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Some foods can indeed depress the immune system. This problem arises when your body does not possess sufficient numbers of antibodies to destroy antigens. Hence you get an allergic reaction when you eat a certain type of food.
The cause of insufficient numbers of antibodies is due to the lack of development of the immune system, and the culprit for this is thought to be our dependence on refined foods. So dietary and nutritional measures are needed to help the immune system to develop properly and boost the level of antibodies that help destroy allergens without giving rise to symptoms, as well as reduce their severity.
Some Common Foods to Avoid that Can Supress Immune System :
Dairy Products: Reduce the amount of dairy products you consume; milk in particular, during the spring and summer because they increase the body's ability to produce mucus and catarrh. This measure is recommended by Ayurvedic practitioners who believe that many chronic diseases are worsened by an unbalanced diet and that an access of dairy products creates an imbalance between the three basic forces that control the functioning of the body and maintain the 'prana' life-force.
Sugar and Wheat: Grass pollens come from the same botanical family as sugar and wheat, so it is worthwhile cutting down on them in your diet if you suffer from hayfever.
Refined Carbohydrates: Research has shown that these depress the immune system within an hour of being eaten. White bread, sweets, cakes and chocolate are all refined carbohydrates.
Animal Fats: The effects of animal fats on the immune system are not certain, but it is thought that a diet high in them can reduce the system's efficiency.
Other Immune System Supressors:
There are many reasons as to why you should not smoke and why you should avoid alcohol, and caring for your immune system is one of them. Alcohol and smoking deplete the body's store of B vitamins and Zinc, both of which are vital if the immune system is to function properly. And alcohol's effect on the liver inhibits the production of a chemical that helps breaks down histamine, so if you drink alcohol your symptoms are likely to persist for longer.


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This package has a value of £360 which is recommended as a price guide changing the colour of shoes, bags or accessories. Get creative and work with our in-house artisans to make you fall in love with your favourite item all over again.
These vouchers can be redeemed across any of our services. If the client chooses to go ahead with a new strap or decorative studs our team will need to assess the item they would like to personalise and offer the colour options available which will be dependent on the original colour of the item.
Please note the service cost may be dependant on the item sent in and the colours available will always be darker than the original colour of the item. Our team will provide an assessment and a quote for the client to make a decision on. Should the cost of the service be a higher value than the vouchers, the client will be invoiced for the additional value. This gift is not recommended for black items. The vouchers will have an expiry date of 1 year.

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The One2One program provides 7th thru 12th-grade students with Chromebook computers to use at school and home:
Chromebook CareStudents are responsible for the care of the Chromebook they have been issued by the school. Solon City School District provides a service plan for Chromebooks and each school maintains a Chromebook Help Desk at the Media Center. Broken or damaged chromebooks must be taken to the Chromebook Help Desk. The help desk will provide students with a replacement device, or fix the existing one, limiting an interruption to time in class. Do not take district owned Chromebooks to an outside computer service for any type of repairs or maintenance.
Chromebooks are assigned to students for 3 years. Please observe the following guidelines to ensure that your Chromebook will stay in good condition for 3 years.
- Please do not carry your Chromebook by the screen. Screens can easily crack when lifted by a corner.
- Please feel free to personalize your Chromebook iCover, but do not place stickers or drawing on the Chromebook itself. Vents CANNOT be covered.
- Please do not remove or tamper with Solon City School District Asset tag.
- Please do not leave your Chromebook in a car. Exposure to extreme heat or cold may damage the Chromebook.
- Please do not place books or other objects on top of or against the Chromebook that could put pressure on the screen.
- Please clean the screen with a soft cloth. Always use a water dampened towel to clean your screen or the cover of the Chromebook. Cleaning solvents can damage the screen.


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LUXA2 Thermaltake Mobile Launches the New TX-P2 Wireless Charging Power Bank
Steven Smith reacted to Tt Tautlih for a blog entryTaipei, Taiwan ï¼February, 25, 2015ï¼ Thermaltake Mobile - LUXA2, a market leader in power, audio and holder solutions, is pleased to announce the arrival of a new addition to their wireless power charging family: TX-P2 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank. The TX-P2 is a powerful new wireless charging power bank designed for even the most demanding of power users. The TX-P2 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank packs double the capacity of the highly successful TX-P1, and cramps enough juice to charge your iPhone 6 / 6 Plus and Samsung S5 several times over without compromising portability. The TX-P2 works with all Qi compatible devices and possesses a lightning fast 5V2.1A USB output port for wired charging. It is not only compatible with smartphone devices, but also tablet devices such as the iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 and any other compatible device that requires a more demanding power solution. Besides featuring powerful internal mechanics, the TX-P2 loses none of its charm. The black on black matte finish provides a heightened sense of sophistication and elegance to an everyday necessity. The TX-P2 comes packed with functionality, extreme value, and incredible style. Key Features of the TX-P2 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank at a Glance: Grade A 10,000mAh lithium-polymer battery cell Dual function charging pad and power bank 5V2.1A USB output port charges both smartphone and tablet devices Supports simultaneous wired and wireless charging Easy power on/off with 6 LED power charging indicators Includes band of portability for secure wireless charging on the move Qi compatible TX-P2 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank suggested price: USD 79.99 More information on the TX-P2 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank is available online: http://www.luxa2.com/product.aspx?s=142
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Thermaltake Frio 14 Silent CPU Cooler Review@KITGURU
Steven Smith reacted to Tt Ariel for a blog entryAugust 31st, 2014 - by Matthew Wilson While all in one liquid cooling units continue to dominate the high end CPU cooling space, there is still plenty of room left in the market for a good old fashioned air cooler. Today we will be taking a look at the Frio 14 from Thermaltake. This CPU cooler promises minimal noise output at an affordable price but, does it deliver? Let's find out… Overall, we are very impressed with the Thermaltake Frio14 silent CPU cooler. It was clearly designed from the ground up to deliver excellent cooling proficiency at very low noise levels. Temperatures were kept lower than 50 degrees at all times, even on the power hungry FX-8350 chip. Noise levels were even better, coming in at just 35dBA thanks to the high quality 140mm fan. I would like to point out that our results are taken with the fan spinning at 100%, most real world scenarios such as gaming, didn't require the fan to spin this fast and as a result, you'll achieve even lower noise levels. If you are interested in overclocking then there is plenty of thermal headroom to play around with. However, for better results, you may want to look in to the Frio Extreme, the dual tower variant of this cooler. We have been informed by Thermaltake that the Frio14 will release in the UK for about £30, a fantastic price given that it can trade blows with much more expensive coolers. However, store availability has yet to be announced. Discuss on our Facebook page, over HERE. Pros: Extremely quiet. Strong cooling performance. Slim profile. Easy mounting procedure. Cons: None. KitGuru Says: If you're in the market for an extremely quiet, yet affordable CPU cooler and don't mind the bare aluminium look, then the Thermaltake Frio14 is the first cooler you should be looking at. For more information: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/matthew-wilson/thermaltake-frio14-silent-cpu-cooler-review/


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This reader submitted recipe for Crock-Pot BBQ Pulled Pork combines fruit and smoke to flavor the pork. Add buns and some cheese and it's sandwich night!
Crock-Pot Shredded Barbecue Beef
Turn a plain old boring beef rump roast into magnificent and tender Crock-Pot Shredded Barbecue Beef. Perfect for dinner or your next potluck or get-together! The secret ingredient is some lemon lime soda!
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This delicious recipe for Crock-Pot French Dip Sandwiches is so easy to make. The slow cooked beef is full of flavor and is a family favorite for sure!


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Companies in technology, media and telecommunications demonstrate a lack of seriousness to external cyber threats.
A report by Deloitte claimed that 88 per cent of companies do not believe that they are vulnerable to an external cyber threat, while more than half of those surveyed have experienced a security incident in the last year.
The study of 121 companies in technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) found that while 68 per cent of companies said they understood their cyber risks and 62 per cent had a program in place to sufficiently address them, 59 per cent said they had knowingly experienced a security incident.
James Alexander, lead partner for TMT security at Deloitte, said: "Companies need to act as if a breach is inevitable and have a documented response plan in place so they can react when it does happen. Unfortunately not enough companies are doing this so we think companies are being overconfident in their resilience.
Companies rated mistakes by their employees as a top threat, with 70 per cent highlighting a lack of security awareness as a vulnerability. Despite this, less than half of companies (48 per cent) offer even general security-related training, with 49 per cent saying that a lack of budget was making it hard to improve security.
"Companies must also embed a culture of cyber security in their staff. This is easier said than done, but each employee holds the keys to the castle and must understand that responsibility. Spreading a secure culture should also extend to the businesses that companies work with and companies need to collaborate to ensure strength across organisational boundaries," Alexander said.


