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The Ulster County SPCA is an independent no-kill shelter serving Ulster County. We are not affiliated with any other SPCA and we do not receive funding from Ulster County government. The Ulster County SPCA is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by providing temporary shelter and finding adoptive homes for homeless, abused and neglected animals; conducting cruelty investigations; eliminating the crisis of homeless animals by providing low-cost spay/neuter services for cats and by spaying and neutering all animals offered for adoption; providing humane education; and by working to improve laws to end animal cruelty. For more information please visit our website at: www.ucspca.org and also check out our Facebook page!
Every animal that is adopted from the Ulster County SPCA receives innoculations, de-worming and is spayed or neutered before going to their new home. Cats receive a Feline Leukemia/ Feline Aids test and dogs receive a Heartworm/ Lyme/ Ehrlicia test (if they are old enough). Adoption Fees for Cats: $50.00, Kittens (under 6 months): $85.00, Dogs: $175.00 and Puppies (under 1 year): $250.00 The UCSPCA accepts cash and credit cards (NO AMEX OR CHECKS) for the adoption fee. There is a 24 hour hold on all animals. Adopted cats may be picked up the following day, adopted dogs can go home following a home visit by a shelter representative. Animals adopted on Sunday could be picked up on Tuesday as the shelter is closed on Monday. If you are interested in adopting a companion animal you will be required to fill out an adoption application and be interviewed by an adoptions counselor, so please arrive at the shelter at least an hour before closing to allow for this process.
Our on-site spay/neuter clinic opened in December of 1998 offering community resident's low-cost sterilization for cats.
The spay/neuter fee is $65 per stray or pet cat. We also spay/neuter feral cats for $20 which includes a rabies vaccine and an ear clip. Feral cats are wild (not like a stray) and must be brought in a trap. Rabies and other vaccines are available, but require an additional fee and the animal needs to be present for surgery in order to qualify for them.
We offer spay/neuter for dogs as well.
WE DO NOT spay/neuter dogs over 100 lbs.
The following fees include pain medication that the dog is sent home with. The fees listed are for surgeries without any sort of complications. Additional fees are at the discretion of the attending veterinarian. Please be advised we DO NOT offer regular vet checkups or visits in case of illness or injury and we DO NOT vaccinate animals UNLESS we are having a vaccination clinic or they are at the spay/neuter clinic for surgery.
Female Dog Pricing (Spaying)
Under 30lbs- $140.00, 31-60lbs- $165.00, 61-90lbs- $190.00, 91-100lbs- $215.00.
Male Dog Pricing (Neutering)
Under 30lbs- $110.00, 31-60lbs- $135.00, 61-90lbs- $160.00, 91-100lbs- $185.00.
We now have a grant from Animal Farm Foundation to Spay or Neuter Pitbull and Pitbulls mixes for a lower cost.
Male and Females up to 100lbs - $85.00 - Includes Vaccines
**We also now spay/neuter rabbits for $125!**
Our adoption hours are Tuesday thru Sunday 11:30am-3:30pm. Both the dog kennels and cat rooms close at 3:30pm. Our Adoption Center is located at 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston, New York.
Directions: NY State Thruway to Kingston exit 19. Go straight thru toll plaza and take the 2nd exit for Washington Avenue (stay in left lane). Make a left at the first traffic light onto Sawkill Road. Take your 2nd right off of Sawkill which is Brabrant Road. Go straight until the road starts to bear right and take Wiedy Rd - UCSPCA is at the end of the road. From Dutchess County take Route 209 South to Sawkill Road exit. Make a left onto Sawkill. Stay on Sawkill until you reach Brabrant. Make a left onto Brabrant and follow directions as listed above.Ulster County SPCA
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I dig these guys. They have not only Necropolis but a band called Rustmouth that are soon releasing a CD and a female-fronted goth-metal band called Kharybdis. The Dead Season (not to be confused with the band of the same name) is a conceptual CD. It's a very heavy and riff-laden mix of straight forward death metal. Some of the more stand out tracks are "Riding on the Wings of Satan...", "Dominion of the Blood and Sepulchre", "Resurrection" and "The Dead Season." "Among the Ruins" is a nice blend of 8th note triplets and Nile-like harmony. I searched YouTube and myspace and they have a couple videos for this CD. Check 'em out...if you like death metal, you will like this.


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text: Geneva, 01 October 2013: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday night presented the annual UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award to an inspiring Congolese nun in recognition of her work helping hundreds of displaced and abused women to rebuild their lives."This prize, this medal, is not only for me – it is also for all the women, the girls and the children who have been abducted by the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army rebel group from Uganda]," Sister Angélique Namaika said after receiving the Nansen Medal from Guterres at a ceremony in Geneva's Bâtiment des Forces Motrices."I will never give up, because even if I help only one person it's already a success," added the 46-year-old Roman Catholic nun from Orientale province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at a ceremony attended by several hundred people, including delegates attending UNHCR's annual Executive Committee meeting, Guterres said that he had heard and seen many bad things during his visits to refugees and other forcibly displaced people in Africa. "And it is when you look at Sister Angélique that all of a sudden your perspective also changes," he said. "And you believe that God has a hand. She is the hand of God." Named after celebrated Norwegian polar explorer, diplomat, scientist and humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen, the Nansen Refugee Award was established in 1954 to honour a person, group or organization for their outstanding work on behalf of the forcibly displaced. Sister Angélique is the latest in a line of illustrious winners, recognized for her role in helping to transform the lives of more than 2,000 women and girls who have been forced from their homes and abused by the LRA or other armed groups in the Dungu region of the DRC's Orientale province.Since being named this year's Nansen Refugee Award winner on September 17, Sister Angélique has received accolades and congratulations from people around the world. Earlier on Monday, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie sent a message of warm congratulations and said Sister Angélique's work could "help to draw attention to the devastating effects of rape and sexual violence and the need for justice and help for survivors."" Best-selling Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, in a keynote speech at Monday's Geneva event, also praised the Nansen laureate, describing her as a lesson in compassion. The Award ceremony featured musical performances by British singer-songwriter Dido, Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna and Grammy-nominated Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam. "It was brilliant to meet Sister Angélique and inspiring to perform for her," said Dido after singing.Following the ceremony, Sister Angélique will travel to Rome, where she will be received at the Vatican by Pope Francis on 2 October before proceeding to Paris, Brussels and Oslo for other meetings. The award consists of a commemorative medal and a US$100,000 monetary prize donated by the governments of Norway and Switzerland to support a project of the laureate's choice. Source: UNHCR


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I was talking with a chap in Liverpool this afternoon about the Hall Of Remembrance at Liverpool Town Hall.
He told me he'd seen a film on TV many years ago about the 'Docker's Battalion'. He said he'd only seen it once and, to his knowledge, it hadn't been repeated.
Sadly, he couldn't remember it's title or who was in it (except for an actor who was also in Z Cars). The film was a drama, not a documentary, and he thinks it was filmed in Birkenhead.
