise, understandable and accurate bullet points. Failing the first two tests means that one won't be asked back. Failing the last induces opprobrium from colleagues.
What was the last book you gave as a gift?
Tony Judt's When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 (2015). I gave it to my wife on her birthday so that I can read it myself.
What book, or collection of papers, has had the greatest influence on your own work?
The most influential collection of papers for me is the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Vol XXVII, Basic Mechanisms in Animal Virus Biology (1962). Published just before I started virus research, its 535 pages describe the maturation of 'big' virology: the application of expensive machines (electron microscopes, analytical ultracentrifuges, scintillation counters – equipment often costing the same as the average house) and the early days of research using radioactive metabolic precursor molecules. It raised lots of questions without answering them. James Watson (who won the Nobel that year) attended; seven other attendees later won the Nobel, either for work they had already done (Barbara McClintock, Alfred Hershey, Renato Dulbecco, Andre Lwoff), or for work in progress being reported at the meeting (Aaron Klug), or for discoveries that came later but had their roots in what was reported at the meeting (David Baltimore, Howard Martin Temin). For me, this volume is a kind of Old Testament. I used electron microscopy for a while, but then got into high-resolution molecular methods; since 1962 their costs have fallen a lot more than a thousandfold and there has been a massive increase in resolving power.
What books are you reading?
The first is Helen Birkett's The Saints' Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics (2010). Jocelin was almost certainly Jocelin de Pennington, the abbot of Furness. A professional hagiographer, he was the first Pennington to write books. His Vita S. Kentigern was commissioned by the Bishop of Glasgow in the 1180s to celebrate the life of the Glasgow patron saint, and to support Glasgow's case for ecclesiastical independence from York. Nothing changes! This Vita is available as an e-book.
The second is David Reynolds' The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century (2013), which essentially focuses on the myth-making about 1914-18 that has happened in Britain, with a big emphasis on the Somme. My "John Joiner" uncle fought in Mesopotamia, and it is good to be reminded about that and all the other consequences. Even the rise of the Scottish National Party is discussed!
There are also a few books on my desk waiting to be read. One is Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary by Alan Bullock. Although Bevin died in 1951, many of the issues that concerned him (Britain and Europe, Israel, Korea, nuclear weapons) are as important now as they were in his day.
Another is ABZ and Big Oil: 50 Years of Black Gold in the Silver City by Jeremy Cresswell. ABZ is the code for Aberdeen International Airport. It is big book, lavishly illustrated, now becoming historical; Aberdeen house prices and ABZ passenger numbers are falling and the number of redundant oil workers is already more than the total number of steelworkers in the UK.
Hugh Pennington is emeritus professor of bacteriology, University of Aberdeen. He has worked for the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments as a scientific adviser in the fields of microbiology and food safety, and he was a founder member of the World Food Programme's Technical Advisory Group. His latest book is Have Bacteria Won? (Polity).


text:
Page 2: Lean production
Lean production is quite simply about getting more from less. The aim of lean production is to reduce the quantity of resources used in providing goods and services for consumers. At the same time, it is about making the organisation more efficient. Lean production involves eliminating waste and therefore using less labour, materials, space and time. This in turn reduces costs.
However, for Aldi, lean production is not just about reducing costs for the business. It is also about passing these savings on to its customers to offer value for money. Lean production is based on a number of efficiency concepts, such as:
- Continuous improvement – a culture whereby all employees are constantly involved in making improvements to quality
- Just-in-timeproduction – materials are received just as they are needed, eliminating the need to maintain large stock levels
- Time based management – an approach that aims to reduce the time wasted in business operations. This usually requires a multi-skilled and flexible workforce.
- Total quality management (TQM) – a quality assurance ideal where all workers have a responsibility for getting it 'right first time'
Principles of lean production
Although lean production is often considered in terms of manufacturing, these principles can equally be applied to service organisations. The principles of lean production are planned and built into everything that Aldi does. This starts within its supply chain. For example, up to 60% of Aldi's fruit and vegetables are sourced locally where possible, reducing the need for long and costly delivery journeys. This demonstrates a time based management approach.