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Throughout September and October, the Berg Larsen Group will be donating $100 to the MacPhail Center for Music with each new listing we put on the Twin Cities market. The MacPhail Center uses music education to build connections, engage communities, and spread joy and beauty.
Art takes many shapes and forms, and offers a window to other ways of life, societies, and cultures. Literature is a great record of social history and architectural styles. Often, an author's inspiration for characters and setting comes directly through their own experiences with such. Through her research into the houses of British literature, Phyllis Richardson found "literature is filled with thinking, writing, and imagining houses in ways that betray a particular consciousness of house and home." A sense of identity, ideas of personality, symbols of social status, and other links to the past are all conveyed in the most memorable of fictional settings.
Film and television adaptations of literature eternalize all of these cultural aspects and rapidly transmit them. The past can be present; yesterday's designs are every day, and artfully familiar.
The arts are unique in this way of speaking to the hearts of individuals and communities, alike. Literature asks both author and reader to use the power of imaginative descriptions to enter a fictional world, and get lost for hours on end. Film turns fiction into reality, seeing into believing, and brings entire communities together to celebrate a premiere event.
We are so excited to give back to our communities by supporting the arts! The MacPhail Center for Music teaches the intrinsic value of music and continues to share this beautiful art with the world. As founder William MacPhail said, "A city, state or nation cannot live by industry alone. There must be something for the heart and soul."
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The informational blog for Michael Meserve, Vice President, Western Region, Council of Prison Locals
Friday, February 8, 2013
AFGE Week in Review – Lawmakers Name Programs Expected to Get Hit under Sequestration
Feb. 8, 2013
Lawmakers Name Programs Expected to Get Hit under Sequestration:
Members of the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday issued a primary report detailing government programs that would get hit if the $85 billion across-the-board-cut for fiscal 2013 were to take effect on March 1. As lawmakers still disagree on whether or how to avert the automatic spending cuts, the likely results are as follows:
Food Safety:
USDA would furlough federal meat and poultry inspectors for weeks (6,000 to be furloughed, according to Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack
). Slaughterhouses and processing plants would be forced to shut down or operate fewer hours as they cannot operate without inspectors.
U.S. Coast Guard:
The agency's operations would be reduced by 25%, jeopardizing the safety of the country's water ways.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
Border Patrol agents and CBP officers would be furloughed for up to two weeks, jeopardizing the security of the nation's points of entry.
Law enforcement/BOP:
About 1,300 Bureau of Prisons correctional officers and 1,000 federal law enforcement agents would be furloughed, endangering everyone in the communities.
Air Traffic Control:
4,000 FAA employees would be furloughed, resulting in delays and economic losses.
Medical research:
More than $1.6 billion would be cut from the National Institutes of Health's research projects aimed at finding treatments for diseases like cancer and diabetes.
Disaster relief:
More than $1 billion would be cut from FEMA's disaster relief fund. Sandy assistance that has been approved would be cut by an additional $1.9 billion.
Maternal and child care:
Head Start and Early Head Start would drop 70,000 children. Up to 30,000 working parents would lose child care services. More than 600,000 poor children would be dropped from the Supplemental Nutrition Program, which would see a $353 million cut in funding.
Embassy security:
U.S. diplomats and embassies around the world would be less safe as they would face $168 million in cuts.
Military operations:
DoD's operating budgets would be reduced by 20%, hurting the military's operations and readiness. The department would also have to delay payment to TRICARE providers as its health program is facing cuts of $3 billion.
"This across-the-board cut will slow economic growth and job creation while cutting services and investments critical to the American people," House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member
Nita Lowey
and her colleagues said in the statement. "Sequestration comes on top of $1.5 trillion in discretionary cuts already enacted, the single largest cause of the economic contraction in the 4th quarter of 2012."
Anti-Job Lawmakers Push Bill to Cut Federal Workforce to Avoid Sequestration:
Lawmakers in the House and Senate this week introduce a bill that would require federal agencies to hire only one employee for every three who leave the government as a way to avoid sequestration. The 2013 Down Payment to Protect National Security Act, which also calls for a 10 % cut in the federal workforce through attrition, would worsen the country's unemployment, fatten defense contractor cronies, and unfairly put a burden on workers who have to shoulder more workload. Federal employees are once again being used to pay for a made-up crisis.
The bill was introduced in the House by House Armed Services Committee Chairman
Howard "Buck" McKeon
of California. The Senate version was put forth by Sen.
Kelly Ayotte
of New Hampshire. At a press conference where they introduced the bill, McKeon and Ayotte were joined by a few other anti-job lawmakers including Sen.
John McCain
, who authored separate legislation that has since become law and required DoD to cut thousands of civilian jobs.
Contrary to the lawmakers' false claims, the federal governments overall workforce, particularly in DoD, consists mostly of more expensive contractors. Over the last decade, DoD spending for service contracts has more than doubled, from $72 billion in fiscal year 2000 to more than $150 billion (not including spending for overseas contingency operations), while the size of the department's civilian workforce has remained essentially unchanged.
"If members of Congress want to reduce DoD, they should take on their weapons contractors cronies by reforming how we buy their products, reduce excessive layers of management bureaucracy, cap at $200,000 annually taxpayer subsidies to contractor compensation, and substitute reliable and experienced federal employees for ruinously costly contractors," AFGE National President
J. David Cox Sr.
said. "If lawmakers want to end sequestration, they should work together and with the president on revenue-raising offsets."
AFGE Seeks to Testify on Sequestration's Effects on Federal Employees:
AFGE has requested to testify on the impact of the irresponsible across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, on federal employees during a Feb. 12 hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"The voice of federal employees has been too infrequently heard in discussions about how the department will adjust to new geopolitical and budgetary realities, which make significant downsizing inevitable," said AFGE National President
J. David Cox Sr
. in a Feb. 5 letter to committee chairman
Carl Levin
. "The result is bad law and bad policy, which impose uniquely arbitrary constraints on the size and abilities of civilian employees, thus increasing costs to taxpayers at precisely the time the department must maximize the value of its precious dollars."
NP Cox laid out issues he would like to discuss at the hearing: arbitrary downsizing of the civilian workforce; excessive spending on service contractors; possible illegal civilian-to-contractor conversions; extensive furloughs that equal a 20% pay cut for nearly every single civilian employee; expensive civilian-to-military conversions; additional arbitrary 5% cut in the civilian workforce; and excessive taxpayers-funded contractor paychecks.
More Feds Retire in 2012 Than Previous Years:
2012 saw the largest exodus of federal employees from the civil service in years. As some lawmakers continue to force deep government spending cuts based on manufactured crises yet resulting in real hardship for federal employees – pay freezes, hiring freezes, cuts in retirement benefits – federal employees have had enough and decided to leave the civil service in droves. At the end of 2012, 106,550 federal employees put in their retirement papers, compared with 104,810 in 2011 and 84,427 in 2010.
"Attacking federal employees is not the way to recruit and retain the best and brightest," said AFGE National President
J. David Cox Sr.
"Yet some members of Congress continue to scapegoat federal employees, cut their pay and eliminate their jobs to fund tax breaks for big corporations. If this is not an outrage, I don't know what is."
AFGE Blasts OMB for Targeting Feds and Not Contractors:
In response to a memo issued this week by the Office of Management and Budget that targets federal employees in the event of sequestration, AFGE
J. David Cox Sr.
said OMB has served up a buffet of cuts for agencies to make to the federal workforce while giving service contractors a free pass.
"With respect to civilian workers, it seems that everything is on the table: hiring freezes, furloughs, terminating temporary or term employees and encouraging our most seasoned workers to separate or retire," NP Cox said. "Yet OMB still hasn't given agencies any useful or explicit guidance for reducing spending on service contracts. According to this latest memo, OMB is still examining contracts, grants and other expenditures to determine where spending reductions might be made."
Cox said the Defense Department has already ordered the services and defense agencies to freeze civilian hiring and curtail a range of spending on administrative expenses, and AFGE fully expects other federal agencies to take similar steps. But OMB hasn't ordered any companion cuts on the contractor side of the house, such as a freeze on new service contracts, freezing the exercise of contract options and freezing approval of contract modifications.
AFGE to Hold Annual Legislative Conference and Your Attendance Is Crucial:
AFGE is holding our annual Legislative Conference on Feb. 10-13 in Washington, D.C. and your attendance is critical in our fight against attacks on your pay, benefits and pensions. Besides various workshops on important workforce issues, we will march on Capitol Hill and hold lawmakers responsible for their vote to eliminate your job and cut your pay. It's your chance to let your representatives know it's not okay to scapegoat federal employees.
Also at the Conference:
The Women's and Fair Practices Departments will be holding an AFGE Pride meeting for the first time. AFGE Pride is a new national program that is designed to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender membership as well as their allies and to educate all of AFGE on the issues facing this community within AFGE and the Labor Movement. The AFGE Pride Meeting will be held on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6-8 pm.
AFGE will again be hosting Y.O.U.N.G. AFGE (Young Organizing Unionists for the Next Generation) events at the 2013 conference. There will be a Y.O.U.N.G. meeting held on Sunday, Feb. 10, from 5-7:30 pm. We will discuss how to effectively build a mentoring program to encourage political and legislative action among young federal and D.C. government workers. The meeting will be followed by a happy hour at 8:30 pm.
New Poll Shows Voters Want Higher Taxes for Richest 2%, Big Corporations:
As Congress and the administration are drafting budget proposals that will affect everyone in America for decades to come, two in three Americans told pollers they want the richest 2 % and large corporations to pay more in taxes. The new national poll by Hart Research shows that 66 % of voters want the top 2 % to pay more in taxes while 64 % want big corporations to pay more. Fully 73 % of voters disapprove of allowing corporations to not pay any U.S. taxes on profits they earn overseas.
Sixty six percent of voters want to use the tax revenue raised from closing tax loop holes and limiting deductions for the rich to reduce the deficit and invest in jobs, roads, bridges, schools. A majority of voters also reject by 54% to 38% a cuts-only approach for dealing with the deficit.
"This poll shows voters are clear about what they want from Congress: Make sure the next budget agreement raises a lot more tax revenue from wealthy Americans and big corporations by closing tax loopholes and special-interest tax breaks. And do not use those savings to lower the tax rates of the richest 2 percent and big corporations," said
Frank Clemente
, campaign manager of Americans for Tax Fairness which commissioned the survey.
6,000 Food Inspectors Could Be Furloughed If Sequestration Hits:
Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack
told reporters this week that the across-the-board cuts could force the USDA to "furlough over 6,000 food inspectors for two to three weeks." This would lead to chaos in the meat industry and higher rates of food-borne illnesses and diseases especially in children, pregnant women, older people and those with weak immune systems.
USDA is responsible for the safety of domestic and imported meat, poultry, and egg products. It has about 8,400 employees inspecting 6,300 slaughtered houses and processing plants across the country.
AFGE Local President Testifies before Congress Despite Threat of Retaliation:
AFGE Local 2028 President
Kathleen Dahl
on Tuesday came to Washington to
on the Legionaires' outbreak at a VA medical center in Pittsburgh even though management had suggested she could 'get sick' in order to keep from testifying. The outbreak of the Legionaires' disease has killed five veterans of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System since 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Speaking before the House VA Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Dahl said she became aware of the outbreak of the disease on Nov. 16 but quickly realized that management might have learned about the outbreak much earlier than the union and employees were notified. As a result, preventive measures such as bottled water for patients and staff, and masks and other personal protective equipment for plumbing staff were not provided in a timely manner, violating OSHA requirements and VA policy. Upon learning of the outbreak, her Local immediately sprang into high gear to make sure that all employees were notified and encouraged to get tested by Employee Health and to ensure that management took steps to protect the plumbing staff and help front line nurses and other clinicians care for their patients under difficult water restriction conditions. Local 2028 also met with management a few days later to raise concerns over the delayed notification to the union and employees as well as management's failure to link Legionella with employees diagnosed with pneumonia or exhibiting other respiratory symptoms.
"I also asked [Chief of Staff] Sonel why management had not surveyed employees over recent absences and illnesses as required by OSHA. His reply was troubling and dismissive. He stated that employees were more likely to be exposed to Legionella in their own homes," Dahl told lawmakers.
VISN 4 Network Director
Michael Moreland
admitted at the hearing that he knew about the problem in the fall of 2011, which is more than a year before he informed staff about the outbreak.
Mike Coffman
, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, was outraged at VA's 'culture of complacency'.
"VA officials admitted under questioning that these deaths were preventable, and as testimony today from witnesses inside and outside VA made clear, it was a culture of complacency within VA at multiple levels that was the culprit," he said.
Coffman added that the subcommittee had requested the testimonies of VA officials directly involved in handling the outbreak, but VA refused to make them available.
AFGE National President
J. David Cox Sr.
praised Dahl for her courage to bring to Congress' attention VA's mismanagement on the issue.
"Our members risk intimidation and retaliation when testifying before Congress or speaking to the media, but the union is here to protect them every step of the way," NP Cox said. AFGE is currently fighting for whistleblower protections for a post-traumatic stress disorder specialist at the Wilmington, Del. VA facility who continues to face intense retaliation for testifying before Congress about mismanagement and lack of mental health care access for vets.
AFGE 2012 'Heck of a job' Award:
The award goes to VA's VISN 4 Network Director
Michael Moreland
who admitted that he knew about the Legionaires' problem at a VA hospital in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2011 but did not inform staff or patients until November 2012. Five veterans have died of the disease.
This Week in Labor History:
Feb. 5, 1993 - President
Bill Clinton
signs the Family and Medical Leave Act. The law requires most employers of 50 or more workers to grant up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a family or medical emergency.
This Week's Tweet:
"This was the tweet in question he fired his spokesman over. He deleted it 14 seconds later.
" ~
Raul Labrador
of Idaho fired his spokesman Phil Hardy for tweeting 'Me Likey Broke Girls' from the congressman's account during the Super Bowl)
Inside Government:
Tune in now
to AFGE's "Inside Government" for highlights from the Families USA Health Action 2013 Conference. The show, which originally aired on Friday, Feb. 8, is now available on demand. Common Cause President and CEO and former Rep.
Bob Edgar
of Pennsylvania discussed efforts to reform the Senate filibuster and the need to balance the budget, reform the tax code, and invest in infrastructure.
Bob Weiner
, former spokesman in the Clinton White House, then analyzed the recent GDP decline and important provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Newsweek and The Daily Beast contributor
Eleanor Clift
also addressed the future of health care reform and its implementation at the state level. Lastly, Families USA Executive Director
Ron Pollack
detailed Medicaid's expansion under the Affordable Care Act and the role of insurance companies going forward.
Listen LIVE on Fridays at 10 a.m. on 1500 AM WFED in the D.C. area or online at FederalNewsRadio.com. For more information, please visit InsideGovernmentRadio.com.
Quote of the Week:
Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta
on sequestration:
"If Congress stands back and allows sequester to take place, I think it would really be a shameful and irresponsible act."
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New Faces: J. Patrick McElroy
We're thrilled to announce the addition of J. Patrick McElroy as Executive Producer of our US team here at Sweetshop. Patrick will lead all Sweetshop's US projects, with production teams based in New York and Los Angeles.
Having worked across a range of organizations that specialize in advertising, film and television, Patrick brings over a decade's worth of industry experience that spans the full spectrum of creative solutions.
Wilf Sweetland, CEO and Partner of Sweetshop said, "I am honoured Patrick has chosen to join Sweetshop. Our growth across North America requires more people of the highest calibre working with us and Patrick is just that. He is highly regarded, creatively driven and very experienced. As Executive Producer Patrick will help support our agencies and clients across all US markets. We couldn't be more excited to welcome him to our team."
Patrick began his career at pioneering documentarian Albert Maysles' production company. He later moved to Los Angeles, becoming Producer at Spotwelders, where he helped launch the company's VFX branch, Shipping + Handling. Most recently in 2014, he moved to Radical Media in New York, successfully leading the company's sales force on the East Coast.
Patrick added, "Sweetshop has a proven track record of producing advertising communication elegantly, without ever forfeiting quality and craft. I am drawn toward storytellers and see that passion and pride in Sweetshop's Directors. I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such an established brand across the US and be a part of its continued growth."
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
LIttle Frieda - Thinking of You
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Linda, this is precious!! The coloring is great and I wish I could feel it! I'm tactile, myself! =)ReplyDelete
Beautifully done my friend - she looks so sweet, and those daisies are so sweet - both the lace ones and the big one.ReplyDelete
She is gorgeous!! Love all the daisys. Thanks for joining us at Southern Girls. KarenxxReplyDelete
Beautiful - I love the daisy, very pretty.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful card I love the daisy trimReplyDelete
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Thanks for joining us at SFC,
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hello Linda.T'is beautiful . I love the layers and the torn distressed edges .Love the image and the perfect colouring . LOVE the card .Thanks for sharing and linking to Make it Monday .ReplyDelete
So pretty and such beautiful ribbon, love the way it all ties together, thanks for joining the Fairies at Prairie Fairy Fridays!ReplyDelete
Lovely Linda! So nice to see you again! Thanks for joining in Get Hippity with Ippity.ReplyDelete
What a sweet image and a sweet card! Off to check out The Craft's Meow!ReplyDelete
Linda, what an adorable image! Cute card--love the trim. Thanks for joining us at Fairy fun Fridays.ReplyDelete
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Adorable! She looks fantastic in green, I love your daisy and daisy lace with the pearl centers.ReplyDelete
She is definitely a cutie patootie!! I can't wait to see what Nina has been up to. Don't you just LOVE the LaBlanche images. I had never seen them before. If only I had the $ to buy some.ReplyDelete
Little Frieda is so precious. I love your card layout, the DP you choose, the darling image and all the special touches you added.Thanks for joining us this week at Craft Your Passion for our current challenge:"Show up your layers." We hope the you will stop by again on Monday for our next challenge. Barbara GDTReplyDelete
Adorable card, your Little Frieda is just darling..Loving your daisy.ReplyDelete
As always, totally gorgeous.ReplyDelete
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So very very pretty, Lovely Linda! Thx for sharing with us at Make It Monday, it was lovely to see you!ReplyDelete
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very nice. thank you for joining us on craftyourpassion's challenge blog. Good luck !ReplyDelete
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Sweet card.The colours and all the daisies are just perfect for this time of year.Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion :DReplyDelete
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Sweet card. Love the bling and that huge daisy. Thanks for joining in with us at OLL this time. Good luck.ReplyDelete
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That is such a sweet image. Thanks so much for sharing your talent at the SSCC 'Anything Goes' challenge. C2ReplyDelete
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OldMaidCatLady.com has recently added several raised cat dishes in lovely, elaborate folk-art designs. They're a little pricey for cat dishes, and there's a reason for that. Here's the story behind these ultra-premium cat dishes:
Due to its plentiful natural clay deposits, the Silesia region of Poland has been known for its pottery and ceramics for centuries, with examples from the early Middle Ages having been uncovered in archaeological digs. Boleslaviec is one of the towns in which ceramic pieces have been made for over a thousand years. There, artisans hand craft pottery among the finest in the world. Potters in the town formed a guild way back in the early 17th century.
Over 200 years after the original potters' guild in Boleslaviec, a master potter named Johann Gottlieb Altman developed a method of casting the pieces instead of throwing them on a wheel, as well as a lead-free glaze that opened the door to new designs including the repeating circles, flowers, and dots you see on the pieces available on OldMaidCatLady.com. After his innovations, larger pottery factories employing many artists arose in the town. Most of the area's factories and pottery schools were destroyed during World War II, but were enthusiastically rebuilt afterward to return to their former excellence. One of the oldest and largest factories in Boleslaviec is multi-award-winning Zaklady Ceramiczne Boleslaviec, from which our pieces originate.
The high content of feldspar and silicon, as well as the great density, of the clay in this region put it in a class by itself for making into strong, durable stoneware. Once shaped and fired at very high temperatures (2,246° Farenheit!), it becomes porous and ready for glazing. A second firing sets the glaze in place and makes the pieces watertight. In our modern world, that also makes them microwave-, freezer- and dishwasher-safe. (Although you should avoid going directly from one temperature extreme to another with them, or the glaze may crack. The factory recommends letting a piece that has been in the refrigerator or freezer warm to room temperature before heating it.)
Intricate decoration in predominant colors of cobalt blue and creamy white are one of the distinctive characteristics of today's Polish pottery. Three artists -- Julius Paul, Hugo Reinhold and Carl Werner -- revolutionized design again around the turn of the last century by using more brilliant colors, stenciling, and different types of finishes. Recurring motifs in contemporary pieces include the classic dots and florals, windmills, speckles and the popular "peacock's eye". They are painted onto each piece by hand using sponge stamps and brushes. The artists' punch technique is unique to ceramics made in Boleslaviec. The style of today's pieces draws from Polish, Czech, and German traditions and is known in German as Bunzlauer Geschirr.
In the Zaklady factory's line, there are four levels of patterns, each a little more elaborate and difficult to create than the one below it. They are "Classic", "Upper Classic" or "Upper Standard", "DU" or "Subtle", and "Artistic" or "Unikat (unique) Signature". The raised cat dishes we feature are from the first three groups. While patterns in the Unikat line are gorgeous, our supplier felt that the cost of them would be prohibitive for most people buying cat dishes, no matter how spoiled their cats are!
People collect Polish pottery all over the world, with many early pieces being shown in museums. There has been great interest among U.S. collectors lately in Polish pottery, and many pieces are created for everyday use as well as collecting. Each dish is still hand crafted, with mugs and cups selling for $20-$40 apiece. Specialty plates can sell for $500 or more! Now, don't the pieces we have on OldMaidCatLady.com seem like a bargain?
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Ernst: Start now on memorial to honor current war's fallen
As Published In: Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Nov 09 2017
Greeting and visiting with Iowa veterans at our national war memorials in Washington, D.C., is without a doubt something I look forward to throughout the year. To see these humble servants of our nation have the chance to visit a memorial created in their honor and pay tribute to the fellow service members they lost, is an incredibly moving experience.
As a retired lieutenant colonel from the Iowa Army National Guard and a citizen, I am filled with pride and gratitude as I welcome these men and women to our nation's capital.
When the World War II memorial opened in 2004, it was nearly 60 years after the war's conclusion. Each passing year, we see the number of World War II veterans, many of whom are visiting their war memorial for the first time, decline. It is incredibly unfortunate that many of these veterans, who sacrificed so much, could not bear witness to this tribute to their service.
As a veteran of the Global War on Terrorism, I served alongside young men and women who left their home, friends and family to protect and defend our nation. The Global War on Terrorism is our nation's longest ongoing war, and many of those men and women will soon be old enough to have children of their own deployed to fight in the very same war.
I fear that if we wait until the end of this war to begin the process of establishing a memorial in their name, many in this generation of veterans may miss out on seeing and visiting this tribute.
With this in mind, earlier this year, I led a bipartisan effort in Congress to take the important steps needed to begin the process to build a Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall in Washington.
This authorization allows a private foundation to get started on the design and construction of a Global War on Terrorism Memorial, without using any federal funds.
We were thrilled to receive President Trump's support, when he signed our measure into law in August.
It is my hope that the Global War on Terrorism Memorial will serve as a place of healing and reflection for our servicemembers, veterans, and their families, as well as a reminder of the heroic acts of so many for you and me.
Additionally, I firmly believe that it is our duty, as a grateful nation, to ensure we are doing everything we can to support and honor our veterans, as well as those who continue to serve in uniform.
Another way my office and I are able to serve our veterans is by offering assistance with federal agencies over problems or questions they may have regarding veterans' benefits, military affairs or receiving medals that they have earned. Folks can submit a casework request by visiting my website (Ernst.Senate.Gov) or calling my office (515-284-4574) to speak with a member of my staff.
Our country has a responsibility to live up to the promises made to our veterans, and I am committed to making sure our veterans are receiving the benefits and care they were promised.
I hope you'll join me in thanking our veterans and wishing all of our over 200,000 veterans in Iowa, and those across the country, a wonderful Veterans Day.
Click here to read the column on the Dubuque Telegraph Herald's website.


