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FILLED Wilbur Whale Shark Personalised Bean Bag - Silver
Bean bags are a favourite form of seating in our house. They get dragged from room to room for everything from Lego play to reading, acrobatics and movie nights.
After many happy hours of lounging around testing different shaped bean bags this triangle shape was a clear winner for us because the shape gives you somewhere to rest your head.
This bean bag measures 1m long x 75cm wide by about 70cm high.
This listing is for a bean bag FILLED with bean bag beans. This option is only available for Australian customers at this stage due to postage restrictions.
For International customers the unfilled version can be found here https://www.honeysuckleandlime.com.au/products/whale-shark-bean-bag-chair-personalised-silver-and-navy-unfilled
Internationally the bean bag fill can be easily purchased from Amazon or for more specify details on where to purchase please contact us.
These bean bags are made of a heavy weight OEKO Certified 100% cotton and screen printed with 100% non toxic water based inks. The outer bag is machine washable and is closed with an invisible zipper along the front edge. We include a separate inner calico bag with a safety zipper to make sure that the beans never escape. The bean bag has a handle on the back which can be personalised with your little ones name.
I hope that this bean bag becomes your little ones happy place.
Please leave me a message in the notes section at checkout with your little ones name to add to the handle.


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Happy Halloween from Mutineer Magazine
From everyone at Mutineer, have fun, stay safe, and drink something good.
From everyone at Mutineer, have fun, stay safe, and drink something good.
In a sting operation in the whimsically-named Nottinghamshire, England, liquor stores #FAILED miserably in their age verification efforts when an 18 year old successfully bought fine alcoholic beverages using an ID with cartoon Bobby Hill's picture and a stated age of 17.
From the article:
More than half of the 22 shops tested by the county council trading standards operation either served the teenager alcohol without asking for identification, or accepted fake ID, even though it identified that he was underage.
A total of seven stores failed to ask for identification and six checked his false ID card but still sold him the alcohol.
As a result of the poor performance by alcohol retailers, the local authorities are "considering using a child with a fake ID" to see if that inspires a more encouraging response. If it doesn't, this writer is predicting authorities are likely to simply give up.
Simon Majumdar, author (Eat My Globe, Eating for Britain, Dos Hermanos) and TV personality (Iron Chef America, The Next Iron Chef, and more), now prepares to embark on his biggest journey yet: to earn American citizenship. Living by the saying "Go Everywhere, Eat Everything," Simon will use this mantra to discover what it means to be an American citizen.
This is where you come in, dear Mutineer readers. Simon wants us to help him discover what it means to be American by sharing our food and beverage culture with him. No, not by sending him to The French Laundry (though I doubt he would decline!), but he wants to take it beyond that.
According to Simon, "If you are a brewer, winemaker or distiller, I want to come and help you make your wine, beer and spirits. If you are a farmer, I want to come and help you harvest your crops and sell them at farmers markets. If you are a restaurant owner or run a food truck, I will come and help in your kitchens, serve customers and even bus tables. If you are a hunter I want to be with you as you show me your skills and how you break down the carcasses of the animals you stalk. If you are a fisherman, I want to head out into the rough waters with you as you catch some of the finest fish and seafood in the world and if you are a cheese maker, I want to join you getting elbow deep in curds."
He takes this even further, to suggest being involved in chili cook offs, joining family celebrations in vibrant ethnic communities to learn about their cuisine, attending food festivals or festivals celebrating a single ingredient, and more.
The "FED, WHITE & BLUE" journey will begin in early 2013 and will form part of his research for a book and a potential TV show of the same name. Do you have a suggestion? Let Simon know at firstname.lastname@example.com
My suggestion, Simon, would be the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this October. Join 49,000 of your closest American craft beer loving friends for a celebration of all things American craft beer.
Brewers, winemakers, distillers, teamakers, mead makers and more, what are you waiting for?
Are you a bartender?
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Can you make a tasty, creative, and original recipe using Luxardo products?
Would you like to be flown out to compete overlooking San Francisco at Anchor Distilling Company's Penthouse Bar?
If you win, would you like to be flown to Italy to visit Luxardo?
If you just answered yes five times, what are you waiting for? Submit a recipe for the Luxardo Cocktail Cup! Less than a week is left before the submission period ends on August 14! Join us at the Anchor Distilling Company Penthouse Bar, as you battle the finalist from each market and present your original cocktail to our panel of incredible judges to include: Matteo Luxardo, 6th generation Luxardo; David King, President of Anchor Distilling Company; Francesco LaFranconi, who doesn't need an introduction; Alan Kropf, Mutineer Magazine; and one TBD.
To enter and to view the complete rules, visit the Luxardo Cocktail Cup page.
For you ladies out there that have been drinking a daily White Russian to get your recommended supply of whatever it is in milk to fend off osteoporosis, a new study out of Oregon State University suggests that moderate alcohol consumption on its own may help prevent bone loss.
The study was published in the scientific journal "Menopause", which I personally read for its witty sense of humor and random beverage story nuggets such as this.
From the study:
A new study assessed the effects of alcohol withdrawal on bone turnover in postmenopausal women who drank one or two drinks per day several times a week. Researchers at Oregon State University measured a significant increase in blood markers of bone turnover in women after they stopped drinking for just two weeks.
The researchers found evidence for increased bone turnover – a risk factor for osteoporotic fractures – during the two week period when the participants stopped drinking. Even more surprising: the researchers found that less than a day after the women resumed their normal drinking, their bone turnover rates returned to previous levels.
"Drinking moderately as part of a healthy lifestyle that includes a good diet and exercise may be beneficial for bone health, especially in postmenopausal women," said Urszula Iwaniec, associate professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU and one of the study's authors. "After less than 24 hours to see such a measurable effect was really unexpected."
So, in summary, we now know that it is no coincidence that menopausal women, book clubs and cheap white wine go together like Kahlua, vodka and non-dairy creamer. If this study is correct in its conclusions, then women of an older variety are likely to be hardwired at the genetic level to get their daily alcohol intake in the name of bone longevity, and that's a win(e) for fine beverages.
I read Playboy for the articles. No, really!
The Editors over at Playboy have just released this year's list for the best bars in America, which they've divided up into four sections; dive bars, seduction spots, classics, and mixology. Overall, a pretty good selection, many of which I've been to, including Yountville's favorite (and only) divebar Pancha's. In the Napa Valley and sick of Cabernet? Need a place to drink a can of the Silver Bullet and smoke…indoors…? Panacha's is the place!
Congrats to all those nominated.
To celebrate a campaign fighting counterfeit and illegally trafficked liquor bottles, the Pakistan Coast Guard did the only logical thing: run over thousands of bottles with a steam roller.
According to The News International:
To observe International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, a huge quantity of drugs and tens of thousands of bottles of liquor were destroyed at the Hawkesbay beach by the Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG) on Tuesday…The aim is to educate the people about the risks of drug abuse, especially among the youngsters, who are the future of the country.
It should be said that as a human male, breaking glass is woven into my DNA, so to utilize glass breaking as government protocol at a scale necessitating steam rollers is, well, awesome. It'd be like arming police officers with fireworks or deciding small claims court decisions with video games…while impractical, it does win serious points for morale and overall excitement.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing to ban sugary drinks and soda a larger than 16 oz. in size from restaurants, theaters and other food and drink venues in the city. The ban is meant to help combat obesity problems, and those who violate the ban if passed could face a $200 fine.
The proposal has been met with great controversy, including Jon Stewart's take on the situation which he discussed with London Mayor Boris Johnson on a recent episode of the Daily Show.

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wives. The traditional picture of the proximation to the structure of nature. American Family in Europe has the He does not even know whether there foundation of truth usual in carica- is any such thing as ultimate truth or tures; so have the adventures of Mr. ultimate reality. As a scientist he Jiggs. Woman is the culturally active works on 'verifiable hypotheses with member of American civilization, and an extending fringe of theory,' to be she drags man, feebly protesting, in her verified in its turn. So at any moment wake.
he may say, 'This, which I have hithBut now, as to the value of pure erto believed to be true, I now find is science, art, and religion, that is, their only partially so. Accordingly I change value apart from their practical or my belief.' social uses.