The principles of time based management are also built into the training provided for Aldi's employees. Training enables Aldi to eliminate waste and cut costs. Through training staff to do a variety of tasks around store Aldi can minimise its staff requirements. This method results in staff gaining knowledge of the whole business, as such they are able to offer a much higher level of customer service. Staff costs can also be reduced as fewer staff are required if they can perform a variety of duties throughout the store.
Aldi also applies this time based management approach to its product range. For example, Aldi sells fewer variations of each product. In contrast competitors may sell a larger variety of different brands, sizes and packaging. By selling fewer varieties of each product Aldi can buy much larger quantities. This enables it to take advantage of economies of scale and source products more cost effectively. This in turn means that Aldi needs less space to display its products. As a result Aldi's stores can be smaller.
Core values
The three core values of Aldi are simplicity, consistency and responsibility. Lean production ties in closely with these values. For example, Aldi stores are simple in design and all stores are very similar which creates consistency.
Responsibility is an important aspect of all areas of the business, from training and developing employees to drive the business forward as part of continuous improvement, to taking an active role in its supply chain to ensure continuous improvement. Such actions have helped it to develop an international influence in different markets.


text:
A complete new menu daily at Lafitte in S.F.
Russell Jackson, also known as the Dissident Chef, became a celebrity in the underground dining movement. Although his resume includes stints at the shuttered Black Cat in North Beach, owner of Russell's in Los Angeles and private chef for Counting Crows, for the last several years Jackson has cooked dinner in venues where people would pay a set price to eat whatever he happened to prepare.
Now, Jackson is above ground and pier-side at his new restaurant, Lafitte, named after the 18th century French pirate. In the brick-and-mortar space at Pier 5 on the Embarcadero, he's tried to replicate some of that cutting-edge sensibility with a menu that changes completely every night.
He also tosses in theatrical flair left over from his days working with a rock band. In the open kitchen in the center of the dining room, Jackson and his crew sport a distinctive look. If the chef grows tired of the name Lafitte and his tagline "Feed the People," Jackson could name the place Four Mohawks and a Nohawk - four cooks had that distinctive skunk stripe of hair down the middle of their heads, and the fifth one was shaved.
Jackson cooks with just as much bravado. The nightly menu changes with the market and his mood, leading to some pretty interesting, sometimes strange, combinations. They aren't always successful but they're guaranteed conversation starters. To fully enjoy the experience you have to appreciate Jackson's somewhat quirky sensibilities.
Generally there are four to five appetizers ($7-$12), sometimes one or two middle courses ($14-$16) and four to five main courses ($17-$30).
Meat-based menu
One night the menu was heavily meat-based. Starters consisted of pork sausage with flageolet beans ($10); duck giblets in a rich natural sauce spooned over a slice of toast ($7); a charcuterie platter ($12); and a Little Gem salad with radishes, peas and croutons ($12).
Main courses were equally as substantial: seared pork belly and sweetbreads ($22); braised pork ribs with chickpea fries ($27); roast lamb sirloin with shaved artichokes ($23); and sous vide chicken breast ($22).
The chicken proved that not everything should be subjected to this slow water bath. The meat was barely seared so it not only looked anemic but the fat tasted like it had never been cooked. I removed the skin, but some globules clung to the flesh around the edge so every so often there was a fatty explosion of schmaltz. The lamb ($22) was also undercooked and had a chewy, flabby texture, though I liked the idea of the shaved artichokes.
The problem with radical menu changes is that it's hard to refine a dish, and while it might be fun for the kitchen crew, it isn't always so for the customer. That was the case with an English pea panna cotta dessert ($8) where the idea outperformed the execution; the flavor was starchy and vegetative, and the texture was rubbery. We didn't say anything to the waiter, but she voluntarily removed the charge from the bill, admitting that the down side of changing the menu nightly was that sometimes a dish didn't quite come together.