text: Scouting RHP Tanner Rainey & Ariel Hernandez Doug Gray May 14, 2016 5 Comments Culminating in what was a terrible month in terms of being able to get out to baseball games and cover them, mostly because I couldn't really walk or walk much for three weeks in the second part of April and early part of May thanks to a knee injury, I was able to get back to the ballpark and watch some baseball. I made the trip up to Dayton to watch 2015 Cincinnati Reds second round pick Tanner Rainey take the mound. There was also the pleasure of seeing Ariel Hernandez at what had to be his best on Friday night. Tanner Rainey is known for his arm strength, and despite being in his first full season of starting after being a reliever in college, the velocity hasn't dropped off a bit. [private_subscriber] I spent the first two innings of the game in the photo well, focusing on getting some pictures and video of the position guys at the plate, but kept an eye on the stadium radar gun. That's when big numbers started showing up on the scoreboard and new ribbon board in Dayton when Tanner Rainey was on the mound. Usually the stadium gun there is accurate, but when 97 starts showing up regularly and 98 flashed up there, it requires a second check. In the third inning I made the move to behind the plate and sat down with some scouts and doubled checked on the velocity from the first inning. Rainey hit 98 once in the inning and hit 97 five other times, while sitting 94-95 for the first two innings. He only threw four innings on the night, and his velocity did "dip" some in the 3rd and 4th inning as he was only throwing 92-95 in those innings. The good part is that there's 97-98 in there when he's not going full out in a one-inning relief stint. On the flip side, at least last night, according to the one scout I talked with, the control wasn't there at all when he was between the 96-98 range. Going from the starter to the final pitcher of the night, Ariel Hernandez continued to impress me when I see him in person. While he's certainly older than the majority of his competition, the guy that took the mound last night would have gotten Major League hitters out if he had thrown those exact same two innings. His fastball was sitting 95-97. His curveball was sitting in the 84-85 MPH range. He showed a change up at 88-89 MPH. The scouts behind the plate were in awe. I was in awe. One scout said Hernandez showed the best breaking ball he'd ever seen. He said it's an 80 offering. Another one laughed at one point after a change up and asked how a guy with three plus pitches was still in this league (Midwest). The answer to that question is that he's had a long battle with the strikezone, but last night, he was absolutely nailing his spots outside of one batter that he walked. And I don't mean he was in the zone – he was commanding the ball, locating it exactly where Tyler Stephenson was setting up with the exception of that one walk, where he was missing by small amounts. He's walked 12 batters in 20.1 innings this season, but only one in his last 5.0 innings over three appearances. If he continues to look like he did last night in terms of commanding the strikezone, he is going to move up and move up quickly. [/private_subscriber] Share this:FacebookTwitterRedditPocket 5 Responses Cam May 14, 2016 84-85? That is some kind of power curveball. The Duke May 14, 2016 Always worth taking a flier on a power arm. Given his age, I wouldn't be surprised to see Hernandez aggressively promoted as long as the walks are kept somewhat in check. I'll be shocked if Rainey ever starts in the bigs. Seems like a bullpen guy. Alex May 14, 2016 Rainey was signed for about half of his draft slot value and that saved them almost 400K so I assume they picked him to save some money. Still has a power arm but likely a bullpen piece if he does make it. RFM May 14, 2016 Ariel Hernandez has given up far more walks (123) than hits (105) in his 163 inning minor league career. Only 5 homeruns allowed. It seems like a hitter's best approach is just not to swing, since his pitches are seemingly either unhittable or out of the strike zone… Doug Gray May 15, 2016 In his career, that would certainly be the best plan of action. But on Friday night it wouldn't have done them any good as he was hitting his spots.