The whole idea of unchangeable Scientific work is disinterested; it is truth and of pure dogma is, in fact, concerned only with the discovery of unscientific. Recently, for instance, truth and the increase of knowledge, our ideas upon the constitution of matnot in any way with its effect upon ter and the 'law of gravitation' have society. The value of science lies in been subjected to severe revision. this disinterested quality, and in its Popular protests were actually pubinsistence upon accuracy, so far as that lished against Professor Einstein on the can be attained. Pure science has no ground that he was wrong (apparently respect for old established traditions, morally wrong) to disturb the Newbeliefs, or superstitions, except in so tonian law; but every scientific man far as they can stand the test of ac- knew that Newton's 'law'was as much curate investigation; it insists upon subject to revision as any other sohonest thought. Science is therefore called 'law' of nature. These 'laws' cathartic; it cleanses our thought from are only human approximations to an sloppy, half-realized ideas and beliefs. unknowable reality. Science can have The first essential of the scientific no dogmas. But such a condition of attitude is that our thoughts and our flux in belief is very unpleasant to beliefs, whatever may be their nature, many men. They demand nice clear shall be perfectly clear and definite; the facts! "This is true, that is false; this is second is that they shall not be in good, that is bad.' And these values conflict with facts, so far as we know are to be the same forever. One functhem. As a consequence we must tion of pure science is to destroy this never fear a new truth because it simple attitude, and to substitute for it appears to be in conflict with a former the divine curiosity, the endless desire belief. We need more men who will to know, by which alone the mind can insist upon truth though the heavens develop fall.
Science insists that there is no But what is truth? This is an im-' opinion which may not be subject to portant point upon which the practical criticism; even more, that every opinion mind attacks science.
must be subjected to the severest critiNo scientific man ever supposes that cism, provided only that the criticism he will or can attain to ultimate truth. is sincere. It is by continual critiThat is a question for metaphysics cism that our knowledge is increased. rather than for natural science. The Yet how many men to-day are willmost that the scientist can do is to ing to submit their political opinions to attain to a slightly more accurate radical criticism, or to consider raddescription of and a slightly closer ap ical opinions as worthy of rational
icadical crimit theinen to-das increastiti
criticism. Most of us make efforts him to sincerity. For the one social toward a more scientific attitude of crime which the artist can commit is mind, and we know how difficult is the insincerity, and sentimental art is the scientific attitute toward a 'cherished only real immoral art. The artist is the opinion. But we know also how great man who feels deeply and sincerely, is the reward when we persist in such and who can convey these feelings to an attitude. It is firm ground beneath others; and if he is to do his best work our feet.
he must be concerned with no other end The scientific attitude is more than than art. Art for art's sake does not the investigation of nature: it is the mean art abstracted from life, but art attitude of moral and intellectual valuable as itself, independent of utility, honesty.
economy, or morality. And such art We value the artist to-day less than should pervade life, making for honest the scientist, because it is more difficult workmanship and honest design in to find a practical use for him. We have everything we have or use. We can already indicated some of the uses feel rightly about even the shape of a commonly assigned to art, and a little spoon or a chair, just as we can feel rationalizing will produce further prac- rightly about the destiny of a nation. tical virtues even in the fine arts. So In this view 'old masters' cease to long as department stores and banks have any very great value. They were find a commercial value in imposing once the fresh vision of a prophet, they buildings, so long will the architect are still interesting and beautiful be allowed to be, or to hire, an artist. expressions of eternal humanity, but So long as well-drawn advertisements they are not of that intense and imare considered to be profitable, so long mediate importance to us which is will commercial artists be supported; possessed by the artistic vision of and so long as the possession of pictures to-day. is looked upon as a social asset, so long The ordinary man, however, in so will 'art-lovers' who cannot afford old far as he thinks about the matter at masters make a virtue of buying the all, prefers to rest content with those products of to-day. There are and will visions of beauty which satisfied his always be a few to whom art is a part of great-grandmother. So, when a painter life; but, in the main, art, literature, and or a writer produces work which has an music are to-day regarded as embel- immediate bearing upon present-day lishments to be rated according to life, particularly if it exposes some their commercial or social value. comfortable emotion inherited from his
But just as science frees the intellect, great-grandmother, or if it considers so art frees and cleanses the emotions. life from some point of view unseen by The artist is the emotional expert that lady, the average man is flicked in whose function is to expose false or the raw. A fresh vision in art is even outworn emotions, passions, and prej- more irritating than a fresh knowledge udices, to show what is noble and what in science. Fresh views in anything are is base in life without regard for the indeed usually branded as 'immoral.' feelings of any man. All fine and Art is the cleanser of emotion, noble art is as cathartic emotionally science is that of intellect; what place as science is intellectually.
is then left for religion? This is a value of pure art, yet even The churches to-day are devoted to with this value the artist is not con- social endeavor, a most necessary and cerned except in so far as it compels useful work, and they are full of activity. They perform a very neces- To many of us the churches to-day sary part in our social organization; appear to be chiefly instruments of yet it is notorious that scientific men moral compulsion. Every faddist who and artists do not attend their services chooses to denounce woman's clothes, very regularly. For this the churches the way she cuts her hair, dancing, naturally blame the scientists and smoking, literature, sculpture, painting, artists — regarding them as "irreli- evolution, any form of social or moral gious. The scientists and artists say freedom, finds support in the churches. very little about it; they seem to find This view may be very unfair, but their lives complete without the aid of until some decisive body of church the churches. Yet they are probably opinion speaks out boldly on behalf of a very highly religious body of men. freedom, of the right of the individual For religion is not belief in any body of man to choose right or wrong, and to be dogma, it is effort of man to bring him responsible for his own choice, such a self into sympathy with the universe. judgment will be made. The churches It is therefore intensely personal. at present raise a chorus of denunci
It seems a pity that the beauty of ation, the ordinary man meekly acour own religion should be obscured by cepts their expert opinion, and then quarrels regarding the historic truth of pays no further attention to what he this or that narrative. Historic truth regards merely as a professional declais a matter for scientific inquiry ending mation. in a verdict of proved or not proved. Yet religion is a necessity for manIt should be kept apart from religion. kind not because it gives a supernatural
'The kingdom of God is within sanction to some code of morals, but you.' 'But rather seek ye the kingdom because it binds man and the universe of God and all these things shall be in sympathy. Coercion and repression added unto you.'
are police functions and no proper part Whoever seeks sincerely and faith- of religion. Indeed these coercive fully that which he believes to be true moral measures are simply confessions and right; whoever schools his intellect of failure. The reformer must needs in the sharp discipline of science, and regard his fellow creatures as either too his emotions in the equally sharp dis- weak or too wicked to lead decent lives, cipline of art, is not far from the king- so he must forbid every natural pleasdom. Not only is there no opposition ure lest it might be turned to evil. between science, art, and religion, but But there is no need to pursue the I would venture to assert that no man 'reformer' further, though he is one of can be deeply religious who is not in the saddest results of our over-socialsympathy with science and art. It ized society. He is one result of thinkcannot be contrary to religion to seek ing only in terms of the community and a further knowledge of nature or a ignoring the individual, and he is at further insight into human emotion. present doing infinite harm, for, by his Science and art are deeply religious in insistence on evil, he is breaking down themselves; for the better we know the barriers between real evil and good. ourselves and the universe of which we He is a negative creature. are a part the nearer we shall be to God. This is perhaps mysticism, nowadays
III rather out of fashion, yet many have questioned whether religion can exist Science is the cleanser of thought, without mysticism.
art is the cleanser of emotion, and
religion is the effort of man to bring Meanwhile of course the first reform himself into unity with the universe. required is that boys should be eduWe cannot live without all three, and cated by men, not by underpaid girls. in all three there is a common feature. The Boy Scout movement is in the Their reward is not in the end ac- right direction in that it is at any rate complished, but in the effort. The an effort by men to influence boys. scientist's work is unending—as he But the virtues inculcated in the Boy attains one step the next is before him. Scouts are the general human virtues When the artist has completed a work it such as bravery, endurance, kindness, has to him no further value; he looks and courtesy. Perhaps young boys are forward to a finer view. Religion is hardly capable of learning the manly without end, and must deepen in har- virtues of abstract science and art, or mony with a deeper appreciation of the necessity of doing their own thinkthe Universe. To this deeper apprecia- ing. I am afraid, too, that boys are tion both science and art must con- sometimes taught to be docile, and that tribute.
is not a virtue at all. However, they To all men the joy of work should be rarely learn. the joy of life, work without regard to The next step is possibly to get a economics or efficiency or organization; good deal of the prevailing utilitarianfor, if we have the right attitude to our ism out of our universities. At present work, a sufficiency of these things will these are mostly technical schools, very be added to it. At present our humanity useful and necessary institutions, but is in danger of being choked by efficien- of very little help to the active mind. cy, and work is too often a thing to be But the only reform which will ever endured for the sake of its end instead do any permanent good is a change in of loved for its own sake.
public opinion. When the thinker, the It is the business of the men to set scientist, the artist, and the mystic are these things right, and to bring back respected regardless of their wealth or into our lives some measure of the of their economic value — then our abstract and disinterested virtues. I civilization may hope to match even sincerely hope that women may in that of war-scarred Europe. time be successful in business and in These reforms will not be brought administration, and that they may in about, if ever they come, by organipart drive out men from these occupa- zations or by campaigns or by slogans, tions, compelling them at last to attend but by a stirring in each man's mind to those important matters which they impelling him to seek freedom. This is are best able to undertake. Then per a man's business. But the men seem to haps we may have a revaluation. be all asleep.
