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Teaching is the process of imparting knowledge and research is the process of continuous learning, exploring new ideas and turning these ideas into reality by developing systems. So for the better impartment of knowledge, teaching should be mixed with research so that new facts, principles and techniques can be added in it. No doubt, imparting knowledge is still considered as a major part, but great are the nations which give more importance to research. We all know India is good at imparting education and still there is a need to enhance the research at the lowest level of curriculum so that the students can meet the industrial standards.
Since A P Goyal Shimla University has been promoted by the Group of Industrialists/Corporate Houses it also has an edge over others with its Practical Knowledge and Training expertise. At A P Goyal Shimla University a Student would learn things which people would learn only after getting Jobs and hence would be better accepted in the Industry and Trade alike. Teaching at A P Goyal Shimla University is highly practical and focused on what the industry needs as it is evolved through constant interaction with leading professionals who are a part of the Industry and Academic Advisory Boards. The thorough meetings of Board of studies and invaluable inputs from the members of our academic council help us to develop an industry oriented curriculum for our students.
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text: Yesterday (March 28th, 2015) Courtney and I had the pleasure of capturing Brittany and Ben's DIY wedding day. These two literally ooze love - which totally shows in their photos! I secretly think they also love being in front of the camera. :) Looking forward to sharing more of their full wedding - but below are their photos from the reception slide show!


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Pipeline companies encouraged by new US pipeline safety bill
A bipartisan group of pro-industry US House members introduced pipeline safety legislation Thursday, increasing the likelihood that Congress will complete legislative action on the issue in 2002, pipeline companies said. The Senate passed a bill in February and legislation could be part of a broader energy bill, lobbyists said.
By the OGJ Online Staff
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 21 -- A bipartisan group of pro-industry US House members introduced pipeline safety legislation Thursday, increasing the likelihood that Congress will complete legislative action on the issue in 2002, pipeline companies said.
The "Pipeline Infrastructure Protection To Enhance Security and Safety Act" was introduced by House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Don Young (R-Alas.) of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Chairman W.J. (Billy) Tauzin (R-La.) of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as Tom Petri (R-Wis.), Joe Barton (R-Tex.), Gene Green (D-Tex.), Ralph Hall (D-TX), Max Sandlin (D-Tex.), and Brad Carson (D-Okla).
"While we now have to review the legislation, we are encouraged by the fact that the two chief House Committees with jurisdiction over this issue have united together to introduce a pipeline safety bill," said Jerald V. Halvorsen, president of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
"This is an excellent step and a positive sign that the House will pass pipeline safety legislation early in the New Year," he added.
INGAA was one of five industry trade associations who have called on the US Congress to quickly pass "an effective and responsible" bill to promote the safety of more than 2 million miles of oil and gas pipelines (OGJ Online, Nov. 20, 2001).
The Senate passed pipeline safety legislation earlier this year, but the House has yet to act (OGJ Online, Oct. 1, 2001). Congress is on a month-long holiday break and will return in late January. Lobbyists said there is a chance pipeline safety proposals may be considered as part of broader energy legislation now pending. The Republican-controlled House passed a comprehensive energy bill in August; the Democratic-controlled Senate has not approved a bill yet although several proposals are pending.
In a letter to US Department of Transportation Sec. Norman Mineta, pipeline industry officials said they want Congress and DOT to work together in a "unified fashion."
In October the nonpartisan General Accounting Office warned Congress that the Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety still has not met some National Transportation Safety Board recommendations, several of which are a decade old.