Traditional pasta
On another visit I was amused when the appetizers included an English pea pudding ($7); I probably should have ordered it to see if it was similar to the dessert, but I decided to go with what looked like a sure success - mache salad ($8) with roasted fruit vinaigrette, shavings of paneer cheese and compressed apriums, a fruit that is a cross between apricots and plums. It was one of the best dishes on all three visits.
Another night, appetizers included beef stew ($7) in a salty sauce with fresh fava and corn. Stew seemed a little out of place as a starter, but it was a better choice than the nettle risotto ($14) which had an unexpected sweet caramel-like flavor and undercooked rice.
As an appetizer I also ordered a traditional dish: pasta a la carbonara ($16), which like the risotto was listed as a "mid" course. The flavors were excellent and the pasta was expertly cooked, but it seemed expensive for the size of the portion. Then I saw the same dish delivered to another table and the portion was twice as big. It seemed the staff had decided to offer a smaller portion since I was ordering it as a first course, but I was still charged full price.
I particularly wanted more pasta after I cut into my main course, a saddle of rabbit ($24). The portion was small, but the biggest problem was that the juices ran pink and the flesh grew pinker the closer I cut to the bone. I sliced off the ends, and left the rest on the tangle of broccoli rabe that had tough woody stems. However, the cauliflower puree, ladled on top of the pan-roasted meat like gravy, was a nice addition.
Inconsistent portions
Portion size is all over the board. The chunk of sea bass ($18) wrapped in horseradish leaves was twice as big as the rabbit. Wilted leaves paved the bottom of the plate, with a scattering of roasted fingerling potatoes, small curls of chicory and horseradish cream, creating a well-integrated dish that would entice me back.
On another night we had the fried rabbit legs ($23), which were crisply fried, topped with two overly generous pats of maitre d' butter and served on over-salted pea tendrils.
Most desserts, which also change nightly, were better than the pea disaster, including warm snickerdoodles with glasses of ice cold milk ($4); white peach tart; and strawberry shortcake ($9) with a salty buttermilk biscuit and lightly sweetened fruit and lemon custard. My favorite was the sticky toffee cake ($9) with a gooey, rich sauce and lightly whipped cream.
Jackson's food is served in a space that has the expected warehouse industrial vibe, with concrete floors, bare wood tables, a massive communal table, large bar and central stage, or cooking area.
Attached to the side of the building is a tent-like structure, with clear plastic sides and seating for 45. It's on the Embarcadero overlooking a plaza and the bay, giving people a pleasant sense of the outdoors.
Service, for the most part, is very professional; staffers know what they're doing, seem to appreciate the spirit of the menu, and keep track of the tables.
Yet the unevenness of many courses shows the inherent difficulties in totally changing a menu each day; there are no dress rehearsals. Lafitte is more like improvisational theater. Diners have to trust the innate talent of the chef and realize they never really know exactly what's going to be on the plate.
Pier 5, The Embarcadero (between Broadway and Washington), San Francisco
(415) 839-2134 or lafittesf.com
Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday; brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; dinner 5:30-11 p.m. nightly. Full bar. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
Overall: Rating: ONE AND A HALF STARS
Food: Rating: ONE AND A HALF STARS
Service: Rating: TWO STARS
Atmosphere: Rating: TWO AND A HALF STARS
Prices: $$$ (Expensive; most entrees $18-$24)
Noise rating: Noise Rating: THREE BELLS Talking normally gets difficult (70-75 decibels)
Pluses: Prime location overlooking the Embarcadero and the bay. Nightly changing menu offers wide variety.
Minuses: The constantly changing menu means that some dishes don't work and those that do may not reappear. Portion size is inconsistent.
Rating: FOUR STARS Extraordinary Rating: THREE STARS Excellent Rating: TWO STARS Good Rating: ONE STAR Fair Noise Rating: BOMB Poor
The wine list
The tagline for Lafitte is "Feed the People," but the wine prices might leave them thirsty. Cocktails are $12, and only one of the dozen wines by the glass is less than $10.
That could be justified if the quality is high, but the 50-item list is simply expensive. The 2008 Aforado Albarino from Spain is $78, but you can get it at retail for about $20. The 2008 Joseph Drouhin Chabils is $54, but you can find it in many stores for $21.