As for the first time over Dead Man's Brow
With arms well-nigh out of their sockets jerked
At length I lifted a huge slab that lay
With knee-joints drawn up to its jowl, it clasped
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"The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
WEBSTER was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no substitute for sense;
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience,
He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact possible to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
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-- TS Eliot, 'Whispers of Immortality'
"the more perfect the artist, ... the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material"
|On Tue, 1 May 2012 01:11:32 -0700, Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I remember in one of the Tavernas, I was with some English fellows. We
started trading nick names
>for various things. I was trying to find out the english slang for condoms,
but they didn't know any of
>my north Aremican slang, so Ifinally blurted out, prophyllactics. The
taverna went silent, and everyone
>(all men of course), looked at me. Apparently that is the Greek word for
condoms. :) Sheepish look
>on my face.
>Curoious what one remembers.
Why, for all of us, out of all that we have heard, seen, felt, in a
lifetime, do certain images recur, charged with emotion, rather than others?
The song of one bird, the leap of one fish, at a particular place and time,
the scent of one flower, an old woman on a German mountain path, six
ruffians seen through an open window playing cards at night at a small
French railway junction where there was a water-mill: such memories may have
symbolic value, but of what we cannot tell, for they come to represent the
depths of feeling into which we cannot peer. We might just as well ask why,
when we try to recall visually some period in the past, we find in our
memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do
find there, the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments.


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Christopher is co-chair of the Advisory Board for the SCBWI. He has taught infants and primary grades (elementary) at schools across New South Wales as well as at Taronga Zoo in Sydney (working with both human and non-human animals). He has worked as a bookseller, as an educator at Purdue University (USA) developing science based educational CD-ROMs but now he has the best job in the world. He is a full time children's author writing fiction (including historical fiction), picture books and non-fiction titles.
His recent publications include the picture books One Tree, New Year Surprise!, the shortlisted narrative non-fiction title Python, Water and the rhyming picture book Sounds Spooky. He presents talks and workshops at festivals, universities and schools around the world and has recently presented at international conferences in Singapore, Manila, New Delhi and at the SCBWI Summer Conference.
Christopher holds a Master of Arts in Children's Literature and again - he has the BEST job in the world.
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Spring-Friendly Suit And A Matching Hat: Queen Elizabeth II Barely Walks But Still Looks Joyous & Lovely
Duchess Camilla's Coat Dress Reminds Us Of Other Royal Ladies' Outfits, Including The Queen And Kate Middleton
Style Inspiration: The Countess Of Wessex's Birthday Red Midi Dress Can Be A Perfect Wedding Guest Outfit!
Skin-Tight & Red: Kate Middleton Chooses One Of Her Favorite Dress Designs At The UK-Africa Investment Summit
No More Titles & More Details In The Queen's Final Statement Regarding Meghan Markle And Prince Harry
"It's Toxic": Harry And Meghan Felt They Were Forced To Step Back Because Of Isolation And Pain, Reports Claim
Queen's Granddaughter Zara Tindall Has A Passion For Race But Now She's Officially Banned From Driving For 6 Months
Palace Responds To Harry & Meghan's Bombshell Announcement To Quit From Royal Family: Queen Had No Idea, Reports Say
Farewell, Sussexes: Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Are To Step Back From Royal Duties As 'Senior' Royals
Kate's Mini-Me: Princess Charlotte Masterfully Copies Mom Kate Middleton's Curtsy To Her Majesty
Congratulations! Harry And Meghan's Son Archie Made A Sweet Debut In The Queen's Christmas Speech
So Cute! Fans Can't Get Enough Of Princess Charlotte's Adorable Curtsy To The Queen At Christmas Service
Prince Philip's Health Update: Prince Charles Shares Several Words Regarding His Dad's Health Condition
New Scandal In Royal Family: Queen Faces A Wave Of Criticism For Transporting Her Crown In A Separate Car
Kate Middleton Goes Stunningly Festive In A $2,500 Plaid Dress And $5,710 Earrings As She Joins The Queen
Will The Queen Retire At 95? Palace Addresses Queen Elizabeth's Retirement Rumors In A Statement
"Well Deserved Recognition": The Queen Bestowed A New Honorable Patronage To Kate Middleton
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On 14 August 2018, Brazilian President Michel Temer signed into law the new General Data Protection Law (LGPD), the first detailed legislation on the subject in the country. The LGPD establishes a period of 18 months for data processing agents to adjust to its rules.
The new law follows the trend of reinforcing personal data protection, and its key provisions closely mirror the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), which took effect on 25 May 2018, and forced companies and other entities to implement changes in how they deal with personal data.
The LGPD applies to any agent (legal entity, individual or public agency) who performs data processing, a term defined in the law as "any operation carried out with personal data." Such definition may include the mere access to the data of employees, suppliers and consumers, and also the storage, transfer and erasure of such personal data. As such, the LGPD will impact different areas of companies, such as legal and compliance, marketing and HR departments.
According to the LGPD, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. It is also worth noting that certain data are qualified as "sensitive" and therefore have specific and stricter rules for their processing. Sensitive data includes personal data regarding religious beliefs, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, health conditions or sexual activities.
Following the extraterritoriality principles already applied in the European Union's GDPR, the LGPD relates not only to companies incorporated in Brazil, but also to entities that process or collect data in the Brazilian territory and to those that aim to supply goods and services to anyone located in Brazil.
The law also creates important new roles, such as the controller and the processor. While the controller is the individual or legal entity responsible for making decisions regarding the processing of data and is required by law to communicate any security incident that may create risks or material damages to the data subjects, the processor is the one who effectively processes the data on behalf of the controller. Most importantly, the law imposes strictly liability upon the controller and the processor in relation to the data processing activity.
Except for those activities in which data processing is expressly permitted in the LGPD, the agents must obtain the informed and unequivocal consent of the data subject both to the data processing and to the sharing of the data with other entities. Controllers must also adopt the concept of "privacy by default," ensuring that technologies work naturally and automatically to process only the minimum amount of personal data required to fulfil their specific purpose.
Likewise, the agents must inform the data subject, in a clear and specific manner, of any changes in the purpose or duration of data processing. Finally, the agent ordinarily will have an obligation to delete the personal data upon completion of the data processing—usually when the purpose of the data processing is reached or when the period agreed to for the processing ends.
The LGPD also lists a number of rights of the data subject that must be respected by the processing agents, and the processing agents have an obligation to keep the data subjects informed of their rights in a clear and accessible manner. The rights of the data subjects include the following:
- Easy access to data that has been collected;
- Anonymization, blockage or erasure of his or her data;
- Withdrawal of consent;
- Correction of incomplete or outdated data; and
- Portability of personal data to another good or service provider.
With respect to penalties, failure to comply with the LGDP by data processing agents may result in penalties, including: (a) warnings; (b) disclosure of the violation; (c) blocking or deletion of the personal data to which the violation relates to; or (d) daily fines, or fines of up to 2 percent of the sales of the corporate group in Brazil, limited to R$50 million per violation.
In order to comply with the new legislation, companies that process or collect data in Brazil will need to adopt various measures and adjust their internal policies concerning the processing of data of their customers, vendors and employees. In that sense, management will need to involve different business areas to make sure the necessary adjustments to their business are put in place before the LGDP becomes effective in 2020.
Originally published by Duane Morris & Selvam LLP.
Disclaimer: This Alert has been prepared and published for informational purposes only and is not offered, nor should be construed, as legal advice. For more information, please see the firm's full disclaimer.


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Frances Eliza (FREE)
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From Raleigh, NC, 19-year-old Frances Eliza is a singer-songwriter and guitarist, currently studying voice at UNC Asheville ('22) pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemporary Music. Although studying jazz voice now, she has previously studied classical voice with private instructors in Raleigh, NC, as well as with instructors at Brevard Summer Music Institute and Appalachian State University.
Frances has been performing solo since she was 13 years old, getting her start by performing at local fundraisers and open mics. Having performed for audiences up to 2,000 people, Frances Eliza performs unique sets of originals and covers reflecting her eclectic musical background. Her older sister, Eleanor Mehlenbacher (Duke '16) and her have been singing together since she was 4 years old, and the two of them have performed together at events like Raleigh's March for Our Lives rally against gun violence, Cary's Annual Christmas Tree Lighting, Cary's Young Talent Showcases, and at many other local events. For the past year she has been playing at local breweries and coffee houses around the Asheville area, playing a range of new originals and covers.