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Menendez, Booker Announce $1.7M in Federal Funding to Assist Low-Income NJ Families Achieve Financial Independence
Menendez, Booker Announce $1.7M in Federal Funding to Assist Low-Income NJ Families Achieve Financial Independence
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced the awarding of a combined $1,703,901.00 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, which helps families enrolled in federally assisted housing programs increase their income and build savings.
"The Family Self Sufficiency program provides families receiving federal housing assistance a key pathway to success," said Sen. Menendez. "By linking families to critical job-training, child care, and educational services, the FSS program empowers families to develop the skills and build the systems needed to achieve and maintain success."
"Helping New Jersey families achieve financial independence through proven federal programs like this takes an important step towards strengthening the core of New Jersey's communities," said Sen. Booker. "This federal investment will help lift up some of our most at risk communities by providing New Jersey families the tools they need to succeed."
The following specific grants were awarded:
- Atlantic City Housing & Redevelopment Authority (Atlantic) – $59,828
- Boonton Housing Authority (Morris) – $69,380
- City of Camden Housing Authority (Camden) – $49,886
- Dover Housing Authority (Morris) – $32,185
- East Orange Housing Authority (Essex) – $69,380
- Fort Lee Housing Authority (Bergen) – $52,771
- Gloucester County Housing Authority – $47,018
- Irvington Housing Authority (Essex) – $69,100
- Jersey City Housing Authority (Hudson) – $249,247
- Lakewood Housing Authority (Ocean) – $66,946
- Lakewood Township Residential Assistance Program (Ocean)– $53,779
- Madison Housing Authority (Morris) – $69,380
- Monmouth County – $69,380
- Morris County Housing Authority – $73,573
- N.J. Department of Community Affairs – $72,000
- Orange Housing Authority (Essex) – $68,506
- Passaic County Public Housing Agency – $123,466
- Paterson Housing Authority (Passaic) – $50,078
- Perth Amboy Housing Authority (Middlesex) – $193,356
- Pleasantville Housing Authority (Atlantic) – $72,000
- Vineland Housing Authority (Cumberland) – $69,380
- Woodbridge Housing Authority (Middlesex) – $23,262
Sen. Menendez is an original cosponsor of the bipartisan Family Self Sufficiency Act, which would improve the FSS program by streamlining the administration of housing voucher FSS and public housing FSS programs, broaden the scope of supportive services offered for families participating in FSS, and expand the reach of the FSS program to more families.


