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Dr. Grace Walker, physical and occupational therapist and nutritionist, wants you to be aware of the dangers of untreated TMJ syndrome. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the area that connects the jaw to the rest of the skull. If this joint becomes irritated or inflamed the pain can become unbearable. Due to the location of the joint, once inflammation begins the pain can spread to the mouth, teeth, ears, neck and shoulders.
TMJ disorder is easily aggravated by many daily tasks such as eating, talking and yawning. As a result, anyone who suffers from TMJ syndrome should obtain treatment from an experienced TMJ professional right away.
TMJ disorder is painfully and irritating. If it is not resolved quickly, additional dental issues may arise. Many people who suffer from TMJ disorder show signs of premature wear from grinding or clenching their teeth. This can occur without knowledge or during sleep.
Teeth grinding and clenching can lead to fractured teeth and worn down enamel. Many people who grind tend to favor one side of their jaw over the other which can cause swelling on one side of the face, which can cause unsymmetrical muscle growth over a long period of time. This can give the patient's jawline an uneven appearance.
While tooth grinding probably does seem like a tangible effect of TMJ disorder, did you know that TMJ disorder can also lead to tinnitus (ringing in the ears) or even permanently compromised hearing? Since the temporomandibular joint is directly under the ears, some TMJ sufferers complain of pain in their ears. Inner ear problems can lead to problems with balance and recurring dizziness (vertigo).
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If you suffer from TMJ syndrome or Jaw Pain, call Walker Physical Therapy and Pain Center at (714) 997-5518 to set up and evaluation and begin treatment with our expert physical therapists!
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Sunday, August 20th, 2017
Long Beach, CA 90814
Melting Pot has been asked to play over at Alex's Bar in Long Beach, CA. They are going to rock out for this one! Make sure to come early, Melting Pot goes on at 4 pm.
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
San Pedro, CA 90731
Saturday, January 10th, 2015
Long Beach, CA 90801
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Long Beach, CA 90804
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
San Pedro, CA 90732
(310) 832-9364
Melting Pot got asked to play this rad skate festival. MP will be performing at 2 pm. This will be the second year this event will be going on. Tons of fun for you and the family. Hope to see you there and check below for more details:
The Second annual San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate is set to be yet another epic Southern California community skate event! Come join us on Saturday June 14, 2014 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in San Pedro, CA at the Gaffey St Lookout Point on Gaffey & 36th St.
The San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate is the first-ever sanctioned skateboarding festival in the greater Los Angeles area—encompassing a broad range of skateboarding disciplines including: downhill, street, and park. The San Pedro Shred is a community event featuring local food, local art, local music, and local skateboarding.
The first San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate was held back on March 30, 2013 with well over a thousand in attendance and with a strong focus on skating safe, skating everything, and simply enjoying the warm hospitality and rich beauty that the San Pedro community has to offer.
Last year's event was a great success, and this year's second annual San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate is set to be even more of a Shredtastical good time!
This years San Pedro Shred will be held on June 14th, 2014 at the Gaffey Street Lookout Point and brought to you by The San Pedro Skatepark Association, Wheelbase Magazine, Resource Distribution, Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino and all the rad brands listed above. Come and join the Shred Festivities!
To register for the event, download the waiver; and to stay updated with event news and event scheduling, head on over to:
Friday, May 9th, 2014
San Pedro, CA 90731
(310) 833-1589
The D*Maggs (8:10-8:50)
The Dereks (9:00-9:20)...
(Dan, Ed and Pete)
the premier performance of
4everkidz (9:30-9:50)
(Jay, Chris, Pete and Mel)
Melting Pot (10:00-10:50 and 11:30-midnight)
Universal Family/Naked Kill (11:00-11:20)
(Jay, Pete, Ed and Jerry)
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
San Pedro, CA 90731
(310) 831-5663
Who wants to wait to put on your costume and get crazy? Well you don't have to! Melting Pot is throwing a costume party on the Saturday before Halloween and you can get in free with a costume. Along with Melting Pot, we have the great band Aurico, which features our current bass player Andy G and our former drummer Nate "the Skin Technician" Jones. How can this get even better? King Steady Beat will be Djing on the one and twos. Bam! Now time to get ready!
Friday, September 13th, 2013
North Long Beach, California 90804
United States
(562) 498-2461
Melting Pot set starts at 10:45, Aurico, featuring former Melting Pot drummer, Nate, and current MP Bassist, Andy, plays after MP. Community Womb gets the show started around 9:00-9:30. $10 at the door or $5 with flyer so hit us up if you need one. See you there!
Friday, May 24th, 2013
San Pedro, CA 90731
Marty's bachelor party!!! Bands, Barbeque, and DJ. So far the bands on the bill are Melting Pot, Hardball, The Sci-Fi Zeros and several others!!!
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
San Pedro, CA 90731
(310) 831-5663
It's that time of year again. Melting Pot playing in San Pedro for a smoking good time! This year we got a special band to help out with the festivities, Sukha Drones. So if your in the area or plan to be, this is gonna be fun!
Saturday, September 8th, 2012
Long Beach, CA 90805
Melting Pot will be playing one set, so get there on time! Hope to see your smile there!

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Four of our Associates are Joining the New Brunswick Partnership
It is with great pleasure we announce four of our associates are joining the New Brunswick Partnership of Cox & Palmer.
Our lawyers are involved with the community, attend educational seminars, sit on boards and continually develop their skills personally and as lawyers so they may build a strong relationship between Cox & Palmer and our clients. Our partners are mentors for the associates and students at law so we couldn't be happier to expand the partnership with these great people.
The Fredericton office is where you can find Trisha Gallant, if she isn't out presenting on administrative and labour & employment issues. Trisha also writes and co-authors numerous papers and newsletters for the labour and employment group. She graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 2004 and passed the New Brunswick Bar in 2005. Along with labour & employment Trisha also practices in the areas of administrative and family law.
Paul J. White is no stranger to hard work and dedication – before he decided to go to law school he competed as a professional triathlete for 13 years. Paul works from our Fredericton office and practices in the areas of corporate and commercial and real estate. He is a Board Member and Treasurer for York Sunbury Law Society and on the Board of Directors for the Fredericton Playhouse Inc.
In our Moncton office we welcome Isabelle C. Moreau to the partnership. Isabelle has a strong practice in the corporate and commercial field and is fluent in both New Brunswick official languages. She has helped recruit some of our students from the Université de Moncton as she works with our recruitment committee team.
Michael A. Gillis was born and raised in Saint John and started his career at Cox & Palmer in 2002 as an articling student. Mike practices primarily in the areas of commercial, real estate and banking law. In his spare time Mike enjoys white water kayaking, mountain biking and playing hockey. Mike resides in Saint John with his wife Deborah and son Matthew.
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Interpreter Tips | Monday, October 20, 2014
This article is specifically for Interpreters in Training.
Interpreter Training Programs are both challenging and rewarding. It is really up to the student to make the most of the Interpreter Training Program (ITP). The more passionate and hard working you are, the more rewarding the experience will be.
Think for a moment about your definition of success. What does a successful person do? What does a successful person think? What does a successful person believe? How will you ensure that your time in your Interpreter Training Program is successful? What changes will you need to make?
Here are 5 tips for being successful in an Interpreter Training Program:
1. Set Yourself Up For Success
- Plan your schedule and follow it.
- Set goals and exceed them.
- Control the things you can control.
- Have a good support system.
2. Work Hard
- Always act professionally.
- See challenges to improve.
- Don't procrastinate.
- Stay focused.
3. Build Relationships
- Socialize!
- Get involved in your Sign Language Club.
- Build bridges.
4. Learn and Grow
- Ask questions.
- Accept feedback.
- Face your fears.
- Do positive self-talk.
- Learn from your mistakes.
5. Go Above and Beyond
- Seek as many ah-ha moments as possible.
- Jump at chances for "hands on" opportunities.
- Observe as many different interpreters as you can.
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Trawling the depths of forgotten fiction, films, and beyond, with yer pal, Joe Kenney
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Interview with David Alexander, Part 2
As promised, here's the second half of my interview with David Alexander. Hope you enjoy!