Frances blends her love of songwriting with her passion for jazz, classical, bluegrass, and folk music. She takes inspiration from various musical artists such as Amy Winehouse, First Aid Kit, Alice Phoebe Lou, Punch Brothers and Gregory Alan Isakov. Frances has been featured at numerous events, just a few being Raleigh's SparkCon, the Raleigh March for Our Lives rally, Imurj's Artist Spotlight series, Asheville's Echo Fest, and First Night Raleigh Rising Artist Showcase.
Her bittersweet music and raw vocal timbre comes to life in her debut EP "Sleepwalking," which will be released Friday, December 13th, 2019. During the Fall of 2019, look for Frances performing at various venues in western North Carolina, primarily in Asheville, NC. Starting December 12th, she will be on a mini tour with the band Secret Pool playing at venues across NC, some of which include Local 506 (Ch. Hill), Static Age Records (AVL), and The Pour House (Raleigh).


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Ford Reportedly Operating On A Small Pickup Truck
Although the aim is not long for the US, it appears that Ford is operating on a small pickup vehicle, the media claimed. The unnamed sources of the media state that the unibody & new vehicle will slot beneath the Ranger and will be fueled by a range of transverse-equipped, turbocharged, and naturally aspirated four-cylinders. Design work and engineering reportedly started off various months back and the first samples are claimed to hit the test beds shortly.
Sources also claim that the compact vehicle will most expectedly (and quite instinctively) be dubbed as the Courier. It seems that Ford even filed a patent for the name earlier in July 2016. Proper Ford fans will observe, on the other hand, that a Courier is already present in the form of a Fiesta-based, small truck traded in South America. One more possible name for the small vehicle might be Ranchero—a legacy moniker taken from an El Camino contestant that Ford developed all over the '70s and '60s.
On a related note, Ford is powering the limited manufacturing of its $400,000 GT supercar to sustain with requirement, the firm earlier claimed to the media. The Ford GT is the company's answer to high-performance sports vehicles from rivals such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Porsche, and others. Orders have been overtaking supply, indicating Ford to increase production from the 1,000 GTs that it initially planned to manufacture in 2016 to 1,350. The firm is also expanding its manufacturing deadline to 2022 from 2020.
"The reaction to our Ford GT has been unparalleled, with original demand outpacing supply by over six-to-one," claimed director of Ford Performance, Hermann Salenbauch, to the media in an interview. "By expanding the Ford GT manufacturing run for a restricted period, we are capable of maintaining the individuality of the ultra-desirable super vehicle while providing the ownership experience to a large pool of users."
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NBA: The Golden State Warriors start off the 2018 season Tuesday, October 16th against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It is the last year for the team at Oracle Arena, in Oakland. Straight off their back to back championships, the team looks to start it all back up against one of their rivals.
Usually I wouldn't bet a point spread this high, but this game will be different. The warriors are healthy this year, coming into the start of the season (With the exception of DeMarcus Cousins of course). The Thunder on the other hand are not. Their superstar Russell Westbrook underwent a knee procedure in mid-September, and although he is practicing with the team, he has not been cleared for full-contact. Center, Steven Adams and Guard Andre Roberson are also on the injury report list. They are questionable for the game Tuesday.
Without 3 of Thunder's 5 starters playing, a healthy Golden State team might be too much for them to handle. Even though the Warriors will be receiving their Championship rings before the game, They will be focused enough to out last the injury riddled Thunder. This one might get ugly fast. Take the Warriors -12.5
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Pink & Green Thursday: Shabby Chic
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21 comments:
Loving the photo of the pink floral bedding against the green wall. Hope you are having a great day! xo
- June 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Unknown said...
i love that lil moroccan table!
*kiss kiss*
~Tiptoe Butterfly~
- June 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- Same Sweet Girl: Memoir of a Southern Belle said...
I love shabby chic!!! That pillow in the second picture is beautimous!! :D
Forgive me...but I just now read your profile! I have a good friend who is in residential planning!! She just started her own business and she's doing really well! Good luck! :)
- June 10, 2010 at 11:57 AM
- Debby said...
I'm loving the pictures.
- June 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- ~*~ saskia ~*~ said...
Thanks for the eye candy and the inspiration! The last picture is the cutest! Would love to take place ^_^
- June 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM
Every photo is beautiful.
They inspire me.
- June 10, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- Christina Elaine said...
I love the flowers... gorgous post....
- June 10, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Diana Mieczan said...
I love the little pink table and that tea pot is so cute!!!
Ahhh I am dreaming now:)
Kisses darling and have a beautiful day
- June 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- and flowers pick themselves said...
so delicate + lovely. thanks for sharing!
xo Alison
- June 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Leah said...
That first side table is so stunning! Love it!
- June 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Leslie, Lemon Sweet Life said...
I love the picture of the flower! Glad you decided to play along!
- June 10, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Unknown said...
You do the best pink and green posts! I love how soft and romantic they are! XO!
- June 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- georgia ~ gi gi said...
Pink is a quiet color. Lovers of beauty favor pink.
This soft pink post is so lovely!
I hope you have a wonderful friday!
- June 10, 2010 at 10:49 PM
- michelle b @ every little thing inspired said...
seriously, you find the BEST assortment of photos, i love them all!!
stop by for a little giveaway when you have a minute!!
- June 11, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- Rosie said...
oh yes this is VERY shabby chic...and
quite decadent...such softness...well done...have a joy filled weekend...smile on Rosie
- June 11, 2010 at 1:02 AM
- Barbara von Enger said...
So feminine and picture painterly.
Here's wishing you much joy this weekend;-)
- June 11, 2010 at 1:54 AM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
Love the turquoise shelves with china in, of course!! So many dreamy pictures, if only I could just live in them all!
Hope you have a great weekend!! :-)
- June 11, 2010 at 5:09 AM
- ALFIE said...
oh how i love all these flowers! that bedroom wallpaper is gorgeous! love the softness here!
- June 11, 2010 at 5:26 AM
- Jennifer said...
So soft & romantic!!
- June 11, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- elena nuez said...
your work is just magical!
- June 12, 2010 at 4:09 AM
- Trish {Pink Preppy Lilly Lover} said...
Oh honey, you are such the ultimate QUEEN of Shabby Chic fabulousness!
I hope you don't mind that I will be emailing you very shortly for a guest blog appearance, because you are incredible with your pink and green selections, and I know I would be in the best of hands with you!
- June 13, 2010 at 8:40 PM


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Whenever the Olympic Games are held, the host city undergoes colossal changes.
On the occasion of the XXXI Olympics that are being held in Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic and Sports Museum is hosting a temporary exhibit displaying the changes borne by the Brazilian metropolis as it strives to be the venue for this event.
Barcelona 1992 is still the reference when planning the upgrading of stadia, decentralisation of large areas by constructing Olympic facilities and improving public transport in, and access to, the city.
Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch
- Temporary Exhibits Room
- Every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Gameday. Game 15. Penguins @ Bruins.
Monday, November 4, 2019
TD Garden
TV: NHL Network, TVAS, SNE, SNP, SNO, SN1, AT&T Sportsnet
Radio: 98.5 SPORTSHUB, 105.9 'The X'
Helllloooooooo everybodyyyyy, the Penguins (8-5-1) hit the road for a brief two game trip in which they'll play the Boston Bruins (10-1-2) and the New York Islanders. Stop one, tonight in Boston. Puck is scheduled to drop from TD Garden at 7pm.
The Penguins fell to Mike Smith and the Edmonton Oilers in overtime on Saturday by a score of 2-1. Yes, that Mike Smith in case you were wondering if it was somehow a different Mike Smith. That same Mike Smith that you know and probably don't remember much about made 51 saves. The Penguins came out buzzing and played well for the duration of the game. Their lone goal came from defenseman Brian Dumoulin, shorthanded too. I will say, the overtime frame was some of the best hockey I've ever seen. It's an absolute gimmick but god damn is it enjoyable. The Pens and Oilers traded chance for chance until Leon Draisaitl won it for Edmonton by chipping the puck over Matt Murray's blocker.
The Bruins are an absolute wagon of a hockey team. They enter play tonight on a five-game winning streak and are 7-1-2 over their last ten games. While the Penguins are "playing the right way", as head coach Mike Sullivan would say...nothing seems to go right up in Boston. In fact, I'm pretty sure they have not won a game in Boston since Sullivan took over as head coach, however, they did manage to go 2-0-1 against the B's last year. Their loss coming of course...in Boston in overtime by a score of 2-1 thanks a to Joakim Nordstrom goal.
For the Penguins, expect Matt Murray in goal. Backup (although he could be a starter on a lot of teams) Jaroslav Halak will go for the Bruins. The B's are playing their first of a back-to-back. They will be in Montreal tomorrow night.
The Penguins health streak lasted a total of two periods. It was announced yesterday that forward Patric Hornqvist will be out 'longer term' with a lower-body injury. LOL. He was placed on injured reserve.