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Zimbabwe army chief warns of intervention over party purge
Sacked Zimbabwe vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa said the ruling ZANU-PF party is "controlled by undisciplined, egotistical and self-serving minnows"
Zimbabwe's army chief on Monday demanded a "stop" to the purge in the ruling ZANU-PF party after the sacking of vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, and warned the military could intervene.
"The current purging which is clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background must stop forthwith," General Constantino Chiwenga told a media conference attended by about 90 senior army officers at army HQ.
"We must remind those behind the current treacherous shenanigans that when it comes to matters of protecting our revolution, the military will not hesitate to step in," he warned in a statement.
Mnangagwa was dismissed and humiliated a week earlier after clashing with veteran President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace, who is now in prime position to succeed her 93-year-old husband.
The former vice president has powerful military connections, having served as defence and state security minister.
Chiwenga charged the ruling ZANU-PF party had been infiltrated by people who are seeking to destroy it from within.
The purging had plunged the country into a crisis, he said.
Chiwenga, making a rare statement by the country's military, called on the ruling party officials to "stop reckless utterance... denigrating the military, which is causing alarm and despondency within the rank and file".
The army boss said the infighting in the party had trickled down and impacted negatively on the country which is reeling under an economic crisis.
"There is distress, trepidation and despondence within the nation," he said.
"As a result of the squabbling, there has been no meaningful development in the country for the past five years," he said.
The crisis had resulted in "cash shortages and rising commodity prices," he said.
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Concordia University, St. Paul promises to be a place where Christ is honored and where Lutheran convictions inform intellectual inquiry and academic pursuits. The Solus Christus Fellows Program provides students with an opportunity to explore why their faith matters for their studies and their future careers. At the center of the program is the Christian Gospel – the free and enlivening work of Jesus Christ. The curriculum brings the Christian scriptures, theological resources, and Christian community together to inform and shape students' lives for dedicated service to God and humanity.
The goal of the Solus Christus Fellows Program is to enable students to intentionally connect their Christian faith with their academic studies and career goals in a small group setting. In addition, students receive one-on-one mentoring. Through special lectures at Concordia University including the annual Hoffmann Lecture and occasional events at area universities, churches, and Christian organizations, students will have the opportunity to hear prominent speakers on important topics in Christian theology. These speaker events will explore the intersection of Christian theology with the humanities, arts, sciences, and health professions.
Concordia is excited to launch the Solus Christus Fellows Program in the 2017-2018 academic year as part of CSP's celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. The "Reformation solas" captured the heart and essence of the Reformation: by grace alone, through faith alone, in Scripture alone. To these is added one more sola – Christ alone. Solus Christus means that our salvation is only in the life, death, and resurrection of God's Son, Jesus Christ (John 20:31). Solus Christus is essential to our Lutheran identity as a university and serves as an excellent starting point for conversations on how Lutheran convictions inform intellectual inquiry and academic pursuits.
As a Solus Christus Fellow, you will be part of a small cohort who meet every other week during the academic year for guided discussion. You will discuss carefully selected short readings designed to help you understand and live well in your various God-given callings in life. These readings provide a grounding in the best of what the Christian tradition – the Bible, the early church, Reformation-era, and more recent Christian writers – says about these various callings.
The modules are designed to build upon one another, so students can continue subsequent modules in future years. Fellows who complete at least two cohorts will receive recognition as a Solus Christus Fellow to formally recognize their exploration of Christian theology and vocation. Each fellow will enter a cohort based on their stage in academic and career (there are both undergraduate and graduate cohorts), prior preparation, and interests.
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Christian community is about life together. As a Solus Christus Fellow, you will be part of a community that encourages each other and regularly takes part in discussions together. We will also incorporate opportunities for us to grow relationally and in our Christian spiritual formation together.
Students have many commitments and responsibilities. In addition to the many benefits of the program, students will receive a small $125/semester stipend. All costs of the program, community meals, retreats, and books will be covered by the program.
Solus Christus Fellows are CSP undergraduate or grad/professional students in any field or discipline. Interested students should complete this online application and agree to the following expectations.
Solus Christus Fellows must fully participate in all events each semester, including:
Mark Koschmann, M.Div., M.A. is Concordia's resident expert in urban and multicultural outreach, missiology, and Lutheran theology in a global urban context. He joined Concordia's faculty in the summer of 2015. In addition to teaching Christian outreach and theology students, Koschmann leads the Hoffmann Mentoring Initiative as the Fiechtner Chair in Christian Outreach.
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Niagara College has started offering a program for students which will enable them to earn a post-secondary credential in the production of commercial cannabis. In simple English, this means there is a school for growing weed now.
Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development has approved the one-year post-graduate program for those that choose to work in the cannabis industry. Those taking this one-year course can expect lessons in licensed production of cannabis, which includes marijuana, hemp fiber, and hemp seed.
Niagara College president, Dan Patterson has said that they have initiated this program in the hopes of solving the upcoming problems in the cannabis industry, especially ones coming up in the early days of legalization in July 2018. He also said that since the program and cannabis production are both toughly regulated, the school will be abiding by all the rules in the book.
However, not everyone will be able to obtain this prestigious diploma, as only those that previously studied agribusiness, agricultural science, environmental science/resource studies, horticulture or natural sciences, or an acceptable combination of education and experience will be offered a chance to enroll into this program.
Niagara College is only the second school in the country to announce such a program, as a community college in New Brunswick last year it would offer a course in horticulture tailored to teach students skills needed for work in the growing marijuana industry.
Officials at College communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, the French-language community school, have said that was designed in collaboration with leaders from the cannabis industry, presumably the medicinal side of the industry.
Given that legalization is bound to happen in just over 9 months, getting some fresh college-educated brains in the industry might be one of the better one's Ontario officials have had in a while, given the plan they announced on the 8th of September, which heavily restricts rights to small business owners.
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Young People Take the Economy Into Their Own Hands
Politicians love to talk about young people. Debt is hoisted "on the backs of Americans of the next generation," warns Michele Bachmann. We must free ourselves so that "our children" are "free to pursue their dreams" says Tim Pawlenty. Let's "win the future," says President Obama, for "our kids."
But where are the frontlines of that future, the young Americans, who are getting battered and burdened by America's current economic woes? What are they doing? Shopping for sweet shwag and listening to 90s hip hop?
Yes. And it's all part of their grand plan.
Buy Young is a new initiative from the non-profit Our Time, which works to defend the interests of young Americans. The group has attacked pollsters for only calling landlines (and therefore neglecting young people, who long ago ditched landlines for cell phones) and launched a recent campaign to get congress to cancel their vacation. But the goal of Buy Young is even more ambitious: to translate the massive consumer power of young people into political strength.
Buy Young is an ecommerce site, featuring only companies run by young people and offering up to 60% in discounts to their young peers. Its the brainchild of two college buddies, Matthew Segal and Jarette Moreno, who launched the campaign to much fanfare at a D.C. conference last month, which brought 160 entrepreneurs under-35 to the White House, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Capitol, along with big names like Ed Rensi, the former CEO of McDonalds, and Senators John McCain and Chuck Schumer.
Buy Young is "a targeted consumer movement," Segal announced, to support companies and small businesses founded by young Americans. Sick of being talked about but never listened to, the Buy Young team wanted to prove that young people "can take ownership and solve these problems ourselves," and to remind U.S. lawmakers that teens and 20-somethings "are major contributors to the economic recovery in this country."
Roughly one in five people between the ages of 16 and 24 are unemployed. Young people today have been called "boomerang" kids, bouncing from college to our parent's basements, or the "lost generation" -- disaffected and self-absorbed. Segal and Moreno are looking to rebrand their cohort and tap all the potential that adults so enjoy telling young people they're squandering.
"By virtue of our age we have all these shared interests," Segal told AOL Jobs. "A unified employment interest, personal debt -- all that fine print that even Ph.Ds can't understand -- and the structural deficit in this country, which we're paying the bills for."
Young people are also overwhelmingly united, Segal claims, in their concern for environmental issues and same-sex marriage. "Even young conservatives now are bucking their party on that one," he said.
Buy Young wants this generation to put their money where there ideals are. Too often, Segal said, young people inadvertently support businesses that hurt their interests. Financial services corporations, banks, telecommunications companies, "literally all of them are exploiting young people and their lack of consumer education," he said.
Segal and Moreno hope to provide that education, and connect young consumers with young and socially responsible entrepreneurs. "But we're being pragmatic," Segal said. "Self-interest comes first, and collective interest comes second."
So a daily deals website seemed like the perfect entry point. Lure the youth in with a discount on a psychedelic safari throw pillow, and then hopefully they'll stay for the cause.
The Buy Young team doesn't just want to inspire thoughtful consumerism, but thoughtful production too. The entrepreneurs currently participating in Buy Young aren't just "the Mark Zuckerberg tech genius type," Segal is proud to say. A lot of the businesses are old fashioned brick and mortar stores.
Back to the Roots, founded by two friends their senior year, make grow-at-home mushroom kits out of recycled coffee grounds. Bullets2Bandages sells bullet pendants and donates some of the proceeds to wounded veterans and their families. Erik Spalding and Cole Evans founded the company after losing friends in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Not only am I going to save money," Segal hopes people will think. "But I'm actually supporting somebody like myself who is challenging old business models."
To help spread the good word, Segal and Moreno enlisted the help of Max Lanman, a recent college graduate and young entrepreneur himself, who presides over his own production outfit, Lanman Media.
They told him the idea, handed him two grand, and asked him to do something awesome. Lanman took the opportunity to fulfill his "lifelong dream of being a 90s rap all-star," and produced a three minute video that covers all of Buy Young's major talking points through the mouths of three human-sized bills, inspired by Tupac, Snoop Dog, and DMX, respectively, and all voiced by Lanman himself.
Lanman wanted to evoke the great hip hop videos of the 1990s, throwing in references to Ice Cube and standard tropes like wit, aggression, and strippers. His target demographic, after all, grew up in the 90s, and he thought the nostalgia factor could up the video's viral potential. It seems to be working; over the weekend the video was featured on the front page of Will Ferrell and Adam Mckay's comedy website Funny Or Die.
The video may rhyme rizzle, shizzle and governmizzle sizzle, but it also makes some serious points.
"What you're doing when you makin' your little payment, / You see, you're inadvertently makin' a real statement," Lanman spits out. "It's ironic that we get no respect from authority, / Cuz when you think about consumers, we make up the majority."
He ends with with a call to action: "'Cause this is our time, and you should Buy Young. You should Buy Young."
"It's essentially a quirky marketing idea," said Segal. "Every company wants us to buy their products, to get hooked at an early age."
And Buy Young is no exception. While fighting "the Man" has traditionally meant escaping the capitalist system, Segal and Moreno are urging young people to consume. It may be more practical and less idealistic than youth movements of the past. But that means it just might work.
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Ted Hewitt has just been stood up at the altar and after suffering depression over his loss, he decides to surf the internet. Not knowing what he will find, he happens upon the name Lacey Chen, her name intrigues him and he begins a correspondence with her.
Lacey, who is from China and whose English is poor, has no wish to meet anyone new, she is over worked, married to a bi-sexual man who controls her and the last thing she needs now is a new friendship. However, after her initial disdain, she finally writes Ted back and the two begin to enjoy their new found internet relationship.
Along the way, the two teach each other about their selves, their cultures, their feelings and their goals in life. Each correspondence drives the two closer and closer together and their emails eventually turn into phone conversations. As each of them deals with their own insecurities, they find themselves committing to meet.
Their rendezvous point is in Chicago and Ted is worried that Lacey will stand him up bringing to the fore his own self-doubts about their relationship. Will Ted and Lacey meet and begin a romance that will bring pleasure to their lives? Or will the fates keep them apart, forever to dwell in their own miserable lives?
I love Jack Eadon's books, this is the second book of his I have read and I was equally pleased to find this one was just as interesting as "Head Trip". This was an audio book that I had the opportunity to review and I found the voices were well liked and easy to listen to. I have a voice thing and I was glad to hear that the voices were not obnoxious or whiny.
I wasn't too sure how I was going to feel about having a married woman begin a relationship with another man, however, the author really paints Lacey's husband to be someone you wouldn't want to relate to. As well, you get from Lacey that she respects and loves her husband, she's just not satisfied emotionally with him, hence her need to fill a void. I was very divided about the situation, even though I felt that all involved deserved to be happy.
I liked the sharing of cultural differences and thought it was well explained and added to the overall cohesiveness of the plot. As well, I enjoyed Ted's hesitancy with his feelings, they were real to me and not hackneyed. Here is a man who has been left raw emotionally and is willing to brave the circumstances before him and plunge into a new relationship with a married woman living halfway across the world. His cupidity for this woman realizes no bounds and his rationality is lax.
This book is a must read for those of you who enjoy romances, especially those who are culturally crossed. It is reasonable, easily understood and beautifully written.
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Life for both Ted Hewitt and Lacey Chen is starved of simple love when a wedding doesn't materialize and a genuine love is replaced by obligation. That empty pot is filled with love and care by Ted's reaction to Lacey and her reaction to him. At first the match is challenging but gets more and more intense as feelings of love are replaced by need, hen sheer erotic lust. At the end the most intense drama occurs when the lovers plan a reunion. Will they meet? Will they be as intensely attracted to one another as they originally think? Will the lust they inspire in each other lead to love that can glue. In this generation of email and Internet, come explore the lust as born and developed on the Internet through emails between Ted and Lacey.
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I miss Robin. It's funny how all kinds of random things will make me think of him. Even something as simple as when we were at Target last night: M came up to me and said, with a sad look in his eye, "I just saw Multi-Cat litter boxes." Yeah, me too. We are a single cat household now.
Anyway that's a sad note, so I will switch to a funny story to end on. I was at a pool party with a bunch of friends, some of whom had children. The kids were playing in the pool, and the one little girl let out this god-awful shriek!!!! Just in play, but it was horrifying!
My girlfriend said, "Now Renniekins isn't going to want to have kids, now that she's heard you make that noise."
"I know," I said laughing, "I didn't even know they were capable of such sounds!"
Another girlfriend chimed in, "That's enough to make you stop ovulating."
"Yeah, I can picture all my little eggies, trying to swim back into the ovaries, elbowing their way up, calling, "let us back in!!!"
My husband added, "And then all the little swimmers will be wandering around going, "It's awfully quiet in here, where is everybody??"