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I am bleeding 4 days before my period
Yesterday the 17th I noticed that I was bleeding a little when I wiped and thought it was strange because my period wasn't until the 20th. I just put a liner on and went about my day. By the end of the night there was no more bleeding. My boyfriend and I had sex that night and saw that I was still bleeding so afterwards I put in a tampon. I took it out in the morning and it just had a little blood but that was it. About an hour ago I started spotting again. My boyfriend and I don't use a condom because I have an IUD and we do have sex quite a bit. Should I be worried that my period is starting 4 days early? Its been pretty regular and I haven't changed anything in my life that would make it come early.
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Hello dear, What was it? Were you pregnant?posted 10/26/2015 by a BabyCenter Member
4 days is not particularly early - nothing much to worry about. Changes in even the most regular cycle can be caused by changes in diet, exercise, sleep patterns... A ton of things. And even if none of those have changed at all, a shift in hormone levels as you get older can alter your cycle. Or it could be a bit of bleeding from sex. Talk to your doctor if it doesn't turn out to be your period coming early, or if it keeps happening. But don't panic! :)posted 02/20/2013 by prettypreggamomma
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Dr. Harold Federman tells his patient, "Take a deep breath."
Dr. Federman has been in practice for more than 40 years and believes a long-term relationship with patients is important.
He says, "The more you have a constant relationship with a person, the better your health care will be."
The importance of a long-term relationship is echoed by many of the 660 primary-care doctors surveyed by Consumer Reports National Research Center.
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The top complaint from doctors about their patients? 37% of the doctors said not following advice affected their ability to provide optimal care a lot.
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Can I sue the court system (city) or the lawyers that do NOT uphold the constitution?
that are in it just for the money and do not have the integrity to uphold the american constitution? where on earth to go for help I was terminated from my spanking new job for not getting my "right" hand scanned on their biometrics contrivance, I said this is offensive to my religion, through the bible I read and would not participate on receiving the fault of the beast I in addition asked them if within was an alternate way that I can clock in and clock out of work, and hey did nought to accomadate. Hence they did not even ask me if I minded getting scanned, just assumed that i would follow through to which I said NO! Received a call subsequent saying not to show up to work.
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Most supermarkets are open Monday through Saturday from 8:00/8:30 – 20:00 hrs, some (such as ALDI) close at 18:00 hrs. There are usually extended hours on Thursdays and limited hours on Saturdays. Supermarkets are closed on Sunday, although some supermarkets are open on koopzondag. Needless to say that alternative opening hours apply on holidays. Always check the notice on the entrance of your local supermarket.
Albert Heijn (AH)
Albert Heijn is a supermarket with a lot of different products and good quality. The prices, however, tend to be a bit above average. Buy the Euro-shopper brand if you are on a budget.
AH is located in the shopping mall "Brusselse Poort" (near the main Guesthouse). There is also a branch in Helmstraat, near the Vrijthof, on Plein 1992 (near Centre Céramique), and there is a small "to-go" shop in the station.
Same as AH this supermarket is situated in Brusselse Poort. It has a large assortment of products but is cheaper than Albert Heijn.
Jan Linders
Jan Linders is another supermarket, in price and product comparable to C1000. You can find Jan Linders at Tongerseweg 57.
Situated near the main guesthouse (Volksplein 34), Aldi is one of the cheapest supermarkets with a small assortment. You will also find an Aldi on Plein 1992 (near Centre Céramique).
This store is located in the basement of the newly constructed "Mosae Forum" shopping area. Its assortment and prices are comparable to C1000.
In addition, look out for authentic international food stores, selling Chinese, Indian, and Middle-Eastern ingredients. You can find these stores on the Markt and near the station.


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Anyone else have any thoughts on this crack. You know the crack that leads to the season finally. We've seen this go on before with Bad Wolf. Prisoner Zero talks about it before he is destroyed, we've seen it on Amy's bedroom wall (so close to it all those years special girl) the hospital wall the TARDIS dematerializing the side of the starship Britain. We see this happening and I think the Doctor has some idea whats causing it and I hate it when he keeps these things to himself .
This crack must be pretty scary
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well there's the crack running through cardif that powers the tardis, so this could be along those lines a crack in space/time for a big bad to come through
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Ah yes, very bad wolf. Im excited to see what it is. But since we already had bad wolf, it sort of annoys me when they zoom in on the cracks.
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National Association of School Nurses
The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) advances the specialty practice of school nursing to improve the health and academic success of all students. To promote Healthy Vision Month, NASN highlighted the observance in its member newsletter and featured ideas on its website for how nurses can celebrate HVM in their communities. NASN also worked with NEI to develop a post for the NASN blog, School Nurse Net.
Capture Your 365 is an online photography community that issues a monthly photo challenge and, using a prompt, asks followers and subscribers to take a picture of a different item each day. To promote Healthy Vision Month, CY365 drafted a blog post and sent information through its daily e-newsletter. In addition, CY365 also engaged followers on social media by creating eye-related prompts for May's photo challenge and encouraging followers to use the Healthy Vision Month hashtag when posting #CY365 photos.
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
The National Diabetes Education Program works to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. To promote Healthy Vision Month, NDEP shared information about the observance in its News and Notes newsletter and posted Healthy Vision Month information through its social media channels.
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CHP's quality improvement (QI) activities focus on improving the health status and satisfaction of our members. In 2015, CHP made considerable progress toward achieving the short and long-term goals for clinical and service quality and patient safety that were outlined in our work plan. CHP has continued a quality initiative to decrease avoidable hospital readmissions. Capital Health Plan is the highest ranked Commercial and Medicare health plan in Florida, and has a rating of 5 on a scale of 1-5 from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for the 2015 Health Insurance Plan Ratings. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has also awarded CHP's Medicare plan with a 5 Star Rating.
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Tulsa pastor arrested on six counts of lewd molestation; juvenile accuses man of sex abuse
OWASSO, Okla. - A Tulsa pastor has been arrested on complaints of lewd molestation at an Owasso residence.
According to Owasso police, a juvenile female reported that she was sexually abused in April by an adult male she met at a Tulsa church.
The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Damien Keith Bonner, who is a pastor at Galilee Baptist Church in Tulsa.
Owasso police tell 2NEWS the victim was 15 years old and friends with Bonner's children.
Police say the incident occurred while the girl was spending the night with her friends at Bonner's residence at the Villa Apartments in Owasso.
Following an investigation by Owasso detectives and the Department of Human Services, an arrest warrant was issued.
Police told 2NEWS Bonner and the juvenile also texted nude photos to one another.
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My intention for this page is not necessarily to obtain all there is about Irish immigration, but to chronologize key pieces of Irish history that may spark your interest in the hopes of expanding not only this page but everybody's knowledge who visits this page.
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Warwick, Rhode Island U.S.A.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 people left Ireland as indentured servants, prisoners, rebels and felons.