You also worked on the C.A.D.S. series, published by Zebra Books under the name John Sievert, correct? How did you become involved with that series, and which volumes did you write?
I wrote the last few of these. My interest at the time wasn't in writing the series but in finding a new publisher, as I'd moved on from Leisure, and wanted to contract with a house that would give me broader scope for new and advanced projects. C.A.D.S. was, first, last and always, a "foot in the door" job that, as the description implies, would hopefully lead to bigger and better things. Unfortunately I learned before long that I'd blundered. When a writer accepts a project like C.A.D.S. with only vague promises of "being taken along," and similar catchphrases, that writer will more often than not wind up being typecast as something lower than a Johnny pump before the ink has dried on the first advance check.
Curiously, though, I'm frequently asked by readers about whether I'm planning a C.A.D.S. sequel. I seem to have inherited the mantle of C.A.D.S. authorship purely by being the last man standing, as the first two chroniclers of Dean Sturgis and company seem to have vanished without a trace.
C.A.D.S. was, like Phoenix, a post-nuke action series, only the series was created by someone else (authors Ryder Stacy). Did you approach it differently than Phoenix?
As the foregoing should indicate I approached it in a manner that was in many if not most ways diametrically opposite to how I approached Phoenix. Also, in complete candor, I don't consider C.A.D.S. as part of the cannon of my work. It was work for hire, conceived by others. I was just basically mopping up.
There's a part in Z-Comm #1 where the hero assumes the covername "Coltray," which happens to be the title of a three-volume series you later published under your own name. What's the story behind that series?
Coltray was a specialist operative who worked solo but had ties to official law and intelligence agencies. Coltray was in some ways a one-man Z-Comm, although he generally assembled a team before going into action. The reason that the Coltray series had my byline was because I wasn't putting up with any more of the same house-name nonsense of the sort that had already given the world "Kyle May-ning."
I'm also curious about your work with Gold Eagle, for example the Nomad and Slam series. What was it like working with Gold Eagle? You mention on your site that they edited your manuscripts for Nomad (which you offer in the original forms on your site); what all did GE change, and why?
The Nomad ebooks I've made available on my website for free download are based on the original manuscripts of the four-book Nomad Miniseries that I proofread and lightly edited a few years ago. I plan to revise them in the near future to make downloads more compatible with tablet readers and whatever else is currently the latest and greatest. Working with Gold Eagle is the subject of mixed emotions, but there were some positives.
At any rate, the edits referred to seemed to reflect an attempt not only to Bowdlerize anything even remotely suggestive, but also to grind down any and all the edginess of the writing, wherever edginess was to be found. Beyond this there were totally off-the-wall and gratuitous emendations that seemed to have no rhyme or reason for having been made.
I countered each hatchet job on my Nomad manuscripts with faxed lists of stuff I demanded be changed back to the way I'd originally written it. Comparing those lists against the published books, I found that although some of my demands had been met, others had not.
Were there any other series you worked on, under your own name or a pseudonym?
Possibly. Fortunately or otherwise, I seem to have forgotten them like Nixon forgot the Plumbers in the basement.
In your Writing The Action Scene article, you mention performing an overview of the action-series genre before you began writing Phoenix. You further mention, correctly, that none of them were like Phoenix; which series did you read, and were there any you enjoyed? Did you maintain any interest in what was going on in the world of action-series fiction while you were working on Phoenix and your other series titles?
I enjoyed a number of things in the course of planning and writing the Phoenix series, but not all of them were action series. Other sources of inspiration were fiction and nonfiction books of many types, as well as movies. I liked Rolling Thunder, the '70s movie that they're still blogging about in which actor William Devane returns home as a Vietnam vet and discovers, somewhat like Ulysses at the conclusion of the Iliad and Odyssey cycles, that home base ain't what it used to be, and needs some serious cleaning up.
The great line in that movie is, "You learn to love the rope." You can Google that and it still gets a zillion hits, just like for, "Say hello to my little friend." In many ways I thought of Phoenix as a character who also had to learn to "love the rope" in order to survive in post-nuclear hell.
I also found inspiration in Mad Max, which had some memorable lines among its riffs and hooks, such as, "He goes to water over a dummy," and, "Perhaps it was a result of anxiety," which I still quote at times.
I know you have moved on from action-series fiction. What projects are you currently working on? How has your experience been in the world of eBooks?
In fiction I'm currently working on several things, including a project I'd put away some time ago and had believed, until I sought to read it again, that it was only a short proposal. It was, in fact, a fair-sized manuscript. I'd always liked its concept and still do. It seemed to cry out to be completed. As to ebooks, I think they're obviously the future of publishing, but I also think that printed books will continue to play a significant role in it.
Which of your own books are your favorites, and why?
I've favored Machine Breakers. I wrote it as literary fiction that I hoped would also appeal to a more commercially oriented audience. Despite or because of the different approaches to narrative I took, including an invented language and casting aside conventional sentence structure, as well as using some techniques I devised such as one I call "chaosing," (which, as the term implies, is the deliberate introduction of chaos or noise into the prose narrative slipstream), the book has been remarkably accessible to a wide range of readers, despite my belief that it would appeal only to small number of them.
I'll go so far as to say that I've always considered it an alternative Phoenix story insofar as it's set in a dystopian universe, as well as in the immediate aftermath of a series of apocalyptic events, and the characters that strut and fret their hour upon the stage have also been warped and disfigured by war and technological innovation run amok.
Ultimately I try not to adore any of my efforts either from the past or those on which I'm currently working. I'm too oriented toward scrutinizing them for faults and defects. As Swift observes by way of Gulliver in the land of the Brobdingnagians, even the most seemingly flawless human beings show massive imperfections when an observer the size of a fly crawls across their bodies. That's also something like my point of reference to my own writing, and I think (at least hope) it helps me overcome my limitations and develop beyond them.
Still and all, I have to admit to holding Phoenix in a special place, though I probably couldn't say exactly why this happens to be so.
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I have an unabashed love for burgers, which I enjoy pairing with yummy reds from time to time. On a recent weekday evening, I ordered takeout and enjoyed a juicy patty with cheese and grilled onions (fries dipped in white truffle oil at home) from a popular local New York-style deli here in the desert.
In between bites of yummy beef, I sipped on a glass of Reserve de L'Aube, a hefty and smoky French Syrah-Merlot blend. The wine was young, but had enough earth funk to cut through the iron-rich beef.
For a sweet treat to complete this carniverous feast, I nibbled on a piece of Wild Ophelia brand Beef Jerky milk chocolate bar. The hint of campfire in the cocoa was just enough to bring out a bit of the wine's dark fruit and tobacco...a perfect ending to a decadent dining experience.
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As the old saying goes you can't appreciate the sun without a little rain. Or some may put it you cant enjoy love without a little pain.
The same can be said about cold weather. You can't enjoy the heat without feeling the cold. You cant enjoy the warmth without first experiencing the chill.
Lately, it has been down right frigid in Florida. Low temperatures have been getting down in the twenty's at night and wind chills into the single digits. We even had a few snow flurries in the area this year! Not only that but it has been cold for an extended time frame. Usually it is here today and gone tomorrow, this time the cold weather has been here and has stayed here much longer then usual. I began to think about all of those people who live in the areas that normally expect it to be freezing like my wonderful family in Minneapolis. They have an expectation that it's going to be cold and it's going to be that way for a long time! Well, at least until spring comes around again.
In Florida there is a stark contrast. It is true we get cold weather once in a while but maybe just for a night or two and come time for the weekend it will be 70 again and all is right with the world. We begin frolicking on the beaches without a care in the world forgetting our family in Minneapolis or if we do remember them we send them a picture from our phone to rub it in their face.
As I began to think more about it, I was struck with the thought that sometimes in life we are all like Floridians. All we know is heat and warmth and sunshine. Occasionally it gets a little chilly but we know right around the corner sunshine will greet us and all will be well on our sandy beaches. As Floridians, this is all we know (especially if you are a native like me). People who are not native to Florida tend to think I am crazy for wanting snow because they know the reality of living with it day in and day out.