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and guns
Recently Mr. Rick Howell wrote about Christians and guns that deserves a thoughtful response.
Straight Outa Bedford?
Straight Outa Bedford? Are we that dangerous a place?
I guess the newly elected Supervisor Tommy Scott is trying to make a name for himself, calling for the county to allow permitted county workers to carry concealed handguns at work. Not a good idea.
A return to
Southern Civility
When Robin and I chose Bedford as our final home, she was returning to her hereditary roots and we both were getting a small town like where we grew up.
Thanks for Charity
Chug support
Thanks to the Community for Support of the "Charity Chug"
On Wednesday, December 9, the Smith Mountain Lake Railroad Group presented to Lake Christian Ministries checks totaling $3100., the contributions generously made by members of our community and visitors from impressive distances who came to our model train open houses.
concert thank you
Bower Center for the Arts would like to thank the Town of Bedford with a Virginia Commission for the Arts' Grant for co-sponsoring a free holiday concert at Bedford Middle School on December 11.
True religious fanaticism
I'm compelled to highlight the counter-factuals and self-contradicting irony in Rick Howell's November 25 column "The Bloody Results of Religious Fanaticism."
Howell conjectured that the "instigator" of the recent attack on innocents in Paris "violated the real teachings" of Islam. Evidently, only Grand-Imam Howell's interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith understands the attacks thus.
Source of
As a new resident in Bedford County, I have taken note of the significant number of young people that have lost their lives in auto accidents. As a parent that has lost a child, I would like to share a source of comfort, especially during this time of year. (My youngest son was an Iraq War veteran - a victim of PTSD)
Compassionate Friends is an international support group for parents and families after a child dies.
More info needed
I just read in my free Thanksgiving edition of the Bedford Bulletin that Liberty High School has hired a new varsity basketball coach. The seven paragraph article relates the new coach's experience, his intuitive reaction after meeting with the Principal and another coach, and his outlook for the upcoming season.
A Letter of Thanks
The board members of Bedford Habitat for Humanity would like to thank the many people who bought tickets for our raffle at Centerfest on October 10, 2015. The Winner of the 12' x 8' shed was Kathleen Mitchell.
I have never been so shocked - and disappointed, like a punch in the gut - since I've lived on Smith Mountain Lake as I have been during this recent election cycle.
The Republican Party of Bedford located its Election Headquarters at the Lake – next door to the Huddleston Post Office - for the very first time this year and we experienced three instances of theft and vandalism.
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Notes by a local builder for Georgia weekly Post
Flipping homes by small contractors is still in fashion!
The market is doing better. More rentals are in demand.
Money is not easy to get, yet. You build or flip and then sell. Subdivisions are big around Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Dunwoody and beyond. They are built fast and sold faster. The after sales are becoming an issue among buyers and builders. Home Owners Associations are hard to deal with in cities like Dunwoody, according to local builders and out of towners. Quality is competing with quality as the build-able space shrinks.
Net profit is calculated in few thousands..five or ten or maybe less.
What would you do with $10,000?
Before you answer, multiply it by the number of homes you build or flip.
If you are a small contractor, a small builder or if your production is in the double digits, and especially four digits or more, that's real money. Money you can plow back into your business, hire and keep the best people, improve, grow, and weather whatever storms may come your way.
The real question is how to get it. The answer is: Quality.
I can see your eyes rolling right now. After all, quality is the most subjective term in the housing industry, much less a dollar amount you can point to on a pro forma. It's nuance, not numbers. If anything, quality (whatever it is) costs money. It darn sure doesn't make money.
I'm telling you it does … or can! Maybe $10,000 a house if you play all your cards right and stay in the game long enough. The ante's a buck; a dollar to make 10. Before you throw in, though, I'll put my cards on the table.
A while back, I was floored by an informal study that found a small group of public builders holding an average of $7,200 per house in reserve to pay for warranty work, construction defects, and related litigation. In essence, banking on the cost of failure, the price of poor quality.
Sure, some reserves to fight or settle claims are a part of our business, but $7,200 a house? There's got to be a better way!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do you hold money on each home you sell to pay for warranty work and callbacks? Does it make sense to spend more money on quality construction? Provide your thoughts in the COMMENTS section below.
There is, and it's not hard to understand. It's just hard (at first) to do, though I'd bet any production builder still upright after the recession is well on his way already. Simply, it makes more sense to invest in prevention and appraisal than it does in failure, and for so many reasons – from just delivering a better product to keeping your people happy, keeping customers happy, freeing up working capital, lowering costs. Not beating up subs or suppliers for a discount you're just going to spend later to fix a problem. Not talking to lawyers.
To prove it, we - my partners and I - analyzed industry reports and consulted renowned experts to conjure a typical production builder, came up with a set of real-world metrics and created reasonable formulas for quantifying the value of quality.
Every time we got close to thinking we might be over-reaching, we dialed back our assumptions. We asked a handful of high-quality builders to sense-check them. How many dumpsters are reasonable to eliminate? How many days can you realistically reduce cycle time? How many more homes can a site super actually handle? We kept it real.
When we plugged in real numbers and saw the results, we trimmed those back, too.
Let me be clear: I'm not saying you'll get the full $10k for every grand you invest in quality, and certainly not off the bat. You may suffer only a 600% return, or maybe just 300%. Even then, I'd wager it's worth a knock on your CFO's door.
What I am saying is that we can all get better, spend a little to make a lot more. The ability to precisely determine where to start investing in quality is the only way to get the greatest return.
But then, quality has never been easy to quantify, right? That is, until you hold back $7,200 a house to pay for failure and realize that's exactly what you've done.
As I drive by that new construction site on Vermack, I wonder how much will the builder net from a $1,000,000.00.
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Being Professional When Professional Issues Come Up by Staci Kaiser
Post date: Nov 7, 2017 12:13:12 AM
If you're anything like me, doing your job well is important to you. When unexpected issues arise in your personal life, there are professional ways of communicating about the situation with your supervisors (and your teachers), and there are some things that remain a matter of personal preference.
First, it's important to be realistic about what you can do and what you can't do, and communicate that information as soon as you can. However, you can't communicate what you haven't carefully and realistically considered. When a serious issue arises, you may think that you aren't going to let it affect your work or school performance, but if you are real with yourself and kind to yourself, you will recognize that the issue is going to affect you. Allow that reality to sink in. There's a major personal issue in your life. Give yourself the time and space to handle the issue and the subsequent emotional and/or mental fallout. It is actually more professional to ask for and take off time from work or class in advance, than it is to kid yourself into thinking that you're not going to let the issue bother you and then do a poor job at work or on school assignments without your boss or teacher understanding what has happened.
Therefore, once you have a clear idea of what time off you realistically will need, you have to communicate it to your supervisor or teacher as soon as possible. If the issue you're dealing with is going to interfere with your work or school schedule or performance, it is more professional to acknowledge it beforehand with your supervisor or instructor, than wait until it has become noticeable at work that something's off, or your school assignments aren't done well or on time. If you are proactive, you have the chance to smooth the way and give your supervisors the time to make the needed adjustments. If you are reactive, then when you do open up about what's wrong, it may come across as an excuse. This is doubly true with your classes and your professors.
However, the degree to which you discuss the details of your situation is entirely up to you. If you have worked with your supervisors for a long time or feel close to them, then I would recommend sharing the details that you feel comfortable with sharing. Also, if you are having a difficult time with what you are experiencing, your supervisor might be able to give you advice, support, or refer you to someone to speak with. On the other hand, if you do not know your supervisor well or the place you work is more formal in tone, I would simply say make your supervisor aware of the issue and leave it at that. It is similar with your professors. Unless you have a particularly close relationship with the instructor, it is best to be brief. Ultimately, the decision of how much to share is personal and context-dependent.
It's important to know that while your work supervisors and your teachers have high expectations for your performance, more often than not, they are also sensitive and compassionate people who understand that we all face difficult personal situations from time to time. When you have a professional position or are taking college classes, it is important to handle personal issues in a professional way, which includes notifying your supervisors or teachers when you have a serious problem in your life that may affect your work, after you have come up with a plan of how to give yourself the time and space you need.


