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The Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine is seeking to make revenue collection more relaxed for vendors in the city, as they are uncomfortable with the present method of officers visiting their various booths to collect revenue. In an interview with Guyana Times on Tuesday, the Mayor said this was one of the issues brought up at a recent meeting when vendors met with City Hall officials for a meeting last week."We met with all the vendors both wholesale and retailers last week Wednesday. That meeting was really to talk to them and they had wanted to voice their concerns because they have a lot of concerns out there," he explained.Going forward, the Mayor has committed to another meeting to hear from those vendors himself.So far, those persons have complained about businesses dumping their refuse near their places of business among others."Those were the most concerns and how we will regularise the revenue collectors. Some people do not feel comfortable for someone to go and collect revenue from them just like that so we are working to put a system in place since I took office," Narine posited.He assured that his Information Technology (IT) Department has been working tirelessly along with the IT Committee to put provisions in place for those vendors to visit City Hall and pay their monthly dues whereby they will be issued a receipt.On this note, Narine noted that revenue collection is usually done on a weekly basis, where collectors would pick up these dues and issue receipts."I think as the Mayor I don't want to see that in the future," he said.The various markets, on the other hand, has an office where stallholders pay their revenue, in an environment which has been described as safer.Last year June, a similar method was implemented to collect revenue at the Bourda Market.Back then, revenue collectors from the market section would act on behalf of the Council to manoeuvre around the vendors and apply the charges on behalf of the Council and collect the revenues based on what was owed.However, to enhance the transparency and accountability of this process, this will not be done in the future. A booth was established at Regent Street and Orangewalk, where the system will be modified. Cashiers will be present at the booth while "issuers" and "verifiers" will be dispatched to the vendors."An issuer would come towards a vendor. They would assess the goods that is on the ground and they would write what is called a 'slip'. The vendor would be given that slip and the vendor is expected to take that slip towards the cashier booth and make his or her payments," Accounting Manager of the Council, John Douglas explained.
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All right, I have to say this first because I'm seeing a lot of people talking nonsense online: Virgin River is based on a book series that began well over a decade ago. It is NOT a copy of Hart of Dixie.
Now I've said that, I shall move on to my review!
The most important question: do I like the Netflix adaptation of Virgin River? YES! I like it much more than I expected to, have laughed out loud several times, and will continue to watch the rest of the season.
Is it perfect? Nup and nope, but overall I think they've done a good job.
The Great:
Alexandra Breckenridge as Melinda Monroe
When I saw the first picture from the set (on Instagram, below) I knew they'd cast a good Mel. What I didn't know was that they'd cast an outstanding Mel.
If you were to ask me who my most hated book character of all time is, I'd say Mel without hesitation. That Breckenridge has made her into a wonderful, rounded character I love is a pretty huge achievement.
The medical stuff is under control.
The thing I always found off-putting in the books was the obsession with detailed medical procedures. It squicked me out and I thought a lot of it was totally unnecessary. It's so much better in the show – and in the background, where it belongs.
It also means "annoying, bossy Mel" has been toned down. She doesn't get as many scenes to lecture everyone in.
Daniel Gillies as Mark
I want to marry this character. He doesn't appear on the page in the series, but I'm very glad to meet him here.
Annette O'Toole as Hope McCrea
Yes, her character is nothing like the woman in the books, but I'm loving this version of Hope. She's hilarious and I don't mind that they've enormously expended her part.
The Good:
Tim Matheson as Doc
I'm liking him more and more as the series goes on.
The Not-So-Good:
Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan
I had my doubts when I saw the picture on Instagram, and I've been proven right. It doesn't help that Daniel Gillies is so good in his role (we're not meant to love Mark more than Jack!). Many a person stuck with the book series specifically because of Jack's character, and so he was going to have to be outstanding.
So far he's someone I'd have a chat with, not marry. And – sorry – but his character is supposed to be around my age, and this version of Jack looks old enough to be my father.
Also, the little addiction side story they've thrown in is totally unnecessary.
Character heights and sizes.
SO MUCH is made of these huge, tough Marine Corps guys in the books. I know Hollywood is populated with men who are smaller than they look on the screen, but when Mel and Jack and Preacher are all a similar size? Doesn't work.
The Bad:
The changes made to Preacher and Paige.
Now, I'm not blaming the actors here. They're both doing an outstanding job with what was written for them. The problem is that these characters bear no resemblance whatsoever to their book characters, and their storyline is unrecognisable.
It was a clever move to make Preacher a POC, and if you take a look at the books they never actually say he's white. I've commented many times in the past that author Robyn Carr has both a problem writing diversity, and is sometimes outright racist.
My issue with Preacher: where's our shy, gentle giant gone? Why is the man of few words relentlessly lecturing Jack about his personal life? What on earth is going on … ?
As for Paige: book Paige runs away to Virgin River with her son, and I can understand that the scriptwriters thought this made her story too similar to Mel's. I would have been fine with her already living in the town (as she does in the show). What I'm not okay with is her running a flipping bakery truck. In a tiny town where it's snowy and cold.
Surely the writers could have come up with something better than that, because I honestly think it's incredibly stupid …
And, so …
Books and shows are different beasts, and while a good book can't be episodic, TV practically demands it. Cliffhangers have to be thrown in, and so I can forgive quite a few of the changes. (My scriptwriting tutor from university would be overjoyed to hear me say this!)
Overall I'm pretty fine with how the show is going, even if Jack's not my guy and even though Preacher and Paige are suffering from some serious character assassination. Mel, Hope and Doc make up for it.
Despite my issues I'd recommend Virgin River to anyone who wants a bit of a laugh to go with their drama.

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The concept of investing in vacation rental properties has gained appreciable momentum in recent times, and for good purpose: the growth of the economy, along with the appearance of the non-public accommodation sector, has made it considerably simpler for households to go on more holidays of their own. Although I understand the benefits of leveraging the potential for a low-interest mortgage for investment purposes, being mortgage-free is by far my desire (regardless of paying property taxes in perpetuity). This is one other helpful e book for people who wish to put money into real estate for the long run.
So there's business to be had when you've got a home or room to rent out. Read up on HARP, then talk to your lender. You probably have it, contemplate putting 20 percent right down to keep away from personal mortgage insurance (PMI) —costly insurance that protects your mortgage lender must you foreclose prior to building enough equity within the property.