Most were sentenced by British courts to long terms of banishment and involuntary servitude on sugar plantations in the West Indies or tobacco plantations along banks of the Chesapeake.
Seven million men and women immigrated to America from Ireland.
Close to 500,000 Irish immigrated.
They looked for land in Pennsylvania, the Carolina's and in colonial America.
Most were Protestant and came from Ulster. Some were Anglican, Quaker, Methodist and Baptist.
A good number were Presbyterian of Scottish heritage; Scotch-Irish. Names such as Jackson, Wilson and Buchanan.
Most left because of high rents, and were resentful of tithes and taxes.
The Irish funded their voyage as indentured servants.
The men were artisans, bricklayers, carpenters, tailors, shoemakers, stonecutters, hatters, weavers, blacksmiths, husbandmen, farmhands and common laborers.
The women were cooks, dressmakers, seamstresses and household servants.
Charles Carroll.
The only Catholic, the wealthiest, and the longest lived (95) of the signers of The Declaration Of Independence.
Ten percent of the population in the U.S. colonies were Irish.
They were active participants in the American Revolution.
John Barry.
First naval commander commissioned by the Continental Congress.
Regarded as the father of the American Navy because of his skill in training young officers.
Dominick Lynch.
Introduced Chateau Margaux to America.
Introduced grand opera to the U.S.
In 1825, he produced the premier of the American performance of The Barber Of Seville.
The First Federal Census
Of Irish birth: 44,000 people.
Of Irish ancestry: 150,000 people out of a total population of 3 million.
Of Irish Catholic: 35,000 people.
Catholic Irish emigration grew to a much larger stream.
Ground was broken for the first Roman Catholic Church in Boston - The Church of the Holy Cross.
One million Irish emigrated to the U.S.; half were Catholic.
The Boston Irish Catholics functioned as; blacksmiths, wheelwrights, bakers, tavern-keepers, marketmen, shoemakers, tailors and clothiers.
Nicholas Devereaux established Saint Bonaventure College.
South Boston Iron Works was founded by Cyrus Alger.
The first rifled cannon was produced in 1834.
The first malleable iron cannon was produced in 1836.
An improvement was made upon time fuses for spherical shells.
During the Civil War, the guns they produced sank the Merrimac and the Alabama.
The Irish moved out of the Atlantic seaboard principally as laborers working on riverboats and railroad lines.
Every successive railroad town became a center of Irish strength; Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago.
The Irish were the physical builders of the cities.
Their labor met the need for overgrown colonial towns for better streets and sewers, large water systems and new housing.
An average pay per 15 hour day was 50 cents.
A major industry in South Boston was the glass industry.
Phoenix Glass Works, American Flint Glass Works, Mount Washington Glass Works.
Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo.
Many Irish hoped that Napoleon would defeat the British and liberate Ireland.
Post war depression.
Prices of Irish farm products declined.
Tenants could not pay rents, tithes and taxes.
Thousands were evicted and thousands more emigrated to escape the prospect of eviction.
Cattle prices rose more rapidly than grain.
Farms turned into grazing fields, therefore the laborers and tenants were evicted.
Lower profit in linen and wool industries which employed hundreds of thousands of cottage workers.
British manufacturers flooded the Irish market with cheap goods, driving rural artists into poverty.
Despite the post war depression, Irelands population increased by 3.5 million.
The growth is attributed to a dependence upon the potato.
The Erie Canal was dug mainly by Irish laborers.
One hundred and twenty five thousand Irish immigrated to the U.S., and average of 20,000 per year.
Thirty thousand called Massachusetts home.
By 1830 the Irish Catholic Boston population was over 8,000; double 5 years previous.
Seventy five percent of rural Ireland were largely or totally dependent on their annual potato crop.
Three million of the poorest small farmers and laborers were already destitute.
Globe Works Company.
Founded by John Souther.
Specialized, at first, in the manufacturer of railroad engines; turning out 20 - 30 a year.
In 1860, the company manufactured steam excavators which were used in the U.S. and Europe for the construction of railroad lines.
The Irish brought with them few possessions.
They were little in way of world's goods and not much in way of skill.
Some Irish lacked the skills of good farmers and mechinists, as well as the experience as businessmen. Whereas other Irish immigrants were the displaced artisan and the well-to-do farmer. They were persons of some means and prominence. Some Immigrants were merchants, doctors, and schoolmasters.
Ireland was forced to have English as a national language by the British.
This proved beneficial to the immigrants. Other than the English, the Irish were the only immigrant in the U.S. who spoke the language of their new country.
Irish Potato Famine.
Caused by a new fungus; phytophthora infestans.
Five hundred thousand people were evicted because they were unable to pay the rent, or landlords and farmers changing the farm to cattle pastures.
People were dying from typhus, cholera, dysentery and starvation; disease spread rapidly.
1.5 million people died; 20% of the population.
Ireland lost more people because of famine than all of Britain did in any war from 1688 to the present.
Soup kitchens were feeding 3 million people a day in Ireland.
Appeals were made to family in the U.S. for passage.
Two and a half million Irish emigrated; most to the U.S., some to Canada.
In only 10 years, 30% of the population left Ireland.
The Atlantic passage was horrific:
Voyages lasted 5 to 6 weeks, and up to 12 weeks was common.
No adequate water or food was provided.
The ships were littered with rats, lice and disease.
Mortality rates were as high as 40%.
A half a million Irish died en route to North America.
Boston had 850 licensed liquor dealers.
European continent experienced one of the most terrible winters in recorded history.
The Passenger Acts were established in America.
This not only promoted safer and healthier passage aboard the emigrant ships but ironically promoted more immigration.
The Agnes left with 427 passengers; only 150 survived.
City Point Works
Founded by Harrison Loring.
Originally manufactured marine engines, boilers and paper mill equipment.
By 1857, it became the first permanent iron shipbuilding establishment in New England.
Started with two 1,150 ton iron steamers; the South Carolina and the Massachusetts.
In 1862, the government urged Loring to build as many monitor class ships as could be completed in the shortest time possible; producing the Nahant, the first monitor ever built in New England.
Boston absorbed over 37,000 Irish immigrants, categorized as Irish laborers.
The previous rate was 4,000 - 5,000 a year.
In Boston, one in five people were Irish.
En route to New York, 1,879 emigrants died; 534 babies were born.
A Massachusetts Senate committee said America had become the Botany Bay of all Europe.
Peter Donahue.
Responsible for bringing gas streetlights to San Francisco.
The Irish were the fathers of San Francisco.
Boston had 1,200 liquor dealers, most of whom were Irish.
The saloon (pub) was the poor man's club. A way of getting away of the urbanization and reliving the old country. The Irish were a rural people in Ireland and became a city people in the U.S.
The saloon was also a key center of political activity where; new voters were recruited, prepared newcomers for citizenship, provided forms for naturalization, provided free legal advice and loaned money.
The Irish immigrant was the poorest of all immigrants.