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- ITV Report
Charges over teen stabbings
*A 18-year-old man has appeared in court today accused of murdering and kidnapping two women who were found stabbed in a flat. *
Kimberley Frank, 17, and Samantha Sykes, 18, were discovered at the flat in Barden Road, in the Eastmoor area of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on Saturday morning.
Ahmad Otak, from Wakefield, has been charged with two counts each of murder, kidnap, false imprisonment and possessing a bladed instrument in a public place, West Yorkshire Police said.
He will appear at Wakefield Magistrates Court. Yesterday, bunches of flowers could be seen on the steps to the flats and cards had been attached to the handrail.
West Yorkshire Police said officers were contacted by Kent Police after a 19-year-old woman in Dover raised concerns for the safety of the two women. Officers went to the flat in Barden Road and discovered the bodies of Miss Frank and Miss Sykes, of California Drive, Horbury, West Yorkshire. A post-mortem examination revealed the women died from stab wounds.


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Given the subject matter addressed in the title and other tracks on You Want It Darker and Leonard Cohen's advanced age (82), it's tempting to hear this as a last album. In advance of its release, he told The New Yorker he was ready to die, but later walked back that comment. He wrote some of songs solo, and others with Sharon Robinson and Patrick Leonard. In declining health, and required to sing from a medically designed chair, Cohen enlisted his son Adam to produce.
Cohen's sepulchral voice expresses a wealth of emotion. He is weathered but defiant in acknowledging failures, regrets, brokenness, and even anger. Typically, redemption arrives in these songs with unflinching honesty. The title track is introduced by a choir and a foreboding bassline, its lyrics as much an indictment of human concepts of religion as a confessional reflection, balanced by personal doubt and acceptance. Cantor Gideon Y. Zelermyer engages with the sacred even as Cohen wrestles with it. For every, "Hineni, Hineni/I'm ready my Lord…" there is a counter: "...Magnified and sanctified/Be thy Holy Name/Vilified and crucified/In the human frame/A million candles burning/For the help that never came…." In the final verse he asserts: "If you are the dealer/I want out of this game," but Zelermyer and the choir answer and carry him with resolute devotion. "Treaty" recalls the melody of "Anthem" as piano, synth strings, and chorale highlight the poignancy in his lyric. Cohen equates the past with earned insights and an offer of amends: "We sold ourselves for love but now we're free/I'm sorry for the ghost I made you be…." "Leaving the Table" is a bittersweet country waltz where Cohen reveals things he no longer needs (even if he wishes he did), and underscores his impending exit: "I don't need a pardon/There's no one left to blame/I'm leaving the table/I'm out of the game." The intersection of blues, and Yiddish and gypsy folk on "Traveling Light" flows through bouzoukis, mandolins, and drum loops. Their union recalls the haunted musical qualities of 1984's Various Positions.
In song after song, Cohen delivers lyric juxtapositions that settle scores with God, past lovers, and himself, but almost always arrives at equanimity. He sounds like a spent Jeremiah alone in a cave conversing with God rather than the biblical figure transported to heaven in a fiery chariot. After coming to terms with the ghosts in his past and his acceptance of mortality, Cohen emits a resilient flicker of hope for total reconciliation in the shadows. A tender reprise of "Treaty" is adorned only by strings and his vocals as he expresses hope for detente: "I wish there was a treaty/between your love and mine." Amid the list of gripes, sins, and losses detailed on You Want It Darker, Cohen remains open to whatever earthly light offers even as his gaze shifts toward the eternal. He makes no compromises. These songs reveal that when all contradictions are nakedly exposed, all one can do is embrace them. Whether this is or isn't goodbye, You Want It Darker is one hell of a record.
by Thom Jurek
|You Want It Darker
|On The Level
|Leaving The Table
|If I Didn't Have Your Love
|Traveling Light
|It Seemed The Better Way
|Steer Your Way
|String Reprise/ Treaty