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MOLINE- It's hard to believe, but the high school football season is just one month away, and the Good Morning Quad Cities crew wants to come to YOUR HIGH SCHOOL to broadcast LIVE ON THE AIR from 5 to 7 a.m.
This will be our fourth season doing The Score Pre-Game Pep Rallies on Good Morning Quad Cities, and last year, we had so many submissions, we couldn't get out to all the schools. That's why we're looking for submissions early, in preparation for Week One of the football season Friday, August 24.
We will take submissions from school faculty first because they're the ones who have to okay the pep rally, but we always accept submissions from parents too!
In 2017, we went to Orion, Goose Lake, Oneida, Rock Falls, Bureau Valley, Galesburg, Princeton, Bettendorf, and Cambridge. This year, we are looking for OTHER SCHOOLS we haven't been to.
So…if you would like us to come out, fill out the form below, and somebody from the Good Morning Quad Cities staff will contact you.
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The kindergarten opens for our early birds, at 7.30. Free play continues until 9.15, In this important phase children discover their world and others who accompany them in it. It is a time for
them to have their own experiences and a time for us to get to know and guide them.
During this time the children may play wherever, and with whom they wish, and the carers role is to support this time of enriched learning. The developments of their self- fantasy, their motor and physical skills as well as their cognitive development all take place during this time.
Around 9 o'clock the chimes are rung downstairs, which is the signal that it is time to tidy up.
The children then meet in their home rooms. The Juniors are divided into the "Blueberries" and the "Strawberries." The pre-school children are the "Seniors".
Snack time is an important social time, where the children come together in their home room groups to eat, drink and enjoy talking to each other.
We have many rituals ranging from the snack train, greeting the staff and singing a "Thank you song."During this time the children are served by the staff in order to maximize the English input.
Towards the end of the year we have open snack time; where the children have the opportunity to decide when they go to snack, and with whom.
Snack time is provided by the Kindergarten and comprises of bread and butter, fruit and vegetables, and tea, milk or water to drink.
During this time each group, comprising of about 15 children, are in their home room with their carers. There are two native speakers to each group.
In lesson time the children will be offered activities which will enhance their motor skills, language skills, and dexterity, expose them to the world of fantasy and fact, dream world and the world we live in.
During this 30-minute homeroom phase the children either take part in structured play or the teacher creates a quiet atmosphere reading stories and encouraging the children to actively take part in speaking English in a playful way as they sit together in a circle. The kindergarten's daily routine plays a major role in the development of the children's English skills as it forms the framework for their exposure to English in a variety of contexts.
Naturally after snack time the children are helped to clean their teeth.
Avos visits the Play Group twice a year to carry out their programme of dental hygiene and prevention and a healthy life style.
To conclude the "Home Room Time" the Juniors and Seniors reunite in the gym for "circle time" during which the children take part in English songs, chants, rhymes and games.
The pre-school programme covers the three areas; the physical, social and cognitive "reife"( competencies).
The physical programme includes ice skating, self and body awareness, balance, and learning rules and building confidence
A full pre- maths programme is offered to the children, as well as science experiments aimed at the understanding of this age group.
Love talks is offered to the children. This pre-school programme includes self awareness, critical and creative feelings, emotions and guilt feelings, as well as self awareness
During the homeroom phase the role call also takes place and it is generally used as a time for encouraging oral discourse.
This structured phase is again followed by free play, either spent in the various activity rooms or if weather allows, outdoors in our large garden until the children are collected or lunch is served. There is also an afternoon kindergarten until 5pm with a less structured programme but neither of us work in the afternoons, so this time will not be utilized for our research purposes.


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DALLAS – By trading away their first-round pick in February, the Winnipeg Jets were already going to take a slightly different approach to the 2018 NHL Draft.
As Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff is fond of saying, the players will take care of how fast they can get to the next level.
But a quick look at the six players chosen by the Jets on Saturday reveals three players who are committed to playing college hockey in 2019-20 and another who has two more years left on his contract in the Swedish Hockey League.
In short, it's most likely going to take more than a year or two before these guys are knocking on the door to pushing for a roster spot at the NHL level.
"We added to all aspects," Cheveldayoff said at the conclusion of the seventh round. "Generally speaking, what makes guys is their maturity level and where they're at in their development and a lot of those guys end up going in the first round.
"That's why you generally see a lot of first-round players stepping in earlier. The key to all this is the development path and the actual development of the player. And that's when all of you and everyone starts talking like 'Wow, I can't believe he was a fourth or a fifth-rounder.' So there are elements of these players' games that we drafted here that need development. But part of the discussions and part of the places that we ranked them is (why) we feel they're on good development paths and in good situations to develop."
Because of the Paul Stastny deal at the NHL trade deadline, the Jets first pick came at 60th overall and that's where they found Swedish centre David Gustafsson.
Gustafsson played in the top men's league as a 17-year-old, showing plenty of promise as the season went along.
"I have to work on my skating a lot, because I need to get faster," said Gustafsson, who is hoping to play for his country at the 2019 World Junior Hockey Championship after being a late cut last winter. "I was gaining a lot more ice time at the end of the year, and I was playing better. I just see benefits. I was evolving as a player. When you go to men's team you're not getting the same role as you do on a junior team. I was just so thrilled to be playing with the men and it helped me a lot."
An early comparison for Gustafsson is current Jets centre Adam Lowry, since he's a guy who is a smart, two-way player and useful penalty killer who is strong in the faceoff circle.
Though at this stage, Gustafsson doesn't play nearly as physical a game as Lowry.
In the third round, the Jets chose centre Nathan Smith, a 19-year-old who had 17 goals and 47 points in 51 games last season with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.
Smith is known for his creativity, but is a bit of a late bloomer – which isn't a surprise considering he only started playing hockey at the age of 11.
The Tampa product got started in roller hockey and was a dominant force in the Florida High School Hockey League before making the jump to the USHL last season.
Smith was the first of three players selected by the Jets who are planning to return to junior hockey this fall but are committed to playing NCAA hockey during the 2019-20 season.
The Jets were able to pick up a pair of mobile, left-handed defencemen from the Ontario Hockey League in the fifth round, choosing Declan Chisholm of the Peterborough Petes and Giovanni Vallati of the Kitchener Rangers.