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Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS)
Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS) is a four-year European funded FP7 integrated project which ran from 2010-2014. It is a multidisciplinary research research project which aims to lay the foundations for engineering the novel class of proprioceptive computing systems.
Proprioceptive computing systems are self-aware, meaning that they are able to monitor themself, and reason about their own behaviour, state and progress. They also perform self-expression by effectively and autonomously adapting their behaviour to changing conditions. Concepts of self-awareness and self-expression are new to the domains of computing and networking; the successful transfer and development of these concepts will help create future heterogeneous, distributed and decentralised systems capable of effciently responding to a multitude of requirements with respect to functionality and flexibility, performance, resource usage and costs, reliability and safety, and security.
The EPiCS consortium spans Europe and includes a range of leading universities, research labs and industrial partners. The partners are:
|University of Paderborn
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|Imperial College London
|Computer Systems Group
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|University of Oslo
|Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Department of Musicology
|Klagenfurt University
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|Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA)
|United Kingdom
|EADS Innovation Works
|Avionics and Architectures Group
|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
|Communication System Research Group (CSG)
|Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
|Video and Security Technology Research Group
- More information can be found about the EPiCS project at the official project website: www.epics-project.eu.
- The EPiCS project is part of Awareness, a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7. The Awareness initiative has its own website: www.aware-project.eu.