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At White Mere, we believe reading is a fundamental skill needed to ensure our pupils achieve successfully throughout their lives. It is not simply the decoding of words on a page. It also involves the ability to read with understanding, a wide range of different types of texts including fiction and non-fiction, and real world texts such as labels, captions and lists, and print in the environment.
Confidence and enjoyment in reading is key to independent learning, and also has a direct impact upon children's progress in every area of the curriculum. Therefore the effective teaching of reading and the celebration of reading for enjoyment, throughout our school is a key priority.
Reading is taught regularly and skills reinforced across the curriculum. At White Mere, we teach reading through a combination of approaches:
- Focused literacy lessons
- Whole class shared reading
- Guided reading outside the literacy hour
- Daily phonics sessions outside the literacy hour
- Paired and group reading by pupils
- Individual reading sessions (KS1)
- Application of key reading skills through the creative curriculum
- Library time for free reading and introduction to new texts
- Home reading with parents
- Introducing authors as role models
- Celebrating annual book events – World Book Day
- Travelling book fairs
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Hugh Heaney, brother of poet Seamus Heaney, pictured with Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson, at a portrait unveiling at Stormont in Belfast in November 2015.
The new museum
Fran Brearton, director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
A brother of Seamus Heaney has come out in support of the A6 road upgrade near the poet's homeplace ahead of a planned protest against the project at the opening of a new museum in Bellaghy.
Work has begun on the section of the main Belfast to Londonderry road which is expected to cost about £160m but legal papers have been lodged in an effort to challenge the upgrade in court due to concerns it cuts through 'Heaney country'.
However Hugh Heaney, sibling of the late poet, has said objections from those who claim the new road build would ruin the landscape made famous by the Nobel laureate, are without foundation.
"Heaney's country is there and Heaney country will be there forever," he told the BBC.
"I have no objection whatsoever going where it's going, it's going through Heaney country but it will not do Heaney country any harm at all.
"Anahorish is still there, Lagan's Road is still there, Mossbawn is still there, strand of Lough Beag is not even touched, so the A6 is doing a great job taking away bottlenecks for thousands of people travelling every day."
It comes as a protesters are expected to picket the opening of the new Seamus Heaney interpretative centre on Thursday morning.
Their decision to hold the protest outside HomePlace on the day media will gather to cover the opening ceremony of this major visitor attraction has dismayed many.
It has also caused some embarrassment for the director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and Queen's University, Belfast, as the demonstration has been orchestrated by some students and staff at the university.
Professor Fran Brearton, who has been vocal in opposing the road, last night insisted there was no rivalry between the two centres.
"We were, and always have been, incredibly enthusiastic about it. I think it's the one thing that Northern Ireland absolutely needs and should do," she said.
She has insisted that the road protest has nothing to do with HomePlace.
"Queen's is not running the roads protest. The roads protest is in every way unrelated to the opening of HomePlace," she said.
She said she thought the protests were being organised by environmentalists worried about the wetlands threatened by the road-building, and not by academics from the poetry centre.
"That's a debate that is not being run by the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's," she said.
She added there were probably Queen's students who were involved, but they were not from the poetry centre.
However, at least one of the organisers of the protest is a student in the Heaney centre — and has played a prominent role in the ongoing campaign.
The environmentalists are angry at a decision by Sinn Fein Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard to plough ahead with a £160m dual carriageway between Randalstown and Castledawson.
Critics say it will devastate swathes of land that inspired Nobel Prize-winning poet Heaney to write some of his most famous works.
Earlier this month Belfast actor Stephen Rea — who helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Heaney — hosted a concert at the Lyric Theatre to raise awareness of the road plan.
Among those taking part were poets mentored by Heaney — Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson — as well as TS Eliot prize-winning poets Michael Longley and Sinead Morrissey.
Other well-known faces included pianist Barry Douglas and environmentalist James Orr of Friends of the Earth.
Professor Brearton said that the poetry centre and interpretative centre had always worked together.
"We're drawing it up as a formal partnership but it really is anyway… and we always knew they were going to be two very different things.
"What was needed in Northern Ireland was a kind of Seamus Heaney visitors' centre, which a university can't provide."
She said the poetry centre at Queen's was created for poetry and creative writing research, as Heaney himself wanted it.
It was created to be an academic centre, and isn't a museum or a place for tourists.
"Following Heaney's death, that is absolutely what's needed here," she added.
"We've never thought about it in any other way than that we would double up and collaborate on these things as much as we possibly can," Prof Brearton added.
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Maybe you attended the Electric Daisy
This year Bud Light Platinum sponsored it, importing VIP guests from Manhattan to
Calvin Harris, Afrojack, Alesso, Tiësto, DJ Snake, Cedric Gervais, Bassnectar and the 17-year-old Martin Garrix headlined, among others. They played hits (Turn Down For What, Summer, Animals, etc.) on four stages outfitted with pyrotechnics and lasers under the auspices of a giant winking owl. All oriented to maximize teenage energy and nonstop dancing.
The party is a multi-sensory event with carnival rides, giant mushroom and flower sculptures and bands of dancers dressed like they came from a psychedelic Mardi Gras. One hundred thousand people attended—most were costumed in neon and covered in body paint and the kind of exhilaration only a late-afternoon thunderstorm in the middle of a stadium rave can elicit.
Indeed, festivals like this are big money these days. Think of it: EDC general admission tickets cost $215 (prime seats cost $500) with hundreds of thousands of ravers attending every year in cities like London, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Orlando, Dallas and Mexico City. And it's not even the biggest festival out there. At Coachella earlier this year, 150,000 hipsters and hangers-on bought out the entire desert festival in 20 minutes. According to Billboard Boxscore, Coachella grossed $67 million in 2013, making it the highest-grossing festival ever.
Others, like Tennessee's Bonnaroo, Chicago's Lollapalooza, Austin's SXSW and even Mysteryland in upstate New York routinely report more than 100,000 people in attendance, all of them paying for tickets that typically start around $150.
What's more, premium sound companies like Funktion-One (it created the rumored million-dollar set-up at Brooklyn's hipster nirvana Output nightclub) are providing the medium for the message. Service costs on a system like the one Dan Agne commanded under an enormous tent at EDC New York can hit $50,000—and that doesn't even include the price of the speakers themselves.
So it's no surprise that Bud Light Platinum isn't the only brand capitalizing on the luxury side of business by keeping guests in climate-controlled suites and giving them special access to special food, drinks and DJs. Budweiser (also from the Anheuser Busch portfolio) is probably the best company currently culling major talent: Jay-Z curates its Labor Day Budweiser Made in America Festival that has Kanye West headlining in LA with Kendrick Lamar headlining in Philadelphia). Such partnerships allow the brand proximity to premium nightlife spaces like pop-up clubs and exclusive music performances—exactly the type of luxury experiences for which wealthy people will pay thousands of dollars.
"There is no greater environment to connect with our target than Electric Daisy Carnival," said Rob McCarthy, vice president of Bud Light.
Later this month at EDC Las Vegas Marquee nightclub is offering VIP packages that will grant access to private cabanas and table packages, golf-cart transport, swag bags with party favors and food with a private server. Those tickets cost $2,000—but at least you won't have to bring your own glo sticks.
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A lovely range of water features and fountains to suit all contemporary and traditional garden designs. Made from poly resin, our fountains are easier to move than their stone counterparts and extremely easy to keep clean. All of our features come ready boxed and are easy to install. We have an indoor and outdoor range, from Kingfisher, Gardman and Smart Garden


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Plano's Legacy West Project Aims For More Pedestrian-Friendly OutcomeTraffic around Plano's Legacy West development could be a headache for commuters for the next few days thanks to crosswalk construction on Legacy Drive leading to the entrance to the project.
DPS Investigating Wrong-Way Accident On Dallas North TollwayThe Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating an accident where investigators say a vehicle was traveling on the wrong side of the Dallas North Tollway early Saturday morning.
Portion Of Dallas North Tollway To Close This WeekendA heads up for drivers traveling in Collin County this weekend - a portion of the Dallas North Tollway (DNT) will be shut down in both directions in Plano.
Part Of Dallas North Tollway Closes This Weekend; Expect DelaysPart of the Dallas North Tollway is undergoing a facelift, and that means closing it for the entire weekend.
Portion Of Dallas North Tollway To Close For Bridge DemolitionIf you plan on traveling on the Dallas North Tollway in the Plano area this weekend, or if you live there, the NTTA is going to close a portion of the road for a bridge demolition.
Wrong-Way Driver On DNT Hit Several Cars, Charged With DWIA woman is under arrest on suspicion of DWI after driving the wrong way on Dallas North Tollway and smashing into several cars Sunday night.
Bush Turnpike & Dallas Tollway Closed After Cement Mixer CrashAn accident involving a cement mixer has caused a major tie-up in North Dallas. Parts of two major highways are closed and another section is down to one lane.
Get Ready To Slow Down On Part Of Dallas North TollwayThe speed limit is being lowered between Beltline and Frankford Roads to 55 mph during construction.
Overnight Lane Closures On President George Bush Turnpike & Dallas North Tollway BeginVarious lanes and ramps on PGBT and DNT will be closed overnight beginning Sunday.
Dallas North Tollway Closures SaturdayClosures at Thoroughfare B and Dallas Parkway scheduled December 19.
Dallas Fire Truck & Police Car Involved In Early Morning CrashesThree people were arrested, and there were no injuries.
Explosion In Car Outside Of Plano BankPolice said that a chemical called difluorothane caused an explosion near a bank in Plano on Tuesday.
More Lanes Coming On 75 And The Dallas North Tollway In Collin CountyCollin County has its fair share of big road projects. One is wrapping up and another is just getting underway.
Road Closures Promise To Slow DFW DriversFresh off of the Independence Day weekend, traffic troubles promise to cause headaches for some North Texas drivers.
NTTA Lowers Speed Limits On Dallas North TollwayThe lowered speed limit is to help ensure safety for both drivers and workers during nearly three years of construction work.