During the sixth round, the Jets added another goalie to the organization, selecting Jared Moe, who is coming off a strong campaign with the Waterloo Black Hawks.
Moe, who is six-foot-three and 205 pounds, was 23-6 for the Black Hawks last season while recording two shutouts and posting a 2.23 goals-against average and .919 save % in 32 games.
With the Jets final pick, they added centre Austin Wong, who had 25 goals and 54 points last season with the Okotoks Oilers of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
Wong is joining the Harvard Crimson for the 2019-20 campaign.
"We thought it was good value pick that we can get a guy that competitive with the skill level and the compete factors that he has," said Cheveldayoff.
Although the Jets didn't have a fourth round pick because of the deal made to acquire defenceman Joe Morrow from the Montreal Canadiens, Cheveldayoff didn't
"There were a few different things that went on, with (discussing) flipping picks or moving up or down, a couple options to maybe move into next year," said Cheveldayoff. "There was some chatter around getting into the fourth round. The way it was grouping out with our list, we felt we could get two strong players in the fifth."
Chevelayoff is expecting the entire 2018 draft class to attend the Jets annual development camp next week and confirmed 2017 first-rounder Kristian Vesalainen will be in attendance as well.
Vesalainen captured an SM-liiga championship with Karpat last season and he's expected to sign an entry-level contract with the Jets during the coming weeks and play in North America this season.
Winnipeg Jets 2018 Draft picks: by the numbers
Six players chosen
Two from Ontario Hockey League
Two from USHL
One from Swedish Hockey League
One from Alberta Junior Hockey League
Round Position Player Team Stats
2. (60th) C David Gustaffson, HV71 Linkoping, SHL, 45 GP, 6 G, 6 A, 12 P, 8 PIM
3. (91st) C Nathan Smith, Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, USHL, 51 GP, 17 G, 30 A, 47 P, 84 PIM
5. (150th) D Declan Chisholm, Peterborough Petes, 47 GP, 3 G, 17 A, 20 P, 16 PIM
5. (153rd) D Giovanni Vallati, Kitchener Rangers, OHL, 65 GP, 3 G, 23 A, 26 P, 29 PIM
6. (184th) G Jared Moe, Waterloo Black Hawks, USHL, 32 GP, 23-6, 2.23 GAA, .919 save %, 2 SO
7. (215th) C Austin Wong, Okotoks Oilers, AJHL, 55 GP, 25 G, 29 A, 54 P, 235 PIM


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Sheriff: Sacramento River closed to boating, recreation
Citing higher than normal water releases from Shasta and Keswick dams, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has closed the Sacramento River to boating and other recreation.
The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing 50,000 cubic feet per second down the river and that will increase to 70,000 cfs by Sunday.
Bosenko in a news release said the closure is necessary because of dangerous conditions created on the river. Anyone who violates the order could be cited or arrested, he said.
The closure doesn't apply to any local lakes and will be rescinded once conditions are safe, Bosenko said.
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Can I revert back to 9.1.7? I updated to 9.1.8 and now Im having a problem with the multipressor plugin. Its graphic display is running in slow motion even when I don't have any other plugin open. I still have 9.0.0 and when I open it, the multipressor plugin works just fine. I didn't have any problems with 9.1.7 so I want to go back to it. I found the 9.1.7 update download and tried to download it. When I tried to open it, a message said that I have a newer version already installed. So is there a way I can go back to 9.1.7 or am I stuck with 9.1.8?
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|This article is about a/an song in Denji Sentai Megaranger.
"eighteen, eighteen" is an insert theme associated with "Ep. 49: Despair! We're Outcasts!?"; primarily playing during a scene when the five Megarangers are expelled from Moroboshi High.
- Artist: KAT
- Lyrics: Taku Koizumi (小泉 卓 Koizumi Taku)
- Composition & Arrangement: Masao Deguchi (出口雅生 Deguchi Masao)
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Ameagari no koutei ni
The rain has just stopped


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Like in NBA, the Super Bowl championship award rings to the winning team of the season. It is a tradition that has been passed on since the beginning of Super Bowl. The ring serves as the reward of winning team's players and coach since there is only one trophy awarded to the team. Each Super Bowl ring is valuable. It cost up to $40,000 depending on the design of the ring. Most of all, it is the iconic symbol of victory of any winning team.
One of the professional American Football team that received these rings is San Francisco 49ers. This team has won 19 Division Championships, 6 Conference Championships, and 5 Super Bowl Championships. The season which 49ers won the cup was back in Super Bowl XVI (1981), XIX (1984), XXIII (1988) XXIV (1989) and XXIX (1994).
If you are one of the 49ers fans, you probably have at least two or more mementos of your favorite team. But do already have one of their Super Bowl ring replica in your collections?
You can find San Francisco Super Bowl replica rings at online stores like Big Game Rings.
The Big Game Rings has a wide selection of Super Bowl replica rings of various professional American Football team. One of their collections is the 5 Super Bowl rings of San Francisco 49ers.
The collection of Big Game Rings is perfect for a 49ers fan. You can find replica rings from all of their wins in the Super Bowl. Moreover, you can purchase these items as a gift box set. If you buy these rings in a complete set, you can save more money compared to single purchases.
Here are samples of the 49ers Super Bowl replica rings at Big Game Rings.
#1 Super Bowl XXIX
The 49ers 1994-1995 Super Bowl replica ring features a silver themed design. The ring has the words 'Forty-Niners' across the top and bottom of the ring. The center face of the ring is encrusted with cubic zirconia crystals that look stunning and resembles like diamonds. The Five Super Bowl trophies on the ring are represented by larger faux diamonds that run along the center of the ring. The year 1994 is separated in four corners wherein each number is on a corner.
#2 Super Bowl XXIV
The ring comes in an elegant wooden gift box which is a perfect present for any 49ers fan. The ring band is in gold color. The team's name is located across the sides. The center of the ring features football-shaped faux diamonds with smaller crystals filling it.
#3 Super Bowl XXIII
The face of the ring features 'San Francisco, World Champions' on the top and bottom in raised gold lettering. A large oval is on the center of the ring wherein the outer edge is lined with cubic zirconia crystals. There are also three super bowl trophies in faux diamond placed on a black gloss inlay.