Most Irish immigrants arrived with few skills and little or no capital.
Many were illiterate and some only spoke Gaelic.
Work was found at the bottom of the economy.
Women would work as millworkers, servants, and cooks for the middle class.
Men would work as unskilled factory laborers, miners, lumber men, dockhand, construction workers and ditch-diggers.
The Irish were also builders of roads, streets, canals and railroads; making them responsible for the United States preliminary infrastructure.
The Irish's first home was a shack, or shanty, in the slums in towns such as Paddy Town or Little Dublin.
Epidemic and disease ravished the newly arrived Irish immigrant family.
The infant mortality rate of the Irish was among the highest in the nation.
Irish Labor
American capitalism had no rules or constraints, the Irish were exploited by the Yankees.
A slave was worth more than the Irish.
Labor unrest was driven off by legal authorities.
Most American natives were Protestant.
Whom believed that Irish poverty was a sign of laziness and immortality.
The Protestants were convinced that the Catholic Church was a sworn enemy of America's democratic institutions.
"No Irish Need Apply" was a common sign.
Emigrants ships arriving in New York: 1,712; that is 30 to 40 per day.
The Emigrant Industrial Savings Back of New York opened.
Established by the Irish Emigrant Society.
Opened with 2,300 depositors whose average savings were $238.56.
In 30 years this bank alone sent $30 million in remittances to Ireland.
The Northern Light.
Clipper ship produced in South Boston.
Famous for making the fastest passage from Boston to San Francisco, covering the distance around Cape Horn in only 76 days.
Sailing from Liverpool, England to North America were 947 emigrant vessels.
The average vessel was 890 tons; half the size of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution.
Verne Foster computed that the 31 states and 9 territories of the U.S. had 95 times as much space as Ireland, and 60 times as much space as England.
Seventeen thousand miles of railroad was already built, and 12,000 miles more were under construction.
This made the U.S. have more miles of railroad the all the rest of the world put together.
Nativism became a nationwide political movement.
The Native American Party, or the Know Nothings, came into power.
Passes punitive anti-Catholic and anti-immigration legislation.
Parallel to penal laws in Ireland by the British.
In New York City, 176,000 Irish immigrants lived.
Of the city's voters, 1/5 were Irish born.
Famine immigrants radically transformed the Catholic Church in America.
Thousands of new churches were constructed.
Ten of thousands new priests and charitable orders were imported from Ireland.
Comprehensive system of parochial education were established, such as Georgetown (1789) and Notre Dame (1842).
The steamship replaced the sailing vessel for immigration. This not only improved passage conditions, but also shortened the trip to 14 days (to 7 days in 1914).
A steam ship could carry 1,200 people.
Two hundred thousand Irish immigrants fought in the American Civil War.
The majority was on the Union side.
The Irish fought in the war to support Lincoln's administration as long as it was for restoring the Union, not freeing the slaves.
Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862.
The Irish felt betrayed because not only would this prolong the war by stiffening the Southern resistance, it would cause a flood of black workers into the North who would take jobs away from white Irish laborers.
Patrick Lally
A blacksmith who's company provided the U.S. government with gun carriages and paddle arms for war vessels during the Civil War.
Tammany Hall
New York City's chief Democratic Party organization.
Naturalized over 41,000 immigrant voters, often illegally.
Cemented Irish loyalty to the Democratic party and ensure victory at the polls; such as for Richard O'Gorman.
Political machine assisted in providing opportunities for upward mobility to ordinary working class Irishmen.
This loyalty circumvented Yankee prejudice and secured lucrative contracts and steady jobs; such as city employees - policemen, firemen, and gas workers.
A South Boston built locomotive was the one that drew Leland Stanford's private parlor car to Promontory Point, Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven into the last railroad tie, joining the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific.
Ten Molly Maguire members were hung.
They were found guilty of murdering nine men between 1875 and 1877.
The Molly Maguire was a secret faction operating within the local lodges of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
They consisted of ethnic and religious hatred, and economic grievances.
They were labor racketeers who were drawn to terrorism in order to control the price of labor.
Ireland's second Potato Famine.
Six million Irish Catholics in the U.S.
Forty years earlier there had only been 1/10 that many.
Knight of Labor
The United State's first nationwide labor organization.
Joined by hundreds of thousands of skilled and unskilled Irish Americans.
Led by Terrance Powderly, son of Irish immigrants.
The Irish were dominant in leadership and membership in organized labor, which benefited new Irish immigrants and their foundations.
Irish Democratic bosses:
"Big Tim" Sullivan of New York.
"Bathhouse John" Coughlin of Chicago. He built free public bathhouses for the city's poorest workers.
John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald of Boston. His grandson was the first and only Irish Catholic to be President of the United States: John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jim and Tom Pendergast of Kansas City.
Al Smith of New York. He turned Tammany Hall into a champion of housing, factory safety initiatives, and reforms that improved the lot of working class Americans.
These Irish Democrats helped pave the way for Roosevelt's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal legislation.
Irish love for whiskey raised a class of brewers and saloon keepers like Patrick J. Kennedy.
Chain Immigration
Over $260 million sent to families in Ireland from Irish Americans.
The money was used to pay expenses in Ireland, but mostly used to finance more immigration.
According to the U.S. Census:
1,872,000 people were Irish born Americans.
Only 2% were engaged in agriculture.
Most were in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco.
In New York and Brooklyn together, there were more persons of Irish origin than there were in Dublin.
In Boston, the Irish were a majority.
The nation as a whole, 5 million persons of Irish birth or origin; some 200,000 more than the population of Ireland and approximately 1/12 of the total number of Americans.
Ellis Island received it's first shipload of immigrants.
The first being a 15 year old Irish girl named Annie Moore.
This is truly symbolic because it was the Irish that primed America's immigration society, and Ireland sent as many women as men (and for several decades the women outnumbered the men) making Irish immigration unique from other nations.
The majority of these women were unmarried and traveling alone, because of restrictive conditions.
Employment opportunities were better for women than men; domestic servants in upper-middle class home.
Employment in Ireland was low if non-existent for women.
Old thought of parents controlling daughter's lives in marrying and inheriting farms.
Marriages were parentaled matched.
Reinforced by moral authority of the Catholic Church.
Most of the money of the Chain Immigration came from Irish women, not men.
Women created their own marriage dowry's so as to attract new husbands and establish families in the New World.
James J. Corbett defeated John L. Sullivan in New Orleans for the heavyweight boxing championship.
Boxing was viewed as a ladder upward for the social class and to gain respect.
Irish men; 35% held white collar jobs, 50% were skilled workers, 15% were unskilled workers.
The Catholic Church was the nation's largest religious denomination.
The Irish American Catholic attained more education than native born Protestants.
In Boston, American born Irish were 4 times more likely to hold white collar positions than their immigrant parents.
Irish immigration dwindled.
Very little, if at all, stronghold on political and labor power.
The Irish melted within the pot.