Expect Dominik Kahun to return to the lineup tonight.
Despite some good looks, the Penguins are now 0 for their last 19 on the power play. That's honestly not good.
Per the Penguins, Matt Murray is 5-1-1 in his last seven games with a 1.97 goals against average and a .926 save percentage. Just sucks he doesn't smile more. Poor guy.
After some digging, because I wanted to see if I was right, the Penguins are 0-5-1 in Boston dating back to December of 2015. Buckle up. LMAO.
Apparently Brian Dumoulin's wife had a kid yesterday and that's why he wasn't at practice. I guess that's an ok reason. He should be in the lineup tonight.
Sidney Crosby enters tonight leading the Penguins in points with 17 (5G, 12A). David Pastrnak leads the B's with *stares blankly* 27 points (13G, 14A).
Honestly, I'm prepared to be mad.
Follow along on Twitter - @PensOfAnarchy.
Do it.
Go Pens.
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Junior Smith joined Express Solicitors in October 2013 as part of a new Apprentice scheme run by Manchester Metropolitan University. He shares his views on this new scheme in an interview below.
Name: Junior Smith
Hometown: Warrington
What A Levels did you study?
I completed my A-levels at Priestley College in Warrington and studied; Politics (B), Law (A*), Psychology (A) and BTEC extended Sports Diploma.
What was your first job?
My first role involved catering for an agency in St. Helens, so similar to waitering but in a large, busy kitchen.
Why did you decide to do an apprenticeship scheme?
After achieving good grades at college, I suddenly had many options available to me and initially it was difficult to choose which career path would be most suited to my needs. At first I was indecisive and contemplated whether to go to university full-time and pursue a 3 year law degree. This would be, closely followed by the LPC and then a two-year training contract, which is generally the standard pathway to becoming a solicitor.
Whilst deliberating which university to attend out of the ones I had offers for, I was advised by the student support centre at Priestley College about a brand new apprenticeship scheme for legal students. I was informed that the scheme would consist of a combination of attending university, so completing coursework and exams, as well as working within a law firm. I decided to undertake the apprenticeship scheme due to it allowing me to gain extensive experience that would hopefully distinguish me from other law graduates.
I understand that the legal environment is very competitive, so as well as having the academic achievements to stand out; I know that it's vital to have the experience to show that you can demonstrate your competence in a more practical form.
How do you think this scheme will benefit you?
I hope this scheme will benefit me by broadening my experience within the legal environment; and at the same time helping me to keep financially stable whilst studying. I'd say the most advantageous aspect of my apprenticeship is being able to earn money and qualify without having to take out a student loan or have any debt.
Eventually I hope to become a qualified solicitor and the route I'm on now requires no training contract. At the end of my apprenticeship once I have completed all of the relevant levels, I will hopefully be a fully qualified chartered institute legal executive (CILEX). In addition to this, once qualifying fully as a legal executive, I would then undertake the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and on completion of this be qualified as a solicitor.
Furthermore, during my time working in a legal environment I hope to build a network of connections as I feel this is a vital component towards a successful career in the legal industry.
Whilst undertaking my apprenticeship I can benefit from all of the perks of being a full-time student such as the NUS card and student discounts.
Finally, alongside all of the legal qualifications that I'm working towards I also get training in ICT skills to learn Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
What have you been involved with at Express Solicitors?
I have done a diverse range of work so far at Express Solicitors involving; creating physical files for the fee earners, working with the New Client team in a busy operational role to ensure the files are passed to the correct department be in Road Traffic Accident, Employers Liability, Clinical Negligence or Public / Occupiers Liability. In addition I have attended a PADA with my mentor and continue to build experience in the field of Personal Injury Litigation.
What have you learnt so far?
I feel as though I've learnt a great deal about how a law firm operates in terms of the exact procedures of how a claim is run from start to finish.
I have also learnt that as an apprentice it is important to be proactive with your development at the firm. As I learn new things I will ask to do new things, such as attend court, to build on my knowledge.
What lies in the future at Express Solicitors?
The next step for me at Express Solicitors is to start taking client enquires in the new client team. This role will involve drafting legal documents, speaking to clients over the phone and face-to-face communication and attending court.
I also have a number of exams and law units to study as part of my apprenticeship. The next law units involve topics such as client care skills, introduction to law and practice, and law of tort.
As well as doing exams I also hope to further my academic achievements by completing a mooting competition and various other law events in the near future.
Junior will be representing Express Solicitors at the MMU Legal Apprenticeship open day on Monday 3rd March. Come and say hello! Find out more here: http://www.law.mmu.ac.uk/legal-services-apprenticeships-open-day
If you're interested about a possible legal apprenticeship at Express Solicitors, please send your CV and covering letter to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Advantages of offshore bonds
- Bonds are non-income producing assets so there are no annual tax return reporting requirements for investors.
- Funds can be switched within the bond without giving rise to a capital gains tax (CGT) or income tax liability on the bondholder and with no tax reporting requirements.
- Up to 5% per annum of the initial investment can be taken for 20 years without incurring any immediate income tax liability. The 5% withdrawal is a cumulative allowance so if no withdrawals or smaller withdrawals are taken in the early years, then higher withdrawals can be taken in later years.
- For the purposes of the £100,000 personal allowance for income tax, these 5% per annum withdrawals are not taken into account when calculating taxable income.
- Income received gross within the bond will only suffer income tax on future encashment of the bond, when a partial surrender is made, or when withdrawals in excess of 5% per annum of the initial premium are taken. When this occurs, the bond is subject to the 'chargeable gain' regime and is taxed to income tax. Chargeable gains may benefit from top slicing relief, which can reduce or remove any higher rate liability to take into account the number of years that the bond has been in force.
- Using multiple lives assured for a life assurance contract can avoid a chargeable event on death of the policyholder. Alternatively, a capital redemption contract where no lives assured are required can be used.
- The bond can be assigned by way of a gift without giving rise to an income tax charge. There might be inheritance tax (IHT) considerations and bonds can only be assigned to individuals aged 18 years or more.
- Bonds can be gifted into trust and assigned out of trust without giving rise to an income tax or CGT charge. Inheritance tax charges might apply.
- Access to a wide range of underlying investment options.
- Ability to appoint third-party custodians and discretionary managers on offshore bonds that have 'open architecture'.
Disadvantages of offshore bonds
- On encashment, chargeable event gains can suffer income tax up to 45%.
- As withdrawals from a bond are assessable to income tax, it is not possible to use personal or trustee CGT allowances to reduce gains.
- Base cost of the investment is not re-valued on death for income tax purposes. On death of the last of the lives assured, income tax and IHT may be due.
- Death of last of the lives assured on life assurance contracts will create a chargeable event, even if policyholders are still alive.
- Investment losses cannot be offset elsewhere.
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"The content is fascinating and timely but the delivery is infuriating." Read on for the verdict on last night's TV.
China: Triumph and Turmoil, C4
"Is there anybody who can look quite as pleased with himself as Niall Ferguson? The content is fascinating and timely but the delivery is infuriating – oddly confiding and condescending by turns."
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
"Ferguson was less annoying than usual, partly because he had abandoned his usual schtick of taking a deliberately contrarian or counter-factual position, but mainly because the speed of change, combined with the scale and sheer otherness of the country can't fail to be gripping TV."
John Crace, The Guardian
"Unfortunately the size of the topic, like the size of the nation itself means that it might take a while for Ferguson to come round to his main argument."
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
"Ferguson smiled for the cameras. But in the absence of being able to explicitly challenge what he saw, his humour made do as the greatest act of iconoclasm he could commit."
Alex Hardy, The Times
"The show, a queasy mix of true crime and ostentatious moralising, is a big hit in Henan province. And nobody – not even the criminals themselves – appears to have questioned whether it might just be in bad taste."
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
"The real fascination of the program lay with Ding Yu, the show's interviewer, who effortlessly switched between being a manipulative diva and a bit of a softie."
John Crace, The Guardian
"A chilling insight into what TV should or shouldn't do."
Alex Hardy, The Times
Scott and Bailey, ITV1
"It was all a bit too try-hard… but the characters were as rich as ever. Surely it must be possible to make a show with women lead characters without having to make every male a complete dork?"
John Crace, The Guardian
"A promisingly compelling return."
Alex Hardy, The Times
Coronation Street, ITV1
"TV policing has clearly changed a lot since the days of Dixon of Dock Green. Back then the suspect didn't have to prove their innocence. It was the coppers' job to prove them guilty."
Matt Baylis, Daily Express


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It sounds appealing and even noble to center life around your children. However, this thinking will only bring heartbreak instead of blessing. Only God can be the center of your life. Your children, or anyone else, cannot bear that weight! If your hopes and dreams are bound to your children, you will become disappointed, perhaps even bitter. If you expect your children to provide the comfort and support that can only come from God, you will be deeply hurt. You will set yourself up to be disappointed and crushed when your family fails you. No child, no spouse, no other person, can provide comfort that can only be found in God. God will have no other gods before him. Your first loyalty must be to God and God alone.