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Wet & Wild weekends 2019
Wet & Wild weekends 2019
Claire Benn & Jo Lovelock again be offering a beginners course of using procing Dyes will be running Wet & Wild 1 as a series of 5 weekends and Jo & I will be teaching the last one . The booking retainer is £120 which pays for the last weekend in November.
The dates are:
January 26th & 27th
March: 16 & 17
May: 18 & 19
July: 20 & 21
September: 14 & 15
November: 16 & 17 Leslie & Jo
The teaching format of the programme will include explanations, discussion and practical demonstrations, and we'll provide a comprehensive set of handouts that include full recipes.
'Homework' exercises will be set after each session and we'd encourage you to do as much as you can in between sessions, although it's not obligatory! Practising at home will help to consolidate your learning, develop good technique, get to grips with the media and generally develop confidence: use it, or lose it! As such, you need to consider laying in some stocks of dye and related chemicals, all of which can be supplied through the studio, or bought from the various suppliers on the website.
Wet and Wild Testimonials
SESSION 1 – JANUARY 26th & 27th
The first session will introduce you to the use of Mx dyes in liquid and thickened paint format. We will explore:
Soda Ash: preparing the cloth to take the Mx dyes.
Dyes as paints: key ingredients/chemicals, making Chemical Water & Print Paste, mixing dye paints.
Adjusting value & consistency: altering the dye paints to get different consistencies and values.
Basic colour mixing: an introduction to getting complex colours.
Scraping: here you'll explore the use of a credit card or small squeegee to scrape colour on to your cloth. This technique can be used to 'over-dye' existing marks or imagery and/or as an initial ground of colour for subsequent layering.
Exploring mark-making tools: you will undertake mark making with a variety of tools such as squeeze bottles, rollers, printing plates, brushes etc.
Soy Wax: using Soy Wax as a resist, and using other types of resists directly on the cloth.
Batching & Rinsing: the key elements and variables.
You will make a start on exploring layering colour, value and imagery on this first weekend.
SESSION 2 – MARCH 16th & 17th
The second session will enable you to explore in more depth the layering of colour, value and imagery. Whilst you will have the option of working on 'virgin' pieces of cloth, we will be encouraging you to develop and layer the cloth you have in progress from Session One. We will explore:
Introduction to Composition: the key principles & tools.
Introduction to the silk screen: you will explore four key approaches to using a silkscreen, including using a blank screen and making designs from freezer paper, stick-backed plastic and flour paste. We will also help you to develop good technique. In addition to using the silkscreen with Mx dyes, you'll also be introduced to…
Formosul Discharge: health and safety with discharge media, making discharge media as a liquid and thickened paste, applying and activating the media, stabilising the cloth.
Thermofax screens: an introduction to using thermofax screens including suitable imagery, making a thermofax screen and developing good technique.
SESSION 3 – MAY 18th-19th
Topics in this session will be a little weather-dependent, so we may email you and change the plan a little!
Breakdown Printing: with the chance of good weather, we will cover how to make a Breakdown Screen on the Saturday and you will print your own off on the Sunday. For this activity you can choose to use a decent-sized 'virgin' piece of cloth or use something pre-dyed in a pale value of a colour of your choice.
Dry monoprinting: a spin on classic monoprinting techniques which you'll prepare on Saturday and print on Sunday.
Reminder on composition: whilst we will have been discussing composition throughout (as we learn to layer and develop pieces of cloth), in this session we'll discuss some works-in-progress in terms of composition and ways forward.
Surface Design: continuation of development of work-in-progress.
SESSION 4 – JULY 20th - 21th
Our fourth session will enable you to explore the world of acrylic products and paper lamination, including:
Using acrylic/fabric paints & mediums: the world of acrylics & fabric paints, different mediums, guidelines for use.
Fractured laminations: using plain newsprint, your first fractured lamination will help you to understand the fracturing process and generate a large-scale stencil for you to use later with thickened dyes, discharge paste or fabric paints. You will then move on to use newspaper to make a start on an 'art' lamination.
Building on the art lamination: various ways of using your art lamination including layering it with fabric paints, backing it with coloured or printed cloth and stitching.
Paper Lamination stencils: you will have the opportunity to use your stencil with dye paints, discharge paste and/or fabric paints. You can choose to do this on virgin cloth, or continue to layer a work-in-progress.
Laminating art papers: a different approach to lamination using art papers.
SESSION 5 - SEPTEMBER 14TH & 15TH, Jo and Leslie teaching:
Your final session with Claire and Jo covers:
Consolidation: time will be allowed for you to continue moving works-in-progress to completion.
Happy Endings: various approaches to finishing and presenting art textiles.
SESSION 6 – NOVEMBER 16th-17th
Flour Paste on screen
Interfacing stencils
Semi-permanent screens ( screen filler and drawing fluid)
Positive and negative images for screens
Tray Dyeing
Leslie will bring in her work, and screens so you can get to know her before you have to make the choice whether you continue on to Wet & Wild two, or the Colour Course and Creative Play Course!
If you choose to register for Wet & Wild Level 1 you will be committing to attending all five weekend sessions costing £120 per session, so a budget of an annual class fee of £600 will need to be allocated. A deposit of £120 will be taken on registration, which will effectively pay for the last session. All other sessions will be paid for at the end of each weekend and a card reader is available at the studio. Please diarise all sessions, as it is difficult to catch you up if a session is missed and please note, payment must be made even for a missed session. If you have a difficulty with one of the weekends please contact Leslie.
Teaching hours will run from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Please turn up between 9-9.30am and if it's helpful to arrive earlier to avoid traffic, we will ensure the studio is open for access at 8:30am. The studio will close at 6.00pm.
Whilst tea, coffee and biscuits will be available all day, please ensure you bring a packed lunch for each day. We have a microwave if you wish to re-heat soup or ready meals.
The programme fee covers tuition, the use of the facility, tools and media but DOES NOT include your cloth. There is a large selection at the studio for you to choose from, or you can of course buy from other suppliers. BUT… please do not use calico or very cheap fabric. Whilst calico will eventually yield good results, it takes a lot of time and effort for that to happen and results are always initially disappointing. The cloth must be natural fibre; cotton, linen, viscose/ rayon, hemp or silk (but not wool). If you bring your own cloth, please make sure it is scoured before use (we will provide information on how to prepare for the first class on registration).
You will also need to invest in 2.75m of drill cotton to use as a dropcloth, and two or three rolls of sturdy sheet plastic to roll your cloth in whilst it's curing. The studio stocks both.
We will advise you as to what to bring in advance of each session, but generally speaking…
wear old clothes (and/or bring a cloth apron),
always bring well fitting rubber gloves.
your cloth (which in time will include work-in-progress).
your lunch (tea, coffee, water and biscuits will always be on tap).
sheet plastic (available to buy at the studio at £2.50 for a 2x1.25m piece).
dropcloth (available to buy at the studio at £4.50 a metre, and you will need 2.75m)
a notebook and camera
Please note :
It is important to wear sturdy, flat, rubber-soled sensible shoes with good support. (you'll be standing a great deal and the floor is concrete).
Many students complete a City & Guilds programme, a Diploma, or Wet 'n Wild and then wonder; what next? Various options on ways are available to enable students to be part of a group.
Wet & Wild, Level II This is the recommended course immediately after Wet & Wild 1
A continuation of Level I enabling students to further explore surface design and layering of multiple processes. This programme is run as a day-a-month event.
Stitching with Intent: construction and stitch based with the option to engage with wet processes as your 'plan' dictates.
Working with Intent: working towards a specific plan or goal with your cloth using wet or dry processes.
COLOUR with Breakdown Printing
This is a 5 day retreat which is one of the best courses you can take. The greatest challenge in making complex cloth is to achieve the appropriate colours and tonal contrasts to achieve successful layering. This course gives you a way to create a personal study of colour and how to mix and achieve the colours you want and experience in layering them.
Unlocking the Mystery of Creative Play
'How do I make better work?' We will look at simple language and principles of design found in the physical world. Working from a personal starting point, discover tools to create contrast and harmony using colour, value, size, shape, and texture. Bring your curiosity to discover what you like and how to achieve the elements you need to work with your theme and create effective compositions. This is a 5 day retreat in 2019 or 2020!: Creative Play Course