From 1845 to today, 5.5 million Irish immigrated to the United States, of which the majority was Catholic.
Forty million Americans can trace ancestry to the total 7 million Irish that emigrated to the U.S.
Nearly every one of the 5 million people who live in Ireland has relations in the New World.


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Andi Gray founded Strategy Leaders Inc. in 1995 to help owners of established, privately held businesses achieve growth, profit, stability, predictability and peace of mind. Using proprietary systems, Strategy Leaders consultants put clients on track to double revenue and triple profit in repetitive 5-6 year cycles.
In 2011-2012, Gray launched 3 groundbreaking business initiatives. The Owners Game© teaches business owners about managing for long term profit and preparing a business for exit. The Student-To-Work Program pairs Business School professors and MBA students via internships leading to full-time employment. Profit Growth International linked to the Maritz Corporation brings performance improvement systems to the small-mid sized business market.
Gray's corporate career included 20 years in sales, marketing and new business development, starting at Xerox, American Express, Contel, progressing from field to corporate management positions up through the VP level. Growing up in family-owned businesses taught her about the joys and challenges of entrepreneurship.
Educated in the U.S. and Europe, Gray earned an Executive MBA from Columbia University while conducting 2 years of independent research on success and failure drivers for entrepreneurial businesses. Working with Columbia University Professor and American Business Historian Stuart Bruchey, Gray documented the path to a vibrant, 21st Century U.S. Economy through entrepreneurship, initially writing about her research in the book New Game, New Rules, published in 1994. Strategy Leaders was founded on the principles Gray learned about while working with Professor Bruchey pre- and post-graduation.
Andi authors a weekly column "Ask Andi," - practical advice for business owners - published in the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals and HV Biz. She regularly hosts The Owners Game©, facilitates Owners Forums, takes on public speaking engagements, and organizes events for CBSACNY.org Business Owners Committee which she Chairs.
Recent recognition includes Working Women of Westchester and two Westchester County Association APEX Awards for Entrepreneurship and Call to Action. Gray was named to the Westchester Business Journal's "Top 100 in Westchester" with the likes of Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Leon Black and Michael Bloomberg. She serves on the boards of the Westchester County Association, Westchester YMCA and Columbia Business School Alumni Club of NY.


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As the year comes rapidly to a close, I've been reliving some of the action movies that came out this year in preparation for an awesome list of the best fights of 2008. Now, with action films, we often get a side-dish of wonderful called "the car chase." After boobies, guns, and explosions, just about the coolest thing on screen are two cars whipping in and out of traffic, flipping over, and exploding. Heck, add in some boobies and guns and you've probably created the single greatest action sequence ever. Just one problem – car chases are complete bullshit on film.
One thing that has been bothering me lately about car chases in films is the notion that all cars are evenly matched. It doesn't matter if you're driving a station wagon, a bread van, or an ice cream truck – you'll be fast enough to keep pace with a Corvette, Mustang, or Charger. Forget gross vehicular weight or horsepower, all cars, trucks, and vans are capable of traveling at about 180 mph. Wanted, for example, features a dog food delivery truck matching pace with a Corvette in an extended chase sequence. Later, a stretch limousine and a Mustang duke it out in a race. Take another look at Quantum of Solace and you'll find a very expensive sports car with a very aggressive engine seemingly incapable of leaving a luxury sedan or Range Rover in its dust, despite an advantage in both engine power and horse-power to weight ratios.
Why not just pair up equal cars, Hollywood? If you want a car chase involving a Corvette, your other car should be a Cobra. Want to see a Big Rig in a car chase? The other vehicle should be a big ass truck, or at least have the Big Rig as incapable of ever getting distance on the chase vehicle. If you want someone fleeing in a Prius, have the pursuer on a bicycle – they're about the same in terms of power.
And why are the slowest cars and worst drivers always the police? Has a cop ever managed to stop a car chase? Mostly they just crash into those giant drums full of water or flip into a ditch, at which point their siren sputters out and makes that "Beeeeooooooo" sound before turning off. Then the cop punches the dashboard. Where do villains and maverick detectives get their car loans from, anyways? They all can afford sported out Mustangs and Chargers and classic muscle cars in perfect condition. Forget the bail out, we just need more car chases so that bad guys and good guys alike can wreck their Vipers and then buy new ones. For once I'd like to see, I don't know, a Ford Focus chasing a Mini-Van or something. A car chase maxing out at 105mph. Or how about a minivan chasing a Charger that ends with the sports car driver just flipping the guy off and speeding away at twice what the van can do?
So maybe I'm the only one who cares. Everyone loves a good car chase, myself included, but let me get a chance of pace! The whole point of having different cars is to have different handling abilities. Quit making every car perform like they were all NASCAR tuned machines. Give the car chases some character. We've seen enough of cars just going fast, now bring some originality into the equation! I for one am tired of seeing Volkswagen buses keep pace with Ferraris and Challengers fail to outrun sedans. With my foot firmly on the gas, I'm redlining right past my boiling point.
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Soccer Signee Spotlight: Harley James
May 22, 2014
Over the past two months, Vanderbilt soccer has introduced members of its 2014 signing class. We continue with a goalkeeper form Alton, Ill.: Harley James
Harley James didn't show up on Derek Greene's radar until an ID Camp at Vanderbilt last year.
"She was remarkable in goal," Greene said. "She is a tremendous shot stopper, has great feet and quickness, and has some of the best range on low shots I have seen in the women's game. She makes some highlight reel-type saves and we are looking forward to having her."
James, who turns 18 in June, has played soccer since she was 4 years old. Academically, James was near the top of her class, ranking in the top five percent. She has maintained a GPA above 4.3 throughout her high school career. She is a member of the National Honor's Society and Student Council. She will be a pre-med major wanting to study sports medicine. Her career goal is to work on a medical staff of a professional team.
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PREFACE: Reforming SETI from the Ground Up
A small group of scientists has captured humanity's dream of some day finding its place within a great cosmic/galactic community. Using some of the most conservative descriptions of reality and life in the universe offered by our modern western myths, this group of scientists formulates the parameters of possible extraterrestrial societies and prescribes the allowable ways by which they may be discovered, in a program they call The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, and they identify themselves as SETI scientists. SETI consists entirely of a simple search for electromagnetic signals of a certain type that the SETI scientists expect to be used by extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI).
After more than forty years of searching, the SETI program has not succeeded in finding the kinds of signals it is searching for. SETI scientists explain that the signals they seek will be very difficult to find, if they exist at all, and that it is necessary to be steadfast and continue the search, indefinitely, almost as a permanent fixture of society. Throughout all of this time, SETI (a shorthand term I shall use for "SETI scientists") has never disavowed its original formulated models, or responded to any suggestion that it reexamine its principles.28
Indeed there has been no serious challenge to SETI's ideas. There have been complaints, quickly waved off, but no one has made the effort to carefully examine the foundations of SETI and learn whether SETI is truly on sound scientific ground.