Do you want your own collection of 49ers Super Bowl replica rings?
Find out how to get these items by visiting Big Game Rings.
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NHS Digital is aiming to prevent another WannaCry ramsomware attack, which brought chaos to the organisation back in 2017, by signing a five-year contract with Accenture to provide cyber security services for health service organisations in England.
The contract is estimated to be worth about £40 million and was sealed in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre and NHSX, the digital policy unit within the Department of Health & Social Care.
NHS bodies will now get free access to the services, including "next generation" firewalls, secure filtering for web content, network intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, data loss prevention and secure domain name system services.
Accenture will use technology provided by cyber security specialists Palo Alto Networks and Imperva in providing the service.
NHS Digital deputy chief executive Rob Shaw said: "This deal is great news for NHS organisations. This is cutting edge technology that will help keep patient information and NHS systems safe, at no cost to local organisations. For us, the more organisations that join, the better we will be able to see what is happening across the estate.
"This means that we will be able to monitor for threats more effectively, supporting the NHS to increase data security and helping to provide safer care for patients."


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In this case using the belief of reincarnation to bolster the idea that nothing is really lost through abortion, it's just delayed for a better time.
Spontaneous or deliberate termination have the same moral status in Japan and there is a religious ritual called Mizuko Jizo which provides a way for women to acknowledge these, if they want to. Parents who are unable to have a child because of miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth will often visit a temple to visit the Mizuko Jizo (pictured above) and will write a letter to the child that cannot be born now but will be born at a later time.The problem with this belief is where is the line? At what point does the child become someone that is permanently removed from the world by their death rather than having their existence only delayed? Or is there no line? If there is no line then it could mean that if you have a three year old that you are having trouble caring for, that you can kill him or her knowing that their soul will be returned to you or to another family later.
Many women or couples in Japan who have terminated a pregnancy, suffered a miscarriage, or had a stillborn baby choose to honour the soul of this child through a practice called mizuko jizo. Mizuko means 'child of the water' and is used to refer to the soul of a child who has been returned to the gods, and Jizo is the name of the Buddhist god who protects and guides that soul on its journey to another world.
Abortion is regarded as the parents willingly making a decision to return a child to the gods, sending a child to a temporary place until such time that it is right for the child to come into this world, either into the same family or another one. The child is returned because the parents, at that time, would be unable to provide enough love, money, or attention to this child, without it being to the detriment of their present family. Practicing mizuko jizo allows the parents to provide a certain amount of attention to the child, who is regarded as a member of their family.
What strikes me as different about the abortion debate in NZ is the centrality of the foetus, the "potential person". In Japan the idea that a foetus has a right to life has not been widespread and the practice of abortion not a taboo on religious grounds. Traditionally it was not at conception or the quickening that the foetus became a "person" but rather this occurred when the religious rites of passage were performed after birth.
Ah, birth is the line. Mostly. But after the "religious rites of passage were performed after birth." I suppose if the rites are not performed, then the baby isn't a person. And if the baby is killed at some point, presumably before birth, then that's fine too, because the soul gets to have another go at life.
I used to believe in reincarnation, however I never believed it was alright to kill a child in the womb. By deliberately killing you were interfering with that soul's incarnation into the physical world. Some people I knew thought that maybe the soul didn't come into the body until birth. However to me this belief denied that a human being was essentially a soul living out a human existence. How would birth, a physical process, draw the soul in if the soul was spiritual? The soul would have to be a physical substance in order for this to take place at a separate time from the creation of the body. It made more sense to me that the soul was there from the beginning and gradually created the body it wanted to be in physically.
What I believe now is subtly different. Rather than the soul being the author of their own existence, the body is a physical expression of our soul and both are created at conception. In other words, rather than being just spiritual creatures temporarily leading a physical life, we are body/soul composite beings. We bridge the physical world and the spiritual world by being both physical and spiritual. We are like an angel/animal hybrid. We are not the author of our own existence for our soul is created by God during conception. Each person that is made is a unique human being, never to be repeated again. When you snuff out a life, that life is gone from the physical realm forever until the end of the world.
The other view is far more attractive, I can certainly understand that. And as commenters on the thread on The Hand Mirror have said, that belief takes away the guilt. Guilt is something to be avoided. Except that guilt is one of the ways that your conscience speaks to you. Guilt indicates you may have done something wrong, just like pain indicates something may be being damaged and if you don't take your hand out of the fire NOW, IT'S GOING TO GET BURNED! And your conscience (even using guilt) is one of the ways that God has of speaking to you which you ignore at your peril.
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Health/PAC Bulletin | Winter 1991
By Ellen Baxter
I am one of a group of people in Upper Manhattan who take over abandoned buildings and convert them into affordable housing for homeless and low-income men and women. To someone who has experienced homelessness, a lease is one of the most empowering things one can extend.
In New York City there is a tendency to look past the issue of homelessness itself and to be more concerned about an individual's personal problems. This plays into the assumption that the homeless are largely mentally ill and/or drug addicted. And it means that rehabilitation and professional care receive primary attention. "Fixing"
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There is heavy societal and institutional pressure to move people who are now homeless into what is called "transition," a state of personal rehabilitation that ultimately leaves them nowhere, since no decent, affordable housing exists. Once people have been 'transitioned" through drug rehabilitation programs and are sober and clean for six or nine months, their only place to live, if they can't find work that pays well above minimum wage, is a shelter. Housing at public assistance levels cannot be found. But, in the shelters drug activity is common, and
residents often feel that using drug is the only way to survive under those conditions. So people end up back where they started.
About 12 years ago, a group of us in Washington Heights decided that the obvious solution to homelessness is housing. It's a simple concept. We had seen abandoned buildings and had the idea to fix them and move people in. Most of us weren't even familiar with what a mortgage was, but we began to meet with public agencies to discuss the notion. We'd go to meetings where everybody was talking mortgages and loan requirements, and
we would nod and agree. Some people at those meetings with cynical views argued that poor people would never pay rent, that they would wreck their own housing, and that the effort was futile. Social service agencies pushed to have individuals segregated by category. The initial questions were: 'Well, are you going to house homeless elderly, or are you going to house homeless youth, or homeless single parents, or homeless mentally ill, or who?" Our idea was simpler than that. We wanted to house everybody.