The problem with Floridians is that we begin to forget how to feel. We grow complacent; we grow ignorant of what is really out there. Like a child who is protected most of there life without and any pain or without any punishment. Once this child experiences pain it's a shock to there system. What is the nickname that children typically have who do not experience pain or punishment? Yep, Spoiled. As a Floridian we are spoiled with this glorious weather year round, while our lovely neighbors to the north become acclimated to the cold and firmly expect it to take hold until the thaw of spring and the warmth of summer arrive. The benefit to our friends and family in the north is that they celebrate like no other when the heat finally arrives. They know the blessing of feeling the warmth upon there skin that comes from the noonday sun in June. They anticipate it all winter long as they endure the prison of winter. In fact, many travel to Florida because they just can't wait!
Meanwhile, in Florida, we are here living our lives day by day not really noticing anything, We feel warmth daily, sure once in a crazy while it gets cold but like I said before, the warmth returns just like a boomerang. The problem I have found is that we are spoiled and we don't really know what it means to feel, to long, to anticipate the heat of summer.
The heat I refer to here can mean the weather environment we live in but as I begin to probe my thoughts more I couldn't help but think about how the heat many times could be looked upon as love. The cold then could be looked upon as pain. Just think about the characteristics of each. Love is usually referred to as warm and embracing. While pain's characteristics are more synonymous with the cold being described with words like bitter, distant, and harsh.
Returning to my early statements, it is difficult to truly experience or maybe a better word is to feel love without experiencing pain or struggle. If you have no experience of pain or struggle do we really know how to experience and appreciate what love is?
This and maybe this is the reason why there are hardships and difficulties in the world, maybe this is why God allows us to go through times of sorrow or times of grief. Maybe this is why there is winter, so that we may truly experience the anticipation of summer.
Throughout our lives we all desire something that is real and something true. A love that is faithful, genuine, and unconditional. We all long for this to the very core of our being. We search high and low trying to find this love.
Recently, I was out hiking with a few friends and their little boy. The little boy fell down onto some snow and his hands were covered with wet, cold snow. Immediately he began to cry and fuss over the pain and cold he was experiencing. He didn't know how to solve the problem, all he knew was he was cold and desperately wanted warmth to return to his little hands. His father came over, lovingly kneeled down whipped of the snow and took out the little boys gloves. He blew a few warm breaths into the gloves and placed them on his hands. After this we moved on and that the little boy was content and he may never remember that moment later in his life.
I can't help but think that this provides us just a glimpse of what our Heavenly Father has done for us. We all have blown it, made mistakes and have not lived up to God's standards. We all look for redemption somehow or by someway, or with someone only to be left cold again. Just as the earthly father provided a way for his little child to feel warmth again through his love, so to our Heavenly father has given us a Savior through His love.
Unfortunately though, sometimes we are like that little boy who received this love yet walks away and forgets the love of his father. Sometimes we forget what our lives were like before grace, a life of sorrow, guilt, and an empty heart. With grace we have become healed, forgiven, and filled with joy. There are many out there today who have been stuck in the cold, seeking the unconditional love of a Father. Share some warmth with them today. Share with them the Gospel, which brings new life from the bleakness of winter.
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:9-10


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I like to remove the stylus first then remove the shell.
Once the shell is removed and you are ready to pot the body remove the white plastic ring on the rear pin, this allows the body to sit in place correctly and you can re-install it after the epoxy sets. Click on picture to enlarge, you can see the lead shot sitting in the epoxy in the front of the body that is propped up in the back. This level of epoxy is how much epoxy I use.
Set body on top of lead to give proper angle.
Tape the back closed, prop the back up (a toothpick will work), install lead, drip the epoxy in until the lead is just covered, install cartridge so the front sits on top of lead, let dry.
Be sure to do any clean up before the epoxy dries completely hard, I use rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip if I need to clean any epoxy. When the epoxy is fully set remove the tape and install the white band back on the pin.
Finished SC35C's with the Paradox Pulse Universal body
There are other cartridges you can pot with the Paradox shells
A few of the finished products. This is a great place to start and then change the stylus. My favorite affordable stylus is the Shure N97XE. I have tried a few of the $20- to $30- styluses from Ebay and they are better than the stocker which is not very high quality but you can scratch with it!
Any type of epoxy will work, I like it runny and slow setting so I have lots of time to work, but I usually do several at a time, so its your choice. Have fun with these projects and get creative!
Mounting area is .398" wide x .725" long x 0.11" deep. You can also attach to the outside dimensions (.725" wide x .8" long x .232" high) but would cover the screw holes making you adjust the screw height so as to not poke through to the cartridge.
Body weight 4.2 grams for body, add lead 4.5 grams, add stainless screws 5.5 grams total added weight less plastic body 0.8 grams, epoxy should be negligible.
Cartridge (SC35C) angle in stock body 13 degree, with lead support in Pulse body 12 degrees.
These cartridges were done by a great customer of mine. He put his own spin on them, notice the other lead he uses, and they are terrific. If you want to try something different go ahead and then send me some pictures, I would love to see your process. Click on pictures to make larger.
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Running Named a 2017 Iowa Arts Council Fellow
Lee Emma Running, associate professor of art, joins a writer, a musician, a filmmaker, and another visual artist as a 2017 Iowa Arts Council Fellow.
Each will receive access to professional development opportunities, promotional support to enhance their careers, and a $10,000 grant to support new works. They will also participate in Creative Capital's Core Weekend Professional Development Program, one of the nation's premier artist professional development programs, and will participate in "Meet the Artist" public programs at various arts and cultural venues throughout the state.
Lee Emma Running
Running has done artist residencies at Jentel in Wyoming, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, and the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont.
Her work has been exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, the Charlotte Street Foundation, the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 2005. She is represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries.
The Iowa Arts Council Fellowship
A panel of of Iowa arts professionals selected as this year's fellows, who were honored during a ceremony with Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg at the State Capitol.
Besides Running, the other 2017 fellows are:
- River Breitbach of Rickardsville,
- Jennifer Drinkwater of Ames,
- Jack Meggers of Des Moines, and
- Rachel Yoder of Iowa City.
"Iowa has a proven track record of developing talented artists. In return, these individuals use their abilities to strengthen our state's cultural vitality," Gov. Reynolds said. "I'm proud to recognize these five artists as our newest Iowa Arts Fellows and am eager to hear about the incredible experiences they'll have over the next year."
"More Iowans recognize the important role the arts play in improving quality of life across our state," Lt. Gov. Gregg said. "Iowa has nearly 6,000 art-related businesses that employ nearly 23,000 people. The governor and I are proud to support artists who choose to build their careers in Iowa and commit to contribute to our communities."
The Iowa Arts Council created the multi-discipline Artist Fellowship Program in 2014 to support professional, active Iowa artists who are at a pivotal point in their careers and who demonstrate exceptional creativity and the capacity to contribute to the excellence and innovation of the arts in Iowa.
Learn more at Lee Emma Running's site or the Iowa Arts Council.


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For nine years we have successfully implemented the Beyers Naudé Schools Development Programmes (BNSDP) in partnership with the Free State Department of Education. The results show the exceptional impact this programme has on high school education in the province and has driven the expansion and growth of the model.
Schools in these areas come with the many challenges associated with poverty including a lack of resources, infrastructure and poor school management.
The BNSDP programme aims to address this by creating an enabling environment and sustainable school communities. This is achieved through a delivery programme that builds the capacity of the school management team, provides infrastructure upgrades and develops learners.
Over the next five years the BNSDP programme will introduce ECD programmes and invest in TVET colleges to develop essential artisan skills. We will also be working on a entrepreneurial learnership programme which will provide support to young entrepreneurs still in school.
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Why does Alameda Municipal Power offer a voluntary renewable energy program?
Alameda Green was launched in response to requests from Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) customers. The program offers customers the option to match up to 100 percent of their monthly electricity use with clean, renewable energy.
Do other utilities offer voluntary renewable energy programs?
Yes. Over 850 utilities offer a renewable energy option similar to Alameda Green.
What is Renewable Energy?
Renewable energy is energy from sources that replenish themselves without depleting the Earth's resources. Renewable resources are abundant and cause little, if any, environmental damage. Examples of renewable energy sources include:
- Wind
- Solar
- Landfill and agricultural waste (biomass)
- Heat of the earth (geothermal)
- Water (low-impact hydroelectric facilities)
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To learn more about renewable energy, visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
What types of renewable energy are supported by Alameda Green?