Until now. On these pages you will find that critical examination and a proposal to replace the current program with a much broader quest: Open SETI. The Open SETI Initiative challenges virtually every aspect of the SETI program - its assumptions, its methodology, and its findings.
Open SETI faults the SETI program for willfully ignoring evidence of ETI that is already at hand.
The Open SETI Initiative calls for replacing the dysfunctional SETI program with a serious multidisciplinary study of evidence wherever it is found, "from the ground up".
It should be understood that SETI, the program, is a response to a need that is as transcendental as any human quest can be, for it is intimately concerned with the cosmological setting in which the human race had its origins. It posits the existence of intelligences that may have had billions of years of development. We come to that with perhaps billions of years behind us as well, but with only a few thousand years of developed technology and understanding. It would be wrong to expect that what we seek will be confined to the parameters we set on it out of our very limited perspective. Yet that is exactly the mistake made by the practitioners of SETI.
Readers familiar with the large and growing activities of SETI researchers and enthusiasts will wonder how so many of our brightest can possibly be as mistaken as I claim them to be. I will show how they got started on the wrong track originally, and how they substitute beliefs for the activity of questioning that would have been the first step to correcting their mistakes and reforming their programs.
In some respects - the resistance to outside information and ideas, the smug defense of narrow concepts, the ridicule of other belief systems - SETI engages in cultish behavior. The reader can observe this behavior simply by reviewing SETI literature and perusing SETI web sites.
Open SETI, Myth, Science, and SETIOpen SETI is a new and very radical approach to SETI. It moves from the top down -- that is, by allowing the pre-existing to enter our awareness and recognition, rather than over-planning an approach to what should be there and setting up acceptance criteria.
Open SETI invites the reader to first dissociate from modern society's ways of thinking and seeing things. From beyond our modern western technological outlook, one views humanity as a group of societies distributed over time and space, each with its particular way of seeing things and learning about itself and its place in the cosmos. Whatever way a society chooses, we call a myth, and we assert that the scientific picture of the world is also a myth. This is not to denigrate science, but to put it in its place, while elevating other myths for serious consideration.
Open SETI respects arcane and nonwestern myths. It also places great value on modern western approaches to understanding, including the scientific approach, but suggests other institutions that may be superior to science in the way they evaluate evidence of matters as far removed from ordinary human experience as ETI may be.
Open SETI takes an interest in the most advanced theories and instrumentation science can offer, while dismissing the ways in which science chooses how to use its capabilities.
Open SETI shows how conventional SETI fails to qualify as a scientific effort while ironically claiming that its detractors are unscientific.
In developing the case for Open SETI, I will present information that will be satisfying to scientists and engineers. In fact, I will begin with a review of the most forward developments in theoretical physics, as I believe we should at least lean in the direction of what would be commonplace reality to those whom we seek to know. But I will also provide vital information lying well outside the usual domains of science and engineering.
I will show you where surprising information bearing on the ETI question may be found. And I will show you how you can begin your own fruitful search for knowledge and even possibly your own search for those elusive, or not-so-elusive, electromagnetic signals.
And that is the initiative. It is for individuals and organizations to apply themselves to a very real SETI that recognizes evidence of ETI and subjects it to disciplined study.
One final prefatory note: some of the most important information in this website is provided in the Notes and in the appendices. I recommend you make use of the hyperlinks to read them. Most browsers will open them and also the literature references in separate windows; this will allow you to maintain your place in the main document.


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Thursday Sep 13 2012
Placer County sees first West Nile death in years
By: Jon Schultz, JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Granite Bay man, 74, a dedicated volunteer
Howard Stoltz of Granite Bay became the first human fatality in Placer County from complications of the West Nile virus in at least six years – a sad but not surprising result of a record season for the virus this year, said Ada Barros Heiser, Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District public information officer. Stoltz, who dedicated much of his time volunteering, died Saturday. He was 74. He joined the Placer County Sheriff's Office's volunteer team in 1999 and has documented about 5,000 volunteer hours with that department alone. "He just went above and beyond as a volunteer, and we just really loved him at the sheriff's office," said Dena Erwin, public information officer for the sheriff's office. "We'll miss his smile he has a wonderful spirit and … a true heart for service. He just loved helping people in his retirement." Stoltz is the fifth human death in California linked to West Nile this year. The state reports 92 cases of humans infected with the virus this year, with five of those in Placer County. "There's not an abundance of mosquitoes higher than normal, but the percentage of mosquitoes infected is much higher this year," Heiser said. The number of infected mosquitoes statewide out of a thousand is 12 this year compared to 3.8 last year, a rate California hasn't seen since at least 2005, she said. Although the West Nile virus, transmitted by a mosquito bite, has a low risk of serious illness for most people, less than 1 percent of people infected can develop a neurological illness, such as encephalitis or meningitis, according to a press release issued by Placer County. Those 50 years or older have a higher chance of becoming ill and developing complications. Mosquito and vector control will conduct ground treatments in Sheridan, Roseville and Lincoln this morning followed by air treatments over the county's western agricultural areas tonight and Saturday night, Heiser said. Placer County Deputy Sheriff Shawn Rosner said he and Stoltz founded the non-profit Foothills K-9 Association. Rosner, now the association's president, said Stoltz played an integral role in its success, serving at different times as a board director and president. Rosner said the association's Sept. 23 fundraiser will be renamed in his honor.


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Mass Effect 3 Demo Impressions: Cooperative Multiplayer, PC Version
The PC Version
What is included in the demo is at least some look at Mass Effect 3′s PC version, which will be available through Electronic Arts' Origin platform on the same day as its console release. As one might expect, the PC version looks a fair deal better than its Xbox 360 counterpart, aiming is easier and more fluid, and the controls actually map quite well to the keyboard.
Where an Xbox or Playstation controller is limited by the number of buttons available, forcing players to enter those annoying menu wheels over and over and over again, the capability of playing with a keyboard means all your special powers are mapped to the number keys automatically. That's some good thinking on BioWare's part, and playing two of the three demos back-to-back, I actually preferred the PC version to the Xbox 360 version (despite my having been playing the ME series on Xbox since it was an exclusive when the first game was released).
But like most PC games that also drop on console, one can definitely feel the console influence on the PC version of Mass Effect 3. There are a few graphical options to be had, for example, but not many — players have a chance to turn on or off anti-aliasing and shadows, but that's about it. And while the game does look better with a PC providing the power for its graphics, realistically, it doesn't look that much better (although that could just be the sometimes unfortunate artistic choices made for the series, like overly heavy shadows and creepy face textures).
Played side-by-side, even a dedicated Mass Effect Xboxer like myself had to admit that the PC version controlled and felt just better in just about every respect, but it's still worth noting that, at least as far as the demo is concerned, BioWare and EA haven't gone out of their way to provide a lot of PC support for the game. Hopefully the full retail release will see more graphical options and other PC-centric tweaks. We'll have to wait until March to find out.