Many "or us were working other jobs and doing this on the side, continually trying to persuade our employers that it was in their interests to support this kind of work. After a lot of red tape and countless discussions to circumvent numerous obstacles, we found an abandoned building and went to the Department of Housing Preservation
and Development. This began another series of seemingly endless meetings. Finally, I think mostly out of no longer wanting to meet with us, the housing officials told us the next place to go. We kept meeting with bureaucrats until they agreed in 1983, about three years after we began the process, to give us a mortgage attached to federal Section 8 rent subsidies. We were then able to get a bank loan for renovation, and we incorporated ourselves as a not-for-profit group. A pro bono lawyer filed the papers in Albany, and we were on our way.
With the mortgage, the bank loan, and a state grant, we renovated the building and moved in 55 homeless people, most of whom had been living in shelters and the streets. The construction alone took a very long time, a year and a half more than we expected, which left a tenant's association of homeless people ready to move in long before the building was done. So we rented a city-owned apartment around the corner from the building and used it as a place where people who were living in the streets and shelters could come to use the shower, use the address for mail, use the stove, keep their belongings, and have a weekly meeting and dinner.
At these meetings, people would talk about the difficulties of being homeless. They talked about racism, drug addiction, and sexism. Many of the individuals who had lived in institutions such as jails and shelters, or in foster care for extended periods, were not practiced at sitting down and talking with the opposite sex and people of all racial groups to discuss cooperative living goals. The meetings were interesting, and the waiting time gave us a chance to agree among ourselves that coexistence regardless of individual differences was desirable.
Finally, in 1986, as the construction neared completion we urged the contractors every week to move along. We began picking out rooms where tenants would eventually live. Our efforts have worked out well. There are 55 tenants in this building, which is called The Heights.
Housing is an opportunity. It is a place where basic needs an begin to be fulfilled, where one has friends and I can restore abilities and develop new ones. It's a place where the government will allow kids who are in foster care to visit. If someone gets sick at the Heights and needs to go to the hospital, there is cab fare at the front desk so people don't have to take an ambulance. It is a supportive place for people to live, where they make their own decisions.
Participation in any part of running the Heights is not required. You can live there, pay your rent, come and go, and not be part of the tenant's association or the tenant patrol. Some people are very active in the management of the building, some are not. But the tenants alone are responsible for the building during evenings and weekends. There is no staff present at these times and, despite others' views of them as chronically mentally ill or having risky backgrounds of substance abuse, tenants manage the building quite well.
This arrangement is not without conflict. There are people who won't go into a room with other people because they don't get along. There are individuals with peculiar habits that may stay up all night. But when such situations arise, they are dealt with and resolved, and when individual behaviors don't interfere with the rights of others, the best approach seems to be to do nothing at all.
The building has common spaces all over it – lounges were built on each floor because fire department regulations require a double means of exit in buildings. The lounges are places where there is usually someone willing to play cards if you can't sleep, and someone to talk to. There is a tenant patrol 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The tenant patrol attends to everything from overflowing toilets and other problems with the physical plant to people problems.
Based upon our experience with the Heights, we got a second building, the Stella, in 1988 for 28 homeless men and women. We were again able to persuade the city to let us do integrated housing and not separate people solely by special needs categories. And again, individuals were given leases. People stayed, and the tenant patrol matured and stabilized. After that we got two more and, later, a fifth building. There are now five buildings in Washington Heights and Upper Harlem, accommodating 220 men and women, all of whom have leases.
The buildings are legally protected as low-income housing for a minimum of 30 years. The non-profit ownership and management entities are obligated to preserve their futures beyond this time.
Government agencies provide essential capita1 financing, but often discourage non-profit initiatives in housing. There is a group of women in the Bronx who have been working hard to get housing, for example, and I believe this may be their third year of effort to secure an abandoned property on their block. The bureaucracy can work against these kinds of community initiatives, despite the fact that owning and managing housing can be quite simple. You pay Con Ed, you pay the telephone bill, you pay your insurance bill, people pay rent. If someone stops paying rent, the tenant's association has tremendous power, far more than any landlord would, to get it paid. It takes a whiIe for some individuals to get into the habit of paying rent. Some people pay irregularly, but this can be managed as long as the majority of tenants are behind the effort.
Sometimes not-for-profit groups who develop homeless housing fall into the trap of becoming more like a private landlord than like a community housing sponsor. When non-profit organizations are in antagonistic or adversarial relationships with tenants, they lose the support necessary to maintain quality building services and a solid rent roll. I think a constant collaboration with tenants develops one's appreciation for the benefits of tenant-managed housing. Too often organizations will hire security firms who clearly don't have any long-term interest or investment in the project. It doesn't seem to work as well. Tenants are much better placed to assume responsibility for their own housing.
The Committee for the Heights Inwood Homeless (CHIH) has eight staff people now. Four of them are superintendents and maintenance people, and two help with the books, managing the bills and the paper work that the city and state require for this kind of effort. A project director oversees all management responsibilities, resolves problems and interacts daily with the staff of Columbia University Community Services (CUCS) the
agency that provides on-site social services to tenants in all the buildings. I receive a salary from the Community Service Society, a large social welfare organization. CHIH has a remarkably small staff to be managing 220 units. We could not sustain the housing without the services provided by CUCS. And, so long as the skills and capacities of the tenants are promoted, it's quite adequate.
Developing housing is not really a difficult thing to do. Not that much technology or expertise is involved. The process teaches you what you need to know. It lakes so long to do anything in the city that, even if you don't know how to undertake a certain stage in the process, you figure it out dong the way. You meet with architects and lawyers and contractors and argue over details. Being a part of the debate is eduational and exciting.
Providing housing is very satisfying and a terrific base for other kinds of service provision. It's concrete, and it's encouraging for people to have their own housing and to watch it being built. People's involvement in the operations of housing can also be invigorating.
Bureaucratic obstacles surface regularly, and sidestepping these can be tricky. Angry people in crisis can occasionally be destructive in housing, and the forces of substance addictions can prey on many. Still, the great majority of tenants can be relied on to steer a course of
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Instructions ♦ Design Notes ♦ Reflective Essay
Design Notes
Middleware is the combined digital artefact/deliverable media result for my three subjects this semester:
- DIGC302 – Digital Communication Practice: Final Project
- BCM311 – Advanced Seminar in Media and Communication
- DIGC330 – Digital Asia
I designed Middleware initially with only the most basic, vague idea to start with. As a final project for three subjects, it has been constructed to intersect those subjects together.