Alameda Green supports renewable energy from a variety of resources while prioritizing California-based renewable energy projects. Alameda Green's 2017 renewable energy mix is: 5% California solar, 30% California biogas, and 65% wind from western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, or WY). Alameda Green will provide customers with an annual Product Content Label that contains detailed information about the renewable energy mix sources.
If I choose Alameda Green, will I actually receive electricity from renewable energy generation sources?
Because of the way that power grids work, electricity from a specific facility or source generally does not flow directly to a specific customer's home. However, when you enroll in Alameda Green, we guarantee that renewable energy in the exact amount of your electricity use is generated and delivered to Alameda's electricity grid (Western Electricity Coordinating Council region).
The renewable energy you purchase cannot be used by utilities to meet any Renewable Energy Portfolio mandates. Your participation in Alameda Green therefore creates additional demand for renewable energy beyond that required by the government, encouraging further development of green power projects.
To learn more about how the electric grid works, visit the U.S. Energy Information Administration's website.
How do I enroll?
Alameda Green is a voluntary program available to all Alameda Municipal Power customers. Enrollment is simple, voluntary and you may cancel at any time.
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How much electricity does the average home in Alameda consume?
The average home in Alameda consumes approximately 330-400 kWh of electricity per month, or 3,960-4,800 kWh per year.* That is about a third less than half of the national average of 958 kWh per month*, illustrating that Alamedans are committed to saving vast amounts of energy. *Source: US Energy Information Administration
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How do I know if I am getting what I pay for?
Alameda Green is a Green-e Energy certified® program. Green-e Energy was established by the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions to provide information and an objective standard for consumers to compare renewable energy options and to verify that consumers get what they pay for.
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K+S Potash Canada Selects Veolia's HPD Evaporation and Crystallization Technology for New Potash Plant
PLAINFIELD, Ill., Dec. 20, 2012 – K+S Potash Canada, a subsidiary of the K+S Group, has awarded Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies a multi-hundred million dollar contract to supply the evaporation and crystallization equipment constituting the core process system for a greenfield potash project. The new evaporation plant is part of K+S Potash Canada's Legacy Project located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The plant is scheduled to begin production at the end of 2015.
Veolia's HPD technology provided the lowest operating costs for the plant. K+S Potash Canada also selected Veolia for their ability to execute large projects and their commitment to energy and water conservation. The plant will be the largest solution mining plant in North America and is designed to produce more than two million tonnes of potassium chloride by 2017.
Veolia will provide engineering and equipment supply for the evaporation and crystallization plant, which is the core of the production process. It is where the brine that is recovered from the solution mining process is evaporated, sodium and potassium chloride (potash) are crystallized and the potash is separated from the brine. The potash is then refined into a high quality end product.
The new plant will be the first potash plant built in Saskatchewan in 40 years.
The K+S Group is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and specialty fertilizers. In the salt business, measured by production capacity, the K+S Group is the world's leading producer, with sites in Europe as well as North and South America.
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, subsidiary of Veolia Water, is a leading design and build company and a specialized provider of technological solutions in water treatment. With 10,767 employees, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies recorded revenue of $3.3 billion in 2011. Visit our web site at www.veoliawaterst.com.
Veolia Water, the water division of Veolia Environnement, is the world leader in water and wastewater services. Specialized in outsourcing services for municipal authorities, as well as industrial and service companies, it is also one of the world's major designers of technological solutions and constructor of facilities needed in water and wastewater services. With 96,651 employees in 69 countries, Veolia Water provides water service to 103 million people and wastewater service to 73 million. Its 2011 revenue amounted to $16.3 billion. Visit web sites at www.veoliawaterna.com and www.veolianorthamerica.com.


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Hippo Birdy deeeeeear Nadie
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Hard to believe that my 'baby' is 29 today !
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
5 comments:
- Alice said...
Happy Birthday to Nadie. I'm sure you enjoyed having her there on the spot to celebrate her birthday, Susan.
Yes, the years roll by far too quickly. My 'baby' was 28 on Wednesday.
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- Tara said...
Happy Birthday Nadie! Hope there was cake of awesome :)
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- Lindi said...
Happy Happy Birthday, Nadie! :)
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- ozjane said...
Happy Birthday Nardie...one day after me.......
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- gayle said...
Happy Birthday to Nadie!
My 'baby' turned 22 last last year. How odd that my children are now older than I am... 8)
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THE woman arriving at Lime Street station was born in Manchester, brought up in Manchester, studied in Manchester and once worked for Manchester city council.
But Kerri Farnsworth, who lives in Didsbury but works in and for Merseyside, can claim to have vision - for she can see Liverpool is a resurgent force; a born again city which is going places.
Well, why else would she have applied for the top job as projects manager for Liverpool Vision, with responsibility for developing and implementing several key regeneration schemes in the city centre - including the exciting 10-year programme of investment and improvement at Lime Street station.
Kerri - a touch age-shy, although she will admit to be 30-something - joined Liverpool Vision nearly two years ago, and Lime Street Gateway (phase one of a three phase, 10-year plan) is one of her major projects.
And, it could be argued, she is a good example of the new, improved working relationship with our friends at the other end of the East Lancs.
"For many years, there was a bit of a siege mentality between the two cities," she says.
"But they are now working together and realise the economic importance of the region as a whole.
"The Commonweath Games, for example, was recognised as having regional benefits, while Manchester was right behind Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid - because the city realises there will be benefits for them, too."
And of her role in Liverpool, she says: "I think when you are living and working in different cities you do get a different perspective; maybe I can be a little more detached."
Liverpool and Manchester, of course, share a unique link in the history of railways: Lime Street station forms one end of the world's first true public railway - the Liverpool to Manchester railway, which was officially opened in 1830 (although the original terminus was at Crown Street).
And as the ECHO revealed on Saturday, the Lime Street Gateway project has won overwhelming backing following a public exhibition.
Liverpool Vision and English Partnerships, together with Network Rail and Liverpool council are working to deliver the project, which will include the creation of new public space at the front of the station and a new landmark building to replace the infamous Concorde Tower. The existing Concourse House shops will also be cleared.
It is envisaged that the Tower's replacement will have its lower floors open to the public, offering anything from restaurants and galleries to viewing areas across to St George's Hall and the cultural quarter. The majority of upper floors would provide residential accommodation.
Suggestions from the public regarding the detail of the project include a fountain or water feature with coloured lighting; a replica of Stephenson's Rocket; public art and maps or models of the city to help visitors find their way round.
Kerri says: "Lime Street clearly has enormous importance as a major Liverpool landmark and gateway to the city, and it also has a great emotional importance for the city and its people.
"It is clear to me, after being in this job for one year and nine months, that the people of Liverpool have a much greater attachment to Lime Street station than the people of Manchester have to their station.
"And it's now time for Lime Street to benefit from regeneration, as other city stations have in recent years - with the advantage Liverpool has over other places being that the station is a fantastic building, with one of the most fascinating designs in the UK."
Back with the regional oneupmanship Kerri and her colleagues in the regeneration field are keen to foster a friendship which should be of enormous benefit.
It's quite simple. As Kerri says: "I think a strong Liverpool is beneficial to a strong Manchester - and vice versa. They are both huge cities which have their own unique histories - and yet they are so close to each other. We are very lucky."


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Digital Advocate MARK WAID Buys Into Brick-and-Mortar Comic Book Store
Alter Ego, indeed.
Ever since Mark Waid became a digital publisher, launching the innovative digital comics outlet Thrillbent, he's often been called an "enemy" of print comic books and retailers.
But now, it's going to be a little bit harder to attack the comics creator for embracing digital, since he just became a storefront retailer himself.
"Yes, Mark Waid, enemy of print and hater of brick-and-mortar, has gone and invested in a comic store," Waid told Newsarama with a laugh.
The shop — Alter Ego Comics in Muncie, Ind. — was a pre-existing store, but it's now moving to a new location after an investment by Waid and life partner, Christy Blanch. An adjunct professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Blanch has been studying comics and teaching about them at the college level, including her recent high-profile "Gender in Comics" class.