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A Tailored Opinion: Blogger of the Week
If you have a Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or any interest in the ever-changing and ever-growing fashion world, then you have seen your fair share of bloggers. Oh to follow their perfect and fabulous lives! They jet-set all over the world to amazing places. They get to wear all of the relevant fashion by the most brilliant designers. Let's not forget that they get to be front row at fashion shows with the likes of our favorite celebrities and the who's who of the fashion world. What about the fact that they get to go backstage at all the events of any and all of the fashion weeks that occur around the globe. They have the life don't they? One blogger, turned fashionista, that has recently caught my eye is Chiara Ferragni. Otherwise known as The Blonde Salad. Her blog, which was just started in 2009 has now reached new heights receiving over 85,000 views per day and over 9,000,000 per month.
Born and raised in Italy, Ferragni has taken the world by storm. She has flown all over the globe to attend all sorts of fashionable events. She has modeled, hosted events, participated in multiple high profile charitable events, and more recently she has broken barriers and has shown her talents as a designer. Her shoe line which was started in 2010 , is all made in Italy and is growing and expanding every season.
Her Instagram (username: ChiaraFerragni) in particular, is where she showcases her fabulous street style. With posts everyday from different spots around the world, this fashionista allows you to tag along on her amazing and fashion-forward journey. If you don't believe me, see for yourself! Here is some of her most recent and memorable posts. (All pictures in this post have been obtained from her official Instagram).
Her fashion is always very versatile. She can be very casual and chic, like this photo as she walks around a very cold NY. Can her hair be more fabulous by the way?!
What is the best about her posts is the insider access you get through her. She documents almost every awesome activity she does, for example her backstage access to the VS Fashion show (which is happening as I type, so she keeps her followers up to date!)
She shares her everyday looks as well as her photos from recent campaigns or photo shoots! She travels all over the world and so she shoots with many fabulous names and brands.
One word: Makeup!
And there you have it folks! Just a sampling of the fashion forward posts of Italian Blogger Chiara Ferragni, otherwise known as the Blonde Salad.
Perhaps you're now inspired to follow her fabulous life and who knows, maybe start a blog or column of your own.
The possibilities are really endless.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The United Soccer Coaches announced its 2017 NCAA Division III Men's Scholar All-South Region teams on Friday and Washington and Lee had four athletes honored.
Junior midfielder Will Hamryka (Dawsonville, Ga. / Greater Atlanta Christian School) and senior midfielder Andrew Kim (Blacksburg, Va. / Blacksburg) were named to the first team, while senior goalkeeper Gillen Beck (Blacksburg, Va. / Blacksburg) and junior forward Dylan Ritch (Mint Hill, N.C. / Independence) received second team accolades.
A chemistry major, Hamryka saw action in 21 games for the Generals. A First Team All-ODAC and second team all-region honoree earlier this season, Hamryka led W&L with six goals, while also dishing out two assists. His 14 points tied for first on the squad.
Kim started 21 games for the Blue and White and ranked third on the team with 13 points on four goals and five assists. The accounting and business administration major also notched a team-best three game-winning goals. Kim earned Second Team All-ODAC honors earlier this season. He finished his career with 13 goals and 10 assists for 36 points.
Beck started 21 games for the Generals and posted a 0.97 goals-against average, which ranked fifth in the ODAC. The three-time All-ODAC honoree also registered a .783 save percentage, 72 saves and seven shutouts. Beck earned the 2016 and 2017 ODAC/Va. Bureau Scholar-Athlete awards. He also garnered CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-America accolades this fall.
A mathematics and physics double-major, Beck registered a 0.88 goals-against average, which ranks second in program history, while his 16 career shutouts are tied for third in program history.
An accounting and business administration major, Ritch appeared in 21 games for the Blue and White. He dished out a team-best six assists, while also totaling four goals. His 14 points tied for first on the team. Ritch earned third team all-conference honors earlier this season.
Washington and Lee completed the 2017 season with a 15-5-2 overall record and a 7-2 conference mark. The Generals made their third straight appearance in the NCAA tournament and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000, falling to eventual National Runner-Up, North Park, 3-0.
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Director: William Morrison, MD Co-Director: Adam Zoga, MD
Tuition: $250/day, $1,200 per week, $900 for each additional week up to 1 month, $500 for each additional week after 1 month.
Approximate # of MRI/CT cases per day: 80; 2,500 per month
This fellowship is geared toward the individual desiring flexible advanced training in Musculoskeletal Imaging. The participant can custom-tailor a self-directed program to include observation of MRI, CT, and radiography readout, as well as interventional bone and joint procedures. This fellowship program incorporates advanced imaging of shoulder, knee, foot and ankle, hip, wrist, elbow, and professional sports medicine imaging. Approximately 30-40 MR arthrograms (direct and indirect) are reviewed each week. Procedures include biopsies of bone and soft tissue, arthrograms, nerve blocks, disc aspiration and discography. An extensive digital teaching file is available for review. Personal consultation on individual cases and protocol selection is available.


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This was an exciting week for my company Bon Education and our partner Curriki in the Middle East, as interest continues to grow in our efforts to create an Arabic version of Curriki–i.e. an open source platform that would house open source Arabic language curricula and learning objects created by teachers and education stakeholders in the region.
Today, a story was printed in the National (UAE) about our efforts titled, "Arabic move to put lesson plans within UAE teachers' reach". The following is a brief excerpt from the article written by Kathryn Lewis:
"One of the things we know that improves teachers is for them to build their own knowledge, to get engaged in what they're teaching," Dr Kurshan said.
Curriki, she said, encouraged teachers to get involved in the design and implementation of lesson plans, rather than simply presenting the content of a lesson without engaging the material.
"If you can engage teachers in building their own knowledge they are going to have a significant impact on students and their students will do better."
"Teaching is one of the most isolated professions. They spend a lot of time in their classrooms behind a closed door and they don't have an ability to ask other people if what they are doing is having an impact."
To the sharing of knowledge and curricula across borders, languages and professions!
P.S. To learn more about Curriki's curricula and teaching projects around the globe, watch this video. To tell a friend about the site and to give him/her access to the 32,000 free learning resources Curriki has to offer, click here.


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No criminal charge for a friendly escape from Mexican Prison
In some jurisdictions, such as in the United States, escaping from jail or prison is a criminal offense. In Virginia, for instance, the punishment for escape depends on whether the offender escaped by using force or violence or setting fire to the jail, and the seriousness of the offense for which they were imprisoned.[2][3][4] In other jurisdictions, the philosophy of the law holds that it is human nature to want to escape. In Mexico, for instance, escapees who do not break any other laws are not charged for anything and no extra time is added to their sentence;[5] however, officers are allowed to shoot prisoners attempting to escape.[6] In Mexico, an escape is illegal if violence is used against prison personnel or property, or if prison inmates or officials aid the escape.[7] @Curionic