Check out Ross Lincoln's hands-on impressions with the single-player portion of the demo and his rundown of everything that's new within it.
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I also have a very good time in school. The American high school system is quite different from the German system. I am experiencing a lot of new things. I have, for example, a much bigger choice for my curriculum selection in America, so that I can take classes I am interested in, for example psychology. Another big difference is that we do not have school sports in Germany; we have to go to out of school clubs to participate in a sport. Playing sports really helped me to get to know a lot more people. I already participated in volleyball and swimming and next week I will start track and field.
Over all, I enjoy every single day in this country and I would like to recommend to everybody who has the opportunity and the interest to go to another country to do an exchange.


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Recently, news, rumors and leaks pertaining to the upcoming iPhone have dominated the technology news sector. However, all the leaks until this point have simply been various parts, a dock connector flex cable here, a two-tone unibody back housing there and maybe a partially assembled enclosure if we're lucky – until now.
It seems that someone has successfully managed to smuggle a device that appears to be a fully-fledge iPhone 5 out of what could only be one of Apple's manufacturing plants; presumably Foxconn.
In the video, embedded above, it shows the device booting up alongside an iPhone 4S. Just when all signs point towards a successful boot, the video is cut short once the device reaches the following error upon booting into the PC-free onscreen setup:
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Our Favorite Things is performed on New York street, outside Loui's Pizza and Union City News Agency. The show stars Bert, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch, all of whom want to talk about their favorite things, but cannot agree on who will go first. They eventually decide to cooperate, singing "Pigeons and Cookies and Trash".


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Gideon Rubin
04 - 30 September 2010
Opening, with the artist: Saturday, September 4th, 2010, From 5-9pm
September 4th - 30th, 2010
After having presented the work of Gideon Rubin in collective exhibitions, the Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to announce the first one-man show in France of the young Israeli artist, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1973. This exhibition entitled Others, will include thirty oil paintings and a hundred small gouache paintings on carton from works produced over the past two years.
Gideon Rubin has always done portraits, but over the past few years, his paintings have evolved from his beginnings in realism towards a more simple, quasi minimalist painting style. An eye begins at first as a shadow and then disappears entirely. These anonymous portraits are intentionally left without faces. The artist prefers that his figures evoke souvenirs among his viewers, rather than representing specific identities. He wants the spectator to focus on the painting process, on the medium itself and on a few details that Rubin brings to it, such as the persons position or their bearing. The artist wants to offer alternative ways of looking at the figures by inviting the viewer to complete the tale or the scene. His intention is to create a painting that functions like an obscure souvenir of someones life.
These faceless portraits are inspired by photographs from old photo albums that the artist obtained on eBay from around the world, photos of celebrities or paintings by old masters. In examining these old photos, the artist is seeking a kind of narrative that lends itself to interpretation. His exhibition at the Karsten Greve Gallery in Paris will be devoted to paintings inspired by European photographs of the beginning of the 20th century, as well as photographs of the 1950s from the Near East. There will also be a parallel theme summer and winter with paintings of children by the seaside or in snowy landscapes.
Gideon Rubin uses sandy tones, grey blues and off whites that he applies with large brush strokes. He also uses little touches of red to emphasise a detail that initiates a relationship between the work and the viewer. He likes using canvas or raw linen and often leaves entire areas of these materials untouched so that they become integral parts of the work. He also paints on roughly cut bits of packaging carton, integrating motifs and letters already printed on the carton into his composition. The subtle colours he uses and the fact that the artist often reworks and repaints his works with several layers, further emphasises his desire to bring forgotten lives back to life again.
Gideon Rubin studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and then at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London where he graduated in 2002. He has had numerous international one-man shows and his works are included in private collections in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Paris and beyond. Gideon Rubin lives and works in London.


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Who must register?
All persons, individuals, proprietorships, partnerships, corporations who solicit, bid on, or perform residential contracting as a contractor or subcontractor on an EXISTING ONE TO FOUR UNIT OWNER-OCCUPIED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
Who is exempt from registration?
· Workers who work for a contractor or subcontractor for a wage
· All licensed professionals or tradesmen who take an exam as a condition of their licensure when they are working within the scope of their license, such as architects, electricians, plumbers but NOT Construction supervisors licensed by the BBRS.
· the Commonwealth or its subdivisions
· Schools offering vocational education courses or training in home construction or improvement.
· Owners doing their own renovations
· Persons who perform any bona-fide single job costing $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) or under.
· Part time contractors or subcontractors whose gross revenue in the previous 12 months was less than $5,000
· Persons enrolled as full time students for last and next academic term and 2/3 of whose employees are so enrolled and whose gross revenue is anticipated to be or has been under $5,000.
· Persons who install central heating, A/C systems, energy conservation devices, provide conservation services on behalf of a public utility, landscaping, interior painting, paper hanging, finished floor covering, tile, fencing, free standing masonry walls, above-ground swimming pools, shutters, awnings, patios, driveways.
What work is covered?
Residential contracting is defined as;
"the reconstruction, alteration, renovation, repair, modernization, conversion, improvement, removal, demolition or construction of an addition to any pre-existing building containing at least one but not more than four dwelling units, which building thereof is used or designed to be used as a residence or dwelling unit, or to structures which are adjacent to such residence or building."
Do I need a written contract?
All agreements with owners for work exceeding $1000 (one thousand dollars) MUST have a written contract. The Contract MUST contain certain provisions detailed in the. Click here to view a sample contract .
The fee is structured in two parts (A registration fee and a mandatory contribution to the Guaranty Fund) and must be paid by separate CERTIFIED CHECK or MONEY ORDER (the Office of Consumer Affairs does not accept cash, personal checks or payment by credit card).
Fee Type
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What is the Guaranty Fund?
The Guaranty Fund is a fund maintained by the Commonwealth, supported by registrant contributions. After certain conditions are met, any owner whose contractor violates any provision of the law may receive some or all of their damages from this fund. The responsible contractor must repay the fund for these payments or else he risks suspension or revocation of registration and administrative penalties and fines.
What are some of the key provisions of the Law
Any contract with an owner above $1,000 must be in writing and must contain certain provisions as specified in the law.
Contractors/subcontractors cannot act as mortgage brokers or represent lenders.
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XPS was developed in the mid 1960s by K. Siegbahn and his research
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The phenomenon is based on the photoelectric effect outlined by Einstein in 1905 where the
concept of the photon was used to describe the ejection of electrons from a surface when
photons impinge upon it. For XPS, Al Kalpha (1486.6eV) or Mg Kalpha (1253.6eV) are often
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(2040eV). The XPS technique is highly surface specific due to the short range of the
photoelectrons that are excited from the solid. The energy of the photoelectrons leaving
the sample are determined using a CHA and this gives a spectrum
with a series of photoelectron peaks. The binding energy of the peaks are characteristic
of each element. The peak areas can be used (with appropriate sensitivity factors) to
determine the composition of the materials surface. The shape of each peak and the binding
energy can be slightly altered by the chemical state of the emitting atom. Hence XPS can
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Feed My Starving Children comes to William Jessup
Last week, William Jessup University played host to 2,700 local volunteers seeking to address the issue of global hunger one meal at a time.
Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota-based Christian nonprofit organization that sends nutritious meals to hungry families around the world, held a Mobile-Pack event at the Rocklin campus. Volunteers worked over three days to pack 524,000 meals to send to hungry families in nearly 70 countries, including Haiti, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Nicaragua.
"We're really thankful for this community, for Valley Springs Church and William Jessup to host this, to recruit 2,500 volunteers to package 500,000 meals," said FMSC MobilePack Supervisor Andrew Ulasich. "It's really an amazing thing. They've been working and volunteering their time for months to make this happen. And we're really grateful that the community could come together and care for those who they don't even know, who they probably won't ever meet."
Eric Hogue, William Jessup University's chief development officer, who learned first-hand last year how rewarding an experience it can be volunteering with FMSC, helped facilitate the event's expansion this year into a larger space to accommodate more volunteers to package more meals.
"We believe that this is part of the process of giving back to the community, of serving others, and making sure you're a part of the solution and a world-changer," Hogue said. "So this fits our motto perfectly here at WJU."
Wells Fargo Bank donated $10,000, equivalent to 46,000 meals, to the effort.
"Feed My Starving Children MobilePack is a tremendous way for our community to come together and proactively work to address the issue of global hunger," said Natasha Mata, Wells Fargo regional president. "So certainly after three years of supporting this effort, we could not stop. And we want to continue to keep doing it, because that's the need that we have out there and Wells Fargo certainly wants to be a part of that."
Teacher Darlene Cullivan brought some of her students from Victory Christian School to lend a hand at the event.
"I wanted the students to have an opportunity to serve together," she said. "I hope they have a greater understanding of the need to help starving people as Jesus would, and to help them to understand how blessed we are here."
Event coordinator Kris Glass was grateful to have so many volunteers on hand, especially the young ones.
"I didn't understand volunteering and serving others until I was much older," she said. "It's just a great thing if they can catch that vision when they're young. "Not only does that make you feel good, but it helps so many other people."
According to Glass, help is always appreciated.
"They can sign up to pack and to come to a shift," she said. "What we need more than anything else is some donations to pay for these meal ingredients. So if you can't come, you can also donate money."


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Dreaming of Elizabeth Hurley
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Being ill continues to prove a source of entertaining dreams. My feverish nights brought me this, disappointing as it is.
I was hanging out with a group of dominatrices (dominatrixes?). One of whom was Liz Hurley. Hurley is one of those rare women who override my mostly gay sexuality towards womankind. Why? The English accent? I'll confess in guys and women that sound, posh, BBC, cockney, whatever often has a strongly sexual effect on me. And she really is handsome instead of merely pretty or cheaply sensual. Anyway she was the star of the dream.
Elizabeth Hurley as a dominatrix seems promising fantasy matter for those with certain kinds of erotic daydreams. I never have those kind of sexy dreams. I've long remembered the cute redheaded boy who jumped in my lap at a Dairy Queen in a dream long ago (redheads: another fetish, a henna'd boy from the UK is my idea of pure sex appeal). But all that dream boy did was kiss me.
That beats what Liz and I did. I watched her makeup a bed, then we went to rent a video. Talk about making the least of the possibilities.


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There is an abundance of information available in magazines, books, and on the Internet for anyone who is looking to shed a few pounds. This wealth of information can be a great thing – it's easy to obtain a wide variety of opinions and theories regarding the best ways to lose weight, and what options are out there for weight-loss strategies and support. However, one of the risks inherent in this plethora of facts is that there is also a proliferation of weight loss myths, many of which will not only fail to help you lose weight, but may actually cause you to gain weight instead. One of the first and most important steps in beginning any weight-loss regimen is to separate fact from fiction, and avoid bad habits (even if they seem like good ones).
Many people think that skipping meals is a good way to lose weight; they may eat a big breakfast and a regular lunch, and skip dinner, or vice versa. However, skipping meals doesn't help you lose weight; it actually leads to weight gain. When you skip meals, your body compensates by lowering your metabolism, and you burn fewer calories while at rest than you normally would. Weight loss is better achieved by most people who eat several small meals each day, instead of one or two large ones. The latter also tends to make people over-eat because they are over compensating for their hunger and during these manic hunger pains, a person will generally eat whatever is most convenient which may not be the healthiest choice.
People also tend to believe that as long as they stick with low-fat foods, they can eat as much as they want in a sitting; however, the best way to cut calories and lose weight is to simply eat healthier foods. Low-fat alternatives to regular processed foods tend to have such a high content of sugar with calories that are worse for you than their original counterparts. That's not to say that substitution isn't the way to go – if you can substitute an alternative that is naturally lower in calories, sugar or fat to your favorite processed food, you will be lowering your intake of unnecessary fattening substances. Just don't think you can eat something all day long because the label says "low-fat" or "low-calorie." The fact is, eating unprocessed whole foods will lead you to be more successful at losing weight and will improve your health overall. Try to remember that if the food comes in a can, jar, or bag, it may not be contributing to your weight loss goals.
It's also common for people to think that they can lose weight quickly with certain activities or tricks. They try to reduce fat in certain spots by doing exercises which claim to target their problem areas. However, when your body loses fat, it does so evenly, and the fat comes from all over your body; you can target and tone specific muscle groups, but reducing fat is a total-body effort. The best way to lose weight is to do a combination of strength and aerobic exercises, not by doing workouts that target certain muscle groups. The more muscles you move in a given exercise, the more calories you burn which of course will lead to weight loss. Similarly, hopping into a sauna or steam room won't help you shed anything except water weight; losing weight requires exertion, and there is simply no way to cheat the system.
When you start a new diet or weight-loss regimen, make sure you perform thorough research to ensure that you have all of the information available to you. In general, avoid fad diets, or any methods that promise large-scale, immediate results; it takes time to gain weight, and it also takes time to lose it. Losing weight rapidly is not only a short-term plan, but can be unhealthy as well. Stick to the tried-and-true methods of eating right, exercising and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and you will find it much easier to reach your weight-loss goals.
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July 29, 1975
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Wood Pallets Repurposed into Modular Furniture
Posted By Diane Pham On February 24, 2010 @ 6:00 pm In Design,Green Furniture,Green Home decor,Green Materials,Green Products,Innovation | No Comments
Swiss designer Sibylle Stoeckl [1] has come up with a new way to repurpose old and discarded wood pallets. In a series called Le Cageot [2], Stoeckl takes standard crates and turns them into modular pieces which can be combined and stacked into a variety of shapes and sizes. The unfinished wood also makes an ideal canvas for a little bit of color and creativity, and the raw yet refined look will provide the perfect compliment to any room.
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