Children who have become the primary objects of their parents' dreams and aspirations will either be crushed or alienated. This unbalanced child focus is actually a form of relational abandonment. It is not the children who are being cared for, but the self-interest of the parents.
Parents, love God, love your spouse, and in love, prepare your children for the dangerous world that is waiting for them. This is love that truly cares for your children. Doing anything other than this will make your love for your children into an exercise of self-gratification. Your children cannot be your salvation, any more than they can be their own. This self-serving, child-first focus will ultimately damage you, your children and your marriage. Attempting to save your life through your children will consume you and them. Do not live for your children. Live for God!
If you do not love God first, you will not be able to love your children well. Teach your children, even your toddlers, that they are not the center of your world. God has already claimed that position.


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- Brains donated following the death of three men will serve as baseline for interactive map
- Creators share the work with the world in the hopes of collaborative research into gene structure of brain
By Eddie Wrenn
UPDATED: 04:14 EST, 20 September 2012
The Allen Institute for Brain Science, based in Seattle, created the atlas so that other researchers can compare and contrast their own findings from brain scans and genetic surveys, with the hope that having a 'baseline' to work from will unveil more secrets about psychiatric conditions.
The atlas was created from the scans of three 'clinically unremarkable' brains – donated following the deaths of a 24-year-old and 39-year-old man, and half a brain from a third man.
There are more than 20,000 genes in the human genome, and around 84 per cent of them are active within the human brain.
To create the atlas, the scientists first of all scanned the brains, before chopping them into small pieces. For each piece, they scanned for and recorded the activity levels of the 20,000 genes.
When the scans of the two complete brains were compared to each other, the team found what they believe is a 'genetic blueprint' for how the brain may be mapped out – with so many similarities in gene placement and usage.
Their next aim is to scan a female brain to see how it compares to the other gender.
Professor Seth Grant of Edinburgh University, who helped create the map, said: 'The human brain is the most complex structure known to mankind and one of the greatest challenges in modern biology is to understand how it is built and organised.
'This allows us for the first time to overlay the human genome on to the human brain.
'It gives us essentially the Rosetta stone for understanding the link between the genome and the brain, and gives us a path forward to decoding how genetic disorders impact and produce brain disease.'
It is commonly-known that people use each side of the brain for different purposes, with 'creative' tasks coming from the right side of the brain. However researchers saw no such divide within genes, suggesting another mechanism controls how we handle different tasks.
With the map available to the public at http://human.brain-map.org, it is hoped that other researchers can compare their gene research against the atlas, improving our knowledge of our most vital organ.
Institutes such as Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics have already announced they will use the map to help research genes and brain symmetry. More than other 4,000 researchers have already used the tool.


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Church restored in a wrong manner in Albania; Criticism of Intervention in the Church of the Apostles
The Church of the Apostles in Hoshteva, Zagori is being restored. This rare monument of medieval cult and art risqued from decades the loss of frescoes. But the project that costs about 19 million lek is contested by experts due to the technique of restoration.
Initially, the restoration project started with the dismantling of the church's jetty and its reconstruction. The highly-criticized technique got applyed even to the back wall of the Church. One of the local technicians says the monument is undergoing a flagrant and careless interference that is demolishing the identity.While Reshat Gega, the restorer architect, says the technique is unacceptable and is hurting the value of this object.
However, according to Culture Minister Mirela Kumbaro, this complicated interference operation is the only opportunity to save the facility that has major constructive problems.
The Church of the Apostles or known as St. Petros and Pavllo's Church is the only one that has resisted the time of the 24 churches of the deeper zone of Zagori in Gjirokastra.
The debate on rescue techniques in the restoration includes, in fact, some of the important national heritage sites in the south of the country such as the Church of Labov's Cross, Saint Koll's Church in Mesopotam, Kosin's Church in Përmet, Dhermi church or restorations in the historic area of Gjirokastra.
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Having a home printer can be quite a convenience. You don't have to save your files on random USB sticks or cloud accounts and then pay to use a computer at a corporate printing place, or try to get to the library during operating hours. Indeed, when you have a 123inkcartridges.ca printer at home—and many affordable machines, now, can not only print but also scan, copy, and fax—you can save a lot of time and energy. Of course, you can also save quite a bit of money, too.
But owning a printer also means that you have to deal with the occasional problems that arise with machines of this type. Yes, technology can—and does—make our lives easier, but that doesn't mean they are perfect.
As such, here are the most common issues most people have with home printers:
Printing speed is relative. Some machines just print faster than other machines (and if you paid very little for the machine there is a good chance the print speed is not the fastest), but if you find that your printer is taking longer to complete a job than it usually does there are several things you can do.
First, you should try reducing print quality. This will also save you ink but the density of text will be thinner so it may not be optimal for what you want to do. You can adjust ink quality in the print properties setting of the printer application. The default setting for print quality is typically "normal" so you can adjust this to "fast" or "draft" to see if that solves your problem.
Wireless printers sometimes have a delay between sending the data and printing the text so you can try plugging the printer directly into the computer, too. That gives you a more direct signal that might alleviate the problem.
Common to Windows sometimes you will find that the print job has been completed but there is no result in the printer. This is usually the result of Windows sending the job to the wrong printer. To fix this you can check which outlet is receiving the print job every time you print or you can change the default printer in the Devices and Printers folder in the Windows applications menu.
If your print jobs are not dark enough, are spotty, or have horizontal lines it is usually an ink problem. You might need to replace the cartridge but it could also be an issue with the printer head, which may also need replacing, or just cleaning.


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Top 10 Electronic Signature Tools for Landlords
Written on September 20, 2016 by Lucas Hall, updated on December 2, 2016
Online leasing is the future of property management. But to ratify a contract, all parties must still sign it.
This article discusses the options for electronically signing a lease and other rental documents online so that you can run a more efficient rental business.
It's important to note that "digital signatures" are different from, and generally more secure than, "electronic signatures," although both are legally binding. An electronic signature tool places a signature image onto a document, and digital signatures are digitally linked to a specific individual and carry additional metadata, which can be useful to determine whether a document has been tampered with after signing.
We can use electronic signature tools in real estate, and doing so makes our lives much easier.
The Benefits
- Can be accomplished remotely
- Easily accessible, as most online tools work from a mobile device
- Legally binding, according to the ESIGN Act of 2000
- Can speed up the signing process
- No more illegible fax copies (AMEN!)
- Most tools automatically deliver copies of the signed document to both parties
The Myths
- Myth: It's not a real signature.
Response: What is a signature other than a mark performed by an individual? The medium is unimportant.
- Myth: It's illegal or won't hold up in court.
Response: No, read the ESIGN Act of 2000.
- Myth: I'll lose all my documents if the company closes down.
Response: Back up your files, or store them elsewhere. Every digital signing company allows you to save your files to another location.
My 3 Favorite Tools for Lease Signings
My three favorite tools for lease signing are HelloSign, SignNow, and DocuSign.
HelloSign does a fantastic job of integrating with Google Apps and gives you three free signings per month — perfect for a small landlord. The downside is that your tenants will have to also sign up for an account in order to sign.
SignNow is a bit more robust and offers unlimited signings for as low as $5/month — still a bargain. Plus, it does not require a tenant to sign up for an account. Believe it or not, I've had tenants gripe about not wanting to sign up for another online account.
DocuSign is a full-fledged signing system designed for professionals of all types. It is the industry leader among real estate agents, lawyers, and settlement companies — but it's also more expensive. For me, having only five properties, I wouldn't use most of DocuSign's extra features.
I can see both SignNow and DocuSign being used by professional property managers with multiple employees needing to conduct electronic lease signings. All three of these three lease-signing tools are wonderful, but they aren't the only providers.
Related: Ask Lucas 026: What are the Best Digital Signature Tools for a Rental Lease?
Top 10 Electronic Document Signing Tools
Here are the other the electronic signature tools that have earned my respect. This is certainly not a complete list of providers, but they are my favorites nonetheless.
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The Mazda 6 Signature has a standard 360-degree View Monitor to allow the driver to see objects all around the vehicle on a screen. The Sonata Hybrid only offers a rear monitor and rear parking sensors that beep or flash a light. That doesn't help with obstacles to the front or sides.
Both the Mazda 6 and the Sonata Hybrid have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, side-impact head airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners, front wheel drive, height adjustable front shoulder belts, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, daytime running lights, blind spot warning systems, rearview cameras and rear cross-path warning.