I therefore went for the least expensive red on the menu - the 2008 Quiles Cono 4 Primitivo ($30) from Spain, which was a good choice for the heavily meat-based, nightly changing menu. It would cost around $15 in a store, so a bargain by comparison to the other price differentials. In another visit I went for the 2008 Domaine Saint Antoine Rose ($36), even though it can be bought for less than $10.
About a third of the wines are from California, with the rest mostly from Europe. The red selections are well chosen, but considering the menu, the whites seemed a little light.
If you bring your own wine, corkage is $25.
FOUR STARS = Extraordinary; THREE STARS = Excellent; TWO STARS = Good; ONE STAR = Fair; NO STARS = Poor
$ = Inexpensive: entrees $10 and under; $$ = Moderate: $11-$17; $$$ = Expensive: $18-$24; $$$$ = Very Expensive: more than $25
ONE BELL = Pleasantly quiet (less than 65 decibels); TWO BELLS = Can talk easily (65-70); THREE BELLS = Talking normally gets difficult (70-75); FOUR BELLS = Can talk only in raised voices (75-80); BOMB = Too noisy for normal conversation (80+)
Prices are based on main courses. When entrees fall between these categories, the prices of appetizers help determine the dollar ratings. Chronicle critics make every attempt to remain anonymous. All meals are paid for by The Chronicle. Star ratings are based on a minimum of three visits. Ratings are updated continually based on at least one revisit.
Reviewers: Michael Bauer (M.B.), Tara Duggan (T.D.), Mandy Erickson (M.E.), Amanda Gold (A.G.), Miriam Morgan (M.M.), Carol Ness (C.N.), Karola Saekel (K.M.S.) and Carey Sweet (C.S.)


text:
Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
Securities and Advisory services offered through Madison Avenue Securities, LLC. Member FINRA/SIPC, a registered investment advisor. Insurance services offered through Legacy Advisors, Inc. and Tax and Accounting services offered through Legacy Tax, Inc., both of which are subsidiaries of Legacy Financial Partners, LLC. Legacy Financial Partners, LLC and its subsidiaries are not affiliated with Madison Avenue Securities, LLC. Arnaldo Coucelo is not affiliated with Madison Avenue Securities LLC.
*Guarantees provided by insurance products are backed by the claims-paying ability of the issuing carrier.
The retirement kit is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to provide tax or legal advice. By requesting this report you may be provided with information regarding the purchase of insurance and investment products in the future.


text:
Fort Lauderdale - Office
Watergarden Foreclosures
Watergarden Condo Foreclosures in Fort Lauderdale
Watergarden Condos is a modern luxury condo community in Fort Lauderdale off U.S. 1 and West Broward Boulevard. The community offers eye-pleasing architecture and fountains. The amenities include a spa, valet service, concierge, business center, fitness center, pool, and outdoor bar. There are 5 floor plans, ranging from 1 to 3 bedrooms, and 1 or 2 bathrooms.
Results Total: 0


text:
Every Business Needs Passion and BeliefsJanuary 24, 2017 . .
This is a guest blog post by marketing and branding strategist Alan Speirs.
Our businesses have many differences that set us apart from our competition. We can plan, create, and strategize powerful unique factors, but could we be missing the most powerful one?
All that intellectual effort glosses over the most important tool of attraction: a central belief system. From the visionaries to the team in the trenches, if we share the same beliefs, we are more likely to succeed in achieving our wildest expectations.
However, do we all really share the same belief system? Have we fostered this it in such a manner that our passion can be the magnet that will attract our proposition to our relevant suitors?
The Greatest Brand and Marketing Story Ever Told: The Bible…?
True, it is the most successful "non-fiction" book of all-time. For this moment, let's look at it as a business.
In its most common form, collated and published over 1500 years ago, we have a body of stories, created by a handful of individuals with some powerful core beliefs. They passionately believed that in sharing these beliefs, they would create a better world.
From those beliefs, the authors formed a tribe unlike no other.