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For those looking at retiring over the next five years, questions surrounding whether the Australian property market is stable enough to confidently invest one's savings in are becoming more and more relevant.
The commonly held belief that banks are over-earning does now seem to be shared by the Financial Services Royal Commission (aka Banking Royal Commission), with Australia's banks under serious scrutiny with regard to the tightening of their lending standards. There have already been many instances of Australia's big banks feeling the heat of the Royal Commission, with the National Australia Bank (NAB) forking out over $310,000,000 to its customers in a big to address the impact of its poor advice.
With all of this in mind, the question still remains for stakeholders of all shapes and sizes: what is the significance of the Banking Royal Commission within the context of Australian property market?
The Banking Royal Commission's interim report has indeed shed some light on what is to be expected, with Commissioner Hayne noting that regulators should be monitoring and enforcing existing policy more effectively, while lenders and brokers should be placing client interests ahead of profits (on top of this, the commission has been told that 90% of financial advisers providing advice to SMSFs ignored clients' best interests).
Should this conservative approach to lending prevail, the Australian public may well begin to see further tightening of credit conditions, or as CLSA banking analyst Brian Johnson has suggested; "the most likely outcome from the royal commission is that we remove some of the ill-disciplined lending that we were seeing".
According to founder of Metropole, Michael Yardney's assessment of how the Royal Commission is set to effect property prices, this essentially means that "many potential borrowers are unable to get a new loan, others are waiting much longer to get their loans approved and many who can get loans are only able to borrow 60% or so of what they may have been able to borrow a few years ago".
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has made it clear that it expects banks to make more of an effort to reflect household living expenses and mortgage interest repayments in their lending calculations - a change which, whilst positive in the long run, will most likely create a tougher environment for first home buyers.
APRA's chair, Mr Wayne Byres has publicly stated that the Royal Commission has suggested "...amongst other things, that regulators can and should do more to actively enforce standards of behaviour within the financial sector, and punish those who breach them".
Amidst all this, chief economist Paul Dales has warned that house prices could fall as much as 12%, and that if this was to occur, it would be the longest and deepest housing downturn in at least three decades. Dales has also made the suggestion that if/when lending is tightened, the Australian public can expect to feel it over the following six to twelve months:
"There's significant time delays with these things...I would have thought over the next six to twelve months is where we would, if there was going to be a big pullback in lending, that's when we would see it and then, thereafter as and when the royal commission makes any recommendations and the Government implements them, the next six to 12 months after that."
"There's significant time delays with these things...I would have thought over the next six to twelve months is where we would, if there was going to be a big pullback in lending, that's when we would see it and then, thereafter as and when the royal commission makes any recommendations and the Government implements them, the next six to 12 months after that."
CoreLogic housing statistics have revealed that Sydney has already experienced a 6.1% fall in the past twelve months. With a shift this dramatic, the housing market will no doubt be a topic of hot debate during the upcoming federal election. This may not be the only talking point to follow closely, as earlier in the year, the opposition promised a reform of negative gearing and capital gains tax, despite the property downturn (they have proposed to limit negative gearing allowances to new homes and reduce the capital gains discount from 50% to 25%).
Given the consistently uncertain political climate in Canberra, the extent to which we can expect credit conditions to tighten will become dependent on the elected party. Whilst Commissioner Hayne has indeed provided a policy brief, he has left it to the politicians to design and uphold adequate financial services systems leading into the future.
Analysts have made the suggestion that the political parties will be unlikely take Commissioner Hayne's report lightly, and will in fact push for tighter regulations, although the ABC has recently reported on suggestions that both the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Treasury have warned the government to be careful with regard to regulatory responses to the royal commission, as it is possible that harsh penalties may halt lending to home buyers and businesses, "which would not be great news for the economy".
Should we see a Labor government come to power, some stakeholders have made the suggestion that their changes will have downward pressure on repayments, which can lead to:
Similarly effected by the recent downturn in the Australian property market have been some off-the-plan apartment buyers. Buying off the plan has often been an attractive choice for buyers, as it provides both a property, as well as a window to save more money for the down payment, although with average prices dropping 2.7% nationally over the past twelve months, the environment has changed.
Now, Australia is seeing some off-the-plan buyers struggling to secure the purchase of their properties. According to conveyancer Alex Sapounas, some buyers are "struggling to seek finance and get the valuations according to what they purchased the property for".
Mr Sapounas gives an example of one Western Sydney couple who had agreed to purchase a two bedroom apartment three or four years ago for $680,000, although when the bank valued the property on completion, it was no longer valued this highly, meaning that the bank refused to lend the couple as much as they needed. This resulted in the couple having to find an extra $54,000, on top of their deposit and stamp duty.
When combined with a smaller capacity for borrowing, this drop in the value of newly constructed properties can be seen as a double-whammy for some buyers - one which bestselling author Miriam Sandkuhler has compared to purchasing a new car, driving it out of the lot and having its value automatically depreciate by 20%.
In conclusion, and to attempt to answer the question of 'what does the Banking Royal Commission mean for the Australian property market?', it's important to consider the fact that the wheels are still in motion, and that we are yet to see the final product, as it were. What we do know at this stage is that changes are already being made within the banking industry which are likely to significantly slow lending, which has accompanied a drop in the value of Australian property.
Independent economist Saul Eslake has suggested that this decline in property prices may not be as bad news as it is sometimes portrayed, commenting that:
"for those who own property it's obviously not a good thing, but for the growing number of Australians who've been locked out of the property market over the last 25 years a decline in prices of the order of 10 to 20 per cent over a two or three year period, especially if happens without any significant increase in interest rates, could be the most promising thing that's occurred for more than 25 years".
"for those who own property it's obviously not a good thing, but for the growing number of Australians who've been locked out of the property market over the last 25 years a decline in prices of the order of 10 to 20 per cent over a two or three year period, especially if happens without any significant increase in interest rates, could be the most promising thing that's occurred for more than 25 years".
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Solar Study Collection
For the last 4.5 billion years, the sun has been a constant resource that not only sustains us, but also inspires us. In more recent years, the sun and its renewable power have allowed us to explore and expand its value and uses. Through the Solar Study, J+J's design studio examines how the built environment reflects the idea of utilizing the sun to not only brighten our days, but to also illuminate our nights.
The growing influence of solar power inspires our newest flooring collection. The Solar Study (Azimuth, Photon, Zenith) – three beautiful interpretations of photovoltaic architecture, designed to work individually or together.
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Apple has released iOS 12.1.4 with Group FaceTime patch. Download iOS 12.1.4 IPSW for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Brandon is a true car guy by nature, mechanical engineer by day. To say he takes care of his cars is an understatement. This was his daily, and his project car is a very early Celica that he did a Lexus v8 swap into. Recently bought his boss' car (one owner, newer Saab turbo wagon with AWD) for a price he couldn't pass up, so he needs the garage space. I'd buy it myself but work/life just doesn't allow at the moment. Since I've passed on my first right of refusal, I offered to list it to the forums for him as he's not a member in the community.
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text: Actually, risk-aversity is very basic to older philosophies and there is a strong trend against it as those philosophies mature. So it has vast and broad support, but is resisted more and more as we move forward. It is ambiguous whether there are any arguments in its favor that do not then have more powerful contradictions later. Epicureanism favors the lack of fear resulting from removing risk as a separate, special category of good -- the katastemic or static pleasure. Economics and Utilitarianism, Epicurus' more modern form, tends to reject affording absolute good to the sustainable state, and seeks to characterize it in terms of some dynamic tension between risk and reward. The Stoics strongly valued avoiding premature closure, and taking a risk is the most common stereotype for allowing premature closure, as they reached their epitome in Skepticism, they took avoidance of attachment to an outcome as a principle value. Their revival in modern skepticism that leads us through Nietzsche, strongly attacks cowardice and conformity as the ultimately greater risk, putting risk avoidance into a state of complete paradox. Schools like Cynicism and those attending to Heraclitus, who promote risk as a natural part of every aspect of life, which is to be embraced, rather than controlled fare very badly historically, but will not die. They often are resurrected and reshaped in positive directions in the thinking of those who move us forward later. Dialecticism takes this notion of basic instability, and gives it a reason, but encourages sustaining it, if not pushing it toward less stability. Modern moves in philosophy toward a 'therapeutic' direction may be taken as a return to pursuit of stability and limitation of risk. But it is not a strong thread. Also people motivated by the destructiveness of the Western lifestyle are preaching sustainability once more, and speaking in terms of risk-aversity in establishing empathy for the future. So this trend away from safety as a value in itself is not absolute, but it remains strong.