For its top level performance in IIHS driver and passenger-side small overlap frontal, moderate overlap frontal, side impact, roof strength and head restraint tests, its standard vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention system, its standard vehicle-to-pedestrian front crash prevention system, and its standard headlight's "Good" rating, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety grants the Mazda 6 its highest rating: "Top Pick Plus" for 2020, a rating granted to only 30 vehicles tested by the IIHS. The Sonata Hybrid was last a "Top Pick Plus" in 2019 but no longer qualifies.
From surveys of all its subscribers, Consumer Reports' December 2019 Auto Issue reports that Mazda vehicles are more reliable than Hyundai vehicles. Consumer Reports ranks Mazda second in reliability. Hyundai is ranked 6th.
The Mazda 6 Grand Touring/Signature's standard 2.5 turbo 4-cylinder produces 57 more horsepower (250 vs. 193) and 39 lbs.-ft. more torque (310 vs. 271) than the Sonata Hybrid's 2.0 DOHC 4-cylinder hybrid.
An engine control system that can shut down some of the engine's cylinders helps improve the Mazda 6 (except Turbo)'s fuel efficiency. The Sonata Hybrid doesn't offer a system that can shut down part of the engine.
For better stopping power the Mazda 6 Grand Touring/Signature's front brake rotors are larger than those on the Sonata Hybrid:
Mazda 6 Grand Touring/Signature
Sonata Hybrid
Front Rotors
12.6 inches
12 inches
For better traction, the Mazda 6 has larger tires than the Sonata Hybrid (225/55R17 vs. 205/65R16). The Mazda 6 Sport's tires are larger than the largest tires available on the Sonata Hybrid (225/55R17 vs. 215/55R17).
The Mazda 6 Sport's standard tires provide better handling because they have a lower 55 series profile (height to width ratio) that provides a stiffer sidewall than the Sonata Hybrid's standard 65 series tires. The Mazda 6 Touring/Grand Touring/Signature's tires have a lower 45 series profile than the Sonata Hybrid's optional 55 series tires.
For better ride, handling and brake cooling the Mazda 6 Sport has standard 17-inch wheels. Smaller 16-inch wheels are standard on the Sonata Hybrid. The Mazda 6 Touring/Grand Touring/Signature's 19-inch wheels are larger than the 17-inch wheels optional on the Sonata Hybrid.
The Mazda 6 has a standard space-saver spare tire so you can replace a flat tire and drive to have the flat repaired or replaced. A spare tire isn't available on the Sonata Hybrid; it requires you to depend on roadside assistance and your vehicle will have to be towed.
The Mazda 6 (except Sport) offers available computer-generated active noise cancellation to help remove annoying noise and vibration from the passenger compartment, especially at low frequencies. The Sonata Hybrid doesn't offer active noise cancellation.
The Mazda 6 has a much larger trunk than the Sonata Hybrid (14.7 vs. 13.4 cubic feet).
To allow full utilization of available cargo room, the Mazda 6's trunk lid uses concealed beam hinges that don't intrude into the trunk. The Sonata Hybrid's useful trunk space is reduced by its intrusive beam hinge.
The Mazda 6 Grand Touring Reserve/Signature has a standard heads-up display that projects speed and other key instrumentation readouts in front of the driver's line of sight, allowing drivers to view information without diverting their eyes from the road. The Sonata Hybrid doesn't offer a heads-up display.
The Mazda 6's power parking brake sets with one touch and releases with one touch or automatically. The Sonata Hybrid's parking brake has to released manually.
The Mazda 6's front and rear power windows all open or close fully with one touch of the switches, making it more convenient at drive-up windows and toll booths, or when talking with someone outside the car. The Sonata Hybrid's standard passenger windows don't open or close automatically. With the Sonata Hybrid Limited's power windows, only the front windows open or close automatically.
The Mazda 6's rain-sensitive wipers adjust their speed and turn on and off automatically based on the amount of rainfall on the windshield. This allows the driver to concentrate on driving without constantly adjusting the wipers. The Sonata Hybrid's intermittent wipers change speed with vehicle speed, but can't turn on and off or change speed based on changing rainfall.
The Mazda 6's optional rear and side view mirrors have an automatic dimming feature. These mirrors can be set to automatically darken quickly when headlights shine on them, keeping following vehicles from blinding or distracting the driver. The Sonata Hybrid offers an automatic rear view mirror, but its side mirrors don't dim.
Both the Mazda 6 and the Sonata Hybrid offer available heated front seats. The Mazda 6 Grand Touring Reserve/Signature also has standard heated rear seats to keep those passengers extremely comfortable in the winter. Heated rear seats aren't available in the Sonata Hybrid.
Consumer Reports® recommends both the Mazda 6 and the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, based on reliability, safety and performance.
The Mazda 6 was chosen as one of Car and Driver's "Top Ten" for 2 of the last 7 years. The Sonata Hybrid has never been a Car and Driver "Top Ten" pick.
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2.3 Building Foundational Knowledge
The CCSS call for K–5 multiple subject teachers to expand opportunities within and across grade levels to include more reading and writing of informational text. Teaching literacy through the technical subjects is an ideal way to accomplish this. The connections between literacy standards and technical subject standards call for curricular and instructional planning that promote deep, sequential learning of subject matter content while simultaneously building literacy skills.
Take a few minutes to read about this emphasis on content-specific literacy development:
Staying on Topic Within a Grade and Across Grades: How to Build Knowledge Systematically in English Language Arts K–5
This type of reading and writing encompasses all technical subjects, including the focus topic of this unit — VAPA (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts). For example, VAPA instruction includes not only developing skills in the arts disciplines, but also using artistic processes and knowledge to support building English language arts literacy skills. The four discipline-specific content areas within VAPA are each technical subjects with their own unique standards — sequential, comprehensive bodies of knowledge and processes.


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AUBURN, Ala. (WAFF) - The Auburn Tigers bested the Crimson Tide in the 2019 Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn played a close game, ultimately emerging victorious at 48-45.
Here is a roundup of the game.
Alabama kicked a 43-yard field goal halfway through the first quarter. Auburn quarterback Bo Nix fought back when he ran the ball for a touchdown, pushing the Tigers ahead 7-3 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter has been a lot of back and forth scoring.
Najee Harris started by rumbling into the end zone from six yards out for touchdown, bringing the Tide back up 10 -7.
The Tigers quickly fought back by kicking a field goal to even the score. The Tigers' Smoke Monday then intercepted and ran for the end zone to put them back into the lead 17-10.
The score was quickly tied again, though, after Alabama sophomore Jaylen Waddle came back with a 98-yard kick-off return for the touchdown.
Alabama quickly came back by forcing a fumble and Auburn's next offensive drive. Then Matt Jones threw a touchdown pass to bring the Tide up 24-17.
The Tigers scored again to tie it again 24-24.
But the Tide's Mac Jones sent it to Jaylen Waddle again for a 58-yard touchdown, putting Alabama ahead 31-27 at halftime.
The Tigers started the third quarter with a field goal, making it 31-30.
Zakoby McClain intercepted and ran 100 yards for a Tiger touchdown. This gave Auburn the lead by 37-31 until Jaylen Waddle came back for score number three, taking Mac Jones' pass for a 12-yard touchdown. The Tide was back up 38-37.
The Tigers scored another field goal to get up to 40-38 at the end of the third.
Waddle scored again to make it 45-40. But Auburn running back Shaun Shivers took back the lead quickly to 48-45.
The Tigers kept that score until the end, claiming Iron Bowl victory.
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We work with Speak Up, our local learning disability group, to create bespoke Easy Read communications materials for local campaigns. Our Engagement Manager and Communications Manager regularly attend Speak Up group meetings to talk about current or up coming projects and ask the group for their help in creating supporting Easy Read information.
The support we receive from Speak Up in invaluable and we very much value the input of our members of our learning disability communities in helping us shape communications for people with specific needs.
Examples of the Easy Read information we have worked with Speak Up to co-create are:
Patient Advisers
Winter healthcare advice and guidance
We're currently working with Speak Up on developing Easy Read information about diabetes and the referral pathways. Check this page soon for more updates.
Our colleagues at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership have created the following Easy Read leaflets and have allowed us to publish them here:
Healthy eating and being active
Taking care in the sun and hot weather
Information for carers - having a health check
Taking care of your blood pressure
NHS England Easy read information
Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP)
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UCI is an award winning, ISO 9001-2008 certified, minority and woman owned certified business with a 15 year successful track record of providing high quality information technology services to our clients and our business partners. We offer a complete range of information technology services by leveraging our vertical domain knowledge, expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.
Our service offerings span across Oracle, PeopleSoft & Microsoft technologies, business intelligence, custom software development, network engineering, operation and maintenance support. Our services are designed to provide an integrated approach to business strategy with respect to the use of latest technologies in the industry. UCI provides highly qualified project team that delivers solutions focused on what a project and the customer require.