Passion Sells
When we look at business strategy, we do a SWOT analysis, carefully craft our business plans and work hard to formulate a successful equation for business success.
Now, reflect on some of the most successful brands and businesses of all time. Were they driven by passion and beliefs, or by a something more tangible, like a catchy phrase or product?
Everyone knows we need a clean and succinct message when it comes to branding and marketing. But what really sells a brand is your story, belief, and passion.
It is that authentic and true belief that sets you aside from any the competition.
The world has changed. Culturally, we have shifted from Baby Boomers through Gen X/Y and Millennials. It's now the Connected Generation, a generation of people deeply connected to their networks with an abundance of options and resources.
It has never been more important to create passion and emotional engagement in business.
When your beliefs align with those around you and are ignited by your passion, trust is created and your tribe grows.
Authentic Branding: Make It Happen!
How do you do this? Start your planning with Simon Sinek's golden circle:
- What – What are you trying to solve?
- Why – Why do you exist? What is your passion and belief system?
- How – How do you solve it?
Simple, logical and the most understated tool of an authentic successful branding and marketing strategy is the creation of your own central belief system. All your branding and messaging should come from this belief system.
Once that's in place, the strategy becomes much simpler.
Alan Speirs has spent 30 years delivering it through marketing and branding. He helps forge lasting stories that connect businesses to their community through passion and beliefs. Connect with him by email.
This entry was posted in Thoughts and tagged Authenticity, Branding, Business Strategy, Marketing, passion, Values, Vision. Bookmark the permalink.


text:
Global Retail Development Index Global Retail Development Index
The Global Retail Development Index™ is an annual study that ranks the top 30 developing countries for retail expansion worldwide. The Index analyzes 25 macroeconomic and retail-specific variables to help retailers devise successful global strategies and to identify developing market investment opportunities. The GRDI is unique because it identifies today's most successful markets and those that offer the most potential for the future.
Current Research Current Research
2014 Global Retail Development Index™ Map 2014 Global Retail Development Index™ Map
Click on a highlighted country on the map below for more information:
Related Content Related Content
The Global Retail Development Index's "Graduates"
Online Retail Is Front and Center in the Quest for Growth
The 2013 Global Retail E-Commerce Index™
Seizing the African Retail Opportunity
The 2014 African Retail Development Index™


text:
|Swap with a view
|SF Swappers gals Stephanie and I with Kate Payne
I of course bought a copy of her book, got it signed, and cracked the spine as soon as I was home with my feet up. Its subtitle provides an accurate preview: Decorating, Dining, and the Gratifying Pleasures of Self-Sufficiency – on a Budget, but does not do full justice to the contents. It is all at once practical, insightful, personal, accessible, aesthetically pleasing and filled with tons of fun tips anyone can apply to their home. I'm still in the first chapter, but have already been tackling our overflowing pantry based on some of what I've read. Two big thumbs up and a "get thyself a copy" endorsement from this homemaker.
Whether because of the warm weather or the holiday we had a smaller group than expected, but it did make for a casual and intimate event, and it meant almost everyone could swap with each other which was very rewarding – and much less frenzied.
Let's dig in to the food... Once again the potluck tables were chock-full of tempting eats – from prosciutto wrapped mozzarella to scones to seasonal fruit to frittata – and of course mimosas were on the menu.
For the swap, there was a great balance of savory and sweet, fresh and for the pantry.
The list included Candy Cap Mushroom Cookies, Palestinian Hummus, Sorrel Pesto, Trifle, Cha-cha-cha Cherry Chocolate and Chipotle Chili Crumble, Candied Kumquats, Marinated Mushrooms, Smoked Salmon Mousse and Crostini, Dukkah, Garden Fresh Herbs & Radicchio, Raw Honey from Berkeley, Roasted Corn & Edamame Salad, Fruit Leather, Brandied Cocktail Cherries and Lemon Balm Cordial. Yeah!
|Artful hummus sampler plate
|Candy Cap Mushroom Cookies (foraged from an undisclosed CA location)
|Organic Candied Kumquats
|Seasonal Fruit Leather Trios
|Raw Honey from the Algarden Urban Farm in Berkeley
Want more? You got it! There are photos of all the swap items in a Flickr set here.