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Jimmy Coco is hailed as Hollywood's tan authority by leading fashion and beauty magazines and world renowned tanner to the stars with such clients as Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Kim Kardashian and the Victoria Secret models. We asked him to reveal his secret for the perfect sunless tan to get us beach and beyond ready.
How did you get into the business of spray tanning and how did you come up with the idea of "mobile tanning"?
In my 20′s, I used to model swimwear and underwear. I would lay out in the sun to help hide the (port wine stain) birthmark on my chest. I decided to be a customer-service oriented mobile tanning business so I could possibly help other people with similar body issues. I never intended to pioneer mobile tanning or become famous for this.
Are there any self tanning products that you would recommend that also have high SPF content?
L'Oreal Sublime Bronze with SPF 20
What are your top three (drugstore) Sunless Tanning products?
Jergens Daily Gradual Tanning Lotion, L'Oreal Sublime Tanning Lotion and Neutrogena build-a-tan gradual tanner for face with SPF 15. My absolute favorite sunless tanning pick for this year is the VS Beach Sexy tanning and bronzing line. The self-tanning tinted lotion is awesome because it is formulated with pure avocado oil, so it moisturizes your skin as it goes on. We all know that hydrated skin keeps a glowing tan longer.
What makes your products different from other sunless tanning products out there in the market?
My product is great for all skin types, parabens free, and easy to use spray so you can reach your back.
How do you get instantly thinner looking and minimize cellulite with spray tanning?
A darker application on the outer hips/thighs creates a slimming illusion.
Is spray tanning exclusive to lighter skins and how do darker women can benefit from it?
Darker women also have uneven skin-tones. Often times, tanning the lighter areas of your skin to match your darker areas of skin creates a "more all-over even" glow. All women want longer leaner look and by applying darker application on the outer hips/thighs area, it creates a slimming illusion.
In your professional opinion – what is the absolute best way to apply self-tanner when you're doing it yourself. What tools does one need in order to achieve this?
Start with a daily gradual tanning lotion like Jergens. Using your hands, apply the lotion to the lighter areas of your skin in an effort to match your darker skin – this may take a few days or so to achieve the look you want (apply a light layer each day). Once that has been achieved, apply a light tanning spray mist over your entire body and remember, less is more. I recommend my product, Blast Tanning Spray.


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Robin Burrows playing his Andy Crocket built strat (Katie), demoing Kent Armstrong's Tweed Tone single Pick ups, on behalf of WD music.
Soloing over Stevie Wonder's Superstition
Robin Burrows playing and soloing over Superstition, originally composed by Stevie Wonder.
Test Driving a Strat
Robin Burrows jamming around on a new guitar
Neo Classical Rock Composition
Robin Burrows playing a short neo classical rock composition.
Van Halen's Jump Solo
Robin having some fun, shredding to Eddie Van Halen's Jump solo.
New Material with Rob Bradshaw
Me and Rob Bradshaw playing and developing a new composition called "Hairy Monkey".


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A survivorship celebration through the decades!
On October 25, we had an incredible evening enjoying music, decor and celebration from the 1950s to the 1990s to benefit breast cancer survivorship and prevention in our communities!
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Air Force Plugging F-35 Cybersecurity Holes
Morning Coffee is a robust blend of links to news around the internet concerning the Naval Air Station Patuxent River economic community. The opinions expressed here do not reflect opinions of the Leader's owners or staff.
The Air Force is working to plug cybersecurity holes in the F-35's external support systems, as they are deemed the easiest entry points for hackers into the fifth-generation combat jet, reports Fifth Domain. "It's a software-based aircraft, and any software-based platform is going to be susceptible to hacking," said Brig. Gen. Stephen Jost, director of the Air Force F-35 Integration Office.
Boeing faces further scrutiny over the crash of one of its planes into the sea off Indonesia last month, reports The New York Times. Airlines, pilots, and regulators question if Boeing underplayed the complexity of a new emergency system suspected of having malfunctioned on the doomed jetliner.
As President Donald Trump and others express concerns about ballots materializing in Florida after the Nov. 6 election, some advocates are reminding people that many of these ballots are likely coming from military voters and US citizens living overseas, reports Military Times.
The continuing "Fat Leonard" Navy corruption investigation now includes retired Capt. Jeffrey Breslau who admitted receiving about $65,000 for public-relations consulting services from Leonard Glenn Francis, the indicted owner and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia, reports USNI.
One pilot dead in T-38 crash at Laughlin Air Force Base, reports Air Force Times. A T-38 training aircraft Tuesday night at the base in Texas. The other pilot has been transferred to Val Verde Regional Medical Center.
USNI reports the Navy plans to launch a mobile app version next month of its My Navy Portal. The app will be updated monthly and will offer nearly the same type of online information as the desktop site, only without having to use a command access card. Active duty personnel, retirees, dependents, and spouses will be able to access the app.
Brace yourselves, reports Task & Purpose, DefSec James Mattis is headed to the US-Mexico border to receive an update from his forces. There is still no cost estimate for the mission, reports Military Times.
The FBI reports hate crimes in the US up for a third year in a row, reports The Washington Post. Law enforcement agencies report 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up 17 percent from 6,121 in 2016.
UK Cabinet to meet after Britain, EU reach draft Brexit deal, reports AP News. The British government confirmed that the negotiating teams had reached a draft agreement and the cabinet would hold a special meeting to consider the proposal. Its support isn't guaranteed: May is under pressure from pro-Brexit ministers not to make further concessions to the EU on the key issue of the Irish border.
A faulty engine, serious maintenance lapses that failed to repair it, and a series of air crew mistakes before and during takeoff led to the WC-130H crash May 2 that killed nine Puerto Rico Air National Guardsmen. Air Force Times reports the accident investigation board found troubling morale, manning, and resource problems with the 156th Airlift Wing, and a possible "culture of complacency" that may have led maintainers to cut corners. The WC-130 was to be flown from the Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Georgia, to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, known as the Boneyard, to be removed from service. It crashed less than two minutes after takeoff.
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Nov. 13, 2018
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $22,712,874,822 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm-target, firm-fixed-price advanced acquisition contract (N00019-17-C-0001) for 255 aircraft. This modification provides for the production and delivery of 106 F-35 aircraft for the U.S. services (64 F-35As Air Force; 26 F-35Bs Marine Corps; 16 F-35Cs Navy); 89 F-35s for non-Department of Defense (DoD) participants (71 F-35As, 18 F-35 Bs); and 60 F-35s for Foreign Military Sales customers (60 F-35As). The US aircraft quantities are for the Lot 12 program of record plus fiscal 2018/fiscal 2019 aircraft quantity congressional adds. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (57 percent); El Segundo, California (14 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (9 percent); Cameri, Italy (4 percent); Orlando, Florida (4 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (3 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (3 percent); San Diego, California (2 percent); Nagoya, Japan (2 percent); and various locations outside the continental US (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2023. Fiscal 2018 and 2019 aircraft procurement funds (Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy) in the amount of $3,505,522,468 (59 percent); non-DoD participant funds in the amount of $1,578,531,164 (26 percent); and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $916,667,000 (15 percent) for a total of $6,000,720,632 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.


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Random points
- I'm participating - as all of the Flemish bloggers , so it seems - with the 40 days of blogging challenge during lent. Peace of cake, I figured, since I blog on average 5 times a week already. Of course I already felt my first writer's block on Friday. :D.
- The vacation is over...no more ski pictures in my social media feeds. For us things went on just as usual but I really enjoyed the calmer roads and the almost meetingless week at work. And there was no school bell deadline in the morning which made it much more relax.
I was so in the regular work routine however, that I almost forgot to pick up Kabouter from his vacation daycare. If my colleague hadn't called me out of my concentration with a question, I had totally lost time.
- Beertje fell asleep in my arms twice this week and that's very rare lately. It was wonderful and I just sat there for a while, watching him.
- We had a fun afternoon catching up with a vacation friend that I met as a teenager. We hardly ever see each other, but we manage to catch up now and then and to stay in touch. Kabouter clearly had a good time too because he asked if he could sleep over.
- The flowers were insanely cheap at the market! Yeay for flowers in the house.