The two are now equal business partners with Jason Pierce, the prior sole owner, who may be familiar to long-time Newsarama readers, since he did a series of articles for our website when he was first trying to open the shop about nine years ago.
It may seem like Waid is too busy to really spend time at the store, since he writes comics like Daredevil, Hulk and Green Hornet, as well as his Thrillbent comic Insufferable. But the creator/publisher posted on his blog that he's "logging inventory on Tuesdays and running the register on weekends and navigating the ordering process."
The store just recently moved into its new space in downtown Muncie, Ind., an area that has been going through a revitalization the last few years. The move not only expands the floor space, but thanks to Waid's addition of some of his own memorabilia, the store now sports a full-size Phantom Zone projector and a scale-model replica of the Batcave. The store, located at 111 E. Adams St., Muncie, Ind., will have its grand re-opening on September 21st, with signings by Waid and other creators, including Art Baltazar and Mike Norton.
So what motivated Waid to get involved in a brick-and-mortar store in Muncie, Ind.? What does a female shop owner offer to the mix? And why did Pierce join leagues with someone who publishes digital comics? Newsarama talked to the three owners to find out more about what they're hoping to accomplish with Alter Ego Comics.
Newsarama: What made you want to get into retail? Your plate isn't full enough?
Mark Waid: I don't have enough to do in my day!
No, I really feel that — and I've felt this way for awhile — talking about how digital and print ought to be able to co-exist, and how one can help the other and vice versa, is really still just theory on my part.
So I wanted to really get in there and roll up my sleeves and put my money where my mouth is. I really like what I would be able to learn from the print of it, and from the retail end of it, by actually getting into the deep end and doing it.
Nrama: Then why this existing comic shop in Muncie, Indiana?
Waid: I've been living mostly in Muncie for the last couple years now, and there's one really good store in town, and that's Alter Ego — Jason's store — and Jason was looking to expand and looking to move, and to energize the business and take it to the next level. And Christy and I have both known him for awhile. And so I offered to put in a little money – what I could put in — and Jason was incredibly generous with then turning around and making Christy and myself full partners in this venture.
Jason Pierce: And I'm incredibly charming, Vaneta.
Nrama: Don't we know it. But Jason, you and I have talked before about your business, and I know that Mark Waid was always one of your favorite writers — long before he lived in Muncie. What's it like to be going into business with someone of whom you've been a fan for years?
Pierce: It's surreal! It really is. We'll be, like, building a desk for the shop or just hanging out talking, and he'll leave to go write, and it will hit me…. oh my gosh!! He wrote Kingdom Come!!
Waid: And now he's running the register.
Nrama: Jason, you mentioned that you were hoping to energize the store. How does having Mark and Christy on board help?
Pierce: Having Mark gives Alter Ego a higher profile and puts a spotlight on the store. The name Alter Ego has more weight than it had before, with such a heavy hitter as partner. And Mark has a ton of great ideas about how to make the store one of the best around.
And then Christy is not only a professor who knows all about comics, but she ran her own business before, and she brings a different perspective. She's really smart about this stuff.
Waid: She looks at things through the eyes of, "how will our female customers respond to this? What can we do to draw in more women? What can we do to draw in more kids?"
Pierce: It's great to have three people in the business who know comics inside and out.
Christy Blanch: I think Jason always had a really good grasp on customers, and female customers in specific. But I think I also come at it from an academic perspective. I've been a fan of comics for a long time, but I'm now part of the academic world, so I can bring that aspect of it, to bring a whole new audience there. Besides females and kids, we can also bring in a different group of people on the academic side. For example, showing educators how to use comics in the classroom, and that they represent more than just entertainment. From our media, we get ideas of the world and how we view things. So bringing that into it is important also.
Nrama: You guys also moved locations, taking the shop from a strip mall outside the city into a retail spot right downtown. What can you tell me about where the store is going to be re-located?
Blanch: It's an amazing new store. We have a lot more room. It's very friendly; it's very bright.
Waid: It's nicely located. We'll get a lot more walk-by traffic than we did before, because now we're in the heart of downtown Muncie. We're right around the corner from a toy and model shop, and we're both excited about having symbiotic businesses nearby. So we'll send people to each others' stores. It's much better for them than having another insurance business next door.
Blanch: Also, this is a college town; we have Ball State right there. The new store allows students to come on the bus line from Ball State. There's a stop right near our store. It's easy for students to come here.
Pierce: There wasn't a bus stop even close to the old store.
Blanch: The downtown location and the bigger space also allow us to have a lot of community events. We're going to have an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. party. We're going to have Walking Dead parties. We're going to have Monday night MAGIC parties. We're going to have a Ladies Night. There's a new documentary on comics coming out on PBS, and we're going to invite teachers and librarians to watch that at the store with us, and then we're going to talk about lesson plans and how you can incorporate comics into your curriculum for any age.
Pierce: We have a room that has a seven-foot screen, and we have a high-def projector and surround sound in that room. So it's like a movie theater in there. It's awesome.
Nrama: There's also a move toward revitalization in downtown Muncie, which a lot of small- to mid-size cities are trying out. Was that part of your decision to move downtown?
Pierce: Yes. They've been revitalizing downtown for the past six years or so. They've been trying to cultivate downtown as a community gathering area. They do a thing called First Thursdays, where the first Thursday of every month, people come down and all the businesses showcase what they do and give out freebies or samples. That has done a phenomenal job cultivating the downtown area.
Probably seven years ago, they asked me to move down there, and I laughed at them then, because there was nothing but a couple bars. But now they've done such a good job developing it, when the opportunity arose this time, I was like, heck yes!
Blanch: They're building a hotel; there's a convention center; there are tons of restaurants; there are little shops that have started coming in. So they're doing a lot with it.
Nrama: Mark, I know you believe in digital comics, but I hear something in your description of this store that very much identifies this store as more than just a place to buy comic books. Comic shops can't rely on the "collecting" mentality of the '90s anymore, and the way Christy described the shop, you're trying to give something to customers that digital can't. You're making it a destination, a place for community.
Waid: Right, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Not just by becoming a co-owner, but in terms of making it a destination for gathering, I just recently drove 2,500 miles across country in a rental van so I could bring out my memorabilia, so I could bring out a lot of my memorabilia, so I could bring out a lot of the one-of-a-kind stuff that's basically on shelves in my house in California — the masks and the props and the batarangs and the Phantom Zone projectors and all that stuff.
Pierce: And a Kingdom Come original page!
Waid: Yeah, Kingdom Come original art.
And we have this stuff around the store, so that people can come and see it. You know, even if you're not going to buy a comic, it's probably worth sticking your head in just to see the cool stuff that nobody else has.
Nrama: So Mark, just to clarify, you don't hate print?
Waid: The first thing, when I told the guys at Thrillbent that I was doing this — that I was buying into a brick-and-mortar store — their very first response was, "Why? Are you going to burn it down?" [Laughs.]
I have always loved comic stores. Like every other kid who ever grew up reading comics, I dreamed about having a comic book store. It hasn't really been on my radar for a long time now, but when the opportunity came up, I jumped at it.
I don't know any better way to, once and for all, extinguish this rumor that I'm out to destroy comic stores with digital by taking a stake in print.
And also, I just like the idea that what I learn from this end of the business, I can move to the digital end. And what I learn from digital, I can move to print. And what I can learn as a freelancer — I don't think there's anybody else who's an active freelancer at one of the majors who's also a publisher who's also a storeowner. I kind of like this idea that, when I finally get to the end of my life, I will have done every single thing in comics you can do.
On September 21st, Alter Ego will have its grand re-opening celebration with cosplayers, special events and signings by creators like Art Baltazar, Mike Norton and (of course) Mark Waid — plus an appearance by the 1966 Batmobile. Alter Ego Comics is in its new location at 111 E. Adams St., Muncie, Ind.


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It's hardly a secret in basketball circles that Hall of Fame coach and executive Arnold "Red" Auerbach was a decidedly un-gracious winner – and an even worse loser. He was free with his annoyed bewilderment, for example, when a Wilt-led 76er squad was chosen as the best team of the NBA's formative decades.
The autocratic Auerbach's most vitriolic venom was reserved for an owner who dared to conduct basketball business unilaterally. To Red's way of thinking, when it came to basketball matters the owner worked for him.