In the meantime, I've been enjoying my take-home haul daily and love how the different dishes both bring a whole new repetoire to my kitchen, and inspire me to eat differently and keep cookin'.
|June Swap Goodies at home
Our next swap will be in August - we'll announce the date soon so you can mark your calendars and plan ahead.


text:
World, meet Maddy.
Maddy is a senior this year who I met through a friend of mine. If you can't tell from these pictures, Maddy is creative and adorable, and I had an absolute blast photographing her.
Check it out.
September and October are filling up! Email me at email@example.com for pricing and availability!
Meet Jessica and Jennifer.
I met them in high school and they are two of the sweetest girls I know. They asked me to photograph them before Jessica left for college in the fall, so we headed out to one of my favorite spots last Saturday to take some pictures.
These girls are beautiful. Check it out.
This shoot was special not only because I got to photograph Jessica and Jennifer, but because I got to bring a sweet little girl named Carina with me as well.
Carina is a super cool ten-year-old I met at a family camp I volunteered at a few weeks ago. She wants to be a photographer when she grows up, so I taught her a few things and let her photograph Jessica and Jennifer with me. Let me tell you, this girl is going to change the world someday. What a sweetheart.
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
BEIJING, Sept 18 (Reuters) - China has no choice but to retaliate against the latest U.S. tariffs and hopes the United States would correct its behavior, the commerce ministry said on Tuesday in a statement, without specifying what actions it will take.
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated the trade war with Beijing on Monday, imposing 10 percent tariffs on about $200 billion worth of imports, in a move one senior Chinese regulator said "poisoned" the atmosphere for negotiations.
Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Kim Coghill


text:
- EUROSMEs
- Members & Territories
- Business Place
- EU Funding for SMEs
- European Information
- Latest News
- Contact
The Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia (Obrtno podjetniška zbornica Slovenije) is an umbrella organisation comprising the craft and small business chamber system jointly with 62 regional chambers of craft and small business. The Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia and the regional chambers of craft and small business are independent legal entities managed by craftsmen – officials (functionaries) – on a voluntary basis.
The Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia acts and communicates with the public to support and promote the traditional values of its members; hard work, effort, perseverance, honesty, honour, ethics, quality and excellence, and knowledge and innovation. The Chamber advocates preserving the tradition and peculiarities of small business. It provides for an equal role of regional chambers of craft and small business and offers full expert support and assistance to its members.
The Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia also links its members by activity. Thirty professional sections (successors of guilds) and two committees have been established for that purpose: Building Cleaners, Car Mechanics, Cement Makers, Stonecutters and Terrace Makers, Chimneysweepers, Construction, Cosmeticians, Craft Associations, Domestic Arts and Crafts, Electricians, Electronics and Mechatronics, Energy Installations, Florists and Gardeners, Flooring, Food Producers, Funeral Services, Glass Makers, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, Hairdressers, Metal Processing, Opticians, Painting and Paperhanging, Photographs , Plastics, Printing, Retailers, Skin Processing, Textile Makers, Textile Maintainers, Tinsmiths and Roofers, Tourism and Catering, Transport, Wood.
- To improve the conditions for doing business in craft, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Craftsmen and their chamber have become an equal partner in the dialogue with the government and trade unions.
- Representing the members' interests before the government
- Informing the members
- Performing services to members
- Exercising powers conferred by public law
- Consulting to the members (incorporating a company – the VEM one-stop-shop, taxes, labour and welfare law, company and civil law, wages and salaries, accounting and bookkeeping, technical regulations and standards, favourable sources of finance, entering foreign markets, environmental protection, health and safety at work and e-business).
- Organising training
- Organising fairs
- Organising participation of members on fairs in Slovenia and abroad
- Organising business conferences
- Obrtnik Card (identification, paying and discounts)
- Informing the members


text:
It's the eve of Chinese New Year of the Dragon today, so I wish all Chinese around the world a happy reunion dinner this evening and a wonderful, prosperous, peaceful and healthy lunar new year ahead!