DIGC302 and BCM311 have a similar central theme as subjects that aim to prepare me for the post-university part of my life, focusing on products and projects that can be expanded and developed outside of university into working spaces.
DIGC330 is much more of a cultural focus, with the idea of enabling me, as a student, to come to the best understanding of the world around me.
The simplest first principles I started with were to make a cyberpunk card game. Then, with that in mind I looked for ways to connect it to BCM311's themes and DIGC330's – there is no greater rhyme or reason for why I did things in this order, it's just that that was the order my classes came in.
When I had those ideas central, I sat down and worked out what I wanted to make, making a bullet point list after the second week. This is what I had:
- Card Game
- Cyberpunk
- Junk
- Characters
- Debt
- Representation
- "Middle Spaces"
I later refined and expanded on this list as follows:
Card Game – I knew I wanted to make a card game, if I had the opportunity. Card games fascinate me in no small part because they have so much interesting design space. Cards can hold information in memory like a computer program, they can randomise, and they have space for colour and art, they can make information hidden or public, and they are very small, compared to other large-physicality based games.
Cyberpunk – While this was a very broad theme, I was able to refine it a little, moving on to themes like power differentials and impersonal opposition. This idea both helped to inform the colour scheme and visuals of the game, as well as the
Junk – While I had a defining aesthetic, in the form of cyberpunk, Ted brought my attention to the idea of junk as important to Gibson's cyberpunk setting. The notion was that over time, things either broke down and became less useful, or things that were broken were repurposed. This became part of the decision to make the game a deck builder game, where the players slowly accumulate cards that wane in usefuleness as the game advances.
Debt – In BCM311 we discussed the nature of debt in a university setting, which put debt squarely in my mind. It also serves as a mechanical way to represent the slowness of the Middleware experience; this isn't a single fight, where people are attacking one another, in a very tangible short-term event. The nature of the cycling of cards, shuffling up and resetting the deck multiple times makes the game feel more day-to-day. The threat is less criminal and more existential.
Representation – I prefer to create media that is not limited to representing white, male, cisgendered characters. As a white, male, cisgender creator this means I have to be careful to not fetishise or exoticise people without those traits. I bore this in mind as I was creating the characters that would form the spine of the Middleware experience.
'Middle People' – This was the crux of all three subjects' discussions. In the context of Digital Asia, one idea that kept occurring to me was the vast cultural difference we, as Australians have between ourselves and Asia, and how that distance is mostly of our own design. There's cultural distance between us and America, too, which we actively try to ignore – effectively, Australia is a nation 'stuck' in the middle between Asia (which could be argued it belogns) and the United States (which has, economically and culturally, been part of its colonisation). This 'middle space' idea is part of how the characters were designed.
There are other design elements – without being exhaustive, there was a strong influence to make the game portable, approachable, and reasonably fast to play. The existence of the servers were important, too, where I wanted to make part of this game oppositional, where nobody needed to 'be the enemy' – instead, the system was, itself, mute and rote. It didn't target people, it instead reacted, in a very headless and cruel way.
Blog Post Links
I blogged through much of the design process. Here are links to each individual blog post along the way – the posts stopped after the task was mostly just making cards.
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/week-2-digc302-idea-boxing/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/the-values-of-values/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/design-thoughts-first-principles/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/card-game-design-junk-and-theme/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/the-dumped-draft/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/design-notes-definites/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/debt/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/middlespace-structuring-the-space/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/card-game-representation/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/do-you-know-hatsune-miku/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/middleware-characters-1/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/middleware-characters-2/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/types-of-tricks-of-the-trade/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/visual-language/
- https://unicorndispatches.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/digc330-assignment-2-reflection-on-character-description/
The Game Delivered
What was delivered was a minimal viable product. In order to make sure the game could work, a lot of important elements were set aside, and any areas redundancy could be used to compensate were taken. The following changes were made to simplify the product:
- Characters all had unified goals, and goal cards didn't do anything
- All halt cards were unified into one simple card that explained what it was and did
- No cards had art
- Characters were simplified mechanically, with most of them being limited in what they couldn't do
- Character-specific rare cards were not made
- These were challenging to design without an existing feel for good, robust balance in the existing buy deck. Given they might not show up in a game with the characters in them, they had to be powerful enough to be interesting but not overwhelming. Note that character-specific rares would be cards that that character cannot have, reinforcing the idea of people cooperating.
Alpha Test Notes
There's a lot that's come out in alpha testing over the past few weeks. These are just some shorthand notes for things that can be addressed in the game overall. Changes can be divided into three basic types: Things to fix, where a decision was made and it has proven to be a bad one, things to expand, where testing has revealed a larger design area to build into, and things to undo, where things have been shown to lack for some reason and should be replaced.
- Accessibility: The server cards resistances are indistinguishable for colour-blind people.
- Costs: Too many of the costs are concentrated and it's very hard to make early game purchases if one or two early cards are expensive. Paying Upkeep was meant to address this but the mechanics can be refined somehow. Perhaps paying upkeep can allow for influencing the Buy deck.
- The Server power 'Each player gains 10 debt' almost always completely wipes Haruka Em out. It's too much, too consistently and the player can almost never address it.
- The last flipped Server card is meaningless.
- F10R4 should have a much lower upkeep and a high debt ceiling.
- Haruka's card says they can't use 'Social' cards, which don't exist. It should read 'Manipulate.'
- The flavour text on all cards should be a different font to the main one
- Card costs should be highlighted like the card titles, and they should all be the same font and size.
- Goal Cards: Goals represent early-game junk and keep the opening hands from being uniform, but they should also be interesting to play and help the later game when challenge increases.
- Character Powers: Characters need some reason to want to play a character, rather than a reason to not. Right now in beta, characters are defined by what they can't do, not by what they can do.
- Tracking Debt: Right now, debt tracking is fiddly and requires paper and pen, like life totals in other games. Consider a mechanism to make this easier.
- The Assault Cards were designed first. They're a little mechanically thin therefore, with a simple overarching mechanic. Also they weren't tested against servers in play, and the question of 'junking goal cards' was never answered in testing.