The wheeling-and-dealing that had "star-crossed" the two in the first place – certainly you've heard of the infamous franchise swap back in '78 between Brown and the Hollywood mogul who then owned the C's – had included some player movement not to Red's liking, particularly the loss of Kermit Washington.
However, as tends to happen with most things in life, there were unanticipated consequences to this unprecedented scheme – one that had been conjured up and overseen by an ambitious young NBA attorney named Stern. Not only was Big Mac used to fleece Dick Vitale of the assets utilized to acquire Kevin McHale and Robert Parish.
The "Tiny" Dynamo who remains to this day the only NBA player ever to lead the league in scoring and assists during the same season (1972-73) no longer existed in 1979. But even though he lacked the speed and quickness to beat ANY player to ANY spot at ANY time, he had plenty enough handle, touch and – most importantly – court vision to move the defense and create advantages for his team.
Nate and Larry were "two peas in a pod" in that regard – DJ was cut from the same cloth.
|My first glimpse -- he had me at "Hello"
Ironically, the final game of that phenomenal flurry, a 117-112 loss at Golden State on the first Friday of March, officially doused the Kings' faint playoff hopes.
Tiny trudged on through the next seven games averaging 35 and not-quite-12. Finally, in the Kings' final home game, Coach Bob Cousy pulled his Mighty Mite early, just after he'd eclipsed Guy Rodgers's old league standard for assists. (Worthy of note is that this was a fourth game in as many nights, KC's fourth such ordeal of 1972-73.)
Along with leading the league in scoring (34.0) and assists (11.4), Archibald topped the charts in Total Minutes (3681) and per-game minutes (46.0). In a 17-team league of "Tuff Guys," only a dozen managed to play 40 minutes a night, including 31-year-old Nate Thurmond (43.3), 36-year-old Wilt Chamberlain (43.2) and 32-year-old John Havlicek (42.1).
The Cooz sat his meal ticket for the season ender in Detroit, but it was too little, too late. Nate skated in but 35 games in '73-74, and was shelved with an Achilles issue from early January of 1977 until his Boston debut in October of '78.
Tiny was hardly the only acclaimed backcourt man with a lofty and lengthy resume to don Celtic Green during the tough times of the late '70's – the aforementioned Knight, Ernie D, Pistol Pete, Dave Bing all passed through North Station.
But it as Archibald who was positioned and prepared (physically, mentally, in every way) to mentor the adjustment to the NBA game of the extraordinary skill and vision of an all-time great, a job he performed expertly and for which he's never received adequate recognition.
Likewise, Cedric Maxwell's quirky, herky-jerky post-up game was an ideal model from which the no-less-quirky McHale could craft his villainous Torture Chamber.
It's an Auerbachian principle the savvy Archibald recognized and bought into instinctively – a player is expected to groom his own replacement.
Damn, that sounds downright Belichickian, doesn't it?
Unanticipated consequences indeed.
MVP Logic
It was 55 years ago that the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar Robertson averaged 30.8 points, 11.4 assists and 12.5 rebounds per game. That was the same season that Philadelpha Warrior phenom Wilt Chamberlain notched 50.4 points (including 100 one infamous evening in Hershey) and led the league in rebounding (25.7).
Can you recall which of them was chosen Most Valuable Player that season? Neither one.
The MVP was a Boston Big Man.
During Tiny's iconic and still unprecedented season, he was not recognized as the NBA's most outstanding performer.
The MVP was a Boston Big Man.
This season, Oklahoma City whirlwind Russell Westbrook matched the Big O's heretofore unequaled accomplishment … and the Rockets' James Harden's 4538 points produced running the D'Antoni Express missed by just one point Archibald's long-standing record.
So who's the 2016-17 MVP?
Syllogistic logic suggests a Boston Big Man.
Summer Reading
A couple of years ago, Game 1 of the NBA Finals featured a not-too-little something that hadn't been witnessed in nearly four decades – the starting centers were two – diseased? – white dudes (Mosgov & Bogut). The last pale pair to so oppose were named Alvan Adams and the guy who'd beaten out Mr. Archibald for MVP three seasons prior – neither of whom was afflicted with that proverbial ailment.
Here's an old Sports Illustrated piece featuring the Boston Big Man. The opening paragraph seems prescient.
Don't overlook Big Red's thoughts on the game while shaking your head at his eccentricities.
Here's a sample:
"He adds a different dimension to Boston's game," says Chicago's Norm Van Lier. "He has great defensive range on a horizontal rather than on a vertical plane. He'll meet me at the top of the key, spread those long arms and make it almost impossible to pass off without him getting a finger on the ball."
Abacus Revelation for the Road
At this point in the NBA calendar, a news flash will often report that such-and-such a guy "has exercised his player option for the up-coming season."
Now unless those words are merely some sort of "teaser" designed to maintain interest through a string of advertisements, what information is being communicated to us? The words seem to suggest simply that a decision has been reached – but what is that decision. Is he stayin' or goin'?
Serious question: in today's sports lingo, does the mere "exercise" imply either that he is staying in place or testing the waters?
Come on back by my little "classroom" here in about a week when I'll try to convince you that the beloved old ABA was, in fact, an unconscionable atrocity.
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Reported: 1/22/2002 10:08:52 AM 10:08
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Wilson, OK
Shape: Cigar
Duration:10 min
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Metallic Cigar shaped Object with indentation on top in middle seen north of my position at high altitude heading northwest a slow speed. After watching for 5 min changed direction to north sun reflected from object traveled out of sight after 5 more min. Estimate was at 10,000 ft going about 200 mph size about 300 ft long 30 ft high. Sky was clear about 1 hour before sunset.


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Monday, April 6, 2009
Ever wonder about this? In researching COPPA, I noticed the following definition of "Internet"
collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprise the interconnected world-wide network of networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire, radio, or other methods of transmission.
My quick and by no means exhaustive research (looked for the term "Internet means" in the CFR and U.S. Code) suggests that this is one of two definitions used, with slight variations, in Federal law (in less than a dozen places total).
The earliest reference I can find to this definition is from the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 (the sales tax moratorium), which differed only slightly: "comprise" instead of "constitute" and omitting the "or other methods of transmission" part. This definition appears again in the child pornography rules issued in 2005 (28 CFR § 75.1).
The other definition I see is appears in the bankruptcy code (15 USCS § 163) and in the 2005 Internet gambling ban (31 CFR § 132.2 and 12 CFR § 233.2): "the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks."
So which definition is better? Do both suck? Should we care? "Discuss amongst yourselves!"
But no kvetching about the use of the word "myriad." Someone already beat you to the punch--and got smacked down:
[A] commenter objected to the proposed rule's use of the phrase "myriad of" in the definition of the term Internet in § 75.1(f). The Department declines to adopt this comment. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed., 2003), "Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective * * *. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 821 (11th ed., 2003).
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Scent Descriptions M-Z
Mango Sorbet - Blend of ripe mango, juicy lemons, and fabulous, red raspberries.
Margarita (frozen) - Fresh Lime with hints of Lemon Rinds, Vanilla Rum & Sea Salt.
Marshmallow - Gooey Sweet Marshmallow Cream (House Blend).
Mexican Fried Ice Cream - Rich buttery whipped cream that tops this yummy accord of vanilla bean. Hints of toasted nut and grated cinnamon tease the senses as a base of melted marshmallow carries the fragrance to a sweet finish.
Mulled Cider - This fragrance has strong base notes of ripened apples and oakmoss, made spectacular with a complex blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, orange zests, lemon peel, and a touch of tart lychee berries and coumarin.
Ocean Breeze - Salty Beach Breeze with sweet Floral.
Old Town Bake Shop - Buttery Baked Goods + Vanilla Sugar Glaze.
Orange Blossom - Juicy Mandarin Oranges, Lilies, Fresh Greenery and a touch of amber.
Orange Dreamsicle - Orange Citrus Swirled with Creamy Vanilla.
Orange Sherbet - A wonderful sweet frozen delight! You will love, love, love this oil! Very, very strong!
Palo Santo - Sage + Vanilla + Mint +Citrus + Cedar.