One of our most important assets of UCI is the extensive knowledge base, deep-rooted professionalism and unwavering commitment of our highly-qualified, diverse staff. They are at the core of who we are and what we do. From our Management Team to our Subject Matter Experts and Delivery Teams to Senior Management, the UCI Team is committed to delivering the highest quality product and to providing unparalleled service to our customers.
Our business domain expertise spans the Public Sector, Utilities, Transportation, Health & Human Services, and Financial Services. Our expertise is extensive and we have sustained relationships with clients who have experienced firsthand the peace of mind that can only come from dealing with a quality service provider that delivers results. We partner with our clients to give them quality of services and cost savings in order for them to excel in their respective industries.
UCI holds Oracle Gold, IBM, and Cisco Business Partner certifications. Our organization has been honored for its performance and business success by many organizations including City of New York, NAWBO, COMTO / MTA New York and many more. In 2008 MTA/COMTO selected UCI for "Small Business of the Year Award". UCI was also honored as the winner and recipient of the New York City Mayor's "NYC Small Business Award of Distinction", in the area of Information Technology. In the D&B performance evaluation our clients have awarded UCI a rating of 94%- a tribute to our organization that we are very proud of.
Our Vision is to be our customer's IT services provider of choice; satisfying their needs by exceeding expectations through excellence delivery while maximizing value. Our Values are the basis for our actions; they are the commitments we make to our customers, employees, and partners. We strive to develop sustainable relationships based on mutual trust, responsiveness and accountability.


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Sky & cloud panels are peaceful and restful to look at, and they can be, and are, used in hospitals to provide a sense of peace to patients who need it. Sky & cloud panels are views of clouds and summer skies, or they can be night scenes with views of planets, stars and galaxies. What they are not, are glaring fluorescent tubes or LED lamps shining down into patients' eyes when they are lying flat and looking upwards.
Sky & Cloud Panels Day And Night: From Blue Skies To Galaxies
What people in hospital need most are peace and tranquility, and also an environment that enables them to rest quietly. You can go a long way towards achieving this by using sky & cloud panels on the ceiling. All they are is backlit images of night or day sky views showing clearly on the diffuser panels of hospital lighting systems. Doctors and dentists use them for the same reason: they calm people down and offer them a view that projects a natural scene. What better than a light panel showing them a beautiful blue sky decorated with fluffy clouds?
Night-time is also an issue with some patients. Many patients have difficulty sleeping, even with a sleeping pill. Nothing is more soporific than the natural view of a night sky filled with moonlight and twinkling stars. Patients can gaze up on sky & cloud panels and take their minds off their illness. They are asleep before they are aware of it. If they awaken during the night, they might look up and see a night sky scene. Night sky & cloud panels cost no more than traditional daylight sky & cloud panels, but can be just as restful to gaze up on during the night.
Sky & Cloud Panels On Walls
The same can be true of the walls in hospital rooms. That can be made to look larger by installing sky & cloud panels on the walls in addition to the ceilings. Sure, you rarely find fluorescent or LED lighting panels on walls, although there is no reason why not. It's just as easy to light up a wall as a ceiling – in fact, it's easier to install. Simply fit a bank of two or three fluorescent light tubes, cover them with a diffuser panel then insert the sky panel between the tubes and the diffuser.
If you don't have a diffuser, simply install a plain glass sheet and place the sky panel right on the glass, between the lamps and the glass panel. Sky & cloud panels are usually printed onto a thick matte polyester film. This works just as well as a diffuser panel to diffuse the light and provide even lighting over the sky panel and make it look more natural. Since sky & cloud panels are photographs of cloud systems and blue skies, the look very natural with backlighting.
Decorative Light Panels Cost Little
Decorative light panels are available in the common light panel dimensions and prices run from $24.99 to $29.99 so no sky panel will cost more than the highest price there. Is will not be a large item on a hospital budget, even if installed in a number of rooms. If they get a good response, a medium sized hospital should be able to fit sky & cloud panels into most rooms within a year or two. Peaceful rest, which is what sky & cloud panels can provide, is well worth the investment by any hospital.
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This Will Turn Into A Limerick … Knock On Wood
Poetic Asides prompts us to write a "knock on wood" poem. So I'm tempting fate with this one:
This Will Turn Into A Limerick … Knock On Wood
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I often will say, "knock on wood,"
And I WOULD knock on wood, if I could.
But it's rarely around,
So instead I stomp ground,
In the hope it will do me some good.
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Dublin is a fine city and I have had good times there, but last week it was about work and certainly not about play, especially as I wasn't feeling too good. However, it was still very memorable.
As a HubSpot Partner learning and development is integral to helping our clients grow. At Innovation Visual, we not only take a pride in the whole team's professional development, we actually get a bit competitive about it. Being the boss doesn't mean you can opt out of this. So for this month's training an intensive 2 day course in Dublin was my choice.
I was initially hesitant about what the sales LION course would entail, but it did not disappoint and what I learnt I believe can benefit all who have the right attitude to growing a business.
Growing by Selling
If you want your business to grow, then sales must be that driver. We operate in a world where the balance of power has shifted within the sales process. The Internet and the abundance of information empowers people to know more, but to use that knowledge wisely is best done with guidance, and this is the essence of inbound sales.
Inbound Sales – Help not Sell
Going out to try and push your wares on people won't work. The essence of inbound sales is help not sell. The sales LION training takes helping, not selling, to the next level. By creating a structured process around the helping you can deliver consistent results both in the help you provide to prospects and crucially results in your own sales. The Inbound sales process begins with inbound marketing, and as the boundaries between sales and marketing blur we end up with what HubSpot call SMarketing. As people interact with your business online there comes a point for the sales person to reach out directly to that person with the offer of help. The timing of this outreach can be triggered by lead scoring or a type of contact received. It is possible that the prospect does not need the sales person's help at this point and therefore they would return to the lead nurturing of inbound marketing.
Inbound Sales - Relevant, Specific Helping
Helpful advice is that which is specific to someone's need. How does an inbound sales person achieve this? Through marketing intelligence – the information gathered about that person's visits to your website, is in our opinion one of the most powerful features of HubSpot. A good inbound sales person will also take time to research the person they are calling and their business through other digital resources.
Now you know more about the person and the business that you are calling, there is one more thing you need before you dial – how are you going to help? Remember inbound is about helping and not selling. With all of your research about the person you are calling you must have now formulated at least one way that you can help them – on that call! That's right the 'help' isn't "buy our product as it will help x". Your help could be something like:
"I saw you were looking at this on our website – so here is…"
- A webinar recording about this
- A whitepaper about this
- A guide about this
- An industry tip as to how to improve this
- An article in a magazine about how a company like yours solved this
- A case study about a client of ours who also had this problem
- A quick solution as how to fix this yourself
Its not cold calling anymore
You are equipped with your helpful information to give to the prospect you are calling and therefore you aren't making a cold call any more, you are making a call to help the other person. When was the last time someone called you specifically to give you some information to help you, without any conditions to that help?
You might think that technique is simply wasting your time, but it is not because of human psychology and behaviour. You see we are programmed as humans to cooperate and help each other. Humans survived sabre-toothed tigers and hunting woolly mammoths not by doing things solo, but by helping each other. If you help someone, then they are programmed through evolution to want to help you back. Now the only help you are looking for at this stage is really to be given some of their time and attention. That is not a big ask, so in this call you are starting to build a relationship of cooperation.
The door is open to conversation
As good sales people know once you have got an open conversation with a prospect moving them down the buying journey becomes easier. If someone is willing to talk to you then you can uncover their pain points, their aspirations, their constraints, their fears and their goals: the information you need to help them further. The further help may well come in the form of the product or service your business' provides – but yet again you are helping not selling. And because you started from a position where you were prepared to give without expectation of reciprocation your prospect is much more open.
Sounds great, but does it work?
Think about selling in the current age. With the huge amounts of knowledge available to any prospect for any product or service you really only have three sales options for the future:
1. Push generic information down your prospects throats at every opportunity.
2. Offer to help your prospects in a way that is specific to them.
3. Sit back and just hope that they choose your product over the competition.
Now I don't think leaving your sales pipeline to chance by choosing 3 is a very good idea. 1 & 2 require effort, but would it not be better to align your effort with your prospect than invest your effort seemingly battling against your prospects by choosing 1? So you choose 2 because it makes sense; helping not selling is the future.
As to whether it works? Dan Tyre ran the LION course. He's employee number 7 at HubSpot. This methodology used by him and the HubSpot team has seen them triple their market capitalisation in the last 3 years with revenues in excess of $300 million per year. In my mind that's enough proof. However, you can check back in with me in a years time to see how fully adopting inbound sales and HubSpot LION techniques have changed Innovation Visual's numbers, and crucially those of our clients. We will certainly be helping not selling from here on in.