Xin Nian Kuai Le, Gong Xi Fa Cai!
x pixy
cute! I love how sweet he looks.ReplyDelete
Happy Chinese New Year~~ wishing you to have a wonderful Dragon Year~~~ XD
http://www.lonelyreload.com (A Growing Teenager Diary) ..
Wonderfully colorful and playful! :)ReplyDelete
I like you added a chinese jacket and a ribbon, looks like a gymnast performing at the olympics :)ReplyDelete
So cute. Love the little jacket.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all your comments! xoxo pixyReplyDelete


text:
Rewarding Moments: Marcia
Marcia (Swag Name Stewart2216) is from Quakertown, Pennysylvania and has been a Swagbucks member since November 2016. Marcia's life changed dramatically after the loss of her husband. She wondered how she would still afford presents for her grandchildren.
Where would Marcia start though? With the cost of her own personal expenses to care of, how would she afford those gifts? Marcia was determined to save up enough to put smiles on her grandchildren's faces. And of course, she was going to do it with Swagbucks.
"I discovered Swagbucks through the blog known as "The Non-Consumer Advocate". After losing my husband to a horrible accident in 2015, finances have been really tough for me. When I discovered Swagbucks as an interesting and fun way to earn points I can turn into Amazon gift cards, I knew immediately that I would use the gift cards to purchase birthday and Christmas gifts for my grandchildren."
Here is Marcia at her dad's ranch in Florida. What an adorable baby goat!
We at Swagbucks love that you are earning so you can continue to give back to your family. We know that a loss that great is never easy but it sure has not changed your heart of gold. Here is your 1,000 SB as promised and we wish you best of luck!
What is your rewarding moment?
Send your rewarding moment to firstname.lastname@example.com and include your
1. Name,
2. Swag Name,
3. Where you're from: city/state
4. How you first came to Swagbucks
5. Your favourite ways of earning SB
6. A photo.
Members who get their rewarding moment published receive 1,000 SB. Plus your referral link will be used whenever Swagbucks is mentioned in the post!
In addition, your story might also be featured on our Instagram account @swagbucksofficial or other social channels including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest!
If you would like to nominate another member to be featured on Rewarding Moments, please create a video and either post it on Twitter (make sure to include @swagbucks and #SBgoodpeople in your message), post it on our Facebook wall or send a link (or it) via email to email@example.com. Send us an email to let us know no matter what. If we choose that story, the person you nominate will get 1,000 SB and you will get 500 SB
If we didn't tell your rewarding moment this week, it doesn't mean we won't tell it in the future. There are so many great rewarding moments to share. We look forward to hearing yours.
-Team Swagbucks


text:
Overview (Final Score: B)
The 2017 Hyundai Elantra has been completely redesigned for this model year. This next-generation vehicle is not as thick with "wow factor" as was its predecessor, but has become a more contemporary, even grown-up compact sedan in its evolution. A smart engine powers the new Elantra and a little bit of added size – roughly an inch in length and width – give it more space inside. The very obvious exterior design changes are carried inside the car as well, which boasts a more upscale look and feel. The rear seats see more space for passengers and the instrument and controls layouts are much-improved as well. In all, this four-door compact sedan is a far better offering to the market when compared to its predecessor, but it's only marginally competitive in terms of its driving experience overall.
What We Loved About the 2017 Hyundai Elantra
- Excellent interior experience with a much better feel despite the low price point.
- Solid fuel economy returns that don't require finagling to make them happen.
- Good everyday use dynamics and ergonomics.
What We Didn't Love About the 2017 Hyundai Elantra
- Exterior design is a bit boring and run of the mill.
- No pep to its step, though it's not a slouch either.
- Trunk is a bit smaller now.
For the full review, visit 2017 Hyundai Elantra
Search used cars for sale and find the best deals near you at iSeeCars.com.
To get a FREE iSeeCars VIN Report for a car, click here.