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Maggie's Farm Revival is excited to announce that we will be returning to the Wilser's Room (located in the Capital Complex) Saturday November 16th!
The Band will be kicking off at 8PM and will be playing 3 rocking sets that will have you groovin' the night away! Join us and let the good times roll!


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Marketing guru. Financial extraordinaire. Head problem solver and communicator. If you run a small business, you probably wear all of these hats and more. Maximizing your organization, productivity, and just making your life as an entrepreneur could be a little bit easier if you use the right tech.
Once upon a time, there was a chemist who worked at a large manufacturing company. His name was Spencer.
Spencer set forth on a quest to develop, using his powerful chemistry skills, a really sticky adhesive. This adhesive would be so sticky. Stickier than you can even imagine.
The best ideas often happen in the most unexpected places and inopportune times when your mind is aimlessly engaged in a nonspecific activity. The best thing you can do under such circumstances is capture those fleeting ideas, thoughts, and feelings before they vanish forever. Some do it on the back of the napkin. The more organized ones do it with a notebook at hand.
From entertaining games that promote creativity and learning, to utilitarian apps that organize your to-do lists, controversial apps that help you spy on your spouse, and even life-saving apps that monitor your heart rate, if you dream it, you can find it. Because there appear to be inexhaustible markets for online apps (ever hear of iFart and ZitPicker?) – many developers have been led to believe all they need to do for an app to be successful is to… build it and they will come.
One of the fastest and most-effective ways to get more business is to build a strong social media presence. Yet, like swords, social media cuts both ways. You have to wield it well for you and your brand to benefit from its immense potential. If you don't, it can come back around and cut you. Bad.
Nobody particularly likes making mistakes. Yet, perhaps one of the greatest lessons in business is learning to not be afraid of this possibility. However, another great lesson in business is realizing you don't always have to learn from the mistakes you make when they do inevitably happen either.
In general, trust is often talked of as the most important currency in business. It can the bedrock of a company's success and the element that undergirds all employer-employee relationships. Without trust, no one will believe in the organization. Without that belief, no one is going to serve the business within the business and no one is going to buy – be it a product, service, idea.
In the age of too much information, just about anyone in the business world who wants to write entrepreneurship articles can put their own spin on another Top 10 list or how-to guide. The result is often coverage of topics that have been written to death and an audience that automatically tunes out whenever the same melody is played over and over.
Business success has a lot to do with recognizing opportunities and maximizing opportunities. Yet, what many fail to realize – or forget – is that it's possible (and wise!) to make opportunities as well.
The idea that luck happens when preparation meets opportunity is as old as the Roman philosopher Seneca. And if being lucky simply means just that, then maybe we can game the system by being prepared for when that opportune time comes knocking at our door.


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19–20 September, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Over two warm, late summer days in Amsterdam, scholars from the respective anthropology departments of UCLA and the University of Amsterdam gathered with a dual set of intentions: to discuss Care and (Inter)Subjectivity, and to mark the departments' burgeoning collaborative relationship. Both departments are home to strong medical anthropology resources and interests, albeit with many idiosyncrasies and unique histories. The event was designed to foster connection and collaborative possibilities as well as to think through together the strands of care and intersubjectivity found in the participants' work.
Aware that the salience and popularity of these themes can (and does) create situations where scholars use the same terms without acknowledging their different conceptualizations, the conference gave space to exploring their numerous iterations without any agenda to arrive at conclusions about 'what' care and intersubjectivity 'are'. Participants broadly shared an orientation towards tracing the way subjects' lives unfold in relation to other entities in the world, also in processes of becoming, through modes of being-with imagined to involve concern with or attentiveness to the other's state of being. From there, lingering humanist biases in approaches to both care and the intersubjective were tempered with sensibilities around the political-moral economies through which a range of such modes of attentiveness becomes possible.
Presentations engaged a breadth of approaches, ranging from discussing preliminary ideas for new research, such as Robert Pool's planned work on euthanasia in Amsterdam; to reports from recent fieldwork, including Alex Edmond's pilot inquiry on PTSD treatment for soldiers in the US, Israel, and the Netherlands; to chapters from upcoming publications, like Jarrett Zigon's critical hermeneutic analysis on the radical politics of world-making emerging in Vancouver among drug users beyond a harm reduction framework; and 'show-and-tells' of career-spanning inquiries, as in John Heritage's conversation analyses of doctor-patient interviews. Plenty of spaces were left open for walks and talks along the local canals and coffee-fueled conversation breaks. Even Vinh-Kim Nguyen's lovably restless golden retriever Kobe contributed to the setting's comfort and suitability for rethinking the way we think together. You could call it a 'space of attunement' for the participants themselves, to pick up on one of the conference's threads, a term brought in by Zigon to sketch the potentiality of becoming 'engaged and entangled' in resonant relationships that can lead to new possibilities.
Not surprisingly, given UCLA's strong linguistic streak, the relationship between language, care, and intersubjectivity surfaced at multiple moments throughout the sessions. The way that doctors' word choices when interviewing patients influence what patients disclose, as elucidated by Heritage, informed conversations about the role of self-disclosure in forms of care, and the question of how and where this verges on imposition. Annemarie Samuels's recent research with an HIV-positive support group in Aceh, Indonesia, highlighted the practice of giving 'semangat', creating hope together through talking through and developing a disposition of positivity and endurance. Discussions evolved on how to disclose and share something morally compromising and together develop an anticipatory sense of healing selves through time, and, further, to perhaps open that space for attunement.
In moving our analyses away from a straightforward politics of recognition towards something more radically open, a kind of resonance is developed through this attunement with the other; through forms of being-with that go beyond the linguistic, we may gain insight into how certain kinds of suffering become available for provisions of care. Concomitantly, sensitivity is needed when such anticipation of the other's state, even in a mode of care, can become an imposition or even implicate a dangerous foreclosure of possibilities or occlusion of local conditions. Is there a way of being with others without directionality or power? Care is a deeply empirical and ethnographic concern, and often sought at the micro- (if not nano-) level of social worlds, but conference participants shared clear concerns about how to bring together this microlevel with broader political-economic conditions. Edmonds's pilot research on war syndromes across multiple Western contexts reminds us that biomedical conditions can't easily exist outside of the political-moral economy through which they arise. Tracing soldiers' straddling of worlds (homes and battlefields), he asks whether something as ubiquitous as PTSD, in its arguable overdiagnosis, may morally level incommensurate worlds.
This is an especially important critique in a situation of global health governance and contemporary panics over aggressive bacteria in mobile bodies. Without arguing for radical ontological difference, bodies do differ in different places, evoking Margaret Lock's term 'local biology'. Nguyen, sharing very recent experiences around Ebola responses in African nations and in his own clinical practice in Paris, asked about (the impossibility of) localized preparedness despite an increasingly standardized global biomedicine. This apt line of inquiry closed out the conference, resonating with the group's sustained consideration of care as a certain mode of intersubjectively cultivated affect, or a kind of technical competence, a set of repeated and standardized gestures.
The open time for conversation and connections at the conference's end circled around innovative methodologies, with deep interest in UCLA's Center for Everyday Life in Families (CELF) study's layering and stretching of technologized methods. Contemporary sophistications in video technology – tiny flat cameras that attach to eyeglasses, for example – may offer the discretion and subtlety we tend to seek in our inquiries into such intimate realms as care and the intersubjective. 'Using' the multisensory data of these new technologies should be something we feel comfortable playing with, and given the empirical nature of care, bringing our awareness to multiple modes of engagement with the world seems like an apt way to tune into these multilayered relational practices.
Two brief days together brought out a world of consonance between research and researchers. The one definite conclusion reached involved the value in organizing events like this to build sustainable relations across faculties and among graduate students, to entangle our ideas and ourselves in a concerted way – to be creative, improvisational, and experimental together, in much the same spirit as we frame and find care in our analyses.
Megan Raschig
University of Amsterdam


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01 Nov Luxury with a Conscience
Design trends are constantly changing and choosing material can be difficult when thinking long term, but one thing is certain – the use of sustainable and healthy products is here to stay. As a result, top industry professionals and design-savvy consumers not only want a product that says "luxury", but also ones which are environmentally responsible.
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