- More Characters. The system is expandable, I need to at least make it clear there's some reason to feel there can be more, different characters with other mechanics.
- More Server Cards. Every new mechanic designed for the servers translates to four new cards. Maybe some server cards with hybrid colour resistance?
- The Infiltrate rares are both useful for every deck and there is no reason to not take them if they come up and you can afford them. This differs from the rares in the other types, which reward you for investing in their colour.
- Some of the names are lacking in thematic connection to what they're doing.
- Server resistances are perhaps a bit confusing, and given the way the 'flip' effect only happens once, perhaps it could also be used as a static effect.
- Server resistances should be covered by each new card, so the resistance colour should be in the text box, not in the symbol.
- Server resistances being 1 is pointless. Server card values should start at 2 and the raids should be balanced as if the servers can be strength 6 to 18.
- Basically, the server cards work but need to be redone because they can work much better.
Importance of Thematics
First of all, a lot of the ideas of taking games seriously and considering them as academic works has been the fruit of a number of writers and presenters on the subject in long, slow conversations that play out over twitter, youtube, and through their own creative works – particularly the works of Katelyn Gadd, Chris Franklin, Leigh Alexander, and Andi McClure. Also underpinning these has been readings from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens, a 1955 text on the importance of play as a cultural phenomenon.
Thematics are the thing that hold games together. In a lot of games there's a complex system of systems underpinning all the elements, and understanding them without the metaphor of thematics can be very confusing. Games let us take complex systems, imbue them with thematics, and in so doing, give us reason to care about them and understand them.
First things first, the impersonal servers were an important part of the game. I needed to make sure that the opposition for players felt inhuman and unreasonable. There really is no option to argue or reason with the servers, while players are suggested to cooperate. This way the server can't be reasoned with, cementing the feeling that players are working in a world that is against them.
Another element is that the players have to regularly pay upkeep, or incur debt. The notion is meant to make sure that player struggle with the choice to buy things, but recognise that playing by the rules of the system make it almost impossible to actually fix your life. The debt system is deliberately unfair, and represents a time limit on the game, like a timer in a videogame.
One other thing that I like with the thematic is the way this group of marginalised people, even those representing authority structures or some idea of commercial success, work together. This flows from my own experience, where queer and marginalised communities band together in order to ensure that whatever axes of oppression they have in common can be diminished. In this game, the player characters don't have a lot in common, but they are all marginalised, and they are all inclined to work together.
- Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-element in Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1955. Print.


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|Fans work on dance techniques during a K-pop academy class at the Korean cultural center in Belgium. / Yonhap
By Kang Aa-young
K-pop fans held flash mob performances at major Belgian cities to promote Korean idol groups, Friday (local time).
At around 11 a.m., some 75 Belgian K-pop fans danced K-pop music video moves from artists such as Black Pink, Momoland, Wanna One, without music at the Place Saint-Lambert square at the center of Liege, the fourth largest city in Belgium.
According to the Korean Cultural Center in Belgium & European Union, the participants were students attending a K-pop academy there.
The students carried out three K-pop performance sessions at the square, each took about 10 minutes.
The center's K-pop academy taught Korean pop music and dance techniques for four weeks earlier this month at the request of Belgian K-pop fans, according to the Korean Cultural Center.
The academy will offer vocal and dance classes to 120 selected Belgian K-pop fans until July 27.
An official from the center said the class was arranged in response to K-pop's global popularity and vocal trainers and choreographers from South Korea joined the academy for the quality of education.
"We taught them how to dance and sing K-pop music, but they eventually got to learn Korean culture from it," the official said.
Meanwhile, the trainees are scheduled to hold a final performance at the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in the Belgian capital Brussels, July 28, presenting what they learned in front of audiences.
The Korean Culture and Information Service, which promotes Korean culture overseas, plans to run the K-pop Academies in 25 countries around the world this year in reflection of the growing popularity of K-pop abroad.


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This February Le Votre magazine will have Judita DaSilva as its feature model with an exclusive spotlight interview with her. In the interview she answers questions on her career so far and her hopes for the future. Be sure to check it out online via the link just below.


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In the dental field we have been using instruments that vibrate at the speed of sound for a long time. Most of you have had the dental hygienist scale the hard deposits off your teeth with an ultrasonic scaler (you know, the vibrating instrument that shoots water all over your face!). Recently, we started incorporating sonic instruments to really clean the canals in teeth during root canal therapy. Now we have a sonic instrument to facilitate the placement of white fillings on back teeth. This will revolutionize the way dentists restore teeth. At the present, most dentists fill these teeth in many layers, curing the material one layer at a time. This is done to compensate for the shrinkage of the material as it is cured and to insure that the light that sets up the material reaches the deepest parts. It is a very time-consuming protocol, usually requiring 30 -40 seconds per increment. Also, when layering the material it is very difficult to avoid getting little voids between the layers.
We now have an instrument that vibrates the white filling material at the speed of sound and converts the thick resin into a flowable state that can easily fill the entire cavity at one time. Once the machine stops, the resin turns back into a more viscous form that can be shaped and carved by the dentist into a beautiful representation of the original unblemished tooth. The special material also includes more photo-initiators to allow the whole restoration to be cured at once.
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The Twrch Trwyth
A slightly different take on a series of posts I made a few years back on the Twrch Trwyth (now taken down as I rewrite).
The Twrch Trwyth, a nobleman transformed into a giant boar, is one of the more prominent characters in Welsh myth. In the tale of Culhwch and Olwen he is hunted by Arthur and his men, but not even these great heroes can vanquish this most terrible of enchanted beasts. So why is the Trwch Trwyth so impossible to kill?


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On the 8th of May, the Middle East Treaty Organisation (METO) Project held a side-event with the support of the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Achieving the Possible: a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. As negotiations at the 2019 NPT PrepCom continued and Iran announced that it is… »
Israel and the Arab States' positions in international discussions concerning disarmament
by Zain Hussain for BASIC*. Israel has reiterated time and again on the international scene that it supports the idea of a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East (WMDFZME). It has not, however, acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), like all other… »
WMD out of the Middle East: Achieving the Possible
A preparatory conference was held this week at the Edinburgh City Chambers in which diplomats, experts, academics and civil society representatives with understanding of the Middle East region considered the elements that would be required in order to start work on getting an agreement between countries in the Middle East… »
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today said that the United Nations will launch an independent investigation into allegations of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, after receiving a formal request from the country's Government. "The investigation mission is to look into the specific incident brought to my attention by the… »
Syria: a civil war or a war on cities?