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Archive for November, 2012
Protective Cast Boot
Are you hopping around with a plaster cast on your foot and ankle? A cast boot like the one pictured above is designed to make your life a little easier. Strap this cast boot on your cast to make walking outdoors easier, protect your floors, and protect your foot.
Whatever the cause of your foot pain, your doctor decided to immobilize your foot and ankle. Your recovery can be made a little easier with a protective cast boot.
Th unique bungee closure system built into this boot make it easy to slip on and take off.
Plantar Fasciitis Night Splint
A common treatment option for heel pain is a night splint. Often times the heel pain that is felt first thing in the morning is related to plantar fasciitis. A night splint is designed to provide a gentle stretch while sleeping so upon waking there isn't any heel pain.
Plantar fasciitis night splints come in different shapes and sizes. These foot braces are designed to be worn while sleeping – not walking. The better night splints available will have a non-slip or non-skid tread on the bottom of the braces but this is simply to help get back and forth to the bathroom or kitchen at night. Night splints are not orthopedic walking boots.
Walking Boots
A walking boot is great alternative to a plaster cast. Walking boots can help patients get around easier, they can be removed for bathing, the liners can be laundered, and they are far more comfortable.
Walking boots can be equipped with air bladders to provide compression to help alleviate ankle and foot pain. Since applying compression to an injury can do more harm than good most "Air Walkers" require a prescription. It is not a good idea for a patient to purchase an "Air Walker" over the internet. Patients need to be fit by a qualified medical professional.
Pediatric Arm Sling
A pediatric arm sling is designed specifically for children.
It is surprising how often children are given adult extra small sizes to support their broken arms, sprained wrists, or shoulder pain. This is not an ideal solution.
Children with orthopedic injuries should be treated with orthopedic splints and braces proportional to their body sizes, not just extra small adults. Also, parents should not be charged "adult prices" for pediatric products.
Emergency rooms and immediate care clinics regularly overcharge for arm slings.
Golfers Elbow Brace
Why are professional golfers so good at golf? Because they hit a lot of golf balls. So it make sense that if you want to eliminate your slice, stick the green more often, or get out of the sand in one, you need to practice those shots.
Repetition is the key to practice. Repetitive stress can also cause elbow pain. If you have been working on your game and find that your elbow hurts, a brace designed specifically for golfer's elbow might help.
It is important to realize that a golf elbow brace must be worn before the elbow pain starts. They are designed to prevent pain by reducing swelling. Wearing a brace like this this after your elbow starts hurting is like reading the green after your putt.
Elbow Brace
A padded elbow brace provides protection to the elbow with a substantial cushion. They are often used for conditions like tendonitis, bursitis, elbow pain, and elbow injuries.
The "memory foam" used in the cushion of these braces make them confortable and highly effective at protecting sensitive elbow injuries.
Elbow braces should be washed regularly and allowed to air dry between uses.
Lacing Wrist Brace
Why use a lacing wrist brace? There are several reasons.
1. Intimate Fit – these braces are universal in size so they are adjustable. A patient can adjust the stay pods to ensure the best fit possible.
2. Comfort – Patients can choose how tight to make the laces – this allows them to control the compression. Patients know their wrist pain – who better to decide how tight to make the wrist brace?
3. Ease of Use – These braces are easy to put on and take off. Why is that important? Well patients can only use one hand to put the brace on, and the wrist they are applying the brace to most likely hurts.
4. Protection – These wrist splints do their job. They provide protection, stability, and support.
Tiny Titan Thumb Brace
The Tiny Titan Thumb Brace is universal sized lacing thumb and wrist brace. It offers excellent protection and stability for the little thumb that got hurt. The Tiny Titan is manufactured by Hely & Weber. Hely & Weber has been manufacturing high grade orthopedic products for close to twenty years. This thumb brace is adjustable and easy for children to use. The Tiny Titan Thumb Brace is appropriate for thumb sprains, strains, hyperextension and sports injuries. This brace is rigid enough to provide the protection you expect, and comfortable enough to be worn all day long.
Finger Splint
Finger splints are often used to treat dislocations, finger joint pain, and finger dislocations. A baseball finger splint is usually constructed of foam and aluminum. They are easily moldable and tape isn't required. Did you jam your finger? This type of splint can help.
Lumbar Sacral Orthosis
A lumbar sacral orthosis is a back brace that requires a prescription and must meet specific criteria. For an insurance company to reimburse for a back brace of this caliber, the back support must be prescribed by a doctor, fit by a certified professional, and be built with rigid panels in the front and back of the brace, and the panels must extend from the sacrococcygeal junction to the T-9 vertebra.
A Lumbar Sacral Orthosis (LSO) is often used to treat back pain resulting from bulging, herniated, or slipped discs, post-operative stabilization, stenosis and facet syndrome. These braces provide very specific support, compression, and stability.


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I honestly don't remember why I got to poking around at the Smashing Time label site (I think it was The Honeydrips) but while there I was immensely entertained by this Alingsas, Sweden band. Very twee, very nice. The only downside was to be greeted by the following.
Smashing Time has released its last record. No more Smashing releases. But, of course, you can still order the old releases through the shop. All titles that are listed in the shop, are still in stock.
We'll try and make the best of it.
Second-Hand Furniture
Nice Try, Sunshine mp3
People Like You mp3
You Are Not the Same mp3


text: TPP's death may make patrolling the South China Sea more dangerous. Reuters December 8, 2016 How the TPP's demise threatens US national security and Pax Americana Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan The main arguments in favor of the TPP were economic. But there's another reason the Trump administration should rethink its promise to nix it: Its demise will weaken US national security.


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If you were wondering why Democrats support Planned Parenthood even though they are illegally selling baby parts the real answer has nothing to do with women's health issues, it's cold hard cash. According to Fox News the taxpayer-funded women's health care and abortion provider's employees, and their political arms have donated at least $25 million to Democratic Party lawmakers over the past 15 years
The money, which flowed through an extensive web of Planned Parenthood employees, political action committees and soft-money donors accounts for 99 percent of all political donations linked to Planned Parenthood, leaving little doubt about the partisan preference of the organization. Amid calls for ending the organization's roughly $500 million in annual federal funding, Planned Parenthood may need its political muscle more than ever.That's a ton of cash. Of course planned parenthood doesn't directly donate to politicians and causes, but their PAC can.
"These types of contributions -- any contributions -- to public officials are important and they do sway votes," said Jeanne Zaino, a political science professor at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y.
In addition to direct donations to the campaigns of Democratic lawmakers around the nation, Planned Parenthood employees and affiliates spent $12 million on lobbying efforts during the same span, according to documents examined by FoxNews.com.
Planned Parenthood's political arm, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, works with scores of state, regional and local PACs and affiliates that seek to influence elections on every level. It is funded by private contributions and is not permitted to use the organization's funds even as it advocates for the organization and contributes to candidates sympathetic to its cause.Remember last week's failed vote to defund Planned Parenthood? Here's a little fun fact.
Voting against the measure were several lawmakers who received some of the $884,574 Planned Parenthood's PACs and supporters contributed to candidates and parties last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The largest recipient, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., received $22,290 and voted with other Planned Parenthood-backed senators including Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, Al Franken, of Minnesota, and Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, to block the move.Here's the bottom line, since the 2000 elections, every Senate Democrat who has voted not to defund Planned Parenthood has received a contribution from Planned Parenthood PACs and/or their supporters
Democratic senators from so-called "red" states also have received sizable donations from Planned Parenthood PACs and supporters. Since 2006, Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has received a little more than $26,000; Jon Tester, D-Mont., $19,000 and Heidi Heitkamp, D-S.D., has received $5,300.
Some current and former Planned Parenthood employees donated more than $100,000 to mostly Democrat-supported candidates and causes. Aimee Boone Cunningham, of Austin, Texas, donated a total of $233,000 to the Super PAC Planned Parenthood Votes, Democratic congressional candidates and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee between 2012 and 2014. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, she was most recently the vice president of development of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. She also has been the deputy director of the Texas Democratic Trust and the deputy executive director/finance director of the Texas Democratic Party.
"Their donation priorities demonstrate that, obviously, Planned Parenthood knows who will support their agenda no matter what," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said. "I am hopeful that the senators who voted against redirecting Planned Parenthood taxpayer funding will listen to the millions of people around the nation that are mortified that their hard-earned money is being used to facilitate the trafficking of children's body parts. Federal funding for Planned Parenthood shouldn't be a partisan or lobbying issue."And after what's a few thousand dollars to guarantee your organization can continue to kill and mutilate babies that are still in their mother's wombs, then sell their body parts for a nice profit?