Peppermint Fluff - A fabulous blend of fresh essential oil of peppermint and huckleberries, hints of violet and white florals, with creamy base notes of vanilla marshmallow.
Peppermint Swizzle Sticks - Cool crisp peppermint notes entwined with just a touch of sweet vanilla undertones.
Pina Colada - A tropical combination of sweet pineapple and coconut. Pineapple Slices - A fresh picked sweet Pineapple aroma. Great alone or as a mixer to make your own unique scent.
Pink Sugar Type - A fruity blend of cotton candy, lemon drops, caramel and raspberry jam on a dry down of musks.
Pistachio Pudding Cake - Powerful aroma of pistachio nuts, almond, honey, heliotrope, and rich, creamy vanilla custard.
Pomegranate - The wonderful aroma of freshly sliced pomegranate.
Powdered Sugar - OOh so sweet and yummy! A nostalgic blend with hints of musk and sugar, as loads of sweet vanilla this super sweet sensation!
Pumpkin Bread - Fresh baked goodness! You will love our warm and scrumptious blend of spicy pumpkin pie filling blended in a sweet bread with creamy vanilla, butter, spices and pralines.
Pumpkin Caramel Cake - Yummy top notes of butter cream and crushed almond add decadent appeal to this spicy confection. A heart of cinnamon and ginger blends with brown sugar for nostalgic appeal. Sweet vanilla bean finishes this yummy cake!
Pumpkin Pecan Waffles - A scrumptious blend of pumpkin waffles and butter with sweet, pure maple syrup and a touches of brown sugar. .
Purple Cow - Grape with vanilla ice cream.
Purple Sandalwood - Sandalwood + Violets +Cashmere Woods + Peach Blossoms + French Lavender + Vanilla.
Rainbow Sherbet - The aroma of fresh lime, pineapple, orange, and raspberry, with creamy base notes of vanilla.
Raindrops - Smells like Fresh Rain.
Rain Forest - Hawaiian hibiscus, Pineapple, Blood Orange, Palm Grass, Lemon Mint & Kona sugar.
Raspberry Rainbow - Take an escape everyday with this refreshingly-familiar scent of raspberry, fresh squeezed oranges, strawberries and bananas.
Rice Krispie Treats - Sweet, creamy whipped marshmallow, rice krispies, vanilla and sugar blended together to give you a heavenly sweet and awesome treat!
Rose Jam - A beautiful blend of Citrus, Turkish Rose, Geranium, Lemon and Tonka.
Rosemary Mint - Garden grown Rosemary needles with crushed Spearmint Leaves.
Sage & Citrus - Mandarin, Tangerine, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Lemon Rinds & Sage Leaves.
Salty Sea Air - Salty Sea Spray, Seaweed & Driftwood.
Salt Water Taffy - Chewy, Sweet, Citrusy, Berry, and just a hint of Sea Salt.
Satsuma - A wonderful blend of orange, mandarin, mango, peach, lime, jasmine, and orange flowers. Energizing and intoxicating!
Seaside - Ocean Air + Ripe Summer Fruits + a hint of Suntan Lotion.
Sea Salt & Agave - Agave + Ocean Air + Sea moss + Driftwood.
Serendipity - This is a super sweet concoction that will totally win you over! Sweet, thick, creamy vanilla with confectioners sugar sweet cherry, sweet orange citrus and the tiniest amount of yummy fresh coconut.
Shampoo - Fresh Citrus, Bergamont, Sun-ripened Orange Tuberose, Jasmine, Rose, Sandalwood & Sensuous Musk. (High End Salon Shampoo smell, so good).
Shave & Haircut - Your favorite Man straight from the Barber.
Shaving Cream - Smell just like Grandpa's Shaving Cream.
Sinus Relief -A cool, crisp blend of camphor, eucalyptus, and mint. Great for snuffed up noses!
Skittles (Type) - A slightly tart fragrance oil, but not sweet, just fruity, fruity, fruity. Reminiscent of Skittles Candy.
Snuggle - Smells like Snuggle Fabric Softner. Lily of the Valley + Violet + Lavender + Amber.
So White (Lush type) - Orange, Citrus, Apple, Rose, Bergamot and Neroli.
Strawberries and Cream - The aroma of fresh, juicy strawberries with just the right amount of creamy sweetened whipped cream.
Strawberry - A single note of fresh strawberries.
Strawberry Bread - Fresh, juicy strawberry blended with a tiny hint of spice, rich, creamy sweet vanilla and a heaping helping of bakery goodness.
Strawberry Crunch Cookie - Strawberry & Buttery Sugar Cookie.
Strawberry Daiquiri - Fresh Strawberries, and Lemon Zests with a hint of fresh Vanilla.
Strawberry Jam - The most incredible, fresh juicy strawberry you'll ever smell.
Strawberry Jam Filled Donuts - Sweet Satrawberry Jam & Glazed Donuts.
Strawberry Kiwi Sorbet – Strawberry, Kiwi and Hints of Lime.
Strawberry Shake - Strawberries hints of Juicy Orange, Peach Nectar & Creamy Vanilla.
Strawberry Taffy - Old timey strawberry taffy which brings back wonderful childhood memories.
Strawberry White Cake - A truly wonderful, homemade white cake mixed with sweet, ripe strawberries!
Sticky Licky Buns - The aroma of Vermont maple syrup and sweet honey blended with soft butter, sweet apples and wet pecans which is blended in a wonderful batter sprinkled with cinnamon and baked to perfection.
Sugar Cookie - See Rainbow Melts Blends #1.
Sugar Cookie Dough - Before they become sweet and tender cookies with wonderfully crisp edges, they are a sweet rich vanilla batter.
Sugar Milk - A confection prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk to create a sweet caramelized sugar milk scent. Similar to a sweetened condensed milk.
Summer Clouds - Summer Breeze + White Clouds.
Sun Dried Linen - Fresh Laundry dried in the Breezy Sunshine.
Sweater Weather (type) - Juniper Berries, Fresh Eucalyptus, and Sage and a tiny bit of Woods, Sweet Spearmint and Dew mixed in.
Tahitian Waterfall - Sweet jasmine, wild lilies and violets, with the enchanting mist of a cool tropical waterfall.
Tea & Cakes -Orange & Almond Tea Cakes + Black Tea.
Tinsel - Pomegranate, strawberries, raspberries, with a subtle hint of fresh peppermint leaves and fresh vanilla.
Tobacco Vanille - Ceamy vanilla & Dark Brown Sugar
with Smoky Tobacco and Mahogany Woods.
Toffee Apple Crunch - The aroma of a granny smith apple with creamy, buttery caramel; dipped in crunchy toffee chips.
Triple Berry - Strawberry, Blackberry and Blueberry.
Tropical Blast - Fresh tropical combination of pineapples, mango, papaya, coconut, and wild watermelon.
Turquoise Sky (type) - Crisp Salty Air, Sea Grass with a hint of Creamy Cusk to round it off. Fresh, energizing, crisp and clean.
Twinkies - A wonderful rich pound cake with loaded with heavy cream.
Vanilla Bean Noel - A rich, sweet vanilla sugar cookie with a slightly roasted marshmallow background and a hint of caramel.
Vanilla Butter Fudge - A rich, buttery, creamy vanilla.
Vanilla Ice Cream - Sweet creamy smell of Vanilla Ice Cream
Vanilla Oak - Warm Vanilla + Amber + Oak Moss + Sandalwood + Patchouli + Musk.
Vanilla Pound Cake - You will love this sweet vanilla pound cake; decadent, rich and creamy with hints of butter.
Vanilla Sandalwood - While the strong notes of Vanilla are as rich creamy as they should be, their purity is complimented by the sexy scent of West Indian Sandalwood.
Vanilla Sugar Waffle Cone - A classic cookie wafer accord is enriched with sweet creamy butter cream for this simply divine treat. Vanilla sugar swirls throughout the tempting dessert treat.
Vanilla Wafer - A time honored recipe of sweet simplicity and goodness; creamy, fresh churned butter, Tahitian Vanilla beans and pure cane sugar toasted to perfection, are all that is needed to create this truly yummy fragrance.
Violet - Sweet Violets.