Pressenza publishes this statement from two representatives of the Mayor's for Peace organisation. Blaming elements on both the government and opposition side of the conflict for the barbarities of war, the Mayors appeal for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. We all breathed a great… »
The Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction, Civil Society Input
In the NPT 2010 conference resolutions was a call for a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Conference in 2012. The government of Finland volunteered to host it but sadly it never took place. Before it was cancelled though civil society organisations had already organised a fringe conference to accompany… »


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"Fan Into a Flame the Gift of God"
On the vespers of the feast of the Pentecost, the Verbum Dei Missionary Family celebrated the last day of the Easter season last Saturday, 23rd of May, 2015 in the Verbum Dei Apostolate Center, Good Shepherd Hills, Banawa, Cebu City through a Pentecost Vigil.
Happy 89th Birthday Fr. Jaime!
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The Supreme Court on Thursday set free a man earlier convicted of raping and killing an 11-year-old in Turbat, saying there was not enough evidence against him.
The man was first convicted by a trial court and sentenced to death in 2014. A year later, in 2015, the Balochistan High Court had turned the death sentence into life imprisonment.
The SC on Thursday said that the child's medical examination was never conducted.
Judges on the case pointed out that rape cannot be proven without a medical exam. It also came to light that the were no witnesses in the case and no one saw the girl and the suspect together, the court said.
"We cannot convict someone without concrete evidence," judges on the case said.
Providing another reason for overturning the conviction, the court said that even the postmortem examination of the body was done after it was exhumed after being laid to rest.
The 11-year-old was allegedly raped and murdered in June 2012 and her body was found from a well.


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Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford, navigates through the art world and art market, focusing on how culture and financial values are placed on art. Examining the various roles of artists, curators and dealers, as well as commercial galleries, art fairs, auction houses and private agents, this course is an essential guide to buying strategically with knowledge, confidence and passion.
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Another article on USM – Ultimate Spearfishing Magazine, this time regarding shore entry and how to handle your buoy or float.
Unfortunately since Chris is from Durban we Capetonians have a few other things to worry about and since I can't log in to the site (problem is being sorted out) I am going to post a technique that I use here.
When possible I will comment to the original post which can be found here –> USM – Shore Dive Entry
Float line management:
Some of the best hunting grounds and beautiful dive spots found in Cape Town are among kelp, as the fish feel more protected and tend to gather among the stalks.
I wrap my float line the way demonstrated in/and explained in the original article and as shown in Vol. 6 of USM, as most of us Cape Spearos will know dragging a buoy and float line through kelp is a painstaking and tiresome process.
Here is what I do;
With my line wrapped tightly and close to my float, I leave about 1m of line free (not the side that is attached to the float), my float line has spliced loops on either end. I then pass the loop through the hook on the handle of the gun and then slip it into a cheap light weight carabiner, which I then simply click onto the float.
Now everything is nice and snug and not going anywhere. When I get to a good spot, I unclip the carabiner, slide the loop back through the hook on the handle and re-attach the carabiner, which then gets put back on the loop.
At this point my speargun and buoy are separate.
Now here is the important part, I don't recommend this if you do not have a reel gun. Take the float line, still wrapped up, and using the free end, wrap the carabiner around a kelp stalk and click the carabiner back onto the main line. Thus securing and anchoring your float on the spot. Now you can dive within 50m's of your float without worrying about the line getting caught and tangled in the kelp.
It may seem tedious but it has saved me a lot of aggravation when swimming through thick and heavy kelp.
Hope this helps some of you out.
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The first time you develop hemorrhoids may have you running to the doctor. You can expect an exam as well as suggestions for treatment. They do not usually require prescription medicines. If you prefer to treat hemorrhoids from the privacy of your own home and not at the doctor's office then keep reading.
Make sure to cleanse the area well if you have hemorrhoids. Moist wipes are a better alternative to toilet paper due to the fact that they feel better and achieve a better clean. Sit in a nice warm sitz bath to alleviate the swelling and pain associated with hemorrhoids. Soak in it for about 20 minutes.
Making sure your bathroom practices are as hygienic as possible can also make it less likely that you'll develop external hemorrhoids. Opt for softer toilet tissue that will not leave residue or paper behind, and keep a box of moistened wipes in the bathroom for use after each and every bowel movement.
You can find relief from hemorrhoid pain in a number of places. A general recommendation is to take a few 10-minute sitz baths each day. Another way to minimize the pain and discomfort of hemorrhoids is to apply a cold pack to the affected area.
Are you aware that there are a number of common household products that can help with hemorrhoids? As an example, one type of home remedy is making an ice pack. By placing the ice pack on the affected area, you can diminish some of the soreness that is commonplace with hemorrhoids. Ice packs made from home can decrease hemorrhoids swelling when they are put on the area that's affected.
People who strain excessively while trying to have a bowel movement are more likely to develop hemorrhoids. To help make your stools pass easier, drink more water and eat less refined foods. It can also be helpful to assume a squatting position when having a bowel movement, as this helps avoid straining. Place a low stool in your bathroom, and put your feet on it when you are using the toilet. Interestingly, hemorrhoids don't plague cultures for whom it is customary to squat while using the toilet to the degree that they plague those accustomed to the porcelain niceties.
You can use ice to ease hemorrhoid pain. Inflamed hemorrhoids can cause significant pain. Prepare an ice pack for the area, to relieve some of the swelling and accompanying pain. Try putting hot and cold compresses on your hemorrhoids. You can also use this technique while taking a warm bath. Simply bring an ice pack with you, and alternate between sitting in the tub and sitting on the ice pack. This can help to relieve the discomfort caused by the pain, swelling and itchiness of hemorrhoids.
As stated earlier, most people suffering from hemorrhoids do not need to see a doctor. Hemorrhoids are painful and alarming, but not usually a medical emergency. It is helpful to treat hemorrhoids by stopping them from even forming. This is achieved through healthy lifestyle changes that include exercise, keeping your body hydrated and eating foods that are rich in fiber.