Volcano (type) - Tropical Fruits and Sugared Citrus with Violet Leaf, Sweet Japanese Quince, Sun Ripened Cassis, Sparkling Pomelo & Sun Weathered Driftwood.
Warm Vanilla Sugar - Warm Vanilla with a slight musky note.
Watercress & Aloe - Fresh and Clean scent. Lemon Rind and Fresh Palm Leaves with Watercress & Aloe. (Clean Scent)
Watermelon (candy) - A super sweet watermelon candy - ripe watermelon with sweet sugary crystals.
Watermelon Punch - Fresh orange adds fruity pop to this classic summer fruit scent. Sugared watermelon gets natural sensations from a blend of green tones for the fragrance signature. A hint of berry finishes the blend.
Whipped Cream - Delicious, fluffy whipped cream with hints of whipped churned butter, blonde sugar cane, Madagascar vanilla, and vanilla extract.
White Cake - Rich and yummy white cake baked to perfection!
White Clouds - Clean, fresh and airy!
White Tea & Berries - Herbal White Tea + Raspberries + Blackberries + a hint of Citrus.
Wildberry Mousse - The top blends wild berries, brandied cherries and figs & sweet cotton candy vanilla.
Wildberry Smoothie - Fresh Berries & Sweet Cream.
Winter (BBW type) - A fabulously festive combination of Bay Leaf, Fresh Pine, Red Cinnamon and warm winter woodsy notes combined with hints of holiday fruits.
Wood Sage & Sea Salt - Himalayan Sea Salt is complimented with Crushed Sage & Oud Wood.
Zucchini Bread- (Not Spicy) Creamy Fresh Bake Zucchini Bread.


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Credit broking websites, which apparently match consumers with the best available loans and interest rates for a fee, have received double the amount of complaints over the last year, said the Financial Ombudsman Service.
According to the watchdog, which helps resolve issues between customers and financial firms when all other communications and discussions have broken down, consumers reported their bank accounts being "drained" after opting for a loan through the payday lending broker.
Around 10,000 customers claim that they were misled into thinking that they were signing up for a loan, when entering their bank details, as they were unaware that they were using a broker, rather than a loan company itself.
The result was hundreds of pounds leaving their bank accounts before they'd even obtained a loan.
One of the worst examples that Fos revealed was of one woman who was charged £70 by ten different credit broking websites, which resulted in her losing £700 in the process.
"In too many of the cases we sort out, no loan is provided and people's bank accounts have been charged a high fee, often multiple times," said Juliana Francis, the senior Ombudsman.
Meanwhile, FoS revealed that most of the credit broking websites have since refunded customers the money as soon as it learned the Ombudsman was involved.


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A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code. Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labor, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his co-workers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy.
Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges:
Alan had proved that there was no "miraculous machine" that could solve all mathematical problems, but in the process he had discovered something almost equally miraculous, the idea of a universal machine that could take over the work of any machine.
Alan Mathison Turing. Mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, a founder of computer science, and the father of Artificial Intelligence, Turing was one of the most original thinkers of the last century - and the man whose work helped create the computer-driven world we now inhabit. But he was also an enigmatic figure, deeply reticent yet also strikingly naïve.
A history of World War II espionage and covert operations activities, presented from the perspective of OSS agents, recounts numerous secret missions that contributed to the war's outcome.
In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America's first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted.
He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan's relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage.
The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC 1894-2012 is a dramatic account of the history of the world's foremost sporting spectacle. It is the lavishly illustrated story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, which was formed in 1894, and of the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves since the first Games in 1896.
For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the mythological and religious origins of the games and describes the events, religious ceremony, and celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival.
A definitive survey of the Olympic games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261, this scholarly, yet immensely readable account of Olympic athletes in ancient times takes a highly realistic view of these fabled contests. Transporting readers back to the eighth century b.c., Professor M. I. Finley and Dr. H. W. Pleket draw upon their extensive knowledge of the ancient world to explain in absorbing detail the various sporting events and their historical, social, and religious context. They also detail the similarities and differences between ancient and modern games.
Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again, bringing attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the event day by day to re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle.


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When you select Cases from the Menu ≡ of the Genesys Care Mobile App, you will see a list of your non-closed cases, including cases opened by other Designated Contacts at your company, and be able to perform other functions.
The following are the different functions that you can perform from the Cases window.
Designated Contacts and Case ManagementFrom the Cases screen, Designated Contacts should select "Personal" to view cases they have opened or select "Company" to view all the non-closed cases for the company. You can select any case to view the case details including the case severity level, case status and case notes. Remember, you must be a Designated Contact to make post case updates and request that a case be closed.
If you have Read-Only access, you can view non-closed cases on the "Company" view, but you cannot post updates or request that a case be closed.
If you are a Genesys partner who is a Designated Contact, the case list view can include all non-closed cases that your company has opened for all the end users your firm represents.
(left) Case List Screen and (right) Case Details Screen
Click to Call
On-Premises Users
You must be a Designated Contact to call Customer Care regarding a case.
To contact Genesys Customer Care, tap on the case you want and then select the telephone icon within the case details window for that case. This will direct you to the Contact Us screen, where you can choose your platform and preferred Customer Care center.
Cloud Users
If you are a Designated Contact using Business Edition Cloud (PureEngage Cloud) and would like to contact Genesys Customer Care, tap on the case you want and then select the telephone icon within the case details window for that case.
Case UpdatesYou must be a Designated Contact to post updates to an open case.
To post an update to a case, tap on the Update Case icon next to the telephone in the Case Details window. On the Case Updates screen, type your update in the message text box and then press Send.
(left) Case Details Screen and (right) Post Case Update Screen
Using Chat (PureEngage On-Premises and PureCloud Only)
You must be a Designated Contact to use the Chat feature.
What is Chat?
Chat is a feature that gives Designated Contacts an additional option of engagement with the assigned Case Owner (or an available agent, if the case owner is unavailable) regarding the status of their on-premises Support Cases. A Chat session is requested by clicking the Chat icon within any non-closed Case. The Using Chat section explains how to use Chat via the Genesys Care Mobile App only. As a reminder, Chat is for Case facilitation (quick questions or status updates) and not for live troubleshooting.
Please read the Support Processes for On-Premises Licenses for additional tips on Chat via Computer.
Using Chat
Select and open any non-closed Case. Click the Chat icon to begin.
The Chat window will automatically start loading.
(left) Chat loading Screen and (right) Pre-Chat Screen
In the example below, the Case Owner is "Zmarsh."
If "Zmarsh" is available, you can directly begin the chat session.
If "Zmarsh" is not available, then the chat will be routed to an available agent
If both the Case Owner and the other agents are unavailable, you can leave a contact phone number so that we can get back to you.
Once you have finished chatting, you can end your session by clicking the "End Chat" button above your chat dialogue.
After the Chat Session
After you end the Chat, a transcript of the Chat session will be emailed to you.
Case Closure and EscalationYou must be a Designated Contact to request a close be closed or escalated.
Case Closure:
To request that Customer Care close a case, select the pencil icon at the top right of the Case Details window of that case. In the Request Case Closure window, select the appropriate reason for the closure. This will send your case closure request to the Customer Care.
(left) Case Details Screen and (right) Request Case Closure Screen
To request that Customer Care escalate a case, select the pencil icon at the top right of the Case Details window of that case. In the Request Case Closure window, select the Escalation Request option. The Escalation Request window will appear.
The Case # and the Subject fields are auto-populated. Select an appropriate reason from the Escalation Reason drop-down list and provide a short brief for your reason in the Comments section. Click Send. This will send your escalation request to Customer Care
(left) Case Details Screen and (middle) Request Case Closure Screen and (right) Escalation Request Screen
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Ms Alice Beale is Senior Collection Manager.
Ms Tara Collier is the Collection Manager.
Ms Eleanor Adams is Project Officer for the Australian Aboriginal Ethnology Digitisation Project.
Dr Philip Jones is Senior Curator.
Mr Ken Orchard is Project Officer assisting Dr Philip Jones.
Honorary Research Associates
Dr Valérie Boll with expertise in traditions and beliefs about frogs and traditional ecological knowledge in North-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Professor Peter J. Sutton who has research interests in Aboriginal Australia, in particular languages, land ownership, art and material culture, history and policy.